OpenMW: Porting Morrowind to an open source engine

[thesheeep]

Now do it with Daggerfall!

 

[villain of the story]

Funny that you should say that:

http://xlengine.com/blog
http://daggerxl.wordpress.com

 

[deuxhero]

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Even just watching the preview video I see a problem with the way blind is done (the top and left edges are still visible)

 

[IDtenT]

Latest version, 0.25, was released. It's getting pretty close to a playable state, imho.

 

[Bahamut]

Latest version, 0.25, was released. It's getting pretty close to a playable state, imho.

And the preview vid



Looks like combat will be implemented in 0.26

 

[Bahamut]

little bump


SPEARS!

 

[Gragt]

I've never been so happy to see those stiff walking animations.

 

[SCO]

That first person modifier bounded to mousewheel is a fucking waste of the mouse wheel.

 

[Bahamut]

That first person modifier bounded to mousewheel is a fucking waste of the mouse wheel.

I liked how Chivalry made use of it, wheel up for thrusting attacks, wheel down for overhead attacks

 

[deuxhero]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ea8NPedKsk

New version. If you aren't a Pole, the visible change are pretty minor, but they also added a basic construction set (very incomplete from the sound of it).

Seems to be progressing pretty well. As far as I can tell, the major missing things are already in progress (AI, saving) or dependent on a fix to Bullet and out of the team's control for now (combat)

Also: Maybe it's just most videos on the internet being by obnoxious minors who think swearing is funny, but I got to give props the narrator for these videos for good vocal work, it's easy to make out and very professional in tone.

 

[sea]

Also: Maybe it's just most videos on the internet being by obnoxious minors who think swearing is funny, but I got to give props the narrator for these videos for good vocal work, it's easy to make out and very professional in tone.

The guy strikes me as a professional. Wouldn't be surprised if he works a day job and this is a hobby project for him.

 

[Invictus]

Mmm let me see if I got this straight; this is a thread for basicaly modernizing the engine that runs Morrowind, which besides the logical better performance and optimizations would lead to actualy fixing hard coaded bugs or design decisions, PLUS maintaing compatibility with the mayority of the mods of arguably the best TES game and some fans not only critizice the development team but question even the reason for the project to exists in the first place?
There are hundreds of threads here in the Codex to troll guys, why would you even do it ina project which yuo are not interested at all? Some of us love this game and any attempt to make it run better, have more features or simply look pretty is very much worth it yeah even almost a dozen years later
This is truly the EE edition of Morrowind and I for one would even pay for the privilage of playing Morrowind like this, yeah the combat is still shitty and the animations suck but look at the progress they have made in the last year!

 

[Jick Magger]

There are hundreds of threads here in the Codex to troll guys, why would you even do it ina project which yuo are not interested at all? Some of us love this game and any attempt to make it run better, have more features or simply look pretty is very much worth it yeah even almost a dozen years later

Where do you think we are?

 

[Data4]

stuff

117 posts and he still hasn't figured out how the Codex works...

New dumbfuck candidate?

 

[Invictus]

Actualy if you gentlemen have the power and influence I would love to share Volorun's Pretty Princess tag, it shouldn't be much of a problem for such knowledable and undoubtedly influencial memebers in the Codex comunity to make it happen?

 

[DragoFireheart]

someone can mod in good combat. Wouldn't mind Gothic style climbing either.

AKA, lets mod the game so much we may as well have made a new game using Morrowind's lore.

 

[sea]

Why make a new game when you can make a remake of an old game and get way, way more attention for it?

 

[Azazel]

Why make a new game when you can make a remake of an old game and get way, way more attention for it?

If only we could have our cake and eat it too: full development studios realizing this concept, but actually remaking the game instead of some retarded QTE-ridden assbaby abortion that calls into question the value of life for every developer involved.

 

[DraQ]

someone can mod in good combat. Wouldn't mind Gothic style climbing either.

AKA, lets mod the game so much we may as well have made a new game using Morrowind's lore.

Sounds like plan.

 

[Bahamut]

 

[Bubbles]

Damn, text-to-speech programs are getting more and more lifelike.

 

[Bahamut]

Finally they implemented savegames (but so far the game can drop them for no reason), mabye its time to check if you can actually beat MQ

 

[sea]

That is a huge release for "just one" version upgrade. Really looking forward to the final, seems they are very near a beta state.

EDIT: Thoughts for those thinking of playing:

• Save states do not appear to work fully for quests. Not sure if quest progress itself isn't saved but dialogue related to quests seems buggy and may reset after you load a save.
• Performance is still pretty poor. Even at the "stock" settings with all the fancy effects turn off I still struggle to get much more than 30 fps.
• I ran into some odd bugs, including a crash when trying to change some graphics settings in-game, the Icarian Flight dude outside Seyda Neen doesn't actually fall, and slaughterfish following my character underground after walking past water.

It's not quite ready for a play-through but in its state right now it is definitely mostly playable without major issues. I'll probably wait until the next major release before messing around more and/or outright replacing my Morrowind install with this one.

 

[Gord]

Assuming they reach 1.0 in the not-too-distant future, what would be the advantage to playing OpenMW over normal Morrowind?
Is there any tangible one already? If performance is worse, what do I gain?

 

[sea]

Assuming they reach 1.0 in the not-too-distant future, what would be the advantage to playing OpenMW over normal Morrowind?
Is there any tangible one already? If performance is worse, what do I gain?

The feel-goodness of supporting an open source project?

Uh, it's... newer. And newer things are better.