Apr 24, 2020. Oct 01, 2014. I just switched from MGE XE (which is pretty stable, but sometimes, when alt-tabbing much it crashes) to OpenMW and the main differences I see are a LOT more fps, and the lack of shadows and distant terrain (which will be added in near future to the new renderer). Jul 02, 2019. Dec 27, 2012.
http://akvepkc.xtgem.com/Blog/__xtblog_entry/19359254-best-movie-making-program-for-mac#xt_blog. OpenMW is designed to be able to use all the normal Morrowind mod files such as ESM/ESP plugins, texture replacers,mesh replacers, etc.
Warning
All external programs and libraries that depend on morrowind.exe cannot function with OpenMW.This means you should assume mods dependent on Morrowind Graphics Extender, Morrowind Code Patch,Morrowind Script Extender, etc, will not work correctly, nor will the tools themselves.
The largest difference between OpenMW and Morrowind in terms of data structure is OpenMW’s support of multiple data folders.This has many advantages, especially when it comes to uninstalling mods and preventing unintentional overwrites of files.
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Most mods can still be installed into the root OpenMW data folder, but this is not recommended.
To install mods via this new feature:
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All mod folders must adhere to the same file structure as ~/Morrowind/DataFiles/.
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Mods that depend on ESM/ESP plugins can be rearranged within the OpenMW Launcher,but mesh/texture replacer mods can only be reordered by moving their data= entry.
The launcher included with OpenMW is similar to the original Morrowind Launcher.Go to the Data Files tab to enable and disable plugins. You can also drag list items to modify the load order.Content lists can be created at the bottom by clicking the New Content List button, creating a list name,then setting up a new modlist. This is helpful for different player profiles and testing out different load orders.
The settings.cfg file is essentially the same as the INI files for Morrowind.It is located in the same directory as openmw.cfg. This is where many video, audio, GUI, input, etc.settings can be modified. Some are available in-game, but many are only available in this configuration file.Please see https://wiki.openmw.org/index.php?title=Settings for the complete listing.
While OpenMW supports all of the original files that Morrowind supported,we’ve expanded support to many open source file formats. These are summarized below:
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MGE and MGE XE are utilities which extend the capabilities of Morrowind's original engine. They allow the game to render distant land, shadows, and a huge variety of shaders. They also provide support for widescreen resolutions or scalable UI windows -- and much more.
While being ingenious pieces of software, both utilities are not compatible with OpenMW because they were written for a completely different engine. However, OpenMW will provide many of the features out of box, most likely replacing all of MGE's and MGE XE's functionality in the future. Microsoft suite for mac.
This page keeps track of all MGE / MGE XE features and their implementation in OpenMW. To learn more about other utilities' compatibility with OpenMW, check out our Mod status page.
| Original Description | Summary | OpenMW Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adds an oblivion style distant land feature, including distant statics and reflective water. | Adds Distant Land feature including distant statics and reflective water. | Partially implemented | OpenMW already provides distant land (see Camera Settings and Cells Settings). We are missing a proper LOD implementation though. |
| Adds a semi-faked HDR effect. | Adds semi-fake HDR effect. | ||
| Allows morrowind to make use of the graphics drivers 'application preference' setting for antialiasing, anisotropic filtering and vWait, mipmap detail, refresh rate, etc. | Allows Morrowind to use graphics driver's preference settings for things like Anti-Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, Mipmap Detail, or Refresh Rate. | ||
| Allows global render state changes, such as disabling or enabling fog etc. | Allows to change global render states, e.g., disabling or enabling fog. | ||
| Lets you change morrowinds screen resolution to non 4:3 values. | Allows screen resolutions which are not 4:3. | Implemented | OpenMW natively supports all screen resolutions. |
| Fixes the white loading screens you get when trying to use antialiasing. | Fixes white loading screens appearing when using Anti-Aliasing. | Ignored | No issue in OpenMW. |
| Adds fullscreen, customizable hardware and software shaders, up to 32 of which can be run at once. | Adds fullscreen, hardware, and software shaders. | Planned / in progress, see https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?t=4425 | |
| Lets you take screenshots even when antialiasing is enabled, and in any of 6 different formats (bmp, jpeg, dds and png). | Allows to take screenshots with Anti-Aliasing enabled. | Implemented | You can take screenshots whenever you want in OpenMW. |
| Lets you take screenshots even when antialiasing is enabled, and in any of 6 different formats (bmp, jpeg, dds and png). | Offers 6 different file formats for screenshots (.bmp, .jpeg, .dds, .png). | Implemented | The screenshot format can be changed in the settings file. The formats that are supported are determined at compilation-time, but should include the listed ones at the least. |
| Lets you use different fogging modes. (Including the more accurate ranged vertex mode.) | Adds ranged-vertex fog mode. | ||
| Lets you use different fogging modes. (Including the more accurate ranged vertex mode.) | Allows to use different fogging modes. | ||
| 14 different types of macro that can be attached to any key, including entering console commands, changing MGE graphics settings on the fly, and remapping any normally unmappable morrowind controls. | Adds 14 different types of macros in order to, e.g., change graphics settings on the fly. | ||
| Time based triggers, which can be set to push keys after set periods of time. Useful for automatic saving. | Allows to remap time-based triggers, e.g., to achieve automatic saving. | ||
| All macros can also use up to 8 mouse buttons as if they were keyboard keys. Macros can also be bound to the mouse wheel. | Allows to bind macros to any key. | ||
| All macros can also use up to 8 mouse buttons as if they were keyboard keys. Macros can also be bound to the mouse wheel. | Allows to bind macros to mouse buttons or mouse wheel as well. | ||
| Lets you skip the opening movie and disable the console. | Allows to skip the opening movie. | Implemented | You can already skip the intro movie in OpenMW. |
| Lets you skip the opening movie and disable the console. | Allows to disable the console. | You can remove the key binding for the console, or you can just not use it. | |
| Lets you use daggerfall style combat controls, where you move the mouse back and for to swing your weapon. | Adds Daggerfall-style combat controls as an option. | ||
| Allows scripts to change global graphics settings, including specular highlighting, fogging, shading model etc. | Allows scripts to change global graphics settings (specular highlighting, fogging, shading model, etc.). | ||
| Allows scripts to load and set fullscreen shaders. | Allows scripts to load and set fullscreen shaders. | ||
| Allows scripts to change fog density, zoom, screen rotation etc. | Allows scripts to change fog density, zoom, screen rotation, etc. | ||
| Allows scripts to load .x files, and then position, texture, and apply vertex/pixel shaders to the loaded mesh. | Allows scripts to load .x files. | ||
| Allows scripts to load .x files, and then position, texture, and apply vertex/pixel shaders to the loaded mesh. | Allows to position, texture, and shade these loaded meshes. | ||
| Gives scripts control over the players input. You can disable individual keys, force key presses etc. | Allows scripts to control player's input (disable keys, force key presses, etc.). | ||
| Lets scripts add extra bits of HUD. | Allows scripts to add pieces to the HUD. | ||
| Gives scripts control over the colour of fog, the background, sky, sunlight and a few other global colours. | Allows scripts to change many global colours (fog, background, sky, and sunlight colours). | ||
| Lets modders attach shaders to ingame morrowind objects, so that effects such as bump mapping can be applied. | Allows modders to attach shaders to in-game Morrowind objects (e.g., to create bump map effect). | Implemented | Custom shaders could be added with the .osg Native Mesh Format, although this isn't a very practical thing to do. Bump maps are supported in the default shader. |
| Provides an inbuilt shader editor to aid in writing your own fullscreen shaders, as well as many example shaders. | Provides an in-built shader editor for writing new fullscreen shaders. | ||
| Provides an inbuilt shader editor to aid in writing your own fullscreen shaders, as well as many example shaders. | Provides many example shaders. | ||
| Includes a feature to prevent morrowind hogging 100% of your cpu time. | Includes a feature to prevent Morrowind from using 100 % of your CPU. | Ignored | This shouldn't be an issue in OpenMW. |
| Priveds a utility to generate heightmaps and low details textures and meshes of your installed plugins, for use with the distant land feature. | Provides a utility to generate heightmaps as well as low-detail textures and meshes of installed plugins. | Ignored | LOD meshes will be created at run-time. |
| Original Description | Summary | OpenMW Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| All objects in Morrowind view distance receive shadows. | Adds shadows to all objects in Morrowind's view distance. | Implemented | Github pull request merged, #1547 and Gitlab issue closed, #4851. |
| High quality selection of default shaders included. | Adds a selection of default shaders. | ||
| Screenshot enable now works normally. Just use PrintScreen, no macro required. | Automatically enables screenshots. | Ignored | No issue in OpenMW. |
| Object pop-in at the screen edge no longer occurs. Distant land and grass culling is not delayed by a frame any more. | Fixes objects popping-in at the screen edges. | ||
| Object pop-in at the screen edge no longer occurs. Distant land and grass culling is not delayed by a frame any more. | Fixes distant land and grass culling to not be delayed by one frame. | Ignored | No issue in OpenMW. |
| Grass moves and parts when the player is nearby; grass is lit better. | Adds grass moving and parting when the player is nearby. | ||
| Grass moves and parts when the player is nearby; grass is lit better. | Improves grass lighting. | ||
| Shaders no longer affect the crosshair, nor spill over the screen during cell loading, nor screw with cutscenes. | Fixes shaders to not affect the crosshair, cell loading, and cutscenes. | Ignored | No issue in OpenMW. |
| Windowed mode snaps to the screen edge to act like fullscreen, allowing fast Alt-Tab. | Windowed mode snaps to the screen edges to allow fast Alt-Tab. | Should be achievable with borderless window mode, either way Alt-Tab should already be fast on most systems. | |
| New underwater surface effects, with total internal reflection. | Adds new underwater surface effects, e.g., total internal reflection. | ||
| Scattering fog/haze and better skies and sunsets, thanks to phal. | Adds scattering fog/haze, better skies and sunsets. | ||
| Morrowind's UI can now be scaled/zoomed. | Adds UI scaling and zooming. | Implemented | OpenMW allows you to scale the UI via a setting (see GUI Settings Section). |
| You can now choose moveable or borderless windowed mode. | Adds option to choose between moveable and borderless windowed mode. | Implemented | 'Window border' in Video settings. |
| Screenshots now capture without the UI included, unless you are in menu mode. | Changes screenshots to not include the UI unless the player is in menu mode. | Ignored | You can simply toggle the UI by pressing 'F11' in OpenMW. |
| Screenshot names are now appended with the date and time instead of an incrementing number. The need for a space after the screenshot prefix name is no longer present. | Changes screenshot names to include time and date instead of an incrementing number. | ||
| Added transparency AA to grass and distant statics for better anti-aliasing. | Adds transparency AA to grass and distant statics for better anti-aliasing. | ||
| XE Sky Variations mod. Changes the sky and sunrise/sunset colours every day. | Adds the XE Sky Variations mod which changes sky, sunset, and sunrise colours every (game) day. | ||
| This feature is a new renderer that improves the lighting of Morrowind. You will see better warmth from torches, daytime will have more dynamic range, overlapping lights will actually provide more brightness, removal of inaccurate discolouration, and better point lighting from magic projectiles. This requires a good graphics card and reduces fps by approximately 10%. | Adds per-pixel lighting shader to improve Morrowind lighting. | Implemented | Can be achieved by setting 'clamp lighting' to false and 'force per pixel lighting' to true, see the settings documentation for details. |
New features over MGE:
New features:
Fixes:
| Not started | Work on this feature has not started yet. |
| Partially implemented | This feature has been partially implemented. See the entry's comment for more information. |
| Implemented | This feature has already been implemented. |
| Ignored | This feature will not be implemented because either OpenMW provides a better solution to achieve the same functionality or it is not possible to properly implement the feature in OpenMW. See the entry's comment for more information. |
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