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OpenMW

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3 comments, last by Matias Goldberg 11 years, 10 months ago
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What is OpenMW?

OpenMW is an attempt to reimplement the popular role playing game Morrowind. It aims to be a fully playable, open source implementation of the game. You must own Morrowind to use OpenMW (see our FAQ page: http://openmw.org/faq/ ).

To give you a better idea of what this project is about, here are some of the aims for the future of OpenMW:
- Be a full featured reimplementation of Morrowind.
- Run natively on Windows, Linux and MacOS X.
- Support all existing content, including Tribunal, Bloodmoon and all user created mods.
- Allow much greater modability: change game rules, create new spell effects, etc through scripting.
- Fix system design bugs, like the “dirty” GMST entries in mods, and the savegame “doubling” problem.
- Improve the interface and journal system.
- (Possibly) Improve game mechanics, physics, combat and AI.
- (Possibly) Support multiplayer at some point.
- (Possibly) Improve graphics to use more modern hardware.

It’s a pretty ambitious list, and there’s a lot left to do before these goals can become reality. You should check for information about the current development status on our website: http://openmw.org

OpenMW is released under the GNU General Public License version 3, and all source code has been written completely from scratch. It also builds on various other open source tools, most notably OGRE for graphics, and Bullet for collision (and possibly physics).

You can find a demo of this project at our "Downloads page": http://code.google.c.../downloads/list

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best regards,
Lukasz
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I've seen your project not so long ago while travelling the net. It doesn't look bad, though I got few questions (as I worked on one or two graphics extending mods on Morrowind and I really like the game)...

I understand that you support mods without any problems, but do you also support MGE (Morrowind Graphics Extender) and the stuff around (Speedtree like trees for Morrowind, etc.)?

In few days I'm also gonna try it ... I'll give some echo then (if you wish) - how it runs, etc.

My current blog on programming, linux and stuff - http://gameprogrammerdiary.blogspot.com

OpenMW doesn't support mods yet (but final version should). It's in early stage of development - you can walk around, talk with NPC, pick up items etc. but it's not fully functional. We are still improving it.

Feel free to visit our forum where other developers could answer your questions smile.png

// Edit: I'm looking forward for your impressions from OpenMW testing :)
best regards,
Lukasz
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Beautiful indeed!!

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