How exactly if you're not auditing the code line by line?
...based on some database created by the same modders, yeah. No mod manager can programmatically flag you logic errors between mods that contain code; that would require an AI of some sorts...
This is an example how conflict mods are resolved. I understand that you may believe that mods are truly too complicated to use, but to any other person that sounds like saying computer cannot possibly work because they have a lot of little technical elements and it's very hard to make them all work together. It just doesn't work like this. The modding has never been easier, you must willingly choose to install mods that tackle the same aspect of the game to create conflicts, ignoring every warning, mod description and conflicts in mods managers. A child could mod without any problem. I'm not a proffesional programmer, but I did my IT Degree and I know how silly you misgivings are. Can you break the game with mods? Yes. Can you stuff the game with so many script heavy mods that the game slows down to 15 frames per second? Yes. But it requires one to be downright retarded to do that by accident. The most popular curated mod collection on Nexus has oer 400 mods required. And it's the most successful one to use. Modding really is that simple these days. Not to mention that Wabbajack makes these things almost foolproof.
The Morrowind modding community is very small, and most of the prolific/good mod authors speak to one another frequently in Discord. This results in patches being quickly released or mod authors even making sure that their mods work with other popular mods out of the box, often because the mod authors themselves use these mods too. There's a reason that BCOM, for instance, doesn't touch any of the towns that have been overhauled in OAAB - RandomPal uses those mods himself, and also uses an enormous amount of items from the OAAB repository. Many of the best mods have become de-facto standards in modlists, too, meaning that mod authors typically take them into account when developing things. As for the skills of modders improving with time, well, of course they have. A lot of these guys have been developing mods for a long time, and standards have risen drastically within the last decade across all of the TES games. Just take a look at the quality of material in Tamriel Rebuilt, pre-Old Ebonheart compared to the releases from the last 4-5 years. It's pretty immense.
If you want new mechanics theres a perk mod https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/51448?tab=files&file_id=1000031455 however you might want to raise difficulty.
Just the other day I've read something about mod that reimplements music according to situation and the place, i.e. dungeons have have their own music etc. Supposedly it's part of Tamriel Rebuilt, but I found this: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/46200
- Regional - automatically detects or binds regions to folder.
- Dungeon detection - automatically detects if the interior you are in is a dangerous place.
- Tileset detection - determines what place type you are in, is it a Dwemer ruin or cave, no additional plugins needed, works with every mod.
- For cells - you can add music playlists for cities and specific places.
- Air - when you fly high above the ground.
- Underwater - when you dive to depths.
- Combat - better combat music handling, where it doesn't play every mudcrab. Custom enemy music tracks.
This is the key to it, really. I don't think Morrowind is a game like Skyrim where you can comfortably download 200+ mods and get them working together in a stable fashion, especially since there's less big modlists/wabbajack auto installers. I tried to limit myself to 50 active plugins on my last couple of playthroughs and I found it a lot more fun because it rarely meant that I was having to test compatibility or was finding that things went unexpectedly wrong. You're a lot more in control of what changes are occurring and where they are when you limit yourself to a smaller modlist, and it comes with the benefit of being more clear in what you're trying to achieve.
not needed, these are engine level bugfixes that don't exist in openmw
many of MGE XE's changes are part of openmw
this is just a lie
https://modding-openmw.com/compatibility/
It does, but it has its own API. Many mods support both.
e.g.,
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/51514
"Requirements
MWSE-Lua or OpenMW-Lua"
The OpenMW API is much better as it didn't have the same limitations placed on it.
https://modding-openmw.com/search/?q=grass
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No idea where you even got this idea from.
There's tons of mods on nexusmods tagged with 'openmw': https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/?tags_yes[]=2076
many of them exclusively work with openmw and not the base game
The human and elven faces in Morrowind were poorly done to begin with, not simply as a function of low polygon count or low-resolution textures; these were the one misstep in an otherwise visually-impressive game. Generating AI-enhanced versions of these faces simply results in more realistic ugly/goofy faces but does not resolve the underlying issues. Head replacers, by contrast, not only offer high-polygon meshes and high-resolution textures but also the possibility of aesthetic improvements --- though, of course, whether they actually are artistically-improved while remaining faithful to Morrowind's overall aesthetic is dependent on the talents and intent of the modellers.
As I see it, the AI handles humanoid faces just as well, if not better. It's absolutely terrific. I don't see why anyone would not use it, aside of people who cannot handle the graphical requirements, it's just enhanced Vanilla. And all of that in one mod that upscalles every texture in the game, even the smallest rock. No bullshit 1000 mods for every object. if you see very closely, you can see that in some places it looks a bit like a watercolor, but it barely noticable even on a zoomed picture. Very unlikely anyone would be able to see it in game (i.e. the dragon symbol on the guard's helmet)
below u basically agreed with everything I said
My experience is unfixable savegame corruptions because some non-Lua mods save their state into the savegame, then the game engine is badly written so it doesn't handle "dangling" data well (or at all). Yes, went through MO3, Wyre Mash, various tool, all that shit... At which point I was spending more time on maintaining the modded game than playing it. Got it running in a semi-stable way in the end, but was still getting random crashes every few hours. Which is not my idea of having a good time when I want to relax, waiting when the next crash will happen...
Why's that so? There's plenty of mods that don't contain any code, e.g. texture and mesh mods, and those are perfectly safe. It's pretty easy to find bugs in *any* non-trivial code that's longer than a few lines, you would surely know that if you were a programmer. A single character typo somewhere can break the code or introduce subtle bugs, especially with dynamic languages that games use. In fact, I found weird issues with many of the newer Lua mods I tried that manifested under specific circumstances. Yeah, I was talking to the guy at some point on Discord who wrote it. But at that point my immersion was broken, I started fucking around with the mod for an hour or so, and guess what, I only had an hour or two to spare that day for playing games, which was wasted on becoming a playtester, effectively...
