The latest and greatest OpenMW has been released which pushed the engine even further to allow us Linux gamers to play the excellent Morrowind natively. You can check out the source code on github to see how it's put together.
I love it when people come together to create a project as awesome as this. Much like OpenXcom for the original X-COM game, OpenMW requires the Morrowind data files.
There is no video for the new release yet, but to give you an idea check out the video from the 0.3 release:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhdSOGlHjqc
The changelog is massive as usual, so I want include the full log of fixes just the new features:
So, I doubt it will be too long before it's reasonable playable as it's coming along nicely.
Long live open source game engines! Although it would be nice if more developers release older game engines for the community to pick up.
About Morrowind
An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable. You can choose to follow the main storyline and find the source of the evil blight that plagues the land, or set off on your own to explore strange locations and develop your character based on their actions throughout the game. Featuring stunning 3D graphics, open-ended gameplay, and an incredible level of detail and interactivity, Morrowind offers a gameplay experience like no other. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I love it when people come together to create a project as awesome as this. Much like OpenXcom for the original X-COM game, OpenMW requires the Morrowind data files.
There is no video for the new release yet, but to give you an idea check out the video from the 0.3 release:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhdSOGlHjqc
The changelog is massive as usual, so I want include the full log of fixes just the new features:
QuoteImplemented periodic cleanup/refill
Implemented precipitation and weather particles
Implemented dialogue merging
Implemented saving missing creature state
Implemented saving fog of war state
Implemented NPCs and creatures fighting each other
Implemented murder crime
Implemented Sneak skill enhancements
Implemented item restock handling
Implemented save game levelled creature handling
Implemented modFactionReaction script instruction
Implemented animated main menu support
Implemented saving walk/run toggle state
Implemented save game naming changes
Implemented a delete button on the load game menu
Implemented using journal while in dialog
Implemented battle music while in combat
Implemented follower fast travel
Implemented disposition and distance based aggression
So, I doubt it will be too long before it's reasonable playable as it's coming along nicely.
Long live open source game engines! Although it would be nice if more developers release older game engines for the community to pick up.
About Morrowind
An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable. You can choose to follow the main storyline and find the source of the evil blight that plagues the land, or set off on your own to explore strange locations and develop your character based on their actions throughout the game. Featuring stunning 3D graphics, open-ended gameplay, and an incredible level of detail and interactivity, Morrowind offers a gameplay experience like no other. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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How many releases do you think will be until this project will be fully playable (could finish the standard game campaign)?
How many releases do you think will be until this project will be fully playable (could finish the standard game campaign)?
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Quoting: IvancilloHello.I think it's somewhat close to being fully playable. I've wasted a couple of hours into it and I didn't have too many problems, apart from occasional bugs, crashes and generally bad performance. I've also heard that you can complete the main quest with some glitches. Some of the side quests might not work though.
How many releases do you think will be until this project will be fully playable (could finish the standard game campaign)?
It also needs a pretty beefy machine for now, because the engine is not that optimized. My main rig (GTX 760, Intel i5 2500k @ 3.3 GHz, 8 GB of RAM) usually maintains a 30+ FPS framerate, but some of the outdoor areas are really taxing and the framerate can drop to around 10 FPS.
You can already have fun with OpenMW, but it's not exactly like Morrowind yet.
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Quoting: IvancilloHow many releases do you think will be until this project will be fully playable (could finish the standard game campaign)?One of reddit users linked this developer post:
QuoteAs you probably have seen already I am working on the final bits of scripting now. There is only a small number of feature tasks for 1.0 left. We should aim to be feature complete with 0.32.0 or at most 0.33.0. Nothing more to say about OpenMW for now.
Since a significant part of my time will be bound to OpenMW for 0.32.0 I won't be able to do as much work as usual on OpenCS. Well, the old story. We really need more help here.
As usual we should aim for about two month for the 0.32.0 release, but I would happily extend that a bit, if we can get feature complete.
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Quoting: SamsaiQuoting: IvancilloHello.I think it's somewhat close to being fully playable. I've wasted a couple of hours into it and I didn't have too many problems, apart from occasional bugs, crashes and generally bad performance. I've also heard that you can complete the main quest with some glitches. Some of the side quests might not work though.
How many releases do you think will be until this project will be fully playable (could finish the standard game campaign)?
It also needs a pretty beefy machine for now, because the engine is not that optimized. My main rig (GTX 760, Intel i5 2500k @ 3.3 GHz, 8 GB of RAM) usually maintains a 30+ FPS framerate, but some of the outdoor areas are really taxing and the framerate can drop to around 10 FPS.
You can already have fun with OpenMW, but it's not exactly like Morrowind yet.
Not really, I'm still using this crappy old socket 939 Athlon64 3500+ w/ 2Gb of ran and an 8800GTS 320Mb, OpenMW plays pretty good at 1920x1200 so long as I don't turn up the graphics settings.
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Running an AMD FX-6300 (3.5Ghz running at 3.8), Radeon HD 6670. 1920x1080, tending to get anywhere from 10 to 30fps (proprietary drivers). Same GPU but with an ancient Athlon X2 CPU, I was lucky to get 7fps maximum. Considering AMD's notoriously bad Linux drivers, for an unoptimised engine that isn't bad at all. This is using an install that had had MOSG 3.0 installed on it, too.
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How can it be close to the release if performance outside is still very poor even on high end hardware? For a game that old, the engine is nowhere near the optimized condition.
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Quoting: ShmerlHow can it be close to the release if performance outside is still very poor even on high end hardware? For a game that old, the engine is nowhere near the optimized condition.Of course it's not close to "release" (aka version 1.0) and we were not talking about being 100% complete with performance parity with Morrowind. We were just discussing when the game is fully playable, as in all the features have been implemented. For a 100% playable experience only thing you need is hardware that is powerful enough and all the game features. Naturally before OpenMW 1.0 is released they will have to do a lot of optimization to make the game run reasonably.
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