OpenMW Version 0.36.0 Released

The Morrowind game engine reimplementation OpenMW has taken another step towards 1.0. Version 0.36.0 doesn't bring much in the way of features for the game engine but has plenty of bug fixes.

Only 4 of the items on the changelog directly affect the game engine (and your experience) and one of them is Mac specific. However, this is probably due to the fact that the engine has everything more or less implemented already so we might see quite few feature updates and more bug fix updates. Looking at the Features section on the OpenMW bug tracker I can only see two high-priority items and the rest of them look like normal to low level requests for improving the experience further.

Most of the new features are for OpenMW-CS, an editor that is supposed to help modders create modifications for Morrowind. Personally I don't use OpenMW-CS, so there is little I can say for these new features.

Full changelog:

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Implemented hotkey for hand-to-hand

Implemented key bind for always sneaking

Implemented multiselection of entries in the data files list of the launcher

Implemented using application support directory as the user data path on OS X

Fixed Erene Lleni not wandering correctly

Fixed installer not detecting default directory correctly in 64-bit Windows registry

Fixed issue where cloning the player would prevent player movement

Fixed casting bound weapon spell not switching to “ready weapon” mode

Fixed enchanted item charges not updating in the spell list window if it is pinned open

Fixed behavior when fatigue falls below zero due to the drain effect

Fixed error on startup with Uvirith’s Legacy enabled

Fixed sex, race, and hair sliders not initializing properly in chargen

Fixed minor issues with terrain clipping through statics

Fixed invisible sound mark having collision in Sandus Ancestral Tomb

Fixed tooltip display on stolen gold stack

Fixed persuasion mechanics using player stats instead of NPC’s

Fixed not defaulting to world origin when an unknown cell is encountered

Fixed NPCs not reacting to theft when player has the inventory open

Fixed water z-fighting issue

Fixed GetSpellEffects to better emulate vanilla behavior

Fixed a dialog choice in mod Rise of House Telvanni not exiting out of dialog

Fixed Detect Spell returning false positives

Fixed the map icons used by Detect spells

Fixed a crash on first launch after choosing “Run installation wizard”

OpenMW-CS: Implemented global search & replace

OpenMW-CS: Implemented dialog mode only columns

OpenMW-CS: Implemented optionally showing a line number column in the script editor

OpenMW-CS: Implemented optionally using monospace fonts in the script editor

OpenMW-CS: Implemented focusing on ID input field on clone/add

OpenMW-CS: Implemented handling moved instances

OpenMW-CS: Implemented a start script table

OpenMW-CS: Implemented a start script record verifier

OpenMW-CS: Fixed changed entries in the objects window not*? showing as changed

OpenMW-CS: Fixed changing certain entries not being saved in the omwaddon file

OpenMW-CS: Fixed terrain information not saving

OpenMW-CS: Fixed files with accented characters not being listed

OpenMW-CS: Fixed cloning/creating new container class resulting in an invalid omwaddon file

OpenMW-CS: Fixed cloning omitting some values

OpenMW-CS: Fixed crash when issuing undo command after the table subview is closed

OpenMW-CS: Fixed being unable to undo a record deletion in the object table

OpenMW-CS: Fixed multithreading for operations

OpenMW-CS: Changed References/Referenceables terminology to Instance/Object

Source

Moving of the rendering from Ogre3D to OpenSceneGraph is also not finished and we will have to wait a little while longer for that to happen. Based on the OSG thread on the forums it looks like progress is constantly being made on the switch. The switch from Ogre3D to OpenSceneGraph is supposed to improve the performance of OpenMW, which is currently rather low.

I've been playing OpenMW quite a lot recently and for me it's been smooth sailing. I can't say I've run into any major issues during that time, everything I've done has simply worked from combat to quests. I'm likely going to talk more about OpenMW once the OSG renderer has been implemented. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.