For those wanting to play Morrowind on Linux, the latest version of the open source game engine OpenMW is out with a new spell search bar and more.
A spell search bar will certainly be handy, but that's not all. The launcher now has an advanced settings tab, they added the option for fast travel services to change every companion, you can have multiple quick saves (very handy), an option to re-balance soul gem values based only on soul value, not soul times gem value and the OpenMW-CS (the editor) also gained multiple new features. There's also 87 noted bugs that were fixed, so it should be much more stable.
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You can also see the OpenMW-CS release video here.
If you're grabbing this release from their pre-built Linux binaries, you will need Qt4 and libpng12 installed. Download instructions can be found on their official site or on the GitHub announcement.
As a reminder, it does require you own a copy of Morrowind as it needs the data files. You can easily grab a copy from GOG.
Honestly, I'm still amazed projects like this exist. Happy it exists, because Morrowind is a game I never got to finish and I did absolutely love it. Kudos to everyone working on OpenMW.
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hardpenguin 30 Jul 2018
Since it's not in the Debian Stretch repositories (gotta wait for Debian 10), I decided to install it via flatpak. I was happy when I found out it was the newest version. I hope they keep it up to date.You can easily download distro-agnostic binary release from their releases page, listed as "Other Linux" on their downloads page.
While I was on Debian 8 a while back I compiled it from source. That was a headache that I don't want to go through again.
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slaapliedje 30 Jul 2018
You can either give it time or request it get into backports.Since it's not in the Debian Stretch repositories (gotta wait for Debian 10), I decided to install it via flatpak. I was happy when I found out it was the newest version. I hope they keep it up to date.You can easily download distro-agnostic binary release from their releases page, listed as "Other Linux" on their downloads page.
While I was on Debian 8 a while back I compiled it from source. That was a headache that I don't want to go through again.
I know. I was actually going to download that until I found the flatpak package on flathub.
I thought about it for a minute then decided that the flatpak package would be easier for me to keep updated I guess.
I'm just curious why it hasn't been backported to Debian 9. I'm kinda surprised by that.
Oh, just checked, it isn't in Stretch at all. If you are knowledgeable enough, why not run Testing/Buster? (It generally is still more stable than Fedora).
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Joeyboots80 30 Jul 2018
I like how this is shaping up. :D
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Avehicle7887 30 Jul 2018
Glad this project is still going, Morrowind is my fav TES game, Skyrim coming in second. Looking forward to 1.0
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TheRiddick 31 Jul 2018
it would look pretty good if they added selective tessellation and real time soft+shadows. Maybe one day.
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I'm just curious why it hasn't been backported to Debian 9. I'm kinda surprised by that.
The article says it depends on QT4, but that is being removed from Debian. So as long as OpenMW doesn't switch, I wouldn't expect it to be contained in Debian anymore.
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slaapliedje 31 Jul 2018
I'm just curious why it hasn't been backported to Debian 9. I'm kinda surprised by that.
The article says it depends on QT4, but that is being removed from Debian. So as long as OpenMW doesn't switch, I wouldn't expect it to be contained in Debian anymore.
While that wouldn't matter for Debian 9 anyhow (since Debian isn't going to remove Qt4 from Stretch, but future releases) it looks like the current packages for openmw in Debian are dependent on libqt5.
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it would look pretty good if they added selective tessellation and real time soft+shadows. Maybe one day.I was actually thinking about this while watching the video. Obviously getting the engine working correctly is the priority, but as long as running the original with mods provides a better experience, interest is going to be limited to open-source obsessives like ourselves. To be fair, I think the devs recognise this: they did have shadows at one point, but removed them due (as far as I recall) to bugs. It's on their to-do list, but quite far down I think.
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I'm curios. Wasn't the same engine used for Oblivion ?
Could OpenMW theoretically run that as well with minor alterations ? OR would it need a huge overhaul ?
Still , cool this project is still going. Even if I did not play it at the time it came out , this one seems to be the Elder Scrolls game with the most depth.
Could OpenMW theoretically run that as well with minor alterations ? OR would it need a huge overhaul ?
Still , cool this project is still going. Even if I did not play it at the time it came out , this one seems to be the Elder Scrolls game with the most depth.
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I decided to install it via flatpak. I was happy when I found out it was the newest version. I hope they keep it up to date.
I certainly have no plans on ceasing maintaining it. :)
That being said, it seems like we lost an appdata xml update in the process, so the flathub page incorrectly states that it's still 0.43.0
Not the same engine, but an upgraded version of it, yes. Theoretically, after they complete 1.0, they could decide to upgrade their project to support other Bethesda games like Oblivion, Skyrim, or the Fallouts.
There's a thread on the forum that started back on the Ogre version, it's basically a proof-of-concept of loading Oblivion / Skyrim / Fallout content in OpenMW, so certainly far from an impossible thing to do.
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I decided to install it via flatpak. I was happy when I found out it was the newest version. I hope they keep it up to date.
I certainly have no plans on ceasing maintaining it. :)
That being said, it seems like we lost an appdata xml update in the process, so the flathub page incorrectly states that it's still 0.43.0
Not the same engine, but an upgraded version of it, yes. Theoretically, after they complete 1.0, they could decide to upgrade their project to support other Bethesda games like Oblivion, Skyrim, or the Fallouts.
There's a thread on the forum that started back on the Ogre version, it's basically a proof-of-concept of loading Oblivion / Skyrim / Fallout content in OpenMW, so certainly far from an impossible thing to do.
If you're the one working on this project , thank you :)
Would be cool to see other Bethesda games running in OpenMW at a later date.
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If you're the one working on this project , thank you :)
Just the Flatpak and Windows maintainer for OpenMW, haven't done any real development work on it since way back when I wrote the first unfinished prototype for saving ESP/ESM/ESS data.
But thanks anyway, always nice when people enjoy what you do :)
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slaapliedje 1 Aug 2018
I decided to install it via flatpak. I was happy when I found out it was the newest version. I hope they keep it up to date.
I certainly have no plans on ceasing maintaining it. :)
That being said, it seems like we lost an appdata xml update in the process, so the flathub page incorrectly states that it's still 0.43.0
Not the same engine, but an upgraded version of it, yes. Theoretically, after they complete 1.0, they could decide to upgrade their project to support other Bethesda games like Oblivion, Skyrim, or the Fallouts.
There's a thread on the forum that started back on the Ogre version, it's basically a proof-of-concept of loading Oblivion / Skyrim / Fallout content in OpenMW, so certainly far from an impossible thing to do.
I think Morrowind was the first of their games with this engine and they have just improved upon it, yet gameplay between morrowind and all the follow up games are so very different. They kept simplifying game play mechanics. It is a shame the remasters of Daggerfall haven't happened. That is the largest elder scrolls game so far.
But OpenMW is awesome, I need to finally complete the two expansions. I was able to complete the main game back in the day, but had lost my save by the time the expansions were released and never got around to playing them. I had heard they were hard as hell!
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slaapliedje 1 Aug 2018
Looks like Debian Sid already has 0.44 now.
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they did have shadows at one point, but removed them due (as far as I recall) to bugs. It's on their to-do list, but quite far down I think.I'm pretty sure this was working quite well, but was lost during their switch to the OpenSceneGraph graphics engine (which improved the performance quite a bit). They lost that, multiple custom shaders, and distant land rendering, IIRC. I'm pretty sure this will be brought back at some point.
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Yep, you're right (source.they did have shadows at one point, but removed them due (as far as I recall) to bugs. It's on their to-do list, but quite far down I think.I'm pretty sure this was working quite well, but was lost during their switch to the OpenSceneGraph graphics engine (which improved the performance quite a bit). They lost that, multiple custom shaders, and distant land rendering, IIRC. I'm pretty sure this will be brought back at some point.
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slaapliedje 4 Aug 2018
I wondered why the last time I had tried it out the water and some other things had looked better.
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Ah, yes, that was it. I knew there was a good reason, and that the plan was still to enhance the graphics eventually.they did have shadows at one point, but removed them due (as far as I recall) to bugs. It's on their to-do list, but quite far down I think.I'm pretty sure this was working quite well, but was lost during their switch to the OpenSceneGraph graphics engine (which improved the performance quite a bit).
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