The Best Morrowind has EVER Looked! - Graphics Mod Overhaul Guide for 2023 & 2024
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2023
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Playthrough with these mods
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MORROWIND MODLIST!
Although 300+ mods is awesome in #Morrowind it's impractical to do. Not to mention at some point you'll need a supercomputer. The point of this modlist is to get it as "next gen" as possible while still being something YOU can do. Of course if you want more mods feel free to install more.
REMEMBER TO CHECK EACH MOD'S "REQUIREMENTS" AND GET THOSE!
OVERHAULS
1. #OpenMW (you can get stable release now)
openmw.org/downloads/
2. Morrowind Rebirth (match version to latest grass mod version, this is 6.2)
3. Rebirth 6.21 Grass (follow OpenMW's grass install instructions)
modding-openmw.com/mods/aesth...
RETEXTURES (Many overwrite but I like this order)
4. Morrowind Enhanced Textures (MET)
5. Connary's Bitter Coast
www.fullrest.ru/files/connary...
6. Connary's Grazelands
www.fullrest.ru/files/connary...
7. Connary's West Gash
www.fullrest.ru/files/connary...
8. Connary's Caves
www.fullrest.ru/files/connary...
9. Apel's Bitter Coast Retexture
10. Apel's Fire Retexture
11. Cozy Journal and Scroll Replacer (tweaked this so text fits)
12. Real Signposts
NEW MESHES
13. Better Clothes Complete
14. Hirez Better Clothes
15. Best of Both Worlds 2022 Westly Westley Head and Hair pack
16. Better Bodies 3.2 (Better Beasts)
17. Lore-Friendly Better Bodies Underwear
18. More Argonian Hair
19. Waterfall Tweaks
20. Transparent Glass Weapons
21. Preserving Fargoth
WILDLIFE TO LIVEN UP THE WORLD
22. Bitter Coast Sounds
23. Tamriel Data (remember to do the OpenMW ini settings)
24. Fireflies by RandomPal
25. Where are all birds going (skip if don't like birds)
GAMEPLAY ENHANCEMENTS
26. Better Balanced Combat (removes dice rolls)
27. Projectile Overhaul - Faster Projectiles
28. Delayed DB Attack
29. Graphic Herbalism - MWSE and OpenMW Edition
LIGHTING AND SHADERS
30. Enlightened Flames OpenMW Patcher (Add 'overwrite' folder to OpenMW's 'Data Directories' tab)
31. Improved Lights for All Shaders
32. Zesterer's Volumetric Cloud & Mist Mod
33. TLAD Daylight - BCOM
www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/m...
34. TLAD Lights Only Necro Edit Logical Flicker ExpSnd
www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/m...
(Don't use base True Lights And Darkness! With volumetric clouds some interiors go black. Don't ask why these files, it just worked for me)
modding-openmw.com/mods/true-...
(I followed this guide for number changes)
35. RESHADE (OpenGL, Do anything you like with this)
- FakeHDR
- AMD FIdelityFX
- DPX
- LumaSharpen
- Vibrance +0.2
36. Timescale6
OR once in game, open the console with ~ and type:
set timescale to 6
...to slow time. 15 is also good.
37. [Camera] Viewing distance = 35000
This keeps the world feeling big while hiding cutoffs but go up to 50000 if your frames can handle it.
38. Performance reductions in settings.ini if lagging (lower and cutoffs are clear)
[Groundcover]
rendering distance = 8000
[Shadows]
maximum shadow map distance = 7000
[Camera]
viewing distance = 18000
(Lowering your FOV helps too but don't give yourself a headache)
39. Bonus Mods:
New Starfields
TrueType fonts for OpenMW
NOTE: I lose 30fps to record the video, so I pull down settings to show you this.
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Playthrough with these mods: ua-cam.com/video/3X9qKDVGA_4/v-deo.html
Although 300+ mods is always going to be an awesome experience in Morrowind it's just impractical to do for 95% of players. Not to mention at some point you're going to need a supercomputer. The point of this modlist is to get it as "next gen" as possible while still being something YOU can do. Of course if you want more mods on top of this, feel free to install more.
Those are some of the worst looking "fireflies" in any recent game or mod. It's like they were animated by somebody who never saw them in real life and assumed they move about similarly to fruit flies zipping around a rotten melon. For reference: ua-cam.com/video/T6QiKnTht3s/v-deo.html
Notice anything different?
@@djhenyoThat's why I don't call them fireflies like I say in the video. They look exactly like many night bugs where I'm from. In the tropics they particularly zip around like that near lights but really anywhere they like. There are also fireflies in some parts of my country, so I know what they look like too and why I specifically said what I did in the video.
@@GamerZakh Good on you for being accurate! Wish somebody would make a proper fireflies mod. They look so much more beautiful with their angelic flight patterns.
@GamerZakh Could you post your pc specs please and thank you great video.
@@darkroadsahead8668 I have an RTX 3080, 32GB RAM, and an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX. When not recording, I get 60-90fps with the mods you see in the video with that view distance. If you have a better GPU, I'd push view distance a couple more cells. If a worse GPU then lower the view distance.
Never thought I'd end up wanting to do a PC upgrade just to play a 20 year old game.
For reference, when I play with the settings in this video while not recording, I get 65-90fps outdoors with these mods, but I have an RTX3080. If I had a 4080, I could push the view distance and maintain a solid 60fps.
I recently bought a new monitor, upgrading from my old cheap ones that I used for far too long. First thing I played: Morrowind.
@@martinsch based
i never thought i would get a rtx to get shadows in new vegas but then new vegas reloaded came out and not since i like sci fi i am interested in starfield.
@@GamerZakhmust be nice
I've not played Morrowind for almost 20 years, and this video looks just as I remember it. Amazing how memory is much higher res than reality. :)
yeah I played it in 2005 - 2006... time really flies away! Timeto give it another chance?? I played the heck out of it back then anyways
auto brain upscaling at play
best comment ever
Brain-processed anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is an amazing phenomenon.
My brain upped the res of GTA:SA a lot :D
happy to see my trees coming to use, what i love most with morrowind is probably just hearing all the familiar ambient sounds and music, that will never need modding.
I don't think your flora will ever die haha
Jeremy did an amazing job with the music tracks. This is some of the most iconic modern day music ever written
wow!!!!!
i have been using your mods since 2005 iirc.
i have them backup on cd! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
@@pcgamingeconomico3057 Cool :D
@Vurt72 I've been using your mods for something like 15 years and I find many of them irreplaceable to this day. Thanks for your passion projects, you're a huge part of why Morrowind has managed to age so gracefully.
The sound of this game make me feel so relaxed, the old times, it is like to go back home...for me the best elder scroll game.
Glad you had fun with my cloud mod :) FWIW, it's a good idea to use post-processing shaders from within OpenMW itself rather than applying reshade on top in order for effects to be applied in the right order. As an example, SSAO should be applied *before* volumetrics rather than after. There are several SSAO mods for OpenMW that are just as good as those in reshade, if not better (since they have access to a lot of in-game data that reshade simply doesn't).
Seriously though, Volumetric Clouds & Mists is the missing piece to make a high draw distance MW as atmospheric as the original.
I don't know if it would be compatible with your mod list, but I strongly recommend giving a mod called Beautiful Cities of Morrowind a try. It really makes the towns on Vvardenfell come alive with lots of extra detail, which merges with the original content so well I can't tell which is which any more.
The modders of Morrowind are on another level. Hats off!
LOL! Glancing through the video and I see you mention the 30 fps. When I originally played Morrowind it was on a really weak laptop and I played with ~20 fps and that dropped during combat! I still played the whole game and enjoyed it.
I should also note this all looks amazing!
I love vanilla+ mod lists too. OpenMW is making hype progress in it’s development recently. Great work on yours!
Glad you still upload Morrowind content! This game is just so alien and captivating.
Looking forward to Skywind.
Me thinking: "Man, this hardly looks any different than I remember let me just check it out unmodded again"
...man, nostalgia can really alter reality huh lmao.
I waited years to play Morrowind, and even then I played it on a CRT monitor and that probably helps a lot with the smoothing tbh.
The whole effort is to make Morrowind look like we remember it, not like it actually was.
@@RedSaint83 A lot of people forget that their old game they remember playing were played on a CRT at first, and are surprised when that same game one a LCD looks worse and chalk it up to nostalgia being THAT bad. When in reality its not great, but the CRT does smooth a lot
This is nuts. You're right, I want this. Just when I thought I was done messing with my modlist 😆
IDK man, this looks EXACTLY like I remembered it looking 20 years ago🤔
Nostalgia is a powerful tool lol
Just one theory as to why that should be the case. 20 years ago your vision was much better so Morrowind *_seemed_* this sharp. Now 20 years later, your vison having worsened a bit (as it does with all of us), these new mods have managed to make it look just as sharp as your old 20/20 memories of it! Either that, or as GamerZakh has already mentioned --- Nostalgia.
Might want to fire up vanilla Morrowind and refresh that foggy memory. Vanilla Morrowind would not be appealing to most modern gamers due to how low rez the textures are
Great to see you back on Morrowind! Been enjoying your new Augustus playthroughs also.
This game will always be incredible, lately I've been playing it with the mod that allows you to play in online multiplayer mode with several players, it's really fun
I'm slowly starting to understand how modding OpenMW works. What I don't like is how many of the OpenMW modlists include the EEEEEEVIILLLLL Dagoth Ur voice mod. It completely misses the point that Dagoth Ur isn't supposed to be a black-and-white villain.
Idk he's pretty evil. Spreading a virus across the world to turn everyone into zombies..
And regardless of what happened at red mountain we know for a fact he betrayed his friends and used the heart to make himself immortal
I love how Dagoth Ur comes off clearly thinking that he's right and reasonable while making people grow face trunks and stacking chairs
Why would they change his voice??? It's perfect! I've modded the hell out of Morrowind and never even contemplated it.
Oh, wow! I'm totally going to try this for my own gameplay. I love trying out mod lists. 🙂 Morrowind is an old game, but it still looks lovely! And of course, there's the incredible story, the world, the characters... I never tire of it no matter how much time passes. 😊
this looks amazing! after playing oblivion and skyrim and loving both, being a huge fan of elder scrolls, and naming my cat khajiit, i am so excited to play morrowind with your mod list, thank you gamer zakh!
also, you were able to introduce the bevilex mod list to me for oblivion and i am so glad i came across your video, as someone who put so many hours into xbox 360 oblivion, i had to get that mod list and i am enjoying it so much!
have a greay day gamer zakh and thank you :)
I'm glad you like it and find them useful! Have fun playing!
I loved Oblivion.
Unbelievable. I was literally planning on modding Morrowind and then going through the game for the first time (I've only ever fiddled about in the very opening area before)... and I had just looked at some of your prior videos and another one. And then bam, this one drops. What timing. Anyway, thank you GamerZakh! I only discovered your channel in the past year, and I am very grateful that the algorithm sent me your way!
Glad I could help! There's a lot of ways to mod Morrowind but I do think this is a pretty good one for new players. It's not too much and modernises the usual pain points (dice roll combat), but if you want a more vanilla experience with these mods you can skip the Rebirth stuff and Balanced Combat.
@@GamerZakh Awesome, that makes sense! I might try the combat vanilla first and the modify it, if I don't like it! Thank you so much!
Yeah, what to do?
Play this or wait for Skywind, (and SkyBlivion of course).
@@greenbow7888 I'm going to be playing this! It looks good, and it strikes a great balance between the classic graphics and something refreshed. Those other versions look too much like those other games, to me. But that's just my opinion! It's wonderful that we have so many options!!! Especially since the game with no mods doesn't cut it for me... I even had tried it on a CRT, since that's how I play a ton of older games. But it didn't have the same level of beauty on a CRT that a lot of games from the era have. I actually feel like Morrowind was trying to be something more, graphically speaking, even back then. So, these mods feel like a fulfillment of that original vision.
However, I got sidetracked, because I also am playing Fallout 2, and The Nonary Games... so despite what I said earlier, I probably won't be installing these mods for a few months. But by the end of the year, I will!
@@pwnedd11 It does look good. It looks exceptional. However I'd need a fast travel mod before I would play it. I ground to a halt playing Morrowind three times before, due to no complete fast travel.
Silt striders are partly useful, but you can't get from on side of the map to the other in one go. You have to sometimes walk a lot and make travel connections. What with cliff racers, and navigating ravines making walking as longer route, it became too much for me. Just ran out of steam with it.
I want to play this, but I am no expert with mods, so Skywind for me I think.
thank you for keeping us updated with a recommended modding guide! awesome work. i plan to do this later this year.
Glad you like it! It's worth checking back on mods every 2-3 years. Things tend to change a lot.
Thank you king! Been waiting for an updated modlist from you for a while now.
I tend to make one every 2 years, every year and not too much changes. Usually I wait for some new tech, like volumetric clouds or grass LOD or something.
I remember looking at it in PC Gamer magazine and eagerly waiting for it's release. It had the most cutting edge graphics at the time. I think it's main competition was 'Thief - The dark project' and 'Half-Life'.
Quite a few years between Thief / Half-Life and Morrowind's release. 2002 had games that made Morrowind look pretty rough already, especially the character models. Noone Lives Forever 2, Hitman 2, Mafia.
@@Fastwinstondoom Maybe i'm mistaken, it was a long time ago.
@@hardywatkins7737 Nah, I fully believe Bethesda was hyping up their game with screenshots way before it (eventually) came out. I think they spent over 4 years making it, which was a crazy long development cycle for the late 90's.
I remember reading those articles. Also remember it being called "overly ambitious". I think that ambition paid off in the long run
Wow, that's a memory I thought I'd forgotten. PC Gamer, circa 2003, I remember the Q&A section of the magazine answering a question of "what game can I always play" with the response, "Morrowind. You'll be playing that game until your dying day."
If only we knew how true that statement was.
A mod that nobody every thinks of is the LGNPC set of mods, that make the conversations with NPCs much more detailed. Instead of 3 -4 lines, you might get 2 paragraphs! Given there is so much talking in this game, this mod is always totally requirable as far as I am concerned
Django's Dialogue is great too. It does something similar, and is totally compatible with LGNPC. The only thing about LGNPC.. I mean, I wouldn't play without it, but not all modules are created equal... The Pelagiad and Ald Velothi plug-ins should be avoided, for example (both have terrible writing), while the entire Redoran suite is absolutely outstanding.
I love your modlist, it looks amazing. Thanks.
But I do struggle a bit with the grass mod to work with REBIRTH + OPENMW + MO2.
As far as I understand now, you need both Aesthesia Groundcover and Rebirth Grass , correct?
Or can you just add Rebirth Grass when you add the configs (as in the description) ?
Glad you like it! For proper grass, you need to have all the required mod files but they aren't activated in the modlist. You need to follow the guide linked in the description to put a bunch of new lines in a text document.
@@GamerZakh Thanks. I will try again.
Love it. looking fantastic!! I admit to being intimidated by the prospect of modding, and hope that my retail CD original version of Morrowind will work with what you have suggested, or that openMW is free? anyhow, well done, it's nice to look at. I will clock my Sci-Fi Civ style game and do Morrowind again, again....again. LOL 🤗🤗🤩🤩
The fun of playing the vanilla game once in a while, next to the great game itself (story and such), is to see how far we've come today, no need for mods. Nostalgia is bliss
Of course there's no 'need' for mods, but Morrowind shipped with the Creation Kit. Of all old games, we were specifically told to mod Morrowind by the developers themselves.
@@GamerZakh This is a very good mod list. I have only one minor issue; I prefer TR over Rebirth, though both are fantastic mods, they aren't compatible. That being said, I still got it to work with TR and it looks breathtaking. So thank you for this, I'm glad this popped up in my feed when it did.
@@AsteriaRiselta Glad you like it! Yeah this modlist is pretty flexible, swapping Rebirth for Rebuilt shouldn't be an issue. It's an easy list to build on as well if you want more stuff.
Gos this game was a big highlight in my gaming life. Absolute game changer
Thank you for this lovely video, Zakh!
Glad you liked it!
What a grand and intoxicating mod list
Now I want to play Morrowind again.
Sorry for your daylight hours lol
I check back about once a year to see if there have been anymore overhauls. It’s been about 5 years since my last playground. Morrowind came out my 7th grade year and remains my #1 fav. I think it’s time to play again
I love this! I need to mod Morrowind again hahaha
It's beautiful. I love pc graphics. No matter which year it came out. I just love the raster graphics.
I love this! Some of this modding is still -extremely- fiddly though, I teach computer science and even I am having a hard time modding Morrowind with OpenMW.
Yeah especially the first time you do it, plus you know computers, sometimes it just doesn't work for no reason haha.
Just re-installed Morrowind and damn, time to mod it. I remember playing this years back but this gives it a really fresh look and feel.
This looks so good. When i get new hardware, I'll mod mw again. I have graphical herbalism running for 4 years on openmw. Even on modding just on the phone. Strange you didn't!
It's odd but it just didn't work for me the last time I modded. Probably just some obscure issue that only streamers run into haha, but had no issue this time it worked no probs.
Ahhh yes... time to take a break from modding Skyrim to modding Morrowind. Vvardenfell will forever be my home!
thanks for all your work in this. We all appreciate the time and effort you've put into this. I'll have to come revisit this game again. It's been perhaps 10 years since I've played it.
Thank you! I'm glad I could help.
Wow that looks beautiful 😍😍
Now i need some Quest Markers etc. 😂
I like it. It looks clean, not over the top, still old-school.
That's what I go for, I don't like it looking completely different. I personally can't handle when it's 'cinematic' because I find it so dark and bland it's hard to play.
Graphic Herbalism is so simple yet so good
I wish I had one of those last, widescreen, CRT monitors that were made for awhile.
(I guess if I had a 4K OLED I could see about filters like CRT Royale and come pretty close to what I want, but I don't even know if the ones you can use outside of emulation in ReShade, are as in depth, or look as good either.)
Property looks really hi-res with these mods, Dren & Arvel plantations approve! 🦎😆
Thanks for the impressive video and loving your choice of Fargoth!
I recommend
"Signposts Retextured" instead of Real Signposts
and "Pete's Scroll 2018 ...in 2020" as a replacer for books and scrolls
They are better alternatives to the mentioned ones, in my opinion. But it's a matter of taste as always. :)
Also, "Darknut" has extremely good replacers for monster textures. I think that's a major point that is missing in the list.
I did look at Signposts Retextured but felt it looked a bit too modern for what I was going for. Pete's Scroll too, bit clean for my tastes haha, I wanted that cosy vibe. Darknut textures are a good alternative though, it's just the creature textures are already improved here by MET.
@@GamerZakh Makes sense! I am going for a little bit more modernization in general, with chocolate ui and a HUD mod I've created recently (Simple HUD for OpenMW).
So those fit a little bit more in my setup and might look out of place in yours.
can you give me some lists i cant find many mod lists for morrowind.
@@arkgaharandan5881 Are you interested in my Modlist? I'm writing on a guide for a Rebirth OpenMW modlist with roughly 70 Mods. There are also modlists on modding-openmw, but I personally find some of the common entries questionable and there is none with Rebirth in it.
One of the best games I ever played.
Can't wait to dive in! Morrowind began it all for me! 😉
Nice video. Lots of new ideas here to try. I've been struggling to get good lighting on Open MW, even with the recommended lighting mods. I assume all this will work with the latest stable release 0.48, as that came out very recently.
Thanks! Yes it'll work with 0.48, when I made this it was still dev builds working up to that version so most is the same.
Its crazy that Bethesda never made a next-gen remake of Morrowind... the game that basically SAVED Bethesda from financial ruin and annihilation. Without Morrowind, Skyrim, Fallout 3-4-New Vegas and Starfield never exist. Anyway great mods to make it look good, finally I'll be able to play Morrowind in VR and it'll look great.
It's probably just to do with money. A full remake of Morrowind would cost as much to make as a brand new game and a brand new game would straight up make more money. A remake of Morrowind would also be competing with all these mods, Skywind, and Morroblivion, so it will be a lot of comparisons and fighting for the same space. It's not like the Final Fantasy 7 remake where there isn't really anything like the Morrowind modding scene.
Is there a single artist, programmer, etc left at bethesda who worked on Morrowind?
@@poilboiler Todd Howard worked on Morrowind.
@@poilboiler Bethesda team back in Morrowind time was really small (they were only around 40-60 with some people doing work from outside) and apparently 13 out of 26 who were still at Bethesda when Morrowind shipped still worked there in 2017. A lot of them were forced to leave in 2001 when they ran out of money and the los angeles office closed. Probably in 2023 its way lower.
@@GamerZakh Dunno I could see a Morrowind remake selling a lot of copies. It might even get the sort of notoriet that Skyrim has. It's a highly celebrated game.
Be the hero of our age. Be the one who finally makes a Wabbajack list for OpenMW.
I'm not sure if all these mods would work with Wabbajack?
Why wouldn't they? There are huge Modlists for Skyrim using Wabbajack.@@GamerZakh
I mean, You Are Just An Nwah is pretty dang cool as well. More of a gameplay-focused, hardcore modpack, but _very good_ at what it does.
Thanks a lot! Sure it might not look like a 2023 game, but honestly it still looks pretty great. I'll probably give your list a shot when I have the time.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Point lighting in Skyrim, by playing around with ENB, is also quite nice (though there are tons of settings in ENB for Skyrim as it depends on the time of day). It looks much simpler and really nice here in modded Morrowwind.
Thanks for this bro. The game is absolutely gorgeous. I've been trying to do this for years and I have finally achieved it because of this video. It's been 18 years since I completed my last Morrowind playthrough
Glad I could help, have fun playing through again!
Thank you - I've been meaning to retry OpenMW for a few years now, and you've answered a number of my concerns.
I gotta say, tho - all those buggy, low-poly flying things from Where Are All Birds Going really don't help it look better. The same author (abot) implemented the same basic idea MUCH better with Water Life, which also implements fishing, NoM integration, and effectively extends the playable gamespace throughout the ocean; from the Nexus posts, it appears to be at least largely compatible with OpenMW.
I'm glad to see my journal and scrolls mod in your project. However, I would like to note that the left side of journal's texture is slightly cut off after your editing.
Oh sorry I didn't notice, but it still looks great! It was the only journal mod which felt like the perfect level of roughness. Others felt too clean or too dirty.
Does Bitter coast sounds, still have the issue with collision when you stand in mucky water, in Open Morrowind?
Love the video, Very helpful. I beat vanilla morrowind a few years ago and I'm getting the itch again.
Idk if you know what reshade is but you should totally play around with it with this mod list, I know I will.
Thanks! I do know reshade and show my settings on this video.
Awesome! TBH I've played so much Morrowind without mods except for one: Graphic Herbalism. Couldn't play without it.
man, this looks great.. saving this, really need a good RPG to survive the dark winter.
Thanks! And have you gotten into Baldur's Gate 3? That looks like a game you could spend hundreds of hours exploring if you take your time.
@@GamerZakh I'm actually doing a divinity original sin 2 run with my gf atm :D we play every evening and baldurs gate 3 will be played after that.
did you say what you used to change the water texture?
I remember many years ago I had my game with all the available nexus mods, all the mods that improved something without breaking the immersion, there was not a single mod that I was missing, I even had mods that few people know but improved small items of the world that nobody had modded yet, to do something like that again today would take me weeks of compilation.
Just started an Oblivion modded playthrough but I'm definitely doing this MW one after!
You had me at 5 speed mist.
22:50 Oh, finally. I can play this game now. I tried at least 5 times to play this in the last decade. Never managed to get past the fighting mechanics.
@GamerZakh Dude, Your AMAZING. i been looking to make Morrowind look at least 1 grade better, and you just made my day!
great vid. never played morrowind but this inspired me to. btw build a cheap secondary pc so u can record without dropping frames.
Thanks! And 2 PC setups make things a lot more complicated but also I am short on cash for a long while and right now. My wife and I are in the middle of trying to move countries, so I can't afford anything until next year at least.
I found the installation for the last one a bit tricky but got there in the end. But this one looks so good i'm gonna have to do it again! :)
You mean the easy guide? Keep in mind this one is more complicated than that. Note Enlightened Flames needs you to add a Data Directory (not Content List), Volumetric Clouds is different install from a normal mod, and ReShade needs to do a bit of a setup.
@@GamerZakh Must have been about 2 years ago but i think i tried install it without seeing the guide so that ones on me! I think i just went by the list of mods and the install instructions on moddb itself. But i kinda got there in the end, i'll stick closer to guides here next time :)
I WANT THIS!!!!!!! Hope your well brother man, its about taste yes, simplicity is bliss, still wiating for that RTX mod xD
Thank you, you too! Glad you like it, and yeah the RTX stuff isn't ready yet but I'm pretty happy with this.
Thank you very much.
Im using one of those beelink mini pcs to upgrade mine (finally!)
Nice Video! Lots of great ideas here. I'm curious though, which mod are your trees coming from? 🤔
Thanks! Those would be part of Rebirth.
@@GamerZakh Awesome! Thank you!
i'm gonna use this for my VR playthrough of Morrowind, this is dope!
Damn! I'm flabergasted. Thanks to your amazing video I'll have to reload my old save (running with MGE) once more and create a new profile on Vortex to test this up. Everybody's talking about how long people keep playing that old Skyrim but what about these old farts like me still roleplaying with Daggerfall Unity, Oblivion or Morrowind... ?
To be fair, I even recently booted up Arena again for a while ;o)
Kudos to Beth Soft for giving us some of the most amazing cRPGs ever created!
Glad you like it! It's really impressive what you can do with mods now.
Is there a graphic upgrade that is compatible with TES3MP yet?
Stumbled upon this video randomly while I was checking out the latest OpenMW blog post. Stayed because the video is somehow incredibly soothing.
Glad you enjoyed it! Walking around Morrowind can be a very calming experience.
Base true nights and darkness works just fine, you have to turn interior mists to 0 in clouds shader or you'll just have that happen anyway.
I did turn interior mist to 0, didn't work.
Is there a way to simply download the zipped folder containing the game + mods fully installed in it somewhere?
We can't do that because most mods don't give permission to distribute them. You can make a package like that yourself for personal use but you can't upload that.
Oblivion is the first elder scrolls I truly played but I did technically start on morrowind. Played it very very briefly, but being 10, I went for the new game with the new graphics instead but I really want to go back and play this game. I’ve heard so many amazing things about this game and remember it having immaculate vibes when I did play through the first few missions. Now that I have a pc and can make it a bit prettier it will be easier to play , can’t wait!
Zakh, this is absolutely incredible, thank you.
I have looked at Tamriel Rebuilt, Skywind (not even out yet), and all of the Morrowind projects, but nothing looks like this, and I already knew that I wanted the combat mod, so this is everything that I wanted, and more.
And because this is in OpenMW, people can add any compatible mods they want to this list.
Truly amazing, like playing MW for the first time, and with these graphics and combat upgrades, now TES III absolutely destroys all other Elder Scrolls games. Skyrim who?
The only reason to play Skyrim now is because of the Nolvus mod plus some of the modders' quests, especially the Enderal alternative reality of Skyrim. That is if there is any reason to leave this stunning Morrowind universe...
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy the collection. There's a lot of flexibility with it but I did make it as best as possible to what I think most would prefer.
My first TES and the best.
Compared to current rpgs, it was a masterpiece, deep gameplay, content with dlcs
Yeahhh! thats what was I'm talking about!)))
I did it, managed to install everything...I'm programmer now, Thanks Zakh!!
Awesome! I'm glad I could help a bit.
OpenMW is definitely the best way to play Morrowind nowadays. A community-made engine that's compatible with most old .esp mods, and has Lua scripting? Sold
(It plays very well, and provides some options for people who actually enjoyed certain unintended quirks of the original)
Also when you did overhaul mod video it was my first time modding a hame i desperatley needed that video and a step by step guide. I also had it playing on my samsung note 20 ultra cellphone haha idk that this will but finally got a decent pc setup with a ryzen 7 and a 3060. Ill never forget the day i went to my first friend i made at church and in my childhood hisndad was the pastor. I wejt to his hoise and he was a gamer like me. But then i noticed his brother playing something on his pc... morrowind and i had never seen a game with an ipen world and it felt like this brilliant twist of true fantasy and alien. I was mesmerized who could have created something so incredible. Anyways love the game and longtime follower of your content God bkess you my friend and then insaw him play halo and watched an eneky get into a banshee and inwas sold on it as well 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you! Modding the first time is always difficult, glad I could help!
so if i want to do this now, which version of openmw should i use? .48 launched shortly after this so if i use that will i be in a good place to begin with all of these?
The latest stable release should be all what I got here, that released just a couple months after this I think, but you can always get the latest dev build first anyway because it'll always be a bit more feature complete than the current stable release. I'd only not use the dev build if it's broken somehow.
@@GamerZakh awesome. youre the best Zakh
I'm trying to figure out what mod added the extra buildings and such to the normal towns. I'm trying not to get too deep into modding a ton of stuff into it, just would be nice to have some extra content in the vanilla world.
I tried to do Tamriel Rebuilt and ran into way too many problems. Got it to load but it still had a ton of errors all the time, and YES I ADDED THE LINES TO THE INI FILE
My problem when I started morrowind (at least at first), wasn't the dice rolls in combats. I was playing before Daggerfall which also has dice rolls, but at least there was an audible clank when you failed to hit enemies. There was kinda of an indication that you hit something but it didn't penetrated it's armour. In morrowind from what I remember, it was some clanky swinging of my weapon over bugs, with clanky 3d, and I wasn't even sure I was positioning my camera well. I wasn't sure it was my fault and I was hitting air. Also, from what I remember, in Daggerfall when you fail it might be 1/3 or 1/6 or.. some low number like that. In Morrowind, at least in the beginning, I swear I would swing like 20 times over a bug and not hit it. Dice Rolls are not bad. They could have make it though more easy to hit something and have an audible clank or something.
Hello friend, and Morrowind lover, I would really love to install this mods but I'm stuck at this grass mod and cant get it to work for days now. I've read instruction and tried editing it but just cant get it to work damn it. Now that you showed us how beautiful and subtle Morrowind can work, it would be nice if we can get a video showing us how we can install the damn thing. thank you for your beautiful work and I love you.
Until we get Skywind (someday) this is what we've got, and it looks great! Nice work!
Does this mod list translate into Morrowind VR easily? I can't wait to get this all setup! :D
I've never tried Morrowind VR but I don't see why any of this would be an issue. If mods typically work with OpenMW then nothing here should be a conflict with VR.
@@GamerZakh thank you kindly! I'm trying to mod out all my VR games to create content and Morrowind is one of them. This is the best looking list I've seen yet!
I've got this all installed and working now and it's gorgeous, though I had to tone it down a bit. Instead of Real Signposts I use Signposts Retextured which is a bit more modern. May I ask what the tower is outside Seyda Neen? Thanks for the video, it's made a real difference.
Glad I could help! That tower in Seyda Neen is from Rebirth. Honestly, I've never explored what it is.
@@GamerZakh Thanks. I decided in the end not to use Rebirth, since I have Tamriel Rebuilt installed.
"You know you want this, don't lie to me!" at 0:48 and I'm like bro I'm literally foaming at the f*cking mouth, the last time I played Morro was Tamriel Rebuilt and this is so much better.
Mods have really come a long way. I like to check back every 2 years because the mod makers keep making progress.
I'd like to redo the levelling system to just be dependent on what you level, but diminishing returns over time with no caps on stats, just skills. Hoping that mana regen works on npcs now without the going negative error on cell change
There is, in fact, a mod that pretty much does that. It's called Natural Character Growth and Decay.
@@colbyboucher6391The decay part can be frustrating however
34:46 chandelier and candelabra, are the words you are looking for.
Walking animations is the biggest thing Morrowind needs.
I know those words, I'm just speaking of multi-light sources in general. And I think there is a new walking animation mod now, it's not perfect but I think a lot of people like it.
Haha funny thing Zakh I was about to ask if you could do a new guide on how to mod Morrowind in 2023 :D
Great video. You've inspired me to start up another play through of Morrowind. Quick question though. If I'm using OpenMW will I still need to install MGE to get rebirth grass working properly?
You don't need MGE when you use OpenMW. You can have both installed at the same time with the same Morrowind install, but they both launch with separate exe files. They don't conflict with each other but they don't recognise or use anything from each other either.
@@GamerZakh Ah excellent. Ty for the reply! Grass seems to be working fine. I am however having a fair bit of trouble getting better clothes, better bodies, and the underwear mod to work. Parts of it seem to work...but I'm still seeing naked nippleless kahjiit xD
Played so much of this game when I was a kid many many years ago. Funny thing is, this is how I remember it looking, I swear the graphics were incredible when I played it, and I guess at the time, they were.
Hi, I just started trying to use open mw, and I'm having a lot of struggle starting. I did watch your easy guide, linked in the description, but taking it a step further to installing these mods leaves me completely confused as to the steps. Did you ever make a guide for open mw?
Alternatively, did you ever depend on a guide to teach you how to mod with open mw?
Mods in OpenMW work exactly the same except a couple things. Skip the volumetric fog and the candle flames, those are complicated. Then for grass I link to the guide below. Besides that, most of these mods are just texture or mesh replacements. They just replace the game files and work the same with or without OpenMW.
this looks how the game looked for 15yo me 20 years ago, it's amazing
Do you have a good how to video on now to download mods like this? Sorry I’m new to modding for morrowind
Yes if you're new to modding Morrowind, follow this easy guide first. Don't worry about anything else just stick to this video: ua-cam.com/video/5oyvT5QDuh0/v-deo.html That guide doesn't prevent anything moving forward, can transition into OpenMW and this modlist, but the main thing is modding is a skill because all sorts of things can go wrong and you need to practice. That easy guide will get you more used to how modding works.
@@GamerZakh I have experience modding. I’m sure installing loot can help organize them once I download them from the nexus
I liked the way Morrowind looked. My main issue with rpg games is the limited dialogue and doors that don't open. This does look great though and I would like to play it but my machine won't be able to handle it atm.
I agree. There was nothing wrong the the original graphics (or gameplay, for that matter).