footsteps - CSO half port | OpenMW | Page 1

hushed torrent Feb 9, 2026, 4:14 AM

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i also would like to figure out the fuckin fake water mesh stuff but i don't know if that's even possible given current lua limitations

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(i also curated tracks from the kenshi soundtrack and stuck them in s3maphore playlists and it goes kinda crazy)

karmic shell Feb 9, 2026, 4:27 AM

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what are your headbob settings here?

hushed torrent Feb 9, 2026, 4:29 AM

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i may also be using some weird first person animations i don't remember offhand

keen cairn Feb 9, 2026, 10:33 AM

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does it look ok with wepon drawn? Since weapon will not really follow bobing cam

hushed torrent Feb 9, 2026, 6:36 PM

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looks reasonably good imo

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the headbob seems to mostly temper off when i have a weapon out so it's not nauseating

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i do specifically use a third person alt attacks animation for 2h weapons in first person cuz reanimation never covered 2h stuff so that looks a little janky but it also just kinda reminds me of playing bushido blade in first person as a kid so it's kinda sick

keen cairn Feb 10, 2026, 12:20 AM

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hushed torrent i do specifically use a third person alt attacks animation for 2h weapons in fir...

yea never got my hands on 2h unfortunately... maybe this playthough I'll feel like it, I even downloaded all the necessary armatures today :3

hushed torrent Feb 10, 2026, 12:26 AM

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hell yeah

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i've been lowkey waiting for you to get back into modding everything you've done so far is a permanent mainstay in my load order

empty cobalt Feb 13, 2026, 3:54 PM

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How does the script decide what sound to play when walking on terrain?

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Is it just texture-based or something?

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Cause a lot of stone-looking roads play the dirt footstep sound, but some actually play the stone one

hushed torrent Feb 13, 2026, 7:09 PM

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there's a text database of texture filenames assigned to certain materials

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it's possible some road textures aren't properly mapped, i was seeing a few myself that played the dirt sound

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or else the terrain blending is such that the engine is reporting it as a dirt-mapped texture

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haven't had the time to do a real audit of the state of the world since terrain texture lookup got implemented into the engine so that part is probably still a bit finnicky

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 10:45 AM

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Hm, it might be the blending thing cause sometimes the same texture will play a stone sound and other times a dirt sound

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Huh never mind

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Different textures after all

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 1:31 PM

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I'm starting to realize that maybe the one with the brown dirt and smaller stones is maybe set to have a different sound on puropose?

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Though I'm not sure how I'd check cause I don't know what the texture name is or if there's a way to check outside of the CS?

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 4:44 PM

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Ah, looks like this specific texture (tr_at_cobblestn_01.dds) just isn't set to anything in data.lua

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Hm... did I edit the wrong file?

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Cause adding it to data.lua didn't fix it

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Is this not what I'm supposed to do? 😅

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 5:24 PM

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pretty sure that's the right file

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if a texture isn't mapped to anything it defaults to dirt steps so that would explain it if it's not mapped

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 5:27 PM

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Hm

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Why doesn't it work then 💀

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It still plays the dirt sound

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To clarify

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Doesn't look like it's being blended with anything either

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 5:30 PM

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is that old ebonheart

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 5:30 PM

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Yeah

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 5:30 PM

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lemme see if i can figure it out

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 5:31 PM

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The road leading out of it and a bunch of other roads in the region use the same texture too

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And they still make the dirt sound for me as well

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So I'm wondering if I somehow missed a step or made a mistake or something

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 5:35 PM

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the formatting looks right

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 5:58 PM

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huh.

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so it's not working for me either

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i'm also noting that a lot of textures in tr/lnd/ are for some reason mapped as being in tr/ind/, which is a directory that does not exist

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 6:30 PM

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o.o

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That's

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Weird

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 6:32 PM

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so this seems to be a recurring issue among

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multiple TR areas spanning multiple map releases

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because i'm getting the same thing in necrom

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which is not to say that i think it's a bug in TR because they're not doing anything at all notable here i think the terrain code needs to be adjusted

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 7:48 PM

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hushed torrent i'm also noting that a lot of textures in `tr/lnd/` are for some reason mapped a...

Wonder if it's a typo

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Cause I mean

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Depending on your system font that looks a lot like an uppercase i

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Also looks like those are duplicates of the /tr/lnd ones?

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💀

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 11:27 PM

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well it's populated by a script so i'd hope the computer isn't gonna sight read /lnd/ as /ind/ lol

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i do not have any idea what could be causing this though, i did a few tests earlier and nothing worked

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so it's something that i'm gonna have to focus on when i get the chance

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 11:28 PM

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😔

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 11:28 PM

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hushed torrent well it's populated by a script so i'd hope the computer isn't gonna sight read ...

Maybe the script had a typo, idk 😛

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 11:28 PM

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luckily there is at least A Sound and it's not like the project cyrodiil bug where it was just killing the script

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n it's something about the structure of the textures i think?

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 11:28 PM

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Huh

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 11:28 PM

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like all i can think of is that like

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 11:28 PM

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What was the Project Cyrodiil bug?

hushed torrent Feb 14, 2026, 11:29 PM

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TR terrain textures are the only terrain textures that are nested inside of multiple directories

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PC had like a patch of grass that wasn't mapped and if you walked on it it was just silent and threw a bunch of errors it was weird

empty cobalt Feb 14, 2026, 11:30 PM

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Damn

empty cobalt Feb 22, 2026, 2:41 PM

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Huh, looks like a lot of the models in Anvil have another weird thing going on, where theymake the sound of the last properly detected surface you walked on

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(also some of them were missing and I had to add them to nif_data.lua and/or data.lua)

empty cobalt Feb 23, 2026, 12:04 PM

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Found another place in Project Cyrodiil that doesn't make a sound and spams the logs

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Here

candid sequoia Mar 2, 2026, 1:31 PM

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sorry for the necro, but what mod was this location from?

glossy panther Mar 2, 2026, 9:53 PM

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candid sequoia sorry for the necro, but what mod was this location from?

The locations in the vid are much changed now since I moved to using actual water level for interior design, but they are from this WIP https://discord.com/channels/260439894298460160/1452943124245516380

blazing rose Mar 20, 2026, 11:08 PM

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Bug report - Walking backwards whilst sneaking on the latest version causes a stampede 🤣

keen cairn Mar 21, 2026, 8:16 AM

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U sure you not using some weird animation replaces with broken backwards sneak anim? I believe anim defines when sound will sound

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@blazing rose

blazing rose Mar 21, 2026, 8:21 AM

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Could be, will test any animation mods tonight. Disabling footsteps fixes issue

keen cairn Mar 21, 2026, 11:00 AM

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Btw @hushed torrent are you planning to make more sound? I oersonally eouldve liked to hear your take on better impact effects and maybe weapon-type soecific swing sounds

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Although i think combat sound overhaul is already pretty good and swing sounds are nice but they certainly can use some more dynamic logic and some polish

hushed torrent Mar 22, 2026, 12:13 PM

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maybe

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i plugged away a little at the idea of more expansive ui sounds but that didn't really go anywhere

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i generally like the stuff that exists already as far as swing and impact sounds if i did anything else it'd probably be magic sfx

keen cairn Mar 22, 2026, 12:32 PM

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Theres a mod nifty magic sound effects i think

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It replaces some magic sfx

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And its quality stuffgenuinely

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Not just "plug skyrim and oblivion sfx where they dont belong"

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Re impact effects i still didnt find one that will sound like a good mix of realistic and satisfying, all that i tried had this big measure of that hollywood fake impact crunch

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Also overall impact visuals is my pers pet peeve, i want proper blood splatters on impact but it seems like its not going to happen until i figure how to render it out in blender myself

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Since i havent found anyone whod be interested in producing such spritesheets

fast quartz Apr 29, 2026, 11:32 AM

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Hello! I need help installing this mod. And new to installing mods, and I need the step by step installation guide...

fast quartz Apr 29, 2026, 1:36 PM

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nvm i've managed to make it work. Great mod! Although there's a bit of delay on the footsteps when you start walking. However, in 3rd person makes sense since you can see that it hasn't fully landed the first step yet.

keen cairn Apr 30, 2026, 11:48 AM

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@hushed torrent id like your opinion on something, i was experimenting with reworking combat sounds (weapon impacts mostly), take a look at this:
https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/17860783231654248737/E8B650D0C2113FF69210983651AF2D93BD01E1DC/

▶ Play video

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So ive removed generic hp damage sound ehich in vanilla was doing that crunchy impact that i felt is cartoonish and added some other minor stuff. Layers now are:

Short hitmarker thud (from dynamic reticle mod)
Vanilla heavy armor impact sound
New blood gash sound

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Its somewhat close to what i wanted, but something is missing

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Any idea what? I feel like some feeling of swordiness of the attack is not there

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Maybe needs some cutting or like can-opening sound as if the blade cuts throug armor (i know that actual swords cant chop through plate but whatever)

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Also i prob want to replace vanilla heavy armor impact sound with less obnoxious more realistic series of plate impacts, and make the blood gash thicker and add more variety, but i feel something will still be missing

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