Dubious Intentions

[primal lance]

a big fan project i think in Unity

[rose turtle]

community singlehandedly saving arena daggerfall and redguard

[primal lance]

its coming along too, they're into asset dev now i think

big damn heroes

im glad because i wouldnt trust bethesda to payroll a good remake

[rose turtle]

yup

daggerfall has been getting a lot of great mods recently

I may revisit it

[primal lance]

yeah the mods for DF are just getting better too

[rose turtle]

if only we had 3d models

[timber fable]

I mean, just looking at Oblivion Remake.... They managed to keep OG bugs, add new ones, and make it unmoddable all in one go

[primal lance]

that would be interesting. id be just as interested to replace MW models with sprites lmao

[timber fable]

sure, it's pretty, but come on

[rose turtle]

because the underlying game logic is similar in the oblivion remake, modders are doing their best to import OG oblivion mods

modders are doing bethesda's job again

[primal lance]

yeah the Oblivion remake somehow ended up seeming older than the original in a weird way

showing its age more

[timber fable]

Maybe because it released in 2025, unlike the original?

[rose turtle]

it's what happens when you slap makeup on a 70 year old granny

[primal lance]

mutton dressed as lamb

does this look ok? its down to 64x64, if your busy you can throw me the script and i'll figure it out 👍 or do i intercept it on the DreamWeave?

[untold geyser]

oh hey sorry bro I had a long ass day yesterday I slept like 2 hours and forgot I was gonna post it for you

there really is extremely little to figure out, the Usage: line tells you pretty much everything you need to know

There are actually three or four different atlas modes in here and I forget which is active atm

oh okay yea this'll work for you just fine

oh, right, what am I even

hang on

converting

While I wait on this, though

While the Weave does indeed have space and place for all, I don't... really think this gothic thing you're going for here fits into H4ND. I'm down to collab on a new mod for that BO user interface if you want.

Some people have done some things and tried to get me to work with them. I did not like them.

I like this.

ding, fries are done.

I always love looking at these, they're rather mesmerizing

When I was doing H4ND I added a bunch of palletization helpers

So for the vertical bars we could do something kinda similar to these, you can do really crazy shit just with noise textures and transparency

I don't have time to convert these ones I'm bouta go to work but here's the big generator script I was telling you about. It needs the OpenMW fonts in the same folder

(the "fucked" preset generates all the prebaked menu variants and then randomly selects textures from each one for every texture in the UI)

((so it's pretty fucked))

[primal lance]

oh wow thank you, haha yeah that looks great. all good ser and definitely don't feel obliged to put in time or effort, i mainly bring this to you because i you said you dig this kind of thing. plus i would very much like to get at least one mod out for may so any help is appreciated

[untold geyser]

No obligation. I'm offering to serve a good idea.

Lemme know where I fit when you figure it out.

[untold geyser]

I might like that moon phase tracker. but you're doing something with that, right?

[primal lance]

well if you have an idea im interested to hear it. its all intended for the ui vision in general but i'm not precious about how we get there. i want to have a bunch of elements that can be fitted together, maybe modularly. i'm working on a starchart/sundial wheel as well. the thing is i haven't really got a plan on how to implement it, so i just have a bunch of jigsaw pieces.

[strange stratus]

Revamped doom guy status head

[primal lance]

haha yeah

[strange stratus]

One per race would be pretty over the top

Maybe John Morrowind, Azura, Vivec

A cat

A little screen pet that jumps around and tells you your status

[primal lance]

i was wondering about just lifting some character portraits from daggerfall too

[primal lance]

oh lord

[strange stratus]

Gotta be careful with cross game rips. You might get kicked off nexus

[primal lance]

oh yeah crap

can just call directly from the face texture and display it flat

[strange stratus]

I had to delete it it disturbs me

[primal lance]

hahaha fair

the path is clear to me now, i have to make retro doomguy nicholas cage status head

[untold geyser]

Daggerfall is proper freeware now

[primal lance]

oh thats cool

[untold geyser]

Well, like

I ain't about maps

I don't be fucking with no forms of navigation assistance

So I was thinking maybe this could be a replacement for that

Or just a supplement for it

I am not especially familiar with the internal landscape of current map mods

[primal lance]

righteous

[untold geyser]

But the Blood Omen stuff, well.... Hm...

Actually now that I'm thinking about it

My knee-jerk reaction was "let's just copy h4nd into another mod and remove my assets"

But if that's what I wanna do, then, let's just do a whole ass H4ND theme and split the DP

Cuz H4ND already has the Tribunal hand and the diablo orbs

Which is arguably two entirely different huds in itself

The blood Omen theme would need a unique compass impl because this two textures and not one, but, otherwise the BO bars would literally use the exact same code as the Tribunal hand all the way down

Then basically all we would need from here is some appropriate fill bars

Hhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Lemme hit up Claude and do some lawyering rq

[primal lance]

sick aright sounds good

[untold geyser]

Okay so

I'ma leave this up to you right

So here's emo pope in all his glory

The LOK IP still technically belongs to CD despite being owned by Embracer, the latter is sorta just a shell company; therefore, CD's legalese still applies to BO1: Crystal Dynamics Fan Content Policy

Even a cursory read of this suggests CD is a-fucking-okay with us reusing their material so long as it's actually their material and we're not paywalling it

So,
A) We yeet the textures straight out of BO1
B) Option A doesn't give us a clean solution for fatigue so you remake the health and magic setup and do a corresponding fatigue bar too

It's a good thing Embracer bought the IP because Square Enix suck and pre-block any such attempts on all their titles

[strange stratus]

I donate https://github.com/ernmw/ErnGlider/blob/main/00 Core/scripts/ErnGlider/ui/bar.lua so you get fancy fighting game-style bar anims

[untold geyser]

I kiiiinnnndaaaaaa

At least for the health potion thing

Would maybe wanna do similar to how the diablo orbs work, and layer a bunch of noise textures or space images or something for the blood

Those magic runes are sick tho

no notes on that

[primal lance]

yeah i very much want the runes

[untold geyser]

beep-booping

[strange stratus]

Go old school and color the health bar green when poisoned

[primal lance]

its also got orbs for different magic types which is interesting

[untold geyser]

oh, bitch

thanks

oooooo this is

[strange stratus]

I extracted the colors for each magic school

local magickColorsDefault = {
    alteration = util.color.hex("9A4CB3"),
    destruction = util.color.hex("C64F46"),
    mysticism = util.color.hex("836986"),
    restoration = util.color.hex("6372A1"),
    conjuration = util.color.hex("7F7534"),
    illusion = util.color.hex("658665"),
}

[untold geyser]

okay but

yeah, that health globe's boned, I think. Hm.

All I really need is just that glass, though...

Don't I...?

I don't have any glass textures like that just laying around at the moment.

Mine are orb-y.

[primal lance]

hmm

[untold geyser]

But the colored magic selector and the cap and the magic runes, those're usable.

maybe if you were careful enough, you could separate the glass from the background

But it looks sus to me, I'm not sure I'd try it

[strange stratus]

Hold my beer

[untold geyser]

very well then.

[full chasm]

"I'm gonna steal an Elder Scroll"

[untold geyser]

Eh?

wait

[primal lance]

oohh

[untold geyser]

Hm, it's still...

The compression keeps fucking it up.

too light.

garbage.

The irregularities in the coloration still vex me but I'll pretend not

[primal lance]

the earlier ones look better, too dark?

[untold geyser]

It's cuz those pixels are empty

In the middle there's like three or four unfilled pixels in the middle, I think they do look a tad better, but

What fucking color is glass bro.

I got a window right here next to me, I'm looking at it, it isn't helping.

[primal lance]

oh there it is

[strange stratus]

extracted by hand, with love

[untold geyser]

Is it actually in the game files loose like that?

[strange stratus]

no I painted over it

[untold geyser]

Yea I guess just empty was the way to go.

What color is fucking glass.

I'm losing my edge.

[primal lance]

all of them but none

[untold geyser]

I been very discombobulated lately

[primal lance]

i feel that

[strange stratus]

I was hoping this would cheer you up

[primal lance]

pretty safe bet

[untold geyser]

Well...

Well I wasn't in a bad mood in the first place, but, if I say I was, do you have more cool minigames to boost my morale?

[strange stratus]

just this one, trying to get it over the hill. happy for a distraction though

[primal lance]

cant wait to have with full sound too

[untold geyser]

Yea I been okay I'm just trying to quit smoking so I have more time to annoy you people

but I'm kinda MORE EDGYYYYYY than usual.

[strange stratus]

anything else I can do to help with blood omen?

[untold geyser]

what do we do about the fatigue bar tho.

[primal lance]

yeah..

[untold geyser]

I sorta didn't expect to get to this point.

Didn't plan for it in advance.

[primal lance]

ikr

[untold geyser]

I was in bed actually

not that I wanna go back

but

Being a vampire kain doesn't really get tired, eh

[primal lance]

what about an orb for that?

or the colour of the blood?

[strange stratus]

magic runes are mana right?

[untold geyser]

Yea.

[strange stratus]

so you could make the orb fatigue

a mini diablio orb

[untold geyser]

Hm.

Orbaceous.

What about this... thing that looks like the pillars tho?

[strange stratus]

looks like a quickslot bar

[untold geyser]

Mother fuck.

[primal lance]

well thats where the mana glyphs go in the og game but we can mix it up

[untold geyser]

no it isn't

[primal lance]

it isnt?

[untold geyser]

actually I don't remember wtf this is to be honest

but runes go over here

[untold geyser]

.

[primal lance]

oh yeah

tf

[untold geyser]

That thing's got nine slots on it, too.

[strange stratus]

the square is going to be your drawn weapon or drawn spell, right?

[untold geyser]

Those are definitely the pullars.

[primal lance]

oh yeah duh

[untold geyser]

Normally that would be the spell, yes.

weapons and armor however are both that big center Kain

Not sure what to do about that. Was planning to just not use it.

[strange stratus]

ah yes, choose between sword, sword, axe, mace, sword, or sword

[untold geyser]

Excuse you

one of those is The Sword

The Sword who was a dude to become a sword to become another dude

[strange stratus]

you could choose the armor based on the armor class of the worn armor at least

[untold geyser]

you know something else I notice

you can tell they got tired of doing this shit at some point lmao

The last set still has transparency on all the hands

[primal lance]

i think thats magic phasing armour

[strange stratus]

ooh

[untold geyser]

oh yeah the whole arm is transparent

yea this actually kinda weirdly works

But it's rather... cramped, the weapon situation... hmm...

?

[primal lance]

hmm not bad

[untold geyser]

hand over the weapon selector, tho

So. Hm.

This can't be how it's actually set up in the game files.

Is it? Hm. I need to look and see how they're stretching this glass out.

Well.

[primal lance]

i thought it was extended with the little segment

there wasa small animation of blood ripping down that would obscure the change

[untold geyser]

I think the blood drip is an actual game mechanic.

bro gets thirsty, you know

but, that's... what it should be doing, yes

But there's not a middle segment in this mockup

[untold geyser]

if you look here it shows both full and empty segments but it's the whole thing, and the part on the left includes the cap

but there should be three bits, really

[primal lance]

yeah i see

i guess we can make new pieces with blurps thing

[untold geyser]

all old games are so fucked what even is this shit

Well I thought so for a moment also

[untold geyser]

But the cap is painted onto the texture I have

Which is... bearable, but, I can't help but think I can do better

[primal lance]

ahh

[untold geyser]

oh wait okay these look like levels

[primal lance]

oops i need to sleep, lmao crap

[untold geyser]

ah, yes, me too, but

I'm too busy being annoyed at how we always have to make up a new fucking file format every time

[untold geyser]

oh my god. 😂

[strange stratus]

just a head swap every once in a while to put more life into it

he can talk now

two frame talking anim

[untold geyser]

Oh I thought you were just dunmerizing him

YEEEEE

[strange stratus]

I kinda lost the cleft chin

one sec

[untold geyser]

the nose seems a little less nosey, too

[strange stratus]

he's not snarling

[untold geyser]

He kinda had a second bridge up top

oh yeah I guess o

I'ma make this one play when I enter the VC

these folks used rather unfortunate file extensions

There's no obvious meaning to any of them, really

[primal lance]

dont forget the eyebrows

[strange stratus]

lmao

[untold geyser]

ooooooo gurl

okay I hate these people first off

It is actually in the game files like this

But also

There are two, for reasons, and one is twice the resolution of the other

wait

oh yeah gurl

apparently nupraptor's dumbass minions were called nuppies

I love it

[primal lance]

Waht

[untold geyser]

the spritesheets for them are called NUPPIES.TIM and NUPPIES3.TIM

so they actually do put them in the game like this

But note in this rip the background on the cap is preserved

So now I can see how it's meant to be used (evilly)

I'm like 80% sure it's drawing three health bars at all times

There's not really another way this would make any sense

[strange stratus]

slide em around

[untold geyser]

Yea, actually, exact same code paths as H4ND already uses

I didn't expect it to be ... quite that literal 😅

well that was worth it for higher res

[strange stratus]

oh man does that mean my glass was from a lower res version?

and the head

[untold geyser]

yep

[strange stratus]

can you send me the higher res one please

[untold geyser]

^

powerups are composited too

[primal lance]

That's so rad

[untold geyser]

Is this image straying further from Todd's light or getting close it there are too many layers for me to parse here

Can you do one of me? 😂

I bet crassy would fit in there too

I got him on speed dial

[rancid mulch]

imagine sheogorath casting that on your character

those gfx look like legacy of kain from psx o_O- which is a very old game

[primal lance]

Because it literally is those graphics lol, s3ctor was just ripping them directly from the game files. Aiming for a spiritual successor so we we're dismantling it for parts

A rare case of Embracer Group not being the dystopian sci-fi antagonist

That we can use the assets wholesale

[untold geyser]

We don't fuck around 'round here

[strange stratus]

I came up with a better way to do color matching for these pixel art edits. I can just copy my Demake strategy

[primal lance]

Ooh nice

[strange stratus]

Dm me a pic and I'll try later

Try to get the lighting dramatic / matching the original and not flatly lit

[untold geyser]

I took this under stage lights so it's not getting better than this

[strange stratus]

With the hand on the face 😩

I'll try

[primal lance]

You'll just have to add Kain's cleft chin 🤷

[strange stratus]

Kain's chin, S3ctor's face

Oh shit

I should do Todd

[primal lance]

Lmao yes.

[untold geyser]

A young one and an old one

🤣

[primal lance]

Slowly shift between the two as you level up

[untold geyser]

My commitment is sealed, then.

[untold geyser]

in fact

this made my morning so much

I will spoil one of my surprises for you

See every dude and his uncle has LLS annotations now

But not every dude that thinks our Lua docs suck knows the engine innards and how they are all fucking wrong in the first place

smokin onnnat new new LLS

fucking gameobjects

[primal lance]

@untold geyser another present

been making some midnight pudding

[strange stratus]

That's a way better match than I was able to get

[primal lance]

you did most of the hard part though

[untold geyser]

Ohhhhh mmmyhhyy goooooooodddd

My dad is gonna love this

Aight I just got off work, eyes medicated, new H3 bouta drop hard

Let's get it

[untold geyser]

Okay but you know. Here's what has kinda been bothering me about this the entire time, right

These old school UI panels are usually set up in such a way that they occupy part of the screen and like, the entire game's viewport goes adjacent to it, ofc

which we can't really do here

So like.

Idunno. We can make it work.

But not the way it's supposed to.

[strange stratus]

Relative size (0.1,1.0)

Maybe some telescoping portion

Vertical status effects to fill in the empty space, if available

[untold geyser]

h4nd can arrange the status effects however, but I'm not really sure it'd fit inside the portrait

Maybe off to the side tho

[strange stratus]

Even if the portrait pane is expanded to take up all vertical space?

[untold geyser]

oh

well

Yeah actually I guess that would work

The little space between health/mana

[primal lance]

Yeah I wasn't sure how that would work, which is why I was making seperated elements like that gothic compass, so they could be arranged to taste. I didn't expect to get this far with the actual BO assets

[untold geyser]

I have an idea but I wanna get in-game with it first before I decide

I think maybe we can get away with not using the background tho

So potion bottle/thingy for health

Orb fatigue

Original magic bar

Then the center portrait is weapon

Underneath will be magic; maybe or maybe not the center portrait will be glued to the magic portrait

[primal lance]

yeah that sounds right

[primal lance]

got all excited and made a few more additions to the repo

[median dragon]

What's number 4 supposed to be?

[median dragon]

(That's an honest question) Is it an actor looking around for soomething with a torch?

[primal lance]

Yes lol I was trying to remember which because my phone wouldn't load it. Yeah it's intended for an NPC with a torch, foxunder asked for it for their Vaults Restricted mod

[median dragon]

Makes sense

These look great tho

[primal lance]

Ty 😁 it's very encouraging to see so many getting used. I'd like to build out a catalogue of random actions and geesture

I was trying to think what would be some good insulting gesture that would fit with Morrowind. "give him the tower" "Flipping the Orbis at him"

Or worst of all, the sign of Oblivion

👌

[timber fable]

I know it's been said before, but it bears repeating: you're doing Todd's work

[primal lance]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/703399109977178152/1460726998652555294/Toddwills.gif

[noble quarry]

another animation that's lacking in vanilla but is present in Gothic is hill-sliding - when you're on a slope that makes you slide down, the animation make the character get on their hind parts and extend the right hand forward for balance

[hazy stump]

This was discussed before but... do we have animated gondoliers?

[noble quarry]

wait, wrong gif

low acrobatics animation ⬆️

something like this but more adventury-professional

[primal lance]

I was actually considering this, grumbling vomits Populated Waters has it but it needs fixing. It makes a huge difference when you see them rowing around but I also want it for the player owned gondolas. That's one of the reasons I have been trying to figure out consistently spawning in items in hand. Vvardenfells rivers need more life to them

[primal lance]

That would be an interesting challenge, does the game have any way of tracking slopes normally? I didn't think so but there are many hidden features that surprise me still. i wonder if the shield surfing mod could be expanding to include tumbling 🤔

[hazy stump]

Months ago there was WIP for acceleration and deceleration on slopes

[primal lance]

Yeah I guess thats the closest it's gotten so far. I know the op has been crazy busy with work since but it would cool to see the idea revisited. I'll definitely make stumbling animations if someone makes a stumbling mod haha

[untold geyser]

I Am Basket adjusts the basket speed based on the incline of the terrain

When you do a raycast in any direction one of the fields of the resulting RayHit is the hitNormal, which is like the angle at which the ray hit the thing

So if you do one straight forward you can say "okay I'm at such and such incline"

[primal lance]

Do many mods use raycasts? Its still a bit mysterious to me. I know there's a few now using the SharedRay library.
Or is it just what happens when you look at something?

Btw this first line is just golden, with or without context I struggled to past it lmao

I Am Basket increases basket speed

[untold geyser]

Oh, is it mysterious?

Well conceptually a raycast is very simple but the name is pretty geometry-coded I guess

All a raycast means is, "given two points in the world, is there something between them or not?"

So you can do stuff like SharedRay where it is indeed literally just tracking what you're looking at

But you could also do it, say, to see if there is something above, below, or in front of you

Or an NPC could do it to tell if they can see you or not

It's literally just drawing a line, but, in 3d space, and then seeing if it hits anything

It's called a raycast because it's a ray in geometric terms:

I'm casting a ray from A to C and oh, shit, I hit B in the middle

[primal lance]

Ah yeah I see. Not so mysterious, good to have it spelled out though 👍

[pulsar violet]

oh hey I also am working on spawning items in hands for a potential future SDP update. We will have to compare notes if I ever get that far!

[full chasm]

I've considered adding abot's boats to my modlist just to have the boats and gondolas that sail around

[naive gorge]

Oh gosh true, almost forgot that was a feature of that mod....

Hmm maybe I should make the switch back from Immersive Fast Travel.

Although strictly theoretically speaking... they don't conflict, I think. You could install them on top of each other

[primal lance]

yeah i love mods that add any movement to the world. its the big draw. does he have one that adds silt striders moving around too? most of abot's mods are mwse focused so i haven't experimented with them much

[full chasm]

I don’t think it adds silt striders but I don’t remember

[primal lance]

i would love to see that, moving along their routes on a schedule even if it was kinda tricksy, idk how possible it is but seeing some occaisionally would be nice

[naive gorge]

doesnt the silt strider mod add walking silt striders to the world? couldve sworn it does

[hazy stump]

there is some jank there, I guess. There is a reason why Vanilla Morrowind doesn't even let you attack silt striders. They didn't want to deal with their AI, animations, pathfinding etc.

[primal lance]

yeah there is some but wild ones as kind of ambience, i dont mind that they're non interactable but i would love to see some laden with baggage moving along the river routes, down the odai. boats too, the way omw is it has to be done in tricksy ways but i think with the advances in shceduling behaviour and animations there could be some interesting methods to approach the problem. some kind of table that can populate cells at different times based on logical scheduling. Dynamic Sounds basically does it already but with sound generators. there's probably ways of doing that isn't too expensive

[untold geyser]

hey buddy I didn't forget about you

👍

[primal lance]

all good sera, i have been going down a blender rabbit hole anyway. finally got a mod out for may so im happy

you been doing some good works it seems

[untold geyser]

Oh, I'm just pulling the toys out of my bag m8

I will have you a hud within, say

let's call it 60 hours

[primal lance]

badass. cant wait to see what your cooking

[primal lance]

Anyone tell me how to clean up my GitHub? I have a bunch of clutter built up and I can't figure out how to leave it behind

[strange stratus]

You gotta be more specific

Your local git repo has files you want gone? Or you have repos on GitHub you want to delete

Or branches

[plucky moth]

I moved all my openmw repos to an organization

Because that's the only way there is to separate repos into "folders"

[primal lance]

Ok I'll look into it. I'm still getting to grips with the terminology

[primal lance]

Basically my animation repo has a bunch of doubled up files from me being sloppy and misnaming stuff. I see no "delete" button so I figured I could "push" (so to speak) it forwards without those files, leave them on an older "branch" (as it were)

I feel very old right now lmao

[strange stratus]

https://medium.com/@schmidlinicole/git-for-absolute-beginners-4d53c9cf3bb2

https://product.hubspot.com/blog/git-and-github-tutorial-for-beginners

Git is not friendly, take some time to go through tutorials

It's worth learning though, I promise

Here are the aliases I use daily:

# Change UPSTREAM to "master" if the repo is old.
export UPSTREAM="main"
# Start a new branch off the latest main
alias gidup='test -z "$(git status --porcelain)" && git checkout ${UPSTREAM} && git fetch origin ${UPSTREAM} && git reset --hard origin/${UPSTREAM} && git checkout -b'
# Clean directory (remove git-ignored files and un-committed files)
alias gclean='git clean -fdx'
# Combine all commits on branch into one.
alias gmush='test -z "$(git status --porcelain)" && git reset --soft $(git merge-base HEAD ${UPSTREAM})'
alias glush='test -z "$(git status --porcelain)" && git reset --soft @{upstream}'
# Update main
alias gupdate='test -z "$(git status --porcelain)" && git checkout ${UPSTREAM} && git fetch origin ${UPSTREAM} && git reset --hard origin/${UPSTREAM}'

Linux specific ^

[primal lance]

yeah true, ty. i find if i wait till i've read the tutorial first i never get it done so i just go head first and try and learn properly afterwards when there's time 😅

its time now though

[strange stratus]

In this case, git is not something you can really skip the tutorial on

[little pelican]

Hey dubious, not to give you any more work or anything if you don’t want, but would you be up for making me a first person animation ? 🙏

[primal lance]

yeah sure, what sort of thing are you looking for?

[little pelican]

Hands in prayer 🙏

I have the third person animation, it’s actually the one from Dynamic Actors but I can’t find one for first person

[primal lance]

ah yeah cool that should be fine

[primal lance]

do you have a preferance on finger placement?

[little pelican]

I was thinking very similar to the emoji, not clasped or whatever

[sly night]

This just occured to me but do you think one of your drinking animations could easily be repurposed to an upper body mask that just has an NPC holding a beverage? I think it would be nice to have standing patrons at taverns hold their beer up normally instead of just materializing it

[primal lance]

yeah i did my best to make them to be versatile like that, most of whats on my repo avoids altering the middle bone between torso and legs so they can be blended together

i kind of made these in the hopes to one recreate the opening scene from King of the Hill in morrowind

@little pelican i ended up making 3rdp version as well just because 🤷 getting the hands to look alright was a mission because their so close to the face haha, i like it though. and you can kneel in 1stP if you so desire

it up on my repo, xprayer

or here lmao

[strange stratus]

Damn dude you got this down

[little pelican]

Word thank you

Dynamic actors has a 3rd person prayer animation I was gonna use but I might like this one more

[primal lance]

nice! well you have options now at least

@little pelican i forgot to add some breath motion to the loop so if you'd prefer that, heree it is

[little pelican]

Yeah sure no problem, animations are probably going to be the last thing I do befor euploading so if you want to tweak things it's no problem

[sly night]

Okay amazing this would make a great bar idle animation

At this point when I get around to integrating all these I'll have to like make you an official co for something you've already made like nearly every animation I wished I had

[primal lance]

Hey Im just glad it's useful haha just a credit is all good, bring able to contribute to something like you're pulling off is peak

[hazy stump]

thx for all the hard work @primal lance . Hope you enjoy seeing it all in action 😄

[primal lance]

I love it, Its so badass

[sly night]

I might be doing something wrong but "dbssit5" seems to not loop perfectly it stutters at the start of every loop

[sly night]

I really poorly re-key framed it to just go forward and backward instead of looping cyclically

[primal lance]

Ok thanks, I'll have a look. that should be an easy fix.

[primal lance]

Do let me know if there's any others that could be tweaked or if there's something specific your missing too

[little pelican]

Is Parkourwind real?

[median dragon]

"eeeh!"

[primal lance]

not yet but i have ideas

this is the grandfather project Stumblewind

it will take time to make it non jank it but maybe will make a good demo for mollython

btw, htf do i disable the vanilla bars for using BB? 😅 maybe im just being dislexic but i cant find the info about that anywhere

[little pelican]

Do you have Locationhud?

[primal lance]

yeah

[little pelican]

Delete the mygui/ folder in it haha

[primal lance]

why would that help? its been the same issue since before i installed it. i added BB a month or two before LH came out

[little pelican]

Oh gotcha

[primal lance]

@strange stratus sorry i foged on without thinking, i just crammed in the script that controls the surf anims. feels like iffy way of doing now that i stop to think 😅

is there a way of doing it that replaces only the animation controller part?

like Foxunder has those Shared.lua files for switching out the assets of the script

or i guess the dwemer/racer glider has that too

[strange stratus]

You can edit the script directly, it's ok

[primal lance]

ok no worries

[noble quarry]

you know what would be cool? a heavy wounded player/actor idle. The one where they're humped and hold a hand at their side like they're injured and limp while walking

[plucky moth]

this
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/34006

[primal lance]

hmm thats a good idea. could even do something like this and have leaning against the wall idles
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/58575

[noble quarry]

hype

[little pelican]

Hey dubious

#git-activity message

[proper isle]

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lhya

[OpenMW / openmw] Issue #9144 Lua: GetMasserPhase and GetSecundaPhase equivalent opened by Hyacinth (lhya)
I'm working on several mods which implement different mechanics for phases of the moons. One is a UI mod and one is a gameplay mod. However, there is no equivalent of the mwscript functions: GetMasserPhase and GetSecundaPhase, so the only option is to create an .esp with an mwscript and send global variables back and forth, or hardcoding phases of the moons to dates which might not even be accurate.

This would also be helpful if someone wanted to bring the MWSE mod Windows to Aetherius to OpenMW.

Jun 14, 2026, 3:16 PM

[primal lance]

Ooh! Very nice! That's what I ended up doing too but it had so many problems. This is so awesome, thank you

Oh this is very interesting

[hazy stump]

Are you working on Windows to Aetherius for OpenMW? 👀

[primal lance]

Well now it's an option

[little pelican]

Inshallah

[hazy stump]

The OG mod is amazingly high-effort.

[primal lance]

Yeah it will take time to figure out for sure, Im not sure where to start but I have a bunch of research gathered about the skies in general. I know @full chasm was interested in this too

Also curious about your new UI enterprises hyacinth 🧐 you making a moon tracker too? lots of things coinciding as they seem to like doing

[hazy stump]

There was this Astronomy mod

[primal lance]

Stargazer?

[hazy stump]

Looked cool

I think so

[primal lance]

Yeah thats really nice idea, but it could be greatly improved by an actual sky to gaze at

[hazy stump]

I luv MW night sky even in Vanilla

[primal lance]

Oh me too, very much so, it's just that there's lots of interesting details about the night sky with certain days and alignments in the lore that isn't represented

In general the elder scrolls night sky is one of the most high effort in gaming

[hazy stump]

And funny thing is, it's one of the things that remain impressive in Vanilla even now.

[primal lance]

Yeah, even the movement of the moons. Whoever at Bethesda focused so much effort into it was a g, even Arena and DF had surprisingly nice skyboxes with some dynamic changes

[little pelican]

No but i know you were although I'd like to put one with timehud eventually

[primal lance]

Legend. Rise up and cast off the chains of vanilla UI

[hazy stump]

I think that the general lack of time-focused stuff is one of the things that was "lost" during TES2->TES3 transition. In TES2, tons of things were related to time because they used a more realistic world scale, fast travel with noticeable time cost and time limits for almost every quest. In TES3, everything was shrank down and they also removed stuff like shops closing down for the night, summoning days, holidays etc., so most of the things which were time-dependent. It's a step backwards in a game which made many steps forward, but it clearly wasn't the focus.

[primal lance]

Yeah they started with the idea but you can almost see the point where they decided to cut it

[full chasm]

I've been summoned

If you are able to get Windows to Aetherius to work in OpenMW...

[primal lance]

Aye, I'm going to try anyway 😅Figured you'd be interested anyway, this new thing from Hyacinth is going to help make it possible 🤞

[full chasm]

Let me know if you do. Godspeed soldier🫡

[primal lance]

Usually if you try to make a cool mod 2 or 3 other people are also trying to do the same thing so who knows. The doors open now anyway haha

[full chasm]

Idk this one is kinda niche I think

Like its a relatively popular MWSE mod but I don't think there's as much of a rush to adapt it to OpenMW as there was for like, MUSE or Ashfall

[primal lance]

Yeah I guess so 😅 maybe it's just us two always on about it

[full chasm]

I think it is lmao

[hazy stump]

Count me in as well

it's true that these requests don't seem very common, though

maybe with the way night sky looks and some mods which affect it, it's not sth which players consider pressing

[little pelican]

I’d love it too I mean if blurp was able to “replace” the skybox it should be possible

Just you know, not easy to track the fcking moons

[full chasm]

I’m probably one of the few people who doesn’t like the popular night sky replacers for one specific reason: They don’t have constellations! Or it uses the real night sky as a base so they’re wrong

In pretty much any other game I wouldn’t care but in TES the star signs are an integral part of the lore

[hazy stump]

well, I uninstalled New Starfields for this reason. Looked nice, but it was too much and some things were lost. After playing around with it, I prefer more Vanilla-like look.

[median dragon]

I mean - a lot of people play with shaders that replace the sky rendering wholesale

and base game sky looks amazing as is

both night and day

the feather clouds on the base daytime textures are

[full chasm]

Same and also because some of the textures had diffraction spikes that kinda took away from the effect

[hazy stump]

I use Skies .IV and Meteros

[full chasm]

Made it look like a texture, which it is

[hazy stump]

Meteros are fun flavour stuff

[full chasm]

Skies IV has an upscaled vanilla night sky I think

[hazy stump]

yeah

exactly

that's the point

[full chasm]

Yep

[hazy stump]

it enhances it without drastically changing the style

[full chasm]

Ngl I do actually like some of the over the top sky textures because it makes the game look even more other worldly but I need my constellations lol

[hazy stump]

New Starfields is more drastic which can be fun if you are looking for sth different

but I would prefer sth like that for RARE events

in-game

so do both

[full chasm]

The vanilla one is underrated

It’s simple but effective

[hazy stump]

I wouldn't call it underrated as it's widely praised

I mean, it's sth that people often remember about MW

same as the water shader

these things were very impressive in 2002

[full chasm]

Is it? I figured since a lot of modlists replace it that people don’t appreciate the vanilla skybox enough

[hazy stump]

not everybody uses these mods and Vanilla night sky is mentioned often in most discussions about MW visuals

like on reddit and such

[full chasm]

Yeah fair enough

[little pelican]

I mean I just put in a request for it, no idea if a dev will actually implement it but we’ll see

Anyway yeah we can hope

[hazy stump]

https://tenor.com/view/dont-give-me-hope-dont-what-hawk-eye-black-widow-gif-15368548

[strange stratus]

I'm working on a demodernized hud btw

Majora's Mask inspired

[primal lance]

awesome! MM is such a good vibe ui for inspo i cant wait to see it

[primal lance]

Oh no my mouse is broken!

[strange stratus]

here's a sneak peak

[primal lance]

Looks gorgeous 😍 How do you do your pixel stuff? Especially the crunchy Demake textures

I've been using gimp for r everything recently but I'm still learning the ropes. Used to be all about PS but it keeps letting me down

[plucky moth]

Demake has a script for crunching

[strange stratus]

https://github.com/ernmw/ErnDemakeTools

Specifically shrinker.go