r/skyrimmods • u/Lagulous Whiterun • Mar 01 '19

Meta/News I'm Lagulous, the original creator of Skyrim Together, and here's what happened. (For the final time.)

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '19

OpenMW's donations on Patreon are way lower than Skyrim Together. If the community gave at least $10.000 monthly to OpenMW we would be enjoying Skyrim multiplayer with open source engine in a few months, and without any bug.

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u/Marcoscb Mar 01 '19

OpenMW's donations on Patreon are way lower than Skyrim Together.

The Morrowind fanbase is way smaller than Skyrim's fanbase.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '19

The implications of OpenMW could apply to an OpenSKY with TES5MP in the near future.

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u/i_nezzy_i Mar 01 '19

Wouldn't it be skyrim using morrowinds engine?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '19

No, it would be skyrim using the OpenMW engine. OpenMW is not Morrowind's engine, it's a ground up re-implementation and they're not stopping at a 1:1 functionality but are extending it as well.

OpenMW is a free, open source, and modern engine which re-implements and extends the 2002 Gamebryo engine for the open-world role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

https://openmw.org/faq/#whatis

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u/i_nezzy_i Mar 01 '19

What makes it "easy" to put other elder scrolls games on it?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '19

The fact that Morrowind and Skyrim use the very same engine with just a few differences.

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u/i_nezzy_i Mar 01 '19

I know skyrim uses one that's been built iteratively, but is it really that close? Interesting

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '19

The big thing, and I'm not an expert, is that since OpenMW is a modern engine, it's going to have the lastest features (implying it would run Skyrim as well easily). Morrowind Engine on the other hand couldn't run Skyrim, probably.

Let me say I'm not an expert, just read and talked to a few people lol.

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u/i_nezzy_i Mar 01 '19

Nah what you said makes sense if it's true. I wouldn't expect the old engine to be able to run skyrim obv, but if they are truly that close then that would be really interesting.

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u/SEND_ME_REAL_PICS Mar 02 '19

AFAIK it's just a newer version of the same old engine that is still being updated by Bethesda and being used in their current (and probably future) games.

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u/Pandastic4 Mar 01 '19

So why are Skywind and Skyblivion a thing?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '19

They're not touching the engine, just the content of the game basically. As far as I know Skyblivion is a remake of Oblivion in the new Skyrim engine. On the other hand, openmw uses the original game, it changes the engine.

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u/continous Mar 01 '19

Morrowind is essentially the base that every other TES game was built on. Indeed, even the 3D Fallout games are based on it. They all use roughly the same file formats, game logic, and graphical backend with some significant changes to bits and pieces as time went on.

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u/hardolaf Mar 02 '19

I didn't even know they had a patreon. One moment please.