Modder ‘Nico Wilhelm’ has released a brand new HD Texture Pack for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. This texture pack adds over 80 handcrafted ground and wall textures, over 170 normalmaps for ground and environment and over 890 normalmaps for clothes and armor.
In other words, this is a must-have texture pack for all those wishing to replay this really old Elder Scrolls game. To showcase some of the new high quality textures, the modder shared the following comparison screenshots.
Purists Morrowind fans will be happy to know that this pack keeps the style of vanilla textures and add detail if necessary, matches the exact same color and saturation, as well as the general brightness, and it should blend in perfectly with the other Bethesda textures.
Furthermore, the textures are only as big as they have to be according to the data they provide, meaning that there isn’t a big performance hit.
Those interested can download the Morrowind VanillaPlus textures from here!
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This mod is totally needed XD Idk how people can even play it without it.
Let me be honest here. This modding effort does indeed look good, given how old this Game is, and despite it using the “GAMEBRYO” engine.
But it seems the modder has made this texture pack for “OpenMW”.
But nonetheless, these ground/wall texture maps do have that visual difference, as evident from the pics, IMO.
I could never fully complete this Game before, as I’m not that much into RPGs, but it might be worth giving it a try now, with this HD Texture pack insatlled.
On a side note, read the installation instructions. According to the author, we need to edit the Game’s config file.
Make sure your settings.cfg features these lines
[Shaders]
auto use object normal maps = true
auto use object specular maps = true
auto use terrain normal maps = true
auto use terrain specular maps = true
normal map pattern = _nrm
specular map pattern = _spec
I’m always fascinated by your comments. They are truly some of the dumbest things on this site.
@John,
Some of your Gaming articles are really true to the CORE of PC Gaming.
Unlike other websites who don’t give that much importance to user-made MODs, and other news/leaks related to PC games, more specifically INDIE/AA titles, and other info which might interest true PC gamers and modders alike.
I must give credit where credit’s due. Keep it up !
Regards, MM.
I agree I find Johns articles most interesting being an old timer on PC.
I’m glad you agree with my opinion. PC GAMING FTW !
Totally agree with you both. That’s what got me to visit DSOG originally: the serious PC articles like excellent and under-reported mods and emulation news. If I want the triple-AAA stuff, any site has that stuff.
True. Mods have always been one of the appeals of PC gaming for me. Maybe I could even go as far as saying that mods help to unify the community somewhat. A young guy that’s fairly new to gaming wouldn’t even try a game like Morrowind without mods. It looked fine 16 years ago but today it would look pretty hideous without mods.
For anyone new to gaming grab Morrowind from GOG when it’s on sale for $5. Mod it up and enjoy. It truly is a classic but be prepared to sink many, many hours into it 🙂
indeed. i love using community made MODs as well. Thats what keeps the PC gaming alive.
both steam and gog currently have the GOTY edition, but it is still priced unreasonably because this title is very old to start with..
Thanks for your kind words man
No problem ! 🙂
You have also covered many good old school First-person Shooter MODs as well.
I was expecting yet another “upscaled/sharpened/out of the place” texture mod… But this actually looks really nice, and very vanilla friendly.
I like it, Good job on the textures/mod!
looks good. does this game currently plays well on windows 10 ?
I think it should work fine on Windows 10 OS, though there were some issues with the “SafeDisk” copy protection before, but the latest STEAM/GOG versions should run fine.
I haven’t tried playing this Game on my Window 10 OS copy yet, but try using the “Windows XP” Compatibility mode, should you run into any issues/crashes.
Disable UAC, and run the game as ADMIN, even though it may not be always necessary to do this.
Oh by the way, OpenMW supports Windows 10 OS, so you should be okay.
whats UAC ?
I have replied to you with full details, but my comment/reply is awaiting Moderation.
Kindly wait for it to get active.
Best bet is to get it from GOG. They go out of their way to make old games run well on any OS including Win 10.
Very faithful to the original but still low res.
I think that if it was too high-res, it would clash with the overall really aged look of the game and look awful.
This resolution looks great, it fits in.
+1.
It’s funny how the re-texture is how I remember it from back in the day.
cool. thanks for the explanation.
I’m currently playing Skyrim SE,but after reading this,I want to play my Morrowind gog version and try finish it because years ago my old pc can’t play it smoothly…
Definitely worth a playthrough but it’s a longer game than Skyrim. Probably count on around 100 hours of game time. Completionists can spend several hundred hours to do all that there is in the game.
I might be just playing the main quest to know the story. Completing all quest seems impossible because of my limited times to play games..
EXTREMELY FAITHFUL TO THE ORIGINAL!!! COULDN’T HAVE ASKED FOR MORE!!!
Several years ? How can you say that at least for this MOD which has been uploaded on NEXUS on 23 JUNE 2108 ?
Did you even read the Mod’s description? There might be several other texture mods which are old, but this one is NEW.
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According to the author “NicoGD”, this is what he had to say about the background of his project::
“” When I came back to the world of Morrowind recently, the first thing that caught my eye were the terrible ground textures. Instead of grass you get a stretched mess of green and brown pixels.
I really like the visual aesthetics of Morrowind, so I tried to find a mod that fixed that problem for me. Unfortunately all texture sets I found were either changing the look drastically or were upscales of the original ones with filters applied to them (this doesn’t improve anything).
So I decided to do it myself. After having some fast success with ground textures I started to experiment with normalmaps for the openMW engine.
I am senior Graphic designer so doing this is my passion and I learned a lot during the process. Everything took me about 2-3 weeks of work, so I hope you appreciate it. Some more complex ground/tiled textures are still missing because they are quite hard to reproduce. I might work on it in the future.
For now I will go back playing the game. Please share your opinion and show some screenshots of the textures in action. I am just 1 guy so it would help if you could help me improve on my work 🙂
Still some few things have to be tweaked but I things it’s ready to be shared.
Thank you for downloading! “”
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That guy has some vendetta against John. It’s pretty obvious. I can’t recall a single comment from him of value about PC games which is what we all come here to discuss. If I’m reading John correctly he is a nice guy that loves gaming and he wants to grow this site but really he needs a tough moderator to ban-hammer some of the riff-raff here. jmo
Another user here needs a serious Perma BAN on this site.
Check the comment posted below by @Mason Miller, in reply to my post.
But, judging by his posting history, he is quite the troll who abuses/accuses other forum members, as evident from his profile.
Me and a few others pointed out what would probably happen with a hands off uncensored moderator approach. There are 2 ways to ruin a site as a mod. Being too strict and being too lenient. I’ve seen both of those approaches pull down the quality of a site in the past. I don’t know if you’ve ever been a mod but I have and it’s a thankless job and some people are going to disagree with your actions no matter what you do. The best mods are those that are patient to a point but when it begins to hurt the site and people making use of the comment sections they bring out the ban-hammer.
I saw that guys response to you and really I don’t think he even reads your comments or he would know that you bring a lot to this site. He probably just picked you at random to spew that dreg at.
I agree both the extremes are bad (strict/lenient), when it comes to Moderation. I’ve never been a MOD, but I know how it feels to moderate any public forum/website.
I doubt things are going to get any better here on DSOG. What IF, John again includes this “unrestrained policy” option ?
I bet most of the trolls are going to vote for the above option, and this site is again going to be a mess, unless John has some other plans.
I agree John is doing a great job promoting his site, and I appreciate his passion for PC Gaming, but I’m not quite happy with his judgement.
He has been ignoring most of my suggestions, emails, and other gaming/tech related news/rumors/gossip which I’ve brought up till now.
Don’t get me wrong though, as I’m not asking for any CREDIT whatsoever, but I think he has been avoiding most of my suggestions and comments.
Wow, I’m impressed. This is done really well.