Hello everyone ! The killer-feature of the week (yup, we’ve got one !) is the drag’n'drop, thanks to gus. The code is not yet perfected, and not everything is fully functional, but scrawl is currently cleaning and improving the code with gus.

jhooks is still working on Ogre3d-powered animations. There are still issues with some creatures (ancestor ghost) but with the help of Chris everything is slowly moving forward and I believe that even this issue will eventually be solved.

scrawl worked on several things:

• Introduction of a new font (not under GPL, unfortunately, but it’s better than nothing) for daedric alphabet.
• Improving scrolls/books interaction and rendering
• Bugfixes and improvement of the GUI : you can now scroll with the mouse wheel !
• The quote of the week :
  

  OpenMW just got to a whole new level
  because you can now steal Fargoth’s ring !

Thanks to the propaganda of the PR team, we attracted several future new contributors : maybe they’ll be in the next Week in review post, who knows

2012-05-13 - ap0 - 3 Comments

Hello everyone ! No fancies news for this week, but a massive background improvement (the new physics system), and a lot of misc things.

Scrawl is a machine ! He’s working on multiple fronts, and the results so far are amazing :

• Improvements of the journal rendering
• Single quotes are now working
• Opening/taking/closing books/scrolls now work
• Movement is no longer framerate dependent
• You can now talk with creatures
• More spell backend

jhooks managed to get terrain collisions working ! You can test this feature by typing tcl or togglecollisions  in the console. The new physics system will be part of our next release : better, faster, easier !

gus is still working on item drag’n'dropping from the inventory.

Ho, by the way, if you know some Qt, we are looking for someone to develop the OpenMW Editor. Don’t be shy, apply !

2012-05-06 - ap0 - 1 Comment

Morrowind is 10 years old today ! What are you going to do to celebrate this ?

You can:

• Try Morrowind Overhaul, which is a stunning compilation of many graphical mods. Your Morrowind will never had looked so shiny and actual. Check the screenshots if you don’t believe me !
• Try Tamriel Rebuilt, which is older than MOrrowind itself, and that aims to offer the whole Morrowind continent (and not only the central island).
• Try our lastest release of OpenMW: the 0.14.0 one, which brings up many exciting features.
• Listen to the amazing original soundtrack
• Educate yourself about Morrowind’s background

 

2012-05-02 - ap0 - No Comments

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.14.0! This release precedes Morrowind’s 10th Anniversary by 2 days! Release packages for Ubuntu are now available via our Launchpad PPA. Release packages for other platforms are available on our Download page. This release brings many notable features, including terrain and water rendering! A video highlighting many of the new changes in this release made by our very own WeirdSexy can be found here.

Please note:

• There is a regression in the Launcher in this release, from which you will observe that the rendering subsystem will default to OpenGL regardless of what was previously selected. This will be fixed in the next release. This can be overcome by setting the rendering system explicitly from the launcher each time, or running the OpenMW binary directly from the command line, which will select the renderer that has been set in your config file.
• There is a known issue where a crash may occur underwater with the underwater effect enabled on OS X

Changelog:

• Fix for meshes rendering with the wrong orientation
• Fix for better grabbing of small objects
• Fix to enable toggling of collision rendering
• Updates to be compatible with Ogre 1.8.0 RC1
• Fix for Wireframe mode applying to HUD and Console
• Fix for terrain crashing when moving away from predefined cells
• Fix to allow OS X Launcher to handle spaces in the binary path
• Fix to support TGA textures
• Fix to support wireframe mode in water
• Added water rendering
• Added terrain rendering
• Added ability to render Path Grid
• Added Factions support
• Added Local Map
• Added Compass/Mini-Map
• Added Clothing/Armour redering
• Added Window Pinning
• Added Auto-Equip.
• Added support for containers tracking changes to their contents
• Added several NPC Dialogue Window improvements
• Added backend for a game settings manager
• Added backend for a Spell List and selected spell
• Added backend for NPC holstered/drawn state
• Added a Morrowind.ini Importer (not yet included in the binary packages)
• Refactored the Sound code
• MyGUI updated to version 3.2.0

2012-04-30 - raevol - 8 Comments

We are very close to the release of OpenMW 0.14.0; it may even happen today. March and April were huge leaps forward for the OpenMW project with new releases and big features rapidly debuting.

0.15.0 development news

zini is working on underlying engine preparations.

jhooks1 is integrating some of Chris’s concepts into the old animations system (since properly inserting nif animations into ogre3d does not want to work).

Scrawl is continuing work on the tooltips, and plenty of widgets are already working nicely.

You can now select an item in the inventory window now thanks to gus, and you can also drag items as well. This is great progress towards a functional inventory GUI.

2012-04-29 - OlderTroll - 2 Comments