» Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:22 am
I guess i am a veteran modder because I just downloaded the MCA 6.0 you see in the thread here, and I got flooded with mesh loading complaints. Now I need to find what approach to use. This could take a while.
Learning the approaches to successful modding is an ungoing thing, and not at all like game play. Just saying.
Vanilla Morrowind is way dated. It was an amazing graphics creation in its time, but that was fully a decade ago. There are mods and mod's mods and mods to unmod. All that is as much fun a picture as the wild and new attempts at art and computering to come from this game. Mods are this game, or it is just a fun thing for some 50-60 hours till you get tired of being a god.
RPG Morrowind is infinite, as long as you work it. I would say you can start that right away, and not miss a beat. I would not do game enhancements like GCD (which i know you wouldn't try anyway being a reasonable sort of person)
Better Bodies -
Better Heads -
Better Clothes -
Those are really a given, nobody is long nostalgic for the stock versions, and I can't recall what the stock versions were like except going wow, this new art is great. So I think one play through on vanilla is not going to be memorable, IMO
Is Canadian Ice around, all I saw was her robe replacer in Russian. Got to run a scan. hehe
quick guide to file structure:
Morrowind\
has the exe, ini, program flow, and warnings txt
Morrowind\Data Files\
has changeable data files and the user changes contained in some 5 folders; two are important:
Morrowind\Data Files\Meshes\
Morrowind\Data Files\Textures\
meshes has nifs, which are the 3D pictures
textures can have BMP, TGA, but usually has DDS picture files. This are the skins for the nifs.
If you copy or move the mod files to those places and click the mod name in the launcher, since you have no mods it will work perfectly! later you can hear about evil GMSTs. Bwa ha ha.
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so, you can use like freeware IZARK to unzip RAR files. Big important mods use extractors.
I have like 90 mods loaded today. MCA made it so I walked blindly into horrid yellow error triangles. ha