What's the chance of seeing the 'missing' bound equipment being introduced by a MCP release? Is that possible? It'd just be a nice alternative to scripted spells.

Actually, there's quite a few fixes that I'm really not sure about...

Though there are indeed versions of "missing bound" fixes that use scripts / extra spell slots (potential conflicts), I've grown rather fond of this solution:

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=6883


It doesn't alter any spell slots, uses no scripts... nothing fancy or potentially conflicting! Instead, the bound gloves become bound arms, and bound boots become bound legs -- the armor ratings are the same as they were, but visually, they allow you to take up all the proper slots that a full suit should.

Not sure it's a good idea to add a request, but I am posting in case of further development:

Could it be possible to enlarge the icons of spell effects in the right corner?

Their size is 16x16 only, very small on large screen, and they are too small to have any meaning or give any useful info, excepted their colour... If they could use the same size as regular spell icon (used on the left corner, when selecting and casting, which are 32x32), they would be more meaningful and visible, and it would be possible to customize them (graphic mod), so their meaning would be much clearer.

Something that should work, but doesn't, is using the Equip function to make NPCs drink potions.
Is it possible to change this? To make NPCs/creatures drink potions using the Equip function?

It appears to be the "bump/reflect map local lighting" patch that causes enchanted items to display only the "magicitems" (which are totally black with a pluginless no-glow) textures when menus are toggled.

Greetings Hrnchamd, I'd like to report a source of crashes that I think is very significant and would be really super if it could be fixed. Not sure if this has been reported before, but I do have a test case that exhibits the problem 100% of the time, so I do think it is worth bringing up.

The problem occurs when a spell is cast from a script attached to an object that is non-persistant, and the player leaves the cell while the spell is still active. 72 game hours later, the game will crash. Any savegame will be be polluted and will crash.

Here's a http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1055604 about this in the Construction Set forum. And a http://sites.google.com/site/johnmoonsugar/downloads/cast_test.7z?attredirects=0&d=1 that illustrates the problem.

The way I've found to work around it is to make the object (NPCs in the cases I've seen) that has the spell casting script on it to be persistent (for NPCs this is to set the "corpses persist" flag). Or you can go to your savegame and remove those object from their cells. Or you can attempt to find and remove the SPLM.SPDT (spell data) record in the savegame that records the active spell originated from this non-persistent object.

I suspect that this is also related to crashes that come from leaving cells where creatures have been summoned under certain circumstances. In the cases I've seen, if you equip a piece of clothing that's been enchanted with a CE spell to summon a critter, then equip it, summon the critter leave the critter in a cell while still wearing the item, then 72 hours later, perhaps depending on circumstances, if you unequip the enchanted item, the game crashes.

So, sorry to make yet another request, but I do believe that this is an important stability issue, and at least it's good to have it noted here.

Here's a question...

Do any of the lighting fixes have any effect on quadratic lighting? From my experience, they don't seem to.

I just recently updated my mod list to describe what all of the fixes in version 1.6 do, and the lighting fixes are one of the few that have me totally stumped as to what they actually do.

Because, honestly, even with the fix I still see lots of seams on the ground. The only sure-fire fix I found was to adjust the quadratic lighting settings ...

A question: is it useful for to paste reports when Morrowind crashes, for any unknown reason, or it won't be very helpful for MCP?

Hrnchamd, would it be possible to support of typing Polish diacritical marks in-game? It is impossible to type them, co for example mod makers can't COC when testing their mods if a cell name is usine these letters.

It's more for the seams in dungeons and interiors, I can't fix all the seams in towns as Direct3D caps the number of lights per object to 8 and towns can have many more lights when you count guard torches, lighting mods, etc. Also, the default linear lighting settings cuts the light off at around 33% intensity at the light radius which is pretty obvious. Using your settings it clips at 2.7% which is better for seams yet darker overall.

1. Morrowind loses position accuracy at cells that far away, which causes bugs with gameplay.
2. I can't make the map larger without losing detail, it would break save games. It would be useless to have a huge but blurry map.

What kinda bug's are we talking about?

I read being that far away (from cell 0,0) causes everything to constantly shake like there's an earthquake.

Floating point numbers only hold a certain number of digits, and the more digits you have to the left of the decimal, the less you can have to the right of it. Since a cell has a size of 8192 points, a cell with an x grid reference of -200 would have a range of x values from -1,642,496 to -1,634,304. Float variable in Morrowind only support 7 significant digits, and you'll notice that the integer portion of that address is already 7 digits. That means that the float values would all have to be integers, which would lead to massive rounding errors and major problems with the graphics engine.

I read being that far away (from cell 0,0) causes everything to constantly shake like there's an earthquake.

Floating point numbers only hold a certain number of digits, and the more digits you have to the left of the decimal, the less you can have to the right of it. Since a cell has a size of 8192 points, a cell with an x grid reference of -200 would have a range of x values from -1,642,496 to -1,634,304. Float variable in Morrowind only support 7 significant digits, and you'll notice that the integer portion of that address is already 7 digits. That means that the float values would all have to be integers, which would lead to massive rounding errors and major problems with the graphics engine.

I have to say ive not noticed any graphical errors atall whilst strolling around where Skyrim would be. Nor Hammerfell or Highrock.

What kinda bug's are we talking about?

And how exactly would you increase the map size? I can't see what would cause the map to lose detail, correct me if im wrong, but its just a case of increasing the co-ords at which the map stop's scrolling?
And you say it would break save games, would you mind explaining how?

(And FYI just so you know, its not a rude post, just a curious one )

Landmass mainly, but Skyrim has alot of statics on it at the moment. Whereas Hammerfell and Highrock are completely covered in trees. Just one kind of tree, for an idea of the scale

http://rapidshare.com/files/313486496/HAMMERFEL_HIGHROCK_SKYRIM.wmv

^^^ ^^^
For those who are interested

And just so you know, land has been updated since this video, merging the three landmasses correctly, and trees have also been added

At (-200, x), that far away everything moves in steps of around 2-3 cm. It is most likely to cause problems with NPC movement and collision detection, or problems with gaps between statics. You must test NPCs and pathgrids and everything to be sure it works well.