Bump maps are natively supported without MCP. The local lighting option is so it matches the brightness of how the character is lit, and the other bug fix is to make them work properly on skinned meshes. I mainly use it for painkiller's forgotten shields - that's a good demonstration.

> painkiller's forgotten shields

Cool, I'll give that a try. Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MuYiad_oQo is my example of Bump maps in action...these ones are animated too!

just released i was... 3 versions out of date.. heard u can toggle sneak now? :S

Wow. And yes, you can.

hello,

my posting is concerning the almalexia spellcasting in combination with the morrowind codepatch 2.0 beta.
i've already posted in the almalexia spellcasting topic, so here just a quote from there:



i thought it would fit in this thread as well
i'm not sure about the camera-angle thing anymore, could also be happening in vanilla game

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26348

Changes

• Journal text colouring. Text that rendered as full black can have the colour changed by the color_journal_topic entry in morrowind.ini.
  
• Polish keyboard support. Now corrects ? in console font.
  
• Polish character corrections. Corrects dialogue font ó and ? (they normally display as O and é) when used with Better Dialogue Font Polish version (coming soon).
  
• Detect life spell. Changes the Detect Animal spell effect to detect both NPCs and creatures, instead of just creatures.

Still needs testing

• Disable put away animation on unequip.
  
• Service refusal filtering.
  
• Loud interface sounds fix. How many people actually have problems with loud inventory sounds without this?

I'm still trying to implement the potion nerf but it's starting to feel like I'm not getting anywhere with understanding spell effect expiry.

Detect Life spell. YES!!!!

I notice the loud inventory sound occasionally. But not too often. I probably won't get a chance to test this out for you, but the new features sound sweet as usual

Hrnchamd, If you don't mind your potion-limit requiring a mod, you might be able to make a potion-count that increases with each potion the player drinks. The modder would decide how many potions becomes dangerous, how long before more potions can be drank, etc. Whether or not this is even possible depends on many things, one of which being whether you can detect player-drinking alone, rather than all potion drinking. We don't want the player dying because his ally drank one too many potions.

A thought on casting without equipping: creatures have been known to cast spells from enchanted items. A prime example is the Wraith of Sul-Senipul, a ghost-type creature which carries and casts from a bow that damages agility. Maybe the way they cast without being able to equip can work for the player too. This could allow amulet casting while a CE amulet is equipped, though it would probably also let the player cast from armor and weapons without equipping.(which would be immersion-breaking in many instances)

I have problems with this occasionally. It really only happens when you don't have the sound set to max settings in the menu. Unfortunately, the bug then renders the sound menu useless as you not only get loud sounds, they pop out of a quieter environment thus making them more startling and annoying (and in the case of some of the sounds, headache inducing).

I'm finding it difficult to tell when a potion expires because of the unified way all effects are handled. Tracking count can't be saved in savegames so in general it could break badly, and using it as a restriction metric felt pretty arbitrary in Oblivion. I'm not going that route.

Enchanted items have to be equipped to cast anything, for all actors. The ghost doesn't have a CE bow to equip at the same time as its regular bow. Two amulet slots aren't impossible, but there is too much inventory code to revise.



You gave me an idea. Run Morrowind as admin and move the master and effects sliders down to 95%. Then check in-game situations that would trigger that bug.

I'm pretty sure I solved the loud sound problem by changing sound to software mode.
Might be worth giving that a try if you're having problems.

It may be something to do with the volume storage in the registry.

As for the sound, I have a werid bug when Hardware Acceleration is on - when going near NPC's, their greeting sounds gets pitch altered - eg. I turn left - they like chipmunks, when go right , the pitch gets low. In software mode the problem is not existent. Is there any performance difference between hardware acceleration and software mode?

It's been reported a lot, but there is no way for me to reproduce it. It could be a driver bug or anything anywhere. It's not a hardware acceleration button, it's 3d sound positioning. Hardware mode lets the sound card calculate 3d sound attenuation, software does simple panning in software instead.

So it must be something with 3d sound positioning. I have only a integrated Realtec sound card with up-to-date drivers and UA fix for Windows XP. If I could manage to get a real sound card, I will post if the problem persists.

3D sound heavily screws with the audio on my pc, same doppler effects as others are getting and certain ambient sounds appear to build in volume, the low electric type hum in dwemer ruins becomes deafening after a few minutes, I'd be surprised if anyone with a modern computer can still use the 3D mode properly.

Question: After a long hiatus from Morrowind I have returned and recently upgraded my morrowind.exe (from a fresh untouched backed-up copy I keep in reserve for MCP updates) to 1.9. Since then I've noticed a number of problems that have crept in that never happened before.

For starters - and most obvious - is a corruption of the inventory (paper doll) screen:
[img]http://img691.imageshack.us/i/screenshot0pg.jpg/[/img]

The corrupt goes away after removing a piece of armor/clothing. However it does come back eventually without rhyme or reason.

I also noticed that the local map was corrupted/distorted (this is one picture - as you can see by the highlighted seam - however in an earlier game the map was showing water where there was nothing but dry land): [img]http://img141.imageshack.us/i/screenshot1j.jpg/[/img]

And finally, I've noticed the game now has a tendency to crash to desktop whenever I am forced to reload after being killed. It doesn't happen consistently but happens frequent enough that it's become a concern.

Three things to note:

• This problem appears to occur when I run it at full resolution for my widescreen monitor: 1920x1200. When I run it at 1280x800 there is no visual corruption of the map or of the inventory screen (CTDs still occur however).
  
• Also I am running this on a clean install of Morrowind that has no mods present, just the GOTY esms.
  
• Other than MCP 1.9, the only other thing I've done to the .exe afterwards is Timeslip's SSE2 optimization and removal of disc checks. For the record:these latter patches have never given me an issue in the past.

Can anyone corroborate these problems? Also Is there a "known issues" log for MCP?

Thanks in advance!

MMM

The known and confirmed issues are listed in the FAQ in the readme. These problems you're having are both to do with render targets. MCP affects some material properties through the transparent items in inventory fix, but there's nothing else that should do that. Does SSE optimizer log any feedback? You'll have to fully isolate what causes it. First uninstall MCP with the uninstall button, and test if it works, then install MCP without running SSE optimizer afterwards and test, then do a binary search on the patch list.

Hi, I'm having some trouble knowing whether or not patches have really been applied. I'm using v 1.9 and have the following patches checked and the message box said it was successful:

Rain/snow collision - but rain is still falling through concrete overhangs such as the one over the door of the mages guild in Balmora.
Increase light falloff range - I'm seeing no difference in having this one checked or not checked.
Lighting Fixes Group: specifically - "Dynamic actor light update. Moving actors are relit for every frame they are in motion, but it did not take the player's light into account. Caused moving actors to flicker in towns, and actors in caves to be unlit despite the player holding a torch." - It's checked and applied, but I'm still seeing the strobe effect from hald-held torches.

On the other hand, "toggle sneak" works just fine.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Can't confirm 1, it doesn't happen when I use the animation mod. The torch is supposed to work like that from vanilla, the torch holding animation for the left arm has priority over other animations.



Check the MCP version in the bottom left corner of Morrowind, and check the file modification date on Morrowind.exe, it should be the same time as you clicked apply patch. With rain collision, rain may clip through thin overhangs because rain particles have a volume, the best place to check is under large coverings like any bridge, a Vivec canton, Gnisis dock or similar.

Increase light falloff shouldn't make any difference except seam reduction in the best case, and a bit less lighting pop-in for torchlit objects. It may be causing more problems than it fixes when used with lighting mods, I suggest turning it off.

DO any of you guys know how to reverse timeslips morrowind optimizer? I am trying to install the new version for those sweet features.

Thanks for the reply, Hrnchamd, but the version ingame is correct and so is the date on morrowind.exe. As I said in my post, it makes no difference whether any of the above patches are checked and applied or not. The issues I'm having remain.

If you've used MCP before, it should have created a backup of the original .exe file. I believe you can sinply switch to the new patch, run it, then run timeslip's optimizer again if you want it.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1164860-screwed-up-my-ingame-map/

could u take a look at this hrmchad?
it's caused by MCP, so u might know whats going on?