How is this open source Marrowind if I need a copy of Marrowind to play it?
I believe they have rewritten the underlying game engine, but you still need the game for the assets like character and world models, audio, etc.
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#12How is this open source Marrowind if I need a copy of Marrowind to play it?
The assets are still under copyright. On paper you could "re-implement" assets as well, ie. remake all the models, textures, music, voices and rewrite all the quests.
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#13How is this open source Marrowind if I need a copy of Marrowind to play it?
The assets are still under copyright. On paper you could "re-implement" assets as well, ie. remake all the models, textures, music, voices and rewrite all the quests.
This is what the Skywind project is doing.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fork is great, but the main developer is incredibly hostile to contributions (i.e. very, very rude and combative for absolutely no reason). If you are thinking of contributing, keep that in mind - it's not you.
Any public examples?
First issue I clicked on...
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#15Bummer, I thought it would be an OpenModernWarfare (cod mw2) reimplementation.
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#16My understanding is its at the point where its complete enough there is work underway extending the engine to also support Oblivion/Fallout as they use similar asset formats. Very exciting stuff in my opinion.
Which is great because both those games are hobbled on modern platforms. For example, if you want to play Oblivion with analog sticks you'd have an easier time emulating the 360 version than adding them to the PC version.
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#17How is this open source Marrowind if I need a copy of Marrowind to play it?
That's how most opensource game revivals work, one is not legally allowed to distribute original in-game assets. If you come up with free textures and sounds, you'll get the 100% free alternative
Thanks for your explanation.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any public examples?
First issue I clicked on... https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw/pull/3176
I see a discussion but it's not too harsh to me. Do you come from a Western country? People coming from Western countries tend to be more demanding about discussion friendliness sometimes for my experience