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Modder ‘DassiD’ has released a must-have mod for all those that want to replay The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. As its title suggests, Morrowind Enhanced Textures is a HD Texture Pack for this classic Elder Scrolls games that upscales the original textures by 4X with the ESRGAN technique.
In case you weren’t aware of, Enhanced super resolution generative adverserial networks, or ESRGAN, is an upscaling method that takes an low-res image and adds realistic details to it. By doing it over several passes with the goal of fooling its adverserial part, it will usually produce an image with more fidelity and realism than past methods.
In order to showcase the visual improvements of this technique, and how close to the original material it manages to stay, DassiD released the following comparison screenshots.
As said, this is just a HD Texture Pack so don’t expect better shaders, lighting or other modern-day techniques. Still, this pack (which weights around 1GB) is essential for all those that want to replay this game.
You can download the Morrowind Enhanced Textures pack from here.
Have fun!
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Remember the Morrowind Overhaul mod, which employed an entire suite of Morrowind add-ons to drastically improve the look of the decade old Elder Scrolls adventure? Well, version 3.0 has finally launched. The update introduces an infinitely useful auto-installer, removing much of the hassle involved in prettifying the RPG classic.
From developer Ornitocopter’s site, here’s what’s new in version 3.0 of Morrowind Overhaul: Macgyver season 1 episode 1 eztv.
- An awesome (super, ultra, extra) auto-installer almost fully automated,
- An incredibly useful Options program that can auto-change everything for you at any moment (like changing options to improve the performance, changing options to suit your tastes, etc),
- A LOT of bugfixes (all the known problems are now fixed),
- New options to choose from and new mods are now included,
- A LOT of mods have been updated,
- Improvements on the performance of the game,
- Cleaner package resulting in less space used,
- More detailed documentation explaining how to tweak the package and improve performances.
And here’s the thing in action. As with so many graphical update projects, most notably Black Mesa Source, the visuals have effectively been improved in lockstep with our inaccurate memories of how Morrowind used to look. Stupid brains. It never looked this handsome.
Ornitocopter have posted a helpful list of download locations over on their blog, the helpful chaps. Alternatively, if you prefer your Morrowind ported into the Skyrim engine, check out the in-developmentSkywind mod. Aren’t you spoiled?
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If you wanted to feel old today, think on this: Morrowind was originally released in 2002, making the game 16 years old. And for almost as long, modders have been adding their own creative touches to the game, including those working on 'Tamriel Rebuilt'. It's an ongoing project by fans trying to faithfully reconstruct the parts of Morrowind's landmass which Bethesda did not have time to make. Now, after many years of work, the modders have released their latest build, called Old Ebonheart, which adds brand new areas and questlines to the already-extensive mod.
As the name suggests, the addition focuses on the town of Old Ebonheart, which the modders describe as 'the very heart of Imperial power in Morrowind, a slice of civilised Cyrodiil in the alien east'. So civilised, in fact, it has a bank which will only let players open an account if they have a good reputation. Yet players will need to remain alert, as 'danger and intrigue lurks' within. Travellers may lose their money or influence in the town, or something 'worse' - whatever that's supposed to mean.
Judging by the sounds of it, players may well want to go on a country getaway, which is doable as the modders have also created a range of new settlements in the Aanthirin region. In these, players can find local dialogue, a new (non-player) guild, and a host of miscellaneous quests.
Although Morrowind is no longer mod-ern, the project looks well-made and the creators have clearly paid great attention to detail. If you want to download the mod, make sure to visit the project's NexusMods page. Or, if you want a more hands-on role, you can apply to join the modding team.
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