Visuals

In this step, we will install vanilla-friendly graphical enhancements and others mods to enhance the visual experience of Vvardenfell.

Creating a Separator in MO2

  • Right-click the empty space in the left pane of MO2 and select Create Separator.

  • Name the separator Visuals.

  • Main Files - Animation Blending

Adds animation blending to Morrowind, enabling smooth transitions between animations.

  • Main Files - Animated Arrow Denocker

  • Install the downloaded archive using manual install in MO2.

Reimplements the MCP arrow denocking feature, with full animation and new input options.

  • Main Files - Morrowind Enhanced Textures 6.1

  • Optional Files - MET Meshes

  • Optional Files - MET 6 Atlas textures

Replaces almost all textures in the vanilla game and its expansions with high resolution AI upscales.

An in-depth yet completely vanilla friendly touch up of every head and almost every hair in the game. Also fixes distortion and clipping issues with body meshes.

  • Main Files - Better Rope Bridges

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select both options and click Ok.

Replaces the gross vanilla rope bridges with better quality ropes.

  • Main Files - Bitter Coast Scum Replacer

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select only the following options and click Ok:

Replaces swamp scum using the animation method and edited textures of Tamriel Rebuilt's water statics and Pherim's Vanilla-Friendly Scum Texture.

  • Main Files - Improved Cave Pools

Replaces the static water in the cave pools using the animation method and textures of Tamriel Rebuilt's water statics.

  • Main Files - Vivec Palace Water Replacer

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select only the following options and click Ok:

Replaces the water in the Palace of Vivec's canals using the animation method and textures of Tamriel Rebuilt's water statics.

  • Main Files - Mist Retexture

  • Install the downloaded archive using manual install in MO2.

Improves the texture for the mist. The mist is now much smoother and more detailed, as well as less opaque and flat. This also makes it play much nicer with SSAO.

  • Main Files - Subtle Smoke Main File

Makes it so many smoke effects are much more laid back and easier on the eyes.

  • Main Files - Subtle Magic Glow

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select fade and click Ok.

Replaces the "plastic wrap" effect around in-game magic items (those equipped by characters or on the ground) with a non-moving effect that fades in and out.

  • Main Files - Flies

Adds a visual effect to all vanilla flies sound emitters. Does the same thing for NPCs and creatures killed by the Player. Flies will appear above the corpse after ~24h and stay there until the corpse disappear.

  • Main Files - I Lava Good Mesh Replacer

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select Core and click Ok.

Fixes flickering on lava. Reduces the occurrence of seams found in large lava pools. Adds performance friendly spark particle effects to lava pools.

  • Main Files - Better Waterfalls

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select Core and click Ok.

New effects and textures for the waterfalls. Includes LOD on the particle effects to improve performance.

  • Main Files - Waterfalls Tweaks

Resizes waterfall splashes to reduce clipping and removes unnatural lights from waterfalls in interiors.

  • Main Files - Near Vanilla Road Sign Replacer

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select only the following options and click Ok:

Makes road signs legible. Uses high resolution vanilla-friendly textures.

  • Main Files - Know Thy Ancestors

Every Ancestral Tomb in Vvardenfell has a unique banner displaying the family name in Daedric. No longer does your character psychically know what family is buried in the tombs.

  • Main Files - Immersive Grotto Entrances - Vanilla Version

A replacement of doors with natural passages to serve as entrances and exits for grottos.

  • Main Files - Glow in the Dahrk

  • You will be prompted with a FOMOD installer:

    • Nord Glass Windows -> Yes

    • Raven Rock Glass Windows -> Yes

    • Optional files -> Hi-Res Window Texture Replacer

    • Telvanni Tower Interior Glow -> MGE XE

    • Install.

Makes vanilla windows glow in the dark.

At the time of writing, Project Atlas' patch for Glow in the Dahrk is outdated, leading to missing features from Glow in the Dahrk and a bug with a missing Velothi atlas texture, hence why we are not installing the patch.

  • Main Files - Nords shut your windows

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select only the following options and click Ok:

Nord windows have a wooden shutter, open in the day and closed at night.

  • Main Files - Remiros' Groundcover

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select only the following options and click Ok:

  • After installation, disable the mod's plugins in your load order (those starting with Rem_). These plugins should not be enabled during normal gameplay.

  • We will finish installation in the Distant Land section.

Adds groundcover to almost all regions.

It is encouraged to skip this mod if your computer has less than 1GB VRAM, otherwise expect a framerate drop outdoors.

  • Main Files - ILFAS

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select both options and click Ok.

Adjusts every vanilla light mesh to enhance the effects of other shader and lighting mods.

Configurable mod for automatical adjustment of lighting, including override values, cell whitelist, and light object editing.

  • Right-click on the installed mod and select Open in Explorer

  • Navigate to MWSE\mods\RFD\LetThereBeDarkness, and double-click main.lua

  • Using Notepad++, write -- at the start of line 415. This will remove the LiveLightEditing functionality, which conflicts with one of the keybindings from Security Enhanced

  • Save the edited text fil

This will ensure the mod's live lighting editing feature doesn't conflict with Security Enhanced's hotkeys.

  • Optional Files - Transporter Lights

Caravaners, Gondoliers, and Shipmasters equip light at night for more immersion.

Visual weather editor which allows for user-made presets.

  • Main Files - Watch the Skies 5.0.0

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer, here select only the following options and click Ok:

A weather overhaul with randomised cloud textures, weather changes in interiors, seasonal weather, latitude/season changes, and more.

  • Main Files - Window to Aetherius

Replaces the night sky using MWSE with one that changes every month over the course of the game year. On day one of every month, the prime constellation will be visible on the eastern horizon and fades away to the next month's constellation as the month progresses.

  • Main Files - WeaponSheathing1.6-MWSE

  • You will be asked to select a data directory. Right-click Data Files -> Set as data files directory -> OK.

Equipped weapons will be shown on player and NPCs' hips or backs. Additionally features a comprehensive set of high quality quiver and scabbard assets. The additional files improve the position of sheathed bows, and increase the amount of weapons covered by the mod.

  • Right-click Morrowind Optimization Patch under your Bug Fixes separator, then click Reinstall Mod.

  • You will be prompted with a BAIN installer. Rename the mod to MOP - Weapon Sheathing Patch, then select only the following option and click Ok:

This will install the patch as a separate mod.

  • Main Files - Yet Another Guard Diversity - Regular

Replaces generic copy-pasted guards with a variety of more unique-looking guards.

  • Download the mod and install through MO2.

Adds the unused forearm joint to the Orcish Pauldrons, Dwemer Pauldrons, and the three types of Bonemold Pauldrons, and modifies the Dwemer, Daedric, Chitin and Netch greaves and pauldron to prevent them showing clothing underneath.

  • Main Files - Alex's Better Fitted Female Armors v.1.3

  • Main Files - Alex's Better Fitted Female Armors - Tribunal

Gives all cuirasses female variants that fits the hips and waist more and makes armors less bulky.

  • Main Files - Properly Fitted Female Pants

Adds female variants to all the pants in vanilla Morrowind by recombining the assets from the vanilla game.

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