2026-04-21T00:29:53  <OpenMW-bridge> <continuum.mid> Oh that's really nice, I kinda miss when TR_Alpha let you could get to the mainland by exiting Mournhold... even though one of the main reasons they got rid of TR_Alpha is because the unfinished scrapped Almalexia was a bad first impression  Will probably use this mod for my playthrough after Poison Song comes out
2026-04-21T00:30:46  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> yeahi much pprefer having the map filled out with something unfinished than have a big empty space
2026-04-21T00:31:29  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> I had added in tons of other NPCs stuff like sitting and sleeping and other activities. Using foxunders mod had incompatibilities so I decided to implement my own version that is more in depth with planned schedules.
2026-04-21T00:32:26  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> There's a fall back for the same stuff go home / the night time routine of foxunders does. So new NPCs will go to their houses or taverns and engage in sitting sleeping eating etc they just won't have complex schedules. Its trivial to do the lua scan and python conversion so I can do some major mods or publish the tools to add stuff
2026-04-21T00:34:13  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> yeah yours is super exciting, i was mainly wondering if ill be able to keep my save intact over the coming month :36vehks: theres so much happening.
2026-04-21T00:39:34  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Oh God I'm sure I'll have the same recommendation as foxunders to backup your save and not do anything super important before the mods been used a lot. Because of all the hardcoding and storing original NPC positions most stuff should be fine but it will definitely break quests I'm unaware of
2026-04-21T00:41:31  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> sacrifices must be made
2026-04-21T01:24:20  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Yeah I'm curious if I can get a tiny local LLM to parse wiki information and be like yup the wiki says this guy is friends with this guy and hates this guy and make sure I choose reasonable stuff for people to do together or interact in ways that make sense. Planetoids faction thing is definitely a good idea. Another thing I wanted to do is random chances you could find thieves awake and robbing places at night lol
2026-04-21T01:24:20  <OpenMW-bridge> and do it with thieves that are vendors and make them sell random diamonds and stuff. The easiest way would be to just temporarily disable them but now that I have cell switching it seems viable to really script out. Also considered having non quest thieves go to prison for a few days and trigger specific conversations in that cell so you hear someone say it.
2026-04-21T01:35:18  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> You're making an NPC schedule mod @liammellofarley ?
2026-04-21T01:44:29  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> lol just scrolling up, we all keep asking you the same questions. sorry. its just so cool to see it
2026-04-21T01:50:37  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> a hero amongsts
2026-04-21T01:50:56  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> by azura
2026-04-21T01:51:33  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> byazura by azuura!
2026-04-21T01:52:05  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> the grand modder.. standing here.. next to mee
2026-04-21T02:16:50  <OpenMW-bridge> <continuum.mid> I think the problem with TR_Alpha was that it gave people the impression that TR wasn't ready (when it was just the alpha portion of the map that wasn't ready)  But I have also thought about installing dev builds before just to be able to explore the unfinished parts of Tamriel
2026-04-21T02:20:15  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> yeah i can understand the desire to avoid all the confused people shitposting about unfinished mods when they just neglected to read the description
2026-04-21T02:48:40  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> annoying people who can't read descriptions are the downfall of our civilization 😔
2026-04-21T03:00:02  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Yep! I played Morrowind right after playing Pillars 1/2, FNV, Oblivion Reloaded, and Mass Effect and the lack of background dialogue always bothered me so I thought I'd make a mod for that, then saw Max Yari's sitting mod and was like it'd be cool if some people sat and talked, and once I learned how to orient people on objects and play animations it kept making sense to add more things I thought of till I was just
2026-04-21T03:00:03  <OpenMW-bridge> copying the later games AI lol
2026-04-21T03:00:26  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> So cool
2026-04-21T03:01:00  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> Honestly, for my game I'd just like the NPCs to go to sleep at night LMAO. It's hard to steal from them otherwise.
2026-04-21T03:03:43  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Yeah the sleeping sets them to 100% blind. It's probably too easy to steal now because they'll only wake up for combat. I'd have to integrate a system like SHOPs were people get mad if you're too close to their bed at night and make it run some stealth checks or something.
2026-04-21T03:04:15  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> how do stealth checks work in MW?
2026-04-21T03:04:19  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Wait actually I can just set like 50% blind.
2026-04-21T03:04:21  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> Is it a contested roll?
2026-04-21T03:04:55  <OpenMW-bridge> <mihawk6832> add oblivion style NPC conversation
2026-04-21T03:05:31  <OpenMW-bridge> <mihawk6832> Dagoth ur is surely planning something bad for us, the weather today seems awful. so long.
2026-04-21T03:06:09  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> https://discord.com/channels/260439894298460160/1168860358623100958
2026-04-21T03:06:26  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> https://youtu.be/H3C14PDF9K8?si=qSF8NYSrAUEl1Hbt like this lol
2026-04-21T03:06:50  <OpenMW-bridge> <mihawk6832> WOW
2026-04-21T03:06:53  <OpenMW-bridge> <mihawk6832> you are actually doing it
2026-04-21T03:07:13  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> hey liam have you ever thought about making something wiht npcs?
2026-04-21T03:08:09  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> It's a mix of terrible main quest dialogue that's quest responsive and Django's dialogue phrased as convos.  All just placeholders, I don't think I'll release my own dialogue pack, maybe a text one without voices.  Incredibly jank u. Terms of writing since it was mostly a test for jamming as much quest reactive dialogue in as possible
2026-04-21T03:08:29  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> Hmmm
2026-04-21T03:08:47  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> its already on par with oblivion nostalgia from just what youn have alrady tbf
2026-04-21T03:09:00  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> Maybe he could do.... like...  what's that word to describe a set of actions taken at various points of the day..
2026-04-21T03:09:23  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> An itinerary!
2026-04-21T03:09:24  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> now theres an idea 🤔
2026-04-21T03:09:29  <OpenMW-bridge> <mihawk6832> we won't go quietly, dagoth ur can count on that.
2026-04-21T03:09:32  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> NPC itineraries
2026-04-21T03:09:44  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> what say you!
2026-04-21T03:10:04  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> I wouldn't disapprove of someone doing an ai voiced thing but I wanna avoid doing doing it just so anyone who might've used the framework to make their own stuff doesn't want to avoid it bc of ai voices or something
2026-04-21T03:10:06  <OpenMW-bridge> <mihawk6832> actually, reactive diagloue as you progress through the main quest and major events
2026-04-21T03:10:23  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> I thought about releasing a demo where I just do all the voices as a bit
2026-04-21T03:10:44  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> lmao that would be great
2026-04-21T03:11:10  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> Will you make the components togglable? Like, if I didn't want the conversing NPCs but I did want the daily routines?
2026-04-21T03:11:16  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Yeah they already are
2026-04-21T03:11:43  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> I haven't added a toggle for schedules but the activity animations, sitting, sleeping, and dialogue are all separate toggles
2026-04-21T03:11:57  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> You can also run the dialogue without sound files, it'll estimate subtitle duration based on character length
2026-04-21T03:12:32  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> oh that would be cool. Reminds me of random dialogue in Fallout 1 and 2 haha
2026-04-21T03:13:04  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> personally i dont mind a subtle bit of ai voice when its done right, but its good to not have it as necessary, iirc vondjango expressed interest in doin something with it way back when you first showcased it. he's got a flair for dialogue for sure
2026-04-21T03:13:18  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> What's the mod that puts dialogue above NPCs heads?
2026-04-21T03:16:21  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Yeah I think I talked to them and the fully voiced Morrowind author about what they would want out of the framework to make their own additions
2026-04-21T03:17:15  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Its part of the mod itself, it only does it for the mod dialogue. It might be possible to put barks above people's heads but I'm not sure about the lua accessibility for it.
2026-04-21T03:20:34  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Appreciate all the interest if anyone has particular non PTR mods they'd really like support for I can add it as long as someone gives me a list of shop cell names for it (if you want the shop scheduling) and like what city it affects. I can probably split up the individual data for the schedules to load multiple town schedules separately to allow compatibility for varying city replacers.
2026-04-21T03:22:41  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> something for Baths of Vvardenfell would be amazing, i was planning for something to make them bathe but if they could go and get changed and make tea id be very pleased :datchim:
2026-04-21T03:26:57  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> I can try that down the line. At least walking to the bath taking off their clothes and then waiting then getting out and dressing again
2026-04-21T03:27:05  <OpenMW-bridge> <leapo7364> Will this finally stop a room full of NPCs from all talking directly at the player when entering their proximity? Lol
2026-04-21T03:27:39  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> No lol unless you remove my cap for 1 concurrent dialogue and make everyone take simultaneously to everyone else hahaha
2026-04-21T03:27:53  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> If you're fine losing the random barks you can just set hello to 0 using lua
2026-04-21T03:28:26  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Or maybe give every NPC some out of sync alternating square waves of hello so they can't all say it at once
2026-04-21T03:28:59  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Although don't some lua mods for something use barks to define being seen in a cell and potential caught stealing?
2026-04-21T03:29:58  <OpenMW-bridge> <leapo7364> It's mostly a problem entering crowded interiors. "He-hel-hell-ello-lo Ne-ner-nerr-erre-rev-ev-ar-r"
2026-04-21T03:31:21  <OpenMW-bridge> <leapo7364> Actually, I might take that on as a small mod... Detrct total NPCs in range, set hello to 0 if greater than x
2026-04-21T03:33:44  <OpenMW-bridge> <leapo7364> That should be safe
2026-04-21T03:37:45  <OpenMW-bridge> <leapo7364> That would also fix the Mournhold ordinators posted outside doorways barking identical voice lines at you every time you try to move between areas.
2026-04-21T03:37:54  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> there are changing rooms as well with special closets, i figure they could be linked into it. walking around naked in there is kind of a feature 😅  i was going to do some basic bathing/showering anims too. what i would like most is a way to place down markers/routes in my mod and yours would just pick it up :datchim:  thats the dream anyway, infinite expandability
2026-04-21T03:39:15  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> Yeah that all makes sense, if there's some sort of lua readable thing with a unique enough name key I can have NPCs assigned a bathing activity where they walk to point A. remove clothes, walk to B play animation, return to A put on clothes, and then end the event. I tested some similar ideas with having an NPC have short wander periods when sweeping as if they're sweeping multiple areas.
2026-04-21T03:53:00  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> spot on yeah, its going to be cool to see what kind of interactions can be thought up for mods and lore. like what about actual musicians using bardcraft? you could have them travel from town to town and play gigs, people could even attend and dance or heckle :datchim:
2026-04-21T04:08:31  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> Beating morrowind as a bard
2026-04-21T04:09:07  <OpenMW-bridge> <elaxter> play a tune so shit that Dagoth Ur kills himself
2026-04-21T04:18:27  <OpenMW-bridge> <dubiousnpc> now there's a worthless profession
2026-04-21T06:05:32  <OpenMW-bridge> <mt5s2efp8> That sounds great, I’d be happy even with some generic schedules! Such an amazing mod. 😄
2026-04-21T06:25:07  <OpenMW-bridge> <andy_rhymer> As far as I remember, there was a ladders climbing mod. I'm not sure if it was released, though. Could anyone help me to get in touch with the author, please?
2026-04-21T07:06:22  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> the pillars games carried a torch morrowind started imo in the sense that you could click on terms and read more about them
2026-04-21T07:06:37  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> i thought that was such a massive improvement for the crpg genre
2026-04-21T07:07:22  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> custom formations also. PoE is an incredible game
2026-04-21T07:10:18  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> I played a lot of DAO and NWN1/2 back in the day and some Kotor1. Pillars was the first real CRPG not from Larian I played as an adult and I absolutely loved so much of it but really missed turn based. Was so excited for it when I finally beat 1 and got to 2. The mob decisions are clearly not made for turn based but the big battles were really fun and I wasn't playing on a hard enough difficulty to make the trash
2026-04-21T07:10:18  <OpenMW-bridge> fights insufferable.
2026-04-21T07:15:21  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> yeah it's a spiritual successor to the old black isle infinity engine games which were all real-time-with-pause
2026-04-21T07:15:47  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> it's customizable enough in pillars you can basically make it turn-based, and they did just add the actual turn-based mode
2026-04-21T07:16:40  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> i mean... it really is turn-based at its core. it just plays out the turns without waiting and will perform basic actions if you don't directly set an action
2026-04-21T07:17:27  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> weird terminology lol
2026-04-21T07:19:20  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> i don't really have any idea, but i think it was done that way because d&d combat is insufferably slow-paced for a video game, unless you're really committing to the bit in terms of tactical options like bg3 was
2026-04-21T07:20:33  <OpenMW-bridge> <liammellofarley> RTWP gives you crazy leeway with encounter design. Intense fights can be paused and microed and trash mobs you can just play in full speed. I think that's the big thing with it really.
2026-04-21T07:21:14  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> yeah true. my favorite of those games is icewind dale 2 which is basically all about the combat
2026-04-21T07:27:54  <OpenMW-bridge> <mt5s2efp8> Love it too. Not a big fan of the larger than life characters in BG2 and them leaving at times so you either resort to spoilers or run into party manafenrbt issues.
2026-04-21T07:30:23  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> yeah i'm not really that big on bg1 and 2
2026-04-21T07:30:48  <OpenMW-bridge> <mt5s2efp8> But frankly the old BG dilogy can be made very tactics intense and rewarding in the combat department.
2026-04-21T07:31:09  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> they were pretty fun, but it's hard to describe how i feel about it.. i like all of the other infinity engine games more
2026-04-21T07:36:39  <OpenMW-bridge> <mt5s2efp8> Kinda this. Can’t get over many of the characters bickering and acting childishly. I’m also convinced Minsc is purposefully putting on his idiotic act because he’s just enjoying it, which only makes him even more annoying. BTW recently they repackaged ToEE with the fanpatch and some third party fixes but the reviews are meh https://store.steampowered.com/app/3843520/The_Temple_of_Elemental_Evil/
2026-04-21T07:37:19  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> yeah a friend told me it's just better to play the original with the fan patch lol
2026-04-21T07:37:47  <OpenMW-bridge> <mt5s2efp8> What's wrong with the remaster? I’m not in the know haven’t tried it out yet.
2026-04-21T07:40:09  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> i think what's wrong with it is that they're charging money for the original game plus some mods other people made
2026-04-21T07:43:29  <OpenMW-bridge> <.gonzo.> i can't believe they cooked icewind dale 2 in less than 1 year
2026-04-21T08:39:03  <OpenMW-bridge> <mt5s2efp8> No unique QoL improvements? Really?
2026-04-21T10:51:56  <OpenMW-bridge> <Matt> I really liked both Pillars games, particularly Deadfire
2026-04-21T10:54:06  <OpenMW-bridge> <.orangemoose> nobody warned that poor fool about how shitty SoD is, rip
2026-04-21T11:18:59  <OpenMW-bridge> <mt5s2efp8> palatable
2026-04-21T11:19:36  <OpenMW-bridge> <mt5s2efp8> not great
2026-04-21T14:04:04  <OpenMW-bridge> <zsouza13> They did Planescape as well
2026-04-21T18:22:47  <OpenMW-bridge> <cybvep> https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/58722?tab=description
2026-04-21T18:23:39  <OpenMW-bridge> <cybvep> Another interesting mod by Foxunder's
2026-04-21T18:31:02  <OpenMW-bridge> <detaildevil> yes, Foxunder is an interesting new author.
2026-04-21T18:31:16  <OpenMW-bridge> <detaildevil> Reminds me a bit of myself
2026-04-21T18:33:07  <OpenMW-bridge> <cybvep> https://tenor.com/view/scientist-science-im-a-scientist-gif-14090115
2026-04-21T18:33:13  <OpenMW-bridge> <cybvep> Same energy
2026-04-21T18:33:44  <OpenMW-bridge> <detaildevil> could have been my mods 😄
2026-04-21T18:33:44  <OpenMW-bridge> <detaildevil> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1168860358623100958/1496217387719069857/image.png?ex=69e91487&is=69e7c307&hm=67e6220314993be611340e2ee3da9b3d38e37dc8f74f17c8fcef24e73fb4962e&
2026-04-21T18:51:28  <OpenMW-bridge> <skrow42> Definitely someone we are glad to have in the ranks 😄 too bad he's not active here
2026-04-21T18:58:28  <OpenMW-bridge> <detaildevil> Yes, definitely. He also created a bunch of updates for my mods such as Peaceful  Wildlife and Sheathe your Weapon
2026-04-21T18:58:59  <OpenMW-bridge> <detaildevil> It's rare that people go out of their way and create an update for you. I definitely welcome that
2026-04-21T19:03:55  <OpenMW-bridge> <cybvep> maybe he is so busy publishing the mods that he doesn't have the time to go to the Discord 😄
2026-04-21T19:41:07  <OpenMW-bridge> <valoun_unrealboy> wooow, that's cool..
2026-04-21T23:12:41  <OpenMW-bridge> <b4lorformorian> Forgive me if it's intentional, but is the sash supposed to be so vibrant?