[TOOL] Project Andoran Plugin Converter

Hey, Clint. You dunnit huh? :D Good news, but I would be more glad to hear that Morrowind has been converted. Anyway. Guys, if you need to fix something about conversion, fix the source code, not just pick the ini file. You must debug the Chuvakin with your problem file being converted. Chuvakin has some memory leaks around chunks conversion, but it still consumes a much less memory that the second converter (that was made by our team too). Also new converter is able to convert landscape with textures but it has some problems with lanscape coloring and normals. Decide what to use by yourselves. Also I have no sources for that new converter.

About Chuvakin: You can fix those memory leaks using std::auto_ptr instead of common pointers for chunks (or boost::shared_ptr). You can write code for textures conversion if you need it. It is not too hard to do. We were trying to make the code as much easy to understand because I decided to make it open-source. But we had no time to rewrite all the code and leave comments everywhere (that's because I haven't finished it, leaving just 0.94). But if you want you can easily understand main conversion cycle and its general principles. It's framework is quite useful and extendable. Feel free to edit and debug it.

Thank! for the info Aruin!,Normals and colouring can be sorted after we get the landscape to load in the CK,but Clint has converted a new master esm I think.

how much do we need to change the original assets till they are no longer the originals, I mean with Unique Landscapes, Better Cities, Shipping in cyrodil and maybe some more, plus texture and mesh replacements is it really still the same assets?

I mean if we are not recycling thier npcs and stories /  quests and if the landscapes and maps have changed dramaticly will  they still be upset with us distributing our assets (assuming we have the modder's permisions) or at least a converter that requires a copy of oblivion and morrowind?

I read somewhere that even if you change the assets, if any part were from a different game it still counts as  being from that game. But if you refering to bethsda getting on our case about the convertor... well there's a reason why  MorrObilvionRim isn't on steam or the nexus. bethsda dosn't own all the assets from other games so they can't let us convert thing from 1 game to another(they would get sued). so this website is underground. But I mean bethesda knows we exist so... I guess because you must own Morrowind to have MorrOblivion they don't really care. Also were Gonna try to replicate Morrowind in skyrim. As for plugins and masters made by modders I don't think it really matters if it's exatly the same, but you must have the modders permission.

Edit: p.s. clint can you pm me the new convertor and/or the converted Oblivion esm when you get the chance.

ta, what about distributing mods intended to be used with the converted morrowind and oblivion?

I guess if you made them yourself you should have any problem. but to be safe just release them here. anyway that a long way off, we still need to get the convertor working with morrowind.

Question:

Why are all the trees the same, can we not simply give the correct / original tree ID’s to them ?

I'm pretty sure that they all have unique id's.  It is just that the .nif converter doesn't yet support automatic .spt to .nif conversion.  So all trees are given the same Skyrim model, which we can replace at our leisure with whatever model we want.

Definitely better than red error markers anyway.

Yeah, but now I need to change all 200 trees back to there origional model pointer by hand if I want the origional trees to show up, which is not efficient.

I know .SPT ( SpeedTree ) files are not supported but just replace .SPT for .NIF in the file pointer, its that simple.

Well, at least it is better than creating base objects and hand placing them.  I think Anruin said that he is done adding to the converter for now, so if we wanted to change that we would have to do it ourselves, and we couldn't even do that because we don't have the source code for the new converter yet.

Edit:

Well, that is great news that you at least kind of know how to convert trees.  Hopefully Macorn will respond and do that for us, but if not, then we at least have a backup.  Just out of curiosity, what exactly is wrong with your converted trees?

Edit2:

That doesn't look bad at all, though I'm no expert.  Do they look weird ingame after they are textured?

Post on tree conversion moved to a separate tree section, see new topic.
http://morroblivion.com/forums/conversion-to-skyrim/conversion-to-skyrim/2617

Main post updated. New converter released. I was unable to get the Visual Studio project/solution file, but I was able to get the main c++ file if that will help. I hope that will help us get Morroskyrim/Skywind converted.

Thanks for posting v095 of the converter.

The v095 converter seems to look and work completely different from the previous v094 version of the converter.

v095 does convert Oblivion but not Morroblivion, as announced before its release, I would really like to investigate why this happens but without the full source I can’t run debug on this.

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Just A quick question. Seeing as alot of asset are still bugged I was wondering is it possible to skip these assets.( I don't see a skip list like the last version

got the converter working, loads up in ck with some warnings, but no crash :)

Finally landtextures are working :)

But how can i make the converted morrowind esp(esm) dependant on skyrim.esm so

that it doesnt crash ingame?

well the new version of wyre bash supports skyrim, so couldn't you just add a master to it with that?

This is really great Clint,I ran the converter on Oblivion.esm and it went through with no errors,just a few missing textures,but nothing bad.

The best part for me was when I could load Skyrim.esm and Oblivion_sk.esm into the CK together ,then  save out an esp for working with,and now I can just tick the esp in the launcher and load any save,and coc/cow back and forth.:)

But my Oblivion_sk.esp now has 2 masters [Oblivion_sk.esm and Skyrim.esm],is that ok.?

It gets even better because the view distances etc that I have in my Skyrim.ini still work in the Tamriel world.:)

I can see right across the waterfront with the IC in the background,no LOD files installed.

eloth,

Open your CK and tick and load Skyrim.esm.

After it loads leave it ticked and tick Oblivion_sk.esm.

The CK should then reload Skyrim.esm and then Oblivion_sk.esm.

When [if] it makes it through,just save out an esp naming it Oblivion_sk.esp.

Now start your skyrim launcher and make sure that only Oblivion_sk.esp is ticked,do not tick the esm.

Now you should be able to just run anything you wish.

You will now have an esp that is dependent on Oblivion_sk.esm and Skyrim.esm.

Hope it works for you.

You should be able to do the same as my last post eloth,but just use the morroskyrim.esm instead.

edit: got it to work

Nice work eloth, can you sent me a link too.

Guys from Chuvakin v095,

where can i find ,,mydef.h" which is included in that 095 converter? I can't track it and compiling it without it gives me errors about ,,Str" and ,,HashMap" .. i guess something is missing around there.'

Tnx!

If you are still looking for someone that knows c++ i am willing to help in my free time just message me if you still need help.

Caravetta, I don't think we need a programmer anymore, I think it's all manual work from here. The programmer who coded Chuvakin 0.95 hasn't gotten back with Anruin, so yeah, I don't think he's coming back anytime soon.

BUT, if you're really good at C++ you could still work on the converter.

Yeah I am willing to try to help with converter.

All right, let me see if I can get the code from Anruin.

Heh, maybe if you fix up the tool a bit we can have more npc stuff filled out for us. If you fix doors leading to buildings and such, Sorrow will cry. xD But at least Oblivion's doors will work =p

I'm here to help too, what's the status of the converter tool? Has anyone obtained the latest code and need some help? Just let me know

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/download/75026 I'm quite sure this is the latest source code. The converter isn't bad, it's just far from completion.

Hey - does anyone have another link to download TESsnip tool for Skyrim?
It's not available at the site anymore.

DONT USE TES5SNIP! NEVER!

tes5edit always for u.

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