Morroblivion

Bullfrog wrote:

Wow, who had the great idea to give god mode to Grurn (01003a13) in Fort Firemoth? You should either rebalance the stats or remove the change in the Dagger Galore Patch. Regeneration ability and already 30k health at level 15 is absurd.

Because of another such encounter, I decided to verify the creature changes in Dagger Galore Patch.

• Gedna Relvel (01F8E84D)   28k health at base level 40, originally he had 700
• Grurn (01003A13)   30k health at base level 15, originally 2000
• Lich (0100847D)   5600 health at base level 20, originally 280, those are supposed to be regular enemies, not bosses
• Profane Acolyte (01F8B885)   5600 health at base level 20, originally 280
• Worm Lord (01F8AF75)   3680 health at base level 16, originally 230

I don't mind a little increase in difficulty, but these values are ridiculous and they increase with level. I decided to fix them and set proper base health and max levels in my game. Now they have:

• Gedna Relvel (01F8E84D)   base health = 20, max level = 50; at base level 40 health is 20x40=800, at level 50 it's 1000
• Grurn (01003A13)   base health = 130, max level = 40; at base level 15 health is 130x15=1950, at level 40 it's 5200
• Lich (0100847D)   base health = 20, max level = 40; at base level 20 health is 20x20=400, at level 40 it's 800
• Profane Acolyte (01F8B885)   base health = 20, max level = 50; at base level 20 health is 20x20=400, at level 50 it's 1000
• Worm Lord (01F8AF75)   base health = 25, max level = 40; at base level 16 health is 25x16=400, at level 40 it's 1000

This is still an increase in difficulty, but a reasonable one.

Meshes\morro\i\inustrongholdulpill00.nif has an incorrect texture path, leading to a purple ingame appearance.

Wrong:
Textures\morro\i\TxUexUstrongholdUwall05.dds

Correct:
Textures\morroblivion\improved\dungeons\strongholds\TxUexUstrongholdUwall05.dds

Meshes\Clutter\morro\m\miscudwrvuartifact50.nif has two incorrect texture paths. The second incorrect entry also applies to nbdwemercoherer.nif in the same folder.

Wrong:
Textures\Clutter\morro\m\txUeggmineUmetal10.dds
Textures\Clutter\morro\m\TxUborderUmetalUbronzeU01.dds

Correct:
Textures\morroblivion\improved\dungeons\dwemer\txUeggmineUmetal10.dds
Textures\morroblivion\improved\dungeons\dwemer\TxUborderUmetalUbronzeU01.dds

All ashlander tents have incorrect collisions, causing dead bodies to fall through the floor. I have uploaded a fix here.

Bullfrog wrote:

The following meshes in meshes\morro\x\ have no collisions at all and one can walk right through them:

terrainulavapot.nif, 
terrainulavapotu02.nif
terrainulavapotu03.nif
terrainumau20.nif
terrainumau30.nif
terrainuvolcano.nif

File : See Comment

Unzip in meshes\morro\x\

If somebody could test in game, I'd appreciate it!

edit: Nevermind, this is fixed in Dagger Galore for 0.67.

During the quest "Imperial Legion: Courtesy" we can visit the book dealer "Codus Callonus" in Ald'ruhn to get a copy of the book "The Red Book of Riddles". However, when we talk about that book to him, all he says is "I already gave you my copy. Use it well." (01F8EA83). I have never spoken with him before and he didn't give me any book.

The problem is, that this incorrect dialogue uses the same condition as the correct dialogue "Yes, I have a copy... Why do you ask?" (01F8EA84).

Some distinction is needed. An easy one would be to add a condition to dialogue 01F8EA83 to check if the player already has a copy of the book with him. The condition would be:

GetItemCount > 0 for "0bkUredbookofriddles "The Red Book of Riddles" [BOOK:011800AB]"; Run on Target

Thank you, I forgot to check that for this report.

The quest "Imperial Legion: Saprius Entius" is still bugged. When I talked with Saprius, two ordinators showed up, attacked Saprius once and then started chatting with each other. I had to taunt one of the ordinators and then both attacked me. After I killed them, I had a 1000 gold bounty on my head. That makes no sense. Who is going to report this fight, Saprius? Unfortunately, in Oblivion there are no crime settings, like there are in Fallout 4 or Skyrim. So, except for using "player.payfinethief" in the console and still getting infamy and a bounty history, is there another way to fix this?

edit: Ok, I found a fix. The problem is that the ordinators and Saprius are in the same faction. That's why the ordinators stop their attack and Saprius never fights back. I have removed Saprius from 0factMorrowind "factMorrowind" [FACT:0122001B].

Now he fights back when he is attacked by the ordinators. I joined the fight and we both killed the ordinators. Afterwards, I had no bounty and the quest progresses normally. I was able to get him to Ebonheart and complete the quest.

I don't know if it's just my game setup, but I have a strange and annoying bug with invisible statics. The first time I experienced this was around Hlormaren. Part of the outside stronghold structure was invisible. I didn't know why. Now I visited Ald'ruhn and had the same bug with the temple. It's invisible:

After investigating the structure in CS (it's visible there), I found that it has the "Visible When Distant" flag set. I removed the flag and now it is shown in game:

I checked Hlormaren and found the same issue there. The right part of the building has this flag and is invisible.

As this flag has no positive use and was set in a very inconsequential way on (part of) some objects, I propose to remove it from all (parts of) objects in the game world.

A quick and easy way of removing the VWD flag is to use this TES4Edit script that I made.

Just right-click on the world space that you want to modify (e.g. WrldMorrowind), select "Apply Script...", in the dropdown box select the "Change VWD flag" script and then click OK. When asked if "Set [YES] or clear [NO] Visible When Distant flag?" just select "NO", because you want to clear the flag.

Ulms Drathen was the only one who joined?  I see that there are other NPCs in the cell.

I thought it might be the factions, but they seems okay? (Well, in my Morroblivion.esm.  I don't know if they are modified elsewhere.)

New file with Updated version for terrainulavapotu03.nif (Better collision)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HuNgU_JAetUw8dekLTrl38Kxseanyu6C/view?usp=drive_link

Bullfrog wrote:

https://morroblivion.com/comment/90084#comment-90084

Guril Retheran is missing some greaves, so he is waving his dick around...

These are probably all NPCs with a Robe in their inventory. In Morrowind, robes could be worn over armour and clothes, but Oblivion doesn't allow that. So they go for the item with the highest armour class instead. However, they have no pants in their inventory, because it was assumed that the robe would cover them.

There are some armoured robes mods, and it would be neat to give them something like that, although it would require some work. The easier option would be to just give pants to everyone with a robe in his inventory.

Malacath's Quest has problems with its dialogue scripts.

1. Dialogue 01320FDF has a script that doesn't belong there (it's an intermediate dialogue) and the script itself is missing important commands, making everyone run away instead of attacking the player.
2. Dialogue 01F8A999 and 01F8A99B are missing the script to make Farvyn Oreyn and his guards attack the player and they are missing the Goodbye flag.

I have fixed above issues and uploaded the fix here.

The quest "Helm of Tohan" (01F8E3E9) doesn't work at all. I can talk to the brothers, ask them about "Exploring the Ruin", then ask them about their "Family Honor" and then they will start a fight with each other. The first that scores a hit will cause the other to yield and the fight is over. The quest is permanently stuck in stage 30 and cannot be advanced, except through the console.

I have fixed the corresponding stage 30 quest script and their NPC scripts (01008495, 01008496) and uploaded the fix here.

The 0.67 Guar (all types) cannot be looted. Like the Alit and Dwemer Sphere, its new skeleton is missing proper collision.

The dremora meshes are the same in 0.66 and 0.67.

I'm running ENBSeries 0.500 which puts more strain on the system, so that may cause the problem to become visible. Still, the replacements are clearly superior, so I will keep using them.

I will test the 0.66 ebony armor meshes again.

edit: Nope, the 0.66 ebony armor meshes are different from 0.67, but not better in terms of performance.

During the Imperial Legion quest "Rescue Jocien Ancois" you are told to enter "Shashurari Camp, Zennammu's Yurt" (01480360). This is considered trespassing, because the "public place" flag is missing on the cell record.

The Imperial Legion quest "Lord's Mail" does not work at all. After Varus Vatinius gives the player the order that he needs to get back this armor, there are no dialogue options to progress the quest. He will only say the default blabla about the Lord's Mail that any member of the legion will tell, instead of using his quest dialogue. This is caused by incorrect dialogue conditions.

I have uploaded a fix here.

This also fixes the corresponding quest dialogue for Rufinus, the two shrine guards and other members of the legion, as well as Furius cowardly running away instead of attacking.

Regarding the huge drop in FPS with Dremora, Ebony and Nordic Trollbone armor - today I learned the reason for that. It is caused by something called "excessive draw calls". These are the result of using NiTriStrips instead of NiTriShapes in meshes. So I took a lot of the weapon and armor meshes from 0.67, ran them through Sniff's "convert strips to shapes" function and revoked all my changes to above armors in the esp, so that I can see the original armor again.

You can probably guess that there were no more frame drops in the game. I could fight several Dremora at once without any FPS issues. My armor mannequin with a full set of Ebony armor also doesn't slow down anything anymore, neither does the Trollbone armor or others.

In case you want to try these meshes, I have uploaded them here. These are experimental!

edit: Just to give you an idea how bad the original meshes are, here are some examples and their draw calls:

You can see that the first two are ok. They have little impact on performance. It gets much worse with the imperial armor and the rest is completely sick.

For comparison, here are example values of the new meshes:

Looks much better, doesn't it? Before you think now that you can do this with all the Morroblivion meshes - a word of warning. The "Convert strips to shapes" function converts ALL NiTriStrips in the mesh. This can also affect collisions. If the game tries to load such converted mesh, it will crash. I'm already in contact with the author, maybe he can provide a solution to leave those collisions alone.

edit 2: Zilav has published a new version 1.6 of Sniff that will ignore collision NiTriStrips. I have run the Morroblivion meshes through it and now I'm testing. So far - no crashing and better performance. 

There's a strange thing that I don't understand with the Fighters Guild. I started my career in Balmora and currently have the "Code Book" quest active. I decided not to give the code book to Eydis Fire-Eye and instead take other orders from other guild stewards. Unfortunately, none of the stewards has dialogue for "orders", so I cannot advance in the guild.

When I checked the quest code, I found that every single job in the Fighers Guild has code to stop the dialogue quest "fbmwFGAdvancement" (01010566). Why is that? None of the other factions block you from taking jobs from different job givers.

I can only assume that this was done because at some point you need to choose sides. But why was this done to ALL the quests and not just the final ones?

The Morrowind specific faction icons are missing in 0.67. They point to "textures\menus\icons\darthsouth\factions\" and that folder does not exist in the 0.67 "Morrowind_ob - Textures.bsa".

The folder can be extracted from the 0.66 "Morrowind_ob - Textures.bsa".

Now I have continued the Thieves Guild quest line and ran into several dialogue problems. They are related to the Fighters Guild, because when you already killed Eydis Fire-Eye and Sjoring Hard-Heart, none of the existing dialogues and quest entries make any sense. I have uploaded a fix here.

This affects the quests:

• Speak With Percius
• The Bitter Cup
• Hrundi's Lover

It was time to take care of Dagoth Ur. When I encountered him, he only had two lines:

• Strange. This outcome I did not foresee. That you would come unprepared. (010269E4)
• Until I see you better prepared, we have nothing to discuss. (010269E3)

The thing is, I have Wraitguard, Sunder and Keening with me. The reason was more incorrect dialogue conditions. I fixed those. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to fix the topic "1partingSwords" and "1ourSbusiness". They simply don't show up in my game. I have no idea why.

As I could not do the whole conversation, I simply attacked and "killed" him. I proceeded to the heart chamber and destroyed the heart. Then I got out of the chamber and spoke with Azura. So far so good. Then I wanted to leave the facility and found myself blocked by the metal doors, the ones that you can open with a crank from the outside, but there is no crank on the inside!

Therefore I decided to add a trigger box between the doors that will automatically open the outer doors, so the player can leave. I have uploaded the changes here.

edit: I have re-uploaded the fix. It now also fixes the weather trigger box in front of the citadel. Before, when you exited the citadel, there was still a blight storm going and only after a few steps the weather would suddenly be sunshine and butterflies. That was very strange. Now the weather is clear from the moment you exit the building.

edit 2: Re-uploaded the fix, because the editor had eaten one of the dialogue scripts.

The problem with incorrect object types is actually huge in 0.67. I have just fixed ~100 cells with skeleton bodies (01000888) or submerged bodies (01000889) that caused CTDs.

All the "Riekling" NPC types are also used in places that require a CREA signature type.

That means the game will basically crash anywhere you go.

I will not provide any more patches. There are just too many fixes required. I will upload my combined fixes when I'm through with Morroblivion and also provide the updated Morrowind_ob - Meshes.bsa.