OpenMW is a free and open source engine for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. It aims to be a fully playable and improved implementation of the game's engine and functionality. is a free and open source engine for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. It aims to be a fully playable and improved implementation of the game's engine and functionality.

OpenMW is released under the GNU General Public License version 3, and all source code has been written completely from scratch. It also builds on various other open source tools, most notably OGRE for graphics, and Bullet for collision (and possibly physics).





OpenMW developers are doing great job as the engine is looking more and more polished with every new release and it works quite nicely on Linux. You will need the original game data to play OpenMW. OpenMW runs on Windows, Mac OS X as well.





A new version (0.14) of OpenMW was released recently with many new features and fixes:

Fix for meshes rendering with the wrong orientation

Fix for better grabbing of small objects

Fix to enable toggling of collision rendering

Updates to be compatible with Ogre 1.8.0 RC1

Fix for Wireframe mode applying to HUD and Console

Fix for terrain crashing when moving away from predefined cells

Fix to allow OS X Launcher to handle spaces in the binary path

Fix to support TGA textures

Fix to support wireframe mode in water

Added water rendering

Added terrain rendering

Added ability to render Path Grid

Added Factions support

Added Local Map

Added Compass/Mini-Map

Added Clothing/Armour redering

Added Window Pinning

Added Auto-Equip.

Added support for containers tracking changes to their contents

Added several NPC Dialogue Window improvements

Added backend for a game settings manager

Added backend for a Spell List and selected spell

Added backend for NPC holstered/drawn state

Added a Morrowind.ini Importer (not yet included in the binary packages)

Refactored the Sound code

MyGUI updated to version 3.2.0

Please note that as OpenMW is under development, many features are yet to be implemented.

















sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openmw/openmw

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openmw



After installation, run OpenMW Launcher from menu and it will you ask you to specify game data folder. Select the folder and you are ready to go.





Downloads for other Linux distributions can be found here. OpenMW can be easily installed on Ubuntu from PPA. Run the commands below:Downloads for other Linux distributions can be found

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