Morrowind Tools, Morrowind Utilities and Morrowind Tutorials

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Morrowind Tools and Utilities

Taken directly from the readme file.

You only see the mods you want to use, you can sort them by Name, Date, Author or Size. You can remove any number of mods all at once, you can immediately activate all mods used by a savegame and receive a report of missing mods, in case you've re-installed Morrowind.(makes a text file for later reference)

You can even use a fuzzy-logic search to find multiple versions of a plugin! this helps if you have a "battle_arena.esp" installed, along with a "BatleArena.esp", this would immediately point out the possibility of a conflict. Now with variable percentage of similarity! (beats eyeballing hundreds of mods for similarities!! also makes a text file output for later reference)

You can also scan any number of mods all at once, receiving a report of all broken file links, including Nif references to textures. (makes a text file for later reference by the modder)

The modders will love this one, so far a good percentage of plugins are missing a few files. I've added the ability to explore all files in use by a mod and build an installation fully intact. You can choose not to include resources from other plugins if your mod depends on these other plugins(install only what's yours in order to decrease archive size) via the Exclusive Scanner. (makes a text file recording broken links in the .esp and associated .nif files)

Finally, you can check your plugins media references against all other plugins in your Data Files directory with the Shared Resource scanner. This allows you to determine whether the resources you're using are the ones you intend to distribute. Often a modder can get confused about which resources are unique to his/her mod and this results in an oversized final product without knowing of compatibility issues. Also as a result of the Shared Resource scanner, you can now thoroughly destroy any plugins you no longer desire to keep!

DEFAULT MORROWIND RESOURCES ARE OVERLOOKED BY ALL SCANNERS/INSTALLATION BUILDERS! THEY ARE COPYRIGHT TO BETHESDA AND NO-ONE MAY DISTRIBUTE THEM.

When you're all ready to go, hit the "Play" button and it'll run Morrowind! (or the FPS optimizer if installed).

Overunity

Taken from the included readme file.

TESFaith was a utility written by Paul Halliday (aka Lightwave,) that can be used to move/copy/delete individual cells, entire regions or the contents of whole plugins. Unfortunately it was a console application, and a lot of the otherwise great modders over at the elder scrolls forums wouldn't know what a dos prompt was if it bit them. So I bring you all TESFaith#: TESFaith with a spangaly new GUI, nice big easy to use buttons and about 10x the memory usage. Enjoy.

WARNING: This is a _BETA_ version. Most of the code is a direct port of the original TESFaith, but I make no guarantee’s that I haven't buggered something up while porting it.

This is a .NET application. You need .NET v1.1 to run it. Download either from windows update, or from this oversized url: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3&DisplayLang=en

TESFaithSharp

Taken from the included Helpfile.

NIFTexture is a simple program designed to allow you to modify the textures used in NIF (NetImmerse) 3D model files. This allows you to reuse existing models with new, custom textures. It was specifically designed to work with The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind NIF files but may work with NIF files for other games as well. The program cannot create new NIF files and only allows the editing of the texture filenames.

NIFTexture

If you are in need of TES Construction set command that you can't remember then this is the site where you can look it up.

Just go to the top of the page, find the command you need help with and click on it.

TESCS Command List

Are you a novice to Morrowind? If the answer is 'yes' then this is just the thing you've been looking for. This strategy guide will keep you on track whilst adventuring in Morrowind with a host of hints, tips and cheats. There's no longer any excuse for not completing Morrowind.

The guide comes in the form of a .pdf document contained in a .zip file and is 2.5Mb in size.

Stratos Unofficial Morrowind Strategy Guide

While working on my Morrowind mod in the Construction Set, I found
it difficult to remember what the clothing items looked like. Dressing
a new NPC was just guesswork. You can't even use the Editor's Preview
window since it shows the garments folded up. So I created a reference
guide, "Klinn's Morrowind Clothing Catalog". It's an MS Word 97 document
with thumbnail images of each item along with its ID code.

This catalog is good for seeing what each piece of clothing looks like in Morrowind. Quite handy when you're deep within the Construction Set and can't remember what a particular shirt looks like.

Downloadable Morrowind Clothing Catalog

The Official Elder Scrolls Morrowind Construction Set Tutorial.

This link takes you to the official Elder Scrolls page that has all the basics covered including an overview, world building, landscape, plugins and utilities. There's no better place to start!

TES Construction Set Tutorial

Morrowind Mod Maker's Manual
by
Michael D. Edwards
v1.6

This manual describes the modding process using the TES Construction Set. It is very detailed and is a 'must have' for the serious modder. The manual comes in a .zip file together with a readme file.

TES Construction Set Manual

Make sure you read the included ReadMe file and heed the warnings therein. And here's what the developer has to say about it.

"TESAME cleans mods by physically chopping out information from the ESP-file. I can't take any responsability for what might happen when removing certain data. Always keep a backup."

This has to be one of the most important tools available to the modder, if not THE most important.

Tesame

From the included HTML file :

The idea behind this tool is to utilize the Morrowind game engine as a world building tool. It allows towns/citys to be built in-game instead of using the construction set. Placeholder items are carried in inventory, and are dropped on the ground to place building meshes in the game world. When the town is built, save your game and use the Morrowind Immersive Architect utility to copy your newly built city into a plug-in file.

Morrowind Immersive Architect

From the included HTML file :

BookGen is a limited text editor that provides a quick and easy method of generating HTML source code for use with Morrowind books. No prior knowledge of HTML is required. Simply type in your text and click convert or export, and BookGen does the rest.

BookGen

From the included HTML file :

This utility allows you to browse, pack, unpack, and register Bethesda Softworks Archive (bsa) files with a user friendly interface. This program was inspired by Ghostwheel's BSAPack (which the program uses to perform 3 of the 4 functions mentioned), and Splender of the Ashlands' BSA Reader, which are both command line utilities. BSA Browser is ideal for those 'who get lost and panicky at the words "commandline".

BSA Browser

From the included HTML file :

The accompanying archive (zip) file must be extracted to the C:\Program Files directory. Due to some unexpected limitations with the code, certain folders and files must have a specific location; changing or moving these files will result in the program not working. To avoid any confusion, I have named the zip file Extract to Program Files.

GMST Cleaner

Quote from the manual regarding scripting :

What is a script?

Scripts are basically pieces of code written in a special scripting language (I will call it TES script from here on). These little "programs" will run during the game and can perform certain things in the game, lots of things actually: Trigger events, control time and place, make things and creatures vanish, appear or move, give messages to the player, change stats, even change the weather - the possibilities are great. TES Script is a unique scripting language, it is not used outside the TES Construction Set. As a scripting language it has certain limitations compared to a "real" programming language, like, e.g. C++

Morrowind Scripting for Dummies

From the included HTML file :

MWEdit is an alternate editor for the Elder Scrolls: Morrowind RPG from Bethesda. While it is similar in appearance and design to the official Construction Set editor, it introduces new features that make creating plugins easier.

MWEdit

From the included HTML file :

TESfaith is a utility to Move, Copy or Delete cells stored in a TES3 file (such as Morrowind: Elder Scrolls III). It also processes the landscape and all objects associated with that cell. e.g. if you make a copy of a region or cell (internal or external) then all objects (NPCs, statics such as furniture, lighting, sound) will be copied with it. Likewise if you move a cell all objects will be moved with it.

TESFaith

From the included ReadMe file :

I'd been playing with the TES Construction set for a week or so and had made so many mistakes trying to re-skin using a Hex editor I thought 'There must be an easier way'. There wasn't. Rather than moan about it I thought I'd use my VB skills to make an easier way. What does this program do? It allows you to load a mesh (.nif) from the TESCS CD, tells you the textures used, allows you to rename the mesh and textures then copies them to the relevant directories in your Morrowind installation.

Skinner

Morrowind Tutorials

From the included Help file :

This is a tutorial for developing dialogue in the TES Construction Set. There are some existing tuts out there already, but none of them is purely on dialogue; they combine dialogue with NPC creation and scripting information. They also only cover a small portion of what's possible with the dialogue interface in the CS. The goal of this tutorial is to be comprehensive: it will cover pretty much everything you can do with dialogue. It takes a step-by-step approach, introducing new concepts one at a time, with several different examples of each before moving on

DialogTut

Taken directly from the .CHM Help file :

This is a tutorial on reskinning or retexturing objects using Dave Humphrey's utility, NifTexture. There are several good tutorials out there which were written before reskinning utilities were available, but there seems to be a need for a tutorial which covers how the process works with a utility.

SkinTut

Taken directly from the .PDF file :

A tutorial by Calishan on how to build a house using the TESCS (TES Construction Set).

Calishan's House Mod Tutorial

A good set of useful Links.

This link points to a site that contains an excellent on-line Morrowind mapping utility. Drop down boxes allow various filtering mechanisms for viewing maps that relate to quests, temples etc. It took me a lot of searching to find this great site...

On-line Morrowind Mapping Utility

This link points to a site that contains a novel mapping utilty that allows you to create and download your own Morrowind map. It's very nifty, and is capable of producing huge maps with all the scenery detail on it, just as you would see in-game. Quite amazing...

On-line Create Morrowind Map Utility

This link points to a site that contains a great on-line list of every spell available to purchase in the game, and all the people who sell them, and their locations. Updated to cover Game of the Year Edition, so it has all the new Fortify Skill spell locations. You can still use this for the Original, but simply ignore Solstheim or Mournhold references.

Complete Morrowind Spell Index

This link points to a site that contains an on-line interactive journal index for Morrowind that details every Journal Entry made for every quest completed. Check out this great utility if you get stuck a lot or just need some clues about how to complete that difficult quest.

Complete Morrowind Journal Index

This link points to a site that contains a good set of official and unofficial Morrowind maps.

Official and Unofficial Morrowind Maps