Subject says it all, but for those interested in more details before downloading...

Realistic Colour Config for Morrowind (RCC4MW) is a mod that is applied (uncharacteristically) directly to the Morrowind.ini file, changing some of the defaults for colour, fog, and lighting options.

These changes are (in my humble opinion) for the better, but try it out, I've included an uninstaller should you wish to revert back to default settings if you don't like my mod.

This mod uses the MiNi application created by Vladimir Kraus (vkraus@iol.sk), which basically applies changes to the Morrowind.INI file safely, allowing the user to remove the installation by applying the uninstaller provided with the template installation.

Some further implementation details:
* Enables FPS display
* Optimizes load-handling and minimizes "lag-pauses" by disabling thread-loading
* Makes Water more realistic
* Disables fog transparencies, thus increasing FPS and general performance through the roof
* Enables screenshot capture functionality and renames prefix of "Screenshot" to "SS"

Opinions wanted...

EDIT by Daerk: Lots of people seem to not be able to find the mod. It's the attachment above, but i'll link it here: RCC4MW

EDIT by Daerk: Fixed broken link.

-- Daerk off to work more on MEMod...

An additional note:

This mod is an alpha release of a mod that will end up completely changing the levels of realism in Morrowind. I'll be combining aspects of the True Lights & Darkness mod (heavily customized) without the malus/bonus due to lighting levels to sneaking skills and whatnot, as well as the Morrowind.ini alterations.

At present the most noticeable effect would be the lighting (if you were not using quadratic lighting before installing this mod) and the skies at night. Slightly less noticeable (possibly) would be the water (if you're using a graphics card that supports pixel shaders).

An enhanced version will be released with an actual version number assigned to it within the next month.

EDIT by Daerk: Including some new screenies...


Viewing the path to Balmora during Seyda Neen's night...


Under water during the day...


Under water during the night...


Viewing Seyda Neen's small populace at night...


Sneaking to the lighthouse to watch for Fargoth's gold drop...

-- D out.

EDIT by Daerk: For reference, this thread originally existed on the Morrowind Chronicles Network Forums, HERE

wow. I will download right now.

BANNED USER

heyyy pretty nice i like it. lighting certainly seems 2 be a lot more realistic than b4, and the nights dont seem 2 be so dark... plus no fog so the stuff in the distance looks more crisp when it comes in2 view

i give it an 9/10

thanks daerk ^_^

I love this one Daerk, tell us when you get some updates on it!

Ghorgareth

Okay, maybe it's because it's still early here and I'm on my first cup of coffee, but I'm not clear on what to do with this plug-in... I downloaded it, because I *love* the new look as shown in the screen shots, but I don't know what to do with the files...

Little help someone?

BTW... most exciting plug-in I've seen in a while, Daerk! SWEET!! A definite 9+ in my book.

u extract it to anywhere on ur hdd and then run MiNi.exe

zipgenius doesnt extract it properly so u gotta do it manually

then just select the rcc4mw_install option and click the pencil on paper icon to apply it to the morrowind.ini file

You d'Man, Switch... you d'Man on the wall. Thanks!

And just so you know... Zip Genius COULD have done it all... It just didn't WANT to.

I'll be updating this plugin to version 0.2 sometime this-coming month...

-- Daerk

where can i download this? please tell me

Read the first post. It's linked in the first post.

-- D

I've been using it, and I love it. A truly excellent mod.

This mod hereby awarded Baphomet's "Seal of the Truly Cool Plug-In".
That and fifty-cents will get you a cup of coffee at thousands of Denny's restaurants around the United States.

Arrrghhh... Note to self: Log in THEN post... Log in THEN post...

ROFL!

Hah... thanks B)

-- D out

I used quadratic lighting before, and I thought it looked better, but the finding my way through dungeons and caves was way too dark, even if all my lights were off, it was almost ptch black at times. Does the mod have similar problems? It's hard to tell from the screen shots if the game world is "darker" when using that plugin.

Downloaded it, tried it, loved it! I now class this as a must have and I'd give it a 9.5/10 (leaving some voting room for possible improvements!). All I'll say to those who haven't tried it yet is "What ya waiting for? Go get it NOW!".

I'll be uploading a new Bloodmoon version soon that also adds colour effects changes for snow blizzards and the like.

Thanks for the awesome comments!

As far as making the world itself darker, no, it makes objects darker, meaning there's more contrast, making it easier to see things in one respect, but you'd better have night-eye or some lightsources if you plan on venturing into the depths of dungeons and caverns...

-- Daerk

or u cud just do what i do and alter the gamma...

Excellent news! Look forward to getting the new version soon!

This might just be me, but I honestly can't tell much of a difference. Maybe the screen shots don't do it justice. I dunno.

You need to up the gamma on your monitor to view the difference, if you can't tell the difference then, you might want to have your eyes checked by a professional medical examiner... o.0

-- D

Daerk excellent work! I just found about your stunning work at the official Forums thanks to Pseron Wyrd.I love the crispness in the views now and how things appear.My framerates have also improved quite a bit.The water is really gorgeous! Am using PumaMan's Wilderness Mod that adds fishes to the oceans and it is really a visual feast of beauty!The fish also blend in much more better then before.Now they look like they are in the water instead of plastered over it because of the original coloring.Night time is gorgeous even more so with ModMan's Window Lights Mod and your amazing Mod work.Also dungeons are much more spookier which i have not seen since using CoolDemons excellent True Light And Darkness Mod.Good to see torches and lanterns are of use once more.Thank you!

*Boggles*

Is that really you HellBishop?!

*Smiles evilly and bows*

I find myself quite enjoying almost all of your posts, and generally will view a thread if your name is listed as having posted in it.

Thanks for the praise!

I'll be posting an official thread on the official forums once i've finished this mod for Vanilla MW, Trib MW, and BM MW.



-- Daerk

Dude... even though I didn't want to tweak my desk top gamma to see, I downloaded this anyway... It DOES kick some serious tushy!

Thank you Daerk but its only the beauty and in depth graceful artistic design of your powerful Mod work which inspires me to praise you and your talents.I humbly kneel down on knee and bow my head in grateful thanks at being able to use your amazing Mod work.Thank you.

It appears I should stop questioning this mod and just git it! So be it, I will download it tonight

Can FPS be increased with RCC4M installed? Before installing my FPS was 240, after installing it dropped to 120.

your maximum fps can be increased if you wish, however if you do, you'll notice your actual fps decrease, because the engine is constantly attempting to reach 240 fps, and there's no-one on earth with a system that can reach 240 fps for Morrowind. Part of the fps increase of RCC4MW is by releasing the engine from having to attempt to reach 240 fps, I notice some individuals can reach higher fps than others but never higher than about 150 fps, you can actually increase your fps even more... if you notice you never go above 70 fps, setting your max fps to 90 will boost your performance even more.

-- D

lol best FPS i ever get on morrowind is 35 (when outside).

also just wanted 2 point out a bug in RCC4MW

in the middle of the night earlier the sky was still bright and had sunlit clouds wafting across the stars (it actually looked really cool, took a number of screenies of it). also ive noticed in the night sometimes theres the sunset lighting still left on the ground and buildings, ive mainly experienced this in Balmora.

dunno if those things are avoidable or not, but might be of note for the next version (if ur doing one)

That wouldn't be a bug in RCC4MW, all I change in RCC4MW is the lighting method, which is a simple change from 0 to 1 in the ini, and I change the night-time ambient colours to darker colours with a slight blue tint to them, and then I change the water. If you're seeing "light" hitting the ground it's actually the small "lightsource" objects placed on the ground to "spotlight" objects. As far as the clouds, nothing has been altered on them. I'd like to see a screenie if you could upload one.

-- D

nah it wasnt a spotlight thingy, it was the same ambient light effect u get during the sunset. the only reason i thought these things might be 2 do with RCC4MW is cos ive only experienced the problems since i got it.

hang on i'll try 2 upload a piccy of the sky...
http://switchshomepage.freewebsitehosting....om/SS%20250.JPG
there we go

For everyone else to see, here's the screenie Switch posted:

Error

This is in bloodmoon, which is why I said I'm making a Bloodmoon version of RCC4MW, during snow, the fog and lighting is the same as it is during the day, and not altered via rcc4mw, therefore it appears to be brighter than usual. It's not actually the same colour as the day, it's night colours, but it's ambient lighting is lighter than everything else around it which makes it appear to be lit by daylight. I hadn't seen a bloodmoon install running my mod yet, but this is what causes the ethereal cloud lighting seen in the screenshot above.

It'll be "fixed" in RCC4MW_v0.2.exe which will include a "Vanilla" installer/uninstaller for Morrowind, a "Tribunal" installer/uninstaller, and a "Bloodmoon" installer/uninstaller. I'll also experiment a bit with some of the daylight colours in that release. It's a self extracting .ACE archive.

-- D

heres the strange thing: that shot is actually of wolverine hall in sadrith mora with a char who isnt running bloodmoon

unless u mean it has 2 do with the bloodmoon morrowind.ini settings

Thanks for the reply. Would the lowered max FPS explain why I get noticeable screen 'shake' during cell transitions?

actually ive been getting that too. my character sort of jerks back and forward rapidly as the bar at the bottom fills. in fact i never used 2 even see the bar fill b4, it just sort of froze, went from empty to full in a few seconds and then unfroze again

The shaking is due to terrain path and cell thread-loading. I've been getting it even before my mod. You'll also get the shaking if you move too far away from the 0,0 cell... as a test, set your acrobatics and strength up to 2000 each and then "jump" when you're outside, you'll notice your character start shaking the further away from the ground he gets.

Bad engine coding, is all.

-- D

lol if i do that, my game pulls off onna those helpful CTDs

when i use Windform scrolls i usually have 2 put up with a few CTDs cos i enter cells at a high speed. <_<

Great plugin..........love the one that make MW look better!!

hmm..I coould only see subtle differences but so many people are positively commenting on it, so i'm going to download I'll post what I think after testage!

THanks Daerk
Ilu.

I like how it looks underwater.

Great, Daerk!

The idea is very good, although I tuned your valuse a bit for my taste. Now I have some fog in the distance, but not as much as the original one.

What I find unrealistic is water in caves, you jump in and everything is as bright as during the day outside. As soon as you swim up you face terryfying darkness of the cave . Darkness is real, but where is the damn source of light in the water? Perhaps if the underwater would be as dark as cave this would be much more realistic. But then we will need a mod which will make lanterns work under the water. B)

This is unfortunately impossible, as there is no flag to determine "inside" water and "outside" water. I might revamp the water brightness to compensate for this.

-- D

Any guestimate on when an updated version will be available?

I tried to download this mod but the link doesnt work anymore, is there an explaination from your side Daerk or is this still a mystery?
The pics look great btw.

Ëlwe

I know this is a verry old topic but I can't download this plugin somehow. Is there a new link, is it all gone or something else? HOW CAN I GET IT? :help:

Ëlwe

If you still can't download the RCC4MW from here you could ask someone to e-mail it to you (it's only 175kb) or try one of the other mod sites, I'm fairly certain I've seen it available somewhere else.

Daerk you're cooler than you think!

I run mods on my xbox and because of this handy tool....NO MORE DIRTY DISC ERRORS! Whoop! Also gen performance is highly improved.

Good job.

"Oh man! This is awesome!" -The New York Times

"End of story!" - Washington Post

"Brighter stars, lovely sun rises, a new light in the world..." -National Geographic

*Waives Magic Necro Wand*

How praytell do we download now that mwsource.com is no more? is there an alternate link?

it keeps asking me to login then dumps me back at the main mwsource.NET page

EDIT: nevermind... found it in the mod database... (that's what i get for not trying a search first )

here's the link for anyone else that may so desire this work though

http://mwsource.net/center/pafiledb.php?ac...ion=file&id=601


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EDIT: to avoid spamming i'll reply to the below in an edit...
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I know i kinda necro'd this but that color config is great. I installed it and absolutely love it. I just thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to post a working link in it's forum so others could get to Daerk's work easily.


ps - please spare me oh mighty bird of smiting

I have a feeling that a certain bridy is about to sniper you...