NCGDMW Lua Edition

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NCGDMW Lua Edition

A “Natural Grow” leveling mod, where your attributes grow automatically as your skills increase and your skills will also decay over time (Optional).

OpenMW 0.48 or newer is required!

A changelog is available in the CHANGELOG.md file, and an FAQ in the FAQ.md file.

→ Credits

This is a port of Greywander’s “Natural Character Growth and Decay - MW” mod for the OpenMW-Lua API.

→ Original concept, MWScript edition author

Greywander

→ Lua edition authors

EvilEye, johnnyhostile

→ Localization

PT_BR: Karolz

DE: Atahualpa

ES: drumvee

FR: Rob from Rob’s Red Hot Spot

PL: emcek

RU: dmbaturin

→ Web

Project Home

Nexus Mods

Source on GitLab

→ Installation

This short video demonstrates the whole process in under two minutes.

  1. Download the zip from this URL (OpenMW 0.48.0 or newer is required!)

  2. Extract the contents to a location of your choosing, examples below: 

     # Windows
 C:\games\OpenMWMods\Leveling\ncgdmw-lua

 # Linux
 /home/username/games/OpenMWMods/Leveling/ncgdmw-lua

 # macOS
 /Users/username/games/OpenMWMods/Leveling/ncgdmw-lua

  3. Add the appropriate data path to your openmw.cfg file, for example: 

     data="C:\games\OpenMWMods\Leveling\ncgdmw-lua"

  4. Enable two of the below plugins via OpenMW-Launcher (read below for instructions about which to use), or add this to openmw.cfg (official OpenMW documentation): 

     # Enable the default plugin when playing Morrowind...
 content=ncgdmw.omwaddon

 # ... Or the Starwind-specific plugin...
 content=ncgdmw_starwind.omwaddon

 # ... Or the "Alt Start" plugin for any non-Morrowind game.
 content=ncgdmw_starwind.omwaddon

 # Chose one of the above three depending on what game
 # you're playing. Everybody should also enable this:
 content=ncgdmw.omwscripts

When you finish selecting your character class and sign and get your papers, NCGDMW will begin. Press ESC and navigate to: Options >> Scripts >> NCGDMW in order to set up the mod’s options to your liking.

→ Connect

→ Other Notes

→ Configuring

You will be prompted once the mod has activated, after you’ve selected your class and birthsign. You can change your mod settings at any time via the in-game mod settings menu.

Using A Localization

To use a specific localization supported by this mod, your settings.cfg file must contain the following: 

[General]
preferred locales = pt_br,en
<other options may be below here>

The above example prefers PT_BR locales but will use EN when anything isn’t available. See the official OpenMW documentation on this option for more information.

→ How Decay Works

The decay mechanic can be a nice way to balance the game and stave off becoming too powerful too quickly. Some things to keep in mind about this mechanic:

→ Help Localize NCGDMW

Do you speak a language that’s not yet offered and want to contribute a new localization? Follow these steps:

  1. Download a release zip from this URL
  2. Open the l10n/NCGDMW/en.yaml file with your favorite text editor (Notepad++ is recommended for Windows)
  3. Update each line (the quoted part after the :) as desired
  4. Save the file with the name <CODE>.yaml, where <CODE> is the language code for the localization you’re adding
  5. Commit your change to git and open a merge request, or simply email the file to admin@modding-openmw.com with New NCGD Localization as the subject
→ Planned Features

Not yet implemented (not yet possible):