06-08-2003, 07:04 PM
...Morrowind requires scripting knowledge to truly shine. Aside from that, I have had SERIOUS difficulties with the terrain editor(s). It's something I'll need to truly sit down and try, for hours on end, and tutorials are few and far between.
As I said, Morrowind modding suffers from a SEVERE lack of support, organization, and information. Without these three elements, it will NEVER be the Golden Egg that it can be. Hence why NWN will forever trump it - aside from MP capabilities, their Toolset is ALL they have, and there is FAR more support for it than Morrowind has (and probably ever will have).
Making items IS easy, as are a lot of things in it. Scripting is NOT, at least for those of us who completely SUCK at it. I lack a fundamental ability to program - it's as if I am mentally retarded when it comes to programming. And I am being dead serious. Learning to program, for me, is like learning a foreign language - and I suck at that, too. It's just massively difficult for me, moreso than the average Joe. It will take too much dedication and effort for me to do to get even the simplest of results, and without proper documentation (like a tutorial BOOK on scripting that teaches exactly how to do everything - a programming book, if you will), it will be forever impossible for me. I just can't learn. It's a big reason why I gave up on NWN - I just can't do it.
Then there's the whole side of skinning and animations, another thing I have no experience with. I am NOT an artist. I have no tools, no talent, and no understanding. So that, too, inhibits just what I can do. And, as I said, with SO LITTLE support from both Bethesda and the community at large (or small, as is the case), Morrowind modding, no matter how easy, will never take off. Sad, because there is SO MUCH room to grow.
As I said, Morrowind modding suffers from a SEVERE lack of support, organization, and information. Without these three elements, it will NEVER be the Golden Egg that it can be. Hence why NWN will forever trump it - aside from MP capabilities, their Toolset is ALL they have, and there is FAR more support for it than Morrowind has (and probably ever will have).
Making items IS easy, as are a lot of things in it. Scripting is NOT, at least for those of us who completely SUCK at it. I lack a fundamental ability to program - it's as if I am mentally retarded when it comes to programming. And I am being dead serious. Learning to program, for me, is like learning a foreign language - and I suck at that, too. It's just massively difficult for me, moreso than the average Joe. It will take too much dedication and effort for me to do to get even the simplest of results, and without proper documentation (like a tutorial BOOK on scripting that teaches exactly how to do everything - a programming book, if you will), it will be forever impossible for me. I just can't learn. It's a big reason why I gave up on NWN - I just can't do it.
Then there's the whole side of skinning and animations, another thing I have no experience with. I am NOT an artist. I have no tools, no talent, and no understanding. So that, too, inhibits just what I can do. And, as I said, with SO LITTLE support from both Bethesda and the community at large (or small, as is the case), Morrowind modding, no matter how easy, will never take off. Sad, because there is SO MUCH room to grow.
Roland *The Gunslinger*