It bin day in Seyda Neen… oh no it’s BIN DAY in Seyda Neen! I think I forgot to put my bin out, and today is bin day!
I’ve taken a huge break from game dev, moving country took up so much of my energy, and now it’s almost 5 years later. To ease back into game dev I’m making a little mod for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. I decided to make this post to detail my goals and progress with this mod, in hope to get it finished quicker, it shouldn’t be a very large project (but I’m a master of scope creep.)
Summary
A little comedy mod for Morrowind, whereby on certain days in the Elder Scrolls calendar it’s bin day, specifically in the starting village of Seyda Neen. This was partly inspired by the McDonalads in Balmora mod from a couple of years ago, I wanted to make something mundane from our world and integrate it into Morrowind.
While learning how to do this I realised that while resources on Morrowind modding are plenty, the instructions for how everything fitted together are certainly lacking. A concise beginning to end tutorial for taking a mesh from Blender and getting it into Morrowind was non-existent, you needed to combine quite a lot of knowledge together. So as part of this project I also want to make my own short tutorial on how to do this.
Project Goals
- A mod featuring:
- Finished wheelie bin modeled and textured in Blender
- Bin day schedule in Seyda Neen, bins are only out on certain calendar days
- Bin day dialog for NPCs in Seyda Neen
- Small quest involving bin day, with some relevant politics to fit into Morrowind’s world
- A YouTube Tutorial taking a Blender model into a Morrowind Mod
- Shouldn’t be much longer than 15 minutes
- Complete with all dependencies so inexperienced modders can follow along easily
Dev Log #1
So far my progress is good, I have managed to figure out a lot of core basics I need to get this mod working. I made a quick and dirty model, managed to convert it to the “nif” file format and import it into the game as a container, just like an in-game chest.
Of course I put all my money in the bin!
You can see the wheelie bin, is, well, not looking too great. This is my next goal, my blender abilities are very limited, so I need to get practicing! Fortunately I think a low-poly wheelie bin is a good project for a Blender beginner such as myself.
That’s all for now! I’m going to try and update this weekly. :)
