Morrowind Construction Kit Preview

The guys over at Destination: Morrowind were lucky enough to get their hands on a copy of the game’s construction kit and have written up a preview to tell everyone what they think. Here’s a taste:

Once you’ve got the basics down, the first thing you should know about the Construction Set is that it’s enormous, in terms of the amount of sheer stuff that one can play around with. How enormous? Let’s go over a few numbers. Upon installing the Construction Set, every model used in the game gets dropped into a directory called “Meshes”. I looked at the directory properties in Windows Explorer. Anyone want to take a guess at how many meshes the game contains, even now, three or four months prior to release? 5,893 files. That’s nearly 6,000 models for you to place, shift around, and generally fiddle with. Textures are similarly installed, and that directory contains close to 4,000 files. All textures are stored in either .bmp or .tga format, so editing is as easy as opening your favorite painting program and going to town. Keep in mind those numbers only represent the numbers of actual, physical, visible objects in the world as well. It doesn’t include such wonders as spells, enchanted items, books (which often share models), and dialog. The bottom line is this: You will be kept busy, both in Morrowind the game, and the Construction Set.