Cavern Refit

The overhauls this mod makes range from minor to medium. Fundamentally, these are still vanilla caves, preserving the thought put into them by Bethesda devs who designed them.

All caves that are listed on this page were modified, with the exception of the Sixth House bases, the Corprusarium, Cavern of the Incarnate, Tukushapal and Urshilaku Burial Caverns. This mod also incorporates all the previous overhauls that I made and improves upon them, except for Sargon and Mount Kand, Cavern, which were remade from scratch for this mod.

Several things were done to improve the user experience:

1. Cluttering and detailing: no all-rockers, no rock spam that entirely covers the cave walls. I was going off of vanilla rock placements, and never strayed too far away from how it does certain things. Not a single cave exceeds 600 refs, so you can be sure that the cells this mod touches will not start lagging after you install this mod.

Cluttering was done where it made sense, whether it's beverages the bandits are drinking, or a set of Hortator cards/dices that they entertain themselves with.

2. Lighting: all new and modified vanilla light source placements are made to account for greenlighting and the 8-light-source-per-mesh Morrowind.exe limit (read more on greenlight here). That means that all of the 400 radius tikitorches were thrown out of the window, and replaced with 256/177/128 radius variants. While that helps with issues such a light leaks, some users may perceive the caves to be darker than before. Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done with that, as this is how the vanilla engine handles lighting, and I wanted to give vanilla Morrowind.exe players a pleasant experience too alongside the per-pixel lighting users.

Aside from light source placements, all ambient and sunlight lighting values were standardized. Sunlight values are 10/10/10 for all cells, and ambient lighting is increased and given a color based on the cave type. For mold caves I went with a mix of blue/green, mud caves are red/green to give off a yellow-ish hue, lava caves are given a red hue, mage caves (which have at least a single crystal placed) are given a blue-ish hue, and daedra-related caverns such as Kora-Dur and Dubdilla (the uncharted caverns part) were given a red/blue mix. It should be noted that there are exceptions to these standards.

3. Floaters, bleeders, caspers misplaced/misaligned objects: I thoroughly checked for any of the aforementioned issues that were present in vanilla caves, and tried my best to fix them. There are probably hundreds of fixes made by this mod.

4. Pathgrids: redone for every single cell this mod touches. While I can't claim that I'm experienced in pathgridding and know all the tricks, I tested every single cave in Morrowind.exe and can confirm that enemies navigate properly in and out of combat. OpenMW users should has even less issue