Dwemer Lanterns

Dwemer Lanterns

Mod and original artwork by Nigedo

Requires Morrowind only.

Version 1. 0 - 30 January 2004

Description

"Dwemer powered lanterns are, of course, exceptionally rare and extremely valuable artifacts. To my knowledge a powered lantern has never been known to burn up its fuel supply, although some dead lanterns have been discovered. Thus, they are greatly prized by archaeologists and other adventurous types who value their robustness and reliability."

"Dwemer Lanterns" adds rare and powerful, portable Dwemer lanterns to Vvardenfell.

They illuminate a large area and will not burn out, either over time or when submerged in water.

They are, however, ineffectual under water and are automatically returned to the player's inventory in these circumstances.

This is a playable mod.  There are only a couple of lanterns available.  One is rumoured to have been lost in the dark recesses of grim Kogoruhn. Another is the property of Vvardenfell's greatest collector of Dwemeri artifacts.

Notes

If you simply must have a lantern and your character is not sufficiently strong to delve into Kogoruhn, nor a thief, you can enter the following code in the console window to acquire one:-

player->additem nigedo_dl_light_dwrv_lantern 1

(Press the ~ key to open and close the console window.)

There is a known issue with shadowing on the off side of the lantern.  This is due to the mesh being offset from the 0,0 position on the x and y axes, so that it may be carrie without clipping with the player's hand/forearm.

Unfortunately it does not seem to be possible to offset the light sphere as well. The same issue occurs with some vanilla lights.

Feel free to use the Dwemer lantern model and scripts in your own mods. If you do, I would appreciate credit for creating them. Do not port the model for use outside of Morrowind modding.

Installation

"Dwemer Lanterns" is packaged according to the default Morrowind Data Files structure.

For the easiest installation, unzip this mod directly to the Morrowind "Data Files" folder on your PC hard-drive.  The typical path to this folder is:-

C:\PROGRAM FILES\BETHESDA SOFTWORKS\MORROWIND\DATA FILES

Allow all folders to be overwritten. No previous data will be overwritten in this process.

When you have done this, select the mod name "Dwemer Lanterns" in the Data Files section of the Morrowind launcher.

For easy, step-