Fall Risk

What it does :

• []Adds a clean ring around the crosshair.

  []The ring fades between green and red (blue and yellow for colorblind palette) with increasing fall danger below your aim point. I used random stats till I found what seems to work between height and acrobatics skill.

  []The ring’s opacity reflects how sure your character is: it’s based on Intelligence + Acrobatics. Low stats = faint color = harder to judge mid-risk.

  []Acrobatics ≥ 125 (vanilla) → fall damage immunity → the ring shows no danger.

How it works (in practice) :

• []Fires a physics ray under the crosshair:

• []Ignores the water surface (measures the ground below).

  []Skips micro-hits near the camera.

  []If it hits a steep cliff/wall, it probes vertically down to find the floor under the ledge.

[]Computes confidence from (INT + Acrobatics) with a gentle gamma curve → opacity.

No default control, you have to bind an input with the menu. When it's done, just hold the key to see the ring.

Requirements :

• []OpenMW 0. 49 (Lua HUD). Not for the original Morrowind engine.

Installation :

• []Drop the included files into your OpenMW data path:

• []fall_risk.omwscripts

  []/scripts/fall_risk/

  []/textures/

  []/l10n/FallRisk/

• []Very rugged geometry can still cause occasional color “jumps.”

  []Water is ignored by design (we estimate ground impact).

  []Only computes when looking down.

• []If you can provide me some official calculation for the fall damage, I would be very grateful.

Compatibility

• []HUD-only Lua script. Should be compatible broadly with gameplay/graphics mods.

Credits & Permissions

• []Author: Infiniti

  []Code assistance: AI-aided debugging.

• HUD rings PNG included (feel free to replace with your own).

Changelog :

v0. 1. 0 – First release (prototype):

HUD ring with risk/opacity mapping, terrain-focused raycast with steep-face fallback, water ignored, K/L controls, OpenMW 0. 49.

v0. 2. 0 - OpenMW Menu and settings preference:

OpenMW menu, delete toggle function, added smaller r