Improved Lights for All Shaders

Many other mods adjust Morrowind's lighting by changing the settings for cells and light objects (e.g., True Lights and Darkness), or by adding visual effects through in-engine shaders (MGE XE and OpenMW shader packs), or with external post-processing injectors (ReShade). All of them are limited by the janky geometry and material settings found in most of the game's 150-ish candlestick, lantern, torch, and fire meshes. This mod makes comprehensive edits to every mesh used as a light source in Morrowind, Tribunal, or Bloodmoon, as well as most of the unused meshes in the game's \Meshes\L\ folders, so that in-game light fields are actually centered on the flames, smoke and sparks respond correctly to lighting, candlesticks are properly lit by their own flames, and stuff that should glow in the dark actually does so. It achieves this without adding glowmaps to anything, which means it works pluginlessly.

There is also a small, optional pack of replacements for certain vanilla smoke and steam meshes so that they no longer glow in the dark.

Compatibility

This mod is compatible with all shader packs, both game engines, and any other mod which adjusts lighting through plugins and scripts. It is also compatible with any texture replacer for vanilla meshes. You should load this mod after Morrowind Optimization Patch (MOP).

Specific mods which people have asked about:

• []Enlightened Flames — yes, it works with this mod's candle meshes and still does something useful. Only affects candle flames, not light field locations or fires, so it and this mod complement each other.

  []Enlightened Flames OpenMW Patcher — yes, ditto.

  []Glowing Flames — no, it is completely replaced by this mod. I made my light meshes illuminate themselves by adjusting their vertex normals, rather than by adding glowmaps. That means unlit candles don't glow, which removes the need for separate "_off" mesh variants, which in turn removes the need for a plugin to change the meshes used by the game's "off by default" lights.

  Performance

  This mod retains all of the performance benefits of MOP's light meshes, and extends MOP-style improvements to every light mesh not already covered by MOP.

  Why isn't this part of Morrowind Optimization Patch?

  The only reason why I'm publishing this as a standalone mod, rather than contributing the meshes to MOP, is that moving the light field attachment points to physically plausible locations on the meshes causes some of them to show increased "green light" artifacts in vanilla clamped lighting. That happens already with most of the vanilla lights, but it becomes more noticeable in some cases with this mod, and that could be considered objectionable for some vanilla purist players.

  How do I disable vanilla clamped lighting?

  []MGE XE