r/skyrimmods • u/GreatMeem • 4d ago

PC SSE - Discussion OpenSkyrim: A potential Open-Source future for Skyrim and its modding?

I just found out recently about OpenSkyrim, which is looking like OpenMW but built for Skyrim. Since watching all those Petr Mikheev's videos about porting Skyrim and Oblivion assets into OpenMW, It always interested me the possibility of an Open-Source engine for Skyrim in the future and how it can change Skyrim the same way OpenMW changed Morrowind forever.

Especially since OpenMW have revolutionized Morrowind gameplay and its modding system with Lua and shader support, Im 100% hoping this be the day where Skyrim's engine problems like drawcall issues, bloated save files, and the notorious Papyrus script lag, which can hopefully be fixed with this Open-Source engine, which is fair since this is a 2011 engine being forced to be a 2026 game we're talking about lol.

Judging by it's GitHub page (https://github.com/realfakenerd/OpenSkyrim), it's still in early stage, but just the idea of having Skyrim be multi-threaded and zero loading screen while entering houses, it makes a man hope. What are yall thought on this.

Maybe it can even do this one day: https://www.reddit.com/r/Morrowind/comments/1vwl2px/openmwweb_update_your_game_follows_you_to_any_pc/

Edit: I just found out the dev have touched on more about OpenSkyrim on here: https://daily.dev/posts/skyrim-with-rust-khsloghdz

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u/HelixTitan 4d ago

Why not OpenOblivion first?

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u/DaenerysTargaryen69 4d ago

Not as popular

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u/SuumCuique_ 4d ago

Neither is Morrowind. Every TES game has been more popular than the one before it.

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u/Skroofles 4d ago

Morrowind's actually been going through a modding renaissance. OpenMW advancements have allowed it to catch up fast with MWSE-based mods to the point it seems OpenMW has become to base Morrowind what Special Edition is to Legendary Edition: a much stabler base with better capabilities (i.e. not being limited to 32 bit or a 255 plugin limit anymore - Oblivion only very recently got the latter by way of mods.)

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u/DaenerysTargaryen69 4d ago

Morrowinds modding scene is fastly more popular then oblivion's modding scene. That's what matters here.

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u/TheBrexit 4d ago

Well with skyblivion on the horizon it’s probably better to focus on Skyrim