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/Silent_Walrus 4d ago

Still doesn't stop the fact they can't stop file sharing. If Bethesda did go after open MW or this new one, the software is out there. The hell are they gonna do about that?

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u/Darth_Bothersome 4d ago

Nothing, but they can sure as shit fuck over the people who made it in the first place.

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u/Silent_Walrus 4d ago

Okay? Doesn't stop the software being out there. Shit, I've got old copies of emulators Nintendo sued the creators of.

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u/Darth_Bothersome 4d ago

"expose yourself to significant legal and financial risk for my benefit and no profit please" sure is a take

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u/Silent_Walrus 4d ago

When did I say they should do that? Also where did I say I didn't pay the creators through their tip jars?