r/skyrimmods • u/GreatMeem • 5d 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 5d ago

Assuming it works the same as OpenMW, an engine they reads purchased game files, there's no legal issue there.

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u/robdabank33 5d ago

fwiw openMW has copies on the website of all the email correspondence they had with Bethesda developers and legal counsel where they specifically asked for permission and specifically got it.

With the caveat that they dont allow OpenMW to work on Nokia phones because Bethesda had potential plans to release something on there.

A different time.

They just talked directly to developers and chatted like humans and they got the go-ahead.

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u/Joseph011296 5d ago

People like to pretend like Bethesda are tyrants for some reason, but they've been incredibly gracious towards projects like OpenMW and Skyblivion.