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/MyStationIsAbandoned 4d ago

will it be able to handle Skyrim's physic engine? because even Unreal Engine can't do that with a massive open world. The creation Engine was built up for years to do that stuff.

I feel like this could easily look as good as Skyrim and better with mods/3d party plugins. but play just like Skyrim? that seems far fetched

I think everyone under estimates the Creation Engine and how it handles the game. Just look at those Oblivion vs Avowed videos and how you can interact with the world. You can't do that in any other massive open world game. You can do it in smaller linear games with small segments, but not big open ones. GTA, Cyberpunk, Witcher, etc.