Easiest way to replace textures?

[Senf]

I downloaded a mod consisting of a mesh folder and texture folder. I have nothing else installed except morrowind and the 2 official expansions.

Most solutions assume I use 6 trillion other mods but I am not interested in that right now. I just want the game to use new textures. Do I need another application to do that?

[Nebgama]

drop the "textures" and "meshes" folders into morrowind's data folder its the easiest method of modding and how mods were initially installed.

[Senf]

You mean "Data Files"?

That did not seem to do anything, unfortunately.

[Nebgama]

oh because steam version has date problems forgot about that. You will either have to reset the dates or use mcp or openmw

[LexCondran]

https://openmw.org/downloads/
^the better engine for morrowind


V redesinged textures, and ui
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/46221

[Senf]

Where to add the textures in OpenMW, though?

Edit: I think I made it work by adding a second "data" folder in the openmw.cfg

[Nebgama]

Originally posted by Senf:

Where to add the textures in OpenMW, though?

Edit: I think I made it work by adding a second "data" folder in the openmw.cfg

yeah so with this way of doing it all you need to do is extract the mods and the set the path most people will set it up as follows.

/path to mod 1
/path to mod 2
/path to mod A

I usually make a sub directory in "Data Files" called mods and then just extract my mods into that and then set them in the cfg file as above so it would look like.

data="E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Morrowind\Data Files"

^ set by default when you run the wizard then you just append your mods after this line.

data="E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Morrowind\Data Files\Mods\mod1"
data="E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Morrowind\Data Files\Mods\mod2"
data="E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Morrowind\Data Files\Mods\mod3"

you can set the directory where ever you feel is suitable to you just an example of how i do it and overall most people do it this way as in split the mods over several lines because for various reasons but mainly because its neater.

etc