OPENMW(6)

👑 openmw — the vibe check

okay so bestie, welcome to openmw, aka the Reimplementation of the Morrowind Engine ✨ This page lives in the OpenMW Commands manual, and it's literally your cheat sheet for launching the whole thing. 🎀

It's giving engine reborn, and we're obsessed. 💅

🦋 NAME

openmw — Reimplementation of the Morrowind Engine 🌸

Like, they rebuilt the Morrowind engine from the ground up and it ate. Periodt.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Every single flag, no gatekeeping, fr fr. 🫶

• --help — prints the help message. The classic "wait what do I do" button. 😭
• --version — prints version info and then quits immediately. Short and iconic. 👑
• --data arg (=data) — sets your data directories. Heads up bestie: later directories have higher priority, so order matters, no cap. 💖
• --data-local arg — sets the local data directory. This one gets the highest priority of them all — main character energy only. 💅
• --fallback-archive arg (=fallback-archive) — sets fallback BSA archives. And yes, later archives have higher priority, same deal as the data dirs. 🗂️
• --resources arg (=resources) — sets the resources directory. Simple, clean, slay. ✨
• --start arg (=Beshara) — sets the initial cell you spawn into. Default is Beshara, so that's where the adventure begins, babe. 🌈
• --content arg — your content file(s): esm/esp, or omwgame/omwaddon. The actual game data, the whole point tbh. 🍓
• --anim-verbose [=arg(=1)] (=0) — outputs animation indices files. For when you're deep in the animation lore. 🧚
• --nosound [=arg(=1)] (=0) — disables all sounds. Every single one. Silence mode, lowkey unhinged but valid. 💀
• --script-verbose [=arg(=1)] (=0) — verbose script output, aka the scripts will yap. 😭
• --script-all [=arg(=1)] (=0) — compiles all scripts at startup — excluding dialogue scripts, don't forget that part. 🎀
• --script-console [=arg(=1)] (=0) — enables console-only script functionality. Dev girlies, this one's for you. 💜
• --script-run arg — picks a file full of console commands that gets executed on startup. Auto-run your little ritual, iykyk. 🔥
• --new-game [=arg(=1)] (=0) — activates char gen / new game mechanics. Fresh save, fresh me, periodt. 🌸
• --fs-strict [=arg(=1)] (=0) — strict file system handling — and that means no case folding. It's giving zero tolerance. 🫶
• --encoding arg (=win1252) — the character encoding used in OpenMW game messages. And listen, there are three flavours, all iconic:
  • win1250 — Central and Eastern European, like Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian (Latin script), Romanian and Albanian languages 🌍
  • win1251 — Cyrillic alphabet, like Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic and other languages ✨
  • win1252 — Western European (Latin) alphabet, and this is the one used by default 💖
• --fallback arg — fallback values. Exactly what it says, bestie. 🦋
• --activate-dist arg (=-1) — activation distance override. Default is -1. Adjust the reach of your interactions, ngl. 💅

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

Found a bug? Not the vibe, but okay — report it at http://bugs.openmw.org/ 🫶

Like, actually report it, the devs wanna know. No gatekeeping the bugs. 😭

And that's the whole page, bestie!! This one came from the OpenMW crew, dated OCTOBER 2013 — yeah, it's been around, it's a legacy icon 👑 — and it's page OPENMW(6) of the manual. Love that for us. Now go boot up Morrowind and be the main character you were always meant to be. 🌈✨💖