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[IgorTheBlack]

I seem to have misplaced all of my icon files for morrowind. :help:

every time i make a new object and want to add an inventory icon, there aren't any.

I've checked with explorer and on the disk but i cant find them.
Anyone else had this problem?

also, does anyone know where i can get a top-down view of the whole of morrowind?

[Xeniorn]

The icons are on your Construction Set CD. What do you mean, top-down view of morrowind? Vvardenfell map

[UberBender]

there is a "topdown view" option under the "view" tab. But I think it might only work with interiors. Try it though because I am not sure.

[Xeniorn]

It works with both Exteriors and Interiors. The shortcut button is T. Selecting Top-Down view will switch you rotation so that up is north. Which is pretty useful.

[IgorTheBlack]

yes, thank you both of you.

but shouldn't the files get copied to the Hard drive during the instalation?

[Switch]

Nope, for some reason you always have to add all the files from the CS CD manually after every install. All the Construction Set installation does is install the program itself... which is odd. Oh well.

[PierreBeauregard]

The reason why it doesn't copy all the files over is because the files are already packed into the *.bsa files in you data files directory. Why would you want to install both the compressed *and* the uncompressed files? They figure most casual users wouldn't be tinkering with the NIF files, or would just pop in the CD.

If you're feeling really brave and have oodles of time on your hands, you could try copying all the uncompressed files from the Destruction Set CD, and deleting the morrowind.bsa file and see what happens, that way you only have the uncompressed files and save some hard drive space. If something goes wrong you can always reinstall.

EDIT: If you're even more bored, you could fine a BSA unpacker and unpack the morrowind, tribunal, and bloodmoon files (in that order), then delete all three BSA files.

You could also repack *all* of the files into a single BSA file to decrease hard drive space and decrease loading time.

Don't say I didn't warn you though :shifty:

[Xeniorn]

That wouldn't work. The game uses the .bsa files, TESCS uses unpacked files. I have tried it. I keep both packed and unpacked versions on my hard drive, I hate switching CDs all the time. <_<

[PierreBeauregard]

have you tried packing everything into a single BSA file? It worked for Total Annihilation, but I can see it not working for morrowind.

EDIT: I have successfully packed morrowind.bsa, tribunal.bsa, and bloodmoon.bsa successfully into morrowind.bsa. I had to grey out the references to tribunal.bsa and bloodmoon.bsa in morrowind.ini, and it worked.

Now, the real question is, was it worth it?

The game works fine, but no noticeable speed improvement. Total disk savings? One megabyte. Wasted hours on my life: one.

So, no, not really <_<

Though it is nice to have one file instead of three.

[IgorTheBlack]

I hate switching CDs all the time. <_<

The game works fine, but no noticeable speed improvement.

get alcohol 52% or 120%. the virtual disks run at about 200 speed.
as a result, my load times went to near zero for interiors and about <5 secs for exteriors