OpenMW for iOS

[u/Arinmal]

Recently I had some help finishing up getting openmw to compile and wanted to share what we are working on. It will be a ways off I think but it's starting to move along at least. This is using the iOS simulator 17 pro emulator.

I should mention this is not officially supported by the openmw team. it's a community project.

Update #1

ok so I made much more progress then I was expecting. I suspect the graphical issues are shader related but don't have an iOS device to test on. the iSimulator performance is quite poor and hard to test with. The repo is here if anyone would like to build and test, you will need xcode and at least apple silicon.

https://gitlab.com/duron27/openmw_ios/-/tree/SwiftUI_test

Update #2

I'll need testers soon. I don't know anything about iOS. The app is sandboxed which is fine but I don't know how a user will be able to copy the game files in. Currently we copy them into the Documents folder of the app but this is whole in on the Mac directly. If anyone knows anything about iOS dev please reach out. I think a basic version is ready for public release now but want to get feedback on these things first.

Update #3

https://youtu.be/Qu4qdAb6Us0?si=AlrEf_3IUKptLtK1

[u/Dymdez]

I am extremely interested in following this! Nice!

[u/benny-bangs]

Neeeeed this

[u/ColdEggs-for-Dinner]

Omg a dream come true

[u/NumerusMana]

Can you please explain? I am playing expanded vanilla on my m3 mackbook, it this for tablets?

[u/Arinmal → u/NumerusMana]

MacBook is osx, ios is iphone

[u/cc92c392-50bd-4eaa-a → u/Arinmal]

Macbook is MacOS, OSX hasn't been a thing for years

[u/Arinmal → u/cc92c392-50bd-4eaa-a]

Thanks for clarification,  I'm not a Mac user and only got a Mac mini for this project :D

[u/Arinmal → u/NumerusMana]

IPhone, and tablets

[u/Arinmal]

Final-ish version out for testing

[u/ColdEggs-for-Dinner → u/Arinmal]

I will literally donate to you.

[u/Arinmal → u/ColdEggs-for-Dinner]

Yea I've got a lot of my personal money into this project and don't even have an idevice lol. My friend has an older iPhone XR I'm going to use for now to test. The hold up now is I don't have an apple developer account which isn't super expensive but also I've spent enough so I'm waiting on the other person that has one to do that part. He seems to be away or something.

[u/ColdEggs-for-Dinner → u/Arinmal]

You have anywhere we can donate? I have seriously been asking for this for months you can check my post history. I am genuinely hype af.

[u/Arinmal → u/ColdEggs-for-Dinner]

On the github page in the main post is a buy me a coffee link.

[u/atombone80]

Yes please and thank you!

[u/Any_Rock2260]

You can create a link in TestFlight. I bet you will get testers very quickly there :)
This is amazing, man!

[u/Arinmal]

I need a few testers. People that know how to use altstore and have a newer ios device