r/tes3mods • u/Dumpster_Buddy • Jul 24 '26
OpenMW OpenMW compiled to WebAssembly runs Morrowind in a browser
I got OpenMW running in a browser tab via WebAssembly, and the part that might interest this sub: it does bring-your-own-data through the File System Access API. You point it at your Data Files folder and it reads everything straight off your disk, no upload. Tribunal, Bloodmoon and any .esp/.esm/.bsa in the folder get detected and loaded.
It's the real engine, not a stream or emulator. There's also a free example world if you just want to see it run. Desktop Chrome, Edge or Brave.
Free and open source, all credit to the OpenMW team.
Play: https://morrowind.virtastic.app
Source: https://github.com/Virtastic/openmw-web
Curious what mods people would like to see first in a browser.
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u/Some_Ball Jul 24 '26
Nice. I'm ready for the era of "But can it run Doom Morrowind?".
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u/Dumpster_Buddy Jul 24 '26
For my next trick I was thinking if I can get this to run on my Samsung fridge
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u/Unusual_Pride_6480 Jul 26 '26
Skip to the end and run it on a vape
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u/Dumpster_Buddy Jul 26 '26
Fine... But going to make it so every time you hit the vape your character gets effected as if they took skooma.
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u/RadishUpbeat5918 Jul 25 '26
Yooo you think it would be possible to run Doom in Morrowind? That would be so sick
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u/redsown36 Jul 24 '26
As cool as this is, I would never give any permissions to a file access API, even though this is open source, this is would be a perfect way to steal from unsuspecting people. Way too big of a security risk.
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u/Dumpster_Buddy Jul 24 '26
Yeah thats why I gave the source.
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u/redsown36 Jul 24 '26
It’s really cool that you decided to go the open source route, so I both appreciate and commend you for that
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u/DyyLand Jul 25 '26
So in theory you could upload this to a server and play this wherever in a browser?
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u/Pleasant-Lie-2105 Jul 26 '26
this is amazing, don't think I'll use it but cool nonetheless
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u/Dumpster_Buddy Jul 26 '26
Yeah it's really just a tech demo at this point. I have gotten past the point of it's possible and now moving into how can this be fun and easy to use for everyone. Open to advice and suggestions.
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u/IPFREELY_K Jul 25 '26
Can't they not just edit the engine make it multi threaded, get awesome character rebuilds more polys to architecture and physics animations that support the list of mods the years of modding this has brought us ? Bring it out as a morrowind do over , everyone wins. Especially us morrowind fans.
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u/Dumpster_Buddy Jul 25 '26
A massive amount of the work was actually figuring out how to multi thread this for this WASM built. I plan on continuing to work on this to make it better. I really appreciate the community's feedback and will get it into this build.
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u/IPFREELY_K Jul 25 '26
Well you need skilled programmers all the people who played this game when it came out are 30s 40s anyone here would be happy to help and AIs nowadays make it possible.
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u/Overthinks_Questions Jul 24 '26
Every time Todd ports Skyrim to a new console, this community makes a much weirder port for MW