MWSE VS Cocos2d

The alternative is to install Morrowind Code Patch, Morrowind Graphics Extender XE, and the latest nightly build of MWSE. There are a number of benefits to this approach, the biggest one being that there are a lot of MWSE mods that people like which aren't available to OpenMW players. For me, the primary draw is that Morrowind Code Patch has some features that aren't available to OpenMW players (In particular, the option to have female Argonians wear male armor is so blindingly obvious to me, it drives me nuts playing without it).

If you aren't using OpenMW, you will want Morrowind Code Patch, Morrowind Graphics Extender XE, and (maybe) the nightly build of MWSE. MCP and MWSE are requirements for a lot of mods -- depending on which mods you use, the version of MWSE that comes with MGE XE may be sufficient, but others may require a newer version (the "nightly build"). Using mods without either of these two set ups (OpenMW vs MCP + MGE XE + MWSE) isn't really worth it imo -- they're the only way to get good graphics, and one or the other is a requirement for many good mods. My suggestion is that your first step should be to pick one of the two -- OpenMW will be easier to set up.

Greatness7 posted an updated esp for the mod and a Lua version. Apparently, a newer version of MWSE broke the original mod. You can get both the updated esp and the new Lua version here: https://github.com/MWSE/MWSE/issues/116

I'm trying to find the documentation for functions to do LUA scripting in MWSE, but my research keeps leading me back to this website or some page relating to it which says the pages don't exist.

Kind of a long shot, but also try updating to the latest version MWSE. (The one in MGE XE is a bit outdated, works with most mods but not all.)

That's all I can really tell you from what you've posted. The original version without the Blowfish encryption is open source (eg. https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/v4/cocos/scripting/lua-bindings/manual/CCLuaStack.cpp) , and I don't really understand how why you have so much symbol information available if what you're trying to disassemble isn't also probably open source

As others have pointed out, the biggest difference you're seeing is likely due to the _version_ of OpenGL (and hence GLSL) version. That said, there are still important differences. I'd recommend looking at a comparison between the same shader in a project that supports both OpenGL & OpenGLES. For example, here's a shader from cocos2d-x https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/v4/cocos/renderer/shaders/positionColor.vert. Note the only difference in this case is the additional precision qualifier (lowp) for v_fragmentColor. Note too how cocos uses preprocessor macros to handle this, so they don't have to maintain separate shader sources. Depending on your goals, you might be interested in tools like Nvidia cg or nvFX that allow for creating shaders in a dialect agnostic way, but ymmv.

Speaking about markdown files on GitHub, I know that there are some repositories that have very stunning README markdown files, such as this one for Cocos2d-x, whcih includes images in conjunction with text. I might do the same for my repository as well. Considering VS Code have an extension for .md files, this might come in handy when I consider using VS Code to contribute to my game projects.