MWSE VS love

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 (The one in MGE XE is a bit outdated, works with most mods but not all.)

I've built a few games with my son over the years. The fun part for us was all about fast iteration, and then laughing at the bugs together.

There are some other recommendations here for how to approach 3d, and he is specifically asking for 3d -- but I want to put in one more pitch for 2d: the fun-to-tedium ratio can be much higher.

I wonder if you could spend some time prototyping some of his ideas in LÖVE https://love2d.org/ -- if you show him the smallest sketch of something working, he might have an idea about what to add next.

Many years ago, on a flight, we went from 0 to game before we landed (with no experience).

* When a cell is born it randomly takes on the color of one of its (3) parents.

To try it out:

1. Install LÖVE for your device from https://love2d.org (~5MB and open source). (iOS requires building from source on a Mac, or installing the third-party Love2D Studio: https://love2d-studio.marknoteapp.com)

2. Install my Lua Carousel from https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel (~100KB). It includes all its source code and can be edited live on a computer as it runs.

3. Copy the ~100 lines of code from the bottom of https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/651711/new-version-after-9-days and paste them into Lua Carousel.

Probably the most important piece of software we'll be playing around with is a game engine called LÖVE. Lua is well known around developer circles as being a good scripting language when it comes to making games, and this engine is one of the more popular. I'll be going through installation at the end of this post.

I got it – these are the steps I took:

1. Download Love from https://love2d.org/

libGDX is great, but I can understand if it's not for some people. This also applies to love2d, raylib and Monogame

You don't need to use git if you don't want to. Try downloading the 0.10.2 source directly here (the file you want is love-0.10.2-linux-src.tar.gz); I see you've tried this already but try again just to see what happens. Extract it to a directory (e.g. love-0.10.2-linux-src) and then run:

Love2d (MIT/C++/Lua) https://github.com/love2d/love

- Löve (doesn't have a separate page, but showcases a few games at the bottom of the page): https://love2d.org

The game, Wasp Escape, was built using the open-source Löve 2D game library for Lua.

love2d (lua) is a productive, fun, good docs, and most importantly proven / field-tested 2d game library, with easy to learn fast to compile and fast to run language - lua. while lua might not have a lot of features as python, the big bonus is that its much more focused language, which is important because otherwise you can get easily distracted on bells and whistles that other programming languages provide, i know that from experience