Loading Screen Art v3.1

Aug 08, 2018


This is a collection of loading screens made from Morrowind art I found on DeviantArt. The main goal is to show images in various styles and of various scenes/people/landscapes, so that the waiting times become more interesting.

The art is about Morrowind, but it can be conceptart for Skywind as well, or Tamriel Rebuilt, or Elder Scrolls Online, or a depiction of the red year. I didn't pay too much attention. There's also a lot of dunmer, including some OC/own characters, but I thought they fit Morrowind so I've included them.

The images here on nexusmods show previews of the screenshots, but these previews are of lower resolution than the screenshots themselves. I made these previews like this because otherwise it would be of a large data size.





RESOLUTION

The loading screens are made for a 1280x720 resolution, and for 1600x900. For other resolutions, the images may be stretched or squeezed. You may still try them though, I don't see how it could break your game. For landscapes it may not matter a lot when they're stretched or squeezed. And it's easy to delete them if it doesn't look good.





IF SOME LOADING SCREENS ARE NOT TO YOUR LIKING

Previews of all loading screens can be found in the folder Splash previews. Use these JPG previews to find loading screens you don't like, so you can remove the matching TGA files from the Splash folder. The TGA file and the JPG file have the same name, but different file extension.

Make sure you rerun Archive Invalidation or BSA redirection in Morrowind Mod Manager or Wrye Mash.

Note: These previews are half of the size of the loading screens, for the sake of smaller filesize and easier browsing.





CHANGES I'VE MADE TO THE IMAGES

Some source images had a (black/white/grey) border, which I have removed. Others had weird pixels in the outer lines/rows, so I've cropped them a little bit as well.

Some images have signatures/websites/logos/dates that were too distracting, so I've cropped those images as well.

If something looks weird you can still take a look at the source image to see what it is supposed to look like. All sources are mentioned below.





INSTALLATION

1. Optional: delete (or move) other loading screens, by removing them from the Data Files/Splash folder.

2. Unpack this archive into Data Files in your Morrowind install, so that all the TGA and JPG files end up in Data Files/Splash.

3. Optional: remove the loading screens you don't want. The previews show which filename has what image.

4. Use Archive Invalidation or BSA Redirection. Wrye Mash or Morrowind Mod Manager can do this, but maybe other software can as well.






DE-INSTALLATION

1. Remove the loading screens you no longer want from the Data Files/Splash folder

2. Use Archive Invalidation or BSA Redirection.





CHANGES

Version 3.0:
- a few new loading screens
- but many loading screens are lost, due to not having asked artists for permissions in advance
- changed filenames and shortened filenames, because morrowind sometimes gave an error that it could not find the loading screen, even though it was in the correct folder and Archive Invalidation/BSA Redirection was completed. When I made the filenames shorter, the error message no longer happened.  

If you install version 3 over version 1 or 2, you'll have many doubles of the loading screens, because of the changed filenames. However, version 1 has many loading screens that are not present in version 3. So if you delete all of version 1 or 2, and then install version 3, you'll have fewer loading screens.
A way to deal with it is to use the previews to see which ones are the doubles you can delete. Also, the filenames may have changed, but are still similar enough for you to recognize which ones are the doubles.
When you have doubles, delete the loading screens from the older versions and keep the ones from version 3, because version 3 has shorter filenames.





SOURCE IMAGES

Thanks to all the artist who created these images. Without them, this would not have been possible. Special thanks to Hieronymus7Z and IcedWingsArt, who send me images of higher resolution and/or without distracting logos.

All art I've found on DeviantArt. An easy way to browse the source images is to browse this collection of favorites in my account: https://www.deviantart.com/bettersweater/favourites/76681250/Morrowind-Loading-Screens

DeviantARt may change its links, and artists may change their names or the image titles. Maybe the links in my favorites collection will update if this happens. If the links are dead, you can try searching for author or image title at DeviantArt or Google.





SOURCES:

ARTIST: 1Rich1
https://1rich1.deviantart.com/art/Morrowind-Tribute-416341887

ARTIST: aihito
https://aihito.deviantart.com/art/Balmora-521404350
https://aihito.deviantart.com/art/Dagoth-Ur-410036044
https://aihito.deviantart.com/art/Arril-603944971
https://aihito.deviantart.com/art/Seyda-Neen-Silt-Strider-Harbour-View-410036190

ARTIST: dariiy
https://dariiy.deviantart.com/art/Khuul-446446073

ARTIST: DigitalInanna
https://www.deviantart.com/digitalinanna/art/Maintenance-445396311
https://www.deviantart.com/digitalinanna/art/The-Death-Blow-of-Abernanit-501849647
https://www.deviantart.com/digitalinanna/art/BFF-451335056
https://www.deviantart.com/digitalinanna/art/The-Sixth-House-442318708
https://www.deviantart.com/digitalinanna/art/Dwemer-and-chimer-437693402
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https://www.deviantart.com/eonixa/art/Tel-Fyr-373772148

ARTIST: ErikShoemaker
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ARTIST: Hieronymus7Z
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ARTIST: monartt
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ARTIST: Nikulina-Helena
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ARTIST: noxfoxArts
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ARTIST: preciteran
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ARTIST: RennaLorie
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ARTIST: RisingMonster
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ARTIST: Saito00
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ARTIST: Shagan-fury
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ARTIST: skadi-s
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ARTIST: TamplierPainter
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ARTIST: TheMightyGoat
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ARTIST: TheMinttu
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https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Bitter-Coast-126685923
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Dunmer-139091505
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Grazelands-Caravan-147482574
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Corprus-Stalker-194430258
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/A-Quiet-Night-in-Suran-204777073
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Redoran-268219638
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Lord-Kagrenac-278528687
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Eno-Hlaalu-286226820
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Dagoth-Ur-300816920
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Dunmer-assassin-354503201
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Redoran-caravan-355532307
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Morrowind-Dunmer-371299397
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Altmer-372045626
https://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Bosmer-375438664
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ARTIST: ThornSpine
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