diff --git a/components/nifogre/mesh.cpp b/components/nifogre/mesh.cpp
index ef4fbbe8d..80e377a49 100644
--- a/components/nifogre/mesh.cpp
+++ b/components/nifogre/mesh.cpp
@@ -116,21 +116,6 @@ void NIFMeshLoader::createSubMesh(Ogre::Mesh *mesh, const Nif::NiTriShape *shape
     Ogre::HardwareBuffer::Usage vertUsage = Ogre::HardwareBuffer::HBU_STATIC;
     bool vertShadowBuffer = false;
 
-    bool geomMorpherController = false;
-    if(!shape->controller.empty())
-    {
-        Nif::ControllerPtr ctrl = shape->controller;
-        do {
-            if(ctrl->recType == Nif::RC_NiGeomMorpherController)
-            {
-                vertUsage = Ogre::HardwareBuffer::HBU_DYNAMIC_WRITE_ONLY;
-                vertShadowBuffer = true;
-                geomMorpherController = true;
-                break;
-            }
-        } while(!(ctrl=ctrl->next).empty());
-    }
-
     if(skin != NULL)
     {
         vertUsage = Ogre::HardwareBuffer::HBU_DYNAMIC_WRITE_ONLY;
@@ -350,10 +335,39 @@ void NIFMeshLoader::createSubMesh(Ogre::Mesh *mesh, const Nif::NiTriShape *shape
             mesh->buildTangentVectors(Ogre::VES_TANGENT, src,dest);
     }
 
-    // Create a dummy vertex animation track if there's a geom morpher controller
-    // This is required to make Ogre create the buffers we will use for software vertex animation
-    if (srcVerts.size() && geomMorpherController)
-        mesh->createAnimation("dummy", 0)->createVertexTrack(1, sub->vertexData, Ogre::VAT_MORPH);
+
+    if(!shape->controller.empty())
+    {
+        Nif::ControllerPtr ctrl = shape->controller;
+        do {
+            // Load GeomMorpherController into an Ogre::Pose and Animation
+            if(ctrl->recType == Nif::RC_NiGeomMorpherController)
+            {
+                const Nif::NiGeomMorpherController *geom =
+                        static_cast<const Nif::NiGeomMorpherController*>(ctrl.getPtr());
+
+                const std::vector<Nif::NiMorphData::MorphData>& morphs = geom->data.getPtr()->mMorphs;
+                // Note we are not interested in morph 0, which just contains the original vertices
+                for (unsigned int i = 1; i < morphs.size(); ++i)
+                {
+                    Ogre::Pose* pose = mesh->createPose(i);
+                    const Nif::NiMorphData::MorphData& data = morphs[i];
+                    for (unsigned int v = 0; v < data.mVertices.size(); ++v)
+                        pose->addVertex(v, data.mVertices[v]);
+
+                    Ogre::String animationID = Ogre::StringConverter::toString(ctrl->recIndex)
+                            + "_" + Ogre::StringConverter::toString(i);
+                    Ogre::VertexAnimationTrack* track =
+                            mesh->createAnimation(animationID, 0)
+                            ->createVertexTrack(1, Ogre::VAT_POSE);
+                    Ogre::VertexPoseKeyFrame* keyframe = track->createVertexPoseKeyFrame(0);
+                    keyframe->addPoseReference(i-1, 1);
+                }
+
+                break;
+            }
+        } while(!(ctrl=ctrl->next).empty());
+    }
 }
 
 
diff --git a/components/nifogre/ogrenifloader.cpp b/components/nifogre/ogrenifloader.cpp
index 9fa913686..1e3598b33 100644
--- a/components/nifogre/ogrenifloader.cpp
+++ b/components/nifogre/ogrenifloader.cpp
@@ -534,18 +534,18 @@ public:
     class Value : public Ogre::ControllerValue<Ogre::Real>, public ValueInterpolator
     {
     private:
-        Ogre::SubEntity *mSubEntity;
+        Ogre::Entity *mEntity;
         std::vector<Nif::NiMorphData::MorphData> mMorphs;
-        std::vector<float> mValues;
+        size_t mControllerIndex;
 
         std::vector<Ogre::Vector3> mVertices;
 
     public:
-        Value(Ogre::SubEntity *subent, const Nif::NiMorphData *data)
-          : mSubEntity(subent)
+        Value(Ogre::Entity *ent, const Nif::NiMorphData *data, size_t controllerIndex)
+          : mEntity(ent)
           , mMorphs(data->mMorphs)
+          , mControllerIndex(controllerIndex)
         {
-            mValues.resize(mMorphs.size()-1, 0.f);
         }
 
         virtual Ogre::Real getValue() const
@@ -558,21 +558,7 @@ public:
         {
             if (mMorphs.size() <= 1)
                 return;
-
-#if OGRE_DOUBLE_PRECISION
-#error "This code needs to be rewritten for double precision mode"
-#endif
-
-            Ogre::VertexData* data = mSubEntity->_getSoftwareVertexAnimVertexData();
-
-            const Ogre::VertexElement* posElem =
-                            data->vertexDeclaration->findElementBySemantic(Ogre::VES_POSITION);
-
-            Ogre::HardwareVertexBufferSharedPtr vbuf =
-                data->vertexBufferBinding->getBuffer(posElem->getSource());
-
-            bool needToUpdate = false;
-            int i=0;
+            int i = 1;
             for (std::vector<Nif::NiMorphData::MorphData>::iterator it = mMorphs.begin()+1; it != mMorphs.end(); ++it,++i)
             {
                 float val = 0;
@@ -580,37 +566,13 @@ public:
                     val = interpKey(it->mData.mKeys, time);
                 val = std::max(0.f, std::min(1.f, val));
 
-                if (val != mValues[i])
-                    needToUpdate = true;
-                mValues[i] = val;
-            }
-            if (!needToUpdate)
-                return;
-
-            // The first morph key always contains the original positions
-            mVertices = mMorphs[0].mVertices;
-
-            i = 0;
-            for (std::vector<Nif::NiMorphData::MorphData>::iterator it = mMorphs.begin()+1; it != mMorphs.end(); ++it,++i)
-            {
-                float val = mValues[i];
+                Ogre::String animationID = Ogre::StringConverter::toString(mControllerIndex)
+                        + "_" + Ogre::StringConverter::toString(i);
 
-                if (it->mVertices.size() != mMorphs[0].mVertices.size())
-                    continue;
-
-                if (val != 0)
-                {
-                    for (unsigned int v=0; v<mVertices.size(); ++v)
-                        mVertices[v] += it->mVertices[v] * val;
-                }
+                Ogre::AnimationState* state = mEntity->getAnimationState(animationID);
+                state->setEnabled(val > 0);
+                state->setWeight(val);
             }
-
-            if (mVertices.size() * sizeof(float)*3 != vbuf->getSizeInBytes())
-                return;
-
-            vbuf->writeData(0, vbuf->getSizeInBytes(), &mVertices[0]);
-
-            mSubEntity->_markBuffersUsedForAnimation();
         }
     };
 
@@ -629,13 +591,6 @@ class NIFObjectLoader
         std::cerr << "NIFObjectLoader: Warn: " << msg << std::endl;
     }
 
-    static void fail(const std::string &msg)
-    {
-        std::cerr << "NIFObjectLoader: Fail: "<< msg << std::endl;
-        abort();
-    }
-
-
     static void createEntity(const std::string &name, const std::string &group,
                              Ogre::SceneManager *sceneMgr, ObjectScenePtr scene,
                              const Nif::Node *node, int flags, int animflags)
@@ -693,7 +648,8 @@ class NIFObjectLoader
                 Ogre::ControllerValueRealPtr srcval((animflags&Nif::NiNode::AnimFlag_AutoPlay) ?
                                                     Ogre::ControllerManager::getSingleton().getFrameTimeSource() :
                                                     Ogre::ControllerValueRealPtr());
-                Ogre::ControllerValueRealPtr dstval(OGRE_NEW GeomMorpherController::Value(entity->getSubEntity(0), geom->data.getPtr()));
+                Ogre::ControllerValueRealPtr dstval(OGRE_NEW GeomMorpherController::Value(
+                    entity, geom->data.getPtr(), geom->recIndex));
 
                 GeomMorpherController::Function* function = OGRE_NEW GeomMorpherController::Function(geom, (animflags&Nif::NiNode::AnimFlag_AutoPlay));
                 scene->mMaxControllerLength = std::max(function->mStopTime, scene->mMaxControllerLength);