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0.47.0

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.47.0! Grab it from our Downloads Page for all operating systems. ***short summary: XXX ***

Check out the release video (add link) and the OpenMW-CS release video (add link) by the add flattering adjective Atahualpa, and see below for the full list of changes.

Known Issues:

• To use generic Linux binaries, Qt4 and libpng12 must be installed on your system
• On macOS, launching OpenMW from OpenMW-CS requires OpenMW.app and OpenMW-CS.app to be siblings

New Features:

• Dialogue to split item stacks now displays the name of the trapped soul for stacks of soul gems (#5362)
• Basics of Collada animations are now supported via osgAnimation plugin (#5456)

New Editor Features:

• Instance selection modes are now implemented (centred cube, corner-dragged cube, sphere) with four user-configurable actions (select only, add to selection, remove from selection, invert selection) (#3171)

Bug Fixes:

• NiParticleColorModifier in NIF files is now properly handled which solves issues regarding particle effects, e.g., smoke and fire (#1952, #3676)
• Targetting non-unique actors in scripts is now supported (#2311)
• Guards no longer ignore attacks of invisible players but rather initiate dialogue and flee if the player resists being arrested (#4774)
• Changing the dialogue window without closing it no longer clears the dialogue history in order to allow, e.g., emulation of three-way dialogue via ForceGreeting (#5358)
• Scripts which try to start a non-existent global script now skip that step and continue execution instead of breaking (#5364)
• Selecting already equipped spells or magic items via hotkey no longer triggers the equip sound to play (#5367)
• 'Scale' argument in levelled creature lists is now taken into account when spawning creatures from such lists (#5369)
• Morrowind legacy madness: Using a key on a trapped door/container now only disarms the trap if the door/container is locked (#5370)

Editor Bug Fixes:

• Deleted and moved objects within a cell are now saved properly (#832)
• Disabled record sorting in Topic and Journal Info tables, implemented drag-move for records (#4357)
• Topic and Journal Info records can now be cloned with a different parent Topic/Journal Id (#4363)
• Verifier no longer checks for alleged 'race' entries in clothing body parts (#5400)
• Loading mods now keeps the master index (#5675)
• Flicker and crashing on XFCE4 fixed (#5703)
• Collada models render properly in the Editor (#5713)

Miscellaneous:

• Prevent save-game bloating by using an appropriate fog texture format (#5108)
• Ensure that 'Enchantment autocalc" flag is treated as flag in OpenMW-CS and in our esm tools (#5363)