MetalSkater92

I am trying to make a mod where you can summon a random dragon at will, I already have the animation in mind for the Summoning itself which uses the Dragon Storm magic attack, but rather than damaging opponents when the charge is done, it will Summon a random dragon, so unlike the Shouts that have a specific dragon each time, this one will summon a random dragon whether it is an anchient dragon, frost dragon etc. If someone could help me realise this or actually can make this that would be awesome. Also the ability has a cooldown once per day to make this not too overpowered. This would be the summoning animation. http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/434946174135570616/1A55E010DD87970297B0792709727E851E783F2E/

I have that same feeling.

Sounds cool guys, if you wanna discuss this further with me, here's my steam www.steamcommunity.com/id/AutopsyGremlin, do drop your names here because I don't randomly add people. Yeah I'm useless when it comes to animating or that kind of stuff, best thing I've made is a crap skin for Counter-Strike: Source back in the day.

Correct, I'm horrible with them and it MAY require a custom texture to use for the particle effects. I don't think there's anything in game that would work well. As far as randomizing the orbs that would be a bit difficult, you could however have a few effect shaders and randomly select which one is used when using the ability to make it seem more random. There are ways to see if the player is moving (and in which direction), as well as if they are sitting or not. So different effects could also be used instead for those cases if you really wanted to (again, assuming someone makes the effect shaders). Oh my bad lol, nah randomising is not necessairy if it's too difficult or not needed to make the ability look good, just tought I should mention it.

The orbs are random, the orbs must be perfectly formed around the person orbing, so no limbs can stick out.

The Orbing animation itself can be quite tricky as you randomly dematerialse in orb particles and there is no specific pattern in which the orbs travel, if you look at Leo, his orbs are never the same, he materialised in random patterns depending on stance, if he orbs in while running (seen in the episode where the demon that tries to make future whitelighters kill themselves so they wont earn their wings) wehre Leo randomly orbs in running and jumps the demon his particles are so different than when he's standing, also different scenarios should be addressed, character afk where the knees are bent a bit, standing straight, sitting, etc because in every position, the orbs must materialse perfectly so you won't have a sitting character having a standing orbing animation where parts of the body won't dematerialise into orbs and some limbs sticking out etc.

By the way I really appreciate you guys still keeping this alive, finally people that appreciate the potential like I am, despite me getting my Ph.D I really want this to happen and will help in any way I can, maybe release a mod, with as much of the sisters powers as possible, although I don't know if Moluculair Manipulation AKA Freezing would be possible as you have to freeze the entire surrounding while still being able to walk about.

That's right, I'm glad that you will make it. Btw, I have an idea, if you use the orbing power outside of combat, it will bring up a menu of the places where you can go to, in combat, it's purpose it just to avoid attacks. Maybe metalskater will agree. I have looked in the creation kit where the waypoint is hidden, I could not find anything. I have to wonder how the clairvoyance spell will lead you to the waypoint, or the currently selected quest. Maybe how it's done, it could also be applied to it. I hope you can figure this out as it can also be used a different mod. I didn't even think of Clairvoyance! Nor did I know that it points you to your waypoint actually. I knew it could point you to quests, but I didn't like the spell so I never bothered with it. I'll look into it, still won't be able to use the orbing effect without a working effect shader though, we'd need an artist for that. Lots of people on YouTube manage to make the Orbing effect quite accurately, maybe there is a tutorial on it, I am a rubbish designer otherwise I'd make the particles you'd need to make the orbing effect. That's right, I'm glad that you will make it. Btw, I have an idea, if you use the orbing power outside of combat, it will bring up a menu of the places where you can go to, in combat, it's purpose it just to avoid attacks. Maybe metalskater will agree. I have looked in the creation kit where the waypoint is hidden, I could not find anything. I have to wonder how the clairvoyance spell will lead you to the waypoint, or the currently selected quest. Maybe how it's done, it could also be applied to it. I hope you can figure this out as it can also be used a different mod. Yeah I agree. And I know when Piper gets that power, but when she uses it 9 out of 10 times there is music on the background, we don't want that, the Shimmering effect took me alot of time to find it, had to pick a random demon to get it, as when Cole aka Belthazor did it, there was always music in the background which made it unusable. Same goes for Leo's orbing as when he was summoned by the Elders and actually orbed some sister wether it be Piper, Paige, Phoebe or Prue was always talking when Leo orbed out.

I have no issues with not being able to teleport to waypoint, you can also use it as a combat spell to make it possible to orb out from the threat to pick yourself up and quickly switch strategies, although it would be perfect, when the character stands afk, with no weapons/magic drawn, the option of orbing is possible. I run a computer with 18Gig of RAM and a 8-core processor so it shouldn't lag my game but it should also be usable for people with slower pc's that manage to run the game barely on lowest setting to enjoy this mod. Piper's combustion is gonna take a while as there are barely moments where Piper performs this power without music in the background so I have to scan across all 8 seasons to find it.

Paige orbs quite differently than Leo does, Leo's orbs are more sophisticated and lighter blue than those of Paige, Paige her orbs are significantly darker blue than Leo's. Perhaps because Paige is half-whitelighter half-witch, and by "they all look the same" I assume you mean when Elders orb, yes regardless of gender, Elders do orb the same. I got Piper's freezing one, you have to convert them yourself as the files in .wav format are too big to use. I'm getting my Ph.D so I have less time for games nowdays so requests on Sound Effects may take a bit more time then I usually get them, but I will check the thread as much as I can as I still want this mod to happen and still enjoy Skyrim in my time off.

That oughta do it. Had school and stuff in the way so couldn't get to it sooner.

You can put a marker on your map, teleport to waypoint is where you position that marker on the map

Why not make it Teleport to waypoint? Without waypoint you'd teleport a short distance, with the marker you'd teleport to that location?

It looks good, but I can't really see it looks like shimmering, the way he teleports from first person doesn't give the impression he is either, and I want to make sure it really looks like shimmering when in 3rd person mode, not just first, also in the series Shimmering or Orbing can be done at will and it's not a spell so one can stand still (as you would in the game without drawing your magic or weapons) and just shimmer out but that's probably impossible unless you can find a Mod which allows it to be done without needing to draw magic via keybind. That's not impossible, Shouts and lesser/greater powers do that, all you'd need to do is turn it from a spell to a shout/power...however the spell's concentration duration allows the visuals to work easier, as opposed to a timed animation for it. Like I said sadly I suck at art, or I'd offer to do this. If you CAN find someone that's good with art I can probably work with them and you to get it to work. EDIT: Would you like a 3rd person video? It does work in 3rd person, I can confirm that. Well in first person the arms need to look like they are orbing/shimmering, in 3rd person the whole character needs to look like shimmering/orbing watch this video and skip to 5:55 you will see perfectly how it looks when he's orbing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYz_YOn2y1E or watch this to really see the shimmering. multiple times appearing in the beginning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18FUdRs07Z8

It looks good, but I can't really see it looks like shimmering, the way he teleports from first person doesn't give the impression he is either, and I want to make sure it really looks like shimmering when in 3rd person mode, not just first, also in the series Shimmering or Orbing can be done at will and it's not a spell so one can stand still (as you would in the game without drawing your magic or weapons) and just shimmer out but that's probably impossible unless you can find a Mod which allows it to be done without needing to draw magic via keybind.