SSE (Mod Request) A better/longer magelight..

[Joker40001]

If you have done the Dawnguard quest you will remember walking/craawling/simi swimming around a lot of caves and tunnels. Unless you carry a large quanity of torches or go into the display settings and up the light level you are in the dark, really!

 

One trip to find the bow I stocked up on magika potitions and use a magelight spell (ya know that stuff ain't good for your stomac or heart!) so I stumbeled on hoping Serna really wanted that bow and not my blood...

 

So coming up on another round with the Falmer and thier dark, damp, winding tunnels I decided to use the creation kit to up the time each magelight had when it was fired off...

 

Nope, the form does not allow changing anything. Then I looked at the Enhanced Magelight, you can modify the form, however when you save it is a spell or a tome.

 

I have not figured out how to incerase the time the ball of light last beyond 60 seconds. And the ony EnhcStaffMagelight I was able to create ran out of juce and even with a grand soul gem it will not recharge...

 

So any one know how to ceate a mod that will increase the time the magelight lasts, any where from the default of sixty seconds to say 300 (five minutes) to over 3600?

 

There are other times that would come in handy either as a staff (which can be aimed) or a spell that can be aimed like a fire ball (wonderfull weapon that!)

 

Thanks to anyone that helps me makes this, or makes it I will endorse...

[Joker40001]

After a search I found a magelight: Ave's College Staff of Magelight-46876-1-0-1615570948.7z

 

I installed it and had a look, it is the same magelight you can get by console command:

 

Weapon - player.additem 000BE121 1

or

Enchantment 0004DEDD

 

Not have done any enchantment work I would think the enchantment would turn a staff into a magelight...

 

So no form to change the time the light lasts...

[Joker40001]

After looking closer at the CK property page for StaffMagelight, I see however the page doesn't allow for many changes, ID; Name; Enchanting; Enchantment; Value; and Template. After looking this over I went and looked at the "Enchantment" list and found: StaffEnchMagelight.

 

This is the property page for Magelight, and on here there are some specifications that can be changed mainly the Effects, such as Magnitude; Duration (Sec, Min, Hour, or Day) First I tested the day for duration, however when I did this and used up the soul the staff would not recharge. There must be a calculation ( I don't know where it is) that sets the Effect Base, and then calculates the cost, the cost has to be associated with the amount of a soul needed to charge the staff after it has used what came with it when I found it.

 

So I worked my way down from a day to 12 hours, no recharge; then to 6 hours, no recharge. I ran out of gems, my last gem was a common soul gem (the necromacers are avoiding me now that I know where they are free....) so instead of charging the staff I save it and set the charge at 5 minutes, used up the soul gem, then recharged the staff, the charge looks like about 90%.

 

Next I set the duration to 10 minutes, loaded up a save that I hadn't used the staff on, loaded it up and used up the gem, then rechared the staff, played with it for a while, when it was empty my gem bank account was also.

 

Next I changed the duration to 20 minutes, loaded the old save again, added the staff to my weapons and proceded to dischange it. I opend the inventory page, went to weapons, selected the staff. To recharge it you press " T " if you have a full gem a box will open and ask if you want ot use that gem, it changed to about 90%.

 

One last try I set the duration to 25 minutes (that would be a large deep cave to need the light that long, and I don't know it it would illuminate that large of an area...

 

I tested this light and then when I tried to use the staff "Your staff requires charging" popped up on the screen, I had one gem I had been using over and over so I press "Yes" the box opend and asked if I wanted to use my last gem? Yes! the charge went to 90% again.

 

So ends the saga and I will be closing this request for a mod consideration.

 

My first mod! ...

Edited February 16, 2022 by Joker40001