Forgotten Realms style mage casting

[theguyyoudontknow]

can someone make a mod that makes it so when u cast a spell, ur character does some sort of hand motions, making joined semi circles with his thumbs and connecting his hands with his middle fingers, holding the palms out toward the target, and chanting. then, after the spell is ready, it can be held (preparing the spell), or launched then and there. up to 7 spells can be prepared and held at once. can someone do this?

[Kusta]

The idea sounds very interesting.

But I'm not sure does hands have that much animations.

[theguyyoudontknow]

i dont care so much about the hands or even the chanting. the part of that that i really want is that u have to charge a spell a certain time before u can cast it, and u can prepare spells so u dont have to charge em when u need em.

[grmblf]

Then this mod is for you: Chargeable Spells.

[theguyyoudontknow]

thats not what i mean, i dont mean u can make em better if u want, i mean u HAVE to charge or theres no spell casting. and the preparation of spells for later.

[Kusta]

You mean something like wizards spell book from D&D?

[theguyyoudontknow]

im not familiar with that :confused:

 

but its a simple concept thats hard to explain...

 

ok, on almost all games, such as Ragnarok Online, Trickster, and other mmo's, if you have a magic style character, u have ur spell list, and if you click the button to cast it, a bar appears above ur character. ur player stands in a "casting stance" as the bar fills up. when if fills up, u cast the spell in the direction ur facing. this is as well as i can explain it, and what i want is exactly like that but also with the ability hold the spell, or put something like the normal spell that does not need charging in your spellbook, that you can use once (the prepared version of the spell) after you use that spell, u have to charge it, and store it again. with that sort of thing, you can prepare the spells up to something like a 7-8 prepared spell limit and put them on your hotkeyes.

[grmblf]

thats not what i mean, i dont mean u can make em better if u want, i mean (#1) u HAVE to charge or theres no spell casting. and (#2) the preparation of spells for later.

This are two different things. My mod covers the first one. With it you have to charge the spell, and if you're low skilled you'll be stucked while charging, simply there's no pre-def limit you have to reach, and instead of a new bar filling up it's your own magicka bar that is depleting, so when you stop charging you cast the spell (it does not only make spells better, it sets spell's power, so if you just tap the cast key the spell is also cast but it's like it does nothing because of the very short charge).

 

The second one is in fact an interesting concept to consider for Chargeable Spells mod. Could you explain a little more how spells are prepared? I assume the player has to play the anims and "charge" the spell and spend magicka preparing it, and then when s/he casts it, does it consume magicka again? If not that would be kinda writting scrolls with your own spells?

 

I havent played the games you mention so I don't know how's it in that games, btw, does this method apply to every "common" spell or is it for special spells that are suposed to be special somehow?

[theguyyoudontknow]

ok, when u prepare a spell, u charge it, then its ready to cast at any time, without any charging at that later time. you spend the nessesary magicka when u charge it, and 1/4 of the consumed magicka when u cast it as a toll on your magic stamina for holding the spell, but how long you hold it holds no factor on this.

[clockout1]

(For the "use later" part) You could try having a scroll added to your inventory when the spell is done charging. I don't think it would be too difficult.