Darkness spell?????

[feygan]

Is it possible to make a spell that causes darkness??? I cant get negative values for spellmaking ingame but wondered if there is a darkness effect in the contruction set?

[old1eye]

It would make sense that if you can make a spell to cause light, you could change the values to make it darker. Although you would probably have to create new animations.

[Povuholo]

There is a 'Darkness- Do Not Use' spell, but it doesn't do that. A negative light torch should be possible I think. I'll go play around with that, because I also need a darkness/blinding effect.

 

Although you would probably have to create new animations.

For a spell? I doubt it. Existing animations (I think you mean spell effect visuals?) can be used.

[Vagrant0]

To my knowledge, the only way to do anything like this is to use the Oblivion Script extender, then have a spell change the gamma settings in the .ini. Negative lights don't seem to work right, and can become buggy on a moving target, extra meshes with a dark color, and 20-80% opacity and such just look bad.

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[VinceBly]

There is a 'Darkness- Do Not Use' spell, but it doesn't do that. A negative light torch should be possible I think. I'll go play around with that, because I also need a darkness/blinding effect.

 

Although you would probably have to create new animations.

For a spell? I doubt it. Existing animations (I think you mean spell effect visuals?) can be used.

You can make a dark light torch using the negative parameter in the light dialog box. However, it only works with HDR, not Bloom. I made a post on this here, with screenshots, a month or so ago. Like you say, there is a Darkness magic effect listed, but it doesn't do anything. Although it says "Do Not Use", since the number of effects is fixed, you could probably use its slot for a new magic effect--if you knew enough to create one. That might be fun. :)

[Vagrant0]

There is a 'Darkness- Do Not Use' spell, but it doesn't do that. A negative light torch should be possible I think. I'll go play around with that, because I also need a darkness/blinding effect.

 

Although you would probably have to create new animations.

For a spell? I doubt it. Existing animations (I think you mean spell effect visuals?) can be used.

You can make a dark light torch using the negative parameter in the light dialog box. However, it only works with HDR, not Bloom. I made a post on this here, with screenshots, a month or so ago. Like you say, there is a Darkness magic effect listed, but it doesn't do anything. Although it says "Do Not Use", since the number of effects is fixed, you could probably use its slot for a new magic effect--if you knew enough to create one. That might be fun. :)

The actual effects of the spells are hard coded, you can't even overwrite the slot without changing that hard coding. If it was that simple, I would have been making new spell effects by now.