Keirgarth Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 (edited) After reading information on some other mods, I believe it is possible what I would like to see. Instead of having different levels of magic spells, have the ability to hold down the cast button to increase the charge put into the spell you are casting. The longer you hold the button, the more potent the charge. An area in the ini file could define specific hotbuttons to fire off the selected spell at 20%, 40% etc for those that don't want to hold down the cast button to charge the spell. From what I read you can do the calculations the reverse of what vanilla Oblivion does for calculating cost based on spell power. In this way you could determine the cost in magicka for the spell or the amount of power based on the amount of magicka put into the spell at time of cast. As you level you gain more magicka obviously so this would allow for higher powered spells as you level. Balance would be achieved by the rate of charge versus the amount of power in the spell, with higher level characters being able to charge faster. This could be based off of the Wisdom line. The higher the wisdom the faster the charge up of the spell. The mod could either have you buy each of the starter spells, making them available when your character could be able to cast the minimum level of the spell. You could also set the mod to just automatically give the appropriate spells as you reach sufficient level to use them. Creating custom spells, ie ones that combine several spells together would be a bit more work, but I am sure that it could be worked out. A possibility to set a max amount of magicka to use per charge when installing the mod or in the ini file might be nice too so you can have a little bit of a safety net for heal spells :) Edited August 28, 2011 by Keirgarth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrettyMurky Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Whilst not exactly the same. I'm planning on making a mod in which you can crank magicka into either increasing your resistances, or powering up your spells; controlled with the mouse wheel. It should be fairly easy as well. I'll add it to my ever increasing, to-do list... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keirgarth Posted August 28, 2011 Author Share Posted August 28, 2011 Appreciate it. If you need a tester, let me know, I am not afraid of a few reinstalls :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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