New spell idea

[Kresselack]

I was thinking of a spell that creates/summons a dark and evil portal that sucks in nearby poeple and creatures. The effect could look like the original summon undead shader, except horizontal and sucking inwards. The portal would be summoned infront of you, not coming form your hands like the infamous "windtunnel." An extreme version would display a great stormy funnel-esque portal in the sky and suck people in it within 100 or so meters.

[Vagrant0]

The one problem is that this effect isn't possible within the game. Not with scripting, not with some custom activator. You cannot make anything "suck" up nearby actors. Additionally, it would kinda suck since it would be hard to control (there are only a few places where killing everything in an area that large would be wanted) and anything which was killed would have its inventory gone as well. And, anything which is an instant, or near instant kill, tends to ruin some of the fun of the game.

[LoginToDownload]

In Midas Magic, a vortex seems to be done by using a dummy actor at the core of the vortex and the PushActorAway function.

[gdarknight]

In Midas Magic, a vortex seems to be done by using a dummy actor at the core of the vortex and the PushActorAway function.

 

A "pull" effect is done by using a negative force value with PushActorAway. The way this would be done is to have a "caster" send out an area script effect that does a negative "push" between the target and a dummy creature at the center of the vortex. OBSE would have to be used to scale the targets smaller as they enter the vortex.

 

I do agree with Vagrant0 that complete removal of several targets would be overkill. For the sake of normal game play.....

What if the "vortex" opened from the sky and sucked the targets up. They would simply be spit out the top of the vortex and fall back down. They would take some damage from the fall, and leveled damage could also be applied. This would make it easy to kill a sheep, but hard to kill a group of guards. You would still get escape time/healing time if needed.

[tnu]

also PJ's spells has a Black Hole spell. though its just a glorified Sigil Stone

[dra6o0n]

If you ever make spells like these, always make them so it can affect the players too, making it dangerous to everyone.

[lolassassin101]

well there IS a mod that gives a black hole (WITH SUCK) and if somone could just modify it with permistion you could just change the thing. and make the other end (where it drops the peopleand stuff) in maybe just a black place with one tree and almost utter darkness.

[gdarknight]

well there IS a mod that gives a black hole (WITH SUCK) and if somone could just modify it with permistion you could just change the thing. and make the other end (where it drops the peopleand stuff) in maybe just a black place with one tree and almost utter darkness.

 

If someone can find it, I'll play with it.

[GBHis]

The one problem is that this effect isn't possible within the game. Not with scripting, not with some custom activator. You cannot make anything "suck" up nearby actors.

You can. With scripting. Not sure what you mean by custom activator, but I'm taking it you mean an external mesh made in 3dmax, blender or the like?

 

It would go like this

scn SpellS
;spellscript
ref x; temp ref to the portal's collision-box
ref portal;temp ref to the portal

begin scripteffectstart
 set portal to placeatme portal;the portal is in fact a door to the portal-dimension
 *adjust portal coords and angle*
 set x to placeatme collisionbox
 *adjust collisionbox coords and angle*
 set x.portal to portal
end

begin scripteffectstop
 portal.disable
 x.disable
end

scn portalscript
;script on the portal (which is a scripted door)
ref fool
ref gar
begin ontriggeractor
 set fool to getactionref
 activate fool 1
end
begin onactivate
 set gar to getactionref
 if(fool == gar)
activate
 else
pushactoraway gar -400
 endif
end

scn collisionboxscript
ref portal
begin ontriggeractor
 set gar to getactionref
 portal.activate gar 1
end

 

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