Spell area effect measurement?

[ratkiller13]

Been trial and erroring this, gave up and tried google, no help. Standard vanilla spell;

Fire Storm
Fire Damage 50

Area 15

So you cast that spell aiming at the floor/ground between you and the target, if he's within the 15 (whatever it is) area he gets cooked.

Fifteen what? I found for objects in the CS there are 21.3 units per foot when you move something, but an area effect is obviously more than that. Centimeters, inches, yards, hectares, furlongs, fathoms? I can't find anything that tells what measurement the Area number refers to.

[DrakeTheDragon]

When in doubt I usually ask the CS Wiki first every time: https://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php?title=Effect_Item

 

They say the area is in feet.

[ReverendFelix]

I think it's a 15 foot cubic radius... That means 15 feet out from the center of the explosion, in a spherical shape.

 

Edit;

It might be the same as measurement light nodes. Check torch02.

Edited August 14, 2019 by ReverendFelix

[ratkiller13]

Thanks for the input, despite that evil nasty wicked "real life" getting in the way I'm still working on this when I have the time.

 

Got this ruler that's supposed to be 1000 units, depending on which source you go by 22 or 23 units = one foot. (No idea why the odd number either way, if the original programmers were using metric, 25.4 millimeters would be one inch.) Allegedly the height of 1.0 is six feet for various races, female Nord is 1.06, so she's a bit over 6 feet tall. Turned one of those bedrolls on end and it was about the same, more or less matches the ruler markings.

 

Custom spells with 25, 50, 75 and 100 range or area, detect life, light target, flame damage 2 for 10 seconds, all are just a little short of the markers. So it's PROBABLY feet for range/radius, whether it says "range" for target spell, "area" for damage spell, or "magnitude" for detect life and light spells.

One example is a light target area spell;

EFFECT: Light
RANGE: Target
AREA: 50

DURATION: 10
MAGNITUDE: 10

With that I look straight down at where my feet would be, cast the spell, and if the target is in range she lights up as if she had cast the spell on herself. The range is still iffy, various experiments it looks like "50" is actually short of that, somewhere around 45 to 48 feet, although when you're guessing at the actual numbers you have to allow for errors.

Edited September 2, 2019 by ratkiller13