Changing the appearance of a spell.

[Laicamir]

Greetings, for a while now I have been trying to change the appearance of a spell, I have managed to change the menu icon for it but I cannot change the way the spell appears when used or equipped.

 

Ideally I would like to keep the lightning attack but change the magic the appears in my hands to the pink-coloured illusion spell. I would also not mind simply changing the whole spell to something which is not the default elemental attacks.

 

Thanks for reading :)

[Shad0wThirteen]

Greetings, for a while now I have been trying to change the appearance of a spell, I have managed to change the menu icon for it but I cannot change the way the spell appears when used or equipped.

 

Ideally I would like to keep the lightning attack but change the magic the appears in my hands to the pink-coloured illusion spell. I would also not mind simply changing the whole spell to something which is not the default elemental attacks.

 

Thanks for reading :)

 

The question is, do you want to alter a vanilla spell or do you create your own?

If you want to alter the vanilla spell, do this:

 

1. Let's assume, you want to change the "Lightning Bolt". Just go to your Object Window, click the "Magic" tab, select "Spell" (not the +) and type "Lightning" in the filter.

2. Everytime you want to change the APPEARANCE or the EFFECT of a spell, double-click it and then see the "Effects" on the left.

For the "Lightning Bolt" that would be:

- Lightning Bolt : Health/Magicka

- Perk Impact Stagger

- Disintegrate : Health

Just leave the 2nd and the 3d. What's important is the 1st.

3. Double-click it and you'll see the "Effect Item". What's in the "Effect" tab now is important. That's the name of the MAGIC EFFECT you need to change. This would be now:

- ShockDamageFFAimed

4. Type that into your filter and then, click the "Magic Effect" - tab on the left side in the Object Window.

5. Now double-click your specific effect. So double-click "ShockDamageFFAimed". The "Magic Effect" - window opens.

6. THAT'S where you need to change your stuff.

7. So you want to change the appearance. Visual Effects are in the middle. Under "Casting Art" change "ShockHandEffects" to "IllusionNegFXHand01".

8. All the other values in the window that are SELF-EXPLANATORY you can experiment with. Just leave the rest or your spell will be very likely messed up.

 

Just ask if you want to know more :)

[Laicamir]

Thank you very very much :)

 

I was just wondering if there was anyway to put it on a custom spell (so that NPC's won;t have it).

 

Thanks Again!