Difference between revisions of "Talk:Magic Effects"

Hm, seems you can't edit spell effects either. Such as, making a spell last longer than it's coded for. Or perhaps I'm missing something, will have to look into the TES more. [[User:Landeyda|Landeyda]] 08:03, 27 March 2006 (EST)

Hm, seems you can't edit spell effects either. Such as, making a spell last longer than it's coded for. Or perhaps I'm missing something, will have to look into the TES more. [[User:Landeyda|Landeyda]] 08:03, 27 March 2006 (EST)

You can't edit spell effects, but you can activate a script using a spell and use whatever visual effect you want.

You can't edit spell effects, but you can activate a script using a spell and use whatever visual effect you want.

Yeah, it is lame. The amount of stuff they have hard coded seems unnecessary. I've been messing with enabling bound enchantments. I checked the enchanting box in magic effects, looked at the spells, looked at the settings, etc... I can't get it to work. Either I'm missing something not covered in the wiki or obvious in other spell effects or something hard coded is preventing it from working. Seems to me they could easily release a patch that moves this stuff out of the program code and into a new ESM, with an updated CS to add settings for new effects, schools of magic, skills, or anything else we wanted to add. Its also possible that its not hard coded at all, just hidden in the ESM in some section the CS isn't designed to access. Putting that stuff in the actual engine code just doesn't make sense. [[User:MegaBurn|MegaBurn]] 03:40, 12 April 2006 (EDT)

Yeah, it is lame. The amount of stuff they have hard coded seems unnecessary. I've been messing with enabling bound enchantments. I checked the enchanting box in magic effects, looked at the spells, looked at the settings, etc... I can't get it to work. Either I'm missing something not covered in the wiki or obvious in other spell effects or something hard coded is preventing it from working. Seems to me they could easily release a patch that moves this stuff out of the program code and into a new ESM, with an updated CS to add settings for new effects, schools of magic, skills, or anything else we wanted to add. Its also possible that its not hard coded at all, just hidden in the ESM in some section the CS isn't designed to access. Putting that stuff in the actual engine code just doesn't make sense. [[User:MegaBurn|MegaBurn]] 03:40, 12 April 2006 (EDT)

:To add to that, I just tried "forcing" the CS to add the bound enchantment effects to a test ring. It doesn't work, at all. Something is clearly preventing the bound item enchantment from working but I have no idea what. I also picked through the XML files to see if there was some kind of list of effects or something, no luck. Why did they have to screw with enchanting? Nothing wrong with having a bound item enchantments and cutting out the cast on-target enchantments seriously weakens mages (I really miss my dire fireball rings). I guess I can script something with on equip triggers but this is still driving me nuts. The new spell casting method is a major improvement but the enchanting and spell making systems are a major step backwards. For that matter, what happened to making scrolls? I remember seeing a preview mention something about a rune based scroll writing minigame or some such, what happened to that? And enchanting arrows, why can't we enchant them? And only one constant effect per item, why? Why can we not change this stuff via the CS (without using scripts), why?!? This is the kind of stuff that just pisses me off. [[User:MegaBurn|MegaBurn]] 05:17, 12 April 2006 (EDT)

:To add to that, I just tried "forcing" the CS to add the bound enchantment effects to a test ring. It doesn't work, at all. Something is clearly preventing the bound item enchantment from working but I have no idea what. I also picked through the XML files to see if there was some kind of list of effects or something, no luck. Why did they have to screw with enchanting? Nothing wrong with having a bound item enchantments and cutting out the cast on-target enchantments seriously weakens mages (I really miss my dire fireball rings). I guess I can script something with on equip triggers but this is still driving me nuts. The new spell casting method is a major improvement but the enchanting and spell making systems are a major step backwards. For that matter, what happened to making scrolls? I remember seeing a preview mention something about a rune based scroll writing minigame or some such, what happened to that? And enchanting arrows, why can't we enchant them? And only one constant effect per item, why? Why can we not change this stuff via the CS (without using scripts), why?!? This is the kind of stuff that just pisses me off. [[User:MegaBurn|MegaBurn]] 05:17, 12 April 2006 (EDT)