A pack of bezier and lightning effects for use with NWNCX's beam expansion. Includes MDL and TGA files only.
You need to make your own entries in various 2da's to get these to work. See NWNCX documentation for help.
So far rays are included for divine, drain (negative necrotic), cold, acid, fire, lightning (3 colors), soul (positive necrotic), prismatic (3 varieties), arcane, and gem (3 colors).
For most beam types I have included a large and small variety of each.
Also included are a few pulse beams I am still working on which you can apply at the same time as any other beam, or use separately. This is a WIP.
Multiple pulse varieties are now available for each energy type.
A small and large beam of blackness is also included for combining with other beams. That beam does not show well by itself except outside in broad daylight. I suggest fiddling with the render order to tweak your darkening function.
If you have a beam request, simply point me to a picture of what you are looking for and I will try to duplicate it for you as best I can using that picture.
Feel free to use your imagination when using these beams. What I am doing is this:
*Small beam for lower level spells
*Large beam for higher level spells
*Apply pulses when using certain feats, metamagic, or special equipment (think diablo 3 runes).
*Apply multiple beams at once to mix colors (or use the darken beam to give a black border).
*Apply large beam to primary target and small beams to secondary targets when using certain feats.
I intend to eventually remove the source impact from these rays. I will then release a pack of source impact, target impact, and just rays, all of matching colors.
I also highly suggest dropping the casting graphics when firing these beams (in spells.2da). Its position seems off, and it usually interferes with the source impact graphics.
You might also like to add a lighting effect for certain beams. All effects except the darken beam are rendered using the lighten setting so they all appear bright, however, they do not light up an area without adding a light emitter.
I just overwrote the original file with my pack of more professional beams. If you already downloaded the initial pack and prefer any of those beams over these bezier ones, just let me know and I will add them back in. I personally think they were lesser quality. But they are not permanently deleted.
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