This VFX pack modifies certain spells within the game, allowing them to emit actual light as opposed to a non-light emitting glow effect. I always found it odd that several types of spells that you would think would emit light (like a fireball spell, or lightning, or magic missle, etc) do not. This VFX pack is my attempt to correct that, and in a manner that has the least performance impact, while preserving a realistic look to suit the spell effect modified.
Version History:
1.0 - initial release, added lights to most fire-based spells.
1.01 - added certain acid and lightning-based spells; minor tweaks.
1.02 - added ice and holy-based spells; added light effects to magic weapons that use an elemental visual effect (ice/fire/acid/lightning/holy).
1.03 - added magic missile-types, plus a few other various spells, and all Evocation-based spells. Added Mordenkainen's Sword. Added lighting effects to Turning Undead.
1.04 - the 'Warlock Patch' - added all Eldritch-based spells/invocations. Fixed minor positional error with light emitters on cone-based spells.
1.05 - added all Abjuration/Conjuration/Cures/Divination/Enchantment/Evil-based spells. Modified/tweaked a few stand-alone spells. Added ERF and HAK versions of this vfx pack.
1.06 - added all Illusion/Inflict/Necromancy/Transmutation-based spells. Added light emitter to negative weapon effects. Added light emitter to the spell Summon Creature (all levels).
1.07 - added light emitters to various creature appearance/attack effects. Added support for several more spells.
1.08 - added shadow-casting properties to 99% of light emitters (see readme for details). Added support for two more spells. Fixed numerous positional emitter errors.
1.09 - fixed positional errors on several spells, other minor fixes.
1.09a - the 'Cone of Cold' patch. This spell now acts as it should without 'breaking' other effects.
1.09b - adds a visual effect to your weapon when casting 'Magic Weapon' and 'Greater Magic Weapon' spells.
1.10 - numerous fixes/changes to spells and invocations. See the included readme for the entire list of changes.
See the readme file or the discussion thread here for complete details and install instructions.
This is a simple merge of Kaedrin's PrC pack version of the spell 'Cone of Cold' and the light emitter I created for the same spell. Be sure to follow the directions in the included readme.txt file.
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