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About this mod
This mod makes Varla Stones a powerful soul gem you can use for enchanting. My new Enchanting Skill 2x mod may be preferable to this one.
- Permissions and credits
Name: Puff's Enchanting with Varla Stones
Version: 1.0
Date: 1/7/2009
Category: Gameplay Effects and Changes
Author(s): Puff
Description
===========
This mod makes Varla Stones a powerful soul gem you can use for enchanting while retaining all of the original attributes of ordinary Varla Stones.
==NOTE==
For finding a use for varla and welkynd stones, my new upload, Enchanting Skill 2x, is a much better mod. It allows you to enchant on your own without an enchanting altar, and gives you the ability to combine up to 4 custom enchantments, increase the maximum charges on weapons, and transfer enchantments from one item to another. The more powerful abilities require varla and welkynd stones to use.
Link: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27546
Details
=======
When you load up this mod, you will find that all of your Varla Stones will have a soul level of "Grand". Open up the enchant menu by visiting an enchant station or typing "showenchant" in the console and you will be able to select the Varla Stone as a soul gem with 4 times the soul level of Grand soul gems. All of these Varla Stones can still be used to recharge all of your magic items in your inventory like normal.
This mod works by detecting when an ordinary Varla Stone is in your inventory and replacing it with a soul gem named Varla Stone. When the Varla soul gem is equiped, it temporarily adds a normal varla stone to the player's inventory and equips it for the recharge effect. The mod also detects when you are in the enchant menu and when you have a varla stone selected as your soul gem and temporarily alters the soul value for grand soul gems to 6400 and temporarily sets the maximum magicka cost for enchantment to your base magicka value allowing you to make higher cost enchantments.
Install
=======
1. Extract the files to a temporary location.
2. Copy files to (install folder)\Oblivion\Data\
3. Start Oblivion Launcher, click 'Data Files', place a checkmark beside the VarlaEnchanting.esp file.
Uninstall
=========
1. Start Oblivion Launcher, click Data Files, uncheck the VarlaEnchanting.esp file(s).
2. Delete the IdleTraining.esp.
Incompatibility
===============
This mod requires OBSE v16 or greater.
The mod does not alter any of the original game content, so it should be compatible with anything else out there, including mods that change enchanting costs etc. But I won't make any promises. If you find an incompatibility please let me know and I'll list it here.
Known Issues or Bugs
====================
When you equip a Varla Soul gem, you may see the the recharge menu pop up like happens for all soul gems, and then all your menus will close completely and you'll return to Game Mode. This happens because there's no simple way of preventing a menu from opening or to close just a single menu. The only workaround was to use the OBSE CloseAllMenus function. Hopefully later versions of OBSE will make this easier. In any case this is just a "visual" glitch and does not affect gameplay or the functionality of the mod in any way.
Any stolen Varla Stones will be effectively "laundered" since I haven't implemented any method to detect if an item is stolen or not - I'm not even sure yet if it can be done. If it can, I'll see about updating it in a later release.
History
=======
v1.0 First release
Contact
=======
Pufthemajicdragon on TESNexus and Puf_the_majic_dragon on BethSoft's forums.
Credits
=======
Me for thinking it up and doing the work.
All of the wonderful contributors to the CS Wiki!!!!!!!
And especially to shadeMe on the Bethesda forums for helping me get the scripting to work :)
Thanks to Bethesda for creating Oblivion.
Thanks to TESNexus.com for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players.
Thanks to LHammonds for the Readme Generator this file was based on.
Thanks to God for creating us all.
Tools Used
==========
TES4Gecko - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8665
TESsnip - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2114
TES Construction Set - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11367
Readme Generator - http://lhammonds.game-host.org/obmm/tools_readme_generator1.asp
Licensing/Legal
===============
It's not like I could stop you so you can do whatever you want with this mod; just don't complain to me if it doesn't work or your PC blows up.
Version: 1.0
Date: 1/7/2009
Category: Gameplay Effects and Changes
Author(s): Puff
Description
===========
This mod makes Varla Stones a powerful soul gem you can use for enchanting while retaining all of the original attributes of ordinary Varla Stones.
==NOTE==
For finding a use for varla and welkynd stones, my new upload, Enchanting Skill 2x, is a much better mod. It allows you to enchant on your own without an enchanting altar, and gives you the ability to combine up to 4 custom enchantments, increase the maximum charges on weapons, and transfer enchantments from one item to another. The more powerful abilities require varla and welkynd stones to use.
Link: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27546
Details
=======
When you load up this mod, you will find that all of your Varla Stones will have a soul level of "Grand". Open up the enchant menu by visiting an enchant station or typing "showenchant" in the console and you will be able to select the Varla Stone as a soul gem with 4 times the soul level of Grand soul gems. All of these Varla Stones can still be used to recharge all of your magic items in your inventory like normal.
This mod works by detecting when an ordinary Varla Stone is in your inventory and replacing it with a soul gem named Varla Stone. When the Varla soul gem is equiped, it temporarily adds a normal varla stone to the player's inventory and equips it for the recharge effect. The mod also detects when you are in the enchant menu and when you have a varla stone selected as your soul gem and temporarily alters the soul value for grand soul gems to 6400 and temporarily sets the maximum magicka cost for enchantment to your base magicka value allowing you to make higher cost enchantments.
Install
=======
1. Extract the files to a temporary location.
2. Copy files to (install folder)\Oblivion\Data\
3. Start Oblivion Launcher, click 'Data Files', place a checkmark beside the VarlaEnchanting.esp file.
Uninstall
=========
1. Start Oblivion Launcher, click Data Files, uncheck the VarlaEnchanting.esp file(s).
2. Delete the IdleTraining.esp.
Incompatibility
===============
This mod requires OBSE v16 or greater.
The mod does not alter any of the original game content, so it should be compatible with anything else out there, including mods that change enchanting costs etc. But I won't make any promises. If you find an incompatibility please let me know and I'll list it here.
Known Issues or Bugs
====================
When you equip a Varla Soul gem, you may see the the recharge menu pop up like happens for all soul gems, and then all your menus will close completely and you'll return to Game Mode. This happens because there's no simple way of preventing a menu from opening or to close just a single menu. The only workaround was to use the OBSE CloseAllMenus function. Hopefully later versions of OBSE will make this easier. In any case this is just a "visual" glitch and does not affect gameplay or the functionality of the mod in any way.
Any stolen Varla Stones will be effectively "laundered" since I haven't implemented any method to detect if an item is stolen or not - I'm not even sure yet if it can be done. If it can, I'll see about updating it in a later release.
History
=======
v1.0 First release
Contact
=======
Pufthemajicdragon on TESNexus and Puf_the_majic_dragon on BethSoft's forums.
Credits
=======
Me for thinking it up and doing the work.
All of the wonderful contributors to the CS Wiki!!!!!!!
And especially to shadeMe on the Bethesda forums for helping me get the scripting to work :)
Thanks to Bethesda for creating Oblivion.
Thanks to TESNexus.com for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players.
Thanks to LHammonds for the Readme Generator this file was based on.
Thanks to God for creating us all.
Tools Used
==========
TES4Gecko - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8665
TESsnip - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2114
TES Construction Set - http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11367
Readme Generator - http://lhammonds.game-host.org/obmm/tools_readme_generator1.asp
Licensing/Legal
===============
It's not like I could stop you so you can do whatever you want with this mod; just don't complain to me if it doesn't work or your PC blows up.