This mod changes the visual and sound effects of Cloak of Displacement, Cloak of Mirroring, Cloak of Reflection, Claw of Kazgaroth and Shield of Balduran in Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal.
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Author's instructions
You can use these modifications in your mod, just add me to the credits please.
File credits
I wish to express my thanks to Lollorian for updating the mod with a WeiDU installer.
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Cloak of Displacement, Cloak of Mirroring, Cloak of Reflection, Claw of Kazgaroth and Shield of Balduran are all useful items that unfortunately come with very annoying visual and sound effects. In this mod I have included the Cloak of Displacement and the Claw of Kazgaroth with the Blur effect removed. The magical absorption globe for the Cloak of Mirroring and the disc glow for the Cloak of Reflection and the Shield of Balduran as well as all spells with the same effects have been made transparent making it easier to select or target characters. There is also a constant humming sound associated with the globe that I've removed completely. These things should be available with different flavors in other mods such as 1PP, so this mod is for people that like the original graphics. In BG2 this mod works best when the game is run with 3D acceleration in order to see the increased transparencies rather than darker colors since the game's engine uses darker shades of these graphics for transparency values.
After extracting the files to the BG1 or BG2 folder run Setup-BGx_CloakVisuals.exe to install.