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Mod Name: Glowing Fractured Soulgems
Version: v1.1
Author: LilacLight
Website: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/49962

Changelog at bottom.
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Description:
Glowing Fractured Soulgems


Isn't it kind odd that in vanilla, petty soulgems glow all the time, yet the other soulgems don't glow at all even when filled?

Then there is the fact that 4 out of the 6 soulgems have the same texture and shape!

Glowing Fractured Soulgems changes this, now filled soulgems will glow along the crystaline fractures that are present in the original texture, also empty soulgems will also have a very weak glow. 'Cuz Magic!

Each soulgem now has it's own coloured texture, instead of sharing one with the rest.

Currently, there are 2 different "inspired" recolours, Morrowind and Skyrim, there is also an upscaled vanilla texture, as well as the vanilla glowmap, for those that may prefer the original look.

The meshes for the soulgems have been resized so that the different soulgems actually look slightly different, instead of them being the same size.

Petty soulgems are now slightly smaller and narrower,
Lesser soulgems are now slightly smaller,
Common soulgems now use a bigger version of the Petty soulgem mesh, but are also narrower to to match,
Greater soulgems have not changed in size,
Grand soulgems are now bigger, because they are supposed to be Grand!
Black soulgems are now bigger, the same size as Grand soulgems.


A patch for Soulgem Magic in the Update section of the downloads.

Changes made by the UOP to Falcar's Black Soulgem were carried forward.


Other soulgem related recommendations:
Soulgem Magic, lets put the souls in the right size soulgems! (Note: Personally, I use "Soulgem mode 0", soul size must match soulgem size).

Empty all White Soulgems, sometimes you will find a soulgem with an incorrect sized soul in it, now you will be able to empty that gem so that it can be filled properly! (Note: Depending if you have any mods that change "Calindil" (Market Quarter, Imperial city), you may not be able to buy the spell from him).

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Credits and Inspiration:
Kartoffels for Oblivion Upscaled Textures, for the Upscaled Textures
Quazz for Improved Soulgems, inspiration for the Morrowind colours
Gamwich and Saerileth for Rustic Soulgems, inspiration for the Skyrim colours
waifu2x for the ability to further Upscale the images
UOP Team for Unofficial Oblivion Patch
xEdit Team for xEdit
NifSkope team for NifSkope
Bethesda
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Changelog:

v1.2 - 20/Mar/2020:

Added a Pulsing effect to the Meshes, so that the glow cycles over a 5 second period.

Empty Soulgems have a very weak pulse (values from 0.10 to 0.15), except for the Empty Black Soulgem (from 0.10 to 0.25), Full Soulgems have a brighter pulse (from 0.35 to 1.00).

Added Pulshing Meshes to Resource archive.

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v1.1 - 17/Mar/2020:

Added Bash tag "{{BASH:Graphics}}" to esp.

Renamed Meshes to match Texture filenames (from "soulgem1F.nif" to "soulgem_1F.nif" ), because it annoyied me >_<.

Added the Meshes to the Resource archive, because I forgot the first time.

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v1.0 - 14/Mar/2020:

Initial Release.

Each type of soulgem has it's own diffuse texture instead of a shared texture (as was the case with the Lesser, Common, Greater and Grand soulgems), however they all share the same Normal and Glow maps, so that the total amount of textures is the same as vanilla (8 texture files).

Each type of soulgem now has it's own indiviual mesh as they have different Emissive (Glow) values for the Empty and Full soulgems, (For the Empty soulgems the values are set at 0.1, except for the Black soulgem which is set at 0.15 due to the darker texture. For the Filled soulgems the vaules are set at 1.0).

Petty Soulgem: Overall scale reduced by 15% (to 0.85), X axis reduced by an additional 15%.
Lesser Soulgem: Overall scale reduced by 20% (to 0.80).
Common Soulgem: Changed to use the original Petty Soulgem mesh, Overall scale increased by 15% (to 1.15), X axis reduced by 15%.
Greater Soulgem: No changes to size.
Grand Soulgem: Overall scale increased by 20% (to 1.20).
Black Soulgem: Overall scale increased by 20% (to 1.20).

Changes made by the UOP to Falcar's Black Soulgem were carried forward.

Added a patch between Soulgem Magic and Glowing Fractured Soulgems.

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