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About this mod
Balances color and brightness levels for the Candlelight and Magelight spells, and increases the Magelight limit to 3.
Port of LE version of Improved Light Spells mod.
- Permissions and credits
This mod balances the Candlelight and Magelight spells' emitted light. Every tweak was carefully tweaked and tested many times to achieve
optimum immersion and balance.
There are similar spell light mods like this already available, but more discerning users like myself
found them too unbalanced, unimmersive, and/or overcomplicated. This mod
simply and elegantly fixes the light spells, adjusting them to how they
should have always been.
This does NOT edit the duration, magicka cost, or textures of the Candlelight and Magelight spells.
FEATURES
-Less blue color. The light is desaturated, so everything it illuminates
isn't tinted so strongly. Now illuminated objects will be closer to
their true colors.
-Slightly less intense illumination. Now the light won't ramp gamma and contrast levels to such ridiculous levels, so it
won't be so blindingly bright if you look at anything very bright/close.
This also has the added benefit of reducing the contrast between
darkness and the spells' light, meaning that it's easier to see outside
the circle of illumination.
-Slightly increased radius. It's a balanced and logical distance, yet the area is wide enough that the
light doesn't feel restrictive and nearly useless.
-Equipped light spells in the hand emit more light, illuminating the character.
-Magelight can now be cast with a limit of 3 NPC-unbound light sources.
ISSUES
This mod is probably bug-free, since it's very small and only edits vanilla values*.
However, mods that edit the Candlelight and Magelight spell data will probably conflict.
*Edit: it seems this mod conflicts with some dynamic light sources mods and sometimes cuases CTD. If you see some strange lighting or shadow behaviour and then crash - it's probably this mod.
UNINSTALLATION
Delete "ImprovedLightSpells.esp" in "\Skyrim\Data\". There are no scripts or
non-vanilla additions/changes, so it won't cause any problems if you
remove it mid-save.
optimum immersion and balance.
There are similar spell light mods like this already available, but more discerning users like myself
found them too unbalanced, unimmersive, and/or overcomplicated. This mod
simply and elegantly fixes the light spells, adjusting them to how they
should have always been.
This does NOT edit the duration, magicka cost, or textures of the Candlelight and Magelight spells.
FEATURES
-Less blue color. The light is desaturated, so everything it illuminates
isn't tinted so strongly. Now illuminated objects will be closer to
their true colors.
-Slightly less intense illumination. Now the light won't ramp gamma and contrast levels to such ridiculous levels, so it
won't be so blindingly bright if you look at anything very bright/close.
This also has the added benefit of reducing the contrast between
darkness and the spells' light, meaning that it's easier to see outside
the circle of illumination.
-Slightly increased radius. It's a balanced and logical distance, yet the area is wide enough that the
light doesn't feel restrictive and nearly useless.
-Equipped light spells in the hand emit more light, illuminating the character.
-Magelight can now be cast with a limit of 3 NPC-unbound light sources.
ISSUES
This mod is probably bug-free, since it's very small and only edits vanilla values*.
However, mods that edit the Candlelight and Magelight spell data will probably conflict.
*Edit: it seems this mod conflicts with some dynamic light sources mods and sometimes cuases CTD. If you see some strange lighting or shadow behaviour and then crash - it's probably this mod.
UNINSTALLATION
Delete "ImprovedLightSpells.esp" in "\Skyrim\Data\". There are no scripts or
non-vanilla additions/changes, so it won't cause any problems if you
remove it mid-save.