If I'd gone into third person, my archery would have been even worse! If I make another video for the stances soon, it'll be third-person and probably melee, just for you. =)

spectral hound 1st person camera seems to work now if i zoom all the way to front with mouse-wheel. if i zoom the camera back, it moves below the hound and then i only see its front legs and buggy ground graphics.

waiting on v4 to try this, the arrow knockback would be so helpful to my current breton archer.

Yeah... given the lacklustre response I thought you might be wavering a little. For what it's worth I think this mod is one of the few spell mods that has really started aiming for sophistication. Most mods in general still seem to be adding rehashed spells, etc to vendors...this is much better. It helps make Skyrim a place to explore and grow in. Mods that don't follow your approach tend to detract from the adventure. After all, there's much less incentive to pay attention to the world when all the coolest gear/spells are only added to vendor and crafting lists.

Oh and I really like it that you provide options for different play styles, rather than just redoing the options given by Beth.

My two cents anyway.

Oh, and I like the music in your stance video.

I don't think I have that issue, but I'll double-check after my shower. Just had my morning run.


Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it, and I hope I can keep making this mod as good or better than your expectations. Now that I've got stance 1 working, I expect the other six will take less time since they're following a similar format (but with different effects - fire's the only one with KB, etc.)

The shapeshifting spell's been around for a few weeks, but I've now added a demo video. This concludes my time screwing around with Adobe for a few days - back to the Creation Kit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjsfPnri_qY

This is how things SHOULD look. I don't suppose you're trying to zoom out any further than that?

Switching stances resets your charges to zero. They have a maximum of six points. Meditating won't increase charges outside of combat. Charges fade after 60 seconds of not being gained or lost. You will glow blue when you have 0-2 charges, golden at 3-5, and with the stance element at 6.

UI does not pop up a verbal update except when meditating, losing the stance, or hitting max.

Structure:
Meditation: Increases charge by one, brief restrains, has additional benefit.
Unleash: Press stance while with a full charge. Only usable at six charge.
Power and Bow Attack: Fire Main Power.
Bow Bash + Melee Attack: Adds one.
Spell: Effect on cast.
Passive: Passive perk benefit in this stance.

[Destruction]

Pyroclasmic Might:
Meditation: Recovers 10% Magicka.
Unleash - Prominence: Unleash a 20 ft. AoE knockback.
Main Power: Knocks back the target and deals extra damage.
OnSpellCast: Add two charge.
Passive: Fire burns ten times longer.
Book: The Tome of Pyroclasm.

Glacial Serenity:
Meditation: If you're attacked during the meditation, flash-paralyze nearby opponents.
Unleash - Shatter: Slowed enemies become 25% more vulnerable to frost damage.
Main Power: Disarms and slows.
OnSpellCast: Add two charge.
Passive: Slowing effects last three times as long.
Book: The Tome of Glaciers.

Thundering Speed:
Meditation: Places a shock rune at your feet.
Unleash - Blitz: Drains magicka from all nearby enemies and bolts forward.
Main Power: Briefly creates slow time on impact.
OnSpellCast: Add two charge.
Passive: Shock spells deal 50% more damage.
Book: The Tome of Thunder.

[Restoration]

Radiant Flash:
Meditation: You recover 10% health and stamina.
Unleash - Miracle: You and nearby allies recover 55% Health immediately. Halves health of all turned undead nearby.
Main Power: Turns undead, staggers living targets.
OnSpellCast: Add two charge.
Passive: Ward spells cost 50% less magicka and now reflect spells.
Book: The Tome of Radiance.

[Alteration]

Clarity Wave:
Meditation: Recover 20% Magicka.
Unleash - Transcendence: Become a ghost immune to all damage for five seconds.
Main Power: Hits the target with a gravity bomb, making them pull in nearby actors. Costs four.
OnSpellCast: Add two charge.
Passive: Whenever hit, refresh duration of existing Mage Armor spells.
Solitude Lighthouse
Book: The Tome of Clarity.

[Illusion]

Chaos Omen:
Meditation: Fills charges, but restrains you for several seconds. Switching into this stance gives you a full bar, but also has the same effect.
Unleash - Madness: All nearby creatures under a magic influence spontaneously go mad with rage, run in fear, or are paralyzed with doubt, without being considered hostile.
Main Power: Immediately casts 6s muffle and invisibility. Creature is now considered to be under your influence. Costs four.
Passive: 10% chance to ignore damage from a melee hit. (11 to 20%, to stack with Wind Walker)
OnSpellCast: Regain two charges.
Lake Geir/Geirmunds Hall
Book: The Tome of Chaos.

[Conjuration]

Shadow Self:
Meditation: Does not increase charges. Sets teleport point.
Unleash - Kismet: Teleports you to where you last meditated, as long as your charges haven't faded. If they have, sets teleport point.
Passive: Increases bound weapon damage based on remaining magicka. Doubles duration of conjured creatures.
OnSpellCast: Regain four charges.
Ritual Stone
Book: The Tome of Shadow.

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Current design plan for stances in v4.

Sorry this version's taking me so long, it's a lot to do.

ok, finally trying this on a new mage char, but a problem i think. i picked up the book in colette's room and read the note/letter in the temple in whiterun.. but gained no spells. do you need a certian level in the schools to learn them?

Yes, they have skill requirement; though, it should tell you.

That specific spell does not have such a requirement. However, those spells show up in the Powers List rather than the School-segregated spell list. Nothing I could do about that for the Voice key spells.

hmmm, i cant learn any of your spells i've come across. i can learn any vanilla or Apocalypse spell just fine tho. are there any known mod conflicts? i have this as the last mod loaded before the bashed patch and ASIS.

I am not aware of any conflicts. Which ones have you come across?

well, none specificlly, but maybe something i have is conflicting since i cant learn the spells. i have the one from colette's room in my inventory, i've read it several times, dropped it and tried picking ti back up and still havent learned anything

edit; even used the debugger.. and it doesnt work, so something is screwing with me.

/me rubs at forehead.

I'm REALLY sorry. Can you post your mod list?

I don't even know where to start trying to figure out the conflict. @_@

well, maybe it's not a mod conflict. just put in a clean data folder, and a clean save. puy in just this mod and used the debugger.. still nothing.

...Is the ColettesRevenge.bsa in the folder? I don't mean to belittle you, but that's all that I can think of; those are very uncomplicated scripts. o.o;

yea, i think i found hte problem. i havent updated to the 1.6 patch. using version 3.0 worked.

Oh. Oh thank God. I had the biggest flipping heart attack, you don't even know. @_@

I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I didn't expect that to happen, since I'm not using anything from 1.6; I didn't have Update.esm as a master until my own internal editing today.

If the CK's updated, the CK also has an updated compiler. I found that out myself a couple days ago. So if you've compiled anything with the 1.6.89 CK, it'll require 1.6 to run the scripts.

Using anything earlier will note a script version, saying the script is too new and will be skipped in the papyrus logs. Hope that clarifies things for ya!

Thanks for letting me know.

By the way, I'm about a third done with v4 technically, but if I can tackle this one thing, I should be more like two-thirds done with regard to the things which I have never done before.

ok, updated, and is running fine now.

spectral hound is nice, well done on the speed effect.. altho how do ya ge tout of it early? and before ya have a shout?

noble sacrafice is nice, nice health buff.. does it change based on the soul gem used? ar ethere version for magic and stamina too?

inner flash.. only spell i've had an issue with so far. for it's cost, it just doesnt seem to heal for much. my resto skill is still kind alow, so it will improve i supose.

since it was a new char, those ar ethe only spells i found i could use yet.

small suggestion: since most do haev a skill level requirement, you might wanna add that to the main page here or on the nexus, or atleast in the readme.

Spectral Hound: The shouting should work even when you don't technically have a shout. I didn't have a more roleplay-y way to say "Press Shout Button!"
Noble Sacrifice: It improves with higher level soul gems, yep!
Inner Flash: It's definitely weak at low levels, and is one of the things getting a hard revamp with the stances update.

Thanks for the feedback, and I will do that when I redo the page for v4.

COMPLETE:


[Destruction]

Pyroclasmic Might:
Meditation: Recovers 20% Magicka.
Unleash - Prominence: Unleash a 20 ft. AoE knockback.
Main Power: Knocks back the target and deals extra damage.
OnSpellCast: Add two charge.
Passive: Fire burns ten times longer.
Book: The Tome of Pyroclasm.

Glacial Serenity:
Meditation: Immune to damage and have 100% Magicka absorb for 1s. 6s CD on the meditation.
Unleash - Frigid: Nearby creatures are disarmed and 25% more vulnerable to frost damage.
Main Power: Slows.
OnSpellCast: Add two charge.
Passive: Slowing effects last four times as long.
Book: The Tome of Glaciers.

Thundering Speed:
Meditation: Places a nest of lightning at your feet. This spark staggers anyone who walks into it and has a 33% chance to kill anyone below 30% health.
Unleash - Blitz: Steals magicka from all nearby creatures.
Main Power: Slows time by 40% for 6 seconds.
OnSpellCast: Add two charge.
Passive: Shock spells deal 33% more damage.
Book: The Tome of Thunder.

It's downhill from here, folks. The next four are all using techniques I've done before and I've got a consistent file structure set-up now.

Whoo!!
Also, do you think you'll need people to test it before release?

Oh, by the way, I can't seem to find inner flash in kynareth temple. I tried with a new game and I still could not find it. Is it just me or I just fail to locate the note. Dx

That one seems to be inconsistent in appearance, so it's going away in the next patch.

I have five of seven done, so there's a good chance it'll go live tomorrow. Spell Mods aren't like quest mods and if they need to be live-edited, it's not so detrimental - I prefer to release and then have people point out where I messed up. Thanks, though.