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Catir and SRW0 and Akira1364

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Catir

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Vibrant, high-definition lightning effect and gradient textures calibrated for visual fidelity and high performance.

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Thunderbolt HD Lightning

I've always been fond of Voltage by SRW0, a retexture of the vanilla visual effects for shock spells and enchantments, as well as weather lightning effects. However, the mod uses its own blue color that, while visually appealing, leads to a few subjective issues:

  • The blue coloring doesn't cover certain effects, leading to an odd mix of blue and purple VFX graphics that can look out of place in some situations.
  • When using certain mods that add particle lighting to spell effects, the color change isn't registered, and lighting for these spells will still be purple rather than blue.
  • The look is inconsistent with the purple lightning graphics in the spell list UI, and other canon depictions of shock spells.
Because of this, I've manually adjusted each separate effect texture from Voltage to a vibrant, visually pleasing purple. I've also included HD cleaned and upscaled versions of the vanilla lightning gradients from Glorious Gradients by Akira1364. Recolored spell impact decals for shock spells are included as well. All textures are a maximum of 2048 by 2048 pixels for balanced visuals and performance, and have been properly compressed and mipmapped.

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Install with your preferred mod manager.

Compatibility
This mod will only conflict with mods that modify the same textures. If two textures conflict, the one lower down in your mod order will "win", and those textures will be displayed in-game. This mod does not contain a plugin or any meshes. This mod is compatible with Lightning VFX Edit by kittytail.