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Replacer Visuals for Spell Effects

REPLACER VERSION : Mage armor buffs and cloak effects with different visuals. The actual spell effects are NOT changed, these changes are purely cosmetic. This is a replacer and will alter the visuals you and NPCs get when casting the vanilla spells, unlike "Alternate Visuals for Spell Effects," which adds different spells with the same effects, just different visuals.

Basically it comes down to this : if you want (most) NPCs to have the same visuals, use this one. If you want to be (mostly) special and have those visuals to yourself, get Alternate Visuals for Spell Effects.

Dragonhide - dragon soul absorption particle shader - while you've got the buff it looks like you're absorbing a dragon's soul.

Ebonyflesh, Ironflesh, Stoneflesh, Oakflesh - the visual effect for each makes it look like you're made of ebony, iron, stone, or wood, respectively.

Fire Cloak - actually makes it look like you're on fire with a flame skin that moves across your body. No more ring of fire like Johnny Cash. :(

Frost Cloak - Icy skin and a frosty mist coming off of you. No more personal blizzard around you.

Lightning Cloak - Bolts of lightning arc off you and electricity moves across your skin. No more force field thing around you.

I made these all as entirely new and alternate versions to the normal vanilla spells. The effects are the same as the vanilla spells so that if you have other mods that change those, this shouldn't mess anything up. All effect shaders are from vanilla so there's no extra files to place, just the .esp (though some animations were tweaked a little).

All I really did was change the visuals that the spells reference, so if you run into wacky problems, I definitely need to know. THUS - any mod that changes the spells in question will probably have some sort of conflict with this mod, depending on what's involved and how it was done.