[BETA] Spellbook Menu : IV

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:55 am

Spellbook Menu
Version: 0.2

DESCRIPTION

Spellbook Menu is a mod that offers an organized spellbook to the player. The spellbook is a messagebox, see http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii91/qazaaq/qazSpellbook01.jpg. Spells are separated by school and there's a custom list that can store any combination of spells. Unlike the screenshot, the magicka cost of spells is shown behind the name.

It's based on http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?s=&showtopic=994157&view=findpost&p=14387984. I'm posting this here because I'm looking for feedback and idea's. So suggest away.

SCREENSHOTS

note: these screenshots are from version 0.1

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii91/qazaaq/qazSpellbook01.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii91/qazaaq/qazSpellbook02.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii91/qazaaq/qazSpellbook03.jpg

DOWNLOAD

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=24724
Note: requires OBSE v17 beta 2, http://obse.silverlock.org/.

POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL FEATURES

Hotkey navigation of the menu. Need some ideas about which keys to use.
Spell should be sorted by... use, name, cost?
Not listing empty slots and empty pages.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:20 pm

Very cool!

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:36 pm

Custom spell list, you say?
/me downloads :3

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:39 pm

Nice. I hate trying to find a spell in the vanilla menus.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:02 pm

Does this remove the spell book from the standard inventory? Or is this "in addition to"? Can you delete spells from the spell book?

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:18 pm

It's an addition, activated with a separate hotkey (configurable and asked for when first launched).

You can't delete spells (yet), but if you delete spells from the regular spellbook they will be deleted from this spellbook as well. You can add and delete spells from the custom list.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:21 pm

Cool my lvl 30 mage will like this..Thank you..

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:05 am

Looks great, especially at later levels when it's almost impossible to find that one spell you're looking for.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:03 pm

Bookmark'd

Going to try this out when my computer is working again!

Thanks for making it possible!

» Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:10 am

Looks nice :thumbsup: Will give it a try.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:59 am

Little bug report: When I go to set a hotkey, it always tells me I pressed k. I didn't press k

Works absolutely fine apart from that, however

» Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:04 am

Thanks for sharing and the linky, will add this to the list ! ! ! !

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 1:38 pm

Cool idea. Definitely going to check this out.

» Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:17 am

Nice, will keep an eye on this one. Thanks for sharing.

Maybe just a little more info with the spell like cost perhaps? No biggie tho

-KWM

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:51 pm

Instant download!!!!

LOL, I was freaking because I was browsing tesnexus for new mods and saw someone took my idea and we had talked about it a bit on MSN, lol. Glad you got it working, I'll try it out

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:39 pm

Thanks for the suggestions.

Updated to version 0.2, here's the changelog:

Version 0.2 (30.05.2009)
- ADDED the magicka cost of spells behind the name.
- ADDED automatic update functionality, new spells are added to the spellbook automatically if the number of spells has changed since the last time the spellbook was opened.
- FIXED hotkey configuration, which incorrectly reported that "K" had been chosen as the key to open the spellbook.

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=24724 of course.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:49 am

Started using this as my character (that was not supposed to be a wizkid) gotten a gazillion spells to handle.

I wouldn't mind seeing the effects too.

Keys for hotkeying different spell categories - well, I think you should just make it user choosable.

Different sorting at a punch of a button, or menu button - good too.

Option for showing more spells at a time.

Cheers!

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:39 pm

I think I love you! This is brilliant.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:39 pm

Great mod. I like playing mages a lot, so this is indispensable.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:06 pm

An excellent idea. I look forward to seeing what you further make of this.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:33 am

Hmm...I may try this at one point. I'll bookmark the TESnexus page for later.

BTW, I assume when that menu is open the game is actually paused right? Reminds me of Daggerfall...

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:53 pm

It behaves just like any other messagebox behaves, so yes, the game is paused.