For everything I've wanted to do, it has not worked out for one reason or another. Always some silly little mishap.
I tried replicating the Bat Effect from the VL(the one that teleports you). This was an impossible thing because collision boxes don't update with any of the translates, so you end up zapping through walls, floors, etc. Yet somehow the Dev team got it to work for themselves.
I scrapped my last mod because a bug with the hostile flag, and no matter how many checks I put in place, repeated casts will break the effect. There was supposed to be a secondary effect, one that reduces the speed of actors in the same manner as all the frost spells. Simple enough right? Wrong. SpeedMult doesn't appear to work on custom magic effects.
I've tried controlling the weather, that doesn't work out either. Once again though it works as intended with a Dev implemented feature. I don't get it.
There are a whole lot of things I've been wanting to do but the little crap with the functions prevent this.
There is only one mod I've started on where everything works as it should. And I lost my motivation to continue on it.
At least I got one mod right, even though it had to have someone's resource.
This headache is not worth it.