When you read an Elder Scroll, and IIRC an Apocrypha Black Book, an image overlay effect appears on the screen. How is this done? I've gone through a bunch of image space modifiers, quests, and other things to try and figure out how it works but I don't think I'm looking in the right place.

Thank you!

It should definitely be an image space modifier. Looking at the vanilla elder scroll http://i.imgbox.com/wBiCr5IE.png should be what you're after. There don't appear to be any magic effect properties and you said you looked through some quests already so it's unlikely there are other possible ISM's buried in one of those.

Perhaps it's FXReadScrollsImod? The name sounds promising

IIRC http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36849/? includes a pensieve that allows Arch-Mage to "scry" other parts of the college, it uses the same Elder Scroll effect.

Thank you! I missed that one somehow. It didn't contain anything but the regular ol' image space stuff, but that DID point me to the Elder Scroll object itself that uses it, which points to FXReadElderScrollEffect (Visual Effect) which points to an Art Object which points to the NIF that contains the animation! haha *whew*

I wouldn't have thought it would be an animation, how obscure!

Glad you figured it out

Examine the papyrus script and shell property set on the Dragon Elder Scroll itself, and on MQ206Script on quest MQ206.

Yeah it's just a flat mesh in the NIF with the texture on it, and an animation node to fade it in / out, which gets attached to the screen/camera as a visual effect. I don't know how to make NIF animations, so that's the next challenge (I want to fade a series of images in sequence.)