Pat's Miles Lightning Overhaul

Description

Lightning Overhaul is a WIP modular customization mod for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. It allows players to independently change the colors of Miles Morales’ orange and blue Venom lightning, as well as the Venom glow/veins on his body. The mod currently focuses exclusively on Miles. It is not intended to recolor other sources of electricity such as Peter’s Iron Arms, enemy tasers, electrical boxes and such.

Although the current version has undergone extensive testing, some attacks, gameplay effects, or cutscene lightning may display incorrect colors or remain unchanged.

Main features

• []Independent color selection for Miles’ orange Venom lightning.[/]

  []Independent color selection for Miles’ blue Venom lightning.[/]

  []Body glow selection: one color for Miles’ whole body, or a pair of colors (one for the orange abilities and one for the blue abilities).[/]

  []7 predefined colors.[/]

  []A swap option: Vanilla Blue in the orange selector and Vanilla Orange in the blue selector, so the two abilities can trade colors.[/]

  []A Keep Original (No Changes) option for every selector.[/]

  []Coverage for Miles’ Venom abilities, finishers, parries, stealth takedowns, the Venom status left on enemies, the pause menu ability previews, the boss fight cutscenes, and the story cutscenes where Miles uses his Venom lightning.[/]

  []Private asset separation designed to prevent Miles’ selected colors from affecting Peter, enemies, and other electricity in the game.[/]

Extras (optional)

• []Lightning intensity: "Double" plays the lightning of Miles’ Venom abilities twice, for denser and brighter bolts. The Venom status left on enemies and the lightning in cutscenes keep their normal amount. It may cost some performance in heavy fights.[/]

  []Sandman Patch: "On" (default) makes the explosion Miles sets off inside the giant Sandman, its sparks and the electric hole it leaves follow your selected lightning colors. "Off" keeps them as in the base game.[/]

Compatibility

This mod edits animation, ability, and enemy reaction files as well as visual assets. Mods that modify the same files (including custom combat or traversal movesets for Miles) may conflict, causing custom animations to revert to vanilla or some lightning to retain its default colors. Changing load order may not preserve both mods’ changes. When the blue lightning uses Pink, Red, Purple, Yellow, White or Vanilla Orange, the mod also edits the game’s glow shader, so mods that edit the same shader may conflict.

Pat’s Symbiote Overhaul edits three of the same enemy reaction files and four of the same cutscenes. If you use both mods, set "Pat’s Symbiote Overhaul" to "Installed (Hit VFX On)" in this mod’s options and place Lightning Overhaul below Pat’s Symbiote Overhaul in the load order. If the Symbiote Overhaul is not installed, or its Hit VFX option is Off, keep "Not installed".

Bug reports

Useful bug reports must identify the exact context in which the problem occurs.

For cutscene-related bugs, include:

• []The exact mission and cutscene.[/]

  []A detailed description of the moment.[/]

  []Which character owns or creates the affected lightning.[/]

  []The selected Orange lightning, Blue lightning, and Body glow colors, and the Lightning intensity and Sandman Patch options.[/]

  []Screenshots or video whenever possible.[/]

For gameplay-related bugs, include:

• []The exact attack, ability, finisher, takedown, or behavior performed.[/]

  []Which character performed it.[/]

  []The mission, encounter, or section of the game.[/]

  []Whether Miles was using an orange or a blue Venom ability.[/]

  []What color was selected and what appeared instead.[/]

  []The Lightning intensity and Sandman Patch options.[/]

  []Clear reproduction steps, if the issue can be repeated.[/]

Reports such as “some lightning is the wrong color” do not provide enough information to locate the affected asset. The more precise the report, the greater the chance that the issue can be reproduced and corrected.

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