1st Person Candlelight Fix

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Thanks to DonProtein for the feature!

Details:

Basically the 3rd person view is brighter because of the magic sprite floating in front of the camera which adds more light. Meanwhile, the 1st person camera doesn't see this sprite because it is above you. So I altered the sprite's nif to be more forward so you can see it and the light it adds in first person. In addition, I decreased the distance the sprite can lag behind you, this fixes the problem when moving forward and it goes behind the camera, which decreases the brightness.

-This fix is especially helpful if you use a dark lighting mod or a dark ENB. Your results will vary based on the lighting range and intensity set for candlelight, which is not touched in this mod (there's already plenty of those to choose from on the nexus).

-Also Magelight uses this sprite too, so it technically affects it. But I've been playing around with it and haven't noticed a difference.

OPTIONAL FILE: If you find 1st person is still too dark, try the optional file instead which has more extreme values. I think ENBs with eye adjustment can cause this issue. I tweaked the file to these settings while using a combo of ELFX with Enhancer, NAT and PRT.

Compatibility:

This mod does not alter the brightness or radius of the light ranges, so it is completely compatible with any lighting mod or even a candlelight mod that changes those values!

Joy of Perspective can work if using the vanilla animations. I don't recommend using this with the 3rd person animations because they move the sprite around hectically while doing things like swinging a sword.

Enhanced Camera will likely work too if/when it is ported over. In old Skyrim, it seems to even make the sprite less intrusive so I'd recommend to try it out if you find it annoying.

Installation:

-Extract into Data folder and to uninstall find the file lightspellactorfx.nif in Data/Meshes/Magic and delete it.

-If installing overwrites the file then I'd recommend to backup the file it is overwriting in case you don't like the changes...