Colorful Bound Weapons Add-Ons

This mod includes two add-ons.  They're completely independent and can be used together or separately.

Both add-ons require Colorful Bound Weapons.  I'm guessing they'll probably work with the ENB light version as well; let me know if that's not the case.

These add-ons were also designed alongside the meshes in my other mod Elegant Bound Weapons, which are used in the mod images because I'm lazy and didn't want to take two sets of screenshots.  The colors for the lights add-on and hit effects may go together better if you have it installed, but it's by no means a requirement.

Credit is owed to renzozuken1 and CyborgArmGun for their awesome work on the various versions of Colorful Bound Weapons; thanks!  :)

Lights Add-On

This plugin turns on a light of an appropriate color when you have a vanilla or colorful bound weapon equipped in your right hand (or both hands).  The lights are the same radius as the vanilla Candlelight spell.

Light effects are applied with conditions; no scripts are used.  This does mean that there can be up to a second of delay after equipping or unequipping a weapon before the light responds.

Bug Fixes SSE or another fix for the ability condition bug is a soft requirement.  You can use the mod without it, but after a period of time you may find that this mod's lights become unresponsive.  The only fix in such a case would be to remove and re-add the ability that controls the lights with the console, along the lines of:

help "BW Lights Wrapper Ability"

SPEL:  (xxxxx85e) 'BW Lights Wrapper Ability'

player.removespell xxxxx85e

player.addspell xxxxx85e

If you have another mod that adds lights when equipping bound weapons, one of the two will "win" and show up, but which one may be unpredictable.  I wouldn't expect any crashes or other functional issues.  For my mod Super Simple Spell Hand Lights, turning off the bound weapon lights in the Spell Hand Lights MCM will get them to work together consistently.

Mods which add other bound weapons will be compatible (although they will all use the same dark blue light as the vanilla bound weapons).

Alternate Effects Add-On

This plugin reworks the special enchantments on each flavor of the Colorful Bound Weapons with the goal of making them feel a bit more distinct and situational.

Base weapon damage has also been nerfed for all colorful bound weapons (relative to vanilla bound weapons) to compensate for the enchantments.  Scaling-wise, regular weapon damage will increase with your weapon skill and the Mystic Weapon perk, while enchantment effectiveness will increase with your Conjuration skill.  I balanced mostly against my own mod setup; let me know if anything is very unbalanced in yours!