QRVAE - Qwinn's Refined Visual Animated Enchants

With L3stat's kind permission, I'm happy to announce QRVAE, the second in the "Qwinn's Refined" series of mods (the first is "Qwinn's Refined Fallout New Vegas Redesigned 3").  The "Qwinn's Refined" series takes what I consider to be mostly excellent mods which otherwise have issues or bugs that rendered them IMO too problematic to install, and attempts to refine and improve them as I, and hopefully many others, see fit.

This mod does not contain any assets - it only replaces the main VAE plugin and provides patches that should only be used with that replacer plugin.  The main VAE mod V. 2 by L3stat MUST BE INSTALLED FIRST, then install this mod and allow it to overwrite.

Load order between the main VAE plugin and the mods being patched is not important.  Feel free to place the "VisualAnimatedEnchants.esp" plugin as high in your load order as you wish.

Here is the list of issues that this mod attempts to improve over base VAE:

1) The replacer VAE plugin included in this mod is an ESPFE (ESL flagged), meaning it will no longer take up one of your 255 plugin slots in your plugin order.  So are all of the provided patches.  You may replace the plugin from base VAE with this replacer ESPFE plugin with no negative effects on your save game (which is a bit surprising, actually).  (EDIT!  Damn, I knew this was too good to be true.  Please see the top sticky for an exception, though I believe most people will still be fine.)

2) The description page of base VAE says that the mechanics of how enchantments work are unchanged by the mod, but this is not true.  Enchantment descriptions were changed (sometimes inaccurately), enchantment costs and values were changed (sometimes drastically, particularly with Dawnbreaker), some vanilla enchantment effects were completely replaced by the visual effect (example:  Dawnguard Rune Axe), some artifacts had effects added (example:  Soul Trap added to Mehrune's Razor), and a host of other wild edits that have nothing to do with the visual effects that the mod advertises.  With QRVAE, the description is made accurate.  My replacer plugin preserves all enchantment mechanics and all records are consistent with vanilla/USSEP values.  All edits not strictly related to visual enchantment animations have been removed, with the single exception that the urn added to the Dragonsreach enchanter's room containing the custom sword with the custom poison enchantment will remain available.  If you don't care for the added enchantment (I have not evaluated whether the effect is balanced), simply ignore the urn.

3) To reduce conflicts, unnecessary and non functional modifications to records have been cleaned out. My version does not alter any vanilla weapon (WEAP) records at all, meaning no patch for WACCF or similar mods is necessary.

4) Fix to bug in Harkkon's sword visual effect