Pistol Shrimp

[JulianSull]

Think it's possible to create a creature like that? It would have to only used ranged attacks but I think that would be one hell of a boss if you made it bigger. Is there a way to have a creature unable to attack but fully able to use possibly a very fast moving magical attack. And on that note, is it possible to speed up the speed of a magical shot (like make a lightning bolt move faster in game)?

EDIT: I was looking up some strange creatures on Youtube and I had an idea. How does this sound:

A mod that adds strange creatures into the game but are extremely rare to find. Things like a one eyed dog or a giant slaughterfish or a bigfoot. Just strange creatures that the player can find by talking to people who are hunting them out. The goal is to discover every single creature in the game, each for a reward. Instead of having to kill them, the player would be given a "Moment Catcher Stone" which records each creature. If the beam hits an NPC or enemy, it will add them to the stone if they are a rare creature. It would take a lot of work, but I definitely think it would be kind of a cool idea.

Edited July 9, 2010 by JulianSull

[donnato]

Julian Sull you`ve got some interesting ideas. Dunno about the shrimp thing (cool vid by the way) but your other ideas sound very doable. The odd creatures could be fun.I remember the first time I saw I saw a Netch in Morrowind...didn`t know whether to run,spit,or dig a foxhole. ...soo cool.I`ll be interested to see what you come up with.

[The Vyper]

That would be interesting to see. Maybe add that Pistol Shrimp ability to a Land Dreugh. You could use a combination of PushActorAway and SetUnconscious to simulate NPCs being 'stunned' (although you'd have to do something else for the Player). As for changing the speed of a magical projectile, the only way I know to do that is to change it in the CS under Settings>Magic Effects. The only problem is, that would change the speed of all projectiles of that type. Hmm...Now that I think about it, I recall reading about an OBSE plugin for the CS that lets you add new magic effects to the game.