MageVR

MuKen's VR Arcane Glyph Expansion Pausing the action and flipping through menus to select immersion-breaking spells? Now draw glyphs in the air!

MuKen’s VR Arcane Glyph Expansion

This is a combination mod and app that allows you to equip spells by drawing glyphs in the air. Please note that this is for immersion, not to make you more efficient when casting spells, the game does not pause while you draw, your effectiveness in combat depends on how quickly and accurately you can draw! Choose your difficulty accordingly :)

Disclaimer: I only own an Oculus, so I'm not sure if the control scheme will work on other devices; the plan is to release a version in the near future that allows for custom controls.

Acknowledgments

Rallyeator designed the glyph graphics for the handy tutorial below, and will help revamp the mod's overall aesthetic in an upcoming release!

Ben Otter, whose amazing OVRLay library makes overlay integration possible!

Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Lisa Anthony, and Jacob O. Wobbrock, whose work on the $P recognizer powers gesture recognition!

Install

This mod requires SKSE for VR!

Install the MageVR mod like any other Skyrim mod.

Unzip MageVR applications anywhere

Launch Steam VR

Run the MageVR application (you will see an empty window)

Run the SKSE loader to start Skyrim

Keep the Skyrim window on top (MageVR communicates by sending keystrokes)

enjoy your meal!

usage

Press and hold the left handle to enter Draw mode. Two flame cursors appear where you point your hands (point direction as if you were holding a wand and pointing it at a drawing tablet). You can now draw strokes by pressing the left and right triggers. When the left controller is released, one or both hands will equip spells as they were drawn. There are glyphs for basic Skyrim spells according to the grammar, making it easier to remember them:

These symbols combine to spell out the spell (ha!) as follows:

clairvoyance

courage courage

angry angry

calm drowsiness

fear fear

sullen, rejected

mad rage, boost

pull courage, boost

invisible sight, rejection, promotion

Calms drowsiness, improves

defeat, rise

Call for courage, improve

harmonious lethargy, enhanced

hysterical fear, ascension

chaotic rage, enhanced

candlelight, cloak

oakflesh armor

magelight sight, project

stone armor, boost

Detect the sight of life, life

Iron armor, enhanced

telepathic objects, items

transmutation object, reject

Water breathing object, expanded

Detect the sight of the undead, death

Ebony Armor, Empowerment

paralyzed, sleepy, empowered

Dragon Hide Armor, maxed out

Mass paralysis, maximization

Shujianjian

conjuring family life, conjuring

Improve zombie death, summon

Bind ax

summon fire, summon

Restore Death, Summon, Ascend

Soul trap life, rejection

Eliminate daedra rejection, oblivion

bow bow

summon frost, summon

death, summoning, ascension

command daedraoblivion, summon

summon drem oblivion, summon, ascend

summon storm lightning, summon

Fear of zombie death, summoning, maximization

expel daedra reject, forget, ascend

death slave death, slavery

Flame Thrall Fire, Enslavement

Frost Sara Ice, Enslaved

storm thunder and lightning, slavery

Heal life

Small Armor, Item

Quickly recover and improve your life

Healing Hands Life, Project

determined wardarmor, project, promotion

Become slightly rejected, die

Close Wounds Life, Lift Up

Greater armor, items, upgrades

Heal other lives, projects, upgrades

repel smaller rejection, death, expansion

Becoming immortal refuses, dies, ascends

protreject, death, cloak circle

grow bigger reject, die, ascend

Defeat the undead. Refuse, die, expand, and ascend.

Grand Healing Life, Cape

Incompleteness, death, the bane of maximization

Guardian's Circle Cloak, maximized

flame fire

frostbite ice

spark lightning

Fire Rune Fire, Trap

Torch fire, boost

Frost Rune Ice, Trap

Ice spike ice, boost

lightning runelightning, trap

lightning downlight, boost

chain lightning, enhanced

Fireball shooting, enhanced

flame cloak fire cloak

ice storm ice, enhanced

ligh …