Suggestion Spell Effects on Cast

[Sirgit]

I just came across this reddit post of a fellow with ambient particle effects as he's holding items. The emerald one specifically caught my attention with the ambient stars glittering around the character.

How hard would i be to implement spell effects on skills/spells that require casting time? It might be a neat addition. Definitely not something that is necessary or urgent by any means tho.

Reference:
http://gfycat.com/AdventurousVainAndeancondor
Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/2fkvlx/held_item_effects_vanilla/

 

[Kainzo]

I just came across this reddit post of a fellow with ambient particle effects as he's holding items. The emerald one specifically caught my attention with the ambient stars glittering around the character.

How hard would i be to implement spell effects on skills/spells that require casting time? It might be a neat addition. Definitely not something that is necessary or urgent by any means tho.

Reference:
http://gfycat.com/AdventurousVainAndeancondor
Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/2fkvlx/held_item_effects_vanilla/

We technically already have this on cast (we use potion effects that swirl around the caster) - though I think this would be a neat addition.

as for the complexity, it would require a timer / etc and a task to run the effect during... so not too hard.

 

[ChazzaMaGazza]

How about maybe some of these? @Kainzo

 

[Jrr_]

How about maybe some of these? @Kainzo

This would be great. For example, fire trail for pyromancer, smoke trail for ninja ect!

 

[Ultanian]

This would be great. For example, fire trail for pyromancer, smoke trail for ninja ect!

Music for bard

 

[iceball626]

How about maybe some of these? @Kainzo

This would be great. For example, fire trail for pyromancer, smoke trail for ninja ect!

Music for bard

And maybe ender for beguiler and the letters/runes for Runeblade

 

[Sirgit]

We technically already have this on cast (we use potion effects that swirl around the caster) - though I think this would be a neat addition.

as for the complexity, it would require a timer / etc and a task to run the effect during... so not too hard.

Now that I think of it, you're absolutely right. Whenever casting Recall, I do remember seeing those. But I'm loving the suggestions others are giving. For instance for bard, They're song durations last around 12s each, how awsome would it be to have song particles continuously form, possibly mixed with twinkles, until the song wears off. Maybe this is too much though considering you can cast multiple songs at once.

 

[JupiterRome]

This would be an amazing addition, Mabye replace rejuvenate on druid with a healing thing that has to do with snow (would make sense cuz snow is part of nature) with a new name and snowball particles (as seen above) over the persons head

 

[Sirgit]

I had no idea you could create custom "pictures" and such with particles too. Could be awesome for buffs or damage spells. http://imgur.com/a/SZ5p4