Spells: Spell Effects going straight up?

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I identified the same thing Kanras did I think. The value in red in the screenshot below can be edited to change the direction of the particles:

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Here is a collection of screens I took while testing. Not that 2 is the default "straight up" direction.

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Changing from 2 to 4 seems to roughly recreate the classic particle effects "shooting from the hands." It appears to be slightly wrong and is too far down when hands are up and too far up when hands are down. However, overall I think its a nice change and I'll definitely be keeping it this way on my client.

I then changed the NPCAegolismv2 S1-2 effect as well and had the same results.

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Devs, is it worth attempting to correct all the "shoot spells from hands" spells to use this new direction information? If its helpful I can go through and correct as many as I can and hand the file over. Let me know.

P.S. While I was testing I found out that there is some kind of "effect type" you can change as well. I was able to make Minor Shielding look like the particle structure of Lightning Strike, Calefacation, and E-Bolt but using the shielding particles. I have a suspicion that there may be a different part of these effects that can be edited to change the effect "type" into something else. Essentially, I think the type might be wrong and the direction is just a side effect and I just treated the symptom rather than the cause of this issue.