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While trying to understand why spell missiles can be stopped by a mere arrow, I noticed that:

• objects on the SpellMissiles layer do not collide with one another (good);
• arrows are on this layer;
• the spell missiles I sent are not, they're on the Default layer for some reason:

That looks like a bug, the prefabs are on the SpellMissiles layer, but instantiating doesn't preserve that info...

Edit: the cloned Magic Missile seems on the right layer, the attached DaggerfallBillboard is not, mmmh

Okay, both spell missiles billboards and arrow models didn't inherit the layer from their parent.
I submitted a PR

Nice work!

From a visual standpoint this fix is a big deal! Thank You!!

I was mostly concerned by gameplay effects; It's hard to justify an arrow and a spell simply annihilating each other (or even 2 spells for that matter)...

It means you could protect against powerful spells with just a bow and some arrows (and good reflexes).