I love your design and how it still feels grounded in the lore of the game, if not even more lore-friendly than vanilla lol
Just throwing it out there, based on one of the posts below asking if you would replace the nord hero set, if you decide you want to create replacers for those items as well, I have some experience with the creation kit and would be happy to help with the implementation.
I have a list of what I consider some of the most "egregious" weapons that I'll be doing one at a time. Right now I'm focusing on the ancient nord, iron, and steel daggers. But there's a lot of others I will be doing. (Looking at you especially, ebony weapons...)
Here's a preview of how my ancient nord dagger looks at the moment. This is still unfinished of course, but it's where it is currently. I've got some texture touch-ups that need to be done, and I'll likely be chipping the blade here & there to help it sell that aged & worn look.
That's a little out of scope for my project, I'm just working towards making the weapons in Skyrim more realistically believable while keeping their overall design elements & lore implications of their design intact; one weapon at a time.
To clarify, this one specifically is out of scope because those weapon reuse the same model in terms of game assets, and aren't unique.
Ah ok. I know there are a bunch of mods that use esl-flagged esps to allow different weapons, armor and clothing to have their own unique models, but if that's a bit out of scope then I understand.
I don't know much about creating mods, but a good example of a mod that does something just like this would be Unique Uniques SE
As for the ESL flag, that can easily be done through xEdit. There's a script you can run that can let you know whether or not a plugin can be flagged as ESL, and if it can then you just flag it (there are a bunch of tutorials online for this) It basically saves you some space for other ESPs, since it loads in ESL space. The ESP limit is something like 254, while the ESL limit is somewhere around 4000 or something crazy like that (feel free to correct me).
Ok but is it posible to have only the weapon as standalone (no replacer version) like the sword is craftable at a forge for example, but not replacer of the Ancient Nord sword...?
Oh I didn't realize that's what you meant, yeah I can do it in the near future but not immediately. I don't have too much experience with the Creation Kit, so I'll have to go back and relearn how to set up the weapon, how to make it craftable, upgradeable, enchantable, and etc.
Ok, i'm waiting for this. Your sword is honestly one of the best i've seen, for me it must be a unique sword, not the generic Ancient Nord Sword, but it's my opinion...
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Just throwing it out there, based on one of the posts below asking if you would replace the nord hero set, if you decide you want to create replacers for those items as well, I have some experience with the creation kit and would be happy to help with the implementation.
Here's a preview of how my ancient nord dagger looks at the moment. This is still unfinished of course, but it's where it is currently. I've got some texture touch-ups that need to be done, and I'll likely be chipping the blade here & there to help it sell that aged & worn look.
Like for example, making them sharper and more refined than the regular ancient nord sword.
To clarify, this one specifically is out of scope because those weapon reuse the same model in terms of game assets, and aren't unique.
I know there are a bunch of mods that use esl-flagged esps to allow different weapons, armor and clothing to have their own unique models, but if that's a bit out of scope then I understand.
As for the ESL flag, that can easily be done through xEdit. There's a script you can run that can let you know whether or not a plugin can be flagged as ESL, and if it can then you just flag it (there are a bunch of tutorials online for this)
It basically saves you some space for other ESPs, since it loads in ESL space. The ESP limit is something like 254, while the ESL limit is somewhere around 4000 or something crazy like that (feel free to correct me).