Nice looking sword, I love the details in the handle and grip, the sccabard is nice too, the only feedback I would give really is the end of the grip, it enlarges too much before it reaches the pommel, the pommel also is a bit oversized, but overral everything looks great!
You've done great on the model and the textures. The glossiness value in the .nif is too low IMO setting it to 80 I liked it better. I'd advise you to also correct the collision in the nif, you can do that by either adding a simple cube shape (although it requires more tweaking it's better performance wise) other alternative would be right clicking on the sword block and havook > create convex shape. And be sure to replace the old collision mesh. And be sure to go Spells > Sanitize > Reorder Blocks to put order the collision block properly otherwise the game will crash when the weapon is dropped. I've seen people say it's better to flag the esp as esl instead of making an esl file. Also I noticed in the nif you have specified a path to a metallic texture but such texture is not included into the BSA pack.
A friendly heads up, very few people on Xbox are going to pay nearly 70mb for a sword, Xbox users have a 4.9gb mod limit and every kb and mb is sacred, highly recommend you optimize this to 1k or 2k for Xbox.
You should always state the texture Resolution on Xbox as well.
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Well done.
I'd advise you to also correct the collision in the nif, you can do that by either adding a simple cube shape (although it requires more tweaking it's better performance wise) other alternative would be right clicking on the sword block and havook > create convex shape. And be sure to replace the old collision mesh. And be sure to go Spells > Sanitize > Reorder Blocks to put order the collision block properly otherwise the game will crash when the weapon is dropped.
I've seen people say it's better to flag the esp as esl instead of making an esl file.
Also I noticed in the nif you have specified a path to a metallic texture but such texture is not included into the BSA pack.
If you need any help you can reach out to me.
I'll drop you a DM.
You should always state the texture Resolution on Xbox as well.