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Has anyone ever made a set of weapons for the Arcane Warrior? If not, I'd love to see that. I play an Arcance Warrior every time I play a mage, and the only weapon the class has is Spellweaver. It's a great sword, but it's the only one, and I have mods for dual-weapon, sword and shield, and 2-handed weapon talents for Arcane Warriors. Which reminds me, a special shield for Arcane Warriors! It would breathe a lot more life into the specialization.

Hello everyone, I've greatly enjoyed sampling various mods and am thankful for this site and its contributors! I have some 100+ mods running and a level 64 Khajiit, sided with the Stormcloaks, etc.. What fun! Anyway, as much as I enjoy playing mods, I would love to see some of my own artwork in a future mod. The problem is, most of my weapon models are high-poly and were created in Bryce 7 using Boolean operations. Bryce supports exporting to .obj among others, but apparently Skyrim does not want to even try to think about Boolean shapes (I may be wrong here). I've seen and downloaded a few different "importing custom swords" tutorials that run you through the Nifskope process and such. No problems there. What I am trying to figure out is this: What's the best (cleanest) way to convert my Bryce files to low-poly / baked texture versions for use in Skyrim? One sort of successful approach I have found was to just trace a Bryce render of one of my weapons in Photoshop CS5 Extended and using the "repousse from selection" feature to create a simple version of the sword shape. I used the same traced render as a texture for both sides of the sword. When imported into Nifskope, it was messy looking (I need to flip normals?) and mega-gigantic in comparison to the scale of the vanilla iron sword .nif I had loaded. I got frustrated at went looking for any tricks I could use for the high-poly to low-poly conversion. It occurred to me that I should ask here, amongst the seasoned modding veterans. Any advice on a sensible workflow for the conversion would be super-helpful and greatly appreciated! If I can just get over this technical barrier, there are a lot of new models I would like to release here as a package mod, perhaps a little quest for each one / hidden locations + hints, etc.. Personally, I just have this persistent craving to swat a few bandits and draugr down with one of my own swords. I have ZBrush (but am noob on it). I suspect this program can do what I need it to do, but the interface is ..complicated.