Trying to make a weapon model replacer mod and I need help.

[CoffeeWithAGeek]

This is my first go at the creation kit. I want to make a personal mod which seems fairly simple to me, but it requires some explanation.

 

I downloaded a mod before Dawnguard came out that added fantastic looking dragonbone weapons to the game. Then with Dawnguard, terrible-looking but statistically superior dragonbone weapons were added. I couldn't bring myself to use the ugly Dawnguard ones, but lately I got back into Skyrim and decided I'd replace the Dawnguard dragonbone models with the models added by the pre-Dawnguard mod.

 

So I go into the creation kit and watch a few tutorials to get a basic understanding of what I'm doing. It seems easy enough, but when I try to view the model of the modded dragonbone weapons, I get a notification that the model doesn't exist. It obviously does, as the weapons have a unique model and texture in-game, but I have no way to access them.

 

I usually prefer Nexus, but this dragonbone weapon mod doesn't exist on it anymore, so I got it from Steam Workshop. Does that have something to do with the lack of a model? Is there some way to download or retrieve the mod's models? Thanks!

[Jokerine]

The mod's models should be in the bsa, which should be part of the download if you got it from the workshop (as far as I know, the workshop does not support uploading loose files). Here's a tutorial about extracting items, hope that helps you out :)