Making offhand weapons

[Caranthir_Linwelin]

Hi guys I'm a new modder(and by new I mean I learned how to do it yesterday) and I'm wondering how precisely I make a weapon an offhand weapon because so far it's done nothnig but infuriate me.

[phforNZ]

I don't know very much about this... but I do know that the "off-hand" weapon, is usually a cunningly disguised shield. (You can't attack with the off-hander due to this)

[Arcelas]

yep oblivion has one major fault in my book. No duel wield.

 

any off weapons are like phfornz said just decoration

[Unavi]

use a vanilla shield as a refference and then model your weapon around the handle of the shield. When creating the nif, again use a vaniila shield nif and just change the niTriStrips. (copy the niTristrip in your exported model, remove the nitristip of the original model, and the copy your model in the shiled's nif. (copy branches))

[Caranthir_Linwelin]

Thanks, I downloaded Seph's dual wielding which I really like, except maybe for the idle pose when you have your weapons drawn.