SSE How to slightly alter a weapon mod to show blood decals?

[ScottyJD09]

To preface, I have no modding experience, I just download and enjoy other's work and give what donations I can when I can. That being said, I've found a weapon mod that I absolutely love called Eimar's Edge (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5165). It is, in my opinion, the best looking sword I've ever found, balancing coolness and realistic sword design, it's pretty powerful, I just love it everything about it...except one thing: the mod author somehow made the sword so that blood decals aren't visible on the sword. So when you get in an epic battle with blood spraying all over the walls, floor, and innocent bystanders, not a drop gets on your sword. You know, the device that is literally creating said mess. When asked, the author said that this was not a bug, but a feature. I totally respect that this is the author's work, and he/she wanted it this way. But for me, it is very immersion breaking. I've tried contacting the author, requesting that they possibly release an altered version of the weapon with blood decals enabled, but it is an old mod and doesn't look like the author is even around anymore.

 

So long story short (too late, I know), I'm wanting to learn some basic modding skills to try and enable the blood decals for my own personal use. I don't know if you need special software to try and alter the files, or if it can be done in a simple text editor (I've been able to alter other mods by editing some of their scripts in editors, but admittedly they were not mods for Skyrim). Any pointers, tips, general advice or help on what I'm trying to accomplish would be greatly appreciated!

[Tryn]

Hi,

If its a totally custom sword model, it might be difficult to do without 3d modelling skill/software. The blood on weapon blades isn't from decals; there is a separate invisible mesh shape around the blade that the blood gets applied to. But, I encourage anyone who wants to try modding as its a lot of fun. Download nifskope to have a look at the mod's mesh. If its packaged with a bsa archive, you will need something like BAE to extract the files.