Weapon Effect Guidance

[Wild Child]

Ok, so I created a wonderful weapon that's power is meant to help me deal with the foes in my game as I play on Legendary and with my other settings such as SIC set to Legendary as well.

The weapon is powerful and is based off of Thor's Stormbreaker. I really want a chance for chain lighting to erupt from this thing on a successful hit but I'm having trouble getting that effect on the weapon. I know it's normally cast from the player or a staff so I created an enchantment so it can be used on melee weapons, but it still doesn't show up for me to add it as an effect. I even tried chain lighting as a counter effect set in the Magic Effect form but it never seems to trigger.

Is there a way to effectively add this to a melee weapon? Maybe I did the steps wrong? Is there already an effect that includes chain lighting? I watched videos and followed the Bethesda instructions for making spell effects and items and stuff so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?

[Corinze]

This is an interesting one. Since it a melee attack the effect might have to be link or attached to the swing animation. I've never played with this personally just thinking out loud since you're not being bombarded with help.
Take a look at dawnbreaker or bloodskall and see how their effects are handled, might be something useful there.
If you haven't take a look at Nexus forums Creation Kit Sub-Forum[forums.nexusmods.com] there has been a lot of talk of weapons over the years, a search should being up something usual.
GL

[Wild Child]

Originally posted by Corinze:

This is an interesting one. Since it a melee attack the effect might have to be link or attached to the swing animation. I've never played with this personally just thinking out loud since you're not being bombarded with help.
Take a look at dawnbreaker or bloodskall and see how their effects are handled, might be something useful there.
If you haven't take a look at Nexus forums Creation Kit Sub-Forum[forums.nexusmods.com] there has been a lot of talk of weapons over the years, a search should being up something usual.
GL

Will do. Thank you!

[Corinze]

Sorry I can't type properly in the early am, glad you could understood my gibberish. I just tried duplicating dawnbreaker and it is a little tricky I'll admit. The only weapon model I had unpacked was a spear, so I could get animation and different effects to work but not the spells plus 3rd person view the spear in invisible. Let us know if you get things working, I'll really won't be able to fiddle with this til the weekend. You have my curiosity peaked with this.

[Wild Child]

Originally posted by Corinze:

Sorry I can't type properly in the early am, glad you could understood my gibberish. I just tried duplicating dawnbreaker and it is a little tricky I'll admit. The only weapon model I had unpacked was a spear, so I could get animation and different effects to work but not the spells plus 3rd person view the spear in invisible. Let us know if you get things working, I'll really won't be able to fiddle with this til the weekend. You have my curiosity peaked with this.

I'm working on it. Everything that I want on it is working except that one thing. I've created the magic effect and made an enchantment out of it to go on the weapon. No idea why I can't get it to show up as an enchantment.

[Wild Child]

I ended up rebuilding the weapon since I had to delete it. I had no problem adding the spell effect on to it this time. I can't see that chain lighting effect on it triggering but I was able to add it to it. I guess I'll just keep messing with it.

[Wild Child]

Originally posted by Corinze:

Sorry I can't type properly in the early am, glad you could understood my gibberish. I just tried duplicating dawnbreaker and it is a little tricky I'll admit. The only weapon model I had unpacked was a spear, so I could get animation and different effects to work but not the spells plus 3rd person view the spear in invisible. Let us know if you get things working, I'll really won't be able to fiddle with this til the weekend. You have my curiosity peaked with this.

Just an update, I have created the Stormbreaker to do lightning damage, cast chain lighting on most hits, and give the player a shock storm effect. On a critical hit (not a normal critical but a running crit) causes a big impact and summons a lightning storm that randomly strikes enemies (t3 Call Storm).

The only issue I'm having is my lightning cloak visuals aren't showing although the damage is. Again, it's a powerful weapon but it's made for Legendary play since that's all I play on. I tweaked it so it allows me to still have epic battles and not one shot killing everything.

I also added some cool effects. When picking the weapon up you here a faint thunder rolling. Putting it down makes a louder sound like rolling thunder in the distance. It crackles with lighting while on the ground or being held but makes no spund sheathed. This is my very first CK created weapon and took a lot of learning. Thanks for helping.