Combining spell projectile meshes. How do I do it?

[RaTMan71]

I've been trying to combine the various skyrim lightning spell projectile meshes in Nifskope. I've tried copying and pasting branches from one nif to another, I've tried duplicating existing ones. Each time I've tested in game, only the original projectile meshes are visible, the ones I've added or duped don't function or even appear.

 

I've seen mods that achieve similar effects but I've no idea how they succeeded where I failed. I don't know enough about the inner workings of nifs to compare their meshes to find out where I've messed up unfortunately.

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Dorabella]

TES5Edit modify ESP (2) : How to add permanent effect

 

Maybe it can help you

[RaTMan71]

That had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with my question. I'm trying to edit meshes in Nifskope, not plugins in TESVedit.

[Andy14]

8 hours ago, RaTMan71 said:

That had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with my question. I'm trying to edit meshes in Nifskope, not plugins in TESVedit.

Without more information or without NIF/ESP, probably nobody can really help. There can be innumerable causes.
The ESP and Nif would be helpful to help.

[RaTMan71]

I'm using the vanilla lightning bolt projectile meshes. They're named something like lightningbolt01, lightningbolt02, lightningbolt03 etc.

 

I'm not editing any plugins. I'm trying to merge the projectile nifs so that when I cast a spell using these projectiles all the effects are rolled into one.