thought to inquire about if an Arachne race was something others might be interested in.
in testing it would look something like this
at this time it's just a concept but given the centaur race se not only works and now provides a Resource for doing this type of race
the centaur se resources, lets you pull an upper half from you default body and applies it connect into a lower half mesh. the lowerhalf pulls animations from the horse animations tied to
here is the current WIP that was last worked on, i know maggot has a more developed version but i never got it sadly, if youd like to play with it here it is
as Im hoping this grows to a community project, as i myself dont have the knowhow beyond debug,test and fixes that i can offer
initially the skeletons issues dropped torso down but with racemenu and some nif tweaks i recalled i fixed that , not sure if this version ahs the fixes and minor animations applied