Converting 2H weapons into 1H ?

worik · June 5, 2017

I have a few weapon mods where I found wonderful 2H weapons for my characters. From their appearance, they would fit also nicely to a 1H fighter, but they are not available as 1H versions.

Now I plan to mod these mods for myself and change the 2H weapons into proper 1H ones. Does anybody know if there is a guide on how to do this?

I would prefer a TES5Edit approach and avoid a CK solution (I dislike that buggy crap very much) but I take gladly any hint I get

Thank you!

Lion9 · June 5, 2017

There is the 'Unlocked Grip' mod though I never tried it out:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/58973/?

worik · June 10, 2017

Thank you, I knew that one. But I hope to fix the weapon in the mod itself without another one

Varithina · June 10, 2017

Ok, give this a try, load xedit, from the list select the weapons mod you want to edit, if update is not included as a master for the weapon mod it may well be worth checking it here to make it one.

Now go to the weapon you want to convert, and find the section that says ETYP - Equipment Type , edit the BothHands [EQUP:00013F45] and change it to RightHand [EQUP:00013F42], you many well be able to get away with just doing this, but it may look and feel a bit odd as it will still use 2 hand weapon draw and attack animation.

Changing

DNAM - Data Animation type from TwoHanded<Weapon Type> with weapon type being axe sword etc to OneHand<weapon type>, of course do not include the <> with the type so it would be something like change TwoHandedSword to OneHandedSword

Not sure if you need to change anything else, most of my editing of stuff is done in ck.

Best be to make sure things are correct is to copy from the appporiate 1h weapons and edit the settings to the 2h weapon you want to change, pasting the copied info into the correct place.

worik · June 10, 2017

That gives me a good start, thank you

sp4rkfist · June 11, 2017

Don't forget use nifskope to edit the NIF file of the weapon.

Open up the NIF, find NiStringExtraData under the BSXFlag, change it from WeaponBack to either WeaponSword / WeaponMace / WeaponAxe depend on your weapon type.