Hey everyone, ive spent the last several weeks working on a new sword for skyrim which i intended to show a marked imporvement from my old work, after long ardous hour of tutorials and attention to detail i finally finished it, but when i imported it into the CK the model of the sword was wrong. All the textures where in place but for some reason the model developed arbitrary rough spots where it wasnt smooth and makes the sword look like crap, I double checked it in nifscope and 3dsmax but the rough spots dont appear their only in the CK, i would really appreciate any help i wou8ld hate for all that work to go to waste.

You'll have to be more specific. Pictures would help. Have you tested your sword in game to see how it looks?

Have you run the various spells inside Nifskope (ie. remove duplicate vertices - Face Normals - etc. ) sounds like it could be that something got duplicated or flipped during export.

First thank you both for responding, JDFan, what spells are you talking about? The only ones i know to run are face normals on each trishape and update all tangent spaces before saving, I ran into a CK error but im fixing it and ill post pictures withing the next half hour

Heres the pictures, please let me know if you have any ideas

This is the finished 1stperson nifscope
http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q515/Dfac364/Untitled8.jpg

Ive circled the rough areas
http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q515/Dfac364/SoulsBaneComp_02.jpg
http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q515/Dfac364/SoulsBaneComp_01.jpg

Comparison between in CK and in Nifscope, im not sure if its relavent but the blade texture also seems to be distorted in the CK as marked with arrows
http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q515/Dfac364/SoulsBaneComp_03.jpg

edit: I tried to post with bbc and html i guess i cant

DP