Nifskope hand switch?

[SickAlice]

This seems like an old school method, but I seem to have slept in that class.
My question is regarding switching weapons from one hand to another.
For an example, we'll say the SkopeDuder mesh has an axe assigned to his left hand node, and a staff to his right hand node.
During the animation sequences, these items appear in and out during specific animations.
I'm pretty certain I get the Copying+Pasting+Adjusting from one node to another part here, but I'm assuming by looking at it
that some sort of restructuring needs to be done in the keyframe file as well? Or nay?

[detourne_me]

If you just want to move the weapons around, that should be no problem, you wouldn't have to adjust the keyframe file there.
if you just wanted to go from an axe in his left hand to his right, and vice versa with the staff, if should be pretty simple.
Click on the axe in the window, and copy that editable mesh.

then click on the staff, the editable mesh for the staff will be a branch of another node... maybe dummy_righthand or something.  just past the editable mesh from the axe into that branch as well.   then he should have both the axe and staff in his right hand,  you can position the axe how you want it. (I always keep the original weapon visible during this, so i can see the alignment) after its in the right place, just hide the original staff.

oh and you could do the same thing on the other side too

[SickAlice]

Kewl. Thank you. I think that gets me on the right track. I'll be testing it in a day or so. So, figure to maintain the disappearing/reappearing animations to the original hands copy over the mesh/poly itself and/or copy over the node but rename to the previous? Have I got that right?

Edit: Got it down. I have to scrap it and ry something else though. It was for the Psylocke Jim Lee mesh, and with that one moving he nodes or the mesh just makes the animations look all silly since she grasps the right hand weapon with both hands and swings from the right. Not a lot of left handed female meshes. Good technique for the future though.

[Kenn]

Would it help if the whole Psylocke Jim Lee mesh were completely reversed so the right hand is the left, etc.?