[Goshujinsama]

Now i have been searching around for out a bid, but i really haven't been able to find the awnser on this question of mine.

the thing is i want to know how 2 add special effects, glows and partical effect to my custom made weapons and also make it so that your able to enchant them.

so far i did find a tutorials about CryectsTools where it says you can edit your bones and partcial effect. So i figure i that i need to put some bones into my model that will be used as a guideline for my partical effects and glows. But non of the tutorials i found so far tell me how to create the structural bones for in your 3d model. So do i just need to build in a few not moving bones here and there and if so how do i name em or what kind of bone do i use, or do i need to something entirely different.

these thing really have been bothering me a lot becuase i have some pretty nifty designs lying that i would love to see work. Now i know i can pull off the modeling and texturing part, but i just can't figure out the rest.

other things that i also would love to know are things like animation and the use of alpha mapping within wow .. because take the gladiator battle staff for example. it has a model and like 3/4 things turning and going around it .. are those considered partcial effect or additional models and how do you link em ?.

animation is the same .. if i make some stuff rotate within maya or 3ds max and eventually export it to .m2 .. will it still play my animation or not? .. will it loop em or only let it play ones.

argh all these questions make my head hurt >.0 *twitch*

ow and also i tried to export models using MWCS and then used the model injector to make em OBJ to see how they put there bones in there. but when i import them into maya the file didn't want to show me the model .. now there was something in the scene but i just couldn't see anything. so ya now i am trying to get that m2 plug-in to work. So untill that works i need something else

so please if you some kind of information or links that could help me on my way i would appreciate it a lot.

cheers
-goshujin


ps. ill upload some sketches of my designs later on because there not quite finished