Sparky sword

I followed a tutorial on how to make nice fire with electric plugin and decided to make a magical sword with a sparking blade.

4208 polygons.

Is the electricity animated?

Nope. That's too advanced for me I think.

is that electricity a mesh or just an effect? if it's an effect, can it be converted to a mesh?

It's particles. :)

wOw this is Oblivion if not WoW quality although thats quite alot of polys (like we really care) gj it would look awsome in the heat of combat.

It looks like you just took a normal sword and added electric effect. Try to do an original design for the sword that fits with those particles.

I don't like most ice-cream fantasy swords. But I might think about it. It's just an enchanted sword.

the lightning looks sweet!

I don't want to be rude, gentleman, but I just have to say this is far from Oblivion quality.

Hehe that's quite understandable. I don't think I ever seen an sparky weapon in Oblivion so I don't know what they look like but I'm pretty sure they look better. TDR do you have any picture? Btw how could the electricity be done by mesh/effect? I'm cuirous. ;)

Agree...
About the "electric mesh", just do an envelope of the sword and texture it with an animated texture. You can do it for warcraft3 for compatibility.....

Hm not familiar with envelopes. Anyway I tested to animate the particles but even if the dots seem to be randomly placed, they seemt come from the same place all the time when rendered.