I am not a modder myself, and am unfamiliar with the possibilities and skill levels required to make such mods.

Would it be possible to make a one-handed sword that, when you press a button it fires a thunderbolt/fireball/icebolt down the blade and at something, just like a destruction spell. A sword with some staff properties then.

A blunt no is all I need. However if it is possible someone please make it. (its Gonna be a no I reckon)

I think there's a mod like this. I can't recall the name of it though.

i have seen a mod in morrowind do what you ask. but not in oblvion

Sheppard

havent seen somthing like that yet... but i like the possibility that my sorcerer can use his sword and staff at the same time... yep, i really like that idea !

Well, if you were to look at it as two weapons, one being the sword, a script to switch weapon "modes" and then another weapon that has the same model as the sword but instead uses the staff animations and has a charge for it. Technically it can be done this way with scripting involved.

Phew. Thanks. I was afraid someone would reply something along the lines of "No, you complete noob. What the hell is wrong with you!"
Anyway can someone make a unique sword (possibly with quest) with this effect. I won't make it because I can't. The last time I even attempted to make a mod it was a Catastrophe (note capital C and underlined).
I'll see what I can do on regards of what it should look like. Any suggestions welcome, but offers to make it are better.

shaun
there is a mod called the boomstick that does this, but it looks like a gun, i could change it and add a model of a katana to it, but i cant model new ones cus im crap at that!

Except that doing this would be rather impractical since there would be no quick way to initiate this change. The weapon model and animations would also, almost certainly look wrong as well.

The reason why this cannot be done normally is because of how weapon enchantments are hard coded in the game. Weapons, with the exception of staffs, can only have an on strike effect, which means that the weapon itself has to hit before any enchantment can be applied. While increasing the range of the weapon can kinda "fake" this sort of thing, it still registers the weapon hit before the enchantment, and lacks the visuals of anything coming out of the weapon. Even if you were somehow able to spoof a staff enchantment on a melee weapon, that melee weapon would still not cause anything to fire until the weapon hit something, unlike a staff which can shoot anywhere.

This sort of thing has been requested several times, and cannot be effectivly done within this game.

the mod i made is poo, but all it does is make a staff look like a sword, i tried and i failed
oh well, its on here if you want it, but its poo!