I'm not sure about animations, also I havn't succesfully even gotten a weapon ingame yet.
Also, I was just doing this like the thread at the talesworld forums, I know everyone can post and threads they want to, but if they just want to post a model and see how everyone think of it they can do that here. If everyone disagrees with the thread it can easily be closed.
Thanks and yeah I wanted to texture the handle better but I have bad experiences with handles. If its got a pattern, then its way off center, so I just stick with the basic handle now. I will try to do better though once I get better.