[Sky] Modifying existing creature meshes!

[VampireMonkey]

I'm currently trying to get the mesh seen below into the game, it's a modification of the death hound mesh (VampireDog.nif is the file) and i'm having trouble getting it to work with the animations, i've been trying to get it to work the past week and i'm right on the brink of given up and start on something else.

at first i wanted to make the death hound a mount, when i succeeded doing so, i thought of messing alittle with the mesh to make it look more unique, that took me little under 2 hours and now i've used several days just on getting it to work, i got the skin in the game, which was way harder than it should and now the animations are the only problem.

i'm new to 3d modeling, so please before you go and say something like "oh, then you should try to do some basic tutorials and then come back" that right there is absolutely not encouraging and i'll rather be free of that, i just want some help on figuring out what is missing or what i have done wrong, since it doesn't work..

so hope i'll get some help, if there is anyone here that knows how to do meshes as that seems to be a rarity ^^'

http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/gallery/image/24138-demonhorse1/

Download mirror for the nif file>> http://skyrim.nexusm...download/108165

(i couldn't figure out how to attach files on this site)