keep the posts here so others may get help if they ever encounter similar problems:

meh, seems i was being a noob, lol i put tha swordtrail model in tha wrong dev folder, now it shows up in game, can see where it tries to follow the sword correctly, except, its at an offset.. as in, its out of place

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