You can use that "weaponsoundsmanifest" (?) thing in scripts. I've seen it used before in that Captain Falcon Heavy reskin that came with sounds. I even made my own kinds before. I don't want to sound like a noob for telling you something you already know, but it seemed obvious to me and I'm just trying to help, so don't take it the wrong way.

Also, you said that you're making an idle sound, that I assume will loop. Can you tell me how (or point me to a tut) on how you tell a sound to loop? The only way I can is to mix sounds into the original file so that the file saves all its original settings, but I don't know how to do it from scratch. It'd really help me with a lot of things! :)

You had a lot of time to do it :)

It looks great so far. I'm looking forward to the idle sound, I already have hitting-missing-swinging sounds. The blade will be tricky though. And as it was already said, we'll need a reskin.

STOLE MY IDEA!@!!

I was talking about the metal parts. The proportions of the handle are ok but it´s overall size is to small. Now the scout can hold it with on hand but it is supposed to be at least 1 1/2 handed

In my opinion. It isnt wide enough. Its long enough though.

In response to the problem of the axe and such sharing the sounds with the bat, can't you just change what sounds the bat loads for hitting in the gamesoundsweapons? I looked through there and the bat uses cbar_miss1.wav when it misses for example. Couldn't you make a new sound file, and change the script so that i loads that file instead?

Looks nice. So it is diffrent color for each team?

In the first shot is the handle looking a bit like the texture is crap or the smoothing is wrong ;-) or is it just the reflections? I would scale the handle a bit bigger now it´s looking too much like a toy. I edited the sound in my lightsaber release too, did you take a look in the file i had to change? Perhaps it is there in TF2 also.

Perfect work, i live it! :D