G.E.C.K. and Archives

[GeneralGred]

I am designing a mod for Fallout NV and I was wondering if there is any way to get the GECK to reconize achives for adding models. My exact situation is that I am trying to use meshes from the game like a clipboard as an activator, I find the object in the "Static" catagory and copy its model path, but I can't paste it in the new template because the actual file doesn't exsit because it is in the archive. Now I know I can just extract from the archive but that is a pain in the ***, so I am hoping there is a way to get the GECK to be able to find files from within the meshes archive.

[bjornl]

I am not sure what you are asking about, but I it sounds as if you might have issues getting to stuff because it is in a BSA? A BSA can be unpacked with (for example) FOMM (fallout mod manager) FO3AU (Fallout 3 Archive Utility). There are several others you can use google to find them if my suggestions don't work out for you.

[GeneralGred]

Yes I am talking about BSA Archives and I know how to extract them and everything, but what I am asking is if there is a way to have the GECK access the files in them without extraction.

[bjornl]

Yes. If you make a copy of something the mesh and textures use those within the BSA even if you change the name and the object's effects.

But if you are trying to navigate to a different texture you will have to extract it since the GECK does not allow you to navigate within the BSA to change things.

[luthienanarion]

If you know the correct path for a mesh/texture/whatever and can't navigate to it in the GECK because it's in a BSA, set the path in FNVEdit instead.