Question on GECK's Hierarchical Arrangement of Objects

[ultskeletor]

New modder here. I'm about to start adding some new weapons, and I'm looking at some other mods in GECK for guidance. Quick question, how do I control where in the object hierarchy, the tree on the left in GECK's Object Window, my new weapons are located? I want to keep things tidy, and I'm looking at the 20th Century Weapons mod right now. All the different variants of a given weapon (scoped, silenced, and such) are arranged under a single category, say, "762x39mm AK47" for all the AK47s. All of these categories are themselves grouped under another category, "20thCenturyWeapons." That category is placed under Fallout 3's standard Weapons category alongside 1HandPistol, 2HandAutomatic, and so forth. I'd rather not dump my new weapons in with the vanilla Fallout 3 stuff, so how can I set up a similar arrangement as 20th Century Weapons uses?

 

I can elaborate or supply screen shots if necessary to better explain what I mean.

[Quetzlsacatanango]

I am pretty sure it just goes by your folder structure. I think if you look you will see that the 20th century weaps mod uses those same folder names.

[pkleiss]

I believe this has to do with the location of the object's mesh. If you create a sub folder under the appropriate one for the object, it will then appear in the Geck under a sub-heading with the name of the sub-folder. Example: The ashtray is a misc object. Its mesh is defined as '\Clutter\Ashtray\Ashtray01.NIF' in its Geck object. It appears in the Geck under Misc Items --> Clutter --> Ashtray. If you were to make a new folder under \Ashtray called 'MyFolder', then move the mesh into that folder, then point the ashtray object model to the mesh in the MyFolder folder, the Ashtray would then appear in the Geck tree under Misc Items --> Clutter --> Ashtray --> MyFolder.

[ultskeletor]

Yep, that's it. I got it sorted out now. My thanks to you both.