Setting models & textures, and other questions

[caramellcube]

hi, more noob questions to hopefully not clog up the board too much with.

 

I have a problem with the input boxes for the water noise texture of cells, and the model of objects. In both cases the box is greyed out and won't accept keyboard input, the only way to choose a texture or model is by finding it on the hard drive, but using that method I can't select any pre-existing models inside the game, like if I wanted to make a daffodil that works as an activator for example, or add water noise texture to a pre-existing cell that doesn't already have it. I don't understand why GECK is stopping me from copy / pasting this information, is there an option somewhere?

 

Also, some other smaller questions I figured I'd add...

 

I've made a couple of scripts that use placeatme to spawn explosions at xmarkers, do I have to mark them for deletion? also I take it any kills they cause won't count as being player caused?

 

I'm planning on adding an option to spawn raiders near a player controlled trap using the same method but I've read that this eats up memory if it's not done properly, any advice on what mistakes to look out for?

 

Way later on in the mod I wanted to add a stationary weapon that can fire at targets selected from a list, hit them causing an explosion, and do damage to anyone in the vicinity. The problem is that the targets, while in visible range, would be outside of normal weapon range (think nuking Tenpenny tower from halfway to the Dunwich building). I've done some testing with remote triggered explosions and massively overpowered long range projectiles but the results aren't encouraging. Should I just leave out that part, or would it be feasable to script?

 

Is there an easy way to move the contents of a container to another container, or is it necessary to count the number of each item individually? there should end up being a few scripts that do this so it seems like it would save a lot of code, as well as making things more compatible with mods that add extra items.

 

That's all for now, any advice would be appreciated.