What's the difference between Tes4Gecko 'merge' function and 'copy as new record' feature from Tes4Edit?

[LuxDivinity]

Hey, I'd like to merge two mods that alter loading screens.

One of them replaces vanilla LS and adds new, while the second adds only new.

 

I had an idea to merge the second mod into the first not to waste another esp slot, but one thing got me wondering which of the programs I should use.

I've had some success with Tes4Edit before, but I'm still pretty new to that and have my doubts about these things.

Every merge to another plugin changes FormID, I think that's not any issue and there will not be any duplicates when I'm using many mods at the same time.

 

When it comes to Gecko and xEdit, will the task be performed just the same?

From what I understand is that in Gecko one can assign the priority to the certain mod, so that It can replace lower priority esp assets and I can't choose which individual records to merge.

That's not the case here, so I guess I'm fine : )

 

Couldn't find any thread like that.

Thanks in advance.

[ArtInPinkerton]

For just regular mod merging, I recommend you use this program here. TES4Edit is OK for merging smaller mods and individual records but could be tedious and cumbersome for larger mods or when you have many mods to merge. Gecko just kind of mashes mods together and isn't as refined as Mator's program.

 

Martin