help adding cosmetic dagger to armor : V

» Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:25 am

I am trying to figure out how to add a item (say iron dagger ) to the side of Iron armor female_0. The dagger is purely cosmetic. I am just trying to learn how to add 1 mesh to another in 3dSMax.
I have gone over the Nightasy tutorials on you tube, and browsed other videos, but cannot find anything.
I know how to modify armor ( like make some parts bigger or smaller , but not removing any verts) in 3dsMax , skin wrap and export, then load Nifscope and get the textures hooked back up to show in game. So simple things like that I can do.
When I load my armor in game dagger never shows up. I even removed 1 of the pouches from the back side of the iron armor, loaded it back in game and armor worked fine showing the pouch was gone.
I just cannot get the dagger to show.
Do I need to select the Attach button and select the armor mesh or something?
Any help would be great
Thanks.