How can I add an empty slot (e.g. Slot 54) with NIFscope?

[RecycleBin]

 

I'm looking to allow clothing to be equipped under armor but be visually hidden while the outer armor is equipped to prevent clipping. In this scenario all the gear remains equipped providing bonuses etc but is hidden under the outter armor so to speak. The best way I can think to do this is by creating a slot in nifscope that's blank and setting it to the slot of the clothing I wish to hide and then not setting this blank slot in the ck to prevent equipping conflicts. I would then need to do this for every armor piece in my game that hides other pieces. Am I on the right track or are there easier ways to do this? I know some mods even have this feature integrated into it but it's rarely customizable beyond their mod. I'm not an artist but I have used nifscope a bit for modding other mods etc. if I'm right about this being the correct approach can anyone point me in the right direction on how to do this. Thanks for reading.

[Frankfranky]

If you want to equip a bit of gear it needs an equip slot. This number needs to be the same in nifskope for the _0 and _1 nifs, the armor record, and the armor addon record. If you want the bonuses associated with a bit of gear, you need to make sure it has the correct keywords in the armor record, eg cloth keyword is 6BBE8 if you want the mage armor bonuses.