[GROUPING MDLS] grouping models using WED?

Ive been trying to group multiple meshes into one model using WED by selecting multiple models and exporting them all as one mdl, this actually works fine... except, if i go to Manage Skins, all textures within the level are listed in the model even if the model itself only uses 1/2 of them, so i'm a bit concerned about what this means?

[questions]
Will it ignore the textures that arent applied? or will this pose a problem somehow?
Is there another way i can group multiple models?

any takers?

you can delete the textures you are not using in med. The other way to merge models is in med file-> merge, but you would have to merge them one by one

I know i can delete the textures not used but as said, it saves ALL the textures which is ALOT to delete PER model, alot of tedious work, so i just wanted to know if there would be performance problems if a model has so many skins [external] but only uses 1/2;

While writing this i thought of a solution, i could delete every other model in the map before exporting the new group, the undoing the deletion after export, i guess i'll try that, but i would still like to know:

Is there would be performance problem if a model has so many skins [external] but only uses 1/2 ?

and yes i know of the MED method, wont help much here since the groupings are unique to places in the map;

hmm maybe you could have memory problems, but now I remember that on one project I had some mdls exported from wed as you did and I had there lots of textures, most of them unsused, although they were external textures so maybe they shared textures between the models and there weren't memory issues