I'm sure this is simple, but I'm trying to make a display wall hanging using a silver plate form. I created a new activator using the silver plate nif, position it on the wall, check the 'don't havok' box, and as soon as I walk in the room in-game, it promptly falls to the floor. What am I missing?

There's another havok-type setting, but I can't remember what it is. My memory is that it is not 100% reliable anyway.

(Amethyst, a poster on here, may know from all his work on bookcases and mannequinns??)


And, if the object is not a static ... so the player can pick it up ... then you'll have a hell of a time getting this to work, anyway. I have a note "pinned" to a door (with a knife, it appears, though not really), but 99% of the time the note wafts it's way to the floor when the player enters the room.

If it's anything like Oblivion you'll need to change the clutter item into a static item right in the mesh itself.

Try this. Open the plate in Nifskope. Expand the bhkCollisionObject branch, highlight the bhkRigidBody line.

In the Block Details change the following values:

Layer - from OL_Clutter to OL_Static
Layer Copy - from OL_Clutter to OL_Static
Motion System - from MO_SYS_SPHERE_INERTIA to MO_SYS_BOX_STABILIZED
Solver Deactivation - from SOLVER_DEACTIVATION_LOW to SOLVER_DEACTIVATION_OFF
Quality Type - from MO_QUAL_MOVING to MO_QUAL_INVALID

Make sure to save the nif with a new name or you'll change every single plate. There may be other options in the CK as well, I'm not sure.

You should be able to attach the

Defaultdisablehavokonload

Vanilla script to the object. This will keep it in place.

Alternatively could you just make a static instead?

great memory, man - That's the fella!

Well I'm a friend of that script, use it often

Yeh you become well aquatinted with him when you realise you needed him after you've already placed 40+ food items on a table. After attaching that script to each item individually, it's name has been burned into my brain

- Hypno

Lol I remember that thread