Can't add containers in my house

[Konnor13]

i've been trying to add a safe to my Megaton house through the render window,but when i get it in,and also get it at the right height,it's either not there or i've not managed to get the height right.my house hasn't been decorated and is bare.i also tried to add a wall safe,loaded up fo3 and it wasn't at the right height,so i moved it down,and when i load up fo3 again,it had totally disappeared,HELP!

[fap6000]

Well say you load up GECK an spend all day creating a house. Then you save it, wake up the next day an load it up again. You now have to set that mod you created to active, meaning all the work you did yesterday as well as all the work you do today will be saved.

 

Then when you are building walls floors doors an such, you pretty much use the snap to grid, with it set to 16, 32, 64, 128, and so on depending, because that's the only way to line things up correctly. Some like the grid others don't an we don't know what grid it uses until we figure it out from trying different grids, but the grid all centers around being in units of 16.

 

Placed items like safes or chairs, rugs, desks, ect usually it's better to turn the snap to grid off, drag an drop it into the render window then drop it to the floor level an move it around. Also a little randomness doesn't hurt either. Say I place a shelf then 30 ammo boxes on the shelf, well after I'm done I'll go back an delete this one or rotate that one a few degrees, make it look messy or random.

 

Then as far as containers go, you are almost always better off if you create a new Form ID in order to do so, rather than overwrite every container already in the game using that form id. Find a container double click it so the edit window opens up, then name it something different. Which it's smart to add AAA or ZZZ to the first of the name, so it's either at the top or bottom of the list, plus later on all you content can be filtered an found by typing AAA or ZZZ. Once you created a new form id, then it's just a matter of adding the items into the container. If you had a whole lot of items then you would build a loot list, then place the loot list into the container.