I'm either stupid or overlooking something (need help)

[ASilvermane]

Hello, I've been trying to add items to the settlement workshop from the game which will attach to walls but for some reason when I try to place them they just go through the wall without giving me the option to place them and have no green outline when moving them around.

 

The items specifically I'm trying to add are the stone crypt plaques found in the corridor to the Railroad entrance (CryptStonePlaques01 - CryptStonePlaques09).

 

The way I added them was to duplicate the conductible object co_workshopRecipe_SignsMetal, replacing created object with a duplicate of the workshop recipe workshop_RecipeSignsMetal which has all the sign entries removed and replaced with the crypt stone plaques, the crypt stone plaque objects themselves have been given transforms and the actor value 'workshopanythingasground' which I only added out of frustration trying to get the plaques to stick to something. I didn't create a custom transform for the plaques, I used an existing one for LsBillboardPrewar (picked randomly just to show up on the menu for now).

 

Is there an actor value for attaching items to walls, am I going about this all wrong, or have I simply missed something? I've been pretty much going into the creation kit blindly, I haven't messed with anything similar since the geck for fallout 3.

[Ethreon]

The items are lacking collision and connection points that help with placement.

[ASilvermane]

I see, thanks for the swift reply. I'll see if I can work out how to add both to the items and if I can't I'll just remove them from the mod as I can live without them.

[Ethreon]

You can find tutorials helping with that.

[ASilvermane]

I like to learn by doing but in this case I'll take your advice and find a tutorial as I realized I have no idea how to go about it in the creation kit alone and probably need something like nifskope, which I'm pretty green with too. Thanks again for the help.