Whisper's Extra Pieces and Snaps

~~~Overview~~~

Updated for NextGen. Repacked into a new ba2 archive.

I got irritated with some vanilla pieces a while ago, where stuff that should snap together - simply didn't. So the outer walkway walls (for example) you couldn't snap steps or balconies or the like to them. Or snap some stairs to themselves, to extend their length. Having the roofs snap only to make exact squares was also irritating.

It was annoying enough that I made a personal set of snapping nif file replacements. (No CK work required for that - they're simply the base game meshes with extra snap-points added.) I've been using them for a while - a little fiddly at times, I got used to it though.

For a while I've been getting irritated with the roof-pieces, too. Why on earth would someone want to look up at thin wooden rafters and rusting, holed metal? And that's the halfway decent pieces, not the ones that're missing a big chunk out of them! And that balcony piece - why does it sit a hair down below the surface of most of the floor pieces? Not something I can fix directly, however it would be possible to make my own custom piece to fix that.

Finally, I thought it would be kinda neat to be able to stack some of this stuff. In the middle, as well as offset to the sides like a big ole makeshift staircase. Also the concrete foundation block - snapping them on top of each other has been a small improvement to building.

I was doing a bit of kitbashing for someone else when Karvoc wondered at the possibility of getting an outer shack wall with a doorway in it. So you can have stairs and stuff going down. I looked at it and said that it would make more sense to rip a whole wall out of one of the pieces, let the player slap whatever doorway or other items into the thing. Basically make a cut-in-half prefab shack piece, open all the way around.

So I did it. This includes a half-prefab piece. Also several floor and roof and balcony pieces which have had wood "nailed" up underneath to form a fairly decent-looking ceiling. Not cruddy plywood though - someone going to this much effort isn't going to slap a chunk of half-rotten ply up to look at. They want a little bit of satisfaction in their work, y'know.

~~~Version 2~~~

Now uses Settlement Menu Manager to put into it's own menu category: Structures > Extra Pieces

New pieces added:

triangular bridge/floor

pentagonal bridge/floor

hexagonal gazebos

new roof options

I will not vouch for the navmesh always working. While I've done my best, it's a nightmare to deal with.

~~~Where to Find~~~

They're at the end of the Wood menu area:

Half-prefab: tail of the prefab section

Floor/balcony: tail of the floors s