I know it sounds silly, but I have problems making a regular object fall!

After using SetPos commands, the object floats in mid air. Bumping into it or hitting it with a spell makes it resume normal havok and it falls normally, but I want it to start falling as soon as it's been placed where I want it.

Things I've tried to give it a "bump":

SetVelocity
SetVerticalVelocity
MoveTo (self)
SetPos to change the position again slightly
Moving a collisionbox to the same location at the same time, then disabling the collision box

Any ideas?

The only way i have found so far is to place a scaled-way-down creature a little above the object.
The creature falls on the object, the object havok wakes up and it falls.

Thanks for that suggestion - not very elegant but I suppose it would work.

I ended up using an invisible activator to cast a spell at the object and explained the reason for the visual effect with a quest update. Oh well.

You can use a scripted spell with no visual effect for this. There doesn't even have to be anything in the script, other than a name and maybe a blank begin/end block. That way, there's no visual effect to explain.

I had tried a scripted spell with no visual - either the spell was missing the object or it had no effect... hard to tell. Even with a spell that had a visual effect, it would still miss the object sometimes so I eventually game up on the idea...