update:
i've kinda backburnered this, as i was struck with desire and inspiration to work on the cannibal mod. however, i'm testing both at the same time in my playthrough and fixing every problem i encounter as i do so. i still need to make or conscript someone else to make a usable nif for grenade bouquets as misc items to be dropped. and i've got a solid idea for making a prox trigger, so it's not like i've abandoned it. just not working on it with my full fervor.
so i can across an interesting problem.
i've made most of the trap activators pickupable through the perk script, through add activate choice. when it runs, it throws rSelf into a quest script as rPickup, and iType corresponding with the object type. it works perfectly fine on everything, but i'm having problems with laser tripwire emitters. essentially, the script looks like this on that section:
if type == 2
set type to 0
set rBeam to rPickup.getLinkedRef
player.additem tripwirethingy
rBeam.disable
rBeam.markForDelete
rpickup.disable
rPickup.markForDelete
when i had "set type to 0" at the end, every few seconds i'd get another tripwirethingy in my inventory, yet rPickup was going away, so the script was running parts of that block but kinda just skipping parts and re-running. i moved that, then i dumped a couple of printc "%n" in for rPickup and rBeam. running it again a few times, the printc would return <no name> on both accounts, even though rPickup was clearly going away, indicating that at the moment rPickup.disable ran, rPickup was clearly referenced.
so what am i missing?
i came up with an idea, thought you might be interested in using it for this mod.
basically you would add some x markers in various cells where you would place the trap, and make script that will place the trap on those markers or some of them based on a number generated at random upon entering the cell for the first time.
This would mean a portion of the traps in the game are un predictable, so you dont actually know there would be one or not.
I figure a good trap for this would be the IMS trap (from COD Ghosts), since it has a slow re-fire time, you could set it off with a rock or a baseball (gives reason to collect clutter) and then run past it while it is resetting itself.
The mod you are looking for is called, oddly enough, Random Extra Traps, and exists for Fallout 3 and Fallout NV.
i've done a little work on this, but i couldn't tell you what it was other than adding dlc-specific triggers to the list of triggers you can pick up, so i'm uploading my current build now.
also, i didn't bother making the 7zip friendly, the esp is in there and the folder is the meshes folder, just drop that into your meshes folder in your data folder.
ok, i've come to a decision. since i seem to have hit a wall as far as making thing i want to add to the mod, i'm going to simply clean this up, make sure everything's working right as is, and publish it like this, so i can add to it later when i've got a better brain for this.
