Information on how gold and loot deposit containers function

[Bioblade]

I've been using the CK to make some light mods for convenience purposes and have been looking into if it would be possible to move the gold and loot deposit strongboxes and chests from the various holds into an interior cell. From what I've gathered (as a very new modder), the strongboxes that are visible are activators that point to a nearby separate hidden, invisible 'strongbox' container that likely is the actual container inventory displayed to the player, presumably similar to how merchant chests work in vanilla, but not directly interactable in-game. The same can be said for my observations on the loot deposit containers. Sadly, there's more to it than placing a duplicate of an activator and it's corresponding hidden container in the same cell. I'd be completely lost doing any kind of reverse engineering with scripts, so I thought it'd be better to ask here. Any information on how containers function from a scripting standpoint or advice on how to have them function within an interior cell would be appreciated.

 

[kinggath]

The easiest way I can think to do it, would be to set the Activate Parents on each of your containers to point to the invisible kgcEEC_StrongBoxHidden containers we have at each of the camps.

In theory, that should relay the activation players do on your items to the actual underlying container that holds the money. We use an invisible one because each level of the outpost could have a different graphic for their strong box activator - so we're already using a proxy system like you're suggesting.