Hello everyone.

I am not a native english speaker so I want to appologize for every mistake and error in advance.

I am new to Papyrus scripting and I can't figure out this simple problem:
I want to block the default activation event of a misc item (in this case 'take') that I can implement my own activation behaviour via MessageBoxes to be controlled by the player.

Scriptname dsaAdventureScript extends ObjectReference  Event OnInit()	Debug.MessageBox("OnInit")	self.BlockActivation()	Debug.MessageBox(self.IsActivationBlocked())endEvent

My item keeps ignoring the BlockActivation function. Am I doing something wrong or does BlockActivation not work for MiscItems?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards
Fenrik

There is a script already made for you! Its called defaultBlockActivation. Check it out!

BlockActivation will not remove the text "take whatever" from the item however.

you can use SetDestroyed to make it totally non-interactable (no text on mouse-over or anything). since skyrim doesnt really use destruction on items, this has been safe to use in my experience.

Thanks for the quick answer, but I am not quite sure what you mean. Is defaultBlockActivation a standard script in the creation kit or is it some custom script? I am asking because searching for it in this forum did not show anything.


Thanks, but I do not want to make the item non-interactable. I want to implement my own activate behaviour controlled by commands through message boxes. So basically I want to block the 'take' command and show a message box with options for the player. The problem that the text will say 'take whatever' is secondary.

Whatever you add defaultBlockActivation to, it will block that event. If you want to create a different script that captures that event, then do so, its safe. You can have more than one script on an object.

Ah, now I understood. Thank you very much. I just tried it and it works perfectly.
I still don't get why the command works for when you call it 'On Load', like it is done in defaultBlockActivation, and not 'On Init' but maybe it is one of the many mysteries of the creation kit.

oninit will run only once when the script is first introduced in your savegame.

if you saved since editing the script, your oninit is already "fired" in the save game and subsequent changes to the oninit block will not fire.


for testing purposes, always use a clean save with no history of the mod you're testing.

There was no save game involved. For testing reasons i coc'd from the starting screen to a test area and added the item by player.additem -> OnInit fires
then I dropped the item from the player inventory to the cell -> OnInit fires again
It seem OnInit fires everytime when the item is displayed, or created somehow in the game environment.