Problem: Scripped dropped item changes ownership? : V

» Thu Nov 22, 2012 7:21 am

In the discussion thread of http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11322 a user complained that his exquisite dwarfen shield was flagged as 'pick up to steal' when dropped by my mod in an owned cell.

Indeed I can reproduce this using his savegame (but not trigger this behaviour in my own game): The shield is

not flagged as stolen in the inventory,
is not flagged as another's property when dropped manually,
is flagged as another's property ('steal item' text) but only when dropped by my mod
and then has the stolen hand symbol after pickup.

The code responsible for dropping the item is this:

Spoiler

  ; drop, move object to prevent disappearing, silently disappear bound arrows  if ( nDropNow > 0 )	DroppedObject = Player.DropObject(ThisItem, nDropNow)		Count = -1		if ( DroppedObject )			Count = 0			While ( !DroppedObject.Is3DLoaded() && (Count < 10) )				Utility.Wait(0.1)				Count = Count + 1			EndWhile		endif	if ( ThisItem.HasKeyword(WeapTypeBoundArrow) )	  DroppedObject.Disable()	else	  DroppedObject.MoveTo(Player, \						   120 * Math.Sin(Player.GetAngleZ()), \						   120 * Math.Cos(Player.GetAngleZ()), \						   0.7 * Player.GetHeight())	endif

I cannot imagine why this code should cause a change in item ownership.

As I said, I've tested using this player's savegame but without most of the mods he additionally uses (see his post in the mod's discussion thread). However, after a clean save Papyrus.log still lists a lot of savegame remnants it cannot load, so I cannot say for sure that there is not another mod involved.

Does anyone have a idea? Are there Papyrus or SKSE commands to determine item ownership in-script to see when it changes?

Thanks in advance