I need a way to iterate through an NPC's inventory and add up the monetary values of all of the items.

I'm considering making a little salesman guy who walks around with you like a follower, but does not participate in combat. What you can do is give him junk, which you can tell him to go to town and sell. He walks away for a while (goes to whiterun I suppose) and sells it off, then 24 hours later he shows up and gives you most of the money you would have made. Basically it just prevents player from having to constantly run back to town to hawk off loot.

I guess another way to do this would be to simply get the monetary value any time an item enters his inventory and add them all up that way. Dunno. Any thoughts?

No way I know of to cycle through inventories...you're gonna have to do it with OnContainerChanged or something.

You could cycle through a formlist, but you would have to put everything you want checked in that form list. And that would be very slow. And would not work on items from other mods.

Thanks, I think that'll work.

I thought I saw a topic today that mentioned an idea having to do with:

* RemoveAllItems(NewContainer)
*OnItemAdded on the new container
* adding to Arrays/Formlists

But then you've gotta get them to put their clothes back on after you reverse the process...

Damn NPCs... why are they all closet streakers?!?

After actually reading the first post, I have a suggestion:

1. Dialogue with salesman ends with 'CustomChest.Activate(Game.GetPlayer())'
2. Custom chest has script attached with OnItemAdded
3. The script keeps a running total of the value added using http://www.creationkit.com/GetGoldValue_-_Form
4. The salesman leaves, comes back later with a random amount of gold less than total value

If you use an 'outfit', it does not get removed from an NPC using removeallitems. At least it did not on my NPC.

Well that would help this guy, but not the other fella...he's knocking out and robbing random NPCs, and he wanted it so if he left them clothing, they would keep it on after the "wake up" routine did this:

Strip the NPC of whatever he had left and hide it in a box temporarily.
Ressurect the NPC (he temporarily "Killed" them to simulate a knockout)
Destroy the respawned gear that was on the NPC (So you couldn't use this to get an unlimited supply of respawned gear)
Returned the NPC's gear to him.

he would then need to catch the OnContainerChanged for any clothing items, and force the NPC to wear them.

Oh guys, you don't have to worry about me anymore. I finished this mod already. Here it is.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=13508

Mod looks great! Is this the method you used?

I want to do a quest where you lose all your stuff, but you can get most of it back. I guess I should take a look at the jail scripts.

or the one... part ... of the main quest... where that happens anyways...

Yes...Got it......understood...

Spoiler

*cough*party*cough*

or...um...

Yes, I should have been more clear on what I meant by jail scripts.