As the title suggests, I'm having trouble with getting a portcullis trap to work. How I envisioned that trap was once the player steps into a trigger box, a Dwemer Centurion wakes up and a Dwemer portcullis shoots up, trapping the player in a small cage with the Centurion. Inside this portcullis cage is a switch that drops the spears.

What I did was I copied the Dwemer Centurion ambush trap in WarehouseAmbushes and got everything set up. I put a TrapLinker and made the switch and trigger box that comes with the prefab its parents. I then made the TrapLinker parents of the spears. Each time I load the cell, the ambush is fine but the spears are already up when I get there. The switch works fine as well. How can I make it so the spears are down when the the cell is loaded? I tried giving them all the Open By Default property but that did nothing. Thanks.

I had the same problem. I ended up duplicating the gate objects and making new ones for my mod, then editing the new base object. Just set the script property isAlreadyOpen to TRUE. I don't know why I couldn't get it to work else than editing the base. The "Open By Default" setting seems to only affect normal doors.

So the idea is to duplicate the Dwemer portcullis spears in the Object Window? Create a whole new object? Hadn't thought of that actually. Thanks for the advice.

Now, for the script property, where would I but that? In the Script tab in Preferences?

EDIT: Figured it out. Works perfectly. Thanks a bunch!