Help Needed to Understand Activate Text Override

[GrimGrim31]

It's a new day with a new CK problem. Maybe someone here has solved it before.

I am trying to overwrite the activate button text for a furniture item that is also a container. It shows two activate buttons in game: A: Enter and X: Transfer.

I want to overwrite the A: Enter so that it will be A: Feed.

 

I tried entering the text in CK for the activate overwrite on the furniture object and when that didn't work, I tried to script a solution using the command:

 

furnitureRef.SetActivateTextOverride(EatMessage)

 

EatMessage is a message in my ESP that has the word "Feed" in the title as well as in the message text.

It is defined in my script as:

 

Message Property EatMessage Auto

 

and I filled the script properties in CK for this furniture object, but this scripting method didn't work either.

 

Can anyone tell me where I went wrong?

 

[AnishaDawn]

I've never used that script command, but you can save yourself the headache by instead making a perk that overrides the default activation button and set conditions where it will only work for that specific container/furniture.

[GrimGrim31]

That is the route that I took. It works well and I have used it before for activators for milking. I am still hoping that someone can show me how the other activation text overrides work because my player character is getting a lot of perks.

 

In this case, I added a perk script so that the activation text override only happens when my character is hungry and the container has the right food items.

[AnishaDawn]

I assume perks are the only way to affect the activation prompts of objects that aren't actually activator forms. I did some tests today and I can get this to work as expected for actual activators, like a button for example, but it doesn't work for containers. I haven't had time to test on furniture yet.

 

This is the script I used.

 

Scriptname TestActivatorScript extends ObjectReference

Message property thisMessage auto
Bool property isDoor auto

Event OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)
    if akActionRef == Game.GetPlayer()
        if isDoor == false
            playAnimation("Open")
            SetActivateTextOverride(thisMessage)
        else
            SetActivateTextOverride(thisMessage)
        endif
    endif
    
EndEvent

Event OnOpen(ObjectReference akActionRef)
    if isDoor == True
        if akActionRef == Game.GetPlayer()
            SetActivateTextOverride(thisMessage)
        endif
    endif
EndEvent

(Activate for the button and to see if it runs for containers. OnOpen was for the container)

Edited March 29, 2021 by AnishaDawn

[GrimGrim31]

That looks very promising. I learned about the script override from reading a script that used it for actors to replace the "Talk" button text with the actor's work type. I haven't tried it on anything beside actors and containers yet. Your experiment makes me want to try it on other types of objects but that will have to wait until I solve my flora problem.