(Relatively) Easy way to replace statics with containers?

[ronaldomoon]

What I'm hoping to achieve is to make things like un-opened barrels, boxes, crates, etc. into containers. Just started a new playthrough and after playing a lot of 7 Days to Die I started thinking - it doesn't really make sense that the player can't loot things which would be relatively easy to open.

Now, obviously I could just make new containers and use the boxes, barrels, etc. as the models. That part is easy. However, I'm not about to go to every single cell that these objects reside and manually replace them. That would take ages.

I tried making a barrel container in the CK and it worked as expected. I then tried to load the mod in FO4Edit and copied the Form ID of the static barrel to the container barrel. This didn't work. When I reloaded the mod in CK the container I made was gone.

Any ideas? Maybe they need to be replaced via script or am I just missing something obvious?

Thanks in advance.

(Edit: I just realized I should have posted this in "mod troubleshooting". Is there a way to move the topic there or delete the topic and re-post it there? I'm not seeing a delete or move option anywhere.)

[DarkWolfModding]

I don't think there is a easy way to do it. You would have to manually replace them all. Idk if a script can do it because I'm not sure if the scripting language allows you to find a models path within a if statement

[DarkWolfModding]

The other way would be to script the static object to when you load into the area it would take the position and angle of itself and place a reference of the useable container on top of it using the exact same position and angle as the static and then proceeding to disable the statics mesh from the game.

 

This would all have to be done via script I actually wanted to do the same thing just got caught up in family and college stuff