SSE Making a plugin for an existing mod

[JediKitteh]

So I'm going to start off by saying that I am very much new to creation Kit. I've messed with it before on oldrim for some personal edits and usually havn't had any problems. However I wanted to make some General Stores patches for the player houses I use. In Oldrim im fairly sure I just edited the house mods themselves in creation kit to place the GS activators. But say I wanted to make a patch that I could have other people use. Like this one.

 

I tried making an .esp that contains the changes (moved some objects to the side to make room for the new activators. Disable unwanted containers as GS replaces their need. and place new activators in their place). However the regular activators I place show up fine but any changes that I make that move or disable objects placed by the original mod don't take affect. I am making sure my plugin is at the bottom of the load order.

 

For example: On a shelf there is a flute and a drum. I move the flute to the top of the drum to make room for the GS activator. I save and check ingame. Ingame, the activator is there, but the flute is in it's original position.

 

Another example: There is a meat hanging rack with a custom storage container. I disable the container and move it below the floor and out of the way. I place my own custom activator box around the rack. I save and check ingame. Ingame, my activator is not there and the original container is there like I didn't do anything.

 

I feel like I'm missing something obvious Because I can't seem to find any answers on Google. Any tips or help would be appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

[Deleted3897072User]

To make changes to one mod in another mod, you have to make the original one a master of the new one otherwise when the game loads the new one it just ignores all the changes, as you have found, because it can't "see" what to apply them to.

 

Now, unfortunately, the CK won't let you master one esp to another esp so you have to do a bit of fiddling about to fool it.

 

Does that makes sense so far?

[JediKitteh]

Yes! it does! Im fairly sure I saw how to do that a while back! Thank you very much for telling me this! :D

[Doubtfireineffect]

Late to the show in 2021 I understand, but what the hell did you end up doing, can you step-by-step for reference in simple laymen's terms?