Sound on opening a container

Neverwinter Nights 2 Toolset, Scripting, NWNX
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Hello all,

A quick question on the sound that is played on opening a container placeable.

It seems that the default is the sound of a squeaky chest.

But if the container is a corpse and under its properties “body bag” is set to “body”, it sounds like clothes are searched if you open the corpse.

I was wondering whether the same can be achived with e.g. a sack. Yet it seems that a sack placeable will only play the “squeaky chest sound” if you open it even if its “body bag” is set to “body”.

Am I missing something or is this some kind of bug?

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This is probably set in a 2DA somewhere.

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Thanks, but you can obviously also set it in the “body bag” options of a placeable, at least in certain cases.

Is this bugged or am I doing something wrong?

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When something is destroyed or killed it’s replaced by something else. ( a loot bag for exemple), that what this field is commanding.

I don’t think it sets the sound when you open it.

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A container sound is set by the SoundAppType column of placeables.2da. That assigns a row number in the placeableobjsnds.2da file, which covers the different sounds for containers and doors. There’s a corpse row in that file, which is used for the various corpse models. The loot bag has its own row.

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That was very helpful, thank you all!