I am wondering if anyone can tell me how a trap is made and then how would I script it?
Is there a good tutorial on how to make traps? I tried one in TES: Construction Set Wiki, but it didn't work.

Thanks,
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TraderEddy

More information, please. Are you trying to set up existing traps or are you trying to make a custom one?

Have you read the Traps section on this page? http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Furniture%2C_Traps%2C_and_Lighting

- Place the trap in the world, adjust the 'red ball' to be where the trap will swing/target.

- Make it a Persistent Reference

- Get a tripwire/switch/pressure plate and place it in the world.

- Make it a Persistent Reference

- Double click on the tripwire/switch/pressure plate.

-From Wiki:

- Thats all there is to it.

Thanks. That worked for simple traps. It didn't work before because I did it backwards.
Now the thing is how would I script or make a trap activate like this:

MWallPlankBreakAway01 activates CTrapSwingMaceShort01

and how could I change how much damage it does?

You could look at an existing trap script, and looking at how it is set out in the game and such, that helped me when I made a trap

You can use the planks like a tripwire, and the mace like a, well, mace. Activating (i.e. breaking) the planks is the same as walking over (i.e. activating) a tripwire. So the principle is pretty much generic for all traps like this.

Offhand I couldn't tell you how to modify the damage done by a trap.

I tried using it like an activator but it doesn't work. Any other suggestions?

Hmm, you could try placing a script on the planks.

Something along the lines of:

scriptname xxxshort triggeredref targetref mySelfBegin OnActivate	if triggered == 0		set target to getParentRef		set mySelf to getSelf		target.activate mySelf 1		set triggered to 1	endifEnd

That should make it act as an activator.