mod_development

[knotty abyss]

take a screenshot on mods folder please

[glad ridge]

it just has GodigodMod

[knotty abyss]

really ? so I will delete this one

maybe was there before when I did this all shit

[glad ridge]

possibly, idk

[knotty abyss]

ok lets go ahead, so I need to put the folder with the workshop files back right ?

[glad ridge]

yep if you ever want to make more mods they'd have to go in there

[knotty abyss]

and appears this two files like I said

[glad ridge]

yeah when you use the workshop option in pz.. it auto generates that

when creating a workshop mod

[knotty abyss]

Ok! It is there again.

Same problem when I put it there

I think It overwrite the other idk why. This same thing happen with your made mods ?

@glad ridge

I belive that after you upload your mod trought workshop place, you need to get him out of there

At least for me, when I leave it there, it doesn't read the file from the mods folder and forces it to read the workshop file

If this doesn't happen for you or other modders I'm definitely doing something wrong that I don't know what it is

At least taking my mod out of the workshop I can use it through the mods folder

[rancid tendon]

hey so question

i'm working on a true music mod

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list["PoliceLockers"].items, "Tsarcraft.CassetteHomeLabelled'acidrain'");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list["PoliceLockers"].items, 0.7);

if i change that 0.7 to 0.1, will it make it less likely to spawn?

[knotty abyss]

yes

        rolls = 4,
        items = {
            "Bag_DuffelBagTINT", 0.5,
            "Bag_FannyPackFront", 2,
            "Bag_Satchel", 0.2,
            "Belt2", 4,
            "Briefcase", 0.2,
            "Disc_Retail", 2,
            "Earbuds", 1,
            "Glasses_Aviators", 1,
            "Hat_CrashHelmet_Police", 1,
            "Hat_EarMuff_Protectors", 8,
            "Hat_Police", 4,
            "Hat_Police_Grey", 4,
            "Headphones", 1,
            "HolsterDouble", 0.5,
            "HolsterSimple", 2,
            "Jacket_Police", 4,
            "Lunchbag", 1,
            "Lunchbox", 1,
            "Lunchbox2", 0.01,
            "Nightstick", 2,
            "Radio.CDplayer", 2,
            "Radio.WalkieTalkie4", 1,
            "Shirt_OfficerWhite", 10,
            "Shirt_PoliceBlue", 10,
            "Shirt_PoliceGrey", 10,
            "Shoes_Black", 8,
            "Shoes_Brown", 8,
            "Suitcase", 0.2,
            "Trousers_Police", 8,
            "Trousers_PoliceGrey", 8,
            "Tshirt_PoliceBlue", 10,
            "Tshirt_PoliceGrey", 10,
            "Vest_BulletPolice", 2,
        },
        junk = {
            rolls = 1,
            items = {```

Looking at the code you can see that the items that have the highest number appear more often (easily) in game

So since 0.1 is less than 0.7, 0.1 is less likely. The logic is this. haha

[rancid tendon]

thank you!

[mystic meteor]

Are there any ways to edit the radio/TV broadcasts via the LUA, or do they need to be an XML edit? I'm hoping to make something that delays the life and living broadcasts so server users don't miss out on things while they sleep.

[lusty nebula]

I have a question....
When in a map you have various/multiple spawn points does the game take / use them randomly or is there a way to make the game use them in a certain order (Defined in the script of interest...for example a loop )?

[knotty abyss]

Excuse my curiosity, but what purpose would you like to make a loop?

I believe that with code you can do anything. For example choose among certain spawn points to randomize between them or follow a certain sequence yes. One hour is born in the police, another in the fireman, another in the school etc.

-> To not overwrite a certain file, what precautions do I have to take? I would like to change an ISUI file, change the color of text in a tab for example... Any tips on how I can do this? I know I can change the original file directly and it works ok, but to turn this change in a mod idk 😔

[lusty nebula]

Having more control on spawnpoint basically. Actually you can set how many of them you want but you can't decide in which order they are used by the game if you have multiple spawn points set for a map. Sample: You have 10 different spawn points on the X map...When you create your new game ( SP ) there's no way to select which one will be used and every time you'll create a new game you'll get a random one. Sure you can set single spawn points naming them, for example, " Spawn at Police Office ", " Spawn at Doctor house, etc but this will create, at the end, a very long list of available spawn points in the spawn point list menu ( thing that I would like to avoid )

[lusty nebula]

Well if you want to change something in a file you are forced to overwrite it ( if I have understood correctly what you intend to do ). You need to use the same file name and file structure of the original mod and then in the file of interest changing the values depending on your prefrences

[knotty abyss]

You could set more than a single spawn point, like a group of each and randomise them

[lusty nebula]

Yes exactly where the problem I'm trying to fix comes. If you set a group of spawn points, you can't select in which order they will be used

I do not want them random but, if feasible, I want them used in my pre-fixed order ( set in the script/function )

[knotty abyss]

Ohh , now I understand what u want ..

[lusty nebula]

( ..but looking at other spawn points mods I guess that the only solution is to create each single spawn point and leave it as a single selectable one )

..or a dedicated function

I think that the walkaround is creating a function that gives X percentage chance of spawn to each spawn point

Sample:
Police station Spawn 20%
Doctor house Spawn 10%
Laboratory spawn 70%

IIRC the Occupied Louisville mod does exactly this...Got to check it as reference for making my script...

[knotty abyss]

Gotcha. I think is possible but Idk how to do

[lusty nebula]

Yep that's super easy to be done but that's not what I want

[knotty abyss]

But I need to copy all file or can I copy just the part that I want to change and change it?

[lusty nebula]

You need to copy and edit only the file you want to modify ( but you need to keep the same file name and the same path location as the original file )

[knotty abyss]

Yeah but inside the file I want to change a single part like the color of text for example.

[lusty nebula]

Ok I'll made you a sample

[knotty abyss]

I need just to change the value of R G B

[lusty nebula]

If you want to change that value you have 2 ways

1- Directly edit the string/value of interest ( For example if you are the only one using the mod )

2- If, for example, you want the value changed but you want it for your mod, you need to copy the file of interest from the original mod, then making your edits and put it in your mod but keeping the same file name and file path of the original mod

[knotty abyss]

This is what I did here to test by the way.

But I want to share with others so I believe better way to do that is make a mod and share

[lusty nebula]

So you need to do what indicated at my point number 2

[knotty abyss]

In the file there are several other things that I don't need to change, so I thought that suddenly I could just change what I wanted and add to the file. As if it were an addition of an item in the items table.

[lusty nebula]

Said in brief: For your use only you can simply edit and save the values you want. To share with others, you need to create a mod.

If you change that value in the original mod ( and you don't want to make a mod ) you have to tell to all the users to edit the line of interest otherwise you'll be the only one getting/see your modifications

[knotty abyss]

Yeah yeah

[lusty nebula]

..and you'll get compatibility issues

My suggestion is to create a mod if you intend to share it with a lot of people

The direct edit thing I guess is feasible only if you have 2-3 friends playing with you, not surely for a mod you intend to release in the workshop

[drifting ore]

Hi! Is there a mod tha tmakes tailoring clothes a little less ugly?

Or even just, hides the padding?

[lusty nebula]

Search the workshop. For mod support please use the dedicated channel this is for modding only thanks 😉

[drifting ore]

Ah, sorry!

[knotty abyss]

and the name of lua file I need to change to my mod name file ? for example ISLiteratureUI.lua so I need to use the same name or can I put something like LiteratureHighlight_ISLiteratureUI.lua ?

[lusty nebula]

No problem mate have a good day 😉

[drifting ore]

Thank you for the heads up, I'll refrain from blabbing her again. o7

[knotty abyss]

in case LiteratureHighlight be the name of mod

[lusty nebula]

Switch to PM or we will engulf this chat 😉

[knotty abyss]

k

[raw canopy]

Right now nothing. just trying to see the big picture to know what I can work with =)

thanks! I'll look into it

[raw canopy]

Again, is it possible to simply use some sql library to make sql requests over the network?

[surreal brook]

hello, I would like to know if zomboid is supported with the development of interfaces by the figma tool?

[lusty nebula]

Not 100% sure but I guess no

[empty cove]

if it's server sided, you might want to do javamod for that one. lua modding doesn't support sql library.

[rancid tendon]

this one's a bit of a longshot, but query:

how hard is it to add tabs to the item list interface?

like these

[raw canopy]

Any other way to communicate from lua via network is prohibited, too?

[empty cove]

There is a way to communicate from lua via network but I'm not sure if this is what you want.
sendClientCommand and sendServerCommand

and also OnClientCommand and OnServerCommand hooks

[rancid tendon]

still wondering if anyone would like to tell me how to add tabs to the item list interface like some mods do!

[glad ridge]

think you need a fileguidtable.xml and another folder, best bet is to look at those mods and see what they are doing with that file

[rancid tendon]

i was actually trying to do that with tsarcraft but couldn't for the life of me find anything

i'll take a look at another mod and see if i can find smth

[glad ridge]

that's how mine works at least

but i've only used it with clothing

idk how you'd do it with other items

[rancid tendon]

i'm personally trying to make a specific tab for my true music mod and its available cassettes/vinyls

[glad ridge]

ah yeah idk mine all get added to the tsarcraft automatically when i make them

[rancid tendon]

see i noticed that too and i was curious if i could separate them out, hence my current journey :p

i like to make my mods as tidy as possible and it's one more thing i could do that's nagging at my brain

[glad ridge]

well lmk if you figure it out, would be nice to do that with mine as well

[rancid tendon]

so far i'm coming up blank--undead survivor did indeed have a fileguidetable but your comment about that being mostly good for clothes sent me looking for others

and intriguingly the other two mods i've checked that have tabs seem to have no files that seem at all related to the task of adding a new tab to the ui

so it's kinda befuddling me

[glad ridge]

okay it has to do with what's getting imported in the scripts txts

or what the module is that is being used

I know its a small change but i added a space to it by changing the module i imported, by adding a space in the name of the txt file

[rancid tendon]

hmm, aren't true music mods referencing something from true music or tsar's common library as their module

[glad ridge]

it refrences tsarcraft

i think

[rancid tendon]

that'd mean that there's no way to change what header they go under without changing it in one of the other dependent mods

[glad ridge]

yeah thats what i was thinking too

[rancid tendon]

actually wait

[glad ridge]

could just try to change the module name

[rancid tendon]

if i -

yeah

[glad ridge]

see if that works

oh yeah it does lol

that was easy

nvm

it doesn't play the tapes

[rancid tendon]

yeahh i figured that might break something, darn

[glad ridge]

well, it sort of does, but it loses the functionality

of being able to take it out of the boombox and other stuff

[rancid tendon]

actually

hm

nvm

yeah look at that, that's quite a shame

it almost sorta works

anywho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXKcbJKbAus&t=21s&ab_channel=Glyph

i made a neat little promo for my music mod :)

[glad ridge]

noice

i made all my tapes weights 0.01 so i could carry hundreds in my fanny packs

[rancid tendon]

i bumped mine down to 0.05 and the vinyls down to 0.1

still a lil weighty so you can't carry a billion but still light enough you can fit like 100 in a glove box

[glad ridge]

promo was cool looks like you put a lot of work into it

[rancid tendon]

thanks :)

[spiral sparrow]

This is probably the best song selection out of any true music mod I have ever seen. Like, for real, this could genuinely replace all of them with how good some of these songs are

[rancid tendon]

thank you! :D

[glad ridge]

I got to put gymnopedie in mine that's a good one

[spiral sparrow]

It pains me that I Want It That Way is in the extended version but I understand since it's after 1993

sacrifices must be made 😔

[rancid tendon]

originally when i made this mod for more private use they were all mixed together, and honestly in my ideal world everyone would use all three expansions but

i understood some people are lore sticklers so i separated 'em out

[dim geode]

Is there a place where I could commission a mod from someone

[hidden jungle]

so. im not sure if this is a problem with my mod or if its just a zomboid issue.
i'm playing on a 3x population world and i was trying to clear out a small area of riverside using my modded berserker trait (gives stamina back based on # of kills) and i noticed that it felt like zombies kept respawning after they would die.
i killed well over 1200 zombies in the span of about 45 minutes. and there was 0 signs of the zombies slowing down. so i went into ghost mode and started watching and sure enough zombies that were dead were poofing back to their feet with full health. at this point there were hundreds of corpses on the floor so hadn't actually seen one get up, but i kept noticing that zombies were arriving from all directions even though no zombies were anywhere in the direction it was coming from.
these new revived zombies weren't giving me weapon exp either, but they did give strength xp which was super wierd.

is this just an issue with pz and the number of zombies? or is it indicative that i messed up my mod somehow?

there wasn't any sort of "get up" animation, the zombies were dead on the floor and then they just 1 frame became alive and it would take them about half a second for their AI to turn on. like it does when they spawn normally.

[zenith smelt]

Are you playing on normal + 3x pop?

Did you know different zombie settings and pop settings have different zombie counts.
Such as low zombie and 0.5 pop will have less zombies than insane and 0.5 pop

You should use debug mode with the zombie pop monitor

[hidden jungle]

its very high 3x

with grouping amount set to 30

to make the groups themselves bigger

[zenith smelt]

no respawn?

Did you make any noise?

If I make loud noise, even the areas I'm not in start moving towards me

[hidden jungle]

yeah, noise was being made to attract the zombies so i could clear them out

but when i checked zombie population i had very succesfully done that. there wee no zombies anywhere near me in the cell besides the ones i was fighting

and i was watching them pop up on zombie pop

respawn is enabled and left normal

but respawn is supposed to only happen outside of the current cell?

it also doesnt care about previous zombie's corpses

[zenith smelt]

I would assume they just moved in from the cell next to yours

[hidden jungle]

there wee no zombies anywhere near me in the cell besides the ones i was fighting

and i was watching them pop up on zombie pop

zombies that were dead were poofing back to their feet with full health.

there wasn't any sort of "get up" animation, the zombies were dead on the floor and then they just 1 frame became alive and it would take them about half a second for their AI to turn on. like it does when they spawn normally.\

sounds about right

[zenith smelt]

I think there's a reanimation command and a mod that uses it, but that should be more graceful

same with vanilla revive

[hidden jungle]

someone told me that on higher populations zomboid issues with zombies. so im wondering if this is what he was talkign about or if its an issue with the damage bonus from the berseker trait

vanilla revive is a 1% every decay stage

[zenith smelt]

Ahh, that's possible

I know in multiplayer I've had zombie stop working on higher pop and despawn or stop randomly

So maybe it's bugging out, yeah

[frosty falcon]

lets say I wanted to change this to take 14 days to rot instead, would I simply create a file in my mod folder with the relevant script file (in this case: mods/mymod/media/scripts/items_food.txt

and have the content look like the 2nd image? or does it not work like this?

(oops I didn't change the 7 😆 )

[quasi geode]

absolutely not. first, if you name the file items_food.txt then you'll replace the entire vanilla file (and wipe all other items in it if you dont include them too)
second, creating a new item DogfoodOpen you'll replace the whole item, not just the one property

ideally to edit script item properties for a already existing item (without replacement), create a lua file in media/lua/shared and add the line:

getScriptManager():getItem("Base.DogfoodOpen"):DoParam("DaysTotallyRotten = 7")

[frosty falcon]

Exactly what I was after, tyvm

[alpine scroll]

Oh god I was on the wrong place

haha

Anyone here know what is the thing that I can install on vscode so it autocompletes what I can use on my mods?

Like getNearbyDoors or something

[mortal widget]

if I use noirs backpack attachments with authentic z - current will my shit break or are they compatible

[weak sierra]

im not sure how exactly they'll interact if u try to use both backpack attachment systems, i use authentic z lite with it just fine tho

which is the same but no backpack attachments

note that for some reason peach made them have different item IDs though so u cant swap between them w/o items disappearing

@late hound why did you do that, anyway?

is there a technical reason?

ive wondered

[raw canopy]

This means only on client? Am I able to use fs on the server (for instance, read/write files in the mod folder)

[weak sierra]

it's sandboxed on both sides, but u can read/write to the lua folder on both sides depending on context

e.g., u can write to the server's lua directory

ive not tried to escape it, my knowledge is secondhand, but i've been told by someone who knew their shit that it wasn't doable to read a file outside of it

i wanted to read vehicles.db

[raw canopy]

Sandboxed folder is more than enough!

Can I install lua libraries to use with my lua mods? How does this work?

[weak sierra]

if they are just lua code, just include it in your mod, do a require if necessary, and use

if they use another file.. maybe? i dunno, never tried

[true vault]

Question: any way to specify how long an item added as fuel (to an antique oven, campfire, etc) adds?
I'm working on something where you can shred a piece of paper into scrap paper, and the scraps can be added as fuel to an antique oven no problem, but they also count for 15 minutes. Which makes no sense, realistically speaking; a piece of paper adds 15 minutes; shredding it into several pieces, shouldn't allow each piece to be 15 minutes as well lolz

[glad ridge]

quick question when i import modules ex:imports {Base} could i just say for multiple modules {Base, Example}?

[subtle sapphire]

Hello everyone 👋 Not sure if this is the right channel, do you know if there is a mod that allows zombies to break the fence-crate-fence exploit? Or, if anyone can help me figure out how to write a mod that does it?

[late hound]

Different crowds of people were begging me to make different versions of the mod. Knowing that I can't remove an item without troubles, I had to make it this way so that people using the main branch of the mod are unaffected.

[weak sierra]

ah i thought the set of items in each was the same with just some recipes disabled or etc.

that makes more sense

[weak sierra]

yes

that's a weird way to format it, usually we do

import
{
  Base,
  Whatever,
}```

though obviously everyone has their own style

i rarely see them inline fully

but it makes it more obvious that it's a list this way

which is why i mention it

[glad ridge]

yeah im a weirdo, thanks i'll probably conform to the norm

hey auth is there an easy way for me to allow your attachments on my modded alice packs?

[late hound]

I made each branch have their own items so that each branch can be independent from one another. At the time I made that decision, I analyzed that I would have less problems using multiple item modules than using one. There would have been far too many redundancies and I feel that I would have tangled myself up into a human pretzel with my own code. This way its also easier for me to keep track of all the moving parts and pinpointing issues when they arise.

[weak sierra]

ah yeah probably easier to figure out which branch someone's using too

since it's in all the item types

if they report somethin

[late hound]

Yup that too. Still have the problem of people using multiple branches, but thats the least of my worries now that people, who report issues, on average use 150+ mods.

[weak sierra]

lol multiple branches 🙄

some people

i run ~400 mods but if i report something to u on behalf of my server i'll narrow it down and/or test on a cleaner server first to reproduce xD

do my part to not contribute..

[late hound]

Impressive...Very Nice

400 mods is not that shabby

xD

[weak sierra]

xD

yeah it's work to make everything work nicely together and be stable and etc.

most of them are tiny stuff

[late hound]

DM'ing you the steps

[weak sierra]

oh hey can you send me that too? i should probably have support built into my backpack mod

[eternal garnet]

"Your mod is not working it's broken"

Has 60+ mods installed

"It's not my other mods they worked fine a few days ago"

I feel your pain Peach

[weak sierra]

if only every user was computer literate enough to understand interactions and that other things can change besides the one named in an error lol

at least TIS adding that thing that tells u which mods' code is what by file sheds some light on it at a glance for them

[eternal garnet]

When you see great comments like "How do I enable a mod" you know it is going to be a doozy the next time they comment in Mod Support

[weak sierra]

u can tell which things MIGHT be relevant more easily now

[weak sierra]

oof

[glad ridge]

sometimes when i edit my mod's they end up getting deleted in my saves, that's probably because i'm changing its item name right? if i just change some things in it's parameters it should still remain in game?

[worldly olive]

And then they sent you the modlist and there are mods without an update since 2020 but "hey, I just get a couple of red errors, it works all fine..."

[eternal garnet]

I actually had some DM that before

20 pages worth of mods

Said "Could you fix this for me"

[zenith smelt]

is global mod data only savedd on clients?
No syncronization as well?

[ancient owl]

anyone here using the REMOD?

resident evil stuff

[cyan drum]

does anyone know what the name/id of the gray flashlight is? the only one I can find on the wiki is the yellow one

wait nevermind found it

[glad ridge]

hand torch?

[weak sierra]

it can be synchronized

one of my mods sets it on the server under certain conditions then pushes it to clients

[undone elbow]

How to disable another incompatible mod?
Let's say my mod and another mod are incompatible. The user has enabled both mods inadvertently. I'd like to disable another mod on game load because my mod is newer and does the same thing.

I guess the prerequisite is that my mod must be active in the main menu.

[lime hedge]

what makes my local dedicated server kicked me out without explicit logs, but sometimes it breaks into debug window and shows exception in DoSpecialTooltip1, i tried to override ISWaterPlantAction:perform(), it works, but whenver i tried to change the logic etc, added more overriden fuction like harvest/fertilize/seed with near the same logic, it causes crash :S

[glad ridge]

is eraser or dumpster reserved words?

getting some weird errors when trying to create an item

[glad ridge]

probably better in #mod_support

[mortal widget]

yuh my bad

[glad ridge]

can anyone help me with this mod? for some reason it's causing lots of issues, i really didn't think it be this hard lol ```module Cleaner {
imports {Base}

item Cleaner
{
DisplayCategory = Junk,
Weight = -60.0,
Type = Normal,
DisplayName = Cleaner,
Icon = Cleaner,
WorldStaticModel = Cleaner,
}

recipe Craft Cleaner
{
DisplayCategory = Junk,
Eraser = 1,
result : Cleaner,
Time : 150.0,

}

}

[lime hedge]

for good practice, either use prefix in module name or item name, also check icon and worldstaticmodel existence in the imported base module if you're not defining the model on your own.

[lime hedge]

also try to change the recipe DisplayCategory = to Category :

@glad ridge for better readability, put Eraser above Category: and delimited by blank lines between the ingredients and definition, then rename Eraser to use module name prefix instead Base.Eraser=1

[glad ridge]

Thanks, I will try it out. I just followed other mods I've created that don't have issues but this one has been giving me trouble. Didn't think I needed Base. As I'm importing base but no harm in being explicit

I've renamed the module multiple times and the textures are there, but even if I used the base eraser texture for both I still end up with the errors

It's something weird

[lime hedge]

yeah, being explicit will help you in the long run as your mod grows

[lime hedge]

haven't you change the DisplayCategory = junk in recipe Craft Cleaner, to Category with double dot? Category: < it's for naming the tab in crafting windows

perhaps thats what you mean... because the resulted Item Cleaner already define the DisplayCategory, and also, in result: section, proably it confuse the interpreter, this what you mean > Cleaner.Cleaner, interpreter might get the module Cleaner instead of Cleaner.Cleaner, i dunno...

@glad ridge everytime you check the crafting window, and click upon recipes of crafts, it exectue "OnTest" if its defined, or they iterate thru the definition of your recipes, if one of the things goes wrong, it throws error

[glad ridge]

Yeah I had it as garbage eraser but I wasn't sure if they were reserved words so I changed it because I know naming items with ex: pills, will cause some issues

This is good info to work on I'll lyk when I can get back to my pc and change it if I figured it out

[lime hedge]

yeah, its better to add prefix into any of your mod, as example, module GCleaner { item I_Cleaner }, so you can distinct between this and that

[glad ridge]

Yep thanks friend i didn't think about that at all

[lime hedge]

good luck

[glad ridge]

bro.. i think it was because i had result instead of Result.. lol it's all good now

it threw some crazy weird errors because of that

[cedar anvil]

Is there any way to add sound(that zombies can hear) to the crafting recipe?

[shadow geyser]

yeah, using the Oncreate of the recipe, you can make a lua function run when the recipe is crafted. so you can execute code to add a sound

[cedar anvil]

Oh super, Thank you! I gotta find sound functions from reciplecode.lua

[mellow oyster]

how would i add a completely new drop to this table with a dist lua? like how theres one for junk and items, i want to add my own as to not bog things down with too many item rolls.

[glad ridge]

don't know if this will be helpful but i think he explains things to do with dist in here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2609939329

[summer rune]

is there a good video or article that talks about the details of modding for PZ and especially the debugging aspect?

[glad ridge]

you could check these out https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding , also maybe check out authentic peach on youtube, i see hes got a few videos dealing with debugging

[lusty nebula]

From where you get a .X file? ( What program is needed to create/import one? )

[summer rune]

thank you. i will check AuthenticPeach out. live debugging sounds like a good way to understand the process in PZ.

[lusty nebula]

Where is located in Blender the option to import/export .X files? Preferences...then?

[umbral grove]

looking for someone to make the worst most cursed mods of all time

i need things like "30 second day cycle"

and "its morbin time anytime you melee attack"

[knotty abyss]

Blender dont have import or export .X files, just .FBX files

Blender don't work with .X in this new version of it, but if u want, u can use some converter FBX to X file

[eternal garnet]

You don’t.

.X is a packed file, you need to convert it to an FBX format

[knotty abyss]

Go here ! Maybe help you -> #modeling message

https://github.com/poikilos/io_import_x

[grim rose]

less go

yo guys where icons go?

eh its something else

thats wrong in my game

i mean mod

[glad ridge]

icons go in textures

unless you mean the icon.png

[knotty abyss]

you need to give more details of what you want, if not there is no way to try to help

[ember karma]

Does somebody know if it is possible to make passing out mechanic, like in dayz for example?

[grim rose]

Ye, i was in school so i havn’t gotten time to explain

But now i do

[grim rose]

So i have it there

item_thing.png

Yet it doesn’t load for my mod

Like any thing doesn’t load

Tho looking at this i may made typo in textures

Like directory typ

[lusty nebula]

I'm building an heli model but I presume I've made it too small 😄 😄 😄 Welcome to the heli toys world LOOL 😄

[grim rose]

Scale=10000;

[lusty nebula]

Where I need to add it? Blender?

[grim rose]

In model

You can send me code if you want

Or gimme few sec

Because i forgoten when exsacly you put scale thing

[lusty nebula]

ok on stand by

[calm acorn]

thats the opposite problem i always have when importing models

[grim rose]

Both can be solved this way

    {
        mesh = FUMOTH_powercsm_low,
            texture = FUMOTH_powercsm_fumo,
            scale = 0.004,
    }```

from my mod

[lusty nebula]

Thanks mate! 😉

[grim rose]

so to increase go scale = 1.5

to lower go scale = 0.X

@calm acorn

[lusty nebula]

Now the game supports .fbx files so where there were earlier .X files I can now use the .fbx ones in the same way right?

[grim rose]

Yes

Actually

Just use FBX

[calm acorn]

lol .X files are bunk

such a pain to work with

[grim rose]

.X more like .ASS

[hearty dew]

getTileOverlays():addOverlays(overlayMap)```
I'm trying to find some info or documentation about the parameters to `addOverlays`. Can anyone point me to info that specifies its input?

[knotty abyss]

Im using fbx and havent any problem with it yet

[vocal bloom]

Hey modders! I got a request, not sure if any of you will care enough to listen but it's just a thought.. Back in the day for build 40 I found a mod and it allowed for not only GPS's in cars but also it added roof racks that could be added to the Wagon and a few other cars. If you guys could add it and maybe even make it work for Philibuster rhymes cars that would be super awesome!

[main loom]

They had to be naked

[gaunt belfry]

I released a mod a while back that adds a "reload" action to spears. It puts a new spear on your back from inventory if you press 'R' with a spear in your hand.

The issue I have is I get a bug from time to time and instead of reloading the spear, he just raises it up above his head. I'm pretty sure it stems from this horrible hack where i try to detect what slot to use for the back. Does anybody know a better way of doing this?

                local new_spear = find_spear_in_inventory(player)
                if new_spear then

                    -- Another hack.  I cant figure out how to identify which slot to use programmatically so i
                    -- just look for a backpack and determine which slot to use that way.  Need to look into hotbar
                    local slot
                    if get_equipped_backpack(player) then
                        slot = "Shovel Back with Bag"
                    else
                        slot = "Shovel Back"
                    end

                    ISTimedActionQueue.add(ISAttachItemHotbar:new(player, new_spear, slot , 1, 'Back'))```

https://github.com/texasrut/spearbreaker/blob/main/Contents/mods/Spearbreaker/media/lua/client/spearbreaker.lua#L116-L127

[solar anvil]

nvm

[summer rune]

So i am hosting a local MP server and testing it with how much FPS it delivers for my own session. with game zoom of 200% i get 30 FPS, which is weird because i allocated 12GB Ram for the game and 8GB for the server. My CPU and GPU also hovers at 10% load. And the 12 GB and 8 Ram als have tons of room left.

Before i added all those mods, my FPS was 120 straight, at all times.

So now i want to debug my local side and also the server side. How can i see the server game loop and client game loop with stuff that is bottlenecking them?

[frosty falcon]

wheres the lua reference?
like how would I find player:getNutrition exists

do you just browse through the zomboid lua files?

oh its here https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.65/zombie/characters/IsoPlayer.html#getNutrition()

[mint nacelle]

How difficult would it be to change the horn sound that the vehicles use

i kinda hate the stock one and want to make it something a little more, realistic? maybe?

maybe like less of a high pitch motorcycle horn and more generic car horn

i might be interested in making it a mod, but if theres a way i can do it just for me, id be fine with that too

[grim rose]

'

i just want to code in peace

[grim rose]

look i have invisible gun

[knotty abyss]

inventoryfemale and inventorymale here are the inventory of zombies (the chance of loot "appear" or not)?

table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.all.inventorymale.items, 0.1)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.all.inventoryfemale.items, "GodigodMod.GinsengPills")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.all.inventoryfemale.items, 0.1)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.all.medicine.items, "GodigodMod.GinsengPills")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.all.medicine.items, 4)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.all.sidetable.items, "GodigodMod.GinsengPills")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.all.sidetable.items, 1)```

[grim rose]

i think so

[lusty nebula]

Was just a very quick test so I didn't dressed the character ( a random one ) then I started laughing when I saw the size of my item 😄

[lusty nebula]

Now we can make a mod together " Toy items and invisible guns " LOOL 😄

[knotty abyss]

u created children hahahaha

maybe you can create giants too .. lol AHUahhaha

[lusty nebula]

Don't say it too loud because today with doogymoney we found how to create them LOOL 😄

[grim rose]

im going back into challenge called

i fuck up and mod doesn't work

10 push ups

[lusty nebula]

The challenge of every respectable modder LOOL 😄

It's like modding without having 10000 windows open on the desktop 😄

[grim rose]

god i wish i had 2nd screen already

[summer rune]

So i am hosting a local MP server and testing it with how much FPS it delivers for my own session. with game zoom of 200% i get 30 FPS, which is weird because i allocated 12GB Ram for the game and 8GB for the server. My CPU and GPU also hovers at 10% load. And the 12 GB and 8 Ram als have tons of room left.

Before i added all those mods, my FPS was 120 straight, at all times.

So now i want to debug my local side and also the server side. How can i see the server game loop and client game loop with stuff that is bottlenecking them?

[grim rose]

because for now i have wish to blow my head off

for fuck sake, everything doesn't work

just because

even Item_ PNGs doesn't work

[lusty nebula]

Yesterday I've solved a bug in my mod after almost 3 weeks of work and not understanding what the hell was the error despite the efforts so you're not alone on that boat LOOL 😄

[summer rune]

where can i see gameloop sequences and the time it takes for 1 loop in debugging window?

[weak sierra]

there's lots of mods with roofracks on various cars but it's not a generic thing - roofracks have to be set up to fit on a specific car model

[weak sierra]

what is a gameloop sequence

:P

reads ur earlier post

[summer rune]

everything that the client or computer does during 1 frame. logic, rendering, network sync. normally games show how much times each of these steps took, so that u know where too look for problems and errors. or where to optimize the server.

[weak sierra]

not sure if zomboid has that or not, but if it does it'd be in the debug mode someplace

u can see much of what is going on in the logs

but that won't tell you things like render time/etc.

if u find that lmk tho, that would be useful

[summer rune]

damn, i wish it would be there. one of the most useful tools for optimization

[weak sierra]

yeah now that i know what ur talking about

for many games that's done with an attached debugger rather than having it set up as a built-in feature

but that said i haven't explored debug mode in its fullest

it might be somewhere

[summer rune]

yeah but none of the other moders jumped into our little discussion. so my hopes are small.

[weak sierra]

ive asked questions that are like 101 level in the past and had nothing but silence

sometimes it's just quiet or the people who know aren't around

[main loom]

lmao I laughed, but everybody else in the elevator was alienated to say the least

[lusty nebula]

Don't forget that you're a PZ modder so people will always look at you with a strange gaze LOOL 😄

[calm depot]

scaling items outside of blender tends to be more trouble than it's worth - depending on what state the object is in such as on the floor vs wielding it, it won't apply the in-game scale

much simpler to get the FBX right and be done with it

[rigid smelt]

Hello, im searching for a mod that adds a graphic inventor y like this but i cant find it

[worldly olive]

Does somebody has any guide to how play animations? I think is using the playEmote function but how to configure the .xml or any place where I could see what every option in the xml means
I would like to be able to play these two:
Bob_EmotePassOut_Back
Bob_EmotePassOut_Front

[glad ridge]

Has anyone ever created a mod and added it to a dedi server and after restarting it, the server won't load up in pzs join option?

This was supposed to be my simplest mod I've made and it's been the biggest headache of them all

[low yarrow]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2695471997
Thats the closest one i know

[raw canopy]

Hi guys! I don't quite understand why I can't call methods on some Java objects from lua. For example I do getGameClient() - it returns me a Java object of type GameClient, that, of course, has some methods. When I try to call those methods with getGameClient():someMethod() lua tells me that I attempted index: someMethod from non-table. My thoughts are: GameClient object is not a table (cuz it's not shown as a table by print()) and that means I can't use indexing with [], . and :, which all basically do the same thing - getting a value from a table.
At the same time I AM allowed to call :size() and :get(i) on ArrayLists which are returned my some methods (e.g. getConnectedPlayers()), but those lists show up as [ObjectType] (e.g. [IsoPlayer]). Does this mean array lists are special case?

Dear coders, please help me with this! Am I simply not allowed to call methods on GameClient or am I doing something wrong?

[calm depot]

in Kahlua, the Java objects work basically like userdata objects in regular Lua

these objects can have metatables, also just like in regular lua

in the case of [] . or : these all just result in the __index metamethod being used

in the case of Java objects, their __index metamethod takes care of ensuring the appropriate marshalled function is returned to your lua script

[glad ridge]

nvm figured it out lol talk about wasted hours

[drifting ore]

alright guys, back once more

I've got this mod that removes clothing from zombies, but only sometimes

here is the code, how do I make it so that it removes it all the time ?

local function zomCloth(zombie)
local cDebug = false;
local vMod = zombie:getModData();
if vMod.Tagged ~= true then
vMod.Tagged = true;
if ZombRand(10) == 9 then
-- print("removing shirt");
zombie:setClothingItem_Torso(nil);
if ZombRand(5) == 4 then
-- print("removing pants");
zombie:setClothingItem_Legs(nil);
end
zombie:resetModel();
end
if cDebug == true then
zombie:setClothingItem_Torso(nil);
zombie:setClothingItem_Legs(nil);
zombie:resetModel();
end
end
end

Events.OnZombieUpdate.Add(zomCloth);

[drifting ore]

Also will this work with "zone" zombies like cops etc. ? I have tried lots of different code but none of it worked

[alpine scroll]

Replace the ZombRand(10) == 9 with 1==1 so it always triggers?

Remove the random so it wont be random haha

[drifting ore]

Can you give me an example of that ?

[alpine scroll]

What do you mean?

[drifting ore]

How would I remove the random thingy ?

[alpine scroll]

You replace the ZombRand

ZombRand(10) will pick a number from 1 to 10 afaik

It checks if its equal to 9

So a 1 in 10 chance

Make it so it always returns true on this comparison

[drifting ore]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a glitch? I think? That is causing my world to slowly turn into wood floors. Like after about 3 hours of playing, I start seeing wood floor take over my self-hosted server

[glad ridge]

lol sounds interesting

[drifting ore]

Very… ummm…. interesting…

[glad ridge]

well if it's your mod maybe someone here can help you, otherwise it might be better for #mod_support

[drifting ore]

Ohh… thanks I didn’t realize there was different ones 😬 I’ll post there

I’m actually not sure if it’s a mod or server issue… most likely a mod though

[glad ridge]

probably, you'll most likely have to go down your list removing mods until you find the culprit

[drifting ore]

Yeah… I tried that lol

I’ll give it another shot. Thank you!

[zenith smelt]

I saw a similar error once.
I think mine was because the riverside expanison mod

And also I think rosewood expansion

[alpine scroll]

I had a similar problem in the past

When I was trying to make a heli spawn and fall (from heli expanded events)

[drifting ore]

Any suggestions? I don’t think I have either riverside or rosewood. I have riverside fire department?

[alpine scroll]

The error was that a code was running on the server folder that should be ran on the client folder

[drifting ore]

Hmmm I’ll look into that too

[alpine scroll]

It was something related to that. I am not completely sure of what caused it, but I didnt test the falling helicopters too much

[drifting ore]

I never tried checking that so it’s definitely worth a shot

[zenith smelt]

No not that, must be different

riverside expansion aka trelai

[drifting ore]

I definitely think its a location mod/map mod though. Or even just a tile mod? I’m not sure lmao

[zenith smelt]

yeah, I had to try by removing different maps and starting a new game every time

[drifting ore]

Yeah… that’s what I’m currently doing… not a fan 😂

[alpine scroll]

What is an easy way to get all the containers on a square? Furniture containers, not item containers

[drifting ore]

See it isn’t just modded locations that this happens to, the photo is of pitstop area but it happens all over the world.

Sigh, I’m gonna keep removing mods. Only thing that sucks is it takes an hour or so to start happening so this is gonna be a couple day project

[glad ridge]

you can just go into debug mode

on the library tab click the gear and at the bottom type in -debug, then in game click on the lil mosquito icon on the left side of the screen

there should be an option in the menu that lets you speed up in game time

[drifting ore]

Worth a shot 😅

[zenith smelt]

getGameTime():setMultiplier(9001);
use that in the debug console to make game super fast

If it's based on the time

Ohh, it also happened to me on pitstop, did you try changing pitstop to be higher or lower in the load order?

[viral remnant]

Where should it be in the load order? 🤔 Before or after the tile sets

I am the host of the server that Corrival is talking about 😅

[zenith smelt]

I just tried top and bottom 🤷‍♂️

[fast ingot]

Is there a guide to start learning weapon modding ?

[viral remnant]

Of the whole load order? or do you mean with the tiles? lol I always thought it goes Tiles then the maps that use said tiles 🤷‍♂️

[zenith smelt]

Off the whole things yeah.
Well as far as I think makes the most sense.
The mods are all initially processed, the required fields are read and processed
Then the mods are loaded in an order where anything that's required, will load before the frist mod that required it

So if you put it to the top, it will probably load the tilesets in the requirement before it anyway

[viral remnant]

Does the steam workshop load order matter ? Or just the mods section load order?

[zenith smelt]

use mod manager

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2694448564&searchtext=mod+manager

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725216703

And server mod manager

They have a button for load order

[viral remnant]

I didnt know that was a thing 👀 omg thank you! That makes things a lot easier lol

[glad ridge]

If your making your own from scratch might want to look up blender tutorials. Although I've heard of people using already made assets and porting them to the game. Then maybe download a basic weapon mod that adds 1 item and try to use it as a guide

[undone elbow]

getPlayer():getInventory():contains("RippedSheets")

Does it search in array or by hash?

i.e. O(N) or O(1) ?

[glad ridge]

when i have a recipe that upgrades a bag or something, is there a way to save the items inside of the bag?

[glad ridge]

i know authentic z has a OnCreate:PleaseKeepColor, but i have no idea where to find where it's being called

[willow estuary]

--function to use for the OnCreate recipe paramater when upgrading bags
function Transfer_Bag(item, resultItem, player) 
    local player_Inventory = player:getInventory();
    local transferred_Items = {}; 
    local dItem;
    local texture    
    for i = 0, (item:size()-1) do 
        dItem = item:get(i); 
        if dItem:getCategory() == "Container" then 
    if player:getClothingItem_Back() == dItem then 
    player:setClothingItem_Back(nil);
    end
    if player:getPrimaryHandItem() == dItem then 
    player:setPrimaryHandItem(nil);
    end
           if player:getSecondaryHandItem() == dItem then 
      player:setSecondaryHandItem(nil); 
    end
            texture = dItem:getTexture()
            dInv = dItem:getInventory(); 
            newInv= resultItem:getInventory(); 
            dInvItems = dInv:getItems(); 
            if dInvItems:size() >= 1 then 
                for i2 = 0, (dInvItems:size()-1) do
                    invItem = dInvItems:get(i2);
                    table.insert(transferred_Items, invItem) 
                end
            end
        end
    end    
    for i3, k3 in ipairs(transferred_Items) do
        dInv:Remove(k3); 
        newInv:AddItem(k3); 
    end
    resultItem:setTexture(texture)
end

Fuck it, couldn't fix the formatting

[glad ridge]

sweet thanks, so i just throw this in a .lua and OnCreate:Transfer_Bag?

in the txt

[willow estuary]

If you do everything properly then it should work 🙂

[glad ridge]

i will try it, i've been scared of touching the lua side so we'll see how it goes

[willow estuary]

Unless I fucked up something

[glad ridge]

this goes in server folder right

[glad ridge]

thank you that worked perfectly!

[alpine scroll]

I did a code that respawns the items inside the containers near the player, to force spawn in case when the loot respawn is broken due a mod or anything. However, when the container has different sprites for "empty" and "with items", the sprite do not update unless I put/remove something with the player. Is there a code that allows me to trigger a sprite update on the containers?

[open abyss]

Might need the same, since i use Sacks 😛

[alpine scroll]

I dont know what sacks is haha

[open abyss]

Yes you do!
Here let me make it simple: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Sack
^_^

[alpine scroll]

Oh

Ok

[open abyss]

hehe

Let's chalk that down to a brain fart 😉

[alpine scroll]

I am not used to using sacks in game. And since I play in pt-br, I am used to its portuguese name

[open abyss]

ah, alright, wait, what is the portuguese name then? now i'm super curius

[alpine scroll]

Saco

haha

Its similar, but I must confess I didnt think you were talking about an item

[open abyss]

heh

[midnight mica]

is there a way to make a recipe require a FULL petrolcan?

when i try this:
**recipe Example
{
destroy PetrolCan=10,

Result:Money=2,
CanBeDoneFromFloor:true,
Category:Test,
Time:10,

}**

Then it requires 10 of them, but when i remove "=10", then i can use a petrolcan with 10% gas in it

[open abyss]

um, yes

that one i think i can answer

could look in recipe.txt which i'm about to, i have seen a few recipes that demand the entire thing

[midnight mica]

i have another recipe which requires x amount of welding rods, that seems to work fine with thesame syntax

[open abyss]

maybe just remove the amount?

[alpine scroll]

I think you need to remove the Destroy

    {
       IronIngot=40,
       BlowTorch=5,
       keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.WeldingMask],

       Result:MetalPipe,
       Time:150.0,
       Category:Welding,
       OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.MetalWelding10,
       NeedToBeLearn:true,
    }```

This is how the Make Metal Pipe recipe works

You see, it uses 5 of the blowtorch

[midnight mica]

now that you mention it, my welding rods recipe doesn't have destroy either, i'll try it thanks

[alpine scroll]

However I am not sure if there is a way to check contents

Because I THINK you can fill the cans with water now

[open abyss]

it looks like all you need to do is just don't specify an amount if you wish to use the whole thing

[open abyss]

yup, latest update added the ability to use gascans was water cans 😄

[alpine scroll]

I know that you can do the opposite, like fill bottles with petrol

But here

@midnight mica ``` recipe Make Molotov Cocktail
{
WineEmpty/WineEmpty2/WhiskeyEmpty,
RippedSheets/RippedSheetsDirty/DenimStrips/DenimStripsDirty,
[Recipe.GetItemTypes.Petrol]=1,

   Result:Molotov,
   Time:50.0,
}```

Here is something that uses Petrol

You can make it so it doesnt require a can, but just uses the Petrol

Which I think its a better way

Also, if I am not mistaken, the petrol can has 2 items. An empty one and a filled one

[midnight mica]

yes

i can't seem to fill it with water tho

41.73

[open abyss]

might i suggest something?

[midnight mica]

thanks for the replies, using: PetrolCan=10, without "destroy" does the trick, but it doesn't consume the gas can, so i will need to do something else.
many gas stations are powered up on my server, so would be too easy money

[open abyss]

Check RecipeCode.lua at line 240, find the file in Media/lua/server --- It might be what you need @midnight mica

[midnight mica]

thanks, i'll check it out

[open abyss]

just a guess - was looking for some possible code to match my own request i made a few mins ago in the same file, in hopes i can get what i'd like

[midnight mica]

yeah thats actually helpful, never looked at that file before, thanks both!

destroy PetrolCan,
OnTest: Recipe.OnTest.FullPetrolBottle,

This combo did the trick for what i wanted, consume the whole petrolcan which is filled to 1 delta

[open abyss]

glad i could help with at least something for once, instead of being the one asking for help all the time 😛

[alpine scroll]

Have you tested with half petrol can?

[midnight mica]

yeah, it ignored it

never played with OnTest before, should be able to sell "empty" backpacks with this method aswell

[eternal garnet]

Question for ya'll, do we want this channel to become the coding channel and have another channel just for general modding questions enquires seeing as we use this for code work anyway.

As we have a Mapping for Mapping, Modeling for Modeling but not one for Coding.

That way the Coding channel is for Coding, don't have to worry about Modding questions, or enquires being lost, or Code ones being lost either.

Asking as I dropped a message to nasKo about it and he want's to know what you lot think.

[crisp rock]

Not-a-pz-modder but separating development stuff from general mod questions / talk / etc sounds like a pretty good idea

[open abyss]

you got my thumbs up

[zenith smelt]

kind-of modding question.
When making stuff, do people usually make it single player and then add multiplayer?
When devs make stuff like the new chicken system, do they just make it and then add multipalyer later once it's a more finished feature?

[eternal garnet]

There is nothing really specific that needs to be done when making a mod.

Only in specific cases would a SP mod and a MP mod need extra steps.

As for Build 42 with the first lot of Animal stuff, not when it drops it should drop for both, but things are always subject to change.

[zenith smelt]

yeah, just wondering if IK should just develop mods which add new stuff using multiplayer in debug mode

And thought someone probably figured out which is more efficient usually

Technically when making something new, even if you have a plan.
You still might change thigns working on it, so might be better to make something work in singleplayer.
Then add whatever is needed for MP.

[eternal garnet]

It all depends on what it is, if it is something that you are doing code wise specifically for Multiplayer, such as an extension that checks for Players on the server then yes.

If you are talking making a hat, then no

[zenith smelt]

Yeah, probably so far I'

[quasi geode]

if your project requires additional work to function in MP vs SP, then either forget MP entirely, or plan it into the design from the start

[zenith smelt]

I think just anything that needs data and saving functions

[quasi geode]

dont try and tack MP on after the fact

[zenith smelt]

Ahh okay, that's exactly what I meant 😄

[quasi geode]

ya better to have it part of the initial design then try and change it after, you may (probably) run into additional complications that could have been avoided if you had planned for it from the start

[alpine scroll]

I do mods for my own dedicated server to add interactions with chat and everything

So I always start with MP

I'm not even sure if half of the things i've done would work on sp

But since I am modding for my own use, I am not too concerned with that

So it mostly depends on what your focus is

Anyone knows how to force a furniture texture update via lua/client?

[rancid tendon]

i'm rather perplexed by something lately

so i've been working on a true music mod, and it has a sub-mod that has a small selection of modern songs that i want to make WAY rarer than the others. but something about trying to lower their numbers in the distribution tables seems to have just failed basically every time i've tried it

it always either somehow causes the items to break and not spawn, or their chance remains the same, both visible in lootzed

so to give an example of what i tried:

before:
https://pastebin.com/7LsVwpHq
after:
https://pastebin.com/T1CddHXh

i basically search and replaced all instances of 0.1 and 0.7 with 0.0001, because with a file this big there's no other way to change that many numbers. just no way to do it manually

[rancid tendon]

so uh, yeah, if anyone knows what i did wrong and how i can get this to work, let me know! it'd be very helpful

[unique goblet]

When using VehicleZoneDistribution what's valid value range for spawnChance? Is it 0-100? Does value like e. g. spawnChance = 25 means that there's 25% chance for the vehicle to spawn in specified zone?

[drifting ore]

We need a takedown mod

Or maybe a grab mod

for us to grab zombies from behind and eliminate silently

[spiral sparrow]

knife

[lime hedge]

how do i turn off the network packet in the debug mode console... wanted to mock and call some modded function to see the result, but the network packet stuff are too verbose...

[lime hedge]

nevermind, i found it in debugLog :S

[torpid kestrel]

Its possible but I wish there was more variety in the animations

[undone elbow]

Are you trying to make your own mod or fixing submod by editing it?

[rancid tendon]

i'm making my own mod that uses true music

[undone elbow]

Then you should fix true music loot tables. Now you are just trying to add new tables, so chance of an item is 0.7+0.0001

[rancid tendon]

interesting, shouldn't they be separate? true music generates separate loot definitions for each cassette and vinyl, so it should be mod-side and not tsarslib/true music-side

the ones i posted there are not new tables i'm adding, they're ones i'm editing from the mod that true music's tools generated for me

[undone elbow]

The same filename?

[rancid tendon]

no, as recommended i changed the names on the files inside of my mod to enable compatibility with other true music mods

[undone elbow]

I'm not sure how it works. But I guess files in your mod are only for items from your mod. I think it's possible to hack chances from other mod but it's tricky.

[rancid tendon]

well yeah

i'm only trying to change the chances for items in my mod

[rancid tendon]

so yeah, if anyone knows what's up and how to alter these loot distributions, lmk

[weak sierra]

i was kinda annoyed when general purpose questions about mods like "does a mod exist that does X" and "i have a new mod idea even though i don't make mods" were officially endorsed as belonging here when the description seems to indicate otherwise

so i definitely want a channel that i can go to and not be bothered with that kind of thing, personally

i personally would also suggest that mod_support be where things like "does a mod exist that does X?" belongs in the current structure

[eternal garnet]

I agree with you
You put what I was thinking lol

Most of my own code work I don't post here, but when asking for code checks, it is somewhat annoying to see someone come and just do that and it's like.

Dude, come on

[eternal garnet]

I think at that point something like "mod_ideas" exist

[weak sierra]

on other modding communities there's usually a mod general chat, mod ideas chat, mod troubleshooting chat of some kind, mod development chat of some kind and if there's enough variation to warrant it then subcategories like we have here for modeling/mapping (another server for another game has an "art" channel separate from the dev channel for instance)

though i must say, mod ideas don't flow here at the pace where that necessarily requires its own channel (yet?)

if there's a general chat, it can probably handle that

[rancid tendon]

pwease does anyone know... i can't say for sure but this seems like it'd be super simple for someone who actually knows how coding for this game works and i'm just having issues with it because i'm not really a coder

[deep kelp]

Do you guys know any good outfit mods that just adds clothes not retextured

[weak sierra]

You did nothing wrong, but you made them so rare that they seem to not be spawning, most likely

.0001 is truly a low number

i only have one mod with a rarity value that low, and it's for ammo cans full of ammo because i want them to be an extreme rarity

most "rare" items are something like .01, .02, etc.

but the way the tables work

it goes through and rolls on items until it has enough to satisfy the amount to spawn there

[rancid tendon]

see, that's the thing

[weak sierra]

so if there's a lot of items in the table, you will see the rarer items less and less

[rancid tendon]

i know for a fact that it's not that they're too rare because of LootZed

[weak sierra]

yeah ive never used lootzed

any idea where that is

or how to get to it if it's built in

:p

i've seen other mentions of it

[rancid tendon]

lootzed tells me the exact chances, and changing them this way has variously resulted in:

• it worked once, and then never again, despite me doing it the exact same way again and not getting it to work again
• the numbers stay the same as before and don't seem to be altered, or
• the numbers ARE altered properly, but also the item name breaks in LootZed and it stops spawning no matter how many times i reroll the container

so uhh

[open abyss]

What could one call an item that is both heavy and light?
I'm working on my mod, and the item I got needs a name.
But i can't think of a good name other then "Odd Thingy".

[rancid tendon]

if you're in solo, debug mode, cheats, lootzed

then right click the container icon

[weak sierra]

ah it's in debug

the name made me think it was an external tool or mod

lol

[rancid tendon]

yeah it kinda sounds like it doesn't it

[weak sierra]

so i kept searching workshop and google for it 😂

and checking around the modding tools

[rancid tendon]

the debug tools are strangely poorly documented

[open abyss]

that's how it is for nearly any game, actually.

[weak sierra]

well u'd expect a big community documentation

considering the size of the community

:p

[rancid tendon]

kinda, it's unusually strange for this game where the debug mode also doubles as basically a cheat mode that is frequently useful for lots of stuff that normal users might want access to

so you'd think they'd be a little more documented but nope

[weak sierra]

it's not meant for that

there's mods that are better as a cheating device

and cheating isn't usually what a game dev worries about enabling people to do

lol

[rancid tendon]

well i more meant documented by the community

also, debatable! there's definitely a lot of stuff you can only get access to through debug, though not as much as there used to be

debug holds useful tools for like, server admins running events and stuff

[weak sierra]

i run a server and mod things

idk

unless server admins or cheaters need to edit attachment positions or view animations

i guess the zombie radar thing would be useful for an admin

to check zed distros

but u can enable all those tools w/o debug mode if you mod them in

so

[rancid tendon]

there's lootzed which lets you refill loot containers, a lot more climate debuggers that let you make advanced changes to the weather for events

stuff like that

[weak sierra]

i still haven't poked around debug mode enough tbh

i just usually find it unnecessary for the dev process

im rather old fashioned, i write my code in a syntax highlighting text editor and read the log file

lol

[eternal garnet]

"it's unusually strange for this game where the debug mode also doubles as basically a cheat mode"

No, not at all, what do you think a debug mode is?
It is to test aspects of the game.

If you want to test what certain Weather Conditions are like, you can do that.

If a Dev needs to test what the Zombies real time pathing is like, they can do that and see it in real time.

Have you ever played any other game and seen the debug mode for it?

[weak sierra]

sometimes i use it when i wanna dynamically run code, but i can also use cheat menu for that

[untold saffron]

Hi i've made an addon for true music mods. Maybe this isn't the channel to post it but here we go : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2863047003

[rancid tendon]

i mean, i know what debug is for

[drifting ore]

Knife is a piece of shit

we want TLOU take down

And the knife have about 9% of really insta kill

[eternal garnet]

I mean, you kind of get that if you stab a Zed in the neck

[drifting ore]

LIKE I TOLD YOU IRGHT NOW BRUH

its bad

The vanilla is bad

Should Be nice we get a snap neck or something like that

with 100 % of really take down

[weak sierra]

"we"

[eternal garnet]

I think that might be all we are getting I'm afraid

[eternal garnet]

The Royal "we" xD

[drifting ore]

There is a lot of people who really wants that

[weak sierra]

there's already an instakill mechanic for knives, im honestly surprised that exists as it is given the way the gameplay is for melee

[rancid tendon]

anywho, i guess i'm just going to tinker around with the numbers and see if i can find some way to force that to work, because i swear it worked once and never again

[eternal garnet]

Source?

Jk

[weak sierra]

anyway if u care, learn to mod

[drifting ore]

ok, fuck you too

[drifting ore]

I dont know hw to do that bruh

[weak sierra]

a modder would have to care too to want to do it

[weak sierra]

well yeah, that's why i said learn - nobody does until they do it

[signal coyote]

Can anyone give me advice on what I might be doing wrong for getting these custom traits to show up? I'm not an experienced coder by any stretch but I have a bit of general experience. I'm not really understanding why this isn't working.

[rancid tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/3d-saul-saul-goodman-adamghik-gif-23876766

[drifting ore]

https://tenor.com/view/3d-saul-saul-goodman-adamghik-gif-23876766

[drifting ore]

Thats the point

[eternal garnet]

You ran it in Debug mode yeah?

Did you get any errors running only this mod on the main menu?

[drifting ore]

That was my face when he said "knife"

[drifting ore]

https://tenor.com/view/cringe-eww-michael-scott-the-office-steve-carell-gif-17964746

[rancid tendon]

you really are 15 huh

[weak sierra]

well i think it's cringe ya come in here shittin' on the game for lacking a feature i can't even fathom caring about

xD

but u know

we all have our opinions

[glad ridge]

Lol right

[signal coyote]

Running the game in debug mode with just this mod on yields no errors yeah

[eternal garnet]

Bruh, this is the modding channel, take it to DM's or some shit.

Trying to help a guy out here

[weak sierra]

and this is why we need a separate channel for that stuff, lol.

[lost slate]

@drifting ore be lovely is our main rule, just a reminder.

[eternal garnet]

Nothing is showing when you go to the character creation for assigning traits right?

You don't get an error appear up at that part no?

Alright, I will take a look

[eternal garnet]

Yo spiff, can we get a our own coding channel

[weak sierra]

or.. a place for people to take general mod-related chatter to that isn't here, if not

like "does mod X exist" and "i have a mod idea, someone make it for me pls"

[eternal garnet]

We have had the coders amongst us say we want one, case in point what you guys ended up doing lol

[signal coyote]

Okay actually Stahl this might be entirely on my end with my game, don't worry about taking a look for now, thanks for the help though, I'll hop back over here if I turn out to still be wrong lmao

[eternal garnet]

No worries man, not a problem
I hope you get it working

[lime hedge]

bruh

the API are kinda hard to find, jetbrains also doesn't gives good intellisense, is there any snippet to getItems() count of certain types, without creating new dummy table?

ah i think this is it > getSomeTypeRecurse(_, _)

[drifting ore]

Crying ?

[eternal garnet]

What?

[drifting ore]

You called a mod t

[glad ridge]

I remember being 15

[eternal garnet]

What has this

"Nothing is showing when you go to the character creation for assigning traits right?

You don't get an error appear up at that part no?

Alright, I will take a look"

Got to do with a "mod t"

[rancid tendon]

https://i.imgur.com/sx0I0xx.png

this is the issue i'm running into

for some reason changing the numbers in the loot defs breaks something that makes the name no longer show up properly in lootzed and they don't spawn

and their chances are no different than the normal cassettes

[eternal garnet]

It has to have a unique item ID in it's XML file no?

Is this a custom item yeah?

[rancid tendon]

it is

they all have unique item ids

[eternal garnet]

If you are copying an existing item to create a new one, you need to make sure that it's ID monikers are unique and not shared

If you have done that, then that's not the issue

[rancid tendon]

so:
this is a true music mod, which generates items for you
it also generates a full set of loot defs based on those items that seem like they should be the place to change spawnrates, and i've seen it work once or twice before but with no consistency

[left plank]

damn dude you sound like a fun person to be around, being a jerk is a fantastic personality trait to have

[rancid tendon]

https://pastebin.com/7LsVwpHq

[left plank]

matter of fact, you win a prize 🙂

[rancid tendon]

you can see the tables i'm trying to change here

like this seems cut and dry like it's what i should be editing to change the loot distributions, but something about changing these numbers just makes things break

[eternal garnet]

Oh right.

I thought you was talking about making a vanilla item or something.

Not sure about the True Music stuff as I have not worked with that, I don't do music.

Does the True music mod not have a guide on there page?

[rancid tendon]

they have a guide, but i'm kinda colouring outside of the lines on this one

there's no guide/support for changing the distributions

[eternal garnet]

Ah

The only stuff I have looked at it what is on the forums

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/38165-quick-guide-how-to-mod-the-loot-distribution-system-distributionslua-proceduraldistributionslua/

[lime hedge]

can we change the scripts def in runtime?

like i wanted to create a discounted item, however it'll be lots of redundancies if just add another copy with less material quantity and different recipe name..

would be good if items recipes requirement could be changed in runtime dynamically...

[midnight mica]

Since duffelbags don't despawn on their own, i'd like to encourage players to remove em for server currency.
Is there a way to make the following recipe take a combination of 5 of all different type of duffelbags?
Adding the line [Recipe.GetItemTypes.DuffelBag], five times in a row works, but looks very ugly in-game.

[open abyss]

For sound files, what is the format and file format i need to use?

[lime hedge]

3gp? :S

[open abyss]

what?

[glad ridge]

.ogg

[low yarrow]

Is there a lua event which is triggered when picking up something from a zombie?

What i want to do is to have a clothing piece i can attach easily on a zombie, but when the player picks it up it should turn into a different item.
Havent found anything on "https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events"

[undone crag]

You could use the Lua. There will be a timed action where the character transfers and item from one container to another.

[low yarrow]

Sounds like what i need, do you know the name of that function?

[undone crag]

It is not easily coming to memory fully clearly. It's somewhere like media\lua\client\timedactions and called something like IndieStoneTransferItemAction

[open abyss]

44k wav file worked fine XD

[low yarrow]

Thank you! I will dig there

[open abyss]

Is it possible to randomize the pitch or the sounds? i got 3 different versions, would be cool if it was sorta randomized in their pitch or played randomly one of the 3 sounds i got

[undone crag]

Also you can add something to the function like this https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/blob/master/api/README.md#overwriting-vanilla-code

[glad ridge]

you can look at the lua for the defecation mod

[open abyss]

............ wot m8? .....

[glad ridge]

.... look at the lua for the defecation mod...... it has the answer you are looking for

...

[open abyss]

alright

[low yarrow]

Yea, i have thought about using "every tick", that "on player update" seems similar.
But i assume it might be laggy

[undone crag]

wut

[open abyss]

The Long Drive all over again... and here i thought i had seen enough... well... defecation to last me a lifetime...

[low yarrow]

i landed on the page at where is "Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(someFun)" 😄

[undone crag]

Hmm I tried linking to the "Overwriting Vanilla Code" bit, shortly below that.

[low yarrow]

Yea, now i got there.
Reading right now

But to be honest i am worried about overwriting vanilla code as i have no clue what i am doing. 😄

[undone crag]

With this bit

local original_render = ISToolTipInv.render
function ISToolTipInv:render()
    if not CONDITION then
        original_render(self)
    end
    -- ... some custom code ...
end

You let it run whatever the original code is, and also have it run some extra code.

[low yarrow]

Mh i see. I try that. Thanks

[undone crag]

local sup_dawg = ISInventoryTransferAction.perform
function ISInventoryTransferAction:perform()
  sup_dawg(self)
  -- then some code that makes a replacement item before deleting the original.
end

[low yarrow]

Awesome! That looks even better

[undone crag]

It's applying the same thing that was done with the tooltip render function to the ISInventoryTransferAction function. :I

Mainly changing the names.

[low yarrow]

Oh, i thought it only triggers when a action in the inventory is done instead of doing it all the time when rendering the inventory.
But i might understand it completly wrong 😄

[undone crag]

ISToolTipInv.render is the function used as an example on the instruction page I linked to. :/ so I copied and pasted that with a bit of explanation on what it would do.

[lime hedge]

is there any lead on how to add context menus to modded items such as book?

[undone crag]

There's something for that in the client code. You could remember something that appears in a context menu and find its name in \translate, and then find where that string is used in the client code, and you should find context menu code.
(away)

[lime hedge]

ah okay, thanks, i already did, seems this is the one

just need to wrap up the sow seed menu into inventory item... wish me luck

[weak sierra]

it's the apostrophes probably

[rancid tendon]

it isn't

[weak sierra]

no?

hm

[rancid tendon]

they work just fine normally and only break after i change the numbers

but

i have more context for this now:

[weak sierra]

i just manually changed the numbers on a true music addon

not but two hours ago

worked fine

[rancid tendon]

re-generating the loot tables and changing them then caused it to start working

i don't know why, but i basically had to remake the entire mod and edit the numbers again and it just kinda worked

[weak sierra]

what do u mean "re-generating the loot tables" anyway

how did u go about that

u mean wiping stuff?

or

wat

[rancid tendon]

putting all the sound files into the music converter and basically making it generate me a new true music mod

[weak sierra]

oh

i'd just like

not use their template thing

cuz it makes shitty messy code that's hard to maintain

:P

[rancid tendon]

i'm not a coder

anywho, it's still not as rare as i'd like which is weird, i literally made the number so low that i can't go any lower without it starting to fuck up in lootzed but it's still at least a little more rare than it was before

[weak sierra]

"fucking up lootzed" eh?

so

here's the thing about stuff

the base mod true music's template sets shit to .1 or .7

those are fine if you have like 10 cassettes

but if you want those chances to be relative, so that you find roughly the same amount of cassettes in a container

they need to be divided by the number of cassette items you add

and mind u this is across addon mods

so if you have 100 cassettes

you want .01 and .07

if you have a tousand, .001 and .007

to maintain the SAME rarity

in code this is simple to automate and just put new songs in and have it adjust the rarity for u

with this table not so much

so what'd u set it at, and how many songs do u have

[rancid tendon]

well, important context: the mod in question is a sub-mod that is part of a larger pack of 3 mods, one that adds 455 songs, one that adds 196 songs, and this one that adds 94. for this one, i set it to 0.0001 before lootzed started returning clearly bugged results

[weak sierra]

so 745 songs total

[rancid tendon]

if i made the number any smaller, lootzed's listed chance would go from like 0.0002% or something to 2% with an E at the end

yeah

[weak sierra]

there's no reason it should bug with low values, i've read the java

it just starts showing scientific notation in practice from what i've seen

i'm using smaller values on one of my mods

i haven't made sure in lootzed yet but it seemed to work fine

anyway to maintain original rarity

.1*(1/745)

.00013

so yeah that should be about right

[rancid tendon]

this leads me to a question actually

[weak sierra]

if u want it rarer tho

then lower

hm?

[rancid tendon]

actually nvm i think i figured it out. i'll give it a try setting it to a very low number and see if that gets me the result i'm after then

[weak sierra]

id go for .00005

half as often to spawn as a small number of cassettes originally

bout

and then just check in practice, not in lootzed, whether it works if lootzed really does bug out

[rancid tendon]

huh, you were right

i was just getting spooked by the scientific notation i think

excellent. good to know

[low yarrow]

Its not that simple, right?

[rancid tendon]

after testing the number i settled on was 0.00000000005

at that point i'd only find a cassette every 7-8 houses or so on default settings which is about where i want it to be

[weak sierra]

assumin that's in a place where player is populated by something, can be, yeah

[signal frost]

What's the difference between a player and a survivor?

IsoPlayer and IsoSurvivor, is the latter for NPCs?

[undone elbow]

I guess a player is more specific.

No, I was wrong. IsoSurvivor is for NPCs I guess.

[signal frost]

Okay I think I'll work off the assumption I can ignore IsoSurvivor for the time being

I take it IsoGameCharacter is even higher up the tree, and includes zombies

[azure rivet]

Hello, the clothes have a fabric type for cloth and denim, I can't put a code to use any item?

[glad ridge]

that's a confusing one

[timid saffron]

is there a mod that lets me attach cd players to my belt?

[glad ridge]

🤷‍♂️ that might be a #mod_support question here is more so for your own mods idk of a mod off the top of my head though

[turbid coral]

You ever feel like your post apocalypse is too bland?
Do you need something that'll bring the party to the zombies?
Well look no further than the Silly Syrup mod, Spiffo Loves Lean, by Mothman and myself on Steam.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2863486646
Adds a new consumable, Lean, into the game. Craft with any mug, any candy, any pop, and one sleeping tablet

[elfin stump]

If an item was added to distribution like this "table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.all.inventoryfemale.items, "module.item")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.all.inventoryfemale.items, 1)" - was is the best way to update the chance, and also what is the best way remove it from that distribution list? I have tried using RemoveItemFromDistribution(SuburbsDistributions.all.inventoryfemale.items, "module.item", nil, true) - and a few other ways I thought might work but nothing seems to change anything. Any ideas?

[wet dune]

Would it be viable to use the hazmat as a base for full model replacements or no?

[glad ridge]

in my true music mod a lot of the cassettes will stop playing mid song and i'll have to start them from the beginning again, does anyone else have this issue or know of a fix for that?

on a dedi server

i just used the addmusic.exe and pretty much leave it alone besides the cassettes weights

[winged phoenix]

Just to check in case it isn't a task for beginners to approach, which if any of these is easiest/most doable?

• replacing/modifying existing textures for posters/carpets
  vs
  -adding new skins for existing posters or carpets

I'll be going through tutorials and testing and looking at how other mods implement such things later but it can't hurt to ask while the idea is fresh in my mind

[cedar anvil]

Is there any tutorial I can learn how to make custom Furniture?

I tried to figure it out myself but still have no idea how does WorldObjectSprite work

Found old tutorial but it seems does not work in the current version

[winged phoenix]

Same here, looks like that unpacker tool doesn't work anymore. Guessing that the format of texture.pack files has changed?

At least TileZed works :P

[glad ridge]

Damn you went way back

The unpacker worked fine for me a few days ago when I used it

[steady herald]

aye. i just got the tiles from project zomboid modding tools folder

[undone elbow]

Quick question. How to get current mouse XY?

Hm.... Seems it's Mouse:getX() and Mouse:getY()

[knotty abyss]

Why my recipe to create Concentrated Ginseng Pills is not appearing using mortar ? Some idea ?

{
    imports
    {
        Base
    }

    recipe Make Concentrated Ginseng Pills
    {
     
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.MortarPestle],
     Ginseng=5,

        Result:GinsengPills,
        Time:60.0,
        Category:Health,

    
    }
}```

none ERROR ... idk what can be

[undone elbow]

try Ginseng=5, keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.MortarPestle],

[knotty abyss]

I tried it too

I need to add something to appear the recipe in mortar ?

[undone elbow]

try

  Ginseng=5,
       keep MortarPestle,```

[knotty abyss]

in this way it would use the item (spend it, the mortar)

but I will try just to see what happen

[undone elbow]

"keep" means "keep" 😉

[knotty abyss]

hahahahah true

I'll try

nothing yet

surely i did something wrong at some point 😔

[glad ridge]

Add spaces between the : on both sides?

[knotty abyss]

Where exactly?

Im following this pattern

    {
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.MortarPestle],
        Plantain=5,

        Result:PlantainCataplasm,
        Time:60.0,
        Category:Health,
    }```

How is the structure in the translate part?

C:\Users\romar\Zomboid\Workshop\GodigodMod\Contents\mods\GodigodMod\media\lua\shared\translate\en

[eternal garnet]

{
    recipe Make Plantain Poultice
    {
        Plantain=5,
        Result:PlantainCataplasm,
        Time:60.0,
        NeedToBeLearn:false,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:TRUE,
        Category:Health,
    }```

[knotty abyss]

I need to add this ?

[eternal garnet]

What I put would be for the crafting section for making your Plantain Poultice

As for the reference of the Mortar Pestle, try just using this.

{
    recipe Make Plantain Poultice
    {
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.MortarPestle],
        Plantain=5,
        Result:PlantainCataplasm,
        Time:60.0,
        NeedToBeLearn:false,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:TRUE,
        Category:Health,
    }```

I have not created a crafting item with a pre-existing item being used in the code.

My default ones are:

{
    recipe J6's Helmet
    {
        RippedSheets=5,
        Result:J6_Helmet,
        Time:60.0,
        NeedToBeLearn:false,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:TRUE,
        Category:J6's Equipment,
    }    ```

You could just changed the RippedSheets=5, to that of "Plantain=5",

[knotty abyss]

Yeah, I think is alright

[eternal garnet]

Give a try and see if it works

[knotty abyss]

I think some of the files in this part are poorly structured on my part.

[eternal garnet]

You should have seen some of my old ones haha

All over the place

[knotty abyss]

here

[grim rose]

are you writting recepie in lua folder?

[knotty abyss]

Iwill share one by one .. better

Recipe_Make_Concentrated_Ginseng_Pills = "Make Concentrated Ginseng Pills",

}```

certanly the problem is here

    ItemName_GodigodMod.GinsengPills = "Concentrated Ginseng Pill",
    
}```

    ContextMenu_Take_Ginseng_pills = "Take a Pill",
}

Tooltip_GinsengPills = "Increase your pulmonary endurance.",   
 }```

These are my 4 files in the lua folder part

Need I put my module GodigodMod in Recipes too ? Like I did in ItemName ?

[grim rose]

recepies are in scripts

[knotty abyss]

The recipe I already showed you before

{
    imports
    {
        Base
    }

    recipe Make Concentrated Ginseng Pills
    {
     
         keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.MortarPestle],
     Ginseng=5,

        Result:GinsengPills,
        Time:60.0,
        Category:Health,

    
    }
}```

I just don't know the structure in the lua file part

If is like this ```Recipes_EN = {

Recipe_Make_Concentrated_Ginseng_Pills = "Make Concentrated Ginseng Pills",

}or like thisRecipes_EN = {

Recipe_MakeConcentratedGinsengPills = "Make Concentrated Ginseng Pills",

}or like thisRecipes_EN = {

Recipe_GodigodMod.Make_Concentrated_Ginseng_Pills = "Make Concentrated Ginseng Pills",

}```

or many others possibilities ... idk the structure

[undone crag]

That code will fail at line 7. It tries to run getInventory on what the variable player refers to, but in that context there may be no variable named player, so player is nil. It can not run getInventory on nil.

[low yarrow]

Yea it crashed when i tested it like you say.
So rendering the inventory is function without a player reference.

Do i need to make a function outside of this rendering function which is triggered inside the render function?

[undone crag]

I do not think you need to make a function outside of it which is triggered inside it?

If you want to get a reference to the player's character object, there may already be a reference to it in the lua table called self.

[low yarrow]

So i should add a self here?

Also have tried "self:getInventory" but that crashed

[undone crag]

I forgot to check back on this discord server for a number of minutes.

No, the player character object's getInventory Java function does not have any "arguments" passed into it. Also, player will still be nil in that context so there's no getInventory function being called anyway.

You may be able to get a reference to the object with something like self.player. You could look at the original tooltip render file to find out.

[low yarrow]

Thanks, i will take a look

[knotty abyss]

Always when I'm going to rip some clothes to create bandages, the screen freezes for a few seconds. I believe this happens because in the clothing table there are many options that are created in the context menu. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix these mini freezes?
I thought of making some change so that it shows in the context menu only the clothes that are in the character's possession and not all the possible clothes that exist in the table completely. Will we be able to make this work?

[chrome egret]

Have you tried this? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2802922253

[knotty abyss]

Yes

I think it doesn't work anymore

Have you currently tested it? I didn't see any difference

[chrome egret]

I haven't personally used it, I just remembered being here when a couple of people were batting the idea around/working on it

[knotty abyss]

My idea was, to show only the clothes that were in the character's possession and not all the possible clothes, you know?

[chrome egret]

Yeah, that makes perfect sense

[knotty abyss]

That way it wouldn't spend unnecessary processing and consequently wouldn't cause this micro freeze, I think.

Even this comment is mine Hahhaha

[winter bolt]

im not sure if its possible since i think the game just shows every possible crafting material for the recipes normally

[knotty abyss]

It gave me a light. Maybe that's why I'm not able to create an item using mortar and pestle? Or does it have nothing to do with one another?

[winter bolt]

i mean like in the crafting menu it just shows all of the items a recipe can use

[knotty abyss]

So mortar and pestle have your own items that can be used and I cant change ?

I don't know if you came to see a doubt that was before this new one.

lol many doubts hahahah

[frosty falcon]

how do you guys view modData of objects in the world via debug?

I guess you just do it all in your mods code tbh, I'm just lookin at vanilla objects and their moddata values

[knotty abyss]

Are you saying like this?

[frosty falcon]

an example; how do I view the fuel left in a pump?

its stored in modData for the pump as far as I can tell

[chrome egret]

Does anyone know whether PZ runs access level-based code on player login, and if so, where I can find that in the Java?

[frosty falcon]

I would start with the network classes

[stark coyote]

Hey, I tried your technic but I got

-----------------------------------------
function: SetProfessionDescription -- file: MainCreationMethods.lua line # 634 | Vanilla
function: DoProfessions -- file: MainCreationMethods.lua line # 609 | Vanilla

ERROR: General     , 1663332606401> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: getLabel of non-table: null at KahluaThread.tableget line:1689.
ERROR: General     , 1663332606401> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: getLabel of non-table: null
    at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.tableget(KahluaThread.java:1689)
    at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.luaMainloop(KahluaThread.java:641)
    at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.call(KahluaThread.java:163)
    at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.pcall(KahluaThread.java:1980)
    at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.pcallvoid(KahluaThread.java:1812)
    at se.krka.kahlua.integration.LuaCaller.pcallvoid(LuaCaller.java:66)
    at se.krka.kahlua.integration.LuaCaller.protectedCallVoid(LuaCaller.java:139)
    at zombie.Lua.Event.trigger(Event.java:64)```
etc
Any idea of what I did wrong ? 🤔

[frosty falcon]

thanks I found it, F2 seems to show it

[unborn snow]

Is there any better way to sift through the distributions.lua file to set spawn rates for an item im trying to mod in, because its absolutely massive

[elfin stump]

What is the best way to remove an item from distribution that was added to SuburbsDistributions.all.inventoryfemale.items? I have a problem where old sandbox settings are not updating current spawn rates and I am unsure how to update or replace the earlier loot table entries.

[elfin stump]

I have tried every way of removal that I can come up with from SuburbsDistributions.all.inventoryfemale.items but nothing seems to do a thing here.

[deft falcon]

im trying to find a way to transfer an item to player's inventory after being dropped (i use onitemfall event) but i just cant seem to find a line for that. making player equip it will not put it back into inventory, but make many bugs instead (like duplicating items in the world but only 1 item instance being real)

[deft falcon]

i've tried setting the item's container to player inventory (printing it while it was on the floor showed an ID, and when i checked type, it showed floor, so it seems to work correctly), but it didnt work at all. (printing it AFTER the line shows player inventory ID, but it doesnt appear there in game, its still on the floor)

[worldly olive]

Any clue on how to fix the next issue:

print("Forcing the player to sleep"); if player:getVehicle() ~= nil then local playerVehicle = player:getVehicle(); if playerVehicle:isRegulator() then print("Turning off speed regulator") playerVehicle:setRegulator(false); end print("Turning off vehicle") playerVehicle:shutOff(); end ISWorldObjectContextMenu.onSleepWalkToComplete(player:getPlayerNum(), nil) player:getModData().DTpassingOut = 0;

Basically that code will force the player to sleep, and what I want is that if the player is in a vehicle, the vehicle stops. But I'm able to shut off the engine and also if activated, the speed regulator, but what I'm facing is that if the vehicle was moving when the player went to sleep, the vehicle keep moving at the same speed (even if the engine was stopped)

[elfin stump]

I was able to get distribution removal to work at the high level (I cannot specifically remove an item from a male or female zombie loot table though, I need to remove it from the entire suburbs distribution - like this: RemoveItemFromDistribution(SuburbsDistributions, "module.item")) - but I did notice something when working with this. Sandbox don't seem to get updated - when I check variables via code they are the defaults. Does sandbox only read one time when the world is first loaded and thats it? It seems like I could adjust these and the game should see that - but it is not - it is giving back either the defaults or the first settings applied to the world - I am not sure. Am I totally misunderstanding how this works?

[weak sierra]

looks trivial to fix that

i was planning on making a fix for this issue anyway but that'll make it very very quick

actually it doesn't look like there's anything to fix

[weak sierra]

when you change sandbox options they are not applied until reloadoptions is called, from an admin perspective

so if you are changing them programmatically you'd have to programmatically trigger that same feature

it pushes the sandbox options out to clients and applies it on the server end

or of course it reloads when the world is loaded

[nocturne bane]

Is there something you can hook into whenever a new IsoObject is created in the world?

In my case I'm interested in IsoThumpables

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events/OnObjectAdded

I found this, but it doesn't seem to be called.

[nocturne bane]

I think what I'd really need is something like OnTileAdded?

there's only an event for removal though

[steep onyx]

I want to edit Instant popcorn to give the player some happiness how can I make a mod that does this?

[quasi kernel]

There's a few other mods you can look into for a base, I believe there's a couple vitamins mods that adjust how much fatigue reduction it gives.

Then you can adjust it to instead augment happiness to your wishes.

[steep onyx]

thanks

but how would i open the files for said mods

[quasi kernel]

steamapps > workshop > content > 108600 > find the id of the mod from the workshop

[steep onyx]

okay thaks

[quasi kernel]

Yeye!

Obv check for the uhh

permissions first

[weak sierra]

anyone know how to get the name of a placed furniture from a reference to the IsoObject?

[steep onyx]

doesnt say

[weak sierra]

like if it's a microwave, to get the ItemType

Base.Microwave or whatever

[quasi kernel]

Lemme check evelyn

[weak sierra]

name is null, before someone suggests that

[quasi kernel]

Try getObjectName

[weak sierra]

i should stop trying to use fields

maybe i shud

yeah

that

[quasi kernel]

If that doesn't work, you can try uhh

getContainer() with getType()

But that's only if that doesn't work

[weak sierra]

it will be containers every time, so

that's probably ok

will try that next

[quasi kernel]

Meantime, time to continue bashing my head against a screen trying to figure out where the fishing logic is

[weak sierra]

i have PTSD re: code stuff so sometimes i get overwhelmed and i can't think straight :)

fishing logic? hm

[quasi kernel]

I can only find where the lures are defined and possibly retrieved from

[steep onyx]

what do I now do to remake it

[quasi kernel]

But not where it's actually being checked

[weak sierra]

ISFishingUI?

idk if all the logic is there but it shud lead u there if not

[quasi kernel]

oh my god wait

I forgot zomboid had

a lua side

LOL