mod_development

[hearty dew]

What issue are you facing? Is the commented out code to detect whether the player's current square contains a generator not working as expected?

[hollow current]

yes exactly

the bottom function's commented code is working but it detects it within the player square, whereas ideally it should be detected within the right click square

[hearty dew]

I think the worldObjects function parameter contains the objects in the square the user clicked on? Just a hunch

[hollow current]

I think this is the solution somehow but I am not able to comprehend how to put it to use correctly

lemme check

[shadow geyser]

yes, the world objects are the object on the tile as tyrir says

you should be looping through that list instead

[hollow current]

Returns an error, here's what print(worldobjects) prints, and here's the code

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(function(player, context, worldobjects)
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    for i = 0, worldobjects:size() - 1 do
        local object = worldobjects:get(i)
        if instanceof(object, 'IsoGenerator') then
            generator = object
        end
    end
    if generator then
        if generator:isActivated() then
            local playerInv = playerObj:getInventory();
            local option = context:addOption("Recharge Jumpstarter", worldobjects, BatteryJumpstarter.onJumpstarterRecharge, generator, player);
        end
    end
end)```

[hearty dew]

What error does it provide?

[hearty dew]

ArendamethUtils = ArendamethUtils or {}
ArendamethUtils.printR = function(t, depth)  
      if not depth then 
        depth = 1
    end

    local printR_cache={}
    local function subPrintR(t, indent, depth)
        if depth == 0 then
            print (indent, 'max depth reached')
            return
        end
 
        if (printR_cache[tostring(t)]) then
            print(indent.."*"..tostring(t))
        else
            printR_cache[tostring(t)]=true
            if (type(t)=="table") then
                for pos,val in pairs(t) do
                    if (type(val)=="table") then
                        print(indent.."["..tostring(pos).."] => "..tostring(t).." {")
                        subPrintR(val,indent..string.rep(" ",string.len(tostring(pos))+8), depth - 1)
                        print(indent..string.rep(" ",string.len(tostring(pos))+6).."}")
                    elseif (type(val)=="string") then
                        print(indent.."["..tostring(pos)..'] => "'..val..'"')
                    else
                        print(indent.."["..tostring(pos).."] => "..tostring(val))
                    end
                end
            else
                print(indent..tostring(t))
            end
        end
    end
    if (type(t)=="table") then
        print(tostring(t).." {")
        subPrintR(t,"  ", depth)
        print("}")
    else
        subPrintR(t,"  ", depth)
    end
    print()
end```
```lua
ArendamethUtils.printR(worldObjects)```
As an aside, this might be a little more helpful in the future to you than just printing out the table address :)
(but since this is a java object, it might not be terribly useful in this scenario)

[hollow current]

hmm I'll give this a go, thanks!

[hearty dew]

That screenshot doesn't contain the error message. I haven't used the debug UI much, so not sure exactly where it places the error. Perhaps clicking the Errors button up top? If not, the error message should appear in console.txt

I'm guessing size() is nil (i.e. it isn't actually a java enumerable)

[hollow current]

oops sorry

there

[hearty dew]

Mm, that's just the callstack without the error message

[hollow current]

honestly im not sure where to find the error message, Lua/Java are more confusing than I thought they'd be lol

I used to work mainly with Python so I am kinda new to how this works

[hearty dew]

But if the error is this, worldObjects maybe it is a normal lua table, and you just need to iterate over it like a lua table instead of a java enumerable

[hearty dew]

Yea, that's probably what your error is. I see in other lua source code it is just a lua table rather than a java enumerable. So try iterating over it like:

 for _,worldObject in ipairs(worldObjects) do
  -- use worldObject
end```

function ISWorldObjectContextMenu.getWorldObjectsInRadius(playerNum, screenX, screenY, squares, radius, worldObjects)```
Also I see this function which might be handy for what you are doing

[hollow current]

i'll try that in a min

for _,worldObject in ipairs(worldObjects) do
        local object = worldobjects:get(i)
        if instanceof(object, 'IsoGenerator') then
            generator = object
        end
    end
end```

is that correct?

[hearty dew]

No, don't need to get :get(). That's for calling into java to get objects from a java enumerable

for _,worldObject in ipairs(worldObjects) do
        if instanceof(worldObject, 'IsoGenerator') then
            generator = worldObject
        end
    end
end```

[hollow current]

gonna give it a go, thanks so much!

[hearty dew]

Make sure the capitalization of worldObjects is right to match your function parameter. I might have capitalized the O on accident

[hollow current]

Well it works, except that the option is now being shown whether i press on the generator or not

[hearty dew]

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(function(player, context, worldobjects)
    ArendamethUtils.printR(worldobjects, 5)

Can you try printing out the worldobjects like that to see what you are iterating over?

[hollow current]

giving it a go

[hearty dew]

Well, you have two IsoGenerators, it looks like 😅

[hollow current]

that's weird, im sure i only have one spawned

lemme double check

yup definitely one

idk why its being printed twice

when I picked it up, it didn't print any generators at all

[hearty dew]

Not exactly sure why it is in the list twice. But as long as both are removed when the character removes it, I wouldn't be too concerned by that.

Otherwise, it detects when the generator exists correctly now?

[hollow current]

Something's wrong with it, it detects the generator exists no matter where I click. I'll give it a recheck now

oki quick question

so, i was checking the source code of another mod

it does something similar

[hearty dew]

Does that printed out list of worldobjects change depending on whether the tile you click on has different objects? Or if your player moves around? I'd mess around with it a bit to see what changes, unless someone has more familiarity with how this list is populated

[hollow current]

local generator
Events.OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(function(player, context, worldobjects)
local isSteamGen = _G.generator and (_G.generator:getModData().water or _G.generator:getSprite():getName():find('steamgenerator_01'))
    if isSteamGen then
        generator = _G.generator
        _G.generator = nil
    end
end)``` This is how the modder defined the generator. It's a custom object though. Can this be used to get the vanilla generator?

and yes, the list changes based on where I am standing

but somehow that is doesn't affect the context menu

ye it just keeps detecting it wherever i press

[snow path]

Has there been any other Prosthetic mods besides The Only Cure?

[hearty dew]

I don't think so. I don't see why it would be necessary to put the generator object into a global variable like that, and move it back and forth between the global variable and local variable. Not sure what the author was up to by doing that

[hollow current]

hmm I'll try to fiddle around with it a bit more, although im not sure why the code is behaving like that

[hollow current]

that ^

[hearty dew]

doRClick in ProjectZomboid/media/lua/server/ISObjectClickHandler.lua has the logic for creating the worldobjects list

the IsoGenerator probably fits two of those conditionals that insert the object into worldobjects

e.g. the first one, which checks if it is seen by the player, and I'm guessing also the thumpable check since IsoGenerator implements the thumpable interface

so that's probably why it is in the list twice

[hollow current]

hmm still doesn't explain why it keeps showing wherever i click

[hearty dew]

Yea, I'm wondering if generators do that for any square they power? I'm unsure

[hollow current]

this is what shows when i press any tile away from the generator

and that's when pressing on the generator tile itself

[hearty dew]

Oh, so that's as I'd expect. But the code is detecting a generator in the 1st case too?

[hollow current]

You mean when I am clicking a tile that doesn't contain the generator?

[hearty dew]

Oh, make the generator variable local lol

[hearty dew]

yep

[hollow current]

i already have generator variable local in the beginning of the file

[hearty dew]

It needs to be local in the scope of the function that finds the generator. If you want to keep it local to the file scope, you can save it as such if you prefer as well

Can you paste the function? I can show what I mean

[hollow current]

lemme upload to pastebin

https://pastebin.com/ega2PLzQ

[hearty dew]

require 'ISUI/ISWorldObjectContextMenu'
 
ISWorldObjectContextMenu.fetchSquares = {}
 
local BatteryJumpstarter = {}
--local generator = nil; -- I'd remove this. It isn't being used currently, and you should be able to pass it between functions as a parameter.```

```lua
Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(function(player, context, worldobjects)
    ArendamethUtils.printR(worldobjects, 5)
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    -- Added a local variable generator that is set to nil so that if the loop finds a generator, it will be changed from nil to the object. Because it was in the file scope before, the value of the variable persisted between calls to this function
    local generator = nil
    for _,worldObject in ipairs(worldobjects) do
        if instanceof(worldObject, 'IsoGenerator') then
            generator = worldObject
        end
    end
    --for i = 0, worldobjects:size() - 1 do
        --local object = worldobjects:get(i)
        --if instanceof(object, 'IsoGenerator') then
            --generator = object
        --end
    --end
    if generator then
        if generator:isActivated() then
            local playerInv = playerObj:getInventory();
            local option = context:addOption("Recharge Jumpstarter", worldobjects, BatteryJumpstarter.onJumpstarterRecharge, generator, player);
        end
    end
end)```

[small topaz]

Just out of curiosity: what exactly are you trying to achieve? Adding a new option to the right-click menu for a generator?

[hearty dew]

My guess is he has a jumpstarter inventory item that he wants to be able to charge using the generator. Then presumably use the jumpstarter on vehicle batteries?

[hollow current]

oo i see what you mean now. So basically its better to declare the variable within the function if I have no use for it outside the function

[hollow current]

Yes, that's exactly the whole idea of the mod

[hollow current]

and that's what I am trying to achieve right now

aaand what you did just worked

wow

it now detects it only actually within the generator tile and not other tiles

[hearty dew]

Yea, generally it is better to limit the scope of variables to only where they are needed to avoid situations like this where a variable from a broader scope surprises you :)

[hollow current]

Thank you so much for the time! Sorry for taking so much of it lol

never thought a variable mistake would be so problematic lol

[weak sierra]

ive spent upward of 5 hours before due to a single bracket or an improperly capitalized letter

particularly with scripts, but sometimes with lua, that is the nature of modding this

[astral dune]

I'm missing something very basic I think. How do I get moddata to persist between reloads?

[weak sierra]

on what

[astral dune]

a vehicle

[weak sierra]

hm

are you testing it in mp?

[astral dune]

yes

[weak sierra]

are you transmitting the moddata?

[astral dune]

as far as I understand it, its only being handled on the server side, can you elaborate?

[weak sierra]

whenever you set moddata it has to be transmitted

with

transmitModData()

to force synchronization

there are a few objects that can't persist moddata though like items

[astral dune]

so if I getModData(), add something to it, then transmitModData, it should work?

[weak sierra]

yes

in cases where you can't get the moddata to synchronize properly though there's also transmitFullObject (not sure of name)

something like that

more expensive but more likely to work if you encounter a scenario where you ever have trouble

void    transmitCompleteItemToClients() 
void    transmitCompleteItemToServer() 
void    transmitModData() 
void    transmitUpdatedSpriteToClients() 
void    transmitUpdatedSpriteToClients(UdpConnection connection) 
void    transmitUpdatedSpriteToServer() ```

[astral dune]

transmitting didn't seem to work, hmm

[weak sierra]

and ur sure it's being set/retrieved properly?

[astral dune]

the code is painfully simple, just trying to get a proof of concept going

    if data.touched == nil then
        character:Say("New Vehicle", 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, UIFont.Small, 60.0, "radio")
        data.touched = 1;
        vehicle:transmitModData();
    else
        character:Say("Old Vehicle", 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, UIFont.Small, 60.0, "radio")
    end```

[weak sierra]

looks like the vehicle respawn mod im working on lol

for vehicles u have to store the moddata on a part

not the vehicle itself

and it should be a part that is not able to be uninstalled

so u have to make assumptions and/or make a static list/mapping

[astral dune]

is the engine a "part" in this context?

[weak sierra]

yes

not all vehicles have engines though

that will work for most

[astral dune]

I'm only worried about vehicles that have engines so that's ok, trailers and stuff I can safely ignore

[weak sierra]

might i ask what ur workin on?

curious now

[astral dune]

my goal is to flesh out the engines so they have actual parts, I find the "Spare Engine Parts" mechanic very boring

[weak sierra]

that makes sense yeah

engine is a good part to store that with then too

[astral dune]

exactly

[weak sierra]

even if someone uses that mod that makes engines replaceable

it'd travel with the part

[shadow geyser]

if you are doing stuff serverside, it should be automatically saved. and you should probably be doing that stuff serverside anyways so that any changes that are done also happen for other players

[astral dune]

driving skill and moretraits expert driving will be pretty directly incompatible, but I'll deal with that when something works

whats the easiest way to get a hold of a reference to the engine part?

[weak sierra]

i believe there's a "getPart" or something

sec..

[shadow geyser]

you just need to do the extra logic to transmit that info to clients when they need it

[astral dune]

ya, when the ui comes into play I imagine I'll have to transmit something

[shadow geyser]

yeah, depending on the application of the mod, its worth thinking about how to transmit info to minimize how often it happens, but that you are also doing it when the info is needed.

[weak sierra]

vehicle:getPartById("Engine")

[shadow geyser]

for example in some stuff, where info is only visible when examined, I make the client send a command to the server, to transmit the info to the client for the UI, but some other stuff which visually changes, I had to transmit whenever the change happened to make sure it's immediately visible to the player

[weak sierra]

some objects can't save moddata tho, like vehicles and items, even though they have methods for it

you can store it there but it won't persist

[astral dune]

ya, I noticed there wasn't a setModData(data) but there was a saveTable(data), but it didn't work, haha

[shadow geyser]

should work on the parts though don't they?

[weak sierra]

yes that was what i told them to do

[shadow geyser]

or maybe they don't. aren't they technically inventoryitems

[astral dune]

when you say you can't store data on an item, how would you attach metadata to an item? Is there another way?

[shadow geyser]

I wonder what type of object the vehicles are then

[weak sierra]

you store it in a table

keyed to the item id

you can store it on the player or in globalmoddata or elsewhere

[astral dune]

like, globally? ah

[weak sierra]

BaseVehicle

[astral dune]

I suppose I could do the same with the vehicles, they have an ID too. But it makes more sense to attach it to the engine if this works

[shadow geyser]

almost all objects by default have a moddata, which you can get using :getModData()

[weak sierra]

not all things that support that support persisting it under the hood

[shadow geyser]

its because most objects inherit from the isoobject class

[weak sierra]

the only exceptions are vehicles and inventoryitems

afaik

that don't

[astral dune]

the two things I need it to 😤

[shadow geyser]

huh? inventoryitems definitely save their moddata

[weak sierra]

in SP, sure

not in MP

i've seen it myself

[shadow geyser]

they do in MP, the clients just have their own moddata tmk

[weak sierra]

set it on the client -> transmit -> relog -> gone

[shadow geyser]

maybe I need to investigate it more to verify, because I have alot of things using the moddata on inventoryitems, and they are working perfectly fine in MP

thats how the timetracker works, and that is definitely working in MP

[weak sierra]

there's a backpack attachment saving mod and it lead to items despawning because the moddata for them was removed on relog

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2795007896&searchtext=backpack+attach

there were two problems there

they were doing it in server instead of shared

and then the moddata wouldn't persist because it was on InventoryItem

so you could drop your backpack and put it back on

and it'd work

but if you drop it and relog and put it on

nope

[astral dune]

where the code runs is just which folder its in, right?

[weak sierra]

pretty much

[astral dune]

attaching this to the engine isn't working so far, maybe I'll try putting it in the shared folder

[weak sierra]

poke at the Valhalla Aegis mod

[astral dune]

the engine part, whatever it is, doesn't have a transmitModData() method

[weak sierra]

it has a vehicle claiming system

and it stores the vehicle moddata on a "mule part"

which is whatever part is not removable that it finds from its list of such parts first

engine is the fallback

if it makes it thru the list that's the last entry

[astral dune]

so presumably the engine should work

[weak sierra]

i expect so yes

[astral dune]

I just need to figure out what I'm missing

[weak sierra]

thus my advice to poke at that mod

:p

[astral dune]

had to find it through the dependencies of a mod made by a familiar sounding dev

[shadow geyser]

your right, I was thinking about worldinventoryobject, which does inherit from isoobject

[weak sierra]

😂

[shadow geyser]

whereas the inventoryitem just inherits from a java object

[weak sierra]

yeah it's a shame because storing arbitrary data on an inventoryitem would be super damn useful

same with vehicles

it's irritating to have to work around such straightforwardly expectable behavior not being there

[shadow geyser]

that is really strange though. why on earth does it have all the moddata related functions, if it doesn't even function as moddata

[weak sierra]

it can store it temporarily too

in memory

but it doesn't persist

[shadow geyser]

wasn't the whole point of the moddata on all isoobjects so that people stopped using gametime for storing everything

[weak sierra]

idk i started modding this in july

so

it was already here

[astral dune]

anyone remember where they moved the workshop mod folders too? lol

[weak sierra]

Users/Zomboid/Workshop?

or u mean the installed ones

[meager lion]

Steam apps for workshop downloads

[weak sierra]

steam/steamapps/workshop/content/108600/

[meager lion]

108060 iirc

What Evelyn said lol

[astral dune]

thats the one

[hearty dew]

The convo on persisting moddata serverside brings up a question I've had.. What are reasonable places to store client-side data specific to a user e.g. items the player marks in some manner in the context of a client-side mod, or modded UI configurations?

[meager lion]

Do you plan to let the player share said info?

If not I'd say client would be fine

[hearty dew]

I'm serializing to json and storing in getModFileWriter(), but that seems odd to store it inside the mod's folder in some sense.

[hearty dew]

no

[meager lion]

Mainly I like to think of anything a player could cheat with should be server sided, if you want players to share it, etc. 🙂

[hearty dew]

yea, I would agree with that

Was curious if the pz api provides something to save client side data though since that's what I'm working with atm

[meager lion]

Honestly not sure, haven't tried yet

[shadow geyser]

I think if you save it on the player object, that might persist, because I think that goes onto the player save rather than the world save. not sure though

[astral dune]

well, looks like valhalla uses something called sendClientCommand to handle the actual saving of info, but I don't know where that goes. Looks like it may be a global function but I can't tell what it does

[ruby urchin]

it's just clothing

[shadow geyser]

lmao what

then is the "dog" just an isoplayer wearing that clothing?

[ruby urchin]

that works to trigger a event from client to server side

[astral dune]

yes. I was able to finally track down what was fired by that

in the end its the same function I've been trying to use BaseVehicle.transmitPartModData(part) but it hasn't been working, lol

[ruby urchin]

Yeah, I did notice that you can make your own "creatures?" if you do the proper skeleton and animation transformations

[astral dune]

the furry community is gonna be ecstatic

[shadow geyser]

im guessing though that it doesn't work in MP though, since you can't make new isoplayers

or do you have some work around for that?

the dog i mean, i guess the animations still work if you wear them on your player

[ruby urchin]

lmao, I hope finish this fast to starting to a hunting mod (of course if build 42 is not released first)

[ruby urchin]

Not sure, never I tried create a IsoPlayer on MP, even this is my first time creatin a IsoPlayer

but first I will prioritize SP

[shadow geyser]

yeah, that sort of thing has been a long dream for me to implement for the hydrocraft hunting, since it was still using old stuff from like b38 time.

but I unfortunately don't know much about animations and modelling

[ruby urchin]

I need a lot of anims to create, like walk, turn and many variants

[shadow geyser]

it looks really great tho!

[ruby urchin]

Yeah, anims was torture

many things to learn

[shadow geyser]

and I think once NPCs come to vanilla you can probably use that work as I assume IS will add more infrastructure to let modders add creatures

I assume they will make a new generic object for the animals

[drifting ore]

\

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[timid saffron]

I wonder if ita possible to make books function like radio stations where sentences pop up as your read the books.

Maybe grab descriptions for books in a database and apply them to the books

[drifting ore]

does anyone know why mods from workshop won t show on in game host server?
i added them in mods list

[small topaz]

What do the modders here think about using character textures with resolution 512x512 instead of the default 256x256? Are there any down sides like unexpected graphic glitches or severe performance issues (assuming the game runs on an average pc)?

[vast veldt]

Is it possible for the server-side LUA to call the / commands such as /addxp etc? I see SendCommandToServer() used along these lines in the vanilla LUA but I get an exception when calling it from the server itself (I presume it's meant to run in the context of one of the connected clients, as all the examples are for client-side LUA?).

[meager lion]

Id suggest looking in the skill books, i know when you try reading a skill book thats below your level your character keeps saying they already know it. Might be a good place to start

[livid geode]

@drifting ore Hello there, I have a quick question. May I use your code as a inspiration and as a model to learn from while coding my own multiplayer mods (in the beginning copy some of your lines until I figure out how to use that style of coding for me own MP mods)

[hearty osprey]

Any modders or people who have played the Cherbourg map.
Is there Like a way to get a map that u can view by pressing Your key bind to open the map. Instead of wondering around endlessly not knowing where you are or how close to the Edge of the map you are

[shadow geyser]

you need to enable the minimap in the sandbox settings

[small topaz]

There are also examples in the vanilla code where player:addXP is called on server side. One example is in recipecode.lua, function Recipe.OnCreate.RipClothing. On the first look, I don't see anything special which need to be done in addition but not 100% sure...

[vast veldt]

Thank you. I was wonder if it was possible to avoid calling the LUA methods themselves and just issuing the commands like an admin but to be fair it isn't that much different to make some custom implementations of my own.

[hearty osprey]

I’ve done that but it doesn’t show up as any buildings around me. That’s why I am curious if there is a code or setting or something I can change to make that the game pulls out the Cherbourg map instead of locking you in the top left corner of the KY map

[pseudo flame]

Is there a mod that updates weapon durability that is compatible with Britas?

[bitter delta]

can someone with my mods friend me pls

[astral dune]

coavins weapon repair or something messes with weapon durability and has a brita patch

[magic nymph]

Anyone know where I can find where the range values for Shout/Whisper are set?

[magic nymph]

Also, does anyone know if a broken crafted spear has its own definition in Base? I saw in the Sandbox Options that there's a setting to remove items from the world after 24 hours and I want to add broken spears to that list so I don't have to waste time putting them in zombies.

[hollow current]

would anyone have a detailed guide as to how to set up timed actions and put them in use -- including mechanic window timed actions which show progress inside the vehicle parts window and then show a success/failure flashing bar?

[sterile valley]

new to modding, do i need to learn lua and only then start learning modding?

[weak sierra]

depends on what ur doing and how much prior programming experience you have

[sterile valley]

java and python basics pretty much

[weak sierra]

u can probably pick up lua as you go if you're even vaguely competent at those

learn from others' mods as examples

[sterile valley]

aight thanx, but knowing it would be good i think

[weak sierra]

ofc

[hollow current]

Hello! I am trying to set up a timed action

function BatteryJumpstarter.onJumpstarterRecharge(worldobjects, generator, player, item, remainingUses, fuel)
    BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:start()
    --generator:setFuel(fuel-remainingUses)
    --item:setUsedDelta(1)
end```

This is a function that is called on context option press, which starts a timed action

function BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:start() -- Trigger when the action start
    print("Action start");
    self.character:faceThisObject(self.generator)
end```

this is the timed action function. For now, im trying to keep it simple, so I am trying to make the player face the generator

however the generator object is not being passed from the first function to the second. What exactly is it that I am doing wrnog?

I figured out i need to call the variables first. Here's edited code

function BatteryJumpstarter.onJumpstarterRecharge(worldobjects, generator, player, item, remainingUses, fuel)
    ISTimedActionQueue.add(BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:new(player, generator))
    --generator:setFuel(fuel-remainingUses)
    --item:setUsedDelta(1)
end```

```lua
function MyTimedAction:new(character, generator) -- What to call in you code
    local o = {};
    setmetatable(o, self);
    self.__index = self;
    o.character = character;
    o.playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(character);
    o.maxTime = 30; -- Time take by the action
    if o.playerObj:isTimedActionInstant() then o.maxTime = 1; end
    return o;
end```

```lua
function BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:start() -- Trigger when the action start
    print("Action start");
    --print(self.playerObj);
    self.playerObj:faceThisObject(self.generator);
end```

I am getting an error at if o.character:isTimedActionInstant() then o.maxTime = 1; end and not really sure why

[drifting ore]

Which mod ?

[hollow current]

Fixed that as well, but i think I am starting the timed action incorrectly. Printing player on :start() returns nil

[hollow current]

with the current code, in the replied message, the game throws hundreds of errors at me within seconds

[vague raven]

Trying to make a professions mod using professions framework and I'm getting this error, any idea what could be causing it?
https://i.imgur.com/BNbms7U.png

[signal frost]

Is it possible to add options to the ISWorldObjectContextMenu.createMenu context object? Any examples of mods that do this?

[hearty dew]

Can you get the error messages? They are in Zomboid/console.txt in your home directory, if you can't find them in the debug UI

[hollow current]

function: tick -- file: ISTimedActionQueue.lua line # 75 | Vanilla
function: onTick -- file: ISTimedActionQueue.lua line # 188 | Vanilla

LOG  : General     , 1664190629518> Object tried to call nil in tick
ERROR: General     , 1664190629518> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: Object tried to call nil in tick at KahluaUtil.fail line:82.
ERROR: General     , 1664190629518> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Object tried to call nil in tick
    at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaUtil.fail(KahluaUtil.java:82)
    at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.luaMainloop(KahluaThread.java:973)
    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)
    at zombie.Lua.LuaEventManager.triggerEvent(LuaEventManager.java:92)
    at zombie.gameStates.IngameState.updateInternal(IngameState.java:1664)
    at zombie.gameStates.IngameState.update(IngameState.java:1373)
    at zombie.gameStates.GameStateMachine.update(GameStateMachine.java:101)
    at zombie.GameWindow.logic(GameWindow.java:297)
    at zombie.core.profiling.AbstractPerformanceProfileProbe.invokeAndMeasure(AbstractPerformanceProfileProbe.java:71)
    at zombie.GameWindow.frameStep(GameWindow.java:764)
    at zombie.GameWindow.run_ez(GameWindow.java:680)
    at zombie.GameWindow.mainThread(GameWindow.java:494)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
LOG  : General     , 1664190629518> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE```

[hearty dew]

@signal frost Yes. This code from yesterday does that. Essentially, you need:

function myCallbackFunction(worldobjects, other, parameters, go, here)
    -- do fancy stuff with parameters
end

function myEventHandler(player, context, worldobjects)
    context:addOption("Option text", worldobjects, myCallbackFunction, other, parameters, go, here);
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(myEventHandler)```

[hearty dew]

My hunch from that error message is that ISTimedActionQueue.lua on line 75 is calling a function on your timed action object that doesn't exist. Can you check what ISTimedActionQueue.lua does on line 75 to check?

Missing tick function, I'm guessing from the error message?

[hollow current]

function ISTimedActionQueue:tick()
    local action = self.queue[1]
    if action == nil then
        self:clearQueue()
        return
    end
    if not action.character:getCharacterActions():contains(action.action) then
        print('bugged action, cleared queue ', action.Type or "???")
        self:resetQueue()
        return
    end
    if action.action:hasStalled() then
        self:onCompleted(action)
        return
    end
end```

line 75 is
if not action.character:getCharacterActions():contains(action.action) then

[signal frost]

Incredible, will I have access to all of the variables that belong to ISWorldObjectContextMenu?
The ones created in ISWorldObjectContextMenu.fetch?

[hearty dew]

Can you paste the error message? It should be in Zomboid/console.txt in your home directory

[hollow current]

I copied my timed action code from here, maybe its outdated and missing a function? i am not sure

https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-Mod---Doc/blob/main/How to make a custom timed actions.md

[livid geode]

The only cure-- it is the one that I've seen so far that works for editing other-player's stats through HealthPanel.
It'd be even better if you could give me a quick rundown of the core of its functions that send the command to the other player-- but I assumed you wouldn't wanna be bothered with that, so its easier for me to ask for permission to grab the mod and do some work on it until I learn the right way to use those functions myself.

[hearty dew]

It gives your event handler player, context, and worldobjects as parameters.. Everything that's passed to triggerEvent near the end of ISWorldObjectContextMenu.createMenu. But the variables in fetch look to all be retrievable from those

[hearty dew]

So ISTimedActionQueue:tick calls two functions on that line, action.character:getCharacterActions():contains(action.action).

action is a variable to the current action object in the queue (presumably an instance of the one you are creating). What is the value of the character key in the instance of your timed action object you've created and added to the timed action queue?

If it is nil, that'd explain that error message

[vague raven]

I think this is it?

[hearty dew]

Yea, that's a lua syntax error in PZRPS8Professions.lua near line 46

[hollow current]

character is basically the player, passed from here

function BatteryJumpstarter.onJumpstarterRecharge(worldobjects, generator, player, item, remainingUses, fuel)
    ISTimedActionQueue.add(BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:new(player, generator))
    --print(player);
    --print(getSpecificPlayer(player));
    --getSpecificPlayer(player):faceThisObject(generator);
    --BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:new(player, generator)
    --BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:start()
    --generator:setFuel(fuel-remainingUses)
    --item:setUsedDelta(1)
end```
Here's what print(player) and print(getSpecificPlayer(player)); return respectively

[hearty dew]

Missing a closing } perhaps

[vague raven]

maybe lemme test it and i'll get back to you

[hollow current]

For organisation of the code, i've placed the relevant functions from each file here

https://pastebin.com/CWKAzF4m

[hearty dew]

So throughout the vanilla lua source, sometimes they use the player number (an integer) as the value for player variables. Other times, they use the actual IsoPlayer object. It may be that in this instance the ISTimedActionQueue code expects character to be IsoPlayer, rather than the player id. It certainly can't be player id bc they call action.character:getCharacterActions() on it :)

[hollow current]

oh

so basically

[drifting ore]

Send me a dm of what you want to do and I will check later

[hearty dew]

To figure out what to do, I'd look at another ISTimedAction class or its usage to see what it does

[hollow current]

ISTimedActionQueue.add(BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:new(getSpecificPlayer(player), generator))

that should fix it, right?

[hearty dew]

Possibly. Let me see how other TimedActions function

[hollow current]

I'll give it a go

[hearty dew]

ProjectZomboid/media/lua/client/ISUI/ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.lua:    ISTimedActionQueue.add(ISDrinkFromBottle:new(getSpecificPlayer(player), waterContainer, useLeft * percentage));```

[vague raven]

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

46 looks to be fine

[hearty dew]

So, yea, looks like self.character is set to the IsoPlayer object in other ISTimedActions

[hollow current]

okay ye that definitely fixed it, quick question tho. Is there a built-in function to make the player walk towards an object, in this instance, the generator?

I thought self.character:faceThisObject(self.generator); would do it but it actually makes him just face it

instead of walk towards it

[hearty dew]

Yea, there is one that other ISTimedActions related to windows uses

sec

Oh, I was thinking of this

    if not luautils.walkAdjWindowOrDoor(_player, targetSquare, _window) then 

which is probably not what you want, heh

there is a luautils.lua file with that. Possibly has something more appropriate

[hollow current]

choosing "Turn Off" at the generator makes the character walk to it first before actually turning it off, I'll trying to find the source code of that

[hearty dew]

Is there a function in the game that behaves the way you want this action to function with how it walks the player to the target? If so, looking into what it does might be useful

[hearty dew]

yea, there ya go

[vague raven]

for profession framework can you not have modded clothes or does that not matter

[hearty dew]

lua variables must start with a letter or _

That's probably the issue
Nm, this is table constructor syntax

[vague raven]

the body location for those overalls is literally 010 so what should i do lol

like

https://i.imgur.com/jtQVZ4A.png

[hearty dew]

Can you change it to

["010"] = ...```

?

[vague raven]

it's worth a shot

[hollow current]

okay so

ISWorldObjectContextMenu.onActivateGenerator = function(worldobjects, enable, generator, player)
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    if luautils.walkAdj(playerObj, generator:getSquare()) then
        ISTimedActionQueue.add(ISActivateGenerator:new(player, generator, enable, 30));
    end
end```

I assume the luautils line is the pathfinding line

however i think that is not all. What is the "enable" and the "30"?

function ISActivateGenerator:new(character, generator, activate, time)
    local o = {}
    setmetatable(o, self)
    self.__index = self
    o.character = getSpecificPlayer(character);
    o.activate = activate;
    o.generator = generator;
    o.stopOnWalk = true;
    o.stopOnRun = true;
    o.maxTime = time;
    if o.character:isTimedActionInstant() then
        o.maxTime = 1
    end
    return o;
end```

[hearty dew]

Is activate used anywhere in ISActivateGenerator? My guess is it is used to determine whether the player enables or disables the generator when using it, but just a guess from the name :p

[hollow current]

ah yes that right

[hearty dew]

yea, it looks to be so. That's how the luautils.walkAdjWindowOrDoor functions, so I'd imagine it to be similar

[hollow current]

I'll try setting it up in the same way

hmm that's weird, the game throws an error in the corner but doesn't show the debug menu, nor can I see any errors in the console

do i need to add some kind of a require line to use luautils?

[hearty dew]

Not likely. luautils.lua would loaded by the time those functions are called

They'd be loaded before "Click To Start" when the world loads

[hollow current]

if luautils.walkAdj(playerObj, generator:getSquare()) then
        ISTimedActionQueue.add(BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:new(playerObj, generator))```

that's the only thing I added to the code lol

removing the if function gets rid of the error

adding it removes the context option in the first place

[hearty dew]

The little red error square pops up, but you see no errors in console.txt?

[hollow current]

yea

[hearty dew]

👀

[hearty dew]

missing the closing end?

[hollow current]

well there are errors but not related, lemme search throughly

... yes i was missing the end for the if 🤦‍♂️

why can't Lua be simple like python. No semicolons. No ends. just good indentation

sighs

yess that does the pathfinding

I think the rest should be relatively easy to set up. Thanks so much!

o.maxTime = 30; -- Time take by the action

how long is the 30

because that's obviously not seconds

[hearty dew]

Not sure. I don't see where maxTime is being used in lua. From what I do see where it is set, however, it looks like tenths of seconds (30 would be 3 seconds, I think?) and it is used to give an upper limit to how long an action takes e.g. if you have high skill the maxTime would be lowered

[hollow current]

I see. that makes sense, thanks!

[merry quail]

if i want to increase max weight from 22 to 25 what do i have to edit here, someone please help me

[hearty dew]

With what traits and strength do you have 22?

[merry quail]

strong back in soto mod

[merry quail]

it used to be 30 but the author changed it to 22

[hearty dew]

strong back only adds 2 iirc?

[merry quail]

i want it to be 24 or 25

[merry quail]

yes

do you know how to change

[hearty dew]

I'm trying to work out what you have that gets you to 22. Base is 8. strong back adds 2. Then there is some amount you get from strength level too

Anyhow, you could try setting the base to whatever you prefer after the end in that screenshot

[merry quail]

you meant change 13->15 or any number, right?

[hearty dew]

        end
        player:setMaxWeightBase(player:getMaxWeightBase() + 3)
end

[hearty dew]

yea, can do that too

[merry quail]

i did but it doesn't work

do i have to restart the game

[hearty dew]

Maybe something else is setting the maxweightbase elsewhere, or you don't have "AliceSPack" mod activated?

Shouldn't have to restart, no

Oh, you'd have to reload the game, yes. But don't need to delete the world and recreate it.

[merry quail]

Where do I add this line?

[polar gyro]

Why not ask creator of the mod?

Me for example lol

[merry quail]

idk where and who is he

[polar gyro]

You using only SOTO?

[merry quail]

ya

[polar gyro]

You need next strings

[merry quail]

are you the author

[polar gyro]

Yes

[merry quail]

oh

nice

[polar gyro]

Weight is very stupid . You need to change numbers in string after AlicePack == false

[merry quail]

This is my first time editing mods for this game

[polar gyro]

Change line 268

[merry quail]

nah

[polar gyro]

Set max weight from 9 to 10

You should have around 25 kg max

[merry quail]

im not using lua

[hearty dew]

Hey, how do you do the artwork for textures for traits/occupations? Was curious bc I wanted to make a few traits myself

[hollow current]

how do I stop a function when an if condition is true?

[hearty dew]

if condition then
    return
end```

[hollow current]

local sumDelta = 0
function BatteryJumpstarter_GeneratorTimedAction:update() -- Trigger every game update when the action is perform
    local currentDelta = self.item:getUsedDelta()
    self.item:setUsedDelta(currentDelta+0.02)
    sumDelta = sumDelta+0.02
    if sumDelta >= 0.2 then
      sumDelta = 0
      return
    end
    print("Action is update");
end```

like so?

[hearty dew]

yea

[hollow current]

Thanks!

[polar gyro]

I just draw them by myself with hands. Nothing special.

You can use any graphic editor or even online ones

[hollow current]

Where can I find a list of all PZ sounds to play? (alongside their previews, if possible)

[hearty dew]

ProjectZbomoid/media/sound it appears

[hollow current]

thanks!

hmm I am trying to find a specific sound, specifically the one that plays when you fail to hotwire a vehicle. Can't find it within the files, any idea about its name?

[summer rune]

could u guys help me? i am looking for two commands.
(1) how to spawn a zombie
(2) make that zombie (only that zombie) chase a player

[hearty dew]

function ISHotwireVehicle:start()
    self.sound = self.character:getEmitter():playSound("VehicleHotwireStart")
end

That perhaps?

[ancient grail]

i believe the spawning the zed is easy but to chase a particular player idk..

[hollow current]

Probably, I'll check in a minute. What does getEmitter() do? What's the difference between
self.character:getEmitter():playSound("VehicleHotwireStart")
and
self.character:playSound("VehicleHotwireStart")?

[ancient grail]

getSoundManager():PlayWorldSound("ZombieSurprisedPlayer", getPlayer():getSquare(), 0, 10, 10.0, false);
addSound(getPlayer(), getPlayer():getX(), getPlayer():getY(), getPlayer():getZ(), 350, 50);

this is what i use to activate the jumpscare
i believe you can just type this on the console and it will work

[hollow current]

yea, I am just searching for the specific sound name, not the way to do it

appreciate it though

[ancient grail]

ow sorry

[hollow current]

no worries 😄

[ancient grail]

VehicleHotwireStart is correct

[hollow current]

That's not it either

Never mind, I'll add a custom sound. Thanks!

[ancient grail]

VehicleHotwireFail

try this

GameSound_EngineStarted = "Engine Started",
GameSound_VehicleTireExplode = "Vehicle Tire Explode",
GameSound_VehicleTurnedOff = "Vehicle Turned Off",
GameSound_VehicleHotwireFail = "Vehicle Hotwire Fail",
GameSound_VehicleCrash = "Vehicle Crash",
GameSound_VehicleCrash1 = "Vehicle Crash 2",
GameSound_VehicleCrash2 = "Vehicle Crash 3",
GameSound_VehicleHitCharacter = "Vehicle Hit Character",

[magic nymph]

Anyone know where I can find where the range values for Shout/Whisper are set?

Also, does anyone know if a broken crafted spear has its own definition in Base? I saw in the Sandbox Options that there's a setting to remove items from the world after 24 hours and I want to add broken spears to that list so I don't have to waste time putting them in zombies.

[willow estuary]

No, it doesn't, and I don't think any of the vanilla items change their type/definition when broken.

[magic nymph]

Thanks Blair. Such a shame. 😦

[worn imp]

Howdy partners, I wanted to make a mod that add cigars into the game, I did good so far, but I cant get models into the game I have icons instead of 3d object (I tried .fbx and .x files) but it doesn't work, I tried to import some vanilla meshes like Needle but it didn't worked out. Every thing seems to work properly except for the meshes, how do I import them? Is it a code issue or I missed some step? Here's mode structure

[burnt vapor]

hey all

i need some advise

i am making my own zombie game and since i am 16 and i dont have the money to pay people to test my game i am going to ask here :))

what do you think of the stats of the first 2 weapons?

[hollow current]

if you're looking for realism i think you probably should bump the crowbar weight up to 8, other than that, i don't really have comments on anything else

I've looked into the IsUninstallVehiclePart timed action, but I am not sure which part shows the flashing green/red bar when the user succeeds/fails in uninstalling the part, anyone got an idea?

[burnt vapor]

zeds in the game will have health from 50-150 and the "armor" they wear will make a impect

[magic nymph]

I would trace which statements call ISVehicleMechanics:render() in media/lua/client/Vehicles/ISUI/ISVehicleMechanics.lua

[hollow current]

I'll give that a go, thanks!

[ripe shard]

where can i find the maintenance perk name?

couldn't find it in Zomboid\media\lua\client\RadioCom\ISRadioInteractions.lua

[cosmic quiver]

is there a mod that will turn lights off during the day and back on at night? or a mod that adds a timer that can be placed on lights so they turn on and off at certain times?

[ripe shard]

i'm modifying hydrocraft a bit if anyone wants to know

[cedar anvil]

My first weapon modeling!

went a bit wrong

[hollow current]

Would be fun swinging it around and smashing zombies everywhere

It's not a bug, its a feature!

anyways, I am still facing issues with adding the flashing green/red bars that appear when player succeed/fail in uninstalling/installing a vehicle part. I tried to read the source code but couldn't make anything out of it. Would appreciate it if someone's got a better grip on this runs it down by me!

I am trying to do sth like

function BatteryJumpstarter_JumpstarterTimedAction:perform() -- Trigger when the action is complete
    local chance = ZombRand(1,100) --Generate a random number between 1 and 100
    self.item:Use()
  if chance <= 75 then --Player succeeded in jumpstarting the battery
    --Show a flashing green bar with "success"
    self.part:getInventoryItem():setUsedDelta(0.05)
  else: --player fails
    --show a flashing red bar with "failure"
  end
    ISBaseTimedAction.perform(self);
end```

[mighty wedge]

hey does anyone know how to open the vehicle models into blender or something?

[cedar anvil]

Aren't vehicle models FBX files?

[mighty wedge]

They appear as txt when I try using them

[cedar anvil]

txt? I believe blender can import FBX files

[mighty wedge]

what was the path you went through to find them?

[cedar anvil]

you can find vehicle.FBX files at steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\models_X\vehicles

[worn imp]

So, no one knows what's the issue there?

[ruby urchin]

You need register the WorldStaticModel

In your case, should be something like this

module Base
{
    model CigarBox_Ground
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/CigarBox_Ground,
        scale = 1
    }
}

WorldStaticModel = CigarBox_Ground

[worn imp]

I did somethig like this actually

I copied the scale from another mod but should it replace meshes with icons if size is so small?

[ruby urchin]

depends on the size of your model

that just resize it

[mighty wedge]

ahh i was looking in just models thnx!

[ruby urchin]

Also your WorldStaticModel is named BoxofCigars, so you should have this on your item WorldStaticModel = BoxofCigars

[worn imp]

Sheeeeeesh

[hollow current]

you probably want to adjust the model size when exporting from blender

in export settings, make sure the size is adjusted accordingly

[worn imp]

I took a cigaret pack as a reference, it seems it wasn't scaled)) I'll just adjust the scale parameter in code then. Is it ok or it has some downsides?

[hollow current]

i've never tried doing it to be honest, but doesn't hurt to try

give it a go

[worn imp]

it worked ok*

[hollow current]

oh that''s nice to hear

[gilded hawk]

Does anyone know how can I fix this?

WARN : General , 1664220434410> ItemPickerJava.ExtractContainersFromLua> ignoring invalid ItemPicker item type "MxsQoLPack.AnarchistCookbook3"

Also what the hell this damn loot tables, why are my items always rolling low

They have the same roll chance as the other magazines

[hearty dew]

Oh, nifty. What displays the loot tables like that?

[gilded hawk]

LootZed cheat for debug mode, and then right click on the container

[cedar anvil]

I thought LootZed was for zombies only.

[gilded hawk]

I am stupid I had a typo 😕

[clever totem]

Oh! I just realised there's mod_support channel, i'll take it there

nvm, the mod_support is for reporting stuff about mods jeez

I'm getting confused here

Okay so, I'll post it here again. I keep getting this msg even though I have mod.info in the right place, and not sure what could be causing it

If anyone could help me out with this issue, then I'd really appreciate it, thank you in advance

[ruby urchin]

Probably your file is a mod.info.txt

[winter bolt]

put your media and mod.info and poster inside another folder

the "mods" folder inside a workshop contents can have multiple mod folders inside it

[hearty dew]

Should be Workshop/VikingHoodie/Contents/mods/VikingHoodie/mod.info

[steel delta]

Hello, I'm new here, I'm working on creating my first mod, I'm looking to modify the base first aid recipes so they also give a little bit of first aid experience. Would this be the recommended way of doing so:

module Base {

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

        Result:PlantainCataplasm,
        Time:60.0,
        Category:Health,
        OnGiveXP:Give1FirstAidXP
    }
}

I also want to add a new attribute to the Player called immunity that will go up/down on a daily event, how would one go about adding new data to the Player?

[ancient grail]

hi guys
is it possible for a on create recipe to trigger another function?

function Recipe.OnCreate.repairGen(items, result, player)   
 repairPower()
end```

[worn imp]

Hugely appreciate your help) Cheers

[vast veldt]

That's a mighty fine looking smoke there sir.

Does anyone know when IsoPlayer's getOnlineID() and getPing() methods are expected to return data other than "0"? This seemed fairly normal when I was testing in singleplayer but having moved to testing my code on a dedicated server it seems odd these aren't set. I've checked obtaining the data both at the client side and at the server side, and both return this.

[clever totem]

I'll check it out shortly

[vast veldt]

It's possible I'm not truly seeing the server's information as my call is within a zone from Events.OnClientCommand so player is the player object dispatched from that event - just knowing when I'd expect it to be nonzero would be a useful starter for ten so I can debug.

[shadow geyser]

yes that is fine

[ruby urchin]

Try this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2735092774

[vast veldt]

Ah that's great thank you... maybe it is entirely expected that I'm ID zero then, looking at that example... for some reason I thought this field would be the Steam ID or other external immutable property. So can I 100% disambiguate which player is which with :getOnlineID() then? (e.g. no two players will ever share the same number, even if offline?) (If no, is there any property that behaves this way, whether it be getPlayerNum() / getPlayerIndex() or even username?)

(Sorry for all the questions, there's a bit of guesswork involved in knowing exactly what each property/method actually describes!)

[ruby urchin]

Id never will be a constat, I mean, every time a player enters, a new id is assigned IIRC there are a function that can find a specific steam user, but I can't confirm it

I don't have a source decompilated yet 😅

[hearty dew]

LOG  : General     , 1664223807142> EXITDEBUG: Core.quitToDesktop
LOG  : General     , 1664223807147> EXITDEBUG: GameWindow.exit 1
LOG  : General     , 1664223807152> EXITDEBUG: GameWindow.exit 2
LOG  : General     , 1664223807156> EXITDEBUG: GameWindow.exit 3
LOG  : General     , 1664223807161> EXITDEBUG: GameWindow.exit 4
LOG  : General     , 1664223807166> 1664223807166> znet: Java_zombie_core_znet_SteamUtils_n_1Shutdown
ERROR: General     , 1664223807254> java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /lua/morefastkeys/saves
ERROR: General     , 1664223807260>     at jdk.zipfs/jdk.nio.zipfs.ZipFileSystem.deleteFile(Unknown Source)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807265>     at jdk.zipfs/jdk.nio.zipfs.ZipPath.delete(Unknown Source)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807270>     at jdk.zipfs/jdk.nio.zipfs.ZipFileSystemProvider.delete(Unknown Source)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807275>     at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.delete(Unknown Source)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807280>     at zombie.core.logger.ZipLogs.deleteDirectory(ZipLogs.java:305)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807285>     at zombie.core.logger.ZipLogs.addDirToZipLua(ZipLogs.java:264)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807290>     at zombie.core.logger.ZipLogs.addZipFile(ZipLogs.java:80)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807294>     at zombie.GameWindow.exit(GameWindow.java:941)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807299>     at zombie.GameWindow.run_ez(GameWindow.java:700)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807303>     at zombie.GameWindow.mainThread(GameWindow.java:494)
ERROR: General     , 1664223807307>     at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
LOG  : General     , 1664223807350> GameThread exited.
LOG  : General     , 1664223807355> EXITDEBUG: GameWindow.exit 5

Why might this error be showing up when the pz application closes?

On the OnSave event, my mod used getFileWriter() to write to morefastkeys/saves/filename.json (which pz stores under ~/Zomboid/Lua), and that all works well and good. However, it seems that the pz routine in java that zips up old log files is also trying to access /lua/morefastkeys/saves, which is a different path. This error even shows if pz never loads any mods, just open pz with no mods and click Quit.

[vast veldt]

Ok. I'll try and get a few folks to log in to do some practical testing - so long as the IDs (or whichever field) are not re-used in the same game, that's the critical factor for me (i.e. one day I log in and have ID 2, and then the next day on the same server without reset I log in and have ID 3, causing my logic to attribute an action or event to the wrong player).

[astral dune]

I didn't know that sendClientCommand just triggered an event 🤦‍♂️ no wonder nothing I was trying last night would work. Thanks for posting this

[hearty dew]

This looks like a bug that appears when there is a 2nd level directory inside ~/Zomboid/Lua. Doesn't even seem to matter what it is named nor whether the directory contains any files

[clever totem]

Okay, so it works Tyrir, thanks! but now I have an issue of not seeing the hoodie I added (changed textures)

can't spawn it or anything so I must've done something wrong with the set up

jeez

it's my first time doing something like this

not really sure where's the problem though

[boreal crow]

function Recipe.GetItemTypes.WeldingMask(scriptItems)
    scriptItems:addAll(getScriptManager():getItemsTag("WeldingMask"))
    addExistingItemType(scriptItems, "WeldingMask")
end```

I wondering what this does exactly, is it adding weldingmask twice?

or is it assigning the tag of weldingmask to the item weldingmask

[clever totem]

wait if I got this and I got hoodie, do I need to like ummm copy it and do it the same for hoodieup?

all of that is confusing to me

but I want to accomplish something with this

[weak sierra]

italic comic sans

in notepad

you my friend are cursed af

[boreal crow]

Are scripts such as recipes reloaded at all?

I know lua can be reloaded when you encounter an error to allow you to fix it, but I'm having issues related to my recipe that cause a crash

[clever totem]

look, idk where it came from

[weak sierra]

but uh ur question

yes

diff <files></files> for each one

since that might not be obvious by the naming being plural

[exotic loom]

why does the nvg mod not work

[clever totem]

yup done

though, not sure what I've done

[weak sierra]

each of the XML files it points to

[clever totem]

oh

[weak sierra]

contain the same unique GUIDs

and they have texture/bone/etc. info

[clever totem]

same GUID?

[weak sierra]

no

everything

well

everything has its own

[clever totem]

well two different GUIDs

[weak sierra]

but the guid should be same in the file

that it points to

[clever totem]

okay that's how I've done it

yeah

[weak sierra]

as the one in the file list

[ancient grail]

most likely cuz of java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /lua/morefastkeys/saves

[clever totem]

something's crashing

but i'm not sure what

like something's crashing my zomboid i'm trying to look inside the scripts and all that

[hearty dew]

Yea, seems to be a bug. Some code in java-land is prepending / to the path when trying to zip up the ~/Zomboid/Lua directory when the application is closing

[clever totem]

one of those sussy bakas

is doing it, zomboid crashes when it loads scripts

oh wait I see one issue

Down changed to DOWN

[cyan basalt]

looks like it gets all items existing in the PZ scriptmanager with the tag "WeldingMask" and adds them to the inputted param "scriptItems" then readds the item type welding mask to that list for some reason

[boreal crow]

That is what i was thinking but wanted to double check, thank you very much - and can we generate our own custom item tags, or is that outside the scope of mods?

[clever totem]

:D

I get this when I try to wear it

I'm getting closer and closer to solving this!!!

and finally adding my h o o d i e

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1022574121156104222/1024099193041715210/unknown.png eh atleast it's placeable but still gotta fix that

[hollow current]

Glad it works! It was my pleasure

[unreal garnet]

Anyone with a good mod recommendation?

Nothing specific in mind...

I have some armors, vehicles and weapons

[pine fiber]

is it possible to modify one or more local variables of a function of a mod using another mod?

[ruby urchin]

nop, unless the function is global, you can rewrite it

[hearty dew]

Not easily, no

[pine fiber]

hmm ok

why "not easily"? there is a way?

[hearty dew]

In some cases, you might be able to insert metatables into environment tables to intercept assignments

[lime hedge]

rewrite the function that use that var

[hearty dew]

if it is a global function, can of course rewrite it, yes

[pine fiber]

it's not

[lime hedge]

if the function is also local, remove from event sub

or just plainly have a file with the same name but different implementation... probably that will works..

[pine fiber]

that's what I was wondering

[hearty dew]

That should work

[lime hedge]

its best practice to use a prefix to your mod, so none unintentionally overwriting yours

to everyfilename aswell

[hearty dew]

Does come with the cost of being brittle if the mod changes a lot, modifies the file regularly

[lime hedge]

yep, but hardly for filename i think, i prefer make a patch file somewhere, then use the same name to assign the function i define in that prefixed name patch file

[hearty dew]

I was wondering if you might be able to load your file before theirs and use setfenv to call require to load their file with a different environment that you control. Haven't actually tried that though

[lime hedge]

never try tho

[lime hedge]

under load order perhaps?

but...

you need 2 mod to do that :S 1 mod to load before and after lol

i dunno

[hearty dew]

Yea, you can load before other files easily enough. The files are loaded alphabetically, so can name your file !patchfile.lua, for example

[lime hedge]

ah.. i just know that.. alphabetical order

[hearty dew]

!beforepatchfile.lua
zzafterpatchfile.lua
:p

[lime hedge]

mess.. but i like the idea, like trapping stuff between it

!!!_PATCH_start.lua
Z_PATCH_end.lua

kinda weird use ! as filename

like css !important

[hearty dew]

lowercase ascii sorts after uppercase, so would go with lower case z

[hearty dew]

yep

[lime hedge]

ah I see, i fail to notice that

[pine fiber]

thank you for your answers @hearty dew & @lime hedge

[ruby urchin]

Is there a way to see a performance graph?

[hearty dew]

Where is the lootzed tool at? Don't see it as a mod, nor in the dev tools you dl via steam

I see it mentioned in pz release notes

Oh, is it built into debug mode?

[pine fiber]

yes

In Debug Menu > Cheats

[signal frost]

What's the easiest way to test a mod that requires a second player?

[astral dune]

Man I'm just working backwards now, trying to intercept ISVehicleMenu.onMechanic isn't working at all, feel like I'm taking crazy pills this should be simple

Is there something different about games launched through the "Host" option? Should I be putting my client sided code in shared or something? I just don't get why overriding this function isn't working

Its literally just this

local original_openMechanics = ISVehicleMenu.onMechanic
function ISVehicleMenu.onMechanic(character, vehicle)
    character:Say("New Open Mechanics UI Action", 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, UIFont.Small, 60.0, "radio")
    --original_openMechanics(character, vehicle)
end```

[weak sierra]

that's exactly what that did to me cuz the name sounds like a separate program or mod lol

[ancient grail]

thank you verymuch @hearty dew for helping me with this!!!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2868229063

[astral dune]

nice, how are you getting the power to come back on? Messing with the configured day?

[ancient grail]

getSandboxOptions():getOptionByName("ElecShutModifier"):setValue(2147483647)
print(getSandboxOptions():getOptionByName("ElecShutModifier"):getValue())
getSandboxOptions():getOptionByName("ElecShutModifier"):setValue(-1)
print(getSandboxOptions():getOptionByName("ElecShutModifier"):getValue())```

heres what i used

[astral dune]

set it to max and then negative? Thats weird. But if its dumb and it works it's not dumb

[weak sierra]

your description doesn't quite explain the game mechanics of it

admin placed tile

but

more than one? what do they do to repair it? does it turn back off randomly?

does it break at random admin placed tiles out of the group of them?

would be fun to make it work on random electrical poles and then start them back at like.. random N (1-14) in game days before it runs out

so they have to hunt around for it

https://tenor.com/view/arson-fire-anime-angry-gif-22586809

[astral dune]

I had a mind to add a larger generator somewhere on the map. Natural gas maybe. Have it produce a tonne of noise while operating but as long as you keep the zombies out the power keeps running. Could be fun

[hollow current]

Still facing issues here gentlemen. Can't figure it out from source code

[astral dune]

I would have assumed it would be in ISInstallVehiclePart.lua but it doesn't appear to be. Maybe track down where sendClientCommand(self.character, 'vehicle', 'installPart', args) ends up. I suppose it could send a server command back to trigger the loading/flashing bar, who knows

[hollow current]

I'll try to track that down, thanks

by the way, any idea what language each codename in /lua/shared/translate refers to?

[hearty dew]

They are probably bcp 47 language tags

[hollow current]

I've checked, doesn't look like it though

It says CH is Italian, somehow, even though it has chinese characters in the vanilla files

[hearty dew]

They use the first two characters

the 2nd two are a region

it = italian

[hollow current]

https://www.techonthenet.com/js/language_tags.php

None of them start with CH though

anyhow, apparently the full language text appears in language.txt in each respective folder, thanks to the help in #translations. I appreciate your time!

[hearty dew]

Oh, then I don't know what standard they are following

[hollow current]

Would you have an idea about this?

[hearty dew]

I'm not even sure what the flashing thing is in the vehicle menu. I play on settings that make it almost impossible to get a working car 😅

[hollow current]

aah i see

its np I'll probably figure something out

[stray patio]

is there a way to create an explosion at a tile

[hollow current]

Really looks awesome man, keep it up!

[ancient grail]

which one do i use ?
OnCreateSurvivor or OnCreatePlayer
i need a function as soon as a player createas a new character and spawns for the first time

im guessing its OnCreateSurvivor

[hollow current]

hmm I can't find the intsallPart client command anywhere, any idea where I can find it?

[signal ibex]

I'm trying to figure out steam workshop formatting, is there a way to have a multi-level list?

[shadow geyser]

yes you can create your own tags, and then you need to create the function that gathers all the items based on tags if you want to use them for recipes

[hollow current]

is there a guide as to how to set up the spawn location/chance of a custom item?

[pine fiber]

Is it possible to change the volume of a sound added with addSound(soundFile)? Or should it be done directly on the sound file?

[heady cloak]

Pretty sure this is where to ask. Does anyone know how to remove items from Choose item directory when uploading workshop content?
The Workshop folder is cleared besides the mod template and the mods still show yet not existing as an uploaded mod on my Steam account.

Thanks

[signal ibex]

Anyone know what the following does in the vehicle distributions

table.insert(VehicleDistributions, 1, distributionTable)

[pine fiber]

I think you have to look in the folder C:\Users\USERNAME\Zomboid\Workshop

[heady cloak]

Alright, will try it out

Oops. I was clearing the wrong one, my bad

[shadow geyser]

it just inserts the distributionTable into the vehicledistributions table.

[signal ibex]

but won't it be

VehicleDistributions.1

To access that distributionTable now?

Why is it saved into [1]?

-- VD:table 0x686968119 2:table 0x366126203 3:table 0x871284004
A_Mod.Debug("VD:" .. tostring(t_Distribution) .. " 2:" .. tostring(t_Distribution[1]) .. " 3:" .. tostring(t_Distribution[1].SUVSmashedRear));

So odd

[shadow geyser]

so its the wierd way lists are implemented into lua since everything is a table

[signal ibex]

Yeah, but saving the distributiontable reference into [1] is so odd

And there's nothing that uses it

I think

[shadow geyser]

everything that uses vehicle distributions uses it

all lua tables are dictionaries

but somethings make sense to use lists logically. but lua doesn't have lists

[signal ibex]

Yea, I guess somewhere in java they use this table and the [1] variable value?

[shadow geyser]

so they are implemented as dictionaries that just index with 1 up to the N elements

[signal ibex]

Yeah, but for this case

-- table for glovebox
VehicleDistributions.GloveBox
-- table for distribution of smashed vehicles
VehicleDistributions[1]

I thought it's odd that they are using both

[shadow geyser]

yeah so since they are ultimately tables, you can use both methods

[signal ibex]

Like, why not just call it

VehicleDistributions.SmashedDistributions

That's what's confusing me XD

yeah, you can do it, but why do it

so odd

I thought there was like a explenation somehow that it's for a specific reason so I tried to figure out why, too hard :S

[shadow geyser]

its a really wierd behavior, because you can have a table with elements indexed with the normal list form and one random str index, and when you do ipairs, it will only return the indexed stuff with not the numbers

[signal ibex]

Yeah

[shadow geyser]

my understanding is that lua design philosophy is to be easily portable and simple. and to try to acheive that philosophy, they heavily reduced the number of data types. so there is only 1 "data storage" which is the table

because it simplifies things

[signal ibex]

I see, that makes sense, yeah. Thanks

[shadow geyser]

but there are still alot of useful things with lists and arrays and stuff which are very useful, so tables try to do it all

but the side effect is that weird thing that you can treat the same thing as lists or dictionaries or iterators because ultimately, they are all just a table

[heady cloak]

I got a question about these

    self.character:setMaxWeight(NewWeight)
    self.character:setMaxWeightBase(NewWeight)

How does it determine the new carry weight? Using specific numbers makes the outcome different then what is put in

[buoyant violet]

Little question, im trying to understand more Lua scripting myself, and I trying to do a small run using Fireamrsb41 which has suppresor and Resident Evil Weapons (REWMOD) which also has silencer for its weapon
I have seen, the B41 weapons lose the suppresion sound and that when I have equip the RE weapon I get this error (if they the silencer attach)

and it points to this line in the Silencer lua
line 75

[shadow geyser]

you would probably have to take a look at the decompiled code to figure that out. if I would have to guess, the maxweight and maxweightbase isn't directly used for carry limit, but are just constants used for some formula since the max weight you can carry depends on things like your perks and strength level.

[shadow geyser]

alot of mods which add silencers are incompatible with each other. maybe try one at a time to see which you prefer

[heady cloak]

Yea, there is a formula. Just was asking if anyone knew it beforehand

[meager lion]

player.setMaxWeight(player.getMaxWeight() + 2); If Green food Moodle is present
player.setMaxWeight((int)(player.getMaxWeight() * player.getMaxWeightDelta()));```

[hearty dew]

@heady cloak It was posted across several messages earlier

[meager lion]

Simply put, setMaxWeightBase adjusts your minimum, and SetMaxWeightDelta is the strength multiplier

[heady cloak]

My ctrl+f skills didn't work, sorry about that

[hollow current]

any idea why I am getting an error here?

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(function(player, context, worldobjects)
    local generator

    for _,worldObject in ipairs(worldobjects) do
        if instanceof(worldObject, 'IsoGenerator') then
            generator = worldObject
        end
    end
    
    if generator then
        local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
        local invent = playerObj:getInventory()
        local item = invent:getItemFromType("Jumpstarter")
        local usedDelta
        local remainingUses
        local fuel
        local discription = nil

        description = "<RGB:0,255,0> Recharges the Battery Jumpstarter <LINE> <LINE>"

        if item then
            description = description .. " <RGB:1,1,1>" .. item:getDisplayName() .. " 1/1 <LINE>";
            usedDelta = item:getUsedDelta()
            remainingUses = 0

            if usedDelta > 0 then
                remainingUses = usedDelta*5
            end
        else
            option.notAvailable = true;
            description = description .. " <RED>" .. item:getDisplayName() .. " 0/1 <LINE>";
        end

        fuel = generator:getFuel()
        local option = context:addOption("Recharge Jumpstarter", worldobjects, BatteryJumpstarter.onJumpstarterRecharge, generator, player, item, remainingUses, fuel);
        
        if fuel > 1 then
            description = description .. " <RGB:1,1,1> 1 unit of fuel <LINE>";
        else
            option.notAvailable = true;
            description = description .. " <RED> 1 unit of fuel <LINE>";
        end
    end

    if remainingUses == 5 then
        option.notAvailable = true;
        description = "<RED> Battery Jumpstarter is already fully charged <LINE>";
    end

    local tooltip = ISToolTip:new();
    tooltip:initialise();
    tooltip:setVisible(false);
    tooltip.description = description
    option.toolTip = tooltip
end)```

the error is on the last line of the code, end)

[hearty dew]

What is the error message?

[hollow current]

Callframe at: se.krka.kahlua.integration.expose.MultiLuaJavaInvoker@d9c7e266
function: createMenu -- file: ISWorldObjectContextMenu.lua line # 1532 | Vanilla
function: createMenu -- file: ISMenuContextWorld.lua line # 50 | Vanilla
function: createWorldMenu -- file: ISContextManager.lua line # 28 | Vanilla
function: doRClick -- file: ISObjectClickHandler.lua line # 60 | Vanilla
function: onObjectRightMouseButtonUp -- file: ISObjectClickHandler.lua line # 369 | Vanilla

LOG  : General     , 1664295377295> attempted index of non-table
LOG  : General     , 1664295377349> creating new sourcewindow: C:/Users/Zeyad/Zomboid/mods/Battery Jumpstarter/media/lua/client/BatteryJumpstarter.lua
ERROR: General     , 1664295380844> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index of non-table at KahluaUtil.fail line:82.
ERROR: General     , 1664295380844> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index of non-table
    --a lot of jibberish```

[astral dune]

what is that closed bracket for?

[hollow current]

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(

I had the exact same code, just reorganised line in a more logical manner and add few bits and pieces

can't find what is it that is causing the error though

here's the code before it was re-organised and starting throwing errors

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(function(player, context, worldobjects)
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    local invent = playerObj:getInventory()
    local item = invent:getItemFromType("Jumpstarter")
    if item then
        local generator = nil;
        local usedDelta = item:getUsedDelta()
        local remainingUses

        if usedDelta > 0 then
            remainingUses = usedDelta*5
        else
            remainingUses = 0
        end

        remainingUses = math.floor(remainingUses)

        for _,worldObject in ipairs(worldobjects) do
            if instanceof(worldObject, 'IsoGenerator') then
                generator = worldObject
            end
        end

        if generator then
            if generator:isActivated() then
                local fuel = generator:getFuel()
                if remainingUses < 5 and fuel >= remainingUses then
                    local option = context:addOption("Recharge Jumpstarter", worldobjects, BatteryJumpstarter.onJumpstarterRecharge, generator, player, item, remainingUses, fuel);
                end
            end
        end
    end
end)```

[astral dune]

"Attempted index of non-table" is usually caused by calling a function that doesn't exist

[hearty dew]

BatteryJumpstarter.lua line # 59

What is like 59?

[hollow current]

tooltip.description = description

[hearty dew]

Is tooltip nil?

[hollow current]

shouldn't be

local tooltip = ISToolTip:new();

[astral dune]

description is initialized inside if generator, so if there is no generator found this would get thrown I believe

[hearty dew]

If you are in the debug UI, it has a window with the value of local variables. You might can check if something is unexpectedly nil using that

[hollow current]

right, i think it was that. It makes the most sense. Idk how i never noticed it

[hollow current]

oo i never actually knew that, thanks

[astral dune]

Does using local inside an if then block set its scope to the function or the if then block? I'm not sure but I think its the latter. If that's the case even if a generator is found description won't exist

[hollow current]

I think it was because I was trying to access the description outside the if condition, whereas the error was thrown when I right click off the generator. so it makes sense there was no description in the first place

Thanks for the time guys!

[gilded hawk]

My bisect hosting server crashes when I add Noir's Attachments to the mod list

Did anyone ever experienced this?

[hearty dew]

Not sure from that what pz is doing to reach the inotify limit. Might check kernel messages to verify that's what's happening

and if so, you could try increasing the limit

or figuring out what could be causing that in pz, I suppose, but isn't much to go on from that

[gilded hawk]

It's a bit tricky cause I don't have control of the server but I could ask their Devops team to increase them

[hearty dew]

Oh, yea, you'd need to fiddle with files in /proc to change it

Or some system-wide configuration. I don't remember off the top of my head

ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,357>      at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixPath.register(Unknown Source)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,357>      at java.base/java.nio.file.Path.register(Unknown Source)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,358>      at zombie.DebugFileWatcher.registerDir(DebugFileWatcher.java:73)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,358>      at zombie.DebugFileWatcher$1.preVisitDirectory(DebugFileWatcher.java:57)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,358>      at zombie.DebugFileWatcher$1.preVisitDirectory(DebugFileWatcher.java:53)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,358>      at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.walkFileTree(Unknown Source)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,358>      at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.walkFileTree(Unknown Source)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,358>      at zombie.DebugFileWatcher.registerDirRecursive(DebugFileWatcher.java:52)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,358>      at zombie.DebugFileWatcher.addDirectoryRecurse(DebugFileWatcher.java:113)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835565> 4,503,823,358>      at zombie.ZomboidFileSystem.getAllModFoldersAux(ZomboidFileSystem.java:517)
ERROR: General     , 1664297835566> 4,503,823,358>      at zombie.ZomboidFileSystem.getAllModFolders(ZomboidFileSystem.java:555)```

Looks like pz registers all mod directories to watch

So might be due to a combination of your server having a low inotify limit and having many mod directories that pz registers for notifications

cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches should show you the per-user limit

[gilded hawk]

Damn, I wish I could just edit that myself, but I need to wait for the tech support

I should have hosted this server myself 😐

[meager lion]

It does set the scope to the if then block

[astral dune]

ya, that's what I thought

[ruby urchin]

I did an Intervals Thread function in case someone finds it useful

local Interval = {}
local Intervals = {}

function Interval:CreateThread(seconds, cb)
    local i = 1;
    local waitThread = 0;

    while Intervals[i] ~= nil do i = i + 1 end
    Intervals[i] = true;
    
    Events.OnTick.Add(function()
        if waitThread == seconds then waitThread = 0; else waitThread = waitThread + 1 end
        
        if waitThread == 0 then
            if Intervals[i] ~= nil then
                cb();
            else
                Events.OnTick.Remove(self);
            end
        end       
    end);

    return i;
end

function Interval:ClearThread(id)
    if Intervals[id] ~= nil then
        Intervals[id] = nil
    end
end


return Interval

How use?

local Interval = require "YOURMODNAME/Interval"
local TestInterval;

local onKeyStartPressed = function(key)
    if key == Keyboard.KEY_NUMPAD1 then
        TestInterval = Interval:CreateThread(500, function()
            print("TESTING THREAD");
        end)
    end

    if key == Keyboard.KEY_NUMPAD2 then
        Interval:ClearThread(TestInterval);
    end
end

Events.OnKeyStartPressed.Add(onKeyStartPressed);

[smoky meadow]

i was wondering what this "AimingPerkCritModifier" mean?

this on firearms

[buoyant violet]

How dificult would be to write a patch

In personal opinions

[hearty dew]

Don't you have to pass a reference to the cb wrapper to remove it? self is only defined by the : syntax, or does self do some magic inside anonymous functions?

[ruby urchin]

self refers to itself inside a function

~~it's the same that

local OnTick = function(blabla)

end
Events.OnTick.Add(OnTick)
Events.OnTick.Remove(OnTick)
```~~

[hearty dew]

right, using the : syntactic sugar in lua, self is added as a parameter

Foo:bar()
  -- self is in scope
end```
is equivalent to```lua
Foo.bar(self)
  -- self is in scope
end```
Don't think it does that in lua otherwise?

[ruby urchin]

IIRC it depends on which block you are using self

[hearty dew]

function f()
    print("self is "..tostring(self))
end
f()```
outputs:

self is nil```

[ruby urchin]

or if you define it

wait me a second, I need check that, It's only been 3 days since I've been modding again

[hearty dew]

Other languages give functions a self reference, but lua doesn't afaik (except when defining a function using the : syntax, function Foo:bar())

[ruby urchin]

input

print(function()
    print(self)
end)

output

function: 0x710330

yeah, works only anonymous functions

[quasi geode]

thats not printing "self". though...the function there is never run

[hollow current]

soo i've made a model for a custom object but it's not appearing in-game. Like, physically its there, but its like the model is invisible. Keep in mind I didn't add textures yet. Would that cause the issue of it not appearing?

[ruby urchin]

lol

mb

[hearty dew]

Mm, you'd expect two lines printed, one for the function object returned by function() .. end and a second for the print(self) inside when the function is called (if it were called)

[ruby urchin]

yep

[hearty dew]

    local cb_wrapper
    cb_wrapper = function()
        if waitThread == seconds then waitThread = 0; else waitThread = waitThread + 1 end
        
        if waitThread == 0 then
            if Intervals[i] ~= nil then
                cb();
            else
                Events.OnTick.Remove(cb_wrapper);
            end
        end       
    end
    Events.OnTick.Add(cb_wrapper)```
Might need something like this

[quasi geode]

this is pretty much correct, self will always refer to the table holding the function

[hollow current]

umm i need help effectively binding a .fbx model to a custom item since apparently I am not doing it correctly, if anyone's got an idea

[gilded hawk]

Did anyone ever had a situation where you can't unequip a piece of clothing? 🤔

Apparently, group:setMultiItem("NameHere", true) breaks the unequip button 😦

[sturdy trench]

Hey yall im doing to do custom loot zones for the first time, how do i get the name of custom tiles?, for example i want to do a music store with dylans music tiles? Cant find the name for his shelves n what not

[summer rune]

does someone has a list, where Events are separated by Server and Client? I am wonder which event is available where.

specifically the events "OnPlayerDeath" and "OnScoreboardUpdate"

[hearty dew]

Looks like a lot of them are the java code. I don't see them all in the lua source

$ grep -rh triggerEvent ProjectZomboid/media/lua/server | awk '{$1=$1;print}' | sort
triggerEvent("OnChangeWeather", season.weather);
triggerEvent("OnDawn"); -- we notify that we're on dawn for modding purpose
triggerEvent("OnDusk"); -- we notify that we're on dusk for modding purpose
triggerEvent("OnObjectAdded", self.javaObject)
triggerEvent("OnObjectAdded", self.javaObject)
triggerEvent("OnObjectAdded", self.javaObject)

$ grep -rh triggerEvent ProjectZomboid/media/lua/shared | awk '{$1=$1;print}' | sort
triggerEvent("OnContainerUpdate");
triggerEvent("OnSpawnRegionsLoaded", regions)
triggerEvent("onAddForageDefs", forageSystem);
triggerEvent("onUpdateIcon", zoneData, iconID, nil);
triggerEvent("preAddCatDefs", forageSystem);
triggerEvent("preAddForageDefs", forageSystem);
triggerEvent("preAddItemDefs", forageSystem);
triggerEvent("preAddSkillDefs", forageSystem);
triggerEvent("preAddZoneDefs", forageSystem);

$ grep -rh triggerEvent ProjectZomboid/media/lua/client/ | awk '{$1=$1;print}' | sort
triggerEvent("OnChallengeQuery");
triggerEvent("OnClothingUpdated", self.character);
triggerEvent("OnConnectFailed", error, detail)
triggerEvent("OnContainerUpdate")
triggerEvent("OnContainerUpdate")
triggerEvent("OnContainerUpdate")
triggerEvent("OnContainerUpdate")
triggerEvent("OnEnterVehicle", self.character)
triggerEvent("OnExitVehicle", self.character)
triggerEvent("OnFillInventoryContextMenuNoItems", playerNum, context, isLoot)
triggerEvent("OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu", player, context, items);
triggerEvent("OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu", player, context, worldobjects, test);
triggerEvent("OnObjectAboutToBeRemoved", _object)
triggerEvent("OnObjectAboutToBeRemoved", _object) -- Hack for RainCollectorBarrel, Trap, etc
triggerEvent("OnObjectAboutToBeRemoved", _object) -- Hack for RainCollectorBarrel, Trap, etc
triggerEvent("OnObjectAdded", _obj)
triggerEvent("OnObjectAdded", _obj)
triggerEvent("OnObjectAdded", obj) -- for RainCollectorBarrel in singleplayer
triggerEvent("OnPreFillInventoryContextMenuNoItems", playerNum, context, isLoot)
triggerEvent("OnPreFillInventoryObjectContextMenu", player, context, items);
triggerEvent("OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu", player, context, worldobjects, test);
triggerEvent("OnRefreshInventoryWindowContainers", self, "beforeFloor")
triggerEvent("OnRefreshInventoryWindowContainers", self, "begin")
triggerEvent("OnRefreshInventoryWindowContainers", self, "buttonsAdded")
triggerEvent("OnRefreshInventoryWindowContainers", self, "end")
triggerEvent("OnSteamWorkshopItemCreated", "1234", true)
triggerEvent("OnSteamWorkshopItemUpdated", true)
triggerEvent("OnSwitchVehicleSeat", self.character)
triggerEvent("onDisableSearchMode", self.character, self.isSearchMode);
triggerEvent("onEnableSearchMode", self.character, self.isSearchMode);
triggerEvent("onFillSearchIconContextMenu", contextMenu, self);
triggerEvent("onToggleSearchMode", self.character, self.isSearchMode);
triggerEvent("onUpdateIcon", _icon.zoneData, _icon.iconID, _icon);
triggerEvent("onUpdateIcon", _zoneData, _iconID, _icon);
triggerEvent("onUpdateIcon", self.forageIcon.zoneData, self.forageIcon.iconID, nil);
triggerEvent("onUpdateIcon", self.zoneData, self.iconID, self);```

Those are just the ones in client / shared / server in lua source

The shared ones might have IsClient() or IsServer() conditionals missing from that info however

[summer rune]

thanks for your work. I did not even came up with the idea to search the lua folder for triggers using wildcards. genius. thanks. 🔥

[hearty dew]

Might not be that useful as a lot are missing. The missing ones are likely in the java code, which I don't have decompiled to search through atm

[summer rune]

It is alright. But you taught me something nonetheless.

[neon bronze]

Does anyone know where the whole definitions for guns, are especially how they are set up as objects in lua?

[bold oriole]

Diff between current stable and unstable lua api and java api - updated for todays unstable release
https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench/pull/19/files

[ruby urchin]

Intervals Thread (now works fine lmao)

[astral dune]

what sort of things would someone do with this?

[ruby urchin]

subMenu:addOption("Follow me", clickedPlayer, function(dog)
    followInterval = Interval:CreateThread(200, function()
        ISTimedActionQueue.clear(clickedPlayer)
        ISTimedActionQueue.add(ISWalkToTimedAction:new(clickedPlayer, playerObj:getCurrentSquare()))
    end)
end);

this for example, ISWalkToTimedAction behaves weird if it is repeated a million times

[astral dune]

so the action would fire every 200ms or something automatically until you kill it? Thats pretty neat

[signal frost]

Is there any easy way to test multiplayer mods that require a second player? I understand there's some kind of splitscreen mode? Is this usable?

[ruby urchin]

Probably this help you
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2735092774

[midnight mica]

does anyone know if its possible to fire the command below on server level? i'm trying to allow someone without an access level to add new vehicles to the map, but firing the command seems to require a certain access level

[signal frost]

Effectively I want to create multiple clients and iterate quickly on one machine

Oh awesome, your guide covers that. Thanks a lot Dislaik

[ancient grail]

@ruby urchin does this only work on the new unstable build or does it apply on the current stable

[ancient grail]

try searching for xyberviris carwanna mod

[midnight mica]

thanks!

[ancient grail]

it creates items called as pink slips which can be used to spawn vehickes as it sends commands to the server.

[midnight mica]

seems to be using addVehicleDebug() instead of the /addvehicle command, thanks for tip!

[ancient grail]

but u need to do the sendtoserver function otherwise it wont work

to check try it on lua console
then have another player come to you to see if he can see the vehicle

[lusty dirge]

Does anybody know if the muzzle flash on firearms is vanilla? I'm working on some firearms in a mod, and some have the muzzle flash, some do not.. I'm tryin to figure out if that is a setting in the scripting of the firearm, or if thats part of the model I am exporting from blender.

[ruby urchin]

Actually idk, I haven't seen any complaints so far

[faint folio]

Good day, can anyone help me I've run out of places to search.
I've tried giving myself admin rights but it always says acess level 32 without access to the panel.

Turned on and off the debug menu, with and without mods.

I don't know at this point what prevents me from getting admin rights.
I typed Both.
/setaccesslevel "John Shepard N7117" admin
/setaccesslevel "JohnShepardN7117" admin
Both recognized and still it says access level 32.

[midnight mica]

screenshot your name

[gilded hawk]

Is there a mod that allows you to ride the back of pickup trucks?

I swear that I remember seeing it on steamcommunity at some point

[faint folio]

@midnight mica

[midnight mica]

Shephard?

ur writing shepard above

[faint folio]

I hate myself so much right now

-_-

[midnight mica]

forgot the H

[faint folio]

3 damn hours

[midnight mica]

lol

[faint folio]

Thank you kindly.

[sour island]

Anyone familiar with Lua's load() know if it is actually exposed? Seems like it is but the game throws up errors as if it's not

[ruby urchin]

IIRC pz use a old version of lua, use loadstring() instead

[sour island]

doesnt seem like loadstring is exposed

ah load() was in my IDE from a lua library

I don't think either are exposed

[ruby urchin]

#mod_development message

[sour island]

this works?

[ruby urchin]

Yeah, I used that when I was noob and I didn't know that require exists

[quasi geode]

last i checked loadstring worked

[sour island]

thank you very much

wish I asked sooner

spent like 2 days off and on trying to write a table to string to table

Trying to make it easier to manage a large amount of stores

[ruby urchin]

sweeet

That's like a manager store in real time?

[sour island]

Yeah

Saves to serverside global mod data

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2853615523

Can set up a store anywhere - it's in the modData so you can attach the same store to multiple mapobjects, or copy an existing store as a template

The issue was it can take a while to set everything up - and it's all lost on a server wipe

[ruby urchin]

Ohh I see, look nice

[sour island]

ty

and thanks again for clarifying that

trying to parse nested tables was a nightmare

so glad loadstring works

[hearty dew]

Are you serializing and deserializing lua tables?

[sour island]

Yes

[hearty dew]

I've been using the regex.info guy's JSON library to do that

[sour island]

function _internal.tableToString(object,nesting)
    nesting = nesting or 0
    local text = ""..string.rep("  ", nesting)
    if type(object) == 'table' then
        local s = "{\n"
        for k,v in pairs(object) do
            s = s..string.rep("  ", nesting+1).."\[\""..k.."\"\] = ".._internal.tableToString(v,nesting+1)..",\n"
        end
        text = s..string.rep("  ", nesting).."}"
    else
        if type(object) == "string" then text = "\""..tostring(object).."\""
        else text = tostring(object)
        end
    end
    return text
end


function _internal.stringToTable(inputstr)
    local tblTbl = loadstring("return "..inputstr)()
    return tblTbl
end

[hearty dew]

{"0":{"AAApoc.AAAGelatinBoxAppleEmpty":"AAAGelatinBoxAppleEmpty","Base.Bag_Schoolbag":"Bag_Schoolbag","Base.BellyButton_DangleGoldRuby":"BellyButton_DangleGoldRuby"}}```

http://regex.info/blog/lua/json

SHould handle nested tables

[sour island]

What I posted works, does the library do anything else?

Oh it's pretty big

[hearty dew]

  MyNamespace.JSON = require("lib/JSON")

  -- decoding
    local reader = getFileReader(configName, false)
    local text
    if reader then
        text = reader:readLine()
    else
        text = '{}'
    end
  local myObject = MyNamespace.JSON:decode(text)
  if reader then reader:close() end

-- encoding
    local text = MyNamespace.JSON:encode(myObject)
    local writer = getFileWriter(configName, true, false)
    if not writer then
        return 
    end

    writer:write(text)
    writer:close()

Basically how it is used. Hope I didn't make any typos

[vague osprey]

Anyone have some good challenge or objective based game modes or maps?

[hearty dew]

If that code does the trick, then it does the trick :)

[sour island]

I'll have to look through the library, seems like there's a lot of useful stuff

[ancient grail]

im thinking this isnt possible but im asking here cuz u guys may know a workaround

so i have this mod that on multiplayer admins can spawn this item that turns on the power grid..

a player commented asking if i could make the item craftable without admin(i assume he plays singleplayer)

but doing so will ruin the rp control of the admins on mp

so i was thinking

would it possible for a sandboxvar to toggle on and off
an item recipe code???
since it's on the scripts which is txt i was thinking its impossible..

i would have to make another mod as add on that just contains the item recipe if thats the case.. but hopefuly theres way to do the sandbox thing..

[astral dune]

how would one print to the server chat or console? I've been using player:Say for my debug messages but I'd like to do it without needing a player object

[alpine scroll]

Anyone knows if there is a mod that negates the vehicle "fullness" affecting the vehicle speed?

[ancient grail]

wht abt servermsg or add the variable as a ui that constantly updates

[astral dune]

whats the servermsg method?

[ancient grail]

ibelieve it can be found on the zomoid lua if ubsearch for it

but if i can recall correctly its something like

sendcommandtoserver("/servermsg

something like that but im not sure

i think the original one is /removezombies

refer to that line of script

just change it to servermsg instead

[weak sierra]

i used loadstring a lot to arrange for mods to insert code into my mods but only run it at certain times for plugin purposes

very much works

when i have to go beyond load order into execution order territory

[ruby urchin]

That doesn't use a milliseconds wait thread, but I did one (maybe it is not the conventional way of doing it, but the result is satisfactory)

[astral dune]

Well looks like my current issue is that my onClientCommand event listener isn't firing 🤔

[lavish bridge]

Someone uses true music modding?

[astral dune]

oh it was 200 ticks? that makes sense too

[lavish bridge]

My mod doesn’t gets detected by the game

[ruby urchin]

if you print on server side, this should be show on your server console

[ancient grail]

 local myMsg = "hello world";
SendCommandToServer(string.format("/servermsg \"" .. myMsg  .. "\"")) ```

[astral dune]

just use print(string)?

[ruby urchin]

yep

[astral dune]

this does work, but it doesn't print in order. not a huge deal, but makes the function call tracking I'm trying to do a little harder

[vague raven]

What am I doing wrong?
Code:

addProfession('brickmason', {
    name = "UI_prof_bricklayer",
    description = "UI_profdesc_bricklayer",
    icon = "prof_bricklayer",
    cost = -3,
    xp = {
        [Perks.ShortBlunt] = 4,
        [Perks.Woodwork] = 4,
        [Perks.Strength] = 1,
        [Perks.Fitness] = 1,
    },
    inventory = {
        ["Base.Toolbox"] = 1,
        ["Base.Screwdriver"] = 1,
        ["Base.Saw"] = 1,
        ["Base.Hammer"] = 1,
    },
    traits = {"ThickSkinned2"}
})

In game:
https://i.imgur.com/DtRHk1E.png

[ancient grail]

ow i missed read what you said,, i thought u said it didnt work so i had to try.. im still sleepy lol

[astral dune]

lol ya no worries. It definitely works, it just seems to use a network packet to handle the command, so multiple messages sent that way sometimes show up out of order.

[signal ibex]

If an item is <1 in the distribution table, does it mean it never spawns?

[meager lion]

So im at a bit of a loss here always seems to tell me "Bob Smith" is the offender, regardless of who the attacker was

    print(_attacker:getForname() .. " " .. _attacker:getSurname() .. " hit a zombie.");
end```

[hearty dew]

Do you know what's calling it? If so, can investigate where the _attacker parameter is coming from

[meager lion]

Events.OnHitZombie.Add(onHit);

mb

[hearty dew]

I don't see that event triggered in lua, so I presume it is trigger in the java code

[meager lion]

Line 919 of IsoZombie.java is the best ive decerned

But once i reach that im at a loss

[hearty dew]

ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/IsoZombie.class
ProjectZomboid/zombie/Lua/LuaEventManager.class```
Both of those match the string `OnHitZombie`

[meager lion]

Thats all ive really found though lol

[hearty dew]

Let me decompile those real quick using http://www.javadecompilers.com/

[meager lion]

mmk

[hearty dew]

Hmm.. odd. I'd wonder if any other values on the _attacker object are unexpected like that (because I'm wondering if getForname() and getSurname() are simply returning stubbed values)

Don't see anything to explain it in IsoZombie:Hit()

[unborn rover]

Does anyone know why Mod options/Map mods wouldn't show on my server

[hearty dew]

well getForname should be getForename. I don't see the first usage in the lua code anywhere, so that seems like a typo? But it ought to have given you an error in that case 😅

[meager lion]

thats what was on the javadocs

lol

[hearty dew]

What happens if you try:lua print(_attacker:getDescriptor():getForename() .. " " .. _attacker:getDescriptor():getSurname() .. " hit a zombie.");?

[meager lion]

ill have to test here in a bit, not on zomboid atm

[hearty dew]

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.65/zombie/characters/IsoGameCharacter.html
I don't see it on that javadoc. Do you have a more current version?

[meager lion]

Welp, that explains that one

i was just using the docs from indiestone

[clever totem]

Hey guys, so I tried to fix it by myself but couldn't figure anything out, can someone help me with that?

[hearty dew]

What's the error message when that occurs?

[clever totem]

Hm, let me check

since I didn't see any error pop-up

maybe didn't notice it

I'll let you know in a sec

[hearty dew]

In debug mode, I believe it breaks on the code (so you can investigate) and so it stops before doing the error popup visual

[clever totem]

around 200 errors popped out

[hearty dew]

What's the first one?

[clever totem]

first one's at the top?

[hearty dew]

Yea, it'll appear first in console.txt

[clever totem]

hmm

there are two items HoodieUP and HoodieDOWN

UP seems to work fine

but DOWN seems to be doing it

yeah when I try to put down the hood it happens

which makes me think something could be wrong here

[meager lion]

That fixed it, i was using deprecated code it seems

Thank you

[hearty dew]

At the bottom there, it looks like it is trying to create the tooltip to display, but become some body part location is null (local14)? it is throwing an exception. I haven't messed with adding clothes, so idk if that's something you even affect that. Maybe that's just a consequence of some other issue

[clever totem]

maybe

It's my first time doing anything here

so im pretty confused

[hearty dew]

Can you get the rest of the error message?

it will be in console.txt if you can't view it in the debug ui

Zomboid/console.txt in your home directory

[clever totem]

oh

got it

one sec

there's a lot of stuff going on in that console.txt

is there anything I need to look for?

actually I can it this way

this poops on the chat when I try to put the hood down

is it possibly about extra actions on the hoodie?

[hearty dew]

Possibly

If you spawn the down version and wear it, does work okay?

[clever totem]

nope

[hearty dew]

What error shows up when you simply try to wear the down version?

Is it the same one that starts like:

function: render -- file: ISToolTipInv.lua line # 78 | Vanilla```?

[clever totem]

unknown key is me screenshooting

[hearty dew]

Hrm, I think that's just something with the debug UI

[clever totem]

hmm

[hearty dew]

In item MerchHoodieDOWN, if you setClothingItem = MerchHoodieUP, are you able to wear the down version?

[clever totem]

like this?

[hearty dew]

yea

[clever totem]

bet

let me check

yeah

I can

hmm, and I can put it down and up

maybe it's the model?

[hearty dew]

Okay, so something is up with the down version of the clothing properties, like the xml configuration or perhaps the model, not entirely sure

Can you paste the fileGuidTable.xml and the xml files for the two versions?

[clever totem]

hmm I think the model might be fine since the ground one is basically hood down but flat

[hearty dew]

Okay

[clever totem]

sec

that's how FileGuidTable looks like

and those are the xmls

[hearty dew]

why is there a | after the closing guid elements?

[clever totem]

not sure

I was copying the script from the guide

and changing it a bit

it shouldn't be there?

[hearty dew]

No.. Couldn't tell if that was something up with your editor or what 😅

Can you format it like this```xml
<files>
<path>media/clothing/clothingItems/Jacket_PaddedDOWN.xml</path>
<guid>c1d742f9-d5a5-4c5f-99b1-8ee43c131f0f</guid>
</files>
<files>
<path>media/clothing/clothingItems/Jacket_Police.xml</path>
<guid>c280861d-1dae-4914-ac94-99de18700c68</guid>
</files>

[clever totem]

definitely

[hearty dew]

and make sure your MerchHoodieDown.xml is where the path says it is

[clever totem]

pretty sure it is

[hearty dew]

Okay

[clever totem]

okay i put it in your format, imma go test it now

[hearty dew]

Okay