mod_development

[hearty dew]

We did. There was only self and the original returned nothing 😅

[hollow current]

aaa

[hearty dew]

That's me deflecting blame btw :p

[hollow current]

haha

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:pickUpMoveable()
  return items
  original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_pickUpMoveable( _character, _square, _createItem, _forceAllow )
end```

so, like this, ye?

[hearty dew]

I suppose it'd be best to pass arbitrary args and always return the result to be best compatible if they change the function in the future to future proof yourself

local original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_pickUpMoveable = ISMoveableSpriteProps.pickUpMoveable

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:pickUpMoveable(...)
  -- pre stuff
  local result = original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_pickUpMoveable(self, ...)
  -- post stuff
  return result
end

[hollow current]

oh items is not even a global var

[hearty dew]

You have to put variable names in ISMoveableSpriteProps:pickUpMoveable( _char, etc) for that to work

[hollow current]

How'd you go about patching AddItem?

[hearty dew]

It is a java object. Their functions live in a metatable (It's how kahlua exposes java APIs in the lua code)

I have a utility to do that, sec

[thin junco]

Hey i got an question for you guys since someone might know how mods work

Do i need to put certain mods at c/users/zomboid/mods in order for them to work properly?

I used to do them a year ago but problem is

-it takes more space
-need to manually update it every time an mod updates

And i am hosting an Local server

[hearty dew]

ArendamethUtils = ArendamethUtils or {}

--[[
    Usage example:
    
    ArendamethUtils.patchClassMethod(zombie.inventory.types.Moveable.class, "getDisplayName", function(original_fn)
            return function(self, arg1, arg2, ...)
                local modData = self:getModData()
                if modData and modData.new_value then
                    return modData.new_value
                end
                local result = original_fn(self, arg1, arg2, ...)
                result.someProperty = false
                return result
            end
        end)
]]
ArendamethUtils.patchClassMethod = function(class, methodName, createPatch)
    local metatable = __classmetatables[class]
    if not metatable then
        error("Unable to find metatable for class "..tostring(class))
    end
    local metatable__index = metatable.__index
    if not metatable__index then
        error("Unable to find __index in metatable for class "..tostring(class))
    end
    local originalMethod = metatable__index[methodName]
    metatable__index[methodName] = createPatch(originalMethod)
end

Sec, I need to lookup the right java class

[hollow current]

no idea honestly, but I think you may have better luck in #mod_support, seeing as this one is intended for mod development

[hearty dew]

For local mods, yes

For mods you download via steam, they go into a different directory and don't need to move them around manually

[fast galleon]

This helps to play with - nosteam and gives you time to check comments before breaking your game

[thin junco]

Do i just need to put all of them though?

For example brita's weapons causes the server to not start, wonder if putting it on zomboid/mods will fix it

[hearty dew]

For mods I'm developing to upload to workshop, I have them in Zomboid/Workshop

[thin junco]

Or some not working mods

[hearty dew]

There are 3 places mods are loaded from

[thin junco]

Yeah i know

[hearty dew]

That shouldn't change anything if it is causing issues when it is loading

[thin junco]

I host my server without putting any mods at zomboid/mods

1 year before i used to put it all in zomboid/mods then host it

So putting an mod in that directory won't matter?

[hearty dew]

It won't make a difference if the mod is in Zomboid/mods or in the directory steam automatically installs mods to

(when running pz in steam mode)

If you are running -nosteam, pz will ignore mods installed in the steam mod directory. In which case, you should put them in Zomboid/mods

[thin junco]

but since I am hosting an local server I have to not use -nosteam yes?

for my friends to join

[hearty dew]

LOG  : General     , 1665821550646> ----------  zombie.inventory.ItemContainer@38d138b4  ----------
----------  Fields  -----------
----------  Methods  ----------
InventoryItem                        AddItem                       (String)
boolean                              AddItem                       (String, float)
InventoryItem                        AddItem                       (InventoryItem)
ArrayList<InventoryItem>             AddItems                      (String, int)
void                                 AddItems                      (InventoryItem, int)
InventoryItem                        DoAddItem                     (InventoryItem)
InventoryItem                        DoAddItemBlind                (InventoryItem)
InventoryItem                        AddItemBlind                  (InventoryItem)

Sorry, wanted to finish this so I could look up java methods in the console.. Need to patch AddItem on the ItemContainer class

[hearty dew]

    ArendamethUtils.patchClassMethod(zombie.inventory.ItemContainer.class, "AddItem", function(original_fn)
            return function(self, item, ...)
                -- pre stuff
                local result = original_fn(self, item, ...)
                -- post stuff
                return result
            end
        end)

Because that java method is overloaded, need to check the parameters too

[hollow current]

you should really upload all of those utils somewhere for others. They prove to a be useful in a lot of cases

[hearty dew]

if instanceof(item, "InventoryItem") then
  -- case I'm interested in
else
  return original_fn(self, item, ...)
end

[hearty dew]

I'd have to think of way to do that that doesn't end up with versioning issues like other APIs have encountered, e.g. the ItemTweaker api. The way the steam workshop and pz mods do dependencies and multiple versions of the same file, it might result in a situation where people make copies of the files to have their own version, and that'd mask newer versions I'd want to use (ItemTweaker has this issue)

[hollow current]

an overall put-together code would look sth like this?

local original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_pickUpMoveable = ISMoveableSpriteProps.pickUpMoveable
local created_item

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:pickUpMoveable(...)
  --local worldObj = self:findOnSquare( self.square, self.spriteName );
  local result = original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_pickUpMoveable(self, ...)
  -- post stuff
  return result
end

ArendamethUtils.patchClassMethod(zombie.inventory.ItemContainer.class, "AddItem", function(original_fn)
  return function(self, item, ...)
  if instanceof(item, "InventoryItem") then
    created_item = item
    local result = original_fn(self, item, ...)
  else
    local result = original_fn(self, item, ...)
  end
  -- post stuff
  return result

end
end)

[fast galleon]

Wonder if you can use that to get back functionalities that stop when you pause game.

Instead of overwriting all lua for each version

[hearty dew]

Yea, that's looking about right

Can simplify this bit if you care to:

 if instanceof(item, "InventoryItem") then
    created_item = item
 end
 local result = original_fn(self, item, ...)
 return result

[hollow current]

ah yes makes a lot more sense

[hearty dew]

OnTick fires even when paused, as I recall, so if it uses that event, it should function while paused

There is also OnRenderTick. That one only fires when unpaused, iirc.
(maybe I switched the two, idk)

[fast galleon]

no they call getgametimecontrols and if it's paused then they don't add buttons, etc

[drifting ore]

I always thought that with the addition of silent hill inspired mods, somebody would have made a special zombie mod that goes beyond ai. "death knell day" I think has done the most for this. I just think It'd be cool to have a pyramid head enemy the player has to worry about in certain zones with great loot

or for that matter any horror game antagonist

Im half considering getting into modding and trying my hand at it

[fast galleon]

So if possible I'd wrap the lua and set a global variable to true, then when the java is called I return fake info if it's true or original.

[hollow current]

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:pickUpMoveable(...)
  local square_name = self.square:getModData().renameEverything_name
  local result = original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_pickUpMoveable(self, ...)
  -- post stuff
  if square_name then
    created_item:getModData().renameEverything_name = square_name
  end
  return result
end```
getting an error thrown at ``local square_name = self.square:getModData().renameEverything_name`` :x

[hearty dew]

What's the error?

[hollow current]

ERROR: General     , 1665823078742> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:```

lemme inspect it

or actually try to print it in the first place

[hearty dew]

Sounds like square is nil?

[fast galleon]

result get data

[hollow current]

ye apparently it is

[hearty dew]

Does ISMoveableSpriteProps have square? Wasn't that from ISMoveableAction?

[hollow current]

i thought it'd be valid since i'd have attempted to use something like local worldObj = self:findOnSquare( self.square, self.spriteName ); firsthand

[fast galleon]

created item = ???

[hearty dew]

Inside ISMoveableSpriteProps:pickUpMoveable(...), self refers to an instance of ISMoveableSpriteProps, so self:findOnSquare works

Taking a step back, is it the square that has the metadata or the world object? I'm confused

[hollow current]

ArendamethUtils.patchClassMethod(zombie.inventory.ItemContainer.class, "AddItem", function(original_fn)
  return function(self, item, ...)
  if instanceof(item, "InventoryItem") then
    created_item = item
  end
  local result = original_fn(self, item, ...)
  -- post stuff
  return result```
Basically refers to object that is created using AddItem

[hollow current]

I am trying to store the data on the tile/square for now, seeing as its easier than storing on the world object (?)

[fast galleon]

but aren't you naming it result?

[hearty dew]

What if there are two items on the square?

[fleet goblet]

If I modified a dedicated server mod from Filezilla, how would I make sure everyone who logs in sees the updates?

[hollow current]

the item classes it'll work with are only Radio and Moveable
You can't place two Radios on the same square

but apparently I didn't check Moveables

lemme see

[hearty dew]

I think things like cabinets are Moveables, and you can place a radio on a square with a cabinet

[hollow current]

soo i'll have to store the moddata on the world object after all

[hearty dew]

To answer your question though, one of the parameters to the pickUpMoveable function is the square.

If storing the moddata in the square, you'd need to use that parameter.

If storing the moddata in the world object, you can use local obj = self:findOnSquare(square, self.spriteName)

[hollow current]

um noo? or I am not quite sure if I understood you correctly

[fast galleon]

The function you said that gives you error has a result variable but not a created_item

[hollow current]

its defined outside of the function

to use in another function

[fast galleon]

sorry I thought that line gave you error

[hearty dew]

There is a code path through pickUpMoveable where you pick up multiple moveables at a time. How do you even do that in the game?

[hollow current]

maybe it queues each one?

still though i have no idea lol

[hearty dew]

To handle that case we can't figure out, you'd need to use self.isForceSingleItem

[fast galleon]

try printing the item inside your overwrite before you save the created item

wait, soory I keep thinking created item is wrong

could be a string

[hearty dew]

                s.isForceSingleItem = props:Is("ForceSingleItem") or false;

Has to do with the type of sprite / world object

[fast galleon]

nevermind me

[hollow current]

ever get that brain lag while coding when you forget what you're doing and why and what you need to do and you just sit in front of the screen, trying to "restart" your brain?

that's how i just felt lol

[hearty dew]

If you look at the error message, it says the object on which getModData() was called was nil. That was the issue :)

[hollow current]

lemme get fundamental code working first tho

[hollow current]

haha np, appreciate you trying to help tho

[fast galleon]

my brain keeps switching to created_item:getModData()

[hollow current]

okaaaay in my attempt to switch from tiles to world objects

I replaced the :perform snippet to :placeMoveable

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:placeMoveable(...)
  local result = original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_placeMoveable(self, ...)
  -- post stuff
  local worldObj = self:findOnSquare( self.square, self.origSpriteName );
  print(worldObj)
  return result
end```
aaand worldObj returns nil

hmm I think its because the .self before square and origspritename

[hearty dew]

There is no self.square. self inside placeMoveable is a ISMoveableSpriteProps. ISMoveableSpriteProps doesn't have that field.

self.square was on ISMoveableAction back when you were patching its perform

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:placeMoveable( _character, _square, _origSpriteName )

...

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:pickUpMoveable( _character, _square, _createItem, _forceAllow )

ISMoveableSpriteProps doesn't have self.square, but when perform calls ISMoveableSpriteProps:placeMoveable (etc), it passes its square in as a parameter

So you need to get it from the function parameters

Sorry, long winded way of saying that 😅

[hollow current]

haha np but it definitely made it way more clear for me, thanks!

[thick karma]

Anyone know how to send an Accept (or Apply or whatever) command to update options based on a new setting state?

Found this promising function that seems to be involved in deicdin whether to show my name in-game

getCore():setShowYourUsername(param)

It's not 100% clear to me from context if param is a bool at all, but I'm like 95%+ confident it is

Unfortunately, calling it, while error-free, did diddly squat to hide my username when I sent "false"

I'm thinking maybe this prepares options to update before user applies settings

[hearty dew]

LOG  : General     , 1665825174615> ----------  zombie.core.Core@17a1f3cb  ----------
----------  grep: ShowYour  ----------
----------  Fields  -----------
----------  Methods  ----------
boolean               isShowYourUsername                    ()
void                  setShowYourUsername                   (boolean)

It's a boolean

[hearty dew]

Possible that isShowYourUsername() is called early on and it has cached that value

[hearty dew]

You mean performing via lua the same function as clicking the Apply button in the options UI?

[thick karma]

hold on, discovery

When I run that command from the debug terminal it works

What does this mean?

(assume you reach that line from the Lua)

(I can confirm programmatically that I am reaching that line)

[thick karma]

This is what I meant, but maybe unnecessary after all

[hearty dew]

That's a function on zombie.core.Core and it is exposed as a lua function, yea

[hearty dew]

If I understand you right, when you call isShowYourUsername() after calling setShowYourUsername(), it works?

    public boolean isShowYourUsername() {
        return this.showYourUsername;
    }

    public void setShowYourUsername(boolean bl) {
        this.showYourUsername = bl;
    }

That's all they do

Some client of that class calls isShowYourUsername() to do the actual rendering (or not)

$ grep -r isShowYourUsername ProjectZomboid/zombie/
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/IsoGameCharacter.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/core/Core.class: binary file matches

IsoGameCharacter, looks like

[thick karma]

No, when I call getCore():setShowYourUsername(false) in debug terminal during gameplay, it works; when I call getCore():setShowYourUsername(false) (the exact same thing) from my Lua file, no dice.

Maybe not a client-level privilege? Seems odd if not

[hearty dew]

    protected void updateUserName() {
        if (this.userName != null && this.isoPlayer != null) {
            BaseVehicle baseVehicle;
            boolean bl;
            Object object = this.isoPlayer.getUsername(Boolean.valueOf(true));
            if (this != IsoPlayer.getInstance() && this.isInvisible() && IsoPlayer.getInstance() != null && IsoPlayer.getInstance().accessLevel.equals("") && (!Core.bDebug || !DebugOptions.instance.CheatPlayerSeeEveryone.getValue())) {
                this.userName.ReadString("");
                return;
            }
            Faction faction = Faction.getPlayerFaction((IsoPlayer)this.isoPlayer);
            if (faction != null) {
                if (this.isoPlayer.showTag || this.isoPlayer == IsoPlayer.getInstance() || Faction.getPlayerFaction((IsoPlayer)IsoPlayer.getInstance()) == faction) {
                    this.isoPlayer.tagPrefix = faction.getTag();
                    if (faction.getTagColor() != null) {
                        this.isoPlayer.setTagColor(faction.getTagColor());
                    }
                } else {
                    this.isoPlayer.tagPrefix = "";
                }
            } else {
                this.isoPlayer.tagPrefix = "";
            }
            boolean bl2 = this.isoPlayer != null && this.isoPlayer.bRemote || Core.getInstance().isShowYourUsername();

That's where it is called. hmm

[thick karma]

Shared or server?

[hearty dew]

oh, that shouldn't matter in this case :o

[thick karma]

Unfortunately it seems to be mattering

I will refresh server

Pretty sure I had the right version loaded, but I'll switch just in case

There are two listed because one is from Steam and one is my live edit

I checked F11 and the file looked right

[hearty dew]

    public static Core getInstance() {
        return core;
    }

    @LuaMethod(name="getCore", global=true)
    public static Core getCore() {
        return Core.getInstance();
    }

Doesn't seem to be doing anything tricky

[hearty dew]

Are you sure your lua code is running client-side?

It'd do nothing if run server-side (I think)

[thick karma]

Yeah I have no clue but I know the code chunk is reached because the line above it is running fine

It's currently in client

[hearty dew]

Let me try it real quick

[thick karma]

That's the moment where it goes wonky

File address at the top

[hearty dew]

It has no effect when I call it in the lua console. Probably need to trigger IsoCharacter:updateUserName() somehow after setting it

[hollow current]

btw I can't seem to get findOnSquare to work. printing square returns nil lol

[thick karma]

What on Earth?

(Unknown keycodes are screenshots)

Bear with Windows crapshoot screenshotting

I legit just typed this: getCore():setShowYourUsername(false)

In debug console of a hosted game

With I think AC 3 and 12 disabled for other mods iirc

That's all I had to do

I don't know how I triggered anything else

I just hit enter

And voila

[hearty dew]

Can you show how you're getting square now?

[hollow current]

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:placeMoveable(...)
  local result = original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_placeMoveable(self, ...)
  -- post stuff
  --local worldObj = self:findOnSquare( square, self.spriteName );
  print(square)
  return result
end```

[hearty dew]

You have to add the variable to the function parameter list to get a reference to the parameter

placeMoveable(character, square, ...)

Doing that changes the contents of ..., so have to change the call to original after doing that

[hollow current]

so like:

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:placeMoveable(character, square, ...)
  local obj_square = square
  local result = original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_placeMoveable(self, character, square, ...)
  -- post stuff
  --local worldObj = self:findOnSquare( square, self.spriteName );
  print(square)
  return result
end```

[hearty dew]

You can't change the order. It's already this way

[hollow current]

ah I can't just put the parameters I want in any order

[hearty dew]

If you look at the vanilla implementation of it (what I copied above). You can see the parameters the function already has

[hollow current]

it must be the way its defined in vanilla

[hearty dew]

Yea. To change the order, you'd have to go in and change all the call sites and change the original implementation

[hollow current]

ah lets not do that

[hearty dew]

:p

[hollow current]

edited it, looks correct now?

[hearty dew]

have to add those parameters to the call to the original too. With this change, the character and square arguments are no longer contained in ... (which is a way to reference an arbitrary number of remaining arguments)

original(self, character, square, ...)

[hollow current]

Edited again. I thought you said we have to change the call to original though, that's why I left it the way it is, assuming that changes the call to original

but if not it, then what?

[hollow current]

also looks alright now?

[hearty dew]

I said change the original implementation. Didn't mean how you call the original implementation

[hearty dew]

That looks right, yep

[hollow current]

aaah my bad is misinterpreted what you meant. Seems like its printing square fine now

[hearty dew]

Ooh.. It doesn't display in singler player at all. I was testing in single player

[thick karma]

Yeah sorry that function is odd

I am still trying to get it sorted but may take a break and come back in a bit. So confused. Improved the rest of what I'm trying to do instead. (Making debug, chat, and server info vanish on aim, reappear on Enter key. For controller players like me.)

[hollow current]

It finally works!

Thanks so much once again!

[hearty dew]

Events.EveryTenMinutes.Add(function()
  getCore():setShowYourUsername(not getCore():isShowYourUsername())
end)

That works client-side. Not sure what's going on with how you are calling things client-side

[fast galleon]

@hearty dew Thank you

local fakeNotPaused
TyrirSenpaiUtils.patchClassMethod(zombie.ui.SpeedControls.class, "getCurrentGameSpeed", function(original_fn)
    return function(self, ...)
        local speed = original_fn(self, ...)
        if speed == 0 and fakeNotPaused then
            return 1
        else
            return speed
        end
    end
end)
local orISInventoryPaneContextMenucreateMenu = ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.createMenu
ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.createMenu = function(...)
    fakeNotPaused = true
    local original = orISInventoryPaneContextMenucreateMenu(...)
    fakeNotPaused = nil
    return original
end

[hollow current]

Soo I tried to change this to the name stored in the moddata as well. This appears in the condition where you're either placing an item or picking up an item. I tracked the function that makes it appear to this:
function ISMoveableSpriteProps:getSpriteGridCache( _square, _verifyOnly, _getWorldObjects )
Looking at its code though, I am not quite sure if that's the one

[hearty dew]

You're looking to change the name that is displayed when hovering over the item when in pick-up-moveable mode?

[hollow current]

yes, and additionally the name that appears when trying to place it

the same menu appears when you're in place mode and moving your mouse between the tiles

[hearty dew]

Do you know what's rendering that window?

[hollow current]

that's what I am trying to figure out. My search lead me so far nowhere except function ISMoveableSpriteProps:getSpriteGridCache( _square, _verifyOnly, _getWorldObjects )

[hearty dew]

I'd start by searching for static strings in the UI

$ grep -r 'Hold button and move cursor to rotate' ProjectZomboid/media/lua
ProjectZomboid/media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/IG_UI_EN.txt:    IGUI_HoldButton = "Hold button and move cursor to rotate object",

$ grep -r 'IGUI_HoldButton' ProjectZomboid/media/lua
ProjectZomboid/media/lua/server/BuildingObjects/ISMoveableCursor.lua:                        infoPanel:setFooterText( getText("IGUI_HoldButton")..".[br/]'"..Keyboard.getKeyName(getCore():getKey("Rotate building")).."' = "..getText("IGUI_Cycle2").."."..lastbit, UIFont.Small );
ProjectZomboid/media/lua/server/BuildingObjects/ISMoveableCursor.lua:                        infoPanel:setFooterText( getText("IGUI_HoldButton")..".[br/]'"..Keyboard.getKeyName(getCore():getKey("Rotate building")).."' = "..getText("IGUI_Cycle3").."."..lastbit, UIFont.Small );

[hollow current]

function ISMoveableCursor:setMoveableMode( _mode )

local infoPanel = self:getInfoPanel();

should be infopanel

[winter basalt]

does anyone know how i would render text on the screen? i don't want to use menu boxes or anything just draw text on the screen

[hollow current]

for chat-styled text that appears above the player/zombies/etc, you can use
playerObj:addLineChatElement(string)

I don't actually have any idea how it works since I just found that function in the code of one of the mods

[thick karma]

Thanks for confirming this, I'll figure it out

[hollow current]

I traced the rendered window all the way to ISMoveableInfoWindow.lua but can't find where exactly does it render the object's name

[fast galleon]

@hollow current did you check the line infopanel:setBodyText(

[hearty dew]

Looks like in the render function

That renders an array of lines (self.bodyText), among other things. Might be easier to modify the name used where that bodytext is set

(easier than parsing the text in each line and changing it, or similar)

[hollow current]

just did

[hollow current]

I actually tried doing that firsthand

inspected the worldObj to see if it had a setName function

the result was rather weird tho

lemme print

so, code:

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:placeMoveable(character, square, origSpriteName, ...)
  local item = self:findInInventory(character, origSpriteName );
  local item_name = item:getModData().renameEverything_name

  -- pre stuff
  local result = original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_placeMoveable(self, character, square, origSpriteName, ...)
  -- post stuff

  local worldObj = self:findOnSquare( square, self.spriteName );
  ArendamethUtils.inspect(worldObj, 2)
  --worldObj:setName("Test")

  if item_name then
    worldObj:getModData().renameEverything_name = item_name
  end
  return result
end```

it prints:

(userdata) zombie.iso.objects.IsoRadio@7836dc66 <
           <METATABLE> => table 0x1843472298 {
                          .   [__index] => table 0x1920433559  ** PRUNED. Max depth reached **
                          }
>

i tried calling a setName on it anyways, which didn't work obviously but somehow didn't throw any errors

[hearty dew]

** PRUNED. Max depth reached ** That means it went to the depth you specified (2), and didn't go any further

so would need to set to 3 to print out what's inside that table in the __index field

the default is 3 too if you don't pass any number

[hearty dew]

Mm, so maybe something else is used to get the name in that UI text

[hollow current]

okay that does make sense, it has a setName() function

but yet it doesn't appear when picking it up for example

[hearty dew]

The body text is what is rendered. I'd try to find out what sets that body text

[hearty dew]

If you go back to here, a few lines below it, it calls setBodyText

[hollow current]

function ISMoveableInfoWindow:setBodyText( _bodyTextTable, _font, _align)

the function code doesn't seem to have a lot to do with item name either

[hearty dew]

            infoPanel:setBodyText( _moveProps:getInfoPanelDescription( _square, _object, self.character, ISMoveableCursor.mode[self.player] ), UIFont.Small );

It calls _moveProps:getInfoPanelDescription to provide the body text. Might check that out

[hollow current]

       if InfoPanelFlags.name then infoTable = ISMoveableSpriteProps.addLineToInfoTable( infoTable, getText("IGUI_Name")..":", 255, 255, 255, Translator.getMoveableDisplayName(InfoPanelFlags.name), 0, 255, 0 ); end```

I believe that's what we're looking for

so if I understand it correctly, it has a locally defined infoTable and if InfoPanelFlags.Name is not nil, it adds the item's name to that table

but how do we exactly override the vanilla name with our own one?

[hearty dew]

yep

It passes InfoPanelFlags.name there into Translator to localize the name

Can you change InfoPanelFlags.name before that statement is executed?

[hollow current]

lemme see if I can put something together, one min

[hearty dew]

@hollow current In answering that, it might help to find how/where InfoPanelFlags.name is set

[winter basalt]

@SubscribeEvent
    public void onPlayerTick(OnPlayerMoveEvent event) {
        IsoPlayer player = IsoPlayer.getInstance();
        if (player != null) {
            player.addLineChatElement("The player is walking!!!");
        }
    }```
working on a mod with this new shit api i found

took me like fucking 3 days to get a project setup with it

[hollow current]

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:getInfoPanelFlagsGeneral( _square, _object, _player, _mode )
    InfoPanelFlags.name = self.name;```

okay i guess this is it

[hearty dew]

Nice 🙂

[hollow current]

aye at least you got it working, nice job!

[winter basalt]

😭

it doesn't help that it seems like that everything in this game is made with lua in mind

[hollow current]

i guess a sensible code looks like this?

local original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_getInfoPanelFlagsGeneral = ISMoveableSpriteProps.getInfoPanelFlagsGeneral

function ISMoveableSpriteProps:getInfoPanelFlagsGeneral(square, object, ...)
  local obj_name = object:getModData().renameEverything_name
  if obj_name then
    InfoPanelFlags.name = obj_name 
  end
  
  -- pre stuff
  local result = original_ISMoveableSpriteProps_getInfoPanelFlagsGeneral(self, square, object, ...)
  -- post stuff

  return result
end```

[thick karma]

@hearty dew In the mood for programming slapstick?

[hearty dew]

You set InfoPanelFlags.name, then call the original, which is going to set it to something different

[hollow current]

i thought that'd overwrite the original

[hearty dew]

go for it!

[thick karma]

So I am playing with ways to toggle UI stuff, reading, exploring, learning, you know. And I discover, lo and behold, there is a function very near a function I'd already found called toggleUI

"toggleUI!" I think to myself

How convenient that sounds!

I'll explore it!

I visit toggleUI, and I find this: ISUIHandler.allUIVisible = not ISUIHandler.allUIVisible;. "Oh, lovely," I think. "I was tracking that manually, and because I did so, I missed toggles when I pressed start to go to the Main Menu, causing one missed press exiting the Main Menu every time."

[hearty dew]

The first line of the original function is ```lua
InfoPanelFlags.name = self.name;

Your code does this ```lua
  InfoPanelFlags.name = obj_name 

then calls the original immediately afterwards

[thick karma]

"I wonder if I can just change my code to call toggleUI, and then when I enter the main menu, I'll naturally be using the game's system of UI toggling, so everything will be fiiiine."

[hollow current]

ah I should first call the original then set it?

[thick karma]

run, test, run, test, run, test

"Damn it, not working. Wonder if I can see how the Main Menu is opened when I press start. I do know where the Joypad stuff is."

[hollow current]

yess, it works

[thick karma]

search, hate self, search, hate self

[hollow current]

Thanks once again so much!

[thick karma]

"Aha! Right here!"

function JoypadControllerData:onPauseButtonPressed()
    local joypadData = self.joypad
    if UIManager.getSpeedControls() and not isClient() then
        if UIManager.getSpeedControls():getCurrentGameSpeed() == 0 or getGameTime():getTrueMultiplier() > 1 then
            if MainScreen.instance and MainScreen.instance.inGame and MainScreen.instance:isReallyVisible() then
                -- return to game below
--[[
            elseif joypadData.pauseKeyTime and (joypadData.pauseKeyTime + 750 > getTimestampMs()) then
                -- double-tap, go to main menu below
--]]
            else
                UIManager.getSpeedControls():ButtonClicked("Play")
                return
            end
--[[
        else
            joypadData.pauseKeyTime = getTimestampMs()
            UIManager.getSpeedControls():ButtonClicked("Pause")
            return
--]]
        end
    end
    if MainScreen.instance and MainScreen.instance.inGame then
        ISUIHandler.setVisibleAllUI(MainScreen.instance:isVisible())

Oh, great, so when the main menu is launching, it... wait... What???

"ISUIHandler.setVisibleAllUI(MainScreen.instance:isVisible())"

Why.. but... it says... but why???

IN THEIR OWN START BUTTON FUNCTION THEY USE THE WRONG TRIGGER

So the damn boolean flag doesn't even get set right

[hearty dew]

isReallyVisible()

These function names lol

[thick karma]

Omfg

I can't even discuss their naming practices

I'll lose my damn mind

Specifically, if you missed it, ISUIHandler.allUIVisible = not ISUIHandler.allUIVisible is in toggleUI but doesn't happen in the above code-block because they just directly call ISUIHandler.setVisibleAllUI(), which toggleUI would have done

That's clearly its entire purpose

[hearty dew]

  local isVisible = MainScreen.isntance:isVisible()
  if isVisible then
    local isReallyVisible = MainScreen.isntance:isReallyVisible()
    if isReallyVisible then
      local ohReallyVisible = MainScreen.isntance:yesReallyIsVisible()
    end
  end

[thick karma]

lmfao

[hearty dew]

Ah, tricky. Yea, that's why identifier naming is so important in code. When the semantics are a bit off from the meaning of the names, it can really throw you off and be confusing

[thick karma]

Yeah omfg

Why call it allUIVisible?

Oh yeah, because that guy skipped BASIC HUMAN COMMUNICATION in PRESCHOOL

lol sorry

"I'll just use new words, I'm sure it'll be fine."

"isVisibleAllUI" is boring

laaaaame

Some old man wrote it that way

I'm callin it allUIVisible

lol nah f.r. though it was probably the same programmer who wrote it both ways and it never crossed their mind

Omg I'm gonna have to write the most convoluted decoration function to fix this

This is so stupid-looking lol

[hollow current]

quick question but how do you update a dedicated server hosted locally to the latest game build
Edit: Figured it out

[thick karma]

@hearty dew omg tfw publishing your mod leads you to spend hours fixing a dev's buggy design.

It's only a matter of time before someone reports this, trying so hard to beat them to it 😭

ahhhh tfw you succeed

[frosty estuary]

Hi. I'm making some clothes and I want the player can't be able to workout while using it. Is there any property I can add to or what function can I overrride to do it?

[thick karma]

@hearty dew Shout-out to our boys at PZ 🤪

local function setReallyVisibleAllUI(visible)

    if not visible then

        priorVisibility = ISUIHandler.allUIVisible
        ISUIHandler.allUIVisible = false
        ISUIHandler.setVisibleAllUI(false)

    else
        
        ISUIHandler.allUIVisible = priorVisibility
        ISUIHandler.setVisibleAllUI(priorVisibility)

    end

end

[hearty dew]

local function hasFancyClothes(player)
  -- idk
end

local original_ISFitnessUI_updateButtons = ISFitnessUI.updateButtons
function ISFitnessUI:updateButtons(currentAction)
  original_ISFitnessUI_updateButtons(self, currentAction)
  if hasFancyClothes(self.player) then
    self.ok.enable = false
    self.ok.tooltip = getText("You can't workout in fancy clothes!")
  end
end

Something like that

[frosty estuary]

Thanks... I will try it

[livid geode]

Hello everyone.. so version 41.77.7 recently came aboard changing the function of displaying the version number and most likely something else along with it
Ever since then I've been getting lots of errors in different mods. Today I got the chance to go through the DebugLog and scan the codes, only to discover it is something about the versions. Here is the list of all the affected lines that actually stopped working and caused all those mods to just break. Mods are SimplePlayablePiano and ArcadeMachines and CheatMenuRB.

--ALL THE KNOWN ERRORS SINCE 41.77.7

local ver_str = core:getVersionNumber()
CheatCoreCM.PZVersion = tonumber(string.match(getCore():getVersionNumber(), "%d+")) -- checks game version
local versionNumber = tonumber(string.match(getCore():getVersionNumber(), "%d+"))
local customsFileCheck = CheatCoreCM.checkFile("CheatMenuRB", "teleport_locations/customlocations.txt")
compassCore.processJson()
require "CheatMenuRebirth/Teleport/GPSWindow"
local versionNumber = tonumber(string.match(getCore():getVersionNumber(), "%d+"))
if getCore():getVersionNumber() == "41.50 - IWBUMS" then
if getCore():getVersionNumber() == "41.50 - IWBUMS" then
if getCore():getVersionNumber() == "41.50 - IWBUMS" then
if getCore():getVersionNumber() == "41.50 - IWBUMS" then

If anyone can help me fix this and inform the mod developers about the issues so that they can fix it quickly I'd really appreciate it. Thanks ahead. ❤️

What seems to repeat a lot is getCore():getVersionNumber()

What I get is this: STACK TRACE; Object tried to call nil in CheatOption.lua; ERROR: General , 1665838039739> 0> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: Object tried to call nil in CheatOption.lua at KahluaUtil.fail line:82..
[15-10-22 14:47:19.739] ERROR: General , 1665838039739> 0> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:.

(in-game this happens whenever I right click something lol-- unplayable with debug mode on)

[thick karma]

@hearty dew Breakthrough!

[hearty dew]

The error sounds like the indie stone devs removed getCore() from the zombie.Lua.LuaManager.GlobalObject java class.

    @LuaMethod(name="getCore", global=true)
    public static Core getCore() {
        return Core.getInstance();
    }

You could decompile the 41.77.7 version of the java class (ProjectZomboid/zombie/Lua/LuaManager$GlobalzObject.class) here http://www.javadecompilers.com/ to check real quick, and see if there is something comparable added in its place.

[thick karma]

I can now not only toggle UI without the weird keypress skip coming out of menu after having UI off

but when I come out of menu after entering when my UI was off

the game... REMEMBERS

MUAHAHAHAHA

BASIC QOL FEATURES

HAHAHAHAHA YOU'LL NEVER STOP ME PZ

[hearty dew]

That or zombie.core.Core no longer has getVersionNumber(). It might could be either from that message

[hearty dew]

Nice 🙂

[frosty estuary]

It works, exactly what I wanted. Thx again

[livid geode]

Uh-- how does that decompile-stuff work?

What does it actually do 😅

[hearty dew]

select ProjectZomboid/zombie/Lua/LuaManager$GlobalzObject.class from the pz game directory to upload. It will create java code from the compiled code in the .class file (decompile it back to source code you can read)

Then you can search it to see if it has a getCore method still

[livid geode]

Ah thanks

Very lovely tool

shows this

[hearty dew]

If that still exists, then you could check ProjectZomboid/zombie/core/Core.class for getVersionNumber

[livid geode]

this is the only thing that came up

so it is just Version without the Number thingy

[hearty dew]

You're looking for a function definition like you have with getCore above

[thick karma]

And I figured out why name wasn't vanishing and we're not gonna talk about that

[hearty dew]

public String getVersionNumber() {

something like that

[livid geode]

 @LuaMethod(name = "getPublicServersList", global = true)
    public static KahluaTable getPublicServersList() {
        final KahluaTable table = LuaManager.platform.newTable();
        if (!SteamUtils.isSteamModeEnabled() && !PublicServerUtil.isEnabled()) {
            return table;
        }
        if (System.currentTimeMillis() - GlobalObject.timeLastRefresh < 60000L) {
            return table;
        }
        final ArrayList<Server> list = new ArrayList<Server>();
        try {
            if (getSteamModeActive()) {
                ServerBrowser.RefreshInternetServers();
                final List getServerList = ServerBrowser.GetServerList();
                for (final GameServerDetails gameServerDetails : getServerList) {
                    final Server server = new Server();
                    server.setName(gameServerDetails.name);
                    server.setDescription(gameServerDetails.gameDescription);
                    server.setSteamId(Long.toString(gameServerDetails.steamId));
                    server.setPing(Integer.toString(gameServerDetails.ping));
                    server.setPlayers(Integer.toString(gameServerDetails.numPlayers));
                    server.setMaxPlayers(Integer.toString(gameServerDetails.maxPlayers));
                    server.setOpen(true);
                    server.setIp(gameServerDetails.address);
                    server.setPort(Integer.toString(gameServerDetails.port));
                    server.setMods(gameServerDetails.tags);
                    server.setVersion(Core.getInstance().getVersion());
                    server.setLastUpdate(1);
                    list.add(server);
                }
                System.out.printf("%d servers\n", getServerList.size());
            }

this it?

no-- ok

[livid geode]

something like that doesnt exist

Looking in the wrong place

wait

sorry

I feel so dumb

[hearty dew]

😅

[livid geode]

would this be the same stuff

idk what it was before

but getVersionNumber doesn't exist

these three are version related-- idk which one would I use in the code to fix it rly

[hearty dew]

You might try reimplementing the old getVersionNumber in lua using that new getVersion method

Hopefully the indie stone devs add it back though 😅

[livid geode]

It broke like 3 mods as far as I know-- but from what I can see many mods have this getVersionNumber thingy

is there a way I can inform them directly so that they are aware of what they've done

xD

or at least get some response to know if this'll be reverted back or no

[hearty dew]

__classmetatables[zombie.core.Core.class].__index.getVersionNumber = __classmetatables[zombie.core.Core.class].__index.getVersion

If you put that in a shared/ lua file that loads early (name it something like !!!!!fix_getVersionNumber.lua and put it in media/lua/shared/), that might fix the other mods

[hearty dew]

I tried to report a bug here in discord, and they just said to go to their forums to report the bug, but ica to make forum accounts so didn't bother :p

I guess that's the official way to report issues

[livid geode]

I think I have a forum account already so I'll go there and report that asap

Thanks a lot Tyrir

you have been helping my dumbass too many times ❤️

[hearty dew]

@livid geode steam://openurl/https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2875510966

See if that fixes the issue for you

I can't test it since I don't have the new version and not interested in breaking all my mods on an unstable build, but if the new getVersion method does the same as the prior getVersionNumber method that was removed, that should fix the problem

[livid geode]

I'll definitely try this for the server

I fixed my mod by switching from getVersionNumber to getVersion. So that definitely worked

[hearty dew]

All that mod does is make calls to the old getVersionNumber actually call the new getVersion

[livid geode]

But there is no way for me to fix the others os this will definitely help. Wish we weren't forced to move to unstable, for some reason our server runs on branch="" which is stable but it can only be joined using a client unstable BETa.
I talked to tech-support and they werent able to help.. weird stuff

I hope the final 41 version fixes everything 😦

[fast galleon]

so not sure why, but the collapse button in the UI I have been working is now not in the top right corner

I have to use setX on it to move it

and it's ok if I don't use activateView when I open the window

ok, not sure why it breaks but made it work

[thick karma]

@hearty dew So I have this code that almost seems to work, right up until I use the function.

print(tostring(getServerOptions():getOptionByName("DisplayUserName").setValue(true)))

Debug suggests setValue exists when I exclude the arguments and parentheses... tells me it's a function and gives me an address. But when I try to use it, no dice.

I think it's related to this: https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.65/zombie/network/ServerOptions.html#getOptionByName(java.lang.String)

If you look at that function, you'll notice it claims to return the interface instead (which does not have a setValue method) of one of its implementations (e.g., BooleanServerOption, which has a setValue method).

It seems maybe the function is there but not usable possibly because of this extension issue and the way the function translates into Lua... Can you think of any way to make this function work? Or help me understand an alternate means for accomplishing the same signal?

[hearty dew]

LOG  : General     , 1665843870475> ----------  zombie.network.ServerOptions@1e87569b  ----------
----------  grep: getOptionByName  ----------
----------  Fields  -----------
----------  Methods  ----------
interface ServerOptions$ServerOption  getOptionByName       (String)

LOG  : General     , 1665843989405> ----------  userdata  ----------
(userdata) zombie.network.ServerOptions$BooleanServerOption@4bde1434 <
           <METATABLE> => table 0x929852329 {
                          .   [__index] => table 0x1170891972 {
                          .                .   [asConfigOption] => function 0x799838746
                          .                .   [getTooltip] => function 0x2025002934
                          .                .   [getValueAsString] => function 0x752224810
                          .                .   [resetToDefault] => function 0x976004912
                          .                .   [getValueAsObject] => function 0x1910234669
                          .                .   [isValidString] => function 0x288712967
                          .                .   [setValueFromObject] => function 0x221165137
                          .                .   [setDefaultToCurrentValue] => function 0x1382323683
                          .                .   [getValue] => function 0x2103513908
                          .                .   [setValue] => function 0x1202069710

Yea, it has a setValue function exposed by kahlua.

after calling setValue, the expected value is there when calling getValue

[thick karma]

Wait it's working for you?

[hearty dew]

LOG  : General     , 1665844153704> ----------  boolean  ----------
true
LOG  : General     , 1665844159903> ----------  nil  ----------
nil
LOG  : General     , 1665844161920> ----------  boolean  ----------
false

yea

[thick karma]

Can you share exactly how you wrote it?

[hearty dew]

the nil is the result of the setValue call. Can ignore that

getServerOptions():getOptionByName("DisplayUserName"):setValue(false)

[thick karma]

Mmmmmm crap maybe needed colon

Oof will try in a minute

[hearty dew]

Oh, yea. You need to use a colon when invoking java methods via lua

You'd use . for java fields

[livid geode]

@hearty dew your little mod fixed it all

Thanks again

[bronze yoke]

the javadoc says it returns the interface because it can return any of the implementing classes

[cyan frost]

anyone have a guide to make your own arsenal gunfighter settings for a dedicated server?

[thick karma]

@hearty dew omfg Tyrir I hope you get elected President

[weak sierra]

that option doesn't toggle it clientside tho

that's an option for all players on the server

and will require admin

in mp

[teal summit]

WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN I CANT FIND THE ISSUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

can anyone please tell me

https://tenor.com/view/benny-fallout-fallout-new-vegas-what-in-the-goddamn-confusion-gif-24924085

is wrong with this

[thick karma]

Okay! @weak sierra @bronze yoke @hearty dew NOW I believe it hides all your player names, among a range of other improvements. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2875149317

@weak sierra Unfortunately, the name is still terrible. 😭

[gilded hawk]

Great job dude

[teal summit]

A working mod....it's nice to see people living MY DREAM

[thick karma]

Thanks @gilded hawk !

Omg so many hurdles

But now it works really well

For both controller and keyboard afaik

[hearty dew]

Nice 🙂

[thick karma]

No mod menu customization of key yet

But I my name 100% is hidden correctly and I'm hoping since it throws no errors and worked in the debug, it'll work for other players online

Can someone please help me confirm? Haha

No worries I'll launch -nosteam and try it actually, I guess hopefully that should work

[hearty dew]

Need the error message. Press the button at the top with a line with a 90 degree angle. That should step the code forward one line and cause the error message to be printed out to the end of Zomboid/console.txt in your user directory

[teal summit]

Alright let me load it up again because I got mad and shut everything down

[thick karma]

How do I actually invite myself to my game when I launch two -nosteam apps???

Just occurred to me I have no idea how to join myself without Steam

[hearty dew]

select join and set the ip to 127.0.0.1

[teal summit]

@hearty dew this what you need?

[hearty dew]

ERROR: General     , 1665849811810> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaException: unknown item type "SMUIClothinge.Hat_ShemaghDown" in ClothingSelectionDefinitions.EPIRifleman.Female at BaseLib.error line:292.
ERROR: General     , 1665849811811> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaException: unknown item type "SMUIClothinge.Hat_ShemaghDown" in ClothingSelectionDefinitions.EPIRifleman.Female
    at se.krka.kahlua.stdlib.BaseLib.error(BaseLib.java:292)
    at se.krka.kahlua.stdlib.BaseLib.call(BaseLib.java:120)
    at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.callJava(KahluaThread.java:182)
    at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.luaMainloop(KahluaThread.java:1007)
    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:65)
    at zombie.gameStates.MainScreenState.enter(MainScreenState.java:295)
    at zombie.gameStates.GameStateMachine.update(GameStateMachine.java:65)
    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     , 1665849811815> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE
-----------------------------------------
Callframe at: error
function: debugClothingDefinitions -- file: CharacterCreationMain.lua line # 977 | Vanilla
function: initClothing -- file: CharacterCreationMain.lua line # 987 | Vanilla
function: randomGenericOutfit -- file: CharacterCreationHeader.lua line # 236 | Vanilla
function: createChildren -- file: CharacterCreationHeader.lua line # 28 | Vanilla
function: instantiate -- file: ISUIElement.lua line # 653 | Vanilla
function: addChild -- file: ISUIElement.lua line # 1082 | Vanilla
function: create -- file: CharacterCreationHeader.lua line # 122 | Vanilla
function: instantiate -- file: MainScreen.lua line # 797 | Vanilla
function: addToUIManager -- file: ISUIElement.lua line # 1009 | Vanilla
function: LoadMainScreenPanelInt -- file: MainScreen.lua line # 2191 | Vanilla
function: LoadMainScreenPanel -- file: MainScreen.lua line # 2100 | Vanilla

unknown item type "SMUIClothinge.Hat_ShemaghDown" in ClothingSelectionDefinitions.EPIRifleman.Female

[teal summit]

e

THE DAMN E

I SEEE IT

THE EEEEEEEEEEEEEE

thank you

hopefully thats the issue

it worked thank you

[thick karma]

Lol I opened it in nosteam mode and my stuff didn't load because it's from workshop and I freaked out and had to retest everything

[hearty dew]

Yea, that's a pain in the ass. I wish -nosteam mode had a way to include the workshop mod directory

[thick karma]

Yeah I am over it

[hearty dew]

-additionalmoddirs="path/to/steam/stuff" or similar

[thick karma]

I'll just wait for bug reports

Lmao oh okay

Or that

[thick karma]

So path to Zomboid or the Workshop folder?

[hearty dew]

Ideally, whatever path you provide as an argument, so you could include steam workshop mods or an extra mod dir you use for development, etc

[thick karma]

Seems useful tbh

Alright I will launch again and attemot to use the proper flags

[thick karma]

I see no mods 😦 set the directory to the Workshop folder...

[hearty dew]

Err, no. I'm saying it is a pain in the ass to test mods in -nosteam mode because a commandline option like that doesn't exist 😅

I wish they had one so you could include steam mods even when running -nosteam

[thick karma]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh

Lmao I'm waiting for the bug reports

Bahahaha hopefully it works

I'm concerned it requires some special privilege being server setting

[weak sierra]

i am a bit scared if u tried setting the option by hand instead of hooking it that it will require admin access AND affect all players on the server in mp.

[thick karma]

Oh so the UIs are not unique to the client?

[weak sierra]

i told u this like 3 times, but those settings ur messing with are server-side INI file config stuff

the server determines whether u see ppl's names or not normally

and it's pushed to clients only on login or

/reloadoptions

u can hook where those act and toggle it locally but actually changing the option may well not work right

or may work but have side effects

by all means tho test it

maybe it can be done on the client end w/o ill effect

but i am concern

:P

[thick karma]

Yeah, I need someone to join me and test this tbh. I don't know if it will work as expected.

I tried launching -nosteam and couldn't even see my mods

I don't know how to do MP testing on mods independently if they don't show up in the list...

I am setting the server settings afaik, so it may well affect everyone. I see what you're saying totally

I am not sure how those server settings actually determine whether to draw the names... unfortunately those might be buried in some lists that are only referenced by index. Got a little lost when I went that direction

[weak sierra]

i make a dedicated server locally

and test with that as if it were a real server

:p

[thick karma]

Oof

Really didn't want to have to go that far lol

I'll look into it later

Likely has unintended behavior... I'll try to test ASAP and remove if necessary

[weak sierra]

i can test it on my test server when i have time

but the caveat is "when i have time"

lol

im kinda taking a break from intensive shit to do during the weekend

[limber summit]

I rewrote this with just the new recipe and seemed to remove a lot of stuff. Is there a way to simply add a recipe w/out touching the existing code? I don't want to overwrite anything, just want to add something.

[vast nacelle]

If you just want the recipe to get into the game, what you had here would work if you just delete the 'NeedToBeLearn:true,' line

Otherwise you need to add a means of learning it

[limber summit]

I wanted to add the recipe to engineers only on spawn, basically

And to the magazine

For non-engineers

[vast nacelle]

Then add a lua file to /media/lua/client/ that has this:

    local engineer = ProfessionFactory.getProfession('engineer');
    engineer:getFreeRecipes():add("Make New Smoke bomb");
end

Events.OnCreateSurvivor.Add(AddNewEngieRecipe);```

[thorn bane]

Anyone know where I can find the models that are used in the game?

Juuust found them lmao

[vast nacelle]

That'll add it to the Engineer at least. Need a bit more to add it to the existing magazines.

[limber summit]

Cool, thanks! I think I got the magazine portion correct already

[thick karma]

@weak sierra I updated again and disabled the hiding of other players for now

Everything else should be working for now if you want to use it. Works better than the original.

I'll push a new update after I find someone to help me test multiplayer

[limber summit]

Ok, it ain't much, but got first tiny mod workin as intended.

Ty @vast nacelle

[radiant venture]

maybe add a container it's put in, like an empty tin can

[limber summit]

Yeah, that's the next thing. Gonna add newspaper/tin can

Starting small, but i'm going to try to add a lot more scrap/junk functionality to engineer items

[radiant venture]

hell yeah, i had a similar idea like letting engi make a upgarde to the generator that increases the amount of gasoline it can hold, might be something you could try adding to yours if you're confident enough

[limber summit]

sounds fun

I have some ideas for engineers and electrician functionality stuff but then sometimes it's hard to differentiate the two professions.

[radiant venture]

that's true sadly

[limber summit]

I think it's partly because I have no idea what type of engineer the engineer of this game is supposed to be

or have been

[radiant venture]

i'm guessing an explosives engineer or something in the degree of chemics

[limber summit]

if it was an electrical/mechanical/systems/chemical/etc

[radiant venture]

chemical seems the most fitting

cause like they know about aerosol combustion

and the set up of how aerosol bombs need to be built is very finicky

[limber summit]

yeah, I like that

I think that can make what I try to have the engineer do be more specific

It's good to have limits/constraints

[radiant venture]

hit me up if needed for ideas xd

[pine fiber]

This one is not bad 🙂

[limber summit]

Yeah, just list em. I'll start a spreadsheet 😄

[radiant venture]

as said electrician or engi being able to upgrade the gen to hold like i dunno 150% instead of 100%
glass shard bomb,
engineer being able to make acids and such for metal stuff if you're going for the chemical stuff

[limber summit]

yeah acids crossed my mind too

FBI bout to put me on a list after seeing my wikipedia searches

I'ma tell em, "It was all for a video game, sirs and madams"

[radiant venture]

oh believe me I've attempted modding some of this stuff and the FBI didn't do shit after I literally googled "explosives you can build with every day objects"

[limber summit]

😄

I wonder about having electrician make generators more effective somehow and engineers make them hold more gas.

[radiant venture]

hmm seems fair enough

[fossil badge]

Or an Engineer making a simple flamethrower?

[limber summit]

Sounds fun to aspire towards as a newbie modder with this game

[astral dune]

Was wondering what kept vehicle engines updating after you turned it off and walked away. Had a hunch that it has something to do with the engine's temperature so I output it

I was right, but funnily enough the engine's temperature is completely decoupled from ambient. When you start a car up its apparently at 0 degrees and has to get back to 0 before it stops updating, haha

[limber summit]

What are folks thinking for bleach bombs? Two ideas I see are:

• Creating a new item for "drain cleaner" and putting that mix in a container
• Adding item for "potassium chloride pills/liquid" and a distilling process and putting that in a container

Any other chemical/acid item ideas?

[limber summit]

Drain cleaner seems like a good idea cuz apparently it's also used in sulfur acid attacks...again...officer...it's for a vieo game

[thick karma]

Is this spawn "points" (as opposed to regions) file deprecated?

Weird that it was created for the dedicated server but apparently not for any of my local servers

[astral dune]

More fun vehicle shenanigans I've found:

• the heater consumes gas and electricity
• Max speed effects your gas consumption even driving at lower speeds
• You burn less gas at higher rpms as long as you're not in top gear yet

[limber summit]

Would it be feasible to use the "evolved recipe" mechanic to make bombs with variable effects?

[bronze yoke]

i think it's possible

[limber summit]

Cool, I'll go nerd learn about how that stuff works. I think it'd be great to instead of having base items, have them be scalable with certain skills so they're stronger just like having higher weapon skill makes weapons stronger.

base items that are static strength, that is.

[bronze yoke]

:getExtraItems() seems to return an array of the ingredients currently in an evolved recipe item

[midnight mica]

does anyone know of a mod that has an example of kicking people from the server?
SendCommandToServer("/kickuser "" .. username .. "" -r "" .. args.reason .. """)
This one doesn't work since the client needs admin access, i'd like for players to get kicked automatically when they break some rules, those would be detected client side

[pine fiber]

Maybe look there :
https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.65/zombie/commands/serverCommands/KickUserCommand.html

[midnight mica]

hey, thanks again, i checked it out before but wasn't able to figure out how to use it

[astral dune]

doesn't look like anything usable is exposed for KickUserCommand. I'm having the same issue with ServerMessageCommand. The command objects themselves don't appear to be exposed to the lua, so they can only be accessed via sendCommandToServer, but then it checks your access rights before allowing it. The commands themselves are capable of being called without a user attached, but I don't see any way to actually do that. If you could get the server to send a command to itself then maybe, but so far I don't see any way to do it

[static oyster]

Question, what happens to the player character when the player enters a car? Does the game stops rendering the player model? If anyone knows this

[astral dune]

I believe they disappear, ya. Although some vehicle mods keep you visible, which can lead to funny stuff like weapons sticking out of the windshield

[static oyster]

I see, I wonder if I could use some line of code to achieve the same effect for another thing

[vague quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-wheelchair-me-running-late-gif-14178485 Someone please make this a mod

[young orchid]

no heightmap no fun

[limber summit]

Is there a special place to find the evolveditem finished items? For example, the normal sandwich that you might find as salvage is in items_food.txt but the values it gives do not correlate with sandwiches that are made from the evolveditem process.

and evolvedrecipes doesn't list the values of the final items, just their names.

[bronze yoke]

that's because the values of an evolved recipe's result are based on the input ingredients, whereas the ones you find use the values in the script

they are the same item

[astral dune]

OnUseVehicle being in the server folder while only ever running on the client is driving me insane

[astral dune]

Anyone know of a guide for making UI elements?

[undone elbow]

There are very many UI elements in the game via Lua. The game code is the guide with examples.

[astral dune]

the game code is not a guide, you can only root through uncommented code for so much. In all fairness, I'd rather get no answer than a dismissive one, thank you.

[fast galleon]

https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-UI_API

[fast galleon]

Is there a way to see who's calling my function so that I don't need to overwrite them individually.

[undone elbow]

Crashes the game.

getVersion doesn't exist on 41.77

[summer rune]

is there a way to implement visible waypoints for players for quests?

static world markers, or something like that.

[ruby urchin]

Do you mean something like this?

[summer rune]

YES please. how?

[ruby urchin]

Unfortunately, I no longer have the code, I lost it in a format 🤦 but I'm sure that it is on lua side, let me see if I can find it

[ancient grail]

omg i got so confused with the question..
im not sure if i understood it...
"i have to not use -nosteam yes?"
if only i can

if whatHeSaid==true then
print(whatHeSaid)
end```

[ruby urchin]

client/Context/World/ISContextDebugHighlights.lua#L51 ->
local arrow = getWorldMarkers():addDirectionArrow(getPlayer(), _square:getX(), _square:getY(), _square:getZ(), "dir_arrow_up", c.r, c.g, c.b, 0.95);

[summer rune]

awesome. thank you so much

[ancient grail]

if you have -nosteam on then you have to manually have them download the stuff from 3rd aparty link like gdrive..
if -nostean is off then its going to return an error if theres a file mismatch

anyways im sure you cant just modify stuff thar way... why not just use steam anyways?

[hearty dew]

If you mean the function or mod that called your function, not afaik. Lua has debug api that could be used to do that, but it isn't available in pz (or maybe in kahlua, more generally)

[hearty dew]

yea, it is for the unstable version that removed getVersionNumber and added getVersion. I'll make it compatible on both since other people are trying to run it on stable build 😅

Updated it to work on stable builds if you wanted to use it on stable

[thick karma]

Can anyone halp me get my dedicated server to show up right?

[daring dagger]

#modeling what

[thick karma]

I've got made and in my favorites, I'm guessing my ports aren't right but I'm seeing different information from different sources

[hearty dew]

If you are connecting locally to test mods, you shouldn't have to deal with ports (unless you have some insane firewall setup) when connecting locally to 127.0.0.1

[thick karma]

Hmmm well afaik I have the server running here...

But I have no idea how to set the numbers here to get it to show up

[hearty dew]

change the IP field to 127.0.0.1

[thick karma]

Omg that was all I had to do

[hearty dew]

Are you in steam mode?

[thick karma]

facepalm

That just changed all the info I think it may have worked

it's loading Lua

❤️

[hearty dew]

Oh, okay. Nice

[thick karma]

I had possibly already done any other steps you had in mind... I even forwarded ports like crazy and opened them up in Windows Defender

[hearty dew]

Wasn't sure if it'd work running in steam mode, but glad it did. It's a little more wonky to get working correctly in steam mode

[thick karma]

I assume it's in Steam mode if the bat had a line saying something like D.steam=1 and had no line saying -nosteam

1 is usually true so unless Lua is THAT full of hate...

lol jk

[thick karma]

So I am now connecting as a user rather than an admin and that's useful presumably for testing, but what if I want to see how things look for a second player connecting to this server? Do I need to relaunch in Steam mode and connect from two no-steam clients? Will that cause the server to stop connecting players to mods? Or will the nonsteam users created automatically download the mods to some folder on my computer reserved for nonsteam Zomboid modding?

[ancient grail]

anyone knows a tutorial for making pz animations from scratch?

[thick karma]

@weak sierra Tiny update to the mod (username state would always stay hidden after hiding it if you launched the game with username hidden; that has been fixed). 100% works as user, at least with the anticheats disabled that I tend to disable (confirmed by starting my own dedicated server. Thanks to @hearty dew for helping me finish that.

[thick karma]

Relaunching Dawn of the Zed with a better description that will hopefully prevent so many people from downvoting it simply because they're oblivious to the problems it solves. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2875983658

Sorry to anyone dealing with early stages of launching this mod. More complicated than I thought it would be (A) making basic changes to UI in game while in MP, and (B) explaining to the Steam community why a mod needs to exist.

@bronze yoke I think you were interested in using this. Sorry I had to repost. Now that I am able to test on a dedicated server and I have fixed the description, I have no intention of doing so again.

[thick karma]

lol when people downvote my mods on Steam without giving any reason (presumably because they wouldn't want to use the mod personally or just because their souls are made of poop), I hate them so much.

I mean not the whole them, but the part of them that works like that.

I am just so annoyed by the mindset of someone who downvotes mods just because they don't want to use them... sigh

[simple lodge]

devs what do you think about this https://github.com/pz-extender/extender ?

[bronze yoke]

non-steam clients cannot play on steam servers

[thick karma]

Sorry I don't understand whether that applies to my situation... I launched PZ through Steam, and I launched the server with "D.steam=1" or something like that set... Would my server have launched as nosteam by default? I didn't click the nosteam bat....

[bronze yoke]

i thought your question was 'do i need to use a steam server and two non-steam clients', sorry

[thick karma]

No I must have misspoken if I implied that

[bronze yoke]

but everything will need to be nosteam if you plan on using two clients, as it won't authenticate your steam account twice

[thick karma]

Oof... How do people connect game to their mods in nosteam mode? Mine wouldn't load...

[bronze yoke]

just put them in zomboid/mods

[thick karma]

Okay so if I copy all of my online mods into zomboid/mods they will appear to the nosteam client?

[bronze yoke]

they should!

[thick karma]

Okay phew I will try lmao what a cluster

Wish I could spawn fake online users near me for testing

[bronze yoke]

god yeah

[thick karma]

I will get it figured out though, your help is clarifying as usual

@bronze yoke Will I need to pull them out of their numbered Steam Workshop folders? Or will they be recursively located even if they're a bit buried?

[bronze yoke]

unsure but i would do it anyway

[thick karma]

Okay fair sounds good

I think I'll check on recursive loading once because it'll take only a minute to test and save a lot of time if it works.

[visual abyss]

how does one spawn zombies

for testing weapons

[boreal crow]

I think your name choice isn't very good for a UI hiding mod, but that's personal choice

[limber summit]

taking this into consideration, does that suggest I should make subrecipes that have values like....1 explosive powder (gunpowder derivative) gives +20 explosivepower while say .25 gasolinechemical gives +20 firepower?

[heady crystal]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2875848298

[hearty dew]

I believe there is an admin command for it. Can check the pzwiki or use the /help command which should list it

[visual abyss]

I figured it out. Zombie Brush in Cheats

when in single player

[thick karma]

Well hopefully the fact that it fundamentally improves the functionality of the game will outweigh that for anyone who bothers trying it; but, if not, then the improvements can go unappreciated and downvoted into oblivion, or perhaps stolen and rebranded by someone who likes simpler names.

If you read the desc you'll see it does a smidge more than simply hide UI. It will eventually hide all usernames if at all possible, and hopefully XP updates and other stuff not currently hidden by hiding UI.

[astral dune]

guess now I have to learn kotlin too, lol

[ancient grail]

is there a startup parameter to relocate the whole zomboid folder(on the steam folder not the user)

my windows drive is full and i wanted to move all the files tk a diffrent drive.. i was able to movethe users file but i want tk move everything else

[ancient grail]

ill give like to to ur mods man

[thick karma]

❤️

[glacial ore]

Does anyone know a mod that allows other players (who have their own safehouses) to be able to be added to my safehouse? Atm my friend and I have two separate houses and its annoying that he can't sit and interact in my safehouse.

[pine fiber]

Search in these mods :

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=108600&searchtext=safehouse&browsesort=textsearch&requiredtags[]=Build+41

[alpine scroll]

Anyone knows which temp the container need to be to freeze foods?

[boreal crow]

I'd say that's still hiding UI, usernames are still a UI element.
Sounds nice, just don't like the name choice, I've never personally downvoted a mod though 🤣 I just think the name sounds like some sort of conversion mod, or role-playing mod, because it doesn't really relate to UI and Dawn of the Dead is a popular thing, so I'd expect it to relate to that

[thick karma]

You should tell the devs, since the UI-hiding function doesn't hide usernames. Programmatically hiding usernames is a separate endeavor entirely.

The relationship is that playing without a UI is cinematic; it makes a game feel more like a movie. Dawn of the Dead is famous zombie movie. The mod's goal is to make playing feel more like being in a zombie movie like Dawn of the Dead. People may not notice how the title relates to the mod's purpose, but it certainly relates.

Fwiw I agree with you. Hiding names should be part of hiding UI. Unfortunately, in vanilla, it's not. Also, in vanilla, playing gamepad, I can't even hide the UI. I would much rather the vanilla game have basic UI hiding and complete gamepad support. Then my poorly named mod would not need to exist at all, lol.

[gilded hawk]

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to make this code look better?

local locations = {
    ["ZedDmg"] = true
    -- TODO: ADD MORE HERE
}
function IsBannedBodyLocation(bodylocation)
    return locations[bodylocation] or string.find(bodylocation, "MakeUp_") or string.find(bodylocation, "Transmog_") or string.find(bodylocation, "Hide_")
end

I have the suspicion this will be come a very long chain of 'or' statemens once I find all the other strings to match

[thick karma]

I believe you can break safely after the word or

local function go(test)

   return false or
          false or
          false or
          false or
          false or
          test or
          false

end

print(tostring(go(true)))
print(tostring(go(false)))

This prints

true
false

[gilded hawk]

Yeah I decided to do that, I'll bother about code clarity once it becomes a problem for now i'm just using a line break

[thick karma]

For sure just figured I'd throw it out there in case you were gonna one-line it

[drifting ore]

does the modded trait "Incomprehensive" work in multiplayer?

[thick karma]

Yo random question when I loaded my own server for the first time I noticed a ton of assets failing to load, but this never throws exceptions in debug mode? What's going on here? Are these just mod conflicts that don't cause live issues or what? Or is this not common enough to guess without seeing the errors?

[thick karma]

Afaik modded traits can work in multiplayer but Idk what mod adds that. However I have been avoiding a lot of trait mods because they've been throwing tons of exceptions in my debug console

Gotta figure that out myself

[drifting ore]

the description for incomprehensive is "You tend to find less items while searching containers"

[bronze yoke]

my server does this as well, my guess is that the server just doesn't need most assets so it doesn't load them

[thick karma]

Hmmm just so weird because it shouts ERROR at me like it matters, and then seems to not matter

Need to inspect the logs further I think

I copy-pasted but haven't had time to read em

AFK

[bronze yoke]

zomboid spams errors about a bunch of stuff that aren't really errors, so i don't really think much about it

like all that stuff about vehicle distributions and stuff

[bronze yoke]

from a brief examination of the source code, i don't think it will work

[weak sierra]

make a keyed table with the strings and values that are true and do if tableName[string] then

[bronze yoke]

it looks like it just deletes items when a player with incomprehensive first opens a container

[weak sierra]

better perf too

stringList = {
"something" = true,
"something else" = true,
}

if stringList[someString] then
  --Do things :D
end```

[gilded hawk]

I was planning to to do it, like that, but I generate body locations at run time, and I can't know how many body loc the game will have

[weak sierra]

u can generate the table at runtime too no?

what's the problem

[gilded hawk]

🤔

[weak sierra]

table.insert(stringList, something)

[bronze yoke]

BodyLocationGroup:getAllLocations()?

[weak sierra]

if that is a thing then just do this and execute ur table building and such on a load-time event

rather than early

unless u have need to build it early

in which case "load this after clothing mods" or make the name start with Z or something

[gilded hawk]

I'll think about it, i don't know if it's possible for me to generate the list of banned body locations

[weak sierra]

btw u ever gonna fix that medical fanny pack?

[gilded hawk]

The antibiotics issue?

[weak sierra]

and similar items

yeah

[gilded hawk]

didn't I fixed it already? 🤔

[weak sierra]

if you did then maybe my override did something to stop it from fixing

[gilded hawk]

I'll check now since Im free

[weak sierra]

    {
        DisplayCategory = Bag,
        WeightReduction    =    95, /*50->95*/
        ClothingItemExtra = Bag_MedFannyPackFront,
        ClothingItemExtraOption = FannyPack_WearFront,
        clothingExtraSubmenu = FannyPack_WearBack,
        Weight    =    0.2,
        Type    =    Container,
        Capacity    =    2,
        DisplayName    =    Medical Fanny Pack (Back),
        Icon    =    MedFannyPack,
        IconsForTexture = MedFannyPack;MedFannyPack_Red;MedFannyPack_Blue,
        OpenSound   =   OpenBag,
        CloseSound   =   CloseBag,
        PutInSound   =   PutItemInBag,
        BodyLocation = FannyPackBack,
        ClothingItem = Bag_MedFannyPackBack,
        CanBeEquipped = FannyPackBack,
        RunSpeedModifier = 0.98,
        WorldStaticModel = FannyPack_Ground,
    }```

all i do is adjust the weight reduction

but if u added some new function or smth

(this is an unlisted mod for my server so i don't care to use itemtweaker type overrides here)

i read the code and it still didn't look like it'd check that field, something was commented out

[gilded hawk]

It seems to work

[weak sierra]

mm

[gilded hawk]

I wonder If I uploaded it tho

👀

[weak sierra]

that's entirely possible lmao

lemme post the lua

from my copy

[gilded hawk]

Can you send me your 2850483881\mods\MxBackpacks\media\lua\server\MxBags_AcceptItemFunction.lua

[weak sierra]

precisely what i was bout to do heheh

-- This is based off media\lua\server\Items\AcceptItemFunction.lua

MxAcceptItemFunction = MxAcceptItemFunction or {}

function MxAcceptItemFunction.MedicalOnly(container, item)
    -- print(tostring(item:getScriptItem().Medical)) -- Apparently this does not work :-/
    return item:getStringItemType() == "Medical" or item:getDisplayCategory() == "FirstAid"
end```

doesnt look so new

just item type and display cat

a commented out attempt to check .Medical

[gilded hawk]

-- This is based off media\lua\server\Items\AcceptItemFunction.lua

MxAcceptItemFunction = MxAcceptItemFunction or {}

function MxAcceptItemFunction.MedicalOnly(container, item)
    -- print(tostring(item:getScriptItem().Medical)) -- Apparently this does not work :-/
    return item:getStringItemType() == "Medical" or item:getDisplayCategory() == "FirstAid"
end

Same here

[weak sierra]

[gilded hawk]

I think you have a mod that changes the display category

[weak sierra]

i do actually yes

i use Better Sorting

now that u mention it

[gilded hawk]

What the display category for the antibiotics?

[weak sierra]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2313387159&searchtext=better+sorting

this one is incredibly popular

were u to pick one to support

:p

i do not know off teh top of my head

[gilded hawk]

👀

[weak sierra]

i also was unable to put Zomboxivir Ampuoles in there from They Knew mod

not sure if Better Sorting covers that or no

it may well

[gilded hawk]

it might

Check the sauce of better sorting, it might be there

[weak sierra]

poking at that rn

TweakItem("TheyKnew.Zomboxivir","DisplayCategory","Medical");

[gilded hawk]

👀

what about the antibiotics?

[weak sierra]

same

it's pretty nicely consistent

here's base game medical stuff

--MEDICAL
TweakItem("Base.AlcoholBandage","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.AlcoholedCottonBalls","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.AlcoholRippedSheets","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.AlcoholWipes","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Antibiotics","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Bandage","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.BandageDirty","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Bandaid","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.BlackSage","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Comfrey","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.ComfreyCataplasm","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.CommonMallow","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.CottonBalls","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Disinfectant","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.FirstAidKit","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Ginseng","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.LemonGrass","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Pills","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.PillsAntiDep","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.PillsBeta","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.PillsSleepingTablets","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.PillsVitamins","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Plantain","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.PlantainCataplasm","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Splint","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.SutureNeedle","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.SutureNeedleHolder","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Tissue","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.ToiletPaper","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.Tweezers","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.WildGarlic","DisplayCategory","Medical");
TweakItem("Base.WildGarlicCataplasm","DisplayCategory","Medical");```

[gilded hawk]

Oh, look at this, so clean

[weak sierra]

yeah lol

it only plays with display cats too

[gilded hawk]

Damn, I might install that mod too lol

[weak sierra]

so if these things weren't "Item"

it's even compatible with More Loot Settings

the only such that that mod supports

:P

it's good

xD

[gilded hawk]

Damn 😮

-- This is based off media\lua\server\Items\AcceptItemFunction.lua

MxAcceptItemFunction = MxAcceptItemFunction or {}

function MxAcceptItemFunction.MedicalOnly(container, item)
    -- print(tostring(item:getScriptItem().Medical)) -- Apparently this does not work :-/
    return item:getStringItemType() == "Medical"
        or item:getDisplayCategory() == "FirstAid"
        or item:getDisplayCategory() == "Medical"
end

I'll push this one asap

[weak sierra]

holy shit

999,554 Current Subscribers

they bout to have 1m

[gilded hawk]

🎉

[weak sierra]

thanks

:)

and now u can go "COMPATIBLE WITH BETTER SORTING"

lol

[gilded hawk]

check the patch notes https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/changelog/2850483881

Also I haven't released 5+ new bags because i'm waiting for my gf to make the icons and textures for them

[safe silo]

I'm looking for the vanilla code on how heat sources work. Planning on creating a heater but cant figure out where to look

[gilded hawk]

So, all this time for my transmog mod I have been using item:setClothingItemAsset to set the ClothingItemAsset aka the ClothingItem = in the text files

Should I keep using setClothingItemAsset or should I use item:DoParam("ClothingItem = StuffHere") ?

What are the implications of changing my code to use item:DoParam ? 🤔

[alpine scroll]

Hello everyone. Stupid question here

I am trying to add a freezer container to the back of a truck

That is ok, its working

However

The item keeps its description of "Fresh, uncooked" until I relog on the client

I do freeze it via a /server/ lua file

How do I update the item on the client so it gets the new properties?

[midnight mica]

does anyone know how to ban/kick a player from the server side in lua?
when sending the command from the client it needs admin permissions

[weak sierra]

definitely don't use doparam

doparam only works before something is instantiated and affects every instance of the item

it's for like

editing script file at runtime

u def want the function

also it seems ur QOL anarchist cookbook magazines are somehow incompat with chuck's Named Literature

u read em and it spits a big ol' error, very strange

[gilded hawk]

Odd, what are the errors?

[weak sierra]

i do also patch ISReadABook for my book xp mod, but that shouldn't touch magazines

but in case relevant..

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2838472336

it just "can't find it"

very odd.

[gilded hawk]

Oh, I do edit the check pz-MxsQoLPack\Contents\mods\MxsMagazines\media\lua\client\magazinesISReadABook.lua

[weak sierra]

oh do u

[gilded hawk]

Yeah

[weak sierra]

nutritionist one works fine tho

somehow

that's the one i'd expect something weird with

[gilded hawk]

Ah, interesting 🤔

[weak sierra]

got trait and everythin, no error

the anarchist cookbooks yield no recipe on my server just an error

lol

and they are just normal recipe mags afaik

so very odd

[gilded hawk]

Odd the way I made the anarchist magazine is quite simple and vanilla like

item AnarchistCookbook1
    {
        DisplayCategory = SkillBook,
        Weight    =    0.1,
        Type    =    Literature,
        DisplayName    =    The Anarchist Cookbook Vol. 1,
        Icon    =    EngineerMag1,
        TeachedRecipes  =   Make Flame bomb,
        ReplaceOnUse    =   EngineerMag1,
        StaticModel = Magazine,
        WorldStaticModel = MagazineEngi1Ground,
    }

[weak sierra]

yeah i have no damn idea

@sour island

poke

[sour island]

?

[gilded hawk]

UdderlyEvelyn pinged you about this #mod_development message

[weak sierra]

my reading mod wraps the original and still calls it normally, so it shouldn't interfere, Mx's script is pretty vanilla

yet it spits errors about not being able to find the item

unless it's a red herring and some other thing is to blame

oh wait Mx

    ReplaceOnUse    =   EngineerMag1,

item AnarchistCookbook1

can't find MxQoLPack.EngineerMag3

it was u

that shudda errored on ur end even

the names dont match

did u not test :O

[gilded hawk]

I have the mod on my server O.o and I never got this error lol

[sour island]

local ISReadABook_perform = ISReadABook.perform
function ISReadABook:perform()
    local bookNameLitInfo = self.item:getModData()["namedLit"]
    if bookNameLitInfo and self.stats then

        ---@type IsoPlayer|IsoGameCharacter
        local player = self.character
        local bodyDamage = player:getBodyDamage()
        local stats = player:getStats()
        local title = bookNameLitInfo["title"]
        local UnhappyChange, StressChange, BoredomChange = namedLit.readerMemory.statsImpact(self.item,title,player)

        stats:setStress(math.max(0,stats:getStress()+StressChange))
        bodyDamage:setUnhappynessLevel(math.max(0,bodyDamage:getUnhappynessLevel()+UnhappyChange))
        bodyDamage:setBoredomLevel(math.max(0,bodyDamage:getBoredomLevel()+BoredomChange))

        namedLit.readerMemory.addReadTime(self.item,title,self.character)
    end

    ISReadABook_perform(self) --line 24
end

line 24 is just calling the vanilla function

[weak sierra]

how

[gilded hawk]

I'm testing rn and checking

[weak sierra]

yeh it was Mx's script.. sorry to bug u

[sour island]

no problem

I fixed that other issue you found

[weak sierra]

ah cool :D

[sour island]

(I think?)

[gilded hawk]

@weak sierra I dunno man

[sour island]

Oh wait no, I couldn't replicate it - but I think it was related to server/client

shouldnt actually cause an issue

[weak sierra]

it doesn't create an issue in practice

but it does produce an undesirable error during load

[weak sierra]

how can it not throw an error if it's the script

[gilded hawk]

No clue

I'm pushing a fix anyway, maybe it will fix on your side

[weak sierra]

bizarre

ur game magic D:

it should either throw an error or find the base item and replace it with that when u read it

xD

[safe silo]

Can some1 help me with how to use AddHeatSource? https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/iso/IsoCell.html#addHeatSource(zombie.iso.IsoHeatSource)

[wanton dirge]

function testMod.getPlayerInfo()
    testMod.player = getPlayer()
    testMod.player.accessLevel = testMod.player:getAccessLevel()
    print(testMod.player)
    print(testMod.player.accessLevel)
end

Event.OnKeyPressed.Add(testMod.getPlayerInfo)```

Am I using Event.OnKeyPressed.Add wrong? This should print my player and access level each time any key is pressed but it breaks at the event. 😬

Actually, nothing happens on keypress but the client breaks when loading into the game.

[bronze yoke]

i don't think player.accessLevel is writable

[astral dune]

does OnKeyPressed have parameters?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[astral dune]

I assume adding an event listener that doesn't take the correct parameters would cause problems, but I've never tried

[weak sierra]

fixed

:p

i have no idea how u evaded that problem but i can't be the only one who ran into it given its nature lol

[gilded hawk]

I dunno evelynn

I got no comments under the mod about it

[weak sierra]

my vehicle spawning mod was broken for like 4 days and nobody said anything

:)

either way it's fixed now

[safe silo]

sorry for asking this the third time but I'm having a ton of issues with figuring out where to go from here, no mods have done this before either so might not be possible.

Can I create an item in-game that acts as a heat source? Like just, is it possible or should I stop trying lol

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't

[steep copper]

Hi, i try to make my first mod on project zomboid, actually, i wan't to trigger a function everytime a player join the server (it's a hosted server)

So, i try to use the event "OnConnected" but it's doesn't work and i don't understand why. Some peoples to help me ? thx

`local function printPlayers()
print("successfully connected !!")
local players = getAllPlayers();
print(players)
end

print(isServer())
if isServer() then
print("it's Server !! qqqq")
Events.OnConnected.Add(printPlayers);
end`

qqq it's to find easily things with Ctrl+F

Everything works, except that the event is never trigered

[thick karma]

Are you running this mod with -debug?

[steep copper]

Yes

[thick karma]

Is it giving you any errors? Or doing anything? Just curious. I would expect an error because you seem to be trying to print a function that would likely return boolean, but I believe I have to cast those as string to print them safely in Lua

Wondering if you see anything in your error log reflecting what I see

E.g., I have never seen anyone use getAllPlayers() and I can't find it in the doc

I'm not sure whether that function exists

Or what it returns

If it returns anything I would expect it to return an array of player objects, which I don't think Lua would casually print

[steep copper]

actually no errors, everything is print, except players, i've made different tests, with simple print in the function like print("abcd")
"it's Server !! qqqq" is printed fine, the only problem is that the event seems to be never triggered

so the function never run

[thick karma]

So you want it to print when players connect to server but it's not? Are you testing this on a dedicated server?

[steep copper]

Nope it's an hosted server, through Steam

[thick karma]

I'm not sure when it would have an opportunity to detect your connection while your Lua is running... You might connect before your Lua loads when you're host

Idk tbh

[steep copper]

That's what i was thinking about

i'm gonna try more events

[thick karma]

But you might try using OnCreatePlayer

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

[steep copper]

OnCreatePlayer is not triggered on Character Creation ?

[thick karma]

Or OnCreateSurvivor https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events/OnCreateSurvivor

It would probably be triggered as you entered game with new character

[steep copper]

i try these

[thick karma]

Is your goal to always print a message when player joins server?

Or just test an event hook?

[steep copper]

Nope, i try events for an other project of mods

[thick karma]

Your OnConnected function could be working, but you might need someone to join you to see it work

I might be free to help you test later

[steep copper]

I try the other events

[thick karma]

If you see "it's Server !! qqqq" then the function should be getting added successfully.

It looks like you wrote it correctly

[steep copper]

Yes, so myb your right, i can't trigger the event as the host

[thick karma]

You should at least see successfully connected maybe, but I don't know if getAllPlayers() is legit

Where did you find that function

[steep copper]

i removed it for print("abcd") actually, for the test

that's my creation actually x)

[thick karma]

I don't think it works unless you have a function you wrote somewhere

[bronze yoke]

i think OnConnected fires on the client

[thick karma]

The real function is getNumActivePlayers()

Just so you know

That will get what you probably meant to get when you tried printing getActivePlayers()

[steep copper]

Actually i have this on client side
`local function test()
if isServer() then
local playerObj = getPlayer();
print("adfdf");
print(playerObj:getUsername());
print('adfdf"')
end
end

print("qwertyuiop");
Events.OnConnected.Add(test);`

[grim rose]

One question, what damage type is food poisoning in project zomboid?

I need to know what to writte in lua to make my pills do effect

[thick karma]

If a client connects to you, presumably you would print on their joining, since you are host, but I am not sure. I just freed up if you want me to join you to try it out.

[steep copper]

OnCreatePlayer do nothing too, even if i delete my character

[thick karma]

this code appears well-formed afaik. I would expect you to get qwertyuiop when your Lua loads, though I have no idea if console gets cleared after that or not, and then you will get adfdf\nadfdf" when someone joins your server.

[thick karma]

Let me see your code, OCP is more complex

[steep copper]

`local function printco()
print("successfully connected !!")
end

print(isServer())
if isServer() then
print("it's Server !! qqqq")
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(printco);
end`

[thick karma]

Okay, OCP has 2 params; see here: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events/OnCreatePlayer

You need to include them in printco as step one of fixing that

OCP events send 2 params and if your function can't receive params there will be issues.

[steep copper]

`
local playername = "leevmealone"
local playerId = 0

local function printco(playerId, playername)
print("successfully connected !!")
end

print(isServer())
if isServer() then
print("it's Server !! qqqq")
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(printco);
end`

Like this ?

[thick karma]

Correct.

Afaik, that should work. I would imagine it would even work for you hosting alone if you load up with that

Actually

Maybe not

print(isServer()) may need to be print(tostring(isServer()))

I have gotten errors in Lua trying to print booleans without casting

Maybe only when I concatenate though, Idr for sure.

[steep copper]

actually it's work fine

i have the true

[thick karma]

I missed a paren above

Sorry about that

Should be 3 closing

[thick karma]

Okay great so what that means is watch out when you concat

Because I have for sure thrown errors trying to go, "Blah is " .. boolVar

[steep copper]

nice to know

[thick karma]

In that case, tostring fixes it

Also tostring can help confirm functions exist in the debug console

Just do Class.function instead of Class:function()

You can tostring it and it will tell you it's a function and give a mem address

Or it'll say nil or something

iirc

It will not work lol obv

[steep copper]

yes seems logic, we can only concatenate strings

[thick karma]

Sure, some languages would do that automatically with basic datatypes

Especially when the variables have no explicit type

[steep copper]

actually OCP doesn't work too, it's a client side event ?

[thick karma]

Literally we just right variable = and Lua rolls with it, but don't you dare try to say variableA = variableB + variableC without knowing what types B and C are

It's a little counterintuitive in context.

[thick karma]

Hmmm could be not sure. Odd

[steep copper]

i try on client

i was on server side with it

does nothing on client side too

i will definitely try more simple events, it's weird

i'm gonna try EveryTenMinutes

EveryTenMinutes work

it's time for me to go sleep, it's 4am here

good night/day

[thick karma]

Haha goodnight sorry will help more next time if you want.

[thick karma]

Glad ETM worked

@weak sierra Great news! I am currently testing on a server with 3 players and flipping that server setting does NOT affect everyone else! It's safe to hide and show usernames that way as far as I can tell!

I am going to push the update soon and wish you the best of luck with it

I still plan to figure out how to hide XP updates in a future patch

[weak sierra]

gooood

:D

was worried bout that but im glad i was wrong

did u test what happens if an admin does it?

then maybe

i guess u can't do /reloadoptions while it's on can u cuz no chat box

so probably fine even if it would do that..

[thick karma]

Uh no but I don't think it matters because I think the variables when accessed from clientside are just clientside variables produced for the client by the server, and once client has them server dgaf what client does with them

At least that's my likeliest interp of the results

I did it with two clients next to one another to see how their names would be affected... Client A hiding ui had no effect at all on Client B. Then I joined with Client C to determine if Client A's recent settings change would be pulled by Client C. Nope. Client C had default server settings

I am satisfied that it's safe but if you find out I'm wrong I am happy to attempt to improve it. You have more testers and contexts so who knows what conflicts could arise.

lol 66% downvotes I don't know why I bother but @weak sierra @bronze yoke @gilded hawk bahaha upgrades! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2875983658

[bronze yoke]

maybe something is bugged or something?? like 66% downvotes seems insane

[thick karma]

I only have 6 responders

No bugs, no comments indicating such

I think there are some people who aggressively hate my name

[bronze yoke]

i guess not many people bother to vote on mods at all but i'd expect the people who'd get mad enough to bother to downvote would be even rarer

[thick karma]

I think there are others who believe the mod is pointless because they're too dense to see its use case

Or how it improves on base-game UI hiding

And maybe some people are just mean to all new mods

But of 6 votes, 4 down, no explanations.

Feel free to lmk if it bugs, but I get no errors and it works flawlessly for me

I really think there is a small handful of people who know my mod exists and are mad because they think it's already in vanilla and I modded for nothing

They spotted it and downvoted it together literally minutes after I posted

No way they tried it

[weak sierra]

dw bout those ppl, nobody else can see the downvotes anyway

:P

[thick karma]

I hear you, lol I try not to but I'm just salty about people sometimes

But you're right, important thing is the mod benefits people

Now I want to figure out how to hide experience gains / level-up messages in no-hud mode.

Not sure what keyword to hunt first but maybe XP is all I got

Oh yeah I should trace the text itself

what does it say like fitness +1?

[viral vale]

Not really sure where to go really but my first mod Lingering Whispers https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2874678809 is doing pretty well, i'm interested in the modding scene but my coding skills aren't very good, I was wondering if anyone wanted to collaborate on working on adding additional content to this mod or future mods. My skillset is mostly 3D modelling, writing and game design and i'm leaning towards specializing in creepy mods

[bronze yoke]

i'd love to help out, should the project interest me

[viral vale]

Currently this mod allows for a low probability for zombies to regain consciousness for a split-second during state-sensitive scenarios, allowing them to speak, such as when you are fighting them, when they are idling, bashing on a door, etc. I'm interested in expanding upon this further by creating even more unsettling scenarios and things they can say

[bronze yoke]

yeah i saw it, i thought it was a great idea

[viral vale]

There is a lot that can be done with a slowly degrading consciousness that doesn't need to be entirely speech based as well, such as zombies having a very low probability to open doors to return to places that have significance to them, such as a church, their home, etc

Then in terms of future projects, i'm interested in creating pre-apocalypse and post-apocalypse notes that can be found throughout the game that deliver on a whole range of emotions when you go through, find and read them

If anyone is interested in assisting, i'd love a hand 😛

[bronze yoke]

oh hell yeah

the atmosphere is what makes zomboid what it is for me, so a bunch of extra lore stuff to read would be great

[viral vale]

Yeah totally, I think zomboid has a lot of untapped potential for that kind of atmospheric and subtle horror

[thick karma]

I might be down, too. I kind of want to try to add Mod Options to your Lingering Whispers — if you aren't already on it? Regardless, it sounds amazingly awesome; I just want it to happen more frequently (and I think various people have their own preferred frequencies). Would be nice to freely set that value. I am also planning to learn Mod Options for another mod I have, anyway.

Regarding this new idea, I might be down to write stuff for you out of pure boredom, or even get friends to pitch in some stories.

[bronze yoke]

the code side of that would be really easy, but i'm not much of a writer

[viral vale]

Kinda like bumping into those scenes you find throughout the game, a burnt car wreck with two corpses, a room where a wife was zombified and the husband decided to end it, all those kinds of scenes but then expanded into written form of rare glimpses at the people that walked the earth

[vast nacelle]

@viral vale Maybe place a discussion post on your mod where you can ask people to "submit" personal notes that you can use/adapt into the pre/post apocalypse notes? Get a body of different styles/emotions using crowd sourcing.

[bronze yoke]

my literacy mod has had a full revamp done for over a month but i don't want to write the dialogue it needs LOL

[thick karma]

Nice

[viral vale]

Yeah, i'm not sure how to expose those components to be able to up and lower the frequency, so that is definitely on the cards of something I want added to the mod

[viral vale]

I do a game writing pretty often, so that is alright 😛

[viral vale]

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea

[bronze yoke]

i'm very familiar with sandbox options, i could drop them in for you

[viral vale]

Sure 😁 Feel free to see if you can get that working, that kind of stuff would take me awhile of just bashing my head on a keyboard, so any help to improve that function would be awesome haha

[bronze yoke]

i won't be at my computer until tomorrow, but i'll take a look then

[viral vale]

No problem 😛 If anyone else wants to jump on board, lemme know 🙂

[thick karma]

Fwiw, I'm pretty obsessive about grammar when I publish things. If you're open to edits, I am down to help edit your mod's whispers, insofar as they need to be edited. (Common but formally incorrect ways of speaking seem fine, but I would be especially attentive to inconsistent punctuation.)

[viral vale]

I think that all the grammar in Lingering Whispers is correct, since it is mostly just single words of talking with the occasional 2-4 words ahaha. But for long-form text for future stuff that would be needed yeah 😛

[thick karma]

Haha, fair, but you never know. I'll probably still check when I look at code to contemplate Mod Options

[bronze yoke]

burryaga would be good at that

it's rare to see someone who types with proper grammar without giving off a condescending tone

[thick karma]

YES

YES

YES

Not sex