mod_development

[thick karma]

I finally got the command right for closing my gd inventory when I move my thumbstick

New mod incoming!

Omfg

I can't believe it finally worked

COmmand seems so obvious but I tried so many variations that failed me

[bronze yoke]

hell yeah

[thick karma]

Ahhhh so excited for this one

[marble lynx]

count me in

[thick karma]

So something that annoyed t.f. out of me immediately as a controller player

(1) there are 2-3 windows that open automatically on joining server that tmk cannot be accessed or closed via controller, and take up screen space. They are Server Info, Chat, and Debug (if you're in Debug mode)

(2) When you want to close things quickly, spamming Circle (standard Back) won't save you, because Inventory closes on Y, not Circle.

I have now fixed both of these problems.

When player aims, those windows you do not need during a fight will all instantly close. Chat, Server Info, Debug, AND Inventory.

Omg what should I call it? (People hate my names. 😭) I was gonna call it Catlike Reflexes. Also should I tie it to a trait so it's optional like I did for Trash Talker?

[marble lynx]

Maybe something simple and direct like No More Annoying Popups (Controller)

Btw there's no toggle UI keybind for controller?

[bronze yoke]

yeah i prefer to keep them direct, for easy understanding but also because it means i don't actually have to come up with a name

[thick karma]

Actually allows keyboarders to also close inventory on aiming

[thick karma]

When I use it through Steam, it only hides the controller UI (buttons that overlay the rest of the UI), nothing else, and it's not a toggle, it's a hold press. Also, pressing V on the keyboard does the same thing while a gamepad is connected (hides gamepad UI), but toggles instead of only activating on hold. So having a gamepad connected fundamentally takes over and ruins the HUD-hiding mechanism. Cinema mode does not exist for at least some gamepad players (e.g., me) without my mod.

Controller support in this game is honestly very mediocre and I am trying to take little steps to remedy that.

[viral vale]

Awesome 😮

I'll create a little server to make it easier to collaborate with whoever is interested, i'll DM a link 🙂

[marble lynx]

Hmm, Hide UI Windows During Combat (Controller) then? 🙂

[marble lynx]

that sounds good 🙂

[marble lynx]

Ah I see, no wonder you had to take measures

[thick karma]

Doesn't really hide entire UI, doesn't only apply to controller.

It has a somewhat unique effect that defies concise description. Hide Chat, Server Info, Debug, and Inventory on Aim is a stupid sounding name to me.

I would prefer to simply sum that up with colorful jargon but IDK, I don't want misleading jargon.

[marble lynx]

Okay, Combat Stance Closes Windows

[thick karma]

Getting warmer for me, was considering something similar

I am considering something that could double as a trait name

I feel some people on the server will be used to not closing inventory on aim and perhaps for one reason or another hate that

So I would like the trait name to be concise and also descriptive and in the same adjectival tone as other traits

[marble lynx]

Could use mod options for that and leave it disabled by default

[thick karma]

Mmm that is a possibility

I gotta learn Mod Options crap I'm lookin it up

[fast galleon]

Some mods adds their keys to default key meny

[marble lynx]

Or make it an option in the context menu/right click like how Tidy Up Meister does it

[thick karma]

Mod Options tutorial for devs says this: "NB: This is for the client side only! It's ok for single player, but in multiplayer every player can change it. Be careful, if your options affect gameplay."

So I actually don't think I can use this for custom player options...

They will need to just live with the shortcuts.

Hopefully they can. I picked buttons that are unused intentionally

C'est la vie.

[marble lynx]

Yeah that's how it works

[thick karma]

yeah no worries, I don't need custom button configs in my mod

[marble lynx]

Which is a good thing because every player can enable it or disable it if they want

[thick karma]

Just more work xD

[thick karma]

Right but it disables or enables for everyone

[marble lynx]

Not for everyone, it's local

Iirc

[thick karma]

Ohhhhhhhh

I misunderstood his warning

So he's saying if your options actually change fundamentally important things for the server

You should watch out because anyone can toggle stuff

[marble lynx]

His warning is more for stuff like tweaking the percentages/frequencies of something occuring or spawning i think, yeah

[thick karma]

I get it now.

[marble lynx]

eg

[vast nacelle]

'Combat Focus'?

[thick karma]

Maybe, though I fear people would be as mad at that as they will Catlike Reflexes

Sigh how to balance ambiguity vs being succinct and not having an awkward name for a trait

[hearty dew]

Server-client commands? I have some functions in my library that simplify them to one api call, if it'd be any help

[thick karma]

Oh I figured it out thanks @hearty dew

That statement was actually me expressing how long it took to find the correct command which in retrospect feels obvious

[hearty dew]

Ah, okay 🙂

[thick karma]

Yeaaaaah got Mod Options working on my new mod, juicy.

So just to be clear, if I use Mod Options to let people enable or disable a mod, that's a local disabling and enabling, right? Won't affect other players at all?

(assuming the thing being enabled is a local player thing)

(such as what happens when local player presses a key)

[hearty dew]

Yea, each player has their own mod options (just like they have standard pz options), so you could write the mod to handle those mod options specific to the client

[thick karma]

Yyyyeeaaaaas

victory

So excite

Now to finalize a name for this...

[marble lynx]

Grats 🙂

[thick karma]

Hmmmm how about Clear for Combat? Anyone hate it? Like it?

[marble lynx]

It's not very descriptive

[thick karma]

yeah I dunno haha

How to be descriptive in <= 3 words

I do not want a 7 word title for the sake of description... that's what descriptions are for...

[marble lynx]

Could be 4 words 🤣

[thick karma]

But I would love a more accurate title <= 3 words if possible

What 4 words?

It closes many things when I aim

[marble lynx]

Something like the one I suggested earlier

[thick karma]

What 4 words would accurately describe what closes

And when it happens?

I responded to that

[thick karma]

this, right?

[marble lynx]

Cause when I read "Clear for Combat" i would not know what the mod does

yup

[thick karma]

For sure, but this begs the questions, "Which windows?"

[marble lynx]

Combat Closes Windows? If you wanna leave out the stances part

[thick karma]

Does not currently close all your windows

Title would suggest it does

Problems with everything 😦

[marble lynx]

Well it doesn't need to be that specific, they can check the mod page for that

[thick karma]

Haha exactly why I generally don't bother with trying to be that specifically descriptive in the title

But reaction to last creative title was pretty negative, so I don't want to make people stretch too much to "get it" either.

[marble lynx]

Yes but Clear for Combat tells a person nothing haha

[thick karma]

True enough. But the fact that it's tagged as a UI mod might give context that gives a good hint.

[marble lynx]

People rarely look at tags tho

[thick karma]

"Clear how? Oh, UI mod. Clear something about UI?" click

I know I am expecting too much

Ugh I need a concise, descriptive name I don't hate

[thick karma]

I feel like I just want to call it Aiming Closes Everything and actually do that @marble lynx. Think I need to add a range of other UI elements to the stuff I close.

[marble lynx]

That would be nice too 🙂

Sounds good to me

Altho I have no idea how much work it would be to reopen the relevant windows on a controller after the fighting

[thick karma]

Generally they'd be reopened one at a time, except for the ones that don't have controller shortcuts at all, which can be collectively reopened using a keyboard shortcut

Bettee than dying because they're blocking your view if you ask me

I will feel lucky to reopen my windows when I escape death due to rapid closing of them, personally

[marble lynx]

Yeah yeah, go for it then 🙂 👍

[summer rune]

we are hosting a server with gportal. and we have scheduled automatic restarts activated. but i guess this just kills the PZ dedicated server process and restarts it.

because we have the problem, that after each restart the player state and the world state is set back for about 5- 10 minutes.

what can we do to save the world before the restart?
is there a mod for that? can i write a mod to save the world? is there even a lua function provided for that use case?

[hearty dew]

You could send the quit command to the stdin of the server process to make it shutdown normally

[pine fiber]

There is some parameters in servertest.ini config file you could maybe use :

BackupsOnStart=true
BackupsPeriod=20
SaveWorldEveryMinutes=15

[summer rune]

does it save the game world? core.quit()

[marble lynx]

quit saves the world prior to shutting down

[hearty dew]

I'm not sure. I would hope so, but I've not tested nor looked at that code. That's not what I was referring to, however

[summer rune]

we have this:

SaveWorldEveryMinutes=15

BackupsCount=5
BackupsOnStart=true
BackupsOnVersionChange=true
BackupsPeriod=0

[hearty dew]

If you run the server in the terminal, you can type quit to shutdown the server normally. I was suggesting sending that input to the server process in your automated reboot script prior to killing it and restarting the server

[summer rune]

i have no access to the terminal nor the reboot script sadly

[hearty dew]

On linux, you could start the server with a fifo file as the stdin, then you should be able to write quit to the fifo for the server process to get that input

idk how you'd do that on windows

[marble lynx]

Maybe try contacting gportal's cust support about the issue?

[ancient grail]

anyone has an idea which lua file controls players shadow? and if is possible to remove the shodow of just the character u are using ...

[summer rune]

i will if i have no possibility to fix it myself. but since they are a popular host, i thought maybe someone else hat this problem and found a solution

[hearty dew]

You might try a mod that calls Core.quit() to see if that works. That might do what you want

[summer rune]

okay thanks all. I will try those things. i will keep u posted.

[ancient grail]

what i did was i have a scheduled task on windows that sends save nd server msg 5 mins before restart.its thru rcon

[pine fiber]

If it's not working, u could try to set restarts just after a SaveWorldEveryMinutes. And maybe modify this :

BackupsPeriod=0

[ancient grail]

i could provide you the details on how i was able to do this if u want.
and it involves moving the rcon files to the system32 folder

[pine fiber]

smart idea 🙂

but with gportal, could we use a rcon connection ?

[summer rune]

that is a interesting and smart solution, however i have no windows server or pc running 24/7. but thanks a lot anyway 🙂

[summer rune]

yes

[hearty dew]

That's the server console output from Core.quit()

This is from the quit command

[ancient grail]

yes we can we also use gportal the limit here is that your pc needs to be on every restart

i wanted to make a mod but would require alot of research so i ended up doing this as a quick patch but never had the impulse to do the mod

[summer rune]

damn, so no save as it looks like. hmm

[hearty dew]

maybe there's a save method on Core. Let me check that

[ancient grail]

just use sendcommandtoserver

/save

[summer rune]

ohhhh

yeah that might work. right?

[ancient grail]

not sure if it requires client admin tho

[hearty dew]

You'd need an admin client to issue those, perhaps

[ancient grail]

servermsg doesnt work. but you can try

[summer rune]

cant the server send a sendcommandtoserver

[ancient grail]

ah then your screwed

[summer rune]

hm

[ancient grail]

frustrated abt this too. but yeah it cant . or porbably can but not just all

[hearty dew]

Don't see anything on Core

[ancient grail]

anyone?

[hearty dew]

I'll try sending save and quit from the server itself

[hearty dew]

No, idea, but I'd suspect that in the rendering code java-side

[ancient grail]

you might want to look at the script where it does the /save

[ancient grail]

so it might not be moddable?

[hearty dew]

If my assumption is correct, that probably be difficult to mod

[ancient grail]

is there a shadow texture file? i dont think there is ... hmmmmm

[hearty dew]

SendCommandToServer() when called on the server-side causes and exception bc it expects to be called from the client-side

[summer rune]

thanks for trying. thanks a lot 🔥

[hearty dew]

GameClient.connection is null

@summer rune On GlobalObject, there is save(boolean) and saveGame()

At least it saves the GlobalModData heh

[summer rune]

i have access to these files by FTP. maybe some ideas here?

[hearty dew]

@summer rune ```java
if ((n3 = ServerOptions.instance.SaveWorldEveryMinutes.getValue()) > 0 && (l = System.currentTimeMillis()) > this.LastSaved + (long)(n3 * 60 * 1000)) {
this.bQueuedSaveAll = true;
this.LastSaved = l;
}
if (this.bQueuedSaveAll) {

`ServerOptions` is exposed to lua. You might be able to set that to 1 to trigger a save to occur. Downside of this approach is if the game saved within the last minute, it won't work

[summer rune]

sorry, to ask this of you. but can u find out how often this snippet is called from java? so if i change the serveroption to 1min will it be called in the next 2 minutes, even if it was 15min before?

[hearty dew]

It's called in the server's main loop

[summer rune]

oh that is fantastic. okay. thanks. i will go this way then.

i will set the option to 15min every minute. however if it is 5 minutes before restart i will set the option to 1min

i already have a loop where i check restarts to warn players in the global chat of an incoming restarting

that is awesome. thank you so much

[hearty dew]

This works. It saved immediately when I set it to 1

ServerOptions.instance:getOptionByName("SaveWorldEveryMinutes"):setValue(1))

[summer rune]

very much appreciated!

[wanton dirge]

Thanks for trying to help me with this one last night guys (fell asleep right after posting this, was after an hour or so of trying to debug it that I realized the game was telling me exactly what I needed to know...)

It's Events.OnKeyPressed

Morning brain fixes what tired brain couldn't.

[visual abyss]

Is it possible to wrap descriptions for items in tooltip? I have few fairly long descriptions and they would make the tooltip ridiculously wide. I like adding descriptions.

[ancient grail]

i think theres a mod utilitity for this

u just have to find it. as i forgot what its called but ill help u search now

[visual abyss]

Okay, I'll look as well. Appreciate it.

[pine fiber]

Is there a way to restart the items distribution on the map directly in-game without restarting a new game?

[thick karma]

Ugh I have been trying to find a way for an hour... can someone help me out with changing the focus of your keyboard input back to completely unfocused?

But preferably irrespective of what it's currently focused on?

[fast galleon]

I heard of Itempicker initSandboxLootSettings but I haven't seen what it does yet. Also it was said not to use on running game.

Update something about ItempickerJava.Parse() from that post

[warm pawn]

Great!

[blissful salmon]

I'm looking for a "clean" way to disable my custom recipes if a sandbox option is set. What I do at the moment is to "use" getProp1() as string for my category which I want do disable. Is there a way to create a customfield?

[viral vale]

Haha, thank you very much 😛

[thick karma]

Or maybe turn off cursor in Debug Console anybody? I have found a way to escape focus...

[pine fiber]

Is there a way to modify the weightChance=40 parameter of a Distributions list ?

[sour island]

If it's a part of the list you can just redefine it.

[blissful salmon]

As far as I know, the category is already used for specify a tab. But I don't want them to appear in in a separated tab if possible.

[sour island]

Idk if this would be helpful but I have a sort of similar mod to give players speech. "Conditional Speech". It uses text filters to change phrases on the fly. If you wanted the zombies to say randomized keywords or something.

[sour island]

I'm not sure if the OBSOLETE tag exists for recipes but I can imagine setting this to true on the recipe object should hide it?

I recall there being a tag like that- but you could also set a new isValid function on the recipe object to always return false

This would make it never appear in context but may still appear in the crafting menu

[jaunty marten]

not by sandbox options but u can create sub-mod in ur mod exactly to disable/enable certain recipes

but anyway u can try to check source of crafting menu ui and mb there will some key that can "disable" (hide) any recipe

[blissful salmon]

Thx for the quick answer. I think setIsHidden(boolean hide) should do the hiding thing. I just looking for a way to group some items together. Which is not the category where it appears.

[visual abyss]

Looks like trying to make completely new weapon part types (i.e. barrel) isn't possible? I've been trying to figure out a workaround but it appears that the weapon part types are hardcoded.

[jaunty marten]

just iterate table of items

[blissful salmon]

What excatly do you mean with a sub-mod?

[jaunty marten]

I'm not at pc rn but as I remember mod hierarchy
Mod/
..Content/
....Mod1/media..
....Mod2/media..

[sour island]

Oh you're trying to make a specific tab for recipes? Hmmm

[jaunty marten]

it will single mod but in mods list will a few mods

so u can disable any that u want separately

[blissful salmon]

No, sorry if my text was confusing. My recipes appear on the normal tabs which already existing. If I set a Sandbox option I want for to disable some of my recipes with a specific "flag/group" or whater i set on the recipes. the primary goal is to make my mod in a way that i can later ad new recipes without having to change the lua code.

[sour island]

You don't need a sub-mod -- you can't just check for active mod IDs or in this case sandbox options and do what you need.

[steep copper]

Hi, do you know how to get username from an isoPlayer Object ?
local playerObj = getPlayer(); print(playerObj.getUsername());
It throw error

[sour island]

Use : not .

[sour island]

If your recipes have an unique module you can use that

[jaunty marten]

why he need to check mod ids?
disabled sub-mod even won't load scripts for recipes

[sour island]

I don't think recipes have their own tag system like items do - so you may need to adjust a list of recipe names

If the module encompasses too much

[blissful salmon]

for my items I used for example:
Tags = SoulMod_UnfinishedWoodItem,
TotalWorkUnits = 10,
and later I can call it with
local itemModData = item:getModData()
o.TotalWorkUnits = itemModData.TotalWorkUnits or 200

[thick karma]

Anyone know how to send a mouse click signal to an arbitrary X, Y? Is that possible from the Lua?

[blissful salmon]

Ah yes... This should to the trick... I can split them up like that.

[jaunty marten]

via lua no

[ancient grail]

u have to put that on the oncreatefunction
it will still show that you are able to do the recipe tho.so you should give back the stuff of ever its turned off. not sure if its posible to put it ontest function but might worth a shot to try this

let me know if it works pls ty

[blissful salmon]

Thank you guys for the ideas. I thinks Chuck's idea is the one that fits best for my needs. If someone still have an idea for a customfield just let me know 🙂

[sour island]

You can add an ontest on the fly, just a fyi

[sour island]

No but it sounds like you want something specific that may be still achievable. What is your actual need?

[ancient grail]

ithink its

print(getPlayer():getUsername())

im not pc right now so i cant check

[sour island]

It is, calling function/method that is exposed is always:afaik. Variables are ..

[thick karma]

When I close the Debug menu using UIManager:getDebugConsole():setVisible(false), it doesn't stop focusing on that box. I want to be able to break focus when I hide the Debug like that.

[thorn bane]

Is it possible to get what gets said in a certain radio channel?

[sour island]

Try calling debug windows' close buttons' click then

[thick karma]

Now, I have a working "solution" for breaking said focus, but my janky solution leaves the cursor flashing animation active, and I don't like that.

[sour island]

Should handle what you need

[blissful salmon]

I'm not familiar with the ontest/oncreatefunction function etc. so far. for my items I just added it to the contextmenu if some tests were true... do you have a link to a sample or provide one if possible. Or I can check if I find one in the base lua code...

[thick karma]

I am having trouble finding where that close button click gets handled unfortunately

[visual abyss]

Look in recipes.txt then search the lua source files for that function

[sour island]

It would be inherited from general UI

[novel quartz]

I have a mod question; If i have a mod like bushcraft, do my friends need it to play in my world?

okay

ty

[blissful salmon]

ah thanks... I remember now that I already saw them. Do I use the ontest to return if it's doable?

[sour island]

Check where debug UI is initiated - it is probably an ISPanel (I'm not at my PC atm) but ISPanel are generated with a new() and are given buttons, topbars, etc. It should be stored as a variable.

So if you know how to call on the debug window you should be able to do something like debugWindow.close:click()

[visual abyss]

i havent messed with it but if i recall, it checks if its valid to create or not. a function that can check for more specific conditions that scripts cant give

so it would return a bool

oncreate just does stuff that you'd want if the craft was successful

[blissful salmon]

I'll test it... So far I think all the inputs helps me...

[sour island]

OnTest is a string equal to the name of a lua function. If you use getScriptManager you can parse through all recipes and check their names, modules, etc what ever you want. You can even set a new OnTest.

[visual abyss]

for example, i'm adding a craft called Dissect Corpse

I wanted to make parts random

    recipe Dissect Corpse
    {
        CorpseMale/CorpseFemale,

        Time:               100.0,
        Category:           Salvage,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor: true,
        OnCreate:           ZomboidExtract.Recipes.OnCreate.DissectCorpse,
        Result:             ZEZombieParts,
        RemoveResultItem:   true,
    }

It would call OnCreate.DissectCorpse which is:

function ZomboidExtract.Recipes.OnCreate.DissectCorpse(items, result, player)
     local lootTable = {}
     lootTable["none"] = 70
     lootTable["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieBrain"] = 10
     lootTable["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieHeart"] = 10
     lootTable["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieLung"] = 10
     lootTable["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieKidney"] = 10
     lootTable["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieLiver"] = 10
     lootTable["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieBone"] = 10
     lootTable["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieFlesh"] = 10

    local item = RollWeightTable(lootTable)
    if item ~= "none" then
        player:getInventory():AddItem(item)
    end
end

You might notice that the result would be ZEZombieParts but it's immediately removed as it is just a fodder to show in the crafting ui. where the OnCreate would actually add random parts.

[sour island]

Option 1: you include an unique OnTest for all your recipes to check for sandbox options as you see fit.

Option 2: you parse through recipes onGameBoot and add an always false OnTest to recipes you choose.

I think option 1 might be easier to implement but it would mean if you needed different things to occur in onTest you'd need to make another function for those cases.

Which if you want to avoid maintenance overhead is not ideal

[blissful salmon]

was about to ask if I can pass a parameter or if I have to do multiple functions.

[thick karma]

Unfortunately debug window does not have a close function that works afaik in Lua.

[sour island]

Afaik it's one function per Lua parameter

[thick karma]

UIManager:getDebugConsole() <- this is the debug console

[blissful salmon]

but I think this is also a good solution.

[thick karma]

UIManager:getDebugConsole().close:click() <- nada

UIManager:getDebugConsole().close() <- nada

UIManager:getDebugConsole():close() <- nada

[sour island]

That's Java exposure stuff - the UI is entirely Lua

[thick karma]

UIManager:getDebugConsole():close():click() <- nada

[sour island]

Find the Lua pseudo-objects

[thick karma]

UIManager:getDebugConsole() is the pseudo-object

This is accessible in Lua

but I don't have access to a close function through that object

I can make it invisible

I can set capture and such

[sour island]

It's pulling on the Lua object

If you check ISPanel.lua you should be able to find how to grab the close button or related functions

[thick karma]

I did this. The close function for ISPanel does not apply to this object.

[sour island]

But that is it the debug console is an ISPanel

[thick karma]

How would I get the ISPanel version of the debug object that has access to close?

[sour island]

Most UI has an instance set for clients

[thick karma]

I only have a UIDebugConsole object

I can get an instance of debug console, it just doesn't come back as an ISPanel

[sour island]

What is it's type then?

[thick karma]

Afaik, it's coming back as a UIDebugConsole because those functions appear to be visible

But UIDebugConsole doesn't have unfocus() or close() or anything

[sour island]

That sounds like the java half of stuff

[thick karma]

I hear what you're saying, but I am searching all the text of all the Lua files in media/lua and I'm seeing no other way to pull the debug console

Aside from using getDebugConsole

I have it all indexed

So I can literally search every line of every file

[sour island]

If you can find the debug console Lua file it is probably a subtype of ISPanel

You would have to do something like ISDebugPanel.instance

I'm not sure what the type is though

[thick karma]

There really isn't a "Debug Console" Lua file...

Those are all the files containing "DebugConsole"

This "getDebugConsole" function does not come from a DebugConsole Lua

In fact it doesn't even show up in Lua at all

It just appears to be exposed

Via UIManager

[ancient grail]

sorry the question doesn't make sense..
if u have a mod then your friend will play? i think this is subjective

[novel quartz]

Okay so I dont have the game yet so i dont know how joining worlds works

[sour island]

Where is ISDebugSubPanelBase housed?

[novel quartz]

is it simular to minecraft in the way that someone makes their wolrd multiplayer and they join that way?

[thick karma]

ISDebugPanel is nil in the console

[thick karma]

There is actually a file for this

[novel quartz]

dm it might be easier to explain to me lol

[sour island]

DebugUIs/DebugMenu/Base/ should have the UI files needed

SubPanel is one tier too deep

You want whatever is the parent of it - but I am looking through one of my projects for the correct names

So I can't find what it is called

[thick karma]

This was a dead end, close function doesn't do what is needed

[sour island]

ISGeneralDebug ?

[thick karma]

Nah

[sour island]

I think generalDebug is still one of the subtabs

Wish the Lua was online, but can't help much more

[fast galleon]

Did you try
:setVisible(false)

[thick karma]

Yes thank you @fast galleon

Not adequate

Trying to lose the focus

Not just hide it

[jade chasm]

does anyone have a quick lua script for making a weapon two handed? i'm not sure what needs to be done other than changing the folder names. new to modding and just trying to make my sword two handed

^any resources on modding melee weapons appreciated. most guides focus on firearms

[shadow geyser]

TwoHandWeapon = TRUE,

RequiresEquippedBothHands = TRUE, if it needs to be held in 2 hands

[fast galleon]

UIDebugConsole is in java

[jade chasm]

lmao thank you

[fast galleon]

btw not sure what you mean focus, but I added that to every ten minutes and after it's gone I can use keyboard again

[sour island]

He's on controller

[thick karma]

The keyboard focus is actually what gets trapped @fast galleon @sour island . If you use that hide function while inside of the Lua Debug Console, you will not be able to press any keyboard buttons until you click once on something else or the background

My joypad focus is coming free just fine

[sour island]

Have you tried removing it from UI manager?

[ancient grail]

resolved

[thick karma]

I mean then I would have to reinitialize it entirely because removing it is not its natural behavior

Also could cause other issues

[sour island]

Most UI gets removed on closure - from what I've seen

[thick karma]

If it expects that debugger to exist

[sour island]

If you don't figure it out, ping me in like 7 hours

[thick karma]

Cool thanks

[ancient grail]

what is the lua file that limits a players view . like behind him? is there a way to be able to see everything 360°
i saw a mod that dors this but says obsolete

[sour island]

I should upload the Lua as a hidden repo

[thick karma]

Oof I give up for now @sour island lol been trying so long.

Ttyl

[sour island]

No worries, wish I could be more help. I'll give it a shot once I'm home.

[visual abyss]

is there a way to override a recipe that has more than 1 recipes (i.e. disinfect bandage, it has like 4 different recipes)

I can only seem to override the first available recipe instead of all (trying to make them all required to be learned)

[sour island]

Using the scripts format probably not I would guess

You could parse through all recipes in Lua though

[visual abyss]

would you happen to know how?

I've been wanting to do that but couldn't really find any snippets to help do that

[sour island]

getScriptManager() returns the object that controls alot of that stuff

[visual abyss]

it'd be nice instead of having to manually fix all of the recipes haha (i'm basically doing a total reconversion of the game)

[sour island]

Recipes being able to share exact names actually always bothered me

[visual abyss]

I'm not sure if I understand but are you actually able to modify the script manager (i.e. remove or adjust recipe)?

always felt like the base code isnt mutable

[noble shale]

I'm making a mod that adds a recipe and modifies a right-click menu for an item. When I make the mod, am I saving a new recipes.txt (and others), or am I making a modified recipes.txt and publishing that?

[calm acorn]

make sure you do not use the same names as files that already exist in the same file path because you will overwrite vanilla/other mod files

typically add your mod id to the front of the file name so mymodid_recipes.txt

[noble shale]

Awesome, I was hoping I could make a new file lol. Not new to design but I'm new to actually implementing it myself, ty!

Sorry, one more question, is XP gain handled in XpUpdate.txt?

[sour island]

The scriptManager is what parses the scripts on run. You can use some exposed methods (Java functions) to change them as you need.

You can do this with any script: vehicles, items, 3D models, just depends on how much of it is exposed.

[visual abyss]

i'm able to retrieve all recipes

but i'm trying to figure how to write/apply actual changes

I'm only 3 days old learning to mod PZ

[sour island]

The get all recipes method/function returns an array (Java)

[visual abyss]

right

[noble shale]

nvm I think got this

[sour island]

You cant parse through using normal Lua as it's not a Lua table -- the devs have exposed the methods for an array though

I have something like this in a few projects hold on

I don't have an example using getAllRecipes but this one is for item scripts

EHE_Recipe.addCanOpenBoxesTagToTypesThatCan()
    if ran then return else ran = true end
    ---Adds "CanOpenBoxes" tag to scripts for type
    local allItems = ScriptManager.instance:getAllItems()
    local debugText = "EHE: Added Tag 'CanOpenBoxes' to: "

    for i=0, allItems:size()-1 do
        ---@type Item
        local itemScript = allItems:get(i)
        local itemFullName = itemScript:getFullName()
        local tags = itemScript:getTags()
        local addCanOpenBoxesTag = EHE_Recipe.typesThatCanOpenBoxes[itemFullName]
        local tagString = ""

        if tags:contains("EHESignalFlare") then
            eheFlares.addFlareType(itemFullName, "EHESignalFlare")
        elseif tags:contains("EHEFlare") then
            eheFlares.addFlareType(itemFullName, "EHEFlare")
        end

        for ii=0, tags:size()-1 do
            ---@type string
            local tag = tags:get(ii)

            if EHE_Recipe.additionalTagChecks[tag] then
                addCanOpenBoxesTag = true
            end
            tagString = tagString..tag..";"
        end

        if addCanOpenBoxesTag then
            debugText = debugText..itemFullName..", "
            itemScript:DoParam("Tags = "..tagString..";CanOpenBoxes")
        end
    end
    print(debugText)
end

Events.OnGameBoot.Add(EHE_Recipe.addCanOpenBoxesTagToTypesThatCan)

[noble shale]

If I'm adding a new listing to recipecode.lua, do I need to include this at the top? Or could I just include the function I want to add?

Recipe.GetItemTypes = {}
Recipe.OnCanPerform = {}
Recipe.OnCreate = {}
Recipe.OnGiveXP = {}
Recipe.OnTest = {}```

[sour island]

You shouldn't include that at the top actually

It would set them all to empty

You should instead use require "filepath after client/server/shared" before your code.

[noble shale]

I will keep working at it and I'll add this in, thank you!

[sour island]

Looks more complicated than it is

[noble shale]

I'm new to coding haha

[sour island]

Just check recipecode.lua's path

And copy it After the client/ server/ or shared/

And leave off the .lua

If I recall recipecode is in shared?

So it would just be require "recipecode" at the top of your file -- your file also has to be in the same directory (client/shared/server).

Require calls for the first file to be found before running anything after it.

[noble shale]

There's one in client and one in server

[sour island]

In vanilla?

[noble shale]

Yes!

[sour island]

Are they identical?

[noble shale]

Sry I lied

Just server

I misread the search I did

[sour island]

Ok, so your mod's file has to be in server/ too

And you can just put the require at the top -- it will have anything globally defined accessible

[visual abyss]

trying to understand how it is being saved. doParam()?

[noble shale]

require "\media\lua\server\recipes.lua after server"

Like that?

[sour island]

Anything with local infront will have to be copied

[noble shale]

errr

recipecode

[sour island]

No

[safe silo]

Does anyone know how to add heat sources to an object like how a antique oven works? Want to make a heater, but cant figure out how.

[plucky junco]

hi, a quick question, is possible to send the "quit" msg to the console using a mod?

[sour island]

require "recipecode"

That's it

[sour island]

DoParam() is setting the parameter for the item script object -- but recipe objects have their own methods.

Check the "recipe.class"

[calm acorn]

Use a cumulative sum distribution function to get loot with the appropriate weights

--Cumulative Distribution Function
--Author: Xyberviri#5609
--License: GNU GPL v3
local function GetRandomLoot(loottable)
    local totalweights = 0 --Precompute this value for optimization
    for Pick, Chance in pairs(loottable) do
        totalweights = totalweights + Chance
    end

  local rand = ZombRand(1,totalweights) 
  local weight = 0
  for Pick, Chance in pairs(loottable) do
      weight = weight + (Chance * 10)
      if weight >= rand then
        return Pick
      end
  end
end

Then you can call it like this:

--Example:
local PartTable = {
    ["none"]                          = 70,
    ["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieBrain"]  = 10,
    ["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieHeart"]  = 10,
    ["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieLung"]   = 10,
    ["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieKidney"] = 10,
    ["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieLiver"]  = 10,
    ["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieBone"]   = 10,
    ["ZomboidExtract.ZEZombieFlesh"]  = 10,
  }
  
local item = GetRandomLoot(PartTable)
if item ~= "none" then
    player:getInventory():AddItem(item)
end

If you precompute your table weights then you an optimize the function like so:

--Cumulative Distribution Function (Optimized)
--Author: Xyberviri#5609
--License: GNU GPL v3
--Legal: https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v3-(gpl-3) 
local function GetRandomLoot(loottable,totalweights)
  local rand = ZombRand(1,totalweights) 
  local weight = 0
  for Pick, Chance in pairs(loottable) do
      weight = weight + (Chance * 10)
      if weight >= rand then
        return Pick
      end
  end
end

--Example (Optimized):  
local item = GetRandomLoot(PartTable,140)

See: https://gist.github.com/xyberviri/0a4aaa0866a20bd3bf6ddd30d2663411

[sour island]

Alot of base mechanics are very hard typed -- as in you can probably add another type of oven but not really a generic heater. It might still be possible but you'll have to basically write the foundation yourself.

[sour island]

Nice weighting 👍

[visual abyss]

i already implemented my own weight function but thank you. I'll check if it's better than mine.

[safe silo]

Oh okay.. Just found AddHeatSource and expected to just use that

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/iso/IsoHeatSource.html

[outer juniper]

Does anyone know where vehicle driving mechanics are coded? I want to make something that adds momentum to vehicles based on their weight, but I can't find where that info is or if I'm in over my head.

[calm acorn]

Thanks Chuck, should be pretty solid Zoids i have used that across multiple game engines and that formula is from a statistics and probably course i took a long time ago

[safe silo]

Is there a way to get the IsoCell? It looks like it's the specific tile in game but I would expect a X, Y, Z input for it but doesn't look like it.

[calm acorn]

getCell()

[blissful salmon]

@sour island Just for info... I solved my recipe problem by using a separate module name and a OnTest function which checks the sandbox option.

--recipe definition
module SoulMod_WoodCraft
{
  imports {
      Base
  }
  
  recipe SoulModCreateUnfinishedBat
  {
    Log=1,
    keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Saw],
    
    Result:SoulMod.UnfinishedBat,
    Sound:Sawing,
    Time:200.0,
    Category:Survivalist,
    SkillRequired:Woodwork=1,
    OnTest:SoulMod.CheckWoodCraftEnabled,
  }
}

-- OnTest function
function SoulMod.CheckWoodCraftEnabled(sourceItem, result)
  if SandboxVars.SoulMod.CraftItemsOverTime and true then
    return true
  end
    return false
end

-- hide from recipe tab by modulename
local recipes = getAllRecipes()

local function DisableWoodcraftRecipes()
    if recipes then
      for i = recipes:size() - 1, 0, -1  do 
          local recipe = recipes:get(i)
          if recipe:getModule():getName() == "SoulMod_WoodCraft" then
                recipe:setIsHidden(true)
            end
        end
    end
end

this seems to work so far...

[calm acorn]

thats the one the player is active in i think

if you are looking for a grid square i use sq = getCell():getGridSquare(x, y, z)

[sour island]

Oh, I wasn't aware there was an object for it - might be much easier to do.

[safe silo]

I know this might be a lot to ask but would you be up for helping me a bit with it? I'd gladly pay you.

[sour island]

Not home at the moment - if I have some time I'll poke around

[safe silo]

Thank you!

[visual abyss]

@sour island so I was able to get local java exposed recipe and modified it. Now to figure how to actually apply the changes. 🤔

cant seem to find a doparam version for recipe

[calm acorn]

@sour island I have added you to my credits for CarWanna https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2801264901 and disclosed that I reused some of your tooltip code from the skill recovery journal mod on my steam page along with a Credits.txt file distributed with the mod.

The exact file CWTitleVehicleUITooltip.lua in my mod has the gnu gpl v3 banner with notice of what was changed and link to the original source. were both use the same license and I think i have done everything to cover the requirements but if i missed something please let me know.

[sour island]

I don't think it has a general doParam. But modifying the object should change the recipe.

[sour island]

Thanks for the heads up 👍

[gilded hawk]

So, I'm planning to make a mod that allows players in a faction to share symbols and markers on the map instantly.

Would this be useful to anyone?
Seems useful to me but in my server with my friends I'm the only guy using the map and markers 😕

[visual abyss]

Unless i'm doing it completely wrong:

function ZomboidExtract_OverwriteBaseRecipes()
    local recipes = getScriptManager():getAllRecipes()

    if recipes then
        print("----------------------OVERWRITE BEGIN")
        for i = 0, recipes:size() - 1 do
            local recipe = recipes:get(i)
            print(recipe:getName())
            if recipe.setIsHidden ~= nil then
                recipe:setIsHidden(true)
            end
            -- break
        end
        print("----------------------OVERWRITE END")
    end
end

[sour island]

Should work but this would hide all recipes

[sour island]

If you know of a way to add markers from a given set if coords, I could use that

[thick karma]

I think that sounds awesome.

[gilded hawk]

Well, I guess it's time to code

[sour island]

I wanted to add map markers or such for EHE but when they first released it was a bit hard to decipher it

[gilded hawk]

EHE? 🤔

[sour island]

Bonus points if I can draw a large circle of about 50ish squares

Expanded Heli Events

[visual abyss]

This is just to see if it works but it doesn't seem to work. - don't worry, i have it running on gamestart hook

[gilded hawk]

oh, I remembered that I need to try that mod at some point

Too bad that i'm spending more time coding than playing 🥴

[noble shale]

First mod makes the game crash in menu, wholesome

[visual abyss]

turns out that having the crafting ui open when loading is old. refreshing window works. however it crashes when i open it 🤔

[thorn bane]

I know this is a general lua question but I can't figure this out.

How do I get the length from this line?
getPlayer():getInventory():getItemsFromFullType("Radio.RadioMakeShift")

[gilded hawk]

@sour island I think you know this, do we have a vanilla way to print LUA tables in the console.txt?

[calm acorn]

length of the string? string.len( string ) == # ?

[thorn bane]

Length of the array, my bad

[calm acorn]

#array

[gilded hawk]

:Size() if it's a java array list

[thorn bane]

It isn't, wish it was that easy

[thorn bane]

Typing print(#getPlayer():getInventory():getItemsFromFullType("Radio.RadioMakeShift")) throws me an error when I type it into the command console

[gilded hawk]

Odd, it clearly is a ArrayList

public ArrayList<InventoryItem> getItemsFromFullType(String var1) {
      return var1 != null && var1.contains(".") ? this.getAllType(var1) : new ArrayList();
   }

Try

print(getPlayer():getInventory():getItemsFromFullType("Radio.RadioMakeShift"):size()-1)

[thorn bane]

Oh, I see what I did wrong

You typed "Size()" and not "size()"

Aren't typos a wonderful thing :v

[calm acorn]

death by casing

[gilded hawk]

[calm acorn]

i renamed some files thinking i was being organized, ended up costing me a week until i figured out file load order was a thing 😛

[thorn bane]

lmaooo

[ancient grail]

ouch

[calm acorn]

@ancient grail I pushed my final update for CarWanna; Added the ability for players to turn vehicles back into pinkslips, vehicles save part condition, installed inventory items, vanilla cars even keep the same color https://puu.sh/JoMGl/c07e9b4ede.mp4

[noble shale]

My game locks up every time I try to load my mod and I can't figure out why.

[calm acorn]

%userprofile%\zomboid\console.txt

should be the last thing in the list

[scarlet zinc]

Is there a way to force inventory to exist a limit number of a certain item, and stop something to not unequip it by players in normal means?

[calm acorn]

like you can equip it in more than one slot?

[noble shale]

"RecipeManager.resolveItemModuleDotType> WARNING: module "Base" may have forgot to import module Base"

But I have it?? I think?

imports {
            Base
    }

    recipe Scrap Log
    {```

[scarlet zinc]

More like, to have only one of the same item at the same time, not through weight limitation, and stop player form throwing it away.

Was trying to make a orifice mouth mod

[ancient grail]

hells yeah! great work sempai

[calm acorn]

on this i would avoid using the module "base" because "Base" is a vanilla one, you should probably change that to something like :

module MyModId {
    imports
    {
        Base
    }

}

Or just use Base and dont bother with the import

[ancient grail]

sorry to tag u but @bronze yoke have a look at this.

his trying to make vanila vehicles all have upgrades and i mentioned the paint thing aswell .

[calm acorn]

There is a set HSV command on the server which sends the updated colors to the clients you just need to make sure you get the vehicle by ID for it to work

[noble shale]

You're a life saver, thank you so so much

[bronze yoke]

painting vehicles works fine (i assume, i've never tested it) but i don't think painting parts is possible at all

[calm acorn]

vehicles parts all use the same color

[bronze yoke]

that's what glytch3r was asking me about painting before, i think

[calm acorn]

yeah you cant really have individual parts be different colors, also that only works with vanilla and fillabusters cars because they dont have a full skin that covers the model, what the pz peeps did was make it so that the transparent part of the texture uses that HSV setting.

[visual abyss]

anyone got an example of ArrayList.removeIf() in lua

I can't seem to get it to work

[thick karma]

Anyone happen to know where exactly the game draws your perk level-up info off the top of your head?

[noble shale]

First time ever working with code, and my first Zomboid mod! Or at least part of it. Lol. I'm used to working with Halo so this was really fun.

[thorn bane]

Anyone know how to add a new tab to the Chat?

[ancient grail]

congrats

[thorn bane]

losing my mind over how to add a tab

[hearty dew]

There is ProjectZomboid/media/lua/client/Chat/ISChat.lua, and there is a bunch of the chat code in java too, so hopefully enough is exposed in lua to add custom tabs. ISChat:createTab might be promising

[pine fiber]

ISChat.allChatStreams[7] = {name = "admin", command = "/admin ", shortCommand = "/a ", tabID = 2};
Look around there

[thorn bane]

@hearty dew I'm basing my code from ISChat, but I can't seem to figure out ISChatcreateTab

[thorn bane]

I've already got my own one sorted, but it doesn't appear

--                                  Global Radio             /gradio                    Global Radio         
ISChat.allChatStreams[8] = {name = "globalradio", command = "/gradio ", shortCommand = "/gr", tabID = 3};
ISChat.defaultTabStream[3] = ISChat.allChatStreams[8];

Edit: Mistyped 3 on the first line

I'm having a look at ISChat.onTabAdded, but I haven't a clue on how to actually implement it

[hearty dew]

Looks like a portion of the tab setup is done in zombie.chat.ChatManager. Might have to look through that.

It raises the OnTabAdded event

[thorn bane]

Oooh, inneresting

I'll have a quick peep

[thorn bane]

I don't see this even in the documentation :/

[bronze yoke]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events/OnTabAdded ?

[thorn bane]

Give me a sec

@bronze yoke Came up empty handed. Maybe I didn't implement it correctly

Nope, still no luck 😔

[tired creek]

I don’t know anything about modding (or if this already exists) but I had an idea for if there’s a task the lets say requires 4 metal working and 5 mechanics if you have 2 players near each other 1 with the 4 metal working another with the 5 mechanics they can both work on it together. Definitely useful on higher pop servers/groups

[quartz birch]

would anyone like to help me get started with my first mod?

[thorn bane]

What's your idea?

[quartz birch]

I wanna make a media player basically

[thorn bane]

Tasks are usually client-side, so it'd be difficult to pull off

[thorn bane]

Media player as innnnnn?

[quartz birch]

like an in game ui screen that you can watch or listen to content on

[thorn bane]

I don't think the game even supports getting any information from the web

[quartz birch]

dang 😦

there goes my idea then

[thorn bane]

Still need help with this btw ;v;

[thorn bane]

PROGRESS

PROGESSSSSSS

Right, so I have nailed it down to this big chunk of code;

ISChat.onTabAdded = function(tabTitle, tabID)
    local chat = ISChat.instance;
    local newTab = chat:createTab();
    newTab.parent = chat;
    newTab.tabTitle = tabTitle;
    newTab.tabID = tabID;
    newTab.streamID = 1;
    newTab.chatStreams = {}
    for _, stream in ipairs(ISChat.allChatStreams) do
        if stream.tabID == tabID + 1 then --tabID is zero-based index but stream.tabID is one-based index.
            table.insert(newTab.chatStreams, stream)
        end
    end
    newTab.lastChatCommand = newTab.chatStreams[newTab.streamID].command;
    newTab:setUIName("chat text panel with title '" .. tabTitle .. "'");
    local pos = chat:calcTabPos();
    local size = chat:calcTabSize();
    newTab:setY(pos.y);
    newTab:setHeight(size.height);
    newTab:setWidth(size.width);
    if chat.tabCnt == 0 then
        chat:addChild(newTab);
        chat.chatText = newTab;
        chat.chatText:setVisible(true);
    end
    if chat.tabCnt == 1 then
        chat.panel:setVisible(true);
        chat.chatText:setY(pos.y);
        chat.chatText:setHeight(size.height);
        chat.chatText:setWidth(size.width);
        chat:removeChild(chat.chatText);
        chat.panel:addView(chat.chatText.tabTitle, chat.chatText);
    end
    if chat.tabCnt >= 1 then
        chat.panel:addView(tabTitle, newTab);
        chat.minimumWidth = chat.panel:getWidthOfAllTabs() + 2 * chat.inset;
    end
    table.insert(chat.tabs, newTab);
    chat.tabCnt = chat.tabCnt + 1;
end

However, I'm struggling to make this tab different than the "General" tab that's already in the game. Any ideas?

[sour island]

If you search my messages I probably pasted it

[gilded hawk]

Yep I found it 👍

[limber summit]

Back with more info for my engi evolvedRecipe mod...I will make this more complicated eventually in terms of breaking down these items into more chemical-ly components, but initially the items i have listed for:

increasing either firepower/range and explosionpower/range are:

• gasoline
• gunpowder
• bleach
• distilled alcohol

increasing extraDamage:

• nails
• screws
• glass
• scrap metal

Anything missing?

[vast nacelle]

Am I correct in assuming the AimingMod property of guns is added to the character's aiming skill before being multiplied by the AimingPerkHitChanceModifier property?
So a gun held by a character with level 5 Aiming with
Hitchance = 40
AimingMod = 0.8
AimingPerkHitChanceModifier = 10
Would end up having an actual hitchance of (40 + (10 * (5+0.8)) = 98)?

Or does Aiming mod instead deal with how quickly your character acquires targets? (Red outline to green)

[visual abyss]

I'm under the impression that green outline means guaranteed hit

[glacial flicker]

Any modder out there willing to help a newbie out? I have a couple of ideas but lack knowledge on how to apply them

[safe silo]

If I wanted to just create a world item with no actual type, like just a MISC item what would I put under Type?

I want a base template for an item that has no actual function if it makes sense

    item ElectricHeater
    {
        Type                    =   Radio,
        Weight                    =    2.4,
        Icon                    =    ElectricHeater,
        DisplayName             =   Electric Heater,
        WorldStaticModel        =   ElectricHeaterModel,
        ConditionMax            =   100,
        UseDelta                =   0.009, 
        UseWhileEquipped        =   FALSE,
        DisappearOnUse            =   FALSE,
        TwoWay                    =   FALSE,
        TransmitRange            =   0,
        MicRange                =   0,
        BaseVolumeRange            =   15,
        IsPortable                =   TRUE,
        IsTelevision            =   FALSE,
        MinChannel                =   100,
        MaxChannel                =   200,
        UsesBattery                =   TRUE,
        IsHighTier                =   FALSE,
        Tooltip                 =   Tooltip_item_Boombox,
        AcceptMediaType         =   0,
        UseWorldItem             =     TRUE,
    }

Currently type is Radio, but I want it to be like "none" or "misc"

[visual abyss]

Normal

Afaik Type is "hardcoded"

to like 6 specific types

[safe silo]

So I can set it to "Normal"?

[visual abyss]

yeah

Normal

[safe silo]

Alright. What about the template for different DisplayName, Icon etc?

[visual abyss]

what do you mean?

[safe silo]

So all the variables inside my example has stuff like MicRange, TwoWay which is used when Type = Radio.

What are the default variables with using Type = Normal?

[jade chasm]

is there a table somewhere with all the loot distribution tags?

[safe silo]

Like would this be sufficient?

    item ElectricHeater
    {
        Type                    =   Normal,
        Weight                    =    2.4,
        Icon                    =    ElectricHeater,
        DisplayName             =   Electric Heater,
        WorldStaticModel        =   ElectricHeaterModel,
    }

[visual abyss]

oh minimal

uhh yeah that would suffice

in fact

[safe silo]

sweet, thanks!

[visual abyss]

you can omit icon and world static model

but world static model is the only thing that allows it to show up in the world (not carried/container)

This is the most minimal i got

prob could omit weight

[safe silo]

Oh damn lol, ty!

[visual abyss]

i dont have worldstaticmodel cause it'll never be used in the world

[safe silo]

How would I print stuff to the console if I'm in debug mode from my LUA?

Is it just print("hello world")?

[visual abyss]

yes

[safe silo]

What does item:getType() == "" actually do?

Is it the name of the item it looks for?

So if I have an item named "Lorem"

Will item:getType == "Lorem" be TRUE?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[safe silo]

So getType is the same as getName? Or is getType safe for if players would be able to change the name

[visual abyss]

I think its the one where

you define it

item itemNameType { }

getType would return itemnameType

while getname returns displayname

this is just off top of my head

[safe silo]

Ohhhhh sweet! thanks

[visual abyss]

though

cause looking at the source

            if item:getType() == "IronIngot" then

    item IronIngot
    {
        DisplayCategory = Material,
        Weight = 5,
        Type = Drainable,
        DisplayName    = Workable Iron,
        Icon = MetalBits,
        UseDelta = 0.01,
        ConsolidateOption = ContextMenu_Merge,
        UseWhileEquipped = FALSE,
    }

[ancient grail]

amm what about the item's module?

what if we have Test.Apple
Stuff.Apple
and then the vanilla
Base.Apple

what if we have similar names just diffrent module . can we use ```if getType()==Base.Apple?

[glacial flicker]

Can you isolate vehicle mechanics and add them to a tile?

I want to have garbage containers have 2 seats to hide in it

[safe silo]

How easy would it be to make a context menu that only takes batteries and show how much battery is left? Is there a menu i can copy from in-game?

[bronze yoke]

getFullType() includes the module

[calm acorn]

worldstaticmodel is for 3d models

otherwise it just shows the icon

[calm acorn]

you can use item:isVanilla() to see if its a vanilla item, the modid item:getModID() == "pz-vanilla" also

[safe silo]

Is it possible to have normal world item and add a function to it so it can open a menu with battery in it?

[small topaz]

When making a new recipe via scripts and requiring that the player needs 5 items to realize the recipe, does anyone knows whether it is possible to allow the player to use 5 items from different categories?

What I want to do is this: The player should be able to craft a new item using 5 berries as ingredient. The game comes with different types of berries: Base.BerryBlue, Base.BerryGeneric1, Base.BerryGeneric2, ... and so on. Now I want to arrange things so that players can use any combination of those berries as long they have 5 berries in their inventory. For example 5 Base.BerryBlue should work but also 2 Base.BerryBlue + 3 Base.BerryGeneric1.

I already tried constructions like

Base.BerryBlue/Base.BerryGeneric1/Base.BerryGeneric2 = 5

or

[Recipe.GetItemTypes.Berry] = 5

in the recipe.txt script but both ideas didn't work for me (with this, players can only craft the item when having 5 berries of the same type in their inventory, 5 Base.BerryBlue, 5 Base.BerryGeneric1, but not possible to mix berries up).

Any ideas how I could solve the problem?

[ancient grail]

ahhh so
Type() prints what kind of variable it is

getType() prints the name

getFullType() prints the module

isVanilla() prints true or false

so we can have something like

if (item:getType == "Apple" and item:isVanilla == false)
then doPoisonDamage()
end

idk just made it up
so that any other apple is poison for example
idk haha

[ancient grail]

yes. from any category actually

[ancient grail]

what isnit that you want to do

[thorn bane]

Asking back here, would anyone know how to create a new chat tab for the MP Chat Window?

I've managed to duplicate the General tab using onTabAdded, but I can't figure out how to make it entirely unique FROM general.

[ancient grail]

u want the recipe to consume 5berries?
then just use
Base.Berries=5,

[small topaz]

as I described it. more precisely, I want the player be able to make fruit jams from foraged berries.

[ancient grail]

im not sure cuz im a n00b but i think you might want to take a look at derive

[thorn bane]

Derive?

[small topaz]

hmmm... but this will the player only allow to use 5 berries with the script ID "Base.Berries", wouldn't it? I want the player to be able to use and mix different types of berries for the recipe.

as I wrote 5 Base.BerryBlue should work but also 3 Base.BerryBlue + 2 Base.BerryGeneric1 as well...

[thorn bane]

Sorry for the ping, but what's Derive?

[ancient grail]

look for lua inherit or derive
i havent played with it but i think this is what you need

[ancient grail]

do you have a list of all the beries?

[thorn bane]

Hmmm, I don't think that'd be the answer, but I'll take a peep none-the-less

[sour island]

I think I misunderstood which window was the debug console - if you meant the window titled command console - have you tried -- lua UIManager:getDebugConsole():ButtonClicked("close")

[ancient grail]

you might need to repeat the lines over and over again like 5x

sample

bery1/bery2/bery3/bry3/berri4/verby5

bery1/bery2/bery3/bry3/berri4/verby5

bery1/bery2/bery3/bry3/berri4/verby5

bery1/bery2/bery3/bry3/berri4/verby5

[sour island]

also: if that doesn't work:

   public Boolean onMouseUp(double var1, double var3) {
      if (!this.isVisible()) {
         return Boolean.FALSE;
      } else {
         super.onMouseUp(var1, var3);
         this.moving = false;
         this.setCapture(false);
         return Boolean.TRUE;
      }
   }

[ancient grail]

wow if this works the can you also do this for the database panel and make em functions?

[sour island]

this should be called after you click on the x - being the window is not visible -- I have no idea what Boolean.FALSE is doing tho

database panel?

[ancient grail]

cuz derive is like using a class and sorta cloning it to be able to get what it has withiut redoing the entire lua
and you get to add more functions

if im not mistaken. i just watched a video abt this yesterday... hehe

[ancient grail]

yeah the admin panel has database

[thorn bane]

I wouldn't have a clue. If you could send the video that'd be fantastic

[ancient grail]

where you can log users add remove users see ban ids etc

https://www.lua.org/pil/16.2.html

https://youtu.be/jq58moMWlT8

[sour island]

you mean the admin panel?

isn't that just a standard UI window?

the command console isn't standard UI - which is what I was mistaken about

[ancient grail]

this one @sour island

[sour island]

and you want that to be closed?

[ancient grail]

no. to do function commands to do what the buttons do without clicking it

like adding users automatically

[sour island]

lua/client/ISUI/AdminPanel/ISWhitelistViewer.lua

[ancient grail]

without a client admin

a lua function that auto does this sendcommandtoserver doesnt work since it reqiore admin

[ancient grail]

yep there are 3 files

[thorn bane]

@sour island Sorry to put you on the spot, but you wouldn't know how to add a tab in the chat UI, do you?

[sour island]

Not personally no

[thorn bane]

Damb 😔

[sour island]

you'd have to look through the UI code

[thorn bane]

I have, I've had no luck

I can get another chat tab, but it's a duplicate of the General tab

[ancient grail]

can we see the code you did that created the other general tab u mentioned? and may i ask what your goal is

[thorn bane]

I can't get this one to be unique

Sure, one sec

Big wall of code incoming, its just the same function in ISChat.lua

ISChat.onTabAdded = function(tabTitle, tabID)
    local chat = ISChat.instance;
    local newTab = chat:createTab();
    newTab.parent = chat;
    newTab.tabTitle = tabTitle;
    newTab.tabID = tabID;
    newTab.streamID = 1;
    newTab.chatStreams = {}
    for _, stream in ipairs(ISChat.allChatStreams) do
        if stream.tabID == tabID + 1 then --tabID is zero-based index but stream.tabID is one-based index.
            table.insert(newTab.chatStreams, stream)
        end
    end
    newTab.lastChatCommand = newTab.chatStreams[newTab.streamID].command;
    newTab:setUIName("chat text panel with title '" .. tabTitle .. "'");
    local pos = chat:calcTabPos();
    local size = chat:calcTabSize();
    newTab:setY(pos.y);
    newTab:setHeight(size.height);
    newTab:setWidth(size.width);
    if chat.tabCnt == 0 then
        chat:addChild(newTab);
        chat.chatText = newTab;
        chat.chatText:setVisible(true);
    end
    if chat.tabCnt == 1 then
        chat.panel:setVisible(true);
        chat.chatText:setY(pos.y);
        chat.chatText:setHeight(size.height);
        chat.chatText:setWidth(size.width);
        chat:removeChild(chat.chatText);
        chat.panel:addView(chat.chatText.tabTitle, chat.chatText);
    end
    if chat.tabCnt >= 1 then
        chat.panel:addView(tabTitle, newTab);
        chat.minimumWidth = chat.panel:getWidthOfAllTabs() + 2 * chat.inset;
    end
    table.insert(chat.tabs, newTab);
    chat.tabCnt = chat.tabCnt + 1;
end

Events.OnTabAdded.Add(ISChat.onTabAdded);

[ancient grail]

whats the purpose whos suppose to be allowed to use it?

is this an overwrite of the vanilla lua?

im currently on mobile cant check stuff

[thorn bane]

I have another command, /radio, that kind of acts like /all, but only works if the player has a radio.

I've set it the command to work in a unique tabID, which I can't seem to create

[thorn bane]

It is an exact copy and paste, yes

Nothing's changed

[ancient grail]

including file name.

?

[thorn bane]

Nope

That's different

[thick karma]

Between the debug console, window, and menu, idk htf anyone keeps it all straight 😉 But I am trying this command now and if it works I need to send you a coffee

I did not know how to send click commands to that exit button and if it's THIS easy omfg thank god

[ancient grail]

goodluck

[thorn bane]

Changing anything in the code block btw doesn't do anything, and just breaks the chat UI entirely

I'm not the smartest when it comes to Lua

[ancient grail]

ZombiePopulationWindow.OnOpenPanel(); 
ISCheatPanelUI.OnOpenPanel()
ISItemsListViewer.OnOpenPanel()
ISDebugMenu.OnOpenPanel();
ISGeneralDebug.OnOpenPanel()
ISPlayerStatsUI.OnOpenPanel()
BrushToolManager.openPanel(playerObj)
BrushToolManager.openPanel()
ISGameStatisticPanel.OnOpenPanel() 
ISAnimDebugMonitor.OnOpenPanel()
ZombiePopulationWindow.OnOpenPanel()
DailyValuesDebug.OnOpenPanel()
PlayerClimateDebug.OnOpenPanel()
WeatherFXDebug.OnOpenPanel()
ISAdminWeather.OnOpenPanel()
ForecasterDebug.OnOpenPanel()```

this is what i know you can do tho. i mean opening panels like button presses

[thick karma]

@sour island 😭 it works the same as setVisible, which is unfortunately not a good thing

[ancient grail]

ouch

[thick karma]

Do you know how to send a mouse-click signal to center of the screen?

Or corner or something?

To a nonspecific location?

I think that might fix this because the only way I can currently make debug console input caret stop flashing is to either (A) click off the window, or (B) enter a broken console command

Obviously B is an unacceptable solution

[ancient grail]

try changing it into your own code

ISChat2.onTabAdded = function(tabTitle , tabID)

[thick karma]

I do not want users to have to figure out A

[ancient grail]

for example

[thorn bane]

Would I change all of the ISChat's or just that one?

[ancient grail]

change all. you dont want the game to be calling 2 global functions that does the same thing

[thick karma]

I don't understand what this means

[ancient grail]

wait sorry just read the script and this is the one that inserts all the avilable chats

this wont work i think @thorn bane

[thorn bane]

Yeaah

[ancient grail]

sorry tagged the wrong person

[thorn bane]

Like I said, clueless ;v;

[sour island]

What if you call mouseup?

[ancient grail]

@thorn bane perhaps you nbeed to add a line here

--

require "ISUI/ISCollapsableWindow"
require "ISUI/ISRichTextPanel"
require "ISUI/ISButton"
require "ISUI/ISTabPanel"

ISChat = ISCollapsableWindow:derive("ISChat");
ISChat.maxLine = 50;
ISChat.focused = false;
ISChat.allChatStreams = {}
ISChat.allChatStreams[1] = {name = "say", command = "/say ", shortCommand = "/s ", tabID = 1};
ISChat.allChatStreams[2] = {name = "yell", command = "/yell ", shortCommand = "/y ", tabID = 1};
ISChat.allChatStreams[3] = {name = "whisper", command = "/whisper ", shortCommand = "/w ", tabID = 1};
ISChat.allChatStreams[4] = {name = "faction", command = "/faction ", shortCommand = "/f ", tabID = 1};
ISChat.allChatStreams[5] = {name = "safehouse", command = "/safehouse ", shortCommand = "/sh ", tabID = 1};
ISChat.allChatStreams[6] = {name = "general", command = "/all ", tabID = 1};
ISChat.allChatStreams[7] = {name = "admin", command = "/admin ", shortCommand = "/a ", tabID = 2};
ISChat.defaultTabStream = {}
ISChat.defaultTabStream[1] = ISChat.allChatStreams[1];
ISChat.defaultTabStream[2] = ISChat.allChatStreams[7];
-- default min and max opaque values
ISChat.minControlOpaque = 0.5; -- a value
ISChat.minGeneralOpaque = 0.0; -- a value, not percentage

and as mentioned you need to derive i really believe

[thorn bane]

I'll give it a crack, one second

Still throws an error, chat doesn't display

Give me a moment

[small topaz]

yes. one option would be to make the recipe for each combination of berries. but the pz wiki says there are 8 types of berries (in fact, I think there are even more and wiki is a bit outdated). so this would result in at least 8^5=32768 combinations...

but I think I give up the plan of allowing the player to mix different berries and go another way...

[ancient grail]

what? no its just berry lines x5

its ugly but if you look at atm mods they do this to everysingle accessory than you can sell for cash

its cuz theres no tag for it

[thick karma]

Anyone know how the game handles clicking on the Debug Console's input field? I am trying to directly access it. I think it's a child of the UIDebugConsole instance you get from UIManager:getDebugConsole() because it ceases to exist if I ClearChildren on that object.

I'm not sure how to get the children of the debug console... I seem to only be able to remove them

[small topaz]

ah ok... I misunderstood then. I'll give it a try then. thanks!

[thorn bane]

Still no luck with the Chat Tab

:(

[ancient grail]

i think this is a hard to do mod dude.. you will really have to learn lua and pz api and all that .. or perhaps look for reference.. i wish i have the solutions for u but im afraid im still very weak
hHa

but if i find a lead il just DM u abt it. im going to research abt chat commands anyways might come across something related to your needs

[thorn bane]

Sure, cheers

Theres only one other mod I see do chat tabs but its so complicated that I haven't been able to analyze it

[thick karma]

No one has any bright ideas for triggering a mouse click event do they?

[visual abyss]

can weapon not have more than 1 compatible clips/mags?

[thick karma]

Does PerkFactory bug out on high XP growth settings? I'm confused by the feedback it's giving me

    character:Say("Add XP: " .. perk:getName() .. ". Level " .. tostring(level))
    character:Say("Current XP: " .. tostring(perk:getXpForLevel(level)) .. ". XP to Next Level: " .. tostring(perk:getTotalXpForLevel(level)))
    character:Say("Current XP: " .. tostring(perk:getXpForLevel(level + 1)) .. ". XP to Next Level: " .. tostring(perk:getTotalXpForLevel(level + 1)))
    character:Say("Current XP: " .. tostring(perk:getXpForLevel(10)) .. ". XP to Next Level: " .. tostring(perk:getTotalXpForLevel(10)))

Seems like numbers come out wonky from AddXP but not LevelPerk

In fact I think maybe Level in AddXP is giving me the XP I am getting, and Perk is giving me some odd garbage disconnected from the actual state of my perks

[thick karma]

Also, when I call setHoursSurvived, I notice that it works in the Debug console but doesn't work when called from any of my files... any way to make it work?

[vast nacelle]

I'm not sure what the issue here is. Those print statements are showing exactly what I'd expect.
You asked for how much XP it takes to get to level 2 Sprinting from level 1, which is 150. Then you ask how much XP you would have in total after having acquired level 2, so the XP needed for Level 1 + Level 2, which is 225.
Then you ask for the same for level 100, which doesn't exist. There isn't a level 100 Sprinting, so the xp needed for getting from a theoretical level 99 to level 100 is just a -1, i.e. invalid. As for total XP, it just gives you the total of all the xp needed for all the valid levels, which is 32775.

[thick karma]

But the problem is I got the level 100 from a variable called level that comes in when you AddXP. I assumed level corresponded to perk level as it does with LevelPerk, but that apparently is not the case.

That variable was passed to me by the Event triggers

Under the name "level"

Beside the word "perk"

So you can hopefully see how I did not expect to be getting level 100 as output

Or any of the consequences of that

I guess I expected the parameter names that match in AddXP and LevelPerk to match in real terms, but they clearly don't completely. When I call LevelPerk's level variable, it gives me my level in that perk.

Hence I assumed broken

or at least wondered I should say

[vast nacelle]

Yeah, AddXP takes in the skill being added to and the amount of XP that is to be given. If it is calling that amount 'level' somewhere, that's a bad variable name.

[ancient grail]

no if u level it up theres no exp gain
meaning if u use skillrecoveryjournal the lvl u gained from that wont count hence wont be written

[vast nacelle]

He's talking about the lua event 'AddXP' which does actually call the amount of XP being added 'level'.

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

I'd say that's on TIS for betraying expectations with a bad variable name.

[thick karma]

Yes I have that

that's what confused me so much

Thanks for clarifying

[thick karma]

Still lost on this fwiw

[thick karma]

I'm referring to the AddXP function in which there is a Level variable used to apparently represent XP gain

[ancient grail]

try sending it from client to server?

[thick karma]

How do you mean?

I ran it in the client, shared, and server folders to no avail

[ancient grail]

ye i eventually got it.. i mean name scheme right? who needs it? devs: ah lets not make sense to prevent modders from doing great mods 🙂

[thick karma]

Nah more like they're in a hurry and things get overlooked and mistakes get made in the name of deadlines

They are actually pretty unusually supportive of modding

[ancient grail]

like OnClientCommand i think
like a server file has listener and client file has arg to send to server

[ancient grail]

yeah i was jk
they put notes on the lua files so that counts as something right. and they dont just delete the parts they change they comment it out

which is helpful

i bet live streaming a talk about basic to advance modding will attract alot of attention esp if its comming from popular mod authors
i wish theres such event

[thick karma]

Haha unfortunately I think a lot is subjective and that lot would be small... watching random Zomboid modding live is not on many people's agendas.

I mean only so many people post here a day and I don't think most of us would want to sit around watching each other mod... too busy on our own

[glacial flicker]

is this where we drop ideas for mods because I don't know how to mod?=

Separate Aiming into categories (Revolver/pistol, shotgun, rifle, semi-automatic, etc) so people can't farm Aiming with a shotty and 10 boxes of shells

also another idea, hiding in dumpsters

[wintry stag]

Zombies can hear/see you, so that's kinda dumb. The Aiming idea doesn't sounds that bad but it would create conflicts with other gun mods.

[marble lynx]

they can smell you too, you haven't been showering for a month

👃

[bronze yoke]

mod where zombies can smell you based on your body dirt

[marble lynx]

i will await the release 🤣

[vast nacelle]

There are potentially some weapon properties such a mod could use to cue off of when reclassifying, such as weaponReloadType. If not, support patches.
The bigger issue is that there is far too much involving the Aiming skill on the Java side of the code for any such mod to really work without getting into janky workarounds.

But I do wish for a breakdown of the Aiming skill.

[marble lynx]

mod where having too many things/bodies on the ground will trip the player more often

[bronze yoke]

my girlfriend was discussing the potential mechanics of a random tripping mod earlier

[marble lynx]

yeah i think that aiming thing is cool and does make sense as well

[marble lynx]

great minds think alike

sounds like hell

[bronze yoke]

maybe for april fools...

[vast nacelle]

Do you mean player tripping? Cause we've already got the zombie tripping one. If so, hold up there, Satan.

[bronze yoke]

yeah player tripping

[fast galleon]

is the isosquare:getCanSee(int) reliable? Seems to work on SP so far.

[fast galleon]

ah this again

print("distance: ",player:DistTo(x + 0.5, y + 0.5))
print("distance sq",player:DistToSquared(x + 0.5, y + 0.5))
distance: 4
distance sq: 9

[ruby urchin]

I prefer use vectors

local distance = Vector2f.new(x1, y1):distance(x2, y2);

[fast galleon]

Thank you, forgot about that one. What makes it better?

[ruby urchin]

Nothing special, just the pythagorean theorem math.sqrt((x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2)

[jaunty marten]

if u don't need accuracy like u just check distance between objects then better to use :DistToSquared
if u want to draw it somewhere like hud and u need accuracy there then first one
cos in :DistTo and :distance uses math.sqrt and to calc sqrt machine need more resources than :DistToSquared

[fast galleon]

I don't care much about accuracy, I just want to know if the player can see a moveable and how close he is. So now I check square:getCanSee and call the isoutils distancemanhatten directly.

[ancient grail]

just wanted to share my bat file that auto creates folderstructure for modding

@echo off
MKDIR media\lua\client\ISUI
MKDIR media\lua\server\Items
MKDIR media\texturepacks
MKDIR media\lua\shared\Translate\EN
MKDIR media\scripts
MKDIR media\sound
MKDIR media\textures\Worlditems
MKDIR media\models_X\Worlditems
MKDIR media\clothing
MKDIR media\ui\vehicles
exit

[gaunt meteor]

does anyone know where player damage is handled? its not lua is it?

if two players hit eachother where does the game define that? O_o

[pine fiber]

I also take the opportunity to share this addon for VSC which also allows to generate a complete tree structure (folders + files + possible variables). Really useful!

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Huuums.vscode-fast-folder-structure

[hearty dew]

The code that calculates what to do when zombies hit a player is for sure in java. Players hitting one another is probably around the same code

.

I'd check in ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/BodyDamage/BodyDamage.class

[hearty dew]

Almost all of the debug console is in java afaik

----------  Static Fields  -----------
Field Type            Field Name      Field Value
static UIDebugConsole instance      = zombie.ui.UIDebugConsole@52d7542f
static Object         outputLock    = DebugConsole Output Lock
static ByteBuffer     outputBB      = java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=8192 cap=8192]
static boolean        outputChanged = false
static CharsetDecoder outputDecoder = sun.nio.cs.UTF_8$Decoder@3fb6f218
static char[]         outputChars   = [C@19dcd79f
static CharBuffer     outputCharBuf =

----------  Instance Fields  -----------
Field Type        Field Name              Field Value
IsoGameCharacter  ParentChar            = nil
ScrollBar         ScrollBarV            = zombie.ui.ScrollBar@6524e8c2
UITextBox2        OutputLog             = zombie.ui.UITextBox2@4ef418dc
UITextBox2        CommandLine           = zombie.ui.UIDebugConsole$CommandEntry@723ad6fc
UITextBox2        autosuggest           = zombie.ui.UITextBox2@1aa482b8
String            ConsoleVersion        = v1.1.0
int               inputlength           = 47
ArrayList<String> Previous              = [LUtils.inspectJava(UIManager:getDebugConsole()), print(tostring(LUtils.g ...
ArrayList<Method> globalLuaMethods      = [public static void zombie.Lua.LuaManager$GlobalObject.triggerEvent(java. ...
int               PreviousIndex         = 17
Method            prevSuggestion        = public static void zombie.Lua.LuaManager$GlobalObject.disconnect()
String[]          AvailableCommands     = [Ljava.lang.String;@127177f3
String[]          AvailableCommandsHelp = [Ljava.lang.String;@2c7e9647
boolean           bDebounceUp           = false
boolean           bDebounceDown         = false
----------  Instance Methods  ----------
Return Type Method Name         Parameters
void        render              ()
void        addOutput           (byte[], int, int)
void        ProcessCommand      ()
void        onOtherKey          (int)
void        InitSuggestionEngine()
int         levenshteinDistance (CharSequence, CharSequence)
void        handleOutput        ()
Method      SuggestionEngine    (String, ArrayList)
Method      SuggestionEngine    (String)
void        SpoolText           (String)
void        UpdateViewPos       ()
void        historyPrev         ()
void        historyNext         ()
void        ClearConsole        ()
void        setSuggestWidth     (int)
void        update              ()

That's what shows up in the reflection APIs for the UIManager:getDebugConsole() object. Plus a bunch of methods on the super classes

[visual abyss]

Being little lazy before I start researching - how does one determine if the player enters a certain spot and trigger an event (for example, teleport to another place)

[thorn bane]

Once again asking back here, but does anyone know how to make another tab in the Chat UI?

[hearty dew]

I might look at it today. There was something I wanted to do by adding an extra chat tab or window

[thorn bane]

if you find out how to, please let me know. I've been struggling for the past day ;v;

[ancient grail]

i also plan to someday create a tool using autohotkey
that allows modders to visually see what they are doing
like for example if they are to create an item then first thing they would pick is the category
then after that a checkbox of paramaters they want to use
when they check it they will input the data for it and theres a default data incade they are not sure yet.

they will just pick a script.txt file and it will append the stuff
there
this will reduce human error and also speed things up for advance modders and will guide newbie modders
its just that i havent mastered all the items yet so im not quite sure if i can do this yet

it would be faster if i use a spreadsheet first to map out everything..
wana colab on doing this? idk how to do it using vc.i only know very few languages and barely master any

[ancient grail]

you check the logger for teleport

[pine fiber]

I don't think I have the skills to help you with that either, but good idea!

[visual abyss]

first time messing with clickedSquare and the likes and I can't figure out why I'm having error on last print line

local function testFillContext(player, context, worldobjects, test)
    if test then return; end

    local square = clickedSquare;

    print("iso square ("..square:getX()..","..square:getY()..")");
    if instanceof(square, "IsoGridSquare") then
        local objs = square:getObjects();
        for i = 0, objs:size() - 1 do
            print("obj: "..objs:get(i));
        end
    end
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(testFillContext);

am i missing something?

I'm still learning how to read the ingame debugger but here's the screenshot

[hearty dew]

The debugger is a bit wonky sometimes, and it isn't easy to already read the error messages. Best way for me is to open Zomboid/console.txt in a terminal, and tail it so any new lines appended show up in the terminal. Then you'll easily see the exceptions caused by the errors.

For example, your error isn't there until after you step over the line. And you have to click the Errors button at the top to see the error. And I think it appends the error at the top or something, or it doesn't scroll to the most recent error, making it a bit of a nuisance imo

[visual abyss]

yeah i just found out haha

but now i'm just struggling cause

there's only 1 obj in the list

and its nil

is that intended?

[hearty dew]

Hmm, it shouldn't be. Hopefully the java side isn't inserting nulls into arrays, at least

What's the error message?

[visual abyss]

well i'm not erroring right now but sec

local function testFillContext(player, context, worldobjects, test)
    if test then return; end

    local square = clickedSquare;

    print("iso square ("..square:getX()..","..square:getY()..")");
    if instanceof(square, "IsoGridSquare") then
        local objs = square:getObjects();
        print("objs size: "..objs:size());
        for i = 0, objs:size() - 1 do
            local obj = objs:get(i);
            if instanceof(obj, "IsoObject") then
                local idk = obj:getName();
                print(idk);
            end
        end
    end
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(testFillContext);

it would print idk (aka nil)

it being nil is the reason it errored out

if it helps, i'm in my custom map

not vanilla map

slightly different code than above

was trying to trigger the error

local function testFillContext(player, context, worldobjects, test)
    if test then return; end

    local square = clickedSquare;

    print("iso square ("..square:getX()..","..square:getY()..")");
    if instanceof(square, "IsoGridSquare") then
        local objs = square:getObjects();
        print("objs size: "..objs:size());
        for i = 0, objs:size() - 1 do
            local obj = objs:get(i);
            if instanceof(obj, "IsoObject") then
                -- local idk = obj:getName();
                -- print(idk);
                print("obj ("..i.."): "..obj:getName());
            end
        end
    end
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(testFillContext);

[hearty dew]

yea, it seems some of those objects you are inspecting return nil from getName()

[visual abyss]

is it possible to print just obj?

[hearty dew]

if you call tostring on it, it will just print out the java type and the lua address of the object

I have a function to print out java objects though, prints out fields and methods, if you'd find that useful

[visual abyss]

that would be great.

i could have used that the last few days haha

[hearty dew]

too big to paste 😮

Adding some color to it atm. If you're using an ansi terminal and want it printed in color, I can upload the colorized version later

Hmm, apparantely windows terminals don't support ansi colors until windows 10 (with the Threshold 2 Update in Nov 2015). So would need another terminal like mintty (that comes with cygwin) prior to that

[ruby urchin]

Are you trying get IsoPlayer or something like that?

[visual abyss]

no

object

trying to make a teleport pad so to speak

accessing it via context menu

er adding the ability to use it with timed action in context menu

so i'm just trying to learn how to use the context stuff

and well the obj stuff is holding me up

[visual abyss]

freaking love this

let me try this in the vanilla map

[ruby urchin]

You can try this one

---Gets all IsoMovingObject from IsoGridSquare.
---@param p1 IsoGridSquare | table
---@return table
getObjectFromSquare = function(p1)
    local t = {};

    if type(p1) == "table" then

        for k, v in pairs(p1) do
            local objects = v:getMovingObjects();

            for i = 0, objects:size() - 1 do
                local object = objects:get(i);

                table.insert(t, object);
            end
        end
    else
        local objects = p1:getMovingObjects();

        for i = 0, objects:size() - 1 do
            local object = objects:get(i);

            table.insert(t, object);
        end
    end

    return t;
end

local squareObjects = getObjectFromSquare(square);

[visual abyss]

see if it isn't throwing an error

oh thanks

i'll try that

[ruby urchin]

just change getMovingObjets for getObjects

[visual abyss]

whats the difference between those 2

[ruby urchin]

IIRC getMovingObjects get Players, NPC and things like that, and getObjects Items ground, sprites, etc, basically static things

[small stag]

What's a good starting place for mod creation? e.g. language to research, and repos to browse, tutorials for the PZ api if there are any.

[thin dirge]

the pinned messages

[small stag]

is everything written in LUA, or are there alternatives?

[visual abyss]

yes

there is a typescript to lua transpiler

[small stag]

nice, thank you

[visual abyss]

bruh i'm just gonna take a break from this lmao

i legitimately have no idea why i keep getting a nil obj

it seems every squre has at least one object

[sour island]

https://github.com/ChuckTheSheep/pz-shops/blob/main/Contents/mods/pz-shops/media/lua/client/shop-contextMenu.lua

I add context menus to objects on the map based on their mod data

Should have enough info here to get what you need

I'm not sure if worldObjects is already a table of the same objects as squares' objects -- but that's how I found it in vanilla ... So 🤷

[visual abyss]

i'll take a look at it later. my brain needs a break.

[thick karma]

Ay is there a limit on how many OnTick things can get done or something? I tried borrowing OnTick capabilities from my other mod and even though the code looks right to me, my new OnTick function is never firing.

I've tried firing it from shared and client and I'm getting nada...

local function zeroSurvivedTime(ticks)
    
    -- oddTickB = not oddTickB

    -- if oddTickB then return end

    for playerIndex = 0, getNumActivePlayers() - 1 do

        if player then 

            player:Say("Tick... tock...")

        end
    end
end

Events.OnTick.Add(zeroSurvivedTime)```

[sour island]

If player?

[thick karma]

Makes sure player object exists to prevent exceptions when player is dead and such

Works in all my mods, shouldn't be the issue

[sour island]

It's just I don't see where it's defined

[thick karma]

Oh shit

Thank you

Wow

I was just so tired last night lmao

[sour island]

Happens

[thick karma]

And today I overlooked that because so elementary

Thanks man

Was losing my mind

lol I really owe you a coffee if you have a donation link 😛

[sour island]

I do, but it's no worries

[astral dune]

This is why I use intellij and am very suspicious of purple colored variables, lol

[glacial flicker]

Quick question. Is there a way to change how the water tiles work depending on the season? I'd like for them to freeze during the winter and letting zombies and players walk on them

[blissful salmon]

Is there a way to detect if a new zombie was created? In the event list I only found OnZombieUpdate or OnZombieDead.

[gaunt meteor]

heyyo im super tired, can anyone tell me the true name for tailoring e.g. is it Perks.Tailoring? sry for dumb question im just way too tired and also firstaid is named Perks.Doctor for e.g.

[magic nymph]

It should be Tailoring from what I'm looking at

[gaunt meteor]

tyvm 🙏

[magic nymph]

np

[ancient grail]

https://youtu.be/g1iKA3lSFms

[magic nymph]

I have a question regarding car key spawn. I'm looking at BaseVehicle.addKeyToWorld and I noticed that it has a keyIsOnDoor property that that has a chance to be set to true..

My question is: has anyone figured out how to get a key from door? It's not the ignition since there's a separate roll in that same method to place the key in ignition. I can post the relevant code if needed.

I'm pretty sure I've never once encountered a car with a key in the door, nor has an option to remove key (or similar) showed up in the context menu when right clicking on a car.

If someone has a clue, please @ me. Gotta go now, thanks in advance.

[high citrus]

hi, is there a way to display messages that will be visibile only by the client? I would like to display a local count down to the player

it needs to be well visible but it doesn't have to be huge

[ancient grail]

@magic nymph check out xyberviri's carwanna mod

[ancient grail]

what is the event that creates the countdown?

[high citrus]

the login and then the client checking the remaining time trough EveryOneMinute

I would like to check the time trough the actual real world clock (since the time is expressed in real world seconds) but apparently I can't call any of the GameTime methods that returns the actual time

calling addLineChatElement on the player seems to produce text that is not visible by other players

[hearty dew]

@visual abyss

Have to set ZoidUtils.ANSITerminal = true (and use an ANSI terminal) for the colorization

[glacial flicker]

Any way to change the water tiles properties so in winter they freeze?

or maybe a mod that does something similar

so I can check the ins and out

[elfin stump]

Is there an event that runs the first time a character is created for a specific username? Or, even better, is there a way to check how many characters that user has created at any given time?

[stray yacht]

Hey gang, I've got a new mod running flawlessly from my local workshop area but when I upload and run it from the steam mods folder, the debug log tells me it "NeedsUpdate" and failed to download. I've checked my own usual suspects for this but I'm stumped. Any ideas for things I should look at?

[ancient grail]

u can nake a mod that writes to a file after you click the button on the character creation

then just show how many times on on the stats panel i guess . goodluck

[ancient grail]

you can get real world time
try to look at konijimas world clock mod

[high citrus]

thanks

[ancient grail]

havent encountered this

[stray yacht]

You might have a look at AquaStar Yacht Club to see how they handled moving on water

[safe silo]

I'm trying to place a world item that's drainable. Whenever I try to place it I get this error

attempted index: transferIfNeeded of non-table: null

LOG  : General     , 1666121110924> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE
-----------------------------------------
function: create -- file: ISPlace3DItemCursor.lua line # 29 | Vanilla
function: tryBuild -- file: ISBuildingObject.lua line # 202 | Vanilla
function: DoTileBuilding -- file: ISBuildingObject.lua line # 177 | Vanilla

[gilded hawk]

I'm wondering how can I make a class, instantiate it, and keep it as a singleton in zomboid?

I noticed that classes and initiation is quite non-standard in pz (from my past experience with lua) 🤔

[hearty dew]

a java class?

[gilded hawk]

A Lua class

[hearty dew]

Depends on your implementation of classes in lua, I suppose

But, maybe if you have some type,```lua
MyType = {}
function MyType:new()
end

you could have your singleton like so
```lua
MyType.instance = MyType:new()

function someOtherFunction()
  local foo = MyType.instance
end

[gilded hawk]

Alright, I'll give it a shoot, thank you tyrir

[hearty dew]

There's a lot of back and forth between java and lua for chat tabs. If the java side had exposed to lua the ChatTab and ChatManager classes, it'd be relatively straight forward to add a custom tab, but unfortunately those aren't exposed. So only way I see how to do it is to patch a number of lua functions in order to implement the behavior that ChatTab normally provides (or avoid the calls to the non-existent ChatTab).
focusOnTab
ISChat.addLineInChat
ISChat.onCommandEntered
probably a few more I haven't caught yet.

Something like this creates the tab on the lua side, but without those above functions patched, there will be errors due to the missing ChatTab backing the lua-side tab.

local myTabID = ZombRand(1000,2000)
table.insert(ISChat.allChatStreams, {name = "my custom chat", command = "/something ", shortCommand = "/smfn ", tabID = myTabID})
ISChat.onTabAdded("my tab title", myTabID - 1)

[hearty dew]

👆

[thorn bane]

I will definitely look into this, thank you!

Thought that was the middle finger for a second lmfaooo

whats with tabID being random?

That's the only part I dont understand

[hearty dew]

for fun

[thorn bane]

Ah

[hearty dew]

to avoid selecting same id as other mods

[thorn bane]

Gotcha gotcha

[blissful salmon]

I'm still looking for a way to detect if a new zombie was created. I already tested a workaround by save all zombieId's I get from my current cell but this seems not right for me. Like I wrote some time ago I only found OnZombieUpdate or OnZombieDead but nothing like OnZombieCreated...

[bronze yoke]

there is no straight forward way of doing this

[blissful salmon]

ok. do you have a better workaround than mine? I realy not sure if my approach is a good one.

[bronze yoke]

i found a method that seems to perform fairly well, but i haven't tested it to an extent i'm comfortable with

[thick karma]

There are several functions you might try decorating in the GlobalObject. Specifically, createHorde variations and createZombie look promising.

[blissful salmon]

Thx for the answer. But how can I decorate this functions and how exactly can this help me? I think I don't understand your idea correctly.

[bronze yoke]

these are there for modders, the game doesn't call them

[thick karma]

Oh.... I saw Steps.lua calling createZombie and figured maybe it was used. Also saw createHorde get called somewhere

[blissful salmon]

Do I always get an OnZombieUpdate Event when a new zombie is spawnt?

[thick karma]

Oof

[bronze yoke]

the lua might use them in some situations, but primarily zombies are created from java

[thick karma]

If you do, you could try checking zombie:getHoursSurvived() to make sure it's still 0

[blissful salmon]

I can for example use the getModData on each zombie and set myzombiemoddate[mymod] = {}

[bronze yoke]

yeah, this event is called every frame (or something like that) per zombie

[blissful salmon]

I'll go with this and see how it performs...

[thick karma]

(Presumably this would only be true once or very briefly.)

[bronze yoke]

i've got some code that seems to perform far far better than that, but i haven't tested that it definitely gets all zombies

[blissful salmon]

can you share your approach?

[bronze yoke]

i'll send it here in a bit

[blissful salmon]

ok thx

can you @ mention me when you do it so I don't miss it?

[thick karma]

local function OnZombieUpdate(zombie)

    if (zombie:getHoursSurvived() > 0) then return end
    
    -- Do stuff

end

Events.OnZombieUpdate.Add(OnZombieUpdate)

@blissful salmon This miiight work if the other method fails you. Not sure. Would be somewhat inefficient because zombies do a lot of thinking, but that comparison is pretty fast in the scheme of game logic.

May have to replace 0 with a sufficiently small float to catch the zombie's moment of creation

[bronze yoke]

you'd need to have some kind of check like that with my method too, my method just doesn't get called nearly as often as OnZombieUpdate

[blissful salmon]

Thx. This is very similar to my check of the moddata. But may be a bit more perfomant.

[thick karma]

Good luck!

[bronze yoke]

further testing shows that my method doesn't really work LOL

[rancid tendon]

question

if i create and reference the same sandbox setting across 3 different mods, assuming they're set up exactly the same on each mod, will they merge and all reference the same single entry or will there be 3 separate entries?

i have a mod that consists of 3 sub-mods, and i want to introduce a sandbox setting that acts as a global modifier for all items of a type from each mod using just 1 sandbox setting var

[bronze yoke]

there might be some unforeseen weirdness, but i think they would just merge

[blissful salmon]

unlucky 😦

[elfin stump]

Do we have any way to do file i/o? I thought that was disabled in the PZ lua but maybe there is another method?

[hearty dew]

@elfin stump

[summer rune]

in the SandboxVars.lua there is a setting WorldItemRemovalList Description: A comma-separated list of item types that will be removed after HoursForWorldItemRemoval hours.
My question is, (1) if it will remove items that are "placed" on purpose on the ground. (2) and if it will remove spawned items by the game. Like items spawned on a desk in a room.

[elfin stump]

Awesome thanks

[rancid tendon]

placing an item is the same as dropping it functionally, except that you get more control over where it appears. a dropped item is no different than a placed item for the purposes of that field

i've had hats set to remove and people on servers will place their hats somewhere to display them and then they disappear anyway

dunno about the other part, though

[summer rune]

damn so no server clean up of dropped items. well

[rancid tendon]

also query:

        clip
        {
            file = media/yourMusic/TCBoombox/War - Magic Mountain (1970).ogg,
            distanceMax = 75 * SandboxVars.MFTEOTW.GlobalVolume,
        }```

does this look right?

i'm really inexperienced with this kinda stuff so i'm checking-- will that sandbox setting modify the variable properly?

[bronze yoke]

is this in a script file? i don't think you can do that

[rancid tendon]

aughhh yeah it is in a script file

i was kinda wondering about that

is there any way to modify that value using a sandbox var then?

[blissful salmon]

for testing purpose I manually create a zombie and set the walktype.
zombie:setWalkType("sprint1")
this seems to work as long I don't exit and restart the game. Isn't this value saved with the zombie? I used this since some days but today I noticed that they loose their running state. Do I need to do something in addition?

[ancient grail]

check out the statistics on the admin panel . it shows how many zeds there are

[ancient grail]

there is . readfile and write file

[astral dune]

where you can read/write to is sandboxed a bit. You have to get a filewriter/reader, which is either to the lua folder or to a particular mod's folder, not just anywhere in the file system that you'd like

[blissful salmon]

And what do I look for or do with this value? Is it also in the debug menu? I test most of the things in solo mode. But I never figured out how to get the Admin panel in Solo mode.

Maybe my question was not clear enougth. The zombie is still there but refuses to run. He is just walking.

[ancient grail]

yeh i wanted to make an array of items written on sandbox where the admins can just modify it and use the ; as delimiter the concat it

to return individual input we use ipars i guess

a good reference probably would be the item despawn. list

[ancient grail]

u cant

[rancid tendon]

does anyone know how to modify values in script files using sandbox settings?

if that's possible?

[ancient grail]

its just dbg on solo. its probably cuz theres bo chat panel.
which is why making a mod compatible for both is hard

.

[glacial flicker]

Heyo, to get the times for a bot, do we use the getYear, getMonth, getDay or was that changed?

[blissful salmon]

But do you have a clue how I can figure out why the zombie is just walking after a stop and start of the game? The amount of zeds shouldn't be that important for that. Or am I missing something?

[thick karma]

Sounds like that particular state is not recovered from any saved info about zombies. Perhaps a different function is responsible for loading an existing zombie's details when it is spawned. Could even be that the zombie is making decisions based on its Lua states but saves and loads from a separate set of Java states that you're not accessibg

[safe silo]

Can I have an item being just drainable?

Normally it'd be attached to DisplayCategory = LightSource or smth else but if I want a static item that takes batteries can I leave it as just Type = Drainable?

[rancid tendon]

again: does anyone know whether or not it's possible to modify script file values such as an item's weight using sandbox setting values?

[visual abyss]

alrighty girls and boys i'm back at it with the dumb context menu

local function testContext(player, context, worldObjects, test)
    if test then return; end

    local square = clickedSquare;
    print("square ("..square:getX()..","..square:getY()..")");

    local size = 0
    for _ in pairs(worldObjects) do size = size + 1; end
    print("worldObjects size: "..size);

    for k,v in pairs(worldObjects) do
        print("key: "..k);
        -- v is apparently IsoObject
        -- yet if i do v:getName(), it returns nil...
        print("------");
    end
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(testContext);

It seems that there's always at minimum 2 world objects on the square

I know square isn't being used past the print

[vast nacelle]

Where are you getting clickedSquare from? Is it a global variable set somewhere else?

[visual abyss]

yes

vanilla global

[blissful salmon]

can you print the type?
type(v)
or did you try to iterate with a for i loop?

     worldObjects:get(i):getName()

[visual abyss]

:getName() will error

but yeah v is isoobject

as per your request with type(v)

but I used someone's library to actually print out the java class it uses

[ruby urchin]

What you waiting get exactly?

[visual abyss]

well basically what I am trying to achieve: I wanted to place an object of some sort in the world that will act as a teleporter if the player used the context menu (i.e. rmb -> teleport)

I have an object placed in the worlded

unless i'm doing it the wrong way with the object stuff, idk how one would make it such a thing

[blissful salmon]

does everything return nil? also getObjectName()?
and can you still try it with the for i== loop? I'm not an expert in case of java and lua. but i think i had a case where pairs for me didnt work.

[visual abyss]

as per getObjectName:

[blissful salmon]

hmm... strange...

i checkt the java of the isoobject class... getName returns the string name which is null per default.
I don't know if there are cases in whitch the name is not set... so it returns null/nil.

is it the same for the second object so when you write:

  print(v:getName())

[visual abyss]

nope. it skips that

like i said, it just returns a nil for some godforsaken reason

[blissful salmon]

what happens when you check the objects on the square?
square:getObjects()

[safe silo]

recipes that require specific levels how would that work?

ie. Creating X item requires Carpentry 4

[elfin stump]

when you create the recipe include the line "SkillRequired:Carpentry=4," I think

You can look in the zomboid folder at media/scripts/recipes.txt and search for "SkillRequired" to find examples of how it is done

[safe silo]

Thank you Phil ❤️

[elfin stump]

np!

[pine fiber]

How can I insert the data in a table to obtain a table like that :
data = { a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 } with table.insert() ?
I tried table.insert(table, a, 1) and some other things, but nothing works...

[hearty dew]

data[a] = 1

table.insert works with arrays

[pine fiber]

ty @hearty dew

[hearty dew]

Could use table.insert to create a { 1 = a, 2 = b, 3 = c } table. Then afterwards, from it create a new table with the key/values reversed, if you're keen on use table.insert :)

Padd_Utils = Padd_Utils or {}
Padd_Utils.createIndex = function(t)
    local index = {}
    for name, value in pairs(t) do
        index[value] = name
    end
    return index
end

[pine fiber]

If I want to create a list of objects with their number of occurrence (which increments) what do you advise me? like
table = { apple = 2, berries = 18 ... }

[hearty dew]

local food_counts = {
  apples = 0,
  berries = 0,
}

food_counts.apples = food_counts.apples + 1

Would that work?

If you don't know them ahead of time,```lua
local food_counts = {}

local fruit = "apples"
if not food_counts[fruit] then
food_counts[fruit] = 0
end
food_counts[fruit = food_counts[fruit] + 1

Or could do something fancy with __index in its metatable to avoid the conditional, I suppose

[pine fiber]

It works like a charm ! ty like ever @hearty dew

If it could help someone ⤵️

[glacial flicker]

Can anyone link a mod that affects the map tiles in real time?

Or anyone knows what functions triggers when something burns? Like grass turns into burnt grass

[thorn bane]

By the way Tyrir, I tried this, and my miniscule brain hasn't got it sorted out. I'll probably rewrite the code tomorrow, it's all spaghetti atm.

[trail lotus]

hey guys. I tried redefining and creating a whole new playstyle in pz a couple months ago, development slowed down and people vocally showed quite a bit of support and were quite sad development slowed. with that being said there motivation has made me wanna pick back up the pace get back into trying to develop this server, I'm mainly looking for skilled developers that have a interest in the playstyle we are trying to create, and have a good idea at what we are going for.. I have a large community of people ready to voice their opinion and I want nothing more then to build it the way I promised and how they ultimately wanted it. with that being said if you are interested in supporting or taking a role in the development please dm me and ill get with you. it can be small artwork to massive server changing mods I'd love to pay you for your time and contribution! I want to remodel how the dev team will work this time and create a work area people can be assigned to and work on projects as well as help each other. I think this will allow me to better compensate people for their time and work.

[bronze yoke]

what is this playstyle though?

[trail lotus]

city life rp, it would greatly resemble a gta5rp server but more realistic and not so chaotic obviously. this playstyle contains no zombies meaning all interaction is player orientated.

https://www.kentuckyroleplay.com/ that is my website 🙂

[bronze yoke]

i'll have a look!

[trail lotus]

just dm and i can get you a disc invite i dont wanna get in trouble posting it here 🙂

[oak oasis]

@weak sierra i have something I want to ask you personally pls check dm

[ancient grail]

try moving objects instead

[ancient grail]

you might want to write it on a file then read it to get the data back.. else you will lose the population youve counted i guess..
u might want to do this modular
first create a function that counts(btw u can use onload chunks perhaps)

then make the write script should be client to server

then the read. tho im not sure who u would want to gove this data too

[ancient grail]

sorry havent found anything that looks like this. tho u might want to try looking at itemtweaker and somehow apply it to whaat ur trying to build
goodluck