mod_development

[ancient grail]

what is it are you building again?

look at teleport mod 😉

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2815106582

if he do this then he use his own util function using

Padd_Utils[3]()<
????

[gaunt meteor]

why are there separate perks for Maintenence, BladeMaintenence and BluntMaintenence?

[kindred dagger]

Anyone knows how to get the item type of a placed world object? I don't have issue finding the objects with a cell:getObjects() just getting the string I need.
Specifically I'm trying to have Ham Radio placed in the world (like furniture) to return me "HamRadio1" or "Base.HamRadio1" whatever works. I've tried to do getName() or getType() with no luck so far.

[blissful salmon]

I think I can store mysettings in the moddata of a zombie. and load from there if I restart the game. Where do I find " onload chunks" I didn't find any event or something like this.

[ancient grail]

ask TIS thats how they wanted do it. maybe theres a diffrence? perhaps cuz u use the blunt to build and the blades for food? idk

[thick karma]

I'm considering the implications of playing with setHoursSurvived clientside. So far, I've heard that getHoursSurvived may play a role in certain rates, e.g., panic reduction, but I don't see that in the Lua. In the Lua, however, I do see getHoursSurvived being used to determine whether it's too soon to sleep. Does it get used all over the place on the Java side or something?

[hearty dew]

$ grep -r getHoursSurvived ProjectZomboid/zombie/
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/ai/sadisticAIDirector/SleepingEvent.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/ai/ZombieGroupManager.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/BodyDamage/BodyDamage.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/Faction.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/ILuaGameCharacter.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/IsoGameCharacter.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/IsoPlayer.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/GameTime.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/iso/areas/SafeHouse.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/network/GameClient.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/network/GameServer.class: binary file matches```
It's referenced in those classes

[thick karma]

Hmmm yeah I'm not going to be able to counteract all that realistically. Hmmm...

            if (isoPlayer != null && !"Tutorial".equals(Core.GameMode) && this.getHoursSurvived() > 0.016666666666666666) {
                HaloTextHelper.addTextWithArrow(isoPlayer, invokedynamic(makeConcatWithConstants:(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;, perk.getName()), true, HaloTextHelper.getColorGreen());
            }

This chunk of Java in LevelPerk is proving to be the bane of my existence.

I wrote a sneaky way of making it not happen by playing with getHouseSurvived() (locking it to 0 and storing it elsewhere while the HUD is off).

But this unfortunately has gameplay side effects, and aside from the sleeping side-effects I do not know how to mitigate them... and mitigation of the sleeping side effects could have other side effects. (Also likely Agoraphobic and Claustrophobic panic-related side effects.)

I kinda wish I could just mod that Java class and rewrite that condition with an extra boolean variable, "burryagaWantsToSeeYou" 🤪

[hearty dew]

Is the method with that conditional called from lua? If so, you could set hours survived before it is called and revert it immediately after

[thick karma]

Unfortunately I don't know. Maybe? Possibly in ISPlayerStatsUI?

    if button.internal == "LEVELPERK" then
        self.char:LevelPerk(self.selectedPerk.perk, false);
        self.char:getXp():setXPToLevel(self.selectedPerk.perk, self.char:getPerkLevel(self.selectedPerk.perk));
        SyncXp(self.char)
        self:loadPerks();
        if self.selectedPerk.perk == Perks.Strength or self.selectedPerk.perk == Perks.Fitness then
            self:loadTraits();
        end
    end

I don't know if LevelPerk above is the correct or only important place LevelPerk gets called

And also in tons of debug scenarios maybe?

Those shouldn't matter because when you're initializing those scenarios getHoursSurvived would be < .01666 [1 minute]

I see a lot of getPlayer():LevelPerk(...) in Steps.lua

Idk what Steps is for... just to track walking stuff?

XpUpdate.lua seems to have its own special levelPerk function, but it doesn't explicitly call LevelPerk anywhere, so that's confusing.

This chunk seems to call LevelPerk... not sure what the ISSkillProgressBar refers to.

function ISSkillProgressBar:onMouseUp(x, y)
    -- our selected lvl
    local lvlSelected = math.floor(self:getMouseX()/20);
    -- if you have skill pts and the skill is ready to evolve and if you clicked on the right lvl
    if self.xp >= self.xpForLvl and self.level == lvlSelected and not self.perk:isPassiv() then
        self.char:LevelPerk(self.perk:getType());
      ...
      ...
      ...
end

Also

function ISChallenge2PlayerUpWindow:onOptionMouseDown(button, x, y)
    local playerObj = self.char
    -- manage the item
    playerObj:getModData()["challenge2Xp"] = playerObj:getModData()["challenge2Xp"] - button.cost;
    if button.internal == "skills" then
        -- we add the xp for this skill, so the xp panel will be updated
        playerObj:LevelPerk(button.perk);
      ...
      ...
      ...

All these different params are confusing me, too. Not clear if LevelPerk needs 1 or 2 or what. Not sure if they're even calling same function

Assuming it's a function with optional params but that's an assumption

Okay on the Java side it's these two functions:

That keep getting called mostly

afaik

I don't think I have a corresponding function I can decorate but idk I could be missing it

I mean I think I would still release the mod as is and just warn people that the No-XP mode is only for making movies, and causes issues for gameplay, but I would greatly prefer to find a workaround that hides XP harmlessly 😭

But then again they can just turn off XP growth if they want to make movies...

sigh

So close

[hearty dew]

__classmetatables[zombie.characters.IsoPlayer.class].__index.LevelPerk

That's the lua function that calls into the java method, if that's what you were looking to decorate

[thick karma]

Really??? I can just do

function __classmetatables[zombie.characters.IsoPlayer.class].__index.LevelPerk(...) 

end```
?

[hearty dew]

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

Can use that to simply doing it in general

[thick karma]

Stfu really that would work?

Where did you find this insanity? Where is __classmetatables anywhere?

[hearty dew]

Looks to be how kahlua exposes java objects to the lua side. @undone elbow mentioned it a few days back

[thick karma]

Can I write [anything].[anything] is is [anything].patchClassMethod a key function that Lua has somewhere?

[hearty dew]

__classmetatables is in _G

[hearty dew]

You use it like in the usage example above it

[thick karma]

So I just call it once and the method is patched?

And I can name the method patcher essentially anything?

[hearty dew]

    BurryagaUtils.patchClassMethod(zombie.characters.IsoPlayer.class, "LevelPerk", function(original_fn)
            return function(self, perk, b1)
                -- pre stuff
                local result = original_fn(self, perk, b1)
                -- post stuff
                return result
            end
        end)

[hearty dew]

yea

[thick karma]

Whoa.

[hearty dew]

It patches the calls to that java method from the lua code. Doesn't affect java->java calls of that method

[thick karma]

Whoa.

[thick karma]

Where is _G? Is thee an online directory of these functions / classes?

[visual abyss]

it's a global table that is built in lua language

basically think of it as Lua lives inside _G

[hearty dew]

Anything that's not declared local goes into _G. Can think of it is as the table that implements the broadest scope.

function myGlobalFunction() end
myGlobalVariable = 5
print(_G.myGlobalFunction)
print(_G.myGlobalVariable)

[thick karma]

Is there a way to see this info online anywhere? Are y'all just decompiling the Java? Where is this information discovered? How did anyone figure out __classmetatables was hiding in the global scope?

[visual abyss]

it's completely built into lua

every application that uses lua has it

even wow's addon system

it's how lua operates

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35910099/how-special-is-the-global-variable-g

Read the answer

[thick karma]

Damn okay thanks

This is straight-up black magic

[hearty dew]

If you mean the __classmetatables field in _G specifically, it's how kahlua implements exposing java methods to lua. See https://github.com/krka/kahlua2/blob/64ff71a8b213f3a4d7b0319f974a878771a6ab89/core/src/se/krka/kahlua/vm/KahluaUtil.java#L110
https://github.com/krka/kahlua2/blob/64ff71a8b213f3a4d7b0319f974a878771a6ab89/j2se/src/se/krka/kahlua/integration/expose/LuaJavaClassExposer.java#L67

[thick karma]

I hear what you're really telling me

@visual abyss @hearty dew I'm gonna try this and if it works I'm reading both of these links until I cry

[visual abyss]

is there a list of modifiers that weapon part can improve/decrease

[hollow current]

How do you add a mod option that is modifiable only in mp servers by server admins?

[hearty dew]

Wouldn't sandbox vars do the trick?

Do you mean modifiable while the server is running?

[hearty dew]

If this, can check that the client is admin or debug before setting the variable```lua
if isAdmin() or isDebugEnabled() then

[thick karma]

Halp? @hearty dew

Seems to imply metatable__index is not a table?

Even though it does exist?

[gilded hawk]

Can someone explain me why this works

FactionMapClass = {}

function FactionMapClass:new()
    local o = {}
    setmetatable(o, self)
    self.__index = self
    return o
end

function FactionMap()
    FactionMapClass.instance = FactionMapClass.instance or FactionMapClass:new()
    return FactionMapClass.instance
end

But this, does not work

FactionMapClass = {}

function FactionMapClass:new()
    --
    local o = FactionMapClass
    setmetatable(o, self)
    self.__index = self
    return o
end

function FactionMap()
    FactionMapClass.instance = FactionMapClass.instance or FactionMapClass:new()
    return FactionMapClass.instance
end

@hearty dew If you can help, this is about what we talked yesterday about making classes, and singletons

When I use the second code vscode gives me auto complete and intellisense on FactionMap

While on the first one it does not

[hollow current]

but how exactly do you add an option in the first place? I think I saw a framework on the workshop earlier, but would that be reliable for that kind of purpose oor..?

[gilded hawk]

A file called sandbox-options.txt in \YourModNameHere\media\

VERSION = 1,

option YOURMODNAME.YOURMODOPTION
{
    type = boolean, default = false,
    page = A PAGE NAME HERE,
    translation = SOME_TRANSLATION,
}

[hollow current]

Ah, thanks!

[gilded hawk]

Firearms B41, More Traits, Share Annotations and similiar mods all use the sandbox-options.txt

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2256623447&searchtext=firearms
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1299328280&searchtext=more+traits
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2815560151&searchtext=annotations

Look at the mods code to see how they use it 👍

[hearty dew]

Idk what that is. Need the actual error message from the console.txt 😅

[thick karma]

Error message on the left no?

Attempted index of non-table?

I tried scrolling to most recent

[hearty dew]

The debug ui breaks before printing the error message

so it will highlight the problem and not tell you what it is until you step forward

[thick karma]

I did step forward

[hearty dew]

often easier to just look at console.txt imo

[thick karma]

I took one step past the break

But I can open console.txt

That's in user/Zomboid right?

[hearty dew]

yea

[thick karma]

Uhhhh lmao

Something about trying to patch this way is really making Zomboid mad

function: DawnOfTheZed.lua -- file: DawnOfTheZed.lua line # 156 | MOD: Dawn of the Zed (Hide XP Notifications)

LOG  : General     , 1666181454514> attempted index of non-table
LOG  : General     , 1666181454642> creating new sourcewindow: C:/Users/Zen/Zomboid/Workshop/Dawn of the Zed/Contents/mods/DawnOfTheZedHideXP/media/lua/client/DawnOfTheZed.lua
LOG  : General     , 1666181493592> UNKNOWN GLFW KEY CODE: 283
LOG  : General     , 1666181493592> UNKNOWN GLFW KEY CODE: 283
LOG  : General     , 1666181493753> UNKNOWN GLFW KEY CODE: 283
LOG  : General     , 1666181493753> UNKNOWN GLFW KEY CODE: 283
LOG  : General     , 1666181493909> UNKNOWN GLFW KEY CODE: 283
LOG  : General     , 1666181493910> UNKNOWN GLFW KEY CODE: 283
LOG  : General     , 1666181531085> EXITDEBUG: RenderThread.isCloseRequested 1

[hearty dew]

Well, in the 2nd, the object that represents your instance of a class, is the global FactionMapClass. So every new instance would be the same instance. I presume that's not what you're going for if you're writing a new() function

[hearty dew]

As for this, I'd guess that intellisense isn't able to infer that you've set the metatable to self (i.e. FactionMapClass) (which is why you can call the functions in the FactionMapClass on the object returned by new()). In other words, intellisense isn't smart enough to understand the trickiness of the metatables you've set.

[thick karma]

Okay, I launched without this, and then reloaded Lua with this, and got the errors above... so I think this is the fundamental issue, one way or another:

    local metatable = __classmetatables[class]
    if not metatable then
        error("Unable to find metatable for class "..tostring(class))
    end
    local metatableIndex = metatable.__index
    if not metatableIndex then
        error("Unable to find __index in metatable for class "..tostring(class))
    end
    local originalMethod = metatableIndex[methodName]
    metatableIndex[methodName] = createPatch(originalMethod)
end```

(Tried with metatable__index, too, I just renamed it. Neither works.)

[gilded hawk]

Interesting, now I'm wondering if the intellisense is not smart enough, is i because it's limited and I need another Lua plug in or is it because I'm writing bad code? 🤔

[hearty dew]

Can you paste the code you're running? I can't figure it out from that part of the error message

[hearty dew]

Well, metatables could change a runtime, so it's a risky assumption to use the metatable to infer autocompletion in some sense

Maybe there is a way to annotate the code so that intellisense can do the autocompletion you want

[thick karma]

@hearty dew

[hearty dew]

LOG  : General     , 1666182204624> 328,279,713> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE
-----------------------------------------
function: stuff -- file: objects.lua line # 221 | Vanilla
function: console -- file: objects.lua line # 1 | Vanilla

LOG  : General     , 1666182204629> 328,279,718> attempted index of non-table
ERROR: General     , 1666182204634> 328,279,723> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index of non-table at KahluaUtil.fail line:82.
ERROR: General     , 1666182204639> 328,279,728> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index of non-table
        at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaUtil.fail(KahluaUtil.java:82)
        at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaUtil.luaAssert(KahluaUtil.java:70)
        at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.tableSet(KahluaThread.java:1726)
        at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.luaMainloop(KahluaThread.java:594)
        at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.call(KahluaThread.java:163)
        at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.pcall(KahluaThread.java:1980)
        at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.pcall(KahluaThread.java:1782)
        at se.krka.kahlua.integration.LuaCaller.pcall(LuaCaller.java:76)
        at se.krka.kahlua.integration.LuaCaller.protectedCall(LuaCaller.java:117)
        at zombie.ui.UIDebugConsole.ProcessCommand(UIDebugConsole.java:278)
        at zombie.core.Core.updateKeyboardAux(Core.java:1991)
        at zombie.core.Core.updateKeyboard(Core.java:2322)
        at zombie.core.Core.DoFrameReady(Core.java:3083)
        at zombie.GameWindow.frameStep(GameWindow.java:780)
        at zombie.GameWindow.run_ez(GameWindow.java:680)
        at zombie.GameWindow.mainThread(GameWindow.java:494)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
LOG  : General     , 1666182204645> 328,279,734> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE
-----------------------------------------
function: stuff -- file: objects.lua line # 221 | Vanilla
function: console -- file: objects.lua line # 1 | Vanilla

That's the error I got when running that

line 221 is

BurryagaUtils.patchClassMethod = function(class, methodName, createPatch)```

Add ```lua
BurryagaUtils = BurryagaUtils or {}

above that line

[thick karma]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh

That explains why I didn't get stuck there the first time I ran your code

The first time I ran it I renamed that to a normal function and got all the way into the game

No issues, but it didn't work, so I reverted to your version verbatim and got that error

[hearty dew]

👍

[thick karma]

Okay error is good now, relaunching to see if verbatim version works

[hearty dew]

Maybe your line numbers were off? Sometimes you have to click reload file in the debug ui's file viewer to get the correct lines

[thick karma]

I don't know why that happened that way, but it identified the end of the function instead of the call to it as the issue. It seemed to know that function was an issue but didn't tell me why very well

the end caught the highlight in my debug even though it told me to check line 156

[hearty dew]

The debug ui is trying to be too helpful maybe, heh

[thick karma]

line 156 was just the last line of the function that went bad though

I think that was why it got flagged

😭 no dice @hearty dew

Hmmm

let me see

[gilded hawk]

Okay thank, I'll give another look at my code once I'm back from work

[thick karma]

@hearty dew Okay, so I tried this... no errors, but it doesn't seem to 0 the HoursSurvived before the crucial moment, because I am still seeing the level-up notifications... Any brilliant suggestions?

local function zeroSurvivedTime()

    for playerIndex = 0, getNumActivePlayers() - 1 do

        local player = getSpecificPlayer(playerIndex)

        if player and not ISUIHandler.allUIVisible then 

            player:Say("I'm patched mothafucka")
        
            backupHoursSurvived = backupHoursSurvived + player:getHoursSurvived()
            player:setHoursSurvived(0.0)
        
        end

    end

end

patchJavaMethodB = function(class, methodName, createPatch)
    local metatable = __classmetatables[class]

    if not metatable then
        error("Unable to find metatable for class " .. tostring(class))
    end

    local metatableIndex = metatable.__index

    if not metatableIndex then
        error("Unable to find __index in metatable for class " .. tostring(class))
    end

    local originalMethod = metatableIndex[methodName]
    metatableIndex[methodName] = createPatch(originalMethod)
end

patchJavaMethodB(zombie.characters.IsoPlayer.class, "LevelPerk", 
    function(metatableMethod)
        return function(self, perk, booleanFlag)
            zeroSurvivedTime()
            local result = metatableMethod(self, perk, booleanFlag)
            -- restoreSurvivedTime()
            return result
        end
    end
)```

(Doesn't work when named Burryaga.etc either, tested that first.)

The call to zeroSurvivedTime should fire every time LevelPerk gets a call from Lua, right?

Wait.... idea

[hearty dew]

correct

[thick karma]

There are 2 LevelPerk functions on Java side

Is it possible this only targets one?

Is there a way to target both? I seem to only ID the method by its name, but Java IDs by name and # of params

[hearty dew]

No, it will handle both. There is only one lua side

lua doesn't have function overriding like java

[thick karma]

Hmmm well it does not seem to be patching... I can't even get it make the player talk

I tried including a player:Say() in my patched function and nothin came out

[hearty dew]

            zeroSurvivedTime()
            print("Hours survived after zeroing are: "..self:getHoursSurvived())
            local result = metatableMethod(self, perk, booleanFlag)

would do something like that to verify the code does what I expect

[thick karma]

On it

[hearty dew]

btw, you could pass in self as a param to zeroSurvivedTime to limit the change to that player

(self is a player object in that context)

[hollow current]

is there no way to make it appear only as part of server settings if running in MP, and not appear in singleplayer sandbox settings?

[hearty dew]

No, don't believe so

[thick karma]

Great, thanks. I was just using my known-to-be-working version and had made no efforts to improve zeroSurvivedTime in the new context... Appreciate the tip

zeroSurvivedTime WILL hide the xp notice if I run it OnTick

[hearty dew]

At least no without patching things lua-side

[gilded hawk]

Try give a look at how the player sleep is option is handled, IIRC the option to toggle it on-off only appears in MP

[hollow current]

i will give it a look, thanks!

[thick karma]

No output

[hearty dew]

I'd try calling the method via the player object in the lua console

getSpecificPlayer(0):LevelPerk(foo, bar)

[thick karma]

Hmmmmmmm that actually did get a reaction.

Also, an error I believe

Hmm I need a real perk ref

[hearty dew]

If in this scenario you are testing the method is being called java->java, that would explain it not firing because this approach only will patch the method when called from lua

[thick karma]

I see.

Dang.

So my wonky method remains the best option I have

Oof

[hearty dew]

$ grep -r LevelPerk ProjectZomboid/zombie/
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/ILuaGameCharacter.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/IsoGameCharacter$XP.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/characters/IsoGameCharacter.class: binary file matches
grep: ProjectZomboid/zombie/Lua/LuaEventManager.class: binary file matches

Not that many classes call LevelPerk though

[thick karma]

Is there something I could do to mod the calls Java->Java from those classes?

To zero the offending variable at the perfect times?

[hearty dew]

depends on how they are called

Wouldn't be able to intercept the call, but perhaps could patch the calling method

[thick karma]

What tool do y'all recommend to decompile the Java?

I clearly need to read those files

And possibly others

[hearty dew]

I've just been using http://www.javadecompilers.com, but it's the worst option

[hearty dew]

Out of these, the only actual call is from the IsoGameCharacter$XP:AddXp method

[pine fiber]

This maybe :

https://github.com/Konijima/PZ-Libraries

[thick karma]

Alrighty, looks promising enough

Thanks

[thick karma]

Immaculate Biryani

(Creating a search flag for myself 🤪 )

I'm going to need these when I get this decompiled

Not sure if I'll have time to finish this morning

[hearty dew]

 player:getXp():AddXP(Perks.MetalWelding, 15)

Looks like most of the ways vanilla lua-side adds xp is this way, not using LevelPerk

What exactly is the problem you are trying to solve by stopping xp additions?

[thick karma]

My goal is to mute the popup that tells you when you've leveled up... If I could jump in before AddXP and jump out after the determination has been made regarding whether that XP levels you up, that would be perfect. I tried earlier to hook AddXP using Events.Add but it didn't work because my function would fire after the player was already done leveling.

I just do not want to see the green text above character's head

The sound is acceptable, though tbh I'd also love to get rid of that. (But only while the HUD is invisible.)

[thick karma]

FYI, I do not want to stop any XP additions... I only want to intervene to 0 the HoursSurvived variable because afaik that's the easiest way to prevent that green text from appearing... it will not appear while your HoursSurvived are at 0.

[fast galleon]

Maybe patch the halonote altogether?

[hearty dew]

I presume you looked into patching IsoPlayer:Say already? That's a quick thing to try

[thick karma]

I don't know how I would patch Say to prevent that... This seems to be crucial afaik, courtesy of albion:

public void LevelPerk(final PerkFactory.Perk perk, final boolean b) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(perk, "perk is null");
        if (perk == PerkFactory.Perks.MAX) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("perk == Perks.MAX");
        }
        final IsoPlayer isoPlayer = (IsoPlayer)Type.tryCastTo((Object)this, (Class)IsoPlayer.class);
        final IsoGameCharacter.PerkInfo perkInfo = this.getPerkInfo(perk);
        if (perkInfo != null) {
            final IsoGameCharacter.PerkInfo perkInfo2 = perkInfo;
            ++perkInfo2.level;
            if (isoPlayer != null && !"Tutorial".equals(Core.GameMode) && this.getHoursSurvived() > 0.016666666666666666) {
                HaloTextHelper.addTextWithArrow(isoPlayer, invokedynamic(makeConcatWithConstants:(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;, perk.getName()), true, HaloTextHelper.getColorGreen());
            }
            if (perkInfo.level > 10) {
                perkInfo.level = 10;
            }
            if (GameClient.bClient && isoPlayer != null) {
                GameClient.instance.sendSyncXp(isoPlayer);
            }
            LuaEventManager.triggerEventGarbage("LevelPerk", (Object)this, (Object)perk, (Object)perkInfo.level, (Object)true);
            if (GameClient.bClient && isoPlayer != null) {
                GameClient.sendPerks(isoPlayer);
            }
            return;
        }
        final IsoGameCharacter.PerkInfo e = new IsoGameCharacter.PerkInfo(this);
        e.perk = perk;
        e.level = 1;
        this.PerkList.add(e);
        if (isoPlayer != null && !"Tutorial".equals(Core.GameMode) && this.getHoursSurvived() > 0.016666666666666666) {
            HaloTextHelper.addTextWithArrow(isoPlayer, invokedynamic(makeConcatWithConstants:(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;, perk.getName()), true, HaloTextHelper.getColorGreen());
        }
        if (GameClient.bClient && this instanceof IsoPlayer) {
            GameClient.instance.sendSyncXp(isoPlayer);
        }
        LuaEventManager.triggerEvent("LevelPerk", (Object)this, (Object)perk, (Object)e.level, (Object)true);
    }

Notice it only calls addTextWithArrow when your HoursSurvived is above a minute

[thick karma]

Could I patch the addTextWithArrow function somehow to prevent those XP messages? I figured it's a Java file.

[thick karma]

I do not know how I would determine whether to 0 the appropriate variable while character is talking

[hearty dew]

Doesn't look like this is called lua-side on xp updates, anyway

[thick karma]

Fair.

[hearty dew]

idk, I'd figure out what's actually causing those messages overhead, and try to work from there how to prevent it from occurring for the cases you're interested in

[thick karma]

Pretty sure this does it:

if (isoPlayer != null && !"Tutorial".equals(Core.GameMode) && this.getHoursSurvived() > 0.016666666666666666) {
                HaloTextHelper.addTextWithArrow(isoPlayer, invokedynamic(makeConcatWithConstants:(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;, perk.getName()), true, HaloTextHelper.getColorGreen());
            }

That is the only thing I seek to prevent from happening by setting HoursSurvived to 0

[hearty dew]

Ah, okay. So either in that method call, addTextWithArrow, maybe there is some way to prevent it, or calls to LevelPerk or AddXp could be patched (which is the direction you were going)

[thick karma]

And afaik the only ways to prevent it are for HoursSurvived being 0, or being in Tutorial, or not having a valid player object.

[thick karma]

Correct, that is what I was hoping. I don't know how to fix addTextWithArrow at all

I need to see that function probably

Events on AddXp and LevelPerk were a bust because they always fire after I level

If only there were an Xp message duration variable somewhere

and I could just make that 0

Wouldn't that be nice

[hearty dew]

Didn't see a way to do it down the addTextWithArrow route. That seems to all be done java side as far as I checked.

That's the IsoPlayer:getXp() object. I'd try patching AddXP

[thick karma]

That was first thing I tried actually but I kinda hit a dead end with it.

[hearty dew]

zombie.characters["IsoGameCharacter$XP"].class believe it would be

[thick karma]

Oh you mean patch the actual call to AddXP

From Lua->Java

[hearty dew]

yea

[thick karma]

Not just Events.AddXP.Add

Mmmm I will try that actually

[thick karma]

Are the params the same as in the doc for adding to the AddXP event?

[hearty dew]

They are this

[thick karma]

How the heck can Lua take such a range of inputs for various Java methods and send them where they belong? return function(self, perk, float, boolean1, boolean2, boolean3)?

What single super-return would apply to all three versions of AddXP ?

if they're so wildly different?

Is Handweapon even a Perk?

patchJavaMethodB(zombie.characters["IsoGameCharacter$XP"].class, "AddXp", 

    function(metatableMethod)

        return function(self, perk, booleanFlag)

            -- Hopefully before.
            zeroSurvivedTime()
            self:Say("Why, hello, there!")
            print("Hours survived after zeroing are: "..self:getHoursSurvived())
            
            local result = metatableMethod(self, perk, booleanFlag)
            
            -- Hopefully before.
            restoreSurvivedTime()
            
            return result

        end

    end

)
```?

Would (self, perk, booleanFlag) become (self, perk, float, boolean1, boolean2, boolean3)?

[fast galleon]

btw why you're on it, can you tell me why most times I won't get the skill level up note above player

[hearty dew]

In the kahlua layer, I would presume they check the parameter types and match it to the appropriate java.lang.reflect.Method

[hearty dew]

If you don't care about the params, can just use ... to capture them all and pass them along unchanged

[thick karma]

Really???!?

Like this?

patchJavaMethodB(zombie.characters["IsoGameCharacter$XP"].class, "AddXp", 

    function(metatableMethod)

        return function(...)

            zeroSurvivedTime()
            self:Say("Why, hello, there!")
            print("Hours survived after zeroing are: "..self:getHoursSurvived())
            local result = metatableMethod(...)
            restoreSurvivedTime()
            return result

        end

    end

)

[hearty dew]

return function(self, ...)
  metatableMethod(self, ...)
end

(I presume you want to use self?)

[thick karma]

yeah good idea

[hearty dew]

you are referencing self in the print

[thick karma]

Yeah I forgot but thank you

Wow

So AddXp is void so I can stop returning the void, yeah?

[hearty dew]

yea

[hollow current]

Okay so,
1- How do you reference that mod option in the code?
2- does the translation field reference translation files?
3- What is the naming policy in translation files? Because translations only worked if I named them certain names like ContextMenu_XX or Tooltip_XX, but wouldn't work in other cases

also are there more fields that can be utilized apart from those 3?

[pine fiber]

The easiest way is to learn from a mod that already uses this. Like "Eggon's All Doors Are Yours" mod or "Working Treadmill" mod or many others. That's what I did anyway.

[hollow current]

was struggling to find mods that used sandbox options, but thanks!

[pine fiber]

1. I think just with file sandbox-options.txt in /media/
2. Yes in media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/Sandbox_EN.txt

[thick karma]

Omg I think I hooked AddXP (which apparently is the spelling in Java, WHYYYYYYY?)

I don't know if it's gonna work yet because I threw an error from it, but progress!

OMFG I THINK IT WORKED

@hearty dew You truly must let me send you coffee

[placid delta]

is there an Event for pickup item / transfer item to inventory?

[hollow current]

one last question, any idea if the page field has a defined list of pages to use or if I can just add my own page?

[summer rune]

can u use lua to spawn an ATM in the game at a specific coordinate? (like if someone would have placed it in the game by hand)

[hearty dew]

You can make your own

[pine fiber]

It's a custom name. This will be the name of the section on the left when choosing the sandbow parameters

[thick karma]

@hearty dew Omg it works perfectly

[hollow current]

aaa okay thanks!

[thick karma]

It's tracking HoursSurvived and acting like it's not

It's so beautiful, kill me now while I'm happy guys

[marble lynx]

face the wall

[visual abyss]

so i'm wondering if it's possible to have a gun support different type of mags (like 5 round mag and 10 round mag)

or do i need to make new item gun for each mag supported?

i tried magtype=mag1;mag2,

[hearty dew]

Believe arsenal mod does that. I don't know offhand how though

[visual abyss]

or whatever it was

[hollow current]

soo is it normal for it to look like this?

[visual abyss]

but it didnt really wor klolol

[visual abyss]

You'll need to use translate

[hearty dew]

If you are missing translations, yes

[visual abyss]

arsenal[26]?

[hearty dew]

yea

[fast galleon]

Translation files have a very specific naming pattern

[pine fiber]

var in file media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/Sandbox_EN.txt

[hollow current]

Got it it to work, thanks so much!

[hearty dew]

@hollow current
media/sandbox-options.txt

VERSION = 1,

option nostartingbelts.blacklist
{
    type = string,
    default = Belt;Belt2,
    page = nostartingbelts,
    translation = nostartingbelts_blacklist,
}

media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/Sandbox_EN.txt

Sandbox_EN = {

    Sandbox_nostartingbelts = "No Starting Belts",

    Sandbox_nostartingbelts_blacklist = "Blacklisted items",
    Sandbox_nostartingbelts_blacklist_tooltip = "Semicolon separated list of blacklisted item identifiers. Only these items will be removed on newly created characters. Any other items will allowed on newly created characters. Only use either the Blacklist or Whitelist. Do not use both. E.g. Belt2;Base.Belt;Glasses_Normal",
}

Some lua file

print(SandboxVars.nostartingbelts.blacklist)

[visual abyss]

interesting. i see it now. using moddata to add another mag

then basically editing the actual item's mag type

oh man this will do.

i need to learn moddata

i know of it but i'm not well informed with it. is there any info on it that i can read?

[fast galleon]

I want to get the same time for a time action, independent of sandbox.
120 * getGameTime():getMinutesPerDay()
This is some code I found ways back, will it work?

[visual abyss]

that makes sense to me on paper

well

maybe

[blissful salmon]

Is it possible to print to the console.txt from lua? print only appears in the debug console...

[visual abyss]

it already prints to it

print() prints to the console and console.txt

[visual abyss]

yourTime * (getGameTime():getMinutesPerDay() / defaultGameTime)
I think?

[blissful salmon]

I'm confused now... I'll check again... Maybe I need a break...

[visual abyss]

if the time was left alone, it would be just 100% (normal speed)

[visual abyss]

i promise you it does write to console.txt at same time

[blissful salmon]

Sorry, I just was blind...

[visual abyss]

no worries

[fast galleon]

Is default something constant or does it change

[visual abyss]

idk. i'm sure you can find it somewhere

i've never touched that sort of thing yet

just giving you the math

basically you want to get the % change from the default time

so if the gametime was 2x faster

that's 150%

60 * 1.50 = 90 which should be at same pace

as 60

[hollow current]

quick question, so the sandbox option appears in SP options, but not when creating the world in say, Hosted server, any idea why?

[visual abyss]

I suggest doing what @hearty dew suggested

tail txt in terminal

here

if you need - i use powershell: Get-Content PATH_TO_CONSOLE_TXT -Tail 100 -Wait

it'll act like a live feed logger for you in the terminal

[fast galleon]

yeah makes sense, the number I use gets halved otherwise

[visual abyss]

you probably could try finding out what the default speed

and just set it as a constant in your lua scripts

[blissful salmon]

Did you managed to solve the object problem?

[visual abyss]

nah

i dropped it for now

i'd like some actual progress so i'm working on other stuff lol

i'll circle back around later

beside it's not too important right now in term of required mechanism

[blissful salmon]

ok... did my last suggestion with getting the object also fail or is the object not on the square itself? I did this to check if there is a fence on the square...

ok

[visual abyss]

oh i missed that. i apologize. I just copied the message into my notes

so if i understand how moddata() works, it's a table with extra entries that isnt supported by vanilla in txt script?

its already done automatically by their vanilla parsing so i don't need to do anything to parse it

[fast galleon]

I don't see a default minutes per day, but there is a getDeltaMinutesPerDay which returns MinutesPerDayStart / MinutesPerday

[undone elbow]

What is the most early event when sandbox vars are already loaded from save or received from server?

[visual abyss]

could try retrieving default on boot event

[fast galleon]

InitGlobalModData is the one that works for both I think

[visual abyss]

idk

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Event/OnGameBoot

[hearty dew]

I didn't look for the specific event, but it seemed they aren't loaded when shared/ or when client/ scripts are loaded, I'm pretty sure. OnGameBoot comes after client/ and before server/ lua files are loaded. Perhaps at that point. Perhaps even later?

The tricky thing is that the sandbox variables can be created earlier (and populated with the default), but the configured values aren't loaded until later

[fast galleon]

sandbox are loaded after onInitWorld

[placid delta]

does the event
Events.EveryOneMinute
happen every minute ingame time? or in real life time 1 minute?

[hearty dew]

in game time

[hearty dew]

global mod data? Or mod data on java objects?

They behave differently

[visual abyss]

i'm guessing the former

looking at arsenal

Gun:getMagazineType() ~= "Base.Fixed"

err

wrong one

local Ext = Gun:getModData().ExtMagType

ExtMagType is an entry in the item script

which is obviously not supported by vanilla

[hearty dew]

That's mod data on that object (gun inventory item, I presume)

global mod data is accessed through functions in the GlobalObject. I think it's modData()?

There's a nice writeup for global mod data. I'll try to find it

[visual abyss]

that would be appreciated

[hearty dew]

https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-Mod---Doc/blob/main/How to use global modData.md

global mod data has to be manually synchronized

Mod data on objects, I understand, is synchronized automatically.

I haven't used it personally, so I'm not 100% certain

[hearty dew]

In general, moddata is not related to the script. That mod just happens to use some concepts from the script in naming identifiers in the mod data table

Think of (non-global) mod data as a table that pz will persist automatically for you on that object. In it you can put basic lua types, nested tables, strings, numbers, etc

[hearty dew]

The mod might not be activated

When you go through that UI to mess with server configurations, it doesn't automatically reload the lua files for the mods that should be activated as it does in singleplayer. So you run into situations where sandbox vars are missing

[glacial flicker]

Quick question, is there a mod that disables military gear and zombies?

I need that

[hearty dew]

Not sure. Might try asking in #mod_support

[safe silo]

I have two questions:

1. Is it possible to remove an item from being wieldable? (Wield as Primary, Wield as Secondary)

2. Is it possible to TURN OFF a drainable item when it enters the inventory? Best example would be for turning a flashlight off once it enters the inventory. I could probably adapt the vanilla code for attaching walkie-talkies to the belt would turn it off but cant find that code

[visual abyss]

1. wouldn't that be determined by type?

[jade chasm]

hey does anyone know where the scripting is that starts spawning katanas in zombies after 60 days?

[safe silo]

It's Type = Drainable as I need it to be used by batteries. Assumed I could somehow alter the contextmenu but idk

[hearty dew]

It's in the java side. It reads that number of days until the item can spawn from the loot table to determine if enough time has passed to spawn the item. The property, however, is in one of the loot tables in lua

believe it was the attachedWeapon loot table

.

[undone elbow]

What function of IsoPlayer returns the visible name in mp?

[hearty dew]

that's getDisplayName, I believe

[bronze yoke]

they were separate in a previous build, but they were merged into maintenance

[blissful salmon]

I played with the walktypes of the zombies. Personally I think there is a big gap between "5" and "sprint1". Is it possible to speed up walking a bit? I tried it with setSpeedMod (IsoGameCharacter) but I didn't notice a speedchange.

zombieData.WalkType = "5"
zombie:setSpeedMod(2)

[undone elbow]

print(player:getDisplayName()) -- "KathieRobb"

Should be just "Kathie" I guess

[hearty dew]

Maybe getForname?

I'm not sure which is displayed tbh. It might change in steam/nosteam. And I vaguely remember there an option to change whether the player name or username/steamid is shown.. I don't know 😅

getForname is wrong. It returns some hardcoded string, 'Bob'. getFullName returns the characters name

[undone elbow]

player:getForname() -- just "Bob", despite the full name is "Kathie Robb"

[visual abyss]

I have a gun with a custom entry

item gun
{
    AmmoType1 = ammo1,
}

and when i try to do gun:getModData().AmmoType1 it just returns nil

am I missing something

[hearty dew]

Moddata doesn't read from custom entries like that as far as I know. I haven't seen that before, at least

[undone elbow]

@hearty dew Okay, nevermind and thanks. I guess it's too difficult to get quick workaround.

[visual abyss]

This is in vanilla source

so on forth

🤔

[hearty dew]

        _obj:getModData().RadioItemID = worldItem:getID()

Is it not set via lua as well?

[visual abyss]

i know the param is successfully added LOG : General , 1666197757747> adding unknown item param "AmmoType1" = "newammo2""

in Item.java line 2623

in void DoParam()

[blissful salmon]

I look in my code... I did this already...

[hearty dew]

     key.copyModData(this.DefaultModData);

Hmm.. yea, it looks like it puts it into DefaultModData and, it should copy over the default when creating an item instance

[jade chasm]

this was it. thank you

[visual abyss]

i wonder if its because i still had the gun before i added these code

yeah

[hearty dew]

What type is gun?

[visual abyss]

its because of that

had to delete gun in my inventory

[hearty dew]

yea, that would explain it

[visual abyss]

and spawned another one

[blissful salmon]

o.TotalWorkUnits = itemModData.TotalWorkUnits or 200```
```  item UnfinishedBat
  {
    Weight = 2.0,
    Type = Normal,
    DisplayName = Unfinished Bat,
    DisplayCategory = Tool,
    WorldStaticModel = Log,
    Icon = RawBat,
    Tags = SoulMod_UnfinishedWoodItem,
        ResultItem = BaseballBat,
        RequiredSkill = Carpentry 1,
    TotalWorkUnits = 10,
  }```

[visual abyss]

awesome thanks

[blissful salmon]

this works for me...

[fallow nova]

allo, is it possible to check if another mod is enabled using lua? google isn't helping much

[hearty dew]

if getActivatedMods():contains("modidnotworkshopid") then

[fallow nova]

legend

thanks

[blissful salmon]

Someone has an suggestion about my zombie speed problem?

[hearty dew]

Are you trying to adjust a zombie's speed beyond the sprint/shamble/fast-shamble discrete options?

[blissful salmon]

I copied the text from my message above:
I played with the walktypes of the zombies. Personally I think there is a big gap between "5" and "sprint1". Is it possible to speed up walking a bit? I tried it with setSpeedMod (IsoGameCharacter) but I didn't notice a speedchange.

zombieData.WalkType = "5"
zombie:setSpeedMod(2)

[blissful salmon]

and the answer to your question is yes 🙂

[hearty dew]

Then I think you're in uncharted territory :)

Might need to dig into the java side to see what setSpeedMod does, and how that factors in or doesn't to the zombie speed

[blissful salmon]

ok... then I'll look at this later. It's not the most importet.
Unfortunatly I have no clue what I'm doing. I just searched the docs for "speed" stuff.

[visual abyss]

inventory context menu is client right?

[hearty dew]

yea

ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.lua

[drifting ore]

How do I get started?

[gilded hawk]

The best way is to look at somebody else mod, and try to edit it to fit your needs

And then ask yourself "why is this working/not working"

[drifting ore]

does anyone have any idea how to add custom traits?
https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-Mod---Doc/blob/main/How to make a custom trait.md this guide seems to be clientsided only

[gilded hawk]

Most traits don't need server side stuff, what are you trying to do?

[bronze yoke]

i would recommend using profession framework https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1343686691

it simplifies the process and ensures compatibility, and it has some documentation

[drifting ore]

to modify player stats and things doesn't need to be serversided?

and how do i tell what realm a function needs to run in then?

[gilded hawk]

Nope, most stuff happens client side, unless the TIS Devs decide to add some anti cheat measure, but even then, the mod user can just disable the anti cheat

[bronze yoke]

they've mentioned moving certain stuff to the server but you can worry about that when that actually happens

[drifting ore]

huh, how do other players get your stats and things?

are injuries server sided at the least?

and i don't even need to register traits serverside? huh.

[safe silo]

How to remove something from context menu in inventory?

[bronze yoke]

injuries are client side

[bronze yoke]

there's actually some occasional weird behaviour if you don't, so i would register them in shared

[drifting ore]

gotcha

[ancient grail]

like what exactly? add a little more detail pls

[drifting ore]

is there a way to view the base game code?

[ancient grail]

is it possible to teleport them to add speed? like fast move. but lol teleporting zeds! haha

nvm

[blissful salmon]

To make a horror movie mod where the light is flickering and the zombies randomly appear near you 😄

[bronze yoke]

flickering lights would be cute actually

i want that after that light propagation update

[safe silo]

I want to remove the option "Turn on" and "Turn off" from an item when it's in the inventory, but when it's in the world it should be default again

[gilded hawk]

Soooo, I do not know why, or how, but this works as a singleton in lua

FactionMapClass = {}

function FactionMapClass:new()
    return self
end

-- This is a singleton
function FactionMap()
    FactionMapClass.instance = FactionMapClass.instance or FactionMapClass:new()
    print('FactionMapClass.instance'..tostring(FactionMapClass.instance))
    return FactionMapClass.instance
end

And I can access it's instance from everywhere like as example, this

if FactionMap():isShowFactionMap() then
        FactionMap():restoreFactionPlayerSymbols()
    else
        FactionMap():restoreVanillaPlayerSymbols()
    end

And, the self works inside the functions, so, I know it works, nice.

But, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Like, this confuses the hell out of me, zomboid classes are implemented in a complete different way

like this:

function ISUIElement:new (x, y, width, height)
   local o = {}
   setmetatable(o, self)
   self.__index = self

   local maxY = getCore():getScreenHeight();
   local maxX = getCore():getScreenWidth();

   o.x = math.max(0, math.min(x, maxX - width));
   o.y = math.max(0, math.min(y, maxY - height));
   o.width = width;
   o.height = height;
   o.anchorLeft = true;
   o.anchorRight = false;
   o.anchorTop = true;
   o.anchorBottom = false;
   o.dock = "none";
   o.minimumWidth = 0;
   o.minimumHeight = 0;
   o.scrollwidth = 0;
   o.removed = false;
   return o
end

Why is my code working

[blissful salmon]

As far as I know the creation of the context menu is a horrible long lua function. It does more or less all the menuitems at once if I remember correctly... (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
But I found some functions in the file ISContextMenu.lua which you eventually can use. For example:
ISContextMenu:removeOptionByName(optName)
I think the context should offer you this...

I forgot to mention I think of the event: OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu

[bronze yoke]

lua 'objects' are just tables, there really isn't much you need to do special

[blissful salmon]

Is it "good coding" if I put my function which I expect to execute in Solo and on the Server in a lua file in the server directory in my mod.

I still struggle a bit with the Server/Client/Shared and Solo concept...

[gilded hawk]

Ah, ohhh that why I keep reading about many different ways of making classes in lua

So, I managed to make* instant sync maps between faction members in MP

||*atm it only works on my PC tho :(||

[safe silo]

thank you ❤️

[visual abyss]

hmm so.. I've add submenu to submenu

it works but the submenu of submenu doesnt go away after clicks

[safe silo]

I have the object itself for WorldObject, what would it be for inventory object?

ISInventoryItemContextMenu? Just assuming since ISWorldObjectContextMenu

[visual abyss]

yes to first

inventoryitemcontextmenu

that's what i'm working on right now

[safe silo]

Thank you! Does it need to be placed somewhere specific folder wise? Saw someone do Lua/Client/Context/Inventory/file

[visual abyss]

afaik no

i just did lua/client/mod_inventorycontext.lua

as long as it in client folder i mean

[safe silo]

And "require 'ISUI/ISInventoryItemContextMenu';" would be correct too?

Sorry for all the questions

[visual abyss]

i didnt

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[safe silo]

Oh LMAO

if it works it works

[visual abyss]

yeah lol

just need to figure how to get rid of the submenu once its clicked

:hmm

[blissful salmon]

Sorry was afk. Did it work? what was your solution?

[safe silo]

I didn't get that far yet. Still unsure how to remove it tbh

I think I got the object now or w.e to remove it from

But unsure where I can find the names of the entires like if it's ContextMenu_Turn_On/ContextMenu_Turn_Of or something different

[blissful salmon]

I never did it by myself but I used the function to add my element on top. I thought about the following steps:

local function addProceedWorkMenu(player, context, items)
  --your conditions
  context:removeOptionByName(optName)
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(addProceedWorkMenu)

I don't know if you have to use the getText like
getText("ContextMenu_Unfavorite")
for the name. Look in the ISInventoryPOaneContextMenu.lua.

[safe silo]

Where do I find the ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.lua?

[blissful salmon]

client/isui/

in the first function createMenu they do a lot of tests... followed by the first triggerevent() and then based on the tests the menu entries are created...

[blissful salmon]

With a search I found:

local txt = getText("ContextMenu_Turn_On");
            if canBeActivated:isActivated() then
                txt = getText("ContextMenu_Turn_Off");
            end

[safe silo]

conditions here would be if the player has the item I want to remove it from in the inventory correct?

so like a search through PlayerInv

[blissful salmon]

the event triggers if your rightclick one or more items. so you should check if the items or the item is the one you want to remove the menuitem.

[safe silo]

I assume I would need two instances right? Can't remove multiple options in one call?

context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_On");
context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_Off");

[blissful salmon]

A codesnippet from a context menu I used:

    local invItem = items[1];
    if not instanceof(invItem, "InventoryItem") then
        invItem = items[1].items[1];
    end```
Note: I didn't do the same. I checked if its one or more items on the stack and used the first if their are multiple.

[blissful salmon]

I think so.

[safe silo]

Okay so something like this with pseudo code lol

require 'ISUI/ISInventoryItemContextMenu';

function removeContextMenuEntries(player, context, item)

    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    local playerInv = playerObj:getInventory()

    if instanceof(playerInv, "ElectricHeater")

    -- loop through the inventory and if it finds the ITEM we'll do below else return

    context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_On");
    context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_Off");

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(removeContextMenuEntries);

UPDATED

[hearty dew]

probably should go in shared/ if it is used in both client/ and server/

[jade chasm]

does anyone have a short explanation for suburbs distribution? I have read the dist files and I have no idea what they are. seems like distribution is covered comprehensively in the other dist files

[blissful salmon]

you should define parameters like my function has:
(player, context, items)
the event gives you these...
Like described here:
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events/OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu

[hearty dew]

@blissful salmon

[gilded hawk]

We should make a statue of you, and pin this message

[blissful salmon]

Yes I already read that. But in my case it's only for Server and Solo but not on the client. As far I understand Solo loads all but both isClient() and isServer() are false.

[hearty dew]

What you've implemented here is a very round about way to do this:```lua
function FactionMap()
return FactionMapClass
end

[safe silo]

Okay so this should work? I mean as it's correctly formatted?

require 'ISUI/ISInventoryItemContextMenu';

function removeContextMenuEntries(player, context, item)

    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    local playerInv = playerObj:getInventory()

    if instanceof(playerInv, "InventoryItem") then
        local item = object:getItem()
        if item:getType() == "ElectricHeater" then
            context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_On");
            context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_Off");
        end
    end
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(removeContextMenuEntries);

[gilded hawk]

No more statues 😢

[hearty dew]

Singleplayer runs all 3 (just as a multiplayer client does)

[hearty dew]

Sorry, I was trying to explain why it works

[gilded hawk]

No worries dude, I'm joking.

[blissful salmon]

The client runs the server part? So I should at some
if isClient() then return end
on the top of some files?

[hearty dew]

because new() returns self (which is a reference to FactionMapClass when called as FactionMapClass:new()), FactionMapClass.instance = FactionMapClass:new() sets instance to reference FactionMapClass. Then that reference is returned by FactionMap()

[hearty dew]

The client will load the lua files from server/, yes. I didn't understand the second question, sorry

[gilded hawk]

So, I accidentally achieved a lua (Singleton) Rube Goldberg machine 🤔

[ancient grail]

so you done with the debug UI and thi sis a difrent mod youo r working on?

[blissful salmon]

The if in the middle shoud be (i think):

        context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_On");
        context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_Off");
end```
This works if you only have one item on the stack... else you shoud loop through items[1].

At least I understood it this way as I read through one of the luas...

[gilded hawk]

Problem solved 💯

-- This is an overly complex singleton, but I kinda like it
function FactionMap()
    FactionMapClass.instance = FactionMapClass.instance or FactionMapClass:new()
    return FactionMapClass.instance
end

I want to belive I have a real class

[hearty dew]

When you call a function using : in lua, it takes whatever is to the left of the : and assigns that to the self variable inside the function being called. So

Foo = {stuff = "abc"}
function Foo:func()
  print(self.stuff) -- prints "abc", because self == Foo
end
Foo:func()

[blissful salmon]

I made a code segment in my message... I think I have to leave some files if it's the client... so far I didn't notice any issues but you never know...

[safe silo]

Okay so just changing my code from item to item[1]?

[gilded hawk]

Oooooooh, I have been using lua all this time and did not know about that

[blissful salmon]

replace this whole part:

        local item = object:getItem()
        if item:getType() == "ElectricHeater" then
            context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_On");
            context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Turn_Off");
        end
    end

ah sorry...

you still need this:
f item[1]:getType() == "ElectricHeater" then

[safe silo]

But wouldn't it remove the context menu from all items? Looking to remove it from one specific

Okay thank ❤️❤️

[blissful salmon]

thank if it works :-p

[safe silo]

I will LMAO

[hearty dew]

It's simply a fancy way to do this exact same thing:```lua
Foo = {stuff = "abc"}
function Foo.func(self)
print(self.stuff) -- prints "abc", because self == Foo
end
Foo.func(Foo)

Note I changed the `:` to a `.`

[gilded hawk]

This thing about : and . is really confusing but you made it clear, thank you tyrir

[drifting ore]

Is there a mod to make Zomboid set in the present day?

[hearty dew]

You can set the start date to 30 years forward maybe 😅

[ancient grail]

you will have to make a mod for this i think

[ancient grail]

yes world clock by konijima

wow how many modder do you manage to solve problems? @hearty dew i saw loads of thnx haha

your awsome man

[bronze yoke]

i think they were hoping for more than changing a number

[gilded hawk]

I vote for Tyrir as "the Saint of the church of Spiffo"

[drifting ore]

This one? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2834607449

I meant more like a mod that adds cell phones and electric cars and stuff like that

[bronze yoke]

you'd be able to find bits and pieces, but i don't think there's any kind of big overhaul mod like that

[tough stone]

Heyo. Haven't done any modding with PZ yet, but I've been teasing around with an idea since I saw a few different mods on the Workshop... Would it be possible to enable weather damaging structures?

[thick karma]

I STILL have no clue how to unfocus the gd debug console.

I am working on a couple mods adjacently.

[ancient grail]

not an easy mod to build but you can do it..

[jade chasm]

anyone know what kind of display cases are in the ary gallery? I want to add a spawn specific to those cases

*art gallery

[ancient grail]

u probably want to learn the how to be able to get ids of tiles then be able to input dmg to them like how players or zeds hit them
the be able to put that on a function that detects the weather.
and lastly be able to communicate the cahnges that happned to all clients so that everyone sees it.. i think? not sure..

[tough stone]

My interest is in turning PZ into a survival game with a different opponent than zombies. I'm fine with zombies, but my wife is phobic. I've always enjoyed inclement weather as a challenge. Things like Toxic Fog and Anomalous Storm got me thinking about it.

[ancient grail]

u know where to start then 🙂

[tough stone]

Seems like it might be suited better for a custom map with only player-built structures, to limit the check intensity.

[ancient grail]

try asking mapping section they know all about tiles.
you can also find out the answer by yourself by using the tilepicker aka brushtool

[ancient grail]

would still be the same cuz you would have to use onloadgrid or something like that i think

[jade chasm]

ok so you can actually limit loot spawns to a tile in game? I saw in the distriubtions but I thought it was a texture not an actual coordinate

[ancient grail]

which is the most intensive event when it comes to ram usage i believe
as it loads every time a player moves and tiles within his radius loads so you load alot of tiles i believe

but im not really sure ihavent learned to use it yet

[ancient grail]

no.. not unless u have a custom container i guess

on a custom map

[tough stone]

Hm, so perhaps better to have a fairly instantaneous effect than an ongoing one... So, instead of having weather that will slowly break down structures, have say, a heavy lightning strike that will check the grid, blast X tiles, and be done with it.

[ancient grail]

i guess
or maybe you can create custom tiles that after a certain period of time changes its sprite and its health?

[tough stone]

Ooh, self-deteriorating tiles are possible eh?

[ancient grail]

not sure either. just throwing ideas. brain storm

[gilded hawk]

Is there an event fired when the player updates their map?

[tough stone]

Ah, so brains come down and beat down the players' structures?

(couldn't help myself lmao)

[ancient grail]

what do mean by update? like discover? i guess since thats when vehicle spawn right?

[ancient grail]

yeah name the mod brain storm lol

or if it hits u learn a random recipe each time

[tough stone]

Causes all zombies in the area to start their "eating on the ground" animation, but also attracts a bunch of zombies to the area.

[ancient grail]

loool

[ancient grail]

barricaded world uses this

[gilded hawk]

I forgot to mention, when the player updates their in-game map by writing a symbol or text on it

[ancient grail]

ow im not sure ..probably UI does it

it writes on the clients save i bet

[gilded hawk]

Yeah it does, I saw it in the logs

LOG  : General     , 1666210390524> reading D:\ZomboidDevCache\Saves\Sandbox\18-10-2022_06-57-22\InGameMap.ini
LOG  : General     , 1666210400465> writing D:\ZomboidDevCache\Saves\Sandbox\18-10-2022_06-57-22\InGameMap.ini

But I did not see any event fire by it

[drifting ore]

I see

[safe silo]

I will post this again as I'm still having issues 😦 Soul your solution didn't work either but thank you so much for trying ❤️

I'm trying to remove the "Wield as Primary" and "Wield as Secondary" in the context menu of my item "ElectricHeater". Here's my attempt.

require 'ISUI/ISInventoryItemContextMenu';

function removeContextMenuEntries(player, context, item)

    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    local playerInv = playerObj:getInventory()

    if instanceof(playerInv, "InventoryItem") then
        local item = object:getItem()
        if item:getType() == "ElectricHeater" then
            context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Equip_Primary");
            context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Equip_Secondary");
        end
    end
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(removeContextMenuEntries);

[blissful salmon]

you still check the inventory if its an inventoryitem. you have to check the item[1]. maybe do some prints:
print(tostring(item[1]:getName()))

[calm acorn]

oh god dayzmod days intensifies

[safe silo]

Do I even need the variables playerObj and playerInv?

[blissful salmon]

no

[calm acorn]

just use player whats the problem?

[safe silo]

require 'ISUI/ISInventoryItemContextMenu';

function removeContextMenuEntries(player, context, item)

    print(tostring(item[1]:getName()))

    if item:getType() == "ElectricHeater" then
        context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Equip_Primary");
        context:removeOptionByName("ContextMenu_Equip_Secondary");
    end
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(removeContextMenuEntries);

Like so?

[calm acorn]

the only time you need getspecificplayer is when you mess with stuff i think across send client/servercommand.

[blissful salmon]

in the if you also should use item[1]

[calm acorn]

isnt that item:get(0)

[blissful salmon]

and make a print if you get in.

[blissful salmon]

yes

[safe silo]

Getting errors when using it with the added [1] after IF statement

[blissful salmon]

but I think I only used get() on arrays so far.

[safe silo]

function: removeContextMenuEntries -- file: HeaterISInventoryItemContextMenu.lua line # 5 | MOD: Sapphire's Playground

Line 5 is the print

Object tried to call nil

[calm acorn]

off the top of my head lua doesnt use Array[#]

[blissful salmon]

do you see the print in your console and the error?

[safe silo]

no print in the console no

It says error on createMenu and onRightMouseUp, "Object tried to call nil in removeContextMenuEntries"

The lua file is located in lua/client/ISUI/FILE

[blissful salmon]

yes, but I just do it when i get them from Java... both should work in this case I think. It depends on the index.

[calm acorn]

oh wait i guess you do yeah ignore me im still at work messing with powershell

[blissful salmon]

can you post the error?

[safe silo]

Sure pastebin?

[blissful salmon]

yes

[safe silo]

https://pastebin.com/3gFcXNzj

[jade chasm]

hey sorry for spamming the question but im modding item spawning and i'm

[safe silo]

It sounds like the object isn't indexed or w.e since it's getting nil? assuming nil = null

[jade chasm]

i'm in need of an answer about the point of suburbs.distribution

[blissful salmon]

is line 5 the print or the if?

[safe silo]

the print

[hearty dew]

Might need to translate those strings using getText

[safe silo]

Same error if I remove the print

[blissful salmon]

I have to check the item class.

[hearty dew]

(unrelated to your exception. Didn't look at that)

[safe silo]

that's prob gonna be the next error lol, but yea I assume so.

context:removeOptionByName(getName("ContextMenu_Equip_Secondary")); should be fine?

oh ok

[hearty dew]

getText instead of getName

[safe silo]

I really appreciate this. thank you for helping me ❤️

[hearty dew]

Did you remove the old function from the event and add your new (fixed) one?

(If you reloaded the save game, it would have done this)

[safe silo]

This is what I got right now:

require 'ISUI/ISInventoryItemContextMenu';

function removeContextMenuEntries(player, context, item)

    if item[1]:getType() == "ElectricHeater" then
        context:removeOptionByName(getText("ContextMenu_Equip_Primary"));
        context:removeOptionByName(getText("ContextMenu_Equip_Secondary"));
    end
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(removeContextMenuEntries);

Unsure if it answers your question

[gilded hawk]

Is there an event for when this function is called? playSoundLocal

[safe silo]

I keep logging in and out of the game yea, but always boot a new save 💀

[blissful salmon]

can you put this at the start of the function? and comment the rest for now....

  print(type(invItem))
    if not instanceof(invItem, "InventoryItem") then
      print("not instance of")
        invItem = items[1].items[1];
    else
      print("is instance of")
    end```

[safe silo]

on it!

error again

sec

tried renaming my function variable from item to items and see if it works

since I saw the new code used items and not item

[blissful salmon]

ah damn... you called the parameter item not items.

[safe silo]

I get

table
not instance of

[blissful salmon]

I also saw it right now...

[safe silo]

so just rename to items?

[hearty dew]

SAPPHIREUtils = SAPPHIREUtils or {}

SAPPHIREUtils.InspectMetatables = SAPPHIREUtils.InspectMetatables or true
SAPPHIREUtils.InspectDefaultDepth = SAPPHIREUtils.InspectDefaultDepth or 3
SAPPHIREUtils.InspectTableIndentWidth = SAPPHIREUtils.InspectTableIndentWidth or 4

SAPPHIREUtils.inspect = function(t, depth, header)
    depth = depth or SAPPHIREUtils.InspectDefaultDepth
    header = header or string.format("----------  %s  ----------", type(t))
    local printOutput = {}
    table.insert(printOutput, header)
    local table_cache = {}
    local function inspect_impl(t, depth, indent, prefix)
        local indentLead = prefix and "." or " "
        prefix = prefix or ""
        depth = depth - 1
        local tableIndent = indentLead..string.rep(" ", SAPPHIREUtils.InspectTableIndentWidth - 1)
        local prefixIndent = string.rep(" ", string.len(prefix))
        if type(t) == "table" then
            if table_cache[t] then
                table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefix..tostring(t).."  ** PRUNED. Cycle/duplicate detected **")
                return
            end
            if depth < 0 then
                table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefix..tostring(t).."  ** PRUNED. Max depth reached **")
                return
            end

            table_cache[t] = true
            table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefix..tostring(t).." {")
            for k, v in pairs(t) do
                inspect_impl(v, depth, indent..prefixIndent..tableIndent, "["..tostring(k).."] => ")
            end

            local metatable = getmetatable(t)
            if SAPPHIREUtils.InspectMetatables and metatable ~= nil then
                inspect_impl(metatable, depth, indent..prefixIndent..tableIndent, "<METATABLE> => ")
            end

            table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefixIndent.."}")
        elseif type(t) == "userdata" then
            local metatable = getmetatable(t)
            if not SAPPHIREUtils.InspectMetatables or metatable == nil then
                table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefix.."("..type(t)..") "..tostring(t))
                return
            end
            if depth < 0 then
                table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefix.."("..type(t)..") "..tostring(t).."  ** PRUNED. Max depth reached **")
                return
            end

            table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefix.."("..type(t)..") "..tostring(t).." <")
            inspect_impl(metatable, depth, 
                    indent..prefixIndent..indentLead..string.rep(" ", string.len("("..type(t)..") ") - 1),
                    "<METATABLE> => ")
            table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefixIndent..">")
        elseif type(t) == "string" then
            table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefix..'"'..t..'"')
        else
            table.insert(printOutput, indent..prefix..tostring(t))
        end
    end

    inspect_impl(t, depth, "")
    print(table.concat(printOutput, "\n"))
    return t
end

function removeContextMenuEntries(player, context, item)
    SAPPHIREUtils.inspect(item)
    if item[1]:getType() == "ElectricHeater" then
        context:removeOptionByName(getText("ContextMenu_Equip_Primary"));
        context:removeOptionByName(getText("ContextMenu_Equip_Secondary"));
    end
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(removeContextMenuEntries);

It will print out what item is

[safe silo]

gawdamn 💀

[blissful salmon]

local invItem = items[1];
  print(type(invItem))
    if not instanceof(invItem, "InventoryItem") then
      print("not instance of")
        invItem = items[1].items[1];
        if instanceof(invItem, "InventoryItem") then
          print("now is instance of")
        end
    else
      print("is instance of")
    end```

[safe silo]

on it

[blissful salmon]

if this doesn't work try the print of Tyrir

[safe silo]

sure thing sec

table
not instance of
now is instance of

[blissful salmon]

ok... so the items[1].items[1] is your heater...

[safe silo]

okay that's odd lol

[blissful salmon]

For me this was only the case if I had a stack of items. So when you click the plus in inventory do you have more then one?

so you can remove the prints and work with invItem.

[safe silo]

It works now with only ONE heater

I just did if items[1].items[1] ==

[blissful salmon]

yes. if there are multiple items you have to loop through item[1].items instead of using the first one like i did.

[safe silo]

Only one heater is still items[1].items[1]

[blissful salmon]

It's like my initial code snippet on the post...
#mod_development message

[safe silo]

Ohhh!!!!

[blissful salmon]

no... i think if its one item then you should use items[1]

[safe silo]

Yea that makes more sense to me now lol

[blissful salmon]

my code check first if the items[1] is the instance and if not i selected the first one of items[1].items ...

[safe silo]

Yup! It works, thx!!

[blissful salmon]

And you should probably loop throught it.

[safe silo]

Yup took the code ❤️

And then check with invItem

[blissful salmon]

I don't know if there is a function to check if all items are heater. Else maybe the turn on or off should not appear I thing.

[safe silo]

It worked, thank you so much!!

❤️❤️❤️

[steep copper]

Hi, ho we can tell how many units to use in a recipe ? Like BlowTorch units ?

[jade chasm]

recipes are in media/scripts/recipes

there you can see what items are required in a recipe. you can decide what amount of blowtorch units you want to use in a recipe based the amount of blowtorch units used in other recipes

[steep copper]

Yes, actually the propane from blowtorch doesn't go down when i craft things

`recipe Craft Scrap Metal
{
Category : Welding,

    UnusableMetal=2,
    keep BlowTorch,
    keep WeldingMask,
    
    Result        : ScrapMetal,
    OnGiveXP         : Recipe.OnGiveXP.MetalWelding25,
    Sound        : BlowTorch,
    Time        : 30,
    AnimNode    : Disassemble,
    
}`

So, what i need to add here ?

[jade chasm]

you need to add BlowTorch=x, with the unusable metal command to make the recipe consume fuel

[steep copper]

Okay thanks you, i will add this

[jade chasm]

is it possible to force distribution for certain grids?

I want to add loot spawns to the art gallery displaycases specifically but they are generic shop locations. Would it be better to change the tile type??

[safe silo]

If I have two items from a mod I want to have the exact same functions how would I use the item:getType == ?

I mean rn for one item it'd be item:getType == "ModdedItem"

Would I just do item:getType == "ModdedItem1" or item:getType == "ModdedItem2"?

[blissful salmon]

seems correct... i already had something similar... give me a second...

[blissful salmon]

I used:

Tags = SoulMod_UnfinishedWoodItem,

if invItem:hasTag("SoulMod_UnfinishedWoodItem") then

First line is defining a tag on your items... Second line is to check the tag on the item. So if you have a third and a fourth item you don't have to add them to the if statement. it's enought to tag the new items...

[blissful salmon]

I'm off for today... hope this last lines help you 🙂

[thick karma]

Anyone know how to catch a signal the moment after your player spawns into the game and becomes physically controllable?

Or alternatively the moment the UI is drawn after spawning?

[hearty dew]

Maybe the first OnTick?

[thick karma]

Hmmm interesting

Oh wait I have an idea that might work...

Hmmm

I think I know the show UI function that gets used, I can just decorate it

I had to ask to think of this, sorry.

[abstract raptor]

Yo yo yo -- so I'm getting requests on making the Graffiti mod work better in MP. Right now, if you leave the chunk in MP the graffiti dissapears -- and it seems like it doesn't get added to the server side so other players also can't see it. Any help would be appreciated as I have no clue wtf i am doing XD

[bronze yoke]

is OnCreatePlayer not suitable?

[thick karma]

Didn't work for me, maybe I did it wrong?

I tried simply Saying something

But it didn't talk

[bronze yoke]

maybe it gets called too early

[thick karma]

I thought maybe player gets created shortly before it appears and become useable, moveable, can talk, etc

I guess I could have triggered it wrong

[bronze yoke]

i had an issue where server commands sent after that event didn't actually get received

[thick karma]

If anyone knows Say DOES work to talk when you spawn, I did it wrong, and I'd love to be corrected

That would be the absolute easiest way

[bronze yoke]

so some weird stuff does happen with that event for sure

[thick karma]

I think I may know a way. I am gonna give it a shot. A little wonky but it should work.

[small topaz]

hey there! I tried your proposal but doesn't work for me. with such a recipe, the game allows me to use a single berry to realize the recipe instead of requiring 5 (and then may produce and error depending on whether I separate the lines with a comma or not). hmmm... strange because from a logical point of view, it would be reasonable that it works exactly as you suggested...

[abstract raptor]

I figured it out. it was just one line of code

[drifting stump]

local function OnTick()
    Events.OnTick.Remove(OnTick)
    -- do your thing
end

[thick karma]

Oh crap it seems so obvious in retrospect ❤️

[odd notch]

so, i know how to log data in the server's log folder, but how does one log data into the client's c users username zomboid logs folder?

[hearty dew]

print("text to log") will write to the active log file and then the log files are archived into the log folder when the process restarts

[odd notch]

in a specific file, not just in the console.txt

with serverside logging, we can run
sendClientCommand(getPlayer(), 'ISLogSystem', 'writeLog', {loggerName = "foo", logText = "foo!"})
and this will create a file ending in _foo.txt in the server's ./Logs directory, with an entry that says after a timestamp foo!

what i'm wondering is, how doth one create a file in the client's ./Logs directory with a specific filename and content

[hearty dew]

That looks to call into this java method, ```java
@LuaMethod(name="writeLog", global=true)
public static void writeLog(String string, String string2) {
LoggerManager.getLogger((String)string).write(string2);
}

Might try calling `writeLog(string, string)` from the client and see what happens :p

[odd notch]

[hearty dew]

Hadn't seen this before

[odd notch]

i shall try this when i get a chance ty!!!!!!

[hearty dew]

Might check if LoggerManager is exposed to lua as well. If so, it might have have other interesting logging facilities on it

[odd notch]

it appears to only log to the client!!! perfect!!!! thank you!!!!!!!!!!

[visual abyss]

so is it possible to wrap text in tooltip if it's too long?

[abstract raptor]

Anyone know a good program to edit just strings 🤔 I want to edit all instances of strings in a file but keep the rest of the formatting

[visual abyss]

notepad

in all seriousness, visual studio code is great

[abstract raptor]

yeah?

Would I be able to edit just the strings and leave all the formatting and position of the text in tact?

ok i got visual studio code

[undone elbow]

How to play a sound on red popup?

[visual abyss]

yeah. use find and replace function

[marble lynx]

Hi, extremely simple modding question (lua distributions)

Why is it that an item with a weight of 0.001 seems to show up more frequently than it should?

Eg. For every 1k zeds killed, I seem to find it at least twice.

Or am I misinterpreting the scale of the weight?

[abstract raptor]

how is that any different from notepad++ then

[marble lynx]

Or perhaps there's a lower limit to the weight so 0.001 is actually 0.01?

etc

[hearty dew]

In what way does notepad++'s find and replace not meet this requirement? I'm a bit confused by what functionality you're looking for that notepad++'s or vsc's find and replace doesn't cover

[vast nacelle]

@marble lynx It's proportional to whatever else could possibly drop.
Like if the list you are adding it to has
ItemA = 0.1
ItemB = 0.1
YourItem = 0.001
Your item will have a 0.5% chance or so of dropping.
And that's for each possible roll the container has.

[marble lynx]

Oh I see, that sure makes things more difficult and complicated

No wonder stuff like Brita's ammo and guns seem to spawn like crazy

[abstract raptor]

okay so I essentially need to make sure I'm placing all the text back in the same spot

But only the strings

that's the problem

Like I'm not replacing all the text with just one bit of text

I'm running the text through a converter that changes it

i could use a regular expression to change all the text to be the same thing sure, but that would be boring

[hearty dew]

What is the converter?

[abstract raptor]

the Uwuifier hahah

"In 1992 Guvwnyow Caw Faiwweathew made a pwomise."

[vast nacelle]

Is this conversion being done while the game is running, or are you converting it while making the mod?

[abstract raptor]

nah I'd just be doing it while making the mod

it'd be way more work to convert it while the game is running

I know the end result is cringe, but this is a weird problem to try and solve

XD

[vast nacelle]

Then you could use the Translate files.
Have entries like
IGUI_Say_Something = [text]
IGUI_Saw_Something_UWU = [uwu text]

Then anywhere you need to add these strings, you can call getText(IGUI_Say_Something_UWU)

[abstract raptor]

Well I was just aiming to quickly edit all the radio

[hearty dew]

awk might can do something like that if the lines are structured so the strings can be parsed out. If there's a lot to the converter, might be best off writing a perl or python script to parse each line, run it through uwuing and then insert the uwu'd text back

[abstract raptor]

I should probably just go to the uwuifer github thing and download that package and just edit it to suit my needs

[small topaz]

How do I make a recipe object where I can apply the methods listed here: https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.65/zombie/scripting/objects/Recipe.html ?

[hearty dew]

without defining the recipe in a script?

i.e. entirely in lua?

[bronze yoke]

getScriptManager():getRecipe('Recipe Name')

[small topaz]

No. The recipe also has a script definition. I just need to make the corresponding recipe object out of it so that I can modify and access it's data via lua code.

[hearty dew]

Then you can get a Recipe object via the ScriptManager like albion illustrated

[small topaz]

Thanks! That looks good!

[limpid moon]

hello I just got into modding and was wondering if anyone could help me

I have been looking at tutorials but they all seem to be dated

[limpid moon]

This is for a school project so if anyone is available please dm me and I will ask my questions.

[ruby urchin]

Just ask here, maybe someone has the answers to your questions ||https://dontasktoask.com/||

[drifting ore]

does anyone have an event for sleeping/going to sleep i can use?

[limpid moon]

The part i'm at with mod making im just writting the starting scripts media and textures folders. for some reason my images (such as my poster for the mod) wont load. I dont know if my syntax is wrong because the video is dated or if I didnt follow the guide properly

does the name of the image for the poster have to be poster.png

[ruby urchin]

I didn't find anything related event related with that, but you can use OnPlayerUpdate event and check if sleeping

[bronze yoke]

no, it can be anything as long as it's a png and your mod.info points to it

[drifting ore]

yeahh, that's what i'm thinking. well. another question, how do you just, kill a player?

[limpid moon]

ok then man I ask. my png has a space in it. Do i need to add that space when i put it in the mod.info

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[ruby urchin]

IsoGameCharacter has setHealth(p1 float), I did never use that, but probably this will kill instantly the player

[drifting ore]

this works apparently

[ruby urchin]

nice

[limpid moon]

it still didnt work

[drifting ore]

or just dont use spaces

[bronze yoke]

yeah i'd stay away from spaces

no idea if they're okay or not in this context but it's generally something you avoid with things like this

[limpid moon]

Yea i know i just kinda typed in the name fast

[drifting ore]

how do i send a message to chat? this documentation hurts to look at

or how do i see where print statements go?

[ruby urchin]

did you enable debug mode?

[drifting ore]

yeah

[ruby urchin]

just to be sure, you're asking how to see the variables print or..(?

[drifting ore]

like, print()

is there some kinda console?

[ruby urchin]

yeah, you should see one on bottom left of the screen, this only shows if you enable debug mode

like that

[ancient grail]

havent checked the codes . sorry bout that if it was misleading

[hearty dew]

There is also Zomboid/console.txt in your user directory. Best to tail that file in a bigger console than use the one in game imo

[ancient grail]

let me see the scrip pls

[ancient grail]

woah!! pls share that one line!! 🙂

[weak sierra]

so i've discovered at least one cause of the nonsense that is the game telling the client a file doesn't exist that does - for an unrelated mod - issue.

[weak sierra]

lol i gave it to them

it's transmitCompleteObjectToServer()

called on whatever the thing was u need to sync

if u create something purely clientside this is necessary

[weak sierra]

anyway back to this

if you have two folders with different capitalizations but the same name

which is possible on linux, but not windows

the lua system will throw a fit

[ancient grail]

remove the .png

[weak sierra]

the script system on the other hand doesn't care

media/lua/items/something.lua

and media/lua/Items/somethingElse.lua

and ur getting a random "file missing on client"

[limpid moon]

my in game icons arent working either

[weak sierra]

the game engine prefixes them with Item_

but u dont enter it in the text

so if u name ur icon Something.png

[ancient grail]

thank you! i can finally spawn tiles!

[weak sierra]

it won't work, u need Item_Something.png

[limpid moon]

gotcha. Thank you so much

[ancient grail]

tried to verify files?

thats what i did before and it fixed it

[limpid moon]

do i rename my pngs or my mod info

[weak sierra]

it was every member of the server, glytch3r

[ancient grail]

modinfo

[weak sierra]

caused by my mod

an update to it

and i know the lua subsystem is fucky because i put it in Items instead of items

and it still overrides the original file

so it clearly isn't case sensitive

yet linux lets it be

which makes it breakkkk

and mac is also case sensitive

so anyone who mods on mac or linux will run into this potentially

[ancient grail]

ouch .

so i guess they have to unsub and resub to a new version if thats the case? if i understood it correctly... else they will have misdirectory issues..

[weak sierra]

well no i just rolled back the change and will now roll out new version

that's not my point tho it's to document the problem for other modders

gonna go report to TIS on the forum now

[ancient grail]

hope it works ..

[weak sierra]

dont need to hope i tested it locally lol

[ancient grail]

same with the icon files
you have to put them on the texture folder
and theshould be named

Item_nameoficon.png

on the script that uses it
you have to remove
the Items_ and the .png

like so
Item=nameoficon,

[undone elbow]

How to make custom BloodLocation?

[ancient grail]

omg thats something new ..

[limpid moon]

may i send another screen shot. One of my mod info. Its still not working. Neither my poster or in game icons

[undone elbow]

Okay, I've found 🙂

Example, i want to do metal socks that protect both feet and lower legs, i'll simply add a BloodLocation = Feet;LowerLegs, in the item script.
Full list of per-bodypart location: Bag (back), Hands, Head, Neck, UpperBody, LowerBody, LowerLegs, UpperLegs, LowerArms, UpperArms, Groin.

[ruby urchin]

#mod_development message

[ancient grail]

just use mod template
and how exactly do you create png? they have to have transparency info. if u save it as jpg and changed the extension it will not work

if your dimension is off it will not work

[limpid moon]

so i got the image off the internet

then went to gimp

made it transparent

resized to 35 by 35

and exported as png

[glacial flicker]

Any way to give drainable uses to an item in the script file?

I want to use an item like 10 times

[ruby urchin]

item:Use()

[ancient grail]

moose just answered this earlier if you scroll up #mod_development message

[fast galleon]

Anybody know what the onTabTornOff in some UI is for? Can you like pull a tab off the window?

or is it supposed to be TurnOff

[blissful salmon]

Does someone know why I get "userdata" as datatype when I call the following code? I wanted to get a zombie by its ID:

print("gameClient: " .. type(gameClient))
local zombie = gameClient:getZombie(soundZombieId)```
The last line fails because gameClient isn't a table with this function.

[jade chasm]

^hey so I did some digging and found that "gallery" is actually a room type that is not included in the distribution files and therefore I am able to target the Art Gallery displaycases with forceForRooms. Just thought i'd drop that in case anyone else has the same question. You can also target specific containers by using forceForTile. You can find the tile info by using the debug chunk inspector. So location specific spawning is actually quite simple.

[visual abyss]

how does one skip the night

it's getting annoying when night hits while i'm trying to test shit

and fast forward takes forever

[fast galleon]

userdata means java object or array

[hearty dew]

Yea. I've seen some mods (e.g. STALKER armor) use media/lua/Client instead of media/lua/client, and suspected that played a part in some players issues because they had the client on windows and server on linux

If pz doesn't account for filesystem case differences, that's going to result in issues about files appearing in different paths or not found when the server and client have different case sensitivities when looking up files

[hearty dew]

If you tostring a userdata that is a java object exposed via kahlua, it will sometimes print the java type for you e.g. zombie.characters.IsoPlayer@0xaddress

[hearty dew]

local gameClient = getGameClient()
SoulUtils.inspectJava(gameClient, "getZombie")

[blissful salmon]

But what exactly is the difference between calling getPlayer() and getGameClient()
When I get the player I can use its methods/function but when I get the gameclient then I can't...

[blissful salmon]

I'll check this after lunch.... 🙂

[hearty dew]

It shows you getZombie is a static method

[blissful salmon]

So I can't call static object via the getGameClient() object? Can I call it using another way? I'm also not sure if it gives me what I want. But least I can test then...

[hearty dew]

You could call it if it were exposed. It appears to not be exposed to lua side.
Technically, you can call it in debug mode because java.lang.reflect.Method is exposed only in debug mode, but that's not going to help you except in making some debug tools

[hearty dew]

and no, if it were exposed, you'd call static methods in lua like this from the table containing the class functions```lua
GameClient.getZombie()
-- or
zombie.network.GameClient.getZombie()

Can also get static fields that way (but they have stale data)

[visual abyss]

How does one translate item? ItemName_EN.txt?

[blissful salmon]

Ok, thx. How can I check if something is exposed or not? Is it in a specific java class?

[hearty dew]

Yea, you can decompile zombie.Lua.LuaManager$Exposer. You'll find IsoPlayer exposed in there but not GameClient

You can check quickly in code by seeing if the functions are there or not :)

or just print(GameClient)

If it is exposed, you'll get a table. If not, it will be nil

[blissful salmon]

Thx I found it.

[vast nacelle]

Yes

Then have entries 'ItemName_[module].[itemname] = "itemname but in EN",'

[glacial flicker]

Ty!

[thick karma]

My best solution... works perfectly, but I'm wondering if anyone can think of a faster way? It's awkward that I have to double-toggle the UI to get it to hide on respawn. It works, but I hate how it looks. ❤️ to anyone who can explain to me why the game takes the next toggle after respawn as a toggle ON event if the UI was OFF before death, yet clearly SHOWS the UI already after respawn. If the UI is showing (i.e., ON), why does toggle after respawn send yet another ON signal? Exhausted from trying to solve this, tbh.

-- Death Loop

-- This is the best way I can find to rapidly rebind sidebar
-- to the rest of the UI hiding process after respawn.
-- PLEASE send me a better way if you know one. Basically,
-- this says, "The tick after the sidebar becomes visible again,
-- hide it if it was hidden when you died." 

-- isVisiblePreferred is established elsewhere in my code.
-- It is equivalent to the visibility of the HUD, unless you 
-- (A) enter the Main Menu, or (B) die. In these two cases, it 
-- retains its state as a way of reverting to your preferred 
-- state when you (A) unpause or (B) respawn.

-- hideAgainOnRespawn(ticks) is not added to OnTick 
-- unless you had hidden UI before death.

local function hideAgainOnRespawn(ticks)

    for playerIndex = 0, getNumActivePlayers() - 1 do

        local player = getSpecificPlayer(playerIndex)

        if not player then return end

        local isVisibleSidebar = UIManager.getUI():get(4):isVisible()

        if isVisibleSidebar then

            Events.OnTick.Remove(hideAgainOnRespawn)

            ISUIHandler.toggleUI()
            ISUIHandler.toggleUI()
            
        end

    end

end

local function OnPlayerDeath(player)

    if not isVisiblePreferred then

        Events.OnTick.Add(hideAgainOnRespawn)
    
    end

end

Events.OnPlayerDeath.Add(OnPlayerDeath)

[ancient grail]

took me roughly 3hrs just to do this poster
OCD kicked it.. lol

[ancient grail]

maybe because the first toggle created an instance or activated a variable which you can now toggle off?

you cant turn off something thats not on? if it hasnt been declared its nil??

not really sure tho but this is my best guess

[thick karma]

I meant exactly. I understand abstractly that something in the code that determines whether the UI needs to be hidden or shown is determining that it needs to be shown while that side panel is visible after a no-HUD respawn. I just don't know exactly where that variable is or what it's called or how it's being used. I tried decorating ISUIHandler.setVisibleAllUI and I also tried patching UIManager.setVisibleAllUI, but to no avail in either case. It's not based on ISUIHandler.isVisibleAllUI or UIManager.VisibleAllUI either, as far as I can tell. The only way I can detect it and turn it back off is by listening for a change in the specific visibility value of that side panel. (But, even so, to get the toggle working again, I have to do it twice at that moment, because this doesn't tell me why the toggle isn't working, only when it can be fixed.)

[ancient grail]

what is side panel?

[visual abyss]

would anyone happen to know why the first recipe doesnt show up

the box recipe does

like wtf

and yes, the OnCreate function exists

good lord

i dont know how i missed that ending comment on 2nd line

and i was trying to figure out why the past hour

i need to make a syntax highlight for this

[hearty dew]

json syntax highlighting might do a good enough job on it

[gilded hawk]

Did not seem to work for me on vscode

[hearty dew]

Ah :/

[gilded hawk]

I was planning to make a vscode extension to help with formatting and hight lighing this scrip files

Also, Tyrir since you are online, do you know a simple way to broadcast globalmoddata from a client to all the other clients?

[hearty dew]

Afaik global mod data transmissions (as well as commands you can do via lua) all are between server and client. So probably would need to setup an event handler on the server for OnReceiveGlobalModData that transmits your moddata to clients when it receives the update from a client

or just have clients request it when needed if possible

[gilded hawk]

🤔
Interesting, thank you tyrir

[thick karma]

All the buttons on the left side of the screen that can be clicked to open and close stuff

I'm not sure it has a name

I tried printing its name once and got nothing

But I call it side panel

[weak sierra]

the weird thing is it happened with linux client/linux server too

u'd think one OS or the other wouldnt care

but it broke both

at least the particular issue i reported

im aware of the STALKER mod's issues

i know the maker of that

@autumn stump

speaking of u

i found potential cause and Tyrir points out one

maybe u can check ur mod

[autumn stump]

Oh. Damn I will check if that’s the issue. It makes sense. Thank you Evelyn and @hearty dew ! You think if I change that folder name and update the mod, it won’t break anything? I’m always a bit scared of changing folder names and updating in case it breaks it for people. Thanks a lot!

[bronze yoke]

in the debug menu, you can increase the speed much much faster than the normal controls allows you

[ancient grail]

i also do this too. works on local hosted server (where i test mods)
tho there are times when it doesnt run the script via buttom so i end up using console instead

[ancient grail]

try adding the module on the jtem ZEEd, if its base then. Base.ZEEd,
also theres suppose to be require stuff on the top of the lua script double check if its the right one

[weak sierra]

the issue i had was having two folders with diff capitalization and same name

in the SAME mod

cuz it was a server override/tweak mod

and i was tweaking mods with diff capitalizations

that's how i got onto this

if this fixes it please post on the bug report thread to add info

more chance they fix the problem

[fast galleon]

On SP you can mess with weather controls, there are options for darkness and lighting though they don't seem to always work, could be my fault. Sometime setting the weather controls from cheat menu mod works better.

[autumn stump]

I’ll try this out, thanks!

[visual abyss]

missing ending comment was the issue

i removed the module cause i was just trying to experiment with solutions

when i shared the pic

[gilded hawk]

Is there a way to make a function run every X seconds instead of every frame or very tick?

I think a function I'm using is running a little too often

[ancient grail]

is it possible to change an items attachment location via console? just for that 1x spawn instance.. and or its sprite?

[thick karma]

if (ticks % 60 ~= 0) then return end

First line of the OnTick

[hearty dew]

There's the OnEveryTenMinutes event for in-game 10 mins. If you want a function run periodically in irl time, I think the only way is to utilize OnTick (or one of the other similar on tick events, some fire when the game is paused, some don't) and check if enough wall clock time has passed using the time functions in os.

[visual abyss]

there we go

that took forever to implement that syntax highlight

now i shouldnt miss any comments

[hearty dew]

You can count frames in OnTick too, but need to factor in that fps are not consistent

[thick karma]

@gilded hawk My solution would be approximately close. Not sure if you need exact.

It sounded like you did not need precision

Like you just want to slow down how often you do a complicated thing

[gilded hawk]

The solution is interesting, and what tyrir said it's also interesting, I'll think about it 👍

[thick karma]

I think Tyrir is talking about what I did

In his own terms

"counting frames" = using the tick variable

I could be wrong

Pointing out the problem with what I offered

[hearty dew]

MxUtils = MxUtils or {}

MxUtils.IntervalTimers = MxUtils.IntervalTimers or {}

--[[
    Usage example:
    
    local intervalTimerID = MxUtils.createIntervalTimer(5000, function()
        print("5 seconds have elapsed!")
    end)
    
    MxUtils.deleteIntervalTimer(intervalTimerID)
]]
MxUtils.createIntervalTimer = function(intervalInMilliseconds, intervalElapsedEventHandler, runOnce)
    local id = #MxUtils.IntervalTimers + 1
    local lastIntervalTime = math.floor(os.time() * 1000)

    MxUtils.IntervalTimers[id] = function(tickCounter)
        local time = math.floor(os.time() * 1000)
        if os.difftime(time, lastIntervalTime + intervalInMilliseconds) >= 0 then
            if runOnce then
                MxUtils.deleteIntervalTimer(id)
            end
            lastIntervalTime = time
            intervalElapsedEventHandler(id)
        end
    end

    -- Other events to consider
    -- Events.OnRenderTick.Add(MxUtils.IntervalTimers[id])
    -- Events.OnTickEvenPaused.Add(MxUtils.IntervalTimers[id])
    Events.OnTick.Add(MxUtils.IntervalTimers[id])

    return id
end

MxUtils.deleteIntervalTimer = function(id)
    if MxUtils.IntervalTimers[id] then
        Events.OnTick.Remove(MxUtils.IntervalTimers[id])
        MxUtils.IntervalTimers[id] = nil
    else
        print(string.format("WARNING: Unknown interval timer id %s", tostring(id)))
    end
end

[gilded hawk]

WOW!

That's amazing

[thick karma]

I don't even understand how to use this 😂

Is this using background tasks?

Or synchronous?

[hearty dew]

local intervalID = MxUtils.createIntervalTimer(5000, function() print("It's been 5 seconds!") end)
-- then later to stop it
MxUtils.deleteIntervalTimer(intervalID)

[hearty dew]

It's just an event handler on OnTick that calls the provided function when enough wall time has elapsed

so polling basically

[thick karma]

Oh. So you call the function to add the listener and then you use the clock to count time passed when each tick lands?

[hearty dew]

lua doesn't have any ways to use OS timers to avoid the polling

[hearty dew]

yea

[thick karma]

I see so the reason you have the array is to time different events?

And you can store their IDs separately?

Events that could begin at arbitrary times?

[hearty dew]

yea

[thick karma]

Wow crazy

That is a next level solution

[hearty dew]

It's a basic way to implement timers by polling if you don't have OS timers

[visual abyss]

yeah it'd have to be java exposed but alas

send a request to TIS

[hearty dew]

I wanted to extend it to run lua coroutines, so you could give it a thread to run periodically, something like this:```lua
function foo()
print("starting routine")
wait(seconds(5))
print("5 seconds later")
wait(minutes(1))
print("one min after that")
end

But I haven't yet found a good use case for doing it in pz

[hollow storm]

Good day! Me and a friend are big fans of the "Crossed" comic series and wanted to make some mods for Zomboid. If someone has time and wants to work on such a project, please write to me via Discord.
You don't have to know the comic series!

[hearty dew]

Got the idea from https://stackoverflow.com/a/5128495

    -- a volcano erupts every 2 minutes
    function level_with_volcano( interface )
    
        while true do
            wait(seconds(5))
            start_eruption_volcano()
            wait(frames(10))
            s = play("rumble_sound")
            wait( end_of(s) )
            start_camera_shake()
       
            -- more stuff

            wait(minutes(2))
        end
    end

If someone can think of when something like that'd be useful, that'd be interesting to hear 🙂

[calm acorn]

There already is a horny jail mod for pz

[ruby urchin]

I did one #mod_development message

[hearty dew]

Oh cool

Do you have any use cases for it yet? I was thinking it might be good for scripting events, but that doesn't seem too common in pz mods that I've seen (at least the ones I play with)

[ruby urchin]

Hmm I have this at the moment

---@deprecated
IsoDog.update = function(self, thread)
    while true do

        if self:getState() == "Wander" and #self:getActionQueue() == 0 then
            local currentSquare = self.character:getCurrentSquare();
            local squares = UTILS.getSquareAround(currentSquare, 5);
            local squaresFiltred = UTILS.Table.filter(squares, function(element) return element and element ~= currentSquare end);
            local goToSquare = squaresFiltred[ZombRand(1, #squaresFiltred)];


            local action = ISWalkToTimedAction:new(self.character, goToSquare)
            action.maxTime = 1000; -- BUILD 41.77 Broken something.
            action.useProgressBar = false;
            self:addAction(action);
            print("Dog walking around");

            --thread:Wait(ZombRand(1000, 5000));
        end

        if self:getState() == "Follow" then
            local owner = self:getOwner();

            if owner  then
                local ownerCoords = Vector3f.new(owner:getX(), owner:getY(), owner:getZ());
                local distance = ownerCoords:distance(self.character:getX(), self.character:getY(), self.character:getZ());

                if distance >= 3 then
                    self:clearActions();
                    local action = TASK_GO_TO_LOCATION_OFFSET:new(self.character, owner, 3.0);
                    action.maxTime = 1000; -- BUILD 41.77 Broken something.
                    action.useProgressBar = false;
                    self:addAction(action);

                    if distance >= 7 then
                        
                        self.character:NPCSetRunning(true);
                        --self.character:setSprinting(true)
                    else
                        self.character:NPCSetRunning(false);
                        --animal:setSprinting(false)
                    end
                end

                print("Dog following owner")
            end

            thread:Wait(1000);
        end

        thread:Wait(20)
    end
end

[hearty dew]

Like the ai thread for creatures. Nice :)

[calm acorn]

Event.OnTick.Add( Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. )

man like literally every mod that uses this lags out every server

theres a couple of okay ones but more often than not ontick is laggy if it runs on the server once you get past a certain number doing anything more than basic checks to fire off some other event, that angry turrets mod was killing my server the other day.

[safe silo]

What would be the best way to make sure a tile is placed indoors with a roof above it? I want to add a check for placing my heater down so it can't heat outside.

Would it be square:getRoof() and square:getRoom()? Not sure if it's the exact names but I know they exist

[calm acorn]

isnt there a IsIndoor or isInside() check for isosquare

[safe silo]

oh it might be one yea

[calm acorn]

oh im stupid its isOutside

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/iso/IsoGridSquare.html#isOutside()

[safe silo]

So I should be able to call if square:isOutside() == FALSE I'll allow it?

[calm acorn]

(not square:isOutside())

[safe silo]

ah okay, man lua is weird 💀

but thank u ❤️

[calm acorn]

np mate

[hearty dew]

@thorn bane Got custom chat tabs working more or less. Still wip

[autumn sparrow]

are there any good references or source information for getting started to learn lua gui specifically for Project Zomboid?

[safe silo]

there's some on the PZ Wiki but tbf I usually just look at other similiar projects and adapt

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding

[autumn sparrow]

oh okay. I'd like to get started with making simple windows and buttons and go from there. Just thought maybe there was someplace I wasn't looking that would help more with it.

[safe silo]

Windows and buttons? So primarily UI stuff?

[autumn sparrow]

yes

[safe silo]

Sub to this mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2760035814

And look through the LUA, it's more like a framework but could be good for starts

[hearty dew]

@thorn bane also patches ISChat to function in singleplayer, in case that was needed. Need to pass true as the last parameter to addChatTab for it to create the chat window in singleplayer

[safe silo]

If you want to code completely from scratch-ish, I downloaded this mod and used it as a template: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2793605206

You'll have to code the opening on of the modal (UI) to be onGameStart or use his example where he uses a button on the left panel

[autumn sparrow]

okay, awesome! I'll get started with these. Thank you.

[safe silo]

No worries! I sadly can't help you with any code related questions as I'm just starting myself but those two projects had me get a easy head start!

[autumn sparrow]

all good. I really want to learn. I just couldn't find information on the ui stuff like I did with the coding so thought I would ask here.

[autumn stump]

You think the spaces in the mod main folder may also play an issue on this? As in, my armor pack has two spaces: "STALKER Armor Pack". Maybe the OS thinks of the spaces weird.

[vast nacelle]

How does noise propagate? Like say you generate a noise that is 100 range and 100 loudness.
Does the noise attract zombies within 100 tiles of the source with 100 loudness through out then stop cold after that?
Does the noise's loudness decay from 100 at the source to 0 at 100 tiles away?
Or is the noise at full loudness up to 100 tiles then decays after that that until the loudness falls to 0?