#mod_development | Project Zomboid | Page 40

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 12:38 AM

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in one of their more recent blog/update posts they mentioned that they changed how progress bars worked so "infinite" timed actions like getting into a vehicle were more obvious. They said they did that explicitely because people were confused by how they were bit through the door by a zombie, since they'd unknowingly canceled the action by opening the map or whatever

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since vanilla cars don't actually show the door open, people were unaware that it was

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there is even a timed action called ISEnterVehicle

bronze yoke Oct 23, 2022, 12:39 AM

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timedactions are actions that are timed

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not much more is inherent to them

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 12:43 AM

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Most of the related actions don't seem to have a time associated. IsEnterVehicle ISSwitchVehicleSeat, ISOpenVehicleDoor

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ISOpenVehicleDoor being the action that actually calls setDoorOpen

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ISOpenVehicleDoor:start() sets its time to 5... I assume that's either 5ms or 5 frames? You could try overwriting that function

ruby urchin Oct 23, 2022, 12:48 AM

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Do you mean something like this?

---fileA.lua
local example = function()
  --TODO
end

return example

---fileB.lua
local example = require('fileA')
example();

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 12:48 AM

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ruby urchin Do you mean something like this? ```lua ---fileA.lua local example = function() ...

Exactly, is it possible?

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 12:48 AM

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astral dune `ISOpenVehicleDoor:start()` sets its time to 5... I assume that's either 5ms or ...

Those might be seconds. A lot of those actions has such a duration to allow the player to walk to the target

ruby urchin Oct 23, 2022, 12:49 AM

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gilded hawk Exactly, is it possible?

yep, in fact, I do it to create my modules and not interfere with other mods with global variables

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and of course, everything is more organized

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 12:49 AM

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hearty dew Those might be seconds. A lot of those actions has such a duration to allow the ...

I think thats what ISPathFindAction:pathToVehicleSeat is doing

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 12:49 AM

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ruby urchin yep, in fact, I do it to create my modules and not interfere with other mods wit...

So, theoretically I could require the local from another mod too? 🤔

bronze yoke Oct 23, 2022, 12:50 AM

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only if the mod's file returns the function you want

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 12:50 AM

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only if they have the local function returned, like in Dislaik's example

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 12:50 AM

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ah dammit, they are not returned 😦

ruby urchin Oct 23, 2022, 12:50 AM

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gilded hawk So, theoretically I could require the local from another mod too? 🤔

Yep I do that with my first mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2665369300

---Another mod lua file
local ZombieCamouflage = require "ZombieCamouflage/Functions"
if ZombieCamouflage then
    ZombieCamouflage.addKnife("Base.Axe")
end

reef zealot Oct 23, 2022, 12:50 AM

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whatever ISOpenVehicleDoor:start() does, it doesn't do what I want it to

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 12:51 AM

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reef zealot whatever `ISOpenVehicleDoor:start()` does, it doesn't do what I want it to

you're going to want to have a close look at ISVehicleMenu.onEnterAux ,onEnter, onEnter2 etc

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 12:51 AM

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ruby urchin Yep I do that with my first mod <https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedeta...

It's pretty cool but 2313633950\mods\ShowSkillXpGain\media\lua\client\ShowSkillXpGain.lua this mod does no return the local fuction I want to override, which is this one

local function ShowXP(player, skill, level)
    if skill ~= nil then
        local perkName = skill:getName()
        
        if not player:isNPC() then
            if isValid(perkName) then
                local showAmountString = ""
                
                if ShowSkillXpGain.showValue then
                    showAmountString = string.format(" +%.2f", tostring(level))
                end

                HaloTextHelper.addTextWithArrow(player, perkName .. showAmountString, true, HaloTextHelper.getColorGreen())
            end
        end
    end
end

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 12:52 AM

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astral dune I think thats what `ISPathFindAction:pathToVehicleSeat` is doing

Mm.. similar to opening windows, it sounds like. Those function by calling a function to walk to the window (asynchronously) while the action to open them is queued

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 12:52 AM

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gilded hawk It's pretty cool but `2313633950\mods\ShowSkillXpGain\media\lua\client\ShowSkill...

What exactly do you want to override/modify?

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 12:53 AM

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hearty dew Mm.. similar to opening windows, it sounds like. Those function by calling a fun...

ya, the code is literally this after queuing the pathfinding

if not door:isOpen() then
    ISTimedActionQueue.add(ISOpenVehicleDoor:new(playerObj, vehicle, doorPart))
end
ISTimedActionQueue.add(ISEnterVehicle:new(playerObj, vehicle, seat))
ISTimedActionQueue.add(ISCloseVehicleDoor:new(playerObj, vehicle, seat))

ruby urchin Oct 23, 2022, 12:53 AM

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gilded hawk So, theoretically I could require the local from another mod too? 🤔

mb I read wrong, as far as I know, you can't get the local var of a function

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 12:53 AM

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hearty dew What exactly do you want to override/modify?

I'm trying to apply my debounce code to the showXP function, but I don't want to reupload the original mod just to have the debouncer working

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📎 message.txt

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 12:55 AM

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gilded hawk

The original mod has that function ShowXP added to the Events.AddXP and I was hoping for a way to avoid reuploading the mod or remaking it from scratch

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I tried to get in touch with the mod author but I got no reply

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 12:57 AM

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So the way that mod's file is structured is it creates a local function and adds it to Events.AddXP just below creating the function, it sounds like?

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 12:57 AM

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hearty dew So the way that mod's file is structured is it creates a local function and adds...

Yep

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Screen shot for reference

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 12:57 AM

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yea

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 12:58 AM

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looks like you'll have to use the Event.Add decorator Tyrir made, lol

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 12:58 AM

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Event add decorator? 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 12:58 AM

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stop it from ever being added in the first place... assuming the stars align

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this badboy
#mod_development message

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 1:00 AM

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astral dune this badboy https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/232196827577974784/1...

Oh wow, that's interesting 🤔

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 1:02 AM

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essentially, you sneak in there and force other mods to use your event handler register instead of the vanilla one.... its heavy handed and if there are several mods doing this at the same time I'm sure it would cause problems, but its kinda the only way I know of to intercept the registration of a local function to an event

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I use it to intercept the commands in VehicleCommands.lua, since they are also local and not returned

trail lotus Oct 23, 2022, 1:07 AM

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can anyone reverse engineer a mod for me a little? i have a playershop mod browser8 created for me. he since has become super busy and gave me permission to edit it a little. basically a player can buy a stored item in the shop.. now i want a sell tab where players can go in and sell items to the shop the shop owner sets a buy price for it.

reef zealot Oct 23, 2022, 1:38 AM

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does anyone know what controls the behavior of the vehicle entry zone square that appears when you're next to the door?

thorn bane Oct 23, 2022, 1:43 AM

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What's a way to give a player a trait when they spawn in?

gilded hawk Oct 23, 2022, 1:48 AM

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thorn bane What's a way to give a player a trait when they spawn in?

There is an event Events.OnNewGame.Add inside that event you can do player:getTraits():add(TRAITHERE);

thorn bane Oct 23, 2022, 1:48 AM

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Solid, cheers :)

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 1:51 AM

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astral dune this badboy https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/232196827577974784/1...

Hrm, looks like I didn't finish that. I must have written it for OnClientCommand, but didn't finish generalizing it to work with any event 😅

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 1:52 AM

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I think its just that print statement that's not general, but I haven't looked at it in a bit so not sure

elfin stump Oct 23, 2022, 1:53 AM

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Has anyone got information or an example mod on adding additional vanilla style text radio stations into the game? I don't want to add any audio, I just want to add a frequency that will display text if the station is broadcasting - like the vanilla radio stations or vanilla the emergency broadcast station.

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 1:54 AM

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hearty dew Hrm, looks like I didn't finish that. I must have written it for `OnClientComman...

That middle bit should be something like ```lua

    local newEventHandler = function(...)
        if isDebugEnabled() then
            print(string.format("DEBUG: Decorated handler for Events.%s called", eventName))
        end
        return eventHandlerDecorator(eventHandler, ...)
    end

Didn't test it though :p
@gilded hawk

thick karma Oct 23, 2022, 5:08 AM

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Does this look well-formed as far as everyone knows? I'm not 100% sure it's necessary for blocking all notifications, but I think it may block obscure ones, so I would like to keep it, just in case. No errors, so if any of these is wrong, at least the patch function fails safely. 🤪

local function hidePerkLevelNotifications()

    patchJavaMethodB(zombie.characters["IsoGameCharacter$XP"].class, "AddXP", 
        function(metatableMethod)
            return function(...)
                -- Before
                if dawnOfTheZed["Hide Perk Level-Up Notifications"] then
                    zeroHoursSurvived()
                end

                -- Proceed
                metatableMethod(...)
                
                -- After
                if dawnOfTheZed["Hide Perk Level-Up Notifications"] then
                    restoreHoursSurvived()
                end
            end
        end
    )

    patchJavaMethodB(zombie.characters["IsoGameCharacter$XP"].class, "AddXPNoMultiplier", 
        function(metatableMethod)
            return function(...)
                -- Before
                if dawnOfTheZed["Hide Perk Level-Up Notifications"] then
                    zeroHoursSurvived()
                end

                -- Proceed
                metatableMethod(...)
                
                -- After
                if dawnOfTheZed["Hide Perk Level-Up Notifications"] then
                    restoreHoursSurvived()
                end
            end
        end
    )
    
    patchJavaMethodB(zombie.characters.HaloTextHelper.class, "addTextWithArrow", 
        function(metatableMethod)
            return function(...)
                -- Condition
                if not dawnOfTheZed["Hide Perk Level-Up Notifications"] then
                    -- Proceed
                    metatableMethod(...)
                end
                -- Otherwise, don't call that method.
            end
        end
    )

    patchJavaMethodB(zombie.characters.IsoGameCharacter.class, "LevelPerk", 
        function(metatableMethod)
            return function(...)
                -- Before
                if dawnOfTheZed["Hide Perk Level-Up Notifications"] then
                    zeroHoursSurvived()
                end

                -- Proceed
                metatableMethod(...)

                -- After
                if dawnOfTheZed["Hide Perk Level-Up Notifications"] then
                    restoreHoursSurvived()
                end
            end
        end
    )
end

empty wagon Oct 23, 2022, 6:27 AM

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Is there a mod that reveals my map

thick karma Oct 23, 2022, 6:28 AM

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It's actually a Sandbox option

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Or a server option

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Idr

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@empty wagon

empty wagon Oct 23, 2022, 6:31 AM

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Yeah but I meant in an ongoing run so I can enable some sort of mod so I can see it

thick karma Oct 23, 2022, 6:32 AM

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I don't know about that... sorry.

empty wagon Oct 23, 2022, 6:32 AM

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👍

thick karma Oct 23, 2022, 6:46 AM

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Hey I accidentally enabled the ability to see all sorts of debug info about characters and zombies while I walk around... must have accidentally pressed something... anyone know what I'm talkin about and how to close it?

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Never mind it's F6 apparently.

stray yacht Oct 23, 2022, 8:25 AM

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Anyone know how I might store a java list as a lua table? Can't seem to get it right and my googling has failed me

ruby urchin Oct 23, 2022, 9:20 AM

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stray yacht Anyone know how I might store a java list as a lua table? Can't seem to get it r...

local t = {};

for i = 0, ArrayList:size() - 1 do
    table.insert(t, ArrayList:get(i));
end

low yarrow Oct 23, 2022, 10:07 AM

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I try to do a relative simple task.
The outfit chance is controlled by the sandbox settings, which does work so far.
But in case someone doesnt wants to spawn the headhunter outfit for example i also want to set the spawn chance of the secret variations as well to 0% (I have there 100% right now for debug reasons)
`local function DoIt() --It does the thing
local StalkerSpawnrate = SandboxVars.UndeadSurvivor.StalkerChance;
local NomadSpawnrate = SandboxVars.UndeadSurvivor.NomadChance;
local PrepperSpawnrate = SandboxVars.UndeadSurvivor.PrepperChance;
local HeadhunterSpawnrate = SandboxVars.UndeadSurvivor.HeadhunterChance;
local OminousNomadSpawnrate = 0.01;
local DeadlyHeadhunterSpawnrate = 0.01;

if NomadSpawnrate == 0.00 then
    OminousNomadSpawnrate = 100;
end
else
    OminousNomadSpawnrate = 0.01;
end

if HeadhunterSpawnrate == 0.00 then
    DeadlyHeadhunterSpawnrate = 100;
end
else
    DeadlyHeadhunterSpawnrate = 0.01;
end

table.insert(ZombiesZoneDefinition.Default,{name = "Stalker", chance = StalkerSpawnrate});

table.insert(ZombiesZoneDefinition.Default,{name = "Nomad", chance = NomadSpawnrate});
table.insert(ZombiesZoneDefinition.Default,{name = "OminousNomad", chance = OminousNomadSpawnrate});

table.insert(ZombiesZoneDefinition.Default,{name = "Prepper", chance = PrepperSpawnrate});

table.insert(ZombiesZoneDefinition.Default,{name = "Headhunter", chance = HeadhunterSpawnrate});
table.insert(ZombiesZoneDefinition.Default,{name = "DeadlyHeadhunter", chance = DeadlyHeadhunterSpawnrate});`

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But for some reason the "if" commands wont affect the chance

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While i could do add a sandbox settings for those i dont want to do that because they are top secret

undone elbow Oct 23, 2022, 10:21 AM

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How to count seats in vehicle? Is there an API function like seatsCount() ?

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By now I can imagine only this:

local function seatsCount(vehicle)
    local cnt = 0
    while vehicle:isSeatInstalled(cnt) do
        cnt = cnt + 1
    end
    return cnt
end```

low yarrow Oct 23, 2022, 10:42 AM

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Nevermind, that seems to work.
Instead of changing the variables just putting directly a if command for the table insert

undone elbow Oct 23, 2022, 12:53 PM

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What is faster?

if x then
-- OR --
if x ~= nil then

Let's say it can't be "false".

ruby urchin Oct 23, 2022, 1:07 PM

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Not sure, but I think you can use os lib to check that

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 1:09 PM

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undone elbow What is faster? ```lua if x then -- OR -- if x ~= nil then ``` Let's say it can'...

if x seems a bit faster in some cases (depending on what x is). But both are minuscule compared to other things.

l.measureTime("test", function() local x= ""; for i=1,100000 do if x then end end end)

9ms

l.measureTime("test", function() local x= ""; for i=1,100000 do if x~=nil then end end end)

15ms

l.measureTime("test", function() local x= nil; for i=1,100000 do if x then end end end)

12ms

l.measureTime("test", function() local x= nil; for i=1,100000 do if x~=nil then end end end)

12ms

And for comparison:

l.measureTime("test", function() print("hi") end)

6ms

A single print takes 6ms, while 100,000 if comparisons take around 10ms

undone elbow Oct 23, 2022, 1:11 PM

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Globals are slow in general, so x is local variable (not global). Usually it's a number in my case.

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 1:13 PM

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l.measureTime("test", function() local x= 5; for i=1,100000 do if x~=nil then end end end)

15ms

l.measureTime("test", function() local x= 5; for i=1,100000 do if x then end end end)

9ms

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If I change the above to a global, the numbers become 22ms, and 16ms

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which, amortized over 100000 iterations, works out to 70 nanoseconds per var access higher for a global than local

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I imagine calling into java to get java objects overshadows most of this

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Hmm, let me check

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l.measureTime("test", function() local x; for i=1,100000 do x = getPlayer() end end)

112ms

Hmm, slower, but was expecting 100x slower or more. That's actually not so bad, 10x slower

trail lotus Oct 23, 2022, 1:26 PM

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any modders trying to help build a server. i've got tons of work and some cash. let me know, mainly looking for ui and coding modders. looking to build the team we have more.

trail lotus Oct 23, 2022, 1:58 PM

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also is there a server mod that allows the map everyone views to be edited by admin? so when new players join they can see like areas, or buildings they can go to or shops

cursive nacelle Oct 23, 2022, 2:03 PM

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Using 10 years later and im trying to use the low veg of it, but for some reason its not working, anyone know why?

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 2:07 PM

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cursive nacelle Using 10 years later and im trying to use the low veg of it, but for some reason...

It works. It's just that the resolution of its options is low. steam://openurl/https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2862873873 has more detailed options

Steam Workshop::28 Days Later

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You can look at that to see how its options function and compare the code to 10 years later

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 3:03 PM

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Has anyone worked out a way to redirect console.txt output into something usable in lua?

sour estuary Oct 23, 2022, 3:16 PM

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Anyone know the process for editing animations if there is one?

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I'm trying to turn the shove into a fast kick to go better with the martial artist trait

woeful relic Oct 23, 2022, 3:29 PM

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i have problem with "Mod options"

weak sierra Oct 23, 2022, 4:10 PM

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hearty dew Has anyone worked out a way to redirect console.txt output into something usable...

well u could catch a lot of it by hooking print

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but probably would miss the java-end stuff

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 4:10 PM

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I found a way. Thanks

weak sierra Oct 23, 2022, 4:11 PM

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mind sharing? curious

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lol

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 4:11 PM

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Just opened an input stream to output.txt using apis in GlobalObject. I'll probably just poll read every so often

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There's a few more io functions there than I realized. There's even a url reader there I hadn't seen before. Can't wait for the embedded web browser mod heh

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 4:17 PM

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hearty dew Just opened an input stream to output.txt using apis in GlobalObject. I'll proba...

Some of the io streams and debug console IU and DebugLog java objects are exposed to lua. There might also be a way by doing something a little more clever (and performant) than simply reading the file directly, but for now, this will do

drifting ore Oct 23, 2022, 4:31 PM

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Hey everyone, is there an easy way to add another flag to the game such as the USA flag but with different textures?

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I already did some stuff regarding the spawntables and the texture etc

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though I used an outdated tutorial and thus could need someone to give me a small guide string, thanks in advance for any responses!

weak sierra Oct 23, 2022, 4:42 PM

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hearty dew There's a few more io functions there than I realized. There's even a url reader...

stream youtube to the in-game TV

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:p

limber hornet Oct 23, 2022, 4:48 PM

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Anyone know any good truck mods? Like those big american trucks?

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 4:50 PM

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limber hornet Anyone know any good truck mods? Like those big american trucks?

I think some of the tsar vehicle mods include trucks. Try searching the pz steam workshop for "tsar". Might ask in #mod_support too. That channel will be more suitable for general mod questions like that

crimson gyro Oct 23, 2022, 5:16 PM

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is there any mod that lets you deck out cars

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like reinforce the hoods and stuff

young orchid Oct 23, 2022, 6:28 PM

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weak sierra stream youtube to the in-game TV

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-dew-it-do-it-gif-12426073

Tenor

weak sierra Oct 23, 2022, 6:33 PM

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limber hornet Anyone know any good truck mods? Like those big american trucks?

ATA Petyarbilt, KI5 Ohskosh M911, W900, and P.A.R.C. includes some Russian semis.

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that's literally all of them afaik

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lol

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for bonus trailers you can install Water Trailers

limber summit Oct 23, 2022, 6:36 PM

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where are the trash cans in the game located? Trying to add some to maps and i can't find them in any item folder or as an admin in-game from the "item list viewer" under the words bin/trash/dumpster.

ancient grail Oct 23, 2022, 6:36 PM

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Moveables

limber summit Oct 23, 2022, 6:37 PM

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ty

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oh my lorde the name is also moveable for all of them

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that explains it

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 6:56 PM

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I see a mod on the workshop that says you must put it in a certain order in the mod load order. I thought the mod load order didn't do anything?

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 6:57 PM

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It breaks ties where two mods have lua files with the same path

astral dune Oct 23, 2022, 6:58 PM

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so he's overriding entire files

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 6:58 PM

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Possibly, yea

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It might affect other things too, idk. I do know for lua files it only comes into play where multiple mods have the same lua file path

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May also be misunderstanding. I've seen plenty instances of people suggesting changing mod load order when it isn't relevant

willow estuary Oct 23, 2022, 7:10 PM

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With PZ, in some case instances, such as mods overwriting/patching other mods, or otherwise being dependant on other mods, load order might matter, but in general as a gross generalization, load order doesn't matter.
But I gather that load order is important for many other games that have mods? Maybe especially when people are running 200-mod behemoths with the games.

undone elbow Oct 23, 2022, 7:37 PM

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@woeful relic Are you sure?

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 7:51 PM

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@undone elbow looks like he posted more info about it in #mod_support , #mod_support message

crimson gyro Oct 23, 2022, 8:11 PM

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is there any mod that lets you deck out cars?

jade chasm Oct 23, 2022, 8:13 PM

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hey guys i'm trying to upload my mod but i'm getting a failure to upload. is there a language filter in workshop? my mod is called "The Bastard Sword" and i'm wondering if that's the issue lol

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 8:13 PM

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crimson gyro is there any mod that lets you deck out cars?

Might try asking in #mod_support. They generally field those end-user mod questions there

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 8:13 PM

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jade chasm hey guys i'm trying to upload my mod but i'm getting a failure to upload. is the...

Do you get an error code or message?

jade chasm Oct 23, 2022, 8:14 PM

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code 15

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 8:14 PM

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https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/steam_api#EResult

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I think that's the associated error code that PZ surfaces from steam

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k_EResultAccessDenied    15    Access is denied.

jade chasm Oct 23, 2022, 8:15 PM

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so access might be denied bc of "Bastard" you think?

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 8:16 PM

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I don't know. I was hoping the error code would be a little more explanatory to what you know about the situation

crimson gyro Oct 23, 2022, 8:22 PM

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hearty dew Might try asking in <#919609757168468028>. They generally field those end-user m...

Thx man

safe silo Oct 23, 2022, 9:07 PM

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How could I make an item be powered by a generator?

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Can I just give it a tag or does it require additional coding

jade chasm Oct 23, 2022, 10:23 PM

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2879159332

Steam Workshop::The Bastard Sword

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Hey guys I published my mod. Adds a very rare and durable sword to the game. Keeps true to vanilla for the most part. Check it out if you'd like.

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^thanks to everyone for the help

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 10:28 PM

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jade chasm Hey guys I published my mod. Adds a very rare and durable sword to the game. Kee...

How did you resolve the upload issue?

jade chasm Oct 23, 2022, 10:29 PM

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I fixed some conflicting stuff in the mod.info file and let steam generate the steam id for the mod. I thought I had to make it up myself.

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 10:30 PM

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Ah, that error code makes sense now

weak sierra Oct 23, 2022, 10:34 PM

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jade chasm https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2879159332

Looks good, will install this on my server after a test.

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:)

limpid moon Oct 23, 2022, 11:07 PM

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hey quick question. if i were to input a directx file into my mod and when i made it in blender i added animations would the animations automatically stay in and play in game

jade chasm Oct 23, 2022, 11:08 PM

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weak sierra :)

hey awesome thank you! I appreciate your comment and award. let me know if you have any suggestions. enjoy!

torn cypress Oct 23, 2022, 11:29 PM

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About B41 firearms

I am not able to put on attachments, only take off

yes i have everything in my main inventory, please help

hearty dew Oct 23, 2022, 11:38 PM

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torn cypress About B41 firearms I am not able to put on attachments, only take off yes i ha...

#mod_support does mod support

torn cypress Oct 23, 2022, 11:39 PM

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oh whoops

dusty stone Oct 24, 2022, 12:33 AM

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Anyone know if it’s possible to disable cancelling out of a timed action?

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Alternatively, as a temporary solution, has anyone had any luck disabling keybinds? Couldn’t find documentation on that and eatKeyPress() doesn’t seem to work either

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 12:55 AM

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dusty stone Anyone know if it’s possible to disable cancelling out of a timed action?

hit esc

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:)

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lol

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in code tho

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self:forceStop()

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from within the action anyway

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depends on the context

astral dune Oct 24, 2022, 12:56 AM

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I think he wants to prevent an action from stopping, not stop it himsef

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 12:58 AM

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oh

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i misread

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aye

dusty stone Oct 24, 2022, 1:00 AM

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Yeah, right now I’m looking into temporarily disabling the keybinds for esc and melee, both of which cancel timed actions

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 1:01 AM

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You could search for how those keys cancel the timed actions and try to circumvent that

gilded hawk Oct 24, 2022, 1:25 AM

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I had a foolish idea for a mod
A mod, that burns the ground all starting towns!
like the burnt down rare house story, everything burned down, a way, to force the player to move around and start building.

The only problem is, I have no idea how to implement this

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I think it would be a great mod if combined with 10 years later and and it would made it expansive to build a base, something that I'm feeling it's getting a bit to easy to fortify a place after 600 hours

astral dune Oct 24, 2022, 1:46 AM

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I like limiting respawns so that you can clear an area and keep it clear as long as you sweep through every week or so. But you end up in a situation where you have no reason to even have doors on your house because no neighbours ever come knocking. Once I'm done my mod I'm going to be spending a bunch of time experimenting with the mods that add hordes that spawn at night or whatever to give base fortification a purpose

bronze yoke Oct 24, 2022, 1:49 AM

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maybe when they reimplement sleep events...

dusty stone Oct 24, 2022, 1:50 AM

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hearty dew You could search for how those keys cancel the timed actions and try to circumve...

Looks like all timed actions are instances of IsBaseTimedAction, and this function here causes the interruption. Wondering if I can add a different version that my time based action can derive off of

function ISBaseTimedAction:stop()
ISTimedActionQueue.getTimedActionQueue(self.character):resetQueue();
end

astral dune Oct 24, 2022, 1:52 AM

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are you writing your own timed action or trying to change one that already exists?

dusty stone Oct 24, 2022, 1:55 AM

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Writing my own

brisk narwhal Oct 24, 2022, 1:56 AM

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anyone able to help me find the spawn id for white carpet tiles?

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 1:57 AM

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dusty stone Writing my own

then just implement stop and make it do nothing

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:P

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if that doesn't work then override ISBaseTimedAction.stop and go "if action is X then return"

dusty stone Oct 24, 2022, 1:57 AM

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weak sierra then just implement stop and make it do nothing

I tried that and it still just cancels the action

dusty stone Oct 24, 2022, 1:58 AM

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weak sierra if that doesn't work then override ISBaseTimedAction.stop and go "if action is X...

hmmm, let me give that a shot

astral dune Oct 24, 2022, 1:58 AM

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I think there is a forcestop or something as well that may need to be overshadowed

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 1:58 AM

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yeah the one i mentioned when i misread it lol

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forceStop

dusty stone Oct 24, 2022, 2:02 AM

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ah, yeah I missed that one. let's see if that fixes it

deft peak Oct 24, 2022, 3:25 AM

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Yo guys, anyone know a good trade mod?

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i used to use sharks but wanted to trade all things not just canned goods

thick narwhal Oct 24, 2022, 6:46 AM

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jade chasm Hey guys I published my mod. Adds a very rare and durable sword to the game. Kee...

big fan! finally a viable katana alternative that isn't busted beyond belief/too weak

dapper geode Oct 24, 2022, 6:46 AM

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Is there any variabel I can use to change item drop speed?

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I notice that change item's weight affect the item drop time, Can I keep the weight but still able to change the item drop time?

jade chasm Oct 24, 2022, 7:16 AM

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thick narwhal big fan! finally a viable katana alternative that isn't busted beyond belief/too...

hey thank you! I spent some time thinking about the balancing so i’m glad to hear I found the sweet spot. enjoy!

marble lynx Oct 24, 2022, 8:10 AM

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Are the treads in tank vehicle mods animated?

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Or just still

gilded hawk Oct 24, 2022, 8:46 AM

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Any suggestions on how to deal with another modder that decided to override some function and made impossible to hook to the functions?

I was thinking about changing the name of my files to ensure the load after that mod, but it seems like a shit fix

safe silo Oct 24, 2022, 9:36 AM

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How would I go about having an item powered by a generator? Like the fridge or the lights you can put outside.

undone elbow Oct 24, 2022, 9:56 AM

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gilded hawk Any suggestions on how to deal with another modder that decided to override some...

This is a good idea, although it looks like starting a war between modders.

ancient grail Oct 24, 2022, 11:29 AM

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Anyone knows how to refresh a UI? Specifically the total inventory weight part of the inventory ui

ancient grail Oct 24, 2022, 11:29 AM

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safe silo How would I go about having an item powered by a generator? Like the fridge or t...

Create movables like lamps

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 12:29 PM

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gilded hawk Any suggestions on how to deal with another modder that decided to override some...

Ways I've done it are 1) to make a file to overwrite their file (then patch in their functionality in a better way), 2) have a file that loads before theirs, save the original, force their file to run at an earlier time with require, then patch things up somehow (depends on specifics)

gilded hawk Oct 24, 2022, 12:30 PM

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hearty dew Ways I've done it are 1) to make a file to overwrite their file (then patch in t...

In deciced to take the simplest approach and I just added ~ to my mod file name so that it loads last, it's not a great fix, but it work well enough

I'm hooking to their function (when present) and made a small tweak to ensure it's working

undone elbow Oct 24, 2022, 12:31 PM

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ancient grail Anyone knows how to refresh a UI? Specifically the total inventory weight part o...

I'm not sure what you means but this may be helpful ```lua
ISInventoryPage.renderDirty = true

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 12:45 PM

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gilded hawk Event add decorator? 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔

Manage to patch that file local function that was added into to an event that you encountered yesterday?

gilded hawk Oct 24, 2022, 12:46 PM

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hearty dew Manage to patch that file local function that was added into to an event that yo...

The event add decorator is unrelated to this issue of overriding files

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And no I put that project on hold for now

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 12:51 PM

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Anyone know of a good reason the text panel/layout (like the one used for the chat window) obliterates all whitespace runs? e.g. text more text -> text more text

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 12:53 PM

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hearty dew Anyone know of a good reason the text panel/layout (like the one used for the ch...

Seems more of an accident of how it parses rich tags than intentional e.g. <RBG:1,1,1>

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@undone elbow If the vanilla code were written that way, then it'd be clear it was intentional 😅

undone elbow Oct 24, 2022, 12:55 PM

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It acts like markup language parser.

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For example, HTML is parsed the same way (unless you used <pre> or <code> tag).

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 12:57 PM

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Mm, true. XML does that

undone elbow Oct 24, 2022, 12:59 PM

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html is a subset of xml (more or less).

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 12:59 PM

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Mm

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Unfortunately, it doesn't handle xml entities properly. Handles > and <, but not  

undone elbow Oct 24, 2022, 1:00 PM

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Yes, it's different, but the most rules are the same.

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 1:02 PM

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Odd choice of theirs to parse text that comes as user input in this way. Anyhow, I suppose I can derive a subclass of it and modify it to work differently on whitespace runs

undone elbow Oct 24, 2022, 1:03 PM

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:drawText( ........ ,r,g,b, .... font ) won't parse the string 😉

ancient grail Oct 24, 2022, 1:24 PM

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undone elbow I'm not sure what you means but this may be helpful ```lua ISInventoryPage.rende...

giving it a try now

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@undone elbow

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😦

undone elbow Oct 24, 2022, 1:29 PM

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It's a bug in your mod)

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I guess

ancient grail Oct 24, 2022, 1:33 PM

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require "ISUI/ISInventoryPage"
require "defines"
WetWeight = WetWeight or {}

function WetWeight.Do()
local modif = 0
local pl = getPlayer() 
local inv = getPlayer():getInventory()
local it = getPlayer():getInventory():getItems()
local originalWeight = 0
local isize = getPlayer():getInventory():getItems():size()
local wetns = 0
local capacity = inv:getEffectiveCapacity(pl)
if it:isEmpty() then return end
for i = 0, isize - 1 do 
originalWeight=it:get(i):getWeight()
if it:get(i):isWet() then
wetn = it:get(i):getWetness()
modif=(originalWeight+( wetns * 0.01));
it:get(i):setActualWeight(modif);
else
 it:get(i):setActualWeight(originalWeight);
end
inv:setDrawDirty(true);
ISInventoryPage.dirtyUI()
ISInventoryPage.renderDirty = true
pl:getHumanVisual()
end
end

function isWet(item)
if item:IsClothing() and item:getWetness() ~= nil and item:getWetness() > 0 then 
return true end
end


function WetWeight.Check()
if not getPlayer():isUnlimitedCarry() then 
Events.OnKeyPressed.Add(WetWeight.Do);
Events.OnContainerUpdate.Add(WetWeight.Do);
Events.OnGameStart.Add(WetWeight.Do);
end
end
Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(WetWeight.Check)

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1920135086
Ill try refer to this one
Which u also made

Steam Workshop::Realistic Inventory

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If it works with this mod enabled i might just require this 🙂

tardy wren Oct 24, 2022, 2:24 PM

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Gee, didn't think I'd ever join this discord, let alone do modding...
Right, so... I wanna do something similar to mods that exist on the workshop, but somewhat differently

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Do I just... Start by dissecting the existing mods?

astral dune Oct 24, 2022, 2:28 PM

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looking at how other people do things can be very helpful, ya, there are also a couple guides that other modders have written

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I don't think any of them are super complete, but I like this one in particular
https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide

GitHub

GitHub - FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide: Guide to modding various asp...

Guide to modding various aspects of Project Zomboid - GitHub - FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide: Guide to modding various aspects of Project Zomboid

safe silo Oct 24, 2022, 2:35 PM

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ancient grail Create movables like lamps

Would it not be possible to do it with inventory items that are placed?

I mean I assume I could hardcode it if you can get power source from tile

tardy wren Oct 24, 2022, 2:38 PM

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astral dune looking at how other people do things can be very helpful, ya, there are also a ...

Thanks... Frankly, what I wanted to do already exists in two or three mods I've seen, but either with issues or actually being too much...

thick karma Oct 24, 2022, 2:40 PM

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I hate these XP notifications so much for being so hard to hide without causing gameplay issues. sigh There seem to be so many ways for player to gain XP and thus level that I cannot figure out how to catch them all manually. Various notifications keep getting through my patches and tricks.

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 3:19 PM

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I'm trying to move the player to a specific location on new game. i'm using onnewgame but it doesn't seem to work

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Unless the function I'm doing is incorrect

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local function TeleportHideoutOnNewGame(player, square)
    player:setX(9145);
    player:setY(4951);
    player:setZ(0);
end

Events.OnNewGame.Add(TeleportHideoutOnNewGame);

shadow geyser Oct 24, 2022, 3:22 PM

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teleport stuff is very iffy in the game. try to copy the debug mode utilities for the teleporting

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also i think Onnewgame might be too early as well. you might need to use ongamestart

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and have a flag

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 3:25 PM

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hmm okay thanks i'll look into everything

ancient grail Oct 24, 2022, 3:40 PM

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You have to a sendcommandtoserver i believe

fast galleon Oct 24, 2022, 4:00 PM

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visual abyss Unless the function I'm doing is incorrect

You could try your function from terminal, to see if it works. I also use setLx, setLy, setLz. No idea why, just copied it from debugger.

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 4:02 PM

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fast galleon You could try your function from terminal, to see if it works. I also use setLx,...

i did notice the lx ly stuff

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well

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the Lx stuff worked

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weirdly lol

fast galleon Oct 24, 2022, 4:06 PM

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yeah it did nothing for me without those too

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 4:56 PM

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gilded hawk In deciced to take the simplest approach and I just added `~` to my mod file nam...

you can make code run later if you add it to an on game start event to ensure it runs after everything else loads

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i do that with a few things i've done

gilded hawk Oct 24, 2022, 4:56 PM

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weak sierra you can make code run later if you add it to an on game start event to ensure it...

Would this work for hooks too?

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 4:56 PM

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as long as u dont depend on the hook during loading

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yeah

gilded hawk Oct 24, 2022, 4:56 PM

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🤔

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I'll think about it

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 4:56 PM

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if u did then u'd want it to run before things

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so

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i assume it's fine for ur use case if u want it to load last atm

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lol

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i mean ~ works

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but that's another way

thick karma Oct 24, 2022, 4:57 PM

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If I were to hook calls to getHoursSurvived, would there any way to determine the name of the function that called getHoursSurvived?

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 5:02 PM

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so i was able to get the player moved to a spot on newgame hook

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but now i'm trying to make it that a recipe can move you

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and somehow it doesn't work..

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with very similar code

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ZomboidExtract.MarchRidge.SpawnPoints = {
    { x = 9913,     y = 12953 },
    { x = 10103,    y = 12749 }
}

function ZomboidExtract.MarchRidge.Spawn(items, result, player)
    local size = #(ZomboidExtract.MarchRidge.SpawnPoints);
    local index = ZombRand(1, size + 1);
    local point = ZomboidExtract.MarchRidge.SpawnPoints[index];

    print("x: "..point.x.."    y: "..point.y);

    getPlayer():setX(point.x);
    getPlayer():setY(point.y);
    getPlayer():setZ(0);

    getPlayer():setLx(point.x);
    getPlayer():setLy(point.y);
    getPlayer():setLz(0);
end

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I know the recipe calls it because it shows print

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with correct data

ancient grail Oct 24, 2022, 5:17 PM

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require "ISUI/ISInventoryPage"
require "defines"


function WetWeight()
local inv = getPlayer():getInventory(); local it = inv:getItems(); local isize = it:size();
    for i = 0, isize - 1 do 
        if it:get(i):IsClothing() and it:get(i):getWetness() ~= nil and it:get(i):getWetness()~= 0  then 
            it:get(i):setActualWeight(it:get(i):getWetness()/35)
            ISInventoryPage.renderDirty = true;
            ISInventoryPage.dirtyUI();
            inv:setDrawDirty(true);
        end
    end
end

Events.OnContainerUpdate.Add(WetWeight);
Events.EveryTenMinutes.Add(WetWeight);

IT FINALLY WORKS

i also figured that if i store the variable like
origWeight=
it wont matter when you change it it will get the new one
which was kinda hard to deal with cuz what happens is it exponentially adds the weight
so i had to think of some solution to prevent that aswell as getting the refresh.. and finally the simplest solution is just take the wetness and forget abt the original weight totally and it works

i think my script vefore actually did work.
its just that equipped weight is the one thats being measured on the capacity and so the added weight didnt even really mattered probably cuz of weight reduction

anyways thnx to those who helped me and thank you @undone elbow for the

   ISInventoryPage.renderDirty = true;

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 5:17 PM

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visual abyss I'm trying to move the player to a specific location on new game. i'm using onne...

Might try OnLoad. That seems to be the last event prior to OnTick beginning (at least in single player)

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 5:21 PM

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hearty dew Might try OnLoad. That seems to be the last event prior to OnTick beginning (at ...

I was already able to resolve that. I'm now trying to do the same thing on recipe's create

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 5:24 PM

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visual abyss I was already able to resolve that. I'm now trying to do the same thing on recip...

what happens if in the console you call ZomboidExtract.MarchRidge.Spawn directly?

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 5:24 PM

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one moment please

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nothing

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just that print

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 5:25 PM

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(as an aside, you may want to use player instead of getPlayer() if you want it to work in split screen)

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 5:25 PM

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oh sorry i was just experimenting with everything

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getspecific, player, getplayer

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trying to get it to work

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 5:25 PM

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Yea, I gotcha. Just making that remark just in case it was helpful

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 5:25 PM

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yeah i appreciate it

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i didnt know about the difference tbh

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but will be keeping that in mind

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 5:28 PM

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Does anything happen at all besides the print? Does the game world go black for a moment as if the player is being teleported (but fails)?

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 5:28 PM

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hmm it just worked now

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I did the ZomboidExtract.MarchRidge.Spawn(nil, nil, getPlayer())

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and it worked

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but if i try to craft

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it doesnt work.

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it does print the xyz but nothing beyond

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 5:30 PM

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🤔

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 5:30 PM

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i wonder if crafting something sets player's position as well

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and oncreate precedes it

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 5:33 PM

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Maybe it's something like that, yea. Could be some flag set that indicates the player position should be changed on next update tick, but the crafting process does something to unset it. I'd have to dig into IsoPlayer or IsoGameCharacter to figure out how those two things interact

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You might try Adding an event handler to OnPlayerUpdate or OnTick that does the setX/Y/Z and also Removes itself peeposhrug

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If you use this with runOnce set, it will do that

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 6:01 PM

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so..

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it does appear that whenever player crafts something, for some ungodly reasons it does set position to wherever they first crafted

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I just did a delayed teleport with a timer

ancient grail Oct 24, 2022, 6:14 PM

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@visual abyss
Here are references i hope this helps

||https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2850098970||

||https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849247394||

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

Steam Workshop::Armored MH MkII

Steam Workshop::Basements

Steam Workshop::Simple Portal (MP)

visual abyss Oct 24, 2022, 6:35 PM

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hmm is there a way to unlearn a recipe?

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tried getallrecipes().remove

marble lynx Oct 24, 2022, 6:37 PM

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that portal one has amazing potential

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if the portals could be deleted more easily

scenic cradle Oct 24, 2022, 6:43 PM

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I'm helping someone with a modded item and all I have left to do is get the option to equip it to appear in the context menu. Can someone point me in the right direction?

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Double-clicking it equips it just fine

ancient grail Oct 24, 2022, 6:45 PM

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marble lynx if the portals could be deleted more easily

yeah we used this on our server.. you cant use it if you place it on the top floor cuz the sprite reaches the top

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also it doesnt provide a 1 way direction

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or somesort of an option that you can only use this if you have this or seomthing like that.. which is probably a good mod if someone wants to do that and just contact the author for permissions and what not

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 7:00 PM

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visual abyss hmm is there a way to unlearn a recipe?

that's just all recipes

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u want learned recipes

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im about to do that as well for my recipe yeeter

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https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.65/zombie/characters/IsoGameCharacter.html#getKnownRecipes()

tardy wren Oct 24, 2022, 7:03 PM

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Is there any way to, uhh... Look at the game's Item definitions?

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 7:04 PM

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from in game as admin go to admin on the left and then "Item Viewer" or "Item List" or whatever it's called

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if out of game it's spread across multiple files

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items.txt, newitems.txt

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and then modded stuff in each mod

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an item's full type is module.type

scenic cradle Oct 24, 2022, 7:08 PM

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Can anyone give me an idea of how I can learn to add context menu options to an item?

astral dune Oct 24, 2022, 7:10 PM

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If you've made an event handler yet, its quite easy to do it that way. add a handler to Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu that checks if the item is yours and adds the context you want to the menu

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there is also a Events.OnPreFillInventoryObjectContextMenu if you want your context item or submenu to be at the top

scenic cradle Oct 24, 2022, 7:17 PM

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Havent yet but I will figure it out! Thank you very very much!

tardy wren Oct 24, 2022, 7:25 PM

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What are my options for modifying items? There's an item in a different mod, but I don't want to make a full override of it... Is there maybe a way to modify them via Lua? I'm talking the base item definition

exotic silo Oct 24, 2022, 8:11 PM

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hey all sorry to bother, is there a way to change where my mods are downloaded?

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i just wanna change the drive

drifting ore Oct 24, 2022, 8:12 PM

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are there mods to make the game look more horror ?

scenic cradle Oct 24, 2022, 8:13 PM

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exotic silo hey all sorry to bother, is there a way to change where my mods are downloaded?

They download to the workshop folder where steam/pz is installed.

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So youd have to change that

exotic silo Oct 24, 2022, 8:14 PM

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how do I change that? Im sorry im uber dumb

scenic cradle Oct 24, 2022, 8:15 PM

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Oh, you would have to uninstall and reinstall steam to where youre wanting

exotic silo Oct 24, 2022, 8:23 PM

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scenic cradle Oh, you would have to uninstall and reinstall steam to where youre wanting

its weird as everything including games and workshop content installs where I want it to? even project zomboid itself is installed where I want it to be?

scenic cradle Oct 24, 2022, 8:35 PM

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Workshop content installs to the steam workshop folder

shadow geyser Oct 24, 2022, 8:52 PM

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exotic silo how do I change that? Im sorry im uber dumb

right click zomboid in steam, and go to properties, then choose the move install folder option

exotic silo Oct 24, 2022, 9:24 PM

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shadow geyser right click zomboid in steam, and go to properties, then choose the move install...

it still says its installed in my d drive (where I want everything) but the mods install to my c drive?

shadow geyser Oct 24, 2022, 9:26 PM

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Are you sure about that? mods from the workshop should install themselves into which ever game directory the game is installed in for example mine are installed here "D:\Steam Library\steamapps\workshop\content\108600"

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there is a Zomboid folder which installs itself into your home folder but that only contains saves and manually installed mods

exotic silo Oct 24, 2022, 9:59 PM

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mmm, idk then, thanks though!

hearty dew Oct 24, 2022, 10:12 PM

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console.txt output in a chat tab with ANSI colors (sort of)

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The monospace font in pz is really bad. Text doesn't line up quite right. Also need to find a better way to get the console.txt stream, because the java FileInputStream is awfully slow

astral dune Oct 24, 2022, 10:18 PM

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looks neat

weak sierra Oct 24, 2022, 10:30 PM

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hearty dew `console.txt` output in a chat tab with ANSI colors (sort of)

YES PLS

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can u make one that sends server-side one to someone with admin rights too? hue

astral dune Oct 24, 2022, 11:50 PM

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looks like BaseVehicle:transmitModData and BaseVehicle:transmitPartModData both still only work from the server side, they don't transmit from the client. I'm not surprised but was told it worked differently. Always good to verify for yourself!

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:01 AM

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hey guys

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if this is a very hard question to answer im sorry to bother and you don't have to answer

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but

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how does someone start modding

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i have ideas that i would like to see being made into mods but instead of waiting for someone to do it i would like to do them myself as to not bother anyone

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if someone could tell me how to start i would really a appreciate it

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:17 AM

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have you programmed before?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:19 AM

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kind of?

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i have coding a bit in school

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it started late and it's a weirdo language it's not even in english

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but i kind of get like what you do

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:20 AM

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what language?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:20 AM

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i don't even know it's in portuguese

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it uses a program called visual g

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:21 AM

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haha, ya googling visual g gives me only sites from brazil

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:21 AM

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ye haha

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i did stuff with if and stuffs

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:21 AM

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anyway, modding project zomboid uses Lua, so you may want to read some tutorials on how it works

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:21 AM

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hmmmm

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i see

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isn't lua related to like

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text or something?

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i remember i did something with luas for a fighting game

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and it was on notepad

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haha

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:23 AM

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all programming languages are text, haha'

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:23 AM

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wait they are all text

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ye lol

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:24 AM

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Lua is an extremely fast, and extremely barebones scripting language. Its used all the time for modding because it interfaces very well with C++. Project Zomboid is Java however, but they use a Lua library called Kahlua to make the lua scripts and java talk together

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none of that is all that important though, you just need to learn some lua

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:24 AM

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ok i see

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also before i try to do it

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how hard would it be to make a new crafting recipe

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with already existing items

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:25 AM

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things like crafting recipes are pretty easy, that is done with scripts, you don't have to write any code for those

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unless you want them to do something out of the ordinary

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:26 AM

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hearty dew `console.txt` output in a chat tab with ANSI colors (sort of)

Ow what the?! U made this console? Awsome! Is it in the workshop?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:26 AM

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don't the game files have a doc with all the recipes or something?

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i saw that on the zomboid modding tutorial

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i heard it's outdated

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:26 AM

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ya, there are a lot of outdated guides out there, and the rest are incomplete

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:27 AM

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https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide

GitHub

GitHub - FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide: Guide to modding various asp...

Guide to modding various aspects of Project Zomboid - GitHub - FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide: Guide to modding various aspects of Project Zomboid

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:27 AM

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its a good idea to download mods that do things you like and try to figure out how they do it

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:27 AM

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is this one one of those incomplete ones

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:27 AM

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that guide is pretty good

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:27 AM

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oh ok

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:27 AM

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astral dune its a good idea to download mods that do things you like and try to figure out h...

ye that's how i did it when i did stuff with luas without even knowing what it was

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:28 AM

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exotic silo hey all sorry to bother, is there a way to change where my mods are downloaded?

Theres a startup parameter to change the cachedir.

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:29 AM

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Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\scripts has the scripts you'll want to look at, especially recipes.txt

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:29 AM

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oh wow

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thanks

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for that thing with using current mods to do my idea

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are the mods i subscribe to

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on the folder for the game

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or do i have to use steamcdm

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:31 AM

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clear bloom oh wow

What mods are you planning to do? Perhaps we can help by letting you know which ones are easy and which ones are hard?

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:31 AM

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if I remember correctly, they should be in Program Files\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\108600

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:31 AM

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ancient grail What mods are you planning to do? Perhaps we can help by letting you know which ...

one would be to make it so you can make stakes out of planks

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:31 AM

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you'll have to look for the URL in the mods you like to figure out what folder you want though, they all are just numbers

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:31 AM

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ok ok

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:32 AM

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Ahh that would be easy you only need script doesnt require u to make a lua file. Unless u want to spawn multiple planks

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:32 AM

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multiple planks?

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:32 AM

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Imean stakes sorry

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:32 AM

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oh ok

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actually that would be something i was considering

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like

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a plank could make like 2 stakes right?

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idk ill have to think about it

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:42 AM

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astral dune `Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\scripts` has the scri...

huh i did that search in my file explorer

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:42 AM

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I trying to make some zombies scream and used :playSound("soundfile") to play the scream sound. But now I struggle to make itbe hearable from farther away. I have to stay in like 15 tiles or so... Is there a way to extend this range?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:42 AM

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i didn't find zomboid

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:43 AM

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it'll be wherever you have steam installed. check Program Files(x86) or something

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:44 AM

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blissful salmon I trying to make some zombies scream and used :playSound("soundfile") to play th...

There is but i think zombies will hear it..

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:45 AM

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ancient grail There is but i think zombies will hear it..

I don't know if its "the solution" but I'd like to try it...

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:46 AM

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clear bloom i didn't find zomboid

Just joined the conversation... I your using steam you can rightclick on the game -> Manage -> Browslocal files or something like this...

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:46 AM

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getSoundManager():PlayWorldSound("ZombieSurprisedPlayer", getPlayer():getSquare(), 0, radius, volume, _iswav); 
  addSound(getPlayer(), getPlayer():getX(), getPlayer():getY(), getPlayer():getZ(), radius, volume);

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:47 AM

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blissful salmon Just joined the conversation... I your using steam you can rightclick on the gam...

oh ok thanks

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ok i found the txt file

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so should i like

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copy one of the recipes

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:48 AM

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ancient grail ```lua getSoundManager():PlayWorldSound("ZombieSurprisedPlayer", getPlayer():get...

I tryed it this way:

        local x, y, z = zombie:getX(), zombie:getY(), zombie:getZ();
        addSound(zombie, x, y, z, 250, 250)

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:49 AM

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for like making a stake

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and replacing info to fit what i want?

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:49 AM

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ancient grail ```lua getSoundManager():PlayWorldSound("ZombieSurprisedPlayer", getPlayer():get...

Can I hear the direction it's coming from with your code?

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:50 AM

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like 3d? idont know how that functions yet.. i tested this before and the recieving end player said its still the same but we are not sure cuz he might be using mono audio system or his setup isnt really ideal to notice the direction pan

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:52 AM

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The goal is to hear the direction like the footsteps. I can hear from which side their coming or the shots far away...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:53 AM

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recipe Make Stake
{
Plank,
keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.SharpKnife]/MeatCleaver,

    Result:Stake=2,
    Time:80.0,
    Category:Survivalist,
    OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.WoodWork5,
}

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would this work?

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:53 AM

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so I can find the more dangerous zombies...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:53 AM

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for making 2 stakes

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:53 AM

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blissful salmon The goal is to hear the direction like the footsteps. I can hear from which side...

theres a mod for this

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:53 AM

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i did what i saw for opening the box of naisl

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:53 AM

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it indicates the sound direction

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:53 AM

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=x amount after the result

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:54 AM

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ancient grail it indicates the sound direction

Do you know the name?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:54 AM

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clear bloom recipe Make Stake { Plank, keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.SharpKn...

@astral dune

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what do you think?

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 12:55 AM

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unfortunately I can't help you much with that, my experience is mostly just messing with the vehicle physics

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:55 AM

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hmmmm ok ok

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:56 AM

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@clear bloom
if you want to figure it out by yourself then dont open this till you give up i guess.. hehe
this is exactly what you are trying to do ...i think?
|| recipe Make Stake
{
Plank,
keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.SharpKnife]/MeatCleaver,

    Result:Stake,
    Time:80.0,
    Category:Survivalist,
    OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.WoodWork5,
}||

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:56 AM

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clear bloom hmmmm ok ok

just try it...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:57 AM

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oh ye

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:57 AM

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ow snap you figured it out already lol

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:58 AM

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oh ye it's the same

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i also did the 2 stakes thing

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 12:58 AM

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clear bloom recipe Make Stake { Plank, keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.SharpKn...

Did you created this in your mod directory or changed the original?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:58 AM

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with Result:Stake=20

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*=2

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oh damn it was the original

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im so dumb

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aaaaaa

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i hope i didn't destroy the game or something

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lmao

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:59 AM

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@clear bloom soul has a point you need to make another script file and make it a mod instead of doing that to the orig file .you wont be able to play MP if you do that

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 12:59 AM

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clear bloom i hope i didn't destroy the game or something

just verify file on steam

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 12:59 AM

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hmmmm ok ok

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 1:00 AM

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it will fix anything u mess up

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clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:01 AM

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ok

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doing that right now

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 1:02 AM

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ancient grail it will fix anything u mess up

Did you meant this one?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2560478285&searchtext=sound
In case of yes I don't looking for visuals I can hear in game where the sounds are coming from. I just can't increase the distance where my sound is hearable.

Steam Workshop::Sound Direction Indicator

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:03 AM

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btw while this is verifying the game files

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i gotta say

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thank you all

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you have all been so helpful

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im so slow with these things so i'm glad you helped me

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ok it is done

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it says 1 file failed and will be reacquired

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is that something that will be done automatically or do i need to do something

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 1:13 AM

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this is done automatically

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you think you can only see it in the downloads that zomboid downloaded something.

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:15 AM

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oh ok

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oh also btw

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besides the stakes mod

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another one i wanted to make could be harder

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it would be like tweaks and maybe adding features to the farming skill

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:41 AM

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hmmm

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im testing the stakes thing

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the game is stuck on "loading scripts"

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 1:43 AM

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then you probably have an error... 🙂

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so can you show me your whole recipes file from the mod?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:46 AM

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📎 recipes.txt

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wait can i send this here?

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idk if there is something with sharing game files

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 1:48 AM

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this is no problem afaik...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:48 AM

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do you want me to send you the doc with the mod?

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that's probably the problem

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 1:48 AM

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but did let all recipes in the file? you only need the ones you change or create new.

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:48 AM

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i kept all the recipes on that file

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the mod file

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only has the recipe i made

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📎 mod_stakes.txt

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here

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 1:50 AM

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clear bloom i kept all the recipes on that file

my current file for example looks like this:

{
  imports {
      Base
  }
  
  recipe SoulModCreateBaitMaggots
  {
     Maggots=5,

     Result:SoulMod.BaitMaggots,
     Time:150.0,
     Category:Trapper,
     SkillRequired:Trapping=1,
  }
  
}```
I'm not sure with overwriting recipes...

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I'll have to check if I find an example of overwrite a recipe...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:50 AM

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by overwrite

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you mean making the same thing

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right?

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 1:54 AM

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in the original you get one stake and as far I understand you now want to get 2 (or more). So I don't know exactly how to achieve that zomboid changes the original to yours... I only added new recipes so far...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:54 AM

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but isn't it a new recipe?

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it's just another recipe for making stakes

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unless the result is the only thing that matters

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 1:57 AM

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can you add
Override:true, at the end of your recipe? and give it a module name (for example a short for your mod)

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so make it similar to my example...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 1:58 AM

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ill try

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 1:59 AM

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like this:

{
  imports {
      Base
  }
  
  recipe Make Stake
  {
    Plank,
    keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.SharpKnife]/MeatCleaver,

    Result:Stake=3,
    Time:80.0,
    Category:Survivalist,
    OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.WoodWork5,
        Override:true,
  }
  
}```

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:00 AM

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hmmmmm i see

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but

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if i do this won't it replace the original recipe?

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with the tree branch

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:01 AM

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ah... this is a new one...

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then you don't need to override I think...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:02 AM

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bcs i can't just put tree branch under plank

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since tree branch gives 1 stake

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:02 AM

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I thought you took the original and only changed the result.

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:02 AM

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no no

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it was 1 branch for 1 stake

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:03 AM

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then remove the override from my example.

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:03 AM

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oh ok i see

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btw what's the imports base thing

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:05 AM

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that the Base stuff is known I think... I never tried without it...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:05 AM

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ok ok ok

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:05 AM

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so it knows for example plank. but you still can test it after it works...

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If you get errors on start you will find them in the console.txt or coop-console.txt in the folder:
%userprofile%\Zomboid

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:08 AM

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ok

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:08 AM

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clear bloom ok ok ok

did it work?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:09 AM

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idk if it's an error but the game

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is stuck

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on "loading scripts"

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at least it seems to be stuck

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:09 AM

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where did you placed your mod?

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check the console.txt

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:09 AM

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on the scripts folder

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:09 AM

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while its stuck.

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:09 AM

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or did you want me to put in the recipes

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:10 AM

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from your mod or the original folder?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:10 AM

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i put the crafting recipe in it's own txt file and put it in the scripts folder

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:11 AM

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you need to create a seperat modfolder for your mod...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:12 AM

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oh damn

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i thought just changing putting the script in there would be fine just for testing haha

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sorry

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:12 AM

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you add this to the moddirectory...

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you have a mod directory where you can create your structure...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:13 AM

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oh ok

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:13 AM

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I personally use:
%userprofile%\Zomboid\mods\

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clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:14 AM

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i see

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:14 AM

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you can use the examplemod and make a copy...

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then edit mod.info as you need it and create the scripts folder in media

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there goes your new recipes.txt

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:16 AM

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ok ok

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let me try to set this all up

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:20 AM

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don't forget the remove the stuff you dont need from the examplemod.

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in your case you only need the scripts folder... may be create an empty lua folder for later stuff...

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:23 AM

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ok ok

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:27 AM

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I have to go off... hope you can manage it from here. or someone else can give you a hand...

gaunt meteor Oct 25, 2022, 2:28 AM

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why does my icon (of an item) show up in game as a ? mark?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:28 AM

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blissful salmon I have to go off... hope you can manage it from here. or someone else can give y...

thank you dude

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like

gaunt meteor Oct 25, 2022, 2:28 AM

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its in /textures folder

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:28 AM

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really

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thank you so fucking much

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im so slow

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and bad at stuff like this

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thank you for sticking with me

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im sorry 🙏

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:29 AM

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gaunt meteor its in /textures folder

how did you name it? normally ? means it was not found...
the name shoud be without an extension...

gaunt meteor Oct 25, 2022, 2:30 AM

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blissful salmon how did you name it? normally ? means it was not found... the name shoud be with...

its just icon: name,

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no extension

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idk why it doesnt load honestly

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or rather icon=name

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:33 AM

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gaunt meteor its just icon: name,

  {
    Weight = 2.0,
    Type = Normal,
    DisplayName = Unfinished Bat,
    DisplayCategory = Tool,
    WorldStaticModel = Log,
    Icon = RawBat,
    Tags = SoulMod_UnfinishedWoodItem,
        ResultItem = BaseballBat,
        RequiredSkill = Carpentry 1,
    TotalWorkUnits = 10,
  }```
my item above and my png below:
`Item_RawBat.png`

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I think Item_ is important...

gaunt meteor Oct 25, 2022, 2:36 AM

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oh hm that might have been the problem i was using module name instead

gaunt meteor Oct 25, 2022, 3:40 AM

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nope didnt work Sadge

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 4:20 AM

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@undone elbow Hey, sorry to bug you, but I'm curious what unresolved issues exist with Mod Options' Sandbox Options. I imagine they must at least work in some cases or you wouldn't have gone to the trouble of writing up usage instructions? But you warn us that you don't recommend following said instructions... it's a bit confusing. 🤪

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 4:40 AM

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someone figured out how to make the sandbox options load on demand and that we shud put it on PreDistributionMerge to allow mods using it in PostDistributionMerge to have sandbox access

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i cannot find that by search, maybe i had bad terms idk

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but if anyone has that or can find that

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pls ping and link or copy it to me

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(or DM, whatever)

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 4:44 AM

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weak sierra someone figured out how to make the sandbox options load on demand and that we s...

doesn't fit your exact description, but putting ItemPickerJava.Parse() after setting stuff in OnInitGlobalModData was brought up here before

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 4:46 AM

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loadSandbox or getSandbox():load or some such

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it was something like that..

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 4:48 AM

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@weak sierra this?

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 4:53 AM

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yess thanks

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there's existing mods that use sandbox options for loot dist stuff

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and i'd love if they'd like.. work right

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:P

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so im gonna try it

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 5:21 AM

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omg! im playing with the lua console
acidentaly discovered this and now i cant go back lol

local pl = getPlayer() 
    UIManager.setFadeBeforeUI(pl:getPlayerNum(), true)
    UIManager.FadeOut(pl:getPlayerNum(), 1)

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 5:23 AM

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gaunt meteor nope didnt work <:Sadge:811046055587741737>

whats your icon size

civic lava Oct 25, 2022, 5:32 AM

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Is there a way to edit zombie HP manually in the Lua scripts?
i want to edit them based on speed, slow = high hp & fast is low HP
ALSO! how can i remove traits that are modded into the trait menu, or at least make them cost 100+, as they break the consistency of the 100+ mods & 15 custom mods ive made... they ruin the realism if picked.
i changed the trait & profession cost of the defualt in game traits & professions
but cannot change the modded ones, cant find the proper file
been modding & searching for mods & reading them to edit them for obver 60+ hours now
to create what i consider, the perfect game
yes, i want these changes made before the world is created
so on a new world, for example, Action Hero perk will cost 100+

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without the ability to change these, i will have to run on an "honor system" with those that join my game, & trust that they do not pick [Exciled perks modded into the game from workshop]

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the zombie speed hp % change based on speed is nice, but not as important as revoking players from breaking my game with perks they should not pick

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 5:37 AM

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are you just overwriting the files to change costs? you can do that with mods too if you find the relevant files, but keep in mind you'll need the original author's permission to release anything like that publicly

civic lava Oct 25, 2022, 5:37 AM

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i want to get all this done before i start the game, i plan on running my server for over a year in real time, i cannot have loopholes & work based on trust, as most people think its funny to troll

civic lava Oct 25, 2022, 5:38 AM

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bronze yoke are you just overwriting the files to change costs? you can do that with mods to...

i looked into the "more traits mod" that contains the Action Hero + others that i need removed... i looked for over 30m & could not find, i will try again now, maybe i missed it....

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 5:45 AM

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So how do I modify items? I want to add an event to the item when it's created, or change two values in it

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My item looks something like this:

    item CannedCabbage
    {
        DisplayCategory         = Food,
        Type            = Food,
        DisplayName        = Jar of Cabbage,
        Icon            = JarGreen,
        Weight            = 0.5,
        DaysFresh         = 60,
        DaysTotallyRotten     = 90,
        IsCookable            = TRUE,
        MinutesToBurn            = 120,
        MinutesToCook            = 60,
        StaticModel             = CanClosed,
        WorldStaticModel        = JarFoodCabbage_Ground,
    }

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I want to add to it OnCooked = CannedFood_OnCooked,

civic lava Oct 25, 2022, 5:49 AM

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would help if i could.... im at a loss

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not a great modder either, someone else will be better suited to help you

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 5:50 AM

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I've heard that I can fully overwrite items... So redefine it with my properties... But there's some different way I heard?

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I was told these are my options, but... I don't know how to do either, or how they interact

tweak them with DoParam in shared during startup
override whole files```

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 6:00 AM

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getScriptManager():getItem('Module.Item'):DoParam('OnCooked = CannedFood_OnCooked')

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 6:00 AM

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Ah, I see!

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And how about modifying an existing one?

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 6:01 AM

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i think the same syntax works

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 6:01 AM

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So DoParam sets a parameter, which adds or overwrites it?

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 6:02 AM

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yeah pretty much!

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 6:03 AM

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Alrighty...

Now. I'm modifying items in a different mods. Any way I can ensure they don't error when said mod isn't installed?

civic lava Oct 25, 2022, 6:03 AM

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civic lava Is there a way to edit zombie HP manually in the Lua scripts? i want to edit the...

so noone at the moment can give me advice here?

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struggling really hard

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 6:04 AM

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tardy wren Alrighty... Now. I'm modifying items in a different mods. Any way I can ensure ...

if getActivatedMods():contains('ModID') then

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 6:04 AM

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Ah I see

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Thank you!

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 6:04 AM

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of course ^^

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 6:04 AM

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That should be enough to make all the jarred foods last a sensible time...

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 6:06 AM

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civic lava so noone at the moment can give me advice here?

overriding the mod's definition of these traits is the easiest way to do this, i don't know why you can't find it, maybe i can have a look for you when i'm next at my pc

civic lava Oct 25, 2022, 6:07 AM

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bronze yoke overriding the mod's definition of these traits is the easiest way to do this, i...

im editing a workshop mod, i have no issues editing the default traits or professions

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i need help with editing other people mods so they dont break the game ive spent 60+ hours fine tuning for the experience i want

glacial flicker Oct 25, 2022, 6:19 AM

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Any easy tutorial on how to make a menu replacer? I just want to add a new background is all

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 6:28 AM

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thick karma <@246986681524289537> Hey, sorry to bug you, but I'm curious what unresolved iss...

There were issues and I can't reproduce it (probably there were game bugs, maybe fixed). Anyway now it's deprecated because there is such a vanilla feature using sandbox-options.txt
So if you want custom sandbox options, just use sandbox-options.txt. It's a bit confusing in mp bucause it's not accessible before events but I think it's better and simpler.

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 6:49 AM

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glacial flicker Any easy tutorial on how to make a menu replacer? I just want to add a new backg...

Subscribe to any such mod and see files/folders.

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 6:56 AM

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tardy wren I've heard that I can fully overwrite items... So redefine it with my properties...

In a Lua file:

ScriptManager.instance:getItem("Base.CannedCabbage"):DoParam("OnCooked = CannedFood_OnCooked")

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 6:58 AM

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Instance?

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How is ScriptManager.instance different from getScriptManager()?

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 6:59 AM

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Not sure 🙂 I guess it's the same.

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 6:59 AM

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Ah

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 7:00 AM

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But "instance" should be a bit faster.

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 7:00 AM

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And I do it in shared scripts on startup?

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 7:01 AM

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What is "startup" for you?

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 7:02 AM

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Dunno. When the game is loading, I want the item definitions to change

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 7:02 AM

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Just put in in a file. Should work. Yes, shared is a good place.

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 7:04 AM

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K

abstract raptor Oct 25, 2022, 7:04 AM

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https://youtu.be/jRE_b1fY03g

YouTube

Azakaela Redfire

azakaela's graffiti mod

lol

▶ Play video

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Ya'll don't use the graffiti mod and it shows

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 7:52 AM

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bronze yoke yeah pretty much!

Do you know if I can somehow remove a property?

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I suppose I can set a boolean to false actually

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 10:24 AM

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tardy wren Dunno. When the game is loading, I want the item definitions to change

have you tried itemtweaker?

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 10:24 AM

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A second mod to do it instead?

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Or is that a function or something

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 10:25 AM

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=566115016

Steam Workshop::Item Tweaker API - Still works in Build 41.65

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 10:27 AM

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Oh, via the API?

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I need to check if... If it's in the pack I'm working fir

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But if I can get the Lua code to do it without the API, I might as well do that

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Oh hey we do have that API

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 11:54 AM

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I still have troubles to get my ZombieScream working. As my post from earlier describe I want hear my zombie scream sound from father away. So players are able to figure out where the zombie might be.
#mod_development message
The suggestet solution from @ancient grail didn't work for me:
#mod_development message
I hoped that the following line will do the trick but it didn't work for me.
getSoundManager():PlayWorldSound("ZombieDemonScream", zombie:getSquare(), 0, 450, 1, false);
I still have to go in between around 15 tiles or so to the zombie. As far as I understand addSound(...) only makes zombies in the given range hear the sound.
Does anyone have another idea what to do?

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 12:07 PM

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undone elbow There were issues and I can't reproduce it (probably there were game bugs, maybe...

Hmmm ok... I'll look into that, thanks. I was hoping to give server hosts an option to disable part of my mod when they host the game and set sandbox options... Didn't want them to need to leave game. Will consider my options.

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 12:24 PM

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thick karma Hmmm ok... I'll look into that, thanks. I was hoping to give server hosts an opt...

Didn't want them to need to leave game.
With sandbox-options.txt they don't have to.

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 12:25 PM

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Oh really? Clearly I don't know how that file works

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 12:26 PM

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Search this filename in steam workshop mods folder 😉

visual abyss Oct 25, 2022, 12:55 PM

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i just wish @weak sierra would just share the recipe yeeter code

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 2:10 PM

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So I'm trying to hide a Mod Options setting when a SandboxVars setting is false... Currently, I'm trying this:
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local dawnOfTheZed = {}

if SandboxVars.DawnOfTheZed.CanHideHaloNotifications then

    dawnOfTheZed = {
    
        ["Gamepad Shortcut (R3)"] = true,
        ["Hide All Player Names"] = true,
        ["Hide All Halo Notifications"] = true,
        ["Hide User Interface By Default"] = false
    
    }

else

    dawnOfTheZed = { 
    
        ["Gamepad Shortcut (R3)"] = true,
        ["Hide All Player Names"] = true,
        ["Hide User Interface By Default"] = false
    
    }

end```

Unfortunately, when I load up the settings in game, Mod Options still shows `Hide All Halo Notifications`, even though console confirms that the game recognizes `SandboxVars.DawnOfTheZed.CanHideHaloNotifications` as `false` while the game is running. Anyone have any guesses why? Maybe because I already have `Hide All Halo Notifications` checked in my own local settings, it just shows up regardless? Or perhaps `SandboxVars.DawnOfTheZed.CanHideHaloNotifications` somehow becomes `false` *after* it already told `dawnOfTheZed` to create 4 fields instead of 3?

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:23 PM

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@blissful salmon hey dude

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the mod works

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and i can make stakes out of planks

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thank you so much for your help

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now i just need to upload it to the workshop

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 2:25 PM

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clear bloom the mod works

nice 🙂

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 2:43 PM

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@blissful salmonone thing that i kind of want to do is make it seem like the character is making 3 stakes

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not just 1 stakes that turns into 3

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like instead of a single loading bar you see 3 loading bars like on at a time

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 3:04 PM

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clear bloom not just 1 stakes that turns into 3

not possible thru script. it has to be done 3x by the user or make an OnCreate via lua

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 3:11 PM

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hmmm i see

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also on the game it says to craft stake

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but since it's 3 it should be stakes

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can i just put stakes instead of stake in the code

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do i need to do something like stake"s" or whatever

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 3:21 PM

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recipe whatever nameyou put here will work
{
OnCreate:hereyoucannotaddspaces,

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heres the recipe txt script

function Recipe.OnCreate.CheckInfection(items, result, player)
if player:getBodyDamage():IsInfected() then player:Say(getText("Infected")); end
end

heres the lua counterpart

function Recipe.OnCreate.CheckInfection(items, result, player)
if player:getBodyDamage():IsInfected() then player:Say(getText("Infected")); end
end

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 3:26 PM

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tardy wren But if I can get the Lua code to do it without the API, I might as well do that

it's better not to use the api - it causes a lot of lag on startup and it really doesn't do anything except DoParam()

clear spear Oct 25, 2022, 3:29 PM

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Just to throw this in. A bunch of custom tiles I made for you mappers out there. Hope you don't mind me to advertise in here.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2879745353

Steam Workshop::Melos Tiles for Miles Tilepack

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 3:29 PM

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hows our mod @bronze yoke ? half way there?

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 3:29 PM

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clear spear Just to throw this in. A bunch of custom tiles I made for you mappers out there....

~~can we see a screenshot~~

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ow nvm its there

clear spear Oct 25, 2022, 3:30 PM

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tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 3:30 PM

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bronze yoke it's better not to use the api - it causes a lot of lag on startup and it really...

Thanks for the tip. I'll look into why that mod is in the modlist and if I can do anything, mention it to the admin

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 3:30 PM

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Anyone happen to know what triggers the tooltips to appear when you mouse over options in your settings menu?

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Trying to make them appear when they are selected with Joypad...

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 3:32 PM

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tardy wren Thanks for the tip. I'll look into why that mod is in the modlist and if I can d...

some mods do require it, so if you already have it you probably can't remove it - all we can do is not use it in our own mods

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 3:32 PM

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ancient grail hows our mod <@119473430289448961> ? half way there?

actually i've taken a break to work on some commissioned work and such so i haven't made much progress

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 3:33 PM

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bronze yoke some mods do require it, so if you already have it you probably can't remove it ...

Well

The admin is dedicated enough to try and make a server-only copy of the mods I believe

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 3:33 PM

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thick karma Anyone happen to know what triggers the tooltips to appear when you mouse over o...

i only know about the items

but heres where i would start to experiment if i needed tooltips


        local toolTip = ISToolTip:new();
        toolTip:initialise();
        toolTip:setVisible(false);

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pls share me your snippets when you learned how to man

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 3:34 PM

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bronze yoke actually i've taken a break to work on some commissioned work and such so i have...

ow wow nice

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 3:34 PM

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tardy wren Well The admin is dedicated enough to try and make a server-only copy of the mo...

if you have them make a version of item tweaker with the prints removed it'll make loading screens much faster without needing to adjust every mod individually - one user on here mentioned they saved twenty seconds like this

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 3:35 PM

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I see

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~~maybe I'll make the api~~

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 3:36 PM

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clear spear

how come you didnt post this on mapping chat

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howcome theres no

      SkillRequired:Farming=2,

???

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 3:38 PM

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@ancient grail I don't even know where that code would go or when it needs to happen. Before I can do anything, I need to figure out two key details. (A) What method triggers the appearance of a tooltip in the Options menu on mouseover? (B) By what mechanism is the gamepad-active setting enclosed with the white box that tells the user which setting they're going to toggle when they press Xbox A (PlayStation X) on the gamepad?

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If I knew B, I could call A when B occurs.

clear spear Oct 25, 2022, 3:39 PM

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ancient grail how come you didnt post this on mapping chat

In general chat they sent me over here. I'm new to this channel. Should I post this in mapping then?

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 3:39 PM

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right

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 3:39 PM

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clear spear In general chat they sent me over here. I'm new to this channel. Should I post t...

its welcome here as far as i know but it its better suited there

clear spear Oct 25, 2022, 3:40 PM

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ancient grail its welcome here as far as i know but it its better suited there

Easy. Thanks for the advice.

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 3:53 PM

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visual abyss i just wish <@370376376269930497> would just share the recipe yeeter code

i plan to im just super busy and it isn't done

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im gonna make it a dependency mod u can use

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there's a problem with it where if a user has the recipe already before it's yeeted they retain it

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i need to write up some code that removes it from players on login

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not complex but haven't gotten to it yet

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after that i will release it

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if nothing else comes up maybe ill do that today

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i run a server so my priorities shift as things happen there

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 4:02 PM

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guys anyone has any idea on how i transfer a oncreate to a world right click instead of rightclicking on the items

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 4:10 PM

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I don't understand the question... @ancient grail You just want to detect when a player right clicks and they are not in a menu or something?

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 4:19 PM

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imean using oncreate its always done when you right click objects

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what if instead of that id rather have the options visible when you right click on the foloor

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 4:24 PM

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weak sierra so im gonna try it

@bronze yoke @weak sierra Did either of you get this to work? When I tried it several days ago, it only loaded the sandbox defaults (rather than the actual configured values). Maybe I called ItemPickerJava.Parse() too early, idk

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 4:25 PM

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i have not done it yet

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 4:25 PM

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it works perfectly for me when i call it OnInitGlobalModData

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 4:25 PM

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i was planning on doing the "dirty" way tho

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thinking it might apply more

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but i dont know how the second one works

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 4:26 PM

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getSandboxOptions().load() loads the sandbox options early, ItemPickerJava.Parse() applies the distributions late

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 4:41 PM

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Oh, I see.. Both OnPreDistributionMerge and OnInitGlobalModData occur quite late in the game boot process. Both occur after server/ lua scripts are loaded, which is too late for what I'm doing, which is patching shared/ and client/ lua files of other mods

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Thanks

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 5:14 PM

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If you pass -Ddebug=true to the java process (not the same as command lines arguments that are passed to the PZ server/client), it puts the server into debug mode so that isDebugEnabled() can be used server-side.

".\jre64\bin\java.exe" -Ddebug=true [snip...] zombie.network.GameServer -servername servertest

ancient grail Oct 25, 2022, 5:37 PM

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Sharing
My newly finished mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2879848416

Steam Workshop::SecretStash

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 5:41 PM

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nice!

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 5:45 PM

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Great idea @ancient grail

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 5:49 PM

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blissful salmon I still have troubles to get my ZombieScream working. As my post from earlier de...

Don't anybody know about my problem? I didn't found a way by myself to solve this. Is it really "uncharted land" or did I described it bad? Just tell me... I'm not english native so I probably explaind it not understandable or just bad. I'm a little desperate at the moment...

bronze yoke Oct 25, 2022, 5:51 PM

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i really don't know anything about that, but isn't the audible range in the sound script or something?

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 5:54 PM

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I only found the SoundBanks.lua so far. But most of the stuff in there is commented like:
-- { alias = "assaultrifledistant", file = "media/sound/assaultrifledistant2.wav", gain = ambientDefaultGain, minrange = 0.001, maxrange = 1000, maxreverbrange = 1000, reverbfactor = 1, preferedTriggerRange=defaultTriggerRange},

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I'm not sure if this is deprecated or if I can use this in some way.

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At first I want the sound be hearable by the players. If I have the option to attract zombies in special cases it would be nice. But as I mentioned I think attract zombies can be done with the addsound(...) stuff...

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 6:16 PM

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As for example I hoped I could use this:
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/SoundManager.html#PlayWorldSound(java.lang.String,zombie.iso.IsoGridSquare,float,float,float,int,boolean)
But the radius doesn't seem to affect the range. I tried it for example with:
getSoundManager():PlayWorldSound("ZombieDemonScream", zombie:getSquare(), 0, 1450, 1, false);

SoundManager

declaration: package: zombie, class: SoundManager

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 6:19 PM

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ancient grail Sharing My newly finished mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails...

that is pretty cool

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 6:43 PM

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blissful salmon As for example I hoped I could use this: https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zomb...

Not sure about audible sounds that players can hear, but this is what I used to draw the attention of zombies based on range. There is no actual audio played, as this is for chat text that is intended to produce a sound (like whispering or speaking).

                        WorldSoundManager.instance:addSound(player,
                                player:getX(), player:getY(), player:getZ(), radius, volume)

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I used the same value for radius and volume (Didn't dig deep enough to figure out how pz handles those values differently)

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The values seemed roughly equivalent to number of tiles

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Looking at the IsoGameCharacter:playSound() implementation, that seems to call into an FMODSoundEmitter. I think there is a method to get sound emitters from the IsoGameCharacter? I'll have to check a bit later

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 6:47 PM

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hearty dew Not sure about audible sounds that players can hear, but this is what I used to ...

Thanks for feedback. Thats the part I think I've understand (like I've mentioned as addSound() stuff). But my real goal is to make a zombie periodically hearable. May be as second goal make the zombie attract other zombies when the zombie gets a player as a target.

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 6:49 PM

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hearty dew Looking at the `IsoGameCharacter:playSound()` implementation, that seems to call...

This would be nice. I also looked at this stuff in java. But I didn't get deep enough to understand it.

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 7:15 PM

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DebugOptions.instance.Character.Debug.PlaySoundWhenInvisible```
There's a debug option (under the `Options` button in the debug UI) to play sounds when invis fyi

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:19 PM

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:O

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:19 PM

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blissful salmon Thanks for feedback. Thats the part I think I've understand (like I've mentioned...

your mod concept sounds very very interesting to me

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MD_SkadiNod

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i like my players to suffer

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 7:31 PM

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weak sierra i like my players to suffer

I know, I'm the player

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:31 PM

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one of them

tardy wren Oct 25, 2022, 7:31 PM

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But she's also real nice when bullcrap happens

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otherwise you're cow food

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Okay, so I need to modify an item that I know is a result of a recipe

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    item:DoParam("DaysFresh", value)
    item:DoParam("DaysTotallyRotten", value)```

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Do I do it something like this?

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 7:32 PM

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Been experimenting with the ModData serialization. As we've already known, functions and userdata doesn't get preserved, only base stuff like tables, doubles, strings...
But another thing to keep in mind is references are flattened out. For example, if you have something like

local md = object:getModData()
local test = {"Test" ,"Table"}
md.test1 = test
me.test2 = test

md.test1 and md.test2 will be the same reference until its serialized, then they become copies and no longer maintain their relation

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 7:33 PM

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weak sierra your mod concept sounds very very interesting to me

I just try to do some random stuff that I like to see in the game 🙂 If I can complete it I'd like to share the stuff but at the moment I have several problems to solve... But step by step... I currently working on the sound thing and after that I think I go back to the model stuff...

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:34 PM

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:)

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:34 PM

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astral dune Been experimenting with the ModData serialization. As we've already known, funct...

best to store an identifier that u can retrieve the reference from then instead

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 7:35 PM

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yes, if you have a convoluted self-referencing table setup, best to use keys. Same with storing functions, could save a string representation of the function name or something

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:35 PM

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knowing db design well sounds very helpful for this

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lol

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i think im gonna stick to storing simple data myself

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 7:36 PM

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me too. I'm just struggling to come up with a data structure for what I want to store, so I figured I'd test the edges of the system to see what I can get away with

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 7:37 PM

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astral dune yes, if you have a convoluted self-referencing table setup, best to use keys. Sa...

Yea, that's how you'd do something like sending a message to the server that sends another message to a different client to call a specific function

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chatty client-to-client messaging

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 7:37 PM

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ya, you just can't store bespoke anonymous functions, closures, things like that

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Still trying to figure out a way to have client side code request data from the server and wait for the reply before continuing 🤔

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:38 PM

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callback

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theres

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OnReceiveClientCommand

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and OnReceiveServerCommand

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so client sends to server

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it processes it

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 7:39 PM

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astral dune Still trying to figure out a way to have client side code request data from the ...

You can't really. The lua thread is the UI thread, so you'd block everything

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:39 PM

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it registers callback with the client end for that command

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and then upon receiving the right kind of command in the other dir

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it responds with code

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 7:39 PM

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coroutines are not possible in kahlua?

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:39 PM

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they are, and also are not necessary for what was specified here?

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they never said blocking the thread to wait

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they just said to wait

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 7:40 PM

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astral dune coroutines are not possible in kahlua?

They are, but they aren't threads. They are just saved execution state that resumes at a later time

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:40 PM

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u dont have to block to wait

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u can just use callback

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 7:41 PM

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I suppose you can enclose locals into the callback if you're good

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 7:41 PM

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You could integrate it into a coroutine, but it'd still amount to putting an event handler to receive the reply as @weak sierra described above and that event handler telling the coroutine it is time to resume

astral dune Oct 25, 2022, 7:43 PM

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I just hate splitting code up like that, makes code hard to follow. Everytime I'm rooting around in the java code and I see it call the Packet methods I know I'll never figure out where that went, lol

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:44 PM

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hearty dew You could integrate it into a coroutine, but it'd still amount to putting an eve...

that's.. possible but like - why

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lol

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just store it with a unique ID in a table on the client

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and then send that ID to the server

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and then have it send it back

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then the locals are read back from the table

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when it executes on the response

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 7:49 PM

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It might be kind of nice to have something like this to keep the general logic readable```lua
function()
h = spawn_zombie_horde()
s = play("scary_zombie_sounds")
wait(end_of(s))
wait(until_receive_message("start_zombie_movement"))
h:chase_player()
-- more stuff
wait(until_receive_message("stop_zombie_movement"))
end

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:50 PM

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argument in favor of coroutine u mean?

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ive spent a lot of time in client/server land and multithreading land so reading callbacks doesnt bug me as long as they are named and stored in a sensible way

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 7:50 PM

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yea, that's one thing coroutines do. They keep the some execution encapsulated in one location and maintains the state too

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 7:51 PM

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im not too familiar with coroutines in lua except knowing they exist

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so im like "that's spooky let's just"

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but that is probably unfounded

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anyway the base point stands, callbacks are the way to set up the logic

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whether in a coroutine or in discrete functions

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not really any other way afaik

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 7:54 PM

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yea, behind the scenes, pz only gives you events and event handlers to do messaging like this, so even if you use coroutines, you'll need to implement that on top of the events/callbacks. Now if you've done that work and packaged into into something reusable, you don't have to mess with them after that so much :)

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 8:09 PM

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blissful salmon As for example I hoped I could use this: https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zomb...

public class PlayWorldSoundPacket
implements INetworkPacket {
    String name;
    int x;
    int y;
    byte z;

    public void set(String string, int n, int n2, byte by) {
        this.name = string;
        this.x = n;
        this.y = n2;
        this.z = by;
    }

    public void process() {
        SoundManager.instance.PlayWorldSoundImpl(this.name, false, this.x, this.y, (int)this.z, 1.0f, 20.0f, 2.0f, false);
    }

    public Audio PlayWorldSound(String string, boolean bl, IsoGridSquare isoGridSquare, float f, float f2, float f3, boolean bl2) {
        if (GameServer.bServer || isoGridSquare == null) {
            return null;
        }
        if (GameClient.bClient) {
            GameClient.instance.PlayWorldSound(string, isoGridSquare.x, isoGridSquare.y, (byte)isoGridSquare.z);
        }
        return this.PlayWorldSoundImpl(string, bl, isoGridSquare.getX(), isoGridSquare.getY(), isoGridSquare.getZ(), f, f2, f3, bl2);
    }

Going through PlayWorldSound seems to lose the range value, using that hardcoded 20 value instead (at least in multiplayer). So don't think that fits your requirements

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And in singleplayer, f2 (the range) seems to never be used 🤔

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AmbientSoundManager does those long-range event sounds, like gun shots and wolf howls, but it's not exposed to lua

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Hmm.. Can players hear other players' gunshots from a far distance?

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 8:30 PM

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hearty dew `AmbientSoundManager` does those long-range event sounds, like gun shots and wol...

why are so many obvious things not exposed to lua 🙄

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so u can hear voip with configurable range

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could perhaps be able to trigger voip from a given distance

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if exposed to lua, again, lol

wet gorge Oct 25, 2022, 8:40 PM

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Anyone know how to dump all the items in-game to a text file easily? Need it formatted like: ID : Category : Name : Plus any stats.

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 8:47 PM

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wet gorge Anyone know how to dump all the items in-game to a text file easily? Need it for...

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/scripting/ScriptManager.html#getAllItems()

ScriptManager

declaration: package: zombie.scripting, class: ScriptManager

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loop thru that

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pull info and turn into a string

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write to file

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im not writin the whole thing for u tho

wet gorge Oct 25, 2022, 8:47 PM

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Ma man. Does that list modded items too?

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 8:47 PM

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it would.

wet gorge Oct 25, 2022, 8:48 PM

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weak sierra im not writin the whole thing for u tho

Can you write the whole thing for me? XD

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 8:48 PM

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if u send me $20 :P

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lmfao

wet gorge Oct 25, 2022, 8:48 PM

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OK

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 8:48 PM

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alright fair nuff

wet gorge Oct 25, 2022, 8:48 PM

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Can I mail you a cheque.

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 8:49 PM

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..no :P

wet gorge Oct 25, 2022, 8:50 PM

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Thanks though, truly. That is more than helpful what you just linked.

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 8:54 PM

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hearty dew `AmbientSoundManager` does those long-range event sounds, like gun shots and wol...

So AmbientStreamManger is exposed, but not AmbientSoundManager...

getAmbientStreamManager():addAmbient("bottlesmash", getPlayer():getX(), getPlayer():getY(), 200, 200)

That seems to do the trick. There's a catch though. It only works on the client in multiplayer. For no apparent good reason it excludes singleplayer. I imagine the author meant to prevent it from doing anything on the server-side, but excluded single player too

        if (!GameClient.bClient) {
            return;
        }

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@blissful salmon nm, that doesn't actually work once you are about 20 tiles away from the x/y coords :/

stray yacht Oct 25, 2022, 8:59 PM

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Does anyone know if the devs take requests on new events, and where the best place to ask them might be?

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 9:06 PM

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there's a feature request for modders place on the forum

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a thread

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whether they'll listen who knows

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but that's the "correct" place

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 9:11 PM

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hearty dew ```java public class PlayWorldSoundPacket implements INetworkPacket { String...

I was exactly on the same function and what you write was also my observation. Then I tried to check other possibiliies like the ambient sound. But I couldn't figure out how they do the gunshots in the far or similar sounds.

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:12 PM

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They select a random player and play the sound at the player's coordinates. Then do a WorldSound at a nearby random coordinate to attract the zombies to

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 9:12 PM

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hearty dew Hmm.. Can players hear other players' gunshots from a far distance?

I also don't know this... I'll test this tomorrow I think.

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:13 PM

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I'm not seeing any APIs that play sounds based on coordinates beyond roughly gridsquare distance (20x20 tiles)

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:13 PM

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blissful salmon I also don't know this... I'll test this tomorrow I think.

This might be a good thing to investigate. I don't know how player gunshot sounds work

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I have a suspicion that if they are heard long range, it is done by doing a distance calc serverside and sending a PlayWorldSoundPacket to nearby player's clients

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 9:16 PM

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hearty dew They select a random player and play the sound at the player's coordinates. Then...

But I tought my mates can also hear this farther than 20tiles.

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:18 PM

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blissful salmon But I tought my mates can also hear this farther than 20tiles.

Hmm.. Don't see anything about multiplayer (only split screen) in AmbientStreamManager. Not sure.

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 9:19 PM

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Is there any reason to ever spam the A button in this game on a controller?

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Anything that can be rapidly accomplished by pressing A repeatedly and nothing else?

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Wondering if it would be a pretty safe triple-tap bind.

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:20 PM

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hearty dew Hmm.. Don't see anything about multiplayer (only split screen) in AmbientStreamM...

AmbientSoundManager (not exposed) does multiplayer, not AmbientStreamManager (exposed)

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 9:23 PM

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hearty dew This might be a good thing to investigate. I don't know how player gunshot sound...

I read about a sound radius in the wiki:
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Weapons
But I don't know where these values come from and how accurate this is. In the items_weapons.txt i only found SoundVolume but nothing with the distance. And where they are defined. So I have to asume they are completly in java or defined with the soundeffect itself. But I'm not that far in the code to examine this stuff right know. Also the SoundBanks.lua seems kind of deprecated for the effects I think.

Weapons

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I overlookt it multiple times... The item has a SoundRadius definition....

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:27 PM

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hearty dew AmbientSoundManager (not exposed) does multiplayer, not AmbientStreamManager (ex...

Serverside, AmbientSoundManager sends packets to each client. Client-side, AmbientStreamManager receives it and adds a new Ambient object and plays it```java
public AmbientStreamManager.Ambient(String string, float f, float f2, float f3, float f4, boolean bl) {
this.name = string;
this.x = f;
this.y = f2;
this.radius = f3;
this.volume = f4;
this.emitter.x = f;
this.emitter.y = f2;
this.emitter.z = 0.0f;
this.emitter.playAmbientSound(string);
this.update();
LuaEventManager.triggerEvent((String)"OnAmbientSound", (Object)string, (Object)Float.valueOf(f), (Object)Float.valueOf(f2));
}

The radius and volume there are sent in the packet, but `this.radius` and `this.volume` are never used. The emitter only gets the x/y coords. Hrm

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 9:33 PM

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I unexpectetly found the following codeblock in the ISReloadWeaponAction.lua:

-- need a chambered round
ISReloadWeaponAction.attackHook = function(character, chargeDelta, weapon)
    ISTimedActionQueue.clear(character)
    if character:isAttackStarted() then return; end
    if instanceof(character, "IsoPlayer") and not character:isAuthorizeMeleeAction() then
        return;
    end
    if weapon:isRanged() and not character:isDoShove() then
        if ISReloadWeaponAction.canShoot(weapon) then
            character:playSound(weapon:getSwingSound());
            local radius = weapon:getSoundRadius();
            if isClient() then -- limit sound radius in MP
                radius = radius / 1.8;
            end
            character:addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible(radius, weapon:getSoundVolume(), false);
            character:startMuzzleFlash()
            character:DoAttack(0);
        else
            character:DoAttack(0);
            character:setRangedWeaponEmpty(true);
        end
    else
        ISTimedActionQueue.clear(character)
        if(chargeDelta == nil) then
            character:DoAttack(0);
        else
            character:DoAttack(chargeDelta);
        end
    end
end

I didn't see this one till now. But I'm not sure if or how character:playSound() work with character:addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible()

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:34 PM

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            local radius = weapon:getSoundRadius();
            if isClient() then -- limit sound radius in MP
                radius = radius / 1.8;
            end
            character:addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible(radius, weapon:getSoundVolume(), false);
            character:startMuzzleFlash()
            character:DoAttack(0);

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:34 PM

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blissful salmon I unexpectetly found the following codeblock in the ISReloadWeaponAction.lua: ``...

Oh, looking at same thing 😅

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 9:36 PM

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Would a technique for binding multi-tap controller button signals be useful to anyone here?

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:36 PM

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blissful salmon I unexpectetly found the following codeblock in the ISReloadWeaponAction.lua: ``...

If character:addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible() is anything like the WorldSound I mentioned earlier, all that does is attract zombies based on radius/volume, not actually play sound that is audible to a client

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    public void addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible(int n, int n2, boolean bl) {
        if (this.isInvisible()) {
            return;
        }
        WorldSoundManager.instance.addSound((Object)this, (int)this.getX(), (int)this.getY(), (int)this.getZ(), n, n2, bl);
    }

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 9:37 PM

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hearty dew If character:addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible() is anything like the WorldSound I me...

This is very likely the case...

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:37 PM

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Yea, that just attracts zombies

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 9:38 PM

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damn...

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Do you know where the sound in the item definition comes from? For example the "MagnumShoot"? Is this packed in the sound/banks/Desktop/ZomboidSound.bank? Do you know if the banks only contain the sounds or additional infos? But at the moment I fear the the hearable range atm is always the a default distance....

blissful salmon Oct 25, 2022, 9:49 PM

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hearty dew Yea, that just attracts zombies

I think I give up for today... I'll make a few more test tomorrow and if I find nothing new then I wait with this and try to solve another problem... But many thanks for your help/assistence 👍

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:53 PM

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blissful salmon Do you know where the sound in the item definition comes from? For example the "...

Don't see it anywhere. It may be compressed in those bank files so it isn't showing up with a simple string search

vernal palm Oct 25, 2022, 9:56 PM

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im kind of late to the party, and did some scrolling, have you seen this link @blissful salmon https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/blob/master/scripts/README.md at the bottom they had the sound of the shotgun as a block.

GitHub

Zomboid-Modding-Guide/README.md at master · FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-...

Guide to modding various aspects of Project Zomboid - Zomboid-Modding-Guide/README.md at master · FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide

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idk if its out of date

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:57 PM

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$ file ProjectZomboid/media/sound/banks/Desktop/ZomboidSound.bank ProjectZomboid/media/sound/banks/Desktop/ZomboidSound.strings.bank
ProjectZomboid/media/sound/banks/Desktop/ZomboidSound.bank:         RIFF (little-endian) data
ProjectZomboid/media/sound/banks/Desktop/ZomboidSound.strings.bank: RIFF (little-endian) data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format

vernal palm Oct 25, 2022, 9:57 PM

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sound radius is the sound zombies hear it at, and distancemax is the range other players will hear it

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 9:58 PM

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hearty dew ``` $ file ProjectZomboid/media/sound/banks/Desktop/ZomboidSound.bank ProjectZom...

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Looks similar to the shoutgun sound name, DoubleBarrelShotgunShoot

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    static void receivePlaySound(ByteBuffer byteBuffer, UdpConnection udpConnection, short s) {
        GameSoundClip gameSoundClip;
        int n;
        PlaySoundPacket playSoundPacket = new PlaySoundPacket();
        playSoundPacket.parse(byteBuffer, udpConnection);
        IsoMovingObject isoMovingObject = playSoundPacket.getMovingObject();
        if (!playSoundPacket.isConsistent()) {
            return;
        }
        int n2 = 70;
        GameSound gameSound = GameSounds.getSound((String)playSoundPacket.getName());
        if (gameSound != null) {
            for (n = 0; n < gameSound.clips.size(); ++n) {
                gameSoundClip = (GameSoundClip)gameSound.clips.get(n);
                if (!gameSoundClip.hasMaxDistance()) continue;
                n2 = Math.max(n2, (int)gameSoundClip.distanceMax);
            }
        }
        for (n = 0; n < GameServer.udpEngine.connections.size(); ++n) {
            IsoPlayer isoPlayer;
            gameSoundClip = (UdpConnection)GameServer.udpEngine.connections.get(n);
            if (gameSoundClip.getConnectedGUID() == udpConnection.getConnectedGUID() || !gameSoundClip.isFullyConnected() || (isoPlayer = GameServer.getAnyPlayerFromConnection((UdpConnection)gameSoundClip)) == null || isoMovingObject != null && !gameSoundClip.RelevantTo(isoMovingObject.getX(), isoMovingObject.getY(), (float)n2)) continue;
            ByteBufferWriter byteBufferWriter = gameSoundClip.startPacket();
            PacketTypes.PacketType.PlaySound.doPacket(byteBufferWriter);
            playSoundPacket.write(byteBufferWriter);
            PacketTypes.PacketType.PlaySound.send((UdpConnection)gameSoundClip);
        }
    }

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There's where the server sends the packet to play audible sounds (not WorldSounds, there's a separate method for those) to the players' clients

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    public boolean RelevantTo(float f, float f2, float f3) {
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i) {
            if (this.connectArea[i] != null) {
                int n = (int)this.connectArea[i].z;
                int n2 = (int)(this.connectArea[i].x - (float)(n / 2)) * 10;
                int n3 = (int)(this.connectArea[i].y - (float)(n / 2)) * 10;
                int n4 = n2 + n * 10;
                int n5 = n3 + n * 10;
                if (f >= (float)n2 && f < (float)n4 && f2 >= (float)n3 && f2 < (float)n5) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            if (this.ReleventPos[i] == null || !(Math.abs(this.ReleventPos[i].x - f) <= f3) || !(Math.abs(this.ReleventPos[i].y - f2) <= f3)) continue;
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

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There it checks if any of the 4 connectAreas (for the 4 splitscreen players on the client) are nearby the x/y of the sound to determine whether to send the packet to the client or not

versed rune Oct 25, 2022, 10:10 PM

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Does anyone have any mod recommendations for single player?

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:11 PM

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im looking to make a drink mod idk where to start tho

versed rune Oct 25, 2022, 10:12 PM

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Wdym by a drink mod?

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:12 PM

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a mod that makes a drink

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better to ask that in generak

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the mod recs

versed rune Oct 25, 2022, 10:12 PM

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Oh mb lol thanks

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:12 PM

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yeah

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versed rune Oct 25, 2022, 10:13 PM

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If you’re gonna make a drink mod I would definitely say add like a moonshine distillery barrel or something so you can make moonshine for Molotov’s or just to drink

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:14 PM

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versed rune If you’re gonna make a drink mod I would definitely say add like a moonshine dis...

naw im making a proper British stella

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adding a watermelon too

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ill keep it in mind

versed rune Oct 25, 2022, 10:14 PM

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Ye, sounds like a good mod though

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:17 PM

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anyone alive?

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:18 PM

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I'm alive!

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Wait... am I?

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:18 PM

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fr? ong?

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:19 PM

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I honestly don't know, now that I think about it.

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What if I'm not?

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Oh, God, what if I'm not?

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:19 PM

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are you dead??

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:19 PM

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Bruh I cannot stop adding little improvements to these mods before I push em, losing it lol

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:24 PM

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thick karma Bruh I cannot stop adding little improvements to these mods before I push em, lo...

by the offchance you do how do you make a drink mod

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:25 PM

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I do not, however . . .

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:25 PM

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awh

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:25 PM

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If I wanted to make a drinks mod

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I would find a 5-star drinks mod like this one: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2674541310&searchtext=drink

Steam Workshop::Energy drinks

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:26 PM

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ok

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ok

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taking notes

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:27 PM

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And then I would go to the steamapps folder for games on the same drive as your Zomboid install, and from there navigate to steamapps\workshop\content\.

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:27 PM

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ok ok

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:27 PM

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Then I would search for something key to the name of the mod, e.g., "Energy", or "Drinks"

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Or, alternatively, find the folder number that matches the mod's Workshop ID

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:28 PM

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alr

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:28 PM

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In there, you can actually read the .lua files and see the image files that the modder above used to add energy drinks.

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And just... try to change the right stuff

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Until it stops crashing!

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🤪

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:29 PM

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wym change the right stuff

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i tried modding once

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outdated

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:29 PM

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I mean, if you want to make your own version, you'll probably need to change things

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E.g., what image files you include

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What variables reference them

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:29 PM

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ill focus on the content first

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:29 PM

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How the drinks are defined

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etc.

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What the drinks do.

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All that can be adjusted

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So, you know, adjust it, just not wrong, or it stops working

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:31 PM

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i litterally want to change some textures

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:32 PM

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If you borrow terribly heavily from that modder's code and style, asking for permission before uploading or perhaps giving a shout-out to the modder whose code you used is obviously polite, but if you just learn the functions you need and use them in a fairly individual way, and you use all of your own variable names and your own logical flow of events and such, I don't think anyone can legitimately be mad at you for learning which functions exist by looking at their code.

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:32 PM

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alright

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:33 PM

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tawdry solar i litterally want to change some textures

Probably could learn it from that mod. No clue. But since they added new drinks, I'm guessing they added new textures.

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:33 PM

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i have no clue where the pz folder is

weak sierra Oct 25, 2022, 10:36 PM

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--To match our tweak to the SPAS12.
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.ArmyStorageGuns.items, "GWP.R870Police")
table.insert(ProceduralDIstributions.list.ArmyStorageGuns.items, 0.2)

--To make it available in the gun stores *at all*.
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.GunStoreDisplayCase.items, "GWP.R870Police")
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.GunStoreDisplayCase.items, 0.2)```

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for the SECOND line there

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oh

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nvm

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i see it

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:)

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rofl

vernal palm Oct 25, 2022, 10:37 PM

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happy to have helped. my work here is done

safe silo Oct 25, 2022, 10:46 PM

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Could I:

A) Have a drainable item take a Car Battery instead of a regular battery without altering the code? Ofcourse I'd check for car battery on "Insert Battery" and such but would it actually drain it?

B) I have asked this before but sadly I can't find it. If I have 4 items that will use the same LUA code, instead of typing:

If ITEM = ITEM1 or ITEM = ITEM2 or ITEM = ITEM3

Can I somehow make a global tag?

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:48 PM

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tawdry solar i have no clue where the pz folder is

108600, but again you could just search a keyword from the mod

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:48 PM

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ight ty

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:48 PM

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Sorry trying to finish up some of my own insanity

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 10:49 PM

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no worries

thick karma Oct 25, 2022, 10:49 PM

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This mod to make UI more manageable on controller has spiraled completely out of . . . control.

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🦗

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 11:01 PM

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thick karma So I'm trying to hide a Mod Options setting when a SandboxVars setting is false....

Let ModOptions to manage only client options, and Sandbox Var to manage only server options. Don't mix it, because it's different. Halo text should be client I guess, because it's cosmetic and each user should be able to tune it on client. Other options that affect gameplay should be set by admins only, so it' related to sandbox options.

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@hearty dew Check pcall() please 🙂 How is it fast in terms of performance?

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some_fn()
--- vs ---
pcall(some_fn)

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It's a kind of try-catch, but description says that it's a kind of sandbox for a function. I'm not sure what it means.

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 11:07 PM

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some_fn = function() end; l.measureTime("test", function() for i=1,100000 do pcall(some_fn) end end)

112ms

some_fn = function() end; l.measureTime("test", function() for i=1,100000 do some_fn() end end)

37ms

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 11:08 PM

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undone elbow It's a kind of try-catch, but description says that it's a kind of sandbox for a...

Basically if some_fn() throws an error, pcall will simply return true/false as a result, iirc

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pcall (f, arg1, ···)
Calls function f with the given arguments in protected mode. This means that any error inside f is not propagated; instead, pcall catches the error and returns a status code. Its first result is the status code (a boolean), which is true if the call succeeds without errors. In such case, pcall also returns all results from the call, after this first result. In case of any error, pcall returns false plus the error message.```

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 11:10 PM

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What about?..

some_fn = function() for j=1,1000 do x=7 end end;
l.measureTime("test", function() for i=1,100 do pcall(some_fn) end end)

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 11:10 PM

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so pcall will return true/false, followed by the normal return values of some_fn()

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:11 PM

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btw guys do any of you know how the game handles the spear durability with carpentry

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im pretty sure that your spears have better durability the higher your carpentry skill

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and i want to do something equal to that

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to another weapon

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 11:12 PM

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hey kop

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:12 PM

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hey dude

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 11:12 PM

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hearty dew so `pcall` will return `true/false`, followed by the normal return values of `so...

I know how it works. I wonder how it works inside, is it just "put callback in stack" or something else.

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 11:12 PM

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im finally working on the mod

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:12 PM

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which one?

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 11:12 PM

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just got my logo

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the beer one

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:12 PM

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i see

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 11:12 PM

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some_fn = function() for j=1,1000 do x=7 end end; l.measureTime("test", function() for i=1,100 do pcall(some_fn) end end)

22ms

some_fn = function() for j=1,1000 do x=7 end end; l.measureTime("test", function() for i=1,100 do some_fn() end end)

21ms

basically the same with so few function calls. 1000 vs 100000

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:13 PM

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i don't think i've ever seen it

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 11:13 PM

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@thick karma could i just retexture all of them

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the files

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and change names

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:13 PM

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clear bloom im pretty sure that your spears have better durability the higher your carpentry...

@tawdry solarbtw do you have any idea on this?

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do you think it would be in the scripts?

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it would make sense for me

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 11:14 PM

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yeah

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oh

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 11:14 PM

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Seems pcall is expensive enough. 1 ms per 100 calls.

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 11:14 PM

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idk

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its a good idea tho

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:16 PM

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it isn't in recipes

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 11:16 PM

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undone elbow Seems pcall is expensive enough. 1 ms per 100 calls.

That might have just been a precision error since it was so small, 21 vs 22

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:16 PM

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i thought there would be something

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or in the weapons

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but i can't find anything

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weird

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it def feels like something that would be in the scripts

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 11:18 PM

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hearty dew That might have just been a precision error since it was so small, 21 vs 22

no-pcall

LOG  : General     , 1666739821346> 885,890,904> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739822349> 885,891,907> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739823345> 885,892,903> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739824696> 885,894,254> LUtils(0).test: 23ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739825845> 885,895,403> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739826846> 885,896,404> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739827945> 885,897,504> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739829445> 885,899,004> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739830692> 885,900,250> LUtils(0).test: 22ms

pcall

LOG  : General     , 1666739874846> 885,944,404> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739876746> 885,946,304> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739878446> 885,948,003> LUtils(0).test: 22ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739879745> 885,949,303> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739880845> 885,950,403> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739882745> 885,952,303> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739883845> 885,953,403> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739885546> 885,955,103> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739886746> 885,956,303> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739887946> 885,957,503> LUtils(0).test: 21ms
LOG  : General     , 1666739889646> 885,959,203> LUtils(0).test: 22ms

hearty dew Oct 25, 2022, 11:20 PM

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hearty dew ```lua some_fn = function() end; l.measureTime("test", function() for i=1,100000...

(112-37)/100000 = 0.00075ms overhead per pcall

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So pcall all you want 😅

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:21 PM

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im starting to question if it is even in the game

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 11:21 PM

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i'm starting to use it 🙂

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 11:21 PM

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clear bloom im starting to question if it is even in the game

isnt it to do with maintenance

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:21 PM

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idk

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 11:21 PM

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the skill

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:22 PM

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but then what about carpentry

tawdry solar Oct 25, 2022, 11:22 PM

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thats in the game then

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its not a prof its a skill

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you level it up by killing zeds

clear bloom Oct 25, 2022, 11:22 PM

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hmmmm

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ye i get maintnence

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but what about the incorporation with carpentry

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im pretty sure spears get a bonus the higher your carpentry is

undone elbow Oct 25, 2022, 11:27 PM

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@hearty dew I have some habits where errors are not allowed, e.g.:

local old = getText -- ninja injection
getText = function(...) ...... end
pcall(old_fn)
getText = old

tardy prism Oct 25, 2022, 11:27 PM

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clear bloom hmmmm

who is this table imposter i see...