mod_development

[bronze yoke]

yeah, that's what we've spent the last few hours doing 💀

i'm looking through this mod at the moment to see any signs it could break something

[hearty dew]

Mm, kind of hard if you can't repro it yourself. Ideally, you could see both server and client logs to verify the server command was or wasn't sent and the client-side did or didn't pick up the command

[bronze yoke]

i have asked him for server logs before, but it seems pretty clear that the client is the issue

i don't see any sign in the other mod that it would break this one, and certainly not permanently

it might be the save file... there is some weird stuff going on there

something i noticed early on is that every container has an extra item in it that is literally just nil, i have no idea what that's about

[trail lotus]

Could that extra item be the “store ledger” item I used on the container to turn it into a store?

[bronze yoke]

if that was it it'd happen on my end too, and it would've caused errors the whole time, definitely just something weird that's happened in your save

[trail lotus]

Hmm. Hopefully the next go around we can prevent the save from being corrupted in this way.

[hearty dew]

Utils.getNumberOfClients = function()
    local onlinePlayers = getOnlinePlayers()
    if not onlinePlayers then
        -- onlinePlayers is nil in singleplayer
        return 0
    end

    local onlineIDs = {}
    for i = 0, onlinePlayers:size() - 1 do
        local player = onlinePlayers:get(i)
        table.insert(onlineIDs, player:getOnlineID())
    end

    table.sort(onlineIDs)
    local numClients = 0
    local nextClientsPlayerID = 0
    for i, id in ipairs(onlineIDs) do
        if id >= nextClientsPlayerID then
            numClients = numClients + 1
            nextClientsPlayerID = math.floor((id + 4) / 4) * 4
        end
    end

    return numClients
end

[odd notch]

the way i ended up doing it was storing to the item's moddata the original values i needed to keep track of when the user opens the edit item menu

an ugly way could be creating an item of it's type, copying it from that, then deleting said item but that felt too excessive and prone to ||unforseen consequences like the item not getting deleted in time/tidily||

[thick karma]

@undone elbow Sorry to bug you, but is there any way to push a settings change to Mod Options without entering the options menu and have that change actually appear in the menu?

I tried :set on the gameOption in one of the options objects that we get back from .options_data, but the options screen checkboxes were unaffected, so not sure if I did it wrong or it's just not possible

[trail lotus]

If anyones interested I’m currently working on a Project zomboid Roleplay server that contains no zombie lore and is purely player to player interaction. There’s tons of custom systems and ui I have planned and need help implementing them. If you’re interested in joining the team let me know! We’ve got a large discord server with tons of members to give feedback. I also plan on creating a board of where we are now and where we need to be in terms of creating new mods. Also you will most likely have to work with others to help integrate each other’s systems and make them work together. I will share a brief and bare sheet containing the planned systems or systems we currently have in place. I will also be providing a separate server duplicate to the beta the players play on. This server will be accessible to all devs working on this project and you will be free to test your mods with our current mods before testing it on the main server

And of course I’d be buying you coffee if you joined my team and helped us on this journey 😉

[thick karma]

lmao your crew is gonna need a hell of a lot of coffee @trail lotus

[bronze yoke]

hehe well that works for me

[ancient grail]

What was the purpose of it all?

[ancient grail]

Some of the mods has cross over
Like UI and database

I bet sir nolan can do the npc part of this

[ruby urchin]

if a player death, his ModData is reset?

[ancient grail]

Fair question id like to know too

[hearty dew]

No idea. Maybe it is copied over to the IsoZombie? 😅

[astral dune]

I imagine a new character is a new object, ya

[ruby urchin]

I can test it, but well I just ask here to save a little of time

[ancient grail]

Or maybe its just there but wont have anything to do with the player that respawns

Why theres no modder streaming while doing mod? Cuz it ruins concentration? Hehe

Id like to watch u guys in action

[astral dune]

I can't imagine watching somebody coding, lol

[ruby urchin]

AuthenticPeach stream modding on twitch

[astral dune]

I don't even like watching myself coding

[ancient grail]

Well not twitch but on a room where its direct and people help out too oreveryone doing own work but is just there streaming for social reasons

Anyone has snippets for moddata?

[late hound]

been doing it in the Unofficial PZ Mapping discord lately

[ancient grail]

its about mapping ?

[late hound]

mainly, but I don't do mapping there (personally not a fan of doing map modding)

[ancient grail]

ok 🙂 ill watch sometime when i see you thnx for the heads up

[odd notch]

getting the original values for setting the loot rarity of an item back to it's lowest (basegame default) tier

[drifting ore]

Can anyone direct me to the mod that provides a live minimap of all active zombies within the vicinity as they move about?

[ancient grail]

theres already something like that

[drifting ore]

Yea do you happen to know the name of it?😅

Trying to find it on the workshop.

[odd notch]

that's a basegame debug mode feature

right click -> ui -> zombie population i believe

[ancient grail]

ZombiePopulationWindow.OnOpenPanel();

[drifting ore]

Ohhh, alright. Saw it in a vid, figured it might've been a mod.

[ancient grail]

do this when you are on debug @drifting ore using lua console

or what buffy said .. hehe

[ancient grail]

ow wow this edits the distrib?

this is amazing

[odd notch]

no need to edit distribution, it happens when a client finds an item

takes the item they view and rolls the chance of it being a certain tier

can apply to any item from any mod

in my use case it applies to weapons via

if item:getModData()['_itemTier'] == nil then
    if instanceof(item, "HandWeapon") then
--etc

[ancient grail]

yeah but it overwrites how distrib does things right? makes it easier for non modder admins

[odd notch]

it negates distribution entirely

[bronze yoke]

in 41.78

extremely interested to see what people will do with that

[ancient grail]

aw then what if you have an item that you dont want to spawn entirely ,. if you install this mod will it spawn by dfault or what

ah cool

[odd notch]

it's an in-house mod for my rp server

[fast galleon]

I need some help, when I try this in debug it works (set to 0, never find Burned Houses). But when I play I still find burned houses.

        for i=1,getWorld():getRandomizedBuildingList():size() do
            local story = getWorld():getRandomizedBuildingList():get(i-1)
            if instanceof(story,"RBBurnt") then
                print("test fires 2: story chance",SandboxRandomChance[SandboxVars.WorldOnFire.RBBurnt])
                story:setChance(SandboxRandomChance[SandboxVars.WorldOnFire.RBBurnt])
                break
            end
        end

[weak sierra]

i want to browse your modlist :P

oh it's not public?

[odd notch]

it doesn't tie into anything (yet)

itssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss theres a collectionnnnnnnnnnnn ill dm you one sec

[weak sierra]

[chilly flint]

Sorry if I'm asking obvous but I just was not able to find it.
I would like to create a mod wich makes a new generator type.
This should be a 3 tile structure wich increased distance and fuel-capacity.

I just don't know where to start when it comes to modding.
Coding is no problem, I can learn that but I think this Idea is mostly copy and paste, the only problem is I don't know where to start and I can't find a proper guide for this idea

[fast galleon]

@chilly flint 3 tile structure? how do you place it, is it part of map?

[chilly flint]

part of the map

[ancient grail]

they just made moveable tiles worked earlier i think

[chilly flint]

don't need that, i want them to stay where they are for now

I just need a proper interduction wich I was not able to find. I'm just better when somebody tells me what to do

[fast galleon]

generators by themselves have a set range, can't edit that. You'll have to do some manual wizardry.

[chilly flint]

at this point I just want to get this Idea work. The how's can be adjusted later

[ancient grail]

try to duplicate the generator first i guess

thats a start

[fast galleon]

The steam powered generator, replaces the movable with an IsoGenerator when you place it. This solar battery bank needs more sprites and places a generator on top of moveable.

[ancient grail]

wow you know all about this @fast galleon

[fast galleon]

I started updating ISA for my SP and ended up with most of Lua made by me.

You can make it so that when an object with your sprite is first loaded something happens.

[bronze yoke]

generators have a fixed range? that sucks

at least i get to find out before i actually work on anything though

[chilly flint]

sure but I don't know how to start at all if it comes to creating and uploading mod. I just know where stuff is located in the files

[fast galleon]

A generator rework was mentioned some time ago, adding support for different types.

[astral dune]

is it possible to spawn a sprite or model on screen that isn't a vehicle/item/moveable? For example a balloon that just floats up for a bit before disappearing?

[ancient grail]

it is

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2879848416

check my script on my mod

it actually lets you pick whatever sprite

you can just pick from a custoim tile you do

[astral dune]

can you animate/move it when its on screen?

[ancient grail]

its possible but i havent done anything that animates. but the concept for that is just destroying the sprite and create another 1

just dont know how to make it so that its simultaneous

[astral dune]

is this tied to a particular cell or is it a free moving entity?

[ancient grail]

hmmm i think its tied to a cell but you can try to move it it might work if you setXYZ i havent really tried

[astral dune]

ok, well I'll have a look, thank you

[fast galleon]

#mod_development message
dislaik was adding arrows or smth

[astral dune]

dislaik is always up to some crazy stuff

but now that I think on it EHE adds indicators pointing towards the helicopter which I don't think are vanilla, that may be a possible route as well

🤔 somehow this will work

[ruby urchin]

Ok, when player dies, just create a new IsoPlayer

I mean, ModData disappear

Does anyone know if you can set the fps limit for a specific UI?

[ancient grail]

wow that looks awsome

is it mp ready?

[fast galleon]

get the UI FPS and then set a counter?

[hearty dew]

I suppose you could skip frames or count frames/time when rendering a specific UI window to achieve that

[ruby urchin]

I think, I mean, no need to interact with mp

sorry I did my question poorly, you can set UI FPS on game options, but I would like to set an upper limit

[fast galleon]

if doUpdate then ...
another function sets doUpdate as true or just some condition when it needs to update

ah

[civic lava]

hey can someone help me qucik in VC

i need a question answers its simpole

[hearty dew]

I think that option does it

[civic lava]

so... im trying to so If Panic = Panic 25-100 == true then chancemod = chancemod + 4;

but i need someone to help me

as if i write it wrong slightly it will break the whole thing or simply not work with conastant little errors on bottom right

[hearty dew]

Can you explain what condition you are trying to express in words? I don't understand what's meant by that code

[civic lava]

PLEASE i have been editing for over 6 days, my head hurtsm if anyone is feeling kinda PLEASE vc me & ill share my screen, i need a human to talk to

[hearty dew]

Can you just paste the code or screenshot?

[ruby urchin]

thx guys, This what I was searching getCore():setOptionUIRenderFPS(fpsTable[box.selected]) (I think I can see the difference between 30 and 60 fps lol, it looks good)

[summer rune]

dude, wow. that looks amazing 😮 Will it be a released mod? if so, when? 🔥 💯

[ruby urchin]

yeah, it's a waypoint mod, but I think it will take a while, I'm working on 4 other mods

[summer rune]

fantastic. i am hyped for this. 🙂

[thick karma]

Y'all... there has to be a way. There just has to be. I must update the gd Options menu when my mod options get set. Anyone here an expert on the settings menu, especially how to toggle a redraw of the Mod Options page?

[ancient grail]

yeah went to the vc with him and ended up giving him this

        if panic >= 50 then  
        basechance = basechance + 1 ;
        elseif panic >= 25 then  
        basechance = basechance + 2 ;
        end

turns out hios already being helped bysomeone else so i left

[ruby urchin]

lol this is weird, why require on server side always load client side, isn't this supposed to work like this?

Oh I see lol, it sucks that works like that <#mod_development message>

[undone crescent]

anybody has an idea of an easy way to make a custom tile like a door unbreakable by Z, i tried with the tiledefinitions but with no luck so far 😦

or like set the maxhp of that tile to super high?

[undone elbow]

Hm.. As I remember, there is no API for that. Ofc it's possible in general.

Wait

:set should work

[thick karma]

Well I kind of ran out of energy after who knows how many hours updating 3 mods, lol, but if I get back to it I'll try to find a manual way. I ended up just leaving it up to players to reset defaults my having them click a toggle.

[undone elbow]

Why you need this?

[thick karma]

For me, :set works just fine if I do it from within your onUpdate(), but not outside of it.

Someone has loaded a mod of mine into a large population server and they would like to push new defaults to the players who have saved settings already @undone elbow

I was clientside, I don't know if that matters.

But yeah multiple times I verified that neither :set nor changing the action option in MyStuff.mod.options affected the appearance of the tickboxes in Options.

Although both worked

They both changed the setting

[undone elbow]

I think it also should work in OnApply

[thick karma]

Right, but I need it to work when the player loads into the game.

I was hoping to force the settings change at the request of the host.

As I said, I gave them a solid ass workaround, but still

[undone elbow]

settings:loadFile()
options.myoption = true -- default

Well, I'm not sure why you need this feature OUTSIDE of the mod (i.e. if the ModOptions is disabled?)

[thick karma]

No I need to fire it outside of the main menu

Mod Options is enabled

I need to fire it without the user's confirmation

[undone elbow]

try this then)

[thick karma]

What exactly is settings? Is that the variable that goes into the instantiate call or whatever you called it? (Afk for a minute)

[undone elbow]

loadFile - loads options from file,
then you may overwrite the values

settings is the main instance of ModOptions and also it's settings of your mod

[thick karma]

And loadFile refreshes the Main Menu Options screens?

Or at least refreshes Mod Options screen?

[undone elbow]

loadFile() makes so it won't load later on load for your mod.

[thick karma]

You mean if I load from file it will not overwrite what I load with saved user settings?

That's the goal here. I can change the settings already. Only their appearance in the menu is the problem.

They change, but they LOOK unchanged

Incorrectly

[undone elbow]

I'll answer in 50 min, a bit busy now

[thick karma]

No rush at all

I might pass out tbh I've been modding for a long time today

[ancient grail]

U should get some rest man

[thick karma]

I just finished so much modgress successfully

I want to play now @ancient grail lmao

I'm pretty sure I haven't played this stupid game in hundreds of hours

[ancient grail]

i havent played it in months lol

have a good one

anyone uses a tool for making their UI?

[undone elbow]

@thick karma ```lua
-- These are the default options.
local OPTIONS = {
box1 = true,
box2 = true,
reset_deafults = false,
}

-- Connecting the options to the menu, so user can change and save them.
if ModOptions and ModOptions.getInstance then
local settings = ModOptions:getInstance(OPTIONS, "MyDebugMod", "Debug Mod")

local reset_deafults = settings:getData("reset_deafults")
function reset_deafults:onUpdate(val)
    if val ~= true then
        return
    end
    settings:getData("box1"):set(true)
    settings:getData("box2"):set(true)
    settings:getData("reset_deafults"):set(false)
end

end```

(implementing the way 1)

[clear bloom]

hey everyone

i had a mod i was making

and i stopped making i got busy with other stuff

and then i got sick(still am haha)

today i tried doing more stuff for the mod but nothing works

at this point i literally had one script change

the file is the same

and everything

if anyone could help i would really appreciate it

[ancient grail]

whatcha working on?

[clear bloom]

a mod about stakes

for now i had it so stakes are made with planks

3 stakes

btw how do you do that different looking text for coding

module UppingTheStakes
{
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,

}

}

i had this is the files

it was on the folder the game says the mods will be in

@ancient grailshould i maybe remove it from the other mod folder?

[ancient grail]

ah i remember this

[clear bloom]

the one in the steam files

[ancient grail]

what are you saying? what steam files?

you mean lua?

[vocal onyx]

How can i get a permission

[ancient grail]

permission ? you have to be more clear sir

[clear bloom]

like there are 2 zomboid folders

one separate from steam

and one on the steam folder

[ancient grail]

the users?

[clear bloom]

ye ye

the users one

that's the one the game says the mods with be in

[vocal onyx]

Wdym clear?

[clear bloom]

should i remove it from the steam folder?

[ancient grail]

are you just asking where to put your files to upload to steam?

[ancient grail]

imean permission for what?

[clear bloom]

no no no i mean is the fact that i put them on the 2 folders the thing that makes the mod not work

[ancient grail]

i really dont understand what your saying 🤪
can you be more specific as what did you put to what exact folder

[clear bloom]

i put the script file for my mod on the users zomboid folder

[ancient grail]

...\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media

dont put anything here

[clear bloom]

SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\mods

i mean this

the steam one

Users\kopv1\Zomboid\mods

this is the users one

[clear bloom]

this is the steam one i was talking about

[ancient grail]

u have to put the mods on the users

Workshop if your going to upload it

[clear bloom]

ye and put them there

[ancient grail]

dont have to put it on the steam

[clear bloom]

but should i remove them from the steam one

[ancient grail]

yes

[clear bloom]

ok ok

didn't work

@ancient graildo you have any idea why

[ancient grail]

What do u mean ?

[clear bloom]

the mod still doesn't work

[ancient grail]

Do u see modtemplate on the workshopfolder of the users folder

Use that put your script there properly and learn the pz file structure in regards to modding

[clear bloom]

everything seem to be in order

i have the mod.info file next to the media folder

[ancient grail]

whats writtien on the mod info

[clear bloom]

the name and the description

[ancient grail]

which is?

you have to keep the id blank

did you put anything on the id

the workshop is going to give you the id number once you upload it

[clear bloom]

name=Upping the Stakes
description=Mod centered around making stakes a more practical weapon to use, including improved accessibility and quality of life/realism improvements.
Included changes:
Making stakes able to be crafted with wooden planks. 3 in fact.
Making stakes able to be repaired(not that useful but just makes sense). Half the requirements of a spear.
Making stakes have a carpentry boosted maintnence stat.

[ancient grail]

name=Upping the Stakes
description=Mod centered around making stakes a more practical weapon to use, including improved accessibility and quality of life/realism improvements.
description=Included changes:
description=Making stakes able to be crafted with wooden planks. 3 in fact.
description=Making stakes able to be repaired(not that useful but just makes sense). Half the requirements of a spear.
description=Making stakes have a carpentry boosted maintnence stat.
id=
poster=poster.png

[undone elbow]

The defaults are hardcoded by mod author.
"Someone" who uses the mod is not the author, so they can't change the defaults.
But if it's a fork they may just change the options names.

local OPTIONS = { 
  box1_new = true,
  box2_new = true,
}```
Old options (with old names) will remain in the file but won't be used. The new options will get their defaults before first change by client.

[clear bloom]

still doesn't work

i replaced the folder with that

*file

should i have a image named poster on the same folder

so it uses that image

[ancient grail]

have you activated the mod? maybe you didnt activate it?

[clear bloom]

maybe?

how do i activate it tho

[ancient grail]

Users\kopv1\Zomboid\Workshop\ModTemplate\Contents\mods\ModTemplate\media

here do it here

just put it there make a script folder and activate modtemplate

dont modify anything else

[clear bloom]

ok ok

still doesn't work

ok it works

@ancient grailthanks

just weird how this is the only way for it to work

even tho it used to work completely fine

[ancient grail]

thats not it theres something wrong with your file structure or modinfo .. the template ensured less human error

[deep depot]

guys, is there any mod out there that make our character can't be killed? still get fatally injured but not get killed...

[drifting ore]

anyone know a good build for the More Traits mod?

[gilded hawk]

That's quite cool

[ancient grail]

thnx mx!

guys is it possible to do elseif _ and __

[ancient grail]

i think there is .. just forgot the name...

ahh searched it for ya https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2710074485

havent personally tried it tho

[clear bloom]

@ancient grailhey dude

btw

i was messing with the files and i got my mod to appear in the mod option in the game

with the description and the correct name for the mod

but when i click to enable the mod

nothing happens

it doesn't turn green and doesn't say enabled

[deep depot]

Thanks chaps

[ancient grail]

idk man

can we use gif as mod poster

[ancient grail]

it wont get enabled if theres something wrong with the code or a file thats not supposed to be in it
or perhaps a missing }

[clear bloom]

hmmm

i just copied the mod template folder

and replaced the maps with my scripts

[ancient grail]

and you only have one file right

[clear bloom]

while naming it what i wanted and putting my image

[ancient grail]

you should put it on a folder named scripts

[clear bloom]

ye i did that

[ancient grail]

then its on your scripts

paste it here

[clear bloom]

i deleted the maps folder and put it on the scripts folder

[ancient grail]

right then paste the code here

must be something there

[clear bloom]

C:\Users\kopv1\Zomboid\Workshop\upping the stakes\Contents\mods\upping the stakes\media\scripts

[ancient grail]

no imean the contents of the txt file you added

did you add?
module Base {
}

[clear bloom]

the script file didn't change

it never changed

and it worked when i just put the scrip folder in the mod template

module UppingTheStakes
{
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,

}

}

@ancient grailbut just in case i got something wrong

[ancient grail]

Just make it base since its baseitems

[clear bloom]

the category?

[ancient grail]

Remove the override whats that for. Havent seen that

The module UppingTheStakes
No reason to do this

Youre not creating an item anyways 🙂

[clear bloom]

ok ok

module base
{
imports {
Base
}

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

Result:Stake=3,
Time:80.0,
Category:Survivalist,
OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.WoodWork5,

}

so this?

[ancient grail]

Add module Base

Ahhhh the result

You cant have multiple items as result lol

[clear bloom]

really

but when i did it it worked

[ancient grail]

Thats why

Ehhh?! Woah really? Nah it doesnt allow multiple result

Can anyone vouch for it?

Or am i the only one who didnt know that was possible?
I had to use OnCreate
And added lua files with additems

Lol

But if it worked for you then whats the problem then ?

[clear bloom]

nah you can do it more than 1

i can vouch for it

it's worked for me

[clear bloom]

that's the thing idk

the weird part is that the mod worked perfectly

[ancient grail]

Cool then youve done the mod 🙂 congrats

[clear bloom]

it just suddently stopped working

[ancient grail]

Yeah i dont have a clue on that one sorry

[clear bloom]

it's alright

you have helped me so much man

sorry to bother you so much

[ancient grail]

🫡

[clear bloom]

@ancient graili did it!!!!!

it's even being uploaded to the workshop

[rose trail]

Im making a mod to add recipes and an item but somehow when i click the craft menu it brings me to this page

[devout galleon]

anyone knows if you can have multiple animations in a recipe? for example first Blowtorch animation followed by hammering?

[ancient grail]

it means you got error

[devout galleon]

can you send the recipe?

it could be a simple thing like a typo

or forgetting a comma

[ancient grail]

might need make time based stuff ... dunno how to start with that.. goodluck tho thats a good code to have and will make lots of stuff look realistic if done properly

[devout galleon]

Yeah im kinda working on a "craft everything" mod

stuff like more builds as example is cool and all but sucks for MP servers

its broken and unbalanced and lots of lazy coding

and the menu bloat is insane

so i am shifting all of that to the actual crafting menu

[ancient grail]

this is all i have that involves what you want to do

getPlayer():playEmote("Build");
getPlayer():playEmote("BlowTorch");
getPlayer():playEmote("BlowTorchMid");
getPlayer():playEmote("BlowTorchFloor");
getPlayer():playEmote("Craft");

[ancient grail]

Yeh some players can use the metalcounter to farm exp and metalsheet

Craft it with planks
Then disassemble

[devout galleon]

i see

would you know how to chain them?

like

lets say time =1200

and every 200 it changes the animation

thats kinda the plan i have

but honestly finishing the recipes rn before i add that

[ancient grail]

I really dont but if u dig deep enough i believe tyrir posted something that lets u que action

[devout galleon]

i see i will have a look at that

[ancient grail]

Not 100% if it was him tho

[devout galleon]

will figure it out eventually

just want to have some nice immersive animations

since i mainly make this mod for the rp server i run rn

and immersive animations/recipes are like one of the best things for that

[ancient grail]

Awsome pls do share if u manage to pull it off . It will add extra flair to any mod

[devout galleon]

yeah will 100% share it

i wish it was as easy in the recipes to like
time=200
animation xyz
time 300
animation xyz

😂

might be easier tbh to just create new animations by chaining them together

but allowing to queue them properly would make it easier to be applied to other mods

and to customize

[ancient grail]

Yeh kinda does make you wonder why its not

[devout galleon]

yeah TIS prolly never expected a bunch of RP servers to pop up that really value immersion in every small thing 😂

[ancient grail]

Yeah you could make it like evolverecipe ithink or is it that one for like wall structure levels

U just need lots of tile for that tho

Like imagine building a table
Where the first part would be puting the objs on the ground with looting animation
Then swtting it up with hammer animation and a tile that shows the legs not yet attached
Then screwing them

Would have to just repeat it with every table lol sounds like lots of pain tho

[devout galleon]

yeah but its way cooler than

Anim=BuildLow

haha

[dim geode]

Mod idea (if someone hasn’t said this yet I’d be surprised)
Vault over counters in buildings like Knox bank and the ice cream shop to quickly get away from zeds (especially when you play sprinter zombies!)

[steep copper]

Hi, do we have any documentation about the context menu ? I wanna add an option on a item in the right click menu
Thx

I can't find information on the forums/google

[ruby urchin]

you can use OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu event, it show when menu context appears

local onFillWorldObjectContextMenu = function(player, context, worldObjects, test)
    --TODO
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(onFillWorldObjectContextMenu)

[ancient grail]

my mod is done but i just need one last thing.. when i added an item on the ground how do i refresh so that it apears? i tried the
ISInventoryPage.renderDirty = true;
but it didnt show

[ancient grail]

theres already something like this

[ruby urchin]

finally Non-global environments

local ENV = require 'DislaikLib/ENV';
local EVENTS = require 'DislaikLib/Events';
local _ENV = {};
ENV.Add(_ENV, EVENTS);




Test() --> THIS IS A TESTITO XD

print("FDISLAIK START")

print(Test) --> nil

ENV and EVENTS are local modules

[ancient grail]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2882228912
done for the day

[gilded hawk]

Damn! This looks very nice!

[grim rose]

hello ya all its me again, and i come here looking for help (again)

last time MX allowed me to check his code how to make pills usable, and its great

but i can't script pills to remove food poisoning efects

PILLCore.init = function ()
 local player = getSpecificPlayer(0)
end

PILLCore.applyMedication = function ()
    player:getBodyDamage():setFoodSicknessLevel(player:getBodyDamage():getFoodSicknessLevel() + 20)
    player:Say("I feel bit better")
end

this is my code for now

it "works" if command for food sickness works

[sour island]

@weak sierra I whipped up some sandbox options for named lit 👍

[sullen bobcat]

Hi. First time making a mod, and I'm having a bit of mare of it, and any help would be very appreciated. I'm trying to mod in a few firearms, of which the base functionality is working fine after a lot of trial and error. I am now trying to get attachments working for these guns - currently the base game red dot sight. While the attachment is now in the right place - the model is somehow inverted, with only the back of the model displaying - with the camera facing side of the mode see through. The model is however perfect when placed, but having this inverted issue when equipped. I can show screenshots/ code where required - but for the attachments, I've been simply using the -debug mode attachment editor system. Thank you for reading

[grim rose]

anyone at least knows a what type food poisoning is?

is it body damage

do i need to create custom lua file to be able to affect it?

[ruby urchin]

What weapon are you making, and on what weapon are you basing?

[sullen bobcat]

I am making a 2 handed SMG and i am basing it upon the AssaultRifle/ M16

[ruby urchin]

did you use the same item script for that?

[weak sierra]

[sullen bobcat]

Yeah, a modified M16 script in effect

[ruby urchin]

Can you send images of the issue?

[sullen bobcat]

Sure

Im not sure how well it will come on in screenshots

You can see the back glass peice though the side

If i get the M16 to show as a comparison, you can see the issue

On the proper M16, the sight is rendered correctly, so the front facing side is correct, as you can see the glass sight on the red dot is such that you can only see the front, not the back piece at the angle, unlike the modded weapon

[jade chasm]

your issue is that the model is rotated.

attachment reddot
{
offset = 0.0000 0.0850 -0.0480,
rotate = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,

use this in your media/scripts/(yourSMGname).txt

and rotate the attachment with x y z

[sullen bobcat]

back to square one - gotta love modding eh

Thank you though

Ive been such on this for a few hours

[jade chasm]

i'll DM you the .txt of a firearm i'm making and you can see the general format

[sullen bobcat]

Thank you!

[ruby urchin]

Anyone knows if there are a function like getCurrentNameMod or something like that?

[vagrant geode]

Any know of an NPC mods for multiplayer servers?

[undone crag]

What do you mean?

(deleted, found it, was looking in the wrong part of the code)

[swift sequoia]

Am I correct in guessing that if I want to modify a mod, then I can just set the original mod (TheyKnew) as a dependency and it will load my mod (Shenanigans) after the original one, allowing my mod to overwrite parts of the original mod?

[undone crag]

I think so because I set something as a dependency and had a lua file with the same name and it prevented the original one from running.

[swift sequoia]

Okay cool

[weak sierra]

load order requires load order if ur overriding files, dependency setting won't ensure order

in SP perhaps that will work

but on a dedicated server u shud make sure to include instructions

all dep ensures is that it loads the other mod

[drifting ore]

is there anywhere i can look for a proper 'getting started' modding tutorial?
the wiki and such are quite outdated it seems

[weak sierra]

pick apart an existing mod instead is generally the answer you'll get around here

but there are some less out-of-date tutorials around

check pins maybe

[drifting ore]

dang, that sucks
ill have a look around on youtube and see if i can find anything helpful

i looked through the pins already and the wiki link is outdated and not helpful :c

[weak sierra]

u can certainly find tutorials for certain things

but

[drifting ore]

also doesnt help im new to lua but i can grasp it

[weak sierra]

"how do i make mods" is incredibly broad

kinda hard to covr that

[drifting ore]

well im not entirely looking for specifics, you know?
i was more so looking for a "getting started" kind of thing

just the basics of getting one goin

[weak sierra]

that varies by mod type

the way u hook in is different depending on the task

u can add items without ever writing a line of lua

etc

[drifting ore]

there IS specifics but i didnt think it was needed, my apologies

currently im looking for a way to detect when the player consumes food/drink/whatever else

a while back i found "ISEatFoodAction" but with the latest update to the game that suddenly broke the mod and i just ignored it until now lol

[weak sierra]

u would probably wanna find the code that handles that in the PZ lua files and then hook the relevant function by setting a var to it, then overwriting it and calling that var inside

ah

well something akin to that still exists im sure but i dont know off the top of my head

[drifting ore]

where would i look for PZs lua files?

i can find it on my own just didnt know where to look ig

[weak sierra]

in the media folder in the game dir

[drifting ore]

ohhh! im dumb lmao

thank you

[weak sierra]

/home/evelyn/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/ProjectZomboid/media/

linux but

im sure u can figure out waht that means for windows :P

[drifting ore]

yep

thank you very much

[weak sierra]

mhm

[drifting ore]

im super duper new to lua so i wanted to learn it via playing around with PZ modding

[elfin stump]

Awesome. Thank you, I will give this a shot!

[civic lava]

i made a mod but it doesn not show up in the game, its in the porper PZ mod files list inside a folder with a random numbers like the other form workshop

how do i gte my mod to be shown in the game?

[undone crag]

If you gave it random numbers then I think maybe you made a mistake and did something like this: \zomboid\mods\1234567890\contents\mods\yourmod\media instead of \zomboid\mods\yourmod\media.

[odd notch]

anyone know a way to disable collision on a tile object like stairs or a cabinet in-game?

trying to find a way to have it so i can set objects to be nocollided dynamically

[civic lava]

does anyone enjoy helping noobs mod PZ lua code in NotePad++, i request help! if you would like to chat & help me out a bit in Voice chat contact me any time, i have been streaming every day for 8+h trying to overhaul the game to be as realistic as possible but im not as skilled at some of the rest of you, so what takes me 2 hours might take you 30s

[fast galleon]

I wonder if it's possible to have a fake controller... Seems like Java side isn't exposed, but a lot of it is Lua side in JoyPadSetup.

[clear bloom]

anyone had problems uploading a mod to the workshop?

i made a mod and i wanted to upload it and it worked

but bcs i thought the only way to update it was to delete the mod from the workshop and upload it again i deleted it

[tardy wren]

You'll need to remove its ID I believe, from the workshop.txt file

[clear bloom]

ok ok

thanks

[tardy wren]

That's my guess at least, it tries to update a mod that doesn't exist

[hearty dew]

Last person that asked that here wasn't able to find a way to restore a deleted workshop item. They just uploaded it as a new mod (by deleting the id as diakon said, giving you the option to upload it as a new workshop item)

[clear bloom]

ye ye it worked

thank you

[hearty zodiac]

Hello, is it possible to „push” a player’s character? I’m thinking about how human body would be sent flying on impact with a high velocity vehicle

I’m not asking for a code, just if it’s theoretically possible

[tardy wren]

Well... You can shove a player in PvP to my knowledge

There's also a mod that lets you jump out if a moving vehicle, and you tumble out of it when you do

[orchid moth]

What are the best gun mods

[drifting stump]

did william tell you you can ask me anything about it? dont have much time to code but answering questions is simple

it also seems like you dont understand whats going on
everything should be local
you can access the variables from other files (like a global) by doing a module which is that return thingy at the end

[worn sierra]

Any good Tank Mods?

Like

A good, working one, wich isnt a WW2 one, for the current Version?

[teal island]

I might be misunderstanding what I've seen on YT, but is it possible to switch zombies back to being sprites?

I was looking into trying to insert custom sprites for a replacement/new unit thing

quality issues aside, it's mostly to toy around with it

[tardy wren]

The main reason Zombies were switched to 3d was performance, somehow they can render more of them 3d models than sprites. Also, lets them be more dynamic...

I very much doubt it would be easy, compatible, ir performant

[sour island]

I think the main reason was just scalability of animations / visuals

If 3D models were somehow more efficient then bodies wouldn't be flattened into sprites on death

Speaking of which, 3D ragdoll corpses would be neat

[thick karma]

Yeees. I want my zombie to collapse at my feet in despair, not reload as it hits the ground and randomly turn itself 50 degrees to one side

I want the zombie to go barrel rolling to one side when my bat kills them in standing position

[sour island]

The two positions are because of the animations they use I think

I wonder if it would be difficult to add more

[gilded hawk]

Is there a way to disable seasons? 🤔

[sour island]

I doubt theyd go for true Ragdolls, but I imagine they could have them ragdoll in some third party simulator and export those out

[vast nacelle]

Imagine the corpse piles.... Add collision and you could literally block yourself in while making a stand.

[sour island]

From what I recall I think they're changing the weather system to be more localized - but if cryowinter is any indication, Yes.

[gilded hawk]

Oh I forgot about cryowinter!
Thank you

I'm preparing myself to make a Zomboid Total conversion mod, that turns the game into SCP-3008

(SCP-3008 : The Infinite IKEA)

[sour island]

That'd be pretty neat

I kind of wanted to take a shot at procedurally generated stuff

Are you going down that rabbit hole?

[gilded hawk]

No no thank you, I still like having some degree of sanity

I'm planning in making a single massive map that repeats itself

if possible, as big as the vanilla map

[sour island]

Repeated by hand?

[gilded hawk]

I'm planning in using tile zed to make the template and then repeat it manually, but I want to see if I can make a tool to do it for me

But I need to learn how to make maps first, cause I usually do only code

[sour island]

I wonder if it would be possible to have the game generate entire regions based on a template

Like just keep stacking more of the same map over

[gilded hawk]

I was thinking that it could be done, since we have the brush tool and the brush tool can add and remove tiles

Maybe we can make a full lua generator

[sour island]

That'd be pretty neat

I thought the interior cars mod was doing that

But I think they're using predone areas off to the side

[gilded hawk]

That's my assumption too, but I haven't looked into it

[sour island]

Basements should be generated as per the blog

I wonder if that's going to be expanded to the homes based on a lot to lot basis

[gilded hawk]

🤔

[sour island]

Unless I woefully misread the recent blogs, basements are procedurally generated

I assume they meant even the map/furniture and not just loot

[gilded hawk]

Oh, that's quite cool

[sour island]

I could swear they had a really really old blog about mapping tools that basically filled a room/house automatically based on parameters

Like youd slap down an empty house, make room size changes, hit a button and it would populate it

Then you could tweak it as needed

[gilded hawk]

😮

That would be so much usefull!

[sour island]

Can't seem to find the blog post

Maybe it's a fever dream

[gilded hawk]

[undone crag]

tbh ngl bet fr fr no cap innit

[ruby urchin]

custom triggerevent

--- client.lua
local onKeyStartPressed = function(key)
    local source = getPlayer(); if not source then return end

    if key == Keyboard.KEY_NUMPAD0 then
        TriggerServerEvent("ClientToServer:Example", "TESTITO")
    end

    if key == Keyboard.KEY_NUMPAD1 then

    end
end

Events.OnKeyStartPressed.Add(onKeyStartPressed);

---server.lua
RegisterEvent("ClientToServer:Example", function(source, asd)
    print(source)
    print(asd)
end)

[fast galleon]

probably need a send command in between

[ruby urchin]

It already has, but I won't release it until I have my library ready

also, they are made in a non-global environment, so those functions are not propagated in other files

[bronze yoke]

for some reason i was under the impression that requiring a file would create a local copy, not a reference to a global object🤦but i just tested it and that is not the case at all... i thought doing things that way would make a mod difficult to patch
more importantly, in retrospect i feel that message was a little condescending towards you, i apologise
thanks for the offer of help, but it doesn't seem like the issue we're facing is likely much to do with the behaviour of the player shops mod, it's probably some strange mod conflict or something like that, so there isn't much i can think to ask you; i will keep that in mind though!

[drifting stump]

here you go

if you want to take it to an extreme you could also locally override the global space

the mechanism behind a module is when the file gets parsed and executed the final return statement gets stored. from there any require statement for that file returns that stored variable

[bronze yoke]

i knew what requiring did, but i didn't know that altering the variable in one file that requires it would affect it in other files that require it - i thought it was just a local copy

[drifting stump]

it also neatly deals with file dependencies

nah its a pointer

[bronze yoke]

i'll definitely be making use of that in the future, thanks for that!

[drifting stump]

and remember kids globals were a mistake 👋 back to work

[rancid barn]

is the "Robomats Modding Tutorials" post still relevant for modern pz modding?

[civic lava]

is this broken code for effecting the player negatively if i add a negative

also how would i make this a thing where its a random chance to trip

i want the player to have negative effects such as dropping weapons & tripping when under extreme stress & many other overhauls (PS) i dislike more traits mod version that does similar things

[fast galleon]

How do I make tooltips appear for world menu with my fake controller 😅

which button is it

[gilded hawk]

Good news! The workshop.txt editor is going good!

[blissful salmon]

I did some testing with reanimated players (as zombies). I think (really not sure) if I check if the zombie is reanimated on server side (first occurence of this zombie in onZombieUpdate event) and send a command to the client, the client doesn't necessarily already know the zombie ID. Can anyone confirm that?

[undone crag]

I have tried sending zombie references between client server and it has failed. :/

[gilded hawk]

🎉

[blissful salmon]

I don't expect refernces to work... Because they can't be the same over network... (client/server)

[sour island]

Zombies should have something to match network ID

Worst case scenario you can have the sound play to the same xyz

If they're out of sync that's another issue entirely

[placid delta]

Added Avatars to Superb Survivors quest dialogue windows:

[sour island]

That's neat

I would suggest cropping it to the face and zooming in

This is done with the hairstyle UI tweak mod

[blissful salmon]

I use the OnlineID for client/server stuff. But if I didn't tested wrong. My command was already on the client which didn't found the ID.
As I think about it maybe the zombie wasn't in the cell of my player... So I didn't find it.

[summer rune]

Could someone help? I want to include a recipe for cooking 10 Base.Grapes for 20 minutes in a Pan and the result should be Base.Sugar. However it should remove 1 Base.Paper from the inventory (for the packaging).

[sour island]

Hmm, in that case the xyz of the zombie could be transmitted instead

[gilded hawk]

Well, it's finally time to say good bye to poor in-game editor for the workshop.txt

I got all the steam BB code covered 💪

I'll release this as soon as I'm done with the debugging 🙂

[blissful salmon]

I also thought about this. Or probably send a args-table with args.zid, args.x etc...

[weak sierra]

@hearty dew your mod desc for misc patches doesnt talk about the item tweaker thing, so i didn't even know that was there to try, but i have an extensively modded server so perf increases/time saving is very wanted. i read the code but it's made of lua wizardry and i have no idea what it's doing, mind kinda.. explaining wtf is going on in summary so i have some idea what i'd be putting on my server? xD

i can see u intercept the tweakitem stuff and prevent other instances through metatable dark magic

but what's the performance improvement approach

[livid locust]

I want to make a project zomboid mod but I have no skill

It would be cool to make this in pz, a welding machine on a trailer

and then a new animation for welding that looks more realistic

like this

I'm just thinking

and using the trailer machine can make stronger barricades/fences etc

[hearty dew]

Regarding the perf improvement of tweak item, it reduced the tweakitem api OnGameBoot time from 44sec to around 0.5 sec with the mods I play with. The bulk of that improvement was inserting all the print lines into an array, then at the end doing print(table.concat(printoutput, "\n").
The rest of it was shenanigans to deal with all the ways different mods did their own implementations/copies/modifications of the tweakitem api in order to hook them all into my implementation to minimize the boot time.

If there's something more specific you're curious about, I'd be glad to explain more.

It only improves the game boot time. Not sure how important that is if you have a server running that doesn't get rebooted often though.

[weak sierra]

my god really, their print statements?

are print statements that performance-eating?

:|

[bronze yoke]

prints are crazy expensive

[weak sierra]

it's very important because they run on clients too

so it means server boot time and client load-in time is huge

[hearty dew]

Uh, then the other patches are for miscellaneous bugs/things I didn't like in other mod. I'd have to go dig through them to remember, heh. There was one graphical rendering issue with two mods that conflicted that added a map icon size slider and extra map icons I think

[weak sierra]

yeah i dont use the slider mod because of that issue

:P

sounds like overwriting the print function to buffer it and spit them out once every N might yield a net gain in server performance eh?

and client

[hearty dew]

Yea, so it was like 40s to print 8000 lines (each of the tweaked items). Something like that, I don't recall exactly. But with that mod enabled, it will print out the # of items and time it took to run the function to do all the DoParam calls

[hearty dew]

Yea, that's likely

I never noticed much log output serverside, but I only run with my two test clients 😅

[weak sierra]

i run over 400 mods on my server

there's a lot of log lines.

a lot of noisy mods

[hearty dew]

Then that might be worth doing

[weak sierra]

certain mods that don't need to be, too

yeah

thanks for the insight on that..

do i need to know any metatable-fu to do that or can i overwrite a base function with typical approaches?

i have never touched a metatable really

[frosty estuary]

Is there a way to set which body parts are protected by a clothing using a Custom BodyLocation ?

[hearty dew]

PrintBuffer = PrintBuffer or {}
PrintCount = PrintCount or 0
PrintEvery = PrintEvery or 100
local original_print = print
function print(...)
  PrintCount = PrintCount + 1
  local printParams = {...}
  if #printParams == 0 then return end
  local line = tostring(table.remove(printParams, 1))
  for i = 1, #printParams do
    line = " "..tostring(printParams[i]) -- I can't remember the format print() uses for multiple args atm
  end
  table.insert(PrintBuffer, line)
  if PrintCount % PrintEvery == 0 then
    original_print(table.concat(PrintBuffer, "\n"))
    PrintBuffer = {}
  end
end

Something like that, idk. :p Gotta head off to go eat so getting impatient 😅

tostring would make it not error out in some places were default print would. Not sure if that's something that concerns you

[hearty dew]

To just override print, it's no different that the others

[weak sierra]

my god i look away and u just write the whole thing pretty much

[hearty dew]

Probably with blow up when ran though 😅

Don't have a way to test it atm

[weak sierra]

was thinking every N time rather than lines

[hearty dew]

print uses something different than tostring, I'm sure, but probably not an issue

[weak sierra]

wonder which is better

every N time will prevent too much wait to see lines when things are slow

hell maybe could throttle on both

if >100 lines or >5 seconds then dump

[hearty dew]

Oh, can use the that debounce api for that

[weak sierra]

i have heard the term debounce but have no idea what it means :)

[hearty dew]

.

[weak sierra]

im one of those "i taught myself everything i dont know terms" programmers

[hearty dew]

Basically means it will wait 5 seconds (or whatever you set) after the last print to print everything. If during that 5 seconds another print comes along, it will reset to 5 seconds again

[weak sierra]

that sounds like the opposite of what i want, though yet another option

[hearty dew]

In other words, buffers everything until X time has passed with no prints

[weak sierra]

i'd wanna ensure no more than X passes without letting things print rather than ensuring it doesn't until a gap

lol

quite the opposite

anyone here have interest in joining the modding team for my server, btw? could really use others to help with all this shit i make, rn i'm doing wayyyyy too much of the work alone

the list grows faster than i can do the things

[hearty dew]

Ah. Just use the regular interval timer that debounce uses. It's in that same link

[livid locust]

I'm sorry, how do I get scite to use lua?

[jade chasm]

Suggestion for any modders out there looking for an idea for a project. I'm wondering if anyone is interested in working on a mod that adds concrete walls?? I was thinking that players could build (zombie) indestructible walls but they require a lot of concrete powder and maybe a metal frame? The material cost would be high to prevent spamming but would allow players to build permanent defenses in vanilla. Visually, the walls would be thick like log walls. Possibly half-walls could also be included. Concrete walls could be demolished with a sledgehammer of course.

I can make textures and such but I don't have enough experience to do most of the core lua stuff. I'm mostly just throwing the idea out there to see if anyone wants the idea and offering to help with what I can. Seems like the idea isn't really on the workshop outside of Soul Filcher's Building Time but that includes a bunch of other content.

[livid locust]

I think I got it nvrmd

[placid delta]

here is a video of the first complete new quest for superb survivors in case anyone wants to see but cant/dontwantto play it out yet
https://youtu.be/VUyrY6bUfzg

[astral dune]

... are you doing this in a different programming language?

[livid locust]

hello I am on the wiki learning how to mod but it wants me to use pipewrench for project zomboid which is typescript. do I have to learn another programming language?

I just learnt basic lua

[bronze yoke]

you only need lua, pipewrench is just for people who want to use typescript

[astral dune]

ye, no point in learning a whole new language unless you really want to

everything can be done in lua

[livid locust]

ok i'll go on to the next section of the wiki

my head is spinning https://github.com/Konijima/PZ-Libraries

I don't understand this 😢

[astral dune]

that one teaches you how to decompile the java in Intellij, so that you can read the java source code if you'd like

its not strictly necessary, although it helps

[livid locust]

ok thanks

I want to create a vehicle mod so I will go onto that section of the wiki

[astral dune]

this has been my best resource for learning,
https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide

[livid locust]

ok now I just have to learn how to use blender

[astral dune]

to make the models? ya probably, haven't gotten that far myself, haha

[hearty dew]

• The ItemTweaker patches described above. It does a number of things to route different mods copies/duplicates of the ItemTweaker code into one place so they all benefit from the performance improvement.
• Reduces the weight of a number of base items that seemed too high to me e.g. changing a pen's weight from 0.1 kg to 0.01 kg.
• ModOption options to configure ClothingBoxRedux loot rarity. By default the value is unchanged (factor of 1.0).
• ModOption option to change chance of Attached Weapons to zombies. Felt it was too high, so I change it from 6% to 3% personally, but by default with no configuration, it remains at 6%.
• Loads a SnakeUtilPack file earlier in the lua load order because it override a tooltip function that several other mods decorate. That should fix tooltip compatibility issues between snake's mods and the others that modify that tooltip function (can't recall them atm).
• Fixes the MapSymbolSizeSlider incompatibility with that other map icon mod described earlier.
• Patch for an minor exception that occurred in the Basements mod when right-clicking on a placed radio.

[weak sierra]

aren't mod options client-side and thus a really weird prospect for a dedicated server?

for stuff like that

[hearty dew]

Didn't put much effort into writing it all up properly. Someone else wanted to use the itemtweaker improvements, so I put it on steam with a little info. I wasn't really expecting any others to use it beyond that

[livid locust]

what aspects of modding will I need to make a character use a tool for a timed action? I assume blender first

[hearty dew]

It is awkward, but if you copy the mod options config from a client to server, it will load those settings on the server. The mod options config file is in the Lua directory in the cache dir and needs to be copied to the server's Lua directory in its cache dir in order for the mod options will take effect. Obvious caveats of clients having different settings do apply though

[livid locust]

if I want to creat the tool

[hearty dew]

Believe it is Zomboid/Lua/mod-options.txt

[summer rune]

what is the point of fileGuidTable.xml which u can see in some mods? what will happen if this file is missing?

[hearty dew]

Also, the reason I used mod options was because the other options don't load the configured values early enough. A number of those patches have to be applied when shared/ lua files are loaded. Sandbox options aren't available until later

[limpid moon]

how do you get a zombies tile location

[fast galleon]

Nolan is already on v43 😂

[young edge]

Tyrir, which mod are we currently talking about? tried scrolling up, but maybe I'm just blind

[hearty dew]

This one, Misc Patches

It contains misc patches 😅

[young edge]

it really is just called "Misc Patches", huh... (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

but thank you for further enabling my mod hoarding

[hearty dew]

Yep. It's my hodgepodge of patches. Only tossed it up on steam bc someone wanted the itemtweaker perf improvements from it so it's named confusingly and what it does isn't made clear in the description :p

[young edge]

Similar to Eve, our server runs virtually every mod under the sun.
I made some vehicle spawn related mod, but it's still being ironed out

might yeet it on here for some quick "ooh, aah" testing before I release it into the wild

[livid locust]

ok so I made a task list for the welding mod I want to create

[undone crag]

Maybe but what's the server like what mods they'd better fit my objectively correct definition of dank or something oh no in the time between typing this and scrolling to the bottom I lost significant interest

[weak sierra]

lmao

check here for info about the server: https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1026684756873715742

[young edge]

I feel like one of the mods we're using is having an insane memory leak (yay 32gb use of ram), any moderately simple way of checking which one it is, other than turning stuff on and off?

[undone crag]

Hmmm I don't actually feel like playing Project Zomboid much soon actually... maybe not...

[weak sierra]

that's probably the fastest way, cuz the other way is to read the code of each mod and look for one :p

im unaware of any tool that would break things down for you..

[young edge]

yeah... feared as much

our server runs approx the same amount as yours so you can probably tell the pain I feel

[weak sierra]

there might be some lua magic that can be done to hook all the functions at once and get stats on them but i wouldn't know

[weak sierra]

yup :|

[young edge]

Transmog 2.0, Eggons sharpen your blades, ammo smelting and fixing the laggy crafting menu + everything has a name comes + rename containers comes to mind
but hmm.

[weak sierra]

fix laggy crafting menu is not an issue

at least not on its own

i use that

[blissful salmon]

Is there a way to get all SoundNames which are from the same directory? For example if I have media/sound/colletion1/file1,file2, ... I want them in a table/list so I can later choose one of them.

Or maybe there are better ways to do that...

[hearty dew]

I remember seeing in code that sounds conceptually contain sound clips. I wondered if that meant that you can have different clips that can be selected from one sound entry. Idk if this is relevant or could help your situation though, more of a pondering ramble :p

[blissful salmon]

Looks like they to stuff like this:

GameSound var1 = GameSounds.getSound("Helicopter");
               if (var1 != null && !var1.clips.isEmpty()) {
                  if (inst == 0L) {
                     GameSoundClip var2 = var1.getRandomClip();

technically what I want I just don't know if I can create them by myself... I investigate further into the code 🙂

[young edge]

brrrr

[sour island]

You can script sounds, including multiple clip{} under the same sound makes it a random selection

[blissful salmon]

Cool. Is there a documentation or tutorial of this?

[sour island]

Not that I know of - but if you dig in the java you can see all the parameters for sounds

module Base {

    sound icecreamAlarm {
        category = Vehicle, loop = true,
        clip { file = media/sound/vehicle_cream1.ogg, distanceMin = 10, distanceMax = 20, reverbFactor = 0.1,} }

    sound icecreamWall {
        category = Vehicle, loop = true,
        clip { file = media/sound/vehicle_cream2.ogg, distanceMin = 10, distanceMax = 20, reverbFactor = 0.1, } }

    sound icecreamYelp {
        category = Vehicle,    loop = true,
        clip { file = media/sound/vehicle_cream3.ogg, distanceMin = 10, distanceMax = 20, reverbFactor = 0.1, } }

    sound IceCreamFlyBy {
        category = EHE: Main, loop = true, is3D = true,
        clip { file = media/sound/vehicle_cream1.ogg, distanceMax = 500, volume = 2.0, reverbFactor = 0.1, }
        clip { file = media/sound/vehicle_cream2.ogg, distanceMax = 500, volume = 2.0, reverbFactor = 0.1, }
        clip { file = media/sound/vehicle_cream3.ogg, distanceMax = 500, volume = 2.0, reverbFactor = 0.1, }
        clip { file = media/sound/vehicle_cream4.ogg, distanceMax = 500, volume = 2.0, reverbFactor = 0.1, } }
}

goes in scripts folder

same scripting format as the other types of scripts

although I think the inclusion of {} inside of others is unique to sounds

also doesnt take , for clips

[blissful salmon]

I completely forgot about the script folder... This should help. Thanks.

[sour island]

sound {
         if ("category".equals(var7))
         } else if ("is3D".equals(var7))
         } else if ("loop".equals(var7))
         } else if ("master".equals(var7))
         } else if ("maxInstancesPerEmitter".equals(var7))

 clip {
         if ("distanceMax".equals(var6))
         } else if ("distanceMin".equals(var6))
         } else if ("event".equals(var6))
         } else if ("file".equals(var6))
         } else if ("pitch".equals(var6))
         } else if ("volume".equals(var6))
         } else if ("reverbFactor".equals(var6))
         } else if ("reverbMaxRange".equals(var6))

pulled from the java

maxInstancesPerEmitter hmm - this would be useful

[blissful salmon]

from which class is this?

[sour island]

zombie/scripting/objects/GameSoundScript.java

[blissful salmon]

Thx. I'll try this. The script files seems to be exactly what I need.

[young edge]

zomboid wins this time >:(

[noble shale]

Hey y'all, I have a quick question!

I want to make a wallet that holds money found in-game. Is it fine to edit the existing wallet item to do this, or is it best practice to create a separate item and allow the player to craft the new item using the base item I'd want to use in the first place?
Also, is it possible to restrict the kinds of items a bag can hold? In this case, money and credit cards?

[blissful salmon]

I don't know if its better to change or create a new wallet. I still have to test this. But to filter the items I use this:

SoulMod.ItemFilter = function(inventoryContainer, inventoryItem)
  local scriptItem = inventoryItem:getScriptItem()
  local category = scriptItem:getDisplayCategory()
  if category == "Ammo" then
    return true
  end
end

and apply it to the items AcceptItemFunction
item:DoParam("AcceptItemFunction = SoulMod.ItemFilter"); -- in lua
or
AcceptItemFunction = SoulMod.ItemFilter -- in items.txt

[civic lava]

its notepad ++

what is the best program to use to edit or make mods for PZ?

[young orchid]

notepad++ is good, but you should switch your theme to something darker to avoid getting blind 😄

[civic lava]

hahahaha

i swear im so used to it that i cant use any other color mode

[blissful salmon]

Is it correct that I can't access public variables on exposed classes?

public final class GameSound {
   public String name;
   public String category = "General";
   public boolean loop = false;
   public boolean is3D = true;
   public final ArrayList clips = new ArrayList();

I'm interested in the clips in this case...

[fast galleon]

I'm not familiar with this but if there's no get method, you can probably use this.
#mod_development message

[blissful salmon]

Thx. I'll check this...

[dapper geode]

Is there any event for player after he killed another survivor? Just like "OnZombieDead" triggered after he kill zombie?

[fast galleon]

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

[dapper geode]

How I get the IsoPlayer for the killer?

Btw, Is there a way for us to store data permanently in the player? The data should not be lost even if the player comes out of the game and returns.

[limpid moon]

ive been looking for something like this website for forever. just gotted started on modding

thank you kindly sir

[fast galleon]

on zombie dead doesn't have the killer either..
there will be update that adds event when players hit each other

omg after lootzed breaks something, you need to restart the save in order for your own script to fill container to work.

[dapper geode]

I mean, Can I do this?

function PlayerKilled(deadPlayer)
  local killer = getPlayer()
  killer:Say('I KILL SOMEONE!')
    end
end
Events.OnZombieDead.Add(PlayedKilled)```

[fast galleon]

sure why not, as long as it's not split screen with more than 1 players

[dapper geode]

I am gonna using this script on multiplayer btw, Is that gonna be problem?

I think the client script only run by the client that trigger the event? not every client that connected to the server, right?

[rancid barn]

Ok question: if I wanted to make a mod that allowed you to ring church bells, how complex would that be? Would it just be like a timed action and maybe some mapping stuff for the rope?

[ancient grail]

is it possible to hack the map discovery by editing the user files? or does that have to match the servers file too?

[ancient grail]

fairly easy . you just need to add the audio for the churchbell and just basic scripting i juess

[rancid barn]

Alright thank you

[fast galleon]

I think it will trigger for all people in the area where the death occurs.

[steep copper]

Hi, maybe you have the answer :
How i can identify an item through an item kahlua table, but not with his name ? How can i find the module.item value ?

[steep copper]

i found the answer by myself !
local item = itemTable[1].items[1]; print(item); print(item:getModule()); print(item:getName());

[steep copper]

Maybe it can help someone else

[limpid moon]

what does getVeryCloseEnemyList() return?

I know its an array but an array of what

[tardy wren]

I think it would be zombies

Although you can print the items of that list to see what class it js

[dapper geode]

Hey, how to get SteamID from serverside lua?

[hearty dew]

ArrayList<IsoMovingObject>

[limpid moon]

Ty ty

[hearty dew]

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.65/zombie/characters/IsoPlayer.html#getSteamID()

I'd try that

[young edge]

Tyrir, regarding my attempts yesterday, is there absolutely no way of finding out what is hogging ram?

Someone mentioned debug mode to me but I genuinely have no idea

[dapper geode]

Ahh thank you, btw is there any function to get steam owner id?

[young edge]

I've been tryingto remove mods and get back to square 1 but so far I've not been able to tell what the problem is

[hearty dew]

What is a steam owner?

[hearty dew]

The way to do that would be to run the java process in a java memory profiler of some sort. I'm unfamiliar with those sort of performance tools for java though, but that's where I'd start. I'd then try to connect the dots from those java objects using large amounts of memory to where they fit into kahlua or into other pz objects (e.g. memory leaks causes by large textures that indie stone devs have warned about). Hopefully there'd be enough context to infer what mod is the source of the issue.

[dapper geode]

So It's the steam that owning PZ, and you play using another steam via family sharing, I can see it show SteamID and Owner ID or something on pz database

[hearty dew]

Probably will use the profiler to start java, so likely would involve editing your server startup script to start the profiler and pass java and its args as params

[hearty dew]

Oh, I'm unsure about that the two ids in that scenario

[dapper geode]

Ahh okay, thanks btw

[molten cobalt]

Hey all, I'm new here and I was wondering if there is a guide or any tips on making some additionally towns/locations - I plan on having a mess around with the aim of making a unique town/village at some stage

[ancient grail]

Mapping would be a suited channel for this @molten cobalt

[molten cobalt]

Apologies will do

[kind forge]

so i'm lookin to add in new sounds for custom explosive items. i've got it working well enough, but if i walk a considerable distance away from it, there is no explosive sound. i'm guessing it might be something to do with distant sounds? since the vanilla explosives have two sounds, the close up and the distant one. right now i cant seem to figure out a way to define the distant sound with my own, if that is possible

the example (loud volume warning)

[blissful salmon]

I'm also working on sound stuff at the moment. I could solve the distance problem by setting up a proper sound.txt file in the script folder. for example my current sound I'm testing:

    sound ZombieDemonScream
    {
        category = ZombieScreams, is3D = true,
    clip 
    { 
      file = media/sound/ZombieDemonScream.ogg, 
      distanceMin = 10, 
      distanceMax = 120, 
      reverbFactor = 0.1,
      volume = 0.9,
    }
    }

See: #mod_development message
and
#mod_development message

hope this helps...

[kind forge]

oh alright! i'll work with it, thanks

[blissful salmon]

let me know if it works 🙂

[kind forge]

It does! Thanks!

[ancient grail]

Hows your mod @blissful salmon

[blissful salmon]

I'm still working on some conceptual problems. I think I have my zombie sound stuff in an ok working state. Now I mess again with the zombie modData stuff. I'm still a little confused and do some testing atm.
CraftingOverTime like reading a book seems to work. Just need some code clean up.
So all in all I'm a little slow but things start getting to work 🙂

[sour island]

You could have the zombie update stuff stay in client/ and just send out a serverCommand to play a sound from the xyz

So you don't actually need a zombie reference

You can also set an attraction event which is also refered to as sound but isn't actually audible

[thick karma]

So I have this partly working Mod Options function that is driving me insane and I am wondering if anyone of you brilliant heroes can help me make another little breakthrough...

    function resetServerDefaults:onUpdate(value)

        local varsOfTheZed = SandboxVars.DawnOfTheZed
        
        if value and varsOfTheZed then

            gamepadShortcut:set(varsOfTheZed.gamepadShortcut)
            hideNames:set(varsOfTheZed.hideAllPlayerNames)
            hideByDefault:set(varsOfTheZed.hideUserInterfaceByDefault)
            hideMouseCursor:set(varsOfTheZed.hideMouseCursor)
            keepMyHotbar:set(varsOfTheZed.keepMyHotbar)
            keepMoodles:set(varsOfTheZed.keepMoodles)
            keepMiniMap:set(varsOfTheZed.keepMiniMap)
            keepButtonPrompts:set(varsOfTheZed.keepButtonPrompts)
            
            if hideHaloNotes then hideHaloNotes:set(varsOfTheZed.hideHaloNotesIfPossible) end 

            if varsOfTheZed.toggleBehaviorOnMap == DOTZ.sandboxAutomaticCursor then

                autoShowCursorOnMapOpen:set(true)
                closeMapOnHide:set(false)
                shortcutActivatesCursorOnMap:set(false)

            elseif varsOfTheZed.toggleBehaviorOnMap == DOTZ.sandboxShortcutClosesMap then

                autoShowCursorOnMapOpen:set(false)
                closeMapOnHide:set(true)
                shortcutActivatesCursorOnMap:set(false)

            elseif varsOfTheZed.toggleBehaviorOnMap == DOTZ.sandboxShortcutActivatesCursor then

                autoShowCursorOnMapOpen:set(false)
                closeMapOnHide:set(false)
                shortcutActivatesCursorOnMap:set(true)

            else -- varsOfTheZed.toggleBehaviorOnMap.option4 

                autoShowCursorOnMapOpen:set(false)
                closeMapOnHide:set(false)
                shortcutActivatesCursorOnMap:set(false)

            end
        end
    end

So this function mostly (kindasorta) works, except for one very important detail. When I grab SandboxVars.DawnOfTheDead, it doesn't grab the options as they appear live in Change Sandbox Options, and it doesn't grab the options as they have been set in the .lua config file either. It grabs the sandbox options as they were when the server was first created. Can someone help me understand why, and for bonus appreciation help me adjust it so that I'm tracking the sandbox variables from the server's config file, in the same place something like Change Mod Options sets them?

In fact, when I change Sandbox Variables with Change Mod Options, it doesn't even update SandboxVars in the actual game... what gives?

I just printed something set to false in the lua AND in Mod Options, and it printed true, which was its state which I created the server.

So confusing!

[gaunt meteor]

sandbox not being in sync is known and old issue

someone else can contribute more to your solution but i just wanted to put that out there lol

[thick karma]

Thank you for telling me that Yule

That is helpful because it makes me feel less insane

I've been banging my head on the table about this for awhile

[bronze yoke]

yeah that's just how it is

[thick karma]

"Is there a way to sync them manually?" becomes a potential follow-up question.

[gaunt meteor]

it can depend on mods or your server host. if you are hosting locally i dont know much as ive only hosted via dedicated

[bronze yoke]

there is, let me find it

[thick karma]

❤️

[blissful salmon]

I try to keep it all server side. What me currently confuses if I add modData to a self created zombie, I can't find it after server restart. Also no other zombie seems to have the new modData. But my resurrected player zombie always keeps the modData. So I try to figure out the difference...
This is how I spawn the zombie serverside:

function SoulMod.server.commands.SpawnZombie(player, args)

  if args and args.X and args.Y and args.OutfitName then
    local zombies = addZombiesInOutfit(args.X + 6, args.Y - 6, 0, 1, args.OutfitName, 100)
    local zombie = zombies:get(0)

    local modData = zombie:getModData()
    local zombieData = {}
    local zombieID = SoulMod.shared.getZombieId(zombie)

    zombieData.WalkType = "sprint1"
    zombieData.CanWalk = false
    zombieData["ZID"] = zombieID

    modData["SoulMod"] = zombieData
    zombie:transmitModData() -- relict because I do everything serverside and send the soundCommand to the client.
    
    SoulMod.server.ApplyModDataSettings(modData, zombie) -- function which sets the walktype etc. for the zombie
        
    zombie:transmitCompleteItemToClients()

    local x, y, z = zombie:getX(), zombie:getY(), zombie:getZ();
    local zombieId = SoulMod.shared.getZombieId(zombie)
    local args = {}
        
    args.zid = zombieId
    args.x = x
    args.y = y
    args.z = z
    args.screamName = "ZombieDemonScream"
        
    SoulMod.server.SendCommandToClient("DoZombieScream", args)
  end
end

Everything works as expected only the modData is lost on restart. So I can't reapply the settings.

[gaunt meteor]

so i got a queston what is iType? is it name or category or something else?

where is it defined

(of an item)

[bronze yoke]

getSandboxOptions().load() was thrown around as a way to do this

[thick karma]

omfg I hope it's so easy

[blissful salmon]

I also have some mods installed which don't save their options but other do. Is this just a general bug? I haven't checkt this so far...

[thick karma]

It's getSandboxOptions():load(), but... it doesn't work 😭

Wait...

lmfao

It does the opposite of what I want @bronze yoke

So instead of loading up the Change Sandbox Options version or the lua version, it actually pushes the server's saved Sandbox options into Change Sandbox Options again!

i.e., it just overwrites the changes I'm trying to make live with the server's birth settings

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

loses mind

[bronze yoke]

oops, well it was thrown around specifically as a way to load them early, so that makes sense

[gaunt meteor]

are you hosting it yourself or is this a server?

[thick karma]

I am doing this update for someone else

they cannot just remake their world

To get the defaults they want

For any new server, my technique is fine

For any existing server, it fails

[gaunt meteor]

only reason i ask is where the files are

[thick karma]

I am hosting r.n.

a copy of the server

they're in Zomboid/Server or something iirc

[gaunt meteor]

have you tried changing the actual file in server folder?

and not ingame

sometimes this fixes desync

[thick karma]

Yes

Well not programmatically but manually yes

[gaunt meteor]

one of the issues i observed was installing a mod that added to sandboxvars, then the mod being uninstalled, but their lines still being in sandboxvars, so it stopped syncing altogether until the entire file was reset

[thick karma]

I have edited that file manually multiple times... 3 things sync: server_SandboxVars.lua, the actual settings menu for editing your server settings (before hosting a game), and the settings displayed in Change Sandbox Options all sync up. But the in-game variable known as SandboxVars.yourModName does not get updated after the server already exists. @gaunt meteor

I wonder... if I just deleted the SandboxVars.myModName variable when I quit the server, would it automatically make a new one when I join again using the defaults? Or just bug out eternally because it did not expect that to ever happen?

sigh

[blissful salmon]

Does anybody know if I have to create a kahlua table here (see post from above):
local zombieData = {}
Or should it work if I just add a normal table to the modData (like I did)?

[bronze yoke]

i think that would default it

[sullen bobcat]

So I know I asked this before, but sadly the issue remains - despite the help, many thanks to @jade chasm for your help, even if we couldn't get the issue resolved. I am trying create a small firearms mod and when I add a base game attachment to the modded firearm, the attachment model is rotated 180. I can see through the front of the attachment model with the back of the model being rendered. Regardless of how I attempt to rotate the Attachment, this error persists, with the front of the model facing away from the player in effect. I believe the issue is with the model I am using, as when replaced with a base game model, the attachment model is correct, however i have no what the issue with the model is, nor how to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Image above shows the issue

[gilded hawk]

The workshop.txt editor is finally complete! 🎉 (only works on chrome/edge)

Now I can finally take a break from PZ modding/toolmaking

[ancient grail]

Wow this deserve to be inducted on the pz wiki tools link

Congrats man

[gilded hawk]

Works with grammarly too 😄

[sour island]

It may be that the isreanimated zombie let's the system know to save that zombies data

[blissful salmon]

Hmm... Maybe... but it would be kind of strange because the modData is on the IsoObject.

[sour island]

The thing about that is save() is different per object

For the most part most objects save modData

But most objects are also pretty stationary

[blissful salmon]

Yes, I saw many if's... I make some tests...

[young edge]

Hmm, alright. I'll attempt it. Thanks a lot

[sour island]

Zombies only save health, location, outfitId, and a few other things

[gilded hawk]

Application live 👉 https://mxswat.github.io/pz-description-editor/

Sauce 🍅: https://github.com/mxswat/pz-description-editor

⚠️ Limitations :

• Only works on Chrome, Edge and chromium browsers
• Malformed BBCode will break the app
• No Bullet list preview because of some issues with the [*] BBCode

Example of malformed BBCode: 
[img=http://projectzomboid.com/images/MODS_03.png]
Use instead: -> [img] http://projectzomboid.com/images/MODS_03.png [/img]

Tips: CTRL+O and CTRL+S To quick open and quick save

I think this will make 10x easier editing the workshop file, and hopefully it will make it easier to have better looking workshop descriptions 💌

[blissful salmon]

This seems to be true... I changed the bool manually and now the data is saved...

[gilded hawk]

Thanks dude

[blissful salmon]

I'll check the flags. If this is the only one or if there's one that I can abuse...

[rancid barn]

Are there any resources for adding/creating modded animations?

[blissful salmon]

I didn't find out where the modData is "Lost". As far that I can see its the this.table on the IsoObject. But I couldn't even find out if it's not saved or not loaded (or maybe overwritten somewhere). It's to confusing to me with a decompiled class...

[lyric bolt]

Hey all 👋 👋 Brand new here and I was wondering if I could get some help with a simple patch I want to make between two mods. I wan't Arsenal weapon attachments to work with the fallout weapon pack. Does anyone know of a patch for one that exists already I could reverse engineer? I code but have no idea where to start on PZ stuff.

I tried to just copy the mod, make a few edits to the ID, and add the weapon to the attachment list in the GunFighter_Weapon_Parts.txt file. But then all my guns/parts broke in solo, the icons were all the question mark one, and none would attach anymore.. Thanks for the help all! 😄

[worn sierra]

Hey, is there a Mod out there that makes the Voicechat with Radios on MP Server sound like...well...Radio Chat? And not like the Person is standing next to you. Like, a bit static.

[weak sierra]

anyone ever see this before? a few items, now two in two different mods, do this to me but not others

some failure of tooltip rendering

i run the game on proton under linux

    self.item:DoTooltip(self.tooltip);

that line..

gonna try this to see if it suppresses it```lua
local original = ISToolTipInv.render

function ISTooltipInv:render()
if self.item ~= nil then
original(self)
end
end```

tho i'd rather know WHY it's happening

:P

[sour island]

Could it be named lit?

[weak sierra]

nah happens even when that's not runnin

lol

i reproduced this with cheatmenu and mod manager and th mod in question

[sour island]

You were able to widdle down the mod?

[weak sierra]

and similar problem happens to only me on my server without those two mods running for clothesbox's waterproof overalls

yeah

it's the mod that has the item

:p

[sour island]

What mod?

[weak sierra]

in this case the MAS-36 gun in the Chiiku Arms mod

clothesbox's waterproof overalls also does it

[sour island]

Only that item?

[weak sierra]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2859515454

yup only that item

[sour island]

Could be something to do with the script that is calling something

[weak sierra]

    {
        DisplayCategory            = Weapon,
        DisplayName                =    MAS-36,
        Icon                        =    MAS36,
        WeaponSprite                =    MAS36,
        Weight                        =    3.0,
        AmmoType                    =   Base.762Bullets,
        AmmoBox                     =   Base.762Box,
        MaxAmmo                     =   5,
        RecoilDelay                    =    40,
        ReloadTime                  =   35,
        AimingTime                  =   20,
        MinRange                    =    0.61,
        MaxRange                    =    13,
        MinAngle                    =    0.965,
        DoorDamage                    =    25,
        MinDamage                    =    2.4,
        MaxDamage                    =    2.6,
        StopPower                   =   2,
        PiercingBullets             =   TRUE,
        KnockdownMod                =    5,
        PushBackMod                    =    0.4,

        
        CriticalChance                  = 30,
    CritDmgMultiplier        = 10,
        AimingPerkCritModifier          = 15,
        HitChance                       = 60,
        AimingPerkHitChanceModifier     = 15,
        AimingPerkMinAngleModifier      = 0.01,
        AimingPerkRangeModifier         = 3,
        
        
        SoundVolume                = 90,
        SoundRadius                = 110,
        SwingSound                = mas36shot,
        BreakSound = MSR700Break,
        InsertAmmoSound = MSR700InsertAmmo,
        EjectAmmoSound = MSR700EjectAmmo,
        RackSound = mas36rack,
        BringToBearSound = MSR700BringToBear,
        HitSound                = BulletHitBody,
        ClickSound = MSR700Jam,
        EquipSound = MSR700Equip,
        UnequipSound = MSR700UnEquip,
        InsertAmmoStartSound = MSR700InsertAmmoStart,
        InsertAmmoStopSound = MSR700InsertAmmoStop,
        EjectAmmoStartSound = MSR700EjectAmmoStart,
        EjectAmmoStopSound = MSR700EjectAmmoStop,
        ShellFallSound = MSR700CartridgeFall,

        
        Type                            =    Weapon,
        SubCategory                        =    Firearm,
        IsAimedFirearm                    =    TRUE,
        UseEndurance                    =    FALSE,
        ConditionMax                    =    20,
        JamGunChance                    =   0.25,
        Ranged                            =    TRUE,
        MetalValue                      =   45,
        SwingTime                        =    0.5,
        MinimumSwingTime                =    0.5,
        ToHitModifier                    =    1.5,
        SwingAmountBeforeImpact            =    0,
        MultipleHitConditionAffected    =    FALSE,
        SplatSize                        =    3,
        SplatNumber                        =    3,
        SplatBloodOnNoDeath                =    TRUE,
        ImpactSound                        =    null,
        NPCSoundBoost                    =    1.5,
        SoundGain                       =   2,
        SwingAnim                        =    Rifle,
        RunAnim                            =    Run_Weapon2,
        IdleAnim                        =    Idle_Weapon2,
        ShareDamage                        =    FALSE,
        MaxHitCount                        =    1,
        KnockBackOnNoDeath                =    TRUE,
        ProjectileCount                    =    1,
        ConditionLowerChanceOneIn        =    210,
        TwoHandWeapon                   =   TRUE,
    RackAfterShoot            =   TRUE,
        RequiresEquippedBothHands       =   TRUE,
        WeaponReloadType                =   boltactionnomag,
        AttachmentType                  =   Rifle,


        ModelWeaponPart = x8Scope x8Scope scope scope,

    }```

there's the script for that item

    at zombie.inventory.types.HandWeapon.DoTooltip(HandWeapon.java:317)
    at zombie.inventory.InventoryItem.DoTooltip(InventoryItem.java:607)
    ... 45 more```

that's the tail of it

so it looks liek it's failing to get the display name

the display name has random spaces/tabs in the start of it

but it says it's cuz CreateItem(String) is null

not cuz the display name is problem

public final class InventoryItemFactory {
   public static InventoryItem CreateItem(String var0) {
      return CreateItem(var0, 1.0F);
   }```

mm

   public static InventoryItem CreateItem(String var0, float var1) {
      return CreateItem(var0, var1, true);
   }

   public static InventoryItem CreateItem(String var0, float var1, boolean var2) {
      InventoryItem var3 = null;
      Item var4 = null;
      boolean var5 = false;
      String var6 = null;

      try {
         if (var0.startsWith("Moveables.") && !var0.equalsIgnoreCase("Moveables.Moveable")) {
            String[] var7 = var0.split("\\.");
            var6 = var7[1];
            var5 = true;
            var0 = "Moveables.Moveable";
         }

         var4 = ScriptManager.instance.FindItem(var0, var2);
      } catch (Exception var8) {
         DebugLog.log("couldn't find item " + var0);
      }

      if (var4 == null) {
         return null;
      } else {
         var3 = var4.InstanceItem((String)null);
         if (GameClient.bClient && (Core.getInstance().getPoisonousBerry() == null || Core.getInstance().getPoisonousBerry().isEmpty())) {
            Core.getInstance().setPoisonousBerry(GameClient.poisonousBerry);
         }

         if (GameClient.bClient && (Core.getInstance().getPoisonousMushroom() == null || Core.getInstance().getPoisonousMushroom().isEmpty())) {
            Core.getInstance().setPoisonousMushroom(GameClient.poisonousMushroom);
         }

         if (var0.equals(Core.getInstance().getPoisonousBerry())) {
            ((Food)var3).Poison = true;
            ((Food)var3).setPoisonLevelForRecipe(1);
            ((Food)var3).setPoisonDetectionLevel(1);
            ((Food)var3).setPoisonPower(5);
            ((Food)var3).setUseForPoison((new Float(Math.abs(((Food)var3).getHungChange()) * 100.0F)).intValue());
         }

         if (var0.equals(Core.getInstance().getPoisonousMushroom())) {
            ((Food)var3).Poison = true;
            ((Food)var3).setPoisonLevelForRecipe(2);
            ((Food)var3).setPoisonDetectionLevel(2);
            ((Food)var3).setPoisonPower(10);
            ((Food)var3).setUseForPoison((new Float(Math.abs(((Food)var3).getHungChange()) * 100.0F)).intValue());
         }

         var3.id = Rand.Next(2146250223) + 1233423;
         if (var3 instanceof Drainable) {
            ((Drainable)var3).setUsedDelta(var1);
         }

         if (var5) {
            var3.type = var6;
            var3.fullType = var3.module + "." + var6;
            if (var3 instanceof Moveable && !((Moveable)var3).ReadFromWorldSprite(var6) && var3 instanceof Radio) {
               DebugLog.log("InventoryItemFactory -> Radio item = " + (var0 != null ? var0 : "unknown"));
            }
         }

         return var3;
      }
   }```

so this is the method that's somehow failing

         DebugLog.log("couldn't find item " + var0);

since that doesnt show

it's not that.

so i guess this must be null?

         var3 = var4.InstanceItem((String)null);```

where

         var4 = ScriptManager.instance.FindItem(var0, var2);

so either var4 is null or InstanceItem is null

presumably?

[summer rune]

I have a problem which i am struggeling with since 2 days. i have a method called fetchSandboxVars which is called on the server side if not isServer() then return end; in the Events.OnServerStarted event handler.

that is basically everything that is part of the mod, except the sandbox-options.txt. However when i start my server with the mod the servertest_SandboxVars.lua gets cleared, and the mod specific entries get deleted. and then obviously my fetchSandboxVars function reports an exception, that my SandboxVars... calls return null on a non-table.

Anyone knows why this chicken, egg problem happens?

[weak sierra]

ah ur making the thing that forces those to load early? been planning to do that too

dunno.

is OnServerStarted prior to normal sandbox var loading?

they don't load until relatively late in the process

and now that im re-reading it doesnt look like ur triggering them to

[weak sierra]

InstanceItem branches off by item type

if it's a weapon it runs this

which means literally any field could make this fail eh

[sour island]

You could try comparing it to a vanilla weapon

There's alot of fields I've never seen before

It could be a left over field that's triggering old code in the tooltip

Or worse yet, a missing field

[weak sierra]

author claims it doesn't do it to them on other servers

so it's either something finnicky with proton/linux

or something else weirdly specific..

[fast galleon]

            int var4 = this.thumpDmg;
            int var5;
            if (var3 >= var4) {
               var5 = 1 * ThumpState.getFastForwardDamageMultiplier();
               this.Health -= var5;
            } else {
               this.partialThumpDmg += (float)var3 / (float)var4 * (float)ThumpState.getFastForwardDamageMultiplier();
               if ((int)this.partialThumpDmg > 0) {
                  var5 = (int)this.partialThumpDmg;
                  this.Health -= var5;
                  this.partialThumpDmg -= (float)var5;
               }
            }

I've had too much java today, what's the best to set thumpDmg here for small health loss, is 666 good

[weak sierra]

java modding, eh?

or are u just poking at it

most decent damage to a thumpable is like 20-25 for guns hitting doors iirc

so 666 is massive

if what u mean is "high health so it doesn't care" then u want like 10k or something

if what u mean is "low damage so it doesn't do much" u want like 1-2

unclear which way u were talkin about

[fast galleon]

Just poking to see what I need to do make certain work. I want my object to break very slowly, so that players don't have to worry too much about it when first finding it.

[sour island]

Are you using any other mods at all?

[weak sierra]

for this test just cheat menu, mod manager, and the mod in question

[sour island]

What happens if you change the name?

Removing at least the hyphen

[finite rover]

Hi! if you find smth on this pls share with me) I'm trying to do animations with Fragmotion+blender with blender source tools as found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jTx34yyClwSq7JiR_TagUuNexlA3ljcNxdbDtse6sXQ

Now I'm stuck on animations being "pile of character" in game))

[fast galleon]

yeah, setting high thumpDmg made object super durable.

In contrast, objects you place get the maximum damage possible, thumpDmg is set at 1

[alpine scroll]

Anyone knows how to trigger a "Container visual update"? I got a function that forces the respawn of items on a container, however if , for example, a bookshelf was empty before, it doesnt update the shelf with the books

Its MP, if it matters

Dedicated server, to be more specific

[fast galleon]

getContainerOverlays():updateContainerOverlaysSprite(isoObject)

[empty wagon]

Is there a mod that makes crawlers not able to break fences so I can just chill with the 2 fence between 1 crate glitch?

[summer rune]

I have been struggeling 2 days with this. Tried every possible solution on earth. And now because i felt not hope, I just changed the Mod Id to something shorter.... NOW it works? Can that be? Or am I delusional? ModId before was GpzEvents_AlwaysPlayerRank and now for the test was yyy

[hearty dew]

OnServerStarted might be too soon to access sandboxvars.. If memory serves, they aren't populated until after all lua scripts are loaded and the world is near done loading. That said, why they'd get cleared is unclear atm. If the mod is that small, maybe could upload it here and I could have a look at it later today to figure out what's happening

[summer rune]

@hearty dew has the id (modid) in the mod.info a max length, you know about? Could that be a thing?

Because with the shorter id the mod is behaving completely different

[worldly olive]

Heello!
Any clue on why this stopped working to force the player to sleep? 🤔
ISWorldObjectContextMenu.onSleepWalkToComplete(player:getPlayerNum(), nil)

Probably stopped working since the last patch as I remember this was working some weeks ago

[summer rune]

or maybe some cache was cleared or is no longer taking place, by changing the mod id. however i always created a new dedicated server to test.

[safe silo]

Looking into distributions/item spawning, what's a number that almost makes it 100% it spawns in that container? Want my magazine to spawn in bookstores

[weak sierra]

20? :p

honestly if you set it to anything >=1 it's pretty common

though number of books and loot limit

there's a lot of competition there

[safe silo]

Thanks!

[hearty dew]

Not to my knowledge, but that's possible, yea

[winter thunder]

Anyone know if it is possible to make a radio function in ranges outside of the typically allowed ones? Like~ <0.2mhz or >1000mhz

Have been trying, just limited success so far

and by that- I mean I havent gotten it to work at all... lmfao

[winter flume]

Hello all. Super niche question does anyone know how to get the id for an entry in the ZombiesZoneDefinition.Default table? I am trying to remove a zombie that is added by another mod

[drifting ore]

any mods that change UI?

[jade chasm]

Hey is there a drive through gates mod? I just saw there is a run through doors and gates mod where it auto open/closes for you when you run through.

[safe silo]

Where can I find the lua for these?

OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.DismantleRadio

I'm looking in the PZ source folder

Went into LUA/ but not sure where to go from here lol

[ancient grail]

recipecode.lua

function Recipe.OnCreate.DismantleRadioHAM(items, result, player, selectedItem)
    local success = 50 + (player:getPerkLevel(Perks.Electricity)*5);
    if ZombRand(0,100)<success then
        player:getInventory():AddItem("Radio.RadioTransmitter");
    end
    if ZombRand(0,100)<success then
        player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.LightBulbGreen");
    end
    DismantleRadio_OnCreate(items, result, player, selectedItem);
end

function Recipe.OnCreate.DismantleRadio(items, result, player, selectedItem)           --TODO adding return items/chance based on selectedItem value
    local success = 50 + (player:getPerkLevel(Perks.Electricity)*5);
    for i=1,ZombRand(1,4) do
        local r = ZombRand(1,4);
        if r==1 then
            player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.ElectronicsScrap");
        elseif r==2 then
            player:getInventory():AddItem("Radio.ElectricWire");
        elseif r==3 then
            player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Aluminum");
        end
    end
    if ZombRand(0,100)<success then
        player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Amplifier");
    end
    if ZombRand(0,100)<success then
        player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.LightBulb");
    end
    if ZombRand(0,100)<success then
        player:getInventory():AddItem("Radio.RadioReceiver");
    end
    --if selectedItem then
        --print("Main item "..selectedItem:getName());
    --end
    for i=1,items:size() do
        local item = items:get(i-1)
        if instanceof(item, "Radio") then
            item:getDeviceData():getBattery(player:getInventory())
            item:getDeviceData():getHeadphones(player:getInventory())
            break
        end
    end
end

[civic lava]

Someone please help, i need the player to fall, i know the code works but it has 2 bugs, 1 being... the player does fall he only "stops running" & the second is once this happens maybe 1-3 times it seems to just stop running the code

[safe silo]

thanks!!!

[civic lava]

i could really use advice, as im new to this & i've been doing this over over a week, 1 trait... over a week... just to learn lua... i seriously need help

[ancient grail]

i was also looking for this.. i dont believe its possible to remake the action by lua tho.. its probably java sided

if ou actually do that code on lua it will make your character stuck

it wont make you stumble and fall

[civic lava]

so what the hell do i do

what can i add?

[ancient grail]

idk if you figure it out pls do share with me

🙂

[civic lava]

im gonna cry

[ancient grail]

ill do the same if im able to figure it out too ayt

[civic lava]

i call upon greater minds then mine to figure out the un figure-out-able!

[ancient grail]

maybe you can look at the debug thing where you can right click and set the fall

but it doesnt happen on the server side it only animates the thing for the one who did it

[civic lava]

do u mine VC'ing for a moment? for free time? im just sitting here coding for the next few hours

[ancient grail]

DebugContextMenu.onTick = function()
    if DebugContextMenu.staggerBacking then
        DebugContextMenu.stagTime = DebugContextMenu.stagTime - 1;
        if DebugContextMenu.stagTime < 0 then
            local chr = IsoPlayer:getInstance();
            DebugContextMenu.stagTime = 300;
            chr:setBumpType("stagger");
            chr:setVariable("BumpDone", false);
            chr:setVariable("BumpFall", true);
            chr:setVariable("BumpFallType", "pushedFront");
        end
    end
end

[ancient grail]

im abt to have breakfast sorry.. perhaps later

[safe silo]

Can I do this in LUA? And would I access it by ElectricianExperienceGain[dismantleSomething].experienceGain or how would it look?

ElectricianExperienceGain = {
    dismantleSomething = {
        experienceGain = 30,
    }
}

[hearty dew]

yes, that or ElectricianExperienceGain.dismantleSomething.experienceGain

[safe silo]

Sweet, thanks ❤️

Also I'm Mr. 1000 questions today, is it possible to have a file that remains.. "static" on mod updates?

Say I have a file where I keep an overview of variables such as above, a table where I store all the set experiences players gain from doing X tasks. Now I run a server and want to balance the experience gain so I change the values. If the mod that uses this file is updated, it will reset back to what the mod's default values are but can it be avoided? I know most ppl probably modpack it but was wondering if it could be another solution.

[ancient grail]

Try this
getPlayer():setVariable("stagger");
getPlayer():setVariable("BumpFall", true);