mod_development

[sour island]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-hell-evil-smile-evil-grin-close-up-gif-16483956

[sour island]

      this.setMinutesStamp();
      var8 = (int)((this.getTimeOfDay() - (float)((int)this.getTimeOfDay())) * 60.0F);
      if (var8 / 10 != this.minutesMod) {
         IsoPlayer[] var15 = IsoPlayer.players;

         for(int var14 = 0; var14 < var15.length; ++var14) {
            IsoPlayer var11 = var15[var14];
            if (var11 != null) {
               var11.dirtyRecalcGridStackTime = 1.0F;
            }
         }

         ErosionMain.EveryTenMinutes();
         ClimateManager.getInstance().updateEveryTenMins();
         getInstance().updateRoomLight();
         LuaEventManager.triggerEvent("EveryTenMinutes");
         this.minutesMod = var8 / 10;
         ZomboidRadio.getInstance().UpdateScripts(this.getHour(), var8);
      }

Just stores a timestamp and runs the rest when it's elapsed

same for everyhour everyday etc

there's even everyoneminute

Meta and Helicopter events are timed in there too

That's why I don't worry too hard about optimizing

unless the method is egregious

[dull moss]

doesn't work

[sour island]

any errors?

[dull moss]

nope

[sour island]

Wait

nvm

can you edit both mods' functions

to include a print

just to confirm they're running in order as expected?

[dull moss]

ye

what do i put

[sour island]

print("text")

just put the mod name or something for each

[dull moss]

ok dafuq

ah

fuck

mod b updates weight every 1 minute

not every 10

ok

that was the issue

that mod b was doing it every 1 minute

if i set mod a to do it every 1 minute too it's fine

I can do something like this, right?

if getActivatedMods():contains("DracoExpandedTraits") then
    Events.EveryOneMinute.Add(checkWeight);
else
    Events.EveryTenMinutes.Add(checkWeight);
end

[fast galleon]

people who use OnTick(EveryHours), I had to to mod those because of some weird lag

[dull moss]

max carry weight is hardcoded to 50 right?

[unborn scaffold]

Is there anything wrong with this code to add a new context menu item? It gives me an error whenever I open the context item for the deck of cards

local function doContextMenu(item)
    print("test")
end


local function onFillInventoryObjectContextMenu(player, context, items)
    for i,v in ipairs(items) do
        local item = v
        if item:getType() == "CardDeck" then
            context:addOption("Custom context option", item, doContextMenu)
        end
    end
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(onFillInventoryObjectContextMenu)

It gives me Object tried to call nil in onFillInventoryObjectContextMenu whenever I right click a card deck, and the context menu doesn't have "Custom context option"

[sour island]

some of the entries in items are not inventoryItems

weird coincidence but I just added context for wearing non clothing that can actually be worn

    for i,v in ipairs(items) do
        item = v
        if not instanceof(item , "InventoryItem") then
          item = v.items[1]
        end

        if item:getType() == "CardDeck" then
            context:addOption("Custom context option", item, doContextMenu)
        end
    end

as I understand it, some of the entries in items are 'stacks' when you have more than 1

[sour island]

Just make yours everyminute - there's very little impact

[unborn scaffold]

Ah it was so simple, thank you!

[dull moss]

ye already did

[weak sierra]

can i programmatically change recipe ingredients?

like can i act on getSource() array

to do that

i can test it ofc but if someone knows already

[neon bronze]

You mean like actively change ingredients throughout the game or from the beginning?

[dapper geode]

Hi, is there any mod that can disable all recipe?

[weak sierra]

at the beginning

im just trying to remove recipes bypassing the shit system that is built into the game since that doesn't work in most situations

already setting them to hidden, setting them to require a book, and removing them from every book i can find

but they remain available

so i want to change the ingredients as a backup

adding an item that isn't available

[neon bronze]

If you add an item into the .txt file that doesnt exist it wont load any of the recipes or atleast not the button

[weak sierra]

can't do that, since overriding the text file doesn't work for recipes with multiple names

and something about the way the recipes load seems to make it a new recipe if you change too much

even if the name stays the same

since names are not unique

obsolete:true would just work were it not for that

but u can't override 10 recipes called X

<_<

at least i've had trouble anyway

i wrote an entire script to assist in removing recipes from the game but perhaps i should re-examine

[neon bronze]

Perhaps you should

Since i honestly think that removing all the recipes from the game is kinda strange

[weak sierra]

im not trying to remove all of them lmao

just some

i run a server

[neon bronze]

But you could make them NeedToBeLearn=true and then never make a book for them

[weak sierra]

i have to remove certain recipes for balance

from various mods

yeah that's what im doing

but it still doesn't work

the recipes just are in players' lists already and/or still available somehow in many cases

sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't

[neon bronze]

Then maybe comment them out and upload it to the server .ini?

If you change something you most of the time need to do a server restart

[weak sierra]

lolwat

"upload it to the server ini"

i've been running a server for 4 months and modding that entire time, i know i need to restart the server 😂

[neon bronze]

Well what i said usually should work so maybe your server somehow defines the rules of logic

Cause commenting out a recipe = the recipe should not be there anymore

[weak sierra]

i can't comment out vanilla recipes

one of which i remove as well

i mean, i could

but it'd create a GIANT headache

where every update for the game

i have to update the file

already enough chaos when the game updates

[ancient grail]

Not coincidence, its just your wizardry telepathy

[sour island]

Yes, you can modify recipes in real time - you can edit any script in realtime

[ancient grail]

Was wondering the same when i made the WetWeight mod but str has to do something with it so i guess there are still some areas to manipulate it but not directly

[sour island]

Also you can override vanilla recipes by naming a recipe the same and using a param called OVERWRITE I think

[bronze yoke]

if it's just to stop them being used, can't you change their ontest to return false?

[sour island]

Idk if recipes have an obsolete tag but you can change the Lua functions for recipes to always be invalid

Basically make a dud function always return false and assign that to the recipe

Oh Albion said it lol

[weak sierra]

i found one called "CanPerform"

and i just tried overriding that yeah

i'd love it to just not show up at all

obsolete tag does exist but doesn't work right when multiple recipes have the same name in my experience

i remove a dozen or so recipes on my server so i'd like this tool to just be a maintainable list

[sour island]

there is an overwrite flag too

[weak sierra]

yeah

i used to do it that way

[sour island]

should replace rather than add on

[weak sierra]

with override:true and obsolete:true

it works when there's one recipe

that said i last tried it in 41.71? or 41.73

been a minute.

[sour island]

heh

hate that recipes can have the same name internally

goes against alot of ID conventions lol

[weak sierra]

yes

it's infuriating

and makes everything difficult

[sour island]

you can parse through all recipes

[weak sierra]

i do that

[sour island]

and apply obsolete and overwrite manually

[weak sierra]

nope

you can't :)

[sour island]

yes?

[weak sierra]

well if you can then the docs are horrendously out of date

the ones everyone tells u to use

they only let u set like half the things

[bronze yoke]

the docs are from 41.65, i doubt they added anything to recipes since then

[sour island]

oh you're right

[weak sierra]

it's a bitch

:/

[sour island]

obsolete is done in realtime and removes it

[weak sierra]

yes

which means it has to be there at parse-time

:|

isHidden + is.. is need skillbook whatever that one is called

[sour island]

               if (var6.equals("Obsolete") && var7.trim().toLowerCase().equals("true")) {
                  this.module.RecipeMap.remove(this);
                  this.module.RecipeByName.remove(this.getOriginalname());
                  this.module.RecipesWithDotInName.remove(this);
                  return;
               }

[weak sierra]

as u can see it only gets rid of one recipe by name :)

so that ever only picks up the first one

never impacts more

bug.

been reported a bunch

[sour island]

what does hidden do?

does it show up anywhere?

[weak sierra]

hides it from the recipe list

but it can still be used

from context menus/etc.

[sour island]

ok then that's perfect

hidden + spoof the isvalid

[weak sierra]

i also set it to require a skillbook

and then i go through every book in the game

and remove it from any i find

though that doesn't seem to work?

[sour island]

why require a skillbook?

[weak sierra]

so i can unassign it from any

cuz i didnt realize there was a way to remove it via method

until today

that way it needs a book and there is no book

:p

that works for most recipes

[bronze yoke]

yeah that's what i used for the filter recipe

[sour island]

I would assume the hidden + isvalid would cover all bases

isvalid prevents context menu

[weak sierra]

oh does it? holy shit

that's gold

[bronze yoke]

oh i need that

[weak sierra]

i was testing that on my own, stumbling into it

with a bunch of other stuff

[sour island]

there's 3 lua functions

1 before, 1 during, 1 after

[bronze yoke]

i was working on a mod last night, part of which temporarily changes your clothes and stops you from changing them, and i couldn't find a way to stop them from simply ripping them apart lol

[weak sierra]

so is what u mean LuaTest

or CanPerform

dont see an IsValid in the recipe object

java.lang.String getLuaCreate()
java.lang.String getLuaGiveXP()
java.lang.String getLuaGrab()
java.lang.String getLuaTest()

void setLuaCreate​(java.lang.String string)
void setLuaGiveXP​(java.lang.String string)
void setLuaGrab​(java.lang.String string)
void setLuaTest​(java.lang.String string)

and can perform

java.lang.String getCanPerform()

void setCanPerform​(java.lang.String string)

[sour island]

can perform

in alot of the lua files they refer to it as valid

writing it up atm

I have something similiar for tags in EHE

function obsoleteRecipesAlwaysFail()
    return false
end

local obsoleteRecipes = {}
local _obsoleteRecipesFullTypes = {"Base.RecipeName"}
local obsoleteRecipes.FullTypes = {}
for _,recipe in pairs(_obsoleteRecipes) do
    obsoleteRecipes.FullTypes[recipe] = true
end

function obsoleteRecipes.parse()
    local SM = getScriptManager()
    local allRecipes = SM:getAllRecipes()

    for i=0, allRecipes:size()-1 do
        ---@type Recipe
        local recipe = allRecipes:get(i)
        if recipe and obsoleteRecipes.FullTypes[recipe:getFullType()] then
            recipe:setIsHidden(true)
            recipe:setCanPerform("obsoleteRecipesAlwaysFail")
        end
    end
end
Events.OnGameBoot.Add(obsoleteRecipes.parse)

@weak sierra

alright, I'm off

Djackz has a permadeath server

trying to represent modders

💪

also to explain ```lua
local _obsoleteRecipes = {"Base.RecipeName"}
local obsoleteRecipes = {}
for _,recipe in pairs(_obsoleteRecipes) do
obsoleteRecipes[recipe] = true
end

I like using obsoleteRecipes[recipe:getFullType()] - idk if it's optimized or what but the alternative is to for loop

and I'm too lazy to type [""]=true over and over

[weak sierra]

yeah tested canperform

and it worked

[weak sierra]

i am doing this lol

[sour island]

oops there's an issue in my snippet

[weak sierra]

u dont have to write it for ongameboot afaik btw

can just execute it right there

if its in shared

[sour island]

I prefer it to execute then just to be safe

the issue I spotted was that the IDs were being added to the same object housing parse()

probably not enough of an issue to break it

good luck

[next narwhal]

Hello, can't debug mods, seeing white screen. Reloading the game or the scripts not fixing it. Please help!

[civic lava]

local hps = _player:getBodyDamage():getOverallBodyHealth(); --pos3 or pos300 stay 300 if not hurt--
local endr = _player:getStats():getEndurance(); --pos200 or pos2--
local fat = _player:getStats():getFatigue(); --neg2 or neg200 slowly getting worse--
local pan = _player:getStats():getPanic(); --neg 100 max--
local pai = _player:getStats():getPain(); --neg 200 max --
local sss = _player:getStats():getStress(); --you must be kidding, this will equal neg 0-100--
local bor = _player:getBodyDamage():getBoredomLevel(); --neg 100 max--
local hung = _player:getStats():getHunger(); --neg 100 max--
local thir = _player:getStats():getThirst(); --neg 100 max--
local wet = _player:getBodyDamage():getWetness(); --neg2-200--

    local endr = endr * 2;
    local hps = hps * 3; 
    local wet = wet * 3;
    local sss = sss * 100; 
    local pai = pai * 2;
    local pan = pan * 2;
    local fat = fat * 4;
    local thir = thir * 2;
    local hung = hung * 2;
    
    
    --1500 base trip MAX  -- 1200 neg max--
    local trip = 1000 + hps + endr - fat - pan - pai - sss - hung - thir - wet - bor;
    
    if _player:IsRunning() == true then
        local Roll = ZombRand(3333, 9999);
        if Roll > trip then
            local type = nil;
            local random = ZombRand(2);

            if random == 0 then
                type = "left"
            else
                type = "right"
            end
            _player:setBumpFallType("FallForward");
            _player:setBumpType(type);
            _player:setBumpDone(false);
            _player:setBumpFall(true);
            _player:reportEvent("wasBumped");

__
this code should work!!! & i can swae rto you it actually did, but now it doesnt

any advice

PS: the --notes-- are old & noit updated

[bronze yoke]

what's wrong with it

won't you trip every frame...?

also, you don't need to write 'local' every time you write to the variable

it's already local in that scope

[coarse nacelle]

I have an open bug on the forums with the same issue

are you running Linux?

[next narwhal]

ah okay that's a known issue then, cool thanks

Win 10

[coarse nacelle]

interesting, I didn't expect this bug to be cross-platform. should probably update the forum post with that information

do you mind doing that?

[next narwhal]

send me the link if you want me to add comments

or update your post I guess

[coarse nacelle]

give me a second to get it

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/61711-4178-debug-f11-menu-no-longer-shows-lua-file-contents/

[next narwhal]

done

[civic lava]

idk it just wont work & i swear i have video proof it did, i had the trip rate lowered because it was "done"

now nothing

[bronze yoke]

unless you changed the maths significantly i can tell there's no way this works

you roll between 3333 and 9999 for some reason, but trip can't even get that high, so you're going to trip every single time the code runs...

and trip decreases with negative modifiers, not increases, so your trip chance would go down the worse state you are in

[astral dune]

may have just clipped them out when you copy-pasted but you're also missing several ends

[magic nymph]

I had the same issue myself. To figure out the proper encoding.

1. Go to ProjectZomboid\media\lua\shared\Translate
2. Open the folder for the language you want to translate to
3. Open any of the localization files and check the encoding.

Note: I use a Notepad program (Notepads App) that I downloaded from the Windows App Store that can autodetect the encoding. However, regular Notepad and VSCode do not auto decode. VSCode, however, can guess what type of encoding it is and make a suggestion.

BTW, for Russian, it's Cyrillic (windows-1251)

[sour island]

F11 not showing text or garbled text is normal sort of

Usually it means your Lua is uber fucked

Also prints into console.txt still work

[astral dune]

I don't know about that, I've never had an issue until 78

[weak sierra]

are you running the linux build by chance?

[sour island]

It's usually caused by a missing , end ( or {

[weak sierra]

oh someone alrady

[next narwhal]

Windows 10

[sour island]

If you've ever gotten blocks instead of letters

[weak sierra]

yeah nvm i've seen ui bugs in linux but i see albion already got to u with that

[sour island]

Console.txt shows the same info

[weak sierra]

er

h117

not albion

[frank elbow]

Nothing wrong with my Lua (syntax-wise, anyway, I'm not omnipotent) & I still didn't see file contents in the debug menu earlier

[sour island]

Also @weak sierra did that code work? I didn't test it but it's pretty straight forward

[weak sierra]

i had my own code written already so i just finished adapting i

[sour island]

O

[weak sierra]

function nope()
    return false
end

local yeeted = 0
local start = Calendar.getInstance():getTimeInMillis()
local recipes = getScriptManager():getAllRecipes()
for i = 1, recipes:size() do
    local recipe = recipes:get(i - 1)
    local name = recipe:getName()
    recipeDisplayNameLookup[recipe:getOriginalname()] = name
    if recipesToYeet[name] then
        recipe:setIsHidden(true)
        recipe:setCanPerform("nope")
        yeeted = yeeted + 1
        print ("["..modName.."] Yeeted \""..name.."\"..")
    end
end
local stop = Calendar.getInstance():getTimeInMillis()

print("["..modName.."] Yeeted "..yeeted.." recipes in "..(stop - start).."ms!")```

[sour island]

Uh curious about the calendar stuff

[weak sierra]

it just grabs the time in ms then compares it to get a clock of how long i wasted

:p

function clock

cudda used getTimestamp

but

i was unaware of getTimestampMs at the time

[sour island]

Were you testing speeds?

Ive been curious about profiling Lua but I'm not that well versed

[tardy wren]

Anyone knows what libs are exposed to Lua in Zomboid?

[deft olive]

WILL THIS WORK ?

sorry mayus

[astral dune]

what is the best way to identify a character in code? I know every character/player has a handful of different names and Ids, which is the easiest to retrieve, and to look up the player with? is it :getDisplayName()?

[quasi geode]

using functions like getTimeInMillis (or any other timestamp based on the calender clock) is no good for profiling, your results can change based on current system load (background processes and OS etc)
lua has a os.clock() function that reports CPU time, which is the amount of time spent on the running process (thus independent of the background stuff going on in the machine)

if i remember right, os.clock should work in kahlua (fairly certain i used it years ago profiling) but i might be wrong

[quasi geode]

absolutely not.

[fast galleon]

I noticed yesterday my file would show blank in debug without any errors, only now realised it's all my files.

seems like getGameFilesTextInput returns nil, my mods are in user/Zomboid/mods

[quasi geode]

most standard lua libs (not all functions though) except io.* stuff, for the exposed java theres alot you'd have check the decompiled source

[next narwhal]

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/61711-4178-debug-f11-menu-no-longer-shows-lua-file-contents/

[tardy wren]

Oh I see... Anything to directly send network packets?

[quasi geode]

not really. the java stuff is fairly sandboxed to prevent abusive mods

[tardy wren]

Oh, I see

Hmm...

[fast galleon]

that's why I checked

[tardy wren]

I just wanted to send some network packets over the loopback, need to transfer some info to an external program running on the same machine

Was wondering about a more... Clean solution than writing/reading from file

[quasi geode]

ya file io is probably the best bet for any sort of IPC (at least the simplest solution)

[deft olive]

will this work? (to increase the weapon dmg+5 every tieme i use it )

[quasi geode]

uh no. you cant define a property outside the item block like that, nor can you do math in the property fields

its not a actual programming language of any sort. those .txt files are just basic item definitions and such. if you want to do stuff like that you'll need to use lua

[deft olive]

so i can't do "programing" in the scripts folder?

it needs to be in the lua folder ?

[bronze yoke]

does it need to be persistent?

[astral dune]

only during a session. Just using it to store which characters are currently occupying which vehicles on the server. And also want to be able to quickly verify if the value I've been given belongs to a valid character

[bronze yoke]

:getOnlineID() should be suitable then

[astral dune]

is that a number?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

i think getPlayerByOnlineID() will return nil if there isn't a player with that number

[astral dune]

handy. If I remember what Tyrir was saying earlier, these are just small integers that also correspond to splitscreen players differently?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, you know how getPlayerNum() returns a value 0-3 for local players? playerNum is essentially onlineID % 4

[astral dune]

that should be perfect, thank you

[jaunty marten]

nop

[deft olive]

am i doing something wrong? not sure why it is not working, i litheraly just ocpi paste it

[fast galleon]

what does you print key show

[deft olive]

i'm playing in the "-debug mode" and the code does nothing. dosen't print on the console nor adds any of the 3 items to my inventory

[fast galleon]

what folder is the media in?
try putting it into %userprofile%/Zomboid/mods

[deft olive]

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\108600\2844113631\mods\ReworkedHeavyWeapon\media\lua\client

[fast galleon]

that seems right

I would check if my file is loaded next, with F11 and filter for test.lua

[bronze yoke]

if not even 'test' is getting printed, it's not loading

[deft olive]

oh, it works now thank you s much

mm is there a method to change a weapong dmg? so i could add +dmg every time i hit

[mortal widget]

anyone know a good substitute for 75% less loot? it’s outdated

[deft olive]

mm any idea of how can i get that part to work ?

[bronze yoke]

you need to get the sledgehammer somehow, you can't just write Sledgehammer

you can use getScriptManager():getItem('Base.Sledgehammer'):getMinDamage()

[deft olive]

@bronze yoke thank you so much

[deft olive]

how can i go aroud this ?

[deft olive]

nvm got it

ty

[weak sierra]

getUsername

most mods use this

[astral dune]

I haven't looked, is there a getCharacterByUsername() function?

[bronze yoke]

getusername won't work with splitscreen, and i don't think they're unique on steam servers either

[vast pilot]

How do I go about adding an item of clothing to the game? I know it involves some scripting but I can't seem to find anything online about it

[astral dune]

so far online ID has been working, but I haven't actually tested anything with other players around

[bronze yoke]

afaik online id is just the best way to do this

[vast pilot]

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/37647-the-one-stop-shop-for-3d-modeling-from-blender-to-zomboid/ This has been a pretty good guide, but it gets pretty sparse information wise during the scripting section

[deft falcon]

Is there a way to get a bodypart's name? for example, "Head"? getName() doesnt work, unless I'll have to brute force it by adding a bunch of elseif for each bodypart to get its name

[winter bolt]

this guide is good
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2648115890

[vast pilot]

Thanks

[winter bolt]

a tip i have that isnt in this guide is to set the scale of "dummy01" to 1 and then ctrl+a to zpply the scale and delete it

otherwise the models will be tiny in the blender scene

[bronze yoke]

i think :getType():toString() will work

[deft falcon]

ohhh tostring

imma try that

brb

[deft olive]

is this to change the current equipped weapon damage? (Ignoring the actual weapons dmg?)

[deft falcon]

nah it modifies item values

you have to first get the weapon itself

and then you can modify its max damage

the values are on wiki and if u dont trust wiki u can do print on getmaxdamage

or even better just go to debug and check the item values urself

[deft olive]

mm can two of the same weapon have different dmg values?

[deft falcon]

each item is different so yes

[sour island]

damage might not save tho

you can get around this by using modData and inventory updates

[deft olive]

mm

[deft falcon]

"LowerLeg_R"

I want it to be like the names u see in health panel like "Right Leg"

[deft olive]

this one is to get the equiped weapon right?

[deft falcon]

you can also do Events.OnEquipPrimary.Add(functionhere)

[bronze yoke]

getType():getDisplayName()

[deft olive]

mm I need to change the critical chance of my equipped weapon without changing all of that weapon critical change on the game. should i first get my equipped weapon and then try to modify the equiped weapong variable critical chance?

[deft falcon]

object tried to call nil

imma get rid of "tostring"

nope same thing

[astral dune]

is there a way to tell if a player, and ideally also a zombie, are attacking, and what they are attacking? I'm quite in the weeds with this one, all I can currently see is HitCharacterPacket.java but there is no way I know of to listen for packets

[bronze yoke]

onplayergetdamage?

[stark torrent]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events/OnBeingHitByZombie is outdated, is there any alternative hook we should be using?

[jaunty marten]

u tried to call "getDisplayName" from string meta

[deft falcon]

alright so can you get me a line for it?

[astral dune]

doesn't look like OnPlayerGetDamage is what I need

[deft falcon]

local randompart = ZombRand(0, 16);
local v = bodydamage:getBodyPart(BodyPartType.FromIndex(randompart));

this the line for selecting body part

[jaunty marten]

I'm not sure about body parts buy try use :getDisplayName() instead :getType()

[deft falcon]

k so get rid of gettype

imma try that

update: my pc crashed loool

[bronze yoke]

v:getType():getDisplayName() is what i see in the docs

[deft falcon]

yea i tried that and it gave me "tried to call nil"

[jaunty marten]

:getType() returns string

how u want to call :getDisplayName()

[deft falcon]

yea that makes no sense

[jaunty marten]

BodyPartType.getDisplayName(BodyPartType.FromIndex(body_part_id))

[deft falcon]

mfw string of string

[bronze yoke]

no it doesn't

[jaunty marten]

stop trolling plz

[deft falcon]

ok let me try printing that (and ofc replace "body_part_id" with "randompart")

[astral dune]

hmm, OnWeaponSwing triggers when a player attacks, but it doesn't say what they're attacking. May be able to figure it out

[jaunty marten]

type is string

there's no getDisplayName method.

[bronze yoke]

on items... on body part it's BodyPartType

[jaunty marten]

oh shit

didn't sleep for a long time

u right

sorry for charge

[jaunty marten]

can u show the code how did u use that

[deft falcon]

HaloTextHelper.addText(player, getText("UI_ETEThinSkinInjury") ..tostring(v:getType():getDisplayName()) .."!", HaloTextHelper.getColorRed());

im gonna try it with "getType()" removed now

and remove tostring

[jaunty marten]

show full code with :getDisplayName

[stone garden]

What If We Had An Mod That Can Interact with people in other servers/save that arent in the same server but you can interact with them like when they die they become an zombie but you can see the zombified player in all servers that use this mod or see peoples base and steal loot and it impacts the person gameplay and your gameplay like gunshots will can zombies for the entire save and the everyone that is using this mod soo all actions would effect everyone that is using the mod like if the build get destroyed it impacts the building in other servers too

[jaunty marten]

albion said corrent how to get name of body part

u did smth wrong

[deft falcon]

getType():getDisplayName() did the "call nil" error

gimme a sec

[jaunty marten]

showwww the code

[deft falcon]

local function ThinSkinnedInjury(player, damagetype, amount)
    if SandboxVars.ETE.ThinSkin == false then return end 
    if player == getPlayer() then
        local playerdata = player:getModData();
        local thinskinbodydamage = playerdata.ETEThinSkinBodyDamage or {};
        local bodydamage = player:getBodyDamage();
        if player:HasTrait("ThinSkinned") then
            for i = 0, player:getBodyDamage():getBodyParts():size() - 1 do
                local b = player:getBodyDamage():getBodyParts():get(i);
                if b:HasInjury() == true and tableContains(thinskinbodydamage, i) == false then
                    table.insert(thinskinbodydamage, i);
                    local randompart = ZombRand(0, 16);
                    local v = bodydamage:getBodyPart(BodyPartType.FromIndex(randompart));
                    local injury = ZombRand(1, 3);
                    if injury == 1 then
                        v:setScratched(true, true);
                    end
                    if injury == 2 then
                        v:setCut(true, true);
                    end
                    table.insert(thinskinbodydamage, randompart);
                    HaloTextHelper.addText(player, getText("UI_ETEThinSkinInjury") ..(v:getDisplayName()) .."!", HaloTextHelper.getColorRed());
                    v:AddDamage(30);
                    b:AddDamage(30);
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

dunno what u meant so heres the entire function

this errored with uh

sec

object tried to call nil in that halotexthelper line

[jaunty marten]

HaloTextHelper.addText(player, getText("UI_ETEThinSkinInjury") ..(BodyPartType.FromIndex(randompart):getDisplayName()) .."!", HaloTextHelper.getColorRed());

try this out

[deft falcon]

object tried to call nil

[jaunty marten]

HaloTextHelper.addText(player, getText("UI_ETEThinSkinInjury") ..(BodyPartType.getDisplayName(BodyPartType.FromIndex(randompart))) .."!", HaloTextHelper.getColorRed());

[deft falcon]

it worked!!

said "Right Forearm"

tysm

[jaunty marten]

good

[jaunty marten]

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

[astral dune]

ya, no good. I'm not trying to tell when a character is attacked, but when a vehicle is. AFAIK there is no event for it, so I have to find another way.

[blissful salmon]

I have a LUA question. When I have a function like the following:

local function myfunction(x)
  local x = 1

  local myparamX = "accessMyParamX"
end

Can I get the parameter x ("accessMyParamX")? Of course I can rename my local x to lx or something. But this is just for my understanding. My Google hits failed so far...

[bronze yoke]

i don't understand the question

[sour island]

you could return it

if that's what you're asking

you can also return multiple things

local function myfunction(x)
  x = 1
  local myparamX = "accessMyParamX"
  return x, myparamX
end

local a,b = myfunction(x)

I removed the local on x cause it's the same as the param

[blissful salmon]

I'll try to describe it better...

local function myfunction(x)
  local x = 1

  print(x)
end

myfunction(2)

I want my funciton to print 2 instead of 1...

[astral dune]

local x = x or 1 I suppose, although why would you make a local of the same name anyway?

[blissful salmon]

It's just a question about understanding lua...

[jaunty marten]

local function myfunction(x)
  local x = x or 1

  print(x)
end

myfunction(2)

if i correct got u

[sour island]

would the local be different to the param in this case?

[jaunty marten]

nope

[quasi geode]

the param is already local, no need to redefine it local

x = x or 1

[jaunty marten]

all arguments are local by default

[sour island]

ah, I wasn't aware but that does make sense

[astral dune]

I mean, thats not true, arguments that are tables are not local

[blissful salmon]

You're all right with your explanations... I just wasn't sure if I can access my x from parameter again if I define a local x.

ok... thx.

[quasi geode]

its entirely true, even if the arg is a table.. the variable its stored in is locally scoped

[astral dune]

the variable is just reference, its not stored locally at all

[blissful salmon]

so if I make a local x the parameter is overwrittern after that...

[jaunty marten]

it's local

but values in this table aren't

[sour island]

yes, but you shouldn't redefine it - as it makes it less readable imo

[quasi geode]

where is stored is not important at all, the variable of the reference is scoped local

[deft falcon]

local function myfunction(x)
  x = x or 1

  print(x)
end

myfunction(2)

x is already in the function () so it doesnt need to be local'ed

also that way myfunction() returns 1

[jaunty marten]

ik

[astral dune]

a reference to something out of scope can't be local by definition, I have no idea what you guys are talking about, lmao

[jaunty marten]

nope, 2

[deft falcon]

i mean myfunction() not myfunction(2)

and if it does return 2 then wtf

[bronze yoke]

the reference is local and that's all that matters

[blissful salmon]

Ok... thx to all...
Like I wrote it was theory... of course I don't have to "overwrite" it with local. I just hat a case where I got a player fromt the function and did:
local player = getSpecificPlayer(player)

At the end of my function I passed the player object to the next function which also did the getSpecificPlayer and failed...

[jaunty marten]

u meant without args, then yea, 1

[deft falcon]

yea so whats the issue here cus i see none

[sour island]

This would work aslong as player was initially a number, but again, it would make things hard to read/keep track of

[blissful salmon]

But your answers explained it for me...

[deft falcon]

oh nvm u were helping some other dude

makes sense

[blissful salmon]

Your absolutly right... I just asked myself if its possible or not.

[jaunty marten]

if player is function arg then better to name it like player_id

[faint plinth]

does anyone know if its possible to modify the sweating system?

id like to make a mod that disables it, or something along those lines

[blissful salmon]

Like I said you're all right... It was just for my understanding... 🙂

[deft falcon]

btw heres a super simple question for the future

if XYZ == true then

is the same as

if XYZ then

?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[ruby urchin]

I don't think afaik, but you can create a patch, like a OnTick that can check if is sweating and set it to 0 or something like that

[astral dune]

no

[faint plinth]

thank you i will try it out :)

love your clothes mod too!

[astral dune]

if XYZ was equal to 3, you would get different answers from those two statements

[jaunty marten]

nope

[deft falcon]

assuming XYZ is a bool

so true/false

[jaunty marten]

if bool then yea

[astral dune]

if you're sure its a bool, then yes those are equivalent

[deft falcon]

mk

[jaunty marten]

second statement will accept all but false/nil

[ruby urchin]

thx man, I hope to work on it soon, I have some clothes that never was released

[blissful salmon]

As far I've understood if it's nil... then its not the same...

[bronze yoke]

nil is false, but it's not equal to false

[deft falcon]

alr then

[vast pilot]

Does anyone know why Zomboid can't read my preview image?

I was able to change the format, but it still didn't work

[ruby urchin]

Are you sure that isn't preview.png.jpg?

[vast pilot]

Nope, it's definitely not that

[bronze yoke]

is the image 256x256?

[vast pilot]

It is, yes

[astral dune]

any idea why this code doesn't work as intended? I want it to turn the radio on, spit out a message, then turn it off again iff it was off to begin with. But it never turns it on. If I turn it on myself it works fine

local radio = vehicle:getPartById("Radio")
if radio then
    local isOn = radio:getDeviceData():getIsTurnedOn()
    radio:getDeviceData():setIsTurnedOn(true)
    radio:AddDeviceText(string, 1,0,0,nil,nil,10)
    radio:getDeviceData():setIsTurnedOn(isOn)
    return
end

[ruby urchin]

I never touched things related to radio, but it probably works as intended, but really very fast, try adding a wait between when you turn on and turn off

[astral dune]

I assume AddDeviceText is instantaneous, but maybe its not

essentially I just want it to spit out the message whether its on or not, but not leave it on if it wasn't on to begin with

[frank elbow]

Have you tried it without the final setTurnedIsOn call? That could confirm that the issue is that it's being turned off too quickly

[ruby urchin]

could you try this, If works, could confirm what I was saying

local radio = vehicle:getPartById("Radio")
if radio then
    local isOn = radio:getDeviceData():getIsTurnedOn()
    radio:getDeviceData():setIsTurnedOn(true)
    radio:AddDeviceText(string, 1,0,0,nil,nil,10)
    return
end

[bronze yoke]

yeah that's where i'd start

[whole yoke]

Hey everyone! Today Im experiencing a issue where my clothing mod is causing a issue where players will be able to join a multiplayer server, but will never get to the Click To Start screen. (i.e after This Is How You Died, its a black screen.)

If anyone can help id really appreciate it 🙏

[astral dune]

ya, if I don't switch it back off again it works

thats really weird to be honest, why would I need a delay

[ruby urchin]

deltaTime things

[astral dune]

maybe I can force it to handle the text

[blissful salmon]

Were you abele to solve the issue? I once had some trouble with an png which had 64bit depth... the channels were on 16bit instead of 8... but I don't know if this could be the problem in your case...

[civic lava]

yes but i am not tripping at 100% trip even tho this very same code used to work fine

[spiral plover]

Alright, perhaps someone can help me, I'm trying to set the pain level of the players head

currently have this local part = player:getBodyDamage():getBodyPart(BodyPartType.Head); but that doesnt work

tried several different ways but no luck

BodyPartType.FromString("Head") also didn't work

I know I could loop through the body parts, but I was hoping to be slightly more efficient

[vast pilot]

I haven't fixed it yet

Probably going to try and find a new image

[magic nymph]

I added a Localization section to the wiki's Modding page that has all the languages and encoding formats. If you guys spot an error, feel free to edit it or just mention me and I'll fix it. https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding#Localization

[rain iron]

Does Zomboid hardcode one handed melee weapons to always require a lure when fishing? I'm looking for a way to make a fencing sword one handed but works like a spear when fishing

[bronze yoke]

thank you very much! i always thought there should be a resource for this

[astral dune]

does local var = require "otherfile" give you a readonly version of the variable returned by the other file?

I have one file returning a table, and another file requiring it and trying to add to it, but the original table never sees the changes

its almost like require creates a local copy instead of a reference

[bronze yoke]

that should work, i'm not sure why that's happening

[astral dune]

hmmm

well, my first file looks like this: RDWRER.lua

local RDWRER = {
    Server = {
        Events = {},
        Commands = {}
    },
    Client = {
        Events = {},
        Commands = {}
    }
}
return RDWRER

and the second does this:

local RDWRER = require "RDWRER"
local Handler = {}
function Handler.onServerCommand(module, command, args)
    if not module or not command then return end
    if module == RDWRER.COMMANDS then
        local cmnd = RDWRER.Client.Commands[command] or RDWRER.Commands[command]
        if cmnd then
            cmnd(args)
        end
    end
end
Events.OnServerCommand.Add(Handler.onServerCommand)
RDWRER.Client.Events = Handler
return Handler

it seems so simple, but doesn't work. If I print the contents of RDWRER.Client.Events its empty

[bronze yoke]

have you tried just adding RDWRER.Client.Events.onServerCommand rather than replacing events with the handler table later?

i'm not really sure why that would be different, but i'm just looking for things that are different than my own usage

local TestMod = {}
TestMod.foo = 'bar'
return TestMod

local TestMod = require 'TestMod'
TestMod.foo = 'not bar'

🤷

doing the same table replacement thing worked fine 🤷

[astral dune]

I did

local RDWRER = require "RDWRER"
local Handler = RDWRER.Client.Events
function Handler.onServerCommand ... etc

and the RDWRER.Client.Events table is still empty

I don't get it

[bronze yoke]

local TestMod = {}
TestMod.subtable = {}
return TestMod

local TestMod = require 'TestMod'
local otherTable = {}
otherTable.foo = 'bar'
TestMod.subtable = otherTable

if your application is exactly as written though, i would recommend doing things the other way around anyway

Events = require 'Handler'

[astral dune]

I did that initially, but it caused errors since the main file is in shared, so it can't require files from server or client

[bronze yoke]

oh that's your problem

wait no... (i was going to say it was 100% your problem but then i remembered that the server folder does run on the client, lol)

it might be your problem

try not doing it across two different folders, not really sure how require interacts with that

it still works for me if i do it that way though u_u

[astral dune]

tried RDWRER.Client.Events.test = "This is test" from a different file in the same folder. Didn't work. This is strangely frustrating, lol

[bronze yoke]

your exact code works for me

make sure the directories are included in your requires, or look through your log for a 'require failed'

[astral dune]

no required failed, and no subdirectories...

[bronze yoke]

and what you sent is the entire files?

[astral dune]

I trimmed down the inside of the functions and tables to make it easier to read, but otherwise ya

[bronze yoke]

are you sure the handler file is even being read? that's the only explanation i can see

[astral dune]

ya I'm pretty sure, this is in the logs with no errors following it
LOG : Lua , 1668316394885> 349,934,383> Loading: C:/Users/***/Zomboid/mods/RDWRER/media/lua/client/RDWRER_Client_Events.lua

[bronze yoke]

i even tried copying your filenames LOL and it still works perfectly

[astral dune]

😭 🔫

[bronze yoke]

to be absolutely sure, you're not checking it on the server are you?

[astral dune]

doing it through the command console on the client in debug mode

picked client files to test this with on purpose so that this would be easy to check, lmao

I'm actually a little confused as to why I can do print(RDWRER.Client.Events) at all when RDWRER is local to its file

[bronze yoke]

you need to require it first...

[astral dune]

I didn't. And if I print it and print the version I get from requiring, they're different addresses

[bronze yoke]

i don't really know what you're printing when you don't require it but you do need to require it

there's probably something messed up in another file because that gives me an outright error

[astral dune]

I thought about that, so I checked to see if I required it anywhere else without assigning the require to a value, or if I somehow instantiated the exact same table as a global somewhere, but that doesn't seem to be the case

[bronze yoke]

have you restarted your game

all of this is very strange behaviour

[astral dune]

worth a try

[civic lava]

local function NoodleLegs(_player)
if _player:HasTrait("NoodleLegs") then
local trip = 1000;
if _player:IsRunning() == true then
local Roll = ZombRand(8888, 9999);
if Roll > trip then

            local type = nil;
            local random = ZombRand(2);

            if random == 0 then
                type = "left"
            else
                type = "right"
            end
            _player:setBumpFallType("FallForward");
            _player:setBumpType(type);
            _player:setBumpDone(false);
            _player:setBumpFall(true);
            _player:reportEvent("wasBumped");
        end
  end

end

__
OK something is wrong with this new updated because

this should 100% make me trip

my old more complex code WAS working

but now even with it simplified it wont work at all

im so confused

[astral dune]

print(RDWRER) doesn't error on a fresh boot... maybe debug mode has special powers?

[vast pilot]

Okay, the default preview.png from the ModTemplate worked

So it must've been my specific image

[bronze yoke]

make sure the function is actually being called, and can you please encase your code like this when you send it here to make it easier to read

[astral dune]

ehh if debug mode was somehow capable of printing out local variables, print(Handler) wouldn't give me nil like it does

[bronze yoke]

believe me that debug mode does not have magic

at the very least because i've been in debug too

if you just try to print some random crap it'll error right? so something is definitely not local somewhere

[astral dune]

why is that text red

no errors, just nil

[bronze yoke]

if it's a table i mean

like print(madeup.variable)

i think any non-defined variable will just print nil

but tables should cause issues

[astral dune]

ya, if you try index a non table it throws that error we see all day

[bronze yoke]

so something's not local!

[astral dune]

ran a "find in files" in intellij for RDWRER, I use it 51 times. Went through them one by one and they are either a reference to a local version that was required, a string containing RDWRER, or the original table, which is local to RDWRER.lua, lol

I'm going insane

[bronze yoke]

can you try removing the files other than the ones you've shown me and testing it then? i'm sure the problem is elsewhere

[astral dune]

yes, now there is no global version of RDWRER

good thing there aren't too many files, I can add them one by one and see what happens

found it

[fast galleon]

I want my item to show condition in inventory, which types do that?

Having a vehicletype in my scripts was weird

[astral dune]

RDWRER.lua used to be called RDWRER_Base.lua, and its been sitting in the mod folder unseen because it was just an identical copy until I started refactoring everything to local. I just overwrite files when I update and forgot to delete it

the _Base version had a global RDWRER variable

[fast galleon]

dang seems java only does it for that, which is weird. I thought it pulled other stuff as well. ok, there's also clothing and handweapon.

[fast galleon]

k, guess I go custom and add 2nd bar like freshness for food. hm I can think of some fun alternatives.

[ancient grail]

@jaunty marten you are vishnya??

[ancient grail]

local random = ZombRand(1);

            if random == 0 then
                type = "left"
            else
                type = "right"
            end

cuz if you return 2 then the type will be nil also im not sure if yoiu can use type as a local variable maybe change that too

[ancient grail]

it wont

[civic lava]

crazy how the same code that worked for 24hr just randomly broke & now my base code which has nothing but the bare essential nothingness is broke too, i used them both & know they work, yet they dont now...
also seperate questions, ZombRand needs to be (1, 2000) not just (2000) in order to get a random number from it right>?

[bronze yoke]

ZombRand(2) returns 0 or 1

[ancient grail]

ow yeah always forget

haha

which is why udderevelyns advice is best

zombrand(var)+1

which eliminates the 0

[bronze yoke]

depends on the usage, if you're interacting with java you usually want to count from zero

[ancient grail]

my vscode is suddenly producing extra ] and ) to close stuff wtf

[bronze yoke]

the function seems fine, i would make sure it is actually getting called and just throw in some prints to see what is going on

[ancient grail]

how do i turn of auto close

imean the closing constructor i think idk what its called to be honest

nvm fixed it.. wonder why it suddenly turned on.. i never installed anything new.. weird

[ancient grail]

Is it possible to spawn corpse and change their sprite

Ow i can spawn item and just dont refresh it it wont show sprite.
But it will show on the loot panel
I need to figure out how to hide it

[high citrus]

hi, my mod changes the modData of an item that is on the ground with client-side code. That change however is not reflected on all the other clients, unless the player takes the object and put it down again. Is there a way to force the syncing of the modData?

(same thing if it's not on the player's inventory but it's on a map container)

[ancient grail]

this is what i use

local pl = getPlayer() 
local sq = getPlayer():getSquare() 
local x,y,z = pl:getX(), pl:getY(), pl:getZ()

local item = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem("Base.CorpseMale");
item:setName("test"); 

sq:AddWorldInventoryItem(item, x,y,z);

but the thing is it doesnt show the item on ground yet

which is what i prefer for now. so you have to do the extra mile to figure that out .. goodluck

[high citrus]

the item is already on the ground

I don't have to create it

[fast galleon]

you need to send the data
isoObject:transmitModData()

that will send it to server

you might need to send it to clients after that from server, there's an event on receive moddata I think

[high citrus]

@fast galleon thanks. The moddata is on the InventoryItem, will that be sent too?

[ancient grail]

Might aw well try it on debug

What if you first spawn the item on the inventory then drop it

[high citrus]

that's the ugly solution: enqueue two instant actions to take the object and then place it again exactly as it was

[fast galleon]

Inventory is different indeed.

[high citrus]

the thing is that storing the modData on the IsoObject is cumbersome and prone to errors. Also IsoObjects don't have the actual item data so it makes more sense (imho) to store everything on the InventoryItem

I can only find an event for GlobalModData (OnReceiveGlobalModData)

[ancient grail]

which one causes more lag? OnPlayerMove or OnPlayerUpdate

[high citrus]

Update is constantly called, whereas Move only when the player actually moves

[ancient grail]

item:transmitUpdatedSpriteToClients()

try

[silk hollow]

Aaaand it's up https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888099799
Thanks to anyone that helped along the way in this past couple days. @sour island especially, I didn't need to check your mod but having a small exchange helped put some things in perspective. In the end, I had some stupid logic error in the time schedule detection 😄

[summer rune]

How can I make a crafting recipe that needs 12 items from a category of items. like Base.Mushroom1, BaseMushroom2, ... 5 . I thought i can solve this with a Tag and a RecipeFunction. However it always requires 12 Items of the Same ItemType like eg. only Mushroom1 or only Mushroom2. It does not accept a mix of Mushrooms.

How can i solve this. Please...

[high citrus]

@fast galleon kinda solved it by storing the same ModData that I have on the InventoryItem also on the IsoWorldObject, that way other clients will receive the ModData when calling transmitModData on the IsoWorldObject.

The only thing is that if another client pick up the item from the ground it has no chance to copy over the ModData into the InventoryItem and thus it gets lost. I've managed to exploit OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu and OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu to copy the data if the player right clicks the item in order to grab it, but I haven't yet found anything to handle the scenario where the player uses drag&drop or the double click to take the item.

It's ugly but I think that I'm hitting a vanilla limitation here. Also vanilla objects are bugged on this regard (see notebook, sheet of paper, ... when you try to write on them while they are on the ground/inside container)

[civic lava]

gotcha, must we a wording problem, as i can pick the trait but the trait wont function in game? its really weird but i guess that must be the case, time to scoure the rest of the files to see why this is happening

[high citrus]

nevermind I can use OnObjectAboutToBeRemoved to copy the data from the IsoWorldObject to the InventoryItem

[ancient grail]

I have a question about loop

Is this possible

Break; return true; end

[ancient grail]

You have to put the whole thing 12x

You have no choice. But you could do the recipe using lua but i dont know how to that

[ancient grail]

Congrats man

[summer rune]

that did not work as of yet, the item just disappears.

[ancient grail]

can i see

[summer rune]

sure

[ancient grail]

the code

[summer rune]

Variant 1

item Pokemon1
{
DisplayName=Pokémon #1 (Common),
Icon=pkmn_cardback,
Weight=0.01,
Type=Normal,
WorldStaticModel=01Card,
Tags = PkmnCommon,
}

item stack12common
{
    Weight=0.8,
    DisplayName=Pokémon Stack Common 12,
    WorldStaticModel=pkmntin_stack,
    Icon=pkmn_tin_stack,
}

recipe Combine stack12common
{
    [Recipe.GetItemTypes.PkmnCommon]=12,

    Result:stack12common,
    Time:50.0,
    Category:EventPokemon,
}

function Recipe.GetItemTypes.PkmnCommon(scriptItems)
    scriptItems:addAll(getScriptManager():getItemsTag("PkmnCommon"))
end

Variant 2 (tested with 4 items)

item Pokemon1
{
DisplayName=Pokémon #1 (Common),
Icon=pkmn_cardback,
Weight=0.01,
Type=Normal,
WorldStaticModel=01Card,
Tags = PkmnCommon,
}

item stack12common
{
    Weight=0.8,
    DisplayName=Pokémon Stack Common 12,
    WorldStaticModel=pkmntin_stack,
    Icon=pkmn_tin_stack,
}

recipe Combine stack12common
{
    [Recipe.GetItemTypes.PkmnCommon],
    [Recipe.GetItemTypes.PkmnCommon],
    [Recipe.GetItemTypes.PkmnCommon],
    [Recipe.GetItemTypes.PkmnCommon],

    Result:stack12common,
    Time:50.0,
    Category:EventPokemon,
}

function Recipe.GetItemTypes.PkmnCommon(scriptItems)
    scriptItems:addAll(getScriptManager():getItemsTag("PkmnCommon"))
end

[summer rune]

any idea?

[dusk sonnet]

If the return true is inside the loop after the break, it won't be called.

[ancient grail]

then how do i return true if it hits something?

[ancient grail]

looking at this seems that its all good.. idk why it wont work sorry

[dusk sonnet]

Show your code?

[ancient grail]

local MethLabTiles = MethLabTiles or {
    ["meth_lab_01_0"] = true,
    ["meth_lab_01_1"] = true

}
local checker = false
    local player = getPlayer()
    local cell = player:getCell()
    local x, y, z = player:getX(), player:getY(), player:getZ()
    local xx, yy, zz
    for xx = -5, 5 do
        for yy = -5, 5 do
            local square = cell:getGridSquare(x + xx, y + yy, z)      
         local objects = square:getObjects()            
                for c = 0, objects:size() - 1 do
                    local obj = objects:get(c)
                    if obj:getSprite() and MethLabTiles[obj:getSprite():getName()] 
                    then checker = true end          
                end            
    end
    end
    print(checker)
return checker

think it will work this way right

no need to create a break

now my problem is the way i make markers on the ground creates error but it works for somereason

ISSpawnHordeUI:addMarker(square,0.4);

[dusk sonnet]

You just want to return when it's true?

[ancient grail]

no when it hits something

but i fixed it before you sent a msg

and i just asked how

cuz this is how i did it

maybe you have a better way

[dusk sonnet]

But when checker = true, do you want to return right away or do you need to keep looping until you've gone through all objects?

[ancient grail]

i dont want to loop

ok so thats when i break

right

function NearMethTile()
local MethLabTiles = MethLabTiles or {
["meth_lab_01_0"] = true,
["meth_lab_01_1"] = true

}
local checker = false
local player = getPlayer()
local cell = player:getCell()
local x, y, z = player:getX(), player:getY(), player:getZ()
local xx, yy, zz
for xx = -5, 5 do
for yy = -5, 5 do
local square = cell:getGridSquare(x + xx, y + yy, z)
local objects = square:getObjects()
for c = 0, objects:size() - 1 do
local obj = objects:get(c)
if obj:getSprite() and MethLabTiles[obj:getSprite():getName()]
then checker = true break end
end
end
end
print(checker)
return checker
end

[dusk sonnet]

I'd just return true and not set the checker value

[ruby urchin]

you could use goto

for i = 1, 10 do
    if i == 5 then goto continue end

    ::continue::
end

but unfortunately it was added after 5.1

so break/return is the only way

[dusk sonnet]

Using goto is generally frowned upon

[ancient grail]

why ?

[ruby urchin]

why?

[ancient grail]

im used to doing goto on AHK

[ruby urchin]

lol double why

[ancient grail]

but ididnt know lua has it too

[dusk sonnet]

Can lead to spaghetti code. Typically when you use goto, you can just return out instead

[ancient grail]

anyways since i think my code works i guess ill have to prceed for the mean time hehe

ISSpawnHordeUI:addMarker(square,0.4);

[ruby urchin]

idk, it just skip iterations, I mean, it skip code lines

[ancient grail]

how do i make the same shiz without error

it works

it adds the thing

and i dont know how to remove the markers too haha i can only remove if i spawn 1

1 circle i mean

function defineMethLab()
print("defining room")
local x, y, z = getPlayer():getX(), getPlayer():getY(), 0
local xx, yy, zz
local stand = getPlayer():getCurrentSquare():getRoomID()
for xx = -30, 30 do
for yy = -30, 30 do
local square = getPlayer():getCell():getGridSquare(x + xx, y + yy, 0)
    if square:getRoomID() == stand then 
    ISSpawnHordeUI:addMarker(square,0.4);
    square:getModData()['isMethlab']=true;  
    else
    square:getModData()['isMethlab']=false;  
    end
end 
end
end

function spawnMethTile1()
local square = getPlayer():getSquare():getAdjacentSquare(getPlayer():getDir())
local objectz = IsoObject.new(square, "meth_lab_01_00", "", false)
square:AddTileObject(objectz)
if isClient() then objectz:transmitCompleteItemToServer(); end
defineMethLab();
end

[dusk sonnet]

If goto is required for continue, then I guess that's fine. I come from a language where continue is built in and goto is used separately for other things.

[ruby urchin]

Oh I see, yeah, each language have is own crazy things

[ancient grail]

@sour island im sorry to have to tag you... but i believe you are the only one who knows the answer to my problem

is it possible to do this

ISSpawnHordeUI:addMarker(square,0.4);

that wont return an error?

and is it possible to destroy/ remove the circles if i made bunch of em

woops nvm got it

     local _square = getPlayer():getSquare() 
            local circle = getWorldMarkers():addGridSquareMarker("circle_center", "circle_only_highlight", _square, 0.0,0.0,1.0, true, 0.5);
            local pointer = getWorldMarkers():addPlayerHomingPoint(getPlayer(), _square:getX(), _square:getY(), "arrow_triangle", 0.0,0.0,1.0, 0.6, true, 0.5);
            pointer:setRenderOffsetY(0);
            pointer:setStickToCharDist(130);
            pointer:setAngleLerpVal(0.25);
            pointer:setMovementLerpVal(0);
            TestMarkers.add(circle, pointer);

[thick karma]

Has anyone made a fixed-height replacement for these wonky ass numbers?

I am currently making an overlay and the subtle wonkiness of the irregularly tall numbers really annoys me on the 4x font size setting... Wondering if printing in a different number font is possible, or if mods replacing that font can be made or have been already.

[ancient grail]

local mark1 = getWorldMarkers():addGridSquareMarker("circle_center", "circle_only_highlight", getPlayer():getSquare() , 1,0,0, true, 0.5)
TestMarkers.add(mark1)

i cant seem to delete them lol

mark = getWorldMarkers():addGridSquareMarker("circle_center", "circle_only_highlight", getPlayer():getSquare() , 1,0,0, true, 0.5)
TestMarkers.add(mark);
mark:remove()

found the solution

[bronze yoke]

can't you just return true? you don't need to break

[ancient grail]

Im not sure cuz so far theres an error on my code i cant seem to find its pointing to a luaobject ithink
So when i open the window that lets you reload stuff
It doesnt show anything

[quasi geode]

for i = 1, 10 do repeat
    if i == 5 then break end
    -- extra code here
until true end

not quite the same as goto, but acts like a continue.
this moves the break from the for outer loop to the repeat inner loop (which doesnt actually loop, since until true is always true.)
the downside of this method is it becomes impossible to break out of the for loop

[ancient grail]

Where do i put the return true?

[bronze yoke]

after the loop i guess?

i think it's better to just return in the loop

[dusk sonnet]

Yeah, I said that earlier. Return true in the loop, return false outside of the loop. You don't need the checker value

[ancient grail]

Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Remove(isAtMethLab)

can i do this? i can do this right?

[ancient grail]

ok sir

[bronze yoke]

yeah?

[ancient grail]

cool thats what im doing instead

[uncut jasper]

hi, I am looking for a solution to pass the modData "keyId" of a vehicle on the server side into clients.
In my mod, we can change the vehicle ID key, and therefore, I need to pass it on to the clients. (via server)

Because this code is not working.
vehicle:transmitModData()

would you think that a vehicle part could specifically contain the keyID?

[bronze yoke]

is keyId moddata? i thought it was just part of the vehicle class

if it is, you can probably just use vehicle:transmitCompleteItemToClients() - i can't be sure how that interacts with vehicles though, since they have a lot of special programming compared to most other objects

[uncut jasper]

Of course, I didn't think of this sentence, I'll test that. ty

[uncut jasper]

@bronze yoke Unfortunately it doesn't work..., on another of my mods, I introduce modData in the vehicles, and the clients load these mod Data, but only when loading the cell. I haven't found a way to pass nor modData nor keyID.

[bronze yoke]

you can use a servercommand to set the keyid on the clients

[uncut jasper]

ok, i setkeyID by server, and i sendserverCommand the keyid so clients setkeyID too, is that right? I thought about it but, good idea 😉

[deft olive]

mm how can i change the dmg of one axe without changing the dmg of all axes?

[deft falcon]

ok so just to make sure, basically if theres no args specified, the values will be overwritten, right?

[bronze yoke]

change the stat on the InventoryItem, not the Item

[deft olive]

@bronze yoke thank i'll try

[drifting ore]

Hi guys does anyone know if there's a mod to build some sort of gun range/target practice?

[merry ibex]

hey guys, I have an issue with brita's weapons sound, as the custom ones are replaced by the regular pz sounds, anybody knows why?

[grim ridge]

not sure if this is the place to ask but does anybody know if there are any mods that add more extreme weather conditions to the game? heavier storms/rain etc.

if not is there a way to increase the chances of regular storms to happen more frequently?

[rancid tendon]

hey i have a q

how complicated is it to add an item to the universal zombie loot table?

[quaint mirage]

Hey if an item loads the icon on the ground instead of the fbx file referencing a model why could this be?

[rancid tendon]

i was kind of curious if it would be Practical for me, someone who has no coding skills whatsoever, to make it so that zombies have a small chance to drop cassettes from my true music mod

[dusk sonnet]

I believe you can just add the item to inventorymale and/or inventoryfemale in Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\server\Items\Distributions.lua

[rancid tendon]

ooh interesting

okay, that shouldn't be too hard..

[flint frigate]

Does anyone know how to access the old code that gave the herbalist trait from the herbalist magazine? I'm trying to make some custom magazines/items that add traits.

[snow path]

Does anyone have a tutorial to making armor mods? Only have a single piece in mind that can be crafted as well as it can be looted.

[sweet reef]

Do yall get all your mods from the workshop or is there another place

[rancid tendon]

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list["inventorymale"].junk.items, 0.7 * SandboxVars.MFTEOTW.lootrarityfactorA);```

like so?

[dusk sonnet]

I assume that won't work since ProceduralDistributions doesn't have inventorymale

[rancid tendon]

ooh okay hm

[bronze yoke]

the herbalist magazine doesn't give a trait, it gives a recipe

i don't think it ever has

there's some mods that make it do that, so i would look at them

my bad - looks like it used to - but i know for sure that's code is totally gone, unless you want to download an older copy of the gmae

[rancid tendon]

do i still use the table.insert function then? i'm not a coder 😅

[flint frigate]

table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items, 0,7);```

[rancid tendon]

ah ha! thank you!

[flint frigate]

thanks, that would probably be easier

[sour island]

Does anyone know if OnTick isn't accessible on server?

[hearty dew]

It is accessible and usable too. It is raised 10 times per sec on server

[sour island]

Strange

Trying to figure out why my twitch integration mod for EHE isn't firing events properly

[hearty dew]

What are you observing?

[sour island]

The log shows the event is launched

but it never appears

My guess is the update isn't firing

I recently refactored it to not actually launch events but add them to the scheduler - which allows for paced integration

works in SP

but in MP 🤷‍♂️

[jovial solar]

Hello guys i am new to the PZ and i wanted to build my first Mod to the game someone know where i can start? i want to learn how to build one, i know Javascript 🙂

[dusk sonnet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6tZujOPnDw This is a commonly recommended resource

[jovial solar]

@dusk sonnet thankss 😄

[rose notch]

where can i find the section that lists vehicle textures?

not the acual textures, but the txt file or whatever that contects them to a model

nvm i found it

[trail lotus]

ive seen people talk about this before, but i don't think its been done yet, and on behalf of my rp server and the pz community other servers or just personal two man teams that want more immersion id love to commission a mod

a working pool game, 100 dollars. if you take it a step farther and work on gambling tables like poker, roulette, and maybe pinball id pay even more

[spiral plover]

@sour island I am trying to do something semi simple, get when a vanilla helicopter is active and if the player is its target, would you happen to know how I could access the vanilla helicopter to check its variables? (Eventually I will be adding support for EHE too but not yet)

getCore() and getWorld() returned nothing

[spiral plover]

Ha looking through these files, looks like I dead ended here once before 2 years ago, I suppose its still not exposed at all

[bronze yoke]

helicopter isn't even exposed, yeah

sorry i didn't manage to check that until... the exact moment you worked it out yourself lol

[spiral plover]

Damn, its been years, just expose it already

[thick karma]

Is there a file size limit for the workshop.txt file or something?

I am running into an odd issue where a new mod is not appearing when I upload it

Just stays hidden, shows no data, shows no description

[bronze yoke]

definitely sounds like a messed up workshop file

is your file so big you'd be worried about a size limit...?

i had a similar problem a long time ago, but i don't remember what it was u_u

[thick karma]

It's pretty long

Gonna try slicing a chunk off

Dropping it in a ReadMe instead next to mods

Would that likely be okay with Steam?

[tight blade]

Slice some off and save it to put into the actual steam description.

[thick karma]

I may move it back there afterward if that's the problem.

I honestly do not know

[tight blade]

What exactly is in your workshop.txt file?

[thick karma]

Hmmm that may have been it

I did two things tbh so not sure which mattered

But I cut the size down a lot, and I removed some ----------------- I was using in the description lines as text decoration.

Oh yeah

I must have JUST went over the limit

I just pasted my stuff into the window

And it pasted. I was like, okay

and then I tried to add "below" back to the text and got to "bel"

I must have legit been on the character limit

[tight blade]

Damn, didn't realise the workshop.txt actually had a limit.

[thick karma]

Lmao word

Whatever I actually just tried saving and it wouldn't let me

I'm done fighting it, I get it, description too long, config instructions relegated to ini

If you can find the ini, you can find the readme.

[tight blade]

And if you can't find that, skill issue.

[thick karma]

lol I mean I told them where it is in the desc of course.

And if they can't find it after being told where to find it, they probably shouldn't bother trying to use it 😛

[tight blade]

Exactly.

[thick karma]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888465592

I did a thing...

Compatible with DotZ (Dawn of the Zed can hide and unhide it).

[fast galleon]

nice, I just wanted that. Is it possible to add a check if a square is still loaded.

it's hidden?

[thick karma]

It's hidden?

Says public for me, can you double-check? @fast galleon

[fast galleon]

thank you

[thick karma]

If you want to know if a far-away square is still loaded, that is a bit outside of the scope of the mod currently, but I could look into how that is done and try to let you know if I can add something. I might be able to add a debug function for that (something where you could type PB.checkSquareLoaded(12039, 23191) in the debug console and it would tell you whether that square was loaded). It cannot tell you anything about squares you are not standing in.

[fast galleon]

I'm not sure what the relevant position, is it square you select and count from?

For trapping, they must be placed "far", if the square is loaded you catch nothing.

[bronze yoke]

i'd assume relative is your position in the current cell

[fast galleon]

probably just need a check for the relative square

[bronze yoke]

as for trapping, i don't think it's about whether the square is loaded, there's a range set in the global object

global objects are buggy in multiplayer though, so you might not be able to see what you caught until you unload and reload

i should probably make that fix i found into a mod or something...

[fast galleon]

what you mean?
just do updateFromIsoObject

[bronze yoke]

the iso object and lua object don't get linked properly in multiplayer, or at least not always

actually, that might have just been for z>0, which doesn't really apply for traps

[fast galleon]

function STrapGlobalObject:checkForAnimal(square)
    -- you won't find an animal if a player is near the trap, so we check the trap only if it's streamed
    if square then
        -- (note turbo) if square~=nil do a check to see if theres any hoppables near the trap, this is an exploit to make traps invincible to zombie damage.
        -- when placing the trap it does check for hoppables, but a window frame could be placed afterwards.
        -- when this is the case, remove bait and animals if any.
        if self:checkForWallExploit(square) then
            self:removeAnimal();
            self:removeBait()
        end
        return;
    end

so if square exists, it removes and skips the rest of code

[bronze yoke]

guess i was wrong then

there's something weird about how the iso objects specifically for global objects load that makes it not fully there on the server, and i think only for z>0? it's quite strange, i could never find the cause, it's probably something too technical for me

[fast galleon]

I'm using that system in my mod, so if you find a bug it's good to know about it.

[thick karma]

If you're asking about relative position, @bronze yoke is right afaik. Say you're at cell 1, 2. That's square 300, 600. If you walk 5 units to the right, your relative position would be 5, 0, but your tile position would be 305, 600.

I do not think I fully understand what you need

[fast galleon]

ok, thought this might be the case

can you add a square to measure distance from, like start and walk from point a to b

[bronze yoke]

if you add the line isoObject:addToWorld() to the start of your loadIsoObject function it seems to completely fix the issue

water goes bad applies a blanket fix for it, and i'm considering releasing it separately too, as at the very least this behaviour is extremely noticeable on water barrels, and even causes a lot of vanilla bugs

[fast galleon]

addToWorld on server side?

The trouble I had with syncing indexes, I'm not messing with that for a while

[bronze yoke]

yeah, the problem is on the server the iso object just isn't added to the square for some reason (it thinks it has been though), and that makes the server global object system bug out

[fast galleon]

is there a way a can check this later when I have time?

[bronze yoke]

if you build a water barrel on the second floor, running :getObjectIndex() on that water barrel on the client will give you a value that's out of range for that square's object array on the server (and if you loop through the objects on the square you can verify that it is definitely not there)

this is why plumbed rain barrels don't seem to update in multiplayer, the isoObject doesn't get added to the square on the server so its properties can't be altered by the luaObject, so it only updates when you leave and return and the luaObject's values are applied directly to the isoObject again

[fast galleon]

that seems specific system problem, the event triggers before server adds the object on square so checking the index would definitely cause problem

[bronze yoke]

no, i became aware of this issue because client commands regarding actions towards global objects don't work if the object is above z 0 because of it

it doesn't matter when it was loaded, on the server the object never gets added to the square at all

[fast galleon]

which file is the check in?

[bronze yoke]

what check?

[fast galleon]

the index check

[bronze yoke]

which index check?

i think an easy example i can give of this is in the timed action to pour out all the water in a rain barrel

    local obj = self.object
    local args = { x = obj:getX(), y = obj:getY(), z = obj:getZ(), index = obj:getObjectIndex(), amount = 0 }
    sendClientCommand(self.character, 'object', 'setWaterAmount', args)
```when the rain barrel's z is above zero, the server always prints 'invalid object' and doesn't actually alter the water amount, because of this part of code on the receiving command
```lua
Commands.object.setWaterAmount = function(player, args)
    local gs = getCell():getGridSquare(args.x, args.y, args.z)
    if args.index < 0 or args.index >= gs:getObjects():size() then
        print('invalid object')
    end
end

it's not a matter of whether the object has been fully loaded yet or not - the object is just never added to the square at all

the object does actually get added on the server when you first build it, so it will behave perfectly until you restart the server for the first time

[fast galleon]

That sounds like the fault of building / placing logic.

Regarding the Z level, I have a weird question. Is the barrel returning isFloor() as true.

check logs on server when you build/place the barrel about index. Might need to be in debug to print them

or client logs, considering it works later

[thick karma]

You just want an option to mark a square and automatically calculate your distance to it as you walk away?

PS @fast galleon I just pushed a patch... now when your map is open, you can mouse around and it will automatically show you the breakdown for whatever square you're mousing over.

I don't know if that's useful for what you're doing, but figured it might be.

[uncut jasper]

@bronze yoke
with your technic, it work for transmit key id, I used this way on the server side (for send to all clients):

    for i=0, onlineUsers:size()-1 do
        local player = onlineUsers:get(i)
        if player then
            sendServerCommand(player,"MoreLock_setKeyIdNeiman", "true",{vehicle:getId(),ID})
        end
    end```
would you make like this?

[fast galleon]

I think that gonna be perfect

[hearty dew]

The sendServerCommand that specifies no player parameter will send to all clients

Also, your approach will send multiple commands to a single client that has multiple players on it (splitscreen)

[thick karma]

Hope it saves you time!

[thick karma]

One thing I could do pretty easily for you would be add a map feature where clicking the map shows a 4-5 second message with the x and y tile distance from your tile to the tile you clicked on the map... Would that be useful?

[uncut jasper]

@hearty dew so how you do it for send of this key id for all clients?

[fast galleon]

Will I be able to understand from the given information if the getSquare returns nil?
I'd like to mark the cutoff range, so that when I walk there I can see I'm in outer zone.

[hearty dew]

use this api https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.65/zombie/Lua/LuaManager.GlobalObject.html#sendServerCommand(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaTable)

[thick karma]

It just shows you location, not whether there is info in the square.

[hearty dew]

the one that has no player parameter

local module = "MoreLock_setKeyIdNeiman"
local command = "true"
local args = {vehicle:getId(), ID}
sendServerCommand(module, command, args)

Just make sure your module and command are correct

(I suspect they aren't considering their names)

[fast galleon]

that's enough, it might not be the purpose of the mod so I will hook in to add anything I might need.

[fast galleon]

For trapping, the useful information would be the type of foraging zone (deep forest, urban, etc) and if the getSquare(x,y,z) returns a square or nil

The first one is easy to see when you are there with foraging ui but the second one is not something visible.

[uncut jasper]

@hearty dew ok, I was complicating the task ^^ ty that work 😉

[ancient grail]

Anyone knows how to turn a sprite into moveables

[hearty dew]

There is a sprite property that when set to true lets it function as a Moveable

IsMoveable or similar

You can see/set it in TileZed

[ancient grail]

But i need to write the lua code to pick it and drop it or is it automated

How do i add a function or moddata when a player place the item

[mint sphinx]

hmm i have a question. i havent had time to look into it but. how easy is it to to check if another mod is installed ?

what i kind of want is if mod b is install do this, if not dont do this more for trying to balance stuff or create some recipes there normal wouldnt be there

[ancient grail]

is there a similar event to my idea... OnPlaceObject specifically moveables...
like how do i trigger a function as soon as i drop a specific moveable item

[ancient grail]

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

[mint sphinx]

hmm.
so that how you do it hmm.
i can see it can end up been a nasty nested code. vs if you do it as a requied hmm also woundly a "contains" call also say true if it was another mod was called AuthenticZLiteImprovedAndNewVersion right because it contain that name in the string hmm

[ancient grail]

if getActivatedMods():contains("AuthenticZBackpacks+") then --dosomething end
if getActivatedMods():contains("Authentic Z - Current") then --dosomething end

[ancient grail]

here

[quaint mirage]

Hey guys with the distributions.lua

How does the value influence spawn chance here, what would 0.5 mean, compared to having 5?

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["DishCabinetGeneric"].items, "Something.Item");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["DishCabinetGeneric"].items, 0.5);

I want to know if this is a value from 0-100 😛

[mint sphinx]

yea i did understand what you was saying first time.. just going to be a bit complix later on..

e.g like this diagram. hmm here where i get into problem as well becuase mod c or mod d is requied to either have e | b | e but note needed. problem is if it doesnt have any of the mod it like dont add anything and it just look as a broken mod... hmm (noticed i made 2 times e mod)
also that a simplefied version of the larger project ofcause

[ancient grail]

You might want to be more specific what your trying to do @mint sphinx

[mint sphinx]

That true 😅 but it's a bit hard to explain sometimes. Some og the mods i have made is just plain generic generators i have made to make something easier but i will try the import thing you said. To see if i can use it 🙂

[dusk sonnet]

I thought it was quantity, not spawn chance

[blissful salmon]

I'm looking for a way to identify an IsoCell on serverside. The idea is to get all cells which have at least one player in it. So I've try something like the following:

    local players = getOnlinePlayers()
    print("onlinePlayersCount: " .. players:size())
    for i = 0, players:size() - 1 do
      local playercell = players:get(i):getCell()
      local notFound = true
      for _, v in pairs(cells) do
        if v:getWorldX() == playercell:getWorldX() and v:getWorldY() == playercell:getWorldY() then
          notFound = false
          break
        end
      end
      if notFound then
        print("found new cell: " .. playercell:getWorldX() .. " / " .. playercell:getWorldY())
        print("minX/maxX/minY/maxY: " ..
          playercell:getMinX() ..
          " / " .. playercell:getMaxX() .. " / " .. playercell:getMinY() .. " / " .. playercell:getMaxY() .. " / ")
        print("width/height: " .. playercell:getWidthInTiles() .. " / " .. playercell:getHeightInTiles())

        table.insert(cells, playercell)
      end
    end

The server log shows the following:

LOG  : General     , 1668428194235> 399’608’821> onlinePlayersCount: 1
LOG  : General     , 1668428194235> 399’608’821> found new cell: 0 / 0
LOG  : General     , 1668428194235> 399’608’821> minX/maxX/minY/maxY: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 
LOG  : General     , 1668428194235> 399’608’821> width/height: 130 / 130

So I don't get how this works. When I'm looking on https://map.projectzomboid.com I can see the cell number(s) on the left:
Map coorinates -> Cell: 41x9
You can I find something like this?

[uncut jasper]

I'm not sure but i believe you can get exact cell with a divison on getX() and getY()

local y = math.floor(player:getY());
cellx = math.ceil(x/300)-1;
celly = math.ceil(y/300)-1;```

maybe without -1 if it does not round to the higher digits@blissful salmon

[blissful salmon]

Hmm... Where does the 300 come from? Is this the max cell width/height?

[uncut jasper]

in your exemple cell 41x9:
12435 / 300 = 41,45
2813 / 300 = 9,376666666666667

because the map have 300x300

[blissful salmon]

ok, i'll try...

[uncut jasper]

with math.ceil, your number will be rounded, so -1 probably necessary

[blissful salmon]

or maybe just use floor then 🙂

[gaunt meteor]

That's spawn chance not quantity afaik? If you bumped a container distribution to 5.0 you'd see rare items way more often even if you have loot quantity set to extremely low

[dusk sonnet]

Ah, yes. Just reread this graphic. Thanks

[quaint mirage]

That that the case, can anyone else weigh in pls ? 😄

[dusk sonnet]

look up

[quaint mirage]

Thanks dude my bad 😄

[quaint mirage]

I take that it's a percentage and the rolls give more than one shot at the RNG , if the result is the same or above it would spawn the item? Thanks

[tardy wren]

General rule is that the more items there are in the list, the more loot will appear, because to my understanding, a chance is rolled per each item whether to spawn

[agile lily]

Fellas! Where in the PZ folder can I find all of the different sprites for world decorations?
I'm specifically looking for some billboards that I can use as guides when making my own stuff in Blender

[quaint mirage]

And if i make inserts like this

--Mechanic shelf miscellaneous
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["MechanicShelfMisc"].items, "CraftAndRefillLighters.SwanLighterFluid");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["MechanicShelfMisc"].items, 4);

Would it affect the whole stores loot or only for that one item, i was learning about how other mods did it and it's like this

[tardy wren]

It would only add that single item on the list. The others would be rolled as usual

[quaint mirage]

Thanks dude

[tardy wren]

Bear in mind that this would increase the overall average loot amount

[quaint mirage]

Yeah of course, just the one item for now 😛

[low yarrow]

Does that only works for some parameters?
I try to put my rifle into "FirearmsB41" attachments so i dont have to mess around with his items.
Adding AttachmentTypes work fine.
But i cannot make it work with "mountOn" parameters.

[thick karma]

@fast galleon Small update. Made map font default to black because most colors are pretty hard to read on the map. This can be disabled in the config if you REALLY want the overlay to stay your chosen color on the map. Also, I added a feature where you can click the map to see the (x, y) vector from your square to the square you clicked (message fades out in a few seconds).

[low yarrow]

Nevermind...
Had to add the mod tag xP

[ancient grail]

how do i make an oncreate function success chance based

should i put it on the on test instead or onperform?

imean can perform

[bronze yoke]

i would put it on the oncreate, that's where vanilla randomises things

[ancient grail]

but the thing is what im doing is the oncreate is just going to activate the poison tiles it wont give back stuff.. as the oncreate is used for multiple other recipe

[sour island]

onCreate has parameters for results

You can modify them at that point or even get rid of them

[sour island]

Actually, I'd have to confirm that

I know a few disassemble recipes have multiple results done via onCreate

[ancient grail]

How do i do this?

What if the result has =3 for example

[sour island]

Check the file recipecode.lua

[ancient grail]

I dont see an oncreate that has an add inventory then placed the result as the item to give

[sour island]

I think it's an array

[ancient grail]

Ow ok got it

[sour island]

Pretty sure disassemble adds multiple different types of items and its not done in the script

[ancient grail]

Yep

[sour island]

I could be mistaken, it's been a while since I messed with onCreate

[ancient grail]

Ayt

Amm wht about moveables
We made a tile with moveable set on it
Then an item that is type moveable
Witht he jndicated tile
But then when we pick it up it doesnt get picked up
Not if i spawn the item

Cuz as i looked at admin more tiles
It only has an item script with bunch of moveables using vanilla tiles

Basically he just made the vanilla sprites moveables instead of just having those as tiles

I cant seem to replicate this tho

Using own tiles

[ancient grail]

SOLVED! finally able to make the tile as a moveable

[weak sierra]

how

👀

[blissful salmon]

I've some trouble with my OnZombieUpdate so I wanted to make some prints. But they don't appear on the coop-console.txt. I use hosted on my local computer to test...
So then I tried the following in the lines of code (server directory):

local function OnZombieUpdate(zombie)
  print("OnZombieUpdate")
end

if isServer() then
  Events.OnZombieUpdate.Add(OnZombieUpdate)
end

shouldn't this spam my log full with "OnZombieUpdate"? Maybe I forgot something....

[bronze yoke]

i don't know why that isn't working, but putting a print on OnZombieUpdate will crash your game

prints are really expensive because they involve disk operations, and OnZombieUpdate can be called hundreds of times a frame

[thick karma]

Oh really? I've legit done that before lmao

My computer survived somehow

[bronze yoke]

when i did it for a similar reason, it just completely froze the game until i closed it

[thick karma]

Rough

[weak sierra]

that's why making a print statement buffer is in my todo

:P

[fast galleon]

probably related to zombie owners and stuff

[bronze yoke]

yeah i just had mine count the events and print that EveryOneMinute

[blissful salmon]

when I do it on solo my computer also survived. I just wanted to test if it's really executed... But somehow I get nothing. Didn't have to kill the task.

[bronze yoke]

well of course nothing bad will happen if it doesn't even work

i'm not really sure why that isn't working, i think i've used OnZombieUpdate on the server before and it was fine...

[blissful salmon]

I also used it before. But since it didn't work anymore I tried to find the problem and ended with this.

Maybe I create new mod with only the lines from above and try it this way...

[silk hollow]

Hi everyone, I'm here again.
I've done some more work on my mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888099799 (shameless plug)
Added support for rain for example. however, I'm having people ask for special presets dedicated to different other cases, namely Fog and Snow (as in snowing, not just snow on the ground).

Before I start a wild goose chase on the internet... is someone aware of APIs to detect when it's snowing and when there is fog? Something like the RainManager:isRaining() for when it rains 🙂

My thought was to simply restructure the mod to offer a day/night/special preset. On the special you select what you want the trigger to be (between, raining, snowing, fog for now) so that it keeps things simple enough in terms of options instead of keep adding new tabs over tabs of options and making it complicated to understand how to give priority between snow/rain/fog/etc etc.

But before going there, I need to find the correct APIs for those events

[ancient grail]

The name of the tile should be the same as the defined
I think that solved it
Im able to craft item that i can place now then becomes a tile

My older method relied on spawning the tile it wasnt really a proper way of doing things

Since it just appear its still alot better if its a placeable thing

[ancient grail]

Which is the reason for my mods lag earlier

Well could be

https://tenor.com/view/cheers-gif-happy-birthday-congrats-brothers-your-welcome-gif-24298454

Im done with the meth mod btw!

[bronze yoke]

oh wow well done!

[ancient grail]

Thnx for the ideas one of your idea didnt hit me last night cuz of the lack of sleep i guess

Aiteron mentioned a solution which was what you also told me i think.. which was define the room during crafting

Instead of when placing the tile

Tho it caused alot of laggg
So i made it delayed for a bit before it defines the room
Then the onplayer move will only activate the poison effect once
And will just return if the player is being poisoned already

And yeh that solved the lag problem

Next up heroin!
Im thinking of using bandageleft arm as the AnimNode:

[silk hollow]

Ok digging around other mods I've found these two:

FOG: getClimateManager():getClimateFloat(5)
Snow: getClimateManager():isSnowing()

The snow seems pretty legit. Anyone knows if the fog is actually correct? I've no clue what that getClimateFloat does but it would make sense that it tried to check if a specific climate (index 5 in this case) is true.

[bronze yoke]

looks right to me

this.fogIntensity = this.initClimateFloat(5, "FOG_INTENSITY");

you might need to check it's above a certain threshold, you can use the climate debugger to see what that should be

[silk hollow]

I've found also getClimateManager():getFogIntensity()

maybe that's the one

I had already planned to add a selectable threshold for the user for rain anyway. At this point I'll write a unified experience and allow to choose the threshold for rain, fog and snow

While I'm here, is there any source/doc that shows how to write the mod options?
I guessed the checkbox being "boolean" types but is there a type of option block for a preset of values?
Imagine I want to have a select that allow to choose between: any|slight|average|heavy in terms of intensity of the snowing/raining/fog...ging?
Also a simple link to another mod that used something like this is more than enough 😄

[bronze yoke]

oh yeah, this will do exactly the same thing but is actually readable haha

for preset values, you can use enum

here's one from one of my mods:

option OccupationalClothing.WantFireman
{
    type = enum,
    numValues = 3,
    default = 3,
    page = OccupationalClothing,
    translation = OccupationalClothing_WantFireman,
    valueTranslation = OccupationalClothing_FiremanLevels,
}
```and the translation should be formatted similarly to this:

Sandbox_OccupationalClothing_WantFireman = "Firefighter Suits",
Sandbox_OccupationalClothing_WantFireman_tooltip = "Firefighter suits provide far more protection than other occupational clothing. Fire officers will still receive other occupation-based clothing.",
Sandbox_OccupationalClothing_FiremanLevels_option1 = "None"
Sandbox_OccupationalClothing_FiremanLevels_option2 = "Trousers (Vanilla)",
Sandbox_OccupationalClothing_FiremanLevels_option3 = "Full Suit",

in the lua, the enum sandbox option will be the same as an integer option

[rancid tendon]

hey i've got a question!

is there a way to like. set up a loot table where the game only picks one item from the table, rather than adding individual items to the loot pool where it rolls for each individual items

i'm running into a problem where like, i want the game to drop one of nearly a thousand items every couple of zombie kills or so, but you simply cannot set the spawn rate low enough on items that it doesn't spawn at least one item, often 2 or more, from the set on every zombie

so i'm wondering if there's a way to like.. just tell the game 'hey, i only want ONE of these to drop if any drop at all, so pick from this list'

[bronze yoke]

i'm not sure if you'd have to alter the set up for zombie corpses, but for container loot i've used a dummy item that gets replaced with a random item after the container is populated

you might have to use a different event than OnFillContainer, not sure if that gets fired on corpses or not, but the concept is the same

[rancid tendon]

i don't really wanna bother you enough to walk me through that unless you want to--so instead, could i ask which mod you use that system for so i can give it a look and try to reverse engineer it on my own time? i'll give u a credit on the workshop page too, you've definitely earned it given all the help you've given me! :)

[bronze yoke]

the relevant code is actually used for setting vhs data, so you wouldn't be able to use this exact code (and it has some rarity stuff in it that you might not want)

local itemList = {'Base.whatever', 'Mod.somethingElse', etc}
local function replaceDummies(_roomName, _containerType, container)
    local dummies = container:FindAll('DummyItem')
    for i = 0, dummies:size()-1 do
        container:Remove(dummies:get(i))
        local itemChoice = ZombRand(#itemList)+1
        container:AddItem(itemList[itemChoice])
    end
end
Events.OnFillContainer.Add(replaceDummies)
```here's what a more generic version might look like

[rancid tendon]

so this would take the dummyitem and replace it with an item from the given itemList field?

[bronze yoke]

yeah!

[rancid tendon]

where would i insert this code? :0

in the distributions with everything else?

[bronze yoke]

yeah any place that runs on the server is fine

[rancid tendon]

gotcha! thank you so much albion, i'll give this a try :)

[bronze yoke]

hope that works! ^_^

[young grotto]

hello there

What is the vanilla use delta for propane tank in 41.78?

or where can I check the file? I just woke up and couldnt remember

[rancid tendon]

https://i.imgur.com/O7Ku2jq.png

normal comma separated list

nothing to see here

[bronze yoke]

[rancid tendon]

this isn't even all of it btw

this is only 565 items out of 865

[bronze yoke]

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