#mod_development | Project Zomboid | Page 63

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 4:57 PM

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private text chats are definitely doable

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 4:57 PM

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Maybe jab could help

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 4:57 PM

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I will quicly check the lua code of talkie but I don't have too much hope

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 4:57 PM

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I think he does Java ?

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 4:57 PM

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You can also use parts of the radio code to recreate things like the distance distorting the words

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I kind of wish that applied to say()

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I think it only works on radio/tv

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Making your own phone system is not an easy mod - but it's not impossible or that difficult

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 4:59 PM

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an aside, but it looks like VoiceManager:getMicVolumeIndicator() returns the volume of the local player's microphone - i know people have been wanting to do voice chat zombie attraction

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 4:59 PM

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Ahh. I gotta go back to work I’ll be on tonight to bother some people about it. Mrbounty if you want a inv to the server lmk and I can give you access to the dev stuff

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Where skizot and them are.

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 4:59 PM

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bronze yoke an aside, but it looks like VoiceManager:getMicVolumeIndicator() returns the vol...

I might make that a mod - Might also add the distortion thing to say()

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 4:59 PM

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i'm not sure if basing it on the volume of the microphone is a good idea, since microphones tend to deliberately not have very much range

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but i know that's what people have been wanting

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:00 PM

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It would be more immersive

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:00 PM

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and testing that that value is nonzero would probably be the easiest way to tell if a player is speaking (and maybe the only?)

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:00 PM

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Well the game can check if it's high or low - as the bar does move

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You could give them the benefit of the doubt and set the scale based on whisper to shout attraction levs

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That's what I do for conditional speech

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:01 PM

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i think the bar uses that, but generally gamer microphones don't have a lot of range because they're trying to pick up the voice no matter what

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if it were optional i couldn't complain, it would certainly be a cool feature for people whose microphones suit it

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:02 PM

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If you're rocking a mic with no noise gate you're probably better off setting yourself to push to talk cause your blasting everyone's ears too lol

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:04 PM

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that's not the worry, it's just that if you speak normally or whisper, on an average microphone the volume level is usually not actually very different

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:07 PM

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Yeah, that's why I mentioned giving the benefit of the doubt and starting the expectation that the lowest levels are a whisper

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Could even make it less

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:08 PM

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there's not too much harm in it, i just don't think that scaling it based on volume makes too much sense when players don't really have the control over volume that you'd expect

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:08 PM

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As bad as it would be that your background noise gets you killed - it's still immersive game play 👍

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:08 PM

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having to whisper into my radio to avoid alerting zombies would be sick, but my microphone certainly isn't up to it

drifting stump Dec 16, 2022, 5:16 PM

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asmr metal gear zomboid

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but voice is in fact all java sided and theres nothing exposed to lua

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:31 PM

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If the UI has a meter we can pull off sensitivity that way

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Handling the attraction would be a bit of a mess tho

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:32 PM

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yeah, the meter uses that function (edit: actually i don't see that)

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VoiceManager is exposed, which doesn't really do much, but it does do that at least

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i can't see where it's exposed but the vanilla lua uses it so ??

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oh... it's exposed in a weird way that allowed them to not expose that function U_U

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:42 PM

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Haha yeah

jagged kraken Dec 16, 2022, 5:43 PM

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This may sound like a stupid question, but does PZ allow for custom animations?

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:43 PM

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There's alot of slightly exposed functions

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:43 PM

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it does

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:43 PM

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Took me a day and a half to figure out how to get the error info - ended up having it right the first time just did it wrong

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:43 PM

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i've never come across that before, although i was assuming anything not in exposeall wasn't exposed

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:43 PM

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🤷‍♂️

jagged kraken Dec 16, 2022, 5:43 PM

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I feel like that's a missed opportunity for the modding community, that. The stock character animations, while robust, are a bit dry...

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:43 PM

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so it's possible that things i assumed were not exposed at all are actually partially exposed in a similar way

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:44 PM

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It depends if the package is exposed I believe

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There's defined global calls in Lua manager

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I'm not that well versed in Java technical terminology

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But if the package is public and exposed it's good

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Not package - class

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And that doesn't always catch extends (?)

jagged kraken Dec 16, 2022, 5:45 PM

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I wonder if animations can be tied to clothing...

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:45 PM

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yeah, if the class is exposed you're good, but this is a weird case where the class isn't exposed but the functions are, even though they don't go through those global functions

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:45 PM

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Animations use XMLs that can be given variables

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 5:45 PM

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So, I was talking to Albion about this a bit yesterday in DMs.

And we talked a bit about the global objects system. I played with that a bit last night and see why Albion said it was impenetrable and I’m wondering why we don’t have an API for that system. It’s kind of a big deal seeing as so many mods rely on some hacky work around to make them work when they really just want to make one of these items.

The reason I’m looking is I’m trying to make an item that people can drop on the ground (since you can’t build it or place it) that changs it’s own properties over time. I’m not sure how to approach this, Albion mentioned that I could have all the time simulated when the chunk is on loaded, but I’d need an example to really understand that.

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:45 PM

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Using setVariable() you can apply the conditions for anims to play

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:45 PM

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it manually creates the VoiceManager lua table with a couple of its functions

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maybe in the same way the exposer does it, i've never looked at that, but it specifically only adds a couple functions

jagged kraken Dec 16, 2022, 5:47 PM

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sour island Using setVariable() you can apply the conditions for anims to play

I know almost nothing about coding, but guess what, I know just enough to understand that what you're saying is good news.

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:48 PM

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humble oriole So, I was talking to Albion about this a bit yesterday in DMs. And we talked a...

i'm considering writing some documentation on global objects, but i need to analyse them a bit more myself first

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they seem pretty useful for modding, but i haven't heard of anyone ever using them

jagged kraken Dec 16, 2022, 5:49 PM

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sour island Using setVariable() you can apply the conditions for anims to play

I'd need to just code the variables like
when wearing clothing (dress), access variables = "animations"
And then have custom animations to override the originals, like coding the difference of walking with a rifle as opposed to walking without.
Again, I have a terrible understanding, but juuuust enough to peer in.

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 5:49 PM

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bronze yoke they seem pretty useful for modding, but i haven't heard of anyone ever using th...

I don’t think you can, it creates a Java object and I get an error when I made my own

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:50 PM

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it does create a java object, but i wasn't under the impression that the java objects were unique to a specific type of global object

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e.g. it creates an SGlobalObject for every server global object, regardless of whether it's a rain barrel, campfire, etc, so i don't think they need any special programming on the java side

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when i was looking through the java for them i don't remember those objects actually doing too much

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 5:51 PM

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The way it feels that if it’s not defined Java side it just doesn’t work. But, I could be doing something wrong. I just took all the composter code and duplicated it, changing variable and function names.

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There were also function names being called that we’re definitely Java functions like setCompost()

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:54 PM

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jagged kraken I'd need to just code the variables like ``when wearing clothing (dress), acces...

Uhhh you'll have to tie the animation into an event -- or load into the wear function / timed action

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:55 PM

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yeah, i never actually made my own, i was just trying to work out some of the bugs related to them

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:55 PM

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The anim XML will need a condition tag to play off of

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 5:55 PM

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syncCompost() was another

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:55 PM

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It's not very easy to do and can be overridden alot

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:55 PM

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some of them might have their own java programming, composters do, but i don't think rainbarrels do, which is what makes me think you can make your own

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i don't think anything composters do can't be reimplemented in lua though

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:56 PM

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sour island It's not very easy to do and can be overridden alot

I did see a priority tag in one animation - I don't know it that well and just started messing with them for Sharks car stuff with opening doors and stuff

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I'm sure there's someone who's been around the block with animation XMLs

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:57 PM

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this isn't exactly a comprehensive search, but there isn't a single occurence of the term 'rainbarrel' in the java, which is what they're referred to as everywhere in the lua

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:58 PM

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Rain barrels are handled Lua sided

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In terms of building

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 5:58 PM

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bronze yoke this isn't exactly a comprehensive search, but there isn't a single occurence of...

Right, but those only exist and likely use the rain collection system

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:58 PM

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what i mean is that as far as i can tell rainbarrels are completely lua-sided

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 5:58 PM

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I think there might be an iso object type named to collect water

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:58 PM

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they do use a java object but it's created from lua, so we can do that too

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 5:58 PM

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The composter does “work” and slowly converts one item to another which is honestly the exact behavior I want hahah

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 5:59 PM

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and it's not a java object unique to rainbarrels

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:00 PM

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Rain barrels are pretty old - but not as old as containers or ovens -- unfortunately the approach is different per thing

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 6:00 PM

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The problem I’m running into is tracking and saving the work per item

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 6:01 PM

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rainbarrels store that information as a property of their lua object, and sync it to the water container

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:01 PM

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Hate to say it but if you want something slightly different you might have to make your own

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:01 PM

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humble oriole The problem I’m running into is tracking and saving the work per item

All objects have modData

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 6:01 PM

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you can keep it as moddata

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:01 PM

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And all isoObjects spawned in should save

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 6:02 PM

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I mean, ideally Albion is right, I want a global object. I just don’t think that system is accessible enough for us to use

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 6:02 PM

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until someone documents it 😇

quasi kernel Dec 16, 2022, 6:02 PM

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Wait, tree placement is Lua right?

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I only just now realized that could be a problem if the funny vegetation map is only on the java end.

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:03 PM

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humble oriole I mean, ideally Albion is right, I want a global object. I just don’t think that...

There is globalModata

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What exactly are you trying to do?

quasi kernel Dec 16, 2022, 6:03 PM

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Wanting to make rocks that spawn on world-gen for a basic mining system.

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Kinda like Don't Starve in a sense.

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Unless you weren't talking to me, then my bad hehe

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:04 PM

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Sorry talking to fallen lol

quasi kernel Dec 16, 2022, 6:04 PM

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Ah I gotcha, mb

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:04 PM

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No worries you can use onTick for your system

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You can check zones and tile sprite

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For spawning stuff correctly

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 6:04 PM

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sour island What exactly are you trying to do?

I want an item that players build that you fill with food/rotten food that slowly converts the contents to propane

quasi kernel Dec 16, 2022, 6:04 PM

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Huh, interesting.

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:05 PM

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humble oriole I want an item that players build that you fill with food/rotten food that slowl...

Ok so that's totally doable with just modData on the objext

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The issue you'll have is over time and loading unloading

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You'll have to do what generators do which is track time and only update when players view it

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Well generators do both - if loaded it ticks off time if unloaded it just snaps the value based on time differences

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I think if you just stick to the time difference you'll be fine

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Less work too

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 6:07 PM

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You’d have to leave and come back for it to update, right?

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 6:07 PM

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you can simulate it while players are there too

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:08 PM

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Depends on what it's doing

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Is this strictly to harvest when ready?

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Then I'd just do the check when players actually interact

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If it's a power source then you'll have to actually run it on a tick when loaded

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 6:08 PM

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I’d like it to convert real-time just like the composter, but if I’m limited it is what it is

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 6:09 PM

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if you can't see the change without interacting with it, you may as well only simulate it when you interact with it

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:09 PM

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I believe the composter changes sprites over time right?

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 6:09 PM

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bronze yoke if you can't see the change without interacting with it, you may as well only si...

Yea, this would work

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 6:09 PM

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sour island I believe the composter changes sprites over time right?

It does, in the map object file. I don’t need this

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bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 6:10 PM

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when a player interacts with it, save the time and simulate it, then when a player next interacts with it, simulate all of the time between that timestamp and now

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:10 PM

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Ah yeah that's why they simulate it realtime

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 6:10 PM

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I’m making that

humble oriole Dec 16, 2022, 6:10 PM

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bronze yoke when a player interacts with it, save the time and simulate it, then when a play...

Yep, this is the least lag inducing way to do it and exactly what I want

snow oracle Dec 16, 2022, 6:10 PM

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Sorry but I have my pz server and I recently updated the workshop and now it doesn't allow users to connect, does anyone know how to fix it?

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 6:10 PM

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you might have more luck in #mod_support

snow oracle Dec 16, 2022, 6:11 PM

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bronze yoke you might have more luck in <#919609757168468028>

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keen ginkgo Dec 16, 2022, 6:12 PM

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umm dose anyone know how to pick up a backpack that is unpickable? because of the weight(god backpack mod)

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:13 PM

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You can view it in the loot window

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To empty it

keen ginkgo Dec 16, 2022, 6:18 PM

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nwm am dum ass hell

marsh gale Dec 16, 2022, 6:37 PM

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Anyone know where to find the code for the camera zoom and controls?

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Been looking around and I can't find any files on it

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 6:57 PM

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That would be in the java

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Not something that's guaranteed to be malleable using Lua.

faint jewel Dec 16, 2022, 6:59 PM

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dark arch Dec 16, 2022, 7:18 PM

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marsh gale Anyone know where to find the code for the camera zoom and controls?

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\zombie\core\textures MultiTextureFBO2 has the camera zoom stuff, but like he said its in java. I had to decompile it to make my zoom mod, so its not easily modible

marsh gale Dec 16, 2022, 7:25 PM

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dark arch D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\zombie\core\textures MultiTextu...

Hmmm... I'll find a way around it. Thank you for the help

dark arch Dec 16, 2022, 7:25 PM

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marsh gale Hmmm... I'll find a way around it. Thank you for the help

What are you trying to change?

marsh gale Dec 16, 2022, 7:26 PM

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3D camera system. Sounds stupid but If I can find a way to manipulate the pre-built Java camera then it'll be easy

dark arch Dec 16, 2022, 7:27 PM

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hmm, im not sure where the camera stuff is, only the zoom stuff.

marsh gale Dec 16, 2022, 7:29 PM

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Camera zoom should still be in the same set. It'd probably be a float zoom = mousewheel or something

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 7:29 PM

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that's a lot more complex than you think

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by 3d camera, you mean rotation and stuff?

marsh gale Dec 16, 2022, 7:29 PM

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Yeah

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 7:29 PM

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but the game uses sprites... most of the world isn't even rendered in 3d

marsh gale Dec 16, 2022, 7:30 PM

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Already on that. I've made 3d replacements for a good number of tiles

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Things like trees, bushes, and grass will probably just have the don't starve approach added to them. 2D textures always facing the camera

dark arch Dec 16, 2022, 7:40 PM

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marsh gale Already on that. I've made 3d replacements for a good number of tiles

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\zombie\iso isoCamera is where the camera stuff is

dark arch Dec 16, 2022, 7:42 PM

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marsh gale Already on that. I've made 3d replacements for a good number of tiles

I you know what changes you want to make, i can help you editing the java files

marsh gale Dec 16, 2022, 7:42 PM

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That would be a huge help. Mind if I DM you?

dark arch Dec 16, 2022, 7:43 PM

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sure

atomic mountain Dec 16, 2022, 7:43 PM

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Do people take commissions for modding for this game?

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 7:43 PM

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some do

atomic mountain Dec 16, 2022, 7:44 PM

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Are there any gear modders that do that you might be able to put me on to

thick karma Dec 16, 2022, 7:44 PM

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Ay when I uncomment the following code I am getting an odd index out of bounds exception:

local arguments = {}
sendServerCommand("Jumper", "Join Buddy", arguments)

Is this not a valid way to send a server command?

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 7:47 PM

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seems fine to me

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can you show the actual error?

thick karma Dec 16, 2022, 7:56 PM

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@bronze yoke

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 7:57 PM

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oh, whenever i get this it means some non-unicode character has snuck in

thick karma Dec 16, 2022, 7:57 PM

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Ahhhhh

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tysm

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I bet I know how

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 7:57 PM

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is it possible to make a second hotbar type of thing appear when certain clothes are worn?. tons of mods add to the main hotbar but I dont want to use that.

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 7:59 PM

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i think it can happen sometimes when copy pasting from the javadoc

thick karma Dec 16, 2022, 7:59 PM

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Exactly my suspicion, and sure enough rewriting those lines manually fixed it @bronze yoke

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you're great

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 7:59 PM

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😇

thick karma Dec 16, 2022, 7:59 PM

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Such constant fuckery modding this game lol

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Invisible characters causing exceptions, oof

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:02 PM

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chilly beacon is it possible to make a second hotbar type of thing appear when certain clothes...

That'd be pretty extensive of a mod

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:03 PM

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maybe im overthinking it, but I'm looking to effectively make gun magazine holders to help with weight and show a model when magazines are attatched. but the hotbar is a bad place for that.

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:04 PM

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Magazine holders like a belt or such?

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:04 PM

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right

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:04 PM

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I wouldn't even put that on any hotbar tbh

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Shell belts / ammo straps imply faster reload

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 8:05 PM

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i would make it a wearable container

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:05 PM

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well, if it interfaces with something like weapon condition indicator it could show full/empty mags perhaps

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:05 PM

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Perhaps you can mess around with the reload timed action to reward people who put their magazine in a belt container

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:05 PM

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containers are out because you have to tap R twice to take the new mag out of the container

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thats the problem I'm trying to actually solve 😄

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:06 PM

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Well the player places the first one in a bag

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The second is to grab a new mag

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The alternative would be to drop the mag entirely

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Which could be a feature if you tap R fast

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But I don't think many people would be keen to do that

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:07 PM

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mhm, but i'm still looking to see about making the ammo belt anyway

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:07 PM

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So the reload action actually grabs the most suited magazine - this is the most full / closer to player inventory

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:07 PM

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not to appear rude by any means, but the help i'm looking for isnt "dont make that mod" lol

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:07 PM

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You could modify the action to treat the strap as better suited - and make the action faster

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But I don't see how you'll get around having to hit R twice

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:08 PM

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spoke to most of the people on the server i play on who would love to have it, both for the usability and the aesthetics

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:09 PM

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Duct-taped mags would be pretty sick on some rifles 🤔

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:09 PM

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the mags will be in the main inventory, but "attatched" like a hotbar item to give a weight benefit of it. and it'd be awesome to be able to see whats in them to do reloads

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just without spamming the hotbar

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can items do the whole "attachment slot" thing without adding to the hotbar? or are the two things explicitly linked

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:10 PM

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I believe they are

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:11 PM

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hm

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in that case, do you think it would be possible to force the hotbar slots to be like... at the end?

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:11 PM

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So you want magazines to also display at all times on the screen?

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:12 PM

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chilly beacon in that case, do you think it would be possible to force the hotbar slots to be ...

I believe there should be a way to sort them

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:12 PM

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sour island So you want magazines to also display at all times on the screen?

it'd be awesome if so, but probably not a hard requirement

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so sorting the hotbar to always put mine at like, the very end would also work

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cause then they'd not interfere with the number keys at least

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:14 PM

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You may not need the hotbar at all tbh - but this is a pretty significant project 😅

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You could create a special hud when you wear your holder item

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Then display the ammo that's inside

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Updating when items are inserted or not

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:16 PM

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yeah that was my other thought. we use the QOL equipment tab mod a lot, and that UI is really cool too. maybe a open/closeable panel in that sense that shows the magazines and their capaccities

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:16 PM

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It would be more stable and less of a headache patching issues + more control

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Yeah that's a pretty good idea

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You could have a very thin tab on the side that can collapse separate from the main window

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Are you new to modding tho?

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:17 PM

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i still want to "attach" the magazines to show the model on the player and for the weight benefit. but maybe that can be from within that system?

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:17 PM

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Uh you could rig something with insertion

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I'm not familiar with clothing tbh

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I've messed with UI and hotbars

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:17 PM

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i've not done anything like this before, made a few small clothing things

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:17 PM

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And timed actions

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Well if you need help - this channel is here 👍

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 8:18 PM

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i made some tshirts and a backpack for example

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but this is a whole new level

sour island Dec 16, 2022, 8:22 PM

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Yeah, unfortunately that's how modding is right now

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Adding on more of what is there is pretty straight forward

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Deviating at all jumps into the deep end

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But honestly it's more daunting than difficult

thick karma Dec 16, 2022, 8:47 PM

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Say I'm making a custom animation in Blender... is there a tutorial on adding custom visual effects to the animation? E.g., a temporary bright glow effect? (Or can someone explain simply how this would be done, slash whether it is possible?)

hardy flint Dec 16, 2022, 8:47 PM

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does anybody know which .class file contains the logic/implementation of the admin cheat window?

thick karma Dec 16, 2022, 8:49 PM

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ISAdminPowerUI.lua @hardy flint

hardy flint Dec 16, 2022, 8:49 PM

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thank you very much!

thick karma Dec 16, 2022, 8:50 PM

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FYI, found in 30 seconds by searching media for "Edit your Admin Powers", finding the translation variable in the EN file, and then searching media for the translation variable... just in case you need something like this in the future and nobody is around. @hardy flint

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In this case, variable was IGUI_AdminPanel_AdminPower in IG_UI_EN.txt

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But there are a small handful of possible EN translation files.

hardy flint Dec 16, 2022, 8:51 PM

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thank you, will keep that in mind 🙂

thick karma Dec 16, 2022, 8:51 PM

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(If you index media, you can search them all simultaneously using Windows file explorer).

dark finch Dec 16, 2022, 8:52 PM

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Is there a way a modder can make only specific items lootable by a non faction member in safehouses

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I feel it would make raiding more fair

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 9:21 PM

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Could someone help me? Is there any was to make cars drift in zomboid? Maybe some changes in vehicle editor while in debug mode might help?

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 9:51 PM

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drifting ore Could someone help me? Is there any was to make cars drift in zomboid? Maybe som...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2781895054

Steam Workshop::Sprinter Trueno AE86

faint jewel Dec 16, 2022, 9:52 PM

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😄

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 9:52 PM

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frank rivet https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2781895054

Use this mod as a template. Skizot implemented drifing with this car mod

faint jewel Dec 16, 2022, 9:52 PM

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@candid light did i jsut implemented it.

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and i WILL warn you. it is VERY rough

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 9:52 PM

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faint jewel and i WILL warn you. it is VERY rough

I like it. I think it works for what it is!

deft falcon Dec 16, 2022, 9:53 PM

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2902257050&searchtext=

Steam Workshop::I PROMISE I WILL READ THE MOD'S DESCRIPTION

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useful

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 9:55 PM

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frank rivet https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2781895054

I will give it a try rn, thank u

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 9:55 PM

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drifting ore I will give it a try rn, thank u

np!

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 9:56 PM

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I have tried another drift mod, but it was more like driving on ice than drifting

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And I am not a moder, so I can't do mod like this myself

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 9:58 PM

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drifting ore I have tried another drift mod, but it was more like driving on ice than driftin...

If you have a mod that does roughly what you are looking for. Reverse engineer it. You can start by editing the values of the scripts. But do not upload anything that another author has posted without permission if you use another's work as a template.

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does anyone have a mod on the workshop that uses the OnCreate Function in their scripts? I don't have pz on this laptop I'm using so I can't use vanilla scripts in this instance to reference. Anybody got anything?

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 10:13 PM

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frank rivet If you have a mod that does roughly what you are looking for. Reverse engineer i...

where can I find the mod folder>

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?

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I tried to go here, as it says in project zomboid, but there is nothing here

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frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 10:14 PM

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from the common folder. go into the workshop folder. then the 18600 one or whatever it is. The folder ID name is going to be in the car's mod page at the bottom.

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2781895054 << look for that folder

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I'd post my file location. But I don't have pz on this computer. I'm at work on my laptop lol

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 10:16 PM

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frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 10:16 PM

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You're going into the PZ folder. its not in that. go from common to workshop

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not common, pz, then workshop. thats a different folder all together

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 10:17 PM

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found it

jagged tapir Dec 16, 2022, 10:17 PM

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Hello everyone, I want to make a mod, but I don't have any information, where should I start? Do you have any resources you recommend?

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 10:18 PM

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drifting ore found it

one sec ill find itr

chilly beacon Dec 16, 2022, 10:18 PM

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is there a way to see an items full properties whilst in game? I'm think I'm adding an attatchment type using itemtweaker but unsure if its actually working

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 10:19 PM

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drifting ore found it

I just realized that is the right folder! Yes the 108600 is what i meant!

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 10:19 PM

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drifting ore found it

my eyes are shit apparently lol

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 10:20 PM

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But there are no mods I am looking for
There is only Cryogenic winter

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frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 10:20 PM

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chilly beacon is there a way to see an items full properties whilst in game? I'm think I'm add...

you can change some things while in game. Like scripts, and model orientation

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 10:20 PM

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This is the only folder there

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 10:20 PM

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drifting ore

if you subscribed to the mod it should be in the folder name this 2781895054

dull moss Dec 16, 2022, 10:20 PM

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getPlayer():getPanic() would return how panicked player is, right? float from 0 to 1?

drifting ore Dec 16, 2022, 10:21 PM

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Strange

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 10:21 PM

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drifting ore

that is weird. I don't know then honestly. Cause thats where it should be.

dull moss Dec 16, 2022, 10:21 PM

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jagged tapir Hello everyone, I want to make a mod, but I don't have any information, where sh...

depending on what you want to do, find similar mods and look what they do.

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 10:22 PM

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dull moss depending on what you want to do, find similar mods and look what they do.

yup thats how I do anything lol.

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Does anyone know of a mod that uses the OnCreate function in the scripts?? Imma keep asking till I find one haha.

jagged tapir Dec 16, 2022, 10:31 PM

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hello, I want to add vehicles to my server. There are places to add mod id and workshop id to the server, but there is no place to add Vehicle ID to my server. How can I add vehicles to my server?

dull moss Dec 16, 2022, 10:33 PM

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I don't think you need to?

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They just spawn. Gotta be a cell that wasn't visited before though

last flax Dec 16, 2022, 10:37 PM

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Does anyone know why when adding extras to a vehicle, for example, armor or roofrack, the mass is affected and makes it wobble? I need a code that allows me to fix tha

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 10:56 PM

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possible to make a mod where you don't see the name above someones head until you "greet them" sort of like a trade thing but you right click and choose "greet" and then both names pop up

spiral sparrow Dec 16, 2022, 10:56 PM

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That's...Actually a really good idea!

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 10:56 PM

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oooohh like clockwork

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 10:56 PM

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albion lemme give you some money hook a man up with a solid mod

spiral sparrow Dec 16, 2022, 10:56 PM

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Maybe it could be hidden if you're wearing an effective-enough mask or headwear?

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 10:56 PM

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we have that in the server rn

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 10:56 PM

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i'm not sure if it's possible unfortunately

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 10:56 PM

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i can talk to jonny if you wanna know how its done

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ooooooo

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 10:57 PM

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burryaga was working with nametags recently and so was rj and both of them made it sound like the system is really inflexible

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 10:57 PM

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jonny spent alot of time tryna get that username to change

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because we show usernames on the server, so he had to make it where it changes the username i guess?

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it doesn't work for admins i know that.

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but that greet mod would be soooo nice albion

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 10:58 PM

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think it'd be easy if we turned off nametags and made our own

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 10:59 PM

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ahh we can do that. but the problem is people can't choose there own.

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can we make it where the custom name tags are defined by username

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 10:59 PM

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we can just grab it from the username like usual anyway

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but it'll let us add special rules like this

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 10:59 PM

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awesome lets do it.

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be a pretty cool global mod for you to do for the pz community normally i ask you for our server specific stuff like bank systems and the prisoner mod lol

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 11:00 PM

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i think the handcuffs could be useful for a lot of people, but yeah projectrp doesn't have too much reach

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 11:00 PM

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i know thats why i always don't mind paying for stuff haha

dull moss Dec 16, 2022, 11:01 PM

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can anyone remind me how can you get fear in pz? character-wise, not getPlayer():getStats():getFear()

vast nacelle Dec 16, 2022, 11:02 PM

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Idea pitch for your custom user names mod: An option that when enabled changes the username to an alternate one when you have full face coverings.
A "crime persona" of sorts.

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 11:02 PM

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we have it in the server rn if you put a mask on now.

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but we need to ravamp it most likley to work with albions new mod we will add.

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cause rn it works with base game usernames, albion will have to write her own stuff for mask which should be uber easy to do considering she can do anything with her custom names

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 11:04 PM

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yeah if this is as simple as it sounds, then the mask thing would be crazy easy to do with a system like this, instead of super annoying

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 11:04 PM

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yeah poor jonny 😦 he put alot of time into his mask stuff. but im sure he will like the new system.

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i'd have to specify the item ids of the masks that way you can add the ones that remove you're name right?

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 11:05 PM

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we could just do it for any full face mask, different types of masks use different slots

trail lotus Dec 16, 2022, 11:07 PM

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ohhh i didn't know that. yes let's do that then.

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 11:09 PM

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bronze yoke we could just do it for any full face mask, different types of masks use differe...

albion, i am in need of your halp. lol. do you know any mods of hand that use the OnCreate Function in the scripts? I know vanilla does and I could look at the pz scripts but I don't have pz on this laptop lol.

vast nacelle Dec 16, 2022, 11:11 PM

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frank rivet albion, i am in need of your halp. lol. do you know any mods of hand that use th...

For example in a lua file somewhere:
`function Recipe.OnCreate.GSKTransferCondition(items, result, player)
local condition = 0;
for i=0, items:size()-1 do
local item = items:get(i);
if item:IsWeapon() then
condition = item:getCondition();
break;
end
end

result:setCondition(condition);

end`
Then in the recipe you'd have "OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.GSKTransferCondition"

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 11:11 PM

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you want OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.GSKTransferCondition

vast nacelle Dec 16, 2022, 11:12 PM

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Ah, yeah. So I do.

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 11:13 PM

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So I am going to have to use lua. See I keep getting mixed info. I was under the impression that what I am trying to do could all be done in the scripts. Not lua. UGH.

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I am garbage at programming lol.

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 11:13 PM

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yeah, oncreate is a lua thing

frank rivet Dec 16, 2022, 11:14 PM

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I new that. But idk. ig I am gonna have to learn lua. -_- All I am wanting is to finish this damn mod lol.

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https://tenor.com/view/chris-farley-losing-my-mind-stress-gif-14800097

Tenor

jagged kraken Dec 16, 2022, 11:35 PM

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Anyone here super good with writing code for mods?

astral dune Dec 16, 2022, 11:42 PM

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Did somebody @ me? I can't find it

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 11:42 PM

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i think someone did mention you earlier, but i didn't see them @ you so maybe they deleted it

astral dune Dec 16, 2022, 11:43 PM

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🤷‍♂️

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 11:44 PM

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perhaps here?

astral dune Dec 16, 2022, 11:50 PM

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oh, I found the targeting calculations by looking into where the java triggers the OnWeapon... events, IIRC it just checks every targetable thing in the area to see if it's in range and its relative vector has a dot product with your aiming vector of over 0.7?

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the outline code is in there somewhere, I don't remember exactly because I was just concerned with how people shoot or hit vehicles, and it turns out you literally have to be standing in one of the interaction zones, ie for doors or trunk or hood, for it to register

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 11:52 PM

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that explains why it's so weird

astral dune Dec 16, 2022, 11:52 PM

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ya, you literally can't shoot a car unless you're standing right beside it essentially, lol

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it selects possible vehicle targets the same way as target zombies, by doing the vector math, but then it calls some function on the vehicle like getClosestPart or something like that, which returns nil if you're not close enough to touch it

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If I was writing the code for a speed gun I'd get the list of vehicles in the chunk, filter out ones too far away, filter out ones outside a particular cone, then get velocity of the closest one. I don't know of a vanilla function that will do that for you, but the math is pretty simple

bronze yoke Dec 16, 2022, 11:57 PM

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yeah, using it as a real gun seems like the hard way of doing it

quaint ibex Dec 16, 2022, 11:59 PM

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anyone know of a mod that allows for natural yeast collection (other than foraging for the yeast)

prisma gale Dec 17, 2022, 12:04 AM

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MoreBrews!....maybe

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im sure it allows yeast to be collected from rotten fruit in a jar

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 12:23 AM

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astral dune If *I* was writing the code for a speed gun I'd get the list of vehicles in the ...

I'd wonder how context menus track mouse over vehicles -- and if that can be butchered into grabbing mouse over tracking

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:24 AM

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thats a good question, I've noticed with longer vehicles you definitely have to click close to its center so I assume it uses the getVehicleContainer function on the square you click on

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would be pretty hard to do in motion

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:26 AM

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Sup anonymous. So they say that you might know some stuff about vehicle related events?

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:26 AM

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haha yes, thats how this convo started it seems

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:27 AM

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actually, it uses some weird java class that just loops through the vehicle list

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:27 AM

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Iwanted to make a speed gun that xapture the speed of a player while his driving ..

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I couldnt @ cuz theres alot of similar name and your avatar didnt showed i wonder why... Guess anonymous is realy anonymous 🙂

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:29 AM

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haha sorta. been thinking of changing my nickname here just to be easier to find

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:30 AM

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astral dune If *I* was writing the code for a speed gun I'd get the list of vehicles in the ...

anyway, like I was saying here, it shouldn't be too tricky to select a vehicle in the code, then you just need to call getDriver on it to get what player is in it

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:32 AM

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Ok.. so the police with scanner would be the one with the on tick right? Wait let me find my logic map

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:33 AM

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hmm, I would assume you use the onWeaponSwing event, constantly scanning could be expensive. Also not sure how you'd detect obstacles in the way of the radar/lidar

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:33 AM

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anyway...
vehicle = IsoObjectPicker.Instance:PickVehicle(getMouseXScaled(), getMouseYScaled())

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:33 AM

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#mod_development message

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Ooioo

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:35 AM

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I don't see any reason to use moddata, you can just get the velocity directly

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:36 AM

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bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:36 AM

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yeah, making it use moddata complicates things doesn't it?

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:37 AM

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Ive got only the ui draw snd the speed but its displaying on the driver for now. Just for testing plan to put it on the person with the radar. And turn on and off via onEquipPrimary event

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So what your saying is i dont need to do the vehicle/driver codes just the one with the gun would be fine ?

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Yey that makes things shorter ! 🙂

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:38 AM

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are you worried about line of sight? that's probably going to be the hardest part

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:38 AM

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Yeh my way of doing it in my mind dint sound efficient at all which is why i waited for advice

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Otherwise ill re write it again eventually. And dont want to do stuff twice

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Well albions code is if you click

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:39 AM

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if player:CanSee(vehicle) then

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not everything has to be complicated

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:40 AM

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Poltergeist mentioned making it an acutal gun with 0 dmg but i fear it will stun

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:40 AM

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you can run that code at any time, it doesn't have to be on a click event

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:41 AM

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ah, that function is handy. It calls LosUtil, which is what I was going to point out, I don't know if LosUtil is exposed though, so having a function on the player is handy

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:41 AM

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Idk ehat that is but read more when i get to it

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:42 AM

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you could run on tick while the gun is equipped or something

if not player:isAiming() then return end
vehicle = IsoObjectPicker.Instance:PickVehicle(getMouseXScaled(), getMouseYScaled())
if not vehicle or not player:CanSee(vehicle) then return end
-- now calculate speed and display it

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:43 AM

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Yep and is aiming thats the plan actually

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:43 AM

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what is the difference between isAimControlActive() , IsAiming() and isAimKeyDown() ...?

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:43 AM

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Not necessarily needs to be pointed i guess

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:43 AM

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this will only work if the mouse is over the vehicle, I think, but that's fine because the police should have to work for it

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:43 AM

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i could imagine there can be some situations where you're pressing the button but not actually able to aim, but that still leaves two that sound like the same thing

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:44 AM

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?

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I dont understand...

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I get that it is active if your aiming i dont think we need to make it point to the vehicle if it can capture it without pointing at it

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Tho for realism that would be a preferred thing
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O wonder where the highlight is handled i mean where on the lua

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:46 AM

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you have to select your target somehow. Albion gave you a way by hovering your mouse over it, its up to you if thats what you want

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:46 AM

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When u aim at someone your visual shows red or green

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:46 AM

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isAimKeyDown() checks if the button is pressed, IsAiming() checks if you're actually aiming, isAimControlActive() returns true if either is true

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:46 AM

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That might be something i can hook on

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:46 AM

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the game never highlights vehicles

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:47 AM

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Ahhh wow nice thnx

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 12:47 AM

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i'd be surprised if that was lua, but it is used on a similar kind of class so you might be able to use it if it's exposed?

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 12:47 AM

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Like the markers?

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I was planning to do some marker mod util . Could be useful for skizots delivery thing

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Anyways thank you so much for your time u guys 🙂 ill let u know what works..
Also i wonder what your name would be anonymous

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 12:50 AM

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looks like I can't change it anyway, so we'll never know, lol

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 12:57 AM

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right click > edit server profile > nickname

jagged kraken Dec 17, 2022, 12:58 AM

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Hey, Chuck, I'm home now, so I can actually delve into the discussion of coding a little bit better.

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Can specific, unique animations be tied to clothing?

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 1:00 AM

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sour island right click > edit server profile > nickname

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:01 AM

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😮

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 1:02 AM

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just an axe pleb

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:02 AM

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Ah, might because of this veteran badge

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 1:03 AM

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ye, probably

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:04 AM

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I thought the badges were entirely visual lol

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 1:04 AM

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Don't know how many posts or how long you gotta post to go up a rank, haha

jagged kraken Dec 17, 2022, 1:05 AM

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I've literally got a plunger.

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Best. Weapon. Ever.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:06 AM

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esp. if you use vanilla weapons expanded 😉

jagged kraken Dec 17, 2022, 1:06 AM

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Chuck

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I need your help.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:06 AM

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makes floor strikes stabbing - and makes a pop sound

jagged kraken Dec 17, 2022, 1:06 AM

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You seem smart.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:06 AM

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I can offer advice, i suppose lol

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taking some time on a commission atm

jagged kraken Dec 17, 2022, 1:06 AM

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Smart advice, that's the important part.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:07 AM

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plenty of other people here if I don't respond right away

jagged kraken Dec 17, 2022, 1:07 AM

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I just need to map out how to word this future request whenever someone can help,

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Can specific animations be tied to clothing? Like..

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:07 AM

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Were you asking about this earlier?

jagged kraken Dec 17, 2022, 1:08 AM

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...if I created a unique walking animation, could I code it to override the normal walking animation when a specific walking cane is equipped?

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Yes, I was asking earlier (but I was also at work, and a little vague)

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Or a silly hat.

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Maybe a cast for the leg,

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:08 AM

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So, this isn't a topic I'm well versed - but I can tell you using the animation XMLs you can set conditions/events

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I've also seen a priority tag (as XMLs are all <>)

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Idk if that would supersede something like walking - which is not really an animation so much as a whole special player state

jagged kraken Dec 17, 2022, 1:10 AM

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Hm...

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I'll have to ask around some more, then.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:10 AM

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<animNode>
    <m_Name>Bob_Idle_Driver</m_Name>
    <m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale>
    <m_AnimName>Bob_IdleDriving</m_AnimName>
    <m_BlendTime>0.20</m_BlendTime>
    <m_Conditions>
        <m_Name>SCUCK_Anim</m_Name>
        <m_Type>STRING</m_Type>
        <m_StringValue>Bob_Idle_Driver</m_StringValue>
    </m_Conditions>
</animNode>

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local enter_start = ISEnterVehicle.start
function ISEnterVehicle:start()
    enter_start(self)
    self.character:SetVariable("SCUCK_Anim", "True")
end

local function exitVehicle(player)
    player:SetVariable("SCUCK_Anim", "False")
end
Events.OnExitVehicle.Add(exitVehicle)

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first is XML, second is Lua

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It's a string check - but in this case I use it like a boolean

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when the player enters the car you can apply this kind of pseudo animation state

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the game will seek out animations of specific names

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and swap between them - given the same condition is set for all of them

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I assume vanilla has the lowest priority - as there isn't one for this anim

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there's also Lua functions for playing anims

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but they aren't really 'states' - and get interupted

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You can find the vanilla ones in Media/

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it's a pretty in-depth system

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 1:16 AM

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Does launching in -nosteam always clear mod sandbox settings and enabled mods?

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Hmmm no it seems to only be doing it for Meditation... I wonder why that is happening. Seems to be ever since I added a second mod folder to that mod?

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:18 AM

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personally -nosteam doesn't use the local workshop cache - if you keep your wip mods there

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if you are subbed to your own mod it'd be grabbing off the workshop

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 1:19 AM

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I'm not subbed to it

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It is in Zomboid\Workshop

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I mean I have other mods in the same place not doing this

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:20 AM

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that's the local cache - in my experience -nosteam doesn't grab mods from there

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only /Mods/

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 1:20 AM

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It seems only Meditation, which has two mods in Contents\mods, is resetting

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And yeah Meditation is not visible when I'm in -nosteam

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:20 AM

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do you have an old copy in /mods/?

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 1:20 AM

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It's when I return to normal mode that it resets

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Nope

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:21 AM

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that's weird but if you load up the game with out the mod installed/retrievable the sandbox vars might get lost and reset once you load it

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if that's wheat you mean about it not being visible / going to steam (normal)

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MP testing is a hassle

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I wish debug let you connect multiple clients regardless of steamID 😦

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 1:22 AM

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You know what sure enough

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My other mod's reset to defaults too

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The one that was enabled entering -nosteam mode

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oof

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At least it's just a process error and not a mod issue

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That was my main concern

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"Did I bork this for everyone?"

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"Or only me?"

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:24 AM

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at least we're unpaid - no one can be all that mad

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most times

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 1:24 AM

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I just didn't notice my other mod set to defaults because I basically use my other mod's defaults

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lol true

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:55 AM

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@faint jewel

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probably could clean up the truck a bit lol

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needed to burn off some energy and think

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 1:56 AM

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ugh tfw you fix one mod only to discover an issue in another lmao

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:56 AM

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both yours?

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 1:56 AM

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Yeah

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I have Jumper fully working... can drag players with me and have same-name locations in different categories.

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But now I am trying to figure out how I inverted minimap-hiding in DOTZ

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Accidentally got disconnected from the rest of the loop such that minimap was showing on hide and hiding on show

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:57 AM

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heh

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 2:00 AM

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I think it's related to a death-loop bug I just tried to address. When I died with world map open, stuff got wonky.

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I hate this gd minimap

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 2:08 AM

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sour island probably could clean up the truck a bit lol

lol it's adorable.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 2:08 AM

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used the farming spiffo

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free trucker hat and flannel

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 2:34 AM

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anyone know how to spawn a vehicle at a certain location

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 2:35 AM

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local vehicle = addVehicleDebug(vehicleType, IsoDirections.getRandom(), nil, currentSquare)

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the nil is an integer for the skin index

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won't work if the squares aren't loaded tho

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 2:41 AM

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Phew, figured it out, back to my almost-completed new mod. Whee.

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Can anyone think of any mods that added custom special effects to an animation state?

finite radish Dec 17, 2022, 2:59 AM

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is there any way to do reflection on a Lua-exposed object? i.e. access/call private members directly

coral lava Dec 17, 2022, 3:27 AM

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If i wanted to introduce a new plant, how would I go about it? I am struggling with finding the code for it

marsh gale Dec 17, 2022, 3:32 AM

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Anyone know a good Java editor/compiler?

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 3:34 AM

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currentsquare... hmmm

finite radish Dec 17, 2022, 3:35 AM

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coral lava If i wanted to introduce a new plant, how would I go about it? I am struggling w...

depends heavily on the type of plant, they have wildly different behavior depending on a few factors

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(also depends on how you want to use it - if you're placing it manually that's one thing, if you want it integrated into the foliage that's much harder)

coral lava Dec 17, 2022, 3:37 AM

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@finite radish Oh! I should've specified, just one for a farming plot

finite radish Dec 17, 2022, 3:38 AM

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oh, like a growable plant? there's a few mods on the workshop, you can take a look at how they handle it. I think I remember an API that someone made to help with that sort of thing, but it's been a long while since I remember seeing it

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i think the main mod that comes to mind is SoulFilcher's Farming Time though, that should have more than enough examples to get you started

coral lava Dec 17, 2022, 3:40 AM

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Alright, thank you for the advice!

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 3:49 AM

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oh ffs how do i select a square at a certain set of coords?

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 3:49 AM

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Ugh tfw while playtesting your mod you immediately know there are going to be people requesting feature X and you know damn well you're going to add it.

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 4:11 AM

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sour island `local vehicle = addVehicleDebug(vehicleType, IsoDirections.getRandom(), nil, cu...

does this work in mp?

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i need to know how to set and get mod data on a TILE. not world mod data

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 4:30 AM

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so what I do is call on clients to spawn the car - from the server, using a command

rancid panther Dec 17, 2022, 4:30 AM

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how do you make it so a trait shows which skills it gives +1 to when you hover over it?

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do i need to add something here, or is there something outside the thread that makes it do it for every trait i add?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 4:38 AM

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that should be automatic

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 4:41 AM

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ugh... this is a pain.

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 4:45 AM

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I'm trying to access the Java field IsoPlayer.closestZombie from my Lua script... it's declared public in Java, and the decompiled IsoPlayer.lua mentions it (in a comment). But it doesn't seem to be available on the actual player object, and there's no getClosestZombie() getter defined in Lua. Am I out of luck?

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There's a method player:getClosestZombieDist() which I presume returns the closest visible/nearby zombie to the player, but it's flagged as deprecated in the Java, and looks pretty heavyweight (whereas the closestZombie float seems to be maintained continuously)

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 4:51 AM

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Where is the zombie loot and the clothing they wear defined?

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 5:04 AM

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Ah, and also player:getClosestZombieDist() returns nil even if there's a zombie literally gnawing on my character's arm, so it doesn't seem very useful. Deprecated, indeed.

rancid panther Dec 17, 2022, 5:37 AM

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bronze yoke that should be automatic

i thought so too. from looking at other modded traits they show, but mine does not show. maybe it is because i also add items or something? idk

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 5:38 AM

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anyone have reliable code to get a radius around a set of coords for a vehicle?
local isFull = getCell():getGridSquare(sX, sY, sZ):isVehicleIntersecting(); is CLOSE but misses a lot.

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 5:39 AM

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Hmm, client-side calling getCell():getNearestVisibleZombie(player:getPlayerNum()) seems to do something similar, but the fact that it uses the player's index (and IsoCell stores them in an IsoZombie[4]) means it presumably doesn't work server-side.

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 5:40 AM

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what are you trying to achieve?

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 5:40 AM

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Me? I want to add a check when a player is entering an RV Interior that there aren't any zombies "too close" (configurable via a sandbox setting).

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 5:41 AM

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nah, skizot

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 5:41 AM

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he wants to avoid spawning vehicles inside other vehicles

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 5:41 AM

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Ah 🙂

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 5:41 AM

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oooh katana

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 5:41 AM

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BaseVehicle.testCollisionWithVehicle() is used for that, I believe

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 5:42 AM

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bronze yoke oooh katana

Congrats! Also, well deserved 😁

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 5:42 AM

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lol, grats

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 5:42 AM

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i want to spawn a vehicle but I want to check the spawn area to make sure there's not already a car there

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 5:49 AM

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Looking at the implementation of isVehicleIntersecting, it calls BaseVehicle:isIntersectingSquare, which seems to do an intersection test using PolyPolyIntersects.intersects.

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So in Java it seems you could do PolyPolyIntersects.intersects(vehicle1.getPoly(), vehicle2.getPoly())

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But I don't know how much of that is exposed on the Lua side

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Alas, no PolyPolyIntersect.lua that I can see 😦

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BaseVehicle:getPoly() is defined though

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So you could implement your own intersection test for two VehiclePolys...

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 5:53 AM

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as I mentioned before BaseVehicle.testCollisionWithVehicle() is what the vanilla code uses to keep vehicles from spawning inside each other, uses a whole different collision algorithm. I imagine one of these approaches should work

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I used a similar implementation for my collision algorithm. works well on stationary vehicles, but moving vehicles don't report their coordinates well enough. shouldn't be a problem for spawning though

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 5:56 AM

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got an example usage?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 5:56 AM

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finite owl Hmm, client-side calling `getCell():getNearestVisibleZombie(player:getPlayerNum(...

most IsoCell stuff won't really work on the server

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some of it does, but it's mostly an object for the client

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 5:57 AM

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If you went with the polygon route, it seems that VehiclePoly has a method getAABB, and doing intersection tests on Axial-Aligned Bounding Boxes is dead simple, if you don't mind that they're larger than the actual rect, so positions that would be valid would still be rejected

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 5:57 AM

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bronze yoke some of it does, but it's mostly an object for the client

Ah, cool. Good to know, thanks!

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 5:58 AM

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i don't think it loads any chunks on the server, so most of its functions will just return null/empty

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 6:01 AM

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IsoChunk.doSpawnedVehiclesInInvalidPosition and IsoChunk.isGoodVehiclePos both use testCollisionWithVehicle, unfortunately the latter is private or it would probably be all you need, its used for making traffic jams.

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the AddVehicleCommand may be what you really want, which uses the doSpawnedblablabla method

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 6:04 AM

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so we know what he strings are?

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 6:05 AM

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If you want to do a check for player interaction, why not do it client side?

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:06 AM

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Is that re: testing for nearby zombies preventing you from entering the RV Interior? I'll definitely do it client side, but in a client/server setup I'd normally always test the validity of a client's action on the server as well.

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 6:08 AM

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I see, getCell works on server from what I know. But some of the arrays might be empty.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:08 AM

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getCell works, it's just that many of its functions do nothing

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how about IsoPlayer:GetStats():getNumVeryCloseZombies()?

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:09 AM

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The array of nearest zombies is maintained by the render code, and is indexed by player:getPlayerNum(), so it's going to be empty server-side.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:09 AM

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you won't be able to customise the range or anything, but it'd be sufficient for a toggle

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:10 AM

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IsoPlayer:GetStats():getNumVeryCloseZombies() returns the number of zombies within 3 tiles - it's used for the jumpscare music, I think

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So they're very close 😁

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I'm definitely using player:getStats():getNumChasingZombies() as well... if you're being chased by zombies, I don't care how far away they are, you won't be allowed inside the interior.

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Although this will all be configurable by sandbox settings - I'm not going to tell players how to play their game.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:12 AM

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i thought that sounded extreme at first, but then i remembered that you're literally invincible inside an interior... i like that actually

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:13 AM

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But the RV Interior is absolutely safe, being a map far far away from the real world and with invulnerable walls, so we want to make it a bit more restricted

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Yes, indeed 🙂

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(teleporting zombies into your interior if they arrive soon enough after you enter would also work, but I don't think it would be feasible given that the chunks will be unloaded pretty immediately if the player is removed from them)

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:15 AM

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that's something i've always wanted to play with

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never got around to testing if it was even feasible, but a feature like that would definitely get me using that mod

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 6:16 AM

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lol AddVehicleCommand is not found ANYWHERE

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:17 AM

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To be fair, the zombies should have to break through the windows of the RV first before they could follow you inside.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:17 AM

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they certainly don't have time for that!

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:17 AM

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Not before they're unloaded from memory, no.

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 6:19 AM

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faint jewel lol ``AddVehicleCommand`` is not found ANYWHERE

? If you haven't you really should get an IDE set up with the source code.

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zombie.commands.serverCommands.AddVehicleCommand.java

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:20 AM

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I doubt it would be feasible, but it would be great when the new basement support is added in v42 to put the interior far underground below the vehicle location, rather than way off to the side of the map. Then meta and helicopter events while inside would actually affect zombies that are near your vehicle, and presumably the chunk would still be loaded so zombies outside the vehicle would continue to get CPU cycles, and we could conceivably have a way for them to break inside.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:21 AM

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that was my thinking actually

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:21 AM

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But it would require moving the interior map from wherever you last entered inside to a new location each time you entered, including all items in containers, and I doubt the engine could be cajoled into doing that.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:21 AM

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oh yeah...

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i don't think it's actually that impossible, but it would suck to write

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i mean you have to think of everything you could possibly need to move

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might have to hold it all in memory since we can't load chunks at will, which is just lovely too

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:23 AM

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Also, I don't know what the Z limit for the basement stuff is. You'd want to be sure that you're not overwriting bits of the map that are actually being used by a basement or sewer system.

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 6:23 AM

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local radio = nil;
for i=0,sq:getObjects():size() - 1 do
            local item = sq:getObjects():get(i);
            if instanceof(item, "WHATISTHISFORAVEHICLE") then
                Car= item;
                break;
            end
        end

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:23 AM

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particularly if players can dig, which if they can't will certainly immediately become a popular mod

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 6:24 AM

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yeah, I'd be mad if it's not possible

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 6:24 AM

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all vehicles are BaseVehicle, afaik

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:24 AM

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faint jewel ```lua local radio = nil; for i=0,sq:getObjects():size() - 1 do loca...

Are vehicles actually added as objects in squares?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:25 AM

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yeah, they're IsoMovingObjects at heart

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i've never looked specifically at if they appear in those lists, but i imagine they do

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:26 AM

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Actually, yes, they do.

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I remember now.

astral dune Dec 17, 2022, 6:27 AM

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there is a square.getVehicleContainer which returns one of the vehicles in a square. I think it has to be the actual xyz of the vehicle though, not just one it overlaps

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:28 AM

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Because I was being bitten by this test in some hackery I was doing: if not self.vehicle or not self.vehicle:getSquare() or self.vehicle:getSquare():getMovingObjects():indexOf(self.vehicle) < 0 then

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So it expects to find the vehicle in the getMovingObjects list returned from the square returned by vehicle:getSquare()

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That's in ISVehicleMechanics... the comment is -- handle vehicle being removed by admin/cheat command

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The hackery in question was me playing around with wrapping a vehicle Java object with a Lua object using metatables to delegate all function calls to the vehicle, so I could override function calls on a Java object. It was working well, but that test was failing because self.vehicle was my Lua object, but getMovingObjects contained the original vehicle 😩

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:33 AM

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oh you wanted to mess with the metatables on a specific object? that's fun

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:33 AM

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Not exactly, I wasn't touching the metatables on the Java object. That might actually be a better way to do it, actually, if they're available.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:34 AM

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i'm unsure if that method would work - i'm pretty sure it's a single metatable

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:35 AM

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I was creating a Lua object with metatables whose __newIndex and __index functions would pass on the read/write to the java object, but give me an opportunity to do stuff on the way through.

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And I could register before and after functions for any given function on the Java object which ran to mess with the arguments going in or the return value coming out, or a replace method which was called instead.

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Anyway, I've shelved that, I don't think it's very practical.

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I just wish the Java code was, well...

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ECS rewrite of the Java side of PZ when.

finite radish Dec 17, 2022, 6:38 AM

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sounds slow too, but you're probably right in that it's likely the only way to accomplish it

the real issue there is just how much stuff is private, and without any form of real reflection a lot of stuff is just outright impossible

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:38 AM

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Indeed. It was fun, but I don't think it would scale very far.

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In order to work around that issue above with the ISVehicleMechanics testing if the vehicle is still in its square, I had nested after wrappers like this:

local wrappedVehicle
    wrappedVehicle = wrapJavaObject(self.vehicle, {
        --getPartCount = {
        --    after = function(count)
        --        return count + 1 -- Water tank
        --    end
        --},
        -- Unfortunately the mechanics UI checks the vehicle's square's getMovingObjects Java array for the vehicle
        -- object, but we're trying to pretend that wrappedVehicle is the same thing, so we have to wrap each of them
        -- in turn so that vehicle:getSquare():getMovingObjects():indexOf(wrappedVehicle) returns the index of the real
        -- vehicle.  This check is made every tick, so this wrapping is probably very expensive.
        getSquare = {
            after = function(square, vehicle)
                return wrapJavaObject(square, {
                    getMovingObjects = {
                        after = function(vehicleArray)
                            return wrapJavaObject(vehicleArray, {
                                indexOf = {
                                    after = function(result, self, searchFor)
                                        if result == -1 and searchFor == wrappedVehicle then
                                            result = self:indexOf(vehicle)
                                        end
                                        return result
                                    end
                                }
                            })
                        end
                    }
                })
            end
        }
    })```

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So I overrode the vehicle's getSquare function so I could override the square's getMovingObjects function so I could override the java array's indexOf function so it returned the index of the original vehicle java object when it searched for the wrapped object 🤣

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And that all ran every tick.

finite radish Dec 17, 2022, 6:42 AM

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dear god

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yeah that's like a performance warcrime

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:42 AM

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😟

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:43 AM

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It was raining in-game when I was testing this. The raindrops were falling noticeably slower. I didn't measure the FPS 😁

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I mean, if I thought it was worth it I could add some caching mechanism so the wrapped objects were re-used, but I don't think it's sustainable.

finite radish Dec 17, 2022, 6:44 AM

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what was the actual end goal?

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:45 AM

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One of the plans for RV Interior is to have a water tank you install and have to fill by hand, and possibly gutters as an upgrade you eventually get to catch the rain, instead of getting free rain catcher barrels on the roof of the interior buildings.

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Ideally I want the water tank/gutters/anything else we add installed and uninstalled through the mechanics UI

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But I don't want to duplicate and hand-modify every vehicle script.

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So I was looking into ways to modify vehicle mechanics dynamically.

finite radish Dec 17, 2022, 6:47 AM

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but why at runtime? figure out the script changes needed, then regex it in

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ez clap

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:48 AM

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We don't have our own vehicles - you need to have other vehicle mods (like Fillibuster Rhymes', or AutoTsar) to get the vehicles whose interiors you can enter.

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So we can't really have modified vehicle scripts distributed as part of our mod

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Whether they're edited by hand or modified by something we automate

finite radish Dec 17, 2022, 6:49 AM

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why not? if they're already a dependency, not sure I see the big deal there. permissions and all that, yeah, but still

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idk much about either party and how stingy they'd be about that sort of thing

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:50 AM

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None of them are actually hard dependencies, because players might not want to play with all of the 5 the vehicle mods we support.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:50 AM

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what did you need to modify about the vehicle scripts?

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couldn't you just use the script manager?

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:50 AM

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So, I'm now thinking that VehicleScript.copyPartsFrom looks promising.

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We have a script which just has the water tank/gutters/whatever vehicle parts, and then copy them into the relevant vehicle scripts each time the game starts up.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:51 AM

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local vehicle = scriptManager.instance:getVehicle('Module.ModdedVehicle')
if vehicle then
    -- etc etc
end

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the way i used this was creating a vehicle script that included only the modifications and adding that script as a template to the original script using the script manager

finite radish Dec 17, 2022, 6:52 AM

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that was what I was thinking, just didnt know the syntax. basically instanceOf

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:52 AM

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Yup, that's what I'm thinking too.

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:52 AM

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bronze yoke the way i used this was creating a vehicle script that included only the modific...

What mod did you do that in?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:52 AM

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it's unreleased

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:52 AM

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Ah well 😁

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 6:53 AM

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can i send a chat message to just the local player?

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:53 AM

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Ooh, I've upgraded from a 🪠 to a sledge !

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:53 AM

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local scriptManager = ScriptManager.instance
local getVehicle = scriptManager.getVehicle

getVehicle(scriptManager,'CarNormal'):Load('CarNormal', '{template=CarNormal_Upgrades,}')
```this is the concept

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 6:53 AM

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like a "no room to spawn vehicle" message

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:53 AM

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haha congrats!

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ignore the bringing getvehicle into local space, that's a micro-optimisation i couldn't be bothered to rewrite

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 6:54 AM

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Anyone happen to know whether one of these DrawTexture functions (for UIElements) can cut a picture off at an arbitrary height (rather than scaling it)?

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:57 AM

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faint jewel like a "no room to spawn vehicle" message

You could get the player to Say() the message, perhaps?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:57 AM

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say is only visible to that client, so it's pretty ideal for this

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 6:58 AM

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Thanks once again, @bronze yoke ! I've yoinked those snippets into the GitHub ticket for the water tank feature, and we'll see how we go 😁

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 7:00 AM

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😇

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:04 AM

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i know this is a long shot, but is there a way to tell what city you are in?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 7:04 AM

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no

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:04 AM

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figures.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 7:04 AM

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you could just define a big box around each one

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 7:04 AM

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Is it possible to set vehicle to no colide and not visible in any way?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 7:05 AM

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you probably don't want it as a dependency, but kyrp uses stfr and there's a function i wrote for that in there

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:05 AM

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stfr?

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 7:05 AM

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faint jewel i know this is a long shot, but is there a way to tell what city you are in?

check x,y

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 7:06 AM

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small town first responders

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yeah, it just uses some predefined rectangles to determine which zone you're in

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actually that function might not be perfect for this usecase... it's pretty specifically optimised for stfr

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:10 AM

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then yeah my signs are going to have to have mod data for the city that gets pulled when you open the menu.

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fuck this is getting convoluted

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lol

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 7:10 AM

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that's probably the best way to do it, there aren't going to be that many signs right? having a whole zone system would be overkill

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:15 AM

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1 per city

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:20 AM

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How are zombie clothing defined?

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 7:20 AM

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@faint jewel If there's only a handful, and you only need it occasionally, you could potentially define one "city centre" square for each city, and then iterate them and pick the closest one when spawning your sign (or when you open the menu)

finite owl Dec 17, 2022, 7:20 AM

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drifting ore How are zombie clothing defined?

I'm guessing one of the procedural loot tables?

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 7:22 AM

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drifting ore How are zombie clothing defined?

for vanilla see zombieszonesdefinition

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and the loot table is "Outfit_..."

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:29 AM

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Yeah I was lurking in there for a while. I see their names in 'zombieszonesdefinition' , but what actually gives them the clothes I wonder? I see the outfits in 'distributions' too but...

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Like.. there is "Cook_Generic" - where does he gets the specific clothes he has on?

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 7:32 AM

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there's something like outfits guid, not sure about the name

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if you can't find it, check one of the clothing mods to see what it's called

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Authentic adds extra outfits

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:34 AM

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Ahh i found it I think

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'clothing.xml'

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:35 AM

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sigh. these all have the SAME spawning direction "IsoDirection.N" stupid game.

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only the bottom one is right

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:35 AM

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Damn I knew it CANT be too complicated to change up their outfits a little 😄

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:35 AM

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fast galleon there's something like outfits guid, not sure about the name

Thanks!

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:46 AM

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it's like toddlers are spawning them in 😦

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addVehicleDebug(SjobModel, sA, nil, spawnsquare)

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x = 12140, y = 7141, z = 0, sA = IsoDirections.N

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they should all spawn the same direction right?

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none of this wobbly shiz it's doing.

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:48 AM

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they are too big and probably bump against each other while spawning

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:49 AM

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the top one is the first one spawned.

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and they are not too big, they match the trucks perfectly.

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:49 AM

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too big for the spawn zones i meant

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:53 AM

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they are being spawned in.

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:54 AM

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ohh

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:54 AM

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drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:54 AM

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I wish there was a totally zombie free trucking RP server in PZ

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:54 AM

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it's adding -10 to 10 degrees randomly on the angles.

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that's what i am working on.

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:55 AM

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no?

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:55 AM

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AZTS.

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:55 AM

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count me in

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:55 AM

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trying to get the job boards working.

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 7:57 AM

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it probably needs a lot of custom systems to work?

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 7:59 AM

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oh god does it.

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 8:16 AM

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Is it possible to set vehicle to not colide and not visible in any way?
What about changing wheels animation?

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 8:20 AM

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thick karma Anyone happen to know whether one of these DrawTexture functions (for UIElements...

Try a stencil rect:

-- In the prerender:
self:setStencilRect(10, 10, 100, 50);  -- (x, y, width, height)
self:drawTextureScaledAspect(self.item:getTexture(), 20, 20, 120, 120, 1, self.item:getR(), self.item:getG(), self.item:getB());
self:clearStencilRect()

You can use any drawTexture method with this, I was just working with this call already.

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 8:27 AM

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HAH fixed it.

manic relic Dec 17, 2022, 8:41 AM

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wanted to ask what the best attachbone is when making a half mask like in undead survivor mod

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heres an image to what I mean

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 8:50 AM

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head

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the whole head moves with it

rancid panther Dec 17, 2022, 8:55 AM

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is there a way to make a weapon spawn on the player with an upgrade attached to it?

manic relic Dec 17, 2022, 8:56 AM

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faint jewel head

and what about the hatcategory

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 8:56 AM

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huh?

manic relic Dec 17, 2022, 8:56 AM

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cause it shouldnt remove any of the hair

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 8:56 AM

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look at the face masks that exist?

manic relic Dec 17, 2022, 8:57 AM

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ok

vast nacelle Dec 17, 2022, 9:09 AM

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rancid panther is there a way to make a weapon spawn on the player with an upgrade attached to ...

Yes. After you create the gun, you would also create the WeaponParts you want to attach and call yourGun:attachWeaponPart(yourAttachment); for each one.

rancid panther Dec 17, 2022, 9:24 AM

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thanks!

rancid panther Dec 17, 2022, 9:26 AM

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vast nacelle Yes. After you create the gun, you would also create the WeaponParts you want to...

do i need to name the gun like i would with a bag?

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vast nacelle Dec 17, 2022, 9:30 AM

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Yes. Something like
local newGun = getPlayer():getInventory():AddItem("Base.Pistol"); local newPart = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem("Base.RedDot"); newGun:attachWeaponPart(newPart);

rancid panther Dec 17, 2022, 9:30 AM

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thanks again!

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 12:06 PM

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Is there an official way to request changes to the Java code base? Would love to add an "isAttached" check here so music could still play through the Walkman (also would love to add this for radios and radio communication)
Context attached...
Edit: I'm happy to contribute a patch
Edit2: (also thinking about those who leave radios on and put them in their bag... would be a lovely zombie attraction - or distraction)

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 1:08 PM

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i failed to capture the player via right click

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anyone has a snippet for this

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 1:56 PM

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Check medical checks

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Or trade

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 2:10 PM

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hm, there's no way to see the ZombiesZoneDefinition around you in-game, is there?

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 2:31 PM

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viral karma Try a stencil rect: ``` -- In the prerender: self:setStencilRect(10, 10, 100, 50...

Thanks, will try to this today!

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 2:52 PM

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sour island Check medical checks

i did that its long and complex im afraid i dont know how to hook on it

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 3:00 PM

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How are you capturing the player via right click? Like right-click on any player?

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:04 PM

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yes

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 3:04 PM

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i like to use this

local sq = objects[1]:getSquare()
local squares = {sq, sq:getS(), sq:getE(), sq:getS() and sq:getS():getE() or nil}
local players = {}
for _,square in pairs(squares) do
    local movingObjects = square:getMovingObjects()
    for i=0,movingObjects:size()-1 do
        local movingObject = movingObjects:get(i)
        if instanceof(movingObject, 'IsoPlayer') then
            table.insert(players, movingObject)
        end
    end
end
```depending on your use case you might need to add a check that you don't capture the player opening the context menu

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:05 PM

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ahhh so i need that squares

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 3:05 PM

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not really, i just use that to make the selection area more intuitive

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:06 PM

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bronze yoke i like to use this ```lua local sq = objects[1]:getSquare() local squares = {sq,...

what event or function do i put thi

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can it be on post UI

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 3:06 PM

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if you only use the objects on the square the player clicked on, about half of the player won't actually be on that square

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:06 PM

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Events.OnPostUIDraw.Add(speedTest)

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 3:07 PM

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ISWorldObjectContextMenu.lua has the following roughly:

ISWorldObjectContextMenu.fetch = function(v, player, doSquare)
    ...
    if instanceof(v, "IsoPlayer") and (v ~= playerObj) then
        clickedPlayer = v;
    end
    ...
end
ISWorldObjectContextMenu.createMenu = function(player, worldobjects, x, y, test)
    ...
    for i,v in ipairs(worldobjects) do
                ISWorldObjectContextMenu.fetch(v, player, true);
    end
    ...
end

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 3:08 PM

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i thought this was for a context menu event, i'm not really sure why you'd want players on right click outside of that

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:09 PM

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im really not sure if theres a diffrence with how you get the player wether its for the context menu or not

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 3:09 PM

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I think this is for the speed radar gun

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:09 PM

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cuz i do need it for both

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i also need the right click anyways for other parts of the mod

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 3:09 PM

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well you just need to grab the square under the cursor and omit the first line since that's context menu specific

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local sq = -- some method of grabbing the square under the cursor
local squares = {sq, sq:getS(), sq:getE(), sq:getS() and sq:getS():getE() or nil}
local players = {}
for _,square in pairs(squares) do
    local movingObjects = square:getMovingObjects()
    for i=0,movingObjects:size()-1 do
        local movingObject = movingObjects:get(i)
        if instanceof(movingObject, 'IsoPlayer') then
            table.insert(players, movingObject)
        end
    end
end

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:13 PM

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viral karma `ISWorldObjectContextMenu.lua` has the following roughly: ``` ISWorldObjectConte...

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(ISWorldObjectContextMenu.createMenu);

do i need this?

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 3:14 PM

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Was just looking into it, I think I got something for you. Lemme type it out

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Not tested, but this should get you mostly there

-- Reference: projectzomboid/media/lua/server/BuildingObjects/ISPlace3DItemCursor.lua
-- Reference: projectzomboid/media/lua/client/ISUI/ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.lua
if isServer() then return end

RadarCursor = ISBuildingObject:derive("RadarCursor");

function RadarCursor:getSquareAtCursor()
    local worldX = screenToIsoX(self.player:getPlayerNum(), getMouseX(), getMouseY(), math.floor(self.player:getZ()))
    local worldY = screenToIsoY(self.player:getPlayerNum(), getMouseX(), getMouseY(), math.floor(self.player:getZ()))
    return getSquare(worldX, worldY, self.player:getZ());
end

function RadarCursor:render(x, y, z, square)
    local square = self:getSquareAtCursor()
    if square ~= nil then
        -- do whatever with the square at the cursor
        -- Albion's snippet might work well here
    end
end

-- Called by Java in IsoCell.setDrag()
function RadarCursor:deactivate()
    ISBuildingObject.deactivate(self)
end

function RadarCursor:onObjectLeftMouseButtonDown(object, x, y)
    -- Disable clicks on objects, to prevent the loot window being displayed
    -- however... you _can_ use the same logic instead of putting it in the "render" function
    -- here if you only want mouse click to get the speed
    return true
end

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

-- somewhere else in your code, when you're calling to find/render the speed
local radarCursor = RadarCursor:new(player)
getCell():setDrag(radarCursor, player:getPlayerNum())

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 3:28 PM

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oooh yeah

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:39 PM

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local function OnObjectLeftMouseButtonUp(object, x, y)
    -- Your code here
end

Events.OnObjectLeftMouseButtonUp.Add(OnObjectLeftMouseButtonUp)

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will this work

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:39 PM

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viral karma Not tested, but this should get you mostly there ``` -- Reference: projectzomboi...

ill try now

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 3:45 PM

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ancient grail ill try now

Added 2 calls that might be useful (:deactivate and :onObjectLeftMouseButtonDown)

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 3:57 PM

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the even i found works!

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but its not properly capturing everyiting jus tby printing the arg

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also the coord of the other event returns the scree x y

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the other im just about to try

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cuz i didnt print it yet

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 3:59 PM

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i'd heard that event doesn't grab isoplayers

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you could grab the square of the object and search for players like my snippet

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 4:02 PM

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thats what i was planning to do

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 4:06 PM

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How are you're doing your "isAiming" check on your weapon?
You can probably trigger the getCell():setDrag(radarCursor, player:getPlayerNum()) call if you are aiming, and maybe call the radarCursor:deactivate call if you're not aiming.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 4:07 PM

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wait, why do you need to find a player with the radar gun anyway?

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 4:08 PM

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mouseToWorldX()
mouseToWorldY()

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this didnt work too

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 4:08 PM

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bronze yoke wait, why do you need to find a player with the radar gun anyway?

to get his speed

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Events.OnPostUIDraw.Remove(speedGunResult)
local function speedGunResult()

 if not getPlayer() then return end
 if getPlayer():isAiming() then
    local chr = FUNCTIONTIGETPLAYERUNDERTHEMOUSE()
    local car = chr:getVehicle()

     if not (car and car:isEngineRunning() and chr:isDriving()) then return; end


        local MPH = car:getCurrentSpeedKmHour() / 0.621371
        local speedValue = tostring(math.abs(math.floor(MPH)))
        chr:getModData()['MPH'] = speedValue
         --local speedValue = tostring(math.abs(math.floor(MPH * 100)/100))  --adds 2 decimal places

        local xOrigin = getCore():getScreenWidth()  / 2
        local yOrigin = getCore():getScreenHeight()  / 2 - 20

        getTextManager():DrawStringCentre(UIFont.Medium, xOrigin, yOrigin, speedValue , 1, 1, 1, 1)
  end
end
Events.OnPostUIDraw.Add(speedGunResult)

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 4:09 PM

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we already had code to get the vehicle you're aiming at right? just use getCurrentSpeedKmHour() on that

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 4:10 PM

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bronze yoke we already had code to get the vehicle you're aiming at right? just use getCurre...

which code?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 4:11 PM

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bronze yoke you could run on tick while the gun is equipped or something ```lua if not playe...

this one?

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 4:11 PM

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let me check i i slept after that discussion with anoymouse i must have not stored it cuz i looked at the notes i had

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 4:13 PM

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bronze yoke you could run on tick while the gun is equipped or something ```lua if not playe...

ahh this one!

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    local function speedGunResult()

        if not getPlayer() then return end
        if not getPlayer():isAiming() then return end

        local car = IsoObjectPicker.Instance:PickVehicle(getMouseXScaled(), getMouseYScaled())

        if not car or not getPlayer():CanSee(car) then return end
        local MPH = car:getCurrentSpeedKmHour() / 0.621371
        local speedValue = tostring(math.abs(math.floor(MPH)))
        --local speedValue = tostring(math.abs(math.floor(MPH * 100)/100))  --adds 2 decimal places
        local xOrigin = getCore():getScreenWidth()  / 2
        local yOrigin = getCore():getScreenHeight()  / 2 - 20

        getTextManager():DrawStringCentre(UIFont.Medium, xOrigin, yOrigin, speedValue , 1, 1, 1, 1)
    end
Events.OnPostUIDraw.Add(speedGunResult)

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 4:17 PM

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no need to call getPlayer() every time, but yeah

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 4:19 PM

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ok ill shorten it out

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 4:20 PM

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since this code is running a lot you don't want too many unnecessary calls

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 4:22 PM

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local function speedGunResult()

    if not getPlayer() then return end

    local car = IsoObjectPicker.Instance:PickVehicle(getMouseXScaled(), getMouseYScaled())

    if not car or not (getPlayer():CanSee(car) and getPlayer():isAiming()) then
        local MPH = car:getCurrentSpeedKmHour() / 0.621371
        local speedValue = tostring(math.abs(math.floor(MPH)))
        --local speedValue = tostring(math.abs(math.floor(MPH * 100)/100))  --adds 2 decimal places
        local xOrigin = getCore():getScreenWidth() / 2
        local yOrigin = getCore():getScreenHeight() / 2 - 20

        getTextManager():DrawStringCentre(UIFont.Medium, xOrigin, yOrigin, speedValue, 1, 1, 1, 1)
    end

end
Events.OnPostUIDraw.Add(speedGunResult)

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 4:23 PM

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i just meant it'd be better to use

local player = getPlayer()
if not player then return end
--etc etc

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 4:36 PM

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bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 4:39 PM

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if not car or not (getPlayer():CanSee(car) and getPlayer():isAiming()) then

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you might have wanted this line to be if not car or not (getPlayer():CanSee(car) and getPlayer():isAiming()) then return end

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 4:48 PM

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bronze yoke you might have wanted this line to be ``if not car or not (getPlayer():CanSee(ca...

^ right now it's checking if there is not a car, or not if the player can see the car and is aiming. If you remove the nots it'll do the same as an early return

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 4:53 PM

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if you choose to remove the nots, you need to replace the or with an and too

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 5:05 PM

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When is too much not enough? 🤣
I've been slowly working on some much needed inspector tools. Inspecting items will show the icon, any 3d model, and any world sprite along with item attributes. If -debug, will also show item details in a debug window, along with the edit item menu.
Planning to expand this to a right click > inspect feature, as well as an "inspector" tool that you can select squares/objects and ui elements to get data on them - super helpful when you want to see (and edit!) data on an existing object.

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 5:05 PM

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oooh looks very useful!

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 5:08 PM

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I'll hopefully have something for beta testing early next week and probably release on the workshop next weekend.
It includes a rough UI framework to help make code a bit cleaner and easier to follow.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 5:34 PM

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viral karma When is too much not enough? 🤣 I've been slowly working on some much needed in...

Nice stuff!

agile vigil Dec 17, 2022, 5:58 PM

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I know it's a little weird, but I made some mods earlier this year and just left them with the default "The Indie Stone" picture from the example mod, and I wanted to spice them up as I'm working on a few new mods over Christmas.

I was thinking a simple style, like a static background with a sign that has the name of the mod, and a short description.

Below is an example of my thoughts.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1001205761545875537/1053664197591957554/image.png

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I'd like to ask if anyone has some inputs or ideas on what you actually look for in those little screenshots on the mod-page and previews in the mod lists?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 5:59 PM

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keep in mind that the workshop preview needs to be 1:1

agile vigil Dec 17, 2022, 5:59 PM

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Yes, when 1:1 you only see the sign and not the example tooltip.

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Like this 🙂

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 6:00 PM

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for me, it just needs to look nice

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as long as it's not the default pie or looks like it was just grabbed off google images, my click is based on the title

agile vigil Dec 17, 2022, 6:02 PM

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Yeah, I suspect the pie is a big reason why my mods don't seem to get many new visitors. And then people don't do evolved recipes or know what they are much 😄

lavish arch Dec 17, 2022, 6:29 PM

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Does anyone know how to make a sprite read all sides and furniture positions?

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I just put the first .pack image in the script and thought it would read the others, but it didn't work

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 6:34 PM

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Are you trying to make a pack or is this about in-game?

lavish arch Dec 17, 2022, 6:35 PM

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fast galleon Are you trying to make a pack or is this about in-game?

Trying to make furniture, a pack

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I already made the pack actually, I just don't know how to make it work

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I just put the first item from the pack in WorldObjectSprite and thought it would work, but apparently it wasn't that simple

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 6:39 PM

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lavish arch Trying to make furniture, a pack

you'll probably find more help in #mapping

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did you specify the pack in in the mod.info?

lavish arch Dec 17, 2022, 6:42 PM

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fast galleon did you specify the pack in in the mod.info?

No, sorry, I'm very new to these things zani_cry

lavish arch Dec 17, 2022, 6:43 PM

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fast galleon you'll probably find more help in <#279303619277488128>

I'll try there, thanks

ancient grail Dec 17, 2022, 6:45 PM

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viral karma When is too much not enough? 🤣 I've been slowly working on some much needed in...

this is SICKASFFUUUUU great tools for modders too

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 6:47 PM

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lavish arch No, sorry, I'm very new to these things <a:zani_cry:1029514323590135888>

maybe you'll find some videos helpful then
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/New_Tiles

New Tiles

chilly beacon Dec 17, 2022, 6:50 PM

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I'm having a really wierd issue. I've got a belt attachment point, hotbar slot, and it all works except the world model that i want to be visible on the player is on the floor not matter what I do. The first image is the location definition. the second is where it actually shows up. it should be approximately on the left hip. but nothing i change in the offset seems to make any difference, am I missing something?

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to clarify, if i change the offset numbers it moves around, but its certainly not attatched to the hip like the bone says it should be

lavish arch Dec 17, 2022, 7:07 PM

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fast galleon maybe you'll find some videos helpful then https://pzwiki.net/wiki/New_Tiles

I'll watch, thank you so much

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 7:08 PM

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chilly beacon I'm having a really wierd issue. I've got a belt attachment point, hotbar slot, ...

Maybe try attachment holster_left or attachment holster_right?

chilly beacon Dec 17, 2022, 7:09 PM

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... for what purpose? to see how their attachment system works?

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like what do you mean by "try" here?

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 7:16 PM

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chilly beacon ... for what purpose? to see how their attachment system works?

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Oh derp, I see what you're getting at.
This is in the item definition scripts for regular Holsters

nocturne swift Dec 17, 2022, 7:25 PM

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Hi, does the "or" method work like this?

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 7:51 PM

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Hello. Anyone know of any events that I can use for when LuaNet is fully initialized?

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Can't seem to find any, although the server's logs shows something that resembles events for LuaEvents.onInitAdd..

chilly beacon Dec 17, 2022, 8:13 PM

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is there a way to explicitly set that a hotbar slot has a specific number?

trail lotus Dec 17, 2022, 8:39 PM

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it's not possible to allow people to create accounts on project zomboid that aren't whitelisted them go and just approve them onto the server is it?

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each account has to manually be created?

bronze yoke Dec 17, 2022, 8:48 PM

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we could like

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put them in the waiting room or something...? LOL

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 8:53 PM

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BungeeCord for Project Zomboid when?

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:11 PM

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viral karma Try a stencil rect: ``` -- In the prerender: self:setStencilRect(10, 10, 100, 50...

Does this look right to you?

JumperRift = ISPanel:derive("JumperRift")

function JumperRift:prerender()

    self:setStencilRect(0, 0, 1920, 540);  -- (x, y, width, height)
    self:drawTextureScaledAspect(self.rift, 0, 0, 1920, 540, 
        1, 0, 0, 0);
    self:clearStencilRect()

end

function JumperRift:new(x, y, width, height, rift)

    local o = {}
    
    o = ISPanel:new(x, y, width, height)

    o.background = false;
    o.backgroundColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=0};
    o.borderColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=0};

    o.rift = rift

    return o

end

Jumper.prepareRifts = function()

    local lightning = Texture.getSharedTexture("media/ui/lightning.png")

    Jumper.rift = JumperRift:new(
        0, 0, -- position
        1920, 540, -- size
        lightning -- texture
    )

    Jumper.rift:initialise()
    Jumper.rift:addToUIManager()

end

Events.OnGameStart.Add(Jumper.prepareRifts)

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(I call setVisible elsewhere)

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Jumper.rift:setVisible(true) is not showing my image

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It does show a background on the panel though if I don't set that false

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Also Jumper.rift is existent from terminal and properly reports its intended visibility after calls to setVisible

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So the object to some degree exists

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But no texture

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Original texture size 4k if that's relevant... I had it showing as an ISImage but that seems to have less flexibility.

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:16 PM

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thick karma Does this look right to you? ``` JumperRift = ISPanel:derive("JumperRift") func...

What are you trying to clip to? You should set the width/height of your StencilRect to the clip area of your texture
Also if you're going for resolution width, you can do getScreenWidth() instead of 1920.
Edit: If you don't want your texture to stretch, you can render it at like 1920x1080, then use the stencil to clip it to 540

Your issue seems to be that you set the alpha of the texture to 0. Try the following:
self:drawTextureScaledAspect(self.rift, 0, 0, 1920, 540, 1); - removing the last 3 0's will treat the 1 as the alpha.

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:17 PM

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viral karma What are you trying to clip to? You should set the width/height of your StencilR...

I am just attempting proof of concept. My plan is to have a function that adjusts the way the image is displayed OnTick. All I want right now is to show a cut-off / scaled version of my original image.

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:18 PM

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thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:18 PM

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Ohhhhhhh I have it backwards crap thanks I bet that's it

drifting ore Dec 17, 2022, 9:19 PM

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2903127760

Steam Workshop::Essential Crafting

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:21 PM

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Should I be using drawTextureScaled or drawTextureScaledAspect? @viral karma

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:22 PM

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thick karma Should I be using drawTextureScaled or drawTextureScaledAspect? <@10517959942007...

Up to you, drawTextureScaled will stretch the image, where drawTextureScaledAspect will shrink the image to fit the given width/height - not stretch it.

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:23 PM

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Scaled can also shrink the image though?

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:24 PM

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I believe so, I'm not 100% sure on what each drawTexture variant does.

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:24 PM

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Okay... still haven't gotten anything to show but relaunching now

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Tried reloading some functions in debug and that was not working so just doing a sanity test

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 9:25 PM

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Anyone know of any events that I can hook into regarding the initialization of LuaNet?

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:25 PM

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Currently rewrote prerender as

function JumperRift:prerender()

    self:setStencilRect(0, 0, 1920, 540);  -- (x, y, width, height)
    self:drawTextureScaled(self.rift, 0, 0, 1920, 540, 1);
    self:clearStencilRect()

end

So hoping this works since alpha clearly not 0.

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:27 PM

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jagged ingot Anyone know of any events that I can hook into regarding the initialization of L...

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:29 PM

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Still borked...

JumperRift = ISPanel:derive("JumperRift")
function JumperRift:prerender()
    self:setStencilRect(0, 0, 1920, 540);  -- (x, y, width, height)
    self:drawTextureScaled(self.rift, 0, 0, 1920, 540, 1);
    self:clearStencilRect()
end
function JumperRift:new(x, y, width, height, rift)
    local o = {}
    o = ISPanel:new(x, y, width, height)
    o.background = false;
    o.backgroundColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=0};
    o.borderColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=0};
    o.rift = rift
    return o
end
Jumper.prepareRifts = function()
    local lightning = Texture.getSharedTexture("media/ui/lightning.png")
    Jumper.rift = JumperRift:new(
        0, 0, -- position
        1920, 540, -- size
        lightning -- texture
    )
    Jumper.rift:initialise()
    Jumper.rift:addToUIManager()
end
Events.OnGameStart.Add(Jumper.prepareRifts)

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😦

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:30 PM

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viral karma

Seems like you need to use LuaNet.onInitAdd(...)

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:32 PM

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I can definitely set it visible and confirm panel is there... but no texture 😭

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:32 PM

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thick karma Still borked... ```lua JumperRift = ISPanel:derive("JumperRift") function Jumpe...

getSharedTexture doesn't seem to be a lua function. Try just getTexture?e

edit: or at least from a very quick search

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 9:32 PM

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viral karma Seems like you need to use `LuaNet.onInitAdd(...)`

Thanks. I found what I was looking for: OnGameTimeLoaded

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:32 PM

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Sure... I DID use getSharedTexture earlier and it did work, but I am open to getting texture any way that works in this context... How do I access getTexture exactly? Texture.getTexture("location")?

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 9:33 PM

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I'm sending my own sendClientCommand and needed to know when the game's ready.

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:33 PM

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(When I used getSharedTexture with ISImage (instead of trying to embed texture in an ISPanel), that worked.)

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Still nada... also, confirmation that texture is loaded:

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Correctly identifying my image size in bottom left

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 9:35 PM

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-- ***********************************************************************************************
-- OnGameTimeLoaded
-- called when the client udp engine is running and player properly initialised
-- ***********************************************************************************************

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:35 PM

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I did not give it that info (directly) @viral karma

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 9:35 PM

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Not very straightforward but a solution nonetheless.

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:40 PM

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thick karma I did not give it that info (directly) <@1051795994200784917>

Oh, I think I see.

Try:

function JumperRift:new(x, y, width, height, rift)
    local o = {}
    o = ISPanel:new(x, y, width, height)
    setmetadata(o, self)
    o.__index = self
    o.background = false;
    o.backgroundColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=0};
    o.borderColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=0};
    o.rift = rift
    return o
end

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:41 PM

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Oh tryt that okay

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Ohhhh I forgot the metadata and index lines you're saying

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@viral karma Thanks SO much for spotting that... the actual lines I needed are:

    setmetatable(o, self)
    self.__index = self

But seeing the problem was 99% of the battle there, so thanks nonetheless.

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 9:58 PM

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thick karma <@1051795994200784917> Thanks SO much for spotting that... the actual lines I ne...

Nice! I typed it up by memory, apologies for the misdirection. Glad it works now, happy modding!

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 10:00 PM

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Thanks again!

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 10:01 PM

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Looks like LuaNet is dated.

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 10:20 PM

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Lmao, yes, I've done it. I have created the cheapest animation in history.

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I just sort of make my png shake and change opacities a lot lol

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 10:22 PM

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Yeah.. It would be convenient to have an event for when you are able to send client commands and they'll actually send. Writing a OnTickEvenPaused solution is very dirty.

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 10:27 PM

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jagged ingot Yeah.. It would be convenient to have an event for when you are able to send cli...

What do you mean? Is there a context in which client commands get ignored during gameplay?

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 10:34 PM

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thick karma What do you mean? Is there a context in which client commands get ignored during...

Sending sendClientCommand() when the client logs in does nothing for a period of time.

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Delaying by 5 ticks per query with a self-removing tick-event function fixes this problem for me and that's fine... however.. there will be people in the future running into the same issue and probably will be very lost about why their client commands aren't firing.

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local a = 5
local b = function()
  if a >= 5 then
    sendClientCommand('..','..',{})
    a = 0
  else
    a = a + 1
  end
end
local c = nil
c = function(d, e, f)
  if d ~= '..' or e ~= '..' then return end
  -- ..
  Events.OnServerCommand.Remove(a)
  Events.OnTickEvenPaused.Remove(c)
end  
Events.OnServerCommand.Add(a)
Events.OnTickEvenPaused.Add(c)

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This is what I do right now to avoid this problem.

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 10:44 PM

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Out of curiosity I searched for all TriggerEvents and came up with a list, might be useful in the future.
I'll probably put together a wiki page or something to document events, lua objects, etc
https://paste.sr.ht/~ckyb/912536a21571f9c16f741fa28ac0821afcd7b603

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 10:45 PM

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viral karma Out of curiosity I searched for all TriggerEvents and came up with a list, might...

Very useful.

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 10:45 PM

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searched? you can just print them

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 10:46 PM

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fast galleon searched? you can just print them

grep -Rn "triggerEvent"

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 10:49 PM

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your list needs arguments

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 10:49 PM

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viral karma Out of curiosity I searched for all TriggerEvents and came up with a list, might...

Updated with lua classes too
https://paste.sr.ht/~ckyb/912536a21571f9c16f741fa28ac0821afcd7b603

fast galleon Dec 17, 2022, 10:53 PM

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If you update the existing list, it will surely help some people.

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 10:55 PM

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If I had the time / task to do this, I'd go through and fully document all events.

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I translated the wiki documentation for 41.65 events into PipeWrench's typings by hand.

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https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench-Events/blob/63869d2637a270423d0f379f8e15b4014b786277/PipeWrench-Events.d.ts#L294

GitHub

PipeWrench-Events/PipeWrench-Events.d.ts at 63869d2637a270423d0f379...

PipeWrench Typing for PZ Events. Contribute to asledgehammer/PipeWrench-Events development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hopefully a solid list of events and documentation for them will bounce onto the PZWiki for the recent versions again.

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 11:03 PM

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done - https://paste.sr.ht/~ckyb/99d2d134360d355f33ceecf255b971f6b1d03624
They're not super descriptive, and could use more work, but I included the (linux) commands to generate the list

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 11:03 PM

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jagged ingot Sending `sendClientCommand()` when the client logs in does nothing for a period ...

I see... odd, never tried sending a client command that soon.

faint jewel Dec 17, 2022, 11:03 PM

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is there an event that fires when you right click on a tile?

viral karma Dec 17, 2022, 11:07 PM

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faint jewel is there an event that fires when you right click on a tile?

You can look at the media/lua/client/Context code for hints probably, fast way would probably be ISMenuElement.new (like in media/lua/client/Context/World/ISContextDisassemble.lua) to treat "createMenu" like a right click event. 🤷

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:09 PM

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jagged ingot Yeah.. It would be convenient to have an event for when you are able to send cli...

There's already an event for tick even paused isn't there?

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Sorry coming in late

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:10 PM

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sour island There's already an event for tick even paused isn't there?

Yes. I'm using that event as a means to get around the issue of no event firing that says that using sendClientCommand(..) is ready.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:11 PM

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sendCientCommand doesn't fire if paused?

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:12 PM

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sour island sendCientCommand doesn't fire if paused?

For a period of time when the game is fully loaded in, sendClientCommand(..) will not work.

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I believe it might be a few ticks, however this is a problem in my situation.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:13 PM

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Ah, I had a similar issue with OnPlauerUpdate or CreatePlayer

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For a few ticks it refers to the object before loading

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Caused a big headache

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:13 PM

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shared/utils/LuaNet.lua states that an event on the client fires right after the client -> server command is ready, but this is sadly not the case for the current version of the game.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:13 PM

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There's an event for onconnect I believe

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Could a boolean be set there?

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:14 PM

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jagged ingot ```lua local a = 5 local b = function() if a >= 5 then sendClientCommand('...

This is my current solution.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:14 PM

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So a slight delay

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Not terrible tbh

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:14 PM

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sour island There's an event for onconnect I believe

Fires way before the game fully loads in, as well the command being useable.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:14 PM

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Hmm

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What about player move?

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:14 PM

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OnGameStart fires slightly before.

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Why should a player have to move for me to load something that has to load when the game starts?

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It's something that needs to happen right as the command API is in a loaded state. 🙂

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:18 PM

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I agree, ofcourse

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I might start up the community patch next weekish

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Should have enough time

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"API" reminded me lol

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I left commissions open on Kofi and caught one unexpectedly, and work has been crazy with the holidays encroaching 😅

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I kind of wish Kofi had an approval system -- they just gave me the cash instantly.

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:25 PM

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Oh wait.. so people use Kofi for commissions hunting?

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I use a Discord Forums solution for a market place on my Discord server. Haven't shared that in around 4 months now which explains why it's been silent again.

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What I'm having this issue with is actually something like a commission. 😛

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 11:28 PM

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Well lmao shrinking did not work bahahaha

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:28 PM

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jagged ingot Oh wait.. so people use Kofi for commissions hunting?

I link it on my mods - they wanted an expansion of sorts for my shops mod - which itself was a commission.

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 11:28 PM

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Tried to shrink player model using Blender animation, legs rose into torso and that's about it.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:28 PM

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It was supposed to be pretty straight forward, but I had to do a bunch of stuff for work

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:29 PM

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thick karma Tried to shrink player model using Blender animation, legs rose into torso and t...

Like with that one mediation pose?

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:29 PM

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sour island I link it on my mods - they wanted an expansion of sorts for my shops mod - whic...

Makes sense. I can't do that for this workshop item because it won't work for anyone except the guy that asked for it.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:30 PM

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jagged ingot Makes sense. I can't do that for this workshop item because it won't work for an...

What makes that the case? Just specific things?

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:30 PM

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sour island What makes that the case? Just specific things?

I purposefully made a solution so that mods using it will break unless certain conditions are met.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:31 PM

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Hmmm

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:31 PM

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Spent the past week creating a creative solution that violates no rules while providing a simple solution to a decades' long issue in the PZ community.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:32 PM

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Of keeping mods as a server exclusive?

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:32 PM

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Yup.

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:33 PM

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Interesting idea

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I'd ask for details, but it would probably be over my head and only help people circumvent it

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 11:34 PM

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sour island Like with that one mediation pose?

Lmao not quite. In Blender I made an animation where character shrinks down to 10% of original size, tried to play it on the idle animation but the overall character did not shrink, although legs rose up as if perhaps the skeleton of the character was shrinking toward its center.

elfin harbor Dec 17, 2022, 11:34 PM

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for my superb survivor mod the npcs wont show or even spawn? what do i do ping me with a response
they are invisible

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 11:34 PM

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but because clothes and skin and beard and such stayed the same size, it looked pretty borked.

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:34 PM

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sour island I'd ask for details, but it would probably be over my head and only help people ...

The latter half would be true however if you did circumvent it, it puts you in a clear violation and DCMA opportunity so that's a win in my book.

thick karma Dec 17, 2022, 11:35 PM

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I was considering disappear-and-reappear animation. Perhaps simply moving my character into the ground would work. Idk. Exploring options.

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:35 PM

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Also, you'd have to mod your client to do this which is also violating the EULA for PZ. 😄

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A lot of fun things being violated there. Anyways.. People stealing commissioned works is disgusting.

ruby urchin Dec 17, 2022, 11:39 PM

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jagged ingot A lot of fun things being violated there. Anyways.. People stealing commissioned...

I agree with that, they have no ethics

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:40 PM

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ruby urchin I agree with that, they have no ethics

And now I have a solution that forces the book on people who try to get over it. 😄

sour island Dec 17, 2022, 11:42 PM

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I'd unfortunately never DCMA somebody, the process opens you up to be messed with by people who already could care less

ruby urchin Dec 17, 2022, 11:42 PM

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jagged ingot And now I have a solution that forces the book on people who try to get over it....

obfuscate? that is a good way to force people to work their brains or at least give up doin

jagged ingot Dec 17, 2022, 11:43 PM

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ruby urchin obfuscate? that is a good way to force people to work their brains or at least g...

Puzzles and problems are fun to solve. That's why I like to play with improving security on code.

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Have a good evening guys. Peace.

wet sandal Dec 18, 2022, 12:31 AM

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Anyone know what encoding I need for Polish translations?

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Someone provided me the translation, but no matter how I save it, it always looks messed up in game (or missing the accents on characters)

bronze yoke Dec 18, 2022, 12:32 AM

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windows 1250

wet sandal Dec 18, 2022, 12:33 AM

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Huh

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Know an app that supports that?

viral notch Dec 18, 2022, 12:34 AM

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wet sandal Know an app that supports that?

paint. exe

bronze yoke Dec 18, 2022, 12:34 AM

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notepad++ lets you mess with the encoding, it's a bit annoying though

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it tends to not open files in the correct encoding, you have to go and change it manually...

viral notch Dec 18, 2022, 12:34 AM

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wet sandal Anyone know what encoding I need for Polish translations?

uzyj utf8 meh

wet sandal Dec 18, 2022, 12:37 AM

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bronze yoke notepad++ lets you mess with the encoding, it's a bit annoying though

Thanks, I got it!

dull moss Dec 18, 2022, 12:46 AM

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Yo I remember I saw somewhere something about how to fix this issue in sandbox setting you gotta delete some file so PZ re-creates it, anyone can remind me what was it?

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Found it, it's options.ini in Zomboid folder

rancid tendon Dec 18, 2022, 1:08 AM

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so question

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if i wanted to change the ID for my mod, is there any way to do so and guarantee that it doesn't break things for existing servers and such that aren't prepared for the change? any way to force an update to the new mod ID?

bronze yoke Dec 18, 2022, 1:11 AM

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not really... you can make the old mod id deactivate itself and activate the new one, but i don't know how that behaves on a server, probably not great

rancid tendon Dec 18, 2022, 1:11 AM

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yeahhh, i feel like that wouldn't work for a server ...

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i wish my brain wasn't so fixated on how badly i mangled the ID naming convention because honestly it's so ugly it's driving me insane but this is also something no one else really cares about and it would be stupid to risk damaging anyone's server to change it :(

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i'll simply have to have more foresight next time

bronze yoke Dec 18, 2022, 1:12 AM

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what's the situation, anyway?

rancid tendon Dec 18, 2022, 1:12 AM

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so my mod is split into five packs contained under one workshop id, and they are named as such:

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Mod ID: MusicfortheEndOP
Mod ID: MusicfortheEnd
Mod ID: MusicfortheEndExtended
Mod ID: MusicfortheEndHl
Mod ID: MusicfortheEndSH

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you can see that Extended and Hl are the odd ducks, with HL not being properly capitalized and Extended being an entire word instead of what i would make it now, which is EX

bronze yoke Dec 18, 2022, 1:13 AM

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yeah that's a pain...

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i have a somewhat similar situation where a couple of my mods were made back when people were having issues with a character limit on the modlist for dedicated servers, so i made my modids as short as possible, and i'd now rather have them more readable

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i'd much rather OccupationalClothing than OCCL, for example

dull moss Dec 18, 2022, 1:14 AM

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KekW

rancid tendon Dec 18, 2022, 1:15 AM

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i really wish PZ had some way of like

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stop-gapping stuff like that

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like, instead of deleting unknown items, it could just create placeholder items that retain the ID of the items it's trying to load

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so that way, if you remove a mod that adds items, the items will remain in the game and if you add the mod back it'll load the appropriate item because the ID is still stored

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it'd make updating mods a whole lot less risky :V

dull moss Dec 18, 2022, 1:18 AM

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Anyone knows what causes PZ sandbox mod options to get royally fucked like this? From testing it appears to happen when you add quite a few mods. If it's a couple of mods, those sandbox pages work just fine.

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it jamms all non-boolean fields together

bronze yoke Dec 18, 2022, 1:19 AM

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are multiple mods adding to the same page?

dull moss Dec 18, 2022, 1:19 AM

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no

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it's singular sandbox-options.txt

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I mean, maybe on some other pages

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But this one is 1 file

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Same as others that get jammed

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And they are all big sandbox options files that you can scroll through

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Aka a lot of options

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But then again they work just fine when modlist is not like 100 mods

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Mom I just want a game that works as it's supposed to pepecry

sour island Dec 18, 2022, 1:38 AM

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I'd check your console.txt

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Looks like one of the options is shitting the bed

dull moss Dec 18, 2022, 1:43 AM

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and what should I look for?

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wait, this?

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i thought sandbox-options.txt is default?

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so everyone supposed use it?