mod_development

[drifting ore]

back to outside the box concept haha thanks for the suggestion

killed me inside when i found out you can hear people with deaf

[bronze yoke]

yeah that's kinda

[ancient grail]

Its a game

Lol

[drifting ore]

oh for sure. nothing big, but it just made me scratch my head

[ancient grail]

U still cant hear the world tho

[drifting ore]

you can hear some weather still

[ancient grail]

[drifting ore]

its all good and whatnot but overall it's not consistent. im going to look into it

[ancient grail]

Damn i know what to do!
Can you just mute his volume onTick

[drifting ore]

hahaha

only one way to find out. gonna finish these options here. about to scrap the random context menu idea for later

seemed so simple in concept lol

[ancient grail]

What random context

[drifting ore]

right click to read book. red text but with 3 potential outcomes for the text instead of the word "read"

based on skill level

also never using the previous outcome

[ancient grail]

So your character gets smarter? Something like that?

[drifting ore]

if you care to see. all my stuff is free use public stuff

local lastSelected  = nil

local function readOrNot(player_num, context, items)
    local item = items[1].items and items[1].items[1] or items[1]
    local player = getSpecificPlayer(player_num)
    local bookLevel = SandboxVars.Nipswitch.Booklevel
    local zapLevel = player(ISLightActions.perkLevel..bookLevel)
    local lowLevel = bookLevel <= zapLevel
    local goodlevel = bookLevel >= zapLevel
    if item:getType() ~= "Base.Lightswitches_fordummies" then
        return
    end
    local menus = {
        context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_One", item)),
        context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Two", item)),
        context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Three", item))
    }
    local txtRandom = ZombRand(3);
    local selectedMenu = menus[txtRandom + 1]
    if lowLevel then
        while selectedMenu == lastSelected do
            txtRandom = ZombRand(3);
            selectedMenu = menus[txtRandom + 1]
        end
        lastSelected = selectedMenu
        selectedMenu()
        for _, menu in pairs(menus) do
            menu.notAvailable = true
        end
    elseif not lowLevel then
        local totally = context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Four", item))
        totally.notAvailable = false
        local tooltip = ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.addToolTip();
        tooltip.description = getText("ContextMenu_Five");
        totally.toolTip = tooltip;
    end
end
Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(readOrNot)

no

[ancient grail]

Or am i just geting dumber

[drifting ore]

just chance for 3 different text to appear

each time you right click

[ancient grail]

Ahhh the readorNot code

[bronze yoke]

you're adding all three to the context menu here

    local menus = {
        context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_One", item)),
        context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Two", item)),
        context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Three", item))
    }

[drifting ore]

yea LOL

it wont run thru them and use one one at a time?

[bronze yoke]

best approach would be to add one option that gets its text from a variable

[drifting ore]

i did see it add all three

[ancient grail]

U know how to disable contextmenu? From. vanilla?

[drifting ore]

i thought it was the way i was using pairs

[ancient grail]

Cosmic B helped me with the code he manage to turn the thing red and used a diffrent word but then people discovered it can still be clicked

And it will show the drink all, half, 1/4

[drifting ore]

ooo yea i knew i was being stupid about my approach. i also am trying to become more familiar with coding so just kinda winging it when i test stuff. not the best way to learn but it's been fun lol. thank you yet again, already got your workshop link ready to go when i push next upload

thank you also for the insight

[bronze yoke]

i don't know if making a submenu notAvailable works

[ancient grail]

Thats a problem
Can i just remove the parent menu

[drifting ore]

i did it on accident so i know its possible LOL

just no idea what i did at this point

it was when i was trying to use the global function way. but i dont understand how to do that fully yet

[ancient grail]

I saw a remove last option or something
It fan delete everything but i dont want that

[drifting ore]

ahh

[ancient grail]

I tried spamming it like 7x it almost removed all the context options

[bronze yoke]

treat drinkOption as a context menu

make all of its options notAvailable or delete them or something

maybe even delete it and replace it with a notAvailable drink option, might be tidier

[ancient grail]

I would but i dont know how to get all the option

Ill try to figure it out

[thick karma]

You don't need all the options to delete a context menu option, you just need to know what it's called. @ancient grail

[bronze yoke]

we're trying to delete all options from a sub context menu

[ancient grail]

Yep

[bronze yoke]

just loop through the options table?

[ancient grail]

Is there an array? Ill check docs

[bronze yoke]

for k,v in pairs(drinkOption.options) do

[thick karma]

All options from a sub context menu... why not just delete the context menu?

If it has no sub options?

Does it do something by itself?

[bronze yoke]

i was thinking making them unavailable would be better

[thick karma]

I see

[bronze yoke]

i pointed out deleting the context menu as an alternative

[thick karma]

Sorry, I'm wasting time lol I'll go read

[bronze yoke]

a for i loop would be better, unsure if deleting options can create holes though

no mods should really mess with that menu ever but in theory it could cause a compatibility issue

this would be immune to that

[ancient grail]

Itsays debug option

[bronze yoke]

ISContextMenu is a lua object

[ancient grail]

GetChildren

[bronze yoke]

it's not on javadocs

[thick karma]

If you want the function it's ISContextMenu:removeOptionByName(optName)

[bronze yoke]

yeah the prettiest ways to deal with this are either that and then create a new option with the same name that's unavailable, or loop through the submenu and make all of its options unavailable

[ancient grail]

Cuz before it says i shall not commit sin

Cuz the trait is believer
And he cant drink alcohol or smoke stuff

[thick karma]

One second

I have code for finding and replacing existing entries

World context entries but still

Same base functions

[bronze yoke]

it's all iscontextmenu

[thick karma]

Here's a very simple example:

    if menu:getOptionFromName("Sit on ground") then
        menu:insertOptionAfter("Sit on ground", "Sit on Ground", player, function() ISWorldObjectContextMenu.onSitOnGround(playerIndex) end)
        menu:removeOptionByName("Sit on ground")
    end

@ancient grail

You could do something like this

[ancient grail]

Got it

🙏

[bronze yoke]

you should use getText() or it won't work in other languages

[thick karma]

    if menu:getOptionFromName("Drink") then
        menu:insertOptionAfter("Drink", "Dump", player, function() Glytch3r.dumpOutAlcoholBecauseIAmLame() end)
        menu:removeOptionByName("Drink")
    end

@ancient grail

[thick karma]

I was about to point this out. My example uses raw text because I am doing an English-language spelling correction

You will want yours to be based on getText("UI_whatever_the_drink_translation_variable_is")

[bronze yoke]

the context menus are so inconsistent with that

no matter what i make my mod use it feels wrong LOL

[thick karma]

Meditation "brings balance" to these basic spelling inconsistencies lol

Because I hate them

I need to fix more

But I fix a couple already

"fix"

"subjectively improve"

"by accommodating my own OCD"

[ancient grail]

This is also what cosmic told.me

[ancient grail]

Im not going to name a function like that despite the temptation

[sand harbor]

I think i've asked this before but does anyone know how you could set an engine's quality? (not condition) there's a debug function but it only sets it to 100

[thick karma]

Idea being a nondrinker could pour out the drink instead Idk

Wait maybe that option already exists

idr

[ancient grail]

I thought of that too. Or maybe chance that it will do it

[bronze yoke]

that option already exists

[idle dawn]

All I can hear are groaning zumbebs.

[ancient grail]

its done thnx guys!

[weak sierra]

interesting

[late hound]

On the modder's side, has anyone figured out how to add dropped clothing items from zombies (such as hats, glasses) to the despawn list?

[idle dawn]

I found a relevant gif from the game jam I was in a bit ago.

Zombie game too. Stoomp

[limber oar]

Does anyone know offhand whether server lua (specifically Distributions/ProceduralDistributions) loads after sandbox options?

Wondering whether I can query the sandbox options immediately from those files or if I need to use the OnInitGlobalModData event.

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't

[limber oar]

Alright, gotta use the event then. Thanks!

[wide oar]

Ok i need hep

my gun appears but its all smashed into one weird rectangle

[limber oar]

Might wanna try in #modeling

[wide oar]

mesh = Weapons/Firearm/s_10mm,
texture = Weapons/Firearm/pistol,
texture = Weapons/Firearm/mag,
texture = Weapons/Firearm/grip,
texture = Weapons/Firearm/barrel,

maybe its because i listed multiple texture???

\

[sour island]

Like the sandbox option?

[wide oar]

it looks like its just rendering the magazine

i dont udnerstand why

[late hound]

yeah, but like scripting it in where server owners don't have to do this part

[sour island]

local function HelicopterSandboxOptions()
    print("EHE: Disabling vanilla helicopter. Adding items to WorldItemRemovalList.")

    SandboxVars.Helicopter = 1

    local typesForRemovalList = {"EHE.EvacuationFlyer","EHE.EmergencyFlyer","EHE.QuarantineFlyer","EHE.PreventionFlyer","EHE.NoticeFlyer"}
    for k,type in pairs(typesForRemovalList) do
        if not string.find(SandboxVars.WorldItemRemovalList, type) then
            SandboxVars.WorldItemRemovalList = SandboxVars.WorldItemRemovalList..","..type
        end
    end
    
end

Events.OnGameStart.Add(HelicopterSandboxOptions)
Events.OnGameBoot.Add(HelicopterSandboxOptions)
Events.OnLoad.Add(HelicopterSandboxOptions)

[small topaz]

this is probably a problem. only one texture can be used afaik

[wide oar]

i removed all the materials in blender but one and thenn that worked and the mdoel appeared

what the hell.

So i have to fuck with UV's to get it to work??!???/

[small topaz]

yes

[sick umbra]

have a question, what path do I use to put my mod folder?

asking because there's the steam workshop folder, the users/user/Zomboid folder and the folder where zomboid is installed

[cosmic condor]

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Zomboid\Workshop

[sick umbra]

thanks!

[elfin stump]

Anyone know how to access the vanilla game sandbox variables via code or where to find these variable names?

[elfin stump]

For anyone else who might be looking for this info, I found it here: https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/20771-sandboxvarslua-file-explanation/

[humble oriole]

Can you have a drainable spawn with no contents via the distribution system?

[faint jewel]

reset the transforms.

[wide oar]

i got it to work, so ty all ^^

was a texture problem

[wide oar]

Question

any tutorials on vehicle mod creation? i'd like to make a custom bike mod (the SDS Fenrir from FFXIV)

[drifting ore]

not sure exactly what you are looking for but this should get you going https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/24408-how-to-create-new-vehicle-mods/

[lime pawn]

What is the exact purpose of everyone making their own Arsenal26 gunfighter mod? Is it so people can run their own adjusted settings for their dedicated server? And if so, where do I go about learning how to do it?

[raven spoke]

I was wondering, is it possible to skip "Click to Start" when you join a server?

[jaunty marten]

u can use link sent by Nippytime and these ones
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/28633-complete-vehicle-modding-tutorial/
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/24278-how-to-edit-vehicle-skins/

[unkempt bronze]

Does any mod exist that enables XP boost/multiplier while PVP is enabled on an MP server?

Additionally PVP enabled only allows to attack other PVP enabled.

If not figured it would be an cool idea.

[agile vigil]

That is a pretty neat idea.

[ancient grail]

anyone knows if this will work

[cosmic condor]

better paste as texts

[ancient grail]

it wont fit

iu think the int should be converted to string

Client:

-- original code by Dislaik  modified by Glytch3r
-- original code by Dislaik  modified by Glytch3r
local Commands = {};
Commands.CloseQuarterCombat = {};
local counter = 0

Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(function(player)
    if not (player:getPrimaryHandItem() == nil and 
    player:getSecondaryHandItem() == nil) then 
    return
    end
    local stanceRoll = tostring(ZombRand(1,5-1))
    
    if player:getVariableBoolean('ModeCQC') == false then
        player:setVariable('ModeCQC', 'true');
        print(player:getSecondaryHandItem())
        player:setVariable('CombatStance', tostring(stanceRoll));
        if isClient() then
            sendClientCommand('CloseQuarterCombat', 'AnimCombat', {ModeCQC = true}, {CombatStance = stanceRoll})
        end
    else
        player:setVariable('ModeCQC', 'false');
        player:setVariable('CombatStance', "0");
        if isClient() then
            sendClientCommand('CloseQuarterCombat', 'AnimCombat', {ModeCQC = true}, {CombatStance = "0"})
        end
    end
end)

Events.OnTick.Add(function(ticks)
    if not (isDebugEnabled() and getPlayer():getModData()['dbg']) then return end 
    local monitor = getPlayer():getVariableBoolean('CombatStance')
    if ticks % 15 then 
        getPlayer():setHaloNote(tostring(monitor),255,127,100,100) 
    end
end)

Commands.CloseQuarterCombat.AnimCombat = function(args)
    local source = getPlayer();
    local player = getPlayerByOnlineID(args.id)
    if source == player then return end
    --if args.ModeCQC then 
        player:setVariable('ModeCQC', 'true');
        if args.CombatStance >= "1" then
            if    args.CombatStance == "1" then 
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "1")
            elseif args.CombatStance == "2" then 
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "2")
            elseif args.CombatStance == "3" then 
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "3")
            elseif args.CombatStance == "4" then 
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "4")
            elseif args.CombatStance <= "5" then
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "5")
            elseif args.CombatStance == "6" then 
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "6")
            elseif args.CombatStance == "7" then 
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "7")
            elseif args.CombatStance == "8" then 
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "8")
            elseif args.CombatStance <= "9" then
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "9")
            elseif args.CombatStance <= "0" then
                player:setVariable('CombatStance', "0")
            end
        end
    --else
        player:setVariable('ModeCQC', 'false');
    --end
end

Events.OnServerCommand.Add(function(module, command, args)
    if Commands[module] and Commands[module][command] then
        Commands[module][command](args)
    end
end)

Server:

-- original code by Dislaik  modified by Glytch3r

if isClient() then return; end

local Commands = {};
Commands.CloseQuarterCombat = {};

Commands.CloseQuarterCombat.AnimCombat = function(player, args)
    local playerId = player:getOnlineID();

    sendServerCommand('CloseQuarterCombat', 'AnimCombat', {
        id = playerId,
        ModeCQC = args.ModeCQC,
        CombatStance = args.CombatStance
    })
end

Events.OnClientCommand.Add(function(module, command, player, args)
    if Commands[module] and Commands[module][command] then
        Commands[module][command](player, args)
    end
end)

[idle dawn]

I'm gonna mod in zombies.

Also goodnight fellows.

[ancient grail]

owell the code isnt working

[tame mulch]

You set too much in string)

Only in setVariable need write like "2"

[ancient grail]

I dont get it

Its cuz each number should represent an animation

    <m_Conditions>
  <m_Name>ModeCQC</m_Name>
 <m_Type>BOOL</m_Type>
 <m_BoolValue>true
</m_BoolValue>
 </m_Conditions>    

 <m_Conditions>
<m_Name>CombatStance
</m_Name>
<m_Type>STRING</m_Type>
 <m_StringValue>0</m_StringValue>
 </m_Conditions>

[sleek citrus]

u guys all sound smart to me 😄

[ancient grail]

Is this your first mod if ever?

[thick karma]

He also had a mismatch in module names.

I showed him in DM

CloseQuarterCombat ~= CombatAnimation (he fixed it above I believe)

[thick karma]

Here you can see he's trying to call Commands.CloseQuarterCombat.AnimCombat but the function's name is Commands.CombatAnimations.AnimCombat. @cosmic condor

[ancient grail]

i may have found the culprit

sendClientCommand('CloseQuarterCombat', 'AnimCombat', {ModeCQC = true } , {CombatStance = stanceRoll})
sendClientCommand('CloseQuarterCombat', 'AnimCombat', {ModeCQC = true, CombatStance = stanceRoll})

[chilly beacon]

Is there a way to make it so when someone presses a button, it puts an item into a compatible empty hotbar slot?

[pulsar heath]

so after messing around a lot...

TWS_UI = ISUIElement:derive("TWS_UI")
TWS_UI.iconSize = 50
TWS_UI.clickableSize = 45

function TWS_UI:initialise()
    ISUIElement.initialise(self)
    self:addToUIManager()
    self.moveWithMouse = true
    self:setVisible(false)
end

function TWS_UI:new(posX, posY, player, screenX, screenY)
    local o = {}
    o = ISUIElement:new(screenX, screenY, 1, 1)
    setmetatable(o, self)
    self.__index = self
    o.player = player
    o.x = screenX
    o.y = screenY
    o.posX = posX or 0
    o.posY = posY or 0
    o.width = TWS_UI.clickableSize
    o.height = TWS_UI.clickableSize
    o.opacity = 255
    o.opacityGain = 1
    o.enabled = true
    o.visible = true
    o.title = ""
    o.mouseOver = false
    o.tooltip = nil
    o.center = false
    o.bConsumeMouseEvents = false
    o.joypadFocused = false
    o.translation = nil
    o.textureBG = getTexture("media/ui/eventMarkerBase.png")
    o.icon = getTexture("media/ui/calendar.png")
    o:initialise()
    return o
end

function TWS_UI:render()
        print("---- rendering TWS UI -------")
        self:drawTexture(self.textureBG,TWS_UI.iconSize/2,TWS_UI.iconSize/2, 1, 1, 1, 1)
        self:drawTexture(self.icon,TWS_UI.iconSize/2,TWS_UI.iconSize/2, 1, 1, 1, 1)
        ISUIElement.render(self)
end

function drawui()
    myUI = TWS_UI:new(65, 0,getPlayer(), 800, 100)
    myUI:addToUIManager();
    myUI:setVisible(true);
end
function stopui()
        myUI:setVisible(false);
end```

[chilly beacon]

i have a holster mod that adds magazine slots, and would like to make it so when a someone reloads it puts the empty magazine in the holster after they reload

[pulsar heath]

now from what i can tell from ehe i need to add functions to react to mouse events so that i can move it around?

[quaint fiber]

guten tag, is there's any tools to open up pz model format?

[grim rose]

blender?

hello everyone now its my turn

i need help with overwritting a sound file

[high cloak]

If there's not really a suitably named existing translation file to add your mod translation to, is there a goto? or does it not really matter?

[dull moss]

that's what she said HAAA so funny

anyway

Anyone ever tried of making something like experimental branch of mod and rolling it out as submod that should be ran instead of main mod if ppl want to test stuff? That'd save troubles of catching bugs cuz you can just merge it onto main mod branch after fixing bugs that get reported on it

Cuz imma be honest, I'm at the stage where I don't want to test stuff and just rolling out update without a bit of testing seems inconsiderate

[ancient grail]

You heard her say that to her friend? Bummer

[ancient grail]

Yeh thats doable

[chilly beacon]

awesome, next question: got any pointer on how? 😛

[fast galleon]

I kinda did that just now, have two versions together.

[ancient grail]

First time modding?

#mod_development message

[fast galleon]

Others have done a separate Beta Beta Beta mod

and others use users for beta testing

[dull moss]

cool, think i'll try that too

[chilly beacon]

i havent done a lot with lua before, yeah

[dull moss]

gib link so i can glance at the mod

[fast galleon]

I expect a number of people to enable both mods together and report errors

[dull moss]

[ancient grail]

You need to learn the following:
How to be able to hook to button press
You need a checker for your inventory
You need to know the pz syntax to be able to get the right mag thats appropriate for the weapon as well as the ammo
U can find this on so e of the links i gave
You need to also know time action so that u can make your character swap the stuff
I guess thats about it

[thick karma]

Ugh tfw when you move a chunk of code to a different file and for no apparent reason it stops working.

[dull moss]

oh hey i know that one

[ancient grail]

Whats your goal

[ancient grail]

I dont know where but i know there is some stuff for translation related things

[chilly beacon]

much appreciated, I'll check the links out and see where i end up 😄

[dull moss]

do you do any additional shenanigans? or literally nothing else but having 2 mods?

[thick karma]

Trash Talker (works):

Trash.ServerSettingsScreen = {}
Trash.ServerSettingsScreen.create = ServerSettingsScreen.create
Trash.ServerSettingsScreen.unfocused = true
function ServerSettingsScreen:create()
    Trash.ServerSettingsScreen.create(self)
    local oldShowFunction = ServerSettingsScreen.instance.pageEdit.aboutToShow
    ServerSettingsScreen.instance.pageEdit.aboutToShow = function(self)
        Trash.ServerSettingsScreen.unfocused = true
        oldShowFunction(self)
    end
    local oldGainFocusFunction = ServerSettingsScreen.instance.pageEdit.onGainJoypadFocus
    ServerSettingsScreen.instance.pageEdit.onGainJoypadFocus = function(self, joypadData)
        oldGainFocusFunction(self, joypadData)
        if not Trash.ServerSettingsScreen.unfocused then return end
        Trash.ServerSettingsScreen.unfocused = false
        joypadData.focus = self.listbox
        self.listbox:setJoypadFocused(true, joypadData)
    end
end

Quicker List Navigation in Wookiee Gamepad Support (doesn't work):

WGS = WGS or {}
WGS.ServerSettingsScreen = WGS.ServerSettingsScreen or {}
WGS.ServerSettingsScreen.create = ServerSettingsScreen.create
WGS.ServerSettingsScreen.unfocused = true
function ServerSettingsScreen:create()
    WGS.ServerSettingsScreen.create(self)
    local oldShowFunction = ServerSettingsScreen.instance.pageEdit.aboutToShow
    ServerSettingsScreen.instance.pageEdit.aboutToShow = function(self)
        WGS.ServerSettingsScreen.unfocused = true
        oldShowFunction(self)
    end
    local oldGainFocusFunction = ServerSettingsScreen.instance.pageEdit.onGainJoypadFocus
    ServerSettingsScreen.instance.pageEdit.onGainJoypadFocus = function(self, joypadData)
        oldGainFocusFunction(self, joypadData)
        if not WGS.ServerSettingsScreen.unfocused then return end
        WGS.ServerSettingsScreen.unfocused = false
        joypadData.focus = self.listbox
        self.listbox:setJoypadFocused(true, joypadData)
    end
end

😭 Anybody mind glancing and sanity checking me?

🎵 One of these things is not like the other... 🎵

(Note: Both mods are enabled in MODS and on the server. I am subscribed to neither mod. Both are in Workshop. All I did was move the code from one place to another and change the containing module.)

[grim rose]

overwritte explosion sounds

because for now i am doing it but it cuts off

[ancient grail]

Sanity check 🤔

[grim rose]

and bassicly is janky

[ancient grail]

Use ogg

[grim rose]

it is ogg

[fast galleon]

no this is literally double mod

you can make it like a patch if you wanted
I just kept the old version to not break saves

also since I make new id it means I remove the issue of same id with old old mod that people still install even though it has obsolete in name.

[dull moss]

I'm just thinking how to version it now

cuz I have my own system in mind that I use

and like

Do I create separate versioning for beta branch

ugh

why cant there be 2 changelogs

on steam page

decisions, decisions

[fast galleon]

do it like this 3.1.1-beta

[dull moss]

hm

I like the idea of that

[fast galleon]

https://semver.org/

[sour island]

I use GitHub to switch branches

The beta branch has an uncommitted workshop.txt that's different ID/name

Published to a unlisted mod

[thick karma]

Increasingly confused... 😭

What is reality

[fast galleon]

I thought you just pushed stuff to users to test.

[sour island]

Only for minor stuff that I 'test' when writing it

Using a beta for the EHE update

Trying out new approaches overall

[dull moss]

and who's testing that for you?

[sour island]

I put it up as an issue on the GitHub using the 'need testing' tag

😎 Easter egg for GitHub users

[dull moss]

I doubt anyone from players checks my github so i don't think that'd work

[sour island]

My steam page links to my GitHub 6 times and has no comments/discussion on steam

Only got 1 reply so far tho

[dull moss]

[pulsar heath]

@sour island im trying to make markers like you did for ehe, so far so good... only need to figure out how you made it movable, i see some mouse logic in ehe markers... is that the only way?

[dull moss]

I'm familiar with the idea of this and I'm using pretty much similar approach

except that I use 1st number a bit more often that usual practice with app dev

simply cuz almost everything is backwards compatible with traits

so i'd forever sit on 1.x.x

[fast galleon]

I always wonder how to submit properly, but I'm too tired to open gimp.

[dull moss]

whats EHE btw

[fast galleon]

https://github.com/TEHE-Studios/ExpandedHelicopterEvents

[pulsar heath]

expanded helicopter events

[dull moss]

you guys should really include EHE somewhere

so you can get hits on EHE if u search for it

problem with this approach

is that average mod user is not willing to go extra steps

of creating github account

@fast galleon I came up with solution on how to prevent users from running both mods at same time, make a check in main mod if player is running both and if they do, crash the main mod luas

lmao

[fast galleon]

Reminds of a post I was reading in past, a mod to improve performance but it errored and thus disabled all mods.

[dull moss]

[pulsar heath]

well it did what it was meant to... mods off = better performance 😄

[dull moss]

I'll actually do it

[thick karma]

Y'all can someone explain to me why the filename matters so much when I run this code? I am just not seeing why it would, but, after a LOT of testing, I have concluded that it DOES, which is confusing me endlessly. And it's not an alphabetization thing! Data:

Filenames in which the WGS code works as expected:

Quack.lua
QuitIt.lua
ServerSettingsFocusTweak.lua
TrashTalker.lua

Filenames in which the WGS code does not work as expected:

AServerSettingsFocusTweak.lua
Bananas.lua
QuickerListNavigation.lua
Zebras.lua

I am well aware how crazy this data may sound, but assuming it's not user error, is there anyone who can speculate intelligently about a possible explanation for this?

[dull moss]

No

[thick karma]

Omg it's baffling.

[fast galleon]

same folder?

[pulsar heath]

lua goblins?

[thick karma]

All in same folder EXCEPT Trash Talker

I can run the code in Trash Talker mod as well

But most of these files were tested in the WGS mod folder

[dull moss]

Doesnt game load luas alphabetically?

[thick karma]

I believe so

[dull moss]

folder -> alphabetically

[thick karma]

I do not think this is a load order issue

[dull moss]

oh then idk

[thick karma]

Or the alphabetization would explain more.

Look at the data

Quack => Fine

[dull moss]

ofc bananas are fine, potassium and shit, good stuff

[thick karma]

Quick => Not fine

(sorry Bananas actually not fine that was bad memory)

Quack is fine though

Quick is not fine

[dull moss]

Aw shit bananas are not fine

[thick karma]

And then Zebras is fine again

Since Quack < Quick < Zebras and the pattern is Works - Doesn't - Works, I think we can rule out alphabetization

[fast galleon]

check that mod is enabled, files loaded, test print, etc?

[thick karma]

I'm using it from the Main Menu @fast galleon

It's for the Host settings screen

[fast galleon]

f11 and print still work

[red tiger]

Heheh.. load order is a hell of a problem when dealing with scaled solutions.

[dull moss]

um, anyone can give me a simple way to disable lua file by throwing error at the start of it? If I put this

if getActivatedMods():contains('EvolvingTraitsWorldBeta') then
    -- something that throws error here
end

at the start of the lua, it'll break it and wont run it, right?

[thick karma]

Oh I see. I can confirm the mod is loaded because its other functions are active. E.g., in QuickerListNavigation, I have code that lets me quickly scroll up and down lists.

Let me double-check right now for you

Yeah

QuickerListNavigation loads

But the code I pasted above is doing nothing when it's in that file

[red tiger]

I had to get rid of load order restrictions for PipeWrench entirely.

[fast galleon]

I just thought maybe some of those test files were in Trash Talker mod.

[thick karma]

No. For context, I was testing Trash Talker's new features, got annoyed one last time by the focus transition on gamepad when entering the edit settings menu of Host, and decided to fix it

I drafted the fix in Trash Talker originally because I was working there anyway

I got it working in Trash Talker, I copy-pasted it to WGS -> QuickerListNavigation, I replaced "Trash" (Trash Talker module) with "WGS" (Wookiee Gamepad Support module), I tested it, and wtf it no longer worked.

So then I scratched my head awhile, reread the code, made sure I pasted it right...

When I was convinced I had, I moved the code from QuickerListNavigation to its own new file to experiment. A file in WGS. I called that first test file "ServerSettingsFocusTweak.lua". THAT worked.

That's when I started trying random file names.

I KNOW, right?

Someone else out there has to find this as weird as I do.

[fast galleon]

reading big code blocks from mobile is hard

[thick karma]

@fast galleon This is the entire code if zooming on a photo is easier on mobile and you're bored enough to try:

That's legit all it needs to do

and I can change nothing about that code, move it to Zebras.lua (beside it in the photo above), and it works.

Completely baffling.

[dull moss]

is there any chance QuickerListNavigation.lua is being overwritten by other mod lua?

[thick karma]

No

Because I'm using it's features

[dull moss]

well then fuck knows

[thick karma]

I'm scrolling up and down with triggers... that's a QLN feature...

[dull moss]

um, can anyone help? I've put this at the start of lua, expecting this to throw error (I remember getting errors when trying to use concat operator .. on some string and nil) but it won't throw one when I reload the luas from main menu

if getActivatedMods():contains('EvolvingTraitsWorldBeta') then
    print("YOU LOADED MAIN MOD AND BETA BRANCH OF THE MOD AT THE SAME TIME, ENABLE ONLY 1!!!"..nil);
end```

[thick karma]

Then A) you didn't enable your mod in MODS, B) you didn't enable EvolvingTraitsWorldBeta in mods, or C) I am too dumb to help you.

[dull moss]

both enabled

[thick karma]

@dull moss

[dull moss]

[thick karma]

C it is!

[dull moss]

[thick karma]

What is the id of the mod checking for EvolvingTraitsWorldBeta?

[fast galleon]

@dull moss instead of throwing error make it return

[dull moss]

EvolvingTraitsWorld

[thick karma]

EvolvingTraitsWorld would load first

[dull moss]

oh

me pepeg

[thick karma]

Beta may not be activated.

At that point

[dull moss]

that'd explain

hm

how do I bypass that

[thick karma]

I'm not sure... perhaps you could try requiring it? Maybe lua would wait as long as possible to load you before returning nil?

EvolvingTraitsWorldBeta = require "EvolvingTraitsWorldBeta"

[dull moss]

but i dont want to require it

OH

[thick karma]

And if it's not nil there's an issue

[dull moss]

WAIT

[thick karma]

I know

[dull moss]

im r-word

[thick karma]

Nah

I don't know if that would work for sure but it may

[dull moss]

Nonon, my beta overwrites everythting

[thick karma]

facepalm

[dull moss]

it uses same lua names

then i dont need to bother if user enables both

[thick karma]

Aha

[dull moss]

it'll just use code from beta

[thick karma]

yeah presumably

[dull moss]

unless they go and change load order

but who the fuck does that

Like last time i checked load order in PZ was like 2 y ago

I wish ModManager added support for incompatibleMods so it highlights if you enable incompatible mod

would make stuff easier

[sour island]

I think you can actually just call an error if I'm not wrong

[dull moss]

ye, jsut did

nice

[sour island]

👍

[dull moss]

that's nice

self-dox
jk my name is on stem page anyway

[uncut meteor]

is there an event For pre game start or similar ?
trying to setup a sandbox option without using the ongameboot event

[dull moss]

[dull moss]

btw guess how did I know about it

answer:

[zinc pilot]

can group:getOrCreateLocation be run when the game is running?

or is it only during init?

[cosmic condor]

try Davinci model, and train it with a fine-tuned model on PZ

[dull moss]

[fast galleon]

🍌 🦓

💻🔨

maybe it needs intimidation

[dull moss]

[thick karma]

@zinc pilot I'm guessing you need to getAttachedLocationGroup() on your player object and then getOrCreateLocation on the object returned by that

[fast galleon]

I would still add a print inside create as I said before
print("replacing ui",self==instance)

[thick karma]

getPlayer():getAttachedLocationGroup():getOrCreateLocation(locationId)

@zinc pilot https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/characters/AttachedItems/AttachedLocationGroup.html

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/characters/IsoGameCharacter.html

[zinc pilot]

I'll try that, thanks

also @sour island, is ECC alright to use for mods other than yours?

[red tiger]

Modifying PZ's Lua code to wrap all containers as modules would probably solve a lot of issues I see arise in projects and load-order.. however my thought assumes a lot about how mods initialize their code in general...

(Thinking about the earlier convo)

[faint jewel]

man i am aboot to get mad.

[dull moss]

classic modding experience

[vestal geode]

Crazy ChatGPT, wondering where this journey will end in some decades

[zinc pilot]

doesn't seem like it works in game, I guess it can be done only during loading

[thick karma]

It may also be that the info gets used down the line, and you need a few more functions to fully utilize the updated data.

Unless you're getting errors of course

[zinc pilot]

A big ol' stinky "Tried to call nil"

[thick karma]

I haven't done anything with those functions so I am not sure on the details

[zinc pilot]

doing it while it's loading works just fine

in game, nada

but I just thought of an easier way to do what I want so nevermind, that was a crappy idea anyway

[dull moss]

ofc

AI always right

This changelog is gonna be funny
- Fixed FearOfOutside counter not changing unless players had debug enabled (oups).

OUPS

if debug() then modData.FearOfOutside = resultingCounter; print("ETW Logger: modData.FearOfOutside: " .. modData.FearOfOutside) end

instead of

modData.FearOfOutside = resultingCounter;
if debug() then print("ETW Logger: modData.FearOfOutside: " .. modData.FearOfOutside) end```

[tardy wren]

Nothing compared to TF2 changelogs

[dull moss]

Oh ye I remember those

[tardy wren]

"fixed a server crash caused by sniper trying to eat his gun"

[zinc pilot]

new question, when are shared lua files loaded?

[sour island]

Yes, it should be fine to use it. I forget why I initially didn't want to use modOptions - but it works off a similar idea.

Also, settings in MP are set to hosts/admin. Will be working on a refactoring to make it easier to use/ allow for settings to be toggled for SP/MP/admin-only etc

[zinc pilot]

Yeah that's why I didn't wanna mess with mod options too much, doesn't seem too mp friendly

perfect then, thank you

[drifting stump]

mod options is for client side configs

for server side settings use sandbox options

[sour island]

That would be ideal if you could change some sandbox options on the fly without another mod 😅

Having a simpler way to add more game options would be nice tbh

[faint jewel]

is there some way to see models origins ingame?

[sour island]

I cobbled together ECC when I didn't really know much - so it needs some lovin'

[faint jewel]

my static model is just INVISIBLE and it will not show up

[drifting stump]

@sour island hows this looking for creating a ui

[sour island]

Looks neat, what's a spec?

[drifting stump]

hmm then description isnt good enough

its meant to define all the variables used to create the ui

a specification

im doing away with initialise and instantiate completely

they never made any sense in the first place

and overwriting new is also gone since everything is defined by the spec

[weak sierra]

reminds me of WPF

[dull moss]

in sp?

[weak sierra]

but declaratively

[pulsar heath]

finally im done with the ui for the mod update...

[weak sierra]

survival time and zed kill meters? that's nice

[pulsar heath]

yup, the old one used a window

[weak sierra]

i've been kicking around the idea of a zed kill ui bit myself, tho it's gonna be ages before i get to it lol

[pulsar heath]

i think this one is better

less intrusive than a window

[weak sierra]

yeah

[dull moss]

I use that space for Health Panel so you better make it draggable

[pulsar heath]

it is

[dull moss]

nice

[pulsar heath]

double click to close the ui

cant make it simpler than that i guess

[dull moss]

can u make it right-clickable so you can mirror where text is?

if u want it to be on leftside for example

so yo ucan have those on right edge of screen

[pulsar heath]

thats a good idea

[dull moss]

cuz now it'd look weird

[pulsar heath]

but... i hate ui so much... ill get right into it 😄

[dull moss]

suffer

[pulsar heath]

so i have to detect... damn

so in theory, get the screen size, if the ui position

hmmm

[dull moss]

just make it right clickable and boolean toggle there

allignedOnRight

if true text is on right side of icons

if false on left

[pulsar heath]

dunno if that will be possible with my frankenstein code

a sec

[dull moss]

[pulsar heath]

    ISPanel.createChildren(self);
    self.AliveWindow = ISRichTextPanel:new(60, 15,self.getWidth(self)-15, self.getHeight(self)-5);
    self.KillWindow = ISRichTextPanel:new(60, 70,self.getWidth(self)-15, self.getHeight(self)-5);
    self.AliveWindow.background = false
    self.KillWindow.background = false
    self.icon = ISImage:new(10, 15, 50, 50, getTexture("media/ui/calendar.png"))
    self.iconk = ISImage:new(-13, 50, 50, 50, getTexture("media/ui/zedkills.png"))
    self.AliveWindow.text = "alive";
    self.AliveWindow:paginate();
    self.KillWindow.text = "kill";
    self.KillWindow:paginate();
    self.AliveWindow:initialise();
    self.KillWindow:initialise();
    self.AliveWindow.moveWithMouse = true
    self.KillWindow.moveWithMouse = true
    self.icon:initialise()
    self.iconk:initialise()
    self.icon.moveWithMouse = true
    self.iconk.moveWithMouse = true
    self:addChild(self.icon)
    self:addChild(self.AliveWindow);
    self:addChild(self.KillWindow);
    self:addChild(self.iconk)
end```

since i create them in this order

[dull moss]

yea idk a thing about UI

[pulsar heath]

so ill have to make a check for alignLeft or whatever

and when creating the objects in the panel if true do one, if false the other?!

[dull moss]

sounds reasonable

[pulsar heath]

sounds to simple... i have a feeling im gonna rage in a bit 😄

[dull moss]

https://tenor.com/view/mando-way-mandalorian-star-wars-this-is-the-way-gif-18467372

[drifting stump]

why do it that way?

you could just do your own render

[pulsar heath]

why this way? 'cause i know no other way to do it 😄

its still an improvement, even if its not the best way to execute it

[drifting stump]

just make a panel

then overwrite the render function

no need for child elements

[pulsar heath]

that sounds like a good idea, but no clue of how to do that

i know next to nothing about ui in pz

[zinc pilot]

fucking hell

is resetLua asynchronous or what?

[drifting stump]

local StatsPanel = ISPanel:derive("StatsPanel")

function StatsPanel:render()
    self:drawTexture() --etc look at the available functions in ISUIElement
    if self.leftMode then
        self:drawTextRight() --etc
    else
        self:drawText() --etc
    end
end

[pulsar heath]

my previous attempt was around something like that, didnt go very well

ill give it a go again based on your info, thanks

[faint jewel]

THIS IS GONNA DRIVE ME NUTS

[dull moss]

classic modding experience (x2)

beta branch out

Now I don't need to test shit besides initial run to see if character loads

Leave it up to people

ez

[drifting ore]

a ton on the workshop lolol

there is a few guides though to get started, but not some template you can just add a few things and good to go

[dull moss]

I mean that's the case with almost everything

[drifting ore]

so true.. doing guns minus coding features is mainly just having the textures and whatnot, using correct anims and item parameters. amogst a few other things. but i'd say gun modding has to be a decent undertaking

[dull moss]

Go dig in code of mods that add guns

[faint jewel]

lol! this stupid static model WILL NOT SHOW UP. and i have no idea why.

[dull moss]

I'd help but I don't do models

[drifting ore]

says almost all gamers

LOL

yes im so punny

[dull moss]

took me 1.5s to get it

[faint jewel]

i only do super models.

[drifting ore]

Lmao

[dull moss]

^ IRL pic of Skizot

[drifting ore]

Ahaha not when he’s working on this mod of his

Lolol

[dull moss]

^ IRL pic of Skizot working on his mod

[faint jewel]

it's just pz being a pain in the ass lol.

the model WORKS if i set it as a world model but NOT as a static model. it's like wtf?

[dull moss]

PZ my beloved

[drifting ore]

[dull moss]

I need that emote right now

[drifting ore]

Yea dude I feel bad you been workin on getting that down. I hope it pans out lol

[faint jewel]

you can love something and still want to punt it into traffic, I have 5 kids, trust me i know.

[drifting ore]

Lmao does it show the discord? I just use that server for the emojis

[drifting ore]

Hahaha I feel you there

[grim rose]

i finally finished

[red tiger]

Crowbar could have more support for rendering 3D stuffs. :D

[dark wedge]

@zinc pilot Thanks again for adding compatibility for Fancy Handwork! I had actually written a small module so other mods can easily query the status of arm amputations and such. Did you want this? That way other modders can just local TOC_COMPAT = require('TOC_Compat') and use those functions if needed. 🙂

[ancient grail]

Have you tested this?

[faint jewel]

    {        
        mesh = KYRP/PA_Microwave1,
        texture = KYRP/Microwave1,
        scale = 0.000275,
    }

    model W_Microwave1
    {        
        mesh = KYRP/W_Microwave1,
        texture = KYRP/Microwave1,
        scale = 0.0275,
    }

    item Microwave1Carry
    {
        DisplayCategory = Container,
        Weight    =    2,
        Type    =    Container,
        DisplayName    =    White Microwave,
        Icon    =    Microwave1,
        EquippedNoSprint         = TRUE,
        WeightReduction    =    65,
        RequiresEquippedBothHands = true,
        ConditionMax = 100,
        Capacity    =    10,
        OpenSound   =   OpenBag,
        CloseSound   =   CloseBag,
        PutInSound   =   PutItemInBag,
        Tags = HeavyItem,
        StaticModel = KYRP/PA_Microwave1,
        primaryAnimMask = HoldingCarryGrabRight,
        secondaryAnimMask = HoldingCarryGrabLeft,
        WorldStaticModel = W_Microwave1,
    }```

am i missing something here?

[dull moss]

Ye it throws error, why?

[faint jewel]

i mean ive done this a bunch of times. and now i can't get the dumb ass model to work.

[zinc pilot]

that would be lovely man

[zinc pilot]

oh btw, since you've likely got a lot more experience with me especially with animations, how hard would it be to translate animations made for the right hand onto the left one?

[dark wedge]

Here you go! should be enough in there for modders to get what they need. I really only focused on if the hand was there or not, since that's probably all that matters condition wise. Cutting off higher on the arm seems to propagate down anyways (as it should)

[dark wedge]

You will need to use something like FragMotion to mirror the animation to play on the other side. Will likely require some cleanup too, as its not perfect. I have not gotten the mirroring to work in blender, but it might be possible. You're looking to get the saw animation to use the left hand?

[pulsar heath]

@drifting stump done... thanks for the tips 🙂

[zinc pilot]

not really that, mostly making the secondary hand as useful as the principal one

with TOC basically when you lose your right hand, you're done, and that doesn't really make too much sense

[dark wedge]

ohhhh true. the game really wants you to be right-handed.

[zinc pilot]

exactly

but that seems like a pretty big thing to change

[dark wedge]

Attacking with the left arm takes a bit of work, as its in the Java to only attack using the right hand with the DoAttack function. All the attack speed/damage calcs are done with the primary hand item too in Java. I've been (slowly, haven't touched it in like a week, lol) working on an offhand attack mod, would definitely be compatible with TOC. For other actions, would need to mirror the animation and have it use the left hand, create action files, etc. which is a bit of work too.

[red tiger]

dooooccuuummennnttattiioonnn

yaaayyy

Glad to see it.

[dark wedge]

Ha. I try on things I release for others.
But if its just for me, the only thing that is there are my crappy jokes and ramblings.

[red tiger]

You'll forget your code eventually. Nice to have it there.

[bronze yoke]

finally... a usecase for hooks

[dark wedge]

I hook into the Attack hook now. But the way it is used still only does the primary hand. unless there is a whole side to Hooks I don't know yet. ha

[bronze yoke]

hooks are generally kind of pointless since they generally require you to reimplement a lot of vanilla java to actually be useful, but this mod sounds like it can actually make use of them in a way that makes sense

[dark wedge]

Oh I am well aware. Ha. I was mostly being facetious, definitely have notes but not actual luadoc syntax and stuff.

[red tiger]

LuaDocs.

Yeah.

[dark wedge]

yea, i meant that. ha

[red tiger]

I document with my Typescript code.

[fast galleon]

ow you're not talking about captain's hook (weapon).

Currently a Hook is just the same as an Event though, what's the difference?

[dark wedge]

Attacking (even melee and stuff) is done from ISReloadWeaponAction.attackHook
kind of a weird spot, but ok i guess. has to be somewhere.

[bronze yoke]

it's because reloading was originally a mod

[dark wedge]

ahhh. i got this game with b41 so am still a noob i guess

[bronze yoke]

i wasn't around for that either, don't worry

[zinc pilot]

do you guys have any clue if we can implement custom opacity masks in the game?

instead of the base 15 implemenented

[bronze yoke]

i've heard of it being done before

[zinc pilot]

I really don't remember this happening before, but bags are getting chewed out if I've got something set with m_masks 3 and 4

i checked a bag on the only cure beta og and it happens there too, can anyone else confirm?

[cursive junco]

Thinking of revisiting an old workshop mod I made, is there a way to make aspects of a workshop mod disable-able in the main menu?

[fast galleon]

like mod-options?

[cursive junco]

yeah

[bronze yoke]

if it's a server/save setting using sandbox options, if you want it to be per-user use 'mod options' mod

[cursive junco]

because it is a client side mod I'd probably go with something similar to the latter

With mod options would I need to update my mod with each mod options build? I made my mod about a year ago and it still works so I'm hoping that adding mod options doesn't break it every build.

[fast galleon]

@sour island
CE need API for intercept of addTrait to change cost easier instead of making a new trait and overwrite?
*PZMC / PZ-CP?

[fast galleon]

I'm not sure I've ever seen it break from that. Only because of vanilla changes.

[golden sparrow]

There's a bug in the code to build object on 2 tiles code only check for one of the two tiles so you can stack them or build them through walls

[faint jewel]

THE DEVIL BE IN THIS MODEL!

[odd notch]

can't wait!!

[faint jewel]

okay do EVEN IF I CHANGE THE MODEL to a working on it DOES NOT SHOW IT.

[sour island]

I'm referring to the main mod as projects atm - still trying to figure out a better name to avoid "CP"

Project Zomboid Community Modding Projects - PZCMP seems too long

As for the issue, that's a good candidate I suppose

Would intercepting the method work?

[fast galleon]

It should, can also easily block traits from being added.

[zinc pilot]

well found out what I was missing,
<m_MasksFolder>none</m_MasksFolder>

i'm a dum dum

[fast galleon]

ok not easily because it needs to return a trait

[pulsar heath]

well, i like when ppl that use my mod take the time to report a bug and provide the logs to fix it

1st bug fixed... onlye around 223782476 to go 😄

so i've added car events. zombie spawning, temp traits, air events via EHE, items to add to players inventory, weather control ( storm, blizzard, normal rain, tropical rain )
Any suggestion to add next?

[fast galleon]

TP house?

[pulsar heath]

tp?

as in toilet paper?

or teleport? 😄

[pulsar heath]

maybe just lose the P? PZCM? Project Zomboid Community Modding?

[sour island]

Hmm

[drifting ore]

is it essentially supposed to be a toolbox so to speak? i see the debug and the intention to create standardized api's for specific usages. maybe PZMT pz modders toolbox

[drifting ore]

the 4 letters feels good tho. drastically better than 5 lol just one letter

rhyming conventions tend to have a catchy tune to saying them and somehow instantly makes things more popular. i can't help but have a marketing mindset to everything

[pulsar heath]

this was a good day... pushed an app update for the mod with 1 bug fix, and a mod update with 2 bug fixes and finished the update for the twitch stats UI

[drifting ore]

nice man

[pulsar heath]

just need to test it a bit longer and ill push the update for the stats mod tomorrow

[drifting ore]

hell of an update to the original lol

[pulsar heath]

well, i've learned a lot here...

so a major update was needed on both mods

[fast galleon]

local TraitFactory = TraitFactory
TraitFactory.overwriteDef = TraitFactory.overwriteDef or {}

util.patchClassMetaMethod(TraitFactory.class,"addTrait",function(addTrait)
    local obsoleteTrait
    return function(traitID,name,cost,description,prof,removeInMP)
        local def = TraitFactory.overwriteDef[traitID]
        if def then
            if def.obsolete then
                obsoleteTrait = obsoleteTrait or Trait.new("","",0,"",false,false)
                return obsoleteTrait
            end
            cost = def.cost or cost
            --etc
        end
        return addTrait(traitID,name,cost,description,prof,removeInMP or false)
    end
end)

util.patchClassMetaMethod(TraitFactory.class,"addTrait",function(addTrait)
    local obsoleteTrait
    return function(...)
        local arg = {...}
        local def = TraitFactory.overwriteDef[arg[1]]
        if def then
            if def.obsolete then
                obsoleteTrait = obsoleteTrait or Trait.new("","",0,"",false,false)
                return obsoleteTrait
            end
            for i,v in ipairs({"name","cost","description","prof","removeInMP"}) do
                if def[v] then arg[i+1] = def[v] end
            end
        end
        return addTrait(table.unpack(arg)) --pz uses unpack(arg)
    end
end)

I might be overthinking this

[drifting ore]

util.patchClassMetaMethod(TraitFactory.class,"addTrait",function(addTrait) this is correct? only asking because i'm learning also 🙂

such a smart idea though. haha my first deaf trait fix was an embarrassment

[fast galleon]

#mod_development message

[faint jewel]

more carryables for more rp.

[jaunty marten]

@faint jewel patch for garbagetruck is working?

[faint jewel]

it appears so. no complaints yet!

[jaunty marten]

cool

[faint jewel]

you can take a look at the icecream truck if you want lol

wanna get all the small ones done before i throw you into the cess pit that is the trucking mod.

[jaunty marten]

what's problem there?

[faint jewel]

well only one will freeze.

if yiou have one icecream truck the freezer MOSTLY works.

if you have more than one it's a crap shoot.

[jaunty marten]

more than one vehicle right? u will spawn second and in first vehicle freezer stop working

[faint jewel]

pretty much?

it's super weird.

i tried to fix it but people lost their shit.

because i updated it.

[odd notch]

i just delete those comments. there’s always someone that’s going to send you a virtual death threat for fixing bugs in your mod/adding new features

[ancient grail]

Sounds like toxic

[drifting ore]

right, imagine someone being entitled enough to believe that your mod was made for their entertainment specifically. as much as most are for fun for all. it's crazy to see some comments lol

[jaunty marten]

@faint jewel yea, their really works by strange way

[ancient grail]

Ye there are skme that doesnt know anything abt the back end part of the game they think its all part of TIS or something they dont know most modders are seeking to do the mods for their own or as hobby

[weak sierra]

you are wonderful

[faint jewel]

?

[weak sierra]

mp work now?

[weak sierra]

the new carryables

i love that mod so much

was so excited when i saw u post the first ss of a box being carried, heh

[faint jewel]

oh!

yeah the garbage truck is mp friendly and works now!

[weak sierra]

awesome, have held off on that cuz.. mp.. but that'll be fun

:D

ill test that out next time i roll mods out

[faint jewel]

I have a new carryable in the works. iut's been requested for our rp server because someone keep stealing them

[tawdry solar]

anyone know any websites to download music?

i want to make a music mod

[weak sierra]

makes me curious what it is lol

@ancient grail grats on the chainsaw mod's popularity btw

[ancient grail]

I wasnt expecting that kind of question. I think you are the first dude to ask that here

Trying to fix it

Theres a bug on the last version parched it but now it has different bug
I have the fix for that ready to upload but theres still another one i can seem to fix

[faint jewel]

sigh

[weak sierra]

LOL

[jaunty marten]

XDDDD

[bronze yoke]

LOL

[jaunty marten]

https://tenor.com/view/old-lady-talk-not-bad-pearls-gif-17124532

[jaunty marten]

google.. lulxd

[faint jewel]

WHO STEALS TOILETS?

[jaunty marten]

please no.. how to poop now

[real sierra]

Is it possible for a mod running on an MP server to contact other processes running on the same server, please? Like write a file or open a TCP connection or a unix socket or anything?
At the moment I'm kind of assuming the answer is probably no and my best bet would be to print() something to the server console and then have a separate process scrape the output of the server console.

[bronze yoke]

you can write files

[real sierra]

I can write files!?

[bronze yoke]

to the Zomboid/Lua folder and the mod's folder

[real sierra]

No way! I was expecting the sandbox would totally disallow that.

I assume there's a specific API for that?

[bronze yoke]

getFileWriter(String filename, boolean createIfNull, boolean append) for the Lua folder and getModFileWriter(String modId, String filename, boolean createIfNull, boolean append) for the mod folder

[real sierra]

Thank you very much!

Also second question, is there an API for writing stuff down that will be tracked in the current save game? I want to persist some counters and stuff.

[weak sierra]

stealing them from other players, or just random houses?

lol

[faint jewel]

players

[weak sierra]

that's hilarious

[faint jewel]

they stole one guys THREE TIMES

[weak sierra]

no safehouse protection?

xD

haha

[jaunty marten]

u can't... remove ur mod NOW

[faint jewel]

he tried to find out who did it but HE HAS NOTHING TO GO ON

[weak sierra]

xD

i love it

[bronze yoke]

yeah, most objects have a getModData() method, and there's global moddata ModData.getOrCreate(string key) - both return regular lua tables that get saved to the file

[real sierra]

Thank you so much. 🙂

[ancient grail]

Inspired by what actually happened at krp? They say some really does wteals toilet 2 of his toilet got stolen

[faint jewel]

that's who i made it for lol.

[ancient grail]

Lol

https://tenor.com/view/my-bad-sry-mistake-thief-gif-10856898

[weak sierra]

install a tile protector mod

literally just protect toilets

profit

u have me curious about this server, more than i already was - i run one so i won't be able to play on another server regularly but i'd love to come see what ur doing if that's ok

xD

[faint jewel]

it's the sims lol.

[weak sierra]

yeah i get the concept, i'd like to see it in action tho

i run an RP server i can handle it 😎

lol

[ancient grail]

Zedless

[bronze yoke]

we do have tile protection, so i don't know what's going on there, but i'm pretty happy that the toilet thieves are thriving regardless

[weak sierra]

i remember the guy who was starting it coming in here with enormous plans trying to hire modders iirc

if that's the same one

[bronze yoke]

probably, he did that a few times even in my time

[ancient grail]

Hahahaa

Albiond still serious face on .. the tile protect thing i mean the author never took accoubt of toilet as it doesnt seem oike anyone will do stuff to it

[faint jewel]

oh FFS it will not place this toilet right.

[ancient grail]

Ss

[weak sierra]

Toilket (n,): An anti-theft device for porcelain toilets, inspired by the bear trap.

[ancient grail]

Lol.

Who ever stealing those toilet seats knows how to HARDCORE RP

How come the sheriffs couldnt catch him i wonder

[faint jewel]

they have nothing to GO ON

[weak sierra]

yeah it's the opposite tbh

a really good RPer would leave some kind of way for them to RP about it after the other failing to engage with the topic

but

in lieu of evidence they should post in some kind of public space, get people buzzing about the toilet thief

have a stake-out

etc

keep the RP alive

haha

[ancient grail]

Omg 😱 we are in different realms . I only know pvp stuff despite the game not being pvp worthy we still try to make it so

Im making a closequartercombat mod
And thats anothing i forgot to test.. damn.. i forgot to upload the atm2 update too .. i need to sleep whatver

[rustic grove]

what goes into ISScrollingListBox:addItem? It says (name, item) and name clearly adds some text to a scrollistbox line, but what is item? A separate panel? Game item? I'm confused lol

[faint jewel]

check the githuib for "SimpleUI API"

[rustic grove]

I'm specifically avoiding a 3rd party library like this in favor of learning the vanilla components if possible, so does anyone happen to know what the item in ISScrollingListBox:addItem(name, item) refers to? Thanks ^_^

[bronze yoke]

i think it just keeps track of whatever the entry is supposed to represent?

so that it has something to call back to when you click on it or something

[rustic grove]

ahh, ok I'll check along those lines then, thank you 🙂

[real sierra]

Oh I have the dumbest question. When I'm testing a mod locally, where does print() output go, please?

I'm uh used to working on Linux where there's always a tty, there's no obvious tty hanging around when I launch the game from Steam, and "ProjectZomboid64.exe" always seems to detach itself from the terminal window as soon as I run it.

[tawdry solar]

thanks

[bronze yoke]

run the game with the -debug launch parameter for an in-game console

[tawdry solar]

oh i thought this was a place

im dumb

[bronze yoke]

it also goes into console.txt, or coop-console.txt for the serverside in multiplayer testing

[real sierra]

beautiful, thank you

[odd notch]

there’s also the writelog function

[real sierra]

I see that in LuaManager.GlobalObject.

[odd notch]

writeLog(“foo”,”hello world”) will make a file in your server’s log folder called foo if one isn’t there already

and put hello world on a new line

err

writelog might be the client sided one

i’m too tired rn let me check

#mod_development message

here’s when i learned about it

writelog is client side, server side is a diff thing

[real sierra]

It seems like you have to do things differently for MP and SP mods? I'm wanting to iterate a list of all the players in the game and I'm seeing that getConnectedPlayers() returns [] and getOnlinePlayers() returns nil when I'm in SP

I would have kinda hoped for both of them to return a list with a single element, being the SP player

should I be calling something to detect if the game is singleplayer or multiplayer?

[bronze yoke]

you can test that with not (isClient() or isServer())

[real sierra]

should isClient() should always be false in a media/lua/server/Foo.lua file?

[bronze yoke]

no, server folder still runs on clients

[real sierra]

oh. ty

[jaunty marten]

@real sierra will useful to u for other things in future
#mod_development message

[real sierra]

Handy, ta.

[drifting stump]

its just a name because its original use was for uis with items

again its just a name

it stores that var in a table

[weak sierra]

getOnlinePlayers was hobbled recently for security concerns (i don't agree with the logic) so it only returns a complete list for admins now, and for regular users just those loaded in having been in their 150 tile reality bubble.

just fysa

[real sierra]

I only need it on the server, not the client

that's a useful heads up, ta

[vague raven]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2844315442&searchtext=udderly

[vague raven]

Is there a list of all props that can be used in recipes anywhere?

[odd notch]

evelyn is best girl

[ancient grail]

Give us example

[vague raven]

    {
       Headphones,
       keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Screwdriver],

       Result:ElectronicsScrap,
       Time:30.0,
       OnTest:Recipe.OnTest.DismantleElectronics,
       OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.DismantleElectronics,
       Category:Electrical,
       AnimNode:Disassemble,
       Prop1:Screwdriver,
       Prop2:CDplayer,
    }```

Prop 1 and Prop 2

[drifting ore]

just items

[humble oriole]

Is it possible to have a drainable item spawn with 0 delta?

[vague raven]

Any items?

[drifting ore]

sure why not lol for the most part

[jaunty marten]

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/15188-item-and-recipe-script-variables-brief-description/
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/53019-details-on-the-improved-modding-tag-system-in-4169/

[vague raven]

thanks bossman

[bronze yoke]

any model afaik

[ancient grail]

Ow prop you can input anything that has staticmodel

[drifting ore]

yea tagging i think is pretty important to get used to also

[bronze yoke]

of course if it's not set up to be held it won't work well

[drifting ore]

makes using them way easier in the long term

[jaunty marten]

he meant key part

[ancient grail]

U can can also indicate source=1

Which is the first line you added

[vague raven]

Can you require someone to have a Welding Mask on or at least show it on their face?

[bronze yoke]

keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.WeldingMask],

[ancient grail]

Or source 2 for second line forsnt really matter what.. if u use the tag the. Thats even more possible items to show up

[vague raven]

Yeah but in that case they can just have it in their inventory, I would like it to be displayed on their face.

[ancient grail]

See without example or proper context we would never have known that prop is from the recipe . Cuz i was thinking like moveables

[bronze yoke]

you can check if they're wearing it with OnTest, don't remember if there's one you could use to force them to wear it

[jaunty marten]

as Ik only for object disassembly (exactly not crafting) we can force player to equip mask

[ancient grail]

I wasnt able to remove the drink submenu context entries that i needed yesterday.. cuz when i jist rrmoved the drink context it removed all of em including from non alcoholic items 😦

[ancient grail]

Only with timeaction afaik

[vague raven]

Damn.

Oh well that's ok.

[jaunty marten]

item:isAlcoholic()

[ancient grail]

Ye thats not the whole case. And i checked for that

[jaunty marten]

what's the problem with isAlcoholic?

alcohol is alcohol

[humble oriole]

You like moonshine? Have a mod to distill it coming soon

[vague raven]

That sounds interesting.

[jaunty marten]

agree with u

[jaunty marten]

amazing

[humble oriole]

still messing with model sizes

[sour island]

Include prison wine

[humble oriole]

🚽

[sour island]

🥣 yes pls

[jaunty marten]

can we put it literally on the stove to get max performance in production and the chance that our house will burn to the ground?

[humble oriole]

hahah, no, I just made it electricity based. First mod so I didn't want to dive too hard into swapping sprites and doing it with a propane burner

[jaunty marten]

he-he

[humble oriole]

our biogas digester to make "propane" does have a modifier based on temperature

[jaunty marten]

[jaunty marten]

cool models

[humble oriole]

yea, @versed viper does excellent work.

[jaunty marten]

@versed viper 👍

[humble oriole]

We're going to have some guys test the ever living shit out of it and we're tweaking distributions before releasing it. Probably be out in a week or two

[jaunty marten]

cool

[drifting ore]

i had a hard time with figuring out distributions. surprisingly .0000001 * .00000001 is where i ended up on the low end with that *500 as the high end. i still don't feel like i get it fully lol

using a variable but still its crazy. i sat with lootzed for 3 hours

testing...

[humble oriole]

yea, I just tweak numbers until it looks right in vanilla lol

[drifting ore]

i made it changeable by server own via sandboxvar so it can be silly rare or like 65% chance at max

on low end is like .00005

cant even use bookstore... it will spawn every time

[opal rivet]

Looks Epic

[weak sierra]

when it gets too small it stops mattering

that's what i figured out

[drifting ore]

that makes sense really lol

[weak sierra]

like i can't make ammo cans rare enough for myself

it's not doable

one way to get around it is to make a mystery box item

instead of a bunch of types of X

[drifting ore]

seemed like i just had to take away some room defs and change to others

oooo

[sour island]

You could tap into onFill and just nuke it there

[weak sierra]

but fills of containers can stack on top of each other

so u could delete stuff that existed successfully last time

lol

[sour island]

You can set a flag on the item

[weak sierra]

good point

yeah

that'd work

[ancient grail]

how can i get the submenus

[sour island]

For context menus? You add a sub menu header and add options to it

[jaunty marten]

get submenu of option?

[ancient grail]

ye of the drink

[bronze yoke]

didn't we talk about this yesterday

[ancient grail]

it didnt work

im back to square 1

[bronze yoke]

the suboptions are stored in a table (submenu option).options

[rancid tendon]

this is from a while ago but a couple days ago i had someone call me a slur in the comments of my music mod because it was 'unoriginal' and basically complained that it wasn't specifically made for him

it's incredible how insane steam commenters are

[bronze yoke]

isn't your music mod like

*the* most original music mod LOL

[rancid tendon]

his complaint was that it contained too many tracks like other mods because it had all the 'pop rock' and etc that you see in every other pack

but like. bro. there's 1000 songs in there. there's fucking bauhaus and godspeed you black emperor. what the fuck are you talking about

[vast nacelle]

Some people are just needlessly picky.
Currently doing a "scenario" where my group is trying to gather all books and such to archive the pre-apocalypse.
Wanted to use Named Literature but one of them adamantly refused to use it since "there are real books he would recognize".
Would only accept the mod if it used fictionalized names.
... All 5000 of them...

[rancid tendon]

........... huh??

but...

[ancient grail]

lol

[rancid tendon]

project zomboid has plenty of references to real life culture...

[ancient grail]

have em put everything on a list

randomize the names of books that spawns

[rancid tendon]

i guess everything is fictionalized in pz, it's never so direct, but

that's just so picky lol

[bronze yoke]

my immersion immediately vaporising upon finding a copy of moby dick

[rancid tendon]

zombies could never have come about in a world where moby dick was written .

[cosmic condor]

"Kentucky isn't real"

[humble oriole]

we swapped ammo cans from spawning boxes of ammo to just x number of bullets in britas

[weak sierra]

im talking about my own ammo crafting mod

i kept turning down the spawns by 100x and they kept being too common

after a certain point i think it was just rounding up

[humble oriole]

ah, got ya

[weak sierra]

for a while we just disabled them spawning entirely

ammo already spawns loose

these were supposed to be super rare caches of lots of an ammo

for flavor/luck

[humble oriole]

we have it nerfed into the ground and it's def still too much

[weak sierra]

i think what im gonna do is make a mystery box type thing, since that's easy

[rancid tendon]

isn't there something about values in lua basically ignoring everything after 0.000

[weak sierra]

but if i ever need a more wide-ranging solution chuck's seems good

[humble oriole]

just use my loot box mod and make your own art

[weak sierra]

i mean i can write a random ammo can giving recipe

lol

thanks tho

[bronze yoke]

swapping the dummy item onfill might be prettier

players will never know

[weak sierra]

but they'll get the dopamine hit from opening every ammo box

and it'll make ammo looting slower and more deliberate

that might actually be good

xD

ill think about it.

i took a screen of what chuck said cuz i do like that approach

anyway im off to bed

gn

[vast nacelle]

Sealed Mystery Box
Please pay Udderly 1 UdderlyBuck to get a key to open

[humble oriole]

yea, we sell loot boxes like that on our in game store

Random guns/ammo and an armor set.

people love em, we also use the code to do like random book boxes, we did a Halloween and Christmas box.

[sour island]

I've seen people like that they can see books they know - and try to find whole series

I considered pushing the titles through a thesaurus lol

[humble oriole]

Can I use onFill to set the delta of an item to 0 when it spawns in?

[pulsar heath]

uff done... second mod tested and updated

[sour island]

Only if you also set a boolean in modData to not run your function again

onFill is ran every time a container is viewed iirc

[bronze yoke]

only when it's filled

so first load + loot respawn and stuff

[humble oriole]

I'm just looking for a way to set those industrial propane tanks to 0 when they're distributed or even a random number that's not just 100%

[sour island]

I feel like it runs everytime the container is viewed - I'd have to check

[bronze yoke]

it's possible - i was pretty sure it was how i said but my code wouldn't actually care if it is that way or not so i could have missed it

[jaunty marten]

why? I already have a few in my basement 🤔

[cosmic condor]

What is the point to use that mod if they don't want the book they know irl

[ancient grail]

i cant seem to make it work im still stuck here

local function BelieverContext(player, context, items)
        local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player);         
        if not playerObj:HasTrait("Believer") then  return end
        items = ISInventoryPane.getActualItems(items)
        for _, item in ipairs(items) do 
                local drinkOption = context:getOptionFromName(getText("ContextMenu_Drink"));
                if drinkOption then            
                        if item:getCustomMenuOption() == getText("ContextMenu_Drink") and item:isAlcoholic() then                        
                        local toolTip = drinkOption.toolTip or ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.addToolTip();
                        toolTip.description = getText("I shall not Commit Sin");
                        drinkOption.toolTip = toolTip;
                        drinkOption.notAvailable = true       
                        --ISContextMenu:removeOptionByName()
                        break
                        end
                end
        end
end   

        
Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Remove(BelieverContext);
Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(BelieverContext);

[flint beacon]

Is it possible to change the sprite of and existing one, when crafting a recipe? [Say i had a workbench, i wanted to upgrade it to a workbench lvl2 with a different tile that has some noticable changes like tools on the workbench now]

[ancient grail]

im asumming the workbench is a tile and not an item right

[flint beacon]

yeah a tile

[dark wedge]

Recipes have the OnCreate method, and you have access to the player making the recipe. You'll likely have to just re-get the tile with the object in that function so you can do things to it. I haven't played with making my own objects, but probably the best would be to destroy the current object and replace with the new object and its fancy new sprite in that function.

[ancient grail]

you can check my safecracker, functionalatm and beartrap mod.. they all have sprite changing functions

you also to need to add a checker if you are near the tile by adding an oncreate

[dark wedge]

optional things are not immersive. 0/10. unsubscribed.

huzzah. forward progress. first pass on cleaning up the animation, but still needs more "oomph". fixed the hit detection, your offhand takes durability damage, and the attack animation now dictates how long the attack action is so its all based on the calculated offhand attack speed.

[ancient grail]

https://imgur.com/fFxuE3o

faster shove lol

accidentaly made this

[small topaz]

are there already mods giving all the books individual titles? (not only skill books)

[ancient grail]

you just need 1 item which already exists in game
You can just item:setDisplayName()

Idk what event
But if i would do it ill probably use
DoParam that runs every minuite so that it sorta randomize loots too an expensive method but it will get the job done no sweat

[nimble spoke]

Use OnFillContainer

[agile vigil]

Oh hell yeah, I can just programmatically update recipes instead of having to create patches for things that don't use the "GetRecipeTypes" style of ingredients.

[ancient grail]

it will run on tick tho if its onfill.. unless maybe you add pauses

[nimble spoke]

I didnt have any issues using it for changing weapon conditions

[willow estuary]

That is a very wrong misunderstanding.

It runs when a container is filled with loot or items, which is ordinarily when a container is first within approximately 150 tiles of the players.

I dunno why there's so much misinformation about that event in his channel.

[ancient grail]

ahh ok then thnx for the clarification

this is a pretty useful lesson .. ive always thought its supposed to be that way but there was a time that the i saw the menu with nothing written and it was blinking thought its cuz of that i mean thought is cyz running it on tick

[ancient grail]

i just tested it now yep youre right thnx again

[thick karma]

Since you're coming back to that ping, anyway, Blair, quick question: have y'all ever considered letting modders flag mod updates as "soft" in the sense that it's okay if two clients are running different versions? Is that feasible?

[willow estuary]

That sounds like something that could cause disasters.

[thick karma]

I mean if something were misflagged perhaps

But there are already a lot of misuses that cause disasters in Zomboid... what's one more!? 🤪

[willow estuary]

Still sounds like something that people could mistakenly ruin saves with.

[thick karma]

But if code is entirely clientside... it should be safe in theory, right?

Fair enough

Understandable resistance

[willow estuary]

We want less of that stuff, not more.

[vast nacelle]

Have you tried drinkOption.options = {} just before local toolTip = ....?

[thick karma]

Reason I ask is because I see a ton of people with 400-500 mod servers complain about the need to reset frequently on updates

Often those updates don't strictly require other clients to have the same code

[willow estuary]

They dug their own hole.

[thick karma]

Haha fair

I was thinking it would solve a lot of headache in an easy way, but, yeah, it would provide one more way for people to bork their own stuff.

Or the stuff of others.

[thick karma]

I think he's past the drink thing he was stuck on... I helped him in DM

[vast nacelle]

Ah, good

[vast nacelle]

Can we at least get the media/lua/shared/translate folder removed from the checksum calculation or whatever so updates/additions to translations don't require a server restart?

[willow estuary]

Servers choose to use lots of mods that uodate frequently in a fashion that is inconvenient to said servers operations.

Servers that run 400-500 mods are always going to have problems with mods.

Playing whack a mole with the corner case inconveniences is just Duct taping the symptoms, not actually addressing the disease.

[cosmic condor]

some servers solve this problem by creating a modpack, which creates another problem

[hot patrol]

Plus there are already mods that exist to make server resetting for updates pretty hands free. As someone who has played plenty of modded DayZ restarts come with the territory. If anything I think with MP being more of an element in The game modders should try to better set update schedules.

Unlisted mod packs are also a good idea. I know some modders don't like their stuff being repacked but I imagine so long as it is unlisted there is no need for concern.

[cosmic condor]

funny how it's making modders afraid to update their mods

update schedule is good idea

[tardy wren]

It would require like... The workshop to have a schedule instead, since you can't really coordinate modders from around the world to update at the same hour

[cosmic condor]

"Workshop Wednesday"

[tardy wren]

I imagined it being once a day or once every eight hours lmao

Anyway... Has anyone here worked with Moodle Framework?

[cosmic condor]

it's an utopia lol

[tardy wren]

I need to make my moodle-dependant mod compatible with those

[fast galleon]

no steam, no cry servers

Friday Updates, following Thursdoid

||FU or f...ups for short||
nsfw

[ancient grail]

its done

slr

burryaga and albion helped me

local function BelieverContext(player, context, items)
        local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player);         
        if not playerObj:HasTrait("Believer") then  return end
        items = ISInventoryPane.getActualItems(items)
        for _, item in ipairs(items) do 
                local drinkOption = context:getOptionFromName(getText("ContextMenu_Drink")) 
                if drinkOption and item:isAlcoholic()  then   
                        local toolTip = drinkOption.toolTip or ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.addToolTip()
                        toolTip.description = getText("Believer: I shall not Commit Sin");                
                        local drinkOption = context:insertOptionAfter("Drink", "Drink")
                        drinkOption.toolTip = toolTip;                 
                        drinkOption.notAvailable = true
                        context:removeOptionByName(getText("ContextMenu_Drink"))                       
                end
        end
end   

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(BelieverContext);

local function BelieverContext2(player, context, items)
        local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player);         
        if not playerObj:HasTrait("Believer") then  return end
        items = ISInventoryPane.getActualItems(items)
                for _, item in ipairs(items) do
                    local smokeOption = context:getOptionFromName(getText("ContextMenu_Smoke"));            
                       if smokeOption then
                        if item:getEatType() == 'Cigarettes'  or item:getFullType() == 'Base.Cigarettes' or item:getOnEat() == 'OnEat_Cigarettes' then    
                                local toolTip = smokeOption.toolTip or ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.addToolTip();
                                toolTip.description = getText("Believer:  I shall not Commit Sin");
                                smokeOption.toolTip = toolTip;
                                smokeOption.notAvailable = true
                                end
                        end                        
                end       
end   
Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(BelieverContext2);

incase anyone needs similar function

[acoustic dust]

why does pz hate items that are either real heavy or containers that have a bit more capacity than they should?

[drifting ore]

so i succesfully was able to remove vanilla magazines from the game distribution but now theres one thing im stuck on with doing it for other mods. I think i have to add a require for something but i dont know what exactly. ```require "Items/ItemPicker"
require 'Items/Distributions'
require 'Items/ProceduralDistributions'
require 'Items/SuburbsDistributions'
require 'Vehicles/VehicleDistributions'

---Base Game

RemoveItemFromDistribution(Distributions[1], "Base.MechanicMag1", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(SuburbsDistributions, "Base.MechanicMag1", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(VehicleDistributions, "Base.MechanicMag1", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list, "Base.MechanicMag1", nil, true)

so like for example require "Greenfire"

just the module?

[fast galleon]

need everything after client/server/shared e.g. folder/file.lua

[drifting ore]

oh ok

thanks

just to be sure. require "Server/GreenfireDistributions.lua"

oh after