mod_development

[tame mulch]

Can you send mod folder in zip archive here?

[tawdry solar]

ill try

how can i zip it

[glass basalt]

right click, send to -> compressed (zipped) folder

[tawdry solar]

there

@tame mulch did you get it

[tame mulch]

Not yet

[tawdry solar]

alr

[glass basalt]

Finished updating blindcoder's mod, took a different approach to it
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934556282

[limber oar]

https://tenor.com/view/miyako-hoshino-wataten-watashi-ni-tenshi-ga-maiorita-tired-worn-out-gif-17123195

...6000 lines of zombie outfits done.

[tawdry solar]

What mod

[limber oar]

I never want to see an xml file ever again.

[glass basalt]

muhahahahaha
how about json?

. t x t ?

[limber oar]

I would happily marry a txt file at this point

[glass basalt]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-homer-simpson-wedding-bride-marriage-gif-4434861

[limber oar]

The worst part is that all the outfits are functionally identical except for a single item changed

Which should be handleable through a simple lua script

But worn zombie items aren't persistent once the zombie unloads

[glass basalt]

i hate fixing hardcoded crap

[limber oar]

I hate writing it

[tawdry solar]

you figure it yet?

[tame mulch]

No. Something strange. Problem in scripts, but I can't found where

[limber oar]

One day TIS will tweak the zombie code or something, and then I will delete the entire file and replace it with, like...a 10 line lua script

And I will make merry

[tawdry solar]

huh

i did sample cod

code

from the beef patty

[tame mulch]

Do suggestion on TIS forum 🙂

[tawdry solar]

gonna go to sleep

[tame mulch]

Good night! I will write here if will found way how to fix it

[limber oar]

This may be fixed with B42...I was eyeing the new OnZombieCreate event.

If it works the way I hope it works then we're golden.

[tawdry solar]

Ty man

[limber oar]

Not sure if it will treat "Create" as "appears for first time" or "is loaded for player," though. I think the issue comes from the semi-persistent "despawn zombies but still track them" behavior that happens.

If it fires whenever the zombie is physically "created" -- i.e. loaded for the player to see -- we're good 'cause that's right when you'd wanna be forcing any clothing items.

[tame mulch]

Okay, check again module name (you have mistake in it) and change texture to square format (like 256x256)

[drifting ore]

lol slowly figuring this out.

[limber oar]

Does it come with a clap on, clap off function that saves you the trouble of walking over to the switch at the cost of alerting nearby zombies? :P

[drifting ore]

still have to figure out the buttons and attach the functions to the buttons lol

lmao right

this is the LAST feature!

[limber oar]

Actually this is such a profoundly stupid idea I just might make it myself

[drifting ore]

ahaha

[glass basalt]

when tf did that commercial even come out

[limber oar]

back in the 80s, apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfgN5tUgjb8

[drifting ore]

Looking for a guy who would fix this mod. Mod creator gave me permission to change it.

It's payable, of course. DM me

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2832464569

[drifting stump]

the function isnt ready to be used
you shouldnt be creating children in the render
to see how to do ui properly look at https://github.com/Browser8/PZ-Server-Points

[thick karma]

@weary matrix Noticed SalamanderAnder requesting gamepad support for Ladders. I had assumed it was not working; didn't even realize that it was key-activated-alone. If you would like, I could update your mod with gamepad support and send it back to you to save you trouble.

[dark wedge]

Consider this an alpha, not as fleshed out as I was hoping it would be due to the last minute change in reverting damage calculations. But, should be stable enough. I wanted to release what I got and take a break from this thing for a day or 2. Have fun y'all. Thanks for being an inspiration. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934621024

[thick karma]

Does anyone know where vanilla sets all of the player's inventory and loot info back to how it was for KBM players?

Apparently there are 89 individual things in the inventory pane that need to be individually resized correctly in order for the pane to be correct.

Setting x, y, width, height on getPlayerInventory/Loot(0) when the game launches is not enough

Hmmmmm I may have just found a way

Recreating its children may do the trick

Dang no dice, duplicates things

Okay I got it. I need to be using its resize widget

Hmm hold on

That's no dice either... Weird.

Resize widget is apparently not the issue?

[thick karma]

Maybe fixed this by decorating new* (?).

[vivid linden]

I made my first mod yesterday! I put some decent effort into learning how to do it entirely by myself looking through the vanilla files not using other mods (except the example template for file structure). I have a lore-friendly description in-game and everything. Only issue is you do not have the key to the door but who cares you got a window. Feedback would be nice 🙂 I have another one I made after this but I am fixing an issue with it first. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934259602

[gilded hawk]

Hi, sorry for necro-posting, but I need to ask how do I update the value of a field I obtained using getClassField and getClassFieldVal?

Like, I need to update the value of ClothingItem.java, the public String m_MaleModel; field

local scriptManager = getScriptManager();
local clothingItemAsset = scriptManager:FindItem("Base.Jacket_ArmyCamoGreen"):getClothingItemAsset()

-- Using Nuzzleskatev getfield
local m_MaleModel = getClassFieldValueByName(clothingItemAsset, "m_MaleModel");

print('Base.Jacket_ArmyCamoGreen.m_MaleModel: '..m_MaleModel)

[tame mulch]

You can't change value of java object. Only by set functions

[gilded hawk]

Does this mean that because there are no setters inside ClothingItem I can't set the values at all?

[tame mulch]

You can read some fields of java objects. But you can't set values by same way. For change values need use functions of object, that change this value

So, if ClothingItem don't have setter for this param, then you can't change this value

[gilded hawk]

Damn, this will be a huge roadblock for my mod development

Well, thank you anyway.

[hot patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/ive-waited-so-long-for-this-michael-imperioli-uriel-lucifer-i-waited-forever-gif-17380948

[weary matrix]

@thick karma sure, that would be nice. You can submit a pull request on github if you like

[hot patrol]

@dark wedge So I noticed for brutal handwork you made most of the configuration sandbox restricted. would it be possible for you to make some of the rebinds in the normal settings as well?

[red tiger]

He's alive.

[thick karma]

I can do that.

Wanna DM me the link?

I'll let you know when I get to it... I'll probably do it today if it's easy, which I expect it should be.

I still need to find a ladder that reliably works, though... Tried E on my keyboard in Raven Creek and had similar results to others 😭

Maybe because I was running 10 YL, will test that further.

[red tiger]

Good morning.

[ancient grail]

how do i easily put all the plumable world obj on 1 table

is there a certain p-roperty i should look for

[red tiger]

Does PZ ever plan on consolidating script files with modules?

I can see this breaking mod support for overriding files but it'd be an easy fix.

ZedScript files that are prefixed or suffixed with 'new' have been there for ages now.

[faint jewel]

hey, I have an idea for a mod if anyone is interested?

[red tiger]

Drop it by the marketplace for comms later on if you can.

[faint jewel]

an "inspect weapon" mod that would show the 3d model of the weapon at a large scale and maybe some stats at the bottom?

for all the people who want to put an assload of detail into a weapon that will never be seen, at least with that mod it can be seen.

[red tiger]

Oh darn that sounds cool.

[faint jewel]

maybe it have it show the attachments it has and all that.

or have the ability to add them in the inspect window.

that's a bit more than i was thinking but yeah

[tawdry solar]

Ty man

still cant see whats wrong

[pulsar heath]

@red tiger im in dire need of your advices 😄

[red tiger]

What's up?

[pulsar heath]

making something dynamic is a pain... and that leads to errors made by the user... so i was thinking maybe it would be better to define a standard syntax for the json string so that it follow some "logic" allowing me to check for errors on the string

since you work with gigantic json data strings

i think you would be the best choice to give me some tips on how to structure the json string

unless you have a way of working with dinamicly created stuff... im already making the UI based on the json string

and one typo "kills" the whole thing

so i was thinking maybe... a static syntax would be best even if it limits the end use case scenario... so your thoughts on this would be apreciated

[red tiger]

I can't respond immediately so give me a bit. I am reading it.

[pulsar heath]

take your time 🙂

[red tiger]

And yeah I spend time in the abstract with data.

[pulsar heath]

the whole ui is abstract as of now, taking the static menus for config login info and stuff

[red tiger]

For example: https://github.com/asledgehammer/ZedScriptParser/blob/main/src/ast.d.ts

Heh

Those types define the entire ZedScript schema and JSON can be hundreds of thousands of lines long.

Ok brb

[pulsar heath]

hmmm so use the type do detect what type of json the user sent or created, based on that allow for less strict json for that typ or more strict depending on the "use" of it? That make sense

and from that i can create the syntax for every type, and allow for a custom type that its 100% user made and handled

uh, you've unblocked my brain 😄

[red tiger]

Oh and look up JSON Schema format.

[tawdry solar]

can anyone help me

[red tiger]

That'll help if you need further help figuring it out

[pulsar heath]

cheers, i will.. now to make the types and structure for the basic stuff and then further expand it

[pulsar heath]

dunno if i can but i can give it a shot, what do you need?

[tawdry solar]

alright thanks

Aiteron said this but idk whats wrong with module name

ohh

wait

he said check again module name (you have mistake in it) and change texture to square format (like 256x256)

[pulsar heath]

so youre calling the module with a typo and the texture needs to be a square

the width and height has to be the same

[tawdry solar]

but idk the issue is with module

i know msth is wrong

but idk what

[pulsar heath]

show me the code then

[tawdry solar]

for the model

for the item

[red tiger]

or without lua lol

[tawdry solar]

eh?

[pulsar heath]

you can type in code by
``` code here ````

🙂

[tawdry solar]

i dont get it

[pulsar heath]

nevermind

[tawdry solar]

they arnt .lua

they are .txt

[pulsar heath]

you have Roundmeal

and roundmeal

[tawdry solar]

oh

[ancient grail]

``

--code here

``

Ow nvm its not lua

[tawdry solar]

thanks man

[pulsar heath]

always check the case of the modules

a typo like that is what usually makes me lose a lot of time and hairs trying to figure out whats wrong 😄

[tawdry solar]

yeah thanks

[red tiger]

Images helps the most from my experience.

[drifting stump]

afternoon chaps and chapettes

will likely have tuesday off

[tawdry solar]

hm

it still wont show

i changed texture size

and the error

[tacit plover]

i think you have to specify the folder in your mesh

models_X/[your model]

[tawdry solar]

i dont use x

i use .fbx

so where do i specify

[tacit plover]

yeah, but you have to follow the folder the model is in

zomboid uses that name for the models folder

[bronze yoke]

fbx files should be in models_X, but you don't need to include the folder in the mesh entry

[tawdry solar]

i dont have models_x

this is my files

[bronze yoke]

you can just rename models to models_X

[tacit plover]

rename the models folder to "models_X"

[tawdry solar]

so then it should work

[bronze yoke]

probably

[tawdry solar]

but i didnt specify

[bronze yoke]

you're not supposed to, but it might not find it if it's in the wrong folder

[tawdry solar]

ah

[bronze yoke]

the normal 'models' folder is for weird old txt models

[tawdry solar]

ah

[ancient grail]

Ow wow finally said something here 🙂

[tawdry solar]

Still wont work

idk if it even spawns in

like to find it

i have it set to icecream freezers

and i cant find any

[bronze yoke]

you should cheat it in with debug item picker

[tawdry solar]

thats what i did

but i cant find ir]

wait

that

[tacit plover]

i'm leaving my lurker shell

[fringe ridge]

Did you notice one of your lines says ROUDMEAL instead of ROUNDMEAL?

Not sure if that's supposed to be like that

[tawdry solar]

it is

thats the texutres nae

name

[fringe ridge]

Nvm i'm being blind xD

[ancient grail]

thats good news !

[fringe ridge]

(this what happens when i try to be overly helpful ROFL)

[tawdry solar]

this is what happens when i build a mod from scratch at 3 am

i did go to sleep guys

its 4pm

[fringe ridge]

Now that i'm here, i actually have an issue of my Own. i figured out i can replace recipes with the use over Obsolete:true and Override:true but using just Obsolete doesn't remove a recipe, is there another way?

[tawdry solar]

trying to figure this out makes me wanna cry

[fringe ridge]

what seem to be the problem? maybe my limited knowledge can help

[tawdry solar]

the model will not spawn

[fringe ridge]

did you restart the game after making all the changes etc?

[tawdry solar]

the icon does

[tawdry solar]

yeah

been like this for the past hour

[bronze yoke]

your model is exactly models_X/model_ROUNDMEAL.fbx?

[tawdry solar]

yeah

[fringe ridge]

Not sure what the model is exactly but i got mine to work by just placing them in the correct folder, didn't even have to assign the texture it just "works"

My models and textures have the same names so for example modelname is M13Bo1.fbx and the texture is called M13Bo1.png

in my case the models are in \media\models_X\weapons\2handed and the textures are in \media\textures\weapons\2handed

and all i have for the model code is this:

        {
        mesh = Weapons/2handed/M13Bo1,
        }```

[tawdry solar]

oh

do i have to specify folder

[fringe ridge]

I did, because i wanted them to be in a subfolder

the model is a Japanese Bo (or a Bo-staff if you will)

sec

[tawdry solar]

i just made subfolders

bc im adding more to the mod later

[bronze yoke]

be careful of case sensitivity

[fringe ridge]

https://gyazo.com/f5fd4b767df825f4b66ce86149b77baa

[bronze yoke]

your models are in weapons but your script specifies Weapons, this will break for non-windows users

[fringe ridge]

ahh good to know

so people not using windows will have a non-functioning mod because the folder is in lowercase

[tawdry solar]

can somone help with this

with specifying location

[fringe ridge]

i didn't know this, i'll fix and reupload that real quick xD

[faint jewel]

also, ALL of your weapons could use the Bo3 texture

[tawdry solar]

can somone help me specify thus

[fringe ridge]

Yeah i kinda realized that later, but if i remove 1 and 2 they won't get removed due to how Steam works

so i kinda left it like that

[bronze yoke]

renaming the folder might cause problems like that, better to just correct it in the script

[tawdry solar]

can somone help

i made subfolders but idk how to specify

[fringe ridge]

i edited the script, because renaming the folder with a uppercase W won't change it

[tawdry solar]

would that work

[hollow current]

This is what mind looks like

mine*

[fringe ridge]

i personally would start with removing the prefixes

But that's just me

[tawdry solar]

hm

this is what i did

i do have scale

[hollow current]

the first "slash", if I am not mistaken, points to the root directory of the mod

[tawdry solar]

eh?

[hollow current]

You should remove the first slash

maybe

[tawdry solar]

ah

[hollow current]

hold on

[tawdry solar]

what mine looks like

[bronze yoke]

if you do it this way you are telling it to look for models_X/models/..

[tawdry solar]

oh

i just have models_x

[bronze yoke]

the game already knows the models are in the models folder, you don't need to add that to the path

[fringe ridge]

shouldn't it be food/model_ etc then instead?

[tawdry solar]

no im stupid

[fringe ridge]

not models/food etc

[tawdry solar]

it was a misstake

[hollow current]

inside your mod's media folder, use this form:

inside models_X, you can place your FBX

[tawdry solar]

this is my media

[tawdry solar]

thats what i did

[hollow current]

what's the name of your FBX? model_ROUNDMEAL?

you should use mesh = model_ROUNDMEAL

[tawdry solar]

yeah

[tawdry solar]

its in a subfolder

[hollow current]

mesh = food/model_ROUNDMEAL

[fringe ridge]

food/model_ROUNDMEAL

[hollow current]

Same idea for textures

[bronze yoke]

i don't think the issue is the path, it looked like you had it right earlier and it still wasn't working

[tawdry solar]

thats what i did

[hollow current]

texture = food/texture_ROUNDMEAL

[tawdry solar]

yeah i did it for sorting

im gonna add more stuff

[fringe ridge]

Should make sure your base stuff works first XD

[tawdry solar]

i changed it

[tawdry solar]

it works

[hollow current]

don't include models_X and textures

[tawdry solar]

i just cant get models to work

[tawdry solar]

why

[fringe ridge]

i edited the script to use lowercase w's @bronze yoke , will upload that tiny change to the workshop in a bit

[tawdry solar]

like this

[hollow current]

mesh = food/model_ROUNDMEAL,
texture = food/texture_ROUNDMEAL,
scale = 1.0```

[fringe ridge]

without the / in front of "food"

[hollow current]

yea

[tawdry solar]

done

[fringe ridge]

or it will go BACK 1 folder then start looking for food, which it won't find

[hollow current]

idk if its the same as HTML, but if I remember correctly when I was learning HTML, a slash in the beginning means root directory

idk if its the same for other languages

[fringe ridge]

if it still doesn't show up with code after you restarted the game then either your model or texture isn't working

[bronze yoke]

i don't really know what it'll do exactly, but it won't work

[fringe ridge]

i assume you did your uvmap

[tawdry solar]

if i put a model while in blender

sorry

texture

would that break it

[fringe ridge]

No you can actually put your texture in blender to see if your uvmaps are correct XD

[tawdry solar]

thats what i did

[fringe ridge]

But in my personal opinion you should remove the prefixes and make the filenames shorter

[tawdry solar]

alr

[fringe ridge]

anyways i gotta bolt

dinner won't cook itself

[hollow current]

would anyone be able to point me to the vanilla code that allows zombies to have the key of the house they died in?

can't find it

need to actually find the way/function to allow players to create keys for a specific doorknob and the way to create a duplicate of a key (i.e. copying the key into a new key)

[tawdry solar]

also i think i fucked up spawns

distributions

[hollow current]

rip

[tawdry solar]

anyone help?

[hollow current]

media\lua\server\Items\Distributions_Jumpstarter.lua

[tawdry solar]

yeah

[hollow current]

require 'Items/ProceduralDistributions'

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["CarSupplyTools"].items, "Jumpstarter");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["CarSupplyTools"].items, 6);

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["GarageMechanics"].items, "Jumpstarter");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["GarageMechanics"].items, 0.05);

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["MechanicShelfElectric"].items, "Jumpstarter");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["MechanicShelfElectric"].items, 6);

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["MechanicSpecial"].items, "Jumpstarter");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["MechanicSpecial"].items, 10);

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["GigamartTools"].items, "Jumpstarter");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["GigamartTools"].items, 0.05);

what mine looks like ^

[tawdry solar]

what mine lloks like

acc i should ctrl c

`local containerData = ProceduralDistributions.list[containerName]
if not containerData then
print("Container does not exist. Are you sure you typed it in correctly?")
return
end

table.insert(containerData.items, itemName);
table.insert(containerData.items, itemChance);
end

AddLootToType("Roundmeal", "FreezerIceCream", 2)
AddLootToType("Roundmeal", "FridgeSoda", 2)
AddLootToType("Roundmeal", "FridgeSnacks", 2)`

there

i want it to spawn in the gas station icecream freezers

[hollow current]

require 'Items/ProceduralDistributions'

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["FreezerIceCream"].items, "Roundmeal");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["FreezerIceCream"].items, 2);```

try this

replace the whole file contents with this

[tawdry solar]

like so?

[hollow current]

yes

[tawdry solar]

also idk what 'Items/ProceduralDistributions' is

[hollow current]

it basically what controls what items spawn where and what is the chance

[tawdry solar]

but i dont have that

[hollow current]

this is vanilla

steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\server\Items

[tawdry solar]

ah

[hollow current]

inside the file you'll find all containers and what items spawn in them

FreezerIceCream = {
        rolls = 4,
        items = {
            "Icecream", 50,
            "Icecream", 20,
            "Icecream", 20,
            "Icecream", 10,
            "Icecream", 10,
        },
        junk = {
            rolls = 1,
            items = {
                
            }
        }
    },```

this is the container we're working with

[tawdry solar]

ah cool

still wont spawn

i got it to abundant

[hollow current]

is the item spawnable using debug?

[tawdry solar]

yes

[tame mulch]

Try check by lootzed

[tawdry solar]

lootzed?

[hollow current]

did you visit this container before?

it won't spawn in containers you already looted

[tawdry solar]

naw

[hollow current]

aah

[tawdry solar]

new world

[tame mulch]

Open cheats - turn on zedloot cheat - then right click on container icon - open loot zed

[tawdry solar]

where would lootzed be under

[tacit plover]

you need to enable debug mode on your steam launch settings

[tawdry solar]

ah

im using cheatmeny

[tacit plover]

using -debug

[hollow current]

it'd be more efficient to use debug

[tacit plover]

well, its easier using debug mode

[tawdry solar]

ik how

[hollow current]

oh okay

[tacit plover]

with lootzed you can see the spawn % of every item on the container

[drifting stump]

I wouldnt recommend enabling debug this way

When you launch the game there are 2 launch options

[tawdry solar]

where is lootzed

[drifting stump]

Normal launch runs the exe

Alternate launch runs a bat

[tacit plover]

there's a panel on the left of your screen, click on it and open the cheats menu

enable lootzed, and right click on a container

[drifting stump]

If you edit the bat and add the debug parameter to it you can then choose in what mode to launch the game

[hollow current]

why not the properties method tho?

[drifting stump]

Properties control the exe which is used for the normal launch

Alternate launch is more suitable for debug because its easier to remember you put debug on that and it shows a cmd to see prints and errors

Ah you meant properties on steam

It applies to both launches and you cant join server youre not admin of in debug mode

[hollow current]

the steam properties option is, personally, better for me because i tend to quit/re-launch a lot during modding and it'd be really annoying if I have to input -debug everytime i am launching

so I just put it once

and when I am done with modding for the day I remove it

[drifting stump]

Plus debug has some quirks to it

Cba editing the steam properties everytime i need to swap mode

You dont input anything

[fringe ridge]

Starting to hate the steam workshop, i had to change more then the uppercase letters so steam even UPDATES the damn file on the user end :S

[thick karma]

Is there an easy way to safely reset the player's UI? Something like this look approximately correct and safe?

        local playerData = getPlayerData(playerIndex)
        removeInventoryUI(playerIndex)
        playerData:createInventoryInterface()

... or is the answer just "no"?

[drifting stump]

The entire ui?

No

[thick karma]

I need to safely reset the entire inventory UI really

But not the rest of it.

[drifting stump]

Ah inventory only

[thick karma]

Resizing it simplistically doesn't put stuff in the right places

So I am trying to recreate it, which works, except the old UI was running in the background and threw an exception during the death loop

[drifting stump]

That might do it not sure how its implemented specifically

[thick karma]

I think I need removeInventoryUI to prevent that

But I haven't tried it yet

No worries... was just thinkin someone in this community had maybe ran into the desire to do that already

But I guess on KBM it would virtually never come up

nice... that seemed to work...

(I tried like... so many things before I asked.)

lol

[drifting stump]

Im off work in a bit and struggling with ui myself too though in a much different way

Trying to solve some render issues caused by the fast border render

[thick karma]

Feel free to rubber ducky... can't promise I will have any useful insight but I can read and ask questions.

[drifting stump]

Decently sure if anyone can help itll be jab unless you happen to know opengl and zomboids renderer

[thick karma]

Well, I don't, lol, and that's fair enough, but nevertheless I didn't know any Lua like 4 months ago, so, you know, capacity to learn and answer questions about things I presently know nothing about on the basis of literacy and logic.

My brain might get lucky and ask the right question; impossible to know unless I look at ze data.

Also, you know, the rubber ducky doesn't necessarily need a brain at all, right?

[drifting stump]

Definitely helpful having another couple of brain cells looking at it

My 2 and half remaining arent looking good

[tawdry solar]

I got the model to work

I didnt have worldmodel file

[drifting stump]

Looking good right? Then lets overwrite the vanilla function to apply it to all uis

Not working properly

[digital moon]

Can anyone direct me to where I can figure out how to create a restriction on a container to only allow certain items? I've looked at the tileset properties area in TileZed and wasn't sure where to look or if I had to make a script for it

[drifting stump]

Iirc you just point it to a function giving the eligible items

[tawdry solar]

i got it all figured out

[thick karma]

So is the first example the intended background color in the next two? Full transparency?

[tawdry solar]

thanks to another mod maker

[thick karma]

Also which vanilla function are we talking about overwriting?

[tawdry solar]

model works now

[woeful sluice]

Hello all, I was wondering how I could turn a spawnpoint like { worldX = 1, worldY = 1, posX = 1, posY = 1, posZ = 1 } into something I can see on a map? I'm mainly just trying to see where that spawn point would be on a pzfans.com map. Or is there a better tool?

[thick karma]

For what it's worth, to me, this looks like either A) some hardcoding got missed, B) an overwrite got missed, but the question is where and the answer would probably be a matter of stepping forward from the point of attempting to set that background differently (until you find the point where the color gets set again by something else, which presumably must be happening, unless the wrong object's background color has been set by your approach).

[thick karma]

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

This will tell you your current location and you can also mouse around the in-game map to see locations around you

[woeful sluice]

Ah okay perfect, thank you @thick karma.

I guess it's time for me to try and get into modding. Any resources or documentation for nubs like me?

[thick karma]

@woeful sluice https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2929985581

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2925734630

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6tZujOPnDw

You'll also want to check the pins up top. @woeful sluice

I know I can't be the only modder who is gonna want this now... 😉
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934405064

[fringe ridge]

i should actually tell my game to store the saved stuff on a different partition

[thick karma]

@ancient grail

Iol I know you need what I just posted

[red tiger]

Trying to do frosted glass?

[fringe ridge]

https://gyazo.com/e41efffaa09c8b2752f470d3b8abfbdf Done, now all i have to do is move all my stuff there XD

I never bothered to research if i could, happy i can and did... i trust my normal HDD's over any SSD anyday xD

[spare burrow]

Anyone knows what affects the damage and target amount of the basic push (space) ? Is it considered the item Base.BareHands ? It is, i just was going crazy as the hidden item was already present due to the char having it by default, so it wasn't being modified post-char generation

[ancient grail]

Check the threads

[ancient grail]

Im done with the mod

[thick karma]

Grats!

you should DL the mod I just posted lol will make it easier to submit your mods since you have 400592 of them

[humble oriole]

@faint jewel are you planning on writing the item overwrites into the lua via script manager, or are you just sticking to doing it via the script file lol. You even have "Don't do this" in your code haha.

in reference to https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2921029369 specifically

[faint jewel]

a mod to use a mod?

i say dont do it because the game is dilikes overwrites sometimes.

[digital moon]

I'm not sure what I may be doing wrong or if it's by design, but when I watched @viral compass videos when he's using the editor, the tiles show up as whole, but when I try to load mine in - they show up split into an upper and lower half. Am I setting something up incorrectly?

[thick karma]

@drifting ore Are you aware you can look at the code of other workshop items after subscribing to them?

[viral compass]

You need to put them in the 2x folder

[ancient grail]

The. You are on the wrong channel
#mod_support

[thick karma]

If you want a mod to work, I imagine you need to understand some code, or at least the programming structure of the mod, i.e. where files belong, what folders should be named. Idk what to tell you.

[ancient grail]

Welp its now 400593 then

[pulsar heath]

@drifting ore you should learn manners b4 that

[thick karma]

No he isn't

He is developing his own mod Glytch3r, I brought him here on purpose

A music pack for online use doesn't require a mod?

[pulsar heath]

youre not? so you have no manners not developing a mod so go to #mod_support

[digital moon]

I did do that - I created a pack file, viewed it to make sure it was correct then moved the PNG sheet to the 2x tiles but it still does the same thing.

[ancient grail]

His not developing the tru music
He is an end user figuring out how to make the addon . He should contact iBrRus directly instead

[pulsar heath]

yeah he should... and learn how to ask for help

[thick karma]

Is the addon not a mod?

[humble oriole]

I'm just changing some properties of propane tanks and noticed you overwrite them, just curious if you were going to move that to lua so changes like that would stack. It's solvable with mod order, so it's not a huge deal, more curious than anything.

[pulsar heath]

nop its a functionality of the mod

[thick karma]

Music for the End of the World is an addon and also a mod, right?

[pulsar heath]

so he should talk in #mod_support or contact the mod author

why should i help you when you have no manners?

[humble oriole]

I bet if you had a better attitude people would bend over backwards to help you

[pulsar heath]

youre not even willing to learn

you cant just expect for us to vomit out the solution for someone who behaves like a troll

[thick karma]

No more annoying than you have already been

[ancient grail]

Yes he will np goodluck

Look for his discord link on the desxription of his mod

His usually active there

[thick karma]

No, your crappy attitude is annoying

[pulsar heath]

yup

[thick karma]

We help people all day

[pulsar heath]

its not the asking for help but the way you ask for it

[thick karma]

You're just not being a decent human

And you're too arrogant to notice

[faint jewel]

what do you mean?

[thick karma]

I told you twice

[pulsar heath]

find them yourself,

use your brain

if you even have one

[humble oriole]

local scriptManager = ScriptManager.instance

local item = scriptManager:getItem("Base.PropaneTank")
if item then
    item:DoParam("KeepOnDeplete = TRUE")
    item:DoParam("cantBeConsolided = FALSE")
end```

[thick karma]

%userprofile%/Zomboid

[faint jewel]

HSSSSSSS

[thick karma]

@drifting ore

[ancient grail]

I sorta understand how frustrated he must have felt when he was told to understand syntax and all that. We cant blame him tbf
But it wasnt the right conduct to act sure, tho if we atleast understand why then we can perhaps tolerate better 🙂 so thaat enjoy a peaceful community 🙂

[humble oriole]

hahaha, what's that reaction?

[thick karma]

Its fine, good luck

[pulsar heath]

dude... this is a channel to develop mods

not to helpdesk

go to #mod_support

or contact the author

[thick karma]

My bad all

I thought he was doing something like Music at the End of the World

Which may be an add on but it's also a workshop item and thus to me constitutes modding

And didn't seem to belong in support where people learn to USE mods

Idk how True Music addons work clearly

[versed viper]

true music comes with a batch file or some such thing to turn your tracks into items

[thick karma]

Or how people classify them mentally

[versed viper]

it's automated and the instructions are in the main mod's description

[thick karma]

But don't you still need to put a workshop item in the right place and name it and such?

[pulsar heath]

no

its a functionality of the mod

[thick karma]

Oh, had no clue

My bad

[drifting stump]

nah i simply replaced the vanilla function with the new one and it breaks some stencil operations

[red tiger]

I'm all about frosted glass though.

[drifting stump]

unfortunately its nothing that simple

[red tiger]

Let the PZ UI become frosted-glass.

MacOS

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[pulsar heath]

im more into the cheapest version of it, windows aero 😛

[drifting stump]

i thought it was something to do with stencil layers which i implemented in lua the best i could

[versed viper]

okay now put anime girls in the background

[drifting stump]

theres like 1 vanilla operation in java i cant track but since it clears right after shouldnt matter

[fast galleon]

winamp themes when

[drifting stump]

i suspect it might have something to do with

[true vault]

I just wanna make the menus in my medieval mod have a woodgrain background ;-;

[true vault]

Are you sure GPS is turned on to enable tracking?

/s

[rocky yarrow]

Can we simulate players ? (As in : spawn a fake player)

[sour island]

You can spawn in IsoPlayers - thats how the NPC mods work

As for simulating them, it's a huge undertaking.

[drifting stump]

ugh

[rocky yarrow]

I guess it is, thank you

[drifting stump]

seems fixed in the menu

what did i do?

raise the default stencil layer

working ingame

well

ok

[thick karma]

Interesting!

[drifting stump]

do
    local StencilLevel = 1

    function ISUIElement:setStencilRect(x, y, w, h)
        StencilLevel = StencilLevel + 1
        return self.javaObject:setStencilRect(x, y, w, h)
    end

    function ISUIElement:clearStencilRect()
        StencilLevel = StencilLevel > 0 and StencilLevel - 1 or 0
        return self.javaObject:clearStencilRect()
    end

    function ISUIElement:drawRectBorderStatic(x, y, w, h, a, r, g, b)
        self.javaObject:setStencilRect(x+1, y+1, w-2, h-2)
        local renderer = SpriteRenderer.instance
        renderer:glStencilFunc(517, StencilLevel, 255)

        renderer:renderi(nil, x + self:getAbsoluteX(), y + self:getAbsoluteY(), w, h, r, g, b, a, nil)

        self.javaObject:clearStencilRect()
    end
    Events.OnPreUIDraw.Add(function()
        StencilLevel = 1
    end)
end

that event at the might be fine removing i just did it when testing to assure consistency with the vanilla behavior

now to test it on the non static border

its causing issues with the stencil used in scrolling lists

[faint jewel]

because that's a lot of friggin work.

[digital moon]

I've tried it again and ran into the same issue where they show up with the upper and lower halves separated - if I create a new file in TileZed and load up the tileset's that way, it does show them correctly - but when I place the, it ends up with an infinite loop error saying no rules in /rules.txt

[viral compass]

Do you have a rules.txt?

[sour island]

You could mess around with superb survivors - as far as I know Nolan is up for collaboration.

[humble oriole]

It also is best practice to have the most compatibility hahah

[digital moon]

Got it - that worked, thanks!

[faint jewel]

it MAY be, but it will break the way my mod works.

[true vault]

Yanno what else is alot of work? Recreating 3,498 cells

[faint jewel]

oof

[digital moon]

Is there an area in the tile properties that you can specify which items can go on in a container for a mod?

[faint jewel]

pretty sure yeah

[digital moon]

Do you know where it would be or what it would be called?

[glass basalt]

are you referring to its coordinates in a tile, or if items can be placed on top of things in a tile?

[digital moon]

No like if I was making a tool chest and only wanted items categorized as tools to go in it.

[worn juniper]

Can you make an item have 2 Type?

[fast galleon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/279303619277488128/784887271132364800/Tile_Editor_CheatSheet.png
ContainerType

you can find rooms, containers, etc in Distributions.lua

[zinc pilot]

Hey, I've got a function which checks for nearby windows. For some reason, it doesn't seem to find windows that are directed south or west compared to the player... Does anyone here have any clue what could be the culprit?

[glass basalt]

the only thing I know that does something like that are clothesracks. you can try looking at their code

[digital moon]

Oh awesome - thank you.

[humble oriole]

Chuck was working on something like this, but I never followed up cause I just wrote my code to ignore what I didn't want processed

[sour island]

Jog my memory, as I'm not sure if/when I mentioned this 😅

[humble oriole]

You said you were writing it into one of your frameworks I thought, having it so it filtered on specific item type

[sour island]

Ah, to clarify the functions related to inventory display slumps items all together for rendering - what I was talking about was allowing those items to be grabbed pre-render and allow for modders to manipulate them.

Atm one would have to hard overwrite the function or to avoid a hard overwrite slip in behind and reverse the display process (which I don't think is possible/realistic)

But manipulating item transfer is also something that sounds doable, for what it's worth

[red tiger]

Tipsy, tired, and worked but gonna code tonight regardless. =)

[tawdry solar]

@glass basalt finnally got my mod to work

it took some help from another person

i was missing worldmodels

[red tiger]

(Scratches head)
@tame mulch I'm glad the ZedScript format will change for 42. zombie.scripting.objects.Fixing scares me. =(

Writing out the AST schema made parsing it a breeze. =D

[sour island]

what's a timed action that's looped?

[tawdry solar]

just found this may give it a shot

[sour island]

was better literacy removed?

[bronze yoke]

it's been unlisted for a few months

[sour island]

ah someone mentioned it having issues with recovery journal

honestly considering just dropping the read timedaction and making a fake version

only been headaches

[bronze yoke]

sounds like it might be worthwhile

[sour island]

I noticed you have a literacy mod - do you know of any issues with SRJ?

[bronze yoke]

i don't use srj myself, but i've heard they play along

[sour island]

so did moonslime just unlist all their mods?

[tawdry solar]

i remember that

i also remember the person who made it

forgot his name tho

[sour island]

Might leave it alone then

managed to wrap up the EHE MP syncing

might leave the night on a high note lol

• updating SRJ pisses off at least 30 people 😅

[rain iron]

Is it possible to have a submenu in a submenu for the emote radial?
I'm making an emote mod and I want to categorize my own emotes into many submenus without bloating the main emote radial menu.

[sour island]

Yes

[rain iron]

Do you have an example or know of any mod that does this?

[sour island]

True Dancing has a few

but you could just look at the vanilla radial menus as well

[rain iron]

I'm using True Dancing as an example for my mod and it seems to have only one submenu.
I'm looking to make something like
Emote Radial -
-> My Emote submenu
-> Category 1 -> Dance 1, Dance 2, Dance 3
-> Category 2 -> Yes 1, Yes 2, Yes 3
-> Category 3 -> No 1, No 2, No 3
-> vanilla stuff

Category 1,2,3 and so on being my own emote categories

[red tiger]

(Looks at item script properties) ....... .... .... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That's a lot.

I think that I'll split up the item script into their categories.

[rain iron]

Looks like you can give emote variations but I want all of them to be selectable not randomized

[sour island]

If you have only 1 entry it's not random

also if the entry is a string it seems to be a direct call

[wheat kraken]

hey, can someone please tell me how to get translated radios names?

getText( ... ? )

[drifting ore]

yea if its from the translated folder yes getText

[wheat kraken]

but i dont know the in-game names

[drifting ore]

search the game folder lol

[wheat kraken]

i search bro

i dont know if the names got translated

[drifting ore]

i dont get your last comment

if its your mod, you make the translation 😄

[wheat kraken]

i think the in-game radio names dont have translations

[drifting ore]

ohhh

[rain iron]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2762807877 Ahh this mod seems to be doing what I was talking about

[drifting ore]

there is a guide on the radio stuff

i do think its a little different if i recall

i missed the part about radios you mentioned earlier

[wheat kraken]

like, does in Chinese got named translate...

but i dont think so

the transcriptions got, but station names no

[drifting ore]

here read this

#mod_development message

this is a little chat from people here about it and a guide to using wordzed

i'm sure something around this can get you in the right direction

[wheat kraken]

thanks nippy

[red tiger]

So I have to go through all of DoParam. X_X

[drifting stump]

if you use radialmenuapi it handles that for you

[rain iron]

Yup, I'm taking a look into radialmenuapi lua code atm

[red tiger]

You can.. however you have to deeply modify the system to handle it.

I did this for a private commission.

[drifting stump]

?

for submenus?

[red tiger]

Yes. I wrote a recursive submenu solution for emoteRadial UI

Someone paid for it and is theirs to do what they want.

[rain iron]

I don't really like relying on external API but I am not really good at figuring out Lua code

[wheat kraken]

i manage to deal with radialmenus, with submenus too, in radialmenu addon for superb survivors

[red tiger]

But I will say it's doable.

[drifting stump]

it was 14 lines of code for submenu

[red tiger]

?

[drifting stump]

the submenu handling took me 14 loc

[red tiger]

ok?

I'm saying that it's possible to edit the class's code.

Nothing more.

[drifting stump]

you might be thinking of a different kind of submenu because it didnt require changing anything

just provided the functions for handling it

[red tiger]

This

[drifting stump]

like this?

[rain iron]

something like that but with extra menus

[rain iron]

this

[drifting stump]

each slice can keep creating its own submenu

[rain iron]

so something like
ISEmoteRadialMenu.menu['myemotes'].subMenu['emote_category_1'].subMenu['emote_dance_1']?

[red tiger]

Yes. This. Exactly this.

[drifting stump]

doing it through the vanilla table wont work

[red tiger]

You can. You have to modify it though to work.

It'll take some work.

[drifting stump]

or just use the api and its a single function call

[red tiger]

Strange.. There's a ton of specific properties for all items like engineLoudness

o__O

No category for vehicle items.

Going to split up ZedScript item properties to their respective categories.

The current classes for the parser so far:

[spare kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5SVU8Y8CV4

[weary matrix]

I am, and you're unbanned from this server? 😂

[red tiger]

And the forums.

Seven years is a long time.

[weary matrix]

Yeah indeed

how come, what happened?

[red tiger]

Tldr server drama and all sides were unhinged.

I was mad mainly for losing a side gig modding for a server when it all went down lol

[weary matrix]

oh that I know, I mean how come you've been unbanned? 😂

[red tiger]

Now I find it funny

[red tiger]

Idk. For real.

[hollow current]

anyone got an idea what does "MetalValue" do?

/************************ Keys ************************/

    item Key1
    {
        DisplayCategory = Security,
        Weight    =    0,
        Type    =    Key,
        DisplayName    =    Key,
        Icon    =    Key1,
        MetalValue = 5,
        WorldStaticModel = Key,
    }```

[red tiger]

Checked last month and I was able to join here.

Been a good boy ever since.

[weary matrix]

@hollow current how much metal you get from salvaging the item

[hollow current]

ah gotcha, thanks!

[weary matrix]

ah so you don't even know lol

[red tiger]

No I don't and it's really good lore-building material.

And now I pester people about Typescript here.

Also transpiler stuff I'm writing along with a parser library I'm working on for ZedScript.

[weary matrix]

what does typescript has to do with pz?

[red tiger]

PipeWrench.

https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench-Template

https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench

[weary matrix]

oh so you mean now people can mod pz in javascript? 😮

not sure why someone would want to do that 😂

[red tiger]

Typescript typings

Guardrails and type safety

Also generated method signature documentation

Intellisense

Compiler checks

[weary matrix]

I see, doing god's work 😂

[red tiger]

Hahaha

I'm writing a Lua to Typescript transpiler

A full code transpiler

xD

[weary matrix]

oh my

why not getting a job where you'd get paid for your work instead? 😂

[red tiger]

I have a coding job atm

[weary matrix]

oh nice

[red tiger]

Thanks to pz I can build two of the best transpilers in the world. Check out the typings for PipeWrench.

I generate Java typings with in-depth generics.

The Lua to Typescript transpiler is planned to have "type - discovery" technology built in.

The most fun modding I've ever had. <3

[ancient grail]

Why did you get banned? Thats awful

[weary matrix]

nice

[red tiger]

Banned or not I'm always going to have fun modding games.

[weary matrix]

what about making your own game? 😄

[red tiger]

Hahaha then being banned makes sense

[weary matrix]

how so?

[red tiger]

But helping people here is rewarding. I enjoy making tools for modders. You guys are my players.

[red tiger]

I'd be competing in the same genre right?

[weary matrix]

well whatever floats your boat 😂

[red tiger]

Making tools keeps me busy and I love helping people

=)

[vivid rain]

Ehehehehehe, I made a mod/submod very late last night and for a few hours today. Helped to have blender and texturing exp.

[red tiger]

People still use your docs

You did a great job helping people

I redirect them from your site since tis actually did an update to their javadocs.

It's good to hear from you though @weary matrix . You helped a lot of people.

[weary matrix]

oh they finally did? 😂

[red tiger]

Yup.

[weary matrix]

8 years too late but still good to know 😂

[red tiger]

You're able to see javadocs metadata as HTML comments

The date is Nov 2022

Last one was 2015

[weary matrix]

I remember how painfull it was to have the javadoc tool to parse pz decompiled java code 😂

[red tiger]

Having var names now is so helpful

Especially when modding spriterenderer

[weary matrix]

I remember digging the 38 version of the code cause this one had symbols compiled in

[red tiger]

I have build 30 files if you want

Hahaha

[weary matrix]

haha

[red tiger]

I found a archive of the code from 30 I had.

[weary matrix]

good to know, although I don't really mod pz anymore

[red tiger]

Yes I know that you moved on.

Apparently Master splinter moved on

[weary matrix]

still was happy to see my out the window mod reached 800K subscribers recently 😄

2nd most popular mod of all time or something

[red tiger]

Your ladder mod is popular.

[weary matrix]

it's so funny for such a stupid mod 😂

[weary matrix]

not as much I think

[red tiger]

My faction safehouses mod is popular

I wrote it in 50 minutes

Funny stuff.

Always the silly stuff that's popular.

Nice to see you around again. You were my strongest critic.

[weary matrix]

oh really I was?

nice to see you too

[red tiger]

I'm honest. It's good to have that person.

It keeps me focused on giving better work. Thanks for that.

[ancient grail]

#mod_support

[weary matrix]

you're welcome mate, glad I could be helpful

[ancient grail]

This channel is if you are developing a mod

[red tiger]

Hopefully I helped you in some way

[weary matrix]

@red tiger got to go, I have some sc2 campaign to finish in brutal mode 😂

[red tiger]

Have fun.

[glass basalt]

Does anyone know if there is a way to disable the "reloading Lua" functionality after you change your modlist in-game? I am finding progressively more annoying to wait for it to finish, as I have to quit the game anyways to also reload textures.

might just start Alt-F4ing, it's so irritating at this point. let me relaunch the game :(

[dense wyvern]

As a sheep fan this looks extremely incredible, holy shit

[vivid rain]

mod link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934987146
it's a submod for anthro survivors

(also includes cows and boars)

[dense wyvern]

holy shit this is like.... the best thing ever
Thank you so much for making this, ive been looking for someone to make a sheep model ever since ive seen anthro survivors

[vivid rain]

no problem! :D

[ancient grail]

no idea sorry

[ancient grail]

i cant find the pipebomb explosion only a basic explosion any idea?

[rancid panther]

i wonder if i should add an immune trait that is mutually exclusive with my bitten trait

[jaunty marten]

@red tiger btw, I checked ur mini-project, but tbh idk what's the useful usage for it? 😅

[red tiger]

Hot reloading code & server-exclusive code for workshop content. Oh and you can soft-lock mods that will only work for that server.

[jaunty marten]

hot reloading for zed files?

[red tiger]

Wrong project lol

Thought you were talking about the mod loader

ZedScriptParser is useful because it can be used to modify and filter ZedScript.

I plan on making a gui editor for it.

[jaunty marten]

[jaunty marten]

modloader still didn't check...

where to get time for pz

even didn't done refactor

[jaunty marten]

sounds amazing

[cunning kestrel]

Hey new here, jumping in a bit late into PZ, but i have some questions on this mod im making.

1. how/is there any way to adjust the body temperature for during my custom fitness exercise ?
2. how do i create/edit an animation
   2.5 how do i link an item to this animation ?

[ancient grail]

Wow thats alot of questions
Quite an intro ....
Check out the threads first and learn from the guides then comback with a bit specific and filtered question @cunning kestrel

[cunning kestrel]

^^ hehe kinda, what threads/guides are you referring too if i may ask ?
i tried, googled, debugged but not much luck

[pulsar heath]

working on mine...

[pulsar heath]

i hate working on GUI or any type of UI

[ancient grail]

@cunning kestrel found it?

[cunning kestrel]

Got it. Thanks ! ill see if i find what im looking for

[ancient grail]

Thats almost evrything out there

[rustic garnet]

How do you guys test if your mod works in multiplayer?

Also, how can I make this code work. I'm trying to save the original function, but

baseInventoryPane(self, context, items, player) 
```or
```lua
baseInventoryPane(context, items, player) 
``` don't work
```lua
local baseInventoryPane = ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.doBandageMenu
function ISInventoryPaneContextMenu:doBandageMenu(context, items, player)
    baseInventoryPane(self, context, items, player)

    print("Debug")
end

[frank elbow]

You're declaring your override with the : syntax, but the original doBandageMenu does not do so. That is, the original has no self parameter, so your implicit self will be the expected value of context when it's called. Calling the original without self and changing the colon to . should work

[rare wigeon]

Can somebody explain me how to make custom furniture rotate?

[vivid linden]

guys my second mod went live yesterday (after a bug fix) and I forgot to show it here
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934279481

In the future I will customize it more with dedicated locations for each profession (like the burglar on the roof or the back room, or carpenter at a hardware store etc.
Right now the chef will spawn in the food court (was actually made for testing the bug that was causing a broken leg at spawn for that point)

Also I will build upon my prison spawn mod to evolve into a more elaborate overhauled Rosewood spawn setup so each profession can end up more interestingly perhaps (like security guard and police officer can spawn at the prison gate (guard would always spawn there but officer would have a chance between there and the police station or even the donut shop 😉 )

[sour island]

Anyone ran into a way to determine if you're on the main menu? Gamemode returns the last gamemode you were on - in the case of exiting to the main-menu. I'm using the gameboot event to catch lua resets as well

[vivid linden]

For now, I think next mod will be Fallus Lake spawns

this is that area

is there a way to create a scenario? like a predetermined sandbox and spawn setup like CDDA or opening hours?

[sour island]

isIngameState seems to work - for anyone curious

[red tiger]

Good morning.

[vivid linden]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-bear-gif-26390359

[golden plover]

Hi. I am looking to commission someone proficient in car modding to fix my vehicle mod as well as teach me a few things about adding car mods.

What I've done:

Made the model & textures,
Set up areas and other stuff related to the vehicle editor,
Added code and made it work (besides some things that I'll list below),
Animated many interactable parts and made them removable.

What I need someone else to fix or explain:

The green areas appear larger than normal,
The trunk which has two vertex groups, two bones, but one animation doesn't appear where it's supposed to and the area for it doesn't work,
The animations for the front doors don't work as this car is supposed to have the steering wheel on the right side and hence the "driver's seat" is on the right,
The car doesn't drive despite having wheels in contact with the ground,
No overlay exists for the car yet and I've got no idea how to set it up (besides rendering the car in the black and white view).

In addition to all of this it'd be great if all of this can also be explained (how and what was broken and how to fix it so I can keep modding in the future without help).

In my opinion most of my issues can be solved within a couple hours given the person understands vehicle modding.

If you know someone who can help, redirect them to me.

DM me for more questions and provide your portfolio as well as potential price.

[red tiger]

Wow a full comm post. First time I have seen one this solid in PZ mod chat.

[cunning kestrel]

anyone has any info on how to adjust our body temperature ?
Ive tried

player:getBodyDamage():setTemperature(player:getBodyDamage():getTemperature()+1.0)
player:setTemperature(initialTemperature + temperatureChange)

which did not seem to do anything. (nor throw errors)

I know its linked to metabolism and like environment etc but is there anyway to set/adjust it ?

[rustic garnet]

Any resource where I can find about how the context menus in pz work?

[cunning kestrel]

perhaps, best how i learned was subscribe to a mod and learn from its code ...

[red tiger]

Said I'd sneak in some coding for my work today but..

I really want ZedScript JSON.

=/

[sour island]

media/lua/client/ISUI/ISWorldObjectContextMenu.lua
media/lua/client/ISUI/ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.lua

Events that get called post-fill: OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu

[red tiger]

I need to get my server to be more active with modders so individuals like you can post your commissions on the market there.

=/

[sour island]

@thick karma What was the issue with SwapIt and controllers or was it that hotbar stuff doesn't really work with controllers as one would be using the radial equip menus?

Doing a light pass over my mods since I have a bit of time

[thick karma]

It was your options menu; when you try going down in the Swap It menu, the joypad gains focus on something oddly and starts trying to fire commands that don't exist

[sour island]

ah right, you did mention that

Thanks for the reminder 😅 , sorry for the ping

Do controllers offer a way to drag and drop items?

I'm currently updating shops/faction banking

One thing banking needed was a way to deposit raw cash

[tame mulch]

I think temperature of body changed dynamically

[cunning kestrel]

figured. but then is there any way to increase our temp while doing my exercise ? some work around ?

[sour island]

When/how are you adding the temp?

[cunning kestrel]

how is it handled vanilla ? metabolism increases temp while exercising ?

[cunning kestrel]

through the update loop of the timesEvent/fitnessEvent
currently have it set the metabolism level but not sure if its being picked up

cause its not using the vanilla "fitness" action event for the game im in "idle"

[sour island]

hmm

[cunning kestrel]

would like to use it, but dont know how to trigger it without it resorting to one of the vanilla ones

[sour island]

You're trying to add a new type of exercise?

[ancient grail]

Sounds lit

🔥

[cunning kestrel]

working on fitness overhaul + treadmill + benchpress

[sour island]

whats the exercise timed event called? I can look around

[cunning kestrel]

ISBaseTimedAction:derive("FWOWorkingTreadmill");

[sour island]

No I mean the vanilla one

Or is there not?

Timed actions can be given caloric burnrates btw

Not sure if that triggers the temp rising tho

function ISChopTreeAction:new(character, tree)
    local o = {}
    setmetatable(o, self)
    self.__index = self
    o.character = character
    o.tree = tree
    o.stopOnWalk = true
    o.stopOnRun = true
    o.maxTime = -1
    o.spriteFrame = 0
    o.caloriesModifier = 8;
    o.forceProgressBar = true;
    return o
end

As an example: o.caloriesModifier = 8;

[cunning kestrel]

Hmm I see, ill give that a go
I have this, but again not sure if its picked up

player:setMetabolicTarget(Metabolics.Fitness);

[sour island]

Looking around, and I don't really see where the temperature changes tbh

Does vanilla exercise actually make you hotter?

[cunning kestrel]

thought it does

[sour island]

Can't even find where it causes sweating

weird

[cunning kestrel]

it doesnt i believe, but ive added that in mine though

[pulsar heath]

theres a mod that adds "nature calls" to your char needs ( toilet needs ) it also added sweating

dunno how never went much into that mod's code

[cunning kestrel]

adding sweat/wetness aint the hard part. its the temp / getting the game to see my event as an exercise...

[sour island]

Seems to be done in relation to thermoregulators

Are you adding to the vanilla exercises?

media/lua/shared/Definitions/FitnessExercises.lua ?

There's options for exercises to require items

Perhaps you could tie it into there to check for nearby worlditems

This is assuming vanilla exercise actually raises your temp

[cunning kestrel]

its a custom one. and do have a check for "bring your own BarBell" to the bench press so..

[sour island]

testing it now and it does

I'm saying if you're adding the exercise to the vanilla system for exercises you shouldn't need to worry about alot of the under the hood stuff

You wouldn't need to make your own timed action

[cunning kestrel]

i tried adding it to the current vanilla excercise list but it wouldnt read properly, said the list was empty suddenly etc

[pulsar heath]

the app icon... anyone who might have a better idea and more talent to do stuff like this and can help me out will be credited in the app

[sour island]

Did you set your files in the same directory as the vanilla file and use require on it?

[cunning kestrel]

yes

[sour island]

I'd have to see the error then, you can keep going your current route but you'd basically be doing alot of ground work

[cunning kestrel]

yeah i hear you,... makes sense

[hollow shadow]

Hey guys, i just got back to modding and i noticed that none of my grenade throwing sounds are working anymore. Does anyone know another way to do it?

[glacial flicker]

Are there any guides on how to make an overlay mod?

[pulsar heath]

what do you mean by overlay mod?

there are several tutorials about the game UI

the wiki has one i think

and you can always mess with the mod simple ui api

thats a good place to start learning about how ui works in pz

[glacial flicker]

sweet

thank you M3ss

[red tiger]

I need a stiff drink. That'll help write out these hundreds of params.

lol

[pulsar heath]

im 1/5 done with the gui...

and i agree... a drink would help the struggle of ui design

[drifting ore]

dont know what your sound file looks like but your script file doesn't seem to be the issue

unless the name of that sound has changed or something

[hollow shadow]

it was working fine a few updates ago

[drifting ore]

even so lol

[hollow shadow]

i wasnt modding for a year and now my stuff is broken lol

[drifting ore]

check the sounds to be sure

[hollow shadow]

im assuming devs changed something

already did

[drifting ore]

there is a full guide that Aiteron posted on script syntax it's like 90+% done

if you want to see if anything is updated. even though

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide#Sound_block_structure

there is a link for each now depending on your goal

[hollow shadow]

ill try it thx

[drifting ore]

i'm sure it's something very small

i would start with sound block though

got this far with my UI
and then restart from scratch lol

it's amazing after spending 2 entire days learning how much wrong i was doing lol

[drifting stump]

had a look at server points code?

[drifting ore]

yes

big time

and more vanilla usage also

there were a couple of derived classes that made more sense to learn from

[drifting stump]

vanilla isnt a great example

[drifting ore]

you aren't wrong...

i noticed that many people did it

and everyone does their own ways

LOL

i followed your hierarchy though on function usage

this is what that child block looks like for now

dont mind all the options. im just testing things

function NipSwitchUI:createChildren(width, height)
-- Calculate new dimensions for the child elements
local newWidth = self.width - 40
local newHeight = self.height - 85
local newSliderWidth = newWidth - 20

    local value = 15

-- Create a label for the slider value
--[[self.sliderNum = ISLabel:new(self.width / 2, 10, 20, value, 220, 180, 1, .9)
self.sliderNum:initialise()
self.sliderNum:instantiate()
self.sliderNum.setColor(self, 220, 180, 1, .7)
self.sliderNum.borderColor = {r=1, g=1, b=1, a=0}
self.sliderNum.backgroundColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=0.2}
self.sliderNum.highlightBackgroundColor = {r=1, g=1, b=1, a=0.1}
self:addChild(self.sliderNum)]]

--Create a label for the slider
self.sliderLabel = ISLabel:new(self.width / 2, 20, 20, "Light Intensity", 180, 140, 1, .9, UIFont.Dialogue)
self.sliderLabel:initialise()
self.sliderLabel:instantiate()
self.sliderLabel.setColor(self.sliderLabel, 180, 140, 1, .7)
self.sliderLabel.borderColor = {r=40, g=20, b=1, a=0.5}
self.sliderLabel.backgroundColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=0.7}
self:addChild(self.sliderLabel)

-- Create the slider
self.slider = ISSliderPanel:new(10, self.sliderLabel:getBottom() + 10, newSliderWidth, 20, self, value)
self.slider:initialise()
self.slider:instantiate()
self.slider.sliderBorderColor = {r=80, g=40, b=1, a=0.5}
self.slider.sliderMouseOverColor = {r=160, g=120, b=1, a=0.5}
self.slider.sliderColor = {r=20, g=10, b=1, a=0.9}
self.slider.sliderDim = {r=10, g=10, b=1, a=0.8}
self.slider.sliderBarColor = {r=0, g=100, b=0, a=0.8}
self.slider.sliderBarDim = {r=240, g=200, b=1, a=0.7}
self.slider.sliderBarBorderColor = {r=100, g=60, b=1, a=0.5}
self.slider.setValues(self.slider, 3, 30, 1, 3)
self:addChild(self.slider)

    local value = self.slider:getValue() or 15

    local buttonWidth, buttonHeight = 60, 30
    local applyButtonX = self.slider:getRight() - 5 - buttonWidth
    local applyButtonY = self.slider:getBottom() + 15
    local closeButtonX = self.slider:getX() + 5
    local closeButtonY = self.slider:getBottom() + 15

-- Create the "Apply" button
self.applyButton = ISButton:new(applyButtonX, applyButtonY, buttonWidth, buttonHeight, "", self, NipSwitchUI.onClickApply)
self.applyButton:initialise()
self.applyButton:instantiate()
self.applyButton.borderColor = {r=80, g=40, b=0, a=0}
self.applyButton.backgroundColor = {r=10, g=10, b=10, a=0}
self.applyButton.highlightBackgroundColor = {r=1, g=120, b=1, a=0.5}
self.applyButton.highlightBorderColor = {r=240, g=200, b=1, a=0.5}
self:addChild(self.applyButton)

    -- Create the "Apply" label
    self.applyLabel = ISLabel:new(applyButtonX, applyButtonY, 20, "Apply")
    self.applyLabel:initialise()
    self.applyLabel:instantiate()
    self.applyLabel.setColor(self, 120, 80, 5)
    self.applyLabel.center = true
    self.applyLabel.backgroundColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=.3}
    self:addChild(self.applyLabel)

-- Create the "Close" button
self.closeButton = ISButton:new(closeButtonX, closeButtonY, buttonWidth, buttonHeight, "", self, NipSwitchUI.onClickClose)
self.closeButton:initialise()
self.closeButton:instantiate()
self.closeButton.borderColor = {r=80, g=40, b=0, a=0}
self.closeButton.backgroundColor = {r=10, g=10, b=10, a=0}
self.closeButton.highlightBackgroundColor = {r=1, g=120, b=1, a=0.5}
self.closeButton.highlightBorderColor = {r=240, g=200, b=1, a=0.5}
self:addChild(self.closeButton)

    -- Create the "Close" label
    self.closeLabel = ISLabel:new(closeButtonX, closeButtonY, 20, "Close")
    self.closeLabel:initialise()
    self.closeLabel:instantiate()
    self.closeLabel.setColor(self, 120, 80, 5)
    self.closeLabel.center = true
    self.closeLabel.backgroundColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=.3}
    self:addChild(self.closeLabel)
    end

im not smart enough to figure out how to get the slider value to update the label on the fly though

that was were i fell asleep last night 😄

i'm trying to have it update the label above it and also use that value to apply the value to the onClickApply function so i can update the light radius properties

using prerender for my drawing

and yes im overlaying a label on top of an invisible button for a tiny but more customization that i couldnt find in the ISButton class

[drifting ore]

if you get a chance to look over it even slightly and have any critique. I am totally open. all good if not, but i do want to do this the right way. some options i will move to the constructor and call from here also but for now this seems best for testing each customization

[sour island]

you have to tie into the window's render

and call the slider's getCurrentValue/setCurentValue

[drifting ore]

oh is it getCurrentValue?

for some reason i was using getValue

.....

[sour island]

for the slider UI yeah

[drifting ore]

lol saved me a huge headache

[sour island]

I use it for the split cash UI

[drifting ore]

sick ty

learning UI has been extremely time consuming but enetertaining

[drifting stump]

in general i find labels wasteful

a whole uielement instance for just rendering text

[drifting ore]

i couldnt figure out how to change the text color though

[drifting stump]

simpler to add a drawtext in the render function

[drifting ore]

and this menu will only be open for like 10 seconds at time ever

okay

ill check it out. i def like doing things that make more sense

i can just tap into the UIFont also for that i assume?

[pulsar heath]

we do not have the same definition of entertaining... i do agree on the time consuming part 😄

[drifting ore]

LOL

my lady has not enjoyed it much

[drifting stump]

wdym tap into UIFont?

[drifting ore]

but i'm learning some good stuff here

[drifting stump]

for specifying which font to use?

[drifting ore]

how does it draw?

yes

i know nothing

[drifting stump]

you can just ommit and it defaults to Small

[drifting ore]

ill look before i ask more

oh got it

[pulsar heath]

im almost at the point of renewing my devxepress license just to finish the damn GUI for the app faster....

damn i forgot how time consuming and boring this is...

[drifting ore]

ahaha maybe after 300 more hours ill get bored

it's how many hours i got into learning mapping before i decided it made more sense to learn to code to achieve my goals here

i actually got closer to 500 in mapping and tile properties

[pulsar heath]

the boring bit is that im coding all the aspect of the layout customization for the app... so you place whatever you want wherever you want with the size you want

done the snap into place bit...

[drifting ore]

ahhhhh that totally makes sense

that is literally the most tedious part ahhaha

[pulsar heath]

usually i dont do the GUI work on any of the projects i work...

so i forgot how tedious it is...

[drifting ore]

mad respect for what you've released so far though

lots of work into it

[pulsar heath]

that was a rushed release to stop the dms 😄

[drifting ore]

lolol

[pulsar heath]

the real work isnt even at 10%

i managed to improve the app performance in the meantime... so i guess thats a win

[drifting ore]

oh hell yea

[pulsar heath]

plus @sour island gave me the idea to make my app "universal"

so if anyone else wants to use it for their own mods, that will be possible and easy to do

not easy to develop though...

to many unkown vars to deal with... and no matter how user friendly ill make it... nothing is 100% "dummie" proof

[hollow shadow]

Tried this but it still doesnt work :I

Im guessing devs did something that made SwingSound no longer work on throwables?

[red tiger]

Just finished mapping the general item properties.

#>__>

[hollow current]

i've noticed there is ISVehicleMenu.showRadialMenuOutside for outside and ISVehicleMenu.showRadialMenu for both inside and outside, but no such thing as ISVehicleMenu.showRadialMenuInside for only inside. Is the function name different?

[red tiger]

I just wrote this by hand lol

[glass basalt]

What's this script for, making items in media/script ?

[red tiger]

Parsing them into API objects yes.

I'm currently in the process of mapping them with context and not generic string arrays.

[lunar robin]

Hi! Is it possible for you to share your code?
Been struggling myself for creating unique ID (passport item with predefined values of a character name) for a player.

[sour island]

inventoryItems :getID() should already be unique