#mod_development

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worn juniper
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Hey! Is there a way to have 2 result items on completion? Tried to look into other mods but I couldn't find any... Is there any method to do that?

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sour island
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@worn juniper recipes have parameters for lua function calls

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You'll need the OnCreate function call

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Chec'k out media/lua/server/recipecode.lua

worn juniper
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Thank you!

cunning canyon
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any reason I'd still be getting zombie spawns with this debug scenario?

    debugScenarios = {}
end

debugScenarios.SWA_DebugScenarioCore = {
    name = "Airborne Debug Core",
    startLoc = {x=10708, y=9393, z=0 }, -- Muldraugh Shed
    setSandbox = function()
        SandboxVars.VehicleEasyUse = true
        SandboxVars.Zombies = 5
    end,
    onStart = function()
        getPlayer():setGodMod(true)
        getPlayer():setUnlimitedCarry(true)
        getPlayer():setNoClip(true)
        ISFastTeleportMove.cheat = true
        --ISWorldMap.setHideUnvisitedAreas(false)
        getPlayer():getInventory():AddItem("WristWatch_Right_DigitalBlack")
    end
}
red tiger
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I think I've hit my development "wall" for the day.

vivid linden
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need hellp

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or an example

sour island
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Base.Pencil

vivid linden
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ohh

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what about something modded in

calm depot
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MyModule.MyItem

deft falcon
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Alright so I wanted to change exercise fatigue duration but I don't exactly know how to use these 2 lines

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cunning canyon
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is the IsoRoom.Exits property exposed to us? (are properties from the java classes ever exposed or does not having a public getter method imply they're not exposed?)

sour island
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without an exposed method I don't think writing onto a field is possible outside of debug mode

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you can read fields pulling on their class javafields

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but it's a bit of a mess

cunning canyon
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yeah reading is all i would need

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Would you happen to have an example of doing that?

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im seeing some earlier examples from you when i search actually, lemme try those

sour island
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I had an example with a poppa roach reference

cunning canyon
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one day i will remember that the order you declare functions in Lua is important

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today is not that day

cunning canyon
fast galleon
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what do you want the exits for?

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I looked at it once, but it was not what I wanted or just empty.

cunning canyon
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I'm hoping to get a list of all uhhhhh exits to a room. Ideally windows, doors, and missing walls/floors/ceilings

fresh slate
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Is there a way to make a fix action that doesnt add the repaired thing?

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deft falcon
fast galleon
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anyway, Vector<IsoRoomExit> Exits = []
it seems empty

cunning canyon
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for sure, i'm just exploring an idea

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for some reason getWindows() is returning an empty table as well

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even though i'm in a room that i know has a window....

deft falcon
# fresh slate Is there a way to make a fix action that doesnt add the repaired thing? 
if NoRepairs == nil then NoRepairs = {} end

if NoRepairs.defaultFixActionPerform == nil then
    NoRepairs.defaultFixActionPerform = ISFixAction.perform
end

if NoRepairs.defaultFixActionStart == nil then
    NoRepairs.defaultFixActionStart = ISFixAction.start
end

function ISFixAction:perform()
    NoRepairs.defaultFixActionPerform(self);
    self.item:setHaveBeenRepaired(self.initialHaveBeenRepaired);
end

function ISFixAction:start()
    self.initialHaveBeenRepaired = self.item:getHaveBeenRepaired();
    NoRepairs.defaultFixActionStart(self);
end

put this in lua/client folder

fresh slate
deft falcon
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all items that have Repaired thing

fast galleon
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hm, maybe the exits are put to the building

cunning canyon
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lmao so after searching get windows in this channel I see someone else had this issue but figured it out, they end up going through all the tiles in all the rooms of a building, which I probably need to do anyways

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the consensus was those getters for windows is ancient

fresh slate
fast galleon
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ah probably, sheet rope uses a lot of code that leads to some old window logic

deft falcon
fresh slate
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aight, thanks

deft falcon
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wait u cant even repair crowbar

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well still u get the idea

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just write the ID in the ""

fresh slate
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Yeah

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under witch of the functions?

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wait

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Nvm I see

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self.item:setHaveBeenRepaired(self.initialHaveBeenRepaired);

deft falcon
fast galleon
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anyhow, you can get a good idea of what's exposed if you look at the LuaManager it uses the setExposed to expose a class and adds global functions

grim rose
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hello

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anyome can remind me of link to library

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i want to do basic counter

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on zombie kill

vivid rain
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Heya, I kinda fucked something up and now zomboid thinks my mod is not the same one that's on the workshop, as when I generated a new version of it it got rid of the workshopid line in the mod info file. But now, I can't remember what the actual line is supposed to be. I have the ID, just...what exactly is supposed to be in the file?

version=1
workshopid=2934987146 <<<<this is apparently not right
title=Anthro Survivors - Ungulate Friends
description=Adds a few different species of hoofed critters to the species selector for Anthro Survivors. Includes sheep, boar and cows.
tags=
visibility=private
silk quarry
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So for recipes you can use keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Scissors] to allow the recipe to use any item with the Scissors tag
Is there a similar thing for vehicle part swap recipes? They're in a different syntax, like:

                items
                {
                    1
                    {
                        type = Base.Screwdriver,
                        count = 1,
                        keep = true,
                        equip = secondary,
                    }
                }
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What sorts of things can I stuff into type here, or really just a module.item type only

grim rose
vivid rain
# grim rose shouldn't it be same as you have in mod.info?

that doesn't have the line in it. that just has

name=Anthro Survivors - Ungulate Friends
poster=poster.png
id=AnthroUngulates
require=FurryMod
description=Adds a few different species of hoofed critters to the species selector for Anthro Survivors. Includes sheep, boar and cows.
thick karma
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Someone in support having the oddest vanilla crash; I gotta ask here.

LOG  : Lua         , 1676758437550> 0> Loading: media/lua/server/Vehicles/Vehicles.lua
LOG  : Lua         , 1676758437553> 0> Loading: media/lua/server/XpSystem/XPSystem_SkillBook.lua
LOG  : Lua         , 1676758437553> 0> Loading: media/lua/server/XpSystem/XpSystem_text.lua
LOG  : Lua         , 1676758437553> 0> Loading: media/lua/server/XpSystem/XpUpdate.lua
LOG  : General     , 1676758437720> 0> SafeMode is on
LOG  : General     , 1676758437756> 0> BaseVehicle.LoadAllVehicleTextures...
DEBUG: Multiplayer , 1676758437851> 0> RequestDataPacket.doProcessData     > received zombie descriptors
DEBUG: Multiplayer , 1676758438217> 0> RequestDataPacket.receivePlayerZombieDescriptors> received 0 player-zombie descriptors
LOG  : General     , 1676758438280> 0> IsoMetaGrid.Create: begin scanning directories
LOG  : General     , 1676758438280> 0> Looking in these map folders:
LOG  : General     , 1676758438281> 0>     D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\maps\Muldraugh, KY
LOG  : General     , 1676758438281> 0> <End of map-folders list>
LOG  : General     , 1676758438296> 0> IsoMetaGrid.Create: finished scanning directories in 0.015 seconds
LOG  : General     , 1676758438296> 0> IsoMetaGrid.Create: begin loading
LOG  : General     , 1676758438303> 0> ERROR: SuburbsDistributions["laboratory"] is broken
LOG  : General     , 1676758438304> 0> ERROR: SuburbsDistributions["laboratory"] is broken
LOG  : General     , 1676758438304> 0> ERROR: SuburbsDistributions["laboratory"] is broken
LOG  : General     , 1676758439539> 0> 1676758439539 fmod: Java_fmod_javafmodJNI_FMOD_1Sound_1GetData:4549 JNI_FMOD_Sound_GetData correct buffer
LOG  : General     , 1676758440333> 0> 1676758440333 fmod: Java_fmod_javafmodJNI_FMOD_1Sound_1GetData:4549 JNI_FMOD_Sound_GetData correct buffer

Anyone know why the game would possibly shut down right after this point when trying to host, or alternatively right after LOG : General , 1676756267086> tiledef: loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\tiledefinitions.tiles when trying to launch solo? Completely vanilla installation, no mods, but I thought someone here might know something I don't about unusual load bugs

silk quarry
grim rose
hollow current
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if anyone has experience with UI, how can I make the UI rectangle "autofit" the text, and make line breaks if needed?

thick karma
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It's mind boggling

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I watched them do it

hollow current
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since the text is variable and randomly picked, I am trying to make the box fit it automatically, and if the text is too large, it'd make line breaks inside the box

thick karma
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They had no Zomboid folder OR installation folder going into it

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I made them check

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No saved configs or game files

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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

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Hmmm out of memory error now...

vivid rain
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Could someone with a local, workshopped mod go into their workshop.txt and paste the contents, that's really all I need

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I just need whatever the workshopid line is supposed to be and that'll solve it, I think..

grim rose
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version=1
id=2924346212
title=Necoind Arc
description=La creatura (neco arc) in the knox country
description=
description=What she will do? Check you local mail box to find out today! <3
description=
description=This mod adds Neco Arc to project zomboid, she works both as pipebomb and as rare figure.
description=
description=Dori dori dori
tags=Build 41;Items;Misc;Models;Pop Culture;Silly/Fun;Textures;Weapons
visibility=public

thick karma
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Nooo

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@grim rose

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@vivid rain

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Gotta delete the id line!

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version=1
title=Jumper
description=[h1]Title[/h1]
description=
description=[h2]Details[/h2]
description=
description=[h2]Custom Locations and Categories[/h2]
description=
description=[h2]Automatically Remembered Locations[/h2]
description=
tags=Build 41;Interface;Multiplayer;Silly/Fun;Traits
visibility=public
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there's an example you could actually upload

grim rose
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i forgot

thick karma
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Will cause errors if you try to push a new upload on someone else's id @vivid rain

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Never do

vivid rain
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I'm trying to update my mod because the id disappeared

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But yeah it's the id line I need, cheers - I've put my own mod id there :P

grim rose
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if this doesn't help

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then

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i have idea

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stupid one

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maybye will work

grim rose
thick karma
# grim rose maybye that lad doesn't have minimum system requirements 
LOG  : General     , 1676758337521> ===== System specs =====
LOG  : General     , 1676758337523> OS: Windows 10, version: 10.0, arch: amd64
LOG  : General     , 1676758337524> Processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 13, GenuineIntel
LOG  : General     , 1676758337524> Processor cores: 8
LOG  : General     , 1676758337525> Available processors (cores): 8
LOG  : General     , 1676758337526> Memory free: 238.27957 MB
LOG  : General     , 1676758337527> Memory max: 512.0 MB
LOG  : General     , 1676758337527> Memory  total available to JVM: 256.0 MB
LOG  : General     , 1676758337530> C:\, Total: 110.6409 GB, Free: 25.498669 GB
LOG  : General     , 1676758337530> D:\, Total: 931.5117 GB, Free: 276.62555 GB
LOG  : General     , 1676758337626> Mobo = [Product=MPG Z390 GAMING PLUS (MS-7B51)]
LOG  : General     , 1676758337719> CPU = [Manufacturer=GenuineIntel,MaxClockSpeed=3600,Name=Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz]
LOG  : General     , 1676758337818> Graphics = [AdapterRAM=4293918720,DriverVersion=31.0.15.2849,Name=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650]
LOG  : General     , 1676758337915> VideoMode = [VideoModeDescription=1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors]
LOG  : General     , 1676758338010> Sound = { [Manufacturer=Realtek,Name=Realtek High Definition Audio], [Manufacturer=(Generic USB Audio),Name=USB Audio Device], [Manufacturer=NVIDIA,Name=NVIDIA High Definition Audio], [Manufacturer=NVIDIA,Name=NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)] }
LOG  : General     , 1676758338102> Memory RAM = { [Capacity=8589934592,Manufacturer=04EF], [Capacity=8589934592,Manufacturer=04EF] }
LOG  : General     , 1676758338103> ========================
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Pretty sure he has the specs

thick karma
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Your id line disappeared?

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Not normal

vivid rain
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Eh I'm using a tool that generates the submod, so I guess it overwrites the current one. I'll raise it with the devs

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Fixed it anyway, thanks

grim rose
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say go to steamapp/projectzomboid

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and ask him to delete whole folder

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7 zip your working pz steamapps folder

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send him

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maybye this will work

thick karma
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Weird... I guess if all references in the game files are relative maaaybe but it seems sus lol

fresh slate
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hey The wiki says .txt files, but does .lua files work just fine?

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some mods have .lua sot thats why im askin

fast galleon
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just don't forget your .info

hollow current
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Still facing issues with the UI not being sized correctly :x (the small black rectangle behind the blue box)

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sleek hull
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-- This is the problematic function I *think*
-- updateLoadedZombie is supposed to get an ArrayList of zombies (zombList) and iterate through it. For each zombie object the server currently has loaded
-- the zombie should be set to inactive, then set back to active. As far as I've seen in other mods that change do this the same way (namely Night Sprinters 41.60+ & Random Zombies both do this inactive/active trick)
-- but for an unknown reason, every zombies speedType is nil, and it doesn't force a speedType update for any of the zombies until the area they are in is unloaded (player leaves the area) and then goes back (zombies now follow lore set by updateToDarkLore())
local function updateLoadedZombie()
    -- Gets list of all active zombies
    local zombList = getExistingZombies()
    
    -- Goes through each zombie in the zombie list, and sets them to inactive, then reactivates them, theoretically forcing a speedType update
    Log:LogInfo("updateLoadedZombie called, iterating through list...")
    for i=0, zombList:size() - 1 do
        local z = zombList:get(i)

        --z:makeInactive(true) then z:makeInactive(false) should be forcing a speedType update, but seemingly z.speedType is always just nil?
            z:makeInactive(true)
        Log:LogInfo("Before change ZombieID: " .. tostring(z:getOnlineID()) .. " has speedType: " .. tostring(z.speedType))
        z:makeInactive(false)
        Log:LogInfo("After change ZombieID: " .. tostring(z:getOnlineID()) .. " has speedType: " .. tostring(z.speedType))

    end
    Log:LogInfo("updateLoadedZombie iterated through list of length" .. tostring(zombList:size()) .. "!")
end
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I'm having an issue with forcing zombies that are currently loaded to have their speed updated. From what I've heard and read setting zombies to inactive (zombie:makeInactive(true)) then back to active (zombie:makeInactive(false)) should force this update.

But whenever I check on the zombies, they stay as fast shamblers until I leave the area to unload them and come back.

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Am I just missing something completely, or how would I go about forcing zombies from the ArrayList to update their speedType so they go from fast shamblers to sprinters and vice versa right away, instead of having to leave the area to unload them first before they behave?

fast galleon
hollow current
fast galleon
hollow current
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erm i guess

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wait what

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no

thick karma
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I guessed random letters until something worked

red tiger
thick karma
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(obviously joking, statistically absurd, Beard knew)

hollow current
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solved!

frank elbow
# hollow current

Accepting feedback/proofreading on the text? (I don't want to be rude & offer unsolicited advice 🤠)

hollow current
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Ye sure, although its not final and haven't been proofread yet. Feedback is welcome though!

frank elbow
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If it hasn't yet been proofread then anything I have to say would probably be covered by that anyhow 😄

hollow current
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Also, I got couple of questions.

1- Is it possible to pick a random element from the translations file?

i.e.

ContextMenu_EN = {
    ContextMenu_element1 = "element1",
    ContextMenu_element2 = "element2",
}```, then get the code to choose a random of those two and display it?

2- If one of the elements text has an \n in it, how can I display it as an actual line break instead of an.. well.. an \n?
hollow current
frank elbow
frank elbow
# hollow current Feel free to speak your mind though
  1. Comma splice at the part that starts with "It was not your fault". I would use an em dash here or split it into its own sentence (+ a comma after "at the time")
  2. "...but I can feel my body getting weaker", the "but" should be preceded by a comma in this case (independent clauses)
  3. typo in "disease it trying": "it" → "is"
  4. "I will and have always love you": the mixed tense here is strange. If you want it to be similar I'd change "love" to "loved", but I'd personally rephrase the sentence bc it's a bit awkward imo
hollow current
hollow current
frank elbow
hollow current
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well there's always the JSON approach

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just ignore translations altogether and put my stuff in a JSON instead

oak olive
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hey everyone, i'm a complete beginner in making mods, i've been trying to create my first mod which will only add a food item into the game, i think i got the script part right, the part which i'm struggling with is the item distributions code, can anyone show me an example of how that code would look like and where it should be located (client or server).

fast galleon
# oak olive hey everyone, i'm a complete beginner in making mods, i've been trying to create...

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/38165-quick-guide-how-to-mod-the-loot-distribution-system-distributionslua-proceduraldistributionslua/#comment-365101
something like that

The Indie Stone Forums
Quick Guide: How To Mod The Loot Distribution System (Distributions...

This is a visual guide for mappers and modders who need to add or modify PZ's loot entries using the new ProceduralDistributions.lua approach. Whilst the ProceduralDistributions.lua file has been in the game for quite a while (i.e. the Gigamart shelves having distinct loot types), TIS will be eve...

oak olive
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Is this format still working?

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table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["FridgeRich"].items

drifting ore
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tried to store previous name and skip it in the random loop but for some reason it still sneaks through

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just glad it's all working lol

red tiger
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Had a hard crash earlier today. Got some rest. Back to modding.

tawdry solar
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what does this mean

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for a melee weapon

ancient grail
hollow current
hollow current
drifting ore
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this is what i do

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local newPhrase = phrases[ZombRand(1, 4)]
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just make a table above it

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local phrases = {
    "You see a lightbulb socket and become intimidated...",
    "You wish you knew more about lightbulbs...",
    "Does my finger go in the light socket..?"
}
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make sure the second number is 1 more than the amount of options you have

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there might be a better way to do it as i'm extremely new to coding in general but it works well for me

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about how random it is

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probably going to leave out the ability to change the light intensity and just release the thing

vivid linden
tawdry solar
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is it like texture

drifting ore
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you can see some examples right in the vanilla files also if you want to double check anything

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i think some items use the same name for both also

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if you have a model i'd assume you use that instead

tawdry solar
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oh sorry didnt notic you were talking abt me

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its not the item name

drifting ore
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if you have model then use that i said lol

tawdry solar
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that maybe it

drifting ore
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from the models script?

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it makes sense really

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since you would be holding the model

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i'm not extremely familiar with weapon stuff at all. will be working on a slingshot weapon mod soon though 🙂

tawdry solar
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ah cool

drifting ore
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try it though

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worst case it doesnt work

tawdry solar
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just released my roundmeal mod

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thanks for all the support

queen sail
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somebody in here was asking hella questions about a two handed combat mod a while back and i saw it just released and it looks cool as hell

ancient grail
humble oriole
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yea, dhert's rocking it out with between that and fancy handiwork

rare vortex
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Do you guys think it’d be cool if Yaki added cotton plants to their weaving mod so we could make rolls of denim as well as rolls of fabric?

glass basalt
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Decided to make a music track and put it into the game. More complicated than other mods, but I think manual installation is pretty easy.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2935543063
You can listen to the track here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xurJ2shVk8

Steam Workshop::Retro Gloom (Custom Zomboid Music)
YouTube
Industrial Annihilation
Project Zomboid - Retro Gloom (Custom Zomboid Music) Showcase

This is the new menu music that replaces the original three. Find this mod on the Steam Workshop.

Alternate download link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1whlhXdyY8B3-NKBFA_NAioO8_Fpr3dsu?usp=share_link

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red tiger
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I also work on music too. =)

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It's nowhere near complete and there's missing data for sure but...

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Starting to see the results of my progress fully parsing ZedScript files.

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Will need to run through the other object types and then check against the source ZedScript files to validate population of properties.

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Done for the evening.

glass basalt
spare burrow
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Anyone knows what can be causing doparam to not overwrite an item, even it the item properties are technically overwritten? (and yes, its post lua reload, new item after applying the changes) (check the clipsize value)

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quasi kernel
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I must ask

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Theoretically

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just theoretically

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How possible would it be to change every item's display name, icon, and model to a dead rat.

spare burrow
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feasible xD

quasi kernel
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I think the display and icon are possible but idk about the model

spare burrow
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you can overwrite the model code directly

quasi kernel
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Via scripts..?

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I'd like to avoid scripts if possible-

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I wanna make it automatic through the magic of lua

bronze yoke
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is there a reason you couldn't just do it with doparam?

quasi kernel
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You have a point

bronze yoke
spare burrow
bronze yoke
# spare burrow ye

i see both clipsize and maxammo, not sure why there is two but are you changing both?

spare burrow
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It seems somehow the weapon modes is ... working in a strange way

bronze yoke
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m1911 has clipsize 15 maxammo 7, ingame it gets 7

spare burrow
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maybe clipsize is obsoleted? not sure, anyway the moment i disabled item:DoParam("FireMode = Auto") ... started working xD

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now the problem is recoil not working, kekw

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and its not missing a ")" or alike, checked like 5 times, its just strange

quasi kernel
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just the concept of this mod has already broken the debug spawn menu

quasi kernel
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Is there a :Remove() method for Kahlua

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Could've sworn it existed

spare burrow
quasi kernel
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maybe its just lowercase?

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okay it was just lowercase

digital moon
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I know that the clothing rack in the game is set up to only allow clothing items - does anyone here know where I would find the code/script behind the clothing rack so I could view it?

ember swallow
spare burrow
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it was modified, somehow it had to do with the gun firemode which has no sense, but ended being the solution - maybe the game registered a gun state before and after? no idea

open drum
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hello fellows, could someone enlighten me with where multiplayer Admin set SafeZone datas are stored? Im trying to set a safe zone around a large area so no players can enter without using my teleport system but if I try to set a large area it takes forever to walk there or if i teleport it lags the game so much that I have to force close.

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I want to, if there's a file where I can open it up with Note ++ and write X and Y coordinates manually

drifting ore
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Is there a way to remove some traits from my server with a mod?

rancid panther
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like remove traits from character creation?

drifting ore
rancid panther
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when i made the Bitten trait, the playerIndex is the thing that marks a player as bitten if they are using the trait right?

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so it checks if the bite was applied and for the rest of the game it will not keep adding the bite back

rain iron
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Hi, I am making an TimedAction mod that disguises itself as a emote (it has a starting anim + loop + ending anim hence why it's a timed action). But it seems like no matter how I do it. The animation isn't playing properly.
Does anyone here know how to make an emote with 3 seperated animations like I mentione?

rancid panther
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so when im making a trait that happens OnPlayerUpdate, i dont need to use playerIndex?

thick karma
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And then just not add the traits you don't want in your copy of their file.

thick karma
cunning kestrel
rancid panther
thick karma
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I'd have to see the code again it's been awhile

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I think I deleted it

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Can you post?

rancid panther
rain iron
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I have been trying to mimicing the code based on the Fitness timed action but it still isn't working properly

rancid panther
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is it required every time im making a trait like this or just because of what we were doing with the bitten trait?

rain iron
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Worst is that, when I trigger the timed action, it doesn't work, but when I trigger any emote, the said timed action just start working when that timed action doesn't refer to any emote code

rancid panther
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my assumption is that the playerindex was because we were checking if the bite has already been applied but i could be wrong

thick karma
# rancid panther

I see. You didn't need playerIndex in assignBite but since you wanted to add something to a player at character creation we listen for OnCreatePlayer . . . OnCreatePlayer naturally provides you with playerIndex and player (the object).

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You must keep playerIndex in your function header for your OnCreatePlayer event purely because that's what you'll get first whether you want it or not

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As for assignBittenStuff, that looks unfamiliar, and I suspect it is not working?

rancid panther
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it works

thick karma
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Ohhhh wait never mind

rancid panther
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that's just giving them the bandage in their inventory

thick karma
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You don't add that OnGameBoot

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The OnGameBoot positioning threw me off

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I think that used to be below the trait creation

rancid panther
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i just kept it how it was but other mods i saw and the base game put p much all of that at the bottom of the whole file

thick karma
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Yeah you can move your Events to the bottom if you like

rancid panther
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but my question is about a different trait now

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do i need playerIndex for the other trait if im not making them bitten when they spawn?

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or anything for that matter

thick karma
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You don't even need to do anything OnCreatePlayer when they spawn unless you want something specific to happen to them when they spawn

rancid panther
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the other one is just OnPlayerUpdate

thick karma
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But if you do anything OnCreatePlayer, you need to include the playerIndex in the parentheses

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It is not an option

rancid panther
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it's an immunity trait

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okay thanks

thick karma
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OnPlayerUpdate provides player object

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So instead you would just use

Joy.onPlayerUpdate = function(player)
    doStuffTo(player)
end

Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(Joy.onPlayerUpdate)
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and if you DO need the index, you would do local playerIndex = player:getPlayerNum()

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I cannot tell you whether you need the index without knowing more about the trait and your plans for it

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I can only say how these functions work

rancid panther
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it's an immunity trait

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i want it to remove the infection if they get infected

thick karma
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I don't think you'll need an index at all for that, you'll need to loop through the player object's body parts.

rancid panther
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and while i dont actually need an immunity trait i wanted to try making it anyways to be mutually exclusive from bitten trait

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is there anything missing from this?

image.png
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other mods that remove infections look pretty similar but i dont know why they do the for i = 0 thing

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and the parts after it

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oh i did the mutual exclusive wrong

thick karma
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The for i = 0 part is starting a loop from 0 up to 1 less than the number of body parts you have. For each body part you have, it calls get(i) on your list of body parts to grab the individual body part and set its infection level. @rancid panther

rancid panther
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i see

open drum
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hello fellows, could someone enlighten me with where multiplayer Admin set SafeZone datas are stored? Im trying to set a safe zone around a large area so no players can enter without using my teleport system but if I try to set a large area it takes forever to walk there or if i teleport it lags the game so much that I have to force close. I want to, if there's a file where I can open it up with Note ++ and write X and Y coordinates manually

rancid panther
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whenever the player is infected it makes a bunch of errors pop up in rapid speed and highlights line 36

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is it because im checking if the body is infected rather than the body part?

hollow current
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im not sure what the problem is but i'd go about attempting to debug the issue using print

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print(playerBody)
print(playerBody:IsInfected())
print(playerBody:getBodyParts())
print(playerBody:getBodyParts():size())

deft falcon
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gonna go copy paste super immune code

rancid panther
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i fixed the line 36 issue by changing it to local function and now the repeating errors are on line 38

deft falcon
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SetInfected not setInfected

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line 40 is small s tho

rancid panther
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ah

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thank u

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now for the fun part of reloading lua in sequence

deft falcon
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wdym in sequence

rancid panther
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back to back

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reloading lua to exit to menu and reloading again to enable the mod again

deft falcon
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you do know that in debug

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you can just

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press f11

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and then search the lua file

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and reload it

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while playing

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and u dont need to leave to menu and go back to save again

rancid panther
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what

deft falcon
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press f11 and send pic of what u see

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in game

rancid panther
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gonna take a second

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i was actually gonna ask if there was a way to do it without leaving the game 😂

drifting ore
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AUD lets you do it in debug mode with reload lua file only. but not guarantee that your changes will reflect perfectly in some cases

rancid panther
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oh i see on the bottom right now

deft falcon
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did u press f11, search the lua file and reload it

rancid panther
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i have too many mods enabled to scroll through this

deft falcon
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SEARCH THE LUA FILE

rain iron
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I don't think F11 + Reload works with loading new files, only reloading existing files

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maybe I am wrong tho

deft falcon
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yea but they edited existing files

rain iron
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wish there was a way to refresh txt files tho

rancid panther
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how can i search it

deft falcon
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send the SCREENSHOT

rancid panther
deft falcon
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you see lua files thing in right down right

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at the top of it theres a bar

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a search bar

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write into it your lua file name

rancid panther
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oh that's the search bar

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ok thanks

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the trait works now thanks

open drum
drifting ore
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no idea there. i know when you click the button to hide the drawing that makes you lag, sets this off/on

self.player:setSeeNonPvpZone(not self.player:isSeeNonPvpZone())
open drum
opal linden
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Is there a mod for faster weight gain and loss for real-time servers?

drifting ore
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they will probably have more that know

opal linden
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my bad

drifting ore
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you all good

open drum
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but there's a button for it? or which file should i include that code in?

ancient grail
drifting ore
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too tired to explain it atm 😦

opal linden
open drum
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ah oki

drifting ore
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almost 5 am been debugging and cleaning up code

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so close to release and updates

open drum
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understandable

drifting ore
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also fixed all the sandbox options and wooooo

thick karma
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Congrats! But! Wait! @drifting ore

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I strongly recommend you don't publish sandbox options with such long names

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They will not be visible to players who need 4x font in 1080p

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They will get cut off

rancid panther
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you can Wire Needed

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and add alt text that is more descriptive

drifting ore
glass basalt
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Does anyone happen to know where I can contact turbotutone? Is he even around, in Indie Stone or this server?

drifting ore
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i wish they let us break lines. only in certain tooltips

drifting ore
glass basalt
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ah, im an idiot

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drifting ore
open drum
rancid panther
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Scrap Electronics Needed
Duct Tape etc needed

Skillbook Pages
Spawn In Buildings
Find Chance

drifting ore
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i dont get it

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the numbers are there

rancid panther
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yea

drifting ore
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i have all those

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if you try it and notice anything please give feedback

rancid panther
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so u dont need to make the name of the sandbox option so descriptive

drifting ore
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yea i will try to cut it down

rancid panther
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they are self explanatory plus you have tooltips

drifting ore
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just knowing it will be an issue is enough reason for me

rancid panther
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i c

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good luck

drifting ore
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tyty. lets see if i can cut it in half 😄

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i will use your advice and thanks for the heads up Burryaga

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look at this lively room light

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rancid panther
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if two traits are mutually exclusive do they need to be on the same lua file?

thick karma
# drifting ore i will see what i can do

You can use shorter labels and tooltips for more extended explanations... And just FYI, the tooltips on the numerical fields only will ALSO be illegible if they are too long unless you use \n every so-many words to manually break your lines.

drifting ore
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yea i noticed i could only break on those

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the booleans seem to auto do it

thick karma
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No clue why it added those tooltip tabs, in the original they're all in a line.

rancid panther
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oh i didnt realize u made that mod

thick karma
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Notice at the end of my lines I use <RGB:1.0,0.6,0.0> (spaces matter!!!!) to color the min/max/default text (orange).

drifting ore
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what i notice is RGB. where did you grab those examples?

thick karma
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From my Meditation mod

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that color is a nice warm orange

rancid panther
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it's p much the only AFK mod out there

thick karma
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Easy to read

drifting ore
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i was trying to figure out the extent of whats available for sandbox stuff

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i meant the options themselves

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like knowing you can set RGB

thick karma
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You can set RGB

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On all of your sandbox variable descriptions 🙂

drifting ore
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i got that, but how did you figure it out, if i may ask? i'm trying to find out what is possible

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if there is examples or a standard for what options you can use for formatting

rancid panther
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can u do that the same way on the mod description? or does it use something else

thick karma
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I think I saw it being used in either another mod or a translation file. The same tags can be used in mod.info, as well as <LINE> in mod.info for line breaks.

drifting ore
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at the least though, thank you for that example

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super awesome even to know anything new

thick karma
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Again, cannot emphasize enough, these tags don't work right without a space on either side of the <>

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Confused me more than once.

drifting ore
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also, i thought of you when building my UI haha

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got it

thick karma
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Bahahahaha

drifting ore
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i added joypad support 😄

thick karma
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nice

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❤️

drifting ore
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dunno if it will make it to this release (the light radius UI) but it's looking good so far

thick karma
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If you want me to look it over and make sure it's likely to be as compatible as I know how to make it, feel free to send it (DM is fine); if you used onJoypadDown of panels and passed focus around, you're probably golden

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But, protip, if the menu can be accessed from a point other than nil focus (no menus open), you will want to track your previous focus to pass that back to the player when they close your menu

rancid panther
drifting ore
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ohh good to know

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i was just destroying

rancid panther
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silly description even tho im probably gonna keep the trait hidden by making it occupation exclusive

drifting ore
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ill post my stuff on github here tomorrow when i release

thick karma
# drifting ore ohh good to know

If you're using the ISModalDialogs they will generally pass focus back to the right place on destroy if you set their prevFocus

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Otherwise idk there are many panels with many ways of being closed and they don't all work equally smoothly lol

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In general I think the ISPanelJoypad does that too

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If the wrong functions aren't overwritten

drifting ore
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sounds good. good to know

thick karma
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Need to do what it wants onLoseJoypadFocus iirc

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I.e., in yours, call ISPanelJoypad's too

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Nah actually I think not

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ISPanelJoypad has no prevFocus variable

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Only ISModalDialog

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And other implementations of either ofc

rancid panther
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is there a command i can type in the console to immediately kill the character

drifting ore
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sounds good. i pretty much just pull a bunch of examples and add what makes sense. all of this is a really good learning experience

thick karma
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Hell yeah well I'll check it out

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And run it with all my stuff and see what happens

rain iron
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Looks like Zomboid doesn't really want me to fake a 3 animations emote with TimedAction

thick karma
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What if you fake it with three timed actions

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Add the next one in the perform of the last? @rain iron

rain iron
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exactly, that's what I have been trying to do

rancid panther
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is there a command console in multiplayer?

thick karma
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Oh... Surprised that isn't working.

thick karma
rancid panther
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ah okay

rain iron
#

Adds a variable to trigger a starting anim
Makes the starting anim adds a variable on the end to trigger a loop anim
On Stop/Perform, Adds a variable to trigger end anim

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But it hasn't really worked out for me and I have no idea why

rancid panther
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so in multiplayer when i dont have debug mode on i can change stats by going admin and right clicking players instead

thick karma
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I.e., you can fire each one by itself.

rain iron
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Yup, they are 3 separated FBX files

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perfectly loop from start to end

rancid panther
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i made the immune trait not actually selectable in character creation, but i can give it to ppl through admin instead if they really are bad at the game or something

thick karma
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I am talking about the timed actions not the animation data

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Can you trigger a timed action that animates each of those animations?

rancid panther
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thanks again for all the help

thick karma
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If so, are you using your own custom timed action or just emoting them?

rain iron
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I'm using a custom timed action

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The said custom timed action then set a specific variable to trigger animations

thick karma
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I see... So the action works if you want to endlessly loop one of the three, but when you try to convert it, no good?

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If you send me the working timed action and the three animations I can play with it

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You may need to clear the timed action queue before starting the next one in perform

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I'm not sure what you're missing, but I linked timed actions in an endless chain for Better Automatic Movement

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So I can take a look and apply the logic from that to your code

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Or you could just go subscribe to BAM and look yourself

drifting ore
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cut down sandbox settings

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rain iron
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I see. I'll give BAM a look.

drifting ore
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Oh I guess a couple others I missed also lol

rain iron
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Looks like I got it semi-working properly

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I wasn't using self:setActionAnim(abc) before rj

thick karma
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Nice.

rain iron
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I got the initial starting anim and looping anim working

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no ending anim tho

tardy wren
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Oh, @thick karma I need some help

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A basegame UI code points to a filepath that I can't seem to find in the game files...

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Does that mean it's like... compressed in the texture packs?

thick karma
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I'm no longer publishing this because I am gonna just lend support to dhert's Brutal Handwork mod instead in the form of some new inputs (if possible), but this timed action was based on the beginning and end of an animation file if you want to see how.

📎 DualWieldAttackAction.lua 📎 LefthandSwing.xml
thick karma
rain iron
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I see, thank you a lot.

thick karma
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Good luck!

tardy wren
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ISGarmentUI.lua

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I found why there are sometimes holes visible on a character's back, that can't be patched and don't show up on the UI

thick karma
tardy wren
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reallu?

thick karma
tardy wren
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Oh, sorry, this is the file with the file path

thick karma
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ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\ISUI\ISGarmentUI.lua

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Oh what is the path?

tardy wren
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media/ui/BodyParts/bps_" .. self.sex .. textureName .. ".png"

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As I said, generated in the function

# 
function ISGarmentUI:addTextures(type, textureName, overlayName)
    self.textures[type] = {};
    self.textures[type].texture = getTexture("media/ui/BodyParts/bps_" .. self.sex .. textureName .. ".png")
    self.textures[type].hole = getTexture("media/ui/BodyParts/overlays/" .. self.sex .. "_clothing_overlays_holes" .. overlayName .. ".png")
    self.textures[type].blood = getTexture("media/ui/BodyParts/overlays/" .. self.sex .. "_clothing_overlays_blood" .. overlayName .. ".png")
    self.textures[type].patch = getTexture("media/ui/BodyParts/overlays/" .. self.sex .. "_clothing_overlays_patches" .. overlayName .. ".png")
if self.textures[type].texture then
    print(self.textures[type].texture:getHeight(),self.textures[type].texture:getHeightOrig())
end
end
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I can't find these

thick karma
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh interesting.

tardy wren
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Which is a shame

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The holes in the clothes are based on blood locations

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The upper one is the blood locations

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They have one extra body part: the Back

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But it's never visible in the UI

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Because it's not added

# 
function ISGarmentUI:create()
    self.textures = {};

    self:addTextures("Hand_L", "_left-hand", "_left_hand");
    self:addTextures("Hand_R", "_right-hand", "_right_hand");
    self:addTextures("ForeArm_L", "_lower-left-arm", "_lower_left_arm");
    self:addTextures("ForeArm_R", "_lower-right-arm", "_lower_right_arm");
    self:addTextures("UpperArm_L", "_upper-left-arm", "_upper_left_arm");
    self:addTextures("UpperArm_R", "_upper-right-arm", "_upper_right_arm");
    self:addTextures("Torso_Upper", "_chest", "_chest");
    self:addTextures("Torso_Lower", "_abdomen", "_abdomen");
    self:addTextures("Head", "_head", "_head");
    self:addTextures("Neck", "_neck", "_neck");
    self:addTextures("Groin", "_groin", "_groin");
    self:addTextures("UpperLeg_L", "_left-thigh", "_left_thigh");
    self:addTextures("UpperLeg_R", "_right-thigh", "_right_thigh");
    self:addTextures("LowerLeg_L", "_left-calf", "_left_calf");
    self:addTextures("LowerLeg_R", "_right-calf", "_right_calf");
    self:addTextures("Foot_L", "_left-foot", "_left_foot");
    self:addTextures("Foot_R", "_right-foot", "_right_foot");
end
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Now... I don't know if that's a mod issue or not, but sometimes you get clothing that has a hole in the back you can't fix

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I tried this, but it didn't work...

require "ISUI/ISGarmentUI"
local original_create = ISGarmentUI.create
function ISGarmentUI.create()
    original_create(self)
    ISGarmentUI:addTextures(self,"Back", "_abdomen", "_abdomen");
end
thick karma
#

Okay that's not quite right let me offer a fix you can try assuming the params are right

tardy wren
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Well, I was hoping that by adding in an option with an existing texture would result in me seeing a duplicate entry, but no...

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It behaves as vanilla

thick karma
#

Give me a sec

# 
local Diakon = {
    ISGarmentUI = {
        create = ISGarmentUI.create
    }
}

function ISGarmentUI:create()
    Diakon.ISGarmentUI.create(self)
    self:addTextures(self, "Back", "_abdomen", "_abdomen");
end

return Diakon
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Better if you stick your original functions in a module and return them for future modders

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As a matter of habit

tardy wren
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Oh, okay...

thick karma
#

Never know what a future modder will need or want to do with you're mod when you've moved along to another game, makes patching your stuff a lot easier if you do this

tardy wren
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I have no clue what this does

thick karma
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What which thing does

tardy wren
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This whole module thing... I don't understamd the syntax

thick karma
#

I see. Okay, a module is just a Lua table, really, so it looks like this (when done locally):
local Module = {}

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The module above contains an inner module that serves as a container for backups of functions from vanilla files.

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The inner module, ISGarmentUI, matches the name of the vanilla module ISGarmentUI, so that in order to access your backups of ISGarmentUI you would type Diakon.ISGarmentUI (or whatever module name you want to use for the mod you're making)

tardy wren
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Okay.... Issue remains, this doesn't do anything

thick karma
#

Fair.

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Nevertheless it's good to understand proper decorations

tardy wren
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yes..

thick karma
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Inside the inner module, you declare the backup function you want to decorate and set it equal to the original function.

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So now you can call its backup as Diakon.ISGarmentUI.backupFunction

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At the very end of your file, you can return your module (or modules) in a comma-separated list: return Diakon, Diakon2, Diakon3

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So then other people can require your file and access the modules you return

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Regarding this, in particular:

function ISGarmentUI:create()
    Diakon.ISGarmentUI.create(self)
    self:addTextures(self, "Back", "_abdomen", "_abdomen");
end

You need the : instead of . because the original function is automatically passed a copy of the ISGarmentUI object as self when you use :

Using . will throw away that access to self.

tardy wren
#

uhhh

thick karma
#

Then, when you addTextures, you need to add it to self, not ISGarmentUI... ISGarmentUI is just a module, and by itself has different data (it mostly contains function definitions). The o returned in ISGarmentUI:new is the actual OBJECT of type ISGarmentUI that you need to be changing.

tardy wren
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oh, okay...

thick karma
#

The o returned from :new is referenced as self inside other functions of the module that pass a self variable.

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So self above is o in the code below:

function ISGarmentUI:new(x, y, character, clothing)
    local playerNum = character:getPlayerNum()
    local width = 460
    if x == -1 then
        x = getPlayerScreenLeft(playerNum) + (getPlayerScreenWidth(playerNum) - width) / 2
    end
    local o = ISCollapsableWindow.new(self, x, y, width, 300);
    o.chr = character;
    o.playerNum = playerNum;
    o.title = clothing:getDisplayName();
    o.clothing = clothing;
    o.borderColor = {r=0.4, g=0.4, b=0.4, a=1};
    o.backgroundColor = {r=0, g=0, b=0, a=0.8};
    o.sex = "male";
    o:setResizable(false)
    o.progressWidth = 100;
    o.progressHeight = 10;
    o.noRepairWidth = getTextManager():MeasureStringX(UIFont.Small, getText("IGUI_garment_CantRepair"))
    o.bodyPartColumn = math.max(160, 10 + o.noRepairWidth + 10);
    o:calcProgressWidths()
    o:calcColumnWidths()
    o:calcProgressPositions()
    o.texturesYOffset = 0;
    o.texturesHeight = 0;
    o.addedHeight = 0;
    return o;
end
#

o has all the data; o calls the functions.

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Often vanilla :new function create an instance of o for ease of access later, by setting e.g. ISGarmentUI.instance = o before the return statement.

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You actually could decorate the :new function to create such an instance variable inside the module if you want.

tardy wren
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um, no, I only want the back to show up on a list of body parts to patch

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Which it still doesn't...

thick karma
#

Right I do not know whether adding that texture to ISGarmentUI is sufficient... I can only tell you how it would be done.

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Sorry. 😦

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It may be that somewhere else in vanilla just doesn't expect that many textures in ISGarmentUI and is hardcoded to reject more

tardy wren
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Maybe I'm looking at it wrong... Maybe I should figure out why there's sometimes a hole in the back in the first place

thick karma
#

/ do you know how?

tardy wren
rain iron
#

Speaking of patches, is there a way to hide patches on costumes entirely with code?
Without using the invisible patches mod of course

tardy wren
#

So by opening a clothing item, it should show me a duplicate

thick karma
# tardy wren Uh, no, how do I do that

Do this:

local Diakon = {
    ISGarmentUI = {
        create = ISGarmentUI.create
    }
}

function ISGarmentUI:create()
    Diakon.ISGarmentUI.create(self)
    self:addTextures("Back", "_abdomen", "_abdomen");

    ISGarmentUI.instance = self
end

return Diakon ---> REMEMBER THIS NEEDS TO BE AT THE END OF THE FILE
#

Then, in game, using the Debug Console, do this:

print(ISGarmentUI.instance.textures["Back"])
#

Shit there was a typo in my code.

#

self:addTextures(self, "Back", "_abdomen", "_abdomen");
needed to be
self:addTextures("Back", "_abdomen", "_abdomen");

#

My bad.

#

I fixed it above.

tardy wren
#

Wait, what you did fixed it

#

There is now a Back

#

Thank you!

#

I'd have never tried to override the instance of the UI with my own

cunning kestrel
tardy wren
#

Okay, you're getting full credit for this one @thick karma

#

After so long

obraz.png
cunning kestrel
#

Yeey Band-Aids on our backs 😄 👌

tardy wren
#

The funniest thing is, this is all that needed to be done. PAtches and holes on the back are fully supported already, they only lacked a UI option

cunning kestrel
#

Ive made a mistake....
PRAISE THE TREADMILL

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fringe ridge
#

hahaha

#

I have a weird issue, my mod works fine and well, but the moment i add a mod that allows me to change the Sandbox options midgame one of the translation files "breaks"

#

And it's just that single line

#

no others break

cunning kestrel
#

something wrong in the parser i would assume ... some wierd / hidden character perhaps ...

fringe ridge
#

In my mod or theirs?

#

i'm assuming mine xD

hollow current
#

sooo im creating a mod which adds an item called "Tattered Paper". When the player rights click it and chooses "read", it'll display a story which is picked randomly from a JSON file. This depicts stories/letters/diaries written by victims/survivors when the apocalypse started.

I have an issue which I can't figure out how to solve. Some stories may not be suitable with the location it spawned in. For example, a tattered paper in a house shouldn't have a story about a child whose parents took him to the woods to escape the apocalypse. Wouldn't make sense how he wrote it while in woods, yet somehow its in the house.

I thought of an idea where when the player clicks read, it'll "somehow" check the spawn location of the item, and based on that, it'll choose stories from a file that contains all stories occuring in a house, for example.

My issue is that I can't figure our the "somehow", or if there's a better approach about this

cunning kestrel
hollow current
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This is what ChatGPT said it by the way, not sure if it's actually doable or just some gibberish

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hollow current
thick karma
cunning kestrel
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well seems GPT has figured that out xD

thick karma
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Great work!

hollow current
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doesn't make sense though cause getCell has nothing to do with inventory/container items

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at least afaik

tardy wren
thick karma
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In which mod will I find that, out of curiosity? I'll totally add your mod when you're done.

tardy wren
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Fixable back holes, sorry

thick karma
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Nice I'll search it up

thick karma
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ChatGPT is not smart enough to program yet. It is smart enough to occasionally copy the right programmer's solution.

hollow current
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aah thought as much

thick karma
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You abstract idea is much smarter than ChatGPT's. I do not know how to get the spawn coordinates of an object, but I strongly suspect it can be either A) grabbed or B) set using the item's mod data.

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You might consider just using the player's current coordinates when they first open the message to assign its story.

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I mean, only rarely will anyone find a letter and NOT immediately read it and go somewhere else where the story it's telling is completely inappropriate for where they've relocated.

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And if the letter item has a generic name until you read it, even better.

hollow current
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would it be possible to know what kind of location is the player located in, based on his coordinates?

thick karma
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Hmmm

hollow current
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Ye it has a generic name till you read it. After you read, it gets renamed to the story title

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im thinking of adding to each story some tags of the possible location it makes sense to be written, then filter the code's choices based on that, if I can return the player's location from his coordinates

thick karma
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I'm thinking something in getSquare():getRoom() could help @hollow current

cunning kestrel
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doesnt the forage system use this kind of info ? ea deep woods, light woods, city ??

thick karma
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Ooo good idea @cunning kestrel

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maybe check that code for something useful

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I don't know how that works exactly but that would make sense for it to have some means of tracking that

hollow current
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hmm will do

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Thanks gentlemen!

fringe ridge
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i think i figured out what's happening with the mod thing i mentioned earlier

cunning kestrel
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shoot

willow estuary
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Use that event to detect when and where your item is spawned and attach the needed modData then.

thick karma
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maybe getSquare:getZone()? @hollow current

fringe ridge
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i am subbed to my own mod and i'm working on the workshop version of it in a different folder. i think it somehow looks for the "subbed" version because when i added a fake option to the sandbox file it didn't show up even after reloading the game

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gonna unsub my own mod and see if i'm correct

bronze yoke
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yeah, that happens a lot

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best to just unsubscribe when you're working on it

fringe ridge
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never had any issues until now haha XD

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Yup that was the problem XD i thought it was my mod or something, thanx for helping

hollow current
hollow current
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sometimes prints out vegetation, sometimes its empty

cunning kestrel
hollow current
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the getRoom() approach seems to be most reliable for now, i'll see if I can put to use the event which Blair suggested

red tiger
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Good morning.

hollow current
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Morning!

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Also I got the issue solved using OnFillContainer and saving it to the modData as Blair Algol suggested. I really appreciate it, thanks so much!

zinc pilot
#

heyo, what's the difference between luautils string functions and string normal functions?

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like, if I wanted to check a string via find, should I use something like luautils.StartsWith or string.find?

bronze yoke
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if you only want to check the start or end use the luautil, otherwise use string.find

oak olive
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Morning everyone, noob modder here, i'm struggling trying to get my item to spawn in game, somehow it doesn't work, i don't know a lot about coding nor modding so i'm a little confused on why isn't it working. lately i've been trying different formats of my lua/server/items/"Myitem"-Distributions.lua (My lua/client folder is empty though)

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i was wondering if someone could help me heh 🙂

quasi kernel
#

Is there a more effective way to figure out if something is in the foraging loot table? I'm literally walking around with the debugs on hoping my items spawn.

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(Help courser first plz)

bronze yoke
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i would just make my items ridiculously common so i find them fast

red tiger
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You can also use string.find

hollow current
# oak olive i was wondering if someone could help me heh 🙂

Alright so.

1- Define your item inside scripts folder
Workshop\{MOD NAME}\Contents\mods\{MOD NAME}\media\scripts

The way I do it is by creating a text file inside the folder, for example, a mod i created has the file named "item_jumpstarter.txt". Inside the contents of the file, I have:

{
    /************************ Mechanic Items ************************/
    item Jumpstarter
    {
        DisplayCategory = Tool,
        Weight    =    5,
        Type    =    Drainable,
        UseDelta = 0.2,
        DisappearOnUse = FALSE,
        UseWhileEquipped    =    FALSE,
        DisplayName    =    Battery Jumpstarter,
        Icon    =    Jumpstarter,
        MechanicsItem = TRUE,
        Tooltip = Tooltip_item_Jumpstarter,
        WorldStaticModel = Jumpstarter_Ground,
    }
}```


For Icon, make sure the image is placed inside textures folder.

2- Set item spawn. The way I do it is by heading into 
``Workshop\{MOD NAME}\Contents\mods\{MOD NAME}\media\lua\server\Items``. I created ``Distributions_Jumpstarter.lua`` inside

Inside ``Distributions_Jumpstarter.lua``, i have:

```lua
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);```
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You can use LootZed while having debug enabled to find each container name and edit accordingly in the distributions

red tiger
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string.find is the same as string.indexOf in other languages.

hollow current
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Enable the option

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Right click the container and choose Open Lootzed

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Find the container name as in the photo, as well as items which can possibly spawn in this container and their chances. You can also use the "Refill Container" option from the previous photo in case your item didn't spawn in the container

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to edit on that, apparently not all containers name are as accurate as they are in the procedural distributions file, so its better to double check container name from there

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

oak olive
oak olive
# hollow current Alright so. 1- Define your item inside scripts folder ``Workshop\{MOD NAME}\Con...

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function: Distributions_Chorimod.lua -- file: Distributions_Chorimod.lua line # 3 | MOD: Choripan

ERROR: General , 1676828877235> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: items of non-table: null at KahluaThread.tableget line:1689.
ERROR: General , 1676828877236> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: items of non-table: null
at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.tableget(KahluaThread.java:1689)
at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.luaMainloop(KahluaThread.java:492)
at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.call(KahluaThread.java:163)
at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.pcall(KahluaThread.java:1980)
at se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaThread.pcall(KahluaThread.java:1782)
at se.krka.kahlua.integration.LuaCaller.pcall(LuaCaller.java:76)
at se.krka.kahlua.integration.LuaCaller.protectedCall(LuaCaller.java:117)
at zombie.Lua.LuaManager.RunLuaInternal(LuaManager.java:564)
at zombie.Lua.LuaManager.RunLua(LuaManager.java:510)
at zombie.Lua.LuaManager.RunLua(LuaManager.java:496)
at zombie.Lua.LuaManager.LoadDirBase(LuaManager.java:342)
at zombie.Lua.LuaManager.LoadDirBase(LuaManager.java:264)
at zombie.gameStates.GameLoadingState.enter(GameLoadingState.java:97)
at zombie.gameStates.GameStateMachine.update(GameStateMachine.java:145)
at zombie.GameWindow.logic(GameWindow.java:298)
at zombie.core.profiling.AbstractPerformanceProfileProbe.invokeAndMeasure(AbstractPerformanceProfileProbe.java:71)
at zombie.GameWindow.frameStep(GameWindow.java:765)
at zombie.GameWindow.run_ez(GameWindow.java:681)
at zombie.GameWindow.mainThread(GameWindow.java:495)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
LOG : General , 1676828877239> -----------------------------------------
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hollow current
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can you show me your distributions file?

oak olive
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yes, of course

hollow current
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FrigdeGeneric

oak olive
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It's meant to be a food item

hollow current
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"Frigde"

oak olive
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Oh

hollow current
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you have a typo in your 3rd line

oak olive
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i'm so sorry, english is not my main language hahaha

hollow current
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haha don't worry about it

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lemme know if it works!

oak olive
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thank you so much dude

hollow current
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Its my pleasure :)

digital moon
#

Omg - this is amazing thank you so much.

willow grail
#

i wanna make a mod where you can put metal sheets on cars but i have literally 0 idea where to start

digital moon
#

Would you be willing to share the code you used to ignore what you didn't want processed?

oak olive
# hollow current Its my pleasure :)

I have good news and bad news, the good news are that the error message dissapeared, the bad news... the item is still not spawning anywhere. One question tho, in the mod Distributions file, do you put the item ID or the Item name as it appears in /scripts ?

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i also noticed my item in the /scripts folder had a .lua extension so i changed it to .txt hehe

hollow current
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i believe you use the name defined here

oak olive
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yes

hollow current
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the item won't spawn in containers you already looted

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you should check if the item is appearing in LootZed

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also try to use "Fill Container" option

oak olive
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how do i enable lootzed and debug mode?

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I'm using a mod called necroforge

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to enter debug mode i think

hollow current
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go to steam, right click on PZ, choose properties, and add -debug

oak olive
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okay, ill try that

hollow current
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after that, go ig, you'll find some kind of an insect icon on the left while ig. Click it, click cheats menu, enable LootZed, then use it as I previously shown

oak olive
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thx

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ill try

hollow current
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oki good luck!

oak olive
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Thanks!~!

oak olive
hollow current
hollow current
oak olive
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thank u for your help. 🙂 now ill try to polish and give it details.

ancient grail
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so we are trying to spawn fire on a certain distance we discoevered its 100 tile distance away from the player as limit for the fire to spawn
do you think it will increase if we move the command from client lua folder to server folder

tame mulch
ancient grail
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by loaded means player presence?

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so if i spawn it on a player no matter how far i am it will owrk?

tame mulch
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Yep, server work only with squares, that loaded by someone

tame mulch
ancient grail
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pao was right lol

hollow current
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Does player's moddata reset if he dies?

ancient grail
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i mean im player 1 youre player 2 i send fire to you from riverside to westpoint

tame mulch
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I think yes

ancient grail
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ok thank you

tame mulch
ancient grail
# 
local args = { x = varX, y = varY, z = varZ }
sendClientCommand(getPlayer(), 'object', 'addFireOnSquare', args)
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we just tested

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with 2 instances of local host

hollow current
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btw is there any list of all possible returns of "getRoom()"?

tame mulch
hollow current
tame mulch
hollow current
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ah okay thanks

ancient grail
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Im not certain its there but might be worth a shot

hollow current
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aah doesn't have what I am looking for unfortunately. Nonetheless it actually looks very useful for other stuff, definitely keeping it

gusty wharf
#

Anyone knows how to increase a skill level when the skill has no levels unlocked at all?

local function maxSkills()    
    local player = getPlayer()
    player:setPerkLevelDebug(Perks.Fishing,10);
end
Events.OnPlayerMove.Add(maxSkills)

Whenever I try this on a skill that has no levels unlocked, it doesn't work, but with skills with at least 1 level unlocked, it does work. I'm trying to make my first mod in which the player gets all the skills maxed out when the character is created no matter the occupation. The event is OnPlayerMove just to see if it works more quickly, I'll change it later on.

bronze yoke
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i'm not really sure why that doesn't work, but i use this for one of my mods:

local desiredLevel = Literacy.getInitialLiteracyLevel(character)
for i=1, desiredLevel do
    character:LevelPerk(Perks.Reading)
end
character:getXp():setXPToLevel(Perks.Reading, desiredLevel)
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desiredLevel is just a number 1-10

gusty wharf
red tiger
#

Trying to mod but around someone who wants everyone to hear her life's story on her phone.

gusty wharf
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thanks

red tiger
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_>

bronze yoke
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honestly not sure if the setXPToLevel afterwards is necessary, i feel like i would've tested it but this is one of my older mods so it might have weird stuff in it like that

red tiger
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Noise-cancelling earbuds won't help.

gusty wharf
bronze yoke
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yeah, hold on i actually wrote something like that before

hollow current
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Referring to the following code:

ISRenameEverything.onRenameItem = function(item, player)
    local modal = ISTextBox:new(0, 0, 280, 180, getText("ContextMenu_label_items"), item:getName(), nil, ISRenameEverything.onRenameItemClick, player, getSpecificPlayer(player), item);
    modal:initialise();
    modal:addToUIManager();
    modal.entry:focus();
end

Any idea what this is about? I looked through vanilla code and its all the same for textboxes so not sure why it wouldn't work with controllers

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bronze yoke
# 
for i=0,Perks.getMaxIndex()-1 do
    local perk = Perks.fromIndex(i)
    --put your code here, but substitute Perks.Whatever for just perk
end
gusty wharf
#

Thanks, I'll try this out too.

bronze yoke
#

a quick question about online ids - does anyone know if they are ever reassigned to different players, such as after they leave? for example:
player a joins and takes online ids 0-3
player b joins and takes 4-7
player a leaves
player c joins - do they take online ids 8-11 or 0-3?
if player a then rejoins, do they take 0-3 back or get assigned new ids?

i'm not trying to use them for persistence, just for recognising players over a single session

red tiger
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Working on the property table for Weapon item-types.

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=)

pulsar heath
bronze yoke
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that's what my question is about...

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i want to know if online ids are perfectly reliable over time

pulsar heath
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they should

bronze yoke
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i've only used them when i'm grabbing the id at the same time i'm using it, so i haven't had to worry about it before

pulsar heath
#

same...

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you can always use the steamid

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that never changes

bronze yoke
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unfortunately in splitscreen all four players will have the same steamid and username

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i know nobody plays splitscreen but i still like to prepare for it, and it'll totally break everything if two players get the same id

pulsar heath
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yeah, i dont even consider spliscreen

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to much of a hastle

bronze yoke
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all my mods consider splitscreen, but i haven't actually tested any of them in splitscreen even once LOL

rare vortex
#

Would it be ok to take inspiration off LARP armor and stuff you see on Pinterest for armor mods?

gusty wharf
fast galleon
# gusty wharf I tried to use this and the previous code you sent, doesn't work but it's probab... 
-- loop all added perks
-- This includes perks added by mods and excludes unused perks like Blacksmith that can cause errors. 
for i = 0, PerkFactory.PerkList:size() - 1 do
    local perk = PerkFactory.PerkList:get(i)
    -- if we want to skip "parent" perks like: Passiv, Combat, FireArm, Agility, Crafting, Survivalist
    if perk:getParent() ~= Perks.None then
        --...
    end
end

To get a Perk object we can use

local perk = Perks["Nimble"]
local perk = Perks.FromString("Nimble")
--custom perks are added too to the Lua Perks table
local perk = Perks.Lockpicking

#selfpins all perks, PerkFactory.PerkList

gusty wharf
bronze yoke
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just call levelperk multiple times

fast galleon
#

you can use a different event if that's the question?

gusty wharf
gusty wharf
#

Well nevermind it works really well

tame mulch
#

Someone want to talk about modding in voice chat?

deft falcon
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no but i have a question

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what exactly do i put into () for this

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tame mulch
deft falcon
#

kk thx

fast galleon
#

if that doesn't work use, stiffness vars from FitnessExercises.lua
e,g, print(getPlayer():getFitness():getCurrentExeStiffnessTimer("arms"))

deft falcon
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i dont feel like manually assigning each one of them

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actually nvm found a different way to the problem

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wont need that

gusty wharf
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Is there some sort of a modding tutorial? I'd like to kinda learn some more stuff about modding PZ but I can't really find any tutorials

drifting ore
#

i was wondering if it was possible to increase the container capacity of popsicle fridges

tame mulch
gusty wharf
#

Is it possible to somehow code a mod that makes the player learn all recipes? Cheat Menu RB gives me almost all but misses a few for some reason

tame mulch
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I think it possible

red tiger
#

I found a syntax error in newitems.txt.

# 
item AlarmClock { 
    /*..*/
    OBSOLETE = true
}
#

No comma on the line at the bottom.

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=/

#

Besides properties not mapped to Weapon when constructed, I have Weapon item properties mapped.

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It's a pain-staking process to individually define these as fields with assignments as their data types.. however the cost is worth it.

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The result JSON will show accurately what type and value, also eliminating the odd nuance of ZedScripts usage of assignment operators.

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Anything beyond the values used in script objects inside of media/scripts/ are stored as custom properties.

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(ModData)

jaunty marten
red tiger
#

Script data in this format can easily be remapped into B42's new format.

tame mulch
red tiger
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I'd like to if possible. =)

quasi geode
# red tiger

I actually wanted to do a extra json loader for the scripts files but its been low priority

red tiger
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tl;dr: I've ripped apart ZedScript and built two parsers.

red tiger
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Hook that baby up to GlobalObject too.

jaunty marten
red tiger
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My end-goal is to have an application with GUI to manage and build scripts.

quasi geode
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currently working on another probably more important side project so json scripts gets to wait.
started building a flexable binary file loader in python, using a rule based syntax / instruction set for reading PZ's saved binary structures

tame mulch
red tiger
#

And as for discussing modding in vc, sure. Let me know if I am selected and I can prepare some notes.

#

I'm currently completely immersed in the writing of tools for modding.

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=)

jaunty marten
red tiger
#

Should pick it back up.

quasi geode
red tiger
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It was to think more about how to clean up issues surrounding the format such as too many files and other things.

quasi geode
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Global Object system file from a saved game, converted to json

red tiger
jaunty marten
red tiger
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You're working on projects that I like to work on. =)

red tiger
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Woops wrong reply.

quasi geode
# 
Set('GlobalObject', (
    Struct('x', 'i'),
    Struct('y', 'i'),
    Struct('z', 'B'),
    Conditional('table', is_true=TableUTF('table', False), flag=COND_STORE_NONE),
))
Set('SGlobalObjectSystem', (
    Struct('GLOS', 'bbbb'),
    Struct('WorldVersion', 'i'),
    Conditional('table', is_true=TableUTF('table', False), flag=COND_STORE_NONE),
    List('objects', 'i', rule_sets['GlobalObject'])
))

rule set for reading all the gos_*.bin files

red tiger
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I plan to have my transpiler be able to lift all PZ lua files into TypeScript with types generated and compilable.

jaunty marten
red tiger
#

I plan to make sure it works.

quasi geode
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old ORGM discord bot actually used to run a copy of the mod for spitting out weapon stats (they needed to be calculated via the mod's lua code)

red tiger
quasi geode
#

ya i figured

red tiger
#

Took him a couple years to convince to put his mod on GitHub.

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Glad he did.

quasi geode
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I remember. we (you and i, not ORMtnMan) actually talked years ages ago when i first took over the mod

red tiger
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Oh darn. I'm so sorry it was that long ago that I completely forgot what we discussed.

#

Hopefully it was helpful.

quasi geode
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sledgehammer i believe

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mostly anyways lol

red tiger
#

Oh. I'm full of endless stories about Sledgehammer. Can you believe all those hundreds of hours of work and no one but me used it.

#

lol

quasi geode
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XD

red tiger
#

But hey it was fun doing a lot of "firsts" that ended up making its way into the game like multi-chat tabs and discord integration.

#

=)

#

ORMtnMan was the first mod to use custom weapon models BTW.

#

That's why I knew him well.

#

It's really good to see active work to improve quality-of-life modding resources.

quasi geode
#

more resources and tools are good 👍

red tiger
#

It gives me more drive to complete my own tools.

frail brook
#

Hi, everyone. I'm looking for partner who is good with coding / scripting in PZ and can help with "Stalker: Anomalyish" (gameplay, food and equipment/weapons mod). Modular guns and etc. 80-90% of assets are ready. This was a mod that I was working till like 2 years ago, before b41 was even out of beta. Since then, I did't have much time to finish it. Now i don't have much energy/sanity left to relearn all the LUA scripting and stuff. DM me , if you are interested in it.

red tiger
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I'll finish filling in unassigned weapon properties later on.

#

_>

rancid panther
#

my workshop items have so many change notes due to obsessively updating the mod for small changes. is there a way to remove change notes for updates that do virtually nothing? or do i just need to be better about it for the future?

drifting stump
#

hmmm talk about modding

#

sign me up so i can go full bernie again asking for a OnSandboxOptionsUpdate event

#

time well spent

bronze yoke
#

spent two hours trying to work out why i couldn't get sounds to play and just realised my game was muted unhappy

rancid panther
drifting stump
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xp events on server too

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exposed logger also nice

gusty wharf
rancid panther
#

yeah people use deaf trait all the time if they for any reason dont need game audio, such as being deaf or playing loud music

drifting ore
#

Ive been trying to find a way to change the anger moodle in Lua and i still haven't found any unhappy

#

Is there a code so i can change it to a value througha trait?

rancid panther
#

isnt there a mod that adds back the anger moodle? try looking at that

drifting ore
#

Ill see that. Thank you

rancid panther
drifting ore
#

Thank you

#

Im trying to make a character constantly angry through a trait. But at the same time if i use specific pill. That should calm the character down for a time. Does something like this work?

rancid panther
#

sounds doable

drifting ore
#

Thats good

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The only thing i cant get to though is the code to change the anger value or how it works. Since im kinda new to lua

drifting ore
fast galleon
stiff furnace
#

Hey everyone, random question. In my dedi server I am noticing this huge "sound" bubble around LV? It's pulling in zeds from all around the city

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There's an example

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I'm just curious...has anyone ran into this ever before? I am running the expanded helicopter events mod...might be from that - but I was just curious if anyone has ever seen it before lol

drifting ore
#

chuck has a github for reporting things

opal rivet
stiff furnace
bronze yoke
#

well, it got me to dive into a lot of the sound code so i know a lot of things i wouldn't've known otherwise

#

so it's not all bad

opal rivet
#

That's good news

#

Now you learn some sounds code how it works

#

I wouldn't know myself

true vault
#

Aight, so at the risk of sounding less intelligent than I think I am...

I have my random generator working, however, I think I need some help lolz

It spawns in the tile no problem, but, you cannot interact with the item that's been placed. However, using the manual right-click and place item, works.

...how would I go about spawning the interactable object that uses the tile, rather than just the tile?

thick karma
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I was just convinced my code was wrong instead

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Oof

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Probably spent an hour

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Scratchin my head like what the hell did I do wrong

bronze yoke
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i went 'why doesn't doing the same thing i did for vehicles work for tiles' -> 'oh my god it's not even working for vehicles anymore' -> 'oh...'

true vault
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I have done this lolz

bronze yoke
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i had it right the very first try 😭

true vault
thick karma
rancid panther
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yeah which is why i need to do better about it

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but at the same time i have compulsive urges

thick karma
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Yeah... And no way to delete change notes afaik but I could just not know

rancid panther
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as long as it isnt a heavily used i should be fine. no one uses it atm

bronze yoke
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it's best to batch changes into a larger update when they're not critical

thick karma
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You can freely update your GitHub left and right and harm no one

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And then push big patches as albion suggested to Workshop

rancid panther
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yea

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once my mod goes public i'll stop changing them so much

thick karma
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If it's not even public, you COULD delete it and use a new workshop id; only consequence is the original version will likely hit on Google for awhile even though it's deleted.

rancid panther
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the bitten trait is p much done, unless i want to add a sandbox option to change the bite time or something

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yeah true but i saw the workshop and even some popular mods have 10+ changes so im not alone

thick karma
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10 is nothing

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I thought you were talking way more

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But 10 in 3 days would be a lot

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It's about how often more than how many

rancid panther
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yeah ik

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the bitten trait was updated 6 times in one night

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but they were all while it was unlisted until this morning when i added a picture and made it public

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my other one has 12 change notes but it is unlisted and only 1 friend uses it

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but i wanna get into the habit of batching my updates instead of updating it every time i make a minor change

bronze yoke
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yeah, if there's anything you want to change early on it's fine, nobody is using your mod right after it comes out

thick karma
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Agreed

rancid panther
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and i havent even properly playtested the mod. when i was doing my other playthrough, i realized the recipes on some traits (like vehicle mechanics) werent added to some occupations

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because the mechanics2 trait was just a dummy trait that doesnt actually add mechanics recipes

bronze yoke
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i think that's because the occupation gets them

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iirc the burger flipper cook trait doesn't do anything and the occupation doesn't get any recipes so that one is actually messed up

mint helm
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Anyone alive in here?

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Y'all are great lol, but anyway - does anyone know what would cause Brita's gun mods to lose their 3d model when you put mods on it?

rancid panther
ancient grail
rancid panther
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i could but i like it being really long term if i could find a way for it to stop bleeding

ancient grail
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Check how vanilla handles other the doctor ui or something

rancid panther
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i'd probably make a sandbox option with 50 as the default and minimum

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i wanna make something to do with first aid so i might try it eventually

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if there's a mod that adds a custom injury i could use that as a base

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ur right tho. vanilla bite time is already like 53, and i think it takes 3-4 weeks to heal a bite if infections are off

ancient grail
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I forgot who but someone is working on a custom injury part.
Shout out to you whoever you are hehe

rancid panther
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vanilla bite time is 53 and mine is 499 ded ded ded

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i think i changed the standalone mod to 199 but i dont remember

vivid linden
abstract raptor
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What's the proper/easiest way to add a context menu option to an item?

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Anyone know of good examples?

thick karma
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@abstract raptor

Example = { 
    offerTrade = function(playerIndex, menu, stack)
        local item = nil
        local items = nil
        if stack and stack[1] and stack[1].items then
            items = stack[1].items
            if #items == 1 then
                item = items[1]
                items = nil
            else
                item = items[1]
            end
        elseif stack and stack[1] then
            item = stack[1]
        end
        if item == theOneYouWant then
            menu:addOption(getText("Your_Translation"), nil, 
                function()
                    whatever(playerIndex, item)
                end
            )
        end
    end
}

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(Example.offerTrade)
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My way is probably bad

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But I do stuff like that.

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For adding a new option

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(But I add a new option to every item* (for gamepad trading (when appropriate)))

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I didn't use this style for a specific item

tame mulch
# abstract raptor What's the proper/easiest way to add a context menu option to an item? 
local function coolFunction(apple)
    print("This is apple!", apple)
end

local function OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu(player, context, items)
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    items = ISInventoryPane.getActualItems(items)
    local apple = nil
    for _, item in ipairs(items) do
        if item:getFullType() == "Base.Apple" then
            apple = item
            break
        end
    end
    
    if apple ~= nil then
      context:addOption(getText("UI_BlaBlaMyOption"), apple, coolFunction)
    end
end
Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu)
thick karma
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Ohhhh, items = ISInventoryPane.getActualItems(items)

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that's the secret, eh

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Nice.

abstract raptor
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hahah amazing thank you

true vault
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Alright, so, need some help..

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Functions from another mod, specifically the mining mod:

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Function from my mod, trying to call them:

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function checkForMines(sq)
    local cell = getPlayer():getCell()
    if cell then
        local sqModData = sq:getModData()
        if not (sqModData.processed == "processed") then
            if (ZombRand(11) == 5) then
                if (ZombRand(1001) == 900) then
                    local spawnType = ZombRand(11)
                    local type = "none"
                    
                    local mineTypes = {
                        [1] = "mines_4",
                        [2] = "mines_0",
                        [3] = "mines_18",
                        [4] = "mines_10",
                        [5] = "mines_12",
                        [6] = "mines_2",
                        [7] = "mines_14",
                        [8] = "mines_6",
                        [9] = "mines_8",
                        [10] = "mines_16",
                    }

                    local mineTypesNorth = {
                        [1] = "mines_5",
                        [2] = "mines_1",
                        [3] = "mines_19",
                        [4] = "mines_11",
                        [5] = "mines_13",
                        [6] = "mines_3",
                        [7] = "mines_15",
                        [8] = "mines_7",
                        [9] = "mines_9",
                        [10] = "mines_17",
                    }

                    local sqX = sq:getX()
                    local sqY = sq:getY()
                    local newMine = ISIndesctructibleBuild:new("mines", mineTypes[spawnType], mineTypesNorth[spawnType])
                    ISIndesctructibleBuild:create(sqX, sqY, 0, false, newMine)
                end
            end
            sqModData.processed = "processed"
        end
    end
end
Events.LoadGridsquare.Add(checkForMines)
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The errors it spits out, are all along the lines of failing to construct the object, I think at the Thumpable constructor..

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Examples:

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Spent the last couple hours bashing my head against the wall with this one, as well as tried to look at it with @drifting ore but to no avail..

thick karma
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Why not ZombRand(11011) == 0?

true vault
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I plan to fine-tune the chance determination later, but that's not the thing giving me an issue lolz

thick karma
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lol word it just stood out immediately

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It seemed very odd

true vault
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Initially I had that first Rand as a simple 0-1 50/50 chance if it would consider spawning on the square or not. It uhh, spawned waaayy too many. So I adjusted it lolz

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In particular, the part where it's failing is

local sqX = sq:getX()
local sqY = sq:getY()
local newMine = ISIndesctructibleBuild:new("mines", mineTypes[spawnType], mineTypesNorth[spawnType])
ISIndesctructibleBuild:create(sqX, sqY, 0, false, newMine)
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NippyTime and I determined it has to be something wrong with the last two lines there

thick karma
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And is a single nest

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and I was confused why two were needed

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or desired

true vault
thick karma
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Also, why the numbers were chosen lol

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5 and 900 seemed odd choices

drifting ore
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lol that focus on the rand

thick karma
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lmao I'm sorry

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What is on line 11 of ISIndesctructibleBuild.lua

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What is on line 333 of ISBuildUtil.lua

true vault
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1 in 10 chance (5 could be replaced with any number 1 to 10) if the square will be considered to spawn a mine, and then a 1 in 1000 (900 could be replaced with any number between 1 and 1000) chance it actually does, then randomly select which kind of mine.

thick karma
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1 in 10 chance is if ZombRand(10) == 0 not if (ZombRand(11) == 5). The latter is 1/11.

abstract raptor
thick karma
# 
  
  UI_BlaBlaBlaMyOption = ""

}```
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(comma separated)

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in media/lua/shared/Translate/EN

abstract raptor
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ah perfect thank you

true vault
# thick karma 1 in 10 chance is `if ZombRand(10) == 0` not `if (ZombRand(11) == 5)`. The latte...

I mean, regardless of rand number functions, it still works enough for testing, even if it does require some looking at later lolz... the error is the function-calling bit: #mod_development message
That part right there; it spews errors along the lines of properties of the Thumpable object constructor not setting things like isDoor, etc.
basically, we've been trying to figure out exactly what the function ISIndesctructibleBuild:new(name, sprite, northSprite) is expecting for the first param, and if that isn't the issue, exactly how I'm supposed to properly call the two functions to plop a new mine down on the specified square.

thick karma
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Your problem is that you're trying to call a class as though it's an instance.

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@true vault

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Classes are used to create instances.

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local sqX = sq:getX()
local sqY = sq:getY()
local newMine = ISIndesctructibleBuild:new("mines", mineTypes[spawnType], mineTypesNorth[spawnType])
-- ISIndesctructibleBuild:create(sqX, sqY, 0, false, newMine) -- <----- no
newMine:create(sqX, sqY, 0, false, newMine) -- <----- yes```
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Because you did not use the instance, you did not send a valid self parameter.

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because you lacked a valid self parameter, this line failed:
buildUtil.setInfo(self.javaObject, self);

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Good luck!

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(also, you want ZombRand(10) and ZombRand(1000))

true vault
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Okay, so the create is a method inherited from the new class?

thick karma
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new is a function, not a class....

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In OOP terms, new is essentially the constructor of the ISIndestructibleBuild class.

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The ISIndestructibleBuild:new method call creates an INSTANCE of an ISIndestructibleBuild, which is stored as newMine

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The instance of that class is what is used to access any method in that class that requires a reference to self.

true vault
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Okay, that makes sense at least..
And that would def explain why it's failing, if it needs the self to get the data used to set the thumpable properties...

abstract raptor
# thick karma ```UI_EN = { UI_BlaBlaBlaMyOption = "" }```

thanks again for your help earlier, but I formatted the text like this in a file named RadioSurvivorsText.txt

UI_EN = {

UI_LongRangeRadioSearch = "Search for Survivors"

}
and put it in the right directory but it shows up like this
(picture)

image.png
thick karma
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ISIndestructibleBuild is a class (in OOP terms)

thick karma
abstract raptor
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here's the whole function


local function OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu(player, context, items)
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    items = ISInventoryPane.getActualItems(items)
    local radio = nil
    for _, item in ipairs(items) do
        if item:getFullType() == "RadioSurvivor.LongRangeRadio" then
            radio = item
            break
        end
    end
    
    if radio ~= nil then
      context:addOption(getText("UI_LongRangeRadioSearch"), radio, SurvivorRadio.onSearchForSurvivors)
    end
end```
thick karma
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Can I see the translation file folder?

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in a screenshot

true vault
abstract raptor
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ohhh

thick karma
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My bad I forgot to say that.

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That was my fault.

abstract raptor
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ahhhhh