mod_development

[thick karma]

left that step out

UI_EN goes inside a .txt of the same name... all translation files seem to work that way.

The translation file shares the name of the table inside of it

[true vault]

Just as a visual example:

Oh, yeah, Burryaga already basically said that... carry on lolz

[abstract raptor]

I hope now that I'm finally past this I can get to work on constructing the UI for my Radio Survivors haha

behold the context menu works as expected uwu

[thick karma]

Fwiw you are welcome to convert anything from Wookiee Gamepad Support if you wanna make sure your panels are gamepad interactable.

[ancient grail]

Ow hi @abstract raptor idk why the bottomless pit didnt show on my end. So i had just create own tile

https://imgur.com/mus4KLp

[thick karma]

Do you mind a quick DM?

[drifting ore]

check threads

[true vault]

Your best bet is finding a mod similar to what you are trying to do, and learning from it as an example.

[drifting ore]

yea that is really true

[true vault]

For example: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2572385719

lmfao... welp, from one error to another one... I cannot win today

function: create -- file: ISIndesctructibleBuild.lua line # 17 | MOD: Mining Mod
function: checkForMines -- file: medievaloid_minespawner.lua line # 40 | MOD: Medievaloid

ERROR: General     , 1676871804593> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "zombie.iso.IsoGridSquare.getCell()" because "this.square" is null at IsoThumpable.getInsideSquare line:2005.
ERROR: General     , 1676871804593> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "zombie.iso.IsoGridSquare.getCell()" because "this.square" is null

I think it's time to step away for a moment

[abstract raptor]

sure

[merry quail]

someone please help

[drifting ore]

your type

i literally have no idea but i'm guessing it's overriding it because of the type being food? try another type and see if it still does it

[merry quail]

do i need to delete it or just change it to pills or something

[drifting ore]

no no

type is required for sure

it is how the item is treated. that may not be it tbh. i'm looking quick

i'm pretty sure food can still be first aid.

just never really thought about how it would be displayed as a perishable

[merry quail]

i am getting it working with spiffo radial menu mod, i guess the type will affect whether it works or not

[drifting ore]

example of how immersive medical looks
so it doesn't seem off from yours

[merry quail]

This mod has some things that don't seem to work

[drifting ore]

i dont think you need foodtype also if you arent delcaring it lol

well what im looking at works

i'm using a fully functioning version so not sure what one you are referencing

can i ask what weird copy paste is that spacing from?

always hard to tell when things dont look right when it's a mess like that. maybe someone else can more easily spot in it

[merry quail]

Does the better sorting mod affect my sorting?

[drifting ore]

yes

it relabels display categories

i wouldn't assume that would have much to do with your issue atm though.

i could be wrong though. haha never say never when it comes to reasons why having issues LOL

[merry quail]

are you owner of immersive medicine

[drifting ore]

no lol

zombie fix and lightswitch electrician. soon to be lightswitch overhaul! or something like that ahahah

[merry quail]

so I have to delete all the redundant

and leave the same part as the mod above?

[drifting ore]

sorry working on my mod atm.. your script didn't seem wrong.im just not sure how the display category works with perishable items and categories offf the top of my head

[gusty wharf]

wtf ChatGPT can code zomboid mods

and use the vars

[bronze yoke]

it's not very good at it

[gusty wharf]

I know but it seems to be able to make basic stuff

[bronze yoke]

it often relies on completely made up stuff and generally doesn't actually understand anything pz related, even if it does get it roughly right

like it'll call a bunch of functions that just don't exist

[drifting ore]

yea it's prolly fun to mess around with but literally everyone that first figures out ai chat bots potential, proclaims its greatness, just like it's the first time all over again 😄

if you are a good at using the language it will be very helpful but i can tell you that half the conversations it has are semi incoherent... while its possible it could make something that works on the first try, it will always be primitive and not truly functional and require knowledge beyond just knowing how to code

if you trained the model on the entire api of zomboid and all the quirks and it knew everything that was exposed. another convo

[gusty wharf]

I asked it to improve my code a bit, original is this

local function maxSkills()
    local player = getPlayer()
    for i=0, PerkFactory.PerkList:size() -1 do
        local perk = PerkFactory.PerkList:get(i)
        player:level0(perk)
        player:getXp():setXPToLevel(perk, 0)
        for x = 1, 10 do
            player:LevelPerk(perk)
        end
    end
end
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(maxSkills)```

ChatGPT changed it a bit to this

```lua
local function maxSkills()
    local player = getPlayer()
    for i = 0, PerkFactory.PerkList:size() - 1 do
        local perk = PerkFactory.PerkList:get(i)
        player:level0(perk)
        player:getXp():setXPToLevel(perk, 0)
        local desiredLevel = 10
        for x = 1, desiredLevel do
            local currentLevel = player:getPerkLevel(perk)
            if currentLevel >= desiredLevel then
                break
            end
            player:LevelPerk(perk)
        end
    end
end
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(maxSkills)

[drifting ore]

thats like asking it to do math though. kinda diff imo

i use it as a calculator for complex formulas all the time

it's insane

[gusty wharf]

Yeah imagine if ChatGPT had access to latest news, internet

[drifting ore]

it does on bing lol

apparently its sad and lonely

[bronze yoke]

isn't this worse?

[drifting ore]

LOL

[bronze yoke]

the stuff it added doesn't do anything, it's just slightly slower

[drifting ore]

verbose for sure

[gusty wharf]

Well, you're right it's functionally pretty much the same but longer

[drifting ore]

albion you are a smarty pants. any chance you know the best event for updating recipe via scriptmanager?

i tried ongameboot and its too early i guess or something

[bronze yoke]

using sandbox options?

[drifting ore]

when i use oneveryminute or w/e it works

yes

[bronze yoke]

OnInitGlobalModData

[drifting ore]

that will work still for recipe? lol dammit

for some reason i thought it wouldnt work or didnt

i'll try it. haha second time you've told me that maybe third 😄

dunno why i would think it would be diff tyty

[ancient grail]

you are looking for nyamops but his not active here tho

[barren junco]

a cannibal trait im working on

thoughts about the icon?

its a hearty heart i drew

its going to give you 8 points (its actually a sort of negative trait)
you can only eat human meat, AKA corpses

[rancid panther]

it looks good!

humans and zombies?

[barren junco]

yes

[rancid panther]

it would be interesting if you can only eat human players for it to be only viable in pvp or with npcs

[barren junco]

definitely an interesting concept, perhaphs a server where cannibalism is the only method to get food

[rancid panther]

sounds cool tho! looking forward it

[barren junco]

thanks :D

its actually pretty advanced by this point

[uncut meteor]

Looks good need to delete corpse Just after, and dont make the corpse give you more food than normal food items otherwise its to op.
all though if the trait cost more than others its okay if its op.

[rancid panther]

i wanna make a mod that lets you become admin without enabling god mode automatically. any ideas where to start?

[barren junco]

also different traits affect illness chances, base chance is 40 if corpse was a zombie

[barren junco]

actually this trait is also going to cause your character to be very very hungry

[barren junco]

no unfortunately, sorry :c

[rancid panther]

basically by default, whenever you do /setaccesslevel [name] Admin, god mode is automatically checked, but i wanna make all those unchecked by default

[barren junco]

you could try patching the method

the lua syntax is as follows

[deft falcon]

why double iron gut

[barren junco]

local originalMethod = Class.Method

local function patchedMethod()
{
    -- prefix code ...

    originalMethod()

    -- postfix code ...
}

Class.Method = patchedMethod

[barren junco]

oh little mistake, it is still experimental

[rancid panther]

oh! thanks! that is super helpful

[barren junco]

np man

https://devhints.io/lua

check the lua cheatsheet as well

very useful

[rancid panther]

thank thank

[gusty wharf]

Are there any vars that could be useful in making a learn all ||(even these occupation exclusive ones)|| recipes mod? I tried to find some but I don't think there's any that'd easily allow to get all the recipes.

[drifting ore]

is there any way to add some clothing to the character creation menu? I know, there is a server option, that allow players to pick any clothing, but I don't want then to pick ANY, I want them to pick something from the list I gave

[barren junco]

check out MainCreationMethods.lua in PZ/media/lua/shared/NPCs
it has all traits and free recipes included with those traits

for example this ones

[rancid panther]

yeah it p much has every recipe in there besides magazine exclusive ones

r u trying to make a trait or a magazine that teaches them all? or something?

[gusty wharf]

Nah I'm trying to make a no grind mod which unlocks all the skills at the start of the game no matter the occupation and traits. I tried thet getFreeRecipes thing, sadly did not work for some reason.

[gusty wharf]

I think I tried something like this, sadly didn't work but I may have messed something up, or it only works with professions.

[rancid panther]

u can just make it cost 1 and give everyone 1 free trait point

try looking at a mod that alters a player on spawn rather than trait mods

[barren junco]

hmm thats interesting, perhaps you should check this out:
characterCreationMain.lua in PZ/media/lua/client/optionscreens

[gusty wharf]

Yeah I looked at the Cheat Menu mod and noticed that it doesn't give the engineer recipes and also misses some other one.

[barren junco]

it seems to have some useful clothing thingos

[rancid panther]

for example, this mod adds immunity when you enable the mod

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2316796333

you can see how they made something work for all players when the mod is enabled

and then also use ur knowledge of how to give players recipes

[deft falcon]

giga chad taking speed demon instd

[rancid panther]

when i have 1 free trait point i'd rather not take a trait at all

[deft falcon]

make it a +100 negative trait

and set starting bonus to -100

[deft falcon]

speed demon W trait tho wym

[rancid panther]

i reverse too much

[deft falcon]

skill lack

[rancid panther]

lacking skill

[gusty wharf]

Hey, just wondering. Is looking at other mods that can do a similar thing and then fixing your own by understanding on how the other one works (without fully copying and pasting the code) alright? I looked on how the Cheat Menu max skills feature works and I improved mine a bit without fully copying the code.

[rancid panther]

that's how i made the start of my immune trait before asking for feedback

i looked at several dif mods tho

[gusty wharf]

So it'd be fine to post that mod on the workshop even if it includes one or two really similar lines of code?

[rancid panther]

you can copy off my homework but change it up a bit so the teacher doesnt suspect anything

i dont make the rules of coding etiquette, but it's like math. if you want to do a certain thing, there is a certain way to do it (most of the time). no way around it

[gusty wharf]

I didn't really copy it off. There weren't any other ways to code these 2 lines anyway.

[rancid panther]

ik it was just a joke

[gusty wharf]

but yeah it inspired me kinda

[rancid panther]

what is the code anyways?

[gusty wharf]

local function maxSkills()
    local player = getPlayer()
    for i=0, PerkFactory.PerkList:size() -1 do
        local perk = PerkFactory.PerkList:get(i)
        player:level0(perk)
        player:getXp():setXPToLevel(perk, 0)
        for x = 1, 10 do
            player:LevelPerk(perk)
        end
    end
end
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(maxSkills)```

the level0 and getXp():setXPToLevel() part, I added it just in case the levels would somehow go above 10 if that's even possible. Cheat Menu does a similar thing

[rancid panther]

ah. i think no more skillless survivors also has a check for that

since it literally can grant u too many levels

[deft falcon]

copying code from other mods

theoretically speaking

you both guys could do a same thing

you just decided to get some help

[gusty wharf]

So is it bad?

[deft falcon]

no

[zinc pilot]

that's the best way to learn imo

or at least understand how stuff works a little bit better

[cunning kestrel]

Hey, I need some help with an animation(set) not triggering in a specific scenario...

• from random location he will walk toward object face it and do the animations.
• but if i then cancel and re-activate the action (via context menu) it does not trigger the animation. (unless i move him 1 step from this location)
• but it does trigger the action (which is then buggy cause the animation sets dont provide/read the var updates)

If highly unlikely this scenario would ever happen but still ... would like to understand whats happening

[rancid panther]

time for another 4 am mod update

i have not learned my lesson

[pulsar heath]

lol dont worry its not 4am here so

[thick karma]

If the modder doesn't explicitly ask you not to use their code, it's pretty much fair game as long as you don't pretend you are its original author and try to steal subs by cheaply reposting their code in a virtually unedited state. However, some mods will post an image that tells you not to use their code, e.g.:
Redistribution of this mod without explicit permission from the original creator is prohibited under any circumstances. This includes, but not limited to, uploading these mods to the Steam Workshop or any other site, distribution as part of another mod or modpack, and distribution of modified versions.
If I see something like that, I often don't even read their code, because I don't want to get a good programming idea from them that they can accuse me of stealing.

[pulsar heath]

i had some issues with a few copy cats

dont mind ppl using my code and updating it for their own use

but a copy paste with a new name... that i cannot allow

so i dmced about 11 mods so far

[rancid panther]

btw, i found a pretty easy way to store your mods when you are not updating them so it wont have problems with being subscribed to it on workshop

i just added another folder within the workshop folder and just put my mods inside that so it doesnt read them

[pulsar heath]

i have 2 dirs for pz... one for playing another for developing so i dont mix things up

[rancid panther]

and take them out every time i need to update it, since i need to be subscribed to my mods when hosting on mp

[modern dirge]

Unless you get a better answer i think theres dev made code for exercise in lua that may help

[gusty wharf]

Cheat Menu doesn't have that in the description but Cheat Menu RB does

[rancid panther]

yea i have a backup one that i edit while the other stays the same, in case i mess something up

[gusty wharf]

and I think they use similar code

or the same one in some instances

[pulsar heath]

i usually contact the mod author if im interested in using something the coded, and ask if its ok to use it and credit them in the mod

[thick karma]

Then as long as Cheat Menu is not in fact an unscrupulous derivative of Cheat Menu RB, I would use Cheat Menu for advice and ignore Cheat Menu RB entirely.

[pulsar heath]

thats the best way to do things, ask for permission and credit the original author of the code

[thick karma]

@gusty wharf

(Also, yes, asking the author is a best first step.)

[pulsar heath]

cheat menu is older than cheat menu rb

[gusty wharf]

Thanks

[pulsar heath]

its the "original" mod

[gusty wharf]

yeah

[thick karma]

Right on

[pulsar heath]

i use it a lot for debuging

that lua window interpreter is very usefull

now im trying to make a whitelist for use with the integration, im a lazy coder so ill ignore the split screen mode of the game and use the steam id as a unique identifier for the players with access 😄

[cunning kestrel]

subscribe...

then look for the mod ID

Hey, I need some help with an animation(set) not triggering in a specific scenario...

• from random location he will walk toward object face it and do the animations.
• but if i then cancel and re-activate the action (via context menu) it does not trigger the animation. (unless i move him 1 step from this location)
• but it does trigger the action (which is then buggy cause the animation sets dont provide/read the var updates)

[ancient grail]

https://imgur.com/KVdVwxx
https://imgur.com/0WKTteZ

[cunning kestrel]

well thats horrifying

[modern dirge]

if you cant beat them join them

[thick karma]

Omg legendary

Lol I want to eat zombies like this.

[cunning kestrel]

anyone know how to solve this ? (odd part is this goes away if an vanilla exercise has been done once.)

[viral notch]

hey where can found functions for radio and channels?

[frank elbow]

If this is related to a mod you're creating, please provide more context. If it's related to a mod you're using, you're looking for #mod_support (and you should also provide more context there)

[cunning kestrel]

Its a mod im creating.
essentially creating a new exercise what i want to trigger via the context menu.
but its not being read 100% correct (if an exercise has not been triggered yet via the "exercise menu" )
it extends the isFitness Class but i thing the issue lies in not being able to pass the correct FitnessUI object which i think is used to calculate the exp/endurance etc

[ancient grail]

is it possible to teleport zeds"?

[frank elbow]

Unfortunately I can't take a closer look at the moment, but looking at your screenshot the "Caused by:" implies that there should be further error information that tells you where in the Lua is triggering it. Presumably, the vanilla exercises do some sort of initialization that populates this.currentExe, so if I were debugging this I would start there

[viral notch]

🙄

[cunning kestrel]

sadly there is not...
IsFitnessAction is calling self.fitness:exerciseRepeat();
which calls incRegulatity() which need this.currentExe (no clue where this would originate from or how to set)
there seems to be no trail to follow after fitness.incRegulatity() ...

[gusty wharf]

Are there any .lua files that are related to recipes, and also the recipe magazines?

[modern dirge]

could this.currentExe be the data from FitnessExercises.lua?

[cunning kestrel]

Sadly no, I found an other clue though. just opening the fitnessUI menu fixes it. i guess it initializes some class...

[thick karma]

Did you check its new/create/initialise?

@cunning kestrel

[cunning kestrel]

has to be something in

function ISNewHealthPanel:onClick(button)

but i dont understand how opening a UI sets a backend var to calculate endurance/exp etc

[thick karma]

I meant FitnessUI's new/create/init... If opening that ui makes your character exercise correctly again, something in it's creation functions may be responsible

[red tiger]

Good morning.

[thick karma]

If onClick creates a new FitnessUI or initialises one, I would check those functions

[red tiger]

I plan to get weapons and weapon-parts fully parsed today.

[cunning kestrel]

well yeah. im looking but it doesnt make sense ..

[red tiger]

Am very excited to see results of parsing ZedScript as JSON. :)

Wondering if I should wait to write a ZedScript writer until 42..

Could do both but not sure if it will be useful.

[quasi geode]

this.currentExe is a field in the java Fitness.class. Its reporting its not set likely because you failed to call fitness:setCurrentExercise(type) prior. this is called in IsFitnessAction:new() (the timed action initialization)

o.fitness:setCurrentExercise(exeData.type);

    /**
     * Sets the current exercise being performed.
     * <p>
     * Called from {@code lua/client/timedactions/ISFitnessAction.lua}
     * @param type the string name of the exercise type as defined in {@code media/lua/shared/Definitions/FitnessExercises.lua}
     */

[cunning kestrel]

Hey Fenris, thanks for the reply. although I figured as much. however
I did not override the default fitnessAction:new() and did pass the correct exercise.type
even tried setting it manually with lua o.fitness:setCurrentExercise(exeData.type); to no success

[quasi geode]

ya that manual attempt is no good if your trying it like that (since o likely doesnt exist)

as well as exeData, both of those are variables from the timed action code

[cunning kestrel]

yes, got that. what i dont get is how why is FitnessUI passed though ?

[quasi geode]

getPlayer():getFitness():setCurrentExercise("squats")
if you want to test from the lua console

[cunning kestrel]

i did it this way before. while it sets the variable it doesnt work for reading our currentExe.type

[modern hamlet]

Hi, i want to add new diseases to eating certain foods like vanilla mushroom and berry. How can i check what character eats? Or inorder to do that do I have to override all those foods? If so, could you show me how to do it? Also, if I override these items, will the recipes using these items be corrupted? thanks in advance

[thick karma]

@modern hamlet https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2929985581

That has an example of a safe decoration of the eat function

You could check what you're eating differently in that function and do something different than the mod does

The mod just talks when you eat as a simple example

[cunning kestrel]

exeData is set properly, Using the default ISFitnessAction:new() yet ...

[stable flame]

is there a way to use the On.Create to set any amount of several items of the recipe in a lua function?
for example we have item1/item2/item3.../item10 and if 3 of the items are present, the recipe continues, as opposed to having 3 of the exact id like normal recipes work

[red tiger]

Hahaha I just realized something.. I could add a ZedScript library to PipeWrench. People could generate items from their own Lua code.

That'd be hella crazy.

Like building RPG items.

I'm guessing that's already possible without it though.

DoParam() etc.

[modern hamlet]

thank you so much

[cunning kestrel]

I F##ing knew it. ... i fixed it.😵‍💫 Send a new FitnessUI object with my fitnessAction. still doesnt make sense how that works but it does....
Thanks for the assistance @quasi geode appreciated.

[thick karma]

Congrats, that looked like a headache, I took a few minutes glancing at it earlier. @cunning kestrel

[cunning kestrel]

Hehe thanks, Im a dev/tester by profession, but without the full code/debug, some of these things just dont make sense xD

question: what happens when 2 files require override/extend the same class.methode ?

[thick karma]

If they both override the same class.method, the last definition loaded will persist.

If they both extend the same class.method via decoration, the decorations will play out in order.

[stiff cedar]

hi guys, im new in modding pz, how can i debug items when i change a property in .txt whitout restart game ?

[cunning kestrel]

i know animSets have hotreload basicly. so if it doesnt, you might be out of luck (others may provide a better answer, havent played with items yet)

[cunning kestrel]

So I just tested this. and both seem to run Somehow 😛

require "TimedActions/ISFitnessAction"
  function ISFitnessAction:stop()
        print("stop")
    FWOEndOfAction(self);
    default_stop(self)
end

require "TimedActions/ISFitnessAction"
function ISFitnessAction:stop()    
    print("stop life")
    currentExercise = nil
    default_stop(self)
    self.character:setVariable("ExerciseEnded", true);
end

explain this magic

[drifting ore]

howdy, i was curious if anyone knows how to add a starter inventory to a base game backround? im trying to implement something i made without having to use profession framework for the thing to be used. the wierd bit is it works with the framework, and thus could/should work with base game if converted, bit i have no clue how to convert it to not need the framework.

has anyone had any experience or info on such?

[thick karma]

Maybe the object gets defined at different points in the game's execution @cunning kestrel

[stiff cedar]

ok, thx

[thick karma]

I suspect if you tried to create a new ISFitnessAction from the debug console and then stopped it, only 1 of those versions would be visible from debug console

AFAIK it's impossible for both to be accessed through the same function call; you would have to do something like add both versions to an event and trigger the event to trigger both versions in a single command.

If the tests are being called from 2 different files, that would explain things a bit. The first file is relying on a prior definition.

@cunning kestrel

[cunning kestrel]

those are my thoughts aswel but its a single action that started the call though ...

[drifting ore]

this is the current code i have, it uses the professions framework thing, but i have no clue how to get it to not need that dependency. aka, im trying to, in this case/example, convert the unemployed backround to start with the skills/gear as seen in this

[cunning kestrel]

you'd have to reverse engineer the framework im afraid ....

[drifting ore]

darn. even if i was going to convert/overwrite the base game proffession instead of putting a new one in?

i had thought that something like uihotbar or whatever would let me add a holster with a gun, like what some guy named ras did, but other than that, i had/have no clue what to do to get a filled medkit ect

and yes, i have been looking at other peoples code to learn from. it seems in theory doable, aka, changing base game starts, but the issue i have is inventory based, ect

the idea im having is to replace police start with a better inventory/skills for it

i assume if i added a new thing, the framework would need to be reverse engineered ect

[cunning kestrel]

overriding shouldn't be necessary that being said, havent dug into that aspect yet so...

so like a spawn kit linked to a trait ?

[drifting ore]

no, its supposed to be linked to the backround, such as, hypothtically, security officer starts with a gun, or police officer too, or doctor with a customized medical kit, ect

if trait would be needed to get it to do that, i might try that later on

[cunning kestrel]

oh yeah yeah i ment background profession. yes .

[drifting ore]

for the example from learning, here is what i found with a thing called raz's proffessions, aka, the hotbar concept. in this example, he took a base game thing, and added a holster thats got a gun, so i wasassuming its a viable idea.

so far im trying to figure out how to add to a current backround, not add a new one like before

since it seems in theory simpler

[cunning kestrel]

i mean a start kit exists so cant be that insane to link into that ...

[drifting ore]

i hope so

however, im curious, how would i do such a thing? does anyone have any idea on how to even code it? or such. i have no clue where to start

i know the base game starter kit is for all backrounds

im trying to make one thats for a single backround, and possibly change them all later

[cunning kestrel]

" Profession=" .. player:getDescriptor():getProfession()

[drifting stump]

i have toyed with that concept though pretty sure it would cause world dictionary problems if you had server side items

simply creating them on file execution might be fine but still not sure

[red tiger]

Could mirror it via server commands.

[drifting ore]

what would that do?

[drifting stump]

issue with that is the item could only be created on the first tick since thats when commands are first usable

at that point youd already have mismatched world dictionaries

as for generating on execution iirc scripts are loaded first so it all depends when the dictionary check is performed

[sour island]

For anyone with sub-mods related to EHE the update is public now. I think this only applies to @pulsar heath and @fiery pecan.

Worth mentioning Twitch Integration works in MP now, and the instability and 'sounds getting stuck' in MP issue should be addressed.

[pulsar heath]

ok, will update my mod if needed 🙂 thx for the heads up @sour island

[thick karma]

Ayy nice I have that mod.

[red tiger]

EatType = ForbiddenFruit

I genuinely didn't know that this was categorized as food. Holy heck.

[gusty wharf]

Hey guys, for some reason this code in my mod causes for the health panel to open, not sure why

local function maxSkills()
    local player = getPlayer()
    for i=0, PerkFactory.PerkList:size() -1 do
        local perk = PerkFactory.PerkList:get(i)
        player:level0(perk)
        player:getXp():setXPToLevel(perk, 0)
        for x = 1, 10 do
            player:LevelPerk(perk)
        end
    end
end
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(maxSkills)```

[thick karma]

How exactly do you know?

(The results of that exact function seem like they would be hard to determine)

(in game)

(since you can't call it directly and I believe it gets called before you press start)

[red tiger]

Hmm concern. I think the field alcoholic is assigned by ComboItem's alcohol property and FoodItem's alcoholic property.

Going to split these definitions for their item category but can be a problem in PZ's script engine.

[thick karma]

@gusty wharf You should post your whole file. I'm not sure that chunk explains it

[gusty wharf]

That's the whole mod at the moment. I'm trying to code learn all recipes in a separate lua file and I deleted it to see if it caused it and it didn't

[calm depot]

is it actually necessary to call both level0 and setXPToLevel?

[gusty wharf]

Kinda. I tried without one of them and you could unlock the occupation skills by clicking on them.

[calm depot]

by clicking on them?

[calm depot]

that just sounds like the skills screen UI needs to refresh, not that clicking on it is actually doing anything

hm, or you discovered some dormant, unused functionality

in any case though, there is a debug screen for levelling up skills - I'd just do whatever that button does

[thick karma]

I'm doing a sanity check on that code, I don't see any good reason it should do that at a glance. I'm about to run it.

[cunning kestrel]

@gusty wharf One note here setLevel doesnt provide "exp" any other system that looks at xp gain will not function of of it

[gusty wharf]

You mean LevelPerk? I did not use setLevel

[calm depot]

actually, there's setPerkLevelDebug - that will allow you to skip straight to whatever you want

[gusty wharf]

I remember trying to use it, it only worked sometimes

[cunning kestrel]

im mainly refering to the debug screen. see de code behide that the level up button does not acctually provide EXP. compared to the add EXP option

[calm depot]

only worked sometimes?

[viral notch]

how to make checking simple script ?
like check if on vehicle is attached expl front bumper or hood etc
then allow to attach some different addon

[calm depot]

by writing code

[thick karma]

@gusty wharf Your code works and Idk what's opening health panel, but not that.

[viral notch]

yeah but im not lua thing

[gusty wharf]

I think it only worked on skills that already had at least one level unlocked

[calm depot]

that sounds... odd

[gusty wharf]

Well, then not sure. I'll try to solve it somehow

[thick karma]

Clearly another mod you have running is triggering health panel to open

And it's not one of the 300+ I have running.

[calm depot]

if you're writing any mod and you've turned on stuff that isn't going to be a dependency for what you're creating, you're making a horrible mistake.

[gusty wharf]

I only have my other no points to spend limit mod (basically edited base game .lua file), that unfinished learn all recipes mod and mod manager. Maybe that learn all recipes thing didn't reload and still causes some errors not sure

I'll restart the game

[calm depot]

wait, you've been changing the code and just reloading the file?

[gusty wharf]

doesn't that work? It seemed to work every time I did it

[calm depot]

it depends entirely on how your code is written

in your case, you should not do that

the reload feature is actually a "re-execute this file"

whatever happened to the lua state from the previous time it executed will remain

so, any events that are hooked up, for example, will still be running, too

[gusty wharf]

Alright I'll remember this

[calm depot]

quitting to the main menu is sufficient for ensuring a fresh load of all lua

the only time it makes semantic sense to use reload is if your code takes care of cleaning out any pre-existing hooks or if it simply redefines a function without storing the old version (or, again, you have code explicitly written to detect that you're re-executing)

[thick karma]

@gusty wharf In your specific example, if you want to experiment with reloading your file live, you need to make your function global for testing purposes like so:

JxP = {}
function JxP.maxSkills()
    local player = getPlayer()
    for i=0, PerkFactory.PerkList:size() -1 do
        local perk = PerkFactory.PerkList:get(i)
        player:level0(perk)
        player:getXp():setXPToLevel(perk, 0)
        for x = 1, 10 do
            player:LevelPerk(perk)
        end
    end
end

And then use the debug console to call JxP.maxSkills() after reloading to see what it does.

(JxP table not required but modules like that are good practice imo)

[calm depot]

I usually separate it into a loader file and the main payload

then you don't need a global

(your payload file can return the function)

but for anything related to overriding game functions, which tends to be the bulk of what I do, I quit to menu, it avoids a whole class of bugs you can end up creating for yourself by trying to rely on reload

[thick karma]

That works, but one advantage to using global modules for testing is that you can individually swap out virtually any function on the command line in a quick copy-paste. For me, it's a faster way to experiment.

Because ultimately when I write a new version of a function I am in VS Code, not in game.

[fiery pecan]

I see. My EHE submods have been pretty dead for a while now though.....

[thick karma]

So I enter the game with the function ready to go... if I can just copy it, and paste it in debug when I return to game, it's slightly faster than opening F11 to do it

(Unless it's added to an event and you're testing its behavior on the event, but even then reloading it is easier because you can just copy-paste the new event into your terminal like so:)

Events.OnStuff.Remove(oldGlobal)

oldGlobal = function()
  -- Boom
end

Events.OnStuff.Add(oldGlobal)

You can drop this little snippet in debug console and try various functions on the event you're testing quickly.

shrug

to each their own of course

[gusty wharf]

Hmm. Does the table do a thing? I'd only learned some Python before trying Lua in Zomboid so I don't really know much stuff about coding, especially mods .

[thick karma]

(But the above trick won't work if oldGlobal is local because Remove won't remove the right function if the function isn't accessible from debug.)

[thick karma]

Advantages to using a module (the table above) are that you can trivially make everything global for easy testing and then localize your module when your mod is ready to go, and furthermore you can return your module for everyone else to use in the future

[calm depot]

the table is just a table that happens to be addressable from the global scope, the language doesn't care

[thick karma]

It's much easier to make your module local or global at the top of your code if EVERYTHING is in your module than it is to manually go through your module making local things global for fast testing, so I just do it that way for my own sanity and speed of development

@gusty wharf

If I have 20 functions and they're all in my main module, I can instantly make them all global or all local by editing 1 line.

shrug

[calm depot]

minimise what is global, if you can expose stuff through a return then you minimise the chance of any sort of pollution

...or people doing stupid things to your mod from their mod

[thick karma]

Right, ultimately, turning your stuff into local at the end is recommended practice for anything that doesn't need to be global (such as overrides of vanilla things that are global already)

But a module will make that easy to do

[gusty wharf]

that's what setPerkLevelDebug does for some reason

[ancient grail]

Well then theres no other way . Olipro is right . Write the codes to do those checks

[drifting stump]

i am so proud

people actively encouraging and teaching modules

only took me a year to get the point across 🥲

[ancient grail]

Teach me senpai browser

[calm depot]

a true module would be across a setfenv boundary, it's just a global-scope table, don't get too ahead of yourself 😛

[red tiger]

I'm more like "Do it.. or else.."

I'm almost done implementing item properties for ZedScript.

[barren junco]

What is that exactly?

[red tiger]

ZedScript is a placeholder name for the format of txt files in media/scripts/

I probably won't publish my parser on npmjs until an official name is announced for the format.

[barren junco]

What is it that you are making exactly?

[red tiger]

A parser and library for ZedScript.

My personal goal? Write software that uses UI to modify, create, and template definitions for ZedScript.

[barren junco]

Hey isn’t that cool

So basically a UI to create recipes, items, etc

To facilitate the process instead of using raw JSON right?

[red tiger]

Yes. The JSON is a medium.

It's there for anyone who wants to use it for their own purposes.

(Both the AST JSON and the simplified JSON)

[barren junco]

I would personally use it, if it does not have any limitations or implications ofc

Sounds like a good tool to have!

[gusty wharf]

Hey, I'm trying to do learn all recipes mod, wondering if I'm doing it correctly (it's kinda similar to the max skills thing)

function allRecipes()
    local player = getPlayer()
    for i=0, getAllRecipe():size() -1 do
        local everyRecipe = getAllRecipe():get(i)
        player:getKnownRecipes(everyRecipe)
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(allRecipes)```
Are there any things I did wrong and should add/change? It doesn't seem to work and I have no idea what to add

[bronze yoke]

getKnownRecipes returns a list of recipes, it doesn't add the recipes you give it

[barren junco]

You can use #getAllRecipe() instead of :size() I think

The ‘#’ symbol returns a lists size

[bronze yoke]

you're missing some ends, it would be better to pull the list into the local space instead of grabbing it from java every time, the function is getAllRecipes() not getAllRecipe(), and that returns recipe objects whereas the player's recipe list wants string names

[barren junco]

Oh that is interesting

[bronze yoke]

it's a java list, so we can't use # on it

[barren junco]

I see

Is there any object or list with all recipes available in string form?

[red tiger]

Huh.. so UseWhileEquipped is a generic item property... however Drainable items has UseWhileUnequipped.

Only one Drainable uses this property.

[bronze yoke]

i'm guessing something closer to this would work:

function allRecipes()
    local player = getPlayer()
    local knownRecipes = player:getKnownRecipes() -- see below
    local recipes = getAllRecipes() -- saves the recipe list into a local variable, otherwise we have to access it every loop, and accessing java is very slow
    for i=0, recipes:size()-1 do
        local recipe = recipes:get(i)
        knownRecipes.add(recipe:getOriginalname())
    end
end
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(allRecipes)

[barren junco]

Hey that sounds more like it

Oh so indexing through Java lists is zero indexed

I thought it would be 1 indexed too

[bronze yoke]

something to note is that OnCreatePlayer passes the player object created; if you tweaked the function declaration to be like thislua function allRecipes(_index, player) and removed the local player = getPlayer() line, the code would look a bit nicer and it would work in splitscreen (which is not really a priority LOL but it's nice)

[barren junco]

Since we are in lua

[bronze yoke]

the api doesn't have anything nice like that really

[barren junco]

Hey albion what’s your experience background, you seem to know what you are doing

[bronze yoke]

i've just been modding since the start of last year

[barren junco]

Noice

[bronze yoke]

i've seen other games lets you use 1 indexed for the main language in lua, as well as letting you loop through their structures using pairs and stuff, and generally just letting you use lua syntax for the game's core language objects when possible, but kahlua doesn't really have anything like that so we're stuck with calling java functions and playing by java rules

[barren junco]

Yeah I noticed

We are basically getting Java objects with specific metatables right?

I’ve noticed that some methods return userdata and others do return Java objects

[gusty wharf]

Doesn't work for some reason

[bronze yoke]

do you get an error?

[gusty wharf]

Yeah

[barren junco]

What is it exactly

[gusty wharf]

this opened up

[barren junco]

Open the error console and show us the log pls, we might be able to get useful info

Do you know about konijima’s environment creation method?

With it, you can check all of the game’s source code in a single place

[red tiger]

=(

[quasi geode]

knownRecipes.add(recipe:getOriginalname()) should probably be knownRecipes:add(recipe:getOriginalname())
use : not .

[red tiger]

I told Konijima that I'd update one of his libraries.. I still haven't.

I'm a horrible friend.

[barren junco]

Lol

[barren junco]

Who is he exactly

[red tiger]

He was a central figure here as a modder.

[ancient grail]

He initated the community api proj. Made guides for alot of stuff including how setup environment and how to decompile java.
He also made lots of templates for new modders to use

Mostly lua stuff

Scripts are txt

[gusty wharf]

Now it works, thanks

[ancient grail]

Have you atleast read the vanilla? Thats all you need to get you started
Also check the guides on the thread

He doesnt have a weapon mod. Thats a diffrent line of modding . He works more of the backbone side

[zinc pilot]

is there a way to convert local mouse coordinates to global ones?

got it, just use OnObjectLeftMouseButtonDown

[gusty wharf]

@bronze yoke @fast galleon Hey, I finished making the mod and since you both helped me and gave me some code, could I post the mod on the workshop?

[red tiger]

Just finished items parsing for ZedScript.

This is every item in PZ vanilla with all properties.

[bronze yoke]

sure!

[red tiger]

@tame mulch Here's my separation of properties for item types: https://github.com/asledgehammer/ZedScriptParser/tree/main/src/api/item

(Pre-documentation)

The largest hurdle of this parser project is items and now that's done besides improvements & fixes.

[rancid panther]

did u try go to the ProjectZomboid/media/scripts folder? might be helpful if you haven't

there is a weapons file in there

actually a whole folder iirc, with all the weapon scripts and sounds

[red tiger]

I'll need someone or myself to comb through and double-check all item properties in the parser when time is had.

Once the parser is done I can move onto writing a exporter.

Then the GUI app.

=)

[modern hamlet]

-- Food Diseases
MHD = {}
MHD.ISInventoryPaneContextMenu = {}
MHD.ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.onEatItems = ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.onEatItems

ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.onEatItems = function(items, percentage, playerIndex)

    print("Starting to eat...")
    
    ----
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(playerIndex)
    playerObj:Say("Itadakimasu!")
    ----
    print("Items check...")
    if items then
        print("Done!")
    else
        print("Failed!")
    end
    
    print("Food check...")
    if instanceof(items[1], "Food") then
        print("Done!")
    else
        print("Failed!")
    end
    ----
    
    if items and instanceof(items[1], "Food") then

        local player = getSpecificPlayer(playerIndex)

        local currentUnhappiness = player:getBodyDamage():getUnhappynessLevel()

        player:getBodyDamage():setUnhappynessLevel(math.max(currentUnhappiness - 3, 0))

        player:Say("???")

    end
    
    -- default eat function
    MHD.ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.onEatItems(items, percentage, playerIndex)
end

return MHD

What am I missing here?

[barren junco]

Where is he now

[jaunty marten]

check the original function and u will see what you missed

[red tiger]

Busy IRL.

[barren junco]

Ah sad

All modders eventually grow up :(

And modding is non profit

Usually, at least

I used to mod 24/7 when I was younger as well

Now I do it to practice certain languages to get a job

[modern hamlet]

Thank you i got it 🙂

[red tiger]

I'm still a kid then.

[barren junco]

I did generalize

I would be a kid as well

[red tiger]

I could finish my JSON parser today if I put more time into it.

[barren junco]

That is odd

[small quail]

btw I wrote in wrong channel, this should be in #mod_support

[barren junco]

I’m thinking maybe integer overflow?

Investigate about it @small quail, you might be able to get some answers

[drifting ore]

Hey guys, sorry for dropping in the middle of your convo but, I've been checking a lot of different mods but I can't seem to find anything related to specific zombie amount and what type of zombie various small buildings/Area's should have/include with custom behavior such as sprinters defending gunstores or Louisville Prison and Police station, I had a question regarding this - is this thing even feasible modding wise to create? I have no prior Lua scripting experience but I'm considering to learn to make something I feel is missing in the modding community.

[barren junco]

Hey that sounds like a good modding concept

Im not sure if zed spawn locations can be modified like that

But perhaps reverse engineering how the sandbox option “zombie population” works might give us some info

Zombie population has 2 options
Uniform or urban if I’m not mistaken

Maybe I’m getting the option name wrong, but it was something similar

The fact that this option exists means that the game has a way to control zed population

[gusty wharf]

I think there's a mod that makes it so you can set the percent of a zombie variants spawn chances. I think it's called "Customizable Zombies" and you could take a look at its code because it kinda does a bit similar thing.

[drifting ore]

The only thing I did find was pretty much this for definitions to spaces; https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Room_definitions

[drifting ore]

Will check it out!

[barren junco]

Yeah that mod definitely has some info

[gusty wharf]

If making a mod like that from the ground up would be too hard for you, you can try modifying that mod, but if you want to upload/distribute it somewhere you need to ask the original creator for permission.

[drifting ore]

I see, thank you.

[gusty wharf]

Does anyone know where the 2D images or icons of items in the inventory are located?

[drifting ore]

I think I do, have you checked the \steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media folder?

Lemme see if I can narrow it down and find it

They might be compiled into a .pack file

[gusty wharf]

I'll get the ones I want from the wiki then, thanks though

[drifting ore]

i'm running into a really weird issue atm. for south and east facing world sprites when i and slightly off the sprite model. i still get the regular context menu options that i would get if if it were unmodded by lua.
example screenshot when i right click just to the left of the world sprite

it should look like this, and when i click on the sprite itself it works normally. not sure why it's giving me az context menu option from a range around the south and east facing sprites

same sprite same location same everything, the only difference is when i click just slightly off the sprite on only south and east facing sprites... i get what would be the non modded context menu

[ancient grail]

Use vanilla

[drifting ore]

anyone ever ran into this before?

what you mean?

[ancient grail]

Refer to vanilla

[drifting ore]

oh them haha 😄

im trying to make my clothing mod spongies open jackets compatable, can anyone help me?

[ancient grail]

His doing fiveM stuff now

[ancient grail]

You might want to try #modeling

[barren junco]

Is that a project?

[drifting ore]

so trying to make a clothing mod compatable with spongies open jackets is now modeling?

im not modeling anything and i am bad at blender

[barren junco]

Skill issue 🤷‍♂️

[drifting ore]

your statement does not help

[barren junco]

Just try though, you can get better

Oh I was just giving you a hard time, sorry if it was mean

[drifting ore]

what you said was practically destructive critisism

[barren junco]

Oh no don’t take it that way

What I mean is, we are all bad at everything at some point

If you have the time and will, practice some modeling!

[drifting ore]

i came here for information on how to make any generic clothing mod compatable with spongies clothing

this is not modeling 💀

[ancient grail]

Gta v modding

[barren junco]

Oh wonderful

[barren junco]

Looks like modeling to me

I mean, it’s just the xml configuration of your model

[drifting ore]

what do you know about modeling

[barren junco]

Oh I’ve done some modeling in the past

Blender and some Minecraft models

[ancient grail]

Ye i agree.. we try to our best to improve our knowledge and skill
And seeking help from other is part it if we choose to grow along side other people.
And most challenges are always based on lack of knowledge and which is why we ask for help.

Anyways how did open jacket thing work exactly i havent seen the mod

I know it but havent checked the code

[drifting ore]

my point has been proven, now i need help with what i am trying to do, can anyone help?

[ancient grail]

Without looking at the code maybe its just 2 clothing type that uses oncreate recipe to swap the first one to the second mode

Just aslong as you send the condition and the holes and everything to the second clothing cuz basicallly hou delete the first oen and replace

Thats an idea but not saying thats what he did on his mod

But this is what i did for the bag hider mod

[drifting ore]

i took nightscales rick grimes sheriff outfit and recolored it the way i like it, but i need know or figure out how to make it compatable with spongies open jackets

[ancient grail]

Ehhhh ammm
Did you ask permission tho?

[drifting ore]

of course i asked

he said yeah because he doesnt have the time to edit the outfit and what not, so i took it in my own hands and did it for myself because if its one thing ive learned is that you have to do it yourself because nobody else will do it for you

[ancient grail]

#1070852229654917180 message

I think the list of vanilla params are here

[ancient grail]

From the top again. U want that mod tl be compatible or similar to different mod right or is it the same mod?

In any case have you checked out how they did it?

[barren junco]

Hey that looks good

What are you making exactly?

[drifting ore]

rick grimes sheriff uniform (not the diahhreah green kind)

[drifting ore]

i want to be able to tuck in and tuck out the sheriff pants and open and close the jacket

[barren junco]

Only the uniform?

[drifting ore]

yes

[barren junco]

Alright so you could subscribe to the lua event OnFillInventoryContextMenu

It is an event that is called whenever you right click an item in your inventory

And if the item you clicked is the jacket, you can add an option to close it or open it

And ofc change the jacket model correspondingly

[barren junco]

Nice

[barren junco]

Oooh wonderful

[ancient grail]

Do an extra checks for the faces
Maybe its how you filtered the context menu
What exactly did you use to determine its a light switch,?

[barren junco]

Do you know lua?

[drifting ore]

i dont know how to program lua

[barren junco]

Oh okay

[ancient grail]

Hmm its an outer clothing piece and not tuck in i think
So just remove it?

[drifting ore]

i am good at gimp though, i can retexture stuff but thats about it

    for _,v in ipairs(worldobjects) do
        local square = v:getSquare()
        if square and sq == nil then
            sq = square
        end
        local sprLight = v:getSprite()
        local sprSwitch = sprLight:getProperties():Val("CustomName") == "Switch"
        if not sprSwitch then return end

[drifting ore]

how would i do this

[ancient grail]

Try to add the flags for the faces

[drifting ore]

oooo good idea

i will tyty

[ancient grail]

Just unequip it

[drifting ore]

i have severe ocd when colors are supposed to match

the pants being darker than the hat under the light but it seems perfect under no light

[ancient grail]

Yeah it was obvious .. but no shame in that esp if it makes you do productive things

[drifting ore]

i guess so, what i am doing is productive

but the fact that i dont know where to start is the real problem

with at least trying to add the ability to open and close the jacket as well as tucking in and tucking out the trousers

[ancient grail]

Yeah if you enjoy it you might try and make an entire clothing mod from scratch

[barren junco]

@drifting ore learning lua would be an excellent first step

[drifting ore]

i do enjoy it, but my problem is that i dont know where to begin

[drifting ore]

how 2 do this

[barren junco]

Lua is a very very simple language

Well you got the internet, you can check out documentation

Search for YouTube tutorials

Read the official lua website

Check out a website called lua cheatsheet

[ancient grail]

Anyways you are giving almost no info for me to help out. Idk how to help. Try first to learn how the xml works . Tinkering it for starters to see what params are important

[drifting ore]

specifically for project zomboid? or will it be just a random game with totally different lua and me accidentally copying that into project zomboid thinking its going to work

[drifting ore]

nightscale said you have to have randomly generated GUID's

[ancient grail]

https://guidgenerator.com/
Heres the guid generator

[drifting ore]

yeah already got that up

[ancient grail]

Just check the hypen

When mever you see a guid
Its suppose to be unoque

Ok then good

[drifting ore]

but i dont understand what a guid does

[ancient grail]

Mmmm
Think of it as a unique identifier

[drifting ore]

what is it supposed to do? what does it mean? these are the things i need to know to successfully create a mod

so i randomly generate a guid and then add it to

[ancient grail]

Reason for this is clothes are named mmmmm generic ish

[drifting ore]

but you are talking to a level 0 complete noob

[ancient grail]

So theres definitely lot of room for conflict
The guid prevents that

[deft falcon]

thank god i did roblox studio it let me start pz modding easily bc both use lua

[ancient grail]

Hi again fajdek how r u

[barren junco]

@drifting ore send me a DM, I’ll show you where to get started

[barren junco]

Oh nicer

[deft falcon]

i feel good bc those gym goer abusers from more traits r gonna get a nerf soon and i already feel the comments incoming 😈

[ancient grail]

Have you check to see what conflicts your mod from sapphs mod? The thing i asked you before.

[deft falcon]

oh i completely forgot

ill check tomorrow

[ancient grail]

Pls and thank you

[deft falcon]

what function/line caused issues?

if it told that

[drifting ore]

ok

[ancient grail]

I forgot ...

Ill check the screenshot

[red tiger]

My parsed uber JSON is now 80K lines lol

Oh heck. Recipe defs are wild.

I think that I'm going to skip those for now. xD

The syntax for recipes is very different from everything else in ZedScript.

[quasi geode]

wait til you get to vehicle scripts lol

[red tiger]

If you've seen my commits.. You know I'm heading there haha

[quasi geode]

i havent. but i've done the whole script parser thing (in python though)

[red tiger]

Going to modify my AST parser to have an expression to compile all destroys, etc. into one array.

My AST JSON is a way to remove all the crazy from the script so I can walk through the JSON instead of the raw text to fully parse.

Recipes broken but here's my current uber JSON:

[gusty wharf]

Hey guys, is a mod that basically just modifies the base game files allowed? In this case it's a mod that disables the trait point limit.

[frank elbow]

Yes, there are quite a few mods that do that. If by modifies you mean overwrites a base game file (by including a file with the same path & name) with a copy of it with modifications, though, I urge you to think about whether there's a way to do it without doing so

Overriding only the functions you need > doing that. It's less prone to breaking between versions, and if it does break it should be simpler to fix

[gusty wharf]

How would I only change a part of it?

[frank elbow]

I'm unfamiliar with the file you're referencing, but I'll provide a hypothetical example. Let's say there's an ISWhatever with behavior you want to modify. In particular, you want to change the ISWhatever.doThing function to do something slightly different. Instead of overwriting the entire file, you could do something like:

-- a reference to the existing doThing, if you need to call it in your override
local _doThing = ISWhatever.doThing

function ISWhatever.doThing()
     -- overridden behavior here
end

I neglected to reply, @gusty wharf

[gusty wharf]

Thanks

[drifting ore]

still happening.. i just dont get it

so weird man. driving me batty

can't release like this lol

hmmm might go back to the tiles themselves and look. i'm stumped though

actually there must be another condition i need to cover gonna look around vanilla. any suggestions are welcome, if you know the best way for me to detect the sprite on the wall. there is 8 diff sprites i'm doing by custom name, and direction offset atm.

    local sq
    for _, v in ipairs(worldobjects) do
        local square = v:getSquare()
        if square and sq == nil then
            sq = square
        end
        local sprProp = v:getSprite():getProperties()
        local sprDirs = {"Noffset", "Soffset", "Woffset", "Eoffset"}
            for _, sprDir in ipairs(sprDirs) do
                if sprProp:Is(sprDir) ~= nil then
                    local sprSwitch = sprProp:Val("CustomName") == "Switch"
                    if not sprSwitch then return end

it's detecting them. but only when the tiles are facing south or east it allows you just just click on the outside of the tile and obtain a completely different context menu but for the exact same tile. if i rclick directly on the tile object itself, it performs as expected

example screenshots. you can always tell my context menus because they have icons attached to them
#mod_development message

yea i can literally click anywhere on the entire square anyywhere. it must be another condition im missing

clicking by floor

[drifting stump]

3mb of json damn

[red tiger]

Heh

It's literally an Uber compilation of all pz ZedScript

[drifting stump]

well all vanilla scripts are still 1.83mb

[drifting ore]

im having a bit of trouble with my mod can anyone help

[red tiger]

I deconstruct to arrays and what

[drifting stump]

i guess some websites have larger payloads than that

[red tiger]

Definitely not for the web lol

[drifting stump]

yes for the web

[red tiger]

I wrote the parser so I can write a electron app for ZedScript

[sour nova]

--higher level books worth more procedurally
            elseif(thecat == "SkillBook") then
                local bookPriceBase = 5.00;
                -- struggling to grab the decimal from the name???
                local bookLevel = string.match(itemName, "%d"); --little trickery to grab the number
                if (bookLevel ~= null) then
                    print("bookName: " .. itemName ..", parsed #: " .. bookLevel );
                    bookLevel = tonumber(bookLevel);
                    newprice = bookPriceBase*bookLevel;
                else newprice = bookPriceBase; end;
                --]]

why is newprice always 0 ? my debug print shows i'm correctly parsing the booklevel from the string

[drifting ore]

disregard. got it figured out 😄

help plzif getActivatedMods():contains("ItemTweakerAPIExtraClothingAddon") then
require("ItemTweaker_ExtraClothingOptions");
else return end

local function ModifyParamsFromOriginalItem(originalItemName, newItemName, resistanceModifier)
local originalItem = ScriptManager.instance:getItem(originalItemName);
local newItem = ScriptManager.instance:getItem(newItemName);

if ((not originalItem) or (not newItem)) then return end;

if resistanceModifier then 
    -- modify resistance
    TweakItem(newItemName, "Insulation", originalItem:getInsulation()*resistanceModifier);
    TweakItem(newItemName, "WindResistance", originalItem:getWindresist()*resistanceModifier);
    TweakItem(newItemName, "WaterResistance", originalItem:getWaterresist()*resistanceModifier);
end;

end

--Automates the adding of context menus
local function AddNewExtraItem(originalItem, newItem, originalContextMenu, newContextMenu, resistanceModifier)

ItemTweaker.AddOrReplaceClothingOption(originalItem, newItem, newContextMenu);
ItemTweaker.AddOrReplaceClothingOption(newItem, originalItem, originalContextMenu);

TweakItem(originalItem, "clothingExtraSubmenu", originalContextMenu);
TweakItem(newItem, "clothingExtraSubmenu", newContextMenu);


ModifyParamsFromOriginalItem(originalItem, newItem, resistanceModifier);

end

function Add4WayExtraItem(item1, item2, item3, item4, context1, context2, context3, context4, resistanceModifier)
AddNewExtraItem(item1, item2, context1, context2);
AddNewExtraItem(item2, item3, context2, context3, resistanceModifier);
AddNewExtraItem(item1, item4, context1, context4, resistanceModifier);
AddNewExtraItem(item2, item4, context2, context4);
AddNewExtraItem(item1, item3, context1, context3);
AddNewExtraItem(item4, item3, context4, context3);

end

-- trousers tucked
AddNewExtraItem("Trousers", "Trousers_Police_SheriffTUCK", "TuckOut", "TuckIn", 1);

[sour nova]

^ surround your post with -triple ` to turn it into a codeblock

[drifting ore]

can you help me please?

it asks me to have discord nitro to send code blocks too

[gusty wharf]

Does a trait still retain its features even if you change its name in MainCreationMethods.lua?

for example from
TraitFactory.addTrait("Cook2", getText("UI_trait_Cook"), 4, getText("UI_trait_Cook2Desc"), false);
to
TraitFactory.addTrait("Cook2", getText("UI_trait_Cook2"), 4, getText("UI_trait_Cook2Desc"), false);

I'm trying to experiment with the seemingly unused ones

and make them able to be chosen

even if it presumably does the same thing

[sour nova]

Fuck me, I didn't camelCase newPrice and created a new variable

[jaunty marten]

btw as I remember there's :getLevelSkillTrained() func for skill book item to get his level instead string.match(itemName, "%d")

[sour nova]

I avoid using the built in functions because the documentation for them is bad -
I just spent an hour debugging inventoryItem:getHaveBeenRepaired() because I expected an unrepaired item to return 0, but it returns 1

[jaunty marten]

you can't not use them lol

[subtle gyro]

Hey everyone. I'm a 3D artist and I want to do stuff. Anyone needs help? I can do 3D modeling and animation

[thick karma]

Do you know any advanced bone rebinding trickery? In this game, when we animate, we need to manually move and rotate the things in our hands because the objects held by our hands are bound to our pelvis.

Hopefully you can imagine the consequences of that.

[real sierra]

sometimes these hips do lie 🙂

[thick karma]

If we could rebind prop bones to our hands, create an animation, and then rebind the prop bones back to our pelvis, is there some fancy way to leave the movement data alone on that final step, such that the movement is based on the hand position but the bone remains technically attached to the pelvis on export for compatibility?

[subtle gyro]

Actually I do have ideas to solve that, even without being able to reparent the bones

[thick karma]

Really? @dark wedge and @ancient grail and I would love to know. We have been manually moving and rotating hand items and it is hell.

I have to work in a few minutes but if you don't mind DMing me I might try to get you in a group chat about this

[subtle gyro]

Just, like, make a new object (like a Empty), add a constraint to follow the hand, and add a constraint on the weapon bone to follow the empty? Something like that should work shouldn't it?

[thick karma]

I am not an animator. I have only recently learned to animate for this game. I am not an expert in playing with the settings of an animation and having things come out right. Also, the only software in which most of us know how to edit and export .X files is fragMOTION (and the game's vanilla animations are mostly .X files).

Which is not exactly the most brilliant software I've ever seen

Maybe it has that ability but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of advanced tools are missing

[gusty wharf]

Blender probably has some addons that make it possible to export the .X format

There's one that allows to import it

[thick karma]

If you can link, please do. The tools I've seen did not appear up to date.

If I could properly import and export the .X files using Blender, finding tutorials to do other things would be infinitely easier

[gusty wharf]

https://github.com/oguna/Blender-XFileImporter

I found an exporter but it's for Blender 2.8

https://github.com/DodgeeSoftware/io_scene_directx

[subtle gyro]

I'm under the impression you can actually not have to work with those curses .X files. A friend of mine is working with .fbx animations, said it works. Maybe .X is old code from before a rework?!

[gusty wharf]

I have a somewhat different suggestion. Maybe try exporting in Blender to a format that both fragMOTION and Blender support, then import it to fragMOTION and export it to .X . I think I did some stuff like that a couple times and it worked. Not really sure if it'll work with this but there's a chance it will

[gusty wharf]

Yeah I heard Zomboid's migrating to .fbx

people are also saying that it's better to use .fbx than .X

if making something

[thick karma]

I mean .fbx animations DO work but the vanilla animations are all .X, so we need to import them at least... Or manually redesign poses, which generally doesn't lead to perfect matches for me.

[subtle gyro]

If you do import the .X file, you will have to work with that skeleton, though. Which for me was a nightmare

[thick karma]

I guess if there is another way to handle the props well in Blender maybe it would be worth it. Approximating an initial pose once would probably be easier than what I've been doing to move props around.

[gusty wharf]

What software did the devs use for these animations?

By the way seems like the Blender addon can't import animation .X files .

[dark wedge]

fragMotion does not have support for this that I can find. Blender would be easy af with modifiers.

All the .x tools for Blender are either really old, or just don't handle .X animations correctly, unfortunately

[subtle gyro]

What do you mean? You are animating on fragMotion?

[dark wedge]

Have to when your making a change to a vanilla animation. It's the only thing that can read/write .X animations properly

Making my own from scratch, then sure Blender and fbx is the way to go

[subtle gyro]

I see

How about exporting it to something Blender can read? Doesn't it work?

I did have a lot of issues and didn't manage yet to export anything to the game. All those conversions and stuff, and also I'm not a coding guy so I don't even know how I would test if it works

[dark wedge]

There is a guide in the #modeling pins about importing the animation into blender by converting it into Half-Life source model data, but then the export from blender is always wrong for me among a bunch of other stuff with that method during the workflow. Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't get good results from that

[gusty wharf]

from all of these formats supported by Blender only .bvh is in fragMOTION, and yet importing the running animation into Blender will give a 3200 frames long animation for some reason

so still broken

.smd works

but without animation at least for me

[dark wedge]

All of the animations are of that scale. The .X has them at 4800 FPS

[gusty wharf]

Crazy. I hope they'll fully migrate to .fbx by the time b42 is released because the .X is some old dark magic

[subtle gyro]

This is just in case you want to get the default vanilla animation as base for something new, right?

[thick karma]

Correct

@subtle gyro

[subtle gyro]

So, you don't need to convert it back to .X after your changes

I mean, that part of the process you guys must know much better than me

[thick karma]

Possibly not, but I don't know anyone who has posted any reliable technique for converting .X to .fbx in Blender and then getting that fbx into the game

[dark wedge]

You can export as fbx if you're working in Blender.

No need to go back to .X I would think

[subtle gyro]

Yeah, I can't say much

All I know is Blender stuff

I have both .fbx and .X characters here, but as I said, I didn't manage to make a mod that puts my stuff back in the game

That's why I'm here, I offer help in the animation process, you guys do the script 🙂

[gilded hawk]

OMFG I Did just read the thursdoid news and theywill be adding OnZombieCreate 😻

[quasi geode]

technically, its already done. but you cant play with it til 42 😅

[gilded hawk]

It's good enough knowing I will get it at some point. It's even better cause it mean I can do other stuff before b42 instead of making 10 mods per week lol.
And the onchunkloaded event will make it so easier for me to implement the airstrike mod. Good times

[red tiger]

Attempting to parse recipes now. =)

Looking at your guide too funnily enough..

[quasi geode]

i really need to put some more work into that thing & get it up to date at least

[red tiger]

Taking a look at the code moreso.

So each line is a source instance and should be handled separately.

But all sources are options.

one of each required to satisfy the requirements.

I think I have it now.

[red tiger]

My job right now is modernizing an ASP website and documenting.

xD Same energy.

[quasi geode]

ah, point of note for your parser (something i remembered looking at my python version)
dealing with recipes # NOTE ALL THESE KEYS ARE ACTUALLY CASE_SENSITIVE

[thorny charm]

is there a way to fix this. I cant seem to figure it out. lol

[red tiger]

I expected this.

There's very wild parse code.

Some code doesn't even trim-check for whitespace. =/

All my json tags use camelCase. They can be transformed back to whatever when exported back to the original txt format.

Will b42's take on ZedScript do non-case-sensitive checks on all tags?

[quasi geode]

it will if i remember to fix that lol (i'm going to have to make a note) its all very inconsistent.

[red tiger]

I won't be that guy.. but

Yeah I really hope you do.

Rooting for ya on that task.

Life is easier when checking a lower-cased string

=)

Also don't worry, I already expect to do major refactoring when 42's code is live.

[quasi geode]

easy enough fix. and should be done since the inconsistency can lead to pointless and inaccurate bug reports. but i'm done for the day so it gets to go on the todo list XD

[red tiger]

As long as it's on the radar.

[quasi geode]

its been on my radar for uh...3 years now at least 🤣

[red tiger]

I'll work with you if the need arises. Again the app I'm working toward will be to help people with working on ZedScripts without dealing without these silly technicalities.

It's been on my TODO list for 9 months now.

It's worth it.

[quasi geode]

lol ya.. the inconsistency is real. just relooked at the recipe parser. apparently the case-sensitive comment only applies to some of the properties. some of them are case insensitive 🤨

[red tiger]

Yup.

This applies to general item properties too.

Some string values are trimmed while others aren't.

Leads to whitespace issues if not careful.

[quasi geode]

pretty sure Item.class converts it all to lower before checking but i'd have to relook

[red tiger]

mmmmm Not in the load method.

var 3 and var 4 aren't checked the same throughout.

DoParam

[thick karma]

@quasi geode Do y'all have an official policy about player playerIndex playerNum character playerObj usage out of curiosity? Is there a direction in which those practices are consciously moving? Just curious because if such a standard were being adopted I would want to start preparing my code appropriately...

[quasi geode]

ah nope it doesnt go lower case (looking at DoParam)

[red tiger]

Yeah. I didn't use the code as a reference for basic params. I wrote a customProperty sub-object for each category and weeded out the options that way.

Used switch tables with shadowed super calls to basically the equivalent of a DoParam setup..

[quasi geode]

seems unlikely, given the lack of uniformity in that area atm, and no official direction (least that i've been informed of)
personally i'd clearly define a difference, but i dont think theres any plan to go through and fix the old var names

[red tiger]

I'm all for the revoluti- I mean breaking compatability for mods by cleaning up the API.

After 10 years of buildup, it's time.

People'll be mad either way.

[thick karma]

Understandable, I was only wondering. I suspect I am not alone in the occasional headache manually figuring out whether player is actually a player or just an index.

[quasi geode]

pretty sure we're going to break a pile of mods anyways (always seems to be the case), especially due to a number of the changes / new features

[thick karma]

Well good luck to us all

[red tiger]

export type RecipeAction = 'destroy' | 'keep';

export type RecipeConstructor = {
    sources: RecipeSourceExpression[];
    body: AssignmentStatement[];
};

export type RecipeSourceExpression = {
    items: string[];
    action: RecipeAction;
};

https://tenor.com/view/gendo-neon-genesis-evangelion-anime-smirk-gif-14884772

[quasi kernel]

Im expecting my magnet fishing mod to break when B42 comes out but I'm not the slightest bit upset.

Just means I can have fun integrating it into an even more fleshed out fishing system.

[quasi geode]

yep i'm sure any fishing mod is going to break lol, its quite the change there. havent had time to play with the new system myself but looks neat

[thick karma]

Haha I just hope that any UIs updated either add their own gamepad support or don't break mine but I know what my hope is worth historically

And it's not a lot lol (in life not @ Zomboid, I'm new here)

[quasi geode]

no idea on that one, UI = not my area

[thick karma]

Fair enough

[ancient grail]

``

--code

``

Pls do this whenever u post codes
You can divide it into multiple post if ot doesnt fit.

I believe eszeikial told you this
We are not ChatGPT

[ancient grail]

💯

[ancient grail]

Like a null object group?

[ancient grail]

Anyways to use autodesk maya?

[drifting ore]

I will get to this tomorrow

[ancient grail]

Is there a way to zoom in and out the keyframe timelines. I hate scrubbing that far. And is there an external way to make fragmotion darkmode?!

[ancient grail]

Will the game allow zeds to keep moddata now? Or something that would make zed modding easier?

[quasi geode]

nothing new on that front i dont think, but not entirely sure

[ancient grail]

Ow ok thnx ..

[red tiger]

Parsing recipes in AST now.

[dark wedge]

Not that I know of on both of those. fragMotion is just

[ancient grail]

😮‍💨

[rain iron]

I wish there was an easier way to extract x file animations

[ancient grail]

Anyone knows how to check of a square is part of a safehouse

Anyone has a snippet or idea where rhis is written

[rain iron]

does anyone know a way to keep the position between animations in sync?

it's an timed action disguising itself as an emote, with an initial starting anim + looping anim.
Is there a bone that is responsible for indicating actual player position or something

[red tiger]

Recipes might have me rewrite my initial parser code.

The syntax is so wacky.

I split up = which messes up with recipe sources.

Really wanted to finish my parser today. =(

[digital moon]

I'm having the darndest time trying to figure out how to create a container that only accepts certain items. I've tried to look up the code for the clothing rack in the vanilla game because I heard it only accepts clothing - but I am unable to find it. Any suggestions would be appreciated

[true vault]

OnChunkLoaded???

- drools -

So I won't have to run a function as frequently as GridLoaded...

Oh wow, and ZedCreated too..

I swear, all y'all devs are catering right to what I'm looking for >.>

[thick karma]

Yes in Blender there is a translation bip, you need to clear all movement of that bip

Or you'll slide around

[rain iron]

iirc, I think when I retargeted the animation I didn't retarget the translation bip

so it stays in place during anim

I believe the loop falling animation isn't also off-center if that is related

[thick karma]

Afaik, if you created the loop animation using the end of the original animation, you would not move unless the translation bip is wrong.

When I made Meditation I had to make a transition and a loop just like yours

And my character would slide around until I zeroed that bip

[rain iron]

I see, I'll take a look at your mod to see how it works.

[wet ridge]

Hi all.

GPU needed for dedicated server?

[thick karma]

@rain iron I deleted all translation data on this and left it in its original state from the blender template:

That completely fixed any sliding of the form that was not visible in Blender.

[rain iron]

I see I'll try that on my end.

[thick karma]

I found it very easy to accidentally drag select and move that Translation Data object when I was editing. I would always manually unselect it after I realized the problem.

PSA for anyone adding gamepad support... if you decorate getBestAButtonAction, getBestBButtonAction, or any of the other getBest actions, do not forget if self.aPrompt then return end in the code below!

local Example = {}

Example.patchButtonPromptsForA = function()
    Example.ISButtonPrompt = {
        getBestAButtonAction = ISButtonPrompt.getBestAButtonAction
    }

    function ISButtonPrompt:getBestAButtonAction(direction)
        local player = getSpecificPlayer(self.player)

        if conditionsForHighPriorityPrompt() then
            self:setAPrompt(getText("YOURTRANSLATION"), YOURFUNCTION, param1, param2, param3, param4) 
            return
        end

        Example.ISButtonPrompt.getBestAButtonAction(self, direction)

        -- Do not change the prompt if you already found the one you want.
        if self.aPrompt then return end

        if conditionsForLowPriorityPrompt() then
            self:setAPrompt(getText("YOURTRANSLATION"), YOURFUNCTION, param1, param2, param3, param4) 
            return
        end
    end
end

Events.OnGameStart.Add(Example.patchButtonPromptsForA)

return Example

This prevents you from overriding actions you did not intend to override, e.g., if the Open Door prompt is already set and your decoration may be relevant when we are near a door, you may not want to overwrite the bound self.aPrompt and corresponding function, because you'll stop us from opening doors whenever your condition is active. (Real-life example: Aquatsar overwrites our door-opening when we are running because it fails to check self.aPrompt before setting its own prompt.)

@tame mulch If I threw the above example on the Wiki, would it be appropriate for the Beginner section?

(Alternatively, feel free to stick it wherever it's appropriate.)

[rare wigeon]

Hey, I can't understand how to properly make moveable furniture. I created tile properties file, .pack file and added a script. But for some reason I can't pick up my stuff, and script only shows icon, name and type. How can I fix it?

[thick karma]

(@ anyone paying attention who may have grabbed code quickly, I fixed a forgotten class name and switched the whole module name to Example above shortly after posting it.)

[thick karma]

@gilded hawk Ay I see you lurkin... How's that automatic workshop / mod.info editor comin along!?

[gilded hawk]

I finished it like a month ago 😛

Actually I finished it in November

@thick karma

[thick karma]

Oh cool! Does it also do the mod.info file somehow? Or was it always for the workshop.txt alone? I don't recall.

[gilded hawk]

It's only for the workshop.txt. Which is the one who usually requires the most effort to write

The mod.info file does not really need an editor since it only takes plain text

[thick karma]

Not true!

Behold:

-- mod.info
name=Meditation
poster=poster.png
id=Meditation
description= <RGB:0.7,0.7,0.7> This mod brings meditation to Project Zomboid! <LINE>  <LINE> Use meditation to rest, relax, and recover, or become invisible to zombies by channeling your unity with everything around you! <LINE>  <LINE> Meditation comes with a trait called "Yogi" that gives a +1 bonus to Lightfoot (making yogis move a bit quieter). All of the other effects of this mod are locked to players with this trait by default; however, in sandbox options, you may allow everyone to meditate exactly as yogis do! <LINE>  <LINE> By default, the option to Meditate will appear as an extra choice in the world context menu (the right-click menu); again, this will only appear for yogis unless the aforementioned sandbox setting is selected. For those who would prefer to always sit this way, there is an option in  <RGB:1.0,0.6,0.0> Mod Options  <RGB:0.7,0.7,0.7> that allows players to override the behavior of the vanilla "Sit on ground" option. <LINE>  <LINE> Meditation also includes a unique animation! This animation can be disabled using Mod Options after joining a server. This animation will override the vanilla sitting animation by default for anyone who can meditate; if you prefer requiring players to activate this animation via Mod Options, there is a sandbox option for turning the animation off by default. <LINE>  <LINE> The act of meditating offers a range of possible benefits that can be toggled or adjusted in sandbox options: <LINE>  <LINE> 1. Become invisible to zombies (SEE WARNINGS BELOW). <LINE> 2. Recover endurance as though you have activated the vanilla resting mechanic. <LINE> 3. Recover physical health (in terms of hunger, thirst, and fatigue) and ignore pain. <LINE> 4. Recover emotional health (in terms of fear, panic, stress, anger, boredom, and happiness). <LINE> 5. Enable dedication effects in sandbox options to base restoration rates on player habits! <LINE>  <LINE> ... et cetera
require=modoptions

It is MORE of a cluster to make mod.info look nice, however, it CAN be done

Colors and line breaks.

[gilded hawk]

Oh wow

[thick karma]

Oh yes

[gilded hawk]

Dayum man. well. I might consider adding support for it, but atm I'm busy with another project

[thick karma]

❤️

No pressure

But you WOULD be a legend

Food for thought: you could let users set color variables and automatically convert [h] tags to RGB:R,G,B tags

I think that would be super user friendly and awesome personally.

[gilded hawk]

Maybe, I will probably remake the app anyway to work with Lexical, but I dunno. We'll see

[gusty wharf]

What's the difference between OnCreatePlayer() and OnCharacterCreate()?

[thick karma]

Where are you reading OnCharacterCreate()?

They may be phasing that out, idk

I don't see it on the wiki's list of Events

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

[gusty wharf]

Weird, I remember seeing some people talking about an event like that

[thick karma]

Also, it's OnCreatePlayer

Additionally, there is OnCreateSurvivor. That may be something related to incoming NPC stuff. Idk.

[gusty wharf]

Ah alright I forgot lol

[gusty wharf]

Yeah but it's also triggered when you load in the game as far as I noticed

[little iron]

Hey guys is there anyone accepting commissions here?
Also, as a blind guess, how much a commission for a headgear would cost?

[thick karma]

@ancient grail is basically always accepting commissions afaik; might be a thing he could do.

[ancient grail]

i believe its this one

[little iron]

He is one of the potential commissions, i commissioned him once for a weapon in fact, but i'm curious if others here are doing modeling too and if so, how many

[thick karma]

You might have better luck in #modeling

[cinder frost]

Anyone know the code to create a UI tab (seen in the crafting and character info menu)? I've been scouring the native code and even some mods that feature it but I think I'm a bit dull in trying to isolate it

[red tiger]

Good morning.

[ancient grail]

Anyone knows how to check if a floor has a valid floor tile ? I cant remember where i saw the syntax

[jaunty marten]

local square = getSquare(x, y, z)

local floor = square:getFloor()

if not floor then return false end

[little iron]

You might be right, thank you.

[robust briar]

Hello friends. Is there a way in one mod to disable the recipe of another mod?

I would assume I need to make an overriding script.. just not sure what I would put in there to out-right disable another mods recipe

[ancient grail]

Ahh getFloor i was lookin at isFloor

[jaunty marten]

mb isfloor working same way, idk

[ancient grail]

You can use scriptmanager doparam
Then make that recipe require to be learned
And dont make anytthing to teach it

[robust briar]

Ohhh super smart

TY my friend

[stone garden]

hello im back

anyone want hear my mod idea?

soo an mod idea that i got is an mod that after death you can create an new character or become an ghost and haunt your friends my idea is based on minecraft requiem mod

and you can take control of an zombie

[uneven nova]

Hi everyone! im trying to get some clothes I made into game I have it all working but for some reason when blood splatters on my character it just makes that part of the mesh invisible instead of applying the blood texture to it. I tried making my own masks based on the UVs I have setup and copying colours from another mask but it doesn't seem to work. How does the blood get applied to the character?

[cunning kestrel]

Either me or the game is drunk. Help why doesnt it find/read this table/var
self.exercises:getOptionData(1)

[uneven nova]

nvm got it was missing CanHaveHoles = false, in my clothingitems.txt

[ancient grail]

function MortarGetHighestZ(cx,cy)
    local cz = 8
    for i = 0, 8-1  do
        cz=cz-1
        local check = getCell():getGridSquare(cx, cy, cz )        
        if check then
            print(cz); print(check)    
            return cz
        end
    end
end

i didnt need to check for floor after all

[jaunty marten]

btw also found this

getSquare(x, y, z):isSolidFloor()

[shadow bough]

Or just a continue as your zombified self with limited interaction abilities (no driving, looting or opening doors) with a slightly increased health bar. Like a mini boss.

[ancient grail]

nice thnx

[stone garden]

wait what if we made your zombified character an boss that you control it

[jaunty marten]

btw this code is a pain

[shadow bough]

thats what I mean

[jaunty marten]

u can just do for cz = 7, 0, -1 do

[stone garden]

yeah but you can control him like the movements

and you have to infect your friends

[jaunty marten]

[shadow bough]

yeah

but with the zombie virus eating you brains, you dont know how to drive and you dont know to loot stuff

I guess the setting do give Zs the ability to navigate doors and such, so that is reasonable to have that ability as a Z no matter the settings

[jaunty marten]

[ancient grail]

Omg so my passion mod is similar to your idea that you have been pushing ?
All this time
?
Omg we should abort the mod

[ancient grail]

Cuz me and @zinc pilot are doing a mod on the side
Its called reanimation
It lets you control your zed counterpart and disable everything that normal players can do
Like access stash and your screen os blank you dont have access to ui
The animations are half way done
We still have a long way to go
With the dragdown and such
Currenly our biggest hurdle is how do make the zed not follow us while still remaining visible
Ghost and invisibility is tied together

Its already mp compat

[shadow bough]

@ancient grail Thats awesome. Are the Zs that follow trying to attack the player Z?

[jaunty marten]

yh, I remember that

[vivid linden]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2936830870 Modified my original mod to put you on the rooftop now. Feedback would be great!

[ancient grail]

Yes they still do thats the problem

We already have the code that disables moodle

Sorta like godmod ish

And the insta spawn as zed code

Id say we are almost half way thru

[shadow bough]

Damn, I was going to say... Zed Army!!! lol

@ancient grail can you guys use a variation of the "Zombie Camouflage" mod. the sections for zombie detection, lowered to zero and the timer to infinite.
I know there is more to it than that, but just a thought.

[acoustic dust]

i wanna make a shop mod that uses the crafting menu.

how hard is that to achieve?

[cinder frost]

using the crafting menu? not hard at all

[ancient grail]

function SPH_matrix:draw9x9(x, y, nw, n, ne, w, at, e, sw, s, se)
    local side = 20
    self:drawRect(x, y, side * 3, side * 3, 1.0, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5)
    self:draw9x9aux(x, y, -1, -1, nw)
    self:draw9x9aux(x, y, 0, -1, n)
    self:draw9x9aux(x, y, 1, -1, ne)
    self:draw9x9aux(x, y, -1, 0, w)
    self:draw9x9aux(x, y, 0, 0, at)
    self:draw9x9aux(x, y, 1, 0, e)
    self:draw9x9aux(x, y, -1, 1, sw)
    self:draw9x9aux(x, y, 0, 1, s)
    self:draw9x9aux(x, y, 1, 1, se)
end

i wonder what this does?

[drifting ore]

thats for UI?

to draw a large shape * it seems

is this used somewhere? im bad at math but it doesn't add up lol

[drifting stump]

what in the fuck is that from

[acoustic dust]

well if you don't mind, can you help?

[quasi kernel]

I'd say it's going pretty well.

[bronze yoke]

LOL

[quasi kernel]

Wait until you find "Dead Rat Type Heavy-Duty"

[acoustic dust]

ah yes, improvised bottle silencer from dead rat

seems correct

[quasi kernel]

Yes yes

[acoustic dust]

indeed

[quasi kernel]

Dead Rat (Wet)

I need to fix it not working on stuff like backpacks and stuff, but that's about it.

Namely the icons.

[acoustic dust]

keep it up 👍

[quasi kernel]

@sour island Hey, you've made a literature mod right? Could I get some assistance with changing up icons dynamically?

Actually wait I can just use your mod for ref

Apologies

[jaunty marten]

exactly change? or just add some other images on actual item icon?

[quasi kernel]

I need to prevent items with the multi-icons from doing the multi-icons

I wish to change their icons exclusively to the dead rat.

So stuff like chips, clothes, etc seem to be dodging the system.

[drifting ore]

I tried adding the spongies open jackets framework to my currently developing clothing mod, I have added the lua and other special thing needed for the mod to fully function with spongies open jackets (opening, closing, tucking in pants etc) but when I added this, upon launching project zomboid, the whole game freezes as it says “loading lua” and then after a minute or two the game closes itself. What did I do wrong? Can anyone help me on this situation?

[vivid linden]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2936875513 I just spent a ton of time reworking all of the occupations into Rosewood so every profession has an accurate spawn location! (like hey a farmer spawns at a farm!)

[acoustic dust]

where can i find a recipe script template mod?

[ancient grail]

vanilla

[quasi kernel]

This looks interesting, might pick this up for my server

[acoustic dust]

wha?

[ancient grail]

you can use vanilla as reference

i dont think theres a reference

imean template

[acoustic dust]

oh, i see what you meant

alr

will do

[quasi kernel]

Is there a way to get rid of an inventory item's tint?

[red tiger]

I'm considering writing a lexer for ZedScript instead of my cheap regex / tokenizer tricks.

=/

Hit an annoying wall with how I parse ZedScript with recipes changing it up.

[quasi kernel]

hard to tell, but no more weird tinting!

[thorny charm]

Did anyone make a mod that changed the pins on the map or it there a way to create something so based on what the building type is it give it an icon on the map. Think of a map like GTA V. Has icons for the building types

[drifting ore]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2710167561

you can use mods that let you draw on map, but i dont think you can add anything to the hard map without some serious modding

[quasi kernel]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2936914965

This is by far the worst mod I've ever developed.

[fast galleon]

do you sleep on a rat?

[quasi kernel]

Depends, do you have a rat to sleep on?

[jaunty marten]

change each game texture to rat

[grizzled forge]

make every item a dead rat not just food

[quasi kernel]

It does just this.

[jaunty marten]

already lul

[quasi kernel]

heavy duty dead rat

[grizzled forge]

oh I thought it only changed food my bad

[fast galleon]

what if you drop the items on the ground, can you see the actual item? I see you can "wear" rat?

[jaunty marten]

local icons = item:getIconsForTexture()
if icons then
    print(tostring(icons:size()))
    for iconIndex = icons:size() - 1, -1, -1 do
        icons:remove(iconIndex)
    end

    icons:add(tostring(MassRatConverter.ratRef:getIcon()))
end
--item:setIcon(ratRef:getIcon())
item:setSpriteName(MassRatConverter.ratRef:getSpriteName())
item:setDisplayName(MassRatConverter.ratRef:getDisplayName())
item:DoParam("Icon = "..tostring(MassRatConverter.ratRef:getIcon()))
--item:DoParam("DisplayName = "..tostring(ratRef:getDisplayName()))
item:DoParam("DisplayCategory = "..tostring(MassRatConverter.ratRef:getDisplayCategory()))
item:DoParam("CustomEatSound = "..tostring(MassRatConverter.ratRef:getCustomEatSound()))
item:DoParam("StaticModel = "..tostring(MassRatConverter.ratRef:getStaticModel()))
item:DoParam("WorldStaticModel = "..tostring(MassRatConverter.ratRef:getStaticModel()))

[quasi kernel]

Ground items are indistinguishable since I set the models.

Stuff in your hands may appear normal, may not, really depends.

[fast galleon]

I'm sure I'm gonna see rats tonight when I sleep...

[quasi kernel]

tbh no idea why the -1 end index works but I dont question it

[fast galleon]

not sure it does

[quasi kernel]

It erroring?

Cuz it doesn't really do anything on my end, it just kinda exists.

[fast galleon]

no errors, just does nothing since you don't use get

[quasi kernel]

[fast galleon]

my thought is that loop does nothing because it doesn't work with indexes, but maybe I'm wrong

[quasi kernel]

Code seems redundant anyhow, too lazy to clean it up despite having just released the mod.

[fast galleon]

I assumed you tested it and needed it

[red tiger]

Am thinking about a map & mod idea from a couple years ago that I had about combining nuclear fallout with PZ and making a map of Fukushima.

One day..

Have yet to try STALKER mods for PZ.

[molten raft]

hey guys! does anyone know where can i find the file that describes the propane BBQ? i can't find the items.txt file that describes it, it only found the mov_redBBQ which it's the charcoal one, but i don't know how the game spawns them.

[ancient grail]

@red tiger you know how to determine if a square is safehouse or non pvp zone?
i you might know cuz of faction with friends

[drifting ore]

i'm honestly surprised that code i gave you doesn't do it

there is only two methods i see for getting it

one is based on the tiles themselves. i wonder if it requires a loop to check for other things also

[jaunty marten]

getSafeHouse?

getNonPvpZone

checked source, it looks fine

what's the problem with that?

[tame mulch]

It's not item, it's moveable tile

[ancient grail]

ow i fogot i already fixed that sorry and thnx

local x,y,z = getPlayer():getX(), getPlayer():getY(), getPlayer():getZ() 
local sqObj = getCell():getOrCreateGridSquare(x,y,z);
print(SafeHouse.getSafeHouse(sqObj))

[drifting ore]

did it not pull anything?

ohhh i see

nice

perfection

today may just be the day i finally release this lol.........

bug testing was a @#$%#