mod_development

[frank lintel]

stares...

[sour island]

You can technically

You can parse scripts in Lua as a string if you really hate scripts

[frank lintel]

sorry I was just watching a video on YT and seen that face when the ? was asked and I just lost it

[sour island]

you can also define items specifically I believe

[glass basalt]

i just need to define an InventoryItem to replace one that is in a vehicle

for example: there is a "metal" trunk barrier that separates the interior of a Humvee from the trunk. I want to replace it with a "net" trunk barrier that can used instead

i could just give the player the item but i need this to work server-side

nvm, i don't want to do it anymore

[sour island]

the mod?

[glass basalt]

the removing and adding of the item i was referring to

misunderstood what it was

[humble oriole]

So, I'm removing items from an inventory, and they get removed from the container, but after a few server ticks if any players that didn't start the timed action that removes the items opens the inventory, the items come back, then they come back for all players. So they're not actually getting removed. Has anyone seen that before?

[sour island]

You have to use removeFromServer

Just dealt with it

There's a whole slew of shit you have to do to properly remove an item

[sour island]

If you check around the transferTimedActions you'll see them

You may need to check it's not in the player first

[humble oriole]

biowastecontainer:removeItemOnServer(item)
biowastecontainer:requestSync()

ISInventoryPage.renderDirty = true```

and on the server side I'm running isohbg:sendObjectChange("containers")

[sour island]

Haven't used that one before

[humble oriole]

it may not be necessary

[sour island]

My issue was with removing items from containers and players returning to the chunk later and the item would be there

So it sounds similiar

[humble oriole]

yea, it's probably the same

[sour island]

I also made it so the item has to be within the player to do the function too

Atleast for some behaviors

[humble oriole]

oof, I didn't even think of that, I'm having the player put the item(s) in a container and they're doing a timed action

[sour island]

Could be done from the floor?

[humble oriole]

you're saying to transfer the items to the floor and remove them there?

[winter coral]

Can anyone help me with some hair modding ?

[sour island]

No I'm saying don't allow floor or other containers to be the source - would eliminate a lot of issues

[open drum]

Hello fellows I am trying to learn more about ModData

[sour island]

You can also force a transfer if one of these is the case

[humble oriole]

it happens when from player inventory

[sour island]

That's good then

[open drum]

could anyone help me where I can learn more about ModData???

I tried to find it on Forum but no info comes about it

I want to see how datas are stored in it

and whether the data is stored infinitely

Since I now many mods store their data such as "player money, level, etc" in it

I want to open it up to see what is being stored and how data is being processed

does opening ModData . class show all the mod datas that is being stored currently in dedicated server?

[humble oriole]

Would this do anything?

[open drum]

i would just use onclientcommand event

to remove items from players inventory

if that's what you are trying to do

[humble oriole]

nope, that's easy, trying to remove items from a world container

[rancid panther]

back. time to continue trying to get the immunity chance to work

[open drum]

sounds difficult

[rancid panther]

i got a lot of help from ppl here. now i am just applying their advice and also seeing what works

[open drum]

Do you use ModData as well in ur mod?

[rancid panther]

yes that is what im trying to do

trying to use ModData to make sure players only get tested once for immunity

[open drum]

Can you explain how ModData work?

like how do people you it? or how can I edit what's in ModData? since i can just open the file

and edit it

[rancid panther]

i have no idea. i am a novice modder

[bronze yoke]

moddata is a table that saves - it has no other special properties

[rancid panther]

i use function(playerIndex, player) and then do the thing

[bronze yoke]

the two types of moddata are object moddata and global moddata:
object moddata exists on most IsoObjects and you can get it using object:getModData()
global moddata is sorted by key instead of object, you can get it using ModData.getOrCreate("key")

[rancid panther]

do i need to put my events in a certain order? when i added new events im trying to work with it makes bitten trait not appear in the traits list

should i put them in order by when they should happen in the actual game?

[open drum]

Thanks, so if I have a mod that saves player money amount on my server

[rancid panther]

or does it just mean i made a mistake in the rest of the code

[open drum]

how would I retreave their datas?

just use loop and getModData()?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, you'd have to check the mod for what the table structure is exactly, but something like local money = player:getModData().money

[open drum]

i see...

and the data that are stored in the list is infinit till altered ?

[bronze yoke]

yes, it never expires or anything

[open drum]

and does it have any .txt file or .class where i can open it externally?

[bronze yoke]

global moddata is stored in a separate file but it's not human readable afaik

[open drum]

i see

[bronze yoke]

i'm not sure where object moddata is stored but probably with the objects themselves, however that is done - so very unlikely to be human readable

i think there's a debug tool for examining global moddata though

[open drum]

ugh.. how much i wish i could just open its file and see all the data stored in it...

a mod called "online trade" saves players trading items and money in a mod data

but ther's no simple way to remove the items from the player uploaded items

so i was trying to understand how mod data work to see if I can just wipe out the player uploaded item data

from the moddata

thanks Albion, ill try to Loop and see if I can start something from there

[rancid panther]

can i start an if statement with if not?

[bronze yoke]

yes

[ancient grail]

@humble oriole ```lua
item:getContainer():removeItemOnServer(item);

or 
```lua
item:getContainer():DoRemoveItem(item);

i think

[bronze yoke]

they're already using that

[ancient grail]

ow ok

[rancid panther]

oh wow i was using else if but changing it to elseif made the trait visible again

[humble oriole]

                        if isClient() then
                            biowastecontainer:removeItemOnServer(item)
                        end

                        biowastecontainer:DoRemoveItem(item)

                        if item:getWorldItem() ~= nil then
                            item:getWorldItem():getSquare():transmitRemoveItemFromSquare(item:getWorldItem());
                            item:getWorldItem():removeFromWorld()
                            item:getWorldItem():removeFromSquare()
                            item:getWorldItem():setSquare(nil)
                            return
                        end```

found the last half of that in a debug script

[rancid panther]

i should just test from here before doing anything else then

[bronze yoke]

if it's spaced, you need two ends

if it's spaced you're essentially writing```lua
if condition then
--code
else
if condition then
-- code
end
end

[rancid panther]

ah

so with elseif, it is like an "otherwise" statement

[humble oriole]

Also threw a biowastecontainer:setDrawDirty(true) instead of ISInventoryPage.renderDirty = true

[rancid panther]

oh wait

or i actually just needed the second end

i see

but elseif can be used without it

[bronze yoke]

using elseif is usually better

[humble oriole]

it's more common as well

[bronze yoke]

when you use else if you're creating two new scopes, which usually isn't what you want

[rancid panther]

i see

does this work? also is this the right way to do local player support?

[bronze yoke]

if you're passing playerIndex and player into that function then it probably isn't needed

[rancid panther]

oh

so only local functions?

[bronze yoke]

i'm guessing this on OnCreatePlayer

[rancid panther]

yea

[bronze yoke]

for that OnCreatePlayer tells us which player is being created, so we don't need to grab all four players for it

[rancid panther]

okay

[bronze yoke]

if it was EveryTenMinutes or something, that doesn't pass a player so we'd loop through all four players

[rancid panther]

so i can remove that for my bitten trait as well

[humble oriole]

After further testing, it's this guy that's making the sync happen correctly biowastecontainer:setDrawDirty(true)

[bronze yoke]

really?? i thought that was just a ui thing

[humble oriole]

same, but the only changes I've made is an if isClient() and that DrawDirty

to be clear, this didn't work ISInventoryPage.renderDirty = true

[open drum]

do .modData store boolean as well?

or only string and numbers?

[bronze yoke]

yes, any lua type except functions and objects

[open drum]

gotcha thanks

[open drum]

How do i get server time using getSeverTime()??? What is the proper way to call its function?

I know the function is in GameTime . class

So i thlught just typing getServerTime() would return long number but debug shows i tried to call a nil

[rancid panther]

try print(getGameTime())

[open drum]

I tried a= getGameTime()
Print(a)
And this produced nil error

Would just doing directly in print make diff?

I guess trying wouldnt hurt haha

[bronze yoke]

GameTime.getInstance():getServerTime()

[open drum]

Wow... why is gametine.getintance()? While spawnzombienow is using .instance??

[bronze yoke]

i don't really get why, but GameTime.instance gives you a buggy instance

even though GameTime.getInstance() should do exactly the same thing

[wooden lodge]

Sup my brothers, how does one make the "unboxing" spawn more than one of the dollar bills randomly?

local WalletL={"Base.5DollarBill", "Base.5DollarBill", "Base.5DollarBill", "Base.5DollarBill", "Base.5DollarBill", "Base.10DollarBill", "Base.10DollarBill", "Base.10DollarBill", "Base.20DollarBill", "Base.50DollarBill", "Base.100DollarBill",}

Wallet = function(items, result, player)
    player:getInventory():AddItem(WalletL[ZombRand(0, #WalletL)+1])
end

(And yes, there's multiple entries of the same note to make them more common)

[open drum]

I see.. so confusing.. ty for ur help

[rancid panther]

TomaroTrait.newSubject = function(playerIndex, player)
    if not player:getModData().tested then
        if player:HasTrait("Immune") then
            player:getModData().tested = true
        elseif player:HasTrait("Bitten") then
            player:getModData().tested = true
        else
            player:getModData().tested = false
        end
    end
end

using this information, can i use if player:getModData().tested = false to do something to the player and then set it to true?

i'll try coming back to it later with a new angle

[ancient grail]

@faint jewel was looking for client clock know anything abt that albion

[bronze yoke]

wdym

[ancient grail]

Clock

Sorry typo

[rancid panther]

at least i was able to make the bandage spawn on the player for my other trait

[ancient grail]

Like time zone

Of the client

[bronze yoke]

os.date if it is available in pz

a lot of the os lib isn't but os.time is

[ancient grail]

Cool hope he sees this

[worthy pendant]

Hi there! Very new to modding in that I've downloaded them and used them in game, but never made my own. I would like to change that 😛 So where do i start? I have my idea for my first simple mod I want to make, but where would be best to go and learn? Any and all help is appreciated and cheers in advanced ❤️

[rancid panther]

read pins in this channel
also in User/Zomboid/mods there is an examplemod folder that you can use to help set up your mod folder

also look at other mods and have an idea of what you want to do

[worthy pendant]

look at other mods, like just in general?

[rancid panther]

look at a mod similar to what you want to do

i wanted to make a mod that added traits with items, so i looked at banjo's item kit traits

for example

[worthy pendant]

so if i wanted to do something that added a small inventory, i'd look at backpacks for example?

[rancid panther]

if it is for a bag, yea

a small inventory within your player inventory?

[worthy pendant]

ye, kinda 😛

I want to add pockets to pants 🙂 its a nothing burger of a first mod, but I wanted to try something i thought would be simple.

[rancid panther]

try looking at mods that add pockets to things too

there are also some mods that add a bag within a bag such as smokin joe's rucksacks

[worthy pendant]

I'll look into that! Cheers 😄

[fast galleon]

vests with pockets by PA

[worthy pendant]

thank you! 😄

[ancient grail]

is there a way to check if an event is running

[rancid panther]

omg i think i figured it out

inb4 i hit another wall

[glass basalt]

poor man's solution: add a function with a print statement

[rancid panther]

true

that's how i've been figuring out if my shit works

(as of today)

is there a way to change the status of ModData back to a certain state?

for example, my thing when it tests if ur immune, it does player:getModData().tested = true

i wanna test it multiple times in a row but it only works when player:getModData().tested = false

oh okay i got it

IT WORKS!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHA

now to make it take time to find out if you are immune

[open drum]

by the way GameTime.getInstance():getServerTime() also shows nil error

[open drum]

YAY

[open drum]

GameTime.Instance:getDay()

[rancid panther]

now im gonna do some work to separate them so i can have the test happen at every hour while still letting immunity work instantly

[open drum]

interesting

[rancid panther]

i'll try to understand making it skip hours later

so i could make it a 5 hour wait after being bitten for example

[open drum]

GameTime():getIntance():getDay() no good either

GameTime.getIntance():getDay()

is this tsarzones mod conflict?

[fast galleon]

@humble oriole
have you tried the global command before, to send the server items to clients?
sendItemsInContainer(IsoObject,ItemContainer)?

*doesn't look good for syncing

[humble oriole]

I haven't, I saw it, but I didn't know what it did. I restructured my code doing most of the work on the client side and setting the container to dirty which seems to have fixed it

[fast galleon]

if it works, don't mess with it

[humble oriole]

It worked in testing, we'll see what it does on the live server, 4am on the east coast so most people have logged for the night

[rancid panther]

ok it wasnt working so i reverted to something that works for now

how can i make two of my own trait mods compatible with each other without requiring the other?

can i do this?
since i already have it contained within the bitten trait? or would it cause an error if a player isnt using a mod with that data?

or would it just return a nil and then ignore it

okay well it at least works while in the same file

[fast galleon]

player:getModData().tested is compatible with all mods, but also not compatible in the sense that tested could be anything that a mod considers to be a valid tested value

it's too generic

[rancid panther]

okay i will change it to something less generic

but thanks for also verifying that it would be compatible

[rancid panther]

okay now i added something so it will give you the immunity trait if you are already bitten and not infected, but you havent been tested for immunity yet

and at first it was causing 6-12 errors every time i tried to reset the test data to false and remove the trait, but now i can reset the status of a player without causing any errors at all

[open drum]

function ISZoneDisplay:updateData()
    local gameTime = self.gameTime;
    local climateManager = self.climateManager;
    local season = climateManager:getSeason();
    
    
    self.timeOfDay = gameTime:getTimeOfDay();
    print(self.timeOfDay)

i found this in vanilla

[rancid panther]

nice work

[open drum]

they use gameTime

but still

gameTime:getTimeOfDay()

is bringing me nil

Well...

GameTime:getInstance():getNightsSurvived()

This worked

GameTime:getInstance():getServerTime() but this doesnt

so.. i guess the return value of getServerTime() is diff.

[fast galleon]

this looks like a static, try
GameTime.getServerTime()

[open drum]

This worked

maybe i need to study more about static..

[rancid panther]

can i make it so a function takes time before it continues?

like a wait 1 second or 1 hour

[open drum]

i think so

it returns server time in long numbers

like that number after Server

so i guess one can record its number and use it to one's taste

[rancid panther]

got an issue now

the player body is not infected at the exact time they are bitten, so it makes them immune if i try to give them immunity if they have an uninfected bite

could be solved by adding time between the check, but idk how to do that

i want to keep this, but the player is considered not infected since it happens so quickly

i also tried with just checking if any body parts are infected

[wheat kraken]

maybe you can try event every one minute, 10 minute,

and use in game time or users time, to only proceed if greater than specific time

[rancid panther]

i tried those events but it makes the function not work at all

so i cant do that until i learn how to separate the immunity check from removeinfection

i guess i can put a pin on it and just not have existing immunity compatibility for now

[wheat kraken]

to be able to work in different moment, continues from where i stopped, i used an instance approach

check the firetrail.lua, maybe can help you to call and keep state

to the nexts ticks

[rancid panther]

kk thanks

it is kinda late and my neck hurts so i should take a break

[wheat kraken]

i suppose that the function didnt works, because was not saving the previous state, that was not trivial when i was trying to do this

[rancid panther]

my code is probably full of flaws so it is understandable if u dont have the same issues as i

[wheat kraken]

to me happens easily to be a new state (empty) when triggering the mod code later

[rancid panther]

i might add some separate mod data that is able to operate on timed intervals instead

[wheat kraken]

true

that can be done too

[rancid panther]

and then plug those into the immunity test instead

[wheat kraken]

but, moddata dont work with objects

i read some of this

[rancid panther]

like the player?

[wheat kraken]

only primitive values

[rancid panther]

mine is related to the player

if they are bitten and they are not infected, then can't i add mod data to create an override the same way i have a bitten trait add player data that says they are bitten?

[wheat kraken]

here

[rancid panther]

ah

but i was able to store bitten information under the function for the bitten trait

or is it because it was done OnCreatePlayer?

would not be able to do the same if i wanted something similar for EveryHours?

well anyway, i will try tomorrow or something. thanks!

[wheat kraken]

im not sure

[rancid panther]

i'll probably end up trying it anyways

i've attempted much more sacreligious things with my code

[chrome egret]

Muchas gracias

[viral notch]

[rancid panther]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2941971399

updated to have 2 versions!

[chrome egret]

With valueTranslation being used in that way, does it make sense that the "translation" field could be omitted?

[chrome egret]

Ah, no, from SandboxOptions.class:

public String getValueTranslation() {
            return this.valueTranslation != null ? this.valueTranslation : (this.translation == null ? this.getShortName() : this.translation);
        }

As well as

public String getTranslatedName() {
            String var10000 = this.translation == null ? this.getShortName() : this.translation;
            return Translator.getText("Sandbox_" + var10000);
        }

[frank elbow]

Yeah, the translation field is used for the sandbox option name on the sandbox options screen

[ancient grail]

I love how you drop it with spoiler and shiz

[ancient grail]

Congrats

[ancient grail]

Im curious what was the msg? Hehe

[rancid panther]

thank you!

[fast galleon]

it was same function, just with extra steps to make sure there are no errors.

Did you figure out the ItemPicker reset? @ancient grail

[ancient grail]

Havent started with that.. we still have bunch of queue

[wheat kraken]

there is an easy way to show text on screen? like display fps does?

[ancient grail]

OnPostDraw i belive ? I forgot wait let me check

On post ui draw

@wheat kraken

[ancient grail]

Tho gravy gave me permission to use his work as reference but jist not take everything which we dont want to do that anyways we just need the getter function

[rancid panther]

they way i have my trait now, it does all the checking within the immunity trait function

i could probably make an event for all of it to happen outside of the trait function, add a wait period, then create mod data for true or false immunity. and then use only the mod data to deliver the message

[ancient grail]

Give the ability for doctor to check if other player is infected

[rancid panther]

that sounds like a p sick idea actually, but i'll have to put a raincheck on that for now

[ancient grail]

Will increase the likeliness of players wanting to use that proffession

Sure

[rancid panther]

then it would only require something like if player:getModData().immunityConfirmation == true then
or if false

[ancient grail]

Its hard to do i bet

[rancid panther]

i dont know anything about modding with skills, so im focusing on what i can do atm

still havent even bothered with my own sandbox options

but honestly, checking if another player is immune sounds like the highest incentive for first aid i've heard.

[worldly olive]

That would require something like:
Click on other player
Click on context menu for check
Walk to other player
Face the other player
Do a TimedAction to make it beautiful
After TimedAction is finished you can display a message of infected or not infected

[rancid panther]

yea and all while operating within my own immunity trait's parameters

[worldly olive]

But you wouldn't just need to check what you mentioned above?
if player:getModData().immunityConfirmation == true then
or if false

That can be done in the perform of the timedaction

[rancid panther]

but that might be another reason why i should try using ModData instead of putting all my if-then conditions together

yea

if i do it that way, i think it would actually be great for many reasons

[inland trellis]

I'm working on custom animations, they are working but the movement speed of the player seems timed to the animation in some way. Some of the animations are incredible slow and the walk animation freezes the player in place.

Anyone have any ideas? I've been stuck on this for days and can't proceed.

[rancid panther]

could be easier to implement new features as well as for other ppl to add their own mod compatibility

thanks for the brilliant ideas!

i havent tried anything outside of traits and occupations yet but it sounds like a great venture

[worldly olive]

A while ago I was doing a code to interact with trees and be able to get branches from them. The code sequence seems pretty similar, instead of checking if it is an IsoTree what you're clicking it should check for an IsoGameCharacter I think.

[rancid panther]

i see

[worldly olive]

I'm in my working PC so I don't have the code here but later if you ping me I can give it to you and you see if it works for you

[rancid panther]

i was actually thinking of doing things with the health panel anyways

that could be on the list of things i can do

ok thanks! i am actually going to bed but i like brainstorming

i'll take your recommendations to heart tho!

going from the most basic immunity trait mod with no extra features to a fully fleshed out mod with all kinds of complex features

[rustic garnet]

What are you using to be able to get intellisense?

[chrome egret]

ayyy

The script parser seems a little clunky since it apparently requires a trailing comma on the end of a property definition (at least for options)

i.e.

option ItemSearcher.SearchMode
{
    type = enum,
    default = 1,
    numValues = 3,
    page = PZISTitle,
    valueTranslation = PZISSearchModeOptionValues,
    translation = PZISSearchMode, -- trailing comma required!
}

[wheat kraken]

there is a way to know if user click the pause button? there is SpeedControlsHandler.lua for key inputs only

where is the onclick lua for it? and for joypad too

solved:

local spcontrol = UIManager.getSpeedControls()
local isPaused = spcontrol and spcontrol:getCurrentGameSpeed() == 0

[meager dawn]

Hey !
I'm looking for a way to bind "/say" command and i wonder if i need to tweak my game's folder to do so?

Like... When i press "L" key, my char say "Hello !" Without opening the tchat, do you have any info about that?

Ping me for answers, i don't have notification on

[frank lintel]

Okay serious question, if there something in any of the java code that can be improved. there anyone/where it can be submitted to? ie like a git pull request..

[tame mulch]

You want improve vanilla java code?

[frank lintel]

if that means PZMath etc if I see something I'd like to offer to do so for like review. yes I wouldnt mind doing so.

[tame mulch]

You can do suggestion on tis forum and maybe we will improve java code by your idea

[frank lintel]

okies, would you have a link that would be the right forum. only asking havent looked at them yet.

[tame mulch]

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/forum/20-pz-suggestions/

[frank lintel]

tyvm

[ancient grail]

xml

[red tiger]

I have a project for adding to the client's Java code so that's an option.

I shelved its release because project-priority was overtaken by things you see me mention in here periodically.

[frank lintel]

I was more just looking for a place to offer improvements to whats there if I come across them just didnt know where to offer it at.

[red tiger]

Ok.

[royal rose]

If pz is written in Java, would be possible to write mods in kotlin?

[red tiger]

Yes. I wrote my anti-cheat patch in Kotlin last year.

[inland trellis]

Not the animation speed right?, the walk speed.

[tame mulch]

yes, but players will need put files manually to game (not possible easy share mod by steamworkshop)

[ancient grail]

the rig has abone called translatedata

it actualy governs position

[inland trellis]

I hate that^

A lot

Spent 3 days ;-;

[ancient grail]

you can just translate the move ment or just keep it still

also the xml is what actually controls the whole behavior

meaning you have the raw file setup but will still be subjected to changes made by the xml file calling it

[inland trellis]

I have an XML configured, but I was just staying completely still when I should be moving, and moving when I shouldn't be

I was totally lost

[ancient grail]

i suggest you take peek at how masking animations work... the thing is called aim with torch left hand or something like that

but the character isnt actually aiming at all

its just the left arm which is being manipulated so in short your animation file isnt really doomed you just lack 1 more step

[ancient grail]

yeah just move the translate it will work

[inland trellis]

Cheers. That did it.

[ancient grail]

you almost gave up?

[inland trellis]

Nah, I have a group of guys counting on me lmao

[ancient grail]

share the mod link when youre done 🙂

[inland trellis]

Absolutely

It's going to be a hilariously fun addition if I can get it working to our expectations

lmao

[cunning canyon]

New update for Save Our Station from @steep cloak , adds sandbox options and temporary interruptions in addition to the existing fatal faults: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2398274461

[steep cloak]

Mhm, been a blast working on it over the last few weeks :)

More to come in the future!

[lunar carbon]

question, how i can use the full WaterPot in a recipe without changing it for Pot when use all water?

[ancient grail]

@nimble spoke @winter bolt https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2944937297
mentioned you guys

🫡

ooops typo let me correct that

[nimble spoke]

Hey, good to see you got that working

[boreal garnet]

i need help in adjusting the rarity of items from a mod

i have no prior experience with modding PZ

[glass basalt]

which mod

[boreal garnet]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2940632310

[glass basalt]

in the mod files, go to media\lua\server\items\ and look for a distributions file or something like that

[boreal garnet]

already found it

[glass basalt]

send it here and I can divide all of the spawn rates in half

to get a feel

[boreal garnet]

into the chat?

[glass basalt]

yeah just drop it

[glass basalt]

alr gimme a min

[boreal garnet]

would be cool if you could teach me what numbers to edit

[glass basalt]

alr

you are editing the actual numbers

currently i am dividing them by two

[boreal garnet]

do the numbers have to add up to something?

[glass basalt]

no, it is simply a weight on the "roll" the item gets

basically 100 is 100% and 1 is 1%, but they are not actually percentages, and work relatively

a loot table with only one item that is like 0.0001 will still spawn that item every time

[boreal garnet]

oh i see. i might actually run with the halved rarity too

since i was gonna reduce it anyway

[glass basalt]

reducing it in half is always a good start

[boreal garnet]

are you gonna finish it or do i do it myself

[glass basalt]

im like 40% of the way through atm

[boreal garnet]

oh cool.
can you teach me how i can make it a "patch" unlisted workshop thingie?

[glass basalt]

that was the next thing I was gonna ask you

yeah

[boreal garnet]

u a cool guy

thanks for your time

[glass basalt]

you give me a reason to procrastinate on my own mod 🤣

[jaunty marten]

no pic no click

[glass basalt]

finished

to make a patch, go to C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid\Workshop

and copy the ModTemplate folder, and name the copy whatever you want

[boreal garnet]

done

[glass basalt]

go into the new folder you made and go to media

also rename the second ModTemplate folder to something else

in Contents

[boreal garnet]

done and done

[glass basalt]

delete everything in media. you don't need it

make new folders like this: media\lua\server\items\

you are basically copying the folder structure of the Umaboid mod

to double check, are the Umaboid distributions in items? sometimes mods don't do that

[boreal garnet]

they are in Items, yes

[glass basalt]

okay good

now put the new lua file into items

what you are basically doing is replacing the entire file that Umaboid uses for your own

in mod.info, you need a require line to safeguard the mod from running before umaboid itself

lemme find the mod id, brb

okay, in mod.info, add this line above description:
require=UmaBoid

that is the mod id of the umaboid mod you linked

now you can change whatever you want in mod.info, maybe add an authors=Souv line, and you are ready to upload the mod thru the game

[boreal garnet]

i see

may i ping you if any questions arise?

[glass basalt]

it is also ready for you to use in-game, you don't need to upload the mod and subscribe to use it

sure

i recommend testing it out before you upload. maybe it is still spawning too much

now, back to text editing Tsar's translation files...

[wheat kraken]

hey, you from the future, if you are looking a boolean to be true when climbing over fence, you are looking for this

character:isCurrentState(ClimbOverFenceState.instance())

character:isStrafing() --aiming and walking

[wheat kraken]

today i release a new mechanic, that disables pause in-game and replace it to slow motion, you can pause only on menu (ESC),

you can shoot, aiming, loot, climb fences in slow mo
No Pause, Reifel's Slow Mo instead
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945021187

if zombies gets too close the slow mo is turned off

[rancid panther]

lol. nice

is the zombies getting close to you a limitation of the program or intentional? cuz it would be kinda badass to swing an axe at a zombie in slow mo

[fast galleon]

how do you group / position the description like that?

[wheat kraken]

the table one?

[fast galleon]

you can make tables?
*found it

[red tiger]

Steam has their own markdown.

[wheat kraken]

[table]
[th] headers
[tr] rows
[td] data

[cunning canyon]

How much of a pain is it to add new fonts to project zomboid? I want to experiment with some both in typical UI panels and in the Map

[viral notch]

[red tiger]

It's a little bit of a bother, however you can do this.

Look up "AngelFont"

The UI draw API doesn't support custom fonts however the font object you load can be called and drawn manually onto the screen.

This is something I suggested to @tame mulch To add API support for UI draw calls.

Since I've seen this brought up multiple times in the past month or two, I'll spend tomorrow making a guide for doing this.

[cunning canyon]

This is very helpful info, please ping me when you've got the guide ready!

So for putting custom font on a map, i'd be good to go, if I wanted to put it on a UI panel, I'd need to manually draw the images and lay them out and handle any kerning etc my self?

Is that about right?

[rancid panther]

would be cool to kill zombies in comic sans

[cunning canyon]

Nevermind, don't tell us how to do it, it's been ruined

[glass basalt]

Riko Prushka has released quite a few font mods, I'd look at those

[tawdry solar]

hey i have an issue with my mod

it doesnt spawn ingame

but its in the lootpool

the item is ingame too

[fast galleon]

I've been trying to see how much slower a coroutine is and it seems to have unnoticeable effect. I'm going through an ordered table and doing a) everything in the same function, b) use closures, c) use coroutines.

*increasing table objects vs loops shows coroutine disadvantage.

[glass basalt]

what is the size of your test pool

[glass basalt]

ProceduralDistributions["list"]["string"] is wrong

[tawdry solar]

how come?

this is the same system another modder told me about

it works fine for him

[glass basalt]

local containerData = ProceduralDistributions.list[containerName]

table.insert(containerData.items, itemName)

[tawdry solar]

hm?

[glass basalt]

follow this format

[tawdry solar]

why that one though

if it works the same for another modder why doesnt it work for me

[fast galleon]

small potato 😅

[glass basalt]

because it is not ["list"], it is .list

[glass basalt]

it can't be working for another modder, the syntax is incorrect
unless they are not doing it on Build 41.78

[rancid panther]

can i make immunity a 0% chance using zombrand by doing if ZombRand(99) <= 0 then ?

[tawdry solar]

hm

[fast galleon]

these are the same

[glass basalt]

in Kahlua?

[fast galleon]

Lua, Kahlua

[tawdry solar]

if it hadnt work it would be brought up in his commetns

[glass basalt]

well then I am not sure why your item doesn't appear

What is the module of your item?

[tawdry solar]

i forgot where that is

[glass basalt]

Roundmeal will work if it is Base.Roundmeal

[tawdry solar]

i havnt worked on it in like a month

where do i find modual

[glass basalt]

in the scripts folder

where you defined the roundmeal item

[tawdry solar]

this?

[glass basalt]

yeah do MM_roundmeal.Roundmeal

[tawdry solar]

so that was the issue?

[glass basalt]

maybe

test it

[glass basalt]

btw your icon name here has a typo

Does anyone know how the game assigns a color to a vehicle when it spawns?

Or where, specifically.

[tawdry solar]

hm?

wym

@glass basalt

[glass basalt]

roudmealtexture
Double check that your icon is named the same, in case you are having issues with it

[tawdry solar]

oh damn

[glass basalt]

ah well at least its working 😂

[tawdry solar]

i actually havnt tested it yet

ill get back to you if it does/doesnt

@glass basalt it spawns now

but changing the icon name fucked it up

[wheat kraken]

alpha test release No Pause, Slow Mo mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945021187

[glass basalt]

did you rename the icon and the icon name in the script file

[tawdry solar]

the script file

there both the same

[glass basalt]

ah no, you don't need item_ in the script file

that is for the PNG file only

[tawdry solar]

mhm

ty

[glass basalt]

what I meant by typo is that it should be roundmealtexture, not roudmealtexture

or better yet roundmealicon if you want to follow naming conventions

[ancient grail]

mortart mod WIP spotter animation

[tawdry solar]

what does it do?

[ancient grail]

mortar mod Exploding animated tiles

[ancient grail]

it destroystuff

[tawdry solar]

i somehow missread it as spotter animation

like your spotting smth

did you make the rpg mod btw?

sprites look similar

for explotion

[ancient grail]

yeah thats not yet implemented.. the animations for the character fkd up for some reason idk wwhy but atleast the tiles work

[ancient grail]

nope

[tawdry solar]

it looks good tho

[tawdry solar]

ah

[ancient grail]

but i made these tilesheet digipainted it

[tawdry solar]

thats why it looked similar

[ancient grail]

imade a photoshopbrush long ago that makes fire effects easy to do so i used it

[tawdry solar]

oh thats cool

improved the icon

it used to be a shitty shitstain of a picture

is there a way i can add crafting recipies to like cut it in half

[glass basalt]

you'd need to add another item that is essentially "half" of that

[tawdry solar]

im gonna do that

im coding a new item rn

[glass basalt]

but since it is food you can technically already do that. you just eat half, but it remains one item

[tawdry solar]

i dont want to cut it in half

i want to add new items to it like a stir fry

[glass basalt]

you could add it to the recipe that makes stir fry, if that's what you want to do

[tawdry solar]

thats what ill do

[glass basalt]

Made a mod that changes up the names in all of the Tsar mods
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945062151

[rancid panther]

does if not player:getModData().immuneTested then mean if .immuneTested is false, or if it is nil?

would it be better to do if player:getModData().immuneTested ~= nil

[ancient grail]

Ouch that might hurt iBrRus dont you think?

[glass basalt]

It might, in which case I'll respect his wishes if he does not appreciate it

[tawdry solar]

time to do the stressfull part

modeling

[tawdry solar]

best to do so

i mean i wouldnt want somone using my mod

for there own mod

[glass basalt]

It requires the mods it edits though

[rancid panther]

can i use mod data to set an integer?

[glass basalt]

iirc mod data is just a table. you can set anything in there

[rancid panther]

so the same way i did true or false, i could set it to 0? and then when the event occurs again, it can increase by 1?

[bronze yoke]

moddata is literally just a table that saves, not sure why everyone expects it to have crazy properties

anything you can do with a table you can do with moddata

[tawdry solar]

this is the best im gonna get for a jar when im tired

[rancid panther]

i dont know coding at all. i am just taking information bit by bit

[glass basalt]

its the solution to attaching information to an object, as opposed to using global variables or your own object

[tawdry solar]

i dont think it looks half bad tbh

[glass basalt]

pretty high res tbh but that's a nitpick lol

[tawdry solar]

ah

[glass basalt]

it doesn't matter, the game handles everything for you

[tawdry solar]

i just used cylenders

ill decimate it

[ancient grail]

you are doing great .

[rancid panther]

i will just make something and then i'll ask if it makes sense

[glass basalt]

that do be how we learn, I ask dumb questions all the time

[tawdry solar]

we do all start somwhere

i had no clue how to code like 6 weeks ago

and now from a really sleep deprived night

i can sort of code

[bronze yoke]

i think the java method to grab it throws people off, but moddata is a completely normal lua table

[glass basalt]

would scanning the moddata off of an object and printing it be a smart idea or will it flood the console

[bronze yoke]

i doubt any one object would have a crazy amount of moddata

[tawdry solar]

@glass basalt is this better?

[glass basalt]

yep

[tawdry solar]

thanks man

time to line it up

[bronze yoke]

so that should be fine

if you have a lot of mods players might have a bit but not too scary of an amount

[rancid panther]

can i make something be true/false but also have a number value at the same time?

so i dont need to make a bunch of labels for starting the testing process and then during the testing process?

[glass basalt]

not a normal variable. either use two or make an object

[bronze yoke]

i'm not sure what you mean by that

[glass basalt]

like myThing["bool"] & myThing["num"]
for a table

[rancid panther]

immuneTested = false
immuneTesting = 0

[bronze yoke]

you can test things like if player:getModData().immuneTesting == 0 then

[glass basalt]

yeah just change immune into a table and have tested and testing as two parts

that too

[rancid panther]

ohh so immune.Tested and immune.Testing?

[glass basalt]

if you want, but like what albion said, use as little variables as possible, check for the variable itself

[rancid panther]

i see

[glass basalt]

just quality of life and cleaner

[rancid panther]

cuz i need both for different things (i think)

[glass basalt]

unless you need to store like a boolean outside of a function, i'd use only one there

[bronze yoke]

if they're separate entirely then yeah you need both

[frank elbow]

What are the different things?

[rancid panther]

i need immuneTested so that it stores information if a character is immune or not
and i need immuneTesting so that it will tick every hour until it reaches a certain stage that it can trigger to complete the test

[ancient grail]

If you use

if not var then
Its going to check for false or nil
So thats better than actually using ==
Unless u want to look for false or nil specifically

[rancid panther]

i think for that particular situation i would want nil

[bronze yoke]

seems better to keep them separate then

[rancid panther]

ok

i will show what i have when i finish something

[tawdry solar]

how do you texture glass lmao

best i got

[ancient grail]

Just opacity

[frank elbow]

#modeling people may know better? I couldn't tell you

[tawdry solar]

ah alr

[tawdry solar]

how?

or am i too tiered to understand if that was directed at me

[ancient grail]

Decrease opacity on the png of your UV output

It was dw

[tawdry solar]

oh ok

[tawdry solar]

of my png in my editing softwhere?

are

ware

or blender

[ancient grail]

But omar is 100 right
You will get better answer from modelling asking modeller than here asking coders

[tawdry solar]

alr

my model is invisable

oh nvm

the modu was wrong

hm

still invisible

ahh

this is pissing me off

[rancid panther]

in debug?

[tawdry solar]

no

the worldmodle

model

[rancid panther]

my bad, yeah i read some more context

[tawdry solar]

its all the same

fuck discord autocrop

[rancid panther]

true

[nova socket]

Question for million bux: How do you guy serialize and store data about specific vehicles on the map?
My trouble is that I somehow need to have control over vehicles regardless if they are currently loaded into some square or not

setVariable/getVariable is a permanent thing for objects?

Anyways still trying to figure the optimal way to even return vehicles when they load

That's the biggest issue so far.

[bronze yoke]

i think the init lua function on parts is called every time they load

[nova socket]

More specific?

Is that event or?

OnSGlobalObjectSystemInit ?

[bronze yoke]

no, the lua functions the part scripts point to

like oncreate functions for recipes if you are familiar with that

[hollow lodge]

perhaps I might get more attention here. No spam intended, just sharing, check it out
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945060824

[nova socket]

lua function part scripts?

Recipes is abstract thing and onCreate is an event called within that layer

When vehicle is an IsoObject? that has to be constructed, but alas reliable way to create one is call /addvehicle from server that doesn't return the vehicle itself, as example.

I can create vehicle, but I don't see any proper event or hook on how to return and serialize one.

Probably have to create some event listener myself, loop vehicles and check the list size for changes I dunno

[bronze yoke]

if you just want them on creation hook Vehicles.Create.Engine

but if you need it every time they load you need an Init function, there isn't one for engine in vanilla but another part's might work

[sour island]

Vehicles are one of the systems in desperate need of more exposing and more events triggers

[bronze yoke]

the exact part is irrelevant - i just go for engines since every vehicle has exactly one and they can't be removed or anything

[rancid panther]

does EveryHours work in lua/shared?

even when i make something as basic as a print statement it doesnt do anything

with EveryHours, EveryTenMinutes etc

i think im misunderstanding the concept of the event as a whole

[bronze yoke]

it should

[mortal widget]

oh my god finally yes

[rancid panther]

at the end i have Events.EveryTenMinutes.Add(testingProcess)

[true vault]

Question
Any way to accurately detect what kind of grass is being targeted when a player uses the Remove Grass action?
Specifically, need to be able to differentiate between long, medium, short grass 'clumps' being removed.

[small topaz]

Does anyone knows whether adding the modifiers like "(Cooked)", "(Fresh)", "(Rotten)" etc. to food is controlled somewhere via lua code? I am trying to add a new modifier into brackets but all I am able to do up to now is this:

Would prefer if the "Poisonous" is in the same brackets as the other modifiers.

[nova socket]

shared is the same namespace as client and server its not even divided between them and you need to do isServer() checks or etc.
The only difference is that shared is load order, shared is loaded first AFAIK

[bronze yoke]

this is how i have done something similar:```lua
local metatable = __classmetatables[Literature.class].__index
local old_getName = metatable.getName
function metatable.getName(self)
if getNumActivePlayers() == 1 and Literacy.PlayerHasReadBook(getPlayer(), self) then
return getText('IGUI_ReadIndicator', old_getName(self))
end
return old_getName(self)
end

[ancient grail]

Nope . U would have to makr a table and pick the grass manually

[true vault]

Could you... elaborate on that?

[bronze yoke]

in vanilla those tags get added during the java Food getName() method, so this is the best way of replicating that

some names get swapped during a lua function (like mushrooms being renamed to poisonous mushroom) but you can't hook into it easily (changing the name before that function does nothing, changing it after causes problems) so even if you're doing that i would recommend doing it this way

[rancid panther]

okay it now works with EveryTenMinutes

now i gotta make the results work again

[true vault]

This gave me hint towards it, thank you ^-^

Now I just need to figure out which sprites count as short, medium, and large, then make arrays/tables and check each against the detected sprite lolz

[rancid panther]

okay! now i just need to squash errors!

im getting an error whenever i try to undo the results, which didnt happen before

[ancient grail]

You can look at tile zed and count off the grass . Alternatively you van use ingame tilepicker
To spawn and when you right click the copy tile will indicate the tile name

You can also install community api
I belive rightclicking will instantly show you the name

Or you can write a function that copy to your clipboard

Just dont forget that tile sheets array starts with0 and always have _ added to the sheets name

Sample my tilesheets name

Mortar

So the first sprite would be
Mortar_0

Thats the left thing on the sheet

Goodluck

[pine yacht]

Hey! New to PZ modding and ive read through a lot of things on the pzwiki Modding page and I'm a little bit confused atm. A lot of it has different sometimes conflicting info, some havent been updated in a really long time and some link to interesting but seemingly abandoned Java modding projects like Storm which if they still work I assume wont with B42 anyways if nobody is maintaining.

Is there a good single source that will get me started with fundamentals and also some of the more advanced possibilities of modding in PZ that is current? Been just reading through existing mods and base code so far.

Bonus points if it covers best practices and project structuring/build tools and such

[rancid panther]

reversing effects errors are now SQUISHED

now i gotta make sure it actually works when i change it to everyhours

[ancient grail]

#1070852229654917180 message

@pine yacht

[ancient grail]

Give an example of conflicting info

[pine yacht]

Thats still the same big list of stuff I was talking about. I see it links to the Fenris guide specifically which I was reading and it seemed solid

[ancient grail]

For tools
#1070858800501891172 message

Fenris is up to date

His is very active and has recently got employed by TIS

[pine yacht]

Okay thanks yeah, maybe conflicting info was the wrong way to put it, except the stuff about Java and that Storm project, idk if thats still anything

[rancid panther]

works

[pine yacht]

It was just an overwhelming amount of sources that all phrased stuff differently

[ancient grail]

The wiki is up to date
Aiteron updated it . Like a huge update.

[rancid panther]

players have to wait 5 hours until they know if they are immune or not

[ancient grail]

Yeah diving into something new always feels like that. But the thing you would want to do first is build a simple mod
Thats it
Then after that you feel a sense of achievement to push higher

Then just go for the next bigger thing

[rancid panther]

now i wanna add something that will make them increase stress while they are waiting for results

[pine yacht]

Yeah I'm not new to modding in general, I guess just used to the resources being organized a different way or somethin idk

thanks though the fenris one definitely seems like the one ill reference back to

[true vault]

@ancient grail right, right.

I actually have the action outputting the sprite name to console at the moment, so I'm not worried about getting the name; I'm moreso just looking at the names going: "these are not logically named at all" lolz

The names come out to e_newgrass_1_x with as you said x indicating their position on the tilesheet. They're just... all mixed together aha

[pine yacht]

and the tools

[true vault]

😓

[ancient grail]

Its ill-advised to try and do big or complex stuff first time around cuz you wont know for sure if what youre doing is working or not . But this is just general advise. Im mean i only said this cause you mentioned "overwhelming amount of sources"
Phrased diffrently..

In the past
our problem was lack of documentation..

Frustrated to know where we can find stuff
Now its gathered and alot of people made guides and tools
Everything is alot easier i bet

[ancient grail]

You can organize it for the community if you want..
Thats what we do . We see something we dont like we improve on it everyone benefits from it

[pine yacht]

oh yeah, I'm not making anything big off the start. Just that I expect to get comfortable pretty fast and obviously have bigger sights than just an item or two

im still new to the community 🙂 maybe with experience

[true vault]

Between the Java docs, the wiki for the modding section, and Daddy Dirkie Dirks YouTube vids, it's been.. okayish learning, IMHO

[pine yacht]

oh yeah, lots of info available. my main thing was some is updated last 2-4 years ago so I wanted to double check

some of the forum posts etc

[bronze yoke]

the java modding scene is very small, you won't be able to find much help there

[pine yacht]

I definitely am disappointed about the lack of Java modding, but it def seems not worth the hassle trying to get in to it

[bronze yoke]

this server is one of the biggest resources for modding really

[pine yacht]

mmhm I figured it might be

[true vault]

Fun thing; age of information is somewhat irrelevant to accuracy. I've looked up stuff even in this Discord and tried it, even though t answer was from like 2016... and it worked haha... others from like not even a year ago, sometimes don't.

[pine yacht]

when i first played zomboid it was pretty different, just came back recently that was mainly why i wasnt sure how much would be accurate

but you are right

a lot of info is good for years no problem

[true vault]

...it also doesn't help that sometimes the things I'm looking up aren't even something anyone has done since like 2013

[bronze yoke]

there's a fair bit of pervasive misinformation, so it's possible some of the stuff you tried just never worked LOL

[true vault]

For example, not being able to dynamically generate things upon map load...

Didn't do it exactly as I had thought, but I have a working system, minus the objects generated being interactable, but that's more of a problem with the other mod itself, rather than the generation system.

General consensus though is that it isn't possible.

And yet, here I am, doin the impossible I guess 😛

[bronze yoke]

how are you doing that? loadgridsquare?

[pine yacht]

my outlook on modding is that nothing is impossible

[true vault]

mhm, alongside the squares ModData to check if that square was already processed or not

[pine yacht]

just depends how much work u wanna do

[true vault]

Thereby reducing the overhead by running that check first

[bronze yoke]

the reason i often claim that that's impossible is because most people mean to literally place the objects as a one-and-done thing when the map loads, which just isn't possible

[wide oar]

Question.

[true vault]

Yeah, that's true enough; though I wonder if that'll change with the b42 updates

[wide oar]

if i have a bunch of materials that have no texture and are just colors, would that work in zomboid or would i need to create textures for zomboid to use

[bronze yoke]

most things that are impossible are possible to fake

[true vault]

The layer itself is called a texture

The colours are your texture layer; you would export that layer with the colours as a png, and use that as the texture in the model definition.

[wide oar]

no, i mean that i literally have zero texture files

no pngs, no dds, nothing

Wtf would i do with that, given that Zomboid requires a .png to be named and specified (its location) to be used as a texture?

[wide oar]

Okay

How do i export all of them at once into one png XD

[true vault]

Well, I'm guessing that answer will be based on how your particular app you're using handles exporting layers.

Roughly speaking, you would combine them into one layer in whatever way your app allows that, and export that one layer.

I can't guide much more than that though; the few models I've made are either edits of existing ones, or, very simple ones where I only used one layer with a solid colour in the first place (stack of five stones for example).

That discussion might be better suited for #modeling

Def more people that know modeling there >.>

Dunno how many of them check this channel lolz

[ancient grail]

You export the UV right?

[ancient grail]

Ye

[wide oar]

How would i do that?

[true vault]

Why can't we have e_newgrass_short_X for example? lolz

[ancient grail]

You can if you make em

[ancient grail]

#modeling they should know

Im not a modeller sorry idk tbh
I just know that thats the process but i havent done it

[true vault]

Well crap... there's 90 different tiles in the newgrass tilesheet...

[rancid panther]

how does this look?

can i have some personal opinions about the panic, stress, fake infection levels, and the % of immunity and time it takes to get results?

i'll also probably do sandbox options for it in the future

and also organization. how does it look in terms of that?

[glass basalt]

I have no clue how far this is gonna fly, but we'll see

coming soon

[rancid panther]

pog

would be nice to add support for custom maps on the server version too

[glass basalt]

tbh the server version is still a big mystery to me, I use the vanilla one more than it

[rancid panther]

the server version is specifically for adding mods to a server

[glass basalt]

what boggles my mind is that the first time I made my changes - everything worked, magically

[glass basalt]

yeah

[rancid panther]

it's not super well made cuz u cant look at previews or use presets you made in the other version

so i have to cope by giving all the mods im gonna use in the server a tag so it is easy to copy the list

[glass basalt]

everything is locally stored, would be an extra PITA to transfer files automatically but it could've been all stored in Mod Manager for the server

[glass basalt]

there is a way to transfer lists, no? its on the page

[rancid panther]

oh ur right

i've been doing it the hard way all this time

[true vault]

https://tenor.com/view/sacha-baron-cohen-great-success-yay-gif-4185058

LOG  : General     , 1678516075848> Grass Length: long
LOG  : General     , 1678516080081> Grass Length: long
LOG  : General     , 1678516083481> Grass Length: long
LOG  : General     , 1678516086830> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516088614> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516091714> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516096464> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516098599> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516101123> Grass Length: short
LOG  : General     , 1678516106498> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516108514> Grass Length: short
LOG  : General     , 1678516110615> Grass Length: short
LOG  : General     , 1678516113131> Grass Length: short
LOG  : General     , 1678516115631> Grass Length: short
LOG  : General     , 1678516117531> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516159648> Grass Length: short
LOG  : General     , 1678516163314> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516166262> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516168348> Grass Length: short
LOG  : General     , 1678516170515> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516172800> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516175930> Grass Length: medium
LOG  : General     , 1678516178048> Grass Length: long

[rancid panther]

i have deleted so many saves of characters standing in a pool of blood

from testing, and breaking my immunity mod so many times

[ancient grail]

I was asked to convert my treee despawn code to grass despawn code.

Yeah luckily there was a removegrass function forgot what it was called
Other wise ill be in your position like categorizing grass and not the herbal kind

[true vault]

mmm... all that was literally just to determine the range to be used, to give the player "grass clippings" when they remove the grass lolz

Literally a "harvest some grass" function, based on length of grass removed

[ancient grail]

function despawnGrass(rad)
    local pl = getPlayer()
    local x, y, z = pl:getX(), pl:getY(), pl:getZ() 
    for xDelta = -rad, rad do 
        for yDelta = -rad, rad do 
            local square =  pl:getCell():getGridSquare(x + xDelta, y + yDelta, z)
            for i=0, square:getObjects():size()-1 do
                local obj = square:getObjects():get(i)
                local args = { x = square:getX(), y = square:getY(), z = square:getZ() }
                sendClientCommand(getPlayer(), 'object', 'removeGrass', args)
            end
        end
    end
end
-- paste this code on debug console and it will despawn the grass around you configure the radius
--sample:
despawnGrass(5) 

It was this one

Wrote for our modding servers admin debug tools

[rancid panther]

surpassed 100 lines on my mod

big boy modder now

[ancient grail]

I thought u wre a girl ..

[rancid panther]

im non-binary. big boy is an expression

[eternal garnet]

Evolved into binary code

[rancid panther]

i am now binary 😂

[eternal garnet]

😂

[glass basalt]

Made an update to one part of Mod Manager that I personally needed:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945221351

[rancid panther]

im thinking next i can add something like a dialogue line for when the immunity test results are in

[bronze yoke]

player:Say("I'm immune!")

[minor mauve]

Hi guys, quick question, is there a way to ignore "BodyLocation"? im developing a mod that adds more cosmetics, and i want to make my own "BodyLocation" so i can prevent cosmetics to be worn at the same time but also made some compatible to be worn at the same time, hope somebody can help me!

[rancid panther]

other mods that want to add a bunch of cosmetics just use the Ring slots

[rancid panther]

is it rly that simple?

or just a joke

[bronze yoke]

it is that simple

[rancid panther]

wow

will other ppl hear your character say it?

[minor mauve]

Thank you @rancid panther i'll use the ring slots

[bronze yoke]

i think Say is clientsided

[rancid panther]

ah

[bronze yoke]

it's what vanilla uses for stuff like the dialogue when you try to read a book you're too high level for

[rancid panther]

ah

i'll add that along with sandbox options next time i work on it then

[minor mauve]

just wondering, which mod adds a bunch of cosmetics? i was looking but i cant find anything, so i started developing mine, but maybe the job is already done?

[bronze yoke]

though if you want it to be translation friendly (even if you don't plan on translating it yourself, other people likely will) it's better to put it in a translation file, and use player:Say(getText("NameOfTranslationString"))

[rancid panther]

idk, but the undead survivor adds feathers that go on the ring slot even tho they are on the head, and there was another mod for hair ribbons or something

[rancid panther]

ok thanks i will probably do thay

[minor mauve]

thank you!

[rancid panther]

np!

[ancient grail]

say is lcient side only

[fast galleon]

#1075939080287834113 message

[wheat kraken]

im looking for that! can i help/join the development phase? amazing concept of cctv

[wheat kraken]

---

in No Pause, Slow mo mod
about the slow mo turning off when zombie getting too close
(that causes the current incompatibility to melee fight in slow mo) i suppose that is a game limitation hardcoded or run a code in a place that i dont manage to find yet, to reset all game speed modifiers to default value

if someone knows a clue, hint to solve that incompatibility or change that behavior, let me know please (in any ways, dm me, respond this, comment, mention me...)

[fast galleon]

A not advised solution for these situation is to reset the change OnPlayerUpdate, OnTick. Not sure if it will work here, but you could try.

[zinc nexus]

what does that mean?

[fast galleon]

quantum computing vs standard computing probably. For anything else, use other channels.

[thick karma]

Do OnCreatePlayerand OnPlayerDeath fire on the server?

Or is one or both of these exclusive to client?

[red tiger]

If they are exclusive, you can always make a server command.

[red tiger]

Also.. Good morning!

[undone elbow]

How to check that a player is invisible? I guess this should work...

local function isInvisible(player)
    return player:getAccessLevel() == "Admin" or player:isGhostMode()
end```

[thick karma]

Is there an easy command to get the number of days since the outbreak began?

[ancient grail]

I love how you handled that

Hey its star how are you

[modern hamlet]

Can someone point me a good direction to how does server respawn the items? I want to respawn items only in a selected area.

[ancient grail]

Where can we find the mechanics for throwables
Like what if i want to make the projectile go straight ?

[ancient grail]

Use lootzed

Go debug chest . Its second to the last

Then right click on the icon

[wheat kraken]

amazing mods do you have! star

can i talk to you later in dm about excrementum reuse in new concept?

i love your releases
sandbox in game
simple status edited: (you partially participation)
read while walk
mod options
always favorite

[undone elbow]

Simple Status is not really mine, I'm just leeching credits.

[wheat kraken]

aah okay

@undone elbow are you still open to have excrementum reapplied in a new context? / code reused for new feature

[undone elbow]

I'm not sure what you means

[wheat kraken]

can i dm you?

i was planning to talk to you, after i watch the last of us

i think today is the day

[rustic garnet]

How do you guys intelissense with PZ? So you can se the functions and get the colors in the editor etc?

[worldly olive]

Visual Studio Code

[worldly olive]

IntelliJ

https://github.com/Konijima/PZ-Libraries

This is also a must

[frank elbow]

I don't think admins are necessarily invisible, but I'm unsure. I'd assume the isGhostMode bit would suffice

[undone elbow]

Thanks! I guess player:isInvisible() is the right function...

[rancid panther]

invisible is invisible to players

ghost mode is invisible to zombies

to my understanding

[undone elbow]

Ghost mode is for silence and going through objects. But in my tests toggling invisible mode doesn't work, and toggling ghost mode toggles invisible mode too.

I guess it's a kind of the game bug that may be fixed in the future.

[rancid panther]

there is a noclip mode separate from ghost mode

[frank elbow]

Do you mean lore-wise (dunno), or since the world began (getWorldAgeHours in GameTime)?

[thick karma]

Preferably lore wise

But world age hours might help me generate an estimate

Thanks regardless

[sour island]

Oh I had to do this for EHE

Gametime has start month/day but you still have to grab the sandbox option info for "months since apoc" and do some math to get it accurate/supporting of that option

Let me grab the snippet

---Check how many days it has been since the start of the apocalypse; corrects for sandbox option "Months since Apoc"
---@return number Days since start of in-game apocalypse
function eHeli_getDaysSinceApoc()

    local monthsAfterApo = getSandboxOptions():getTimeSinceApo()-1
    --no months to count, go away
    if monthsAfterApo <= 0 then return 0 end

    local gameTime = getGameTime()
    local startYear = gameTime:getStartYear()
    --months of the year start at 0
    local apocStartMonth = (gameTime:getStartMonth()+1)-monthsAfterApo
    --roll the year back if apocStartMonth is negative
    if apocStartMonth <= 0 then
        apocStartMonth = 12+apocStartMonth
        startYear = startYear-1
    end
    local apocDays = 0
    --count each month at a time to get correct day count
    for month=0, monthsAfterApo do
        apocStartMonth = apocStartMonth+1
        --roll year forward if needed, reset month
        if apocStartMonth > 12 then
            apocStartMonth = 1
            startYear = startYear+1
        end
        --months of the year start at 0
        local daysInM = gameTime:daysInMonth(startYear, apocStartMonth-1)
        --if this is the first month being counted subtract starting day date
        if month==0 then
            daysInM = daysInM-gameTime:getStartDay()+1
        end
        apocDays = apocDays+daysInM
    end

    return apocDays
end

@thick karma

There's probbly a cleaner way to do the math part of it

using daysInMonth you also account for leap years and such (I believe), but more importantly months with 30/31/28 days

[thick karma]

I seeeeee thanks a lot, I'll check this out

[winter coral]

Does anyone know what grow reference is in the Hairstyles lua ?

[worldly stone]

we modified the procedural distribution to exclude an item. it does not appear in the list of possible items and yet it still spawns frequently. i only had to reroll the loot twice to get this item. what could be causing this?

[wet sandal]

Anyone got a flow chart for Timed Actions?

[fast galleon]

You're probably removing the item after ItemPicker starts, so you see the change in LootZed which uses the Lua table, but not the actual parsed Java tables.

[worldly stone]

is there a solution?

[dark wedge]

I'm assuming you're looking for the order of which things run. Not sure if there's a list out there, but here's my understanding of it.
After you new it and add it to the stack:
isValid() -> [begin() -> create()] -> isValidStart() -true-> waitToStart() -loop until true-> start() -> (while running - update() and animEvents() are called) -> perform()
There is also forceComplete() which will result in perform() being called regardless of time left
forceStop() will call stop(), stop() is also called when the action isn't able to complete after it has started for other reasons.
the begin() and create() probably shouldn't be touched, why i wrapped those in brackets.

hope that makes sense. ha

[wet sandal]

forceStop() will call stop()

Thank you, that exactly what I needed

So something like this: TimedAction flowchart

[dark wedge]

yup!

[rancid panther]

anyone know the translation naming format for when i want a player to say something?

[rancid panther]

when i did
player:Say(getText("UI_immunetrait_Messages_Immune"))
and changed that to say something in EN, it still made them just literally say "UI_immunetrait_Messages_Immune"

there must be some kinda naming conventions cuz sometimes not following the naming convention will end up with the file or translation not being used

[vast nacelle]

This is what I have for one of my mods.
self.character:Say(getText("IGUI_PlayerText_FSDissectEureka" .. (ZombRand(3)+1)), 0.55, 0.55, 0.55, UIFont.Dialogue, 0, "default");

The ZombRand is just to select between IGUI_PlayerText_FSDissectEureka1, 2, and 3

[rancid panther]

what is ur local definition for self.character

[vast nacelle]

This is in a timed action, so it's just the player object

[rancid panther]

ah

i'll try IGUI_PlayerText then

or was it something that didnt matter for you? what does your translation file look like?

[vast nacelle]

IG_UI_EN.txt:

    IGUI_PlayerText_FSDissectEureka1 = "Hmm, I see...",
    IGUI_PlayerText_FSDissectEureka2 = "Thank you for your contribution to science.",
    IGUI_PlayerText_FSDissectEureka3 = "Your death wasn't in vain.",
}```

[rancid panther]

Hmm, I see...

Thank you for your contribution to modding.

[small topaz]

when defining a new item, is it possible to give it an empty space as a display name in it's script.txt entry?

[wet sandal]

I've never tried but you could try a non-breaking space

dang, dsicord ate it

If the game isn't letting you use a space I'd try this instead
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00A0

No clue if it'll work

[fast galleon]

technically, no. You need to use setDisplayName in Lua, the parser ignores any value you out in that line.

[frank lintel]

that moment you get a 3% gain in execution speed and wonder if its even worth it.

[rancid panther]

i might try an alternative approach to the immunity thing

[frank lintel]

as in immune to Z?

[rancid panther]

yes in my mod

[frank lintel]

cheat mod I use basically just has it on a constant event curing ya

not that Im saying thats good either.....

[rancid panther]

i made it so they are technically not immune until after they wait for the results of a bite

but i could make it so they are already immune the whole time but won't know until they are bitten

for immersive reasons

[frank lintel]

me I'd look see if making an event when they bit if that was possible

then ya can work it from there.

[rancid panther]

i already made a working mod that does this all, but you gain immunity 8 hours after the bite, rather than on spawn

meaning that even if you would have ended up immune, if u die before the results, you will become a zombie
and you also have infection symptoms the whole time, meaning that once you become immune u lose the symptoms and the infection

[frank lintel]

well makes sense immunitt isnt something instant

[rancid panther]

hmm ur right

the other thing was that it would be easier to implement a doctor test if they already have a hidden immunity tag

[sour quest]

Does there happen to be more reference sheets like this? As someone who is new to PZ modding I think this would be a great help!

[wet sandal]

Not that I know of, I made that jsut now while working on a mod

[rancid panther]

when/if i were to add that

[frank lintel]

dunno how much of a help but on that front check out superb they got a healthcheck thing you can do to the NPCs

[rancid panther]

thx

im just airing out my thinking process

[vast nacelle]

Could be good to add it to the wiki somewhere

[frank lintel]

all good I been digging in .class's

[wet sandal]

Yea I was thinking that. I'd want to fancy it up a bit and prove the flow with a test first though.

[sour quest]

If for whatever reason you make more, is it fine if you share them here? If not, that's fine, too. Just think lots of people would benefit.

[wet sandal]

Ye I'll share!

[meager lion]

Does anyone know of a way to detect when/what a player is eating?

[vast nacelle]

Eating is a timed action, so you can override a function of the timed action to check/do things. e.g.:

function ISEatFoodAction.perform(self)
   if self.item:getType() == "Whatever" then
      --Do Something
   end
   originalEatPerform(self)
end```

[plucky fjord]

I'd like to find a way to create a mod for zomboid where I can create random events like the car crashes, random tents on the side of the road n shit but idk where to learn how to do that from

would that be done through mapping?

[meager lion]

Thank you!

[small topaz]

Is it possible to change a script.txt parameter for a single item of that type? For example, for a specific food item which is already in game, I would like to change the script value
IsCookable = TRUE
to
IsCookable = False
without affecting all other items of that type? One idea would be trying to use smth like item:doParam(string) but this command seems only be defined for the class "item" and not for "InventoryItem".

[bronze yoke]

InventoryItem:setIsCookable(false)

there's no doparam equivalent and some rare values are just read directly from the Item but most things have a setter

i wouldn't expect a lot of stuff like this to be persistent though

[small topaz]

oh thanks! I already checked the javadoc searching for such a command but must have overlooked this. now I see! many thanks!

[small topaz]

persistence isn't an issue for me. I use it just temporary and restore the original value shortly afterwarts.

[glass basalt]

I'm having an issue embedding images into the Steam Workshop mod page description, specifically the mod permissions images with Spiffo. Does anyone have an updated version of what the embed should be?

all of my embedded images appear as broken images (the broken image icon specifically)

it seems that image embeds have to be from tenor or imgur. That's so stupid

or not. I'm so confused

[glass basalt]

Okay, I solved this dumbass problem myself. Here is an Imgur link with all of the images and their Steam Workshop embeds ready for you to use.
https://imgur.com/gallery/YI54Od0

[old crescent]

Hello, what line of script does spawning percentage customization in mods

[glass basalt]

distribution files

[old crescent]

in LUA?

[glass basalt]

in \media\lua\server\ for items and \media\lua\shared\ for vehicles

\items\ if it is items and \vehicles\ if it is vehicles nvm

[old crescent]

I delete all the script?

I want to make the book not spawnable in the world

[glass basalt]

yes, but I recommend putting --[[ at the top of the file and ]] at the bottom to comment them out (makes them useless)

you still need the file to exist if you are making a patch

[old crescent]

like this ?

[glass basalt]

yes

[old crescent]

got it thanks.

[chrome egret]

ItemSearcher modes 🙂

[glass basalt]

Do you think it'd be possible to include regex searches? 🤣

[undone elbow]

How to play anim not in action?

And not by using emote.

[small topaz]

yay:

[frank lintel]

make your search method/string a public value then one can set it on the command line

[runic creek]

how would I get a list of all the safehouses on the map and who owns them

[true vault]

Can anyone confirm if the devs have in fact stated they plan to add archery to the base game?
I'd rather not spend too much time on working on parts of the mod I'm doing now. if I can skip archery-related stuff and have them do most of the work instead :p

[bronze yoke]

i don't know if they've explicitly stated it but it'd seem like a really silly omission with b42's goals

[true vault]

I mean, that's a fair point.

Welp, I'll adapt one of the existing mods for now for my purposes, and drop archery support entirely once they have it in the base game; or alter it if needed, when that drops.

[glass basalt]

Fixed KI5's mods to only use one crafting category:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945800750

[wide oar]

question

how do you get custom gun sounds to work

i have these all set up but it seems to be ignoring only the fire sound

no errors in my log regarding the gun itself

on a side note, its transparent, but only on one side. this isnt the case in blender, so im not sure whats happening here. does anyone know a fix for that, as well?

the game seems to be ignoringa ll my custom souinds

i dont understand why???

i made a gun mod a while ago and the sounds on that one work, so i genuinely dont understand why it would be deciding to ignore my gun sounds. >-<

[rancid panther]

i rewrote my mod so players are now immune or not immune on spawn, but they will be fake infected if they are bitten, until they examine the bite for long enough

when i get time i can create an actual action to make them examine the bite rather than just standing there for 4 hours waiting

[wide oar]

k i fixed transparency

was a texture size error

now does ANYONE know why the sounds aren't working? ._.

for reference

thats what it should sound like

and then this is what it does sound like: ^

that and it seems to error when i shoot zombies

but they still die

so theres the two things i need answers too 😭