mod_development

[rancid panther]

movie sacrifice moment

[sour island]

Could let you hold zombies for others to attack too

[rancid panther]

i like the idea of being able to hold back zombies for a solid minute while everyone else runs away

[red tiger]

I can see a lot of Shaun of the Dead references incoming.

[rancid panther]

not for realism but for cinematic moments

[red tiger]

Throw CDs and tools at zombies lol

Or sit down and game with a zombie.

[sour island]

Tying zombies down would be great

Also zombies climbing through cars...

[red tiger]

I always thought that was simply a missing feature.

Would be nice to have volume with dead corpses to build walls out of.

Not enough sandbags.

Right now corpses stack like items.

A lot of potential for the next few builds. :D

[sour island]

That's true

Placed items in world are given a Z I believe so you can stack cans

Or am I imagining that?

Would be cool if zombies ragdolled into mounds

The flatten to 2D is an odd but impressive feature

[red tiger]

Can't wait to see PZ's take on MarioKart.

[jaunty marten]

I want to rotate world items in all axis

[sour island]

For placement or?

[jaunty marten]

yea, really want to create mod to rotate item as u want and for example to put up some weapon on wall

[slender saddle]

I'm looking to commission a map modder to build a custom city for my server. Looking for quality work. Not cut and pasting from other maps or vanilla maps. Must include ingame map literature can loot with the proper colors for the different types of building, boxes spawning proper loot, both vehicle and boat spawns, and obviously zombie spawn heat map areas. Please PM me if you are interested and a quoted price for your work. Thank you.

[fast galleon]

you might want to mention this in #mapping as well

[slender saddle]

Thanks I will

[sour island]

Hung weapons would be rad, I sort of wish the furniture and items were a bit less disjointed

[worn juniper]

making roadblocks out of them, chaining them on the road while they're still alive to block people off and if they get too close they get grabbed and eaten 😋

[twilit rune]

Silly questions time. How to make more then 4 seats in a car?

[worn juniper]

cant make it with the van?

[twilit rune]

What do you mean?

[frank lintel]

Dunno if it exists but likely referring to vans with 3rd+ rows of seats

[red tiger]

@worn juniper Although very rough lift-off, I've began work on VSCode support.

I'm going to be learning a lot.

[worn juniper]

:OO I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

MWA MWA MWA MWA MW

[tawdry solar]

can somone help me with my code? i have no clue why my model wont show up but i think its the code

[red tiger]

Working for you guys. 💃

[tawdry solar]

module Base
{
    model MODNAME
    {
        mesh = models_X/spring-club,

        attachment world
        {
            offset = 0.0000 -0.1660 0.0070,
            rotate = -180.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
        }
    }
}

thats my code btw

[red tiger]

Hehe.. that's script. 🤓

[tawdry solar]

oh well

[worn juniper]

im currently repainting my ceiling red since i am a big dumb guy and i shoot myself in the head each time my thing doesnt work

[red tiger]

All good. I can't help ya. Don't know it.

[tawdry solar]

oh well

[red tiger]

Others might.

[tawdry solar]

oh

[worn juniper]

and i hope the thing you're doing can help my current situation

[tawdry solar]

i got it

smh

i didnt write my modual name

[worn juniper]

making golf stuff?

[red tiger]

I'll try to make a decent extension.

[tawdry solar]

and that too

[tawdry solar]

me?

[worn juniper]

just make it so just ONE function works and ill be happy

[red tiger]

Heh. I already have a huge library for importing / exporting ZedScript as txt and JSON.

Just isn't for VSCode.

It isn't ready but it prints clean ZedScript.

[tawdry solar]

gonna be 100% honest with you i forgot what zedscript means

[red tiger]

That API is deeply defined, not a shallow, generic parser.

[tawdry solar]

but im curios

[red tiger]

(Was replying to Bri)

[tawdry solar]

curious

ik

[red tiger]

ZedScript is what you're writing.

[worn juniper]

Yes

[tawdry solar]

so just the code

[tawdry solar]

oh no

[red tiger]

ZedScript is the .txt files.

[tawdry solar]

its a ww1 weapon

[worn juniper]

the day i earn money i will send ALL OF IT to you as a thank you

[fluid ibex]

what's a good place to learn lua?

[red tiger]

Heh. People post commissions in here periodically. (Not asking lol)

[tawdry solar]

i dont think this uses lua

[fluid ibex]

the game?

[tawdry solar]

thats for the distributions

[red tiger]

The game does.

[fluid ibex]

the game uses lua

[tawdry solar]

even the scripts?

[red tiger]

You can mod PZ in either Lua or TypeScript.

[fluid ibex]

yes

[tawdry solar]

i thought that was another type of code

[fluid ibex]

well where should I learn, I've been stuck researching this for 2-3 weeks

[tawdry solar]

ask here

thats what i did

usally you get answers

[fluid ibex]

I thought you just contradicted that, and I also just asked here, which you replied to.

[worn juniper]

doesnt typescript needs like 3 different things to be installed first?

[tawdry solar]

no i meant ask your issues here

[worn juniper]

nvm then npm and then only typescript

[tawdry solar]

and i never contridicted what i said

[fluid ibex]

well yes, that's what I did

[red tiger]

I wrote PipeWrench which is why you can write mods using TypeScript.

[fluid ibex]

the way you responded implied that you were speaking about lua

[tawdry solar]

i think im saying this in a shitty way

if you have a specific issue i would ask here

[worn juniper]

I was speaking about the initial installation of TypeScript

[tawdry solar]

my model is still invisible smh

[red tiger]

Yeah if you have a npm project you're good.

npm i

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

<3

You need NodeJS, Typings, and the TSTL transpiler.

[worn juniper]

idk allof that

[sour island]

Anyone know how/if a GitHub action could be used to generate an image onto the repo? I want to make a changelog image using provided text on the same repo.

Not sure what terms to even Google for - I keep finding something called docker images

[dark wedge]

You want to make an actual image? like a png? That would require you to generate that locally with like ImageMagick or something I would think. There are a bunch of github actions available to just generate a text changelog based on commits, tags, and other things.

[sour island]

I was thinking of an image I could leave up on my workshop page

Since I disabled comments I can't drop changes there

I don't care if it's just text - although if I could provide a background that would be more ideal

[red tiger]

Reminds me of what I use PlantUML for work and personal stuff.

Not for your needs but yeah.

ImageMagick is a industry-standard CLI.

[dark wedge]

The only way I could think of doing this would be to use a post-commit script in git that created an image using ImageMagick (IM) from text that you passed in. IM lets you specify a base image, background/text colors, etc. Not sure how to do this on anything other than a bash shell. ha

[red tiger]

Github Actions?

[sour island]

Oh?

[red tiger]

I don't know GitHub Actions however someone special set this up for PipeWrench nightly builds.

[sour island]

I assume the actions are scripting(?)

I have stuff for uploading to the workshop - but it was already done

[drifting ore]

Do someone know why the model of my item is the model of the open book ? I want the close one

module VehiclesJournal
{
    model VehiclesJournal
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/Book,
        texture = VehiclesJournal,
        scale = 0.4,
    }

    item VehicleJournalItem
    {
        DisplayCategory = Literature,
        Weight    =    0.1,
        Type    =    Literature,
        DisplayName    =    Journal,
        Icon    =    VehiclesJournal,
        StaticModel = Book,
        WorldStaticModel = VehiclesJournal,
    }
}

[worn juniper]

have to make a whole tutorial video on how to use pipewrench :c

[red tiger]

I know I know I know

Been so busy.

The white paper for it is outdated however I can link it.

[worn juniper]

its okay im very patient with code stuff

dont even bother

[red tiger]

Too late

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

That paper details the reasons why I chose to invest 7-8 months of development into it.

[hollow shadow]

try< to change the "StaticModel"

[bronze yoke]

use mesh = WorldItems/BookClosed,

[red tiger]

Isn't mesh a URI?

[drifting ore]

Worked like a charm, thx

[wide oar]

question

how do you get multiple texture choices for furniture

    <textureChoices>Clothes\Coat\hidan1</textureChoices>

as a example, im guessing that wouldntw ork

since textures for world models (placables) look like this

    {
        mesh = WorldItems/NecoArcModelBig,
            texture = NecoArcTex,
    }```

[red tiger]

This is helpful for reading pasted text and / or script.

[wide oar]

do you know how to do multiple textures for furniture, @red tiger?

[red tiger]

Nope. I'm a tools guy.

[wide oar]

.<

[red tiger]

I fill a very niche spot in modding. =P

[wide oar]

well

from my ctrl + F serach

its hard

so the easy route is to just make

100 items with different colors lol

[red tiger]

Oh item icons? Yeah that's actually going to be supported in 42.

Not atm.

You have to make separate items right now.

[wide oar]

i mean like, actual items themselves that use different textures

like iw ant one item, but instead i need to create hundreds of the same item in the same file that just has a different texture designation lol

[humble oriole]

Is there a difference between OnTest vs OnCanPerform?

Customizable Containers has multicolored crates you can builds

they're also like 10 different sizes

[jaunty marten]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Recipe_Script_Guide#OnCanPerform

tbh I just read that and didn't get difference

[bronze yoke]

the most significant difference is oncanperform is unimplemented

it doesn't do anything ^^

it never gets called

[jaunty marten]

XD

huge difference

[humble oriole]

err? It's used in Vanilla

    {
       PotOfSoup/PotOfSoupRecipe,
       Bowl=4,

       Result:SoupBowl=4,
       OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.MakeBowlOfSoup4,
       Time:80.0,
       Category:Cooking,
       OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.None,
        OnCanPerform:Recipe.OnCanPerform.SliceCooked,
    }

[jaunty marten]

nope, just checked java

calls

[bronze yoke]

my bad i was thinking of something else

[ancient grail]

on perform alters the stuff i think

[humble oriole]

OnCooked? lol

[jaunty marten]

@humble oriole we're detectives now, partner

[humble oriole]

hmm

[bronze yoke]

they pass different parameters

[red tiger]

Finally off of work. Now I can work on VSCode extension.

[frank lintel]

might be bit off topic but since we got techie's here figured ask first. anyone got experience in mirroring HD's and getting the copy to be bootable?

[red tiger]

Has to be same chipset motherboard family IIRC.

Then you use partition tools that allows you to mirror.

So you can't mirror a OS disc from an Intel chipset and expect it to work on an AMD chipset.

Also you will likely run into license key issues.

I will not discuss that here because it can easily get into discussion involving illegal activity.

[frank lintel]

mirroring isnt the issue its getting it to be bootable, drive already mirrored (literal mirror copy partitions and all...)

[red tiger]

Hmm ok

I'm not too technical on this one.

[wide oar]

question

    {
        DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
        Weight          =    20,
        Type            =    Normal,
        DisplayName        =  Comically Large Sus (Red),
        Icon            =    sus_icon,
        WorldStaticModel =   SusModelBig,
        Tooltip         = SUSUSUSUS RED SUS EMERGENCY MEETIGN AHHFAESHEWSHEHSGESJH HELP AHHHH,
    }

    model SusModelBig
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/SusModelBig,
            texture = red,
    }
    
item SusModelBigWhite
    {
        DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
        Weight          =    20,
        Type            =    Normal,
        DisplayName        =  Comically Large Sus (White),
        Icon            =    sus_icon_white,
        WorldStaticModel =   SusModelBig,
        Tooltip         = SUSUSUSUS WHITE SUS EMERGENCY MEETIGN AHHFAESHEWSHEHSGESJH HELP AHHHH,
    }

    model SusModelBigWhite
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/SusModelBig,
            texture = white,
    }

item SusModelBigGreen
    {
        DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
        Weight          =    20,
        Type            =    Normal,
        DisplayName        =  Comically Large Sus (Green),
        Icon            =    sus_icon_green,
        WorldStaticModel =   SusModelBig,
        Tooltip         = SUSUSUSUS GREEN SUS EMERGENCY MEETIGN AHHFAESHEWSHEHSGESJH HELP AHHHH,
    }

    model SusModelBigGreen
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/SusModelBig,
            texture = green,
    }
    
item SusModelBigBlack
    {
        DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
        Weight          =    20,
        Type            =    Normal,
        DisplayName        =  Comically Large Sus (Black),
        Icon            =    sus_icon_black,
        WorldStaticModel =   SusModelBig,
        Tooltip         = SUSUSUSUS BLACK SUS EMERGENCY MEETIGN AHHFAESHEWSHEHSGESJH HELP AHHHH,
    }

    model SusModelBigBlack
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/SusModelBig,
            texture = black,
    } ```

i have a lot of variations for textures and none of the textures work besides red

it just defaults to red, does anyone know why that might be? .-.

[bronze yoke]

all of the item scripts point to the SusModelBig model script

not the respective model scripts like SusModelBigGreen

[frank lintel]

and there no unique names that I see other then the 'icon' otherwise same model name for everyone

[bronze yoke]

changing them to WorldStaticModel = SusModelBigGreen etc should fix it

[frank lintel]

as for that its not, my win10 960 SSD is reporting about 60% health after being on for over 4 years. so Im trying to without reinstalling everything and anything winblowz related onto a linux 970 which I dont use anymore so I mirrored it over just cant get it bootable. and seems like no-one knows what command line stuff is on the internet anymore

[red tiger]

I don't Linux because lazy. Also good on you for following proper procedure on data security by retiring aged drives.

[frank lintel]

that was purely for MC and dealing with java possible diff's so I dont use the drive and just wiped it. ie was a linux drive...

[jaunty marten]

what's a amount in gb of write/read on ur ssd?

[frank lintel]

250gig/div 13min roughly whatever that is. its a samsung 960SSD moved/ing it to a 970

[jaunty marten]

250gig/div 13min

wat?

[frank lintel]

its a 250gig drive mirrored in 13 minutes... whatever bandwidth that is...

[jaunty marten]

I meant where did u check ur disk health there should be total amount of write/read in gb for all life of ur disk. for example my disk for ~2 years have 29000 gb write and 27000 gb read

I'm not native speaker so idk how to correct say name of this value XD

[frank lintel]

61 TB so far?

only got 25k hours online so far...

[jaunty marten]

I'm not professional in this things so not sure that write/read have same resource and we can add up these numbers

[jaunty marten]

61 tb it's ur write+read?

[frank lintel]

no thats just write

[jaunty marten]

ah

[wide oar]

thank you guys

that fixed it

i have another question tohugh

[jaunty marten]

[wide oar]

it also replaces the pipe bomb, but in my hands the pipe bomb is invisible

{
 item SusBomb
    {
        DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
        Weight          =    0.2,
        Type            =    Normal,
        DisplayName        =    Among Us,
        Icon            =    sus_icon,
        WorldStaticModel =   SusModel,
        Tooltip         = AAAAAMONGUS SUSUSUSUSUUSUSS,
    StaticModel = SusBomb,
    }
    
    model SusBomb
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/SusModel,
            texture = red,
            scale = 1,
    }

[jaunty marten]

I have 27 tb write and 5k hours

[wide oar]

{
    recipe Make Among Us
    {
    PipeBomb,
        Result:SusBomb,
        Time:10,
        Category:Among Us,
    
    }
} ```

[frank lintel]

forgot the drive actually older then this threadripper rig... derp.

[wide oar]

ummm

any ideas on why black and white look like that

    {
        DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
        Weight          =    20,
        Type            =    Normal,
        DisplayName        =  Comically Large Sus (White),
        Icon            =    sus_icon_white,
        WorldStaticModel =   SusModelBigWhite,
        Tooltip         = SUSUSUSUS WHITE SUS EMERGENCY MEETIGN AHHFAESHEWSHEHSGESJH HELP AHHHH,
    }

    model SusModelBigWhite
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/SusModelBigWhite,
            texture = white,
    }

item SusModelBigGreen
    {
        DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
        Weight          =    20,
        Type            =    Normal,
        DisplayName        =  Comically Large Sus (Green),
        Icon            =    sus_icon_green,
        WorldStaticModel =   SusModelBigGreen,
        Tooltip         = SUSUSUSUS GREEN SUS EMERGENCY MEETIGN AHHFAESHEWSHEHSGESJH HELP AHHHH,
    }

    model SusModelBigGreen
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/SusModelBigGreen,
            texture = green,
    }
    
item SusModelBigBlack
    {
        DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
        Weight          =    20,
        Type            =    Normal,
        DisplayName        =  Comically Large Sus (Black),
        Icon            =    sus_icon_black,
        WorldStaticModel =   SusModelBigBlack,
        Tooltip         = SUSUSUSUS BLACK SUS EMERGENCY MEETIGN AHHFAESHEWSHEHSGESJH HELP AHHHH,
    }

    model SusModelBigBlack
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/SusModelBigBlack,
            texture = black,
    } ```

[frank lintel]

something not right cuz its changing the pack color also

[wide oar]

yeahhh

hmm

[frank lintel]

oh how did you get my body from arma?

[ancient grail]

you have a similar thing? in arma nice

[frank lintel]

yeah every day rag doll death gets silly like that esp if you bring physics into the equation

[ancient grail]

yeah well ragdoll physics for any game really tends to look unrealistic despite the fact that they did the ragdoll to make it look natural

[frank lintel]

I hate to say it say it cuz Im admitting being there but Second Life wasnt bad on that front.

[sour island]

https://tenor.com/view/what-do-you-mean-by-that-gif-22733242

[frank lintel]

but hey DJ's were in demand, and finding a MP3/ogg host was easy there

oh come now I dont need to tell the 'stories' about SL thought that was like general internet knowledge now

[sour island]

I imagine ragdolls in games never look right cause realistically the body is still doing stuff and trying to get that all to be "realistic" ventures into body falling simulator

[frank lintel]

well I believe other then keyframe animation the joint system was very defined on restriction and speed/inertia/mass

arma just has crap physics thats all. eg. player vs tank impact. the player isnt always the only thing that goes flying off into the horizon.

and looks like Im gonna have to just randomly attemp bcdedit stuff till I get this other drive to be bootable.

[red tiger]

Working on syntax highlighting support for ZedScript.

[frank lintel]

nice

would say no judging by the 2nd line.

[frank lintel]

wait wut?

anyone else get a popup crying about 2FA?

[tidal grove]

Has anyone started a server with nitrado hosting

[wide oar]

question

finally figured out how to export my fbx with animation

tryhing to replace dances in true dances

i've renamed my fbx to the dance im replacing, renamed the track to the exact track ID of the replaced animation, but in game its somehow still playign the old one even when that file is no lonmger even apart of the mod???

[humble oriole]

Anyone have an idea why this doesn't work as expected?

function Recipe.OnCreate.Logger(items, result, player)
    print('[APA-ATM-Transaction] Player: '..player:getUsername()..' -- Recieved: '..result:getType())
end```

[bronze yoke]

what's happening that's unexpected?

[red tiger]

Tokenizing exclusively from regex in a JSON file is uhh..

Yeah.

[frank lintel]

atleast you arent getting random requests to turn 2FA on to earn moderation privies.

and no Im not joking either...

[red tiger]

lol

[frank lintel]

Im seriously geeking over this going wth cuz I doubt anyone making me a moderator here lol

[red tiger]

Working on & debugging my current syntax highlighting

[frank lintel]

looks good overall

whats max length of the names of what you define like DisplayName etc

[red tiger]

I don't think that there's a set max len

[frank lintel]

interesting...

[jaunty marten]

https://tenor.com/view/finally-some-good-content-gordon-ramsay-gordon-ramsay-memes-gif-25876450

[red tiger]

Hey. Battling the Regex labyrinth, also known at "TextMate"..

[jaunty marten]

[wide oar]

I dont understand why thyis isnt working

the animation itself literally works

[ancient grail]

How do you know it works

[wide oar]

In blender, it works. When I import it in game, same track name as the thing im trying to replace: which is, this one, which i've also replaced with above anim

it just plays the old animation

doesnt play the new one

and in that fbx the old animation isnt even tere

i literally deleted it from the fbx

[ancient grail]

Its not as easy as you think

Like if u see it here then you will surely see it here .. no doesnt work like that im afraid

[wide oar]

why dont you make it for me then

[ancient grail]

What is it that you are trying to do like more details

Ncm i remember now

Nvm*

The dance

Yeah welp moving the hip bone is very hard to do . I tried earlier to lock everything i. Hopes of being able to just move the hips. Didnt work. Altho i might have a other workarround that i havent tried

[red tiger]

Learning so much my head will explode.

https://www.apeth.com/nonblog/stories/textmatebundle.html

[frank lintel]

no thats when you using Vi to do all this...

oh wait colors... ViM sorry

[foggy ore]

how possible is it to add items to cars from other mods?

[loud wagon]

Error: Failed To Load AssetPath items/stuff/Gold

item Gold
    {
        DisplayCategory = Junk,
        Weight    =    0.2,
        Type    =    Normal,
        DisplayName    =    Gold,
        Icon    =    gold,
        WorldStaticModel    =    Gold,
    }
    
model Gold
    {
        mesh = items/stuff/Gold,
    }

It loads the other sprite i made for it, perfectly fine. But won't load the 3D model

[red tiger]

Starting to understand this format in a more advanced way.

[frank lintel]

https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/blob/master/structure/README.md got your files in the right places?

[frank lintel]

?

[wide oar]

I see ._.

yeah i was trying to get the re-targeting to work, and now that im able to export it, its really just the "why the fuck does the game ignore me when i replace the original animation"

[frank lintel]

there a core skeleton/model you can start from?

[wide oar]

Actually, Glytch3r. could youlook at that fbx i sent and see if you could get it into the game somehow? it should work, idk if it's possible to integrate it with true dances anymore though, that mod is really fucking weird (to reverse engineer)

[frank lintel]

also is animation sequences inside the fbx I forgot to ask cuz to me thats a model format not animation sequence

[wide oar]

yeah

[frank lintel]

well paint 3d showed it upside down and Im guessing it doesnt support animation stuff didnt see any, so trying to get blender in why I was asking about a core model/skeleton someone starts from.

[red tiger]

@jaunty marten

I understand how to create scoped Regex patterns.

Gotta work on that comma.

[frank lintel]

UTF-8?

[red tiger]

Had to bash my brain a bit.

[wide oar]

well

instead of using the anim base rig thats in here

i used one of his pre-existing animated rigs, removed the anim, retargetted the aniamtion to that, and exported wit hteh right settijngs

lets see if that works

[frank lintel]

guess I can just use the base character model if i I can find it

[humble oriole]

Sorry, wife got home and had to step away. I'm expecting it to just print to the debug log on the server and it doesn't seem to. I want to track all the recipes in this specific mod as they get used.

[bronze yoke]

i think recipe code only runs on the client

[red tiger]

Here. have a brain melt.

Coding literally this.

[humble oriole]

the OnCreate is run from the the server folder in lua though.

    {
        Base.Cigarettes=5,
        Result: Pistol_Loot_Box,
        Time:60.0,
        keep ATMReceiver,
        NeedToBeLearn:false,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:TRUE,
        Category:APA KSSA Shop,
        OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.Logger,
    }
    ```

[bronze yoke]

the folders don't mean very much

[humble oriole]

[frank lintel]

Ive done all my regex Im doing for a lifetime no thanks. trying to cheer ya up.

[red tiger]

Oh I'm excited.

[frank lintel]

I would rather go back to doing C and ASM in Vi on a VT440

[red tiger]

This is only temporary pain.

The fact is that I can do it and that this shit's going to be a huge help to people.

[frank lintel]

cool I'll keep pushing ya.

[red tiger]

If I get a comprehensive syntax highlight support, I can then work on intellisense support.

[frank lintel]

honestly Im not a fan of IJ's formating as is

[red tiger]

Could possibly hook into some possibly-existing compiler-error module and display when values aren't the same type as needed.

[wide oar]

I have no fucking idea how this modw orks

There are ZERO instances of the dance i am replcaing other than the one that i've replaced

The original animation has been DELETED

it literally does not EXIST

yet SOMEHOW

the game ignores my NEW animation and continues to play the old one

i ahve no idea wher ethe fuck its even pullign it from, the file shouldnt even ebh there, the animatikon shouldnt even be there, it should be pulling my NEW animation

How the hell does this guys mod work WTf

[frank lintel]

chill G no going all Rust on us here.

[wide oar]

XD

[humble oriole]

Do you have any suggestions or something I can look at to achieve the logging I want? I'm open to anything.

[bronze yoke]

you probably need to send a client command

[frank lintel]

if its client side only then you need some kind of... ^^^

or client send the info to the server to log it..

[wide oar]

at this poitn though i think it'd be easier to just find out how to implement the dance through my own means, but idk how i'd do that cuz i dont really want to replace a vanilla animation. maybe i could make a context menu (that would open on right click ig) thing that opens a submenu with the animations i want to personally add, and it'd just add it. I could call it something like "FullmetalAnims" (the context menu) and then you can click on a option that activates that animation.

[wide oar]

so ig i'd just go take the base rig and forget about using true dances as a base, then just retarget my anims over the anim base rig and export them, try to get them to work ingame

[humble oriole]

That seems like a lot, :/

[frank lintel]

ah that moment you decide to try and set your IDE to just flat out use the game itself as the lib src folder

well seems I sure wont be missing any libraries now throwing false red flags..

[wide oar]

i put it in debug and got "anim clip not found"

._.

[frank lintel]

o.Tasks[0] = nil huh? is this valid in a Lua taskmanager?

or could that be relative to setmetatable....

[ancient grail]

Everytime you load the game look at the animation viewer. And search it using the search box

O btw you have to name the file like how you name the object in the editor or maybe the layer too not sure but you cant just rename the files afaik

[gaunt meteor]

where does the game decide that parkranger can move through trees faster?

[zinc pilot]

my eyes thank you

[ancient grail]

Can i store objects on a table as keys ?
Like items

[zinc pilot]

of course

[sour island]

Yes but you can't save those tables in modData -- PZ will void it for the sake of saves and recursive loading

There's a free to use 2D MMO game engine called BYOND -- you can store objects directly in save files. It was very common for games trying to implement friends or factions to create a scenario where one player logging in would load another player's prior save if the player was online. Effectively and instantly rolling them back.

[ancient grail]

Damn
And if i write the ids on an ini file. It will return as string and theres no way of converting it to object
Am i right?

[jaunty marten]

which the ids?

[twilit rune]

Any chances that creators of Expanded Helicopter Events are in this chat?

[ancient grail]

Yeah

Did you check the authors name on the mod? Cuz of you did then you dont need to look that far hehe

[twilit rune]

I am blind XD

Thanks

[red tiger]

Good morning.

[ancient grail]

Morning boss

[red tiger]

Will continue to fight the regex gods later on today. Last night I discovered that multiple recipes can exist with the same name.

[frank lintel]

you not allowed to stop

[red tiger]

lol

It's nice to be showing visual results after a month of spitting code.

[frank lintel]

👍

[red tiger]

BTW that syntax coloring is flawed / bugged atm.

Got to support all states of values for recipes.

I might force syntax highlighting to work with using keep and destroy keywords.

[frank lintel]

Im still lost as to why this server was asking me to enable 2FA not like I got some special rank with any kind of moderation perms

[hot patrol]

I have a question about blood locations. do all of these apply to back and front protection of character? for example does "appron" only add protection to the front of the character or does it apply to the back as well?

[frank lintel]

now that def looks like an arma animation

[jaunty marten]

can't be sure but I think game have no difference between front and back kinda like 2D

[hot patrol]

that's kinda what I thought as well but I just wanted to make sure

[ancient grail]

i just love testing stuff and if i broke the animation its funny so i share haha

[frank lintel]

its okay I was listening to some D-Jhasta with it now my neighbors pissed

[hot patrol]

I am trying to add a repairing recipe to fix an item that requires a needle and uses thread for the repair only if you are level 2 tailoring. does this look correct? ```fixing Fix Dakimakura
{
Require : Dakimakura1,
Require : Needle,

   Fixer : Thread=2; Tailoring=2
}```

[rancid tendon]

question for mappers and such: is it possible to make a new container definition, or do you have to use the ones set by pz?

my assumption is that it would be easy, but pz can really surprise you lol

[red tiger]

#mapping

Also please change your name.

[rancid tendon]

my name is a reference to an hbomberguy video about tommy tallarico in which tommy refers to people who supposedly 'don't like games' as 'gaming racists', relax

[red tiger]

dw, I block people who make light of things like this.

[rancid tendon]

... okay

kind of a win for me, feel free

[frank lintel]

@red tiger its okay ppl like that dont grasp what that word actually means.

[rancid tendon]

huh???

it was literally a joke at the expense of someone who doesn't understand the gravity of the word

using it to refer to people who don't like games

the context was quite literally an out of touch millionaire calling people who were critical of his vaporware scam console "gaming racists" to accuse them of being broadly prejudiced against video games, i was making fun of someone who didn't grasp what the word means

oh whatever

[plush sky]

Good evening, I am trying to make a trait that will allow the character unlock the recipe of building metal wall, container, fences...etc

I am wondering what is the recipe code?

I have tried ingenuitive:getFreeRecipes():add("Build Metal Walls");
and
ingenuitive:getFreeRecipes():add("Make Metal Walls");

but is not working.

[brave ruin]

I am currently doing a simple mod, when killed enough zombies it should remove a trait and add the opposite of it. But I am getting a error when the day reset..
The bad trait gets removed but cannot add the new one, but I can't see the error.
function: cheeckDriver -- file: BecomeDriver.lua line #60 | MOD: Sunday Driver
But once I got to that line I see this

[sour island]

@rancid tendon The line between those who get the irony and those who actually agree is very thin. If you've changed your name thank you. (I imagine it wasn't "Lea" and probably something close to a slur -- don't need to know what it was btw.)

[bronze yoke]

it was not close to a slur

[sour island]

🤷‍♂️ seems like it resolved itself - I just felt it was worth nothing "being ironically X, is two degrees from just being X"

[rancid tendon]

you say you don't need to know what it was but i want to point out for posterity in case anyone thinks it was something extreme, it was literally just "Gaming Racist" which like

yeah i can see how someone wouldn't like that (to be honest when i first set it to that i kinda didn't realize it could be read as 'racist who games' and not for what it actually means, i.e. someone who is racist against games, as was the original context)

so i changed it. that's all

[frank lintel]

that moment when ya learn there is no context and giving it after the fact doesnt change how it was viewed already. now with that lesson think on the future. Im out later.

[fast galleon]

oh is this person with the nsfw nick involving the behind

[rancid tendon]

what

[fast galleon]

this

[rancid tendon]

can't even remember what my name was at the time, my discord names are usually dumb shit

i'm sure that one was some gross reference i wouldn't be surprised

[brave ruin]

Anyone who has some free time and could possible look at my script and see if they find a problem?

[sour island]

What is the actual error? Seems like you're only including the very top of it.

Also, just a guess but you have cheekDriver and checkDriver

[modern hamlet]

can someone show me how to use DistanceTo2D(x1,y1,x2,y2)

[brave ruin]

Should I sent the entire lua text?

[jaunty marten]

just a math formula to calc dist in 2d

sqrt((x2 - x1) ^ 2 + (y2 - y1) ^ 2)

[bronze yoke]

i wonder if it's faster to just reimplement it in lua

[jaunty marten]

[modern hamlet]

how can i call? this one gives error

distance = DistanceTo2D(playerX,playerY,pos[1],pos[2])

[bronze yoke]

IsoUtils.DistanceTo2D

[modern hamlet]

ah okay

[frank lintel]

setmetatable(o, self) crying over type mismatch does this function require table: o ??

[rancid panther]

what does the whole trait function look like

[jaunty marten]

arg1: table; arg2: table

[frank lintel]

didnt need it on second one. why I was kinda getting thrown by it since o is nothing more then local o = {}; the line before it

[jaunty marten]

local o = {}
setmetatable(o, meta)

same

local o = setmetatable({}, meta)

[rancid panther]

im learning so much today. keep it up!

[red tiger]

Here we go

[frank lintel]

and nope it dont like it that way either

[sour island]

Did you try changing, cheek to check?

[red tiger]

OOP philosophy reddit convo incoming.

xD

[frank lintel]

still crying that {} is a type mismatch

[jaunty marten]

just show the code

[red tiger]

(runs violently far away)

[frank lintel]

I just put yours in exactly...

[brave ruin]

I did that typing manuel so i misspelled it. So it's not cheek 😛 It's check 😛

[frank lintel]

    --setmetatable(o, self)
    local o = setmetatable({}, self)```

both saying arg1 is type mismatch

[jaunty marten]

what's self

[rancid panther]

why do u want it on one line

[red tiger]

Also @jaunty marten

[jaunty marten]

@tame mulch sorry for ping but really want to know, in new post of pz blog said support for networks of power and liquids, what's that mean? my unreleased water pipes mod will be useless in b42?

[red tiger]

Trying to improve

[jaunty marten]

good shit, man

always crying about no highlight when doing some things with zedscripts

[red tiger]

I'm trying to make it make sense

[jaunty marten]

[red tiger]

TBH ZedScript has no official support beyond loading in PZ.

[bronze yoke]

arg1 is self

[fast galleon]

I wonder how it will work

[frank lintel]

arg0 whatever sorry Im not about to start mix matching what index starts on

[red tiger]

I'm basically making a lot of things up as I go..

So probably defining standards for the format. xD

[bronze yoke]

if the error says arg1 it means self

i'm not being pedantic about indexing

[frank lintel]

its visually telling me want a screenshot?

[red tiger]

Also @jaunty marten I plan to write a preprocessor language that supports inheritance models.

[frank lintel]

o underlined in red... kinda obvious

[jaunty marten]

me too, if it will work as I think =>

[fast galleon]

@frank lintel
do you use class:new Vs class.new

[frank lintel]

put in table: it goes away... Im trying to figure out why...

[jaunty marten]

@frank lintel

[red tiger]

Imagine having a base item definition that other item definitions inherit values from. =)

[jaunty marten]

just show the code more than single line

[jaunty marten]

oh, yea, that so useful

[red tiger]

DEADSCRIPT:

Module Base {
  item Axe {
    // Axe-specific properties.
  }
  item StoneAxe extends Axe {
    // StoneAxe-specific properties.
  }
}

ZEDSCRIPT:

Module Base {
  ...
  item Axe {
    // Axe-properties
  }
  
  /**
   * @extends Axe
   */
  item StoneAxe {
    // Inherited Axe-properties
    // Overrided & StoneAxe-specific properties
  }
}

[jaunty marten]

[tame mulch]

I think you just will have more ways to implement water pipes 😄

[jaunty marten]

I hope when next blog about these things will be posted I won't want to cry, thanks for reply

[red tiger]

Also:

DEADSCRIPT:

recipe blah {
  keep {extends BaseAxe},
}

ZEDSCRIPT:

recipe blah {
  keep BaseAxe / StoneAxe,
}

[jaunty marten]

awesome

[red tiger]

It's still in the draft / proposal stages.

I'm calling the language "DeadScript" which is to compile to ZedScript.

[jaunty marten]

script

[red tiger]

Can't wait to write a full white paper on it.

[jaunty marten]

can't wait to have billion $ on my bank account

[red tiger]

Its goal is to facelift syntactic issues with ZedScript and add macro tools / syntactic sugar.

[drifting ore]

blair said almost all farming related stuff will break on 42

mods*

i guess the nicer way to put it is, they will need updates 😄

[red tiger]

break everything pls

Heh

Break the walls to fix the foundation.

[drifting ore]

i'm going to make 2 more mods before 42 otherwise im gonna whip up more island maps

gonna release a 40x40 or 50x50 ocean map with like 30 islands

[red tiger]

When was the last time I made an actual mod.. like a legit mod..

[drifting ore]

i really wanna figure out water based foraging

[jaunty marten]

it will be broken, sure, it's fine to redo my mod for b42. I meant is there will be same thing like water pipes so my mod will be literally useless

[drifting ore]

i think farming modders have the strongest willpower atm haha

so much changing. i suppose your question is pretty good

[red tiger]

old.

[jaunty marten]

thanks god that it's not exactly farming mod and probably it will be easy to redo for b42

[jaunty marten]

but gold?

[red tiger]

Build 35 IIRC.

[jaunty marten]

hahah

[red tiger]

First accessory custom models ever.

[sour island]

Where ever it says that line number should also have the error under it -- like "trying to call nil of" or something.

[jaunty marten]

probably he trying to call getPlayer() on server side

or no

[fast galleon]

table.insert(noWorks,thisGuy) doesn't work

[jaunty marten]

wdym doesn't work

[fast galleon]

exactly

[drifting ore]

lol

[jaunty marten]

show the code

it can't not work

[drifting ore]

we all know it works. but why isn't it working for you 😄

[jaunty marten]

yh ha-ha

[drifting ore]

i really gotta test out this gpt4 thing

it's supposed to be really good compared to even last iteration

oh it can handle like 7x more tokens... damn

[wet sandal]

7x? That's a good increase.

GPT3 was already at like 4000 tokens

[hollow current]

I've set up items to spawn in containers before, but can't figure out how to make them spawn in vehicles trunks and on surfaces (like on a bed, on a kitchen counter), etc

Anyone got an idea?

I imagine it'd follow the same logic I've set up for containers, but can't find out how its handled in vanilla so I can follow the same way

[hollow current]

figured out the trunks part. not the surfaces part yet tho

[fast galleon]

Random table stories seem rather hardcoded, you can search in java for extends RBTableStoryBase

[hollow current]

Thanks!

[rustic grove]

where would I find a list of assets? Things like media/ui/Dialog_Titlebar_CloseIcon.png etc, they don't seem to be in the zomboid folders (that I can see)

[red tiger]

Texture pack.

[rustic grove]

Happen to know which one? Or where? Alas otherwise I'm at the same spot of having no idea where to look

[red tiger]

TiledZed can open them

Media/texturepacks

[rustic grove]

🤦‍♂️

nevermind 😓

[red tiger]

Ok

[frank lintel]

git pushes and rubs their hands evilly

[pine fiber]

Hello. Is it possible (in the event of a mod) in a multiplayer game to share a map marker (of the admin for example) to all the players (transfer of the marker on each of their map)? Thank you.

[fast laurel]

Can anyone help me get a hint on where to start looking at the code for some kind of pop up text like when you get a skill up? I am working on a hybrid of the only two repair counter mods and want a visual effect for something I'm calling a "critical repair" and think a little toast like when you skill up would be cool.

[bronze yoke]

player:setHaloNote()

[fast laurel]

Omg it's that simple?

[rare vector]

How do you know this method, or is there any way simple to get what I want ?

[jaunty marten]

he just knows it

[red tiger]

She was s all knowing...

[jaunty marten]

u can check the code of this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2815560151

[red tiger]

Hi. I'm tipsy AF.

[jaunty marten]

she?

wdym

[red tiger]

Thought I'd check in and see what's happening here.

[red tiger]

Albion right?

[jaunty marten]

wtf

never checked profile

[red tiger]

Could be reading about the wrong person?

[jaunty marten]

I though it's gachiman

meme

[red tiger]

I'm super excited about progress with syntax highlighting support for ZedScript but I gave tonight to a friend and our project.

So torn between the two.

[jaunty marten]

what's the project?

[red tiger]

Genuinely wish I had the time for both

[red tiger]

I'm working on a web comic

[jaunty marten]

I gave tonight to dota

[jaunty marten]

web comic?

[red tiger]

I haven't legit played a game since July of last year.

[jaunty marten]

comic u mean comic book?

[red tiger]

Yeah eventually.

[jaunty marten]

what's the theme?

[red tiger]

I mod PZ but I don't play it.

[red tiger]

Fantasy.

[jaunty marten]

I'm playing only with friends

sp already too annoying

[red tiger]

I haven't launched the game in two months.

[jaunty marten]

hahaha

[red tiger]

So deep in modding

This is entirely true

That's what I love about PZ.. I don't have to launch it to do what I do.

All of it.

[cosmic condor]

you uploaded the mods via console?

[jaunty marten]

in same way am I was doing mods for gmod

[red tiger]

I play it by modding it.

[red tiger]

I write tools for modders

[jaunty marten]

but sadly not so much exp with pz to don't launch it

[cosmic condor]

understandable

[jaunty marten]

[red tiger]

Modders are my players and I love them.

No bad vibes.

[jaunty marten]

he doing mods. not for pz but for mods for pz

[red tiger]

Literally.

[cosmic condor]

now it's complicated

[red tiger]

I know the issues modders face.

=]

10 years will do that to you.

[jaunty marten]

I'll wait even 10 years for web engine in pz

[red tiger]

You can write better mods than I can. I can write tools that can get you there.

=]

Let's be real: ZedScript support is the issue of our time. XD

It'd be fun to have this work be a job. =[

[jaunty marten]

yeeeah

[red tiger]

I want this by 2024.

[jaunty marten]

[red tiger]

Writing PZ UI in React is a dream.

ZedScript became a priority ticket / item to work on.

My dream rn is ZedScript support on vscode with highlighting and intellisense support.

[red tiger]

[frank lintel]

its funny how much difference there is between the two regarding Lua

[pine fiber]

Thank you for the link !

[opal linden]

how do i make it so skill books could be "written" (crafted)?

[glass basalt]

crafting recipes

Does anyone know if it is possible to access properties of a recipe through Java, instead directly modifying the TXT script files? I would like to make a Lua script that overwrites recipes

[bronze yoke]

ScriptManager.instance:getRecipe("Name") will give you a recipe object

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/scripting/objects/Recipe.html

[glass basalt]

amazing, thank you

[glass basalt]

for future reference, you get ScriptManager with the global method getScriptManager()
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/Lua/LuaManager.GlobalObject.html#getScriptManager()

[bronze yoke]

using instance is faster iirc

it's usually coming down to one single function call at startup but it is something

[glass basalt]

hmm, even if I use getScriptManager() once to assign to a variable?

[bronze yoke]

the performance impact is very minimal either way

it's not very common to use scriptmanager during gameplay and if you needed to it's not like the instance changes, you can grab it once at startup and it's fine

[glass basalt]

are the recipe names exactly how they are in the script files? Like in recipe Make Something, Make Something is Name, with no funny business, right?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, should be

[glass basalt]

I only need to change some recipe categories once on startup and that's it

[bronze yoke]

oh, one complication is if multiple recipes have the same name (rip clothes) it'll only ever grab the first one

[glass basalt]

ouch

[bronze yoke]

you'd have to loop through the entire recipe list and check the names if that's relevant to your work

[glass basalt]

there is a getAllRecipesFor() so I think that is the solution for it

[glass basalt]

hmm, new questions regarding animation
If I want the player object to perform an animation once (in a timed action) will self.character:PlayAnimUnlooped("MyAnimName") suffice?
And how can I restrict the player object to not move at all until the timed action is complete? (ignores all player input, cannot be cancelled)

[glass basalt]

is this what I'm looking for?
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/characters/IsoPlayer.html#setBlockMovement(boolean)

[glass basalt]

nah, looks like it's this. Seems to block everything, which is what I want
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/characters/CharacterTimedActions/BaseAction.html#setBlockMovementEtc(boolean)

[glass basalt]

PlayAnimUnlooped() does not work, and for some reason ESCAPE cancels setBlockMovementEtc() but I can forgive the latter

[fast galleon]

#mod_development message

[glass basalt]

that just returns a boolean

[sour island]

You have to use SetVariable() from my experience

In conjunction with anim xmls

To properly blend in and out of anims

Otherwise timed actions can work too - but yeah hitting escape would allow you to cancel it

[chrome egret]

Did you find a solution for this?

[drifting ore]

So guys

There's that mod "stay away from the Windows"

It makes zombies jump through windows instead of just banging on them and then vaulting

But it that possible to add some code to that mod for my playthrough so it'd only work for sprinting zombies?

Also this sounds a little harder but to make them jump through these windows only when they're chasing the player

[chrome egret]

What's the current state of the art regarding item transfers? For my mod Item Searcher, I had a request to make the character take the item after locating it. It works fine by queuing an ISInventoryTransferAction in singleplayer, but appears not to have any effect in multiplayer.

I notice that I get these log messages on the client, but nothing else:

DEBUG: Multiplayer , 1679056905736> 2,525,144,399> ItemTransactionManager.receiveOnClient> 2 [ 1359383190 : -1 => -1 ]
DEBUG: Multiplayer , 1679056905737> 2,525,144,400> ItemTransactionManager.receiveOnClient> 1 [ 1359383190 : -1 => -1 ]

[sour island]

The action should be called on in the client code and send transfer requests to the server

This may change by the next update though (to be inversed)

[chrome egret]

I think I had heard that item handling may change in the next update, and that's fine

[chrome egret]

I only have the action being created in my client code, do you mean anything more specific than that?

[tacit ore]

A mod that Plays the boo-womp sound from spongebob instead of the Jumpscare sound when a zombie surprises you

[sour island]

Check the item transfer code itself

It has stuff about sefer transmit

[hot patrol]

Anyone here experienced in lua and willing to help me get some work done for a mod of mine? if so DM me and we can negotiate what I need done and how much I can pay.

[prime frost]

Anyone spotted an admin control type mod that allows adding/removing fuel to a gas pump mid game, or even an admin command for it that I might have missed?

[chrome egret]

Do you mean this?

# Maximum number of items that can be placed in a container.  Zero means there is no limit. (PLEASE NOTE: This includes individual small items such as nails. A limit of 50 will mean only 50 nails can be stored.)\nMinimum=0 Maximum=9000 Default=0
ItemNumbersLimitPerContainer=0

[red tiger]

I hope that recipes will have better syntax in B42.

🤞

[sharp stratus]

Anyone who knows if there is a mod that make zombies trip more that actually works, or is it easy to make?

[sour island]

Not sure, and i meant "server" -- in the Lua for item transfer it checks the container and if it's not originally in a player it uses something called sendToServer or something along those lines

Moving items around between server/client is a bit hairy at the moment -- so glad it's getting some loving.

But basically when you "send" the item to the server you have to make sure it's properly removed from client(s)

And same for the other direction

This means you have to use a mixture of a few functions depending on the situation.

I'm not at a computer at the moment, but the differentiation between server or player is usually done by "isServer()/isClient()"

There's a debug tool for removing items that has (I believe) all the functions -- even checks if the item is equipped.

[frank lintel]

Hey Chuck anything in 'shared' lua wise doesnt have to be used there right mod wise but either-or|shared (both)? mod wise I get what the 3 folders mean but what we build our mods off of Ive seen stuff used in client but calls core lua stuff that is in shared and just making sure that isnt bad thinking (or just flat out bad...)

[tawdry solar]

anyone got the file structure for mods on the wiki?

[frank lintel]

as in https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/blob/master/structure/README.md ?

[tawdry solar]

this chat is quiet

usally its full

[frank elbow]

I'm still trying to interpret the message about shared

[tawdry solar]

about what?

[frank elbow]

I think you're asking whether it's okay to use stuff in shared from lua files in client? (I'm not trying to be rude, it's just a heck of a run-on & it's actually unclear to me)

[tawdry solar]

oh i see

its very confusing

[frank lintel]

yeah core methods that are being held in shared... okay to use only in client or server (obviously both re:shared)

[frank elbow]

I have stuff in shared that's used by both & it works as expected. I limit it to stuff that (to me) makes sense to be kept there

[tawdry solar]

wati

wait

is mesh texure or model

wish this game had more modding guides

[frank elbow]

Check pins and threads here, there are a decent amount

I'd assume #modeling would know more about that particular one, though

[tawdry solar]

oh cool

[tawdry solar]

its to do with code

cause of this

i just forgot which is which

[frank elbow]

Ah, gotcha

[tawdry solar]

cause my models wont show

neither do the icons

it may be that i put .png

[frank lintel]

yeah Omar I just seen some core game methods sitting in shared and just was wondering if its not bad practice to be using it in my mod on the client only. guess just the name throwing me off now Im hunting for possibly missed 'require's'

[frank elbow]

Are you relying on globals? I haven't had any issues with it because I require the modules from shared (shared loads before client anyhow, but nonetheless a require is a better guarantee)

[red tiger]

I think that IntelliSense will be more impactful on ZedScript development. I believe this because there are certain situations where definitions will be knowingly erroneous and can be pointed out to the modder.

(Reading the above text)

[frank lintel]

yeah maybe if it even knew core functions and didnt cry about 'unknown method' stuff always...

VSC is way better on that front

[red tiger]

And that's why I use it.

[tawdry solar]

WAIT

am i stupid

did i forget to put item_

[red tiger]

Imagine red squigglies below a URI path to a file saying Cannot find artifact: ${path}

[red tiger]

Exactly. Situations like these.

[tawdry solar]

glad i figured it out myself

[red tiger]

Imagine the time spent here figuring this out... put into actual modding.

[frank lintel]

yeah this one require driving me nuts...

[tawdry solar]

yeah...

at least i figured it out

[frank lintel]

WARN : Lua , 1679035033187> LuaManager$GlobalObject.require> require("CharacterSave_SaveLoad") failed

I cant even find that 'anywhere'

nor even anything saying load that... lol

[red tiger]

I'm going to single-handedly migrate a large section of the modding community to VSCode xD

[tawdry solar]

wait

strange

[frank elbow]

Are you testing your mod alone or with other mods*? Could be something else

[tawdry solar]

my icon in my other mod hasnt got item_ for the icon

like this

[frank lintel]

working on superb its alone cept for extended errors or whatever it is but that arent even being loaded yet

[frank elbow]

TIL the shortcut for discord fullscreen is ctrl + shift + f, after trying to search all files while still focused on discord & getting confused after switching back

Maybe it's not required with a literal string?

That is, it could be a table of suffixes which are being required as 'CharacterSave_' .. suffix. Would be a nasty pattern imo, but it'd work

[frank lintel]

well thats what I dont even get I cant even find anything asking for a require warning to pop lol

[tawdry solar]

WAIT

IM STUPID AGAIN

[red tiger]

Thinking about leaving my attempt at ZedScript IntelliSense open so people can contribute to properties to make it more intelligent over time.

[tawdry solar]

I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE SPRITE FOR THE MODEL

YES!!!!

YIPEE!!!

im so stupuid

ong

[frank lintel]

github ftw

[tawdry solar]

but why

is ther sprite and icon in my code

[frank elbow]

require as we use it is just a method in LuaManager.GlobalObject*. When a require fails it'll print a warning like that. That is: the warning is coming from Java

[tawdry solar]

i got it from the wiki

i used the pipe

[red tiger]

Was yesterday's look.

[tawdry solar]

i may add skillbooks

[frank lintel]

it also appears when you try to do a require on something loaded already (which honestly makes no sense since its flat out ignored and lua wont double load something loaded already...)

[tawdry solar]

mags i mean

[frank elbow]

It does?

[frank lintel]

lua manual for require says so I sworn

The other main job of require is to avoid loading the same file twice. For that purpose, it keeps a table with the names of all loaded files. If a required file is already in the table, require simply returns.

[frank elbow]

I don't think that's the case (this was in response to above, before that quote), it'll just return what's already required. The warning is zomboid-specific anyhow; regular Lua will error when a require fails rather than print a warning

[frank lintel]

thats a quote from chap 8.1 of the lua manual

[frank elbow]

Mhm, it'll return the result of the previous require

[red tiger]

Make sure to remind people when referencing Lua docs that PZ uses an incomplete 5.1 Lua specification.

[frank lintel]

dunno but I did have a dup warn msg and soon as I yanked the require out (cuz the file was literally loading right before it) that warn poof'd

[red tiger]

A lot of people come in here referencing the manual for things like 5.2 / 5.3 supported Lua.

=(

[tawdry moss]

Made a mod that adds rear seats to the ambulance, and there’s one thing I’m curious about.

The rear seats (3&4) would be in the trunk, is there a way to give seats inside the car access to the contents of the trunk?

[frank lintel]

yeah its annoying... esp when dang IDE plugins are 5.3

[red tiger]

I want bitwise ops too.

[red tiger]

That's what I do: I retrofit newer Lua to support PZ.

(Has JSON library for PZ)

=)

[tawdry solar]

aaand it still doesnt work

[sour island]

I wrote up an essay a while back about shared/client/server

[red tiger]

Oh yeah? Link it sometime.

[sour island]

For the most part if the vanilla code is in xyz keep changes to it in xyz

[tawdry solar]

this is what happens

[sour island]

😅

[red tiger]

I plan to write a white paper for a preprocessor language proposal to ZedScript.

[sour island]

I say essay, but it was just a long post in discord

[frank lintel]

yeah I just wasnt sure that shared methods should be kept to shared mod code, guess if the folder was called 'both' I wouldnt be brain farting over it

[tawdry solar]

moddding makes me wnat to just go into a coma

[frank lintel]

try fixing something existing that ppl like... its worse...

[sour island]

Essay in question: #mod_development message

[frank lintel]

btw Im using the 5.1 book cuz I think it was literally the only free online manual for it thats not like 'in print' lol

[sour island]

Tl;Dr: you're probably fine using /client/ but you should be aware of "who" runs what code

[frank lintel]

yeah I figured as much just trying to hunt down issues and fix stuff as I find them.. yeah I know how 'shared' is code that gets loaded by both, then client for clients, server for server (and their alphanumericalcharacter order too ^_^ )

its funny also that mod code gets thrown in right of the middle of core loading... based on the ordering

not like it loads the game stuff totally first then does mods...

[ancient grail]

anyone knows how to limit stuff that can be placed on containers

[frank lintel]

okay laterz work time peace..

[frank elbow]

ItemContainer.setOnlyAcceptCategory, OnlyAcceptCategory value in scripts

ItemContainer.setAcceptItemFunction or AcceptItemFunction to specify a function that will test whether an item is valid for the container

[astral dune]

hmm, couldn't tell you, I don't remember what problem I was trying to solve. I know I wasn't able to get access to those log streams, but whatever I needed I found some other way. Wish I could be more specific.

[frank elbow]

I know there's a command to change log level via chat, but I've never used it other than to see it so dunno how you'd use it

[ancient grail]

thnx any vanilla examples?

[frank elbow]

AcceptItemFunction.lua for item functions, wherever the key ring script is for categories

[astral dune]

kinda funny to scroll up a little bit after not being in here for quite a while and see the same problems come up.

[ancient grail]

nice thnx

[ancient grail]

makes sense

yeah keyrings

alto its an inventoryitem and a container too

maybe it doesnt matter

if its from tile

what do i need to set on the tilezed

i just emptied the container type

[frank elbow]

Haven't used tilezed so couldn't tell ya, but the methods are on ItemContainer

[ancient grail]

ok sure just needed to be sure cuz it might not detect it if i dont set it

[sour island]

Clients get both

[drifting ore]

Guys help

I'm not experienced in modding

But i need to find out how to check if zombie speed is sprinter and if zombie is chasing player

[abstract raptor]

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

prolly something in here

I'm currently looking at it

I want to get ALL the zombies hahah

but I'm not sure how to get all the zombies

[fast galleon]

Containers are better as not tiles
Pros:
can put it in your pocket
can easily pick up and drop without getting bitten
can rotate it
can have the above mentioned accept function

[drifting ore]

I wish I could understand it better

If someone knows how to do it please ping me

I just need to write something like:
if (zombie speed at that moment is sprinter and zombie is chasing the player)

But i have no idea how to check the speed and agro level

[sour island]

Players have a list of chasing zombies

If you want to avoid tapping into zombieUpdate

[tawdry solar]

can anyone help me

my models dont work

[drifting ore]

What list

[sour island]

Not at a computer, and it's not really something easily answerable if you're not more familiar with PZ modding.

But players have lists and variables (java, game stuff) that you can access using Lua (modding stuff). One of them is zombies that are chasing them.

[drifting ore]

How to access them

[tawdry solar]

mannnn

whatttt

i dont get this

why my modles dont work

model

[sour island]

They are already accessible, you just need to have the intended player:getChasingZombies (probably written differently)

How/when/where that player is identified depends on the event or function you add it to

You could use OnPlayerUpdate to run every tick on players

If you're not sure what any of this is - you'll probably have to do some reading up, or find a mod that does something similar - or start with something simpler.

[tawdry solar]

can anyone please help?

[sour island]

You might have better luck in #modeling but you should try to be descriptive of the issue.

[tawdry solar]

its gotta be the code

and its just that it doesnt show ingame

[sour island]

Did you script the models?

So the game knows to load them?

[tawdry solar]

module MM_Dudclub
{
    model Dud-club
    {
        mesh = models_X/Dud-club,
        texture = textures/PLACEHOLDER,
        attachment world
        {
            offset = 0.0000 -0.1660 0.0070,
            rotate = -180.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
        }
    }
}

yep and this is the script

[sour island]

What what does the items script look like

I feel like it's probably a bad idea to use any special symbols other than underscore (_). But that might be just me, and not relevant.

[tawdry solar]

it wouldnt let me post the script with text

it kept making spaces underneath

but thats it

[sour island]

You haven't set the model to the item

[tawdry solar]

hm?

what does that mean

[sour island]

You have not told the item to use the model at all

[tawdry solar]

how do i do that

[sour island]

Icon (2D floor), weaponsprite (in-hand), and worldstaticmodel (I think) is 3D floor

[tawdry solar]

?

[sour island]

This is from my flakey memory, so there's probably something spelled differently

[tawdry solar]

i dont understand any of that

[sour island]

Those are the three parameters in weapons script

[tawdry solar]

ik what worldstatic model is and i forgot that

oh it said that you deleted it so i assumed it was spam

[sour island]

You have "PlaceHolder-2"

[tawdry solar]

yeah go on then

[tawdry solar]

yeah

[sour island]

It should be the model....

[tawdry solar]

thats the name of an image

ooh

i thought that was the sprite for the weapon

[sour island]

Atleast for the 2 related to models

Icon is the sprite

[tawdry solar]

like the uv

[sour island]

No the texture and uv stuff is handled in the model script

WeaponSprite (old name) is the handheld model for weapons

[tawdry solar]

yeah mb

[sour island]

WorldStatic is the floor

You would need to set them to module.model as you have it

If no module is given, the game assumes it's Base

That's true for most of the scripts

[stiff furnace]

Hello everyone! Off the top of anyone's head, is there an easier way/event that detects when a player eats ANY item? Or should I just be monitoring the players hunger level and a change in it?

[sour island]

You could check if there's a timed action related to eating.

Leveraging Lua code and overwriting functions is as good as utilizing events and hooks.

There might even be an event if you check the wiki

[stiff furnace]

Thanks! No event in the wiki unfortunately, I was kinda hoping I was missing something.

[red tiger]

@jaunty marten drool
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/intellisense

[sour island]

I recall there being a OnEat event

[stiff furnace]

I will have to test it

It's not listed in the Lua Events

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

[sour island]

From what I can remember, cigarettes have something related

[red tiger]

lol

Use the crunch sound when smoking pls.

[stiff furnace]

Thank you 🙂

lolol yes

[drifting ore]

i dont sell stuff ever but posting here in case anyone is interested. getting rid of a 3080 10gb for 700 ish usd if anyone interested. picking up a couple of 4090's for some ai training and gaming.it will probably be gone within a week or two im thinking. dm if interested. no worries if not

[wide oar]

Heya

Quesiton

Is there a tutorial for makinng furniture

namely i'd like to create a large screen that acts as a poster and be able to place it in the world

[wide oar]

i dont mean like, how to do fbx stuff and uv edits, i can do that, get the textures working, all that. i mostly mean how do furniture mods differ from weapon/clothing and how do i set up that stuff

[red tiger]

drool

[ruby hollow]

Guys if I wanna edit the files of a mod just to change some values how do I do that

[fast galleon]

https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide

[worn juniper]

why is it forbidding me to use it? any ideas?
Code side looks fine? I tried multiple solutions thorough the week like making a custom [Recipe.GetItemTypes] but nothing has worked :/
Kinda drying on ideas on what the issue could be :[

[tawdry moss]

Is there a way to make the contents of a vehicle’s trunk accessible from inside the vehicle?

Please ping with response because I probably won’t see it otherwise

[bronze yoke]

write a containeraccess function for your part

[sour island]

Perhaps the ;2 on Sugar?

If you click DBG give ingredients what does it give you?

[worn juniper]

Absolutely every items listed

[sour island]

So like all those knives?

[worn juniper]

yes

[sour island]

And the ;2 is supposed to be like 2 units from sugar right?

Are you sure that works with a type getter?

[worn juniper]

sapph uses it

[sour island]

Strange, could you try removing the knives line

I'd say try removing each line 1 at a time to narrow down the issue

[worn juniper]

i did but the recipe would only be able to be done with 1 particular knife :c

[sour island]

so it works with 1 type of knife?

[worn juniper]

and still you need all the sugar items

[sour island]

and get ingredients gives you all the knives - but you still cant make it

[worn juniper]

yep

[sour island]

Vanilla uses [sugar];n, so that's not the issue

it also uses keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.DullKnife]/[Recipe.GetItemTypes.SharpKnife]

[tawdry solar]

so i fucked with my model

[worn juniper]

I'll retry with this one but I think it does the same thing as the line I wrote

[sour island]

Also I don't know if it matters but the vanilla recipe follow a format of keep, destroy, ingredients/units

So you'd put knives first, then destroy pot, then ingredients

Although I'd be surprised that matters

[tawdry solar]

whats wrong with this

[sour island]

anyway i gtg

GL

[worn juniper]

too many poly? also #modeling if it's model related stuff

[worn juniper]

thank you <3

[tawdry solar]

oh

[stone garden]

i dont know how much days i have been waiting to my idea happen

[frank rivet]

Who creates mods for commission here?

[stone garden]

i have been waiting since 2022

[worn juniper]

You can try Glytcher, Team Orbit Mods has good reviews

@sour island For the record, it didn't work....

[frank rivet]

dudes busy.

[worn juniper]

Who?

[frank rivet]

Glytcher. He's busy with other projects. Not trying to bother him too much. I don't have patience. And want to start this mod I have an idea for asap.

[worn juniper]

He has a little team of modders I think :<

You want their Discord server?

[frank rivet]

I am in it.

[worn juniper]

Oh alrighty my bad

[frank rivet]

all good.

[tawdry moss]

never heard of that, looked online and didnt see anything. How exaxctly do I do that?

[bronze yoke]

in your part script, in the container table, add test = functionName,

look at the vanilla truckbed script and the Vehicles.ContainerAccess.TruckBed function for a more specific example

[tawdry moss]

thanks, testing it now, ill let you know if it works

[tawdry moss]

slapped it into the seats code and it didnt work, am i supposed to put it somewhere else?

[bronze yoke]

it should be in the part for the container

that function runs all the time as long as the vehicle is loaded and checks if the container should be accessible

it does everything: checks if you're in the correct area, if the trunk door is open, etc

you need a custom one that returns true if the player is inside the vehicle

[tawdry moss]

ah

[frank lintel]

is that fire stove a container? might be help.

[fast galleon]

I Thought I made my player go up and down while climbing the sheet rope with a simple command but now he only changes direction once decently and then proceeds to fall unless I double tap and he grabs the sheet rope / climbable ladder

Seems to work now, I use a more direct changeState rather than just reportEvent. Wonder what the most appropriate way is...
Now he won't manually get off on top 😭

[tawdry moss]

got it working, thanks @bronze yoke

[sour island]

Having to hold the climb key or fall and be able to regrab kind of sounds awesome

I'd love to see some roof jumping - grabbing ledges from across -- or even letting oneself down a floor

[fast galleon]

parkour zombies 🙂

[brave ruin]

Question, if I add togheter 10 mods into 1 mod. How much more better will the server load ?

[tawdry moss]

@bronze yoke the mod i was using it for in case you care. thanks for the help! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947992171

[fast galleon]

from escape rope to floor, over fence. (jumping to the left of the climb with directional key)

[frank lintel]

@fast galleon check the code of the vanilla rope how they handle it?

[fast galleon]

kinda buggy climb after the change 😦

[fast galleon]

which line?

[frank lintel]

hmmm tbh dunno cant be that big but the movement handling should be easy to find if its in that.

[fast galleon]

I'm looking to keep this as a Lua mod.

[frank lintel]

meant in seeing in method how they handle it. re your ? on appropriate way...

btw space after , is the norm correct? before I hit save on this reformatting

[warm flame]

This sounds dope. The ladders mod is a bit buggy, would be amazing if this fixed it

[warm flame]

Doper

[fast galleon]

if you see something relevant that actually works (90% only work under very strict conditions) let me know, if you consider this vanilla behaviour explain how to replicate. 👍
*nagging because obviously I've checked a bunch of code to get to this, I'm not simply pulling this from my head randomly

[abstract raptor]

function onUpdate()
    local player = getSpecificPlayer(0)
    local x, y, z = player:getX(), player:getY(), player:getZ()
    local cell = getWorld():getCell()
    local radius = 15 -- Change this to whatever radius you want zombies to detect players within
    
    for xi = x - radius, x + radius do
        for yi = y - radius, y + radius do
            local sq = cell:getGridSquare(xi, yi, z)
            if sq then
                for i=0, sq:getMovingObjects():size()-1 do
                    local obj = sq:getMovingObjects():get(i)
                    if instanceof(obj, "IsoZombie") then
                        obj:SetOnFire()
                    end
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

Events.EveryTenMinutes.Add(onUpdate)

😂

[fast galleon]

heh, is this a special trait?

[frank lintel]

looks like a magic spell..

[rancid panther]

yeah i've been using the other ladders mod that has slightly iffy animations because of the falling on Ladders?! mod

i had multiple friends fracture their legs climbing on ladders with it 😂

[frank lintel]

cant be worse then destroying a wall thinking ya gonna walk out on the roof of the firehouse only to fall to ground.

[rancid panther]

depends how tall the buildings are

[frank lintel]

well dont matter when ya wanna make the roof a nice farming spot and it just doesnt exist even though looking at it from outside..

also want the firepole to actually slide.

[rancid panther]

anyway once the ladder falling bug gets fixed i'll gladly switch back to that one

[frank lintel]

might be my first actual mod I make if I get in the mood

[rancid panther]

the other one uses the fence climb animation so it just looks like you hop climb the wall. even weirder looking if it is more than 2 storeys tall

[frank lintel]

oh I would just make the animation

I'd take the rope climb to start off with

[rancid panther]

have u tried the 'ladders?!' mod? im p sure it already lets you use the fire pole

also i guess this is unrelated to mod development. i was just commenting about Poltergeist's progress

[frank lintel]

really havent been playing much atm mainly been crawling thru superb survivors stuff.

[frank lintel]

oh just hit'm with a rolling pin apparently sets stuff on fire? dunno how accurate that is

[rancid panther]

doom mod collection

[frank lintel]

dunno its blacklisted on SS for survivor weapons allowed for that reason

[fast galleon]

which ladder works for you?

I believe Ladders?! will fix the falling next update

[rancid panther]

yea im waiting for that

real ladder is the one that uses a fence hop animation but doesnt make u fall

[small topaz]

Has anyone ever noticed that your character gets the "Fit" trait when they have just acquired fitness level 6 although the Fit trait in character creation gives Fitness +2 (so that I would expect that the "Fit" trait appears only when your character acquired a fitness level of at least 7)?

[bronze yoke]

i think that's just to make the trait a little more worth taking

i didn't realise fit didn't do anything beyond the fitness boost when i said that