mod_development

[drifting ore]

pretty sure you can play any game with a stick using it. just have to set it up and calibrate

[frank lintel]

doesnt exist you'd have to use an emulator

[drifting ore]

ds4windows. i meant. i think it is a controller emulator

but i used a stick before....

[frank lintel]

yeah I dont use emulators...

[drifting ore]

maybe it wasn't ds4

it's been so damn long lol

[frank lintel]

thats like me trying to remember all this stuff Im trying to do now when I did it for MC.

[drifting ore]

haha

so true lol

[frank lintel]

seriously like If I could remember all the stuff we were doing back then now I would be prob already done in making a git hosted zdoc-lua

[drifting ore]

i do feel you. i took a small break from pz modding to get back into gta/fivem mapping and boy it took a min to get back into it

even just starting with tools needed

[frank lintel]

thats why Im looking at maybe trying to make this where I plant my feet and helping the community

but I'd also have to ask the head cheeses if its okay to post that publically dont wanna run into another craftbukkit fiasco

[hot patrol]

when using profession framework to start a player with a certain outfit. how do I make that outfit persist on respawn? It seems like it only works with that 1st character of the world.

[sour island]

Sounds like theyre doing something with createPlayer

[hot patrol]

I used another mod as a reference and this is where the outfit is OnNewGame = function(player, square, profession) local player = getPlayer() local Hat = player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Hat_Fedora") local Jacket = player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.JacketLong_Random") local Shorts = player:getInventory():AddItem("Shorts_CamoGreenLong") local Hands = player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Gloves_FingerlessGloves") player:setClothingItem_Head(Hat) player:setClothingItem_Torso(Jacket) player:setClothingItem_Legs(Shorts) player:setClothingItem_Feet(Hands) end,

[sour island]

What event is it adding to?

[hot patrol]

idk. I think it just makes it so those clothing items spawn on the character when it spawns in. The clothing didn't appear in the character creator.

this is the full code

ProfessionFramework.addTrait('Blade', {
    name = "UI_trait_Blade",
    description = "Whilst others were out partying you were studying the blade. Now it is finally time to show off the results of your training.",
    profession = true,
    xp = {
        [Perks.LongBlade] = 2,
    },
    inventory = {
        ["Base.Katana"] = 1,
    },        
})

ProfessionFramework.addProfession('Weeb', {
    name = "Weeb",
    description = "anime obsessed degenerate.",
    icon = "proff_Weeb",
    cost = 4,
    xp = {
        [Perks.Fitness] = -2,
        [Perks.Strength] = -2,
    },
    traits = {"Blade"},
    inventory = {
        ["Base.Dakimakura1"] = 1,
    },
    OnNewGame = function(player, square, profession)
    local player = getPlayer()
    local Hat = player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Hat_Fedora")
    local Jacket = player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.JacketLong_Random")
    local Shorts = player:getInventory():AddItem("Shorts_CamoGreenLong")
    local Hands = player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Gloves_FingerlessGloves")
    player:setClothingItem_Head(Hat)
    player:setClothingItem_Torso(Jacket)
    player:setClothingItem_Legs(Shorts)
    player:setClothingItem_Feet(Hands)
    end,

})

[rancid panther]

did you make the clothing definitions in a separate file?

[hot patrol]

no

[rancid panther]

i think i showed u how clothing was defined before

it needs its own outfit definitions file

[hot patrol]

does it? these are vanilla outfits. Everything is working on the initial spawn. it's just on new character that it fails

[rancid panther]

look in the README file on profession framework and it says exactly where outfits are defined

yeah, it's how lumberjack etc get custom starting clothes

[hot patrol]

This part?

[rancid panther]

yea

[hot patrol]

I'm not seeing anything about needing a seperate outfit definition file. I do see that with prof framework you can use this. clothing = { Tshirt = {"Base.Tshirt_Profession_RangerBrown", "Base.Tshirt_Profession_RangerGreen"}, Pants = {"Base.Trousers_Ranger"}, but would this work with clothing not available in the character creator like leather jackets?

[rancid panther]

in profession framework it puts them conveniently in one place but it is possible without

and you can do it with any clothing

not just vanilla, and not just default

i let players pick eyepatches, jackets, etc

[hot patrol]

well i'm using framework. I couldn't figure out vanilla and this is just easier. I got it all working already minus the outfit on respawn

[rancid panther]

ah, with framework it is possible then

u need to find the clothing scripts to see the locations and names and stuff

i gtg but hope that helps

[hot patrol]

thanks 🙂

[rancid panther]

there's a jacket definition for example

and leather jacket is probably Base.Jacket_LeatherJacket or something like that

[drifting ore]

Hey guys, I wanna make a mod pack for a server I am gonna start

How do I do that?

[ancient grail]

What server?

@drifting ore

Share link of server

[drifting ore]

Well not a server

I mean like

host

Like ima use the games host thingy

I just wanna put all the mods I want

into one thing

so I don't accidentally mess it up

me and a few friends of mine are doing a NG rp

[ancient grail]

Ok 1st dont.
We modders worked hard for our mods only to be packed maybe unless youre solo wnd u make it unlisted

But the thing is you should ask permission from every author of each mod

[drifting ore]

and I wanna put all the mods for it into one mod

[drifting ore]

It's unlisted

just for me and a couple friends

I am not gonna post it as my own

[ancient grail]

The. Why not just sub kn each of em

Why create a pack?

[drifting ore]

because i've tried that

[ancient grail]

If its local anyways

[drifting ore]

and it always doesn't work

i dunno why

[ancient grail]

Imea. Local hosted

[drifting ore]

yea

[ancient grail]

And packing it into one mod would work? It wont

[drifting ore]

oh

then how do i fix it not working

[ancient grail]

You just have to make em download it like update it and all that

[drifting ore]

p a i n

[ancient grail]

Also #mod_support would help getting that to work
But modpacks are generally frawned upon

You could do a collection

[drifting ore]

whats that

[ancient grail]

That way everyone would just download from that list 🙂

[drifting ore]

how do i do a collection?

[ancient grail]

Im not sure how to do it but ill try and see how

[drifting ore]

i'll go to youtube and see

ohh i see now

ty

[ancient grail]

Here

@drifting ore

[hot patrol]

So if a profession has a special trait applied to it can the profession itself not have a description?

it seems like no matter what I do it doesn't work and sometimes even breaks the trait name for some reason

also if anybody knows how I can make a character start with a weapon with a set condition using Profession framework please let me know. I was told to make an event but idk what that means or how

[neon bronze]

There is a list of events on the pz mod wiki which are triggered ingame and one of those is when you start a new game

OnNewGame comes to mind to me

or OnCreatePlayer

[hot patrol]

ah yes. that is what I was using for my outfit. issue with that is it only works once. I need this to happen every new character.

[neon bronze]

OnCreatePlayer maybe

[hot patrol]

ok. but what would it look like for a weapn that is nearly broken?

I know how to get it in the inventory but not set the condition

[neon bronze]

weapon:setCondition(int)

[hot patrol]

I'm going to go out on a limb and just assume this is being done very wrong. ```ProfessionFramework.addTrait('Blade', {
name = "UI_trait_Blade",
description = "UI_trait_BladeDesc",
profession = true,
xp = {
[Perks.LongBlade] = 2,
},
inventory = {
["Base.Katana"] = 1,
},
OnCreatePlayer = function(playerIndex, player)
local player = player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Katana)
weapon:setCondition(3)

})```

[neon bronze]

OnCreatePlayer is something else and does not go into ProfessionFramework

its an Event

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(your func here) is usually the syntax events are used

[bronze yoke]

it does go into profession framework actually

[hot patrol]

[neon bronze]

it can?

i never used it tbh

do you want to give a char a gun and set it to a specific condition with a specific trait?

[hot patrol]

a katana but yes

you choose that trait and you get a katana at start but it is nearly broken because mall katana

https://tenor.com/view/epicfail-ninjafail-gif-9412337

[bronze yoke]

oh my bad actually, oncreateplayer isn't one of the supported events in profession framework

it wouldn't actually make that much sense for it to be now that i'm thinking about it

they tend to use onGameStart for this

or, OnNewGame would be better

[hot patrol]

That is what my reference mod was using

[neon bronze]

function spawnKatana(playerindex, player)
  if player:hasTrait(your_trait) then
    local inv = player:getInventory()
    local katana = inv:addItem("Base.Katana") --or whatever its called
    katana:setCondition(your number here)
  end
end

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(spawnKatana)

I think thats how you could do it maybe

[bronze yoke]

this would give you a katana every time you load in

[neon bronze]

hmm true

does onNewGame trigger when you make new char?

[hot patrol]

the trait already gives you the katana so I just need the event to set the condition

    name = "UI_trait_Blade",
    description = "UI_trait_BladeDesc",
    profession = true,
    xp = {
        [Perks.LongBlade] = 2,
    },
    inventory = {
        ["Base.Katana"] = 1,
    },        
})```

[bronze yoke]

OnNewGame = function(player)
    local weapon = player:getInventory():getFirstType("Base.Katana")
    weapon:setCondition(3)
end

[hot patrol]

yea but using OnNewGame means it will only happen the one time. but not if you respawn

which sucks for MP

[bronze yoke]

i've heard it fires every time a character is first created

[hot patrol]

not with the mod I used as a reference. it uses that to apply an outfit but it only worked with the first character

after that I had to leave the whole save and create a character there

[bronze yoke]

hmm, then the oncreateplayer approach is better

just need to use some moddata to track if it's already happened

[neon bronze]

technically if you want to you could write a bool to the char's moddata to check if he needs a new katana or not

there is a OnPlayerDeath Event

[hot patrol]

gonna be real with yall. I'm lost

but I appreciate it

😅

[neon bronze]

function spawnKatana(playerindex, player)
  if player:getModData().spawn then
    player:getModData().spawn = nil
    local katana = player:getInventory():getFirstType("Base.Katana")
    katana:setCondition(3)
  end
end

function respawnKatana(player)
  if not player:getModData().spawn then player:getModData().spawn = true end
end

Events.OnPlayerDeath.Add(respawnKatana)
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(spawnKatana)

Try this maybe

[sour island]

If you know how to use modData all you have to do is store a variable in there

Doesn't have to even be a boolean as you can check if it's there or not

[bronze yoke]

this won't work

moddata doesn't carry over between characters

[hot patrol]

ok so this doesn't go into the profession lua correct? if so how do I hook it into the profession?

[rancid panther]

Burryaga showed me with the bitten trait mod for this

[sour island]

I skimmed the convo a bit -- what's the point of adding a katana on death?

[bronze yoke]

and it wouldn't be triggered on the first character, and generally seems like an overcomplicated way to do this?

[sour island]

You don't want it to trigger on the first character?

[bronze yoke]

no, it's a criticism

[sour island]

Ooh, sorry

[neon bronze]

oh yea im stupid

i see it now

[hot patrol]

I want to make it so if you choose my trait you get a nearly borken katana at spawn but I need it to happen every respawn

[autumn garnet]

    function spawnKatana(playerindex, player)
        if player:getHoursSurvived() == 0.000 then
            local katana = player:getInventory():getFirstType("Base.Katana")
            katana:setCondition(3)
        end
    end

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(spawnKatana)```

[neon bronze]

gotta be the other way around

[sour island]

So you just need the onCreatePlayer event

[bronze yoke]

function spawnKatana(playerindex, player)
  if not player:getModData().katanaSpawned then
    local katana = player:getInventory():getFirstType("Base.Katana")
    katana:setCondition(3)
    player:getModData().katanaSpawned = true
  end
end

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(spawnKatana)

[hot patrol]

so if you respawn with that trait again you get another borken sword

[sour island]

Respawning is a new character

ModData doesn't carry over -- so you would get a new one

There is an issue using OnCreatePlayer in MP tho

[hot patrol]

oof

[autumn garnet]

If you want the katana to be in the inventory when the player has just created a new character, you have to put a condition to know the number of hours he survived.

[sour island]

May have been fixed by now

Oh that could work too

[bronze yoke]

that's a good idea

[hot patrol]

ok so which of those should I use?

[sour island]

But would be less secure than modData

Days survived is a float so you could check it against 0.01

But I would prefer a boolean in modData

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i'd caution against checking floats against exact values

[neon bronze]

would comparison be better?

i mean >

[bronze yoke]

something like < 0.01 as chuck was suggesting

[hot patrol]

[rancid panther]

this rainoa person is my mod's biggest supporter

[neon bronze]

i had one comment on mine and it was a bug report : (

[hot patrol]

btw thanks before. I got the outfit working

[rancid panther]

poggies

[hot patrol]

looking good in my fingerless gloves and fedora.

https://tenor.com/view/epic-hat-nod-sir-gif-13861430

[rancid panther]

bug reports are just as helpful as supportive comments!

im hoping to get any reports of mod incompatibilities so i can make sure my mod works as sufficiently as possible

[drifting ore]

can someone help me with my mod ive been on it for 2 days and nothing seems to add my costum recipes

[hot patrol]

@rancid panther btw do you know if professions with exclusive traits can't have their own description? I have a description set for my prof but all it shows it the trait name. I tried to fix it and all I managed to do was break the trait name.

the trait description works

[humble oriole]

This is how we do it,

Events.OnNewGame.Add(function(player, square)
  local map = { "APAMisc.Map_FoldCoffee","APAMisc.Map_FoldCrumple","APAMisc.Map_FoldCrumpleCoffee","APAMisc.Map_FoldCrumpleCoffeeDirt","APAMisc.Map_FoldCrumpleDirt }
  player:getInventory():AddItem(map[ZombRand(1,#map+1)])

end)```

[red tiger]

I want VSCode to allow me to populate an event template as an action.

(Types 'event' & sees 'New Event Hook' or something)

[rancid panther]

you set them in translation files.

[red tiger]

Events['Event'].Add(function(params)
end);

[drifting ore]

anyone?

[red tiger]

A feature like that would be epic.

[rancid panther]

you want the exclusive trait to have its own description? or the occupation? not sure what you are trying to change

[red tiger]

Ok back to work.

[drifting ore]

i guess no one knows

[hot patrol]

the occupation. the trait has a descrioption but when I hover over the occupation it just says the trait name and skill points

[rancid panther]

you have to add a description

in profession framework you need to put it in your UI_EN.txt translation file

UI_prof_ProfName = "blabla",
UI_profdesc_ProfName = "blabla",

[drifting ore]

here is my code and its not showing up in game so yeah ill go off or not but if someone can help me
its not showing up in game with the mod enabled

module MKSHR+ {

imports {
Base,
}

recipe Craft Makeshift Axe {
UnusableMetal=3,
WoodenStick=2,
SheetRope=1,
keep HammerStone,
Result:Axe,
Sound:Hammering,
Time:200.0,
SkillRequired:MetalWelding=0,
Category:Welding,
}

recipe Craft Makeshift Propane Torch {
UnusableMetal=8,
WoodenStick=2,
SheetRope=1,
PopEmpty=1,
Result:Blowtorch,
Sound:Hammering,
Time:200.0,
SkillRequired:MetalWelding=0,
Category:Welding,
}

recipe Scrap Pop Can to metal {
PopEmpty=1,
Result:UnusableMetal=2,
Sound:Hammering,
Time:20.0,
SkillRequired:MetalWelding=0,
Category:Welding,
}

recipe Craft Tissue {
RippedSheets=3,
Result:Tissue,
Sound:Hammering,
Time:10.0,
SkillRequired:Health=0,
Category:Health,
}

recipe Craft Bandage {
RippedSheets=2,
Tissue=4,
Result:Tissue=2,
Sound:Hammering,
Time:20.0,
SkillRequired:Health=0,
Category:Health,
}

recipe Craft AdhesiveTape {
RippedSheets=8,
LemonGrass=2,
Result:AdhesiveTape,
Sound:Hammering,
Time:50.0,
SkillRequired:Health=1,
Category:Health,
}

recipe Craft Bandaid {
AdhesiveTape=1,
Bandage=1,
Result:Bandaid,
Sound:Hammering,
Time:50.0,
SkillRequired:Health=1,
Category:Health,
}
}

[hot patrol]

I did

    UI_prof_Weeb = "Weeb",
    UI_prof_WeebDesc = "Never had a job, dwells inside of their mothers basement, has never felt the touch of a woman and collects the most degenerate material known to man. Some would say your way of life makes being undead preferable.",
    UI_trait_Blade = "Studied the Blade",
    UI_trait_BladeDesc ="Whilst others were out partying you were studying the blade. Now the time has finally come to show them all the results of your training.",
}```

[rancid panther]

Weebdesc

[hot patrol]

ProfessionFramework.addTrait('Blade', {
    name = "UI_trait_Blade",
    description = "UI_trait_BladeDesc",
    profession = true,
    xp = {
        [Perks.LongBlade] = 2,
    },
    inventory = {
        ["Base.Katana"] = 1,
    },        
})

ProfessionFramework.addProfession('Weeb', {
    name = "UI_prof_Weeb",
    description = "UI_prof_WeebDesc",
    icon = "proff_Weeb",
    cost = 4,
    xp = {
        [Perks.Fitness] = -2,
        [Perks.Strength] = -2,
    },
    traits = {"Blade"},
    inventory = {
        ["Base.Dakimakura1"] = 1,
    },
    clothing = {
        Hat = {"Base.Hat_Fedora"},
        Jacket = {"Base.JacketLong_Random"},
        Hands = {"Base.Gloves_FingerlessGloves"},
        Shoes = {"Base.Shoes_ArmyBoots"},
        Pants = {"Base.Shorts_CamoGreenLong"},
    },
})

[rancid panther]

lowercase

o wait

profdesc_Weeb

[hot patrol]

so like this and then also change the translate txt? ProfessionFramework.addProfession('Weeb', { name = "UI_prof_Weeb", description = "UI_profdesc_Weeb", icon = "proff_Weeb", cost = 4, xp = { [Perks.Fitness] = -2, [Perks.Strength] = -2, }, traits = {"Blade"}, inventory = { ["Base.Dakimakura1"] = 1, }, clothing = { Hat = {"Base.Hat_Fedora"}, Jacket = {"Base.JacketLong_Random"}, Hands = {"Base.Gloves_FingerlessGloves"}, Shoes = {"Base.Shoes_ArmyBoots"}, Pants = {"Base.Shorts_CamoGreenLong"}, },

[rancid panther]

i dont think with profession framework you add a description tag for professions

maybe not even in vanilla

[bronze yoke]

might be a bad idea to include weird characters like + in your module name

where is the file + what is it called?

[drifting ore]

yeah i removed tose

wym

[rancid panther]

but yea that's how it should be written

[bronze yoke]

the script file

when they completely don't show up it's usually because it's in the wrong place or missing the extension or something

[drifting ore]

in the scripts folder

of my media

[bronze yoke]

media/scripts/file.txt?

[drifting ore]

yes

but is the code correct?
like the popempty stuff?

[hot patrol]

I'll try it

and report back

[bronze yoke]

for skill required Health should be Doctor but i don't think that would make the entire file stop showing up

[rancid panther]

adding things that dont exist in my mod always makes the file disappear in debug file list

[drifting ore]

yeah but even with one

like even with the right skills

still doesnt work i tried that

and the import i remove?

ok

[bronze yoke]

you can keep the import but it's redundant if you're already module base

[drifting ore]

so i can remove it?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[drifting ore]

so its just module base without the block or how should it be placed?

what about the semi colon after module base

[bronze yoke]

semicolon?

[drifting ore]

{

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't need to be inline

[drifting ore]

so what other stuff to troubleshoot

WHAT

[bronze yoke]

sounds like it's definitely an issue with the file structure then

[drifting ore]

it wasnt showing the recipes

can you give me the one you use

[neon bronze]

Are you puting the file in the correct folder?

[drifting ore]

yeah

[neon bronze]

Maybe missed a bracket somewhere?

[drifting ore]

"C:\Users\myname\Zomboid\Workshop\MakeshiftItems\Contents\mods\MakeShiftItems\media\scripts\Makeshiftitemsrecipes.lua"

[bronze yoke]

.txt

[drifting ore]

its not lua

[bronze yoke]

not .lua

[drifting ore]

wtf

[neon bronze]

.lua?

[drifting ore]

i put it as txt

watdafuq

but in notepad++ it says txt

[hot patrol]

[drifting ore]

im so fucking confused

[hot patrol]

a life saver

though I am getting one error

gotta find that out

[drifting ore]

lets see if it works now people of discord gpt useless

real

wait

the

bandages dont work

why

and why does the propane torch not have image

yeah tissue etc

like the medical ones

oh wait im so stupid

different category

yeah i copied ur code

yeah

i tought i fixed that

but i guess not

why does the propane torch not work like the image?

but it does recognise it as propane torch

[vast nacelle]

Probably should be Result:BlowTorch with a capital 'T'

[keen silo]

Alright, I finished the transcript of the entire Life and Living channel, so I decided to release my mod.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950750587

This one adds voice lines (currently) to every Life and living program. The objective is to every radio and TV program.

Special thanks to @abstract raptor for allowing me to use Survivor Radio as a base for this mod

[abstract raptor]

Good job! @keen silo

[keen silo]

thanks 😁

[wheat kraken]

if im at triggered event
Events.OnServerCommand
then do call my own command

what is the best practice to get current client player?

just getPlayer()
IsoPlayer:getPlayerByOnlineID(IsoPlayer:getOnlineID())
getSpecificPlayer(0) <- this one

[frank lintel]

derp just posted wrong channel... lol

Expected to find missing API page for path zombie/modding/ActiveMods
Expected to find missing API page for path zombie/iso/sprite/IsoSpriteGrid
Expected to find missing API page for path zombie/chat/ChatMessage
Expected to find missing API page for path zombie/randomizedWorld/randomizedBuilding/RBBasic
Expected to find missing API page for path zombie/ai/states/FitnessState
Expected to find missing API page for path zombie/globalObjects/CGlobalObjectSystem
Expected to find missing API page for path zombie/ui/UI3DModel
... ```  Got a list now for things to look for first. ![drunk](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/721361533271146537.webp?size=128 "drunk")

[hot patrol]

anyone know how I can get a profession to spawn you with a random item from an array list?

[bronze yoke]

local items = {"Base.Apple","Base.Banana"}

local onCreatePlayer = function(_playerIndex, player)
    local item = items[ZombRand(#items)+1]
    player:getInventory():AddItem(item)
end

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(onCreatePlayer)

[hot patrol]

would this work with an array list my mod already uses? this is it. ```
-- Add Weapons Items Here for each Item variant
DakimakuraWeapons = ArrayList.new()

DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura1")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura2")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura3")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura4")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura5")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura6")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura7")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura8")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura9")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura10")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura11")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura12")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura13")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura14")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura15")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura16")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura17")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura18")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura19")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura20")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura21")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura22")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura23")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura24")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura25")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura26")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura27")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura28")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura29")
DakimakuraWeapons:add("Dakimakura30")

return DakimakuraWeapons

[scarlet wigeon]

hi, im still new to lua, and i cant figure out the correct syntax for my item's distribution
may i ask for an example ?

[bronze yoke]

why are you using an arraylist?

[hot patrol]

it's used in another spawn system that spawns those items on beds.

it's also tied into addons that people make for my mod

so it's just easier if the profession spawns items from that

[fast galleon]

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

[scarlet wigeon]

works like a charm, i was to noob to understand it was what i needed when i searched 🙂

[clever spruce]

do any of you know of a mod that adds, as part of it's other features, a sort of condition bar to bags in the inventory hotbar that changes color based on the fill level of said bag?

[ancient grail]

#mod_support

[clever spruce]

I asked there and noone knew thus far, so I figured I might ask here and possibly get an answeer.

I apologize for asking in the wrong channel.

[fast galleon]

I seem to cause errors to mods that use Global ModData by doing something like:

    local function doOnce()
        Events.OnInitGlobalModData.Remove(doOnce)

    end
    Events.OnInitGlobalModData.Add(doOnce)

and nobody can track me

took me a few reloads to find myself

posting in case I remember for next time, not first time I do this

[ancient grail]

What basically you inititialize the removed the event . Without doing anything? Weird

[fast galleon]

that's enough to do the error

obviously there's more code after that

[ancient grail]

Ah i see

[crystal canyon]

Where can I find information on modding pz? I want to add a simple carpentry recipe for the tall fences the often separate houses

[ancient grail]

Check threads

[fast galleon]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide

[crystal canyon]

Thank you so much Poltergeist!

[red tiger]

I have a massive headache & am sore / tired.. but I want to mod.

#>__>

[ancient grail]

[crystal canyon]

You're good as long as you're not feeling queasy

[red tiger]

Not until the sun sets.

[ancient grail]

[red tiger]

I'm also upset because I keep delaying the post for the forums for my VSCode extension for PZ modding scripts.

Too tired from work.

[ancient grail]

Looking forward to that

[red tiger]

I mean.. It's up and live for people to use it but man.. Writing a post feels like too much work.

[ancient grail]

Thats for txt right?

[red tiger]

Yeah. Only syntax highlighting is live atm.

I got to the finish line on the first sprint goal and now I'm dead.

[ancient grail]

Still useful . Wait live?
Whats it called im gona install now

[frank elbow]

Was it an index out of bounds error? I think this should probably be a bug report—I wondered why this would be problematic & checked the decompiled code and I can see why it could cause problems (edit: actually, wait, no I don't. What was the error?) (another parenthesized edit to clarify and make this message even longer: it seems like the only thing that would happen is that it'd skip others' events once) (yet another edit: oh. I see why that would be a problem for an OnInit handler)

[ancient grail]

[red tiger]

Look up "ZedScript" in the Extensions marketplace.

[ancient grail]

[red tiger]

I had to code it in 100% Regex.

Took 2 weeks of spare time.

[ancient grail]

So..

DoParam changes future spawn instances and not the ones thats already looted right?
Then if i do param then spawn the. Revert back the changes
Theoretically that should work right?

[red tiger]

Looks like this.

[frank elbow]

I haven't used DoParam so I'm not certain. If that's the case then theoretically yeah, but I'd probably seek out a cleaner way

[ancient grail]

If im modifying something that doesnt have setter getter naturally then only doparam will work

And yeah i tried this. It didnt work

[frank elbow]

What's the something?

[red tiger]

Oh and here's the webpage too: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asledgehammer.zedscript-vscode

[ancient grail]

Like static models

[frank elbow]

Nice logo

[ancient grail]

Theres now setStatic

[red tiger]

I retrofitted it from an older logo design candidate for a PZ server in the mid to late 2010's for ZedScript.

Thanks.

I design all my media.

[ancient grail]

But i know next build they will allow clithing to change texture so tht theres no need to create 4 different items which js the same item
Like hood down and hood up
Cap front cap backwards

[tiny wolf]

Hello everybody
I'm creating my first mod which add new items to the game.
I want to add this items to the loot table but i saw that there are differents ways to do this
In the DistributionProcedural file, i can put :

**table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["ArmySurplusOutfit"].items, "JacketFlecktarnGreen.JacketFlecktarnGreen");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["ArmySurplusOutfit"].items, 6);
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["BedroomSideTable "].items, "JacketFlecktarnGreen.JacketFlecktarnGreen");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["BedroomSideTable "].items, 1); **

OR
**
local targets = {ArmySurplusOutfit = 6, BedroomSideTable = 1, }
local item = "JacketFlecktarnGreen.JacketFlecktarnGreen"

for k,v in pairs(targets) do
local items = list[k].items
table.insert(items, item)
table.insert(items, v)
end
**

I want to do the better thing to the game to make my mod optimized and easy to change. Which solution do you think i must choose ? 😮
Thank you everybody ❤️

[ancient grail]

Its the same

The other one is manual input
The second one iterates a table to insert

[tiny wolf]

thank you a lot @ancient grail !

why items have got this format : item.item ? can i use it better than my jacketflecktarngreen.jacketflecktarngreen ?

[glass basalt]

the format is module.item

[ancient grail]

Its items.item
The items is the table you insert and item is what you insert
You can name it anything

[tiny wolf]

Oh ok Thank you, i see where is the table you're mentioning, thank you guys !

Anyway, in few weeks i'll publish a new Twitch Integration Mod which let viewers play with there streamer

Viewers can :

• buy a survivor (an avatar linked with the twitch account ID) with channel points ;
• Send survivor into raid to get stuff ;
• Receive Xp Points which let him upgrade his skills
• Find stuff which spawn into the streamer base to help him

I'm using this big mod (we're a team of 4 working on it since 2 months) on my twitch channel everyday and it will be publish in April.
If you want to see it or something, don't hesitate to come 🙂 and of course i'll give the link into this discord for all streamers who want to use it

[glass basalt]

If in the in-game console, I type getPlayer():isOutside(), will it execute the lua statement or not?

need to check certain flags for the player and tiles

[bronze yoke]

what do you mean?

are you asking if the lua console is a lua console?

[glass basalt]

yes

didn't see that the input field is literally titled "Lua Command Line"
at least now I can test lua without rebooting everytime

[wheat kraken]

today i started my transport services inc, it is a realistic fast travel mod to zomboid, works SP and MP, you can ask to stop a bus to specific destination, and the 6 people that enters on bus/van, go with you to destination, it cost some money, im planning to do wallet fund compatibility with atm mod, you can even invite your buddies to your home by using last pos

im planning to record using with full group, you can send yours or we can make it together too, in the future it will be an uber option too, with trip paid by distance too soon (it is more easy to do then the bus thing)

Realistic bus fast travel - Reifel Transitio Rides (RTR) v1.0
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949835600

[glass basalt]

is there a way to register a custom event trigger?

i need one mod to do something exactly when another mod says its ready

[bronze yoke]

like this

[glass basalt]

🙏

does AddEvent have any additional params?

ah shoot I could just check the docs

it does not. 👍

[wet sandal]

Yeet!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950902979&searchtext=

[wise lion]

hey hey people, im trying to make a mod which removes the sunday driver trait from the player after having driven for a while. When I use the OnPlayerUpdate event it works but when I try and use EveryTenMinutes it freaks out over player:isdriving. Is there a singular player update line im missing?

was going to link the everytenminutes to a counter that when hitting a certain point removes the trait

[cosmic condor]

another reason for modders to use VS Code 💯

[wet sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-gif-25866395

[rancid panther]

i love tile inventory

[wet sandal]

Same lol

[rancid panther]

i wish more games used them, but every time i see it it's a pleasant surprise

that ui looks a lot neater than the current most popular clothing ui

[small topaz]

How do I iterate through all containers the player has equipped? (like backpacks worn on back, bags equipped in hands etc.)

[open drum]

local function addContext(playerID, context, items)
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(playerID)
    for _, v in ipairs(items) do
        
    local item = v
       if item:getDisplayName() == "QuestItem" then
        context:addOption(getText("READ"), item, NEXTSTAGE, playerObj)
       end

    end

end  

guys, I am trying to loop through a player's inventory
and if an item with display item name "QuestItem" is found, I want to give it a context menu "Read" when right clicked
is that correct way to do so?

[bronze yoke]

if you need to find an item or something there's a bunch of recursive methods for stuff like that in ItemContainer

otherwise, manually

[open drum]

Lol somehow i asked the similar question Razab was asking

XD

[small topaz]

Ok. Have some ideas how this will work out manually. Do you know how to check whether an item is actually a container? (I would then simply check body locations and hands for equipped items and whether they are containers...)

[small topaz]

haha... ya... still a bit different

[bronze yoke]

i think instanceof(item, "InventoryContainer")

[open drum]

i believe thre's a function that checks if an item is in player's inventory.. so i think u can use that or find a function that checks if an item is in certain container

[small topaz]

to iterate through inventory, use smth like

  for i=1, inventory:size() do
      local item = inventory:get(i-1)
      -- do smth with the item
  end```

[open drum]

also to add context menu, i just have to use the context:addOption ???

not sure if that function is inherited to all items automatically..

[small topaz]

Not exactly sure what options there are for adding context menu to items but when I do those things, I directly patch the vanilla function
ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.createMenu
which controls those menus. But there maybe easier ways to do this....

[red tiger]

I played Fate so much as a kid

[rancid panther]

i have it on steam just cuz of the nostalgia

[open drum]

ty

[glass basalt]

God, I have no idea why these functions I have added to an event are not firing

In a different file, a debug and a sound function ARE working

in this file, it doesn't even give me a log

and now I moved the function code to instead execute immediately and it gets even MORE strange

christ

[ancient grail]

Show the code
And which folder is it placed?

[bronze yoke]

is it by chance ongameboot in the server folder?

[glass basalt]

no, it's my own custom event

I will continue dabbling with it until I show this mess

[ancient grail]

How did you declare it

Lua manager

?

[glass basalt]

yes

the event itself is working just fine

it's just these stupid timed actions not working as intended in the Java code

[ancient grail]

Is it on the same lua file

[glass basalt]

no

[ancient grail]

Weird

[glass basalt]

i made an init file for creating the event

and the event triggers in one timed action

[ancient grail]

Is that how vanillla does it

Maybe youre not suppose to

[glass basalt]

for clothing unequip yeah

[ancient grail]

Ahhh....

Thags usefull

[glass basalt]

ill do something else to fix these timed actions

[ancient grail]

I hate timed actions

[glass basalt]

okay, what the fuck. Now you're telling me that another part of my code is now not working all of a sudden?
absolute bullshit, I'm done modding for tonight

"yeah, we simply won't transform the item, even though its happening somewhere else entirely from where you were making changes"

I wish everyone here a very nice modding sesh apart from this crap I've been having lol

[steel cargo]

First person mod in project zombiod

[late hound]

just make another game at that point LOL

[rancid panther]

just buy dayZ lol

[drifting ore]

Hmm, im planning to create a mod can change the tailoring material, i mean now we only use leather, denim and cloth to patch holes, i want to create and use rare material for more protection. But i don see any script or lua about that. Any suggest for this idea?

[fading horizon]

ill take a look and see if i can find a relevant file real quick

[drifting ore]

yah please, i try to find whole yesterday in searching file, internet but dont find any clue about it :(( Only thing i found is some strip.png :v

[fading horizon]

holy shit

just finally figured out my mod after being unable to do it all day yesterday

spent all day reading lua documentation because i knew nothing about lua

at long last ive done it

i struggled with replacing / adding to a vanilla function but I think i finally got it

ISEatFoodAction.new = function(self, character, item, percentage)
    local isClove = item:getType()
    local o = base_eat(self,character, item, percentage)
    --print(o.maxTime)
    if isClove == "CloveCigarettes" then o.maxTime = 2000 end
    --print(o.maxTime)
    --print("DONE")
    return o
end```

can someone please check and tell me if this is an okay way to accomplish adding to a vanilla function

i don't want to mess anything up, replace any files, or cause conflict with other mods

but i think this should be okay from my research?

@drifting oreI think i found something relevant

media\lua\shared\Definitions\ClothingRecipesDefinitions.lua

ClothingRecipesDefinitions = {};

ClothingRecipesDefinitions["Sheet"] = {materials="Base.RippedSheets:4" }
--ClothingRecipesDefinitions["Belt2"] = {materials="Base.LeatherStrips:1"}


ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"] = {}
ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Cotton"] = {};
ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Cotton"].material = "Base.RippedSheets";

ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Denim"] = {};
ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Denim"].material = "Base.DenimStrips";
-- ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Denim"].tools = "Base.Scissors"; -- commented out as they are unused; recipe code handles this
ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Denim"].noSheetRope = true;

ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Leather"] = {}
ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Leather"].material = "Base.LeatherStrips";
-- ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Leather"].tools = "Base.Scissors"; -- commented out as they are unused; recipe code handles this
ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"]["Leather"].noSheetRope = true;```

[rancid panther]

what command did you use to call the timed action? i might be able to use that to improve my immunity mod in the future

[drifting ore]

Oh thankyou, i’ll check it later when i come home

[fading horizon]

i'm confused by what you mean

require "TimedActions/ISEatFoodAction"

local base_eat = ISEatFoodAction.new --make a copy of the vanilla function

ISEatFoodAction.new = function(self, character, item, percentage)             --override vanilla function
    local isClove = item:getType()                                             -- variable containing item type, which is "CloveCigarettes"
    local o = base_eat(self,character, item, percentage)                     --let vanilla new function run to create the "o" object
    if isClove == "CloveCigarettes" then o.maxTime = 2000 end                 -- if the item is a clove cigarette, make the use time longer because cloves burn slow
    return o                                                                 -- returns the o object so that the rest of the vanilla functions can perform
end```

this is the full code and the comments of what it does

nothing else

i'm very new to this

[rancid panther]

ah, you have a script that already calls the timed actions automatically?

i see

[fading horizon]

no this is all i have

its just adding into the vanilla function of isEatFoodAction.new

[rancid panther]

o i c

that's what i meant

[fading horizon]

oh okay

[rancid panther]

the script called it automatically

[fading horizon]

sorry, i'm still trying to wrap my head around all this

i'm just happy I finally got it working

[rancid panther]

yay!

[fading horizon]

something as simple as changing that took me a long time

but i was starting with no knowledge

[rancid panther]

it's okay tho, the less i learn, the less likely i am to lose hours of sleep over my mod again

[fading horizon]

now for the real fun part of learning blender and 3d modeling so i can make models

but models for cigarettes and a box of cigarettes should be easy

just a box and a cylinder

[rancid panther]

u could probably get away with a single cigarette as the 3d model

since the item itself is a single cig

[fading horizon]

[rancid panther]

unless u made it a drainable item, but im assuming u used similar code to the cigarette

[fading horizon]

you're not wrong

[rancid panther]

oh wow an emote drawn by one of my fav artists. i see them everywhere

[fading horizon]

however, it could be neat if I made a new item that's a carton containing a number of cigarettes

[rancid panther]

you could do that as well

[fading horizon]

hmm

for now I think ill do the single cigarette, upload it to the workshop, and then make a cigarette pack in an update

[rancid panther]

sapph's cooking has candy cigarettes that are a drainable item instead of 1 cigarette each time

[fading horizon]

is it possible to have a recipe with no item requirements

[rancid panther]

i dont think so

[fading horizon]

because if so I could just make it a recipe item that destroys on use and gives 12 cigarettes

[rancid panther]

oh yea you can do that

that's just a single item requirement

[fading horizon]

oh itself as a requirement

right

makes sense

[rancid panther]

look at script for "open sack of potatoes" etc

they all do stuff like that

[fading horizon]

i wish project zomboid had a "cool" moodle or level

so smoking a clove cigarette makes you less cool

lmao

[rancid panther]

lol

Rizz 🔻

[fading horizon]

well this is not what i intended

worlds largest smokie

[ancient grail]

Looks good

@abstract raptor look lava

Hehe

Smoke that you die

[shadow trench]

where do i get started with learning to make a mod?

i'd like to create a mod that allows blades to be sharpened with a whetstone

[frank elbow]

There are resources for learning in the pins and threads of this channel + the wiki

[fast galleon]

that sounds like something you can find on steam workshop

[shadow trench]

awesome, but it's a bit confusing. are there any specifics that i should look for to 'repair' an item?

so far i was able to modify the durability of a weapon, and it works well

[chrome egret]

Yes, this is fine. You're effectively doing what Fenris_Wolf recommends in this guide: https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/blob/master/api/README.md#overwriting-vanilla-code

[torn igloo]

is the global moddata at client side independent from global moddata at server side?

[fast galleon]

same table, manual sync required.

though generally any obj is not exactly same

[buoyant osprey]

Where should I start when adding stuff like custom radio/tv

[fading horizon]

as in a new item or a new channel

does this cigarette look too big

or is it okay

[buoyant osprey]

New Channel like Life and Living or Turbo

[drifting ore]

hmm, how about value of protection? I mean, Cotton has about 5% protection bonus.
I think it in script but dont see any like that, again :((

[fading horizon]

i think i found it

man it was a pain in the ass

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\TimedActions\ISRepairClothing.lua

also in there is ISRemovePatch.lua which you may need if you're adding new material

require "TimedActions/ISBaseTimedAction"

ISRepairClothing = ISBaseTimedAction:derive("ISRepairClothing");

function ISRepairClothing:isValid()
    return self.character:getInventory():contains(self.clothing) and
        self.character:getInventory():contains(self.fabric) and
        self.character:getInventory():contains(self.needle) and
        self.character:getInventory():contains(self.thread) and
        (self.clothing:getPatchType(self.part) == nil)
end

function ISRepairClothing:update()
    
end

function ISRepairClothing:start()
    self:setActionAnim(CharacterActionAnims.Craft);
end

function ISRepairClothing:stop()
    ISBaseTimedAction.stop(self);
end

function ISRepairClothing:perform()
    self.clothing:addPatch(self.character, self.part, self.fabric);
    self.character:resetModel();
    self.character:getInventory():Remove(self.fabric);
    self.thread:Use();
    
    self.character:getXp():AddXP(Perks.Tailoring, ZombRand(1, 3));

    triggerEvent("OnClothingUpdated", self.character)

    -- needed to remove from queue / start next.
    ISBaseTimedAction.perform(self);
end

function ISRepairClothing:new(character, clothing, part, fabric, thread, needle)
    local o = {}
    setmetatable(o, self)
    self.__index = self
    o.character = character;
    o.clothing = clothing;
    o.part = part;
    o.fabric = fabric;
    o.thread = thread;
    o.needle = needle;
    o.stopOnWalk = true;
    o.stopOnRun = true;
    o.maxTime = 150 - (character:getPerkLevel(Perks.Tailoring) * 6);
    if o.character:isTimedActionInstant() then o.maxTime = 1; end
    return o;
end````

file contents

so basically you would define your new patches in media\lua\shared\Definitions\ClothingRecipesDefinitions.lua

then you would patch ISRepairClothing:newto check if one of your new patches is the item being applied

(i think)

[drifting ore]

hmm, i'll try the ClothingRecipeDef first, but still not find the protection value. Just like i want to create a new fabric type, so it should have new protection value

[fading horizon]

found it @drifting ore

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\newItems.txt

    {
        DisplayCategory = Material,
        CanBandage    =    TRUE,
        Weight    =    0.05,
        AlwaysWelcomeGift    =    TRUE,
        Type    =    Normal,
        DisplayName    =    Leather Strips,
        ReplaceOnUse    =   LeatherStripsDirty,
        Icon    =    LeatherStrips,
        BandagePower    =   2,
        Tooltip = Tooltip_RippedSheets,
        FabricType = Leather,
        WorldStaticModel = LeatherStrips,
    }```

[drifting ore]

new item?

[fading horizon]

bandage power

i think

so you would define it with that

[drifting ore]

feel not true, it for the bandage i think?

[fading horizon]

perhaps

worth a shot, at least

[drifting ore]

just like, fast heal when use leather strip

[fading horizon]

maybe they use the same variable

but ill keep searching

just trying to provide anything i can ❤️

[drifting ore]

yah, it's not

this is the sterilized sheet

[fading horizon]

damn

[drifting ore]

it also have bandage power

[fading horizon]

smart way to debug that though

[drifting ore]

so it's not the value i found

hmm, dont know how to use that

already turn on it but dont know how the dabug work :V

[fading horizon]

nah i was just saying that was a smart way to test that variable

to see if it really was the protection value

[coral rapids]

Hey guys you got any idea why my icon wont show up?

items.txt =
module BamsAlarmMod
{
imports
{
Base
}
item HomemadeAlarm
{
Type = Normal,
DisplayName = Homemade Alarm,
Icon = Item_Alarm,
Weight = 1
}
}

name=Bams Homemade Alarm
id=BamsHomemadeAlarm
description=This homemade Alarm created by a Speaker some Wires and 2 Batteries will lure any Zombie that is nearby away from you!

Hey guys you got any idea why my icon wont show up?

items.txt =

module BamsAlarmMod
{
imports
{
Base
}
item HomemadeAlarm
{
Type = Normal,
DisplayName = Homemade Alarm,
Icon = Item_Alarm,
Weight = 1
}
}

mod.info =

name=Bams Homemade Alarm
id=BamsHomemadeAlarm
description=This homemade Alarm created by a Speaker some Wires and 2 Batteries will lure any Zombie that is nearby away from you!

icon format is .png

32x32

[fading horizon]

in textures/Item_Alarm.png?

[coral rapids]

yup

[fading horizon]

you also need a comma after Weight = 1

[coral rapids]

oh for real? 😄

[fading horizon]

i believe so

[coral rapids]

hold on

[fading horizon]

i just read that somewhere

idk where though

maybe i'm wrong, still new to this

[coral rapids]

nah that isnt it :/

[drifting ore]

yah, not the value :((

this fking thing, that's why dont see so much mod about tailoring

[fading horizon]

can you show your file structure

[coral rapids]

sure

[fading horizon]

for real. I wouldn't have thought it would have been such a pain

this is it

i didn't see the item_

but that's deffo the issue

[drifting ore]

yah, searching for the whole workshop and really a little mod about tailoring

hmm? My role change :V?

[coral rapids]

media -> scripts -> items.txt
textures -> Item_Alarm.png
mod.info

hold on

[drifting ore]

hmm, found some about it on wiki

[coral rapids]

nope still wont work sadly

[drifting ore]

does anyone got any idea about file has this class?

[coral rapids]

oh i see

yea it worked thanks mate ❤️

[fading horizon]

i'm still searching

but legit i'm stumped

searching the wiki, files, googling, etc

you picked a tough one lol

[drifting ore]

haha really hard

[fading horizon]

how do i make it so theres no "all" option?

[drifting ore]

hmm new cigar?

[fading horizon]

yeah

clove cigarettes

[drifting ore]

i see the image of item on ground, i think u should reduce a little

[fading horizon]

you think?

[drifting ore]

the size, maybe a little is better, or maybe im wrong cuz i often use the 3d model

oh

look gud with that

[shadow trench]

module RepairKatana
{
    imports
    {
        Base
    }

    fixing Fix Katana
    {
        Require : Katana,    
       
        Fixer    : Whetstone = 1,
    }
}

how can i keep the whetstone after the repair?

im assuming this will delete the item after repairing?

[red tiger]

https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/tree/master/scripts#the-fixing-block

[shadow trench]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks a whole bunch!!!!

eh, but it still doesn't address the items not being removed

[red tiger]

The guide fails to mention that:

Fixer : Woodglue=2; Woodwork=2,

The 2nd entry is a skill and level.

I'm not sure how that's calculated tbh.

ZedScript is cryptic and band-aid'd to hell.

It might be units of the item?

[shadow trench]

sigh

i wonder if its just not possible

maybe i could just make the item a drainable

and slowly reduce it's use

[fading horizon]

is there a "disable all" option in mod manager

i can't find one

but i'm really tired

and i don't feel like manually disabling 400 mods

[jaunty marten]

Saved Presets and there's option to disable all mods

[fading horizon]

tyvm

[fading horizon]

-- ["list"]["inventorymale"]
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "gothCigs.CloveCigarettes");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 100);

-- ["list"]["inventoryfemale"]
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items, "gothCigs.CloveCigarettes");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items, 100);

this should make it so my item spawns on zombies every time, right?

i'm trying to test my distribution but I can't get the item to spawn

[fading horizon]

oh nevermind I was using the mod ID instead of the module ID before the item name

[neon bronze]

Can you do that with items aswell?

[fading horizon]

got my item distribution working and with that my mod is complete

now i just have to make the steam workshop and preview images

hype

[quaint crescent]

Thought bro was hitting the griddy

[red tiger]

@jaunty marten Hey. Spending some time today working on implementing my tokenizer in my vscode extension.

For the largest files, I've gotten the time down from ~2.0 seconds (Horrible) to ~0.02 seconds (Better).

This was due to cursor data being calculated from 0->offset in my char tokenizer.

Implemented a cache for it.

[wet sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/raichu-gottagofast-lol-speedy-gif-19134338

Gotta go fast!

[red tiger]

With my lexer / tokenizer in place for the extension, that means development on auto-complete suggestions, a formatter, and a linter is now possible.

[vast jasper]

im not a coder so its going to be a hot minute to find out what im doing with these ntm i have at most 80 more of these to make and do their stats

the initial release is going to be these four and wont be anything like what they will be when "project fallout" is released

im hoping i can get who ever modeled "Project Fallout: Scientific Armoury" to make some power armor paints

but atm they are just going to give mechanics skill

[sour island]

If you want to avoid some tedium you could look at how I handled Named literature @vast jasper

I used Base.Book and a list of 3000 titles and authors + a bunch of colored icons to randomly seed names and colors.

[vast jasper]

😂 yeah i should look into something like that

atm when they are read they turn into one of the vanilla auto magazines

[red tiger]

All recipe properties are case-sensitive.

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-really-stressed-mad-angry-gif-16109475

[weak sierra]

lol glytch3r you spooky bastard xD

[red tiger]

☝️

[red tiger]

@tame mulch

This is the phase where I start integrating your documentation.

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/raichu-gottagofast-lol-speedy-gif-19134338

[ancient grail]

@weak sierra nyahahha
U like the idea?

[red tiger]

ZedScript auto-complete is now becoming a reality. :D

In-editor documentation too.

[ancient grail]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950660206

[ancient grail]

Your zedscript will give birth to a new generation of modders

[red tiger]

ZedScript is well.. the name of the script unofficially. This tool will, yeah.

[weak sierra]

it's pretty cool yeah

[ancient grail]

Esp if i add a jumpscare when it moves

[red tiger]

A little worried about really long code blocks in documentation buuut this does work.

@tame mulch https://github.com/asledgehammer/ZedScript-VSCode/blob/main/src/scope/Recipe.ts

I just laid out the implementation to be incredibly easy to add to.

So all scopes inside of module can be worked on and populated with documentation and auto-fill.

An idea I had was gathering up a list of all item objects and serving them as completion suggestions for recipes.

My full tokenizer is simplified and added to this extension as well.

I'll run through and do Recipe's options today and then fill in as I go forward in the following days.

I laid out the design of this feature for the extension in order to give the opportunity for modders to submit documentation if they wish to help with the process.

I don't expect anyone to do this because in the 10 years I've modded PZ this hasn't happened when I did.

xD

[chrome egret]

Your plugin is looking slick as hell, Jab

[red tiger]

One more screenshot before I pause for the day:

[chrome egret]

What's the compat on this bad boy?

Just restarted for updates and still can't install it

[red tiger]

Make an issue on the repo. I'll need to take a look.

I use the latest VSCode installation.

[chrome egret]

Can you check your version right quick?

[red tiger]

I'm going AFK for a while. Caught me at the last moment.

Sure.

Version: 1.76.2 (user setup)
Commit: ee2b180d582a7f601fa6ecfdad8d9fd269ab1884
Date: 2023-03-14T17:55:54.936Z
Electron: 19.1.11
Chromium: 102.0.5005.196
Node.js: 16.14.2
V8: 10.2.154.26-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22000
Sandboxed: Yes

(This is my very first VSCode extension so anything that should be obvious isn't to me =( )

[chrome egret]

Had to restart one more time to get to 1.76.2, but now it installs.

Not sure if there's a hard dependency or something could be made more permissive with it.

[red tiger]

Yeah.

If you have insight feel free to DM me or join my server & say something or make an issue with the fix.

pull-request too?

lol

[chrome egret]

https://github.com/asledgehammer/ZedScript-VSCode/issues/1

First

I don't have the fix for you unfortunately, you're one VSCode extension ahead of me in experience 😉

[red tiger]

No worries.

Will take a look into when I can.

[chrome egret]

Looks like you have it locked to 1.76.0 and up: https://github.com/asledgehammer/ZedScript-VSCode/blob/main/package.json#L6-L8

I can't say whether that's required for what you're using.

[chrome egret]

Interestingly, your devDependencies only take a dependency on the vscode types exposed with 1.73.0 and up, so perhaps version can at least be cranked down that far? https://github.com/asledgehammer/ZedScript-VSCode/blob/main/package.json#L34

[chilly flint]

hey, can anyone give me a guide on how to change a model of a gun?

[fading horizon]

Am i allowed to use real product images such as this for my workshop preview image

idk the workshop guidelines / rules

[craggy bridge]

i had an idea for a mod and wanted some pointers as to which wiki pages would be the most informative for my concept.
i want to make a very fleshed out bagel-making mod.
and i would like to allow for baking them with dough, toasting them, cutting them, and spreading stuff like jam, peanut butter, and more, onto them.
any assistance would be lovely!
oh and btw i already have a fair amount of coding experience so i can most likely figure any of that out myself, i just need to know what game specific info would be useful

[fading horizon]

i'd recommend looking at another cooking mod likes sapphs cooking to see how they laid out their recipes / definitions / lua

[ancient grail]

#1070852229654917180 message

@craggy bridge

[rancid panther]

ur expected to follow copyright laws but i doubt they would pursue you legally for this.

[fading horizon]

@rancid panther

what about if i remove the brand name

like this

would that avoid copyright?

[rancid panther]

i just learned about fair use in my class recently

it could be considered transformative, but i dont think the company will care regardless of what you do

i would say removing branding is good enough if you wanna go that route

maybe give it a pz-esque name too

kinda like how the boots mod calls Adidas "Adimas" and how modded vehicles use funny names too

[fading horizon]

mod doesn't reference the name at all actually

it's just "clove cigarettes"

so name isn't an issue

ill try it without the brand name and see if i get any kickback

only my second mod so i'm trying to be careful. I don't wanna mess anything up or get in trouble

bc i'm having a lot of fun learning how to make mods

[eager pollen]

making a car mod rn and wondering if it's normal that the entire vehicule (including the grey sections ( when you remove a part) are reflective.. I'm guessing it's not but can't seem to find what I did wrong..

[red tiger]

@chrome egret I went ahead and moved the version for vscode.

Let me know if this works.

I just bounced two issues on GitHub at once heh.

One involving code not touched for over 7 months.

[chrome egret]

I haven't run npm i at all, btw. It borked directly from the extension install

[red tiger]

Oh..

Fixing rn.

[chrome egret]

Once you determine the minimum version you think you can support, I was planning on downloading an old portable VS Code to test.

[red tiger]

@chrome egret Give the new version to validate & verify for about 8 minutes and try installing 41.78.19

[chrome egret]

What min version are we looking at for the vscode engine in that release?

[red tiger]

1.63.0

Oh heck

I just realized..

I only updated the TypeScript package.

[chrome egret]

Yeah, I think your latest change was only to devDependencies

But you left the engine version the same

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/extension-manifest

[red tiger]

Yes. I'm editing this.

Okay. Expect another 8 or so minutes @chrome egret

Should be live.

[glass basalt]

Is anyone here a timed action guru, god, or deity? Because I need divine power to solve a very simple issue, in which reinventing the wheel 3 different ways did not solve apparently

[frank rivet]

Is there a mod out there that shows missing dependencies for a downloaded mod?

[chrome egret]

Not gonna claim any of those titles, but what's your issue? I thought I was at a dead end with my timed action issue and figured it out, so there's hope!

[chrome egret]

It does appear to let me install with the portable 1.63.2 version I downloaded, but I do think it's broken somehow.

I presume that if it were working I would get some autocompletion help with this input, since it's similar to the example you showed:

recipe Do A Badass Thing
{
    On
}

Not getting IntelliSense with the newer VS Code version, but I do at least see syntactical highlighting, and it's not giving an error about the ServiceWorker registration:

[red tiger]

Honestly, I should just put it back to 1.75.0

VSCode is very update-friendly.

Here.. one sec.

[glass basalt]

well alright, i guess i ought to explain exactly what I'm doing

At the beginning of the game, my mod queues a timed action to happen immediately

There is another mod that queues other timed actions before my timed action, but I don't want that

so I have made an event that triggers when my timed action finishes, to call the other mod's code to queue its timed actions

but all sorts of shit happens and I can't make heads or tails

this is still the rough gist. it is a very complicated operation in the code lol

[glass basalt]

your best shot is the mods explicitly telling you what it requires in the mod.info (mods screen), but there are no mods that can comb through all of the files to find what is what

you could try searching through all of the files for anything that uses getActivatedMods(), but some mods directly use things from other mods without checking if they are enabled

in summary you just need to look at the code

[red tiger]

@chrome egret

This is the packaged mod.

Try running it.

I think you can locally use it.

[versed viper]

SO this is out of the blue and nobody asked, but I want to bring attention to this for anybody paying attention:
https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1088608788006830112

I have seen a lot of mods now that don't get parsed properly by the native PZ Linux client, and it's because of carriage returns in their files that have been written on DOS systems and can't be properly read by UNIX systems.

Pay attention to hidden characters :^)

[red tiger]

You mean \r\n?

Yeah it's something that the client needs to check for and handle.

[boreal ginkgo]

🌊 I just started writing mods for pz. Any testing tools y'all recommend? It's a bit of an ick to re-run the game over and over :p

[versed viper]

Agreed, that's why I put in a report

[boreal ginkgo]

Like a developer mode or something?

[red tiger]

-debug on the launch parameters for PZ.

[red tiger]

Put this report on the forums.

Would suck to see that swallowed up here.

[boreal ginkgo]

Is there a way to do that with Steam?

Thx for the quick response btw!

[red tiger]

Launch options. (Right-click the game)

Properties

First tab

advanced users line

[versed viper]

I'll see about it sure

[red tiger]

I run PZ from Batch files personally.

[chrome egret]

Say more! Or link the source.

[eager pollen]

Made a simple car mod, everything works fine, except I'm unable to get the bloodUI to show up on them.. could somebody point me in the right direction?
I've seen the the veh_blood_mask in the game files so my guess is I have to make one for my models. But where do I link it? The in-game car script use them as overlaydamage01 and 02, but when I do that the car gets bloody if the parts have low condition..

[boreal ginkgo]

Oh ho, do tell!

Do you run the it from the terminal using one of the .app files? I've been looking to figure out how to do that

[red tiger]

I use Windows.

You can do the same thing with shell script unless you're using a Mac IIRC.

[boreal ginkgo]

I am indeed using a Mac. I probably need to find a different way

[red tiger]

I think you can hold down left or right SHIFT when launching the game to enable debug mode.

[glass basalt]

I am making my mod Parachuting Start work with Insurgent
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2948659911
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2907683021

Insurgent auto-equips the weapon on your character and it happens before my parachute action

I am trying to make it auto-equip afterwards but it's not working, even if I comment out the code entirely weird shit still happens

need to sit back down and actually comb through it again. yesterday was a disaster because I also had college assignments and no real free time

[fading horizon]

[url=http://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php/topic/2530-mod-permissions/?p=36477][img]https://projectzomboid.com/images/MODS_02.png[/img]Website link[/url]

does anyone know why this image wouldn't be loading

for some reason the url image does not load

however [img]https://i.imgur.com/2RKJkHw.jpeg[/img] will load

in the steam workshop item description

[fast galleon]

how do the safehouses work exactly?

[small topaz]

I think most of the stuff you want to do can be realized by using appropriate script.txt definitions for your new items as well recipes and evolved recipes. What could be a thing is allowing to toast them because afaik there isn't any vanilla system allowing toasting (or am I worng? are there even toasters in game??). This might require some additional coding work.

As a starting point, I would just check the vanilla recipe.txt's to get an idea what is going on. They can be be found in media/scripts folder.

[craggy bridge]

id honestly be fine with just using the existing cooked system to represent toasted bagels

would i be able to make the uncooked bagels still be healthy to eat and not be bad like uncooked meat, or is uncooked food by itself unhealthy

like is uncooked food dangerous no matter what

also thanks for the descriptive help

[small topaz]

then you could try doing this by setting "IsCookable = TRUE" in the script definition. This alone won't make the food unhealthy when uncooked.

[fading horizon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951287846&searchtext=clove

just published my new mod. Finally got it working

hope somebody likes it

[fading horizon]

what's the best way to contact a mod author for permission?

i tried going to their steam page but there's no message option

leaving a comment on their profile seems weird

no github

searched this discord but didn't find someone that could be them

author hasn't commented or updated the mod since January either

all i want to do is use some of their distribution.lua

mod page doesn't list permissions so i guess its credit where do?

[hidden jungle]

all modding for PZ is open source. just credit them if you feel the need too

[fading horizon]

ill be changing all the spawn rates I just don't want to have to copy / dig through all the spawn locations

so idk if credit is even needed then?

its not specialized spawn locations

just general stuff

[hidden jungle]

probably not, people look at other mods for "how did they do that" all the time

[open drum]

dear respectful coders, could someone help me on what to iterate if I want to find a "dead zombie" on the floor???

do getGridSquare() has its container inherited?

[hidden jungle]

i believe zombie corpses are considered loot containers. i know you can get all of the nearby players loot containers but i don't remember how

[open drum]

dang xD

what i want to do is to bring up a context menu "inspect" when I right click on a dead zombie on floor

So i guessed that i need to get all the dead zombie on the position a mouse right clicked

[hidden jungle]

for _,Container in ipairs(loot.backpacks) do
    local Inv = Container.inventory
    if Inv:getType() == "???" then
        
    end
end```

[open drum]

then bring up the context menu

then perform the funtion , end remove the zombie below the set x y z

[open drum]

is this all the loot around the player?

[fading horizon]

what i would do

theres a zombie corpse autopsy mod

it adds an autopsy context menu to a corpse

you could check that out and see how they did it

[hidden jungle]

^

[fading horizon]

it should be very similar

[open drum]

sounds like a good idea, any idea on the name of the mod?

[fading horizon]

searching now

[open drum]

ty

[fading horizon]

might be the vaccine mod

[hidden jungle]

yeah, that will get all of the loot containers the player has near them.

[fading horizon]

but i'm not sure

so give me a sec

[open drum]

im confused about the loot.backpacks part

[fading horizon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2685680439&searchtext=vaccine

i'm pretty sure this is it

[open drum]

is all the containers: including box, zombie inventories, drawers all saved in

loot.backpack table?

[open drum]

huge thanks good sir

[hidden jungle]

honestly so am i, that code is from AutoMechanics originally, it works for my mod.
I never messed around with it to get specifics on what loot vs loot.backpacks is

[fading horizon]

im not a sir but ty

[open drum]

i see i see

[fading horizon]

but yeah i think that's a good place to start

[open drum]

apologies, ma'am

[fading horizon]

no worries!

oh wow my role just ranked up

i'm cool now

literally just published my mod and i'm already going to start working on v2 because i'm bored

i don't even want to play the game anymore ; just make mods for it

[red tiger]

Going to try to continue work on my vscode extension before sleep.

[bronze yoke]

please don't mistake source available for free to use

mods are still the property of their creators

the modding tos even makes sure to reinforce this, though it'd be true either way

[red tiger]

And this is why I cannot stress enough the importance of licensing your works.

Let people know what you allow them to do with your work.

[fading horizon]

you do that by adding This mod's permissions fall under TIS's policy....etc to the mod page right

[red tiger]

https://choosealicense.com/

[fading horizon]

re: this

[frank lintel]

jabs Jab

[hidden jungle]

way i see it, modding and writing code is just knowledge and information. anyone could know HOW to write that code. just because one person wrote it doesnt mean that nobody else is allowed too

[red tiger]

I went crazy today.

[bronze yoke]

i usually include a license file in the mod's root directory, as well as a 'go read the license file' notice in each file

[frank lintel]

its okay I just decided to open the attack.class today and my brain just went...

[red tiger]

No.. you don't understand..

I went.. crazy.

[frank lintel]

think lost time counts under that

[frank lintel]

long as you arent writing methods called like setIsEnabled()

[red tiger]

Take a lap.

[frank lintel]

oh please tell me you didnt join the dark side

[eager pollen]

still trying to figure out how to add the blood overlay on cars..
in the game file they used Damage1Overlay but that doesn't work for me for some reason. any one familiar with this?

[red tiger]

Yuup. I'm in the stage where I get to show off my work the most.

Auto-complete suggestions.

[frank lintel]

well till ya get that going in IJ wont help me

[red tiger]

If you can't use something as silly and lightweight as VSCode..

xD

[frank lintel]

I just dont like it. its right behind VS2019

[red tiger]

God.. Screw Visual Studio though.

I have to use VS for work.

VSCode is my escape from that.

[frank lintel]

if VS would just straight up compile C out of the box I'd have less complaints

[red tiger]

And that's why I don't C.

[frank lintel]

C and ASM for life

[red tiger]

I dunno tho.. people would kill for formatting, auto-completing, and syntax highlighting for ZedScript. =P

[frank lintel]

then lets see fortran 77 and 88 pascal, cobol/jcl...java

I think its a good tool

[red tiger]

Heheh

I get ya

[frank lintel]

make it commandlineable...

[open drum]

what software is this??? Eclipse?

[red tiger]

See people are asking for this

[red tiger]

VSCode.

[bronze yoke]

i think it's great, i just don't want to use two ides for one project (and my projects are usually very light on scripts anyway)

[red tiger]

I work on both PipeWrench and ZedScript in VSCode.

[red tiger]

I thought about writing a Language Service Protocol package for multiple IDE support buuut

It's haaard

I'd need help.

[frank lintel]

why Im trying to give you a proper suggestion

[red tiger]

I wrote a tokenizer so someone can complete this for me.

[open drum]

wow, is pipewrench and zedscript a plugin for VSCode ?

[red tiger]

PipeWrench is actually a node package

[open drum]

ah

[red tiger]

I use VSCode mainly so it kind of fancies that environment.

I had to do a fix for someone today with PipeWrench. =(

Pesky replaceAll missing from conventional JavaScript libraries.

[frank lintel]

if I can get kahlua to compile Im seriously tempted at making a decompile/etc toolset and not hide it behind gradle

[red tiger]

I feel like I'm being called out.

Hahahaha

[frank lintel]

wut?

[red tiger]

(Did some private upgrades to Kahlua in the past)

[frank lintel]

talking about zlib etc the whole source/class/annotation thing

[red tiger]

Ah ok.

I upgraded their Reflection API code.

They're using JDK 1.6 API.

Good ole MethodPointer to the rescue..

[frank lintel]

I havent run into any issues decompiling to 17

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i've never used gradle before and it was a real obstacle in getting that stuff working

[red tiger]

Gradle's a good fight.

Especially with KotlinScript.

[frank lintel]

its easy to use, problem is what its doing is totally invisible all you seeing is the output/result

[bronze yoke]

and it basically prohibits me from making any source alterations because i don't understand the whole plugin system

[red tiger]

I have examples of both for setting up PZ projects in my org's repo.

Gradle GroovyScript & KotlinScript.

And maven too.

[frank lintel]

now if ya got what it does on github or something so ppl can see and improve it okay fine... sadly atm thats not the case

[red tiger]

But I do.. IIRC.

[frank lintel]

huh wut?

[red tiger]

Here.. I'll even post ones from a private repo.

<3

[bronze yoke]

i was trying to rewrite it a little to make it use vsc lua style annotations instead of emmylua back when i was still using vsc but the whole gradle process obfuscated it too much for me

[red tiger]

Sorry but some projects are special.. =P

[frank lintel]

? unless its capsid not gonna help

[red tiger]

capsid again..

[frank lintel]

like I said the library crapper

[red tiger]

Party pooper.

I need to write guides though.

People need to know this stuff.

I went through many many hours of suffering to get working some of this stuff.

I even wrote a layered gradle project where some code sits in a private repo while the rest is public.

[frank lintel]

1 sec

[red tiger]

It's so I don't release PZ code. :D

But dw, I'm a old fck too. I played in ASM debuggers as a kid.

That world is crazy.

[frank lintel]

grrr it removed them again... my IJ I added every single libjar etc from the main game folder as a external library and finally stuff started looking like it knew what to do

[fading horizon]

what's the difference between defining a recipe and it's results like this

Recipe Open
    {
        destroy ClovePack,
        Result:CloveCigarettes=20,
        Time: 10.0,
    }```

vs setting an oncreate function that adds items like this 
```lua
function Recipe.OnCreate.OpenBoxOfJars(items, result, player)
    player:getInventory():AddItems("Base.JarLid", 6);
end```

or are they just two methods of doing the same thing?

[glass basalt]

the function is what happens when you complete the recipe (using lua code)
the recipe script is the structure, which can instead do basic preset things like immediately give an item

you could theoretically have a recipe that idk spawns zombies or other wack stuff

you would just need Result:Recipe.OnCreate.OpenClovePack or something similar

time to fix this stupid mod again, hold me back

[rancid panther]

https://tenor.com/view/fight-fight-me-angry-get-out-gif-15019636

[small topaz]

Question about the official game mechanics: If food gets rotten, hunger value is decreased. Are the nutritional values like calories and stuff also decreased?

a bit difficult to find out quickly because when changing age of food in debug mode, the game behaves a bit strangely. So not sure if the results in debug mode are really showing how it is supposed to be during normal game play.

[red tiger]

Got an auto-completion with 2 steps, one being all skills and 2nd being all levels.

Wrote an API function variable that can override normal auto-completion generation for properties.

SkillRequired fit the bill for such an override. =)

Could make it so that Lua methods could pre-fill to make typing / organizing easier.

[fading horizon]

once again, ty for all your help

i saw your comment on my mod on the workshop, much appreciated ❤️

[glass basalt]

😏

[fading horizon]

you're really busting your ass on this and making significant progress each day and ive been here less than a week

great job honestly

[red tiger]

Thanks. This is actually a project spanning a month and a half, the former work being all API-driven and debugging.

It's nothing to do with the vscode extension. That research led to this extension.

I plan to write a preprocessor language and a compiler for it to compile to ZedScript.

Before that happens I need to master ZedScript.

This is all the work that proceeded the extension: https://github.com/asledgehammer/ZedScriptParser

By the end of this month, you should be able to do quite a bit with ZedScript in VSCode. =)

[fading horizon]

it will definitely be making my journey to learning how to mod zomboid / use lua a bit easier

[red tiger]

If you want to write mods using TypeScript, it is available as an option.

[fading horizon]

i don't even know what that is honestly

[red tiger]

Then don't bother with it lol.

[fading horizon]

im experienced with making websites

html, css, js

that kinda stuff

[red tiger]

TypeScript is superset JavaScript.

It's a language designed to compile to JS however it can be compiled to others such as Lua.

[fading horizon]

interesting