mod_development

[sour island]

ah

yeah XP logic gets complicated fast - when you start dealing with xpMaps and multipliers

So what this does is let you get lost bonus XP from skill books that you leveled out of being able to use?

[jaunty marten]

there's multiplier for recovered exp and if it's equals to 1 then u can absolutely don't think about skill books. any xp that u will lose due to have no exp mult from skill book will be recovery after read this skill book

[jaunty marten]

yeah, I'm confused already on first step with Write journal action

[sour island]

I dont remember when I rewrote SRJ to handle bonus XP / TVXP but what it does is use a modData list of XP

the write function just grabs that list and segments it into little bits and manually loops the action to add little by little

speaking of which I plan to remove isReadBook and the craft action I'm using

it only causes issues seemingly lol

[jaunty marten]

ah, btw about tvxp, do u know if there's way to detect source of xp? like to detect if given xp is one from tv

[brave ruin]

What do you add to your mod pack to add items to zombie loot?

Cause it's not in the distributions.lua right?

[sour island]

TVXP is problematic because of how it's written in - it's behind a few locals which would mean either overwriting the file (breaking alot of compatibility) or doing what I did which is decorate the java function

my mod is a bit of a house of cards cause of it lol

I went all in, and made my entire mod work off a decoration to the exposed addXP

but it doesn't catch calls made in java - so I use an event for those calls

as for the source - I pull the coroutines

same way you can get the file name for errors

[frank elbow]

Related to this: decided to write a type stub for the extra Kahlua standard lib stuff. May be of interest to y'all @frank lintel @fast galleon
edit: just noticed the return value is missing from random, oops—returns a number. same for bytecodeloader, which returns function|string?

I don't recommend actually using some of these, though (namely: serialize, deserialize, and especially bytecodeloader because package.classpath doesn't exist in PZ)

Didn't bother writing an explanation of what they do bc I am lazy 😇

[frank lintel]

swear ya watching me I was just going thru the whole zdoc-lua and replacing all the int/integer/long/doubles for number

[frank elbow]

Oh golly, I just used the alias annotation

[frank lintel]

its all mixed and matched some were Integer some integer etc...

but it did get rid of a tons of mismatch warnings though so wasnt pointless

I didnt touch any of the fun() args0: <type> though figured they were java calls or something

[frank elbow]

The overload annotations?

[frank lintel]

yeah

[frank elbow]

Gotcha, those are just for overloads of functions

[frank lintel]

I just changed the normal args and returns

kinda talked to Nolan also slightly asking about any issues with putting that git page up.

[frank elbow]

Wym?

[frank lintel]

well (e) mighta had one private already..., I dunno just making sure not step on toes

plus if there was work already done rather go off that also...

Nolan was the last person believe that pushed updates for SS but there was no git page anywhere and SSR way outdated/depreciated

[frank elbow]

Good that you're making sure they're okay w it

[frank lintel]

well trying too atleast... why I just did the git forked off SSR only having the lua stuff not the whole mod but if there was an issue easily just make it private for myself. I like the mod main reason trying to work on it

[sour island]

SSR has a discord server

I dont know if there's a github associated with the project

nvm, missed that you've talked to him

[frank lintel]

yeah there a SSR git got the wiki on it, SS references back to that but the code is old and not up to date. (plus the name change to SS etc so I just forked under the new name.)

[sour island]

wouldn't it be better to use the current code base?

[frank lintel]

you got a link for the SSR discord Im in the SS one Nolan I think got started

well thats why first thing I did was pushed all the new code :)

[sour island]

ah hehe

the one I'm in is SS sorry

[frank lintel]

yeah Im in there also if its the same one

[sour island]

Did you rip out all the prints he does?

[frank lintel]

not yet...

was thinking putting them on debug...

[sour island]

if they're useful

I think he has/had "1" printed

[frank lintel]

yep... I havent done much seriously with it.just cleaning up somewhat, and it might be the hard way learning the whole PZ/lua IDE enivro, language etc so not a bad thing cuz I been muddling thru it

[sour island]

You should tell him to update his repo - would make collabing easier

I don't know how he's doing it with the guy that kept working on SS

[frank lintel]

me either why I asked let'm know I forked and updated to current and asked if there any issue with that cuz anyone can look at what Ive done and implement it and also work on it. (that is if nothing new past what was published hasnt been done) one of the reasons not trying anything major just general code cleanup, formatting.... then look all them prints going bybye or toggleable

other major reason would be v42...

but there been a few things I seen and I was just like 'no' changing this...

nolan was the latest addition to the group right? ryuu and others were before that (dunno honestly if anyone working on anything atm)

[sour island]

Nah, other way round

Nolan made SS waaaay back when

it's undergone a few rolls down the hill as major updates went out

at one point he became busy IRL, and Ryuu started releasing updates

I believe he's the one that released an update as it's own mod every few weeks?

in any case, I think Nolan came back and the two agreed to collab

[frank lintel]

dunno we'll see I guess.

[brave ruin]

I am trying to make custom item, but I cannot spawn them in or can't find them. I don't see any errors in the F11 window. What can I do to see what's wrong?

[drifting ore]

function TEST() for playerIndex = 0, getNumActivePlayers()-1 do local player = getSpecificPlayer(playerIndex); local roll = ZombRand(1,100); if roll == 1 then getPlayer():Say("*TEST GOOD*"); else getPlayer():Say("*TEST BAD*"); end end end Events.EveryDays.Add(TEST);

Does this event trigger in MP for every player with different roll?

[frank lintel]

if its running client side would think so.

[drifting ore]

thanks, seems logical when I think of it now

[weak sierra]

question: does IsVehicleIntersecting not work properly if called on the server? like.. are BaseVehicle instances not loaded on the server as cells are loaded, only on clients?

[bronze yoke]

vehicles definitely exist on the server

[weak sierra]

then why, when called on the load grid square event, does the server seem to never detect vehicles intersecting the square

perhaps it is pre-empting the vehicle loading?

[clever spruce]

does anyone know how to contact Brita or Arsenal[26]?
I can not leave a comment on the arsenal mod workshop page to inquire about a missing feature that is available in SP but not in the server sandbox settings. I do not have the option to send spent brass directly to a players inventory in MP. the option is not present in the sandbox settings in MP. >_<

[drifting ore]

yo is it possible to change the zombie models?

[glass basalt]

You contact Brita through his Patreon

[clever spruce]

Meaning I have to sub to his patroen in order to ask questions?

.>

I mean..

I love both arsenal and Brita's work, and usualy throw money at mod makers who's content I like....

but....

<.<

eh, who am I kidding, I was guna sub to their patreon the other day anyway.

w<

[rancid panther]

probably cuz their mods r so high profile

[clever spruce]

Well, I subbed. 😄

[keen silo]

I Updated my Voiced Radio and TVs mod, adding every voice line to KnoxTalk Radio
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950750587

I Wish to know which Programs are the ones most players want to be voiced. which ones' you think I should focus on next?

I left a pinned discussion about this on the workshop. If you can, please write your anwsers there too so I have a better idea what most people want.

[drifting ore]

because i have no clue

[clever spruce]

I would think it is given there are mods on the workshop that make players and... I do believe zombies into anthro creatures.

[drifting ore]

the survivor one exists, but not the zombie one

wait it does exist

aw but it needs the fuckin survivor one

[rancid panther]

u can still do it without it. that mod just doesnt

there's also a mod that makes special zombies

[frank lintel]

aw

[red tiger]

Hi.

[frank lintel]

lol

[red tiger]

Actually

[frank lintel]

same... burble burble

listening to the spring peepers going nuts in the marshland/creek and thinking on where to go on survivor...

[red tiger]

Was just watching a streamer react to the newest Jubilee video.

[frank lintel]

I cant do them.

[red tiger]

I spent like 18 hours coding this weekend.

[frank lintel]

Im gonna watch someone reacting to something it will be myself at myself later all and just 🤣 at myself

thats okay you know what I been teeeding thru

[keen beacon]

Sooo it seems like it wasn't a mod i was looking for.

It was this tool: https://grabofus.github.io/zomboid-chunk-cleaner/

[fading horizon]

i have returned 😈

back to working on my new mod

[rancid panther]

what's it gonna be

[fading horizon]

vapes

gnome ||//elf//|| bars

i am really struggling making this 3d model with all the curves lol

[frank lintel]

a²+b²=c²

[clever spruce]

be careful with that tool!

I tried wiping chunks that were in the black area off the map, whee, in my game, there actually IS map, and instead it wuped the same amount but from the edge of what map it shows DOWN> I wiped the entire base my friends and I had built and ended roling the servr back like, 9 hours. :/

[ancient grail]

shout out @wet sandal congrats man

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2950902979

i just saw your mod

[rancid panther]

insane mod

[drifting ore]

yea very nice. very popular

[rancid panther]

i saw the grid based inventory thing in progress too

gonna be crazy paired with the weapon modifiers mod

[fervent raven]

has anyone recreated hogwarts yet?

cause if not im gonna be the first to do it

[old crescent]

any recommendation for lua compilers?

[bronze yoke]

what do you mean? lua isn't a compiled language

[frank lintel]

you mean like a test compiler?

[fading horizon]

can I make a recipe use the eat animation?

item GnomeBar
    {
        DisplayCategory               =     Junk,
        Weight                        =     0.05,
        CantBeConsolided              =     true,
        UseWhileEquipped              =     FALSE,
        Type                          =     Drainable,
        DisplayName                   =     Gnome Bar,
        Icon                          =     defaultIcon,
        StaticModel                   =     defaultIcon,
        WorldStaticModel              =     defaultIcon,
        ReplaceOnDeplete              =     GBEmpty,
        UseDelta                      =     0.25,
    }```

I have this item

I want it to be a drainable that can be used that doesn't produce another item

so i made a recipe as so

recipe smoke gnome Bar
    {
        keep GnomeBar,

        Result:             GnomeBar,
        onCreate:           OnEat_Cigarettes,
        Time:               50,
        RemoveResultItem:   true,
    }```

i thought setting oncreate might make it use the eat animation but it didn't

i'm kinda lost and don't know if i'm approaching the entire structure correctly, though

I wanted to try to look at how pills function in the game since theyre a drainable that can essentially be eaten, but I cannot find the functions and searches here say theyre in the java code instaed

[keen beacon]

Ok yeah it shows the discovered areas in yellow so i guess i would only restore those chunks.

[old crescent]

test

[frank lintel]

if ya dont need it in the ide could just use an online one.

[dark wedge]

AnimNode: eat
Add that to your Recipe. The crafting TimedAction uses this value in the recipe to set the animation. You can use any of the actions that are defined in media/AnimSets/player/actions

[fading horizon]

that worked

thank you

[clever spruce]

well, the map addons I have are off the map in some places, that's where those yelow loaded chunks were, but it derped and droped the whole selection down to where the top of the selection was at the top of the map instead of deleting the yelow outside the map. :/

[modern hamlet]

Somehow I was able to finish the wall and door repairing mod(I hope it's working properly, I'm not so sure lol). Thanks for answering to my questions while i was working on it. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953293740

[fading horizon]

How would I add a custom sound to that? I've tried defining custom eat sound in the item but that doesn't work

it appears there's no sound at all when the recipe is made

[ancient grail]

was there any road blocks on your vanilla vehicle armor project ? @bronze yoke also was it anonymous that also attempted this

[rancid panther]

yo i needed this too. nice

[dark wedge]

Recipes have a Sound parameter

[bronze yoke]

i haven't heard from the modeller in a while so the project is basically dead

[dark wedge]

"Saw Logs" has:
Sound:Sawing
So something like that

[bronze yoke]

codewise it was in a pretty good state, i never got around to implementing some of the fancy new stuff we came up with but the main stuff was near complete and polished

[fading horizon]

so then i would just drop a .ogg file in the /sounds folder

and I can just reference that?

[dark wedge]

i believe so, yes

[fast galleon]

I noticed the absence of updates too and was sad.

[bronze yoke]

maybe i'll talk to him about releasing what we did have done

i'd still have a lot of work to do before release but it'd be a waste to leave it to rot

[fading horizon]

is there a way to remove the "all" option

AllowOnlyOne : true,
in the recipe definition did not work

[ancient grail]

gotcha thnx

was it manual tho

or you had a way to automate it

and did it involve modelling?

[bronze yoke]

i don't really know what you mean by was it manual

but it definitely involved modelling

[small topaz]

Hi! I am thinking about working on a mod of mine an adding new sprites. Does anyone knows a web resource for this which maybe a good starting point?

[fast galleon]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/New_Tiles
this seems relevant.

#mapping message

[small topaz]

many thanks!

[cursive coral]

table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, "1_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, 50)

I want it to come out with 50% probability, I'm not sure if it's true?

[bronze yoke]

it's not exactly 1:1 like that because of the loot rarity sandbox option stuff

you can see how common something will be as a percentage in lootzed

[cursive coral]

Ohh thanks my friend

[ancient grail]

@sour island

idk what to do with this guy hahah

[ancient grail]

like get script manager and iterate the functions onto all the vehicle but like you said before it reads the script ontick so i figured it would be impossible

[rancid panther]

lmfao

[fading horizon]

still stuck on this if anyone has any ideas

[rancid panther]

what does the script for ur item look like rn

[fading horizon]

item GnomeBar
    {
        DisplayCategory               =   Junk,
        Weight                        =   0.05,
        CantBeConsolided              =   true,
        UseWhileEquipped              =   FALSE,
        Type                          =   Drainable,
        DisplayName                   =   Gnome Bar,
        Icon                          =   defaultIcon,
        StaticModel                   =   defaultIcon,
        WorldStaticModel              =   defaultIcon,
        ReplaceOnDeplete              =   GBEmpty,
        UseDelta                      =   0.25,
        EatType                       =   Cigarettes,
        CustomEatSound                =   ecig,
    }

recipe Smoke
    {
        GnomeBar,

        Result                  :     GnomeBar,
        Time                    :     125,
        RemoveResultItem        :     true,
        MaxItems                :     1,
        AnimNode                :     Eat,
        Sound                   :     ecig,
        AllowOnlyOne            :     true,
    }

[rancid panther]

whay does MaxItems do

[fading horizon]

nothing

code that i was testing that didn't work

just hadnt removed it yet lol

[rancid panther]

do u need it if u have allowonlyone?

[fading horizon]

neither of those parameters do anything

[rancid panther]

it could still be read

i didnt see maxitems in the script guide

too bad im not on my pc or i'd be skimming through things rn

[fading horizon]

ill try without maxitems

nope, didn't work

still has an "all" option

[fast galleon]

I think you want to make a context option instead of a recipe.

[fading horizon]

can i link animNode and custom sound to a lua callback function that a new custom context menu would create?

because I was using it as a recipe so I could use those parameters

[fast galleon]

You should be able to do all of that in a timed action.

I look at cigarette now and it has CustomContextMenu in script.

not sure I've seen that before

[fading horizon]

that parameter only works on food items unfortunately

[fast galleon]

I mean, you could make it food and add poison value.

[fading horizon]

i want it to be a drainable item so it can't be a food :/

needs to have more than one use

[fast galleon]

food have more than one use, eat percent

[viral notch]

how to make option to hide pants to shoes and on shoes?

[fading horizon]

theres an eat percent parameter?

i haven't seen that

[fast galleon]

I saw that in the eat action, might not be what is used in the script.

[chrome egret]

Whoever you are... I just wanna talk...

[wheat kraken]

i think we should blame steam too because it is not possible to untoggle given ratings

so it rises the chance for that to happen

i notice that unfortunally is common

[chrome egret]

Yeah, I don't have real hard feelings about it

[sour island]

Only one action for you to take. Delete and republish.

[chrome egret]

lol

[sour island]

Also if it doesn't break 5% I wouldn't worry

[chrome egret]

I'm really not. Back in the day when I had no star rating I was a little more miffed

Now it's just funny that only one person disliked it enough to give it a negative rating

[sour island]

I've had people curse me out and swear this mod off

Still at 2%

The loudest group is always the minority

[chrome egret]

lmao

"These 4,845 people are just wrong"

[sour island]

I usually don't check these stats -- was there another player bump?

The sub counts are super different within a couple months

[fresh ice]

Hello! I'd like to take a look at making a small mod with some retextured (though separate) items. The retexturing part I can figure out, but I'm a little more confused about how to implement the mod. Would it be possible to get a little help in that regard?

[fading horizon]

i'm so confused

why is it putting my arms up instead of the eat animation

function hitVape:start() -- Trigger when the action start
    print("Action start");
    self.character:getEmitter():playSound("ecig")
    self:setActionAnim("CharacterActionAnims.Eat")
end```

[misty pecan]

Hm…maybe check see if the code is checking a different line instead or maybe check see if a conflicting mod has the same sort of code and it’s causing a bit of a bug

[fading horizon]

no other mods active

[misty pecan]

That’s strange

[fading horizon]

so no animations seem to be working actually

i tried to replace it with the dig animation and that doesn't work either

i'm lost

[hot patrol]

I'm trying to somewhat replicate the relieve yourself mechanic this mod has but for some reason can't seem to get it to work can someone help me out? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881673254

    {    
        Tissue/ToiletPaper/PaperNapkins,
        HottieZ/OppaiZ/177013,
        MapleSyrup/Pie/Toothpaste/Soap/Butter/Sausage/Grapefruit/Banana/Eggplant/Zucchini/MayonnaiseFull,

        Result:Tissue,
        Time:10,
        IsHidden:true,
        OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.FapTime,
        AnimNode:BuildLow,
        NeedToBeLearn:false,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:true,
        Sound:PageFlipMagazine,
        Prop1:Source=1,
        Prop2:Source=2,
    }
        
    recipe Rub one out
    {    
        Socks_Long,
        HottieZ/OppaiZ/177013,
        MapleSyrup/Pie/Toothpaste/Soap/Butter/Sausage/Grapefruit/Banana/Eggplant/Zucchini/MayonnaiseFull,

        Result:Socks_Long,
        Time:10,
        IsHidden:true,
        OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.FapTime,
        AnimNode:BuildLow,
        NeedToBeLearn:false,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:true,
        Sound:PageFlipMagazine,
        Prop1:Source=1,
        Prop2:Source=2,
    }```

don't judge me

every day I stray further from gods light

[misty pecan]

I forgot this mod existed

[misty pecan]

But if you want help try looking for the animations function first

[hot patrol]

the what?

[misty pecan]

The code piece that the animation uses to activate

[hot patrol]

if you mean this part OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.FapTime, I have that implemented pretty much exactly how their mod has it as well

[misty pecan]

Maybe there is another piece you’re missing

[hot patrol]

    local stats = player:getStats();
    local bodyDamage = player:getBodyDamage();

    stats:setStress(stats:getStress() - 0.5);
    if stats:getStress() < 0 then
        stats:setStress(0);
    end

    stats:setFatigue(stats:getFatigue() + 0.33);
    if stats:getFatigue() > 100 then
        stats:setFatigue(100);
    end

    bodyDamage:setBoredomLevel(0);

    stats:setThirst(stats:getThirst() + 0.15);
    if stats:getThirst() > 100 then
        stats:setThirst(100);
    end

    stats:setHunger(stats:getHunger() + 0.09);
    if stats:getHunger() > 100 then
        stats:setHunger(100);
    end

    bodyDamage:setUnhappynessLevel(bodyDamage:getUnhappynessLevel() - 75);
    if bodyDamage:getUnhappynessLevel() < 0 then
        bodyDamage:setUnhappynessLevel(0);
    end

    stats:setEndurance(stats:getEndurance() - 0.25);
    if stats:getEndurance() < 0 then
        stats:setEndurance(0);
    end

    player:getXp():AddXP(Perks.Strength, 100);
    player:getXp():AddXP(Perks.Fitness, 100);
end```

[misty pecan]

Hm

[hot patrol]

maybe but the mod doesn't really have a lot to it and It looks like I took just about everything I need

[misty pecan]

Maybe the entire mod is needed for it to function properly

[hot patrol]

I'm not even getting the cotext menu actuon for it with all the recipe options in my inventory

[misty pecan]

Probably has a function that relies on something in the mod

[misty pecan]

Try looking into that more

Seems like you’re missing pieces there

[hot patrol]

I am. And I don't think anything else from the mod is needed. From what I can tell it's a bog standard crafting recipe that uses that oncreate for all the stat changes

eveything else is just for their book added

and distribution

this is all there is for that mods lua minus distribution

and this is their recipies recipe

[misty pecan]

And you’re saying the context menu and the crafting menu isn’t showing?

[neon bronze]

Do you require recipecode?

[hot patrol]

I have it hidden in the crafting menu so it wouldn't show.

the crafting menu itself does

but the context menu option when right clicking isn't giving the option

[hot patrol]

i'm not sure what this means

[neon bronze]

I mean do you have require „recipecode“ in your file?

[wet sandal]

scrolls up and reads code

This is an important QoL feature

And that gif is too visually loud

[hot patrol]

Idk, how would I check?

[misty pecan]

We have People making this and all I want is a mod that lets you fix power stations to restore power to towns

[ancient grail]

Restorable powergrid

[misty pecan]

Something for late game really

[neon bronze]

Just write the line in your file

[misty pecan]

I want to work on it myself but

I use a MacBook

[hot patrol]

That's cool and all but lets be honest more people would be out their polishing their pole with mayo to battle crippling depression than doing stuff like that

or is that just me

[misty pecan]

And the tools for modding don’t work on there

[ancient grail]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2868229063

[misty pecan]

When was this made?!

[wet sandal]

The Last of Us is almost out on PC

https://imgur.com/a/NAkzpSB

Got a Susceptible update lined up to celebrate

[hot patrol]

YES

[ancient grail]

Long time ago. One of my first commission projects
Back when i was still solo

[hot patrol]

I suggested this!

[misty pecan]

I’ve been looking for forever for this and even planned on making my own

You sir or ma’am

[fading horizon]

its because CharacterActionAnims.Eat was in quotations

[hot patrol]

That will up my TLOU save so much

[misty pecan]

Have my respect

[fading horizon]

that's an hour down the drain

[ancient grail]

Thnx
Join our discord

Links on my profile

[hot patrol]

could you give us some insite on how this will work?

like is it just random per house or do corpses in houses cause it like in the game?

[ancient grail]

Thnx notloc bro

Saw you hopped in

[wet sandal]

Zombies contribute to contaminating a room, skeletons contribute to holding the current contamination level

Buildings slowly diffuse the contamination throughout themselves

Only loaded buildings are updated

Updates are time weighted based on last update time

[ancient grail]

Oops

[wet sandal]

lol

[misty pecan]

Gladly if I get a good pc to help mod stuff in

[wet sandal]

Contamination slowly goes down when there is nothing in a room contaminating it

[hot patrol]

very cool. again this is going to level up my TLOU challenge so much. Glad to see someone finally made it. Now we just need proper TLOU infected. I'm using personalized zombies for that but they lack the visual flair.

[wet sandal]

Oh, zombie corpses also cause contamination as well

[open drum]

ello guys~! could someone help me with OOP problem Im having??

[misty pecan]

Dude I’m just happy I can finally fix the fucking power grid now

I literally have something to do late game besides just burn Louisville to the ground

[ancient grail]

Show us

[open drum]

function MyUI:create()
local btnWid = 175
    local btnHgt = FONT_HGT_SMALL + 2 * 4
    local padBottom = 10
    local texture = {}
    
    self.image = ISImage:new(self:getWidth()*0.001, self:getHeight()*0.001, 0, 0, getTexture("media/ui/mag/pic1.png"));
    -- self.image.scaledWidth = self:getWidth()
    --self.image.scaledHeight = self:getHeight()
    self:addChild(self.image);
    


    self.cancel = ISButton:new(self:getWidth() - btnWid + 55 , self:getHeight() - padBottom - btnHgt, btnWid*0.5, btnHgt, "cancel", self, MyUI.onOptionMouseDown);
    self.cancel.internal = "cancel";
    self.cancel:initialise();
    self.cancel:instantiate();
    self.cancel.borderColor = self.buttonBorderColor;
    self:addChild(self.cancel);


end```

i made this to run when a player open a magazine

[ancient grail]

Ahhh UI im out

[open drum]

XD

[ancient grail]

Not my forte

[open drum]

im trying to make that "getTexture" to varie

depend on the item

a player open

what will be the best way to do that..

[hot patrol]

btw do you have it so some houses can spawn already contaminated and full of corpses? like a random event

[wet sandal]

The base game does

[fading horizon]

how do I make a lua function reduce the number of uses an item has?

I'm making a custom timed action.

I assume it would be under

function hitVape:perform() -- Trigger when the action is complete
    --print("Action perform");
    ISBaseTimedAction.perform(self);
end```

I just don't know the code to actually reduce the number of uses

[wet sandal]

The first update of the house will treat that as several days and it will be contaminated as a result

[fading horizon]

self.item something something

[ancient grail]

Like useddelta?

[hot patrol]

gotcha

[fading horizon]

isn't that just the number for how much it changes per use?

[ancient grail]

You could on the update()

[wet sandal]

You'll likely want to pass the item the player is reading to your create function

[ancient grail]

Gradually reduce the thing and have a check if its empty

[wet sandal]

That way you can use it to determine what texture you want.

[open drum]

yea i thought about it

but how would i do that?

can i just do

[fading horizon]

i don't know how to reduce it in general is the issue

[open drum]

function MyUI:create(result)?

[fading horizon]

i'm still pretty new to this

[wet sandal]

assuming result is the item, yea

[open drum]

it just inherites it?

[wet sandal]

lua has no restrictions on parameters

[open drum]

function OpenmagZ_OnCreate(items, result, player)

    local myUI = MyUI:new()
    myUI:initialise();
    myUI:addToUIManager();

end```

so parameter of "result" from that function

can b called

right away at

function MyUI:create(result)?

is it cuz they are in the same lua file?

[wet sandal]

Uh, not really

I was thinking like:

[ancient grail]

-- Fill entirely the blowtorch with the remaining propane
function Recipe.OnCreate.RefillBlowTorch(items, result, player)
    local previousBT = nil;
    local propaneTank = nil;
    for i=0, items:size()-1 do
       if items:get(i):getType() == "BlowTorch" then
           previousBT = items:get(i);
       elseif items:get(i):getType() == "PropaneTank" then
           propaneTank = items:get(i);
       end
    end
    result:setUsedDelta(previousBT:getUsedDelta() + result:getUseDelta() * 30);

    while result:getUsedDelta() < 1 and propaneTank:getUsedDelta() > 0 do
        result:setUsedDelta(result:getUsedDelta() + result:getUseDelta() * 10);
        propaneTank:Use();
    end

    if result:getUsedDelta() > 1 then
        result:setUsedDelta(1);
    end
end

heres a vanilla reference

[wet sandal]

function OpenmagZ_OnCreate(items, result, player)

    local myUI = MyUI:new()
    myUI:initialise();
    myUI:create(result);
    myUI:addToUIManager();

end

[ancient grail]

just do the reverse

if you want it to last longer then add decimal places

[open drum]

hmm

so myUI:create(result) don't need to go under myUI:initialise(() ?

but even if I do create(result)

ill have multiple lines of ```lua
function MyUI:create()
local btnWid = 175
local btnHgt = FONT_HGT_SMALL + 2 * 4
local padBottom = 10
local texture = {}

self.image = ISImage:new(self:getWidth()*0.001, self:getHeight()*0.001, 0, 0, getTexture("media/ui/mag/pic1.png"));
-- self.image.scaledWidth = self:getWidth()
--self.image.scaledHeight = self:getHeight()
self:addChild(self.image);



self.cancel = ISButton:new(self:getWidth() - btnWid + 55 , self:getHeight() - padBottom - btnHgt, btnWid*0.5, btnHgt, "cancel", self, MyUI.onOptionMouseDown);
self.cancel.internal = "cancel";
self.cancel:initialise();
self.cancel:instantiate();
self.cancel.borderColor = self.buttonBorderColor;
self:addChild(self.cancel);

end```

for each texture / item i want to show?

[hot patrol]

Figured out my issue. Pretty stupid of my not to realize the problem sooner

I'm not proud of the abomination I have created

I plan on it

the only issue is it doesn't seem to drain contents of stuff like the mayo

not sure how to do that

so I guess you put back in the jar when you are done

also I actually called it crunchy long sock

[open drum]

does any one know what type if data is returned in function OpenmagZ_OnCreate(items, result, player)
"result"

is it a string of recipe result item? or display name? item name"""

[neon bronze]

I think its the item which is the result of your recipe so maybe IsoItem if it exists?

[open drum]

i guess best way to find out is to use print(result)

oh

[neon bronze]

Maybe typeof(result)?

[open drum]

so item name right? not displayname

yea, ill try typeof(result). sigh...coding is so hard...

[fast galleon]

recipe result on create should be an InventoryItem

[open drum]

so for instance

Base.Apple

that's item name

Apple is displayname

then result will be... which one?

or neither?

[neon bronze]

It will be an instance of InventoryItem as its type

You could then access its names through :getType and :getDisplayName

[open drum]

ah so neither.. that will b like one of those lua table code

yea, getDisplayName will b a way to do it

thanks

[fast galleon]

InventoryItem is a java class, userdata in Lua.

display name should change with language setting?

maybe you want getType

[open drum]

i see

haven't tried using getType

so ill see how it works

is return value of getType be diff. for each item a player has?

or will it work like.. kitchen knife, butter knife, and hunting knife all are type knife

[neon bronze]

It returns the items name as is defined in its .txt file

So if you have Base.Knife it will return Knife

[sour island]

Result is the resulting iventoryItem yes

Items should also be an array of inventoryItems if I'm not mistaken

Some of the Lua functions tied to recipes use the Item (script object) in reference to items.

Also get type only returns the item type -- which is fine but you may want to take module.type into consideration.

Depending on what you need this for.

[drifting ore]

player:playSound(sound); only plays sounds for the player an others can't hear it, right? But how can I make so sounds play for everyone?

[neon bronze]

You need to get the emitter

I think its through player:getEmitter() i don remember exactly

But you need the emitter

[drifting ore]

thanks, I'll look into it

[open drum]

i see i see thank you for clearing it out 🙂

[open drum]

yea i tried this on my mod as well, it is only client side.

[open drum]

trying to open up a ui showing pictures, so each item when they are created, it will open up a window that shows a picture

so ill need to use maybe display name of the item

[sour island]

Ah, yeah displayname is what you'd need

[neon bronze]

Use rather getType or getFullType

Display names could be changed by players or by translation

[open drum]

that's also true

good point

[sour island]

I assumed you wanted to display the items name

If you need to get the items texture or a texture consistent to the type then yes- module type or type is better.

[red tiger]

Good afternoon.

[fast galleon]

hey, isn't it morning there?

[red tiger]

For 15 minutes.

Been feeling sick.

Completely forgot about my work here.

[fast galleon]

get better 👍

[open drum]

what i wanted to do is

1. make a recipe that allow player to pull out a page from a magazine (easily done)
2. Each page that is pulled out has it's own UI when opened (oncreate recipe) it shows up a UI with a .png picture , hence "Texture"
3. since making "if"statements for all pages would make the code redundant, i wanted to make a function that would check the name of the "page" and designate "texture" that matches the "page" item which will show up the UI picture I set.

but since i suck at oop hierarchy my head is getting dizzy and starting to feel sad XD

[neon bronze]

Do you make every page unique in its name?

You probably do tbh

[open drum]

yea

like "item page1 , item page2 , etc... "

[neon bronze]

You could put them in a lua key value table and then just call the texture you need for each page

[open drum]

then in recipe i made "recipe rip a page out"

which do a zombierand

and additem() to the player inventory

[neon bronze]

Tbf it could be even easier if you name the textures something like page1, page2 etc

[open drum]

a random page

[neon bronze]

Just get the pages type and parse it into the ISImage:new

[open drum]

hmm?

function MyUI:create(result)
local btnWid = 175
    local btnHgt = FONT_HGT_SMALL + 2 * 4
    local padBottom = 10
    local texture = {}
    
    self.image = ISImage:new(self:getWidth()*0.001, self:getHeight()*0.001, 0, 0, getTexture("media/ui/mag/pic1.png"));
    -- self.image.scaledWidth = self:getWidth()
    --self.image.scaledHeight = self:getHeight()
    self:addChild(self.image);
    


    self.cancel = ISButton:new(self:getWidth() - btnWid + 55 , self:getHeight() - padBottom - btnHgt, btnWid*0.5, btnHgt, "cancel", self, MyUI.onOptionMouseDown);
    self.cancel.internal = "cancel";
    self.cancel:initialise();
    self.cancel:instantiate();
    self.cancel.borderColor = self.buttonBorderColor;
    self:addChild(self.cancel);


end```

self.image = ISImage:new(self:getWidth()*0.001, self:getHeight()*0.001, 0, 0, getTexture("media/ui/mag/pic1.png"));

is this what u mean?

i have pic1, pic2, pic3 etc

saved in a folder

just need to find a simple way to replace that pic1.png pic2.png

depending on the page item a player has

[sour island]

You can concat a random number to a string of the textures are named accordingly

"page" .. n .. ".png"

[open drum]

right

[neon bronze]

So you would call item:getType() + „.png“

[open drum]

oh ...

wait..

yea...

[neon bronze]

Obviously you still need the path but you just add that before the call

[open drum]

are u guys geniuses?

[neon bronze]

Too much free time and too socially inept

[open drum]

i wonder if something like self.image = ISImage:new(self:getWidth()0.001, self:getHeight()0.001, 0, 0, getTexture(""media/ui/mag/" ... n ... ".png""));

would work..

[sour island]

It would, I don't think you need the items type unless the page is specific

[open drum]

and "n" being item name

[neon bronze]

Just put .. instead of …

[open drum]

yea haha

[sour island]

I was thinking n was a random number 😅, but yes you can do it that way

You can concat both

As long as the texture is found

[open drum]

true true

[sour island]

You can also include a default texture if the other isn't found

Also I don't know if this is possible but you should try to store the textures when able

In a keyed table

[open drum]

im still learning about table

i really am bad at it

[neon bronze]

Are there actual lists in lua? Or is it all tables?

[open drum]

i think they are all tables

ok now.. check this out

function OpenmagZ_OnCreate(items, result, player)

    local myUI = MyUI:new()
    myUI:initialise();
    myUI:addToUIManager();
    MyUI:create(result);

end```

function MyUI:create(result)
local btnWid = 175
    local btnHgt = FONT_HGT_SMALL + 2 * 4
    local padBottom = 10
    local texture = result
    
    self.image = ISImage:new(self:getWidth()*0.001, self:getHeight()*0.001, 0, 0, getTexture(""media/ui/mag/"..texture..".png""));
    -- self.image.scaledWidth = self:getWidth()
    --self.image.scaledHeight = self:getHeight()
    self:addChild(self.image);```

[sour island]

They're tables, keyed or not(*)

By default the keys are 1,2,3,etc

[neon bronze]

Also maybe result:getType()?

[sour island]

But you can ascribe other stuff as keys even other tables

[open drum]

local texture = result:getType() ?

like that?

[neon bronze]

Yea probably

I dont know how you named your textures doe

[open drum]

ill have to find out ... depends on the return value of getType()

[neon bronze]

You can print the texture to get the idea

[open drum]

good idea

[fresh ice]

notepad ++

[open drum]

self.image = ISImage:new(self:getWidth()*0.001, self:getHeight()*0.001, 0, 0, getTexture(""media/ui/mag/"..texture..".png""));

i don't think ) is needed

don't u guys agree?

[fast galleon]

too many quotations?

[misty pecan]

I mean for modeling

[fresh ice]

ah

[misty pecan]

I want to put in more than just code I need models

Cause I wanna make like an entire hydro plant

[red tiger]

You can use ' for strings in Lua too.

[open drum]

well.. problem ...

function MyUI:create(result)

the "result" is returning nil

so.. caused error in Texture variable

[humble oriole]

hmmm, can you not DoParam on multiple fields for an item?

adjustments["Base.Honey"] = "Calories = 220"
adjustments["Base.Honey"] = "Carbohydrates = 63"```

only the Carbohydrates line is being applied

oh, I'm stupid, nvm

adjustments["Base.Honey"] = { "HungerChange = -18","Calories = 220","Carbohydrates = 63" }

[sour island]

Is your recipe with remove result = true?

[red tiger]

Might spent an hour or so on writing a third attempt on a solid formatter for ZedScript.

[hot patrol]

what is the time in recipe measured in? i'm trying to match it to a 10 second sound

[fervent raven]

im gonna make a themepark resort thing

[red tiger]

I wonder how big of a mod it would be to fully implement rollercoasters in PZ.

[fervent raven]

probably big as hell

like bending car physics beyond what they need

[red tiger]

It'd be fun to watch people play RCT in PZ.

Would be funnier to override zed AI and turn them into park guests.

[keen silo]

Hey everyone, Im working on my voiced radio and tvs mod, and I want some guidance. Im not from the US, and not know many radio hosts. Im trying to voice the lines of LBMW host Jackie Jaye. Does anybody know of a famous, easily recognizible female radio host to use for voice cloning in ElevenLabs ? I'd like to use real people for certain repeat characters.

It doesn't necesarilly have to be a radio host, but try to keep it in that field of expertise (reporter, show host, etc.), and easily recognizable.

[fleet geode]

How do edit a bags capacity? I like the look of the duffel bag more than the military bag and would like to swap em.

[ancient grail]

This is still considered as n api so ill add it to mod tools thread
But i dunno what it does and how to use it
Anyone familiar?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951816996

[ancient grail]

All the bags future instance use
doparam
For just one instance i think you can use

setCapacity()

iirc

[ancient grail]

Yes you can even inject custom mod data

Should iterate if you plan to do alot of it

[fleet geode]

Any chance you can explain how like I’m a 5 year old?

[ancient grail]

I think ticks
But im not sure

[ancient grail]

I cant explain this to a 5 yr old tho.
But there are guides posted on the threads ill help u look for it

[fleet geode]

Thanks! I feel like I’ve looked all over and couldn’t find anything. So I came to the discord in hopes to figure it out.

[ancient grail]

#mod_development message

Here

[fast galleon]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide

[ancient grail]

Basically do param rewrites the item script
So every other item that will spawn ingame will inherit the changes you made

[fast galleon]

just make a new bag

[ancient grail]

Lol or thaat

[fleet geode]

I would if I knew how to do any of that :'(

[queen sail]

Can you change the number of points that a skill gives or costs in something like the INI or config?

[ancient grail]

I dont think so. I have to do it using lua

[queen sail]

Is it as simple as changing a single value somewhere?

[ancient grail]

Can you clarify
What points and whats skill? Perks?

There arr no skills in the game
We have trait perks profession

And whats points
Experience? Level?

Or the one u use for adding traits

That one i think u can modify

[red tiger]

Chose to write a shallow, decoupled recursive de-serializer solution for my formatter alongside my deep de-serializer API.

[ancient grail]

[red tiger]

Probably somewhat like Fenris_Wolf's Python 3.0 one. Not referencing it.

My tokenizer preserves comments and empty lines.

Going to also write configurable settings for the formatter, such as inline vs next-line brackets.

module foo {
}

vs

module foo
{
}

Also trying to keep the API open to selection formatting. Not sure how to do that yet. =(

[fervent bay]

is there a good tutorial anywhere about making mods for b41? i want to ATTEMPT to make an npc mod

[red tiger]

ooooooooo

Found another logic bug in my tokenizer.

I add inline comments as a token prior to the bit that comes before it. >_>

[frank elbow]

See pins and threads in this channel

[fervent bay]

ah thanks

[wheat kraken]

i did a new analysis and 2 new sheet from the data i gathered this month
here the results

per person top 50:
"how many
participations
in mods 5-stars" modder
39 KI5
26 iBrRus
24 HelloWorld
20 MrDanny
20 soulfilcher
18 star
17 fhqwhgads
17 planetalgol
15 cyt
14 NoctisFalco
14 shark
14 布偶旧猫
13 Chuckleberry Finn
13 nolanritchie
13 Tchernobill
12 Authentic Peach
12 Blackbeard
12 Oh God Spiders No
11 Alec
11 Erin Azakaela Redfire
10 Eggon
10 Monkey
9 eris
9 Johnny Dollar
9 Orc
9 Woldren
8 Aiteron
8 Yeah
7 AuD
7 BitBraven
7 Champygnakx
7 djvirus
7 Gabester
7 Notloc
7 PePePePePeil
7 Skizot
6 (PlentyT)
6 co`
6 Fedia
6 KONIJIMA
6 Madman_Andre (GNU Rick May)
6 Mx
6 Myloo
6 PseudonymousEd
6 RH4DB4
6 spoon
6 Troy Mc'Clure
5 [TECT$ECore] Olipro
5 Afterworlds

big view:
aparisons amount of modders
1 482
2 117
3 36
4 26
5 22
6 11
7 8
9 4
12 3
13 3
14 3
8 2
10 2
11 2
17 2
20 2
15 1
18 1
24 1
26 1
39 1

[red tiger]

As always, my "1 hour session" turns into a 5 hour session.

[red tiger]

Also, big post is big.

Upload it as a file. You can convert your copied text to a file somewhere near the text input.

[wheat kraken]

aah nice! the expand option, well noticed, i forget about this discord feature

is that content text input searchable/indexed by discord search?

[red tiger]

Not sure.

[red tiger]

Getting there with the formatter. =/

Lots of fun things to fix / improve.

[open drum]

yea... i did actually. That could b the reason

@sour island I also found a bug in your shops and traders mod by the way. Wrote a comment explaining the situation for you to reproduce

[sour island]

There's no resulting item if that param is true

Oh? thanks

[open drum]

yea the cash dissappears

let me know if the explination isn't clear

[sour island]

That's on the top of my list - I'm working out an outline for an update to the mod

[open drum]

gotcha, ill try it in the afternoon and se if it works

[open drum]

cool cool 🙂 would luv to help if i was any good at coding 😦

luv the shop and traders mod so much

has a huge potential

[sour island]

You can help by telling me how it can be easier to use 😅

Being I wrote it, it all makes sense to me

https://github.com/ChuckTheSheep/pz-shops/issues

If you want to put it here - it will be easier for me to look over

[open drum]

easier to use? i think the mod is pretty much straight forward. didn't have trouble finding out how to work with it

[open drum]

sure, ill just write what I wrote on the comment in the webpage as well then 🙂 will that b ok?

[fading horizon]

created my first custom timed action

[open drum]

oh dang!

[open drum]

congrats!

[fading horizon]

tyty

it has a custom sound too

[open drum]

oh dang

[fading horizon]

finishing up the 3d model and texture right now

i'm excited

[open drum]

does it also heard from other players??

[fading horizon]

i have no idea actually

i don't play multiplayer

[open drum]

i tried to add a sound that would also b heard to other players

but failed XD

ah i see i see

[fading horizon]

you're welcome to try it when it comes out if you'd like

i would but i don't have ppl to play multi with lol

[open drum]

haah

[fading horizon]

i think it should work tho?

[open drum]

i would gladly try it

[fading horizon]

function hitVape:start() -- Trigger when the action start
    --print("Action start");
    --self.character:getEmitter():playSound(self.smokeSound)
    if self.smokeSound ~= '' then
        self.soundChannel = self.character:getEmitter():playSound(self.smokeSound);
        addSound(self.character, self.character:getX(), self.character:getY(), self.character:getZ(), 7, 1)
    end

    self:setAnimVariable("FoodType", "Cigarettes")
    self:setActionAnim(CharacterActionAnims.Eat)
    
end```

self.character:getY(), self.character:getZ(), 7, 1)

[open drum]

yea i think using emitter

[fading horizon]

this sets a sound radius

[open drum]

it suppose to work

[fading horizon]

so i would assume others would hear that

[open drum]

yea

[fading horizon]

its all coming together

[open drum]

electronic smoke?

[fading horizon]

yess

[open drum]

nice

[red tiger]

I feel so close to getting my formatter working on a basic capacity but..

2 hours of wrestling with an unknown artifact in a couple spots prevented me from getting it done tonight.

This is what it spits out as of now...

[frank lintel]

there can be only one...

[red tiger]

Going to take a look at possibly building a tokenizer for the formatter specifically..

... Another day.

[fading horizon]

it workssssssssssss

[glass basalt]

Are you planning on implementing every kind of nic stick out there? Lol

[cosmic condor]

lives up to his name

[fading horizon]

Nah

Just these

Now I'm trying to figure out how to assign random names and textures when they are spawned in

[ancient grail]

@tepid edge
Wow congrats on your new found skill
Was it you who was trying to figure out the item consumption thing? How did that go for you?

[ancient grail]

The emitter will be heard by others
Addsound is just for zed
Removing that from your code will produce sound but wont attract zed

Do the reverse then you get the reverse effect

[rancid panther]

@/maemento mori congrats on front page!

[rancid panther]

is there a function that tells you when a player shoots at/hits a window? or one that defines a window as shootable/breakable?

[small topaz]

really funny. there are quite a few mods related to food preservation which have been published during the last week. seems to be the case that some modders had similar ideas independent of each other.

[fast galleon]

will the render depth factor allow for vehicles you can walk inside of?

[fast galleon]

there is a trend for that, something influences users, they influence modders and then suddenly everybody is working on the same mod separately

or it's like mobile games, somebody makes one and then there are a dozen clones

[small topaz]

ya... I think that food preservation and more interesting long term survival is something which is really necessary for the game. In current vanilla, you could simply try to settle somewhere in wilderness and then spam cabbages via farming. Would be nice to have different ways for long-term survival and ideally, without being able to farm during winter. So it's a good think that modders start addressing this issue imo.

[old crescent]

is there anyway to remove specific item in the world ??

like existing world

[fast galleon]

Do you have the item already?

I think people have been mentioning the ISRemoveItemTool removeItem

you could check that function

[red tiger]

Good morning.

[chrome egret]

Mornin' Jab

[frank lintel]

btw cant you just keep food fresh/frozen by using a gen and a fridge/freezer?

[fast galleon]

Do media lines only apply effects once? Is there an easy way to have lines that coold be used in a loop for small buffs?

[wheat kraken]

more data sharing
PZ getting bigger and bigger waves of growth since 2021 [B41 multiplayer release]

[sullen thicket]

Just wait for this weekend, a series will begin with more than 50 Spanish streamers that will last a week and will be permadeath

[wet sandal]

Invest heavily in Spanish mod translations

[sullen thicket]

KEKW

Much spanish players dont even know that pz have mods XD

[sullen thicket]

Just invest on finishing the grid inventory system, w are ultrahyped for that 🧟

[red tiger]

Heheh..

Could make a tool that scrapes public portals for popular translators to have "fill-in" translations.

[frank lintel]

It is what it is, trust me you get what you give.... yeah. you gotta come to my side and see how we live.. yeah.

[red tiger]

I experimented with using Google's API to translate to set locales for players on a server.. I can't begin to say how awesome it was to watch people who could never have a conversation in their languages play full on sessions and join factions because of translator support.

I still think that was one of my top-three experiments in PZ.

So cool to see people being a community because of tools and this includes translators for mods.

[frank lintel]

thats okay I translated all the chinese --comments for the EmmyLua

eg. -- 按符号分割字符串 -- Split strings by symbol

[red tiger]

Oh nice.

[frank lintel]

not that I even got a clue how to use EmmyLua.lua ...

[red tiger]

How useful would it be to have a machine-translator tool for mods without official translation support? The tool would generate translated dialog files for the mod.

[frank lintel]

cuz I dont have a lua compiler....

https://hastebin.com/share/amejocezaj.lua I wish someone ran the emmylua wiki thru a chinese to english...

[kind fossil]

How is it possible to access all body parts please?
bodyDamage:getBodyPart()
I would like to have this condition check for any damage on any body part (no damage from hauling too much items for example)

[frank lintel]

heh that was odd that first line was disappearing on me untill I " "'d it then it showed up but apparently was there the whole time

[kind fossil]

How is it possible to get the body part that is damaged between all body parts?

[fading horizon]

OMG I hadnt noticed!! So exciting!!!

thank you for the heads up

[fading horizon]

yes that was me. I finally figured it out haha

just had to keep messing with it until I got it right

now when its depleted of uses, it turns into an empty gnome bar

[tawdry solar]

anyone got the github

i forgot it

[fading horizon]

which i plan to also make able to be used but you will audibly cough and attract zombies because itts dry lol

[ancient grail]

[fading horizon]

damn making it to the front page shot up my visitor count

[tawdry solar]

what mod/

?

[fading horizon]

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

[tawdry solar]

ah that looks cool

modding a gun is scary

[fading horizon]

i wouldn't even know what gun to add since brita has like everything at this point

[fading horizon]

You know what project zomboid needs

A hello kitty mod

I'm making it

[tawdry solar]

some historical guns

[full halo]

Realistic functional crossbows and bows would be dope

[drifting ore]

Why does this not work through OnCreate on recipes :
player:getFreeRecipes():add("Craft Something");

[fast galleon]

you want to add to known recipes probably

[drifting ore]

Oh, let me try.

Thanks.

[drifting ore]

Works!

[fading horizon]

Bleh. I want to make other stuff but I need to finish this mod first

I'm not looking forward to making textures for all these different flavors lol

[reef karma]

hey guys! any tricks to start modding? software, guides etc?

[fading horizon]

Biggest tip is reading Lua documentation then picking apart other mods' code

That's how I learned

Or just looking at how the base game functions work in general

All depends on what you wanna make really

Blender for modeling, vscode for coding

[fast galleon]

pzwiki is a good start, get an idea of the most common things

[sour island]

Also depends on any prior experience messing with games, or programming

It may be overkill for modding but I use intelliJ + the library tool PZ-Libraries

[fast galleon]

@sour island
do you think this is realistic?

[sour island]

I would have to check the system again -- the radio scripts and guiid system implied certain lines give the XP

Listened to lines are stored on the player and prevent XP gains from what I know -- idk about mood buffs

[reef karma]

i have coding experience but the lua documentation is rather lackluster.
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/ui/TextManager.html#DrawString(zombie.ui.UIFont,double,double,java.lang.String,double,double,double,double)
for example, unless i am blind, I cant seem to find return values or descriptions of what does doubles are. I really hope that i am blind

[fading horizon]

https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

this is where i learned all about lua

[fast galleon]

I thought you might know. If there's a chance I will be looking myself anyway so no need to look if you don't need.

[reef karma]

oh let me rephrase. i know what doubles are, i just dont know what these doubles are since i cant find it anywhere.

[fading horizon]

you would need to go find where that function is called and handled in the source files

and find out how it works and what those variables are doing

[reef karma]

gross lol

[fading horizon]

yeah

[sour island]

The javaDoc has been getting updated

[reef karma]

documentation is a blessing i guess not a given

[sour island]

It could tell you more there

X Y R G B A?

Pixel X/Y, rgba for color

Those are variable names

[reef karma]

that makes a lot of sense. they could have added a single line saying that though no?

[fast galleon]

that's pz java code, not Lua related

[sour island]

I mean... The "perfect" code is legible without documentation

And I'd say xy rgba is pretty self explanatory

The java doc does include more break down though - is that where your screenshot is from?

[reef karma]

now that i know it makes perfect sense lol but first time looker? I would not say that it should click immediately
thank you as well regardless of it being ez lol

[reef karma]

time to learn lua as well i guess. should be simple ish to pick up, thank you 🙂

[sour island]

Also if you want to try out stuff: https://www.lua.org/demo.html

Once you get the hang of tables it's pretty easy

Then the challenge is thinking about how to leverage your Lua into the game

[reef karma]

sounds good. i think for now i am just gonna make a simple thing and try to show a text in a corner or something. then make it floaty and etc

[fading horizon]

https://youtu.be/N6tZujOPnDw

Also this

It's a little outdated and a few things are different but this is what I used when I very first started to understand file structure and such

[reef karma]

yep ^ I used that to "edit" a mod i wanted to play with. So at least I can publish and etc

how long have you been at this?

[fading horizon]

About a week

Made two mods so far

Third is almost finished

It's not that bad once you get a little bit of a feel for things

[weary knoll]

agreed

[reef karma]

Lack of motivation is gonna be the killer here for me, code at work and at home. I look at it enough.
With the current of things if it took you a week, it will take me a month
I saw your vape mod already and looks cool, does it replace smokes or just for fun?

[fading horizon]

Nope it's an entirely new item with a custom timed action so it doesn't touch vanilla stuff at all

[weary knoll]

when things start to finally "click", that's a great feeling

[fading horizon]

Feel that on the motivation

[fading horizon]

You said you have coding experience so I doubt it

I have some varied experience but it's mostly in css/html/js

So this was all a bit new to me

[reef karma]

I do it for 8 hours 5 days a week 🥹 (most of that time is meeting tbh)

[fading horizon]

I wish I could get a coding job

😩

One day

[reef karma]

i looked at lua in college but never actually did anything with it

[fading horizon]

Only other time I used Lua was to hack payday 2

So long ago lmao

[reef karma]

you will find one, it took me a while. if you are making mods this quickly you seem like you know what you are doing 😄

[weary knoll]

there's no problem with modding for yourself

[reef karma]

Making useless mod is my goal right now. My lunch break has changed to looking at lua for PZ now

[weary knoll]

You don't have to justify it to anyone, even if it's useless like making the rubber ducks make a squeak noise or something

that's in the works

so you won't have to wait for too long haha

[fading horizon]

Me too. I'm decent at photoshop and stuff but completely new to modeling. Making the models is easier than fucking with textures

[reef karma]

I make some models for 3d printing. I am gonna make models with no textures, black and white style. i dont think that is gonna come in handy anytime soon if i can display a simple test in game yet xD

[fading horizon]

i have two choices on how i want to approach this item im making i could use some opinions

1. Have one item which when spawned, gets assigned a random display name (the vape flavor) and based on that display name, gets assigned the relevant texture file

2. create individual items for each flavor

is 1 even possible

[cursive coral]

require 'Items/SuburbsDistributions'
require 'Items/Distributions'
require "Vehicles/VehicleDistributions"
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, "1_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, 50)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, "2_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, 25)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, "5_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, 12.5)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, "10_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, 6.25)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, "20_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, 3.12)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, "50_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, 1.56)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, "100_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.cashregister.items, 0.78)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, "1_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, 50)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, "2_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, 25)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, "5_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, 12.5)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, "10_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, 6.25)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, "20_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, 3.12)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, "50_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, 1.56)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, "100_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions.Bag_MoneyBag.items, 0.78)

table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, "1_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, 50)
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, "2_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, 25)
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, "5_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, 12.5)
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, "10_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, 6.25)
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, "20_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, 3.12)
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, "50_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, 1.56)
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, "100_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(VehicleDistributions.GloveBox.items, 0.78)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "1_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 50)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "2_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 25)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "5_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 12.5)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "10_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 6.25)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "20_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 3.12)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "50_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 1.56)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "100_Dollar_Bill")
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 0.78)

What is problem???

[fast galleon]

lol

[reef karma]

option 1 is more dynamic and allows you to add more future textures without changing the code>
Depending on how you implement option two, if you do add more textures or even models, you might have to do more (still minimal) code changes.
Option 1 is fancier and should be smaller package since you are re-using the same model or re-skinning no?

I vote for option 1 even though I have no idea if it is possible ( I don't see why not)

[cursive coral]

why did you laugh I just started and I'm trying to figure it out.

[fast galleon]

but what is the problem, have you tried turning it on and off again

[frank elbow]

For future reference, it would be better to put those values in a table and loop over the table to do those insert calls

"better" meaning more readable in this case

[fast galleon]

do you know where the logs are?

[cursive coral]

Yep no error

[fast galleon]

try searching for 100_dollar_bill

do you know about LootZed?

[cursive coral]

I'm not at the computer right now, I'll check again tomorrow. I'm trying to set it to console.

[cursive coral]

yes, but I don't really understand.

Is there a site I can look at?

[fast galleon]

for loot I generally share this
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/38165-quick-guide-how-to-mod-the-loot-distribution-system-distributionslua-proceduraldistributionslua/&do=findComment&comment=365101

for scripts
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide

[cursive coral]

Hmm thanks

then it's time to research

[frank lintel]

how about a guide or code on how they are loaded and read

[fast galleon]

warning, that link doesn't use the tables you want

[fast galleon]

flow chart?

[frank lintel]

well more like need to look at exactly how its read/formatting etc so maybe have a way to read/access it in the IDE?

[fast galleon]

lua table -> java parse, there's a lot of spread info

here's another link
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/38329-customizing-loot-4151/

[frank lintel]

I mean technically all that stuff is just lua tables without the code right?

just wondering any way to get the code those txt files actually represent.

[fast galleon]

distributions don't have txt

[abstract carbon]

can someone please direct me to a mod making article or forum. I am totally lost, I have copied the mod template to the dime and yet it will not show up in game

[fading horizon]

Does anyone else get an odd sense of satisfaction in making your code / comments look pretty

[red tiger]

Distros are Lua tables, right?

[reef karma]

I wish the code I work with had comments. Biggest pet peeve are bad/ugly comments xD LOL

[frank lintel]

okay just brainstorming but you get where Im going cuz IDE loves to say unknown cuz its getting a ?object?table? built out of those txt files which then carry methods it can use..

[fading horizon]

i have ocd so documentation is v important to me lol

[fast galleon]

there's 3 different folders of the game on your pc, maybe it's wrong place? The -nosteam option can affect the folders you need to use

[red tiger]

Now you can't ever get away with telling me "My code is self-documenting." xD

[reef karma]

i made my co worker do another commit because he had extra spaces and lines where there should have not being. I refused to approve his PR

[frank lintel]

jab why I wish there was a kinda working javadoc gen for lua

[fading horizon]

fair enough. Its so bad i wrote a 50 page documentation training manual on my own free will for my job at work

[red tiger]

Enter PipeWrench.

[fading horizon]

just because i was mad it didn't have one

[red tiger]

Well sort of.. PipeWrench has a WIP Lua transpiler.

[fading horizon]

plus i've learned a ton from just picking apart other people's code, so I want people to be able to easily understand and use mine

[red tiger]

This is the best that the Lua side of PipeWrench provides rn: https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench/blob/stable/lua/server/ISObjectClickHandler.d.ts

=(

[abstract carbon]

what do you mean? I have put the folder in workshop in Users, in workshop and mod folder in the Project zomboid file I am unsure where else to put it

[red tiger]

Sorry bout that.

[fast galleon]

yes I think User/Zomboid/Workshop/MyMod/Contents/mods/MyMod is what you want

[frank lintel]

game install folder (projectzomboid), $home/zomboid, then the mod folder workshop/content/108600

and !steam user might be different...

[rancid panther]

yo that is super neat

on a second thought dont read my code. it might give u an aneurysm

[reef karma]

what is the theme for vc for lua to make it look like that? or is that default

[frank lintel]

your game folder and home folder both have a /mod folder dont mix them up.

[abstract carbon]

do I actually rename my mod to MyMod?

[rancid panther]

do not

[fast galleon]

if not your mod then don't reupload

[abstract carbon]

it is my mod

[rancid panther]

any time someone gives u a name placeholder, give it a real name

they r just telling u how to do it without holding ur hand

[frank lintel]

~\Zomboid\mods\Superb-Survivors-4178 for example is where I work on a copy of Superb to fix stuff...

[abstract carbon]

I have the mod folder, where do I put it. I have already tried Users/Zomboid/Workshop and Mods

I am even able to upload it to the steam workshop yet when I subscribe to it, it does not show up

[frank lintel]

just put it in your home zomboid/mods folder

[rancid panther]

🙌this

[abstract carbon]

ok

my mod is there

[frank lintel]

I did this only temporary but I renamed as you see the folder to a new name but also mod.info I change the name there so when loading the mods ingame you know exactly what you loading. esp if you already published a version of it on steam.

[fast galleon]

the next step is to check the mod.info file

[rancid panther]

yea if they copied mod template then the mod will be the same id as the mod template and thus not work

[frank lintel]

^

[rancid panther]

get an icon file too. replace the sample with a relevant image

[frank lintel]

poster.png

[fading horizon]

This better comments plugin for vscode is GOAT

you can add custom tags and formats however you like

I highly recommend it

[rancid panther]

i should get some plugins for vscode

mine doesnt even highlight "not" "and" or "or"

[frank lintel]

o.O

which one you using then looks fine for me. same as == etc

[bronze yoke]

do you even have a lua plugin 😨

[rancid panther]

i do not

🤣

[rancid panther]

i'll get a plugin tho. for my own and everyone's sanity

[frank lintel]

thats what I got installed, if Im missing any other popular ones dunno

[reef karma]

is that where the color theme comes from?

[frank lintel]

ah just set them for yourself... :P themes...

[reef karma]

Much better than what she had ^

[red tiger]

I use this when I'm around people so it's annoying enough not to stare at.

[reef karma]

I just use light theme when I am coding with people

[frank lintel]

I dont even use vsc cept for quick looking at code and compare it to IJ

[red tiger]

I'm about to change that. =P

[frank lintel]

no you wont unless you rebuilding the whole UI of vsc

[fading horizon]

no the comments one only does comments

[fading horizon]

this kills my eyes

[frank lintel]

this is what I normally look at..

[fading horizon]

[reef karma]

i am scrolling through the theme for that colors but i cant find it. my shit is all washed out

give me that neon pink function tags please

[red tiger]

Everything must look like TypeScript highlighting.

Or else..

[frank lintel]

how about this. kick my Vi arse. :P

or notepad.exe

[fading horizon]

still my fav coding theme

[frank lintel]

eww

[fading horizon]

back before vscode

[red tiger]

Rose theme?

[reef karma]

Sakura theme

[fading horizon]

pastel theme for sublime

https://kpossibles.github.io/kawaiipastelaesthetics/

[red tiger]

I used to use Sublime.

[reef karma]

good old sublime

[frank lintel]

kill the BG I wouldnt care

no f'n thank you on burning in my display...

[reef karma]

best linux editor

[fading horizon]

isn't bright or burning on my display tbh. looks fine

but my monitor is angled a certain way

[red tiger]

I use chalk on the pavement. I program in runes..

[fading horizon]

i had to stop using it though because i needed clearer syntax highlighting

when i wrote 50k lines of code in autohotkey though? That sublime theme was through it all with me

[red tiger]

The theme of my editor keeps changing though.

[frank lintel]

hold on time to pull out the magnifier and see if we get a color code

[red tiger]

Like what if I only want dark theme?

Only lasts like 11 hours.

[reef karma]

dracula theme for dark only

[frank lintel]

R:252 G:224 B:241 yes as I say burn in bruh..

[glass basalt]

Pfffft, using VSCode for making mods that you can't even run, test, or compile 🤣

[frank lintel]

same issue with IJ

[glass basalt]

I used Notepad++ and recently switched to Kate to have more control over UI

[fading horizon]

Oh you're talking technical stuff idk anything about that lmao

Vscode is nice for the ui

Syntax highlighting and plug-ins are great too

If you're not using the zedscript plug in you're really missing out

[glass basalt]

Imagine VSCode but it only shows the things you need: that's Kate >:^)

[frank lintel]

IJ works fine for me now that I know Im back in the C compiler setup days. all I need is a loader for .txt files as lua objects/tables/whatever and Im set

how to set up your IDE. open the command line game launcher bat file... that gives you a good idea.

[reef karma]

both VSCode and studio are great for bigger projects. for basic stuff i just use notepad++

[rancid panther]

bob and kate

[glass basalt]

That too, it fits perfectly

[frank lintel]

if it just lua code stuff Im testing I go right for the online compiler

do wish there was a 5.1 specific one still alive.

[glass basalt]

Most of my Lua implementations use Java methods or tables so native Lua testing doesn't work

[frank lintel]

java I got no issues either

[glass basalt]

I have to raw-dog it using print statements and relaunching the game

[frank lintel]

Im set on both lua and java now its that loaded stuff so the IDE knows what its dealing with stuff

[bronze yoke]

i just test things with the in-game console when i have to

[reef karma]

what kind of goodies can you run with the in game console?

[glass basalt]

The same as lua scripts, its just a terminal

[frank lintel]

anything really if you can do one line lua code :)

[reef karma]

that would prob be a great start for me to just mess around with functions and stuff to figure out what they are

anything specific to run it or just -debug at launch?

[frank lintel]

just that and you can explore it all in the F11 menu.

[glass basalt]

-debug as executable properties, or the other one for the java launcher bat

[reef karma]

sounds great. thank you for that, i was hoping something like that existed. my motivation is back

[glass basalt]

Was like -Ddebug or something

[frank lintel]

think if you hold shift or something there was a trigger to launch debug mode too

that def wouldnt care for cmd line

[glass basalt]

Tbh i would 1. Look at mods that do similar things to what you want and 2. Read the java docs for PZ

[reef karma]

already ripping down a mod that i got my eyes on. as of right now the only goal i have is to have a clock in just like the digital watch in vanilla. just to explore how things work

[glass basalt]

A placeable version of the digital watch?

[reef karma]

kinda like the the clothing inv mod with the floating button but it just shows the time lmao

[frank lintel]

hides...

who needs a library we'll just take it direct.

need to make a template out of this so I dont gotta do it over and over by hand

[reef karma]

@ maemento I downloaded your mod first mod almost as it came out, I just realized it was you xD

[rancid panther]

untapped vape market

i think some map mods have spawn definitions for their smoke shops so make sure u use the same tags other smoker mods use

[hot patrol]

Any texture artists that can give me some advice? How would you go about texturing an item like this? I'm trying to get it done without stretching the image but a lot of them come in different width and heights. I've tried content aware stretching and filling but it has varied results and I'm not a good enough artists to just redraw the edges.

the texure on the model is the stretched one

this is one of the better results

some are not great

[clever spruce]

@rustic garnet Sorry to ping you here instead of leaving a message in Workshop page for Nested Containers, but I needed to do so hee so that I can show you what's hapening with said mod.

The double entries are from the only two containers I have in my main inventory. it doesn't do this in vehicle, stationary containers, or inside bags I have equipped on my person.

[reef karma]

Alright so what are the limitations of the F11 menu for the debug mode?
If I make a mod and install it, load into a save. While in game, change the lua and reload from the debug mode in game -- does this work?

[red tiger]

Hahahahaha

Animate a player sleeping and holding onto that thing for dear life.

[hot patrol]

there is actually a stress debuff you get when you sleep with them equipped but no animation sadly

great idea tho

now I need it

[red tiger]

Hahaha

Yes.

Next thing you know someone will add an occupation "Anime Enthusiast".

[hot patrol]

already diid

There is a weeb proffesion. When you take it you spawn wearing a trench coat and fedora and get a random dakimakura and nearly broken mall katana. you also get and exclusive "studied the blade" trait that ups long blade

aaand finally there is this.. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1074066291318595597/1090001016323317941/ProjectZomboid64_GnJCkWX2VO.mp4

[red tiger]

Nope

[hot patrol]

creativity truly can go too far

[rancid panther]

wtf

[sour island]

steam down?

boards windows to mod_development

[fading horizon]

10/10

add clove cigs from my mod for extra edginess

[rancid panther]

the face i made when i turned on the audio

[fading horizon]

in what way

seems to be working for me

game launch as well as workshop pages

[rancid panther]

oh yeah it isnt working for me either

[sour island]

not completely down but definitely having issues

[jaunty marten]

iirc steam doing planned shut down every tuesday but not sure about exactly time

[rancid panther]

good thing i wasnt planning on playing

spent a good half hour looking for a theme that works for my eyes tho

[fading horizon]

this is what i did today instead of actually coding

got sidetracked and made a vscode theme

lol

[fading horizon]

    {
        DisplayName                    =     Gnome Bar,
        OnCreate                       =     onVapeSpawn,
    }```

function onVapeSpawn(_item)
    if not _item then return; end;

    local item = _item;

    local flavorsList = {
        "Tropical Rainbow Blast",
        "Blue Razz",
        "Watermelon Ice",
        "Pink Lemonade",
        "Black Ice",
    }

    random = ZombRand(10)+1;
    local displayName = "GnomeBar (" .. flavorsList[random] .. ")";
    print(displayName);
    print("Printed display name");

    item:setDisplayName(displayName);
end```

I'm only getting errors when trying to set the display name on the last line

even when just setting it to a string of "test"

im not sure what i'm doing incorrectly. Any ideas?

[jaunty marten]

what's the item?

[fading horizon]

its a vape, defined in the first code block

[jaunty marten]

and why r u using _item as argument and on next line doing item = _item instead just use item as arg lul

[sour island]

do item scripts have an onCreate?

[fading horizon]

its what the wiki did so I was just going off their template to begin with

[jaunty marten]

can u show this wiki page? wth