mod_development

[fading horizon]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Item_Script_Parameters/OnCreate

it gets called when made by itemfactory

from a previous comment i found in here

[jaunty marten]

lol..

[sour island]

hm, I didn't know such a function was a thing

[bronze yoke]

i never knew

[fading horizon]

.

this is where i got the knowledge from

[indigo hemlock]

watermelon ice
Omg it’s actually there ❤️

[fading horizon]

i told you i would haha

just fingers crossed I can get it working lol

[frank lintel]

its the normal tuesday update/auth nonsense

[jaunty marten]

OnCreate pass InventoryItem object and this obj have no setDisplayName method

[fading horizon]

dang

I guess i have to create individual items for each flavor then

that sucks

[jaunty marten]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2822983942

u can check this mod

and do same thing

[frank lintel]

that and your random isnt the same length as your flavours?

[fading horizon]

i trimmed the table so the message wouldn't be so long

🙂

[jaunty marten]

but problem is it will be same item and need to expand item panel each time

[sour island]

You can change item names

[frank lintel]

ah

[jaunty marten]

better to do a few items

[sour island]

it's just setName()

[fading horizon]

wdym

[sour island]

Items stack based on names

rather than types

[jaunty marten]

it will be same item so it will stack of items instead separate items

[fading horizon]

ohhhh

okay

[sour island]

hopefully this is changed when item variations are a thing

[fading horizon]

hmmmmm

[sour island]

I made some of my mods stack based on types

[fading horizon]

do I go with the flexibility of having it as one item with stacking issues or do i make 16 different flavors

i think i can live with the stacking issue

[sour island]

also I dislike handling vhs tapes for this reason lol

[fading horizon]

Thank you very much

[jaunty marten]

if u want to do it for workshop and not exactly for urself then better to think will it be good for everyone

[fading horizon]

well the random assignment idea was cool but I guess i'm gonna have to do different versions for each flavor then

damn

thank you for your help

oh shit

no it doesn't

it separates them automatically

lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

it changes the name in the spawn window too even though

and this makes it so users can't spawn their fav flavor

so individual items may still be better

is that important? What do y'all think

[jaunty marten]

unspawnable items are bad practice

[fading horizon]

player spawning is just for debug

and no, USB-C charging doesn't exist in 1990 so you can't recharge them

that's my lore and i'm sticking to it

when it's out of uses, it changes to an empty gnomebar

which i plan to make it so you can still vape it, but you'll audibly cough and not get the smoke effects

i know vanilla metal items explode in the microwave so i'm going to make it do that just in case you try

lmfao

also explodes for unknown reason

that's the fix

if theres a car battery charger within 50 tiles, just destroy it, whatever

[sour island]

yes, items regardless of types stack based on name

and the chat suddenly updated

Idk why discord keeps doing that to me 😅

[steel delta]

I just finished my Simple Vaccines mod, it's my first mod I've ever created for this game and I just wanted to thank this discord chat for the help.
Here's the link to the workshop item for anyone who wants to check it out.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2954167467

[reef karma]

Change the category of the item 🥹 it deserves better

[fading horizon]

i will

just getting base functionality down first

which i'm on the last part

making all the different icons right now

[reef karma]

kk making sure. Looks great so far btw! Congrats

[fading horizon]

thank you!!

[reef karma]

the server should add a SME role for people that know what they are doing lol

[frank lintel]

does that to me when Im at work on my phone

[fading horizon]

icons are done

[reef karma]

looking fresh. btw did you say that they are not rechargeable ?

[fading horizon]

indeed

i don't want to go down the rabbit hole of dealing with batteries and all that

they'll be common enough that you can just find another

[reef karma]

sounds good, i was gonna mention batteries but you beat me to it

also is there a way to have the f11 menu not take the entire screen so i can check out the changes live or it is just not supported

Edit: erase i even asked this. i can quickly f11 out of it, i thought it wasnt going to save my current stage

[frank lintel]

could just look at how flashlights do it

[fading horizon]

kinda just want to get a v1 out at least because i want to work on other stuff but feel like i need to finish this first

i feel like a different vape mod would be better suited for that anyways

a vape mod where you have one base vape item that can be recharged but theres different vape juice in the world

got the icons to change depending on the item name now

weird the icons don't persist through a game reload

this has been a pain in the ass, i'm just going to make different items for each flavor

more tedious but its easier and more reliable

[reef karma]

if you aint planning on adding more flavors it is probably better unless you want to troubleshoot it lol, the simplest way it usually the best way

[lusty kindle]

Could someone give me quick run down how the evolved recipes work?

Trying to add the ability to add some spices to marinating meat

[frank lintel]

someone was asking about making a sound for everyone just came across this lil thing... GameServer.PlaySoundAtEveryPlayer("Thunder"); lulz the thunder of the banhammer

and apparently that has a server option as well. nice.

hmmm bansteamID command doesnt use that at all.

[rancid panther]

instead of the recipe being "create Salad" the recipe is "Salad" and i think the scripts are all there too

[reef karma]

is there anything that i can follow on how to learn to use the console system ?

got the basics i guess for selecting and reloading, skipinto/skipover ( i think) just having a hard time watching local variable in the specific lua that i am working in

[lusty kindle]

Okay thanks I think I mostly understand whats going on. Follow up question, would I need to modify every base spice item to include the evolved recipe?

cause that seems like a compatibility nightmare

[ancient grail]

Happens to me too. I bet im replying to an old post

[fading horizon]

last chance to get your fav elf bar flavor in game

finishing up the mod now

probably publishing tomorrow

"Tropical Rainbow Blast",
"Blue Razz",
"Watermelon Ice",
"Pink Lemonade",
"Black Ice",
"Cool Mint",
"Banana Ice",
"Grape",
"Lemon Mint",
"Strawberry Banana"```

current flavors

[reef karma]

Something cherry please 🥹

"Cherry Bomb"

[fading horizon]

theres a cherry one

ill add that

[reef karma]

what was it cherry cola?

[lusty kindle]

I was a sucker for kiwi passionfruit guava

[fading horizon]

just cherry

from what i saw

ive never had a cherry one

that sounds good tho

[reef karma]

i think i found the cherry cola one

anything cherry sounds good to me honestly. best ice cream flavor = amarena (which are cherries)

[fading horizon]

@indigo hemlock

its really happening

[indigo hemlock]

Noice!

[indigo hemlock]

Is there a way to unlock recipes added by mod with skill level? Like whenever player have metalworking > 5 then recipe unlocked

[fading horizon]

new flavor just dropped

[fading horizon]

models in game

[fast galleon]

Gameserver the class that has all the tools to make MP work, but not exposed to Lua.

[fading horizon]

suddenly the model now doesn't show during the animation

wtf

i was done

[rancid panther]

looking good

i really am tempted to get started on some other mod ideas but i've been holding back so i can spend my free time playing

[fading horizon]

i'm upset lol

putting comments on the same line as the statement is what messed it up

everything works now

now just to add the finishing touches and its ready

[silent sapphire]

Hello I was wondering if there is a way to run a function when a Literature item is being read? I want to check the proffesion and depending on the proffesion unlock different recipes

[ancient grail]

[small topaz]

You could try to patch the perform() function in /lua/client/TimedActions/ISReadABook.lua. Not 100% sure but I think this is the code which controls all the reading actions done by the player. You can also access the player's profession by using smth like
local profession = getPlayer():getDescriptor():getProfession()

[silent sapphire]

Ye rn I check on char creation for profession and give recipes like that but would like to link it to a literature magazine

Think the timedaction is what I am looking for tnx for the response

[neon bronze]

Yea you‘d need to overwrite the vanilla perform function and then check if its your book being read

Or you look into that wildlife magazine which gives you the herbalist trait

[small topaz]

overwriting is strictly speaking not necessary. You can just patch the function by using smth like this

function ISReadABook.perform(self, ...)
   vanilla_perform(self, ...) -- execute vanilla code
   -- add some new code --
end```
With such a code, the vanilla code is still executed but will just execute your new code afterwards (can also put your new code before if you want).

[neon bronze]

I regularly mean overwriting if you alter the code in any way

Like that would be patching or adding to it

But id still call it overwriting

[small topaz]

oh ok. when I hear "overwrite" I always think about completely replacing the vanilla code with your own code (and not executing the vanilla code as in my example). but terminology here is probably not so precise...

[chrome egret]

Good morning, all

Starting to play around with Cursor (https://www.cursor.so/) and it's providing helpful suggestions for PZ modding

Just sucks that right now you're giving up VCS highlighting and all the other cool Visual Studio Code functionality

Offers a quick solution to my ask

Easier than discussing with a junior dev 😉

Although it's wrong about where that queueNext function is called

[frank elbow]

Not looking forward to the dark near-future of people making and revising bot-assisted code & then requesting help for code they don't understand

[indigo hemlock]

chatGPT is good also. especially for writing basic lua functions to sort out tables etc

[frank elbow]

Requesting help wouldn't even be a problem were it not bot-assisted—something about that just rubs me the wrong way. At least understand what you're doing on some level first

[chrome egret]

eh

The bots are advancing faster than human ignorance

At work I'm playing with the idea of taking a model, fine-tuning it on our code repos, and making it explain the weird intricacies to new team members

[frank lintel]

simple solution 'muted'

[frank elbow]

Fair

[frank lintel]

talking about it in general I just ignore it but someone started doing what you said... yeah think thats fair.

if anything to me its dangerous... if ya understand it thats one thing doing it without any understanding of the language yeah... bad times coming.

[ancient grail]

if i have this

local container = {}
container.table = {}

then the global will still be local right

cuz you have no way of accessing the parent

?

[frank lintel]

actually a good ?

[calm depot]

there is nothing global in that snippet

[ancient grail]

figured

[calm depot]

if you had a global called container then it would be shadowed by your local declaration

you would need to use _G.container in order to access it

[frank lintel]

here I was thinking table was the global in question...

[calm depot]

that's not a global, that's creating a key called table inside container

[ancient grail]

[frank lintel]

yeah the coloring was what had me

[tribal summit]

Can anyone help me with my nitrado server?

[ancient grail]

contact nitrado support

[tribal summit]

they are useless

Like no matter what they say it’s not on their end

I’m to the point I’m going to start pulling my own teeth out of frustration. I’d love to just be able to send my log files to someone who is more capable than I and have them sort it. But if not I’ll just give up

[ancient grail]

Switch hosting to someone who actually play pz
@crisp flicker

He offers hosting pz too

[tribal summit]

I actually play the game, just trying to switch to a dedicated server from a private host.

I would love help setting it up or having someone host

[ancient grail]

Yeah contact that dude
He will set u up

[tribal summit]

Thank you.

[indigo hemlock]

So i’m trying to make player automatically “learn” a recipe whenever player reaches certain level in fee different skills. What should i dig up in docs to make this happen? :)

[ancient grail]

look at how vanilla makes player slearn stuff on the lua

[fervent bay]

none of those make it clear about how to do what i want

[frank elbow]

I don't think there is a "how to make an npc mod" tutorial, if that's what you're after

There are existing NPC mods and you can look at their source to help figure out how to do what you want to do. @frank lintel has been poking at superb survivors(?) for a while

I don't want to dissuade you from trying, but it's worth noting that NPCs are a fairly lofty goal for a mod

[frank lintel]

Trying to... but can't talk I'm at work now

[fervent bay]

i want to "fix" the Epic Battle mod. at least for my own use, editing the lua file. NolanRitchie abandoned it for Superb Survivors a long time ago and with the new character models, it doesn't work anymore

i prefer EBM over SS

that's my goal

i've accepted he will never update it

if not me, i'd request someone else do it

sounds like that wouldn't be allowed in the workshop

i tried, there are so many subfolders and files i didn't know where to start finding the information i need

i'm not smart

at coding, at least

i do have a basic lua understanding but when i don't know what to look for, i'm out of luck

and i can't find the mod you mentioned above

[indigo hemlock]

Thx

[ancient grail]

[frank lintel]

🚬

[reef karma]

Hey yall! Is there anything I can peak for some extra info on HotKeys menus? Trying to add a toggle for a menu

[ancient grail]

Hotkeys menu wdym? R u referring to the right click context menu?

[reef karma]

hotkey as in key binds under options

[sour island]

If you want a key to do a certain action you can use the key down event

But if you want it to be configurable there's a bit more to adding it to the menu

[reef karma]

i have added to the menu already. I am having issues actually using it if that makes sense

I have the HotKey.lua file (I think correctly) and i can see it under options

[sour island]

So the triggering event that I see a lot of mods use is simply key down -- then you check what key was pressed

There's a good example in vanilla with flashlights and shouting

[fading horizon]

Good afternoon everyone

[reef karma]

Good afternoon!

[reef karma]

do you know to happen what the file is called?

@ maemento how is your mod doing?

[fading horizon]

Basically finished

All the models and textures are done

All the items are defined and added

I think it should be released today

Only things left are getting item distributions right, which I'm dreading because itemzed doesn't work on my pc

And also adding a cough animation / popup to hitting a dead vape

And adding an icon to the tool tip

[reef karma]

Makes them lose hp when hitting dead vape

You are going fast with this lol. I just added a little thing under the char info tab

[fading horizon]

Not lose hp but definitely some unhappiness

Shouldn't be too hard. There's a weed mod that makes you cough and smoke half a joint sometimes so I just need to look at that code

[reef karma]

i have been using the workshop as stackoverflow in college. same thing

[fading horizon]

Hahaha

What did you add to the char info tab?

At this point with how many smoking mods I've made, I'm tempted to make a map with a smoke shop and custom tiles

[reef karma]

I could not find a counter that showed how "old" the map is, so i made it show how many days it has been since the map was started.
I wanted something that did not reset when you died. I played a bit too mch ARK and for some reason I like to see it

[reef karma]

would it be your first map in pz ?

[fading horizon]

Yeah

[fading horizon]

That's neat honestly

Does it reset on a map reset?

[reef karma]

the only way for it to reset is if the current time is changed

since it is current time - og time pretty much

and kinda neat, the game actually does not allow you to go before the start date as far as i could see/try

Kinda like that on the bottom for now. should be good enough, it was just to play around with things 🙂

[red tiger]

Your pfp reminds me of a silly prompt I put into a generator with Woody from Toy Story.

[rustic garnet]

Hey Neko! I will look into it I was already searching that, but are you sure it's not another mod since I can't actually seem to replicate it 😦

[clever spruce]

I don;'t think we have another inventory mod rthat could be doing it.

we do have an inventory hotbar mod or 2.

[sour island]

I'm just a simple modder doing honest work

[rustic garnet]

Mhmm interesting 😦 would you mind dming me the list of mods at some points? I can check if it could be some weird imcompatibility. But the fact it's drawing certain at a darker color is really weird.

[cosmic condor]

🤔

got ideas, but have to check if someone already done that

Steam Workshop search is too literal

[fading horizon]

That's why I Google search sometimes instead

Identifier tags + project zomboid steam workshop

Sometimes it works better

You could even filter results to only show workshop links

[sour island]

There's another mod that adds tabs for bags -- maybe you have both on?

Darker textures are usually held by the sub item listings when they're expanded

Perhaps thats related?

[sour island]

I'd have to check once home - ping me in like 2 hours

But you can try to find it looking for the key down event

[reef karma]

Sure thing, thank you i appreciate it.
I will start looking and see if i can find it myself

[fading horizon]

I'm about to dig through some files too so I'll let you know if I spot anything

[reef karma]

Thank you both 🥹

[reef karma]

I have made the key binding menu in the options. next is to actually implement it

[fast galleon]

@reef karma
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events/OnKeyPressed
the key release event

the you check if it's the right key number

[modern hamlet]

if i add lumberjack profession like this, does this override the vanilla?

local lumberjack = ProfessionFactory.addProfession("lumberjack", getText("UI_prof_Lumberjack"), "profession_lumberjack", 0);
lumberjack:addXPBoost(Perks.Axe, 2)
lumberjack:addXPBoost(Perks.Strength, 1)
-- lumberjack:addFreeTrait("Axeman"); this line commented out, rest is vanilla

[fading horizon]

UI_vape_cough0 = "*cough* *cough*",
UI_vape_cough1 = "This thing is out of juice...",
UI_vape_cough2 = "Nothing but burned cotton...",
UI_vape_cough3 = "I need a new vape...",

can anyone think of other good things to say when a vape is dead / out of juice

[reef karma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGF_7yRZbj8

[fading horizon]

oml

💀

[reef karma]

Not very NPC like, I just thought it was funny lol

"Time to go find another..." could be one but it is very similar to your last one

[fading horizon]

you're still pushing for it

lmao

i guess i have to add that feature now

for those who missed it

putting the vape it the microwave should make it explode

like how vanilla does with metal items

i'm curious if this will even work because its not a food item

but then again in the lua i could try to set cookable to true

but that could lead to some weird results lol

[reef karma]

can you set it to only cookable only if in the container ?

[fading horizon]

[reef karma]

i am pretty sure that microwave allows for non food items to be placed in it, so maybe you can use that

[fading horizon]

that's a pretty good idea

i bet you can

ill have to look up how to do that

but first I should see if i can even find how the vanilla items explode

because if i can't find that, it's all for nothing

[reef karma]

i would hope the game has a way to see if an item is in a container (it has to so it can deal with weight reduction from bags and what not)

[reef karma]

set on fire command 😛

microwave gets set on fire and vape deleted xD

[fading horizon]

oh wait

all vanilla does is just start a fire on that tile

(id actually never seen how vanilla works lol)

that shouldn't be too hard?

[reef karma]

yea that is what i thought. if you manage to get if the vape is in the microwave, you could get the location of that item and set its tile on fire and let it unfold.
Or you can just make it explode, which ever one is easier

[fading horizon]

the joys of learning modding

thank god for tab search

i need to start using tab groups more

but i'm just lazy

i used to be so organized

tab groups are amazing if y'all don't know about them btw

[reef karma]

i cant spam the x with tab groups.

i refuse

[fading horizon]

but then you can do this

its fun

like a slinky

[fading horizon]

you don't need to

middle click the tab to close it

or right click the group to close all

oh shitttttttt

i just hit a milestone

i got over 1k subs on my mod

[reef karma]

loses satisfaction. but yea, group tabs are great, i lose them for work

[fading horizon]

[reef karma]

Congrats

dark patches ?

[fading horizon]

no actually

clove cigarettes took off for some reason

[reef karma]

Dark patches is right there too

931

[fading horizon]

ooo

i'm so happy that people are using my stuff

feels good to be able to provide a cool thing

[reef karma]

i think one of mine is at 400 or so but i only made it for my server and i didnt realize there were like 10 that did the same thing lmao

pz community has been great so far, cant say the same for most other games i play xD

[fast galleon]

I wonder if I can sneak in an update that will do weird stuff on saturday. and drive people crazy.

[reef karma]

No plz, i use your ladder mod

[fast galleon]

ah, more fall chance gotcha

[reef karma]

you can make the animation go sideways instead

so rotate the character 90 degrees

[fading horizon]

you made the ladder mod?

bless u

i use that in the doomsday RV for even more interior space and it's amazing

[rancid panther]

im waiting for the official ladder mod patch so i can go back to it

[tribal shuttle]

how do i structure an array like this is lua?: a = {[x1,y1],[x2,y2]}

[fading horizon]

local table = {
{x1,y1},
{x2,y2}
}

i believe

[frank elbow]

Tables can contain tables; you can just include them like that

[fading horizon]

a table of tables

[frank elbow]

Yup

[reef karma]

or also known as a 2d array

[fading horizon]

arrays in lua are only for stuff like lua {"Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday"}

with no pairs

so then you go array[1] for Monday

[fast galleon]

co` made the ladders mod actually

[frank elbow]

I would argue arrays aren't a thing in Lua but I just got back from work so I'll save semantic arguments for another time

[fading horizon]

Omar is correct

@tribal shuttle

[reef karma]

true that is a single dimension array, in the example that you showed you just added another dimension.
it can be called multiple things depending on the language. Usually 2d array or matrices. i think lua calls it matrices ?

[frank elbow]

Just scrolled up and saw y'all's tabs and I'm sick to my stomach

[fading horizon]

https://www.lua.org/pil/2.5.html

[reef karma]

https://www.lua.org/pil/11.2.html

11.2 – Matrices and Multi-Dimensional Arrays 😛

[frank elbow]

... that is, a table wherein each element is another table

Again, this is a semantic argument & not all that important—that section of PIL is discussing how to represent those well-known data structures with tables

[fading horizon]

how does my workspace make you feel

[frank elbow]

I would have a breakdown every time I turn on my computer

[fading horizon]

[frank elbow]

Two screens is quite enough for me lol

[fading horizon]

this is 3

not 1 big one

two vertical monitors on the side

[frank elbow]

Yeah I could tell, seems potentially useful but especially with multiple windows per monitor it'd be too much for me

I'm sure I could get used to it, but I like keeping it simple

[fading horizon]

i made a function that makes ctrl + right click make the topmost window go to the bottom so I can navigate stacked windows super fast

so that makes it more manageable

[frank elbow]

Such a programmer solution lmao

The workflow must remain, I CANNOT alter it. I will create a keyboard shortcut to make it better

[fading horizon]

i have ocd so efficiency is my jam

[frank elbow]

I've been there a couple of times too (so no judgment here)

[reef karma]

i cant do vertical for some reason. i have 3 horizontal and i still complain

i would like one on top ngl

[fading horizon]

vertical is really only used for secondary things for me

references, chats, email, spotify

my main monitor is like 32in or something so its big enough for lots of stuff

[frank elbow]

I use my left monitor for secondary stuff, usually discord as a default

Idt I could do vertical either

[reef karma]

right is for discord only pretty much. middle is for actual things and left for all learning stuff. and work (diy work-pesonal setup) discord sometimes gets replaced by notepadd++

invest, you wont regret it

[fading horizon]

old pic but this is what my screen setup is

its comfy

[frank elbow]

You got the pink ditto and everything

Must admit, nice setup

[fading horizon]

i must mod the shit out of every game I play until it breaks

[reef karma]

I just realized that I do not have a light in here after I saw yours in the back

[fading horizon]

me playing skyrim in 15fps with like 400 mods

this frustrated me so much

i wanted cute characters

not big tiddy lewd ones

[frank elbow]

No light at all?

[fading horizon]

[frank elbow]

I usually go w lamp light because the ceiling light is too much for my hermit eyes

[reef karma]

eh i mean, behind me? so it dont really do any good lol

who needs light when i have monitors to shine the way?

on dark theme.

[frank elbow]

Ah, gotcha. I use my bed lamp behind me & a smaller desk lamp

Praying for your eyeballs

[fading horizon]

light w rgb bulb for maximum coding effectiveness

[reef karma]

I have Hue rgb on the only light i have xD

[frank elbow]

My bed has rgb lights that I didn't realize were there when buying it

I have never used them

[reef karma]

had glasses sine i was 6 so my eyeballs be gone already. i am not blind, i can see without them but it does not feel normal lol

[frank elbow]

I'll save my eyeball prayers then

[reef karma]

yea better for someone else

[fading horizon]

But do you have them

under your bed

also say hello to my junior developer

helps me on all my projects

[frank elbow]

If they were under it then maybe I'd actually use them

I thought there were two animals in that picture bc my brain (poorly) pattern recognition'd the jacket

[reef karma]

very out of the bloom but here is what I think of my dog and bigger supported during work hours.

I think i have a dog at least

[fading horizon]

there are two

one is under the jacket lol

she likes to be tucked in and covered w things

[frank elbow]

I never should've doubted pattern recognition, thank you hunter brain

[reef karma]

I got the keybind to work 😄

[fading horizon]

Good job!!

I wonder if I should add a keybind for a vape button

[reef karma]

i was overcomplicating it so much.

it is honestly piss easy now that i know lol

[reef karma]

Question, to make a dev launch of PZ did you just add a non steam game and added the -debug to that instance?

or is there an easier way? I am getting tired or removing it by hand every time

[fading horizon]

1sec

[reef karma]

kk

[tribal shuttle]

thanks for the help. can i ask one more? I'm just trying to do a couple nested for loops on
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions[x][y].items, [item]);
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions[x][y].items, [chance]);
but im still trying to figure out how to do that in lua.

i just dont know the syntax yet

[fading horizon]

-cachedir=H:\ZomboidLocal

You also need this

@reef karma

wherever you want it cached

then you would add -debug after that too

so my options for the non steam game are like this

[reef karma]

thank you! that is what i thought

[fading horizon]

I would look at another mods' distribution code

it will be much more helpful than trying to get random snippets here

[tribal shuttle]

ive been doing that for days already and havent seen any

[reef karma]

Probably dumb question again but how do I add this?

[sour island]

You'd need to know what x and y would be

[fading horizon]

ill get you the code

one sec

[h1]If you like this mod, check out my [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/Meylmao/myworkshopfiles/?appid=108600]other mods![/url][/h1]

if you want a full rundown on how my description is laid out I can give that

[reef karma]

Wait you can do basic html in the description?

[fading horizon]

since there's lots of formatting

bbcode

[reef karma]

that is so cool

[fading horizon]

Tired of poopy looking clothing patches? This mod makes leather clothing patches a dark grey / black color.

This is my first mod, so it only includes leather patches for now. 

If there's further interest, I wouldn't mind altering the rest of the patch types as well. 

[h1]Compatibility[/h1]
[list]
[*]Safe to add or remove to any existing save. 
[*]Should be compatible with any mod
[/list]
[b]Game may need to be reloaded for texture to take effect.[/b]

[h1]Feedback[/h1]
Please leave any suggestions, comments, issues, or feedback that you have. It would be greatly appreciated. 

[b]Don't forget to like and favorite this mod if you enjoy it![/b]

[img]https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1660101375273576639/0C12E325C464F5DC166E5FF2AB70A43581BED64F/[/img]

[h1]Permissions[/h1]
[code]This mod's permissions fall under TIS's policy [url=http://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php/topic/2530-mod-permissions/?p=36477]Credit Where It's Due[/url]

You are free to use the mod for personal use, in multiplayer servers, and even include it in mod packs! Just please do not redistribute or reutilize the files of this mod elsewhere without permission ❤. 

This mod can be added to and extended by anyone in the community, but credit must be given to the original author within the files of the mod - and posted alongside the mod wherever it roams.
[/code]

[code]Workshop ID: 2949818236
Mod ID: darkPatches
Version: 1.0[/code]

[h1]If you like this mod, check out my [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/Meylmao/myworkshopfiles/?appid=108600]other mods![/url][/h1]
[url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949818236][img]https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2046362392225211607/72B0EBF6F283ADFEC058805DC437E6B06EEC21CD/?imw=150&imh=150&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true[/img][/url][noparse]     [/noparse][url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951287846][img]https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2046363109997134551/25FB1A820B4AD7852AF82B879EE045769A79EC91/?imw=150&imh=150&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true[/img][/url]```

theres the code for this

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949818236

so you can see what the tags do

https://steamcommunity.com/comment/Recommendation/formattinghelp

[reef karma]

Is it okay if i use your style ?

[fading horizon]

also this

note that the widgets do not work

at least on workshop pages

[fading horizon]

yes of course

i love text formatting

lol

spreadsheets?

[reef karma]

Thank you again. I feel like i am getting baby sited in here lol

[reef karma]

I have a hate towards this. dont get me started xD - i blame my job

[fading horizon]

i'm just happy to be able to help

[tribal shuttle]

yes, thats because its a continuation of my nested tables question earlier. table ={ {x1,y1}, {x2,y2} }
normally id have something like: for i in table: table.insert(SuburbsDistributions[i[x]][i[y]].items, [item]);
i just dont know how to properly write a lua for loop

[sour island]

oooh

are x and y the same or are you trying to nest the items in multiple sublists?

distros are a bit of a tricky situation cause there's multiple levels

[tribal shuttle]

distribution tables are listed as a 'room' and a 'container'. like 'armysurplus' + 'clothingrack'

i can make a for loop to insert into every room/container type that i like without repeating hundreds of table.inserts

[reef karma]

whenever you get the chance.
For the image part of other mods sections, the image has a steamlink, did you save it in the library or just snagged it from the mod preview?

[fading horizon]

mod preview

[humble oriole]

ok, I'm still up against a wall on this logging thing.

    {
        Base.Cigarettes=2,
        Result:NailsBox,
        Time:60.0,
        keep ATMReceiver/ATMReceiver3,
        NeedToBeLearn:false,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:TRUE,
        Category:APA Camp Shop,
        OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.Logger,
    }```

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

that on create is running on the server, why isn't it printing to the debug log?

[reef karma]

Got it thank you 🙂

[fading horizon]

@reef karma

heres some other info that's relevant if you need it

[reef karma]

I got it, now it does not look like crap anymore. thank you again

[fading horizon]

of course

for future reference, i'm always happy to help with text formatting

i seriously mean it when I say i enjoy it lol

things... must... look... pretty

time to test if all the new stuff i added to the mod will work

fingers crossed

[tribal shuttle]

okay, do i have this right?

for i=0, containerTable:size()-1 do
    for j=0, itemTable:size()-1 do
        table.insert(SuburbsDistributions[i[0][i[1].items, [j[0]);
        table.insert(SuburbsDistributions[i[0][i[1].items, [j[1]);
    end
end

[reef karma]

let us know! and thank you again. I will make sure to ping you without pinging directly lol

[frank lintel]

I prefer more something like this but minus the bg, it be something dark.

[lusty kindle]

Anyone know the resolution size for steam workshop images? The ones I'm using now got pretty distorted

[frank lintel]

as in for your mod?

[reef karma]

the preview ? isnt it 256x256

[frank lintel]

icon is 256x256

[fading horizon]

256 yeah

[lusty kindle]

not the preview, like the slideshow ones on the workshop

[fading horizon]

slideshow can be any size i think

[frank lintel]

no there is a limit I believe I ws just looking that up yesterday 1 sec

[fading horizon]

The usual display size in the Steam Workshop is 200×200 pixels.

Previews can be any size (they'll scale down to 636x358, however) which is... odd. However using a 16x9 screenshot should downscale close enough.

As for thumbnails, again they can be any size but they'll scale to 100x100 for the smaller versions and 268x268 on the page itself

[frank lintel]

thats like um 2106

600x900 atleast by 2019 might even be higher lemme look more

I was on some reference page that had a whole table of all that stuff

[lusty kindle]

hmm okay, I'm probably just using the wrong aspect ratios

tyty

[frank lintel]

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/assets ? I think

still never found on steam like official documentation saying for community mods what is what, names etc cuz some sites talk about icon_sm lg huge etc

[lusty kindle]

yeah I'll have to play around with them I think. Thanks for the link tho, I'll try some of those

[sour island]

If there's only two values you can use a keyed list to seed

[frank lintel]

they all say for the icon square and then the poster or anything else pretty much is 16:9 long as you keep that in mind doubt ya'll have issues

ipairs Chuck right finally...

[sour island]

I was thinking he could use the keys as values technically

but if he wants specific items for specific places

then like... I don't know why he isn't just inserting them by hand(?)

[frank lintel]

dont mind me I was looking at the page I posted above... actually liking the minimal color scheme.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/TablesTutorial

we pair'd up in topic ^_^

[sour island]

local yourList = {["armysurplus"]="clothingrack", ["a1"]="a2"}

---option #1
local itemsToAdd = {["item"]="chance"}
for roomID,containerID in pairs(yourList) do
   for item,chance in pairs(itemsToAdd) do
      table.insert(SuburbsDistributions[roomID][containerID].items, item)
      table.insert(SuburbsDistributions[roomID][containerID].items, chance)
   end
end

---or option #2
local itemsToAdd = {"item","chance"}
for roomID,containerID in pairs(yourList) do
   for i=1, #itemsToAdd, 2 do
      table.insert(SuburbsDistributions[roomID][containerID].items, itemsToAdd[i])
      table.insert(SuburbsDistributions[roomID][containerID].items, itemsToAdd[i+1])
   end
end

This would work if the items are the same for each container

You could also ditch the keys and for i=1, #items, 2 to use every other entry

could do an associative list too

if you want different item groups

[frank lintel]

yeah all depends what you trying to achive

[sour island]

Also, I don't think this saves on too much time/energy as oppose to just typing up the inserts lol

[frank lintel]

no but logic wise like your 50/50 split is like clean and FAF

[sour island]

I wonder if the [""] are needed

[frank lintel]

you could try that in the online compiler easy enough

[tribal shuttle]

i'm essentially replacing the entire loot table for every container.
some 600 items on some 1000 tables.

[tribal shuttle]

following the example given, i couldnt just link ["armysurplus"]="clothingrack" because theres also armysurplus/counter, armysurplus/displaycase, armysurplus/etc etc etc

[frank lintel]

interesting.

[sour island]

ah true the keys would match

then I guess you could make both for every other entry

that is if you want the same group of items to be inserted

[frank lintel]

still surprized it still ran on the top one... even though it sure didnt like it

[sour island]

why wouldn't it?

that'd break in game tho

[frank lintel]

I just dont get why the compiler underlining... thats all

[tribal shuttle]

my goal is to randomize the contents of every container in the game

[frank lintel]

empty then refill them?

or you talking script level wise mixing up

[tribal shuttle]

id considered it. but then i had the BRIGHT IDEA of doing semi randomization instead and here i am. leave the original loot tables intact so that containers still have a slant towards their original contents instead of building a new table from scratch

[frank lintel]

add a field 'opened' if it dont exist on containers. should be an on open event, clean it fill it if !opened

if thats even viable dunno honestly but if this was MC thats how I'd do it

[sour island]

Oh

I feel like I already wrote this for someone

It was to you @tribal shuttle

[tribal shuttle]

yep. im just a weirdo who wants finer control

[sour island]

You can add specifics to the code I gave

[fading horizon]

everything is actually working omg

[sour island]

"---Add extra exceptions here if needed"

"---Make changes to distro here as well if needed"

[tribal shuttle]

im just not a programmer

i dont have the base of knowledge to do creative things

but i am stubborn

[sour island]

What is it that you want to do outside of shuffling the loot tables?

[reef karma]

oh you added what i said 😄

Make it blow yet?

[tribal shuttle]

have precise control over every value of every container in the game. no biggie

[fading horizon]

literally just tested microwave

unfortunately the metalvalue property doesn't seem to do the trick

😭

[reef karma]

that means you gotta do it the harder way..

[sour island]

I thought you wanted it to be randomized?

I believe you're over thinking this a bit 😅

[tribal shuttle]

thats my specialty

[sour island]

You could group the rooms in rarity categories

then shuffle those within their groups

But randomizing the loot won't be precise - the most precise you can be is to manually make those changes

[tribal shuttle]

which is why im brute forcing a for loop to do something like a million lines of code for me?

[sour island]

not really as you'd need to retype the entire distro

unless you're creating a giant list of items to give to every container

[tribal shuttle]

bingo. one list of every item to every container.

[fading horizon]

OH SHIT I DID IT

[reef karma]

it blows??

[fading horizon]

Tags = HasMetal,
This will allow an item to explode in the microwave

[reef karma]

ez dubs

congrats

[fading horizon]

video incoming

[sour island]

   local itemsOverride = {
      "item","chance",
      "item","chance",
   }

    for roomID,data in pairs(SuburbsDistributions) do

        for containerID,contData in pairs(data) do
            ---if room's container's data has an items list OR if it has a junk list with items
            if (contData.items and #contData.items>0) or (contData.junk and contData.junk.items and #contData.junk.items>0) then
                contData.items = itemsOverride
                contData.junk.items = {}
            end
        end
    end

@tribal shuttle ?

[frank lintel]

thought there already was a microwaveable tag/flag

[sour island]

This would override every loot table's items - you may also have to override the rolls for each container too

[tribal shuttle]

right. ive got it figured out at this point. i just came here today to figure out how to write a for loop in lua correctly

[fading horizon]

😈

[reef karma]

Ah yes, it is time

if you let it go, does it actually let the counter catch on fire and burn or does it stop

[fading horizon]

if fire spread is on yeah

just one more feature to add and its done

then i can get started on my next mod

which is a very small mod but it will be easy

[reef karma]

you are just rolling through them uh

[fading horizon]

its fun

i like making things

plus i'm bored of designing my website so this is a good side project

[reef karma]

I have another one I want to do as well, just gotta find some time for it

[rich hazel]

Would someone be willing to talk with me about a potential mod idea? I'm wanting to commission one but I'm not sure my idea is even viable so I'd like to figure that out before I go waving money around.

[frank elbow]

I looked into this before after someone else (maybe Poltergeist) mentioned that their mod calling Remove broke some other mods using the same event. The event in question was an OnInit handler. It seems to be a bug in the code that handles events

Since it removes the callback from the list of callbacks while the code triggering the event is iterating through it, it'll cause one of the callbacks to be skipped during that run. Should still fire for future triggers of the events (which is why it'd be noticeable for something like an OnInit~ event)

[fading horizon]

Custom context menu icon has been added

literally just want to change the position of the context menu and the mod is DONE ||for now||

[frank elbow]

Done for now is too relatable

"it's in a feature freeze now I will stop adding things I swear"

[rain shard]

Actually, I guess I should ask here. Do you have to modify lua for the starter kit or is it strictly server inis?

[frank elbow]

Pretty sure you can just set the items the player starts with in the INI (idt this is really a mod question?)

[rain shard]

Hrm, alright, so it is via the inis. If it doesn't involve lua back to the other place.

[drifting ore]

so i was trying to make a mod but idk how to make the player stressed for feel pain randomly can someone help plz

[frank elbow]

What have you tried so far? Where are you stuck?

[drifting ore]

i tried to find mods that have pain like the more traits mod but i found nothing

so far

[frank elbow]

Well, I'm seeing setAdditionalPain on BodyPart, but I'm unsure whether you're looking for pain or stress

See ISCleanBurn.lua, ISDisinfect.lua, ISRemoveBullet.lua, ISRemoveGlass.lua, and ISStitch.lua for examples of that

Did you mean "stressed or feel pain"?

[drifting ore]

yta

ya

like they feel like that at random times

[frank elbow]

Okay, stress can be set with setStress on Stats, which you can get from the character with player:getStats() (assuming you've defined player)

[drifting ore]

ok thank you

[glass basalt]

I'd expect it so, the vanilla code does not utilize Remove as much as mods, so IS does not have issues with this

[frank elbow]

I did not realize that message was from almost a week ago lol, whoops

Showed up when I opened discord

[fading horizon]

self.character:getBodyDamage():setUnhappynessLevel(self.character:getBodyDamage():getUnhappynessLevel() + YOURCHANGE);         -- !! Add unhappiness bonus
        self.character:getStats():setStress(self.character:getStats():getStress() + YOURCHANGE);                                       -- !! Add stress bonus```

[reef karma]

Amma take that too for my future mod ^

[fading horizon]

then just check the every 10 minutes event or something and make a random chance for it to add those stats

that's the basic structure at least

[frank lintel]

f'n steam rolling back my hours again

[merry saffron]

Is it possible to completely prevent burnt cars from spawning by modifying VehicleZoneDistribution?

[shadow trench]

can you not just modify the wreckage spawning in the sandbox settings?

i might be wrong on that, but i think there's a setting in the sandbox settings to not spawn burnt congestion

[merry saffron]

I still want traffic jams, just not with burnt cars

[shadow trench]

ah i see

[glass basalt]

Traffic jams have their own "parking stall" like normal vehicle spawn zones

You need to find the procedural distribution config that adds the burnt cars to trafficjamn, trafficjamw, trafficjame, and trafficjams

For each cardinal direction

[merry saffron]

I just managed to make it work by modifying VehicleZoneDefinition.lua directly. now I need to figure out how to override it in a mod

[glass basalt]

I definitely recommend making it a patch, not an override. Might break other mods

Look at the mod "Crashed Cars", it already does this functionality

[merry saffron]

That's what I did

I made a file similar to it's one, but it doesn't affect the vehicle spawning

[glass basalt]

If you make a mod that just removes burnt cars and nothing else, I'd use it tbh

[glass basalt]

Wdym?

Does Crashed Cars overwrite the default procedural vehicle distribution

[merry saffron]

It does. Here is the traffic jam at exclusion zone border without burnt cars.

[glass basalt]

No, I mean does it overwrite the file (have the same name)

[merry saffron]

The crashed cars mod has a file called CrashedCars.lua, so no I don't believe it override it

[glass basalt]

Okay great, that means its a clean patch

If you send me the file (because I want this mod to work), I can clean up the code and optimize it

For you to then publish

[merry saffron]

That would be awesome. I'm just gonna tweak it a little, because I think instead of just removing the burnt cars outright, I can replace them with non-burnt ones (mostly functional, some crashed)

[glass basalt]

Good idea, although it is working as it is rn because the traffic jams are instead pulling other vehicles (the non-burnt ones)

[merry saffron]

Actually it's working in the picture because I just disabled the burnt vehicles. Though the way the spawning table looks, it seems as though some will be replaced with functional/non-burnt ones, while some while just be removed entirely

[glass basalt]

The parking stalls each have a table of possible vehicles to spawn

What is happening is that you are removing the IDs of the burnt vehicles

And their weighted spawn rate

And so as a result the table is smaller but the rest of the vehicles have the same, if not higher, chance to spawn

Trying to add vanilla vehicles to the traffic jams won't quite work because they are already in that parking stall table

Although you could tweak their spawn rates, and that would work

[merry saffron]

When I was going through the world, I a couple of weird traffic jams, I thought something might be up

[glass basalt]

It is simply random and not guaranteed. Some traffic jams will be a bit weird

It is like that even with burnt vehicles

Unless the burnt vehicles have a table of their own, I haven't looked at the code in a while

[merry saffron]

Yeah, it's just when I spawned into this world, I got whole bunch of weird ones in a row

[glass basalt]

If you open up WorldZed or w/e its called, you can see the actual spawn zones, and you'll see what I mean

[merry saffron]

On further investigation, it seems it might have just been a very unlucky streak of strange looking traffic jams

[glass basalt]

There are some traffic jams that work as "parking stalls", and then there are the scenes, which are the ones that have two cars crashed and such

[merry saffron]

And I was looking at this and thinking maybe I should change the vehicle instead of changing the spawnChance to 0

[glass basalt]

Scenes are handled differently and are harder

[glass basalt]

Ahhhh I see now, they have their own table

Yeah okay, replace them with their non burnt variants

I would do it as = nil, it's the cleanest way

No semicolons either because lua doesn't need them

[merry saffron]

I copied this table from the game files

This is the one that currently need to be rewritten as a mod

[glass basalt]

Wait, the table has normal vehicle IDs? I thought the burnt vehicles have their own IDs

[merry saffron]

I already modified it somewhat in this image

[glass basalt]

Ahhhh okay

[merry saffron]

Including the IDs

[glass basalt]

Then you'll need to do this: keep the lines with the burnt vehicle IDs, but set them equal to nil (no index or spawnRate), and add your new lines with the normal vehicle IDs and set their spawnRate equal to the number the burnt vehicles have

Lol, i just realized something: you could set burntvehicle equal to a traffic jam table

And that would remove all the burnt vehicles for you and automatically add normal vehicles instead

[merry saffron]

Here is are the files. VehcileZoneDefinition.lua is the overwritten game file, and CrashedCars.lua is the one from the crashed cars mod for reference

[glass basalt]

Okay, I will take a look soon, currently AFK at work

[shut oar]

Hello, I was trying to make a simple zomboid mod to add a couple extra crafting recipes to another mod, and it worked fine, however it also seems to have caused other recipes to disappear, like sawing logs and such. This is the only file I have for the mod: https://pastebin.com/KeC95nXs

[bronze yoke]

is it by chance called recipes.txt?

you'll replace any file with the same name as your file, so it's important to give them unique names

[shut oar]

Yes it is called that, thank you

yup now it works perfectly thank you

[fading horizon]

ive been trying for hours to figure out a way to play the "cough" animation

ive tried with variations of playEmote but I can't get that to work whatsoever

has anyone done this before?

[frank lintel]

BodyDamage:setSneezeCoughActive(arg0) ?

[fading horizon]

can't get it to work

i don't know if i'm using it correctly though

self.character.BodyDamage:setSneezeCoughActive(1) 
self.character.BodyDamage:TriggerSneezeCough()```

[frank lintel]

you try it in console?

[glass basalt]

TriggerSneezeCough() might work, try it
but i think it includes the sounds for sneezing too

if you want to make it just coughing, for smoking, then you need to link the animation & sound, and manually do what that method does

[frank lintel]

been looking for the dang thing...

[fading horizon]

thank you for the explanation

i think I will simply omit the coughing feature for now

having the text on the screen is good enough

[glass basalt]

i got interested, so ill take a look after editing this vehicle distribution script

[fading horizon]

basically it's a new timed action for vaping

once the action is completed and its in the perform function

it checks whether the vape was dead or not

[glass basalt]

def needs the coughing lol

[fading horizon]

if dead, i want the player to cough

[frank lintel]

but the burnt is the best part!

[fading horizon]

i'd really like it to work, i'm just not sure how to make it work lol

but i will keep trying

[frank lintel]

sadly they didnt exist back then. they all smoked either camel no filters, marbs or newpors and green

[fading horizon]

am a stubborn bitch

[fading horizon]

TriggerSneezeCough() did not work unfortunately

[glass basalt]

time to do it ourselves

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-fine-ill-do-it-myself-ill-do-it-myself-gif-22181201

[fading horizon]

i don't know how

[glass basalt]

setActionAnim("whatever the fuck the animation name is")

[frank lintel]

self.player:getBodyDamage():setSneezeCoughActive(0); << is code that SS is using.

just happened to come across actual usage of it while searching

[fading horizon]

alright lemme give that a go

[frank lintel]

yeah its using self.player not character?

[fading horizon]

maybe its just a diff variable name

worth a shot

[glass basalt]

self.character. timed actions usually don't use .player unless you specified otherwise

[frank lintel]

thats not in an event so that would be prob why?

well who knows it is in update()

[glass basalt]

if you throw the lua file in here then we'll see

[fading horizon]

well

it did nothing

hmm

no errors or anything

that was using

self.character:getBodyDamage():setSneezeCoughActive(0);
        self.character:getBodyDamage():TriggerSneezeCough();```

[frank lintel]

well 0 is not coughing I would think

[fading horizon]

maybe it needs to be 1 instead of 0

[frank lintel]

honestly why its an int is beyond me for bool logic

[fading horizon]

still nothing

[glass basalt]

here you go, did all the work for you. double check if this works in your game and then upload it 👍

[fading horizon]

so i guess what i would do is make a copy of the default cough.xml animation file

remove the parameter permission it needs

make a new timed action that happens after a burned vape is smoked that uses the "new" cough animation with a custom sound of only coughing?

is that how it works

[merry saffron]

Thanks. I already got it working as a mod earlier, but I'll use this because it's just better formatted

[glass basalt]

still double check it. I am used a new program for editing lua files, and wanna make sure PZ can still read them

[merry saffron]

alright

[glass basalt]

specifically I am now using LF endings instead of CRLF, and idk if PZ will like that lol

[glass basalt]

no, don't make another timed action. you can do the anim and sound in one

[glass basalt]

also no. you just need to call the animation. it's what you want

gonna look and see what the anim name is

[fading horizon]

media\AnimSets\player\ext

Cough.xml

is where the file is at least

[glass basalt]

Bob_EmoteCough is what you want

now to find how to call the anim

[merry saffron]

It works! Thanks

[glass basalt]

awesomeeee

lol, van on top of cop car

[merry saffron]

Yeah, I noticed that as well lol

[glass basalt]

@fading horizon
yeah ok, just do setActionAnim("Bob_EmoteCough") in the perform() section of your timed action

have an conditional if statement if the vape is empty or not to do the anim

[fading horizon]

trying it

[glass basalt]

now, for the sound...

[fading horizon]

already have the conditional set up

[glass basalt]

god, so many sound files lol

[fading horizon]

didn't work

[glass basalt]

🤔

[fading horizon]

Object tried to call nil in perform

[glass basalt]

ahhh, maybe its not bob_emotecough

try the other name, i forgor it

okay, just try "Cough"

[fading horizon]

https://pastebin.com/RnYD6Ni2

[reef karma]

https://tenor.com/view/perfect-popcorn-michael-jackson-gif-26271837 sorry this is like watching myself everyday at work

[fading horizon]

heres the code for the perform if you want to take a look

[glass basalt]

ahhh, remove the self.character: in self.character:setActionAnim()

you don't need that

or maybe you need something else, ill check my code

[glass basalt]

example
self:setActionAnim("ParadropFromAir")

change it to "Bob_EmoteCough" or "Cough"

[fading horizon]

testing

lmao

it did something at least

character is just doing this now

just boolin

[glass basalt]

🤔 🤔 🤔

my character does the same shit after my animation

im guessing that's the placeholder

which anim name string did you use?

[fading horizon]

it didn't do the cough animation tho

[merry saffron]

Wait not it's not working. I think the backup I had in my main zomboid folder of my modified VehicleZoneDefinition might have been affecting it

[fading horizon]

i did Bob_EmoteCough

trying just cough now

[glass basalt]

did you put it in your projectzomboid game files or did you make a separate mod

[merry saffron]

I made a separate mod, but I modified VehicleZoneDefinition in the main folder earlier, and created a copy of it when I reverted it back

[glass basalt]

here is vanilla, restore it back the way it was

[fading horizon]

same with bob_emote

hmmm

[glass basalt]

wtfff

[merry saffron]

I restored it already, I just deleted the copy of the modified one I had

[fading horizon]

oh

[merry saffron]

It had a different name, but I forgot that didn't matter

[fading horizon]

its looking in the player/actions folder

but cough is in player/ext

so i wonder if i put it in the actions folder

if it would work

[glass basalt]

🤔
maybe we need to create a new anim in that folder

hold on imma check actions

[wheat kraken]

there is a way to get username or steam name from the main screen?

[glass basalt]

yeah okay copy the xml into your own AnimSet folder

[fading horizon]

fuck but it extends another file within that folder

so i might need to remake both

[glass basalt]

wdym

[fading horizon]

-<animNode x_extends="Ext01.xml">

so it depends on that file

which is also in that folder

that's in the cough animation

[glass basalt]

try both

[merry saffron]

How can I override the vehicle spawns defined in VehicleZoneDefinition with a mod?

[glass basalt]

you are already doing that

[merry saffron]

I'm trying and failing to do that

[glass basalt]

the file I gave you overrides the vehicle spawns, by setting to nil

[merry saffron]

It doesn't work

[glass basalt]

🤔

where is the file?

[merry saffron]

I thought it did, but it was the copied file in the main zomboid folder that was prevent the burnt cars from spawning

I have the mod file in "C:\Users\Danny\Zomboid\mods\noBurntCars\media\lua\shared"

[glass basalt]

so, you aren't able to overwrite other vehicles you are adding, or the file is not working at all?

[merry saffron]

I'm not able to use the file in a mod to overwrite the vanilla spawns

[glass basalt]

darn, that makes no sense. that file should work

[fading horizon]

no luck on my end either

[glass basalt]

[fading horizon]

tried several different configs

i'm okay with no coughing animation tbh

this is becoming a big big pain lol

[glass basalt]

@merry saffron okay, try this. simpler code

[merry saffron]

Nope. I feel like it has to be not because of the contents of the file, but because for whatever reason, the file isn't affecting the game

For some reason, this file in this mod just seems to be incapable of changing anything. I don't get it

[glass basalt]

lemme try fixing that line ending I was talking about lolol

now try this file

difference is line ending metadata

[reef karma]

@ Maemento you can always do an update later on when you get around to it. Sometimes the best thing you can do is step away for a bit and start looking at it fresh.

You didn’t release it yet did you?

[fading horizon]

nope

i still need to do the item distributions

but that's it really

[reef karma]

It would be great if you can get the animation to work but the mod is still great without it right now

Bruh how the fuck do I go to the line on mobile without having to send multiple messages ? Wtf

[glass basalt]

can't, sucks ass

[reef karma]

I swear it was a thing before

[glass basalt]

usually M+KB it's shift-enter

i checked, can't do it either

[reef karma]

https://tenor.com/view/anchorman-ronburgundy-confused-doesnt-make-sene-nonsense-gif-4246032

[glass basalt]

maybe it's the keyboard settings but my phone doesn't let me do anything related to lines

[reef karma]

When I was on android I don’t remember having this issue

Maybe Google keyboard had it

[fading horizon]

Phone

Test

[reef karma]

Wtf

[glass basalt]

witchcraft

[reef karma]

That is it. I am switching back to android

[fading horizon]

i just hit enter

pixel 6a

[glass basalt]

I am on android too, hold your horses lol

[reef karma]

Nha. Let me pull up my one plus phone

Hold YOUR horses lol

[glass basalt]

Phone

Test

Lol

[reef karma]

I knew you could.

iPhone gotta be special

[glass basalt]

My phone keyboard auto sends, doesn't let me shift lines

[reef karma]

Nha
Android
Just
Works

[glass basalt]

i guess discord hates my android phone then

[reef karma]

Google keyboard or Samsung keyboard ?

[glass basalt]

other keyboard, foss lmao

[reef karma]

Prob a setting you can enable

[glass basalt]

I already checked settings 😔

Need to switch to a proprietary keyboard to do one thing in discord, smh

anyway
@merry saffron let me know if the new file with CRLF endings works or not. I'll check it myself eventually over the weekend

ciao, I have an exam tomorrow I am not ready for

[reef karma]

Good luck, I don’t miss exams. Ciao ciao e notte

[fading horizon]

most important part of the mod is complete

the mod file ascii art

[reef karma]

Indeed a very important factor of the mod

[rancid panther]

looks like its own game

i cannot find the specific event that triggers a jumpscare anywhere

[frank lintel]

umm

[rancid panther]

it's no big deal. it's not really a priority of mine. i just felt like looking around for it at suddenly

[frank lintel]

I sworn I seen code that called it

[rancid panther]

i could only find the tutorial playing the sound, but not the actual conditions for the sound to be played in a normal game

cuz in the tutorial it just plays the sound when u open a specific curtain

[fading horizon]

final models

feel like i need one more just to have three even rows

[fast galleon]

search for "ZombieSurprisedPlayer"

[rancid panther]

that's what i searched for

[fast galleon]

         if (this.isAlive() && var9 > 0 && this.stats.LastVeryCloseZombies == 0 && this.stats.NumVisibleZombies > 0 && this.stats.LastNumVisibleZombies == 0 && this.timeSinceLastStab >= 600.0F) {
            this.timeSinceLastStab = 0.0F;
            long var25 = this.getEmitter().playSoundImpl("ZombieSurprisedPlayer", (IsoObject)null);
            this.getEmitter().setVolume(var25, (float)Core.getInstance().getOptionJumpScareVolume() / 10.0F);
         }

[rancid panther]

what file is this in

thanks

[fast galleon]

IsoPlayer

[rancid panther]

ah i couldnt find that file, where is it in the directory

[thorny pollen]

ProjectZomboid\zombie\characters

[rancid panther]

IsoPlayer.class?

i see. thanks

[thorny pollen]

yeah do you have it decompiled?

[rancid panther]

no i never used any of this folder

[rancid panther]

thanks

[thorny pollen]

np

[dreamy birch]

noice

[shut oar]

In scripts like for recipes, is there any documentation for the key/value options, and for a recipe result can I use a lua function to determine the item to be given?

[fast galleon]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide

[shut oar]

thank youu

[old crescent]

hello, I have a question, where does the clients information stored in server

[hot patrol]

I had followed the discussion on this yesterday, did you ever manage to make them all list as one item or did you just end up making them individual items? Asking because I had wanted to do something similar but couldn't really figure out the named literature mod to do so.

Looks good btw

[fading horizon]

i gave up on doing the dynamic option

i got very close

i got the naming to perform correctly

i got the icons to set correctly

but when you reloaded the game, the icons reloaded and became random and i couldn't figure that out

i saved the code in case anyone else wanted to look at it

so i'm glad i did

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https://pastebin.com/hnYKGdHB

then in the item definition you put the onCreate parameter to be onVapeSpawn

or whatever you end up naming it

[hot patrol]

I'll check it out when I get home. Thanks

[sour island]

If you check the mod named Literature I overcome this by setting the variables in modData to be loaded

[fading horizon]

too late now haha

it made it so you couldn't spawn each flavor anyway so it wasn't ideal

thank you for that info though

[sour island]

Np, but you could technically have both

[fading horizon]

i'm trying to learn how to do proper item distribution now

much fun

local itemNames = {
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarTRB",
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarBlueRazz",
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarWatermelonIce",
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarPinkLemonade",
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarBlackIce",
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarCoolMint",
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarBananaIce",
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarLemonMint",
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarStrawberryBanana",
    "GnomeBars.GnomeBarCherryIce",
}

for _, item in ipairs(itemNames) do 
    table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, item);
    table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 99);
    print(value)
    table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items, item);
    table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items, 99); 
end```

I can just do something like this right

obviously not 99 but

[sour island]

Using the OnCreate for the item script you could create dummy items that just selfdelete and replace itself with the actual item + set the specific flavor

That way you can have the default be random but also have specific spawns

You don't even have to script these either -- you can have the game generate them on boot

[fading horizon]

how so

wait i think i get it actually

and that way only one item would have to be added to the distribution table

hmmmm

[fading horizon]

i don't understand this part i guess

[sour island]

You can generate scripts using scriptManager

And parseScript()

It takes a string as an argument

What you'd need is a table with keys as item IDs and the values as the OnCreate functions

Then pass a template string replacing the ID with the key and the onCreate with the value

I'd be curious if one could load the script for the default item

Would make maintenance one point

I guess you could parse the default script as well 🤔

No script text file at all

Lmk if anything made sense 😅

[rancid panther]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2908173425

decided to make this mod public since there's no reason to keep it hidden now that im not using it for testing features

[fading horizon]

i'm eating breakfast while trying to wrap my head around it haha

[rancid panther]

completely forgor the ppl who were asking for it before

[fading horizon]

woah

can i know the code for making the table / borders in your description?

didn't know you could do that

like here

[rancid panther]

yea

[fading horizon]

is it just th and tr

[rancid panther]

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