mod_development

[faint jewel]

without anything outside affecting it.

[bronze yoke]

parts can have an update function attached

like the oninit oninstall etc stuff

[faint jewel]

I am trying to make a visible trunk

is there a "onputitemincontainer"

or something similar

[faint jewel]

hmmmm Events.OnContainerUpdate.Add

how do i get the vehicle the container is in?

[faint jewel]

OnContainerUpdate and OnFillContainer neither one fires when adding stuff to a truckbedopen

[faint jewel]

GRRRRRR

[fast galleon]

depends what you want to overwrite, same file path will replace the whole file.

[ancient grail]

now im really glitching haha

[fast galleon]

For me this is the first game I mod. But I've been using mods always. It would have been cool if somebody introduced me to modding earlier, but it took a broken game to start me modding.

Or rather all the broken mods on workshop, I've been patching stuff constantly.

[faint jewel]

plowing trailer the you turn on and off with the headlights. lol

[nova dome]

sounds like a realistic survivor wiring job

[faint jewel]

it just makes it super easy to turn on and off.

[hot void]

ah looks like the modeling channel dead or peeps got no idea what\s going on

i need help with this

idk if its uv issue or weights

but it doesn't do this in blinder

[fading horizon]

How would I go about adding a counter for how many times an item has been used?

    {
     DisplayCategory     =  Vape,
    Weight               =  0.05,
    CantBeConsolided     =  TRUE,
    UseWhileEquipped     =  FALSE,
    Type                 =  Drainable,
    DisplayName          =  GnomeBar (Rainbow Blast),
    TimesHit             =  0,
    }```

I set a custom parameter like so in the item definition script

Then in my lua I have the following
```lua
local vapeFlavorDelta = item:getModData().Flavor 

How do I change that value? there's no setModData function or anything that I could find

or is there a better way to go about this entirely

[sour island]

The modData once gotten is a table that you can modify as is

but for an items condition or uses - there's a vanilla function for that

Oh you already have it as drainable

[fading horizon]

basically i want this vape item to be a drainable that works off a battery

so it can be recharged

but i want to limit it to 3 recharges

[sour island]

ah

[fading horizon]

so basically 1 battery will last 20 uses

but the vape in total has 60 uses of "flavor"

so i'm trying to make a flavor counter for each item but i'm struggling trying to figure out how to assign this new parameter to each item

[sour island]

You could add the counter to the tooltip

but all you have to do is grab the item's modData and modify the table

it's connected to the item via reference and saves with it

local vapeFlavorDelta = item:getModData().Flavor 
vapeFlavorDelta = vapeFlavorDelta + 1

[upper mason]

ModData is the way to assign custom variables to modded items?

[sour island]

Simply, yes. It's a Lua table for the object. You can store anything but references.

[fading horizon]

testing this now

but will this modify that value for all items of that type or just that specific item?

[sour island]

modData is per item specific

it's also something that exists for all isoObjects

although behavior changes for certain types

If you're setting it up you have to define it first though

item:getModData().Flavor = item:getModData().Flavor or 0
local vapeFlavorDelta = item:getModData().Flavor 
vapeFlavorDelta = vapeFlavorDelta + 1

Otherwise 'vapeFlavorDelta' is nil

[fading horizon]

local function getVapeFlavorDelta(item)
    item:getModData().Flavor = item:getModData().Flavor or 0
    local vapeFlavorDelta = item:getModData().Flavor 
    vapeFlavorDelta = vapeFlavorDelta + 1
    
    print(vapeFlavorDelta)
    return vapeFlavorDelta
end```

it works once, but doesn't increase more than one time for some reason

[sour island]

Where are you calling it?

[fading horizon]

local op2 = context:insertOptionAfter("Favorite","Check Flavor", isVape, getVapeFlavorDelta)

just a context menu option

so i could call it / check it quickly

which that is called by

local function OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu(player, context, items) --# When an inventory item context menu is opened
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player);
    items = ISInventoryPane.getActualItems(items);
    local isVape = nil
    for _, item in ipairs(items) do                      
        if item:getDisplayCategory() == "Vape" then
            isVape = item;
            break
        end
    end

if isVape ~= nil then
  local op2 = context:insertOptionAfter("Favorite","Check Flavor", isVape, getVapeFlavorDelta)
end

[sour island]

Not sure why it's locking at 1

Also if you want it to count down you need to make that a - 1

You dont have something capping it to 60 do you?

Kind of odd it is at 60 to begin with

[fading horizon]

i set it at 60 in the item definition script

the + or - didn't matter currently, I was just trying to get a counter working in general

[sour island]

Where is 60 defined?

[fading horizon]

    {
    DisplayCategory   = Vape,
    Weight            = 0.05,
    CantBeConsolided  = TRUE,

    IsTelevision      = FALSE,
    IsHighTier        = FALSE,
    NoTransmit        = TRUE,
    DisappearOnUse    = FALSE,
    Flavor            = 60,

    }```

[sour island]

Those get consolidated into the modData automatically?

[fading horizon]

its able to grab it at least once, so I guess so

I saw this technique by searching in the discord here for "custom parameter" and saw someone doing this method

theirs was a static, unchanging value ; however

[sour island]

Could be related - I wasn't aware such a feature exsisted

Does not seem like it would logically keep referring to the script in this case though

[fading horizon]

hmmm

[sour island]

local function getVapeFlavorDelta(item)
    local modData = item:getModData()
    modData.Flavor = (modData.Flavor or 60) - 1
---since it's being added via script you can get rid of the '( or 60)'
    print(vapeFlavorDelta)
    return vapeFlavorDelta
end

You could try getting rid of the local var - it could have been interfering with it as a reference now that I think about it

Yeah that is what it is - sorry just woke up

You can make locals into tables and retain references but if you localize other stuff it breaks the reference connection

Also changed my snippet to my prefered way to handle modData for the sake of readability I try to cut down on repeated calls

[hot void]

nvm i fixed that

[fading horizon]

it works! Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

this is going to make my mod so much cooler i think

[weak sierra]

any idea what changed? i've seen other mods with this issue, trouble getting tow points to be fixed

@sinful vessel has a huge military semi that is stuck with that state

[sour island]

Could it be related to the wheel placement?

[red tiger]

Good morning.

Apart from the two questions I've received, I haven't thought about ZedScript & PZ in the past 10 ish days.

Haven't had a burnout this bad in years.

=/

[frank elbow]

Hope the coder's block wears off soon

[tardy wren]

Is there an event that runs before the game really starts, but after OnInitGlobalModData?

Gonna do lua patching and I want to make it run after other patches

[bronze yoke]

like half of the events in the game

ongametimeloaded is a random one that comes to mind

[tardy wren]

Okay.

I hope modifying items then won't muddle anything

[red tiger]

Thanks. I hope so too.

I already have a lot of updates for the extension. I simply haven't written the changelog and updated it.

[faint jewel]

asadly i don't it just remade the vehicle script. txt from a working on and then went from there

[red tiger]

Sad to see so many people confused with scripting and how to do it.

A lot of confusing and winding scripts, often full of deprecated and non-functioning properties.

[tardy wren]

Question

If I add some mod data to an item

Do I need to transmit it to the server afterwards?

[bronze yoke]

no

[tardy wren]

really? To an item instance?

[bronze yoke]

they're synchronised automatically

[tardy wren]

Are you sure

[bronze yoke]

yes

[tardy wren]

Okay

That makes my job easier

to get how much of an item is left, I call "getUsedDelta", right?

[wet sandal]

On the subject mod data, what about IsoObjects?

[tardy wren]

what about them?

[wet sandal]

If I add some mod data to an IsoObject
Do I need to transmit it to the server afterwards?

[bronze yoke]

yes

players and items are the only exceptions, you usually have to

with transmitModData()

[tardy wren]

I see.

[bronze yoke]

annoyingly you need to do this even if you only need the moddata on the client

[tardy wren]

Otherwise it won't get saved?

[bronze yoke]

transmitModData overwrites the moddata for everyone, so if you don't transmit yours it'll get overridden eventually

[tardy wren]

oh god

[bronze yoke]

it kind of seems like there's a race condition there but i've never seen it come up as an issue so i might be wrong about that part

[tardy wren]

It was only added in like... B41.51?

[bronze yoke]

object moddata has existed longer than the patchnotes go, global moddata was recent though

[tardy wren]

Oh I see

so the global is new

this is how I use it, right?
savedUses = items:get(0):getModData().EasyPackingRemainingUses

assuming items is an array of size of 1

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[tardy wren]

To check if the item has mod data I want...

hasModData("Tablename")?

[bronze yoke]

no, hasmoddata is pretty much useless

essentially all it does is check if the item has ever had getModData() called before

[tardy wren]

oh

So I just... try to read it, and check if it's nil afterwards?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[tardy wren]

Hmm

An empty array isn't nil, right?

[bronze yoke]

it isn't

[tardy wren]

then that's a slight issue

How do I make sure that there's actually some mod data loaded...

Though I might be overthinking it

Working for someone else is hard man, you don't know all the use cases

[fast galleon]

modData is like a Lua a table, it's not ArrayList

[tardy wren]

I was about to ask what type of array is it

lua or java

[bronze yoke]

the moddata table is created if it doesn't exist, which is why hasmoddata doesn't seem very useful

[tardy wren]

...Oh fuck, that means I have to work on both types from a single loop

[fast galleon]

I think you only need the getModData().myVar here, unless you also want to check other things?

[tardy wren]

no no, I need to, uh...

I save some stuff to mod data, then load it back onto the items

Packing recipes

Can I... Even loop over the result?

Or is the result actually a single item?

[fast galleon]

Result is a single item.

[tardy wren]

Ag

So if it's a drainable

[fast galleon]

If you have more than one, they are added in the craft action.

[tardy wren]

I meant that more than one of an item type

As in, my result is 5 planks, or 5 rolls of tape

How do I handle that

[fast galleon]

Which part should be modular?

[tardy wren]

Uh... what?

Please elaborate

[fast galleon]

Is the plan to create those manually, or do you set that in the recipe result?

[tardy wren]

Oh, the result of the recipe is the duct tape

if I was creating those manually, then that would be less problem... I think

[fast galleon]

and the problem is to add data to them or make them 5?

[tardy wren]

I have data

Result is 5 items

I use data, to alter those 5 items

my data is 5 numbers

Can I? if yes, how

[fast galleon]

yeah check the craft action if there's a way to do that. Otherwise spawn them manually with the oncreate.

[nova dome]

what are the reasons to use ModData instead of your own file?

[tardy wren]

well, ModData can be slapped onto live things in game

[tardy wren]

Craft Action?

[nova dome]

can you not do that if you save things in other ways?

[fast galleon]

ISCraftAction.lua

[tardy wren]

if you save that to a file, others may not be able to read it.

[tardy wren]

thanks

[nova dome]

I currently have the problem that I got things in moddata I would like to read before moddata initializes

but it's like a cross compatibility thing between mods or what?

[tardy wren]

Not even. It's data you need to save for later use, by your own mod or otherwise

[nova dome]

do you mean others as in other players?

or the server

[tardy wren]

yes

Multiplayer

[bronze yoke]

you can save to your own files if you want but global moddata is basically the game's standard api for that

and object moddata is just a million times more convenient than anything you could do with your own formats

[nova dome]

yeah. i will have to check whether in multiplayer the moddata initialises earlier, maybe it'll still be good for that purpose. otherwise I dunno what kind of workaround I should do :-D

[bronze yoke]

what are you trying to do? moddata initialises very early

i've run into it myself but it was a very niche use

[nova dome]

need it at character creation

at least in sp it's not loaded until after a bunch of textures and radio things when loading the world

[bronze yoke]

yeah, it won't load until the world starts loading

[tardy wren]

Uh... I tried to do a getModData().MyVar when that didn't exist, tried to laod it... And I got yelled at for calling nil?

oh nevermind, I'm dumb

I called HasModData on an ArrayLisyt

Right... So, at the moment that OnCreate is called, only a single item exists as a result

[faint jewel]

OKay so i'm STILL working on the issue from last night.

[winter thunder]

Hey, anyone know the different ways to have sounds play? I want to add more options for server owners to play audio for events, but I’m not super well versed with the audio modding aspects

[winter thunder]

Do you need more than one item to be created?

[tardy wren]

Yes. I create more than one item and I wanted to modify all of the created items

[faint jewel]

Events.OnContainerUpdate.Add(Seeder_Fill_update)

this doesn't work with truck beds

[bronze yoke]

i haven't looked at it beyond sound emitters, but they've told me that if you look into this you definitely need to read the source code

[tardy wren]

For clarity, I create multiple of the same item

I cannot seem to be able to do that...

[bronze yoke]

probably because of the audio engine switch, there's a lot of redundant methods and methods that just lie about what they do

(e.g. playsoundlooped doesn't loop the sound or do anything at all, it just calls playsound)

[tardy wren]

Beyond then reading the player's inventory and applying the changes there...

[winter thunder]

Oh, you can do that. You’d just have to add the data after each item you create. I have done something somewhat similar in a mod of mine, if you wanna check it out

[tardy wren]

But no, that wouldn't work

[tardy wren]

Oh, absolutely show me

[winter thunder]

It’s roleplay descriptors on the workshop, I’m on mobile rn but I’ll try and get a link rq

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2897228813

Got it

[tardy wren]

neat, I already have it

[winter thunder]

Oh! Awesome :)

The file has to do with the pinned notes, so you can see kinda what I did there. I could have done better now that I know more 😂 but you can basically just tell it to change each instance of item you add to the inventory

[tardy wren]

Oh, you seem to have misunderstood me

[winter thunder]

Oh?

[tardy wren]

You're creating a paper and a knife

I am creating two knives

and I need to break both

[winter thunder]

You should be able to do that, just do the same thing 2x times? Basically add an item, and set its durability to 0, and repeat

[tardy wren]

Issue

I'm adding the items in the result?

and the result is only a single item when that function is called. No other items exist at that point in time

[winter thunder]

You can only ever have 1 resulting item, but you can modify that too (I do that in my mod too), and you can have it add the additional knife on creation of the recipe, and set that durability too

[tardy wren]

Yes

The result is a single item in code. However, if the recipe creates multiples of that item, those multiples are made after the OnCreate completes

They even note that as a bug in the code

[bronze yoke]

oncontainerupdate is a misleading name, it's actually called when containers might become accessible/inaccessible to the player

it's not especially useful to modders, it's mostly just used to dirty the inventory ui, it usually doesn't even pass the container that 'updated'

[winter thunder]

But that is if you have multiples of the item, so if you just add the second knife during the oncreate, instead of during the result, that would be fine, right?

[tardy wren]

I would have to tell that to the mod creator... But yes.

[faint jewel]

well i need a "OnContainerInentoryChange"

we have something like that?

[winter thunder]

Gotcha, that seems like the best way imo. The recipe code has some jank, but I’m hopeful that the new revisions for the next update will be better for all of us to make some great stuff haha

[tardy wren]

Same. I too hope for the base game having less holes with each update instead of more

This however, creates an incompatibilty

Since this is a mod update, items may not have had the mod data

I guess a table of hard-coded values will have to do

[winter thunder]

Yeah, you could also check for the data at some point, and if it isn’t there, add it in to the items. Could do it “OnTest” for the recipes

[tardy wren]

Again, I'd need to refer to a list of values

These are packing recipes

The function may be used on a recipe unpacking 4,5,6 or more items

I only know based on the amount of numbers stored in the mod data

or the result...

Or the hard-coded list I need to make

How do I... remove the result from the player's inventory?

oh

I think I found it

[winter thunder]

Bc you can edit the result on create, you should be able to do it there. Idk the lua for that off hand tho

[tardy wren]

My plan is to yeet the result and just add whatever I want

[torn igloo]

What is the ISAction that responsible for swapping bag front to back or part?

[winter thunder]

What do you mean? Like, the act of equipping a bag vs holding it your hand? Or are you talking about the mods that let you swap parts on the bags?

[tardy wren]

Well, this is awkward

Apparently when OnCreate is called, the Drainables that went into the crafting are already drained

Which makes sense, but it makes things harder for me

but if they're set to "destroy", then they aren't used up by that time

Okay, now to figure out why my result doesn't get deleted lmao

Apparently there's a field in the script that does that for me, which is... convenient

[torn igloo]

equip bag and swap the bag location on the go

[fast galleon]

I include defaults if data is missing, helps if the item is spawned with debug or other means

[faint jewel]

@bronze yoke so how does onFillContainer work?

i'm guessing when the game fills it with loot?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[faint jewel]

well that sucks as well lol

i just want a listener for when a cars trunk has and item put in or taken out.

[bronze yoke]

you could probably just hook the inventory transfer action

[faint jewel]

Oh??? Any examples?

Or something I can look for?

[tribal osprey]

Hi Folks! Is there a C# project for PZ mods on GitHub or anywhere? I code C# and know some unity

[bronze yoke]

i don't think there's ever been anything like that

[tribal osprey]

Ok, whats the best way to start modding? Apologies for the super open question

What do you use for an IDE? Is there youtube channel on this or wiki?

[bronze yoke]

i use intellij idea, but visual studio code is pretty popular too

tutorials are a little sparse but a lot of information is collected here https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding

[sour island]

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

[faint jewel]

not sure if you saw this...

but how i do that?

[minor snow]

Wasn't there modding guide or something?

[ancient grail]

Check threads

[faint jewel]

what red name do I have to hump to get "OnContainerInventoryChange" added as an event?

[upper mason]

Wait... PZ supports loading java libs as well?

[bronze yoke]

not quite, it's a reference library of the game's java for modders to refer to

[tardy wren]

Can I somehow refer to a recipe that was calling the OnCreate function?

Generic OnCreate

[bronze yoke]

it might pass the recipe object

oncreate gets passed a whole bunch of crazy stuff everyone either doesn't know about or ignores

[tardy wren]

Ah, then no...

It passes the list of items going in, the result, the specific selected item, and the item held in the right and the left hand

Not the recipe that went in... Drat

[left field]

Hi, there's already an mod about electronics or a research tree under development?

[nova dome]

Does anyone know of a low memory map option for mod development to run dedicated on the same machine? It seems 16BG of ram can only do so much

[fading horizon]

   {
     keep GnomeBarRB,

     Result:Battery,
     Time:30,
     OnTest:Recipe.OnTest.VapeBatteryRemoval,
     OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.VapeBatteryRemoval,
     StopOnWalk:false,
     AllowOnlyOne:true,
     Prop1:Battery,
     Prop2:Source=1,
   }```

is there a way to remove the "all" option?

AllowOnlyOne:true, didn't do the trick

that's on a single item, not a stack

[fast galleon]

drainbales have uses, that's probably what it's refering to.

[fresh ice]

Use Notepad++ like a real man

[fading horizon]

2. itemType=Count,

Specifies the type of item and the quantity of the item that will be used. If the item is Drainable, then the uses of the item are used. If only one item is needed, then only the item type can be specified.

it is because of the drainable

this is what i got from the wiki

i just don't know if there's a way around that

[faint jewel]

when you OnExitVehicle how do you get the vehicle you are exiting?

[fading horizon]

i fixed this by simply making it destroy the vape as a requirement instead, then just re-adding a duplicate vape to their inventory during onCreate

for anyone who searches for something similar in the future

[nova dome]

vscode is nice, am doing my first mod by forking another one. if you like a video format I found this one to be a pretty nice one, covering the whole process in order. https://youtu.be/-yrmCAwzTbY

[ancient grail]

Posted on the nod resource thread

[tardy wren]

setting both to 6 seems to run

[faint jewel]

this .... IS the official discord?

[tardy wren]

yes?

[faint jewel]

this made no sense... are we are already in the official discord. he could just say "i'll pin it to the mod resources thread". the clarification of it being on the Official discord is what got me.

[cosmic condor]

there are so many discords related to pz mod developments. doesn't hurt to be specific

[ancient grail]

Oh sorry mybad

Youre right im stupid

Good catch

[fading horizon]

i finally got it all to work. Now each vape has separate flavor and battery level mechanics

[cosmic condor]

cool tooltips

[fading horizon]

ty each flavor has its own color

[cosmic condor]

would be great if you could reduce the size of WorldItems textures

[nova dome]

if you're testing a mod for multiplayer on a steam dedicated server is the only way to do it via uploading the mod to the workshop every update?

[ancient grail]

Nice

[fading horizon]

i feel like instead of a % for flavor remaining it should be one of those progress bars like vanilla

because realistically you don't know the exact value

you just guess based on if it tastes burnt or not

[ancient grail]

You could run nosteam then host
This will allow you to run 2 or more instances of the game without worrying about steam ids

Thats how most modder test MP

[nova dome]

ty

[ancient grail]

This makes sense
Good idea

[fast galleon]

I'm thinking of reordering parts in the ISVehiclemechanics self.bodyworklist, are there mods that interact with this I should be aware of for compatibility reasons?

[plush heath]

Hi can someone help me with how to upload a mod? I have custom textures in my game files that I wanted to upload but idk how

[pastel glen]

you need to create a workshop directory for your mod. after you make a directory for your mod, put it in C:\Users\YOUR USER\Zomboid\mods, open project zomboid, click the "workshop" button, click "create and update items", select your mod and go from there

[plush heath]

Ah oki thanks I’ll try that out

[upper mason]

Can I reload mod from inside game without relaunching whole game?

[neon bronze]

You can reload lua

[upper mason]

From specific mod? Or just all lua?

[neon bronze]

Or if you are in sp just quit to main menu and continue

[neon bronze]

You can reload your specific lua file from the f11 menu in the search bar and click relod

[upper mason]

Debug mode must be enabled, correct?

[neon bronze]

Yes

[upper mason]

Thanks!

[bleak current]

Heyyyyyo, is there some way to get player list of server knowing its ip and port ??? (Doing it from code ofc)

[ancient grail]

Afaik
Ip is not real persons ip

Steam masks it somehow
Which is why you can see the same person login but then the ip is inconsistent

Tho im aware of dynamic ip and such but still it doesnt seem thats the reason

[upper mason]

If connectivity is managed via Steam's P2P you're not going to see somebody's IP or port.

[frank lintel]

MAC ID ftw

[odd fjord]

do you guys know of an item mod that does something if the item gets added to the inventory of a player?

trying to create that effect but to no avail. hoping to find something i can use as a reference

[bleak current]

Knowing current IP of SERVER not player, I think that's obvious enough. for your knowledge tho, ip addresses are inconsistent for players for two reasons, one dynamic public ipv4 address allocation, and in case of using steam servers to connect to the game server (steam relay servers)

[tiny wolf]

Hello everybody 🙂 i hope you're fine !
Trying to find to command to get a player foodsickness
Like getBodyDamage but to increase foodsickness
And i don't find it into wiki
Do somebody know what I could use please ?

[bleak current]

Ye, some people who have no idea how networking works always have the most to say about it

[upper mason]

I'm saying that if connectivity is handled Steam P2P or Steam Networking, you aren't going to get real IPs of servers or players. For hosted game servers they have some kind of randomly steam assigned ID, and for players they use steam's user ID. Again, only if connectivity is handled Steam P2P or Steam Networking. Anyway, all these questions are more towards actual developers of the game.

[frank lintel]

its even more fun when you only got IP6

[bleak current]

Ye, you're completely right

[upper mason]

How many routers in the world are powerful enough to properly handle IP6 tables? 😅

[frank lintel]

I can tell you a model that sure does cuz its what I use... a Nighthawk :P

that and my motorola gateway

[bleak current]

Lmao

[upper mason]

My Mikrotik RB4011iGS+5HacQ2HnD as well =_=

[frank lintel]

my ISP would give me one for a lovely monthly fee but I was like f that.

[humble oriole]

Hey, I'm not seeing a way to get an ambient temp for a square. I can get the current world temp, but I'm looking to get the temp of areas affected by a stove or other heat source

[frank elbow]

ClimateManager.getAirTemperatureForSquare seems to be what you're looking for (there's also getAirTemperatureForCharacter)

[humble oriole]

Yea, I think getAirTemperatureForSquare

Didn't see that one

the "airtemp" is what threw me

[frank elbow]

I wouldn't have even thought to check ClimateManager so I can't blame you

[humble oriole]

Yea, that's where I first looked, then when down the ClimateValues hole, then when and looked at the square functions, then the isoObject I'm working with is a container so I went that route, and then I went over to rooms to see if there was a room temp

ahha, figured I'd just ask at that point

perfect thanks @frank elbow

[winter thunder]

Anyone able to explain to me / provide an example of how to modify existing item without overwriting the initial script?

Basically I want to create a patch for an existing mod, but I want to edit the values of the items after the fact. I am fairly certain I would use the doParam Function, but I wanna be certain before I jump the gun on it

[bronze yoke]

local item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem("Base.Whatever")
if item then
    item:DoParam("Weight = 5")
end

[winter thunder]

Thank you! When should i trigger that? If I need to

[bronze yoke]

it's fine to leave it outside of a function as long as you don't need sandbox options

[winter thunder]

Nah, that should be fine! Is there a good way to edit a lot of items? Or should I just duplicate that code for each

[bronze yoke]

you can make it into a function to simplify things, and of course you can use loops

[winter thunder]

Like, make a table with the items and the values to change.

IE,

  1 = {
  itemNameVar = "xyz"
  itemNewWeight = x
      }
   
2 = {
    }

3 = {
    }
  etc..etc
}```

Then just run a loop using the variables from the table, using that data in the one function

???

[willow crest]

https://gist.github.com/brandonbothell/433f12368a5f1eb6bc6e92cad9ef3935 I did this to do it

[winter thunder]

Ooh, I see. Thank you!!! That is super helpful haha. Basically within the same line as what I was going to do, but so so so much cleaner haha. Mind if I yoink the basics? Just for a server specific patch for a single clothing mod

[tiny wolf]

Do someone know where we can find the "Zombie proximity infection" vanilla script into the game files please ? 🙂

[willow crest]

Go ahead, do as you please

[humble oriole]

Hey @bronze yoke do you know if ClimateManager.getAirTemperatureForSquare is client only?

if I run it in my code and print it, it returns the global temp, if I run it in game it prints the ambient temp.

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't look like it's intentionally client only

if the square is indoors and power is on you would expect to get room temperature if that's what you're getting

[humble oriole]

well, I'm trying to see if I can get the temp of the square to reflect there being a campfire or other heat source near it

I also tried running the code from shared, but get the same result. The code being run from the mod returns the global temp, but if I do it from the lua console on the same coords it gives me the adjusted temp as it should.

which leads me to believe that the server doesn't know what the squares adjusted temp is, which really sucks 😦

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't feel like anything in this should be client only

you should check if the square exists

it'll return the global temperature if it doesn't

[humble oriole]

function SBioGasSystem.getModifiedOutput(square)
    local cutOffTemp = SandboxVars.BioGas.cutOffTemp
    local minTemp = SandboxVars.BioGas.minTemp
    local maxTemp = SandboxVars.BioGas.maxTemp

    local currentAmbientTemp = round(getClimateManager():getAirTemperatureForSquare(square))
    print("Square X: ",square:getX())
    print("Square Y: ",square:getY())
    print("Temps: ",currentAmbientTemp)```

[bronze yoke]

you might be grabbing it wrong

hmm if getX isn't causing issues it must

[humble oriole]

and that's from in game

[bronze yoke]

[humble oriole]

literally this

[upper mason]

Skill books do not unlock recipes, only recipe books correct?

I.e. skill level won't unlock new recipes as well, correct?

[humble oriole]

yea

[upper mason]

Is there any way to make specific recipe book finished reading on start, or no need to bother and just add recipes to profession directly?

[humble oriole]

I think most people do it to the profession directly

[upper mason]

then additional question: you can read same recipe book multiple times, but it won't have any effect after first time, correct?

[humble oriole]

correct

[humble oriole]

yea, I'm not sure this is functioning as intended 😦

[upper mason]

I don't see "NightOwl" implemented anywhere in game's LUA. Do I need to decompile java or something?

[bronze yoke]

it's implemented in java

[upper mason]

So, if I want to make trait with new functionality, such as regeneration and infection immunity in LUA, I can't?

[bronze yoke]

you can

a lot of the vanilla stuff is java for performance or convenience, most things are still doable from lua

[red tiger]

Good afternoon.

[fading horizon]

Good afternoon!

[left field]

Hi, there some mod under develop about electronics, I would like to make one, but if there are some under develop, I must help in the development

[frank elbow]

What kind of electronics? I'm sure there are quite a few; I'm working on one but it's a bit more limited in scope than "electronics"

[left field]

Computers, domestic installations and electricity production

[frank elbow]

Gotcha, not me then—might do something with computers, but not planning on it anytime soon

Sounds interesting, though

[primal remnant]

Hey guys, general question: .obj files or maybe .X files have a model and a texture. I exported a blender model in .fbx but I dont see a .mtl file or anything like that.

The code looks like this:

model LargeSaltContainer
{
mesh = WorldItems/LargeSaltContainer,
texture = WorldItems/LargeSaltContainer, <-------- Coders block occurs here
scale = 0.1,
}

item LargeSaltContainer
{
Weight = 0.5,
Type = Normal,
DisplayName = Large Salt,
Icon = LargeSaltIcon,
SurvivalGear = TRUE,
WorldStaticModel = LargeSaltContainer,

}

But my question is WHAT DO I PUT IN THE TEXTURE PATH? Will this code work as is because the material is part of the .fbx file or do I need to rework how I write this code? Thanks in advance.

[red tiger]

That is also script, not code. ;)

AFAIK the mesh and texture are paths from a folder in media.. one sec.

Specifies the model file to be used. File must be located in "media\models_X". Write path to filename without extension. Example for file "media\models_X\Burger.fbx":

mesh = Burger,

Sets the texture for model. File must be located in "media\textures". Write path to filename without extension. Example for file "media\textures\BurgerTex.png":

texture = BurgerTex,

@primal remnant

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Model_Script_Guide

[faint jewel]

anyone happen to know this?

[quiet matrix]

running into this problem with making custom perks where, when you remove a trait from your chosen traits, it duplicates the trait. this is happening with both positive and negative ones, base traits and modded ones. what could be making this happen?

[faint jewel]

le sigh

[ancient grail]

Im not at home skiz i could have helped with this 😦

[faint jewel]

if i can get this working my trailers are don, just atm it leaves the water spraying.

local function MowerWater_OnExitVehicle(character)
    local vehicle = character:getVehicle()
    if vehicle == nil then 
        print("No Vehicle")
        return 
    end
end

it always says no vehicle 😦

[fading horizon]

oml

stuart little mod got front page

😭

[faint jewel]

GetLastVehicle() would be GREAT

[bronze yoke]

onexitvehicle is a lua event so just hook the function that calls it if you need to do something before it

[pastel glen]

how do i change all footstep SFX to 1 or 2 custom sounds? can someone help me with this? is it possible?

[fast galleon]

https://github.com/Poltergeistzx/pz-community-modding/blob/1e4b607a5fcf32b7f7fa0c4a9772a4c2754faef2/Contents/mods/!pz_debugTools/media/lua/shared/debugShared/Vehicles.lua#L32

[faint jewel]

wassat?

hmmmm

what happens if there are multiple vehicles of the same script?

[fast galleon]

just add if not script then return vehicle or whatever

[fast galleon]

omg, somebody should fix that

[faint jewel]

LOL

[faint jewel]

got one like "OnContainerInventoryChange" ?

i can work with that other than it's being a pain lol.

function GetLastVehicle(scriptName)
    local allVehicles = getCell():getVehicles()
    local test
    for i = allVehicles:size() - 1, 0, -1 do
        test = allVehicles:get(i)
        >>>print(test:getScriptName())
        if scriptName == test:getScriptName() then
            return test
        end
    end
end
    local vehicle = GetLastVehicle("Base.MowerWater_trailer");
    if vehicle == nil then 
        print("No Vehicle")
        return 
    end
``` vehicle is always nil.

but if i add a print to show all the tests.

i SEE ir there

so why does it NOT return my vehicle?

😦

[bronze yoke]

capitalisation error

"trailer" ~= "Trailer"

[faint jewel]

HAH! it would also help.... if i was getting the mower instead of the trailer XD

but thank you albion and poultrygeist!

that bug is fixed though!

all i need now is how to tell if a vehicles trunk contents have changed.

[red tiger]

Nothing says fun like being up all night to catch up on IRL work.

[primal remnant]

Are there any good tutorials on reading the lua files for PZ? I get the gist of what's happening, but my syntax skills are a lacking and I'm not sure where to find particular function/method names. Just wondering how those who are skilled in PZ Lua got their start.

Also @red tiger gotta burn the candle at both ends to keep warm.

[red tiger]

I'm going to warn you immediately about the state of affairs with PZ's Lua codebase.

1. It's not authentic Lua.
2. It's trying to be Lua 5.1. Anything past 5.1 is not supported.
3. It's an absolute mess. Do not copy the way that the code is written.

Try to learn modules and use this approach.

[primal remnant]

I was afraid of that. I'm trying to figure out drainables, but the closest I've found is combining water bottles. Kinda messy to read.

[red tiger]

Drainable items are part of the scripting data format which is not Lua.

Any .txt file in media/scripts/ is scripts.

They do affect some Lua function executions though.

I can't tell you anything specific to scripting or doing what you're doing. I only know what I do from past experience in Lua and the current projects I have right now to make scripting in PZ much easier.

This is what I'm working on / toward:

[reef karma]

Hey @ Poltergeist, are you still working on the solar panel mod by any chance?

[red tiger]

People are generally so lost with scripting...

It's such a headache to anyone fresh to modding PZ.

[bronze yoke]

oh, decompile the java

everyone seems scared of reading the java but you'll be solving the puzzle with half the pieces if you don't

[red tiger]

Yup.

I believe that the goal should be working towards making this not necessary to mod.

[fast galleon]

no new features planned

[bronze yoke]

yeah, most of the time i'm only reading the java because there's no other indication of what most methods actually do

[reef karma]

Fair enough, I assume radius is 20 for power delivery. Any way to change that to be configurable (I would really like to increase it)? I don't really wanna request an entire mod update just or that but I figure I should ask before I go digging in myself (and probably fail at it)

[quiet matrix]

only rebumping my question as people seem to be peeking at this channel… if anyone has an immediate guess without looking at the code. i can get code as needed upon request

[fast galleon]

that's rather hardcoded in v41, waiting to see the update in v42

[red tiger]

I don't need to bombard you with my work that tries to fix this issue.

Heheh

You hit the nail on the head though if you were trying to state the main goal of PipeWrench.

[bronze yoke]

does your trait use profession framework?

[reef karma]

I see, out of our hands I see, that is a bummer -- I didn't know it was hardcoded. Thank you for your reply 🙂

[bronze yoke]

i've seen this issue before, i think i even solved it in my own mods, but i don't remember what the issue was really, but i was using that previously and don't anymore

[quiet matrix]

i am 99% sure (it was made by one of my team’s members) it is based on base game coding, not the prof framework, as profession framework was preventing our custom occupations from appearing despite no errors in code format

[red tiger]

I think that it's going to get silly in here when I get my VSCode extension feature-complete.

[quiet matrix]

upon loading in, the traits are fine. but removing them from one’s build causes duplication

[faint jewel]

well if anyone can figure out how to tell when items are being added to or removes from a vehicle trunk that would be AMAZING.

[red tiger]

I'm really surprised that this event doesn't exist.

[bronze yoke]

just hook the inventory transfer action

i don't think they can really get in or out any other way

[faint jewel]

me too

[bronze yoke]

oh they can fall out actually

[faint jewel]

i can't find an invetory transfer action lol

[quiet matrix]

hasn’t udderlyevelynn made a patch to prevent items from falling out?

could you see what she has done and see if there is an inventory transfer action?

[faint jewel]

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/network/PacketTypes.PacketType.html#AddInventoryItemToContainer i see this...

[bronze yoke]

i mean the timed action

it's not java

[faint jewel]

i can't find the action lol

[red tiger]

Find in Files

[faint jewel]

what's the name

ISInventoryTransferAction

?

[bronze yoke]

i'm not at my computer but something like that

[primal remnant]

Thanks man, I was wondering where all the function names were hiding. Java isnt scary to me. I grew up on C++. 😐

[bronze yoke]

this site is handy too https://projectzomboid.com/modding/

[faint jewel]

function Seeder_Fill_update(container)
    print("Updating a Container")
    local container = container:getContainer();
    if container then
        local vehicle = container:getParent()
        if vehicle ~= nil then
            local Trailer = playerobj:getVehicle():getVehicleTowing()
            local bedpart = Trailer:getPartById("TruckBed")
            local truckbedcontainer = bedpart:getItemContainer()
            bedpart:repair()
            bedpart:setContainerCapacity(25)

            local CurrentAmount = bedpart:getContainerContentAmount()*4

            print("Current % full = " .. CurrentAmount .. "%")
        end
    end 
end

Events.OnContainerUpdate.Add(Seeder_Fill_update)

this si what i was TRYING to do.

but that on event is what i am needing 😦

[red tiger]

It's too bad that I don't have some gin nearby.

Get slammed on some gin & tonic and go for a 17+ hour coding jam.

[faint jewel]

still aint code jammed my menu to completion., lol

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/kekw-kewkwait-issou-gif-21148982

[faint jewel]

das right

https://tenor.com/view/mexico-sombrero-shake-head-gif-13067418

[fast galleon]

check the framework's events it might be saving player data to add them back or something.

[faint jewel]

ffs.

when you remove items via code it doesn't update the container.

and i need to to UPDATE

[upper mason]

It fails for me at id 'io.pzstorm.capsid' version '0.4.2' part. No Load Gradle Changes appear.
EDIT: seems like it happened because I was using standalone version of IDE, and not installed one.
EDIT #2: it also seems that I have to name project as capsid to make it work.

[neon bronze]

Do you mind sending the code?

[upper mason]

Now I'm stuck at this part: Unable to find method ''org.gradle.api.tasks.JavaExec io.pzstorm.capsid.zomboid.task.ZomboidVersionTask.setMain(java.lang.String)'' 'org.gradle.api.tasks.JavaExec io.pzstorm.capsid.zomboid.task.ZomboidVersionTask.setMain(java.lang.String)'Do I need a specific version of IDE as well?

[upper mason]

Since I can't use tutorial to get all lua APIs, question to the modding community: where I get all lua APIs on my own?

[red tiger]

So basically most Lua code is invocated via events.

UI has exceptions to this rule but it's technical.

You'll need an IDE or rich-text environment to search through the lua folder in PZ's media folder for existing Lua code.

[upper mason]

It contains all Lua events implemented in game?

[bronze yoke]

there's a page dedicated to them on the wiki

[upper mason]

For previous version.

41.65, not the latest one.

[red tiger]

https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench-Events/blob/f4612e6883802384a3cba414242e005e3c890a02/PipeWrench-Events.d.ts#L270

Here's the same list but with context.

[upper mason]

And for latest public release version of the game?

[red tiger]

Haven't heard of any new events added since.

[bronze yoke]

get used to that

there are a couple new events, and some of the parameters on the wiki are outdated or wrong

[red tiger]

Will only find out when someone says something.

lol

[bronze yoke]

i sent a pr to correct the ones i've noticed ages back (since those pages are generated) but it hasn't been noticed

[red tiger]

Forward that as an issue for PipeWrench-Events

https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench-Events/issues/new

I'll fix it for my stuff.

[bronze yoke]

i'll go find my documentation on one of the new events and do that tomorrow

[red tiger]

Thanks.

I don't know what the wiki community is doing but I'm keeping my stuff up to date.

Were you asking for PZ Wiki to fix?

Or somewhere else?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, the wiki

[red tiger]

I can edit the wiki lol

I'm probably going to need to go into the wiki at some point and start cleaning & clarifying some stuff.

[upper mason]

Yesterday there were talk that all perk's features (for example, Night Owl) can be implemented in LUA. I'm trying to understand structure and figure how to do it. As reference I'm looking at Insurgent profession mod and how traits are handled and see that everything handled via getModData() and events. Hence, I wanted to know all Lua APIs available for modding: events, and parameters that can be called (for example: from attacker, target, weapon & etc.) such as :setHealth() or .hunger or something else.

[red tiger]

Sorry. I'm a documenter / tools developer. (Not a dev for PZ)

I don't know technical stuff in detail for helping people with their mods.

[nova dome]

hmh because of how selecting traits normally works I guess there is no easy way to check for mutual exclusives within a list of traits? as in whether an existing player's selection of traits is valid

[red tiger]

I am making tools to make your nightmare a simple gassy daydream.

[bronze yoke]

that wiki page, this site https://projectzomboid.com/modding/ , vanilla lua and a decompile will be your best friends

[red tiger]

And if you want to be a freak like me and code in TypeScript, PipeWrench is a set of compiled typings for PZ that is used to compile to Lua.

[upper mason]

Decompile part from https://github.com/Konijima/PZ-Libraries already failed.

[bronze yoke]

yeah, that thing is pretty old and took a bit of messing around for me to get it to work too

i didn't encounter your specific issues though so i can't help you there

[upper mason]

Then let me follow your steps from zero in decompilation. Or rather, please tell me what you've done differently from instructions there? Maybe it will work for me as well.

[bronze yoke]

i don't really remember, it was a decent while ago that i did it

i remember having to mess with the memory allocation because i kept getting out of memory errors, but there were definitely other issues i don't remember

[upper mason]

maybe you've used older version of IDE to make it work?

[bronze yoke]

no, i use the latest

[red tiger]

It's fernflower.

I don't typically decompile the entire game to look at and modify stuff.

Zip up all the class files into a Jar archive, import it in an IDEA workspace and then double-click the .class files.

[upper mason]

I've forgot that JAR is essentially ZIP file with classes.

[red tiger]

And a MANIFEST.

And certs if needed.

[upper mason]

I don't really need it to open created zip in JD-GUI to see everything 🙂

[red tiger]

JAD is a very flawed decompiler. It is useful for when fernflower fails to decompile a code block.

[upper mason]

Haven't touched Java for quite a while. Fernflower is new one?

[red tiger]

JAD also handles constant values better than Fernflower that are above 32767.

[red tiger]

Fernflower has been around since before / at the time of creation of Minecraft.

I've used Fernflower since 2010.

[upper mason]

Never used it, since for work JD was enough. My routine was too peek code in JD → modify bytecode directly (not healthy stuff, don't do it).
But I will try fernflower now.

[red tiger]

I would rather decompile into semi-broken code and fix it, modify it, then recompile it against the code it compiled with.

[upper mason]

Where do I download fernflower from?

[red tiger]

I can have projects spanning 100+ modified Java files doing this.

Commenting helps me keep track of every change I make.

[red tiger]

You can use fernflower as the 'Java-Decompiler' plugin in Intellij IDEA.

You can use fernflower as a CLI as well.

https://github.com/fesh0r/fernflower

[upper mason]

Where to get files for CLI part? I don't see any download links.

[red tiger]

I don't know of a pre-built Jar release. I build it myself.

[upper mason]

Via gradlew.bat?

[red tiger]

By importing the gradle project to IDEA and running the tasks.

[upper mason]

Thanks! Now I'll be playing around with it.

[upper mason]

What JDK should I tell gradle to use to compile it? Because I see that some classes aren't getting decompiled and throw errors.

[sour fern]

I've been using cfr to decompile, although tbf I haven't tried the others

[upper mason]

Can it decompile whole JAR/ZIP, or do I need to decompile each file separately?

[lyric turtle]

I wonder

Since minimal display bars shows that it is possible to show customized UI displays for lots of stuff

Wouldn't it be plausible to get The Sims UI to display our character's stats and what not?

[craggy ruin]

Hey dudes I don't know if I'm not figuring this out for myself or it does not exist, I want my custom server to have a timer when a player dies in order to respawn. any advice?

[upper mason]

I want to verify something. Basically, when you do target:setHealth(float) you call actual Java function setHealth() from Lua, correct?

[frank elbow]

It would be and I fully expect it to happen eventually

[frank elbow]

Look at ISPostDeathUI—you'll likely need to override stuff from there. Someone else was discussing something similar not too long ago, could probably find it from searching in this channel

[upper mason]

At least this is what it seems from code point of view (as setHealth() is real name of a function from IsoGameCharacter.class).

[frank elbow]

If you're talking about setHealth on a character, yes it calls into Java

x:y(...) is not always a Java call, though. It's just Lua syntactic sugar for x.y(x, ...)

[upper mason]

Which means devs don't need to bother to make every function exposed through some means, since it will be exposed by default (I assume only if its public)

[frank elbow]

As long as the class is exposed, yeah. With some caveats, though, since you can't call an implementation with parameter types that aren't exposed (as far as I know, anyway)

Since it won't be able to resolve the implementation you're trying to call

[frosty estuary]

One question here... if I call getNumActivePlayers() on client side... it will return me just the number of player on the client ( 1 or more if split screen) or it will return the number of all players in a server ?

[frank elbow]

On the client

[frosty estuary]

Thanks

[spring wind]

If I copy code from someone else's mod - Zach and Pookie wrote some good stuff for managing options in Players on Map - is a "Portions shamelessly copied from <link to steam workshop item>" blurb at the top of the file sufficient?

My mod isn't related to the map at all, I just like the code they wrote for tying config options to their UI elements and wanted to use it cuz it works well.

[frank elbow]

Does the mod have a section in its description for licensing? The default is usually to ask for permission when copying code outright (I believe that's the default per TIS modding policy, too), but if it's minor it may not matter. No one can very well copyright a method of doing a thing, but since you're just copying it I'd ask (see https://projectzomboid.com/blog/modding-policy)

[spring wind]

K I Feel good about that. I'm not lifting content and an attribution saying which portions I copied feels right. It's not particularly clever or novel code, I'm just lazy and am a fan of using things that are proven to work.

Thanks Omar

[craggy ruin]

sorry for asking again but in what file do I find that line of code? or you are referring to an specific function?

[frank elbow]

No worries, I could've been clearer—ISPostDeathUI.lua in media/lua/client/ISUI

[craggy ruin]

got it thanks you!

[sour fern]

Yes, but you gotta package it into a jar first

Personally I made a fork that lets it take a txt file of paths since I'm too lazy to do that every time

[visual island]

could i somehow get the list of all items in the game through lua code? i want to edit some items with a .lua file, without replacing the .txt scripts

because i want to change the data of all items provided by a mod, but the mod is updating

[red tiger]

Has anyone ever reported a mod to be taken down that does the same thing but in its own way? Like say a s mod that has to perform ops the same way to get the result needed but isn't the code of the party filing the report?

I feel like that is something that'll happen eventually.

That scenario of those like it worry me.

[sour fern]

Pretty sure copyright law in most countries is the code itself

not it's overall function

unless someone wants to patent a mod I think lol

[red tiger]

I'm not talking about copyright although what I'm pointing at specifically could be easily confused with copyright.

[sour fern]

Ah like reporting to steam/indie stone?

Well in that case I got no idea

[red tiger]

Yeah it's more to do with bullying / cornering and holding the workshop hostage in a way.

[sour fern]

Frankly if two mods do the same thing I don't think there's an issue

Starting an argument over something like that is just petty in my opinion

[red tiger]

Yeah however I wouldn't expect Steam to look into the report to see whether the mod actually does infringe the other.

It wouldn't be the first time someone has abused the report feature for workshop to bully another content creator.

[sour fern]

mm that is a fair point

[red tiger]

I bring this up because I think it'll more than likely show up at some point.

You are all interesting however I couldn't count the amount of people who I would judge % wise to approach things with other modders here in less than good faith.

20 years of modding will teach you that real fast. =)

[sour fern]

Welp you're a lot more experienced than me lol

I'm just poking around in the source for now

[frank elbow]

I doubt it'd hold much water & if it were taken down it could probably be appealed

[red tiger]

People will always try to bend things to see how far they can get away with getting ahead of others. It's my concern over how we handle that going forward.

[sour fern]

Couldn't get capsid to work so now I'm going about trying to do something similar myself

[red tiger]

Yeah like the progress and subscribers would be restored, no?

[sour fern]

Although somewhat more crudely

[sour island]

I'm not sure what is going wrong here -- but the IDE should be java 17/18

[frank elbow]

That, I don't know—I'm actually not sure how blocking workshop items works, as I've never been on either end of that

[sour fern]

I actually had the same issue as WarStalker

[sour island]

The guide is pretty thorough -- make sure you click the drop down for images

[sour fern]

Was running JDK 19

[red tiger]

Yeah..

Well we'll eventually see it.

Hopefully it won't be a trainwreck.

I see more talk about capsid in here everyday.

Join the dark side and code in Typescript.

[sour fern]

Eeh, I've already made it my own excuse to try learning reflection by writing a jar to export the exports

I've seen your projects

pretty cool

[red tiger]

I made my own excuse to write a full-blown reflection mapper with nested generics support.

[red tiger]

Thanks.

[sour fern]

I'll join the dark side if it has intellisense

XD

[red tiger]

It does.

[frank elbow]

Loosely related, I've been strongly considering forking pz-zdoc to handle stuff in a way that works better for me

[sour fern]

How'd you get it workin

[red tiger]

A lot of curse words and writing all my stuff in-house.

[sour fern]

haha

[frank elbow]

A lot of static members are documented as being methods by pz-zdoc, which is a very slightly inconvenience (because it's easy to fix in the type stubs) but worth fixing

[sour fern]

I also saw your wip zedscript vscode plugin

[red tiger]

Nice. I had to shelve it temporarily due to a megaton burnout.

My IRL job comes first.

[sour fern]

Had an idea the other day, maybe could write a plugin that lets you do it in json with all it's existing plugins etc, which then compiles into zedscript

Fair enough

I'm unemployed so I've got time to burn lmao

Just graduated in december

[red tiger]

I'm planning on writing a preprocessor language.

[sour fern]

been rough

[red tiger]

Language structure and design is something of a thing I dabble with.

[sour fern]

It is interesting yeah

[red tiger]

I'd like to redesign ZedScript from the foundation and then write a compiler to ZedScript.

[sour fern]

More 'interesting' when it's a lesser used thing too

like json5 lol

[red tiger]

Json is too unfriendly.

[sour fern]

As a user-configuration thing yeah

[red tiger]

It's a data storage format, not a pneumonic or expressive language.

[sour fern]

that's what yaml is for etc

[red tiger]

Yet Another Markup Language

[sour fern]

sometimes I wonder why they invented pzscript tbh

why reinvent the wheel

[red tiger]

I would be adding stronger syntax patterns for properties. Arrays would be defined more programmatically. Vectors would have their own syntax.

Inheritance models.

[sour fern]

mm

[red tiger]

item BaseAxe {
  // ...
}

item StoneAxe extends BaseAxe {
  // ...
}

[sour fern]

A way to export/import to CSV would be something I think a lot of people would find useful

for balancing/tweaking

Although that is a bit of a tangent

[red tiger]

Why individually edit and mentally keep track of 50 items with the same groups of properties when you could edit one or two instead.

[sour fern]

Yeah

[red tiger]

My concept language is to follow some of the same goals as SaSS.

[sour fern]

I always use that in my web projects lol

[red tiger]

A language with more syntax rules isn't a problem if you have a competent IDE / editor with support for it.

[frank elbow]

I'm curious about this too. I guess they didn't consider any existing formats ideal for their use case

[red tiger]

I suspect it to be a product of an older programming mindset.

[frank elbow]

Which I get, I suppose. JSON is the obvious choice to match the structure but it's not great as a language for scripts

[red tiger]

Specifically a C / C++ programmer mindset.

[sour fern]

yeah I suspect it's a 'not broke don't fix it thing'

[red tiger]

It's the "I own and do things myself" way.

[frank elbow]

That would make sense

[sour fern]

I was surprised to see things like blacksmithing/npcs stuff still in the code when I was digging around

[red tiger]

ZedScript is a product of trying to make scripting less cumbersome while not limiting users.

I think it's poorly patched up over the years however the idea isn't bad.

Good idea implemented rather poorly.

[frank elbow]

Personally the requirement of a trailing comma makes me 😡 but other than that I don't mind it

[sour fern]

Oh damn just found your /java folder in pipewrench

you write all that manually?

[red tiger]

ZedScript would be pretty ok if it were documented thoroughly and a lot of needless gotchas & pitfalls resolved.

[red tiger]

No. I wrote a generator that does it for me.

[sour fern]

ah yeah just saw

[red tiger]

Months to a year if manually. 5-10 seconds if automatic.

Makes 8 months of development work not seem so bad.

[sour fern]

yup

[red tiger]

It's there for anyone to pick up and use. It has what you'd look for in terms of intellisense and documentation support.

[frank elbow]

I wish Lua's type annotation ecosystem were just a bit more evolved

[sour fern]

The major plugins seem to invent their own yeah

[frank elbow]

It's already pretty nice but at least the annotations I use are missing some essential stuff

They're based on EmmyLua

[red tiger]

It's not EmmyLua's fault. It's the language itself.

[frank elbow]

I use LuaCats (used in sumneko's Lua Language Server)

[faint jewel]

are zero turn vehicles possible?

[red tiger]

Prioritizes speed of execution over form.

It's the wild-west of scripting.

JavaScript ES5 but much worse.

[frank elbow]

I'm not anti-EmmyLua to be clear—I just wish the ecosystem were how I assume it will be in a year or two

The system I use doesn't have complete support for generics which is annoying

[red tiger]

I'm not either. I'm clarifying what to blame.

[red tiger]

TSTL allows for most Typescript features to apply to compiled Lua code.

[sour fern]

I think the luacats thing is somewhat backwards compatible with some of emmylua anyway

[red tiger]

=)

[frank elbow]

I wouldn't say Lua is necessarily to blame either, anymore than Python would be to blame if its typing system weren't mature

[frank elbow]

Most yeah

[red tiger]

That's why PipeWrench-Events plugin allows templated event listeners that shows you what objects are passed for each event.

Generics.

[sour fern]

I have a bit of beef with python tbh, mainly that it can teach some bad habits to beginners

[frank elbow]

How so?

[sour fern]

But at the same time it probably stems out of my beef with people not using things for what they were made for

like using python to build something that would be better done in C++

[red tiger]

https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench-Events/blob/f4612e6883802384a3cba414242e005e3c890a02/PipeWrench-Events.d.ts#L276

[frank elbow]

Definitely going to remind myself to take a peek at that—I considered writing a type stub for the same purpose

[red tiger]

https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench-Events/blob/f4612e6883802384a3cba414242e005e3c890a02/PipeWrench-Events.d.ts#L56-L67

[frank elbow]

But figured I'd be better off just using the info from the wiki to generate it, since the event code itself can't very well be used to do so afaik

[red tiger]

Right here.

You can write your own events in this plugin.

[frank elbow]

Nice, I'll just process that & make it spit out Lua annotations when I get the chance

[red tiger]

Or you could do your stuff in TS and forget Lua mostly.

Heh.

[frank elbow]

What do you mean, btw? I don't disagree that different languages are better suited for different tasks, just wondering what you're thinking

[frank elbow]

I will stick with my beloved (but misunderstood 🥺) Lua

I prefer Typescript for JS development by far but I'm more comfortable with using Lua in this environment

[red tiger]

Ah. Experienced modders typically stick with what they know best.

I've spent time modding with Lua since 2015 and I chose to move to TS out of sheer will.

... and rage.

[sour fern]

like people trying to write bulk-processing code in python, then wondering why it's so slow and not keeping their mind open to maybe doing it in a different language

a bit specific, but I've seen it before and it triggers me lol

[frank elbow]

Gotcha, that's fair

[red tiger]

I usually ignore people who blame languages first because it almost always is the fault of the programmer.

Usually it's those people who bitch about loops.

Heh.

Java is absolutely capable of running The Sims 1 in 2023.

[frank elbow]

Very much agree, language superiority discussions are tiresome imo

Like yeah we can discuss their strengths and weaknesses but saying "X language is bad, full stop" is boring

Use Brainf**k to make a game for all I care

[red tiger]

Use JavaScript.

[frank elbow]

Now, we have to draw a line somewhere (joking)

[sour fern]

lmao yeah

did my final year project in that instead of TS

never again

[frank elbow]

I don't mind JS all that much. I find some design decisions questionable but it's fine

[faint jewel]

CODEMONKIES! i need to be able to save a VEHICLE into an inventory. make that happens.

[frank elbow]

You got it boss, we'll have it done by yesterday

[sour fern]

Yeah it's not bad, but it got a little out of control, since we ended up writing our own janky type correction anyway

using jsdoc annotations

[faint jewel]

i was thinking more adding vehicles to trailers.

[red tiger]

Want to see reimplementing the same pseudo-class logic from Lua in JS?

[sour fern]

[frank elbow]

JavaScript's prototype chain 🤝 Lua's metatable “classes”

(being strange)

[red tiger]

What's cool is that script actually does what you'd expect it to.

I had to figure this out when I was working on my Lua to Typescript transpiler.

[frank elbow]

Lua to TypeScript? You have it going the other way too ?? (idk whether that was a typo)

[red tiger]

I'm writing a transpiler that rises Lua up into Typescript.

[frank elbow]

To migrate existing code to use PipeWrench?

[red tiger]

You can already use pure Lua with PipeWrench. It makes things easier to translate.

[frank elbow]

Ah, gotcha

[red tiger]

What if I want to make my own ISUI?

Let's use OOP. Maybe interfaces. Inheritance. Types.

Type-Joins.

ISUI as it is currently contains a lot of dead code.

Also, same property names are used entirely differently in sub-classes in some places making interpretation increasingly difficult.

[frank elbow]

Have an example?

[red tiger]

there's a mouse event function that doesn't even execute in several ISUI classes.

Forget the name.

Also joydata. Who knows what's passed with that by memory.

[frank elbow]

Mouse up, mouse down, mouse up outside, mouse down outside, right mouse for all of those, double click, mouse wheel. That should be everything, I think, do some of them assume more than that?

[frank elbow]

I've been looking at the JoypadSetup code recently and sighing (not anything against the code, just wish it were set up more like the mouse and key events)

[red tiger]

Been too long for me to recall exact examples.

[frank elbow]

Fair enough

[drifting stump]

howdy folks been a while

[red tiger]

Hundreds of hours spent in ISUI world has shown me that it's almost necessary to use something like Typescript to properly rebuild it.

[drifting stump]

it seems i was summoned by ui code talk

youre probably thinking of

---Java hook triggered when a key is pressed.
---
---Requires WantKeyEvents to be true to be called.
---@param keyID integer The id of the pressed key.
function CFUIElement:onKeyPress(keyID)

---Java hook triggered when a key is held.
---
---Requires WantKeyEvents to be true to be called.
---@param keyID integer The id of the held key.
function CFUIElement:onKeyRepeat(keyID)

---Java hook triggered when a key is released.
---
---Requires WantKeyEvents to be true to be called.
---@param keyID integer The id of the released key.
function CFUIElement:onKeyRelease(keyID)

---Java hook triggered to determine whether the pressed key was used by the UI element.
---
---Requires WantKeyEvents to be true to be called.
---@param keyID integer The id of the key being tested.
---@return boolean
function CFUIElement:isKeyConsumed(keyID)

---Sets whether this UI element receives key events.
---@param wantKeyEvents boolean Whether key events are to be enabled
function CFUIElement:setWantKeyEvents(wantKeyEvents)

[frank elbow]

Those are all executed as expected; I'm wondering what isn't

Doesn't really matter for me, just curious

[faint jewel]

lol hi browser!

[drifting stump]

hey

[faint jewel]

CANNAE DM YE?

[drifting stump]

most of the dead code in isui is unused render functions

usually overloaded java methods that never end up getting used

[drifting stump]

my dms are always open

[frank elbow]

Makes sense. I've been doing some UI-heavy stuff lately but the base classes fortunately haven't given me too much grief

Curious about the unused mouse events because I'm wondering what functionality doesn't exist that those elements expect

[drifting stump]

life got in the way of the new ui system

hmmm i dont recall any unused events

[frank elbow]

Jab mentioned that something doesn't execute—maybe I misunderstood what he meant and it's just that the events are being consumed

[drifting stump]

theres a bunch of gotchas with mouse events

[frank elbow]

Yeah, I've learned as much recently

[drifting stump]

---Java hook triggered whenever this UI element is left clicked. Clicks on child elements do not trigger this.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onMouseDown(x, y)

---Java hook triggered whenever this UI element is double clicked. Clicks on child elements do not trigger this.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onMouseDoubleClick(x, y)

---Java hook triggered whenever a left click is released in this UI element. Clicks on child elements do not trigger this.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onMouseUp(x, y)

---Java hook triggered whenever a left click happens outside this UI element. Clicks on child elements also trigger this.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onMouseDownOutside(x, y)

---Java hook triggered whenever a left click is released outside this UI element. Clicks on child elements also trigger this.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onMouseUpOutside(x, y)

---Java hook triggered whenever this UI element is right clicked. Clicks on child elements do not trigger this.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onRightMouseDown(x, y)

---Java hook triggered whenever a right click is released in this UI element. Clicks on child elements do not trigger this.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onRightMouseUp(x, y)

---Java hook triggered whenever a right click happens outside this UI element. Clicks on child elements also trigger this.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onRightMouseDownOutside(x, y)

---Java hook triggered whenever a right click is released outside this UI element. Clicks on child elements also trigger this.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onRightMouseUpOutside(x, y)

---Java hook triggered whenever this UI element or a child is left clicked.
---@param x number The horizontal position where the click happened.
---@param y number The vertical position where the click happened.
function CFUIElement:onFocus(x, y)

---Java hook triggered every UI frame when the mouse is moved inside the UI element.
---@param dx number The delta change in the horizontal axis.
---@param dy number The delta change in the vertical axis.
function CFUIElement:onMouseMove(dx, dy)

---Java hook triggered every UI frame when the mouse is moved outside the UI element.
---@param dx number The delta change in the horizontal axis.
---@param dy number The delta change in the vertical axis.
function CFUIElement:onMouseMoveOutside(dx, dy)

[frank elbow]

I'm getting around the child element consuming events in my use case by forwarding the event to the “correct” handler based on where the click occurred

Sounds much more evil than it is in practice, I assure you

[drifting stump]

perfectly fine to do

think i did it once to allow mouse dragging when clicking a child

was annoying not being able to drag if you clicked on the child

[frank elbow]

I think it's a little dirty, but it is what it is

As long as it's consistent I'm okay with it

[drifting stump]

you could use onFocus if youre using left clicks

its always triggered

[frank elbow]

I'm using all of those events except onFocus actually lol, saw it but decided I'd rather handle that behavior myself

[upper mason]

How often event OnPlayerUpdate() is called?

[ancient grail]

i wonder why my sprint animation its not working well

[frank elbow]

Why what's not working well?

Oh

[ancient grail]

my bad

wtf why is it uploaded like download able

[cosmic condor]

TOO LARGE

better upload as mp4

[ancient grail]

https://imgur.com/qUO5ekX

i wonder how im going to be able to make blood droplets fall down? i would need an animated tile to follow the playerZed

[pastel glen]

how do i change all footstep SFX to 1 or 2 custom sounds? can someone help me with this? is it possible?

[upper mason]

Are you trying to make skeletons for PZ?

[upper mason]

Hm... Licker β will make all these stairless safe houses rather horrible trapbox 😄

[grizzled isle]

Player Zed for multiplayer huh

🆒

[ancient grail]

Our team and collaborators are building it slowly

If you want to join just dm me

Ill add you to the collab chat
Send you the repo link and the plan

[grizzled isle]

Boss monster when

I kinda want a demon zombie that has bone sword ooo

And juggernaut

This will make OP mod less OP

Mutation trait when

Also swimming hmm

Jumper zombie

Boom zombie

Siren

Fire resistant zombie

Anything from left4dead hehe

Child zombie and baby zombie

Maybe also a flesh blob that can spread

Hmm

[grizzled isle]

Oo nice

Acid vomitter

[ancient grail]

[grizzled isle]

[ancient grail]

wait that is possible using the throw

but then

the projectile itself sucks

like its not gona stay wherevr it land it will bounce

[grizzled isle]

Ye

[ancient grail]

and its java sided i bet

[grizzled isle]

It has to be like

Puddle

[ancient grail]

but this is an immortal zed whenver its not moving

you can only hit it when it is moving

[grizzled isle]

Oo

Bozz

[ancient grail]

links in my profile if you want to see progress and details

[grizzled isle]

Make youtube reel

[ancient grail]

id rather make the mod haha

reel will follow when its done i guess

[grizzled isle]

Yea

[upper mason]

Licker β from RE universe is must have. Scary. Crawls on walls. Grabs people with long tongue. Very poisonous. Doesn't care about stairs.

[grizzled isle]

Bozz

Grab people is well

[upper mason]

wrote it =_=

[grizzled isle]

Maybe make them immobile then but the animation,,, how

[upper mason]

Yeah, to make it possible, devs will have to implement Hook framework that allows grab people/things/etc to or fast jump to them.

[grizzled isle]

I can't imagine how to implement it

Using the engine

Projectile is a no go

[upper mason]

In theory it is. OnHit something set player or target X.Y close to player or target X.Y

But animation will be lacking.

[ancient grail]

Yeah you just teleport the play infront vut you cant have animations like the toungue to behonest

[crude garnet]

hello cuties, I'm banging my head against the wall trying to learn Lua scripting for PZ modding

[frank elbow]

I don't think banging your against a wall will be very helpful in that process but whatever works

[abstract pine]

If I want to change a weapon's script item properties, is there any way to make my changes savegame compatible? Since all weapons of a type already existing on a save will use whatever the old values were. Adjusting the values of an item object itself is itself simple enough, but I'm not sure how you would get all of the items to manipulate their data in the first place, if there's even any feasible/practical way to do so.

On further thought, can't think of any way better than adjusting weapons on OnEquipPrimary/OnGameStart events, but if anyone has another idea let me know.

[crude garnet]

@frank elbow

In short, I'm trying to script up some magic that has a check run against any container, if the ambient temperature reaches 0c, to treat said container like a freezer, without needing electricity.

A ghetto way to make freezing weather cause food to freeze if it's in a container, and it's not in a heated room

also checks if it's already a fridge/freezer, so that it doesn't tinker with those

[fast galleon]

Is there a reason vehicle mods use the Base module? I test now with custom module

Vehicle: ok
template: ok
custom parts: ok
models: ok

???: not ok?

[wet sandal]

In my experience a lot of mods just don't realize that they're not supposed to use base

[fast galleon]

only downside is, it seems to require adding your module before everything so it's myModule.template, etc.

[neon bronze]

maybe convenience? or just more simpler time writing stuff? I would be a bit tired if i would have to write module.xyz all the time

[fast galleon]

I feel that, imagine I change it and then find that I need to revert 😅

[bronze yoke]

can't use templates from other modules

it only searches base

[ashen adder]

Any tips for how to get started with modding? I have a very, very small amount of coding experience (Mostly doing very simple edits to GMod mods) but other than that I'm completely clueless.

[fast galleon]

you mean other, not your own modules? Because I can use non Base as stated above. Unless there's a part I didn't test yet?

[bronze yoke]

how did you do it? what's the syntax?

i might be mixing two things here but i remember checking the code and seeing that it was written to only check base

[ashen adder]

Specifically I'm trying to make hunger and thirst increase slower and more realistic and add a way to disinfect wounds and cure early stage zombification with a lighter at the cost of burning yourself, so any knowledge that would help with that would be appreciated.

[fast galleon]

module AVC
{
    imports { Base }

    model WindshieldArmor1 { mesh = Vehicles/WindshieldArmor1, texture = Vehicles/Black_Steel, scale = 0.004, shader = vehiclewheel, }

    template vehicle TeamOrbitProtectionParts
    {
        part WindshieldProtection { area = Engine, model { file = AVC.WindshieldArmor1, } }
        ...
    }
}

module AVC
{
    imports { Base }
    vehicle CarStationWagonTiered
    {
        template = AVC.TeamOrbitProtectionParts,
        ...
    }
}

[bronze yoke]

hmm, that does seem to be what the code says too, i must have been thinking of something else

[red tiger]

Inline bracing is so much prettier.

[ancient grail]

.

[drifting ore]

very nice

[grizzled isle]

How many poly is the model btw

[craggy ruin]

hello dude! I made my way thru and I modified this script in order to work as I wanted, really appreciate your help!

now I was trying to join this server from another client and I'm getting a message that such file is not the same, is there a way to quickly turn this modified file into a mod that a client can download ?

[faint jewel]

function GetLastVehicleArray(scriptName)
    local allVehicles = getCell():getVehicles()
    local test
    local carlist = {}
    for i = allVehicles:size() - 1, 0, -1 do
        test = allVehicles:get(i)
        print("Array:" .. test:getScriptName())
        if scriptName == test:getScriptName() then
            table.insert(carlist,test)
        end
        if i = allVehicles:size() then 
            return carlist
        end
        
    end
end

``` i know this is wrong... how the hell do i add the cars to the array

[frank elbow]

See the pins and threads in this channel. The wiki & guides should help you get started. I recommend avoiding overriding entire files, if you can help it—overriding individual functions instead is less likely to cause issues

[frank elbow]

I'm a bit confused, are you trying to add to allVehicles or to carlist? I'm assuming allVehicles is an ArrayList, is carlist a table?

[faint jewel]

test = allVehicles:get(i)

[frank elbow]

I see that part, I'm asking about carlist

[faint jewel]

i need them in a list that i can run through

local carlist = {}

[frank elbow]

So you're trying to add all cars that match the script name you're searching for?

[faint jewel]

yes

there is my whole function.

i edited it.

[frank elbow]

Dunno why you're looping backwards, but the general idea of the code is okay? The if statement condition should use == and I think you meant to check for equality with 0, but rather than returning in the loop you can return carlist after it

[faint jewel]

i want to find all the cars in that cell with that script name. i wan to return a list of all those vehicles.

[bronze yoke]

return outside of the loop, checking within the loop if you've reached the end is redundant and bad for performance

function GetLastVehicleArray(scriptName)
    local allVehicles = getCell():getVehicles()
    local test
    local carlist = {}
    for i = 0, allVehicles:size()-1 do
        test = allVehicles:get(i)
        print("Array:" .. test:getScriptName())
        if scriptName == test:getScriptName() then
            table.insert(carlist,test)
        end
    end
    return carlist
end

[faint jewel]

i said it was wrong 😦

lol

[bronze yoke]

i'm not scolding you

[faint jewel]

hey @fast galleon

function GetLastVehicle(scriptName)
    local allVehicles = getCell():getVehicles()
    local test
    local playerO = getPlayer()
    for i = allVehicles:size() - 1, 0, -1 do
        test = allVehicles:get(i)
        if test:getDistanceSq(playerO) < 1 then
            return test
        end
    end
end
``` this works WAY better when you exit a vehicle.

so if you need to do something you can grab that car right away.

now for the array bits!

[little kraken]

hi guys how do you apply two oncreate methods in recipe?

[fading horizon]

have one onCreate function
have another function
have the onCreate function call the other function

That's what I would do

alternatively, there is a difference between onCreate in the item definition script and recipe.onCreate

item definition onCreate is the function that occurs when the item is originally instantiated

@little kraken

[fading horizon]

How can I make my custom context menu item have a requirement / be red depending on a certain condition?

for example the "vape" context menu option

i want it to appear like the smoke option from when you try to smoke without a lighter / matches

but i need to do it without the requireInHand parameter

any ideas?

the condition that needs to be checked is the usedDelta of the item (battery charge)

i looked through ISContextMenu.lua but there wasn't anything I could find besides coloring the entire context menu

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i need to stuff a vehicle into another cars glovebox, how do?