mod_development

[red tiger]

Getting a better setup for deprecated properties:

[fading horizon]

I comment a lot of my code because I want it to be easy to read and learn from if anyone else decides to read my code

[fading horizon]

You're the zedscript creator, right?

[nova dome]

the problem with writing comments is updating them when you change the code

[red tiger]

Yes.

[fading horizon]

I had a suggestion for a feature I'd like to see

[red tiger]

I've spent a lot of time with many updates since the last beta version release.

[fading horizon]

A list for AnimNode parameters in recipe definitions

I have a reference to some of them if you'd like it

[red tiger]

If there's a list then sure.

I didn't see any when adding it.

[fading horizon]

https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-Mod---Doc/blob/main/Animation list.md

i'm not sure all of these work

but I know several of them do

build, craft, ripsheets, sawlog

[drifting stump]

c is not a real programming language

i rest my case

[red tiger]

(Lua being developed with C ideals and for C)

[sour island]

Are these used?

[fading horizon]

Yes

Near the bottom

First it adds the item

Then the percent chance

On mobile or I'd do a code block

[fading horizon]

Awesome! Thank you so much!

[fading horizon]

Only regular chance is shown here but the others are used later in the distribution

[torn igloo]

what's the difference between create survivor and create player?

[red tiger]

Improvements to tooltip box

At some point I want to try to scan for items, sounds, etc. and create dynamic lists for properties that are for assigning them.

I'm terrified at how long this changlog's going to be.

[drifting ore]

Why won't player:getInventory():Remove() remove stuff from player inventory when the item is on a backpack that he is carrying by HAND

[fast galleon]

getInventory only gives the direct container obj of player

[drifting ore]

player:getClothingItem_Back():getInventory():Remove() This got me to delete stuff from the main bag, but how to make it delete stuff while the bag is being carried?

[fast galleon]

the most useful snippet

        local skill = selectedItem.recipe:getRequiredSkill(i-1);
        local perk = PerkFactory.getPerk(skill:getPerk());

this returns the perk you give it

[red tiger]

Updated ZedScript VSCode extension.

[minor snow]

.24? Isn't game .16 only?

[red tiger]

I'm not a dev. This is not synchronized to the minor version of the game.

[twilit rune]

Is there a way to set vehicle spawn with specific couple skins from like 6 total ?

[minor snow]

Why not just 16.1 or something?

[red tiger]

VSCode Marketplace doesn't allow this.

I'm use the major version to stay in-line with any changes TIS does to ZedScript.

[dusty wigeon]

this is what my browser looks like rn lol

[red tiger]

I've been informed that build 42 of Project Zomboid will include changes to ZedScript.

They won't let me know until 42 is in the BETA testing stage.

Not sure how I'm going to support both 41 and 42 on VSCode.

[nova dome]

[dusty wigeon]

wowwww

think my pc would have a heart attack at that point

[nova dome]

32 gigs baby

compensate the 2bit add

[dusty wigeon]

thanks for that

i have 32 gig as well with an ryzen5 5600x my graphics is where im lacking

probably could use more upgraded storage as well

[nova dome]

5600x + 1080

[hot patrol]

so i'm not the only unhinged indivudual. only my pc has 16 gigs and is old and full of dust.

[dusty wigeon]

i have 1t of HDD and SSD

[hot patrol]

basically got a stick of dynamite sitting next to me

[nova dome]

yeah i went for the 2TB m2 last year when I got a bunch of cash, worth it

[dusty wigeon]

sounds about right im running the gtx 1660 oc card

i want to get m.2 but i havent moved on it yet

i bought my tower for 300 and basically threw around 600 into it

[nova dome]

just so u know vivaldi has tab stacks as well ;)

[hot patrol]

I use chrome. I want to switch. but the idea of moving an resetting up all my extentions and scripts sounds like a pain.\

[bronze yoke]

vivaldi is awesome

[tiny wolf]

Hello guys and hope you're fine 🙂 Have a nice weekend everybody !

I'm trying to dev a mod for my server which start in few weeks
It's an easy idea about a little add into an existing mod, but i'm blocking on the realisation.
Idea is : making a timed system which damage the player during a certain period when he's into a designed area created by admin
Damage is FoodSicknessLevel which is increasing
Area is kind of PVPE mod : we can create its and areas are stored into a new file which help a lot to save settings
I'm trying to add the damage effect to the PVPE mod.
With a lot of tries, i succeded on solo, but on a server i'm failing to build something good
This could result into a Tarkov/DarkZone system which don't let players stay into a zone too long and, with some mapping into the map, build a special place with higher danger but higher loot

[nova dome]

Feel u, my free android photo gallery app turned into a 14 day trial and it passed and all my favourites and settings are gone even if i paid for the new version

[tiny wolf]

Is somebody is ready to help me with this creation, please let me know 🙂

[nimble spoke]

Some inventory functions use a boolean value to determine if they should check the contents of bags or not. I don't know if that is going to solve your case

[nova dome]

Do you know where to start?

[tiny wolf]

Don’t know what do you mean with « start » 😬

[autumn garnet]

        local playerItem = {}
        local BagItem    = {}

        local items2 = getPlayer():getInventory():getItems();

        for i=1, items2:size() do
            if items2:get(i-1).getItemContainer ~= nil then
                innercontainer = items2:get(i-1):getItemContainer():getItems()

                if items2:get(i-1):getItemContainer():getFirstTypeRecurse("Apple") then
                    
                    items2:get(i-1):getItemContainer():Remove("Apple")

                end


                for q=0, innercontainer:size() - 1 do
                    table.insert(BagItem,innercontainer:get(q):getType())
                end
            end
            table.insert(playerItem,items2:get(i-1):getType())
        end



        local itemString = table.concat(playerItem, ",")
        local bagString = table.concat(BagItem, ",")

        print(bagString)```

[tiny wolf]

Mp me if you’re in 😉 (yes i’ve worked 50 hours on this, i’ve got LUA stuff to work)

[autumn garnet]

With other bag (with a Pear) after you can delete it by retrieving the name of the bag

[red tiger]

Going to work on getting vehicle ZedScript documentation implemented in the next days.

[drifting ore]

Thank you Dane. I'll look into it. It's so frustrating because the ordinary "getInventory" find the item but following the same Remove method with the base inventory it won't remove it from a bag that is equiped by hand(Not in back)

[autumn garnet]

You're welcome ^^
In this script, be careful, it removes the Apple object from all the bags, then you can put a condition to have a specific bag (the one equipped... etc)

and when the object is deleted it ignores the other bags

[drifting ore]

How to make an item spawned with AddWorldInventoryItem visible? Or maybe there is another method to spawn item on the ground?

[neon bronze]

AddWorldInventoryItem should work

[drifting ore]

I mean, it is there but it won't show up visually.

[neon bronze]

Is it a custom item?

[faint jewel]

anyone know how to tell a vehicle to disconnect it's trailer??

[drifting ore]

Nope, well it is but tried with vanilla items too but they won't show up on the ground visually either. Only on the loot table.

[neon bronze]

Did you get the correct square to spawn it?

[drifting ore]

It spawns on player location.

local x,y,z = getPlayer():getX(), getPlayer():getY(), getPlayer():getZ();
getPlayer():getCurrentSquare():AddWorldInventoryItem("Base.BucketEmpty", x, y, z);

[neon bronze]

Do 0, 0, 0 instead of xyz

[drifting ore]

Thank you! Works!

[fast galleon]

Bucket you say? What are you making?

[drifting ore]

Bucket was a test, I'm actually making a dynamic mining mod.

Like, you can find traces of ores while foraging and then you have to further investigate and then it will turn out to be either a pile of rocks(in various sizes) or iron/salt deposit

[fast galleon]

nice

[red tiger]

Hey @fast galleon

[fast galleon]

If you need any more functions for buckets or farming let me know.

[drifting ore]

I HOPE it will be smooth sailing from now on out.

jinxed myself

thx me

[red tiger]

[fast galleon]

[red tiger]

A stranger online didn't say hi back to me.

s a d

[faint jewel]

get sad 😦

[drifting ore]

hi

[fast galleon]

hey hey

[red tiger]

Everything is right again.

Thanks, daddy Interwebs.

BTW Polt I have updated my extension with all the work in the past few weeks.

[drifting ore]

stop assuming my parental status

[red tiger]

People needing assistance with item documentation can have it now.

[fast galleon]

nice

[red tiger]

Was a "bit" minus the "ch".

It's all in a format very close to JSON so anyone could "pick it up" and walk with it and do whatever to make something else with it.

A Discord bot or another extension for some editor I don't know yet.

I'm actually torn between either continuing on and working on getting vehicle caught up.. or begin work on diagnostics.

[bronze yoke]

maybe i'll look at how realistic it would be for me to write an intellij plugin sometime

[red tiger]

I almost want to as well. If you want to go first I will yield.

[bronze yoke]

well i chose the wording 'look at how realistic it would be' because it's likely completely out of my depth

[red tiger]

Heheh.. This is the very first IDE plugin I've ever written. =)

Again, I'm giving you room for making the decision.

I'd like to see it if it were attempted.

[bronze yoke]

well if i do look into it it definitely won't be soon so if you're set on it go for it

[red tiger]

BTW, IntelliJ supports TextMate Grammars so you can take mine if you want to avoid coding purely in recursive Regex.

[red tiger]

Sounds good.

Documentation will save a lot of grief for newcomers. It makes me glad to see someone else even think about working on it.

If you or anyone here do decide to make tools for the community of modders, please please please write it in a way that prepares for the scenario where you are gone. Extendibility is critical.

[sour island]

cough

https://github.com/Project-Zomboid-Community-Modding/pz-community-modding

cough

[red tiger]

Any way I can get extracted templates from this project and forward it in my extension?

[sour island]

templates?

[red tiger]

A well-documented set of generated template scripts and even Lua function templates with documentation could prove insanely useful for modders.

[sour island]

tbh I got swamped with RL stuff + a hefty commission

[red tiger]

Yeah like "New BothHanded Weapon" generates a template with pre-filled properties.

or "Create Heavy Vehicle"

Lua-side functions could be pre-documented for basic tasks.

[sour island]

The only thing in the project so far are some polished debug tools

and a bit of an API to add more debug panels

[faint jewel]

CHUCK

[sour island]

?

[faint jewel]

how do i make a car stop towing another car in lua.

[red tiger]

Hmm ok. Nevermind.

[sour island]

Not sure, but you could look at what the UI option is called and reverse search for the translated text's usage

ContextMenu_Vehicle_DetachTrailer

heh... looks like the vanill code defines doTowingMenu twice

    if vehicle:getVehicleTowing() then
        menu:addSlice(getText("ContextMenu_Vehicle_DetachTrailer"), getTexture("media/ui/ZoomOut.png"), ISVehicleMenu.onDetachTrailer, playerObj, vehicle, vehicle:getTowAttachmentSelf())
        return
    end
    if vehicle:getVehicleTowedBy() then
        menu:addSlice(getText("ContextMenu_Vehicle_DetachTrailer"), getTexture("media/ui/ZoomOut.png"), ISVehicleMenu.onDetachTrailer, playerObj, vehicle:getVehicleTowedBy(), vehicle:getVehicleTowedBy():getTowAttachmentSelf())
        return
    end
``` @faint jewel

function ISVehicleMenu.onDetachTrailer(playerObj, vehicle, attachmentA)
    local nextAction = ISDetachTrailerFromVehicle:new(playerObj, vehicle, attachmentA)
    if not ISVehicleTrailerUtils.walkToTrailer(playerObj, vehicle, attachmentA, nextAction) then return end
end

sendClientCommand(self.character, 'vehicle', 'detachTrailer', args)

Looks like a vanilla clientCommand use

I legit don't know where those go

Something I've been meaning to ask a redname

[bronze yoke]

there's just a server lua file that handles them isn't there?

Vehicles/VehicleCommands.lua

[sour island]

weird it's not in my decompiled thing

[bronze yoke]

yeah it's not in mine either

but it is in my lua folder

i saw it back when i used vscode

[sour island]

hmm

[bronze yoke]

must be a bug with pz libraries

[faint jewel]

now does that make the character go to the car? or does it just drop it?

[sour island]

function Commands.detachTrailer(player, args)
    local vehicle = getVehicleById(args.vehicle)
    if not vehicle then
        noise('no such vehicle id='..tostring(args.vehicle))
        return
    end
    vehicle:breakConstraint(true, false)
end

[faint jewel]

BINGO

[sour island]

I don't know why player is there but it can be down without one

I also just found constraints digging through

[bronze yoke]

it's easier to just pass the player to all commands

[sour island]

that's odd pzlibrary doesnt have that file

I was hunting around for something related to commands prior - I wish I could recall what it was

[bronze yoke]

maybe i'll drop the pz library's lua portion

apart from the library folder of course

the annotations it adds to lua don't really do that much

[faint jewel]

i love you chuck

[nimble spoke]

player is the first parameter for all commnands and any additional parameter goes in the args table

[red tiger]

Hello from the bar

[faint jewel]

hello from the other baaaaaarrrr . I can't see you it's too faaaaaarrrr.

[viscid drum]

Does anyone know if Noir still updates his mods?

[faint jewel]

mower update is out.

[dusty wigeon]

why is it saying category like that?

item Ecstasy
    {
        Weight              = 0.1,
        Type                = Normal,
        DisplayName         = Ecstasy,
        DisplayCategory     = Drugs,
        Icon                = KIecstasy, 
    }

[sour island]

Cause you need to add it to the IGUI_ItemCat translations

[dusty wigeon]

oooo

[dusty wigeon]

i cannot find the folders for that anywhere

[bronze yoke]

shared/Translate/EN/IG_UI_EN.txt

[dusty wigeon]

thats what i thought but i cant find the shared folder

found nvm

[faint jewel]

are you using notepad++?

ctrl+shift+f set it to the medai folder fro profject zomboid.

search for IGUI_ItemCat

media\lua\shared\transalte\en\IG_UI_EN.txt

[dusty wigeon]

I use VSCode

the only folder i have open within that is my personal mods

[frank elbow]

You could open a second window or workspace with the game directory

[faint jewel]

I think the @rich hazelPack might be ready to release.

[sour island]

that's wild, nice job

[dusty wigeon]

i try to just keep the file open in the background @frank elbow

[ancient grail]

Congrats skiz. Looks dope af

[faint jewel]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2962414740

[low basin]

I would appreciate it if I could be directed to a guide for adding 3D models for items. I have created a custom item (Box of Pencils (Not a container)) and can spawn it into my inventory but cannot place it in the world from there. I have the fbx model and related png, however I seem to be missing something that lets it be a placeable item

[fading horizon]

How do I determine if an update to my mod will require a new save or not?

Some users are commenting certain aspects of my mod don't work but I've thoroughly tested my updated code and it works on all the edge cases

So I think it's either the user having an old version of the mod or having an old version of the item before it was updated

I did update the item definition script as well as a lot of the item functions (it now uses battery) so I think it may be conflicting with previously gathered items?

[glass basalt]

old items have old defs, anytime you tweak the items or any table of ModData, it requires a new save

[fading horizon]

Aha

That's exactly the issue then

Since I added modData

[glass basalt]

modData is fine, nvm, as long as you attach new defs

[fading horizon]

Also thank you very much for your comment regarding the encoding for Russian translations, I really appreciate it

[glass basalt]

👍

[fading horizon]

Can the player have modData or is it only items?

[bronze yoke]

players, items and most objects

[fading horizon]

Awesome, ty

[vast jasper]

anybody recommend any item implementation guides?

im new to the modding game so i mess up quite often so it would be nice to have something to follow

ntm idk how clothing works at all

ive only made magazines and a melee weapons at this point

[minor snow]

What's modder roadmap?

[dusty wigeon]

I am finally starting to see the completion of my mod after 2 days of hard work. Spent a total of roughly 40 hrs writing it this far. I am proud of myself

for actually sticking with it

Me and my partner should be releasing our mods around the same time as we are actively working on the mods with eachother at the same time lol

I do want to say thanks to those people who have helped us throughout our tireless journey

[humble oriole]

Hey, do you guys happen to know if there was a framework for setting up radio broadcasting? I could've sworn I saw a mod but I just cannot find it

[bronze yoke]

like just to add a new radio station or something? i don't think you really need a framework for that

[brave ruin]

If I want to comment out an recipe, is it enough to just do like this?

I don't want to 100% remove it yet, but maybe use it later

[bronze yoke]

you need to use java style comments

open with /*, close with */

[cunning kestrel]

how do you call a function on game closing/server shutdown ?
(so i can make the mod safe to remove ?)

[frank elbow]

I think the closest thing to what you want is OnSave or OnPostSave, which would run on saves & not just shutdown. Can you be more specific about what you wish to accomplish? I don't think running something on close should be necessary

[cunning kestrel]

Well my mod edits a multiplier, which vanilla does not, so upon removal of the mod, it stays in its last state and never gets overridden / reset ... hence i would like to reset it to default before shutdown so if the mods gets removed everything would be back to vanilla and not stuck in its last modded state..

[frank elbow]

What's the multiplier? That makes sense but it wouldn't necessarily be guaranteed to properly reset, considering the user could force shutdown

[cunning kestrel]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2940354599&tscn=1681557573
Fitness / Strength multiplier ...

the vanilla "multiplier works on passives" is a backend system and does not use this value .. so...

[frank elbow]

OnPostSave runs before exit, but I don't think it'd save the multiplier change. OnSave may work, but you'd have to reset the multiplier after saving as appropriate

I would still not mark a mod as safe to remove if I had to do something like this (that is, maybe add a note in the description about this)

[ancient grail]

WIP "Just Keep Swimming"
https://imgur.com/vhexedm
wonky animation
and i think i need a way to add a transparent thing clothing to make it look under water or just mask the body?

[cunning kestrel]

Good job, although this floating swimming skeleton is definitely creeping me out xD

[ancient grail]

hehe but all my characters are undead its sorta my avatar

https://imgur.com/UvRvQDZ

[cunning kestrel]

hehe I've noticed, looks promising keep it up👏

[ancient grail]

https://imgur.com/55t9WLU

[minor snow]

How do we compare defense of items?

[ancient grail]

Is there a way to detect water tiles aside from its sprite? Like the grass and trees..

[frank elbow]

Looks like there's a water square* property that can be used

Assuming square is an IsoGridSquare, square:Is(IsoFlagType.water) should suffice

[ancient grail]

Thank you

Saves me loads of time writing like sprite based check

Cuz idea is
If water sprite is infront pf player then swim

But now
Prpblem is going reverse
But i guess ill justcheck if its a valid square and its not water and theres nothing blocking and can see iguess

[frank elbow]

Are you referring to clothing defense? Clothing items have getBiteDefense and getScratchDefense, if so

[ancient grail]

To automatically switch to walk

[frank elbow]

Wym by going reverse? Like swimming backwards, or water → land

Ah, gotcha

[ancient grail]

Swim to walk

[frank elbow]

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out, swimming sounds neat

[ancient grail]

The texture is the main problem id have to add an ovelay clothing or just mask the body

With a clothing thing

I think one of the bone controls the shadow so i just have to figure that out

[frosty stirrup]

Hey, does anyone know what is "isInfected/setInfected" method in InventoryItem definition used for? I don't recall any usage of this in vanilla game.

[minor snow]

How to open lua error window?

[frank elbow]

It's checked in ISApplyBandage to infect a body part if the bandage used is infected, but it's not set anywhere as far as I can see

[frank elbow]

If you mean the debugger window that covers the screen, F11. If you mean the console window, tilde/grave key (~)

[minor snow]

You want make swimming?

[ancient grail]

Ye

Why?

[minor snow]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2392987599

There's code for this

[ancient grail]

I know

iBrRus

I dont need his code

[minor snow]

Then render it like boat

[ancient grail]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934031335

Illjust use my code from my leviitate mod

And just modify it to suit the needs

[ancient grail]

Im not making a boat

Im just making a swimming animation mod

[minor snow]

So render swimming animation like boat

[ancient grail]

Im not paid to make a boat

Like boat? Idont get it sorry

[minor snow]

What's problem?

[ancient grail]

Theres no problem really

[minor snow]

Then cool, who ordered tho?

[ancient grail]

My client?

[minor snow]

Hell, my client can only render stuff

[frank elbow]

A significant portion of a body is underwater while swimming. The same is not true for a boat (not that none of a boat is underwater, just not a significant portion of it)

[ancient grail]

I dont understand what your saying. Swimming mod
Not boat mod

Client
Person who hires us for commission custom mod projects

Idk what IBrRus mod does but i know it has a swimming function
Thats not what im going for

Render like the person underwater? Ye im working on that

[minor snow]

Depends how you want implement it too

[ancient grail]

So im still not sure what you are talking about but ill just put every possible relevant info on the table

[minor snow]

Just not render part underwater, or make it partially visible

[ancient grail]

Yeah

Using masking

But im still going to try some stuff

Cuz i already did the legs animations
I might add an overall blue suit to parts submerged

[minor snow]

So it's mod for private server?

[ancient grail]

Its going to be public
Same as all the rest of our commission mods

[ancient grail]

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

[red tiger]

Good morning.

[dusty wigeon]

Good Morning

[twilit rune]

Good morning / day / evening or whatever it is now at your place.

I'll try my luck again. The puzzle I have to solve is:

I have couple coords set for vehicle spawn. Now I am trying to find a way to force these vehicles spawn looking at certain direction and with certain skins (2-3 from the total list of 9).

Any chances anyone have a solution?

[mossy steeple]

i am really struggling to figure out what's happened- my game's started crashing whenever i right click on the modded gun i'm working on, and the debug log claims that seemingly every sound in the game is erroring. could someone help me figure out what's happened?

[bronze yoke]

something about your tooltip is messed up

[mossy steeple]

yeah, i'm trying to figure out what it is- i don't think i touched anything related to the tooltip, though, so i'm not sure where the issue lies

this is my current script for the gun; anything jump out at you as an issue?

[mossy steeple]

ahhh, yep, there it is

thank you! i should've guessed it was just a typo, haha

huh, it's still giving me the same errors

[red tiger]

I'm going to love this channel when I get a working formatter for ZedScript.

[mossy steeple]

i tried pruning it down to only the weapon file and the models/textures and i'm still getting the tooltip errors, so it's definitely in that mp5_weapons file

but i can't see anything in here that even refers to the tooltip

[mossy steeple]

are tooltips declared in another file that i'm missing?

i'm poking through the files of another mod that adds guns, and their file seems to have just about everything that mine does. i really cannot figure this out

[fast galleon]

do you still have this ModelScript.check> no such model "Item_Mp5" for EaMP5.MP5.

[mossy steeple]

yeah, that's still there

isn't that just the icon? that shows up in game

[fast galleon]

yeah, first thing to suspect was the icon

[minor snow]

Best IDE for PZ modding?

[frank elbow]

I think the most commonly used ones are IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code. I prefer the latter

Can use anything, of course

[minor snow]

Vs code use plugin for code completion? When IJ real code from game?

[frank elbow]

I'm unsure what you're asking

You can open the game code in either

[minor snow]

VS code is dependent on third-party?

[frank elbow]

To do what?

[mossy steeple]

the tooltip in game is completely blank, save for the name of the gun, and i'm getting constant errors as long as i'm mousing over it- the icon is definitely showing, though, so i'm not sure what's up with that no such model error

[frank elbow]

IntelliJ does have a decompiler built-in, if that's what you mean

[minor snow]

To get code completion ayo

Intellisence

[frank elbow]

Oh. Yeah, but I believe the same is true of IntelliJ (for game code, that is)

[minor snow]

You have to compile it from source in IJ

[frank elbow]

Compile what from source?

[red tiger]

I made VSCode a far more effective editor than IDEA.

I have two libraries you can use: PipeWrench (Typescript for PZ) and ZedScript VSCode extension (WIP)

[minor snow]

Why I would need other languages?

I like lua because there no trash like lambdas, interfaces, generics etc

[frank elbow]

https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server is an option for a Lua language server in vs code

& tools like pz-zdoc (https://github.com/cocolabs/pz-zdoc) can be used to generate type stubs, although you may have to tinker with the .bat/.sh file. I did, anyway

[red tiger]

Eh.. Your funeral.

Have fun with EmmyLua, or whatever it is.

[frank elbow]

That one is LuaCats

[minor snow]

Say your best vscode setup, I'll test it and say why it's worse than IJ

[red tiger]

As long as it's objective.

[frank elbow]

Why did you ask which is the best if you've made up your mind already ?

[red tiger]

But I feel like that's not going to happen.

[minor snow]

Because using third-party things is not advantage of IDE

[frank elbow]

Okay

[red tiger]

You are calling people's work in here "trash". I don't think you'll get the help you came here for with that approach. I suggest "being lovely" and what not.

[minor snow]

Dramatic guy that can't even read properly, how you supposed to help someone?

Quote where I call people there trash

[red tiger]

I'ma keep things a buck-fifty. Keep your emotions out of here.

[frank elbow]

Regardless of what you said, you seem to have brought up the topic just to talk bad about vs code for no real reason. You're free to use IntelliJ, others are free to use VS Code—hell, people can use Notepad++ if they want. There's zero reason to try to have needless debates about IDEs

[minor snow]

Asking which IDE better, getting answer VSCode because you can use language that not supposed to be used here, gotcha, times better than IJ

[frank elbow]

"I think the most commonly used ones are IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code"

You're free to continue to argue with yourself, I suppose, but I'm gonna go ahead and duck out of this one

[mossy steeple]

i've tried a lot of different things to try to fix this icon issue and i'm getting the distinct feeling i'm missing something obvious- it's just supposed to look like this with Item_MP5 in the textures folder, right?

[red tiger]

Wait I think that doc is wrong. Double-checking.

Hmmm.. PZWiki says this too..

@tame mulch Is this actually a model?

If so that's an incredibly confusing name.

[bronze yoke]

i always assumed it was something old

[tame mulch]

I think it's mean name of model script

[red tiger]

Yeah.. It says sprite and relates to models. That's confusing.

Wanted to double-check.

Thanks for checking.

[mossy steeple]

ohh, i think i see it then, let me try something

[red tiger]

Same.

[bronze yoke]

i think it is? i don't want to say this with too much confidence but it doesn't look like it does very much

[mossy steeple]

i could see WeaponSprite making sense if it's a holdover from pre-animation update

[red tiger]

I feel more confident because of all these small things I'm seeing now, going through every part of ZedScript.

[bronze yoke]

   public String getStaticModel() {
      return this.staticModel != null ? this.staticModel : this.weaponSprite;
   }
```this was the only place i could find where it seemed to actually do something and not just it being passed around everywhere, and obviously this shows that it gets overwritten by static model

[red tiger]

Planned deprecation?

Looks like forward compatibility.

[bronze yoke]

from what i can tell it already is deprecated

unless there's vanilla scripts that still only define a weaponsprite

[red tiger]

Not to ignore the person here asking for help, however I think it would be good to know more about where these properties will go.. what will happen to them and what might replace them too..

If WeaponSprite is in-fact deprecated, I can add a deprecated tag.

[bronze yoke]

i actually don't see where staticmodel gets passed to the instance

which is fine since InventoryItem's getStaticModel invokes the script, but since HandWeapon's doesn't, it might actually still be needed there

[red tiger]

Probably a code-stem.

[bronze yoke]

it does look like it is basically equivalent to StaticModel though, so that description would be correct

[red tiger]

Hmm.. Ok. That's good to know.

The legacy name is misleading but it actually has something going on.

[bronze yoke]

it looks like, then, that StaticModel does nothing to weapons

[mossy steeple]

huh, i'm still getting the error for no such model- if it's referring to the model then it should be like this, right? first one is the file for the item, other one is for the model

[red tiger]

So the property isn't exclusive nor is applicable to Weapon.

[bronze yoke]

looks right, is the model script's brace closed outside of the screenshot?

[mossy steeple]

yeah, under all of the attachment location numbers

[frank elbow]

This may have already been asked, but which folder have you placed the model file in? & what's it called?

[mossy steeple]

media > modelsX > MP5.x

[frank elbow]

models_X, or modelsX? Unsure if Discord just stripped out the underscore

[mossy steeple]

oh yeah, it's models_X

[frank elbow]

Maybe it has to be in the weapons subfolder? I'm not sure what else would be the problem, everything else looks right

[mossy steeple]

the magazine works perfectly, and the files there are in the same spot

oh i can try that

[frank elbow]

The vanilla ones are in weapons/1handed, weapons/2handed, weapons/firearm, and weapons/parts (all within models_X)

[mossy steeple]

no luck, still getting dozens of errors per second when i mouse over it

honestly, i can send over the whole mod folder if it'd help? there might be some issue in another file that i'm missing

[dusty wigeon]

any good references for creating new farm plants?

[red tiger]

Some of the properties on PZWiki might need more detailed examples on how to link files.

[frank elbow]

There are a couple of mods that do this; looking at their code can give you some hints

[frank elbow]

Probably best to start with sending console.txt

[dusty wigeon]

@frank elbow ok ill take a look

[mossy steeple]

oh, where's that? i've been looking at the DebugLog.txt file up until now; i thought that was all there was

oh wait no i see it

[red tiger]

I guess that means that I'm going further down the rabbit hole.

It's all fun and games until you realize that the item-scripts page's 1000+ hyperlinks are all purple.

So far I've probably edited around 40-50 of them.

Language support is also a concern.

[mossy steeple]

here's the console log file; it's throwing a lot of audio errors in there as well which. i have no idea where they came from but i assume they're unrelated to the tooltip error

[bronze yoke]

the fmod 'no such event' spam? that's normal

[mossy steeple]

oh, huh, weird. i assumed hundreds of errors were probably not supposed to happen

[frank elbow]

Those are just warnings for (presumably future) missing audio files associated with events

[mossy steeple]

gotcha, gotcha

that'd explain all the animal noises in there

[frank elbow]

Are the tooltip errors something you're unconcerned about? I don't think it'd affect the model issue but the repetitive errors certainly stand out

Looks like they're just due to a missing item for a* magazine/ammo type. I'm unsure what would be causing the missing model from looking at the log

[mossy steeple]

well right clicking the item brings me to the error screen and shows multiple of those instead of showing the right click menu

let me grab that and screenshot it

[frank elbow]

Okeydoke, can you also send the full item script?

[mossy steeple]

certainly

[frank elbow]

And the magazine type, EaMp5.MP5Mag, is already defined and working (i.e., showing up ingame)?

Is the case right? I notice the p is lowercase there

[mossy steeple]

yep, i can fill it with ammo and place it in the world and everything works fine

[frank elbow]

Maybe the item is unable to find it since they're different modules, assuming it isn't case insensitive

[mossy steeple]

the magazine model is named Mp5_Mag and the gun model is named MP5

ooh, wait, no

[frank elbow]

I don't know whether this will affect anything, but can you change the name of the module in mp5_weapons.txt to EaMp5

[mossy steeple]

i was inconsistent in my naming capitalistion between the model and the item itself, that might be it

[frank elbow]

So is the mag in the EaMP5 module (as opposed to EaMp5—boy this is confusing)?

[mossy steeple]

it should be, yeah

[frank elbow]

I'd try changing the MagazineType field to use a capital P instead then

[mossy steeple]

yep, trying it now

it's always the little typos that get me

aha, yep, that was it

spent 2 hours trying to figure this out because i forgot to capitalise a letter 😔

thanks for the assistance!

[frank elbow]

Nice! Yeah, finding out it was the little things is always a bit of a pain

[mossy steeple]

the gun's invisible now, but hey, at least i can hold it and fire it just fine- time for me to look for more typos probably, heh

[bronze yoke]

it's pretty common that the model is either so huge or so tiny you can't see it

[mossy steeple]

the model was visible at the proper size while i was testing a few hours ago, albeit upside down

[red tiger]

Code concerning file-discovery should be handled with no case-sensitivity. Always leads to problems like this.

Unless that's not a file?

[frank elbow]

It's a module, which would also make sense to be case insensitive imo

[bronze yoke]

it was script modules i think

[red tiger]

Ah ok.

[frank elbow]

I would've assumed they are, never had to look into it (until now & I see that they are not)

[red tiger]

Case-Sensitive fields.. in an undocumented and non-integrated text document even..

The devil's playground.

I could make that trashy 3rd-party extension do diagnostics like this in the future.

It'd be cool to discover all the sounds, items, modules, etc in folders set in the extension's settings so that it can detect unknown items, sounds, models, etc. in certain fields and raise a warning.

A dropdown suggestion box would be nice for those fields too..

Could save modders like this one 2 hours.

[frank elbow]

Warnings at least for items in similar contexts that are a case-insensitive match but not equivalent would be nice for anyone who doesn't want to pull in folders—that's what came to mind for me

[red tiger]

Non-invasive yet powerful.

That's the balance I'm targeting for the extension.

It's also why I dropped the formatter I spent nearly 60 hours on.

xD

[upper mason]

Will it work?

[bronze yoke]

no

lots of made up methods, made up event, and the logic doesn't actually make sense anyway

[upper mason]

damn shame

[red tiger]

The treasure of modding is the journey. Don't forget that.

[mossy steeple]

got the gun working, visible, and playing sounds! now to fix the spawning, and i'll be done

[sand dagger]

Hello together, is it possible to debug ZombiesZoneDefinition ingame, cause my custom zombies does not spawn even if the chance is high

[nimble spoke]

What zones are you adding them to? The default table should work basically everywhere in the map, even if not at the standard spawn chance

[sand dagger]

table.insert( ZombiesZoneDefinition.Default, { name="CustomZombie01", chance=50 } ); also default one

i checked AuthenticZ to find the definitions

and i include require "NPCs/ZombiesZoneDefinition" in the code

[nimble spoke]

And you have a zombie outfit with that exact name?

[sand dagger]

yes and over horde manager its working

[nimble spoke]

is the file generating an error in console?

[sand dagger]

no everthing fine

could it be that i use the table.insert in a for loop with a table of data for the custom ones in a init method which get trigged by Events.OnGameStart which not works

[nimble spoke]

I don't add mine through an event, so maybe that could be the issue

[sand dagger]

okay i will test it, thanks so far for the answers

[dusty wigeon]

how hard would it be to step away from the traditional farming method of planting int the ground and allowing the ability to plant in a pot or bucket?

[drifting ore]

[reef karma]

Hello lads, (I might need to post this in mod_support but I make an "update" to the mod and re-upload it for who ever wants it)
I downlaoded AIZ3 today and I am getting this error (everything seems to work fine?)
"function: MCOverlayMap.lua -- file: MCOverlayMap.lua line # 3 | MOD: AIZ Expansion 3 -- overlayMap["location_shop_generic_01_96"] =...
ERROR: General , 1681600657996> 0> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index of non-table at KahluaUtil.fail line:82"
Could this be as simple as adding local overlayMap = {} on line 2 in MCOverlayMap.lua? I am not too sure what it means, i am just trying to get the mod to not throw errors

[nimble spoke]

There was an old mod that had plants in pots, but I have no idea if it was ever updated after build 41

[keen beacon]

Hello, theoretically, on a scale of 1-1000 how hard would it be to make a mod that lets you make safehouses in spawn zones?

Any ideas on how it would work?
Would it be attached to some safehouse-making script or would you need to go around making every spawn zone claimable manually or something?

If you dont need to fix every individual spawn zone manually it could work with any spawn zone from mods too, right?

Because one of those Louisville spawn mods makes my favorite place in louisville into a spawn zone so you can't make it a safehouse if you want to keep the mod.

Something like:
"If > safehouse = Remove > spawn zone
Else > keep living with the agony of this mod not existing"??

[keen beacon]

(I'll give a ⭐ to anyone that replies)

[bronze yoke]

i'd be surprised if it was complex at all

[keen beacon]

So, like 250 on a scale of 1-1000?

I've looked for years after a mod like that, and none seems to exist... so that tells me it might be harder than one might think, or outright not possible

[ancient grail]

They will be teleported outside after i think

[bronze yoke]

i haven't seen the safehouse code but my guess is that the only check for spawn points would be in the ui - but i haven't really used that mechanic so i'm not sure if it would lead to strange behaviour if someone spawned inside one that you would have to fix

[keen beacon]

People who happen to spawn there? That doesn't seem too bad.

[keen beacon]

Hmm okey yeah i figure that's an issue, maybe you could have some check that if you spawn in a building that has the safehouse tag on it, just spawn like 20 meters down the road or something... or just automatically remove the spawn zone tag from any building thats designated as a safehouse, that seems like the simplest solution? But i have no idea. I mean its not like you'd need to reinstate the building as a spawn zone afterwards if you release the safe house either, because that sounds like it could be trouble.

as long as its placed after spawn zone mods in the mod load order it would cover those as well i guess?

[ancient grail]

If a player that isnt part of a safehouse stands within the safehouse bounds they auto teleport outside
You can observe this by placing fence then make your character hop inside (shouldnt be an admin)

[bronze yoke]

the problems with that approach is buildings aren't linked to spawn points in code - spawn points are just sets of co-ordinates, the only way i can see doing this would be to scan all the spawn points to see which lie within the bounds of the building

[ancient grail]

I think the spawn points are determined by the map

[bronze yoke]

if glytch3r's right about that then it wouldn't be an issue

[ancient grail]

How does other mod add spawn points ? I bet panopticon knows

[keen beacon]

You mean if a player spawns there?

[ancient grail]

No im just saying vanilla behavior

Cuz there should be some failsafe and thats the telepprt
If you cant do the fence thing i mentioned you can also do this

Have a person logout on a building

Another person claim safehouse
Then person A logs back in

You will see what i mean

Since player a would be re spawning to a safehouse

[keen beacon]

I don't know, the specific ones im using is https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2706495780 and https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2830299604

[keen beacon]

Aah i see

[unborn radish]

I'm bumping this up again, still no clue how to fix it. Today i tested with literally just the two mods on. Here's singleplayer, then multiplayer. And yes, I double-checked the load order, I checked that there's no server file for the names, and at least I couldn't find it. I really need some help here, It brings me nuts that I literally created this mod just to not have my immersion broken by mixing fictional cars with real ones and every time i go into multiplayer it just happens anyway :(

I am wondering whether it could be something related to localization since I know zomboid is known to have some issues with that in servers and I'm spanish, but I don't know, and I'd really appreciate someone with more experience taking a look at it

[faint jewel]

@river tree you still around here?

[drifting ore]

[minor snow]

Who develop mods with Linux here?

[fast galleon]

you want to add linux to in-game computers?

[merry storm]

Does the IsoThumpable:addToWorld() method spawn the item from the isoThumpable in the game on the square that you used to create it?

[fading horizon]

Is it possible to create screen overlays somehow? For example, upon a certain condition I'd like to apply something like a tunnel vision / blacking out overlay

[rancid panther]

blind trait uses an overlay

[torn igloo]

there is linux specific modding functions?

[minor snow]

I don't think so

[sand dagger]

hey there,

is there a way to change single Zombie Speed, Strength ... without change the complete Sandbox setting ? by modifing the fields maybe ?

[small topaz]

why are you asking?

[open drum]

hello guys~

i created a movable npc

which has tiledefiniton

and it works

but i created a script .txt with item

but it isn't working

i can pick it up

but when i spawn the item from debug item list

and press place, it doesn't work

two items have different properties , i don't understand why..

[nova dome]

i don't know how the mod info comes to be, but probably they were spawned in a different way or at a different time, even between versions

[hot patrol]

As joy said there is blind trait and there is also immersive overlays https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=533622988

[coarse basalt]

I have a newbie question: A lot of the beginner tutorials I've found have code like this:

    local player = getPlayer()
    player:say("Hello, World!")

end

Events.EveryTenMinutes.Add(tutorialHelloWorld)```

But the game breaks on error every time, with Object tried to call nil in tutorialHelloWorld

what is messing me up here?

Solution: F me, it's Say not say

how do I get predictive code in VSCode? 😅

[frank elbow]

Microsoft has an extension for it. Rather than predictive code, though, I'd urge you to go the intellisense route

[dusty wigeon]

Good Morning

[frank elbow]

If you'd like to stick with Lua, you can utilize lua-language-server and a doc library generated with pz-zdoc to get intellisense recommendations. If you'd prefer TypeScript, you can use PipeWrench

[frank elbow]

(neglected to reply so I'm doing it here)

[frank elbow]

What does the item script look like?

[open drum]

    {
        DisplayCategory = Furniture,
        Type            = Moveable,
        Icon            = default,
        Weight              = 0.5,
        DisplayName        = npc1,
        WorldObjectSprite    = ivery_npcs_request_1_00,
    }      ```

[frank elbow]

So it's fixed now? By “your own name” do you mean Wuro or 우로? I can see why Korean characters wouldn't work in module names but I'm unsure why “Wuro” wouldn't

[open drum]

yea it fixed it by putting the moveables.tilename

[open drum]

for some reason, vanilla moveables "item script name" starts with Base. bla bla

but when i create on from TileZed, it saves by name Moveables.tilename

i wish to change that module "moveables" into my own

but can't figure out where i should do thtat

this is what i mean

and this is vanilla

                
{
    imports 
    {
        Base
    }


    item ivery_npcs_request_1__0
    {
        DisplayCategory = Furniture,
        Type            = Moveable,
        Icon            = default,
        Weight              = 0.5,
        DisplayName        = npc1,
        WorldObjectSprite    = ivery_npcs_request_1_00,
    }      

}```

so i had to do this to make it work

[dusty wigeon]

so im having an issue that is probably really simple and i may be overthinking it. How does the base game keep the cooking pot after using it? Do they use the oncreate thing for it?

i have the recipe that is to create the uncooked pot and then later the cooked pot is used to make the tray. I tried uysing keep pot in the recipe but the problem is that the recipe then makes the meth and i still have the pot in my inventory. I tried removing the keep and make it so that when the baking tray was created it had 2 results. with one being the pot.

I think i just figured out what i did wrong. I used / instead of , seperating the result

[open drum]

in front of the name of item

u put "keep"

for example if you want to keep "pot"

then do "keep pot,"

[dusty wigeon]

i tried that

is it possible to have 2 results from a reciope

function Recipe.OnCreate.MakeBowlOfStew4(items, result, player)
    for i=0,items:size() - 1 do
        local item = items:get(i)
        if item:getType() == "PotOfStew" then
            result:setBaseHunger(item:getBaseHunger() / 4);
            result:setHungChange(item:getHungChange() / 4);
            result:setThirstChange(item:getThirstChangeUnmodified() / 4);
            result:setBoredomChange(item:getBoredomChangeUnmodified() / 4);
            result:setUnhappyChange(item:getUnhappyChangeUnmodified() / 4);
            result:setCarbohydrates(item:getCarbohydrates() / 4);
            result:setLipids(item:getLipids() / 4);
            result:setProteins(item:getProteins() / 4);
            result:setCalories(item:getCalories() / 4);
            result:setTaintedWater(item:isTaintedWater())
        end
    end
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Pot");
end

thats a snipet of code from base game

 recipe Make 4 Bowls of Stew
    {
       PotOfStew,
       Bowl=4,

       Result:StewBowl=4,
       OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.MakeBowlOfStew4,
       Time:80.0,
       Category:Cooking,
       OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.None,
       OnCanPerform:Recipe.OnCanPerform.SliceCooked,
    }

this is the recipe that goes to it

[open drum]

and you want to keep what item?

[dusty wigeon]

pot

[open drum]

this recipe do not have pot

or what you could do then

have AddItem

in the function

so giving a new Pot to the player inventory

[dusty wigeon]

function Recipe.OnCreate.MakeBakingTrayMeth(items, result, player) 
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Pot");
end

[open drum]

yes

and it doesn't give the pot to the player?

[dusty wigeon]

i havent tried yet

i just did it

im missing something somewhere

[pseudo heath]

Found this Trait mod on the workshop, anyone know how I can edit it so It increases the perception range by XYZ? Like Eagle-Eyed/Keen-Hearing but more effective

local function initMagDrillsTrait()    
    local MagDrills = TraitFactory.addTrait("MagDrills", getText("UI_trait_MagDrills"), 2, getText("UI_traitdesc_MagDrills"), false, false);
        MagDrills:addXPBoost(Perks.Reloading, 3)
end

Events.OnGameBoot.Add(initMagDrillsTrait);

[open drum]

get any error msg?

[dusty wigeon]

o i just figured it out i forgot to change something

in my recipes list

quick question though. Should i be creating these as local functions so as not to mess with anything

just whats in my mod

[frank elbow]

Yes. If it doesn't need to be global (which is only really the case if you need to reference a function from a script), you should default to local

[dusty wigeon]

function Recipe.OnCreate.MakeBakingTrayMeth(items, result, player)
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Pot");
end

[frank elbow]

Looks like the visibility bonus/malus is done Java-side

[dusty wigeon]

thats all im doing so its really not calling out to anything outside my mod

[pseudo heath]

cant find a single thing related to this anywhere

[frank elbow]

Shouldn't that be doable with "keep"?

[frank elbow]

IsoGridSquare.CalcVisibility and LightingJNI.updatePlayer

It's java so you'd have to decompile the .class files to see it

[dusty wigeon]

it was not working as i intended as i would craft the object then i would have an empty pot still in my ionventory

as well as the resulting item

[frank elbow]

Oh, so you want to destroy it instead? I think the keyword for that in recipes is destroy

[dusty wigeon]

ok can i dm you so im not cluttering this up trying to explain what i did

[frank elbow]

I don't think cluttering this up is too much of a worry

You could always make a thread if that's a concern—don't want stuff getting lost in DMs

[dusty wigeon]

ok

so give me a few to figure out how to explain my madness lol

I have the first recipe to create meth and it works fine after removing keep pot which is what i wanted, Then after it is cooked i have another recipe that puts it in a baking tray, The last recipe is bagging the meth up. What i was running into was that i would try to add the pot as a result so i could get it back from the adding to baking tray recipe, the same with the baking tray from the bagging recipe. It wasnt giving the m back

sorry im bad with words

[frank elbow]

Ah, gotcha

No worries, makes sense

[dusty wigeon]

yea its been a long time i been working on this mod

i did 40 hrs in 2 days the i did roughly 12 hrs yesterday and im working on about 4 hrs today already

adding roughly 47 items

and too many recipes

any ideas why switching it to local would do this

[frank elbow]

For one, read the parenthesized bit up here

[frank elbow]

But to actually answer the question, a function that you're defining as part of a table cannot be a local function

That is, function x.y(...)end is equivalent to x.y = function(...)end, where x is a table. A table field cannot be local, or global for that matter, but a variable that references that table can be

[dusty wigeon]

ok

[calm depot]

the local keyword is for declaring a var within the scope of a block - be it the entire lua file, or an if/while/for/function block. When you declare a function as above, that's actually just syntactic sugar for setting a key in a table - in this case, a key called MakeBakingTrayMeth within the OnCreate table

[grim lynx]

Is there a way to get the coordinates of player made safe houses 🏚️ from the server directory ? Should I look in one of the database files?

[fast galleon]

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/63735-reinstall-server-how-to-import-safehouse-from-player/#comment-377305

[grim lynx]

Ouch. That's bad news.

I don't think there is a way to read the map.bin files so no idea how I would get the coordinate data. 🥺

[frank elbow]

If this is from the context of a mod, SafeHouse.getSafehouseList() should suffice to get a list of safehouse objects, which have a number of methods related to that

If this isn't from the context of a mod—you may be in the wrong channel 😄 But you could very well decode the .bin files, it just takes a while and a lot of reading through the decompiled source to see the data sizes & what's in each location

[red tiger]

Actually..

It would involve some programming but yes you should be able to view them.

I think this is the fourth time that I've seen this sort of request.

[grim lynx]

I'm a pretty good python scripter but I've never done anything with Java before.

[red tiger]

I can write an unpacker for it.

[grim lynx]

My goal is to make a utility that identifies chunks where player safe houses are located and then deletes the chunks not near the safe houses.

But in order to do that I need the cords for the safe houses.

[red tiger]

You can do one of two things here:

1. You can write a Lua mod that goes through SafeHouse.getSafeHouses() ArrayList and do the magic yourself or
2. You can modify the files when the server is offline.

I believe that everything you'd need to do it in Lua is exposed.

[grim lynx]

What does exposed mean ?

[red tiger]

So you're not a modder?

[grim lynx]

Not yet no.

[red tiger]

Hmm ok that explains your wording.

Yeah it's definitely doable.

The problem is deleting chunks from files when a server is active.

Got to be really careful.

If you delete them from the game's code then it shouldn't be much of a problem.

[grim lynx]

So I need to learn Lua and some basic zomboid modding then dig into SafeHouse.getSafeHouses()

[tawdry solar]

@bronze sinew ask in here

this bracket leads nowhere

thats an issue

[bronze sinew]

How do I add a mask to the game? Heres what I have so far

[tawdry solar]

i think the model needs improving too

[bronze sinew]

let me fix that rq

[tawdry solar]

cause you need too like uh

i forget what its called

but its like hte skeleton mesh

[bronze sinew]

I havent added the model yet because i have no idea where to put it lol

[tawdry solar]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2648115890

this could be of some help

it has some assets

[bronze sinew]

ah yeah thats gonna help, thank you! : D

[tawdry solar]

np man

i can help with file struct btw

so wheere the folders go and code

oh btw

remove some of the spaces in your code name

[bronze sinew]

alright, im gonna have to figure out the occupation thing eventually

[tawdry solar]

and its called .txt.txt

[bronze sinew]

OH I DIDNT EVEN NOTICE THAT-

Thank you!

[tawdry solar]

a normal text file is by default a .txt

btw i can help with melee items

if you ever need that

[bronze sinew]

alright!

[red tiger]

[bronze sinew]

Is it safe to get rid of these since I dont want any blood, dirt, or holes in it?

[frank elbow]

I'm sure by the time you look into it you'll find this out anyhow, but it's SafeHouse.getSafehouseList()

Also, you wouldn't necessarily need Java to read the .bin files—I've done something similar for GameTime & player data with Python before

[keen beacon]

https://grabofus.github.io/zomboid-chunk-cleaner/
https://lordikol.github.io/PZ_MapCleaner/

The only problem with both of these tool is that you cant, to my knowledge, select multiple areas to exclude. So if you wanted to reset the whole map you'd only be able to save one safehouse, or you'd have to include the areas between the two safehouses.

So if you manage to make such a mod (or tool rather), include that functionality and/or automatic deselection of safehouses you'd have a unique selling point.

[gaunt thorn]

is the IDEA intelliJ mod tool nessecary to mod?

[frank elbow]

No, you can use whichever IDE you'd like. Some options may have better support, though—I believe most people use that or VS Code

[grim lynx]

I use that tool all the time. It's awesome. As far as I know it doesn't know where safe houses are.

Another limitation is that if you use a rented server you have to download your backup, uncompress it, run the tool, then upload the world again.

The server service I use will delete map chunks if given the string of file names. It would save a a lot of time to skip the downloading and compressing.

That's why I'm looking for ways to generate a file name string that excluded safe house locations.

[tawdry solar]

that effects weight and blood area

i would stay on the safe side

[bronze sinew]

alright

[pseudo heath]

Found this 360 view mod online but it doesnt seem to work. Know whats wrong with it possibly?

[frank elbow]

I'm not sure what you're asking or how it's related to the attached .class file

[pseudo heath]

nvm

[keen beacon]

Yeah that sounds useful! Ill have to keep my eyes open if you manage to code it

[red tiger]

I'm working on VSCode tools for modding PZ as we speak.

https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench-Template
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asledgehammer.zedscript-vscode

The PipeWrench environment is for Typescript + Lua for modding. The ZedScript extension is for handling scripting files.

=)

Currently writing a passive tokenizer for formatting script files.

[red tiger]

I don't even need to look at it to know what's wrong with it. It's outdated and the game's updated code doesn't match the calls.

I'm going to bet it's either a NoSuchMethodError, NoSuchFieldError, NoSuchClassError, or a stackdump because the error originated in the eden of the JVM.

Almost every person asking about Java patches not working is exactly that.

[gaunt thorn]

This is so useful, thank you!!

[red tiger]

No problem.

[fading horizon]

what tools would be appropriate for a "lobotomize" action

screwdriver? needle?

metal pipe?

[bronze sinew]

icepick, hammer, screwdriver, needle, pretty much anything sharp as long as you have something to drive it in with

a needle may be to flimsy though

[fading horizon]

i didn't even know there was an icepick in game

that's perfect

well, its for a small thing

||its for stuart little||

[bronze yoke]

about time

[bronze sinew]

i dont know if there is one actually

[bronze sinew]

finally, that twerp gets what he deserves

[fading horizon]

so much fun to be had

[bronze sinew]

im trying to figure out the mask stuff still ;-;

[bronze sinew]

i need to download that mod lol

[fading horizon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2959205557

vscode restarted and i lost my workspace that was all organized

[bronze sinew]

ah that sucks ;-;

I cant get the Richard mask to appear in game for me ;-;

[fading horizon]

oh wait i was able to recover it

based vscode

[spark vector]

Is there some way to modify the saveInfo during OnSave()?

[bronze yoke]

that's very vague

[frank elbow]

What are you trying to modify? The OnSave event is triggered after saving map_ver.bin and map_sand.bin but before saving other stuff, so for a lot of things you should be able to set it normally

[frank elbow]

Stuart Little is a rat
actual misinformation

[bronze sinew]

what do the lines on these mean? its a stupid question but i wanna make sure im understanding it correctly

[frank elbow]

Each indentation level is a subfolder

That was a poor way to explain that, what I mean is every indentation level signifies that the above element (the one with a lesser indentation level) is the parent folder of that file or folder

[bronze sinew]

oh so L___ means the folder above it is the one it goes into?

this is my first time coding anything lol

[frank elbow]

Yeah, so SteamGuideClothing is within Workshop

No worries, it's not a stupid question if you're unfamiliar with those kinds of text representations of directory structure

[bronze sinew]

so preview.png and contents are in SteamGuideClothing?

alright thanks! : D

[fading horizon]

?

he is

[frank elbow]

He's a mouse in the film & a human (that looks like a mouse) in the original book

[fading horizon]

well the way he acts hes a rat

[frank elbow]

Fair enough

[fading horizon]

accurate

stuart little would definitely dip in your time of need

[frank elbow]

I think Stuart Little is trustworthy and kind 😇

[fading horizon]

i hope his stupid little boat capsizes in one of his stupid little boat races and he gets trapped inside while it sinks

🙂

[bronze sinew]

does vscode make all text file things in .xml?

i already did the mod stuff once but it wouldnt work so i restarted it

[fading horizon]

[frank elbow]

What do you mean? VS Code doesn't force file extensions* to be .xml, if that's what you're asking

[bronze sinew]

let me send the guide im following lol

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2648115890&searchtext=clothing

im trying to make the masks from Hotline Miami and im having trouble understanding the code lol

[frank elbow]

If you want to make an .xml file you just need to add that to the end of the filename

[bronze sinew]

ah, no wonder why it didnt work last time lol

thanks for the help!

also the mask would go in "Static" and not "Skinned" right?

[red tiger]

Making progress on my formatter today.

[bronze sinew]

nice!

[fading horizon]

now you can light him on fire too

[bronze sinew]

YES

also have you made a clothing mod before?

[fading horizon]

now i just need to figure out how to make an option to flush him down the toilet

and I haven't, sorry

i'm not very good at blender so clothing mod scary

[bronze sinew]

I just learned how to use blender yesterday and its better then coding imo

[frank elbow]

Heresy

[bronze sinew]

im gonna get my mod working with the one mask, then do a fresh reinstall of pz to clean out some of my mods lol

[bronze sinew]

https://tenor.com/view/halo-arbiter-halo-sangheili-halo-halo2-halo2anniversary-gif-24966374

me

[fast galleon]

I hate "this", proceeds to add "this" to the game 😅

[bronze sinew]

accurate

[fast galleon]

Any plans to make a Stuart costume?

Imagine using this with an NPC mod.

[red tiger]

Planning on getting a pet birds mod made for 42 when it becomes a thing.

[bronze sinew]

do I make those folders in my mod folder or put it in the base game folders?

[red tiger]

Cool. It seems like I have a controllable tokenizer and formatter setup to begin implementing the formatting options planned.

[fading horizon]

Hmmm

Perhaps

But I'm not too good at blender so I feel like it would come out poorly

But the option to skin him alive then make a costume out of his flesh seems like a good feature

[bronze sinew]

that would make it even better lmao

[fading horizon]

Just a really fucked up rat costume

[bronze sinew]

yeah, you got a bit mad while skinning him and it hurt his skin

also what do you guys think about this being the icon for the 50 Blessings Member occupation when i make it?

[fading horizon]

I would maybe add a drop shadow to the whole thing personally but I think it looks good

[bronze sinew]

alright, I wanna make it to where the mask traits are locked to the occupation and you are only allowed to choose one mask trait

[fading horizon]

Sounds like a cool mod honestly, looking forward to seeing it progress

Loved HM

[bronze sinew]

like Richard provides no stat boosts and Rasmus provides a foraging stat boost

[fading horizon]

I just saw this

You can make a local cached version of zomboidb

Which will be separate from your main game

[bronze sinew]

i didnt even think of that lol

[fading horizon]

So you can have different mods loaded (I only load the mod I'm developing or testing)

Makes it super fast

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Startup_parameters

[bronze sinew]

i do need to clean out my mods though, i get like 100 errors before i even load my character

[fading horizon]

Oof

Iktf

My main file has like 350 mods

[bronze sinew]

least modded pz game

[red tiger]

I've only played vanilla PZ.

[bronze sinew]

Im thinking about making the first 4-5 masks in the game before i release it on the workshop publicly. Then just steadily updating it as I make make more masks

also is a clothing item like a helmet or mask a "static" clothing item thing or a "skinned" clothing item thing?

also does anyone have a guide or template on custom occupations and traits?

[fast galleon]

oh I can change the modfolders option!

doesn't work with -nosteam

mods: works
workshop: doesn't work
steam: doesn't work

You can only make it not load mods at all.

[gaunt thorn]

is there a way for me to make a mod that removes parts of another mod?

[red tiger]

Formatting braces now in ZedScript.

Neato.

[bronze sinew]

do i turn "Skinned" to "Static" for a mask or do I leave it like how it is?

[red tiger]

<div>Hello, World!</div>

[red tiger]

Cool. I have nested scope formatting for inline brackets working.

Now onto the madness that is property-value whitespace fixing.

Also going to add my donation links to the extension when I update it today. =)

Going to include the very first formatter code most-likely.

Before:

After:

Now I'm working on the spacing between the = signs to get rid of the whacky and inconsistent spacing in the vanilla files.

The reason why the = spacing looks weirder in the formatted result as of now is due to \t.

This is a great sign. It means that I'm closer to writing diagnostics than I thought.

It means I can squiggle / underline things like deprecated or improper values for properties.

TIS could actually take this tool and clean the game's scripts with it.

=)

[bronze sinew]

so I cant get the mask to be added in game, does anyone wanna look over the code i have and tell me what im doing wrong?

[red tiger]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Looks like my formatter breaks recipes.txt however there's some really weird commenting in there..

Yeah. Looks like it's the fault of the file itself.

@tame mulch Bug report. Improper enclosure of comment block in recipes.txt. =/

Not sure if the parser for PZ scripts is treating comment blocks like nested brackets..

Which isn't the proper behavior for this asm-syntax comment-block structure.

It could also be causing unnoticed, undesirable side-effects.

[bronze sinew]

are helmets static?

or are they skinned?

nvm just figured it out lmao

[gentle mountain]

Hey folks, quick question.
I'm trying to adjust Brita's Armor Packs' insulation forthe GORKA 6 jacket. It has two models accessible through the context menu. These are the stats for the items as defined in the related scripts/clothing file

Jacket without hood on:

item Gorka6_Hoodie
    {
        Type = Clothing,
        DisplayName = BARS Gorka 6 Jacket,
        ClothingItem = Gorka6_Hoodie,
        BodyLocation = Jacket,
        BloodLocation = Jacket,
        Icon = Gorka6_Hoodie,
        RunSpeedModifier = 0.95,
        NeckProtectionModifier = 0.5,
        BiteDefense = 25,
        ScratchDefense = 30,
        Insulation = 0.35,
        WindResistance = 0.60,
        WaterResistance = 0.50,
        Weight = 2,
        FabricType = Cotton,
        ClothingItemExtra = Gorka6_Hoodie_ON,
        ClothingItemExtraOption = Gorka6_Hoodie_ON,
        clothingExtraSubmenu = Gorka6_Hoodie_Back,
        WorldStaticModel= W_Gorka6_Hoodie,
    }

Jacket with hood on:

    {
        Type = Clothing,
        DisplayName = BARS Gorka 6 Jacket (Hood On),
        ClothingItem = Gorka6_Hoodie_ON,
        BodyLocation = Jacket,
        BloodLocation = Jacket,
        Icon = Gorka6_Hoodie,
        RunSpeedModifier = 0.98,
        NeckProtectionModifier = 0.5,
        BiteDefense = 30,
        ScratchDefense = 30,
        Insulation = 0.70,
        WindResistance = 0.70,
        WaterResistance = 0.70,
        Weight = 2,
        FabricType = Cotton,
        ClothingItemExtra = Gorka6_Hoodie,
        ClothingItemExtraOption = Gorka6_Hoodie,
        clothingExtraSubmenu = Gorka6_Hoodie_ON,
        WorldStaticModel= W_Gorka6_Hoodie,
    }```

What I noticed is that the insulation for the hood doesn't cover the head, see the attached image.

[bronze sinew]

im having a bunch of confusion with my mod but I think those are the stats lol

I just sorta learned how to code today though so i dont think i can help that much ;-;

[gentle mountain]

I assume this has to do with the "BodyLocation" definition being "Jacket", and insulation settings being applied from there, right?

[bronze sinew]

that makes sense so that could be it

[gentle mountain]

If that is the case: Does the BodyLocation definition support multiple parameters so I can have the hood actually provide insulation for the head, if using the "Gorka_6_Hoodie_ON" item?

[bronze yoke]

bodylocation is just a 'slot' system to stop players from equipping conflicting items, i don't think it's where insulation is determined

i've worked with a lot of the body location code and i never saw anything about it

if it is (it might be hardcoded somewhere) then i do know that you definitely can't have two bodylocations on the same item

[red tiger]

Thanks for keeping something of a format on your ZedScript.

[gentle mountain]

Hm, damn, so that might not be it... I've not dabbled with anything much, that might just give me an excuse to learn lua...

[bronze sinew]

hey albion, is it ok if you take a quick look at my mask code? Im so confused because it wont even show up as a mod ;-;

[bronze yoke]

if it won't show up as a mod at all the issue is with your mod.info

either it's in the wrong place or it's unreadable

[bronze sinew]

oh

thats what my stuff looks like

[bronze yoke]

RichardMask should be in the mods folder

[bronze sinew]

so the RichardMask folder?

[opal rivet]

No it should be in a file called mods

[bronze yoke]

yeah, so the structure would end up being like contents/mods/RichardMask/mod.info

[gentle mountain]

Best I can do is at least make the stuff readable, eh?

[red tiger]

Visual murder. I'm writing the formatter for ZedScript.

[gentle mountain]

Plus, wouldn't be much fun for anyone to parse that if I posted it in a single line.

[bronze yoke]

i've always seen Contents capitalised too but i don't know if you actually have to do that or not

[bronze sinew]

alright, is it okay if i ask a few more questions on stuff?

[red tiger]

People literally do this.

[bronze yoke]

sure!

[gentle mountain]

what?

[red tiger]

I refuse to implement this style of formatting.

[bronze sinew]

is any of this correct and gonna work?

[red tiger]

You can upload files or do this:

print('Hello, World!');

[bronze yoke]

it looks like it's the BloodLocation that determines the insulation area, you can have multiple separated by semicolons

[bronze yoke]

i haven't worked with the clothing xml so i can't help you there, i am familiar with the format for another game though and it does look like it is at least valid xml

[bronze sinew]

alright thanks!

[gentle mountain]

Thank you! I’m gonna try that, see if it works.

Screenshots of code…
@bronze sinew, my man, don’t do that, please. Makes it hard to read, hard to diagnose, hard to everything.

If you wanna work with code samples here, try enclosing them in triple backticks. Formats the code in monospace font, makes it easier to read, etc.

[bronze sinew]

alright, sorry this is my first time doing any coding ;-;

[gentle mountain]

It’s okay, we all start somewhere. You’re gonna do good, mate.

[bronze sinew]

i just tested it and it sadly wont show up for me to enable it

[bronze yoke]

is the 50Blessings folder in User/(your windows username)/Zomboid/Workshop ?

[bronze sinew]

yeah

[gentle mountain]

BloodLocation now looks like this

        BodyLocation = Jacket,
        BloodLocation = Jacket; Hat,
        Icon = Gorka6_Hoodie,

and Zomboid throws the following error when loading a save after the change was applied:

ERROR: General     , 1681688765923> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.util.Collection.toArray()" because "<parameter1>" is null at ArrayList.addAll.
ERROR: General     , 1681688765923> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.util.Collection.toArray()" because "<parameter1>" is null
    at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.addAll(Unknown Source)
    at zombie.characterTextures.BloodClothingType.getCoveredParts(BloodClothingType.java:229)
    at zombie.characterTextures.BloodClothingType.calcTotalBloodLevel(BloodClothingType.java:606)
    at zombie.inventory.InventoryItem.synchWithVisual(InventoryItem.java:1492)
    at zombie.scripting.objects.Item.InstanceItem(Item.java:2257)
    at zombie.inventory.InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem(InventoryItemFactory.java:68)
    at zombie.inventory.InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem(InventoryItemFactory.java:150)
    at zombie.inventory.InventoryItem.loadItem(InventoryItem.java:1119)
    at zombie.inventory.InventoryItem.loadItem(InventoryItem.java:1089)
    at zombie.inventory.CompressIdenticalItems.load(CompressIdenticalItems.java:299)
    at zombie.inventory.ItemContainer.load(ItemContainer.java:2891)
    at zombie.characters.IsoGameCharacter.load(IsoGameCharacter.java:5524)
    at zombie.characters.IsoPlayer.load(IsoPlayer.java:972)
    at zombie.iso.IsoObject.load(IsoObject.java:987)
    at zombie.iso.IsoCell.LoadPlayer(IsoCell.java:6131)
    at zombie.iso.IsoWorld.init(IsoWorld.java:2654)
    at zombie.gameStates.GameLoadingState$1.runInner(GameLoadingState.java:268)
    at zombie.gameStates.GameLoadingState$1.run(GameLoadingState.java:225)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)```

[bronze yoke]

don't use a space

Jacket;Hat

[red tiger]

Wait.. Are you saying that the game doesn't trim semi-colons?

[bronze yoke]

i don't think so anyway

i only looked over it briefly but i only saw a split

[red tiger]

That's very bad if true

[gentle mountain]

Adjusted, is now

        BloodLocation = Jacket;Hat,
        Icon = Gorka6_Hoodie,

Still throwing the exact same error.

[red tiger]

Then I'll need to adjust the format code I just wrote for semi-colons to not use clean spacing.

Just let me have access to the script Java files. I'll immediately clean up a lot of the issues with parsing.

x_x

Throw me some stupid NDA lol

I didn't spend ~200 hours on a project that'll format script text to be ugly.

[bronze yoke]

i don't see a Hat bloodlocation

try Head

[gentle mountain]

FML, I misread "Blood" and "Body" when grabbing the definition for head gear. Thanks!

I either need sleep or coffee. But it's already 2am, so sleeping ain't gonna be enough. More coffee!

[gentle mountain]

HAH!! That did it, many thanks, albion!

Time to patch the jackets with hoods to they reflect accurately.

[red tiger]

@bronze yoke Guess I'll need to create a list when I finally write my mega-thread.

[late hound]

yeah I never had luck putting spaces in between semicolon'd terms

[winter thunder]

If there is a creator that I want to talk to about their mod, and have not gotten a reply on steam- Do yall think it would it be better to drop an @ in an open channel like this? Dm them directly in disc? Or just assume they think I am too stinky 🥸

Actual question tho, bc I know how annoying it can be to get a bunch of notifs or dms about a mod you make, but also don't want to miss out on the potential to work with / learn from someone if they just don't have their steam notifs on or whatever lmfao

[ancient grail]

Spiffo

@winter thunder

If it's abandoned mod you can adopt but contact spiffo

[winter thunder]

Not abandoned, it is currently in dev. Just figure it is better to talk to people working on same/similar mods to things I have been working on too- Either to make sure that they will be unique, get tips from each other, or even collaborate. No sense having multiple different people pouring the time and energy into seperate projects when collaboration could lead to a project that is much much better in the end. If that makes sense

[ancient grail]

Team Orbit looking to recruit 1 Modder
Specifically for Code related projects
Pls dm me and join the discord server (links on my profile) if you havent yet
.thank you

[frank elbow]

Unfortunately it does, meaning the example in that screenshot should work as intended

[red tiger]

In that case then I'll need to mention that.

[frank elbow]

I remember seeing it when looking into the script parser; comments are stripped by matching starting from the end (i.e., last index of */) then looking backwards, so /* /* */ results in /*

[red tiger]

The oddest behavior.

That should be rewritten.

I scan through them left->right on a 1-dimensional string.

The behavior there is not how ASM block comments behave.

[frank elbow]

Yeah it's certainly odd

[red tiger]

It's bad to scan and move backwards unless you are destructively / invasively formatting.

Tokenizing you go forward as much as possible.

[mossy steeple]

i am definitely doing something wrong in this code, most likely in the vehicle part of it. fails on line 31 and things don't spawn in any of the places i've tried to assign them to. but hey, to be expected with my first time touching lua

[bronze yoke]

VehicleDistributions.list[MP5TrunkDistribution[i]].items should be VehicleDistributions[MP5TrunkDistribution[i]].items

[mossy steeple]

ahh, gotcha

yeah i'm just sorta... looking at what other mods do and frankensteining it into my own thing at the moment to learn, i must've looked at the wrong thing for this part

[bronze yoke]

the rest looks good, i'm not sure why it wouldn't be spawning

is your item in module Base? if you don't put the module it assumes base

[mossy steeple]

oh, no, it isn't! yeah that's it, i forgot to add that to this one

that's just a
module EaMP5 {
//code here
}
right?

[bronze yoke]

oh, code doesn't go into script modules, but you should reference your item as "EaMP5.MP5" instead of "MP5"

[red tiger]

ZedScript is a storage / settings format.

"Script" is a misnomer here.

Nothing executes in ZedScript.

[mossy steeple]

hm, gotcha

[red tiger]

A lot of progress today.

My third attempt at writing a less aggressive formatter is doing well.

Going to wait on releasing the next version of my extension until I get my formatter more rounded out from things like bugs or technicalities.

Can't wait to show off diagnostics when I get there.

[mossy steeple]

hmm, the game seems to be crashing whenever it tries to spawn something in the loot table. log says it's something about getting a null value instead of what it should be?

[bronze yoke]

ERROR: unknown WeaponPart type "null"

the stack trace seems related to that too

[mossy steeple]

yeah, i saw that but i'm not sure what it's referring to

weaponparts are attachments, but i'm testing now and there are attachments spawning just fine

[bronze yoke]

it looks like the related code is to do with spawning the weapon with a random attachment, does it work okay if you cheat in your item and add attachments?

[mossy steeple]

hm... all of them work except for the red dot sight

well, the laser just sort of floats in the air since i apparently got the positioning wrong on that, but it attaches just fine

red dot doesn't show in the menu

[mossy steeple]

ooh, hang on... looking at another mod and it seems like it has a file listing out what attachments a weapon can spawn with; i probably need that, huh?

[bronze yoke]

oh that might be it!

[primal remnant]

Question about modifying an existing mod:

We have a dedicated server with the "Blacksmith" mod. It uses item tweaker to adjust the "metal values" of items that can be melted down in a stone furnace. The problem is there there are many metal items in the game that can not be melted down. If I decided to modify this mod, would I simply modify the existing .lua file which tweaks the items, or should I create a separate file and add that to the same folder in our server?

Follow up question, when a mod updates does it remove extra files from its folders or does it only modfy files where changes have been made (leaving our custom file alone)? Thanks in advance.

[cosmic condor]

just create a new mod that requires other mods that you would like to modify

[primal remnant]

Thank you, I was trying to be lazy but even our guys suggested we do that. Preciate the validation!

[cosmic condor]

I hope you understand what I meant correctly and not making a standalone mod

Also, lots of people suggest not using Item Tweaker

better go with DoParam

as far as I know, your additional files won't be deleted

The mod folder might be missing when you unsubscribe from the mod, but when you resubscribe, the folder structure will come back and your additional files will be there.

[red tiger]

Good night.

[umbral bolt]

Hi All, is there a way to access (read/write) nutritional values( cals, carbs, ...) for items via lua ( not inventoryItem). What I'm trying to do is to copy those for consistency from closed to open cans without duplicating the values in the scripts.txt file . Thanks.

[fading horizon]

i'm not sure how you could do it without accessing inventory item. Maybe you could try accessing modData on the nutrition parameters?

i was actually just writing something that uses inventoryItem

one sec

require "TimedActions/ISEatFoodAction"

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

ISEatFoodAction.perform = function();             --    override vanilla function
    local carbs = self.item:getCarbohydrates();   --     variable containing item carb count
    local o = base_eat();                         --    let vanilla function run to create "o" object
    return o;               --     returns o object so that the rest of the vanilla functions perform
end

How can I make a characters stat decrease over time? I tried looking for the vanilla pill functions but couldn't find anything other than the timed action which doesn't have anything relating to stats.

Basically, I want the character to either craft a recipe or start a timed action that will then reduce a certain stat by 5% every 20 minutes or something. How can I do that time calculation? I don't want the stat change to be instant

my only guess is setting a bool that the everyTenMinutes events checks and changes it based on that

but there might be a better way?

[bronze yoke]

pill effects are handled in java

it's a bodydamage thing, i don't remember exactly how it works but you might be able to set the same values it does?

[fading horizon]

problem is that its not using a default moodle like stress or something

i'm using a custom modData parameter

[bronze yoke]

then your other idea is probably the only way

[ancient grail]

Use Moddata
And it should be a float

Slowly reduce that float till its gone
While applying the reduction to the players stats

[fading horizon]

yep, that's what i'm doing rn actually

almost have it working

very close

[ancient grail]

Then just add a checker first saying if its zero then nill that noddata and remove the event

When Taking the pill check using ontest
If the playyer has the moddata already
If it has then

getPlayer():Kill(nil)```

Hehe

[fading horizon]

ERROR: General , 1681720797257> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: getEmitter of non-table: null at KahluaThread.tableget line:1689.

this is what i'm running into rn

[ancient grail]

Shw code

[fading horizon]

i'm getting there

one sec haha

[ancient grail]

[fading horizon]

local base_perform = ISEatFoodAction.perform

ISEatFoodAction.perform = function()
    local carbs = eatItem.item:getCarbohydrates();

    if carbs and carbs > 0 then
      isBloodRising = true;
      local glucoseIncrease = carbs * carbToGlucoseRatio;        
      glucoseDelta = glucoseIncrease / 6                        
      maxBloodSugarFromFood = ((eatItem.character:getModData().bloodSugar) or 80) + glucoseIncrease
    end



    local o = base_perform();                                     
    return o;                                                                    
  end

[ancient grail]

Initiate the moddata upon spawning maybe

Initialize i ment

[fading horizon]

its an issue with the sound though according to the log

not the modData

[ancient grail]

Maybe remove the sound?

[fading horizon]

that would remove it from literally every item though

since it's a problem with the vanilla function

[ancient grail]

Right

[fading horizon]

wait

[ancient grail]

I wouldnt use on eat if possible

[fading horizon]

i wouldn't know what else to use

making a diabetes mod