mod_development

[tawny depot]

I want to make a model but it's not working

I'd go to the workshop, download a mod that has a working custom model, and see how they did it

and then compare and contrast it with my mod to see what's wrong

[deft plaza]

oh I already have a model

[tawny depot]

right, but you said it's not showing up right?

[deft plaza]

right

[tawny depot]

so if you find a mod that has a working custom model you can see how they did it

if it's identical it's something wrong with the model file probably

[deft plaza]

well this is my second mod so I'm going off my last mod

because my last mod works

[tawny depot]

right, and comparing and contrasting with your current mod, how are the following things different

1. Location of model declaration
2. Model declaration
3. Spawning model

check the context of all 3

see if it's identical

if it isn't see what's different and see if there's a problem along the way

otherwise it's probably something wrong with the model itself

[deft plaza]

when I drop it shows up as the icon

[tawny depot]

okay, and you've included your mesh file in the mod?

I'm not sure how model creation works I'm just debugging

[deft plaza]

I am confused about mesh and texture and stuff

like mesh is the model and texture is the 2d thing

[tawny depot]

like just on what they are?

[deft plaza]

yea

[tawny depot]

Okay so think about it like this right

one sec, is texture the icon?

Like there, is the texture you've set the icon for the actual item?

(just for my own context)

eg: Worlitems/CookieBoxFitted, is that the file for the icon

wait no

my bad

my misunderstanding

okay from the top lmao

[deft plaza]

the icon is item_CookieBoxImage

[tawny depot]

right, okay

[tawdry solar]

thats correct

[tawny depot]

so a mesh is your typical understanding of a 3d model, the only caveat is that it does not store the actual colors/textures on it

so essentially you have a plain white model

these models typically have material data, these materials are associated with a "texture"

these materials grab parts of the texture and apply it to the surface of the mesh

[deft plaza]

oh okay

I know the actual model does not hold the stuff

[tawny depot]

right

[deft plaza]

okay

so here is what I did maybe its correct

[tawny depot]

is that an image?

[deft plaza]

png

[tawny depot]

so no

[ornate grotto]

editin this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2991010328&tscn=1687280930 (i wont publish but i will (i can publish if original owner allows me to)) also how do i make so you can turn on and turn off retextures?

[deft plaza]

oh wait I thought you meant

[tawny depot]

that would be the texture

[bronze yoke]

you need to point to the model in the mesh field

[tawny depot]

@bronze yoke what types of models does PZ use? Like extension

[bronze yoke]

multiple types of fbx and x

[tawny depot]

okay nice

@deft plaza so your "mesh" should be a .fbx file

[deft plaza]

got it

this is the fbx

mesh

[deft plaza]

also what do you mean I did it

I did WorldItems/CookieBoxModel

[bronze yoke]

you were showing the texture

[deft plaza]

right yea

fixed it I think

[tawdry solar]

this is just cookies?

can you add my fav cookie

[tawny depot]

so much trouble over cookies

[tawdry solar]

oats and rasins

[deft plaza]

yea lol

[tawny depot]

😭

[tawdry solar]

what

its good

nah

acc

rocky road is my fav

top 10 cookies oat tho

[deft plaza]

I guess I will test if it works later

[tawny depot]

Having a weird issue with my LUA script

function slamDoor()
    print("Smash Window event")
    local player = getPlayer()
    local building = player:getBuilding();
    if (building ~= nil) then
        print("Smash Window: Player is in building")

        --- @type IsoWindow
        local randomWindow = building:getRandomFirstFloorWindow()
        randomWindow:smashWindow()
        print("Smashed Window")
    end
end

I am getting a nil value for randomWindow

but building is not nil

[bronze yoke]

does the building have a first floor window?

[tawny depot]

I believe so, let me send a sc

yep

it seems like this call isn't actually working

I'll see if I can print some info about the building

yeah this is strange

[bronze yoke]

try calling building:CalculateWindows() first

i don't think the windows list actually gets populated at all normally

[deft plaza]

alright I'm gonna check if it works

nope

[red tiger]

I think this channel needs some specific rules regarding asking for help.

• Be clear about your issue and provide relevant information when asking. (Nicely)
• Refusing to share mod code or content that lets others look deeper into issues shouldn't be repeated for the same problems with the same mods.

Posting this because I've seen an uptick in this rude behavior here lately. People don't get paid to help and volunteer it. I'm seeing this issue come up again and figured this would be worth discussing.

[deft plaza]

dude what

I was just saying

that was random

[red tiger]

If anything, a guideline on how to propose or ask questions / ask for help would really help keep things cleaner and more formal in here.

[deft plaza]

what is bro talking about

[novel barn]

@bronze yoke I figured out what I was doing wrong last night. (in about 3 minutes of course)...

I had this

function HaveEmptyItem()
    local playerInv = getPlayer():getInventory()
    local item = playerInv:getFirstEvalRecurse(predicateEmpty)
    if item then 
        print("found an empty `dirt` bag in player inv")
    else 
        print("no empty bag")
    end
    print("haveemptyitem run")
end

local function predicateEmpty(item)
    return item:hasTag("HoldDirt") and item:getInventory():isEmpty();
end

Events.OnPlayerAttackFinished.Add(HaveEmptyItem)```

the problem is that I needed to define my local copy of predicateEmpty before I called it... So I moved the local declaration up and it's working as expected. 😑

[bronze yoke]

oh yeah, local functions don't get hoisted for some reason

[novel barn]

hoisting. I swear even when I figure my problems out you all teach me something new. I never knew hoisting was a thing in any language.

[deft plaza]

yea so does anyone know the problem about the model

[bronze yoke]

LOL i've only heard the term a couple times myself

[tawdry solar]

yeah some dude dmed me and right and when i told him that he shouldnt dm people he blocked me

i was gonna tell him to come here to ask

[bronze yoke]

i was somewhat familiar with the concept but not the term for it

[deft plaza]

he wasnt even willing to learn

[tawny depot]

@red tiger any idea why this wouldn't be working? I'm thinking windows aren't being loaded properly but I can't really put my finger on why that would be happening

[tawdry solar]

ik

you told him to go to to tutorial for guns

[bronze yoke]

did you try this?

[tawny depot]

yep tried that

same issue

sorry didnt' see that message

[red tiger]

It's not like we don't have productive discussions in here or that everyone here is at each other's throats. Sometimes I can read how people ask in here for help as demanding and honestly talking to us like we're an AI prompt. That feels terrible.

[tawny depot]

I also tried calling player:getCurrentSquare():getBuilding() to see if maybe the building reference was wrong

same issue

[red tiger]

• Sneaky with braces to play like Lua is a c-syntactic language. I like that.

Is this in MP or SP?

[tawny depot]

SP

all client side

[red tiger]

Hmm

[mellow frigate]

Anyone here knows how to transform a fresh dead body into a skeletton old body ? (from a mod)

[red tiger]

It should be straightforward with client-side.

[tawny depot]

right that's what I was thinking

[red tiger]

Are you checking if the random window isn't smashed?

Print the object too.

Umbrella should also expose a few things.

[tawny depot]

so the issue isn't that the window is smashed

[red tiger]

Maybe the object needs to broadcast itself updating?

[tawny depot]

the actual randomWindow var is nil

in the stacktrace

[tawdry solar]

whats that

[bronze yoke]

sendObjectChange("becomeSkeleton")

[deft plaza]

whats what

[red tiger]

Yeah that's likely a defunct method. Either that or the first floor might not have any windows.

[tawny depot]

I see I see

[tawdry solar]

why is there an item

[red tiger]

There's an arraylist IIRC for windows in IsoBuilding.

[tawny depot]

yep!

getWindows() iirc

[bronze yoke]

the method is real and implemented and the first floor does have windows

[red tiger]

Do it the normal coder way.

[bronze yoke]

i think there's a non-obvious logic error in the method

[mellow frigate]

most getRandom.. functions do not garantee results

[red tiger]

All you need is a int range and a random instance.

[tawny depot]

yeah looking at the java sources the method does exist and has functionality

[red tiger]

@tawny depot I come from the "Assert everything" tribe in coding.

[mellow frigate]

yes null can be the result

[red tiger]

Saves me hours of debugging.

[tawny depot]

hahaha real

[bronze yoke]

maybe windows on the first floor don't actually have z 0 like the method expects

[tawdry solar]

     model bushcraft
                {
                mesh             = weapons/1handed/Bushcraft,
        texture          = weapons/1handed/Bushcraft,
          scale            = 0.01,
    
                attachment world
                {
                offset           = 0.0000 -0.1660 0.0070,
                        rotate   = -180.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
                }
}

@deft plaza this is what my item code ussally looks like

[mellow frigate]

Hey coolroo are you the one trolling newbies ?

[red tiger]

Those two seconds to perform an if check with error throwing saves lives.

[deft plaza]

because I thought thats how it works

[red tiger]

Format this you madman.

lol

[bronze yoke]

or maybe certain windows don't get added to the windows list

[tawny depot]

here's the implementation for the code

   public IsoWindow getRandomFirstFloorWindow() {
      windowchoices.clear();
      windowchoices.addAll(this.Windows);

      for(int var1 = 0; var1 < windowchoices.size(); ++var1) {
         if (((IsoWindow)windowchoices.get(var1)).getZ() > 0.0F) {
            windowchoices.remove(var1);
         }
      }

      if (!windowchoices.isEmpty()) {
         return (IsoWindow)windowchoices.get(Rand.Next(windowchoices.size()));
      } else {
         return null;
      }
   }

[bronze yoke]

i'm wondering if maybe certain facings don't get added to the building's list because they're technically on the outside squares

[tawdry solar]

it is

[fast galleon]

depending where you live, first floor might be z 1

[tawdry solar]

it just broke when i pasted it

[tawny depot]

that's a good point

I think it is a z issue

[red tiger]

That is a format yes. An ancient one but is formatted. I can read that.

[tawny depot]

I'm gonna see if getWindows actually returns a list

[tawdry solar]

what would be a new format then?

[red tiger]

That pasted code though terrified me.

[tawny depot]

actually shit no can't use getWindows

that's a room call

and I can't get all the rooms of a building 😭

[red tiger]

Here. I'll format it my way. I do inline but you can do allman bracing too. (CSharp uses allman, Java uses inline)

[deft plaza]

because thats how it works right?\

[tawdry solar]

try to replace my shit with yours

[tawdry solar]

nope

not for the model code atleast

[deft plaza]

dude

[tawdry solar]

?

[deft plaza]

for my other code it works

I

I'm so confused

[tawdry solar]

oh

wait

[bronze yoke]

oh my god you're not kidding, there is no method to get rooms from a building except getrandomroom

[tawdry solar]

yeah no

my mistake

[deft plaza]

isnt item always supposed to be there

[bronze yoke]

you might be able to grab the rooms vector with the weird field stuff?

[tawdry solar]

it thought it was just the model code

[red tiger]

model bushcraft {
  mesh = weapons/1handed/Bushcraft,
  texture = weapons/1handed/Bushcraft,
  scale = 0.01,    
  attachment world {
    offset = 0.0000 -0.1660 0.0070,
    rotate = -180.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
  }
}

[tawdry solar]

but im sleepy so i forgot

[tawdry solar]

yeah that would work better

[tawny depot]

I would just grab the window vector in that case

any good info on how I can grab fields? Like what the process is to actually get those

[bronze yoke]

it's a nightmare

[red tiger]

So, fun fact: I wrote the vscode extension.

I will finish the formatter to use inline and allman as two options.

[deft plaza]

What does that mean?

[tawdry solar]

use my code as a baseline

[tawny depot]

Any info would be appreciated, even if it is hell 😭

[red tiger]

It'll be my excuse to yell at people who throw wild, all-over-the-place ZedScript in here. =)

[tawny depot]

@red tiger which extension are you referring to?

[bronze yoke]

you have to loop through getClassField(object, index) from 0 to getNumClassFields(), doing tostring until you find the which index corresponds to the field you want, then getClassFieldVal(object, index)

[red tiger]

ZedScript, on VSCode extensions market.

[bronze yoke]

you can hardcode the index but it might explode when the game updates

[red tiger]

Until there was my extension on the market, ZedScript never had any support from modern IDEs.

[bronze yoke]

so you'd have to posix it or generate the correct string to compare

[tawny depot]

Thank you so much for the info

atleast knowing I can do it is anice

[red tiger]

Imagine having Regex support in Lua..

Yeah pls

Please I need my Regex.

[bronze yoke]

iirc the tostring basically returns package.package.class NameOfTheField

[red tiger]

/(please|support|regex|kthx)/

[bronze yoke]

i guess the pattern could just be " fieldname$"

that's very simple actually

[trim mist]

Hey @bronze yoke, I have a function hooking question

local oldCCPOOMD = CharacterCreationProfession.onOptionMouseDown
CharacterCreationProfession.onOptionMouseDown = function(self)
    oldCCPOOMD(self);
    refreshTraitCosts();
end

Why does this run immediately after my mods load, and why does it give a

attempted index: onOptionMouseDown of non-table: null
```?

I know you and @novel barn have been collaborating a little bit on variable function costs. I'm trying to implement it in my code w/o bugs

[bronze yoke]

the code to hook that function runs immediately, in this case you are hooking it before it exists

[red tiger]

Require the lua file first?

[trim mist]

lmao

[bronze yoke]

move your code to the client folder or put it behind OnGameBoot

[red tiger]

You can also do OnGameBoot and perform the operation then.

[bronze yoke]

requiring vanilla doesn't do anything, it's forced to load in a specific order

[trim mist]

thank you both

[red tiger]

My hatred for this game just grew.

I entirely eliminated the need for Lua require for PipeWrench because it's so crazy and such a mess.

[bronze yoke]

it's shared -> client (if applicable) -> server, vanilla loads first then mods for each stage, and trying to force a file from another folder to load in an earlier stage does nothing

[red tiger]

PipeWrench literally re-inits itself using a custom event with padded code on rendered Lua.

Yeah. I've had problems with require basically forever. =/

Thanks for the info.

[bronze yoke]

i still don't really know quite how cross-folder requires behave, all i know is it's annoying

the client/shared/server folders that is

[drifting ore]

is only lua used for modding or can java be used too ?????

[bronze yoke]

java mods are not popular at all but yeah you can java mod

they require manual installation

[deft plaza]

I still don't see what's wrong with this code only thing I know is its showing the icon when dropped

[bronze yoke]

also, you should note that you're going to break the game with this hook, because you're deleting the parameters

if you don't care about the parameters you can just grab and pass them with ...

[deft plaza]

here is the code to the mod

well one code

[bronze yoke]

these need to match

[tawny depot]

would something like this work?

-- Function to find the index of a specific field in a class and retrieve its value
function findFieldAndGetValue(object, fieldName)
    local numFields = getNumClassFields()
    
    for i = 0, numFields do
        local fieldStr = tostring(getClassField(object, i))
        local packageName, className, fieldNameStr = fieldStr:match("(%w+)%.(%w+)%s(.+)")
        
        if fieldNameStr == fieldName then
            return getClassFieldVal(object, i)
        end
    end
    
    return nil -- Field not found
end

-- Example usage
local object = -- Your object here
local fieldName = "NameOfTheField"

local fieldValue = findFieldAndGetValue(object, fieldName)
if fieldValue then
    print("Field value:", fieldValue)
else
    print("Field not found.")
end

[deft plaza]

which should match which

[bronze yoke]

looks like it would to me, only one way to find out for sure

[deft plaza]

Should I change Model cookiebox to cookie box model

[tawdry solar]

they do?

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't matter which way around it is, they just need to match

[deft plaza]

okay

[bronze yoke]

WorldStaticModel is you telling the game which model script you want to use, it needs to be the name of a model script

[tawdry solar]

ooh

his model script is inside the code

[red tiger]

All three folders are roots so you'd pretend like all three are the same folder.

I have physical deadzones in my brain from learning all of this for TS support.

[bronze yoke]

sometimes you can't require files from other folders though

and i'm not really sure what the rules are

things like 'what if there are files matching the path in multiple folders' need to be examined at some point too

[red tiger]

A rule for everyone in here is do not put anything other than constant, primitive values outside of an event wrapper. If the code isn't fired from an event, you're setting yourself up for grief and a lot of time figuring out this is the reason why.

[tawny depot]

@bronze yoke when I'm calling getClassField, what am I calling that on?

If I have a reference to ISOBuilding, it doesn't have a method with that name

so I imagine it's something different?

[bronze yoke]

wdym it doesn't have a method with that name?

what line is complaining?

[bronze yoke]

getClassField(building, index)

they're globals

[tawny depot]

ahhh I see

thank you

[bronze yoke]

wait, can you even tostring a field without debug mode

[tawny depot]

nous allons voir

[bronze yoke]

fields are only exposed when debug is on, you can still pass the object itself but i don't know if it'll like tostring

you might be forced to hardcode it if so

[tropic smelt]

how to create clothing mods without melting my brain in the process?

[tawny depot]

that is a broad question

[red tiger]

What part of this is giving you trouble? It'd be better to ask about that step in the process.

[tawny depot]

public final Vector Windows

So this field is a vector, what is the equivalent lua type?

is it just vector?

I've seen a lot of Vector2 but this is just a straight vector

[bronze yoke]

vector

i did check when we were initially discussing it because i'd never seen it either, and it is exposed

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/util/Vector.html

[tawny depot]

Awesome! thanks

so this is odd lmao

When I load the windows, I get an object which is []

I call computeWindows() before

and this is in the console

[ornate grotto]

guys how do i make so player cant move and play animation

[trim mist]

oh oops I thought I passed them with "self"

[red tiger]

instance:method() === Class.method(instance)

[sharp minnow]

Does anyone know what isUseless is meant to do? I'm trying to make docile zombies based on a time bound set of rules, but i'm making an assumption about what isUseless does.

is it that useless is just useless? https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/characters/IsoZombie.html#isUseless()

[red tiger]

Could be a defunct flag in IsoZombie.

[trim mist]

I'm guessing it's like this?

[mellow frigate]

How to break the game (cannot start) 101 1/ Add a custom mod to your default start. 2/ In its sandbox options create a double parameter with a default value out of its min/max valid range. 3/ Realise how stupid I am.

[trim mist]

Yeah that was the very first error I had coming into here lol

[red tiger]

I wonder.. Would TIS get mad if I made a MCP but for PZ?

(Minecraft Coder Pack)

Asked myself this question for around 7 years but never asked it out loud)

[fast galleon]

one of us 🙂

[red tiger]

Basically is a decompiler that applies patches to that to make it compilable. When done, the coder pack compiles only the changes files and forms a patch.

[mellow frigate]

That's next level stuff

[red tiger]

I've built a patcher like this in the past for other work so I'd know the way to make it.

Also was around the MCP devs back then and watched it be made.

I'd refuse to make it if I was handed a statement saying there'd be legal trouble for doing it, even though the method to make this is gray-zone territory modding.

:D

Like MCP had to make statements and IIRC a agreement thing when running MCP to not use it to pirate or maliciously cheat on SMP.

[ornate grotto]

does anyone know how to make like so your character cant move and it plays an animation

[bronze yoke]

that's the sort of thing i was hinting at in the sledgehammer server

[red tiger]

Haha oh

Yeah. I could easily make this a reality if this were high in demand.

[bronze yoke]

i think it's perfectly legal, but when you can't afford a lawyer, everything with even the weakest argument of copyright is illegal

[fast galleon]

in a timed action?

[ornate grotto]

ig

i want to make so player fakely dies and then gets up

[red tiger]

Gotta fight the system. x)

[fast galleon]

if you had a timed action you would do

    self.character:setBlockMovement(true)
    self:setActionAnim("UtaCast")

you use same command to block movement but need to know when to start / stop
for animation depends, don't ask me how 😅

[ornate grotto]

                self.character:setBlockMovement(true)
                self:setActionAnim("Zombie_HitDeath_Cue01")
timer:Simple(3, function()
self:setActionAnim("Zombie_GetUp")
                        InfPla.setInfected(isoPlayer,true)
                    if InfPla.Verbose then print ('InfPla.updateInfected'..p2str(isoPlayer)); end
                    self.character:setBlockMovement(false)
                end)
                end)```
like this? and dont mind other stuff, and it fails for some reason

[fast galleon]

Here are some links with resources to get familiar with making mods for Project Zomboid.
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding
https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide
https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

I don't think you have same self or self.character in your case

[ornate grotto]

wait there is a player and character and not just player?

[ornate grotto]

for some reason when i used the thing that i copied from working script i still get error

[mild venture]

Hi again! It looks like I've found a solution for teleporting the car. But I am faced with a new issue
getCell():getVehicles() shows only vehicles nearby player. How do I get vehicles from another cell? I have the coordinates

[red tiger]

Check all loaded cells.

If you need to check a coordinate with an unloaded cell, load it and check it.

[ornate grotto]

can anyone explain why my script dosent work

[mild venture]

How to do it?

[tawdry solar]

idk

[ornate grotto]

                                        InfPla.setInfected(isoPlayer,true)
                    if InfPla.Verbose then print ('InfPla.updateInfected'..p2str(isoPlayer)); end
                InfPla:setActionAnim("MedicalCheck")
timer:Simple(3, function()
InfPla:setActionAnim("MedicalCheck")
                end)
                end)``` medical check is a placeholder anim

[tawdry solar]

maybe if we could see your script

ah

[red tiger]

If you use Umbrella, you can check to see if there's a getWorld() api call.

I think you get active chunks from that object.

[mild venture]

Oh thanks!

[trim mist]

:l i'm trying to organize my code, so I moved my event hooks into a new file under the client folder. I'm trying to reference to file and I don't understand what i'm doing wrong lol

local ATCreation = require("..shared/NPCs/AnthroTraitsMainCreationMethods")

[ornate grotto]

so will ya help?

[trim mist]

i've also tried to make it a module

[tawdry solar]

idk what it means

[trim mist]

here's my folder structure

[ornate grotto]

ok

[red tiger]

local world = getWorld();
local cell = world:getCell();
local wx, wy = 1000, 1000;
local chunk = cell:getChunk(wx, wy);

[fast galleon]

local ATCreation = require("NPCs/AnthroTraitsMainCreationMethods")

[red tiger]

I think that you're looking for chunks.

[trim mist]

huh. I thought the root folder was different--let me try that

[fast galleon]

you can test from console, if it's wrong it prints a message

[trim mist]

!! thank you--I hadn't thought of that

[mild venture]

I need BaseVehicle list. I will try IsoCell:getGridSquare(x, y, z) and IsoGridSquare:getVehicleContainer(). Thanks!

[mellow frigate]

what Vanilla action is an infinite action ? (timer never ending)

[tame mulch]

I think this is action with o.maxTime = -1

[ember crane]

What is the id of the gas mask?
I tried Base.GasMask but it didn't work

[tame mulch]

Try "Base.Hat_GasMask"

[tawdry solar]

man i fucking love making mods

[mellow frigate]

this is the way

[tame mulch]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/232196827577974784/1072243446741487636/ezgif.com-add-text.gif

[ornate grotto]

who can help me pls, my code for some reason dosent work timer:Simple(30, function() InfectedPlayer:setActionAnim("MedicalCheck") InfPla.setInfected(isoPlayer,true) if InfPla.Verbose then print ('InfPla.updateInfected'..p2str(isoPlayer)); end timer:Simple(3, function() end) end)

[tawdry solar]

common w aiteron

[bronze yoke]

there is only one loaded cell

isocell is a singleton representing the loaded area

the 300x300 mapping cells don't seem to be relevant to runtime

[tawny depot]

So it seems like window loading in buildings is completely unreliable

The windows list isn't filled it seems

[ornate grotto]

will anyone help me please

[tawny depot]

Help typically needs more context, not just this doesn't work

You should say what's happening, if you're getting an error post it

[trim mist]

so, maybe it wasn't me after all. I'm getting an error on leaving the occupation and traits page by pressing back or next. Maybe it's a UI thing i'm not aware of?

entering the page seems fine. But also the code I'm running seems to not work

[ember crane]

Thanks!
What about Dog Tags?

[ornate grotto]

for some reason the animation thing breaks and dosent work even if i used one from here

[tawny depot]

Breaks as in doesn't work?

Or breaks and throws an error?

Or does it just not do anything

[ornate grotto]

throws error

and animation dosent work

[tawny depot]

What does the error say?

[ornate grotto]

look at left down

[drifting ore]

Hey small quick question, i wanted to know if theres a way to extract the player 3d model into blender so i could create a few animations for it

[tawny depot]

Can you paste the line that throws the error?

It says line 50

[ornate grotto]

InfectedPlayer:setActionAnim("MedicalCheck")

[tawny depot]

Is InfectedPlayer the name of the variable?

Because I see InfPla

In other places in your script

[ornate grotto]

i made it infpla now

im actually editing a script btw

not making it from scratch

[bronze yoke]

i'm hoping this is just an outdated screenshot, but in your require your module is refered to as ATCreation but in your code you refer to it as AnthroTraitsMainCreationMethods

[tawny depot]

Right, just make sure the variable references are valid

[ornate grotto]

lets try get player ig

still dosent wrok

[tawny depot]

Are you reloading the Lua?

[ornate grotto]

yup

[trim mist]

yeah it's outdated haha. I had that up and was trying to reference it directly

[drifting ore]

what ide you using??

[trim mist]

IntelliJ

[tawny depot]

There's usually an error that gets posted above the screenshot you sent

Like java. ...

[drifting ore]

no fkin way u can code lua in intellij

[tawny depot]

And then a message

[drifting ore]

plugins required?

[tawny depot]

[bronze yoke]

ya there's a lua plugin

[drifting ore]

ill have to check that out then

love intellij, my beloved

new ui is garbage tho

[bronze yoke]

jetbrains ides my beloved

[tawny depot]

IntelliJ is awesome for java & kotlin

[drifting ore]

hate kotlin

[tawny depot]

Other than that, I typically stick to vscode

[tawny depot]

Why?

[drifting ore]

idk, i find it very odd. have only used it so far in mobile programming and im not a fan so far with my course.

[tawny depot]

Have you done much java?

[drifting ore]

in second semester java currently. i love it. most my class love JS, but i cant stand it

[tawny depot]

JavaScript is so bad

Second semester first year?

[drifting ore]

i think we just havent really been taught well with the kotlin/mobile. most of it we've just been instructed to follow along so i feel really confused with it

nah, 2nd year currently. we did python all first year

[tawny depot]

That'll do it

Idk Kotlin was nice when I used it

It's simpler java

Less boiler plate

Inferred types

[drifting ore]

maybe ill have to give it a shot in my free time. im not a fan of mobile programming either way, not what i want to do with my career

any good tips for getting into / learning lua? ive pondered trying modding. i look thru here every once in a while

[tawny depot]

Ill talk with you about it in #offtopic_non_pz

Just don't want to spam here lmao

[ornate grotto]

so will you help? me

[tawny depot]

Once you post the full error, it typically tells you at the top of the stack trace like I said

[ornate grotto]

so where is it

[tawny depot]

Lmao idk I'm not on your machine, you need to look for the part where it sounds like it's explaining what went wtong

[mild venture]

IsoCell:getGridSquare(x, y, z) and IsoGridSquare:getVehicleContainer() not working. After area unload cell:getGridSquare(x, y, zPos) return null. Any idea how to force load this?

[bronze yoke]

you cannot get vehicles that are not in the cell, the objects do not exist

[ornate grotto]

is this the right part? (in the output)

[mild venture]

How can i force load another cell? Maybe there is a hidden java method?

[bronze yoke]

there is only one cell

the cell is a singleton, it does not represent a fixed area, it represents the entire currently loaded area

you cannot force squares to load

[mild venture]

Thank you for explaining

[bronze yoke]

in mapping and i think in the save format there are also cells which are 300x300 areas but these don't seem to have any relevance to runtime

[mild venture]

But the cars are stored somewhere in the world. So somehow they can be accessed

[bronze yoke]

on the server they only exist when a player is near enough, and on the client they only exist when you are close enough

[tawny depot]

Looks like the reference is null

The player reference

[mild venture]

It is sad. And I can't change the entry in the database?

entry about vehicle

[ornate grotto]

so player is like null like he dosent exist for game

[tawny depot]

Seems like it

Maybe try printing the player variable before the call

See if it's null

[ornate grotto]

it isnt null ig, it says fullname:(playername) or smthn like that

[red tiger]

Sorry. Leaving the office. Was in a meeting.

@mild venture

@tawny depot I kid you not I scrolled so far through the chat history to catch up and I spotted you saying kotlin and freaked out.

I'm like who tf is talking kotlin in pz chat?

xD

[tawny depot]

Hahahaha

[mild venture]

Do you have any idea how to get unloaded vehicles? I think i need load bytebuffer of IsoGridSquare using IsoGridSquare:load but i dont know how to get it before 🙂

[bronze yoke]

you probably can't load unloaded squares

it's something a lot of people are very interested in and nobody has worked it out

it's best to write your code to expect things to be unloaded and cache data you might need

[mild venture]

I'm going to try. Thanks

[ember crane]

What is the simple Holter's id name?

Base.SimpleHolster didn't worked

[wet sandal]

Base.HolsterSimple

[ember crane]

Thank you!

[mellow frigate]

Can I configure somewhere that my admin new character does not spawn aumatically with GodMod and Invisible ? flags ?

[bronze yoke]

no

[mild venture]

i save BaseVihicle[] to cache but teleport magic doesnt work when cell is unload. I think i need to load unloaded squares. Tomorrow i'll try to deal with bytebuffer for IsoGridSquare:load

[lone nest]

Is there someone here on who knows and understands the TimedActions?
I am trying to figure out how to make an IsoPlayer run rather than walk.
If said person also knows how to do pathfinding, that's even better.

[bronze yoke]

i've done pathfinding

it's been a while so give me a second to look over the project that was in

[mellow frigate]

walkToAction for pathfinding. And if you want modded version you can look at Auto MoveTo mod. the run toggle and sprint toggle are handled on java side

[bronze yoke]

ya you just use ISPathFindAction it looks like

i think there's some luautils to simplify it

you can extend the action if you need to modify the behaviour but most of it is handled java side

[mellow frigate]

luautils is only for adjacent squares

[bronze yoke]

in my usage i just needed to remove the ability to cancel it which luckily was lua side

[lone nest]

Yeah that is what I wanted to avoid :(

IsoPlayer:getPathFindBehavior2():update() seems to override the setRunning() flag

[bronze yoke]

it looks like player update resets the flag anyway

[lone nest]

Hm? did you meant Events.OnPlayerUpdate?

[bronze yoke]

the player's update method, but that calls the event yeah

[lone nest]

Interesting... I wonder if I can toggle the flag continuously like that...

wonder what it will mean for the game performance though

[bronze yoke]

it's the same as ontick

setting one flag a tick should be harmless

[lone nest]

I'll try Events.OnPlayerMove later and see if its better.
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events/OnPlayerMove

[bronze yoke]

it's the same except that it's only if they moved that tick

i think it's even called in the same method

ya, it is, but this is much better because this one is called after the flag gets reset

if you did it onplayerupdate it would actually be reset immediately afterwards

[rancid panther]

made a sample of how my mod works

[bronze yoke]

oohhh that's fun

[rancid panther]

it's good with horror mods, and can create urgency before the permanent blackout in other types of runs

you can even customize it to be anywhere between a minor inconvenience to a sudden panic

[bronze yoke]

how frequent is it?

[rancid panther]

by default, 24 hours after a blackout you have a 10% chance of another blackout happening every hour

and blackouts last 30+ minutes, with a 25% chance of the blackout ending every 10 minutes

i actually recommend lower blackout chance and a really low recovery chance so you have infrequent long blackouts, but the default feels more comfortable for vanilla settings

[bronze yoke]

that sounds fun! have you considered perhaps an option to make them more frequent the closer it is to the power shutoff?

i was imagining it'd be fun if you started getting blackouts as a warning sign that it was coming

[rancid panther]

that would be cool. it sounds pretty doable, by just weighing the current date with the permanent date, but i havent worked on it in months. i just uploaded it so it doesnt remain abandoned forever

[bronze yoke]

well thank you for releasing it! i think i'll probably adopt it whenever i next actually play the game

[rancid panther]

that would be like a boolean option where if checked, then blackout chance just becomes (current date / shutoff date) or something right?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i was imagining maybe having it ramp up or something instead of linear but it'd have to be seen how exactly it would work

[rancid panther]

probably would add a ^2 somewhere for that

im sure someone could be inspired by my code to make something similar but less scuffed

[bronze yoke]

when i have less projects i wouldn't mind taking a look at it

and maybe it works better as it is, i shouldn't be coming up with 'improvements' before i've even tried it 😅

[rancid panther]

who knows! i made it for use with perma night so it can be a bit scarier without having the power off at all times, cuz i like the ambient noises of electronics

so i never really tested it with normal settings

[mild venture]

how to construct java ByteBuffer from lua?

[bronze yoke]

not exposed

[rancid panther]

another cool thing about the mod is that the power turning on sound comes from the nearest building, so if you are lost in the forest but there is a building nearby, it could be a lifesaver

u can hear it faintly from like 30 tiles away

[bronze yoke]

ooohh that's fun

[rancid panther]

the odds of that happening are so slim tho. usually u already know there are buildings nearby if you are that close to one during a blackout

another idea i had originally, that i ended up not doing, was making light flickering stuff

[bronze yoke]

oooh yeah that'd make it so smooth

[rancid panther]

i cut it out so i could upload the mod as-is, but hopefully someone releases a mod that does that so i can recommend it as a pairing

[bronze yoke]

i'm a big fan of pitch black nights so being vulnerable to that even in city centres pre-shutoff would be fun

[rancid panther]

yep! i did add a flashlight trait for 1 point so those who take it wont be left completely in the dark

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2992009278
and here is the mod link if anyone wanted to check it out

[mild venture]

Why do they expose methods that cannot be used? I'm already in a kind of frenzy. Not much more and goodbye zomboid

[bronze yoke]

the methods aren't deliberately exposed, they just happen to be public

[rancid panther]

oh another thing i wanted was a setting to make everything that produces light a little dimmer. that would go well with this in a horror-type run as well

[bronze yoke]

that sounds like an undertaking

[rancid panther]

flashlights, building lights, etc. they r a little too bright for horror sometimes

i havent played or modded the game in ages, so now im just putting my ideas out there

[ancient grail]

If you look at it with highly intellectual perspective you wont understand anything..

You have to dumbify yourself then you will be able to understand
And then build the logic from there

Not everything makes sense

And in reality
Not everything has to makesense
Imo

Such as humor
Not everyone gets it

Stop figuring out the "why"
And start learning the "how"

You will then be able to understand they "why" i think

Well not eveything

For me xml still doesnt make sense

Its probably easier for me than for you cuz im already dumb

[bronze yoke]

pz isn't so crazy once you understand its structure

and sometimes you have to accept that some things just weren't made for modders

[thin hornet]

If that may be of any use to anyone, for translation/encoding.
.gitattributes

**/Translate/AR/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/CA/*.txt encoding=iso-8859-15
**/Translate/CH/*.txt encoding=utf-8
**/Translate/CN/*.txt encoding=utf-8
**/Translate/CS/*.txt encoding=windows-1250
**/Translate/DA/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/DE/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/EN/*.txt encoding=utf-8
**/Translate/ES/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/FI/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/FR/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/HU/*.txt encoding=windows-1250
**/Translate/ID/*.txt encoding=utf-8
**/Translate/IT/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/JP/*.txt encoding=utf-8
**/Translate/KO/*.txt encoding=utf-16
**/Translate/NL/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/NO/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/PH/*.txt encoding=utf-8
**/Translate/PL/*.txt encoding=windows-1250
**/Translate/PT/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/PTBR/*.txt encoding=windows-1252
**/Translate/RO/*.txt encoding=utf-8
**/Translate/RU/*.txt encoding=windows-1251
**/Translate/TH/*.txt encoding=utf-8
**/Translate/TR/*.txt encoding=windows-1254
**/Translate/UA/*.txt encoding=windows-1251

[wet sandal]

It would be awesome if there was a way to change a textures magFilter from lua (and I suppose minFIlter as well for completeness)

I see the method sitting there on TextureID locked in Java land 😦

[hollow current]

I highly doubt that was the issue considering I was trying to test it on a server locally and I was unable to repro the issue, and setCustomName wasn't being used

[ancient grail]

Owell just thought it could help .

[bronze yoke]

that was something i suggested when the issue was being discussed

i don't really understand why it saves without that flag being set, but if it ain't broke don't fix it

[hollow current]

while you guys are here I have another issue to be discussed

lemme send summarization which I already wrote up previously instead of having to write it up again

My mod adds a search button for sorting these items in the container according to search criteria based on how close the search term is to the items, for example, I have M4, AK47, 9mm ammo, duck, canned food in the container, and my search term is "cann", it'll iterate over all items in the container, and sort them according to how closely they match the search term, in this instance, it'll sort canned food as first. If there's 0% match with the rest of items, it'll sort them alphabetically.

Anyways that's all just technicalities. My mod was finished and tested and logic works perfectly fine
the current issue is if the container has too many items (which is kinda the point since the mod is only useful if there's a container with too many item), and you use the search function implemented by the mod, the game becomes awfully laggy.

It only gets fixed if you switch back to default sorting mode. I'm not sure if that's a logic issue/optimization issue due to the way I made the code or not

[bronze yoke]

if the game becomes laggy, does that mean you're sorting it every frame instead of just when the search term changes?

[hollow current]

ISInventoryPane.itemSortBySearchContainer = function(a, b)
    local sortedItems = ISInventoryPane.sortedItems
    local sortedIndex = {}

    -- Create a lookup table for the sorted items
    for i, item in ipairs(sortedItems) do
        sortedIndex[item:getName()] = i
    end

    -- Compare the positions of the items in the sorted table
    local aIndex = sortedIndex[a.name]
    local bIndex = sortedIndex[b.name]

    if aIndex and bIndex then
        return aIndex < bIndex
    elseif aIndex then
        return true
    elseif bIndex then
        return false
    else
        -- If both items are not in the sorted table, use the default sorting function
        return ISInventoryPane.itemSortByNameInc(a, b)
    end
end```

I believe this is the part where things get actually sorted

https://pastebin.com/TUPkqd63

This is the whole code

now that I look at it I think it might make do with some more organisation tbh

[bronze yoke]

yeah i'm having a little trouble reading this

if it lags the game as long as it's active it seems very likely that it's sorting the container at all times

[hollow current]

I don't see or recall having anything in the code that makes the function being executed each frame

unless it is there by default in one the functions I am using

    self.itemSortFunc = ISInventoryPane.itemSortBySearchContainer```

maybe this idk

[bronze yoke]

well it's not really possible to cause lag on frames when your code isn't running, so...

[hollow current]

true

it wouldn't be caused by the tables being created would it? I've thought maybe because I am using too many tables or sth but idk I highly doubt it its just around 2/3 tables being created or used

[bronze yoke]

i can't spot it, maybe throw in some breakpoints?

or a print or something

there must be some part of the code that's running when it shouldn't be

[lone nest]

Dang, doesn't look like the Running flag is kept for whatever reason.

the character would run for 1 square then reverts to walking.

[bronze yoke]

was that with setting running on every playermove?

[lone nest]

Yeah

[bronze yoke]

that sucks

[wet sandal]

The only way I ever found to programatically control player speed while pathfinding was calling update on the pathfinder multiple times per frame

[lone nest]

tbf, I'm trying to determine if its its an issue because of the isNPC() flag.

then again, I shouldn't push too hard on this cause come b42, I expect the stuff to be completely revamped.

I suppose, my last resort is simply to fake the "running" by adjusting the move speed multiplier...

[jaunty marten]

lags may be caused by filling sortedItems each time: difficulty is O(N*K)

u need to fill it only single time when u add new item and after use it in it sort func

and extra question how much items do u have?

it can cause lags too and will need to use lazy fill

[hollow current]

I have a total of 50-something items in the container. Some items are stacks, so around 20-something unique items. I tried to add a print function to the code as follows:

for i, item in ipairs(sortedItems) do
        sortedIndex[item:getName()] = i
        print(i .. "\n")```
The console is literally spammed by numbers 1-51 being repeated countless times

[bronze yoke]

throw a breakpoint in there so you can see what is calling it all the time

i have a feeling this is a bad vanilla logic moment that is being made much worse by a more expensive sorting algorithm

[hollow current]

i guess its not being called all the time. Its just being called once (?)
the process isn't the same for a container of 3 items, it just prints
1
2
3
1
2
3

no hundreds of lines

[hollow current]

so i think i may have found something -- the sorting function is called each time you move around, even if its one step

probably explains why its so laggy when you're continously moving around the container

but looks normal when I just stand still

[jaunty marten]

what's event do u use?

[bronze yoke]

it's hooked into inventory functions

[jaunty marten]

[hollow current]

^

[novel barn]

Hi everyone 😦 I'm back on my bullshit and I'm stuck on something that has already been answered. If anyone is willing to take a look at what might be obvious it would be greatly appreciated. I'm following a template to intercept a function that Albion already provided here #mod_development message. I'm trying to do exactly what she suggested but I'm getting the following error on game startup. attempted index: GetEmptyItem of non-table. This fails on line 2 of the provided code.

This is all of my code. Right now literally all I'm trying to do is interrupt ISShovelGroundCursor.GetEmptyItem() to print a line and prove the original function still works as expected.

1 local old_SGC_GetEmptyItem = ISShovelGroundCursor.GetEmptyItem
2 ISShovelGroundCursor.GetEmptyItem = function(self, playerObj, groundType)
3    local oldValue = old_SGC_GetEmptyItem(self, playerObj, groundType)
4    print("attemping to intercept SGC.GetEmptyItem")
5    return oldValue
6 end

My leading theory is that the player doesn't even exist on game start, so of course there's no player table. However I get the same error in game with a valid character.
Thanks in advance to anyone who takes a look 🙇‍♂️

[fast galleon]

Sorting is bad, if you have ~10000 items with same name, the item list viewer gets overflow error.

#truemusicaddons

[fast galleon]

Is this hook in client folder?

[novel barn]

Yes!

[fast galleon]

Cursors are usually in server

[novel barn]

😮 I'll give that a shot!

[fast galleon]

So you need to delay the hook

or put it into server folder

[lone nest]

Well, that gave me an idea... it kind of works

the floating point is what's killing it though from what I can tell; the pathfinding is precision to the thousandth(?) and a "run" animation is far less precise.

[sharp minnow]

Anyone who finds this in the future - try searching for setUseless, based on what I’ve found it does turn Zombies docile - pillows FearTheSun mod uses it well as setUseless.

[jade chasm]

hey guys. for distributions that aren't procedural like outfits, shotgun bags, caches, etc. does table.insert(Distributions.list.blahblah.items, "item") work?

[humble imp]

hi guys where can i find any modding documentation? i cant find a single video on youtube

cant find anything on google either

[fast galleon]

Hello, welcome to PZ mod development!
Here are some links with resources to get familiar with making mods for Project Zomboid.
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding
https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide

[humble imp]

thx

[fast galleon]

Check the Distribution.lua file to see details for what you want.

[jade chasm]

yeah but can I insert into those roll tables using that table insert

[fast galleon]

yes, as long as it is not a procedural table.

If it has rolls and items it will work.

[jade chasm]

yeah like I can just delete procedural or vehicle from table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list. or table.insert(VehicleDistributions. and put it in?

ok thanks

[jade chasm]

or am i supposed to use table.insert(Distributions, 1, distributionTable);

[fast galleon]

There's some famously bad mods that will break your mod if you use that. You should use the Suburbs table and insert to the existing tables of your choice.

[red tiger]

Would be nice to make my own tutorial environment.

[cinder oyster]

hey is there any template for a flying vehicle

i want to make a jetpack

like the one from GTAO

like that

also, i made a melee weapon earlier and i cant seem to figure out how to get it to be positioned correctly in game. like the rotation is all fucked. could any one help me find the thing to tweak that?

[cinder oyster]

never mind my last msg

my stupid ahh was editing the files that weren't in the right folder

[drifting ore]

hey, does anyone know where the file is that defines what the different in-game pills do? i can't seem to find it.

[bronze yoke]

hardcoded in bodydamage

[drifting ore]

ah, figured. thanks.

[ancient grail]

You could require my flight mod

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

[wet sandal]

Anyone know if anyone created a automated test framework of some sorts?
Getting anxiety everytime I update Inventory Tetris now...

[drifting ore]

anyone here use this ? https://studio.zerobrane.com/ is it worthwhile or should i just stick with the intellij lua plugin?

[mild venture]

Hello! What does BaseVehicle:update method?

[cinder oyster]

much love my brother

also

i just uploaded my first ever mod

feelin proud of my garbage

[lone nest]

garbage is only in the eye of the beholder.

if you feel your work is trash, don't upload it

if you don't feel your work is trash, be prepared for other people to trash it because trashy people.

[bronze yoke]

if you're feeling proud then it's not garbage x3

[wet sandal]

I don't want to be mean to users, but it really do be like this

They find every little issue.
Its best to ignore them, you'll drive yourself mad if you care too much.

[lone nest]

^

[wet sandal]

Or fix everything in a mad flurry of rage

[lone nest]

Depends on whether or not said things is up to your standard and you have the constructive feedback you needed.

the ignorant fools don't understand how hard it is to work with PZ Events, never mind APIs

the better people learn to ask questions, which can be helpful and put another perspective on problems you ran/run into.

[wet sandal]

My own wish is that people could better differentiate between, "this mod is literally broken" and "Oh, I have a mod conflict"

[bronze yoke]

tried PZEventStubs yet?

[wet sandal]

Whats this?

[lone nest]

no, I'd like a look

[bronze yoke]

it's the umbrella module i wrote

https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventStubs

[lone nest]

I'm using Candle already

[bronze yoke]

as far as i know it's the only up to date event dataset, there's a text version linked in the readme if that's more your style

[wet sandal]

:V

I can have autocomplete

I looked at Jabs stuff before and somehow missed this completely

[red tiger]

I wrote the generator for Candle.

And PipeWrench.

[lone nest]

now hes gonna come out and flex

[red tiger]

I lurk..

[bronze yoke]

umbrella is huge for lua modding

[red tiger]

I'm present a lot more times than you'd think.

[lone nest]

OK, thanks, i'll look at the EventStubs; though I'm unsure if it does anything Candle doesn't do already.

[bronze yoke]

there's no overlap really, unless you mean umbrella when you say candle

[lone nest]

I only see candle in my VSCode

[bronze yoke]

Events is PZEventStubs

[lone nest]

Oh dang, thanks for clarifying

[bronze yoke]

umbrella is a collection of tools like this

[bronze yoke]

if anyone finds any detail that would've been helpful to know about events let me know so i can add it to the dataset, or send a pull request

[red tiger]

I'm working on the application that allows patching PZ-Rosetta for additional documentation.

[bronze yoke]

it's more detailed than the wiki was, and a lot more up to date, but i still come across 'oh, it should really mention this' moments regularly

[red tiger]

This is an example of me patching PZ-Rosetta for ISUIElement:drawTexture():

[lone nest]

that overload

[bronze yoke]

i gotta convert it over to the rosetta schema at some point

[red tiger]

We've got to come up with a schema for events in Rosetta that suits your needs.

[wet sandal]

Holy cow. I get red underlines now.

This is magic.

Compilers aren't real

[red tiger]

Thankfully I can write JSON Schemas.

Works for both YML and JSON as schemas.

[bronze yoke]

honestly the one i saw already in rosetta looks fine, it does need me to go over some things again but added detail is always good

[red tiger]

Yeah. We're setting the standard for it.

I'm also setting the standard for ZedScript at the same time.

There's no official support for ZedScript from TIS so it's the closest thing we've got.

When I have software to easily patch Rosetta from a UI, modders should start jumping in and document what they know. (If they want to contribute)

Means we can handle ourselves with documenting for others to see through Umbrella.

[bronze yoke]

yeah, my hope is that the projects survive us

we've at least made it possible, which wasn't really the case with stuff like capsid

[red tiger]

It's not my biggest concern. The code is open, documented, and clean. My big concern is will it be used at all.

[bronze yoke]

they're growing in popularity

[red tiger]

I've built many solutions directly off of the concerned and complaints of people in here and other areas of the community over the past near decade. Most of them continued to bitch and not use the solutions given to them.

I'd rather focus on projects that people use.

[wet sandal]

Thats fair, regardless thank you for everything you've made.

[red tiger]

It's why I'm a shorter fuse than most.

[wet sandal]

I can't believe I haven't been using Umbrella.

Clown moment

[red tiger]

Modders can set the standards for modding just as much as the devs can. =)

I'm planning to walk through the entire ISUI codebase and self-document it.

[bronze yoke]

when the tool is in place i'll make a habit of documenting whatever i end up having to work out

[red tiger]

Awesome. That's the end-game for Umbrella. (My goal)

[bronze yoke]

i spend a lot of time crawling the source working out what methods actually do, might as well write it down for everyone else

[red tiger]

A self-improving tool.

[mild venture]

for example you can add info about OnPlayerUpdate and OnTick fires with the same frequency. The only difference is that the first one gets the player's object

[wet sandal]

OnPlayerUpdate could potentially fire 4 times per tick

[bronze yoke]

yeah, it's per-player

i will try to clarify that

i gave it a pretty useless description originally

[mild venture]

Thanks for your work guys. It helps a lot

[wet sandal]

It also doesn't fire on the server side(?)

Not positive about that, probably might be worth clarifying the mp behaviour on the events as well.

[bronze yoke]

it's mentioned in there

[wet sandal]

Ah, sorry

[bronze yoke]

most events have client/server only tags

[red tiger]

You can always use commands.

[bronze yoke]

additionally in a lot of places i use the term 'local player'/occasionally 'local zombie' but i don't define what that means anywhere, there isn't really a place to unfortunately

local players are the 1-4 players on the specific client, not players from other clients who are in the loaded area, and local zombies are the zombies that this client has authority over (which is much harder to explain)

[red tiger]

Might be a good idea to write basic summaries with context with technical tips below.

[mild venture]

OnPlayerMove is fire when player drive a car?

or if player use teleport as admin?

[bronze yoke]

needs verification but i think it's specifically walking

i think it even fires if you're walking into a wall, you don't actually have to move

[mild venture]

I'll check it out soon. I will inform you about the results

[trim mist]

how cursed would it be if I wrapped my scripts in a

ScriptName = {
...
}
return ScriptName

?

I want to access functions from a different file but it's proving really difficult

or should I just make said function global?

[bronze yoke]

some people choose to do that, i think it's fine if you can accept your entire script being indented

[red tiger]

You realize that this is industry standard Lua modules right?

[bronze yoke]

i will never say yes to this question x3

[mild venture]

I do this so as not to produce global variables. Only I use local ScriptName

[red tiger]

local myModule = {};

-- ...

return myModule;

[mild venture]

exactly

[trim mist]

nope! PZ is my first and only exprience using Lua

[bronze yoke]

ya, that's the usual method

[trim mist]

so I really have no idea how it's supposed to look

[red tiger]

I have to say this so many times.. Do not use PZ as a standard.

[bronze yoke]

i saw someone who used fenv to sort of do it the way you're doing but imo just do it the normal way

[red tiger]

Always conform to industry standards.

[bronze yoke]

i got most of my lua knowledge from zomboid and it's always great finding out some massive optimisation or some trick that makes the code 100x prettier and it's just... a completely standard lua thing everyone does

[trim mist]

okay 🥺

[trim mist]

yeah i guess this is the first time i'm running into specifically that lmao

[mild venture]

It seems to me that using as few global variables as possible is best practices for any language

[red tiger]

Yes.

Using global like PZ is very cheap and prone to collisions, deep issues, etc.

requiring modules as variables keeps things clean.

It's basically namespaces.

[bronze yoke]

the world if lua variables were local by default

[jaunty marten]

please, use other screenshot, I can't see this again and again

[red tiger]

Because I wrote it as an example? xD

[red tiger]

local element = ISUIElement:new(0x0, 0x0, 0x400, 0x300);

[mild venture]

OnPlayerMove only is for walking

running, etc

[jaunty marten]

[red tiger]

Might be learning Rust, @jaunty marten

https://tauri.app/

Am getting impatient with Electron.. and all the tutorials out there being out of date.

[tawdry solar]

whats rust

[mild venture]

@bronze yoke ReuseGridsquare fires only when you exit from game? I can't catch this event when I move around the world. Maybe there is some other event fires when IsoCell or IsoGridSquare or BaseVehicle is unloaded?

[jaunty marten]

yea, rust is a cool thing

[mild venture]

programming language

[tawdry solar]

ah

[mild venture]

How do I catch an area unloading?

Preferably before it is unloaded

[livid ingot]

@wet sandal hey, it still errs for me when i start up the game and whenever i check for loot. im using search mode and gravity if that helps

[red tiger]

Might be good to do this convo in #mod_support But I don't see anyone actively talking here.

[livid ingot]

oh whoops

[wet sandal]

Just try resubbing to the mod, forces Steam to redownload it

[mild venture]

Hm, cant find method to get coords for IsoPlayer, can anyone help?

[bronze yoke]

player:getX() :getY() :getZ()

[mild venture]

Oh,. thanks. It iherited from IsoObject. I didn't guess

[red tiger]

tuple tuple tuple

local x, y, z = player:getX(), player:getY(), player:getZ();

[mild venture]

Is my theory correct that when "Events.LoadGridsquare" is triggered, then some other IsoGridSquare is unloaded?

[trim mist]

Is it weird to reference a mod in a portion of a module like this?

[lone nest]

in my experience, yes, that is indeed the case.

[trim mist]

also idk if "this" would work in this situation

[mild venture]

this is self?

[fast galleon]

usually they are reused and the same object can be pulled

[bronze yoke]

i've seen this done before

and 'this' does not work, 'this' is usually 'self' in lua, but your function doesn't have a self anyway

[mild venture]

self must be arg or you must use syntax sugar -- ":"

[fast galleon]

you can always do local self = ... or local this = ...

[red tiger]

self is a special param that is handled in the function header internally but passed either explicitly via Class.function(self, ..) or classInstance:function(..).

:func() === .func(self)

[mild venture]

I know, that's what I was trying to say 🙂

[red tiger]

I said it for people in here who might not know.

I might be useless in here when people ask questions about implementing API but I know the rules of the language.

xD

[fast galleon]

any chance you made the guide, because I only the see the functions but there is no information about them

[red tiger]

Explain pls. Not sure what you mean.

Did you install the vscode extension `Lua Language Server"?

[fast galleon]

I use Intellij, so I need a guide for vscode to see if it's worth changing programs.

[bronze yoke]

emmylua is fully compatible

[mild venture]

in vscode its not working for me

[fast galleon]

But I reinstalled since there was an update and seem to get more information now, not sure if you updated something.

[mild venture]

yes

[bronze yoke]

what information is missing?

[fast galleon]

for me it only said std apis before, now it show this

[red tiger]

My default installation works so I'm not sure if this is due to changes to something I'm not aware of, such as limits to execution of tasks in extensions.

Do you have a weak computer?

This is all I can think of atm.

Either:

• Your vscode is very out of date (Which is not an issue since it's so easy to update it)
• You aren't loading the right extensions
• Some setting is preventing fully loading the typings (Files too large?)
• Something else

[bronze yoke]

this is what you should be seeing

[mild venture]

is it vscode? looks like idea

[red tiger]

This is what I see.

I have to let the Lua extension load all the typings first.

You can see it in the bottom-left when loading the project in VSCode.

[mild venture]

Its for me? I have very large project. All mods of server. I think it is some limitation in Lua Language Server, but i cant find how to config this limit. I use emmyLua now, but I don't like it

[red tiger]

Wish I could reproduce your situation so I can write a solution Q&A for it.

[bronze yoke]

there's no reason to use vscode's emmylua

[red tiger]

the LLS extension is way better but something is preventing your typings from loading fully.

[bronze yoke]

it's just worse than lua language server, but for intellij we don't have anything better

[red tiger]

(3 months later) "Hey so I just rewrote EmmyLua for IDEA and.."

[bronze yoke]

LOL

[fast galleon]

interesting, this now shows but getPlayer doesn't, it only says global now

[bronze yoke]

there is a fork that looks promising but when i tried it it refused to load umbrella whatsoever

[red tiger]

IDEA should support language server.

[mild venture]

reaseon is Lua Language Server not woking with Candle in my project

[red tiger]

Could repackage LLS for IDEA.

[fast galleon]

hm, how do I stop a temporary patch from replacing annotations of the function

it finally made sense why it said prevFn 😅

adding it to _G seems to work

[fast galleon]

any tips how I would see information about the events?

[red tiger]

Type the event listener out normally and IntelliSense should show you.

[bronze yoke]

just type Events. and it'll show a dropdown

you can see the event description by mousing over either the event name or the .add(), and the .add() will tell you the parameters

[slow granite]

EFE#3966 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fast galleon]

Same happens with a new project.

[fast galleon]

In previous versions of Umbrella I got warnings about circular loops but I never tracked down the issue.

[fast galleon]

that's nice, but how do I get that? 😅

[bronze yoke]

idk! i don't really know what could be different between our setups

the setup is just 'download umbrella, add it as a library', it seems like you did that part right so i don't get why yours is behaving so differently

[fast galleon]

I have the file and can find the information, but there is no intelliSense 😦

[bronze yoke]

are you using emmylua?

i was trying some forks the other day but the ones i tried completely refused it

[fast galleon]

yes

It also seems to work when I am checking the entry in the events file.

[ember crane]

How do I get an item's id from a mod?

[fast galleon]

Either search in the script directory or find the item in the debug Item List, this will give you the type, for the full type you can right click the spawned item and there should be some debug buttons like edit.

[ember crane]

And what about the mod prefix?

The replacement for Base.

[bronze yoke]

that is in the full type

if you're looking in the script the module will be declared at the top of the file

[ember crane]

What software do I need to view all the code?

[mellow frigate]

Hello, what should I call from lua to activate the sound of the vanilla file "PZ_MaleZombieEating.wav"

[lone nest]

getSoundManager():PlayWorldSound() I think

[forest harbor]

Hi guys, I'm trying to add a new "animation" when an object is equipped, I'm studying how the "Cuffs" mod does it and everything works good until I try to actually change the pose of the model in my custom one and export it in .fbx (the original file is fbx too). I get an **Anim Clip not found **Error so the problem should be how the file is exported. Somebody knows how to export it successfully? (I'm using blender)

[bronze yoke]

try asking in #modeling and check the pins in there

[forest harbor]

thanks I'll check that

[mellow frigate]

thx mate, I used getSoundManager():PlaySound();

[red tiger]

I want to work on my own PZ music again. =( Just reminded me of those feels...

[turbid gale]

Are contributors not allowed to update workshop items? Every time I try I get an error code of 8 and I'm at a complete loss as to what could be causing it.

[bronze yoke]

contributors are not allowed to update workshop items

[turbid gale]

damn this makes things a bit annoying. oh well.

[bronze yoke]

ya, steam does not really support multi-developer projects that well

[red tiger]

The only way to do it is unsecurely through GitHub actions on a repo.

[mellow frigate]

and switched to isoGameCharacter:playSoundLocal()

[tawdry solar]

Been doing some syntax today

Somone should make a mod that removes the stunlock when pvp

[mellow frigate]

@tame mulch is there a way to get informed in lua of an animation event ? I have hard time synchronizing my Player zombie Banging on a door animation with the sound and door animation effect.

[tame mulch]

I think only in Action possible:

[mellow frigate]

awesome ! animations from lua are mostly actions anyway. It looks like animations must be Action or State and states are java only.

[ancient grail]

you can check for animation monitor code

[mellow frigate]

it does not push the events

[lone nest]

I think events and actions are independent of each other.

[mellow frigate]

it works

[lone nest]

whenremoveFromWorld() is called, does it also remove the object from the square? removeFromSquare()

[red tiger]

I wonder..

I wonder if I should stay up tonight.

And mod the shit out of this game.

@jaunty marten I'm liking Tauri so far. No issues.

Am using sass, typescript, and tauri.

[deft plaza]

I was gonna work on my mod again until it crashed my game

I guess I'll post my code

fingers crossed no one gets butthurt over it

[tawny depot]

oh my god

just found this in the source code

this function goes on for like 1k lines

which is almost entirely if else statements

[deft plaza]

hey coolroo may I ask and am I allowed to ask what your making

[mellow frigate]

so an } too much and the world is out.

[deft plaza]

wait what

[deft plaza]

can you explain

[mellow frigate]

yeah I'm wrong , but you miss a , after protein

a ','

[deft plaza]

oh man

[formal oasis]

Hello, i've got a new problem if anyone is so inclined to help.

I'm looking for a way to store data to a specific item. Say you've got a gasmask, and you are recording + 1 for every ten minutes its worn, then is there a way to tie that recorded data to that specific gasmask? Not every instance of hat_gasmask, just that single one the player is wearing.

I am under the impression modData will do what I want here, im just not 100% sure how to go about it, since there isnt a lot of reading material about it

[bronze sand]

Learning about weapon stats
Can someone please explain how CriticalChance and ConditionLowerChanceOneIn work?
The Baseball Bat has a CriticalChance = 40, while the Spiked Baseball Bat has CriticalChance = 30
So which one is more likely to strike a critical hit?
Is a lower number better here?

[bronze yoke]

there are SO many of these

[tame mulch]

item:getModData().record = item:getModData().record + 1

[formal oasis]

Cant say for certain on critchance, but I believe the higher the better

What I can say is, ConditionLowerChanceOneIn, is the chance it lowers its total condition

so ConditionLowerChanceOneIn = 15 is a 1 in 15 chance its condition gets lowered

[bronze yoke]

higher is better

[formal oasis]

Thank you very much, ill try this out.

[bronze yoke]

there's a lot of factors that affect critical chance so know that a crit chance of 30% doesn't mean you get crits as often as 30% on most characters

[deft plaza]

I'm gonna send it again because I don't know

🙏

hold up forgot protein

[bronze yoke]

you just have imports on its own

delete it or actually import something

[deft plaza]

what is import

[tawny depot]

I was hoping to make a mod called Supernatural Occurences!

[bronze yoke]

it lets you reference items from that module without using their full type

[deft plaza]

sounds fun!

[tawny depot]

Essentially, you have a "haunted" level, this increases when you kill zombies, and decreases over time

[bronze yoke]

you usually only need to import things when you're making recipes

[deft plaza]

oh okay so no recipes for me

[bronze yoke]

delete the imports line and it might start working

[tawny depot]

the more haunted you are, the more likely a supernatural event is to take place, EG: Window smashes in the building you are in, door slams, etc...

[deft plaza]

okay

[deft plaza]

will there be any special sounds

[tawny depot]

this explains the performance issues

[deft plaza]

?

[tawny depot]

I hope so! I'm essentially learning the mod tools and anything I can learn will. be used

[bronze yoke]

the main ones i've seen are in the script loading methods so they're not *too* bad

it seems like it's more annoying to write and it does run slower but at least it's during load time

[tame mulch]

You often use DoParam?

[tawny depot]

Lmao can't say I do, I just like programming horror

[bronze yoke]

given that it's primarily a load time thing the performance difference isn't that significant

[deft plaza]

I have a idea but I'm not sure how that would work

how about you make some figure run across the screen or something

like a sprinter

[tawny depot]

Yeah I figured when you said there are SO many of these it was that they were littered throughout the codebase

instead of just at load time

[rancid panther]

dang.. apparently my blackouts mod does not work properly in multiplayer

[bronze yoke]

there's definitely some inappropriate usages but the big scary ones i've seen are in script loading methods

[rancid panther]

i guess it makes sense since it changes the shutoff date directly in order to get the actual blackout effect. that probably doesnt update real time in servers except for the host

[deft plaza]

okay guys we have a problem albion it stopped crashing but I try placing a model

[bronze yoke]

my only issue with it really is:

1. why do you want to write your code like this, switch cases are prettier 🥺
2. the calling of trim every single time bugs me

[deft plaza]

and there is nothing there

[tawny depot]

^^^^

I was thinking that

so many string operations

[deft plaza]

nothing is there I even selected the place option

[rancid panther]

maybe it is under the grass tile

[deft plaza]

maybe

[bronze yoke]

check if the model path is correct, otherwise it might be too big or too small

[tawny depot]

on the magnitude of 500, and keeping in mind this is called in a for loop which is a loop for a list of strings

[deft plaza]

alright one sec

[bronze yoke]

for every parameter for every item in the game

[rancid panther]

i am not working on modding anymore (at least for the forseeable future) so i wont be making a multiplayer fix for my mod anytime soon

[bronze yoke]

load times are quite good for me so i can't say it's a big deal but it is a little bothersome

[rancid panther]

oh well

maybe someone will play with the idea in the future and make a better mod

[deft plaza]

this is the mesh

you got to click on it

I'm not sure what to do

[trim mist]

I just made the most glorious commit message

[bronze yoke]

LOL

[trim mist]

also I just wanna shout out to @novel barn for helping me out with my trait sorting code, he was a huge help. Thank you!

[novel barn]

Glad I could help! I'm far stronger at testing things than writing them myself 🙂

[trim mist]

Normally I hate QA people for that, but turns out when I'm invested in a project it's a huge help! Who knew!

[deft plaza]

okay what's wrong here I'm looking at blender stuff

[trim mist]

lmao

[trim mist]

#modeling

[deft plaza]

thanks I guess

[tame mulch]

I think need apply scale for model

[deft plaza]

Can you tell me how so I write it down for the morning

[deft plaza]

Thank you man

This is my second mod so

[novel barn]

Hey all! I've got what I hope is a simple question. I have the following override function:

local old_SGC_GetEmptyItem = ISShovelGroundCursor.GetEmptyItem
ISShovelGroundCursor.GetEmptyItem = function(playerObj, groundType)
    print("attempting to intercept SGC.GetEmptyItem")
    local oldValue = old_SGC_GetEmptyItem(playerObj, groundType)
    return oldValue
end

I set a breakpoint on the first line of the original ISShovelGroundCursor.GetEmptyItem() and somehow my print statement fires three times before the original function fires? Logically that doesn't make any sense at all to me. Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on?

[bronze yoke]

[novel barn]

Scratch that... I killed PZ, verified game files, and relaunched and now it's behaving. I'mma just sweep that problem under the rug and pretend I never saw it.

[bronze yoke]

LOL

[novel barn]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[bronze yoke]

sometimes the answer is simply 'it's haunted'

[novel barn]

yes

[bronze sand]

So that means the Baseball Bat with Nails has worse Crits and it's more likely to break than the normal Baseball Bat?

[bronze yoke]

i suppose it would, yes

[novel barn]

🙈 I've got one more question for the night if anyone feels like ghost hunting with me. The above function override seems to be "working" in the sense that it can carry on to call the original ISShovelGroundCursor.GetEmptyItem. I have a break point inside the original to look at the playerInv variable it writes. I want to see what is in my player's inventory in the debugger. However when I click on the playerInv object and then click on items, it appears to be empty? Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the debugger works?

My ultimate problem is that even though I'm not changing anything at all, somehow my inventory gets lost between the start of my override function and the oldValue it returns.

[trim mist]

So i've learned to take what the debug console says with a grain of salt. Especially after reloading my mod without restarting the whole game

sometimes it will say things are nil without them actually being nil

[novel barn]

I've been restarting so much 🙃 This is after a restart unfortunately.

[trim mist]

it won't display certain datatypes if I click on them, and then throw an error every action afterwards

i've had the former happen though before first restart

idk if lua is compiled or interpreted, but i think if a var gets declared but not used the game ignores it

alllllso depending on the datatype it might not error out and instead everything that it is, is in the name

that might be happening with the inv?

especially if you have "trainer" shoes lol