mod_development

[distant crow]

I was just gonna set up a vanilla+ pack (do people in this game use such term?) for my first play through and noticed there wasn't a regeneration (the yellow explosion -> new character) one, which caught me off guard considering how people seem to deal with death in this community

I am quite curious how deep modding can go, to decide how "immersive" my mod could be.

I am thinking, when a character is mortally wounded/bitten and too infected, your hands/overall skin start to glow and you hear faint sound. You then get ability to press a button and, in a very explosive way, reset your progress (no idea how progress worls here), and become a completely new character but in same place and with same gear equipped. You might also get temporary debuffs right after. Just like in Doctor Who! I am already thinking about how this could likely be implementable based on my knowledge of MC modding (probably rather different though)

[winter thunder]

rq, anyone know a simple way to mess with happiness? Its not explicitly listed in Stats, so I assume it is named something else...?

[bronze yoke]

isn't it unhappiness?

[bronze yoke]

i'm not sure if the glowing part is really possible but resetting the character is possible if a little impractical

[winter thunder]

There is nothing related to happiness under the Stats class explicitly as far as I have found

[distant crow]

Okay, cheers!

[winter thunder]

Unless it is morale

But anger and sanity are also in there, so idk if there are diff unused I shouldnt touch

[bronze yoke]

you kind of just have to reset every possible thing you can, you might just be able to create a new player object and swap over the few things you do want to carry over but the game might get mad at that

[bronze yoke]

check bodydamage

iirc morale is unused

[winter thunder]

I did. There is an "unhappyness" level. but I dont know if that is equivalent to the Stats versions for editing...

[bronze yoke]

it's probably just bodydamage only

hmm but it does have boredom redundant with stats

i'd say 'it wouldn't have a setter if it doesn't work' but bodydamage is particularly notable for having many setters that don't work or don't do anything

[winter thunder]

Love that 😅

[bronze yoke]

love having setters for properties that literally don't do anything and never have, love having setters for things that get overwritten by the main loop

[hidden jungle]

can you re-order the context menu after it completes?
i'm adding a context menu to inventory items and i'm trying to make it not appear at the bottom of the list

[bronze yoke]

you can addOptionAfter

[hidden jungle]

how does that work? the only context menu functions i know of are addOption and addSubMenu

[bronze yoke]

you should look through ISContextMenu

lots of useful stuff in there

not at my pc rn and i'm intellisense dependent so i can't just give you a straight answer

[hidden jungle]

lol, i found ISMenuContext but that only has 30 lines in it

found it, its under ISUI

thanks though, this looks like exactly what i needed

[tardy wren]

It's in bodyDamage last I checked

[hidden jungle]

getPlayer():getBodyDamage():getUnhappynessLevel()```
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/characters/BodyDamage/BodyDamage.html#getUnhappynessLevel()

[tardy wren]

The setter for it does appear to be coded in

[bronze yoke]

unfortunately doesn't always mean it works, particularly when it comes to bodydamage

but the fastest way to test that is to just do it

[tardy wren]

Uh, anyone been decompiling zomboid lately? Mine's throwing errors

'org.gradle.api.tasks.JavaExec io.pzstorm.capsid.zomboid.task.ZomboidVersionTask.setMain(java.lang.String)'

Gradle's dependency cache may be corrupt (this sometimes occurs after a network connection timeout.)

Re-download dependencies and sync project (requires network)
The state of a Gradle build process (daemon) may be corrupt. Stopping all Gradle daemons may solve this problem.

Stop Gradle build processes (requires restart)
Your project may be using a third-party plugin which is not compatible with the other plugins in the project or the version of Gradle requested by the project.

In the case of corrupt Gradle processes, you can also try closing the IDE and then killing all Java processes.

[bronze yoke]

don't use capsid

it's very outdated

[tardy wren]

What decompilation thing should I use then?

[bronze yoke]

decompile it normally or use beautiful-java if you want something a bit easier to read

[tardy wren]

Uh...

Please do elaborate

[fast galleon]

I think capsid decompile is safest right now because it includes an older decompiler, while the updated one throws errors.

#mod_development message

[bronze yoke]

beautiful java is a tool co made that decompiles zomboid with intellij's decompiler and renames variables to suck a bit less

it's not as ridiculously annoying to set up as capsid

[tardy wren]

Ah, so I have too new Gradle, probably

[bronze yoke]

if you want the lua libraries capsid generates, candle (bundled in umbrella) is way better and doesn't need you to generate them yourself

[tardy wren]

I think I only need the Java code for what I need

I have the Lua libraries for development already

[tardy wren]

Can you give me a link? I can't seem to find it

[fast galleon]

https://github.com/quarantin/beautiful-java

[tardy wren]

Thank you

I'll decompile some Zomboid with this and see if I can finally end my madness-induced search

Also to redo tailoring

I just realized...

Zomboid Server and Zomboid Game are... two different source codes?

Like, it makes sense, but considering you can host a multiplayer game yourself, I thought that the game already includes server code in itself...

And yet, BeautifulJava outputs the code to different folders if it's the server or the client that's decompiled

[tardy wren]

Do you know which folder should I use to read the code? Decompile or Sources?

[fast galleon]

I think it is pz/41.78/decompiled/?

[tardy wren]

Okay

Well, I can't get it uploaded to my file comparison place

[tardy basin]

Is there any way to make corpse sickness start at 1 corpse? Not seeing any options for it in the packaging

[tardy wren]

I'm struggling to understand how UI hooks into... calling some Java functions

removeAllOption = context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_RemoveAllPatches"), self.chr, ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.removeAllPatches, self.clothing, self.parts, needle);
Does this add a context menu option that calls a function when added?

[neon bronze]

Yes it calls ISInventoryPaneContextMenu:removeAllPatches

And passes self.chr, self.clothing, self.parts and needle

[tardy wren]

Wait, so all functions for various interactions with items are in there?

I can pass in any lua function into addOption, right?

[neon bronze]

Yep

Should work

[tardy wren]

Hmmm... Okay then

This is gonna be very hard

[mellow frigate]

Hello there, I got reports of a problem I do not understand with one of my mods. ```
require "ISUI/AdminPanel/ISItemsListTable"

if ISItemsListTable.isModdedIconPatched then return end

local lcl = {}
lcl.item_base = __classmetatables[Item.class].__index --__classmetatables[Item.class] is null
lcl.item_getIcon = lcl.item_base.getIcon
lcl.item_getIconsForTexture = lcl.item_base.getIconsForTexture
lcl.item_getNormalTexture = lcl.item_base.getNormalTexture
lcl.item_getCategory = lcl.item_base.getTypeString```

how can __classmetatables[Item.class] be null ?

Also this does not occure to me but it occures to other players

[fast galleon]

minor clarification, the function is called when the option is pressed (selected) not when it is added.

[tardy wren]

Right, yes ,that's what I meant... Still... what I want is gonna get a little awonky

[fast galleon]

I hate to assume anything but maybe somebody makes a new global variable Item?

[mellow frigate]

Oh my..

[fast galleon]

Changing the function is not that hard, you can patch the function before it is added or find the added option and replace it.

[tardy wren]

I see. What I really want to do is change the function and also modify the underlying logic, touching the tailoring menu... Issue is, half of it is buried in Java

[fast galleon]

that's true, I have heard some of patches logic is hardcoded.

[tardy wren]

Sure is... I actually cannot do what I want with it because it's all hard-coded

A shame, really..

[red tiger]

What a nice tool. It'd be nice for a vscode extension.

Would a extension providing the same tools bother you in any way?

[abstract raptor]

I wound up needing to change the code further haha but I have it as an exe now

Works perfectly for generating tapes

[red tiger]

I'm a very active vscode extension developer right now with PZ tools.

[abstract raptor]

I mean be my guest you can borrow the code haha

Might need tweaking

[red tiger]

Oh. I'd do my own code but I might reference the tool to learn the format.

All my work is in Typescript.

[abstract raptor]

Oh for sure

Ywah its a good idea though. The more access people have to tools the easier it will be to mod

[red tiger]

Working on this right now

[abstract raptor]

nice work!

[red tiger]

Thanks. Template files are loaded, making it possible for people to write their own to use with the extension.

[low crest]

hey there! think you could help me with the mod i'm trying to make? i have a couple questions about generators and how the electricity works. I'm willing to pay for a lesson

[novel barn]

I won't stop you from hiring a tutor, but this channel operates pretty effectively on volunteer effort. I will say, though, there are enough experts in this channel that would be worth paying for tutoring. For now what are you stuck on? I'm not sure if I can help, but I'm willing to take a look.

[worthy sparrow]

Before I dive into this is there a easy way or maybe some kind of parser to convert the scripts folder with all the recipies, items etc. into JSON format?

eg. this:

to this:

[drifting ore]

i doubt theres an easy way to do it, but im sure theres a way

[red tiger]

I'm interested to know why you want to do this.

I wrote code to do just that. I have all of this in a JSON format.

@worthy sparrow

Is this what you need?

The only issue with this rendering of ZedScript is the issue of recipes with the same names being shadowed and not present in the JSON file.

This is the project. https://github.com/asledgehammer/ZedScriptParser

It needs one or two fixes but is otherwise a hard-code take on ZedScript parsing.

Just got to convert the dictionary for recipes into an array.

or dictionary of clusters.

[worthy sparrow]

I started writing my own in C# but this one is great too I think, Thank you very much and I do need this for a website I'm planning to make: a crafting tree with everything, tooltips, panning, scoping to different items, categories etc. I need something to take my free time since im on sick leave for a month lol

[red tiger]

Please consider using my work since I put the 3-4 months of active work on it and made it FOSS for people to use.

https://github.com/asledgehammer/ZedScript-VSCode

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

[worthy sparrow]

Im working also in react with typescript so I guess I could try to implement some fixes to your ZedScriptParser, Ill take a look today

[red tiger]

Thank you for considering it.

[worthy sparrow]

Aaand using it to reverse the process would be neat too. Like to create a tool that can automate the process of making custom recipies/items.

[red tiger]

That uses an aggressive lexer. The vscode extension is a WIP on a passive lexer and linter.

[red tiger]

This was exactly that goal.

Don't waste your month working on what's already done. You could at least reference my work to help accelerate your C# flavor.

=)

I know that no one really cared about making tools for ZedScript so I stepped in.

[worthy sparrow]

Yeah, totally agree. That's why I asked first before trying to implement my own 🙂

[red tiger]

I'm very glad that you did.

[worthy sparrow]

But I was close lol

[red tiger]

Right now I'm focusing on a simple vscode extension for something else.

[red tiger]

So I use sparse data schemas so if something isn't defined I don't leave something for it in the JSON.

My PZ-Rosetta project does this.

[worthy sparrow]

I seen your previous work on the gif, really amazing I love those tools that help to implement repetitive snippets. Very nice job

That alright, as long as the schema is constant

the pz .txt is just a mess to use (sorry dev's)

[red tiger]

Thank you. Right now I'm pushing Umbrella, a EmmyLua typings collaboration project for exposing all API for modders inside of vscode & IDEA environments.

At this point I guess you could say that I'm building an entire suite for modding PZ. =)

https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella

[worthy sparrow]

Definitely following this

[red tiger]

Thanks. Use whatever you need on that organization github account.

It's for everyone here to use.

[worthy sparrow]

Open-source is the way.

[deft plaza]

I can't seem to find a problem here it won't seem to show up in the spawn menu I ask this alot sorry I see alot of advice I do it and still does not work

[worthy sparrow]

^ The tool here would help 🙂

[red tiger]

Note: I am mid-way through a multi-stage linting solution.

If you read the ZedScript-VSCode repo you'll see that WIP.

I'm writing out the full process of language support in order to ensure that formatting only occurs when syntactical errors are not present.

linting also provides a way to express issues as problems in the IDE.

[deft plaza]

what?

[red tiger]

You'll also see my work in transcribing the properties for each scope definition in ZedScript into JSON-like datasets.

I stopped right when merging that data with the data for linting.

The extension also uses the parser I sent you first, which I'm going to be removing entirely.

[worthy sparrow]

A more user friendly tool that helps to create items/recipes

[red tiger]

the extension needs to be passive in its approach to handling and interpreting the script.

Hope that insight helps you understand what I'm doing and where I'm at in the project.

[deft plaza]

how do I use it?

[red tiger]

Syntax highlighting is already implemented too btw.

It uses TextMate Regex.

[worthy sparrow]

I will dive into it

[worthy sparrow]

Still a WIP

[deft plaza]

oh

[worthy sparrow]

soon™

[crystal oar]

what attributes does a recipe have when i find it through local recipe = getScriptManager():getRecipe(recipeName)?

like anything i can set?

name or anything?

[red tiger]

If you use Umbrella in your coding workspace you can see what is available for you to use.

=)

[crystal oar]

i don't have unbrella, does it work with notepad++?

[red tiger]

It will work in any environment that supports Emmylua typings. I only know of vscode and IntelliJ IDEA working so far.

It exposes and types all the API in the modding environment.

[crystal oar]

i thought there was a link to umbrella on the modding page of the wiki, do you have a link handy?

[red tiger]

https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella

[crystal oar]

thank you

[red tiger]

No problem. We currently don't have any pre-packaged zip releases. The setup is simple if you have git installed.

Umbrella is a collaborative effort so the design of the project is to use git submodules.

You clone and then populate them using a 2nd command and then you're set.

[crystal oar]

okay so i got vscode, the lua language server extension, and cloned the repository to my computer, and used git bash to git submodule update --init --remote now how do i get it into vscode?

[red tiger]

You add Umbrella as a folder in your workspace. If you see the bottom-left showing scans of a thousand or so files then it's working.

If you don't see it, re-open the project.

[nocturne swift]

Hi, I need to get the sqlid (server, not local) of a vehicle. I can do this through client-server commands, but I think this is not very good with a lot of online and multiple identical requests to the server to get an ID.
Can I write the sqlid of a (server) vehicle into the machine's moddata and access it on the client side without making a request to the server?
How to do it?

[crystal oar]

i re opened the project, and i didn't see it scan a whole mess of files, and it seems to not be working

i can browse the umbrella stuff tho in the project, not sure what i am doing wrong

[crystal oar]

so i need to put my folder in the umbrella folder in the workspace?

[red tiger]

You need to put the umbrella folder in your workspace.

[red tiger]

That might be the reason.

I keep forgetting about this json file lol

[crystal oar]

where do i find that file?

[red tiger]

You create it.

You'll see it in my root project folder.

I should make a template repository tbh

Sorry for the little technicals.

[verbal yew]

guys, how to add item in distribution.

me need industrial zones (Black zones on map)

[red tiger]

Provided it works for you, this'll expose everything you'll need for API.

[crystal oar]

now maybe i close and reopen?

[red tiger]

Yeah.

Point it to where your source folder is.

That file tells the extension where to look for lua files to digest for IntelliSense.

[crystal oar]

it says cached files 14/14, that doesn't seem right

[red tiger]

Yeah.. @bronze yoke I'm convinced that it's necessary to build a template workspace for Umbrella.

This frustrates me. Why is is simple setup for us but many others are having this problem?

[crystal oar]

i think i did that right

[red tiger]

Try this:

{
    "source": [
        {
            "dir": "./StarterKits/Contents/mods/StarterKits/media/lua",
            "exclude": [
                "csv/**.lua"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Move Umbrella to inside your lua folder.

Then reload your project.

Notice how my setup has everything under the folder that config file points to.

You could make the folder broader so that Umbrella isn't included in your mod when you upload it.

like you could do "dir": "./"

All you're doing is telling it where to scan for lua files.

[crystal oar]

i tried making a test.lua file in the umbrella folder and that also didn't work, i must be doing something else wrong, i'll have to dig back into it when i get back form my interview

[red tiger]

Yeah. Sorry. I don't know why this is an issue for people.

My stuff works even without that json file.

So I can't tell you because no one has provided definitive proof as to why it fails to load in.

I'll take a look at it this weekend.

The plugin has settings to include libraries to be scanned additionally. More reason to make a workspace for people.

[fast galleon]

@crystal oar
did you try this?

https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventStubs/tree/fba7346d23957c04e0a7f9b596ca7728e519474c#visual-studio-code

[red tiger]

Props to using the static link generator on github.

[deft plaza]

Sorry for asking again but can someone tell me what's wrong the problem is its not showing up ingamew

[bronze yoke]

item block isn't bracketed

[deft plaza]

what do you mean?

item block

[bronze yoke]

the data for your item

it should be enclosed in these guys { }

[deft plaza]

like this?

[bronze yoke]

item MyItem
{
    
}

[red tiger]

@worthy sparrow A visual GUI editor for scripts will help this dude out.

[deft plaza]

Sorry

I'm sorry once again I'm just stupid

okay I know stunbaton is spelled wrong

[hidden jungle]

is there a page somewhere with all of the loot distribution categories?

[deft plaza]

is this what your looking for?

if not there is more distributions in /steamapps/common/ProjectZomboid/Media/lua/server/items

[hidden jungle]

sort of, i'm trying to add loot spawns for items in my mod and i want to make sure i do it right

[deft plaza]

/steamapps/common/ProjectZomboid/Media/lua/server/items

try going here

[hidden jungle]

already am, thanks

[deft plaza]

np

[hidden jungle]

found it, i was looking for ProceduralDistributions.lua

how are the values weighted?
is it just a standard weight system? or is it some chance based thing

[deft plaza]

not sure

[bronze yoke]

it's not weight

it's chance

every item is rolled for

not just a certain amount from the list or something

this does mean that adding more items to a list means that on average more items will spawn in that container

that's why true music cassettes are absolutely everywhere when you have a large pack, for instance

[hidden jungle]

as an example,
if you have 5 different items in a distributions table and they all have decending values of 50,40,30..
what does that actually do as far as spawn rates?

is it 50% to spawn the first one, and so on?

also what does the "rolls" value indicate then? if its not a weighted system then having a limited number of rolls doesnt really make sense

[bronze yoke]

i think it goes through the list multiple times? not really sure, never messed with a container that even has a rolls value

[bronze yoke]

roughly, the default spawn values reduce the chances

you can see the actual spawnrate in lootzed

[worthy sparrow]

Working on it 😉

Ill put it on my website

[red tiger]

Wish I knew what to add as templates before publishing the plugin.

BTW the plugin externalizes templates now. It's in a documents folder I create.

The main templates repository is cloned and pulled from GitHub.

[deft plaza]

holy crap I got it working and it was like seeing heaven

now I just need to correct the model and the angle

[hidden jungle]

i can't get the items to spawn.
the file goes in media/lua/server/Items right?

[bronze yoke]

it goes in server, it doesn't really matter where else you put it

[hidden jungle]

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list["ArmyHangarOutfit"].items, "DynamicBackpacks.UpgradeCapacityMilitary");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list["ArmyHangarOutfit"].items, 2);
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list["ArmyHangarOutfit"].items, "DynamicBackpacks.UpgradeWeightReductionMilitary");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list["ArmyHangarOutfit"].items, 2);```
is anything wrong with this then?

[bronze yoke]

that looks right, have you checked lootzed?

[hidden jungle]

no, what is it?

found it, i had a double parenthesis further down the script.
i wasnt seeing the compile error

[red tiger]

=)

[deft plaza]

tbh it sounds weird and rude but if I use that it feels like I'm disrespecting all the modders who type have of the stuff

very cool tho

[red tiger]

Definitely weird because the point of this is to contribute your own templates, as albion did here.

It's literally to help people out.

[deft plaza]

oh okay

[red tiger]

You're not stealing anything. You could even make your own.

No disrespecting either.

[deft plaza]

what is pushback mod and knockdown mod

I'm looking to change the time of the zombies down

[crystal oar]

i did not, sounds like it is a substitute for umbrella?

[wet sandal]

Its built-in to Umbrella

[crystal oar]

so i just need to figure out how to get umbrella working

is it a problem with my emmy.config.json? { "source": [ { "dir": "./src", "exclude": [ "csv/**.lua" ] } ] }

[deft plaza]

anyone know

[red tiger]

I don't think you need that. I think that's for specifically the EmmyLua extension.

I originally worked with that.

Visual Studio Code
PZEventStubs's annotations have been tested with the Lua language server plugin. To load PZEventStubs as a library, open the extension's settings, look for Lua › Workspace: Library, click Add Item and type/paste the full path to the folder you cloned to.

[crystal oar]

i'm lost, how did you get here

today is my first day using vscode, i'm a notepad++ guy

[crystal oar]

ah perfect

[deft plaza]

what's a good spawn rate

I'm picking like 20s and 30s

like is this a good spawn rate

[crystal oar]

oh now it's loading like 1400 files

[red tiger]

Holy crap. I suddenly don't have a headache anymore.

That bothered me for a while.

[deft plaza]

Jab can I have your thoughts about the spawn rates?

[red tiger]

I don't know much about anything when conventionally modding PZ. Sorry.

I'm a very niche modder here.

[deft plaza]

okay no problem

[red tiger]

When it completes, try typing what you originally did with the RecipeManager.

[wet sandal]

Gah, luas being a weirdo

[crystal oar]

ya this looks very helpful now

[red tiger]

Thank God. Seriously.

[wet sandal]

Schrodinger's code coverage.

Code coverage fails 50% of the time to even work

Unless I add a break point

[red tiger]

I hate leaving people with broken tools I make.

[wet sandal]

Which causes it to work 100% of the time

[red tiger]

wtf

This PZ related?

[wet sandal]

Ye

[red tiger]

race condition?

[wet sandal]

In lua?

[red tiger]

Those suck.

Yeah that's what you're describing.

[wet sandal]

Hmmm

[red tiger]

A race condition is when you expect something to sequence and it randomly fires in different sequences you don't expect or don't want.

But that's usually an asynchronous problem.. which PZ doesn't know what async is, apart from the invokeRenderThreadContext stuff.

[wet sandal]

Hmm

Even observing the F11 menu once seems to be enough to make it work everytime

[crystal oar]

 at MethodArguments.assertValid line:123.
ERROR: General     , 1688156147345> 0> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: setOriginalname: Expected a method call but got a function call. Correct syntax: void obj:setOriginalname(String arg1)``` when i try to `recipe.setOriginalname(recipeName, starterKitName)` or `recipe.setOriginalname(self, starterKitName)`

maybe i should recipe.setOriginalname(recipe, starterKitName) ?

[red tiger]

Don't pass self

This is an artifact from EmmyLua

Those are Java calls.

recipe:setOriginalName(recipeName, starterKitName);

[crystal oar]

getting there i think, that time it didn't do what i wanted but didn't throw an error

[red tiger]

Yeah. Take your time and go through the methods and try different things. You can see the catalog now in your editor.

It'll be a huge help.

[crystal oar]

ya this is rad

[red tiger]

Glad that you got it working.

[wet sandal]

Refactored where the coverage hooks occur and its Just works

Good enough

[red tiger]

Glad to hear that as well.

I feel like you're writing Jest in PZ.

[wet sandal]

I'm pretty much done at this point.
Last thing is right clicking a failed test to open the error.

[crystal oar]

is it possible that setOriginalname just doesn't do what it says on the tin?

[wet sandal]

Looks like setOriginalName only takes 1 string arg

recipe:setOriginalName(newName)

Oh, I guess thats techinally the same as what you had:
recipe.setOriginalname(recipe, starterKitName)

[crystal oar]

recipe:setOriginalname("Testing") didn't seem to change anything for me

but no error, that's good i think

maybe i need to reload the table of recipes after i set the recipe name?

is there perhaps a mod that sets the recipe name based on sandbox variables that anyone knows of that i could look at?

[crystal oar]

also is there a way onResult to set the durability of the item that was just made, or do i neeed to add the item to the player's inventry in lua to be able to set its durability?

[worthy sparrow]

On a weapon type? Or just the Condition property?

[crystal oar]

on a plank, so technically a weapon

[worthy sparrow]

try with conditionMax=10.0

oh wait I think thats related to vehicles?

im not sure

[crystal oar]

so a plank has condition max of 10 normally, if i used that to set the condition to 7 lets say, should i be able to repair it to full? assuming there was a way to repair said plank

[worthy sparrow]

Ohh you mean to like give it random number (condition) between 0 and X

[crystal oar]

well specifically one value, tho now that you say that, i should have it done in lua so i can set it equal to the player's carpentry

[worthy sparrow]

Ah I see, yeah lua is the way here

[dusky moss]

Hey you guys know the metal gates zombies can see you through? What are those under in the building editor?

[worthy sparrow]

The fence gate?

[crystal oar]

so i should do something like function Recipe.OnCreate.PlankFromScrapHardCraft(items, result, player) local CraftedPlank = player:getInventory():AddItems(Base.Plank, 1) CraftedPlank:setCondition(7) end

to make a plank with condition 7/10 right?

[dusky moss]

Yes

[worthy sparrow]

Yeah something like that

[worthy sparrow]

the png is named fixtures_doors_fences... if that helps.

[crystal oar]

so something like CraftedPlank:setCondition(player:perkLevel(Carpentry)) to set it to the player's carpentry level?

[dusky moss]

Thanks. I Hope I'm able to actually open them when I'm done. It's my first time modding so I have no idea what I'm doing

[crystal oar]

good luck! i had no experience a little while ago and these folks have helped out a ton!

[dusky moss]

Anyone know what the lines for the parking spaces is under, or is that considered grime?

[crystal oar]

CraftedPlank:setCondition(math.floor(1,player:getSkillLevel(Carpentry))) i think i'm getting there

[worthy sparrow]

Im working on something that will help you modders create items

[crystal oar]

you damn dirty modders! lol

[worthy sparrow]

lol

[abstract raptor]

https://azakaela.itch.io/pz-recorded-media-maker-tool

I've released my zomboid modding tool

[dusky moss]

Is there a hotkey to flip tiles in the building editor or no?

[worthy sparrow]

You just gave me an awesome idea

[worthy sparrow]

no idea

[crystal oar]

any idea what i am doing wrong here? CraftedPlank:setCondition(math:floor(1, player:getSkillLevel(Carpentry))) i can set the durability manually to 7 but when i try this it sets it to 10 every time

[rain shard]

Holy hell, I could kiss you. I gave up trying to make VHSs and CDs just because testing the RGB, copy pasting the GUID, matching everything up was such a cumbersome process.

[worthy sparrow]

is math:floor actually correct? shouldn't it be math.floor?

[red tiger]

math.floor

[crystal oar]

okay going to try CraftedPlank:setCondition(math.floor(1, player:getPerkLevel(Perks.Woodwork)))

[abstract raptor]

Yeah I thought it was BS too so I learned Python just to automate it

It works perf tho I am pleased with my first ever python tool

[rain shard]

now recode WordZed and you'll be a deity amongst mortals...

[worthy sparrow]

Kinda technical question, the color can be any RGB value 0-255? Or is it predefined like you have in the file magenta=Some text

[red tiger]

Oh my God I actually couldn't figure out why I couldn't use string templates for a minute.. In Lua..

Wow..

[bronze yoke]

what are you trying to do? math.floor doesn't take multiple arguments

i think you're confusing it for something else

[crystal oar]

trying to make sure that i don't make a plank with 0 durability

using it like min

[bronze yoke]

you're thinking of math.max

[crystal oar]

math. max takes the largest argument?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[crystal oar]

lol what does math.floor do?

[bronze yoke]

it rounds it down

[crystal oar]

good to know!

[abstract raptor]

predefined for now; I Wrote the available list of colors in the instructions

[worthy sparrow]

Oh okay, thanks

[abstract raptor]

the colors get turned into rgb floats

[crystal oar]

and should i use player:getSkillLevel(Skill.Carpentry) or player:getPerkLevel(Perks.Woodwork)?

[bronze yoke]

perklevel

[crystal oar]

k thank you

[abstract raptor]

... Why did I get Timed Out?

[worthy sparrow]

@red tiger The ItemScript class in ZedScriptParser and all of its inheritances are up to date?

[red tiger]

If not it should be very accurate.

[abstract raptor]

whatever I guess they don't like blocked formatting in the channel that uses CODE specfically lmao

[red tiger]

I didn't make an uber class.

Tried to keep things separate.

If that causes issues, combine it all into one class.

Wasn't a problem for me at the time.

You can always add if missing.

[worthy sparrow]

It's alright, I just need all the possible properties

[novel barn]

Seriously can't wait to see this in action. 😍 😍

[red tiger]

Just wrote this without testing it:

[worthy sparrow]

typo 🤔

[red tiger]

Ah fuck

I wrote that thing manually for over a week.

I'm cooked.

[worthy sparrow]

Gotchu

[red tiger]

Curse these bloated jointed fingers.

[crystal oar]

now back to this, recipe:setOriginalname(starterKitName) unclear why this doesn't throw an error or seemingly do anything

[novel barn]

👋 Hey everyone! I hope you're all having a wonderful day. I'm trying to leverage ScriptManager to fetch all containers available to the user with the following code. However line 3 claims items_by_type is empty. I'm making some assumptions about what getItemsByType can actually fetch, but I thought I was at least making an educated guess... Does anyone know why my variable is empty?

local items_by_type = getScriptManager():getItemsByType("Container")
print("fetching all empty container types")
print(items_by_type:size())

[red tiger]

Tested / debugged code:

A working ping-pong client-server communication example.

[crystal oar]

okay so it seems like Originalname isn't used for anything as far as I can tell. i can set it, but it doesn't show up in game

[worthy sparrow]

👀

very much WIP but the backend stuff works, just need to code in all the properties with description etc. and make templates for items

and beautify it lol

[worthy sparrow]

can you do post/get requests via lua?

[red tiger]

Yes but not in the way you'd expect.

SP with vanilla Lua only? No.

MP? Yes.

You can use a file system for requesting from another process that listens for changes to those files and then does the get/requests and then saves the data to a file that the server can pick up.

client sends command to server, the server saves it to a file, the 2nd process on the server processes it, the server picks up the result, passes it onto the client.

It sucks but that's the way you'd do this without modifying the core of the game.

[worthy sparrow]

Well if it works

[red tiger]

Assign a number to a file and track it. Maybe a 2nd file with _result appended to it.

Put the link in the first file, the 2nd process renders the results to the 2nd file.

Read, clean, move on.

Also, this looks nice:

[red tiger]

The first version of PZ-Wallet is out.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asledgehammer.pz-wallet

Don't expect it to have a lot of templates. That's the next step.

[bronze yoke]

don't worry, this is TIS's mistake not yours

that is actually in the script format

[crystal oar]

grr, TIS is why i can't change the name of this recipe after sandbox vars have loaded lol

i can't complain too much tho, i'm playing the game right now lol

[red tiger]

I haven't played it in many months.

[red tiger]

I think that it's funny how I almost never played this game yet I modded it for almost 10 years.

This is how I play the game.

[novel barn]

@red tiger everyone plays in their own way. 🙂 I'm glad you enjoy doing what you do because your contributions make everyone else's experience better.

[novel barn]

Does anyone know why :getItemsByType("Container") is returning no results? I'm pretty sure "Container" is a valid type. I've been banging my head on this for hours. 😦

[verbal yew]

for playerObj?

[novel barn]

@verbal yew I'm calling the following code and it returns 0 results

local items_by_type = getScriptManager():getItemsByType("Container")
print("fetching all empty container types")
print(items_by_type:size())

[verbal yew]

not sure

[novel barn]

yeah. /shrug

[verbal yew]

but it should be from space

like get inv

also getitembytype

no?

player:getinventory:getitembytype

[bronze yoke]

getItemsByType looks for type (internal name) not type (type)

[novel barn]

@verbal yew I'm trying to get all the items eligible to the running game, rather than all the items the player has. For instance if I run getScriptManager():getAllItems() it'll return over 2000 items that can be used in game.

[verbal yew]

ou

[novel barn]

is there a way to look up all type types instead of name types? Or should I just loop through :getAllItems() like I did before? I was trying to write more efficient code but I just dug myself into a hole.

this is the second time I've been burned by type not being type. 😢

[bronze yoke]

i don't think so, the loop is fine

most scriptmanager stuff shouldn't be happening during gameplay, so the performance isn't critical

[novel barn]

Very fair point. Thanks!

[tawdry solar]

ooh

whens this out

[tawdry solar]

how make helmet mod smh

imports
    {
    Base
    }

    item Hat_g2gh
    {
        DisplayCategory = Accessory,
        Type = Clothing,
        DisplayName = GAS2GO helment,
        ClothingItem = Hat_g2gh,
        BodyLocation = Hat,
        Icon = g2g_Helmet,
        CanHaveHoles = false,
        BloodLocation = Head,
        BiteDefense = 100,
        ScratchDefense = 100,
        ChanceToFall = 10,
        Insulation = 0.25,
        WaterResistance = 0.2,
    }

this should work

?

[tawdry solar]

im only adding 1 itme but my code that i posted is right?

[verbal yew]

module MyMod
{
  imports { Base }
  item myItem
    {
      *stats here*
    }
}```

[tawdry solar]

og

oh

thanks

[verbal yew]

or without imports

just module base

module Base
{
  item myItem
    {
      *stats here*
    }
}

[tawdry solar]

ty man

[tardy basin]

begging for help here with one thing

is there a way to make corpse sickness start at one corpse and not 5?

[bronze yoke]

not without reimplementing corpse sickness entirely

[tardy basin]

ah

[tardy basin]

currently attempting to buff the rate at which players get corpse sickness by using 'working masks' reverse engineering, what number do I need to change to do so?

-- we cannot get the number of corpses, because that value is not exposed in lua, so we calculate it backwards ourselves local sicknessFromCorpses if poisonLevel > 0.0 then --use different formula if poisoned --original formula for 41.65 sicknessFromCorpses = deltaSicknessLevel - ((bodyDamage:getInfectionGrowthRate() * (2 + Math.round(bodyDamage:getPoisonLevel() / 10.0))) * gameTimeMultiplier) else sicknessFromCorpses = deltaSicknessLevel end local sicknessFromCorpseRate = BodyDamage.getSicknessFromCorpsesRate(6) -- Damage is calculated for any corpse above 5 local estimatedCorpses = sicknessFromCorpses / sicknessFromCorpseRate / gameTimeMultiplier local sicknessFromCorpsesAdjusted = Math.min(Math.ceil(estimatedCorpses), 20) * sicknessFromCorpseRate * **5 (this is where I've been attempting to buff the rate, to no avail)** * gameTimeMultiplier -- capped at 20 corpses if sicknessFromCorpses > 0 then newSickness = newSickness - (sicknessFromCorpsesAdjusted * MaskEfficiency) end end if newSickness < 0 then newSickness = 0 end bodyDamage:setFoodSicknessLevel(newSickness); prevSicknessLevel = newSickness else prevSicknessLevel = currentSickness end end

[verbal yew]

max numbers of holes on bodypart?

13?

[crystal oar]

where is the nutrition system in the game files?

i want to make it easier to keep a stable weight and harder to go under and overweight

[bronze yoke]

i think there's a nutrition.java

it could be spread throughout the character classes too though

[crystal oar]

do you know how fast a character loses weight if they eat nothing normally? is it 1 weight per day?

[verbal yew]

getActivatedMods():contains()

mod id from mod.info?

[crystal oar]

how do you do a += in lua? just var = var + value or is there a more elegant way?

[worthy sparrow]

+= doesnt work?

[crystal oar]

vscode is complaining about it

[worthy sparrow]

Okay read about it, lua doesnt have that

Just use var = var + 2

[crystal oar]

okay that works i just feel weird not using +=

[novel barn]

yeah Lua doesn't support ++, --, +=, -=, etc

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20091779/lua-operators-why-isnt-and-so-on-defined

[humble raft]

Does anyone know off of the top of their head where zombies are defined in the lua?

Or is their logic all java-side?

[neon bronze]

All java side but you can access their IsoZombie class with lua

[humble raft]

Ah I see- thank you

[earnest wigeon]

I want to fix one clothing mod I play with. For some reason jackets from that mod don't cover forearms thus I have question regarding what determiness which part of the body is protected by clothing and which is not. Is it BodyLocation? If yes, why Jacket location covers only torso and shoulders?

[verbal yew]

how to overwrite recipe file with mod?

[verbal yew]

BodyLocation = Jacket,
BloodLocation = Jacket,
?

BodyLocation - it's inventory slot.
BloodLocation - it's defense location.

[earnest wigeon]

Ah, I see, now this makes sense

For that one paticular jacket I was using BloodLocation is Shirt

[verbal yew]

https://tenor.com/view/say-what-dunno-shrug-john-krasinski-idk-gif-16557956

[earnest wigeon]

While BodyLocation is Jacket

That's kinda weird

[verbal yew]

how to overwrite recipe file with mod?

[mellow frigate]

Guys, there is an invasion of mods using the following broken snippet function Adjust(Name, Property, Value) Item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem(Name) Item:DoParam(Property.." = "..Value) end stop using it, it breaks vanilla symbol Item, use this instead function Adjust(Name, Property, Value) local Item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem(Name) Item:DoParam(Property.." = "..Value) end see details in steam discussion below, some of your mods may be included. https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/discussions/18446744073709551615/3812908758675356532/?appid=108600

@fast galleon you were right, a snippet overwritting Item has spread in the workshop.

[fast galleon]

until it is fixed you can get the class another way, it would be something zombie.???.Item.class

you could also get the metatable from an Item instance.

[red tiger]

Soooooooo

What should I make as templates today?

Maybe file-reading / file-writing.

[nocturne swift]

Hi, I need to get the sqlid (server, not local) of a vehicle. I can do this through client-server commands, but I think this is not very good with a lot of online and multiple identical requests to the server to get an ID.
Can I write the sqlid of a (server) into the moddata vehicle and access it on the client side without making a request to the server?

[mellow frigate]

zombie.scripting.objects.Item.class

[mellow frigate]

dunno about vehicle mod data, but you can create a dedicated table in ModData (global mod data), and subscribe it client side. it will be the same network use as writing your own messages but less verbose, less chances to get buggy and somewhat optimized.

[red tiger]

Just made the vscode extension 'PZ-Wallet' more powerful, allowing for templates to include other templates.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asledgehammer.pz-wallet

[worthy sparrow]

Are all items always capitalized?

item My Item {...} or it can work with item My item {...} ?

Also I noticed some files have "_" as delimiter My_Item and some without like MyItem

[red tiger]

There's no set standard for item naming conventions.

[worthy sparrow]

Since im like not actually making mods I don't know which properties are used for which item category, I guess i could use the defaults from PZ files but if theres someone that might have a decent list or help create one i will be grateful

[abstract raptor]

Heya -- guidance on making a UI system similar to notes for a "FoundJournals" series of items?

[bronze yoke]

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

[worthy sparrow]

I was looking at it, I can make few templates out of it but for eg.: template "Weapon" has too many attributes if you want to make a one handed mele weapon, because it doesn't need half of those like InsertAmmoSound, MaxAmmo etc. Anyway thanks 🙂 Im going to follow the advice for now lol

[ivory gyro]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977982429

Tired of having to install all the texture packs ?

Introducing the MandoDB Texture Pack! It gathers all the textures and textures map in only one mods, it is useful for the modders, mapper, but also the administrator of server thanks to the mod "Better Tiles Picker", you will be able to make event without having to add all the necessary maps !

[tardy wren]

Have you used Beautiful Java to decompile both the zomboid client and the zomboid server? if yes, have you ever seen any difference in code?

[bronze yoke]

no, i wasn't really interested in the dedicated server

[tranquil kindle]

Anyone could help me how i could put "item Freeman's_Crowbar" inside this function so it doesnt break (replace Crowbar with Freeman's_Crowbar, cuz it seems that underscore and ' seem to break it)?
`function Recipe.OnCreate.Crowbarspearfc(items, result, player, Crowbar, firstHand, secondHand)
result:setCondition(Crowbar:getCondition());
if firsthand or secondHand then
player:setSecondaryHandItem(result)
player:setPrimaryHandItem(result);

end

end`

[tardy wren]

Well, I decompiled it, and after throwing both on a private github... It gave me a couple of differences in code

between the same version of client and server codes, from the "decompiled" folder

[bronze yoke]

why change it? crowbar just refers to whatever item the recipe gives it, it doesn't actually matter what it's called

[bronze yoke]

is it just the stuff to do with launching the server or is it actually significantly different?

[tardy wren]

there were like 4 differences...

I don't remember exactly

It could've been... Decompiler jank?

[tranquil kindle]

I have no knowledge in it so ive been testing blindly, i want my recipe to use this function but to have diffrent result. The result of craft its supposed to be item from other mod (freeman crowbar) but keep condition of Crowbarspearfc and remain in hands after action if it was in hands. I tried puting item name Freeman's_Crowbar but it doesnt work then so i did test with vanila crowbar as it seems to me that underscores break it or " ` " symbol does and its part of items name.

[bronze yoke]

yeah, that would be my first guess

[tardy wren]

Actually, no

There are some differences

Just as an example

I, uh... I don't know which one is which anymore

I think the right one is the client code

I might've messed this up

I might decompile both again...

[tranquil kindle]

Okay it actually worked, thank you. Im also sorry if its stupid question, but could you explain to me what are things between "( )" for if it appears that changing "Crowbar" for item name i wanted doesnt matter? function Recipe.OnCreate.Crowbarspearfc(items, result, player, Crowbar, firstHand, secondHand) For future reference (Once i have acces to non limited data i intend to learn it myself but right now im stuck with very low limit so any video tutorials are out of question for me)

[worthy sparrow]

There are few rules you have to stick with when naming variables which include:
A variable name must start with a letter or the underscore character
A variable name cannot start with a number
A variable name can only contain alpha-numeric characters and underscores (A-z, 0-9, and _ )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_convention_(programming)

[tranquil kindle]

Will add it to my lecture. Thanks

[winged vortex]

Hi sorry if this isn't the right place for this but are there any modders out there taking commissions atm?

[wet sandal]

Automated Test Framework is on Github now.
https://github.com/Notloc/zomboid-automated-test-framework

@novel barn

[novel barn]

YESSSSSSS

[novel barn]

Thank you!!!

[crystal oar]

i feel like a lot of neat tools for pz modders have come out recently

[novel barn]

@wet sandal not sure where the past four hours have gone, but I'm SO excited to use this test framework and complete my project with TDD. I really hope this becomes a community standard.

[verbal yew]

how about local function Adjust(Name, Property, Value) Item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem(Name) Item:DoParam(Property.." = "..Value) end

when func a local

[bronze yoke]

doesn't matter, Item is still global

the world if local was default...

[jaunty marten]

why anyone uses PascalCase for this at all

I'm a bit hater of camelCase but Pascal.. bruh

[bronze yoke]

it's very unusual

[novel barn]

I also dislike camelCase but it seems to be prevalent in the PZ modding community. I tend to use snake for variables and camel for functions.

[bronze yoke]

can't stand snake, love camel

[novel barn]

honestly I just prefer standardization over everything else.

[wet sandal]

Wow dude, thanks!
I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'm Canadian and it's Canada Day right now, so this was just something I managed to squeezed in today before the evening debauchery, but it's really nice to hear.

[novel barn]

seriously sat down for 4 hours and didn't move until I had a few failing tests set up 💙

[verbal yew]

BodyLocation - it's inventory slot.

emm...

[fading horizon]

I have a clothing item with a custom body location but the ui text for the customize character menu shows like this

i'm assuming it's a translation file that needs to be configured

does anyone know where the clothing items are defined like this?\

[verbal yew]

for example

[fading horizon]

That's perfect, thank you so much

[tardy wren]

after reading some more code and fixing up the whole process I can conclude that, yes, this does appear to be decompilation jank.

[grave fractal]

What does GUID mean?

[neon bronze]

The id the game assigns to each item to distinguish from each other

You can generate one online

[grave fractal]

alright, thanks

[mellow frigate]

I'm your worse nightmare: I switch format depending on the wind direction. 😂

[grave fractal]

what could be causing my model to come out crooked like this?

[peak shell]

I'm making a mod which will, among other things, add some new spawn locations to the original map. This works in singleplayer, with there being 8 different locations to choose from (original 4 and 4 of my own) but when I launch a server with the mod, only the original 4 locations are visible. The rest of the mod works fine so the mod is enabled. Anyone know why this might happen / how to fix it? I was unable to find much by googling this time

[jaunty marten]

[grave fractal]

nvm fixed it

[worthy sparrow]

Are you adding the locations in Map=?

[peak shell]

dont think so, I've just added them to media/maps/ in the mod. I assume I need to add them somewhere in the server settings then? But what would I write there

[peak shell]

I was now able to make it work by manually add them to the serverName_spawnregions.lua server file, but is there a way to do this from completely within the mod?

[worthy sparrow]

Im only familliar with adding them to the Map= list in server config file

But maybe its possible do that withing the mod, i have no knowledge in that sadly

[peak shell]

Thanks for trying to help, apparently it seems like they get automatically added whenever i add the mod to a server, it didnt show up the first time because the spawnpoints didnt exist when i first added the mod to the server. I didnt notice since I've just used the same server for testing until now, so it seems to be all good now

[storm finch]

How hard would it be to learn to make mods for zomboid? I don't know anything about coding

[worthy sparrow]

Depends on the mod you want to make, its not rocket science but you need to learn few stuff, there are many tutorials which can help you start. You have to learn about lua and its syntax, limitations, usefull classes.

[loud python]

Hi guys, wondering if someone might be able to help me. I'm working on a custom map, and I'm running into issues with foraging - notably, everything works exactly as it should on singleplayer and local hosting, but doesn't work on the actual dedicated server. We've tried everything, removing all mods (except the map mod), deleting all server files and allowing them to regenerate - and I'm pulling a blank at this point. Does anyone have any ideas?

[verbal yew]

Roberto Ierusalimschy - Programming in Lua

to the part where coding begins in conjunction with the C

after Zomboid API on PZ wiki / moding

[fast galleon]

Are headphone types hardcoded in java? <.<

[worthy sparrow]

Before I publish the website id like to make a list of usefull extensions, tools, utilities and whatnot to help with making mods to PZ, contributions are welcome, just send me a dm or reply to this message with a link (Added Project Umbrella, Jab's VSCode Extension and Notloc's Automated Test Framework)

[proven raptor]

Hello! Is there any modder capable of making vehicles, specifically, that are open to commissions?

[verbal yew]

guys, help me to inject into the function

function ISHealthBodyPartListBox:doDrawItem(y, item, alt)

[low crest]

Hello! I'm looking for someone who can help me create a custom power generator in LUA. Im offering payment for the job

[sinful vessel]

Your dms are closed

[abstract raptor]

https://azakaela.itch.io/azakaelas-audio-log-generator-for-project-zomboid

[bronze yoke]

hey guys, i've just released an API for the game's passive stat calculations (specifically hunger, thirst, fatigue, boredom, stress and endurance) - the feature list is pretty bare at the moment but as i had to reimplement the entire thing in lua to get this done (including the entire sleeping mechanic, so if you want to mod that, look here) there's not much limitation on what can be made modable
https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/StatsAPI
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2997722072
since this requires a hook to work, it's best that it can be shaped into a one-size-fits-all universal solution, so i'm very open to feature requests

[bronze sand]

Hello

Question
In a mod that adds a craftable melee weapon to the game, is there a way to let the user change what level of a required skill [to craft it] they need to be at?

Using the Sandbox Options

[bronze yoke]

i haven't seen it done but it looks possible to me

it would require lua and not just recipe scripts though

[bronze sand]

Someone must have an idea

[verbal yew]

in script recipe 'Tooltip:' with string required skill,
and OnTest:MyLuaFunc

function MyLuaFunc
cheking stuff
end

in stuff we can add sandbox var

done

[neon hedge]

Hello i have a question how do i do if infection level is ... then ... thing for my client script?

i couldn't find any information about that in google

[bronze yoke]

you can get the infection level of a character with IsoGameCharacter:getBodyDamage():getInfectionLevel()

[verbal yew]

something like that

[bronze yoke]

if you want the tooltip to work it'd be simpler to just edit the recipe

i haven't tested it but it looks pretty simple

[verbal yew]

https://tenor.com/view/say-what-dunno-shrug-john-krasinski-idk-gif-16557956

[bronze yoke]

i don't want to write out a bunch of pseudocode for it right now but if oninitglobalmoddata you grab the recipe from the script manager, you can clearRequiredSkills() and add the new values with addRequiredSkill()

you could also loop through the existing required skills to copy them before clearing it but that seems like overengineering

[verbal yew]

it's just text in recipe (bottom of required item) with something like (if u cant create it, you need more Blunt skill level)

[bronze yoke]

sounds janky

[verbal yew]

That's why I'm a work-arounder xD

[novel barn]

This is a bit of a headache for me so I apologize for even asking, but I would appreciate any and all help! I'm currently trying to get the capacity of a bag that has been fetched from getScriptManager(). The item returned is derived from (as best I can tell) zombie.scripting.objects.Item. However this object only has a field named Capacity and no methods to getCapacity().

Assuming the following:

item = getScriptManager():getItem("Bag_DuffelBag")
print(item:getFullName())
print(item.Capacity)

gives me the following output:

"Base.Bag_DuffelBag"
nil

I can get the capacity of all containers from the itemContainer object. So I wrote a function to add all bags to the player's inventory, iterate through each one, and insert the item and capacity into a table. However I feel like I must be missing something simple and I've dramatically overengineered my solution. Am I doing something wrong with item.Capacity? Or am I missing something simple?

[verbal yew]

getCapacityWeight()?

[verbal yew]

or getMaxWeight()

[novel barn]

Those are both exposed in the itemContainer object. The objects I'm getting don't inherit from there.

[worthy sparrow]

You have to get InventoryItem then getItemCapacity()

[bronze yoke]

yeah, unfortunately not all properties are exposed on the script

you can create an instance with InventoryItemFactory

[novel barn]

that's what I've done so far. It's just really messy. 😦

wait 🤔 that does give me another idea... I've been using InventoryItemFactory, adding the item to my inventory, and then pulling the capacity back out. I don't even need to add the item though 🤦‍♂️

[bronze yoke]

you could technically grab it from the script with the field stuff but that stuff sucks and it'll probably break when the game updates

(so in approximately three years)

[novel barn]

exactly why I'm writing unit tests for every single parameter for every single bag 😦

[worthy sparrow]

Item has a field of InstanceItem(string param) of type InventoryItem and InventoryItem has a method getItemCapacity(), so I guess something like

item = getScriptManager():getItem("Bag_DuffelBag")
local itemInstance = item:InstanceItem(item:getFullName())
local itemCapacity = itemInstance:getItemCapacity()
(...)

I'm not 100% sure but thats in the docs lol

[novel barn]

Yeah I've been trying to figure out how to get an item out of instanceItem. Thanks so much for taking a look! I'll report back when I figure this out!

[bronze yoke]

InstanceItem(String param) param???

[worthy sparrow]

np 🙂

[bronze yoke]

that is the most confusing name that variable could possibly have

[worthy sparrow]

i didn't come up with it 😄

[bronze yoke]

i'll go check the source

[bronze yoke]

i want to know what that's supposed to mean

if you want to instance items i'd stick to inventoryitemfactory

[novel barn]

yeah... InstanceItem isn't written very intuitively... also my instanced item returned a capacity of -1. :/

[bronze yoke]

it seems to set the colour of the item, i'm unclear of the actual syntax though

[worthy sparrow]

maybe the param is wrong

[bronze yoke]

it's even weirder than that

the ultimate usage of it is just to append it to the end of the icon it looks for

e.g. InstanceItem("test") would look for Item_(the icon name defined in the script)_test

i don't think it does anything else

[worthy sparrow]

what the...

[novel barn]

I ran the following in the command console ingame

item = getScriptManager():getItem("Bag_DuffelBag")
inst_item  = item:InstanceItem("Base.Bag_DuffelBag")
inst_cap = inst_item:getItemCapacity()
print(inst_cap)

and got

-1

[bronze yoke]

can you try getMaxCapacity()?

[novel barn]

also -1 😒

[bronze yoke]

who knows what these do

[novel barn]

fuck me. :getCapacity() works. Successfully returned 18.

but I could do the same with inventoryitemfactory in less lines

[bronze yoke]

i wonder if one is more performant than the other

[novel barn]

I do too. But this'll never be run by anyone other than myself. Everything I'm doing is wrapped tightly in my test suite / debug mode.

[worthy sparrow]

I have just tested this rofl

[bronze yoke]

in the end the factory just calls instanceitem and does a few extra things that don't seem important for you

[novel barn]

so technically I'm using instanceitem either way 😂

[bronze yoke]

if you're actually going to create an item you should use the factory but if it's for a temporary use there's no need

[novel barn]

I'll just use instanceitem then.

Thank you both!

[bronze yoke]

also looking at that let me find out that inventory item ids are not necessarily unique and just rely on the idea that you probably wouldn't get the same random number twice

[novel barn]

me dumb. Is clock. looks like it's not even random. It's just clock time down to what I assume is milliseconds

[worthy sparrow]

Don't ask why I have that in json format

oh wait so actually since ItemCapacity is deprecated then the method getItemCapacity also is? and getCapacity replaced it? That would explain the -1 result

so just docs aren't up to date

[novel barn]

always the last thing to get updated in almost any project 🙃

[worthy sparrow]

According to my handy cheat sheet there are 28 deprecated fields

[bronze yoke]

that's just the time of the print 😅

[novel barn]

🙃 proving one post at a time I have NO idea what's going on 😎 👍

[bronze sand]

Yes, that's easy to do

But does it work on servers?

Like, can the server admin change the recipe for all players?

[bronze yoke]

oh sorry, i meant editing the recipe object automatically in lua

server-side file changes are no good

[bronze sand]

I supposed so

Unless you reuploaded a new version of the mod

But... eh

You already released an API, would you consider making one for customizable crafting recipes?

[bronze yoke]

not a bad idea honestly

'making things that shouldn't be able to use sandbox options use sandbox options' is what i spend about half of my time doing

[bronze sand]

I would also like to be able of seeing what mod adds a recipe, and to disable it if I want

Could interact a bit with Craft Helper even

[novel barn]

I've actually been thinking about something like that for a few weeks now. I plan on eventually (probably months out) start developing a massive primitive survival mod. My problem with large mods like that is they don't make it easy to pick and choose what you do want. There are plenty of mods that do a few things I want, but also add some really unbalanced things I don't want.

[bronze sand]

Precisely

Primitive Survival
I quite like the mod despite the lack of 3D models, but I don't like how it lets you craft Baseball Bats

{
Log,
keep FlintKnife/ButterKnife/HuntingKnife/KitchenKnife,
SkillRequired : Woodwork=4,
Result : BaseballBat,
Time : 1000,
CanBeDoneFromFloor : True,
Category : Survivalist,
}```

[novel barn]

so the gist of what you want to do is either remove that recipe, or add a carpentry level requirement?

[bronze sand]

With a low Woodwork requirement

[bronze sand]

I just saw it says Woodwork instead of Carpentry

[bronze yoke]

woodwork is carpentry

[bronze sand]

Yeah

[novel barn]

did you find your bug? 🙂

[bronze yoke]

not all of the perks' internal names match their english names

[bronze sand]

Anyway, level 4 seems pretty cheap for what's essentially unlimited Baseball Bats

[bronze yoke]

yeah logs are not exactly a limited resource

[bronze sand]

You can't even put together a decent chair until like level 7

[bronze yoke]

carpentry skill is always going to be an awful balancing tool when it's so easy to level

[novel barn]

@bronze sand if you're interested in injecting new values into an existing item, you may be able to leverage this https://github.com/Poltergeistzx/Project-Zomboid/blob/main/Workshop/BucketsMultipurpose/Contents/mods/BucketMultipurpose/media/lua/shared/MIC_ScriptEdits.lua

Karlson uses this to add new tags to existing items without having to overwrite them. You could potentially use this to adjust the carpentry requirement. Your first step could be confirming you can change it this way. Then your next step could be converting it to a sandbox variable.

heck, you could probably use this to add a long blunt skill requirement

[bronze yoke]

you'd need to rewrite it to work for recipes

[novel barn]

Ohh good point. In my excitement to be helpful I failed to realize this is for items and not recipes.

[bronze yoke]

i think this would work, but i'm done writing apis for a little bit

i should probably get around to actually writing the mod i needed to write StatsAPI to support 😅

[novel barn]

@bronze yoke I don't know how you get ANYTHING done with how often you're answering questions here.

[bronze yoke]

most of the questions here are very easy to answer

[novel barn]

I aspire to reach this level of understanding and clarity. Catch me here in 3 years knowing what's up.

[bronze yoke]

LOL i've only been at it for about half that

[novel barn]

You also very clearly have a much deeper understanding of programming theory, which I am currently lacking. I'll get there. I just have a ways to go.

NOOOO MY PLUNGER

[bronze yoke]

D:

i'm surprised you got so much mileage out of it

[novel barn]

https://giphy.com/gifs/sad-ao-no-exorcist-b5z9pHJxxcREI

Has anyone had any luck with getFileWriter lately? I think that's the standard for writing to external files but these two lines don't seem to fire and don't result in any errors

local fileOutput = getFileWriter("BagExtractor.csv",true,false)
fileOutput:writeln("itemType,capacity,DirtReplaceType,GravelReplaceType,SandReplaceType,CompostReplaceType")

I'm literally just trying to create a csv and print a string to it. I am closing the file later with fileOutput:close()

[bronze yoke]

are you checking the right directory?

[novel barn]

I (probably foolishly) thought it would appear in the same directory as the file that called it. I might be having another silly moment.

[bronze yoke]

it appears in Zomboid/Lua/

[novel barn]

Yup. There it is. :/

[novel barn]

☝️

[bronze yoke]

there's a getModFileWriter that's based around your mod's directory but that one is a really bad idea for anything except development tools

[novel barn]

thankfully I'm only writing development tools at the moment. I'm writing a mod that converts all bags into bags that can accept solids (dirt, sand, etc). I'm assuming this will break in the future so I'm future proofing it by building in the tools to extract all the info I need from the game instead of having to hand write all the adjustments. That way if anything ever changes I can just rerun my tools and it should spit out the adjustments I need to make.

I'm 100% overengineering this, but I keep publishing mods that are just code rips from other projects. I want some part of this to be mine. 🙃

[bronze yoke]

for that it should be fine

the problem with the mod file writer is once you've written a file with it the checksum will be wrong forever

and there's no way to delete files so you can't even undo it

the modfilereader is still awesome though, and you can do anything you would've used the writer for in the lua folder instead

[novel barn]

That's almost certainly what I'll do. Thank you so much!

[hasty horizon]

probably a dumb question but this is my first foray into trying to make a mod (bit of experience in java though)

im trying to create a recipe, but every time i open up the crafting menu in -debug it brings up what i assume is the debug menu because something went wrong? this is the "tatersMod recipes.txt" contents, file structure follows tatersMod -> media -> scripts -> "tatersMod recipes.txt"

module tatersMod {
imports {
Base
}
recipe Make Machete
{
SheetMetal = 1,
result:Machete,
}
}

i was stripping down what i had until i got to this and it still seems to be a problem?

[novel barn]

recipe name might need to be one word

[bronze yoke]

surprisingly no

i see this very often caused by the result item being unable to be found, but i think Base.Machete is correct...?

[hasty horizon]

ill try that real quick

[bronze yoke]

you shouldn't need to include the Base. part since you imported base but idk that's the most common cause

[hasty horizon]

hmm its still bringing up the menu

could it be caused by my items.txt?

i have two items my mod is trying to add as well, but i was able to bring those into my inventory

this is the code for that:

module tatersMod {
imports {
Base
}

item beltGrinder {
    Weight=    2,
    Type=Drainable,
    DisplayName=Belt Grinder,
    Icon = beltGrinder,
    DisplayCategory:Tools,
}

item sandPaper {
    Weight = .1,
    Type=Normal,
    DisplayName = Sand Paper,
    Icon = sandPaper,
    DisplayCategory:Tools,
}

}

[novel barn]

what error is the console spitting out at you?

[hasty horizon]

im not sure where to access it in this, but this is the screen that gets brought up

when i press on the crafting menu

[hasty horizon]

idk if you need me to scroll down the stacktrace

[novel barn]

if you don't mind. I suspect it's the same error but it might be different. that log sorts oldest to newest

[bronze yoke]

the getFullType is the classic 'can't find result' error

[hasty horizon]

wait does it need to be result= or result:

[bronze yoke]

result: is correct i think

in your items script you do DisplayCategory:Tools, a few times, it should be done as DisplayCategory = Tools, like the other arguments, the weird colon syntax is mostly a recipe thing

[novel barn]

also, errors are easier to read from the debug log C:\Users\[USER]\Zomboid\Logs\[DATE]DebugLog.txt but that can be a pain to find, open, and mentally parse. Also the file has a max write size of 10mb so if your game has been running for a while you might have multiple.

[hasty horizon]

this the right one?

[novel barn]

That looks right, but doesn't have any errors in it. Try what Albion suggested #mod_development message and let us know if that worked.

[bronze yoke]

btw, the file isn't actually called items.txt, right?

[hasty horizon]

no no, its 'tatersMod items.txt'

[bronze yoke]

ok good

[hasty horizon]

though a probably connected error is the Icon doesn't load when i spawn in the item (just a blue circle with a question mark), and when i exitted out the game and came back in, the items from the mod dissapeared from my inventory?

[bronze yoke]

it definitely hates your items then

[hasty horizon]

sounds like my code alright lmao

when i code in java intellij carries me

[bronze yoke]

intellij my beloved

[hasty horizon]

ill try seeing

if removing my items

makes the recipe work

nope, it do be the recipe

[novel barn]

@hasty horizon I'm pulling your code into a mod to test it myself. See if I can get it working.

[hasty horizon]

this is all the code rn, and the path of where the files are

could it be my syntax?

[novel barn]

@bronze yoke any idea if script files can have spaces in their names? I'm guessing they can since @hasty horizon has at least been able to load the items once upon a time.

[bronze yoke]

the file is definitely loading so it should be fine

it's not something i've seen before though

[hasty horizon]

i can put my items and recipes files in the chat here if that wound help?

[novel barn]

this thing is cursed

I'm still working on it

[hasty horizon]

idk why its being difficult either looking at the fwolfes github page, and some workshop mods i had downloaded

[bronze yoke]

it does look correct to me

[hasty horizon]

hmm, is it important if i use a space or a tab

[novel barn]

no

[hasty horizon]

ok i was thinking "maybe notepad translates 4 spaces and tabs differently" for a second

[novel barn]

THAT would be fun 😮

[bronze yoke]

all the whitespace gets nuked before parsing, it's just for looks

[hasty horizon]

good to know

at least i know im not crazy in all this tho

[novel barn]

got it. capitalize the R in Result

[bronze yoke]

seriously? that's the one thing that's case sensitive??

[novel barn]

I tried EVERYTHING else

I spent about 10 minutes on commas alone

[hasty horizon]

aaaa thank you lmao

now to readd what i had before trying to debug

i appreciate the help!

[novel barn]

Sure! Let me know if that doesn't work. I'm not sure if my final code is identical to yours aside from the R

[hasty horizon]

i just tried it with the R, it do work

[novel barn]

I was trying Module Base {}, commas, adding different parameters

awesome :spongebob_phew: I'mma take my dog for a short walk to celebrate.

[hasty horizon]

give em a treat they deserve it

[novel barn]

I finally helped someone in here instead of begging for help 🙂

[hasty horizon]

big mood

[crystal oar]

i can't wait for my time to shine in that regard

[hasty horizon]

hmm, im trying to add a recipe to the Metalworking tab, but it just duplicates the tab, highlights both when i click on it, and only shows the propane torch under it instead of my recipe

was using Category:Metalworking,

[novel barn]

try Category:Welding,?

[hasty horizon]

ye that worked

[hasty horizon]

Is there a resource that lists all the distribution tables? i found the link to the .lua in this channel that explains how to add things to it, but unless im blind i don't see a list of all the base tables

[bronze yoke]

in ProceduralDistributions.lua you can see all of the game's distributions

[hasty horizon]

danke

when i put a file in the lua folder, do i have to worry about the name for reasons other than organization purposes? or does the game run them in descending order or something?

[bronze yoke]

it does run them in descending order, but vanilla files always run first, and you can force specific files to run before yours, so this is rarely a consideration

the main thing to think about with the name is that if two mods have a file with the same path and name, only one will run, so make sure it's something unique

[hasty horizon]

ye i was just going to name it with my [modname]Distributions, but i was curious if i needed to be particular about casing/naming and that sort of thing

[bronze yoke]

the server/shared/client placement does matter

but other than that it's just organisational really

[hasty horizon]

im guessing that server has prescendence over shared, then shared has prescendence over client?

[bronze yoke]

it's mostly a load order thing but when i say 'vanilla always runs first' it's per folder

the order is shared -> client (if it's a client) -> server (even if it's a client 💀)

but for example it loads vanilla shared, then modded shared, then vanilla client, modded client, etc

so if you try to add distributions in shared for example, vanilla server didn't run yet so the distribution tables don't exist

[hasty horizon]

well good to know, i was planning on it being in server either way because i wanted to have some friends play the mod on a server eventually

[hasty horizon]

so in this example, the shared distribution would return a nullpointer is what your saying?

if im understanding correctly

[bronze yoke]

yeah, because the server lua creates the distribution tables and that hasn't run yet, so it's just nil when your shared code runs

[hasty horizon]

so that would be a situation to run a shared file after server than before then i think? neat

[sour island]

https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

[tardy wren]

Anyone know of a mod that adds an extra trackable need/stat like hunger/stress I can use as a reference? I made a mod that tinkers with stress mechanics, and I had trouble getting it to work neatly

[mild venture]

Hi, look at this #908459714248048730 message

[tardy wren]

I have no access

[mild venture]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2997722072

[tardy wren]

Oh, by Albion...

I was about to ask why nobody is running it, then saw the release date...

Yeah, yesterday

[plain crane]

Hey guys I was wondering about one thing. What determines the loot spawns in containers on a map?

Specifically, I'm running Clear Cove and decided to attach other map mods for the heck of it, but even though I copied all files except the map file, the items don't seem to respawn in there?

[worthy sparrow]

Theres Distributions.lua file

[plain crane]

Is this up to date? I just checked two map mods and I don't see that file in either of them

[sharp minnow]

I’ve been trying to stop any weather and lock the game into a groundhog day type feel - the easiest thing I could think of is to simply setDay to a day a week or so out of game start. I was thinking of adding an extra condition to check if it’s going to rain and then move the day accordingly.
Is there an easier way that anyone knows of?

[undone tapir]

On the Team Orbit discord, they had a section for code snippets server owners could just copy/paste the lua in debug.

They had a snippet to change one tile's appearance to another (ie: boom box to jukebox tile or refrigerator to a farmers stand tile)

Would anyone still have this snippet?

[deft plaza]

making a mod way different then my others

I need a code has a random chance of giving me a moodlet when killing a zombie

[neon hedge]

Hey guys, how do i change infectionLevel?

[bronze yoke]

you can't, as long as the player is infected the value is recalculated every frame

so any changes you make will just be overridden

[neon hedge]

sad

[tardy wren]

You can look into how the various zombie cure mods do it

[neon hedge]

that's what im doing but i can't come up with how to change the value to a specific number

like change it to 20% and other stuff

[tardy wren]

Which mod are you referencing?

[neon hedge]

antiserum hardcore

[tardy wren]

Hrmm... Have you looked at Dr. Hyde's ?

[neon hedge]

not yet

i can check it

[worthy sparrow]

How about temporaily disabling infection if theres any and changing the infectionLevel then enabling it back?

[deft plaza]

does anyone have a mod I can refer too for this

maybe just the zombie kill give moodlet part

[tame mulch]

Try check zombieKillCount variable (that shows in UI) and if it increased - give moodle

[deft plaza]

where could I find that?

oh I see

[bronze yoke]

as soon as you re-infect them it'll start calculating the value again

[worthy sparrow]

I see, thanks

[deft plaza]

Sorry I'm a little confused its my first time trying to create a moodle and stuff I'm using Moodle Framework for this

[tame mulch]

You want custom moodle? then check how framework works

[deft plaza]

Yeah I'm reading I just don't understand

like this
require "MF_ISMoodle"
MF.createMoodle(*);
I don't even get it am I supposed to change MF

[undone tapir]

When I add -debug to the steam parameters and logon to a multiplayer server with admin access, I don't see the game and a console window.

I see a bunch of windows like watch window, lua files, etc.

How can I get the actual game so I can move around and a console window?

[hasty horizon]

does it work if you don't have any mods installed?

[undone tapir]

I don't really have a dedicated server I can uninstall mods like that

I just want to access the console commands window so I can paste lua directly into it for easy stupid things

[dark wedge]

What you see is the debug menu, likely hit an error on start. Press F11 to close it.
If you uncheck the "Break on Error" option at the top, it won't re-open in your session if you hit another error

[undone tapir]

Oh my god thank you

Google was returning the most unhelpful links thank you so much

[undone tapir]

Another dumb question. Once I get past that and I accidentally close the console command window how do I reopen it without relogging?

I checked the debug bug button, admin button and couldn't see a way unless I missed it

[dark wedge]

In the normal options under "Key Bindings" there is a "Debug" section which has "Toggle Lua Console" you can set to a key. Just press that key to show/hide the lua console, possibly need to set the key first.

[undone tapir]

Awesome tyvm

[fast galleon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2998526012
If anybody wants to test it.

[dark wedge]

Alright. The main functionality is done (except for controllers), now to just go through and assign icons to all the actions.

[neon hedge]

how does setInfectionTime works?
when i try to change it, it just resets infectionLevel

[mellow frigate]

Hello everyone, I am using (a lot) a "map" related to IsoRoom instances. That "map" is a lua table using tostring(isoRoomInstance) as key. I am wondering if I could and should use isoRoomInstance:getRoomDef():getID() as key instead. Any of you has an opinion on this ?

[bronze yoke]

it calculates the infection level by the time since infection time

it randomly picks how long your infection will last based on your mortality settings and then it uses that to calculate what your infection level should be each tick

[tardy wren]

Also based on traits, ye?

[bronze yoke]

no, traits don't seem to be considered

oh, sorry, no, they are

the traits are +/-25%

i wonder if i could reimplement infection too

this api's scope is ballooning a little 😅

[autumn temple]

I cant figure out this moodleframework. I got the moodle to work but im trying to make it scale from level 1 to level 4. but when I try to do that it breaks

so its only letting me start at badlevel 4 and go down to level 1

[mellow frigate]

I am stuck again with running and sprinting. Both delay TimedActions. Any of you knows where that delay is handled the java code? . I insist, timed actions are played once I stop running / sprinting, when I add a TimedAction with ``` o.stopOnWalk = false;
o.stopOnRun = false;
o.stopOnAim = false;

[dark wedge]

TimedActions shouldn't be delayed if you are running/walking straight with those set, but it will if you are turning at all in my experience. The turning state seems to override everything.

[mellow frigate]

I'm running straight

[dark wedge]

Hmm, strange. I guess you're right. Never noticed that. You might need to set the player's setRunning to false until you have verified your action has started (should only be like 1-2 ticks might not be noticeable). I had to do something similar in Brutal Handwork for turning so the "attack" would actually play even if turning; it locks you into place until the "StartAttack" animation event fires on animation start.

[mellow frigate]

The start is called on the TimedAction, but the anim played by the timed action is not played and when I stop running/sprinting, start is played again.

[mellow frigate]

Nice, I'll look into Brutal Handwork for tips then 🙂 thanx a lot

[abstract raptor]

yo; what's the proper way to add a context menu option to an item in your inventory again?

[dark wedge]

For reference, this is the valid part:

function BHMeleeAttack:update()
    -- we need to force the current facing direction until the animation starts
    if self.lockDir then
        self.character:setDirectionAngle(self.vec)
    end
end

function BHMeleeAttack:animEvent(event, parameter)
    if event == 'StartAttack' then
        ...
        self.lockDir = false
        ...
    end
end

function BHMeleeAttack:new(character, weapon, chargeDelta)
...
o.lockDir = true
o.vec = character:getDirectionAngle()
...
end

I would assume its something similar for getting the character to stop running for like 1-2 ticks using setRunning That's all it needs to get it going, then the ignores kick in.

[dark wedge]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_Events/OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu
Use this event, check for your item in the table of items, and use context:addOption(label, target, function, params...) for your stuff if valid.

[abstract raptor]

I thought that's what I was doin'

function UIDisplayJournal_TatteredJournal.createMenu(_player, _context, _items)
    local player = getSpecificPlayer(_player)
    local clickedItems = _items

    for _, entry in ipairs(clickedItems) do
        if instanceof(entry, "InventoryItem") then
            local item = entry

            if item:getType() == "Journals.TatteredJournal" then
                _context:addOption("Read Journal", clickedItems, UIDisplayJournal_TatteredJournal.onDisplayJournal, player, item)
            end
        end
    end
end```

[dark wedge]

another part to note is the animation events, not sure if you've messed with those. But, the code I provided requires the following in your action xml file:

    <m_EventName>StartAttack</m_EventName>
    <m_Time>Start</m_Time>
    <m_ParameterValue></m_ParameterValue>
</m_Events>```

[dark wedge]

Try:
if item:getFullType() == "Journals.TatteredJournal" then

[abstract raptor]

Ah ! Sweet I knew it would be something dumb like that -- yeah these are modded items not base so I needed to include the module

[mellow frigate]

yes, thanx. I heard (pretty recently) of anim events and use them.

[abstract raptor]

Huh still didn't work. I'm at a loss. So close to getting a system down for making readable books/journals

[mellow frigate]

Thanx a lot , it works* by enforcing (*with some side effects I still have to handle): ``` self.character:setIgnoreMovement(true)
self.character:setRunning(false)
self.character:setSprinting(false)

[neon hedge]

thanks

[abstract raptor]

function UIDisplayJournal_TatteredJournal.createMenu(_player, _context, _items)
    print("UIDisplayJournal_TatteredJournal.createMenu called")
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(_player)
    local items = ISInventoryPane.getActualItems(_items)

    for _, item in ipairs(items) do
        if item:getFullType() == "Journals.TatteredJournal" then
            _context:addOption("Read Journal", _items, UIDisplayJournal_TatteredJournal.onDisplayJournal, playerObj, item)
        end
    end
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(UIDisplayJournal_TatteredJournal.createMenu);

got it working

how do we add line breaks in a string?

[mild venture]

<LINE> -- new line
<BR> -- new paragraph

this works only if richtext works

for plaintext i do not know solution

[mellow frigate]

Any of Azerty keyboard users having their language set Autmatically to Qwerty when using PZ from time to time or is it just me pressing ALT+Shift without realising it ?

[verbal yew]

@bronze yoke, bro, you sure ZombRand(min, max) - max not include in randomizer?

[bronze yoke]

yes

[hasty horizon]

is there support for creating non-human non-zombie entities? like animals. (i know a future update will add animals, mostly curiosity)

[bronze yoke]

there has been a dog mod, so i would say it is possible, but i wouldn't say there is 'support' really

i never looked at the code but he was working on that for a really long time

[hasty horizon]

ah i see, i found what i think is the mod you were talking about and it does seem high effort

[plain crane]

Hey guys I was wondering about one thing. What determines the loot spawns in containers on a map?

Specifically, I'm running Clear Cove and decided to attach other map mods for the heck of it, but even though I copied all files except the map file, the items don't seem to respawn in there?

[mellow frigate]

Hello, any of you has an idea on where the bfalling comes from in the animation sequence in the attached picture ? This occures when I try to play a jump animation over a hole. leading to a fall as (nearly) allways in vanilla. Afaik, there is no call to setbFalling (that one is only called from ClimbDownSheetRopeState.java and ClimbSheetRopeState.java) and afaik, bFalling is never written directly.

[bronze yoke]

        this.setVariable("bfalling", ()->{
            return this.z > 0.0F && this.fallTime > 2.0F;
        });
```do animations modify the player's co-ords directly in pz? it could be triggering this

[mellow frigate]

by setting fallTime to 0 iin the action update, I got rid of the setting, thanx a lot !!

oh my, with that and forcing the Z, I can fly :D. Jump is gonna be a thing

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2998704965

[bronze yoke]

that's sick

[mellow frigate]

Thank you for being so supportive and helpful.

[hasty horizon]

is there a way to add properties to when characters use base game items? for example if i make a trait to make a character vegetarian, to penalize them someway with a mood penalty, or even just restrict them from eating it in the first place

[bronze sand]

The Pickaxe has a feature that makes it so, sometimes it will one-shot a zomboid

Is it possible to call for this in a different weapon?

Let's say, a long blunt
Like a Bat that has one big spike, which realistically, could also nail a head like the pickaxe does

How could that be accomplished?

[hasty horizon]

im not entirely sure, but the wiki does have the code from the pickaxe that you can take a look through: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Pick_Axe

you can also find it in the game files in the items_weapons.txt (Project Zomboid directory/media/scripts/)

[hasty horizon]

o o theres also a list of parameters here: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Item_Script_Parameters

i think specifically what your looking for is Crit chance?

[bronze sand]

I thought it would work differently in the Pickaxe, no entirely sure tho

[hasty horizon]

is there a way to make a thrown item have knockback? or is it tied specifically to ranged/melee?

[crystal oar]

would it be possible to make moodles bigger?

[mellow frigate]

Is there a way to add dynamically a valid square in the air in a current square ? I am currently trying (struggling) to add some object like ISBuildAction does and then call RecalcAllWithNeighbours on the grid square, but it is not clear to me what will produce neighbor square creation. Advices would be much appreciated.

[mellow frigate]

it works with if not currentSquare:Is(IsoFlagType.solidfloor) then currentSquare:addFloor(''); currentSquare:RecalcAllWithNeighbours(true) end

[open drum]

hey guys, anyone have idea of any function where it gives you the X and Y coordinate of where your mouse is in relation to X and Y of game tile coordinate?

I know thre's Mouse.getX() and Mouse.getY() or getMouseX(), getMouseY() but these only gives the X and Y in relation to your screen.

I want game grid x and y where mouse is placed in. just like getPlayer():getX()

The reason why I want to do this is to get zombie deadbody ID below the mouse when left or key press happens

[fading horizon]

does anyone have any ideas on how I could make a custom gun use two different ammo types?

It's an assault rifle with an underbarrel shotgun.

I'm assuming i could bind a hotkey to switch between two different guns with the same models, but maybe theres a better way?

[fading horizon]

finally getting back to working on this. Made my first gun

[crystal oar]

is it within the realm of possibility to make moodles bigger?

[bronze yoke]

not really

the size bugs me too but moodles might actually be the least moddable thing i've looked at

you'd probably have to reimplement them entirely

[crystal oar]

thanks for the answer

[mellow frigate]

convertion from display(mouse) to iso (world) ``` local xScreen1 = isoToScreenX(playerNum, isoX, isoY, isoZ);
local yScreen1 = isoToScreenY(playerNum, isoX, isoY, isoZ);

The other way around, most functions are based on the zIso of the player (isoPlayer:getZ()) ``` local xIso = IsoUtils.XToIso( xUI, yUI, zIso)
local yIso = IsoUtils.YToIso( xUI, yUI, zIso)

[abstract raptor]

Oh i figured it out, I found a better solution though because if I added line breaks I ran into a different problem where the window wasn't resizing

[open drum]

where is xUI and yUI variable getting its float from? getMouseX and Y?

       
       local player = getPlayer()
       isoX = Mouse.getX()
       isoY = Mouse.getY()
       
        xIso = IsoUtils.XToIso( xUI, yUI, zIso)
        yIso = IsoUtils.YToIso( xUI, yUI, zIso)
      
      
       xScreen1  = isoToScreenX(player, isoX, isoY, 0);
       yScreen1  = isoToScreenY(player, isoX, isoY, 0); 
       
       print(xScreen1)
       print(yScreen1)

this produce "tried to call nil " error

for xScreen1 and yScreen1 variables