mod_development

[tribal oasis]

yo could someone help me figure out the last steps to making a map mod? I've been following a guide on youtube and have the basic test map made and setup- I just don't know how to export it over 😅

[mellow frigate]

Someone has already been able to modify a trait cost from sandbox options ? I'd prefer not to reimplement that if it is available. 😄 lazy dude

[bronze yoke]

i implemented it in these files
https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/Zombie-Contagion/blob/develop/Contents/mods/ZContagion/media/lua/client/zcontagion/traits/traitsUI.lua
https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/Zombie-Contagion/blob/develop/Contents/mods/ZContagion/media/lua/shared/zcontagion/traits/traits.lua

[mellow frigate]

you rock

you do elegantly some serious work with those metatable tricks.

[dark wedge]

I've added a bunch of "overlay" icons that can be set on an entry in the radial context menu. It's an easy way to add some context to an icon you're setting without having to actually add a bunch of icons yourself. This isn't all of them, but shows the gist/vibe of what I got. Player is for scale of the radial's size. Unfortunately the big issue with this mod is that entries from other mods won't have icons unless they use a vanilla string or function I catch, or set the iconTexture themselves. Hopefully these overlays help to encourage y'all to add support for this when adding context entries, and I tried to do this in a way that won't conflict with vanilla even with this mod disabled. I'll have documentation on all this on release though (which should be soonish).

[mellow frigate]

Another funny mod that owes some of its magic to Albion: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3002791010

[nimble yarrow]

lol @ the endgame

[lone nest]

hello everyone, I like to introduce my new NPC framework mod for B41 (with the aim of replacing all Superb Survivors variants).

This is very much a work in progress, the NPCs are currently limited to hold position and follow at the moment for their basic orders.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3001908830

I have included 2 projects as a starter and examples for other modders to try their hand at creating their own NPCs.
Standalone, no group NPC: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3001910188 (< 200 total lines of code)
Grouped NPCs: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3001909546

Framework main github: https://github.com/shadowhunter100/PZNS
Example standalone NPC: https://github.com/shadowhunter100/PZNS_AgentWong
Example grouped NPCs: https://github.com/shadowhunter100/PZNS_RosewoodPolice

I am also looking for help to further develop the framework; as in it's current state, it is very barebones, but 100% stable in my own testing.

What it means to use the framework; a dependent mod can call the required framework and use all of the framework functions without needing to write additional data management functions.
https://imgur.com/a/OaaK2tG
NPCs in action example: https://youtu.be/F_AcFR68qs8

[mellow frigate]

for your need of spawning On IsoGridSquare Load, you can look at Spawner subpart of TchernoLib and how it is used by Portal mod. I used it for spawning items, you can do the equivalent with NPCs.

[lone nest]

I will probably take a look later; we worked separately and I was unaware of your object spawning functions in the library.

[mellow frigate]

in the mod.info file of your client mods, you can add the line require=PZNS_Framework

This will allow you to avoid all the lua code questionning whether the framework is active or not

[hollow current]

Still looking for an answer about this

[fast galleon]

You mean loot?

[hollow current]

Yes

[fast galleon]

There are special distribution tables in Distributions.lua near the bottom.

Based on the event, a table is selected. Stash houses can use any table you set.

[hollow current]

I'll look into it, thanks!

[tribal oasis]

still need help with this if anyone is able to lend a hand 😅

[fast galleon]

They should take priority over the room tables.

[lone nest]

thanks!

[hollow current]

okay seems to be what I've been looking for but one more thing, anything specific for car wrecks/general car containers on the road that seem to be in a bad condition? (Want to handle spawns in cars but generally not have the item spawn in cars which look to have good condition)

[bronze yoke]

onfillcontainer check general condition of the parent vehicle

do wrecks even spawn items? if they do then you can check wreck too

[hollow current]

well obv not wrecks which contain cars at an unsuable condition those don't spawn loot afaik

so basically onfillcontainer, check if its a vehicle, check overall condition, and if condition is above threshold and item spawned in it, just delete the item

[bronze yoke]

yeah, something like that

[hollow current]

Thanks! :)

[nimble yarrow]

if I declare a local, can i get the length of it in lua?

local myListOfThings = {
  "thingA",
  "thingB",
  "thingC",
}

for i = 0, myListOfThings:size() - 1 do
for i = 0, myListOfThings.count - 1 do
for i = 0, myListOfThings(length) - 1 do

[lone nest]

I think, in lua, the "correct" syntax is

for i = 1, #myListOfThings do
    print(myListOfThings:size[i]);
end

iirc :size() is used if the list is from Java.

[bronze yoke]

#myListOfThings

it can only count array-like tables correctly

it just counts from 1 until it reaches nil

if you need the length of another style of table then i think you have to resort to```lua
local count = 0
for _, _ in pairs(myListOfThings) do
count = count + 1
end

[lone nest]

... come to think of it, doesn't lua list index start at 1?

[nimble yarrow]

so this is no good? refactoring my ProdecuralDistribution

for i = 1, #locationsCommon do
    addLoot(locationsCommon[i], itemToAddHere, 1.0 * rarityMultiplier)
end

or is it

local count = 0
for _, _ in pairs(locationsCommon) do
    addLoot(locationsCommon[count], itemToAddHere, 1.0 * rarityMultiplier)
    count = count + 1
end

[lone nest]

to clarify, your 2nd for-loop is iterating through a table, the pairs() call is iterating through each key-value pair in the table.

albion stated as such

your first for-loop should work from what I can eyeball at least.

[bronze yoke]

yeah that looks correct

well it depends on what addLoot expects, the syntax looks a bit odd around that

but the loop itself seems correct

[nimble yarrow]

Hmm, I didn't even get a print in my console. but maybe the function got called at a bad time.

local locationsSchool = {
  "SchoolLockers",
  "ClassroomShelves",
}

for i = 1, #locationsSchool do
  print("iteration " .. [i] .. ", about to add loot to " .. locationsSchool[i])
end

[bronze yoke]

that should be perfect

[nimble yarrow]

oh. my print caused a stack trace unexpected symbol near [.

[bronze yoke]

oh right

iteration " .. [i] .. ", should be iteration " .. i .. ",

square brackets are only used when you're trying to index something

[nimble yarrow]

should locationsSchool[i] be #locationsSchool[i] as well? or just the i is the problem

[bronze yoke]

just the i i think

[nimble yarrow]

cool

[bronze yoke]

if you did #locationsSchool[i] you would basically be trying to index a number, since # returns the length

[autumn temple]

So I have an item that acts just like eating something, I wanted to ask if there was a way to limit movement while the items are being consumed?

[strong scaffold]

do you guys know where to find the mod.txt file anywhere? it has the list of mod active on a server.

it could be called loaded.txt

[nimble yarrow]

your currently active mods C:\Users\user_name\Zomboid\mods\default.txt
a particular server's mods C:\Users\user_name\Zomboid\Saves\Multiplayer\ip_address_here\WorldDictionaryLog.lua

not exactly what you were looking for, but the mods are listed in that .lua, if you open it with notepad

@strong scaffold

[cobalt fiber]

Just a probably dumb Lua question: if I create a local table like "local myfunctions = {}", then do "function myfunctions.myFunction()", will that function be local without needing the local modifier?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

it doesn't exist outside of that table, so access modifiers don't really apply to it

[hollow current]

any idea what method to use to return overall condition of a vehicle?

[strong scaffold]

thanks man ill check it ouy

[strong scaffold]

do you think copy and pasting the default.txt content to the .lua file would break anything?

i just want the exact same mods

[nimble yarrow]

thats more of a question for #mod_support channel,
but, your game should download all mods from a server, when you try to join. you don't need to do it manually.

[nimble yarrow]

anyone see the problem here?
my code isn't 'closing' correctly?
lua would probably be easier to use, learn & understand with accurate spacing, intellisense and visual studio, umbrella, zomboid studio, whatever. but for right now im just in Notepad++, and i feel like this should 'close'?

I normally write C#, but according to my google searches, this should be good to go, in lua

cringe

thanks

[lone nest]

don't worry, lua runs against a lot of what you learn in other languages.

and PZ has its own flavor in kahlua

[slender oar]

Let's request they change it to tcl

[fickle relic]

Fun progress 😊 panels instantiated when hovering over containers

OOP is hard in Lua

[nimble yarrow]

Here's my procedural distribution lua script.

local function addLoot(proc_name, itemToAdd, chance)
  local data = ProceduralDistributions.list
  local c = data[proc_name];

  table.insert(c.items, itemToAdd);
  table.insert(c.items, chance);
end

this works:

addLoot("SchoolLockers", myItem, 6.0)
addLoot("ClassroomShelves", myItem, 6.0)

I would like to refactor it, to work like this. But 8 hours in, it just won't work.

local locationsSchool = {
"SchoolLockers",
"ClassroomShelves",
}

for i = 1, #locationsSchool do
  addLoot(locationsSchool[i], myItem, 6.0)
end

Does anything jump out as wrong with this?

note; THIS debugs fine! it looks great! they are both added nicely
print("iteration " .. i .. ", adding myItem to " .. locationsSchool[i] .. "with rarity = " .. 6.0)

the error I've been getting all day reads:
Callframe at: getLootModifier
function: doRollItem_CalcChances -- file: SpawnRateChecker.lua line # 158 | Vanilla

not much comes up on google for those errors

[lone nest]

- file: SpawnRateChecker.lua line # 158 | Vanilla
What's at line 158?

i also wouldn't rely too much on chat gpt and google for kahlua/lua

because lua has far fewer projects those AI/LLMs have trained on

they can create basic examples and explain some of the workings, but don't expect 100% accurate and working code from your first query.

[lilac flower]

I am trying to align attachments to the player and I have been quitting out of the game, updating the .txt document which contains the attachment point and starting up the game to check my updates.

Is there a better way of doing it?

[fickle relic]

Two questions 🙏

1. How can I get the nice display name of a container? (container:getSprite():getName() is pretty ugly)
2. How can I get some unique way to identify a container or a container's IsoObject (to differentiate them from each other) ?

[sour island]

Anyone know of a way to send a message into chat for only a player to see? like a system message?

[tranquil kindle]

If you use debug mode, there is option, however depending on scale and rotation of your model it might differ from what you see on character and in its menu, it also overrides text file so you dont have to restart

[lilac flower]

that is super useful, thanks!

[tranquil kindle]

https://i.gyazo.com/12e960594a542232ed244994aad55cff.mp4

Until i had it figured out i usually had to put muzzleflash where stock is , and scope/reddots were usually upside down in here

[sour island]

Fresh off the presses: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3003095456

Had it on the shelf for a bit, decided it was not doing anything there. 😅

[hollow current]

I still can't find the function to do it. Best way I can think of is manually iterating over each vehicle part and calculating average but seems too troublesome. Surely there is a native way of doing it, no?

[ivory gyro]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3003111656

For everyone have troller in your server !

[sour island]

Looks like you have two broken images in the description

[ivory gyro]

Its good now ^^

[sour island]

👍

[ivory gyro]

Working on a new mod.

[cold monolith]

you guys think it would be possible to have a robot race where they need to learn mechanics and stuff to repair themselves like a car and they need coolant and batterys to live?
the lore could be
Escaped darpa lab robot heads out to find signs of life and adventure
or a tesla robot type thing

instead of bites taking you out maybe you loose wires controlling your left of right arm or something

and other weird debuffs like not being able to use guns and youre noisy when walking

or extra noisey when running

[ivory gyro]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3003264734
New mod

[tawdry solar]

could i create an item that when interacted does a teleport event?

[sour island]

If there's anybody here available to work on commissions there's a few job postings here: https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

[sour island]

Yes, there's a few mods that do this already.

[tawdry solar]

oh shit thanks man

[tawdry solar]

thanks

im actually doing this for a commission

[sour island]

😅

Fortunate timing then

[tawdry solar]

yeah

[gilded hawk]

Is there a mod a way to have combobox/multiselect as a sandbox option?
At the moment I only see these options:

boolean
double
enum
integer
string
text

[bronze yoke]

enum?

[gilded hawk]

Isn't enum a single options?

[tawdry solar]

what enum

[bronze yoke]

enum is drop-down list

[tawdry solar]

ah

[gilded hawk]

But it only allows you to choose one options

[bronze yoke]

then use booleans?

[gilded hawk]

I can't because I need to generate the list at run time 😅

Unless, there is a way to dynamicaly add sandbox settings 🤔

Example of what I would like to have

[mellow frigate]

multiple enums 😦

[gilded hawk]

Manually added multiple enums? 😦

[mellow frigate]

yes shame

[gilded hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/eminem-job-for-me-gif-10358335

Maybe I can do something to make this work 🤔

If I can hijack the ISTextEntryBox for setting.type == "text" when it's loaded inside SandboxOptions.lua I could use a format like this [Value1,Value2,Value2] as serialized array 🤔

[worthy sparrow]

Third time since middle school I used trigonometry for something

[gilded hawk]

😮

Is this in-game?

[worthy sparrow]

no no its a website im working on 😅

[versed bear]

i was thinking... is there any way to configure a mod of npcs in pz with artificial intelligence? i've seen it done in several games, like skyrim and matrix, for example

[spice saddle]

is it pz related? what does it do?

@worthy sparrow ^

[worthy sparrow]

For now its going to be a crafting tree with everything, I plan to implement custom items and to visualize how things are crafted, whats in them (eg. Bread = Flour, Yeast, Water, Salt ...) if someone wants to make a mod with lots of new items or just something complicated it would help to visualize stuff.

[jaunty marten]

will u support all available recipes variables?

[worthy sparrow]

And looking back into one of thursdoids I saw an image with super huge crafting tree and wondered how would that look detailed and interactable, like you press an item and it highlights all the steps and stuff required to make that item, like a cake recipie lol

[worthy sparrow]

Yes, actually I do imported all of the parameters

[jaunty marten]

cool

[worthy sparrow]

Still a WIP

ouch the colours broke

[lofty mantle]

hello guys i want to start moding this game but i dont know where is the docs etc. also i think its java code is it correct?

[worthy sparrow]

Its mostly LUA

[lofty mantle]

yeah but i do want to do car mod and i wanna do like animated doors etc.

where can i access the library?

[worthy sparrow]

Everythings is here https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding

Java docs here: https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/

[lofty mantle]

so java knowledge enough for modding?

[bronze yoke]

this version of the javadocs is better https://projectzomboid.com/modding/

[lofty mantle]

thank you but how can i gain access to this in intelliji idea

[bronze yoke]

most mods are just lua scripts, java mods are possible but not commonly made and not many people will install them

[spice saddle]

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

[lofty mantle]

it will be a basic car mod rx7

[bronze yoke]

if you want to have lua intellisense stuff in intellij you can use umbrella https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella

[spice saddle]

lua should be enough to make car mods

[lofty mantle]

thing is i dont know lua

and know java instead

[spice saddle]

if you know java, you can pick up lua

[lofty mantle]

yes but i dont want to learn whole new language for just a game

[bronze yoke]

java mods require manual installation and you won't really find any support in the community for making them

[lofty mantle]

ahh i seee

than how do i write with lua? which program should i use? and how i will access with lua?

[worthy sparrow]

lua syntax is easy, however it is limited and its best to get to know it first, codecademy has a free course about lua

[bronze yoke]

i like using intellij with the emmylua plugin, vscode is popular too

[worthy sparrow]

I recommend VS Code and extensions

[lofty mantle]

i love intelliji and jetbrains program

so ill never using vs code

[bronze yoke]

emmylua is kind of crappy tbh and vscode has much better support for lua, but i take that sacrifice to use jetbrains

[spice saddle]

tool looks cool.. but can you tell me more about the zomboid automated test framework??

[lofty mantle]

its making intelliji idea lua?

[lofty mantle]

nice

[lofty mantle]

ok thanks so anything diff in lua?

[worthy sparrow]

for VS Code theres that: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asledgehammer.zedscript-vscode

[lofty mantle]

from java

[worthy sparrow]

https://github.com/Notloc/zomboid-automated-test-framework I just added bunch of usefull links there, all of them are from here

[tawdry solar]

dawg

[worthy sparrow]

lua is multi-paradigm language, not like java which is object oriented

[spice saddle]

woah nice

srsly pz modding community is a beast

[worthy sparrow]

and like there arent any ; and {}

[lofty mantle]

yeah

[lofty mantle]

...

[worthy sparrow]

but I think you can use them anyway

[lofty mantle]

i saw a gtr mod and it was wroten with java i guess

and you really wasnt able to manual install it

[worthy sparrow]

for loop becomes

for i=1,50 do
  (...)
end

[lofty mantle]

(i checked the codes of animations etc.)

[bronze yoke]

you can use ;s but not {}s

[novel barn]

Not to distract from the current conversation but we were talking about StackExchange a few days ago and how awful it is. After spending all day stuck on some selenium stuff I finally found my answer on SE and wanted to thumb it up as a thanks. I created an account and everything, only to find out I don't have enough reputation to thumb it up...

[worthy sparrow]

I'm scared of posting any questions there, people are so toxic if you do one mistake in your question

[spice saddle]

i'm forever thankful for those poor souls who ran into issues that i had but were brave enough to post there so that i may get help lol

[novel barn]

I think Albion is right on the money with this one "i just google, and if google doesn't have the answer it's impossible" #mod_development message

[worthy sparrow]

Theres ChatGPT to the rescue!

or to make the question even more impossible to answer

[lofty mantle]

chatgpt aint openai

its basicly using templates

[mellow frigate]

Hum, I added new sandbox options values (with default values set) to a mod and someone seems to have the new lua code without the sandbox options. how is it possible ? I thought the default values were used when loading in a preexisting game save.

[abstract raptor]

@mellow frigate Hiiii love your mods

[mellow frigate]

Same here !

[abstract raptor]

I have an idea for this animals that move with you thing I was wondering if you might be interested in collabin' to make it more awesome

Like maybe they have health or can attack zombies if there's a zombie on the square they move to

[worthy sparrow]

Getting there

[mellow frigate]

That would be awesome. But That's too much complexity to handle.

[abstract raptor]

eh I iwll figure it out, just gotta loop over the square when the animal spawns in it's spot and if there's a zombie object we deal damage to it and play a sound effect

[nimble yarrow]

if player can be made to face a direction, can you face the dogs and alligator
player:faceLocation(isoObjectHere:getX(), isoObjectHere:getY())

[jaunty marten]

not sure if making such a complicated mod right before b42 is a good idea

[abstract raptor]

Eh itll Bridge things

Also the animals are items so we have to use SetWorldZRotation

I had it working in an earlier version where I calculated the charachters rotation value and then assigned the correct z rotation but I lost the code snippet of it working.

[nimble yarrow]

"right before" b42 lol

[jaunty marten]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[abstract raptor]

Honestly I've heard its months out still and its more of a novelty mod anyway.

Tryna think of other uses for the system of an item that follows you.

Can probably do interesting things with like models that affect the appearance of the ground.

[nimble yarrow]

new idea:
since this is working,

addLoot("ClassroomShelves", myItem, 6.0)

but this is not

local locationsSchool = {
  "SchoolLockers",
}

addLoot(locationsSchool[1], myItem, 6.0)

maybe I need to cast it to a string? (if lua can)
locationsSchool[1].tostring()
string(locationsSchool[1])

unlikely, as they both return strings, when i print them to console, but maybe?

[bronze yoke]

in lua it's tostring(var), but yeah doesn't seem like it should help

[jaunty marten]

it can't not work cos they are same but just different location name

[bronze yoke]

well it doesn't work

the second one throws errors and we don't know why

[jaunty marten]

what's the error?

[bronze yoke]

it was mentioned here #mod_development message

[nimble yarrow]

a vanilla script media\lua\client\isui\adminpanel\lootzed\spawnratechecker.lua

so, i only get a stack trace when i check the container. with lootzed

otherwise, checking school lockers, they do not have my new item(s)

[jaunty marten]

here's not full error msg

[nimble yarrow]

the problem appears to be line 158 local lootModifier = ItemPickerJava.getLootModifier(itemName)
but i'm not the greatest at understanding the PZ debug error window, or the stack trace info in console.txt

[sour island]

I do this often now. Check out "Roles Display In Chat" for an example.

[jaunty marten]

anyway it can't not work, it's absolutely same cos u push same string there and strings can't be referenced thing to smth else

can u give me ur test code fully?

[nimble yarrow]

ye

[sour island]

Download ErrorMagnifier it will parse errors into copy-paste bits.

[nimble yarrow]

i have it. any way tp clear the list, aside from closing PZ?

quitting to main menu, and starting a new game, my errormagnifier ends up having 20 things in it. i guess the one at the top is newest?

[gilded hawk]

Thank you, I will

[gilded hawk]

Oh, wow, the way you did it is so much cleaner than mine 😅

But it lacks UI, which is what I'm trying to achieve, thank you, this will be such a good base for my work!

[worthy sparrow]

How Time is defined in the game? Like disassembling furniture is eg. Time=500, Hows thats calculated to ms/s? And game speed is basically 1x,2x,3x?

[gilded hawk]

@sour island I already made a UI injection that seems decent

[gilded hawk]

What are you trying to todo?

[worthy sparrow]

Im adding something like „needed time” for an item

[bronze yoke]

1 real second is 48

[worthy sparrow]

from getting the raw materials to finished item

[gilded hawk]

Cool, good luck man! You might want to use some of my code as a base for your mod

It intercepts every single timed action

local ActionBlacklist = {
  ISWalkToTimedAction = true,       -- Always ignore
  ISPathFindAction = true,          -- Always ignore
  -- ISEquipWeaponAction = true,    -- Can be skill depended but enabled because makes the game snappier
  ISReloadWeaponAction = true,      -- Skill depended
  ISReadABook = true,               -- Affected by FastReader and SlowReader
  ISGrabItemAction = true,          -- Affected by Dextrous  and AllThumbs
  ISInventoryTransferAction = true, -- Affected by Dextrous  and AllThumbs
}


local old_ISTimedActionQueue_addToQueue = ISTimedActionQueue.addToQueue
function ISTimedActionQueue:addToQueue(action)
  local actionType = getmetatable(action).Type

  CasualoidPrint("FasterActions: actionType: " .. actionType)
  if not ActionBlacklist[actionType] and action.maxTime > 0 then
    local modifier = SandboxVars.Casualoid.FasterActionsModifier
    CasualoidPrint("FasterActions: old maxTime: " .. action.maxTime)
    action.maxTime = math.max(action.maxTime * (1 - (modifier * 0.01)), 0)
    CasualoidPrint("FasterActions: new maxTime: " .. action.maxTime)
  end

  return old_ISTimedActionQueue_addToQueue(self, action)
end

[worthy sparrow]

Another weird question, is there a way to iterate over all items using lua?

[rustic elm]

looking for somone help me finish fairly simple mod just need lil help with traits and random things character will say

if you can help

please dm me

il credit you in description

[bronze yoke]

if you want the item scripts you can loop through ScriptManager.instance:getAllItems()

[gilded hawk]

😄

[worthy sparrow]

Yess exactly, Thank you!

[gilded hawk]

Yes

local allItems = getScriptManager():getAllItems()
    for i=1,allItems:size() do
        local item = allItems:get(i-1)
        if item:getType() == Type.Literature then
            if SkillBook[item:getSkillTrained()] then
                table.insert(skillBooks, item)
            elseif item:getTeachedRecipes() ~= nil then
                table.insert(other, item)
            end
        end
        local mediaCategory = item:getRecordedMediaCat()
        if mediaCategory then
            media[mediaCategory] = media[mediaCategory] or {}
            table.insert(media[mediaCategory], item)
        end
    end

[nimble yarrow]

odang, a random varaible, which was supposed to be camelCase, was UpperCamelCase. im so used to visual studio and my C# compiler, not letting me use bad variables. but notepad++ don't care. well, my problems fixed now

[bronze yoke]

one of many reasons not to use notepad++

using 'bad variables' isn't wrong in lua but most ides will at least help you identify that

[sour island]

Uh it's using the internal error list 😅

So technically no, but I can try to just manually track after the fact and "hide" them

Oh wth discord took its time to update/send messages

@nimble yarrow

[sour island]

Oh wow, that's nice

And yeah, I have a string manipulation fetish 😉

[nimble yarrow]

@sour island error is gone, i had a typo somewhere

[sour island]

👍

[nimble yarrow]

this is a snippet from vanilla proceduraldistributions

GigamartHouseElectronics = {
rolls = 4,
items = {
  "Battery", 20,
  "Battery", 10,
  "Radio.CDplayer", 20,
  "Radio.CDplayer", 10,
  "CordlessPhone", 20,
  "CordlessPhone", 10,
  "VideoGame", 20,
  "VideoGame", 10,
},

If i wanted to remove cordlessPhones, would i need to remove it twice, from the table?
edit: i guess it shouldnt be too hard to test, with lootzed
update: just tested it, you must remove it twice.

[gilded hawk]

Did it ever happened to anyone that a function that in the debugger is clearly returning something, on the file it has been called, it returns nil?

function CasualoidStringToTable(_string)
  local values = {}
  local map = {}
  for text in string.gmatch(_string, "([^;]+)") do
    values[#values + 1] = text
    map[text] = true
  end

  return values, map
end

For some reason it keeps returning nil when called

local _, map = CasualoidStringToTable(self.selectedValuesString)

[bronze yoke]

the debugger needs some debugging

it doesn't understand multiple assignments like this

[gilded hawk]

Ah, no?

[bronze yoke]

if it's the debugger telling you it's nil i wouldn't trust it basically

[gilded hawk]

wtfff it still returns nil

I changed it to this: local res = CasualoidStringToTable(self.selectedValuesString)
and this

function CasualoidStringToTable(_string)
  local res = {
    values = {},
    map = {}
  }
  for text in string.gmatch(_string, "([^;]+)") do
    res.values[#res.values + 1] = text
    res.map[text] = true
  end

  return res
end

And it stil says nil when it's not nil!

I think pz studio shat itself and was not updating my code 😐 nope pzstudio is fine

[bronze yoke]

😐

[gilded hawk]

Look

This is stupid, why is this not working

[jaunty marten]

isn't CasualoidStringToTable this supposed to be here? I didn't use this part of debug menu so not sure

[gilded hawk]

wtf is happening, why is the table not inside the res var O.o?

[gilded hawk]

Also, yeah, why is that not in the stack

[jaunty marten]

any actual error there?

[gilded hawk]

Nope, no error, the function just returns nil

[jaunty marten]

did u tried to exactly print it instead checking in debug menu?

[cobalt fiber]

Sorry to interrupt you guys, but is there any event that is triggered when the user clicks on "Accept" in the Game Options screen?

I can't seem to find anything related to that

[abstract raptor]

man I can't for the life of me seem to be able to set the WorldZRotation of this item I'm placing down and it's driving me nuts

bout ready to give up on it

[nimble yarrow]

wow, I removed the vanilla item "Video Game" from 10 vanilla procedural distributions lists. went to a school locker, bam - a vanilla VideoGame. it doesn't appear in LootZed. hmmmmmmm, i didn't know things could spawn in containers, if they were not in lootzed.

if an item spawns, but is NOT in the ProceduralDistribution, it must be in SuburbsDistributions, or some other list, right?

you said you had it working, but 'lost' the code snippet. where was the last place you saw it? 🙂

[bronze yoke]

when did you remove it?

at script load or on an event/during gameplay?

[nimble yarrow]

events.OnGameStart. should i move this to OnInitGlobalModData ? 😮

[bronze yoke]

the loot tables don't get read directly from lua, the java copies them in at a specific point and if you change them after that lootzed is wrong

it's actually even before OnInitGlobalModData

you can call a method to make java parse them again

[fickle relic]

Does anyone know any mods that use a tickbox ? Having trouble rendering one

[jaunty marten]

actually u don't need any event

require("Items/ProceduralDistributions") -- or/and require("Items/SuburbsDistributions") and etc

-- do ur stuff here clearly without event

[jaunty marten]

https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-Mod---Doc/blob/main/Make an custom UI.md#tick-box

[bronze yoke]

yeah, you only need to reparse it if you want sandbox options or something

the requires aren't necessary though

[fickle relic]

Thank you! 🙏

[jaunty marten]

u r welcome

[jaunty marten]

ah, yea, u right

[bronze yoke]

well, it's a style choice, some people like it for organisation

but i like to make sure people know that it doesn't change anything about the execution of the code

[jaunty marten]

I hate those who choose require "abc.lua" instead of require("abc.lua")

[bronze yoke]

one time i included require "abc.lua".func() in a mod just to annoy anyone who read it

[jaunty marten]

Satan: please, take my place

[nimble yarrow]

<!-- comment in xml -->
-- comment in lua
--[[ long comment in lua --]]

how to comment in txt? will --this still work?

[bronze yoke]

java comments

/* hello world! :D */

[nimble yarrow]

ok cool

[jaunty marten]

long comment just --[[text]]

[bronze yoke]

they were asking about txt

oh sorry

i didn't look 😅

[jaunty marten]

[bronze yoke]

😋

[carmine herald]

Im having an issue with getting Perks

This Seems to work

player:getPerkLevel(PerkFactory.getPerkFromName("Lockpicking"))

But when trying to use it in AddXP it return an error

local player = self.character;
player:getXp():AddXP(PerkFactory.getPerkFromName("Lockpicking"), 2);

Attached is the error

[fickle relic]

Thank you @jaunty marten , that link worked like a charm !

[jaunty marten]

[jaunty marten]

try to print PerkFactory.getPerkFromName("Lockpicking")

[fickle relic]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[bronze yoke]

yeah i just had a look at the source, it seems to imply there's something wrong with the perk list

[jaunty marten]

not sure for 100% but player.getPerkLevel can accept any value and if it's invalid then it just retunrs 0

[bronze yoke]

or your perk isn't real yeah

[carmine herald]

Hmm well my perk is Init'ed in perks.txt

as

perk Lockpicking
{
    parent = Stealth,
    name = Lockpicking,
    translation = Lockpicking,
    passive = false,
    xp1 = 50,
    xp2 = 100,
    xp3 = 200,
    xp4 = 500,
    xp5 = 1000,
    xp6 = 2500,
    xp7 = 4000,
    xp8 = 5000,
    xp9 = 7000,
    xp10 = 9000,
}

but not showing any errors on boot

[bronze yoke]

why does AddXP check the entire perk list for the perk you already gave it?? seems very spaghetti

[jaunty marten]

just print it

[jaunty marten]

[bronze yoke]

does your perks.txt open with the VERSION = 1, line?

[carmine herald]

yep

[bronze yoke]

getPerkFromName uses the translated name

[carmine herald]

Printed results

[bronze yoke]

use Perks.Lockpicking instead of the method call, or your mod will break when played in different languages

[carmine herald]

Alright

In all parts?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, getPerkFromName uses the translated name (!?!?) so if it changes it won't find the perk

[jaunty marten]

yeah, tbh have no idea why this even exists

[carmine herald]

Ahh ok, That make no sense but thanks for that

[jaunty marten]

nope, it make sense cos otherwise ur mod will errors for everyone but en lang players

instead PerkFactory.getPerkFromName("Lockpicking") use Perks.Lockpicking

[carmine herald]

Ok it works now, still a bit confused as to why it wasnt working earlier but it works

thanks you

[bronze yoke]

i'm not even sure why that fixed it, it should've still worked in english

[carmine herald]

I think the .txt was bugged

not sure tho

[verbal yew]

Gentlemen modmakers. I'm not sure how to ask this properly...

There are two situations:
One. Сar, you are driving, the window is closed. Right mouse button doesn't work.
Second. Car, you are driving, window is open. The right mouse button is working - the camera is moving away in the direction.

Where do I dig this to make the second case work when the window is closed?

[abstract raptor]

                        local zombies = resultSquare:getMovingObjects()
                        for j = 0, zombies:size() - 1 do
                            local zombie = zombies:get(j)
                            if instanceof(zombie, "IsoZombie") then
                                -- Knock down the zombie
                                zombie:setKnockedDown(true)
                                
                                -- Play the sound "MetaDogBark"
                                resultSquare:playWorldSound("MetaDogBark", resultSquare, 0, 10, 1, true)
                            end
                        end```

![thonk](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/747927771023540286.webp?size=128 "thonk")  How come this throws an error saying non table is null ![thonk](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/747927771023540286.webp?size=128 "thonk")

[bronze yoke]

which line

[abstract raptor]

one sec lemme test one more time to see which line is highlighted

for j = 0, zombies:size() -1 do

more context if helpful

[bronze yoke]

isogridsquare has no method playWorldSound

[abstract raptor]

Oh I thought it did,

looks like it's just play sound

derp

but that doesn't explain why its not knocking the zombies down

[bronze yoke]

is setKnockedDown sufficient to knock down a zombie?

[abstract raptor]

I guess maybe not

Hmmmmmm

How ... do I do dis?

[sour island]

zombie:knockDown(b)

where b is fall on front

[abstract raptor]

lets see this in action then!

😄

Time to knock down a zed with a corgi

I was inspired by the dog training section of World War Z

[nimble yarrow]

did you figure out the lookDirection 😮

[abstract raptor]

No not yet 😦

[sour island]

look direction? Like how to turn the dog?

[nimble yarrow]

yeah, since its an item on the ground

[sour island]

You can get angle between two points

[sour island]

nice

[abstract raptor]

yeah I've been trying to set the dog's rotation with setWorldZRotation but it hasn't been working

[sour island]

What is the math you're using?

Have you tried setting it's angle to the same angle as the player?

Bothers me the chop tree context menu doesn't check for items the same way that damage checks does

cleavers do 15 tree damage 🤔

[abstract raptor]

No I just can't set the world z rotation of the world inventory object

it keeps saying it's nil every which way

[sour island]

local function predicateChopTree(item)
    return not item:isBroken() and item:hasTag("ChopTree")
end

pain, it's local

[nimble yarrow]

they also bust through garage doors effortlessly o.O

[sour island]

I think thumpable damage is calculated using treedamage

15 is pretty high for a cleaver

screwdriver is 1

💀

fireaxe/pickaxe is 35, woodaxe is 55

But the context menu for chopping trees looks for the choptree tag

not if they have treedamage > 0

[nimble yarrow]

and comparing 2 integers has gotta be more performant than parsing a string

[sour island]

I think you could probably break something giving an item the choptree tag and 0 treedamage lol

the overhead would be parsing through the inventory - which it has to do anyway

if predicates could be a loadable module that would be great 😦

The entire context menu is handled by a giant if tree - I guess I could slide in the context menu after the fact -- add one if chop tree isn't already there

[abstract raptor]

how do I do damage to a zombie with code?

[nimble yarrow]

zombie:setHealth ?

or perhaps Hit function is less buggy, as per this discord history

[abstract raptor]

hm, on second thought

Too OP

it's already too OP they trip everytime

then again you have to be real close for it to actually trip a zed

[nimble yarrow]

anyone know what determines Say("string") color above player's head? seems to be random each time i make a new character.
would be nice if it could be overloaded as an additional argument, but proooobably not?
edit: nvm, just found this, ill try it
Say(String line, float r, float g, float b, UIFont font, float baseRange, String customTag)

[verbal yew]

Gentlemen modmakers. I'm not sure how to ask this properly...
There are two situations:
One. Сar, you are driving, the window is closed. Right mouse button doesn't work.
Second. Car, you are driving, window is open. The right mouse button is working - the camera is moving away in the direction.

Where do I dig this to make the second case work when the window is closed?

[nimble yarrow]

I don't understand your question.
i can look, by holding right mouse, while in a car, with window up OR down. if you can't do this, it might be a bug caused by a mod, or something?

Or, are you wanting to make a mod that restricts sight, so that the player must roll down their window first?

[verbal yew]

hmm... strange... not work for me...
okay. try it in vanilla, thanks

[nimble yarrow]

could be a feature of a car mod. might make sense, if you have metal plates on the window.

[verbal yew]

i'm have only SHARK mod pack

[bronze yoke]

players choose their default colour iirc

[nimble yarrow]

there is a 'personal text color' variable, players can set, in the multiplayer game options.
I mean, the getPlayer():Say("hello") <-- that color

[bronze yoke]

but that doesn't get affected by that?

[nimble yarrow]

nah. its default green. my Say() text was yellow yesterday, and is purple right now

yellow will look good for my mod screenshots, so i wanna change it, lol.

there is only 2 overloads, so i need to provide it with a UIFont. will try that now

[sour island]

the overloads skip around a bit for say

to change color you need to go up to the overload with like 5 booleans at the end (or was that for range 🤔 )

or I could be thinking of addChatLine

[nimble yarrow]

that's addChatLine. and it... might be multiplayer only?

[sour island]

addChatLine goes overhead and needs to be fired through a command to work in MP

kinda odd that one

[nimble yarrow]

if it works in SP ill use it, instead of Say()

assuming i can't get the big Say overload to work

i think my only problem is accessing a font.
getPlayer():Say("asdf", 50.0, 50.0, 50.0, UIFont.Dialogue, 10.0, "customTagHere")
I might need to do something else, such as
UIFont[5].values()
UIFont.valueOf("Dialogue")
UIFont.FromString("Dialogue")

[sour island]

You can just call UIFont.Dialogue

It's exposed

as for customTagHere - pretty sure that won't work

the only way I got colors to work was using radio there

"radio"

[nimble yarrow]

aah nice

that fixed it

[sour island]

yeah sorry, it's been a minute since I messed with them for cnd speech

all those hours came flooding back

[abstract raptor]

How hard do you think it would be to do a functioning piano roll in lua?

[sour island]

Is that like how starbound instruments are handled?

Always hoped someone would make a mod like that

[abstract raptor]

Well the idea is like playable guitar, but instead of binding the keys to the keyboard and having to play in real time, we'd draw the notes in a piano roll and then you could select the tempo and save your arrangements and play it back.

That way there'd be no latency.

Additionally I was thinking there'd be a way to synch up to form bands so that the music always plays in time, (each arangement added in a band would be played at the same time on each client )

I'm trying to mock it up in python to get a feel for it

[bronze yoke]

ABC files are for this purpose

lord of the rings online uses it for exactly that

[sour island]

indeed, thats where I got most of my songs for starbound

[abstract raptor]

I don't wanna rely on ABC files to play prewritten melodies, I want the users to be able to draw and make their own compositions

[sour island]

couldn't you do both?

[bronze yoke]

and how will these compositions be stored?

[abstract raptor]

Not sure yet! 😭

The idea just came to me

[sour island]

space station 13 lets you use prewritten and writing your own

[bronze yoke]

iirc the abc format is like

literally just the notes in plain text

[jaunty marten]

what do u think about fl studio in pz?

[sour island]

yep, its just shorthand notes

[abstract raptor]

Oh I see then

But it's not like zomboid supports abc?

[sour island]

it's just text

[bronze yoke]

you're definitely going to have to do whatever you go with yourself anyway

[abstract raptor]

oh so it's like a json for musical notes

sorry I'm way tired if I say something stupid it's probably stupid

I'm just sayin, I think a DAW like approach would be the best way to do actual compositions in zomboid

and to solve the issue of latency and allow for collaborative performance

[sour island]

Check out spacestation 13's stuff

although I have not played for a while

[abstract raptor]

If anyone is like, interested in collabing with me on this I can provide all the musical samples we'd need -- I own a very well known library.

[sour island]

We have a collab section in the pz modding community server

[abstract raptor]

ah you should dm me link

I'll join up

[sour island]

I thought you were already in there?

[abstract raptor]

I'm in the mapping discord I think

er i know i am

[sour island]

That section is for large projects one may be working on but could also use help

[abstract raptor]

but not the modding one

I'd like to recruit peeps to work on a DAW like project for sure

[bronze yoke]

i'd honestly be quite interested in helping out with that, but i really shouldn't take on more work with the crazy stuff i'm up to right now

[sour island]

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

It's a really good idea, but I'm not musically inclined enough to tackle it lol

[bronze yoke]

i'm not ui inclined enough to tackle it

[sour island]

I wouldn't mind handling the UI tbh

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Zj7a1kRcDqLrp4qgDFZZ7EmH99x1Ias9?usp=sharing

Those crazy guys made an online version

Kind of ruins half the fun irritating everyone on the station as you compose

Oh misread - it actually converts audio into the shorthand version - interesting still

[abstract raptor]

I'm musically inclined

😄

I'll chat at ya'll some more about it in the other discord

[neat gorge]

I've been losing my mind over this so I've had to come here. Is there any way to conveniently check distribution lists, to see what is actually being added to containers and what's not being added?

When there's items with a low spawn chance it's difficult to see if they are in fact spawning or not

[bronze yoke]

enable LootZed from the debug cheats menu

then right click the container icon in the inventory and a drop-down with 'Open LootZed' should appear

that lets you check spawn chances and reroll loot

[neat gorge]

... you see now I just feel like an idiot.

atleast I didn't smash my monitors like I felt like doing yesterday

Thank you truly!

[nimble yarrow]

if two separate mods add the same file, the last mod loaded in the load order will 'overwrite' the first.

buuuuuuuuut what about media\clothing\clothing.xml ?

I can see both brita's armor zombies and authenticZ zombies walking around. shouldnt one of their outfits be overwritten? hmmmm

[neat gorge]

I'd assume it "merges" them together only replacing things with the same exakt name within the file?

[verbal yew]

only lua can be overwritten.
kick me if I'm wrong.

[bronze yoke]

assets can be overwritten

[verbal yew]

in txt recipes with the same name cause their duplication in the game, if they are in two mods, for example, even with the same file name.
As for items - only Module and item ID matters to overwrite the item (in script).
As for XML - identical headers overwrite each other, but not the file itself (for Clothing.xml it's should be Name or GUID)

LUA is more complicated - global fuctions with the same name overlap each other. Two files with the same name overlap each other.

[bronze yoke]

txt files will overwrite each other

[verbal yew]

in script?

I don't think it should, as far as I remember from the tests....

[bronze yoke]

it definitely does

[verbal yew]

Okay, I trust you more than myself xD

[nimble yarrow]

interesting. so in this case, in the clothing.xml
<m_MaleOutfits> <m_Name>Brita_Sheriff_4</m_Name> from birta's armor, clothing.xml
<m_MaleOutfits> <m_Name>AuthenticAbeLincoln</m_Name> from authenticZ, clothing.xml
so what would the "header" be, <m_name>, possibly? (both mod authors were careful not to make something generic, they all have prefixes)
or maybe <m_Guid> ? (not sure what these are. example, 1101721c-3d8f-4ccd-8344-b9cf13321475) <-- clearly unique, hash looking number and unlikely to ever be overwritten.

@ albion, they can't possibly overwrite, or how would i combine authenticZ and britas zombies - they both need their clothing.xml files

[verbal yew]

Most likely m_Guid is being overwritten
Name as far as I remember is often used when referring to Zombie Outfit (in case of searching a corpse).

That is, there can be several variations of a zombie under one name (different GUID)

And in case of zombie spawning - a random outfit should be taken (same name, different GUID)

[bronze yoke]

don't know about xml, not my area

i was just commenting on txt

[nimble yarrow]

oh.

[verbal yew]

Most likely, if you want to overwrite some zombie, use the same name and GUID - 100% variant)

[nimble yarrow]

swag

[verbal yew]

in vanillas has two variant zombies on same name and guid - but different female and male

[slow granite]

dogeking has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[rain shard]

Hello everyone,

Is there a function akin to processSayMessage that does it as a system message instead? I am trying to run in-game tips for players but unfortunately the say message does actually transmit to other players, so I'm looking for alternatives

[ivory gyro]

His someone know how to remove every attachment on a weapon with an function ?

[spice grail]

i assume i can add more lines to weight related grids aye? (tetris inventory)

im having a hard time making these into more realistic sizes

[ivory gyro]

add more elseif for be sure

[mellow frigate]

Hello there, from lua , how can I change the color of a clothing inventory item ? (e.g. from an instance of 'Base.Vest_WaistcoatTINT') I do not find the info in the load function of Clothing.java

I'll ask Transmog, they seem to do so.

[mellow frigate]

getVisual():setTint(ImmutableColor color)

[tawdry solar]

If I play a sound on press Q (idk the event) will it play a sound if they are typing ingame

[nimble yarrow]

yes. it will even play in the main menu. which is why you start the 'keypressed' function with 'if player not ready return end'

[tawdry solar]

Damn

But it's gonna be a nod?

Mod

How will it play in menu if its a mkd

[nimble yarrow]

the Events.OnKeyPressed event works in the main menu. all mods are loaded when you launch PZ, as well as when you activate one or more in the mods menu, and press Accept

unless typing, in multiplayer, avoids this problem. not sure, never tried to use a keybind while in multiplayer while typing.
(or as you said, type a word that has a keybinded letter)

[tawdry solar]

Oh damn

I'm tryna make a sound play when shouting

[nimble yarrow]

if you type in: mod_development into the discord search bar, you can search only this specific channel, and then i searched sound shout and it looks like people may have already worked on similar projects, which you might be able to look at or read about

[tawdry solar]

Ty

[harsh jewel]

The local Gas 2 Go nationalist suggested I ask here, so I'm copy-pasting my question here:
Is there a main Fallout-themed PZ project people are working on? I've seen a number of Fallout models posted here and on the Steam workshop, but the latter ones are sparse.

[nimble yarrow]

not sure. but, you can go to project zomboid's steam workshop, and at the top, under the Browse drop-down, instead of looking at items you can look at collections.

then you can search 'fallout' and sort by most popular / all time (or whatever) and there seems to be some 'project fallout' modpacks

alternatively, theres a separate modding discord for group projects. im not in it, but its possible theres a big fallout project over there?
I personally wouldn't spend time working on something that could get a cease and decist, though.

[tawdry solar]

I think I'm in it

I just don't have the modder role

And I don't think I can

Cause I don't use ko fi

[weary matrix]

@silent mural Hey hello, I'd like to talk to you in private, can I DM you please?

[nimble yarrow]

Anyone know how to overwrite an outfit from a mod's clothing.xml?

for example, I want to remove the hat from AuthenticAbeLincoln.
I can simply add a line of text: <probability>0.0</probability> above the hat, and it is gone.

However, I need this in my own mod, which will be loaded after AuthenticZ, in this case.

If I create my own media\clothing\clothing.xml and create an <m_MaleOutfits> entry for AuthenticAbeLincoln, however, he just appears naked in-game.

[silent mural]

Hi. Sure

[weary matrix]

thx

[cunning dome]

Did you duplicate the whole entry or just the line for the hat?

[nimble yarrow]

the whole entry

[cunning dome]

And the probability just for the hat's GUID not anything else?

I haven't worked with the XMLs before, but looking at it, I'd assume that's how it works.

[nimble yarrow]

yeah, everything else should be 100% by default,

[cunning dome]

Paste me your edited XML?

[ivory gyro]

Someone know who make an Camo Outfit mod ?

Like more camo than vanilla

[nimble yarrow]

@cunning dome at the moment, its just the first 73 lines of AuthenticZ's clothing.xml.
but the relevant bits:

<outfitManager>
<m_MaleOutfits> <m_Name>AuthenticAbeLincoln</m_Name>
        <m_Guid>a541548a-9933-4bbc-bff1-4931cb5d5c94</m_Guid>
        <m_Top>false</m_Top>
        <m_Pants>false</m_Pants>
        <m_AllowTopTint>false</m_AllowTopTint>        
        <m_items> <!-- Suit Pants -->
            <itemGUID>52acd769-424a-4cbb-b02a-441cb723b747</itemGUID>
        </m_items>
        <m_items> <!-- Stove Pipe Hat -->
            <probability>0.0</probability>
            <itemGUID>0601a52d-84c8-49f8-b216-d2b1fc54c3a9</itemGUID>
        </m_items>         
    </m_MaleOutfits>
</outfitManager>

I would assume he should spawn with pants and no hat. instead, he spawns completely naked.
(i deleted the other lines, it also specifies socks, shoes, watch, shirt, jacket)

[cunning dome]

Your full XML includes the lines for his other clothing items right?

[nimble yarrow]

nah, i just deleted them, to match what i posted above. so just pants, really.
but this is AuthenticAbeLincoln in game:

[cunning dome]

If you haven't included them then I would assume he would spawn wearing nothing. You're effectively overwriting the entry for his outfit GUID, so you've got to include everything you want him to wear.

[nimble yarrow]

yeah that would make sense

[cunning dome]

So try...

<outfitManager>

<m_MaleOutfits> <m_Name>AuthenticAbeLincoln</m_Name>
        <m_Guid>a541548a-9933-4bbc-bff1-4931cb5d5c94</m_Guid>
        <m_Top>false</m_Top>
        <m_Pants>false</m_Pants>
        <m_AllowTopTint>false</m_AllowTopTint>
        <m_items> <!-- White Zed Skin -->
            <itemGUID>9c87b588-b784-4560-bada-fd4cf7e44d48</itemGUID>
        </m_items>            
        <m_items> <!-- Suit Pants -->
            <itemGUID>52acd769-424a-4cbb-b02a-441cb723b747</itemGUID>
        </m_items>
        <m_items> <!-- Socks -->
            <itemGUID>ebea15c8-99b3-4e20-905b-d22cf82b8217</itemGUID>
        </m_items>
        <m_items> <!-- Shoes -->
            <itemGUID>593bea3d-c127-4574-ac1e-2197dc56e486</itemGUID>
        </m_items>
        <m_items> <!-- Tie -->
            <itemGUID>1be7cae9-82bd-473f-8de9-23a8d9ca3117</itemGUID>
        </m_items>
        <m_items> <!-- Formal White Shirt -->
            <itemGUID>ac7976de-2c73-44ea-9392-5d24ac1fb649</itemGUID> 
        </m_items>
        <m_items> <!-- Suit Jacket -->
            <itemGUID>eecd5923-4944-4b33-9c4c-66045ea6984e</itemGUID>
        </m_items>
        <m_items> <!-- Watches -->
            <probability>0.9</probability>
            <itemGUID>4cbb081e-0e9a-4248-bec1-0aa226e082e1</itemGUID>
            <subItems>
                <itemGUID>e4b3135f-a541-4870-a7b9-2ba6f730bc5c</itemGUID>
            </subItems>
        </m_items>
</m_MaleOutfits>
</outfitManager>```
_Edited:  Forgot a line_

ERrh

There, just with the Stove Pipe lines deleted, basically.

Or with probability 0 if that doesn't work I suppose.

If still not, then it's beyond me. 🤣

What have you got against ole Abe's hat anyway!? 😛

[nimble yarrow]

its part of a larger mod where I remove any 10-years-later lore-unfriendly zed from brita's and authenticZ.
its mostly done, but there are some zeds that i want to keep, but remove an item
(football player is fine. carrying a football in his hand, is not) 😛

[cunning dome]

Aaah~ Neat!

[nimble yarrow]

wait, why does your code, above, work? huuuuuuuuh

[cunning dome]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

XML is finicky as hell.

Miss a single closing tag or improperly format and it throws a fit.

[nimble yarrow]

only difference i could see was you didn't have <m_items> <!-- Dismembered Bone_Arm_L -->, but i assume that's because its an additional 30 lines for discord

[cunning dome]

Hell it might even just be the XML Schema doesn't allow probability 0 as an entry.

[nimble yarrow]

true, i didnt think of that

[cunning dome]

Though you said it worked when you edited the original.

[nimble yarrow]

well, i think i tried 0.000000001, but that could also have descended into scientific notation and made xml mad

[cunning dome]

All I did was copy the lines straight out of AuthZ, erase the Stove Pipe Hat and spit it back out and close tags.

Well as long as it works, the console isn't throwing any weird errors and the game is happy, I'd say we've solved it. 🤣

[nimble yarrow]

@cunning dome its broken now. I copy+pasted immediately, when you posted. but then as my game was loading, you edited it 2 or 3 times

can you un-do whatever you did? the original 'mistake' you posted is the only thing that works

[cunning dome]

Huh... All I did was I forgot the </m_MaleOutfits> line

Which I would have thought would break it, not being there.

[nimble yarrow]

um... if i copy+paste your snippet up there, Abe is naked.
If I DELETE the </m_MaleOutfits>, he spawns with full clothes + no hat.. bruh

how does that make sense looool

[cunning dome]

🤣

I just realised I actually missed a bunch of dismembered/bone hand parts too.

[nimble yarrow]

i figured you left them out to save 30 lines of discord space

[cunning dome]

I mean I guess. 🤣

I'm curious if it cracks it with the </outfitManager> missing as well?

[nimble yarrow]

theres no way that'd 'compile', so to speak. the thing is, I need to edit multiple zeds, not just Abe.

but how can i edit them, if they arent allowed to have </m_MaleOutfits>? hmmmmmm.. very strange

[cunning dome]

Try adding a second outfit entry then and see if the first/Abe one starts working then?

[nimble yarrow]

ah, for sure

[cunning dome]

I even ran your original code through an XML Validator and it was happy with it.

All this said, I'm not sure if overwriting a GUID like we're doing is "supported" so ...

But I can't find any damn documentation on any of this anyway, so how am I meant to know what's even valid..? XD

[nimble yarrow]

i was thinking maybe the very very very first line of the document was it, (i never pasted it into discord)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> but removing it doesn't seem to do anything

[cunning dome]

Usually that's just boilerplate and non-strict interpreters will be fine with it missing.

Best I can find googling around is vague "This file is for this" instructions, nothing at all about the actual Schema or expected syntax.

So unless someone else can point me to a resource I haven't been able to locate, we're stuck looking at examples/pre-existing code and extrapolating.

Hang on... did you still have the probability edited to 0 in Authentic Z?

[nimble yarrow]

nah, i deleted the hat, and other things.

[cunning dome]

In the original mod's local workshop files?

[nimble yarrow]

oh, um...

it might be. i should probably unsub, delete my leftover files, and then re-sub, to undo anything i tweaked over there

[cunning dome]

If the edits are still there, I'm willing to bet the invalid XML just got ignored and it fell back on your changes to the original mod.

[nimble yarrow]

my 0% edit is still over there, in the authenticZ workshop files. oops,

[cunning dome]

Yyyyeeaaah 🤣

Okay well that answers one question at least.

My code didn't work. 😛

Could try just copying the entire set of AuthenticZ XMLs and then making edits..?

If you were planning on making sweeping changes anyway, it's a bit heavy handed but might get past this hurdle?

Because I'm wondering if any GUIDs your own mod is referencing have to exist locally.

I don't know why that would be the case but I'm kinda clutching at straws here given the lack of info.

[nimble yarrow]

oh. so maybe i need authenticZ's media\fileGuidTable.xml then, if that is the case.

[cunning dome]

There's a good chance.

[nimble yarrow]

i didnt think i need it, because while an "outfit" has a GUID, it is never used, anywhere, ever (as far as i know)

[cunning dome]

Yeah; items referenced in the outfits still do however.

[nimble yarrow]

hence him being naked, i guess.

[cunning dome]

shrug?

Worth a shot.

I came from editing distribution tables which involves directly modifying the Lua tables, so it doesn't matter which mod does it. For all I know the XMLs are scoped per-mod rather than globally.

[nimble yarrow]

so, fresh install, full outfit copy, and fileGuidTable copied, hat is properly removed.
so I'll be able to slowly remove stuff until i get to what breaks, so its not so heavy handed

thanks for the help

[cunning dome]

No worries, good luck.

[rustic elm]

the the looking for someone help me finish fairly simple mod just need lil help with traits and random things character will say
if you can help
please dm me
il credit you in description

[cobalt fiber]

I still need a little help with this, looked in the events lists and didn't find anything related

[mellow frigate]

What code should I put in render and what code should I put in prerender for ISUIElement daughter classes ?

[autumn temple]

for some reason putting "ReplaceOnUse" for using an item, crashes my game

so its a frankenstein of an item.

the item is treated as a food, that when consumed it should just replace it with itself, then also gives some stat effects on consumption

but replacing the item with itself is what is causing it to crash

[mellow frigate]

create two similar items that replace on each other

[neon bronze]

You also need a eatsound for your item

[autumn temple]

Alright, sucks I can't just use the same item but if it makes the game happy

[autumn temple]

Ya I didn't get that far yet, but the eat sound isn't giving me any issues empty

[gilded hawk]

New WIP mod, disable traits, and profession from the server sandbox options, compatible with all traits and profession mods!

This will make life so much easier for server owners and players like me who want to disable noob traps when playing with friends

[calm shale]

Is there anyone here who’d be willing to accept a commission for a mod? I’d like some custom stuff for my server.

[gilded hawk]

@ancient grail is probably the man for you

[calm shale]

Is that so

[bronze yoke]

not with his reputation

[autumn temple]

Of being a gigachad*

[autumn temple]

But ya from what I've seen, Glytch3r is great for submissions

He has a kofi page you order them through

[calm shale]

Got a link?

[karmic fog]

Ayy, does anybody know where I can find a complete list of item variables? Like, I'm trying to add a clothing item and I'm unsure which variables I need. For example, Glasses have the attributes cosmetic and weight. So, is there a list of every available variable somewhere?

[bronze yoke]

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

[karmic fog]

thanks!

oh damn, that's quite the list. many thanks

Are variables false by default?

[bronze yoke]

i think it probably varies

[cunning osprey]

Anyone know the ideal dimensions to use for the poster/preview images?

[bronze yoke]

workshop preview must be a 256x256 png

i think in-game posters are a lot more lenient with resolution but most people just use the preview

[cunning osprey]

Sweet thanks

[worthy sparrow]

is there a green + icon in the game assets?

i looked through like 4 tilesets and found none

[cunning osprey]

theres this in ui if it helps

[worthy sparrow]

Yess, thank you!

can you send me the file?

[cunning osprey]

sure thing

PM'd it

[worthy sparrow]

Thank youu

[cunning osprey]

838x471 fits perfectly in the in-game poster on 1080p at least

incase anyone else searches for this

[tawdry solar]

Guys

Why does mu mod lead to black screen when trying to play

[worthy sparrow]

check console.txt

[bronze yoke]

press f11

if an error happens during that loading sequence it doesn't open the debug menu, but it still pauses as if it had

so you need to press f11 to 'close' it

[worthy sparrow]

I had this issue when playing on brita armor pack, running the game without debug works

[storm ingot]

was actually lookin for a mod like this

[worthy sparrow]

while being in main menu you can disable the "Break on Error" and that should prevent it

[mellow frigate]

@heady crystal I joking on your Icecream mod thread, If you find it offensive or just not funny, please tell me and feel free to remove my comments :drunk:

[heady crystal]

What happened? I didn't get any notifications lol

[mellow frigate]

You're too fast, I wanted to post here just before invading your thread

[heady crystal]

Ahahah

I see it

Woah I can't believe you exposed my plans of microwaved ice cream domination

There is only one way to solve this

https://tenor.com/vou0.gif

[karmic fog]

Hello I'm back again! I've been doing some sculpting and stuff, but I haven't quite figured out how to implement my blender file and icon into a mod yet. The guide on the wiki that explains how to add clothing is apparently not available anymore, as the link takes me to a 404-not found site Does anybody have a link to a guide?

[worthy sparrow]

How to make a pizza 🍕

[bronze yoke]

try putting the link into wayback machine

[karmic fog]

ooooh, good idea

thanks

actually smart

[mellow frigate]

I'll tell the world of your misbehave ! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3003939739

[abstract raptor]

tcherno is my hero

[sage eagle]

is there a tutorial to make a True Music Addon

[karmic fog]

Wait, I have my blender file of my clothing item.. how the hell do I convert it into an .x File, so I can put it into the model_X dictionary?

Blender seemingly discontinued the export into .x files

[mellow frigate]

afayk you can use .fbx format https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/37647-the-one-stop-shop-for-3d-modeling-from-blender-to-zomboid/

[sage eagle]

how hard is it to mod in actual video

and audio

for a tv

cause i had an Idea for a mod that loops an Emergency Alert System Message after the normal tv channels stop playing

this is the video i made and would like to use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUA4xV02dcA&t=1s

[bronze yoke]

audio? fairly easy

video? absolutely insane if even possible

[sage eagle]

is video possible

like

or at least a photo

basically the thumbnail

[bronze yoke]

i think you can just add an extra tv sprite for that

[sage eagle]

i uh

i dont think im that good

[karmic fog]

Thanks!

[autumn temple]

got home and tried this, the crashes still occure

[mellow frigate]

so the problem may not be that it is the same item

[vagrant valley]

Are there any ways to open x files in blender

[sour island]

Is there an error?

[cunning osprey]

In the newest version you can use the plugins from google to import but the export option doesnt work

[vagrant valley]

Im on 2.93

[cunning osprey]

Not sure if it'll work for that version but I used https://github.com/oguna/Blender-XFileImporter

[vagrant valley]

Alright

Thank you

Everytime i have to say x files, it just reminds me of the show

[nimble yarrow]

@sage eagle I don't know if it's a gif or a sequence of pngs, but @ riko prushka made cartoonTV and animeTV mods on workshop, you might look at, to see how it was done https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2850170557

[autumn temple]

i have no clue because the game just immedately closes

ive been digging through the console file, no errors or stacktrace

the only thing the console shows, is the error for missing translation, because I didnt make a translation file for the context menu yet. then like 5 ticks of my print messages, then nothingness

[sage eagle]

@heady crystal

cant actually get it

nvm

sorry

[heady crystal]

Wdym?

[sage eagle]

it works now

it wasnt letting me view its page at first

[heady crystal]

I am updating the description

So that's probably it

[sage eagle]

ah

thx

what inspired you to make this

and secondly, I wanna ask you about a mod idea

i see that you could benefit from it if you knew how to make something like this

[fickle relic]

I moved code for a IsPanel from :render() to :prerender(), because there was a noticable lag when I was trying to make the height of my panel dynamic (panel.SetHeight()) INSIDE the render() function

But now that I moved everything to prerender, there is no background/border at all ?

[jaunty marten]

why do u even need to change heaight of panel each frame

just change it when list of items is changes

[fickle relic]

true 😄

[neon bronze]

Youd have to put the background into the prerender

[cunning osprey]

Does anyone know how difficult it would be to make a positive trait that gives bonus happiness when eating a specific food item? I'm completely stuck with this rn

[neon bronze]

add the trait and hook into the eating action i think that would suffice

[nimble yarrow]

resolved!!

[drifting ore]

is there a way to add custom sentimental items for the more traits mod?

[nimble yarrow]

I just made a mod that removes jewelry from zeds (BellyButton x15, Bracelet x10, Earring x19, necklace x26, ring x20), by removing them from the outfits in clothing.xml. it works great.

Now I want to get rid of the underwear: boxers x5, bra strapless x4, bra straps x3, briefs x2, frillybra strapless x3, frillybra straps x3, frillyunderpants x3, smalltrunks x4, underpants x4 ... but underwear doesn't seem to be part of an outfit. it must be generated elsewhere?

googling "project zomboid remove underwear" isn't going to get me anywhere. anyone have any ideas?

[sleek forum]

perv!

[sour island]

If anyone can guess what this is for I'll give them a cookie

[vagrant valley]

Im guessing it has to do with sound somehow

[sleek forum]

@nimble yarrow you might wanna check UnderwearDefinition.lua
-- used to spawn underwear automatically on zeds

[nimble yarrow]

media\lua\shared\Definitions\UnderwearDefinition.lua found it, i'll check it out!

[sleek forum]

if so, you emit sound by standing still somehow too?

or is that just detection

[nimble yarrow]

the circle keeps getting bigger because of a keypress.

[mellow frigate]

Have you corrected my BattleRoyal draw bug ? 😄 I4ll give you a Cookie !

[sour island]

No, sorry lol

What is your bug related to? drawing circles?

[mellow frigate]

yes, when drawing a circle on world, sometimes it is not visible. non-systematic

but, I am using UI function while you are using marker

[worthy sparrow]

my guess is that also checks what player sees?

[sour island]

It's related to sound

[sleek forum]

zombie sound detector?

[worthy sparrow]

Is this some kind of echolocation lol

[vagrant valley]

Is it how far player made noises travel

[sour island]

Somewhat close guesses

I think brody technically got it?

[nimble yarrow]

i dont get why it keeps pumping once the player stops walking

unless this is just our first peek at how sound actually propogates in PZ engine

[sour island]

It's related to sound but it's not in-game sounds 🙂

🎙️

[nimble yarrow]

oh no

[sour island]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-laughing-laugh-evil-evil-laugh-gif-17499378

[neon bronze]

Is voice chat actually picked up by zombies?

[sleek forum]

are you saying i can fart in my mic to summon zombies?!

[vagrant valley]

So you dont need q anymore

Just scream into your mic

[sour island]

Yes x3

[sleek forum]

nice

[neon bronze]

Do you give the zombies the player in their aggro list?

And do you do that through the server?

[sour island]

It just catches microphone activity and uses addSound()

[neon bronze]

I thought it needed way smarter stuff for it

Can you get the micro activity through lua?

[sour island]

Yeah

I used the same stuff from the menu - the voice activity is picked up and displayed there

[neon bronze]

Ahhh the settings

Is it through the core functionality?

[sour island]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3004111200

[nimble yarrow]

"Operates regardless of push-to-talk." good thing my computer fans sound like a rocket engine

[sour island]

Getting photoshop to produce AI-gen art that looked decent took longer than writing the mod

[sour island]

I will probably look into push to talk later

[neon bronze]

I think most people have push to talk

[mellow frigate]

what AI generator do you use ?

[sour island]

https://www.imagine.art/dashboard + photoshop's generative fill

Took super long cause I'm picky as hell lol

[mellow frigate]

How the hell did you get the right number of fingers with Imagine AI ? I always get 6 minimum

[sour island]

• having to get creative to get blood and gore. For example, this man is actually drooling red paint 😅

Oh the hands were from PS

[nimble yarrow]

drooling red paint, good grief

[sour island]

They were gnarly as hell, and the gloves were an accident but I liked them lol

[mellow frigate]

gg

push to talk wil be required for streamers but it is a good ambiance realism directly from the mike

[worthy sparrow]

That mod can nicely elevate to a RP mod with walkie-talkies, headsets that actually work like a in game way of communication with others ofc. drawbacks such as not using anything -> widest radius, walkie talkie -> smaller radius, headset -> lowest radius

[vagrant valley]

Things like that makes you wish you got a whole crew ready to take any kind of photographs

[mellow frigate]

Is there a way to make a player not targetable by zombies ? (out of god mode invisibility that also makes invisible to players)

[sour island]

Sadly not really - in SP you can set zombies to useless

[mellow frigate]

thanx

[karmic fog]

I'm having a severe skill issue trying to spawn in my own clothing item.

It appears in the item list, although with no item icon and when I try to spawn it, it just gives out an error

I believe I referenced it correctly in the .xml files I'm helpless

Does anybody know where the problem could be?

Fixed it! Apparently I needed the "<m_AttachBone>" thingy in the xml file!

that thingy should be at hip height, so uh, now just gotta figure out the elevation

[sleek forum]

is that a piece of ginger?

[nimble yarrow]

chicken breast?

[mellow frigate]

the missing icon of modded item in the list is a vanilla specific behavior. It will appear with TchernoLib mod. and you can have the tooltip with AutoLoot mod

[karmic fog]

It's supposed to be a stuffed lion paw I had a much more detailed object before I smoothed it down to pz standards

[karmic fog]

Oh, thank you

[sour island]

Push to talk support added 👍

[slender oar]

in a mod recipe, what does like "Pasta;20," mean in something like

    recipe Prepare Yakisoba in Wok Pan
    {
        Pasta;20,
```?

the couple guides i read seem to say it should be like Pasta=20? is ;20 something different?

or possibly a bug?

i don't think bug, i see a ton of them like that with the ; instead of =. maybe just an old format?

looking at https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Recipe_Script_Guide i don't see an "item;<count number>" format mentioned anywhere

[rich void]

Hey guys, I'm trying to familirise myself with remote calls it's been something I've struggled with grasping for a while, say I have a bunch of playerobjects grabbed from within the server side code and I want to execute a function for just those players client side, could anyone help with a basic demonstration or point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful as always 🙏

[neon bronze]

Look into sendservercommand and receiveservercommand i believe they are called

Thats how you can communicate from server to player and vice versa

[rich void]

Yeah I had a look at these, I was hoping I could pass a function straight through

public static void sendServerCommand(IsoPlayer player,
String string,
String string2,
KahluaTable kahluaTable)

I guess I would need to create a table to contain the function I wish to run? or am I overthinking this cus #everythingsatable

Oh I think I get it.. I can use the events for onservercommandreceived and check for the string the command sent

Thank you I think I can trial n error from here 👌

[slender oar]

the number after the ; must not mean count required like = does. it doesn't make sense for most recipes that it would be. don't need 20 pasta to make 1 dish of that.

i think it must be the % of the item that is consumed

recipe Dip Nacho in Chili Bowl
{
TortillaChips=1,
BowlofChili;4,

uses 1 tortilla chip, and 4% of your bowl of chili?

seems reasonable

[autumn temple]

So for the item I made that keeps crashing my game, I made a new set of items and slowly added every line from the crashing item into the new one. No issues at all with the entire item remade. So I have literally 0 clue why the item was causing crashes

[slender oar]

@tacit plover that sound right?

[autumn temple]

This is going to send me to the mental ward man

[slender oar]

@autumn temple lol tell me about it. so much stuff in PZ is like that. undocumented or out of date documentation...

[tacit plover]

uhh, yeah, using "=" uses how much of that item you'll need
and ";" uses a set amount of that item hunger

[slender oar]

ooooh. interesting. i could not find that little bit of information ANYWHERE haha

[tacit plover]

also, seems like my update broke some stuff with vanilla recipes, but you were being getting kicked before the update so i have two issues to fix now

[sleek forum]

if you really want to know how the code works you can decompile the java code

it contains a lot of stuff you're not going to find in the lua code

[slender oar]

@tacit plover don't worry too much about my kick issue. it may have been an issue for a very long time, but everyone just disables anticheat 21 so it got ignored

@sleek forum that's too much effort right now, maybe later haha. i saw someone in a "certain forum" already did that and posted it tho

[hollow current]

testmod.addContextMenu = function(player, context, worldobjects)
    for _, object in ipairs(worldobjects) do
        print(object:getSpriteName())
        print(object.name)
        print(object:getName())
        print(object:getType())
    end
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(testmod.addContextMenu)```

I am trying to call this function when the player right clicks on an item placed/dropped in the world. I want to return the type of the item that the player is clicking on (or more specifically, find out which item the player right clicked on). It's behaving weird and I am not sure why. getType() is always returning "MAX". object.name and getSpriteName() always return "nil". object:getName() return "nil" unless I pick up the the item and re-place it, and is not reliable in case the item's name was changed

Any idea what's going on here?

[sleek forum]

don't know really, but it reads like it's not reading up to date data (because it's missing, and then not)

[hollow current]

for reference, the item has an instance of IsoWorldInventoryObject

[tawdry solar]

ty

[hollow current]

alright solved had to do object:getItem():getType()

[karmic fog]

How does blood work? I'm currently modeling a facemask, and I want it to be all black.

And when you kill zombies, it gets painted red with their blood, but does the game do that itself, or do i need to like, show where the blood lands or something?

[hollow current]

something else--

Frogshire.frogContextMenu = function(player, context, worldobjects)
    local frog

    for _,     object in ipairs(worldobjects) do
        if instanceof(object, 'IsoWorldInventoryObject') then
            objectType = object:getItem():getType()
            if objectType == "Frog" then
                frog = object
            end
        end
    end

    if frog then
        print(frog:getItem():getName())
    end
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(Frogshire.frogContextMenu)```

Right now, "frog" is assigned to whichever is lucky enough to be the first object in the "worldobjects". That's not ideal for items clustered around closely together. Any way to make it only be assigned to the closest object to the click?

[slender oar]

sorry i can't help, but this is pretty funny. very specific to PZ issue and how realistic parts of it are, but also funny how some people prioritize "the drip" over everything haha

[sleek forum]

dont you just love it when you're so invested in creating something you can't be bothered to eat or sleep

time flies by and its already midnight

[slender oar]

watcha working on @sleek forum?

[sleek forum]

im working on a program that renders the zomboid maps in real time

[bronze yoke]

i slept at midday because of my current project

[sleek forum]

hehe, you're in deep

good shit

[slender oar]

what programming language dezuzel?

[sleek forum]

C/C++, and SDL2 library

[slender oar]

good luck 🙂

[sleek forum]

thanks man

[slender oar]

isometric/overheader? or going to let us walk thru in 1st person? 😛

[sleek forum]

haha i'm going to start with an overheader

i'm curious how fast a framerate i'm going to get once i get it all working

[nimble yarrow]

so is it going to be like https://map.projectzomboid.com/ or https://pzfans.com/vanilla-full-map/, but not pre-rendered?

[sleek forum]

that's the idea yea

[nimble yarrow]

seeing it all 10-years-later'd would be pretty cool

[sleek forum]

reason being is that pre-rendering takes aweful long

[nimble yarrow]

for sure

[slender oar]

once it's working then you can port it to browser 😛

[nimble yarrow]

LOL

[sleek forum]

haha

what does that use, webgl or something

[slender oar]

https://kripken.github.io/BananaBread/cube2/bb.html
https://github.com/kripken/BananaBread

like this 😛 they ported whole c++ game into browser, it runs great

newer fork of that https://sourga.me/

https://github.com/cfoust/sour

[tawdry solar]

alright

this just DOESNT work

i press f11 and nout happens

[slender oar]

new fork doesn't work for me in firefox tho 😦

[bronze yoke]

you could be getting many errors then

check your console.txt

[tawdry solar]

this is my entire screen

other times its like that

others its just black

or others its stuck on the main menu

[bronze yoke]

oh it breaks that early?? i thought you meant it broke when starting a game

[tawdry solar]

where is console.txt

[bronze yoke]

zomboid folder

[tawdry solar]

now its on the main menu screen

im confused on what this mena

i could move it to a new folder

backup is a crazy thing

[sleek forum]

@slender oar thats awesome

reminds me of unreal tournament 2000

[slender oar]

in the game hit E key and there is in game editor that is really cool

i use to play the regular game and just spend ours in multiplayer on servers with friends co-op editing

it has a cool in game editor

[karmic fog]

How to make an item appear as a 2D icon when I drop it on the floor? There's the attribute "WorldRender" which prohibits it from rendering as 3d, but it didnt use the icon instead

[sleek forum]

thats crazy

in 10/20 years we'll be running games that need 4090's to run now

in the browser

[dark wedge]

Finally. I think I'm done with assigning icons to everything in the vanilla world context menu. I've also made it so the highlighted texture renders in the center. Just a few more functions to add that I'm missing, then I think first release is ready.

[slender oar]

@sleek forum too bad we went so far back technology when they went from flash to html5 😢

now a game that ran fine in flash back in like 2005 will still barely be able to run on the latest average hardware if made in html5

[ivory gyro]

Hello guys ^^ This is not a mod, but I made script for server owner want to control they PZ server with an discord bot ^^ With RCON, and start command ! 🙂

[slender oar]

o_O

this, what?

spammer i guess

[mellow frigate]

what is the interface for other mods to adapt ?

[dark wedge]

Just add stuff to the conxtext menu like normal. That will add an entry without a texture, unless you're adding one for a string/function I check for. To add an icon and stuff, here is the basic example I was going to give:

local decor = (getActivatedMods():contains("SUI-RCM") and require("RadialContextMenu/Decorator")) or { overlays = {} }

local example = function(player, context, worldobjects, test)
    -- Add a context cption just like normal
    local option = context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Turn_On"))

    -- Set the Icon for the Radial Slice
    option.icon = getTexture("media/ui/Container_ClothingWasher.png")
    -- The following can also be used for compatibility with the Context Menu:
    --- option.iconTexture = getTexture("media/ui/Container_ClothingWasher.png")

    -- There is also this function to pass a texture directly, ONLY works with this mod enabled:
    --- local option = context:addRadialOption(name, texture, target, onSelect, params...)

    -- To set an overlay icon (optional)
    option.overlay = decor.overlays.poweron

    -- To set a color:
    --- option.color = decor:Color(0, 0, 1) -- returns: { r=0, g=0, b=1 } -- blue!
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(example)

[gilded hawk]

Does anyone know how to get in touch with "Brita" or "Arsenal" I can't understand the english they used for their tooltips

Does an higher number give less ammo or more ammo?

[zinc prairie]

Is it possible to add more challenge scenarios via mods?

I havent seen any on the workshop

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i think there's a few

[wide sierra]

How can i get the zombie 3d models for creating custom textures?

[nimble yarrow]

@gilded hawk higher number gives more. use 0% to remove ammo completely

[gilded hawk]

Oh god thank you

[gilded hawk]

Wait, are you sure cause the options seems the opposite?

        EnumCaliber12gShot = 8,
        -- Type
        --  - Reduce or Remove Weapons based on Type / Caliber Ammunition
        --  - This will affect associated Items and Ammo
        --  - Only when those are not used by another Category Default=10%
        -- 1 = REMOVE
        -- 2 = 10%
        -- 3 = 20%
        -- 4 = 30%
        -- 5 = 40%
        -- 6 = 50%
        -- 7 = 60%
        -- 8 = 70%
        -- 9 = 80%
        -- 10 = 90%

[nimble yarrow]

do they seem opposite? 😮 how so?

[gilded hawk]

Idk man the language used in the tooltip is confusing me

[nimble yarrow]

basically,
"reduce or remove weapons based on type/calibur ammunition" (by lowering this enum)
this will affect associated items and ammo
only when those are not used by another category (if you disable crossbow bolts, crossbows will not spawn, or visa versa.)

i always play Pre-1993 USA ONLY, so I disable 4g, 10g, 7.62x54mm R, 5.45x39mm, 7.62x39mm, .45-70 GOV, 5.7x28mm
(these are either post-1993 or outside the USA)

so yeah, lowering the enum should disable ammo types, right?

[gilded hawk]

So, if I do 100% I'm reducing the spawns by 100%? 🤔

[nimble yarrow]

no. you're doubling spawns

starts at 50%. can drop down to 10%, or even turn off completely at 0%. you're now increasing from 50% to 100%, double loot

[gilded hawk]

Ah okay good, thank you ❤️

That was confusing me so much 😅

[cobalt fiber]

Man, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for.
I spent some time yesterday testing if the VOIP system could agro zeds, but got frustrated as it did nothing :/

Great work

Just to clarify, what is the max range it can trigger zombies? (Tiles)

[sour island]

15 tiles. Volume goes up to 10, I multiply it by 1.5. If you're sneaking it's multiplied against 0.66.

I think shout has a range of 30.

It's very trippy to suck my teeth to call over zombies.

[atomic salmon]

I'm a bit of a dingus, so bear with me - but shouldn't this output the key # to the log? Nothing's been happening

    print(key);
end

Events.OnKeyPressed.Add(ShowKeyPressed)

[bronze yoke]

it should, where is your file located?

[atomic salmon]

mods>myfolder>lua>client

in users

[bronze yoke]

is the mod structure working? you can select it from the mods list and everything?

oh, right

myfolder/media/lua/client/

[atomic salmon]

yeah i have it active, a diff function i have in the same file is outputting

[bronze yoke]

hmm

[balmy swan]

There's a small mod idea I had to get used to code modding in PZ. I've been looking through the javadocs, but I couldn't find anything there.
How would I go about calling a function when a specific gun is fired, or if a person/zombie is hit by a specific weapon?

[bronze yoke]

i would've guessed it was a loading issue because i don't see why it shouldn't work

[atomic salmon]

i'll try a restart or smthn

i hate having to troubleshoot outputting logs lol

but i have no idea what i'm doing so it's no biggie hehe

[bronze yoke]

troubleshooting the troubleshooting

[cobalt fiber]

I can imagine myself sneezing IRL and having a big problem in-game 😅

I'm managing a playthrough with my friends only using in-game VOIP and walkies. It's gonna be rough

Thanks again for the mod and the info

[atomic salmon]

yeah a restart and now the keys are outputting lol rip me

[bronze yoke]

weird, were you resetting lua between tries?

[atomic salmon]

i was just reloading the file i was working on with f11

jus the one

[neon bronze]

Functions added through events wont reload if you edit them

[atomic salmon]

ok thanks

[bronze yoke]

you should still see the print since it'd add the new one on top of the old one

[atomic salmon]

it was printing nil

[cobalt fiber]

You could look on the events of the game. For your case, I think OnHitZombie or OnWeaponSwing would work

In your function, you can filter if the weapon is the one you are looking for, and do what you want

[balmy swan]

Ahhh. So it'd be more of a generic function that would keep running, rather than something in the weapon that calls it?

[cobalt fiber]

You can look in the wiki for all the events the game have:
pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_Events

[balmy swan]

Righto! That'll be helpful, PeteR. Thank you 🙂

[hollow current]

function Frogshire.getFrogFood(player)
    local playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player)
    local invent = playerObj:getInventory()

    local foodTypes = {
        "Maggots", "Maggots2", "AmericanLadyCaterpillar", "BandedWoolyBearCaterpillar",
        "MonarchCaterpillar", "SawflyLarva", "SilkMothCaterpillar", "SwallowtailCaterpillar",
        "Centipede", "Centipede2", "Cockroach", "Cricket", "DeadRat", "DeadMouse",
        "Grasshopper", "Millipede", "Millipede2", "Pillbug", "Slug", "Slug2", "Worm"
    }

    local combinedTable = {}

    for _, foodType in ipairs(foodTypes) do
      local items = invent:getItemsFromType(foodType)
      for _, item in ipairs(items) do
        print(item)
        table.insert(combinedTable, item)
       end
    end
end```

Trying to return all items of specific types in a player's inventory and put them in one table. ``local items = invent:getItemsFromType(foodType)`` works correctly and prints "items" as it should for each type, however, when I loop over the ``items`` table in ``for _, item in ipairs(items) do``, nothing is printed or added to the combinedTable. Am I iterating over them incorrectly?

[neon bronze]

There is a swing event an OnHitCharacter and onhitzombir event

[cobalt fiber]

Not exactly, some things that happen on the game can trigger events, and you can add functions you make to trigger too

[cobalt fiber]

You're welcome 😁

[balmy swan]

I see! The part I was mostly curious about on how I was going to trigger it, but the event list you sent also helps 🙂

[balmy swan]

Yep! I just found the OnWeaponHitCharacter 🙂

[neon bronze]

getItemsFromType() probably returns a java list

Which you have to iterate over differently than the lua tables