mod_development

[sleek forum]

a square contains a bunch of tiles

and a tile can be a container

a tile afaik is just another word for texture (like a radio, wall, floor)

[worthy sparrow]

rubber duck 🤔

[dusky schooner]

would love some help with a baseball bat I'm making, I don't have a clue what's wrong with it as it looks broken in game (screens on the way)

this is how it looks in game

this is how it looks in substance painter (simple texture I know, was just testing it for now)

this is how it looks in Blender

[neon bronze]

You need to rotate it in blender and then export it in fbx format

[void cargo]

Anyone know how to point the global objects defined by zomboid to the lua language server? (as in IDE/editor stuff) using neovim

[faint jewel]

oh i know this one

ctrl+a and all transforms.

@dusky schooner

[dusky schooner]

with the 3d model selected?

[faint jewel]

yeah in object mode

[vagrant valley]

What scale does this game use

I had to use 0.0000005 to make models real size ish

[faint jewel]

honestly, i would look for a model in the scripts that is set to 1.0 and use it as a base.

SpiffoPlushieBig for instantance is a 1.0

Bucket

CanClosed

GasCan

[vagrant valley]

Are their dimensions available

[faint jewel]

all 1.0 scale models you can use as a base item size.

just import them into blender at 1.0 scale.

[vagrant valley]

As in size

I just need to fire up those x file converters

[faint jewel]

i can make you an fbx real quick.

[vagrant valley]

Okay

[tepid dawn]

Hello, what would be the reason for an Events.EveryOneMinute.Add(func()) to run the function only when its manually reloaded ?

The exact same code was running every one minute yesterday but now its only when I press F11 and reload it

[faint jewel]

they are already fbx files. lol

[fast galleon]

Are you calling your function in that line?

[faint jewel]

see?

[tepid dawn]

Yeah, I mean i think it'd not do anything if I wasn't

Cuz there is a debug message in the function and I can see it printed when I manually reload

Whats even more interesting is that even if I just make it like:

Events.EveryOneMinute.Add(print("blabla"))

It still runs only once when reloaded

[fast galleon]

Events.Event.Add(function()...end)

[tepid dawn]

Could you elaborate a little please ? I don't understand what this means

[fast galleon]

print("blabla") is not a function, it will instantly print blabla and nothing will be added to event, same when you call your function, unless it returns another function

[crystal terrace]

is there a resource to convert .x files to .fbx files? i can look it up but if there was something already established in community id prefer that

[fast galleon]

You need to pass a function in the Add(), e.g Events.EveryOneMinute.Add(function() print("blabla") end)

[tepid dawn]

Its basically what it was like at first though

Events.EveryOneMinute.Add(OneMinute())

OneMinute() was my function here which had declared beforehand

Man this is so messed up

[fast galleon]

Events.EveryOneMinute.Add(OneMinute)

[tepid dawn]

I dont need parantheses ?

[crystal terrace]

yep

[fast galleon]

exactly

[tepid dawn]

Now the function doesn't run at all even if I reload lol

This is really weird ngl

[fast galleon]

they are not added during in-game reload, reload from main menu

or use console if possible

[vagrant valley]

Can you define multiple attachment types for items?

[neon bronze]

Yes

Pistols already do that in vanilla

[tepid dawn]

How do i reload using console pls ?

[vagrant valley]

Thank you

[fast galleon]

I meant add/remove the event from console before and after reload.

        Events.OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Remove(IFP.OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu)
        reloadLuaFile("media/lua/client/IndustrialFuelPumpsClient.lua")
        Events.OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(IFP.OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu)

[tepid dawn]

Yeah thank you it worked

😘

[rich void]

Hey ya'lll

What's the deal with webhooks, supported or no? getting very mixed messages online and digging back through chat history

Just looking to send a string

[proper crater]

anyway to use ide as debugger instead of using ingame?

[rich void]

Only really to check syntax mate

[proper crater]

ah, sad then

working with more builds mod

[rich void]

ikr PZ Devkit when

[proper crater]

suppose to be exist, but nah

[hybrid walrus]

Hello everyone I would like to find a mod or to make one or find a solution to be able to ensure that the book is readable only by the person doing the trades concerned ex: I created 9 trades. if I choose electrician I would like to read only electricity books and elec magazines if reading is not blockable ,Can i mak something to earn xp only for the profession concerned

[proper crater]

btw, is there gud way to optimize a mod that create lag on context menu?

ex more builds add submenu and alot of stuff in

cause few seconds lag

[proper crater]

why would you want to block people from reading magazine

kinda not make sense much

:concerning:

[wet sandal]

Mod maker do as mod maker do

[proper crater]

or you mean you want a profession that only focus on level certain skill only?

[elfin stump]

Nice! Thank you

I have not made a vehicle so I cannot help you with the details but I do know that you need to setup the wheels differently and of course texture it, you can find a nice guide on how to do a basic PZ vehicle here. https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/28633-complete-vehicle-modding-tutorial/

[marsh wagon]

Hi, all
I am making my first mod and I unfortunately made the invisible car !
Please can someone help me?

[elfin stump]

You will want to look at Timed Actions for that instead of recipes, vanilla location is steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\TimedActions but I think that is the keyword you are looking for anyway.

[mellow frigate]

You can release it and pretend having an invisible car is the objective of the mod.

[marsh wagon]

Of course but I want to see my car

[covert carbon]

What is the variable for the player's health amount? Where could I find it

I am trying to set the health to 0 to cause the player to die. If there is an easier way to do this then that would be nice.

[proper crater]

how do i add broken texture for broken window

cuz something like this happen

xd

[crimson cypress]

Could anyone tell me if it would be possible to change the lightbar patterns of existing car

also i want to turn the lightbar menu into something that can be dragged around the screen instead of being static in the center

[elfin stump]

I don't know if a health amount like you might see in other games. PZ has a very robust system for dealing with player damage and it is measured from each bodypart as a collective whole, however, one body part can also kill you. So in your case, you may want to utilize some of the higher level player variables that also have the ability to kill the player. That ends up being FoodSicknessLevel and InfectionLevel - the first will kill you via the stomach, the second will kill you and turn you into a zombie. You can probably also kill the player by dropping their temperature to 0 or something like that too.

[covert carbon]

I'm looking through the script of that gun suicide mod to see what it did. If I can't find anything i'll try that.

[elfin stump]

I would guess that they directly coded a bullet in the head to kill the player with that, the head is a bodypart, so you could kill the player by initiating trauma there. A deep wound, embedded bullet etc and you can set a high bleed rate. So you can also kill the player from a body part like that.

[covert carbon]

That would probably be the best solution for me then. Thank you.

[mellow frigate]

character:setHealth(0) is used in the java code

[tepid dawn]

function addNewTrait(player,label)
local traits = player:getTraits()
for trait in traits do
if trait:getLabel() == label then player:addTrait(trait)
end
end
end

Sorry if this code block gets messed up while posting but am I doing something wrong here ?

I just couldn't add a trait with player:getTraits():add("clumsy")

So I tried something like this

Still doesnt work and throws java errors too

[mellow frigate]

you can use '''lua<return> my code''' but replace ' character by ` character

function myFunc(param)
end

[tepid dawn]

What does that do ?

Im new sorry if its a lot of questions

[mellow frigate]

You are adding a trait if it is already one of player's traits.

[tepid dawn]

Yeah I was wrong at that paet

Part*

But what I mean is

1- I don't know how to get all the vanilla traits of the game in the first place

2- the code still throws errors if I remove everything inside the for loop

[elfin stump]

It is very similar to some medications I am working on that cause some severe side effects at the body part level. I modified my code to get you started but it would look something like this I think:

`--You will need reference to player
local bodyDamage = player:getBodyDamage();
local bodyParts = bodyDamage:getBodyParts();

for i=bodyParts:size()-1, 0, -1 do
local bodyPart = bodyParts:get(i);
if tostring(bodyPart:getType()) == "Head" then
player:Say("Oh no.");
bodyPart:setHealth(5); --Zero will kill instant, setting to something low and then bleeding will initiate gore effects I think this health is 0-100
bodyPart:setBleeding(true);
bodyPart:setBleedingTime(100);
bodyPart:setHaveBullet(true, 5); --This second number is 'doctorLevel' in the docs, I am not sure what the range is here, it might be related to skills.
end
end
`

[covert carbon]

I looked around a bit. would setOverallBodyHealth(0) work?

[elfin stump]

Most likely it will you could test it out, but it would not initiate any blood or anything like that

One thing to note, for your application of setting to 0 you will have no issues I think because the goal is the player dying. Changing high level variables without modifying a body part can cause problems when the player relogs, in your case this wouldn't apply because they would be dead. But if you do anything where they do not die, you need to worry about that.

[covert carbon]

so if I were to set the overallbodyhealth to halfway to death, the game could glitch?

[elfin stump]

I do not know the specifics of that function, it might take this into account and assign health to body parts when it is called. If you set the health directly then the body parts will not be adjusted and then you can have instances where the player gets damaged and has a sudden disproportionate drop in health.

[covert carbon]

alright

[elfin stump]

These types of glitches tend to occur after the player had relogged or restarted their game, I have found the best way to handle things is from the body part up.

[tepid dawn]

Anybody has a clue why player:getTraits():remove("trait") works perfectly but player:getTraits:add("trait") does not work at all ?

[heady crystal]

I'm checking every minute if the player is inside a building and the moment you step in that variable becomes true

Also isFullyExplored or something like that

So it's not really useful for me

[elfin stump]

I could take a look but I haven't worked with this part of things too much. Can you give an example of the code that is working?

[mellow frigate]

but ain't that exactly what you asked ?

[heady crystal]

I wanted to know if the player has been to the building in the past

But since for some reason it's immediately "fully explored" it seems I can't really know. Unless there was an event for when you get inside immediately before the game decides to tag the building as visited too

[tepid dawn]

function canReadNow(player)

if(player:hasTrait("illiterate") and player:getPerkLevel(Perks.LearningReading) >= 3 then
player:getTraits():remove("illiterate")
player:getTraits():add("fastreader")
end
end

Remove works perfectly fine, but no luck from add

[elfin stump]

I just ran a script on my end I am seeing that player:getTraits():remove("Fit") and player:getTraits():add("Fit")

try FastReader

or "Fast Reader" is probably better

[tepid dawn]

My god

Why these issues are so simple but yet so intriguing

[elfin stump]

likely the formatting of the two words need adjusted but I don't know what it would be exactly, I would start with "Fast Reader"

[tepid dawn]

Thank you mate

I thought it'd be code logic so

I wrote it without spaces

[elfin stump]

no problem, the true battle of zomboid is in the coding 🙂

[tepid dawn]

Fr fr

[elfin stump]

looks like it is "FastReader" @tepid dawn

[tepid dawn]

Yeah lol I think the problem was with capital letters

Rather than spaces

This will solve a lot of my problems, thank you again.

I've noticed how narrow of a tunnel vision I was in lol

[elfin stump]

No problem, glad to help!

[covert carbon]

For my russian roulette mod, would a script like this work.

--Mod For Russian Roulette in Project Zomboid

function RussianRoulette()
{
local x = ZombRand(7)
if x == 6 then
setOverallBodyHealth(0)
end
}

Recipe Russian_Roulette
{
Base.Revolver_Short = 1, Base.Bullets38 = 1,
Result: RussianRoulette()
}
end

I intend for it to take a .38 special revolver which has 6 chambers, give you a 1 in 6 chance of dying

I'm not sure if the gun would return back to you though which worries me

But I could fix

[elfin stump]

It does need some corrections but you are on the right track, let me adjust it ab it

[tepid dawn]

Lol pls inform me when its done.

Seems like a fun mod

[covert carbon]

It's my first ever mod and I have only been coding for a few days

i dont know if im coding in lua or java at this point

and im being 100% serious when saying that

[neon bronze]

you are doing lua dont worry

[covert carbon]

thank god

[neon bronze]

also you cant define the function in the same file as your recipe

the recipe goes into the .txt the function goes into .lua

and you would have to call it in the recipe with OnCreate: [Recipe.RussianRoulette]

[elfin stump]

`--Mod For Russian Roulette in Project Zomboid

Function (LUA):

function RussianRoulette(items, result, player) --item result player comes from calling from the recipe system
{
local x = ZombRand(7)
if x == 6 then
player:setOverallBodyHealth(0) --you need to reference the player that used the recipe, it is provided from the recipe call
end
}
end

Recipe (TXT):

Recipe Russian_Roulette
{
Base.Revolver_Short = 1, Base.Bullets38 = 1,
--Alternatively, you can keep the gun by marking it as "keep Base.Revolver_Short"
Result: Base.Revolver_Short, --This is a bit of a hack, it would repair a damaged gun, but when using a recipe you need to get something out of it, since you don't want anything, you could return the gun, but don't use with keep or you will get two.
OnCreate:RussianRoulette --This is your function call
}`

Something like that ^ but as haram is saying, they need to be separate files

[nimble yarrow]

@covert carbon pretty sure ZombRand(7) has seven outcomes: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6.

[neon bronze]

i would honestly make the whole things as a context option but that would take waaaaaaaaaaay more work than a simple recipe

[elfin stump]

That would also prevent the risk of accidently Russian Rouletting when you are crafting too fast...

[covert carbon]

So I have to create to seperate files or do I just seperate them with the Recipe (TXT): and Function (LUA):

[neon bronze]

also would make that somewhat realistic but you'd have to thoroughly check first

[neon bronze]

2 different files

[elfin stump]

mods\yourmod\media\scripts\yourmodrecipes.txt for the txt and mod\yourmod\media\lua\client\yourluastuff.lua for the other

I strongly recommend downloading some mods and looking at the file structure to understand it better

[covert carbon]

ive been doing that a little bit
honestly I understand it all but at the same time im so confused

[elfin stump]

sounds like you are on the right track

[covert carbon]

how do I save as a txt file

[neon bronze]

use notepad

[covert carbon]

Alright so I have it set up as mods/RussianRoulette/media/lua/client/RussianRouletteFunctions.lua
&
mods/RussianRoulette/media/scripts/RussianRouletteRecipes.txt

does that work?

[nimble yarrow]

C:\Users\username_here\Zomboid\Workshop\RussianRoulette\Contents\mods\RussianRoulette\media\lua\client\RussianRouletteFunctions.lua
C:\Users\username_here\Zomboid\Workshop\RussianRoulette\Contents\mods\RussianRoulette\media\scripts\RussianRouletteRecipes.txt

[elfin stump]

^^ Yep that is what you want right there, you can also check existing mods and make sure that your LUA formatting is good and that your TXT file has the proper brackets etc

[covert carbon]

this look about right?

[nimble yarrow]

The C:\Users\username_here\Zomboid\Workshop\RussianRoulette folder needs preview.png and workshop.txt
you can find examples of these in the example mod.
C:\Users\username_here\Zomboid\Workshop\\ModTemplate

The C:\Users\username_here\Zomboid\Workshop\RussianRoulette\Contents\mods\RussianRoulette folder needs poster.png and mod.info
you can find examples of these in the example mod.
C:\Users\username_here\Zomboid\Workshop\ModTemplate\Contents\mods\ModTemplate

[covert carbon]

Alright. Thank you

[crystal oar]

if i do result:setBaseHunger(result:getBaseHunger() / OilDivisor); will it round automatically?

or should i round it?

[bronze yoke]

it won't round automatically

[crystal oar]

okay thanks

[marsh wagon]

Sorry to ask again, but can you help me with this

[pearl prism]

Did you check the Normals ?

[crystal oar]

i'm adding sandbox options to a mod and they won't show up in game. I added sandbox-options.txt to the media folder and Sandbox_EN.txt to the lua\shared\Translate\EN folder, but no luck. any common mistakes i could be making there?

[covert carbon]

How do you make a .info file?

[neon bronze]

You can just copy the one from the example mod and then edit it with a text editor

[covert carbon]

👍

[crystal oar]

i have the sandbox option ```VERSION = 1,

option OilFromSeeds.OilPerPacket
{
type = Double,
default = 1,

page = OilFromSeeds,
translation = OilFromSeeds_OilPerPacket,

}``` but no luck getting it to show up in game

did i goof it up?

[ancient grail]

https://imgur.com/AC86Kgd
WIP

[crystal oar]

that reminds me of how i moved around in super mario sunshine, just jumping and diving

[crystal oar]

i forgot to put a min and max

[covert carbon]

Can you activate a function in the same file where the function is declared

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[covert carbon]

is there a way to activate a function when you spawn in?

[storm flame]

That looks awesome! Definitely gonna spice things up

[ancient grail]

[crystal oar]

Events.OnGameStart.Add(RecipeDisablerOnGameStart) something like this, also here's a list of events https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventDoc/blob/develop/docs/Events.md

[covert carbon]

Thank you

[grand bough]

If I wanted to find someone to create a mod on commission, would it be okay to ask here?

FOOL wanted a vacation.

[covert carbon]

How would you make a recipe allow different ingredients. Like if I wanted to have a recipe require you to have either a .38 revolver or a .45 revolver but you only need one of them, how would I do that.

[crystal oar]

    {
        destroy farming.BroccoliBagSeed/farming.CabbageBagSeed/farming.CarrotBagSeed/farming.PotatoBagSeed/farming.RedRadishBagSeed/farming.StrewberrieBagSeed/farming.TomatoBagSeed,
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.MortarPestle],
        Result:OilVegetable=1,
        OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.CraftOilFromSeeds,
        Time:60.0,
        Category:Cooking,
    }```

use a little / between items

[covert carbon]

what if I want to required items like a bullet and either of the two items

Like
-Either need twig or branch
-requires ripped sheet

[crystal oar]

then you could do like destroy bullet/bullet2 destroy gun/gun2 Result:whatever

[bronze yoke]

you'd probably want the gun and bullet to match

[crystal oar]

ooh

[marsh wagon]

idk, what is that?

[crystal oar]

in this example are you consuming the ripped sheet or not?

[covert carbon]

yes

you are consuming it

[crystal oar]

destroy Base.RippedSheets
Result:Profit```

[covert carbon]

would this work

Recipe Russian_Roulette
{
Base.Revolver_Short = 1/Base.Revolver_Long = 1/Base.Revolver = 1, Base.Bullets38 = 1,
Result: RussianRoulette()
}
end

I know the bullets wouldnt match but would that work as an example

[crystal oar]

you probably want to keep the revolver right?

[covert carbon]

yes, just destroy one bullet

[bronze yoke]

are you trying to call a lua function as the result?

[crystal oar]

so then like Recipe Russian_Roulette { destroy Base.Bullets38 = 1, keep Base.Revolver_Short = 1/Base.Revolver_Long = 1/Base.Revolver = 1, Result: RussianRoulette OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.DoRussianRulette, }

[covert carbon]

what is the difference between Result and OnCreate

[bronze yoke]

result is an item

oncreate is a function

[crystal oar]

result is an item, the oncreate can call lua

[covert carbon]

So I would do
OnCreate: RussianRoulette()

there isn't an item being crafted in the end, I would just keep the old gun

[bronze yoke]

it'd just be the name of the function without brackets

recipes have to have a result no matter what, it uses the result for the recipe icon and stuff

[crystal oar]

can you make a recipe without an item result?

[covert carbon]

I would assume so

[crystal oar]

you are so fast albion lol answering my question before i even ask lol

[bronze yoke]

there's a RemoveResultItem:true to have it not actually create the item, but there has to be one

you could make the result a bullet or a revolver and set that flag

[covert carbon]

so I could just set the result item as a junk item and just remove it immediately

[crystal oar]

ya as part of the oncreate you could remove the item from their inventory

[bronze yoke]

or just set removeresultitem

[crystal oar]

albion knows better than me, you should listen

[bronze yoke]

i'm not sure there is a big difference but i'd rather keep things simple and let the game handle that part

[covert carbon]

`--Recipes for Russian Roulette

Recipe Russian_Roulette
{
Base.Revolver_Short = 1/Base.Revolver_Long/Base.Revolver, Base.Bullets38 = 1,
keep Base.Revolver_Short = 1/Base.Revolver_Long/Base.Revolver,
Result: Base.Revolver_Short, RemoveResultItem:true
OnCreate: RussianRoulette(),
}
end`

[crystal terrace]

if im using an existing texture from in-game, do i need to give path as texture/textureName or just textureName for texture field in model script

[covert carbon]

does this work

[crystal oar]

i think that will eat a revolver

[covert carbon]

how so

[crystal oar]

the first line i think will eat the revolver,

[crystal oar]

RemoveResultItem:true needs a comma, the result and oncreate have a spoace that i think needs to go, and there needs to not be () at the end of the function call

and it doesn't need end at the end

{
    Base.Bullets38 = 1,
    keep Base.Revolver_Short/Base.Revolver_Long/Base.Revolver,
    Result:Base.Revolver_Short, 
    RemoveResultItem:true,
    OnCreate:RussianRoulette,
}```

[bronze yoke]

-- comments aren't valid in scripts, should be java style /* comment */

[covert carbon]

`/* Recipes for Russian Roulette */

Recipe Russian_Roulette
{
Base.Bullets38 = 1,
keep Base.Revolver_Short = 1/Base.Revolver_Long/Base.Revolver,
destroy Base.Bullets38
Result: Base.Revolver_Short, RemoveResultItem:true,
OnCreate: RussianRoulette,
}
`

[crystal oar]

well that first line already eats a bullet, Base.Bullets38 = 1,

also have you thought about importing base so you don't have to put base before all the things?

[covert carbon]

wdym

[crystal oar]

{
    imports 
    {
        Base
    }
    
    recipe Make Oil from Seeds
    {
        blahblahblah
    }
}```

then instead of putting Base.whatever you can just put whatever

[covert carbon]

that's cool

okay I think I have it

`/* Recipes for Russian Roulette */

Recipe Russian_Roulette
{
Base.Bullets38 = 1,
keep Base.Revolver_Short = 1/Base.Revolver_Long/Base.Revolver,
Result: Base.Revolver_Short, RemoveResultItem:true,
OnCreate: RussianRoulette,
}`

ill import the thing later

[crystal oar]

ya that looks right

[covert carbon]

YES

this took me hours 😦

[tribal quarry]

Hi, stumbled upon this awesome game and i was wondering how the rendering works. i found this https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1844-iso-revolution/ old devlog, stating that they are rendering 3d tiles for the floor. furniture and trees for example are just 2d images. how does the rendering of characters, like players and zombies work? are they 3d models with sceletal animations, rendered insisde a framebuffer, then drawn?

[covert carbon]

im also trying to spawn with one of those revolvers

function RussianRoulette()
{
local x = ZombRand(7)
if x == 6 then
setOverallBodyHealth(0)
end
}

Events.OnGameStart.Add("Base.Revolver_Short")
Events.OnGameStart.Add("Base.Bullets38")

[crystal oar]

this isn't going to work Events.OnGameStart.Add("Base.Revolver_Short")
Events.OnGameStart.Add("Base.Bullets38")

[covert carbon]

why won't it work?

[crystal oar]

give me a sec i'm writing up something that might work for what you are trying to do. it won't work because that will run a lua script named Base.Revolver_Short on game start

[bronze yoke]

not even that, it'll just error because it's a string and not a function

[covert carbon]

so how would I get my character to spawn with an item upon him loading into the world?

[crystal oar]

i'm writing you an example as we speak

maybe ```function RussianRouletteAddItemsOnGameStart()
local player = getPlayer()
player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Revolver_Short")
player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Bullets38")
end

Events.OnGameStart.Add(RussianRouletteAddItemsOnGameStart)```

do you want it on loading into the world or only on new character creation? the way i wrote it it will give one each time you start the game

[covert carbon]

I would like it to only spawn on you once

this is just so I can test the rest of the script and not be forced to search around for a revolver every time

[crystal oar]

does that help show why the first way wouldn't work tho?

[covert carbon]

yes

[crystal oar]

    local player = getPlayer()
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Revolver_Short")
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Bullets38")
end

Events.OnNewGame.Add(RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame)```

[covert carbon]

Events.OnGameStart.Add doesnt give the player a new item, it activates a function that you want and the function can do things, one of those things being adding the item to your inventory

am I right?

[crystal oar]

yes

but notice that i changed that to OnNewGame to correspond to the event we are looking for, which is new game not on game start (which is when you press click to start)

[covert carbon]

so I tried to spawn in but I am not spawning in with the gun

lemme try something rq

[crystal oar]

tell me about the file structure of your mod, did you make that script a client script?

[covert carbon]

one sec

sorry

It goes
This PC > Local Disk (C:) > Users > Myusername > Zomboid > Workshop > RussianRoulette > contents > mods > Russian Roulette > media > lua > client

[crystal oar]

okay word, then i feel like it should work when the event triggers. still no luck tho?

[covert carbon]

this is the full file

function RussianRoulette()
{
local x = ZombRand(7)
if x == 6 then
setOverallBodyHealth(0)
end
}

function RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame()
{
local player = getPlayer()
player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Revolver_Short")
player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Bullets38")
}

Events.OnNewGame.Add(RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame)

[crystal oar]

i don't think lua uses curly brackets there, let me look

[covert carbon]

Ik

I changed it to that to see if it would fix it

let me revert it rq

[crystal oar]

ya i think in lua those brackets define arrays? maybe

[covert carbon]

do I have to restart my game evertime is want to retry a script?

[crystal oar]

and function gets closed out with end

[crystal oar]

i think so

i restart each time i make a change

[crystal terrace]

i need halp

[crystal oar]

wow

https://tenor.com/view/maya-rudolph-cleavage-drink-big-gulp-on-bed-gif-15599659

that's a large soda

[crystal terrace]

lol i tried to put a texture i made on pop bottle

im just happy atleast it works lol

[crystal oar]

if noone here knows, #modeling might know

[tranquil kindle]

Would it be possible for recipe to have Gun Magazine that is fully loaded as a result?

[elfin stump]

Make a shortcut to the game, and then right click on that and goto 'properties' and change target so that it has -debug on the end of it, so the end of 'target' should be "...ProjectZomboid\ProjectZomboid64.exe -debug" without the quotes. This runs the game in debug mode, you can press F11 to bring up one of many screens it unlocks. Then you can search for your script and double click it so you can read it, then press 'reload script', that way you wont need to restart. It should work with any '.lua' file. If it is a '.txt' file then you need to restart I think.

[bronze yoke]

you can also just set launch options in steam

[elfin stump]

It looks bizarre, is there more going on there than just the model is too large? If the model is to large, you can use scale = scaleHere when you define the model like this model CDCLeaflet { mesh = InformationBooklet_CDCRR, texture = Object_CDCLeaflet_CDCRR, scale = 0.25, } for example

[crystal terrace]

let me try this one and see if it affect the size

[elfin stump]

I have used both calling the mesh = to a vanilla existing model, or my own, or a copy of a vanilla that I put in as my own for some reason, but that also works.

[covert carbon]

`function RussianRoulette()
local x = ZombRand(7)
if x == 6 then
setOverallBodyHealth(0)
end

function RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame()
local player = getPlayer()
player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Revolver_Short")
player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Bullets38")
end

Events.OnNewGame.Add(RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame)`

I do this yet I do not spawn with a gun

idk what to do at this point

[elfin stump]

The problem might be 'OnNewGame' that is called when the world is create, not the player, you can try 'OnCreatePlayer' instead

[crystal terrace]

think there's a noticeable difference now, ill need to tweak teh scale setting a bit more

[elfin stump]

Nice! Yeah, I have seen some mods with crazy numbers like scale = 0.00001 so I think you are on the right track. There may be some downside technically, but with most of the models in this being so low poly anyway, I don't think anything like that is going to have a negative impact.

It could be his house

[pearl prism]

PM me if you need help, it's probably some error in ur script or something

[bronze yoke]

OnNewGame is fired when a player is created for the first time

there are a couple odd situations that the game misses though

[crystal terrace]

ill give it a bunch of tries and find a reasonable size, btw i don't understand i have a seperate icon for empty bottle but instead of that it shows "?" which doesnt make sense since icon for full bottle works perfectly

[elfin stump]

@bronze yoke Do you know of any good documentation for the order of different events? I did a variety of things with those events before and some of them did seem inconsistent it was a bit frustrating. I was thinking of just running a debug logger on all of them but then but ended up solving it without that. I still may do that, unless there is better documentation somewhere than the page at: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_Events#:~:text=An event in programming is,when the event is called.

[elfin stump]

the ? I think is saying that it cannot find the icon so you could double check file format, locations and names I think. What is the file name of the icon, where is it stored, and how are you calling it in the item .txt file?

[crystal terrace]

alr ill double check everything

[bronze yoke]

i don't have an order yet (it's been on my todo list) but i think my documentation https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventDoc/blob/develop/docs/Events.md is better than the wiki's

[elfin stump]

Nice! Thank you so much, I will take a peek there. If I end up running a debugger to show me the order I will share it and tag you, its also on my to do haha.

[elfin stump]

Icons should be in ...Contents\mods\YourMod\media\textures\Item_ITEMNAME.png and called like Icon = ITEMNAME,

[balmy swan]

Ugh. Would anyone mind helping me figure out why a custom animation isn't playing? It is showing up correctly in the Animation Viewer, but trying to call it through LUA does nothing. Would it be okay if I upload the anim and xml file here?

[elfin stump]

You do need Item_ on the filename, and you need to make sure not to include Item_ on the call

[red rapids]

is there a way to convert x files to fbx?

[balmy swan]

If you're trying to load the original animations, you'll have to use something like fragmotion to load them, rather than blender.

[red rapids]

textures not animation

[balmy swan]

You should still be able to see which textures a file uses, with that method.

[red rapids]

So there is no way to turn them into fbx?

Fragmotion loads correctly to blender?

I have the model in blender I just need to do some minor sculpting

[crystal terrace]

what if file name already has item as prefix?

[balmy swan]

Blender uses a version of X importer that can't read PZ's .x files, Fragmotion's works fine. I assume you can just export to a format Blender likes through Fragmotion

[red rapids]

So it would be going through fragmotion export and then open it up in blender right

[elfin stump]

It should also be a 32x32 .png, it could be the size is an issue

[balmy swan]

Yeah. Export to FBX or OBJ in Fragmotion then open that in blender.

[red rapids]

Okay thank you first im gonna look if there is some kind of what you call it? add on

for that

[crystal terrace]

size is exactly that, maybe its confused because im replacing it with water bottle idk

[elfin stump]

It is a custom object that you have created? Can you share the call to the icon that is in the .txt file?

[crystal terrace]

yes, been working on this tutorial from blackbeard where he adds nuka-cola to game. wait ill just post it.

    {
        DisplayCategory = WaterContainer,
        Weight    =    0.1,
        CanStoreWater    =    TRUE,
        Type    =    Normal,
        DisplayName    =    Empty Nuka Cola Bottle,
        ReplaceOnUseOn    =    WaterSource-WaterPopBottle,
        Icon    =    item_NukaCola_Empty,
        MetalValue = 5,
        WorldStaticModel = NukaColaEmpty,
        Tags = EmptyPetrol,
        ReplaceTypes = PetrolSource PetrolPopBottle;WaterSource WaterPopBottle,
    }```

[pulsar rock]

This is neat stuff for sure

[elfin stump]

I think the lower case i may have struck

Item instead of item on teh file name

and also "Icon = item_NukaCola_Empty," should be "Icon = NukaCola_Empty,"

[crystal terrace]

but this is exactly the file name

[elfin stump]

you will need to change it to 'Item_NukaCola_Empty' instead, the Item_ prefix is built in for icons

it requires a capital I

[crystal terrace]

oh

[elfin stump]

then when you do the call, leave it off so call item = 'NukaCola_Empty'

well, without the ' quotes

[crystal terrace]

so do i drop the item prefix or just change it to capital i

[elfin stump]

item = NukaCola_Empty,

[crystal terrace]

sounds great

[elfin stump]

both

[crystal terrace]

makes sense why icon for other one works, it starts with capital letter

[elfin stump]

No "Item_" on the text file and yes "Item_" on the filename, and make sure it is capital, that should get you any icon in your folder

Yeah, it is a bit weird but that should get you there

[crystal terrace]

im a bit confused, is it necessary for icon file to have "Item" as prefix?

[elfin stump]

I do not know for sure but in my experience all icons will be prefixed with Item_ - and the calls for them will not include Item_ and that does work, now there may be another way or some different setup out there but I do not know about it

[crystal terrace]

ok ill keep this one in mind

[covert carbon]

Is there anything wrong with this recipe?

Recipe Russian_Roulette
{
Base.Bullets38 = 1,
keep Base.Revolver_Short = 1/Base.Revolver_Long/Base.Revolver,
Result: Base.Revolver_Short, RemoveResultItem:true,
OnCreate: RussianRoulette,
}

[crystal terrace]

just confirmed by doing it, you def need "item" prefix on icon file name and what you said about capital letter on name when calling it

[elfin stump]

recipe Russian_Roulette { Base.Bullets38 = 1, keep Base.Revolver_Short = 1, Result: Base.Revolver_Short, RemoveResultItem:true, OnCreate: RussianRoulette, }

recipe needs to be lower case, you also had a bunch of revolvers but they use different ammo than 38, I would recommend making a recipe for each revolver. That is a 38 = short, 45 = revolver, 44 = long (I think).

[covert carbon]

alright thank you 🙂

[crystal terrace]

model script?

[tawdry solar]

eys

yes

[crystal terrace]

{
    model NukaCola
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/PopBottleEmpty,
        texture = nuka-cola-texture,
        scale = 0.02,
    }

    model NukaColaEmpty
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/EmptyPopBottle,
        texture = WorldItems/EmptyPopBottle,
        scale = 0.011,
    }

}```

i just realised something

i think that one definitely is for trash pile

otherwise two same items doesnt make sense

[tawdry solar]

strange

code looks fine

[crystal terrace]

if you look at names, one says popBottleEmpty other one is EmptyPopBottle, that def there for a reason otherwise they could have used the same model

im pretty sure the model in top one is for trash piles

[tawdry solar]

trash piles arnt models

[crystal terrace]

oh

[tawdry solar]

they are sprites

tiles

[crystal terrace]

well then this is def strange

but i think i can just replace the mesh value to other model and itll be fine

[elfin stump]

I just checked, they are the same, PZ devs are human too 🙂 it could have been an artifact of the workflow

ohh actually, the scaling looks to be a bit different, but that looks like it

You could probably use either or but not both or your bottle will change size

unless you tune it perfect

[crystal terrace]

ye ig you are right about that, so many elements to look out for everything.

[elfin stump]

and on top of that sometimes when you are debugging a zombie eats you

[crystal terrace]

would you look at that glorious bottle 👀

[elfin stump]

ooohhh yeah, now that's some drink alright

[crystal terrace]

its been a rewarding process, now im very confident at least with adding new items or textures and maybe at one point ill learn to work on models as well, Thanks to @elfin stump you have been very helpful today. ill prolly note down all these points somewhere.

[elfin stump]

Glad I could help! This is definitely the best place to come for any modding questions. Good work!

[tawdry solar]

how can i make an item be interactable

so i can teleport on interact

[covert carbon]

the recipe file is a txt file right?

[tawdry solar]

yes

recipes are txt

[elfin stump]

Yep, stored at ...mods\SapphCooking\media\scripts as a text file

The inside of it will look like this:
`module YourModPrefix
{
imports
{
Base,
}

your recipe here

}`

[covert carbon]

what does module do

[tawdry solar]

anyone got code for a junk item

[elfin stump]

That would most likely be a TimedAction for the teleport, and a custom context, but I do not recall exactly how this is done

[tawdry solar]

thanks

[elfin stump]

Think about using a fireplace or something like that, that is the code you want to find, teleporting you can most likely do easy from lua if you have a player reference, I am not positive on that though

no problem!

[tawdry solar]

ah thanks man

i just need to teleport to a custom sewer area i made outside the map

[elfin stump]

Sounds cool! Sewers in PZ, I like it. Someone else may be able to chime in but yeah I think you are looking for TimedActions and Custom Context Menus.

[tawdry solar]

alright

ive never fucked with this stuff anywayh

[elfin stump]

For Junk item you can call DisplayCategory = Junk I believe

[balmy swan]

Could anyone take a look at a custom animation and see what is causing it to not be played, or are custom .X animations just not supported?

[tawdry solar]

i just needed an item that doesnt do anythin

[elfin stump]

I have a test result that I use in one of my mods, that could be a good reference.

item ViralTestResultInconclusive { DisplayCategory = FirstAid, Weight = 0.00, Type = Normal, DisplayName = Viral Test Result - Inconclusive [..], Icon = TestResult_Incon_CDCRR, Medical = TRUE, WorldStaticModel = TestResultIncon, Tooltip = Tooltip_CDCRR_TestResultIncon, }

[covert carbon]

LETS GO IT WORKS

[elfin stump]

I don't know a ton about the animation system but if I were you I would reference 'True Actions' - they have animations stored as .fbx but in the anims_X folder.

[covert carbon]

after 8 hours I got the recipe to pop up 😌

[elfin stump]

Nice!

[covert carbon]

thank you for showing me the module thing

that is what fixed my problem

I am still unsure of what a module even is, could you explain it please

[elfin stump]

Yes it is like a class that represents your mod, "Base" is the class for all zomboid stuff, you can make up your own or even use multiple, usually it is a shorthand version of your mod name. It prevents conflicts by isolating what you add under another layer.

You did a call that was Base.Revolver, if someone else added a revolver and they mod was MY COOL GUNS, it might be MCG.Revolver for theirs, for example

It is important that it is unique and not something like 'MyMod'

[tawdry solar]

fuck

[elfin stump]

or it could conflict with other mods, the more you work on this stuff the more you will see how people are tagging their work

[tawdry solar]

my code doesnt work

[balmy swan]

Yeah, I noticed that the mods all have .FBX. The game itself loads the .X animations fine, I just can't call them via LUA. A little bit annoying if I need to redo them in blender, but eh, what can you do

[tawdry solar]

module Base {
   item Manhole {
        DisplayCategory = Heavy,
        Weight = 10,0,
        Type = Normal,
        DisplayName = manhole,
        Icon = manhole,
        WorldStaticModel = manhole,
    }
}

this code is right?

[crystal terrace]

typo in weight value?

[tawdry solar]

huh?

there isnt

wait

there i

[elfin stump]

It is hard to say, there may be a way to do it with the .x, but if someone has proven the fbx works it might be less painful to go that route in the end.

[covert carbon]

how are you all putting a box around your code

[tawdry solar]

i got this

[elfin stump]

the tilde ` on both sides of it

[tawdry solar]

it was in a subfolder

[balmy swan]

three 's and then ending with three `s

[elfin stump]

or i guess tildes cousin.. which I don't know what it is called haha

[balmy swan]

Got it working! Apparently you had to put the files in a specific subfolder, rather than in just anims_x and animsets

[covert carbon]

okay so I took this code and whenever my character is supposed to die, I get an error. It says my setoverallhealth thing is wrong.

    local x = ZombRand(6)
    if x == 5 then
        player:setOverallBodyHealth(float OverallBodyHealth)
    end
end```

[elfin stump]

Nice! For people struggling in the future, which folder did it need to go into?

[balmy swan]

Good point! It's a stupid mistake, but emote XMLs need to be in AnimSets>player>emote

...I figured putting it in AnimSets alone was enough, bad user error

[elfin stump]

Nice! Good find!

[elfin stump]

Try player:setOverallBodyHealth(0) instead of player:setOverallBodyHealth(float OverallBodyHealth)

[covert carbon]

what were floats again?

[elfin stump]

a number with a decimal that can grow

[covert carbon]

oh wait sorry I was using a template. I used to have it at 0

one sec

[elfin stump]

for lua INT for counting things, indexing etc, and float is your precise number like 0.10023023232

[covert carbon]

I tried and it gave me error

[elfin stump]

you might not have a reference to the player, let me check

function RussianRoulette(items, result, player) instead of function RussianRoulette()

(items, result, player) get passed when you call a function from a recipe, so you have access to those things in your code

[tawdry solar]

hey guys if i make a craft recipie how do i make an amount of an item be used and remove one type of item

like this for the amount

then it dissapears when used

[elfin stump]

recipe Recover Needles From Syrettes { keep otherItem = 1, SpentSyrette=20, Result:Needle=20, Time:120, OnCreate:CDCRR_RecoverNeedle }

thats an example there where the 1 item stays and the 20 items are used and produce 20 new items @tawdry solar

[tawdry solar]

ah

[tawdry solar]

module Base
{
      
    
        recipe Prepare Flamethrower Fuel
    {
     propanefueltloutankempty,
     propanefueltlou,
   

      Result:propanefueltloutank,
      Time:100.0,
      Category:Survivalist,
    }
}   

Where do i add the units for this then

our code is a bit different

[covert carbon]

    local x = ZombRand(6)
    if x == 5 then
        player:setOverallBodyHealth(0)
    end
end```

This look about right?

[elfin stump]

propanefueltloutankempty = 1, propanefueltlou = 20, if you want to require 20 of the second item

As you see, you can leave off the = and it defaults to 1

[tawdry solar]

ty

can i just leave the = 1 if i need just 1

[elfin stump]

Yes that should work just fine

[tawdry solar]

aight

[bronze yoke]

keep in mind that lua doesn't actually have different number types (it only has number) and kahlua will automatically convert them to whatever type the method wants

[covert carbon]

Is this code right?

[elfin stump]

That is true, I misspoke there, the underlying java is typed so when looking at the docs you might see "float" or "int" - float is a more accurate number that is used in a variety of programming languages and int is more often used for counting but @bronze yoke is absolutely right, LUA just has the one number type without extending.

[tawdry solar]

{
    model manhole
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/manhole,
        texture = WorldItems/manhole,
        scale = 0.01,
    }
}

This shit is right?

[elfin stump]

Looks good

[covert carbon]

doesnt work for some reason

debug menu has a few lines highlighted

[elfin stump]

Do you get the error on start up or when you run the recipe?

[turbid crypt]

If you lose russian roulette, "setoverallbodyhealth=0"
That's ridiculously funny for some reason

[covert carbon]

So its russian roulette, meaning that the chances of dying are 1 in 6. Whenever I do the recipe and I am not supposed to die, nothing happens (which is good). But whenever I get unlucky and I am supposed to die, I am sent to the debug menu with this

[elfin stump]

Press the Button that looks liek this |> at the top and scroll... down I think? To see the error

[bronze yoke]

i think you can just call player:die()

i think setoverallbodyhealth is on bodydamage not isoplayer

[elfin stump]

ohhh yep good catch on that

[elfin stump]

you could try the player:die() that albion mentioned instead of trying to access body parts, if you end up accessing body parts you are just a few lines of actuallly drawing blood and lodging a bullet etc which I think would be a good option too.

[turbid crypt]

Would anyone have any guidance or a better resource for the discord integration in general? I seem to have it set up properly, it discovers and initializes the discord connection, and broadcasts /all messages from in game to the channel, but cannot send anything from the discord channel to in-game

[covert carbon]

okay so it worked this time but it still popped up with an error. I think it was trying to access my inventory even though I was dead. But I know how to fix this

thank you albion and Phil

[elfin stump]

Nice!

[tawdry solar]

the fuck

why is the texture like that

???

im goin to bed

[elfin stump]

Not sure but that looks like it is trying to tell you that it cannot find the texture

[tawdry solar]

But it should be able to

The code points it to the file and folder

[elfin stump]

Can you show the contents of WorldItems and also the entire script?

[turbid crypt]

not sure how you cut the picture but the manhole.png isn't in worlditems

[tawdry solar]

Not rn

I'm going to sleep

[elfin stump]

K see ya!

[tawdry solar]

The one in world items is called manhole.png too

The other one is an ico

[turbid crypt]

ah, sorry

Just including console in case it helps at all. Discord integration bot seems to be set up properly, broadcasts /all messages in-game to the channel, but will not broadcast anything from the discord channel to in-game

Console sees the message in the discord channel but doesn't send anything.
Send message = "" for solusb33p3rz

[covert carbon]

nice

okay so my code works but the game says that there is an error in the bottom right. Would it be wrong of me to keep it this way or should I try and not have the popup

[elfin stump]

You should fix it if you want people to feel confident using your mod. I would recommend instead of setting the health on the player, to instead call the body part for the head and then damage that, not dead, but terminal, so the player would shoot themself, they would die and bleed out, maybe it would take them a half a second or less but your code could run and deliver the gun into their inventory without throwing the error that way.

[bronze yoke]

i've heard the discord integration doesn't work great

[covert carbon]

ok

[bronze yoke]

it might be something that broke over time

[crystal terrace]

i thought i fixed the animation with bottle being upside down while drinking but nope, does anyone know how to fix that?

[turbid crypt]

It's got a mistype buried in the ini basically, the in game settings ask you to use channel ID first and then use channel name, but in the ini they're reversed

I figured that out and got this far but it probably is just jank 😦

[covert carbon]

is there a way for my russian roulette thing to not be seen on the crafting menu but only on the drop down for when you right click a gun?

[elfin stump]

I do not believe so, it will appear on the crafting menu as long as you are using the recipe mechanics I believe

[turbid crypt]

Would there be any way to do it via the "custom context" option available on the different handgun items? I don't know what i'm talking about almost at all, just spitballing

[crystal terrace]

this is how its being displayed while drinking

[elfin stump]

Absolutely, that would be a great way to do it too, but that system is a bit more advanced that the recipes. It would be good approach tho.

[covert carbon]

what custom context

[turbid crypt]

So you'd have to rebuild the actual russian roulette math as a context action, like a duplicate of "drink"

[covert carbon]

im 1 day into coding lol. How do you make a context action?

[elfin stump]

Yeah, Drink is a TimedAction, and is called from a context.

[turbid crypt]

Same boat, I just started with a silly tutorial that changed what I was trying to do into making a coca cola lol, noticed all items have a "custom context" option and all the pop bottles had "drink,"

Sounds like you'd essentially edit the guns that you can play russian roulette with to include the custom context. and then just go into the rabbit hole for making the context

[elfin stump]

Contexts are located here: common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\Context to get you started on that

[bronze yoke]

you'd have to make your own timed action (or just roll immediately when they click it)

[covert carbon]

time for another 7 hours of learning to code

[elfin stump]

^^ This is great advice. If you did not use a timed action then players could kill themself accidently very easily. Timed action and recipe allows you to abort before the bang.

[covert carbon]

I remember messing with that gun suicide mod and I would just cancel the death right before the action ended

[elfin stump]

Yep, those little features are key, having a sudden bang if you misclick in your inventory could be bad

[bronze yoke]

i've done some hacky stuff to make actions uncancelable

so that sort of thing can be avoided

[covert carbon]

okay so quick question

the recipe file is a txt file

I looked up the code and it looks like java

is it?

[elfin stump]

No it is just a config file, more like JSON or something

For everything you are doing you shouldn't have to leave LUA land

[tranquil kindle]

Is there a general rule on how much % repair fixers do in game, is it set somewhere, or is it just order in which they're set that defines % repaired?

[elfin stump]

unsure, but knowing PZ it probably is not straight forward and likely has a bunch of logic connected to it that would check the condition of hte player, their skill, condition of item being repaired and all of that.

[crystal terrace]

its lua if you are talking about context codes

[elfin stump]

If I were you I would try the other bottle real quick and make sure that isn't why it exists. Otherwise you may need to adjust the model... or maybe there are other options than just scale? I don't know about that tho.

[crystal terrace]

i tried the other bottle it made it so when i drop on ground it was placed like other bottles in-game but the drinking upside down thingy is with both the models.

from model script i saw something called "offset" which just rotates the object around its vertical axes, very confused although im pretty sure others might have faced the same issue. Are you familiar with any other mods that might have just added stuff like this? i can look at the code there maybe

[elfin stump]

I think Saphhs Cooking would be an option, if I remember it has a bunch of custom 3d items that you can see during use like that.

[crystal terrace]

just found the popBottle model script, looks like nothing i can do with model script they have the same one.

[crystal terrace]

ill check that one, thanks

[elfin stump]

I found this in the models_item.txt in vanilla

`model Trowel
{
mesh = Trowel,

    attachment world
    {
        offset = 0.0000 0.1020 0.0000,
        rotate = 0.0000 -90.0000 0.0000,
    }
}`

have you tried that format to see if you can offset and spin it?

[crystal terrace]

ill give it a try, earlier i tweaked all vals of rotate to see if affects anything at all

[elfin stump]

I am curious how it goes, I haven't tried messing with that before

[crystal terrace]

i did offset, it turned my bottle by a bit so the logo wasnt visible just the red label on it

[elfin stump]

nice! if ya got a response then it is all about tuning now

keep in mind, we don't know the 3d system, if you change everything it is possible you could rotate it all back onto itself and into the same spot. I would recommend targeting one at a time.

[crystal terrace]

aight, i have a strong feeling rotate might be it ill check a bunch of values. Btw idk if we can reload scripts from debug mode without restarting the game? ik we can do lua files but not sure if i could find any scripts in there

[bronze yoke]

it should reload them when you do a full lua reset

[crystal terrace]

wow thats handy ty

[elfin stump]

Is the main menu the only place you can do the full lua reset?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

it would break a lot of stuff entirely to do it midgame

[elfin stump]

k, thanks, I kinda forgot that existed even though I used it a lot in the past. I forgot where it was until you mentioned it now haha

Right thats true, is there any way to reset the lua of an entire mod group do you know?

[bronze yoke]

like reload all the files from a mod? don't think so, a utility could be created for that though

i'd usually take the work on myself but i don't usually reload files myself so it wouldn't help me much

[elfin stump]

Ah cool, the only way I know is one at a time reloads and that reload all. I wasn't able to select more than one or anything like, no biggie but wanted to check on that one.

[elfin stump]

Is there an event that runs the moment someone opens a loot container?

[crystal terrace]

no luck with rotate modifier

[elfin stump]

Ah bummer, I will be toying with that a bit more later today or tomorrow cause I am doing a similiar thing so I will let ya know if I find anything.

[plain crane]

Someone lend me your brain. Trying to rotate the sword on player model but it doesn't seem to work after inputting this code.
I'm sure it's something obvious yet I don't see it. Probably from being sleep deprived

[covert carbon]

setting the rotations to negative numbers probably doesnt work (I have no experience whatsoever in models so im just spitballing).

[elfin stump]

^ Yep that is a great place to start

[covert carbon]

[elfin stump]

Don't know for sure tho how that all works but thats where I would go with it

[covert carbon]

If those roation numbers are based on 360 degrees then just do
rotate = 225.0000 270.0000 0.0000,

[crystal terrace]

sweet

[crystal terrace]

play with offset values

im pretty sure that rotates objects around vertical axes

[plain crane]

I'mma try that

[covert carbon]

okay I took a break from coding earlier and I am getting back at it

I am kind of stuck

how do I even begin making a context menu

[elfin stump]

Anyone have a list of all the item Types for Type = and eat types for EatType = ?

[bronze yoke]

Normal, Weapon, Food, Literature, Drainable, Clothing, Container, WeaponPart, Key, Moveable, Radio, AlarmClock, AlarmClockClothing, Map

[elfin stump]

Nice! Any chance you know if there is documentation for these so I can see what properties I can use with which? Like Weapon wouldn't have EatType right? Do you know of a good place to find that info?

[covert carbon]

can, 2handforced, Bowl, Mug, Pot, Kettle, Bourbon, BleachBottle, Pot, 2handbowl, popcan, bottle, 2hand, plate, Can

that is what I got I could be 100% wrong

I don't know where to start with context menus

[elfin stump]

Sweet I will try those out and see if any of them work for what I am doing

[bronze yoke]

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

[elfin stump]

Awesom!

[covert carbon]

whats that

oh nvm

[elfin stump]

Content menus are a way to make custom text pop up that can be applied to a lot of things included recipes and timed actions. If you are wanting to get your russian roulette off the crafting menu, and make only callable from a context menu, then you will be looking into Timed Actions

[covert carbon]

where would I find out how to do those

[bronze yoke]

it technically doesn't have to be a timed action, you could just roll when they click it, but that'd be prettier

[covert carbon]

Is there a site that explains context menus and all of that or is this just stuff you find out

[bronze yoke]

mr bounty's guide might have it

otherwise probably not

[elfin stump]

Oh cool. Do you have an example of how that works? Calling a function directly from a context menu?

[covert carbon]

what is that

[bronze yoke]

adding a timedaction from the context menu requires you to call a function from it to add it anyway

[bronze yoke]

https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-Mod---Doc/tree/main has a lot of useful stuff, doesn't look like it has context menu though

[covert carbon]

😦

how do I make a context menu?

[crystal terrace]

its a guess, try copying one and modify a bunch of options from vanilla files and keep the structure same and the name of the files should be same as in-game. Ofc i don't fully understand how it works just a direction to work with.

[elfin stump]

I don't know how to make a context menu and call a function from it. But you could make a timed action and then activate that from a context menu. The context menu in that case would appear because it is connected to the timed action, like how the recipe appears when you right click on it. Someone may know how to do it another way but otherwise I would look into ...common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\TimedActions and check the github link that albion shared for the bit on timed actions.

[covert carbon]

ok thanks

[limpid grail]

Mod idea: fuel storage silo
Crafting material:
12x metal sheets
12x metal pipe
1x valve
1x tap

Lootable/readable:
Required silo crafting manual

Capacity : 1000 fuel units

Ability to fuel cars if close enough to silo

Possible to make different sizes with different material requirements and storage capacity

[covert carbon]

👍

[limpid grail]

I can't create it because I don't know the first thing about making mods but maybe someone will like the Idea enough to create it

[covert carbon]

If I finish my Russian Roulette mod (pray I dont go insane) I will give it a try lol

[crystal terrace]

there's already one for this tho

[limpid grail]

That's a trailer, not a silo

[covert carbon]

I think he means a stationary silo

[limpid grail]

Yeah like the ones on farms that hold grain and stuff

[vagrant valley]

There is fuel API or some other fuel mods

[crystal terrace]

no worries i just thought you need something to that could handle gas supplies like that

[bronze yoke]

there's a mod that adds a fuel barrel that sort of behaves like this

[limpid grail]

At the moment I use the military truck with the huge gas tank

[covert carbon]

im looking at timed actions and the word "self" is brought up a lot. Sometimes self is used as a parameter and I cant find out what it is.

[limpid grail]

You can't directly fuel your car from the barrel though, you could also put a craft able fuel pump with silo to make your own at base gas station

[covert carbon]

how do you check if an item is in a person's inventory

not as a recipe

[reef portal]

local inventory = IsoPlayer:getInventory();
local items = inventory:getItems();

then loop thru the items?

[covert carbon]

thx

[reef portal]

you can do a type comparison with e.g.

item:getStringItemType() == "Ammo"

or for the full item name

item:getFullType()

which will return something like Base.ItemName

[covert carbon]

I understand 0 about timed actions

[reef portal]

unfortunately I don't know much about them either

I'm working on an NPC framework and they seem to work when you create a new one, feed it the right variables and add it to a queue

tho maybe theres some code by the Cows (the main author on the npc framework) that is doing something im unaware of

--- WIP - Cows: Need to clean up the ISTimedActionQueue queues eventually...
---@param npcSurvivor any
---@param npcQueueAction any
function PZNS_UtilsNPCs.PZNS_AddNPCActionToQueue(npcSurvivor, npcQueueAction)
    if (npcSurvivor == nil or npcQueueAction == nil) then
        return;
    end
    -- Cows: Perhaps add a check for how many actions are in queue? Automatic cleanup and updates will keep the NPCs responsive.
    local actionsCount = PZNS_UtilsNPCs.PZNS_GetNPCActionsQueuedCount(npcSurvivor);
    local actionsQueueLimit = 30;

    if (actionsCount < actionsQueueLimit) then
        ISTimedActionQueue.add(npcQueueAction);
    else
        PZNS_UtilsNPCs.PZNS_ClearQueuedNPCActions(npcSurvivor);
    end
end

this is mostly cows code

but this function I can call and add actions too

but it seems to be

IsTimedActionQueue.add(action);

doing the work

then you create new actions like this

-- load mags and then reload the mags into gun
local loadMag = ISLoadBulletsInMagazine:new(npcSurvivor.npcIsoPlayerObject, mag, count);
PZNS_UtilsNPCs.PZNS_AddNPCActionToQueue(npcSurvivor.npcIsoPlayerObject, loadMag);

you just gotta look at the vanilla code for the ISTimedAction Actions

[hollow current]

Any idea why a world item would display as its icon when placed on the ground instead of its 3d model? I had a mod that added an item and it utilized a 3d model. It was working fine -- until it stopped doing so and 3d model no longer appears, and only the icon does, when its placed on the ground. I am not sure if its a recent update that causes that or I mistakenly messed something up in the mod (not that I made any recent changes to it anyways)

[bronze yoke]

there is no 'recent update'

[vagrant valley]

Did you define the world model for the item?

[bronze yoke]

pz has not received an update this year

[vagrant valley]

Something called attachment world

[hollow current]

not sure what you're referreing to, but I guess you're talking about this?

module Base
{
    model Jumpstarter_Ground
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/Jumpstarter,
        scale = 0.001,
        texture = JumpstarterTexture,
    }
}```

If so, then ye I did. Like I said, it did work fine before

I could try to revert to an older version maybe and see if I mistakenly messed up anything. My most recent update just messes with distributions

ye reverting to an older version seems to have fixed it.

not sure what was the issue tbh but not gonna question it lol

[crystal terrace]

if there's no 3-d model i think it looks for 2d model

[tawdry solar]

Texture

It doesn't know where to look

For model it has WorldItems/

[hollow current]

I found the issue. I was trying to change the texture during the same game session and apparently when you do that it doesn't show you the 3d model, i.e. I have to restart the game after each texture change

Thought it'd work like code where lua just resets after each save load

[hollow current]

soo I added a new item but only after that I realised I want it to be placeable as some kind of a furniture - rather than having it just be placed and still display as some kind of an object that is dropped on the ground. I looked into vanilla code and apparently those are defined as moveables, and they use sprites. I was wondering if that's really necessary and if there's another approach to it considering I never actually worked with sprites. I already have an implemented 3d model of that item in-game -- If I absloutely have to do it with sprites, can someone point me towards the guide/right place to learn about it? Thanks :)

[bronze yoke]

i don't think there are 3d movables

radios used to be sprites but are now mostly models, maybe it could work like those?

[hollow current]

hmm lemme see how those work

i mean, technically they're still the same issue - can place on ground like other stuff but will show in the nearby inventory a dropped item

nope. they do not if I place using the build menu

apparently they use sprites tho too

oki so I assume at the end of the day sprites are not sth I can avoid for something like this -- Is it possible to just generate the sprite using the 3d model? not sure how they work honestly lol

[covert carbon]

Everybody in the mod dev chat please go to sleep if you are EST.

[cunning dome]

A sprite is literally just a 2d picture.

So you can orient your 3d model in each of the 4 cardinal directions and take a snapshot of it, cut it to size and make sure the transparency is set right.

Might need to adjust the resolution too.

[bronze yoke]

just two directions usually

you'd probably need to play with fov and stuff to get it to look just right isometrically, i know at least one of the big tilesets is made this way so if you ask around you might find someone who knows the setup

[fast galleon]

I'm sure I have seen a guide for this. Maybe this?
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/35493-blender-template-for-creating-custom-pz-tiles/

[hollow current]

aaaaaah i'll look into it but probably will end up lazying out and just making it into a normal 3d model after all

thanks for all the assistance though

really appreciate it :)

By the way, is any event called when a player finds a specific item through foraging? Need to set something in its moddata once its found

[bronze yoke]

could onFillSearchIconContextMenu work?

onUpdateIcon might work too, i was never able to work out exactly how it behaves

[hollow current]

hmm will test out with both

[bronze yoke]

if it's an item that can only be found through foraging, you could also just do it in the oncreate

that's how fishing works

[hollow current]

It's indeed an item that can only be found via foraging but not sure which event you're talking about since none of them seem relevant

[bronze yoke]

it's not an event but a script property

(also the wiki's event list is missing several events and shouldn't be used as a judge of this 😅)

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

if the moddata is always the same value for all instances of the item you could even set it in the script

[hollow current]

I am basically trying to set a table that contains the day and hour an item was found. In my case, im working with frogs lol

[bronze yoke]

in that case oncreate is suitable

[hollow current]

hm ye. I am still not sure about something tho - do I just hook it and edit it as needed?

it seems weird that OnCreate isn't an event

[bronze yoke]

you list the name of the function as the item's OnCreate and it calls that function when that item is created

[hollow current]

huh so each item supposedly has (or could have) an OnCreate? how exactly can they be set?

so assuming I have a function

funtion arendameth.OnFrogCreate()
  print("test")
end```

how do I list it as an item's onCreate?

[bronze yoke]

in the item's script

OnCreate = arendameth.OnFrogCreate

[hollow current]

oh its defined in the script of the item

I see

well that's super useful. Thanks so much!

[tranquil kindle]

Does anyone have an idea where i can find anything related to firearms spawning on zombie back (like police zombies somethimes spawn with shotguns on thier back, or as time progresses some zombies have rifles on their backs)?

[neon bronze]

I think thats BodyLocations.lua

[tranquil kindle]

Not exacly what i was looking for, but because of your lead i was able to find AttachedWeaponDefinitions.lua and i think thats exacly what im looking for, so thank you very much.

[dull oxide]

Hey all,

I’m new to Project Zomboid modding.

I’m trying to change the player’s blood and dirt values but for some reason it’s not working.

I’m doing getPlayer():getHumanVisual():setBlood(part, 0)

The funny thing is if I print the current value before that change and then print again the getValue after the change, the console shows the new value. But the in-game model still has blood on them.

Not sure what’s going on.

[neon bronze]

I would suggest to look how washing erases blood and dirt from clothes

May need an update of the model

[dull oxide]

how do I check the game's original wash function code?

Even the debug panel has issues with that, using the sliders to change blood doesn't work, but the button "add random" works. And the "zero all" button also doesn't work. It's weird

[neon bronze]

Its a timed action so its somewhere in your client folder

[dull oxide]

Cool. I will check that later. Thanks for the info!

[turbid crypt]

would anyone know where the code exists that lets you smash the beer bottle into a weapon?

[neon bronze]

its a recipe

[turbid crypt]

Ty, it's literally the very first recipe lol

If I'm adding my modded item to an existing recipe, does my mod have to include the original 4 ways to make the smashed bottle?

Keep in mind I have no idea on the real file structure yet 😦 just following a tutorial that's sorta out of date

[neon bronze]

Yes

[turbid crypt]

When adding a custom sound into my item for "CustomEatSound =" it seems to play the bottle cap opening sound over and over and over for the entire length of the drink animation. Would anyone know what a remedy for that would be?

[crystal terrace]

@turbid crypt Sounds are looped, I'd suggest just add drinking sound instead of bottle opening. I didn't look too much into it for now hopefully there's a fix.

[turbid crypt]

Interesting 🤔

So aim for any custom sounds to match the time on timed actions?

[crystal terrace]

It's what philjherman suggested to me earlier, I tried to increase the duration of sound but I don't think it helped. But you can try let me know if it works

As for time wrt game, I believe each 20 unit in game is about a sec irl

[bronze yoke]

48 units to a second

[crystal terrace]

You think it might work? @bronze yoke with looped sounds?

[turbid crypt]

two issues pop up quickly, the bottlecap noise plays everytime even if it's already been opened.

And I assume the timed action of drinking the full bottle of soda and drinking 1/2 of it are slightly different times

Unless I made a custom sound for both drinking half of it, and drinking all of it, it gets icky 😦

[crystal terrace]

Here's a suggestion, maybe checkout vanilla sound files for drinking and see how they did it.

[bronze yoke]

i think they actually take the same amount of time

[crystal terrace]

Also look at sound script while you're at it

Yes both take same time you're right

[bronze yoke]

if you want the bottlecap noise to only play once maybe play it separately from the action's main sound

[turbid crypt]

I can't actually find the default sound attached to the beerbottle, "DrinkingFromBottleGlass"

not in media\sound

[neon bronze]

Its probably an event sound

Vanilla sounds are defined a bit differently than your average sounds

[bronze yoke]

vanilla sounds are in FMOD soundbanks

a lot of them are still in the loose files because... idk? they didn't clean those up yet i guess?

[turbid crypt]

Would that be going off what haram said and making the bottlecap pop be an event of some kind?

Is an FMOD like a compiled pack of game assets?

[bronze yoke]

fmod is the sound engine they switched to in b41

[turbid crypt]

ah

[neon bronze]

I dont think you can make your own sounds attached to an event

[bronze yoke]

custom soundbanks aren't possible

[neon bronze]

Its over.

: (

[crystal terrace]

@neon bronze watched your tutorial, great stuff

[bronze yoke]

there's not really much point to having them anyway

[neon bronze]

my tutorial?

[crystal terrace]

Wait you don't have it on YouTube?

[bronze yoke]

nothing you can't do with loose files, and i doubt many of us have fmod tools to create them anyway

[neon bronze]

tutorial for what?

[crystal terrace]

Mods

[neon bronze]

can you be more specific a bit?

[crystal terrace]

My bad then I'm mistaking your for someone else

[turbid crypt]

Ultimately been going off of this to get an idea to start anything in general https://youtu.be/N6tZujOPnDw

[neon bronze]

i honestly dont remember making a guide

so maybe you saw someone else

thanks for the message anyways

[turbid crypt]

Using coca-cola instead, guides a bit outdated, came out before distributions were all procedural so that's still on my list

[crystal terrace]

I feel stupid lol l, it was Duran gaming guy. Idk why had a strong feeling that it was "Haram gaming" Somehow. They have a YT tutorial for making mods, explained very well.

[neon bronze]

you can use this to make your own that you could then attach to your item
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Sound_Script_Guide

[sinful scaffold]

Can recipes yield multiple different items?

[worthy sparrow]

Like when dismantling a radio? (speaker, electronic scrap, receiver, ...)

[mild tundra]

Hello, just started with zomboid modding. Is there a proper documentation that I can read on for pz functions

[worthy sparrow]

You have to use the OnCreate and pass a LUA function that spawns additional items, atleast thats what I see possible atm, im not an expert in pz modding.

[turbid crypt]

PZwiki.net has an absolute ton of the lua functions

[worthy sparrow]

Hi,
check those:
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/

[turbid crypt]

second this person, not one single vanilla recipe appears to result in more than one type of item, even the recipes that have you reclaim an item are done with OnCreate like Feew said

Like getting your stick back when you take the various edged weapons off of it

[sinful scaffold]

Thanks! I imagine I would put the lua file on /shared/?

[worthy sparrow]

Yes

[tawdry solar]

module Base

{   
   item manhole
    {
        DisplayCategory = Tool,
        Weight = 0.3,
        Type = Normal,
        UseWhileEquipped = FALSE,
        DisplayName = manhole,
        Icon = manhole,
        Tooltip = a manhole where does it lead to?,
        SurvivalGear = TRUE,
        WorldStaticModel = manhole,
    }

        model manhole
                {
                mesh = WorldItems/manhole,
                texture = WorldItems/manhole,
                scale = 0.003,
                                attachment world
                {
                offset = 0.0000 0.1500 0.1500,
                        rotate = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
                }
            }
}

[tardy wren]

How can I make a piece of code run cyclically? What I mean is, I need to invalidate a cache, and don't want to check every update. Do I run it like... Every hour?

Alternatively, a piece of code delayed by a specific amount of time

[covert carbon]

Is there an issue with this function? I am attempting to create a timed function.

    local x = return self.surgeon:getInventory():FindAndReturn('Revolver' or 'Revolver_Long' or  'Revolver_Short')
    local y = return self.surgeon:getInventory():FindAndReturn('Base.Bullets38')
    if x == true then
        if y == true then
            return true;
        end
    end
end```

[neon bronze]

Remove the returns

And just make if x and y then return true

[covert carbon]

    local x = self.surgeon:getInventory():FindAndReturn('Revolver' or 'Revolver_Long' or  'Revolver_Short')
    local y = self.surgeon:getInventory():FindAndReturn('Base.Bullets38')
    if x and y then
        return true;
    end
end```

This look about right?

[neon bronze]

Remove the == true part

It will check if x and y actually exist and if they do it will return true

[covert carbon]

so like that?

[covert carbon]

I edited it, didnt want to keep repasting it

[neon bronze]

Yea

[covert carbon]

holy shit I didnt get an error

thank you so much

[neon bronze]

👍

[turbid crypt]

Have you thought about a benefit to your player if you're lucky enough to win russian roulette lol?

[covert carbon]

They live

[neon bronze]

You get to live? I thinl thats a big benefit

[covert carbon]

But that might be a good idea to give them something small.

[turbid crypt]

Lol I was gonna say something like adrenaline rush or temp skill ups but that's fair

[tardy wren]

Reloading skill

[neon bronze]

Aiming skill

[tardy wren]

Boredom and depression removal?

[covert carbon]

you are guarantied headshots within 2 blocks if you survived russian roulette 5 times

How would print work in zomboid?

where will my thing be printed

like print("Hello World")

where would Hello World be printed

hello world

I found a secret

[neon bronze]

To your console

[covert carbon]

Where can I find the console

Im in debug mode rn

[turbid crypt]

spiffo be friendly 👀

[covert carbon]

just say Hello World and it happens

[neon bronze]

Yea its tje tjing in your lower left corner that looks like a window

[covert carbon]

The thing called "watch window" ?

[turbid crypt]

called command console for me

has my debug stoofs

[covert carbon]

Its in the f11 debug menu right?

[turbid crypt]

wow thats comprehensive

but no, just in the bottom left of normal gameplay

[covert carbon]

oh okay

[covert carbon]

okay so I am trying to introduce my timed action into the code but it will keep giving me an error everytime I reload my lua.
ISTimedActionQueue.add(MyTimedActionx:new(player))

[hollow lodge]

hey, how does the <subItems> function work? I'm trying to preset some clothing combinations for outfits but I don't want some items appearing with each other

[neon bronze]

You need to save the timedAction in a local var and then add it to the queue

[covert carbon]

ISTimedActionQueue.add(timedx)```

oh wait one second

sorry

[neon bronze]

No you need to pack the :new call in the var

[covert carbon]

this work?

[neon bronze]

Should

[covert carbon]

It popped up with an error and wont let me leave the debug menu. I'll try and mess with it to see if I can fix it

[neon bronze]

Maybe im wrong

I dont remember exactly how you do those

Whats the error?

[covert carbon]

I am looking in the debug menu. It's highlighting the line with
local timedx = MyTimedActionx:new(player)

I might have figured it out one second

[crystal terrace]

    {
         recipe Open Nuka Cola
        {
            NukaCola,

            Result:NukaCola=1,
            Sound:NukaColaOpen,
            Time:5.0,
        }
    } 
     ```

Is my recipe alright? i do see option to open Nuka Cola but the action cancels itself right away

[turbid crypt]

it looks like you're just creating the same nukacola again

[mild tundra]

There's a method to get closest vehicle window, but is there a way to get the closest vehicle door?

[turbid crypt]

Don't you need an additional item to actually be the open nuka cola?

[crystal terrace]

i can try to replace it with something else to see if it works before i go further

not sure, its upto you tho if you an item or not for your recipe

[turbid crypt]

yeah it's not cancelling itself, you're just immediately creating the same item you started with

[crystal terrace]

still if it were to run successfully, i should hear the sound and time bar doesnt even run for the duration

[turbid crypt]

didn't notice the time :/

get rid of the quantity as wel

none of the existing recipes specify =1 if they result in 1

[crystal terrace]

you were right

it did work but no sound or time bar for it maybe 5 is too fast to notice

i replaced it wirth two empty bottles and it worked

but still need to work on sound tho

[turbid crypt]

#mod_development message

existing recipe shows opening condensed milk with a canopener is 80 for time

Albion on point

[covert carbon]

I think I fucked up

[turbid crypt]

sublight coding with that wingding pack

[covert carbon]

I fixed it

we are back at english

I just want my timed action to work 😦

[crystal terrace]

awesome

just tweaked time for action about 48 which equals to 1 sec irl aka time duration of my sound clip

now i think this might be the fix for bottle opening, now i can open bottle with recipe and consume it with gulp sound as well

[covert carbon]

okay it tells me I have an error and points at it but doesnt bother to elaborate

"This here is the issue but I wont explain the error it makes"

[turbid crypt]

That's a super neat workaround I'll have to look into that to get better with stuff

Is there an existing bottleopener junk item you could need by chance?

[crystal terrace]

i doubt it but until you can design one yourself you can jsut open it without anything

as far you know how stuff works, models can be worked up on later

[covert carbon]

I am actually stuck

ISTimedActionQueue.add(MyTimedActionx:new(player))
this is what I need to call my timed action into my code. It keeps playing back an error

[dark wedge]

What does the error say? Does "MyTimedActionx" actually exist?

[neon bronze]

How do you get the player

[covert carbon]

It says error in the bottom right and highlights the
ISTimedActionQueue.add(MyTimedActionx:new(player)) section. Im not sure how to actually know what the error is. MyTimedActionx exists. I have a file for MyTimedActionx

[neon bronze]

What does it say in the error log?

[dark wedge]

Click the "Errors" button in the debug window to pull up the log. Check the error log as well.

Also, you said "I have a file for MyTimedActionx", but what is in this file? Did you defineMyTimedActionx globally? From a glance, i'm betting that MyTimedActionx is not defined wherever you are attempting to call this TimedAction and its throwing an error. Share some code and we can help a bit better.

[covert carbon]

MyTimedActionx = ISBaseTimedAction:derive("MyTimedAction");

function MyTimedAction:isValid() -- Check if the action can be done
    return true;
end


function MyTimedActionx:update() -- Trigger every game update when the action is perform
    print("Action is update");
end

function MyTimedActionx:waitToStart() -- Wait until return false
    return false;
end

function MyTimedActionx:start() -- Trigger when the action start
    print("Action start");
end

function MyTimedActionx:stop() -- Trigger if the action is cancel
    print("Action stop");
    ISBaseTimedAction.stop(self);
end

function MyTimedActionx:perform() -- Trigger when the action is complete
    print("Action perform");
    ISBaseTimedAction.perform(self);
end

function MyTimedActionx:new(character) -- What to call in you code
    local o = {};
    setmetatable(o, self);
    self.__index = self;
    o.character = character;
    o.maxTime = 30; -- Time take by the action
    if o.character:isTimedActionInstant() then o.maxTime = 1; end
    return o;
end```

This is MyTimedActionx file. I copied the format from a tutorial and was seeing if I could make it run in my code.

Im extremely new to coding so I probably made a mistake

[dark wedge]

MyTimedActionx = ISBaseTimedAction:derive("MyTimedAction");

That should be:

MyTimedActionx = ISBaseTimedAction:derive("MyTimedActionx");

You also have:

function MyTimedAction:isValid() -- Check if the action can be done
    return true;
end

Make sure everything has the correct name of MyTimedActionx
Otherwise, it looks fine

[covert carbon]

I fixed those two and it is bringing up errors still.

[dark wedge]

Actually, in your new function, change it to:

function MyTimedActionx:new(character) -- What to call in you code
    local o = ISBaseTimedAction.new(self, character)
    o.maxTime = 30; -- Time take by the action
    if o.character:isTimedActionInstant() then o.maxTime = 1; end
    return o;
end

You need to still have it define some of the BaseTimedAction stuff

inheritance and all that

[covert carbon]

And I call the timed action with ISTimedActionQueue.add(MyTimedActionx:new(player))

?

[dark wedge]

yes

[neon bronze]

As long as you have the player correctly called

[covert carbon]

how do I correctly call the player?

[dark wedge]

you seem to be using getPlayer() in your code, that's fine

[covert carbon]

I don't think I am

I dont see it in my code

[dark wedge]

actually, how are you calling this TimedAction to begin with? Whats your code for that? because that code in the debug window is not valid at all

[covert carbon]

oh

    local player = getPlayer()
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Revolver_Short")
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Bullets38")
end

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame)

ISTimedActionQueue.add(MyTimedActionx:new(player))```

This is my code. It is supposed to make you spawn with a revolver and bullets. It does that fine. The error comes up with that last line

[neon bronze]

The player is inly defined in the function scope not outside

[dark wedge]

ahhhhhh. yea. that's not going to do anything here.

1. player is not in scope, you're passing nil into your TimedAction
2. This TimedAction is outside of all functions, so it tries to run this on load which is not going to do anything.

You need to trigger your TimedAction from the player's input of somekind. i.e. they click a context menu, or press a button, or something like that.

[covert carbon]

what do you mean "not in scope" ?

[neon bronze]

Its only defined in the space of the function but not outside it

So once the function is done the reference to player is gone

Ie nil

[covert carbon]

oh okay

do any of you all know how to make a context menu?

like right clicking on something and one of those buttons on the drop down menu appear

[neon bronze]

Yea but honestly just make it a keypress event way easier to implement

[covert carbon]

what is that

[neon bronze]

Given you‘ll be spammed with it

An event is triggered when smtj happens in the game or by system and for different things you can attach to those events functions that will run when said event is triggered

[dark wedge]

For the world context menu:

local example = function(player, context, worldobjects, test)
    -- Add a context cption
    local option = context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Turn_On"), TARGET, FUNCTION, PARAM1, PARAM2)
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(example)```
For the Inventory Context menu, you would use the event:
```Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(example)```
In the above, "TARGET" should be who this is going to impact, FUNCTION is the function to call on press, and any PARAM# will be sent to your FUNCTION.

[covert carbon]

This is like the holy grail of what i've been trying to find for the past day

one second

are PARAM1 and PARAM2 required?

[dark wedge]

no.

There are actually 10 PARAMs that you can pass, i just stopped after 2. lol

[covert carbon]

okay this is probably way off but does this look good

function RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame()
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Revolver_Short")
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Bullets38")
end

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame)

function russianroulettegame()
    --i'll put an actual function here later
end

local roulettecontext = function(player, context, worldobjects, test)
    -- Add a context cption
    local option = context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Turn_On"), player, russianroulettegame)
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(roulettecontext)```

[dark wedge]

You can remove that first:

local player = getPlayer()

Nothing that you have will use that anymore, and its not needed.
For RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame, the Event is actually given the index and player:

function RussianRouletteAddItemsOnNewGame(playerIndex, player)
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Revolver_Short")
    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Bullets38")
end

Now it works for local co-op too
But otherwise, it should work. You should see an option on right click in the world that says "Turn On" which will call your russianroulettegame function.

[covert carbon]

what if I only wanted the context to pop up for certain items

[dark wedge]

Then you have to check for those items in your roulettecontext function before calling context:addOption
Check the ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.lua in the game if you want info on how they do this.

Basically, the event is given the list of items that are selected. Check each item in the list for any items that allows your action, and then add the option in the menu.

[covert carbon]

imma go see if I can make it work

would I just need this section?

    if getCore():getGameMode() == "Tutorial" then
        Tutorial1.createInventoryContextMenu(player, isInPlayerInventory, items ,x ,y);
        return;
    end
    if ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.dontCreateMenu then return; end```

I am a little bit confused

[covert carbon]

Is there an issue with this?
player(AddDamage(Head, 95))

I have already defined player as
local player = getPlayer()

I think I fixed the problem, I had set one of my if statements to "=" instead of "=="

[faint jewel]

anyone trying to gets omething commissioned?

[cobalt fiber]

Yes, AddDamage() is a java method, to call a java method, you need to do object:method() , in your case player:AddDamage(Head, 95)

[covert carbon]

Thank you 🙂

I am a little confused. I know that zomboid is both java and lua, but can a single file use both languages?

[cobalt fiber]

well, its complicated

zomboid uses Kahlua

which has a exposer that enables Lua to call java methods

I think albion can explain it a lot better than me, I just know how to use it, not exactly how it works

[covert carbon]

same

I entered coding thinking I could learn

I only know how to do stuff, I cant explain why I do it lol

[cobalt fiber]

I know it has something related to tables and metatables, but that is a bit too much complicated to me

[bronze yoke]

yeah it's metatables all the way down

[covert carbon]

the game is calling an error with this code

    local player = getPlayer()
    local chancetodie = ZombRand(6)
    if chancetodie == 5 then
        player:AddDamage(Head, 95)
    end
end```

Its only when I am supposed to take damage

[bronze yoke]

i don't see AddDamage in isoplayer

[covert carbon]

isoplayer?

[bronze yoke]

the player class

try player:getBodyDamage():AddDamage(BodyPartType.Head, 95)

[cobalt fiber]

It's the Java class that "controls" the player

you can find more info about it here https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/characters/IsoPlayer.html

I would recommend you to take a look on these docs, it helps A LOT

[covert carbon]

kk thank you

[hollow current]

I thought getGameTime():getDay() gets the number of the current day since the beginning day, but apparently it only gets the number of the day in the current month, which is causing certain errors in my calculations. I found getWorldAgeHours which I could use instead but that means extra minor calculations. Is there another function I may have overlooked that directly gets the day number?

[bronze yoke]

that's what i've used in the past

[hollow current]

aah I will write a custom function for it then, thanks

[bronze yoke]

there's getNightsSurvived, i can't remember why that wasn't good for my usecase

so maybe it's good for yours

[hollow current]

I assume getNightsSurvived is relevant only to the amount of night survived by the player. In my calculations I need it in relation to the start day of the game

reason being it being used to calculate certain stuff like so ^

[bronze yoke]

i think it's just nights since the start

otherwise like

nights survived by which player?

it doesn't take an argument or anything

and players have their own method for it

that's what i remember it being when i looked into it anyway

[hollow current]

hmm that's a good point

lemme try to print it rq

ye it seems to have the same result as the custom function I created. Off by a day or so considering one takes into account nights only and the other is hours since beginning

I think I'll rely on the getWorldAgeInHours though since it seems to be more accurate

Thanks :)

[clever wagon]

Dumb question, anyone here have experience with the world editor? I can't open .png or .bmp files now

[covert carbon]

If you are looking for help with world editing I suggest going to the modeling section

#modeling

[tawny pendant]

Is there a comprehensive list of items I can reference? Im having a hard time finding what scrap metal is marked as (I assume Scrapmetal, but I’d rather be sure)

[uneven mauve]

Hello, I am trying to understand how items are spawned on the map, I see distributions.lua defines the chance of items appearing in certain places but I don't get where are those places defined on the map, let's say we have 'candystorage', is it possible to find how many spawned and their coordinates?

[cobalt fiber]

On the vanilla files you can find it, it is media\scripts\items.txt

there's also newitems.txt and some others too, if you search correctly, the scripts folder will have everything you need

[sage magnet]

Hello, I am trying moding this game for the first time, and I don't have a lot of experience.
I have been trying to add new gloves to the game but it doesn't load correctly.

I think it should be related to the icon but I didn't found any issues
What should I do/ look for ?

[covert carbon]

How do you administer an injury onto a certain body part. In my case I need a bullet wound in the head

[tawny pendant]

Ah thanks!

[bronze yoke]

they're the room types set by the mapper, if you enable lootzed you can see which tables a specific container can have

[sage magnet]

I found this in More Trait mod, it could probably help you

[tawny pendant]

Today I learned that Notepad++ doesn’t play nice with how the game reads scripts lol

[covert carbon]

Notepad doesnt understand that we are coding for two languages and for a game with its own functions already set

so yeah it is literally glorified notepad

[covert carbon]

Also thank you so much