mod_development

[bronze yoke]

oh, zombie moddata isn't persistent usually since zombies themselves aren't usually persistent

in the traditional sense anyway

[sour island]

zombies dont save theirs unless they're flagged as a former player

[elder cradle]

Man you guys rock! I wish I came here ealier!

[sour island]

👍

[elder cradle]

To be honest, I've haven't tried yet to set myself up to have access to uncompiled PZ code, so I've been coding blind for now. Still not sure what's the best/easiest way to do that.

[sour island]

I would recommend one of the two annotators

CAPSID is older, but I haven't really worked up the courage to switch over to... umbrella?

Naming the tools after items in game is really nice design - but man I can't remember what each does at all

[bronze yoke]

umbrella won't help you decompile, the annotator is open source but it's distributed as the generated annotations

[sour island]

ah

[bronze yoke]

umbrella is basically the output of a few connected annotator projects

for decompiling i recommend https://github.com/quarantin/beautiful-java , it's a lot less messy to set up than capsid

[sour island]

does it address class inheritances? capsid has that issue

[bronze yoke]

yeah, it does

it also grabs the parameter names from the javadocs

[sour island]

:^o

pz published source license when

[bronze yoke]

oh, and it doesn't show you unexposed stuff

[sour island]

capsid generally doesn't

is umbrella automated entirely?

in terms of updating releases?

[sour island]

ah yeah co`'s stuff is solid

[tepid dawn]

Hellooo

[bronze yoke]

no, it's something i'd like to see but at the moment it's not too actively developed

[sour island]

Jab is the dev right?

[bronze yoke]

for candle, the java annotator, yeah

omar wrote the lua annotator and i wrote the events annotator

[tepid dawn]

Quick question

How can I trigger an event exactly at the middle of a timed action ? In other words how can I fetch the current progress or time of a timed action ?

[sour island]

yall are awesome

[sour island]

If you check IsBaseTimedAction there's a function for it

[tepid dawn]

Thankss

[sour island]

(I think it's update()?)

[elder cradle]

Thanks guys, will look into all that. I'm really bad with setting up setups like that.

[sour island]

Understandable, but honestly - it's like night and day

[elder cradle]

I bet!

[tepid dawn]

Uh if you mean TimedAction:update() isn't it just what's going to be triggered in every tick while the action is being done ?

[sour island]

Yes, and you can grab the delta, to clarify

[elder cradle]

In my day job I work with Unreal 5 and have direct access to code. But I never has to set anything crazy to make it possible. 😄

[tepid dawn]

Oh I think I can just set a timer at the beginning and increase it in each update

Thank you, it will be helpful

[sour island]

ISBaseTimedAction:getJobDelta()

fetches the progress

I think it's 0 to 1

[tepid dawn]

😘

[elder cradle]

Quick update:
Yeah, I can now persist MoData on the player when doing the save with OnPlayerUpdate.
I was testing with the rest of the code draft before so I guess something else was preventing it to work.
Thank you some much guys!

[elder cradle]

So I guess doing something like this stores the current instances of the objects and won't persist, right?
Can I retrieve the new session objects through their IDs?
for i,v in ipairs(getPlayerLoot(playerNum).inventoryPane.inventoryPage.backpacks) do if v.inventory:getType() == "SmallBatteryCharger" then local chargerIso = v.inventory:getParent() if v.inventory:getItems():size() > 0 then player:getModData().BatteryChargers[chargerIso] = v.inventory end end end

[balmy terrace]

In situations other than when you’re actively fighting the game to implement it like hardcoded male/female values grrrr, is lua modding really that restrictive? Would it be possible to, for instance, implement moving creatures using lua alone? I’m inclined to say it is, but I’m not sure

[bronze yoke]

yes but you can't render characters from lua specifically in multiplayer

if you saw that dog mod that was popular for a while, that's why it didn't support multiplayer

[balmy terrace]

Ooooooh

That’s weird. Wait, why wouldn’t that be possible? Can’t mod data be shared between client and server easily?

It would be a hassle, but couldn’t you just sync something like the dogs yourself?

[bronze yoke]

you just can't render their models in the first place

i don't know the exact reason behind it

[balmy terrace]

Oh,

Weird

[bronze yoke]

the dog mod probably used LuaMovers, which are the ideal class for this kind of thing, but most npc mods just create player objects, which also don't render in multiplayer for whatever reason (except when they're real players)

[balmy terrace]

I really hope the domestic animals they release in 42 are mostly implemented in lua, or come with functions necessary to render non-player and non-zombie entities in multiplayer

[bronze yoke]

i've always imagined that will happen anyway, it seems like they would have to outright try to stop us at that point

[balmy terrace]

It would suck if they were just implemented completely in java and entirely closed off from most modders

[bronze yoke]

for sure, it feels very out of line with their typical design though so i'm sure that won't happen

the flexibility of the new systems could go either way but i'm sure lua will be able to interact with it to a decent degree

and from what i've seen the newer systems have tended to be much much more lua oriented

(/better written)

[balmy terrace]

I am kind of concerned because they already said they didn’t want to release partially unfinished survivor code, because they didn’t want the modding community to do ridiculously cool stuff with it before they’re even able to finish it themselves

I am worried the same thing kind of applies to animals, because even the most basic ability to have multiplayer-compatible creatures could open up an absurd degree of modding capability. And since the domestic animals are kind of the “unfinished”/prototype version of the animal system, it’s the same kind of situation

[bronze yoke]

they did seem to suggest that the animals would have modding support, and that was why they were leaving out some of the more intelligent parts of the ai they've developed until 43

[balmy terrace]

oooh, so that implies they’re trying to get the modding tools out as fast as possible, before they get wild with it themselves? that would be awesome

[bronze yoke]

ah sorry i missed a word there, it was meant to be leaving out

they don't want people to use their own technology to steal the npc steam, so the b42 animals will essentially be a lobotomised version of the ai they've been working on

[balmy terrace]

there are many hot takes about this I could espouse but out of respect for it being the official server I won’t say anything

Well, I meant other than the fact that it is really understandable. I can’t imagine how disheartening it is to have game dev plans and then have some hyper focused modder do everything in a couple hours before you even formulate it

[bronze yoke]

i mean, they've been working on it for nearly a decade, it's the most common suggestion and the most common complaint, and their release will likely be pz's biggest moment in the spotlight - but if npcs nearly as good using the technology they developed for it have already been modded in it won't really mean much

[balmy terrace]

Yeah

[balmy terrace]

btw sorry to interrupt, people please answer this person I also don’t know anything about per player mod data and am curious

[fast galleon]

what is project zomboid moddata

[finite kettle]

Hi! I'm trying to develop a sneak overhaul mod but I can't seem to find the files related for sneaking anywhere. Does anyone know anything about it?

[undone tapir]

🎉 you got the daily double 🎉

[atomic crow]

Okay, this isn’t so much about my own development because this is well outside of my scope, but would anyone be willing to try and update this to include the newer magazine types that have been added to Brita’s since this was last updated?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2887315718

[young orchid]

help

[atomic crow]

Nope, if something's changing in the files ya gotta reload for it to take effect

[faint kestrel]

You can probably find the file path if you start the game, only press the crouch key a bunch, and close the game. Then you should be able to check the game logs for the related file.

[finite kettle]

Thanks I will try that

[elder cradle]

@bronze yoke @sour island Based on your recommendations, I gave up on the idea of storing a list of all battery chargers on the player, and went back to the simpler approach I had initially: Only updating batteries charge when the player interacts (or is near) a battery charger container.
I doesn't take in account time periods where a a running generator stops working, but I guess it's good enough for a first version of the feature.
Do you guys sometime do code reviews here? I'd be curious to see if some things could be done better, or optimised.

[sour island]

If you use GitHub you can link it here.

[elder cradle]

Ok sounds good! I got to get that setup again. I used to have all my code there a while ago, back when I was modding for 7 days to die.

[sour island]

Nice, it's useful for any type of project tbh

What does 7days modding look like? Scripting as well?

[tardy wren]

think it's on a strict 7-day limit

[drifting ore]

Can I do a POST using openURL?

[tardy wren]

Probably not, as Zomboid's Kahlua won't allow you to touch the interfaces

[drifting ore]

😢

There is no way to do this kind of ideas on this game xD

[cedar anvil]

I made a short code but not sure why this isn't working. Could anyone help me out? "

if player:getInventory():getItemCount("Base.Money") >= 50 then

    UI["b1"]:setColor(1, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5)

    else

    UI["b1"]:setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)

end"

[elder cradle]

I haven't done it for a while, so it may have changed since. Adding new items, recipes, sounds was super easy, all done through XMLs. But if you needed to add new game functionnality you had to overwrite the vanilla C# base code (game uses Unity Engine) which was not ideal. There was a special mod launcher made by modders to manage those type of mods, and package all the base code modifications of the mods you have active together, to modify vanilla code in one compile.
If you know the game a bit, this is the kind of mods I was doing back when the only vehicle available was the mini motorcycle: https://www.youtube.com/@manu_x3299/videos
None of that is working anymore, it was for A16 version.

[drifting ore]

We can print an image in the user screen smh?

[sour island]

You can draw a texture but you need to do it per frame

If that's what you mean

[drifting ore]

I want to draw an image in the cheater screen if something gets detected

I'm not just drawing a black color in their screens

Works well but that's not my idea

[fading oasis]

can anyone help me with procedural distribution? i just need an item to spawn in one location then i can do the rest

this is what i have but it doesnt seem to work

require 'Items/ProceduralDistributions'

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["ArmyStorageMedical"].items, "Base.HungryMane");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["ArmyStorageMedical"].items, 10);

[sour island]

Textures can be pngs

DrawRect is a shape

Both have to be drawn every frame

[tardy wren]

There must be something I'm missing about tiles

I have no idea how I can detect what I'm clicking on when creating a context menu

[balmy terrace]

Soon, my evil will spread to the Steam Workshop…

The only thing scarier than the zombies… THE VAGUE IMPLICATION OF NON-CIS PEOPLE EXISTING!!! And CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS! OH NO! ||/s||

[tepid dawn]

Was that option gender or sex ?

[drifting ore]

Should I use TextureDraw?

Will try, thanks for the info

[balmy terrace]

making some character model (“male” or “female”) locked options non-locked, such as beards, and making the “male” and “female” options “masculine” and “feminine” for more accuracy (they’re literally just player model choice)

[tepid dawn]

Understood. I don't have any comments on that topic.

Though I don't think you can implement that without editing each beard model for feminine(?) playermodel since female and male playermodels are not the same and they are originally made for male playermodel

[balmy terrace]

Indeed
I have already implemented workarounds to the programming side of it but the actual models need to be edited

Hoping to figure out the addition of an androgynous player model too, but that’s a long way off

[sour island]

Actually, you can pretty easily enable beards on female models

They get auto removed on model update - so you'd just need to snap it back on for specific events

I don't recall seeing if beard growth is kept to male characters though

Oh discord did that thing where it doesn't update messages

[fading oasis]

okay well i got my item to finally appear in the lootzed but it has a -1406 chance of spawning lol, hows that possible?

well i fixed that, but when i refill a container to see if my item can spawn, it doesnt. it shows up in the lootzed so shouldnt it be able to spawn?

[balmy terrace]

Good advice, I’ve already got it working in character creation but again it’s just broken because it’s built for the masculine model

[woven scarab]

I hate to interject on an ongoing conversation but I have a five second question

are Mod ID's the same as Workshop ID's?

(setting up a dedicated server for context and pzidgrabber.com is down or not working)

[balmy terrace]

I believe the Mod ID is defined in the mod.info file and the workshop id is a unique set of numbers given to a file when it’s uploaded to the workshop, so they should be different, I believe

[woven scarab]

😭

Will entering the Workshop ID's autofill the mod ID's like when hosting non dedicated?

well actually I think I can grab them albeit tediuously by making a server settings and adding the workshop items

thanks to all

[atomic crow]

When you add a mod via the workshop setting the mod id should also show up in the mod page

[bronze yoke]

keep in mind one workshop item can contain multiple mods, and you may not want to use all of them/they might be outright incompatible

[atomic crow]

That is true, it was moreso a matter of helping to find them in the first place.

[fervent shadow]

should i continue my 1985 ford LTD model to then figure out how to mod it into zomboid

[tulip cipher]

is there any way to make a drink multi drinkable - more than one use that is

[vague rose]

Hello

guys any idea why this msg spam in console every minut ?

WARN : General , 1694554171438> 646 404 731> AnimationPlayer.play> Anim Clip not found: InvalidOnPurpose
WARN : General , 1694554171540> 646 404 832> AnimationPlayer.play> Anim Clip not found: InvalidOnPurpose
LOG : General , 1694554171554> 646 404 847> receiveObjectModData: index=-1 is invalid x,y,z=10713,10149,0
LOG : General , 1694554174919> 646 408 212> receiveObjectModData: index=-1 is invalid x,y,z=8156,11656,0
WARN : General , 1694554175942> 646 409 234> AnimationPlayer.play> Anim Clip not found: InvalidOnPurpose
WARN : General , 1694554176035> 646 409 327> AnimationPlayer.play> Anim Clip not found: InvalidOnPurpose
LOG : General , 1694554176262> 646 409 555> receiveObjectModData: index=-1 is invalid x,y,z=14064,5202,0
LOG : General , 1694554176548> 646 409 841> receiveObjectModData: index=-1 is invalid x,y,z=10592,9166,0

[drifting ore]

Hey guys im making my first firearms mod and ive got everything correct and working exept the gun is invisible in the player models hand and ive checked all my scripts it all checks out so if anyone has any advice that would be great.

[mellow frigate]

Because you use one of my mods 🙂

[vague rose]

@mellow frigate what do you mean ? more details please 🍻

[mellow frigate]

Infected Player mod is using tricks to use Zombies animations instead of Players ones. But there are visual artifacts I achieved to remove by calling invalid animations. I called those animations InvalidOnPurpose for users not to be afraid. they have no bad consequences.

[vague rose]

can I fix that as I have a problem with my bot's. File getting to big and bot freaking out

[mellow frigate]

I do not know any way to remove those warnings. Else I would have done it in the mod. So you'll have to restart more often your server or remove Infected Player

[vague rose]

not good not good but thx for info

[mellow frigate]

lol

[drifting ore]

Yo im making a gun mod and the gun model is not showing up can anyone help?

[balmy swan]

Would anyone here have any experience with editing Advanced Trajectories / adding new weapons for it?

I'm having an issue where a custom weapon's projectile pierces through an unlimited amount of zombies in AT, despite the gun being set to no piercing in vanilla (It doesn't pierce in vanilla)
I've tried all sorts of changes, there even seems to be a value for piercing in AT, which i've tried both on true and false, and that doesn't work either.
Perhaps anyone has an idea here?

Nevermind! User error here.

[boreal rose]

Think it's possible for Endurance to drop into the negatives, similar to how the nutrition stats work?

rather, allow Endurance to drop into the negatives by stopping whatever is making negative endurance reset to 0

[tulip cipher]

is there a way to call a function when having finished reading a magazine

i would of asumed that OnEat would of worked as i thought it does but apparently wont do it for me

        DisplayName = Razzy's Knowledge Bundle 1,
        Weight = 0.5,
        Type = Literature,

            StressChange = -5,
            BoredomChange = -20,
            UnhappyChange = -12,
        
        UseWhileEquipped = true,
        CustomContextMenu = Read,
        OnEat = RazzyBooks_Book1,
        WorldStaticModel = PopBottleWorld,
        UseSelf = false,
        Icon = MyIcon, }```

[fading oasis]

hello, i finally got a specific item to spawn in loot but cant get multiple specific items. what are the basic lines of code to achieve that?

[fading oasis]

sorry to bother but can anyone help with that?

[fast galleon]

#mod_development message

[fast galleon]

Why would you eat a magazine? You could hook to ISRead action when it finishes.

[fast galleon]

All drinks can be drunk multiple times, just stop drinking.

[magic nymph]

Does anyone know how to get the containers the player is within distance of and can see the items inside?

[magic nymph]

If someone knows plz @ me, thanks.

[tulip cipher]

All it does is check that the player did something and run a function, would of assumed it would have worked either way

I'll try IsRead

[drifting ore]

hey im new to modding i would like to know how to do ambience mods, if anyone knows drop some tips or tricks

[elder cradle]

Check the lua code of "Smokin' Joe's Coolers" mod. I don't know if it's the most optimal way to do it, but that's what I used as a reference for something I'm making that also needed that.

[magic nymph]

Thanks, Manu. I actually found a global lua function called getPlayerLoot that returns all of the containers within reach under the children property. I'll look at Smokin Joe's Cooler mod to see how it compares, though.

[elder cradle]

Yeah that's what that mod uses too.

[magic nymph]

lol damn and it took a bit of digging into to the code to find it. Oh well, now I know where to look for all the global lua functions in the future.

[elder cradle]

He does it OnPlayerUpdate, and that's the part I'm not sure is optimal. But there doesn't seem to be better events to attach to.

[fast galleon]

That gives you the player's loot UI.

[magic nymph]

In the mod I'm making, I'll be calling it from OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu because that's when I'll be needing it. You can call it any time you need, just check for nil or whatever in case there's no surrounding containers.

Technically, there should always be 1 container, and that's the floor

[elder cradle]

I thought I tried the that event but was not triggering when or what I needed, can't remember.
I currently do it with something like this:
for i,v in ipairs(getPlayerLoot(playerNum).inventoryPane.inventoryPage.backpacks) do if v.inventory:getType() == "SmallBatteryCharger" then -- Then dig inside the items... end end

And yes if there is no containers around, you still always have the floor.

It detects any tile or item containers like backpacks.

[magic nymph]

Thanks for that code, now I know an easy way to get backpack items on the player. That works for any container that can be equipped or just ones that can be equipped on back?

[elder cradle]

From what I remember it only gets nearby containers of tiles or item containers on the floor (or maybe in tile containers too), but it does not get the ones that are currently on you.

[magic nymph]

ah that's right

brain fart lol

[elder cradle]

In the mode I refered earlier, he also has a variant of that to check the containers that are on the player. I don't remember the call he uses.

[raw tulip]

simple mod idea: ability to change duffle bag colours

I have a rough mod that I wrote that uses the crafting to generate a new duffle bag upon crafting

HOWEVER

crafting a dufflebag into a new dufflebag deletes the contained items

{
    recipe Change to Random Colour
    {
        Bag_DuffelBagTINT,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:true,
        Result:Bag_DuffelBagTINT,
        Time:1.0,
    }
}```

this is literally just a crafting txt file

but.... it "kinda works" as it crates a new duffle bag with a different colour

just as mentioned, it deleted all contained items within it.... thats the problem
need to find a way to retain the items in the container, or have some user interface/colour picker to choose what colour to change the duffle bag into

so if I were to release this "mod" it may cause collateral damage since it deletes items from the duffle bag, please help!

(I will post a video on what this looks like later/soon/right now/im recording)

[bronze yoke]

you could either use an OnTest function that checks that the bag is empty before letting you craft, or an OnCreate function that moves the items into the new bag

[raw tulip]

I am a 3d artist, not a programmer. so I am not totally sure how to do that/works, sorry!

only got this "working" from deconstructing how a crafting recipe works

[raw tulip]

this seems like a viable solution

since its doing a check, which will remedy this "issue" of it deleting items

[neon bronze]

You need a OnCreate function that iterates over the inventory of the bag and and adds it to the inventory of your new duffelbag

[bronze yoke]

might be simpler to just work out how to change the colour of the existing bag honestly

[raw tulip]

I have tried with an alternative texture

no success with that for now, since I need to have a function to be able to access additional textures

[raw tulip]

yeah so its just a simple recipe mod to "change" the colour of the duffel bag

but as you can see, it deletes the items

this is most likely NOT the optimal way to make a colour/TINT mod for duffel bags

the purpose of this mod is to remedy the black backpacks being nearly invisible, and to have a nice way to sort stuff since you can colour code the duffel bags (without the use of backpack borders)

[raw tulip]

yeah this can likely be done with what the current EDIT with debug does

[raw tulip]

this feature is supported with debug mode, if we could bring this into a mod that would be the best solution

but I dont know how to program or create UI elements, buttons or functions

[hot void]

learn

just dont make useless stuff like me

@raw tulip

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2735059209

talk about uncanny

[raw tulip]

how does this relate to what I am seeking assistance for?

[hot void]

makeup ui was a pain in the ass

[raw tulip]

does this mod contain some way to modify an items colour?

[hot void]

not

sadly

[raw tulip]

im sorry, who asked?

[hot void]

nvm then

...

[raw tulip]

I subscribed to your mod to deconstruct it looking for any functions that were related to assist me, but there was nothing

just a self advert huh?

yeah nah

[hot void]

you could probably look into transemog mod it think it has what your looking for

it changes colthing items colors and textures

or the cosmatic look at least

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2979375840&searchtext=trans

the extra e sry

🤣

[raw tulip]

thanks, I will study this for now

[hot void]

[raw tulip]

shiiit, this looks like exactly what Im looking for, thanks for now

I will try to figure out if this is a viable solution

[hot void]

also iam not advertising my self

or maybe a lil XD

[raw tulip]

k

[hot void]

now how do i make occupations and traits

i forgot i came for that

[raw tulip]

probably learn how to by deconstructing additional occupations and traits mod

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2840805724

since these are just extra additions and integers within the files

tinkering with names and numbers that give you extra stats are each to their own "occupation"

[hot void]

i am not that smart ill try it again 🥔 (tho i failed once)

almost crashed my game

TY 🙂

[granite ginkgo]

Guys,is there a way to parent a part to another via script?

like a window to a door?

[balmy terrace]

Could someone walk me through why multiplayer-compatible moving creatures/npcs aren’t possible? I’m legitimately curious and want to know

Maybe partially because I want to see if I can find a workaround (not likely)

[balmy terrace]

I’m only really familiar with lua and not the scripting side but if this is to make a door that’s two tiles tall, don’t two tile tall objects exist in game natively?

[bronze yoke]

the models just don't render

i'm not aware of any other issues

[balmy terrace]

I’m mostly interested in why that is the case
It seems superficially possible to make an “illusionary” model/sprite using client side lua but I honestly don’t know if that’s past the extent of the lua api or not

[bronze yoke]

i doubt it, i've seen somebody fake it with dropped item models but there's no chance of animation, clothing, or even smooth movement that way

rendering is pretty locked off from lua

animated models are one thing, but i'm not sure we even have the ability to just... render a model independently of existing systems

[balmy terrace]

sad 😦

[bronze yoke]

i'm curious about finding the exact reasoning behind it myself - not really interested in npc mods but it would be a fun breakthrough

[balmy terrace]

hack could be using the SpriteRenderer which seems to be exposed but that could reach into absurd territory

but tbf absurd territory is fun

[bronze yoke]

i heard somewhere that it actually did work in early b41 versions, but i don't really remember who said that so i can't say for sure they even knew what they were talking about

[balmy terrace]

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/zombie/core/SpriteRenderer.html

multiple render() methods seem functional

[bronze yoke]

ugh, the auto-generated parameters are egregious here

[balmy terrace]

wow i can't wait to input my FLOAT VARIABLE NUMBER 3 into FLOAT ARGUMENT NUMBER 3 to do undefined behavior

[bronze yoke]

the named ones aren't much better but it looks like they draw tris

[balmy terrace]

there is a "drawModel" method but i wouldn't know if there's any way to access a "ModelSlot" properly nor if it even works in multiplayer or if they use entirely different rendering methods for that
for all we know rendering could be hardcoded for multiplayer, right? java is kind of a black box. like i could decompile it but that might not even help

[bronze yoke]

the lack of z co-ordinate could imply it's in gl screen co-ordinates, or this actually does just refer to sprites still (since the 2d -> 3d conversion 'sprite' often still means model)

i don't think the model manager is exposed, which makes this kind of a nightmare

[balmy terrace]

tbf either way it could still work, just without a z coordinate it would require massive amounts of manual calculation

[bronze yoke]

you'd basically be writing a renderer - and you can't access any of the low level tricks opengl needs to be performant

i wonder if we can get shader ids from somewhere, i thought we were unable to reach uniforms but it looks like you can do that here

[balmy terrace]

rendering to this level is kind of out of my depth but it might be possible to either decompile code, reach out to a dev or, in the worst case scenario, create a mod to iterate through a bunch of int values

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_Events/OnRenderTick there's an OnRenderTick event

also PostRender, if someone wanted to do post-processing I guess

[bronze yoke]

i've written an opengl renderer recently so i'm familiar with what appears to be going on here, but using these functions to manually render a model (as i don't think renderModel can be used) would have unacceptably terrible performance

[balmy terrace]

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/zombie/core/skinnedmodel/ModelManager.ModelSlot.html

it does have a constructor

can kahlua "use" those?

[bronze yoke]

it's not exposed unfortunately

[balmy terrace]

rip

[bronze yoke]

we can use constructors

[balmy terrace]

wait how would we know it isn't exposed?

is there something on the javadoc?

[bronze yoke]

no, unfortunately i don't know of any list, i just check the lua manager source

it has a big block of setExposed(classname.class)

[balmy terrace]

Ooooh

is ModelManager exposed?

because ModelManager has an Add(IsoGameCharacter) method

[bronze yoke]

it isn't, i think encapsulated classes are exposed together with the class

[balmy terrace]

rip

[balmy terrace]

yeah the LuaManager doesn't even expose ModelInstance or anything

which is kinda weird imo

maybe security thing

wait

an exposed lua method:
loadZomboidModel(String var0, String var1, String var2, String var3, boolean var4)
returns a model
seems to load one put in path to the ModelManager

it's in the LuaManager class, ctrl+f "loadZomboidModel"

what's weird to me is that it returns a Model object even though Model isn't exposed to lua at all???

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i'm not sure what we can do with this - i *think* you can still pass unexposed objects

you just can't call any of their methods

so something that takes model as a parameter would be worth looking at

[balmy terrace]

entering the deep end then i guess

[bronze yoke]

yeah, it does understand it as an object

[balmy terrace]

strange

SceneModel(UI3DScene var1, String var2, ModelScript var3, Model var4)

setExposed(UI3DScene) is in LuaManager

sort of unclear on what exactly it does

but i think it might be used to render cars?

but if that's the case it should be hijackable

hmmm it might be for the map

kinda weird it's in the vehicles package then

[sour island]

There's an ingame vehicle editor

A similar thing exsists for item attachments too

Theyre all related to stuff like the character screen

[balmy terrace]

fascinating

[sour island]

If you're curious about using that type of UIelement you can check out that mod that adds/changes the hair display in character creation

[balmy terrace]

i assumed the mechanics screen and the radial was the extent of that but this game continues to impress me

[sour island]

There also someone manipulating models rn to get obese + diff weights

If you speak with them maybe you can help each other test / avoid trending over the same ground

@keen silo meet @balmy terrace

[balmy swan]

I've been looking around for a bit, maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing.
Where could I look to get info about adding a contextmenu to a specific tile

[sour island]

There's an event called when adding context menus to the world.

Search for OnFillContextMenu

[balmy swan]

Gotcha, thank you!

[keen silo]

@balmy terrace what mod are you trying to make exactly?

[balmy terrace]

hmmm i guess i'm sort of just testing the waters to see what might be possible but, in a perfect world where i had unlimited brainpower and time, some kind of creature/animal api

[sour island]

They would like to make the features selectable in CC not tied to gender.

I assume specifics would be hair styles and facial hair.

Maybe taking the bodyframe of the female gender sans breasts

I think it fits with what you're trying to do in terms of the technical approaches

[keen silo]

probably, would have to experiment more

[sour island]

Yeah, just saw how much time you're putting into it - and figured to spare someone else + possibly lighten your load

[balmy terrace]

that too, but this could hopefully apply to more maybe

[keen silo]

this are the compiled classes modified that enable me to swap the models characters of the game @balmy terrace

[bronze yoke]

i'm curious about getting animated characters rendering in multiplayer myself

[balmy terrace]

true, the non-gender-locking mod would benefit a lot from this

[sour island]

Can't you just send a command to tell others to animate?

[bronze yoke]

my understanding was that they were unable to render in the first place

[sour island]

That's how I handle MP sound ☠️

[bronze yoke]

otherwise i'm not sure why npc mods haven't done it already

that's something i'd be willing to resort to java modding for, the demand is great enough

[sour island]

Oh wait, I made MP animations

[keen silo]

this works as follows: you get the HumanVisual of the character, use setForceModel(model) method and it should copy the model

[sour island]

For Sharks car mod - the seat animations are MP compat

[balmy terrace]

my theory, if it is at all possible, is that it was not possible in previous updates and that updating the current dominant npc mod "line" to fit with multiplayer would require a complete rewrite

[sour island]

If it was Nolan stating it was impossible I would just take that with a grain of salt

[balmy terrace]

that's excellent but unless i am mistaken this requires javamodding
the LuaManager doesn't expose HumanVisual

[keen silo]

yes it does

[balmy terrace]

nvm it does

[keen silo]

HumanVisual is exposed

[balmy terrace]

how did i miss that

[bronze yoke]

it seemed like the general impression, and even from scratch mods haven't supported multiplayer

i'm going to investigate it a bit more myself

[keen silo]

the problem is that by default, if you setForceModel() of human visual it doesn't work correctly

so I had to make it work :v

[balmy terrace]

would it work well if you used the ServerCommand() event to call it individually on each client?

[sour island]

Commands have the option to send to all actually

[balmy terrace]

is it just broken in the java code and required javamodding to fix?

[balmy terrace]

well i meant sent the command to all clients and then have all of them call setForceModel() themselves

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i haven't had any success playing with force model, regardless of multiplayer

[keen silo]

I haven't tested on multiplayer, I focus more on the SinglePlayer experience

just, experiment :v

[balmy terrace]

to be clear, the usual lua process of replacing a method to overwrite it does NOT work with kahlua right? because it's basically just a wrapper around java?

because if it did you could just 'override' getModel() and put a bunch of your own code in there

[bronze yoke]

yeah, when you replace a method you only replace lua's reference to that method, not the method itself

which means that calls from lua get modified but not calls from java

[balmy terrace]

😭

[drifting ore]

hey can anyone help im creating a firearms mod and the gun model is invisible ingame i checked debug menu it shows up with correct textures and all correct exept in game

[balmy terrace]

did it take javamodding to "make it work" for you or did it just take lots of workarounds?

[keen silo]

Javamodding, but it didn't add any lua functions

[balmy terrace]

weird
are all the scripts written correctly?
again i'm not familiar with the game's scripting

[balmy terrace]

well then that makes it significantly more difficult to distribute..,

[drifting ore]

Yep i checked for some reason it still just dosent

[keen silo]

is just a fix that makes it so that the forcedModel is asigned to the model instance of the player

[drifting ore]

wdym

[keen silo]

because the way is currently done, each characters modelInstance model has only 4 posibilities, a human male/female, or skeleton male/female

[balmy terrace]

we're talking about unhinged deep modding lore

[drifting ore]

oh lol its my first mod im making here bro

[keen silo]

I changed it so that you can force the model of any specific chr to any model

[balmy terrace]

this is very weird
looking at the code, getModel() should return the forceModel in the vanilla code if it has been set at all
this means that it should work in vanilla, but for some reason it just doesn't

[keen silo]

yes

because

it doesn't use the humanVisual():getModel()

to set the model for the model instance

[balmy terrace]

setExposed(ModelInstance.class)

[keen silo]

sadly

I cannot compile the LuaGlobal

so I cannot do that

I really REALLY wish to

but none the less, I cannot

[balmy terrace]

i know we're just talking about different mod ideas and stuff
uhm
do you have any mods that modify or change the display of weapons?

[keen silo]

model Manager uses the public function getBodyModel

[balmy terrace]

😭

[bronze yoke]

the model might be too small/too large, zomboid works at a weird scale

[keen silo]

public Model getBodyModel(IsoGameCharacter gameCharacter) {
        if (gameCharacter.isZombie() && ((IsoZombie)gameCharacter).isSkeleton()) {
            return gameCharacter.isFemale() ? this.m_skeletonFemaleModel : this.m_skeletonMaleModel;
        } else {
            return gameCharacter.isFemale() ? this.m_femaleModel : this.m_maleModel;
        }
    }

This is the code of the function. as you can see, it completely ignores the model of HumanVisual 🙃

[balmy terrace]

i mean no offense to the project zomboid devs but that is extremely annoying

[drifting ore]

Nah i used a tutorial where it says to remodel it to the size of different pistol models so i just did that its the same size ima just try something real quick and see

[keen silo]

and that's not even the best part yet

[bronze yoke]

zomboid has lots of dead code, you have to accept it at some point

[keen silo]

ModelManager has a private loadModel function. For some reason, this function loads the skinned body models correctly, and configures the skinningdata apropietly

however

I havent managed to load other skinned body models correctly

[drifting ore]

nah i checked everythings in order for some reason its not working could it be cus of large file size

[balmy terrace]

we found a model loading global method in LuaManager. is that relevant?

[drifting ore]

whats the normal kb size for gun models btw?

[bronze yoke]

think i've seen fed using it before

[balmy terrace]

speaking of which, has there been any experimenting/knowledge about setForceModelScript specifically?

[bronze yoke]

i tested it earlier today and it didn't seem to do anything

[balmy terrace]

I think they're supposed to be relatively low-poly? but i'm not sure

[bronze yoke]

there's no hard limit, it shouldn't refuse a big file or anything

just know that it will take longer to load bigger files, and nobody can tell the difference at zomboid's zoom level

[balmy terrace]

extremely hacky method of animated multiplayer player models: setHairModel to a model big enough to cover the entire default player model

i don't want to do that though

[bronze yoke]

is hair animated?

[balmy terrace]

oh tbf it's not

you could technically manually "animate" it by manually setting the model to different positions.

super saiyan mod incoming

[bronze yoke]

well with my experimentation i've reached a point where i can definitively say that not only are they not an effective replacement for npcs, actually lua movers are impossible to be used in any circumstance

a java error instantly exits to main menu if you try to use them

[balmy terrace]

this feels like a coincidence
i think they intended us to be able to call setForceModel but made a mistake

[balmy terrace]

oh wow

[bronze yoke]

it might be old, or yeah an accident

[keen silo]

doesn't work

[bronze yoke]

when the mover's update function gets called it tries to update its moodles, but movers don't have a moodles object and there's no way to give them one, and the game immediately exits to main menu

[keen silo]

I had to make a java function to copy the skinning data from the male models to the other models :v

[bronze yoke]

you can prevent its update from being called but then they won't render

[keen silo]

doesn't do anything apparently

[balmy terrace]

is the moodle update function a java thing? could you just replace it?

[keen silo]

it doesn't affect the model instance from what I experimented, so I kinda ignore it

[bronze yoke]

it's a java thing

[balmy terrace]

AGH

[keen silo]

just

learn java xd

[bronze yoke]

i don't see any way around it - lua mover calls the isogamecharacter update method, which expects a moodle object to exist even though only IsoPlayer ever has one

[keen silo]

[balmy terrace]

that's not the issue
i know java, don't want to have to distribute sussy jar files to people for my mods

obviously our only option left is code injection ||/j||

[keen silo]

I'm not that good of a modder to help you with code injection

[balmy terrace]

joking because i really do not want to resort to actual literally hacking to get these things to work

[balmy terrace]

and i'm assuming the way Kahlua works, you can't just define the moodles right?

[bronze yoke]

nah, even if kahlua was a little more functional it's protected

the root of the issue is in the constructor```java
if (this instanceof IsoPlayer) {
this.BodyDamage = new BodyDamage(this);
this.Moodles = new Moodles(this);
this.xp = new XP(this);
} else {
this.BodyDamage = null;
this.Moodles = null;
this.xp = null;
}

i'm not really sure i understand why these objects aren't just part of IsoPlayer at this point but sure why not

[balmy terrace]

mfw

IsoMovingObject doesn't subclass from IsoGameCharacter

[keen silo]

are cars game characters?

[balmy terrace]

no, BaseVehicle inherits from IsoMovingObject

actually IsoMovingObject has a sprite due to inheriting from IsoObject and seems functional
you might be able to make like a moving 2d sprite that way

or even update it based on direction faced

[bronze yoke]

isomovingobject might actually support models, never seen any indication of it but literally every subclass of it i can think of is 3d

[balmy terrace]

isomovingobject is also exposed

[balmy terrace]

there's literally no model methods or fields on it which is weird because of what you just mentioned on it

just checked it's source code and no it does not

but it would probably be way more performant to manually render sprites through it

[bronze yoke]

so do they do that for every subclass individually? U_U

[balmy terrace]

but i know nothing

[balmy terrace]

i mean in my check i found out that it checks if it's a player in slideAwayFromWalls which is extremely weird?

like it literally checks if it's a subclass of itself/instance of IsoPlayerObject/has animation object

this does not work for the non-gender-locking mod but unless i'm wrong about isomovingobject a multiplayer compatible mod that adds animated creatures is totally possible

[keen silo]

there is kinda of a way to get the non-gender-locking mod working I gather

you could make the skins and hair clothing models

and just

code how they should be worn

[balmy terrace]

yup, that's my current plan. it does severely limit the mod's scale though

[keen silo]

(add the value can't have holes)

[balmy terrace]

if anybody has the time pls test isomovingobject and either way ill test once i can

[balmy terrace]

IsoMovingObject has an anim map that you can call anims from

[undone tapir]

oh no the horse car

[raven zinc]

Does anyone have a good tutorial I could follow for retexturing base game cars?

[sour island]

Is this something alot of people know about? https://crowdcontrol.live/guides/projectzomboid/

It's an actual mod too...

[atomic crow]

A fair few people I play with know about it, namely from watching streamers use it.

[sour island]

It's pretty sick

Curious why they don't upload it to the workshop too

Being it's a lua mod one could add their own support

[mellow frigate]

too much text saying "boost your income" and not enough explaining what it does.

[sour island]

It's a twitch integration mod - a suite of callable events

basically what m3ss made - but has more twitch end stuff

[atomic crow]

Yeah the whole boosting the income bit is because it makes donations directly impact the gameplay for the streamer, effectively further incentivizing donations.

[sour island]

Spoke a bit with the devs - they may add support for other mods 🙂

[atomic crow]

Nice

[elder cradle]

Thanks for the recommendation about beautiful-java. The install was not too harsh and it is indeed day and night!
Can you guide me on finding where it is that I can see which functions are available to the lua layer?
I'm testing the character:say(string) function that has a java implementation with more params but it doesn't seem available through lua.

[brave dew]

I have this idea for a mod to make

I’m an animator and I wanna reanimate all the gun animations for this game, is this possible? I see people adding in custom animations for their weapon mods and I was hoping I’d be able to do that too

[balmy swan]

Alright, so now I have some code that lets me place down a tile (set as ISSimpleFurniture) with a custom name.
Now i've been trying to create a custom contextmenu that only shows up when you right click this tile. I've been trying some things out, but I seem to be stuck with detecting the tile.

[brave dew]

[balmy swan]

And, to add to your question. That should be doable, yes 😄

I think by overriding the same animations in your mod, by using the same names?

[brave dew]

how would i do this?

also how much coding is involved

[neon bronze]

OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu event is what you need to hook in

[balmy terrace]

technically, because the game has a scripting system, I think none? But it might be more difficult than that if you want different animations for different kinds of guns (other than the basic differences between types like pistol and rifle, which are almost definitely easy to change animations for separately) and such

[sour island]

Nearing the finish line

[balmy terrace]

CATAN

[sour island]

although its a bit pixel hunty you can use place item to organize the board faster

[balmy terrace]

for some reason I thought “THE ONE PIECE IS REAL” after seeing the reaction to “CATAN” and now I need to add a flippable, actual readable one piece manga to the game

[bronze yoke]

any public method in an exposed class should be available to lua, you can see if a class is exposed by whether it's listed in LuaManager, there's a big block of setExposed(ClassName.class)

[elder cradle]

Ok thanks I had found the LuaManager but was not sure if all functions of those classes were automatically available.
In that case I guess I didn't set the function parameters properly.
I was trying to call this implementation of:
IsoGameCharacter.Say(String var1, float var2, float var3, float var4, UIFont var5, float var6, String var7)
using this in Lua:
character:Say("No Power", 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 30.0, 0, "default")
I'm basically just trying to change the color of the text that is displayed.
Might be the UIFont failing, was not sure what to put there. I thought I could use something similar to what's called within the simpler version of IsoGameCharacter.Say:
public void Say(String var1) { if (!this.isZombie()) { this.ProcessSay(var1, this.SpeakColour.r, this.SpeakColour.g, this.SpeakColour.b, 30.0F, 0, "default"); } }

[sour island]

if the method is public it's exposed

You have to call on methods using exact argument types

The way I get say to use colors is applying "radio" instead of default

[elder cradle]

Ok thanks, and the types are the same in Lua, just using ":" instead of "."?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, the uifont is the issue there

[elder cradle]

So this maybe?
character:Say("No Power", 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, UIFont["Medium"], 0, "default")

[vague bay]

Greetings,
My friend recently modeled an M270 mlrs and we thought of introducing it to Zomboid as mod. I'm wondering if it's possible to make the rockets works because in my research working mounted guns on vehicles do not exist. I hope someone enlighten me with knowledge .

[upper helm]

@sour island you're actually insane. much love my dude

[elder cradle]

I think there is some mounted turrets in the "Armored MH MkII" mod.

And yeah no error when fixing the font parameter, thanks!
Color doesn't change thought, I'll try you're "radio" trick...

[elder cradle]

Ah ok I get it. I has to be set to "radio" so that it listens to the color params. Thanks a bunch!

OMG, I missed your board game posts, that's really amazing, wow!

[vague bay]

Thank you. I will check it out.

[fast galleon]

just and idea but they use different models for every rotation, you could use one model and rotate it in the part script instead. This might be more difficult to get right alignment, do what you find easier.

[vague bay]

This is my first time modding a game. Currently I'm reading the moddign guide https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/tree/master/api

[vague bay]

thank you

[fast galleon]

Vehicle scripts
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Vehicle_Script_Guide
https://github.com/Poltergeistzx/pzVehicleWorkshop/blob/main/docs/VehicleScripts.md

Vehicle guides
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/24408-how-to-create-new-vehicle-mods/
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/28633-complete-vehicle-modding-tutorial/

lua
https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

[vague bay]

Great, Thank you so much

Is there list for Lua naming conventions that the community is using that I should be aware of ?
I came from Laravel (PHP framework) background

I do notice the use of camelCase

[tardy wren]

Can you access private members with reflection?

I don't need to right now, but just wondering

[tardy wren]

camelCase, also keep your variables local to help performance and avoid conflicts. if global, use modules or unique names, or both

[frank elbow]

I believe the answer is either “no” or “only in debug mode”

But I'm uncertain, so take that with a grain of salt (maybe that applies to modifying them? idk I just woke up and probably shouldn't have even answered)

[tardy wren]

Right. I was trying to read Calories off of a script item, and they're private there(I know because I was using reflection somewhere else). I managed to read the values by getting the InstanceItem... Still, just curious

[vapid quest]

hello, i need your help with commands again, all i need is just arguments for commands, i tried some ways but it didn't helped
ISChat.allChatStreams[9] = {name = "kill", command = "/kill", tabID = 1};
in this command i need just 1 argument ,i'll be very grateful if you help

[frank elbow]

What did you try? What went wrong/how did it not work?

[vapid quest]

i tried just to add arguments{arg} and {"arg"} so after this i had errors, i want to write /kill "nick" so i think i need arguments but don't know how to add them

[frank elbow]

What does your code that checks for the command currently look like?

And how did you try to add those? As new table keys? I wouldn't expect errors there unless there was a syntax error (which would be another push towards reading PIL!)

[vapid quest]

this is all commands:
ISChat.allChatStreams[8] = {name = "addperk", command = "/addperk", tabID = 1};
ISChat.allChatStreams[9] = {name = "kill", command = "/kill", tabID = 1};
this code checks commands:

            sendClientCommand("cmd", "addperk", {});
        elseif chatStreamName == "kill" then
            sendClientCommand("cmd", "kill", {});```
and this is main code:
```local function addperkcmd(data)
    print("addperk command called")
    local plrnick = data[1]
    local perk = data[2]
end

local function killcmd(data)
    print("kill command called")
    local plrnick = data[1]
    getSpecificPlayer(plrnick):getCharacter():setHealth(0.0)
end

function mycmds(mdl, command, data)
    if mdl == "cmd" and command == "addperk" then addperkcmd(data)
    elseif mdl == "cmd" and command == "kill" then killcmd(data)
    end
end

Events.OnClientCommand.Add(mycmds)```

[vapid quest]

i tried to add them like this:
ISChat.allChatStreams[8] = {name = "addperk", command = "/addperk", tabID = 1, arguments{plrnick, perk}};
ISChat.allChatStreams[9] = {name = "kill", command = "/kill", tabID = 1, arguments{plrnick}};

            sendClientCommand("cmd", "addperk", {plrnick, perk});
        elseif chatStreamName == "kill" then
            sendClientCommand("cmd", "kill", {plrnick});
        end```

[neon bronze]

If its a table wouldnt it be better/safer to do table.insert?

[vapid quest]

there's another problem, its not working

[frank elbow]

I think it'll be easier to respond to this with a list rather than prose; hopefully this doesn't come across as terse

1. arguments{plrnick} is not valid syntax for what you're trying to do (it's not a syntax error, since it is valid syntax for something else, but an error is expected from it). If you want to add a key-value pair with the key arguments, you need the equals sign, as the other keys show. You should also have the values in quotes, since they presumably should be strings: arguments = {'plrnick', 'perk'}
2. It appears that you didn't actually add handling for the arguments—you assumed their existence when reading the command. You need to read those variables from the command input
3. I don't see the full code so I can't be certain, but it looks like you've copied the original function rather than doing an override as I originally suggested. This is still just a suggestion, but please consider deferring to the original function when your modifications don't apply, so you don't break other mods

[vapid quest]

but how to read variables?

[frank elbow]

You can use functions in the string module to read the player input (disclaimer, as always, that PZ Lua is not exactly equivalent to Lua 5.1. The documentation of the string module should still apply)

[vapid quest]

ok, i'll try this, thanks

[eternal stirrup]

does anyone know what may cause the skybox on a car to be zoomed out? here's my car compared to vanilla

I tried changing the scale of the model with the script, exporting from blender in a different scale, changing the size of UVs... nothing works. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[tepid dawn]

looks cool !

[sour island]

@tardy wren I'm not sure if it applies to private as well but you can read java fields brute forcing through the javafields outside of debug

Writing to them can only be done in debug

[sour island]

Ty 🙂

[tepid dawn]

😋

[tardy wren]

Through Javafields? Is that different from... normal reflection?

[sour island]

https://github.com/Project-Zomboid-Community-Modding/pz-community-modding/issues/55

It's not something usable in realtime probably

Even in this example I store the values

[bronze yoke]

i wrote a util for it

i don't think it allowed accessing anything private

[vague bay]

Sorry I'm new to here. I have Lua 5.4.2 installed on my pc. Currently trying to follow some modding guide and this appeared :

[bronze yoke]

modules aren't a lua thing, the txt files in scripts are an original format

[sour island]

https://reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/s/8qp4dgtZId

[vague bay]

Thank you

[cedar anvil]

"local function canibuy()
local itemname = zamahardcode[args.index]"
Could anyone tell me why 'local itemname = zamahardcode[args.index]' is causing an error?

[fast galleon]

you miss end ? It would help if you provided the stack trace logs.

[bronze yoke]

most likely either zamahardcode does not exist or args does not exist

[cedar anvil]

Thank you!! It says 'attempted index: index of non-table: null.' Does this mean that the [arg.index] number is not available?

[bronze yoke]

it means args does not exist

[cedar anvil]

Thank you very much! I gotta figure out why args is missing

[cedar anvil]

I managed to get rid of errors! But I faced another problem which is 'buy' button is not working. ```local function itemdes(button, args)
local player = getPlayer()

infoUI:open();
infoUI:setPositionPixel(subUI:getX() + subUI:getWidth(), subUI:getY());
infoUI:setWidthPercent(0.1);
infoUI["name"]:setText(zamazonhardnames[args.index])
infoUI["itemcode"]:setText(zamazonhardcode[args.index])
infoUI["image"]:setPath(zamazonharditemicon[args.index])
infoUI["number"]:setText(tostring(numbers[args.index]))

if args.choice == "buynow" then
    if player:getInventory():contains("Base.Money") >= numbers[args.index] then
        player:getInventory():AddItem(zamazonhardcode[args.index])
        player:getInventory():RemoveOneOf("Base.Money")
    else
    end
end

end

local function onCreateUI()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subUI:nextLine()
subUI:addImageButton("zh1", "media/ui/brake.png", itemdes)
subUI["zh1"]:addArg("index", 1);
subUI:addImageButton("zh2", "media/ui/brake.png", itemdes)
subUI["zh2"]:addArg("index", 2);
subUI:addImageButton("zh3", "media/ui/brake.png", itemdes)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

subUI:saveLayout()

infoUI = NewUI();
infoUI:setTitle("Item Information");
infoUI:isSubUIOf(subUI);
infoUI:nextLine()
infoUI:addRichText("name", zamazonhardnames[1]);
infoUI:nextLine()
infoUI:addImage("image", zamazonharditemicon[1]);
infoUI:setLineHeightPercent(0.05)
infoUI:setWidthPercent(0.03);
infoUI:nextLine()
infoUI:addText("number", "", "Small", "Center")
infoUI:addText("itemcode", "", "Small", "Center")
infoUI:nextLine()
infoUI:addButton("buynowButton", "Buy Now", buynow);
infoUI:close();

infoUI:saveLayout()

end``` infoUI:addRichText("name", zamazonhardnames[1]); and infoUI:addImage("image", zamazonharditemicon[1]); are working great, but infoUI:addButton("buynowButton", "Buy Now", buynow); isn't working.

[robust briar]

Does anyone know where/how things like *hammer* in chat get replaced with images? I have dug through the lua, followed the trail back to UIElement in java, followed that to AngelCodeFont in java, then looked at the fonts in media/fonts but still do not see where the parsing is done for that.

I know of <IMAGE:texture> works, but thats different than *hammer*.

[sour island]

Are there any results when you search for uses?

[robust briar]

Nadda, both in the lua and java source

public static String parseStringForChatLog(String var0) <- Appears this is it

Now just need to figure out how tf that works

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/core/textures/Texture.html#collectAllIcons(java.util.HashMap,java.util.HashMap)

Thats what defines them all!

Perfect, ty yall

[raven zinc]

Anyone know where I can find the male and female 3d models?

nvm

[chilly flint]

Hey, wanted to ask how distributions for items work.
I followed a tutorial, but since it's 3 years old a lot of stuff changed.
So I would like to know how to do it today
(Tutorial that I use + the timestamp: https://youtu.be/N6tZujOPnDw?t=1080)

[fading oasis]

is there a way you can it make it where someone dies instantly after eating a certain food?

[fast galleon]

#mod_development message

[fast galleon]

yes, you can use the onEat script value or hook to the eat action.

[fading oasis]

lol tyvm mane! ill look into what all onEat can do

[fading oasis]

would i put the onEat function in the _items.txt?

[uncut meteor]

yo is there a event that can be called only when the players move any item inside hes inventory or player is inside inventory ui.

[rough storm]

Add this

[tulip cipher]

what masses is the game in?

pounds or kilos?

nevermind seems to be in pounds... Americans

[frank elbow]

I believe it's officially neither—can’t remember where by now, but I'm p sure they said it's an abstract “encumbrance” measure that considers both weight and difficulty/awkwardness to carry

[tulip cipher]

it seems like pounds canned tuna = 0.3 ... 0.3 from pounds to grams is ~140g which is the weight of an average can of tuna

they probs leave it unoffical so they dont get nitpicked like crazy over "THIS SHOULD BE 0.01 POUNDS HEAVIER!"

and added benifit - really free to balance how they want XD

the game is incredible honestly - and i only see it as an advantage for them to build it how they want, allowing modding is the icing on the cake

[elder cradle]

I think the founders are actually from UK and Canada (not US). 😄

[storm hound]

Hey, sorry to bother y'all. I'm working on a small mod just for personal use, but I'm struggling to understand how the controller system is implemented. I've got bits and pieces of what I'm doing working, but I have a few questions if anyone's familiar with it and has the time

1. getControllerCount always returns 16, which I've noticed from looking at a bytecode decompile of the controller system, is the maximum due to some kind of sanity check. But I only have one Xinput controller connected. Is it picking up the first 16 USB input devices, even ones not supporting Xinput?

2. I can't pull axis and button count from any controller index (Always returns 0). Do I need to activate a controller for it to work? If I do, how do I do so? Pull its GUID and call addJoypad? (Can I pull the GUID with Lua or does that require a decompile and working with the Java source?)

3. From what I've gathered, Lua is unable to work with button and axis information outside of what's normal on an Xbox 360/One Xinput controller/in the controller binding file. 6 Axis and 14 buttons, is this true?

4. Can multiple joypads be active and assigned to one player?

[storm hound]

If there's a write up anywhere that describes the controller system and how to work with it, a link to that would be more than fine

[sour island]

There is someone who wrote/writes patches for controllers - I don't recall whom, they may have more knowledge.

otherwise digging around the joypad files lua/java would be your best bet

[fading horizon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035791897

Just released my first mod in a while. Hope y'all will enjoy it 🙂

[median prairie]

Hello everyone! I hope you're all having a productive day. I'm curious if someone knows a method to prevent body damage from showing up on zombies without simply overwriting the BodyDmg texture.

[storm hound]

Ahh, no worries. It's a shame there aren't many folk around with the information, but I'll manage eventually 👍

[tulip cipher]

ERROR: General     , 1694746047201> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: OnInitGlobalModData of non-table: null ```

[storm hound]

I think you might be trying to treat something that isn't a table, as a table. If I'm understanding that right? Like having a string, integer, float etc with a table index?

[tulip cipher]

        for _,v in pairs(Shotguns) do
        local item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem(v)
        item:DoParam("OBSOLETE = true")
    end

        for _,v in pairs(Pistols) do
        local item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem(v)
        item:DoParam("OBSOLETE = true")
    end
end```

all is happening is that its Event.OnInitGlobalModData.Add(ChangeDefaultItemTable)

then running the function

i didnt have this issue before - which is why it is so odd

[storm hound]

I think either Shotguns or Pistols isn't successfully having data put into it, so it's empty when it tries to loop through it?

[tulip cipher]

                    "Base.ShotgunShells", "Base.ShotgunShellsBox"}
local Pistols = {"Base.Pistol", "Base.Revolver_Long", "Base.Revolver_Short", "Base.Revolver", "Base.Pistol2", "Base.Pistol3",
                    "Base.Bullets9mm", "Base.Bullets9mmBox"}```

ohh maybe im running the function before it actually ini the tables

thats probably why XD

[storm hound]

Oh xD Yeah that'd definitely do it

[tulip cipher]

ill just call it in a function - no idea why its having a problem weeks later XD

i should of just "kept it simple" XD

[storm hound]

Is it possible the event is triggering later than it used to? I don't really know why that would happen though

[tulip cipher]

i think it was having issues getting the SandboxVars before so i delayed it (not quite sure honestly)

[storm hound]

I don't know enough about the event triggers and when things happen during mod loading to really suggest much. Might be worth putting some debug info in, chuck a print() in before you init the tables, and at the start of the function before the for loops. Then check the console to see which one's loading when. Wishing you luck though 👍

I'm trash, and litter my garbage code with "if debug then print() end" and then set debug to false when I don't want anyone to see it. lmao

[balmy terrace]

idea: make debug method that does that check and takes debug and the message as variable

[tulip cipher]

that would be WAAAAAAY to easy and intelligent

[balmy terrace]

intelligence doesn’t exist, just luck

[tulip cipher]

too real

[muted garnet]

Is there any way to loop the sound, since the action is very long and because of this, during the first action or further restart, it lags for a couple of seconds, or maybe there is a way to load the sound in advance?

self.sound = self.character:playSound("Autopsy")

[storm hound]

I read this and was like.. Wait, why aren't I doing that?? Something like mlog(msg) would save me a ton of time going back through and fixing my debug lines 🤦‍♂️

Done, thanks for the idea xD

Also, accurate.. Luck really do be a big part of everything

[brave dew]

coming back to my reanimation mod, how does gun animation work in this game?

im guessing theres multiple seperate anims for each reload
that being:
mag out
mag in
bolt pull
unless the reloads are all in one anim just broken up

[sick slate]

ive been playing this game for so long

and only now have i dived into modding, a fascinating switch up from modding unity games, this game uses LWJGL right?

[atomic crow]

Yup

And LUA

[brave dew]

does anyone have a blender pz rig

please

[sick slate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31H54TpJjSA just watched an amazing tutorial!

[median prairie]

Note that this is for animation. You can find the simple rigs for creating accessories and whatnot in the #modeling pins.

[brave dew]

so somone has made a full fledged maya rig but no one has made one for animating in blender????

i have to make it myself? 😭

[median prairie]

#modeling message
#modeling message

[brave dew]

wtf is this 😭

[median prairie]

What were you expecting?
Importantly, what are you doing with it?

[brave dew]

making my own gun mod that replaces the gun animations

i want to do a test but this rig is unusable

[median prairie]

You can still add IKs and other bone constraints to this model

[brave dew]

wish there was this for blender but i guess not

another reason to switch to maya

all good rigs are on maya like 90% of the blender rigs i use for animations suck

[median prairie]

I've found the rigs to be fine. I just add some constraints, IKs, and clean up the bone orientation. No problems for me. I try never to blame my tools.

Regardless, I think #modeling May have more insight for you.

[brave dew]

yeah

[sick slate]

well, once you make it its ready for future use tbf

[muted garnet]

Is there any way to loop the sound, since the action is very long and because of this, during the first action or further restart, it lags for a couple of seconds, or maybe there is a way to load the sound in advance?

self.sound = self.character:playSound("Autopsy")

[bronze yoke]

Events

[sour island]

You can script sounds to have access to additional parameters such as looping

[muted garnet]

script?

[sour island]

PZs own scripting format, just like for items, and models

[muted garnet]

ok, thanks for help

[balmy swan]

Hmm, is there any sort of event to run some code on world creation, or something along those lines. Would OnNewGame work for that?

[neon bronze]

There is a OnInitWorld event

Dont know if its too early for you maybe

[balmy swan]

I'm trying to spawn some tiles into the world through the code, so would have to do it when the world's already been initialized I think?

[neon bronze]

Are you trying to spawn in tiles somewhere specifically?

Like in a specific cell or grid?

[balmy swan]

Yeah, I do have specific coordinates. I should be able to figure out that part, just wanted to know if the event I found was the right one, or if a different one should be used.

[neon bronze]

I dont know if that would work through that basically you’d need to have the specific cell loaded in first to get the coords for your tile

And if player hasnt visited that cell they arent initialised and are null

If im not wrong

Albion talked about the same issue earlier before

[balmy swan]

Hmm, I didn't know about that. That's good to know.

[tulip cipher]

Bruh...

[nova socket]

so... is there any server-side alternative for addVehicleDebug.
I'm looking precisely for spawning in coordinates and returning the vehicle object.

[hasty vector]

Hello, I want to create a mod that makes existing vanilla items not appear in the game. Does anyone know of an example mod or guide for this???

[mental jackal]

    {
       Bullets38/Bullets44/Bullets45/Bullets9mm/556Bullets/308Bullets/223Bullets/ShotgunShells
       /Bullets50MAG
       /10gShotgunShells
       /20gShotgunShells
       /410gShotgunShells
       /4gShotgunShells
       /Bullets22
       /3006Bullets
       /Bullets357
       /Bullets380
       /Bullets4570
       /Bullets45LC
       /545x39Bullets
       /Bullets57
       /50BMGBullets
       /762x39Bullets
       /762x51Bullets
       /762x54rBullets,

       Result:GunPowder,
       Time:10.0,
       OnCreate:Gunpowder_OnCreate,
       Override:true,
    }```
Hey folks im trying to override the blacksmith mod's gather gunpowder recipe but wrapping the above code in module Base wouldn't work. Any help is appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance

[sour island]

You can use obsolete in an overwriting script

[hasty vector]

Oh, Thank you

Where can I get informations like that?

[cedar anvil]

local text3= "Zamazon Light Bulb Package"
local text4= "Zamazon Fishing Tackle Kit"
local text5= "Zamazon Garbage Bags 20PK"
local text6= "Zamazon MakeYourDoor Package"
local text7= "Zamazon Electronic Repair Package"

local zamahardnames = {text2,text3,text4,text5,text6,text7}```

IGUI_text3= "Zamazon Light Bulb Package",
~```

I'm working on translating texts in Lua, But I'm not sure about this.. Am I doing correctly or missing something?

I think something should be in there between IGUI and text. maybe Lua's name?

[bronze yoke]

you use getText("IGUI_text2") to get the translated text for that entry

keep in mind that all mods need to share the same names so very generic entries like 'text2' are not a good idea

[cedar anvil]

Thank you!! so it will look like.. local text2 = getText("IGUI_text2")

YaY Thanks!

Gotta change the names as well

[tardy wren]

I am gonna make a big mistake and edit a ton of items at once at runtime

Since editing script items doesn't change the existing ones, I'll be hooking into OnRefreshInventoryWindowContainers and looping through it all to change spoil timers of everything

I'll make it a disabled by default feature

Albion you seem to know this is as bad of an idea as I do, if you have anything better please speak or remain silent forever

[bronze yoke]

nothing comes to mind

[tardy wren]

It may not be as bad

Proximity inventory does the same thing

I don't know how often the event fires exactly... I can try to throttle it somehow

[bronze yoke]

well it's difficult for any one competently written mod to actually cause serious performance issues, but things like this stack

but i think it'll be okay

[tardy wren]

This is supposed to be a transition-only measure for when you install the mod on a running save

[bronze yoke]

new saves won't even need to use it so it's just a compatibility option

[tardy wren]

Yes

if I knew how to dig into the save file directly, I would do that instead

[bronze yoke]

probably not ideal, this is fine

i was going to suggest something but i think it'd actually be much worse 😅

this is probably the best way of doing things

as long as the code is efficient it won't be noticeable

[tardy wren]

Well... I don't think I can avoid a double loop

I can try to throttle it, depending on how often the event runs

Can try to make it run on only a single container every launch

I'll make it work, then I;ll worry for performance

Anybody knows what the Local Container is from ISInventoryPage.GetLocalContainer?

Oh nevermind, wrong file, it's not vanilla

[cobalt fiber]

There's this mod by @fast galleon that can help with that.
You can run commands os specific coordinates when they are loaded
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2969455858

[fast galleon]

immersive solar panels spawns tiles using this

[elder cradle]

Hello!
Is there any way to have more than 1 overlay sprite on top of a tile?
The tile is a container which already has container overlays defined through TileZed, but I would like have an additional custom overlay on top, triggered through lua.
When I use the below, it replaces the container overlay. I would like to add it as another layer on top instead.
chargerIso:setOverlaySprite("myTiles_01_4")

[fast galleon]

no, you can have one overlay. When it's used for container it will be constantly changed automatically when players move items from what I remember.

you could add an attached sprite or another object.

function attachAnim(isoObject,spriteName)
    local isoSprite = getSprite(spriteName)
    isoSprite:setName(spriteName)
    local spriteInstance = IsoSpriteInstance.get(isoSprite)
    
    local attached = isoObject:getAttachedAnimSprite()
    if not attached then
        attached = ArrayList.new(4)
        isoObject:setAttachedAnimSprite(attached)
    end
    
    attached:add(spriteInstance)
end

[elder cradle]

Ok thanks, I'll try that!
Alternatively I guess I could also make all the possible sprite combinations as separate sprites and manage them all through lua instead of relying on the built-in container overlay feature.

[elder cradle]

Your trick totally works, thanks a lot!
Not the greatest sprites, but this is a battery charger for small batteries. The 4 green batteries inside are the default container overlays and the green light on the left is attached with your method when there is Power available on that tile.

[chilly flint]

How can I mod that replaces files for another mod.

Basicly a mod that applies a fix onto a mod without uploading the whole mod that needs the fix

[cobalt fiber]

Depends on what are you trying to fix.
If it's item or recipes, you can copy their entrys on the script file and edit in a separate .txt (not very compatible). You can also edit the scripts after they are loaded in Lua (more compatible)

[chilly flint]

I would like to fix the item distributions

[cobalt fiber]

If it's some kind of Lua file that you want to fix, sometimes you can override the original function in your own file if it's public (more compatible), or if it's local, you copy the whole file and edit what you want (not very compatible)

[cobalt fiber]

Then it's a Lua file. I'm not very certain of a good way of changing entrys on the distribution table.
If I was doing a fix, I would probably copy only the whole distribution file and make my changes

Maybe @bronze yoke will have a better idea than me

[chilly flint]

yeah I fought also about just copy the whole file, fix it but then what?
After the "fix" is done, somehow I have to tell the mod to use my file instead of thiers

[cobalt fiber]

If you want to override the original file, just put your in the EXACT folder structure and the EXACT name of the original, then it will override it

I think load order matters in this case

Not sure tho

[chilly flint]

okey thats worth a try

I will do so with a test mod, let's try to confirm that

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah, I have a 'Test' mod just for testing some random ideas ;P

[chilly flint]

^^

[elder cradle]

Quick follow-up question. Is it possible that attached sprites are not persisted when closing the game?

[gilded hawk]

Is there a native Zomboid way, to save a lua table to file? Kinda like the sanbox options?

[fast galleon]

It could be, if they don't have properties from tiledef file. You may also have issue rotating the tile.

[elder cradle]

Ok thanks, I'll patch it with some special start game init code for now.

[elder cradle]

If it's to store a table for an item/object, you could use modData. It can persist tables or simple variables for a given item/object.

[gilded hawk]

I was thinking about it, but I need to persist this info between multiple savegames. And mod data, or global mod data is specific to the save game.

[sharp obsidian]

Hi all

I'm making a mod to add some recipes for making digital watches for my server. However, when I add the recipes to the script file, and load the game to check it, the recipes don't exist. I've looked through the console.txt to see if there are any errors, and there aren't any, I've checked through errorMagnifier to see if it caught anything and it hasn't.

I know this code works as I made another mod recently that adds the exact same recipes, has the same code (except for me importing Base on this code), and that mod works. I've attached a screenshot of my code. I'm genuinely stumped as I don't know what I'm missing.

The only other thing I can think of is I have a separate recipe file for making bourbon for my server mod, but I'm unsure how that would affect it.

[elder cradle]

Lua seems to support json, that might be the easiest way to do it.

[gilded hawk]

Yeah, I think ill stick to that

[elder cradle]

Have you tried removing "Base." in front of the result items? I think you don't need it when your import Base. Or try removing the Base import section.

[sharp obsidian]

Let me try that and see!

So I tried both options and the recipes still didn't show.

[elder cradle]

I'm not familiar with mods on servers. In SP, that should work. (given that the script is in the right folder and the mod is activated)

[sharp obsidian]

The mod is in the right folder and is activated, and I am testing this in singleplayer, which is mainly why I'm confused

As you are right, it should work

[elder cradle]

Yeah it's weird. I would at least expect them to show up in the craft menu, and give an error when trying them if there is an issue with definitions inside.

You could always try adding a simple item in the script and check if you can add it to your inventory in debug mode. At least you'd know if the mod is working properly.

[sharp obsidian]

I do know the mod is working, as my separate file for a bourbon recipe based off corn does show up.

[elder cradle]

I don't know if console.txt has all the errors. I usually check the ..._DebugLog.txt to check errors.

[bronze yoke]

it should

[sharp obsidian]

So I redug through both console.txt and the DebugLog.txt, where I specifically searched for "error", The only thing that pops up besides errorMagnifier is this:

Im not sure if this is the actual error, but it is the only thing I can find

[gilded hawk]

Did anyone manage to extract this icon from the game files? media/ui/Container_DeadPerson_Male.png

Nevermind, apparently the wiki has them: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Category:Container_icons

[tardy wren]

ALBION
I CAN HOOK INTO OnContainerUpdate INSTEAD

[bronze yoke]

oh my god finally... scientists have found a use for OnContainerUpdate

[tardy wren]

I don't know when it runs exactly but I can use that to edit the items in the container

[bronze yoke]

it's whenever the list of containers the player can access change

[tardy wren]

Also hello from 3 am

[bronze yoke]

or actually when it could change

[tardy wren]

Wait, really?

[bronze yoke]

hehe it's only 2am here, much better 😇

[tardy wren]

Your doc mentioned it's when it first loads

[bronze yoke]

hmmm i might be misremembering, my doc seems pretty explicit

[tardy wren]

I know that a container calls its update function when you look into it

[bronze yoke]

but the basic idea of it is that it happens when a new container becomes available/an old one becomes unavailable

[tardy wren]

In multiplayer at keast

[bronze yoke]

i think the primary function of it is literally just to tell the ui to update to show the correct containers

not 'when the contents of the container changes' like it sounds

[tardy wren]

Right

So it would be the same as the current event, theoretically

You can avoid flash-spoiling of food by not looking into the fridge until you power a generator

[bronze yoke]

i think the event gets fired even if you can't reach the container

[tardy wren]

That'd be better for my usecase.

Regardless, I'll look into it with some debug printing at a more sane hour

[bronze yoke]

the vanilla use is essentially to the tell the inventory ui 'the containers the player can reach COULD have changed'

later i'll have a quick look over, i trust my docs over my memory

[tardy wren]

(Client) Fires when a container is added or removed from the world.

That's what the GitHub doc says

[bronze yoke]

yeah, sometimes it might be overly brief since i wrote all 100 or so in about a day so i have to check that that's not misleading

[tardy wren]

[bronze yoke]

it's probably not untrue though

there just might be more to it

[tardy wren]

I think I'll do debug printing...

Just have to... do it smart. Live mod and such

[mental jackal]

hey folks can anyone give me some help on how to override a modded item/recipe?

[mellow frigate]

sure, "subscribe to a mod in the workshop that does it and look at how they do it."

[mental jackal]

actually, now that you mentioned it, lemme see what i can do

hmmm i checked historical weapons and armor, they used the same module name but I am also using the same module name

[mental jackal]

and i have override=true in my recipe too, doesnt seem to work

[mellow frigate]

You cannot override a mod reliably from txt changes you need to look at a mod that overrides another mod through lua.

[mental jackal]

right... i will check that, for now i used new recipes instead. thanks for the info!

[indigo hearth]

Where I can I find the vehicle distributions of a custom mod map? I'd like to make it where vehicles don't spawn in specific areas of the map. Is it in the map file itself?

nvm found it

[storm hound]

Is decompiling the game and working with it in a Java IDE something that's allowed to be discussed here, or is it lua modding only?

[atomic crow]

Modding Java is allowed for discussion as far as I’m aware

[storm hound]

Awesome 👍. I couldn't find a statement anywhere or anything in the rules regarding it so I figured I should ask

[hasty vector]

Hi all, Is there a way to print global variables like ProceduralDistributions.list while the game is running?

[fast galleon]

In debug mode you have access to console and can do that easily. However this list can be inaccurate while the game is running, it's mainly used to initialise distributions in java.

If you are looking for something specific in distributions you can check the LootZed tool.

[peak bronze]

Is it possible to make a mod for logging when containers are sledged/disassembled?

[dense kayak]

Looking for some help with reviving a dead mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2565273421&searchtext=cdda

It seems to have an issue where the third book read doesn't grant EXP. Trying to understand the functions its calling but it looks like it's referencing some classes and variables from the base game. Is there a way to see these classes and their variables without decompiling the whole game?

Just trying to understand the game's API

[bronze yoke]

the lua doesn't need to be decompiled, you can just read it from the media/lua/ folder

a reference to the java api is here https://projectzomboid.com/modding/

[nova socket]

Anyone knows how to get some sort of bool that can tell if character is yet to be created/ already created?
It does seem all events, including EveryOneMinute already running even in stage of character creation.

Tried to do this

local player = getPlayer();
if not player then return end

But apparently its not always true and doesn't return at some point.

[drifting ore]

Maybe Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(function) ?

Hey, how do you make inventory:FindAll search through a list/table? currently it accepts a string only.
this doesn't work, i think it tries to find if the player has ALL of these items, not any of them

    local arena_weapons = {"Base.ArenaSBlunt", "Base.ArenaLBlunt", "Base.ArenaSBlade", "Base.ArenaLBlade", "Base.ArenaAxe", "Base.ArenaSpear", "Base.Apple"}
    local items = inventory:FindAll(tostring(arena_weapons));

[neon bronze]

You’d need to iterate over the table yourself and feed the items one by one to FindAll

[drifting ore]

oh, right, thank you! i got it to work now

[glass tartan]

Where can i find the scripts for the crafting skills (Espec. Metal- and woodworking)?

[drifting ore]

Whats the method for getting the player's currently wielded/held weapon/item
context: i am trying to remove items from the player's hands, e.g they are holding an item, i want to remove that item. setting their hands to not wielding anything.

i tried this, but it doesn't work unfortunately.

        player:removeFromHands(tostring(element))

[mellow frigate]

function updateUnequip(isoPlayer)
    if isoPlayer then
        --unequip all
        local primItem = isoPlayer:getPrimaryHandItem()
        if primItem  then
            unequip(isoPlayer,primItem)
        end
        local secItem = isoPlayer:getSecondaryHandItem()
        if secItem then
            unequip(isoPlayer,secItem)
        end
    end
end

function unequip(isoPlayer,item)
    if not isoPlayer then return end
    if not item or not item:isEquipped() then return end

    if InfPla.Verbose then print ('InfPla.unequip '..p2str(isoPlayer)..' '..tab2str(item)); end
    isoPlayer:removeWornItem(item)
    
    local hotbar = getPlayerHotbar(isoPlayer:getPlayerNum())
    local fromHotbar = false;
    if hotbar then
        fromHotbar = hotbar:isItemAttached(item);
    end
    if fromHotbar then
        isoPlayer:setAttachedItem(item:getAttachedToModel(), item);
        isoPlayer:resetEquippedHandsModels()
    end
    
    if item == isoPlayer:getPrimaryHandItem() then
        isoPlayer:setPrimaryHandItem(nil)
    end
    if item == isoPlayer:getSecondaryHandItem() then
        isoPlayer:setSecondaryHandItem(nil)
    end
    item:getContainer():setDrawDirty(true);
end

[drifting ore]

i will try this out, thank you

[sour island]

Anyone familiar with timed actions, specifically transfer and drop getting "bugged actions" errors and resetting the queue?

Since world items can't be moved around and you can't change their offsets directly - ive taken to using pickUp and drop in a queue to do it.

Prior to this I gutted out the internal steps since using timed actions was causing problems with flickering + the slight delay of picking up and moving (as well as the bag sound).

But even with the two timed actions being used again, it's causing "bugged action clearing queue" with transfer, as well as the initial issue which is "error, container has ID" is still occurring.

[nova socket]

Best way to determine location of any scripts is looking for media/lua by searching any related string translations, variables are usually tied to them.
So if you have a specific button with word "Craft" you will most likely find the exact script in less than a minute.

That's considering if its translated, but so far modders do care to translate their stuff too.

[mellow frigate]

from memory, bugged action on transfer timed actions occure when one of the element of the transfer is not valid (or not in the right container) anymore. This can occure in an asynchronous world (MP) when two players do concurrent actions or when a server-side action (like fire destruction) removes an item during the transfer. Other than that transfer timed actions works well and if you meet those bugged actions a lot it is likely due to invalid requests (e.g. in earlier versions of autoloot I was piping twice the same transfer action)

[drifting ore]

How do you parse through a container's items (backpacks)?
Inventory:FindAll() only searches through the player's inventory

[mellow frigate]

player:getInventory():getFirstTypeRecurse(itemType);

[sour island]

Hmm, I'll have to check the actions - maybe it's sending the request twice due to how I wrote the UI

[mellow frigate]

look at ItemContainer.java it has a lot of search methods, one for each use case you may have.

[sour island]

The "error container has ID" was the original issue - which happens alot less but still occurs. And in that the container is getting two entries of the same item.

I have to loot it twice to clear it

[mellow frigate]

I do not recall anything about that one

[fallow osprey]

is there a way to add or remove a recipe input through lua?

[sour island]

Yeah, I think trying to work around the limitation of not being able to change the offset is finding new ways to break stuff lol

[mellow frigate]

I made the "change offset of world object" thingy in that mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3000569721

[sour island]

Oh? Does it involve removing and adding? Or?

[mellow frigate]

yes

[drifting ore]

local arena_weapons = {"Base.ArenaSBlunt", "Base.ArenaLBlunt", "Base.ArenaSBlade", "Base.ArenaLBlade", "Base.ArenaAxe", "Base.ArenaSpear", "Base.BaseballBat"}

function remove_arena_weapon()
    local player = getPlayer();
    local inventory = player:getInventory();
    --unequip and remove arena weapons
    for _, element in ipairs(arena_weapons) do
        player:setPrimaryHandItem(nil)
        player:setSecondaryHandItem(nil)
        player:resetEquippedHandsModels()
        local items = inventory:getFirstTypeRecurse(element);
        print("test!! ", items)
        if items then
            for j=items:size()-1, 0, -1 do
                local item = items:get(j);
                print("removing arena weapons", item)
                inventory:Remove(item);
            end
        end
    end
end

I'm iterating through a string table to find items and remove them, inventory:getFirstTypeRecurse doesn't work because it returns nil

i tried other methods in the itemcontainer, but they all also return nil

[mellow frigate]

getFirst does return an item or nil, not an array of items

and you probably cannot expect the result to always be different from nil.

also I am not confident Remove method works recursively so you have to remove the item from its own container

[nova socket]

Not sure If I reinvented a wheel here but you might want this at some point

function IC:sleepAnDo(seconds, func)
    local time = os.time();
    local targetTime = time + seconds;


    local function OnSleepTick()
        local timeNew = os.time();
        if timeNew >= targetTime then
            Events.OnTick.Remove(OnSleepTick);
            func();
        end
    end
    Events.OnTick.Add(OnSleepTick)
end

[drifting ore]

Me? or are you talking to chuckleberry?

[nova socket]

No i mean in general whoever reads that snippet

Never found any "engine solution" so far for sleep function to schedule code.

[drifting ore]

Yeah, thats probably the problem. FindAll searches through a container
i just need to figure out how to tell it to search through a backpack or a fannypack

[mellow frigate]

getFirstTypeRecurse works through worn bags (that's what Recurse means in that context). but Remove I doubt it. just use the item:getContainer instead of inventory

[drifting ore]

That worked finally, thank you!

[cedar anvil]

Does anyone know how to fix a low resolution icon? I even matched the Bit depth but it still looks like this.\

[elder cradle]

@tardy wren@bronze yoke From my testing OnContainerUpdate() only triggers after a container is removed from the world and its argument container is usually nil at that point.
The one that triggers when the list of nearby containers changes is OnRefreshInventoryWindowContainers().
And with it's iSInventoryPage arg you can directly access a list of all nearby containers using iSInventoryPage.backpacks.

[tardy wren]

Okay, thanks for the tip

Will see myself

[elder cradle]

I currently have a similar need so I've been debugging all the events to see when they trigger.

[bronze yoke]

the reason the argument container is usually nil is because in most cases it doesn't pass any arguments

the vanilla usecase doesn't need anything so they didn't add any, except in a couple calls where it does pass some things

[elder cradle]

I was initially using OnPlayerUpdate to detect and verify nearby containers but that seems very taxing on perfs.
I'm converting it to use OnRefreshInventoryWindowContainers instead.

[tardy wren]

What mod are you making btw?

[elder cradle]

Just a simple Battery Charger for the small batteries.

A tiny container tile that charges batteries when there is power on it's square.

[tardy wren]

Hmm, OnContainerUpdate did fire when I loaded a new save...

[elder cradle]

You're right, it also seems to trying when you place a moveable in the world. It's arg is still nill thought.

[tardy wren]

Yeah... and it seems OnContainerUpdate doesn't fire when you load older saves

[bronze yoke]

technically this event does have a tiny bit of vanilla documentation

-- Called when an object with a container is added/removed from the world.
-- Added this to handle campfire containers.

one of the five comments in vanilla lua

[tardy wren]

No good for my usecase then

[elder cradle]

What's your use case?

[tardy wren]

Syncing existing Inventory Items with their Script counterparts

[bronze yoke]

i guess it doesn't fire for objects being streamed in since you'd have to be moving to access them anyway

[neon bronze]

Is it triggered for all containers? Even bags that you drop from inventory on the floor?

[tardy wren]

Didn't test that

[bronze yoke]

yes

actually it's triggered for all items dropped

it doesn't check if they have a container

[neon bronze]

Lmao

Is it also triggered when you equip a bag from your inventory?

[tardy wren]

Think not

[elder cradle]

If you want to know when a container gets filled with its loot items, OnFillContainer seems to do that.

[tardy wren]

No, no

Newly spawned items are fine

It's the existing items before the mod was installed

[neon bronze]

Yea i wouldnt think so too

[bronze yoke]

it just exists to dirty the ui, so things that would already be handled probably won't trigger the event

[tardy wren]

Hmm

For some reason it didn't update all of the items in the container

Okay what the hell

Canned Chilli avoids detection somehow

It's not perfect

Right

I, like a moron, initialized the inner loop with a value of the current index of the outer loop

AKA I did
for j=i, items:size()-1 do

Oh this is not something you want to see

[balmy terrace]

What? You don’t want to see butter?

[hot void]

i got an idea what if pool tables have a mini game you can play with 1-4 players while your playing the world pauses and a mini game pops up like the map so you can play

can be fun activity for mp and reduce and

[frank elbow]

It isn't very active, but there's a thread for mod ideas: https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1075939080287834113

May be better there, since those message will get pushed up by mod discussion. I've had a similar idea for a more general framework for minigames, but the project that gave me the idea was a bit narrow for my liking after realizing it could hypothetically do stuff like what you just said 😄 Idk about pausing the world, but it's certainly a plausible idea

[vague hedge]

Thanks

[nova socket]

ehm is sendServerCommand operational?
I can catch event from client to server, but cannot do the same from server to client via Events.OnServerCommand.Add(func)

[indigo hearth]

Wouldn’t that be commands sent directly from the console versus a client sending commands to the console via /commands through in-game?

[ivory warren]

anyone here know any mods that change just the sound of sprinting zombies? looking to figure out how to do this myself for a personal mod that will change the sound of spinters to Last of Us Clickers. I know there's a bunch of mods that will replace the sounds of all zombies but I need it for a world that only has like 2-5% total sprinter population

[nova socket]

Not sure what you meant, but my point is for client to ask server do something, then send a response.
Client asks server succesfully and OnClientCommand do trigger, meanwhile I cannot get a response back from server.

[bronze yoke]

are you testing in singleplayer?

servercommands don't function in singleplayer, even though clientcommands do U_U

[nova socket]

Yeah, that was my last guess, thanks.

Is hosted game valid? Should be right?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[ivory warren]

if there aren't any mods that do that, anyone know if sprinters even do have their own sounds files? and if they do, does anyone know which files those would be in (what i assume is the correct area to edit this) ZomboidSound.bank?

[cobalt fiber]

I'm working on something related to UIs, and I need to draw a texture (tile sprite), but not the full texture.
Is there a way of 'cutting' only a part of the texture and draw it?
eg. a 128x256 texture, I want to cut 64 from the top and bottom, getting 128x128

[fallen ivy]

Hi guys, I want to create a basic mod the replaces the level up sound in the game but I am not sure where to start, any advice would be appreciated !

[zealous pebble]

I feel like someone should make a repeating crossbow mod

[weak sierra]

can't update workshop item because "reason=2"

on my private server mod

i just uploaded an identical copy to the test version of the mod a few mins ago without issue..

anyone?

[bronze yoke]

restart steam

always fixed it for me

[weak sierra]

will try

[mellow frigate]

some mods on the workshop do exactly that look them up.

[weak sierra]

did not work :|

[bronze yoke]

[weak sierra]

this is bad

[bronze yoke]

unfortunately steam gives 'reason 2' for literally everything

might not like the files, might just be having a bad server day

if you already uploaded it it's probably not the files

[weak sierra]

steam has logs for workshop upload

was very helpful

[2023-09-16 16:30:27] [AppID 108600] Upload workshop item <redacted> failed (Colliding file mapping of "/home/evelyn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/108600/pfx/dosdevices/c:/users/steamuser/Zomboid/Workshop/UdderlyRP/Contents/mods/UdderlyRP/media/lua/server/items/VFE_Distributions.lua" and "/home/evelyn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/108600/pfx/dosdevices/c:/users/steamuser/Zomboid/Workshop/UdderlyRP/Contents/mods/UdderlyRP/media/lua/server/Items/VFE_Distributions.lua".)

i apparently had this under two capitalizations

not sure why it let me upload it other times tho

@bronze yoke wanted you to see

/home/evelyn/.steam/steam/logs/workshop_log.txt

in case u ever run into it or help someone who has issues, helpful place to look it seems

[bronze yoke]

i sort of agree with case sensitivity on principle but god case sensitive file system can't ever be good

[weak sierra]

im fine with it as long as it's consistent, but it sucks that the ecosystem is like half case-sensitive and half-not

[bronze yoke]

that log file will be crazy useful

[weak sierra]

yeah

[bronze yoke]

better than me going 'idk restart steam' every time

[weak sierra]

i cant imagine trying to update a mod that overrides a file in Items

when ur on windows

and items == Items

but then on linux server

the mod doesn't work

etc

must drive people nuts

advantage of linux client

[bronze yoke]

iirc they made the game search case-insensitive for files because that kept being way too prominent of an issue

[weak sierra]

when doing override by path i think it's still an issue?

anyway thanks for the help

gotta go now

[rare scaffold]

how do I go about making my own type of grenade / projectile?

[indigo hearth]

I haven’t written any of the code yet but basically I want to make a mod that plays a music file when a player crosses a certain coordinate on a map. To create an invisible line for the music file to trigger would I have to list each coordinate individually? Would it make more sense to use an interface similar to creating safe zones?

[frank elbow]

would I have to list each coordinate individually
No; you can use math

Would it make more sense to use an interface similar to creating safe zones?
Maybe, but this is a question about specifying the area rather than the code that would be used to trigger it

[indigo hearth]

For specifying an area, should I have it load on chunk load or when a player enter that specified coordinate? Sorry if I’m not being clear, I’m new to modding.

[frank elbow]

should I have it load ...
What do you mean by “it” here?

I think the answer will be “it's up to you,” regardless. Depends on how you'd like to implement it

[indigo hearth]

An audio file that plays voice lines.

[indigo hearth]

Well it’s for my RP server but I could see that a static implementation would make it challenging to use in future seasons.

[frank elbow]

Ah, gotcha. There are ways to preload sounds iirc but I don't think that'll be the biggest concern (i.e., it'll still play the sound you specify without that preloading). I'd focus on having it play at all before thinking about when to load it

[frank elbow]

Then it would be best to implement it in such a way that in can be easily reused. The basic inputs to think about are, of course, the area (or boundary?) that should trigger it, and the sound

[indigo hearth]

Oh like a house alarm

[frank elbow]

Some other things are worth consideration: will it play only the first time? Every time? Either way, you'll need to ensure you don't inadvertently trigger it multiple times in rapid succession

[indigo hearth]

Yeah calling a sound file in quick succession would be catastrophic

[frank elbow]

I'm not sure exactly how those are implemented or whether it's Lua or Java side, but that's a great idea of a place to start (i.e., searching for that in the code)

[indigo hearth]

I downloaded IntelliJ and decompiled the Java and Lua libraries although I’m not sure if it is functioning correctly with PZ doc. I had to revert cradle back to a version released around time to get it to work.

I could use .getCalendarInstance to set a fixed interval that would limit the amount of time before the sound could play again right?

Sorry for late response I’m at work. Thank you for your advice!

[indigo hearth]

How do I tie in player positions relative to function luautils.getNextTiles

[storm hound]

Speaking of IntelliJ, can anyone give me advice setting it up? I can code but I did the network architecture/Cisco side of things in college and never got taught how to set up an IDE.

I have the file I want to work with in src/zombie/core/physics/ where it is in the game files, and I have the game files set up as a library. It validates the file fine, gives me warnings, but it doesn't throw errors until I build it, and then it can't resolve any of the imports :/

The dependencies are set up so it looks at the game files and libraries first

I'm not using maven or gradle to build it since I don't know how to set them up, using the default build system in IntelliJ

I suppose I'm wondering:

1. Which version of the jdk do I want to be on? The tutorial I initially used to decompile the game used 19, but I'm not sure if that's still correct
2. With the zombie/core/physics/CarController.java, do I have zombie as the source, or do I have zombie in the source?

[indigo hearth]

PZ.io.storm GitHub page will help you set up gradle

[storm hound]

Oh, awesome! Thank you I'll follow that then

[indigo hearth]

Just a heads up though, you’ll need to mess around with the source SDK and gradle version to get it to work since it was discontinued 2 years ago. I ended up having to revert gradle to the version that was released around the same time as PZ docs latest release version

[storm hound]

Ahh, definitely good to know. Thank you 👍

I was looking for a modding api when I was originally trying to figure out how to work with the java side of it, but had no luck finding one so I'm glad there's actually something like that around

[indigo hearth]

It’s a bit old lol so I’m still having issues trying to get certain functions to work

Like I ended up having to set my sdk version to 16

It’s on 20 right now

[storm hound]

I mean, it can't be worse than beating my head against a wall trying to resolve import problems I shouldn't even be having

At least, I hope not xD

[indigo hearth]

Dude I’m still beating my head about knowing if it’s working properly or not lol. Although it could be my lack of knowledge in Java 😅

[storm hound]

That's in general just been my experience trying to get this stuff working 💦
Every other time I've messed with a java game there was an up to date tutorial for setting up gradle that just worked 😅

I'm sure it's a skill I need to get off my ass and learn. Setting up an IDE, and maven or gradle from scratch

My approximate understanding of build order, libraries, and dependencies is fine once I have the stuff set up. But if anything goes wrong I'm just staring at it like.. What do I even do

[zealous pebble]

is modding in this game difficult

[storm hound]

If you're doing something that only needs Lua, no it's super easy

[indigo hearth]

https://tenor.com/view/kkekekekekkeke-kk-gif-27232250

[zealous pebble]

i dont know lua

[indigo hearth]

For me

[zealous pebble]

and ive only ever done programming sucessfully one time

[storm hound]

If you're doing something in Java and know how to set up your build environment, it'd be easy to moderate. If you're doing something in Java and don't know how to set up your build environment, then, yeah pretty difficult

Well, imo Lua's the best option to start off with

[indigo hearth]

I managed to get console to print, “hello world” , once

[storm hound]

It's not as fussy with syntax as most languages

[zealous pebble]

i should still have vs code on here

is that all i need

[indigo hearth]

You should use IntelliJ

[storm hound]

Well, first off, what are you trying to do? What sorta modding are you looking at doing?