mod_development

[thick karma]

(assuming your timing is logical)

Even between client and shared

(but base stuff must be in shared if imported within shared at runtime)

[vital karma]

so when I call it would be as simple as using something like "Getkills()"?

[thick karma]

Sure, you could create and call a function called NomOptions.getKills by calling NomOptions.getKills(from, necessary, params). I do recommend what has become known to some people as "lowerCamelCase" (which I was taught to call camelCase) for function, field, and variable names and "UpperCamelCase" (which is sometimes called TitleCase) for classes / modules to give some immediate clarity of purpose when people read your variable names.

[vital karma]

will do 👍

thank you

[thick karma]

Just to be clear you cannot just call getKills() without the module prefix unless you create a truly global function with no parent module called getKills, and most of us would not recommend that.

When you make global functions with highly appealing and simple names, you increase likelihood of eventual conflict with other modders who want to do that or the vanilla game's future available global functions

Even when I'm 99% sure a global might eventually exist in vanilla and be named and used exactly as I would name and use it, I personally resist the urge. @vital karma

[fathom sapphire]

Oh, how do i use java in lua?

[thick karma]

There are a wide variety of classes, objects, and functions exposed to Lua through a Java class called Exposer in a Jaca class file called GlobalObject iirc.

That is where you find stuff like "getSpecificPlayer"

And other functions we call

I.e., you can just write it.

print(Keyboard) in your debug console should verify an object with that name exists

[fathom sapphire]

When i use key==Keyboard.KEY_G it doesn't work even though it's in the library mentioned, so would I have to reference Exposer to get that?

[thick karma]

Hmmm

[fathom sapphire]

I could also try printing the key var and see what i get in case its that

[thick karma]

print(Keyboard.KEY_G) prints 34 for me

So it's definitely getting something

[fathom sapphire]

Then the mod itself doesn't recognize it for some reason

Should I just change it to key == 34?

[thick karma]

WizBanger = {}

WizBanger.thisIsG = function(key)

  if getPlayer() and key == Keyboard.KEY_G then
    print("This is G")
  end

end

Events.OnKeyStartPressed.Add(WizBanger.thisIsG)

This works for me when I put it in console

if it doesn't for you, I think you need to move to client or perhaps you have a weird keyboard with abnormal keycodes.

@fathom sapphire

[fathom sapphire]

I was using
Events.OnKeyStartPressed.Add(WizBanger.OnKeyStartPressed)
Mb lol

Well actually
OnKeyPress = {}

OnKeyPress.log = function()
print("UP IS PRESSED")
end

OnKeyPress.OnKeyStartPressed = function(key)
local player = getPlayer()
if player ~= nil then
if key == Keyboard.KEY_G then
OnKeyPress.log()
end
end

Events.OnKeyStartPressed.Add(OnKeyPress.OnKeyStartPressed)

Would it not work cause it is named like that or

Cause its OnKeyPress.OnKeyStartPressed

Which is the event and the function name at the same time

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't matter what it's called

[fathom sapphire]

Well then idk why that one doesn't work, Ill try your code burry

[bronze yoke]

oh you're missing an end

[thick karma]

I just saw that

Lmao

I just dropped it in console and was literally copying his code to say that

Beaten to it again by the champion

❤️

[fathom sapphire]

Oh i added the second if without adding the end, mb lol

Thank u

Btw is there anywhere I can see all the functions I can reference, cause I assume there is seperate ones for lua and java
If not thats alr and thanks for the help so far lol

[thick karma]

They're kind of endless

Many are referenced here but trial and error may be necessary to figure out what's really accessible:
https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/

Most of the rest are found searching ProjectZomboid/media/lua

You can access most of the functions in lua above

which is a directory, not a file

a directory of many, many files and directories

You can index the media directory and search its files for text in Window File Explorer

[bronze yoke]

if you're using vscode you can install umbrella and get autocomplete + warnings when you're using functions that don't exist/aren't exposed

[fathom sapphire]

tysm

[thick karma]

largely because of albion @fathom sapphire

she casually fails to mention 🤪

https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella

[fathom sapphire]

Jesus lol
I'll try to use it but im brand new to vsc

[bronze yoke]

my hope is that it should only make things easier, even for a brand new user

[wicked plinth]

quick question that i want to try asking before actually pursuing
i know that pz can have random attachments spawn on firearms
is there a way to make that be able to force spawn one attachment onto every firearm?
primarily, i'm looking to spawn the Iron Sight attachment onto every firearm, for access to modularity aspects

[languid glacier]

hi how do i commision a mod

[bright fog]

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

[trail lotus]

does anyone know if voice chat range is configurable?

nvm i found it its in the server .ini files lol

[lethal ravine]

Is there any way to modify all of a specific weapon type? For example, I want to increase the damage of all Short Blade weapons. I want this to include weapons added from mods as well.

[uneven ore]

Hey guys, I've been troubleshooting this for a while now, and I have no clue whats wrong, So im making a trait for every 100 Zombie Kills you get, you recieve a Food item, however whenever you Kill a Zombie it Spits out an error about "Then was Expected near '=' "

Here's the code:

    if ZombRand(0, 3) = 1 then
        inv:addItemOnServer(inv:AddItem("Base.CannedCorn"));
        HaloTextHelper.addTextWithArrow(player, getText("UI_trait_dokitraitrecievedfood"), true, HaloTextHelper.getColorGreen());
    end

[bronze yoke]

use == for comparisons

= is for assignment

[lunar robin]

I'm not sure if this is the right chat to direct the question I have, but nonetheless. I am currently trying to implement automatic Discord role removal on player death on my whitelisted server. What I've done so far:

1. NodeJS scans for the latest *_user.txt and gets it's output.
2. The needed entry with died at is regexed and I have the line with the timestamp and username of a person who died. Then I regex again, compare the username and Discord user name, run the Discord bot thing and voila, role removed.
   However I'm wondering if that's really an efficient solution to get dead players, as there is probably a better way to do this?

[jaunty marten]

rm -rf / for happy life

[lunar robin]

Is there a way to lock certain item with type Literature from being edited?

[small topaz]

what kind of editing do you want to avoid?

[lunar robin]

If a player has a pencil etc. he can edit/add stuff to the paper. There's a certain item I spawn in inventory for this player with information, which I want to stay intact

[sour island]

Can't papers be locked?

[lunar robin]

If someone else locks it, yes, but this paper is spawned through a script in player's inventory

If I'm not mistaken, this leads to player's being able to edit it if he has a utensil

Is there a way to lock it initially?

[sour island]

You could add a Lua function to the onCreate of the recipe. Which you can lock as if by someone else.

[small topaz]

is writing to a sheet of paper realized by a recipe?

[sour island]

Probably not, but he's saying it's spawned through a script

[lunar robin]

I'll try setLockedBy() with some random characters to be applied to this item

Yep, this fixes my issue

Thank you

[small topaz]

Is there a way to trigger a timed action when another timed action is aborted by the player? I tried to add the new action to the queque in the aborted action's stop() function, so smth like

    ISBaseTimedAction.stop(self)
    ISTimedActionQueue.add(NewAction:new(...))
end```

But this doesn't work for me. Also tried adding to the queque before the stop(self) command without success.

[buoyant sandal]

Would anyone be interested in making kenshi-inspired weapon pack? Ill do the 3d but know nothing about coding

[lunar robin]

For some reason items from this mod fail to translate. I suspect it to be failing to find the translation files, as it uses the default DisplayName and "IGUI_ItemCat_Documentation" string as a category from the script. Any ideas what could cause this?

The symbols are broken because they're not UTF8

I kinda use the correct path: media/lua/shared/Translate/RU/filename.txt, so what could be the deal?

Also the server log shows the files are found:

[uneven ore]

got it

[lunar robin]

Never mind. This bug happens only on Linux.

Testing on my Windows machine revealed everything works properly... Weird.

[lusty karma]

little question about the "Recipe" translation files (Recipes_EN.txt for example). I saw some mods were starting the file with (lets take EN language as exemple) Recipes_EN = { and i saw another one starting with Recipe_EN (without the s). Do that change anything? Both mods are working, same with their translations. The game just don't care if their is a s or not ?

[bronze yoke]

the first line is a lie, the game just ignores it

[grim onyx]

Quick question, does anyone know where I can find a list of the names of the skills as they appear in the code? I.E. Woodworking for Carpentry

[bright fog]

lovely

[bronze yoke]

most people don't know this and those who do just write the Recipes_EN = { for consistency, and if they make a mistake doing that it's not like it throws an error or anything

[lusty karma]

ohh ok

thats good to know, thanks

[bronze yoke]

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/characters/skills/PerkFactory.Perks.html

[small topaz]

Does anyone knows the difference between getAllTypeRecurse(something) and getAllType(something)?

[bronze yoke]

recurse searches containers inside the container, getalltype doesn't

[wheat kraken]

a recently released mod got my first big hit on reddit, useful for beginners, quest-driven people, and people dealing with missing loot frustation

after 1 year hiatus from modding scene,
my popular mods are Fire trail (35k subs) (with only 43 upvotes on reddit announcement post) and Wheelbarrow (26k subs)(without reddit post),

Dragon Radar have the concept that i first want in a mod, when i first play the game, as a newbie that didnt know where to find specific loot, so it was from that that i begin my modding scene, resulting in serve 75k people in total now a days
https://thejaviertc.github.io/steam-workshop-stats/user/id/reifel1

a reddit version will be out soon (and i will be in hiatus again after that)

i know its not for everybody, and its for some people, reddit post splits into two strong groups
if you want to try:
Dragon Radar - item finder searcher
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3172486046

for the old ones
RIP 01-2022 to 06-2022 pz-map.com
with hot zones map used with that purpose
will Dragon Radar be the closest spiritual sucessor from it?

useful to find how to use generator magazine, sledgehammer...

[shrewd tapir]

I know this isn't related to mod support... but...
I'm looking for someone to collaborate with on a project, I have been inspired by project zombiod. I was thinking of making something similar to it... I know C/C++ very well with vulkan & opengl 🙂
dm me
NOTE: this is pure hobby so don't expect anything professional xD

[bright fog]

You can look for someone to work with here:
https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

[shrewd tapir]

ohh right

my bad 🙂

[bright fog]

np

[shrewd tapir]

also ur pfp looks like a cringe character from a lil indie game

if you play against this 'character' you will get annoyed... her name is briar

[bright fog]

Nah it's not a cringe character :(

I know the character lmao

I love her

I'm a main Briar :>

[shrewd tapir]

-_-

im darius main :>

[bright fog]

:>

[shrewd tapir]

we should play sometime, we could play like 1 match of lol... get tilted and go to project zombiod, die on day 2 and get even more tilted.

#imagine_being_left_on_read_could_not_be_me

[bright fog]

Haha I was in a match sry

[grim onyx]

Hey y'all! First time modding. I'm getting back this error when I'm trying to load into the game "unexpected symbol near ) at LexState.lexerror line:278."

I'm not sure what LexState.lexerror is

[bright fog]

Somewhere the file that's missing the ) should be mentioned

[grim onyx]

I'll look for it 🥲

Tysm

[lethal ravine]

Is there any way to modify all of a specific weapon type? For example, I want to increase the damage of all Short Blade weapons. I want this to include weapons added from mods as well.

[warped valve]

Animating tiles is hard. But y'know what's harder? Being a normal ass citizen in Half-Life 2 https://i.gyazo.com/901c99e87861294827d8679e202d4199.mp4

[raven smelt]

God bless. More half-life 2 pls...

[mystic vessel]

So I have a small doubt, I made a recipe through Lua.

But how do I make it necessary to have a specific level to be able to craft this?
Example Carpentry 5

[plain crest]

Would it not be the 2nd line that says Skill Required? The green one?

[mystic vessel]

So, it was supposed to be. I put this line

However, as soon as I place it, the "object in question" stops appearing in the game, and it gives some errors

[bright fog]

Did you look in the vanilla files how they do it ?

[mystic vessel]

I didn't find it in the lua part, only in the standard script. But I tried this same method and it didn't work ;/

[bronze yoke]

recipes aren't created through lua, they are created through scripts

[bright fog]

Did you check your recipe works without the skill requirement ?

[mystic vessel]

I want this crafting to be necessary to have
electrical 4 for example

that's why I'm asking about "skill required" in lua

[bright fog]

That's in the lua ?

Why do you make a recipe in the lua ?

[mystic vessel]

yes

[mystic vessel]

Because i'm using the "crafting enchanced core"

[bright fog]

I see

[mystic vessel]

and the way he makes the tiles, it's different

[plain crest]

Ah that’s. An important detail

[mystic vessel]

i'm trying to put a skill required for making this computer

[bright fog]

Check in mods that use it how they added a skill requirement ?

Or check the documentation of the mod ?

[mystic vessel]

That's the problem, in the original mod or in this case the basic framework, there is none with this parameter

💀

[bright fog]

Did you check their code how they handle it ?

[bright fog]

No I meant a mod that use this framework

The base mod doesn't add any recipes I believe (which they fucking should if they remake the whole recipe system with their thing)

[mystic vessel]

Yes they dont add,I created my own tiles, and recipes. However, for the recipes to be possible, this "workstation" system is necessary.

And only this mod added this "provisionally" until build 42 arrives

Once it arrives, this system will be native to the game itself and will no longer be necessary.

[bronze yoke]

you should ask the mod author for help, nobody here will have experience using their original recipe system

[bright fog]

Did you look at mods that use this framework ?

[bronze yoke]

if none of their recipes use it it is very likely that it is simply not supported

[bright fog]

Like I can't say it enough but go check mods that use this framework

[mystic vessel]

Thanks for the help :)
Another bad thing is that mods that use this framework are rare lol

[bronze yoke]

i had a quick look at their github and i couldn't see anything that checked skill levels

[mystic vessel]

I went there too, there is nothing

[bright fog]

I know but there are examples of mods that use it anyway

[austere sequoia]

SkillRequired:Tailoring=2;Aiming=1,
SkillRequired:MetalWelding=2,
SkillRequired:Woodwork=1,
SkillRequired:Electricity=2,
SkillRequired:Trapping=1,

this are some examples for adding skill requirements in lua

Check this sheet for more coding info

[mystic vessel]

Where should i put it?

[austere sequoia]

Dont know much about LUA, but just adding it as a line should/could work

[mystic vessel]

Let's hope everything goes well, this is the before

[bright fog]

God damn it wtf is that

[austere sequoia]

it is beautiful, isnt it?

[bright fog]

Even more documentation that's in a random format for sharing

[mystic vessel]

after, where is my pc? 😢

[bright fog]

Gone in hell

That probably didn't work

[mystic vessel]

When I place this line, the object simply disappears
not from the world, but from the crafting tab

[austere sequoia]

better than nothing 😄 I found it quite useful, dont know its origin

[bright fog]

Wait show the line of code

[bronze yoke]

the framework you're using just doesn't support what you're trying to do

[bright fog]

No I think he wrote some wrong code

The :

[bronze yoke]

yes but that would just make it not disappear, it still doesn't support skill checks

[mystic vessel]

like this?

this is the correct way?

Unfortunately, it didn't work both ways, but thanks for the help anyway.

I'm finishing my machine mod, they are all solid tiles with unique craftings for each one

Press,Glass furnace,Paint mixer etc

[austere sequoia]

I guess @bronze yoke is right then. It seems like the specific system you are using to implement your recipe not supporting any kind of level requirements, or if, has them written in another way

[mystic vessel]

Unfortanely, probably it's the first option

Taking advantage of another quick (and easier) question

The time there put into crafting

is it in minutes?, seconds?, ticks?

[austere sequoia]

Looking awesome! Your computers keyboard is floating though

[mystic vessel]

He is a time traveler 😳

[bronze yoke]

48 crafting ticks = 1 second

[mystic vessel]

Thanks :) this saved me

[coarse sinew]

Are you trying to add buildable objects via the context menu? You can use the Building Menu, it acts as a framework.

[mystic vessel]

I tried, but it's just as complex. other than that it uses its own framework

Now I'm trying to make a recipe that gives xp when making it

[coarse sinew]

I don t think it s that complex, I even made a guide for it https://github.com/eI1on/pz-building-menu/blob/main/DEVELOPMENT.md

[small topaz]

Hi! What elements of the lua code determine whether a timed action makes sound which attracts zombies? (if there are any...)

[thick karma]

Does Build Menu have controller support?

(If not that would be one point for a context menu solution. @mystic vessel)

[coarse sinew]

Yes, it was much harder than I expected to add compatibility, I had to redo almost the entire UI.

[thick karma]

Wait it actually is controller supported?

[coarse sinew]

Yup

[thick karma]

Dang I hadn't tried it yet and one look at the page made me skeptical... Idr seeing anything mentioned about that on it. Good shit.

Yeah adding controller support to custom UIs is usually more work than modders want to do, so I tend to fear any custom UI that doesn't explicitly claim to be supported on its page. Sometimes stuff is so unsupportive that it breaks the few things that used to work for us.

cough Mod Manager cough most character creation panel mods

Kudos for doing a truly complete custom UI that can support the whole playerbase

I always try to warn people working on new UIs to base their stuff on the updated gamepad-friendly UI modules because if they don't they end up needing to redo most of their UI to add it at the end.

(I've redone several vanilla ones myself and oof.)

[dawn portal]

hi, is there any tutorial on modding UI elements using lua? looking at mods I have it seems there are "ISUI" files for each element (button, slider etc..) but I'm not getting the whole picture on how to use these elements. also are there any UI "containers"? like UI elements that sort child elements in certain patterns like a grid or a vertical alignment for example? sorry if this is a nooby question I'm really struggling to find any guides on modding ui

[thick karma]

I recommend trying to learn by reading through custom UI code in mods that have similar layouts to what you need.

If any of mine have elements you need to learn to implement, you're welcome to refactor my code

[dawn portal]

oof I wish there was some guide to get me started but yeah. so far that's what I've been doing. man the learning curve for PZ modding is quite challenging huh?

[lunar robin]

local unwantedPerks = { "Agility", "Aiming", "Axe", "Blunt", "Combat", "Doctor", "Firearm", "Fitness", "Lightfoot", "LongBlade", "Melee", "Reloading", "SmallBlade", "SmallBlunt", "Spear", "Sprinting", "Trapping" };
for i=0, PerkFactory.PerkList:size() -1 do
    local perk = PerkFactory.PerkList:get(i);
    if table.contains(unwantedPerks, perk:getType()) then 
        print("Don't level up")
        return 
    end
    print("Level up")
end

Why am I getting this?

Object tried to call nil

If I run

for i=0, PerkFactory.PerkList:size() -1 do
    local perk = PerkFactory.PerkList:get(i);
    print(perk:getType())
end

This outputs the values the same way as in the array in unwantedPerks

I suspect I compare incorrectly?

[dry chasm]

afaik there's no table.contains function?
You could do something like

local perkType = perk:getType()
for _,v in pairs(unwantedPerks) do
  if v == perkType then
    print("Don't level up")
    return
  end
end

[lunar robin]

I've got a lot wrong in my function. Firtstly getType() returns an object, not a string, so I must resort to getId() for Perk object. Also there is a contains method, however using it correctly on an existing array is essential

[dry chasm]

but a table isn't an array*

[thick karma]

There's a VERY basic Hello World UI in my Workshop that was published by a friend I helped. You could start there to keep things simpler and expand from that if looking at finished UIs is overwhelming.

[buoyant merlin]

say, a while back I know that I had some kind of mod that allowed for a visible belt: nothing fancy, just a "random tint = true" belt that appeared OVER a standard pants texture.
I thought it was from either AuthenticZ or ClothesBox; haven't used either of those for a while, but I just tried them again and neither one appears to have a visible belt option -- I mean just a simple texture-painted-on-the-player-model belt, not a holster or rigging or an added model.
I was hoping to play around with it and see how whatever mod I had been using had accomplished having your belt be visible, but I can't find it! Anyone know what I'm talking about / what mod I'm thinking of so I can look at its code, or alternately, know how I would accomplish making a visible belt that appears over your pants on my own?

(I know the vanilla xml defines an emptytexture and I can have it call for a visible one, but I can only ever get it to appear UNDER all the clothing, directly on the character's skin)

oh i suppose i could define the bodylocation as torsoextra...? but then i'm stinking up that slot.

[tranquil kindle]

You could use a slot noone pretty much uses, for example one of ring slots. I wanted to make a watch not be hidden when wearing longer shirts and jackets (it was pocketwatch that was hanging on side of pants). When i used vanila locations for watches, the model was hidden once you wore something "longer", but the moment i put BodyLocation = Right_RingFinger, it was working perfectly fine and was above every other layer of clothing.

[buoyant merlin]

that makes sense and is probably what I'll end up doing, thanks-- I certainly remember it being in the "belt" slot in whatever mod was making it happen, though. Strange!

Is there a reference file that shows what body slots take preference over the others for visibility, like how pants will always appear over shirts?

[tranquil kindle]

That sure would come in handy, I went with trial and errors on this one.

I think you can create your own body location, but i'm not familiar with it

[buoyant merlin]

ah well, thanks!

[dawn portal]

ooh handy! thanks

your example derives from an existing class, but what if I just want to use the built in panel instead of deriving my own?

require "SUI/ISPanel"

local function onGameStart()
    if getGameFrame():getActiveScreen() == MainScreenState.getInstance() then
      local screenWidth = getCore():getScreenWidth();
      local screenHeight = getCore():getScreenHeight();
      
      local blankPanel = ISPanel:new(0, 0, screenWidth, screenHeight);
      blankPanel:initialise();
      blankPanel:instantiate();
      blankPanel:addToUIManager();
  
      local button = ISButton:new(0, 0, 40, 40, "hello world", blankPanel, nil);
      blankPanel:addChild(button);
    end
end

Events.OnGameStart.Add(onGameStart);

this doesn't seem to work for some reason.. also why blankPanel:initialise() and blankPanel:instantiate() instead of only calling one? and why pass panel to button ISButton:new() as an argument while also doing blankPanel:addChild(button) shouldn't one of the 2 be enough?

[thick karma]

FYI, requiring SUI/ISPanel is not needed and in fact would not work at all because it's ISUI/ISPanel (and ISPanel is available without importing it). Friend might have a typo if that's what their code says. I haven't looked at it in awhile.

I do not recall testing whether both initialise and instantiate are required. I think that was likely copied from some other vanilla panel that did both and assumed to be necessary.

Good question about addChild; I'm not home so I cannot confirm whether that is actually unnecessary right now.

@dawn portal

If creating a new ISButton with those commands will call panel:addChild(self) on provided panel where self is the button, then that is probably not necessary to call again

I'd check ISButton:new to confirm

[robust locust]

Im doing the items_distributuion lua code... do I need the isShop = true for all the shops? Or is it ok how I've done it? I dont want to use the procedural distributions tho.

[oak mason]

that's crazy

[warped valve]

Yeah, it's a big project I've got in progress right now. That vid is only the tip of the iceberg

You should see this framework I'm putting together, it's turning into something else lol

[sage mantle]

can I set the sound radius of a vehicle idle sound? like I want the sound to carry a little farther that normal

not the engine loudness that affect zombies but the distance from the vehicle the actual noise is generated

[thick karma]

@dawn portal Okay initalise calls this:

function ISUIElement:initialise()
    -- FIXME: need to avoid calling this method more than once, ID changes
    self.children = {}
    --    Give each UI element a unique ID.
    self.ID = ISUIElement.IDMax;
     ISUIElement.IDMax = ISUIElement.IDMax + 1;
end

instantiate does this:

function ISUIElement:instantiate()
    self.javaObject = UIElement.new(self);
    self.javaObject:setX(self.x);
    self.javaObject:setY(self.y);
    self.javaObject:setHeight(self.height);
    self.javaObject:setWidth(self.width);
    self.javaObject:setAnchorLeft(self.anchorLeft);
    self.javaObject:setAnchorRight(self.anchorRight);
    self.javaObject:setAnchorTop(self.anchorTop);
    self.javaObject:setAnchorBottom(self.anchorBottom);
    self.javaObject:setWantKeyEvents(self.wantKeyEvents or false);
    self.javaObject:setForceCursorVisible(self.forceCursorVisible or false);
    self:createChildren();
end

So I would definitely recommend both as they seem to have very distinct purposes.

[thick karma]

Also, ISButton:new never uses blankPanel to call blankPanel:addChild so I would have both of those lines as well.

[sage mantle]

ah yes, the tunnel bore tank

nah but for real I got fence destruction to work. just need to add signs in

I did this ``` elseif instanceof(obj, "IsoObject") then
-- Check if the object has the specified tile properties
local tileProperties = obj:getProperties()
if (tileProperties:Is(IsoFlagType.HoppableN) or
tileProperties:Is(IsoFlagType.HoppableW) or
tileProperties:Is(IsoFlagType.TallHoppableN) or
tileProperties:Is(IsoFlagType.TallHoppableW)) then

                    vehicle:playSound("VehicleHitTree")
                    
                    -- Check if the object is a building component
                    local stairObjects = buildUtil.getStairObjects(obj)
                    if #stairObjects > 0 then
                        -- If it's a stair object, destroy it
                        for k = 1, #stairObjects do
                            if isClient() then
                                sledgeDestroy(stairObjects[k])
                            else
                                stairObjects[k]:getSquare():RemoveTileObject(stairObjects[k])
                            end
                        end
                    elseif not tileProperties:Is(IsoFlagType.solidfloor) then
                        -- If it's not a solid floor tile, remove it
                        if isClient() then
                            sledgeDestroy(obj)
                        else
                            k:RemoveTileObject(obj)
                            k:getSpecialObjects():remove(obj)
                            k:getObjects():remove(obj)
                        end
                    end
                end
            end```

[dawn portal]

I'll try that when I can, thank you for your help!

[thick karma]

Nothing to try above, just answering your question from earlier about why you see initialise and instantiate, which sound like they might serve the same purpose but afaik do not.

[sage mantle]

trying to figure out what tile property for road signs

[dawn portal]

oh I see, sorry I just glossed over the code. don't have access to my computer. I guess calling one should be enough. as far as I'm familiar with other software usually something like "initialize" or "init" is enough, it feels weird having 2 functions do the same thing pretty much

[thick karma]

If you read my messages you'll see that calling one is probably not enough.

They do entirely different things despite similar names.

[gleaming sorrel]

Making some textures but the ear seems to be staying the same color

Any idea why?

[mellow frigate]

k:RemoveTileObject(obj)
--k:getSpecialObjects():remove(obj)--not needed, included in k:RemoveTileObject(obj)
--k:getObjects():remove(obj)--not needed, included in k:RemoveTileObject(obj)

[sage mantle]

yeah I'll take those out, but I'm more interested in figuring out how to get signs and roadblocks to be affected

[mellow frigate]

are you using the ingame chunk debugger ?

[sage mantle]

nah I actually forgot to try that lol

[mellow frigate]

it is fire 🙂

[sage mantle]

I'll check it out

[robust locust]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3174889729&searchtext=hanksie

it's not elegant, but it does the job!

I think the distributions is working... they're still craftable tho

[bright fog]

Why do you not replace the fences with the broken down versions ?

[bright fog]

The UV is probably elsewhere

Check where the base model UV sets the ears

[sage mantle]

I dunno just the way I did it. I took the code to break everything and then used the is hoppable property to filter out everything else so it just breaks the fences

so it breaks every kind of fence even like chain link and stuff. Also like the military fences and sandbags because I used the nothoppable tile property too

thats how I had it as a tunnel bore too because that was just the function without the filters

I guess I could probably use destroyFence()

[gleaming sorrel]

Ok I checked using the damage decals
The back part of the ear is a ways above the front of the ear texture

Probably gonna have to go through a few of my textures to fix the mistakes from that

Really need to figure out how people do this in blender

[sage mantle]

is the ear a separate object from the head? I'd think you'd be able to import the mesh and check the UV map

[bright fog]

do what?

[bright fog]

No that's probably not it, just it probably links somewhere else in the UV texture

[sage mantle]

you think maybe both ears share the same UV?

[bright fog]

No that's not what I meant

Just the place where you think it is, isn't actually the place where the texture is

[sage mantle]

#1211658917877260359 message

Increasing engine loudness and the new MG makes for some epic results lol

[robust locust]

does anyone know why my mod no longer be picked up off the wall?
I'm getting "testnill" in the debug window, and lots of them.

It worked when I tested right before i uploaded to the workshop

[bright fog]

Did you put a print in lua ?

[gleaming sorrel]

Textures
I would prefer work on a 3d model instead of a 2d image

Everything stretchs out so sometimes like with the ears it takes a bit to find where a texture molds over the model

[bright fog]

The issue is that I'm not sure if you can access the current UV map of the model of the game

You'd have to find the folder where the model of the zombies are kept

[gleaming sorrel]

I'm near certain its kept in the models_X folder

[bright fog]

probably

Search for bob and kate models

(fr)

[gleaming sorrel]

I can find a kate in the models folder

No bob

Only place both are is in the animation folder

[robust locust]

What do you mean by a print in lua?
DerGeisler did some great detective work and suggested putting HGW.[itemname] in the tile definitions and it fixed everything.

[bright fog]

👌

I'm not familiar with script files and how they work exactly

But that looked like something printing in the console and all I know is that comes from a function printing it in the log

[robust locust]

oh ok... no I didn't put any print lines in anywhere... i'm not good enough for that stuff yet 😄

[bright fog]

np

[robust locust]

is weird why it's doing that tho. not seen it before. so long as it's not killing anything, i guess it's not a biggie

[young aurora]

Hello, if anyone could help me I'd greatly appreciate it.

I am trying to add a multi-barrel shotgun, but the double barrel reload animation is fixed to show the character loading two shells. I have found the vanilla reload animations (LoadDblBarrel.xml and LoadDblBarrelSawnoff.xml) and attempted tweaking them to no avail. When looping the animation, the character simply loads 2/x rounds every time you reload until full.

I have also found the Bob_Reload_DBShotgun_Load.X file though it is very large and I have no idea where to look/what to tweak. (I opened it in Notepad++, though I am sure that is not the correct way to open that file).

Please @ me/reply etc if you are able and willing to help! Thanks in advance!

[cosmic ermine]

I might release my traits and professions mod without multiplayer support and then support it on the next update, you guys think that's fine?

[bright fog]

Could be fine yeah but eh

You could just wait and finish it fully ?

But I get the impatience, I'm currently holding myself from sharing my zombie framework lol

[thick karma]

Fine is relative, but I would also wait until I finished MP support if it were me. Besides, I can't imagine it even needs much if it's a traits mod... Most stuff would presumably be done clientside with player mod data...

Unless your traits add lightning bolt attacks

[oak mason]

That's heat, I'm a big Hl2 fan so can't wait to see more, I'm a concerned citizen

[clever shell]

I can't read lol - reposting here, triyng to replace the baseball bat model with a custom made .fbx model and im getting this as a result. Anyone know what could be the cause?

[austere sequoia]

that looks like a scaling issue. You will mostlikely have to scale your model down quite a lot

[clever shell]

see I thought i did, I matched it to the original model

[austere sequoia]

I am no blender pro, so take everything with a grain of salt of course 🙂 But you have a texture and the game is loading something that it thinks is your model. So I would bet on scaling

[clever shell]

yeah, good point

is there a reference for what the scale should be?

[rancid panther]

from my experience, not making sure that multiplayer was properly supported from release really impacted its success. i got a lot of questions about multiplayer early on and by the time i added support i haven't gotten a lot of feedback on whether it is working or not or if people are enjoying it now

at the same time tho, more people tend to comment if they have a request or a complaint. so the fact that no one is commenting anymore is also a sign that the mod is good enough for most people

[cosmic ermine]

If I were to add MP support right now before its first release then how would I test it by myself?

[outer crypt]

No easy answer... I test as much solo, then rent a server to test it there. To verify moddata transfer I just load in another character and sometimes I just need another player. If you have a server and need a body for testing, let me know when I am online. Sometimes a proper failure only comes out when 3 people are online, etc...

Sometimes I just need to wait a couple of days to get a friend that knows the exact test I need to run to hop on and try it. Some people have had luck with a local server and multiple copies of PZS running at once in different windows. Never could get that to work.

[warped valve]

Is there a way to re-add an IsoLightObject with addLamppost() that doesn't involve hooking into the LoadGridsquare event? I'm trying to persist one between server restarts

[bronze yoke]

if you play with the game in non-steam mode you can just run two instances and connect to yourself

[warped valve]

Nvm, I just went with LoadGridsquare after all

[cosmic ermine]

.exe and steam shortcut?

Ah, wasn't there x64 and x32 versions?

[bronze yoke]

a steam copy always launches using steam by default, use the -nosteam launch parameter

[fading horizon]

I never ended up releasing this. With the popularity of the source material now, would there be any interest in me finishing it and releasing it?

[upper helm]

YOU'RE DOING YOUR PART

[austere sequoia]

Hey guys: Very basic question - how do you search through lua files? When I use windows searchbar, it cant find lua files, neither search through their contents, as it would do for txt files

[young edge]

In the windows search you can do *.lua and it will find any lua files.
The asterisk is a wildcard. I think you can even use it for partial words, but I don't remember rn

[austere sequoia]

That is working! Awesome, thank you!

[rancid panther]

ask someone to run a test with you.

[bright fog]

Use vs code

[thick karma]

Index the folders with the Lua files and add Lua to indexed filetypes.

[steady lagoon]

Hey guys, I'm creating a custom weapon which should have infinite ammo by default. I created the weapon, defined a magazine, but how can I actually make it spawn directly with the magazine inside of it and without the bullets depleting on everyshot? The only thing I could, at the moment, was to spawn a clip with max ammo=999 and add 999 bullets into it, but that is kind of tedious to do.

[thick karma]

@austere sequoia https://www.geeksinphoenix.com/blog/post/2022/05/15/optimize-searching-for-files-in-windows-10-and-windows-11-using-indexing-options

[steady lagoon]

Can this be done through scripts or should I make a .lua for it?

[austere sequoia]

thanks, I will have a look at this!

[ornate parrot]

Hey, quick question

I want to try making a simple mod that allows you to unbutton the formal shirt

Like, wear it open collar

But the thing is, I don’t know how to go about that. I know you can just make another texture, but switching to that alternative texture in game in the same way you can with Spongie’s is what I’m trying to figure out

[bright fog]

Well first off, in terms of coding, just check how Spongie does ir

Secondly for the models, you will have to learn how to use Blender and texturing in it, as well as modifying models

[ornate parrot]

Oh wait I thought it was just a texture

[bright fog]

Could be yeah

I'm not too familiar how Spongie does it

[ornate parrot]

If it was a jacket I’m sure I’d have to use blender

But IIRC if it’s just a regular shirt it should just be as simple as changing the texture

Or, to be more specific, changing the item ingame as you’re wearing it

[bright fog]

Idk how shirts are handled by the game but you can change the textures of the shirt yes that's possible

Tho is just changing the texture enough ?

[ornate parrot]

So you could change it from Formal Shirt to an item called Formal Shirt (Open Collar), which would change the texture of the shirt you’re wearing by making it an alternate item

I presume the way you do it is crafting it in Spongie’s

so when you right click on the shirt, you craft it into the alternative variant of it, being a different item.

That different item only being the shirt with just a texture change.

[vast jasper]

😂 for heavens sake i wish i knew how these new doors worked, i dont want to make door tiles just to have them not be usable in build 42

[small topaz]

Spongies Mod (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812326159) already contains various open shirts.

However, if you like to make your own version, here is one possible approach where I assume you'd like to arrange things so that you can unbutton your formal shirt via right clicking on it and then selecting a new option:

1. Edit your clothing item and bring it into game. (Either using blender and making a 3D model or just edit a texture depending on your likening. Vanilla formal shirts are just textures). The unbuttoned version of the formal shirt will then in fact be a new clothing item.

2. The vanilla game contains a .lua file lua/client/ISUI/ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.lua. There the function createMenu() generates the menu which appears in game when you right click and item in your inventory. Add an option for opening your formal shirt (and maybe for closing it again in case it is open...).

3. When the option has been clicked, simply exchange the default formal shirt with your edited one. A typical way to achieve is is using a TimedAction (TimedActions are also used by the vanilla when you exchange clothes for example).

4. In step 3, you might like to transfer all properties form one shirt to the other For example, when the worn shirt has condition 50%, the opened version should probably also have condition 50%. Similar things might apply to dirtiness, bloodiness and other attributes a clothing item can have.

[ornate parrot]

Oh yeah, makes sense

I’m not familiar with LUA however so I’ll have to figure that out as well

When I speak about unbuttoned though I only mean so the collar is open

[small topaz]

Ah ok. Then it is different from what Spongie did. My bad. 🙂

Anyway, the overall strategy I outlined would still apply to your case (may still be there are better way to do this... it's just one suggestion).

Some lua coding for the approached I outlined is necessary and I doubt that your mod project could be realized without any coding...

[ornate parrot]

Agreed

Though, it shouldn’t be very difficult to do in the first place

Since, it is indeed the same as the way that it was done in Spongie’s mod

Might not be an entirely good practice, but I could just take what was done in Spongie’s and just copy it over

I’d want this to be an add-on that just adds yet another way to mess with the shirt

[bright fog]

You don't even have to do maje a whole new item I think

[ornate parrot]

You wouldn’t?

[bright fog]

You can in fact just use textures

Items have texture variants and there's an easy way to swap between those I believe

[ornate parrot]

Hmmm

That is a good point actually

Having the collar open wouldn’t change any of the protection values or how insulating the shirt is

[small topaz]

Didn't knew that changing textures of clothing in game is possible. Then this could simplify things...

[ornate parrot]

Yeah

Only thing though it has to be changeable ingame, not in character select

Like, by right clicking on it and stuff

[small topaz]

this coud still be realized by some lua coding. even if you just exchange textures somehow

[ornate parrot]

Hmm, hopefully

it would just be a mostly cosmetic exchange as well, unlike opening the shirt or rolling up the sleeves

I’ll see what I can do but I don’t know how I could do that with LUA coding because I don’t know how to code with Lua

Most modding I’ve done was map modding but that’s it

[bright fog]

Yes that's still doable

If you want more in-depth help:
https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

I will just point you towards your solution:
-look for itemVisuals
-look for commands you can apply on clothing items
-check out how to make custom menus for items

(context menu)

[ornate parrot]

Though, one extra thing

I do want it to be compatible with Spongie’s

So you’re able to have the unbuttoned collar with rolled up sleeves and such

[bright fog]

You're changing the same items than Spongie does ?

[ornate parrot]

Yes

The formal shirt

Being able to make it have an unbuttoned collar

[bright fog]

You can definitely make it compatible, in fact the texture change could make it even more compatible since Spongie might not use that but I have no idea how he handles his stuff

[ornate parrot]

But IIRC, I don’t think Spongie’s replaces the collar shirt, only lets you change it into different variants

[ornate parrot]

It’s handled via crafting I think

[bright fog]

You'll have to look at how Spongie does it bcs then you could just make your mod an addon to his own

[bright fog]

Yes but if he adds new items, models, textures or else

[ornate parrot]

I think so

From what I know, you right click on the shirt (either while you’re wearing it or not), and choose what option (rolled up sleeves, open, etc) and then you change the shirt to that variant

Usually via a timed action

And the shirt’s name usually something like “Formal Shirt (Rolled Up)”

[ornate parrot]

It’s either that or what was outlined here

It could possibly be what Razab said as opposed to just crafting since when you change shirts, the animation looks as if you’re putting something on

[small topaz]

Hmmm.... in case you'd like to have a shirt which can be unbuttoned (from your mod) and rolled up (from Spongie's Mod) at the same time, I guess you have to make a texture for each possible case, so one texture for "only unbottned" and one texture for "unbottened and rolled" and so on... Can't imagine how this will work automatically...

[ornate parrot]

Way I was thinking was adding 2 more options for when you change the shirt

When you right click for the shirt on Spongie’s, the options are:
Rolled up
Open rolled up
Open
Closed

[bright fog]

Yes wow incredible but I just described to you at least 10 different ways to do it lmao. You'll have to go look at his code in depth

[ornate parrot]

I understand

[bright fog]

You could possibly to it in an even more fancy way but it all depends what he does in his mod

You'll just have to look at how he does it and be smart on your way of doing it

[ornate parrot]

That’s fair

Either way, it shouldn’t be too hard it’s just adding 2 more variants

Or 4 if you count the colored shirts but I don’t think I want to mess with those

[bright fog]

Be it the way you described it. The issue is if he uses models, you'll have to make models unless you create textures for all his model variants or if he uses textures then do the same

[small topaz]

whoops... I meant "unbottened and rolled up" in my previous comment. "unbottened and opened" make no sense XD Edited

[ornate parrot]

Luckily it isn’t since it’s just a shirt and not a jacket

It’s all good lol

[bright fog]

Don't shirts use models ?

[ornate parrot]

Shirts are just textures from what I know

[small topaz]

yeah. just textures here

[bright fog]

👌

Easy then

[ornate parrot]

So in theory it should be very easy then

[small topaz]

From what I see, Spongie seems to use some APIs for adding new options like "rolled up" in the UI. Maybe you could also try to use them. This could make it easier to make the mods work together as you like it

[ornate parrot]

That’s what I’m going to try doing

[bright fog]

Me waiting for the moment he realises it is, in fact, hard asf to do

[ornate parrot]

That’s why I said “in theory”

In reality it is just adding two extra options for when you change the textures in Spongie’s so

[bright fog]

Oh yeah spongie has an api in a separate mod no ?

[ornate parrot]

I don’t think so

?

Not if I can recall

[small topaz]

yeah. spongie requires in fact two API mods and the functions of those seems to be to simplify adding custom options for clothing items (among other things)

here they are: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2810800927 https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=566115016

[ornate parrot]

Ohhhh I see

Unsure if that’d make it easier however

[small topaz]

they are set as requirement in spongies mod's steam page

[ornate parrot]

But they do seem to add the option

[small topaz]

using those API mods usually comes with advantages and disadvantages...

[ornate parrot]

Like?

[bright fog]

No control over it, dependent ok mods

Advantages less work

[ornate parrot]

If my mod is an addon for another mod then it being dependent on other mods isn’t much of an issue

[small topaz]

Advantages: 1. You may not need to write too much code since you can simply use some predefined functions from the API.
2. Since Spongie seems to use them, just using the same APIs may make it easier to make both your mods work together nicely.

Disadvantage: 1. If the APIs contain bugs, your mod might also be malfunctioning and your are completely dependent upon the API's creators and wait until they fix them (which might happen quickley, slowly or never). Even worse, the authors could also remove them from the workshop.
2. An update of the API could require you to update your mod too.
3. Modlists of users get longer (= more annoying mod management)

[ornate parrot]

That’s fair

The disadvantages seem negligible however atleast in this scenario

[small topaz]

ya... it's just a matter of personal preference. Totally fine to use them but also legitimate to try to avoid them.

[latent hare]

heya, i want to make my first ever project zomboid mod, where should i start?

[ornate parrot]

Alright

I’m gonna see how I can utilize the API

Not that I know how but having access to it for what I’m trying to do really does simplify things

[small topaz]

Some nice basic infos can be found here: https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/blob/master/api/README.md

but really depends on what you'd like to do...

[small topaz]

if you want to make your mod dependent on spongie's, then it will automatically be dependent on the APIs which spongie has as requirement. so you might not loose anything by using the APIs too

[ornate parrot]

That’s the plan

[latent hare]

thank you so much, im also reading the modding part in the wiki, i just want to add ambience music for now, maybe later i'll do something harder!

[ornate parrot]

Well I’m gonna figure this out later when I’m back on my desktop

Came a long way from making map mods 🥶

[warped valve]

Any ideas on how to play sounds/music to the client so that other people won't hear it?

[bright fog]

Run it client side only for the player ?

[bronze yoke]

assuming you're already using a sound emitter and you're just trying to stop it from networking, the -Impl methods don't get networked automatically, whereas the ones missing that suffix do

[bright fog]

Or send command to a specific player

[warped valve]

That's what I'm trying with the getSoundManager() but maybe I'm using the wrong function

[warped valve]

Oh ok, I'll look into using those. Thank you albion!

[clever shell]

hey folks - back at it again, figured out my first problem and it definitely was scaling, I wasn't applying the scale or exporting right lol. New problem, it looks like the textures are using the default baseball bat despite me changing it in the games folders, is there anything I'm missing?

nvm figured it out - I thought textures would update automatically but that's just models lol

[final finch]

What is the most up to date/commonly used .pack unpacker? I'm trying to unpack a mod for troubleshooting a minor compatibility issue. (Trying to see what Plain Moodles looks like.)

The one I found and used (Zomboid Pack Manager 1.0) did not seem to work.

[mellow frigate]

@jagged fulcrum knows

[final finch]

And neither has PZ UnPacker

[buoyant merlin]

hey I found the answer to this: the Shared NPCs Bodylocations lua IS an order-of-operations list. I moved, for instance, "shirt" ongenerate to come after "pants" and now my shirts are "untucked" and visible over any pants textures (models excepted)

so the order each category appears in that file's generation list is the order it "paints" the model, and you can directly change it by cut and paste

[final finch]

It's a rather minor issue. Basically it looks like they scale poorly due to how they were made, but I just want to check if what I think is the issue is correct.

Thank you very much!

[bright fog]

👀

[final finch]

Oh interesting, thank you very much! It looks like my assumptions were wrong, and they should scale fine, but the API I'm using might not be properly expecting the change in size.

Is it possible that the mod is improperly scaling the images down in game, due to how they're packed? They seem smaller than vanilla, and have some blurring that reminds me of bilinear scaling.

Next to the yellow line, do you see the slight bleed?

You gotta squint since it's quite small. 😅 But it becomes obvious with my mod that makes moodles resizable. I can see it though. And it looks different than it does in the files.

It seems to be an issue with how the game is scaling them, possibly due to them being 32x35, instead of 32x32. Though that resolution seems mostly necessary to properly position the heads.

The background looks a lot sharper in the base image... 😩

Wdym the tiles are the same size?

How do you check this information? I'm using TileZed as well, which I think is the same thing.

Since it says Tiled at the top.

Ah yeah I'm in the pack viewer.

Just didn't see that additional information.

👀

[bronze yoke]

i remember chuck having some issue with non-vanilla textures scaling differently? but maybe i'm conflating something

[final finch]

God damn it. 🤣

Thank you so very much. I didn't realize how much it compressed them. I'll be sure to tell people on the mod page to turn that off. 😅

[sour island]

The texture compression was it, also the max texture size impacts textures abnormally.

Or I could be misremembering it, I think I wrote a bug report a while back.

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/69019-textures-are-getting-shrank-more-than-needed-when-the-texture-size-limit-is-hit/#comment-393379

[drifting ore]

Hello, I'm curious about updating my mod that added food variants and distributions to the world, and there is current subscriber an ongoing multiplayer server. Is it safe to do?

[small topaz]

Just cut and paste will overwrite the vanilla body locations and all manipulations done to body locations by mods which are loaded before yours making them incompatible. To solve the issue, you can backup all body locations in a lua table, reset the vanilla locations and restore them step by step. You can then apply your changes during the restore process. You also have to back up all infos related to body location like "setHideModel" and stuff to make it work properly.

[small topaz]

In every case, server owners have to restart their server to make the update effective. Before the server restart, players are not able to login to the server.

In most cases, updating a mod should be completely safe for singleplayer as long as your updates are save game compatible.

In case your update is not save game compatible, single player as well as servers must start a completely new game.

For the thing about the food distribution, you should note that your update may not affect parts of the game where the items have already spawned. But this depends on what exactly your mod and the updates do.

[austere sequoia]

Do you by any chance happen to know how to fix when only a part of the files are indexed? I made windows index lua, and made it index my PZ folder. When I search I rarely get luas searched including their content, what leads me to believe that in principal everything is working. But then it seem like it only indexed a fraction of the lua files, since some others cant even be searched for by their names

Next best option that is coming up to my mind would be wiping all of the indexes, so windows has to start from scratch. But I would prefer not to delete system files, lol

I also got the most windows notification ever trying to fix it: "Problem manager can not be started due to a problem" lol

[thick karma]

Uhhh I just followed the instructions and added Lua to the filetypes indexed, and made sure it selected all folders and subfolders I wanted it to search. Didn't delete any index rules, just added my own for the folders where I want to search for Lua in addition to everything else.

[austere sequoia]

dang it... I will keep trying around until it works then 🙂

[thick karma]

It does take time...

You're sure it finished indexing right?

Took a fair chunk of time to index ProjectZomboid e.g.

[austere sequoia]

it says "0 files left to index", so I'd guess. I just found the button to restart all the indexing on my PC. Will take some time (900k files), but should work hopefully

[bronze yoke]

you can just open the lua folder with your ide and search it there

[austere sequoia]

ide?

[bronze yoke]

the program you use to edit code

[austere sequoia]

the editor can search my files for the contents of lua code? oO

[thick karma]

That's was Jvla originally suggested, too. I was just directly answering the question about why Windows search wasn't searching what you wanted it to search. When Jvla said use VS Code they meant open folder in VS Code and do folder search.

Ctrl Shift F unless I changed the default and forgot.

[austere sequoia]

I can do Ctrl F when I have files opened in Windoes Editor. I somehow get the feeling that we are talking about different Editors.

What do you use?

[thick karma]

I also use VS Code. But I frequently do Windows searches because it's more convenient than opening a folder in VS Code every time I want to search it.

If by "Windows Editor" you mean Notepad, only masochists and people who lack experience code in Notepad.

Booooo Notepad

(I'm joking, you're allowed to like Notepad, but I would need to be masochistic to want to use it over a proper editor.)

[austere sequoia]

I might possibly fall into the first category, most definitely into the second. Notepad worked fine so far though xD

With VS-Code you mean Visual Studio, what is preinstalled in windows?

[thick karma]

VS Code is Visual Studio Code, an app in the VS family of programs.

https://www.google.com/search?q=vs code &ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m

[bronze yoke]

it's pretty lightweight and user friendly, even if you don't know how to use many of its features it should be a far better experience than notepad

[austere sequoia]

got it! Thats awesome, thank you to both of you! I am still new to programming, so I dont know shit

[thick karma]

Good luck!

[austere sequoia]

That is sooo much better than opening each file by hand in Notepad and searching it for specific terms xD

I love it already

[thick karma]

Lmao yeah

There is an open folder shortcut too and by default the shortcut is absolutely awful if I remember right

Idk I make it Ctrl Shift O and take other shortcuts off of that

Is it Ctrl K O by default? Idr but it feels bad to me

[austere sequoia]

ctrl k o, yes 😄 too complicated

[thick karma]

Yeah oof I changed it

keyboard stuff can be rebound in menu

I prefer ctrl O for file ctrl shift O for folder personally.

I think VS Code defaults use ctrl shift O for switching focus to open files and also jumping to things in open files

Which can be useful sometimes but doesn't feel like it belongs on ctrl shift o to me

[austere sequoia]

Yeah, I guess I will find my optimal shortcuts by playing around 🙂

[small topaz]

Hi! I have a situation where I have to use identical auxiliary functions in different .lua files in my mod's cient folder. Performance wise, it is a good idea to copy-paste the auxiliary functions and put them as local functions in the respective .lua file? Or is it better to make only one version for each auxiliary function, set them global and just call them in the different .luas whenever I need them?

[heady crystal]

You can easily code without using the mouse at all in VS Code

Plus, assuming you're not running Win 11, VS Code has a dark theme so you don't go blind

[austere sequoia]

the dark theme definitely has its benefits over notepad!

[thick karma]

I had entirely forgotten W10 Notepad still doesn't have a standard dark mode... What garbage lol

I have W11 so even Notepad isn't that kind of terrible. White backgrounds. Oof.

[austere sequoia]

So lets say I want to write a mod that changes one tiny thing in lua (somthing stupid like make the counterclock rotate key alt instead of shift), how would I replace a vanilla function (function ISPlace3DItemCursor:checkRotateKey in my example) with my own function? Just add it and it automatically overwrites vanilla function? Sorry for the super basic question, trying to fill my toolbox with some nescessities, lol

[thick karma]

Yes but we usually try to avoid doing that at all costs. What people recommend instead is decoration, which involves override but doesn't completely throwaway original functionality and is therefore more compatible with other mods.

At least that works if the module is a Lua module and it's either global or you've required it successfully somehow.

You just want to rebind the checkRotateKey function? Is that your literal goal r.n.?

[austere sequoia]

lua module - a lua file?
global - in the shared folder?
required - what exactly does this mean in this context? The "require "ISLUAStuff" "

[thick karma]

Lua module = classlike Lua table.

Can be used either statically or dynamically in the instantiation of objects or the derivation of functionality.

[thick karma]

Lua require = import

It means, "Establish this file as a dependency, make sure it has already run, and grab the return values it provides after it runs."

[austere sequoia]

At least for testing and learning. If I can succesfully change a couple of characters, I will eventually change whole lines and then eventually add functions. at least thats the plan, lol. Thank you a lot for your assistance

[thick karma]

You can catch them by going local ReturnedModule = require("ReturnedModuleFilenameWithNoExtension")

local is optional but considered good practice to keep the table of global variables (including modules) limited

@austere sequoia https://github.com/Zendachi/Wookiee-Tutorial-Party-Animal/tree/main

your answer is part of this.

Many other questions you'll have will also be answered there

[austere sequoia]

oooh, thats awesome. I love the explanations!

[rancid panther]

u should consider instead of replacing the keybinds to just make those options bindable through modoptions or whatever is the most up-to-date alternative. that way you can update it for other keybinds you wanna change and still have it available if u host a server with friends who dont wanna change those binds

[austere sequoia]

local is just the prefix "local"? How exactly does it effect how it works/is loaded? I would assume that global stuff is constantly loaded, local stuff only when certain parameters are hit?

[rancid panther]

idk what is currently bindable or not bindable, but i think anything that changes a keybind might as well just be an option (from client-side) instead of a full replacement

[austere sequoia]

It really is not meant for any mod 🙂 I just want to start as tiny as I can think of: By changing a single key

[rancid panther]

oh ok

if u wanna start simple, try making a flag with that flag mod

[thick karma]

The link I provided shows how to use Mod Options for a custom keybind

It also demonstrates function decoration

[rancid panther]

i see

[thick karma]

It also explains modules

[rancid panther]

whatever burryaga sent is probably already more than enough info for a launching point

[austere sequoia]

I mean simple LUA, I already did a couple of mods, also with tiles and stuff. Now I am trying to get into LUA, since without much of the stuff I want to achieve would lack elegance or even the potential to work in the first place

[rancid panther]

good luck!

[austere sequoia]

Thanks 🙂

[thick karma]

It also may explain scope which is the answer to this question.

I am trying to find you a good link for the basics of scope but everything is overcomplicating it so I'll just try to tell you.

[rancid panther]

my first mod was just some traits that changed stats, and i kept branching out to more things i wanted/thought were doable

so i only slightly increased in ambition each time and made better and better mods

burryaga helped me make blackouts work in multiplayer and greatly optimized it, so you're in good hands

gn!

[thick karma]

@austere sequoia Scope is the field of existence (or at least referenceability) for any variable define in any computer program. Often scope is indicated by keywords like then and end or special characters like { }.

[austere sequoia]

good night!

[thick karma]

The broadest of all scopes is the "global" scope. In Lua, variables are global by default. This means that if you declare a variable in file A.lua, and then that file loads, and then you try to access the variable in file B.lua, it will work.

[austere sequoia]

And locals only work in file A?

and in the "require" files?

[thick karma]

The next broadest scope would be files; if you declare a local variable at the root level of a file, it continues to be referenceable from any code that executes in that file after that declaration.

[austere sequoia]

what is the "root level"?

[thick karma]

Not in any function or module.

module or table

Modules are are just a kind of Lua table

Almost everything "fancy" in Lua is done using Lua tables, which are very flexible.

[austere sequoia]

so those lone standing lines beginning with "local"?

[thick karma]

aLuaTable = {
  looks = "like",
  this = "."
}

[thick karma]

Right exactly. E.g. a lot of files have require lines at the top of their files which I would describe as running at the root level of the file, by which I just mean the outermost scope in that file.

[austere sequoia]

as in where all the functions are I reference in the file?

[thick karma]

Now as soon as you enter a table or a function or a loop or various other defined constructs in Lua, you enter new scopes, and locals defined there are only referenceable from within those scopes after they are declared.

[thick karma]

Usually, yes.

Sometimes people define new functions within other functions.

[austere sequoia]

I have seen that, yes

[thick karma]

@austere sequoia Therefore:

function ayoooooo()
  local x = 5
  return "psych"
end

print(x) --> prints nil

[austere sequoia]

I dont fully get this point. Could you give me an example? As I understood it: If I want to reference a local within a table, it has to be a local that is defined in another table?

[thick karma]

See above.

What I'm saying is that a local in a function, e.g., does not "exist" for practical purposes (or more specifically can no longer be referenced) once you are no longer running commands in that function.

[austere sequoia]

Ah, awesome! So I thought correctly. Sorry, I dont know a lot of the proper terms yet, so I have to translate your smart people language into my stupid people language 😛

[thick karma]

Even if that function is global, its locals are limited to its own scope. ayoooooo above is in fact global because I did not tell it to be local.

[thick karma]

No it's cool I wrote it the second before you asked.

I knew you would need an example

I am operating under the assumption that you, too, are human.

And this is alien speech.

[austere sequoia]

it is not that easy to wrap ones head around, but I slowly am getting a picture. I am fine with "alien" speech though! 😄 Got to learn it somehow

[austere sequoia]

so what exactly would this example do?

[thick karma]

So then, as I mentioned, loops and modules and some other things are also scopes, and you can have scopes within scopes within scopes where things come to exist and get recreated over and over. Each iteration of a loop, e.g., is its own scope.

[thick karma]

Print nil in console.

because the label x would be interpreted as having the value nil (no value ever assigned)

Because the line local x = 5 was done in deeper scope than the file-level print statement

So the file-level print statement has no reference to it

[austere sequoia]

!!!! But if you move the local line out of the function, it would work?

[thick karma]

Correct.

[austere sequoia]

the "--> prints nil" are your notes, not part of the code?

[thick karma]

Keys declared in Lua tables are also being declared in their own scope. So if you do this:

local y = 5

local DerGeisslinAround = {
  x = 3,
  y = 4,
  z = 7
}

print(x) --> prints nil
print(y) --> prints 5 (not 4).
print(DerGeisslinAround.z) --> prints 7

[austere sequoia]

How would you make it reference the table?

print({y}) probably not like this?

[thick karma]

Added that example

[austere sequoia]

aaaaaah!!!!

tablename.value

because the whole table is a local. and we reference the locals

[thick karma]

And you can also have functions that use this to make your code a bit simpler:

function getPlayerXYZ()
  local player = getPlayer() --> Keyboard player, no good for splitscreen.
  local x = getPlayer():getX()
  local y = getPlayer():getY()
  local z = getPlayer():getZ()
  local xyz = {
    x = x, --> The LEFT variable is a new variable, a key defined in the xyz table's scope.
    y = y, --> The RIGHT variable is the variable from the scope of getPlayerXYZ.
    z = z
  }
  return xyz
end

(This would almost certainly be a pointless function to have, it's jut an example for understanding.)

[thick karma]

You could also reference them if they were globals. We just don't declare them as globals because there is a table of global variables that has a rather large number of globals already, and the modding community is making an effort to minimize that practice.

There is measurable performance cost in using global table references instead of local variables.

Especially for looping references.

[austere sequoia]

one would think so!

[thick karma]

So people try to encourage newbies to make their modules local whenever possible.

[austere sequoia]

like redstone clocks on crack?

[thick karma]

lol I never played MC tbh

Only with kids

(I worked daycare for awhile)

[austere sequoia]

it basically is a never ending, continous circle that keeps ticking forever. That is what I believe a loop to be from what it sounds like. Stuff like checking for certain conditions to be met, probably

correct me if I am wrong, lol

[thick karma]

Oh no

Loops are not neverending

Sorry I could not understand what you were asking for a minute

[austere sequoia]

btw, off topic: is there a way to save/favorite this conversation?

[thick karma]

A loop is a structure in programming that tells a certain process to happen repeatedly under certain conditions, but not necessarily forever.

Usually a loop that never ends is a mistake; in Zomboid, it would definitely be a mistake.

Only the main game is allowed to loop forever.

[austere sequoia]

so it is never ending with an on/off switch

[thick karma]

If you tried writing a loop that lasted forever, your game would freeze and crash.

[thick karma]

Most loops are defined to happen a specific number of times.

A loop that is neverending until a switch is flipped is called a while loop.

for loops are more common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMacxZQMPXs

I always like this guy's language overviews.

Then here would be another good place to start learning fundamentals of programming (such as what people mean by loop): https://www.lua.org/pil/1.html

Keep in mind that his printing commands will differ from yours because it's a different environment

But a lot of structural patterns will apply

[austere sequoia]

dude, I cant thank you enough 🙂 That is awesome help, opening some knots in my brain

[thick karma]

One very helpful tool for learning Lua in Zomboid is debug mode. Are you using it yet?

[austere sequoia]

For testing, yes. Do you mean that small window on the bottom left that always tells what is currently going on (looks like codestuff to me)?

[thick karma]

Yes. You can also drop entire functions into it for testing, and just keep overwriting them and trying them differently, depending on the nature of the function

[austere sequoia]

as in copy pasting them and the game runs them?

[thick karma]

As in copy-paste and the game loads them

And then you can call them

to run them

[austere sequoia]

ahhhh, I get it

[thick karma]

So, to give you a specific example, you wanted to decorate this:

function ISPlace3DItemCursor:checkRotateKey()
    if self.chr:getPlayerNum() ~= 0 then return end
    if self.chr:getJoypadBind() ~= -1 then return end
    local pressed = isKeyDown(getCore():getKey("Rotate building"))
    local reverse = isShiftKeyDown()
    self:handleRotate(pressed, reverse)
end

[austere sequoia]

yes, exactly. that is what I was looking at when I came up with the example, lol. I guess I would have to turn "isShiftKeyDown" to "isXKeyDown"?

to make it use the X-Key instead?

[thick karma]

@austere sequoia In order to do what you want, you would really need to intervene in the middle of this function's process, but that would require decorating isKeyDown (which most would not recommend because that's a major global function that everyone needs to work correctly and quickly), or overriding (which again I would discourage). My favorite solution would therefore be to replicate a few conditional checks to figure out what the outcome will be, and branch as needed:

local DerGeisslinAround = {}

-- Container for any decorations of Indie Stone's Place3DItemCursor functions:
DerGeisslinAround.Place3DItemCursor = {} 

-- Store reference to original function:
DerGeisslinAround.Place3DItemCursor.checkRotateKey = ISPlace3DItemCursor.checkRotateKey

function ISPlace3DItemCursor:checkRotateKey()
    if self.chr:getPlayerNum() ~= 0 then return end
    if self.chr:getJoypadBind() ~= -1 then return end
    local pressed = isKeyDown(getCore():getKey("Rotate building"))
    if not pressed then
      pressed = isKeyDown(getCore():getKey("Your custom keybind name"))
      local reverse = isShiftKeyDown()
      self:handleRotate(pressed, reverse)
    else
      DerGeisslinAround.Place3DItemCursor.checkRotateKey(self) -- Call original function.
    end
end

Lua note: : in the function signature is a way of passing "instances" around. Without going into endless detail, the instance gets passed as self. When you call your backup reference to original function, you don't use : notation on the object itself, so you need to manually pass self forward.

To understand more about what an instance actually is, you need to look into basics of object oriented programming.

[austere sequoia]

what does "container for decoration" mean. I assume you dont mean pixelart.

Store reference to original function is the part that makes my function override the original function?

[thick karma]

No you're saving a way to call the original function using a new label

[austere sequoia]

I still dont fully get it

[thick karma]

A function is called using a variable name that points to it.

In Lua, people (including me) often use the following notation for statically called functions:

MyModule.staticFunctionName = function(parameters, you, will, need)
  -- stuff happens
end

Which emphasizes that MyModule.staticFunctionName is just like any other variable... like x in x = 5

and in fact if you then said x = MyModule.staticFunctionName, you could do this:

MyModule.staticFunctionName = function(parameters, you, will, need)
  -- stuff happens
end

x = MyModule.staticFunctionName

x(parameters, you, will, need) -- stuff happens

That's what you're doing... you're saving the original function inside of a new variable.

Then you can redefine the MyModule.staticFunctionName to refer to a new function that does new stuff, but x will still do the original stuff.

MyModule.staticFunctionName = function(parameters, you, will, need)
  -- original stuff happens
end

x = MyModule.staticFunctionName

-- parameters, you, will, need assumed to exist
x(parameters, you, will, need) -- original stuff happens

MyModule.staticFunctionName = function(parameters, you, will, need)
  -- new stuff happens (original stuff overridden)
end

MyModule.staticFunctionName(parameters, you, will, need) -- new stuff happens

x(parameters, you, will, need) -- original stuff happens (still)

Might take awhile to sink in fully. You have to mentally separate the function itself from the label used to call it. Colloquially we often refer to ISPlace3DItemCursor.checkRotateKey as a function, but technically speaking it's a label that points to a function. The function itself is just data at a memory location, like the number 5, or "bob".

[austere sequoia]

That I understand 😄

[thick karma]

Okay good good.

Well then yeah you just gotta see how the function data continues to exist as it is in its original location even if the variable that originally pointed to it is told to point to a new function.

[thick karma]

That's the whole trick of this decoration.

[austere sequoia]

so that way I can specifically overwrite certain parts of functions?

leaving the rest of the function untouched

[thick karma]

Sort of. Technically you're adding behavior external to the original function

I didn't actually change anything about original function; I just don't call it if the key was wrong.

[austere sequoia]

if this behaviour collides with behaviour already present in the function, as what rotation key is used in the example, would this override the original function? Or would I get an error? or would both keys work?

[thick karma]

Both keys would work

In my example

Because it doesn't call the original function if it's not the original key

[austere sequoia]

ah, I get it. Now it makes sense

[thick karma]

And it doesn't call crucial lines of the new one if it is

[austere sequoia]

If I run into problems in the future, may I ask you for assistance?

[sour island]

Looking for testers for Expanded Heli Events: #1215626507846688808

Trying to figure out how to do this whole testing thing. I personally should be home around 5-6 EST. But the test requires no group participation, mostly seeing if events are wonky, if the sounds are good, etc.

[wheat kraken]

can i use getModData

to save persistent table?

to keep data stored, when loading a save again

[steady lagoon]

will the debug menu throw you an error on functions too? So you know which portion of the code is not working.

[thick karma]

It'll give you line numbers but they're a bit tough to interpret because they'll be relative to the first line in the chunk you enter. And if you enter a function with a runtime error it'll give you the usual error message for that exception.

[steady lagoon]

right

Still better than relying on writing/rungame and repeat

[thick karma]

For a ton of things, yes, it can save a lot of time

Sometimes it's just not worth the effort to avoid a restart, but if you just need to test a utility function with data that you can either fabricate or scrape using another function, it's much quicker.

You can also test functions added to events if you globalize them or their modules first and then remove them from the event before you overwrite them

(and then add them again after overwriting)

I've done this often when doing context menu stuff.

[steady lagoon]

the point is that I'm trying to spawn a custom gun with infinite ammo, I don't want to have infinite ammo on everything, just on this one but to do it I need to find this weapon in the inventory and then permanently keep the clip size to the max.
The problem is that the documentation seems to be obsolete, so maybe I can find some information directly through debugging.

[thick karma]

@steady lagoon I would add a function to OnEquipPrimary and grab item for a global variable as you equip it

[thick karma]

(then explore global for opportunities)

[steady lagoon]

Do I need to import those external libraries into my custom lua script or can I just call those events directly?

[thick karma]

Events.OnEquipPrimary.Add is global

[slow granite]

cf1c has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wheat kraken]

how can i store table, or table values in moddata?

and load it when game starts again (load, continue)

[modern hamlet]

I'm looking for the section where the maximum weight the character can carry is recalculated when he gains a level in STR, but I'm a little lost in the files, can anyone guide me?

[steady lagoon]

hello guys is there an event to check if you shot with a weapon?

[bright fog]

nop

But you could verify that your bullet hit a zombie or player

[steady lagoon]

you can use:
Events.OnPlayerAttackFinished.Add

just found it

it's better and is more graceful than onEquipPrimary

onEquipprimary is triggered on unequips as well

and you need to deal with Exceptions there

[bright fog]

True

Check the weapon in your hands is the correct one

local function OnPlayerAttackFinished(character, handWeapon)
    -- Your code here
end

Events.OnPlayerAttackFinished.Add(OnPlayerAttackFinished)

[humble cobalt]

I'm looking to ask a few questions to a modder regarding player currency, specifically with Shops - Noir. If anyone is familiar with it, that has a few moments to break it down for me, please let me know.

[supple grotto]

Good morning, friends.
I am creating a new map for Project Zomboid, and I've successfully completed almost everything. It's working perfectly in my game, but there's one issue: I don't know how to enable the map when I press the "m" key (the minimap). Can anyone provide assistance with this?
Thanks in advance.

[oblique shard]

if i start working on a custom map for the current build, will it carry across and work on build 42? or would i be better off waiting?

assuming most mods are gonna break too

[supple grotto]

I understand, it's indeed a good idea for those starting a new mod. However, it's a pity because I've already done everything on the map; only this minimap is missing. I just wanted to finish it since no other errors are occurring, only this one.

[bronze yoke]

making it local is slightly faster but doing it that way is a nightmare for maintenance, you don't want to have to remember to fix a bug in 5 different places - you can make these functions global and then pull them into the local namespace just using local myFunc = myFunc, or preferably use a module

[bright fog]

Example of what Albion is talking about with vanilla functions

--- Import functions localy for performances reasons
local table = table -- Lua's table module
local ipairs = ipairs -- ipairs function
local pairs = pairs -- pairs function
local ZombRand = ZombRand -- java function
local print = print -- print function
local tostring = tostring --tostring function

[bronze yoke]

pulling in members of the tables is also slightly faster```lua
string.gmatch(...) -- slowest

local string = string
string.gmatch(...) -- faster

local gmatch = string.gmatch
gmatch(...) -- fastest, but not by much

[supple grotto]

i found tks 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wITXnrBuoA0&ab_channel=CatRaven

[slow granite]

jackiel5245 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hot void]

oh hi

how can rename the sub menu

[austere sequoia]

item Hat_BaseballCap
{
DisplayCategory = Accessory,
Type = Clothing,
DisplayName = Baseball Cap,
ClothingItem = Hat_BaseballCap,
ClothingItemExtra = Hat_BaseballCap_Reverse,
ClothingItemExtraOption = ReverseCap,
clothingExtraSubmenu = ForwardCap,
BodyLocation = Hat,
IconsForTexture = BaseballCapRed;BaseballCapGreen;BaseballCapBlue,
CanHaveHoles = false,
ChanceToFall = 60,
Insulation = 0.10,
Weight = 0.5,
}

isnt it "clothingExtraSubmenu"?

[austere sequoia]

could also be "ClothingItemExtraOption", I dont have the game in english, so I cant check right now. But in your files it should be called "context menu_downhoodetc....", so you should be able to recognize it

[hot void]

@austere sequoia

like this?

[austere sequoia]

try it 😄 If it works for baseballcap, it should work for your hoodie

[austere sequoia]

It it working?

[hot void]

i found a way

which is making translations for it so its better that way

[austere sequoia]

Thats great!

[final finch]

@mellow frigate Hope it's alright for me to ping you! I'm working on a mod to work with MoodleFramework, and I'm running into a weird issue with MoodleFramework. If a user loads in with the scale set to 1, and then sizes up a moodle, everything works as expected. However if a user changes the moodle size before loading into the game, moodles using moodleframework are offset on the x-axis.

Example:

The code:

local LuaMoodles = require("StatsAPI/moodles/LuaMoodles")

local old_adjustPositions = LuaMoodles.adjustPositions

-- Set the default moodle size.
local RvMoodleScale = 1

-- Check for MoodleFramework
local modInfoMF = getModInfoByID("MoodleFramework")
local MFenabled = 0
if modInfoMF and isModActive(modInfoMF) then
    MFenabled = 1
    require 'MF_ISMoodle'
end

-- Get the moodle scale from MCM
if Mod.IsMCMInstalled_v1 then
    -- initialize the main mod option table
    local MyModOptions = ModOptionTable:New("ResizableMoodles", "Resizable Moodles", false)

    -- Add options
    MyModOptions:AddModOption("RvMoodleScale", "number", RvMoodleScale, { min = .1, max = 10, step = 0.001}, "Moodle scale", "The multiplier for moodle size.  Default is 1.", function(value)
        RvMoodleScale = value
        LuaMoodles.adjustPositions()
    end)
end

-- Adjust size
LuaMoodles.adjustPositions = function()
    LuaMoodles.scale = RvMoodleScale

    if MFenabled == 1 then
        MF.scale = RvMoodleScale
    end
    
    old_adjustPositions()
end

Even if I delete everything and just use MF.scale with no other settings, setting it above 1 and then loading in causes issues. It's really weird... Since your Bigger Moodles compatibility script doesn't seem to have the same issue.

[mellow frigate]

I do not understand. Are you creating another scale factor than the one froml StatsAPI ?

[final finch]

No no, that was just a troubleshooting step I tried to see if I could find the issue with my code.

[mellow frigate]

What do you want your mod to do ?

[final finch]

Allow a user to resize their moodles.

But to a scale of their choice

Vanilla moodles work perfectly. MF moodles work if they load in with a scale of one, and then upscale, But if they start at a higher scale, the issue arises.

[mellow frigate]

and did I understand correctly that the problem does not occure with Bigger Moodle ?

[final finch]

Yes that is correct

I've tried looking through the code to see what's different but it seems like it's functioning the exact same.

[mellow frigate]

except that it is not changing over time.

[final finch]

What do you mean?

Oh the size doesn't change in the other one?

[mellow frigate]

I think the point is to choose the size once and for all.

[final finch]

Still... I would think if that was the issue, then it would load in correctly, and break on an update. But instead, it breaks immediately upon load in.

[mellow frigate]

what breaks ? wasn't it only shifted on Y axis ? ?

what is load in ?

[final finch]

If you load into the game with a scale of 1, then change the scale to anything else, nothing is broken. Both vanilla and MF moodles work flawlessly.
If you load into the game with a scale other than 1, Vanilla and MF moodles are scaled properly. Vanilla has no issues, and MF moodles have a strange x offset.

[final finch]

As demonstrated here:

[mellow frigate]

how do you change the scale after loading ?

[final finch]

Once the scale is changed, it fires LuaMoodles.adjustPositions()

[mellow frigate]

so you are changing the scale after loading with an interface of your own right ? (I guess the function from modoptions)

[final finch]

Basically yes.

[mellow frigate]

it looks like Moodle Framework would need to adjust the reference position of all moodles created before your changes.

[final finch]

🤔 Is there a specific function in MF I could call to adjust it? It seems to be capable of doing it, and just isn't properly being called by my code?

Perhaps mine doesn't work because the value is set too early? So perhaps I could have it somehow wait till a save is loaded to make the change?

[bronze yoke]

the only real difference between this and big moodles is that mod options is calling adjustPositions, so the blame is probably that being called too early

although i don't really know how mf's compat works

[mellow frigate]

LuaMoodles.adjustPositions = function()
    local scale = core:getScreenHeight() / 720 + 0.5
    scale = scale - scale % 1
    if scale < 1 then scale = 1 end
    MF.scale = scale
    
    adjustModdedMoodlesPosition()
    old_adjustPositions()
end

local function adjustModdedMoodlesPosition()
  --we need a double loop that parses the following table containing the modded moodles instances
--for each valid playerNum / moodleName, do
  local myMoodle = MF.MoodlesStorage[playerNum][moodleName]
  local x, y = myMoodle:getXYPosition();--uses MF.scale
  myMoodle:setX(x)
  myMoodle:setY(y)
  local width = 32 * MF.scale;
  local height = 32 * MF.scale;
  myMoodle:setWidth(width)
  myMoodle:setHeight(height)
--end do
end

[final finch]

My brain hurts but I will give that a shot, thank you.

[mellow frigate]

-- can you try this the following ? 
require 'MF_ISMoodle'

function MF.adjustScale()
    for playerNum, playerMoodles in pairs(MF.MoodlesStorage) do--for each local players (splitscreen)
        for moodleName, myMoodle in pairs(playerMoodles) do--for each moodle already created
            local x, y = myMoodle:getXYPosition();--uses MF.scale
            myMoodle:setX(x)
            myMoodle:setY(y)
            local width = 32 * MF.scale;
            local height = 32 * MF.scale;
            myMoodle:setWidth(width)
            myMoodle:setHeight(height)
        end
    end
end

--the following requires MF_MoodleScale to be loaded
require 'MF_MoodleScale'

local modInfoBM = getModInfoByID("BigMoodles")
if not modInfoBM or not isModActive(modInfoBM) then
    return--handle : compat not required
end
require 'BigMoodles'--I guess your code replaces BigMoodles, so it should require your own file instead here 

local LuaMoodles = require("StatsAPI/moodles/LuaMoodles")
local core = getCore()

local old_adjustPositions = LuaMoodles.adjustPositions
LuaMoodles.adjustPositions = function()
    old_adjustPositions()--let BigMoodle/StatsAPI do the job and then MF_MoodleScale set MF.scale
    MF.adjustScale()--use MF.scale to reposition/rescale each already created moodle.
end

[final finch]

That did not work for me, but I probably did something wrong. Is there a list of events or triggers available somewhere? Like OnGameStart, OnGameBoot, OnGameLoad, etc? As well as an explanation of when each triggers?

Ah actually found that on the wiki, if anyone's looking: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_Events

Is there a way to check if currently in game, or just at the start screen? I feel like I definitely saw that somewhere...

[bronze yoke]

the wiki list is pretty outdated, i like to point people to my one instead https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventDoc/blob/develop/docs/Events.md

[final finch]

Oh awesome, tyvm

[final finch]

Do you know if there's a way to tell the script if it's currently in the start menu or if it's currently in a game?

I feel like the isClient() function is really close...

[bright fog]

No that's not how

isClient() returns true if ran in a client lua and when ran in multiplayer

Also why would you want to know if it's in the start menu or in-game ?

What kind of mod would you need to run in both ?

[final finch]

My mod is trying to make moodles resizable... It works perfectly in most situations, except explained

[final finch]

here

[final finch]

Pic here for reference

The issue seems to be caused partially by the game applying the values too early... So I was hoping to delay them till after the game is loaded. But it would need to know if the client is currently in a game or not too to apply them.

[verbal yew]

Guys, hi, it's possible to remove events from one mod X with mod N
For example:
Mod X have folder lua/myExample/luaTemplate.lua with func:

local function somecodeshitstuff()
--*bla bla bla*
end

if getActivatedMods():contains("another mod neebubratan") then
    Events.EveryOneMinute.Add(somecodeshitstuff);
else
    Events.EveryTenMinutes.Add(somecodeshitstuff);
end

[bronze yoke]

not if it is local

[verbal yew]

but can i just remove event?

like
Events.EveryTenMinutes.Remove(somecodeshitstuff);

[bronze yoke]

you need a reference to the function to remove it

[verbal yew]

okay, if func global?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[hasty vector]

anyone knows how to get zombie's Z position??

[bright fog]

local Z = zombie:getSquare():getZ()

[hasty vector]

thank you!!!

[mystic vessel]

Where can I promote my mod?

[slow granite]

dapehs has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cosmic ermine]

You can post your mods here or #pz_b42_chat but don't spam.

[plain crest]

oh word? imma just...slide my lil update in here then...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3172171349

[austere sequoia]

is there any way to let recipes not appear in the "big" crafting menu, but only get the option to apply the recipe when rightclicked on an item in inventory? I have to add a lot of recipes, but would prefer not to flood the craftingmenu

[sour island]

Anyone else run into issues where random wooden tiles appear around the map? I'm noticing a connection with EHE - but I think the issue is getCell():getOrCreateSquare() being used on cells outside the current cell.

My interpretation of the method was that it would be loading a single square's data when called. Haven't tested my new draft that avoids using that method, but just curious if anyone ran into a similar issues.

Previously using fastmove and having events call getOrCreate made swathes of wooden floors - in my current testing the problem seems fixed.

[small topaz]

Is it save to declare your mod's TimedAction functions as local and then import them via the require() command whenever you need them?

[steady lagoon]

sorry folks, how can I find the ItemID using the debug mode?

It's an item ID of a custom item created within a mod

[small topaz]

with or without lua coding? (not sure if there is even a way without coding...)

[austere sequoia]

I'd take both, as long as my recipes dont spam the crafting menu

[austere sequoia]

Do you happen to know how this works? 😄

[small topaz]

I am just looking because I could use this in my modding work too.

So the recipes have a java command called
recipe:setIsHidden(boolean)
This could be useful. But I don't know how to get the actual recipe object which should be in the variable "recipe" in my code example

[austere sequoia]

I unfortunately do not know enough about lua to be of any help here. And I cant think of a mod that does this as well

[magic swan]

saw it happen on PEI map but not sure why

[small topaz]

Here is something that seems to work:

function ISCraftingUI.populateRecipesList(self, ...)

     local recipe = getScriptManager():getRecipe("Make Jar of Broccoli")                
     recipe:setIsHidden(true)  

     vanilla_populateRecipesList(self, ...) -- execute vanilla code

     recipe:setIsHidden(false)

end```

This must be the content of a .lua file which has to be in your mod's client folder. But use with care and playtest this a lot!!!! I just had a quick look at and it looked good. But could still be that smth is wrong with.

... the example will hide the recipe for crafting a jar of broccoli from the Craft Menu but not from the right click menu according to my testing

[steady lagoon]

are ArrayLists treated differently in Project Zomboid?
I should be able to call the content using array[index], but it just throws an error?

[small topaz]

In the debug menu, there is an option called Items List. You can try to search within the first field called "Type" (bottom left of the search menu after you clicked on Items List). But not sure whether it will also show you mod item. The second field "Name" can be used for searching an item by its display name.

[small topaz]

Jave ArrayLists in Zomboid can typically accessed by
list:get(i)
afaik. Not sure if it applies in your case but might be worth a try.

[austere sequoia]

Awesome! I will give it a shot 🙂 How would I write it, if I had multiple recipes? seperated by comma in the "make jar of broccoli" bracket?

[bright fog]

Yeah it's like this

[robust locust]

Hii, I'm trying apply a different texture to an existing guitar item, but the new guitar doesnt visibly show in the character's hands.
Is it best to copy the .x file and change the texture filename, or use a .fbx of the guitar item?

[bright fog]

use :get(index)

[robust locust]

I'm not sure if the Weapon item searches in the models_X/Weapons/2handed folder location

[small topaz]

No. Then you need smth like this:

local recipe2 = getScriptManager():getRecipe("My second Recipe")

recipe1:setIsHidden(true)
recipe2:setIsHidden(true)

vanilla_populateRecipesList(self, ...) -- execute vanilla code

recipe1:setIsHidden(false)
recipe2:setIsHidden(false)```

and don't forget the :setIsHidden(false) commands at the end for each of your recipes. Otherwise, they will be completely removed from game (i.e. also in the right-click menu)

[austere sequoia]

okay! I dont need any "require ISRandomLuaStuff" thingies? Just copy paste and I am good to go? 😄

[small topaz]

don't think so

so yeah, just try copy paste

[austere sequoia]

Your code is working - partially 😄 I have multiple recipes with the exact same recipe name, your code is only disabling the first recipes of each name

[small topaz]

Ok. Same name for different recipes is a special thing my code does not solve. The question is then how to grab your individual recipes with a command similar to getScriptManager():getRecipe("something"). Don't know how this works but there is probably a solution...

[austere sequoia]

In worst case I have to give everything its own name

[small topaz]

I guess there is also a better solution. maybe there is a way to get all recipes with the name at once so that they are in list...

[small topaz]

does each of your recipes has a unique result which can not be crafted by any other recipe?

[austere sequoia]

almost all of them have

there should just be one item in the current list that can be crafted in vanilla

[small topaz]

A bit difficult to explain if do not a lot of coding. But there is a command
local list = getScriptManager():getAllRecipesFor("Base.MyItem")
I've never tried it but I guess the "list" will then contain all recipes for the item. You could then iterate through the list, check each item if it is one you would like to hide and then hide it as done above. At the end of the code, you have to unhide each of them again ofc

what I do in such a situation is trial and error and check whether this or something similar will work...

[austere sequoia]

oooof, that will be quite a lot of work. But as long as everything is fine in the end, I am happy 😄 "MyItem" I guess it the precise itemname of the item I want to hide?

[lethal tulip]

Hello everyone! I want to make a mod that change an item's Category based on its Display Name (not base Item Name). For example, if I rename an item to "My xxxx", its category will change to "AAA", (so it will be at the top when sorted by catogory). Is it possible? If so, please give me a some pointers on how to do it?

Thank you in advance!

[small topaz]

Yes. There should be your items script ID. The code itself would probably not be so long. Just a few lines. But testing stuff and working everything out might take some effort.

I would start with smth like this

local backUpTable = {}
for i=1, myList:size() do
      local recipe = list:get(i-1)
      if recipe:getName() == "Your recipes name" then
          recipe:setIsHidden(true)
          table.insert(backUpTable, recipe)
      end
end

vanilla_populateRecipesList(self, ...) -- execute vanilla code

for _,v in pairs(backUpTable) do
        v:setIsHidden(false)
end```

But not sure if this works. Just made it up in my head

[austere sequoia]

the upper part would be one per item?

[small topaz]

this would do this for all recipes which have the result "MyItem". In case you have more than 1 result items, you have to do this for each of your items BEFORE the command "vanilla_populateRecipesList(self, ...)". And write everything you changed with "setIsHidden(true)" into the backUpTable

local myList = getScriptManager():getAllRecipesFor("Base.MyFirstItem")
for i=1, myList:size() do
      local recipe = list:get(i-1)
      if recipe:getName() == "Your recipes name" then
          recipe:setIsHidden(true)
          table.insert(backUpTable, recipe)
      end
end

local myList = getScriptManager():getAllRecipesFor("Base.MySecondItem")
for i=1, myList:size() do
      local recipe = list:get(i-1)
      if recipe:getName() == "Your recipes name" then
          recipe:setIsHidden(true)
          table.insert(backUpTable, recipe)
      end
end

vanilla_populateRecipesList(self, ...) -- execute vanilla code

for _,v in pairs(backUpTable) do
        v:setIsHidden(false)
end```

something like this maybe

[austere sequoia]

yes, that is what I thought it would look 🙂 Thank you man, I am currently trying to get a grisp of lua, so I hope to repay your help in the future!

[small topaz]

np. but not sure if my code will really work. maybe some syntax errors. also not sure if you have to use "Base.MyItem" or just "MyItem" instead. These are things to find out via trial and error

[small topaz]

btw, how many recipes and items are we talking about?

[austere sequoia]

when everything is done and finished? around 100 items and 2 recipes each

[austere sequoia]

I am not sure this is even possible. I spent like two days reading code to find something similar (replacing a script value of an item), but there was nothing.

[small topaz]

ufff... then you shouldn't do it by manually making a for-loop for every item but make an outer for-loop running through all your items somehow. moreover, this might slow down the game each time you open the craft menu. this menu has tendency to become lagging very quickly. it is something you simply have to try then

[austere sequoia]

dang, I wanted them out of the inventory, to keep it from lagging

[small topaz]

hmmm... not sure. taking recipes out of the craft menu could increase performance since the game does not have to calculate and render the options for the recipes. however, if you take out 100 items, it may happen that just the process of taking all the recipes out may slow down it again so that there is either no effect at all or the game gets even slower...

as I said, it is something to find out via trial and error

[austere sequoia]

I guess I will just take the middleway - add an own crafting category, so noone, who does not click on it, has to suffer through it

[small topaz]

It might also be worth thinking about whether there is another place in the vanilla code where you could add your new code. I have taken the function "ISCraftingUI.populateRecipesList". It is always called when someone opens the craft menu. Maybe there is an alternative which is only called once the game starts or smth

[austere sequoia]

that would be sick! Great hint, when I have time I will go on the search

[slow granite]

rithxd has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[bronze yoke]

yes, that works perfectly

the timed action queue just needs to be passed a reference to a timed action instance, nothing about it actually needs to be global

[small topaz]

then I think I can rework all my mods so that they have no global data at all (except for modData in case they count as global)

[bronze yoke]

through all of my experience i have never found a situation where you have to use global variables except for functions referenced in scripts

[lethal tulip]

Hi everyone! I am trying to make a simple mode that create a few new items, base on vanilla ones, new item category, and add some recipes involving the new ones. I created translation files. I put the mod in (Windows 11) User/xxxx/Zomboid/mods. The game recognizes the mod. I add the mod to an on-going game. But I couldn't find the new recipes. Here is the code on github: https://github.com/WarBuggy/PZMods/tree/master/PersonalizeItems

Could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance!

[bronze yoke]

scipts

[austere sequoia]

Does maybe one of you know, how I can write translation files without them losing german special characters (ä ö ü)?

[lusty karma]

save them in ANSI instead of UTF 8

i do french translations so have to do the same ^^

[austere sequoia]

awesome, thank you 🙂

[lusty karma]

np!

[lethal tulip]

Thank you!

[somber frigate]

im cooking

[small topaz]

Hi! I am currently re-working some of my mods by replacing global variables with locals using the "require" command to call the locals in other luas. Works fine so far.

However, what I found out is that if I put a
local myData = require("myLuaFile")
command in the client folder for example, it only searches for the file "myLuaFile" in the client folder. If I want to require the file from a client's subfolder, I can use
local myData = require("mySubFolder/myLuaFile")
and it works fine. But how do I require a file in the client folder when the file is located in shared?

[bronze yoke]

requiring shared from client should work fine with the same syntax

i don't know what happens if there's a file with the same name in both directories so don't do that

oh, do you mean requiring client from shared? that's not possible because shared loads before client

it doesn't really make sense to, you're trying to pull client-only code into a file that will also be executed by the server

[small topaz]

I mean the following situation:

file "mySharedCode.lua" is located in shared/sharedSubFolder

I want to use it's data via the require command in client's file. For example in

file "myClientCode.lua" located in client/myClientSubfolder

So, just writing the command
require("sharedSubFolder/mySharedCode")
into "myClientCode.lua" will do it?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[small topaz]

A totally different question which some people here might know smth about:

What does the command "setMetabolicTarget()" exactly do? I see it sometimes in the vanilla TimedActions. For example
self.character:setMetabolicTarget(Metabolics.LightDomestic)
Is this somehow related to how much endurance a TimedAction costs the player?

[austere sequoia]

That means that it costs you the calories (effects your metabolism) for the value of "light domestic" tasks, iirc. From what I have seen metabolic seems to be used for the players metabolism, and metabolics always have name like "HardWork" or something like that

I could be totally wrong though, since I am still learning the lua stuff. But from what I have read, it seems logical

[small topaz]

makes sense!

and "LightDomestic" probably means that not much calories are used?

[austere sequoia]

I would assume so at least

[austere sequoia]

but dont ask me how much, cant find a lot on that. But since alternatives are called "HeavyDomestic" and "MediumWork", I would assume that it even is the lightest of works, seeing that it is used for stuff like removing bait or trimming the beard

[austere sequoia]

btw, I figured out a way to hide recipes globally (or the creators of "Simple Overhaul: Melee Weapons figured it out and I managed to adapt the code to my needs, lol):

in case you need it 🙂 "Erect", "Knock Over", etc, are the recipe names. Works flawless even if multiple recipes share the same name

To be fair, I dont fully understand what the first function (hasValue) is doing, looks cryptic to me. But it is working

goes in "server"

[small topaz]

but won't this code hide the recipes completely from game? i.e. even in the right click menu?

btw the hasValue just checks whether the acutal recipe belongs to listhiddenReicpes as far as I understand

[austere sequoia]

aah, great! No, it works perfectly with the rightclick

only if you add one of those lines it makes problems (I guess why is self explanatory, lol):

            recipe:setNeedToBeLearn(true)                recipe:setCanPerform("nope")

[small topaz]

Ok. Then the setIsHidden() command is only for hiding recipes from craft menu but not from the right-click menu. I just expected it will hide it from the full game without testing properly.

In this case, setIsHidden() is exactly tailored to your needs! 🙂

[austere sequoia]

exactly 🙂 fixed all my issues

[upbeat night]

Hello! I do not know in which chat to address this question: How to make normal display of non-English text in the server console? (in the CMD itself the text is displayed normally, but in the server console it is not).

[small topaz]

Does anyone knows what determines whether an obejct of the map (tables, chairs,...) hides the player model? There are different things which could happen:

Chair does not hide the player model. Toilet does.

[plain crest]

I’d assume it has to do with what layer it’s on. I’m not The Best at mapping, but tldr, different things go on different layers, and though you’d Think all furniture goes on the same layer, afaik it doesn’t. So I’d maybe ask in #mapping fwiw

Someone pls correct me if I’m wrong 🙏🏽

[small topaz]

ok. will repost this in the mapping channel then...

[plain crest]

I think it may also have to do with the fact that the window is there, since the game lets you access windows on the inside even if there’s furniture in the way, even though from the outside you’d climb over it.

So I’m curious if the chair still does that when you place it away from the window.

[small topaz]

I tested the thing with the chair at other locations too and it seems that it never hides the player, indepent of windows.

[plain crest]

Interesting…I’m nearly certain it has to do with layers, but I have no idea what layer chairs go on.

[small topaz]

Would be great if you could somehow change this hiding behavior via modding. Maybe the people from the mapping channel know more.

[plain crest]

Yea! I wonder how possible it is, because I think the chairs from build menu work differently from chairs in the brush tile. So I wonder what the dev of that mod does for their chairs, cuz they have collision and hide the player

What are you wanting to do with this again..?

[small topaz]

The chair and toilet are not modded. They are just from vanilla game.

[plain crest]

yea i know! i'm more saying that it's possible to move tiles from one layer to another, given that build menu's chairs are solid

[small topaz]

ok. misunderstood. my bad

[austere sequoia]

I think it is because the toilet is a wall object

wall objects appear in front of player

chair is a normal moveable

[small topaz]

Depending on how the "hiding the player model with furniture" exactly works, it might be possible to let the player sit on chairs facing in all directions without looking too glitchy. But just some rough ideas. Not sure whether this could work

[reef vine]

hello here ! I created a mod that added a recipe to find via a magazine. This recipe allows you to make an axe. Users have informed me that with this mod, it becomes impossible to tear clothes! And honestly I don't see the connection. It's the magazine part that seems to be the problem because without the axe part, the problem is still there. An idea ? 🙂

[small topaz]

do you know whether the property of being a wall object can be changed somehow?

[austere sequoia]

in tiled

but you would have to creat a new tile I guess, unless you really want to go mad and start changing one of the games most important vanilla files XD

at least I think so. Maybe there are better ways to change to property of vanilla tiles

[small topaz]

so no way to change this via java commands in lua code?

[austere sequoia]

tbh, I would not be surprised if lua would work. Have seen mods that add functionality to vanilla tiles, or even check for certain vanilla tiles to replace them with modded tiles. But I have no clue how exactly to program this

But best give it a shot beforehand if this is actually the setting causing the issue. Sound logical to me, though. Toilet is mounted to wall, wall is displayed before player, so toilet is displayed before player. I unfortunately have no real option right now to test this theory

[frank elbow]

I've released my chat mod (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3178882070) just a day before I'll have to go on a business trip for 3 days, so crossing my fingers that there's not some glaringly obvious bug that'll need fixing 😄

[reef vine]

Oh and we can no longer open cans that open by hand!

[small topaz]

have you reproduced the bug by yourself?

[small topaz]

do you know any web resources which explain a bit about tiles modding and bringing them into game?

[sour island]

Nice job!

[austere sequoia]

Daddie Dirkie Dirk has some nice youtube tutorials that helped me a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbvb6LeX0Sw

[austere sequoia]

the wiki also has some nice sources (also linking the videos above)

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Adding_new_tiles

[austere sequoia]

I am far from being experienced at making tiles, but I already got some selfmade tiles with selfmade textures into the game, with the properties I wanted. So if you have specific questions on how to do this, feel free to ask 🙂

[reef vine]

Yes I tried and the bug exists

[austere sequoia]

is your mod on the workshop?

[reef vine]

Yes ! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3171762819 🙂

[austere sequoia]

ripping the clothes is not the problem

[austere sequoia]

you have overwritten ALL recipes. Rename your recipe.txt to something specific to your mod, and everything works

[austere sequoia]

like "recipes_canaxe.txt".

[reef vine]

I'm trying 🙂

I'm learning modding ^^

[austere sequoia]

no problem 🙂 You have unintentionally overwritten the games vanilla recipe.txt file by naming your file the exact same way. That is why nothing is working anymore 😄

because the game only knows the CanaxeStone now

[reef vine]

yeahhhh 😎 🤭

humm nope I can't rip the clothes ^^ I rename the file and start a new game

[austere sequoia]

I renamed the file and everything worked for me 😄

[reef vine]

damned

gonna try something

nope doesn't work for me, can you send me zip file of my mod ? lol

[austere sequoia]

this is what I changed in your scripts folder - only the recipes.txt name

that is everything I changed 😄

and that is the result: I have your axe, but still can rip clothes ("kleidung zerreißen" in this case because german)

[reef vine]

I think I found, I'm stupid, It was on the wrong folder

[austere sequoia]

😄 shit happens. Can also be tricky if you have in the workshop or mods folder and are subscribed to it on steam as well. Then you are running up to three copies of your mod at the same time, what definitely will mess up any changes

[reef vine]

and it's ok !!! thanks !!!!!

OMG so much to learn ^^

gonna update my mod ! thanks thanks thanks !!!

[austere sequoia]

de rien! 🙂

[reef vine]

😉

[small topaz]

are you on windows or linux when using TIleZed?

[austere sequoia]

on windows

[weak needle]

are there any modders hoping to have voice lines in their mod packs? I’d be happy to help as a voice actor c:

[chilly hemlock]

Good day sirs! I have recently dwell into modding and I must say that it is even more addicting after playing 600 hours.
I have a question regarding InventoryItems and similar (items on the ground). Lets say I'm saving some item ID into a file on OnSave event. Is it possible to somehow get that object instance by ID the next time I load the game up? Currently I have only found tile scanning techniques and looping over them to find item instances but maybe I have missed something?

[small topaz]

any idea where this problem comes from:

Invalid tileset size '0,0' for tileset 'fixtures_bathroom_01_2'
(while reading Tilesets.txt)

??

[austere sequoia]

tilesets.txt?

why .txt?

[austere sequoia]

I am confused, maybe this is a part I dont know yet - I know the tiledefinition.tiles file and the .pack files, but I dont know any .txt files involved in creating tiles

ah! I see it, it is the file in the TileZed folder? I never touched this, what do you need it for?

[austere sequoia]

btw, there is no entry in the txt file (at least the vanilla file I got here) that is called "fixtures_bathroom_01_2".

[wicked crane]

Hello everyone, thanks to some friends of mine we have been working on a mod that turns Water into Seawater.

I am excited to finally share this mod with you all.

What does this mean for gameplay? You cannot drink or fill containers at water tiles anymore. Admins can create custom 'Fresh Water' zones using the Zone Editor.

Prince Edward Island and ROK's Bria Island are supported out of the box without any additional setup required.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3178562599

[spare fiber]

question. I finished my mod which ads a new type of beverage, everything worked perfectly, i even have footage of it working perfectly. Then i upload it and leave for about 5h. I come back and the model is 2x the size and in the drinking animation it is held backwards.

nothing changed in the code

theres like 30 lines total so id know if it was changed

bewildered at this

[wicked crane]

If you’re subbed to the mod unsubscribe and test the local workshop directory version

[spare fiber]

I wasnt subscribed, didnt work.
Subscribed to see if it would work, didnt work.

like how does this even happen

[sonic needle]

RotationData Bug in Blender. Oddly Common.
Try Re Applying Transforms. After Sizing it again?

[spare fiber]

i use the vanilla fbx model and just change the mesh texture

[sonic needle]

hmm. Size Annotation issues. perhaps Doubling the model to the mod, and Forcing Scale will help

[spare fiber]

tried messing with scale, 0.5 and 1 are identical

dont know if its limited to integers or anything

but didnt get lua errors so 🤷

[sonic needle]

odd.

[spare fiber]

I had the large model error before. I changed scale to 0.5, worked perfectly, drinking animation worked even

then i uploaded to workshop

come back, broken

👍

no console errors either