mod_development

[bright fog]

But you can link a lua function to a call of a java function right ?

[bronze yoke]

no

[bronze yoke]

you can link a lua function to a call of a java function by lua

[bright fog]

well nvm understood that thing wrongly that Crystal showed me a while ago then

[bronze yoke]

it's not the same and it means most times it isn't useful

[bright fog]

I see

[thick karma]

Only in tutorial

Steps is some kind of tutorial file

etc

[bright fog]

Java modding requires manual installation of files by people right ?

[vocal gulch]

this is how you make sure your logic processes are super exposes

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[bright fog]

Could it be handled server side to only have the server download it for servers and in solo have players download it manually ?

Thinking of the pros and cons

And I see too many cons in that

[bronze yoke]

if you only need the java mod to affect the server, yeah

[bright fog]

I really don't like the idea of manual installation of files for people who just download the other mods that simply require the framework

People won't read the mod page of a framework

[thick karma]

That's an interesting question... where does createZombie get called? Serverside, clientside, or both?

[bronze yoke]

i'm guessing serverside

[hot void]

people can now tattoo each other >_>

[bronze yoke]

well actually, it never gets called

createZombie is specifically lua api

[thick karma]

Oh it's only for the Lua to call it in tutorial?

[bronze yoke]

java would go through something else

[bright fog]

time to tattoo a big ass dong on my friend's back when he's sleeping

[thick karma]

I see.

[thick karma]

Amazing.

[hot void]

me and shuru been fighting with code XD

[bright fog]

I think java modding isn't the solution here. I'm probably better off updating the stats of zombies every N ticks like I'm doing. Also considering some stats don't get updated because they are checked that they are already good

[thick karma]

Did you do this through context menus or a custom UI?

[hot void]

both

[thick karma]

Sheeeeit... I am afraid to ask, but gamepad support?

[bright fog]

Like I have 7 stats I believe I update ? And half has a check to verify if it's good, if it's good it skips it so I would only have 3-4 stats getting updated every N ticks

[hot void]

soon tm

[bright fog]

Gran pa really needs to get a mouse and stop playing with a controler lol

[hot void]

it does use the same old tattoo ui

but we edited that

[thick karma]

lol I respect that it's being worked on. I asked because tattooing each other is 100% something my friend will want to do, meaning I'll need to do your gamepad support if you don't.

[hot void]

a lil

[thick karma]

lol listen I am chillin on my bed slash couch and no man or god can make me sit at a desk to play.

[bright fog]

[bronze yoke]

when my cooking mod comes out i want you to know the gamepad support was created entirely in honour of you

[hot void]

still have to hook tattoing animation and sound to it

[violet shell]

@thick karma Which syntax is the good one for itemname translate files ?

[thick karma]

Very cool work to see. Can't wait to try it.

[thick karma]

I don't think it allows dots but I could be wrong. Literally why do I bother. Every time I could be wrong I am.

I have never tried them. Except when I did.

Or seen them Except when I used them.

[violet shell]

Should I write ItenName_biocodedCureExp or ItemName_Asilar_Biocoded_Cure_Kit.biocodedCureExp ?

IG the translation works, but seems that the module name is not required right ?

[thick karma]

ItemName_biocodedCureExp seems right.

No wait

I'm crazy

Items have a weird format that I had entirely forgotten

Because I haven't touched them in awhile

ItemName_EN = {
    ItemName_TrueMusicJukebox.InstructionManual = "Jukebox Instruction Manual",
    ItemName_TrueMusicJukebox.StarterKit = "Jukebox Starter Kit"
}

You actually did it correctly afaik

ItemName_ModID.Translation apparently. @violet shell

[gleaming sorrel]

Ok ok

I've got someone who is willing to do some voiceacting for some of the zombies in my mods

I need to know how to access the .bank file that appears to hold all the sounds

[bright fog]

👀

Know that bank files need to be manually installed

But anyway I can link you to the right resources

[gleaming sorrel]

Alrighty

[bright fog]

I haven't tried modifying the files tho since I already had it

[thick karma]

God why are item name translations so weird

[bronze yoke]

what's so weird about them?

[verbal yew]

?

[thick karma]

lol just that they are different at all from the others.

No dots in any of our other 5 translation files.

Just feels odd

[bronze yoke]

actually, why don't recipe translations include the module? isn't that bad?

[verbal yew]

it's translate by fullItemType.
Someone is translating by DisplayName

[thick karma]

I see what you're saying. I guess I find it weirder that the punctuation format varies than that they require the mod id

It does make a certain sense to require mod id to distinguish common noun translations

Just weird to me to switch between underscores and . as delimiters from file to file and even within the variable name

If they could've been using . why even make me look at underscores 😭 (they're so ugly)

[bronze yoke]

there's not much point having modules if some systems just don't recognise them

[thick karma]

For sure. It's just the punctuation that throws me.

[bronze yoke]

i guess the more descriptive naming conventions for recipes protects them from this being much of an issue

i have always thought it looks a little ugly but it's consistent

[thick karma]

Do they not use the module at all in determining which recipe translations to grab? They are declared within modules after all

[bronze yoke]

my recipe translations don't have a module

[thick karma]

I don't use them in the name of the variable but I figured another mechanism could be used to sort translations between mods.

[bronze yoke]

mod id ~= module

[thick karma]

True.

Might deviate there

That makes sense

[bronze yoke]

i'm curious if it's just so unlikely of a clash it's never come up

[thick karma]

I use my mod id for my recipe modules but realize now that might not be the case in a mod

[verbal yew]

loooooool

if im not wrong, here exist stuff like if zombie has target

how about apply params to zombie only in this situation

[thick karma]

#mod_support message Any easy way to do this? @bronze yoke

Figured I'd ask before we brought him in.

I could read the code but I know you're here and figured ya might know off the top.

[bronze yoke]

i think right now we don't expose anything you could do this with

i think it's all local tables

[thick karma]

😭 No worries.

[bronze yoke]

the unreleased version of the mod automatically grabs all tapes for them

[thick karma]

Sick

So excited.

Someone fix that out-of-bounds error that happens <1 % of the time? (lol)

[bright fog]

If you want to have a zombie start running out of nowhere, sure go for it lmao

[thick karma]

I use the mod so much that I still see it occasionally and wonder.

[bright fog]

There will be frames where zombies could have the wrong speed

Like open a door to a building, zombie gets loaded right behind because the building didn't get loaded before. Starts with massive speed, runs at player

Or have zombies switch speed visible by player

Is never a good experience even if it doesn't affect them in terms of danger at least

[vocal gulch]

just starting out with exploring the modding options. If I've connected to a server and downloaded mods that way through, where are they stored locally so I can potentially edit them?

continuing on that line, if I download any mods from the workshop, where are they stored in my root directory?

[bright fog]

Where workshop mods are stored

So you can simply look on google where workshop mods are stored and that will give you hundreds of guides

[bronze yoke]

Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\108600\

[bright fog]

More general answer:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\108600

[thick karma]

specific*

Haha

[bronze yoke]

look who installs games to their c drive...

[bright fog]

true

[bright fog]

I don't have another one lmao

[thick karma]

Not this guy lmao

[bright fog]

I should

[vocal gulch]

thanks so much

[bronze yoke]

i have a miniscule c drive that i have to desperately avoid putting anything on

[bright fog]

Does the job well enough for what I do with it

[vocal gulch]

I was lead astray for a moment

[bright fog]

Sounds like a you issue

[bronze yoke]

it's not going well 😅

[bright fog]

OOF

Clean it lmao

[bronze yoke]

i do regularly!

[vocal gulch]

clean it better

[bright fog]

Sure looks like it

[bronze yoke]

everything loves putting things on the c drive without asking you

[bright fog]

I always check these kind of things haha

I have this issue on my laptop

[thick karma]

I have so much space and it still fills up so fast

😭

[bright fog]

[thick karma]

I just want all the games ready to go

Is that so much to ask

[bronze yoke]

i know with just a little more i'd be fine

[thick karma]

Literally all of them?

[thick karma]

lol I felt like I'd be fine when I expanded to 4 TB

I now know I'll never be fine.

[bright fog]

Thinking about the stat updates for zombie again. It sounds like I might need to do some partial updating to zombies

[verbal yew]

:3

[bright fog]

Update zombie stats from OnTick and access every zombies in the cell and update only a part of it

[bright fog]

Too bad it's in russian or whatever that way we don't actually know how much space you have :>

[verbal yew]

lol

[bronze yoke]

i've found that updating one per tick is a perfectly acceptable compromise

[bright fog]

Could take a while to update ?

[bronze yoke]

i used one per tick for an application that affected zombie appearances and the change was never visible to the player

[hot void]

funny part is to add a tattoo it takes btween 30 mins to 4 weeks

[bright fog]

hmm alright

[hot void]

but to remove it from 6 to 10 weeks

[bronze yoke]

i'm guessing they load far enough offscreen that no player can actually see a zombie before that would've reached them

[bright fog]

How did you cycle through the list of zombies ?

[bright fog]

Did you try moving around in vehicles ?

[hot void]

pz players will die in 1 session XD

[bright fog]

You can go quite fast in vehicles

[thick karma]

currentIndex = (currentIndex + 1) % numberOfZeds

[bronze yoke]

it's been public in a popular addon for a year and received no reports

[bright fog]

Classic IRL shit

[thick karma]

@bright fog

Use a current index that survives the function

[hot void]

unless there is a way to cut a tattoo into parts

[thick karma]

Increment it like that.

[bronze yoke]

yeah, that's the approach i took

[hot void]

and cut it into 3 timed actions

[bright fog]

local currentIndex

function OnTick()
  -- update currentIndex
  currentIndex = (currentIndex + 1) % numberOfZeds
end

?

[hot void]

itll be more work than fun

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[thick karma]

Right right, although I'd init it to 0

[bright fog]

Yeah

of course

[thick karma]

I assume local currentIndex inits to nil

Idk though

[verbal yew]

do you know what contain here:
public int zombie.characters.IsoZombie. -- all params?

[bright fog]

modulo numberOfZeds ?

[verbal yew]

OH OH

javadoc

[bronze yoke]

looks like i took a slightly different approach actually```lua
ClothingOverrides.zeroTick = 0
-- this gets initialised somewhere else
local zombieList

function ClothingOverrides.OnTick(tick)
local zombieIndex = tick - ClothingOverrides.zeroTick
if zombieList:size() > zombieIndex then
ClothingOverrides.overrideOutfit(zombieList:get(zombieIndex))
ClothingOverrides.fixOutfit(zombieList:get(zombieIndex))
else
ClothingOverrides.zeroTick = tick + 1
end
end

[bright fog]

umpf

[bronze yoke]

it's the same idea either way though

[red tiger]

@frank elbow I only have small bugs to fix. https://asledgehammer.github.io/Mallet/

The UI is pretty solid now.

Things are clean.

[bright fog]

Where do you initiliaze zombieList ?

[bronze yoke]

during an OnGameStart handler

[bright fog]

But it should be updated dynamically ?

[thick karma]

Yep

[bright fog]

The list of zombies around a player constantly changes ?

[thick karma]

where numberOfZeds = zombieList:size()

[bronze yoke]

it's the same list though

[red tiger]

Also @thick karma

[thick karma]

You do it at the beginning of the function

[bright fog]

Yeah I just don't see the math behind that

[red tiger]

You can poke at the uhh yeah UI stuff.

[bronze yoke]

the elements in the list change, not the list itself

[thick karma]

modulo forces it to be in the current range of the array

[bright fog]

She doesn't do that in her example, thus why my question :)

[bronze yoke]

you can grab the zombie list once during OnPostMapLoad or OnGameStart and never have to grab it again

it's a waste to grab it every tick

[bright fog]

oh zombieList already changes by itself

[red tiger]

Remember that modulo is the slowest algorithmic operator. Use it sparingly.

[thick karma]

Right albion does it differently, I just was explaining how my approach would work.

[thick karma]

This would be once per tick.

Not an issue.

[bronze yoke]

almost all arraylists can be cached like this without trouble

[red tiger]

Still, keep this in mind for future development.

[thick karma]

Valid

[red tiger]

Division is slower than multiplication so you can use an inverse operation for speed.

=)

[thick karma]

I can't think of any time I really need to do a lot of modulo at one time but I will keep that in mind.

[bright fog]

Something I don't understand here is that you never reset zeroTick to 0 ?

So you never come back to the start ?

[bronze yoke]

local zombieIndex = tick - ClothingOverrides.zeroTick

ClothingOverrides.zeroTick is the tick at which it last looped around

[verbal yew]

local modData = zombie:getModData().zReRANDOMZOMBIES = {}
    modData.MyFlag = true

it's right construction?

[thick karma]

🤣

dies

[verbal yew]

from cringe

._.

[bronze yoke]

no, lua doesn't support passing through values like that

[bright fog]

You really need to fucking ditch the mod data on IsoZombie, seriously bro

[bronze yoke]

basically, tick - ClothingOverrides.zeroTick will always result in a number between zero and the length of the arraylist

[verbal yew]

zombie:getModData().zReRANDOMZOMBIES = {}
local zModData = zombie:getModData().zReRANDOMZOMBIES
zModData.MyFlag = true

?

[bright fog]

What does tick output exactly ?

[bronze yoke]

number of ticks since the game started

[thick karma]

The way you're making your table is correct. Good luck with the zombie mod data lmao

[bronze yoke]

when we reach the end of the arraylist we set zerotick to the next tick so that on the next tick that operation will start counting from zero again

[bright fog]

oh tick + 1

hmm

Can't that cause issues if the values goes too high ? I'm not familiar with that but that number go to billions of billions technically but the game can't handle that can it ?

[verbal yew]

thanks

[bright fog]

I see but something I don't get is, doesn't the arraylist constantly change size ?

[bronze yoke]

the game would already crash because tick would also have that problem

[bright fog]

True lmao

[bronze yoke]

it would take far too long for this to be important to design around

[bright fog]

The game already doesn't handle it anyway

[thick karma]

Numbers are so big aren't they

[bright fog]

Tho that's an interesting thing, that means the game can crash eventually lmao ?

[bronze yoke]

iirc lua numbers are represented by doubles

[bronze yoke]

pretty much every game has this problem

it just takes way too long to happen to matter

[bright fog]

And no one found a magic solution ?

[bronze yoke]

why solve it? it's not really a problem

[bright fog]

I guess

[thick karma]

Also, if albion's method is unclear to you, here's an alternative that avoids modulo, assuming you grab numberOfZeds from some list at the beginning of tick and have a currentIndex:

-- this gets initialised somewhere else
local zombieList
local currentIndex = -1 (Will become 0 immediately)

function exampleOnTickFunction() -- Don't really need tick doing this.
    local numberOfZeds = zombieList:size()
    currentIndex = currentIndex + 1
    if currentIndex >= numberOfZeds then currentIndex = 0 end
    etc()
end

Does the same thing as modulo but maybe easier to understand (and possibly faster but Idk?)

Also then your counters never get enormous so if you're worried about big numbers crashing your game at the end of all time, well, you won't be the reason it happened.

[verbal yew]

  local square = zombie:getCurrentSquare()
  local squareXVal = square and square:getX() or 0
  local squareYVal = square and square:getY() or 0

  -- NOTE(belette) we have to include X and Y in the check to catch zombies that have been recycled
  -- from _intended_ default state (i.e. RZ happened to assign it to default bucket) to _unintended_
  -- default state (i.e. RZ would not assign it to the default bucket, even though it's the same zombie)
  -- see IsoZombie::resetForReuse and VirtualZombieManager::createRealZombieAlways for more info
  local shouldSkip = speedTypeVal == modData.BLTspeed and
      cognitionVal == modData.BLTcog and
      crawlingVal == modData.BLTcrawl and
      math.abs(squareXVal - modData.BLTx) <= 20 and
      math.abs(squareYVal - modData.BLTy) <= 20

lol

perfect notes

xD

[bronze yoke]

just checked, at 60fps it will take 4.8 million years to crash from this

[bright fog]

I think the way of Albion is smart and fairly optimized

[bronze yoke]

so i'm not really worried

[bright fog]

Sounds good lmao

[thick karma]

Haha the end of all time as I said.

[bright fog]

Let's see each others in 4.8 million yeah when Project Zomboid 30.9.1 is out

Actually nvm, when b43 is out

[thick karma]

Does addition become significantly slower for large numbers? Would that be some sort of micro-optimization that could exist?

[bright fog]

[thick karma]

I'd imagine so but I'm unsure tbh

(I think it's similar to avoiding a single modulo on a tick, regardless. Most likely not worth it ever.)

[bronze yoke]

addition is constant time

[thick karma]

Fair enough.

[bright fog]

what does that mean exactly ?

[bronze yoke]

it (should) always takes the same amount of time regardless of the input

[bright fog]

👌

Perhaps verify that ? 👀

[bronze yoke]

i say should because computers are not consistent

[bright fog]

You know how kahlua seems to act differently from your various theories now lol

[bronze yoke]

sometimes things just take longer and that's fine

you're free to test it, it'd be absolutely perplexing if addition worked differently in lua though

this isn't really implementation specific, this is fundamentals of computer science

[bright fog]

I'm not familiar with the way to test these stuff out tbf so I'll probably not bother with it too much lol

[spring niche]

hey yall, how likely is it for mods that add cities for them to spawn on top of each other

[bright fog]

they can't

One overrides the other

[spring niche]

ah i see

thank you

[bright fog]

But that can cause issues

With the player map + foraging zones

[spring niche]

hm

[thick karma]

Okay here's a surprising result.

I ran this code many times with different inputs:

function increment(number)
    local now = 0.0 + os.time()
    for index = 0, 1000000000 do
        local newNumber = number + 1
    end
    return 0.0 + os.time() - now
end

local theInput = 100
print(increment(theInput))

And it's actually slower for small numbers every time

[bright fog]

wat

[thick karma]

doing 0 + 1 over and over takes longer than 9999999 + 1 over and over

I am very confused by this

[bright fog]

[thick karma]

don't shoot the messenger

lol

[bronze yoke]

it could be because they're represented as floating point numbers

[bright fog]

So transform them in int before ?

[thick karma]

I'm consistently getting 8 when I run small numbers like 0, and consistently getting 5 or 6 with large numbers.

Idk why they would be... I'm sending it an int and never casting it

Only the durations are cast as floating points...

[bronze yoke]

number is a double

lua doesn't represent them differently

[thick karma]

Just automatically, I see

I figured Lua automatically handled integers in a way that would be more efficient for integers.

Wasn't sure what went on behind the scenes

[vestal gyro]

yeah its not getting initalized as in I can't actually see it in the item list ingame

[bronze yoke]

lua 5.3? i think introduces an integer type

[vestal gyro]

dunno why it wouldn't

[thick karma]

I seeeee

[vestal gyro]

All the files are named correctly and in the correct place

[bright fog]

you reference in the path as .xml

I don't think you need to do that

[vestal gyro]

I did it for all other ones as well and it works flawlessly for them

[bright fog]

hmm

[vestal gyro]

yeah it's not appearing at all

its also got the right files in the zomboid mods folder so I really have no idea

[pine patio]

Where's the clothing item file?

[mellow frigate]

Did I tell you I published that mod yesterday ? 😄 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232137856

[neon bronze]

Small sanity check: did you enable the mod for the save?

[vestal gyro]

yes I did

the other items for the mod show up

[mellow frigate]

did you restart the game after adding the item ?

[vestal gyro]

yep

[mellow frigate]

do you have errors in the console ?.

[vestal gyro]

nope

[mellow frigate]

do you have multiple versions of the mod on your computer ? 😄

[vestal gyro]

meia/clothing/clothingItems

[vestal gyro]

unsubscribed from the workshop version for that reason

[pine patio]

Does the guid in that file match the one in the guid table?

[vestal gyro]

yep

this is in both xml files which I'd have to add, but they should still show up on the itemlist

[mellow frigate]

I do not remember if it is required to remove the version associated to subscription manually if you are modifying the one in %username%/Zomboid/mods. It may be especially if you unsubscribed while the game was started.

[vestal gyro]

I'll try some stuff and let you know if it's that

jsut changed the mod.info thing to distinguish

if it's that istg

[vestal gyro]

https://tenor.com/view/you-were-right-xavier-baxter-school-spirits-s1-e6-you-called-it-gif-12416745070983161779

[mellow frigate]

Once every eclipse

[vestal gyro]

yeah the one in zomboid is 1.01 while the one im working on rn is 1.10

[thick karma]

That was the only guess I had about that issue as well. Never seen it for any other reason.

[verbal yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2QWTccBduM

local zModData = zombie:getModData() -- idk why, but stuff with {} not work for me lol(((

local square = zombie:getCurrentSquare()
local squareXVal = square and square:getX() or 0
local squareYVal = square and square:getY() or 0
-- and we can skip this IsoZombie, if they mess somewhere else, but another coordinate 
local shouldSkip = 
  math.abs(squareXVal - zModData.BLTx) <= 20 and
  math.abs(squareYVal - zModData.BLTy) <= 20
if shouldSkip or (not square) then
  return true
end
-- DO STUFF WITH SPEED
-- and
zModData.BLTx = squareXVal
zModData.BLTy = squareYVal
-- I guess it's not ideal, but it's a good method to work with moddata on zombie

[thick karma]

@verbal yew I'm unclear on what the video shows... Same zombies getting speed edits (after you teleport)?

I play random zeds with sprinters lol nothing in that video is obviously modded to me

I am probably oblivious

[verbal yew]

zombies changes like isoZombies, but still contain their moddata.
Coordinates check for exclude this isoZombies something else (to generate speed again)

like, old zombies be changed like isoZombies, but in moddata contain my speed setting, zombies get it back

[thick karma]

I missed the part of the convo where someone explained the difference between a zombie and an IsoZombie. I thought the zombies chasing me and eating me were all IsoZombie objects, as I am an IsoPlayer object. Aren't they?

When you say "zombies changes like isoZombies", I have no clue what that means.

I think something is being lost in translation or I just don't know enough about zombie management to process this.

[verbal yew]

i think they sawpped

or something else

before teleportation
after teleportation

[bronze yoke]

seems that way yeah

[thick karma]

Sounds consistent with what albion and Jvla were saying earlier, if so.

[verbal yew]

but now it's work like with coordinate X Y in moddata to exclude this isoZombie mess something else on another isoZombie

not perfect

but work

if not use teleportation

[thick karma]

Publish mod as Moody Zombies

[bronze yoke]

to explain how zombies work:
when a zombie is unloaded, the IsoZombie has its values reset and added to the reuse pool
when a zombie loads, if there are any IsoZombies in the reuse pool, that IsoZombie is spawned with the appearance and other stored properties of the new zombie. only if there are no zombies in the reuse pool a new IsoZombie is created

[thick karma]

"Sometimes your zeds just feel like crawling around, and other times they sprint after you and rip off your face. Enjoy Moody Zombies!"

[bronze yoke]

the bug with moddata is that when IsoZombies are reset for reuse, their moddata doesn't get cleared, so when the new zombie is created it inherits the moddata

[verbal yew]

yep, here workaround for this situation

[thick karma]

Or Really Random Zombies!

"PZ of course has random zombie settings, but what if zombies could be randomer!?"

"What? That zombie we saw earlier is walking again? So random!"

[verbal yew]

As if, yes, when we come to a point where three zombies are different (pink runner, blue crawler, yellow walker), we will always get different zombies, but the essence will remain the same - there will be a runner, a crawler, a walker.

And these zombies will be excluded elsewhere by checking the coordinates from the moddata

[thick karma]

Get Really Random Zombies Today!

[bright fog]

Yeah I saw it lol

People could use it to make maps no ?

[thorny kayak]

maybe you can look at cdda zombies mod

[verbal yew]

In fact, just by playing, hardly anyone will understand the difference.
Only like this at the level of code and tests, knowing the ins and outs

[thorny kayak]

it has also random zombies

[thick karma]

This is probably true.

[mellow frigate]

maps dedicated to Floor is Lava gameplay could be done for sure. If that's what you mean 😉

[thick karma]

Unless people are in the habit of befriending specific zombies.

And looking for them.

[bronze yoke]

this is basically how zombies work anyway, the fine details are fuzzy

[thick karma]

And caring for them.

[bright fog]

I mean maps with volcanos actually lmao

[bronze yoke]

and this problem is literally unavoidable

the pid method that's been mentioned a few times isn't actually unique

it's just nearly unique

there is absolutely no truly unique persistent id for zombies

[bright fog]

Yeah but it definitely is unique enough

[thick karma]

Can someone please publish this so I don't have to do it?

local AutomaticGod = {}

AutomaticGod.deifyMeBaby = function(playerIndex, player)
    player:setGodMod(true)
end

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(AutomaticGod.deifyMeBaby)

return AutomaticGod

I wanted to send a mod for this to someone the other day but it seems to not exist? To help people who are in near-screwed situations and would rather cheat than die and keep playing lol.

[bronze yoke]

i actually was in that situation before, before i was a modder, i ended up using some weird cheat menu for it

[thick karma]

I feel like it will come up again

And being a simple workshop item would be useful

[bronze yoke]

i was editing the database to revive my character but they'd instantly die from wounds

[thick karma]

I see I see.

That is exactly what this would be for I imagine.

Anyone please take it and publish it

I do not want to do the file structures and workshop desc and talking to users lol

and link me so I can use it in mod support lol

[bright fog]

lol

I guess I can do it if you want

Make me some cool images to explain what it does

[verbal yew]

hmmm... no one create predying state... when you down on knee and can crawl so slow with bleeding bar, but after dead you just lose consciousness and respawn somewhere +-more xy cooridinates, in this case something may disappear from the backpack...

[bronze yoke]

this has been done but it ends up buggy as hell

i was maintaining a mod that does this and it was such a nightmare

[verbal yew]

hmmm

ok, if you already had problems. I definitely won't take it... xD

[uneven vessel]

@verbal yew seems to work now

and the zombies seem nice and snappy now

less clunky

[verbal yew]

yep, i know

[bright fog]

Mod done, just testing it

[thick karma]

Lol what that's exactly what I don't want to do haha

[bright fog]

[verbal yew]

but how about lose consciousness, just like teleport player somewhere by coordinate and remove zombies ~10-20 tiles around, with some kind of screen shading and animation of getting up from the floor (bandage wounds, if any, restore health to 20%)

[bright fog]

dw I found something

[thick karma]

It just makes you invincible immediately

[bright fog]

Yeah thx for explaing those 2 lines of code to me, idk what I would do without you

[thick karma]

Probably need to figure out what anti-cheat to tell them to disable

[verbal yew]

lol)

[thick karma]

Lol you requested images explaining what it does!

I'm like wdym how could it be more obviously

[bright fog]

Whatever, there's literally no reason to use that on a server

[bright fog]

I wanted some cool meme image :(

[thick karma]

A small group of people could in theory want it

[verbal yew]

on thumbnail

[thick karma]

Say you're playing with 2 friends and all trapped

[coarse sinew]

type 8

[thick karma]

This seems perfect

[bright fog]

It does actually lmao

[thick karma]

Thank you! Teamwork makes the dream work @bright fog

[bright fog]

It looks nice

Whatever, people will figure it out xD

[thick karma]

Lmao

They will not

[bright fog]

I took this for the image

[thick karma]

They are so horrible at figuring it out

[bright fog]

Perhaps the other is better

[thick karma]

No matter what it is

It takes people so long

To figure it out

🤣

[verbal yew]

https://tenor.com/view/think-mark-invincible-omniman-gif-21416554

think user, think!

[thick karma]

Oh they're both good

That Zeus-like god is classic

I mean listen people love mythology about gods probably a billion perfect pics for it

[thick karma]

More importantly though, the brief connection while not allowed to become invincible before they know this might be enough to kill them.

[verbal yew]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3229836463
WOW OW OWOWOWOW

HOLY MOLLY

[thick karma]

Unsure

[verbal yew]

my loved car from gta sa

[bright fog]

@thick karma

[verbal yew]

awesome

https://tenor.com/view/team-fortress2-pootis-engage-ceno0-tf2heavy-gif-26043551

[bright fog]

https://tenor.com/view/dagoth-ur-im-a-god-god-how-can-you-kill-a-god-dagoth-gif-17488919

https://tenor.com/view/dagoth-ur-dagothwave-morrowind-gif-16098027

[verbal yew]

do you know best thumbnail on workshop zomboid?

[thick karma]

Lmao love it

[verbal yew]

best, ever

[thick karma]

lol that's not bad but best is strong

There are many good ones

[verbal yew]

this is on the second place

[vestal gyro]

I fucking hate how icons work

[bright fog]

@thick karma (ups need to wait a bit)

[bright fog]

wdym ?

[thick karma]

Awesome @bright fog

[vestal gyro]

can't make a good texture because each icon has only a few set colours

[thick karma]

It'll take a second, always does that for longer when you drop it quick, it'll fix itself.

[bright fog]

yeah ik

[verbal yew]

uhh... should to go make my trophy fish

https://tenor.com/view/raid-cartman-gaming-gif-14736747

[bright fog]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232884829&tscn=1714162632

Here ya go

[thick karma]

Perfect

Community served

[bright fog]

:D

[verbal yew]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-scott-the-office-gif-26450196

[thick karma]

Hot sauce feels appropriate

I hope it sets a precedent and everyone gives the mod more hot sauce

[bright fog]

You should check out the single lua file in the mod

[verbal yew]

https://tenor.com/view/so-proud-of-this-community-proud-of-this-community-gif-17813704

[bright fog]

[thick karma]

Lol I'm on phone rn but I will

[bright fog]

:)

[verbal yew]

[bright fog]

Since you didn't want any comments, here ya go

[thick karma]

Lol you bastard

❤️

[bright fog]

:D

Barely anyone will check the file lol

[thick karma]

Lol I know

Hopefully none of the worst people

[bright fog]

Gotta change name now I guess

So people can't find you

[thick karma]

Lol totally.

[verbal yew]

https://tenor.com/view/modern-problems-chapelle-modern-solutions-gif-15497728

renamed into Sir Doggy Jvla

OR WAIT WAIT WAIT! We all renamed into Burryaga

[uneven vessel]

After playing for a bit, it seems that at the same percentage as the old script, more sprinters appear

[verbal yew]

Because zombies weren't handled properly before.

[uneven vessel]

So I must lower it

[small topaz]

Hey! Anyone happens to know a lua command with which you can set a ui tick box to true or false (i.e. showing a tick or remove one)? I mean the tick boxes which you can create in lua via
local myTickBox = ISTickBox:new(...)

[coarse sinew]

This is how I did it:

    self.boolOptions = ISTickBox:new( self.width - (btnWid + 20), y - 5, 200, 20, "", self, GlobalSoundEffects_Panel.onBoolOptionsChange)
    self.boolOptions:initialise()
    self:addChild(self.boolOptions)
    self.boolOptions:addOption("Make Global")
    self.boolOptions.selected[1] = true

[slow hound]

Would a Nutrition testing mod that lets you know when your nutrition is within a reasonable range, as well as detect when you have bonus STR xp or penalty xp based on protein levels, be a mod that is worth releasing?

[bronze yoke]

didn't tcherno make a protein moodle mod?

[slow hound]

no idea. Lots of mods to dig through to find stuff

I'll share a snip of what i have so far. far from finished and the text isn't lined up perfectly

[small topaz]

Many thanks! self.boolOptions.selected[1] = true did the trick! 😄

[slow hound]

@bronze yoke this is where i'm at so far

I tried to think as dynamic as possible while using this info https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Nutrition#List_of_nutritional_values

[bright fog]

That already exists

[slow hound]

seems to have issues but can see in browser

[bright fog]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2859304462&searchtext=protein

From tcherno indeed

[bronze yoke]

oooh that's a much better way of displaying it

[slow hound]

i'm using a different way

i'm tryin gto make it more fun

[bright fog]

your gif is broken as hell lmao

[bronze yoke]

i didn't really like the moodle, it feels out of place

[untold orbit]

error: cannot find symbol
                return var1.getFileName().toString().matches(var1);

[slow hound]

it's not broke it's huge you have to view in browser

hate discord not me 😦

[bright fog]

doesn't even work in fucking browser

Why would you make your gif so huge

[slow hound]

no idea working for me. sorry

[bronze yoke]

it worked fine for me

[slow hound]

because my monitor is 3440/1440

i dont hav a choice]

[bright fog]

Oh yeah that looks nice

[slow hound]

tyty

[bright fog]

But yeah that could be nice

That was with you we were talking about those too ?

Could be the solution lmao

[slow hound]

i'm learnin UI

[bright fog]

That's not bad

[slow hound]

thanks to umbrella and zedscript

made this insanely easy

Well thank you I shall continue development

last question does this ground item look too shit?

when i see some mods like hydrocraft. my goal is not not have icons that look this way

[verbal yew]

Zoject Promboid xD

https://tenor.com/view/motlei-gif-17483018988231217151

[vestal gyro]

why isnt this using the model

there also is no proper model for a t-shirt (atleast not in the skinned folder)

can I just use
<m_MaleModel>skinned\clothes\bob_jacket</m_MaleModel> <m_FemaleModel>skinned\clothes\kate_jacket</m_FemaleModel> <m_GUID>c819248b-8cf4-474e-824f-379f8b542149</m_GUID> <m_Static>false</m_Static> <m_AllowRandomHue>false</m_AllowRandomHue> <m_AllowRandomTint>false</m_AllowRandomTint> <m_AttachBone></m_AttachBone> <m_Masks>13</m_Masks> <m_Masks>14</m_Masks> <m_Masks>3</m_Masks> <m_Masks>5</m_Masks> <m_UnderlayMasksFolder>media/textures/Clothes/Jacket/Masks</m_UnderlayMasksFolder>

[earnest minnow]

Would anyone mind sending me the .java for the vehicle events? It should be where RVSChangingTire.java is located

[red tiger]

Ending?

[earnest minnow]

sending*

[red tiger]

You can double-click / open the .class file from IntelliJ IDEA. It will decompile it for you.

Unless you're asking as a small commission.

This is my area of expertise for PZ modding / general modding.

[earnest minnow]

yep, im at my work laptop atm so I dont have the dev environment setup

[red tiger]

Feel free to shoot me what you need and for how much via DMs.

[bright fog]

Make it a 3D model ?

[earnest minnow]

I don't feel comfortable paying for source code that we didn't develop so I'll just wait for someone else to offer or just wait till I get home

[red tiger]

Okay. Good luck.

[slow hound]

Thank you for all your efforts in making tools for modders. I know Albion and Omar deserve thanks for Umbrella too so thank you both, but I can see you are about helping modders succeed and it's no small undertaking. Thanks

[red tiger]

Thank you for recognizing and appreciating my work. Yes I've modded games since 2003 and I've only seen the best works when modders have the resources to get the job done. This is all a labor of love.

[untold orbit]

Hey Jab

Why do I get this error when I try to play around with LuaManager?

error: cannot find symbol
                return var1x.getFileName().toString().matches(var1);
                            ^
  symbol:   method getFileName()
  location: variable var1x of type Object

        private static void deleteSavefileFilesMatching(File var0, String var1) {
            DirectoryStream.Filter var2 = (var1x) -> {
                return var1x.getFileName().toString().matches(var1);
            };

            try {
                DirectoryStream var3 = Files.newDirectoryStream(var0.toPath(), var2);

                try {
                    Iterator var4 = var3.iterator();

                    while(var4.hasNext()) {
                        Path var5 = (Path)var4.next();
                        System.out.println("DELETE " + var5);
                        Files.deleteIfExists(var5);
                    }
                } catch (Throwable var7) {
                    if (var3 != null) {
                        try {
                            var3.close();
                        } catch (Throwable var6) {
                            var7.addSuppressed(var6);
                        }
                    }

                    throw var7;
                }

                if (var3 != null) {
                    var3.close();
                }
            } catch (Exception var8) {
                ExceptionLogger.logException(var8);
            }

        }

I didn't touch this method but its still complaining about getFileName()?

This is from LuaManager.java

[verbal yew]

Guys

[slow hound]

what's the name of the file?

maybe this is the problem

[verbal yew]

how changed icon name for burnt, rotten or another food?

[slow hound]

if you use zedscript 🙂

[verbal yew]

nothing here

[slow hound]

you suffix the name with the parameters

[verbal yew]

https://tenor.com/view/heavy-heavy-tf2-heavy-team-fortress-2-heavy-team-fortress-two-thinking-gif-13167291159341927470

[slow hound]

i'll show how it says in zedscript

[verbal yew]

like
item_myfood_burnt?

cooked

etc?

[slow hound]

yes

[verbal yew]

thanks

[slow hound]

i wanted to make sure i worte it correct 😄

[red tiger]

I'm being distracted by the tornado outbreak rn.

So that method in LuaManager.. Are the right objects / params passed?

[untold orbit]

I never used the method its just when I try to compile the IDEA complains about getFileName() not being recognized

[red tiger]

Oh.

This is a generic thing that you may not know.

So for the lamdas in there, most of them use <Path>

Try adding this to those objects. This should fix those.

[thick karma]

I think that looks pretty cool. I say keep up the good work and if you need help adding a basic close action for gamepad players, ping me.

[slow hound]

Yes my plans are to support joypads! sounds good thank you!

[untold orbit]

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean by adding <Path>

[red tiger]

Joypad API is one of the things I plan to document for Umbrella.

[slow hound]

thank the gods. multiplayer joypad stuff seems easy once you get it but there is alot to it

[red tiger]

I also worked on radial menus as a DOM element for the JSX factory I was writing in January of 2023 for TypeScript TSX modding.

Yeah it's actually possible to write HTML for UI with that prototype.

Was a fun experiment / tech demo.

Roughly anyone writes mods in TypeScript here so it isn't worth pursuing unless I wrote a HTML & CSS parser.

[slow hound]

that's crazy

[red tiger]

My project this week is Mallet, a program that imports & exports JSON data that compiles into Lua typings for Umbrella.

https://asledgehammer.github.io/Mallet/

[untold orbit]

DirectoryStream.Filter var2 = (Path var1x) -> {
                return var1x.getFileName().toString().matches(var1);
            };

Incompatible parameter types in lambda expression: expected Object but found Path

[red tiger]

Filter<Path>

[untold orbit]

aah that fixed it, why was it not included in the decompiled file? Is it a problem with the decompiler missing this?

[red tiger]

Yeah it's generic. Generics are erased when compiled to bytecode.

The JVM doesn't see anything generic. It doesn't need to because the compiler ensures any generic logic is consistent with the rules of the language.

This is also why you sometimes see boolean values assigned to integer local vars.

Compiler optimization.

Once you know what needs to be generic and their types, fixing these files becomes trivial.

[untold orbit]

oh so I just need to learn that Filter uses <Path> etc?

[red tiger]

Filter uses anything IIRC.

You need to know what the implemented code is calling and assign the correct type.

So you'll see HairStyle and BeardStyle code erroring out below that. You'll know that they'll need to be placed as generic types in that code.

You should also take the time to optimize the iterator while loops as foreach loops.

    @LuaMethod(name = "getAllBeardStyles", global = true)
    public static ArrayList<String> getAllBeardStyles() {
      ArrayList<String> var0 = new ArrayList<>();
        if (BeardStyles.instance != null) {
            ArrayList<BeardStyle> var1 = new ArrayList<>(BeardStyles.instance.m_Styles);
            var1.sort(
                    (var0x, var1x) -> {
                        if (var0x.name.isEmpty()) {
                            return -1;
                        } else if (var1x.name.isEmpty()) {
                            return 1;
                        } else {
                            String var2 = getText("IGUI_Beard_" + var0x.name);
                            String var3 = getText("IGUI_Beard_" + var1x.name);
                            return var2.compareTo(var3);
                        }
                    });
            for (BeardStyle var3 : var1) {
                var0.add(var3.name);
            }
        }
        return var0;
    }

When decompiling, generic redefinitions will be the majority of your work.

[untold orbit]

@LuaMethod(
                name = "getAllHairStyles",
                global = true
        )
        public static ArrayList<String> getAllHairStyles(boolean var0) {
            ArrayList var1 = new ArrayList();
            if (HairStyles.instance == null) {
                return var1;
            } else {
                ArrayList<HairStyle> var2 = new ArrayList(var0 ? HairStyles.instance.m_FemaleStyles : HairStyles.instance.m_MaleStyles);
                var2.sort((var0x, var1x) -> {
                    if (var0x.name.isEmpty()) {
                        return -1;
                    } else if (var1x.name.isEmpty()) {
                        return 1;
                    } else {
                        String var2 = getText("IGUI_Hair_" + var0x.name);
                        String var3 = getText("IGUI_Hair_" + var1x.name);
                        return var2.compareTo(var3);
                    }
                });
                Iterator var3 = var2.iterator();

                while(var3.hasNext()) {
                    HairStyle var4 = (HairStyle)var3.next();
                    var1.add(var4.name);
                }

                return var1;
            }
        }

error: variable var2 is already defined in method getAllHairStyles(boolean)
                        String var2 = getText("IGUI_Hair_" + var0x.name);

Didn't touch, not sure why I get that error

[red tiger]

Check my code.

I named one as var1x

The decompiled code is optimized here for the JVM by reusing that var2.

[vestal gyro]

works now

kinda weird that every clothing type has a somewhat different syntax when it comes to the xml file

[untold orbit]

I assume I can just rename the var2 inside the lambda to var2q for example?

[red tiger]

Yes. You can see that I did this above.

[echo lark]

does anyone know if you can attach weapons to bones?, trying to make a clawed glove type of weapon and use the bat swing anim. but it kind of floats off of the hand when walking/swinging and its impossible to line up, was wondering if its possible to attach it to the hand bone

asking cuz i noticed this on the wiki

but doesnt seem to do anything, so wondering if its just not possible or im doing something wrong

[untold orbit]

If I want to add a method from Java to Lua can I just do it like this?

        @LuaMethod(
                name = "testMethod",
                global = true
        )
        public static void testMethod(String var0) {
            ...
        }

I tried to do so but when I use it in Lua it says its nil? Do I need to register it elsewhere too?

[red tiger]

Hahaha.. Redis.

Okay yeah that should work if it's in the globalobject.

You can add it externally but it's a couple method calls.

[untold orbit]

All right but why do I get nil then 🤔

[red tiger]

If you're expecting a return you made the method void.

[untold orbit]

lmao I haven't slept enough 😂

Thanks!

Wait a minute 👀
I am not expecting a return, I am running a method and not returning anything

Object tried to call nil in OnServerStarted

could it be because of this:

Illegal/unsupported escape sequence

String[] var1 = var0.getAbsolutePath().split("\\" + File.separator);

[red tiger]

Those errors didn't stop my copy from working.

[untold orbit]

Forgot to upload the .class files

https://tenor.com/view/lol-omg-gif-26377587

Works now!

[small topaz]

When I call getText("ConextMenu_TrimBeard_For") the game outputs Trim Beard for %1 where %1 seems to be a place holder for another string by which it can be substiuted. Is there a way to delete the %1 from the output so that I just get Trim Beard for? I already tried the gsub command:

text = string.gsub(text, " %1", "")```
but this resulted in an error for me.

[slow hound]

maybe don't use %

or use " %%1" lol

[small topaz]

why does this work??

[slow hound]

cuz lua uses % already

so two cancels out

i look on lua website quick also just now

[thick karma]

Are you aware you can use the getText command with 2 args?

You can send it a variable to sub into a marked position of the string

[slow hound]

would be what lua uses % for normally i thinks. still new ish to lua

[small topaz]

Thanks! Thats also a good trick in this situation!

[thick karma]

It's used differently in strings

[thick karma]

I still need to upgrade some Jukebox translations to use this style myself, for languages that write right-to-left

I'm sure a lot of my lazy concatenations will look like Yoda-talk in Japanese

[sonic needle]

hand model's? yeah. plenty

[verbal yew]

trophy fishing with low chance

https://tenor.com/view/pootis-engage-pootis-engage-what-confused-gif-25339394

[sonic needle]

BIGGER.

[red tiger]

Kentucky's trying to out-weird Florida here.

A landlocked state with fish bigger than gators.

[verbal yew]

xD it's commission

[sonic needle]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-more-gif-21856591

[verbal yew]

xD

[untold orbit]

bruh why is

public static Faction createFaction(String var0, String var1)

Not actually used? The constructor is but this function isn't called from anywhere?

I can use the constructor to check when a faction is made but how do I check if its removed?
This does not seem to be used either:

public void removeFaction()

[red tiger]

Legacy / deprecated code is common in PZ.

A lot of hands in the pot that have differing philosophies / code-practices.

There's a bit of code in there that's 10 years old.

[thick karma]

I can tell you in a bit

I'd have to review the code.

[untold orbit]

I guess they just edit the arraylist from some other class lmao

[red tiger]

Or Lua.

A cheat exploit came originally from this fact.

[thick karma]

There's a Lua function that can be hooked

I just forget which

[red tiger]

It was a safehouse teleport packet which was client-auth so hackers teleported players to a spot and killed them instantly with another exploit.

Was really bad. This exploit is what pushed me to write my anti-cheat originally.

[bright fog]

No not hands, items in hands

[untold orbit]

Do we know or is there anywhere to read about planned changes code wise for B42?

[red tiger]

Only public-facing API for Lua access and then it won't be complete. B42 is too monolithic of an update to get everything.

The best I can do is update PIpeWrench which is generated Java API typings and it'll show all the literal differences.

PipeWrench is cool because it shows the differences through Git commit diffs.

Here's an example: https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench/commit/b2d5852b62a6b02dce26a3414a913bc3e409243a

[sonic needle]

staticmodel = itemsmodelnamehere,

All You Need In One Line 🙂

For recipes, same deal, modelname in

prop = Modelnamehere

https://tenor.com/view/epicosalt-gif-26723407

[bright fog]

Say that to the guy I pinged the message lmao

You need to link the model to a bone right ?

The guy was saying he was trying to get his fbx to x

To have the item in hands

#mod_development message

[sonic needle]

OH FOR ANIMATION

seperate issue.

[sonic needle]

u do it

[bright fog]

Just to have the item in hands lmao

@violet shell

[sonic needle]

👉 👈 🥰

[violet shell]

Hi 🙂

I got a clue by AuD

Seems I need to add in my item def : primaryAnimMask = HoldingTorchRight, secondaryAnimMask = HoldingTorchLeft, but couldn't try it yet

[sonic needle]

i was about to type all that, but now ill type 75% of it

[violet shell]

Lol 🙂

I'm still reading you 🙂 I am very curious about that 🙂

[sonic needle]

item ScrapMetal
{
DisplayCategory = Material,
Weight = 0.1,
Type = Normal,
DisplayName = Scrap Metal,
Icon = ScrapMetal,
MetalValue = 30,
SurvivalGear = TRUE,

    StaticModel = ScrapMetal,                            <-------------------Make sure items have this for in hand in world usage in recipes as well as a secondary source

    WorldStaticModel = ScrapMetal,
}

[bright fog]

you don't have to use .x models, that's at least confirmed

Just like I told you, don't even aproach .x

If you can just not use it, don't use it

[sonic needle]

recipes that load a model,

prop = MODELNAMEHEREPLS
prop1 = MODELNAMEHEREPLS

these go in a recipe, so the player will, do the Human thing and HOLD the item

Remember, Anyone can always @ me, for related things / insight for PZ,

[violet shell]

what are prop & prop1 ?

[sonic needle]

This essentially, is the recipe bit, but for Clothing, same trick, forces a static animation

[sonic needle]

when you craft something, you cna instruct PZ's engine to attach a model, in each hand, these coincide with a marker on the male and female body FBX model's placed by the dev's

this is ALSO why EVERY animation mod that does POSES is Wrong. All the TIME.
Annoys. me. to. HELL.

when you make a pose anim, or anim in general, the Marker assigned to each hand, left and right MUST BE MOVED WITH THE HAND

[bright fog]

:)

[sonic needle]

Highlighted for you.

Wherever these go in an animation. Your GUN, ITEM, ETC WILL FOLLOW AT ALL TIMES DURING IT.

this does mean you can break the system and chuck a firearm, football etc by yeeting the marker.

[bright fog]

zombies don't have items in hands thanks god

[sonic needle]

they CAN tho.

[bright fog]

I completely ignored these for my zombie animations

[bright fog]

Eh ?

[sonic needle]

you can make those zombies fire guns, etc. Anything you can do ingame. They can TOO

[bright fog]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-meme-staring-hd-watching-gif-23055924

[sonic needle]

just doesnt make sense in default unmodded pz 🙂

But Modding wise? yeah you could

[violet shell]

Can you give me an example ?

[sonic needle]

Sure can. uno momento~

[violet shell]

tyvm

[sonic needle]

recipe Saw Logs
{
Log,
keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Saw],

   CanBeDoneFromFloor:true,
   Result:Plank=3,
   Sound:Sawing,
   Time:230.0,
   Category:Carpentry,
   OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.SawLogs,
   AnimNode:SawLog,
   Prop1:Source=2,
   Prop2:Log,
}

• EXAMPLE ABOVE ^

• Prop1:Source=2,
• Prop2:Log,

These refer to the MODEL of the Log itself and not the ITEMNAME ID

• Further INFO

CanBeDoneFromFloor:true,

Bypasses the XML AnimationLock system.
Allows the player to do as stated. interact directly with ISOworld during an animation

but probably isnt limited to that

[bright fog]

You've got an issue with spaces I swear lmao

[sonic needle]

• ANIM SELECTION

• AnimNode:SawLog,

[ SawLog ] is the anim name for the action used, an x file has the data.

i type. way. too fast.

adhd meds

[bright fog]

I mean, you can just not put that many spaces no ?

[sonic needle]

i run with it, at this point

[bright fog]

Me when I see Ashe modpages:

https://tenor.com/view/smackdown-güreş-kavga-pes-gif-19365382

[violet shell]

Ok, I start to get it. Can I use those prop & prop1 without an animNode ?

[sonic needle]

oh he wants more SEETHROUGH.

[bright fog]

ono

[sonic needle]

should be capable of it yes. it is a designator for the animsystem aha

[sonic needle]

https://tenor.com/view/go-for-it-homelander-antony-starr-the-boys-push-gif-17866579

love that show.

[violet shell]

ok, my goal for now is just to have the character actually have the item in hands when they use it

[thick karma]

local YourModule = {}

YourModule.FactionUI = {}

YourModule.FactionUI.destroyFaction = ISFactionUI.destroyFaction

function ISFactionUI:destroyFaction(button, modal)
    -- Do what you wanna do.

    YourModule.FactionUI.destroyFaction(self, button, modal)

    -- And such.
end

return YourModule

[sonic needle]

if it is a radio, or scrapmetal / real item,

staticmodel = modelnamehere,

Add that to the itemscript 🙂

[violet shell]

at least for the first one. For the second, it's a serynge, my dream would be that the character actually use it like we use a serynge

[bright fog]

https://tenor.com/view/brc-boys-billy-butcher-homelander-stare-gif-26182923

[sonic needle]

people watching me mod the quantity of 30 people a day

[violet shell]

I just took the granolabar model and changed the texture

[bright fog]

I don't have time in my life these days to mod as mod haha

[thick karma]

@untold orbit

[bright fog]

Have to go slowly do things

I'm getting back to TLOU Infected rn

[sonic needle]

need anything for it ? 🙂

[bright fog]

nah

[sonic needle]

ill be looking into the patches for PFO soon

[bright fog]

Last time I stopped on the fence animations

This shit made me go crazy

But here I'm getting back to the coding part, the part I love most to change a bunch of stuff I marked

Got a bunch of interesting stuff to do

[red tiger]

I'm happy. Already having code that detects Lua classes and their properties, building profiles in my software to document.

[sonic needle]

anims are hard work. i know.

i hope the dev's truly fix the flaws for us.

the flaws ?

direct X ".x" Locked anim files.

the fix? make them .fbx

[bright fog]

I'm pretty they are not going to change how animations are made in the game

That definitely is not changing

[sonic needle]

was planning to invest to Full MoCap, to help modder's get Easy anim's for things.
Still the plan

[bright fog]

The fact they didn't mention anything about that and that they keep adding stuff to the system, doesn't give me hope they'll do any improvement on it

[sonic needle]

i doubt they can mention it,
Counts as Spoiler info, of which there would be a great deal we have not seen

i would, assume B42 would have a seperate NDA at this rate, based on how much is inside it

[bright fog]

NDA ?

[sonic needle]

nondisclosure agreement, document

https://tenor.com/view/sample-contract-nda-non-disclosure-agreement-gif-17773157

effectively Zomboid Perjury

if broken.

[violet shell]

    {
       myItem,
       CanBeDoneFromFloor:false,
       Result:recipeResult,
       Sound:mySound,
       Time:120.0,
       Category:Health,
       Prop1:myItem,
       Prop2:leftHand,
    }```
@sonic needle This should do it or not ? how I can point to the second hand ? or a arm for example ?

[sonic needle]

each prop, is a Hand

prop2 is right hand
prop1 is left

your item, is in the left hand 🙂

i may have just thought on how to juggle an item. by breaking the system XD

[violet shell]

    {
       myItem,
       CanBeDoneFromFloor:false,
       Result:recipeResult,
       Sound:mySound,
       Time:120.0,
       Category:Health,
       Prop1:myItem,
    }``` This ?

[sonic needle]

yep, item held in left hand,
can you paste the item statblock ? ( its script )

[violet shell]

item Autotest_Knox_Infection
{
DisplayName = Biocoded Autotest,
Icon = Autotest_KnoxInf,
DisplayCategory = FirstAid,
Weight = 0.1,
StaticModel = Autotest_KnoxInfStatic,
WorldStaticModel = Autotest_Ground,
}

[sonic needle]

recipe Use my item
{
myItem,
CanBeDoneFromFloor:false,
Result:recipeResult,
Sound:mySound,
Time:120.0,
Category:Health,
Prop1:Autotest_KnoxInfStatic,
}

a working one, would be this ^
so long as the Modelname, that is loaded, is called "Autotest_KnoxInfStatic"

[violet shell]

model Autotest_KnoxInfStatic
{
mesh = Autotest_KnoxInfStatic,
}

model Autotest_Ground
{
mesh = WorldItems/Autotest_KnoxInf,
scale = 0.4,
}

[sonic needle]

model Autotest_KnoxInfStatic
{
mesh = WorldItems/Autotest_KnoxInfStatic,
texture = WorldItems/Texturenamehere,
scale = 0.4, "<--- not needed: is optional"
}

^ example, but do your own testing 🙂

[violet shell]

yeah, but I named my textures strictly the same as the model so it applies it seems

[sonic needle]

yes that works fine

[violet shell]

Can I bother you more ?

[sonic needle]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-distrust-falloutboy-duty-imustgo-gif-5895712

sure can

[violet shell]

My other item is a serynge, and I would like that when the character uses it, it have it in right hand, and move the serynge to the left arm. Can I do that without an animation, just with props ?

        keep biocodedCureExp,
        Result:BiocodedCure_Result,
        Sound:BreakAmpule,
        Time:120.0,
        Category:Health,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:False,
        NeedToBeLearn:False,
        OnCreate:injectBiocodedCure,
        RemoveResultItem:true,
        Tooltip:Tooltip_Inject_CureExp,
    }
item biocodedCureExp {
        Type = Normal,
        Icon = Biocoded_Cure_Exp,
        Weight = 0.1,
        DisplayName = Biocoded Experimental Injection,
        Tooltip = Tooltip_Biocoded_Cure_Exp,
        StaticModel = Biocoded_CureExp,
        WorldStaticModel = Item_Biocoded_CureExp,
    }
model Biocoded_CureExp {
        mesh = Biocoded_CureExp,
    }

    model Item_biocoded_CureExp {
        mesh = WorldItems/Item_Biocoded_CureExp,
        texture = WorldItems/Item_Biocoded_CureExp,
        scale = 1.2,
    }```

[sonic needle]

this would require an animated file to help sell it,
hmm.

[violet shell]

I cannot tell that prop1 = the left arm ?

[sonic needle]

pz is simple. and that is its Greatest asset.

Meaning a simple thing, can often get you most of the way there creatively speaking,
A player wont look as close as you will,

• for the Arm thing, you can make it use the left Hand, atleast

it is, the dev's themselves, that need to hook function tag's to the bones to support full body Location Usage,
Which, i would imagine, B42 will have, if not, Then, it should probably have that added

[violet shell]

ok so recipe Inject_Biocoded_Cure { keep biocodedCureExp, Result:BiocodedCure_Result, Sound:BreakAmpule, Time:120.0, Category:Health, CanBeDoneFromFloor:False, NeedToBeLearn:False, OnCreate:injectBiocodedCure, RemoveResultItem:true, Tooltip:Tooltip_Inject_CureExp, Prop2=Biocoded_Cure_Exp, } should do the trick ?

[sonic needle]

this needs an animnode call

[sonic needle]

to add to this, something like,

prop22 for animhooking, "Bip01_L_Foot" for instance

[violet shell]

Sorry, you lost me lol 😄

[sonic needle]

AnimNode:SawLog,
AnimNode:Disassemble,
AnimNode:RipSheets,

add one, of those lines, to that script

you will see what i mean

"Disassemble" is a solid choice

[violet shell]

ok

let's try this 🙂

[sonic needle]

general results, of this should be,

"eh its fine, as is"

or,

" does a better animation exist or can i make it?"

[violet shell]

ok 🙂

Is there an animation catalog/list somewhere ? so I can try with trial & error ?

[sonic needle]

i beleive the wiki has that, or atleast a wiki thing,

i dont use any of those. for good reason

[violet shell]

Side question : does VOIP attracts zombies in MP ?

[sonic needle]

there's a mod for that now 🙂 but in vanilla no

[violet shell]

ok thanks :)=

gonna find the mod then 😄

this is better, but not good enough 😄

I would need to have it smaller, and horizontal rather than vertical

is it where I have to add attachement world { numerical values I don't understand } in the model script ?

[sonic needle]

add your own syringe model, and have it edited to ONLY be loaded and used by this recipe,

Angle it for the exact Anim etc

[violet shell]

this is not the serynge 🙂

this is the Autotest

This is Autotest Static Model, with primaryAnimMask = HoldingTorchRight, how can I fix that so it's smaller and oriented as it should ?

[sonic needle]

rotate the model in blender. ctrl + A > apply transform's export model to wherever it was.

the above ^ assumes you are following my, recipe only, seperate model info

[violet shell]

at least scale is working, but I still need to rotate it 🙂

but I don't understand, the scale didn't apply to the recipe

Also, do you know what number is for what in this : attachment world { offset = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000, rotate = -90.0000 0.0000 0.0000, }

it's in models scripts

[violet shell]

I don't get it. Why the model called in recipe is not the same as the one in Static Model and called in item (with primaryAnimMask for example) ?

[sonic needle]

am hungry, Ignore Comment Clothing uses a seperate model loading system

[violet shell]

I don't use clothing models. I think I'm lost lol 🙂

[sonic needle]

me too. need to eat xD

[violet shell]

Gonna go to sleep, thanks for you help and maybe you'll be around later. Thanks again !

[sonic needle]

i'm always around

[slow hound]

Am I going crazy?

the weight moodle's are

    o.weightIncTexture = getTexture("media/ui/chevron_up.png")
    o.weightIncLotTexture = getTexture("media/ui/chevron_double.png")
    o.weightDecTexture = getTexture("media/ui/chevron_down.png")

but I do not seem to find chevron_double?

any idea what i'm missing here?
this seems to be how it's done in game or what am I missing?

self:drawTextRight(getText("IGUI_char_Weight"), self.xOffset, z, 1,1,1,1, UIFont.Small);
    local weightStr = tostring(round(self.char:getNutrition():getWeight(), 0))
    self:drawText(weightStr, self.xOffset + 10, z, 1,1,1,0.5, UIFont.Small);
    if self.char:getNutrition():isIncWeight() or self.char:getNutrition():isIncWeightLot() or self.char:getNutrition():isDecWeight() then
        local nutritionWidth = getTextManager():MeasureStringX(UIFont.Small, weightStr) + 13;
        if self.char:getNutrition():isIncWeight() and not self.char:getNutrition():isIncWeightLot() then
            self:drawTexture(self.weightIncTexture, self.xOffset + nutritionWidth, z + 3, 1, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8)
        end
        if self.char:getNutrition():isIncWeightLot() then
            self:drawTexture(self.weightIncLotTexture, self.xOffset + nutritionWidth, z, 1, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8)
        end
        if self.char:getNutrition():isDecWeight() then
            self:drawTexture(self.weightDecTexture, self.xOffset + nutritionWidth, z + 3, 1, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8)
        end
    end

[grizzled fulcrum]

It's in UI/UI2 pack files

[slow hound]

from media is where by chance?

[grizzled fulcrum]

You have to open media/texturepacks/UI.pack in TileZed

If you have the game on Steam, install the Project Zomboid Modding Tools (comes with game purchase) and you can use TileZed easily

Otherwise you can install it on IS website https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/59675-latest-tilezed-worlded-and-tilesets-september-8-2022/

[slow hound]

ah crap it's packed? Can I call it using the same naming conventions or will I need to use those graphics in my mods specifically?

does it pull from base game when i use
getTexture("media/ui/chevron_double.png")
or will it always only look in the mod directory?

np I don't mind doing it if I have to. but I may just make custom ones

sometimes you need that push to do it and this might be that for me

[grizzled fulcrum]

Yes. When the game loads the pack files, it loads the textures inside the pack file, so you can use getTexture with anything in the pack file like a normal texture.

[slow hound]

ooo okay good to know TY so much

[grizzled fulcrum]

I think specifying your own png in the media/ui/chevron_double.png will possibly override the vanilla texture (not sure)

[slow hound]

This is as far as I got so far
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/232196827577974784/1233520769687093369/9xD.gif?ex=662d653d&is=662c13bd&hm=c1e719248b5f7cb74e14f1daecc7fabeec0250dbc40c6d59fbe43b3d9654bf40&=&width=1565&height=609

it's going to be more complicated from here i think

[grizzled fulcrum]

What are you trying to do with the chevron png? If you want to load it like normal, just do it how vanilla lua does it like above. If you want to override it/replace it, try overriding that path in getTexture function.

[slow hound]

not famliar with how to make that smaller sorry

[grizzled fulcrum]

I am not sure you can xd

[slow hound]

goal is that it dynamically handles the values and color codes based on the range of the values

[grizzled fulcrum]

I see, is that to change the colour of the icon or something?

[slow hound]

middle is sweet spot except for proteins

the text changes color on tick essentially

and is smooth transitions between red/orange/yellow//green

so if fat/carb etc go out of wack it will tell you

and also let you know what is causing your weight to go crazy, also lets you know when you are getting bonus xp from proteins or less xp from low

overall goal is something similar to a device that is drainable with 5 uses for testing nutrients without using moodles or other methods. something that feels more built in. has some sandbox options also atm. may tie it into nutritionist trait

more levels, more features, not sure

mainly i'm barely learning to mod zombid and lua and also want to learn the UI

[grizzled fulcrum]

good luck! I have yet to do much UI stuff and I hope I don't have to, it looks scary lol

[slow hound]

Thank you! appreciate ya.

[desert kelp]

Hello good day! Anyone know what else can we use to permanently persist an object moddata from client to server? transmitModData only seem to persist when you're within the chunk but gets removed when you get away from that chunk

[verbal yew]

i think here problem like with isoZombie

but for isoDeadBody

[desert kelp]

ohh so there's really no way to persist it to the server?

[verbal yew]

not sure...

i think if we take body and drop it

be same things

[slow hound]

if you use search you will find lots of into around it over time

i see diff methods depending on usecase

[desert kelp]

I was thinking once you took a blood sample you remove the zombie from the server so you won't have to worry about persisting the moddata 🤣

[verbal yew]

i think drop samples around body after you kill zombies, like in State of Decay 2

https://tenor.com/view/heavy-heavy-tf2-heavy-team-fortress-2-heavy-team-fortress-two-thinking-gif-13167291159341927470

[desert kelp]

@verbal yew

Just need to tweak where it skips the zombie that is not valid for autopsy then we're good to go

[verbal yew]

yeah, i see

[desert kelp]

But yeah the autopsy mod data can be a problem when players got an RV Interior because they can exploit the autopsy

[verbal yew]

i think I remade it like loot around zombie after dead

[desert kelp]

ohhhh

sorry i was not using the 2.0 haha

[verbal yew]

no no, 2.0 use old system for it

i mean i should do it in future

like loot

not autopsy

workaround for abuze with moddata

[red tiger]

Good morning. (3:50 AM)

So yesterday I wrote some code that dives into Lua class definition code and extracts methods, functions, fields, and static fields and builds JSON data for documentation.

=)

[desert kelp]

Hi Jab, do you have a link?

[red tiger]

Hey @desert kelp. I do! The software / tool I'm writing is web-based. https://asledgehammer.github.io/Mallet/

Make sure to read the greeting modal and you'll get a good understanding of the basics of the tool.

If you want to try out the Lua wizard I'm writing, it's the fourth button on the top-left. Open up uhh the ISUIElement.lua file to test. It's in media/lua/client/ISUI/ISUIElement.lua

I'll be working on the Lua wizard today.

[desert kelp]

Will do thankss!

[red tiger]

No problem. The Lua Wizard isn't done yet so there'll be missing generated data noticeable.

[coarse sinew]

Will you add support for documenting mods?

[red tiger]

So this is a solution that allows for the lua language server extension on vscode to read documentation for things like Umbrella 's typings which can include rendered documentation from this tool.

I wrote a project over a year ago that is a sort of middleware for documentation called PZ-Rosetta. It works with Lua typings, not specific to PZ. Mods should work in this case yeah but you can also write your typings in your code.

PZ-Rosetta is designed to document PZ's Lua and Java API.

[coarse sinew]

I see, I can't seem to open a class file from my mod

[red tiger]

Mallet is currently limited to a specific type of Lua class that PZ implements but PZ-Rosetta has full support for Java and Lua stuff.

[red tiger]

Yeah. It's because the open file thing is for .json files.

The Lua Wizard is limited too.

I provide a link to an example json file to load in the greeting popup when loading the page.

[coarse sinew]

I opened it with lua wizard, it didn't work because I had 2 classes in the same file

[red tiger]

Haha yeah I haven't tested what happens with those cases lol.

The wizard is for speeding up getting a classes' properties loaded in so I can spend more time typing out human documentation than clicking to add the elements manually.

I don't see many people using the tool directly. I do however see people using the fruits of the tool's labor.

=)

[bronze yoke]

just annotate your mods when you're writing them 😅 this is more complex and less accurate than manual annotation, it's only necessary because it's a gigantic codebase entirely unannotated

[coarse sinew]

definitely, I annotated fully my mod, I just found it interesting to maybe use this tool

[red tiger]

I plan to first document the entire ISUI library.

[verbal yew]

thumbnail moment

[tiny wolf]

Hello guys, is there a way to block the inside-building-zombie-spawn ?

[brittle dock]

Just released my first Zomboid mod 🙂
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3233459645

[bright fog]

Yes I believe so

Or at least alter it for sure

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2920079698

[tiny wolf]

You're a boss 😉 Thank you very much !
99999 zombies into LV high builds was an issue for me 😄

[crisp fossil]

hey guys is it possible to convert .x files to .fbx?

[verbal yew]

#modeling

[torn igloo]

Erm...
item:getID() value will change as you modify the item?

On MP, if you use sendClientCommand to send item:getID() to do something on server-side
Then immediately after that line do item:getModData().something = "hello" on clientside
The item:getID() value seems to change thus become invalid, well, the server-side fail to obtain the object

On SP, no such issue

[tiny wolf]

It works fine but still have got an issue with the "LV MALL" type buildings
This kind of buildings are always full of Z : nothing to do to control the spawn rate 😦

[bright fog]

[violet shell]

Hi 🙂

Will this work ? ```function SpawnPoints()
local randomX = ZombRand(299)
local randomY = ZombRand(299)

return {
    unemployed =     {
        {worldX = 44, worldY = 15, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        {worldX = 43, worldY = 27, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        {worldX = 34, worldY = 24, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        {worldX = 32, worldY = 23, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        {worldX = 31, worldY = 27, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        {worldX = 27, worldY = 36, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        {worldX = 23, worldY = 23, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        {worldX = 22, worldY = 35, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        {worldX = 19, worldY = 29, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        {worldX = 16, worldY = 22, posX = randomX, posY = randomY},
        
    } --end unemployed
}

end```

[tiny wolf]

I think no

Need to delete the last ‘,’ of your code I think

[violet shell]

Thanks for the typo. But the thoery about calling for ZombRand and using it's result in posX & posY values is ok right ?

[thick karma]

It'll be the same two random numbers all the way down

Not sure if you want that

[bronze yoke]

trailing commas within tables are fine

[violet shell]

It will not be different each time the player respawns ?

[thick karma]

No

Well

It depends

[violet shell]

ok, so I should put the ZombRand(299) directly in the posX and posY ?

[thick karma]

How often are you going to call that?

[violet shell]

My idea is to have the players spawn more randomly every time they spawn (after each death)

[bronze yoke]

map spawn points define themselves in files like this, i have no idea what the call condition is but i imagine it's cached when the game loads

[thick karma]

Whenever you call that process it'll randomize again but all of the world positions will have exactly the same posX posY

I don't know whether your randomization will be applied

But that is what would happen to the table

[violet shell]

    return {
        unemployed =     {
            {worldX = 44, worldY = 15, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 43, worldY = 27, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 34, worldY = 24, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 32, worldY = 23, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 31, worldY = 27, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 27, worldY = 36, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 23, worldY = 23, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 22, worldY = 35, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 19, worldY = 29, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 16, worldY = 22, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            
        } --end unemployed
    }
end``` better ?

[thick karma]

Yes that would give them all random posX posY

Again unsure if changing it in game would be too late

[violet shell]

and SpawnPoints is called on character creation right ?

[thick karma]

Idk

[violet shell]

SpawnPoints() is called by SpawnRegions()

I have to find when SpawnRegions() is called then 🙂

[thick karma]

Yyyyyep

And so it begins, enjoy becoming increasingly crazy.

[violet shell]

lol 🙂 any hint where to search ?

[bronze yoke]

eugh, looked at it myself and it's not even sandboxed

it literally does goes load file -> call SpawnPoints() in a loop for every spawnpoints file

affecting the global namespace when it could literally just return the points directly 😭

anyway from my best look it seems like this will be called only once when the game starts?

if you want to be sure, you could add a print to your function and see how many times/when it prints

[violet shell]

ok 🙂 I'll do that, thanks 🙂

This ?

    spawnpointsLoop = 0 = spawnpointsLoop
    print("Number of Loops = "..spawnpointsLoop)
    
    return {
        unemployed =     {
            {worldX = 44, worldY = 15, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 43, worldY = 27, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 34, worldY = 24, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 32, worldY = 23, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 31, worldY = 27, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 27, worldY = 36, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 23, worldY = 23, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 22, worldY = 35, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 19, worldY = 29, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)},
            {worldX = 16, worldY = 22, posX = ZombRand(299), posY = ZombRand(299)}
        }
    }
end```

[bright fog]

no not needed to delete that last one

[thick karma]

nor a need to add it back of course...

Also, in this, idk what spawnpointsLoop = 0 = spawnpointsLoop is gonna do, but I would be surprised if that were meaningful and worked.

[violet shell]

typo, second = is a +

[frank elbow]

0 + x = x. Best case a no-op (in an arithmetic sense), worst case an error if the variable is nil

I assume you mean x = x or 0

[frank elbow]

Where x is your variable name, of course

[violet shell]

so as I want to increment it each time the function is called, I should write :
x = x+1 or 0 ?

[bright fog]

square doesn't exist

You badly gave the square for the player spawn

[violet shell]

I erased all the spawns possible besides mine

and mine was defined, so it means that my spawnpoints() has not been called right ?

Game doesn't like the ZombRand call in spawnpoints.lua 😦

is there an Event I could add a function call at character creation ?

OnCreatePlayer ?

[violet shell]

Damn, I found the bug and it works now !

so you can run lua stuff in spawnpoints.lua 🙂

[violet shell]

@thick karma but according to coop-console.log, the SpawnPoints () function is called only 1 time at the server load, and not after. Is it possible to call it back with a require call for the spawnpoints.lua and then a Events.OnPlayerDeath.Add(SpawnPoints) ?

function resetSpawnPoints ()
    return
end

Events.OnPlayerDeath.Add(resetSpawnPoints)``` If I put that un a lua file in /lua/shared/ will it work ?

[frank elbow]

x = (x or 0) + 1

[violet shell]

it assigns 0 if x is nil, else it uses x, right ?

[frank elbow]

Yes. Note that that'll start the variable off at 1

You could also do an if statement, if preferred. I didn't notice this was just a debug thing anyhow until after I sent the message before

[violet shell]

I need a hint about the "require" (again)...
I have a file in media/lua/shared/myFileWithRequire.lua
And I want to call for a file in
media/maps/myMapFolder/myRequiredfile.lua
I tried require("maps/myMapFolder/myRequiredfile") but the server doesn't load, and I don't have a trace in logs