mod_development

[untold orbit]

                    if (var1.accessLevel == 1 && var4.networkAI.doCheckAccessLevel() && (var3.booleanVariables & (!SystemDisabler.getAllowDebugConnections() && !SystemDisabler.getOverrideServerConnectDebugCheck() ? '\uf000' : '쀀')) != 0 && ServerOptions.instance.AntiCheatProtectionType12.getValue() && PacketValidator.checkUser(var1)) {
                        PacketValidator.doKickUser(var1, var3.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Type12", (String)null);
                    }

...\src\main\java\zombie\network\GameServer.java:2113: error: unclosed character literal
                    if (var1.accessLevel == 1 && var4.networkAI.doCheckAccessLevel() && (var3.booleanVariables & (!SystemDisabler.getAllowDebugConnections() && !SystemDisabler.getOverrideServerConnectDebugCheck() ? '\uf000' : '쀀')) != 0 && ServerOptions.instance.AntiCheatProtectionType12.getValue() && PacketValidator.checkUser(var1)) {
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     ^

Pointing ^ at '\uf000' : '쀀'

Also get a "not a statement" error

Additionally:

        if (PlayerToAddressMap.containsKey(var0)) {
            sendObjectChange(var0, "reanimatedID", (Object[])("ID", (double)var1.OnlineID));
        }

error: ')' expected
            sendObjectChange(var0, "reanimatedID", (Object[])("ID", (double)var1.OnlineID));
error: ';' expected
            sendObjectChange(var0, "reanimatedID", (Object[])("ID", (double)var1.OnlineID));

[bronze yoke]

you can't

require searches from lua/shared/ lua/client/ lua/server/, you can't require a file outside of those directories

[violet shell]

ok thanks

I'm trying to avoid the problem by using a global table

@bronze yoke ok here is my problem : it seems that global table declared in spawnpoints.lua from /maps/mymap/ does not pass to global variables/tables after because when I want to call it back in a regular lua function in /lua/shared/myfile.lua it says the table is nil.

my spawnpoints.lua file in /maps/myap/ which is loaded on game start/server load (=> debug print is in coop-console.txt only)

my lua file in lua/shared/ which call a function on player death, but I get an error on death : the spawnRandomX & spawnRandomY tables are not defined 😦

[tiny wolf]

Sorry i come from nowhere but is it possible to teleport your player to your random position with a OnCreateCharacter event ? So you do not need to use the spawnpoint.LUA system

[bright fog]

Yes

[tiny wolf]

Maybe it will be a better solution for Asilar situation 😉

Ok so do someone know after how many rooms into a building game decide to do not care about Z population mask and overwrite a « full population » into a building ?

[bright fog]

uh

[uneven vessel]

@verbal yew i find that zombies will become and unbecome sprinters

does it roll every time the think checks

[untold orbit]

How do I reset the chat text once I did RGB:0,255,0 for example

I tried doing <TEXT> but it ruins the chat, if I don't add it then the color will be the same everywhere

[thick karma]

First of all I'm pretty sure that's RGB 1 everywhere... So 0, 1, 0. Default is 1, 1, 1, which is white in RGB 1. But there is a guide somewhere that also has a command for returning to prior color if you need exactly the prior color and said color is unknown for some reason.

0, 255, 0 would just get bounded to 0, 1, 0 afaik.

[slow hound]

This is where I've gotten with the Nutrition UI itself and the data within.
the calorie average is tracked from the previous day total vs current calories but updates live

also when you have consumed too many calories too fast the arrow indicator next to weight will let you know you are gaining a lot of weight from too many calories in a short time span (not quite the same as the normal weight indicator)```
(sorry for bloom on screenshot) any suggestions that you can think would improve to be better? or better logic usage?

you are right about rgb 1

[untold orbit]

I just did RGB:0,255,0 on processGeneralMessage and now all following messages in chat is green

[thick karma]

Yes because it's bounding it to 0,1,0 which is also green in RGB 1

[untold orbit]

So how do I reset it?

[thick karma]

But the 255 is unnecessary and also a bad habit because Java side of the game gets mad about trying to save floats > 1 in some contexts

[thick karma]

Like I said, 1,1,1 should be default

RGB:1,1,1

White

Idr the revert-to-last command

Gotta try to search for the guide I mentioned but I don't have the link

[untold orbit]

1,1,1 just makes it white

[thick karma]

Well that is to my knowledge default

I guess it depends where you're colorizing text

Here, I guess Elyon just posted this as raw text. #mod_development message

@untold orbit

<PUSHRGB:R,G,B> and <POPRGB>

[untold orbit]

PUSHRGB:0,1,0 afodsajgoisdgoisdag <POPRGB> works but it makes everything be the text color before that

like /all is no longer orange but blue now

a <RESET> would be great lol

[thick karma]

Mmm not sure what you're even colorizing so I'm not sure how the tags are conflicting for you

[untold orbit]

In-game chat

[thick karma]

So if you call <POPRGB> to restore prior color it miscolors everything after that prior color would ordinarily be replaced by the next color?

Because does not sound how I would expect it to be intended to work...

[untold orbit]

Well if I remember correctly /all is supposed to be orange no?

[thick karma]

Idr tbh I barely use chat

I play with friends and we use voice

I use those tags primarily for coloring tooltips

Sorry 😦

Gotta AB test that I guess

[untold orbit]

That's all right, it works good enough until I figure out another way to do it

[thick karma]

Right on

Good luck!

[untold orbit]

but the rgb is float then? so how do I translate for example 252, 152, 3 to float?

[thick karma]

Divide each by 255

252/255

152/255

3/255

Idk what you're going for but that sounds orangish

An okay orange in RGB-1 is 1.0,0.6,0

Comes up a lot for me

[untold orbit]

thx!

[thick karma]

Can adjust from there if you're particular

Good luck!

[slow hound]

you trying to change a specific type of chat?

like yelling only or general chat only?

can do something like local chatType = getType()
chatType.yell etc

i'm still newish but have been messing around with things like this

you can find everything you need in the Chatbase file though

[untold orbit]

nah I am sending processGeneralMessage with PUSHRGB:0,1,0 and then trying to reset problem is whenever I push all chats become that color and when I do poprgb all chats get the color that was previously

[slow hound]

ahh

[frank elbow]

Are you making sure you have spaces before and after the command? The rich text parser is a bit finicky about that

[untold orbit]

I don't maybe thats why

[frank elbow]

Usually that just leads to text being "eaten", rather than colors being off, but worth a shot

[untold orbit]

Yeah it didn't help

[frank elbow]

It's worth backing up here; what's the goal?

Beyond just "coloring a message", I mean—one message? part of one?

& what's the code you're currently using to do so?

[untold orbit]

Sending a welcome message, its done through lua but I guess I could look into doing it via java instead now that I started modding that part of the game

[frank elbow]

That should be entirely possible through Lua

[untold orbit]

Well it is possible, and I am using processGeneralMessage and it all works, but the color issue persist

[frank elbow]

^ ?

[untold orbit]

Well I send a server command with the username, get that on the client then just

processGeneralMessage(" <PUSHRGB:0,1,0> " .. args[1] .. " connected <POPRGB> ")

It works but the issue with the colors persist

[thick karma]

@turbid gale Do you mind if I share how to fix that bug here for any lurkers who are learning?

[frank elbow]

Can you show the chat after doing this? This shouldn't work

To my knowledge, anyway. Those would be replaced with < and >, so I'm a bit confused

[untold orbit]

What does < and > do? And it does work tho

[frank elbow]

Those are character replacements that ultimately would show as < and > in chat. I'd like to see a screenshot to make sure it's the color expected from that

[untold orbit]

Ignore the white boxes (added in Paint)

[frank elbow]

Weird. This is with only that mod active?

[untold orbit]

Well no but none of the other mods interact with chat afaik

[verbal yew]

sandbox frequency?

[turbid gale]

Yeah go ahead

[frank elbow]

Worth trying it out in isolation, I'd say—from debug I gave it a shot to confirm I was remembering correctly & it showed up as raw text

[turbid gale]

I don't consider anything proprietary. Looking at other mods is the best way to learn.

[untold orbit]

Maybe this is the reason lol

local _ChatMessage = __classmetatables[ChatMessage.class].__index

function _ChatMessage:getTextWithPrefix()
    local text = self:getText() 

    if string.find(text, " connected") then
        return text
    end

    if string.find(text, " disconnected") then
        return text
    end

    return self:getAuthor() .. ": " .. text

end

[frank elbow]

Ah yeah that'd do it—the replacement occurs in the Java-side implementation of that

Generally the "prefix" includes a color as well, so that's likely the source of the bug too

i.e., you don't include messages' colors, so they're using the leftover one

[untold orbit]

Would I be able to fix this code or do I have to work with Java?

[frank elbow]

You can fix it by rewriting the color in that function

[thick karma]

@dense cliff Alrighty permission granted:

local IrisBugFixesVFE = {}

IrisBugFixesVFE.needed = getActivatedMods():contains("VFExpansion1")

if IrisBugFixesVFE.needed then
    require("VFE_WeaponScriptOverwrite")
else
    return IrisBugFixesVFE
end

IrisBugFixesVFE.ReloadWeaponAction = {}

IrisBugFixesVFE.ReloadWeaponAction.setReloadSpeed = ISReloadWeaponAction.setReloadSpeed

function ISReloadWeaponAction.setReloadSpeed(player, rack)
    local primary = player:getPrimaryHandItem()

    local worthy = primary and primary.getAmmoType and primary.getRecoilpad and primary.getSling

    if not worthy then return end --> ADDED CHECK FOR EXISTENCE OF NECESSARY FUNCTIONALITY
    
    IrisBugFixesVFE.ReloadWeaponAction.setReloadSpeed(player, rack)
end

return IrisBugFixesVFE

(Fixes a bug in VFE where primary hand item is not a gun.)

[verbal yew]

guys, which information from food item transfered in new item when its be "ReplaceOnCooked"?
ModData transfered?

[untold orbit]

Where do I do that? I'm not sure I understand

[frank elbow]

ChatMessage has a getTextColor method. You'll want to call that to get the color the message would've had, and include it before the author in your getTextWithPrefix override

[uneven vessel]

it says 7 default

[verbal yew]

hmmm...

[dense cliff]

How do I post this?

[uneven vessel]

they are definitely changing

I have 98 fast shambler 2 sprinter

and they sometimes begin sprinting

sometimes stop

[untold orbit]

Something like this then?

return " " .. self:getTextColor() .. " " .. self:getAuthor() .. ": " .. text

[thick karma]

@dense cliff DMing you a folder, then will explain

[dense cliff]

Ok, thank you

[uneven vessel]

and I've had catastrophic scenarios in which the number of sprinters keep increasing, but that could've been bad luck

[frank elbow]

You'll need to manually rewrite the text color as an RGB command. The returned object has getRed, getGreen, and getBlue methods

[uneven vessel]

I was watching my players as a dm and a horde of normals slowly turned 1 by 1 until there was 7 sprinters

[verbal yew]

can u send video in pm?

[frank elbow]

I recommend decompiling the code to see stuff like that. Could also check https://projectzomboid.com/modding/ but decompiled code gives more context (from the decompiled code you'd want to compare ChatBase.getColorTag)

[uneven vessel]

oh it happening? sure next timei see it

oh my fucking god

i just got jumped by 6 sprinters

as soon as i said that

[verbal yew]

im not sure... i cant recreate this problem...

[untold orbit]

aa so technically I could just deal with all the coloring in function _ChatMessage:getTextWithPrefix() by using getChatID()

[uneven vessel]

maybe it is interacting with my other mod screamerz by braven

?

[frank elbow]

That seems like more work than necessary when the color is already there, but yes

[verbal yew]

idk how bravens mod work

[untold orbit]

Not if I want different colors for all chats 😜

[uneven vessel]

makes sprinters scream

[verbal yew]

perhaps

[frank elbow]

This is true, although I prefer the chat type to the ID

[uneven vessel]

i got owned

[frank elbow]

I based it primarily on chat type for https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3178882070, but if there isn't an override it's simplest to just use the color on the message

[jade yew]

Helloooo. So. I am brand new to modding. Not just PZ but in general. But I love PZ and I'm just starting out in the modding. I've installed blender, visual studio and some lua plugins. And I've found some guides. Any resources I can use to help me?

[uneven vessel]

i'd say find an idea of what u wanna do, find a mod that does something similar and try to reverse engineer it from there

[frank elbow]

The pins have a link to the modding wiki, which has some resources. Unsure how up-to-date it all is, though. Checking out the code of existing mods is good to learn, with the caveat that it's worth taking care to not pick up bad habits

[jade yew]

So find a similar mod and look through the files and learn from it?

[uneven vessel]

yup

what do you wanna do?

[jade yew]

I want to try making an actual food truck. There's an ice cream truck mod and taco truck mod. But I'd like to make a mod where you can actually stand in the side window with an oven, etc. For RP servers.

There's no mods for it. So I want to learn how to make it myself. xD

[uneven vessel]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

There's a mod that lets you be on vehicles already

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877551501&searchtext=truck+bed

[jade yew]

I might be able to use the taco truck mod since it has the side window and stuff.

[uneven vessel]

probably something here you can use

[jade yew]

Thanks :D

[manic magnet]

There is a semi truck mod that when in the back seats gives you access to a microwave and mini fridge. You could look through there for adding something like access to ovens and fridges in the rear seats of vehicles.

[jade yew]

Yeah. Like the autotsar stuff. That's why I was curious

[uneven vessel]

The Ki5 humvee has a trunk that can be accessed from the inside

and you can put items in it

and people outside can retrieve them

so it should be possible

[jade yew]

Oh yeah, their land rover mods and stuff

That'd be good to look into

Thankies

[manic magnet]

God speed

[jade yew]

it'll be months until i'm finished likely. xD

[manic magnet]

Yeah. No worries. It takes me forever to do most stuff as well. 🤣

Mostly because I will redo everything like 10 times before I am happy with it. lol

[echo lark]

is it possible to write a function that does somethign only when a specific item is equipped? i know theres the event OnEquipPrimary, but i dont want the function to check or be called every time a item is equipped in the primary, only when a specific weapon is

[manic magnet]

You just use the event to test if the item was equipped. Then do something if it was. A simple if item == my_desired_item doesn't cost very much at all... the event fires each time something is equipped anyway, regardless if something is set to use it or not.

[echo lark]

so you mean like a function for onequipprimary that only checks if it was my item being equipped, then if it is to call another function? cuz my goal is that when you equip an item called CatClaws it auto equips a clothing item called CatGloves. (basically making a oversized cat paw as a slashing weapon)

[manic magnet]

Yes, you can do it that way and that isn't going to add any real performance impact on its own.
Pseudo Code:

-- get reference to your item here
my_item = scriptManager.getItemByName("SomeItem") -- this is probably wrong, double check it
function myonequipprimaryfunc(item)
  if item == my_item then
    -- do your stuff here for equipping the other item
  end
end

Then just add your function to the event.

[echo lark]

theres no event for unequiping primary right? cuz now ill just need to figure out a way to remove the clothing item if the wepaon item is unequipped

[violet shell]

spawnpoints.lua is loaded serverside right ?

[manic magnet]

I am not certain. Albion has a super useful list of events and hooks, etc on her github repo.

[manic magnet]

I think it's technically loaded on both sides, depending on what mode you are playing?

I know you can point to a file in spawnpoints for a local file and a serverfile (variable name might be wrong here, I can't check at the moment) for server side files that define spawns.

[echo lark]

thanks, ill poke around and see

[manic magnet]

https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventDoc/blob/develop/docs/Events.md

[violet shell]

Ok, First time messing around with gloabal ModData

Can you tell me if I'm going the right direction or not ?

[echo lark]

aah, yeah ive peered through that before, i didnt see anythign about unequipping. but did jsut search it here and its possible the onequipprimary also triggers for unequipping items, so ill play with that and see how it goes

thanks for the help!!

[tawdry solar]

can i make a gun fire super fast ?

[manic magnet]

I can try and help, sure.

[violet shell]

The idea is to inject new spawnpoints coordinates on death of a player, so they cannot respawn at the same place

I'm trying to get around the 1 time loading spawnpoints.lua at server start/game start

[manic magnet]

I see... I haven't ever attempted to put anything like that in spawnpoints.lua... It could work?

[violet shell]

This is actually working good

but the problem is that if the player dies, and respawn in the same cell, the posX and posY would be the same (because spawnpoints.lua is loaded only on startup)

@thick karma I cannot call spawnpoints.lua from media/lua/ lua files because spawnpoints.lua is stored in media/maps/mymap/ so I cannot use the require() function to call it later. Also, all global variables are reset on death, so Braven pointed me at global ModData to get around that.

[thick karma]

Not all global variables reset on death... I'm not sure what you're referencing but that is definitely not true clientside of global variables generally.

[violet shell]

I tried to globalize spawnRandomX & spawnRandomY but it didn'twork at all

[thick karma]

That's not because they reset though.

[violet shell]

I declared spawnRandomX & spawnRandomY as global tables in spawnpoints.lua

[thick karma]

It sounds like SpawnPoints ran again when you died and cleared those tables by redeclaring them as {}

[violet shell]

but when I called them in my regular lua function (in lua/shared/myfile.lua) it said it was null

[thick karma]

I'm guessing you called something serverside from client

And it doesn't exist clientside

[violet shell]

ok, so I should use Global ModData and use the send/request functions ?

or there is another way to transmit serverside tables to client ?

[thick karma]

If you need to send something to client, sendServerCommand is the standard way.

[thick karma]

I'm not really clear how your mod is currently working in contrast with how it's supposed to work. If you clarify that and share your file so I can run it, I might be able to help more.

[violet shell]

Sure, what I want to do is that when a player choose my random spawn location, they spawn in a totally random point. To do so, my idea was to randomize the coordinates with ZombRand. To make it simple at first, I chose 11 cells in wilderness and only randomized posX & posY values in spawnpoints.lua

but the issue is that SpawnPoints() which is in spawnpoints.lua is only called once (when server starts). So I had the idea to call for a resetSpawnpoints() function with Events.OnPlayerDeath.Add().

At first I wanted to call back the SpawnPoints() with a require(), but I cannot use that because require() is limited to /media/lua/ folders, and spawnpoints.lua is stored in /media/maps/. So I tried to get around that using global tables, but didn't work either, and was digging towards the global modData 🙂

@thick karma is it clearer ? files at which step do you want ?

[thick karma]

That's clearer. I am looking at the files. It seems that client pulls regions from server using MapSpawnSelect:getSpawnRegions()

That calls SpawnRegionMgr.getSpawnRegions() , and if you're a multiplayer client you end up calling getServerSpawnRegions() which appears to be an exposed global function

Meaning to get this working (if it's even possible) you'd need to get server to update its regions and then tell client to redo the process of pulling correct server data.

Also I think direct access of SpawnPoints is a no go

It seems to get redefined by many maps and called at file load time

And you can't call it right without reinitializing all the spawn points of all spawn point files as far as I can tell

[violet shell]

@thick karma ok, so do you see a way to go or it's almost impossible ?

what I don't understand is how the client knows the spawnlocations after a character dies. Where those data are stored. If I can find out this, I maybe can find a way to modify it right ?

[thick karma]

Difficult at least. Gonna require some pretty fancy footwork if it can be done

[tawdry solar]

which one of those 2 in the model files change the position of the model ingame?

[thick karma]

I'm not sure when this gets called but I think this function does it and its parent object seems to get initialized when MainScreen is created: MapSpawnSelect:fillList()

function MapSpawnSelect:fillList()
    self.listbox:clear()
    local regions = self:getSpawnRegions()
    if not regions then return end
    for _,v in ipairs(regions) do
        local info = getMapInfo(v.name)
        if info then
            local item = {};
            item.name = info.title or "NO TITLE";
            item.region = v;
            item.dir = v.name;
            item.desc = info.description or "NO DESCRIPTION";
            item.worldimage = info.thumb;
            self.listbox:addItem(item.name, item);
        else
            local item = {}
            item.name = v.name;
            item.region = v;
            item.dir = "";
            item.desc = "";
            item.worldimage = nil;
            self.listbox:addItem(item.name, item);
        end
    end
    self.listbox:sort()

    self:hideOrShowSaveName()
end

[tawdry solar]

ok it has to be my model

but i dont know how to get it the right way

[slow hound]

this is what i seen yesterday with similar issue
#mod_development message

[scarlet fulcrum]

hello 😄 not entirely a modding question but probably not fitting for #mod_support either - does anyone have any recommendations for good monitoring suites that work well with PZ to check for performance bottlenecks on dedicated servers? I'm presuming there's no APM stuff built-in by default since I can't find any on google

[tawdry solar]

no no

mine is the correct size

its just not hte correct direction

[slow hound]

that's for rotation

not size

[tawdry solar]

yeah i never said that

[slow hound]

so rotation is good but the actual location offset is not good you say?

[tawdry solar]

yeah

i changed it to be an actual size and position of an actual model ingame

transforms actually helped

huh

[slow hound]

YW

[tawdry solar]

thanks

[slow hound]

i think it's about applying them and good to go hehe

Going to take my Zomboid plunger and go find some more toilets

[violet shell]

What is this ?

[tawdry solar]

how can i find list of weapon anims ?

[red tiger]

Good evening.

[uneven vessel]

Does anyone know how profession framework handles foraging bonuses?

    name = "Internal Forces",
    icon = "profession_InternalForces",
    cost = 0,
    xp = {
        [Perks.Doctor] = 1,
        [Perks.Aiming] = 1,
        [Perks.Reloading] = 1,
        [Perks.Nimble] = 1,
        [Perks.Lightfoot] = 1,
        [Perks.Fitness] = 1,
        [Perks.Woodwork] = 1,
        [Perks.Maintenance] = 1,
    },
    traits = {
        'Brave',
    },
})```

I got this so far but I wanna give them better foraging like everyone else

[verbal yew]

i think proffession framework not support somethink like that

[uneven vessel]

ah well i don't need it that bad

:3

[verbal yew]

and for Brave should be create workaround like in SOTO
Because Brave is selectable trait. Its mean when i take your profession - i can throw away brave and get free point trait from brave cost

[uneven vessel]

yes i noticed

but my players are all good boys

they would never

[verbal yew]

like in soto has Brave2 with same ui icon, text, etc, but cant be selected, only getting from proffession
and event onCreatePlayer - where check if player has Brave2 - remove Brave2, add Brave.

ah, okay, understood

[uneven vessel]

soto?

oh

maybe i will do that then

[uneven vessel]

Does anyone know why this gun's textures invert when the gun becomes bloody?

[thick karma]

It appeared to be the map spawn select ui

And it calls that when it's built presumably to populate its list right.

[red tiger]

Good morning. (06:15 AM)

[violet shell]

Hi 🙂 Ok, and it's java side right ? So it will be hard to ask the server to reset all this stuff ?

[versed ibex]

how is there not any type of "ring mod" that adds rare drop chance rings that have effects like inventory reduction, strength boost, etc ?

[severe crane]

idk, i think its because it doesnt really fit zomboid. And maybe cuz of the limitations? idk.

[versed ibex]

i mean theres literally a spaceship mod but i feel ya

[severe crane]

ye. would be cool

also @versed ibex are you good at map modding?

[versed ibex]

no sir

[thick karma]

No, and maybe, but not because the thing I shared is Javaside

That's Lua

[red tiger]

Hahaha.

I'm working on type-discovery reference chains and scope-referencing from global context with Lua code right now.

I'm doing this in TypeScript using the luaparse npm library.

Started doing this last night. I'm already 1000+ lines in.

But basically using lua-language-server annotative-typings syntax, I'm working backwards variable assignments and assigning their types using discovery through luaparse AST objects.

=)

Provided this solution works effectively, this will literally save me like over a thousand hours at least of manual type assignments for the Lua API documentation I have planned.

Thought it would be fun to share this silliness here.

[flat panther]

How do you make a muzzleflash effect work on custom guns?

[violet shell]

Ok, if you are interested to work on that, tell me. I'm not sure I'll be able to progress a lot alone on that. But it would be very interesting for further mod development 🙂

[red tiger]

My brain saw 'interested' and 'work' and thought this was a posted commission. lol.

[violet shell]

lol 🙂

If you want to work on that, I'll be very grateful too 😄

[red tiger]

"paid"

hahah

Yeah I look for those in general. That's what I mean't.

I realized recently that some people define commissions as also free work which I didn't think was a thing.

[thick karma]

🤣

"I have an idea. Anyone want to do all the work of making it reality in exchange for hearing it? This is a commission so I want credit for the idea and a link back to my profile page. Also, it'll only be allowed on my server. I want you to add code that will break the mod on any server but mine. Thanks."

[red tiger]

Oh. I had a commission literally for this. I know how to do this actually.

lol

I'm serious.

[thick karma]

Lighting Bags of Poo -- A mod commissioned by DoucherMcGee

[red tiger]

I'd imagine publicly releasing the method(s) on how to do this might make some people grumpy. =)

PZ modding silliness.

[bronze yoke]

it's pretty straight forward really, i know some servers already do it

[red tiger]

I did it back in 2015/2016 with a server I worked for.

[thick karma]

1. Poop in bag.
2. Douse bag in lighter fluid.
3. Light match.
4. Throw match.
5. Laugh.

Process is so simple, any server could do it.

🙃

😏

[thick karma]

Is there a way to ping a distant location to determine whether a player is even allowed to stand there before they arrive?

[brittle dock]

If you're able to get the tile info of the ISOGridSquare you're wanting to ping, you could check isSolid(), isSolidTrans() and HasStairs()?

How are you wanting to select the tile to "ping"? Might not be terribly difficult if you just want to check a certain number of tiles ahead of where your character is facing?

[coarse sinew]

If that tile is not loaded, I don't think you can check

[red tiger]

I'd imagine that you can load the area with the tile then check

[thick karma]

A random map location that is possibly unvisited.

I'm thinking of any workarounds for the random spawn goal but without knowing whether the landing location is safe, you would have to God mode people and move them until it were, which seems undesirable

[brittle dock]

Ah, random spawn mod or something?

[thick karma]

Asilar is trying to solve that

And I was just openly brainstorming

You could randomly TP people after they are first created, but it wouldn't be totally safe to pick random coords

Thinking about how to limit it to safe coords

[brittle dock]

I was about to pseudocode something, but let me grab some coffee and expand on this idea

[red tiger]

I vein my coffee directly as IV fluid.

I am a perpetual earthquake.

[red tiger]

Coding / working on my tool until I drop from being tired.

[verbal yew]

getBaseHunger() - it's what?

HungerChange ?

---

It's HungerChange/100

[flat panther]

asking for a friend that I'm helping with their mod, we have no idea how to make this work

[brittle dock]

What have you tried so far, or are you still in the brainstorming phase?

[flat panther]

we just don't have it in all of the guns that we made yet

[dawn shuttle]

Anyone knows if adding a file using getModFileWriter will cause the server checksum to have issues?

The file is an .ini file in case the checksum ignores certain file types

[gleaming sorrel]

I recently made a new mod but it's not showing up in the modlist

It seems others are having the same issue but I'm not sure how to fix it

[bronze yoke]

yes

prefer getFileWriter

that writes to Zomboid/Lua/

[thick karma]

For anyone who thought Darkvision was too cheap before (7 point version based on average of those who wanted it to be more expensive):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3234640984

[brittle dock]

I imagine the intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for choosing Darkvision.

[thick karma]

Haha... From the feedback, most people think it's just too much better than Cat's Eyes and many other 4-5 point traits.

Zomboid is a game where the darkness kills you from time to time and Darkvision nearly eliminates the threat of darkness itself.

Now, the zeds who are angrier at night, not so much.

[brittle dock]

No idea why that just triggered these specific neurons to fire, but I really need to try "Fear the Rain" or whatever it's called. It's been out for AGES and I've never tried it, but I imagine it could be terrifying

[thick karma]

That does sound fun

[brittle dock]

If you're not familiar, it makes zombies programmed to avoid rain, so they try to break down windows and doors to get inside during storms

[thick karma]

Oh lmao that's classic

I figured they just got more aggressive during rain

[neat herald]

Having an issue with a test recipe file not working. I can't seem to find errors in the logs when the server is loading the file either.
Is there a tool to check recipe files for errors or is there a file location where I can check for error logs?

[brittle dock]

Do you have errorMagnifier installed?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2896041179&searchtext=errormagnifier

[neat herald]

Yeah that we do

[brittle dock]

Should be a red icon in the bottom right (by default) when you pause the game

[neat herald]

Issue is that the server starts but the file causes a black screen and we cannot enter the server to access the game

Therefore error mag can't even checked

Can't seem to find anything in the server logs about the file either

[brittle dock]

All of the server mods are updated, and you're joining with the same versions?

[neat herald]

Yes

This is a test server we are working and we know the issue is the file.

[gleaming sorrel]

I really need to know how to fix my mod
I uploaded it to the workshop
Yet it doesn't appear in the Zomboid modlist

Others have the same problem but I'm not sure what's causing it

[neat herald]

Does anyone know of a tool to check recipe files for errors or is there a file location where I can check for recipe error logs?

[thick karma]

Send me a zip of your item.

From Zomboid/Workshop down

[gleaming sorrel]

Alright

[bright fog]

Redownload the mod ?

[thick karma]

Sounds like multiple people subscribe and cannot see the mod at all in MODS if I understand correctly.

If so, I'm thinking directories must be wrong

[gleaming sorrel]

I tried that
It didn't seem to work

Plus yes its multiple people who can't see it

[thick karma]

If you zip me I'll check your directories.

[gleaming sorrel]

Maybe I recently did a reset so I can't check my other mod folders anymore to see how they are structured

I'll re-download discord right quick and give you the zip

[bright fog]

Or if you have a github repository tbf

[brittle dock]

Just addressing basic housekeeping, but have you checked the mod.info doesn't use the same name as another mod?

[gleaming sorrel]

It did at first but I changed it

[gleaming sorrel]

Sent via dms

[thick karma]

I'm guessing you tested it locally in Zomboid/mods, it worked, you transferred it to Workshop and uploaded?

[gleaming sorrel]

I believe I did yes

[thick karma]

That would strongly suggest a directory issue but I'm checkin

Okay I think your mod.info may be part of your problem.

Idk what icon is for tbh, maybe it works or maybe it's an issue, but you are definitely pointing to poster.png while using a file saved as poster.jpg... need to switch to png for sure.

Also, you have an empty pack= line, and I don't like the sound of that. I'm guessing you need to delete or use it.

So delete or use pack, fix poster.jpg, and maybe delete icon line are first 3 things I'd try.

Also I'd delete the blank line

I don't know but I wouldn't bet on blank lines in mod.info

[gleaming sorrel]

Icons are just a little thing I use for the mod manager
They show up in it

I honestly didn't know about the jpg so I'll convert it to png

The empty pack line was supposed to be deleted but I missed it

I'll try it thank you

[thick karma]

Good luck... folders actually do seem right. I assume Left 4 Dead Re-Texture is inside Workshop directly?

[gleaming sorrel]

Yes

[thick karma]

Yeah everything but that mod.info looks p normal

Empty texturepacks folder could be deleted I imagine

Since that's a vanilla game folder I don't think it's cause issues as a leftover

But I also don't think it'd stop you from loading mod...

[gleaming sorrel]

I have empty pack folders as a way to add moodles in the future when I figure out how to do so consistently

It has never caused any problems in the past to my knowledge keeping the texturepack folder empty

Though I never have a empty pack line to go along with it

[bronze yoke]

if it works locally i'd be surprised if it was causing problems on the workshop

it's not like the game reads mod.infos from the workshop differently

[gleaming sorrel]

Some people said they also couldn't see it its completely possible I forgot to test it because I was incredibly sleep deprived when I made the mod

but it works now

[thick karma]

Glad you got it sorted!

[visual birch]

hello pple, i want to create a mod for disabled pvp only in same faction, actually we have an option in game, but its a single option / player for disable it. Anyone for help me?

[slow hound]

for

zombie.characters.BodyDamage.Metabolics

How would I call this for a player to Obtain the
getMet() value of the player?

I feel like i'm having a stupid moment

i'm essentially tryin to get the float value of the current action state

[bright fog]

Good question

[slow hound]

😦

[bright fog]

Trying to look at the doc and not sure how

[slow hound]

I tried getMetabolicTarget and nil also

[bright fog]

Sounds like it's unused tbf

[slow hound]

I may end up manually defining the current action state float values using the floats I see in the
Metabolics class, but I would really like this to be dynamic

[bright fog]

What do you need this for exactly ?

[slow hound]

function NutritionUtility.calculateCalorieBurnRate(weight, activityLevel, playerTemp)
    local baseBMR = 0.016 * (weight / 80)
    local temperatureFactor = 1 + (playerTemp - 37) * 0.01
    return baseBMR * activityLevel * temperatureFactor
end

calories per second tracker

everythign works except getting this float value dynamically

activitylevel is the float

[thick karma]

I think it would most likely work if you force set the local SandboxVars option for that to whatever the local player chooses in Mod Options or something. Might have to reset it periodically to override other mods syncing you up with the server sandbox options state.

[bright fog]

local bodyDamage = getPlayer():getBodyDamage()
local thermo = bodyDamage:getThermoregulator()
local met = thermo:getMetabolicTarget()

[slow hound]

hmm

[bright fog]

tho it's target

so eh

But outputs a float

So idk man

[slow hound]

function PlayerClimateDebug:initVariables()
    local thermos = self.player:getBodyDamage():getThermoregulator();
    local stats = self.player:getStats();
    local body = self.player:getBodyDamage();
    local nutrition = self.player:getNutrition();
    local climate = getClimateManager();

    self.vars = {};
    self:registerVariable("title_main","MAIN",false);
    self:registerVariable("getMetabolicTarget", "MetabolicTarget:", true, thermos, 0, nil, nil);

has to be i guess

is this only in debug though? i can still use this out of debug?

it's the only place i see

appreciate it by the way. i am right on the edge of just manually defining them since it's based on the player state anyways so the specific number isn't as important as just tracking the value depending on the state itself

[echo lark]

hey guys, is there a way to apply tags using doparam to item, but not overwrite the items previous tags?, trying to make guns of 93 magazines/guns work with The Workshop disasemble recipes by adding the tags that the recipes call for to dissasemble, but dont want to overwrite the existing tags on the mags/guns

[bronze yoke]

it's actually perfectly safe to do it with doparam, it won't override

[violet shell]

Your idea to teleport player after spawn is a brillant workaround.

[echo lark]

oh, lol thanks XD

[violet shell]

I'll dig that.

[bronze yoke]

however it is slightly better practice to instead do```lua
local tags = item:getTags()
if not tags:contains("MyTag") then
tags:add("MyTag")
end

if you do it with DoParam it can add the same tag twice, which doesn't really do much, but it can cause the very slightest amount of slowdown

[echo lark]

aah didnt know that was possible, thanks for the tip appreciate the help!!

[thick karma]

Jumper (on Steam Workshop) has code for teleporting you. You can refactor that. Could base it on a trait... I was thinking of suggesting "Lost" as the trait name. But I still don't know how to guarantee players safe if you feed them a random location

You would need to artificially determine safe ranges

[violet shell]

Yeah, that's what I did in the first place, manually selected 11 cells, and randomized coords inside those cells

[thick karma]

Maybe you could create some kind of weighted-odds table that players could edit to add random locations within known territories.

[violet shell]

but I was wondering, if we can "scan" a tile as you asked before, maybe we could scan for an area of tiles and say : spawn is possible only if XX% of the tiles around are grass tiles ?

[slow hound]

would you be able to get the final built spawnpoints.lua values directly right after the event is triggered post-merge and pre determine the available worldx and worldy positions?

just shooting random things out there but seems possible maybe

[thick karma]

The problem I was trying to workaround when I started asking earlier is that the info you're suggesting we check doesn't exist until a player goes there due to how PZ works.

I guess they could be teleported to a bad spot and then very quickly moved nearby... That might be okay but hard to say.

It might immediately kill them

Pairing with something like Udderly Safe Login might be necessary

[worldly wing]

hey y'all, new mod developer here. I've got a recurring sound error, pictured here. I've been trying to get rid of it using this guide https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/tree/master/scripts#the-sound-block but my efforts have not been working. Some help would be appreciated

[thick karma]

Missing comma on Item

[worldly wing]

ain't no way

lol

i hate programming

thanks

[thick karma]

"You don't have a clip for that sound!" lied the game.

[gleaming sorrel]

Does anybody know how I would add a video to the steam workshop page of my mod

I find it works much better for showcasing

[worldly wing]

it worked 👍 thanks a bunch

[steady lagoon]

Hey folks, is there a way to check if a mod is installed through lua?

[nova socket]

just hanging around, but wdym "installed by lua"? Lua just interprets your mod code to Java it doesn't install stuff.

[steady lagoon]

I apologise, I mean if there's a way to check, through LUA, if a mod is installed

[nova socket]

oh that

yeah thats easy

[steady lagoon]

essentially I don't want to run a line of code if a mod is not installed

therefore I need a flag for it, but is there a getter for this?

[nova socket]

if getActivatedMods():contains("yourModIDString") then
end

[steady lagoon]

I see, where do I find the ID string of a mod?

[nova socket]

mod.info of specified mod

[steady lagoon]

thank you very much

just for reference, what is the relevant class for "getActivatedMods"?

GlobalObject?

[nova socket]

ye

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/Lua/LuaManager.GlobalObject.html#getActivatedMods()

[steady lagoon]

thank you very much

[nova socket]

everytime i come back to modding zomboid its always a goddamn pleasure, you start to appreciate the amount of exposure to things when you get into modding other games just to realize you cannot utilize 90% of what's there.

[bright fog]

@gleaming sorrel lovely :)

[uneven ore]

How do I make Variables Persist after Quiting the Game?

[dawn shuttle]

Best way would be to use mod data. Any Iso objects, grid square, inv item, etc, can call getModData()

From there you can create a custom entry to store your information and will be available next time you load the game. You'll also need to call transmitModData to save your changes

Tip: make your entry key unique as other mods can store data

[uneven ore]

I have tried that but im not entirely sure on how to implement it into my code, heres an example of how im currently trying to use mod data

player = getPlayer();

playermoddata = player:getModData()

-- on world load
playermoddata.variable = player.moddatavariable

-- when variable is used

playermoddata.variable = value;

[dawn shuttle]

Do you call transmitModData?

[uneven ore]

No, Don't know what that is

[dawn shuttle]

Read my response in full then 😉

[uneven ore]

Do I have to put anything in the ( ) of getModData or transmitModData

[dawn shuttle]

No arguments needed

[uneven ore]

Then where do I create the Custom Entry

[dawn shuttle]

getModData returns a KahluaTable. Which allows you to add/update new keys. Since getModData passes by reference and not value, any changes to that KahluaTable will be applied to the mod data. transmitModData will then save this change in memory.

`player = getPlayer();

playermoddata = player:getModData()

-- on world load
playermoddata["myCustomModKey"] = 42

player:transmitModData()`

[uneven ore]

Alright thanks for bearing with me, I'll try it out and see if it works, I'll tell you if anything goes wrong

[dawn shuttle]

np!

[uneven ore]

Is the Entry key the '42' or inside the [ ] ?

[gleaming sorrel]

Thank you

I'm currently in a horde shooter mood and after playing though
left 4 dead
I found it a travesty nobody made a retexture mod for zomboid

[echo lark]

anyone know why an item wouldnt should up in a recipe even though it has the require tag the recipe calls for?

in TW theres this recipe

which is this function

and i used lua to apply tags to the items, and i see the tags in the craft helper, but they still dont show up/cant disasemble them

[bright fog]

Yeah there aren't many of those also it isn't truly a survival zombie game

[gleaming sorrel]

I find it incredibly hard to survive the green flu
When the zombies can hear your gunshots

It's like a true Left 4 Dead realism mode

[dawn shuttle]

If that is not clear, then I would suggest to read up a bit first on how Lua table works. It will save you A LOT of headaches 🙂

Here's a nice little StackOverflow on the matter: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7933703/inserting-key-pairs-into-lua-table

And here's a good lua tutorial, here's the page for tables https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lua/lua_tables.htm

[uneven ore]

alright

[echo lark]

does anyone know what the issue would be here?

[urban plaza]

is Konijima still active? I noticed he hasn't posted in the discord since June of last year and his github hasn't had activity since the same time.

also his twitter apparently was suspended: https://twitter.com/KonijimaMods

X

Twitter

wait no he committed once on feb 26th to a private repo

[thick karma]

Hasn't posted here in 10 months

Define active

[urban plaza]

yeah hence the question

"alive"

"modding"

[thick karma]

Maybe

[urban plaza]

"having left or taken vacation"

[thick karma]

Hard to know

[urban plaza]

"gainfully employed"

[thick karma]

I haven't heard of him explicitly quitting or being involved in specific PZ work

Just seemed to stop showing up as many do

His last posts don't exactly say f you guys

[urban plaza]

yeah. I figured I'd ask given the twitter account suspension

[thick karma]

No idea about that

[urban plaza]

ty for your help anyway, much appreciated 🙂

[echo lark]

hmm so ive been poking around and asking here about applying tags to weapons and found a method that seemed to work, except it wasnt able to be used in the recipes that call those tags. i can see the items have the tag in the craft helper, but cant be used in the recipes

function vcApplyTagsGun()
local items = getAllItems();

for i = 0, items:size() - 1 do
  local item = items:get(i)

  if item:getTypeString() == "Weapon" and item:isRanged() then
    local tags = item:getTags()
    if not tags:contains("Gun") then
      tags:add("Gun")
    end
  end
end

end

Events.OnInitGlobalModData.Add(vcApplyTagsGun)

thats the code i used

anybody know whats wrong?

[autumn summit]

Hi! Me and my friend are looking for a way to make this mod different so you unlock the songs based on your music skill. Is this even possible? Help would be loved.. :>https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3059092239&searchtext=undertale

[gleaming sorrel]

I don't know why I didn't ask this immediately

But how would I add a video to my modpage?
Screenshots get very blurry but videos would be amazing to show off my textures

[slow hound]

edit the workshop page and there is a place to add videos

[gleaming sorrel]

I did try but it only accepts image files to be uploaded

[slow hound]

you post to youtube and share the link

just post it and quick add and make it public. if you don't care about views or SEO you can get it uploaded in 2 minutes max

other option is embedding gifs to the page itself

sharex 60fps gif keeps quality and file size isn't horrible

--Okay, going to ask once more before i manually declare each value by action state....

does anyone know how to read the getMet method float value from the Metabolic class of a player? is this possible? i know

function NutritionUtility.getActivityLevel()
    local bodyDamage = getPlayer():getBodyDamage()
    local thermoregulator = bodyDamage:getThermoregulator()
    local metabolicTarget = thermoregulator:getMetabolicTarget()
    local activityLevel = metabolicTarget:getMet()
    return activityLevel
end

this returns nil.

I'm trying to detect the float value that should be passed from the getMet method of the Metabolic class. the float value should represent the multiplier for metabolic rates based on character action state. in theory i guess since it's not working

[gleaming sorrel]

Ohhh I forgot about the YouTube link thing in the corner

[slow hound]

Nevermind. i'm thinking that this java class is just a list of predefined floats that are already declared so even though i can probably get it using something like Metabolics.Running10kmh:getMet, it' seems like extra work for no reason when i'm going to have to still get the list of actionstatenames anyways. man what a pain.

[bright fog]

[video extension=url][/video]

For example:

[video mp4=https://github.com/SirDoggyJvla/Susceptible-Overhaul/raw/main/images/natural_drain.mp4][/video]

[bright fog]

No you can embed the videos directly in the description which looks better when you don't care about sound

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3204615438

Check my mod page for an example

Or my other mods for examples
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3128757602

You can make great looking stuff thay way

[verbal yew]

result:setCustomName(true); result:setCustomWeight(true);
This is a required staff when you change the weight and name of an item through recipes.
What does this even do?
I just didn't notice much difference without these two attributes...

[gusty night]

how much it gonna take for a halo flood zed retexture 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

i would legit pay for a good halo flood zed retexture lowkey

depression

[bright fog]

@gleaming sorrel is knowledgable on the subject for zombie retextures

@median prairie on the other hand did the Occult zombies mod and I did the Bloater model for my mod TLOU infected so we know a bit more on modeling custom bodies for zombies

(There's probably others out there who know a bunch on the subject too)

I personally don't take commissions however but idk for Nerm and Mystery

[red tiger]

Good morning. (3:45 AM)

[bright fog]

Oof

11 am for me

[red tiger]

I woke up around this time yesterday and then proceeded to put in 15 hours of coding.

[gusty night]

well if anyones up for it i did make a post on the reddit for it to sit there and hopefully attract something, has some extra info in it if anyone wants to check it out https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/1cfu173/mod_request_paid/

[red tiger]

I am writing code that analyzes Lua code, linking references and assignments and discovering types, applying them.

[bright fog]

We have a modding server for commissions and mod making

[bright fog]

Classic

[gusty night]

oh bet, could i get invited?

[gusty night]

i tried coding for like a month and i lost every last drop of my sanity

[red tiger]

Feel free to DM me this link.

[bright fog]

Of course give me a sec

[gusty night]

just looking at that burnt a hole through my brain and i barely understand any of it in the first place

[red tiger]

Oh. This is my realm. I work heavily in abstract, fundamental stuff in code.

[gusty night]

yeah even going near any amount of coding just hits me with the 25+ days straight worth of trying to code trauma 🔥

[red tiger]

Good thing I haven't posted the GitHub link to the file responsible for generating that data.

lol

The code is recursive too.

[bronze yoke]

so the problem here is that the functions that grab all items with a tag for recipes actually only fire once during game load, and your code presumably runs after that would

so your items don't have the tag yet when the game checks for them

in your case you can just remove your code from the event and call it during the file load, your function doesn't do anything that needs to be delayed to work

[echo lark]

aaaaah i was started to assume thats what my issue was but was too tired to continue figureing it out. to call the function on file load i just remove the event and replace it with vcApplyTagsGun() right?

[bronze yoke]

yeah!

[echo lark]

awesome, thanks for your help again

[peak nymph]

hopefully quick Tchernolib based question, I might just be being stupid
been using these docs
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/2986578314/3812906855246163752/
but I noticed It doesn't show a way to update the global object data from the server side, how would I go about this
and there doesn't seem to be an updateSGO function like there is an updateCGO function

[bright fog]

@mellow frigate

[echo lark]

so as someone who has never added sandbox settings to any code ive written, how easy is it?, im about to start looking into it to add the option to skip adding the tags from my code if the item is in the sandbox setting. this is the code i have:
function vcApplyTagsGun()
local items = getAllItems();

for i = 0, items:size() - 1 do
  local item = items:get(i)

  if item:getTypeString() == "Weapon" and item:isRanged() then
    local tags = item:getTags()
    if not tags:contains("Gun") then
     tags:add("Gun")
    end
  end
end

end

vcApplyTagsGun()

function vcApplyTagsGunMag()
local items = getAllItems();

for i = 0, items:size() - 1 do
  local item = items:get(i)

  if item:getDisplayCategory() == "Ammo" and item:getAmmoType() then
    local tags = item:getTags()
    if not tags:contains("GunMag") then
     tags:add("GunMag")
    end
  end
end

end

vcApplyTagsGunMag()

would it be easy to add that to this code?

[verbal yew]

nil same as false?

[bright fog]

Yes

[verbal yew]

thanks

[bright fog]

Acts the same at least but if you do variable == false it's not the same as variable == nil but if you do not variable then it's the same as both

[frank elbow]

Also not the same when it comes to resolution of Java calls

[verbal yew]

need to rest from coding...

[brittle dock]

Functionally the same most of the time, but nil indicates the lack of a value

[bright fog]

or non existant

Like

tbl = {}
tbl.variable <-- nil

[verbal yew]

local b = nil
if b ~= nil then

its bad stuff? xD

[bronze yoke]

nil evaluates to false but nil is not false

nil is nil

[bright fog]

Yeah thus why I added some detail on it

[frank elbow]

Fairly easy. You specify them in a text file which expects a certain format, then you can us them in your code as SandboxVars.Page.Var (where Page and Var are defined in that file). Best to look at an example from an existing mod; I'd add one but I'm not at my computer

[bronze yoke]

a complication that comes with this is that sandbox options aren't available until OnInitGlobalModData, and we saw with the earlier version of your code that that's too late for recipe source resolution

[frank elbow]

Also, for future reference, you can format code on discord by enclosing it in two sets of three grave accents. So:
```lua
code
```

Becomes

code

[echo lark]

ah, damn...

[bronze yoke]

i think i got around this by caching the source during the GetItemTypes function and editing it upon OnInitGlobalModData?

[echo lark]

ive been wondering how peopel do that... thank you

[bronze yoke]

ah, no, i just grabbed the recipe source directly

[indigo rune]

Someone plz make a mod that adds graph paper for planning out floorplans

[brittle dock]

This looks fine, though the condition will operate if "b" is set to anything, even false

[brittle dock]

There's a mod commission channel in the PZ Modding discord if you wanted to get someone to make it for you?

[bronze yoke]

local addSandboxItems = function()
    if SandboxVars.MyMod.MyVar then
        -- the get(x) is the source in the order it appears in the recipe
        local source = ScriptManager.instance:getRecipe("Recipe Name"):getSource():get(0):getItems()
        source:add("farming.Potato")
    end
end

Events.OnInitGlobalModData.Add(addSandboxItems)

[indigo rune]

That would be great

[bronze yoke]

i wrote a guide on sandbox option scripts here https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZModdingGuides/blob/main/guides/SandboxOptions.md

[brittle dock]

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

[indigo rune]

Is it a seperate discord ?

[brittle dock]

There's a requests channel near the bottom of the list 🍻

[frank elbow]

There's also a thread here for mod ideas

Not to dissuade you from joining that, just saying. The one here is likely much less active

[indigo rune]

thanks 🙂

[bright fog]

@sour island

[modern ruin]

Hello, I've recently started modding Zomboid and I'm currently developing a mod that includes guns but I'm having an issue where there's no muzzle flash upon shooting the custom gun. Could anyone help with that?

[brittle dock]

I figure both are good resources depending on how much you want the idea realized; if it's a cool idea that you'd like to maybe see implemented one day, a modder with free time might see it here, or it might spark a conversation. If you actively want this created, hard to beat the direct nature of commissioning.

[bright fog]

yup

As usual with mod ideas, don't expect anything to be done unless you pay for it

If a modder ever does it, great for you but there's a very high chance no one will work on it unless the idea is revolutionary and not too hardly done

[brittle dock]

That being said, I'm currently working on an idea that was sparked by a conversation in last month's Thursdoid.

But it'll be my interpretation of the idea

[bright fog]

Recently got an idea for a mod myself with the last dev blog bcs I felt it was a miss that they went with the crafting recipe for storing items within boxes

You could simply have boxes where the player actually puts items per items in it

And the texture of the box could even update to show how many items are in it

[pine patio]

We already have boxes that do that... They are just tiles, but still

[frank elbow]

Based on the bit in the blog about save file space efficiency I imagine that was an intentional decision

[bright fog]

Exactly, they are tiles

And I don't want tiles

I want transportable items/placeable visually in 3D

And that's definitely doable

But like no one has done that for some reasons

Like have a simple counter of items within a box

And then you can change the texture based on the number of items in it or even easier just don't change the texture at all

[pine patio]

So... basically a box shaped backpack?

[bright fog]

Have you never used the mods that add boxes/piles of items ?

[pine patio]

Only hanabi drinks. Let's you turn 12 cans of soda into a single box

[bright fog]

Well that's exactly this but instead of being limited to putting 12 cans in a box

You could put as many as you want

[bronze yoke]

you mean a container?

[bright fog]

Put 1 by 1

[brittle dock]

Hi, your friend was asking for help yesterday but didn't really elaborate what you needed assistance with.

Can you elaborate on where you are in your mod development? Are you expecting a muzzle flash but are confused why it's not showing up? Are you still in the brainstorming phase and would like help figuring out how to apply a muzzle flash graphic?

[coarse sinew]

Like a drainable item ?

[bright fog]

Basically

[bright fog]

Isn't the point of boxes made by TIS for memory reasons like you explained the other day ?

Have an item = multiple items

[bronze yoke]

you need to store all the information about the items if you want them to stay individual

[pine patio]

I'm not an expert in modding, but the grappling stuff means that shopping carts are now a possibility?

[bronze yoke]

there's already a couple shopping cart mods

[brittle dock]

Arguably, yeah

[frank elbow]

Depending on how they implement the boxes I imagine there could be a “best of both worlds” of storing only the relevant information about individual items. I have a feeling it'll only be for items where that wouldn't be a concern, though

[bronze yoke]

the grappling stuff is for two animated characters to interact, you can already have one animated character interact with an object fine

[frank elbow]

I assume the “water rations” from the blog are exclusively unopened, for example (gonna need to rewatch to see whether there's evidence to the contrary)

[echo lark]

i just made a mod that basically does what the packing mod does, but the packed boxes have a usedelta that you can remove items from. so yu can pack 10/20/50/100 items into one box and jsut remove as many as you need when needed. gonna relase it publicly eventually i just wana work on it a bit more

[echo lark]

would i be able to use this to remove source items instad of add?, cuz theres a few special weapons that get included with my blanket searech/add tags, thats why i wanted a sandbox settign to remove those (for when i release the mod and people want to stop specific weapons from beign dissasembled), so would i be able to use that but remove the item?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, just :remove("farming.Potato") will search for farming.Potato in that list and remove it if it's there

[echo lark]

kk thats what i figured, thanks!!

[echo lark]

eventually i wana add the ability to re add items into the box. and add more models cuz right now most items are just 1 basic model (im no artist, gonna hire someone to make models eventually)

[bright fog]

No if you keep the items fairly unique like cans of food are all the same, same for pills

[bright fog]

Nice that's exactly the idea

Did you make variable animations ?

Sry variable textures I meant

/models

[echo lark]

nope, so far all thel models are like a big rubbermaid packing bin. except for a few that i made quickly. but basically i was doign the x10 boxes one model, the x20 boxes a diferent model. then all the x50/x100 are going to be the basic rubbermaid packing bin

but that would be a neat idea

[bright fog]

Yeah exactly so you see cans getting added on the texture / model

[echo lark]

i literally just finnished the mod like a week ago, and am using it on the server i admin for. was tweaking bugs as players found them, then i was eventually gonna add more features

[echo lark]

im not an artist, and i dont realy enjoy modeling XD. would bee alot of models/textures to do that

[bright fog]

Since you're going for a hundred items yeah and I wouldn't make a model for every quantity in that case

But you can keep it simplier like a row of items is updated everytime

[echo lark]

yeah true

[bright fog]

My idea wasn't to go up to a hundreds tho as you rarely get that many identical cans

[echo lark]

well, for canned food/pop/beer i did 6/12/24. and for big heavy items i did like 5/10/20 or something

[bright fog]

Yeah

Sounds good

[echo lark]

thats also why the x50/x100 are just gonna be generic models. cuz realisticly you wouldnt be able to fit that many into any box, but hoarders gona hoard and cause lag so

[bright fog]

Yea

Which is why I see the way TIS does it currently as a complete miss

[half remnant]

Hey guys, a quick question regarding ProfessionFactory Class.

Is there a way to delete specific occupations with one of the methods of that class?

I saw in the documentation that it has only addProfession & getProfession but no delete method.

[half pelican]

Hi everyone, want to rework the mod a bit. How to get the weight of an item? Is there something like item:getWeight()?

[violet shell]

Hi there 🙂

Me again with my questions and issues 😄

I'm looking a spot to inject some code when a player equip an item from belt to hand. Anyone would have an idea where I should look at ?

I guess it's either this function ISHotbar:activateSlot(slotIndex) or this function ISHotbar:equipItem(item)Dunno which one would be better to override, probably the first one ?

Maybe this one :

function ISHotbar:activateSlot(slotIndex)
    local item = self.attachedItems[slotIndex]
    if not item then return end
    if item:getAttachedSlot() ~= slotIndex then
        error "item:getAttachedSlot() ~= slotIndex"
    end
    if item:canBeActivated() then
        item:setActivated(not item:isActivated())
        return
    end
        -- Entering my code that change item attributes here
    self:equipItem(item)
end

Also, to change items attributes, does it need to be server side or client side ?

[red tiger]

Holy shit.. I'm accurately generating the same Lua code through the parser data I'm analyzing.

There we go.

Going hard in the TypeScript rn :D

/**
 * Renders a Lua function declaration as a string.
 * 
 * @param func The function to render.
 * @param options Passed options on indenting the code.
 * @returns The function rendered as a string.
 */
function functionDeclarationToString(func: ast.FunctionDeclaration, options: RenderOptions = { indent: 0 }): string {
    const i = ' '.repeat(options.indent * 4);
    const options2 = indent(options);

    /* (If exists, generate the name of the function) */
    let name = '';
    if (func.identifier) {
        switch (func.identifier!.type) {
            case 'Identifier': {
                name = func.identifier.name;
                break;
            }
            case 'MemberExpression': {
                name = memberExpressionToString(func.identifier);
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    /* (Build the function's declaration) */
    let s = `${i}${func.isLocal ? 'local ' : ''}function ${name && name.length ? `${name} ` : ''}(${parametersToString(func.parameters)})\n`;
    s += `${bodyToString(func.body, options2)}\n`;
    s += `${i}end`;

    return s;
}

Working with the language itself in code is so much fun.

[flat panther]

Although the guns work perfectly as is, he's having trouble figuring out how to make the muzzleflash effect spawn in the first place, like the same one that vanilla guns use. We had already checked the weapon scripts for that too

And while we're at it, is there a way to change the firing speed? My friend tried to make it faster than the highest vanilla value today and it actually broke the gun completely (it's for a minigun basically)

[tranquil kindle]

Vanila does not really support ver high rate of fire

So you would need to use real full auto or other similar mods that speed up animations, which firerate is tied to

About muzzle flash, is it actually stated in Model script?

[tranquil kindle]

Did you actually add muzzle flash into model script?

[half pelican]

How can I rewrite the function
function AcceptItemFunction.Vest(container, item)
return (item:getDisplayCategory() == "Ammo")
so that a check is performed on the weight of the item, which must be less than or equal to 1?
I unfortunately don't know anything yet about these arguments that are or should be accepted here.

[flat panther]

Where can we find the parameter for it?

[tranquil kindle]

    {
        mesh = Weapons/Firearm/AssaultRifle,

        attachment muzzle
        {
            offset = 0.0000 0.4020 0.0270,
            rotate = -90.0000 0.0000 -180.0000,
        }


    }``` its vanila assault rifle

Where model is stated

If you dont have it, you can add it in txt file or in game while in debug mode with attachment editor

[mellow frigate]

See Moats mod SMoatsFlooding.lua as an exemple of sever side update

[half pelican]

oh I get it
it seems to be
function AcceptItemFunction.Vest(container, item)
return (item:getWeight() <= 1.01)

[thick karma]

@drifting ore Anyone know off the top which functions are responsible for adding vanilla traits and occupations? Noname wants to remove some of the vanilla ones. I told her that to my knowledge the only way would be to decorate the functions that add them.

I'm not on PC so cannot search yet.

[bright fog]

Done with TraitFactory

Removing a trait can actually be done fairly easily, as you just have to a trait with the same name with profession set to true, tho some traits are already added that way as they can be activated by professions so you'd have to remove traits from being used by these professions too

In MainCreationMethods.lua @drifting ore

So I believe the idea is to just copy this entire line and just replace false to true

As you can see, some are already true and that's because they can be used by professions or added hidden and enabled by a profession, I'm not too sure how that works this part ngl

You just do that OnGameBoot and should remove the trait

[verbal yew]

TraitFactory.setMutualExclusive("copywhatyouneed3", "copywhatyouneed4");

[vestal gyro]

Also if the functions are called at the same time make sure the lua file comes last in the loading order(for example naming it zRemoveTrait would work)

[bright fog]

Vanilla files are always loaded before modded files so not necessary usually

But still good practice to require the files I feel like

I believe they are always loaded first from what I understood

[vestal gyro]

Yeah but for example I did that with modded traits and had to do multiple Zs because the one initialising the mod trait already had a z infront of it lol

[bright fog]

Really you guys should stop using god damn file names to handle your load orders I swear 😂

Just require the files you need loaded first

[vestal gyro]

Never

[drifting ore]

So I just false it if I don’t want the trait and true it if I do. I don’t actually delete any line or anything though? Same goes for original PZ Occupations?

[bright fog]

That's terrible practice to use file names because everyone will put their file names with Z + gl having well ordered files with such naming

[bright fog]

No that last boolean is to say if it's a profession trait or not

[uneven vessel]

how to change a gun's rate of fire? What stat?

[bright fog]

If you want to remove the trait from being inside the trait list you set it to true

[bright fog]

For PZ occupations I don't know tho

[drifting ore]

I’m more interested in getting rid of the original PZ Occupations and just having it show the modded ones only. Didn’t know if that was a thing or not

[vestal gyro]

At that time I just didn't know you could do it like that, but it would be a major coincidence if a mod changing the same trait would also come later in the load order

[bright fog]

Most issues are coincidences I guess

You don't expect something and it happens

[vestal gyro]

Fair

[bright fog]

For occupations hmm idk what handles it

[vestal gyro]

On another note is anyone familiar with the T-shirt UV texture map?

[bright fog]

[vestal gyro]

Actually nvm I'll ask in #modeling when I get back to my computer and can show an example

[bright fog]

ProfessionFactory, in the same file

Sadly I think you might have to overwrite this function to remove vanilla occupations

[drifting ore]

Overwriting which means making a mod that will get rid of the original occupations or overwriting by deleting this selection or something completely different?

[bronze yoke]

i'd hook ProfessionFactory.addProfession to drop the call if the id matches the vanilla professions

[bright fog]

That could be better yes

Not having to overwrite is usually better

[bronze yoke]

it'd throw some errors because they use the profession object after creating it

but i'm not sure if they'd be harmful errors

[bright fog]

probably not

But who knows lol

[bronze yoke]

otherwise i'd just overwrite the function, people will tell you not to overwrite for compatibility reasons but it's not like removing every profession in the game is going to be very compatible

[drifting ore]

So instead of ProfessionFactory.addProfession I would replace add with drop or delete?

[bronze yoke]

i meant something like this:

local old_addProfession = ProfessionFactory.addProfession
ProfessionFactory.addProfession = function(name, ...)
    if name == "fireofficer" then return end
    return old_addProfession(name, ...)
end

this would make addProfession just ignore calls to create fireofficer

[drifting ore]

Ok

[thick karma]

This is a nifty trick.

[bright fog]

Yeah I did that to remove the Susceptible trait in my overhaul mod

Also fun fact, it doesn't actually remove the trait

It is still here and can be given via debug/admin menu

[thick karma]

Yeah I followed

Just flags it as needing a job

But you don't assign it to any job

Voila

Sneaky

[bright fog]

Yeah, issue is with traits that already assign to jobs

[bronze yoke]

i'm curious if you could just do ProfessionFactory.ProfessionMap:remove("fireofficer")

[bright fog]

hmm

Isn't it kept java side ?

[thick karma]

Old Glytch3r recently solved removing all vanilla professions so I know it can be done. I do not know if it was entirely bug free but I saw screenshots

[bronze yoke]

profession framework has an option to disable all vanilla stuff

i think it just overwrites the functions though

[thick karma]

Oh cool didn't know

Yeah that's essentially what he did

Rebuilt menu with custom jobs

[bronze yoke]

seems overkill, i'd just overwrite the function that creates them 😭

[thick karma]

Haha yeah if that's bug free it's 100% the way to go

Even if it throws bugs for missing functions I would probably fake those to remove all bugs

[bronze yoke]

hehe i thought about doing that 😅

[mellow frigate]

Has anyone here advices on how to start the game faster ? I'm currently bored of spending so much time restarting it and it breaks my motivation

[thick karma]

Just make a table of trash functions

With the right names

Bing bang bong

[thick karma]

Run 24 instances of Zomboid so you always have one started on a prior task.

Buy 256 gb of RAM

[mellow frigate]

I only have one brain. though

[thick karma]

😭

[thick karma]

Hire Chat GPT 'cause it's so smart

[bronze yoke]

return a table with a __call that does nothing and a __index that returns itself

[thick karma]

Okay fancy

Chat GPT eat your heart out

[thick karma]

Hire albion

Gotta be worth 7 or 8 brains.

[mellow frigate]

/ChatAlbion make Project Zomboid mod in lua with NPCs that works in Multiplayer and corrects desynchronization.

[bronze yoke]

i saw the game has a mechanism for auto-starting a scenario on game launch, but making a debug scenario might not be worth the time and i have no idea if that's actually any faster

[frank elbow]

For some things maybe you can avoid the issue altogether by throwing in some debug code that allows you to test without restarting. I've been doing that for UI stuff, setting it up in a way that reloading the files allows me to test on the fly

Of course, that doesn't work for something that applies on start, or something like finding the source of an accidental infinite loop that freezes the game (not that I'm speaking from experience, or anything. definitely didn't spend an hour this weekend tracking down such a bug)

[thick karma]

Yeah if people only knew what percentage of our time was spent just launching MP to test MP, we could create a law according to which one hand would be removed at the wrist for each working mod that a person downvoted, and it would be seen as just by the majority.

[bronze yoke]

there's a good reason my mods are barely tested at all in multiplayer

[thick karma]

Although this might create a loophole society of people who downvote everything with their noses because they have nothing left to lose...

I don't know I haven't given this a lot of thought.

[bronze yoke]

i write for multiplayer first but i don't usually even test multiplayer until the mod is done unless there's something i'm really unsure about

[thick karma]

Valid.

[echo lark]

is it possible for a recipe to have a % chance to fail based on a perk lvl somehow? maybe with an oncreate? i was trying a few things with oncreate and cant seem to get it to work.
basically i have a bunch of recipes to craft gun magazines, but have the recipe have a chance to fail and return some of the source items if it fails

[thick karma]

You could have the recipe result immediately removed from their inventory if they fail using an OnCreate, and afaik that would consume your items

[bronze yoke]

have the recipe result removed by default (it's a recipe property) and implement it entirely with oncreate

roll, if success give them the magazine, if failure give them some items back

[echo lark]

thats what im doing, but i couldnt figure out how to get the function to identify the result item and spawn it

[thick karma]

I think you just do this on the player's inventory https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/inventory/ItemContainer.html#addItem(zombie.inventory.InventoryItem)

Actually this one

And use the type of the item you wanna spawn

The function should know the result item because you know what recipe calls that function and you know the recipe's result

But idk about doing it automatically

[steep vortex]

Hiya, are there any simple examples of adding items to the possible inventory of a zombie?

[thick karma]

Oh apparently it's included in the params https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Recipe_Script_Guide

[thick karma]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_Events/OnZombieDead

I think you could use this event to get zombie's inventory but Idk if adding item to it would be enough - might need to server sync that.

AddItem is the thing I just posted before this

[bronze yoke]

it's fine to add items to a zombie's inventory on this event

[steep vortex]

Thanks.

[thick karma]

Oh cool so it'll sync for you?

Nice to know

[steep vortex]

Should this be in server, client or shared?

[thick karma]

I would think client or shared should work because it's a player combining their own items into other items and that sounds like clientside stuff to me in this version of PZ, but I have no experience with recipe OnCreate functions.

Hopefully if I'm wrong my saying that will provoke albion into correcting me.

😏

[bronze yoke]

you're mixing two questions together

i think OnZombieDead stuff should be in server

the OnCreate stuff is separate and generally has to be in the server folder because that's where the Recipe table is (even though it is only ever called on the client)

[thick karma]

Can't your OnCreate be any global function? Or does it have to be in that table?

[bronze yoke]

it can be any global function

[thick karma]

Do many people add theirs to that table for consistency or something? Or is there some benefit to putting mod recipe functions in the vanilla recipe function table as opposed to your own module?

Genuinely curious

[bronze yoke]

consistency

probably a lot of people think they have to, a lot of people make up weird magical rules about how lua works

[thick karma]

I see... fair enough. Maybe shared would be a safe bet if it's in your own module so that if server ever needs to see recipe functions in the future you're already in the habit?

Or some reason not to do that?

[bronze yoke]

i think future proofing is sort of pointless but there isn't any reason not to do that

[thick karma]

Fair

[bronze yoke]

you only need your function to exist in the client environment and be accessible through _G, there isn't really any other limitations and i can't think of reasons why one way or another would be better/worse practice

[thick karma]

Roger that. Clarification appreciated as always.

[bronze yoke]

it might be seen as overkill to create your own tables if you're only creating a couple functions, but if you're doing a whole crafting mod and would have loads then i'd say to create your own to avoid name clashes in the recipe table

[frosty hinge]

Is there anyone who could make a player model for commission? im trying to get a mod of my fursona.

[thick karma]

Makes sense.

[thick karma]

https://discord.com/invite/s5kBBuUK

[frosty hinge]

ty

[thick karma]

You will have better luck there

There's a request channel

And many who mod on commission

[gleaming sorrel]

I'm attempting to improve my textures to be closer to the actual Left 4 Dead textures. I think I got it fairly close on this one but I'm not completely sure

[echo lark]

yeah i just couldnt figure out how to get it to spawn on a % chance, i think it just kept coming up nill or something, im gonna start from scratch and research a bit on it later. my recipe removes the result item by default, then i was trying to write code so that (for an example) metalwelding lvls 1-2 was a 25% chance of success, and if it succeeds it would add the result item to the inventory. i duno where i was going wrong

[thick karma]

Yeah your goal will require a little fancy footwork but it's totally possible. You got this.

[violet shell]

I'm not sure what you want to do, but I can give you some code I made in some of my mods that I think can do that. I use the removeResult:true, and I inject the items I want in inventory of the player, I also prefer keep the items needed for the recipe, and erase them from inventory if I want it. With this you can play with items modData for example 🙂

[gilded hawk]

I have some code running on onMouseDownOutside, is there a way to stop the click to go through the elements outside of it? Like, I can run code when onMouseDownOutside is fired, but I haven't found a way to intercept it 😦

[red tiger]

Good evening. My current project is getting whacko-mode.

[red tiger]

e.stopPropogation() moments be like

[gilded hawk]

ahaaha exactly 🤣

[red tiger]

So I wrote TypeScript that writes Lua back from luaparse which parses the Lua.

I'm doing some rewriting for recursion ATM however I have now a built reference chain global mapping of all Lua code that I can use to discover types strongly and annotate them back as lua classes or my JSON format for PZ-Rosetta.

Oh, and I wrote a web app for human documentation too.

I'm about to have waaay too much fun messing with the PZ Lua codebase. =D

[echo lark]

basically i have a bunch of recipes to make gun magazines, what im trying to achieve is a chance to fail the craft based on the players metalworking level, if the player fails it returns some random items ( i know how to do that part) but what i cant seem to achieve is for the oncreate to recognize and spawn the result item if it succeeds (or to remove if it fails)

[gilded hawk]

Damn! Good job!

[echo lark]

so the recipes removeresult:true. and the function is supposed to find the result item in the recipe that called the function then spawn it on a % chance based on metalworking lvl

[red tiger]

Check out the current render for yourself:

This is what the result somewhat will look:

Oh and the web app is live @gilded hawk https://asledgehammer.github.io/Mallet/

Figured you'd enjoy that knowing it's in TypeScript. =)

[gilded hawk]

I will give it a proper look tomorrow! I'm curring wrapping up my mod and then bed time

[red tiger]

Yeah I was gonna say it's late for you.

Coffee time.

[gilded hawk]

Eh! it works

[red tiger]

I. Like.

Imagine making actual UI tho.

Hahahahaha

<3

[gilded hawk]

Oh yeah, it's awful in PZ 😅

[red tiger]

Wanna work on that HTML renderer with me?

[gilded hawk]

But, I can't help it 🤣

[red tiger]

I have to write out the CSS logic from scratch but worth.

[gilded hawk]

I would love to, but i already work 9-5 on React/Next.js/Tailwind/CSS/HTMX stuff. and i'm trying to at least code something different in my free time 😅

[violet shell]

@echo lark Check this

and if you don't get it, give me your file and numbers, and I'll try to unstuck you

[red tiger]

<radialmenu>
    <option>Fire Weapon</option>
    <!-- etc. -->
</radialmenu>

Imagine this for PZ.

🤤

I was literally working on this when I put the pause on it.

[gilded hawk]

Man, I was so annoyed by the PZ UI that I was tempted to just find a way to translate TSX/JSX to PZ UI

[red tiger]

Well I have a working TSX/JSX prototype if you want to borrow it.

Again I have to build the HTML / CSS engine but it's worth it.

[gilded hawk]

Send me the repo I can take a look tomorrow, I have to do bed time now

[red tiger]

All we'd need are primitive rules.

[red tiger]

https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench-UI

@gilded hawk It's so funny that I happen to have this project sitting around.

xD

It's very possible to make a solution like this, even without JSX.

Just write a simple xml parser.

[echo lark]

hmm unfortunetly i dont think that helps me much. and ive erased all the code i had to start fresh. i might stop trying for tonight and start fresh another time, or look for mods that do similar things to see what i was doing wrong

but i dont realy know any mods that have recipes who have a % chance to fail

i think the part im realy struggling on is getting the OnCreate to identify the fulltype of the result item that called the function. cuz i wana use the same oncreate for like 30-40 recipes. so i cant specify which item to spawn, i have to find a way for the code to identify and spawn (or identify and remove i tried both ways) wtv the result item is from the recipe that called the function. i think i just kept getting a null error

[harsh hawk]

y'know what'd be a fun mod? A mod that lets you go to space in pz

a bit silly but itd be fun

i wanna make a rocket and go live on the moon or smth

[red tiger]

Just make PZ in Factorio.

[echo lark]

Project Spaceoid

[azure rivet]

Hi, I want to work with an animation but I require the character to always look behind an object. As an example, if the object is facing north, the player interacts with it, it will self-reposition itself to the south of the object and look at it, and if the object is facing west, the player is looking at it from the east.
Can tell me what can help me understand this?

[echo lark]

is there a specific way to remove a result item from an on craft? like player:getInventory():Remove(result) or something? my recipe has a 25% chance to fail and if it fails i want it to remove the result item, and add random ammounts of the items it took to craft.

this is my full code:

function Recipe.OnCreate.vcMagazineSuccessChance(result)
  -- Get the character's metalworking level.
  local metalworkingLevel = player:getPerkLevel(Perks.MetalWelding)

  --- chance to remove the result item based on metalworking level.
  local chanceToRemove = 0
  if metalworkingLevel <= 2 then
    chanceToRemove = 75 -- 25% chance
  elseif metalworkingLevel <= 4 then
    chanceToRemove = 50  -- 50% chance
  elseif metalworkingLevel <= 6 then
    chanceToRemove = 25 -- 75% chance
  end

  -- result removed based on chancetoremove
  if ZombRand(1, 100) < chanceToRemove then
    player:getInventory():Remove(result)
    -- since magazine craft failed give random chance for items
    player:getInventory():AddItems("TW.MetalParts", ZombRand(0, 3))
    player:getInventory():AddItems("SmallSheetMetal", ZombRand(0, 3))
    player:getInventory():AddItems("TW.Spring", ZombRand(0, 3))
    player:getInventory():AddItems("ScrapMetal", ZombRand(5, 20))
    player:getInventory():AddItems("Screws", ZombRand(2, 8))
  end
end

[verbal yew]

i think you should do this in recipe script

RemoveResultItem:true,

in function OnCreate - chance

where you get another result

like if succesful - player:getInventory():AddItems("Module.YourItem", count)
if not: your scrap stuff

[echo lark]

i have 30 diferent recipes to make gun magazines i didnt want to make 30 diferent oncreate functions. so was tryign to avoid that way and just get the function to remove it

[verbal yew]

ahhh...

[icy escarp]

Hi modders, Wiki editor here. I'm looking for the code that handles what weapons spawn stuck in zombies. e.g. katanas not spawning in zombies till after 60 days. There's not much info on this that i can find. Does anybody know which file it would be in?

[verbal yew]

function Recipe.OnCreate.vcMagazineSuccessChance(items, result, player, selectedItem)
--maybe something like
player:getInventory():AddItem(result, 1); --? but i think in script recipe you should write item fulltype like
-- Result:Module.YourItem,
end

[verbal yew]

or try something like that:

local zTargetItem = player:getInventory():getFirstTypeRecurse(result)
zTargetItem:getContainer():DoRemoveItem(zTargetItem)

maybe for start you should take getType() from result, idk

[verbal yew]

hmmm... nah... its not good stuff, because we can remove another item with ammo in magazine...

[verbal yew]

this is method should be good, but im not sure result exist if in recipe RemoveResultItem:true,

[echo lark]

i think the OnCreate passes the result even if thats set to true. ill have to test that all tomorrow, its late for me. thanks for the help

[slow hound]

I don't know about length of time before spawn in zombie but the code for everything else with weapon zombie attachment is

media/lua/shared/Definitions/AttachedWeaponDefinitions.lua

oh nevermind it has days until spawn in there also

[haughty stream]

I want more variation in the player models,
I have six models that I want to implement;
Tallskinny, Tallaverage, Tallfat
and
Shortskinny, Shortaverage, Shortfat

Is this possible with the current engine? And is it something that's simple enough that I could do before B42?

I'm new to PZ mod development, and have only done a few simple items

[verbal yew]

someone did something like that

[verbal yew]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3066054201&searchtext=body+shape

[haughty stream]

thanks, I'll check this out

[icy escarp]

Awesome thanks

[red tiger]

Am up again coding until I drop.

:D

2 AM vibes.

[bright fog]

Changing the height of the character ? Probably not

I'm not too sure how that would be done unless you can modify the armature of the character

[half remnant]

Hey guys, a quick question regarding ProfessionFactory Class.

Is there a way to delete specific occupations with one of the methods of that class?

I saw in the documentation that it has only addProfession & getProfession but no delete method.

[thick karma]

We were just discussing this earlier. #mod_development message

[violet shell]

Hi there 🙂

A quick question : what getInventory() returns ? A table ?

[thick karma]

An ItemContainer iirc.

Use this tool to look it up https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/zombie/inventory/ItemContainer.html#DoRemoveItem(zombie.inventory.InventoryItem)

Just search for getInventory

Check return type

[bright fog]

[echo lark]

does anyone know how to remove or add a result without neededing its ID, from an OnCreate. im trying to make it so the recipe has a chance to fail. ive tried various things and got various tips from people but still am getting errors and its not working. this is my code

function Recipe.OnCreate.vcMagazineSuccessChance(items, result, player)
  -- Get the character's metalworking level.
  local metalworkingLevel = player:getPerkLevel(Perks.MetalWelding)

  --- chance to remove the result item based on metalworking level.
  local chanceToRemove = 0
  if metalworkingLevel <= 2 then
    chanceToRemove = 75 -- 25% chance
  elseif metalworkingLevel <= 4 then
    chanceToRemove = 50  -- 50% chance
  elseif metalworkingLevel <= 6 then
    chanceToRemove = 25 -- 75% chance
  end

  -- result removed based on chancetoremove
  if ZombRand(1, 100) > chanceToRemove then
    player:getInventory():AddItem(result, 1);
    -- since magazine craft failed give random chance for items
    player:getInventory():AddItems("TW.MetalParts", ZombRand(0, 3));
    player:getInventory():AddItems("SmallSheetMetal", ZombRand(0, 3));
    player:getInventory():AddItems("TW.Spring", ZombRand(0, 3));
    player:getInventory():AddItems("ScrapMetal", ZombRand(5, 20));
    player:getInventory():AddItems("Screws", ZombRand(2, 8));
  end
end

ive also tried player:getInventory():Remove(result, 1);

[verbal yew]

DoRemoveItem

[echo lark]

ok ill try, honestly if i cant figure this out today im just gonna say fuck it and make an oncreate for each recipe instead XD

[echo lark]

nope, didnt work. the error always points to the same line, the line that adds or removes the result item.

[verbal yew]

True, true

[flat panther]

So uh, he tried multiple positions for the muzzleflash to show up, but it doesn't seem to work in-game unfortunately

[echo lark]

hmm do you think instead of removing the result item if it fails i could set RemoveResultItem to true if it fails? im not sure if you can do that with lua on an OnCreate, kind of new to this stuff

[tranquil kindle]

Could you show me that model in blender, by that i mean mostly scales

Rotation is also important (not only what direction it points, but info from blender)

[tranquil kindle]

First thing first id suggest making a duplicate (for reference), change scale to 0.01 on all axis and then in edit mode make its size back to original (muzzle flash and distance in attachment editor is tied to scale and rotation for some reason. Here im sending an example of model which i made to work with muzzle flash and other attachments (if it were not for 90 rotation on X, attachments will most likely be misplaced when you have gun with attachment and put it on ground, if you skip visible attachments, you can probably skip it, but i highly suggest doing so)

In your case i do belive muzzle flash is visible, but its Huge and far away from screen as with 1x1x1 scale your muzzle flash size and distance from origin point to barrel is 100 times higher

[boreal oriole]

Hello people I want to send client command to the server when player disconnects from server. Are there any lua events that handles when player disconnects. Using OnDisconnected event doesn't seem to do it for me when I do it like this ```
local function onPlayerDisconnect()
local player = getPlayer()
sendClientCommand(player,moduleName,command, player:getOnlineID())
end
end

Events.OnDisconnect.Add(onPlayerDisconnect)```

[bronze yoke]

the problem is that when OnDisconnect fires, the player has already disconnected, so they can't send any commands

[boreal oriole]

Ah I see that's the problem

Okay thank you I'll try to find a workaround the problem

[edgy cosmos]

Hi hello, I'm trying to set up a clothing mod and I've gotten the clothing.txt made, the xml's, etc, but they don't show up ingame in the assigned slot or at all.

idk if there's some file I'm missing somewhere, I've just based it off of the authz structure.

[thick karma]

What error? The stack trace and the associated chunk of code would help people help you. Printing the object calling DoRemoveItem and the result variable itself could also be informative

[edgy cosmos]

... ah, i forgot the guidtable

[edgy cosmos]

This did, actually, not fix it. woe.

[echo lark]

well at this point ive tried like a douzen diferent ways but usualy its something like
java.lang.RuntimeException: Object tried to call nil in vcMagazineSuccessChance
on line 17 which is the line that im trying to remove or add the source "player:getInventory():GetResult():DoRemoveItem()" (thats just the last one i tried, ive tried various methods, usualy all come back as object tried to call nill)

[echo lark]

im gonna try to see if i can recipe:SetRemoveResultItem(True) and if the chancetoremove fails

hmm thats not gonna work, OnCreate happens after the recipes completed i think

[thick karma]

Object tried to call nil on line 17 means that either GetResult isn't a function of whatever you get from getInventory, or (more likely) DoRemoveItem isn't a function of whatever you get from GetResult.

[violet shell]

@McSlappy, did you try the "OnTest" on your recipe ?

    {
    BloodSample,
    OnCreate:onCreateBloodAnalysis,
    OnTest:LabRecipes_IsNearMicroscope,
    Result:BloodAnalysisNotes,
    SkillRequired:Doctor=2,
    RemoveResultItem:true,
    Time:10,
    Category:Health,
    OnGiveXP:Asilar_BloodTest_OnGiveXP3,
    }```

With this recipe, I call for OnTest before, to check if the recipe is ok or not. It asks for a boolean.

So you could do : OnTest:chancesOfSuccess

and then have function chancesOfSuccess () -- your test method return true or false end

the big advantage is that you pass at least players and items to your functions (OnCreate/OnTest)

[echo lark]

when does the ontest happen? cuz what im trying to do is make a chance for the recipe to fail depending on metalworking level, could i use ontest to do that?

[bronze yoke]

ontest is called for every single potential ingredient available to the player when the recipe is considered (either they opened the crafting menu, or they right clicked on an item that can be used in the recipe)

it's not suitable for recipe logic, it's not part of crafting the recipe, it's only useful for discerning what items can or can't be used in that recipe

[echo lark]

yeah thats what i thought it did

[violet shell]

@thick karma Available for some code review 😄 Just syntax and so. Not sure I used some functions properly in my last lua file.

[echo lark]

im just gonna have to write an OnCreate for each recipe, and RemoveResultItem=True the recipes, then do the zomband and spawn the item. just wanted to avoid having to write 55 OnCreates (thought it was 30ish, but nope its 55) if i could just use one for all of them

[violet shell]

I don't understand why you need 1 function for each recipe

why you don't have 1 function with tests in this function

can you give me a sample of 3 or 4 of your recipes so I can get it ?

[echo lark]

i have 55 recipes to craft gun magazines. what im trying to do is make one OnCreate to do a zombrand of 1-100, and then if the zombrand < a specified ammount per metalworking level then the gun magazine craft fails and returns back some source items instead.

but i cant get the OnCreate to identify the result item from the recipe that calls the function, everythign just returns nill object

so i have to specify AddItem:("gunmagazineid") instad of something like GetSource and removing it

[violet shell]

@echo lark This 🙂

[echo lark]

this is 3 of the recipes (right now im only tseting the code ont he first one so its the only one that has a RemoveResultItem)

    recipe Craft HK91 Magazine
    {
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Hammer],
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Screwdriver],
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.WeldingMask],
        BlowTorch=2,
        ScrapMetal=20,
        SmallSheetMetal=4,
        TW.Spring=2,
        TW.MetalParts=4,
        Screws=8,

        Result:Base.HK91Mag,
        RemoveResultItem: False,
        SkillRequired:Reloading=1,
        Category:Firearm,
        OnCreate: Recipe.OnCreate.vcMagazineSuccessChance,
        OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.MetalWelding10,
        NeedToBeLearn:false,
        Sound:Hammering,
        Time:300.0,
    }

    recipe Craft FN FAL Magazine
    {
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Hammer],
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Screwdriver],
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.WeldingMask],
        BlowTorch=2,
        ScrapMetal=20,
        SmallSheetMetal=4,
        TW.Spring=2,
        TW.MetalParts=4,
        Screws=8,

        Result:FALMag,
        SkillRequired:MetalWelding=2;Reloading=1,
        Category:Firearm,
        OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.MetalWelding10,
        NeedToBeLearn:true,
        Sound:Hammering,
        Time:300.0,
    }

    recipe Craft Browning BAR .308 Magazine
    {
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Hammer],
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Screwdriver],
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.WeldingMask],
        BlowTorch=2,
        ScrapMetal=10,
        SmallSheetMetal=2,
        TW.Spring=2,
        TW.MetalParts=2,
        Screws=4,

        Result:308BARMag,
        SkillRequired:MetalWelding=2;Reloading=1,
        Category:Firearm,
        OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.MetalWelding10,
        NeedToBeLearn:true,
        Sound:Hammering,
        Time:300.0,
    }

and this is the oncreate (recipe:SetRemoveResultItem(True) is just the latest method ive tried, but ive tried many other methods, all return nill object)

function Recipe.OnCreate.vcMagazineSuccessChance(items, result, player)
    -- Get the character's metalworking level.
    local metalworkingLevel = player:getPerkLevel(Perks.MetalWelding)
  
    --- chance to remove the result item based on metalworking level.
    local chanceToRemove = 0
    if metalworkingLevel <= 2 then
      chanceToRemove = 75 -- 25% chance
    elseif metalworkingLevel <= 4 then
      chanceToRemove = 50  -- 50% chance
    elseif metalworkingLevel <= 6 then
      chanceToRemove = 25 -- 75% chance
    end
  
    print("checking for result item")
    if result then
      local resultType = result.type  -- Get the item type from the result object
      local resultCount = result.count  -- Get the item count from the result object
      print("Result item:", resultType, resultCount)
    else
      print("Result item is nil")
    end
  
    -- ... rest of your code ...
  
    -- result removed based on chancetoremove
    if ZombRand(1, 100) < chanceToRemove then
      recipe:SetRemoveResultItem(True)
      -- since magazine craft failed give random chance for items
      player:getInventory():AddItems("TW.MetalParts", ZombRand(0, 3));
      player:getInventory():AddItems("SmallSheetMetal", ZombRand(0, 3));
      player:getInventory():AddItems("TW.Spring", ZombRand(0, 3));
      player:getInventory():AddItems("ScrapMetal", ZombRand(5, 20));
      player:getInventory():AddItems("Screws", ZombRand(2, 8));
    end
  end

i couldnt even get those prints to print anything, was just the last thing i tried with the removeresultitem

but since that method doesnt work, i would have to write an OnCreate for each recipe, to add the specific gun magazine from the craft and use RemoveResultItem:True, but i didnt want to have to write 55 of them so i was trying to write one that just grabed the result item when the oncreate was called

[violet shell]

I may have a workaround

but I don't know if it is worth

you could have the unique chancesOfSuccess function to check every item needed for the recipe, and to select the result accordingly, assuming every recipe have a slithly different cost

[stable yew]

Mod updated, enjoy! 😉
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3217685049

[violet shell]

@thick karma @bronze yoke [sorry I made a mistake and erased the original message & file] If you have some spare time, would you mind to check if this code is correctly written/syntaxed ?

[vestal gyro]

Just test it in game, it will tell you on which line it breaks

Atleast in debug mode

[echo lark]

not every recipe is unique, most ammo types have identical material requirements. im gonna brain storm for a bit, if i cant think anything ill give in and just write a unique ne for each

[violet shell]

Anyone have an idea how is stored Wolrdmap data ? I would like to check if I can store the map data in player's modData.

[polar gyro]

anyone know how to inject in this one correctly?

    type = "Bag",
    name = "Back",
    animset = "back",
    replacement = {
        BigWeapon = "Big Weapon On Back with Bag",
        BigBlade = "Big Blade On Back with Bag",
        Racket = "Racket Back with Bag",
        Shovel = "Shovel Back with Bag",
        Guitar = "null",
        GuitarAcoustic = "null",
        Pan = "Pan On Back with Bag";
        Rifle = "Rifle On Back with Bag",
        Saucepan = "Saucepan Back with Bag",
    }
}
table.insert(ISHotbarAttachDefinition.replacements, BackReplacement);```

Well, chatgpt give this advice and that's working:

local index = #ISHotbarAttachDefinition.replacements
ISHotbarAttachDefinition.replacements[index].replacement.LongBlade = "LongBlade On Back with Bag"```

[steep vortex]

Hi. Bit of an odd one. So I've got this code (it continues to add a whole bunch of extra items).

require "Items/ItemPicker"
require "Items/ProceduralDistributions"

table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items, "BusinessCards.AfterLife");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items, 0.5);
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "BusinessCards.AfterLife");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 0.5);
...```

It seems to work just fine; the loot can be found on zombies, but I'm getting this error
```STACK TRACE
-----------------------------------------
function: BusinessCardsDistributionZombies.lua -- file: BusinessCardsDistributionZombies.lua line # 5 | MOD: Business Cards.
[30-04-24 18:18:34.705] ERROR: General     , 1714497514705> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: list of non-table: null at KahluaThread.tableget line:1689..
[30-04-24 18:18:34.705] ERROR: General     , 1714497514705> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:.
[30-04-24 18:18:34.707] LOG  : General     , 1714497514707> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE```

Any idea what the error is and if it's an issue?

[bronze yoke]

are you sure this is the right file? the error doesn't line up with anything in your code

[steep vortex]

🤦‍♀️

Thank you.
So I tried doing this wrongly using a file that added the items to the inventory in server/NPCs and had forgotten to delete that after

[echo lark]

well shit, i got it to work

function Recipe.OnCreate.vcMagazineSuccessChance(items, result, player)

    local metalworkingLevel = player:getPerkLevel(Perks.MetalWelding)
  
    --- chance to remove the result item based on metalworking level.
    local chanceToRemove = 0
    if metalworkingLevel <= 2 then
      chanceToRemove = 75 -- 25% chance
    elseif metalworkingLevel <= 4 then
      chanceToRemove = 50 -- 50% chance
    elseif metalworkingLevel <= 6 then
      chanceToRemove = 25 -- 75% chance
    end
  
    -- Check chance to remove and handle successful crafting
    if ZombRand(0, 101) >= chanceToRemove then
      if result then
        local resultType = result:getFullType()
        player:getInventory():AddItem(resultType, 1)
        return -- Exit the function after successful crafting
      end -- Close the 'if result' block here
    else
      player:getInventory():AddItems("TW.MetalParts", ZombRand(0, 3));
      player:getInventory():AddItems("SmallSheetMetal", ZombRand(0, 3));
      player:getInventory():AddItems("TW.Spring", ZombRand(0, 3));
      player:getInventory():AddItems("ScrapMetal", ZombRand(5, 20));
      player:getInventory():AddItems("Screws", ZombRand(2, 8));
    end
  
  end

using a chart, checking the type with getFullType, then comparing that to the chart, and spawning the item i got it to work without the chart.

so ill just need a chart with all my gun mags

[thick karma]

I think what you're saying is getting a little lost in translation here.

Syntax is mandatory punctuation and formatting of the relationship between the fundamental data managed by a program. If you have syntax errors, your debug mode errors will tell you about them, and your file won't load at all.

If you're unsure whether a file loaded, you can also add a global variable to the end of it, something like ThisIsJustForTesting = 1, and then print that variable using print(ThisIsJustForTesting) in the debug console to see whether it's 1 or nil.

@violet shell

[thick karma]

Meant to be replying to this.

Have you tested the code? That is generally the determining factor in whether something is written or "syntaxed" correctly.

[echo lark]

if i want a 1-100 do i do ZombRand(0, 101) or do i do ZombRand(1, 100)