mod_development

[thick karma]

I'm Burryaga on Workshop

[jovial sparrow]

Was actually able to get a context menu item to show up in game
feels nice to just have something simple appear lmao, even if it doesnt actually do anything

[thick karma]

Some of the mods on my page are mods I just help with like Blackouts, and I can't speak to refactoring the code of original authors if I haven't talked to them about it.

Although I doubt Joy would mind either

[thick karma]

Congrats

And yet!

[jovial sparrow]

ill have to look at some more things to see how I can make some better use of it all but
its nice to see it appear in game

[thick karma]

Progress!

[jovial sparrow]

Any progress is good progess

I just have to learn... what everything means in context of the game lmao
but in due time

[slender snow]

Hi ! Do you know if it is possible to have a cinematic that launches into the game? that is to say it is possible to put for example a YouTube video which starts when I want it which takes up the whole screen and which would act like a cinematic (sorry for my writing I am French)

[thick karma]

I've never seen a single mod add a video so I would be inclined to imagine that PZ isn't an ideal context for doing so.

Never tried to inspected code for a way to do it but that seems like something somebody would've done if it were doable.

[slender snow]

Yes I imagine that too but something not animated like a black background with text like when you launch pz. You imagine its possible to make a sort of cinematic ?

[thick karma]

That is most definitely possible

You could make a screenswide black background and add whatever text you want and use maths for fadeins and fadeouts and scrolling text and such.

That much would be very doable

@slender snow

You could have cycling background images too

Just not 60fps video.

[slender snow]

Ok good thing to know. But what worries me is the possibility of launching it whenever I want: that is to say as a command to write or something like that which is synchronized on the screens of all the players connected to the servers ?

[slender snow]

It’s already huge!

[thick karma]

You can launch it whenever you want

You could send out a command from server to all clients that tells them to play the "video" at a specific game time and it'll be pretty close to synced

[slender snow]

Ok thank you for all this answer it helps me enormously. All that remains is to do all this😂

[thick karma]

I could send you a file you could use as a starting point, give me a few minutes to get on my PC

I have a deprecation warning that shows messages in a series and then fades out when user connects

Just gotta change the size of the popup to match screen size

[slender snow]

Oh thank you very much! it would be great to be able to start on a base

[thick karma]

@slender snow

For examples of client-server comms, feel free to refactor True Music Jukebox's client and server files

[frank elbow]

"Doesn't work" or "won't run" aren't enough detail—you should explain exactly what is or isn't happening & check console.txt for relevant errors

The latter could also help you narrow it down so you don't have to send the entire file as an external link, which also makes help less likely

[cinder finch]

Thanks Jab

[muted garnet]

How can I stop player when moving?

[spice edge]

I started by asking GPT, but then figured that starting there without knowing anything else previously was a bad idea. Then I went into the wiki at https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding, it has some good resources and explains the basics and overview of modding. I know my way around programming already which helps, so I was able to basicaly skim through the wiki to find what I needed to start changing some Lua code and start to see things in Debug mode 🙂

[red tiger]

Welp, now I can third-party document the Java API for PZ. =D

[jovial sparrow]

woah... nice!

that seems insanely useful

[muted garnet]

How can I stop player when moving?

[burnt quartz]

-- DoorBlocker.lua

Events.OnDoorToggle.Add(function(door, character)
local doorSquare = door:getSquare()
local frontSquare = doorSquare:getAdjacentSquare(door:getDirection())
local backSquare = doorSquare:getAdjacentSquare(door:getDirection():opposite())

if frontSquare and frontSquare:getCorpse() then
    character:getPlayer():getUI():showText("is there something in front of the door.")
    return
end

if backSquare and backSquare:getCorpse() then
    character:getPlayer():getUI():showText("is there something behind the door.")
    return
end

end)

Is this code correct? If there is a body in front of or behind the door, it should prevent the door from closing.

[surreal wave]

use ` three times followed by the language extension name and then close it off with three more to make a code block

//looks like this
if (true) then {//Code};

[zinc epoch]

Also like for context, i know a bit of LUA.

[surreal wave]

How do you run functions in zomboid?
Let's say I make a godmode mod.
I go to zomboid > mods and create STB_godmode
Inside I create mod.info ```txt
name=STB_godmode
id=stb_godmode
description=test mod
author=player1
version=0.1

and the folders media > client
inside I create STB_godmode.lua ```lua
--test mod to add godmode to player
local function stb_godmode()
  local player = getPlayer()
  player.SetGodMod(true)
end

how would I even run this correctly? What's the standard and good practices? The wiki is kind of hard to navigate imo and most of it (including unofficial ones I've found) leaves a lot of guesswork.

do you just run ```lua
Events.OnGameStart.Add(stb_godmode)

??

what's the init order of client/shared/Server and does it just run everything unscheduled in there or?? So I can add a init.lua maybe and throw in the functions elsewhere and make them global, but then does that cause lag and is it better to make everything local or??

Ideally I'll just have the strucutre like
fn_stb_godmode.lua
fn_stb_teleport.lua
and then inside add functions
and then init.lua runs everything. But idk..

[mellow frigate]

player:setGodMod(true)

[surreal wave]

is this not correct?

or is that some third party java library that isn't in zomboid?

[coarse sinew]

In Lua, you should use the colon (:) instead of the dot (.) when calling methods on an object. This is because the colon syntax automatically passes the object itself as the first argument to the method, which is required for proper method execution.
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/characters/IsoGameCharacter.html#setGodMod(boolean)

local function stb_godmode()
    local player = getPlayer()
    player:setGodMod(true)  -- corrected syntax
end

Using local functions is generally better for performance and avoiding global namespace pollution. Define your functions as local within their respective files and expose them if necessary.

As for file load order, see this message #mod_development message

As for calling that function on OnGameStart event, chances are that the player is not initialized.

For a list of all events see this https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventDoc/blob/develop/docs/Events.md

[surreal wave]

What's the diff from this? https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_Events

That's what I've found so far ^^ Thanks btw

[surreal wave]

wow I didn't even see what you did there lol

[coarse sinew]

I personally prefer the GitHub page because it has more up-to-date information and a cleaner, more organized presentation. And also if you want typings (autocompletion) https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella

[surreal wave]

Is it better to do ```lua
local function stb_godmode()
local player = getPlayer()
player:setGodMod(true) -- corrected syntax
end
local function init()
Events.OnPlayerLoaded.Add(stb_godmode)
end
Events.OnGameStart.Add(stb_godmode)

or should I just throw it directly on playerloaded or whatever it's called (surely there's an event for that somewhere but I'm lazy atm I hope you guys get what I'm saying)

I'm guessing you can't suspend inside functions

I literally have 0 idea wtf I'm doing here btw lmao I've never touched lua thank god or looked into zomboid much before

[coarse sinew]

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(stb_godmode)

Or yo ucan use this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232884829

[surreal wave]

also thank god that's for vscode some people like to hate on vs which is objectively the best for anything windows thx no fitin

yeah I'm not trying to make a godmode mod

well, in this example I am just to get started lol

[abstract topaz]

oh my god i just realized

has anyone tried making a plants vs zombies mod for zomboid?

[surreal wave]

how would that even work?

[abstract topaz]

idk im not a coder

[muted garnet]

How can I stop player when moving?

[surreal wave]

????????????????????????????

spamming this won't give you an answer.

[muted garnet]

so tell me the answer and I won't write this message

[surreal wave]

alt + f4

player stops movign

[muted garnet]

true method

Naturally I ask how to do this through code

[surreal wave]

Describe your problem a bit more in depth and include whatever you've made so far in the message and you're more likely to get a response.

[muted garnet]

I need to stop the player when player is walking towards some object using luautils.walkadj in the middle of the action or get the way to make player going to dynamic object (other player like)

[surreal wave]

I didn't mean to be rude earlier but now you're more likely to find someone who can help. I obviously can't because I'm an idiot myself lol

jc everyone here use camelCase for zomboid?

[ancient grail]

setIgnoreMovement()
setIgnoreAimingInput()
setIgnoreInputsForDirection()

I might be wrong im on mobile rn

The 3rd one i think is what i used

[ancient grail]

Actually it is encouraged that you ask again if you didnt get the answer first time around
Its cuz people who are willing to help might have missed the first messages

And i dont think its spam if its not sent multiple times and there are no other messages in between

[ancient grail]

Not all but alot prefer to copy vanilla way of doing it

[thick karma]

Zomboid is based on Java. Kahlua is written in Java. Lua has no official punctuation standards. Using anything OTHER than camel case for variables and functions and methods would be the unconventional way to write.

Java has clear standards and many people follow those in the absence of standards declared by the creators of Lua, which, again, do not exist.

[surreal wave]

99% of the time people will use pascal or camel and I just want to match to make it easier to read just assumed camel was the "standard"

[thick karma]

PascalCase so to speak is intended for classes in Java, so most people who have given this any thought at all use that for the names of class-like modules.

YourModule.yourFunction is derived from standard Java. yourInstanceOfYourModule.yourMethod is also standard

Instances of modules (well, classes, in Java, but functionally it's very close to the same idea) are punctuated like any other variable generally in Java

And, also reflecting Java, IS has set the standard of primarily using THIS for constant case

[thick karma]

But yeah to be clear there is no real standard here but there is some rationale behind certain decisions that is arguably more context appropriate than other rationales

Introducing C standards in a game that's entirely Java e.g. would be much weirder

Or at least further from context

[surreal wave]

PascalCase is king unless you're a leetHaxor in my mind lol

[thick karma]

Lol well nobody here read your book before deciding how to write Kahlua for Zomboid

They read books that are in publication

😎😉

[surreal wave]

I've published a book (actually fact)

(it has nothing to do with this)

[thick karma]

In which you declared PascalCase is king?

Haha

[surreal wave]

I should've

[thick karma]

That's all I'm sayin

Hahaha

But regardless even if someone wrote it in a book I would consider it inferior advice to that of other books. Using consistent variation in how you name different kinds of structures in programming makes it easier for people to immediately recognize what kind of thing a variable name is, and how it's meant to be used

If everything is PascalCase, there's no immediate way to guess about its purpose, and it just slows things down

[bright fog]

[surreal wave]

fair but pinky on shift takes a day or two to reprogram

I just like using whatever everyone else is using

I hate whne someone needs to be an induvidual in a team etc

[thick karma]

Why would a capitalization variation take days to reprogram? You can just refactor the exact pattern across whole projects...

Find and replace is extremely fast

[surreal wave]

no I mean when actually writing

pinkie is automatic

[thick karma]

Ohhhhhhhhh

You mean mentally reprogram yourself got it

[surreal wave]

I'll end up using both unless I focus

[thick karma]

Yes that's fair that's fair

[surreal wave]

FOCUS

[thick karma]

Old habits die hard

[surreal wave]

good thing I grew up knowing that leetHaxors use camelcase

the one true indent*

[thick karma]

Lmfao

[surreal wave]

(i am actually really haxor guys trust)

[thick karma]

Peas don't hax me 😭

Don't hax the messenger

[slender snow]

@thick karma yo bro i have make my mod but i have a problem, when i strat my command in the console that tell me : console1: '=' expected near '<eof>'

i have ask to chat gpt look in forum but I don't see where the problem comes from maybe you know ?

[thick karma]

That's a syntax error that occurs when you write a variable name or (or function name) without assigning a value to it ( = 5) or invoking the function (using ())

The line number should be in the error

[slender snow]

It doesn't give me a line error, it just sends the message

[thick karma]

Oh you just typed startcinematic in debug to try it?

And startcinematic is a function I assume?

If so, you need startcinematic() @slender snow

[slender snow]

Yes I think that's the way to do it, it's the first time I've done it, there might be a better way

[slender snow]

yes for start the program

[thick karma]

Need parentheses to invoke a function even if it has no input parameters

Also if that function is local you're gonna need to make it global (delete "local ") to test it in debug console

[slender snow]

so all the 'local' commands I have to replace?

[thick karma]

I personally encapsulate everything I do in modules

If you review the file I sent you'll see what I mean.

[slender snow]

when I do this command it opens several tabs including the error tab. and in this tab you wrote:

[thick karma]

Everything in the file is in local JukeboxDeprecationWarning iirc

So when I declare local JukeboxDeprecationWarning = {} I declare a Lua table that I intend to use as a classlike object, which we call a "module"

When I declare a function in the file, I declare it as part of the module, e.g. JukeboxDeprecationWarning.display

At the end of the file I write return JukeboxDeprecationWarning

The advantage of all this is that if I want to debug console test a file that is entirely local and written this way, I can type JukeboxDeprecationWarning = require("JukeboxDeprecationWarning") and turn the formally local JukeboxDeprecationWarning into a global module for ease of testing

Without changing the file at all

So I would recommend following that approach to make your life easier

Also, to be clear, everything in the local module is automatically also local

You don't e.g. write "local JukeboxDeprecationWarning.display = function()"

Local is not necessary at the beginning of that line because JDW is already local

Follow? @slender snow

[slender snow]

Yes thanks for help me ! i call a friend tomorow , So that he can help me because I don't understand everything about coding . If I can make something out of it I'll show you!

[thick karma]

Just realized I actually made JukeboxDeprecationWarning global since it's not meant for gameplay anyway... so in theory if you had used that skeleton it would have been callable without importing... that said, if you WANTED it to be local, you would change the first line to say local JukeboxDeprecationWarning = ISPanel:derive("JukeboxDeprecationWarning") and then return JukeboxDeprecationWarning as the last line.

Wasn't on PC so couldn't review my code

@slender snow Good luck

[jovial sparrow]

if im looking for the tile the player right clicked, is it clickedSquare? just seeing it around a bit and wanted to double check

[thick karma]

Sounds familiar... I think that might be right

Make sure it's accessible outside of the function in which it exists

Idr if it's declared local or not

[jovial sparrow]

gotcha 👍

well, im happy with my testing so far lmao

[muted garnet]

result is not exactly what I expected, the player starts walking in place, he stops, but the walking action continues indefinitely, can you please tell me how I can interrupt the walking action at this moment? How to terminate luautils.walkadj in advance?

I mean, how can I interrupt the walking action in advance and start timedaction?

or is there a way to go to dynamic objects rather than static ones?

[ancient grail]

try

getPlayer():PlayAnim("Idle");

[muted garnet]

not working, maybe I need to make some changes with walkadj?

local function moveToEachOther(player, clickedPlayer, args)
    luautils.walkAdj(player, clickedPlayer:getSquare())
    luautils.walkAdj(clickedPlayer, player:getSquare())

    local function onTick()
        if checkDistanceAndStartAction(player, clickedPlayer, args) then
            getPlayer():PlayAnim("Idle");
            -- player:setIgnoreMovement(true)
            -- player:setIgnoreAimingInput(true)
            -- player:setIgnoreInputsForDirection(true)
            ISTimedActionQueue.add(someTimedAction:new(player, clickedPlayer, args))
            Events.OnTick.Remove(onTick)
        end
    end

    Events.OnTick.Add(onTick)
end

[ancient grail]

Im using mobile rn but look at vanilla timed action and check how they force stop it
And make it fail?

Im not quite sure what you are trying to do.. can you explain more about what you said

I need to stop the player when player is walking towards some object using luautils.walkadj in the middle of the action or get the way to make player going to dynamic object (other player like)

[muted garnet]

I need 2 players to approach each other, but as far as I understand, walkAdj accepts the players’ locations only at the beginning of the function and the players will go to the squares they were on, but I need to make them approach each other

[muted garnet]

I tried to use vanilla self.character:getPathFindBehavior2():pathToLocation, but players not starting go each other

As far as I understand, when the player moves, his location is not updated for walkAdj

or for similar methods

That's why I'm asking about how to stop walking action when the players are close to each other

[ancient grail]

Ahhh
Try using collide then setreaction or something

[muted garnet]

Can you explain what do you mean it more details pls?

or maybe I can clean walking timed action queue and start new?

[thick karma]

He just needs to clear timed action queue and start a new one

[muted garnet]

can you pls explain how to make it?

[thick karma]

I don't have the code handy but there is a clear function referenced in many places in vanilla

[ancient grail]

What mods are you working on rn?

[bright fog]

I can definitely find that give me a sec

nvm maybe not it's not to clear queue

[bright fog]

ISTimedActionQueue.clear(player)

[muted garnet]

finally it works, thanks

[bright fog]

👌

[thick karma]

I wasn't even on pc

I just wanted to prevent him being sent on a wild goose chase

[thick karma]

Thank you

[sonic ibex]

I would like to make some changes to the boredom system, it seems silly to me that one would be bored so easily in an apocalypse. My last game I had just been shot and had to escape from zombies, I finally found somewhere safe to rest and heal but I was bored. I feel like that wouldn't be the case 😅

[frank elbow]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725360009

This could either be what you're looking for, or a resource to see how to make something similar

[sonic ibex]

thanks

[bright fog]

This mod is a lie, it literally deleted boredom from the game lol

It's not tweaked correctly and whenever I use that mod I never see the boredom moodle ever again

It's not properly balanced

[frank elbow]

This does not change my statement

I've certainly still seen the moodle with it enabled, so I know that part to be false unless an update changed it. I don't have an opinion on how balanced it is 🤷 but regardless it's a resource

[bright fog]

Yeah of course was just mentioning the mod itself is not balanced

[bright fog]

I'm not saying the moodle can't happen but it's so badly tuned that you barely ever see it

[frank elbow]

Gotcha—the “this mod is a lie” read to me as attempting to dissuade from recommending it

[frank elbow]

Fair enough I suppose, personally I've felt it to be alright

I haven't used it in SP for a long while though, just MP

[lavish plume]

running a dedicated server on linux with steamcmd. Keep getting an error in my console. Looks like set_mempolicy: Invalid Argument anyone seen this before?

[frank elbow]

You'll likely have better luck searching in #1019767076094758924 if it's a non-modded dedi, and creating a post if you don't find an answer. If it's modded, maybe #mod_support can help (but that doesn't seem like it'd be related to a mod)

[lavish plume]

ok thank you

[thick karma]

Alright, last time I'm going to mention this before I make a decision (I promise). For anyone who missed it, I am releasing a mod that prevents modded key bindings from being reset to their default values when people switch between servers that do not run the same mods (and therefore do not require or add the same modded key bindings). I have been having a lot of trouble finalizing the name because there are good arguments in favor of lots of different names. *

In light of a myriad of considerations, I have narrowed it down to this list of names that I can emotionally accept:

• Eternal Key Bindings
• Immortal Key Bindings
• Keys Stay Bound
• Keys Stay Rebound
• Bind Keys Forever
• Rebind Keys Forever
• Keep Custom Key Bindings
• Save Custom Key Bindings
• Remember Key Rebindings
• Persistent Key Bindings
• Key Bindings Remain
• Persistent Rebinding
• Permanent Key Bindings

If you have the slightest interest in sharing your opinion, I would love to see your top 5 choices from this list. I plan to count votes via instant runoff to decide what the most popular options are.

Feel free to recommend your own unlisted choice; if it's too good to pass up, I'll definitely consider a name that is not on this list.

Thanks for any feedback you have. If you have no interest in this, thanks for tolerating this rather long message about something that means nothing to you.

* Short names are more fully visible in the Workshop search (which only shows 18-19 characters of a name in some places), but long names can be more clear about what the mod does (although they can be truncated on larger fonts in the vanilla server setup UI); cool or fun names can be more ambiguous or vague, but literal names can be painfully boring to me; other conjugations of "binding" (like "bound") or alternative phrases (like "bind keys") can feel nice to native English speakers, but they don't match the vanilla menus, so their meanings may be more likely to get lost in translation; etc.

@ancient grail Mainly this, to answer your question that I was too busy to answer earlier. This and trying to brainstorm a way to fix Blackouts' quirks.

(Sorry to anyone who really wants it to be Keyper but I just don't want to make it hard for people to find later.)

[ancient grail]

"Permanent Key Binds"

[ancient grail]

But all of your workshop names use unique signature names

[thick karma]

Got it! If you don't mind giving your top 5, your vote may be more likely to factor into things in the end.

[thick karma]

I don't use any words or spellings that I invent, though.

[sour island]

Persistent Custom Keys

[ancient grail]

Just trying to suggest shortest possible name thats also clear

[daring swallow]

I like that one

[hearty estuary]

i like "Keys Stay Bound"

[ancient grail]

KeyBound

[hearty estuary]

if i had that problem, that's likely something i'd search for and recognize as a solution

[ancient grail]

UndyingKeys lol
Since you mentioned immortal

[thick karma]

Not gonna exclude spaces from the title, and don't really love the ambiguity either tbh, but I appreciate the effort.

[ancient grail]

Was just random
My first suggestions my final vote

Just ZombRand from the list lol

[thick karma]

lol nah

[thick karma]

Genuinely curious to get feedback of this kind. What people feel they'd A) search and B) remember when recommending it or trying to find it later. @ancient grail

[hearty estuary]

what about "[BUG FIX] Woah! That's a Keyper! (Fixes A Bug That Makes Servers Forget Your Custom Keybinds) Patch"?

[thick karma]

Blocked.

😉

❤️

[hearty estuary]

😛

[thick karma]

Nah but f.r. if I were going to pick a ridiculously long joke name

Center for Mods That Can't Bind Good and Want to Learn to Do Other Things Good Too would have already won

[hearty estuary]

honestly, if your mod does one really specific thing it isn't always a terrible idea to name it exactly what that thing is

[thick karma]

I want it to be legible in the game menus, and ideally beneath thumbnails as well.

But within those limits, that is a goal.

[ancient grail]

Its fine
But just so you know spaces or no spaces it can still be searched with just one of the word or both
With or without spaces etc...
I just got used to not adding spaces so it became a routine
Too late to change now

[thick karma]

Server setup menu limits visible characters quite a bit if people aren't running Wookiee Server Options

Which most people don't

[hearty estuary]

ah yeah, i've noticed that with my own servers

[thick karma]

I know, I just don't like the aesthetic for my own mods. Titles are space-having things to me. Spaceless titles to me make me wonder if the modder even knew the name can have spaces.

Which is not an impression I want the title to make

[hearty estuary]

spaces in your titles generally makes them more legible (not that i'm one to talk with a name like this lmao)

[thick karma]

A name on Disc we see over and over is much easier to resolve, also it doesn't need to have meaning so if people misread or mispronounce it nothing is really lost.

Plus your name is classic

[hearty estuary]

this one feels the most concise to me but my next top 4 in order of what i'd search for as a fix to my issue would be:

• Keep Custom Key Bindings
• Remember Key Rebindings
• Permanent Key Binding
• Keys Stay Rebound

[ancient grail]

🤔 never thought of it that way

[thick karma]

Keys Stay Bound is pretty popular so it's got a good chance. Eternal Key Bindings and Permanent Key Bindings seem to be the current runners-up.

Also Persistent Key Bindings has a couple votes (one from Chuck and one from a private convo).

[sour island]

Subsistence

[thick karma]

The rest of the votes are pretty scattered right now

[hearty estuary]

now that i think about it, "Keys Stay Bound" is what i'd search but i think "Permanent Key Bindings" might be much more clear that it is a fix to a technical issue and not actually related to any form of key in game

[thick karma]

lol while I love the feel on a certain level literally 5 people will remember that and what it does.

[sour island]

I'd say persistent is more technically correct than permanent

[hearty estuary]

i agree

[thick karma]

That is fair.

[hearty estuary]

i preferred Keep over Save because Keep implies that they are lost, which is more accurate than unsaved

[thick karma]

Some of them are consciously hyperbolic but still on topic.

[sour island]

Metal Gear 3: Snake Eater: Subsistence is one of the better in the franchise tho 😦

[thick karma]

Hahaha I hear you.

[ancient grail]

Couldnt help myself lol

[thick karma]

Haha fair

I updated the list to offer Persistent Key Bindings over Permanent based on above feedback.

Also added Persistent Rebinding (PR) as an option in place of less popular ones

[thick karma]

I guess I'll count this as your second pick

haha

[hearty estuary]

what app is this?

[ancient grail]

Luadroid

[brittle dock]

If you're seriously abandoning "Keyper - Keys Stay Bound", I'd go with something explicitly obvious like "Keep Custom Key Bindings" so that it's blisteringly obvious what it's intended to do.

[thick karma]

Yeah I just don't love using a neologism as the lead word in the title

I fear it'll be too hard to remember for a lot of users

[brittle dock]

My heart is broken, but I understand.

[thick karma]

Feel free to vote for 4 others because your vote may still make a difference even if KCKB loses.

Only 2 people have voted for KCKB so far.

[brittle dock]

You don't need to apologize to me, but I think you know who you need to have a word with. He's going to be upset, and remembering things for an eternity is sort of his thing.

[thick karma]

Lmao I think I'll still use that actually.

[brittle dock]

😛 Let me know if you actually plan to use it, I'll tidy up the extra finger on the right hand to prevent the inevitable crowd of mouth breathers from wasting a comment on that instead of how awesome the mod idea is.

[thick karma]

Lmfao why does AI do that so often?

[thick karma]

Would love to see this with more of hysterical laughter vibe tbh, if your generator can make it happen.

I might try feeding it to Leonardo AI tomorrow and try to get lucky

[brittle dock]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by “hysterical laughter”? I feel like the collection from the DM all technically meet that definition, but I interpret “hysterical laughter” to be showing a degree of madness.

Is there a particular facial expression, head or body position, etc, that better matches your vision?

[thick karma]

Well to be specific the mouth of this particular wizard is rounded and his eyebrows are angled sharply down toward his nose, which gives the strong sense of angry screaming. This form of "madness" (craziness) also looks "mad" (angry) which is not quite the ideal face for me. If his eyes were more neutral and his mouth were more of a crescent moon shape (upturned at the edges as though he were partly smiling, or perhaps actively laughing) that would be preferable.

@brittle dock

Not the art style I want obv but this is an example of the kind of laugh I'm thinking of

[daring swallow]

I've got a quick question, I'm hoping to make a small addon mod for More Traits that adds additional textures to the packer bag/big hiking bags. I've watched a bunch of tutorials on modding PZ in general but I don't have a background in coding myself some I'm unsure of the feasibility of affecting a seperate mods items. Would this be possible to do or would I have to essentially create a fork from the original more traits mod in its entirety to affect items from that mod.

[undone wren]

anyone has any "example mod" with the folders template?

[thick karma]

#1070852229654917180 message

[undone wren]

ty

[jovial sparrow]

great resources
that being said, im looking around for it but it may be faster to see if anyone knows
like, the text when you try to get out of a moving vehicle and it tells you that you cant, is that just, for example,
playerObj:Say("exampleText") or is there a different like, method for that?

or well, I guess I SORTA? found it?
something along the lines of ContextMenu_VehicleMechanicsStopCar but just need to find where that is, but I have a good idea where it may be

[coarse sinew]

media\lua\client\Vehicles\ISUI\ISVehicleMenu.lua line 1281

[jovial sparrow]

oh, I took myself on a bit of a wild goose chase I think 😅

[jovial sparrow]

oh, i appreciate this immensely

ah ok so it is still playerObj:Say

beautiful thank you

[hollow shadow]

bind keys forever

[half remnant]

GM guys, I made my own custom frying pan and a wrench ingame but now I cant use the tools for cooking and mechanics stuff.

Does someone know where the creating stir fry logic for frying pan and uninstalling / install car part logic for the wrench are in the vanilla code?

[zenith igloo]

you found it r? 😄

[half remnant]

The creating stir fry logic yeah but not the uninstall / installing car part logic 😄

[hybrid zephyr]

Someone needs to create a "layer viewer" for project zomboid, such that when you are driving or othwerewise travelling through the map, the isometric view of the game doesnt impede your gameplay when buildings overlap the road or whatever is blocking your view. For example, in the town of Louisville and pretty much anywere where theres more one story too a building, the "layers" or "floors" fade in and out of view, someone needs to create a mod where you can hard lock the "layer" your viewing, so you dont drive your car into things that are on the road you cant see because a building is being rendered in front of you.

what would it take to create a mod like this im desperate ;-;

someone who knows java or Lua I think can do this, right?

[brittle oyster]

nah but a feature to scroll floors in and out of view would be epic

[hybrid zephyr]

its actually necessary for the game in my opinion

ive been gushing to everyone about how need this is ;-;

its in so many games except this one, that are isometric

[vestal gyro]

Go to the modding discord you can commision mods there or ask for advice how to do it

[hybrid zephyr]

okay I will

godspeed to myself

can you link me?

[bright fog]

There's a community post link to not send the invite directly in case

[vestal gyro]

👍

[bright fog]

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

For the modding Discord

[thick karma]

Did you see that error in mod support? @bright fog

[bright fog]

No I don't think so

[knotty path]

i want to start developing mods for zomboid, which language should i learn and which programs should i use for making models etc.?

[bright fog]

I'll look at it later I can't rn

[bright fog]

Lua

VS Code

[knotty path]

Java too?

[bright fog]

We have addons for modding in it

[bright fog]

No need to learn how to use it

You can learn how to read it however to understand better how the source code works

When you decompile the java

[knotty path]

cool, i think blender should be helpful too, ty

[bright fog]

Yeah

If you plan on doing animations or models

[knotty path]

have some great ideas for mods, wonder why nobody made mod for homemade butter

haha

good for gaining weight

[bright fog]

Hmmm there is but the issue is that it requires milk

There's a Fauna mod but the animals are just static tiles or some shit like that

[thick karma]

@bright fog #mod_support message

[bright fog]

I know

[thick karma]

Oh sorry

Didn't know if you knew where it was after you said you didn't think you saw it

[bright fog]

Np

The guy posted it here and on the modding Discord

[thick karma]

Oh gotcha gotcha

Missed that

[bright fog]

Nurver pinged me for the report in the modding discord too

Yeah np

I answered in the discord, didn't bother to do it here too

It could be an oopsie on my end tbf

[karmic wedge]

Is it possible to edit base game tiles?
I'd really like to darken the snow, it's migrane Inducing being this bright

[coarse sinew]

I'm not aware of whether you can overwrite vanilla tiles, but I do know that you can change the color of tiles/attached sprites(what snow is) on tiles.

[bright fog]

You can overwrite them yes

I believe so bcs Manik's tiles does that

[cinder finch]

Hello, I would like to ask for those who have been developing plugins /mods for years. What is the best way to understand the concept of developing plugin/mods ? Especially for people that already had programming experiences. Tbh developing plugin for games is a new things for me and i felt it just tired to just getting started without guidance. Any guidances ?

[hollow current]

The learning process is usually different for everyone. What worked for me was reverse-engineering the code of certain mods that do things similar to my idea, to try and find how to do what I want to do. There are also a ton of guides out there regarding different concepts. They're useful

That, and asking for help here if you ever find yourself stuck. The modding community is so friendly and you'd get your question answered in a short time

[cinder finch]

Interesting i will try to take a look the topics. Btw do you have any references to learn this topics ? Especially for modding. Thank Arenda

[hollow current]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding
https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1070852229654917180
https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventDoc/blob/develop/docs/Events.md
https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/

Some resources off the top of my head to get yourself started. The second link is for a thread that contains a ton of other links and resources

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

This is a server for modding community as well. You could find more resources and support there

[cinder finch]

Thank Arenda 😄

[hollow current]

My pleasure :)

[civic tree]

anyone knows how to modify or create these preset "suits" for the npcs?

[bright fog]

Outfits ?

[civic tree]

sure, you know how i can modify them or make my own?

[bright fog]

You need to create a fileGuidTable.xml within /media

Check out what to write from the base game

Or from a mod that adds outfits

[undone wren]

do anyone know a good tutorial to initial project zomboid modding?,(creating items

[zenith igloo]

check pinned messages

[vestal gyro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrmCAwzTbY&t=2194s

@undone wren

[undone wren]

ty

[zenith igloo]

unedited tutorial video

[vestal gyro]

it definitely didn't need to be 2 and a half hours long

[zenith igloo]

yep 😭

[undone wren]

yep kkkkkk

[vestal gyro]

but yeah its a good starting point, like we said don't need to watch all of it but its very helpful for getting your first mod done 👍

[undone wren]

I already added the item in the .txt,added a model in the /model but its not showing in game items viewer

[vestal gyro]

can you send your .txt and the one where your model is defined?

[vestal gyro]

huh

is ModTemplate in your Contents folder?

ok I'll dm you for the tips

[main gull]

hello, is there a way to get the user's font size setting?

for more context, im trying to add some text to the Information tab of the player but i cant get the alignment just right on different font sizes

[thick karma]

Just fyi you really wanna change file names and folder names before you upload that 😉 otherwise you'll conflict with the live runnable version of the tutorial mod

[thick karma]

getCore():getOptionFontSize()

Also for alignment purposes you may want to be aware of getTextManager():MeasureStringX(font, text)

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/zombie/ui/TextManager.html#MeasureStringX(zombie.ui.UIFont,java.lang.String)

Tells ya how wide stuff is and factors in font size and font type

[thick karma]

Anybody around who hasn't chimed in yet (and wants to do so)?

[frank elbow]

I like Keys Stay Bound & Keep Custom Key Bindings

[thick karma]

❤️

Keys Stay Bound is currently winning so there's a good chance I'll go with it. Thank you for the feedback.

[rigid thorn]

Is there a mod out there for picking which skills level up faster than others. Like a Nerf to cooking and Carpentry but a buff to electronics and trapping?

[brittle nacelle]

there used to be a couple winnable scenario mods- science lab to find a cure and restarting an electrical plant, anyone know these mod names?

[ancient grail]

Took 1 hr to.make a mod
1 month to name it

[coarse sinew]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2827283808 But doesn t work with modded skills

[rigid thorn]

My Mod pack doesn't have anything in terms of added skills but this helps a lot.

[civic tree]

is there any way i can tweak the colors for the clothes in the game? theres some i want to either alter or remove so they dont spawn clothing with that color

[mint onyx]

Is there a way I could use OpenGL inside of project zomboids modding api? I am trying to create a mod to add anti aliasing support to project zomboid

[bronze yoke]

no

[mint onyx]

well shit

[bronze yoke]

sorry for such a short answer but that is pretty much it 😅

the official modding support will not let you do anything like that

[mint onyx]

thats alright thanks anyway

[wet sandal]

I'm finally debating turning off comments on my mods...

[civic tree]

why is that

[wet sandal]

There's just many zero effort bug reports and complaints with no details or just trolling.
Just annoys me, but the actual good bug reports make it worth it I guess.

[autumn garnet]

Welcome to the club...
and sorry to hear that...

[bright fog]

Skill issues

I understand why you'd want to do that, I personnally don't have such a problem with comments

[thick karma]

❤️

I just delete the useless garbo. That's my revenge. They take the time to write it and then I retroactively waste that time. When the troll wastes far more of their own time than yours, you win.

[wet sandal]

Yea, I do delete the worst ones.
Deleted one yesterday complaining that I was playing Fallout 4 instead of updating my mods, lol. Actually had a good chuckle reading that one.

[civic tree]

hahaha that ones actually funny

bro i see you playing fallout go work

[thick karma]

lol me on Ghost of Tsushima instead of trying to fix Blackouts

In my defense, not my mod, I was just added as contributor.

(The issue is minor, lol they'll find some spoiled food in new areas, they'll live.)

[half remnant]

Lmao, imagine that. Some people don't realize that modding isn't a full-time paid job but for some reason a lot of people expect it to be....

[ancient grail]

oh hi dane how are you

[light stirrup]

Ignore workshop, make a git repo for bug reporting. I feel like that has a good chance of filtering out idiots.

[glacial thorn]

anyone who is experienced with map mods dm me

[ancient grail]

#mapping

[glacial thorn]

thx

[red tiger]

Glad to see the official anti-cheat system likely to be more effective in B42.

Having options for what to do based on each check has worked out well for a couple years for my anti-cheat so that should help people when it releases.

[autumn garnet]

Hey ! Fine and you ? :D

[drifting ore]

having some trouble, the game cant load my model

getting error "failed to load asset"

[drifting ore]

the file paths are all correct, i think the issue might be with the model im trying to add a new food but the model i got is just some random from web

[drifting ore]

fixed it

[solar rover]

Hello all! I had a question about how Literature items worked? What controls if a book/magazine is removed on use? The only thing I noted from the basic code was that recipe books had a ReplaceOnUse line but nothing else does? I want a skill boost book to be removed on reading and not sure what script determines removal on completion.
Thanks for the time and info!

[drifting ore]

If you want to remove the book when read u can add

DestroyOnUse = TRUE

[solar rover]

Well that'll save me a lot of time, excellent thanks!

[drifting ore]

or what i did if u want in future to keep a book when read, ReplaceOnUse = (Book Name)

[solar rover]

Yeah I saw that with the recipe mags, I just needed the code for Destroy

[drifting ore]

yea np

[thick karma]

So I'm flipping through mods, expanding my mod list, reading up on clothing mod issues, and seeing that many people apparently (feel a) need to override BodyLocations.lua to get custom clothing locations to render in the correct positions. Am I understanding this correctly?

[drifting ore]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3027423591 just updated my cookie mod

[thick karma]

Looks awesome. Instant sub.

[midnight prism]

I think that works yeah

[thick karma]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3258032107

[civic tree]

im trying to do outfits for superb survivors, and for modded items i understand i have to write "modID.ModItem". so that mod id is just the steam workshop id right? ill send an example:

(this is how it is rn)
SurvivorRandomSuits["Normal"]["Scavenger16"] = {"ClothMask", "Trousers_ArmyServiceTUCK", ||"Base.Vest_DefaultTEXTURE", "Base.Shirt_CamoUrban", "Base.Socks_Long", "Base.Shoes_BlackBoots", "Base.Vest_Hunting_Grey"}; ||

and this is how it should be (maybe?):
SurvivorRandomSuits["Normal"]["Scavenger16"] = {"Susceptible.ClothMask", "SpnOpenCloth.Trousers_ArmyServiceTUCK", ||"Base.Vest_DefaultTEXTURE", "Base.Shirt_CamoUrban", "Base.Socks_Long", "Base.Shoes_BlackBoots", "Base.Vest_Hunting_Grey"};||

the || ||s are me covering irrelevant stuff, you can see it if you want but it doesnt import anything to the question

[rare token]

Hi! I'm making a mod and just noticed that Events.OnDusk is deprecated. What should I use instead?. Should I just hook a function to Events.EveryHours and check if the hour matches dusk time? or is there a better way?. 🙂

[red tiger]

This is actually not a bad alternative as long as you know the time.

I don't think that the game deals with daylight-savings time shifts.

If the event doesn't fire, you could recreate it using triggerEvent('OnDusk') and hook into EveryHours.

I wouldn't because it would be wasteful but if you wanted that it's doable.

[rare token]

GameTime has a getDusk(). I didn't test it yet but thats what I was thinking to use to get the Dusk time

[red tiger]

I believe this move was to eliminate unnecessary event hooks which adds to tick times.

(Removing Events.OnDusk)

I hope that one day, Project Zomboid will have a fully realized Actions API for transacting with an associated origin source enum or string identity for making things like anti-cheat more friendly to mods.

For instance, if I trigger some action like sledgehammerDestroy I can provide a source of this action so that the engine can recognize that it came from the loaded client mod ID instead of some ambiguous code that could be cheating.

I'll keep this topic close to my chest as I continue to work on my own anti-cheat solutions. I think it's important enough to bring up here for possible discussion.

[civic tree]

can someone that knows about npc outfit mods give me a hand?

[slender hazel]

Does anyone know if it's possible to access the SandboxVars in the main menu? It only gives me the default value for some reason.

[thick karma]

To my knowledge no because they're intended for configuration of specific worlds.

I've tried to use them for trait management and they aren't ready in time for that.

[slender hazel]

@thick karma Okay, thanks! That was my plan as well 🙁

[jovial sparrow]

Is there a way to get, say, text to appear over a zombies head?
been trying to mess around with that, wasnt sure where to look exactly to start however

[civic tree]

anyone knows what is wrong with this? its code for a superb survivors outfits but it doesnt work

location is good, used other mods as example

[red tiger]

I need to see if Project Zomboid has a Java API call for Regex.

I need this.

[jovial sparrow]

i guess the way I could go about this is figure out how radios and the like display text, since I think zombies used to have a Say() method but dont anymore if im reading all this right

[coral lava]

Hello kings! Does anyone know how to make it so a recipe produces two items instead of just one?

I am doing a custom mod, and to make it work properly I'll need to have an item turn into two seperate things

[mellow frigate]

like the one they use in TypeUtil.java ? ```java
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

[red tiger]

Yeah.

Regex would be nice.

[mellow frigate]

If you ask if they forward it to lua, then it's a no. They use this and they do not forward it. I seriously doubt they'll forward something else. But there may be some lua regex.

[red tiger]

Then I'll forward it for my client tools patch. =)

Something that's incredibly useful, much like bitwise operations.

[trail isle]

Goodnight people, I don't speak English so I had to use the translator to try to see if anyone could help me with a problem I have.
I'm not a lua developer, in fact I don't understand anything, but I'm challenging myself to get to know the language better to be able to resolve some issues on the server I'm on.

I have the vending machine mod that works perfectly when you have money, however, I need to create a similar machine, but I won't have any money to destroy, because I created a card that only a few people will have and this is the premise for the machine release the item.

Currently my code is this:
recipe Milk
{
keep drinks cabinets,

    Result: Base.Milk,
Keep VIPCard,
    CanBeDoneFromFloor: true,
    Category: Food,
    Time: 0,

}

When executed, it works, the card is not destroyed, but it presents two options: take 1 item or take them all.
The problem is getting them all, as infinite items come out, which is not the objective, because whenever an item is selected, only one should come out.

I tried to make a function with a simple count, where if the number of items is greater than one it should return false, and it did, but it didn't help, as countless items still left the machine.

When I placed the function I used oncreate and called the function.

I would like to know if anyone has any idea how I can fix this problem.

Thank you and sorry for the bad English.

[jovial sparrow]

Trying to make like, a simple test to cause a custom food item to spawn
I have the item configured right but im a bit confused on the distrubutions side

would I just be cutting out one thing in each category andd changing the name to the new item name?

Distributions = Distributions or {};

local distributionTable = {
    conveniencestore = {
        isShop = true,
        counter = {
            procedural = true,
            procList = {
                {name="StoreCounterBags", min=0, max=2, weightChance=100},
                }
        },
        fridge = {
            procedural = true,
            procList = {
                {name="FridgeOther", min=1, max=99, weightChance=40},
                {name="FridgeSnacks", min=1, max=99, weightChance=100},
                {name="FridgeSoda", min=1, max=99, weightChance=100},
                {name="FridgeWater", min=1, max=99, weightChance=60},
            }
        },
    },
}

table.insert(Distributions, 1, distributionTable);

--for mod compat:
SuburbsDistributions = distributionTable;

or am I way off on adding this new item

I only ask since I know it used to be like this but I assume its this different system now ?

oh no wait, I see where stuff like that is

my only issue is like, I cant find a reference like that anymore for like, food shelves and fridges

[edgy cloak]

Hi, I want to use getparttype() but the item type is Inventoryitem, not Weaponpart. What can I do?

[jovial sparrow]

maybe im just not understanding the procedural part of it all? maybe someone does though

like gasstore has this:

fridge = {
            procedural = true,
            procList = {
                {name="FridgeOther", min=1, max=99, weightChance=40},
                {name="FridgeSnacks", min=1, max=99, weightChance=100},
                {name="FridgeSoda", min=1, max=99, weightChance=100},
                {name="FridgeWater", min=1, max=99, weightChance=60},
            }
        },

is it possible to add a custom item into procList for it or would it have to be something non-procedural

[jovial sparrow]

I actually figured it all out!
How procList works and all that!

[cobalt mauve]

i tried to google but i can't find how to export character animations from blender to the game, https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035712003 this is the only guide i found, and the exporting part is completely missing, where do i put the fbx file, from looking at the files it seems that game uses .x files for animations, so it seems that the fbx file i got is completely useless

[jovial sparrow]

from the readings I have done, which may be helpful (or not), it seems mods only need to use *.fbx files

but thats only for models so im not sure personally

from the guide you posted it seems like, the export it talks about is just a single little line at the bottom of the Animation tab, but it does say
(Export -> FBX (.fbx) -> Export FBX)

[cobalt mauve]

it's just how to enter the export window in blender, it doesn't say where to put the file, but looking at authentic poses it seems like fbx file can be used, but now i wonder if it can be used to replace x files, because i wanna make a replacement animations

[jovial sparrow]

ahhh I understand, I hope
yeah looking at where it says the animations are saved it seems to just be a lot of XML files... weird

[cobalt mauve]

animations are seems like are satored in anims_x

[jovial sparrow]

I see

[cobalt mauve]

tho there is atleast 3 folders in the game that could store animations but don't

[jovial sparrow]

ah ok I think I see how it works

so if you're replacing an animation, yes the file you export is stored in the anims_x, but they are refered to between the XML tag <m_AnimName>

like, the default idle for example is <m_AnimName>Bob_Idle</m_AnimName> with a matching Bob_Idle.x file I believe

I would believe that you can reference a .fbx file as well

but I have only started modding... 2 days ago

[cobalt mauve]

trying that now

[jovial sparrow]

so godspeed, and I really hope it works

[cobalt mauve]

same, i wanted to make cool melee animations for so long

for this game that is

[jovial sparrow]

I wanted to make my own Plumbing mod. I know like 1-2 good ones already exist, but I saw it as a cool challenge

but for now, to get my foot in the door, I'm making some kind of Fallout-inspired mod

which is just basically Nuka-Colas lmao

[cobalt mauve]

based

[jovial sparrow]

but yeah I assume it will still read the .fbx

or at least I hope so. The wiki says it should as well

[cobalt mauve]

it's defo does for new animations, but i'm not sure about default ones

[jovial sparrow]

I think if you name it the exact same name, it will overwrite the old one

since it loads mods last

[cobalt mauve]

ok, it does read the animation, but applies it weirdly, gonna look in to it more

[jovial sparrow]

godspeed
im heading to bed but I wish you luck, and hope we both can get our stuff working lol

[cobalt mauve]

yeah, good luck and sweet dreams

[tranquil kindle]

Would that be issue with this? it does not put much attention on it in guide above, but its mostly the case (it was for me) This one is default setting

And this one is working one for me

[cobalt mauve]

not sure what's the question is

[tranquil kindle]

Sorry, thought you had animation problem that it was diffrent in blender and diffrent in game (deformed body or something like that)

[cobalt mauve]

ah, nah, i don't have that problem, but thank you

my problem was that the idle played during the unarmed idle, but i figured out it's cuz i named file wrong and game just applied the animation to the default idle

[solar rover]

Finally had time to edit some scripts but after I finish reading my modded book the DestroyOnUse = TRUE doesnt seem to do anything?

[ionic sentinel]

If all I wanted to do was make it so the "Base.HandTorch" item can be attached to the players belt, I would need to change the items attachment type to something like a knife, correct?

I've done it before but it doesnt seem to be working now for some reason.

[calm horizon]

I'm attempting to make a "simple" change to candles: they remain lit if placed in the world. It does need to work serverside. The most bare-bones functionality is all I'm concerned with. I'd like to keep it as "vanilla" as possible, modifying the candles in-place: i.e., use the original candle item without creating any new items. If necessary, update any existing candle objects in the world.
I've been taking a look at the Lantern mod as it's the only mod I've found that actually takes an item that can be lit in hand and if placed. I've just started this endeavour today and definitely have no idea what I'm doing (with respect to PZ at least).

Anyone have any tips, a better starting point, or even a mod that already does this?

[solar rover]

Hmmm do I need anything else set to get DisappearOnUse = true, to work? I was hoping I could make that fit when Destroy didnt work.

[ancient grail]

I think thats for items that triggers
item:Use()

[solar rover]

Ill try to test it real quick, its just killing me that I cant figure out why a magazine is remove when a skill book is not, where is that difference >_<

[ancient grail]

It doesnt usually happen unless you force it i guess?
Not really sure. Probably even turn on and off some items
But i haven't tried this cuz i believe theres also setActive or maybe im wrong

Cuz its been along time since i did stuff with scripts and items
So im just stating guesses and not facts

[ancient grail]

Yeah
Makes all confusing when we read about pz logic

[solar rover]

More so when I can look over Bianca's clothing mod, her magazines are removed after use, I copy her code and mine stay. /flipdesk lol

[thick karma]

Maybe post an example of something that disappears when you read it and also share one of your item scripts that doesn't

Maybe someone will spot an idea in the comparison

[bronze yoke]

magazines are removed whereas books are not because it is hardcoded to do that

iirc it checks if the book trains a skill and only removes it if it doesn't

[solar rover]

Sure, this is the magazine code from her BWardrobe_Crafting.txt
item Fashionmancer-Earrings {
Weight = 0.1,
Type = Literature,
DisplayCategory = Literature,
DisplayName = Fashionmancer: Earrings,
Icon = Fashionmancer_Earring,
TeachedRecipes = Make Earring:
StaticModel = Static_Fashionmancer_Earrings,
Tooltip = Tooltip_Fashionmancer_Earring,
WorldStaticModel = World_Fashionmancer_Earrings,
}

[solar rover]

Now Im wondering if I give it a fake recipe it will delete or get confused because it trains a skill too lol

I removed a bunch of the recipes from her example so it fit better on here*

[bronze yoke]

if not SkillBook[self.item:getSkillTrained()] then
    self.character:ReadLiterature(self.item);

the ReadLiterature method eventually removes the item

you can avoid this by hooking IsoPlayer.ReadLiterature and checking for your item

[solar rover]

Excellent, gonna screenshot this and go to bed, been up 36 hours and Im drained! Thanks all for the support!

[agile vigil]

Is there any way in Lua to save an InventoryItem so I can recover it later?

I am storing, e.g. several potatoes in a custom sack, and I want to recover them with the exact values (and item IDs, if possible) that they had when the player put them in.

[bronze yoke]

no

you can of course manually save every important property of the item to moddata somewhere but there isn't a simple way to save an entire item

[agile vigil]

Yeah, I've been doing every important property "by hand" so to speak for now, but I just hoped there'd be a simpler way 🙂

[elder stream]

In regards to the wiki

• https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_Events

Are there specific serverside events or are these all mixed between client and server events?

I'm a little confused coming from the perspective of garry's mod and working with net messages
e.g Lua Events/ServerPinged

local function ServerPinged(ipAddress, user)
    -- Your code here
end

Events.ServerPinged.Add(ServerPinged)

[coarse sinew]

Here they are better explained
https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventDoc/blob/develop/docs/Events.md

[red tiger]

Implemented in Umbrella so if you use vscode, you'll see it when you code.

https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella

[coral lava]

Does anyone know how to make crafting recipes produce biproducts? I am currently trying to create a mod that allows players to split jewels from jewelry. If anyone could assist with it that'd be great!

[jovial sparrow]

I also need.. something like this
more so when someone drinks something it gives them two items back instead of just 1 empty bottle

[fleet bridge]

You need an OnCreate function

[jovial sparrow]

even for like a food item? I know there is ReplaceOnUse but would I actually need to go through the OnCreate function?

oh im silly, apologies, i see what you mean

I think, anyhow

[jovial sparrow]

question about this:
I was working on a little test mod and it seemed to work fine, showed me the definitions and all

but on a new one, it doesnt seem to recognize the module at all, even after restarting VSCode and all that. The old one still works fine but stuff like Events.* wont even show me the definition for events, even with the requires

[bronze yoke]

if you're using the addon manager you need to enable umbrella for every workspace you use it in

[jovial sparrow]

oh im

yeah

maybe i should sleep and get my head back together 😵‍💫

totally forgot to even check

[bronze yoke]

don't worry, you're not the first one to miss it

[austere sequoia]

You need a lua that looks like this(straight in server):

function Recipe.OnCreate.DISMEMBERJEWELRY(items, result, player)
player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.YOURJEWEL");

Then add a line to your recipe like this:

OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.DISMEMBERJEWELRY,

And you need an item for the jewel (in this case called YOURJEWEL, in the Base module)

Everything written in caps is what you can replace freely and name it as you wish.

[coral lava]

<3

[vague raven]

I'd also recommend looking at recipecode.lua in ProjectZomboid/media/lua/server for examples

[austere sequoia]

In case you write it in your own module, replace "Base." with your modules name

[jovial sparrow]

just trying to figure out this 2 item spawn after drinking something
I dont think OnCreate would work though in the scenario because the empty bottle can be used for water and then it makes the empty bottle again, then it would create the item again no?

[tranquil kindle]

Try using "destroy" for bottle that you dont want to produce empty one?

[jovial sparrow]

well
to lay it all out, since its my first real time modding this game, i decided to make a nuka cola mod because it sounds fun and I love fallout

I got the item spawning and the drinking item to work, but i'd also like it to be able to give you a bottle cap the first time you drink it completely, as well as the empty bottle so it can be used as a water bottle

[austere sequoia]

Drinking uses the "ReplaceOnUse" line in the item script, but I dont know if this can be used to get two items as result

[jovial sparrow]

yeah thats my issue
i tried doing ReplaceOnUse = NukaCola_Empty;NukaCap, and it threw an error out to me that NukaCola_Empty;NukaCap was the full item name

adding a 2nd ReplaceOnUse was not good either

[austere sequoia]

Have you tried using "ReplaceOnDeplete" on top? Never tried it, but could be worth a shot

[jovial sparrow]

Cant hurt to try, worse it can do it throw an error

[tranquil kindle]

Then just use DerGeissler recipe function

    player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.NukaColaCaps");

ReplaceOnUse = NukaCola_Empty,

[jovial sparrow]

where would I add that, so it only runs once when the drink is first fully drank?
(also the ReplaceOnDeplete did not work unfortunately)

[austere sequoia]

Was worth a shot 😄 There surely is some function doing what you need

[tranquil kindle]

Wait, you want to make your nuka cola depletable?

Like water bottle?

[jovial sparrow]

no not the nuka cola itself
that just acts like a normal drink

[austere sequoia]

If not you could circumvent it by adding a recipe to open the bottle. So you find a closed bottle, open it to get an open bottle and a cap, then drink the open bottle to get an empty bottle

[jovial sparrow]

So its like a pop bottle, in function

[jovial sparrow]

not impossible... i might have to do this but it feels so work-aroundy 😭

[tranquil kindle]

Welcome to PZ modding

[jovial sparrow]

lmao

worse case is I just do that..

[austere sequoia]

Amen!

[tranquil kindle]

The simplest things tend to not be so simple

[jovial sparrow]

just when I got some things working, have to rework around half of it lol

well, not really. I can just add a new item and make that the one that is in the Distributions instead of the opened bottle

Unfortunate since if I add all the Nuka-Cola variants I'd have to do it to ALL of em.

[austere sequoia]

Exactly. Let the closed bottle spawn and add a recipe to open it

[jovial sparrow]

(I'll just make the closed bottle and opened bottle be the same icon texture lmao)

[tranquil kindle]

And you could add cool caps sound to recipe and even hide it so it does not clog recipe menu

[jovial sparrow]

Unfortunately I was using the uh
Fallout 3 Sound for drinking a nuka cola, which involved the sound of the cap being taken off BUT

I can work with it

actually

I have a good idea for that

[austere sequoia]

True! If you need an example of how to hide recipes, check my "StandingItems" mod. I got code for this in there

[jovial sparrow]

ooo I saw the standing items mod yesterday

I will definitely check it out, thank you

I guess opening the bottle would be similar to opening canned food

[austere sequoia]

You could give it one last shot like this: (seen it used on "ReplaceOnCooked", so there is a reasonable chance it could work on ReplaceOnUse. If you use a self named module, replace "Base" accordingly)

ReplaceOnUse = Base.NukaCola_Empty;Base.NukaCap,

[jovial sparrow]

where instead of base its the module it comes from

hm

lemme try

before I start trying to mess with recipes

[austere sequoia]

This means if your item script starts with anything other than "module Base"

[jovial sparrow]

yeah, it imports Base but its module NukaColaDrinkExpansion

[austere sequoia]

So use "NukaColaDrinkExpansion" instead of "Base"

[jovial sparrow]

well, lets see if this works

[austere sequoia]

Like this:

ReplaceOnUse = NukaColaDrinkExpansion.NukaCola_Empty;NukaColaDrinkExpansion.NukaCap,

[jovial sparrow]

yeah, threw the same error again

that's fine
lemme try this recipe stuff

[austere sequoia]

Was worth a shot. Playing around with the dark magic that is code works more often than not 😛

[jovial sparrow]

do I need to include recipes in a module as well?

[austere sequoia]

Since vanilla recipe scripts start with "module base", I would say yes

[jovial sparrow]

just to be safe I'll import Base again here

[tranquil kindle]

If someone could help with figuring out how i could make that if my gun has Cannonslot (barrel attachment) removed, it changes sound to "MSR788Shoot". Right now it does change to said sound only if i attach anything else but suppressor, but if player removes said suppressor and does not attach other barrel attachment or reload save, it keeps silienced sound. 3rd If statememet ("if not Cannonslot then") is one of my many attempts to somehow make it work, but no luck.

    if inventoryItem ~= nil then
        if inventoryItem:getStringItemType() == "RangedWeapon" then 
            if inventoryItem:getCanon() then
            local Cannonslot = inventoryItem:getCanon():getFullType()
                if Cannonslot  ~= "Base.TLOG_BottleSuppressor" then        
                --inventoryItem:setSoundRadius()  -disabled for now
                inventoryItem:setSwingSound("MSR788Shoot")
                return
                end
                if Cannonslot  == "Base.TLOG_BottleSuppressor" then        
                --inventoryItem:setSoundRadius() -disabled for now
                inventoryItem:setSwingSound("TLOGSilencedSound")
                return
                end
                if not Cannonslot then        
                --inventoryItem:setSoundRadius() -disabled for now
                inventoryItem:setSwingSound("MSR788Shoot")
                end            
            end
        end
    end
end
Events.OnEquipPrimary.Add(TLOGSILIENCER)
Events.OnGameStart.Add(function()                                             
    local player = getPlayer()
    TLOGSILIENCER(player, player:getPrimaryHandItem())
end)

[jovial sparrow]

weird, the recipe isnt showing up hm

[drifting ore]

can i use .fbx models for guns?

instead of .x

[austere sequoia]

The workaround should work 100%... Sure you have no typos?

[jovial sparrow]

well, I have two Items now, NukaColaSealed and NulaColaOpen

and the recipe block so far is:

module NukaColaDrinkExpansion {
    imports 
    {
        Base
    }

    recipe Open Nuka-Cola
        {
            NukaColaSealed,

            Result:NukaColaOpen,
            Time:30.0,
            Category:Cooking,
            Sound:NukaOpen,
            OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.None,
        }
}

[austere sequoia]

Nula Cola?

[jovial sparrow]

should the file just be called recipes.txt

[austere sequoia]

fbx should work

[drifting ore]

do the models contain anmations?

[jovial sparrow]

yeah Nuka Cola, some drink from the Fallout series

[austere sequoia]

everythin but that, or you replace all the vanilla recipes. Give it a unique name 🙂

And you wrote "Nula", not "Nuka", just making sure this is not the typo

[austere sequoia]

no, animations are a different thing

[jovial sparrow]

nula? where i cant see it..

[austere sequoia]

"well, I have two Items now, NukaColaSealed and NulaColaOpen"

[jovial sparrow]

oh

that was me tryping

typing*

they both are spelled right

[drifting ore]

oh so where are the reload anims located is it in anims_x or is that only for the player

[jovial sparrow]

well, the recipe file is named Nuka_recipes.txt at the moment
should it be working then? because it doesnt show up in the crafting menu nor the right click menu on the object

[austere sequoia]

I actually dont know much about animations, sorry 😕 The guys over at "modeling" are pros at that though

[austere sequoia]

That is super strange. If you want to, feel free to zip your mod and dm it to me, so I can have a look

[jovial sparrow]

sure, lemme just check there isnt something I need to do to the item

[jovial sparrow]

yeah, not sure why this isnt working :/

[austere sequoia]

Zip it up, I will have a look 🙂

[jovial sparrow]

i appreciate it immensely

[coral lava]

@austere sequoia

okay, do i need to do anything to the variables here? This is how it looks but it apprently doesn't work

function Recipe.OnCreate.DISMEMBERJEWELRY(items, result, player)
player:getInventory():AddItem("Jewels.FD_GoldScrap");
end

recipe Remove Gemstone
{
    BellyButton_StudGoldDiamond,

    Result:FD_Diamond,
    OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.DISMEMBERJEWELRY,
    Time:20,
}

[vague raven]

That looks fine

Uh where are you putting the function?

[coral lava]

The function is in FD_recipecode.lua

[vague raven]

in lua/server?

[coral lava]

correct

there is other code that functions in that file, so I did something wrong with the line of code somewhere

the Module is also Jewels

[austere sequoia]

looks good to me. Feel free to Zip your mod and DM it to me, so I can have a look

[coral lava]

🫡

[vague raven]

Did you import base in the recipe script?

[coral lava]

What do you mean, apologies?

[vague raven]

like this, at the top of your recipe script

{
    imports
    {
        Base
    }```

[floral saddle]

I can't find my message where I previously asked this and I cant remember the response I got so

What does everyone use for java mod development to decompile?

[bronze yoke]

https://github.com/quarantin/beautiful-java is nice

otherwise, whatever decompiler works

[floral saddle]

thank you

[drifting ore]

in which .lua are the crafting/recipes callbacks located

im looking for BSItem_OnCreate

nvm found it

[floral saddle]

What is a good mod to reference if I want to add music to the game via an external api

I was gonna take a look at the time period accurate music (its called something like this not sure if this is the exact name), but is there something else similar to this I can reference as well?

[drifting ore]

well gota new question, how do i add multiple results to a recipe?

[thick karma]

As one of the devs of True Music Jukebox, my completely unbiased opinion is that you should make it a True Music Add-On like Time Period Accurate Music. 😏 😎

[floral saddle]

Are there complication with copyright and these types of mods being taken down? I was going to use an api from somewhere that is less restrictive

[thick karma]

I have used True Music mods for years and none of the ones I use has ever been taken down

And they have a whooooole lot of music that could probably justify taking them down lol

[floral saddle]

oh ok good to know

[thick karma]

I mean there are no guarantees when sharing copyrighted content like music

No matter how you share it

But it's a risk the True Music Add-On makers take for love of sharing music pseudophysically in a video game and I love them for it.

Keeping your packs limited in how many artists they add might be a good way to play it safer, but tbh I use multiple packs with 500-1000 tracks and they've all managed to dodge the copyright bullets.

[floral saddle]

Now what if I make music and i want to add it to the game? Are there already APIs for adding, say a folder of .mp3/.flac, or is this something I'll have to develop myself

[thick karma]

If you want to add music played BY the game (i.e., change the theme music and such), you have to overwrite game files. Otherwise you use something like True Music or Lifestyle (or True Music Jukebox which depends on True Music packs but plays sounds in its own way) to package .ogg files in the instructed way and those mods handle playing the sounds.

I don't know how Lifestyle works but I believe True Music has an exe for converting your song list into the required format and creating item scripts for the music you add

It's included in the files they provide for making add-ons

I recommend seeing How to add your music in the MULTIPLAYER: here: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2613146550

[floral saddle]

oh interesting ok

thanks for all your help!

[thick karma]

Good luck!

[drifting ore]

i cant open the crafting menu, i get a long error after i tried adding a callback function

the complete .lua file

Recipe = {}
Recipe.OnCreate = {}

function Recipe.OnCreate.DismantlePistol1(items, result, player)
    player:getInventory():AddItems("CG.SpareGunParts", 2);
    player:getInventory():AddItems("CG.MetalSpring", 1);
    player:getInventory():AddItems("Base.ScrapMetal", 1);
end

DismantlePistol1 = Recipe.OnCreate.DismantlePistol1

[coral lava]

Show the recipes as well!

[thick karma]

It looks like you're destroying the Recipe table lol

Recipe is a vanilla table

By saying Recipe = {} you just emptied it.

Which would break who knows what

Everything?

[drifting ore]

oh lol

[thick karma]

See recipecode.lua in the vanilla game files

At the top you'll see

Look familiar?

It does that before doing stuff like this

[drifting ore]

yea i followed that

[thick karma]

Now all of that is gone

haha

[drifting ore]

didnt know i should remove it

[coral lava]

So for custom files, we shouldn't include Recipe.OnCreate?

[thick karma]

Yes definitely remove the first two lines

[thick karma]

You definitely don't write these lines:

Recipe = {}
Recipe.OnCreate = {}

Unless your goal is to erase all recipe data

[drifting ore]

it was also an issue in the recipe file i had

didnt know i had to add at least 1 result

but after fixing those 2 things all works now it seems

[thick karma]

This is also most likely not necessary:
DismantlePistol1 = Recipe.OnCreate.DismantlePistol1

If it IS necessary, then Recipe.OnCreate.DismantlePistol1 is not

Most recipe on create functions point to something like Recipe.OnCreate.DismantlePistol1

Btu they are perfectly allowed to just point to some global function called DismantlePistol1 (though I wouldn't)

But if you ARE pointing to DismantlePistol1 directly, then Recipe.OnCreate.DismantlePistol1 is pointless... just set DismantlePistol1 equal to the function definition.

[drifting ore]

il remove it, i just added it because i saw the base game has the same

[thick karma]

Since the base game does not put local in front of those tables, they are implicitly global

And can therefore be accessed from any code that runs after they do.

If you try accessing Recipe.OnCreate from one of your files and it doesn't exist, try moving your code to server

But I am thinking that shouldn't be necessary because afaik all the vanilla folders in client, shared, and server should be loaded before anything you do in those folders... At the very least I am 100% sure that vanilla server files load before mod server files.

Not 100% sure whether vanilla server loads before modded shared but I thought it would.

[drifting ore]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3259357246 Just finished the mod

[thick karma]

@marsh idol You might also want to share a zip to make sure your directory structure is right

[marsh idol]

Would someone mind taking a look at this for me? It is a mod that is supposed to modify a players calories. This is my first mod ever so bare with me. I am also having a problem where it doesn't show up in the sandbox settings. Not sure why that is. Any help is appreciated!

[thick karma]

lol this is your issue

😉

@marsh idol

[marsh idol]

Hahahaha I noticed that right after sending, Im a little embarrased about that😂 Thank you sir! However I did correct with this and it still wont appear?

option CustomCalorieSettings.CaloriesBurnedMultiplier
{
    type = "double",
    min = 0.0,
    default = 1.0,
    max = 100.00,
    page = "Custom Calorie Settings",
    translation = "CaloriesBurnedMultiplier",
}```

[thick karma]

No quotes

[marsh idol]

Quotes around "CustomCalorieSettings.CaloriesBurnedMultiplier"?

Or I shouldnt put quotes at all?

[thick karma]

No quotes

and page = CustomCalorieSettings because it points to Sandbox_CustomCalorieSettings which is the translation for the page name

[marsh idol]

Thank you very much sir, let me make these changes and test it!

[thick karma]

VERSION = 1,

option CustomCalorieSettings.CaloriesBurnedMultiplier
{
    type = double,
    min = 0.0,
    default = 1.0,
    max = 100.00,
    page = CustomCalorieSettings,
    translation = CustomCalorieSettings_CaloriesBurnedMultiplier,
}

[velvet forge]

Hello, could anyone help me? I'm creating a torch mode and I'm having trouble getting the torch to generate heat for the player. I wanted the temperature near the torch to be positive if it's cold. I don't know which class to use.

`local function applyHeatToEnvironment(player, item)
if (player:getPrimaryHandItem() and player:getPrimaryHandItem():getType() == "Torchlit") then
--I would like to know which function I can change the temperature around the torch
end
end

Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(function(player)
applyHeatToEnvironment(player)
end)

`

[marsh idol]

Thank you so much!!! ITS ALIVE!!!! Now I just need to figure out what I did to completely ruin the exercising actions lol

[thick karma]

Good luck. Print statements and -debug are your friend.

[marsh idol]

I will learn how to implement those in and use them as intended so that I can figure out what's wrong. short term solution is just simplifying the mod since the first half works as intended.

Thank you again, so much!!!

[thick karma]

You're calling a function that expects an item, but giving it no item

@velvet forge

[thick karma]

As for generating heat source... hmmm

[velvet forge]

Could you give me an example of how I should do it? @thick karma

[thick karma]

You might need to make a new IsoHeatSource based on this https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/zombie/iso/IsoHeatSource.html

heatSourceMagic = IsoHeatSource.new(getPlayer():getX(), getPlayer():getY(), getPlayer():getZ(), 1000, 1000)
getCell():addHeatSource(heatSourceMagic)

This is how you died.
@velvet forge

[ancient grail]

Search for thermo as keyword
If youre looking to apply on character

I saw it a few times but never deep dived
But thats where i would start incase i need something related to body heat

Also check moodles and player stats

[thick karma]

You may need to remove the old one and add a new one as player walks around. Idk. There may also be a way to define item as heat source in the scripts

[velvet forge]

@thick karma , In the item's script I tried to add the temperature tag but it had no effect on the heat source, I'll test here what you gave me, I believe it will solve the problem. thank you very much

[ancient grail]

What are you trying to heat

[coral lava]

Here is the new mod! Fun if you want to expand a MP's server economy!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3258492578

[velvet forge]

I'm creating a torch mod and I want it to heat the player when equipped

[ancient grail]

check one of these

print(getPlayer():getStats():getTemperature())
print(getPlayer():getBodyDamage():getTemperature())

setTemperature()

also saw this

getTemperatureChangeTick()

goodluck

[velvet forge]

nice..

tks @ancient grail

[thick karma]

Do you want it to heat the area around the player like a torch would?

If so, you do not want to use player temperature functions to set player temperature. You need to use a heat source.

Making player warmer will not make the area around them warmer, despite what physics may have to say about that.

[velvet forge]

Yes, I'm using the heat source, as you showed in the example, but when I walk the previous cell I passed keeps the temperature high, I'm seeing how to remove it and keep it only where the player is. @thick karma

[thick karma]

remove instead of add

addHeatSource / removeHeatSource

You can remove the old one before you add the next every update

Store the cell it was in and the prior heat source and remove the prior source from the prior cell before getting current cell and generating a source for current position

[velvet forge]

humm... well thought out I save the position and temperature and before generating the new one I change the previous one... I believe it will solve the problem. thank you very much @thick karma

[thick karma]

Good luck

[velvet forge]

Tks

[wet sandal]

Pockets confirmed

Now I just gotta assign sane defaults based on bodyslot for mods then go through every piece of clothing in the game...

[verbal yew]

nice

[austere sequoia]

Is the workshop down or is my steam bugging?

[polar gyro]

your steam

[austere sequoia]

thx!

[coarse sinew]

Yes, steam community is down

[austere sequoia]

Well, that explains why restarting had no effects 😄 Thanks 🙂

[civic tree]

OH THATS SO COOL, IVE WANTED THAT FOR SOME TIME NOW YUHHHH

is it uploaded to ws already? pls tell me when it comes out if not

[bright fog]

Nice

[autumn imp]

does new denver mod no longer exist?

this mod

[solar rover]

I remember it behind south of Raven Creek now but could be wrong.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=532252577

[autumn imp]

ahhh thanks man

[solar rover]

would love it if Winchesters creator would pass torch or update his to have MP respawns. I'm tired of refreshing those map files.

[vast flint]

Hello considering getting the game. Id like to know what technology is used to make custom UI/GUI in mods for the game and what are the limit for mods (like can you just add stuff before or after existing java methods from the base game or you can overwrite them too or peoples uses things like mixin/asm/reflection ??

[bronze yoke]

you can't usually hook java methods like that at all

a pretty significant portion of systems are implemented in lua though which you can patch or overwrite that way

[vast flint]

what about the GUI ? How much can you do ?do custom guis only work in SP ?

[bronze yoke]

you can go pretty much as far as you want with gui, all the vanilla gui is either fully lua or easy enough to replicate with the lua gui

there shouldn't be a singleplayer restriction on anything gui related

[vast flint]

so like you can make a button place it where you want and write custom lua for it right ? And in mp it would send the gui to connected players or theyd have to have the mod ?

sorry for the questions Im just checking my assumptions

[bronze yoke]

the game forces all players on a server to use the same mod list as the server

[vast flint]

thanks you have convinced me to buy the game. Looking forward to modding it once I understand the mechanics a bit

[bronze yoke]

i hope you enjoy it!

[solar rover]

Hey albion, i posted the hook i tried last night but no luck. Have a sec to look at it?

[small topaz]

Hi! Does anyone knows at which time exactly the beard growth for male characters is triggered? Or alternatively, which files in the vanilla code controll beard growth? (I guess it is not in lua but not sure...)

[vast flint]

do we have a possibility to write to a file inside our mod folder during the game like Im wondering about the possibility to copy items from a savegame to another in case I have to restart if mods break my savegame

[coarse sinew]

Beard growth is checked every player update cycle by comparing the current hours survived to the last recorded beard growth timing. If the character is asleep or if sleep is not required (in MP settings), and more than 120 hours have passed since the last beard update, the next beard growth stage is triggered, after that the event OnClothingUpdated is triggered. And the code is in Java, specifically updateBeardAndHair function in IsoGameCharacter class.

[small topaz]

thanks for the explanation!

[hollow lodge]

oh sweet

do they loose condition?

[small topaz]

Does anyone knows whether having selecting stubble for head during character creation will affect in-game hair growth? For example,

bald+stubble -> hair growth
bald+ no stubble -> no hair growth (staying bald during the whole game)

[bright fog]

I don't think so

[grim cedar]

Hey!
Does anyone know how to change the icon and model of the empty petrol can? I can change the full petrol can but i dont know how to change the empty one.

[vast flint]

:bump: "do we have a possibility to write to a file inside our mod folder during the game like Im wondering about the possibility to copy items from a savegame to another in case I have to restart if mods break my savegame"

ie for instance generating a json with all the loot

and loading it from another savegame

[thick karma]

Ohhhh yes there is a file writer

I didn't understand the question

You can see it used in my latest mod if you need an example

[vast flint]

like is lua io blocked etc

and if its blocked does the game provide an alternative to write and read files

[thick karma]

Yes and yes.

See Keys Stay Bound

[vast flint]

are your mods on github or something ?

[thick karma]

Steam

I am Burryaga there as well

You can search author names as well as mod names

[vast flint]

?? these comes with source so I can see like you said ?

[thick karma]

Yes

Any mod you dl from Project Zomboid Workshop puts its source on your pc

In Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/108600

Iirc

[vast flint]

oh I thought it bd encrypted or something like starbound

[thick karma]

Newp

You can read the code of any mod you have unless perhaps it's a Java mod that has a compiled class file for you to manually overwrite game files with it

[nocturne kiln]

Hello, I want to create a collection of clothes from the game, I have the PNGs but I don't know how to finish assembling it, could someone help me or explain how to do it? Any tips? Thank you in advance

[solar rover]

Was hoping I could use Def's lua for turning read books into used literature items in my mod to delete/change skill books after reading but still won't trigger to alter or remove them. Albion pointed out that it's coded not to remove them and I was hoping this would do the trick. What am i missing?

[drifting ore]

What do people use to make map mods and will I need to learn how to program in lua to use it

[thick karma]

#mapping knows

[thick karma]

Okay if there is really no way to do that to skill books using scripts, I have a bonkers idea.

I would call this the nuclear option

[solar rover]

If it's make the book an apple instead i tried that 😅

[thick karma]

You wish

You can decorate the update function of book-reading such that when you complete the book, you also call a function that replaces the book in player inventory with a different item.

[solar rover]

Isnt that similar to this from Def?
`function Adjust(Name, Property, Value)
Item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem(Name)
Item:DoParam(Property.." = "..Value)
end

Adjust("Base.Book", "ReplaceOnUse", "CASM.LTSUsedLiterature");`

[thick karma]

I have never seen that but if that works, great. I am not sure if you can DoParam books into becoming used books or not.

[solar rover]

It works to turn the regular book, magazine, crossword ect into a used paper

But if i edit the script to point at a skill book, nothing

[thick karma]

Oh well then sure go with that if that's all you need

Ohhhhhhhhh

Oh

Right well what I'm suggesting would 100% work

Not just maybe

But it's more work

Because it bypasses vanilla use functionality of skill books entirely.

[solar rover]

Ahhh gotcha, that's probably going to be out on my league but I'll team up with AI and see if we can work it though! Thanks Burryaga!

[thick karma]

Good luck with that lol

If ChatGPT figures out what I mean, that would be interesting

[verbal yew]

local Item

[thick karma]

I think you're likelier to figure out what I mean than ChatGPT tbh. Lol believe in yourself. @solar rover

[solar rover]

I'm just confused why it feels so hard coded to skillbooks. I guess because you didn't want to lose it before all pages are read?

[thick karma]

I guess because they expect people to want to keep them for future characters to read the libraries of dead characters

I think wanting them to become garbage just because someone read them is honestly a highly unusual desire they never considered

Almost everyone would not think it makes any sense for a book to become useless because someone read it

It's a very odd goal

[verbal yew]

local function Adjust(Name, Property, Value)   -- because your GLOBAL Adjust not unic
    local Item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem(Name) -- because you can break java Item type, not use it global
    if Item then  -- stuff if item doesnt exist, without it be error
        Item:DoParam(Property.." = "..Value)
    end
end

Adjust("Base.Book", "ReplaceOnUse", "CASM.LTSUsedLiterature");

[solar rover]

It very much is I'll agree. My goal is to use the modified skill books to train things like weapons, stealth, sprinting and stuff like that on a long-term multiplayer server. Making these One-Shot use items lets me as an admin, add them into the game as perks or benefits to treasure hunt or things like that where a player can benefit, but it doesn't become this one book that gets passed around to an entire faction. Something that that person can then find rarely and put in their own personal vendor to sell the new players.

[vast flint]

Id help but I cant even figure out what file to decompile to understand how the game works

[solar rover]

Sorry kERHUS, reading that now

Ahhh that makes sense, i don't want everything getting hit, just that player. I'll test that as soon i get the kids to bed lol

[thick karma]

One approach for working backwards that has gotten me very far is to start with a translation and trace game behavior from the reference to that translation file.

So e.g. if the translation is UI_NameOfSomeTranslation, I go searching for UI_NameOfSomeTranslation in all the game files and then I figure out what the code is doing from there.

I don't refer to Java that often, unless I cannot find something in Lua and suspect it's only handled Javaside.

Because ultimately Java is for me a dead end because I don't have any interest in Java modding this specific game

[vast flint]

I wanted to do this to know what is hardcoded

[thick karma]

Also reading decompiled code is pain and I just usually don't have the time and energy.

[solar rover]

Mine is probably really common, find the closest thing I can to what I want in a different mod. Dig through everything. See how it works. Pull the parts I need and throw everything at the wall. See what sticks

[vast flint]

cuz nobody here seems to be using mixin/asm so this would probably be odd for most here

[thick karma]

Then use beautiful-java and read away, by all means

[vast flint]

?

I dont even know in what .jar the code is

[thick karma]

https://github.com/quarantin/beautiful-java

1. Read instructions.
2. Do instructions.
3. Profit.

[vast flint]

well that is good to know already: import zombie.inventory.types.Clothing; import zombie.inventory.types.Drainable; import zombie.inventory.types.DrainableComboItem; import zombie.inventory.types.Food;
import zombie.inventory.types.HandWeapon; import zombie.inventory.types.InventoryContainer; import zombie.inventory.types.Key; and that the base game is a mod called pz-vanilla

seems that besides types not much is hardcoded for inventory items

[thick karma]

Also are you aware of this yet? @vast flint https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/

[vast flint]

No I wasnt I mostly wanted to get a vague idea of how hgardcoded things are

Still have to find what gui framework the game uses and what widgets are available

[thick karma]

ISUIElement ISPanelJoypad ISCollapsibleWindowJoypad etc.

[north drift]

So two questions, does anyone know about ItemZed status. Eg Is there a working copy? OR is the original owner still around OR is there some source code somewhere?

Is there any community 'mod api' or mob libraries that are good / standard

[tiny stirrup]

How does "scratchSpeedModifier" work, exactly? Specifically within the BodyPart class?

I assume it's either a percentile multiplier for the amount of time it takes to heal, or a multiplier for healing speed, but those are opposites and I don't know which...

[cinder finch]

What is ZombRand(MaxValue) ? Is it generating Zombie randomly ?

Nvm its for generating random numbers lol

[bright fog]

Yeah numbers lol

[cinder finch]

Sir may i ask how to debug or print a value within the game ? For example i would like to print(getPlayer():getStats()) in game.

[wet sandal]

launching the game with the -debug flag will show the console in-game, enable a bunch of cheats, and lets you open the debugger with F11, pretty useful

[cinder finch]

Thanks Notloc

[bright fog]

Don't bother using the debugger lol

It's terrible to navigate

[wet sandal]

It a bit dodgy and could be better, but it supports break pointing your code and viewing data while on a break point.

Definitely use it if you want to do some actual debugging

[bright fog]

I just can't figure out how to go through it

So no it's not that great

[cloud breach]

Hello 👋
I am looking for someone who know if it is possible to get a cinematic on every screen's players on serveur multiplayer

[red tiger]

You mean like play a movie?

[cloud breach]

Somebody said a movie seems not to be possible, but maybe fews picture

[red tiger]

AFAIK no. You'd have to draw each frame as an image and then somehow sync a sound you play to achieve the affect and I'd imagine it'd desync and be far from ideal.

A technical yes but at what cost, sorta thing.

[cloud breach]

So to put something like that with like 20 ppl will triger désync and a lot of work

Possible but hard to pull out ?

[red tiger]

Depends on what cinematic means fully.

Is it a high-definition video file attempting to be played somehow? Is it a lo-fi, low framerate series of sprites?

Every effect in PZ is sprited and some sequenced with audio.

No video format is supported to this day AFAIK.

[cloud breach]

Yeah that's what i thought, the things is to have few séries of pictures, pop up on every screen like "Thanks to play" and other pictures

Maybe 3 or 4

[red tiger]

Try it out. Heck, I'd like to know how far you can stretch the game's resources on an average computer for this.

Either way you're faced with this obstacle.

It's not impossible no, just annoying.

[thick karma]

Lol yes please learn to use debug last thing we need is more easily avoidable exceptions in mod support

Seconding Notloc, debug is extremely useful

It may not be the best debug tool in history but it is very effective if you learn to use it.

[thick karma]

It's totally doable. Just use drawTexture to draw a screen sized texture snd change it every few seconds. Sync won't be perfect between clients but everyone can get the same message at approximately the same time and you can easily ensure sound is synced with picture change timing.

Clientside the sync will be fine if you start the sound first and figure out how many seconds to wait to change image

They're talking a slideshow for clarity

Not a true cinematic

[red tiger]

Read up. I was figuring out what they're trying to define as cinematic. I already agreed.

[thick karma]

Word missed that

I thought you were still uncertain about whether it had the resources due to not knowing what they really intended to do

[red tiger]

I'm also mad now because I was in my coding zone and then the power went out.

[thick karma]

NOOOOOOOOOOO

[red tiger]

Now I just sit here

[red tiger]

Power is back but now it's sus

[cloud breach]

Is it hard to set up ?

[thick karma]

Not like beyond what a normal human being should be capable of learning to do through persistence hard, but not have a snack and pass out easy either. 😉

I would make the UI using ISPanelJoypad, take in a set of pictures, a sound, and timestamps for picture changes as input to the UI, play the sound when the UI first opens, and then on prerender change the picture you plan to render in accordance with timestamps

Probably not a 1-day job if you've never done UI before, within the month I would say most people could make it happen through persistence

[reef wren]

Hello I want to add procedural distribution for a item that i have create, a refillable lighter. I want to add the possibility to find it on zombies body but I don't find how to.

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["allInventoryFemale"].items, "Base.RefillableLighter");

I tried with many thing like AllIventoryFemale, allInventoryFemale or allinventory female. What is the correct way to do that ?

I check with lootzed and i don't see my item in the list. When I try with this for exemple i see it in the item dropable :

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["BookstoreBooks"].items, "Base.RefillableLighter");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["BookstoreBooks"].items, 1);

[thick karma]

You need to break your goal into small doable tasks to make this realistic.

1. How do I make a mod with proper directory structure?
2. How do I make a player say something when I trigger a specific event to prove this worked? How do I even attach a function to an event?
3. How do I make an empty UI derived from ISPanelJoypad that people can close using a button or by hitting B on controller.
4. How do I resize it?
5. How do I play a sound?
6. How do I draw an image? How do I resize that?
7. How do I track time passing?
8. How do I figure out when X seconds has passed?
9. How do I change the image this UI is choosing to draw when X seconds has passed?
10. How do I make the UI change the image again after Y more seconds has passed?
11. How do I trigger this event at the same time for everyone on the server? Is setting it to fire at a specific time of day good enough? Or do I need to manually trigger this using client-server commands?
12. If I need to use client-server commands, how do I send a simply command to make every player talk using client-server commands? Where can I learn more about PZ client-server commands?
13. If I need to use client-server commands, do I need to trigger this from some kind of client activity (e.g., an admin firing the command)?
14. If I don't have testers, how do I test multiplayer behavior on my own PC by myself?

If you break your broad and difficult-sounding goal into lots of little goals, it will become doable for you. You just need to break the goals down into small enough steps that you can figure them out.

[tame raft]

can someone help me start making pz maps? i know its ALLOT to ask for but i am really looking into map creation and mod creation, (and yes i have watched tons, AND tons, of tutorials)

[cloud breach]

That's the best advice i've ever receive for now 👌

[brittle dock]

☝️

Piecing random pieces of code together is nice and all, cool to make it work.

Actually grokking what you're doing, and gaining a full understanding of the limited scope of the skills required for each step? Testing each subsequent step against the foundational knowledge that you've worked hard to achieve from each previous "plateau", allowing you to continue to test, learn, and grow with each experiment? Oh shit, that's the good stuff.

If the second part sounds cool, we want you to hang out with us. ❤️

No previous knowledge required, just a willingness to learn, some willpower, and preferably a good sense of humour.

[thick karma]

Some steps might take 2, 3, 4 days to solve, but as long as you keep making it through steps, you WILL eventually get it done.

Persistence is key.

Good luck!

[tiny stirrup]

I'm working on a mod, and what I really need to do is modify a few lines of code in IsoPlayer.class. Really simple stuff, just change a couple of formulas. Is there a relatively straightforward way to do this?

I'm getting some conflicting information just googling, where it seems to be possible just with Lua like a normal mod, but I also see people saying it requires something more complicated with recompiling the class and injecting it somehow.

Can anyone help me understand what to do?

Ideally I'd like to have mod options in sandbox settings for some of the changes to be tweaked, exposing a few variables basically.

[red tiger]

S o o n (TM)

Life is better when modding API is documented. :D

[coarse sinew]

But sir, didn't they say they were going to change the UI API in B42? You'll have to redo that when it launches.

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-shrek-rizz-rizz-gif-11157824601050747846

[red tiger]

Documenting is little effort and it honestly needs it more than ever.

[karmic niche]

I need a pet mod, like a dog you have to take care of but also can die from Zeds

[coarse sinew]

True, true, documentation is important. Your dedication is impressive. Let's hope it won't differ too much 😅

[red tiger]

I'd be fine if it were a "from-scratch" rewrite.

It'd be best if the design were remade because the design was a patch-work for over 10 years.

Short-term gains but a hell of a development trap long-term.

What I want are two things:

• Full shader API which includes the ability to modify uniform values in real-time and
• shader support for UI elements.

If we can render textures using UI elements and cache inactive / static UI elements the render-times for UI would be insanely better.

Wishful thinking though. :D

B42's render engine is going to be the biggest surprise of the update. I see a lot of promising things coming for it.

🤘

[solar rover]

Late to reply but i slept in today. https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/279303619277488128
And
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21951-the-one-stop-tilezed-mapping-shop/

[thick karma]

@drifting ore in Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/108600

[austere sequoia]

Does anyone know about a mod that allows me to connect raincollector barrels that are 2 floors above a sink (instead of one)?

[solar rover]

Search Google for Zomboid workshop plumbing, i don't remember the name right off.

[austere sequoia]

Already seen this, but cant see anywhere in the mod description that it add this functionality. Is this working?

[solar rover]

All I did was read the description, you would have to test it as I've never used it.

"You can transport water from rivers, lakes, wells, rain collectors and deliver it directly to barrels, connect whole houses to restore water"

[austere sequoia]

Thing is, it also says it is not working for self built houses 😛 But well, testing cant hurt I guess

If anyone has any other Ideas, I still would be thankful 🙂

[solar rover]

Isn't the only difference getting the iso region to know it's a house?

[red tiger]

Doesn't power & plumbing have a general issue with self-built structures in general? The metadata for the map isn't present for things like IsoRooms and connections.

[solar rover]

Honestly i just figured he could use the mod to pipe from roof barrels to a lower barrel, the entire house was a secondary thought on my end.

[red tiger]

Ah okay.

[austere sequoia]

That is all suboptimal at best 😕 I somehow was under the impression that Waterbarrels worked through two floors, but I guess I got it mixed up with something else

[solar rover]

Ah, no I've always had to build a platform on each floor and just build sinks and such in the north and west wall so it's hidden from view 😅

[austere sequoia]

Bad thing is, this would have to be done in like the middle of my new living room and clothing galery xD

[small topaz]

Hi! Can anyone confirm that those graphic glitches as shown in the screenshot occur for them as well in unmodded games?

The gltiches I mean are those white vertical lines you can see in the upper part of the house.

For me, some houses have them while other not. There are similar effects on some furniture sprites for me.

Just asking this here to make sure that this is not called by any modding stuff I am working on...

[tiny stirrup]

I think that's just dirt. I've seen similar stuff on like, parking lot pavement near sidewalks as well.

[small topaz]

hmm.... doesn't really look like dirt or other intentional stuff for me. Especially the marked line on the right hand side looks as if it was part of some canvas like structure (white and grey chessboard).

[tiny stirrup]

Ohhh, sorry, I was looking at the black streaks left of the window

That, to me, looks like a misalignment in tiles, maybe a line of alpha at the edge of a tile, or the tile being slid over by one pixel in the image or something.

Is that a house that's in vanilla?

What is your mod doing?

[small topaz]

Yeah, house is in vanilla and this occurs for me without any mod enabled.

The house is in Muldraugh, coordinates: cell: 36,22, square: 10860, 9895

Since I have no mods enabled, I guess it is not a mod issue. However, it might still be that I accidentally changed smth in the vanilla game files while working on my current mod.

The mod I am working on does not change anything about the buildings or sprites. Still mysterious...

[tiny stirrup]

Hmm... I mean, you'd know if you changed those files. They're pretty distinct, with all of a building type's wall segments in a single file, which I assume the game pulls on a coordinate basis as needed.

One of those lines even appears on the Map Project image of that house, in exactly the same spot.

[austere sequoia]

Looks pretty vanilla to me, I have seen quite some strange lines that have no need to be there

[tiny stirrup]

Is anyone around who knows how to edit a class (or replace it with an edited one?)

[small topaz]

Ok. Thanks! Then it might be just a vanilla problem.

And yes... I usually do not change anything in the vanilla game files. However, quite often, I have vanilla code and my mod's code opened at the same time in different windows. So it could be that I simply changed smth by accident...

[tiny stirrup]

Or... maybe sort of spoof a return to a call a built-in class makes?

Yeah, I don't think that's a code thing, more of a graphics editing thing.

[small topaz]

thanks for the info!

[drifting ore]

Regarding what I asked in #mod_support ?

[thick karma]

Yep

That's where mod files are

Each one in a folder named for its Workshop ID number

[drifting ore]

🩵

[echo rune]

Sorry guys, but anyone know how to add a new recipe to a mod folder?

I'm trying to add a "make a wand" recipe, but just using a branch and a knife to make a branch (just testing) and the only time it works all the survival recipes disapeared alongside the general recipes and them the game crash

[thick karma]

Most likely you are redeclaring Recipe table and thereby emptying it

You don't declare it again because it's global. You just use it

[bronze yoke]

make sure your file recipe file doesn't share a name with a vanilla file

all file paths in your mod should be unique unless you are intentionally overwriting a vanilla/other mod's file

[sonic ibex]

Hey would it be difficult to make a mod for footcare as described here? #pz_b42_chat message

So wearing wet socks and shoes could lead to infection on your feet or something?

[echo rune]

Okay it will be this one, im calling the recipe file recipes.txt

[small topaz]

Should be possible. Only problem you might have is that infection can only occur on wounds or scratches afaik. So, simply having an infected foot without a wound on the foot is probably not possible by only using the vanilla system.

[bronze yoke]

(also infections don't do anything in vanilla)