mod_development

[grizzled fulcrum]

o

[jaunty isle]

and put those attachments in your character's inventory, outta bag or other containers maybe

[grizzled fulcrum]

upgrade

I see it

On my end, adding a scope doesn't change range evne though the description says so lol

[jaunty isle]

on a shotgun?

[grizzled fulcrum]

I see, nvm ignore me

I am inclined to believe that this mod isn't even the one that's causing it

I will keep looking tho

[jaunty isle]

uhh if it's too time spending then you could just leave this be tho,
I hope you wouldnt spend too much time for this

[grizzled fulcrum]

ill try one other thing

[jaunty isle]

hmm however, I have no other weapon mods activated tho

[grizzled fulcrum]

if not then I have no idea what this script is doing

you mentioned the brita's weapon mod

that could potentially conflict somehow someway I dont know why or how

[jaunty isle]

ah yeah, I couldnt find something suspicious there but maybe I just didnt find it

[jaunty isle]

hmm but these two are working together and meant to be work together
so I suppose any compatibility issue between two would be unlikely

but yeah, I know nothing about this so can't be 100% sure hahah

[grizzled fulcrum]

yeah I give up for now, it's probably the mod you suggest but I just cannot for the life of me figure out why it's doing that

[jaunty isle]

I see, thanks for your time and effort tho!

I dunno where you live so have a good day ahead/night 👍

[grizzled fulcrum]

im in australia so it's 4 pm right now but ya

creating a mod is one thing, maintaining someone elses is a whole different game

[jaunty isle]

ah, I see
here's 3pm, in South Korea now haha

yeah trying to figure out someone else's work would be something else indeed

[grizzled fulcrum]

it wouldn't be so bad if they documented it a little better because their code was basically just talking to a wall but in code form

[jaunty isle]

Well It's kinda a shame that I can't reach the mod devs to ask or leave suggestions
anyways, gotta play PZ a bit more and then mind my own business hahah
see you around!

[grizzled fulcrum]

cya!

[tacit carbon]

Hey! I have a clothing mod with various types of clothes that I want to add the feature to toggle on or off each type of clothing using mod options, for example, I want it to be able to turn on shirts and pants off, how can i do this?

[dire oracle]

Is there anyone who can describe me the process of uploading clothing in game? I tried to figure out myself by following the text guide, but I'm stupid or whatever and just can not figure out what am I doing wrong.

[grizzled fulcrum]

I can't help either of you because I've never ever done clothing related stuff

[austere sequoia]

Where are you stuck? By the uploading itself? Or by getting the clothes into the game?

[dire oracle]

By everything

[austere sequoia]

Lol 😄 If you can be a bit more specific, I could aid you. But now I could only regurgitate what all the guides already told you

[dire oracle]

I just like... Idk what exactly to show

I can record a vid with everything

[austere sequoia]

have you already started with the mod and got everything you think you need? 🙂

[dire oracle]

Yup

[grizzled fulcrum]

Hey quick question, I want to learn more about dead corpses, are they entities? Can I access a list of dead corpses that are in rendering range of the player (the ones being actively rendered)

[dire oracle]

I got all the textures, models, bones set to right place, but Idk if I'm messing with text files and hierarchy right

[dire oracle]

.

[austere sequoia]

Feel free to zip up your mod and dm it to me, then I can have a look 🙂

[dire oracle]

Okay

[young edge]

F

[grizzled fulcrum]

don't worry, it's just UI stuff, how hard could it be??????

[young edge]

[sour island]

Soft Announcement of:

If anyone has questions, concerns, ideas, interest: https://discord.gg/KK6sWP8aFf

[outer crypt]

Is there a way to force the container updates that happen when a grid square is loaded at another time in order to force an update for the client when the server adds or removes an item from the container? I can see the logs and know the items are moving but the client does not update unless they leave the area and return. I tried transmitting the moddata and this trick from MX ISInventoryPage.dirtyUI() but it did not update.

[dry pier]

When defining a function in PZ Lua, is there any difference between "local function functionName(params)" and "local functionName = function(params)"?

[grizzled fulcrum]

It's decoration commonly referred to as syntactic sugar. They mean the same thing, it's just that the first one was made as an alternative as some people find it cleaner as myself. It's just personal preference.

[bronze yoke]

there is a very minor difference in that local foo = function() declares the local after the function is constructed, and local function foo() declares it before the function is constructed - this should only be relevant if you're intending to use recursion```lua
-- works:
local function factorial(num)
if num == 0 then
return 1
end
return num * factorial(num - 1)
end
-- does not work because factorial is not actually declared yet:
local factorial = function(num)
if num == 0 then
return 1
end
return num * factorial(num - 1)
end

this can be extra annoying if your local shares a name with a global because that won't throw the expected 'tried to call non-function nil' error, it'll just access the global, which if it's a function will probably lead to debugging nightmares

[dry pier]

Thanks for that explanation.

[grizzled fulcrum]

True that, I didn't actually know that until now

I just use the top one because it looks nicer imo

And I hate recursion I will never use it ever, even in C++

[hollow robin]

how in the hell do i import .x files into blender

tried using a directx addon and i get this

[sour island]

For anyone interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/s/N16iwLHxoc

[past trout]

Hello everybody, please help for "lua noob" how to work with the Combo Box.
I have made my own panel on the character creation screen, and I would like to add certain information for a certain body part to the drop-down list. Maybe there is some kind of mod example? Or instructions on how to work with combobox

I was thinking of using
Combo:AddOptionWithData(?, ?)
or
Combo:AddOption(?)
I can't figure out how to transfer a body part and clothes there

[shut bluff]

trying to rebuild the projectzomboid.bank file with the fmod tool but it seems to just get stuck on the building with no progress at all
been going for over a half hour now, took less than 10 minutes to extract

[grizzled fulcrum]

~snip~ I figured it out lol it was easy

[grizzled fulcrum]

but I still want to know how to get the entity ist

list

like loaded entities by the client

im basically going to loop through all the loaded entities by the client and then check the distance of each one then do some magic if that is true

but I don't know where the loaded entities are/how to get them. Like are they a list, or do I have to loop through something ,etc?

[grizzled fulcrum]

fuck it what better way than to rummage around in the java 😄

I'd kill to have docs of these functions, like I can call inv:addItem(item) or inv:DoAddItem(item) or inv:addItems(use????) among other things and noone knows what these do or why there are multiple of the same functions that seemingly do the same exact thing

[crisp fossil]

How can you get the item category. I can only see the display category

this one

[grizzled fulcrum]

isn't it just InventoryItem:getCategory()?

InventoryItem:getDisplayCategory() is separate too

[crisp fossil]

ah i see, I was using the Item class not the InventoryItem. thank you

[drifting ore]

is there a way to detect when a square becomes unloaded? the inverse of LoadGridsquare event or something

I've tried ReuseGridsquare and it just straight up never gets triggered

being able to detect if specific area coordinates-wise stops being simulated is fine too

[drifting ore]

1. clothing item needs an XML file which points to models and textures
2. there needs to be clothingitems.txt script file that defines some clothing items that utilize your xml-defined data
3. there needs to be fileguidtable.xml with correct filenames and their guids, the same as in original xml

[drifting ore]

specifically, my code keeps track of loaded corpses so I want it to unload that data when it stops being relevant

[dire oracle]

Yeah, I know I was just missing something and not at home to continue trying to fix it

[thick karma]

@noble summit

[north drift]

... i known right

[north drift]

Possible ItemZed 1.4 ???

[dapper belfry]

Hi everyone! I'm new in pz modding. Is it possible to decompile pz and add new classes?

[bright fog]

Yes

https://github.com/quarantin/beautiful-java?tab=readme-ov-file

[digital bolt]

Hey gamers,

Is there a good place that explains how to create a basic mod yourself? I had a look at pzwiki but it's more generic advice and just points to here? Just need to figure out where to start off.

[compact tinsel]

Hello! Has anyone here looked into the bundling / unbundling function of logs? I have tried to find it to get an idea of how I can create the same for planks and other items. So far everything is going according to plan, however, when bundling / unbundling logs PZ tends to remember whether it was rope or sheet rope that has been used. I am currently trying to figure out how to do that.

[compact tinsel]

there is an example mod in a folder actually!
Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\mods\examplemod this should be the path

it gives you an overview of the folder structure you need, from there on it is a bit of trial and error (at least it was for me)
in the media folder of Project Zomboid you can find scripts, textures, models, animations, etc. What helps me a lot is zipping through folders and reading up on them.

what helped me the most was looking at the items and recipes .txt

[digital bolt]

Thanks for responding so quickly!

I had a look at that one but I basically only have these files there:

$ ls -R
.:                                        
media  mod.info  poster.png               
                                          
./media:                                  
lua  music  ui                            
                                          
./media/lua:                              
Music  defines.lua                        
                                          
./media/lua/Music:                        
MusicChoices.lua                          
                                          
./media/music:
luatriggered  preface.ogg  theme2.ogg     

./media/music/luatriggered:
paws1.ogg  paws2.ogg  paws3.ogg  paws4.ogg

./media/ui:
PZ_Logo_New.png

[compact tinsel]

what exactly are you trying to mod? Adding new items or something else?
I am a rookie myself still, but maybe I can help

[digital bolt]

Yeah, just maybe adding an item, adjusting some values. Maybe extending functionality for desktop PC you can find, e.g, you can kill boredom with them.
I really want to figure out the complexity behind creating one.

About your experience, how do you deal with feedback loops? Is there a quick way to verify changes, e.g,. change something in the mod and then see effects? Just concerned that it will take 5 minutes to reload 😄

[compact tinsel]

for adding new items I found this guide quite useful:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006109377
basically you need a folder in media/scripts
and then you throw a .txt in there, I tend to have one for recipes, items and models

MAYBE (I do remember seeing something about it in the recipes file from PZ) you can make the recipe in a way that it needs to be performed near a computer.
I'll have a quick look, maybe I stumble accross the recipe that had that right away

found it! actually didn't find it in the recipe folder itself, but online
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Recipe_Script_Guide
NearItem:Workbench, This is the example that they give on the site, maybe it would be enough to find out how PZ calls the Computer item and add that there

and regarding your question, you can just return to main menu and drop in the file you made changes in, but if you're making multiple changes, the only way to do it is really quit to desktop drop the files into the mod folder to test and restart.

[digital bolt]

Thank you that's extremely helpful @compact tinsel 🙏

[digital bolt]

Hey people, I had great help from @compact tinsel , please see if you can help them out 🙂

[tranquil kindle]

You can find both OnCreate.CreateLogStack, and OnCreate.SplitLogStack that are used in those recipes in media>lua>server>recipecode.lua

[compact tinsel]

thank you!

[simple patio]

hi this is really bugging me does anyone know the internal name for a campfire?
im trying to add an 'Near Item' function to a recipe so you have to be close to a campfire or stove
and neither 'Campfire' or 'IsoCampfire is working

[dapper belfry]

Thanks

[cursive steeple]

@fast remnant
https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide#required-tools-software
https://github.com/Konijima/PZ-Libraries
https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-Mod---Doc/tree/main

[vast orchid]

How would one add a custom or already existing procedural list to a container's loot list within the Distribution.lua file?
For example, how would I add CarWindows1 to metal_shelves?

[grizzled fulcrum]

BTW if you launch the game in debug mode using -debug you can reload lua in the main menu which will reload your mod sand it's files

[compact tinsel]

ohhh that's a game changer, thanks!

[thick karma]

Be aware that this can cause issues if your mod uses decorations or events or attaches functions to specific objects. Reloading Lua live will in those cases double-decorate things, or add two copies of a function to the same event. Also, things that need to happen on Events that only occur once, such as OnCreatePlayer, will not happen, so reloading Lua is also limited in troubleshooting that kind of thing.

[cursive steeple]

also in debug F11 menu you can double click a snippet of code to create a break point and observe the object stack, handy little tool imo

[bronze yoke]

a main menu lua reload would be a full reload anyway

[cursive steeple]

I might need help with setting up a custom timed action, I'm going to keep trying to fix these errors but im almost at my breaking point

[bronze yoke]

what problem are you having?

[cursive steeple]

I figured out that calling the new() function with a period rather than a colon causes a casting error, so fixed that, just my lack of knowledge of lua specific quirks. My error now is that the player object is being passed in the parameters as the number 0

which I think i know why

its prob because I need to use getPlayer()

the colon calling of the function had me pulling hair out last night,

[bronze yoke]

sometimes players are passed by their index instead of the object, use getSpecificPlayer(playerIndex) to get the object

the colon calling is a bit annoying here, lua uses the colon to pass self in class functions but constructors shouldn't have self anyway, just a weird way TIS likes to write constructors

[cursive steeple]

That adds more context to why it was behaving the way it was

[bronze yoke]

basically, when you call a function using the syntax table:function() you are actually calling table.function(table), and when you define table:function() you are actually defining table.function(self)

[cursive steeple]

thats very odd, but I imagine it has something to do with object vs static scope

[bronze yoke]

yeah, lua doesn't natively support classes, objects are just tables that get passed around and the colon syntax is meant to hide that

[cursive steeple]

thanks for the help albion!

[safe silo]

How could I overlay the whole screen with an image?

I'm working on a "you die, you're frozen for X minutes" and I've got the core to work but I also need to hide the screen from the player some way.

[sour island]

There's a render object you can call to draw things on screen.

getRenderer()

returns this, https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/core/SpriteRenderer.html

render rect might be hollow, but there's also render poly

You'd have to play around with it.

If you want a texture, or image, there's that too - but you'd have to account for different resolutions.

[safe silo]

Thank you! I'll look into it! 😄

[digital bolt]

Hey,

Could someone point into the right direction for creating a new perk/skill? So let's say I want to add a new skill called rocket launchers... I've gone through the Package zombie.characters.skills and just can't figure out how to make it work. Tried looking at source code of other mods - nothing either.

Googling for tutorials didn't result in anything comprehensive either.

[cursive steeple]

https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-Mod---Doc/blob/main/Make a custom skill or perk.md

then for rocket launchers you probably want to look into how aiming adds exp and do something similar with player:getXp():AddXP(Perks.MyPerk, 4)

[wet sandal]

This is where I'm at mentally with repeated "bug" reports

[sour island]

That's pretty neat

Sorry it's come to it

[cursive steeple]

anyone know if this is correct way to sync a ThumpableObject?

function ISUpgradeBuildingAction:perform() -- Trigger when the action is complete
    print("Action perform");

    if self.thumpable_obj:getNorth() then
        self.thumpable_obj:setSprite(self.upgrade.northsprite)
    else
        self.thumpable_obj:setSprite(self.upgrade.sprite)
    end

    self.thumpable_obj:setIsThumpable(false)
    self.thumpable_obj:syncIsoThumpable()

    ISBaseTimedAction.perform(self);
end

and will this save the state of "IsThumpable" and the new sprite on the server?

[outer crypt]

I have my mods that have loaded squares in ticks and have a check to see if the square is no longer available with local square = getSquare(x, y, z) if not square then return end

[outer crypt]

That way if the square is no longer within range of the player it just stops the code from running.

[drifting ore]

yeah I figured I'd need to do something like this. It's just really not ideal, to actively check every square

particularly for a server because it could be thousands of squares to deal with. Sure I can put them in a slow rolling update so the load is low, but that's still a solid 99+% waste of CPU cycles

[outer crypt]

Oh yeah, that would be intensive... I use it on a list of items that I am actively tracking. The list has all the squares that the radios are in and runs that list.

[grizzled fulcrum]

This is true, I used to have this happen to me all the time. But it only happened to me when I reloaded Lua using the F11 file reload feature . Reloading Lua in menu for whatever reason does remove the event callbacks and readd them. Though if there it still happens I am sure you can remove the event callbacks yourself if there is a way to detect when reloading Lua is happening.

[drifting ore]

you can simply remove callbacks immediately before adding them

[grizzled fulcrum]

Trueee

But I don't do ti because I'm lazy and the game some reason does it for me

[bronze yoke]

the main menu lua reload resets the entire lua environment, the debug menu file reload just runs your file again and doesn't have any system to undo things your file previously did

you can try to detect and remove events and decorations after a reload using globals but i think this is kind of a waste of time and makes your code overly complex, use it when it already works for your code and is convenient

[thick karma]

I misread you originally in passing. Thought you were referring to reloading in game not in Main Menu

Sorry for confusion

[drifting ore]

i'm having a weird problem. When I call IsoDeadBody.getDeadBody(deadbody:getObjectID()) it throws a java error from MethodArguments.assertValid. It should return the same body I passed into the function, or the body with the same ID anyway. The real code has ID stored in a table between taking it from a body and querying it back, but this error breaks the code either way.

[bronze yoke]

kahlua doesn't pass shorts to methods correctly

[drifting ore]

I seem to recall there was a way to produce kahlua-typed java values from lua numbers? It's like I caught a glimpse of it at some point but never got around to use it.

[bronze yoke]

there is but you can't construct a short that way, it's not exposed

[grizzled fulcrum]

what the heck is a short

is that just calling the java class method

[drifting ore]

a short is a 16 bit integer type, normally unsigned

lua only has double-precision floating point numbers, with 53 bits of decimal/integer space and 11 bits of exponent space

[frank elbow]

<@&671452400221159444>

[cursive steeple]

dont click this

[frank elbow]

Somehow they got around the masked link filter too

[young edge]

might be because of the top-level domain 🤔

[drifting ore]

sir do you have a license for these illegal puns?

[grizzled fulcrum]

oh I didn't know you were talking about short as in integer type sorry

I do that a stupid amount

my cs classes taught me well and now im scared for life

I swear I'll never forget 😭

[grizzled fulcrum]

it was a markdown link like [text](url)

but yeah how would that get around filter

[young edge]

filter might only be set up to deal with .com, but who knows, really. Regex is a fickle mistress

[grizzled fulcrum]

at this point, not allowing any markdown links would be ideal

[cursive steeple]

anyone know if this is correct way to sync a ThumpableObject? Will this save the state of "IsThumpable" and the new sprite on the server? Or should I use ```lua
transmitCompleteItemToServer()

```lua
function ISUpgradeBuildingAction:perform() -- Trigger when the action is complete
    print("Action perform");

    if self.thumpable_obj:getNorth() then
        self.thumpable_obj:setSprite(self.upgrade.northsprite)
    else
        self.thumpable_obj:setSprite(self.upgrade.sprite)
    end

    self.thumpable_obj:setIsThumpable(false)
    self.thumpable_obj:syncIsoThumpable()

    ISBaseTimedAction.perform(self);
end

[cursive steeple]

looking at the source I dont think either method will sync that property

found transmitUpdatedSprite()

is there a way to do a custom packet to sync the isThumpable property of my object?

possibly what commands are for?

[frank elbow]

<@&671452400221159444>

there is a sequel

No idea why they're targeting this channel

[cursive steeple]

always when im waiting for a response too lmao

[frank elbow]

Looking at the vanilla code, transmitCompleteItemToClients is used after set thumpable. You probably want a server command to handle it

There are some examples of transmitCompleteItemToServer too 🤔 So that's just an assumption

[cursive steeple]

Ill have to check this out thanks

[grizzled fulcrum]

I am trying to get dead zombie corpses within a cell. I tried getting the zombie list and checking if they are dead and then appending to a list but the entities being appended to the corpses list are actually somehow IsoZombies even after passing the isDead check. How?

-- Get corpse list as zombie_list is both alive and dead zombies (maybe???)

--- @type table<number, IsoDeadBody>
local corpses = {}
for i = 0, zombie_list:size(), 1 do
    --- @type IsoZombie
    local target = zombie_list:get(i)

    if target and target:isDead() then
        corpses[#corpses + 1] = target
        logger.debug("Added corpse to corpses table at index (%d).", #corpses)
    else
        logger.warn("Target was alive or nil.")
    end
end

Unless zombie_list is only zombies but then why would corpses be populated with IsoZombie? If there were no corpses (zombies weren't dead) then surely it would be empty after running this code, right?

[frank elbow]

Is zombie_list from IsoCell:getZombieList()? If so, it looks like it's expected that that'll only be IsoZombies and not IsoDeadBody instances. I'm unsure whether there's a way to get all dead bodies in a cell, but it looks like IsoGridSquare has getDeadBodys

[grizzled fulcrum]

oh wait im dumb to forget to include zombie_list which is

yes it is sorry

[grizzled fulcrum]

I will look at that

im ujst gonna rewrite teh whole thing really quick because I wrote it all at like 9pm and I have no idea what I was doing

but I will test it in a min

[grizzled fulcrum]

wait I just tested

so this code:

-- Wait for zombie to be dead and loot populated before getting zombie inventory.
while zombie:isDead() == false do end

-- Redefine var because type is no longr IsoZombie
--- @type IsoDeadBody
local parent = zombie

while parent:getContainer():isExistYet() == false do end
logger.debug("Zombie is dead and loot is populated!")

And I get an error on the second while loop (because IsoZombie:getContainer() doesn't exist). Does IsoZombie not turn into a IsoDeadBody after dying?

[drifting ore]

unless you put that into a coroutine hardware thread, it just makes the game lock up forever, unless it never actually enters the loop

[grizzled fulcrum]

I could probably do a timeout or something

but it's very rarely ever going to lock up (so the game says)

this for context is is an OnZombieDead event callback

I am only doing the while loops because sometimes my code runs before zombie actually dies/inventory exists

[drifting ore]

Does IsoZombie not turn into a IsoDeadBody after dying?
I'm not 100% positive but I don't see how that would even be possible. Objects can't change classes.

[grizzled fulcrum]

I thought what happens when a IsoZombie dies is it is removed from the world and then a IsoDeadBody is added to the world in it's place

[drifting ore]

the object you're hooked up to is a zombie, to get the body you'd need to specifically select it

[grizzled fulcrum]

true

[drifting ore]

anyway don't do while cond do _nothing_ end unless you're spinning this in a separate thread

if it runs in the same thread as the condition, then it just locks up all calculations and the condition calculation will never change

[grizzled fulcrum]

I know empty while loops are bad, but in this case I think it would be fine

unless event callbacks are not called asynchronously

then that's obviously really bad lol

[drifting ore]

getting Lua to multithread is non-trivial so if you're not manually doing anything then it's probably definitely operating in a single-threaded execution environment

[grizzled fulcrum]

but also the conditions I am checking in the while loops are always true after a very short amount of time (unless something really bad happens which then is not really my fault, like some mod destroying a zombie's inventory if thats even possible)

[drifting ore]

According to my quick test here, callbacks run in the main thread.

[grizzled fulcrum]

ok good to know, im glad they at least let us use coroutine std module 😄

[drifting ore]

be aware that coroutines run in the same thread

[grizzled fulcrum]

oof

[rare geode]

I am trying to make an emerald coloured choker mod. Absolutely bewildered trying to figure out how to make it useable, thought I could just copy paste information from from Necklace_Choker_Sapphire.xml or whatever and have it work but I am completely clueless. Pretty much all I have to show for my efforts so far is a .blend file and this png (yes I am a complete noob and have no idea what I am doing)

[drifting ore]

you probably just need to make a different GUID

[rare geode]

I am stumped on how to proceed

[devout marsh]

Hey, new to mod making, reading through the resources and such, how, programmed, modded for other things before, just never Lua.

How would I edit a function that already exists in the game? I've located the file and all that

[devout marsh]

I think I figered it out

[drifting ore]

you can override the function entirely (don't) or you can substitute the original function with your own version, which then (or first) calls the original

[devout marsh]

how do I do those XD

[drifting ore]

game.original = function(...)
   your_code(...)
   original(...)
end```

(you can actually use the ellipsis, it passes on all arguments. To extract the arguments you use select(i, ...)

[devout marsh]

is your_code a function I make, considering how you wrote it? Or am I actually writing code there? Or both

[bright fog]

I'm pretty sure you can't access dead bodies that way

Even if you pass the check, you won't get the dead body

[grizzled fulcrum]

Yeah I went in basically 100% blind. I'm still trying to study the java to see what is actually a IsoZombie compared to IsoDeadBody

I am yet to understand fully so it's gonna take some days but I'll get there eventually

[safe silo]

Can I use real time in the LUA? Like let's say I wish to do something every 10 minutes IRL is that possible? Or am I stuck to use the in-game hrs etc?

[grizzled fulcrum]

I know it's possible but you might have to do some work like use ontick event callback or something, measure the time elapsed and then if the time comes do your code in it and then reset the variable that holds the time measurement or something

An easier method i can think of would probably be convert PZ time to IRL time and then maybe use EveryOneMinute

Like if say EveryOneMinute event gets called every 2 sec IRL, you know that 5 calls to your callback would mean 10 seconds has passed

Idk I'm just throwing ideas out there since I can't look at the javadoc rn but you can definitely do some time measurements but I've only seen them done with measuring code performance in ms

Maybe PZCalendar class might help you?

[safe silo]

I was looking into PZCalender and it said something about os.time but couldn't find it

It's because I'm gonna need something to count down for X minutes as a text element. Like "10:00" to "0:00"

I want to be able to display a real clock that decreases by 1 second every REAL second

[drifting ore]

Calendar.getInstance():getTimeInMillis() returns real time in high resolution

as far as I can tell there's no way to register callback to happen a specific amount of time in the future, RT or IGT

also considering the game allows different game speed & different game fast-forward rates, I would advise against using real time for anything other than something completely irrelevant gameplay-wise

[safe silo]

I'm unsure if I'd need the callback, I was planning on storing the value Calendar.getInstance():getTimeInMillis() and then just add 10 minutes to it, would that be possible? I could just do an onTick on the client to update the value, hope this makes sense

Like display (requiredTime - getTimeInMills) for instance, requiredTime being getTimeInMills plus the 10 minutes

[drifting ore]

yeah that would work

again, be sure that this real time countdown has absolutely nothing to do with any gameplay

otherwise it's possible to gain unfair advantage by selecting specific daylength and fast-forward (conversely get severely penalized for NOT selecting it)

[fleet bridge]

you can just use getTimestampMs() to log the passage of time

(irl)

[safe silo]

How would I use that?

[fleet bridge]

local startTime = getTimestampMs()
local timeElapsed = getTimestampMs() - startTime```

usually i use it when i'm tracking how long it takes for stuff to execute, but it could be used to calculate difference in time (for whatever reason)

[safe silo]

And would that be able to return seconds? Like it's in milliseconds? If I did timeElapsed * 1000 (my math is awful prob)

[fleet bridge]

yea x1000 to get it to seconds

[safe silo]

Oh that's actually awesome

[drifting ore]

/1000

[safe silo]

Oh yeah LMAO

[fleet bridge]

my math is also bad 😄

yes /1000 lol

[safe silo]

I think that's gonna work, super thankful for ur help lect! And yours too CS!

Would it be like this?
Calendar.getInstance():getTimestampMs()

Or just out the box: getTimestampMs()

[fleet bridge]

the only issue is if there is discontinuity between sessions you might never log the correct times

[fleet bridge]

this

[drifting ore]

calendar returns global real time, timestamp is not required to do so

not sure exactly what the latter does without looking at the source code, but if it's anything like OS high resolution timer, then it starts at basically random value

[fleet bridge]

i've heard rumblings that global time is off... somehow? anecdotally heard it enough that i try not to rely on it, but i can't seem to find it in search bar

[drifting ore]

timezones something something

[safe silo]

xD

[drifting ore]

expecting it to respect OS timezone, or expecting it to be GMT0

[fleet bridge]

i have no expectations, just use getTimestampMs()

[drifting ore]

for the purposes of tracking time spans, that works completely fine

[drifting ore]

works well for me, pzcalendar is just a very thin wrapper over java standard calendar

well actually its entire functionality is exposing 5-ish methods of entire java calendar class functionality, IDK why would they ever do this, seems like a waste of everyone's time and innocent bystander's braincells

IDK what to tell you bruv. This looks like something that an unpaid intern would make to pad the git stats.

They probably thought it was a legit good idea to add this to the game engine and then it just kinda stuck, and if you ask around there's probably people who can justify having this kind of stuff in their codebase.

[frank elbow]

I imagine the intended purpose was sandboxing

Same reason—I assume—the file reader/writer we have access to can only read/write in one encoding

Maybe even the same reason we can only make GET requests, although for that one my theory is that the devs just never had a reason to implement better http support

[drifting ore]

gee god forbid someone set custom timezone in their own isolated calendar

just to be clear: calendar objects are like literal wall calendars. You can do whatever you want with it, but it has no effect on the flow of time.

[distant marten]

what is getBumpFallType()?

[drifting ore]

GET requests can't contain binary payload, but it can be maliciously constructed to be terabytes in size anyway, so no real reason to do this

[cursive steeple]

case wasBumped:
   this.type1 = var1.getBumpType();
   this.type2 = var1.getBumpFallType();
   this.flags = (short)(this.flags | (var1.isBumpFall() ? 4 : 0));
   this.flags = (short)(this.flags | (var1.isBumpStaggered() ? 8 : 0));
   if (var1.getBumpedChr() != null) {
      this.type3 = String.valueOf(var1.getBumpedChr().getOnlineID());
      this.type4 = var1.getBumpedChr().getBumpType();
      this.flags = (short)(this.flags | (var1.isHitFromBehind() ? 128 : 0));
      if (var1.getBumpedChr() instanceof IsoZombie) {
         this.flags = (short)(this.flags | 256);
      }
   }
   break;

something involving tripping possibly @distant marten

[distant marten]

I tested with print(player:getBumpFallType()), but it was always ""

when falling from a tree or fence

[cursive steeple]

               if (var1.isBehind(this)) {
                  this.setBumpFallType("pushedBehind");
               } else {
                  this.setBumpFallType("pushedFront");
               }

thats the only 2 values I see it set to in the java source

havent checked lua files

attackFromWindowsLunge(IsoZombie var1)

comes from this method

[robust locust]

hey peeps, does anyone know if there's an animation for painting that I can use?

[cursive steeple]

I think the animation name is literally just "paint"

[distant marten]

yes print(player:getBumpFallType()) printed pushedBehind and pushedFront when I climbed over the window and was attacked by zombies
thx!

[cursive steeple]

np, it looks like this here is an example of how to stagger your character: ```lua
DebugContextMenu.onTick = function()
if DebugContextMenu.staggerBacking then
DebugContextMenu.stagTime = DebugContextMenu.stagTime - 1;
if DebugContextMenu.stagTime < 0 then
local chr = IsoPlayer:getInstance();
DebugContextMenu.stagTime = 300;
chr:setBumpType("stagger");
chr:setVariable("BumpDone", false);
chr:setVariable("BumpFall", true);
chr:setVariable("BumpFallType", "pushedFront");
end
end
end

not completely sure if im right with that assumption but it looks that way to me

[frank elbow]

I didn't mean to imply it was necessary, just my two cents on why it may have been done

[drifting ore]

Well it's like I said. At some point they probably thought it was an actually good idea.

And then you end up with code that looks like YandereDev made it.

[frank elbow]

That's a stretch lol

An unnecessary wrapper is not 1000 if statements

[drifting ore]

same energy though

reminds me of the tralse thing

technically that whole piece of software engineering does something the vanilla didn't originally do. But, you know.

Something like Node's is_odd has better reason to exist, since JS type coercion is wonky and reliably testing for something as simple as if a number is an odd integer involves unreasonable amount of boilerplate code to inline it every single time.

[drifting ore]

for anyone curious

    if (cond == true)
        return true;
    else if (cond == false)
        return false;
    else
        return tralse;
}```

[teal slate]

Does the IS prefix on things like ISDisinfect stand for Indie Stone or something else?

[drifting ore]

It might. Or it might not. It doesn't matter, variable naming is 100% arbitrary, and the only real rule is that it can't contain special characters and it can't start with a digit.

[teal slate]

I'm aware of how variable naming works.

I asked a specific question, variable naming conventions have almost nothing to do with it.

[drifting ore]

Sure. It's just I like to take a step back when tackling this kind of questions, to get a better view at a bigger picture.

Anyway if you want a real answer you'd probably have to DM the devs, and probably more than 1 of them.

In the same vein Iso could be standing for something, probably of significant importance, but personally I really don't care. The naming isn't even consistent between camel case, pascal case and snake case, so at that point it's hard to care about any of it.

[bronze yoke]

this is something i've wondered about too because it seems really redundant to prefix half of the file and variable names with something like that, but i'm pretty sure that is all it is

[drifting ore]

the real answer here is probably definitely that a lot of devs came and went and each of them had a vision of how things should be named, which wasn't always aligned with everyone else's vision, particularly those who worked on the game before them

[coarse sinew]

Iso doesn't stand for isometric ?

[drifting ore]

It could be, but again, it's not consistent across the entire codebase. Many objects pertaining to similar functionality don't have this prefix, and some objects scantly related to isometry have it.

[teal slate]

I'm pretty sure iso does stand for isometric, yes

The entire iso package is related to world-objects and world simulation/display.

[drifting ore]

there is a substantial number of iso-prefixed classes outside of that folder too

[teal slate]

Okay.

[teal slate]

Anyway, I don't care if you don't care what IS stands for, and I don't need you to X/Y problem me—I asked what it stood for because I was curious and because I care about consistency and code quality in my projects.

[teal slate]

I am just a little bothered by my modded types not matching the ISwhatever types, but it can't be helped I suppose

[drifting ore]

aren't we all? but look at the state of internal self-consistency of PZ API and consider if it's necessary at all

[bronze yoke]

if you care about code quality you really need to ignore all of the vanilla lua's standards

i can't speak for the java but the lua is very substandard and weird

[drifting ore]

wdym

lua is fine as far as i'm concerned

it allows for poor programming practices more easily than others but I wouldn't put that as a fault

[bronze yoke]

the language is fine, it's my favourite scripting language

the way the vanilla game's lua is written is just strange

[drifting ore]

ah, I see

eh, IDK. As far as using someone else's code goes, "as long as it works" is the motto.

[bronze yoke]

it's just not something to model after if you care about code quality

[drifting ore]

by the way, if IS stands for "Indie Stone" then you shouldn't use it anyway 😛

ideally you just don't put anything into global namespace, and this way the problem solves itself

[teal slate]

Yes, that was my point.

If it doesn't stand for Indie Stone, I can use it—but it probably stands for Indie Stone so I won't.

[drifting ore]

Well why'd you want to use IS prefix? Because if you don't have a reason to use it, then what's the issue?

then again it falls under the shared namespace variable collisions

[teal slate]

It bugged me that all the other actions were prefixed with IS and mine aren't (I went with CI, because that's the initials of the mod I'm working on).

[drifting ore]

so if you have the same-ish names as something made before you, you just use a different name. Spelling it out usually avoids collisions (unless the entire name is a one big collision)

[teal slate]

So, purely aesthetic reasons.

Yes, I'm aware that if it's the organisation, creator, or mod name then it's to avoid namespace collision. Personally though, I prefer using tables for namespacing instead, though.

[drifting ore]

speaking of. Are tables slower than locals in kahlua? I hazard a guess that yes.

i mean if it's true for LuaJIT i can hardly imagine someone else's implementation fares better

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[drifting ore]

(unless it's about next, then a lot of people fare better. With an asterisk - comparatively to itself better, not compared to LuaJIT)

[bronze yoke]

ime table access is not so much slower that it is worth avoiding using them when you normally would

[drifting ore]

Avoiding it when you can is just a good rule of thumb. Why waste CPU cycles resolving hashmap collisions when bytecode can point directly to the relevant data.

[teal slate]

You could just cache the variables you're interested in if you're repeatedly accessing it in a method, or inside a loop.

[drifting ore]

yup

though caching tables to locals is probably more relevant in LuaJIT than kahlua because it builds native code that directly uses locals vs looking up table values

[teal slate]

I figured you'd cache table members rather than the tables themselves

[drifting ore]

well yeah that's what I said (what I meant anyway)

[bronze yoke]

the performance benefit really is not huge, accessing tables is pretty fast

but local + table access is always going to be slower than just local access

[drifting ore]

if kahlua runs bytecode interpreter then vast majority of computational demand of running Lua code is simply churning through a laundry list of operand type checks at every corner, compared to that looking up values in a hashtable compared to fetching it from a flat array is not a substantial penalty

kahlua does indeed runs bytecode interpreter

would be pretty sick if it could generate java bytecode and run it in JVM, which normally has a really good JIT

[hollow talon]

i imported lua code into gpt and messed around for the first time.

tried working with blindzombies mod (i think its nerfed now) told gpt how i wanted it to work and after several different attempts rewrites, it worked. pretty cool imo gpt ftw

[red tiger]

Honestly I'd like to see Kahlua replaced by a well-kept project that runs legitimate Lua.

[drifting ore]

or just whack in luajit.dll in there

[red tiger]

Could be done as a Java mod.

[raven marsh]

I'm attempting to decompile the game and I'm getting this error:Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: zombie.core.Core

i'm on an m1 mac

[safe silo]

How would I draw plain text to the UI layer? Been looking into the UIElement -> DrawText but just keep getting errors.

[neon bronze]

if you just want a textbox in your ui you could add a ISTextBox or whatever its called in your ui

[safe silo]

Yeah but I was looking to not have the textbox border thing around, like just plain text and nothing else

[coarse sinew]

If you just want a text you can use this https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/ui/TextManager.html#DrawString(zombie.ui.UIFont,double,double,double,java.lang.String,double,double,double,double)

[safe silo]

Ah sweet, thank you!

[coarse sinew]

It will look like this

[safe silo]

Yeah exactly

Would it just be TextManager.DrawString(?, x, y, str, r, g, b, a)?

[neon bronze]

you'd need the UIFont

but that is globally accessed through UIFont.Small i believe

[safe silo]

Ah yeah sweet thanks!

[neon bronze]

or smth along those lines

[safe silo]

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/ui/UIFont.html
you're right

[neon bronze]

i dont remember the exact call

[coarse sinew]

Also r, g, b, a are values from 0 to 1.0

[safe silo]

how tf 😭

[coarse sinew]

Just divide normal values from 0-255 to 255

[safe silo]

interesting, thanks!

[safe silo]

Doesn't seem to be working (I'm 100% doing it wrong):

TextManager.DrawString(UIFont.Small, x, y, text, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)

Doesn't work. Do I need to call UIManager before or smth?

The rest of the variables are properly set so I assume I'm misusing the function

[coarse sinew]

getTextManager():DrawString(UIFont.Small, x, y, text, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)```

[grizzled fulcrum]

I was looking at this. Would there be any way to generate bytecode from Lua? Like is it a string of bytes (literally)? Ignoring the part where Lua can't directly run the java bytecode, that is.

[young edge]

I mean.. that's what a compiler does

[safe nebula]

Got a bit of a weird one, creating a few new firearms and im porting the models in but theres a weird issue with the attachment screen.
The rifle appears the correct way up in hand - but when applying attachments they have to be placed completely off the rifle. The attached image shows the correct placement for the muzzle flash but its completely off of the rifle

[drifting ore]

if kahlua can generate Lua bytecode, surely you can generate Java bytecode

it helps that Lua is extremely technologically simple language

the way I see it, the main difficulty in that Java doesn't have dynamic typing (and consequently all opcodes are typed) so that involves extra work on the bytecode compiler part

but the same is true for x86 processors and JIT compilers do just fine

[golden palm]

Hey all! Just looking to mod some custom occupations, the one thing im interested in is where the file for the park ranger and lumberjacks increased speed in the woods are, as its not in the main creation methods as far as I can tell

[drifting ore]

but yes bytecode is literally a string of bytes. The same way as machine code is also just a string of bytes. The difference between bytecode and machine code is purely semantical, in that one is meant to run in a VM (which may or may not have real hardware implementation, like LISP machines) and the other is meant to run on real hardware from the start.

some languages use IL representation for bytecode, it's their assembly language equivalent

[frank elbow]

It happens while updating the player on the Java side. updateInternal2 within IsoPlayer

In particular, the bit where it's calling isInTrees and checking for those professions

[grizzled fulcrum]

it sucks that it's not in lua

but couldn't you replicate it in lua anyway? or can you not do speed increase from lua (doubt)

[frank elbow]

Uncertain, since it'd depend on whether that update function would overwrite any changes (or whether those changes are even accessible)—so depends on the order of event calls, ultimately. That relevant bit of code looks like it's updating a "WalkSpeedTrees" animation variable

[grizzled fulcrum]

I see. I am more accustomed to C and machine code like ASM than bytecode and I've only ever briefly learnt about the Java VM, and I didn't even know Lua could be compiled since I thought it was solely interpreted (I assume LuaJIT is what I am thinking of most of the time).

[drifting ore]

like basically all modern interpreted languages, Lua compiles to bytecode and then that is interpreted by a VM. Or in case of LuaJIT, it gets further compiled to native code.

[frank elbow]

I don't see other references to WalkSpeedTrees in the Java or Lua, so presumably you could replicate it under the assumption that it'd only apply for professions other than those Scratch that, because of the event thing I said before—it'd be overwritten

[drifting ore]

In any case LuaJ already exists

[tranquil kindle]

Long story short, your gun needs:
-Barrel pointing up in blender,
-scale of gun needs to be set to 0.01 in all axis in object mode, (best is to apply scale, set it to said scale and in editmode resize it to proper size so it fits character in pz).

I don't know how to search history in discord on phone, but if you search in #modeling with my name there should be some more info about it with screenshots.

Also rotation in X axis has to be 90 while pointing up
*

[safe nebula]

Tricky stuff, ill give it another go later on!

[twin relic]

Anyone knows why Braven made Common Sens uncompatibile with Flash together ?

[ancient grail]

i dont think modders would intentionally make mods that are incompatible
it just happened to be that way..

tho im speaking in general
idk what your situation is really

[safe silo]

When hosting a server you can set it so safehouses are "open" when a user of the safehouse is logged in and will be safe/close when that user logs out.

Would it be possible to mod a way for the safehouse remain open X amount of in-game hours after the user logged out?

[echo lark]

how do you get the contents of a container when its a inventoryitem?

[bright fog]

Yeah like Glytcher said, modders don't make their mods incompatible with other mods

It just happens to be incompatible

[twin relic]

@bright fog

[thick karma]

That code is not making things intentionally incompatible if that's what you're thinking. It's actually probably the opposite at a glance; I suspect its purpose is compatibility with all those mods. Have you tried those mods together?

That code is just skipping a DoParam call if certain mods are loaded. If I had to guess about why, I'd guess the other mods do the same DoParam call on that item, or they do a contradictory DoParam call, or those mods won't work as expected if that call happens.

[neon bronze]

call :getContainer() on it it will give you the ItemContainer of the item

[echo lark]

hmmm i thought i tried that, ill try again

[neon bronze]

unless your item is not an InventoryItem?

how do you get your original item?

[raven marsh]

would it be difficult to try and get pz working natively on appl silicon macbooks?

I tried changing the java JRE that pz uses to an arm64 bundle, but since the actual executable that launches java is in x64 it just crashes

mayb this should be a seperate thread

nvm i would need these libraries to be native too oof: libLighting.dylib libPZBullet.dylib libPZClipper.dylib libPZPopMan.dylib libZNetJNI.dylib libZNetNoSteam.dylib libfmodintegration.dylib

[echo lark]

it should be, everything else is working fine. but when i try item:getContainer() and then make it print yes or no. it always comes back yes even if its not a item container. and earlier when i tried to get it to print the contents, it was printing the contents of the container the item us in and not the items container

im using the new events from new Events Plus API mod

anyways, im gonna resort to throwing everything at the wall until it sticks XD

[fleet bridge]

An item is always in a container so it should return true. Floor and player inv are containers. You want to use getItems() to return an array of items in a container if you're trying to print out a list of items in a container I think.

[echo lark]

im trying to get a list of items thats in a container like a backpack or a bag.

im actualy trying getitems now. ill see what happens

[zinc epoch]

How do i detect a specific item category that player is holding?

Is it even possible?

[fleet bridge]

Player:getPrimaryHandItem():getCategory()

If by holding you mean holding in the hand?

[zinc epoch]

Yes.

[fleet bridge]

Yea primary or secondary

Would work

[echo lark]

    if itemContainer then
        local itemsInContainer = itemContainer:getItems()```
gives me a list of items in the source/destination container. im trying to get all the items in a backpack

[fleet bridge]

In the players inventory?

[echo lark]

wtv the inventory is that i transfer the item to

[fleet bridge]

You're using events api?

[echo lark]

yep

[fleet bridge]

The event should have src and dest containers

[echo lark]

it does

[fleet bridge]

So is the destination container is a backpack ?

[echo lark]

nope. its a shop container. from my inventory to the shop/from the shop to my inventory. if the item goes into the shop it logs the entire shops inventory, if the item goes into my inventory it logs all my inventory

[fleet bridge]

Assuming the shop is noirs? Then you can check if the container sprite is player shop

If it's to your inventory then you can check item:getOutermostContainer() and see if that returns player inventory

[bronze yoke]

use item:getInventory()

[zinc epoch]

And also how do i avoid errors when player is not holding anything?

[fleet bridge]

I think it returns nil so just check for that?

[zinc epoch]

Ah, i see, thanks.

[twin relic]

very nice comment.
shine_together does not add any attachment point to base handtorch, either there is other problem. or it was just excluded together with other mods. i will test solution to add mod that has only one function that allows flashlights to be attached

[echo lark]

ah i had to do item:getContainer - getInventory - getItems.

[thick karma]

I think some of your intended meaning is being lost in translation for me here.

I can't say for sure why the activation of those mods is used to determine whether that DoParam line runs. I can only tell you that the exclusion list in the code you posted is not intended to flag mods as incompatible, nor is the code trying to cause them to be incompatible.

[twin relic]

yeah but it kinda excludes the possibility of attaching light to belt if you are using mod thats focused on making light visible to other players.
i did not read too much into shine together to analyze impact/ find any potential issues especially taking into consideration iam not fluent in lua.
i saw comments under both mods that stated that it used to work, that's why i thought that this is explicitly done.

i will test it when i will be by pc if adding this attachment type brokes something

[thick karma]

I don't see how neglecting to run a single DoParam call would exclude the possibility of doing so in the infinite other circumstances where a mod might run that same line of code...

I can say from a modder's perspective I can think of no likely, realistic reasons that someone would intentionally stop two fun mods from integrating peacefully.

That just doesn't sound worth the time and energy it would take

I would add that if you want to understand that code fully, I would operate from the assumption that it's not doing that unless you definitively, incontrovertibly confirm through objective analysis that it is.

I think more likely than not the assumption that some part of the code is attempting to intentionally produce incompatibility will mislead you in your efforts to correctly interpret it

[sour island]

Looking for more participants.
https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

[sonic shuttle]

I'm outlining a mod for Project Zomboid to optimize resource usage for multiplayer to support a larger player base. anyone have some existing resource metrics for server hosting I could look at? Want to try identifying resource bottlenecks

Are there any existing profiling or benchmarking tools or should I build them myself?

[ancient grail]

it seems that his mods checks 3 different mods if they are running
if one of em is installed the change the screwdrivers attachment

im not sure why he would do this but i assume all of those mods listed either change it like that or something else and his mod is having issue about it and so he did this yo fix it im guessing

[ancient grail]

i replied first without reading whole thread. my bad.

you already knew ...
i suggest you look at those 3 mods to know what exactly they did

and if you dont mind can you d
share what youre trying to build ?

[tough peak]

Is there anyone who let me know to make lua script for adjusting recipe ingredients?
I tried to create it by applying the "AdjustItemProperty" lua script, but it failed.

[cunning isle]

Hello, I recently started making Recipe Scripts for my mod with this guide https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Recipe_Script_Guide
is there a list with sounds and animations for these parameters

AnimNode:
Sound:

In my mod there are also new melee weapons and I need a list with the swing animations that are in the game
A guide that I use: https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide/blob/master/scripts/README.md

SwingAnim:

[grizzled fulcrum]

All of the AnimNode params I could find:

Disassemble
SawLog
RipSheets

All of the Sound params I could find:

OpenSeedPacket
Dismantle
BreakGlassItem
Hammering
Sawing
EmptyPan
OpenCannedFood
MakePlaster
PutItemInBag
BoxOfRoundsOpenOne
BoxOfShellsOpenOne
SliceBread
SliceMeat
PZ_FoodSwoosh
LogAddToStack
LogRemoveFromStack
ClothesRipping

All of the SwingAnim params I could find:

Stab
Bat
Heavy
Spear
Rifle
Handgun
Throw
Shove

ill try look for more but that's all of the ones the game uses in media/scripts folder

[cunning isle]

Thanks ❤️ , I thought there would be more SwingAnim in PZ but i think thats enough for me.

[grizzled fulcrum]

Anyone know what the difference between render and update are?

in ISPanel I mean

Nevermind I found my answer in the discord search results, wonderful!

[glossy estuary]

Why is this a thing? I thought users simply subscribe to workshop and it's automatically installed?

[thick karma]

You also have to enable the mod in game. But it's probably a dedi host saying that. They often just directly edit Mod ID and Workshop ID into their server file where it belongs.

[grizzled fulcrum]

I thought the workshop id and mod id automatically get appended to the workshop description when you upload a mod:

I never manually added these, the game did after I uploaded the mod. You have to manually remove them so that suggestion may have been to add them back?

[grizzled fulcrum]

Also I find it bizarre that there isn't a way to get a list of active moodles from vanilla. The java MoodleList var that holds them is private and the only thing you can get from lua to access it is getNumMoodles but that doesn't really help

currently I just have to loop through the num of moodles, check if the moodle level is above 0 then boom

wait im dumb getNumMoodles and ultimately MoodleList holds all the moodles even when moodle level is 0, not active moodles.

[drifting ore]

you know how the saying goes - assuming makes an ass out of u 😛

though I will acknowledge, making private anything that isn't purely technical data only meant to support inner workings of the class is CS college degree wank

ideally everything should be public, and making things private is a concession that your class cannot function without a hidden state, which in itself basically means that the correct function of that class hinges on hopes and prayers that nothing will go wrong and the hidden state will never get messed up

[cunning isle]

Can someone tell me how you can change weapon position in hand? My character should hold it like spear

[grizzled fulcrum]

wait til you see how they handle getting moodle texture based on MoodleType index.....

You'd think IS is haunted or something

Reference: MoodleUI java class 😭

wait I got uno and dos mixed up its the other way around
I really REALLY really hope it's just due to the decompiler..

[fast remnant]

Sweet thanks!

[brisk remnant]

Hi bro, beginner here so sorry if it’s a wrong answer but when you export that object using fbx in blender. There is a window on the right up above export. Inside that window is x up -X up and stuff. Fiddle with them might do it bro 🙏

[honest shard]

No one wants full berets made of wool?
I think PZ needs more clothing mods! 😄

[cunning isle]

yeah i did that and works

[brisk remnant]

Ayyy, dreams bro. glad it worked 🙏

[tranquil kindle]

Play around with origin point of your weapon model. Guns for example should always have origin point on handles since thats where hand is. Im not sure about spears, but if you put origin point on one side, test it and then the other side you will get general idea how to work around it

[safe nebula]

All those tips worked amazing! Just need to figure out how to change the muzzle flash texture now - how would i go about doing that?

[tranquil kindle]

Is there something wrong with vanila one or yours is glitchy? As far as i know all guns share a single muzzle flash and its not possible to change it for a single gun, but i could be wrong?

[safe nebula]

For some reason my flash is showing as my weapons actual texture

[tranquil kindle]

Could you show screenshot of it?

[safe nebula]

yeah let me see

[safe nebula]

I have mods installed on the workshop, but not enabled on the save - reckon that could be causing it?

[tranquil kindle]

I'm gonna be honest, i had it happend only once at the very start of my modding and back then i had no idea what caused it and i no longer have that model. Have you checked if other gun has same issue?

[safe nebula]

Just this one, though this is the only one ive added so far

[tranquil kindle]

Check vanila gun?

[safe nebula]

Vanilla guns all work fine

[tranquil kindle]

Could you send model of your gun ?

[safe nebula]

yeah can do, down to dm?

[tranquil kindle]

Sure, since id like to know how to solve it myself since i write guide

[safe nebula]

You're a saint

[drifting ore]

considering that Java keeps symbol names intact and its compiler introduces a lot of optimizations, the decompiled code in all likelyhood looks prettier than the original

[grizzled fulcrum]

😭

[drifting ore]

depending on decompiler, things like foreach might show up as for(i = 1, ...) but that's a minor difference and this would certainly not be true for general algorithms

basically, consider decompiled code to be "let me copy your homework" kind of deal

[grizzled fulcrum]

Thanks for explaining java compiler a little

Java is very similar to C++ compiler I guess too

[drifting ore]

well not really but the idea is the same

anyway you can look up java bytecode spec and that'll tell you most of what you need to know about the compiler

(you don't actually need to know anything about Java compiler)

[grizzled fulcrum]

Yes I know thankfully

I just like learning a little bit of stuff and I never really looked at java outside of the code

One thing I was surprised about java when I first learnt it was how much they use heap allocation because everything is new new new delete delete

In C and C++, use stack allocation always and never really use heap allocation ever unless really need to because memory leaks and bad performance can happen

[tranquil bone]

hello, is there any way to tell the vscode sumneko extension where the game code is? so maybe i can get autocompletion for the game's lua variables

or is there any way at all to get autocompletion and go-to-definition to work in vscode for the above?

[drifting ore]

this stops being relevant fast when you make large programs that use a lot of memory

stack is not special. It's just pointer hopping hammers RAM latency and it becomes an issue fast

using stack is conducive to NOT doing that, so you might get the wrong impression that it's the stack itself that matters

[compact tinsel]

heya, I ran into an issue with something that shouldn't be one

    {
        ScrapMetal = 10,
        SheetPaper2/Newspaper,
        keep [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Saw],
        keep BallPeenHammer,
        keep BlowTorch,
        Result:NailsBox,
        Time= 160.0,
        Category:Welding,
        Sound:WorkOnMetal,
        AnimNode:Craft,
    }```
this is the code, but it just won't show up when I rightclick the materials to craft it. All materials are in the inventory of the character
At this point I think that I've SOMEHOW put a typo in it that I just can't spot because I've been staring at it for a while.
The sound is a custom sound that I've added, though that shouldn't be the issue

[tranquil kindle]

But does recipe show up at all in crafting menu?

[drifting ore]

vanilla files use colon for time setting, and use equals sign to denote number of ingredients/results, so maybe changing this will fix it

[compact tinsel]

Have just done the changing equals for colon, that worked, now I feel like an idiot
thank you!

[drifting ore]

were there any errors in console.txt log file?

it prints out crash stack trace when Lua goes south

[compact tinsel]

only that it didn't find the sound, but that's something I think I can fix

[drifting ore]

so it didn't work due to syntax error but it never said there was a syntax error. Big oof. Should've used JSON.

Or I dunno, XML.

cough cough

[deep cipher]

why doesnt pz switch to c++ ?

[drifting ore]

because it's too late for that lol. This would entail rewriting 100% of the codebase.

at this point even switching to LuaJ to improve script performance would be a herculean task

the real suggestion would've been to switch to a real game engine like Unreal or Godot

but, again, there's no way this would happen, that's far too much work if you've gotten past barebones prototype stage

[deep cipher]

yea but how does one import the game to unreal

or do you mean rewriting everything

[drifting ore]

rewriting everything is par for the course when you're talking about switching frameworks

all you can take with you is experience and rough outline of the algorithms, everything else is re-done from scratch

I guess you can keep the assets too.

[deep cipher]

arent there conversion tools that would help in this matter

[drifting ore]

for something so custom and arbitrary you'd have to write those yourself too

[grizzled fulcrum]

Use umbrella on GitHub just search like umbrella emmylua

[deep cipher]

yea is guess thats true, i wouldnt be so happy tbh if the devs were using third party conversion tools to fix their game hahah

not saying its broken but switching to another language would be a big step up for this game

[drifting ore]

eh I doubt it. Java is JIT-compiled so performance gains would be marginal, and even then ONLY if you can write good C++ code which is a lot harder than writing an C++ code. Well to start with, the C++ code must be good enough to not cause crashes due to memory overruns and whatnot. And if you use libraries that do the checks for you, then performance drops to the same levels you had in Java.

A real performance gain could be had from switching from OOP to ECS, but that's even less likely than switching from Java to C++.

because instead of just writing in a different language, it requires thinking in different terms

[deep cipher]

they would just be better off using unreal engine

i hope they do that

[deep cipher]

i hate the fragility of memory in c++

[drifting ore]

Let's put it this way. Have you ever had happened to you, that you had to work a full weekend for an assignment, and then they said you had to throw it away and do it all over again but using different writing style?

Well it's like that. Except it's more than a decade worth of assignment.

[deep cipher]

yea i get it, but maybe if they increased their team they could make it happen

[drifting ore]

Choosing Java and everything else that comes with the package was a shortsighted and/or misguided decision, but at this point all you can do is suck it up and keep churning.

[deep cipher]

but they would be better off creating a second game

actually

[drifting ore]

You know what, actually I have an example what it takes to rewrite a game in C++

Minecraft Bedrock

[grizzled fulcrum]

Or releasing what they want in b42, get it to a stable ish area and then start reworking some of the internals to clean it up a bit like a home renovation

[drifting ore]

It takes billions of dollars worth of profits and a giant international software company.

[grizzled fulcrum]

And it still turned out poorly

[drifting ore]

It runs many many times faster. To the point that you can run it on a phone. It was their goal and they accomplished it.

[grizzled fulcrum]

True but their rendering stuff still sucks

[drifting ore]

compared to java minecraft it's an outstanding rendering engine come on

[grizzled fulcrum]

I meant poorly as in the countless bugs in the game still existing after years of development with a seemingly endless money supply

[drifting ore]

even compared to Sodium it's great

[grizzled fulcrum]

On max chunks the renderer starts struggling compared to sodium I can run on 256 chunks and not much of a hitch

[drifting ore]

[x] doubt

i have a 4090 and even 30 chunks becomes problematic

and a 7950X and 64GB of RAM

you basically can't ask for a better machine

desktop gaming-wise

[deep cipher]

there is this mod that allows endless render distance by not loading every fucking block en lowering quality.

minecraft devs are so lazy

[drifting ore]

yeah distant horizons

it's pretty GOATed, and it's been getting better shader support

[deep cipher]

its so logical for minecraft to have that

[drifting ore]

do note that Distant Horizons has absolutely nothing to do with SOdium, it has an entirely separate rendering routine, in fact it renders to the skybox, the thing that goes behind actual minecraft blocks

[deep cipher]

some modders put this together but a million dollar company cant

[deep cipher]

i dont play minecraft that often and to be frank dont know what sodium is haha

[drifting ore]

It's a replacement rendering engine. It's kind of like Optifine. Except it's basically most popular Minecraft mod, whereas fewer and fewer people want to even touch Optifine. Doubling down on being closed-source was the hill they decided to die on.

[drifting ore]

modders are thousands, and they do it for free. A billion dollar company can't spend a million dollars on something that will never generate an extra million dollars in profit.

So making a C++ version was their call on how to make more money off of improving FPS. Pretty clearly they too think that Java Minecraft is too big of a steaming heap to try and fix it.

[hidden rock]

Hello, just a silly question, can global ModData store objects like a square? (I don't know much but I tried storing a tuple with a square and a number but after going to menu and entering again the tuple has nil and the number)

[drifting ore]

lua tables can store anything, but saving it to disk is a separate matter

[robust locust]

Here's my 2nd mod I've just finished and uploaded 😄

Thanks for the help, you peeps are great 😄

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3276683072

Hopefully, it's bug free ... 🫠

[mellow frigate]

you can put it in the table but it will cause problems at reload time. don't do it

[thick karma]

What T said, but you can store the x, y, z instead and grab square from that when it's loaded and available

[sour island]

Rerendered the back frames and symbols - p happy with the turn out

[fleet bridge]

Are you able to store items in a table? Or does this run into the same issue?

[mellow frigate]

you should not store java class in ModData tables. you should only store PODs in those. But you can store anything in lua tables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_data_structure

[fleet bridge]

Yes I was trying to figure out how to store items in table but also to persist over restarts. Figured mod data was not the way to go.

[mellow frigate]

Mod data is the way to go for mods. you have to convert to PODs as Burryaga suggested above for squares

[fleet bridge]

Yea but I wanted to store items (and their respective stats and mod data's)

[mellow frigate]

items are already saved by vanilla

[hidden rock]

Yeah, i ended up using that approach, thank you everyone!! Although I'm still struggling with the client/server part.

[thick karma]

You can refer to and refactor any of my code for help if you want. Act Undead has a little client-server talk. True Music Jukebox has more.

[hollow lodge]

looking for opinions here, since spongie clothing adds leather vests i thought it would be cool to make the denim vest close/open, but I'm not sure which style to make, either the low cut(left) or the jacket cut(right) would be cool if you react to this message for clarity

[grizzled fulcrum]

Oh ya I did use nvidium sorry I didn't mention that, without it on 256 chunks I only get 30-40 fps

[grizzled fulcrum]

I don't like denim so my opinion doesn't matter but I think I would use the left one in a zombie apocalypse

[drifting ore]

Is there a way to make better mods that receive any data on server that can posted to a middleware/service to process the data e.g. consumed by web etc?

[grizzled fulcrum]

I think you can make get request from lua but not post request

you could write the request to a file and have like a python script in the background watching that file or something idk

[drifting ore]

Ideally you would have an option to open or close it.

[vestal gyro]

Right cut is better

Actually looks like a denims

Imo

[shrewd cedar]

I'm wondering if anyone knows - for a container tile, can its capacity only be set in the .tiles file, or can it also be adjusted after the fact via script?

[coarse sinew]

Yes you can do it via lua code on OnLoadedTileDefinitions event, but you have to set new property values if they don't already exist. Here's an example, this is how I set properties in Building Menu.
In a .lua file in media/lua/shared

Events.OnLoadedTileDefinitions.Add(function(manager)
    local sprites = {
        "location_military_generic_01_23",
    }

    for _, sprite in ipairs(sprites) do
        local props = manager:getSprite(sprite):getProperties();
        props:Set("ContainerCapacity", "100", false);
        props:CreateKeySet();
    end
end)

To add new values to properties if they have not been initialized in any tilepack, in the same file as the above code, or in another .lua file in shared:

-- Function to add a list of values to a specified property in the world's property value map
---@param propertyName string The name of the property to which values are added
---@param values table A table of values to ensure they are present in the property map
local function addValuesToPropertyMap(propertyName, values)
    local currentValues = IsoWorld.PropertyValueMap:get(propertyName) or ArrayList.new()

    for _, value in ipairs(values) do
        if not currentValues:contains(value) then
            currentValues:add(value)
        end
    end

    IsoWorld.PropertyValueMap:put(propertyName, currentValues)
end

Events.OnInitWorld.Add(function()
    addValuesToPropertyMap("ContainerCapacity", {
        "80", "200"
    })
end)

[north drift]

So i have been working on fixing the errors in ItemZed and trying to bring it back to life, Thinking it would be great to enable people with little knowledge about coding to be able to make simple item mods? Do we think this is worth the while or a waste of time ?

And if it is worth it, what is the MVP
what functionality do we think is the minimum required?

[shrewd cedar]

Awesome, exactly what I was looking for, and maybe some more code to look at for examples 🙂 Thanks!

[wise igloo]

when editing loot distributions from other mods is it as simple as RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions[1], "Base.M16A1", nil, true);
and making sure it is loaded in priority to the mod its removing from?

[junior blaze]

how do mod a hairstyle? is there a tutorial?

[red tiger]

That's pretty cool. I should get back to working on ZedScript, the vscode extension that does syntax highlighting and IntelliSense for that stuff.

@north drift I'd like to make this sort of tool however with HTML5 + CSS3 instead.

Was on a TODO list. =)

I am currently doing the exact same thing but for third-party documentation for PZ's API.

[reef portal]

hows the modding scene these days?

omg ur working on a vscode extension for pz modding? ur the goat

also bigusredus modding tools are always great things to make

[red tiger]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asledgehammer.zedscript-vscode
https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella

[reef portal]

nice

its been a minute since i've been on the modding scene here but the b42 hypes got me feeling it

also i've been doing rdr2 modding and that uses lua as well

so a bit of transferrable skillset as well

but thanks for the links

[weary knoll]

just posted this https://youtu.be/YXhB6PZ5VXo

[true pollen]

bom dia! alguém pode me ajudar a iniciar no mundo da criação de mods? não sei por onde começa, nem que programa usar 😫

good morning! Can anyone help me get started in the world of creating mods? I don’t know where to start, or what program to use 😫

[drifting ore]

If you want to make Lua mods, you will need a programming notepad, like VSCode. If you want to create clothing mods, you will also need Blender (or some other 3d model software). There are some very basic tutorials for making clothes and Lua mods, they're easy to find in google. The rest of it it is mainly figuring stuff out by looking at vanilla game files, documentation, other people's mods, and decompiled source code of the game. And you can just ask here if you have a specific problem.

For Lua in particular there are a whole slew of learning resources, since it's a popular scripting language in video games.

[true pollen]

OK, Where are there tutorials for those just starting out? I'm Brazilian and I've already encountered a lot of difficulty because I don't have videos in Portuguese

[drifting ore]

Language barrier will be a huge issue. Thankfully most browsers these days can AI translate stuff on the fly.

So I suggest just looking for information in English.

[true pollen]

ok, I want to create a mod that adds more engine power to some cars, how and where do I start?

[drifting ore]

I wouldn't know exactly, so here's a general methodology to approaching this kind of problem. Look for original game files that pertain to cars, and figure out which one of the settings controls engine power. Then create a new workshop mod package (in the c:/user/zomboid folder) and put identical file in there (with identical folder path to it) and then modify it. When you enable the mod in the game, your file will override the original.

[true pollen]

thank you very much for the support

[drifting ore]

you can look in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\vehicles for the bulk of the files

[true pollen]

está bem

[dull moss]

how can I dig up a texture used by a game? namely I want media/ui/BodyInsulation/heatbar_horz to see how textures are stored and stuff so I can add my own texture for a bar

goes without saying that if go to that location there's no folder called BodyInsulation

I need to add textures for gradient bars that are not in the game

for example, game has red-green gradient bar but I for example want green-red gradient bar (flipped)

or other way around

you get the idea

[cursive steeple]

jacket cut, I feel like the low cut could be misunderstood as a different material

[hollow lodge]

I'm making both, I really like the low cut for any cowboy outfits out there

[true pollen]

Is there a website or online course that teaches you how to create mods?

[cursive steeple]

there is github resources and also the source code for the game / other mods. Other than that its pretty bare online

this is the best starting point imo:
https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide

[true pollen]

Really, there's nothing on YouTube

[true pollen]

ok

Will I learn the Lua language, even though I don't know anything about programming?

[cursive steeple]

you should learn how to program before considering making a mod in my opinion. Or you can just get a mod similar to what you want to do and edit it

[true pollen]

Got it, good idea.

man, it's so hard to take the first step due to lack of totorials in your native language

[ancient grail]

#1070852229654917180 message

[true pollen]

becomes a thousand times more difficult

[true pollen]

tranks bro

[compact tinsel]

heya, I have ran into two issues, but I'll start with one
Recipes that I have given a skill and a skill level won't show up in the crafting menu and aren't right-click craftable (despite the character having the right levels)

Did anyone else have similar issues?

[safe silo]

My mod worked 3 days ago and I haven't changed anything. I now get this error

Callframe at: se.krka.kahlua.integration.expose.MultiLuaJavaInvoker@c4773121```

It says function: onPlayerDeath -- file: NecroDeath.lua line # 140 MOD: NecroCore

Here's that line:

-- Function to handle player death
function NecroDeath.onPlayerDeath()
print("NecroDeath: Sent we died.")
line 140 -> sendClientCommand("NecroDeath", "onDeath", player, nil)
end

I have tested this with all my mods and without. Still breaks here.

[drifting ore]

you posted the wrong part of the stack trace

none of this says what's the issue

[dull moss]

Anyone knows?
#mod_development message

[crystal pendant]

my girlfriend doesnt like the stomp sound effect as its too yucky for her if she deletes or replaces the sound file for it can we still play vanilla mp together?

also which sound is the sound which plays when the zombie dies of stomp.

[dull moss]

im sure it can be replaced

look at https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2743379697

for how it can probably be done

you should be able to whip out mod for that with no issues

considering you can literally take other mod and change like 3 things

[bronze yoke]

look in the texture packs, there's a tool to extract them in the modding tools

[dull moss]

where would I find the modding tools mentioned? Also will i have to pack my textures in the packs aswell or simple png suffice? Like for traits and stuff i just use png

[bronze yoke]

on steam, pz modding tools, it should be in your library if you own pz

[dull moss]

ah

[bronze yoke]

you don't have to pack anything, the game treats packed and non-packed files mostly the same

[dull moss]

cheers

[fleet bridge]

Client cannot send anything on death

From what I recall

[safe silo]

Figured out it was the order of the sendClientCommand() that was wrong. But thank you!

[dull moss]

works

[hollow lodge]

how are the clothing masks numbered?
<m_Masks>12</m_Masks>
<m_Masks>13</m_Masks>
That's what I copy to do a vest, which I guess is something related to the torso
what part of the body represent each number?

[drifting ore]

here's what I found

[hollow current]

#modeling message I guess you're looking for this?

[cunning isle]

Hello, I have mod with new recepies and items. Does anybody know how to make a translation for my mod?

[dull moss]

you just make new folder with language code and put translations there

[cunning isle]

do you have example script how it should look?

also when my mod is in EN lang do i need to add EN translation or i can leave it?

[dull moss]

EN folder is where your translation files are located.

    UI_trait_AVClub = "AV Club Member",
    UI_trait_AVClubDesc = "You are a part of the AV Club",
    UI_trait_AxeThrower = "Axe Thrower",
    ...
}```

```UI_CN = {
    UI_trait_AVClub = "AV俱乐部会员",
    UI_trait_AVClubDesc = "你是AV俱乐部的一员",
    UI_trait_AxeThrower = "掷斧者",
    ...
}```

for exmaple, UI_EN and UI_CN

game loads translation based on game language

or english if translation is missing

[cunning isle]

I mean my mod have items and recipies in EN already so do i need translation files for EN lang

[dull moss]

you already have them

because you made them

???

unless you hardcoded your values which is bad pratice

[cunning isle]

i dont have folder for EN names ect. i mean in my code when i create weapon i already make EN name

[dull moss]

then idk

[cunning isle]

oke

[dull moss]

idk how items load and how game defaults them and stuff, guess take a look at one of 50000 item mods on workshop to see how they do translations

that's my best bet

[cunning isle]

ok, thanks for info ill check that

do i need to add smth like that

``` to mod.info?

[dull moss]

dont think so

[bright fog]

No

[slow hound]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Translations

[cunning isle]

i give up i tried everything and it is still not working

[hollow current]

Translations? What are you trying to translate (recipes/items/etc)?

For items, create a media\lua\shared\Trasnalte\EN\ItemName_EN.txt then do something like

ItemName_EN = {
  ItemName_Base.Crowbar = "Crowbar",
}```

Replace EN with the actual language you want to localize to

and Base.Crowbar with the item you want to translate its name

For recipes, you follow same logic, but use media\lua\shared\Translate\EN\Recipes_EN.txt, and then, for example:

ItemName_EN = {
  Recipe_Make_Aerosol_bomb = "Make Aerosol Bomb",

with replacing Make_Aerosol_bomb with your actual recipe name

The game should automatically pick up these kinds of translations when they're available. So you don't really have to do anything rather than creating the localization files and making sure naming and stuff is right

[fringe tulip]

anyone know how to convert ui.pack to png?

[ancient grail]

pz mod tool. tilezed

[fringe tulip]

a website?

[ancient grail]

steam

you might need to check filters

[fringe tulip]

i see thanks

[silk pike]

I'm creating recipes to make jams or food in general.
I need these items to be returned to me once consumed, an empty jar and the lid
How can I do? Do I need a function lua?

[grizzled fulcrum]

what.

nevermind im unphased at this point

ignore what I said

[north drift]

ItemZed 1.4
Changes fix the two errors i saw in forums and was able to replicate
-Updated .Pack reader to handle .pack files with PZPK versions
-Updated Script read to ignore commented lines

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21923-itemzed-updated-11b/

[mystic vessel]

Working on a new version of the machines mod

[cunning isle]

I tried that several times with different combinations, i checked how other mods have translation and i also tried those and nothing is working idk why both for items and recipes

ok, i fixed translation and its working ty

[sour island]

Hello everyone, the modding discord is hosting a ModJam this upcoming week, check it out if you're interested:

https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/s/P4RhBqf8yU

I will say the Game Night API is easy to use -there's a guide linked on the page. I'll also be around for support.

[safe nebula]

So im running into a problem with attachments for guns, every time i reload a save it deletes the new gun from the list of weapons an attachment can go on - any ideas?

[drifting ore]

I had a similar kind of problem when loading a save would delete sandbox settings and revert to defaults. The issue was that sandbox data isn't actually loaded right at the moment when the script activates, it happens a bit later. Somehow when you start a new game it's the other way around. The solution was to put code that modifies data in an event callback, not execute it immediately. Maybe you have a similar problem.

[fleet bridge]

Default sandbox settings are used until global mod data is initialized

[dull moss]

Anyone good with UIs in here?
Got following problem:
I have an ISPanelJoypad that I create. in init I create children

function ISETWUI:initialise()
    ISPanelJoypad.initialise(self)
    self:createChildren()
end```
```lua
function ISETWUI:createChildren()
    self.mainGroup = {};
    self.nodeGroup = {};
    ... other code here
    y = y + FONT_HGT_SMALL

    if ETWCommonLogicChecks.EagleEyedShouldExecute() then
        x = lineStartPosition;
        nonBarsEntryNumber = nonBarsEntryNumber + 1;
        if (nonBarsEntryNumber >= nonBarsEntriesPerRow) then
            y = y + FONT_HGT_SMALL;
            nonBarsEntryNumber = 1;
        end
        if nonBarsEntryNumber ~= 1 then
            x = lineStartPosition + columnGap * (nonBarsEntryNumber - 1);
        end
        self.labelEagleEyedProgress = ISLabel:new(x, y, FONT_HGT_SMALL, getText("Sandbox_EvolvingTraitsWorld_EagleEyedKills"), self.btnTextColor.r, self.btnTextColor.g, self.btnTextColor.b, self.btnTextColor.a, UIFont.Small, true)
        self:addMainGroup(self.labelEagleEyedProgress)
    end
end```
and later on I change values in prerender
```lua
function ISETWUI:prerender()
    self:setWidthAndParentWidth(WINDOW_WIDTH);
    self:setHeightAndParentHeight(WINDOW_HEIGHT);
    ...
    if self.labelEagleEyedProgress ~= nil then
        self.labelEagleEyedProgress:setName(getText("Sandbox_EvolvingTraitsWorld_EagleEyedKills") .. ": " .. modData.EagleEyedKills .. "/" .. SBvars.EagleEyedKills)
    end
    ISPanelJoypad.prerender(self);
end```
and It creates the label again instead of modifying existing one

oh and addMainGroup is simply adding child

function ISETWUI:addMainGroup(_widget, _ignoreAddChild, _view)
    self:addChild(_widget)
end```

And label does exist in the table

But instead of editing existing one it for some reason does whatever it does

actually if i break it after i update the label it shows that it updated correctly, but the question still stands, why does it make it in new place instead of editing existing one

[dull moss]

I'm stupid

prerender should end with

    ISPanelJoypad.prerender(self);
    self:clearStencilRect();
end```

I forgot to clearStensil

whatever that does

honestly i dunno, all I know is that it fixes it

guess I could look up in decompiled lua files what it does but why if it works it works

[wet sandal]

The stencil is used to define an area that is valid to draw inside of.
It normally matches the size of your UI element so that if you draw something too big, instead that overflowing and rendering outside of the UI element, it gets cutoff.

[dull moss]

why does clearing it fixes stuff?

[wet sandal]

The UI element you're drawing inside of is likely too small

[dull moss]

wait so when I create label with some text it sets the label (UI element) boundaries and later on when I try to edit it it refuses (cuz new text is bigger than old one) and just drawn a new one next to it?

[wet sandal]

Ah, yea.
If you create a label and edit the text later you'll want to make sure to update the width based on the new text.

[dull moss]

clear stencil works too so I'll leave it at that

[wet sandal]

Yea it's perfectly fine for labels, just letting you know what it does

[dull moss]

thanks

[dull moss]

Since I got you here and you're knowledgeable in UI, what's the dif between prerender and render? I assume render runs on every tick, but what about prerender?

If you got a min and know the answer

[wet sandal]

Prerender runs before the UI elements children are rendered

I think

[dull moss]

Doesnt seem to be the case, If i have my page open and change some value in my moddata and i have the updates in prerender it still updates realtime

[devout marsh]

When adding items to a players inventory using
playerObj:getInventory():AddItem("Base.WaterBottleFull");
local bag = player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.WaterBottleFull");
(as examples)

How would I add multiple to an inventory without just writing copypasting that command multiple times? If any way

[bright fog]

ooooohh, that looks like a very cool panel

Oh wow the use of those color gradiants is nice

[dull moss]

if there's no innate way you can loop, but there should be a way. Dunno cuz havent looked at inventroy

[bright fog]

That looks amazing

[devout marsh]

Aight so just spam it? Understandable

XD

[wet sandal]

Yea, it's still every frame, but if you moved your labels around in the render function they would have 1 frame latency, vs using prerender where it would be immediate.

[bright fog]

for loop

[dull moss]

wait so is prerender better performance wise?

[devout marsh]

That too :3

[drifting ore]

from the source code, UIElement renders in this order: execute prerender, then execute every child's render function (i.e. this very routine), then execute it's own render

[dull moss]

so it literally doesnt matter, it still renders with same refreshrate so performanse-wise it's all the same

cheers

[wet sandal]

No, they both run every frame.

Order is:
Prerender
Render
For each child UI
Prerender
Render
For each child UI , etc

[dull moss]

when that would be useful tho

oh for example if i wanna prerender bigger picture and then render other things on top

gotcha

[drifting ore]

it's one of those scenarios where it might be useful for reasons that are not apparent to you

[dull moss]

ye ofc

[dull moss]

soon™️ in https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2914075159

[bright fog]

nice

[bronze yoke]

you're mistaken, the order is:
prerender
child prerender
child child (...)
child render
render

prerender and render aren't redundant, they're used to render things before or after children

neither will introduce any latency, both happen on the same ui frame

[distant vortex]

Hi, Can anyone help me create a mod for the game Project Zomboid that allows me to change the color and background of the messages displayed on the game's TV.

I studied a little about the ISRecordedMedia and RecMedia functions, but I didn't understand how I can create the mod.

[winged ocean]

Hi, Does anyone have experience creating mods that give players XP or is it even possible? I'm working on creating a apprenticeship mod that while a player is grinding skills another player could be sitting next to them gaining a small amount of xp. So far I have most of the mod working expect actually giving another player XP. Should this code belong on the server-side. I'm willing to provide my code I've written so far. Thank you!

[sour island]

Damn what is this for, looks slick

[dull moss]

ETW

k how can I clean a window or something, when I create children it draws them and when I update values instead of editing what's on the screen it just draws over

idk anymore

[sour island]

That stuff is draw on render usually

shouldn't overlap like that 🤔

Also I meant the menu with the glowing markers

Or is that now part of ETW?

[drifting ore]

you can just use player:setXP

[dull moss]

gradient bars? I just cannibalized how base game uses gradient bars in temperature and made few textures for my own gradient bars

[sour island]

Ah

As for the text thing - are you using UI:drawText ?

Where UI is the window?

[dull moss]

no, label

[winged ocean]

yep more specificy it should be player:getXp():AddXP(perk, 50)

[dull moss]

    if ETWCommonLogicChecks.EagleEyedShouldExecute() then
        /some code/
        self.labelEagleEyedProgress = ISLabel:new(x, y, FONT_HGT_SMALL, getText("Sandbox_EvolvingTraitsWorld_EagleEyedKills"), self.btnTextColor.r, self.btnTextColor.g, self.btnTextColor.b, self.btnTextColor.a, UIFont.Small, true)
        self.labelEagleEyedProgress:setTooltip(getText("Sandbox_EvolvingTraitsWorld_EagleEyedKills"))
        self:addMainGroup(self.labelEagleEyedProgress)
    end```
here i create the child
and in render i try to update it 
```lua
    if self.labelEagleEyedProgress ~= nil then
        if not ETWCommonLogicChecks.EagleEyedShouldExecute() then
            self:clearChildren();
            self:createChildren();
        else
            self.labelEagleEyedProgress:setName(getText("UI_trait_eagleeyed") .. " (" .. getText("UI_EvolvingTraitsWorld_Kills") .. "): " .. modData.EagleEyedKills .. "/" .. SBvars.EagleEyedKills)
        end
    end```

ignore childern shenanigans its ro dynamically remove stuff thats no longer needed

[winged ocean]

but the issue is that I'm not setting it for the client player, I'm setting it for another player on the server

[sour island]

Labels should be using drawttext and only doing so on render

[drifting ore]

so just use according player object

[dull moss]

and if i go into tables in-game and check, it updates correctly BUT it still draws original under

[sour island]

if not ETWCommonLogicChecks.EagleEyedShouldExecute() then this returns false all the time?

[winged ocean]

I have been, but its not working. It just doesn't set and no error is being throw so its difficult of find out why.

[sour island]

Cause there's no returned value

[dull moss]

its outside function, it returns false in this case

function ETWCommonLogicChecks.EagleEyedShouldExecute()
    local player = getPlayer();
    if SBvars.EagleEyed == true and not player:HasTrait("EagleEyed") and SBvars.TraitsLockSystemCanGainPositive then
        return true
    else
        return false
    end
end

[sour island]

Sorry brainfart, thought the first snippet was the function

[drifting ore]

well the server has no concept of "current player" so you might be fecthing irrelvant data

[dull moss]

and same thing happens with gradient bars, they still have INITIAL gradient bars under the render. I know because when i create them I set their values to 1, and tou can see highlight shadow on the sides

so idk what to do here

[sour island]

Question - what's addMainGroup?

Looking it up only shows uses in ISClothingInsPanel and it seems to be doing something related for the character window having multiple views

[dull moss]

jsut create children, it's redundant, I yoinked it from temperature base game code, its how it create ui's there and i started there

    self:addChild(_widget)
end```

[sour island]

Ah

Yeah this is all weird

setting the label's name should change it's text I believe

[dull moss]

it does, but for some reason it displays old info under it

[sour island]

Could you be calling create twice?

Making an old version of the element left behind?

self.labelEagleEyedProgress = self.labelEagleEyedProgress or UI STUFF HERE

Just to test the theory

[dull moss]

wdym

[sour island]

self.labelEagleEyedProgress = self.labelEagleEyedProgress or ISLabel:new(x, y, FONT_HGT_SMALL, getText("Sandbox_EvolvingTraitsWorld_EagleEyedKills"), self.btnTextColor.r, self.btnTextColor.g, self.btnTextColor.b, self.btnTextColor.a, UIFont.Small, true)

[dull moss]

oh I see

[sour island]

This would prevent an additional label being created

My guess is you may be accidentally running it twice

so the old label is losing it's reference point - and thus not updating

[dull moss]

that's smart

[sour island]

Yeah but it's not a fix if that's the case - cause that may mean you're writing text twice all over lol

[dull moss]

good thing you're smarter than me

you are correct

[sour island]

Nah, I've just tortured myself with UI for longer

[dull moss]

but i think it still writes it over twice

cuz you see how it's a bit jagged

but at least i know what to try to figure out now

thanks

[sour island]

👍

Looks fine to me tbh

Which part is jagged?

[dull moss]

Maybe I'm just at this point

[sour island]

UI can do that

I've elevated myself from UI, and now I'm torturing myself with network desync and fighting the item code to update worldObjects

[dull moss]

function ISETWUI:initialise()
    ISPanelJoypad.initialise(self)
    self:createChildren()
end

function ISETWUI:createChildren()
--random children here, no calls to other functions
end

function ISETWUI:prerender()
-- code here
    ISPanelJoypad.prerender(self);
    self:clearStencilRect();
end

function ISETWUI:render()
    ISPanelJoypad.render(self)
    self:clearStencilRect();
end

function ISETWUI:update()
    ISPanelJoypad.update(self)
end```

anything stands out why it'd render twice?

[sour island]

if not ETWCommonLogicChecks.EagleEyedShouldExecute() then self:clearChildren(); self:createChildren(); else ?

[dull moss]

that one scraps the thing and re-makes it if child is no longer needed

tested and works

and it hasnt ran in screenshots

where it overlaps

[sour island]

It's just clearChildren just empties the list - I don't think it removes them

[dull moss]

    if self.javaObject == nil then
        return;
    end
    self.children = {}
    self.javaObject:ClearChildren();
end```

wouldn't it yeet the children?

[sour island]

As far as I can tell no

it just empties the parent's children list

well ISUIElement/self = parent of the child

[dull moss]

hmm

[sour island]

It's only used twice, and I can't really tell what it's doing

[dull moss]

[sour island]

container info panel (?)

and tab panel

both cases it's also removing the parent from the UI

[dull moss]

wait

function addCharacterPageTab(tabName,pageType)

    local viewName = tabName.."View"

    local upperLayer_ISCharacterInfoWindow_createChildren = ISCharacterInfoWindow.createChildren
    function ISCharacterInfoWindow:createChildren()
        upperLayer_ISCharacterInfoWindow_createChildren(self)
        
        self[viewName] = pageType:new(0, 8, self.width, self.height-8, self.playerNum)
        self[viewName]:initialise()
        self[viewName].infoText = getText("UI_"..tabName.."Panel");--UI_<tabName>Panel is full text of tooltip
        self.panel:addView(getText("UI_"..tabName), self[viewName])--UI_<tabName> is short text of tab
    end

    local upperLayer_ISCharacterInfoWindow_onTabTornOff = ISCharacterInfoWindow.onTabTornOff
    function ISCharacterInfoWindow:onTabTornOff(view, window)
        if self.playerNum == 0 and view == self[viewName] then
            ISLayoutManager.RegisterWindow('charinfowindow.'..tabName, ISCollapsableWindow, window)
        end
        upperLayer_ISCharacterInfoWindow_onTabTornOff(self, view, window)

    end

    local upperLayer_ISCharacterInfoWindow_SaveLayout = ISCharacterInfoWindow.SaveLayout
    function ISCharacterInfoWindow:SaveLayout(name, layout)
        upperLayer_ISCharacterInfoWindow_SaveLayout(self,name,layout)
        
        local addTabName = false
        local subSelf = self[viewName]
        if subSelf and subSelf.parent == self.panel then
            addTabName = true
            if subSelf == self.panel:getActiveView() then
                layout.current = tabName
            end
        end
        if addTabName then
            if not layout.tabs then
                layout.tabs = tabName 
            else
                layout.tabs = layout.tabs .. ',' .. tabName
            end
        end
    end
end```

i use this to add page

i think i initialize it twice

once in my init

and once here

it's from TchernoLib

[sour island]

That'd do it

[dull moss]

yep

I jsut have to yeet my own init

    --ISPanelJoypad.initialise(self)
    --self:createChildren()
end```

[mellow frigate]

I'm i nnocent

[dull moss]

https://tenor.com/view/omw-to-spread-misinformation-all-over-the-internet-gif-26525511

while you here, anyone would know how to limit rendering to my own tab?

I can add 15 pixels on the side so it's never out but it's meh

[sour island]

stencil should work if the bar is a child

[dull moss]

any pointer where to look

[sour island]

you already use stencils in your code lmao

[dull moss]

yes but idk what they do

[sour island]

I'm a bit rusty, but there's 2 parts

It would be a matter of making your visuals happen inbetween

so you'd most likely need to draw the stencil before render then clear it after

[dull moss]

soemthing like this?

        self.barAsthmatic = ISGradientBar:new(barStartPosition, y, barLength, FONT_HGT_SMALL)
        self.barAsthmatic:setGradientTexture(redYellowGreenGradient)
        self.barAsthmatic:setValue(1)
        self.barAsthmatic:setHighlightRadius(highlightRadius)
        self.barAsthmatic:setDoKnob(false)
        self.barAsthmatic:clearStencilRect();
        self:addMainGroup(self.barAsthmatic)```

k nvm not as easy

[sour island]

you're clearing it, but you need to draw it first

also this is done on render

per frame

[dull moss]

hm

[sour island]

What does ISGradientBar:render look like?

[dull moss]

it's big

function ISGradientBar:render()
    ISPanel.render(self);

    local w,h = self:getWidth(), self:getHeight();
    local radius = self.settings.radius;
    local valOffset;
    if self.settings.doKnob then
        --valOffset = PZMath.clamp(self.value * w, self.settings.radius, w-radius);
        valOffset = PZMath.clampFloat(self.value * w, 0, w);
    else
        --valOffset = PZMath.clamp(self.value * w, self.settings.radius+3, w-radius-3);
        valOffset = PZMath.clampFloat(self.value * w, 3, w-3);
    end

    self:drawTextureScaled(self.gradientTex, 0,0,w,h, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 );

    if self.settings.darkAlpha > 0 then
        if valOffset > radius then
            self:drawTextureScaled(nil, 0,0,valOffset-radius,h, self.settings.darkAlpha, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 );
        end
        if valOffset < w-radius then
            self:drawTextureScaled(nil, valOffset+radius,0,w-(valOffset+radius),h, self.settings.darkAlpha, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 );
        end
        self:drawTextureScaled(self.highlightTex, valOffset-radius,0,radius*2,h, self.settings.darkAlpha, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 );
    end

    local c = self.settings.colBorder;
    self:drawRectBorder(0, 0, w, h, c.a, c.r, c.g, c.b);

    c = self.settings.colBorderInner;
    self:drawRectBorder(1, 1, w-2, h-2, c.a, c.r, c.g, c.b);

    if self.settings.doKnob then
        c = self.settings.colBorderInner;
        self:drawRectBorder(valOffset-radius-3, 0, (radius*2)+6, h, c.a, c.r, c.g, c.b);
        self:drawRectBorder(valOffset-radius-1, 2, (radius*2)+2, h-4, c.a, c.r, c.g, c.b);

        c = self.settings.colBorder;
        self:drawRectBorder(valOffset-radius-2, 1, (radius*2)+4, h-2, c.a, c.r, c.g, c.b);
    end
end```

[sour island]

Ok add this a the top

self:setStencilRect(0, 0, self.width, self.height)

and add clear at the bottom

self:clearStencilRect()

This should make it cut off at the bounds

Or make itself invisible

[dull moss]

shoudln't it be self.barAsthmatic:clearStencilRect();?

[sour island]

this is the gradient bar's render

oh wait you know what

It would be alot more efficient to do this to the tab window itself

rather than each bar

But the gradient bar doesn't stop at the edge

🤔 I guess you do need to run it for each bar

Error Mag does this several times too, and I havn't seen issues - so you should be fine

[dull moss]

wait but you said I should do this on render and NOT when creating children?

[sour island]

Each one of these is the entire error - I cut it off at a line height, but I also stencil it

[sour island]

Yeah the render for the gradient bar

not the render of the main window

[dull moss]

but render of gradient bar is base game and not me

[sour island]

Does it drag over the edge in vanilla?

Or is this cause you're putting it so close to the edge?

[dull moss]

prob cuz close to the edge, lemme quickly test

[sour island]

Just override it 🤷

local gradientRender = ISGradientBar.render
function ISGradientBar:render()
    self:setStencilRect(0, 0, self.width, self.height)
    gradientRender(self)
    self:clearStencilRect()
end

[dull moss]

so how does it feel to be smart?

thanks

this means i dont have to leave artificial gap at left too

also this gets ugly in other languages so fast

even though i used relative positioning for everything so it looks great

    local lineStartPosition = 5;
    local barStartPosition = 150;
    local barEndPosition = WINDOW_WIDTH - lineStartPosition;
    local barMidPosition = lineStartPosition + barStartPosition + (barEndPosition - barStartPosition - lineStartPosition) / 2;
    local barLength = barEndPosition - barStartPosition;
    local barOneFourthPosition = barMidPosition - barLength / 4;
    local barThreeFourthPosition = barMidPosition + barLength / 4;
    local barOneThirdPosition = barStartPosition + barLength / 3;
    local barTwoThirdPosition = barOneThirdPosition + barLength / 3;
    local highlightRadius = 20;```

all the bar marks are relative

but i looked at it in other languages

and oh boi it's ugly

also idk why my barmid is so convoluted when it's just min+(max-min)/2

[sour island]

If you want to nitpick optimize it you can only run the stencil stuff if the values are on either end of the spectrum

Not sure if it would be worth it though

I imagine a comparison would be less overhead than a stencil rendering thing

[bright fog]

Are you making it a framework for anyone to use ?

And add to the menu maybe ?

[keen silo]

I need some help with coding, and radios if someone has that experience.

Essentially, I've made a mod that adds voice over to radios, and wanted to make a looped version (mainly for servers)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3068924704&devcomment=1&tscn=1719465910

The problem is, it doesnt seem to be looping. The Idea is as follows:

VRTVs modifies the RadioData.xml file (for taggin and time purposes)
Looped Version just holds a modified RadioData.xml with a maxloop of 50 instead of 1

If I modify VRTVs directly, It does loop. But If I used the Looped Version, it doesn't. It seems that Looped Version is not overwriting VRTVs version (even though it requires VRTVs, so it should load after it). does anybody have an Idea on how to fix this?

[bronze yoke]

i would not be surprised if radio files don't follow proper load order, load order does differ between different content types and i don't think anyone would have tested that specifically

[ancient grail]

yes. onCreate

[ancient grail]

AddItems(item, quantity)

[autumn pumice]

Anyone can help with my code?:
Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(function(player, context, items, item)
if items:GetFullType() == "Crisps" then
context:addOption("Open", items, function()
player:getInventory():AddItem(Crisps)
end)
end
end)

line 2 is making errors, i can't understand why

[devout marsh]

with the comma?

nvm found an example with it

appreciate it :D

[silk pike]

It would be interesting to have an admin tool that allows you to check the health of the player PCs

• Wounds
• Infections
• Zombie infection
• Zombification level
• Poisoning
  etc. etc
  This type of tool would be very useful for server managers
  Do you think it is possible to create it??? as long as it doesn't already exist...

[unreal pewter]

where can i find the lua files that control the text and content of TV and radio broadcasts?

im trying to modify the dialogue of those broadcasts but i cant find the files that i need to base mine off of

[devout marsh]

Troubleshooted my mod just not working for a few hours

have 0 clue what I changed to fix it, and now it works

Hm. I made myself spawn with cigarettes, and I somehow gave myself 220...

if char:HasTrait("Smoker") then
            local cigarettecount = ZombRand(18) + 3;
            bag:getInventory():AddItems("Base.Cigarettes", cigarettecount)
        end```

x)

[tranquil kindle]

In your case each unit will be x20 due to Count on item being 20

[devout marsh]

ah I did not know that :O

thankies

is there a way to spawn in less than that? XD

[tranquil kindle]

There is, i have code for it somewhere, but in my case its bullets

But they do have count = 5 too and it worked for me

Maybe try using CreateItem isntead of add item?

Oh my... it looks horrible in discord...

[devout marsh]

mood

[dry chasm]

after the three backticks you can inclue lua to tell it the colors to use, ex.:

```lua
if true then
print("Woow!");
end
```

if true then
  print("Woow!");
end

[tranquil kindle]

Woow!

[fleet bridge]

Get full type will return Module.Item. getType is what you want to use.

Player is the index number, you want to use something like playerObj = getSpecificPlayer(player) then replace player: with playerObj:

[dull moss]

Surely not a scam link <@&671452400221159444>

[drifting ore]

500010806009947 % 7 = 499995773624418 WTH?..

[autumn pumice]

did you mean i should use smth like this?: Base.Item.Crisps

i can't understand that correct

[fleet bridge]

Modulo at high values doesn't really work

Make your own

[drifting ore]

yeah OK kahlua is officially dogwater and needs to be replaced

having bugs in basic math routines is not allowed

[dull moss]

[drifting ore]

especially when neither language it runs has this problem natively

java resolves this correctly and so does C lua