mod_development

[unreal pewter]

WorldItems?

[tranquil kindle]

Have you stated your model already like in models_items.txt?

[unreal pewter]

no !

wait what

im confused what you mean

[drifting ore]

Yes. I mean I'm not sure if the game cares about letter casing, but it never hurts to err on the side of exact matching.

[tranquil kindle]

steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\scripts then models_items.txt

[drifting ore]

Here I can only say for a fact that Windows OS doesn't care about casing, but Linux does.

Not to be confused with anything running on top of the OS such as PZ exe

[unreal pewter]

ill do that right now

[tranquil kindle]

But you need your own file for that.

[unreal pewter]

yeah !

[tranquil kindle]

Or you can do it in same file you have your item script

If thats a small mod then there should be no issues, but for bigger projects i belive its better to have models/items scritps/recipes separate

[drifting ore]

the game doesn't care but depending on the way you keep mental picture of the project you may separate it into different files

with an asterisk that there may or may not exist special files that are hard-coded to have special funciton

[unreal pewter]

what do i need to put for mesh = ?

like

[tranquil kindle]

Yea, i meant mental health mostly in mnde

[unreal pewter]

the name of the .x file?

[drifting ore]

with path

    {
        mesh = WorldItems/GrilledCheese,
        texture = WorldItems/CheeseSandwich_PeanutButterSandwich_BreadSlicesRotten,
        scale = 0.3,
    }``` like this example

[unreal pewter]

WorldItems/name

?

[tranquil kindle]

From example above you would use WorldItems=GrilledCheeseRotten,

[unreal pewter]

    {
        mesh = WorldItems/bossblackcanmodel,
        texture = WorldItems/bossblackcantexture,
        scale = 0.3,
    }```

like that?

[tranquil kindle]

Scale is not needed if you have it right sized already in blender

[unreal pewter]

ah shit meant to delete that im too tired for this

do i need to put the module at the top of the script or no

[drifting ore]

yes

[unreal pewter]

do i have to do that for all scripts?

[tranquil kindle]

Im confused

Ahh module base/whatever

I guess im tired too

Yes you do if its separate file

[drifting ore]

How do I get game's current tick rate?

(besides measuring it manually - this might not be particularly reliable)

Wait. Are ticks = frames? How does this works on a server?

[unreal pewter]

.

[tranquil kindle]

About ticks i can't really help you there

[tranquil kindle]

Do you have debug on? Does it says something about mesh?

[unreal pewter]

where? in the console?

nope

[tranquil kindle]

The issue might be, spelling error/wrong locations for model/texture or maybe your 3d model is actually "empty" by mistake?

Can't really help since i dont see what you have there

[unreal pewter]

ive made like double triple extra sure theres no spelling errors

the model is definitely not empty

not sure what to do

the model definition script is a txt, right?

[tranquil kindle]

Yea

[knotty cradle]

so I added a new hat to my hats mod, and i think it's breaking the game now. The only thing that's changed is the two new XML files for forward and reverse cap, the updated clothing script, the updated guid list, the new texture and icon, and the updated distributions. Any idea where I should be looking for problems?

I can launch a server fine if i disable the mod, but with it enabled even as the only mod on a server it gets stuck on initializing

[drifting ore]

You should look in the files you added.

[knotty cradle]

I've looked through all of them and don't see anything that looks wrong, not sure what I could have done

[drifting ore]

You can troubleshoot it using the substitution method. Replace individual elements with a known working equivalent until it starts to function properly. The last thing you changed was the point of failure.

[knotty cradle]

I'm going to try removing the new distribution location, maybe it isn't liking that for some reason. I would think if that was the issue it would just not spawn there, but idk

I guess I might have to revert to the older version, and then re-add the new hat

[drifting ore]

It could also be a malformed asset file, or a script that enters an infinite loop.

[knotty cradle]

hmm, i'll keep digging

[ancient grail]

oh wow this is recent, i didnt know the forums still a thing,

are you doing a java mod cuz im not familliar with java and the syntax isnt lua i think

[winged ocean]

I’m using the pipe wrench library, so it’s Typescript

[winged ocean]

I thought it’d be easier to post code and stuff on the form, but it broke when I replied and submitted the same thing like 3 times 😂😭

[ancient grail]

local amount = 2
local perk = "Perks.Woodwork"
otherPlayer:getXp():AddXP(perk, amount, false, false, true);
sendAddXp(otherPlayer, perk, amount)

try this

[thick karma]

@red tiger

[winged ocean]

sendAddXp, interesting I haven’t seen that function before

[red tiger]

@unreal pewter

Woops

[thick karma]

Haha

🤣

[ancient grail]

ISPlayerStatsUI.lua

[thick karma]

Kegen is here looking for Typescript help using Pipewrench

[ancient grail]

oh ok sorry

[red tiger]

At the bar

Sorry lol

[thick karma]

Haha no pressure didn't expect immediate response but you know you're like the guy who does that afaik lol

[red tiger]

Yup

What's the issue?

[thick karma]

If you're willing to try to learn to do a mod in Lua a lot of people here may know the way; if doing it in Typescript, fewer know, but Jab might have ideas.

[winged ocean]

I guess you have to actually set the others players xp AddXP isn't enough?

[winged ocean]

yeah might end up switching, I was just already familiar with typescript

[ancient grail]

yep

depends on how you get the other player

[winged ocean]

from the getOnlinePlayers

[thick karma]

If you explain your goal to Jab above he may know whether it can be done in Typescript

[winged ocean]

I have it written out in the form post https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/71631-help-adding-xp-to-other-player-in-multiplayer/#comment-402593

[ancient grail]

thats what vanilla commonly uses as local var for saying a player but not you
hehe
maybe remotePlayer is better?

[ancient grail]

cuz ISPlayerStatsUI.lua has the functions for admins to add exp to other players

you just need to take the function and translate it into typescript in your case

if that doesnt work then you can always use the send commands

[thick karma]

@red tiger

[grizzled fulcrum]

Anyone know why this doesn't work? I am trying to hide and disable the moodle UI.

local moodle_ui = UIManager.getMoodleUI(player_idx)
moodle_ui:setVisible(false) -- This does nothing at all
moodle_ui:setEnabled(false) -- This only disables the surrounding UI box and not the textures themselves

[unreal pewter]

??

[grizzled fulcrum]

it was wrong ping

[unreal pewter]

ah

[red tiger]

Sorry I'm drinking at the bar

[drifting ore]

Looking at the source code, moodle UI object rendering routine doesn't takes "enabled" and "visible" flags into account

[grizzled fulcrum]

it's weird because settings visible doesnt do anything but setting enabled gets rid of the panel (though the moodle textures still stay on the screen)

[drifting ore]

wdym "panel"

[grizzled fulcrum]

it has a parent bounding box around where the moodles render

But, I semi-fixed this by calling UIManager.RemoveElement(moodle_ui) after clearing the children and setting it invisible and disabled

[drifting ore]

ah

[grizzled fulcrum]

Though my code doesn't work when I call it

only when I do it via lua console

[drifting ore]

well, the moodle UI object calls normal UI element rendering after it's done rendering moodles

[grizzled fulcrum]

I call it during event OnCreateUI and it doesn't seem to want to work (the func callback gets called, just not removing the element and everything else, maybe moodle ui isn't created then?)

[red tiger]

So pipewrench can't extend ISBaseObject classes due to translation issues. Other than that api calls are similar.

[grizzled fulcrum]

@winged ocean ^

[red tiger]

You don't have to call instanced methods with colons.

I'm allowing pz mods to be coded with JavaScript... And that should probably be considered a war crime

[drifting ore]

floppa says it's not a war crime if you had fun

[red tiger]

Lua 5.1 is just JavaScript ES5.

[drifting ore]

if you squint hard enough

but at that point C# is just Java

[grizzled fulcrum]

In that case, I think Java would be a little more like C with extra steps

[bronze yoke]

here's how i disabled them for statsapi:```lua
LuaMoodles.disableVanillaMoodles = function()
local ui = UIManager.getUI()
for i = 0, 3 do
ui:remove(UIManager.getMoodleUI(i))
end
end

[grizzled fulcrum]

Nice, but do you know how I can get the call order for all the events (considering you wrote some docs for events)?

Because I tried disabling in OnCreateUI and OnCreatePlayer but neither works as I am assuming it's too early in the events

wait your stats api already kinda achieves what I want to do

Why do I find out now aaaaa

[bronze yoke]

i think i used OnGameStart

[grizzled fulcrum]

Does your stats api mod conflict with any mods you know of? I am trying to create my own moodle UI in lua, but it seems you have already done that

If the lua stats part of your mod doesn't affect anything major, I will probably just use your mod in this case and rewrite other sections of the UI

[bronze yoke]

not that i can remember, it's supposed to be indistinguishable from vanilla

[grizzled fulcrum]

Though I might end up rewriting the moodles anyway as I am doing the whole game ui

[grizzled fulcrum]

I see, thanks for helping me tho!

my whole take is anything UI = and

[drifting ore]

best ui - no ui. And it's totally not because I suck at making ui

[grizzled fulcrum]

Using OnGameStart works like a charm, thanks!

[rich loom]

any documentation on how the new grapple tech system works?

[north drift]

How can i add a new Type to Recipe.GetItemTypes ?

function Recipe.GetItemTypes.NewItemType(scriptItems)
    scriptItems:addAll(getScriptManager():getItemsTag("NewItemTag"))
end

[crude pagoda]

Hi! Anyone know if there is a way to spawn only empty/drained items in the loot table? I have a custom room def with propane tanks, but I would like it to only spawn empty propane tanks and not filled ones. Is this possible to do?

[thick karma]

I don't think any B42 code or documentation has been released to modders, but I live on Kashyyyk, so I might have missed something.

[old bobcat]

someone should make a mod for project zomboid, that turns it into decaying winter, so real...

looting during the day, and surviving waves of bandits when it hits night(and you are only allowed to sit in ur base, as storm will murder u :3 )

would be hype

[austere sequoia]

This does not make sense. How are the bandits out at night, while the player cant be?

[old bobcat]

idk, it just does work like tha

in original game

also uh demons

cant wait for these cuties to appear in pz frfr :3

[blazing mica]

can someone give me a real crude guide to making a clothing mod? i just wanna make some cowboy clothes and ive never modded before

[tranquil kindle]

#modeling message

[blazing mica]

link doesnt work

nvm

[tranquil kindle]

The bottom one

[compact tinsel]

Heya
I have added a bunch of recipes and items with an own mod and now whenever I open the crafting menu or map, the error magnifier is showing me that there is an issue.
first I thought it was the lua I added (which included foraging stuff) but it still breaks on this after removing the lua files (for opening the crafting menu):

it looks like having added the items / recipes is breaking something in the base code. Did anyone run into a similar error like this?

[wise zinc]

Hey, what does the ShareDamage property does ?

I'm trying to mod in a volley gun for, huh, reasons 👀

[bronze yoke]

nothing, it is a removed feature

[wise zinc]

Oh

okay

[wise igloo]

being hit by an error here when trying to remove items from distributions, it was working fine until i added more to the list, idk if its due to how many i have or due to the distribution type im removing from? its getting to the point now where its somewhat fustrating, everytime something is at a working point even the slightest touch completely breaks it

[bronze yoke]

can you show the function call that triggers this error? it implies the arguments are probably wrong

[wise igloo]

"--BarCounterWeapons
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list["BarCounterWeapons"], "762x51Box", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list["BarCounterWeapons"], "M16A2", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list["BarCounterWeapons"], "FN_FAL", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list["BarCounterWeapons"], "M60", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list["BarCounterWeapons"], "Mossberg500Tactical", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list["BarCounterWeapons"], "M733", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list["BarCounterWeapons"], "Remington870Wood", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list["BarCounterWeapons"], "M24Rifle", nil, true);
RemoveItemFromDistribution(ProceduralDistributions.list["BarCounterWeapons"], "GunToolKit", nil, true);
"
its occuring on the FAL line, it was working fine when we only had it removing from the PoliceStorageGuns

[true nova]

i looked into this and idk where the game is even setting these values cause i would've guess an oncreate function but there is none. anyways i would hook into the OnFillContainer event as two of the parameters should be easy to check, although idk what your custom def is... if it is specific container in specific rooms then that will cover it

[true nova]

my first guess is change "BarCounterWeapons" for "BarCounterWeapon". i dont see "BarCounterWeapons" in distributions

[wise igloo]

omg you might of been right,,,,

nope, the error has stopped but the items are still spawning

specifically just in military so im sure i can fix it

[true nova]

control f through distributions.lua to be sure the locations you want to remove from are spelled correctly

[sour island]

The ModJam will be extended until the 14th. 😉

https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/s/x5AJ4heM0o

For anyone not too sure they could get something done.

[outer crypt]

is there a way i can store an ID of a player and use it to see if the player is still connected later on a server?

[fleet bridge]

You mean username?

ID will change

[outer crypt]

its fine if it changes upon reconnect, perferred actually

i just want to lock access until the player leaves the game then unlock it

so as long as the number or whatever stays during the session it would be fine

guessing getPlayer():getID() returns the same "int id" used in getPlayerByOnlineID(int id)

[fleet bridge]

Cant you just use steamid

[grizzled fulcrum]

^

Do you all think that it would be faster to use multiple textures over rendering multiple rects?

I mean I know rects aren't too demanding but I am not sure

I like how dynamic rendering rects are, but the performance cost I am not sure of

[bright fog]

:getOnlineID()

[outer crypt]

thank you, of course just as I want to test this my dedicated server is down for maintenance...

[fair jolt]

Hi, im trying to fix expoit in some mod. I hooked clientside method, but need to check if player performing an action. local player = getPlayer() then player:isPerformingAnAction() doesnt work since player is null. whats correct way of getting player in client lua?

[unreal pewter]

is there a good forum post or anything for a detailed walkthrough on making traits?

im trying to just reference how other mods do it but im just confused

seems to be simple as

    sneaky:addXPBoost(Perks.Sneak, 1)    ```

[bronze yoke]

that is correct, when are you calling getPlayer()? on the client it should always return a player unless there isn't one at the time you call it

[fair jolt]

when i click oven ui, so im alive. also its MP

media/lua/client/

local function hookAnvilTabUI()
    if AnvilTabUI then
        
        local original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem = AnvilTabUI.onMouseDownFurnaceItem

        if original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem == nil then
            return
        end

        function AnvilTabUI:onMouseDownFurnaceItem(x, y)
            local player = getPlayer()

            if player:isPerformingAnAction() then
                return
            end

            if original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem then
                original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem(self, item)
            end
        end
    end
end

Events.OnGameStart.Add(hookAnvilTabUI)

[bronze yoke]

huh, i have no idea why that wouldn't work

[fair jolt]

Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: player of non-table: null at KahluaThread.tableget line:1689.

[bronze yoke]

sounds like a different issue entirely

attempted index: player of non-table: null means somewhere something is accessing <something>.player but <something> is null

[drifting ore]

yeah the getPlayer returns null there

[fair jolt]

oh sorry Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: Object tried to call nil in onMouseDownFurnaceItem at

[bronze yoke]

i notice your function header is AnvilTabUI:onMouseDownFurnaceItem(x, y) but you call the original as original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem(self, item), the arguments don't match?

and item would be expected to be null since no value is assigned to it in your code

[fair jolt]

oh damn, i was hooked in different method earlier and i absolutely missed this

thank you

but still it dies before it reaches there

[bronze yoke]

your function never accesses player in a table so i think that is probably happening in the original function you're hooking, and usually that would be caused by passing things it doesn't expect

[fair jolt]

before i sent wrong error, second one is correct where Object tried to call nil

[bronze yoke]

that happens when you try to call a function that doesn't exist, does it say which line this is occuring on?

it doesn't seem like that should be an issue anywhere in your code either

[fair jolt]

ok i got it working, now failing when i call the original method. no idea why it was failing for player being null, i only removed comments and corrected arguments

__len not defined for operand at KahluaUtil.fail line:82. rings a bell? all i did was calling original method in hook

[bronze yoke]

the original code is calling #foo where foo is not a table but something else

[fair jolt]

but original code works, only if its called from hook, then it fails. thats really confusing for me because idk if i need to care about initialization of stuff that is initalized in original file. In that case it would be easier just copy whole mod, edit what i need and use it like that

local function hookAnvilTabUI()
    if AnvilTabUI then
        
        local original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem = AnvilTabUI.onMouseDownFurnaceItem

        if original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem == nil then
            return
        end

        function AnvilTabUI:onMouseDownFurnaceItem(x, y)
            local player = getPlayer()

            if player:isPerformingAnAction() then
                return
            end

            if original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem then
                original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem(x, y)
            end
        end
    end
end

Events.OnGameStart.Add(hookAnvilTabUI)

method im hooking into

function AnvilTabUI:onMouseDownFurnaceItem(x, y)
    ISScrollingListBox.onMouseDown(self,x, y)
    if self.selectedRow then
        local selectedRow = self.items[self.selectedRow]
        if not selectedRow then return end
        if self.favoriteBtn then
            if not (self.parent.tabType == Tab.Inject) then 
                self.parent:manageFavorites(self.selectedRow)
            end
            return
        end
        if self.addBtn then
            self.parent:addToCart(self.selectedRow)
        end
    end
end

all i need is to cancel that when timed action is being performed

[bronze yoke]

ah, you need to pass self original_onMouseDownFurnaceItem(self, x, y)

when a function is declared with : instead of . there's a 'hidden' self parameter

[fair jolt]

ahaaa, will try, thanks a lot

[fair jolt]

omg it works, you saved my sanity thank you

[empty flame]

Hello! I was trying to create a mod so i can use a bot command to get infos ( it has a flask and bot behind it)
I have some problems with the code of the mod and im not sure what is the problem, can someone help me?
server:

-- Import necessari
require "NPCs/MainCreationMethods"
require "ISUI/ISLayoutManager"

-- Funzione per ottenere le statistiche di un giocatore
local function getPlayerStats(playerName)
    for i = 0, getNumActivePlayers() - 1 do
        local player = getSpecificPlayer(i)
        if player and getUsername() == playerName then
            return {
                daysSurvived = getHoursSurvived() / 24,
                zombieKills = getZombieKills(),
                skills = getPlayerSkills(player)
            }
        end
    end
    return nil
end

-- Funzione per ottenere le skill di un giocatore
local function getPlayerSkills(player)
    local skills = {}
    local perkList = PerkFactory.PerkList
    for i = 0, perkList:size() - 1 do
        local perk = get(i)
        local level = getPerkLevel(perk)
        if level > 0 then
            table.insert(skills, { name = perk:getName(), level = level })
        end
    end
    return skills
end

-- Funzione per gestire i comandi inviati dal client
local function onClientCommand(module, command, player, args)
    if module == "ServerInfo" and command == "RequestPlayerStats" then
        local playerName = args.playerName
        local playerStats = getPlayerStats(playerName)
        if playerStats then
            sendServerCommand("ServerInfo", "SendPlayerStats", { playerName = playerName, playerStats = playerStats })
        else
            sendServerCommand("ServerInfo", "SendPlayerStats", { playerName = playerName, error = "Player not found" })
        end
    end
end

-- Aggiungi la funzione onClientCommand agli eventi
Events.OnClientCommand.Add(onClientCommand)

Shared:

require "ServerInfo"

[bronze yoke]

you don't call global functions through the global object, they're just part of the global namespace

e.g. LuaManager.GlobalObject:getNumActivePlayers() should be getNumActivePlayers()

[empty flame]

like this? (i change the message)

[thick karma]

You do not need the require lines. Those are vanilla files. They will always load before your mod.

That wouldn't cause errors though; it's just unnecessary code.

It will probably help if you share more details about what doesn't work or the errors you see.

[empty flame]

after removing those 2 lines now it works, thanks

idk why tho ahaha

[thick karma]

I suspect something else you changed along the way explains it. As far as I know, unless I missed a typo, those lines would just ask the game whether it needs to load files it definitely already loaded.

But yeah glad you're sorted good luck

[empty flame]

thank you

[bronze yoke]

yeah, requires can't really change the execution of a file beyond potentially inducing some global changes the file is sensitive to (but that wouldn't happen in this case)

i wish they hadn't named it require, it's really misleading

not that i can think of something succint that's descriptive enough 😅

[fair jolt]

guys whats the workflow for MP mod development? Uploading every change to workshop to test is not the way right?

[bronze yoke]

during early development i recommend testing as much of your mod in singleplayer as possible as it's much faster and *generally* behaves roughly the same, but of course make sure anything you're unsure of does actually work in multiplayer and by the end you should have actually tested everything in multiplayer

[bright fog]

And then you'll realize you have to rewrite your entire code bcs MP sucks ass
But overall I agree, make it SP compatible then see if MP works

[bronze yoke]

i've never had to make major rewrites for this

for testing multiplayer i recommend running a dedicated server locally, if you set your game to non-steam mode you can run multiple clients locally to test most things that require multiple players without actually going through the hassle of finding someone else who wants to help, sending them the mod, etc

[bronze yoke]

of course this may change with less experience, you need a general idea of what kind of things you need to synchronise and if you're unsure of something you should always check it in multiplayer first

i would rather recommend always testing in multiplayer since that's your target platform but the load time difference between singleplayer and multiplayer is absurd

[fair jolt]

but basically every change i make, i have to upload to workshop and restart server, or is there another process?

[bronze yoke]

i wouldn't upload to workshop until it's done

you can just run off of your local copy until then

[tranquil kindle]

If you want to test it in coop with someone you can always upload it unlisted and provide link to other person

[thick karma]

I write everything in a way that should in theory work for both MP and SP from the start so that my code is structured from the start with multiplayer in mind (including any potential compatibility with splitscreen), testing MP and SP back and forth as I go. I do a lot of MP testing and it can be time-consuming; I tend to just do other things to entertain myself while my server loads. Whether I jump back into MP to test something somewhat depends on the code change I'm testing. If I change something that I am fairly certain would have no MP implications, I may wait until right before publishing or some change to an MP feature before I do MP testing again.

[thick karma]

Are you thinking you should upload a new change every time because you're getting "file does not match" errors where the live version of your mod doesn't match the workshop folder version that your client loads?

[fair jolt]

that, but i guess i can an disable checksum, but then how i have up to date files?

[thick karma]

I wouldn't disable checksum

An approach I've come to prefer is to edit the mod.info for mods that i am updating

It's minorly risky because you might accidentally disable the mod for people if you forget to fix it berfore updating

But it makes things easy

[bronze yoke]

if you're testing in non-steam mode you won't even have access to workshop mods

[thick karma]

Alternatively, unsub from your workshop mod

[bronze yoke]

i do usually test in steam mode but with a separate cache and workshop disabled

[thick karma]

Yeah this also. Conflict will never happen in non-Steam mode

[bronze yoke]

having multiple copies can fuck with you in other ways too

[thick karma]

Specifically, if I am updating a mod, I just add " X" to its name and "X" to its id in mod.info

And then I have a server config with X in the name

Where I run the X versions of mods I'm updating

Then I can stay subbed and avoid conflict

Or any other fanciness

[bronze yoke]

also, depending on the structure of your mod, not all mods actually need a second player to test if they work in multiplayer

[thick karma]

100%

[bronze yoke]

for a lot of mods you just need to confirm that the server and client communicate correctly and you only need one client to check that

[fair jolt]

rn i mostly doing "fix" mods, learning lua and pz. i was modding rust before but thats entirely different. But my process in PZ is coding > upload to workshop > start server > test > coding and its tedious

[bright fog]

Zombies

[bronze yoke]

if you don't know if something synchronises you should test that in multiplayer first

[bright fog]

The problem is a bit worse than that lol

Any action you apply on a zombie needs to be exactly applied for each clients

This removes any possibility for randomness or you need to sync zombies

Which is exactly what I have to do

[bronze yoke]

well, yeah

[bright fog]

(which is easier said than done)

[outer raptor]

does anyone know how i could add custom level up sound

[tranquil kindle]

There is plenty of mods that do just that, you could probably reverse engineer it

[pastel lichen]

Check out the mod called "Better Call Saul Level Up"

Where can I find the lua file with professions?

[outer crypt]

getPlayer():getOnlineID() just returned "0" on my dedicated server test... but getPlayer():getID() returned "2" not exactly what I expected.

[bright fog]

Only outputs something server side actually

Now that I think of it

Maybe

[outer crypt]

ick...

getPlayerByOnlineID(short id) this is off the client but I do not see a function to pull the short id

probably just have to use getPlayerFromUsername(String username) from client and getUsername() from isoplayer

[bronze yoke]

onlineid is what you want

it probably returned player 0 because that was the first player?

doggy is wrong about onlineid only working on the server, the whole point of online ids is for recognising the same player on opposite ends 😭

you can use the global function getPlayerByOnlineID(int id) to get the player object from the id

[outer crypt]

it looked like the username version worked too

[bright fog]

Not I believe it outputs a long number

No ?

[bronze yoke]

no, online ids count from zero

[bright fog]

hmm okay

nvm then

[bronze yoke]

each player who connects reserves four numbers for each player slot

[outer crypt]

that's interesting

[bronze yoke]

so the first client gets 0-3, then 4-7, 8-11, etc

nobody really plays splitscreen so usually you'll just see 0, 4, 8, ...

[outer crypt]

so if I getPlayerByOnlineID(0) then it should pull my player that I am testing with and if it was pulled while I was offline it would return nil?

[bronze yoke]

the ids reset when the server restarts, but if a client leaves and rejoins before the server restarts they get their old id back

[outer crypt]

The goal is to find out if something happens and a player is disconnected so I can release a lock on an object

[bronze yoke]

yeah, if you call that function while the player is offline you'll get nil

[outer crypt]

thank you so much!

[orchid notch]

got an issue going, so I am making some new ammo packs for Easy Packing for Gunfighter [2.0] (brita ammo)

the vanilla game ones already have their translations edited when packed

so these new packs need new translation names

can you overwrite translations?

[old hull]

someone give me a tutorial on how to create a mod item drop, I put a vaccine mod for the game and I wanted it to have a chance to drop from the helicopter

[compact tinsel]

update on this, I found the bug
I forgot to add a result for two recipes and that is what broke all the code 🤦

[old hull]

item CmpSyringeWithPlainVaccine {
Type = Normal,
Icon = CmpSyringeWithPlainVaccine,
Weight = 0.2,
DisplayName = CmpSyringeWithPlainVaccine,
Tooltip = Tooltip_CmpSyringeWithPlainVaccine,
WorldStaticModel = LabItems.Item_CmpSyringeWithPlainVaccine,

i need to add this script to this archive

I don't know how to work with scripts

[compact tinsel]

iirc the helicopter events expanded should have something like that, a drop coming from the helicopters, might be worth to see how that modder handled it

[old hull]

this is the mod i'm working on

[orchid notch]

nvm figured it out 👌

[orchid notch]

😁 😎

[barren acorn]

Does anyone have a mod that removes Lighters as a light source?

My girlfriend keeps running through all her lighters on accident, because she didn't realize the dumb fucking game uses a lighter instead of a flashlight when you tap F

I imagine it'd be a simple overwrite to the Lighter item that removes whatever string allows it to be used as a light source but I have never made a mod before so

Lighters shouldn't even be allowed to be a light source, they suck as one and are finite, it sucks

Perhaps a more complex version of the mod would be one that lets you set a whitelist/blacklist/preferred list for light sources, so you say will always use a certain flashlight or source over another one unless you Hold F and select a different source manually

Because the game really loves to pick some random bullshit light I have in my backpack instead of the one in my main inventory

[red tiger]

I'm curious if TIS would adopt a major performance / utility fix for Kahlua2.

It's abandonware if not for the game and the last modifications were over half a decade ago.

Better error-printing for stacktraces and pcalls would be extremely beneficial to mods and the game itself.

Not to mention upgrading Kahlua2's engine to use more modern API for reflection and methodheaders.

Kahlua2 utilizes JDK 1.6 technology which is like mid-2000's grade Java API.

A thought I felt like sharting out here for any discussions or interest in this as a modification to the game. =)

[winged ocean]

I've rewritten the code in Lua and its still not adding the XP... What am I doing wrong? The print logs are showing the correct information

require "ISPlayerStatsUI.lua"

local maxDistance = 2.5;

local function AddXP(character, perk, level)
  local players = getOnlinePlayers();
  local array_size     = players:size();
  local teacher = nil;

  for i=0, array_size-1, 1 do
    local onlinePlayer = players:get(i);

    if onlinePlayer:getDisplayName() == character:getDisplayName() then
      teacher = onlinePlayer;
      break;
    end
  end

  if teacher ~= nil then
    for i=0, array_size-1, 1 do
      local onlinePlayer = players:get(i);

      if onlinePlayer:getDisplayName() ~= teacher:getDisplayName() then
        local distance = math.sqrt((teacher:getX() - onlinePlayer:getX())^2) + ((teacher:getY() - onlinePlayer:getY())^2);

        print('Distance: ', distance)

        if distance <= maxDistance then
          onlinePlayer:getXp():AddXP(perk, 50, false, false, true); -- 50 xp as a test value
          sendAddXp(onlinePlayer, perk, 50, false, false, true);
          onlinePlayer:setHaloNote("Learning from " .. teacher:getDisplayName());
          teacher:setHaloNote("Teaching " .. onlinePlayer:getDisplayName());
          print('Teacher: ', teacher:getDisplayName())
          print('Student: ', onlinePlayer:getDisplayName())
        end
      end  
    end
  end
end


--* Events *--
Events.AddXP.Add(AddXP)

[winged ocean]

updated to use server commands and that works

local xpCommand = "/addxp " .. onlinePlayer:getDisplayName() .. " " .. perk:getId() .. "=50"
SendCommandToServer(xpCommand)

[bronze yoke]

i don't think this will work if the local player isn't an admin

[winged ocean]

yep, just found this out... Is there another way you could think of?

[true nova]

make user admin and then revoke immediately? lol

[grizzled fulcrum]

such a bad idea 💀

[winged ocean]

That’s what I was thinking to… I do like to live dangerously 💀

[unreal pewter]

are there any good walkthroughs online on how to make custom professions?

[grizzled fulcrum]

Maybe media/lua/shared/NPCs/MainCreationMethods.lua might be able to give you some insight?

ProfessionFactory.addProfession is a function that is used in that file and it's probably the way to create/add a profession!

[unreal pewter]

ill look into it, thanky ou

[old hull]

can someone help me tinker with the code for the "extended helicopter events" mod so that whenever a Drop falls from the sky it has a chance of receiving an item from another mod? pls call me in DM

it's not complicated

i think

[ancient grail]

yeah i guess albions right it the functions might not work for non admin. so iguess you need to do the send server commands..

and maybe need to check off some anti cheat types

[ancient grail]

you do but other servers will also take the risk if incase they use your mod

[winged ocean]

Probably not, I can make that risk know if I’m posting to the workshop. I mostly wanting to play with my buddy using this mod idea.

[ancient grail]

just create a consumable that adds experience
easiest route

[ancient grail]

just one person? then just give em the exp via admin cheats?

[winged ocean]

I could but it’d just be more fun for it to happen automatically

And I wanted to learn how to mod

[ancient grail]

awsome!
well yeah in that case you have 2 options
the server client pingpong or the item oncreate thing

i suggest you try and do the function to add exp and do it to your own player to test

use the debug console

[red tiger]

Massive victory today. I managed to get TypeScript classes compiling to support extending pre-existing Lua classes.

Technical under-the-hood stuff has to happen for this to work but it's all worked out now for PipeWrench.

[grizzled fulcrum]

@Jab idk why my discord is so fudged but I agree a LOT with what you said about kahlua

[red tiger]

Oh? Nice.

I'm very excited that one of the biggest drawbacks to writing Project Zomboid mods in TypeScript is now something that can be overcome and is implemented now into the NodeJS-packaged compiler.

[quiet rain]

Can someone help out with a tilepack I'm trying to make? I've used tilezed to create the pack file and put it in the texturepacks folder. The .tiles file is in the media folder, and added the tiledefs in the mod file. The tileset isn't showing up in the ingame tile viewer or Better Tiles Picker, and I'm not quite sure why it's not loading.

[bronze yoke]

so it seems like the issue here is that you can't add xp to remote players, that addxp overload is meant to allow for that but i couldn't find a case where the game actually uses it so it wouldn't surprise me too much if it just doesn't work

you can use commands to trigger code on other clients - unfortunately you can't send a command from one client to another, so you need to ping it off the server, which makes this a little more complex than it needs to be 😅```lua
--- client file
-- assuming player is the player who you want to give xp to, and perk is the perk object
-- the args table will be sent to the server, but only basic types can be sent (not objects)
local args = {target = player:getOnlineID(), perk = perk:getId(), amount = 50}
-- the two strings here are technically just arbitrary strings that get passed along to the event handler, but it's best for the first one to be an identifier for your mod, and the second to be an identifier for the command itself
sendClientCommand("MyMod", "AddXP", args)

--- server file
local function handleClientCommand(module, command, player, args)
-- make sure we only do stuff if it's actually our command
if module == "MyMod" and command == "AddXP" then
local target = getPlayerByOnlineID(args.target)
-- the target argument sends the command to only that client
sendServerCommand(target, "MyMod", "AddXP", args)
end
end
-- triggered when the server receives a command from a client
Events.OnClientCommand.Add(handleClientCommand)

--- more client stuff!
local function handleServerCommand(module, command, args)
if module == "MyMod" and command == "AddXP" then
local target = getPlayerByOnlineID(args.target)
local perk = Perks[args.perk]
target:getXp():AddXP(perk, args.amount)
end
end
-- triggered when the client receives a command from the server
Events.OnServerCommand.Add(handleServerCommand)

[graceful fern]

Hi! I'm starting to develop my first PZ mod and i was researching how the game works, at this point I've learned a lot but there're some things that i don't get it well and I'm stuck rn.
I want to create an option in the contextMenu when the player rightClick a square that has an item (that i made in a scripts txt) just like a generator, however i saw the game's logic to create the contextMenu for the generator and depends of an isoGenerator that can be storaged in the worldObjects (i can't make an isoObject for my new item, right?).
So, i was wondering how can i make that contextMenu? idk if i need to create an IsoObject or something similar or there's another way to check if a square contains a specific script-made item.
Any help would be a lot appreciated I'm learning on the process hehe

[safe silo]

How would I do "if player presses escape exit to menu"?

I got the disconnect code:

getCore():exitToMenu()

And I know I can run Events.OnKeyPressed.Add(func) But how would I check if it's the ESCAPE key?

[agile vigil]

Have any of y'all tried server-side Java modding yet? I'm looking at a comprehensive nutrition overhaul and I think I can do it all in Java and server-side, but I'm not sure where to start.

[red tiger]

Yes. I've done this for over 10 years here now. I don't know exactly how build 41 does nutrition. I believe this is client-side ran for 41. A lot of things are moving to server-side for 42.

[agile vigil]

Might I ask what you've done server side? And yeah, the more I looked at nutrition, the more I realised it ran client-side for 99% of it.

[red tiger]

I've created my own Spigot for PZ called Sledgehammer. It's not updated to the current build at this time since no one currently uses it and I mainly used it for my own server back in the day.

I also run an anti-cheat that people use.

[agile vigil]

That's pretty cool. With B42 I really look forward to server-side modding.

[bronze yoke]

i still wouldn't expect things like this to move to the server

only some specific systems have been mentioned as being moved

[agile vigil]

Naturally, but it's a fresh new field of possibilities. Java modding can get quite powerful!

Speaking of servers, though. How can I transmit moddata to the server?

I want to make it so when players interact with a piece of furniture that has a container, compare a stored value from the server against some condition, and if met, save a new value on the furniture.

[bronze yoke]

object:transmitModData()

[agile vigil]

And the similar object:getModData() will get the fresh stuff from server?

[bronze yoke]

no, that just returns whatever the client/server calling it has

transmit sends what you have to all others

there's no synchronisation beyond that

(never mind that there's a clear race condition here because It Just Doesn't Tend To Be A Problem)

[agile vigil]

So if I have two players in a room, one of them updates a shelf's moddata and calls transmit, will the second player now have the updated data?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[agile vigil]

Okie. And yeah, race condition is a risk but it'll be okie.

[bronze yoke]

in general you should transmit after you make any change to moddata

even if you don't need the moddata from other perspectives for some reason the next transmit will overwrite it

[agile vigil]

Yeah that makes sense.

And if I add an item to a shelf, do I need to run any sync/transmit command as well? I've only worked with the vanilla transfer thingies before (e.g. the timed actions), and I don't know if they have special handling in their code.

[bronze yoke]

you need to use addItemOnServer for it to sync, if i recall correctly you still need to call the regular addItem too

same for removing items

you won't need to use the OnServer-s for an item entering or leaving a player's inventory though since that isn't synchronised to begin with

[agile vigil]

Gotcha. Thanks! This is very helpful and I look forward to implementing this. I'm trying to do a like.. "scrounging" skill that lets you find extra loot in containers as a form of loot respawn that isn't limited by the same stuff as vanilla respawn.

[grizzled fulcrum]

Does getTexture only return textures from .pack files?

Tried using getTexture to get a texture in media/ui/test.png and it just does not want to work, giving nil every time

works with getting a vanilla png file in a pack though

[sage ravine]

had an idea for a mod but i've no got the experience modding to even know where to start, thought I'd post the idea here incase anyone like it:

you get a certain amount of skill xp shared for watching or helping another player do a task such as mechanics or carpentry, as the best way to learn something in real life is from someone with more experience in something. Like say we work on a car together, in vicinity of you I get 25% of the XP or helping you up to 75%, and task also quicker depending on the level of each player in that skill who's helping. I think it would add even more to co op and be a great way to even out skills so we don't have to each focus on one thing.
Player could start task, other player could right click them and choose "help with task" option, otherwise watching mechanic would mean if you are standing within 1-2 metre of other player you get a smaller amount of XP for seeing what they are doing

something like this would be great as there would be lots more reason for co op, and also everyone would be able to have a bit of each skill rather than only focusing on 1 or 2 things each

again no experience modding zomboid so this is just an idea, don't know if something like this is even possible in the game

[ancient grail]

something this

if key == "Escape" then

tho im using mobile so its hard to check syntax

oh and
theres also a keycode version

[bright fog]

https://pastebin.com/PAkFTUuv

[ancient grail]

try to check your packfile if it has sprite
and
if you did the export wrong or something went wrong the tile property window will show red ???

[quiet rain]

Aww shoot. I forgot to edit my post. Let me do that real quick. For some reason, having a tilesheet png with an _ just made the tileset not load in PZ. Tried a lot of different things, the moment I changed the name of the png tilesheet and restarted the process from scratch, it worked 😅

[ancient grail]

did you put your png on both a folder and 2x folder? thats also important
then the tiles and packfiles should be exported to that folder too

[ancient grail]

oh

so what was the name and whats the new name

cuz i dont think thats a thing . cuz i know you can add _ .. must be something else

[quiet rain]

It was literally deadtiles_01 and deadtiles01. I know the underscore can be added, which is why it was weird. But in the end that change got it to work :x

[ancient grail]

then the tiles would become deadtiles01_0, deadtiles01_1 and so on

[quiet rain]

Oh, yeah. That can end up becoming an issue haha.

[ancient grail]

the tilesheets name is called deadtiles01

the tiles inside it would be named same but with sufix _0 _1 _2
automatically

also this is more of a #mapping concern

[quiet rain]

Yeah. Most tilesets (the png files) end with _01.png, 02.png etc. So it seems weird nonetheless

[ancient grail]

thats how vanilla does it cuz they have locations that uses multiple sprite sheet

you can either adopt or just do your own thing

also just a reminder
pls add your tiledef on the wiki

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/List_of_Tiledefs_in_use_by_mods

[quiet rain]

It's a mod for one specific server, but will do nonetheless, just to prevent issues 🙂

[robust briar]

Soo.. I did a thing. Can anyone tell my why this is a bad idea?

[fleet bridge]

looks more intuitive than BTSE copy

[dusty karma]

Yo, I don't know if this is the right place to ask but can someone explain to me how the different music types work in the .bank file. Like as in the different mx's? Like all the mx_action songs seemingly have 2 songs, one made of the different sections and then the whole song in full and it sounds slightly different? Like where do the 2 different songs play??

Also on the mx_exploration tracks some of them have bridges and I can't for the life of me figure out where it goes, I assume the tracks play over each other in game but I can't really be sure.

Also side question, is the in-game music player based on the track's BPM? Only asking because the action intros don't play into the rest of the track and sounds like the track should start halfway through the intro track if that makes sense, I'm not very good at wording stuff like this but hopefully that kind of explains it lol.

[bronze yoke]

they get layered and stuff, the game tries to match the intensity of the music to the game state

i think there might be some outright redundancy with copies of the tracks before they did this?

[dusty karma]

is that true for the exploration bridges too?

[bronze yoke]

should be yeah

[dusty karma]

thanks, do you know anything about the BPM thing? its not all that important if not lol

[sour island]

😮 May I interest you in: https://github.com/Project-Zomboid-Community-Modding/pz-community-modding ?

[wet sandal]

Anyone know if its possible to fly somehow?
Like just floating around at second floor level in god mode?

I tried brute forcing it, but the lighting system became a seizure hazard

[compact tinsel]

I remember there being a fly mode, but I can't remember in which mod that was
maybe better tilespicker?

[wet sandal]

Yep, I see it. Thanks.

Hmm, the lighting freaking out seems to be the same. Guess its just a side effect of flying :/

[compact tinsel]

I have a question about clothing modding if anyone knows stuff about that
For admin purposes (RP server), I would like to make an invisible piece of clothing (if you put on an dog from the fauna mod, only the animal is visible)

My first instinct was to just make a piece of clothing / copy over the spiffo suit and delete the textures, because I assumed that the player model beneath would be invisible (to avoid clipping) when the suit is equipped
To my surprise... the suit is invisible, the player model isn't

[bright fog]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934031335&searchtext=superhuman

Not second floor but still flying

[wet sandal]

Interesting, they all suffer from the same issue.
For some reason the game won't update lighting if the player isn't on the ground

However the shadows were last calculated just move around with the cell

So a little unhinged, but I guess I need to make a fly mod that builds an invisible temp floor under the player...

[ancient grail]

wizardry!

[grizzled fulcrum]

. Am I insane

[ancient grail]

the way i did was 100% thru animations. player still on the ground. but i added checks for fences and water
then just teleport instead of noclip

[ancient grail]

ye the lighting is affected on other levels which is why you need to stay on the same level you want to see

[ancient grail]

is it possible to store the copied area and use later . sorta like create own template or something like that. also does it copy moddatas?
and third question . what happens to the area pasted? is it wiped clean?

[mellow frigate]

yes it is

[grizzled fulcrum]

it's because I forgot to add .png which I forgot getTexture needs 😭

Also I really wonder why there's two MoodleType for hungry: Hungry and FoodEaten which both reference media/ui/Moodles/Moodle_Icon_Hungry.png

[sour island]

Testing to see if the new image appears: https://github.com/Project-Zomboid-Community-Modding/pz-community-modding

Nice, that should save me some time to explain what it is 😅

Welcoming anyone who wants to review code going in, or anyone interested in adding tools, bug fixes, etc

Also welcoming anyone who has ideas/bug reports/requests related to vanilla things

[robust briar]

Already working on this haha

"saved copies"

[robust briar]

I have something kind of like that.

https://gitlab.com/wasteland-rp/wastelandmodpack/-/tree/main/Contents/mods/WastelandLib/media/lua?ref_type=heads

[sour island]

😮

Well, would you mind if I borrow some stuff from this? unless you're inclined to add it yourself

[ancient grail]

cuz i was thinking maybe it was too heavy to store or something

[robust briar]

I don't personally own the rights to all of it. For the simple stuff, I am sure its no problem. The bigger things like zones and userdata I woud have to go ask all the contributors

[sour island]

Oh you've had more contributors than I have

The only thing I can boast is probably the debug tool suite, and the fact that it auto uploads from the repo to steam

[winged ocean]

you're a genius, worked like a charm

[grizzled fulcrum]

factual statement

[grizzled fulcrum]

this is insanely smart, idk why I never thought of using workflows to auto upload!!!

[ancient grail]

i dontknow why..using lua debug outside of pz the code works fine but when run in game it crash

[winged ocean]

I have basically created this mod

[drifting ore]

kahlua doesn't have debug module

[ancient grail]

well pz does anyways

maybe cuz its from sandbox option?

[drifting ore]

it has its own module under a different name

debug is undefined

which is by the way how my gamestate emulator can automatically hook itself up when the Lua script is running outside of pz

if not debug then _EMULATION_MODE_ = true

[sage ravine]

No way, is it uploaded anywhere I could try?

[ancient grail]

wha so you have like an external terminal?

[drifting ore]

no i just have a script that defines the same functions as the game and runs a very simple version of them, just barely enough for the mod Lua script to function

it mostly does absolutely nothing, but most of my script doesn't touch the actual game so it's fine

[ancient grail]

but most of my script doesn't touch the actual game
please enlighten me

[drifting ore]

the bulk of the code looks like this - note that it doesn't touch the game at all

[winged ocean]

Not published yet and it’s still in very early stages. It works a little differently than how you described it’s less complex. Basically if you are close enough to another player and that player is actively gaining xp you’ll receive 1/5 of their xp gained because they are “teaching” that skill to you. I can share the code with you if you’d like.

[drifting ore]

and then the emulator fills in the tiny amount of functionality that the mod script actually needs

[sage ravine]

That sounds brilliant for a work in progress, no need for code but thank you anyways, very much looking forward to trying it out, I think more interactions between players such as this really add to the co op gameplay

[ancient grail]

it turns out the complex string is whats causeing the error, i minimized it and it didnt crash..

[ancient grail]

finally figured it out...

anyways
sandbox option only has 5
what im trying to achieve is this

string double enum bool integer

i want to add customizeable table

function parse_outfits(str)
    local outfits = {}    
    local parts = {}
    for part in string.gmatch(str, "[^;]+") do
        table.insert(parts, part)
    end    
    for _, part in ipairs(parts) do
        local outfit_name, statements_str = string.match(part, "([^=]+)=(.+)")
        if outfit_name and statements_str then
            local statements = {}            
            for statement in string.gmatch(statements_str, "[^:;]+") do
                if statement ~= "" then
                    table.insert(statements, statement)
                end
            end            
            outfits[outfit_name] = statements
        end
    end    
    return outfits
end

---string "Outfit_Ranger=Howdy?:Yeehaw!;Outfit_Survivalist=...:Blend with the shadows;Outfit_Farmer=Time to work!:What time is it?:So Tired;Outfit_Bandit=Hey buddy:How Can I help You?"
local string = SandboxVars.NPC.Statements 

local parsed_outfits = parse_outfits(string)

for outfit, statements in pairs(parsed_outfits) do
    print(outfit)
    for _, statement in ipairs(statements) do
       print(statement)
    end
  
end

[drifting ore]

so apparently kahlua's require is also not the same as in normal Lua. It only accepts the slash notation even though it doesn't work on folders.

[gleaming axle]

Hey there, I am new to modding in general and just started playing with Zomboid mods. I have been able to test a few things and see it actually working. Add a few functions to events, etc.

I am now trying to get a custom /command or something like that.

I have add a very simple code (as per below) just to try to see it working before adding my logic to it. If I invoke the function itself from the Zomboid lua command line, it works. But using the:

sendClientCommand() or sendServerCommand() doesn't.

Any help is appreciated

    print("hi")
    player:Say("hi")        
end

function OnClientCommandServerCommand(module, command, player, args)
    print("hi")
    player:Say("hi")        
end
-- Register the command with the server
Events.OnClientCommand.Add(OnClientCommand)
Events.OnServerCommand.Add(OnServerCommand)

Just to add a bit more info, I think my problem could be just the confusion of server/client. I have been trying to test that opening Zomboid64 as debug and nosteam and going through Host.

[bronze yoke]

foodeaten is the buff you get for eating while already full

[drifting ore]

i don't know who decided to remove the dot notation support from require but they should've disabled the slash notation instead. Would've prevented people from attempting require "../../util.lua"

(which by the way doesn't work because require operates on modules, not folders)

[bronze yoke]

client/server commands are for code client/server communication, they aren't related to the chat /commands

it comes up every so often here and it seems like there really is no modding support for chat commands, you can hook into chat to catch when someone says something manually or look if someone's already made a library mod for this

[gleaming axle]

it makes sense, but I still have the issue of not being able replicate the use of sendClient/sendServer commands just to see it actually working. I have been issuing the commands via the Lua Command Line, not with /command on the chat

I thought about doing via filtering the chat, it's probably enough for my use case. Just would like to be able to parse the command from rcon as well

[bronze yoke]

your client command handler isn't being added to the event because you made a typo in the name, and the client can't send server commands

[drifting ore]

@bronze yoke the more you know

[bronze yoke]

i think Say isn't networked so you would only know if it worked if you see the print in the server log

[gleaming axle]

I have been doing a tail on all the log files being generated

[bronze yoke]

oh i was just curious what you meant by 'modules not folders'?

[tacit carbon]

anyone knows if I can change a fix recipe for a weapon via lua code? I want to make it editable on sandboxoptions

[drifting ore]

it's what it says on the tin. Require loads a module, not a file. And it looks for modules specified in package.path , which is obviously incompatible with the very idea of specifying a filesystem entry to require. Though modules are usually simply single files and module path is usually the same as folder path, though both is just one of the options. The confusion is normally avoided by using the dot notation everywhere and by encouraging users to also only use the dot notation. But in PZ dot notation is disabled and using it causes require to fail.

This + the fact that only the slash notation is used everywhere in PZ files, gives unwary users the wrong impression that require loads a specified file in the filesystem, rather a module by the given name.

Do I even need to verify that PZ's package.path is missing an entry like ?/init.lua?

I guess I should mention WTH is even "dot notation"? Normally in Lua you use require("cpml.matrix"). The module path separator is a dot - it's the dot notation. It's also valid to use require("cpml/matrix") which is the slash notation. Since, as I said, require doesn't actually loads files by filepath, using dot notation is normally encouraged to avoid any confusion.

[bronze yoke]

it's maybe a little strange that the dot annotation isn't supported at all but pz's require really does just follow filepath exclusively

[drifting ore]

as a sanity check I did the require "../test.lua" which simply says print("REQUIRE TEST") and sure enough it showed up in the log as require failed.

[bronze yoke]

require uses absolute paths, not relative

[drifting ore]

require doesn't even uses paths

it's one of the options for the loaders array

[bronze yoke]

project zomboid's implementation does

kahlua doesn't implement the package library at all

[drifting ore]

what it does is this fusion thing where every media/Lua folder counts as the same place, which can contain files by identical name and I'm not sure what require does about it, but I do know that it allows your mod to require other mod's Lua files, and it doesn't allows loading from parent folder as in the aforementioned example

I mean it's in line with normal Lua operation.

It's just it's conspicuously missing the dot notation option.

[bronze yoke]

in the case of identical filenames, it prioritises shared -> client -> server

literally just because it searches each path in order and not because they actually thought of this and handled it 😓

[wet sandal]

Heck yea!
Flight with working lighting

Now I just gotta lock the player, make them invisible, and my free cam is complete.

[coarse sinew]

Noclip with fast move ? Or another method which doesn t require disabling the anticheat ?

[wet sandal]

What's shown is noclip and fast move, but I'm keeping an invisible floor under the player because lighting doesn't work while the player is airborne for some reason.

I haven't looked into online at all, as this freecam is not a stand alone mod, just a needed feature for a larger mod I'm working on.

[grizzled fulcrum]

ty!

[gleaming axle]

is it possible to supress the vanilla behaviour of an event? say it got into my custom function and I would like to just stop whatever action was doing. I tried return but the event still happens

probably better if I add more info on what I am doing. I added a function on Events.OnAddMessage to capture a rcon servermsg <something -- I am able to filter that, do a setServerAlert(false) (that make it as it doesn't show the red message anymore). However, the message is still showing on the chat. I've tried setShowInChat(false) and it doesn't work

I am kind of moving that way to create some custom /commands

[drifting ore]

you can try removing vanilla event handler from it

but i would not recommend doing that. You never know what important functionality hinges on it executing on time.

More importantly, if unimportant functionality becomes critically important in the future.

[grizzled fulcrum]

I am not sure if you know this, but Events has like a callback list. When you add your function to OnAddMessage like Events.OnAddMessage.Add(my_func), you are adding my_func to the list of callbacks that the event OnAddMessage then executes when the game globally calls the event. Returning from your callback my_func will return out of your callback and only your callback. The event still executes all of the other callbacks that other mods and the vanilla game has set up.

This is only how I understand events so far, and even if there is no callback pool per-se, the concept is relatively close to the actual functionality (I am going for ease-of-reading over accuracy)

[drifting ore]

Adding to that ^ you can do the reverse of Add

[grizzled fulcrum]

trueee

[drifting ore]

Events.OnAddMessage.Remove(some_existing_handler_function)

[gleaming axle]

that makes sense but as you said too dangerous to handle that way

[drifting ore]

You just gotta know what exactly is the handler function

[drifting ore]

Well you intended to bypass the functionality entirely so it can't go any more wrong than that.

[gleaming axle]

if the setShowInChat(false) actually worked, my problem was solved 😄

well not entirely true. what I was thinking in achieve is if the message follows a specific pattern, then yeah, could just stop the action

[drifting ore]

Maybe you can do it in another fasion? What's your goal exactly?

Sounds like you want to send an internal system message. Not a visible chat message.

To that end you can implement any fashion of OnClientCommand and OnServerCommand callback handlers. They both can carry pretty much arbitrary payloads.

[gleaming axle]

I want to be able to pass a command via rcon message to then run some others functions. Kind of create some custom /commands

this will be further automated via discord bot

[drifting ore]

you can intercept outgoing messages

[gleaming axle]

the OnAddMessage was the event that I could find that was capturing the rcon message

[drifting ore]

yeah that one

[gleaming axle]

but I could only get to that event with the servermsg <message> command. And that is a general broadcast message, so that's why I was trying to supress the vanilla behaviour

[drifting ore]

and you said a bunch of related functions didn't work anyway

so uh, I suppose you can add a GUI box and do away with the /command stuff entirely

[coarse sinew]

You cannot create new commands for RCON. You need a java patch for that:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3243738892
And here examples on how to create RCON commands
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3243741273&searchtext=commands

[gleaming axle]

yeah I saw that but I am trying to avoid the java patch path.. I am also new on modding Zomboid, so just having fun exploring what is possible to achieve

[gleaming axle]

just realised this isn't a good way to handle that. OnAddMessage gets fired for everyone that receives the servermsg haha

[drifting ore]

don't you love it when you were working on your code and when you went back to test it, suddenly there's so much lag that even Windows is stuttering

[ancient grail]

wow so you this is via lua? incredible
you might be able to figure out 100% see everything via lua if you keep at it

[ancient grail]

you can use the msg event and have it detect specific string
but im not sure if the game will treat rcon commands like regular chat. so if it doesnt then you might not be able to capture it

[ancient grail]

package zombie.characters;

import zombie.iso.IsoCamera;
import zombie.iso.IsoCell;

public final class IsoDummyCameraCharacter extends IsoGameCharacter {
   public IsoDummyCameraCharacter(float var1, float var2, float var3) {
      super((IsoCell)null, var1, var2, var3);
      IsoCamera.CamCharacter = this;
   }

   public void update() {
   }
}

[mellow frigate]

it is probably to heavy to transfer through MP mod data during save.

[bright fog]

Nice

I'm sure a lot of content creators would be interested in that

[cunning tiger]

What steps do I take to start making jacket and pants and how do I set it up

[grizzled fulcrum]

Hey I've got a table in Lua like so:

-- The table outline (what it looks like)
self.texture_table = {
    base = getTexture(...)
}

-- Accessing the table, causes error here
self.texture_height = self.texture_table.base:getHeightOrig()

But it errors upon accessing the base texture. It's getHeightOrig of non-table: null which means somehow base is nil? But it's clearly not, before this line I can easily print(tostring(self.texture_table.base)) and it will print something along the lines of Texture{ "media/path/to/tex", w:32, h:32 } so it definitely does exist. How is this even possible??

There is not much else to show from my actual code, as it's pretty much exactly this.

The texture_table field is set when the new func of the class is called, so it is definitely correct. The arg that gets copied to the new func exists and does contain a texture, so it's not that.

[true nova]

it is likely searching for it in getHeightOrig() and it doesn't exist there. are you sure this is the proper way to call this function?

[grizzled fulcrum]

yes, I use this func on other textures too

It might be due to the table being copied in the new constructor so maybe the texture doesnt pass through properly, ill test that rn

ok nevermind, now it's nil before I pass it to the constructor, give me a sec

[true nova]

i dont know the structure to a Texture object, which is what getHeightOrig() uses . i dont have knowledge on the functions your using. does self.texture_table.base directly call a texture object?

[grizzled fulcrum]

self.texture_table.base is a Texture

and the Texture class is what getTexture("path/to/tex") returns

[true nova]

well i know im not helping a lot... your print does not print out nil at all? my first thing i would do is add a check for nil when making the table as i assume it is passing something other than a texture at some point

[grizzled fulcrum]

hmm I do a nil check at the end but not at the start as it shouldn't ever be nil anyway, I can still add one

It passes the nil check but then still says it's nil 😄

self.texture_tables[moodle_str] = interface.texture_table_dummy
local texture_table = self.texture_tables[moodle_str]
if self.texture_tables == nil or texture_table == nil then
    logger:error("Tex table was nil before assign!")
    return
end

texture_table.base = getTexture(key:format(moodle_str, ""))
logger:debug("Texture 'base' after assignment: " .. tostring(texture_table.base:toString())) -- error here, base is non-table (nil)

nevermind I believe I now know why

and I think it's too embarrasing to say

[drifting ore]

you check for nil after you already indexed the table. If there was an error the check is guarding against, the program would crash before the check can execute.

as for error here the "base" might simply be incorrect spelling, though I never checked the details so it's just a speculation

[grizzled fulcrum]

yes, but I don't see how this could cause an error. This is a simplified version of what my code is doing:

-- ctor
o.tbl = {}

-- init
self.tbl["test"] = { test = 3 }
local my_tbl = self.tbl["test"]
-- my_tbl can never be null here anyway...

[drifting ore]

alternatively it can be non-exposed java class variable, which is indexed as nil

[grizzled fulcrum]

I already fixed the error, it was a letter that was accidentally capitalised

in the texture string that I pass to getTexture

[drifting ore]

the best way to avoid typos is to never use literals

[grizzled fulcrum]

In my case I cannot as far as I know

[drifting ore]

I mean there's the whole "magic numbers" thing. String literals is just a text version of that.

[grizzled fulcrum]

I can't get the path of the texture without also having the texture already

so I just format a str with the texture name in a loop

[grizzled fulcrum]

nevermind apparently its still happening even after fixing the texture string
EDIT: It's fixed again. I seriously don't fucking know. It's not broken now and I have no idea how so I won't say anything else.

[drifting ore]

Screenshot bc it’s convenient

[grizzled fulcrum]

You may want to look at these vanilla game files for reference:

media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/DynamicRadio_EN.txt
media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/Recorded_Media_EN.txt

If you want to know how to generally start a mod, read the PZwiki

[drifting ore]

got it

[grizzled fulcrum]

look at first pin

[drifting ore]

thanks a lot

[echo snow]

Guys uhhhh it's my first time modding PZ (i've pretty decent knowledge of LUA, because i've used RoLUA)

How should i detect the jumpscare? (like the zomboid appears suddenly with a loud sound)

[drifting ore]

i ended up checking and there arent any files accounting for TV/news stations, only the AEBS - Recorded_Media_EN includes the CDs, VHS etc

still gonna keep giving it a shot for sure but holy crap this is way more difficult then i imagined lol

[grizzled fulcrum]

ok maybe media/radio/RadioData.xml? I have never checked this stuff so I have no idea

you could probably just search for a line of text in the media folder and find where it resides

[true nova]

the jumpscare is done in the function updateLOS() within the IsoPlayer class. The way it is done it is not a simple check. i honestly think it would be easiest to use the BaseSoundEmitter class and check if the emitter is playing "ZombieSurprisedPlayer"

[grizzled fulcrum]

Do you have an example string of a text that is on the TV?

[drifting ore]

ill pull one up real quick

[drifting ore]

this is the right spot

[grizzled fulcrum]

Most of the stuff in there I found to also be in Recorded_Media_EN.txt too btw

idk if it's just specific stuff but idk it's weird

[outer crypt]

given the event Events.EveryOneMinute.Add(function) is there a way to see if the function is still being run in the event? I suspect that the function I added randomly stops running as the print statements just stop. trying to detect it and see if I can re-add it if it fails.

[drifting ore]

im just gonna have to figure out if i want to re-write some lines from what already exists or find out how to make my own randomized files lol

[true nova]

add a print that only runs if your function wouldn't. so for your entry if statement make a seperate if statement that only works in the opposite case essentially thats the only way i would think...

[outer crypt]

I think I could make another event every 10 minutes that checks a time stamp and if the function has not been run it would re-add the original function every minute. It just seems like a lot for a simple query. like maybe a list of functions that are in the event.

it doesn't throw any errors, just seems to stop running

[true nova]

that would work. and yeah that is a lot to do lol

[outer crypt]

thanks, going to do some more investigating, maybe its not stopping just a wierd bug...

[wet sandal]

Is there an official place to send bug reports?

Found an interesting one while working on a mod.

High cheating/abuse potential in MP

[outer crypt]

still in the suspicious territory that my logic is failed... trying to figure out why something works 99% of the time but not 100% and not failing the same way twice is annoying...

[thick karma]

The forums afaik

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/forum/85-bug-reports/

[echo snow]

Thanks, im doing a Heart attack trait as a meme right now...

[drifting ore]

so if you see a zombie, you die?

[echo snow]

"Tiny chance"

[drifting ore]

could be a really cool trait in reverse though. Something like "snake reflex". When you get startled by a very closeby zombie, you automatically push it so hard it always falls on the ground.

[outer crypt]

need those nitro pills...

[drifting ore]

I feel like making bad things a very small chance makes it a worse experience than if it was straight up bad. People get accustomed to never seeing the effects so they expect it to never happen, and so it's always a huge issue when it does.

You can try this fun experiment at home: add random zombies mod and set sprinters to 0.5%. You will die to random sprinters a lot more than if there were 20% of them, purely because they're so rare you never expect to deal with them, and when they attack you're completely unprepared.

[echo snow]

you can read my paper work for more detailed

i don't think i can finish this project

maybe this would be a good idea for a better modder

[drifting ore]

It's kind of like using car seatbelts. What are the odds they will ever come into play, right? You could drive your entire life and never have seatbelts be anything more than a mild annoyance. Most people use seatbelts because not doing it is punishable by law. But you do make good use of seatbelts if you drive like me, where you can very easily get removed from the driver's seat by the lateral g-forces, and where you can very easily end up in a rollover accident.

[grizzled fulcrum]

I like this aspect, keeps you trying to expect the unexpected and still die :p

[echo snow]

That's how the Project zomboid gameplay used to be, Expect, and still die

"That's how you die" - Project zomboid long ass loading screen

[drifting ore]

yeah well most people don't appreciate when their game ends purely due to a single bad RNG roll, particulalry when the odds are low and you can progress a lot before it happens

[grizzled fulcrum]

true

but what about phasing through zombies and just dying

[drifting ore]

PROC is fine but it shouldn't be game-ending with no recourse whatsoever

[grizzled fulcrum]

happened to me more than once and I barely play the game, all my hours are in modding and not playing so I'd expect more experienced players to have it happen more often

true, there must be a better mechanic than just dying on the spot

I mean literally a handful of heart attacks you don't die on the spot

it's like an hour after or something

[drifting ore]

on my end I just play with transmission disabled. If I die, I want it to happen due to a series of bad decisions leading to me getting mauled to death by a huge horde of zombies. Not because I got a papercut and the RNJesus decided it'll get infected with Z-virus.

I would've played with bites on if there was a way to counter bites using skill. Because whether a zombie attack results in a scratch, laceration or bite is also pure RNG

[bronze yoke]

when rendering textures above their original resolution, files from packs are rendered with nearest neighbour interpolation, loose files are rendered with bilinear interpolation

so loose files will usually look blurry

you can put it in a pack file

[drifting ore]

Ideally you would create a world 3d model

[bright fog]

Not sure what you mean by that but there's already scripts for .pack files

[drifting ore]

Am I stupid?

        for _, pile in pairs(piles) do
            if master ~= pile then
                master.merge[pile] = true
            end
        end```
```    for p, _ in pairs(master.merge) do pile = p; break end

    if pile.allCount > master.allCount then --[[attempted index: allCount of non-table: true]]--
        master, pile = pile, master
    end```

for _, pile in PAIRS(piles) do

                table.insert(matches, pile)
                matches[pile] = true
            end```

[drifting ore]

It gets worse. The merge list should only contain piles, but somehow there's an entirely different type of object and I have no idea how it got there.

[sour island]

@drifting ore <- becareful of suspicious DMs from this person. 🚨

Also, can't believe 'Gee guys, where can I commission a mod?' actually fished a scammer

While as an admin of a discord dedicated to PZ modding no less

[celest hound]

lol, that's insane

[fleet bridge]

Did you ever figure this out?

[celest hound]

I mean, you have the Key ring which would have the character name, so unless the players use Random every time, that's a starting point.

[sour island]

I would imagine the body keeps the survivorDesc object or copies some info? Otherwise one could write a onDeath event for it.

[fleet bridge]

i've used old keyrings before for reasons i cannot explain

and character name doesn't necessarily equate to username, which is more important

[fleet bridge]

i thought about using the player mod data, but iirc the mod data does not persist across restarts for zombies and the player mod data may simply disappear

[sour island]

It does actually contain a SurvivorDesc

theres just no getter for it

There's a way to grab javaFields though

[sour island]

Actually player zombies retain modData - as does any zombie with reanimatedPlayer flag

[fleet bridge]

😮

[sour island]

People bad at the game pay a performance penalty

[fleet bridge]

assumed it got the zmoddata treatment of being flushed on restart

if thats the case then we're in business

[sour island]

It saves everything due to how the inventory works

[fleet bridge]

true, it must otherwise the inventory would disappear

[sour island]

That might be why they're changing inventory logic 🤔

[fleet bridge]

B42 will solve world hunger

[sour island]

Too many bad players cooking servers

[fleet bridge]

i'm still trying to figure out where the vanilla logging function that logs item transactions exists

[sour island]

There's a transaction java event

[fleet bridge]

steamid, player, +/-#, container, and x/y/z

[sour island]

to prevent item duplication (or tries to)

[fleet bridge]

oh i've been going deep into patching the weird duping stuff that happens with item transadtion, its a rabbit hole for sure

[sour island]

zombie\network\ItemTransactionManager.java

I ended up making my own version of server-sided management for game night

[fleet bridge]

if its java i might not be able to disable it via lua then

i wrote my own logging stuff that collects all item transactions and dumps it in one go in a single string, instead of doing it in individual transactions

but i cant disable the vanilla logging, so its kind of sad

[sour island]

Item manipulation (afaik can only occur on client side) - so I have clients store what they planned to do; send a request to the server -> the server holds a cooldown, and sends back approval/denial to the client -> client checks their stored moves and confirms it was approved.

I hate it so much, but it eliminated 99% of issues

[fleet bridge]

most companies would accept a 90% solution, 99% is basically 100% lol

[sour island]

Well the issues were with items being touched too soon/frequently by other players

[fleet bridge]

oh yea thats a client-side thing, your solution solves that for sure

[sour island]

Looks like the transaction manager prints right to log, in a private method no less

Oh wait, what about this one

   public static void receiveOnClient(ByteBuffer var0, short var1) {
      try {
         byte var2 = var0.get();
         int var3 = var0.getInt();
         int var4 = var0.getInt();
         int var5 = var0.getInt();
         DebugLog.Multiplayer.debugln("%d [ %d : %d => %d ]", var2, var3, var4, var5);
         requests.stream().filter((var3x) -> {
            return var0 == var3x.itemID && var1 == var3x.srcID && var2 == var3x.dstID;
         }).forEach((var1x) -> {
            var1x.setState(var2);
         });
      } catch (Exception var6) {
         DebugLog.Multiplayer.printException(var6, "ReceiveOnClient: failed", LogSeverity.Error);
      }

   }

[fleet bridge]

it goes timestamp -> steamid -> username -> container/floor -> # of items -> x/y/z -> [item]

[drifting ore]

I'm gonna pull hairs. I have a function that populates a table, and then a function that consumes that table. There's nothing else touching the table. The first function populates it with correct data, it passes verification. When the second function runs, the data is corrupted.

[sour island]

When you say consumes

[sour island]

It uses "->" in a string?

[bronze yoke]

i'd have to see the lua to give any advice on that

[drifting ore]

it's 700 lines across 2 files

[fleet bridge]

[10-07-24 14:09:21.659] STEAMID "USER" container +0 11299,8706,0 [Base.BlowTorch].

example^

[sour island]

Based on the 'consume' I imagine he would need to work backward so the table's order isn't broken

[drifting ore]

it pulls the first entry in the table and removes it. That's beside the point.

[sour island]

You know best. 👍

[fleet bridge]

what's the second function do, and what does corrupted mean? how is your table setup and what are you putting in there?

[drifting ore]

All entries must be of "pile" class. All of them are of "pile" class during data generation and handling. When the second function runs, at some point one of the entries is "bodylist" class, complete with list of body IDs inside. Which is not a valid "pile" set of data.

I mean here's literally every instance where the table is accessed in any fashion.

    pile.merging = pool_fetch()

local function delete(pile)
    pool_return(pile.merging)

local function merge(piles)
    for _, master in ipairs(piles) do
        if master.allCount > biggest.allCount then biggest = master end
        for _, pile in ipairs(piles) do
            if master ~= pile then
                master.merging[pile] = true
            end
        end
    end
end

local function _merge(master)
    for p, _ in pairs(master.merging) do pile = p; break end

    for k, v in pairs(pile.merging) do
        master.merging[k] = v
    end
    master.merging[pile] = nil
    master.merging[master] = nil

In fact it's literally every instance the table is mentioned.

the merge function takes array-type list of piles taken from findPiles and they're all "pile" type.

the search function works off spatial indexing grid and the only information inserted in it is the "pile" objects

I could've blamed it on a faulty table pool but I've disabled it entirely and the problem didn't go away

And of course it used to work if I were to merge all piles immediately, instead of deferring it for later. But WTF is this problem where some completely extraneous piece of data gets in through who knows what crevice?!

[sour island]

What is a pile data set?

[drifting ore]

It's exactly what it sounds like.

You'll notice it contains a bunch of tables under "bodies". Well one "bodylist" exactly like it ends up in the "merging" table.

[sour island]

This piles table (not an array) contains a table of bodies, as well as a table of merging of previous entries to bodies?

[drifting ore]

merging contains references to other piles

[sour island]

Just working through the concept, sorry for the redundant questions, your goal is to simply merge pile data sets

[drifting ore]

    for p, _ in pairs(master.merging) do pile = p; break end
    if not pile then return end
    for k, v in pairs(pile.pending) do
        master.pending[k] = v
    end
    for k, v in pairs(pile.merging) do
        master.merging[k] = v
    end
    for postr, list in pairs(pile.bodies) do
        pile.bodies[postr] = nil
        master.bodies[postr] = list
        world.bySquare[postr] = master
    end
    master.x1, master.x2 = min(master.x1, pile.x1), max(master.x2, pile.x2)
    master.y1, master.y2 = min(master.y1, pile.y1), max(master.y2, pile.y2)
    master.oldCount = master.oldCount + pile.oldCount
    master.allCount = master.allCount + pile.allCount
    master.merging[pile] = nil
    master.merging[master] = nil
    grid.replace(world.gridSquares, master.x1, master.y1, master.x2, master.y2, GRIDSIZE, nil, nil, pile, master)
    delete(pile)

[dire oracle]

That's why I hate coding

[drifting ore]

hang on

I might be having negative braincells there.

frickin short selling $BCLL because people value it less and less

have so much braincells in the negatives that world's economist are eternally puzzled that global IQ is above net zero

Actually no nevermind. I mean I wasn't wrong but that moment of epiphany was just a brain fart.

for a second I thought I forgot to delete the merged pile from the merge list. But the line is right there.

[sour island]

I'm not sure if this is related but variables being defined as tables take on references to the table - it doesn't copy it.

I also don't see where a bodies entry could get slipped in to the merge list

[drifting ore]

That's exactly the problem. How does it even get there?

[bronze yoke]

the piles table passed to merge definitely doesn't contain a bodylist? i don't see anywhere else an unknown value can enter merging

[agile vigil]

Spent all day implementing some loot generation code. Finally able to test it - ready for the world to explode

[sour island]

Where is pending defined?

master.merging[master] = nil this also makes me irrationally uncomfortable

[bronze yoke]

it's because it merges the merging tables of other piles into it, which could contain master, and it would try to merge itself

you said it passes 'verification' at one point, i don't know if you meant manually but if you have a function to do that you can throw that around a few times as an assertion and see when exactly it fails and you'll know exactly what part of the code is doing it

[drifting ore]

the one findPiles returns? Yeah 100%. This code is never triggered.
if type(pile) ~= "table" or not pile.allCount then printsquares = true end

It's not a super thorough verification but considering that the whole thing crashes when it tries to access pile<actually bodylist>.allCount

[sour island]

it crashes the game or throws an error?

[drifting ore]

Just throws a Lua error yeah. Comparison operator is not defined for nil.

[sour island]

For which line?

[drifting ore]

specifically for this

        master, pile = pile, master
    end```
i didn't include it because it was super extraneous

[sour island]

I have a feeling cross referencing tables is leading you to nil one - and nuking the other references - and there isn't a bodies list in the piles list at all

var = table in Lua creates a reference

if you want to copy a table you can use copyTable(), or while reiterating, define each key/value as long as they aren't also tables

[drifting ore]

well i don't intend to make copies. None of that needs to be a seprate object from whatever came in through function arguments or was grabbed from a table.

in fact using the same object is what enables a lot of hashing lookup optimization shenanigans

[sour island]

Can you include a print right before the comparator to show what is being compared?

print("compare: ", pile, "(", pile.allCount, ") >", master, "(", master.allCount, ")")

[drifting ore]

that's what I started with

It shows the "bodylist" table

[sour island]

Can you provide that again? (I don't see the printout anywhere)

[echo lark]

Hey anyone that uses player moddata/global moddata. is there a sync issue sometimes between clients or client to server? i have code that seems to be working just fine but the player moddata i see is diferent from what it actualy is

[bronze yoke]

are you trying to store objects in moddata by chance?

oh, actually, i don't think player moddata syncs at all

[echo lark]

basically i have put a timer on the players moddata, and it goes down by 1 every X ammount of time. when they die, it saves that data to the global moddata. and when they respawn it takes the values from the gobal moddata to restore the players moddata. so that way it kind of persists across characters. but when im looking at the players moddata when they die, its a diferent value from what gets saved to the server, and then when the player respawns it correctly applies the right values but i see diferent values

and if their timer goes to like 20, and i relog, it starts back from the top

[sour island]

There's a client-sided globalModData object

depending on where the call to GlobalModData occurs it could be writing to the client's or server's

afaik the only time it's sync'd is on logins

Had a rude awakening trying to be clever and having GlobalModData.transmit

[echo lark]

the global moddatas writing to the server, if i log into another character i can see all the globalmoddata

but player moddata is out of sync between cleints

[sour island]

You're sending the value changes over command?

[echo lark]

yeah i use onplayerdath event to capture the players modddat then using SendClientCommand i send it to the server to be saved to the glboal moddata

[sour island]

and then send a command back with the modData?

Do client's ever interact with eachother's modData (?)

[echo lark]

uuh heres the code for the ondeath

function StipendClient.OnPlayerDeath(player)
    local username = player:getUsername()
    local modData = player:getModData().stipend

    if modData then
        local args = {username = username, modData = modData}
        sendClientCommand("StipendSystem", "SaveModDataOnDeath", args)
    end
end
Events.OnPlayerDeath.Add(StipendClient.OnPlayerDeath)```

then savemoddataondeath is this function 
```function StipendServer.SaveModDataOnDeath(module, command, player, args)
    local username = args.username
    local modData = args.modData

    local globalModData = ModData.getOrCreate("PlayerStipendData")
    globalModData[username] = modData
    ModData.transmit("PlayerStipendData")
end```

but when i apply the new moddata to the player i dont use a command

[sour island]

ModData.transmit( ?

[echo lark]

i do that after i save the global moddata yea ModData.transmit("PlayerStipendData")

[sour island]

This sends the entire table over network

[echo lark]

this is how i reapply the moddata to the player

function StipendClient.OnCreatePlayer(playerNum, player)
    local username = player:getUsername()
    local globalModData = ModData.getOrCreate("PlayerStipendData")
    local savedData = globalModData[username]

    if savedData then
        -- Initialize stipend if it doesn't exist
        local modData = player:getModData()
        if not modData.stipend then
            modData.stipend = {}
        end

        modData.stipend = savedData

        -- Send command to server to clear the global mod data
        local args = {username = username}
        sendClientCommand("StipendSystem", "ClearModDataOnServer", args)
    end
end
Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(StipendClient.OnCreatePlayer)```

[sour island]

I would recommend not using globalModData on the client's side

it sounds like you don't need it anyway

I'd also not use transmit that way on the server

You could have ClearModDataOnServer be restoring it while clearing

You'd need to send a command back to update the player

[echo lark]

i thought thats how i would sync it

[sour island]

I'm also curious if other player's can see other player's modData to begin with

[sour island]

It can, but transmit sends the entire table - if you have alot of players this table can be very large.

[echo lark]

well whatever im doing i can for my stipend stuff. but this is also the first time ive every played with global moddata/player moddata in this way so

[sour island]

You're better off using commands with key/values

[sour island]

I've used it extensively for shops, and zone API, and it's by far the most annoying feature to interact with.

[echo lark]

oh well after the player respawns it deletes teh global moddata entry. i guess if alot of people rage quit and never come back the table could get large

i duno if there is a better way to do it, but i just wanted a way to transfer over the stipend countdown after the player dies

[sour island]

You can just do what you're doing, but remove the client side references to globalModData

[echo lark]

so i would have to send a command to the server, then send one back to apply the player moddata?

[sour island]

Yes, you can use getPlayerFromUsername for the server to find the right player

[echo lark]

ive only learned about all this stuff the past 3 days and its been alot of trial and error XD

[sour island]

What I kept running into was the client/server vs server stuff - as players run server code too

and the GMD would keep fighting itself

[echo lark]

i wonder wth im doing to be able to see player mod data though. cuz i did notice there was like my stipend stuff and like 2 other tables. and my player moddata had WAY more than that

[sour island]

#mod_development message

[echo lark]

oh shit, probably because the file that handles all that is done on the server, but thats cuz i couldnt get it to work right on the client.... ok im gonna take a good long look at all the code and change it around

[sour island]

You can inspect players using the community debug tools

[echo lark]

yeah thats what im using

[sour island]

If you don't need players to be able to see eachother's stipends then I would just send the data back and forth as needed

You can view other player's modData? 🤔

[fleet bridge]

when you transmit the mod data, the server doesnt actually do anything with it unless you tell it specifically what to do

[sour island]

Oh yeah, forgot that part

globalModData has a suite of events you need ot use

[echo lark]

yaeh OnReceiveglobalmodata or wtv

[sour island]

including Init, Request, etc

[fleet bridge]

so you need to write it to a local file, or write it to the global mod data

so if you're not doing that, then nothing will persist

[echo lark]

no, when i use it i see my stipend table and like 1 or 2 other tables. usualy theres douzens. but its most likely becasue im putting that file in the server folder. cuz it wasnt working in the client folder

[sour island]

It depends how player modData works

viewing the global modata with the tools views your own

as client's have a version of globalModData

[drifting ore]

i think i figured it out. And how come it's linked to not having the merge function run immediately.

There can be more than 2-way merge scenarios. In which case every other pile that was in the same merge did not get the update that one of the piles was deleted, and tried to merge with it.

[fleet bridge]

when server receives gmd, you need to do something with the info received, so you need to setup a function and add with the received event to process the information however you need to

and global mod data that you see as a player is entirely local, and may not necessarily even be synced with anything that is going on the server side

[echo lark]

ah, so basically. my mod was probably working as is 3 days ago before i started changing everything to be server side global moddata because i couldnt confirm it was working while checking the players moddata/global moddata cuz it was client saved

[fleet bridge]

if you delete your MP save, you'll see that your gMD gets wiped completely

[echo lark]

well shite XD

[fleet bridge]

or you can just delete the .bin file it does the same

so if you're using local file to store moneys and rewards, then you're going to run into issues with people who delete the file etc.

[echo lark]

cuz i had it perfectly working like 4 days ago. but then when i tested with a player, viewing their moddata and seeing if it saved to the global moddata thinking it was only working for me. but all their stuff woul dhave been saved client side too so i wouldnt ahve been able to see it

[echo lark]

nope just at timer. when the tiemr hits 0 it spawns items in their inventory

so like if its set to 24 hours (in game hours) using the everyhours event it -1 to the timer

[fleet bridge]

you can do hacky stuff by using getGameTime():getModData() (i think?) from the server, then use servercommand to spit that info back to recipient players

if you dont wanna mess with the global mod data transaction

[echo lark]

the global moddata is only used cuz when the player dies their moddata gets wiped. so if their timer was like 1 hour away from their daily stipend and they die the timer restarts and they miss out

so im savign that data globally to restore after they spawn, then erase the glboal moddata entry

[fleet bridge]

suggest you look at UKO mod and see how evelyn did it

she does pretty much what you describe

[echo lark]

.......

damn ok XD

yea she does alot of stuff in that mod holy cow

[fleet bridge]

she's a smart bovine

[hollow current]

I never did. There's no "direct" way to do it. I think there are plenty of workarounds though. I honestly don't remember what I needed this for but I ended up throwing the idea away

[sour island]

You can fetch the field for SurvivorDesc using some hacky means

This can be streamlined/optimized more but:
https://github.com/Project-Zomboid-Community-Modding/pz-community-modding/issues/55

You can get, but no set

Unless in debug*

[hollow current]

that's really interesting

@fleet bridge Could probably be helpful to you ^

By the way, is there a way to intialize and use Timed Actions' progress bar when not actually in a timed action?

[drifting ore]

couldn't you just access fields as in normal lua? I could've sworn it worked.

[bronze yoke]

you can't

[sour island]

The only place something like that appears to work is if the game exposes and assigns the class to a table.

The main issue here is bodies don't have an exposed getter for the Description which is copied from the person dying.

[empty flame]

I need some info:

     local moodleList = player:getMoodles()
    local moodles = {}
    for i = 0, moodleList:size() - 1 do
        local moodle = moodleList:get(i)
        local moodleData = {
            name = moodle:getName(),
            severity = moodle:getSeverity(),
            duration = moodle:getDuration(),
            endTime = moodle:getEndTime()
        }
        table.insert(moodles, moodleData)
    end
    playerData.moodles = moodles

i am still trying to get him to work (prolly its the wrong use of this function) but i dont what to do rn haha. Keep stucking on the 4th line (obv is part of a bigger code)
Sorry i am super new.

[lilac mural]

Hi, i'm trying to create a function that will be called after crafting an item. So.. I have created function in my server lua file and added that function into script file with onCreate. Now, I get an error after loading world that just names my function. And if I try to craft an item I get an error that there's no such function. I couldn't find anything that could help me on internet 🫠

[fleet bridge]

function doesnt go in script file, it needs its own Lua file

[lilac mural]

Yeah, function is in server lua file

I just don't know why it says that there's no such function. How then I can call a function after crafting custom item?

[crisp drift]

how to import/export .x files in blender?

[austere sequoia]

you need the direct x import/export plugin

[crisp drift]

where can i find a working one?

[austere sequoia]

it is in the addon tab of blender, it works fine for me

[austere sequoia]

edit/preferences/addons : Import-Export: DirectX Importer

[crisp drift]

which version of the add-on do you have?

[austere sequoia]

sry, had to search. This one: https://github.com/poikilos/io_import_x

[crisp drift]

thanks

[lilac mural]

Ok, I fixed it, nvm. Now I'll try to fix another problem

[tidal pike]

Hi guys, the collision of an item is defenied in the tiledefinintion ?... and which option is active for my item to have collision ?

[crisp drift]

ask on #mod_support

[graceful fern]

Hi, i´m having troubles with the function getCell:setDrag. When my mod call it, it throws an Error: attempted index: setDrag of non-table: getCell, but i verify that the parameters i send is in fact a table and the player´s num, idk what´s happening, can someone see what am I doing wrong?

[fleet bridge]

getCell()

[gritty wren]

Hiii, I'm trying to do few recipes using some herbs, but when the herb has (Wild) attribute my recipe don't recognize it.
Same happens when the mushroom is not fresh. Can anyone help me to workaround this? Thanks 🙂

[graceful fern]

😂😂 I'm stupid, thank you dude

[mighty ether]

Does anyone have any idea what animations do and don't work with mannequins, or if there's any way to tell? I got deadbody_default.xml to work, but most other things default to the idle animation. Surrender just contorts the body

Okay even weirder, setting the animation to Loot.xml causes the mannequin to go into the surrender animation?

[ancient grail]

not exactly what youre asking but lool at this for reference
#1070852229654917180 message

[mighty ether]

Sorry, should've been a bit more specific. I'm trying to get mannequins to use player animations, to mixed success

I've looked at that guide but it isn't quite what I needed, I'm able to get the mannequin scripts to load in, but the animations are just borked 90% of the time

[ancient grail]

ive only done poses..i havent tried animating them cuz i just thought it wont work, goodluck tho...

[mighty ether]

They don't animate, I've been using animation files in hopes that it would do something like take the first frame and use that as the pose, but everything just defaults to the idle animation, dead on back animation, or just seems to pick something at random like in the case of the Loot animation

I'll just keep experimenting until I either figure it out or determine that is not viable to make a mod like this

[echo lark]

does OnCreatePlayer fire off late the first time the character is created? im using it to spawn an item into the players inventory but it only works after the first time they die and not when they first spawn in fresh

[fleet bridge]

Use onplayermove

[echo lark]

doesnt that event get called everytime a player moves though?

[sour island]

OnCreatePlayer has a delay of a frame or two in MP

[fleet bridge]

Yes. The function that executed can also remove the event

[sour island]

It's an annoying issue that renders the event useless (imo)

You can also use OnPlayerUpdate

You'd just need to confirm the player is "correct" so to speak

[fleet bridge]

I like onplayermove in case of severe login delay lol

[sour island]

You could make it count down 5 ticks, which would be barely noticable

[sour island]

True, but it depends what they're trying to do as well.

[fleet bridge]

True I think slappy is trying to deposit a login reward

[echo lark]

welcome package yea

function checks if the player already recieved one by checking a .txt file. if theres no match it spawns the welcome package

ill figure it all out tomorrow kind of tired right now

[echo lark]

well it works consistantly after a player dies. but for the very first time they create a character/load in its not working

[sour island]

That's cause of the connection being made

For a frame or two the person's IsoPlayer is not loaded in

[echo lark]

yeah i figured it was something like that

[mighty ether]

took another look at your guide and realized I had completely overlooked the xml file portion of it. I made new XML files that uses player animations and it works perfectly, thanks!

[ancient grail]

[winged ocean]

does anyone know if its possible to have a int such as 0.1 as a default value in sandbox-options.txt Every time I set it the option doesn't show up in game

option Apprenticeship.studentBoredomReduction
{
    type = integer,
    min = 0,
    max = 10,
    default = 0.1,
    page = Apprenticeship,
    translation = Apprenticeship_studentBoredomReduction,
}

edit: I've also tried float but also didn't work

[grizzled fulcrum]

You cannot, and I believe there is no float, only double which is just a 8 bytes instead of float which is 4 bytes

[frank elbow]

You can have a default value of 0.1 if it's a double

[grizzled fulcrum]

You can use double like

option MyMod.MyOption
{
    type = double,
    min = 0.0,
    max = 10.0,
    default = 0.1,
}

and since lua takes number as any number including int and float and double, you can just truncate it when you read it in lua

like ```lua
local opt = math.floor(SandboxOptions["Apprenticeship"].studentBoredomReduction)

but keep in mind floor only removes all the bits to the right of the decimal, not round

[frank elbow]

At that point it might as well just be an integer; I imagine they just meant “number” (i.e., I don't think they actually want an integer, because it's logically incompatible with the desired default)

[grizzled fulcrum]

well I guess in options you could just make it integer and then divide in lua like min = 0 max = 100 default = 1 and then divide the result by 10 like

--- @type float
local opt = SandboxOptions["Apprenticeship"].studentBoredomReduction / 10

[frank elbow]

I think the suggestion of using the double option type was plenty lol

[grizzled fulcrum]

such a small optimisation though

ya

[winged ocean]

Very helpful, thank you

[grizzled fulcrum]

all the ones you can use are
boolean, integer, double, string, enum

[frank elbow]

I'm sure there's a better version of this somewhere, but quick reference: #mod_development message

[alpine scroll]

Does anyone know how the Home_VHS get limited to one spawn each?

[grizzled fulcrum]

RecordedMedia.java LN234

[alpine scroll]

oH

Its inside java

I dont think I can change it via a mod, right?

[grizzled fulcrum]

not this particularly I don't think

sadly homeVhsSpawned is not exposed to lua but some funcs are

idk maybe it's possible to cook something up

[alpine scroll]

Atm the most I can think of is to clone everything and rename it as retail, but that is a shitty way to do it IMO

I wonder if I can force the variable be cleaned

[grizzled fulcrum]

well I think you might be able to add your own as like an override in lua?

I can't cook anything rn since im writing notes for my uni but give me like 30 minutes and I can start testing somethigns

but you may want to look at this javadoc
https://www.projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/radio/media/RecordedMedia.html

So what I'd do is try and replicate what the java is doing in lua, so getting teh categorizedMap (which is probably getRandomFromCategory or getAllmediaForType or something along those lines that returns an Arraylist

idk some black magic

[alpine scroll]

I dont think this part the lua deals with that

I think this is mostly to mark if you 've saw it yet or not

I know that on ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\Context\Inventory\InvContextMedia.lua it has the admin command to force a VHS to be a specific media

[grizzled fulcrum]

Line 723 of ItemPickerJava has this

I am sure that's to handle some sort of distribution stuff

[alpine scroll]

If I am reading this right

It just get another VHS in case a Home-VHS spawns and there is no avaliable Home-VHS

So it gets converted to Retail-VHS

[alpine scroll]

Because here it doesnt deal with the situation where it spawned a Home-VHS and all of them already spawned

So it deals on it later

I think

[grizzled fulcrum]

yea

[grizzled fulcrum]

oh you mean like a check to see if there is already an existing home vhs?

[alpine scroll]

It does check if it already exists. But it only writes mediaData on it in case it doesnt

So you get a Home-VHS with null mediaData

Then the other check updates the null Home-VHS to a Retail-VHS instead

I think this will require a patch like Jab did with luacmd

To literally alter the zomboid server code

[mighty ether]

Update on the mannequin stuff, got all the poses I wanted sorted and added the ability to give mannequins any hair, beard, and hair color

[drifting ore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5HKlQ6nGM

[empty flame]

if someone is interested i finish my first version of the botlog + mod implementation for admins controls (not all infos are send to the bot but you can check those via files) (also gives igt, online count and position)

[thorn cipher]

Very cool Agam!

[ionic sentinel]

Anyone have any idea where the file is that handles the crafting recipe of this item: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Big_Double_Pole_Gate

[coarse sinew]

ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\Blacksmith\ISUI\ISBlacksmithMenu.lua, line 246

[ionic sentinel]

Thank you ❤️

[thorn belfry]

If any skilled modder reads this here
Please create a Propane-Tank backpack connected to the blowtorch for auto refill

[mighty ether]

Hey everyone, calling for some support again. Currently having an issue where an IsoObject duplicates whenever I try using transmitCompleteItemToServer. Figured it may have been an issue transmitting from the client, so I tried sending the object to the server, calling transmitCompleteItemToClients, then deleting the object client side using sledgeDestroy and transmitRemoveItemFromSquare. Moddata does not save the properties of the IsoObject.

Anyone know why this duplication happens or how to prevent it?

[bronze yoke]

what are you trying to do? this is the expected behaviour of these methods

[mighty ether]

Transmitting changes of the HumanVisuals of mannequins to the server. I've managed to allow server admins to add hair and beards to mannequins. When I transmit the object, it duplicates and I haven't figured out a way to get rid of the duplicate.

[bronze yoke]

usually you need to synchronise object changes manually with client/server commands

the transmitCompleteItem methods are for telling the server/client about a new object, they don't check for an existing object to update

[mighty ether]

Got it, will give it a try. Thanks for the help.

[thorn cipher]

You could probably make it yourself, just look at similar mods and you’ll find it easier than you think

[thorn belfry]

dont want to cause everytime i start creating mods i fall into a rabbithole and at the end of it i lose complete interest in the game - happend so many times, Kingdome Come, Witcher3, Divinity 2...and so on

[thorn cipher]

why do you think you lose interest?

[brisk remnant]

Lol that’s a good idea bro. Hopefully one of the pros take it on

[thorn belfry]

Well its basically because i loose touch with the game from a player perspective
And then i end up changing tables, adjusting numbers and scripting stuff

And then after some weeks i feel like bored out because i lost connection to playing the game

[digital tinsel]

Hey, noob question here, i never modded but wanted to mod the existing cities in the game map to make them more interesting, is that possible?

[thorn belfry]

Kingdome Come my worst experience in this regard - completely fell in love with the game
Started a big Archery+Armor overhaul and the idea was great and would have probably seen thousand downloads
But everytime i got lost in the busy work and never even finished the game coming back 3 times to it...

[thorn belfry]

Theres plenty map mods - so yea its actually a common modding activity in Zomboid

[digital tinsel]

Yeah, there are a lot, but i noticed none of them modify the vanilla cities, only adds more maps, so im starting to think it`s no possible

I cant be the first one to have the idea haha

[digital tinsel]

(exception to 10 years later i guess)

[bronze yoke]

what do you mean? there's plenty that do this

[digital tinsel]

do you have an example?

[bronze yoke]

west point expansion used to be one of the most popular maps

[digital tinsel]

So, that`s not the case, in that case it >expands< the city, but dont mess around with the vanilla one

i mean mods that reworks the vanilla cities, change the buildings, settings, like making the west point police station a 3 floor building for example

[bronze yoke]

there's a lot of mods that redo the existing cities, i'm not sure i know of one that only makes smaller changes

there's a dump of the vanilla map on github somewhere you can edit

[digital tinsel]

i swear the only one i saw doing that was 10 years later

i may be wrong tho

[bronze yoke]

ekron goes for this but it's essentially a new city in place of the old one (especially apparent now that people have realised that that city was never even meant to be ekron 😅)

there's a few mods that add single new buildings to existing towns and a few that add whole sectors to them

[thorn belfry]

I think i have seen plenty small reworks - like police or firestations

but im not into map stuff rn

[digital tinsel]

thats cool, i`ll see if i can find it

[thorn belfry]

but i would probably wait for modding until b42 drops

if its an extensive project

[digital tinsel]

probally will just mess around and try to learn something

[thorn belfry]

kk

[indigo ferry]

hey guys I really want to know how scripts inside scripts folder work

is there a source code which handles those or it's purely handled by java?

[bronze yoke]

they are handled by java

[indigo ferry]

I'm really new to modding so I'm just trying to figure out how to work with it

[empty flame]

there is a fuction that shows how many cells a player discovered?

[signal swift]

first time modding project z
should i uninstall all mods in the game b4 getting started?

[bright fog]

Why ?

Why would you need to uninstall all mods lmao

[signal swift]

ive never modded b4, im considering the idea of mod conflicts or something along those lines.
But i suppose its not a concern considering the response

[bright fog]

Well if you don't activate the mod in your mod list, it's not active and can't conflict with other mods

Unless you share mod IDs (in mod.info)

Then mods will merge and that can do some shit

[ancient grail]

its a good practice to isolate the mod your working on but you dont need to unistall other mods.

if you have mods activated then deactivate it .

this isnt necessary but it be easier to manage the mod and whats going on with the game if there are less stuff that are happening

[chrome zephyr]

how does one get started in modding?

like do i need to know coding for lua or anything?

[thick karma]

1. Decide a mod must exist.
2. Determine how to make it exist.
3. ???
4. Profit

[thick karma]

In a sense, you don't need to know anything really, but you need to be ready to learn what you don't know. A baby could mod this game. It would just take many years for them to figure everything out.

That said, a lot of fundamental skills including but not limited to programming in Lua will surely help accelerate the process.

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@sonic oyster Maybe that variable doesn't persist between sessions. Unsure. Player mod data might be more reliable.

I would just increment a mod data variable EveryHours or whatever that event is called

(If no built-in variable works)

[sonic oyster]

Apologies for posting in the wrong chat! I do believe it persists, it's stored with other player data like hunger and thirst, and previously it would steadily increase until reaching a max of 10. I can do that, and I am keeping a variable for other stuff, but if this variable is completely broken, I can't track when people smoke to reset the timer. There is no "player smoked" event trigger, to my knowledge

[thick karma]

You could check that variable EveryOneMinute pretty easily of it's reliable. Idk what you mean when you say variable is broken

[sonic oyster]

This is the variable I am referring to. The setters work to change it. The expected behavior is that it slowly increments over time to a max float of 10. Once you smoke, it goes back to 0 and increments again. It is no longer incrementing, nor resetting after a cigarette is smoked

[thick karma]

You could hook the function that fires when you finish a cigarette

[sonic oyster]

Do you know what that would be? I wasn't able to find anything like that in docs