mod_development

[deft vapor]

could anyone help me? i can’t make a map on my device but id someone could upload a standalone map (either empty or we could work tg to finish it) or something for me

[night iron]

does anyone here ever used the steam deadicated PZ server?

[ancient grail]

the circle but i modify the radius on tick

[ancient grail]

#mapping

[ancient grail]

omg the math

[night iron]

can someone help me figure out why my local dedicated server fails to lunch when i add some mods to the server.ini?

LOG  : General     , 1729009340017> 568,311,756> Workshop: onItemQueryCompleted handle=1 numResult=84
LOG  : General     , 1729009340023> 568,311,762> Workshop: GetItemState()=NeedsUpdate ID=2694448564
LOG  : General     , 1729009340025> 568,311,765> Workshop: item state CheckItemState -> DownloadPending ID=2694448564
LOG  : General     , 1729009340060> 568,311,799> Workshop: DownloadPending GetItemState()=NeedsUpdate|DownloadPending ID=2694448564
LOG  : General     , 1729009340063> 568,311,802> Workshop: download 0/0 ID=2694448564
LOG  : General     , 1729009340164> 568,311,903> Workshop: DownloadPending GetItemState()=NeedsUpdate|DownloadPending ID=2694448564
LOG  : General     , 1729009340165> 568,311,904> Workshop: download 0/0 ID=2694448564
LOG  : General     , 1729009340266> 568,312,005> Workshop: DownloadPending GetItemState()=NeedsUpdate|DownloadPending ID=2694448564
LOG  : General     , 1729009340267> 568,312,006> Workshop: download 0/0 ID=2694448564
LOG  : General     , 1729009340302> 568,312,041> Workshop: onItemNotDownloaded itemID=2694448564 result=2
LOG  : General     , 1729009340302> 568,312,042> Workshop: item state DownloadPending -> Fail ID=2694448564
src\tier0\threadtools.cpp (3465) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'CFileWriterThread'
src\tier0\threadtools.cpp (3465) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'CFileWriterThread'
src\tier0\threadtools.cpp (3465) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'Thread(0x00007FF99D741B60/0x000'
src\tier0\threadtools.cpp (3465) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'Thread(0x00007FF99D741B60/0x000'

[bronze yoke]

is the mod private?

[night iron]

it feels like it's failing to save the file but i tried running this as an admin and still wont work

it's the same mods i have installed in my client and on my gportal dedicated server

trying to setup a local version to debug why i get that weird black screen when adding my mod to it

this is the steam version of the dedicated server, nothing changes regardless of running it through the steam luncher, or executing the bats directly from windows without or without admin priveledges

[night iron]

if anyone else runs into this issue there is a steam_appid.txt in the dedicated server folder which is corrupted

just edit it in notepad and put in PZ steam id of 108600

[wet sandal]

What did Steam do to the workshop front page?

The mods showing in the carousel are ancient (compared to my expectations).

[drifting ore]

Hello! Is there anyone who is very knowledgeable about mods? I need to communicate with such a person in private messages if he is willing to give me time. I have a small mod (not mine) that people say causes errors in saves. I tried to fix it, but I need someone to be able to look at it and draw conclusions

[night iron]

only reason i can think for a mod to mess with saves is if either messes with ModData or removes Item defenitions somehow, but i'm no expert here

ok i figured out the file that causes my stuck in black screen while loading when using my new mod in multiplayer....

it's my recipes file that suppresses existing vanilla and other mod recipes

module Base {
    recipe Make Stone Axe {
        IsHidden:true,
        Override:true
    }

    (...)
}

if i remove this file from both the client and server then it loads just fine anyone has any idea why this happens?

[peak nymph]

just a guess and may be completely wrong, but maybe even hidden recipes require some of the other properties, maybe copy the full recipe in and add IsHidden and Override and see if it helps

[bronze yoke]

i'd go for```Override:true,
Obsolete:true,

i'm not sure just setting hidden is enough (and some popular mods ignore it lol)

[night iron]

yep this did it thanks, again and again @bronze yoke

[small topaz]

not sure if this is the right channel to ask but has steam recently changed how the workshop can be searched?

until recently, when I checked for mods with setting "most popular" and time period "one week", steam apparently showed me all mods which have been popular during the last week. this almost exclusively included new mods.

since a few days, steam seems to show me simply the mods which are most popular all time (I see stuff like skill recovery journal, noir's attachments etc., all the old classics).

anyone else with this experience? maybe steam is just bugged at the moment?

[small topaz]

ok... I am not the only one with the problem 😅

[wet sandal]

Yeah, the new ranking is cooked

[small topaz]

hope they bring the old system back soon. impossible to find new interesting mods currently.

[quiet fulcrum]

is IsoGameCharacter.die() the only place that creates a dead body when a character dies? And subsequently, does this mean that deaths are only triggered when in the PlayerOnGroundState?

[winter bolt]

apparently its happening for every game

[wet sandal]

Yea, I'm hoping its a bug, not a feature

[winter bolt]

praying its just a mistake because theres no way valve would make a change this terrible

[chrome veldt]

What do you guys think of this mod I'm working on?

[chrome veldt]

I'm still working on optimizing it and fine tuning the flickering room chance

[hallow prairie]

Hello good night everyone ✌
Excuse me, I am looking for a group of modders who may be looking for more members for the team 😄 I have some years of experience in Blender.I would like to contribute my grain of sand to the game and his community. I enjoy a lot the game and could be awesome to continue polishing my 3D skills while working on the game

[bright fog]

If you are interested we have a group of modders that make TLOU related mods
https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1244302148544630880

[silk raven]

I provide a comprehensive 3D character creation package, covering everything from advanced sculpting and detailed modeling to rigging and lifelike animation.

Utilizing the latest industry software, I ensure your characters are visually stunning and move seamlessly, whether for film, games, or interactive projects.

My focus on realistic texturing and optimized performance ensures your characters are platform-ready, tailored to your specific needs.

Let’s bring your vision to life!

[hallow prairie]

Thank you! I already joined the group ✌

[haughty fiber]

Are there any highly-skilled Modders out there, who love both Project Zomboid AND Shadowrun / Cyberpunk?

If so, hit me up! I'll be reposting this question often, really want to create a 'Shadowrunner' type of PZ Server...!

[bright fog]

Hey I invite you to post a request for commission on the modding Discord, you'd have possibly more chances to find someone
https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

[haughty fiber]

what's the modding discord?

[bright fog]

click the link

Even if it says unknown

[tame lily]

guys

where are item icons stored?

are they stored in IconsMoveables.pack?

if so, how do i open the .pack file

[bronze yoke]

most of them are in UI2, some older ones are in UI, the ones for moveables are probably in IconsMoveables

you can open a pack with tilezed

[tame lily]

where might this TileZed be?

[bronze yoke]

spongies mentioned how to do this the other day

[winter bolt]

haha

deja vu

[bronze yoke]

🙇‍♀️

[tame lily]

thanks for this

[grizzled marsh]

finally I found out this channel

[grizzled marsh]

Guys, if I just assign a .ogg file with the same name as the id of a line of WordZed, will it work?

[rare mango]

I wanna make a mod that alters a zombie's clothes, but have zero idea how to even go about this. Any ideas?

[uneven ore]

Is there any way to send http POST requests through Lua?

[vagrant ledge]

Just kidding! Found it.

[tame lily]

dudes

where might there be a list of the loot tables?

[uneven ore]

I have a small list of spawn locations

[chrome veldt]

I've done it in the past, it's possible but kinda tricky. I believe you can only send data but not retrieve them (I might be wrong). My main concern was that steam might block your queries / mod for security reasons.

[uneven ore]

Can you send me an example

[uneven ore]

We plan to use it for discord web hook integrations

[chrome veldt]

@uneven ore

[uneven ore]

what does query stand for?

[tame lily]

unfortunate, not quite what im looking for

i wanna know if it's possible to have some books spawn only in certain bookshelves

like survivor house bookshelves

but not bookstore shelves

[chrome veldt]

It's basically your data, previously encoded by encodedGETRequest

Variable and function names might need a rework I agree, I kinda let this project dust so tbh

[uneven ore]

where in the code do i put the message (what i want to send)

[chrome veldt]

local data = {
   x = rawData.x,
   ...
}

You could replace x by the message

[uneven ore]

x = "my message"

?

[chrome veldt]

And the encodedGETRequest will chain all the field in the data table to construct a string like ?x=x&y=y&whatever=whatever&message=message

the 'x' doesn't really matter, it's just an example
You could do

    message = yourMessage
}```

[uneven ore]

alright, where would i put the webhook url?

[chrome veldt]

local function sendData(rawData)
    local data = {
        playersOnline=rawData.playersOnline, -- lets say 3
        worldAge=rawData.worldAge, -- lets say 24
    }
    local dataSuccess, encodedData = pcall(encodeGETRequest, data)
    ...
}

Here, encoded data would be ?playersOnline=3&worldAge=24

If you have different endpoints you might want to change it a little bit but, in the example, it's the second argument of this pcall function
local request = pcall(sendPostRequest, 'https://example.com/my-route', encodedData)

Mind you, I don't know if it'd work with discord. You might need a middleware

[ancient grail]

try
openUrl()

@uneven ore

[chrome veldt]

Does that really work? Wish I knew it

[ancient grail]

to me it does

i think it opens the steam browser
but if youre using nosteam
it will open your default browser externally

[chrome veldt]

Huh, interesting, can’t think of a good use case but that’s nice. I don’t think that’s what @uneven ore is looking for however.

[uneven ore]

Give me an example of openUrl sending post requests

[grizzled fulcrum]

tl;dr it can't

[ancient grail]

idk how to do that exactly
i just gave you a possible solution
rest is up to you

[drifting ore]

Good afternoon! I will pay money to a person from Russia (unfortunately, I cannot transfer money outside the country) who can make an adequate version of the mod. I need someone with more experience working with mods for Project Zomboid. It is necessary to have successful work in the Steam workshop and provide proof that you are the author.
It is advisable to have experience working with vehicles, their modification and understanding how they are initialized in the game.
Write to me in private messages if you think you are suitable for the task. My mod will need to be finalized and supplemented, it is very small, but there are some problems. First, I will demonstrate it, we will discuss some points and decide whether it makes sense to redo it.

[neon kiln]

I want to get into Modding PZ. Is there a quick-start guide? I've never coded in LUA, but it seems similar to Ruby based on what I've seen. What IDEs' work best? How do I get access to all the PZ files?

[digital basin]

W Patrick youtube video gets you a good start on where to find things and how to upload

[neon kiln]

Thank you!

[digital basin]

No problem! goodluck 🙂

[winter bolt]

i just use notepad++ lmao

[bronze yoke]

most people would recommend vscode

it has the best lua support out of any ide really and there's a lot of pz-specific tools developed for it

[digital basin]

I use vscode, but if changing a name in bulk i use ++

i find the replace just easier and nicer to look at

[stable marsh]

I am stuck; I'm trying to add sandbox options, even followed albion's guide. I have exactly the same and it just is not showing up in solo sandbox options

Do I need anything else other than the sandbox-options.txt and the Sandbox_EN.txt files for them to start showing up in the sandbox options menu?

[red tiger]

I write integration software for modding pz in vscode.

[bronze yoke]

you should only need the sandbox-options.txt to at least see them

[stable marsh]

Yeah that does not work at all and I don't understand why

Literally copy-pasted from your guide:

VERSION = 1,

option sapphcookingnebulafixes.Name {
    type = KEEP READING,
    numValues = 3,
    default = 1,
    page = MyPage,
    translation = sapphcookingnebulafixes_OptionName,
    valueTranslation = sapphcookingnebulafixes_OptionName_Values,
}```

Not exactly like that but yeah

[grizzled fulcrum]

btw don't expect all of the cool 1 liner syntax stuff from ruby in lua, even after using Ruby, Lua feels like a child compared to ruby and that's saying something lol

[grizzled fulcrum]

type = keep reading???

you mean enum -_-

[bronze yoke]

type = should be the type of your option, i see that's not exactly clear in my guide

[grizzled fulcrum]

maybe you should put a disclaimer saying that the code provided is not universal or something lol

[stable marsh]

Even with that it didn't work

I've tried renewing the file 3 times with all correct stuff

[grizzled fulcrum]

huh

is that literally everything in the sandbox options file?

[stable marsh]

Refuses to show up, not a single type works

Yup

[bronze yoke]

is it in the right place? media/sandbox-options.txt

[stable marsh]

I'm basically just retrying until it magically works again like how it can be with programming at times

[stable marsh]

Ayup

[grizzled fulcrum]

hi integration software for pz modding vscode writer pythoid (ur so busy jesus)

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/drink-coffee-coffee-yes-jack-gif-12037659

[balmy swan]

Would someone be so nice to help me with a sendservercommand problem that I'm having? I'm testing the following on a dedicated server:

I have a function on the server that grabs a player and runs
sendServerCommand(player, "testmodule", "test", nil)

and i have the following client function

local function HandleServerCommand(module, command, args)
    if module ~= "testmodule" then return end
    if command == "test" then
        print("Test")
    end
end
Events.OnServerCommand.Add(HandleServerCommand)

Instead of the function being called, I'm being kicked for a malformed packet. According to the API this should be correct, what could be wrong here?

[bronze yoke]

you passed nil instead of an args table

if you have no arguments pass an empty table

[red tiger]

Thought that was optional.

[balmy swan]

Huh. Thought nil would work there. Let me try that out real quick.

[bronze yoke]

this actually does come out as nil on the other end which is nothing but annoying

[red tiger]

2-arg version??

[bronze yoke]

no such thing, though number of arguments is used for overload resolution so passing nil would still be invalid

[grizzled fulcrum]

im not gonna keep pestering about all the small things, but just to be sure that the mod is loaded

[stable marsh]

It is, only this mod and the mod that is required to use it

[grizzled fulcrum]

I've seen some people forget to load the mod and then spend an absurd amount of time trying to fix a non-existent issue

[grizzled fulcrum]

yea thats weird

[stable marsh]

I had work where I had to ask people "Did you plug it into the socket?", I know all about it lol

[grizzled fulcrum]

turn it off and turn it back on 🙏

[balmy swan]

Nope. setting it to {} rather than nil gives me the same issue

[grizzled fulcrum]

by chance, does the start of the function get executed before the kick?

[bronze yoke]

that's really unusual

[stable marsh]

I'm fr just gonna restart everything in the hopes it magically works

[balmy swan]

The function on the client side doesn't run, there's no 'test' log being printed

[grizzled fulcrum]

restart your game, if not then try to just strip the mod to where there's literally only the mod.info beside the media folder and the sandbox options file in the media folder

dont even worry about translations lol

[bronze yoke]

oh if your mod is on the workshop already unsubscribe from it

for some reason sandbox options in particular really struggle when you have two copies of the mod

[grizzled fulcrum]

i hope that's the issue from their perspective lol

[bronze yoke]

most things will prefer the local copy but sandbox options seem to prefer the workshop one

[bronze yoke]

is player definitely a player object? does it still happen without a player argument? is this code definitely running on the server? (the game is very misleading about what actually gets executed where)

[grizzled fulcrum]

I feel like the malformed packet thing could be the underlying reason

as in it's a symptom

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i've never ever seen commands cause that so it has to be something weird

[stable marsh]

I am not subscribed to it on the workshop

[stable marsh]

I'll try this

[balmy swan]

The player should be a player object, the same player variable is used to check the player's inventory in the function.
The server code is under the server folder, to my knowledge that should be enough for it to run on the server?
The same also happens if I don't have the player arg

[grizzled fulcrum]

anything in the log when you get kicked?

[bronze yoke]

the server folder runs on the client, in fact most of the vanilla code in there is exclusively client code

the only way to ensure your code only runs on the server is to include a check for it in the file (usually if isClient() then return end at the start of the file)

if you're successfully checking the player's inventory that confirms your code is running on the client as player inventories aren't replicated to the server

[grizzled fulcrum]

you should get a stack trace when the game kicks you hopefully

[balmy swan]

Huh. That's odd. I thought it ran on the server side only, as the server function outputted the print in console rather than in player console. It's good to know that my thought process on that was wrong, at least 😅
I'll have to try with the if isClient() then return end that you mentioned

[grizzled fulcrum]

if not then 😰

[balmy swan]

Give me just a second, because I did already close the server

[stable marsh]

Even this did not work - I'm gonna make a completely new testMod to see if that one does work, if not, I have no clue anymore

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i'm only really trying common pitfalls here, to my knowledge calling sendServerCommand on the client doesn't cause a kick (or do literally anything)

[grizzled fulcrum]

I have had sending commands cause kicks before, but it was almost always because of something pretty bad happening that it kicks you

[bronze yoke]

it's possible that you're relying on an event or some other kind of trigger that doesn't actually occur on the client, so it doesn't end up running your prints there even though the file itself does run

[grizzled fulcrum]

you shouldn't get any kick after changing from nil to empty table after looking at it more

[bronze yoke]

double checking myself it does seem like nil is valid after all

[grizzled fulcrum]

in that case surely there's a stack trace in teh console

[stable marsh]

This works, what....

[balmy swan]

Ahh, yeah. That's correct. I have the function tied to EveryOneMinute temporarily, that's what might be causing that.
It doesn't seem like I'm getting kicked anymore, but the command is still not being sent.

The serverside code doesn't reach the statement with the command anymore. But that's probably something on my end.

[stable marsh]

I don't understand this anymore I just changed the sandbox-options.txt to EXACTLY what I had before, and it does work in a completely new clean mod folder....

Wait I just had a thought, I'm going to test something

Life of a developer in a nutshell I guess - stuff just magically decides to work sometimes and vise verse

[balmy swan]

Okay, I got it working- I think. Apparently you can't check the inventories from the server side. Thank you for your help.

[bronze yoke]

my best advice on how networking works in this game is that it's generally best to assume things are client only

especially if it would be a security issue 😭

[balmy swan]

That's fair! I've always been terrible at networking, and it would've been great if this could have been done from the server side to prevent potential tampering 🙂

[bronze yoke]

i genuinely would not even think about security with mod development

cheaters are essentially omnipotent already

[balmy swan]

Ahhh. Fair, fair. Gotcha.

[stable marsh]

@bronze yoke @grizzled fulcrum I found the solution

And why it didn't work-

When testing the mod on my own system, I have my mod in the C:\Users\%UserName%\Zomboid\mods folder. HOWEVER, when I had to upload it to the workshop, I had to put it in C:\Users\%UserName%\Zomboid\Workshop as well,

Apparently, they both need to have exactly the same files, for sandbox-options.txt to work........

[bronze yoke]

yeah, always make absolute sure you only have one copy of your mod when you're working on it

sandbox options in particular are a pain in the ass about this but it can cause issues with other systems too

[stable marsh]

Don't you need your mod in both folders?

[bronze yoke]

no, you can just use the one in workshop

[stable marsh]

That f explains

I did not know that XD

[bronze yoke]

i usually start in mods and move to workshop when i'm ready to upload (deleting the one in mods when i do), others will prefer to work from workshop from the start

[stable marsh]

I sees I sees, good to know now, thank you both anyhow with trying to figure out why it wasn't working 🙏 🙏

[grizzled fulcrum]

symlink time

i got a github folder like c:\github and all my mods in there I symlink to my zomboid dir at c:\dev\zomboid\mods

so I change it in github foflder and it updates

then I have a python script to generate the dist files, and the dist folder it outputs is symlinked to the workshop folder like c:\github\AoqiaZomboidUtils\dist\ <-> c:\dev\zomboid\workshop\AoqiaZomboidUtils\

[bronze yoke]

one day i'll get around to writing an upload script so i don't have to touch that workshop folder

[stable marsh]

That's not a bad idea actually

[grizzled fulcrum]

well the python script doesn't matter that much

I only use it to remove not needed files before I upload to the workshop like the git stuff, docs if any, resource project files like psd and blend (they are still in the repo, just not in the steam workshop version)

so the file size isn't too big 😄

but I don't have a way to auto upload it without opening the game, I still have to do that manually lol

[bronze yoke]

i think the formats you need to set things up in for in-game upload are kinda gross and i'd like to automate version numbers and not have to manually convert my changelogs between github and steam

[grizzled fulcrum]

wdym convert changelogs between github and steam

I just copy my changelog.md over to the changelog box when uploading

[bronze yoke]

the formatting for each is totally different, i don't know what yours usually look like but i have to redo it all and i literally just do headings and bullet points

[grizzled fulcrum]

https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/
I just follow this

Then I just copy the markdown to the changelog box and remove the heading #'s

I don't really try to format them nicely to look good on steam because they're changelogs

as long as you can read it, that's good enough for me lol

[warped ginkgo]

i'm new to pz modding and lua, i like the lang and i was wondering if you have any advice on setting up vscode for pz, i tried the tencent lua ext that comes with a bunch of stuff but fills all the scrip files with red squiggly lines 😭

[bronze yoke]

use the sumneko lua extension (just called lua on the extension manager) and follow these instructions to install umbrella https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella

there should also be an extension called zedscript which adds some limited support for script files

[warped ginkgo]

Tysm i saw sumneko was high up, will try now

ohhh typings thank god

i was just wondering if lua had a typing/interface system lol

[quiet fulcrum]

how/where does PlayerOnGroundState get set?

I mean how/where does it get triggered

[uneven ore]

how would one send a message in a json format?

[dull moss]

I'm the part of others, jsut tinker with it while its in workshop folder

tbh i never knew other option existed

[stable marsh]

I didn't even know that the game actually reads the mods in the Workshop folder into the modlist in-game 💀

[chrome veldt]

From my understanding, you can't. The closest you can get is the code I sent you. (I might be wrong)

You could, in theory, convert a table into a stringified JSON (basically replacing my encoding function) and send like I do, then parse it afterward. But again, I'm not sure you can do it directly through discord, maybe you could setup a cloud functions to act a middleware

[ancient grail]

i did symlink for my references but wondered if it will work with mods to workshop too

i havent tried
glad i saw this

should work with tile making too cuz the png should be saved on both a folder for the mod then x2 folder
then needs to be transferred to the mod itself

[ancient grail]

my latest mod is broken
i cant seem to spawn a water barrel that functions

ive done

item script  spawn via recipe result
item script  spawn via  oncreate
contextmenu spawn client side
lua  spawn moveable item
lua spawn the tile itself using 3 different methods

[fleet bridge]

Water barrel is a special object isn't it?

[ancient grail]

ye global object

im gona try and use the build menus function that should work

i just dont know how to add options onto submenus after using getOptionByName or something like that

[ancient grail]

figured it out this way but i cant seem to insert it within the build menu owell

[coarse sinew]

Changing the name field of the RainCollectorBarrel object breaks the global object system, it should be the same as vanilla, like "Rain Collector" or something like that, because it's hardcoded. In BM I solved this problem and you can insert objects that collect water with different names, there is a guide on the project github on how to make addons.

[ancient grail]

i didnt change the name i only changed the context menu option

[quiet fulcrum]

just bumping this again in case somebody has an answer:
is IsoGameCharacter.die() the only place that creates a dead body when a character dies? And subsequently, does this mean that player deaths are only triggered from the PlayerOnGroundState? If so, anyone know if there's a way to jump in with lua just before PlayerOnGroundState.execute?

[ancient grail]

getPlayer():kill(getPlayer()

[ancient grail]

maybe?

[ancient grail]

you can also setVariable("DoDeath", true)

i think this also works
but not sure if thats doDeath or DoDeath

this is the variable zeds send to player when they get dragdown

[ancient grail]

i think i misunderstood the question

could you tell us more what youre trying to do

[rare mango]

Any idea how I can make a mod where I can alter a zombies clothing when it spawns?

[quiet fulcrum]

trying to avoid player die() being called in that state

the best way would be to increase health just before so isDead() is false

but I need my lua code to jump in just before that and I'm not sure what the closest event is

[topaz tangle]

Added new models to my mod :3

[magic eagle]

I am trying to connect to my reinforcement learning model. Is there an API that can simulate keyboard control in the game? For example, is there an API that can directly pass in movement commands such as WASD (rather than directly using Lua to set the player's coordinates to teleport)?

😀

[ancient grail]

is it possible you could hook on the actual die fuction then?

[quiet fulcrum]

how without de/recompiling java?

[ancient grail]

might still work

local hook = die
function die(...)
end

idk

worth a shot.
it worked for print atleast

[rich reef]

Hello everyone. I have a quick question or two that I hope someone can answer for me.

First off:

I am creating a simple mod for Halloween that has some treat bags. I've made the bags, a few variants of them, and got the models to work on player/on ground as they should. All is well there. What I plan on doing though, is having the bags drop off of zombies, which I already know how to accomplish with distributions. But those bags I want to include a bunch of treats/candies/etc when they are found.

It seems I need to setup the distribution list for the bags, and include the items in those separately, but after a bunch of digging I just can't seem to find a good example of how to achieve this easily.

I am wondering how I can reference the bag/item by name within a distribution list, specifically. My items are not set to use the Base. prefix, and instead use the Mod-ID prefix to keep them from conflicting with other mods.

I've seen a few suggestions of making a list/table of the containers/items first, and then iterating through a loop to add them one by one, item by item, bag by bag to the distribution list, which seems the most efficient, since I have (13) variants of these treat bags, and I would prefer to make one list of items to include for all 13 bags, instead of 13 gigantic distribution lists.

Hopefully this is making sense, and someone can help me.

Also, one more question:

In regards to having items spawn into the game, will a distribution list still function if a mod isn't loaded that it's requesting items from, but continue to spawn other items without crashing?

I'd like to have all the base game/vanilla items spawn, as well as some of the items from a few of the very popular food/snack mods that are working. I think this would be cool to let people use the mod without it absolutely requiring those other mods to function at a base level.

Thank you to anyone that can help!

[quiet fulcrum]

die() is a method in the IsoGameCharacter class, can that still work like that?

[mortal fable]

Can someone please point me in the right direction to start learning how to make mods for PZ? Sorry if it’s already been posted/mentioned. Thank you in advance

[bright fog]

Uuuuh I don't think that works actuallly

I'm pretty sure it doesn't sadly

I believe I tried to use that a few weeks ago to kill the player and play the death animation instead of instantly dying

[grizzled fulcrum]

Hooking Java functions won't actually hook the Java function, only the exposed global variable from the Lua side

So calls from Java to die() will not call your hooked function, only lua code that calls die() will use your hooked code

[ancient grail]

i see good to know

[ancient grail]

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[bright fog]

Actually there are proper hooks I believe

Like attack

Which aren't decorations

[grizzled fulcrum]

but does that require some other method or is it just the same as normal?

[bright fog]

It's something completely different

I'm trying to find it again

Was albion who shared it to me a while ago

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

tho that doesn't explain what these are here

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/zombie/Lua/LuaHookManager.html

Might be that

#908459714248048730 message

Was when she mentioned it

[grizzled fulcrum]

this is only for attack though (and the other very select ones), I just meant like any java function

I think LuaHookManager is for handling event callbacks on the Java side

[bright fog]

yea nah it's not a thing sadly

But it's good to know that it exists anyway

[grizzled fulcrum]

ill add support for it but rn just got bigger fish to fry

[bronze yoke]

the thing with Hook hooks is they aren't even hooks

they're like. the opposite of a hook

if you add a hook your code runs instead of some specific java code

this makes them essentially useless unless you actually want to e.g. reimplement the entire combat system in lua (which is what most hooks do)

[grizzled fulcrum]

oh so instead of hooking before/after orig it just replaces it? ;-;

[fossil basin]

Hello guys, I'm very far from modding Zomboid, but I have a low poly model that I would like to add to the game. I would like the character's body from the game to be replaced with the body of my model, is this somehow possible to implement? Maybe there is some kind of guide? I hear that custom characters can be added like costume

[grizzled fulcrum]

that is possible, but you might want to also ask in #modeling too

[fossil basin]

ok thx

[bright fog]

yea

[vagrant matrix]

im a bit at a loss here, where can i find a reference of the functions i can extend upon/hook in lua? specifically, i want to create a mod that changes the way the containers in inventories are rendered to include the Name of the container next to the Icon. i can look at examples from others, and i know the javadoc, and i know that the java objects are represented in lua as well, but still i cant find "ISInventoryPage" anywhere, and am confused

[bronze yoke]

ISInventoryPage isn't a java object, it's a lua object - you can look at the game's lua in the media/lua/ folder

[vagrant matrix]

❤️ thanks!

man i feel stupid, it was there all along

[red tiger]

You'd have to manually set up the symlink as a player

Oh wait old msg

Rip

[grizzled fulcrum]

lol

[kind turret]

lmao

[rich reef]

Still not having much luck with this. Does anybody have any insight?

[bronze yoke]

you reference a bag in distributions by its type (look for vanilla bags in distributions for examples)

and yeah, you can just add the same table x times for x bags rather than writing x tables

[rich reef]

Alright. I've noticed that some of the bags are prefixed with "Bag_XXXX" Is this a requirement? Or is that just how those items are named in the vanilla system?

My mod prefix/item prefix would be GN84-AHE, and then the item name. Do I use that in place of Base.? I don't see the vanilla distributions using Base., so I'm not sure if it's calling the item by name in the script, or some other reference.

[bronze yoke]

that's just how they choose to organise the vanilla items, the bag_ prefix doesn't have any special meaning

i'll have to check how it treats items from other modules, hopefully it treats them properly but it's not unheard of for systems to simply only work for base lol

[rich reef]

Alright. I just wanted to avoid any conflicts in case my item matched the naming convention of someone else in the future. I'd assume that you could prefix your items with the module, but not 100% sure.

Mostly trying to figure out how to write the code that references the bag itself.

[bronze yoke]

it looks like it only checks the short type, so other modules will work fine

modules are how you're supposed to avoid name conflicts, but some systems such as this don't really utilise it properly (but at least it doesn't stop it from working entirely like some others do)

[rich reef]

Okay, thats good to know. I know when declaring the items you want distributed you can use the module. But wasn't sure when declaring the bag itself if I'm supposed to use the module, or if that name/ID is declared somewhere else. Sort of how sandbox-options are spread out in a few different spots.

You wouldn't by chance have something I can reference that does exactly what I'm talking about, would you? Trying to see how custom bags are coded in distributions, so I can figure out the details better.'

[bronze yoke]

i don't know of anything, sorry

[rich reef]

No worries, thank you for your help! Greatly appreciate it

[rich reef]

@albion

Well, I've got it working, to a degree. I was forced to use the Base module to create the items, as using my own module wouldn't work with the distributions. I'm wondering if their is some other syntax required to get custom modules to work with distributions?

Its not too big of a deal using the Base module with this mod, but for others I would like to figure out how to handle it. I'm looking at other mods that seem to use module names for the items and that works fine, but in this instance mine wasn't. Though I have another mod that does use the module for spawning items, so I'm just curious as to what the conflict is with this.

Thanks again for the help, at least I can continue with what I was working on now!

[winter bolt]

when you added it to the distribution did you just put the item name?

you have to put module.itemname

[ancient grail]

are you asking for the list of locations?

[ancient grail]

incase you need the list of distro locations
ive got a public spreadsheet with bunch of random tables

#1070852229654917180 message

[green jetty]

log.deathCause

Anyone knows how to dig out what this function can return?

OR better question. Does the "Unknown" cause of death covers all non-zombie caused deaths?

[rich reef]

This is what I have that works. I tried using "modulename.itemname" at first, but it wouldn't show up in LootZed. Only after I made my module as Base instead of import>Base did it show up.

require "Items/SuburbsDistributions"
require "Items/ProceduralDistributions"
require "Vehicles/VehicleDistributions"


Distributions = Distributions or {};

local distributionTableHalloweenBags = {
    all = {        
        inventoryfemale = {
            rolls = 10,
            items = {    
                "HalloweenBagPumpkin", 9999,                
            }
        },
        inventorymale = {
            rolls = 10,
            items = {     
                "HalloweenBagPumpkinEvil", 9999,  
            }
        },
    },

}

local distributionTableHalloweenBagPumpkin = {
    HalloweenBagPumpkin = {
        rolls = 10,
        items = {
            "Bleach", 9999,
        }
    },
}

local distributionTableHalloweenBagPumpkinEvil = {
    HalloweenBagPumpkinEvil = {
        rolls = 10,
        items = {
            "Money", 9999,
        }
    },
}

table.insert(Distributions, 1, distributionTableHalloweenBags)
table.insert(Distributions, 1, distributionTableHalloweenBagPumpkin)
table.insert(Distributions, 1, distributionTableHalloweenBagPumpkinEvil)

print("Adding Bags to Zombie Loot Distributions")

ItemPickerJava.Parse()

[rich reef]

This is awesome, by the way. Thanks!

[rich reef]

I was trying to create a new list for the bags, as such, but it threw hard errors and crashed when loading.

local distributionTableHalloweenBagPumpkin = {
    GN84-AHE.HalloweenBagPumpkin = {
        rolls = 10,
        items = {
            "XXXX", 9999,
        }
    },
}

This is similar to what I had. The module prefix didn't work at all, so I couldn't link the bag by name to make it's own distribution.

[abstract marsh]

can anyone see any glaring issues with this item code? I have 2 other items in the same file that do appear in game leading me to think the issue is something to do with me tryin to combine properties of wine and a pop can but very new to modding so:

` item WineInaCan01Red
{
DisplayName = Wine in a Can Red,
DisplayCategory = Food,
Type = Food,
Weight = 0.3,
Icon = Pop2,
FoodType = Wine,
Alcoholic = TRUE,
AlcoholPower = 2,
CantBeFrozen = TRUE,
Packaged = TRUE,
EatType = popcan,
ReplaceOnUse = PopEmpty,
HungerChange = -8,
ThirstChange = -60,
UnhappyChange = -10,
Calories = 140,
Carbohydrates = 39,
Lipids = 0,
Proteins = 0,
CustomContextMenu = Drink,
CustomEatSound = DrinkingFromCan,
StaticModel = PopCanRed,
WorldStaticModel = PopCanRed,
Tags = HasMetal,

}`

[tranquil kindle]

There is beer in a can, which would work exacly like pop can but is also aclohol, why not use it as a base?

[abstract marsh]

thanks for the jumping off point. Can confirm it still doesn't work even when using the default beer can values (altering nothing), do I have to do anything when referencing base world models/ icons from witihn my mods module? The other 2 items I have working do use custom icons/ defined world models, that's the only difference I can think of at the moment but I haven't noticed any other mods using Base.PopCanRed for example

[tranquil kindle]

I'm either reading wrong/missing something, or you did not really stated whats the issue, if there is any?

[abstract marsh]

sorry, the item does not appear in game. I don't mean in terms of spawning in containers, I'm using a cheat menu to spawn in items to do testing with. The other 2 items I have in the items file do appear in the cheat menu so I know it's reading my items file, but this one doesn't, leading me to think I'm doing something wrong with this item specifically that the game isn't even recognising it as a valid item but i'm struggling to see what

[tranquil kindle]

Are all of those in same txt file?

[abstract marsh]

yeah, is there a limit/ should I use multiple files in any instances?

[tranquil kindle]

Can you just copy/paste whole txt file?

It shouldnt take much space if not expanded

[abstract marsh]

too long without nitro unfortunately https://pastebin.com/Uu7eniBE

so only the bottom wineinacan is not working

[tranquil kindle]

Is it a mod that you released and just updating?

[abstract marsh]

There is a version on the workshop without the wineinacan but I'm just creating single player games with a loacl version to test this

[tranquil kindle]

If it uses same IDs then it will use steam version

So you either have to unsubscribe from it

or change id for testing

[abstract marsh]

ahhhh I feel stupid, I didn't even try to break it to see if it was using local files. Thank you so much

[tranquil kindle]

Happens to the best. Do let me know if it still doesn't work

[abstract marsh]

yup thta's all it was - thanks again!

[fringe iron]

Hello everyone. Please tell me where and in which file you need to register the path to your weapon model?

[bright fog]

model_X

[night iron]

Hey hey hows everyone?

another weird question from my self.... is this 'LShift' thingy actualy a thing on this page or is this outdated because i can't seem to trigger the debug mode like that no matter what i do:
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Debug_mode

[bronze yoke]

it'd be new to me

[bright fog]

I'm not aware of it personally

[livid sluice]

someone should totally make a gas mask mod that adds alot of popular gas masks, not alot of mods currently that add them

[bright fog]

Then do it

[livid sluice]

i dont know how to model

[silk pike]

hello everyone I need some help.
I created a trait in a mod and I would like this trait when selected to give the character the ability to wire vehicles. Is the ability to wire vehicles a recipe? If so what is it called?

[fringe iron]

It`s me again. How do I move the weapon so that the handle is in hands?

[tranquil kindle]

Origin point is where right hand will be located

[ancient grail]

any way to fetch these from zombies ?

ZombieLore.Strength
ZombieLore.Toughness
ZombieLore.Cognition
ZombieLore.Memory
ZombieLore.Hearing
ZombieLore.Sight

[bronze yoke]

you can read the fields, but keep in mind some of their values don't line up exactly with the actual option

[bright fog]

yup

[ancient grail]

you mean the sandbox ? yeah i guess cuz we change the sandbox then set their stats so that it matches right?

[drifting ore]

what's wrong with my script

[bronze yoke]

there's no such thing as setVisible on a profession

[drifting ore]

i am sorry mate but i am newbie and i used most chatgpt

[torn rose]

hey hello! I would be happy to help you guys with animations for ur mods. So feel free to contact me if you'll need any

[flat timber]

Hello, I'm trying to import a custom animation, just for testing. I replaced the sneakwalk animation with a crawling animation I made, and it does trigger the animation but it also stops my character from moving. Anyone know what I've done wrong?

[bronze yoke]

movement is controlled by animations, so if your animation doesn't move the character that would be why

[flat timber]

Do you mean the root joint needs to move forwards?

Here's a vid of it just to show the issue.

[flat timber]

I moved the root joint forwards throughout the animation and now my character does move. But now the animation loop is wrong, because the root position jumps back at the start of the animation.

[ancient grail]

move the translate bone
not the root

[spice edge]

Hey there fellow modders! I'm trying to remove vehicles from the world and later adding them again without destroying the vehicle instance and recreating a new one again (I was able to do it this way). I've been using BaseVehicle functions like addToWorld. I'm able to enter the vehicle, turn it on and I see it accelerating but 3dmodel doesn't seem to follow. Even physics works because it bumps into other cars and make them move, but original car stays still. I've tried every possible update method from BaseVehicle and also GPT'ing a lot but nothing seems to work :/

I might need to copy all properties from the car into ModData and recreate it again but I was hoping to avoid that cause it's a lot of work.

Any suggestions here?

[flat timber]

That worked! Thanks!

[ancient grail]

xyberviri did this with carwanna already
stores the moddata and properties into pink slip
delete the vehicle
and using pinkslip again to
spawn another instance

[ancient grail]

[ancient grail]

you might want to check out how the zed crawlers turns around by inspecting the xml
you will see that there are 2 types of crawler rotations(turning)

[spice edge]

Oh this seems interesting 👀. Will check the code for that mod. Thanks!

[vagrant ledge]

Do radio stations startscript just fire when a save is created/server launched? Is there a way to manually trigger a reset if a save is already in progress?

[modern hamlet]

anyone with experience with ContainerButtonIcons (and a little free time on your hands) I'd love to pick your brain.

[dusky quiver]

I can't add movable items to inventory like that? 🤔

[bright fog]

If you don't show the code, it's hard to help you buddy

[dusky quiver]

it's on screenshot, but okay

player:getInventory():AddItem("Moveables.appliances_refrigeration_01_38")

this obviously doesn't work but I wonder what's the correct way or where to find working example..

[bright fog]

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/inventory/ItemContainer.html#addItem(zombie.inventory.InventoryItem)

Requires an InventoryItem

You're giving it a string

I'm not familiar with how tiles as items are handled tho so I can't point you in the exact direction on how to add tiles in your inventory, to be placed

[dusky quiver]

it works like this for regular items

player:getInventory():AddItem("Base.Twine")

but not for movables it seems

[bright fog]

You are right actually, there's other options that can take strings

Then it must be how tiles are handled

[broken lake]

Unsure if it was someone here or another community for modding, but added the Scrap Cleaver someone recommended here or there: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3196209274.

[fleet bridge]

playerInv:AddItem("Moveables.Moveable"):ReadFromWorldSprite(sprite)

[rich reef]

Does anyone know off the top of their head if their is a rolls/item count limit for Distributions?

I've got a ton of small items I want to include, but it seems that some will never spawn even if all the weights/percentages are identical with 100 or more rolls. Only filling up maybe 20 total items/5 encumbrance out of a 20enc/50red bag I created.

Any ideas?

Previously for zombie loot I made multiple smaller dist tables and then inserted them one by one in code. Is that the solution to this?

Thanks for the help!

[ancient grail]

[ancient grail]

how do you know they dont spawn?

the roll doesnt have to equate to 100 as total
its just how many times it attempts a roll for that item

the way to determine spawn when modding is by using lootzed (load with -debug parameter)
turn on lootzed cheat(bottom option)
rightclick on the container icon
then loot zed there you can look at the loot table and you can check if your item is there

[topaz tangle]

Firetruck update has dropped!

[naive basalt]

Trying to make my first mod managed to get it working as it should and in the game but the weapon is invisible and im not sure how to fix it

[tranquil kindle]

Things that could go wrong:
-You exported empty fbx file
-Your model is too big to fit into screen,
-Your model is too small and can't be seen (very rarely happens)
-Your origin point is so far from gun model that it makes it appear in diffrent place (possibly outside of screen)
-Your Model pathway is wrong: Texture Or Mesh, or both
-Your mod has more than one material, where UV map you used is on 2nd material or something like that.

[ancient grail]

what is the relation of infection level and isInfected?
can i toggle the isinfected just by changeing the level?

[bronze yoke]

you can't change the level directly, it is recalculated every frame

[ancient grail]

the level? well it works im able to set it
you may be refering to the sickness

the problem im facing now is that when i set tye infected to true my player dies instantly even tho the setting isnt set to instant

cuz i want to make the player zombie infected once blood level reached 100

BloodInfection = BloodInfection or {}

-----------------------          ---------------------------

function BloodInfection.getWornBloodLevel()
    local pl = getPlayer()
    local wornItems = pl:getWornItems()
    local itemBlood = 0
    local wornCount = 0
    local res = 0

    if wornItems ~= nil and wornItems:size() > 0 then
        for i = 0, wornItems:size() - 1 do
            local item = wornItems:getItemByIndex(i)
            if instanceof(item, "Clothing") then
                if item:getBloodClothingType() ~= nil then
                    local currentItemBlood = item:getBloodLevel() or 0
                    if currentItemBlood > 0 then
                        wornCount = wornCount + 1
                        itemBlood = itemBlood + currentItemBlood
                    end
                end
            end
        end

        if wornCount > 0 then
            res = itemBlood / wornCount
        end
    end

    return res > 0 and round(res) or 0
end

-----------------------            ---------------------------

function BloodInfection.getBodyBloodLevel()
    local pl = getPlayer()
    local vis = pl:getHumanVisual()
    local level = 0
    local maxLevel = BloodBodyPartType.MAX:index()

    for i = 0, maxLevel - 1 do
        local bloodLevel = tonumber(vis:getBlood(BloodBodyPartType.FromIndex(i)))
        level = level + bloodLevel
    end
    --level = the total level value
    if level > 0 then
        local res = (level / maxLevel) * 100
        --print(round(tonumber(res)))
        --res is the percent
        return round(tonumber(res))
    end
    return 0
end
-----------------------            ---------------------------
function BloodInfection.getTotalBloodLevel()
    local pl = getPlayer()
    local wornLvl = BloodInfection.getWornBloodLevel()
    local bodyLvl = BloodInfection.getBodyBloodLevel()
    if wornLvl == 0 then
        return round(bodyLvl)
    elseif bodyLvl == 0 then
        return round(wornLvl)
    else
        local res = (wornLvl + bodyLvl) / 2
        return round(res)
    end
end

function BloodInfection.isLeveReached(current, threshold, max)
    local res = threshold  * max
    return current >= res
end

heres how i did the blood level computation

[bronze yoke]

i guess you can set their infection level while they aren't infected

the instant death is usually caused by not setting their time of infection

[golden minnow]

Made Insurgent Jacket Rollable, rolled up model from SMUI, I don't have steam so feel free to upload it yourselves, edit it or whatever you want.

[flat timber]

Hello again!

Is it possible to get existing player animations into blender? (In this case I'd like to have a look at Bob_WalkBat)

[naive basalt]

Thanks for the help! got it figured out.

[nimble badger]

From what I understand, infection in zomboid is a progressive value that gets set and increases quicker depending on sandbox settings, what you could do is make a new variable for fakeinfectionlevel, and when it reaches 100 you kill the player

[ancient grail]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3351995434

its done btw

the reason why i was dying was cuz of the sandbox option i didnt configure the right option, lol

[dull moss]

not given a shoutout

[ancient grail]

oh right i should do that on the mod desc too

clothing blood function referred from ETW by @dull moss

[dull moss]

[neon hamlet]

In weapon scripts, what's WeaponSprite mean? I figured it was just another icon situation but uhh

I've no idea but I wanna know if it's drastically important

[tranquil kindle]

Its model of weapon

[neon hamlet]

ooh

should I put the FBX file name, then?

[tranquil kindle]

Model with texture, that you state in txt file. In vanila this file is in media>scripts>models_items.txt

So in your mod you create txt file, with diffrent name than that, preferably very unique

and there you declare your model

[neon hamlet]

I see

[tranquil kindle]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Scripts_guide/Item_Script_Parameters#Weapon Here you should find everything about it

In terms of what is what, Weaponsprite and such

[neon hamlet]

Oooo

thank youu

[peak nymph]

wondering if anyone can help me figure out why my weapon model isn't rendering
defined my model like this

  {
    mesh = Weapons/1Handed/Macuahuitl,
    texture = Weapons/1Handed/Macuahuitl,

    attachment world
    {
      offset = 0.0000 0.1400 0.0000,
      rotate = 180.0000 0.0000 180.0000,
    }
  }```
defined my item like this
```  item Macuahuitl
  {
      DisplayCategory = Weapon,
      MaxRange  = 1.23,
      WeaponSprite  = Macuahuitl,
      MinAngle  = 0.7,
      Type  = Weapon,
      SwingSound = MacheteSwing,
      HitFloorSound = MacheteHit,
      ImpactSound = MacheteHit,
      DoorHitSound = MacheteHit,
      HitSound  = MacheteHit,
      MinimumSwingTime  = 4,
      KnockBackOnNoDeath  = FALSE,
      SwingAmountBeforeImpact = 0.02,
      Categories  = LongBlade,
      ConditionLowerChanceOneIn = 15,
      Weight  = 2,
      SplatNumber = 2,
      PushBackMod = 0.3,
      SubCategory = Swinging,
      ConditionMax  = 13,
      MaxHitCount = 2,
      DoorDamage  = 10,
      SwingAnim = Bat,
      DisplayName = Macuahuitl,
      MinRange  = 0.61,
      SwingTime = 4,
      KnockdownMod  = 2,
      SplatBloodOnNoDeath = FALSE,
      Icon  = Macuahuitl,
      WorldStaticModel = Macuahuitl,
      TreeDamage  =   10,
      CriticalChance  = 20,
      CritDmgMultiplier = 5,
      MinDamage = 2,
      MaxDamage = 3,
      BaseSpeed = 1,
      WeaponLength = 0.3,
      DamageCategory = Slash,
      DamageMakeHole = TRUE,
      AttachmentType = BigBlade,
      Tags = CutPlant;SharpKnife,
      DoorHitSound = MacheteHit,
      HitSound = MacheteHit,
      HitFloorSound = MacheteHit,
      BreakSound  =   MacheteBreak,
      SwingSound = MacheteSwing,
   }

The weapon works but the model is invisible

The model shows on ground (but way too big)
but not in hand

[hollow quiver]

Hello!

I'm trying to create a mod to put stews/soups into cans.
Everything works except for two things.
I cannot do it from the crafting menu, only by right clicking the empty can.
I canned a hot stew but I still got the cold negatives on it. I do not have the BadCold=True on it, I guess I need to adjust the finals with what it would have been hot instead?

I also do not wish to see the nutrients without the Nutritionist trait, how do I do that?

[tardy glen]

hello all, im new to PZ modding entirely and foreign to lua.

my goal is to add a "lung cancer" mod where you progress through stages of lung cancer based on how many cigarettes you smoke
my idea is to add a count variable to the cigarette item and as it increases we check the count based of whatever breakpoints we have
for the lung cancer stages and add that as a moodle, any tips on the process or how to start would be appreciated thanks!!!

[grizzled fulcrum]

well you definitely want to learn the very basics of Lua as a minimum, just enough to be able to read basic code should be enough to get you started.

when you want to set up your mod and need to know the structure, look at https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding/

For the cancer accumulation feature, you would want to use player mod data (player:getModData()) to store the cancer delta / cigarette count / whatever else you need

For the moodle you can use an api on the workshop to simplify things like MoodleFramework

For the trait if you decide to add one, there are trait apis to abstract stuff but its not hard to use TraitFactory global in Lua (vanilla)

My biggest tips are to learn the lua, read resources like pzwiki and pins in this channel, ask for help when needed!

This is supposed to help for a general guidance of what to do later after learning the lua, you are probably most likely going to need to ask for more specific things here when it comes time.

[tardy glen]

im semi-experienced in c#/python if that has any similarity to lua but im assuming not

[grizzled fulcrum]

Oh and don't forget to use and learn from the vanilla lua code in your games steam folder in media/lua

[grizzled fulcrum]

C# def not, python might be similar but its a stretch

lua is more of a scripting language not like c# or python

think of lua like a really baby version of python with a lot of the functionality stripped away lol

[tardy glen]

i guess i will get on figuring out lua then

[bronze yoke]

imagine python if the standard library was like. fifty functions total

[tardy glen]

😔

[bronze yoke]

i think it's a pretty simple easy to learn language, especially for someone who already has experience

[tardy glen]

apparently the cigarette icon name is "icky stick" which is hilarious

[tardy glen]

where is the player script or file thing where i could add the moddata?

[winter bolt]

in a lua file you do player:getModData()

[tardy glen]

because i would add my cigarette count there right and then on the cigarette item we can say that whenever you smoke one it just increases that

[winter bolt]

you would do something like player:getModData().myModData.cigCount i think

player:getModData() returns a table so you can just add your own tables and variables to it

myModData would be a table you can use to store all the stuff from your mod and then cigCount is just a variable

[hollow quiver]

The crafting menu problem seems to have been caused by forgetting to add class prefixes on items.
Now I just need to sort of the unhappiness stat and nutrition trait

[winter bolt]

this is the moddata i have for my mod for reference

this function gets called on the event "onnewgame" which is whenever a player is first created which is where you'd want to set up the initial cig count to 0

then you can access cig count and change it whenever you want

this file is in media/lua/client btw

[bronze yoke]

a lot of modders will prefer OnCreatePlayer for compatibility with existing saves

[winter bolt]

i had to load in some data from character creation so i had to use both

i have this for when creating the character and then it sets the data a different way in oncreateplayer if they dont already have moddata set

actually yeah for the cig count it'd be better to do oncreateplayer

[tardy glen]

is SPNCharCustom like a custom table then that you have in the modData?

[winter bolt]

yeah

[tardy glen]

modding is hard so im learning

[tardy glen]

which folder?

[winter bolt]

just here

give it a unique name though so it doesnt overwrite anything

[tardy glen]

oh like you made a custom lua file for that then?

or im tweaking because i dont see it

[winter bolt]

yeah you make it yourself

[tardy glen]

i see

okay

[tardy glen]

okay so to clarify, you add this function to initialize your mod data and its called alongside the actual OnNewGame function when you said Events.OnNewGame.Add(onNewGame)

[winter bolt]

yeah

although albion just pointed out that the event should be OnCreatePlayer instead

[tardy glen]

yeah that makes more sense

[winter bolt]

i had to use OnNewGame instead because of something specific to my mod

when you use OnCreatePlayer though you'll have to add a check at the start of the function that returns if the player already has their modData set up

if player:getModData().myModData ~= nil then return end

OnCreatePlayer is called when any player loads into the game so the code to set up your mod data will only run if their character was made before the mod was added

[tardy glen]

so do i have create like a myModData file or table thing somewhere then?

[winter bolt]

no that all gets done in this function

[tardy glen]

is it necessary for me have that if im just having one variable to keep track of

could i just say like player:getModData().cigCount

or something like that

[bronze yoke]

you can but you risk name conflicts

[winter bolt]

yeah

[tardy glen]

something like this?

im really just going off your reference

[tardy glen]

except i forgot to return

[winter bolt]

looks good except the top part

its checking if cigcount is nil when it should do the opposite

it needs to return if the cigcount already exists

[tardy glen]

oh rightttt, if its not nil then skip

[winter bolt]

yeah

[tardy glen]

something like that?

[winter bolt]

actually i think that would also return an error

remove the cigcount part so it just checks lungcancer

[winter bolt]

yeah thats good

[tardy glen]

hell yeah

[winter bolt]

the issue is that if the player doesnt have modData then lungCancer is nil so trying to get cigCount from it will cause an error

so just remove cigcount i think

[tardy glen]

ahh okay

so then i could just add to the cigarette item that it increases that count by one and then do whatever other moodle logic based off that count

[winter bolt]

im not sure i've never messed with item stuff rip

[tardy glen]

how would i actually check the console in game to see if it get initialized

[grizzled marsh]

hey guys, what is "cdt=" in radio and tv files?

[tardy glen]

okay i think i need to change or add to the OnEat_Cigarettes function to also increment the count by one

i just cannot find where that is

[winter bolt]

you can add print() with any string inside () and then it'll show up in debug mode or console.txt in the zomboid folder

[tardy glen]

thx

do you know if like with OnCharacterCreate, i would add onto this, can i just modify it here and it would work

[winter bolt]

i think you can do this?

it stores the original OnEat_Cigarettes function as a variable called originalOnEat_Cigarettes and then you replace the function but call the original function at the start

so you can essentially add your own code onto the end of the original function

[tardy glen]

would i do within the actual lua file with the OnEat_Cigarettes function or in a new file or even the same one with the OnCharacterCreate

[winter bolt]

in a new file or the same as the create character one

character here is just the player so you can still do character:getModData etc as well

[tardy glen]

something like that?

but function not fuction

[winter bolt]

yeah that looks good

replace player with character though

[tardy glen]

oh right

so my question is like, how is this file implemented when running the game? like how is OnCharacterCreate actually added on to with the new mod data initialization

[winter bolt]

this line subscribes your function to the game event so whenever the game decides to call that event it will trigger any function subscribed to it

OnCreatePlayer is triggered whenever a player loads into the game so when you load it will run the code that adds your data to their moddata table

[tardy glen]

okay i see

that makes more sense now

what about for the OnEat_Cigarettes thought? we arent saying .Add() for that one

[winter bolt]

im not really sure how it works lol but i know it does somehow

[tardy glen]

hey you know if it works it works

i guess i will add some console logs and then test it out

[bronze yoke]

food items can just set a function that's called when they get eaten, what you're doing here is replacing that function so yours gets called instead

but since you don't actually want to get rid of the vanilla behaviour you save the original and call it in your overwrite

[tardy glen]

how do i open debug mode?

[winter bolt]

right click the game in your steam library and type -debug into the launch options text box

then when you open the game you get a console window at the bottom

[tardy glen]

amazing thank you

[winter bolt]

whenever you get an error in debug mode though it'll open a fullscreen error monitoring window so you have to press f11 to close it

unfortunately this is as much as i can help with i think since ive never touched anything like moodles or status stuff

[tardy glen]

not related to development but how did you guys get into modding in the first place

[tardy glen]

is there something i would need to do when running? this isnt working it seems

[gilded glade]

Hi, I'm improving the sound of my guns and I'm wondering if it's possible to change the sounds of gunshots according to the environment (like vanilla) through lua. Is there any guide or something like that?

[rich reef]

As far as I can tell, some of the items in the distribution list don't spawn at all in the bag, it's only the first few.

I set it to 100 rolls, just to make sure the bag got fully populated, so I could test what got spawned in.

Unfortunately, being it's a bag, lootzed doesn't seem to work like it does with other containers.

Trying to determine if their is an item limit in distribution tables, or if it's something I'm doing wrong with the code for it, possibly a misspelled item, or something else causing the list to truncate? I'm not sure.

[fleet bridge]

Do you have commas after every entry

Just dump it in a Lua compiler and see if the table throws errors

[rich reef]

Yes, I do. But, I noticed just now while looking at the commas, that there was some white space afterwards on some of them. That may have been the problem.

[rich reef]

Okay, that seemed to fix one of the issues. I guess the extra whitespace at the end of a line will truncate the rest of a table/list. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction to see the issue.

Now, my bag still only gets filled with a few items, although they are from the entire length of the list still. Only fills about 5-6 out of a 20 sized bag.

[fleet bridge]

There's a maxroll for containers iirc

Except for zombie bodies

[rich reef]

Any reference to look at?

[ancient grail]

sorry ive never done dito that way
ive always used table.insert()

[ancient grail]

distro sample 1

local toSpawn = 'Base.Whatever'
local roll = SandboxVars.myMod.distroRoll or 2

local locations = {
    "RandomFiller",
    "GasStorageMechanics",
    "MetalShopTools",
}


Events.OnPostDistributionMerge.Add(function()
    for i = 1, #locations do
        table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list[locations[i]].items, toSpawn)
        table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list[locations[i]].items,  tonumber(roll))
    end
    ItemPickerJava.Parse()
end)

distro sample 2

local demoSpawnTable = {
    { location = "RandomFiller", item = "Base.Whatever1", roll = 2 },
    { location = "GasStorageMechanics", item = "Base.Whatever2", roll = 3 },
    { location = "MetalShopTools", item = "Base.Whatever3", roll = 1 },
}

Events.OnPostDistributionMerge.Add(function()
    for i = 1, #demoSpawnTable do
        local spawnData = demoSpawnTable[i]
        local location = spawnData.location
        local item = spawnData.item
        local roll = spawnData.roll
        
        table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list[location].items, item)
        table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list[location].items, roll)
    end
end)

[rich reef]

Thank you for the information!

[tardy glen]

could someone explain whats wrong with this and why it doesnt work when you smoke a cigarette? thanks!

[peak nymph]

does anyone have any idea why my weapon model is showing on the ground but not in hand when equipped

I can share more info if needed, I’m just not sure what’s relevant

[ancient grail]

refer to my substance x mod

[ancient grail]

it uses on_eat iirc

[winter bolt]

you might have to try requiring the original file at the top of your lua file

put something like require("FOLDER/Whatever file OnEat_Cigarettes is in")

the filepath you put in there already starts inside media/lua/client

[grizzled fulcrum]

those ram args in Steam don't get passed to the jvm!! only to ProjectZomboid64.exe launcher which doesn't use those

you have to edit the jso launcher config files ProjectZomboid64.json or make your own and use that like -pzexeconfig ProjectZomboid64Aoqia.json where id recommend to just completely remove the minimum and maximum memory for the jvm and to just let it manage it on its own like literally every other application

or you can edit the bat scripts but that's ugly for end users

[winter bolt]

my head hurts

[grizzled fulcrum]

I don't even know why the devs kept the 3g ram maximum in the config in the first place

[grizzled fulcrum]

y

I looked at the launcher in ida and it only loads jvm args from the json config file

BTW for context ProjectZomboid64.exe isn't an actual game exe, its just a wrapper that basically parses the args in the json config, starts the game and sends those args to the jvm

if you look at the working set to test with those args, it doesn't increase the minimum, and also you will notice in your log file that it says like invalid arg or something

the args getting passed to ProjectZomboid64.exe (that aren't for the launcher) like -debug get passed to the Java program itself (in this case they get passed to the main entry point like how normal Main Java funcs work with the string args param)

so tl;dr is it won't work because you're technically passing the ram args to the Java program instead of the jvm which will obviously not work

[bright fog]

The reality is that it's not necessary, bcs vanilla files always load first

[winter bolt]

yeah i thought so too but i cant think of why it wouldnt work

[grizzled fulcrum]

that isn't a func

idk it should just be calling it there isn't any other reason why it wouldn't

[grizzled fulcrum]

is your stress going down when you use cigarette?

if so, that means the func isn't being hooked properly

[winter bolt]

it calls the original function though so it should still decrease stress

[grizzled fulcrum]

ik, but if the hook isn't working properly, the stress will decrease but you wont get the print in the console

thats how u tell if it is calling the orig or not

[bright fog]

Let's just start by having you sharing the script file of your cigarette here

There can be many reasons why it doesn't work properly but it's better if we see the cigarette script to verify that aspect

[winter bolt]

ohh im stupid thats what you meant

[ancient grail]

is it possible to add moddata to room/buildings?

[bright fog]

yea

to buildings are least

for rooms idk

[ancient grail]

i was just curious.. do we treat them as squares? with transmit? or like characters?

would probably nice to be able to name rooms

[bright fog]

Check how Cordyceps Spore Zone associates mod data to a building

local buildingDef = IsoBuilding:getDef()
local sq = buildingDef:getFreeSquareInRoom()

Something like that

[ancient grail]

noted. thnx, cuz i want to control zeds on specific location
im trying to come up with a better way to do it.

since i dont know much abt building and rooms i was wondering if i can use it lol

otherwise ill just save the data to the player

[night iron]

Afternoon peeps, I've done some updates to my item inventory mod to enhance it when using either of this 3 mods: Equipment UI, Have Been Read and Eggon's Have I Found This book???
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3344798556

[bronze yoke]

requiring a vanilla file does literally nothing, it will never fix an error

[night iron]

require is very useful to control loading order though, it forces the file that requires it to be loaded after the required file

[bronze yoke]

but you can't control the loading order of vanilla files

[night iron]

no no that's not what i meant at all he he

[bronze yoke]

require is definitely one of the most important functions in lua, it's the only reason the module structure is even possible

[grizzled fulcrum]

I don't get how lua load order using require could be useful at all

[bronze yoke]

i was going to nitpick that myself but the main reason is that even though you shouldn't write your mods in a way that load order matters, most mods *are* written that way and you may need to interact with that for compatibility

for example a lot of api mods aren't written as modules

[grizzled fulcrum]

I thought they should be

like an API should use modules more than any other mod, because other developers are going to use it and it makes more sense imo to modularise your api

[bronze yoke]

they should be, but the unfortunate fact is that even if you do everything right you're still stuck in an ecosystem that doesn't

[grizzled fulcrum]

but I see a lot of API just shove all their funcs in a global table and call it a day ;-;

[bronze yoke]

it really comes down to vanilla lua not using modules

most mods just copy the vanilla lua, even people with prior experience with programming who have the sense to structure things that way will look at all these references and just assume you can't write lua that way

[grizzled fulcrum]

is that bc most people use vanilla code as reference?

oh lol

[bronze yoke]

they use vanilla code as reference, and other mods which probably also used the vanilla code as reference

[grizzled fulcrum]

I see, so its like infectious lol

[bronze yoke]

i urge people to just read the damn book lol but if you looked at nearly any example you would have no reason to think require can do that (or is even a function lol)

[grizzled fulcrum]

one thing that I sadly think about is that removing the major performance impacts of Lua for pz might make some people lenient to writing good code and then we will have a problem lol

I mean like, right now if someone writes bad code, they are usually punished for it. call getPlayer():getInventory() without any variables every tick and it will have issues with func call overhead. remove the overhead then people can and I know will assume that they won't need to use a variable to cache things like you usually do in good practice

kinda like people who used to make games for consoles like SNES and PS1 had to really optimise their game to get good results, and now we have UE5 where developers just slap lumen on everything and wonder why performance is in the bin

[bronze yoke]

to be honest i don't see this as a major issue because people already commonly write code that way, it don't think it would get worse in a notable way

[grizzled fulcrum]

not against the engine btw lol just how ppl use it

[bronze yoke]

and there are ways in which the performance issues punish writing good code

[grizzled fulcrum]

both true

[bronze yoke]

particularly the overhead on lua functions is really punishing

[grizzled fulcrum]

even moreso than Java calls?

[bronze yoke]

the java overhead is much heavier but i can't really avoid calling java beyond caching where possible

[grizzled fulcrum]

our you mean just in general like you expect lua to be fast

[frank elbow]

Examples exactly like this are fairly common in vanilla code, so people learning from that probably don't think about why that's bad

[bronze yoke]

the lua - lua function call overhead is still pretty high, it discourages writing smaller functions or using functions within loops

[grizzled fulcrum]

I do it anyway cause ik im gonna fix it later but I see your point

[bronze yoke]

you should, because it's good for maintainability

it just sucks that we have to balance performance and good code

[grizzled fulcrum]

ye sacrifice little bit of performance to make it readable is a win

[bronze yoke]

i think this is an issue all but lua jit faces but kahlua is a lot worse than standard lua from my testing

[grizzled fulcrum]

I'm still on the edge about the whole lua in Java thing

like I'm all the implementations I could find are ancient

the closest I could see to good is native functions in Java but they have to be compiled and all this wasteful processes

our I just write one myself but I take that not so lightly as that will take a while

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i can find java lua implementations that boast much better performance than kahlua but i can't find one that actually looks maintained

[grizzled fulcrum]

I got an idea to communicate like Java - C++/Rust - Lua

and it might just work but will require some more effort

just so many caveats

[bronze yoke]

and what's worse is you don't even know it'll run well until you do it

for example just using luajit with JNI could improve a lot, or the double interop might just make all the common performance issues even worse than before

[grizzled fulcrum]

yep 😭

then I get so many different ideas I start and stop stuff a lot so it's hard to finish what I've half done

[open sierra]

Got a dumb question: a mod I am using on a server needs me to make a new mod to store its configurations. How do I make that empty mod, to start? Just duplicate the exampleMod folder and go from there?

[grizzled fulcrum]

yep

example mod is a good start

[open sierra]

Okay. How do I get a mod ID for that mod? Or is that in the info file, or other loose files, etc?

[hollow quiver]

Is it possible to reload the lua in game? or do I need to restart each time I change my mod?

[dusky quiver]

in debug mode you can use f11 and reload files but I think it does not always work as you wish

[grizzled fulcrum]

You create one by specifying it in the mod.info file

make sure it doesn't collide with another mod, eg just make it something really unique

[bronze yoke]

if you're in debug mode you can just reload the save

[silk pike]

Hi everyone!
I'm creating a mod that adds various traits.
I would like to associate recipes to some traits.
This is the code I created
local expertFishermanTrait = TraitFactory.addTrait("ExpertFishermanTrait", "Expert Fisherman", 10, "3 points at Fishing.", false)
expertFishermanTrait:addXPBoost(Perks.Fishing, 3)

-- Force adding recipes to the character with the trait, regardless of magazines
expertFishermanTrait:getFreeRecipes():add("Make Fishing Rod")
expertFishermanTrait:getFreeRecipes():add("Fix Fishing Rod")
expertFishermanTrait:getFreeRecipes():add("Make Fishing Net")
expertFishermanTrait:getFreeRecipes():add("Get Wire Back")

The trait is created and is working but the recipes do not work. the character doesn't know the recipes
Where am I going wrong???

[bright fog]

Did you try the recipe without it being trait specific ?

Does it work ?

[bronze yoke]

those are vanilla recipes

[bright fog]

Didn't notice

[grizzled fulcrum]

UNRELATED but still kinda related

local expertFishermanTrait = TraitFactory.addTrait("ExpertFishermanTrait", "Expert Fisherman", 10, "3 points at Fishing.", false)
expertFishermanTrait:addXPBoost(Perks.Fishing, 3)

-- Force adding recipes to the character with the trait, regardless of magazines
local recipes = expertFishermanTrait:getFreeRecipes()
recipes:add("Make Fishing Rod")
recipes:add("Fix Fishing Rod")
recipes:add("Make Fishing Net")
recipes:add("Get Wire Back")

please put it in a local variable instead of calling it multiple times 🙏

[bright fog]

cache it

[bronze yoke]

are you making a new character? the recipes won't be applied to existing characters who gain the trait, if you're trying to test it that way

[silk pike]

I do all the tests by starting a new game

it doesn't work....but i'll keep trying

[hollow quiver]

Some food items use OnCanPerform and some use OnTest. Which one would be correct? I want to prevent adding a uncooked stew/soup to a can.
I copied the logic from the make bowl of stew (OnCanPerform:Recipe.OnCanPerform.SliceCooked)
But with that I cannot put the stew into my can from the crafting menu (all items are highlighed, craft button is grayed out)
But I can craft with right clicking the item in my inventory. Removing that line and I can craft both ways.
I don't get this part

[bronze yoke]

OnTest is for checking if an item is okay to put in a recipe, OnCanPerform is for checking if the player is currently able to perform the recipe

you would want to use an OnTest here

[hollow quiver]

Thanks!
Seems that the vanilla stew crafting also has this problem, can't create it from the crafting menu, but I can by right click, so no wonder it didn't work for mine as well 😄

[bronze yoke]

they probably did that on purpose, with the crafting menu you can't select the ingredients so you wouldn't know which stew you're separating anyway

[hollow quiver]

That actually make sense, maybe I should keep that function as well as mine is identical, just a cannable can instead of a bowl

[ancient grail]

so what is the best practice?

local function OnPlayerUpdate_sample(player)
local inv = player:getInventory()
end

or

local inv = getPlayer():getInventory()

local function OnPlayerUpdate_sample(player)

end

like cache it outside?
tho im pretty sure this will error

[bronze yoke]

definitely the first one

caching it outside isn't viable because you don't know which player the function will be called for

even without splitscreen the player object can change

[ancient grail]

cuz the player isnt loaded yet at some point but i couldnt comeup with better sample

[ancient grail]

right

so i dont get what
aoqia ment

[bronze yoke]

they meant most people don't cache at all

[ancient grail]

ah just directly use getPlayer():getInventory():stuff
?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[ancient grail]

i see

[grizzled fulcrum]

yep that is what I meant 😄

I have really really thought about making a modding series on YouTube

not sure if it would be that helpful but it's something interesting to pursue once I get the java project rolling

[ancient grail]

nice!

[grizzled fulcrum]

unironically I grew up watching modding tutorials for java and c when I was like 10 and they helped me a lot so I figure someone might get some value out of it

[ancient grail]

youre goin to do with voice?

[grizzled fulcrum]

If i do end up making it, I feel like it would be pretty annoying to follow along with text

[bronze yoke]

i don't feel like an unvoiced one would really have any value tbh

[grizzled fulcrum]

yeah, might as well follow a docs guide lol

but visual feedback is still important regardless

[ancient grail]

actually!
there are people who prefer youtube cuz its more visual

[grizzled fulcrum]

thats why I started out watching youtube tutorials because it's easier to watch someone do something and then follow in their path than read a wall of text

[bronze yoke]

if they still have to read text it's just a text guide with weird forced pacing, a text guide with pictures or even gifs would be better

[ancient grail]

so they tried and search google and only saw a few
and probably would always show map modding cuz of daddy dirk

[grizzled fulcrum]

even more so if you have adhd or anything similar

[bronze yoke]

i don't personally find video tutorials very useful over text guides but i have noticed half the people who come here open with 'hey i just watched x tutorial' so having some decent ones would at least have a pretty large audience

[ancient grail]

yeah
which is why i asked if its voiced
cuz it would be very helpful for people to understand stuff that are important but they wont learn not unless they ask here

such as when to use local function
and how to write the code that other people can use instead of writing everything using local function
would force people to overwrite it if incase they need to add compat

and placing print on stuff that are ontick omg

[grizzled fulcrum]

And it being in voice also allows to go in depth more on certain things

at least more naturally anyway

Here's an analogy I thought of to explain why to use modules:
Modules are like containers with ingredients. You want to separate all your cooking ingredients into other containers. You wouldn't put your flour, milk, and butter inside of the same container, because then it will be very hard to separate! Keeping your ingredients separate makes them easy to look at, grab and use, especially at speed. Keeping your code separate in modules allows for easier readability on your end and also for other modders who want to read your code.

[fleet blaze]

I have been working on getting these tiles I made into the game for a few hours now and having trouble.
I made the tiles, then placed them with tiled. I didn't do any tile defs at the time.
After nearly getting done tried uploading it to the mod to see them ingame wouldn't load was just base grass and dirt and wood plank floor where it was saying it was missing the floor.
Later found out I needed to do the tile defs I followed the guide I found on the forums and referenced the tile defs post and added isfloor to my tiles and floor overlay to the ones that was corner pieces.
After messing with the mod settings I finally got black tiles where they should be but the corner pieces dont have any presentation.
Please help me.

I got this error as well when reloading that tiles file

Could this be an issue? Its not loading the bottom half of the list i never noticed that before

[finite rover]

Hello! Does anyone know how to disable bandages and wounds from spawning on zeds? Simple solution is to make them transparent, but this way they will be transparent on players too and thats not great.

[obtuse sparrow]

Hi! Does anyone know how to replace a model from vanilla? I made a new gas mask model but I can't get it to work properly on zombies. They just wear the regular one, even though I added a new file in scripts defining a new hat_gasmask with my model, plus the xml file and guid, still they spawn with the default one

[bronze yoke]

there is no override property for items, that's specific to recipes

simply making a new item with the same name in the same module is enough to overwrite it

[obtuse sparrow]

Yeah, that's true

My issue is the guid stuff, so when you're making new outfits for zombies, right?

It's a headache to explain, ugh

[bronze yoke]

if you replaced the actual model and texture by placing yours with the same filepaths i think it'd work

otherwise i don't really know if there's a simple way to replace clothing xmls

[winter bolt]

i think the only way to replace the zombie spawning without replacing the original gasmask clothing xml would be to replace the entire zombie outfit that has the gasmask in it

[obtuse sparrow]

Alright, how about... should overwriting outfits in clothing.xml work? Like replacing FiremanFullSuit with my own FiremanFullSuit using the same GUID, would that work?

[winter bolt]

that does work

the only problem is that you have to include every vanilla item used in the outfit inside your mods fileguidtable

its really annoying

[obtuse sparrow]

Right, in your clothing mods to add people using open jackets and such, is that what you do?

[winter bolt]

yeah

[obtuse sparrow]

Whew, looks like it's gonna be a loong day ahaha

[winter bolt]

if you only need to replace the gasmask it'll be really easy

just grab the guid of the original gas mask and search for it in clothing.xml

[mellow frigate]

#1070858800501891172 message

[night iron]

hum i'm having 0 success with removing existing vanilla recipes in multiplayer using a new recipes file redeclaring the desired recipe with the same name, 'Obsolute:true' and/or 'Override:true'... feels like i'm missing something...

[grizzled fulcrum]

post the script

or the def

[fleet bridge]

Obsolete:true is for items
Override:true is for recipes

[grizzled fulcrum]

that would be funny if it is the reason

happened to me too

[night iron]

sorry i had a typo on my message i am using 'Obsolete:true' already

[bronze yoke]

obsolete is both

[fleet bridge]

why do you need to obsolete it?

[night iron]

it just wont go away in multiplayer mode

it works for singleplayer as far as i can tell though

[fleet bridge]

want to post your script file?

[night iron]

Override does not remove the recipe @fleet bridge it allows you to change it, and if i try that with isHidden:true then the client just hangs in a black screen (not frozen) while loading into the server

module Base {
    recipe Make Stone Axe {
        TreeBranch,
        SharpedStone,
        RippedSheets/Twine/RippedSheetsDirty/DenimStrips/DenimStripsDirty,

        Result:AxeStone,
        Time:80.0,
        Category:Survivalist,

        Obsolete:true
    }
(...)
}

[grizzled fulcrum]

no comma at the end?

[night iron]

i've also tried with both Override and Obsolete

[fleet bridge]

IsHidden

not isHidden

also, you need a comma after Obsolete:true

Obsolete:true,

[bronze yoke]

don't set up a whole recipe, just do override and obsolete

[night iron]

i tried that too albion no difference

and i just tested with the dangling , just for sanity sakes even though i was 99% certain that was not going to make a difference and voila still showing

[bronze yoke]

i recommend always having a 'dangling' comma because some script types literally do not work if you don't use them

i don't think recipes need them, i'm sure items don't, but for example sandbox options scripts break without them

[night iron]

i have yet to see that happening albion

and being old fashioned i dont use dangling , anywhere

module Base {
    recipe Make Stone Axe {
        TreeBranch,
        SharpedStone,
        RippedSheets/Twine/RippedSheetsDirty/DenimStrips/DenimStripsDirty,

        Result:AxeStone,
        Time:80.0,
        Category:Survivalist,

        Obsolete:true,
    }

    recipe Make Stone Hammer {
        Obsolete:true,
    }

    recipe Make Stone Knife {
        IsHidden:true,
        Override:true,
        Obsolete:true
    }
(...)
}

none of this works

[grizzled fulcrum]

could it be because of the braces on the same line? just throwing stuff out there

[bronze yoke]

they've never caused a problem for me

[fleet bridge]

i always put the braces after the recipe

never done without, maybe give it a shot

[grizzled fulcrum]

I wanted to but thought it would cause issues if they're on the same line

[fleet bridge]

    {
        ScrapMetalBits=30,
        Result:ScrapMetal,
        Time:15.0,
        Override:TRUE,
    }```

this works for me, i dont need to obsolete it though

[night iron]

i mean guys its not related to the formatting, this works just fine in singleplayer and i have plenty of other new recipes in my mods with this formatting

are you trying to remove it @lect since i have no problem changing existing recipes it's removing that is proving to be tricky in multiplayer only

[fleet bridge]

i've always used lua to recipe:setIsHidden(true) and recipe:setCanPerform("myfunction")

myfunction just returns false

scriptManager:getRecipe('Gather Gunpowder'):setLuaTest('alwaysfalsefunction') also works

[ancient grail]

wow yeah that seems like a better approach
and you trigger this on gamestart?

also server folder?

[bronze yoke]

do it in shared, and if it's unconditional no point waiting for an event

[ancient grail]

makes sense

how do you make sure its the right recipe? cuz you can name them the same

[bronze yoke]

if there's multiple you need to

ohhh fuck that's why it wasn't working LOL

[fleet bridge]

i've never actually tried it with multiples...

[bronze yoke]

override: will only override one of them

[fleet bridge]

ohhhh, yes. override only does it for one of them

[bronze yoke]

if there's multiple you need to do it through lua, and by looping through scriptManager:getAllRecipes() rather than using getRecipe()

[fleet bridge]

local recipes = getScriptManager():getAllRecipes()
    for i = 0, recipes:size()-1 do
        local recipe = recipes:get(i)
        local name = recipe:getOriginalname()
        if recipesToUnyeet[name] then
            recipe:setIsHidden(false)
            recipe:setCanPerform("yeppers")
            unyeeted = unyeeted + 1
            print ("Unyeeted \""..name.."\"..")
        end
    end```

[bronze yoke]

almost like this 'multiple recipes with the same name' structure is highly impractical for literally every system that interacts with it and already needs several workarounds just to work

[fleet bridge]

something like that (i was undoing some previously blacklisted recipes mid-wipe and didn't want to touch another person's mod)

[night iron]

i reduced the mods down to the minimum to ensure there are no multiples declarations of the recipe i want to supress still wont work, in fact after more extensive tests even for single player it realy only works if i combine override + ishidden, as soon as i get obsolute into the mix it also stops working in singleplayer. however for multiplayer the override + ishidden causes the black screen issue

[bronze yoke]

there are multiple definitions in vanilla though

[night iron]

really? hummm dam it

i can only find one 'recipe Make Stone Axe' on my vanilla media folder 😕

[bronze yoke]

oh wait sorry i got you confused with something else earlier

i don't know why the script approach isn't working but doing it through lua instead might work

[night iron]

yeh i have been trying to leave it for last resource... really wanted to learn why this doesn't work

[bronze yoke]

i definitely remember someone having an issue exactly like this where it worked in singleplayer only but i don't remember what the solution was or anything searchable 😔

[night iron]

yeh google hasnt been much help on this matter for me either

[mellow frigate]

someone answered with a solution to the recipe problem

[mellow frigate]

see message above

[orchid drift]

Hey everyone! I've recently decided to learn how to mod for PZ after falling in love with the game and I'm trying to make a new type of window barricade or a "curtain" item. However, I think there might be some java coding involved. I have little knowledge of how to mod in general, but I'm willing to learn if anyone is willing to teach me.

I have searched videos, forums and the back of my skull for anseers and only made some progress. The main reason for this is because I have no clue if Im going the right way or not.

I'm using the metal sheet codes as a basis for this mod, but also tried using the Sheet codes. Both lead me to the same part of unknown which is "how do I know this is all I need to make it work". I did the whole lua/server script and created a recipe as well as the item. The recipe and item work, but I can't apply the new barricade on the windows

I've posted on reddit 2 times about this mod if anyone would like to take a look r/JonascomC

[ancient grail]

this been tested? im gona link this on the mod resources

[ancient grail]

most mods use lua

[night iron]

I ended up using lua to just hide all the recipes i don't want, though i'm not happy about it, just wated to use the recipes method to supress them

local recipes = getScriptManager():getAllRecipes()

local suppressedRecipes = {
    ['Make Stone Axe'] = true,
    ['Make Stone Hammer'] = true,
    ['Make Stone Knife'] = true,
    ['Make Stone Sledgehammer'] = true,
    (...)
}

DarkhoundsTweaks = DarkhoundsTweaks or {};
function DarkhoundsTweaks.supressRecipe() return false; end

for i = 0, recipes:size() - 1 do
    local recipe = recipes:get(i);
    local name = recipe:getOriginalname();

    if suppressedRecipes[name] then
        recipe:setIsHidden(true);
        recipe:setCanPerform('DarkhoundsTweaks.supressRecipe');
    end
end

[bright fog]

Well that's how you do it yea ?

[night iron]

that's what i ended up doing yes, and just updated to include a bogus onCanPerform that always returns false to also suress it from the context menu

[bright fog]

That doesn't remove it from the context menu ?

[night iron]

nope it removed it from the crafting window but still had it on my conext menus

[bright fog]

Lmao

Yikes

[night iron]

this just feels as dirty as it gets

[bright fog]

That means profession recipes can technically be accessed by anyone ?

Unless they handle that a different way

[night iron]

wtf i just had a issue where the client would refuse to use my mod from the workshop dev folder and instead would prefer the steamaps installed mod version instead??? 1st this happened, had to deleted the installed version for it to start reusing the dev folder 😕

[bright fog]

Yes

That's a known problem that you'll have to deal with when modding

[night iron]

is it just random? or is there something that triggers it?

[bright fog]

It's not random

Just whenever you have mods with the same modID they will fuze together

You can't do anything about it

[night iron]

hum this is a new mod, with a single mod inside it

it's also unlisted

[bright fog]

Either make sure your version in the workshop folder is the same, or you have different modIDs, which you need to remember to change back

Just make sure to unsub from your workshop mods

That's usually the way to go

B42 will fix this problem

[winter bolt]

multiple times ive had issues that drove me insane for a whole day before i realised it was because i forgot to unsub from the mod

horrible experience

[ancient grail]

ye this is common

[ancient grail]

i test using a different launch option where the folders are different
and this is also my nosteam launch

so i never exp this again cuz i hate wasting a day just cuz of workshop unsub
happened to my quite alot till i changed my launcher for making nods

so i only open steam version now to upload/update or debug servers

[bright fog]

I use a lot of tools from the workshop so I personally don't do that, just learning to not sub to your own mod is enough

And in the case of mods that take a while to develop and you might use the mod itself I make beta versions where I change the mod ID

And the uploaded version has a different one

So I got my unstable version and stable version

Also allows me to upload that unstable in another mod to make MP tests

[fleet bridge]

Yes

[fleet bridge]

You want onluatest to remove from context menu

Oncanperform just means you can't do it

[fleet bridge]

There is something you add to your launch option to select the order of local mod loading. But you probably are better off just copying it over into a non uploaded local mod

[night iron]

mind elaborating on what this is exactly?

[fleet bridge]

I don't remember off the top of my head

Lol

-modfolders mods,workshop,steam

[night iron]

interesting, thank you @fleet bridge

[fleet bridge]

This is from Evelyn's code btw. She uses it from her ammo crafting mod iirc

[night iron]

Well the onCanPErform did remove it from the context menu but i'll give it a go and see if with onluatest removes both from context and crafting windows if so it's one less check done

[ancient grail]

gotcha

[ancient grail]

i just remembered i did something like this before
for my raid mod

i needed to make the recipe show up to faction leaders and admins only
and only when the sandboxoption isCraftable is turned on

so what i did was i made the recipe require learn

and i then via lua automatically teach it and remove it depending on the situation

you might want to try that approach if youre still having problems

not the cleanest way but it works

[fleet bridge]

Iirc the recipes may still show up in craft helper menu

But that's probably nbd

[bright fog]

Depends if craft helper verifies if the recipe is hidden or not

[bronze yoke]

i don't know about craft helper specifically but i've seen other crafting menu rewrites ignore it for performance reasons

[magic eagle]

Is there any Lua function for sprinting?
Currently, the only function based on movement seems to be

getPathFindBehavior2():pathToLocation

[ancient grail]

player or zed?

zombie:setWalkType("sprint1")
or maybe
setWalktype()

yeah its the first one

[magic eagle]

Thanks! Is there any function for players? I can't seem to find the answer in all the current mods and documents.

[bronze yoke]

have you tried setForceSprint/setForceRun?

[subtle flume]

yes it does

[stable marsh]

Is it possible to check if a plastic bag has items within through .LUA or something? Plastic bags gonna be used in a recipe but don't need filled plastic bags to be used, only empty ones.

[bright fog]

2016 brother

wtf

[subtle flume]

I had time to kill

[velvet pulsar]

can a mod change a specific value on an object as it is being used? specifically thrown? I can't think of any examples where the base game does this, but if I hook into an event that the object triggers when thrown, can I modify, say, 'radius' or 'volume' of that object?

similarly, if I override a base object with my own, does setting a value inside an itemData() object persist? especially if it is a new variable of my own creation?

[bronze yoke]

to the first question, yes

i'm not sure what itemData() refers to

[velvet pulsar]

er, item.getDeviceData()

[bronze yoke]

no, it will not persist

if you want persistent data attached to an object look at mod data

[velvet pulsar]

yeah, I'm trying to think of an example mod that does something like that

I guess it'd make more sense to figure out how to get a volume control, but I think making the thing a radio means the frequency manager comes along for the ride

huh. a cdplayer is a radio with a volume control, and it even has a frequency range. but I can't see anything in the item definition that causes it to not have a frequency listing. custom java?

[velvet pulsar]

oh, huh. I have no idea why, but when I created a radio object and removed the accepted media type, I got just a battery slot and a volume control. but of course it's not throwable because it's not a trap.

here's where multiple inheritance would be really handy. I'd like this item to be both Type = Radio and Type = Weapon...

[velvet pulsar]

ah, I guess this is why everybody falls back on the recipe system. I wanted to make the volume remote-controllable, but that's just not possible without reinventing the entire volume system. so I guess three or five recipes, each consuming all of the items and pooping out the item with the setting you want is the way to go.

[stark tusk]

Hi, im just starting out with modding and I tried going for food, I was wondering how we'd achieve

1. the mechanic where if a food is not hot then it gives unhappiness / reduces the unhappiness a hot version of the food would usually provide?
2. Reducing unhappiness and boredom only if the food is cooked? (OnCooked function?)
3. Any best practices on how to implement the above mechanics?

[night iron]

dunno about best practices but from my adventures with modding I would say you need to tap into some kind of system that allows you to check on the item properties, and change them accordingly, before consuming it

only place i personally know of where to do this is in the item inventory pane, maybe in renderDetails which triggers every tick as long as it's visible, but there may be some triggers you can bind to, maybe some of the more experienced modder in the room can help you with that

[barren kraken]

WIP of my own mod similar to SMUI, currently showing the M1951 field jacket & M1951 ridgeway cap, and type 1 & 2 OG-107 uniforms

[night iron]

Ok so i just tested using setLuaTest and works exactly like setCanPerform, as in they both remove it from the context menu but i still need to hide the recipe with setIsHidden with either so is there any strong argument on why we should use one or the other?

[main pasture]

if invItem:getItemContainer():getItems():isEmpty() then
    print("Empty")
end

[minor estuary]

(Moving this from #mod_support)
hey yall!
Is anyone open to modding commissions for project zomboid? I was looking to make a personal change to something, but open to possibly comissioning a new trait. I would happily pay. Please DM me if interested, thank you

Edit: hey yall! I’ve got the help of someone already! Thank you for all interest

[stark tusk]

To continue this, I've gotten myself stuck with an issue, where if I add a condiment (that is custom from the mod im making), it sets the value of the food to -30 unhappiness and -30 boredom for some reason, I used EvolvedRecipe to get the final food (which is uncooked and needs to be cooked) however I cannot adjust the unhappiness and boredom values

[ancient grail]

you should probably hook onto the eat timed action

[bright fog]

https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192
I suggest making a request on the modding Discord

[bronze yoke]

oncanperform runs far better

test is for testing ingredients, canperform is for testing everything else - structurally it makes way more sense to gate it at canperform and it also means your function only runs once per recipe check instead of once per every remotely possible ingredient

[night iron]

ok i have a puzzle that is driving me crazy... RecipeManager.getSourceItemsNeeded is returning a zombie.inventory.types.ComboItem when my character starts a saw log recipe but the instance doesn't seem to have any of its parent itemInventory methods 😕

pretty sure it's the log item but i cant find a way to get it's name

[bright fog]

Should have the parent methods

[bronze yoke]

what do you mean it doesn't have the methods? it's a child class

[bright fog]

I've used those in the past

[bronze yoke]

how are you determining this?

i don't think vanilla even spawns raw InventoryItems in most cases

[bright fog]

Hmmm

[bronze yoke]

ComboItem is the 'no special properties' subclass

[bright fog]

There are items which aren't any of the childs tho

No ?

[bronze yoke]

that's what comboitem is for

[night iron]

print('--==--==>', tostring(items));

print('--==--==>', tostring(items.getName));

[fleet bridge]

items:getName()

[night iron]

that will throw an error @fleet bridge because it's nil

[fleet bridge]

getDisplayName()

[night iron]

getName is a method of it's parent

[fleet bridge]

its a ComboItem, what is that?

[night iron]

in any case getDisplayName is also nil

this is what i'm trying to understand, it;s a source for the saw logs recipe, which i'm nearly certain is the log

[bright fog]

I might confuse myself with Drainable here

for some reasons

That must be it then

[bronze yoke]

understandable, there is a drainablecomboitem too

[bright fog]

Ah perhaps yeah

[bronze yoke]

because this is an array

[night iron]

hummmmm

[bright fog]

Classic

[bronze yoke]

for i = 0, arrayList:size()-1 do
    local obj = arrayList:get(i)
    -- do something with obj
end

[night iron]

i forgot what is the proper way to get the length of a java array?

ha size

[bright fog]

suize

:>

made me smile

[night iron]

i'm blaming my fatty fingers 😛

thanks guys i managed to fix another bug related to this! 😄

a side effect is it now equips the log while being sawn along with the saw since its listed as prop in the recipe he he

[stable marsh]

Thankyouu! 🙏

[sonic bloom]

Does someone have the base male_body.fbx file?

I am trying to look through it the game files but I only see a file named W_Female_Body.FBX

If anyone can provide it or help me with that I would really appreciate it 🥹

[velvet pulsar]

so items all have getModData() implying they have an open-ended table of data that mods can set. can this only be done in lua, or can variables be set (e.g. defaults) in the text files in scripts/?

alternately, is there a way to declare a new type of item?

[ancient grail]

pinned post #modeling

[sonic bloom]

Thank you!

[ancient grail]

yes you can add moddata on the script

[velvet pulsar]

is there an example anywhere? like a mod that does this?

looking at, say, functional chainsaws, it has a custom fuel amount but doesn't set it in the text file

[bronze yoke]

you can but generally you shouldn't

all you have to do is add a parameter to the script that isn't recognised by the game as anything else

e.g. MyValue = 5, will add moddata under the key MyValue

it's not generally advised because then your value is stored per-instance in the save file, but if it's universal and unchangeable to the item then it could just be in a table somewhere and stored only once and not in the save file at all, and if it is actually meant to differ per instance then the default can be set in code that uses it anyway

[orchid drift]

Do you think this will work?

if isClient() then return end

local ClientCommands = {}
local Commands = {}
Commands.object = {}

Commands.object.addRippedBag = function(player, args)
local sq = getCell():getGridSquare(args.x, args.y, args.z)
if sq and args.index >= 0 and args.index < sq:getObjects():size() then
local o = sq:getObjects():get(args.index)
if instanceof(o, 'IsoDoor') or instanceof(o, 'IsoWindow') or instanceof(o, 'IsoThumpable') then
o:addRippedBag(player)
elseif IsoWindowFrame.isWindowFrame(o) then
IsoWindowFrame.addRippedBag(o, player)
else
noise('expected door/window/thumpable got '..tostring(o))
end
else
noise('sq is null or index is invalid')
end
end

Commands.object.removeRippedBag = function(player, args)
local sq = getCell():getGridSquare(args.x, args.y, args.z)
if sq and args.index >= 0 and args.index < sq:getObjects():size() then
local o = sq:getObjects():get(args.index)
if instanceof(o, 'IsoCurtain') or instanceof(o, 'IsoDoor') then
o:removeRippedBag(player)
else
noise('expected curtain/door got '..tostring(o))
end
else
noise('sq is null or index is invalid')
end
end

Events.OnClientCommand.Add(ClientCommands.OnClientCommand)

[ancient grail]

i just reposted cuz its hard to read im using mobile

if isClient() then return end

local ClientCommands = {}
local Commands = {}
Commands.object = {}


Commands.object.addRippedBag = function(player, args)
    local sq = getCell():getGridSquare(args.x, args.y, args.z)
    if sq and args.index >= 0 and args.index < sq:getObjects():size() then
        local o = sq:getObjects():get(args.index)
        if instanceof(o, 'IsoDoor') or instanceof(o, 'IsoWindow') or instanceof(o, 'IsoThumpable') then
            o:addRippedBag(player)
        elseif IsoWindowFrame.isWindowFrame(o) then
            IsoWindowFrame.addRippedBag(o, player)
        else
            noise('expected door/window/thumpable got '..tostring(o))
        end
    else
        noise('sq is null or index is invalid')
    end
end

Commands.object.removeRippedBag = function(player, args)
    local sq = getCell():getGridSquare(args.x, args.y, args.z)
    if sq and args.index >= 0 and args.index < sq:getObjects():size() then
        local o = sq:getObjects():get(args.index)
        if instanceof(o, 'IsoCurtain') or instanceof(o, 'IsoDoor') then
            o:removeRippedBag(player)
        else
            noise('expected curtain/door got '..tostring(o))
        end
    else
        noise('sq is null or index is invalid')
    end
end


Events.OnClientCommand.Add(ClientCommands.OnClientCommand)

[ancient grail]

wait what the function called itself ? thats gona infinite loop? or not cuz it its gona return missing variables

also we need to see server to properly check

[astral turtle]

could anyone teach me how to add a model i made in blender with the vanilla male body and make it a zombie in game

[ancient grail]

#1070852229654917180 message

this will help
but you still need to figure out the model side of things

you have to turn off godmode btw

other wise it will remain 0

press , to open up the mini window panel to see the stats

[modern hamlet]

i'm having trouble syncing an objects inventory with the client, any suggestions of code i could look at?

[true nova]

one i've used is if isClient() object:transmitCompleteItemToServer() if isServer() object:transmitCompleteItemToClients(). not sure if using correctly, also may cause duplicate objects so i delete on client side after transmit

here's one that may actually do this proper isoObject:sendObjectChange('containers')

[modern hamlet]

ty 🙂

[stark tusk]

Hello, Im encountering an issue where adding a spice to a food im coding changes the unhappiness and boredom change to -30 for each spice added, what is causing that behavior (i have not made any changes to the code in my mod that could introduce this kind of behavior)

[astral turtle]

i got the model to mod in game, but it wont show up when i wear it how do i fix this

[uneven vessel]

is there a simple process to adding vanilla attachments such as the laser to a custom weapon?

[bright fog]

What type of inventory are we talking about here ?

If you use the right way to create or move items, you shouldn't need to sync anything from my experience

[modern hamlet]

it was a crate, but i figured it out ty 🙂 now i have a brand new problem. idk how to refresh synced inventories client side without swapping which container i'm looking at

[bright fog]

Not sure what you mean here

[modern hamlet]

the item is in the inveitory but i don't see it unless i cycle through the tabs and back to the crate

[bright fog]

OnContainerUpdate

triggerEvent(OnContainerUpdate)

That should do it

Whenever you add or remove items, always do that or you create duplication glitches

[modern hamlet]

so, when i do a containerupdate, (becasue my item is near other items) it refreshes, and but i'm not longer looking at the correct inventory, i'm looking in the cabinet instead

any way to fix that?

[bright fog]

Your item is near other items ....?

There's a huge confusion on wtf you're doing here ngl

What is your mod ? What are you trying to achieve here ?

Bcs I don't understand a single shit of what you're trying to do

And that doesn't help me understand what your problem is

Are you trying to create an item within a container ? Moving them ?

Or completely something else ?

[modern hamlet]

i'm spawning an item in a crate from the server.lua, when the item is in the crate, it's invisable until i rotate through other containers (or the ground) back to the container i spawned the item in.

[bright fog]

Just throw a OnContainerUpdate then (probably)

I've never added items server side so idk how that handles

[modern hamlet]

it doesn't like it, but, it's not a huge deal,

[bright fog]

wdym ?

[modern hamlet]

the oncontainerupdate doesn't refresh the single container, (unless the container is at the top of the buttons) (i'm sorry i don't know how to explain exactly)

I speak very little projectzomboidese

[bright fog]

OnContainerUpdate tells the client "update what the player sees to the recent changes"

Where do you trigger it from ?

[modern hamlet]

client

[bright fog]

Server side ?

Idk then

What do you use to create your item ?

And add it in the inventory

[modern hamlet]

you know it jsut dawned on me, i'm not technically adding stuff to the inventory, (the player adds it) the server determins what needs to be deleted, and deletes it, so what remains needs to be updated to the client

so i guess this is it:
for i = 1, stuff do
local item = stuff[i]
container:Remove(item)
end

[ancient grail]

same

[ancient grail]

i thought youre spawning item
now youre showing remove

[modern hamlet]

yeah i've been coding for like 3 days so