mod_development

[ancient grail]

you need to reverse the loop

if its forward it will error

[bright fog]

Don't think he needs to, container is not an array

[ancient grail]

the code is not the problem
its the explanation on the problem/situation/goal is

[bright fog]

It's ok

-# Use this format for easier reading:
```lua
<code here>
```

@modern hamlet for code blocks

[ancient grail]

hmmm.. cuz when i removed stuff from my functional atm mod
i used reversed forloop
then send something to server code cant remember exact syntax

[bright fog]

Also that just won't even work here

[ancient grail]

ill check

[modern hamlet]

its' working now lol

[bright fog]

The problem here is that you loop from 1 to stuff, then try to access stuff[i]

[modern hamlet]

except for the inventory window.

[bright fog]

That won't even work

[modern hamlet]

?

[bright fog]

            for i = 1, stuff do
                local item = stuff[i]
                container:Remove(item)
            end

This won't work

[modern hamlet]

it is working

[bright fog]

Then you didn't show us the right code, bcs that won't work lol

[modern hamlet]

i put stuff in, stuff gets removed

[bright fog]

I just explained why

You are looping from 1 to stuff, meaning stuff is a number

But then you try to access entry i from stuff, meaning stuff needs to be a table

So either stuff is a number or table, but in both cases it will error

Or it's just not even running through your code here

This is what it should be

            for i = 1, #stuff do
                local item = stuff[i]
                container:Remove(item)
            end

You're running this server side ? Then you should see errors in your coop-console if host or dedicated server console

[modern hamlet]

sadly i just dont know enough to communicate it in a non dumb way

lol

i appreciate the help

[ancient grail]

    local totalSellAmt = 0
    local pl = getPlayer()
    local piecePrice = 0
    for i = atm:getItems():size(), 1, -1 do
        local toSell = atm:getItems():get(i - 1);
        piecePrice = FunctionalATMs2.checkQty(toSell)
        if toSell and piecePrice > 0 then
            print('Sold ' .. toSell:getType() .. ' for ' .. piecePrice)
            pl:setHaloNote(tostring('Sold ' .. toSell:getType() .. ' for ' .. piecePrice))
            totalSellAmt = totalSellAmt + piecePrice
            if isClient() then atm:removeItemOnServer(toSell); end
            atm:DoRemoveItem(toSell);
        end
        getPlayerLoot(0):refreshBackpacks()
    end
    return totalSellAmt

[bright fog]

You seriously need to improve your variable naming oh god 😂 (nvm, it's good)

Also caching that atm:getItems()

Anyway, DoRemoveItem sound like a more plausible method to remove items

Or I'd feel like it would properly sync stuff

[modern hamlet]

thanks both of you 🙂

[ancient grail]

[bright fog]

maybe refresh backpack only once after the loop ?

Not sure what it does

[ancient grail]

im already used to it plus my snippets / shortcuts / hotkeys
are all sets

str = string
int = integer
flr = floor
sq = square
pl = player
targSq = destination
spr = sprite
wpn = weapon
zed = zombie
car = vehicle
targ = otherplayer
sprName = spritename
obj= object
dmg = damage
opt = option
func = function
inv = inventory
tab = table
clan = faction
sh = safehouse
hp = health
bd = bodydamage

im aware i should make it readeable
i truely am but nah

[bright fog]

Nah just I was confused at wtf atm was lmao, as it seemed to be an inventory

But then realized it's just an ATM

[ancient grail]

atm
cuz functional atm

its the obj

[bright fog]

I should do something like that actually

[bright fog]

yea understood it after

[ancient grail]

burryaga hates reading my code code cuz of this
at some point i really tried and used player instead of pl

but yeah...

[bright fog]

Yeah I'm more in the team that full name is way more readable

Actually make your variable properly understandable with a simple read

Tho I should put myself some naming conventions in my code, as I sometimes tend to go wild lol

[ancient grail]

cuz pz is already confusing right

like type should be variable type but its used in scripts
and thats not the category type
like type is the Base.Type

[bright fog]

Tbf PZ naming is really not bad

[ancient grail]

#1070852229654917180 message

[modern hamlet]

well, i'm so dumb with modding, that i gotta get smart to know if pz is dumb

[bright fog]

Overall what things seem to be, is usually what they are

[ancient grail]

then theres object vs items

lots of different items too

and inventory can be container or panel

it requires research and debugging for me to get familiar with it
so yeah it creates confusion really

but we get used to it in the long run i guess

[ancient grail]

btw when the player dies how do we fetch the player post death? hve you tried?
like during the death menu?

[bright fog]

I think I saw something about that, that the player just no longer exists on death

[ancient grail]

i wanted to set its outfit to special zed
but i couldnt
tried corpse tried player

[ancient grail]

figures..

[bright fog]

Go through every zombies, check if reanimated

Maybe you can identify the player there

[ancient grail]

maybe neet to fetch all the zed from the list and try and identify

albion mention the moddata gets transferred so that might be the solution

[fleet bridge]

Iirc when you view zombies in cell you can make player zombies show up as a different color. One of the admins in our server does it to hunt for player corpses that wander off.

[bright fog]

Reanimated zombies

[timid scarab]

Anyone know if there's any documentation / tutorials to adding custom zombie types?

[bright fog]

No

I've made a framework for it however

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3243131044

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3248766883

The mod I made with it

And ik another person managed to make custom zombies themselves too, but they haven't posted it as a public mod and is linked to their server modpack

My guide on how to use is incomplete

Haven't had any motivation in the last 2-3 months to do any work on it

But you can do things with it, easily

[stark tusk]

Hi guys, im encountering some weird issue where the game is throwing an error on this specific piece of code in this recipe, not sure what im doing wrong, despite it throwing an error, the resulting items still receive the correct values im looking for

[timid scarab]

Thankyou!

[bright fog]

Can you show the line numbers please

player

Not sure, but might be player

Vanilla never gives IsoPlayer for player argument

Always a number which is linked to split screen players

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/zombie/Lua/LuaManager.GlobalObject.html#getSpecificPlayer(int)

Use that

local player = getSpecificPlayer(player)

That's my guess

(I guess you can replace player)

Use it before your for loop

[stark tusk]

its throwing an error on the setHungChange, setThirstChange, etc, actually everything except the player part works

[bright fog]

Then the problem is result

[bright fog]

Actually either it's result the problem

OR it's item

[stark tusk]

prolly cuz result is multiple?

[bright fog]

Maybe I'm not familiar enough with it

One suggestion when this kind of things happen

Just add a print of your variables

And in the console, look what it prints

You can do that for player, you can do that for results

You can do that when for result:getHungChange()

And see what it outputs

Don't hesitate to print

That way it can tell you what type of variable it is

[stark tusk]

this works?

[bright fog]

No +

[stark tusk]

any tips for testing this? i always have to restart my game

[bright fog]

print("Item"..tostring(item))

This

[stark tusk]

gotcha, thanks

[bright fog]

Always run your variable through a tostring as if it's nil for example you will error due to not being able to concat "Item" and nil

if you tostring you can never get this problem

So it's a good habit to have imo

[stark tusk]

gotcha

[bright fog]

Or do like me and half the time don't even bother to concat strings lol, just directly print the variable

print(item)

Just for a big chain of prints it can be a pain to determine wtf is what

[bright fog]

Also you're interested in checking result here

Not item

As I think it's what is causing problems

[stark tusk]

yep i also added a print for result

[stark tusk]

hmm, it got fixed after i explicitly checked for the type
if item:getType() == "PancitPot" or item:getType() == "PancitPan" then

weird

[bronze yoke]

because you are looping over all the ingredients, which includes your 4 bowls

[nimble vale]

If I was using getFileReader to read a .txt file in the folder "Zomboid\Lua\Logs\Chat" should that be possible? because I can write to that folder in a .txt file. Any help would be super.

[bronze yoke]

it's possible, what problem are you having?

[nimble vale]

im getting a stacktrace error from it. I'd use getModFileReader but since its outside of my mod I didn't think that'd work.

"-----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE

Callframe at: getFileReader
function: monitorChatFile -- file: ChatLogger.lua line # 104 | MOD: ChatLogger
function: Add -- file: ChatLogger.lua line # 128 | MOD: ChatLogger.
[24-10-24 12:41:48.510] LOG : General , 1729788108510> ."

is it because of the monitorChatFile specifically?

[bronze yoke]

can you show the line/function that calls it?

[nimble vale]

dooooooooh i know why I think its a read/monitor issue (not enough coffee) "Events.OnTick.Add(function()
LMSWindow:monitorChatFile()" So what I'm trying to do is monitor for new entries. Then send new entries to a chat window I made in single player but I want it to update as often as possible so I probably did OnTick, any suggestions for something close to real time that won't conflict?

[stark tusk]

ahhh that makes a lot of sense, thanks

[nimble vale]

would using something like this local checkInterval = 2000 prevent that or do you think I need to make the time between monitoring longer?

[rapid gale]

How do I test my mod? I've made my changes on my github and want to test it locally..'

[nimble vale]

C:\Users\YourUsername\Zomboid\mods

there sure be an example mod folder there to show you how to set up the structure if you have problems

dont forget to setup the mod.info file as well

then when you boot up pz it should populate with your mod to enable

[true nova]

if everyTenMinutes is too long a trick i've seen is have a counter added to OnTick and once that counter reaches the desired amount then add your function to OnTick removing it in the same function

[nimble vale]

I tried a work around checking os.date ontick until it hits my desired time. my latest issue is I have a problem reading from a file and displaying it in my custom chat window, I for the life of me can't figure it out. I'm pretty sure I made it work once in the media folder* I had it monitoring OnTick though and manually typed in the text file, but monitoring OnTick was blocking my reads if I remember correctly*. but I'm using another program to write to the file. So to avoid read/write/access issues I had to setup some form of delay before my event fired off.

So pretty much user types in text chat box, checks if its focused and when they press enter. it starts the on tick os.date pull till 15 seconds has passed to limit the use of ontick and also using monitoring on tick for changes in the file for similar issues (read/write/access). Then when it stops, it ends the EveryOneMinute and reads the txt file and puts it in the chat window.

been working on it for three days and everytime I get close something else breaks.

So if anyone has any suggestions I haven't tried i'd love to hear them!

[true nova]

I'm not sure what your issue is exactly. my suggestion would be to put a print() at certain points that will be easy to find and you can see what parts are working and what is not. I have not messed with the file reader but here is an example from a mod i have messed with that uses it. the .ini file it is reading exists in the mod inside the media folder.

local function readAirdropsPositions()
    print("[Air Drop] Loading air drops positions...")
    local fileReader = getFileReader("AirdropPositions.ini", true)
    local lines = {}
    local line = fileReader:readLine()
    while line do
        table.insert(lines, line)
        line = fileReader:readLine()
    end
    fileReader:close()
    airdropPositions = loadstring(table.concat(lines, "\n"))() or {}
    print("[Air Drop] Positions loaded");
end

[nimble vale]

`function LMSWindow:readLastChatEntry()
local reader = getFileReader("C:/Users/thegl/Zomboid/mods/ChatLogger/media/chat.txt", true)
if not reader then return nil end

local lines = {}
local currentLine = reader:readLine()

while currentLine do
    table.insert(lines, currentLine)
    currentLine = reader:readLine()
end

reader:close()

if #lines == 0 then return nil end

-- Join multiple lines to form one chat entry
local lastEntry = table.concat(lines, "\n")
return lastEntry

end`

Thanks, mine is like this because of my crazy delay system I setup. Out of curiosity where did you have your "AirdroPositions.ini" file located at in the mod structure for it to read?

I tried saving to \media to write instead of the Lua folder (where I could) to see if it would read from there, but now I can't have my external program write there I keep getting "Error saving response to chat file: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\Users\thegl\Zomboid\mods\ChatLogger\media"

[true nova]

it was in the mods media folder

[nimble vale]

Yeah I thought so, so you can write to Lua folders, but read from media :X

[true nova]

im actually not sure where the mod makes the files. I'm looking but it doesn't start with it i don't think, it makes it on game start i think

[nimble vale]

I'm wondering if there's no folder that has both read/write, but I figured my program outside of pz would have access to write, after all I can manually edit a .txt file in media and it let's me and works. So it's a bit confusing

[true nova]

so getfilereader will write a file there if it doesn't exist

not that that helps whatever program. i just thought thats neat lol

[nimble vale]

reaaaaaaally, thats interesting. I'm actually doing another python script just to write "hello world" to text files in different folders to test external write abilities.

it is

thank you again I might end up using it eventually 🙂

hmmm my other python script worked... so i must have messed up formatting my directory on my other script lol

[true nova]

that's pretty cool. Probably how people have made things like streamer integration where chat can spawn enemies

[nimble vale]

yeaaaaaah i'm doing something sorta like that. I was working on a api to actually connect a AI LLM to PZ but it's a lot of work and a bit beyond my skill level right now. So my work around is I wrote a command prompt interface in python, my character uses the single player custom chat window to type in chat > then its saved to a log (was in Lua folders) and then the python script passes that to Koboldcpp and triggers a reply which should write back to a text file which gets read and sent to the custom chat window. This is just Part 1 of my crazy idea...

I was working on it and almost had it, but I was up for like 30 hours straight, erased my code by accident had to start over :X

[true nova]

oh no. rip in piece to all lost code everywhere 🫡 . i like to think When something like that happens that i was just wrong and i'm doing it the right way this time

[nimble vale]

Yeah I had some bad file management that night and thought it was like version 17 and not version 20 of my code and deleted old versions and realized I deleted the good version lol... this is like day 4 for what I thought would be a one day project.

Oh jeez I forgot to put my .txt at the end of my path for saving on my other program haha it worked to media, now I just have to fix my code to pass it to the chat window... again

lack of sleep is great ☕

[nimble vale]

Sooooo I tried your method of ("AirdropPositions.ini", true) with my chat.txt file... fixed my errors so that's nice... I just gotta get my logic straight now to pass it to the window.

So thank you ❤️

[true nova]

no problem, also note that the boolean parameter in that function is what makes it make the file if it isn't there, if i'm reading it correctly

[nimble vale]

I premade the file, had the boolean already just in case i did something dumb like hmmm... delete it? Not that I would ever do something like that... 🤪

[orchid drift]

Yeah, Im not very sure how functions work or how to properly name certain aspects to make it work properly

[ancient grail]

i guess go open write close on the same event call.. but thats heavy

[stark tusk]

Hi guys, got an inquiry, how do we define if a world object is thumpable (destroyable) or not? Im trying to

1. make an admin-spawnable version that shouldnt be destroyable, and
2. i want to adjust the health values of the non-admin version of the object im modding so they dont get destroyed quickly

[true nova]

if instanceof(obj, "IsoThumpable")

[ancient grail]

just saw this
guess you already did that

[nimble vale]

I swapped back to monitoring now that I realized one of my main issues was a save file path in my external program, still working on getting it to display in the window, cant remember how i did it a couple days ago

[stark tusk]

isnt this just checking if the item is IsoThumpable per se?

[ancient grail]

item? or object?

[stark tusk]

object sorry

[ancient grail]

thats what you asked. guns gave the right code

[bronze yoke]

that's the opposite of what they asked lol

[ancient grail]

[stark tusk]

i already have the checker for isoThumpable for regular destroyable objects, however right now im figuring out how to make the object indestructible essentially

im not exactly sure how the code assigns IsoThumpable to objects i place, though im guessing thats the default behavior for player-placed objects

[ancient grail]

setThumpable?

usually it spawns the object with the properties assigned to the tile/sprite itself based on .tiles file

moveables are thumpables by default

[stark tusk]

ah

[stark tusk]

ohhh so its based on the tiles file?

[ancient grail]

you could probably try and mess around with the tile properties via tilezed or play around vanilla tiles using lua console debug

[stark tusk]

yup ill do that

thank you

[ancient grail]

just to learn about it

[ancient grail]

it would still depend on how you spawn it

[stark tusk]

i see, im guessing if you spawned it as a tile directly its not thumpable, but if its obtained as an item then it would be?

[ancient grail]

you can spawnit and bypass the properties too . there lots of ways doing this

1 example would be spawn something else and then change its sprite

[nimble vale]

You know the worst part? when your tired, messing up, have debuggers running, no stack traces and it still doesn't work 😆

[dry chasm]

Instead of filereader you can try getFileInput(filename).
So something like this:

-- file path starts from %UserProfile%\zomboid\lua\
-- in this example: %UserProfile%\zomboid\lua\externalChat.txt
local file = getFileInput("externalChat.txt")
Events.OnTick.Add(function()
  -- unexpected if file is nil
  if not file then error("File is not defined.") return end
  -- if nothing remains to be read, we don't need to do anything else
  if not file:available() > 0 then return end
  
  -- do whatever you want with it here, ex.:
  print(file:readLine()); -- reads new line whenever a new line is added.
  -- if using readLine, ensure ideally that every entry for the chat ends with a linebreak
  -- otherwise you'll receive an empty string on the next addition
  -- (so text + linebreak instead of linebreak + text)
end)

[nimble vale]

I appreciate it, im adding debugging statements to make sure im not sanitizing all my text accidently (thought I had enough debugging) but if thats not the issue I'll try that

[nimble vale]

Welp it took me like 4 days but thanks ya'll because I got the first half of my idea done. Gotta finetune the ai personality but this assistant persona was easier for testing.

some finetuning and polish but this part is almost done Thank you again everyone!

[ancient grail]

you're making an AI?

[nimble vale]

😛 mb

we'll see how motivated I am after taking this long to do this and I still have some cleaning up to do on it

[ancient grail]

wizardry

[nimble vale]

But a AI chat interface is a great start already.

[ancient grail]

no sh*t

[nimble vale]

I think im the first, its a crazy work around but making a API comparable to discord is... tedious

I started but i don't know enough.

[ancient grail]

wdym comparable to disc

[nimble vale]

and thank you, im going to smoke a bowl finally and like maybe play a game for the first time in a almost a week

Sooooooo discord's Api is pretty similar to what I accomplished but way better.

[ancient grail]

you mean like discord bots?

[nimble vale]

there's like an officially supported api where you can connect full discords servers to game servers

chat, death logs you name it pretty much

[ancient grail]

can i get a link?

i havent messed with discord stuff
im gona post the link on the mod tools thread

[nimble vale]

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/zombie/network/DiscordBot.html I didn't favorite anything when i found it but I found it in the class files and deep dived for like an hour

you can open the classes and see the code, theres some websites that mention it, and old posts but I'd have to dig between the old ones before this and the newer ones

when i was digging through the classes they even coded their own color in servers 😛 that was cute

Because yeah I thought about running it through discord but honestly I wanted more functionality game wise if I expanded my little project here

[ancient grail]

thnx posted it
#1070858800501891172 message

[nimble vale]

great hopefully it helps someone, you can use JD-GUI to peek at the class files in zomboid if your curious

[ancient grail]

whats that? tho we have ways to decompile already

[ancient grail]

sure can you post it there too

[nimble vale]

https://java-decompiler.github.io/

If you have problems opening a class in a folder, copy one, paste it, rename it to a .java In the folder, open it with JD GUI and all the classes are accessible.

also https://github.com/java-decompiler/jd-gui

also this is helpful
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/9799-key-code-reference/

and if anyone is wondering the whole javadoc website is 107mb 😆

[grizzled fulcrum]

It's a decompiler for Java. I wouldn't recommend it for long-term viewing of the game's files, fernflower would do better justice

It's not bad for single-class decompilation to quickly check stuff though

[minor wharf]

item Drink
{
DisplayName = "Blue Fanta",
}

Why in game is it referred to as "Blue Fanta" and not Blue Fanta, im not really sure what type this if it doesnt treat "" as a string

[ancient grail]

remove the "

[ancient grail]

already posted on the mo resources i think

[minor wharf]

It is possible to get it to accept strings in the "" format, I want to use lua bytecode as the name for the item and have lua interpret it to kind of "hide" the name, like if you ran print("\101\120\97\109\112\108\101\95\115\116\114\105\110\103") it would print example_string and not the raw bytecode

[ancient grail]

i dont know anything about bytecode
hopefuly someone comes along and answer your question

[minor wharf]

thank you for help

[ancient grail]

that will surely print
\101..

[civic prism]

Is there a mod that adds a foraging keybind?

nvm found it

[bright fog]

wdym ?

A key to toggle on off foraging ?

[civic prism]

yeah, it's "search" in the settings so i missed it

[robust locust]

Hiya, I've got a question regarding tile definitions... what exactly does the blocksPlacement setting do? I've got something attached to the wall, but not noticed any placement blocking with other items, so I'm unsure what it does.

[bronze yoke]

it is not possible

keep in mind that despite the name, pz's 'scripts' format is not a scripting language and it won't do anything intelligent

you may have some luck renaming the item from lua, but doing it through scripts is a dead end

[ancient grail]

you can place items i think
but its better to ask #mapping

i was wrong

you cant place anymore tile objects (not items)

[ancient grail]

#mapping message

[robust locust]

Thanks for that.

[rapid gale]

any clue about what causes this error? i'm testing a recipe change for The Only Cure locally

Whenever I click on the crafting menu it throws an error and doesn'tdisplay

[bronze yoke]

the result item of a recipe does not exist

[rapid gale]

the items do exist though, i havent' changed the result

really not sure what's causing the error here

...i was missing a comma

[vital karma]

anyone have a suggestion of how I can check what tile a player right clicks on? want to make it so a context menu appears on specific tiles

[main pasture]

You can add your own function to OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu lua event and check position of the worldItems it returns. It seems to return IsoObjects even when the square is empty

local function AddToContextMenu(playerIndex, context, worldItems, test)
    for _, item in ipairs(worldItems) do
        print(item:getX(), ", ", item:getY())
    end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(AddToContextMenu)

[bronze yoke]

it is often recommended to grab the square from the first object in the list and then loop through that square's object list

[bright fog]

Why that ?

[bronze yoke]

the list it returns contains the first object it finds of a couple specific types, so many types of objects will simply never appear in it, and you often do actually want to find these duplicates (and if you don't then ignoring them is easy anyway)

[main pasture]

Well the loop is kind of pointless in that case. I just copied it from my code (which actually uses it)

Oh I see what you mean. Is it faster to loop the items from the square even if that list already contains everything I want?

[bronze yoke]

no, if the event's list works for you it's a bit faster that way

[main pasture]

ok. thanks

[vital karma]

so I would do this? trying to make a context menu pop up if there is a doghouse on the tile.

[robust locust]

I would like to spawn a guitar that's hanging on the wall, but the procedural generation lua doesn't seem to be spawning any, as I've checked many, many houses. Is there something I'm missing? The items are attached to the wall, so I'm adding the items to the WallDecor list.

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.WallDecor.junk.items, "HMW.AcousticBlack_Hanger");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.WallDecor.junk.items, 3000);

The number is high just for testing.
Should they go in the "junk" or normal list?
Any help is super appreciated

[bright fog]

A guitar that's hanging on the wall ?

[main pasture]

local function AddToContextMenu(playerIndex, context, worldItems, test)
    local player = getSpecificPlayer(playerIndex)

    if worldItems[1] ~= nil then
        local square = worldItems[1]:getSquare()

        local objects = square:getObjects()
        for i = 0, objects:size() - 1 do
            local obj = objects:get(i)
            local properties = obj:getProperties()
            if properties:Is("CustomName") and properties:Is("GroupName") then
                if properties:Val("CustomName") == "House" and properties:Val("GroupName") == "Dog" then
                    context:addOptionOnTop("There is a doghouse", player, ClickedDogHouse)
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

Events.OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu.Add(AddToContextMenu)

local function ClickedDogHouse()
    print("Clicked a Doghouse")
end

not sure if that is the optimal way, but it was the only way I could figure how to determine if the object was doghouse

[sleek delta]

Hi guys I'm new to the game only played about 2hrs can I play with some one to show me the ropes and have a but of crack with

[vital karma]

holy shit thank you

[main pasture]

np

[vital karma]

[robust locust]

My mod let's you hang guitars on the wall with a hanger, but I'd like for them to be generated on the walls around the map. I looked at how a posters mod did it, as it's pretty much doing the same thing.

[bright fog]

[bright fog]

ProceduralDistributions is loot spawn

[robust locust]

Oh ok. Do you know how the game distributes vanilla items like the flags/posters/etc?

[bronze yoke]

i would've guessed they're just part of the map

[true nova]

you'll want to add a function to the event LoadGridsquare, find a wall and make a new IsoObject on it. that is how most mods do it, then if you want guitars to spawn in them you'll add it to ProceduralDistributions

[crude reef]

Hello a friend made a mod for Roleplayining systems (chat improvement, narrative in character improvement in game for MP matches based on roleplayining games)
same as sa-mp or san andreas multiplayer
/me command
/do command
/say improvement
¿How can i upload this to Steamworkshop and share it?

[true nova]

there is an example mod in Users\username\Zomboid\Workshop. make a file structure with your mod like it. then start the game and click on the workshop button and it gives options to upload

[balmy swan]

Hey. I don't suppose having choices in a crafting recipe with different amounts is possible, right?
Like how recipes have MetalPipe/MetalBar=2 to do something like MetalPipe=1/MetalBar=2

[true nova]

to do more complex recipes like that i'd use OnTest and OnCreate. OnTest to check the contents of the inventory and see if they have the ingredients, then oncreate to do most of the recipe. The result needs to exist so you do an item from the recipe or if the options change the outcome then RemoveResultItem:true so the result doesn't matter and is handled in your oncreate function.

[balmy swan]

Gotcha, thank you. Works for me 😄

[bronze yoke]

that won't work, those functions aren't really able to select ingredients - ontest just checks individual ingredients and oncanperform is checked before ingredients are even tested

if you want to do something like that unfortunately you just need to have multiple recipes - the game allows multiple recipes by the same name for this

[brittle geyser]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3354283869&searchtext=zomboid+crossing it's finished! version 1, more to come soon

[true nova]

you are right. i was not remembering quite right. I believe i have used oncanperform to achieve something similar, though the actual required ingredients aren't visible

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i guess you could implement that with oncanperform but it would display weirdly in the crafting menu

i can see why they're replacing the crafting system 😅

[true nova]

just adding some or's to the pz script would be pretty cool. I'm actually a little excited for the liquid system since i remember the mod i did a mixed recipe with was for mixing dye, and i think it sucked the way i had to do it

[bronze yoke]

making sources mutually exclusive would be helpful too

if you have two sources that can take the same kind of item, one item can fulfill both sources

i think it would be fairly complex to implement that with the current way crafting works though

[robust locust]

Thanks! I've got not idea what that would look like though 😦 Any clues on what that would look like, or whereabouts in the vanilla code should I look? I feel like I've gone through most of it but can't figure it out...

[topaz tangle]

hey, my code for an item mod just, isnt working?
would anyone be able to see if there is anything just, obvoisly wrong with my code?

module Base
{
item nanitetail
{
DisplayCategory = Junk,
Weight = 0.01,
Type = Normal,
DisplayName = nanite injector,
Icon = icon_nanite_tail,
WorldStaticModel = items_nanite_tail,
}

model nanitetail
{
    mesh = nanite_tail,
    texture = nanite_tail,
    scale = 0.00015,
}

}

attached is all i see in game

[true nova]

first off https://pzwiki.net/wiki/LoadGridsquare

provides an example on how to add a function to the event

[robust locust]

Thanks!

[true nova]

the square parameter passes the current square being loaded. square:getObjects() will return an array of all of the objects within. iterate through it keeping in mind it is an array and its index starts at 0. find a wall with the properties you want :getProperties():Is("WallN") then make a new object and add it to the square square:AddTileObject(IsoObject.new(square, spriteName, objectName, false)). i think i actually haven't added isoobjects directly just modified existing

[true nova]

my only assumption is the icon name is wrong and the mesh name is wrong at least. if your icons are stored in the textures folder then they need Item_ at the start of their name

[topaz tangle]

yeah the icon works now
item doesnt appear still but ive got an idea

[true nova]

the model should just be nanitetail

[topaz tangle]

the issue im having is that nothing shows up in game

module Base
{
item nanitetail
{
DisplayCategory = Junk,
Weight = 0.01,
Type = Normal,
DisplayName = nanite injector,
Icon = icon_nanite_tail,
WorldStaticModel = nanitetail,
}

model nanitetail
{
    mesh = item_nanite_tail,
    texture = item_nanite_tail,
    scale = 0.00015,
}

}

current code

[true nova]

is the model named "item_nanite_tail"? and is it in models_X folder?

[topaz tangle]

yes

[robust locust]

For the icon file, do you have Item_icon_nanite_tail?

[topaz tangle]

yes
the icon works now

just not the model

[robust locust]

Have you double checked the point where you export the fbx from? i.e. if you're using blender, making sure all the right boxes were checked?
I had a time where I didn't select the item I was exporting, so it didn't show in-game

[topaz tangle]

i can do that

[true nova]

yeah there doesn't appear to be a mistake. i would guess try exporting the model again or even looking at that one to see if it is even there

[topaz tangle]

re-exported it and nothing chaged

maybe an issue with the texture?

[true nova]

the model should still appear if it was the texture, it would just have red/white checkers instead

[robust locust]

The file is 36kb, which sounds right.

[topaz tangle]

ah right, with vehicles it just wont show anything lol

[true nova]

are you restarting the game when checking this? i think models need to be loaded atleast when a game is started

[topaz tangle]

yes i am

[robust locust]

Have you added an item before and got it working, or is this 1st time?

[topaz tangle]

i have in the past

[true nova]

try different scaling?

[topaz tangle]

twice actually

[true nova]

i dont know how the game does it but i would assume if the scale is too different it would default to icon, i have made massive models before though

[topaz tangle]

hmm okay

now it shows the icon and no model

[robust locust]

yea a scaling issue could cause it to not show, I've had that where it was too big

Are you using blender to export to fbx?

[topaz tangle]

ywa

ywaues

yes

[robust locust]

😄

[topaz tangle]

had my hand in the wrong spot lol

holy shit

[robust locust]

Can you take a screenshot of the export window?

yikes!

[topaz tangle]

MIGHT be a bt large

[robust locust]

It was there!

[true nova]

lmao

yeah zomboid is very very tiny

[topaz tangle]

its got such an odd scale

[true nova]

try working on tiles. individual. pixels. very visible

[robust locust]

I would look at the units you have the blender object using, and the scale of the item, and the scaling export settings...

[bronze yoke]

that's at 0.00015 ingame scaling

[true nova]

one of the few models i've done is at .000063

[robust locust]

Yea, that is crazy. Have a look at scaling it properly inside blender, so that you don't need to adjust it that much in the code

[topaz tangle]

nono that was at 1.0 lol

[true nova]

ah lol ok so that other one was too small

[topaz tangle]

im fine with slowly adjusting

just need to try and find where it is at after eath tings

[robust locust]

I find you need to change the export setting in blender to 0.01, even if the units and object scale is correct

[true nova]

atleast you figured it out 🙌 . i always have issues getting models to show

[topaz tangle]

yeah!!!!!
thanks!!!

this work is, slightly in vain because its gonna need to be a weapon in the future but it definatly helped me
making a murder drones weapon mod, which will probably have some non-weapons in it as eastereggs

[robust locust]

It all adds to the experience gained and knowledge learned 🙂

[topaz tangle]

yes!!!! this!!!!!!

goated
perfect size

need to change some stuff but

thanks again!!!!!!

Pausing work until tomorrow btw
Tired

Gonna do the weapon stuff tomorrow

[balmy swan]

I'm having a bit of a weird issue. I have an itemname with a - in it. This seems fine in the txt file, but lua can't detect those. Any way around it aside from removing the -?

[bronze yoke]

what do you mean lua can't detect them?

[balmy swan]

I have an array with a list of items
Base.Axe for example

It loops through the list and tags them. That works fine.
In that array I have an item called Base.Magazine-Flowers

That doesn't get picked up by the code. I noticed the same thing in the PZ item list viewer, typing a '-' doesn't make the items appear. Figured if it's being used as some kind of escape key?

[bronze yoke]

i don't think there's meant to be any limitation like that but as a rule i would avoid internal names with weird characters in them

[balmy swan]

Yeah 😅 I'm trying to do something with an item from a mod, so I don't have much choice in the matter. Found a way around it, albeit not as performant.

[ancient grail]

what is it

[topaz tangle]

It’s the nanite injector-syringe thing from disassembly drones tails from the indie animated show murder drones

[topaz tangle]

ive got the weapon part working but, ive noticed this happening

not ment to be angled like that

better pic

[exotic oracle]

I have a problem with my True Music Addon. When I'm trying to publish it to the workshop it can't. I already checked what does result=9 means, but I think my mod structure is correct. I really don't know what to do, can anyone help me?

The mod itself

[dry chasm]

Close the game, remove the id from workshop.txt , save and start the game again and try again.
Aside of that, I'd have no clue either.

[long beacon]

How might I be able to override restoring clothing with tailoring to require a recipe? I'm making a specialization-based recipe system (handed out by staff once players have declared a profession) for a server I'm currently developing and have no clue how to manage this, any ideas on at least where I find the action of restoring? A file path would be appreciated if you could figure one out.

[exotic oracle]

It worked. Thank you a lot!

[dry chasm]

lua\client\ISUI\ISGarmentUI.lua - line 108 - function ISGarmentUI:doPatch(...)

[long beacon]

huge props, I'll see what I can do with this

[robust locust]

I've made a lua file for this, do I need to put anything in the mod.info file to require it?

[long beacon]

I think I might be able to frankenstein this, do I need to define the recipe elsewhere so it operates on a recipe where it didn't before? The NeedtobeLearn parameter could work in making this require a recipe

if not thread or not needle or (not fabric1 and not fabric2 and not fabric3) then
local patchOption = context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Patch"));
patchOption.notAvailable = true;
local tooltip = ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.addToolTip();
tooltip.description = getText("ContextMenu_CantRepair");
patchOption.toolTip = tooltip;
return context;
end

I know base game code is formatted a little differently so figuring that out is my biggest issue rn

Oh also, how do i get the mod to override this file in specific?

I'm not new to programming but I'm really new to file interactivity and this perplexes me a bit

[dry chasm]

You can nicely have code display with three backticks, "lua", line break, code, three backticks. ex.:
```lua
print("Hello world")
```

print("Hello world")
```I think the learned recipes are actually just strings that're stored instead of definitely requiring a recipe for it.
So if you do want to just lock it behind something like that, you could check for that (untested, but worth a potential try):
```lua
if not self.chr:isRecipeKnown("ValidTailor") or not thread or not needle or (not fabric1 and not fabric2 and not fabric3) then
--...
end

[long beacon]

I'll give it a shot, would I be able to just implement that into the mod alone or would I be doing a modified version of the ISGarmentsUI.lua file?

(The hello world is a check for functionality, right?)

OOH you were talking about displaying code in the discord, nevermind

lua print("Guh")

ok no I did it wrong lol

[dry chasm]

I think you could make a lua file in client with a custom name and patch the doContextMenu, then get the context it added for patching, and disable it if the recipe isn't known 🤔 forgot how the get context options again

[dry chasm]

lua right after the three backticks, then the linebreak!

[long beacon]

I need to have it be a mod, wouldn't inserting it into the base code just make it apply for me?

DoContextMenu is definitely the right thing to edit though

[dry chasm]

yes, hence a custom lua file to make a "patch" for it in your mod.

local originalFunction = ISGarmentUI.doContextMenu
function ISGarmentUI:doContextMenu(...)
  local context = originalFunction(self, ...) -- we run the original and get the context from it
  local option = context:getOptionFromName(getText("ContextMenu_Patch"))
  if not self.chr:isRecipeKnown("ValidTailor") then option.notAvailable = true; end
  return context; -- return original return
end

[long beacon]

I've been able to override base game recipe requirements but only for items

[dry chasm]

you''ll need to check though, it seems to add sub-options to it or with different text if it's actually valid, but it should be something along those lines.

[long beacon]

I'll give it a shot

[dry chasm]

If you do want to check available methods and all for the context, lua\client\ISUI\ISContextMenu.lua
So you could also iterate the options instead of by name and check if part of the name is what you want (just be sure to utilize the getText, as it changes with language selected)

[long beacon]

gotcha

I'm guessing I put this one in the lua folder instead of the scripts folder?

(Probably doesn't matter actually)

[dry chasm]

yes into lua

of your mod*

[long beacon]

gotcha

Recipe still isn't required, guess I've some tweaking to do

does it need to be within a function itself?

probably not but maybe I fucked the formatting

[robust locust]

Does anyone know if you make a custom lua file does it need to be referenced in the mod.info file?

[long beacon]

I don't think so, it just needs to go in the lua folder. Info file is mostly for the mod displpaying properly in the in-game mods page

[robust locust]

Ok kool beans. Thanks!

[dry chasm]

nah, doesn't.
My example likely doesn''t work as it adds other option(s) which're likely required to be disabled seperately if normally valid.
Hence the idea to just iterate them and check parts of their name for a match.
(Essentially the example likely just "disables" the main option, but not the suboptions which actually do the thing)

[long beacon]

gotcha, I'll have to find out which others to override then

Oh that's right, I just have to find the one that returns true

Ok I've figured it out, I need to modify this line to have the requirement in it

        tooltip.description = getText("IGUI_perks_Tailoring") .. " :" .. self.chr:getPerkLevel(Perks.Tailoring) .. " <LINE>" .. ISGarmentUI.ghs .. getText("Tooltip_FullyRestore");
    else
        tooltip.description = getText("IGUI_perks_Tailoring") .. " :" .. self.chr:getPerkLevel(Perks.Tailoring) .. " <LINE>" .. ISGarmentUI.ghs .. getText("Tooltip_ScratchDefense")  .. " +" .. Clothing.getScratchDefenseFromItem(self.chr, fabric) .. " <LINE> " .. getText("Tooltip_BiteDefense") .. " +" .. Clothing.getBiteDefenseFromItem(self.chr, fabric);
    end```

[dry chasm]

isn't that just for the description? 🤔

[long beacon]

It's so that the option pops up to be able to do it, with the description attached

[dry chasm]

could also make a similar "patch" to the doPatch function ( I reckon) and before returning disable the option in case the character doesn't have it? 🤔
Or, potentially, not do the context menu function in the first place if requirements aren't met 🤔

[long beacon]

I mean, it's an if/else about whether the character has the ability to fully restore, and if they don't it gives them the option to patch instead. If I could add the isRecipeKnown("ValidTailor") line to the parameters it that would do exactly what I want it to

[dry chasm]

ah

so patching should still be possible

just not fully restoring?

[long beacon]

yes

[ancient grail]

making a dungeon mod and heres my idea
i used set skeleton to all zeds when player is inside the dungeon
they have random properties
and they reanimate forever and will have new set of properties

[dry chasm]

🤔 considering the fully restoring occurs in java, it might be easier to limit the perk level to 7 and below to prevent it then.

[long beacon]

doesn't leveling people manually with admin override the skill limiter?

[dry chasm]

not really knowledgeable about xp and perk levels and such, so I can't comment much here.
But if the perk is above level 7, fully restoring will be an option

[long beacon]

I feel like this is just a better option

[dry chasm]

But doing the change in lua would just change the description or disable patching in general

[long beacon]

I do have Java experience

but I'd probably be alone there

[dry chasm]

so yeah, probably best to somehow limit xp gain past level 7, but not entirely sure how to approach that.

[long beacon]

me neither

[grim cedar]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355187324

[robust locust]

Can anyone who's a whizz with custom lua files check my code please? It's to do with spawning wall objects on game load. It's not working, and the debug logs aren't showing...
feel free to dm me 🙂

[true nova]

you just want the player to not be able to patch unless they've learned a recipe? i think this does that but it may need to go deeper into the context options idr i haven't modified the context menu a lot

local function OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu(playerIndex, context, items)
    local option = nil
    option = context:getOptionFromName(getText("ContextMenu_Patch"))
    
    if not player:isRecipeKnown("ValidTailor") and option then
        option.notAvailable = true
    end
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu)

you can also modify the function from here by removing the option and then adding your own with

context:removeOptionByName(getText("ContextMenu_Patch")) 
context:addOption(getText("ContextMenu_Patch"), player, --yourFunctionNameHere--, parameters passed after player up to 10 after this)

[long beacon]

I’m trying to specifically lock restoring clothing to the recipe, which complicates things

But if that can’t be done I could try implementing this and giving the tailors the magazine regardless of level

(Though non-tailors won’t be happy with not being able to patch their clothing)

[true nova]

i do see the issue. looking at addpatch in java though i don't see anything so far that doesn't say you couldn't just copy it and rewrite it in lua, then replace the context option with yours instead.

[long beacon]

Learned lua 2 days ago, kinda just been frankensteining until things work as intended without spitting errors

[true nova]

ah may be a bit much. Another thought i had was sending through false xp info somehow on the isocharacter

i doubt that would work though. or atleast it wouldn't be simple. i would think make a fake player send that through maybe use some event to steal from your fake characters inventory... or can you set 2 players inventory the same? and multiplayer doesn't like players having multiple selfs so idk how that would act

[ocean steeple]

Hi guys
I'm having trouble with modding a timed action, getting an NPC to fill a water container, anyone know about this?

[long beacon]

Are there any mods that fix the bug where you die instantly upon being bit if you've cured the infection once before?

[ancient grail]

what are you trying to build?

i believe theres a vanilla setting for that if you set it to to instant then the moment you get infected you die

[ancient grail]

can you post the snippets code here?

[ancient grail]

is this for SP?

[ocean steeple]

Yes I'm trying to fix superb survivors

farming is completely broken right now

[ancient grail]

sorry dont have any exp with SP npcs

[ocean steeple]

🫡

[ancient grail]

best of luck to you

[ocean steeple]

local ItemString = exchangeList[maxEmptyContainer.getFullType()]
ISTimedActionQueue.add(ISTakeWaterAction:new(self.parent:Get(), self.parent:Get():getInventory():AddItem("Base.WaterPot"), 100, obj, 100, maxEmptyContainer))

I tried something like this it didn't crash but it always spawn a new water container

ISTimedActionQueue.add(ISTakeWaterAction:new(self.parent:Get(), maxEmptyContainer, 100, obj, 100, maxEmptyContainer))
if I do something like this it just outputs error

[ancient grail]

you want it to pick up the thing?
then remove it from the world

[ocean steeple]

I want to fill an empty pot with water

[ancient grail]

and instead of using its fulltype use the item itself
getItem()

[ocean steeple]

it's kind of painful because I think empty pots are not drainable and pots with water are

[ancient grail]

check out the vanilla time action as to how they refill water container

[ocean steeple]

I have this maxEmptyContainer as item reference

Yeah I think I probably have to go through some examples and see if I have any luck

thanks man

[long beacon]

When infection is on but you use mods like first aid expanded's Antizin to cure it, upon the next bite the player will instantly die since internally their infection stage hit maximum.

[bronze yoke]

it's not something that's easy to fix on a global basis, it's not really a bug with the game, it's a bug with poorly made cure mods

[long beacon]

gotcha, I'll check the mod's patches to see if antizin doesn't do that anymore

[bronze yoke]

if the mod is actively developed then go complain about it because it takes literally one line of code to avoid

[long beacon]

The last mention of the bug was over a year ago and they've made changes to antizin since so I gues we'll just have to see.

[bright fog]

@long beacon spoiler: don't expect Braven to fix it

I'm sure I've seen that problem still be a thing

And Braven will not update it

[long beacon]

What would I need to add to fix it? I'm already using a modified version of the mod for the server so I can just add it in on the antizin use code

Wait ok this code would imply that it works

since it resets infection level

[bright fog]

I think it needs to reset infection time too ? Not sure

bodyDamage:setInfectionMortalityDuration(-1)

Or something like that

[bronze yoke]

bodyDamage:setInfectionTime(-1)

[long beacon]

OH 0 is the first stage of infection rather than no infection at all, I see

oh wait I misinterpreted that, fat-eyed it

should work now

should I set the rest to -1 for safe measure or will that fuck shit up

[bronze yoke]

i'm gonna be honest i don't think the other lines even do anything LOL

[bright fog]

I don't remember either

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2941971399&searchtext=immune

[long beacon]

Infection level might have to do with the antibodies mod

[bright fog]

Check this mod

Ik it does it well

[bronze yoke]

at the very least setting sickness doesn't do anything because sickness is calculated every frame based on some other factors

[bright fog]

It's where I learned how to modify infection

[bronze yoke]

infection level i think gets reset when you disable infection anyway

[long beacon]

I'm not doing immunity, I'm having players require a cure, which will require a doctor with the custom recipe to make antizin

Already dealt with the whole recipes thing

[bright fog]

Doesn't matter

It's the same shit

You want to remove infection

Immunity removes infection

Go check it out -_-

[long beacon]

OH you're saying look at the code to see how it does it, my bad

[bright fog]

Yes

[long beacon]

This is how it does it

the setInfectionTime(-1) fix should work then

[bright fog]

yea

Bcs time keeps ticking down even when not infected

And the moment you get infected once more, the time is 0 and you're fucked

While if it's -1 it gives a timer

Is my guess at least

[bronze yoke]

no, it's a timestamp

the game doesn't exactly accumulate infection, it just calculates what it should be based on how long ago you got infected

so if you don't reset it, as soon as you get infected again it thinks you've been infected since the first time you got infected and you're supposed to be dead already

[bright fog]

I mean it's basically the same thing anyway

[bronze yoke]

sure

[ancient grail]

while on the topic of infection
any ideas how to capture the last attack that infected the player inorder to prevent it?
like prevent bite
mostlikely based on the time it happened

i mean what is the default time when it inflicts the injury?
is it fixed? is it random?

[long beacon]

What is this for? Can’t think of a mod where that would be necessary data, but you can make and use a timer function for when the zombie latches if you’re trying to take advantage of the moment between the latch and the bite

[ancient grail]

oh like for example special zed that dont bite
so any bite wound would be weird

or armor that cannot be scratched
so any scratch wound should be nullify

[dry chasm]

I mean, if you already have custom stuff for a special zed, using setNoTeeth should work, assuming this would actually prevent bite attacks, no clue.

[ancient grail]

ye i tried it but i think it didnt work or it auto sets back to false
forgot
ill look into it again when i need similiar function

have you tested that?

[dry chasm]

Nope, otherwise I'd have a clue instead.

was just a guess as I remembered that method from glancing over stuff

[ancient grail]

[dry chasm]

as for armor, I'd assume you could just give clothing ridiculous scratch defense? 🤔 (Never made clothing items, so... that'd need to be checked or answered by someone who did)
But I do think I've seen mentions of terribly unbalanced item mods quite some time back - unsure if it was for this part though or weapons... uncertain.

[ancient grail]

oh no not just scratch defense
like an active function
also the armor thing was just a spontanus example
maybe trait perhaps

if not armor

[ashen mist]

How to I make recipes give out a fraction of an item?

Like, 1/10th a jar of gunpowder?

Since I know some recipes can do it, see the thread drops from tailoring

[tranquil kindle]

function Recipe.OnCreate.RipClothing(items, result, player, selectedItem)
    local item = items:get(0) -- assumes any tool comes after this in recipes.txt

    -- either we come from clothingrecipesdefinitions or we simply check number of covered parts by the clothing and add
    local materials = nil
    local nbrOfCoveredParts = nil
    local maxTime = 0 -- TODO: possibly allow recipe to call Lua function to get maxTime for actions
    if ClothingRecipesDefinitions[item:getType()] then
        local recipe = ClothingRecipesDefinitions[item:getType()]
        materials = luautils.split(recipe.materials, ":");
        maxTime = tonumber(materials[2]) * 20;
    elseif ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"][item:getFabricType()] then
        materials = {};
        materials[1] = ClothingRecipesDefinitions["FabricType"][item:getFabricType()].material;
        nbrOfCoveredParts = item:getNbrOfCoveredParts();
        local minMaterial = 2;
        local maxMaterial = nbrOfCoveredParts;
        if nbrOfCoveredParts == 1 then
            minMaterial = 1;
        end
    
        local nbr = ZombRand(minMaterial, maxMaterial + 1);
        nbr = nbr + (player:getPerkLevel(Perks.Tailoring) / 2);
        if nbr > nbrOfCoveredParts then
            nbr = nbrOfCoveredParts;
        end
        materials[2] = nbr;
    
        maxTime = nbrOfCoveredParts * 20;
    else
        error "Recipe.OnCreate.RipClothing"
    end

    for i=1,tonumber(materials[2]) do
        local item2;
        local dirty = false;
        if instanceof(item, "Clothing") then
            dirty = (ZombRand(100) <= item:getDirtyness()) or (ZombRand(100) <= item:getBloodlevel());
        end
        if not dirty then
            item2 = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem(materials[1]);
        elseif getScriptManager():FindItem(materials[1] .. "Dirty") then
            item2 = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem(materials[1] .. "Dirty");
        else
            item2 = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem(materials[1])
        end
        player:getInventory():AddItem(item2);
    end

    -- add thread sometimes, depending on tailoring level
    if ZombRand(7) < player:getPerkLevel(Perks.Tailoring) + 1 then
        local max = 2;
        if nbrOfCoveredParts then
            max = nbrOfCoveredParts;
            if max > 6 then
                max = 6;
            end
        end
        max = ZombRand(2, max);
        local thread = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem("Base.Thread");
        for i=1,10-max do
            thread:Use();
        end
        player:getInventory():AddItem(thread);
        player:getXp():AddXP(Perks.Tailoring, 1);
    end
end

This is onCreateFunction that is used for ripping clothes, last one is for thing you asked.

[ashen mist]

huh

[grizzled fulcrum]

It seems to do literally nothing

Only place it's used is the getter and setter, nowhere else -_-

[ashen mist]

is there an easier way to just give units of an item instead of the whole thing?

i'd like to just make a recipe like this give less powder

like, 1 unit instead of one jar

[tranquil kindle]

Without lua? Most likely not. You need onCreate Function. The one i've pasted is an example, but if you just want it to for example always give 1/10 of jar, it can be simplified

[ashen mist]

Yeah, that's what I'm looking for

Just gotta figure out

1. overrides
2. fractions of items
3. lua

[tranquil kindle]

Im no lua genius, but i'll try to help you with it

For overriding recipes i'm sure there was recently talk about it, you could search in here ctrl + f while i test lua thing

[young raven]

is there a way to override/remove an item's evolved recipe? (i want to override a base item that another mod modified, but the evolved recipes are still there)

[ashen mist]

wiki says I could do this

[tranquil kindle]

require "recipecode"
function Recipe.OnCreate.onegunpowderunit(items, result, player)
    local gunpowder = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem("Base.GunPowder");
    gunpowder:setUsedDelta(0.1);
    player:getInventory():AddItem(gunpowder);
    end

create lua file in lua>server and paste it there, then

 recipe Gather Gunpowder
    {
       Bullets38/Bullets44/Bullets45/Bullets9mm/556Bullets/308Bullets/223Bullets/ShotgunShells,
       RemoveResultItem:true,
        OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.onegunpowderunit,
       Result:GunPowder,
      Override:true,
       Time:30.0,
    }

It might work? Lua code does work

[golden sage]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355220560

[tranquil kindle]

If you want it to be diffrent than single unit, change setUseDelta for other number

[ashen mist]

will this override the vanilla recipe?

[tranquil kindle]

I think it should? There is module thing but if youre using module Base, it should work. I haven't really overriden any recipe yet

[ashen mist]

so after the recipecode thing

do i just copy paste the recipe there?

like this?

I don't really fuss with lua, so I'm not 100% sure of anything

@tranquil kindle I think I messed up, I'm still getting full jars

oh wait, maybe i make that it's own recipe in the mod's recipe script

yeah nvm i have no clue what im doing here

[muted garnet]

Is there a way for InventoryItem to get the recipes of an item, i.e. what recipes use that item?

[tranquil kindle]

No

recipe is for txt file

[ashen mist]

aight, perfect, thanks

[ashen mist]

put it in a text file, it's made a second recipe and it doesn't give any gunpowder

but it still executes the recipe

[tranquil kindle]

did you try crafting it?

[ashen mist]

i did, a few times

[tranquil kindle]

It uses removeresult=true so in this helper it might not show result, but lua code should give it to you

[ashen mist]

zero gunpowder given, but i have a feeling we're on the right track

oh my b

i forgot to remove the recipe from the lua

[tranquil kindle]

[ashen mist]

the bit supposed to go into text

a silly blunder on my end

i'll correct and try again

[tranquil kindle]

Is it lua file, or txt file opened in vscode?

[ashen mist]

i got both open in vs code

but yeah my mistake was initially putting both into a lua file

and forgetting to move the text half out after moving it to the text file

again, silly blunder on my end

lua now looks like this

[tranquil kindle]

and txt file?

[tranquil kindle]

modules?

[ashen mist]

HAHA! IT WORKS!

KINDA

it gives the gunpowder as it's supposed to!

[tranquil kindle]

but?

[ashen mist]

oh i see i see

i need to add base to the modules

so the override works

i think

should look like that yeah?

thanks for being oh so very patient with me btw

[tranquil kindle]

It would be easier if you'd show whole file, if its short

[ashen mist]

it's very not short

[tranquil kindle]

Like this screnshot doesn't tell me much

[ashen mist]

part of a private edit of scrap guns, some balance choices i'm trying to make hinges on reducing how much gunpowder the vanilla gathering recipes give

[tranquil kindle]

Whats this?
module SGuns
module TW
module Base

[ashen mist]

scrap guns, the workshop, and hopefully base game

[tranquil kindle]

Never have i ever seen more than one module there

[ashen mist]

ah, see

[tranquil kindle]

It does work?

[ashen mist]

i was doing a mod tweak for a server

couldn't get smth with scrap weapons and SOMW to work

so a buddy of mine, he asks to give it a go

i go "fuck it, i cant do it"

so i send him the file

he tells me

"yeah i fixed the spears"

i ask how, and he shows me that

he just added the second module to it

and it worked

it would read from the other mod

[tranquil kindle]

I'm gonna be honest, i have no idea bout it. I don't really make tweaks to other mods so it "might" work?

[ashen mist]

the recipe is very functional

it just really really wants to co-exist with the vanilla one

so it makes that the one thing i gotta fix

[tranquil kindle]

Could you try making separate txt file with just module Base and put that recipe there?

I feel like other modules do mess with this

So new file with just that recipe might work?

[ashen mist]

you're so smart i should do that

something like this to start?

i saw the others have like "module_SGuns"

[tranquil kindle]

No, thats just name of file

module Base
{
 recipe Gather Gunpowder
{     Bullets38/Bullets44/Bullets45/Bullets9mm/556Bullets/308Bullets/223Bullets/ShotgunShells,
RemoveResultItem:true,
OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.onegunpowderunit,
Result:GunPowder,
Override:true,
Time:30.0,
}
}

Thats all that you need in new txt file.

[ashen mist]

thank you so very much

it works

even though it'll be in an unlisted mod's change log, should the change be approved, you'll still get an added thanks

[icy escarp]

I'm looking for the file that defines what outfits zombies can spawn with in certain places. Does anybody here know where that is?

[tranquil kindle]

media>clothing>clothing.xml

[icy escarp]

I'm looking for a file that defines what GUID outfit can spawn in a location

Not the outfits themselves

[tranquil kindle]

Ah, sorry

One sec

[icy escarp]

Ty

[tranquil kindle]

media\lua\shared\NPCs >ZombiesZoneDefinition

[icy escarp]

Perfect thanks

[ancient grail]

[ancient grail]

but is it synced? like when you set it everyone else sets it too
no need to sendto server?

cuz if it is then i might find other use for it

[ancient grail]

not that way but importing multiple module works

[tranquil kindle]

You learn something new every day

[ancient grail]

ive done climate mods before but i forgot all about it
can someone confirm if this will work?
also i dont need it to be global,. actually i want it to be local only

Extend_PZD = Extend_PZD or {}
function Extend_PZD.SetAmbiance(bool)
    if bool then
        local ActiveAmbiance = SandboxVars.Extend_PZD.ActiveAmbiance or true
        if ActiveAmbiance then
            ImprovedFog.setColorR(0.150)
            ImprovedFog.setColorG(0.150)
            ImprovedFog.setColorB(0.700)
            ImprovedFog.setBaseAlpha(0.950)
            ImprovedFog.setRenderEveryXRow(1.000)
            ImprovedFog.setRenderXRowsFromCenter(0.000)
            ImprovedFog.setSecondLayerAlpha(0.300)
            ImprovedFog.setTopAlphaHeight(0.510)
            ImprovedFog.setBottomAlphaHeight(0.980)
            ImprovedFog.setOctaves(6.000)
            ImprovedFog.setAlphaCircleAlpha(0.000)
            ImprovedFog.setAlphaCircleRad(1.650)
            ImprovedFog.setMinXOffset(-20.000)
            ImprovedFog.setMaxXOffset(20.000)
            ImprovedFog.setMaxYOffset(-1.000)
            ImprovedFog.setRenderOnlyOneRow(false)
            ImprovedFog.setDrawDebugColors(false)
            ImprovedFog.setRenderCurrentLayerOnly(false)
            ImprovedFog.setEnableEditing(true)
            ImprovedFog.setHighQuality(false)
            ImprovedFog.setRenderEndOnly(false)
        end
    else
        ImprovedFog.setEnableEditing(false)
    end
    Extend_PZD.isAmbianceActive = bool
end

cuz i fear that it wont work for non admins?

[thorny latch]

hi, i am looking at starting pz modding and just wanted to know if the game's modding capabilities support custom networking & sending packets between client and server?
I haven't been able to find any examples yet, so thought I'd ask here first

[bronze yoke]

you can send data between server and client with client/server commands

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

[low spindle]

hi guys, where in the game files i can find the code for park ranger/lumberjack wood walk skill?

i looked at MainCreationMethods but didn't find anything

[thorny latch]

thanks, exactly what i was looking for. I guess the next question is how good are the networking capabilities - are there any limitations with just using those two methods?

[ancient grail]

#1070852229654917180 message

[bronze yoke]

you can't send commands directly between clients, if you need that you have to go client->server->client, and i think there's technically a max packet size of 1mb

you can't send objects, just basic lua types

[thorny latch]

eh that's no problem, seems pretty standard for multiplayer games. thanks

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i don't find it very limiting at all

[thorny latch]

yeah seems alright from what you've told me. the goal is to see how easily NPC surivors can be networked with lua

[bronze yoke]

so the problem with multiplayer npcs isn't networking, that should be possible, it's that they straight up refuse to render at all

[thorny latch]

interesting... so even if you spawn a IsoGameCharacter/IsoSurvivor or whatever the type is on all clients - they just don't render?

[bronze yoke]

IsoPlayer is used, and yeah they just don't render

[thorny latch]

that's sad. do you know if there's a workaround for that?

I have seen the popular Bandits mod uses zombies instead of IsoPlayer but it seems too hacky

[bronze yoke]

it's not something i've looked into myself but i know a lot of people have and nothing's come up

[thorny latch]

oh ok well looks like I'll be holding off on that idea then for now

[low spindle]

what i do with that bro?? i'm not a modder, just started to learning about pz modding/programming some days ago

[thorny latch]

I think it's a PZ game data spreadsheet will all the profession/skill traits that you can modify, and the one you are looking for is somewhere on it.
Perhaps a better follow up question would be "I'm new to modding, can you help me read and understand that spreadsheet?"

[bronze yoke]

if i remember right the movement speed through trees is hardcoded, it's applied somewhere in the java

it's done by setting an animation variable so you can *probably* do the same thing through lua if that's what you're trying to do

[ancient grail]

youre looking for the traits, i gave you a spreasheet with random tables and lists
and the traits are there too

[low spindle]

first i am trying to figure out how the code that give the park ranger/lumberjack tree walk bonus looks like, then i was thinking in turn that bonus in a real trait because im using trait purchase system mod and that profession bonus doesn't seem to be considered a trait, also the marksman trait doesn't seem to work 100%(only foraging bonus seems to work) and i will want to modify that trait too in the future

[low spindle]

i looked there but didn't find anything 😦
the problem is that i don't know exactly what i am looking for, i think albion gave me the first 'light' that i needed haha
anyways thx guys for trying to help

[ancient grail]

ayt
best of luck

[grizzled fulcrum]

Not sure. if fields are automatically synced then yes, otherwise no.

[bronze yoke]

they are not

[low spindle]

thats at javax or jre/jre64 folder?

[grizzled fulcrum]

zombie

if you want to change hardcoded Java you're gonna have to make a Java mod which is not as simple as lua

[low spindle]

where i can learn that?

[bronze yoke]

if you just want to add the effect i'm pretty sure it's been done with lua before

[low spindle]

maybe i can do that with the professions framework mod?

[nimble vale]

😉 still needs some tweaking but my franken mod works. Thanks again ya'll.

Now I have someone else to blame when I die in PZ 😆 and I can argue with them haha

[ancient grail]

can you ask it to write code for pz? lol

[nimble vale]

Actually depending on which AI model I load yes and it could.

[ancient grail]

will you be able to control i

it

like come here
or ask
are you hungry

cuz if it has access to its own stats inventory moodles etc then damnnnn

[nimble vale]

So it uses someone elses NPC framework, I modifed a custom survivor template and made it my companion. I've been wanting to set it up so based on in game events it responds based on what's happening, but I havent done that yet.

[ancient grail]

i can zed spotted 3oclock then it rushes to defend at that position lol

[nimble vale]

So it does some of that stuff already, I just need to set it up to send the status of what's happening in game to make the AI aware and respond appropriately

but the NPC framework is pretty good already even without that

[ancient grail]

wizardry

work with slayers bandits mod that would be so cool

question!
would they be able to interact with themselves?

npc to npc

[nimble vale]

Yeah, I used PZNS for the Ai-framework which is like a triple modified version of nolan's survivors mod, then a template from someone who worked on PZNS to make a custom NPC, then a mod for cheats, stripped it down rebuilt the window for single player, made a python script to connect to it, made my own script to connect the AI and my character to the chat window and then downloaded the cosmetic mod for Ada Wong.

Cuz i didn't really need the cheats part just the window

[ancient grail]

[nimble vale]

The hardest part was getting the ai and my character to send text to the window after reading text files it was saving stuff too

I did the npc part in about 3 hours this morning (formatting issues with text still need to be done and a persona for Ada Wong needs fleshed out more) but no errors thank zombie jesus

and mind you I don't know Lua really so it was like me asking AI a thousand questions and using the knowledge I already had from modding to figure out what to add/modify.

So I used AI to make an AI mod, so I can argue with AI...

I doubt anyone would go to these lengths, but it really makes feel PZ less empty and I've always enjoyed ai companion mods in fallout 4 and skyrim so I was motivated I guess.

[timid scarab]

Sentient AI NPCs before build42

[nimble vale]

Yeah, well gotta work with what we got if we wanna have some fun before we get too old eh? 😂

[timid scarab]

True, if you're uploading it to the workshop can you drop the link here aswell? I've been running superb survivors, bandits npc and shortwave survivors in my playthrough atm
but this would take it to a whole new level

[nimble vale]

I would but since I've modified like 3 other mod's to make it including a python script running through windows command prompt im not sure how much people would appreciate that... so I'd have to include the python program as well too (don't know how I'd do that besides setting up an external link).

But if I get it fleshed out some more to where I think it's in a good clean state maybe I'd reach out to them and see if they mind. But knowing how long it takes for people to reply on steam workshop...

[ancient grail]

would be awsome if its mp compatible
i mean even more awsome

[nimble vale]

I've made stuff and had people re-distribute it without credit on there, so I know how that can feel.

[nimble vale]

I don't think survivor mods are sadly.

[ancient grail]

ye

[nimble vale]

That's why I had to make that silly chat window for single player

[timid scarab]

Bandits is but it's far less complex than the survivors mods

[nimble vale]

Yeah I got lucky I was crusing github last night and found that PZNS page for teaching people how to make custom NPC's for their mod and I was like THANK YOU because I looked at nolan and others code for NPC's and it's.... advanced

Something like 14,000 lines of code at least and just for a companion mod I'd have to figure out how to strip all the un-needed stuff out to make mine.

[ancient grail]

https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1243139137561952316

i was making this
like a test at first
but when i saw slayers version i stopped

basically hacking the zed and turning them into npc by custom animation and behavior

but they cant do timed actions so its very limited

[nimble vale]

Sounds cool though.

[timid scarab]

I'd carry on with it tbh, the only thing that I have a gripe with concerning the survivor mods is their lack of sitting down when set to relax, they just wonder about opening and closing doors

If I had any coding knowledge at all I'd add some options to get them to read a book or just sit tf down and chill

[ancient grail]

oh i can force zeds to stay put
like what i did with psycho zed mod

but it was reported to be buggy so i stopped

[nimble vale]

They've always been that way tbh, but honestly I've always been happy that Nolan made the first mod. He doesn't get enough credit, mostly just annoyed and shat on.

[timid scarab]

The survivor mods are dope tbh, I don't think I'd still be playing without them

[ancient grail]

cuz theres no way for them to ignore target

only way for that is for player to ghostmode
or ignore is set

oh and setuseless
but like albion and burryaga mentioned setuseless can cause issues

[nimble vale]

Well you can tell survivors to stay but they dont sit or anything

the ones in this mod just stand still pretty much

[ancient grail]

i basically used the force eat corpse thing
but replaced the animation with the crying one

[nimble vale]

I've been playing since the tech demo/desura so yeah i'm a bit over waiting for npc's

I looked at the .class files and it looks like Nolan pretty much rebuilt zombie ai as NPC ai... when I saw what length he went too my apperciation went up tenfold

[timid scarab]

Yeah I bought it shortly after release, the reason I picked it back up was solely because of the current survivor mods

[nimble vale]

Yeah I really have been looking forward to NPC survivors for yeeeeeeeeears. So I feel like I finally got what I wanted now.

[ashen mist]

hey Nik, really sorry to bother you again, but it turns out things got a little bit more complicated

see, i gotta make the recipe compatible with firearms B41 revamped, and it doesn't quite seem to be working even after trying to override the recipes of the mod

[tranquil kindle]

What seems to be issue?

[ashen mist]

Gives full jars instead of the tenth jar

Up there's the edit I made trying to replicate how you did it with the vanilla recipe

the B41 Guns recipes don't have their own module, they seem to override base too

[tranquil kindle]

Correct me if im wrong, but isnt this mod making it so you don't have partial jars and instead makes it so "full jar" is actually 1 unit?

[ashen mist]

Uhh, I don't think so

I still have a few tenth full jars from testing

Gunpowder's unchanged, still has a delta total of 10

This file has all the recipes I'm trying to override (ignoring the non-gunpowder ones)

[tranquil kindle]

I'm not sure how you could override those recipes, if they share same name

[bronze yoke]

if you want to override a recipe with multiple definitions you need to do it through lua

[ashen mist]

i see

if only i actually knew lua

but thank you regardless, now i know a place to start

[ashen mist]

turns out this is way harder to study than you'd think

does anybody know if there's any mods i can find with inspiration for this?

like, any that override a lot of recipes via lua?

[ocean steeple]

I think the problem is just with this game's documentation, but if you ask chatGPT sometimes it gives reasonable response.

[ashen mist]

cant trust chatgpt

it makes things up

[ocean steeple]

you can debug it in game

it just tell you which API you could use

[bronze yoke]

if you don't know how to write lua chatgpt will make your problems worse not better

[ashen mist]

i just need like, a base or smth to work off of

a format

[ocean steeple]

[ashen mist]

like i just have to override 13 recipes with the same name

[ocean steeple]

you can check vanilla lua file and overwrite them in your new mod

[ashen mist]

overriding Firearms B41 Revamped gather gunpowder recipe

i have a vanilla override that functions in text, courtesy of Nik

but it only works with vanilla, i need it to override the FB41R recipes too, but I've been told that's lua only

like this function right here, i just need them to do this instead of giving full jars

[ocean steeple]

I haven't checked the mod so don't take my word for it but seems the gunpower jar you are using is a drainable item

[ashen mist]

it is, delta use total of 10

i want the recipes to give me a jar with one unit in it

[ocean steeple]

have you refered to this API doc
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/inventory/types/DrainableComboItem.html

maybe you could find an API that set the amount used?

[ashen mist]

like the lua code i posted moments ago?

yeah, that works

i just need to override the recipes

so they give me the gunpowder the way that lua code sets it

these ones here, all 13 "gather gunpowder" 's

[ocean steeple]

sorry if I'm not understanding this correctly, are you trying to modify a code so it gives you a tenth of a jar instead of 1?

[ashen mist]

yes, that's what I'm trying to do

the lua adds a thing that gives me the tenth of a jar

[bronze yoke]

try this```lua
local recipes = ScriptManager.instance:getAllRecipes()
for i = 0, recipes:size()-1 do
local recipe = recipes:get(i)
if recipe:getName() == "Gather Gunpowder" then
recipe:setRemoveResultItem(true)
recipe:setLuaCreate("Recipe.OnCreate.onegunpowderunit")
end
end

[ashen mist]

i now need to override the firearms b41 revamp recipes to use said lua function to give me a tenth of a jar when they're used instead of a full one

should i add that to this lua file, or make another file for it?

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't matter, up to how you want to organise things

[ocean steeple]

I suppose, if you just load your code after the B41

[ashen mist]

alright, i'll store them in the same file, since they're both for gunpowder

[ocean steeple]

anyone have a good way using guard case?

it seems lua does not support goto with label

and no continue

so I see huge chunks of if everywhere

[bronze yoke]

there's a weird thing you can do with a repeat to use break as a continue

[ocean steeple]

coding with lua in PZ be like:

[bronze yoke]

for i = a, b do
    repeat
        if condition then break end -- acts as a continue for the for loop
    until true
end

i don't personally like it though

[ocean steeple]

🥲

I think this looks also weird, thx though

[grizzled fulcrum]

You could pretty much just use this for the Firearms gunpowder

just put your oncreate in the recipe (however you manage to do that) and then it's pretty simple after that

[ashen mist]

i tried, it didn't quite work

again, apparently it has to be in lua, which i'll test soon

[grizzled fulcrum]

wait albion literally already showed 😄

[grizzled fulcrum]

I love it because it lets you not indent 500 times in a for loop

[ocean steeple]

I tried local function, also works but seems bit confusing when you are looking for it

[bronze yoke]

i'd definitely appreciate a continue but i don't like how this approach reads

it's not intuitive at all what it's doing from looking at it

[grizzled fulcrum]

true, the readability of it suffers

but imo not as much as having so many indents that your code goes off the ide lol

[ocean steeple]

for some reason compiler does not accept this ::continue::

[grizzled fulcrum]

that's the main reason why I use them, kinda like returning early in a func instead of doing 20 if checks

[grizzled fulcrum]

that is lua 5.2

zomboid uses 5.1

[ocean steeple]

🤷

[ancient grail]

woot almost done! i just need to configure the cooldown and the treasure chest then my dungeon maker mod is complete...whew.. tookme almost a week for this one

[grizzled fulcrum]

that ui looks good 👍

[ancient grail]

it changes color based on the mode
if youre overwriting , adding, deleting

first time adding texture icons to panel
i thought it was hard

im still not used to the sizes . buttons auto change width
i think theres a property to set that off somewhere..

[grizzled fulcrum]

I commend it, because UI is hard in pz

it is very annoying to say the least

[ancient grail]

that is soooo true omg but there are modders who are so good with it... wizardry...

[ashen mist]

THANK YOU

all i need to do now is make the vanilla recipe disappear

which i think i can do with obsolete:true

after that, it's all good

[topaz tangle]

hey anyone here know where electronic stuff are stored?
trying to make one of the items in my mod scrapable

[nimble vale]

dungeon maker mod? you've sparked my curiosity.

and yeah i like the ui colors too

[long beacon]

How do I actually upload my mod to the workshop?

Here's the file path

Don't you have to make the ID the first folder, then the folder with the separate mods in it after that

[grizzled fulcrum]

Zomboid\Workshop\MyMod (etc)

It doesn't follow the same path as the Steam workshop content folder

[bronze yoke]

also it should be MyMod/Contents/mods/

[grizzled fulcrum]

^ true

[topaz tangle]

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT
WHY PZ DEVS WHY

[grizzled fulcrum]

?

[topaz tangle]

.x files

[dry chasm]

cause they like the x factor.
-# Sorry... I know my jokes are bad....

[topaz tangle]

😭

It’s just like 100000 year old files

It’s okay I did what I needed

[limber onyx]

Hi guys. Whats the code for Cooking Level requirement in a recipe?

I think its SkillRequired:Cooking=X but I just want to be sure

[topaz tangle]

I’m gonna me learning recipe tomorrow:3
(sorry for unhelpful comment)

[muted garnet]

please tell me, recently my Umbrella addon for VS code stopped working. Having looked into the problem in more detail, I discovered that a different storage location is being written in new folders, please tell me how to fix this problem so that the correct path to the folder is automatically written. When manually replacing the path, the addon works as it should again

Is there a way for InventoryItem to get the recipes of an item, i.e. what recipes use that item?

[ancient grail]

you might want to ping albion

[dry chasm]

I think you can get a list of recipes that you can craft with RecipeManager.getUniqueRecipeItems(item, player, ArrayList<ItemContainer>)
But for getting all recipes that involves said item, regardless of whether or not you can craft it currently, I think you'd have to loop through all recipes yourself.

[muted garnet]

thanks

[nimble vale]

So I finally got Ada to stay in character with her responses, thankfully. I think my next step is situational awareness now that the AI is staying in character. Inventory info, zombies approaching, getting attacked, etc., I sent her a message indicating we were in muldraugh, ky and she rolled with it which is good. She also has access to conversational history so that should help. I don't think these NPC's eat or drink with this framework which is a bit odd... at least she hasn't yet.

Colby: Hey Ada, My Name is Colby. What are you doing in Muldraugh Kentucky during this new zombie outbreak?
Ada Wong: Hello Colby, I'm here to investigate the cause of the outbreak and find a way to contain it. As an agent of the Umbrella Corporation, I'm well-equipped to handle such situations. How can I assist you?
Colby: Probably a good thing we ran into each out lets team up and take out these zombies.
Ada Wong: That sounds like a plan, Colby. Let's work together to eliminate the threat and find a way to stop the outbreak.

Agh, the RE vibes are real 🙂

Sadly she doesn't know what happened to Leon after Raccoon City though :x

[ancient grail]

so you have like instructions set it reads? im very curious how you manage to pull this off

you cant use this for mp cuz of the npc framework right?
so it means its still possible to use for mp as long as theres a framework?

[nimble vale]

Like I said I don't think any of these work with MP

[ancient grail]

so its possible to make your own player do auto pilot
or atleast talk by itself right?

ahh ok i thought its cuz of the npc framework

misunderstood that

[nimble vale]

but yeah I'd copy paste what it sends to the AI but its so long here's a screenshot of the text (im actually coding in a summarization feature for the AI so it reduces the text sent since each model has a context limit)

So every time it sends: AI settings to control how it responds (all AI programs to chat have this), the persona of Ada Wong (to keep her in character), The conversational history (to remind her of whats happened).

[nimble vale]

Well that's what my chat window in singleplayer is for, to send messages to my program to relay it to the AI then the AI sends it to my program to relay it to chat/text bubble above their head.

So my character doesn't automatically talk to her, it requires user input

But yeah the NPC framework is required for this all to run. That's the part that doesn't like MP

If I had more time or knowledge I could strip it all down remove all the other NPC's and features and then maybe it would work, but that would be weird because it would only work for 1 NPC

so each person would need to run the AI on their pc, my python script and then get all of that to sync on PZ MP which lets be honest... isn't the greatest at syncing even after the multiplayer rework of the code.

[topaz lake]

It’s a dream of mine with the Expand Helicopter Events mod, in the scenario where the helicopter can shoot at the player, I can change the sound effects to add the ones from GTA San Andreas, specifically add in the helicopter quotes.

Is there a tool available where I can extract the audio from PZ and swap it out with other sounds?

[ancient grail]

ahh i get it so thats why it wont work with mp cuz it needs the 3rd party app you made

[nimble vale]

No its because the pzns framework and (npc mod) is needed for this to work

that doesnt support mp

[ancient grail]

use lua instead
detect the sound stop it then play a other sound

[ancient grail]

thats what im saying earlier

so my question was
if you use different framework it can work mp
(tho i know theres no such framework)

[nimble vale]

Well yeah, but why would you want too, you'd be the only one able to really use it on MP

[ancient grail]

maybe for rp server

even if its just conversation
no actions

[nimble vale]

what I mean is, the AI is hosted locally on your pc, when you interact with it, its sent by your pc, so others wouldnt be able to interact with it like you could. If you allowed server chat too, it would be replying to every message and pretty much overloading it trying to respond to each at the same time and your GPU would be like 🔥

[ancient grail]

yeah people can install it too locally

all players

[nimble vale]

you could but you still have to factor in sync issues

and the likelyhood people are going to run their own AI each... when most can barely run PZ...

Like it would be cool if each npc had a dedicated AI but that would cost a lot of money in cloud ai hosting for each one.

[ancient grail]

if you could change its output or capture its output to string locally you can send the string to server
or use global chat

[nimble vale]

which is why one companion seems reasonable

[ancient grail]

thats also something possible

[nimble vale]

thats what i meant earlier but then every message people send in chat would force the ai to reply

[ancient grail]

like a server would have 1 pc online all the time

[nimble vale]

confusing multi turn conversations

[ancient grail]

so thats the one that does the chat
its a player but still
if they want to right

[nimble vale]

AI isn't really great at juggling multiple convos with different people at once

[ancient grail]

hmmm right

[nimble vale]

which is why i said each person would need an ai for each npc

otherwise it would literally probably crash or drive the temp of your GPU through the roof

[ancient grail]

how exactly did you send the strings from your app to the game?
how does the game recieve it?
you mentioned discord and python

im super curious

[nimble vale]

It's not like in MMO's where multiple people can trigger interactions with an NPC concurrently at the same time and all get different responses

[timid scarab]

So every text input is extracted out the game, run through an AI chat model and the response is imported in real time?

[ancient grail]

was just curious
cuz this could potentially branch out to something new

[timid scarab]

So in order for anyone else to use it they'd need to setup the AI model on their machine?

[nimble vale]

it doesnt use discord that was an option I explored. So it works like this: You run a AI model loading program (mine specifically uses one called Koboldcpp), it has a endpoint (url/IP address with a port) that my python program connects too. It takes the response trims and formats it to save to a text file in the zomboid directory. Then my mod sends it to the custom chat window.

My mod then takes user input from the chat window, sends it to the python program after saving the chat window text to a text file also in the Zomboid directory, which formats it if needed and sends it to Koboldcpp. This triggers a response that causes the AI to send the response to be processed and to the chat using my python program as explained above.

They could technically use it but it'd have to configured for the actual MP chat window, and if 2 people talk to it at the same time you'd get a very confusing reply.

[ancient grail]

brilliant

wizardry

[nimble vale]

yeah so its a delicate process and you have to have an understanding of AI limitations to get it to not break if that makes sense

[ancient grail]

thats fine

[nimble vale]

Like if i started talking to it suggesting its not Ada Wong that could be done, if I ask it about raiding the PD and another person talks to it about raiding the diner, it could offer conflicting answers while replying to the wrong person even

[ancient grail]

even if it replies with symbol

i mean as long as it interacts for now it can lead to other potential project

[nimble vale]

So symbols can seriously mess it up too

I actually have filters set in place for whats called sanitizing it, because some symbols and puncuation and even spaces can break it in chat.

[ancient grail]

if it has the potential to trigger lua function then the possibilities are endless

[nimble vale]

That part is possible, which is sort of how it functions right now just in ways that aren't visible

[ancient grail]

what im saying is
it can be used not just for conversation

it can evolve into something else entirely

[nimble vale]

So for example sending inventory info, and situational awareness (the pzns mod has custom dialogue that can be enabled if events in game happens) if I plug into this and how those Lua files trigger the dialogue responses but use them to send info to the AI so it can respond accordingly, then it could influence the NPC in game based on keyword triggers or code in my python program to send triggers to an lua file. either and/or both maybe.

But this requires a good understanding of PZ's system, code, the pzns lua code, etc.

much less Lua and python.

I mean technically nothing is impossible, there's always a work around, but when you involve other people and multiplayer that's a bit too many factors to work in without undesired results/behavior happening

[ancient grail]

is there a public repo?

[nimble vale]

Not yet, like I said I'd have to get permission from PZNS and if i specifically use the Ada NPC template, the guy who did that and then the person who did the Ada cosmetic (all different people) oh and the Chat window I stripped from a cheat mod and modified.

So that's like 4 people.

and with b42 coming up promising to break all mods, chances are all 4 of these people won't update theirs so .... it'll probably be broken by then anyways

[ancient grail]

it can be polished
esp if theres a community interested in developing it

and for me this is the first project i saw that i believe would have serious impact not just for sp
but for
management
lore
quests
assistant
auto pilot
unique boss
randomized scenario
npc
radio station
unique challenges
boss battle
100% unique weapons and items
ambiance
etc
theres alot that can be done i believe

if it can control a player account then omg

[nimble vale]

agreed, but again b42 might break everything I need to make this work. This is a work around technically. If there was an actual API network connection for PZ this would be more flawless for those things you mention. I started on one, but its beyond my Lua/Python abilities. I have a good understanding of Networking but it's a huge undertaking on top of all the AI/NPC related stuff.

[ancient grail]

yeah most likely

[nimble vale]

That's why I mentioned Discord, because I believe PZ made something similar for discord bots to connect.

So using that as a template for how, much like how nolan used zombie ai as a template for survivor npc's is possible

[timid scarab]

Discord has a rate limiter for bots, so if you've got an AI interacting with multiple users through it then it'll throttle

[ancient grail]

oh and server economy hell yeah thats something that the ai could do
basically only run it using admin pc and only when manually setting up shop
that will give dynamic prices but with real life data

[nimble vale]

Using one ai to interact with multiple people concurrently isnt even possible

[ancient grail]

yeah but still
like i mentioned even just 1 ai
that has admin controls

for simple task that needs calculations

[nimble vale]

Another way of connecting it and triggering events in game is to give it rcon access through the server console, that was my backup idea.

[ancient grail]

yes

and create custom rcon commands

[nimble vale]

^

[bright fog]

The lua extension of VSCode broke stuff recently, you have to manually modify the path or some shit like that I don't remember
@bronze yoke can explain it better

[ancient grail]

hell yeah thats gona be fire

[timid scarab]

Can you not limit it to one player interaction at a time, so it's reserved for one player for a set time before accepting requests from another?

[nimble vale]

But again I'm one person half assing python, lua and duct taping this all together soooooo....

[nimble vale]

You could but you'd have to code in a queue system which is another issue

[bright fog]

The moment someone drops a decent LLM that can run locally, NPC mods are going to be fire

[ancient grail]

yeah you could probably do that via lua using the mod that connects to it

say maybe a cooldown or an item is required

[nimble vale]

plus you'd need someone hosting the ai whether its cloud based or local pc for someone and cloud costs money per tokens/ (amount of words)

[bright fog]

Or don't, with local LLM

[nimble vale]

I am running locally

[ancient grail]

yeah there are servers outthere would be willing to spend for such feature im sure

[bright fog]

I meant as each users run it locally, not on a cloud or anything

[nimble vale]

thats what i mean its possible

each person techically could run it locally and play mp and each have a AI companion

the problem is network sync mainly

because you cant drive cars without teleporting lol

[bright fog]

That's always an important issue, but you can definitely do something about that

[nimble vale]

much less ai's walking and chatting

[timid scarab]

Each user would have to but would you not run into a performance hit with multiple AI NPCs, I'm guessing it would have to be limited to one to be viable?

[nimble vale]

Well that's more of a mod issue with survivor npc's

most of them all run on OnTick

and framerates vary alot too sooooo

good luck calculating that, even using deltas

the actual AI side of it wouldnt be the main issue most of it is the NPC mod part

[bright fog]

What you can do is:

• users asks AI for something
• send a call to the server, servers tags this NPC has been talked to and sends back to original author to ask the AI for his prompt
• if another player does the same for the same NPC, the NPC is tagged as been talked to, and call is denied

[nimble vale]

But each AI would also need access to the server which creates a server security issue as well too otherwise no one would see anything happening and it would all be client side

[bright fog]

I did something similar recently, tho not exactly, to scan for players being infected as each info don't know the other players are infected

[nimble vale]

This is one reason why for my purposes doing this alone single player was more practical

Also the python program to manage each AI requests to the server and back as a middle man would have to be extensive to manage concurrent requests to multiple users/ multiple ai's

So think how difficult it is to mod an NPC survivor mod (most just stole code from nolan and built on it) now imagine doing all this other stuff

There's a reason why skyrim's herika mod and fallout 4's mantella mod has a group of 10-12 plus people contributing different aspects

and that's still single player LOL

[bright fog]

Believe me, everything is easier in SP to mod

[nimble vale]

Yeah factoring in multiplayer is honestly a head ache waiting to happen from so many angles

[red tiger]

A lot of planning helps.

Bust out the UMLs.

[bright fog]

Slayer with his Bandits mod is the best one out there, zombies were always the best go to for this kind of thing

[bright fog]

Yup, it's been the main reason why my work on my TLOU Infected mod has been staling

[nimble vale]

you'd need to pretty much build a custom npc survivor system, a bigger python program, extensive understanding of pz code, events, netcode and networking and that's all just to start. You'd also need someone to work on the Api connection side.

[red tiger]

Python + NPCs? :o

[nimble vale]

Well the middle man program i use is python

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/chocolate-spongebob-fish-rage-love-chocolate-gif-4938413

Did someone say Python?

[nimble vale]

because you need something to communicate between the LLM model loading program and PZ

[red tiger]

I didn't rewrite the event-access part of Pythoid but tis a thing.

[nimble vale]

the Api connection would alleviate some of that

[bright fog]

You don't have much in networking to go with tbf, just PZ uses commands to do calls in-between server client

[red tiger]

I'm sure your LLM runs in Python 3.

I made a mod to PZ that hooks up Jython, a Python 2 engine inside of the JVM to PZ as a full modding platform.

[nimble vale]

You'd have to create a Api for a model loading program like oobabooga's Text Gen WebUi or Koboldcpp to connect directly too, which requires you to know pz netcode, pz code

[bright fog]

I've mentioned Jython to another person that was doing exactly that, NPC with AI

[bright fog]

What are those for ?

[nimble vale]

running the llm

[bright fog]

Then that's not a local LLM ?

[red tiger]

It's available to whoever wants to use it. The typings are also there for people to see the runtime environment of PZ as well.

[nimble vale]

it is

I run koboldcpp locally on my pc

it connects to my python script which middleman's the responses to and from to pz because of a lack of api connection to open ai endpoints

[bright fog]

Can you not fully run a LLM directly from Python ?

[nimble vale]

these programs are designed usually in python

[bright fog]

That's what I'm thinking about tbf