mod_development

[queen oasis]

name=Auto Logging
id=JBLogging
description=Automatically chop trees and gather logs

That's what I have for mod.info in the Zomboid/mods folder and it works fine

[spare hinge]

mhmm

thats basically what I got too

except i also have a poster.png

[spare hinge]

oh im an idiot

i forgot to also pull it into 42

[queen oasis]

also have a media folder with just the lua in it

[spare hinge]

no path to /media/lua/client?

just media?

[ivory gyro]

thankkss

[molten hornet]

working hard or hardly working

[queen oasis]

media has everything in it also, minus mod.info and poster

[spare hinge]

oh

[queen oasis]

common is empty but I just started mesing with it

[spare hinge]

AH

i needed to make the common folder

even though its empty

i guess its a hard requirement

fantastic

now to figure out workshop

[mellow frigate]

ModName/media is only for B41 compatibility

[spare hinge]

okay i just tried to click on the ground to move my character like its baldurs gate 3

i havent played PZ in too long oh dear haha

[ivory gyro]

Yes but someone know why its dont show up in the mod list ?

[spare hinge]

did you make a common folder?

[queen oasis]

yea. I'm doing like 4 things at once. I'm not being very articulate

[ivory gyro]

yep

common / 42

[spare hinge]

this is how mine looks

in ~/Zomboid/mods

[ivory gyro]

same for me

and its show up in your mod list ? (on unstable)

[spare hinge]

yup

this works

and is functional

[ivory gyro]

lets go

[steep cloak]

Heres what im doing now with Save Our Station.

Loads like a charm ingame, surprisingly no errors, with the exception of the map (as expended, since it likely will need recompiling). So technically its still broken, but not on the lua side at least.

I put my modinfo in common since it doesnt have anything special in it - could put in 42 though if i really need version specific things.

[steep cloak]

Funnily enough the vehicles still spawn where they would lol

[mellow frigate]

Everything is perfectly normal..

[spare hinge]

did anything with workshop change?

[gleaming sorrel]

Can someone explain in simpleton terms to me how to update a mod?

[ivory gyro]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3386409674&searchtext=
For people want to have the Old Moodles Icons.
(B42) feel free to use this as exemple mod

[gleaming sorrel]

Damn you beat me too it

[ivory gyro]

Sorry friends ^^ But i didnt replace somes icon, theres new ones in B42

[gleaming sorrel]

Could rework them in the build 41 style.

I love working with pixel art so it would be fun to try.

[sonic needle]

fragmo anything was the mistake you made

[elder oxide]

i am SO grateful that updating retexture mods is simple

[gray robin]

Do you guys think with build 42, npc mods like bandit / day one etc will get more advanced? Does the added animal AI help somehow?

[gleaming sorrel]

I'm still confused, it doesn't help that my pc keeps crashing whenever I try to update the game.

I'm worried I perhaps may be screwed

[queen oasis]

of course they changed world markers. why wouldn't they.

[nova socket]

what a time to be alive

B42 is here

[elder oxide]

It entirely has to do with file structure, ill grab a screenshot for you

Stuff with more complicated code i have no clue about bc im an artist and not a coder, but retextures i have figured out

[elder oxide]

Inside of the "Zomboid\Workshop[MODNAME]\Contents\mods[MODNAME]" folder should look like this. For simple retextures with no lua or anything, you can leave "41" and "42" empty. Inside the new "common" folder is where you move the "media" folder and your "mod.info" file

[gleaming sorrel]

Luckily I only have 1 code mod which I'm leaving to the modding community to fix.

[gleaming sorrel]

Doesn't seem too difficult

[sonic needle]

i took way too many adhd meds. >:D Tiem to MOD

[mellow frigate]

there is no such thing as 41 folder for B41.

[elder oxide]

What do you mean

[mellow frigate]

B41 structure for B41 compatibility must be the same as before B42

[ModName]\media\

[silent zealot]

Can you have B41 and B42 in the same mod?

[mellow frigate]

so B41 code is one layer lower than anything for B42 and future

[mellow frigate]

yes

[silent zealot]

So the B41 stuff in whatever folders they were in before, then common & B42 for the new stuff

thanks

[elder oxide]

Thank you yeah

[silent zealot]

That will avoid needing to upload seperate B42 versions to steam

[queen oasis]

if anyone smarter than me has the source opened, could you tell me if I'm blind or not because it looks like they left the old WolrdMapMarkers in as WorldMapMarkersV1 but it's not exposed?

[mellow frigate]

check pinned messages from nasKo

[gilded hawk]

Check your blood pressure 🩸

I'm le back fellow modders

[sonic needle]

i recognise that Name...

wait, i wonder if you can commission someone to not update their mod xD?

[mellow frigate]

Don't give me ideas..

[elder oxide]

so would this be the correct file structure?

seems weird to have two copies of "media" and "mod.info"

[mellow frigate]

without 41 folder, yes (media being already for B41)

[elder oxide]

okay gotcha

thank you king

[mellow frigate]

you'll thank me once it works on your client's side 😉

[elder oxide]

Lmao

[sonic needle]

only the most chaotic B42 thoughts today. Promise.

[pale merlin]

does the lua folder go directly inside the common folder?

[sonic needle]

it goes... in the square hole. but fr all the files go either in common or 42

[mellow frigate]

you act as chaotic for sure, but chaotic good, chaotic bad or chaotic evil ?

[mellow frigate]

no you need the media folder between common and lua

[sonic needle]

only the most, Chaotic Neutral

a slight spelling error in a recipe corrupting the whole game to crash without any log hints.

respectfully tho.

[mellow frigate]

Thou shall not spell errors in the vicinity of recipes. Or shall the five Hells fall upon thou

[bronze yoke]

nevermind @ talk of the addon manager taking days to update, Umbrella (Unstable) is live

[silk hollow]

Quick question: 42 unstable is out. What does that mean? It's going to become "stable" after X amount of time or it's a soon(tm)?
Follow up: Is it worth start checking issues with my mod now or should I wait until it's stable?

[sonic needle]

its a base to build on.

pushing it out, means they can fix faster, as it will break more in unexpected ways they cant test.

[pale merlin]

thanks, any idea why mine still isn't showing in the mod list?

[mellow frigate]

this is THE time to convert mods. so that when stable comes out, USERS can use mods smoothly

[pale merlin]

a pinned post on file structure would help i think

[mellow frigate]

I'd try with mod.info and poster at 42 level

[silk hollow]

mhm, according to this reasoning:

as it will break more in unexpected ways they cant test
It might instead be better to wait a bit until things settle down a bit.

[mellow frigate]

yes, which is why there IS a pinned post from nasKo

[pale merlin]

lmao, my bad

[silk hollow]

Ah I see, I'll check on that then

[mellow frigate]

thou shall join ash in the 7 hells of Baradum ! #mod_development message

[quasi kernel]

Seems that InventoryItemFactory is no longer valid on the client, probably expected. Could be wrong but that's what I gathered from a quick conversion test.

I gotta figure out a way to get a displayname for an item without actually creating it,,

[north rain]

Anyone know how we can do proceduralgeneration for clothing spawns?

It's different now in 42

[silk hollow]

I'll add that it might be a good time to update any sort of wiki we have on modding. Discord is cool and all but messages aren't searcheable from search engines and it will end up with people asking again and again the same thing and only getting answers if someone notice the questions.

[elfin stump]

Hey all, I am curious if anyone has figured out the working mod structure. I cannot seem to get a mod to pop up on the list. I saw some posts above about a 42 folder and tried that in a couple of arrangements with no luck. Do these need to be in local mod folder or does the workshop folder still work? Any input would help great!

Nvm! I see the pin now!

[bronze yoke]

InventoryItemFactory no longer exists

[elfin stump]

And it begins, good luck everyone! 🫡

[clear needle]

The modpocalypse

[north rain]

Is there a way to instal two seperate Project zomboids on my library? So i can have an unstable and regular? I need to check my mod for backwards compatibility now

[teal slate]

Beautiful Java doesn't seem to work for B42.

[gray robin]

Do you guys think with build 42, npc mods like bandit / day one etc will get more advanced? Does the added animal AI help somehow?

[open drum]

probably since we now have animals

[frank elbow]

Fernflower appears to be working for me at the moment (just got in a bit ago, so still running)

[teal slate]

Fernflower's after my time, so.

[tacit pebble]

i havent tried b42 yet, but I think we can use faction system from animals if there is something like that.
bandit for faction 1 with aggressive ai, friendly for function 2 with friendly ai...
because chicken and boar will not be in same faction and it means it's much easier to control and to manage

only imagine tho

[crystal canyon]

Trying to update my mod and want to check if it works right away or what broke. How do I enable unsupported mods on debug? I'm on debug but can't see that option

[bronze yoke]

you can't

you need to move it to the new folder structure to load it

[crystal canyon]

Ah ok, saw that on the help section on the mod manager. Another thing, is b42 not reading from the user mods folder? I have the correct structure but the game is not showing them

[bronze yoke]

it should load from mods, a common hiccup you might have run into is it doesn't load at all if there isn't a common folder

[crystal canyon]

I'll check that. Thanks

[frank elbow]

Fernflower is the decompiler that BeautifulJava uses under the hood. You can run it directly

Comes with IntelliJ as a .jar & there are forks (unsure what the forks add; I think I just yoinked the one I use from IntelliJ)

[tacit pebble]

By the way guys, do you usually decompile or backtrack to figure out what function has been added after new update? it's first time getting next version since I started modding in PZ.

[teal slate]

Found the issue with Beautiful Java.

Two matches. Somehow.

Setting to a max of 1 works.

[crystal canyon]

Anyone knows how the map selection works to point the spot on the map? I managed to get the mod to load but want to integrate that new feature.

got it, nvm 😄

[red tiger]

UI WIP for multiplayer looks nice.

Did a quick enable to check it out. Was curious.

[silent zealot]

It's been too long since I did Zomboid modding... Is the expected workflow to develop the mod in C:\users\myname\zomboid\mods and then when ready copy it to the Workshop folder to upload to steam?

[bronze yoke]

i'd probably just start in workshop, otherwise you'll just have to move it anyway

[silent zealot]

So I shouldn't have the same mod folder in mods and under Workshop?

My profile is a mess 😂

[bronze yoke]

you shouldn't, it can cause issues where it loads some files from different locations and is generally confusing

you don't want to debug why your mod isn't working for an hour and then realise you were editing the wrong folder

[silent zealot]

Thanks, I'll sort that out and start updating some things for B42

[silent zealot]

I have definitely done that before

[queen oasis]

not so mad about the change in world markers now

[late hound]

Hey how can I get my mod to show up in the mod list? My mod list is completely empty. I was getting an error:

WARN : Mod          f:0, t:1734485684161> ChooseGameInfo.readModInfoAux       > can't find "C:\Users\xx\Zomboid\Workshop\AuthenticZ\Contents\mods\Authentic Z - Current\common\mod.info"
ERROR: General      f:0, t:1734485684163> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown
    java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "zombie.gameStates.ChooseGameInfo$Mod.getId()" because "<local4>" is null at ChooseGameInfo.getModDetails(ChooseGameInfo.java:205).
    Stack trace:
        zombie.gameStates.ChooseGameInfo.getModDetails(ChooseGameInfo.java:205)
        zombie.gameStates.ChooseGameInfo.getAvailableModDetails(ChooseGameInfo.java:222)
        zombie.modding.ActiveMods.checkMissingMods(ActiveMods.java:218)
        zombie.ZomboidFileSystem.loadMods(ZomboidFileSystem.java:920)
        zombie.GameWindow.init(GameWindow.java:1412)
        zombie.GameWindow.mainThreadInit(GameWindow.java:701)
        zombie.GameWindow.mainThread(GameWindow.java:599)
        java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

and I am not sure what this means

[bronze yoke]

to get a b41 mod to load at all:

• create empty common\ folder inside of your mod's folder (e.g. Authentic Z - Current\common\)
• create 42\ folder inside of your mod's folder and copy the entire mod into it
  ideally you should move assets into common\ but that's the bare minimum to get it to be recognised by the game

[late hound]

Yeah I know about the folders, this is what I got

then I have a full copy in common, which should work right?

[bronze yoke]

the mod.info should be in 42, i think everything else can be in common

[silent zealot]

First mod updated for B42, for the appoximately zero people waiting on this before they started their new playthrough.

[late hound]

can I get a link?

[silent zealot]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3131760684

[late hound]

mod is hidden

[silent zealot]

try now, it set itself to hidden when I updated it

[elder oxide]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3386481307

Whipped this up

[queen oasis]

Nice replacement for highlighting squares

addAreaHighlight(minX, minY, maxX, maxY, z, r, g, b, a)

There's also renderIsoRect and renderIsoCircle. Still no full-blown LineDrawer though

[late hound]

hum so I got my mod to show up in the list, but when I hit accept, I get this error in the console, has anyone else received this?

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Script load errors.

not sure what causes that

[ivory gyro]

You dont like the new loading screen looking like AI image ? Lets get back the old illustrations of Project Zomboid !
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3386484368

[sonic needle]

corrupt script i think..?

[late hound]

no?

[mellow frigate]

no way that crazy Djackz is player B42 MP !

[finite scroll]

i've noticed b42 workshop items don't show up in the usual workshop directory, did they change it?

[mellow frigate]

it always takes a bit of time to get updated, meanwhile you can click on the keyword from one of the mods using it to get the list.

[silent zealot]

You can manually edit the URL:

Not a lot of updated mods yet (not surprising given that B42 has only been out for hours)

I can definitely feel the lack of some of my favourite mods!

[oak bluff]

could you also possibly add this one? :D

[ivory gyro]

Yup i add it tomorrow 🙂

[junior blaze]

Hello, i got questions about mods. Can you replace one of a vanilla hair texture/model from a mod, also only one hairstyle mod. Not all of them..

Cuz i would like to replace the original hairstyle in files, with the one hair type i like in b42.

[small topaz]

Are there already people working with the new lua code? Does anyone knows why they putted most of the TimedActions in the shared folder?

[fathom marten]

I'm sorry, what?

[covert adder]

is there a guide for making mods in b42?

[green bobcat]

is there a mod that allows you to hold a 2 handed weapon like a rifle in your offhand while using a melee or one handed weapon in your main?

[green bobcat]

probably not yet, it only launched a few hours ago so it'll be a hot minute before one is made either officially or unofficially

[covert adder]

yea i just meant like a rough idea for how to do it

even a text guide would prob help

[green bobcat]

similarly to the overkill perk in MWII

[small topaz]

Can anyone confirm that they changed the B41 command "InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem(item)" to "instanceItem(item)" ?

[zealous iris]

i have arrived with no experience on a whim to some day attempt a herculean task

[west pelican]

any way to disable anti aliasing? b42 is a lot more blurry

[zealous iris]

aka attempt to recreate an entire city without prior zomboid mod experience

though actual development will likely start with B42 since basements and skyscrapers

[tranquil reef]

I've already looked and it seems like it's not possible, but custom animals is out of the question right?

Can't find which .class file defines them, but also can't find any lua file that defines them

[covert adder]

is there some trick to getting mods to work?

i cant get em to work i added the 42 file and common file but still doesnt work

[west pelican]

i am going to sleep if anyone has the time, I'd love to see a mod that removes TAA

[winter bolt]

theyre made through lua but im not sure if they can have custom behaviour yet

[covert adder]

so should media be in common or just in the mod folder with common and 42?

[tranquil reef]

Oh damn, really? Can you give me the directory location

Custom behavior isn't a massive concern for me. I just want to screw around for now

[winter bolt]

i havent checked yet but if you search for an animmal name like chicken you should find it

[covert adder]

custom animal should defnitely be possible

doesnt seem too hard

[open drum]

so... im sorry if i sound ignorant but as a science major, what's the whole fuzz about using AI image???

Are they just hating it in general or cuz it just have many errors in the image??

[cosmic condor]

there are rumors that AI companies take artwork posted on social media without permission to train their AI models. many artists feel disrespected when people choose to create images using generative AI rather than hiring them for their artistic skills.

[grave acorn]

It keeps on telling me that i need a preview.png image in my mod folder when I do? where does it go?

[finite scroll]

hardly rumors

there's confirmation of it happening multiple times before

and also ai art just looks like shit

ai has lots of practical applications, art is not one of them

[grizzled fulcrum]

next to your mod.info

[grave acorn]

how? if you dont mind me asking

oh

its there

[bronze yoke]

it should be next to your workshop.txt for the steam preview

[grizzled fulcrum]

did I get them mixed up xd

[bronze yoke]

the one next to your mod.info would be for the in-game preview which doesn't cause an error if you don't have

[grizzled fulcrum]

makes sense

[grave acorn]

i think im missing that lmao

god this is confusing

[grave acorn]

where does that go? NVM

[open drum]

oh... i see

[wet sandal]

All my mods except Tetris are updated

Now I sleep

[grave acorn]

my moodle mod didnt replace my moodle lmao

[vestal gyro]

I slept just before the update hit and now gotta do that this entire afternoon because of work

[covert adder]

what is preview.png and do i need it? If so how does one get it just make a png named preview?

[steep cloak]

thats the preview image for the workshop i believe

[covert adder]

do i need it?

[steep cloak]

Well its your thumbnail, so if you want a thumbnail, then yes

[covert adder]

oh lmfao

[steep cloak]

lol

[covert adder]

well it not working for me and im trying to find out why

[steep cloak]

How big is the image? Is it a square resolution?

[covert adder]

i dont have one at all

im just curious if I need one for it to work

[steep cloak]

Oh i thought you meant the image wasnt working

[covert adder]

nah like the mod not even appearing

[steep cloak]

I think if you dont, itll just give it the default indie stone thumbnail?

[covert adder]

yea not sure

i cant even get it appear

also should i put it in workshop or C:\Users\thego\Zomboid\mods

[steep cloak]

Whats your folder structure?

the latter

one sec

[covert adder]

ill send it

[steep cloak]

^

thats how my structure looks now, loads fine ingame

Rough example only of course - stuff like textures is in common, functional stuff like lua scripts in 42.

the old media folder is unchanged from previous b41 mods.

[covert adder]

i see

[steep cloak]

Dunno if it matters but i removed the pzversion string in the mod.info files in the common folder

[covert adder]

i wasn't putting mod info in common with everything else

[steep cloak]

Mod info can be in common or any of the version folders.

[covert adder]

should i just fill common if im only doing 42?

[winter bolt]

common doesnt need mod.info

just media

[covert adder]

lol

[steep cloak]

It can be in either the common or the version folders, as per the pinned post.

I put mine in common because im likely not going to be targeting specific b42 versions or making any changes to the file

But it doesnt matter as long as its in either common or a version folder

[covert adder]

alright so just putting it in the file i want like common or 42 should work right?

if im doing a 42 mod

[steep cloak]

Yes

And my modinfo just has name, id, description, poster and modversion

Since targeting PZ versions seems to be done through the folders now, i believe the old pzversion key is not needed anymore

[grave acorn]

lmao my moodle replacement mod aint working ingame lmao

[steep cloak]

Guessing the moodle icon definition changed maybe?

[lilac mural]

Modding page on pzwiki has not been updated yet?

[dark wedge]

Hey everyone! It's been a while. It looks like ModOptions is now natively supported in B42.

[dull moss]

Ah fuck

I have like 20 of those

[dark wedge]

To that end, I've created a small example to hopefully get people started with using it, as it's not compatible with the old ModOptions system. Example output is below (these are saved options). The Lua file is documented and has all of the available options to us. Hopefully this is helpful to people.

[dull moss]

#musicmaniacpins new mod options

(it's a pin for myself)

[dark wedge]

There's a few more options that we can play around with, and it's not too bad to get switched over. But it is definitely different. This should prevent further breaks in the future though.

[dull moss]

Yep

Is there an event called when they change

By any chance

[bronze yoke]

definitely not an event

[dull moss]

I'll have to experiment around

[dark wedge]

nope. no "onChange" function like the old version, and no event that I can see either.

[coral blade]

modders go brrr

[dark wedge]

it would be handy to have a basic 'onChange' or whatever function like with old ModOptions. i'd even settle for a "OnSettingsApply" event or something to just do a reload.

[coral blade]

pretty sure the 41 mods don't work on 42

[bronze yoke]

if it is done by lua it shouldn't be that bad to catch it

[dull moss]

It starts

[coral blade]

we can only hope for the major mods to be updated asap

[dull moss]

HOLDL

[coral blade]

thanks in advance 🙏

[dark wedge]

Yea, I had 5 comments within like 4 hours of B42's release....

[dull moss]

Feel free to send your fav modders a coffee ;)

[dull moss]

Classic

[bronze yoke]

can these people not just play twelve minutes of vanilla

[dull moss]

[dark wedge]

"but muh brutal handiwork"

[winter bolt]

bro 💀

[dull moss]

Lmao

[winter bolt]

this was posted hours after release lmfaoo

[dull moss]

Tell him to update them for you then

[spare hinge]

average mod user behavior

[winter bolt]

this wasnt on my mod thankfully

[dull moss]

If it's ain't that hard

I'd still tell him to update the code and send to author then

I mean, updating the mod isn't that hard

[spare hinge]

look someone bought me a game so i would update a mod of mine im not complaining

[dull moss]

My dude experience is probably like a texture mod that probably wasn't changed how it works in 42

And he's like "yeah it isn't hard"

[coarse sinew]

I had a comment even before b42 asking if it works with it.

[coral blade]

oof

[dull moss]

He's from the future

[pale merlin]

get to work! they're paying for excellent service!

[spare hinge]

time travellers need mods too

[coral blade]

people really think old mods work instantly with 42?

weird

[dark wedge]

Toilet comment from a real toilet. not unexpected.

[dull moss]

Sometimes it does tbh

Depends on the game and the mod

[minor perch]

https://tenor.com/view/so-it-begins-raining-rainy-day-théoden-lord-of-the-rings-gif-16521230

[dull moss]

[coral blade]

Happened with RimWorld as well

[dull moss]

Nuovo commento

[coral blade]

1.5 was released and people were like "yo when you update the mod??"

[spare hinge]

never

🐸

[pale merlin]

sorry if i'm asking a a question that has already been asked. how do we fill out this data?

[sonic needle]

so the rendering bug, why has it all suddenly killed UV's 😦

[spare hinge]

probably by editing mod.info in some form

though i am not aware of any documentation

[pale merlin]

same

[winter bolt]

in mod.info you can add "author = something"

[sonic needle]

dont think i can fix it without someone updating the pinned body files either

[pale merlin]

i'll give it a shot, ty

[coral blade]

btw, does the mod packaging changed from 41 to 42?

[spare hinge]

yea

theres a slightly different folder structure now

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/232196827577974784/1318723609442648226/image.png?ex=67635c91&is=67620b11&hm=2746f0f3c9e8d1bef6a8c630234d2ab7bf733820a9704814df413a054178587b&

the files that you would usually put in a mod go into either "42" or "common"

the game picks files based on a version

"common" has files that go for any version

"42" is only files that work on 42

and presumably in the future there would be more version folders but for now its only 42

[round notch]

Are they updating build 41 for this new file structure?

[bronze yoke]

no

[spare hinge]

probably not?

[bronze yoke]

build 41 will continue to use the old structure which doesn't conflict with the new one anyway

[covert adder]

how do i see prints?

[spare hinge]

i open the logs in Zomboid/Logs

opening it in vscode should autoupdate it

[bronze yoke]

if you're in debug mode they'll appear in the lua console

[spare hinge]

there is a debug mode?

[bronze yoke]

launch the game with -debug

[covert adder]

i cant see my prints in that console

💀

[coral blade]

sorry was away

[covert adder]

90% of problem solving is overcoming your own stupidity

[coral blade]

@spare hinge thanks for the information

[spare hinge]

np

[covert adder]

turning the mod on might've helped 😭

[spare hinge]

I've been there

[coral blade]

so the mod.info is not in the root folder?

[covert adder]

yea

[spare hinge]

not anymore no

[covert adder]

put it in 42 or common

[coral blade]

damn

[spare hinge]

anything outside of the version folders is ignored basically

the game overlays the files from common and 42

with common taking precedence

so the same file in both 42 and common will only exist as the common version

at the moment the split doesnt make a huge difference, but it will in the future

you can probably just stuff everything in 42 for now

[bronze yoke]

are you sure common takes precedence? that seems like the exact opposite of how it should work

[coral blade]

I'm checking an old folder packaging

[spare hinge]

The mod folder now requires 2 sub-folders. First folder is “common”. This folder will always load and it will always load first. You can place files here that will not change in future mod updates for a specific game version. (it’s a good place for resource files)
#1318693102143148054 message

[covert adder]

i also heard other people saying that it go common then 42 i think?

but im not sure

[bronze yoke]

'load first' doesn't really mean anything in particular here but keep in mind that regular mod load order prioritises mods loaded *last*

[coral blade]

damn

[spare hinge]

that is a good point

[coral blade]

so basically I have a problem

[covert adder]

fair point

[spare hinge]

yea i think i have it wrong then

it does make more sense the other way around

[coral blade]

time to tinker with some code 🤔

[covert adder]

goodluck

[spare hinge]

how do i open the lua console

[covert adder]

dont let the bug bite

[spare hinge]

am in debug mode

[covert adder]

f11

[spare hinge]

[covert adder]

oh you gotta go in to the property

[spare hinge]

cheers

[covert adder]

for the game

in general

then in the textbox you put -debug

then you should be set

[coral blade]

thanks @covert adder

[covert adder]

np boss

it also gives you free cheats which is dandy

[spare hinge]

mhmm

where exactly is the log in debug mode

i see a bunch of stuff

[covert adder]

print('--------------------CENTRAL SCRIPT LOADED--------------------')

Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(function (player)
    local health = player:GetHealth()
    if health <= 1 then
        print('Player is Dying')
    end
end)```

[spare hinge]

but nothing for prints

[covert adder]

why isn't this working for line 4 i cant get operations like <= to work?

[covert adder]

so im actually a bit confused about that too but normally you can find it in the files where the mods file is but instead look in Logs

[spare hinge]

i am doing that now

[covert adder]

Zomboid\Logs

yee

[spare hinge]

but someone said you can have it ingame

[covert adder]

Ws

yea

there a little console

[spare hinge]

which would be more convenient

[bronze yoke]

it should be in the lua console in the bottom left

[covert adder]

but i cant really get it to work for me

ill see if it working rn

[exotic wedge]

Are there any changes to the content structure of mod.info?

[spare hinge]

this what i got

[bronze yoke]

no

[coral blade]

@spare hinge nice for you working with Linux 💪

[bronze yoke]

there are some extra fields you can choose to fill in but nothing mandatory has changed

[bronze yoke]

not in the debugger, just in-game

[spare hinge]

🎄

[pale merlin]

so whats the replacement for InventoryItemFactory? assuming there is one

[bronze yoke]

instanceItem("type")

[spare hinge]

oh you cant read logs from the menu?

thats annoying

[pale merlin]

amazing, thanks. i'll give that a shot

[covert adder]

so is there a way to get operator symbols to work like <= i cant get it to work?

[bronze yoke]

they should work fine

[spare hinge]

have you verified the value?

[covert adder]

how does one do that?

[spare hinge]

print it

[bronze yoke]

the capitalisation makes me think :GetHealth() is not a real function though

[covert adder]

well im getting there health isn't that a certainity it'll be a number?

[spare hinge]

see if it actually is what you think it is

its possible the operator works fine

[covert adder]

oh fuck

your so right

it getHealth

[spare hinge]

odd, did it not throw an error?

this is the kinda thing that should make lua throw up and yell at you

[covert adder]

not for getHealth

but for the operator

[spare hinge]

huh

[covert adder]

in b41 i got error even for if 1 <= 1 then

which 🤷‍♂️

maybe im missing something

[bronze yoke]

i don't know what you were doing wrong but those operators do work

[covert adder]

okay ill test it out again see if it work now

[exotic wedge]

I don't know what is missing.

[covert adder]

try removing mod.info from there and making sure it in common

that how i have mine setup

[winter bolt]

rename 42 to 42.0 maybe?

[covert adder]

42 should be good

it work for mine as 42

[exotic wedge]

i follow here

[tame mulch]

common, not Common

[covert adder]

oop

[exotic wedge]

😲

[spare hinge]

does that actually matter on windows?

or is that a java thing

[dull moss]

I mean if game tries to load folder /common/ and it's not there, yknow

[spare hinge]

yes but on windows capitalization is ignored

"Common" and "common" are considered the same

however it isnt on linux so its a good idea to lowercase it anyway

[exotic wedge]

mod.info must also be in ‘’common‘’. I just didn't sync it. 😅

[pale merlin]

it seems that instanceItem is somehow performing worse than the old InventoryItemFactory

maybe it does more?

[spare hinge]

oof the script load order seems to have changed and its wrecking me

[dull moss]

Btw is it known if we update mods now, will they still work in 41 using new structure? Like did they update 41 to be able to use new folder structure?

[covert adder]

well try it as common and if it works you found your solution

lol

[spare hinge]

ill try but i dont think it should affect it?

[covert adder]

it definitely could

it worth a try atleast

but up to you 🤷‍♂️

[dull moss]

You literally got told by Aiteron

Who's game dev

[spare hinge]

?

[covert adder]

well all im saying mine is like that and mine works and urs doesnt lol

[dull moss]

And you like "yeah I don't think that's it"

[spare hinge]

uhh

[covert adder]

lol

[spare hinge]

i dont see them having responded to my question??

im confused

[covert adder]

ok well just try it out

and see if it works 🙏

[dull moss]

dis

[covert adder]

yee

[spare hinge]

yes that is not aiteron

[tame mulch]

[covert adder]

i cant get Events.OnPlayerDamage.Add(DamageCheck) to work

print('--------------------CENTRAL SCRIPT LOADED--------------------')


function HealthCheck(player,health)
    if health < 1 then
        player:setHealth(100)
        print('Reviving the player! ' .. health)
    end
end


local function DamageCheck(player, damage)
    local health = player:getHealth()
    local damageDealt = health - damage
    
    if damageDealt < 1 then
        HealthCheck(player,health)
    end
end

Events.OnPlayerDamage.Add(DamageCheck)```

[dull moss]

^

Bruh

[covert adder]

it didn't work?

[spare hinge]

my comment was not in response to that

[tame mulch]

you need name common in lowercase

[dull moss]

Oh

[spare hinge]

is it enforced on the java side

[pale merlin]

lmao

[covert adder]

im not sure if im writing it wrong or what but i keep getting errors on the OnPlayerDamage event

[dull moss]

It's because the player can't be damaged anymore you sillyhead

[covert adder]

whaa

wym?

[dull moss]

[spare hinge]

also yea putting the script in common doesnt actually change script load order

[covert adder]

lmfao

[spare hinge]

i tried and predictably it didnt work

[covert adder]

so how do i detect player damage

[spare hinge]

it only matters for putting together the mod file structure

[covert adder]

im confused

[dull moss]

Man I wanna go tinker with my stuff

But I cant

[tame mulch]

Try OnPlayerGetDamage

[covert adder]

thanks boss

[dull moss]

Lemme mod

https://tenor.com/view/let-me-in-eric-andre-wanna-come-in-gif-13730108

[covert adder]

prove it by helping out lmfao

so help me 🥰

[tame mulch]

OnPlayerGetDamage put 3 params (char, DamageTYPE, damageVal)

[dull moss]

I need to look at new code

[covert adder]

char?

is that player?

also are all the parameter needed?

[dull moss]

Btw Aiterion will documentation get update?

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/

Dis

Best thing ever

[spare hinge]

how did the script load order change from 41?

it seems to no longer be purely alphabetical by filename

[dull moss]

Oh

My bad

I've been using it for years

Kinda forgor

[covert adder]

oop

[dull moss]

[tame mulch]

lua?

[spare hinge]

yea

i need some of my scripts to load very early

[lilac mural]

Uh.. Did something changed with how poster declared in mod.info? Cause I have blank white square..

[spare hinge]

used to do it by prefixing with "!" in filename

but that seems to not work anymore

[dull moss]

Require them in other files?

[spare hinge]

i actually do not want to do that

i want it to be an optional dependency

afaik require throws an error if the file is missing right?

[dull moss]

Then idk

You can conditional require

If mod present then require

[spare hinge]

still not ideal, but i might go for that

basically it would be boilerplate for other modders

that i would like to avoid

[tame mulch]

You want mod files from other mod?

[spare hinge]

i am porting my mod config manager

other mods will check if its present

but in order to do so it needs to be loaded BEFORE any other mod

however if its not present, it should not cause errors

in 41 i accomplished this by prefixing my filename with !

[dull moss]

Oh oh oh

Are translations UTF-8 now?

Please tell me they are utf-8 now

I don't wanna suffer with 4 different encodings anymore

[spare hinge]

so yea it seems like lua files get loaded on a per-mod basis now

rather than thrown into one big pile of files and then alphabetically

oof

also seems like placing files in common DOES affect lua load order, but only within a mod

[tame mulch]

Yep. Per mod: common folder loads first, then version folder.
About mod load order - you can specify in mod.info params "loadModAfter", "loadModBefore"

[spare hinge]

ohh that makes life a lot simpler

will it fail if the mod is not present though?

[tame mulch]

in this params? will be ok, if this mod not exist

[spare hinge]

fantastic

loadModAfter=ModConfigMenu

like this right?

it seems to not quite work

[teal slate]

Can't get PZAPI/ModOptions working...

local options = PZAPI.ModOptions:create("SomeMod", "Some Mod Options") gives attempted index: ModOptions of non-table: null, and require "PZAPI" or require "PZAPI/ModOptions don't work.

... is the issue that this is in the Shared folder?

[spare hinge]

so is hitting "auto" on the mod load order button supposed to disable all mods?

im assuming no

alright sweet so it seems the load order was the only issue with my mod

didnt actually need to change any code

[teal slate]

You can only access it from client code. That feels... wrong, and also useless?

Oh.

Right, so the Mod Options mod has a sandbox_path thing that let you use sandbox options in multiplayer.

Which is not recommended and they say to just use sandbox options instead! Well, alright.

[meager light]

i keep trying to reupload my mod for b42, keeps saying that mod.info isn't there, its in the b42 slot, but that should still work

[tame mulch]

can you send screenshot?

mod.info in 42 folder?

[meager light]

mod structure or mod.info location

[teal slate]

Are non-workshop mods just... not supported in B42?

The mod ID is prepended with a backslash for some reason...

The instructions I was given say Value in modID in mod.info / mod requirements must follow the format: “WORKSHOP-ID/MOD-ID” (same format applies to other params: incompatible, loadModAfter, loadModBefore) which implies a workshop ID is required?

I figured it out.

[lilac mural]

Does anyone have references on how to make use of items through ISBaseTimedAction?
I tried making it myself, but when I press button in context menu - nothing happens

[teal slate]

Oh god, that's disgusting. You have to put just \ before the ID in requirements, so it'd be \VaccinesForaging or whatever (for a local/unreleased mod modifying the vaccine stuff).
Well, it works.

[primal schooner]

does anyone know why b42 modoptions settings gets reset after returning to the main menu? (regardless if mod is enabled)

[teal slate]

getActivatedMods() doesn't really work anymore in B42 with workshop IDs being included... this is a huge headache.

[winter bolt]

i noticed some of the new armor has this tag which im guessing makes the player immune to being dragged down by 3+ zombies?

[lost slate]

Modding report, request and suggestions 🐦

[primal schooner]

moved bug report to the #1318920979581501502 message

[clear wedge]

appears mod.info needs to be wrapped inside { }s now? got a "tried reading non-table" or similar when I tried without

[dusty aspen]

is there any example of b42 mod.info?

[clear wedge]

{
    name=Name
    id=WorkshopId/ModId
    description=description here
    versionMin=42
}
``` worked for me (if no workshopid just put nonsense)

[dusty aspen]

thanks!

any other parameters(autor etcs...) works for you?

[clear wedge]

go ahead and try

[dusty aspen]

it wont work on me 😦

[clear wedge]

did you put in common folder?
you need to make two folders
42 and common
put mod.info in common

put media in 42

[dusty aspen]

i put it on 42 folder

should it be on common?

[little harbor]

it can be in either folder

and mine works without { } but with it the images and some other parameters dont work

[dusty aspen]

i mean, it "loaded" but wont show up properly

like this

[clear wedge]

share the mod.info maybe

[dusty aspen]

It's now this

name=TwitchStatsKR
version=42
Author=귀챠니즘
poster=poster.png
id=2756091658/Twitch-Stats-KR
description=StatsTwitch 한국어 번역
}```
works properly without {} i think

[little harbor]

id=firearmmodvanilla
incompatible=\firearmmod,\firearmmodbeta
modversion=42-1.0.1
versionMin=42.0.0
author=Hyzo
icon=icon.png
description=New firearm models.
poster=poster.png
poster=firearms2.png
poster=firearms3.png
poster=firearms4.png
poster=firearms5.png```

[dusty aspen]

does it show properly?

[dusty aspen]

oh..

where did you put poster.png things? in common?

[little harbor]

havent gotten the whole workshopid/modid thing to actually work with the mod manager though

with the mod.info

[dusty aspen]

ok i'll try

[little harbor]

Did not put them in common however it shouldn't matter as long as they're together

dont quote me on that but better safe than sorry

[dusty aspen]

np

that was great help

[little harbor]

[sullen bobcat]

Please tell me that's a joke...

In gonna take a long walk off a short pier...

[teal slate]

I mean, you have to include the workshop ID, which means reuploads and local copies are fucked.

Which is great if you want to make modpacks slightly more of a headache. It sucks if you want to make functioning mod compatibility, though.

[sullen bobcat]

Welp... thats gonna be a ton of work.

Looking forward to that mess...

[dull moss]

Local copies would still have same workshop Id thought

That is if it's a copy from existing mod

[sullen bobcat]

On a side note:

Anyone got any clue how to define where the point at which the new bullet effects are supposed to come from?

I'm sure someone has asked/found this already but in looking through it must have missed it...

[teal slate]

Local copy as in it's in the mods folder.

[ornate grotto]

is it possible to add custom voices for b42?

[potent loom]

is b42 using the same version of Lua language?

[shut zodiac]

How hard would it be to make a mod where blood is colored randomly like in Zom 100?

[clear wedge]

struggling to understand how fluids are spawned -- I know that items are spawned through ProceduralDistribution but what about fluids that are defined in e.g. fluids.txt?

find in folder through the lua isn't helping much

[tranquil reef]

I think you might need to make a custom item

It'd be nice to make a mod where water bottles spawn with blood inside of them or something, but for now if your focus is just making a completely different liquid, make a container item with said liquid , then have that spawn

[winter bolt]

from what i can tell looking at the decompiled code it doesnt look like its possible

oh wait hold on it might be possible

theyre created through xml but i dont see where the sounds are applied yet

the voice options in the menu are created in xml but it looks like the actual voices are hardcoded

[zenith oak]

I know this one goes way back - but I couldn't think of a better person to direct the question towards.

Do you by chance know if B42 has changed anything that would make it possible to create a vehicle that would be able to remove snow tiles?

[clear wedge]

I looked around and found that the b42 entities can act as fluidcontainers/dispensers so maybe that is a possibility

        component FluidContainer
        {
            ContainerName   = Dispenser,
            capacity        = 10,
            InitialPercentMin      = 0.0,
            InitialPercentMax      = 1.0,
            InputLocked    = true,
            Fluids
            {
                fluid       = Water:1.0,
            }
        }

now the problem is figuring out how to add a new entity lmao

the new recipe system is really cool, TIS really cooked here

[gilded hawk]

Is the "common" folder back compatible with B41?

[dark wedge]

From what I can tell, no.

[gilded hawk]

OOOF, that's unfortunate

[potent loom]

that makes it completely useless for now i guess

[gilded hawk]

yeah, pretty much

[potent loom]

i quickly scanned some of the new b42 mods, and they simply leave it empty and just duplicate the old structure in 42 subfolder

and all mods i checked it was just a copy/paste

[round notch]

Yeah it's gonna be clunky if a mod wants to backwards compat support b41

[potent loom]

only for several years 🙂

[gilded hawk]

I don't think it's rocket science, it's all about dividing the business logic from the integration with the game

[ornate grotto]

any way to "replace" them

[tacit pebble]

hey wait what
then does it mean if I left b41 version inside of common folder and updated my mod already via 42 folder, all b41 players have not been able to use my mod until now since i updates my mods? sorry I asked you back but I'm little confused because of my English skill..

[ornate grotto]

i'd love to make EFT voices

[winter bolt]

fmod sound modding probably

[rose sail]

were the new loading screens fully removed? or can i still replace them with the newspaper pictures

[winter bolt]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2474838710

[opal nest]

Anyone know where I can find some information about updating my mod to build 42?

[rose sail]

check pinned

[opal nest]

Ahhh thank you!

[pallid obsidian]

yo guys, does anyone know how to make new voices/voice replacement mods for zomboid?

[opal nest]

Is there a new sample mod in 42 as well?

[rose sail]

i dont mod

no idea

[opal nest]

I'll install now and take a look

[dark wedge]

Correct, the "common" folder is not read by B41. So if you moved the B41 version there, it won't be accessible to users still on B41.
The "common" folder also has priority over versioned folders (42, 42.01, etc) and is intended to be used for art and things of that nature. so ideally you shouldn't place your whole mod there.

[tacit pebble]

thanks. I think I have to ask a help to gpt for English translation next time. I totally misunderstood pinned message. omg.

[bright fog]

Common is for big files that shouldn't be copy pasta in-between every versions of your mod

You can see it that way

[dark wedge]

But it's B42+ only

[tacit pebble]

I thought common is for all version while 42 is for specific(42 or higher) version. ugh

[dull moss]

so for b41 pretty much full mod should be in b41 folder and starting from b42 we can use common folder (mid-version one) as intended, right?

[tranquil kindle]

So pretty much Models/textures/animations should be there

The only ones that come to mind when thinking size

[fleet bridge]

what about sandbox?

if you have sandbox in common, and then in 42.01, 42.02, does each version load its own sandbox variables?

[sage cliff]

I'm trying to narrow down and fix a mod conflict. From what I've been told, the potential issue might be a hotbar refresh event being spammed. What specific string or function would I need to be on the lookout for to be able to find this specific function or event? Sorry if this isn't the best place to ask.

[tight dirge]

Not sure. I might do my own set of moodles despite saying I don't care about them. As form of face expression practice.

[fleet bridge]

are the moodles still limited to 32x32?

[red tiger]

The battle of moodles begins.

I used to work on countryballs in Aesprite.

Might toss my silly hands into the ring.

[tacit pebble]

I don't think so. because it looked like pretty HD on my 2k monitor.

[red tiger]

Why TIS decided to get away from pixely gold I can't understand.

[fleet bridge]

what's the new limitation and does Moodle Framework support it? 😄

[red tiger]

The game looks best as pixelated.

[red tiger]

It'd be great to see you marry the updated design to the golden pixel style.

Also did TIS keep the MoodleUI in Java for 42?

It'd be better for modders if it were brought into Lua.

https://tenor.com/view/no-shake-my-head-golden-girls-smh-oh-man-gif-14406870892947143609

Missed opportunity there. :X

[proper crown]

No, new resolution is 128x128

[red tiger]

Is it still hard-coded to not scale well with 4K?

[proper crown]

No idea.

[red tiger]

Someone offered pizza for a java mod for 4K support for moodles a couple years ago for build 41.

(I obliged)

[tight dirge]

Well, I am taking my own liberty here. I could technically make 1:1 new one, though then I would feel dissatisfied. Not that the vector art is inherently bad, but I just like to add my own touch to things.

[red tiger]

You should. You're a modder. <3

Don't forget to have fun. A lot of people do that, surprisingly.

[proper crown]

I was busy yesterday trying to make my first mod which was to change the moodles back to the legacy version.

Spent a while figuring it out on my own and another while re-drawing the new ones only to notice someone ninja'd my idea using AI 😭

[tight dirge]

Welp that sucks...

[proper crown]

Yep, kinda demotivated me from playing B42 altogether lol.

[pulsar heath]

afternoon everyone

any documentation around to read about the changes to the mod structure?

[proper crown]

Pinned messages.

[tight dirge]

Anywho, I admit I think a lot of the vector art is not bad but executed poorly. Considering they are still going to be displayed in low scale in the game, a lot of it is not obvious what it is.
Like "heavy load" sprite, the encumbrance. Literally, that arrow makes the whole thing look like a lamp, I think it should be just from the silhouette itself obvious what it is in cases where it isn't face-shaped. Or some just aren't readable like hunger.

[pallid obsidian]

bump

[pulsar heath]

thank you

[red tiger]

I also worked on a custom menu UI mod for someone. It had custom rain effects with wind and some VFX. =)

I have some ideas too for 42. I want to work on a complete UI rewrite, involving GLSL shaders support and frosted-glass designs.

[pulsar heath]

to think the mod ill have to change more things is the stats mod ... and not the integration one... lol i thought it would the other way around...

well, no hurry in updating my mods... will to it after new years..

[tranquil reef]

Exactly. It doesn't make sense to update the moodles when items are still pixel art. Makes the art inconsistent

[pulsar heath]

so the discord integration....

~can i "leech" from it?

that would make my life easier to update my integration mod for twitch... better yet... if i can leech from it i can make a multi stream platform integration mod...

[pulsar heath]

tbh i dont like the new moodle icon's

they kinda feel out of place

but thats just me

[gilded hawk]

Frosted glass WIN7 style?

[red tiger]

Frosted-glass MacOS style

[gilded hawk]

Ohh, I see, that would be interesting

[red tiger]

Oh yeah?

[gilded hawk]

bruh did you get it working already??????????????

Java mod I assume, right?

[red tiger]

I modded in GLSL shader support for Lua code and also modded the UI render code to support them. I wrote the shader for it.

This was in 41.

I can bring it forward.

[gilded hawk]

Uh, very interesting ngl

[red tiger]

Been sitting on that project as more important ones kept popping up.

[gilded hawk]

For now I'll just focus on porting some of my core mods to B42

[red tiger]

I'm updating Umbrella.

[gilded hawk]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Love umbrella so much, I saw you made the unstable plugin for vscode right?

[red tiger]

extension? And no actually we use Lua-Language-Server extension. (The main one with LuaCATS support)

I made the ZedScript extension

[gilded hawk]

Isn't this yours?

[red tiger]

Wait.

@bronze yoke Was this you?

Also what is this menu?

Hahahah I've never seen this.

I manually install my global typings in a folder on my PC.

Well that's convenient. :D

[gilded hawk]

I saw the instructiom to open this menu on the Readme of umbrella a few hours ago during lunch break: https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella?tab=readme-ov-file#vscode-recommended

[bronze yoke]

you didn't know? they've been up there for at least a year 😅

[gilded hawk]

Very much, I'm enjoying it on my other laptop

[bronze yoke]

(well obviously i only uploaded unstable last night)

[red tiger]

I updated Candle to have 41 and 42 branches.

[stone garden]

modpocalypse was worse than i expected and we will lose alot mods

[hallow anvil]

How can I port my clothing mods over to 42?

[bronze yoke]

clothing should actually be pretty much drag and drop, there's a pinned message about the new mod structure

if your clothing uses custom models there's currently a bug that means it won't render correctly unless the weights are normalised though

[copper abyss]

ooo so

How do I import my gun mods into b41

[red tiger]

It's so funny @bronze yoke I love you.

[copper abyss]

with this new mod structure

like where is this pin

[red tiger]

You basically solved a few tasks without me even looking yet.

[tranquil kindle]

Guns seem to be quite reworked

[bronze yoke]

🙇‍♀️

[copper abyss]

ah. I see.. so my gun mods are just finished?

😢

[red tiger]

Absolutely thrilled to have such a proactive modding community. This is why I keep modding tools for yall.

[tranquil kindle]

You can update them

[red tiger]

❤️

[tranquil kindle]

They might work out of the bat, but thing is from i noticed, most guns got changed in terms of stats. m16 got a huge buff. Im not sure, now that we have ATRO like shooting and Full Auto Actually shoots fast and you can fire bolts as fast as rack animation finishes, if there is somethign missing

[dull moss]

Albion is our lord and savior

[tranquil kindle]

I'm not sure how siliencers and stuff might work, since mods that did them were lua based.

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/steve-coffee-happy-morning-birthday-gif-83457923686645041

[copper abyss]

ah, I see. I remember for my last unreleased mod I've been working on I had acouple features that I hope still work
-firemode
-randomized gun sounds

etc etc

I guess I'll be back with a million issues soon

[red tiger]

I hope that ZedScript files aren't .txt

https://tenor.com/view/kek-kekwait-gif-24161687

I guess I'll have to wait another couple years on that.

[bronze yoke]

i do really like some of the new stuff in the script format though

[red tiger]

Oh God. I have to update that code too.

[bronze yoke]

save me item components...

[red tiger]

Is the syntax more consistent?

[dull moss]

ok so who yet started updating your lua scripts to b42, how you guys approach this? change to correct folder structure and see if booting it up works?

[red tiger]

Do I have to rewrite my lexer & parser for the Script format?

Nope. Internal code still only loads .txt files.

That's going to make people still need to manually set the format on the vscode extension.

pepehands

that's a 2 minute edit in the code. :X

[pallid obsidian]

yo guys is there like a modding guide or something for b42?

[red tiger]

You're gonna need to wait a while for that.

@bronze yoke Hopefully the newer format will be consistent.

I haven't looked.

[rustic zealot]

I am looking for a way to read live kill count from B42

[dull moss]

anyone have new modinfo example under their hand?

the one that goes in root folder

[bronze yoke]

you don't need to change anything about your mod.info

[queen oasis]

b42 decimating my code

also

[tranquil reef]

"One day"

[robust locust]

Am I right in thinking that all my recipes need to be rewritten in the new format?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[robust locust]

that sucks

[pallid obsidian]

aight bet

was looking to add some new voices

no clue how to tho lol

[robust locust]

also, did anyone else have a game crash to do with the vehicle dashboard?

[low yarrow]

I am so glad i made my armor and weapon mods not craftable

Mostly at least

[round notch]

I wonder if mod options dev is gonna come back to update? Someone might need to fork it if it's no longer compatible with build 42

Anyone tested it?

[bronze yoke]

no need, b42 has a native alternative

[round notch]

Hell yeah

[drifting stump]

damn albion and jab still alive

been a while huh

[red tiger]

Yup.

[rain steeple]

none of these new B42 mods seem to work with B42

[red tiger]

Probably because people are trying desperately to get attention from the fresh wave of players.

It's an unfortunate pattern in larger releases of games.

[rain steeple]

lol right? It's pretty funny

[drifting stump]

for anyone here who uses radialmenuapi i wont be updating it

[chrome veldt]

"none" is a bit dramatic tho

[drifting stump]

im refactoring and merging into the community patches

[untold sun]

holy shit.... it's jab

i verified my account so i could get on here and say whats up

[quasi kernel]

I managed to update my latest mod with minimal changes - thank goodness.

InventoryItemFactory is forever gone,,,,,,

[red tiger]

Yoooo

Whaddup

[untold sun]

how ya been man??

[red tiger]

Been up to no good, just like the olden days.

[untold sun]

hahaha

[red tiger]

I wrote a lot of tools since.

These kids now see the API through intellisense on VSCode.

[untold sun]

i don't know if you knew this, but my only experience back then was modding PZ and skyrim

i'm working on my degree now

about to retire from the army

have 2 kids

[red tiger]

We're ancient elders here tommy.

[untold sun]

yeah, but you're like a founding father

the work you did for this game kept it alive imo

[red tiger]

Dude, they applied the chat rewrite features I did their own way since I took a short break following 2017.

[untold sun]

for those that dwell here and see this, Jab is a legend

[crystal canyon]

any information on what changed for map loading?

I see that it isnt loading the way it used to;
ERROR: General f:0, t:1734547612633> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.io.EOFException: wx=32, wy=32, nBytes=900, this.zombieIntensity.length=1024 at IsoMetaGrid$MetaGridLoaderThread.loadCell(IsoMetaGrid.java:2704). Stack trace: zombie.iso.IsoMetaGrid$MetaGridLoaderThread.loadCell(IsoMetaGrid.java:2704) zombie.iso.IsoMetaGrid$MetaGridLoaderThread.loadCell(IsoMetaGrid.java:2546) zombie.iso.IsoMetaGrid$MetaGridLoaderThread.runInner(IsoMetaGrid.java:2536) zombie.iso.IsoMetaGrid$MetaGridLoaderThread.run(IsoMetaGrid.java:2523)

[untold sun]

aight man i gotta bounce, just wanted to say hi, later bro

[red tiger]

I'll be here. Ff2 add

[chrome veldt]

@rain steeple So far, here are some that work on my end:

• Close The Trunk
• Draw On The Map
• Equipment UI
• Firearms B42 - Vanilla
• Has Been Read
• I Don't Need A Lighter
• Reorder Containers
• Reorder The Hotbar

[red tiger]

Old map save.

Happened to me.

[potent loom]

I am changing InventoryItemFactory to instanceItem, but it does not work for ranged weapons, any idea why?

[chrome veldt]

I'm relatively new here and admit to not know you @red tiger, why he saying you're a legend? Like, as a PZ modder or as a dev in general?

[crystal canyon]

@red tiger nah, brand new game under devmode. moved a b41 map to the new structure to see if it loaded and check what I need to change/update

Game loads but the modded cell doesnt

[red tiger]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=596531891&searchtext=tommy

:)

Miss your work, bud.

[red tiger]

I grandfathered in support for custom 3D models, both in modding API and in writing the first Blender scripts. I'm not a developer.

Also did stuff like custom server plugins and frameworks. I also wrote anti-cheats.

More of a tooler than a modder but same.

[chrome veldt]

Pretty cool stuff! Are you sure you're not a dev? haha

[red tiger]

I'm not one no. There's a large wishlist I have for them.

I fill in a weird niche here since a lot of modders avoid modding the core of the game and stick to Lua.

[chrome veldt]

When I say dev I'm not talking about a PZ specific dev, just a dev, like, at work

[red tiger]

Oh in that context yes.

Been coding for over 16 years and modded since 2003.

[chrome veldt]

Elder indeed

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/steve-coffee-happy-morning-birthday-gif-83457923686645041

[queen oasis]

started penning down last week what all I would need to just outline a selected area on the map and now, b42 just "does it"

the alpha infill is jank looking but it's something

[red tiger]

I need to see if zombie.ui.UIElement contains radial draw calls.

Nope.

Still not in 42.

[quasi kernel]

I wonder if I could update my generator range mod to do something like this now

[chrome veldt]

Damn, I got a few mod ideas that might actually work now in B42, that's exciting

[queen oasis]

there's addAreaHighlight, renderIsoRect and renderIsoCircle

[red tiger]

I need something like:

javaElement:fillArc(centerX: number, centerY: number, radius: number, startRadians: number, endRadians: number): void;

[queen oasis]

I believe there's arc exposed now too but don't quote me

[quasi kernel]

Does renderIsoCircle actually draw a circle or just an approximate circle with squares?

Reason I ask is because I'd like to set up the mod to actually show what's powered

[queen oasis]

I believe it works a lot like the world markers did but you can't change the sprite or overlay now

[quasi kernel]

Ah.

[queen oasis]

I can't get intelli to open to have a look right now. it's mad at me

[quasi kernel]

No worries, appreciate you letting me know about this

[red tiger]

If you guys need API diffs: https://github.com/asledgehammer/Candle/commit/3aee9ac74a5ea96354e65de83b68cbcfd7d23c3a

This will show you diffs

For the Build 41 -> Build 42 change.

Added API, etc.

[quasi kernel]

Do you know if addAreaHighlight is an individual square thing or does it just take two coordinates and make a highlighted region for that?

Oop, perhaps I could check that

[queen oasis]

I was really hoping they exposed all of lineDrawer but no such luck

it takes coordinates

addAreaHighlight(x, y, x+1, y+1, z, squareHighlight.red, squareHighlight.green, squareHighlight.blue, squareHighlight.alpha)

[quasi kernel]

Ugh, about what I expected

Good for squares, not for circles

I don't think it'd be difficult to get the generator visibility up and running, just depends on if I can get the range and stuff easily from the lua side

[queen oasis]

renderIsoCircle(x, y, z, r, g, b, a, 1)
I'm assuming the last is the size? idk I haven't played with it

and intelliJ is still not talking to me

[quasi kernel]

I just worry it'll run into the similar issue of being a literal circle and not a "circle" of squares

[worldly belfry]

hello

[queen oasis]

oh yea, you would need to use the area highlight for that, or if square:setHighlight still works

[quasi kernel]

Is square:setHighlight still a per-frame thing?

[worldly belfry]

i have atualized this mod from b41 to b42

function ChangeBags()
    -- Variable that gets the list of all items
    local aitem = getAllItems()

    -- Check if aitem is not nil and proceed
    if aitem then
        -- Loop that checks them all
        for i = 0, aitem:size()-1 do
            local item = aitem:get(i)
            if string.find(item:getTypeString(), "Container") then
                -- finds anything with the Type "Container" and discards anything unwanted
                item:DoParam("WeightReduction = 100")
                item:DoParam("Capacity = 500")
            end
        end
    end
end
-- This launches and calls the function when you start PZ. If you enable new mods it should automatically run again to add any new items to the file.
Events.OnPreDistributionMerge.Add(ChangeBags);```

[quasi kernel]

The issue I had with that last time was that it just kinda flashed a lot and I didn't want people getting a seizure or something.

[worldly belfry]

but the capacity not correct

[quasi kernel]

It was also really laggy last I remember

[worldly belfry]

is setting to 48 not to 500

[queen oasis]

that's why I ended up with world markers but they're gone in b42

[quasi kernel]

Hm..

[queen oasis]

if you want to borrow some code for 41, you can have a look at "Auto Logging" and in the JBSelectUtils file.

[digital rover]

hey, how hard would it be for someone with no coding experience (me) to make a mod that changes the level requirement to make a stone blade from 5 knapping to 1? the crude blade doesn't have a recipe atm and i want to try live in the wilderness from the start of the game

[round notch]

How many mod info files do you need?
Seen someones B42 build hes thrown 3 mod infos in all three folders 🤣

[bronze yoke]

just two

[round notch]

1 in 42 folder and 1 in default spot?

That's what I've done

[bronze yoke]

i'd put in 42 instead of common but either works

both at this point is weird

[round notch]

Did you duplicate poster as well or change path?

[bronze yoke]

i duplicated the posters

[round notch]

Its a christmas miracle. My mod works out of the box

nvm

anims are broken

[winter bolt]

why

[round notch]

^

[sterile goblet]

ModTemplate could be updated for b42. Currently it seems, like you need both Common and 42.0 directories. Also tried putting everything in common since my mod is very simple, but mini-poster didn't work for example.
Anyway, here is the diff from the version upgrade if anyone is having issues https://github.com/Franisz/WeightlessAccessories/compare/master%40{1day}...master

[slate laurel]

Too soon for nuclear reactor crafting?

Well maybe, but I was able to figure out how to replace icon, sprite and mesh textures, so it's a start. Now to make it a mod instead of modifying the game files...

[round notch]

Anyone having any luck with animations? I was using the setVariable but that doesn't seem to be working anymore 🤔

[quartz wraith]

MODDERS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. do NOT delete your old B41 MODS.

It DESTROYS servers.

[quartz wraith]

Check the pinned messages if you haven't already.

[fossil bridge]

Anyone know how to modify the new lighting system? ||I'd assume not but I thought it'd be worth a shot||

I see there's some java class files, and two dlls in the game folder. But wasn't sure if I was going to have to RE those or if there was documentation somewhere

[winter bolt]

one of my mods has gone from a 10mb download to a 40mb download because of the new mod format

[sacred harness]

Where are you getting the updated format!?

[winter bolt]

in pins

[sacred harness]

Aww snap, thank you LOL

[cobalt plaza]

pls help it says there is no preview.png but there is one

https://i.imgur.com/1aLaoac.png

[round notch]

Your preview should be in same folder as Contents folder, same structure as a regular workshop mod

[cobalt plaza]

https://i.imgur.com/iyyFU7n.png

still

one is jpg

[drifting stump]

All mod.info parameters in B42

name
poster
description
require
incompatible
loadModAfter
loadModBefore
id
author
modversion
icon
category
url
pack
tiledef
versionMax
versionMin

[red tiger]

Are these case-sensitive?

[mellow frigate]

Dhert gives us a tool to transfer from ModOptions to B42 Vanilla ~equivalent https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3386860561

[drifting stump]

yes

[red tiger]

Damnit.

[drifting stump]

the code hurts my eyes

[red tiger]

This is something I briefly mentioned over the past few years needing to be fixed.

There's no need to case-sensitive these guys. =/

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/umami-umami-mcfeels-mcfeels-staring-at-screen-staring-gif-5979550767815787975

[drifting stump]

[red tiger]

Yup. I brought that up.

I think I actually feel depressed.

.equalsIgnoreCase() or .toLowerCase().equals()