mod_development

[silent zealot]

Seems like drinking alcohol sets your water level to an insanely high amount

[wheat blade]

it's made already isn't it?

[sly monolith]

i have an issue with a simple mod that i made for b41, i tried fixing it for b42, copy pasting stuff from the original game files (cuz i have no idea how to mod actually xd), it worked for me in the b41, but it seems to not work anymore 😅 i turn the mod on, the thing reloads, and then i see 2 errors in the bottom right and the game doesn't work anymore, can't even turn it on untill i cut that mod from the folders

[silent zealot]

yes, but that one does not adjust movement - so when you turn the shopping trolly spins around at super high speed

feels really wrong

Now we can (probably) have a trolley you actually push that takes effort.

[elfin stump]

You will want to check you console.txt file for exceptions or share that. Sounds like your mod has a recipe most likely in the old format.

[sly monolith]

i actually went into the original game recipies and copy pasted stuff to my mod from there, tho maybe i missed something xd

[silent zealot]

What is the error?

Check console log like Phil suggested

[sly monolith]

where is that console.txt file? i didnt touch zomboid for a while idk what im doing 😄

[elfin stump]

just search for it windows will find it quick

[silent zealot]

C:\Users\username\Zomboid

[sly monolith]

oh ok nvm found it

[silent zealot]

then ctrl-F for "error" (and there will be a few unrelated errors as wellm just for fun)

What does the mod do? That, along with the errors, shoudl give us enough info to point you in a direction towards fixing it.

[sly monolith]

it just lets you craft a new bag with stats of large backpack, but looks of something else

[elfin stump]

Can you post the recipe that is used?

[silent zealot]

Recipes changes in B42, so that is likely the issue - have a look at the vanilla recipes in B42 and see if you can figure out what is different.

[tacit pebble]

all recipes are completely changed

[sly monolith]

    {
    timedAction = SewingCloth,
        Time:180.0,
        Tags = InHandCraft,
        category = BagZ,
        needTobeLearn = false,
        inputs
        {
            item 1 [Base.Bag_NewBagTINT],
            item 1 tags[SewingNeedle] mode:keep,
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 1 Base.Bag_ALICEpack,
        }
    }```

there seems to be an error with this one

[silent zealot]

It's also possible bags changed a big with the tags/locations they use, but you test that by spawning in the bag in debug mode

[elfin stump]

craftRecipe at the top is what you want

not recipe

[sly monolith]

ooooh yeah

i missed that, thanks !!

[silent zealot]

I need a mod that stops my character getting bored when I am reading/typing on a Zomboid Discord and forgot to pause the game. 🤣

[elfin stump]

Sense of Smell mod

you will get eaten instead

more fun!

[sly monolith]

there's a setting in options that pauses the game when it's not focused

[silent zealot]

...too sensible. But that will do for now!

[finite scroll]

kinda like with dragging corpses

really hope they animate turning, it looks janky as shit

[sly monolith]

it didn't throw any errors now! 😄 thank you guys, it seems to be fixed 😄

[elfin stump]

I am running a test at full speed and just saw a cow for the first time run by in hyperdrive, those things are scarier than the zeds!!

nice!

props to the PZ dev team for the very accurate cow tail tho

[finite scroll]

how can i check what tags an item has?

[fair elbow]

Hi, getting into developing mods for PZ 42, is there a website with the new Javadoc for 42.0 yet

[bronze yoke]

i just launched one! https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/

[fair elbow]

Perfect thank you

[elfin stump]

Nice!

[tacit pebble]

ah btw can someone do some action on Zombie population window in debug?
for me all options throw an error when click something.

[elfin stump]

me too, not just you

[tacit pebble]

ah thanks. it's b42 thing then

[elfin stump]

Yeah I noticed it the other day, same with some of the zombie horde manager

[open drum]

Good morrow from Korea modders

Could any kind fellow help me

if there's a way to put a custom "tag" on script items?

like ...

[tacit pebble]

just tags = your_tag until b41

[tranquil reef]

How can I add an icon before a context menu option

[open drum]

i want to use local items = getScriptManager():getItemsTag(tag)

[tacit pebble]

not sure about b42

[bronze yoke]

local item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem("Module.ItemName")
if item then
    item:DoParam("Tags = MyNewTag")
end

[open drum]

to collectively set all my mod items to have tag = "wuro"

[open drum]

will this have to b ran at every game start then right?

using Event.OnGameStart. ?

[bronze yoke]

you don't have to put it on an event, you can just leave it loose in your file

if you want to put it in an event use OnGameBoot

[pale merlin]

is there an axample in the game of copying and pasting from the clipboard?

[open drum]

i see what you mean. TY ill try that

[pale merlin]

is it even possible to copy to the clipboard from lua?

[bronze yoke]

i never did it but some people had some debug tools that did that

[sly monolith]

it seems i celebrated too early, i get an error when loading a game heh

[bronze yoke]

i think there's a Clipboard class or something

[pale merlin]

i'll take a look, cheers

[bronze yoke]

https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/zombie/core/Clipboard.html

[crystal canyon]

can anyone spot any glaring issues with these recipes? The game doesnt like them

[elfin stump]

recipe should be craftRecipe

[sly monolith]

it is possible to see the [1 ERROR] thing in the menu once the error happens

[crystal canyon]

ha!! thanks!

[tacit pebble]

check console.txt

[elfin stump]

just do a search for console.txt and then search for "exception"

[sly monolith]

LOG : General f:0, t:1734928326158> java.lang.Exception: Item not found: Base.Bag_NewBagTINT

[tacit pebble]

Item is not existed?

[sly monolith]

oh should i specify the magical category i made for this thing instead of Base? xD

[open drum]

Question, item Necklace_GoldRuby { DisplayName = Necklace - Gold with Ruby Stone, DisplayCategory = Accessory, Type = Clothing, Weight = 0.1, Icon = Necklace_GoldRuby, BodyLocation = Necklace, ClothingItem = Necklace_GoldRuby, Cosmetic = TRUE, WorldStaticModel = Necklace_GoldRuby_Ground, Tags = HasMetal;RubyJewellery, }

with this item

can i use scriptItems:addAll(getScriptManager():getItemsTag("HasMetal"))???

[elfin stump]

usually YourMod.YourItem

unless you added to base

[sly monolith]

thx, i'll look into that next 😄

[open drum]

on top of the scropt .txt file u can start with module "your name"

instead of Base {
}

[sly monolith]

i started with this module BAG_NEWBAG { imports { Base }

[open drum]

yea, that's it

[tacit pebble]

uhm.. if I remember correctly, should be module base { }

[elfin stump]

I think you can also call hasMetal or getMetalValue

[sly monolith]

i don't really get what it does tho, after that i still need to add my BAG_NEWBAG thing instead of Base.<my mod> ?

[open drum]

got it. Is there a way to call all jwelleries only ?

[elfin stump]

I am not sure, but albion setup a page that is going to be the goto source for you and pretty much everything now 🙂 : https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/

[open drum]

ty

[elfin stump]

Items you add are going to be added to the table BAG_NEWBAG. Lua is pretty much just tables or it helps at least to think of it that way. So you are setting up a table, and putting an item in it, the imports base is just a reference, I don't know if it even needed or not, but it doesnt hurt. Then when you ask for your item you are asking for first your table you made, and second the item from that table. "yourMod.yourItem" where yourMod is the table you made and yourItem is the item you put in it. When you ask for Base items from the game, you usually will say Base.TheItem, or if you were grabbing from another mod, you could say OTHERMOD.crazymoddeditem.

[bronze yoke]

imports usually don't do anything (i think most people don't really know what they do and just add them to be safe) but they don't hurt to have

[sly monolith]

ok changing it fixed stuff and now it works 😄 thanks again for the help 🥳

[tacit pebble]

try using string.find or something to find part of full tags when you get tags from item

for example
string.find(getTags(), Jewellry)

!!this function is not correct in PZ. I just quick threw my thought!!

[elfin stump]

Nice!

[sly monolith]

oh i see, ok thank you for the explanation 😆

[elfin stump]

That is definitely what I do 🥺

[sly monolith]

i took that thing from some other mod i used to learn how to made mine xD

[elfin stump]

Do you see the light?

[sly monolith]

i'm not dying yet 😂

[bronze yoke]

when you reference a script object (item, model, vehicle, etc) by its short type (ItemName instead of Base.ItemName) it will check your module first, and then imported modules - so if you aren't referencing objects from other modules it doesn't do anything

i don't tend to use them, i like being explicit with full types anyway

[sly monolith]

so does that mean it's better to even not have that import thing there? or the other way around lmao

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't really matter, but it probably isn't doing anything

[elfin stump]

I feel like I have seen some places in the vanilla code where they don't use base, so in those cases, that is part of base so it grabs it easy. But if I were to do that in mine, it would usually be okay, but if the item was something common, like "Shoe", then that is where it is really key right? - So you are saying that you can just always call by its long name and its always safe, and you dont need import at all if you do that, is that right?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[finite scroll]

ok who's idea at the indie stone was it to keep the same naming convention for everything except the color of fucking pens

everything is ItemVariant but they're fucking VariantItem

[elfin stump]

Okay cool that is good to know, I started using only the full names awhile back, so I can probably start cleaning up some of the extra imports. Thanks!

[elfin stump]

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/6005-dyslexia

Dyslexia isn't a crime! It is a battle 🙂

[finite scroll]

ok well i'm still arresting them for it

[elfin stump]

haha

[fair elbow]

Hi, is there any documentation on what are the main game objects that are loaded in Lua on startup? I'm seeing an Events table in some mods and what appears to be a ScriptManager

[bronze yoke]

you can see documentation on the classes and functions at the javadocs, and you can see events here: https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZEventDoc/blob/develop/docs/Events.md

[crystal canyon]

RIP

ERROR: General f:0, t:1734929872027> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown
zombie.world.WorldDictionaryException: World loading could not proceed, there are script load errors. (Actual error may be printed earlier in log) at IsoWorld.init(IsoWorld.java:3180).
Stack trace:
zombie.iso.IsoWorld.init(IsoWorld.java:3180)
zombie.gameStates.GameLoadingState$1.runInner(GameLoadingState.java:301)
zombie.gameStates.GameLoadingState$1.run(GameLoadingState.java:251)
java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[fair elbow]

You're the best thank you

[bronze yoke]

look further up in your log, you should see an actual specific error somewhere recentish

[crystal canyon]

java.lang.Exception: Tag has no items: Needle. line: item 1 tags[Needle] mode:keep

[finite scroll]

@crystal canyon how did you solve the issue of professions only appearing the first time a world is launched?

i can't seem to figure it out

[crystal canyon]

Events.OnCreateLivingCharacter.Add(function()
print("[DEBUG] OnCreateLivingCharacter triggered")
traitsInitialized = false
exclusivitySet = false
professionsInitialized = false
initializeTraits()
setMutualExclusivity()
initProfessions()
traitsInitialized = true
exclusivitySet = true
professionsInitialized = true
end)

[bronze yoke]

if you're making a custom profession, you need to hook the basegame function that adds professions

[crystal canyon]

using OnCreateLivingCharacter

[bronze yoke]

for some reason the profession list gets wiped and refilled every time so doing it at startup only affects the main menu

[elfin stump]

📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌 📌

[crystal canyon]

when you die, and get back to the character creation screen, it triggers the OnCreateLivingCharacter event, so you need to call your profession function there as well

[open drum]

I am gussing ``` craftRecipe Melt_Accessories
{
Time = 100,
Tags = primitivefurnace,
category = Wuro_Recipe,
needTobeLearn = false,
timedAction = MakingHammer_Surface,
inputs
{
item 1 Necklace_Silver/Necklace_GoldDiamond/Necklace_GoldRuby/Necklace_Gold,

    }  ```

making multiple items to be able to work as input

by using / doesn't work anymore?

[bronze yoke]

item lists should now be done as [Necklace_Silver;Necklace_GoldDiamond;Necklace_GoldRuby;Necklace_Gold]

[open drum]

gotcha ty

makes more sense

is it possible to make it call all the lists from a separate . lua file ?

like have listofitemsIwant.lua

and call the lists from that to be put into inputs

[pulsar pagoda]

im trying to make a audio file change to fishing but i just cant get b42 to have regular fishing sounds, do yall get sounds when fishing?

[fair elbow]

Man it's probably just going to be easier to decompile the java and dive in huh

[bronze yoke]

usually is, yeah

[fair elbow]

God forbid, I haven't touched java in more than 10 years

[finite scroll]

I had it called there, but it doesn't seem to be working

must be some issue on my end

[bronze yoke]

for some reason no, they removed that

[open drum]

gotcha

so this won't work any more

[bronze yoke]

from what i've seen there's nothing like this anymore

[open drum]

affirmative

[crystal canyon]

Do you have any flags for your code? That affected mine. I kept calling livingcharacter but it still wouldnt load them, I had to reset the flags

[pulsar pagoda]

anybody?

[elfin stump]

I just tested and I hear no sound when fishing with the new mechanic.

[pulsar pagoda]

oooh okay, thanks! it must be yet to be implemented

thank you for your help

the sound files are in the bank files so it should come

[bronze yoke]

the way i've always done this is:```lua
Events.OnGameBoot.Remove(BaseGameCharacterDetails.DoProfessions)

local old_doProfessions = BaseGameCharacterDetails.DoProfessions
BaseGameCharacterDetails.DoProfessions = function()
old_doProfessions()
-- add your professions here
end

Events.OnGameBoot.Add(BaseGameCharacterDetails.DoProfessions)

[elfin stump]

Quick question on SoundManager:PlayWorldSound(String name, IsoGridSquare source, float pitchVar, float radius, float maxGain, boolean ignoreOutside) - maxGain is the closest I see to volume but my understanding is that can only go up, is there anyway to play a sound at a lower volume or do I need to just bring down my audio file volume, and assume this is being controlled via a channel somewhere?

[silver nacelle]

And now my .pzw has no roads.

[finite scroll]

oh my fucking god

it was actually working the entire time

but for some reason it puts it at the very top of the list the first time and the very bottom the second

[crystal canyon]

hahahaha

[finite scroll]

i'm such a fucking idiot

[crystal canyon]

it happens

[finite scroll]

that it does

lmfao

[crystal canyon]

Yaki's oogabooga with recipes ready, missing 3 modules to edit

[fair elbow]

Oh wtf

[open drum]

nice

[fair elbow]

So some of the games actual java object methods are exposed to the lua

[finite scroll]

yes

[sly monolith]

can someone help me with another issue: java.lang.Exception: unknown type in craftrecipe: OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.pickBagTextureRed at OutputScript.Load(OutputScript.java:258).

i had this in my mod in b41, it used to pick a certain texture when the item was crafted, now it seems to no longer work, or maybe i just placed it in a wrong place?

[elfin stump]

If you are trying to run a function from here try it as YOURMOD.pickBagTextureRed (if that is your function) - also you will need to change your function as the parameters are different

parameters from function call on an recipe are now (recipeInfo, isoPlayer)

it used to be (items, result, isoPlayer) I believe.

[open drum]

Can anyone help me to make this long arse list simple????``` craftRecipe Melt_Accessories
{
Time = 100,
Tags = primitivefurnace,
category = Wuro_Recipe,
needTobeLearn = false,
timedAction = MakingHammer_Surface,
inputs
{
item 1 [Locket;Necklace_DogTag;Necklace_DogTag_Female;Necklace_DogTag_Male;Necklace_Gold;Necklace_GoldRuby;Necklace_GoldDiamond;Necklace_Silver;Necklace_SilverSapphire;Necklace_SilverCrucifix;Necklace_SilverDiamond;Necklace_Crucifix;Necklace_YingYang;Necklace_Pearl;NecklaceLong_Gold;NecklaceLong_GoldDiamond;NecklaceLong_Silver;NecklaceLong_SilverEmerald;NecklaceLong_SilverSapphire;NecklaceLong_SilverDiamond;NecklaceLong_Amber;Necklace_Choker;Necklace_Choker_Sapphire;Necklace_Choker_Amber;Necklace_Choker_Diamond;NoseRing_Gold;NoseRing_Silver;NoseStud_Gold;NoseStud_Silver;Earring_LoopLrg_Gold;Earring_LoopLrg_Silver;Earring_LoopMed_Silver;Earring_LoopMed_Gold;Earring_LoopSmall_Silver_Both;Earring_LoopSmall_Gold_Both;Earring_LoopSmall_Gold_Top;Earring_LoopSmall_Silver_Top;Earring_Stud_Gold;Earring_Stud_Silver;Earring_Stone_Sapphire;Earring_Stone_Emerald;Earring_Stone_Ruby;Earring_Pearl],

    }        
    outputs
    {
        item 1 Base.Apple,
    }      
}    ```

im sure there will b a better way to do this

[sly monolith]

here's the script:

module Base
{

    craftRecipe Make Red Bag
    {
    timedAction = SewingCloth,
        Time:180.0,
        Tags = InHandCraft,
        category = BagZ,
        xpAward = Tailoring:1,
        needTobeLearn = false,
        inputs
        {
            item 1 [Base.Bag_ALICEpack],
            item 1 tags[SewingNeedle] mode:keep,
            item 3 [Base.Thread],
            item 1 [farming.Strewberrie] flags[AllowRottenItem],
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 1 BAGZ.Bag_bagZ,
            OnCreate:Recipe.OnCreate.pickBagTextureRed,
        }
    }

[elfin stump]

First get rid of the sapces in craftRecipe name, no longer allowed.

[open drum]

yeap

[sly monolith]

oh ok thx, was actually wondering why there aren't spaces in the base game files xd

[open drum]

no space allowed

[elfin stump]

outputs, OnCreate I do not think that is a proper format, OnCreate should be up with your other parameters

[icy yarrow]

Do any of those have a tag for accessories?

[open drum]

most of them have tag = HasMetal

but also does metal stuffs

i only want the jewelries

[icy yarrow]

No accessories tag?

[open drum]

to b accepted

[finite scroll]

yeah, pretty sure names are set through translate files

[open drum]

    {
        DisplayName = Earrings - Ruby,
        DisplayCategory = Accessory,
        Type = Clothing,
        Weight = 0.1,
        Icon = Earring_Stone_Ruby,
        BodyLocation = Ears,
        ClothingItem = Earring_Stone_Ruby_Both,
        Cosmetic = TRUE,
        WorldStaticModel = Earring_LoopSmallSilver_Ground,
        Tags = HasMetal;RubyJewellery,
    }
    ```

[elfin stump]

OnCreate = pickBagTextureRed (because you are in base)

[open drum]

they ahve displaycategory as accessory

[open drum]

but also does stockings and hats

[sly monolith]

kk i'll try this thank you !

[crystal canyon]

you could run another function that adds a special tag to those items and then just call that tag in the recipe

[icy yarrow]

You could maybe try that RubyJewlrey one and just add the other tags if those are available. Gold, silver etc

[elfin stump]

make sure to get it out of outputs and put it up at the top with other parameters like Time and Tags

[tacit pebble]

body locations?

[open drum]

maybe i could try OnCreate = checkifJewerely instead

[sly monolith]

yea was about to ask, thx xD

[open drum]

and make a function out of it

to check if the input item is jewel from the list

and return boolean

and addItem to the inventory as result

[pulsar pagoda]

hello, does anybody know where the new voice types are located? i want to add a new voice type

[finite scroll]

media/voiceStyles/voiceStyles.xml

actual audio data and stuff is somewhere else

[crystal canyon]

projectzomboid/media/voiceStyles

[finite scroll]

but that's where the formatting is

i want to speak to the man who gave the colored pens tags "[Color]Pen" instead of pen

[pulsar pagoda]

grat thanks guys!

great

[finite scroll]

and give him a firm homiciding

the alternate pens/pencils all just have the pen and pencil tag

but the literal most derivative variants of the pen

ALL have different tags

[crystal canyon]

projectzomboid/zombie/audio/parameters/ParameterCharacterVoiceType.class

Java

ugh

[finite scroll]

i've been using http://www.javadecompilers.com/ to decompile

works fine for me

[crystal canyon]

theres also ParameterCharacterVoicePitch.class

[elfin stump]

I am looking at some jewlery and watches and stuff and I think maybe you could check for the hasMetal tag and then there is a parameter called "COSMETIC" that is a bool, and you can use that to determine i think if it is clothing? I am not sure how to check that though, it could be that is a flag? But I am not certain.

[finite scroll]

doesn't get variable names but you can at least look at the code

[fair elbow]

I just used Vineflower to decompile, does the job pretty well

Also, anyone know where in the code zombie spawning is

[crystal canyon]

can we use glasses during daytime to start fire? Would be nice to add it to the game if not an option

[open drum]

ill try few things and let it know in this chat

[crystal canyon]

ZombieSpawnRecorder.class maybe?

[fair elbow]

I think that's for logging from what I can tell

[sly monolith]

ok that thing i had doesn't work anymore, could you please look into it?

local redTex = getTexture("media/textures/Item_schoolbag_red.png")
local pinkTex = getTexture("media/textures/Item_schoolbag_pink.png")
local goldTex = getTexture("media/textures/Item_schoolbag_gold.png")
local purpleTex = getTexture("media/textures/Item_schoolbag_purple.png")

function Recipe.OnCreate.pickBagTextureRed(items, result, player)
    local newVisual = result:getVisual()
    newVisual:setTextureChoice(0)
    result:setTexture(redTex)
end

function Recipe.OnCreate.pickBagTexturePink(items, result, player)
    local newVisual = result:getVisual()
    newVisual:setTextureChoice(1)
    result:setTexture(pinkTex)
end

function Recipe.OnCreate.pickBagTextureGold(items, result, player)
    local newVisual = result:getVisual()
    newVisual:setTextureChoice(2)
    result:setTexture(goldTex)
end

function Recipe.OnCreate.pickBagTexturePurple(items, result, player)
    local newVisual = result:getVisual()
    newVisual:setTextureChoice(3)
    result:setTexture(purpleTex)
end

[elfin stump]

(items, result, player) change to (recipeInfo, player)

[sly monolith]

the mod itself loaded into the game, but when i tried crafting that bag it gave an error

[elfin stump]

Recipe.OnCreate.pickBagTextureRed are weird function names

[crystal canyon]

Check in projectzomboid/zombie/characters

[sly monolith]

idk i had someone make that for me xd

[elfin stump]

PickBagTextureRed would be much better. but make sure to call it that way from your recipe.

[open drum]

or (craftRecipeData,character)

[crystal canyon]

ZombiesZoneDefinition.class

[elfin stump]

Yep, a couple things. You do not need the Recipe.OnCreate. prefix on your functions, I would get rid of that and then change your function calls to call the new name. You also have the old parameters so change (items, result, player) change to (recipeInfo, player) on all those too.

[fair elbow]

Oh nice thanks! I thought it was VirtualZombieManager.class

[sly monolith]

kk ty!

[finite scroll]

does anyone know if there's a way to set a default display option for crafting recipes?

for example, my recipe uses any writing utensil, but currently the spiffo pen shows up as the default, which is just off-putting to me.

[sly monolith]

ok now i get this:

attempted index: getVisual of non-table: null

LOG  : General      f:3099, t:1734934281826> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE
-----------------------------------------
function: pickBagTexturePink -- file: bagstextureselector.lua line # 30 | MOD: NewBag
Callframe at: performCurrentRecipe
function: perform -- file: ISHandcraftAction.lua line # 158 | Vanilla

ERROR: General      f:3099, t:1734934281827> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown

xd

[elfin stump]

One of the parts of your function was using the old result that was coming in, now this is a table with recipe info but I am not sure of the format

[sly monolith]

i had it work with that textureselector.lua back in b41, but now it doesn't

[finite scroll]

ah, rip

[elfin stump]

getVisual of non-table means that it did not have anything to call from

I am not sure what the format will look like but let me see what I can find out

[sly monolith]

oh wait maybe i'm making that up, it used to pick from all the available textures in the crafting window at random iirc, someone told me it's not possible to set a specific one for each recipe, tho how would i know xd

[finite scroll]

it's def being consistent

it seems to be slightly based off the order of the tags

[elfin stump]

The issue is just that the passed argumennts of a recipe function call have changed. You renamed them to the new ones but the code still is trying to access the old name, the new parameter is a table tho. I am checking the format for you.

[finite scroll]

but like you can't control what item of the tag comes first

and so can't control what item is shown

[autumn temple]

I used to have custom animations that I would have play by using the EatType but they dont seem to work anymore. Did they change how these conditions work?

[sly monolith]

thank you very much, i gotta go out for a bit, really appreciate the help cuz i have no idea how any of this works xd

[elfin stump]

They added a ton of new eat types so probably on teh back end things have changed. I am not sure how the system works though yet.

[finite scroll]

also does anyone know why we can't rip socks anymore?

is that a bug?

[autumn temple]

nah nvm

dead end

[finite scroll]

pretty unrelated to anything, just wondering

[fair elbow]

man it's pretty interesting reading the decompilation
you can kinda tell that certain features like animals were sorta grafted on in a hurry

[vague marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/burn-elmo-pyro-it-down-gif-23002278

[autumn temple]

im gonna continue looking into it, I will let you know if I got it working

[fair elbow]

Hi, anyone understand how the client and server interact? I'm trying to understand what the server handles and what the client handles and what should go under media/lua/client/ vs media/lua/server/

I assume the server handles chunk loading, item spawning, zombies in MP

[elfin stump]

It depends on what you are doing but generally if the player is triggering things and then affecting their inventory or stats that can be client and if you are doing things like spawning objects or things like world distributions or loading of cells etc then probably on the server, but it is PZ so you are going to see a lot of blurring over the lines.

[finite scroll]

hmm that’s an interesting approach

[fair elbow]

Hrmm I see, thank you. Any idea if entity locations are server side or client side?

[pulsar pagoda]

i dont know a lot, but i know that item distributions, like loot tables go in server

[finite scroll]

explains quite a bit

[fair elbow]

Actually it'd have to be server side nvm

[finite scroll]

i assumed it was like other things where the client can do whatever the hell it wants, but none of its real until server does it.

[pulsar pagoda]

could anyone help me with proximity audio? the audio fades when i go too far away from the emitter (buck) https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/62585168917564770/77CD19F18F0F94A4B90D585A172DD1AA5CC3E006/

[elfin stump]

PZ trusts the client a lot more than most games

[fair elbow]

I'm trying to figure out whether it's possible to mod something like roving hordes into MP with only lua, but I'm not sure how possible that will be. Afaik it looks like zombie spawning is done randomly on a per-chunk basis

[finite scroll]

makes sense considering mp is mostly intended for severs wit friends

idk if it’s the best way to go about it tho

[elfin stump]

Look at my sense of smell mod, I use audio to achieve that, mine follows the player but you could do something like this like with the gunshot metaevents. etc

[fair elbow]

Ohhh nice, I'll take a look thank you!

[opaque ocean]

I'm losing my mind over here. Anyone figure out how to add moveable tiles, then use those tiles in a recipe, or interact with the construction menu at all in b42?

[pulsar pagoda]

anybody know?

[autumn temple]

@elfin stump I just got one of my animations to work.
This is the B41 condition
<m_Conditions>
<m_Name>PerformingAction</m_Name>
<m_Type>STRING</m_Type>
<m_StringValue>TestAnim</m_StringValue>
</m_Conditions>
To update it for B42 you change the m_Name to be FoodType not PerformingAction

[fair elbow]

So from what I can tell from looking at SMELLSENSE_PlayScentTrailAtCurrentIndex, you're simulating a scent trail by registering "sounds" at the players location to lead hordes to them?

[elfin stump]

nice! I will take a peek at this more I am interested in digging into it.

[autumn temple]

there are several new food related conditions. but to make the animation work all you got to do is that simple name change for your animations xml

[elfin stump]

Yeah that is how I did it, but you could use random ones, essentially making meta events that don't actually play a sound.

That is awesome!

[autumn temple]

now I just gotta figure out why my animation still wont play :D
doing that fixed one of the two that were broken. but ones still broken

[bronze yoke]

we literally just don't know

there are implications of very big changes from b41 in the vanilla lua

in b41 close to everything could be and often needed to be done on the client, it looks like far more will be done on the server, but for now, we don't have multiplayer so it doesn't matter

[pulsar pagoda]

anybody know pretty please?

[bronze yoke]

you can control audio falloff with distanceMin and distanceMax in your sound script

it should be inside the clip block

[fair elbow]

Right I forgot, b42 doesn't have MP yet

[paper steeple]

Say I want to make my own vehicle mod, how would I go about doing that?

I know how to make 3D models and textures already, but is there any special oddity I need to know about for PZ? Any specific scaling in Blender, or rotation?

How would I make it compatible with the animated vehicles mod?

[pulsar pagoda]

aaah great, do you know of any examples i could check out?

[bronze yoke]

i think the distances are in squares and some people get confused - distance min is the distance at which audio begins to fall off, not the minimum distance you can hear it

you'd want your sound script to look something like this:```
sound MySound {
clip {
file = media/sound/MySound.ogg,
distanceMin = 10,
distanceMax = 50,
}
}

[pulsar pagoda]

awesome, thank you very much, i will try that out!

[wind wasp]

hi, can someone tell me what is wrong? I'm trying to publish build42 mod and I have the file as you see but game tells me I don't.

[elfin stump]

#mod_development message see the pin

[fair elbow]

I'd suggest taking a look at a pre-existing vehicle mod ie animated vehicles

[wind wasp]

thank you, making "common" folder from the guide and placing "mod.info" solved it. Shame devs don't put info box about that and modding in pz is all about research even in the slightest mistakes.

[elfin stump]

no problem!

[pulsar pagoda]

does anybody know why the sandbox options arent working? i put 100 in every option and i think its defaulting to the default option

[autumn temple]

Making a 42 folder may be better if you have to change anything to get it to work in Build 42. As common is meant for files that don't change between updates.

[wind wasp]

that's great addition and thank you for the pro tip!

[pulsar pagoda]

anybody got a clue?

[elfin stump]

What is the problem? From your message it sounds like it is defaulting to default - what is the behavior you are wanting?

[pulsar pagoda]

i want it to be 100 percent in say zombies drop, but in some zombies it doesnt drop, so im assuming its taking the default value and not the value inputed by the player in sandbox

[pulsar pagoda]

magazineracks by example i think its being 33% not 100

[elfin stump]

Ahh, a couple of things. That is not a percent chance you are messing with is one.

It is a different value I forget exactly how it works. Are you checking the percent with lootzed?

run your game in debug mode. Then spawn a zombie with outfit set to "none" and kill them. Goto debug options, check LootZed, then goto where you can see their corpse inventory, right click on the icon of the dead zombie, select "LootZed" you will be able to see the percent of chacne of loot.

[pulsar pagoda]

ok i will try that out

so if its not a percentage what is it?

i always thought it was

thanks for your help!

[elfin stump]

It is something like an amount of rolls, I just remember that it ended up not being a real percent value, but you can see that real value from loot zed

[pulsar pagoda]

allright ill check it thanks :)

maybe ill just make it a bigger value like 1000 to guarantee it

[elfin stump]

Yeah, use lootzed and you can really hit it. However, there is another issue you may run into. Sometimes loot tables don't update based on the sandbox value and they will remain default no matter what, this could also be the case. You will not know for sure without lootzed. It is known and repeatible bug that has been here for a long time, but in B41 I couldn't get the devs to acknowledge it was happening! It is possible that it is still the case... if so you can prevent it by adding "ItemPickerJava.Parse()" at the end of your loot table entries.

[bronze yoke]

it's not exactly a bug, but

great news for you: they seem to have tried to change it and did it wrong

[pulsar pagoda]

so at the end of table.insert lines?

[bronze yoke]

item picker now loads distributions immediately after sandbox options load, instead of a little bit before... however, as there are no events inbetween these two things happening, there is still no way to actually access and apply the sandbox options before the distributions are loaded

[elfin stump]

Yeah that should do

[elfin stump]

Yeah that sounds familiar, so they changed it, but it still requires ItemPickerJava.Parse() anyway or for safety?

[bronze yoke]

they changed it in a way that actually changes literally nothing and you still have to do everything you used to

[elfin stump]

Me and another modder were able to confirm and repeat the behavior way back then but the devs were saying it wasn't happening and so we just solved it and tagged them and left it at that.

[bronze yoke]

internally technically different and you can see there was an attempt but in practice nothing changes

[pulsar pagoda]

so at 100 value its 40% chance

freaky

[elfin stump]

So I always thought it was a bug they didn't want to deal with, but that resolves it so as far as I know its resolved as long as you do that, it just isn't in any of their distribution examples.

[elfin stump]

it makes me feel better that they noted it at some point even if the fix didn't work.

[pulsar pagoda]

it seems that changing sandbox settings isnt making a difference, no. ill try that extra line then

[elfin stump]

Yeah there you go, loot zed is your friend. It is a very wild number system that I remember takes all kinds of things into account, so it is even better than percent.

[elfin stump]

Yep, still the same old bug. That line will fix u right up.

[pulsar pagoda]

like this?

[pulsar pagoda]

aaah better but more difficult, classic haha

[bronze yoke]

pre distribution merge is too early to access sandbox variables

even with itempickerjava.parse() you'll only get default values

[elfin stump]

I would do a line down

[bronze yoke]

move it to OnInitGlobalModData

[elfin stump]

Ah okay I see how I did this

Yeah Events.OnInitGlobalModData.Add(YOURFUNCTION)

[pulsar pagoda]

just replace that predistributionmerge line for that?

[elfin stump]

show the whole file plz

will be easier

[pulsar pagoda]

coming right up

[elfin stump]

There is event likely at the bottom that needs adjust

[elfin stump]

albion caught that, ItemPickerJava.Parse() is the second part of a two part change

[pulsar pagoda]

yeah i tought so haha, same name as on top

[pulsar pagoda]

damn it sure is complicated, thanks for the help you guys

[elfin stump]

Change the last line to Events.OnInitGlobalModData.Add

Then goto line 24, hit enter so you above your last end

On that line add "ItemPickerJava.Parse()"

[pulsar pagoda]

like so?

[elfin stump]

.Add(preDistributionMerge)

[elfin stump]

preDistributionMerge is your function name, You change that to something that makes more sense, as it doesn't have to do with that merge anymore. It just needs to be the same name as your function on line #1 as on line #27

Yes that will work

Function name can be changed for cosmetic purposes only but will work as is

[pulsar pagoda]

changed it here and here

i dont need a ; next to itempicker no?

[elfin stump]

; is optional in lua

[pulsar pagoda]

aaah allright

[elfin stump]

a gift they gave to people coming from C# I suppose

[pulsar pagoda]

haha makes sense

[elfin stump]

and all the other ; languages

[pulsar pagoda]

ill try the settings now, ill report back

[elfin stump]

Loot tables will need you to reload the game for an update, they will not update live on the fly FYI.

[pulsar pagoda]

well it doesnt seem to have worked :(

i restarted the game, even made a new character

have them at 100 but the game still says 40 chance

change in in game with debug to 50 and it still says 40

[elfin stump]

Just asking cause I have done it myself a lot, did you save the file?

[pulsar pagoda]

yup

i know debug option to modify sandbox settings is working too, i just put food lot to 0 and indeed theres no food loot

[fluid current]

might have to init even sooner

[elfin stump]

Additionally you can try changing your line 1 from "local function MapDistribution()" to this instead "local MapDistribution = function (newGame)"

[pulsar pagoda]

allright, will do

i trust you because i have no clue what im typing haha

[elfin stump]

That I believe will pass your new game when you load it into that function, or something like that, I forget. It forces the function to use a parameter I believe. It was many many many months ago that I dug into all this.

[bronze yoke]

that doesn't change anything

[crystal canyon]

for the person that was having problems with onCreate on the recipe, did you fix it?

[bronze yoke]

they're two different ways of writing the same thing (mostly)

[pulsar pagoda]

yeah it didnt fix it :(

[fluid current]

i was gonna say that but also could be almost like a constructor variant but idk java enough

[bronze yoke]

local function foo() end
-- is technically equivalent to:
local foo
foo = function() end
```but this difference rarely matters

[fluid current]

o wait nvm wtf am i talkin abt

[elfin stump]

It is possible that it is working and you are hitting max limits, why don't you try setting your number down to something very low, like 0.1? Change your integer to a double and try that. I think maybe the numbers in the distribution are supposed to be tiny.

[bronze yoke]

if you try to call the function recursively in a function defined with local foo = function() end it will error because there is no local foo yet, otherwise there is no difference

[pulsar pagoda]

will do

[fluid current]

also isnt it supposed to be a float not an int

[elfin stump]

So essentially that packs the function into a variable and then calling that variable just calls the function?

[pulsar pagoda]

nope still 40

[fluid current]

you have integer in your options file

[bronze yoke]

distribution numbers are supposed to be big

they're usually pretty low because you actually don't want high spawn chances for most things but the scale is technically something like 0-250

[pulsar pagoda]

putting float instead of integer in options makes the option dissapear from sandbox options

[crystal canyon]

halp!

        timedAction = SewingCloth,
        Time = 50,
        xpAward = Tailoring:10,
        SkillRequired = Tailoring:3,
        AllowBatchCraft = False,
        Tags = AnySurfaceCraft,
        category = Tailoring,
        inputs
        {
            item 1 [Base.FabricRollGrey],
            item 1 [Base.FabricRoll],
            item 1 [Base.Thread],
            item 1 tags[SewingNeedle] mode:keep,
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 1 Base.Dress_LacedRed,
        }
        onCreate = DyeClothingGrey,
    }


function DyeClothingGrey(recipeInfo, player)
    local result = recipeInfo:getResult()
    result:getVisual():setTextureChoice(4)
    result:synchWithVisual()
end

I get error

[pulsar pagoda]

just checked

[elfin stump]

Can you please provide the actual distribution file you are using?

[fluid current]

o

try number?

idk

[elfin stump]

i dont know if we can use float, I think you are thinking of double

[pulsar pagoda]

local MapDistribution = function (newGame)
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.MagazineRackMaps.items, "LouisvilleAndKnoxCountryMap");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.MagazineRackMaps.items,(SandboxVars.LVAKCM.SpawninMagazineRacks));

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.CrateMaps.items, "LouisvilleAndKnoxCountryMap");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.CrateMaps.items,(SandboxVars.LVAKCM.SpawninCrateMaps));

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.CrateMechanics.items, "LouisvilleAndKnoxCountryMap");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.CrateMechanics.items,(SandboxVars.LVAKCM.SpawninCrateMechanics));

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.GasStorageMechanics, "LouisvilleAndKnoxCountryMap");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.GasStorageMechanics.items,(SandboxVars.LVAKCM.SpawninGasStorageMechanics));

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.Hiker, "LouisvilleAndKnoxCountryMap");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.Hiker, (SandboxVars.LVAKCM.SpawninHiker));

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.StoreShelfMechanics, "LouisvilleAndKnoxCountryMap");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions.list.StoreShelfMechanics.items,(SandboxVars.LVAKCM.SpawninStoreShelfMechanics));

table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "LouisvilleAndKnoxCountryMap");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items,(SandboxVars.LVAKCM.SpawninMaleAndFemaleZombie)); 

table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items, "LouisvilleAndKnoxCountryMap");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items,(SandboxVars.LVAKCM.SpawninMaleAndFemaleZombie));
ItemPickerJava.Parse()

end
Events.OnInitGlobalModData.Add(MapDistribution);

[elfin stump]

Thanks let me run a test on my end.

[pulsar pagoda]

allright, thank you!

[fluid current]

oh im stupid lol

yeah double then

how did i forget double existed

[sly monolith]

hello, did you per chance figure out what was wrong with that code

[elfin stump]

Anyone have any good tools for encoding to Cyrillic, my notepad++ files are coming out wonky in Windows-1251

[elfin stump]

Closer and closer but not yet. recipeInfo seems to be a big old complicated object so I have been seeing how to dissect it.

[sly monolith]

you're my hero m8 😄

[elfin stump]

Anyone able to parse out the recipeinfo parameter coming from recipe function calls? In Albions docs I think this is the object being returned: https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/zombie/entity/components/crafting/recipe/CraftRecipeData.html

but I am not sure how to grab the actual results. The main change is that old recipes only output one item, and the new ones outbook a whole story.

[bronze yoke]

yeah this is the object they pass, i didn't document it because i don't really know what it is yet

[elfin stump]

K I will keep digging, I think getToOutputItems() is the way to the items

[fluid current]

found this

not implemented

might be unrelated tho

[bronze yoke]

i see getFirstCreatedItem() that returns an InventoryItem and getAllCreatedItems() that returns an arraylist of them, maybe we can just assume these are already stored there?

[elfin stump]

nice!

[bronze yoke]

can't be sure they won't just return null/empty though (thanks java)

i imagine they must be created at least by the time of OnCreate or else the event wouldn't be terribly useful

[fluid current]

im imagining that it just creates the item first and then deletes the ingredients afterwards?

[elfin stump]

Yeah I think they get passed from OnCreates call

I got this out of the lua, its the same thing as your java doc, so I can just keep digging in:

[elfin stump]

So I took your distribution code and shortened it for a test, I inserted it into a test project and added a new item, and confirmed via LootZed that it works and responds to changes in the sandbox.

local MapDistribution = function (newGame)
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "TESTOBJECT");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items,(SandboxVars.TESTPLATFORM.CHANCE));

table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items, "TESTOBJECT");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventoryfemale"].items,(SandboxVars.TESTPLATFORM.CHANCE));
ItemPickerJava.Parse()

end
Events.OnInitGlobalModData.Add(MapDistribution);

Going to do a hi/lo test now and see what I get.

[bronze yoke]

i've heard of people running into lower limits though i'm honestly really sceptical, at least of the reasoning they gave

[elfin stump]

Ahh I am remember something funny about it now

It wraps, I forgot about that, if you put too high a number, the chances go down, and too low, they go up, I never could understand the pattern. Definitely seeing feedback from sandbox tho.

A hardcoded "10000000000000000000000000000000000" gives you a 2 percent chance

A hardcoded "100" gives you 20%

[elfin stump]

Okay I found that sandbox is updating fine. I am not sure on your end what your test cycle is but that had no issues for me. You may want to make sure you are testing the right sandbox value. I could quit to menu and come in and see changes right away. However, your range is low, you have 0-100 and that never gets you close to 100%. Looks like 100% spawn chance is if you set that number to 500, and if you go to 1000 that brings it to 200% chance, which I am not sure what that means, but it didn't spawn two. So try those ones 🙂 Good luck!

[karmic violet]

has anyone already made a temporary patch for this? dont want to start working on it if someone already has https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2799848602&searchtext=spiff

[storm pecan]

does anyone know if body pickup/drag animation speed depends on some stat?
cuz by default this animation speed set to 0.8

and it painfully slow

I bumped it to 1.0

but I wonder if there is some proper way to speed it up that I'm not aware of

[little harbor]

Has anyone managed to make their own workbench yet? Like a forge with specific recipes tagged for it. I managed to make the thing but I can't get it to recognize the recipes despite tagging them the same as the vanilla workbenches.

[tranquil reef]

How do I make headers in sandbox options

[ancient grail]

wait your telling people to make updates for other peoples mod?

[silent zealot]

I'm suggesting that trying the easy way of making a personal B42 version is better than posting "B42 UPDATE PLZ!" on the mods you want.

[ancient grail]

i see

[tranquil reef]

Nothing wrong with doing that unless you repost the mod and, or even then that's not horrible if you don't refuse to take it down once the actual mod updates / ask permission first

[silent zealot]

I'm not advocating uploading those mods to the workshop - IMO it's too early for "author has abandoned this mod" unless they actually say they abandoned it.

But like you say, even that is not a huge deal provided you give credit and make it clear you'll take down your temporary version.

[latent fractal]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <animNode> <m_Name>vdefault</m_Name> <m_AnimName>Bob_SatChairIn</m_AnimName> <m_Looped>false</m_Looped> <m_UpperOnly>false</m_UpperOnly> <m_EarlyBlendOut>false</m_EarlyBlendOut> <m_SpeedScale>1.0</m_SpeedScale> <m_BlendTime>0.20</m_BlendTime> <m_Conditions> <m_Name>walkinjury</m_Name> <m_Type>NEQ</m_Type> <m_FloatValue>0</m_FloatValue> </m_Conditions> <m_Events> <m_EventName>SetVariable</m_EventName> <m_Time>Start</m_Time> <m_ParameterValue>SpeedScale=0.6</m_ParameterValue> <m_ParameterValue>BlendTime=0.4</m_ParameterValue> </m_Events> <m_Events> <m_EventName>SetVariable</m_EventName> <m_Time>Start</m_Time> <m_ParameterValue>SpeedScale=1.0</m_ParameterValue> <m_ParameterValue>BlendTime=0.2</m_ParameterValue> </m_Events> <m_Events> <m_EventName>SetVariable</m_EventName> <m_Time>End</m_Time> <m_ParameterValue>EnterAnimationFinished=true</m_ParameterValue> </m_Events> </animNode>
trying to add condition check to enter xml to check for walkinjury similar to running shifting to idle, but just slow the time taken to perform action down. Having issue implementing correctly. Currently just keeps a progress bar above charcters head and doesnt complete animation

[ancient grail]

yep got it
wasnt trying to be offensive just wanted to verify

cuz not all people read ToS

and could potentially cost issue
just wanted to help mitigate possible issues just in case you dont know about it too
but glad you cleared that up

i might suggest adding a note about the ToS tho

and maybe all caps PERSONAL version

just a friendly advice hope you dont get offended by this

[ancient grail]

how did you trigger this via lua?

[elfin stump]

Try this 🙂

[latent fractal]

i have already emailed about a mod im trying to update from creator who has dissapeared

[ancient grail]

may i suggest contacting spiffo too

that works faster

[elfin stump]

Anyone have any good tools, docs, or info for translating and encoding in Cyrillic? I need to find a good method where my encoding doesn't break.

[merry grove]

Does anyone know where
applyWeightFromTraits
Is used?

[latent fractal]

modded default file, believe it would trigger when i trigger "enter" action idk im learning first day

[merry grove]

I want to also add my own weight stuff

But can't find this thing

Same with applyTraitFromWeight

[edgy spear]

Does anyone have a idea what's reverting fullscreen resolutions lower than 1200px width back to a 1200px?

It gets weirder since when i launch my game with batch on pz root directory, it doesn't triggers at all on any occasions
But when i launch the game through exe or steam library, it triggers

[tranquil reef]

Are default sandbox settings hardcoded?

Can't find anything to look into to find out if sandbox headers are possible

[ancient grail]

correct me if im wrong
you want to use the injured walk when you run?

[ancient grail]

dw ill try and help you on this one

[elfin stump]

I use blank bools for that, you get a box next to it but it is good for organization or an important message on top of sandbox if needed.

[winter bolt]

apparently b42 switched all languages to utf8

[latent fractal]

I want to trigger a check for when you enter a car, for walkinjury, and if one exist, slow down the process of getting into a car. same with exiting.
got the idea from looking at the sneakrun and run code that included that condition check in b42 now

[ancient grail]

you want to add trait when player is of a certain weight?
probably use event like every hour
then check for weight
then add the trait
if player doesnt have it yet
use
else remove the trait if player has trait

[elfin stump]

Ahh okay cool, I will have to review patch notes but that could be the cause. I didnt even know utf-8 could do cyrillic!

[tranquil reef]

Hm. Alright, I guess that'd work until they either expose the header functionality or it just becomes common knowledge lol. Thank you

[ancient grail]

oh wow complicated stuff

method 1

you need to clone the xml that does the enter vehicle anim
and change the speed
but dont forget to check the var
and do a lua SetVariable

trigger this via enter vehicle event

method 2
hook on the enter vehicle timed action

[merry grove]

Also how would I remove the og traits?

[ancient grail]

• checker function to check if player has the trait
• add trait to player
• remove trait
• the every hour event

do you have these codes already?

im using mobile
i could have just pasted these codes if i was in front of my workstation

you know the UI for admin that allows you to custom add trait to players?

you will find the codes from that lua

[merry grove]

you mean this

[ancient grail]

og trait you mean the overweight for example?

hmm that might be an issue if you want to completely remove that trait cuz it gets auto added when sync weight is triggered

you could maybe hook on the syncweight trigger and remove the trait before it sends the sync maybe

[ancient grail]

youre looking at correct file i refered but that function sets weight not trait

[vague marsh]

can i still use RemoveResultItem:true,?

[elfin stump]

I believe it is gone

[ancient grail]

i wish someone upload a public repo containing the b42 lua
(with proper credit to tis and disclaimer and what not)

[vague marsh]

alr

[elfin stump]

To achieve that you will now just not have an output.

[little harbor]

Why?

[elfin stump]

Recipe format is new and overhauled, should search back and find examples

[opaque ocean]

Why can't I set a container's capacity beyond 100, and how do I do it anyways?

[ancient grail]

for mobile reading
currently using mobile only

[vague marsh]

yea, im trying to but cant find any

[vague marsh]

ill just do this

[little harbor]

make your own private github repo I wont tell on you

[ancient grail]

problem is i cant (im only using mobile)
and its not really an issue of telling on me lol

[elfin stump]

In the new format that is, you don't get a choice, overhauled completely in B42. Let me send you an example you can start with.

craftRecipe InjectGlobunexIntoSelf
{
timedAction = CDCRR.Injecting,
Time = 60,
OnCreate = CDCRR_Globunex,
category = Health,
Tags = InHandCraft,
inputs
{
item 1 [Base.RubberBand] mode:keep,
item 1 [CDCRR.Globunex_Syrette] mode:keep,
item 1 [Base.AlcoholWipes;Base.AlcoholedCottonBalls] mode:keep mappers[OutputMapper],
}
outputs
{
item 1 CDCRR.SpentSyrette,
}
itemMapper OutputMapper
{
Base.AlcoholWipes = Base.AlcoholWipes,
Base.AlcoholedCottonBalls = Base.AlcoholedCottonBalls,
}
}

There is an example of the new recipe system for you, let me know if you have questions.

[ancient grail]

why
FullType = FullType?
weird

[little harbor]

sometimes you want the same output as input while having different possible inputs

[opaque ocean]

can already confirm, base. and module. aren't needed, never have been.

no clue why they're all over the place in source

[latent fractal]

i was trying method 1 w out a lua setvariable, gonna try method 2 and just hook on directly to time action ty for clarity and direction

[merry grove]

Or way to just completly re-do them

So like TraitFactory.Reset but only for one trait

[elfin stump]

Input = Output - in this case you are getting back the same item, but if you use one type of item you don't want to get the other so Item = Item.

[ancient grail]

you have to hook on the profession lua
the one that actually declares vanilla function
you also need to do it for the death event since after death those functions gets triggered again

[elfin stump]

The = character is an odd choice maybe

[ancient grail]

ahh
so its more of a
"to" instead of "equal"

[elfin stump]

Yeah its a key value pair really

[merry grove]

Also there is thoes
applyTraitFromWeight
applyWeightFromTraits

That are in Nutrition

Can I use thoes somehow ?

[latent fractal]

hooked on action. have a print console to check for injury check, all good. i dont feel like the time for the action bar to clear and the action to be fully executed is slower in any way though.
did check variable similar to xml so it is more consistent

[ancient grail]

thats overwritting

heres an example of how you hook
#1070852229654917180 message

[vague marsh]

is 'mode:destroy' valid?

oh nvm i found it, it is😅

[elfin stump]

It is I think how to get rid of things like drainable, where use would just use some of it.

[tranquil reef]

Wait, does the game actually register .class files added into a zombie folder in a mod?

Apparently the npc mods do that, so why do some make you manually replace files if you can directly edit game code with workshop mods?

[latent fractal]

got it, reqrote properly i think. I believe the slowing down aspect is the only issue. causing some hiccups with IsVehicleMenu and Vehicles lua. I guess due to time delay on action.

[ancient grail]

i believe you can hook on this function

function ISEnterVehicle:update()
    self.vehicle:playPassengerAnim(self.seat, "enter")
    if self.character:GetVariable("EnterAnimationFinished") == "true" then
        self.character:ClearVariable("EnterAnimationFinished")
        self.character:ClearVariable("bEnteringVehicle")
        self:forceComplete()
    end
end

local function isInjuredCheckerFunction()
 return --add injure checker code
end

local hook = ISEnterVehicle.update
function ISEnterVehicle:update()
   
  if isInjuredCheckerFunction() then
  --your setvar code
  end 
      hook()
        
        
 
end

[dull moss]

I'm a bit confused, PZ says I'm missing mod.info file?
When trying to upload on workshop. In-game it works

[ancient grail]

actually i thought there was a time for the enter timed action
but since there isnt
hooking on this function is t really necessary cuz i was originally thinking messing with the time instead of xml

but since the maxTime is set to -1
then i guess you dont need to hook

just use the entervehicle event

[ancient grail]

we need 3 media folders?

oh sorry 4 wtf

[dull moss]

in root folder media is b41

[ancient grail]

so we duplicate everything? is that it?

[dull moss]

other media is common and b42

if u want to have same workshop page for b42 and b41 yes

[ancient grail]

im hating this rn

[dull moss]

yep

the moment b42 is stable im deleting b41 files and putting them as separate legacy mod

if i can't have b41 folder to use new mod structure then im not gonna have b41 folder

[ancient grail]

this is so messed up
i wonder what authentic peach think about this

[elfin stump]

Try removing the mod.info you have in common

[ancient grail]

cuz he does his big mod on a single upload with variations to modid

and thats already making em duplicate models and stuff
now he has to re duplicate it again

[dull moss]

still says my mod is missing mod.info file

I am confus

[elfin stump]

It looks like your mod has two mods in it?

[dull moss]

yes but other one is b41 only

for now

it doesnt have b42 folder

[elfin stump]

I think that is your issue

[dull moss]

it's a seprate submod

[elfin stump]

does it have a separate workshop id?

[dull moss]

no? workshop id is the same, modid is different

thats how you do mod with submods

[ancient grail]

i wish theres a better way to do this or atleast additional method
such as adding a line on top of files stating if its for both version or just 1 of em

[dull moss]

and also, it does have mod.info

url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2914075159
id=EvolvingTraitsWorldMarkDynamicTraits
poster=poster.png
icon=icon.png
versionMin=41.78
modversion=1.0.2
description=Marks traits that can be lost/earned with (D). (P/D) means that they are permanent if picked in character creation, but if not picked they are dynamic and obtainable/losable during the game. Includes support for popular mods. Does not require main mod to be ran, can be run independently.
description= <LINE>
description= <LINE> Supported mods:
description= <LINE> - Evolving Traits World (ETW)
description= <LINE> - Explorer Trait
description= <LINE> - Dynamic Traits (DT)
description= <LINE> - More Simple Traits (MST)
description= <LINE> - More Traits
description= <LINE> - Simple Overhaul: Traits and Occupations (SOTO)
description= <LINE> - SixthSense
authors=MusicManiac```

[ancient grail]

like
ver {41,42}
for scripts

and maybe

if pzVer() > 41 then return end

[elfin stump]

hmm yeah

[dull moss]

you can do that

idk about scripts

but pretty sure you can fetch pz ver in lua

[ancient grail]

i guess you can but even if you do that lol
you still need to duplicate the files

[dull moss]

cuz i saw it in one of lua files

yep

[ancient grail]

this is gona bloat servers

[dull moss]

a lil bit, modders supposed to put media in common now

[ancient grail]

even if they dont need the 42 versions
its still there when the server mods updates

[dull moss]

do you'll be bloating few lua files

oh ye

[ancient grail]

lua and scripts isnt heavy

but mods with assets

[dull moss]

bump

[ancient grail]

thats gota suck right?
esp for weapon/clothing packs i guess

[ancient grail]

theres a thread have you seen it

[dull moss]

yep

and all is in line with how it should be according to it

except maybe mod.info in common which is already gone

[ancient grail]

maybe

[elfin stump]

Id recommend checking for an existing B42 mod that has submods in it as an example, trying to B42 format in the submod maybe, or removing the submod temporarily to at least id if that is causing it. That is the only part that looks odd to me but I haven't done a submod or uploaded a submod in this new version format.

[ancient grail]

and another issue i believe servers will face is that they need to re sub some mods since i bet there are files that gets deleted
and so there will be mismatch

i guess

[latent fractal]

Events.OnEnterVehicle.Add(function(character)
local walkInjury = character:getModData().walkinjury
if walkInjury and walkInjury > 0 then
character:SetVariable("SpeedScale", 0.25) -- 4x slower for testing
character:SetVariable("BlendTime", 0.8) -- Slower blend time
print("Foot injury detected! Slowing down vehicle entry action.")
else
character:SetVariable("SpeedScale", 1.0)
character:SetVariable("BlendTime", 0.2)
end
end)
like so or similar?

[elfin stump]

It could be that they did not plan for a mod that has a submod only on the one version, maybe it looks for the b42 version of the submod since it is running the b42 of the main mod that has the workshop id.

[ancient grail]

and when do you add the moddata?
i dont think thats needed

[dull moss]

oh ye

that ain't good

[ancient grail]

i dont think you can set the blend time and speedscale

you should clone the xml
and replace that speed with your own variable

SetVariable("yourSpeedVar", value)

[willow briar]

Has anyone got an idea on why this is happening. Could it be bcs of me removing the reanimted Corpse/IsoZombie from the world? But why wouldnt it reanimate the dropped corpse

[ancient grail]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<animNode>
    <m_Name>injuredEnterVehicle</m_Name>
    <m_AnimName>Bob_SatChairIn</m_AnimName>

    
    <m_Conditions>
        <m_Name>yourCheckVar</m_Name>
        <m_Type>BOOL</m_Type>
        <m_BoolValue>true</m_BoolValue>
    </m_Conditions>

    <m_Looped>false</m_Looped>
    <m_UpperOnly>false</m_UpperOnly>
    <m_EarlyBlendOut>false</m_EarlyBlendOut>
    <m_SpeedScale>yourSpeedVar</m_SpeedScale>
    <m_BlendTime>0.20</m_BlendTime>
    <m_Scalar></m_Scalar>
    <m_Scalar2></m_Scalar2>
    <m_Events>
        <m_EventName>SetVariable</m_EventName>
        <m_Time>End</m_Time>
        <m_ParameterValue>EnterAnimationFinished=true</m_ParameterValue>
    </m_Events>
</animNode>

character:SetVariable("yourSpeedVar", value)

character:SetVariable("yourCheckVar", value)

the f is wrong with my codeblock
(using mobile)

whatever

[willow briar]

This is basically what handles the grappled zombie

local function OnTransferCorpse(character, item)
    local grappleTarget = character:getGrapplingTarget()
    local isoCharacter = instanceof(grappleTarget, "IsoGameCharacter") and grappleTarget or nil
    isoCharacter:removeFromWorld()
    isoCharacter:removeFromSquare()

    character:LetGoOfGrappled("Aborted")
    isoCharacter = nil
    return
end

[stark cape]

Hey, everyone, question on controllers. I've done a mod which adds a button to inventory bar (like "take all") but it's invisible for controller users. I tested myself on controller and it seems that one cannot even focus on bar buttons, so controllers utilize context menus for actions on inventory. Is that correct?

[ancient grail]

updated this @latent fractal

[ancient grail]

how did you reanimate exactly?

[willow briar]

The game does it automatically. Basically when you pick up an zombie it revives it for the animation

[ancient grail]

burryaga knows about this but his currently inactive

[willow briar]

and then kills it when you drop it again

[stark cape]

ty, will try to catch them

[willow briar]

I reenabled the corpse item in the inventory so transfering would work

And to keep the corpse from duplicating i have to delete one, which would be the grappled zombie in the game world.

So when i transfer a corpse into a container, the grappled zombie is retrieved and then deleted, aswell as instantly put down (Just like it does when you run, fall or get attacked when grappling a corpse)

But when you drop the corpse item from container or inventory and try to grapple it again, i believe cannot be revived

Since its not being rendered and when put down, theres nothing on the floor

[ancient grail]

i sent em a dm
containing your posts link

@willow briar
maybe theres a variable somewhere else maybe java?
try inspecting the data using the community mod tool

that way you get to figure out what changes did the normal one has that the bugged one doesnt

[willow briar]

im looking thru java, but its kinda hard to debug that

[ancient grail]

have you gotten the community tool installed and running?

if you do then
check the data from 2 different corpses maybe (or just 1, its up to you)
the regular one and the odd one

also do you really need to the instance?

[willow briar]

What community tool are you talking about?

I dont think i have it

on the workshop?

Im checking them out now

[ancient grail]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2909488957

[willow briar]

Got them

gonna check it out now. Thanks

[ancient grail]

tbh i have my own fork version from the OG mod by aiteron so im not sure how to use the inspector for that version

but i believe its as simple as right clicking the object

[ancient grail]

send screenshot of both data so i can help you check

if there are any modders who has a better suggestion for Bunneh feel free to add input
cuz mine will only lead to them POSSIBLY identify the difference
but its not a guaranteed method and could end up lacking a solution (depends on what we discover)
cuz it could ve caused by something else entirely and its not really related to the object

[thick karma]

I don't know anything about B42. Not touching it for awhile most likely. But in B41, controller users would Take All using the context menu of individual inventory items (or stacks).

[ancient grail]

how are you?

[thick karma]

We don't use the hotbar buttons. In B41 I added shortcuts for sorting using controller buttons since we cannot click headers to sort.

[thick karma]

Surviving. Just haven't had the energy for modding these days.

Been playing random games instead for the most part

[stark cape]

great, ty!

[willow briar]

Only significant change apart from ID is that the grappable Zombie has an AnimationPlayer attached

but the variable only gets set on construction and is not used again

reviving creates a new isozombie and copies data from the corpse

[dull moss]

so what's up with this:

I see ppl updating the mods to b42 and some are using new format and some are not

both working

so whats the point

@tame mulch (sorry )

[tame mulch]

I will check, thanks for report!

[tranquil reef]

Any way to make a sound play on an entity like the player?

As in the sound moves along with the player

[latent fractal]

noted just aggressively testing. Just running into issues after issues that seem to take me further away from the goal. Going this route caused issues recognizing walkinjury, and seems to touch some other luas in the process, now unable to enter car, or simulate walkinjury without error

trying to think of other behaviors in game that may be a base point jump off for what my silly little head is trying to do. vanilla wise

[iron siren]

Not yet... Albion said it is not possible in B41, and probably not possible in B42, but I will continue to investigate to at least understand how the shaders work in PZ

[pulsar pagoda]

hey man, thanks for your help, i will keep testing to see if i can fix that, the distribution script looks the same to me, must be the sandbox scripts that arent working :)

[elfin stump]

No problem!

Sense of Smell has been updated to B42! - This one was way easier than the last one with like 60 recipes 🙂 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3018798678

[pulsar pagoda]

hello there, im new to the community aswell, welcome :)

[pulsar pagoda]

i thought you mentioned something about a "double" type of option and it seems to be doing something!

i put it to 500 tho, not 1000, still 200 like you said, odd

[elfin stump]

The numbers are a bit weird I do not understand exactly how they get to the result. You may want to play around with it a bit. Just know it acts weird at extremes. A very big number can cause it to generate small amounts and a very low number can cause it to go back up. Find your range you like and then lock it in to prevent that. It is odd to be so different, I was hitting 200% with 1000 on the non-outfit zeds.

For your case of wanting more drops you should see things work nice, it tends to be hard to make ultra rare drops using this system from my experience.

Oh no. It is day time. Goodbye

[pulsar pagoda]

success!

[pulsar pagoda]

haha thanks for all your help man :) goodbye

[umbral ingot]

Okay guys been at it for a few hours now and can't figure it out lol. I have mod folder properly set up in C:/USER/Zomboid/mods/MYMOD with mod.info following the example on the Wiki. I have -debug -nosteam -modfolders mods as my launch options. I have some dummy item .txt files in scripts following wiki example but I can't get my mod to show up in mod list. Can't find a google solution either. Anyone know whats up?

[dawn sparrow]

Is there a seperate lua file where languages are defined?

Like lets say... if I wanted to bring an entirely new language into the game.

[tacit mauve]

Zomboid
Workshop
Workshop name
Contents
Mods
Mod name
B42
Then mod data

Er, assuming you are porting to 42

[umbral ingot]

So it needs a workshop structure even if I want to dev locally first? And not porting starting something new.

[tacit mauve]

Oh, in that case I wouldn't be any help, I'm sorry.

[umbral ingot]

Thanks anyways!

[pulsar pagoda]

do you have a 42 and common folder?

you also need to put mod.info in there

and i think a media folder in 42 aswell

you dont need workshop structure, only "mod name" in belle's diagram

for local mods

[vague marsh]

oop wrong channel

[dull moss]

Btw this is also updated but it's WIP
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2914075159

[vague marsh]

how can i display itemID? i want to put it beside the item name

self:drawText(self.invItem:getName(), (self.width * 0.05) + crucibleCore.scale(self.panel.width, 0.05), (self.height - self.fontHgt) / 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, UIFont.Small)

I tried this and didnt work😅

self:drawText(self.invItem:getName() .. " (" .. self.item:getFullType() .. ")", (self.width * 0.05) + crucibleCore.scale(self.panel.width, 0.05), (self.height - self.fontHgt) / 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, UIFont.Small)

[honest musk]

Is there a way to debug why this recipe I'm working on doesn't seem to be loading in correctly?

I've got it enabled in the mod manager, and have had errors related to the .lua scripts (that I've now fixed) so it's definitely trying to load in. I've added a modified recipe in /media/scripts/recipes/CutFishFillets_Recipe

The OnCreate and OnTest script are defined in media/lua/client CutFishFillets.lua

recipe:

module CutFishFillets {

imports
{
    Base
}

craftRecipe SliceFilletSmaller
{
    timedAction = SliceMeat_Surface,
    Time = 20,
    OnCreate = CutFilletSmaller,
    OnTest = CutFilletSmallerTest,
    Tags = AnySurfaceCraft;Cooking,
    category = Cooking,
    xpAward = Cooking:10,
    inputs
    {
        item 1 tags[SharpKnife;MeatCleaver] mode:keep flags[MayDegradeLight;IsNotDull;SharpnessCheck],
        item 1 [Base.FishFillet] flags[InheritFoodAge],
    }
    outputs
    {
        item 2 Base.FishFillet,
    }
}

}

I can't see it in game or in the debug script manager or Craft Recipes debug menu..

[pulsar pagoda]

maybe you can use the error magnifier mod?

[honest musk]

I've just grabbed that but unless I'm using it wrong it doesn't seem to help - I'm not getting any errors when I load into the game, I'm just unable to see any reference to the recipe anywhere.

Ok so after like an hour of beating my head against this I've just realised that when I created the file Windows hides the extensions for .txt files. This is normally fine, unless you're an idiot like me and accidentally deleted the extension entirely, which is why the file wasn't being loaded. Changing it back to a .txt fixed this.

[ancient grail]

since this is new and i havent seen b42 code i cant help you further im afraid

if you manage to figure something out then that means youre the first to make grapple related mod

maybe try to copy whatever is missing if youre able to

[willow briar]

I already debugged it a bit

and reanimate doesnt work on dropped bodies

So im trying a work around

[ancient grail]

happens to alot of us. its normal

[little harbor]

Feel good about yourself. Shit I wish it was an hour. 3 days later and I just realized the same mistake.

I TRIED EVERYTHING

At least its a good learning experience

[ancient grail]

damn

3 days will drive me crazy i bet

[little harbor]

No wonder the recipes for the workbench I was making didnt show up

I've scoured the java code, lua code and all the scripts for some kind of secret definition of workbench craftRecipe tags

Turns out I was the problem

[mint hawk]

How can I go about overwriting vanilla crafting recipes?

[little harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/that's-the-neat-thing-that's-the-neat-part-invincible-gif-3109787441708074597

Honestly though If you do find out, hit me up I wish I knew how to override them

[mint hawk]

Gahhhh that makes this annoying then. I'll have to duplicate all 4 of the crafting recipes just to fix them...

I tried copying the entire recipe text file, lets see if it overrides it or if I end up with 2 of each recipe

overwriting stuff gets... Weird.

It sort of worked? But it duplicated the requirements and outpuit lol

Why are my translation files not working

[crystal canyon]

human error?

[pulsar pagoda]

hi, is anybody getting sound from eating in b42?

also from having a cold and coughing?

[gaunt storm]

Hi guys! I need create a new ocupation for B42, and need a guide, please helpme!

[fair elbow]

You can start off reading the modding guide here: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding
And also take a look at some other mods that add occupations i.e. Simple Overhaul Traits and Occupations

[gaunt storm]

Thanks friend

[willow briar]

Btw guys got it working.

Its a big workaround

but i should get it finished soon

[white flame]

Hello there, having issue with the OutfitManager in clothing.xml, the vanilla clothing which i specified in outfit works fine, but my modded clothes are not showing on the zeds, which is strange, because the clothes worked fine for the player, and i downt know why this is happening, seeking for help
below i provided screenshots of clothing.xml and guuid tables

[tranquil kindle]

Did you add those zombie to any spawn definition at all or its just clothing.xml?

Because right now i see you created outfit, but now you have it actually be asigned to spawn

Or do you spawn zombie, but they're naked?

[white flame]

yes i made one

[white flame]

yeah, they half naked i'd say

[tranquil kindle]

B41 or B42?

[white flame]

b42

[tranquil kindle]

Are clothes and zombie outfit in same mod or they're in separate ones?

[white flame]

same

[tranquil kindle]

Do those clothes work on player character?

[white flame]

yup

cap and tshirt from my mod, next to player is zed with the outfit i made

[winter bolt]

thats weird usually its the other way around

[white flame]

yeah

[tranquil kindle]

Can you paste your XML instead of sceenshots?

[white flame]

the clothing.xml one?

[tranquil kindle]

Both

Fileguid and Clothingxml

Wait

Are those tshirts?

[white flame]

yeah, tshirt and a cap

[tranquil kindle]

<m_Top>false</m_Top>
<m_Pants>false</m_Pants>

change it to true?

[white flame]

huh

[tranquil kindle]

in Outfitmanage

Clothing*

I mean, you want zombie to spawn with shirt, but i think Top might also mean Shirt, which is 2d painted on body?

Because apart from that i can't see any issue.

[white flame]

oh

nah, not worked

oh wait

[tranquil kindle]

Did you restart game? I know XMLS load as game goes, but maybe outfit thing does not work exacly?

[white flame]

i enabled tint, wrong line

[tranquil kindle]

Do let me know if it fixes it

[white flame]

not the case it seems, tshirt still doesnt shows

cap too

[tranquil kindle]

What are those "Subitems" on Pants part in Clothing?

I can't really show exacly what i mean since its screenshot, not text

Also question. I hope youre not both editing it locally and are subscribed to mod on steam workshop?

[white flame]

shorts i think

[tranquil kindle]

<@&671452400221159444>

[white flame]

nope, just locally

[tranquil kindle]

Can you copy/paste clothing xml, it might help

[white flame]

yeah one aec

[tranquil kindle]

I feel like we're missing something small and i can't quite nail it

[white flame]

here it goes

[sonic needle]

@smoky tendon mods. being slow.

spam above.

[white flame]

oh

it was too long and discord send it as txt

[tranquil kindle]

Don't worry

I honestly have no idea

[sonic needle]

it urks me that is still there. dear lord

[tranquil kindle]

If it would not work on player character i'd think that was somerthing wrong with clothing items, but it works, so i'm not sure anymore

There seems to be no spelling errors too, vanila clothes appear...

Your outfit for sure uses new guid?

[white flame]

yup

[sonic needle]

both male and female outfit share the same one. which will conflict

[white flame]

but the vanilla clothes still appears on both

[sonic needle]

golden rule of GUID.
new one, every time. regardless

[white flame]

i mean the ones i specify

[tranquil kindle]

If its same outfit they do not need to be diffrent

For female and male

[sonic needle]

i genuinely, always adhere to new guid, every time

[tranquil kindle]

If its same outfit same name same clothes, then guid can be same.

[sonic needle]

its good practice.. like cleaning a knife before prepping food

[white flame]

anyway thanks, very appreciate it

[tranquil kindle]

I wish i could help, but from what you've shown it should work

[bronze yoke]

actually, outfit guids don't matter at all

the game doesn't even read them

[white flame]

It looks like I'll just do with loot distributions

I find it funny that when I looked at the answers to my problem, vanilla clothes usually didn't appear, but for me it's the complete opposite

but anyway thanks once more

[tranquil kindle]

If you have both vanila and your clothes that you want on zombies in guidtable too, it should work.

[white flame]

i specified my and vanilla clothes, but my clothes doesn't shows only on zeds

which is my problem yeah

[winter bolt]

bruhh seriously?

[tranquil kindle]

Do you have any other clothing item that is 3d modeled and see if it works?

[winter bolt]

is there even an actual reason why items need guids in the first place

it seems completely pointless

[bronze yoke]

not really, but those are at least used

[winter bolt]

the guid needs to refer to the xml file so uniqueness doesnt matter

and the item scripts refer to the xml file name

[bronze yoke]

the way the game loads clothing is:

• loop through all items, for every item that has a clothing item:
• use the filename in the item script to get the guid
• use the guid to get the filename again???
• load it

[white flame]

only the baseball cap, which is actually needs to be showing on this outfit too

but the cap uses vanilla model which loads from the game i guess?

[bronze yoke]

outfits do use the guid but since everything is bottlenecked by filename at the item script point it doesn't really matter

[winter bolt]

pretty much the only thing the guids achieve is making zombie outfits a total nightmare to work with

[white flame]

I've never experienced such a headache before

[tranquil kindle]

I literally have no idea why it does not work...

and its driving me nuts

[winter bolt]

if you add comments labelling every item you add then its manageable but its still tedious

[bronze yoke]

also iirc the guid in the actual clothing file is read but not actually used for anything, only the one in the file guid table matters

[white flame]

I devoted myself to solving this problem for a whole day, but I still haven't found an answer, so I appealed to this server

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't look like they changed much about how any of this works so ideally the tools i was developing to smooth this out haven't lost much or any progress

[winter bolt]

honestly even just a script that could convert guids to the xml names and then back would be lifesaving

[bright fog]

https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

Modding Discord, you can make commissions

[median karma]

[bright fog]

bruh

[queen oasis]

in timed actions, waitToStart does exactly what it says, correct? It waits to start the action until whatever check is false

[bright fog]

[drifting ore]

I really miss armored cars

[candid egret]

My full Moodle mod just released now! Completely redrawn moodles, bringing the best of B41's design and B42's into one mod. And, with customization! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3387205473

[tranquil reef]

Can a timed action happen without being in the queue? So like, a progress bar raising for 5 minutes, but if you right click on a chair and sit you can still do that and it still functions?

[worthy sparrow]

Pretty late response, if you didn't figure that out by now, you have to add IsMoveAble to a tile's property list, if it's a custom tile then you can do that in TileZed or if its already existing one you can do that in lua like so:

  MyMod.loadedTiles = function(_spriteManager){
    local properties = _spriteManager:getSprite("mysprite_01_02"):getProperties()
    properties:Set("IsMoveAble","", true)
    properties:Set("PickUpWeight", "50") -- Encumbrance = 5.0
    -- ...
    properties:CreateKeySet()
  }

  Events.OnLoadedTileDefinitions.Add(MyMod.loadedTiles)  

Idk if thats the best solution for this but works mostly for what I need.

[queen oasis]

timed actions run in a sequence. you can insert a timed action anywhere in to the queue but the previous action will have had to complete

you could probably grab the queue, stop the current action, add your sit action and then re-add the queue

[bright fog]

You can probably manage to do something like that but not with timed actions

[gaunt storm]

How about a community, who could create this profession? I'm too slow to do it myself... I'm not interested in credits, I just want to play with a profession like this

New profession:

Tailor: Expert in clothing and scissors repair

Special skills:
Tailor: The clothes you wear will not limit your movement/attack speed. You get wet 25% slower in the rain
Scissors Expert: Attack 25% faster with knives and scissors

Starting skills:
Short Blade Weapon 1 + 100% xp
Maintenance 1 + 100% xp
Tailoring 2 + 100% xp

Point cost -4

[bright fog]

https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

Commission a modder

[gaunt storm]

Have you tagged any channel? Because I can't see it

[bright fog]

Visual bug, click it

[gaunt storm]

OMG Thanks!

[ashen flower]

Is there a way either via a mod or debug mode to turn electricity and power back on after the shutdown? I was unaware that plumbing is not working in build 42

[bleak lantern]

Please forgive my lack of technical speaking, i don't do this. I just want to try and get a simple mod I made back into working order for B42#

the image referencing "event" is from the new script format in b42

[tulip valve]

Is anyone working on a mod that disables Discomfort moodle?

[bleak lantern]

where can i find these event files? before would simply be a matter of changing the file directory but that is no longer the case

all i want to do is change a sound, namely the death music

[mellow frigate]

You know moodles are just information right ?

[median karma]

hey, im trying to get into modding for the first time, already read a few tutorials how to create mod, but im stuck at finding how to change options for world models like friedges, counters etc.. i dod for example look for example for files containing the word "furniture_shelving_01_27" in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\scripts but no luck, anyone could hint a direction?

[bronze yoke]

sound scripts haven't been changed at all, you don't need to do anything to make that work in b42

[tulip valve]

No it does reduce happiness too

[mellow frigate]

No, but a moodle gives you the information when your happiness is reduced.

[finite scroll]

the moodle itself is only information, you'd want to disable the thing causing the moodle

[tulip valve]

Yes but in b42 there is a new discomfort moodle That starts to show up when you wear armor, annoying

[eager imp]

you want to disable discomfort stat, not the discomfort moodle. if such a mod exists you can find it on the steam workshop

[crystal canyon]

do fbx models need to be updated?

[tranquil kindle]

They might require Triangulation for B42

in some cases

[winter bolt]

not that ive seen

they fixed the rendering bug in a patch so they should be fine

[tranquil kindle]

Some of my models still had holes, even after patch + making normalization

But triangulating then fixed it

I don't know why. It just did

[winter bolt]

i guess they must have missed a triangulation setting as well then

[crystal canyon]

WARN : General f:9204, t:1734982988265> MeshAssetManager.loadCallback > Failed to load asset: AssetPath{ "FlashLight7" }
WARN : Script f:0, t:1734982801621> ModelScript.check > no such model "???.FlashLight7" for Base.Torch7
WARN : Script f:0, t:1734982801621> ModelScript.check > no such model "???.FlashLight7Ground" for Base.Torch7

i might need to fix the script then

[winter bolt]

i'll have to test and then make a report

[tranquil kindle]

Do you report it to them directly or?

[winter bolt]

theres a bug report thing on the forum

[tranquil kindle]

Not discord one?

[winter bolt]

thats for modding stuff i think but this is like an actual game bug i guess

[tranquil kindle]

All vanila stuff i've seen always has been triangulated on import so it might be default for them.

Like it did not happend on all Quads, but it was mostly on Bigger ones

[winter bolt]

yeah it was the same with normalisation

the model importer is supposed to do it automatically even if its not already done on the model

[tranquil kindle]

And not even every model so ...

[winter bolt]

i just tried a model untriangulated and its fine for me

[tranquil kindle]

I could send you model with texture so you can check it out. Its one of my first "better" ones but still has alot more faces that is actually required.

Or if i encounter it again, I'll invesitigate it further

[long beacon]

I’m going to be attempting to import some half life clothing (models and textures from HL2) into zomboid. Though I know stuff with the model itself will mostly be trivial, there are some things I need to learn about as I’ve never created a clothing mod.

1. How does hole placement work?
2. Will the model and texture still utilize the same seams?
3. How do I dictate which body parts they cover?
4. Is there any jank with full body clothing I should be concerned about?
5. Are there any important changes to rigging I’ll need to make?

[bronze yoke]

um if you want this to work in the normal clothing system this is actually a massive pain in the ass and not nearly as easy as it sounds

you have to re-uv everything to match the vanilla uvs since they're used for masking and blood and stuff

[long beacon]

Gotcha

What format does zomboid tend to use for that?

[grizzled fulcrum]

If you mean just the file format, vanilla PZ uses DirectX .X format (eww) but you can also use FBX too (heavily preferred)

[winter bolt]

needs to match this

[grizzled fulcrum]

the flattened texture looks so weird 😭

[winter bolt]

if youre just doing clothing it'll just be easier to use the zomboid models and then work from there

redoing the uvs to fit the game will be a total nightmare

[long beacon]

I could probably just make a new texture, I’m very familiar with drawing digitally and pretty familiar with surface painter, and the textures from HL2 shouldn’t be crazy difficult to reproduce

[tranquil kindle]

If you don't really care about holes you could probably add hatmasks line to make them not appear on your clothes and just use already existing UV's

[winter bolt]

the texture is easy the problem is the texture mapping on the models needs to match the vanilla ones otherwise it breaks

[long beacon]

Yeah that shouldn’t be wildly difficult. Tedious? Absolutely, but not the worst thing

[tranquil kindle]

I did clothing mod without PZ uv's, weighted it myself and it does work, but just won't dispaly said holes/blood/dirt

[winter bolt]

would break if any clothing is on top of it though

[long beacon]

To be fair, holes blood and dirt aren’t really necessary

[tranquil kindle]

Thats the neat part, i made it be top layer to begin with

[long beacon]

It’s mostly just for Civil Protection as staff characters on my server

[tranquil kindle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3205704514

So pretty much only Jacket covers it.

[long beacon]

Doing a wipe based in the Half Life universe, gonna take a shit ton of technical work on my side but it’ll be worth it, I’ve got other staff working hard on systems and it’s starting to come together pretty nicely

[tranquil kindle]

It was more of a project for myself than official mod.

[long beacon]

Also, is there a way to make a gun do only health bar damage when hitting a player? Trying to let people get shot in Combine patrol encounters without bleeding out immediately. Alternatively, if it’s an absolute pain, how to I make the bullets as inconsequential as possible? The custom gun we’re using is based off of the Gunfighter framework.

If I could get the graze chance to be way higher than the bullet lodge chance it’d also work but I believe that’ll take editing different things

[tranquil kindle]

Vs player there is not really alot that can be done. Maybe b42 MP will introduce more to it. Currently even gun with 0 damage will lodge bullets And will kill in few shots i belive.

[long beacon]

Importing a shock stick should be easy as shit, right?

Probably just gonna replace the police baton’s model

[tranquil kindle]

I think there are mods for that.

Actuall tasers

[bronze yoke]

weapons should be pretty doable yeah

[long beacon]

Nah the shock stick from HL2, basically just is a baton but looks different

[worthy sparrow]

Is there somewhere an example of animated tile?

[pallid obsidian]

yo guys

my zomboid is telling me im missing a mod.info file

while i CLEARLY have one right here

anyone any idea why this is?

[bronze yoke]

if you're developing for b42 you need to put your mod's files in SnakeVoice/42 or SnakeVoice/common

[pallid obsidian]

will that folder be in the mods folder or whereabouts in the file structure?

[bronze yoke]

where your screenshot is, add a 42 folder and a common folder

[pallid obsidian]

ah ok

[bronze yoke]

mod.info and poster should be in 42, as well as things like scripts, lua, and clothing xmls, and most assets (textures, models, etc) should be in common (but technically you can put everything in 42)

[pallid obsidian]

ah ok no prob

thanks bro

sound

thx

[hollow jewel]

Hi, I want to start with mod developing, anyone has a cool guide? I have read the documentation but I don’t know where I need to start, is a lot of things

[tranquil kindle]

Find what you want to make, see if there is mod that does something similar, reverse engineer it, see how it works.

Or if its vanila thing, check files. They're really easy to acces and readable for basic stuff like items/models/textures.

[hollow jewel]

I want to make a camper mod, I want a room inside of a camper, but I think I need to modify the Java code, I don’t think Lua is enough for this, right?

[tranquil kindle]

Check https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2822286426

[hollow jewel]

Thank you, I take a look of this mod, I already know this mod, but it seems to be not updated and not working anymore, or I’m wrong?

[tranquil kindle]

On b42? Its Expected. Its huge mod and it requires changes on various levels. It also most likely requires update to the interiors since they're actuall rooms somewhere on map and once the vanila map updated, it might've messed with those.

[hollow jewel]

Oh nice idea to place room outside of the map, but seems not very performance friendly

Sorry for my bad English

[tranquil kindle]

You might notice that "map mods" don't require much space. So i'm not so sure about that

[hollow jewel]

So basically when player enter in a rv is just a teleport to a room

[tranquil kindle]

Its more of updating mod structure and making sure lua side (teleporting) works

Yeah

[hollow jewel]

Oh, I loved this mod, and I want to sharpen my coding skills, so I’m planning to recreate a mod like this for me

I’m a flutter and angular developer bored to do just app and websites

[brave dew]

did erosion always cause buildings to be ransacked

or is that a new thing

because ive noticed that when i go to a town i havent been to before its been torn up

broken in houses and shops n stuff

houses with trash and stuff all over the floors

[long beacon]

Mod dev updates the mod semi-frequently, works often with other mod creators to help them add their own

[alpine grotto]

I don't suppose ayone knows why my script would open the debug error menu when trying to open the crafting menu in B41?

And or why might a script cause the crafting menu to no longer open?

[little harbor]

Not to be captain obvious but sounds like somethings wrong with your script there

What does the error say

[hybrid tiger]

New to pz modding, I might be going crazy but my mod isnt displaying on main menu
Mod in local folder (atleast I think this is the local)
Here is 42 folder with all the files, common is empty
And inside media is a simple items.txt
Not sure why it isnt displaying or did I just skill issue

[bronze yoke]

put your mod in %UserProfile%/Zomboid/mods/

this mods folder in the actual game install doesn't actually get loaded from (who knows why it's there)

[hybrid tiger]

oh ok so I just skill issued lmao

yup worked ty

[opaque ocean]

ty, my issue on that front was uh... didn't realize I needed to state the tileset/pack in mod.info

but ended up learning how to use the whole buildmenu recipes before I figured that out so it's not a inv item recipe now

[winter bolt]

its ancient im pretty sure

i vaguely remember it being used back in like 2013

[worthy sparrow]

No problem, I also just today realized about that tiledef & pack in mod.info :p
Do you know by any chance why this icon is so small? I believe it uses the tile image instead of Icon i have in textures folder.

When I use exactly the same craftRecipe as an item it works perfectly

[opaque ocean]

the construction menu, possibly the new build menu too seem to use their own icons now which are in 48x48 instead of 32x32 icons

[worthy sparrow]

Yup. I have created a 48x48 icon just for that

[opaque ocean]

infact, had to upscale my 32x32 icon to 48x48 to make it show up in the construction menu

one sec... it's possible that you used the same name for them both... could try naming the image something completely unique to see if issue persists when you set it to that

[worthy sparrow]

Wait.. doesn't it use some kind of a prefix like Item_ does?

[opaque ocean]

I think that's just TIS formatting

like how they put base. infront of everything despite it being unneccesary in almost all cases

[worthy sparrow]

ah, got it. Well.. I set unique name and its still the same.

[opaque ocean]

also possible that they could have separate files for uh... the UI where they set icons though

they have separate files for buildmenu icons

with their own variables

[worthy sparrow]

So.. it fallbacks to tile image?

[opaque ocean]

🤷I just know they have entity_tile scripts for the buildables where you setup recipes, and... now how multi-tile things are laid out... how they're oriented based on facing direction despite tilezed still determining the preview when picking up...

they also have x_entity_tile scripts in scripts/xui/defaultskin

so you might be looking for something around there

[worthy sparrow]

yeah, I will take a look at the xui folder for any clues, thanks

Got it.. kinda

[opaque ocean]

ah yeah i see what it's about now... it's where you define the entitystyle in UiConfig

[worthy sparrow]

Somehow having "DisplayName=something" inside entity breaks it

[worthy sparrow]

Yeah

[opaque ocean]

but weirdly enough... it's also defined again in the non-X_-file...

idk, i just know it worked

maybe it's about the CraftLogic component

[winged lotus]

Hi everyone! I am getting the following exception
attempted index: CreateItem of non-table: null

When I do:
local metal = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem('Base.SheetMetal')
But not when I do:
local metal = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem('Base.SheetMetal')

Any idea on what could be the root cause here? It looks like Base still does still includes SheetMetal after the update and the InventoryItemFactory is able to work for some items, so I don't get why this is happening 🤔
I'll take any help if this happened to someone already 😅

[bronze yoke]

InventoryItemFactory is no longer available to lua, use instanceItem("Base.SheetMetal") instead

[random finch]

(B41) Any tips on how to get a result similar to getFullType used on InventoryItems for an IsoObject?

[opaque ocean]

I still just wanna know if there's an actual workaround to TIS's restriction of only letting you set an iso container to 100 capacity.

[worthy sparrow]

Maybe, the important thing is that it works :p

[winged lotus]

Thanks I'll try that!

[random finch]

Am i right to say that IsoThumpable does not have a ScriptItem attached to it?

[bronze yoke]

it does not

[random finch]

wow, finally I figure it out

[bronze yoke]

most pick-up-able objects use dynamically generated items

[crystal canyon]

Can someone spot whats wrong here?

[random finch]

Got an error?

[crystal canyon]

yeah

[random finch]

Can you please post it

[wet dune]

how do i set every zombie to spawn with this outfit?

[crystal canyon]

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Script load errors. at GameWindow.mainThreadInit(GameWindow.java:705). Message: Unhandled java.lang.RuntimeException thrown by thread MainThread.
    Stack trace:
        zombie.GameWindow.mainThreadInit(GameWindow.java:705)
        zombie.GameWindow.mainThread(GameWindow.java:599)
        java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
    Caused by: java.io.IOException: Script load errors.
        zombie.scripting.ScriptManager.Load(ScriptManager.java:1566)
        zombie.GameWindow.initShared(GameWindow.java:156)
        zombie.GameWindow.init(GameWindow.java:1442)
        zombie.GameWindow.mainThreadInit(GameWindow.java:701)
        ... 2 more

ERROR: General      f:0, t:1734996539781> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown
    java.security.InvalidParameterException: Index 1 out of bounds for length 1 at Item.Load(Item.java:1631).
    Stack trace:
        zombie.scripting.objects.Item.Load(Item.java:1631)
        zombie.scripting.ScriptBucket.LoadScripts(ScriptBucket.java:265)
        zombie.scripting.ScriptBucketCollection.LoadScripts(ScriptBucketCollection.java:122)
        zombie.scripting.ScriptManager$3.LoadScripts(ScriptManager.java:183)
        zombie.scripting.ScriptManager.loadScripts(ScriptManager.java:1639)
        zombie.scripting.ScriptManager.Load(ScriptManager.java:1562)
        zombie.GameWindow.initShared(GameWindow.java:156)
        zombie.GameWindow.init(GameWindow.java:1442)
        zombie.GameWindow.mainThreadInit(GameWindow.java:701)
        zombie.GameWindow.mainThread(GameWindow.java:599)
        java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

LOG : General f:0, t:1734996539781> [item] removing script due to load error = Hat_SurgicalMask_BlueDown

[random finch]

java.security.InvalidParameterException

[crystal canyon]

I guess one of these changed in 42, it worked in 41