mod_development

[bronze yoke]

it should be getFullType

[misty horizon]

ok that makes since

ok im going to use the smoking sound overhaul as a guide

[hidden compass]

Sorry if I'm missing the point, but is it the not hitting the IF statement that you're having trouble with, or is it the print not working properly?
For if problem, what I was wondering is that you wrote “Base.” even though M60 is your original item. Are you sure “Base” is the correct place that you difined for the additional item?

[misty horizon]

im trying to find the smoking sound overhaul mod does anyone know an easier way than just sifting through these

[tacit pebble]

so both weapon and weapon:getFullType() returns nil? then it's not problem about getFullType, it's weapon

I'm guessing if you remove "if" then you will get an error

[devout bison]

Steam will give you the mod id

[misty horizon]

where can i find that

[devout bison]

On the mod's steam workshop page

[ornate sand]

Mkay. So "M60" didn't work either, and yeah it just errors a null right there, even though earlier it didn't. That's what's getting to me. Why did this exact thing work earlier and break now?

[misty horizon]

oh sick i found it

thanks man

[tacit pebble]

what debug logger says? if you are lucky you will be able to backtrack with debug logger (F10)

[ornate sand]

getFullType of non table: null

[bronze yoke]

what is calling this function? weapon is not a weapon

[devout bison]

How do I adjust how quickly an item I'm making is consumed / eaten?

[ornate sand]

I'm trying to use a function to get to the SpeedScale stat and slap a multiplier on it.
So what is a weapon? 😄

Huh, just got an idea. I'll try this exact thing but with a fake weapon attachment. Because at least my suppressors work so if I just create a fake upgrade that's automatically on the M60 then this function cannot possibly fail like that.

[vivid imp]

The beauty of computer science

[misty horizon]

ok so i downloded the mod i wanna use as a reference but it's ID isn't in my files

ive restarted the file exp and launched the game

i cant find this damn mod lol

[misty horizon]

check this out if you will ^

[devout bison]

Sometimes the mod doesn't download right away, sometimes it can't because you're running pz, sometimes it needs to be rebooted and shut down again. Check your downloads in steam to make sure you don't have a halted download.

[severe jay]

download a program called everything. n use the search funtion at the top to search the steam id code

[misty horizon]

what the hell am i looking at

[misty horizon]

what does it do lol

[severe jay]

sec

[misty horizon]

can u not search using the basic file exp

[severe jay]

u can but its slower

[misty horizon]

ah

[bronze yoke]

ok so this is a dumb thing zomboid does

go to C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/workshop

[severe jay]

its basiclly this

[bronze yoke]

you are inside the game's workshop folder which is where it downloads mods for when you host a server

the one in your main steam folder is where the mods you actually subscribe to go to

[misty horizon]

oh shit

so ur telling me ive been in the wrong place

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[misty horizon]

gg i fail step 1

[misty horizon]

ohh ill get that also thats sick

un related but check out this bug that i git while trying to get the id

goofy ahh steam

blacking out the id

thats not even me thats just steam

[cosmic ermine]

textureRust = vehicles/EmptyImage,
        textureMask = vehicles/EmptyImage,
        textureLights = vehicles/EmptyImage,
        textureDamage1Overlay = vehicles/EmptyImage,
        textureDamage2Overlay = vehicles/EmptyImage,
        textureDamage1Shell = vehicles/EmptyImage,
        textureDamage2Shell = vehicles/EmptyImage,
```Can I please get an explanation for the `DamageOverlay/Shell` parameters?

[misty horizon]

anyone know if mp3 is supported

or does it have to be .wav

[ornate sand]

I use .ogg

[misty horizon]

i can convert it but if mp3 works i wont bother

[severe jay]

They should be

[misty horizon]

ok ill try it

first time "modding" im basilcy making it so that when you eat (any type of food) the tacobell meme sound thing plays

just for goofs

and to see if im capable

[ornate sand]

https://tenor.com/view/do-it-star-wars-emperor-palpatine-palpatine-gif-799657800635657398

[misty horizon]

how do i find the "id=" part

[ornate sand]

write one

[dull moss]

[ornate sand]

like id=HeavyEatingSound

[misty horizon]

yeah thats the mod im essentialy copying

is there a way to test the mod without doing the stuff neccecry for the workshop

bc i have the media

but im wanting to make sure it works before i do the other stuff

[ornate sand]

Yeah, do the workshop stuff but don't upload it yet 😛

[misty horizon]

lmao

so ur telling me i gotta make a 32x32 icon just to test this goofy ahh taco bell meme

[ornate sand]

nope

[misty horizon]

oh

[ornate sand]

icon.png can be empty

so can poster

[misty horizon]

oh

bet

so i don't need thoes files just to test it

so it says its a "text document" and the mod im using for reference has the file as a "INFO File" is this a problem and how would i change it to an INFO file as i didnt see the option

[ornate sand]

copypaste the og .INFO file and edit it

[misty horizon]

like the one im using for reference?

Ok good idea

is that all i need for it to just test

[misty horizon]

idk where you found that but im gonna use that as the cover lol

[severe jay]

i made just now,, u want the words changed?

[misty horizon]

nope

thats perfect

[severe jay]

ight bet

[misty horizon]

thanks man thats sick

[severe jay]

np

[ornate sand]

pro bono logo work? You're a legend

[severe jay]

if u need stuff done in blender, lmk. i just learnd how to do fbx files today XD

[ornate sand]

Okay! I need a lever action rack animation 😂

[severe jay]

XD

[misty horizon]

is that how it is meant to look

[ornate sand]

I also (and this is absolute top priority) need the Arnold spinrack from Terminator 2. For obvious reasons.

[severe jay]

all i ask is that u credit me in the workshop mod description ^-^ moo

[misty horizon]

100%

[severe jay]

thats a good idea. ill learn how to do bone structure on models this week

[ornate sand]

Yeah, I've thought about it for almost a year, that if I ever get into PZ animating in Blender then the first thing I'll make is the spinrack for the Winchester 1887

[misty horizon]

check this out

tiny little guy

I think TacoFood is ready for departure/testing where do i move the folder to test it in zomboid before i publish it

[vast pier]

any idea why my custom profession mod is breaking the descriptions of all the professions?

[ornate sand]

Did you set up the translate file for your new profession?

[vast pier]

yes, would the break vanilla professions though?

[severe jay]

where do i find the Character Models?

[ornate sand]

They shouldn't, I added a trait and the vanilla stuff is fine

[ornate sand]

No idea. Use ctrl+f on here maybe?

[vast pier]

also it's specifically not showing the stats you get from the professions anymore

see the black line next to construction worker? that's the box that shows up when I mouse over a profession

[misty horizon]

@severe jay what do you want me to give credit to? like your discord username or is there another name

[tacit pebble]

Well.. any errors when game is initializing or reloading Lua??

[vast pier]

idk how to check, I have watched zero tutorials. I'm reverse engineering this stuff.

[ornate sand]

A red error popping up bottom right

[tacit pebble]

go to main menu, there's a "reload Lua" botton at bottom left. click and see if something is counting up.

[severe jay]

all my stuff is the same. just a_cow_says is cool. but if u want to ad links thats cool too\

[vast pier]

and what do I do if it does

[tacit pebble]

check console.txt and see what was happening.

mostly, you will be able to find function name, file name, line number and reason by just searching "stack trace"

[cosmic ermine]

How can I add two trunks to my car?

[severe jay]

just added it to the mod pack.. LOOK IT HAS NUTRITION FACTS XD

[grizzled fulcrum]

it's making me hungryyy

[tacit pebble]

you make me wanna learn Blender... looks cool

[cosmic ermine]

Yum.

[undone elbow]

@bronze yoke

Starlit Library. It doesn't do anything on its own.
But why is it incompatible with the Fix XP View mod?

java.lang.RuntimeException: Object ??????. ???????? did not have __call metatable

No error if I disable your mod.

[tranquil reef]

"The most bad part with steam deck is that you can not use inner mod dependencies. You've to put everything in one super file or create a global object(main table) if it is nil(was not created in other files) on each file and init on any load game event after all lua is loaded. Just keep in mind that on PC lua files are loaded alphabetically but on steamdeck they do not and require calls are ignored"

Is this true? If so, why?

[bronze yoke]

does your mod modify java class metatables at all?

[bronze yoke]

there's literally no way that's true even the vanilla game would fall apart

[neat herald]

***If someone has the time and is inclination to solve bugs!; ***

Could you check the loot distribution lua for concrete powder? I have not found it anywhere in the game for build 42.

From what I can see in my files it seems to only spawn in a crates, those crates have a low chance of spawning, and those crates only can spawn in construction zones.

Posted are pictures of file paths, as well as what I have found in my files.
I am posting this in hopes to find out whether it is a build 42 issue or my clients files.
**Thanks to anyone who can assist! ** ❤️‍🔥

P.s. I have been told by other folks that they have found it in warehouses and basements. I have looked in many of both and found nothing.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1318684957526458450/1325708892360937523/E3AF4961-388E-41B9-88A7-AA61FD7844B0.png?ex=677cc61e&is=677b749e&hm=499f3dfffe32d22c34d74e820cedafe17e2a63ee87a6edf465433abb59bef2e5&

[undone elbow]

No.

  local old_updateTooltip = ISSkillProgressBar.updateTooltip
  ISSkillProgressBar.updateTooltip = function(self, ...)
    skip_this = false
    is_combat = false
    skill_sprinting = false
    if not instanceof(self.perk, "PerkFactory$Perk") then
      error_once(self.perk)
      return old_updateTooltip(self, ...)
    end

    local typ = self.perk:getType()
    local name = typ.name and typ:name() or typ:getId()
    -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Here is the error.

[bronze yoke]

oh i see, i did not account for this

i will fix it soon

[tranquil reef]

No idea where the person that said it got that info from lol. Sounded bizarre but wasn't sure

[bronze yoke]

the issue is a name conflict between a field and a method

starlit makes the field take priority so the method is no longer callable

[undone elbow]

Thanks in advance.

[random finch]

(B41) Would there be a case where these would not be the same?

IsoCamera.frameState.CamCharacter
IsoPlayer.getInstance()

In IsoGameCharacter, these are compared several times. Is there some type of character switching system that I haven't looked into?

[bronze yoke]

they may be different in splitscreen

[lilac schooner]

project zomboid doordash mod

u run through hordes just to drop off a package infront of survivor houses and get money and use that money to buy weapons, better car, etc

[bronze yoke]

actually, what is intended here? i don't see a name() method on PerkFactory.Perk at all

[severe jay]

that's possible to build on this idea, if n when the base game NPC's get updated

[bronze yoke]

the error would be happening because your code checks for and tries to call something that does not usually exist, but does exist with my mod (but is not a function)

[undone elbow]

Not sure, because it's very old code. May be it's a kind of compatibility with some mod or with previous PZ build.

BTW the name() exists in some classes in vanilla.

[bronze yoke]

the issue i was worried about doesn't seem to be the case here, now that i'm thinking about it i'm not sure it's something java would allow anyway

since otherwise the reference this.name would be ambiguous i think?

changing that line to just local name = typ:getId() would most likely fix the issue, unless there is a reason for it being that way i don't know about - i don't think it is something i can fix on my end after all

[undone elbow]

Why didn't you choose _name or __name for your needs?

[bronze yoke]

i didn't choose the names, they are taken from the java

my mod makes any field on any object readable with object.fieldName, for example with the class in question:

[undone elbow]

So you make it visible while it shouldn't be...

Hm...

Okay, I'll fix my mod.
That was a real mod conflict. 🙂

[bronze yoke]

thank you!

[random finch]

I forgot to ask, does your mod expose anything more than what is available or does it make getting fields more intuitive? Maybe both. You have getClassFieldVal, getClassField, etc,. to grab those fields, but requires some extra code.

[undone elbow]

local name = type(typ.name) == 'function' and typ:name() or typ:getId()

[lilac schooner]

Command and conquer generals

Command and conquer: Red alert

[bronze yoke]

it just makes it more intuitive, it's not something you can't do without it (though nothing any library does is technically something you can't do yourself) but it's a real pain to implement, and most implementations i've seen are not as well optimised as mine either

[bronze yoke]

i decided to fix this issue just in case it came up in the future - i was just about to commit when i realised it's not true, they don't take priority anyway 😭

[cosmic ermine]

Is it possible to randomize vehicle tires?

Why is it Russian? 😭

[undone elbow]

Admin could copy it to /ru, then translate the original to English.

[misty horizon]

@severe jay

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3401759219

[undone elbow]

It could be :getField("name") by design.
I don't think there will be a lot of overhead, since there are already calls and checks under the hood.

[bronze yoke]

it's too late to change the design in any case, there's already a bunch of mods relying on it including ones that aren't mine

[undone elbow]

That's why I said "could"

I meant the past tense, not politeness. English is not my native language

[cosmic ermine]

Is it possible to have two trunks?

[bronze yoke]

no i understand that's okay! just explaining why i can't change it now

[severe jay]

hell yeh dude. good job ^-^

[misty horizon]

yessir thanks for the help man its really satisfying seeing it all work

[bronze yoke]

i think you can make any part have a container, take a look at the trunk template

[silent zealot]

It's probably in a forgotten box with all the sledgehammers I've not found.

More seriously, you can quickly check which lua files mention "concretepowder" and look at those:

lua\server\Items\Distribution_BinJunk.lua:885:          "ConcretePowder", 0.05,
lua\server\Items\Distribution_ClosetJunk.lua:212:       "ConcretePowder", 0.1,
lua\server\Items\ProceduralDistributions.lua:13144:                     "ConcretePowder", 50,
lua\server\Items\ProceduralDistributions.lua:13145:                     "ConcretePowder", 20,
lua\server\Items\ProceduralDistributions.lua:13146:                     "ConcretePowder", 20,
lua\server\Items\ProceduralDistributions.lua:13147:                     "ConcretePowder", 10,
lua\server\Items\ProceduralDistributions.lua:13148:                     "ConcretePowder", 10,
lua\server\Vehicles\VehicleDistributions.lua:2916:              "ConcretePowder", 10,
lua\shared\Foraging\Categories\Junk.lua:468:                            ConcretePowder                  = "Base.ConcretePowder",```

It does exist in B42 and I found it in the Muldraugh warehouses (the big one to the north and the slightly smaller one to the south)

[cosmic ermine]

Can I modify the GasTank capacity? I can't find anything related to it.

[bronze yoke]

i think that's a property of the item rather than the part

[tacit pebble]

setContainerContentAmount()
This is for amount. how much gasTank contains fuel.

so i guess setContainerCapacity()
is for max capacity?

https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/zombie/vehicles/VehiclePart.html

[cosmic ermine]

That's code not script -.-

[tacit pebble]

ah sorry :/ I just saw your last message only

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/MaxCapacity

[cosmic ermine]

I don't understand its structure, I've even tried looking at other vehicle mods. A Countach technically have two trunks, one at the front and one at the back behind the engine compartment and I don't know how to go about it. Do I need to paint both sides for the trunk mask?

[quaint warren]

I'm getting Object tried to call nil while attempting to call a method listed in the API...

Is it possible the method doesn't actually exist any longer?
https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/inventory/types/Literature.html#setSkillTrained(java.lang.String)

Yeah, 99% sure it doesn't exist

[pearl prism]

Yes, just chance it int the GasTank part

        {
            container
            {
                conditionAffectsCapacity = false,
                capacity = 95,
            }

Guys, does anyone know of a mod that makes it possible to destroy the helicopter from the "helecopter event"? Or does anyone know if it's possible to do this?

[cosmic ermine]

That doesn't work, it throws me error.

[pearl prism]

u are doing some thing wrong

let me c that script

[bright fog]

Maybe possible but that's not a thing

@sour island is the mod creator

[main pasture]

The mask is just used for the painting of damage/rust/blood and visualizing removed parts. If the another trunk is under the hood, the hood part of the mask covers that

[cosmic ermine]

I'm more interested in two trunks 😛

[main pasture]

I think you can have them. Just in a different part, like albion said. Then just set the accessing area to the front of the car

[cosmic ermine]

Like a Seat?

[main pasture]

For the accessing?

[cosmic ermine]

Can you show an example script?

[pearl prism]

I am going take a look

I just want to give a little gift to the helicopter pilot hehehe

[tranquil kindle]

Sometimes i say "its not possible to make it in PZ" but then i see someone making this....

Great work

[ornate sand]

I wish I knew how you manage to get a rate of fire like that 😄

[pearl prism]

Thanks

[tranquil kindle]

Does that mean we can expect a HMMW with working turret for more than 1 player?

[pearl prism]

The zomboid almost cries when I pull the trigger xD

[pearl prism]

100%

[tranquil kindle]

How does it even work, like every single rotation "tick for turret is separate model or is it animation?

I belive old Tiger mod did use model swap, but it looks too good for it, unless you really went rich with models for even small "rotation"

[pearl prism]

I'm going to put it in my M113 mod, everything is ready, I just need to finish the icons for the objects and some items, basic things

[ornate sand]

A humvee with a mounted mg is going to be beyond rad

[tranquil kindle]

Is it gonna be costly on resources if player decideds to use it, or more like for arcade type of playthrough?

I'd love to be able to use HMMW with mounted turret, but if its something that is cheap/has no cost to it that i have to work towards, its not really my cup of tea

[tranquil kindle]

OH, you're the autor of THAT mod.

[tranquil kindle]

Masks are for display of damage/rust as far as i know, you make the trunk locations accesible via vehicle editor.

[pearl prism]

I want to go for the "realism" side, something that cost , like having to find the machine gun separately from the vehicle in order to install it, and the ammunition being relatively difficult to find, but in a "significant" quantity as the consumption of ammunition is very high and it is not I want to ruin the experience

[cosmic ermine]

I know but if I have two trunks then that might be a problem cause there is only one color/mask ID for Trunk Lid.

[tranquil kindle]

I think engine and hood are tied together, also im not sure but i remember something about there being issue with enignes being on back, that caused it to take damage when hitting with fron of vehicle, but damage masks were applied where enginde/hood was, so you for example hit something with front bumper, but you get damage displayed on back, since thats what masks cover. Think something of GTA san andreas, where you could hit something with one end, and damage other end of vehicle.

Best practice to might be test out stuff

[main pasture]

The two trunks could be something like this ```area TruckBed
{
xywh = 0.0000 -1.6914 1.1235 0.5556,
}

area FrontTrunk
{
xywh = -0.0309 2.0741 1.1235 0.5556,
}

template = Trunk/part/TruckBed,
template = TrunkDoor,

part TruckBed
{
itemType = Base.BigTrunk,
}

part FrontTrunk
{
area = FrontTrunk,
category = bodywork,
itemType = Base.NormalTrunk,
mechanicRequireKey = true,
repairMechanic = true,

container
{
    conditionAffectsCapacity = true,
    test = Vehicles.ContainerAccess.TruckBedOpen,
}

lua
{
    create = Vehicles.Create.Default,
}

}

If you want to make the front trunk require opening, then you have to make custom ContainerAccess check function with lua that checks the door part for that trunk

[cosmic ermine]

Got it, thanks.

[cursive pilot]

If the PZ development team adopts this jeans material..

I made it myself during the B41 version.

B42 Version's jean material 80%

[dull moss]

I yearn for the b42 stable so i can ditch my b41 files into separate mod

[random finch]

Can someone please help me make sense of this. isoMovingObject is an instance of IsoPlayer, then getPlayerIndex() errors out:

[06-01-25 06:47:29.228] ERROR: General     , 1736167649228> 480,793,067> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: Object tried to call nil in cuttworenderlast at KahluaUtil.fail line:82..

...
local square = IsoCell.getInstance():getGridSquare(x, y, clickSquare:getZ())
if square then
  for i = 0, square:getMovingObjects():size() - 1 do
    local isoMovingObject = square:getMovingObjects():get(i)
    if instanceof(isoMovingObject, "IsoPlayer") then        
      local movIndex = isoMovingObject:getPlayerIndex() --Why is this nil?
      self:updateUserNameWithPlayer(isoMovingObject) --Why does this work?
    end
  end
end
...

I pass isoMovingObject to updateUserNameWithPlayer and it works? No error.

function crossHair:updateUserNameWithPlayer(player)
  if player then
    local clickPlayerIndex = player:getPlayerIndex()
  end
end

[stiff fiber]

I've been checking the script files of my car mods but I still don't know why the wheels get f-ed up. Can anyone help me with this?

It looks like the wheel's UV is messed up, but it hasn't been changed at all and it worked perfectly in Build 41

It just refuses to work correctly in build 42 for some reason

[dull moss]

I'd suggest #modeling

this is more for coding stuff

(you probably can get answer here too but it'll be faster in other channel as modeling ppl hang out there)

@stiff fiber

[stiff fiber]

I posted it there as well

But I feel like something is wrong with the lua code

Because there's nothing wrong with the model and the texture files

I checked the files of the vanilla cars but so far I didn't find any differences

[pearl prism]

Have you tried changing the wheel shader?

[random finch]

player:getPlayerIndex() is nil when you arent in Split Screen?

[dull moss]

how did you come to conclusion that isoMovingObject is an instance of IsoPlayer?

https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/zombie/iso/IsoMovingObject.html

zombie.entity.GameEntity
zombie.iso.IsoObject
zombie.iso.IsoMovingObject```

[random finch]

if instanceof(isoMovingObject, "IsoPlayer") then

[dull moss]

hm

[stiff fiber]

Not yet

[pearl prism]

try this one
basicEffect

[dull moss]

yea fuck knows, you'll have to wait for Albion or someone else to answer that

[random finch]

For real, its like wtf. Maybe this is the way togo:

local plrIndex = localPlayer:getPlayerIndex()
if plrIndex == nil then
  plrIndex = 0
end

[stiff fiber]

Holy shit

Thank you so much!

[old ginkgo]

What’s your intent with the code and with retrieving the player?

Do you ever need it to not be the client player?

If not you can much more simply use getPlayer which I believe always returns 0. (Or possibly getSpecificPlayer(0), I reserve the right to defer to whatever Albion recommends if my ignorance proves too thick.)

[runic hare]

by chance does anyone know if i am to place a container in the map when on debug/dev tool, will it spawn items such as the spawn ratio normally does for said containers?

[hidden compass]

Hi, I was wondering if you know how to hook the moment a character makes a lower attack to the ground (hold down ALT to attack or attack a zombie that is knocked down).

[hidden compass]

Half of the problem solved by myself. I was able to hook the lower attack against a knockdown zombie with the following. I am looking for a way to hook the lower attack while holding down the ALT key when there is no zombie.

local function OnWeaponSwing(character, handWeapon)
    if character:isAimAtFloor() then
        getPlayer():Say("Hit Floor!")
    end
end
Events.OnWeaponSwing.Add(OnWeaponSwing)```

[dull moss]

Each weapon has ground attack animation, right? You could hook your logic to that animation

[vast pier]

hey how do I make it so traits are exclusive from each other?
setMutualExclusive doesn't seem to be working

[bronze yoke]

getPlayerIndex() is a static method, you want either getIndex() or getPlayerNum() (they do the same thing)

[hidden compass]

Thanks for the reply, AimFloorAnim seemed to work for the decision so I tried the following but had two problems.

The first problem is that the lower attack (ALT + attack key) on the ground where there is no zombie with this Anim is true, so I can make a decision. However, I could not judge whether it was a swing or a stomp because a stomp against a zombie also became True.

The second problem was that for some reason I could not get the value from the AnimationVariableSlotBool object, and although the Java implementation looked like I could get it with “getValueBool()”, I got a “java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: getValueBool of non-table: zombie.core.skinnedmodel.advancedanimation.AnimationVariableSlotBool” when I executed it. I was able to reference the valu (m_value field) using Java reflection (=getClassFieldVal), but not sure why I could not call the Public method.

local function OnWeaponSwing(character, handWeapon)
    local aimFloorAnim = character:getVariable("AimFloorAnim")
    if aimFloorAnim then
        if aimFloorAnim:getValueBool() then
            getPlayer():Say("Hit Floor")
        end
    end
end
Events.OnWeaponSwing.Add(OnWeaponSwing)

I'll think about it again tomorrow, as it's almost time for bed, thanks.

[low yarrow]

Sounds like an option.
Or actually put all bandana like items as an array inside with the full name. Like the "visor" thing

[bronze yoke]

AnimationVariableSlotBool is not exposed to lua, you cannot call its methods

[dark wedge]

use:

character:getVariableBoolean("AimFloorAnim")

This actually returns the boolean value

[crisp fossil]

is there an equivalent to this in b42?

[bronze yoke]

no

[noble shell]

anyone knows how to bind a function to a set of controller key combination? Something like onKeyPressed event but for controller?

[bronze yoke]

you can use tags[TagName] if you just want any item with a certain tag but being able to determine input items with a lua function is gone

[deft wave]

Im new to modding/coding. Is anyone willing to help me setting up the Distributions.lua to implement my backpack to the loot table? atm ist only possible to spawn it via debug menu.

[crisp fossil]

is there a way to programmatically change the tag? I'm kinda avoiding to change tags using script

[bronze yoke]

not as of now

you can mess with the inputs directly from lua but i haven't seen exactly how people are doing that in b42

[ornate sand]

Do you want it to spawn as an empty backpack in some tables where other backpacks spawn, or do you want it also to spawn with some items in it?

[deft wave]

Thx for your reply. An empty backpack in some tables where other backpacks spawn would be awesome!

[ornate sand]

Cool, that's a very simple insert, lemme get an example for ya

require 'Items/ProceduralDistributions'
require "Items/ItemPicker"

-- Gunstore
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["GunStoreAmmunition"].items, "Base.556Box");
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["GunStoreAmmunition"].items, 15);

-- Gunstore is just a comment, it doesn't do anything. It's just helping me look through the mess 😄
So the first require is something you will need, idk if Items/ItemPicker is totally necessary (I still have it because 'better safe than sorry')
That table.insert line there has GunStoreAmmunition but you can look through ProceduralDistributions for where other backpacks spawn, such as ArmySurplusBackpacks.
That Base in Base.556Box should be either Base, or whatever you named your module. For example in my tools & blades mod an item is not Base.AxeMaul but it's RainsToolsAndBlades.AxeMaul.
The second line with the 15 is a spawn chance. Again, look at the values that other backpacks spawn and tinker around until you get a figure you like.

Oh yeah and put the lua file into media/lua/server

[deft wave]

Great! I will try that. And again thanks for your reply ❤️

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Procedural_distributions

[cosmic ermine]

template vehicle MR2FrontTrunk
    {
        part MR2FrontTrunk
        {
            category = bodywork,
            area = Front,
            itemType = Base.87toyotaMR2FrontTrunk,
            mechanicRequireKey = true,
            repairMechanic = true,
            container
            {
                conditionAffectsCapacity = false,
                test = MR2.ContainerAccess.FrontTrunk,
            }
            lua
            {
                create = Vehicles.Create.Default,
            }
        }
    }
```What is `itemType`?

[bronze yoke]

the item that should be installed for that part

[onyx valve]

Hi, how can I make an item appear in a backpack or in a pistol case or protective case?

[eager imp]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3022905387 heyo im following this tutorial to try to get a test mod to appear in the mods menu but it doesnt seem to work. ive also tried another method using the mods folder thats in the same area as the workshop folder and ive also tried going into the media folder and putting the test mod there. the goal is to just get it to appear in the mod menu but ive had no luck. am i missing something here? build 42 unstable build

[ornate sand]

You'll need something like this, and then a table.insert for the pack/case itself

[bronze yoke]

the file structure has changed in b42, see the pinned messages

[onyx valve]

What requires do i need? Distributions, Procedural, Suburbs and Item picker? Or vehicles too

[ornate sand]

Well, at least every one you plan on slapping your pack/case into 😄 I've got my guncases in all three

[eager imp]

i wish they didnt put it in a thread

[onyx valve]

But that's to add your own pack or case, right? Or is it so that your own items appear in the vanilla case or backpack?

[ornate sand]

Ah yeah, correct.
If you want to add items to already spawning containers then that's a different thing.

[onyx valve]

Oooh

[eager imp]

i got this

[ornate sand]

Do you have a id in your mod.info file?

[eager imp]

closest i have is like id=

[ornate sand]

yeah there
id=YourModNameHere

[eager imp]

so change it to modid

[ornate sand]

no it's id

[eager imp]

okay so i have that already then

[ornate sand]

Huh, what is that line?

[eager imp]

id=LFbikes

[ornate sand]

weiiird

[eager imp]

im going to test something to see if it helps

[ornate sand]

oh and yeah the mod.info needs to be in two folders, the main folder in "mods" and the "42" folder

[eager imp]

alright thats probably the issue then let me try that out

nice that seems to be the issue. i got it to appear in the mod menu. question if im not making for build 41 do i just not have anything in the (mod name) folder besides the common and 42

[ornate sand]

Yeah if it's B42 exclusive you'll only need "42" and "common" in there

[eager imp]

alright perfect thatll make life easier

thank you for the assist

[pine patio]

Guys is it possible to make a flashlight with a coloured light in B42?

[vast pier]

Thoughts on this -4 point profession?

[bronze yoke]

balance wise? i think -4 is very low

[ornate sand]

I can dig it. Farming being waaaaaay more difficult and time consuming (plus buggier than Starship Troopers) makes Agriculture +1 nice, Foraging +2 is maybe on the heavy side but in total, -4 points seems just fine to me.
Mod professions should be a bit better than vanilla ones. Otherwise no one's going to pick them anyway.

[finite scroll]

does zomboid run at a fixed tickrate or does it use deltatime

[bronze yoke]

delta time

[tranquil reef]

Changing default values of sandbox settings as a modder doesn't overwrite people's existing saves even if they didn't change the changed settings. Is there any way to bypass this, or do I need to make a guide for the players to go and find a mod that lets them

[finite scroll]

gotcha, ty

and is that a global i can reference?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, there's getters on the GameTime object, there's a few that vary slightly in purpose: https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/PZModdingGuides/blob/main/guides/GameTime.md#cheat-sheet

[bronze yoke]

there's no way to bypass it, the game doesn't know if an option is left on default or not

you *could* one time change the value on load save but that will affect people who had it that way on purpose too

[tranquil reef]

Could I just have a "reset sandbox options" button that shows to admins or something though?

aka anyone in singleplayer and admins in servers

[vast pier]

maybe foraging 1 with the existing foraging buffs?

[ornate sand]

Why not, yeah. Foraging isn't all that difficult to level up anyway. 🙂

[vast pier]

maybe -3 or -2 starting points

[sacred harness]

Hey all, quick question:
If an item has a "MetalValue" but does not have a "HasMetal" tag, is that by design or a mistake?

[vast pier]

I think metalvalue is for microwaves and hasmetal is for forging

[sacred harness]

Okay, might be the other way around but that makes sense.

[vast pier]

probably

[sacred harness]

Just means I can microwave weldingrods without blowing the microwave up 🙂

[twilit pike]

gah I'm trying to port over a poster mod I had and my crafting coding isn't working bleghh

[sacred harness]

Yeah, crafting has been completely overhauled. I think someone did a pretty good job explaining the changes... Not sure who it was though, but its in this thread lol

[vast pier]

fireman is neutral, carpenter is positive 1, lumberjack is neutral, burger flipper is positive 2.

Are you saying you think it should take away less or more points?

[bronze yoke]

less, i don't think these skills alone are that powerful

[sacred harness]

Anyone know how to get/set the attribute "MetalValue"? I'm not seeing the function in the zombie_scripting_objects class

[deft wave]

Thank you so much! It finally worked. Now its time to add more items to create an old-school camping gear mod 🚀

[eager imp]

anyone know the name of the code file that has traits in it?

[vast pier]

MainCreationMethods.lua

[eager imp]

thank you!

[vast pier]

💕

[icy night]

You making a trait mod?

[vast pier]

how do I add the foraging values to the profession without overwriting the vanilla foraging values

[eager imp]

yeah just as practice and also learning to read the code

[icy night]

Nice. GL

[eager imp]

thanks! im gonna need it

[vast pier]

having the file like this

forageSkills = {
    botanist = {
        name                    = "botanist",
        type                    = "occupation",
        visionBonus             = 1.1,
        weatherEffect           = 33,
        darknessEffect          = 10,
        specialisations         = {
            ["Crops"]               = 20,
            ["Berries"]             = 15,
            ["Mushrooms"]           = 15,
            ["MedicinalPlants"]     = 45,
            ["WildPlants"]            = 20,
            ["WildHerbs"]            = 20,
            ["Fruits"]              = 5,
            ["Vegetables"]          = 5,
        },
    },
};```
makes it overwrite the vanilla foraging values, but if I try to change the forageSkills value it doesn't apply my foraging values

[finite scroll]

does zomboid have any sort of builtin raycast function?

[bronze yoke]

try ```lua
forageSkills.botanist = {
name = "botanist",
type = "occupation",
visionBonus = 1.1,
weatherEffect = 33,
darknessEffect = 10,
specialisations = {
["Crops"] = 20,
["Berries"] = 15,
["Mushrooms"] = 15,
["MedicinalPlants"] = 45,
["WildPlants"] = 20,
["WildHerbs"] = 20,
["Fruits"] = 5,
["Vegetables"] = 5,
},
}

[vast pier]

without the require?

oh it's formatted different

I'm blind

[eager imp]

im slowly starting to understand this stuff and its so cool

[finite scroll]

i think formats fine

[bronze yoke]

requiring a vanilla file never does anything, it's a misconception in the community

[ornate sand]

Making custom Traits is fun when you get them to work 😄

[finite scroll]

pretty sure the issue is you're requiring Foraging/forageDefinitions instead of Foraging/forageSystem

[finite scroll]

oh, really?

[bronze yoke]

all require does is load a file if it hasn't loaded yet, and returns whatever the file returned

[eager imp]

ooo look at this

[vast pier]

no it's registering the foraging values, it's just replacing the vanilla file essentially

which is not what I want 🔥

[bronze yoke]

all vanilla files load before all mod files and none of them return anything so requiring them doesn't do anything

[finite scroll]

oh i see

is your file name the same as the vanilla?

[vast pier]

no

[finite scroll]

it could be overwriting it

ah

[icy night]

I like dialogue mods. Always could use more

[eager imp]

burglar gets magazine armor thats sick

[vast pier]

it's data related, when I change values in the file it stops replacing it, I'm gonna try what albion said

[finite scroll]

alr hope it works

[vast pier]

yeah it works, thanks albion

[finite scroll]

OHHH i see my mistake

my reference was intending to replace all the originals

that would make sense lol

[vast pier]

what file makes it so fireman/security guard have starting % in exercise regularity, and park ranger/lumberjack bonus movement speed through trees?

[deep charm]

Quick question, is it possible to flag an item as globally unique so that it will only appear once per map?

[vast pier]

check to see what home video vhs tapes do, those only spawn once per map

[ornate sand]

Speaking of VHS tapes, how does the game determine that COO+1 means Cooking xp in a tv/VHS show?
I'd like to make a VHS tape mod that adds 2-3 tapes per each new skill so they'd be a bit easier to level up, but how would I figure out what the short version of Butchering is for example?

[blissful urchin]

Hello guys I have a small question, how can I access a public java field in lua ?

I can access to public method using the :method(), but how can I access to public field

staticObject.field does not work

[finite scroll]

is the class exposed to lua?

[blissful urchin]

Nope I don’t think so, let me check

At least the class is not nil

[finite scroll]

you can check it against the list in LuaManager$Exposer.class

if it's not exposed to lua you can't access anything from it directly

[bronze yoke]

this warning is even more frustrating because it's just a lie

module A may have forgotten to import module Base actually means module B may have forgotten to import module A - it's the wrong way around *and* it always says base no matter which module it actually is

[blissful urchin]

the class is indeed exposed, and I also have the instance,

But cannot use their public field, what is the syntax in lua ?

[bronze yoke]

there is none, kahlua does not expose fields

you can read them with object.field if you have my Starlit Library installed, but there is no way to write to them

[finite scroll]

there might be a function that lets you alter the field but you can't do it directly

[blissful urchin]

but that's straneg we can access public method but not public field

[storm trench]

Anybody try Chuck's "zombies hear your microphone" mod yet?

[vast pier]

👀👀

[blissful urchin]

Love this comment in the Indie stone lua file: " -- Lua seriously needs a "continue", and yes, i refuse to use goto 😄
"

[bronze yoke]

the park ranger/lumberjack tree movement is hardcoded in the java somewhere

[vast pier]

Same with exercise regularity?

Is there a way to mimic it in a mod?

[teal nacelle]

Hey, y'all

Do I have to keep all the sounds for sound replacers, including ones I don't change, or can I delete the ones I don't want to change?

I'm completely out of space from extracting all the sound effects

Literally 0 bytes left

I can't even record the sounds to replace with anymore

[bronze yoke]

if you have to replace the sound banks, yes, you need to put all the sounds in there

[teal nacelle]

Well shit

Idk what I can delete

I don't think I even had enough space to extract all of the files to begin with

Alright, turns out shadow copies or something took up 3 GB of space so I have enough to work for now

[finite scroll]

is desensitized hardcoded or can i replicate it

[cosmic ermine]

Traits are all hardcoded I think.

[finite scroll]

ah

unfortunate

[twilit pike]

aaaandd I somehow broke pz as now it's stuck on the script loading screen

[finite scroll]

does anyone have the code for SpriteRenderer.renderClamped with rough variable names? it has like a billion variables and i cant tell what any of them do

[bright fog]

Reworked the distribution wiki page, it will have explanations of loot generation as well as better examples to inserting your own loot into and some methods to fixing loot generation due to the addition of too many items by mods
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Procedural_distributions

[cosmic ermine]

Does centerOfMassOffset affect the vehicle's physics?

[hollow ore]

Could someone explain to me how to make a car armored, or not break easily, I would like to add it to my mod

[vivid imp]

Is the script for zombie behavior a LUA file, and if so where is it stored?

[bright fog]

nop

Full java sided

There's some bits which allow custom behavior but it's not easy

If you want custom behavior I'd suggest checking out Bandits

[vivid imp]

I want to adjust zombies so when they pathfind around large fences they dont wander to a spot on the other side, thus going on a long journey thats hard to predicr

[bright fog]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3185310846&searchtext=zombie+pathfind

You may want to check this out

[vivid imp]

Oh haha

[bright fog]

That's B41 tho

And I haven't checked how they do the fix

[vivid imp]

It says its a java mod

[mellow frigate]

if it works maybe we could promote it to TIS.

[bright fog]

[bright fog]

Ah rip lol

[regal sail]

hey guys

does anyone have some docs for b42 craft recipe script?

the wiki currently only has the docs for the stable version

[bright fog]

Currently no there isn't

[winter bolt]

i hope the devs fix this at some point i think its honestly like the biggest problem with zombies right now

[regal sail]

alright thx

[bright fog]

I'll try to work on updating it in the next week

There's a need for it

[regal sail]

are the recipe scripts files in the game install dir?

[bright fog]

yea

[regal sail]

could you give me the path pls?

[bright fog]

In ProjectZomboid/media/scripts

[regal sail]

thx bro ❤️

[hollow ore]

.

[young edge]

I do not mod this game but it wouldn't be there if it didn't do anything. And given how interestingly advanced the handling model is, I'd bet on: yes
I'll assume there are XYZ offsets, in which case that acts as a de facto way of assigning weight distribution.

[icy night]

Been working on B42 recipes for the past couple days. I only got a single crafting recipe to work out of a couple dozen. If you figure it out, lmk?

[dawn pagoda]

How hard would it be to change the container volume of the shipping containers from KI5?
I got zero modding experience for PZ. Would like a custom nerfed version for a server.

[finite scroll]

does anyone know a mod that uses SpriteRenderer's functions i could use as reference?

[neat herald]

Well, I finally found some concrete powder in the electromax warehouse, as you said it is as rare if not rarer than a sledgehammer!

[silent zealot]

For me, I've not seen a sledgehammer or four-color pen in hundreds of hours of B42.

But I found skinny leather pants in the first 15 minutes, something that took over a thousand hours before I found them in B41.

[neat herald]

Found a sledge in this warehouse, but in the 100 hr I have in my playthrough it is only the second I have found. Haven't seen a four colour pen at all either.

[neat herald]

Took me several days to find any sort of decent pants and prescription glasses!

[silent zealot]

A Sledge is less eesential now you can disassemble securty shutters witha welding torch

(or use the lockpicking mod, but that's not balanced at all)

[neat herald]

Bingo, it's really mostly a necessity for large complexes or shipping containers

[vivid imp]

I feel like a solution would be to just give them a maximum distance they can go per each 'wander'

Like if a zombie decides it wants to wander to a position lightly north, but the pathing distance to that position is unreasonably long, cancel it and try again

[tacit pebble]

Is there any events or parameter which is firing when player finished to read book or/and page?

I couldn't find any

[bronze yoke]

no, but reading is a timed action so you can hook into it

[tacit pebble]

that's a great Idea thanks!

[tacit pebble]

I have a question, in this case, do you mean i don't have to require vanilla function? Sorry if i missed from your point, but you said "never" so i'm worried if I used useless line.
Maybe i can test later when i back to home, but my curiosity is insane right now XD

require "ISUI/ISInventoryPaneContextMenu"
local vanillaPaneContextMenu = ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.createMenu
ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.createMenu = function(player, isInPlayerInventory, items, x, y, origin)

  -- My function to edit a part of vanila function
  
  -- Hook for anything else which i didn't edit
  vanillaPaneContextMenu(player, isInPlayerInventory, items, x, y)
end

[bronze yoke]

yeah, the require doesn't do anything

[tacit pebble]

guys, will this better for performance?

function CF_triggerEvent(player)
    if not player:isAlive() then return end
    if player:isAnimal() then return end

    if player:getHealth() < 90 then
        Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(CF_regenSpeed)
    end
end

function CF_regenSpeed(player)
    if not player:isAlive() then return end
    if player:isAnimal() then return end

    local health = player:getHealth()
    health = health + 0.01

    if health > 90 then
        Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Remove(CF_regenSpeed)
    end
end

Events.OnPlayerGetDamage.Add(CF_triggerEvent)

than below?

function regenSpeed(player)
    if not player:isAlive() then return end
    if player:isAnimal() then return end
    local health = player:getHealth()
    if health > 90 then return end
    health = health + 0.01
end

Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(regenSpeed)

Or it's completely useless? This is short version of my function, so i'm wondering if it's better when using by huge function.

[regal sail]

yeah, check dms

[tacit pebble]

i just try to avoid using OnPlayerUpdate because it fires function every ticks.

[undone elbow]

Better to refuse the code ladder.

if v.type == "Animal" then
  handleAnimalZone(file, v)
elseif v.type == "Basement" then
  handleBasementSpawnLocation(dirName, v)
elseif v.type == "Mannequin" then
  handleMannequinZone(file, v)
elseif v.type == "RoomTone" then
  -- handleRoomTone(file, v)
elseif v.type == "SpawnOrigin" then
  handleSpawnOrigin(file, v)
elseif v.type == "WaterFlow" then
  handleWaterFlow(file, v)
elseif v.type == "WaterZone" then
  handleWaterZone(file, v)
elseif v.type == "Region" or v.type == "BuildingName" then

could be

local fn = SOME_FN_TABLE[v.type];
if fn then
  fn(v)
end

[undone elbow]

ChatGPT (it's not tested, I've asked just an idea):

-- External variable that tracks whether regen speed should be updated
local regenNeeded = false

-- Function that will be called when the player takes damage
function CF_triggerEvent(player)
    if not player:isAlive() then return end
    if player:isAnimal() then return end

    -- If the player's health is less than 90, enable regen speed
    if player:getHealth() < 90 then
        regenNeeded = true
    else
        regenNeeded = false
    end
end

-- Function that will be called on each update
function CF_regenSpeed(player)
    if not player:isAlive() then return end
    if player:isAnimal() then return end

    -- If regen speed needs to be updated
    if regenNeeded then
        local health = player:getHealth()
        health = health + 0.01

        -- If health reaches 90, stop the regen speed
        if health >= 90 then
            regenNeeded = false
        end
    end
end

-- Add event listeners
Events.OnPlayerGetDamage.Add(CF_triggerEvent)
Events.OnPlayerUpdate.Add(CF_regenSpeed)

The idea is that both events are initialized only once.

Actually I'd add a table with players to avoid checking isAlive and isAnimal in OnPlayerUpdate.

There is something like OnPlayerDeath for sure.

[tacit pebble]

oh yes using flag must be better 🙂 thanks for the pointing.

but what I wanted to ask is about Events, mean:

• if I remove Event(OnPlayerUpdate) when it's not necessary will it helps for performance?
• or it does nothing since we return the function earlier by if health > 90 then return end even it fires function every ticks

sorry for unclear question before 😬

[undone elbow]

It helps but there is some overhead

[tacit pebble]

I see, thanks for sharing your thought 😉

[undone elbow]

The main thing will be in debug mode if you want to "reload" just one lua file. It's fine if you have simple initialization, PZ will drop old event function and assign new.

[bronze yoke]

yours is better, the chatgpt one is the worst of all three

[tacit pebble]

additional information) why I asked that question, that's because I hate using tick events. I also don't use EveryOneMinute because potato PC player can be experience frameloss by that too as I'm aware.
But there's limitation to EveryTenMinutes. like regeneration speed function should be tick based otherwise player may feel discomfort if I use TenMinutes event.
btw For now, I'm using setHealthFromFood() to control regen speed

[tacit pebble]

So you meant the first one which has OnPlayerGetDamage event, right?

[cosmic ermine]

Anyone know how to make this functional truck door?

template = CountachFrontTrunkDoor,

        part FrontTrunk
        {
            area = FrontTrunk,
            category = bodywork,
            itemType = Base.SmallTrunk,
            mechanicRequireKey = true,
            repairMechanic = true,

            container
            {
                capacity = 15,
                conditionAffectsCapacity = true,
                test = Countach.ContainerAccess.FrontTrunk,
            }

            lua
            {
                create = Vehicles.Create.Default,
            }
        }

function Countach.ContainerAccess.FrontTrunk(vehicle, part, character)
    if character:getVehicle() then
        return false
    end

    if not vehicle:isInArea(part:getArea(), character) then
        return false
    end

    local FrontTrunk = vehicle:getPartById("Base.CountachFrontTrunkDoor")
    if FrontTrunk and FrontTrunk:getDoor() then
        if not FrontTrunk:getInventoryItem() then
            return true
        end

        if not FrontTrunk:getDoor():isOpen() then
            return false
        end
    end

    return true
end

[undone elbow]

In the past I was trying to make something like OnEverySecond but not all in one moment.

local OnTickEngine = nil; OnTickEngine = {
  version = '1.0',
  fn_real = {},
  idx_real = 0,
  save_now = 0,
  hours = 0, --from world creation
  EveryRealSecond = function(self,fn)
    table.insert(self.fn_real, fn)
  end,
  main = function()
    local self = OnTickEngine
    if self.idx_real > 0 then --every tick new function
      if self.idx_real > #self.fn_real then
        self.idx_real = 0
      else
        self.fn_real[self.idx_real]();
        self.idx_real = self.idx_real + 1
      end
      return
    end
    local now = os.time()
    if now - self.save_now > 1000 then
      self.save_now = now
      self.idx_real = 1
      self.hours = getGameTime():getWorldAgeHours() --TODO: optimize
    end
  end,
  oninit = function(self, global_var_name)
    _G[global_var_name] = self
    Events.OnTick.Add(self.main)
    self.is_client = isClient()
    self.is_server = isServer()
  end,
  onremove = function(self)
    Events.OnTick.Remove(self.main)
  end,
  Install = function(self,global_var_name)
    if not _G[global_var_name] then
      return self:oninit(global_var_name)
    end
    local g_obj = _G[global_var_name]
    if g_obj.version >= self.version then
      OnTickEngine = g_obj
      return --already initialized
    end
    --Must be replaced
    if g_obj.onremove then
      g_obj:onremove()
    end
    self:oninit(global_var_name)
  end
}
OnTickEngine:Install('GlobalOnTickEngine')

But I never published it (except now).

.
This is a kind of optimization for OnTick, but there are also many non-obvious shortcomings that will lead to problems in the long run.

[tacit pebble]

Do you mean you tried to make a own event for better OnTick?
currently that's like something I can't understand tho..
I'm gonna do some study with your code.

[undone elbow]

Yes, the usage should have looked like this:

GlobalOnTickEngine.EveryRealSecond(my_function)

I think I'll finish this thing and then publish it.
It's not very good right now.

[bronze yoke]

yes: adding a function to an event is extremely cheap, i wouldn't worry about its cost, especially comparted to doing anything ontick

you may want a flag to prevent adding the event more than once though

[undone elbow]

I've played with Events.XYZ.Remove and reloading the lua file before. It's not as simple as it seems.

[finite scroll]

fellas does anyone know how to just draw a sprite to the screen i've been at this for hours and cannot figure it out

[tacit pebble]

I've never experienced any issue from removing event listener, to be honestly method below is what I've usually used.
but it's quite surprise that it could make an unexpected error.
Later when i encounter issue, than i must gotta check that too. 😮

[hidden compass]

@bronze yoke @dark wedge
Thanks for your all advices. I was able to determine the lower attack with the weapon!

local function OnWeaponSwing(character, handWeapon)
    -- getAttackingWeapon always returns not null
    if character:getVariableBoolean("AimFloorAnim") and character:getAttackingWeapon():getType() ~= "BareHands" then
        getPlayer():Say("Hit Floor using weapon")
    else
        getPlayer():Say("Not Hit Floor using weapon")
    end
end
Events.OnWeaponSwing.Add(OnWeaponSwing)

[undone elbow]

Only in debug mode and only if you reload a single file. It's fine if you reload entire lua or if a player just uses your mod.

[tacit pebble]

ah i understood. and i can imagine why. thanks for detail 🙂

[bronze yoke]

i noticed b42 has a lot of code intended to avoid the reload events issue

i haven't had a chance to try it but it may not be a concern anymore

[sacred harness]

Alright! I need help. I can NOT for the life of me get an instance of InventoryItem from an Item.

I'm trying to get the metal value using InventoryItem:getMetalValue() but I cant get an instance of the InventoryItem from the Item class.
I've tried using this:
InstanceItem(arg0: string): zombie.inventory.InventoryItem;
But that just makes the script go boom boom. Also, not sure what argument I should be passing it. I've tried item name, the item object...not sure what else to try.

[tacit pebble]

InstanceItem("Base.Something"):getMetalValue() ?

[undone elbow]

Btw, is it even possible to have a console in the main menu?

[tacit pebble]

Do you mean F10?

or finger print window?

[undone elbow]

I mean Lua console where you can type and run something

some single line code

like print(123)

[tacit pebble]

I don't think it's possible in Vanilla PZ, I mean, there's no function to pop-up the window.

[random finch]

So, I am trying to hook a Java method. I do this in LUA all the time hooking functions but never have i tried to hook a Java method. Is this possible? I am trying this but nothing seems to happen - no errors either.

-- Store the original method.
local originalAddWorldSoundUnlessInvisible

-- Override the `addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible` method.
local function overrideAddWorldSoundUnlessInvisible(self, soundRadius, volume, flag)
    --if not self:isInvisible() then
        WorldSoundManager.instance:addSound(
            self,
            math.floor(self:getX()),
            math.floor(self:getY()),
            math.floor(self:getZ()),
            soundRadius,
            volume,
            flag
        )
    --end

    -- Original method to ensure original behavior is preserved.
    --if originalAddWorldSoundUnlessInvisible then
    --    originalAddWorldSoundUnlessInvisible(self, soundRadius, volume, flag)
    --end
end

-- Define the function to execute on game start.
local function onGameStart()

    -- Save a reference to the original method.
    originalAddWorldSoundUnlessInvisible = IsoGameCharacter.addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible

    -- Replace the `addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible` method with our override.
    IsoGameCharacter.addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible = overrideAddWorldSoundUnlessInvisible
end

-- Add the game start event handler.
Events.OnGameStart.Add(onGameStart)

[bronze yoke]

it is possible, but it will only affect lua calls to that function

[random finch]

Damn

I guess its very situational. I am trying this method for example, but there is nothign I can do to change the variables or return values of the method or anything to impact the Java side?

[bronze yoke]

-- MUST be the name of the class calling the method, not the class the method is actually defined in
local index = __classmetatables[IsoPlayer.class].__index

local originalAddWorldSoundUnlessInvisible = index.addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible
index.addWorldSoundUnlessInvisible = function(...)
    return originalAddWorldSoundUnlessInvisible(...)
end

[random finch]

So, you can impact Java in that you must override for every class the method is used in? Or, In that case - the code you wrote, it is only impacting LUA calls?

[fast galleon]

Hi, it seems like when transfering items and they change their uses then they can simply disappear. Maybe it happens only when they deplete.

Any ideas what to do about this? Sounds like a game bug.

[bronze yoke]

it only impacts lua calls

java calls don't go through lua so we can't really do anything to affect them

[faint jewel]

is tsarlib updated to 42?

[sacred harness]

InstanceItem() is a function of the Item class. You cant call it directly

[tranquil reef]

is setVariable on zombie like getModData? If so, does this info stay on them whether or not they're dead?

[random finch]

When I modded Terreria, we could use reflection for cases like this. Never got to that point since there is so much more you can do with the PZ API.

I am not sure how pipewrench works, but does it allow hooking Java code proper?

[bronze yoke]

no, pipewrench just compiles to lua

it lets you write in typescript but it is ultimately lua modding with an extra step

[fast galleon]

getModData returns a table, setVariable sets a variable. No the variables are not persistent.

[undone elbow]

-- at the top level of your lua file
local SM = getScriptManager()
local SM_CACHE = {}

local function GetMetalValue(full_type)
  local metal_value = SM_CACHE[full_type]
  if metal_value then
    return metal_value
  end
  local item = SM:getItem(full_type)
  if not item then
    SM_CACHE[full_type] = 0
    return 0
  end
  local str_value = tostring(item:getScriptLines()):match("MetalValue%s*=%s*(%d+)");
  metal_value = tonumber(str_value) or 0
  SM_CACHE[full_type] = metal_value
  return metal_value
end


  
-- Example
print(GetMetalValue('Base.SheetMetal'))      -- 80
print(GetMetalValue('Base.SmallSheetMetal')) -- 20
print(GetMetalValue('asdfgh'))               -- 0

[tranquil reef]

Damn, well, is there any way to make persistent data like that? I have an old mod that I stopped working on because I tried using a "Token" item that'd track whether or not the zombie was "tied up".

I can't imagine this is impossible but I don't know what method works

[tacit pebble]

are you in B41? I believe it has turned into global function from the B42

[fast galleon]

Maybe you can use global modData and doggy's library to track the zombie?

not an expert on this

[sacred harness]

Interesting...
is there a scripting tutorial or something out there that I'm missing lol

[sacred harness]

Global, meaning Exports?
https://github.com/asledgehammer/PipeWrench/blob/6641214bafe7e2713ea204d4a9bdb7a10c88500c/PipeWrench.lua#L312

[undone elbow]

Well, I just invented it, on request. I didn't know the solution beforehand.

[faint jewel]

oh hell, i need someone to update tsarlib for b42 XD

[tacit pebble]

sorry i don't know what is PipeWrench and what it means, but for me,

function nothing()
  print(instanceItem("Base.Something"):getName())
end

is just working.
So i thought getMetalValue() would work too.

[sacred harness]

PipeWrench is the game files decompiled

[bronze yoke]

that's not what pipewrench is...?

i guess this is the file where pipewrench keeps java api

pipewrench is a typescript modding platform for zomboid

[sacred harness]

PipeWrench is a set of TypeScript definitions for both the Java API and Lua codebase for the game Project Zomboid.

[bronze yoke]

if you just want to look at the available functions, the javadocs should be far less annoying to browse than this https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/

[sacred harness]

God bless you sir.

[uneven fractal]

hello, how do i delete items from spawning in the game? I've deleted some guns from items_weapons but it doesn't work

[severe jay]

I suck at coding. In fact i know little to nothing about coding lua.. Can someone. Help me with this 👉🏻👈🏻 i made a truck and a storage box.

[faint jewel]

dem wheels.

[ornate sand]

The brute force way would be to delete those guns from ProceduralDistributions.lua, Distributions.lua, and VehicleDistributions.lua too I guess

[ornate sand]

I'd like to help you but I know nothing of making custom vehicles spawn in. 😄 Why don't ya subscribe to some other B42 vehicle add-in mod and "study" its lua folders?

[severe jay]

Im on my 6th etempt to do just that actually 💀

[tacit pebble]

this wiki may help you.
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Procedural_distributions

[ornate sand]

Mkay. Want me to turn that box into a hat? 😄

[severe jay]

Lol yeah XD

[ornate sand]

Gimme dat fbx then

[sacred harness]

So.... Item:ActivatedItem?

You might be able to set that to False

[tacit pebble]

Oh that function is what i've never heard and seems very useful when i just searched

[sacred harness]

Its not a function, its a field

https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/zombie/scripting/objects/Item.html

[tacit pebble]

for me, everything is function XD function started with . , function started with : 😆

[sacred harness]

lol

[tacit pebble]

tbh, i don't know how can i call "things" in English..

[sacred harness]

Its all good

[tacit pebble]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-shrug-i-dont-know-i-dont-mind-gif-16879069

but now i knew it's "field" in English lol

[sacred harness]

🙂

[ornate sand]

The existence of this thing has given light to my life.

[sacred harness]

DUDE! IKR! Someone just posted it here to me.
@bronze yoke is legend!

[undone elbow]

After : there is always a function but after . there MAY BE a function.

If it's an object it contains only functions (w/o starlit mod), and if it's a lua table it usually contains strings/numbers/booleans.

[bronze yoke]

i made it 🙇‍♀️

[undone elbow]

btw item:getName() equals to item.getName(item)

[tacit pebble]

interesting. thanks to let me know. those additional description always help me to step forward. cheers

[silent zealot]

I've figured a way past the "it's impossible to carry more than 50 weight" limitation!

It also bypasses the weight restrictions on container capacity too

[tacit pebble]

from lua??? sick

[silent zealot]

Yes, all done from lua. Right now by directly editing LUA files, so I need to convert to a mod that does function replacments

[tacit pebble]

So I can finally install "outside table(1/4) ... (4/4)" now? 🤣

[silent zealot]

I can probably also make it work independently for main player inventory vs. containers so they can be toggled seperately.

[silent zealot]

Along with a dozen antique ovens and a fridge or two.

[tacit pebble]

anyway that's an awesome finding dude

[silent zealot]

So mod plan: Put Anything in Anything.
Three options:

• No weight limit player inventory
• no weight limit every other inventory (except floor)
• bypass item type limits. (acceptance functions)

...I should probably take a break first because I sat done six hours ago and "surely it can't be that hard to find the hard coded limit, I'll do that then eat" was very incorrect. 😂

It's weird that the java code has these size limits built in when you ask "how much can I put in this?" or "will this fit?" but when you call AddItem() the Java doesn't care what it is or how heavy it is,

[ornate sand]

So that's why in B41 we could do mechanic work on 100 cars and never drop a goddamn thing 😄

[faint jewel]

i would reccommend maybe a "bag of holding" mod instead. a carryable item (like a backpack) that has infinite carry space

[bronze yoke]

i would probably recommend against the accept function bypass since that's going to break a lot of mods and the users probably won't think about that

[silent zealot]

I could just have the option make the vanilla accept function all return true.

That way there is no probelm with any custom accept functions

[silent zealot]

Harder to implement, but not impossible.

[faint jewel]

all you have to do is make sure they have the itme in their inventory, adn that they are addingit TO that item.

that's actually really easy.

then you just call your function.

[silent zealot]

There are 7 different places in the code that need to change to get around the limits

[vast pier]

what all is needed to start making armour for the game? Are there any plugins or is it inherently compatible with blender?
Where's the player/zombie skeleton files so that I can weight the models?

[silent zealot]

And weird cases, like when I first got past the limit it woudl only work if you dragged multiple items and one was small enough to fit.

[tacit pebble]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3025955520
maybe this..?

its for B41 tho so i have no idea if it's still working

[faint jewel]

it do.

[vast pier]

thanks, I'll look into it

[silent zealot]

How about:

1. mod edits the vanilla functions to call NepCustomDoesItFit().
2. Based on sandbox options, NepCustomDoesItFit() can:

• always be true (other than floor, which is a special case)
• be true if it's the player's main inventory
• be true if it's an equipped container
• be true if the container object is in a whitelist (Bag_SchoolBag, etc)

Otherwise it passes through to the default java check.

That should give everyone the flexibility to get infinite space where they need it.

And for now I'm ignoring the limits on putting stuff on the floor and the multiplayer-specific world container limits, because they may have performance reasons. They really if that's the case the floor should care about the number of items, not the total weight.

It also avoids having a dedicated "infinite backpack" item so people can use whatever bags they like and I don't get lots of requestes for "make your backpack work with <backpack adjusting mod> plz"

[sacred harness]

Does crafting take into consideration your corresponding crafting level? Like if my smithing was super low verser super high. Would I make better weapons?

[silent zealot]

At the moment, no.

[sacred harness]

Hmmm, k

[silent zealot]

It also doesn't care if you use a proper tool or a rock tied to a stick, as long at it meets the recipies criteria

[sacred harness]

Okay

[silent zealot]

I hope that changes with the full crafting update

[sacred harness]

Yah

I'll wait till then, before modding that 🙂

[silent zealot]

Instead of "level 9 smithing to make a machete" it would be "level 3 smithing to make a machete, but until you get to level 9 you're making one with worse stats/lower condition than a proper factory made one"

[silent zealot]

Definitely, I'd hold off any mods that affect the crafting system unless they are really easy to make so you don't feel like you've wasted effort when the update happens.

For a one-line joke mod this has gotten more comments and awards than anything else I've ever done:

[tacit pebble]

new parameter will be good with your idea. minSkillRequire / maxSkillRequire and We can control details(Sharpness, durability...) with OnCreate.

[ornate sand]

Needs Realistic tag

[silent zealot]

hahahahah

[tacit pebble]

dumb and dummer

[ornate sand]

I-Remembered is a disinformation merchant

[sacred harness]

Yeah, I was thinking tiers.
If factory is an 8
lvl 1 - 3 gives you a 1 to 2 item
lvl 4 - 6 gives you a 3 to 6 item
lvl 7 - 9 gives you a 6 to 9 item
lvl 10 gives you a 8 to 10 item

[silent zealot]

Agent of Big Milk trying to keep the secret of chocolate milk production from the masses.

[vast pier]

could maybe do a work around by having somewhat duplicate recipes that have better outcomes based off higher requirements

at least until it's changed

[ornate sand]

"Trio 5 Jan @ 12:26am
Strawberry milk from pink cows when?"
^I second this

[tacit pebble]

but if I'm a player, I'd not use the mod which has 10 recipes for a knife.

[vast pier]

10 seems a bit absurd for a single item, even considering tools/skill

[bronze yoke]

you can just do this in an oncreate function without any weird duplicate recipes

[silent zealot]

Would also be a pain to have ten different knife items, or worse to have ten identical looking knives and try to work out which ones have the better stats.

Setting start condition would be easy to see (that's my 90% dead machete!) but also an issue if you craft a repairable item and just repair it to full condition.

...I'm not even sure if any forged items are repairable, I think blades are "disposable" now

[tacit pebble]

oh I just realized the building menu have different recipes which will be changed by player's level, like level 1 door / level 3 door, We can also use them maybe?

[silent zealot]

I think those create different world items

[tacit pebble]

so no in craftRecipe? 😢

[silent zealot]

So it's back to the issue of inventory clutter with knife (level1) knife (level2) and knife(level3)

[tacit pebble]

Oh that's different problem i guess. anyway i got your mean. I was talking about 10 recipes XD

[silent zealot]

I really like the idea, I just can't think of a way to make it work with current capabilities that won't be aggrevating.

[ornate sand]

In B41 with the Blacksmithing system enabled, I'd just make crappy and broken forks and stuff to level up, then re-smelt them for more metal, then craft my actual items 😄 It's silly but eh, back then it worked

[silent zealot]

FYI: 4 chunks of iron -> large knife blade -> smelt -> 4 chunks of iron

Most things give you back less than you put in but you can grind large knives as long as you have fuel.

[sacred harness]

Something I hope they fix/add is that all metal items have a MetalValue. Even if its equal to 1. It doesnt make sense to me that you cant meltdown and empty propane tank...

[silent zealot]

Relive the glory days of levelling smithing in Skyrim. 😂

[ornate sand]

Iron daggers zomg

[silent zealot]

There's a "Metal" or "IsMetal" tag, not sure how it works with smelting

Another option is add a recipe to convert <thing> to scrap metal with a Tag:metalsaw

[sacred harness]

Yeah, not sure either. There is a MetalValue and HasMetal tag. I think one is for smelting and the other is for microwaves...

[silent zealot]

I was looking at my pile of old car parts and thinking about that before I kinda burned my base down.

[sacred harness]

But it shouldnt be one or the other, it should be both or none... in my book.

[silent zealot]

Spend a day with a hacksaw, get scrap metal to smelt.

[tacit pebble]

yep I'm pretty sure metalValue is only for microwaves

[sacred harness]

Yeah, see that makes no sense to me LOL

[vast pier]

physical characteristics could work, or descriptors.
Shoddy, Rudimentary, Standard, Good, Excellent

[sacred harness]

You would think the MetalValue would be the amount of metal you get from the item when you smelt it.

[tacit pebble]

I think devs just forget they had metalValue with their parameter or how?

[ornate sand]

Tooltips! They rule

[vast pier]

what doesn't rule is my water shutting off on 7/13 😡

[tranquil reef]

Can I have the player say something that can only be seen by them?

"Say" says it for everyone around

[ornate sand]

Can you whisper to yourself? 😄

[tacit pebble]

HaloTextHelper.addBadText(self.character, getText("ContextMenu_TooDark"));
I saw this before

[silent zealot]

You can rename items with OnCreate; that's how the various schematics get their names.

[tacit pebble]

it plays when player is reading but world turned into too dark

[vast pier]

oml you can rotate in a chair in build 42 if you do the place option while sitting

[silent zealot]

nice

[ornate sand]

Let's not bug report that and see if it gets patched by 2028

[vast pier]

If they patch it, we add it back in

[tacit pebble]

https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/zombie/characters/IsoGameCharacter.html#addLineChatElement(java.lang.String)
or maybe this?

[tacit pebble]

I thought "not able to rotate your head while sitting" is the bug one...

😢

[vast pier]

also after you cancel the action, your character stays facing the direction they stopped at

why do clean rags weigh 0.2 and dirty rags weigh 0.1

shouldn't it be the other way around? why does cleaning them make them heavier

[ornate sand]

Because realism and balance

[faint jewel]

hard water is why

[vast pier]

wouldn't that just mean the rags are still dirty but with calcium

smh

[ornate sand]

Also you can take money out of wallets but you can't put money back in 'em. (I did fix this one though lol)

[vast pier]

is there a mod that changes this very small detail that most people probably haven't noticed?

[tranquil reef]

Making voice mods, can there be any amount of sound clips in one category (like yelling) or is there a set amount?

[ornate sand]

I saw the TLOU Ellie voice mod had a whole buttload of sounds in it. I haven't tested it yet though

That also reminded me. Where's the Duke Nukem B42 voice mod?

[winter bolt]

if there is a limit then its really high

one of my sounds has 180 clips so its probably fine lol

[silent zealot]

I did not expect to see my mod on top of the Zomboid subreddit...

[winter bolt]

lmao nice

[silent zealot]

Why do we put so much effort into high quality mods when silly jokes gets all the love? 😆

[winter bolt]

the people need chocolate milk from brown cows

[ornate sand]

Now you really do have to update that mod with a pink cow that gives strawberry milk

[silent zealot]

And boomalopes. Yellow deer you can milk for fuel that explode if they die.

[ornate sand]

And of course the Monty Python rabbit

[tranquil reef]

YES

I'll help with the custom cow breed if needed, but it must happen

[silent zealot]

What about a mod that adds a bunch of colored cows and allows the milking products to be configured for each?

Or just a bunch of colored cows so people can spend time looking for the Strawberry Milk cow in among the coffee cows, cola cows, whiskey cows and tainted water cows.

[winter bolt]

realistic cow overhaul

[tranquil reef]

One cow for every liquid in the game

I want it

[silent zealot]

There are so many liquids!

[winter bolt]

lighter fluid cow

[silent zealot]

...but no strawberry milk, that would need to be added.

[winter bolt]

finding a gasoline cow actually sounds really funny

[bronze yoke]

be careful with flames around this one!

[silent zealot]

Imagine if the offspring produced a mix of fluids, so your long term goal could be to beed a vodka & redbull cow.

[ornate sand]

Gotta wait for Sapph to update the cooking mod. It had strawberry milk

[bronze yoke]

meticulously breeding the 'water with an undetectable amount of bleach' cow in preparation for multiplayer

[winter bolt]

perfume cow is crazy

guys i have a crazy idea

[silent zealot]

It will never catch on.

[undone elbow]

a cup = 0.2 (weight), and capacity = 200 mL;
the cup with water = 0.4
-----------------
correct

a cup = 0.2
the cup with petrol = 0.4
-----------------
incorrect

petrol is lighter than water

[silent zealot]

New fluid system fixes this - for updated items they weigh mass of item + mass of fluid.

[vast pier]

wait until you hear about this game called rimworld

[winter bolt]

reminds me of the classic

[silent zealot]

Beware the Aqua cow...

[undone elbow]

It's about build 42

[silent zealot]

Not all items use the new system yet

[undone elbow]

ah

Really?

[winter bolt]

can a potent poison bull and a pineapple soda cow really be together

[silent zealot]

Most are still on the old hardcoded weights

Or some are

[vast pier]

I think it's great that it's so closely colored to seltzer water

[silent zealot]

Or I'm mixing tings up and the fluid system is badly bugged

[undone elbow]

Try Base.GlassTumbler

0.2 + petrol = 0.4 😕

[silent zealot]

ah, I see - there's no density property for fluids.

Everything is the same as water, 1 encumberance per Litre

[undone elbow]

It must be fixed!

[elfin cradle]

New here; was wondering if this would be the place to discuss a simple mod idea with people far more talented than myself.

[silent zealot]

Yes.

[elfin cradle]

Body Bags for B42

[silent zealot]

I'll let you know if I can find anyone talented to help. 😂

[ornate sand]

Very cool idea. 🙂

[silent zealot]

I like it.

[undone elbow]

I wonder if it is possible to make CUSTOM fluid...

[silent zealot]

Nice way to give downed survivors some respect in their burial.

[silent zealot]

Should be, they are just defined in text files like most objects

[elfin cradle]

I was also wanting to go full CDC in a hazmat suit and collect/dispose of all the bodies, but dragging them all is such a pain

[vast pier]

Would also be kinda gruesome if you found them sparsly and then find more and more the closer you get to where military are posted up

[silent zealot]

There's even an IsVanilla() property for fluids, that probably is about telling which fluids were added via mods but it could be a way to identify vanilla flavouring.

First challenge I see with the bodybags is I'm not sure there is anyway to put corpses in a container now, they are special draggable things.

[undone elbow]

But the game files usually use objects like Fluid.Petrol.

[ornate sand]

Add a context menu if the corpse is near? Right click - put body in bag

[undone elbow]

Also I can't find in lua files fluid window. I guess it's not in lua

[elfin cradle]

This was my thought too.

[silent zealot]

But if that can be fixed, I'd say you need to make a bag(easy) with an accept function to only store bodies (easy) and a recipe (easy), add graphics/3D model (probably easy if you can do some modelling/artwork) and adjust the bury-in-grave function

Maybe make the bag draggable like corpses? Not sure how draggable things work, or if they are hardcoded to bodies.

[ornate sand]

I also know that TIS gets all icky about right click menus but gosh darn it I like them a whole lot more than the new "bury your entire screen" menus

[silent zealot]

There needs to be some way to decide what shows up in right click menus - like there might be a hundfred recipeis that use a knife, but "sharpen knife" is probably one I want to show?

And right click for non-recipe actions is probably not what they are trying to eliminate

[bronze yoke]

yeah, there's definitely a pretty big regression there

[elfin cradle]

I see bagging them as the way around the time consuming drag cycle. Perhaps an "equip in both hands" to reduce the weight would be the play.

[bronze yoke]

a lot of stuff that technically was a recipe but nobody thought of as one is now in the crafting menu only and nobody can find them

[silent zealot]

Yeah, like "put battery into torch"

though I think that one is still on right click

[bronze yoke]

most cooking stuff too

[silent zealot]

cooking is annoying right now - needing a seperate water source etc

[ornate sand]

Slice bread is in the silly new menu and PZ characters are so redacted that they need a surface to do it

[silent zealot]

I'm back to right click -> autocook salad with the autocook mod.

[winter bolt]

i know someone in here the other week was trying to figure out how it works but idk how far they got

[silent zealot]

I've tried to work out how to stuff animals into bags lol

I shouldn't need a livestock trailer to bring two chickens across town.

[ornate sand]

Mkay, for sure a future mod: Barrel of Monkeys

[elfin cradle]

Well at any rate, if anyone's willing to work with me on the Body Bag thing, shoot me a DM. If I gotta model things in blender and texture it myself so be it that's fine, but I'm absolutely new to Zomboid modding and have no idea where to begin.

[tacit pebble]

or you can ask something here too.

[elfin cradle]

I suppose that's fair too- I am admittedly nervous haha

[tacit pebble]

don't need to be worried even it's too basic, like "How to add my item in PZ" things...

[cosmic ermine]

Bagged bodies I'm guessing reduces the corpse sickness effect by 90% or something?

[elfin cradle]

What would be my first step?
What is the 3D model file format?
Is there somewhere I can nab an example mod to look at how the files are organized? Is it super Plug&Play or do I need to set something up to inject/overwrite files.
What can I expect when it comes to scripting things?

[undone elbow]

Where is blood🩸 as fluid 🫗 in vanilla?

[elfin cradle]

More of a method of picking them up and transporting them long distance. At this rate it's more likely that bagging a body transforms it into an item/container that holds the corpse's inventory- as said I'm super new to this but even I'm not sure how big a pain in the butt it would be to apply corpse sickness effects to a placed item.

[hollow ore]

Can someone please help me?

[ornate sand]

1. Set up a mod folder in your users/yourusername/zomboid/workshop (i can link my own attempt at a "guide") https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/discussions/18446744073709551615/595136186401457970/?appid=108600
2. .x or .fbx so Blender works fine
3. You can use any mod you've subscribed to as a guide too. Just don't re-upload anyone else's stuff. It's your local copy, you're free to do whatever you want to it
4. Scripting items themselves is pretty straightforward. They're .txt files. Special actions will require lua functions though

[ancient grail]

im still confused about the b42 folders

so basically we add folders named version number
and when pz updates we add another folder with a different version name?
so we clone the same files over and over again?
otherwise we delete file and we all know deleting files is bad for servers cuz it causes mismatch

[silent zealot]

It's to avoid cloning files.

Build 42.1.7 will look in common, then 42, then 42.1, then 42.1.7

And use only the most specific file

[ornate sand]

Oh right yeah when B43 drops in 2082 it will need a new folder 😦

[silent zealot]

More likely, you'll have code for B42.0.2 and then one file will need to be changed for 42.0.3

[ancient grail]

i was talking about 42.xx

[undone elbow]

not a mistype in 2082 🙂

[ancient grail]

not 43

[silent zealot]

Someone is optimistic about B43's release date! 😆

[ornate sand]

I've kept my mods just in a folder named 42 and they work great

[ornate sand]

That's me!

[silent zealot]

For now, that's fine

[ancient grail]

and thats like cloning the file right?

[silent zealot]

put everything in 42, and only worry about it if a future patch needs a file to change

[ornate sand]

Yesno but no but also yes.

[ancient grail]

[silent zealot]

https://tenor.com/view/well-yes-but-actually-no-meme-aardman-the-pirates-pirate-gif-26563702

[ornate sand]

B42 broke everything. So it wasn't a copy+paste for any of my mods. Way more tedious line-by-line stuff

[ancient grail]

damn i havent checked anything so i have no idea what broke tbh

im aware about recipe
but thats all

oh and map i believe has problems too

[ornate sand]

Every script.txt, almost all custom lua, some of vanilla lua, and a buttload of other things

[undone elbow]

I think we need a specific GPT for each simple question, so people could talk and ask forever whatever they want in the context of that question.

[ornate sand]

PZ_GPT?

[undone elbow]

No, for each SPECIFIC question, e.g. PZ_Folders, PZ_Events etc

If so, it's possible to put all the info in system message, and the GPT will be real guru.

[round notch]

You could give a GPT a huge context file with up to date lua and implementation instructions

[silent zealot]

Or we could do what we did in the olden days: document those things and direct people to the documentation.

Instead of trying to make large language models hallucinate only valid code.

[undone elbow]

In this case, there is a risk that GPT will not find the necessary information, because it is not "in front of its eyes". And it searches relatively poorly.

[ornate sand]

Let's direct them to a library. You know, an actual library.

[silent zealot]

AI can be a great help, but the current generation is not good for "here's my idea, do all the code work for me"

[undone elbow]

True

IQ is about 85

[bronze yoke]

not exactly

[silent zealot]

I'm so old I remember when software was distributed in books and you would type the programs in yourself and save them on audio cassettes.

[round notch]

So is mine

[bronze yoke]

files will only be loaded from the common folder and the best matching version folder

so anything you do keep in version folders needs to be duplicated for each version

[silent zealot]

So it picks one folder for all files, not the best folder for each file?

[ornate sand]

So I'm still wondering what exactly is PZ doing to load AnimSets?
Since it won't look for them in 42 or common apparently, but the old media folder instead

[bronze yoke]

so for example in b42.1.0 files are loaded from common or 42.1, anything in 42.0 is ignored

[mellow frigate]

I uploaded 2 mods from iBrRus updated to B42: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3402495902

[ancient grail]

so i was right?

[ancient grail]

[bronze yoke]

you don't need to duplicate things you keep in the common folder, which should be the bulk of the filesize

[eternal fiber]

hi, am trying to make a texture mod that replaces the smokey's sign texture
but it isn't working
i extracted the textures from the vanilla pack file
edited and put the new textures in a new pack file
put the new pack file in my mod's media/texturepacks folder

[undone elbow]

So I need to put in 43 folder one file only:

print('Mod name: work in progress...')

[bronze yoke]

it is ideal to put all assets in the common folder, as they are very unlikely to need to be different between versions, and are essentially 100% of a mod's size

scripts and lua should be in the version folder as they are likely to change, these will need to be duplicated for future versions but are so small it doesn't really matter

[silent zealot]

Except for meta-assets like the poster and icon for the mod selection screen, which only work in the 42 folder.

[ancient grail]

and leave the old item scripts where it was before
then add a version of it for b42 on the 42 folder? i

[silent zealot]

translation can go in common.

[round notch]

I haven't got them to work yet, don't think they have transitioned properly to B42 like all the other features have.

[ornate sand]

I'm praying to every god in every heaven that the next hotfix addresses AnimSets.
I want my mgs to fire like mgs, gosh darnit

[ancient grail]

so all of the old files wont load at all right? so this means all of the mods that havent updated wont work at all ?

damn all this time i thought some mods broke
turns out all of the mods broke

[round notch]

I think emotes and timed actions work but where you put the animsets I think isn't right

[bronze yoke]

yeah, b42 cannot load any 41 files and vice versa

[ornate sand]

Some mods can be simply re-packed into B42 and they work fine. Others are 100% broken and will give you nothing but errors.

[ancient grail]

i get it now thnx for confirming

[ancient grail]

i see

[ornate sand]

For example before Simple Status showed up as a B42 mod I just repacked it in my workshop and it works almost perfectly.

[ancient grail]

ok nother question

since common is where we plce assets
then this means we remove those assets from its original folder? (for update only)

cuz im thinking common would only be good for mods that we are about to do but for mods that are already done and we want to upload then we still need to clone the old assets to the common

[bronze yoke]

if you need compatibility with b41 then you do have to leave everything where it is and that means having two copies of everything

[bright fog]

Yeah it's broken for now, I think they just forgot to update the loader for AnimSets

[ancient grail]

thought so.. the pain ...

[bright fog]

Yup

[bronze yoke]

common is so that things can be better for 42 onwards, they won't do serious updates to 41 at this stage

[bright fog]

AnimSets

[ancient grail]

ah shit so theres no point updating mods that involves animsets?

[bright fog]

I highly suggest you wait for them to fix it

[ancient grail]

right

[bronze yoke]

not going into detail about that because it just makes it confusing and isn't going to matter in a week

[bright fog]

I'm updating my TLOU Infected mod rn, and my old 41 files are getting picked up, forcing errors, when I haven't even implemented animations back yet

[bright fog]

Yea

I hope they quickly fix it

[ornate sand]

Super rad mod btw.

[ancient grail]

and i plan to update my zed mods

owell. guess i should wait

[bright fog]

Got plans to commission new animations

[round notch]

Anyone know why B42 stops client side cheat commands now?

[ornate sand]

I got one for ya to do then. I gibs monie

[bright fog]

Anti cheat probably for future MP

[round notch]

It's annoying cause the ghostmode was useful for a lot of functionality, haven't been able to deaggro the same way 😦

[bright fog]

Whenever things are ready to start implementing animations, I'll post a request on modding Discord

[bronze yoke]

i think ghost mode was just removed

collapsed into invisible i think

[bright fog]

It's invisibility now

Bcs both were the same thing

[round notch]

I tried setInvisible but that doesn't work unless your in debug mode

[bright fog]

So there wasn't any point to keeping ghost mode or invisibility together

[bright fog]

Hmm

@silent zealot you can modify some stuff of craftrecipes

[silent zealot]

Can you? how is that done.

[bright fog]

#1318920979581501502 message

[bright fog]

#1318920979581501502 message

This specifically

[silent zealot]

Thanks

[ornate sand]

Since I've had the sawn-off Winchester 1887 for almost a year, this animation will be a must lol

[silent zealot]

I was looking for a method, but if just editing fields directly works that is great

[round notch]

Add a skill check and on fail it shoots you in the foot 😏

[eternal fiber]

here is the mod link, if someone could help me find why the textures inside the pack file aren't replacing the ones in the game
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3402478108

[bright fog]

Idk if you can edit everything tho

[ebon dagger]

I have created a monster.

[ornate sand]

Since the PZ .x animations can be opened by Notepad+, is it at all a possibility to use their data to get a "copy" of the animation in Blender?
Looks like it's not. Fine, I'll try to re-create the "aim" stance myself (some day).

[dense gorge]

i'm making a trait that does funny stuff when surrounded by 3 zombies, at half health or heavily exerted.

    if player:HasTrait("ModdedTrait") and not player:getModData().isStateActive then
        if player:getSurroundingZombies() >= 3 and (player:getBodyDamage():getHealth() < 51 or player:getStats():getEndurance() < 26) then
            activateState(player)
        end
    end
end```

^this is what i have so far.
i couldn't think of a way to actually make 'getSurroundingZombies' to work. ('surrounding' is 1 tile.)
*because i'm shtupid.*

any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ebon dagger]

You can check the tiles around the player.

function checkAroundYou(player)
   local totalZombies = 0
   local playerX = player:getX()
   local playerY = player:getY()
   for xdir = -1, 1 do
      for ydir = -1, 1 do repeat
         local checkCell = getCell():getGridSquare(playerX + xdir, playerY + ydir, player:getZ())
         if checkCell == nil then
            break
         end
         if player:isOutside() ~= checkCell:isOutside() then 
            break
         end
         local cellLiveThreats = checkCell:getMovingObjects()
            for i = 0, cellLiveThreats:size() - 1 do
        if instanceof(cellLiveThreats:get(i), "IsoDeadBody") then
                totalZombies = totalZombies + 1
            end
         end
      end
   end
end

Code is untested and written in discord, so you might have to troubleshoot it.

And it would need additional checks and balanaces, z-level checks, I think falling hats count as movingObjects etc.

[ebon dagger]

forgot to hit reply

[ornate sand]

Oh, rad. Idle animations convert from x to fbx using imagetostl

[bright fog]

Oh ?

Can you share what you used exactly please ?

A lot of people would be very interested to be able to do that

[ornate sand]

Probably false alarm on that one now that I look at the thing a bit more. There's no skeleton

Site is imagetostl(dot)com

trying to convert X to BLEND

Well, at least it gives me pointers on where to place the bones on the default skeleton 😄

[bright fog]

Hmm

[ornate sand]

Looking forward to absolutely breaking my gun mod with goofy ahh custom aim animations

[hollow ore]

I've been trying to fix a problem with my car mod for hours. The mask texture is correct, but within the game, when I open the right window, the left window opens and when I open the left window the right window opens

this is correct?

[open meadow]

Hi I'm trying to create unique recipes for objects with the tags from this script for dismantling electronic items, so I can add unique translations. Instead of having: Recipe_DismantleElectronics = "Dismantle Simple Electronic Item", I want it to be: Recipe_DismantleCamera = "Dismantle Camera", like it used to be.
The problem is that it works for a few minutes, but then, in-game and without reloading the Lua, the dismantle option disappears from the electronic items and I don't know why or how to fix it. Can anyone help me?

[ornate sand]

I think this is a vanilla issue? It happened to me when I'd just play vanilla, suddenly couldn't dismantle watches anymore.

[open meadow]

In the beta build 42?

I thought it was my mod, maybe due to a bad folder distribution or some file I edited that I shouldn't have. Well, I'll wait, thanks

[ornate sand]

One of the things that causes it is if you favorite your screwdriver. Don't ask me why

[dense gorge]

works. you a real one.

[severe jay]

my aMOOzon mod doesnt show up on the mod list in game :'C idk why............

[open meadow]

Maybe by removing OnTest = Recipe.OnTest.DismantleElectronics from the script and the Lua file, I can fix it? That way, it won't check if it's marked as a favorite or not

[severe jay]

moo, thankyou to everyone that helped me learn how to code n model. i'm here to announce my first every pz mod
enjoy https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3402604488

[willow wedge]

Hello! Newb question. If I wanted to make a simple recolor of an in game object, how would I do that?

[ornate sand]

Super easy way: Recolor its actual texture.
A pretty easy way: Make a mod that uses a recolored texture.

[willow wedge]

Would that override the original? I just want to make a tie-dye poncho lol

[ornate sand]

Then you want to make a mod that uses a recolored texture 😄

[willow wedge]

Ok so how would I do that, I've never done anything like this before

[ornate sand]

Are you doing this for B41 or B42?

[willow wedge]

B41

[ornate sand]

Rad, I can type out a how-to, lemme see.

[willow wedge]

Thank you so much ❤️

[ornate sand]

Go to your users/yourusername/zomboid/workshop

This is where your modding journey begins! 😄

Create a new folder. For example purposes I'll call the new folder "Tie Dye Poncho" (obviously without the "")
-In Tie Dye Poncho create a folder called "Contents"
-In Contents create a folder called "mods"
-In mods create a folder called "Tie Dye Poncho"
-In Tie Dye Poncho create a folder called "media"

Since you're going to be adding/editing a clothing item, you'll need a few folders in "media". Add the following folders in media.
-clothing, models_X, scripts, textures

Now that I think about it, I remember there's an actual guide for clothing items on the PZ guides in Steam lol

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3025955520&searchtext=clothing+mod

[willow wedge]

Thank you so so so much for this!!! I'll give it a go this weekend! ^°^

[ornate sand]

Clothing mods can be a headache to get working but absolutely, give it a go. 🙂

[obtuse sparrow]

Did anything change for b42? I have a small personal clothes pack and have to set some time aside to update it

[main pasture]

Is it possible to include template in a script with a different name?

[ornate sand]

Yep you have to at the very least re-write your script txt files and check your proceduraldistributions for B42.

[severe jay]

anyone know how to make container code? for like a cardboard box?

[main pasture]

If it's a 3d model, just make a container item, like a bag

[bright fog]

No you definitely don't have to

[ornate sand]

For clothing items? I think I had to.
Ahhhh mine were bags though.

[runic hare]

SLL I CAN SAY IS WHY pz WHY

sorry caps

[bright fog]

My clothings worked fine, tho I don't use every parameters for them, but I didn't have to change anything

[runic hare]

so cant modify lua for mod on MP unless reworked, but can add ANY mod item to the vanilla Lua spawntable pre game and mid game, AND IT WORKS

https://tenor.com/view/why-just-why-but-why-monkey-gif-12016032281853623374

even with MP

could've just added the items in for spawn locations this way 🥲

[main pasture]

/* Pretty much just copy of TrunkDoor... */
part CountachFrontTrunkDoor
{
    category = bodywork,
    area = FrontTrunk,
    door
    {
    }
    anim Open
    {
        sound = VehicleTrunkOpenStandard,
    }
    anim Close
    {
        sound = VehicleTrunkCloseStandard,
    }
    anim Lock
    {
        sound = LockVehicleDoorStandard,
    }
    anim Unlock
    {
        sound = UnlockVehicleDoorStandard,
    }
    anim IsLocked
    {
        sound = VehicleDoorIsLockedStandard,
    }
    anim ActorOpen
    {
        anim = WindowOpenSuccess,
        rate = 0.15,
        angle = 0.0 180.0 0.0, /* Angles for turning to right direction when opening */
    }
    anim ActorClose
    {
        anim = Attack_Shove,
        rate = 0.3,
        angle = 0.0 180.0 0.0, /* Angles for turning to right direction when closing */
    }
    itemType = Base.TrunkDoor, /* <- Maybe change the part to something else */
    mechanicRequireKey = true,
    repairMechanic = true,
    table install
    {
        items
        {
            item
            {
                type = Base.Wrench,
                count = 1,
                keep = true,
                equip = primary,
            }
        }
        time = 300,
        skills = Mechanics:3,
        recipes = Basic Mechanics,
        test = Vehicles.InstallTest.Default,
        complete = Vehicles.InstallComplete.Door,
    }
    table uninstall
    {
        items
        {
            item
            {
                type = Base.Wrench,
                count = 1,
                keep = true,
                equip = primary,
            }
        }
        time = 300,
        skills = Mechanics:3,
        recipes = Basic Mechanics,
        test = Vehicles.UninstallTest.Default,
        complete = Vehicles.UninstallComplete.Door,
    }
    lua
    {
        create = Vehicles.Create.TrunkDoor,
        init = Vehicles.Init.Door,
        update = Vehicles.Update.TrunkDoor,
        use = Vehicles.Use.TrunkDoor,
    }
}

[main pasture]

For the trunk door and ```

part FrontTrunk
{
area = FrontTrunk,
category = bodywork,
itemType = Base.SmallTrunk,
mechanicRequireKey = true,
repairMechanic = true,

container
{
    capacity = 15,
    conditionAffectsCapacity = true,
    test = Vehicles.ContainerAccess.FrontTrunk,
}

lua
{
    create = Vehicles.Create.Default,
}

}

For the ContainerAccess: ```--In /media/lua/server/Vehicles
function Vehicles.ContainerAccess.FrontTrunk(vehicle, part, chr)
if chr:getVehicle() then return false end
if not vehicle:isInArea(part:getArea(), chr) then return false end
local trunkDoor = vehicle:getPartById("CountachFrontTrunkDoor")
if trunkDoor and trunkDoor:getDoor() then
if not trunkDoor:getInventoryItem() then return true end
if not trunkDoor:getDoor():isOpen() then return false end
end
return true
end

[agile socket]

Mod request: please make a mod wherein hot dog buns come in packages of 6 and hot dogs come in packages of 4.

[mellow frigate]

This seems to be the way.

[sly monolith]

i seem to have a problem with my mod, it works in b42, but supposedly doesn't in 41, i'm downgrading to see why, but i checked the files and everything seems to be fine :x

[runic hare]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-perplexed-what-gif-10834164

sir, we do things to not make sense. don't try to correct us 😉

[agile socket]

It's an immersion factor. Try buying the same amount of hotdogs and buns at a grocery store and you'll see.

[runic hare]

sir i like having more dogs then buns, it makes trying to make it make sense even better 😛

hey @main pasture do you know if a TILE thats placed in which is a container, will spawn items upon loot respawn?

or even if a container will spawn items if placed in through debug/items list?

[crystal canyon]

Anyone knows of a way other than copying mods to the mods folder for me to use steam mods on the GOG version? I wanna have both B42 and B41 ready to play at any moment

[runic hare]

figured it wouldn't if placed by character, created by crafting, or if placed through debug within items list, but figured maybe it will respawn loot if its a tile placed which is vanilla

[runic hare]

sadly i don't have that knowledge 😦

[main pasture]

I have no idea about world loot spawning, but at least "clothing item" containers will spawn empty by default

[runic hare]

hmmm even clothing item containers that are put in with brush tool?

through tiles?

rather then item list?

[main pasture]

Don't know about loot spawning. But I'd assume you have to specify what can spawn inside it

[old ginkgo]

Anything played with brush tool and not placed during the creation of the map willl not spawn loot.

[runic hare]

ty ty

[old ginkgo]

You theoretically might be able to use admin “refresh loot?” On it? But it won’t automatically spawn loot.

[runic hare]

figuring its not an easy feat to just add in a vanilla container to spawn a specific mod item on a MP game is it

[main pasture]

How do you spawn the container?

[old ginkgo]

You would need to make a custom map mod to specifically spawn items in custom containers. Otherwise you’re going to just have to manually place them.

[runic hare]

same aspect as having to spawn mod items to specified locations

rain let me know that yesterday damn

welp guess ill just have to add it to the vanilla lua locations and spawn rates, cause some reason itll allow you to add modded items to the spawn tables in vanilla prodistributions

[old ginkgo]

Yep. You can do that as well.

[runic hare]

sucks but guess ill just have to do that and deal with it haha

just made a copy of original prodistri lua so i can change it up with what i wanted for my own host server

[mellow frigate]

Is the "cars 1/4 under ground" problem understood by someone ? I got it with Autotsar trailer connected generator trailer.

[crystal canyon]

@mellow frigate PZK Vanilla car pack and Ivalio (https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198356412893/myworkshopfiles/?appid=108600)
Both have b42 car mods that dont have that issue

not sure what changes are needed because I havent checked but the easiest way would be to compare b41 and b42 versions of the mod. I recommend Ivalio because his cars are individual mods

[crystal canyon]

Found a way to run GOG zomboid with Workshop mods!!

both say steam but the B41 version is GOG

[bronze yoke]

if you just want both versions of the game, you don't have to get the gog version

[crystal canyon]

For future reference in case someone needs to do the same, what I did was copy the B41 steam files minus the executables and pasted them in the GOG install folder, let it overwrite everything. Launch the game with a custom parameter I used "C:\Games\GOG\Project Zomboid\ProjectZomboid64.exe" -cachedir="C:\Users\USERNAME\Zomboid_GOG" -modfolders workshop,steam,mods -Dzomboid.steam=1

[bronze yoke]

you can literally just copy the steam version to another folder and it'll run fine

[crystal canyon]

I already had it, wanted to use workshop mods without having to copy hence why I was looking for a solution

got it twice to support dev

[storm patio]

Did someone manage to find code for anysurfacecraft tag? Is it in classes somewhere or is it lua?

[severe jay]

item aMOOzonPackage points to the .fbx
Icon = aMOOzonPackageSealed, is whats in your inventory ui
WorldStaticModel = aMOOzonPackageWrap, is whats displayed on the ground

didi i do this right?

[bright fog]

Yea. Just make sure your icon file has "Icon_" in front of its name

Only in the files, not in the script

[severe jay]

got it thnx mate ^-^

[eternal fiber]

i still need help on getting this to work if anyone knows what am i doing wrong

i have the pack= line in mod.info
the textures have same name inside the pack file

[crystal canyon]

im sure the related functions are here ISEntityUI.lua

if not _handcraftLogic:getRecipe():isAnySurfaceCraft() then
    -- The recipe requires a specific crafting station
    ISEntityUI.WalkToEntity(_player, _handcraftLogic:getIsoObject());
end

so if the recipe doesnt have that tag (or inhandcraf), then it needs a crafting station

[storm patio]

Thanks! Now to find _craftBench definition and onto creating custom crafting tags

[crystal canyon]

eh, you can do those in the scripts

for example, I created this entity as a crafting bench

    entity Metalworkbench
    {
        component UiConfig
        {
            xuiSkin         = default,
            entityStyle     = ES_Metalworkbench,
            uiEnabled       = true,
        }

        component CraftBench
        {
            Recipes             = MetalWorkbench,
        }

        component SpriteConfig
        {
            face S
            {
                layer
                {
                    row = crafted_02_0 crafted_02_1,
                }
            }
              face E
          {
                layer
                {
                    row = crafted_02_3,
                    row = crafted_02_2,
                }
            }
        }

it can craft recipes with the MetalWorkbench tag