mod_development

[vast pier]

you can also send requests to the group on their github and the could possibly make them and add them to the collection

[mellow frigate]

in all correctly coded games, ever. you have to differenciate simated time and real time

[vast pier]

nah, connect everything to the framerate. Nothing bad has ever happened from connecting functions to framerate

Space invaders? what's that

[bronze yoke]

surely you will not regret tying your game speed to framerate

[vast pier]

surely this won't increase the reload speed in fallout 76 for players with absurdly high framerates

Yknow what, build the entire game with the expectancy that it will run at 15 frames per second. Now optimize the game so well that it can reach hundreds of fps on a toaster. Nothing bad could ever happen

[winter bolt]

marvel rivals has stuff tied to fps 💀

[tacit pebble]

I thought onplayerupdate is based on game speed because I thought player character is beeing updating faster when game speed is high.

but yeah I was wrong

[vast pier]

https://tenor.com/view/jfk-kennedy-clone-high-nothing-bad-ever-happens-to-the-kene-gif-18532670

[vivid imp]

RoR2 all over again

[hidden compass]

Sorry, I have a question. I am having a problem with my own 3D objects depicting textures that do not exist. I have reviewed the settings and textures and there is nothing wrong with the implementation. The attached shows a texture that does not exist anywhere, and even after deleting this texture image, it still shows up. Also, disabling “Texture Compression” improved the problem, but at some point this problem came back again even if compression settings is off.

Does anyone know why? Maybe it's a cache or something, but restarting the app or PC doesn't solve. Or do I need to explicitly delete the compressed images, do you know where they are stored?

[winter bolt]

what happens if you delete all the textures?

[late hound]

are you subscribed to your own mod?

[sour island]

Hey @vast pier sorry to bother you, but it's been killing me, you used 🌈 🍖 a few hours or so ago, and I glanced at it and it's been bothering me. What does that mean??

[vast pier]

Twitter dog whistle

[vast pier]

Do you have the model and texture set up using a file or is it tied to the model itself?

[silent zealot]

Anyone got aany ideas how to tell if an inventory belongs to a world object? I can tell if it's the player's inventory (inventory:getParent() == playerObj), if it's an eqpped bag (inventory:getCharacter() == playerOb) or if it's part of a vehicle (instanceof(inventory:getParent(),"BaseVehicle")) but I can't figure out a check that works for world objects.

[hidden compass]

@winter bolt @late hound @vast pier
Thanks for the great suggestions. I did indeed remove only the relevant textures and did not experiment with the others. I deleted all the textures to try and only one model remained textured.

However, I think I may have found the cause.

[vivid imp]

They look like candy canes now 😄

[silent zealot]

Are those magical crowbars?

[vivid imp]

Its the almighty Excalibar

[silent zealot]

If so, brilliant idea.

[vast pier]

What's the cause

[sour island]

Dog whistle for what?

I'm kind of apprehensive to google it tbh...

[vast pier]

Stuff the average person is probably against

[hidden compass]

I thought the problem might be the texture settings in the FBX file, but I tried removing the settings from the FBX and exporting again, but that did not solve the problem.

The mod is not subscribed in the Workshop, but is placed in the ″\user\Zomboid\Workshop" folder for development. Do you have any other tips?

[winter bolt]

ngl i have no fucking idea what this is even saying

[sour island]

It's people who "problematic ship"...

I wish to return in time

[winter bolt]

i know what proship means but the way this is worded is incomprehensible

[sour island]

Why do you know what proship is

[winter bolt]

internet discourse moment

[sour island]

Why do I know now

[vast pier]

It's probably purposely obfuscated

[winter bolt]

so it just means proship

[vast pier]

Proship, pro para, stuff like that typically

[mellow frigate]

It is an exemple of something contextualized as a definitions but not being a definition

[sour island]

So generally illegal activities

Objectively wrong

[vast pier]

Does the item in blender have any materials attached to it? Combining multiple items together in blender with different materials will include each material

I mean I don't think proship is illegal

But sure

[winter bolt]

any parts of the mesh that uses a 2nd material should just be invisible ingame i think

[vast pier]

Well then why is the sword taking from two different textures

[winter bolt]

if its still happening when all the textures are deleted then something is overwriting it

[vast pier]

Or cache didn't clear correctly

[winter bolt]

whats the file path for the item texture?

if its still happening after restarting the game it cant be a cache thing

ive never seen anything like that happen

[hidden compass]

I am very sorry, everyone. It was a simple mistake on my part. I had been testing this model on a prototype with another experimental mod, and apparently the same texture was left there. So it seems that even after deleting the texture from the mod itself, the texture of the same name contained in another mod was hit and displayed.

Sorry for using everyone's time for a simple mistake, but thanks for the advice.

[sour island]

You're all good, - also, tidy meister is a good mod.

[vivid imp]

Agreed its a massive QoL

Also no need to feel like you gotta apologize, we all like modding here 😎

[ornate sand]

So custom oncreates just entirely break the whole game if they're anywhere but lua/server

Good to f**** know (lol)

[ebon dagger]

Hahahahah,
That sent me through a loop.

During OnRightMouseDown, player:isAiming == false.

During OnRightMouseUp, player:isAiming == true.

[hidden compass]

Thanks to all of you, I was able to make a major update to my Excalibar (Legend of Holy Crowbar) mod. Please laugh at them! 😊

[ornate sand]

The next time I see Armagenesis talk about how great crowbars are, I'm 1000% linking your magic crowbar 😄

[silent zealot]

Nice

[ornate sand]

When you don't know what a magazine tube is but you definitely know that sawn-off shotguns fudging rule

[silent zealot]

My Super Shotgun idea won't work - the game crashes if you set ProjectileCount higher than 9.

[silent zealot]

brilliant!

[ornate sand]

I swear to goodness TIS has a thousand things on the backend preventing anything cool we want to add 😄

[ornate sand]

Started off as a joke a year ago on my discord but yeah, that's going in on the next update 😄

[silent zealot]

You could make a pump action that only holds 3 rounds... but that's a lot less fun.

[minor meteor]

oh god what

[silent zealot]

How am I supposed to add a punt gun with projectiles capped at 9!

[ornate sand]

Sawn-off Punt Gun
ProjectileCount = 781239 (approx),

[silent zealot]

Maybe go back to non-physics firearm logic and just make every zombie is a big triangle explode.

Ammo Recipe: [nuts and bolts;nails;screws] [gunpowder] [emptyCan]

[ornate sand]

[gunpowder/handcraftedblackpowderfromdung]

Give that muzzleflash a yuge black cloud too

Lol StartEvent:verythickfog

[silent zealot]

for (k,v) in Bodyparts do v.MuscleStrain=YES end

[bronze yoke]

if it jams it explodes

[ornate sand]

I saw what happened to Kentucky Ballistics when his .50 BMG break-action had a catastrophic failure. I don't need to even think about what would happen with that thing ^ 😄

[crisp fossil]

Does anyone ever tried to change weapon sprite mid game? This is my code

print(item:getWeaponSprite())
item:setWeaponSprite(spriteName);
getPlayer():resetModelNextFrame();
getPlayer():resetEquippedHandsModels();
getPlayer():resetModel();
triggerEvent("OnClothingUpdated", getPlayer());
print(item:getWeaponSprite())

Sprite not changing and no errors

[ancient grail]

anyone know how to forget learned recipe?

getPlayer():getKnownRecipes():remove("Craft LightBringer Boots")

this doesnt seem to work, i lost my snippet

[tulip valve]

Stranger, stranger! Now THAT's a weapon!

[silent zealot]

If you want something slightly more practical, look up the Russian KS-23 4-gauge pump action shotgun.

[ebon dagger]

Anyone have any good examples, guides or even just an overview of the best way to disable a specific context menu?

So far, the couple of ways I tried are blocked by scope.

[bronze yoke]

i don't have a guide or anything, but if you can't prevent the context menu from being added by hooking or something, you *can* remove it afterwards, there's a function in ISContextMenu that removes them by name

[ebon dagger]

Just to make sure I'm not crazy, I can't override a single method in a timed action right? Using:

Old_IsValid = TheTimedAction:IsValid

function TheTimedAction:IsValid()
  --My code here
  return Old_IsValid
end```

[bronze yoke]

you can, just reference it as Old_IsValid = TheTimedAction.IsValid

: is only valid for defining/calling functions

[ebon dagger]

That would explain the troubles I have had 😄

[ebon dagger]

That worked-ish, mostly because I'm hooking to the wrong part lol

IsValid lets you perform the action but then just doesn't do anything when its finished 😄

[ancient grail]

yep ive done it before, btw you dont need all of those reset and the trigger event(since hand items and clothing items are different)

[ancient grail]

local pl = getPlayer()
pl:getPrimaryHandItem():setWeaponSprite("Katana")
pl:resetModelNextFrame()

[ebon dagger]

I've been using player:resetEquippedHandsModels()

[ancient grail]

i just tested the code i sent

[ebon dagger]

Oh, I didn't doubt it would work, I've just been using something different as well.

The animation is scuffed but I love it.

Only a couple more steps and this Modding Library is done. I've been working on my documentation as I go, if anyone is interested in how it would work as a library, I would love feedback on the docs.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15BPjL49EyfD5d61_NRtU1lQ9yP47cm4m44nDOhkDcDY/edit?usp=sharing

[tranquil kindle]

https://i.gyazo.com/15f78c34be34c2db59d4bac728be6719.mp4

[ebon dagger]

OMG that is tight.

[tranquil kindle]

Back when i worked on my bow

All i did since i can't code for sh*t

[ebon dagger]

I hope to implement much better animations in a future release.

But I have a LOT to learn on that side 😄

[tranquil kindle]

https://i.gyazo.com/a25ca4d42adca8767e11fcb87ebeebfa.mp4

Bow and crossbow reload animations

Technicly all i needed was code to recover arrows from bodies

[ancient grail]

shared it here
#1070858800501891172 message

[undone elbow]

local Old_IsValid = TheTimedAction.IsValid

function TheTimedAction:IsValid()
  if (.....) then
    return false; -- or true, depends on your logic
  end
  return Old_IsValid(self) -- back to default
end

[ancient grail]

good job man

[tranquil kindle]

I think i could give you those animations, but the thing is that bow is held in right hand and uses handgun idle animations

So its up to you

[ebon dagger]

I have that built into the library already. You are welcome to raid the code when I get it out.

[bronze yoke]

very nicely presented

[tranquil kindle]

I heard that bows are meant to be added in PZ by devs, but at this point im not sure if those are just rumors

[ebon dagger]

I would be STOKED. I can rework the sample models and stuff np 😄

[bronze yoke]

they are

[tranquil kindle]

heard something about b42, but its not here

[bronze yoke]

they'll be part of the later crafting expansions

[ebon dagger]

Even if they release them the day after I get this out, I learned a LOT from this.

[tranquil kindle]

Let me see if i can find them

[bronze yoke]

i don't want to criticse the hypothetical design of an unreleased library too much, but if you're going to use globals, a two letter acronym is a bad idea

[tranquil kindle]

I think its mostly it

[ebon dagger]

Oh, that's not a bad point.

[tranquil kindle]

BAC stands for Bows and Crossbows, it was supposed to be my module but as i said, i kinda gave up on it

So feel free to use it,

[ebon dagger]

I'll make sure the credit goes where it is due!

[ebon dagger]

Updating that was super easy, out of habit, I try to make globals if I have to write them out 1000 times short, but that file is already complete, and someone using the mod may only have to write it a small handfull of times, so no big deal to change the name to a much more unique one.

[silent zealot]

I start my globals with "Nep" because I'm more worried about conflicting names than longer, uglier function names.

[bronze yoke]

i just use modules so i don't have to think about it

[silent zealot]

I confuse myself and make a giant mess when I try to get fancy with lua, so global starting with "nep" will do for now.

[bronze yoke]

-- shared/MyModule.lua
local MyModule = {}

function MyModule.foo()
    print("bar")
end

return MyModule
``````lua
local MyModule = require("MyModule")

MyModule.foo()

[silent zealot]

function NepFoo()

😂

I'll put using modules properly on the "do this one day" list.

[ebon dagger]

🤯

GREAT, NOW I WANT TO REFACTOR

lol, but seriously, that is awesome. and I appreciate the expertise, I will add that to my workflow when needed.

[ebon dagger]

If animations are held in one mod, but used from another, is there another step to linking them? Like, how with items you would "ModName.Item" do you need to specify any sort of module?

Or is it supposed to just be as simple as making sure that the string listed in condition from the XML matches?

[slim swan]

I want to make a new strike and swing sound effect for my modd weapon, how can I make this weapon play several sound randomly as the original B42 does when it strikes

[late hound]

Are recipe craft times capped? I want to make certain craft times a very short duration (like around a second) but I can't seem to make it less than 5 seconds. For instance, "Time:2," has no difference than "Time:10". in my testing. Just wondering if anyone has found a workaround for this.

[undone elbow]

function ISCraftAction:getDuration()
  if self.character:isTimedActionInstant() then
    return 1
  end
  local additionalTime = 0
  if self.container == self.character:getInventory() and self.recipe:isCanBeDoneFromFloor() then
    local items = RecipeManager.getAvailableItemsNeeded(self.recipe, self.character, self.containers, self.item, nil)
    for i=1,items:size() do
      local item = items:get(i-1)
      if item:getContainer() ~= self.character:getInventory() then
        local w = item:getActualWeight()
        if w > 3 then w = 3; end;
        additionalTime = additionalTime + 50*w
      end
    end
  end
  return self.recipe:getTimeToMake() + additionalTime
end

[clear oar]

I saw a image that illustrate various "crafting tree" (included Bow and crossbow crafting) that I think was form TIS, so I suspect that Bowery is ufficially confirmed, but more forward on unstable.

If you wanna be sure about this I would ask on "news discussion".

Your animations are wonderful anyway 👍

[late hound]

OK "additionalTime" is the culprit. Do you have a workaround for this?

[undone elbow]

local old_getDuration = ISCraftAction.getDuration;

function ISCraftAction:getDuration()
  if (......) then -- your condition
    return self.recipe:getTimeToMake()
  end
  return old_getDuration(self)
end

I'd recommend a condition like self.is_ignore_additional_time that you can set on action creation.

[umbral ingot]

Do event registrations persist through each game session?

[undone elbow]

No

Actually, the question is not entirely clear

[silent zealot]

Who needs a welding mask when you have...

[lyric plaza]

does anyone know what this means, im trying to understand what this is pointing too,

didnt ping the user but its something like this

it seems to happen like they say as im walking and i guess im just very curious what this even is telling me

[undone elbow]

Let's say...

local old_fn = SomeClass.fn
function SomeClass:fn()
  ...
  return old_fn(self)
end

And what if i RELOAD this file using F11?

[bright fog]

It'll decorate the old one

For decorations you need either to reload the original file that created the function alongside your file, to reset it, or you need to reload every games files from the menu

For easier reload of multiple files, I suggest you use the community debug tools which allows reloading multiple files without having to look for them in the F11 menu

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding#Community_Modding_Projects

[undone elbow]

I hope there is a way to make the file just reloadable

e.g.

if (SOME_GLOBAL.is_patched) then
  -- remove decoration
  -- set decoration again
end

[bright fog]

You really really should not and do not need something like this

Every users of your mod will not need this

Simply check out the method I just described to you, it does the trick....

Unless you want to replace the decoration of another mod sure

But I think you're better off reloading the Lua file instead of trying to remove the decoration, but that could break other mods decorations

[undone elbow]

Is there something like OnFileIsToBeReload?

[bright fog]

What for ?

An event to detect the reload of a file ?

[undone elbow]

For turning the decoration off

[bright fog]

I don't get it, what are you trying to achieve here ?

[undone elbow]

local is_patch_active = true

local old_fn = SomeClass.fn
function SomeClass:fn()
  if is_patch_active then
    ...
  end
  return old_fn(self)
end

Events.OnUnload.Add(function()
  is_patch_active = false
end)

[bright fog]

OnUnload ?

[undone elbow]

I just want to be able to simply reload a file 🙂

[bright fog]

I just told you how to do that lmao

[crisp fossil]

Hey guys I have been trying to use setWeaponSprite but some items' sprites cant be change and I figured out why. Its because of this line

/*WeaponSprite = WoodAxe,*/
WeaponSpritesByIndex = WoodAxe;WoodAxeForged,

they are using WeaponSpritesByIndex instead of WeaponSprite. Anyone know how to handle this kind of case?

[bright fog]

Did you not read my explanation of how to do it ?

[bright fog]

Do that

Reload the original file and then your own file

With the community debug tools you can do that super easily too

The link I sent

[sly monolith]

hey @tranquil kindle, could you share with me a secret, how did you make that thumbnail for you hairstyles mod? is this a blender render, or smh else

[bright fog]

Renders yea

[winter bolt]

i think its some vanilla issue

[tranquil kindle]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-love-blush-cute-nervous-gif-16656636

Render

[winter bolt]

me and a few other people have been getting it as well

[bright fog]

yea ignore these, everyone seems to get them

[lyric plaza]

🫡

[lyric plaza]

🫡

[winter bolt]

i havent had it spam like that but ive seen it occasionally so its probably fine

[bright fog]

Might be linked to specific files and if you have more of these it throws more of these

But eh

[sly monolith]

b42 throws like a whole wall of errors on loading the game heh

[north rain]

Has anyone figured out how to edit the mod.info mod to list incompatibilities?

[candid egret]

I did a quick look at the files in the mod Bandits: Week One, and figured out that to add incompatibilities, you must have a line that states incompatible=\INSERT MODID HERE somewhere in the mod.info file.

[north rain]

ohh that's cool, thank you

[candid egret]

np

i'll probably use that too

[undone elbow]

I think the calorie system is a bit wrong. Hunger should be dependent on calorie levels, not built up at a constant rate.

[sour island]

Alot of food's calories are way off too

[tranquil kindle]

Don't confuse being hungry with calories. You could stuff yourself with low calorie food and be feeling full. You could also eat small but deep fried thing and have lot of calories, but it won't really take alot of space in your stomach so you will still feel hungry.

[slim swan]

Why does my model have to be invert normal to display properly? Normal normals will look like this

when I invert normal,it will display true

[tranquil kindle]

Maybe your export settings changed?

[slim swan]

But i use other 3D modeling Tools like 3Dmax ,The Normal is correct

[winter bolt]

does the object have an inverted scale in blender?

[mellow frigate]

Do vehicles have tags and properties or equivalent features ?

[slim swan]

thx, one of my object have inverted scale

but i dont konw why the blender recalculate normal cant fix this problem

[undone elbow]

At least hunger shouldn't cause death if you keep drinking.

[winter bolt]

you need to apply the scale and then invert normals

[ornate sand]

While this is true, it's also true that if you eat only very lean meat or low calorie food, you can quite literally stuff yourself with that food and still be actively starving to death.
In PZ rabbit meat is extremely calorie and protein rich, while in real life rabbit meat is one of the best examples of how to starve to death while eating well.

[sour island]

I'm pretty sure you also still get hungry despite being full of food given a few hours or so lol

Appetite can be really silly that way

[ornate sand]

Yup.

[slim swan]

thx,big helpful for me

[ornate sand]

Have you started troubleshooting the gun light thing yet Chuck?
I kinda wanna check out Swap It too now 😄

[true nova]

anyone know how to make context appear red when it cant be done?

[sour island]

Currently studying for something, but eventually

[undone elbow]

Yes, by injecting into a vanilla lua function

And if it's your option, just:

option.notAvailable = true

You can add these functions to your mod. But you still have to inject if you need to modify the vanilla context menu

local function newToolTip()
  local toolTip = ISToolTip:new();
  toolTip:initialise();
  toolTip:setVisible(false);
  return toolTip;
end
local function DisableOption(option, text)
  option.notAvailable = true
  local tooltip = newToolTip();
  tooltip.description = text;
  option.toolTip = tooltip; 
end

[bright fog]

I should make a wiki page about context menu

[ornate sand]

That would rock

[bright fog]

I'm prioritizing making small pages for various different small aspects of the Lua API instead of improving the page of Lua API itself bcs it's kind of hard explaining more than I wrote or at least I don't have much inspiration for it, which is why working on smaller pages is more interesting to me rn

I'll note to make that one

[true nova]

ty exactly what i needed

[ornate sand]

Does anyone know how the WeaponUpgrades table is handled in the game? I'm guessing it's a java thing because there's only one lua entry for it, at SuburbsDistributions
I'm asking because I'd like to use that exact same table to attach possible weapon upgrades on the zombies' guns. Such as a scope on a rifle, a gunlight on a 9mm, etc.
The developer of Guns of '93 whose name escapes me gave me a great tip of trying to do it with an OnCreate, but I'd rather see if there's a way to slap that WeaponUpgrades table from both serverside - as in vanilla, to shared as well - as in zombie attached guns.

[bright fog]

I've heard about guns now using an attachment table instead of being limited to 6 yea

I got no idea about the technical aspect of it tho

[ornate sand]

Oh yeah Fenris told us all it's like 130+ slots now 😂

But the WeaponUpgrades table has been there since B41

[bright fog]

No idea what that is then

[ornate sand]

It's obvious that the WeaponUpgrades is using some sort of randomness to see whether or not anything is pre-attached, because you can find an M16 with nothing on it, or you can find an M16 with a scope, recoil pad, sling, suppressor, etc etc etc, and anything in between.
But because it doesn't show up anywhere except as that table, I'm assuming it's a java thing

[sour island]

Seems like they just condensed the fields to an array

the part slot names didn't change

you can now just add your own

[ornate sand]

And this part makes it REALLY freaking cool

I mean Arsenal[26] is gonna have a field day adding literally anything he wants

[sour island]

For sure - I wanted to make a universal spear mod - where you could attach any other weapon on it - don't think it's possible still cause I rather dynamically generate those models/attachment points -- but maybe I'll have chatgpt spit out a conversion instead lol

[sour island]

I don't know enough about BRITA features, but he's said everything is broken

[ornate sand]

Yeah I feel for him. I've "studied" his stuff and I couldn't make heads or tails of any of it except for the script.txts 😄

I can only imagine the mountain he has to climb to fix all that lua

[sour island]

I'm not a fan of how they flood the loot tables - so I literally have never used britas for an extended period of time.

I know they have launchers?

[ornate sand]

Everything's optional though. I admin'd a server where it was free-for-all, and yeah I for example looted a GAU-17 Electric Minigun at the Riverside PD 😂
On my single player runs though I'd just disable anything after '92 and all that fancy stuff

[sour island]

Yeah just seemed like alot

Also around that time something broke on modOptions with 41MP so he was promoting everyone to make a sub-mod for modOptions to hold their custom options, and man that was not the best lol

[ornate sand]

Try mine lol

No but yeah, I don't know how I'd even look at the java part of it, I don't want to decompile the entire game.
I guess I'll leave that one open about the upgrades for now. Maybe I'll try throwing something together that uses both OnCreate and the randomness check that's in vanilla lua

[sour island]

Do you use an IDE?

[ornate sand]

What that is?

[sour island]

Like IntelliJ or VSCode

[ornate sand]

No I write things on notepad+, launch the game, find errors, rewrite things, launch the game, it works (maybe)
That's my process

[undone elbow]

Is it possible to play a world sound locally in multiplayer? I mean that a local player can hear it somewhere in the world but other players don't hear it.

[sour island]

Decompiling the game isn't not all that hard - and offers alot more insight into modding. Sometimes things are using old names from prior refactors, so you can't rely on on things are named + there's alot of moving parts ( 🥁 )

[sour island]

I think there's an argument in PlaySound() if you use the player:PlaySound

[ornate sand]

I've spent an ungodly amount of IRL hours just staring at PZ's ISTimedActions for example

[undone elbow]

Such a sound is attached to the player. I meant a world sound, e.g. 10 tiles away from the player.

[true nova]

Is there a way to get the texture names directly off item models? I made my sprites exactly the same name thinking it would be an easy swap but i cant seem to find out how

[sour island]

public long playSound(String var1) {
      return this.getEmitter().playSound(var1);
   }

   public long playSoundLocal(String var1) {
      return this.getEmitter().playSoundImpl(var1, (IsoObject)null);
   }

This would imply Player:getEmitter():playSoundImpl("sound", nil)

The 2nd argument can be a IsoGridSquare, IsoObject, as well as null (?)

[ornate sand]

sprites? A weaponsprite = model. You still need a texture = entry

[true nova]

i need to be able to get the texture name from the item

getting the texure gives the icon

[sour island]

weaponsprite and staticModel return strings

you'd have to dig around the model manager

[severe jay]

i put a few things together today for... thankyou for your anticipation and patience ehh moo ^-^ https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3404956403

[ornate sand]

Yeah, that's the icon entry
But you'll need to set both a mesh = and a texture = entry for your weapon

[undone elbow]

:getTextureName()?

[ornate sand]

    item Pistol
    {
        WeaponSprite = BerettaM92F,
    }

    model BerettaM92F
    {
        mesh = weapons/firearm/BerettaM92F,    
        texture = weapons/firearm/BerettaM92F,
    }

Like that?

[true nova]

that one it just give the icon back. thats what i need. in lua i have sprites for tiles that correspond to the items

i suppose i can just name the sprites the items, but some items use the same textures and have different names

[ornate sand]

Oh yeah, that's why I for example have stuff like Round, Roundy, Roundy2 and Roundy3 😄

[true nova]

this is for my clothesline mod. i have almost all of the clothes items with a sprite but since i cant get their exact texture name its hard to sort 😢

[ornate sand]

It might have been your name that made me think you were looking for a weaponsprite fix 😐

[bright fog]

Need some feedback on updating the Lua events wiki page. Which one do you guys think is better ? New one (table like) or old one (list) ? With such a list with multiple columns visible in the category of Lua events

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_event
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Category:Lua_Events

[late hound]

thx for this btw, I was half awake when I asked about it

[outer crypt]

Been using this format for a vehicle spawn in the game, is there any way I can set the direction of the vehicle upon spawn? vehicle = addVehicle(spawnV, spawnSquare:getX(), spawnSquare:getY(), spawnSquare:getZ())

[outer crypt]

The one on the lower right seems easiest to read.

The table feels too busy for my eyes.

[bright fog]

I agree

[outer crypt]

But it's all opinion, all get the job done

[bright fog]

It's too compact

Sadly I can't use the thing on the bottom right screenshot

[outer crypt]

darn

[bright fog]

So I got no choice but to use one of the two formatting (or maybe a different one if there's another one)

But anyone can use the third screenshot categories, the problem is that some of the events might not be in that list until all the pages are created for every new events

[ornate sand]

Or you could re-pack your hunting mod so that we can butcher pigs for lard and chops (and bacon too maybe?)

[bright fog]

What do pigs give you in B42 ?

Do they not give chops ?

[ornate sand]

No idea, haven't tried

[bright fog]

bruh

[ornate sand]

😂

I'd imagine they only give (poor) pork chops until Butchering 6 like all the rest of the animals

I just really, really enjoyed the lard I got from wild hogs using your mod in B41.78

[bright fog]

Yea it was useful since some survival recipes from other mods used it

[ancient grail]

table

[ornate sand]

And yeah from the common complaints, Butchering really sucks in B42.
I can confirm that it is really bad at levels 1-4. I think I got my first average cut at level 5.
Poor cuts are 1-per-cooking-recipe, so that's unacceptably bad unless you spam traps like I do

And people have killed entire cows and got less than 2 meals out of 'em

[bronze yoke]

and livestock farmer starts with level 3 😐

[red tiger]

Imagine having a Vegan trait

You immediately die when you smell a pork chop.

[ornate sand]

Veteran starts at Aiming 2 which means total HitChance 58%
Imagine that rate of success as an actual combat veteran

[ornate sand]

Vegan would be a fantastic negative Trait

[red tiger]

In that case, so would Carnivore.

[ornate sand]

laughs in wabbit trapper extraordinaire

[red tiger]

Eating only rabbit should kill you like IRL.

[ornate sand]

correct

[true nova]

i fee like being a vegan is impossible unless you're just eating constantly

youll lose too much weight and die

[bright fog]

true

[ornate sand]

Hey man I was one for an entire year

[true nova]

im talking in game

[ornate sand]

Oh lol

[true nova]

ive tried

always have to eat fish or something sometimes

or my weight drops dangerously low

[ornate sand]

Wait no

The dried beans

They're super high calorie

[true nova]

oh yeah. i always forage

foraging food seem like they have no calories

[ornate sand]

Which is kinda half true btw, if you get some dry lentils and soak 'em and then boil 'em for a soup or a stew, they're really good for ya

[true nova]

yeah lentils do got a lot of protein

[ornate sand]

Green lentils are a bit of a hassle but red lentils rock

[lapis moth]

local vehicle = addVehicleDebug(_type, IsoDirections.S, -1, sq)

[bronze yoke]

oh, for what it's worth, the 'starving to death from just eating rabbits' thing is sort of a myth - you do die but it's not from starvation

[outer crypt]

so just change the IsoDirections.E to get east etc?

[bronze yoke]

rabbit is very nutritionally weird and if it's all your eating over a long long time it ends up literally poisoning you

[lapis moth]

yes

[ornate sand]

Correct. "Rabbit starvation" isn't real but the effects are

[lapis moth]

Spicy rabbit meat is delicious, but they are not nutritious

[true nova]

after forever searching. to get clothes texture it is item:getClothingItem():GetATexture().

[slim swan]

I made an ICON, but why is my ICON blurry in the game

I use asprite to make it

it should be like that

[hybrid tiger]

Someone before had a similar issue ill link their post

ive never done icons so idk

here

that might help?

[tranquil kindle]

I do my icons with 64x64 in gimp so....

Used to 32x32 but they do get blurry.

[ornate sand]

And you rock 'rryone's socks, I declare

[slim swan]

so I need to pack the icon to .pack

[slim swan]

is that work with 64x64?

[hybrid tiger]

Not sure havent touch .packs /icons was just linking something I read earlier

[slim swan]

if it work ,i dont need to pack the icon

[tranquil kindle]

So thing is, ICONS will scale down, the only one exception was when item could be attached to hotbar it would not scale. Not sure if they did change it.

So you can technicly put 1920x1080 icon and it will scale down ( at least in b41), but the moment you attach it to hotbar (again, it happend in b41) it would display it in full size and not scale down.

[polar gyro]

i had something before in my SOMW mod. I tried everything but only what helped for me is pixilart.com
i just import icon, then export it and it not even blurry in game anymore. Maybe it will help you.

[undone elbow]

I think the exported icon was 64x64.

[coarse sinew]

see #mod_development message

[red tiger]

Would be nice if TIS hired a nutritionist for research.

[ornate sand]

Yes. Gibs monies. I'll eat vegetable and wabbit.

[red tiger]

I think it'd enrich the RP community.

[slim swan]

if I put a 64x64 icons in the game ,it work fine except the hotbar

[red tiger]

Add scaling support for the render method

It's doable.

(Unless this is in Java)

There's a hope I have that eventually in some future build the only UI code in Java is the engine, not the implementation.

Moodles would not be a thing to fight over otherwise.

[vast pier]

If nothing else, you could just ignore it

https://tenor.com/view/rjumen-laugh-man-cool-nice-perfect-gif-23675313

[hybrid tiger]

lmao

[slim swan]

I want to know how to pack the icon to be a .packs files,and how it connect to the item

[brazen loom]

Unfortuantly, it's not handled in any of the lua. I've been through the files multiple times trying to find ways to edit it, besides adding more items to the the upgrade table.

[true nova]

need the modding tool tileZed. you can create pack files with it. then youll need to put it in the texturepacks directory and add it as a pack to your modinfo. but i think they work about the same after that? well other than the sprite sheet position. i think you need that in the name

[slim swan]

I have pack my icon,and put it to the texturepacks directory,but the game cannot recognize it and show up a question mark

[bronze yoke]

Icon = Electric_Baseball_Bat looks for Item_Electric_Baseball_Bat

[slim swan]

Is this the correct script expression

[bronze yoke]

oh my bad you have that there

do you have the texture pack set in the mod.info?

[true nova]

you have added the pack into your mod.info?

[slim swan]

like this?

[bronze yoke]

there's no tiles in your pack so you don't need a tiledef

[unreal ginkgo]

I'm trying to make a trait mod that has the player start with a (**not **dead lol) rat in their inventory. I have gotten as far as starting with generic 'Base.Animal' but am unsure how to pass traits to that. Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask but there's very little techincal info on the wiki about variables and other animal info

[true nova]

here is the constructor for an isoAnimal. im not sure what all of the parameters are

--- @public
--- @param arg0 IsoCell
--- @return IsoAnimal
--- @overload fun(arg0: IsoCell, arg1: integer, arg2: integer, arg3: integer, arg4: string, arg5: string): IsoAnimal
--- @overload fun(arg0: IsoCell, arg1: integer, arg2: integer, arg3: integer, arg4: string, arg5: AnimalBreed): IsoAnimal
--- @overload fun(arg0: IsoCell, arg1: integer, arg2: integer, arg3: integer, arg4: string, arg5: string, arg6: boolean): IsoAnimal
--- @overload fun(arg0: IsoCell, arg1: integer, arg2: integer, arg3: integer, arg4: string, arg5: AnimalBreed, arg6: boolean): IsoAnimal
function IsoAnimal.new(arg0) end

[unreal ginkgo]

Interesting, I might be able to make some progress with this. Thanks!

[errant bluff]

Does anyone know what is the name of the star texture/icon that is put on the items when they are applied as favorites?

And where can I download it?

[bright fog]

The thing is that this doesn't place the animal on the map

[ebon dagger]

I need to hijack the XP gained from ranged weapons with a specific tag. Vanilla treats all ranged weapons with the Aiming skill, but I want to make bows and crossbows use a custom skill. Which of the following would be less prone to messing with other mods:

• Intercept the XP in Events.OnWeaponHitXp subtracting it from Aiming and adding to Archery

• Hook into XpUdate and exit out if Archery is gained, preventing Aiming from ever being gained. This would mess with "Favorite Weapon Data", unless I duplicated that code, which I could.

[coarse sinew]

It's in ProjectZomboid\media\texturepacks\UI2.pack, sprite sheet UI23 and it's called FavoriteStar or FavoriteStarChecked. To open the .pack file you need TileZed (it's in the Project Zomboid Modding Tools, you can find it in your Steam Library). In TileZed to export the image go to Tools > .pack files > Pack Viewer. In the new window Open > Open .pack > Select the UI2.pack from the game files. Then Open > Extract images.. > In the prefix field you can write the name of the texture (you can see it when you hover over the image on the right panel), in this example FavoriteStar and in the output directory the folder where you want your texture to be exported (make sure that folder exists). I'll also attach the images.

Ok, I didn't expect them to be so big

[errant bluff]

The thing is that I was looking there too but I didn't find anything about it. Thank you very much for your comment!

[true nova]

they want it in the inventory, my first try would be make a new animal and add it to the inventory to see what happens 🤷

[bright fog]

Maybe yea

[dense orchid]

Does anyone know if there's anyone putting together a mod for horses or dogs yet?

[ebon dagger]

It's on my list, but not at the top lol

Just checking, because suddenly, even though I don't have any code effecting, I'm not gaining any weapon XP.

Does -debug mode prevent XP gain?

[dense orchid]

fair fair, i wish i knew enough abt modding to do it myself at this point because i am a horse girl lol

[ebon dagger]

Its part of why I have been teaching myself how to do modeling. I want to run around in Zomboid with my faithful dog companion SO DAMN BAD lol

[slim swan]

The icon blurred seems to be a B42 issuse,I test other creators' mods have the same problem,even they already pack the icon

I think is because the outdated Tiled's issuse,it cant pack the files fit B42

[ebon dagger]

Anyone see any reason why this hook wouldn't work?

local Old_xpUpdate_onWeaponHitXp = xpUpdate.onWeaponHitXp

xpUpdate.onWeaponHitXp = function(owner, weapon, hitObject, damage, hitCount)
    print("DEBUG >>> LOOK I GET CALLED")
    return Old_xpUpdate_onWeaponHitXp
end

no errors, but no print line either.

[bronze yoke]

you aren't calling the original function

i don't see why you wouldn't see your print but this isn't a successful hook because of that

from the name, this looks like an event handler? you need to remove the original handler before hooking it, and then re-add it

[ebon dagger]

Ah ok. That makes sense.

[bronze yoke]

the event has a reference to the function so hooking it (which really just replaces it with a new function, that takes over its old name) doesn't affect it

[bright fog]

Sadly there hasn't been much breakthrough on animal mods

[bright fog]

There's a loooot of people having this problem

Reseting the cache folder fixes it

It must be an option somewhere

[bronze yoke]

no it's just not being called

read the rest of the convo

[ebon dagger]

Events.OnWeaponHitXp.Remove(xpUpdate.onWeaponHitXp)

local Old_xpUpdate_onWeaponHitXp = xpUpdate.onWeaponHitXp

xpUpdate.onWeaponHitXp = function(owner, weapon, hitObject, damage, hitCount)
    print("DEBUG >>> LOOK I GET CALLED")
    return Old_xpUpdate_onWeaponHitXp
end

Events.OnWeaponHitXp.Add(xpUpdate.onWeaponHitXp)

This worked! Thank you.

[bright fog]

Ah

tho there's still people having such a problem anyway

And I haven't seen anyone who found what disables prints

[ebon dagger]

In my case, it was just that print never actually got called 😄

[bright fog]

Yea understood that

[ebon dagger]

Kbam, archery weapons grant Archery and Firearms grant "Aiming" Ty again @bronze yoke

[bright fog]

👀

[burnt kite]

hi, i’m new to modding. How can i make an item spawn 100% of the time in a container? setting the chance to 100 doesn’t seem to guarantee it, thanks! should i use lua functions instead of distribution tables?

[bronze yoke]

just make it a stupid big number, spawn chances aren't out of 100

[burnt kite]

so if i put 10000 will it guarantee the spawn?

[bronze yoke]

yeah, should do

[burnt kite]

thankyou 😉

[pearl prism]

Does anyone have any tips on how to code a type of custom cursor?

[bronze yoke]

do you mean like the build cursor?

[pearl prism]

Yes

it could be

[eager imp]

"vehicle editor" this is for hit boxes? i looked in it and thats the best i could guess about it

[pearl prism]

nope

You need to click on the debug icon

than go to "Dev" menu

[eager imp]

alrighty thank you, im snooping around to try and learn a few things its been slow going

[pearl prism]

Don't worry too much, we all start like this.

[eager imp]

i appreciate the kind words : )

[sharp plinth]

Working on this project zomboid server tool past 6 months. Would love any feedback. 🙂 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3320238921

[wooden falcon]

Super rusty just trying to update one of my mods for b42. If I have a variable container that is a Container object

Base.Wallet:zombie.inventory.types.InventoryContainer

how do I simply ask "is this a wallet?"?
Edit: maybe it's simply item:getType() == "Wallet"? Testing now.

[winter bolt]

thats it

[cosmic ermine]

How do I remove fog of war?

[vast pier]

Does the thimble do anything? It seems to have its own tag

[silent zealot]

Seems to do nothing.

As far as I can tell there's no "this tool makes a recipe faster/better quality output" which is where I'd expect to see a thimble show up - a small speed boost to sewing.

[silent zealot]

What do you mean by fog of war?

World map knowledge?

[cosmic ermine]

The black fog that is not in your cone of vision.

Zombies in the fog aren't visible unless you look in that direction.

[silent zealot]

Eagle eyes trait, keen hearing trait...

[cosmic ermine]

I want to completely remove it for screenshots.

[silent zealot]

Hmmm... maybe a piece of modded headwear with negative vision penelty?

ScriptManager.instance:getItem("Glasses_3dGlasses"):DoParam("VisionModifier = 10") helps but it seems vision is capped at 180°

...but those modded glassed are a big help at night when your vision cone is reduced to a 30° arc

[tacit pebble]

Which is better for Performance? (resource price(?))
any tips?

first example

  local speedMultiplier = gameSpeed == 2 and 5 or gameSpeed == 3 and 20 or gameSpeed == 4 and 40 or 1
  bodyDamage:setFoodSicknessLevel(currentLevel - (adjustmentForce * speedMultiplier))
end

---

second example

  local gameSpeed = getGameSpeed()
  local speedMultiplier
  if gameSpeed == 2 then
      speedMultiplier = 5
  elseif gameSpeed == 3 then
      speedMultiplier = 20
  elseif gameSpeed == 4 then
      speedMultiplier = 40
  else
      speedMultiplier = 1
  end
  
  bodyDamage:setFoodSicknessLevel(currentLevel - (adjustmentForce * speedMultiplier))
end

[silent zealot]

Trust the lua compiler to optimize it for you when it compiles.

[faint jewel]

are dependencies broken?

[tacit pebble]

I was re-written my code to make shorter (for better readablility) and first one is what i've just found so i have no idea

[silent zealot]

I'm not sure gamespeed is even a function call/API, as opposed to a LUA global variable... either way it won't be noticable calling it three times every tick comared to the other thinking the game is doing.

[faint jewel]

i have the updated common library and it's enabled but the mod i'm working on says it's not there.

[tacit pebble]

sorry gameSpeed = getGameSpeed()

[silent zealot]

Still fine IMO, that's not a big super resource intensive API call

The second is probably better, but it's a "technically better" type of thing.

Dependencies are working in general

[tacit pebble]

Oh okay thanks for advice. so maybe i'm too much worried about performance for now. 😛

[silent zealot]

There's probably a programming term for "overoptimizing specific bits as you write"

...and then some guy release a mod with 8k texttures on a 20 bajillion triangle model that calls intensive API calls every tick even though it only needs update every hour, and you wonder why you bother at all.

[crystal oar]

has umbrella been updated or is there a new documentation page?

[tacit pebble]

when I started PZ modding, someone said to me "never use OnTick, never use OnPlayerUpdate" and that have made me scared about performance issue until now. because i don't know what is at behind when i fcked up with optimize. maybe this is why i'm too much.

[tacit pebble]

I use OnPlayerUpdate sometimes tho

[silent zealot]

If you use them just add a counter so the code only runs every X ticks.

function NepOnUpdate
   if NepElapsed < NepMaxTicks
      NepElapsed++
      return
   end
   NepElapsed = 0
   <code here>
end

not that lua supports ++, but you get the idea

A function call & integer comaprison is insignifigant load

[tacit pebble]

🙂 I know what you meant and i know how to. thanks bro. even i knew how to, your message makes me feel lighter, to use counter XD
I actually bunch of counters have with my medical Injector mod and i felt guilty so much.

[silent zealot]

When I made my "slower discomfort" mod I made the number of tick that elapsed a sandbox variable, because if you have a discomfort meter from a mod it flickers around unless you run every tick but running every tick feels so excessive.

...and in my game I'm having it run every tick with no performance impact.

[bronze yoke]

i side with this advice in every other language, but - do not trust the lua compiler to optimise for you, it doesn't do shit, it can't really

almost everything is technically modifiable in some way at runtime so the language really has to work exactly how it looks like it works instead of optimising things secretly

[silent zealot]

Also in this specific case it can't assume GameSpeed() will return the same value each time it is called

[bronze yoke]

the thing is even if it could determine that, it couldn't determine that it wouldn't be changed to one that doesn't, so it can't optimise anything

[red tiger]

Only compiled code optimizes.

JIT script cannot optimize just as you said for those reasons.

[bronze yoke]

i constantly toy with the idea of a lua preprocessor to get around some of these limitations

but i've got enough on my plate 😅

[red tiger]

Lua to Java bytecode

This is how it's done.

This is what Jython does

[silent zealot]

Good thing lua has other advantages such as allowing faster development to get a game out sooner. 😂

[bronze yoke]

i'd intend to do it in pure lua - in particular the ability to use macros/just inline functions would avoid a lot of the performance vs style tradeoffs and could easily be implemented in pure lua

[red tiger]

So many ways to fix this problem and both sound good.

If future Project Zomboid builds can distance itself from dependency on Kahlua-specific API, then it becomes more of a reality for LuaJIT and other implementations to be used.

[umbral ingot]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3390272712

I finally got dome lights working on vehicles. This is my first mod ever! (So probably buggy as hell) Thanks for answering any questions guys. This is the chillest modding community I've ever hopped into

[storm patio]

Hey guys! Any tips on why I can't delete recipe output with
local result = craftRecipeData:getAllCreatedItems():get(0)
character:getInventory():Remove(result)

[tacit pebble]

what will you be returned when print(result) ?

[storm patio]

Array...

yeah got it working, swapped to result:getType()

[slim swan]

How can I make the 2or1 hand weapon get zombie on fire

[cosmic ermine]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3406622334
Hey there. Mod has finally been published.

[undone elbow]

What if a player already has such an item? You may accidentally delete another similar item (with different properties).

[storm patio]

Recipe always outputs this item, function deletes it after if ZombRand and/or getFullType dictates there should be different output
I.e recipe inputs Silver necklace, outputs are:
goldpiece - gets deleted
metalpiece or silverpiece, whatever zombrand rolls

Should be working alright I think?

[silent zealot]

Subscribed!

[south bear]

Hey there! First timer here!

I was poking around for the solution to this and I am confused. I am attempting to use a lua script from server side to grab a player's position (x, y, z).

I am passing getPlayerFromUsername() the player's account name, but I get this error:

attempted index: getX of non-table: null

What am I doing wrong?

Also - thanks in advance! After reading a ton over the last bit, it's clear this community rocks!

[storm patio]

Actually ran into a problem where FIRST craft doesn't delete the item lol

[bright fog]

No sure you can read position of a player server side

Also this error means your player variable is nil

[south bear]

I saw something about getPlayerByUsername() as opposed to getPlayerFromUsername()... Could this be a thing?

Also, the server must know where the players are in the game world, right? Is there truly no function that will get the server itself to provide that information?

Basically, what I want to do, is provide the player's username and in return get their x y z coords in the game world, if that makes sense! 😄

[undone elbow]

a_player:getX()?

[undone elbow]

Actually, if there is no result, the craft system is not the best choice.

[storm patio]

There IS result, it's just variable

But tbh even in cases where result is 1 Goldpiece, Istill delete it and then AddItem it back just in case atm💀

[undone elbow]

Why delete/add?

[storm patio]

To consolidate pretty much 7 recipes into 1

My only issue is it wont delete single istance of result(if it's the only one in inv).
Probably has to do with function looking for a thing to delete DURING craft, and actual thing being added to inv AFTER it

[undone elbow]

If you can't delete it at the first time, it's not added to player's inventory. So you need to check it later or prevent it from adding to the inventory.

[bright fog]

Use onlineID

GetPlayerByOnlineID

And client side send to the server the client onlineID

[storm patio]

Yeah, didn't figure out a way to do either yet

Tbh the only reason I'm even bothering is because it's basically a duping bug, even tho extremely tedious and long

[undone elbow]

1. Find a place in vanilla code where a result is added to inventory.
2. Make a decoration (injection)
3. Profit 🙂

[storm patio]

Yeah sorry Star, no idea how to make that lol.
Literally just wrote my second lua script

[undone elbow]

Ah.
Where did you try to delete the item from? What is the code now?

[storm patio]

Using
local result = craftRecipeData:getAllCreatedItems():get(0)
character:getInventory():Remove(result:getType())
To get whatever the recipe output is set to, tried putting type/fulltype into Remove() and always got errors so using variable for now
So that's where output is deleted, doesn't delete first one as I said.
Than just a basic for cycle with my if conditions

From is character inventory then?

[undone elbow]

I mean where in the code.

[storm patio]

OnCreate then?
Recipe calls for OnCreate, OnCreate deletes the item

character:getInventory():Remove(result:getType())
Just in case, me dumb

[undone elbow]

#mod_development message

output{} works just fine

[storm patio]

Oh snap, literally was going to try to leave outputs blank lol

[storm patio]

Thanks Star!

Straight to next question - what's the code for forcing recipe icon?

nvm literally just icon = iconhere, worked

[hushed harbor]

This is super nice

if you wanted to go the extra mile I'd love to see it reduce your vision cone while driving at night with it on. Having one of those on in the car always makes it way harder for me to see out at the road

[umbral ingot]

Thank you! Yeah that would be realistic too. Currently the mod is just spawning a set of car headlights at the back of the car so that the tile the player is sitting in has light. I'll have to check out how player vision works to control it

[random finch]

Anyone familiar with DragCharacter or DragObject? What are their purpose? They have getters/setters as well.
https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.78/zombie/characters/IsoPlayer.html#DragCharacter

protected IsoSurvivor
DragCharacter
 
protected IsoMovingObject
DragObject

[knotty stone]

anyone can tell me what "zombieType = Farmer," does? its in the livestock trailer.

my guess would be some kind of distribution ref?

[bright fog]

No idea

You can make commissions here
https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

[spare saffron]

Tysm!

[outer crypt]

I was trying to update my pack files and tiles yesterday with tilezed and it kept breaking up my single tiles into 4 pieces. My guess is something changed or i fat fingered something. anyone run into this issue?

[outer crypt]

Not sure how it fixed itself but it's fine today... so wierd...

[weary matrix]

Hi, any clue how to use a recipe programmatically? For example I want to use the recipe "Open Box" when someone double click on a box of nails

[weary matrix]

I suppose it was in preparation of the feature from B42 to drag corpses (not sure if you can drag objects though, haven't tried)

[slim swan]

Where can I find the ‘baseballswing ’sound ,I check all the .bank files,but didn’t found it

[bronze yoke]

this is like 2011 code, it doesn't do anything

it's a remnant of a weird mechanic they had where you could drag a wheelie bin around anywhere with you

[pearl prism]

Is there any good item distribution tutorial for b42?

[mortal copper]

anyone here can help with making a custom spawn point?

[bright fog]

Yes, on the wiki

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Procedural_distributions

[pearl prism]

This is exactly what I needed, tks

[mortal copper]

I made a custom spawn point mod and got it to appear on the mod activation menu, activated it, but it doesn't appear on the spawn selection menu

had to make a "common" folder and it fixed it

[bright fog]

If you guys need a list of Lua events, the wiki got updated with the most recent events
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Category:Lua_Events
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_event

[vast pier]

how would I go about increasing the storage capacity of tiles like ovens, campfires, or cabinets?

[vast pier]

lol looks like they got banned from the discord, and their mod was taken off the workshop. They have a comment on their profile saying it's cuz the devs are "queerphobic" even though there are other pride mods on the workshop

[sour island]

I hope they find the help they need. 🤷🏻‍♂️
(Extra gross to use legitimate LGBT+ as a cover for those things ||PDF.file||)

[grand cloak]

is the "force action" button in the craft menu of the debug mode supposed to give the output items of the craft?

[bright fog]

I think so yea

[grand cloak]

mine isnt working wtf

is it only for me?

it doesnt add the items to my inventory

[bronze yoke]

i never managed to get it to do anything

[grand cloak]

weird

[bright fog]

I think it worked for me when I tested it ?

Idk

[grand cloak]

i need to force some recipe crafting in my mod here but without the force craft idk how

[bright fog]

Can't you give yourself the ingredients to just do it ?

[grand cloak]

not really

i guess i will just use code to give the outputs

[bright fog]

Wdym ?

[grand cloak]

bc i need the player to be bleeding in order to make the recipe

but i will check for the bleeding part and replace the common crafting button with the force one

and then i will fix the code to give the outputs since it doesn't work

[vast pier]

just sprint over a fence a few times

[bright fog]

No need, you can make your character bleed with the health panel debug tools

[silent zealot]

Is this one of those "I'm curious, but it's better that I do not investigate WTF this is about" situation?

[sour island]

Yes lol

[bronze yoke]

it definitely doesn't need to be discussed any further

[silent zealot]

in that case, moving on.... VS Code/Umbrella question: Can the "duplicate lua function" check be disabled? Without pasting ---@diagnostic disable-next-line: duplicate-set-field in front of every override function?

[bronze yoke]

i think you can disable it for your entire workspace, i think quick fix will suggest that as one of the options?

[silent zealot]

ah, the wording made me think it was shutting off all diagniostics not the specific thing -0 I re-red and you're correct.

[icy night]

Is this the correct way to override the official SawLogs recipe?

[umbral raptor]

Is it possible for models or textures to crash the game?

I can't even launch the game and have nothing but scripts

I have these scripts

And my LUA file has translate and a bunch of files related to locations

I am trying to update one of my fav mods to B42 but the game crashes whenever I launch it

is there any specific aspects that need to be updated for a B42 mod to work?

[icy night]

Crashes while your trying to launch a new game?

or when youre in the middle of the game

[umbral raptor]

There was a lot of LUA files that I deleted to try and get just the items into the game

[umbral raptor]

When I press play and it says "loading mod, loading scripts", etc then it crashes

you know the black screen before it starts

[icy night]

Yea. That happened to me over a simple misspelling of peaches in one of my recipes

[umbral raptor]

the thing is

it worked for B41 perfectly

I took the files and organized them into the new B42 way

[tacit pebble]

#1318920979581501502 message
yep

for my case, wrong = crashed game.
it had to be :

[umbral raptor]

WARN : General f:0, t:1736819818031> TaggedObjectManager.createTagBits > manager-> new tag discovered that was not preprocessed, tag: keyduplicator
WARN : General f:0, t:1736819818049> TaggedObjectManager.createTagBits > manager-> new tag discovered that was not preprocessed, tag: recipes_stone_anvil
WARN : General f:0, t:1736819818052> TaggedObjectManager.createTagBits > manager-> new tag discovered that was not preprocessed, tag: advancedfurnace
ERROR: General f:0, t:1736819818162> GameWindow.uncaughtException > Unhandled java.lang.RuntimeException thrown by thread MainThread.
ERROR: General f:0, t:1736819818163> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Script load errors. at GameWindow.mainThreadInit(GameWindow.java:705). Message: Unhandled java.lang.RuntimeException thrown by thread MainThread.
Stack trace:
zombie.GameWindow.mainThreadInit(GameWindow.java:705)
zombie.GameWindow.mainThread(GameWindow.java:599)
java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Script load errors.
zombie.scripting.ScriptManager.Load(ScriptManager.java:1566)
zombie.GameWindow.initShared(GameWindow.java:156)
zombie.GameWindow.init(GameWindow.java:1442)
zombie.GameWindow.mainThreadInit(GameWindow.java:701)
... 2 more
LOG : General f:0, t:1736819818163> GameThread exited.

[umbral raptor]

What do you mean? Can you show me an example?

Like the model name or in the code?

Could it be the recipes crashing it?

[tacit pebble]

-- this was my mistake
SkillRequired:[Perk]=[Level]

-- and I fixed like this (i can't remember cuz too long time ago)
SkillRequired:[Perk]:[Level]

above is an example, i tried to say: wrong characters such as = : seems to be able to crash your game

These were all i could see in console is.. so maybe if you are having similar issue mine, searching for these keyword would help you.

Remove script due to load error = [YourCraftRecipeName]
~ craftRecipe error in [YourCraftRecipeName] at CraftRecipe.Load ~

the one thing i can be sure is: wrong script can crash your game without any notice and they doesn't leave much tracks.

[bronze yoke]

it should be SkillRequired=[Perk]:[Level]

[tacit pebble]

btw i saw this in your script file...
I haven't dealt with scripts so much in B42 so not sure..... but i'm pretty sure it should be craftRecipe or something..? unless you are making a mod for B41

if you are making a mod for B42, most of those parameters are also outdated and not to be used anymore.

[vast pier]

If it's what he was asking me about, he's trying to port an out of development mod from 41 to 42

[tacit pebble]

oh thats make a sence.

[vast pier]

I'm assuming english isn't your first language, but it's funny for you to edit the sentence and it still be wrong

I think the first step in porting the mod should be getting the models working, recipes and item stats can come later

[hallow spade]

Hello. Quick question - is there some practical example on how to replace part of a recipe without copying the whole thing? Or some way to overwrite without the result being a merge of both the changed recipe and the original one.

[tacit pebble]

maybe.. [That make a sense] is correct one? no 's and sense

[bronze yoke]

it'd be 'that makes sense'

[vast pier]

oh that makes sense.

[tacit pebble]

ugh now i won't forget that

[vast pier]

All good man, I still understood what you meant

[bronze yoke]

come to think of it, 'that makes sense' is quite a strange expression - you just don't question these things as a native speaker i guess

[vast pier]

what's strange about it

[bronze yoke]

it 'makes' sense?

it creates the state of being logical?

[vast pier]

yes

[bronze yoke]

it's not outright gramatically incorrect but it's definitely not how anybody speaks

i guess we say things like 'make peace' though

[vast pier]

I will proceed forward with speaking in that manner from now on. Purely led in my path by spite alone.

[tacit pebble]

you guys are better than my English teacher 10 years ago.

[vast pier]

Like parts of the recipe, or replace it entirely?

[hallow spade]

Parts. I want to change a few values in some of the recipes around eg. adding more clothes to the sheet rope crafting recipe, but if I copy it in my own mod the result is a merger of my changed recipe and the original one. That is, it now takes twice the amount of clothes for twice the output.

[vast pier]

do you mean for making rope specifically, or for cutting up clothing

and is this for build 41 or 42

[hallow spade]

It was just an example in that case. I've several recipes I want to change but don't want to just clutter the menus with my own versions. B42

[vast pier]

well what's one of the recipes?

[hazy lava]

does anyone know how to convert b41 mods to b42, I made a alcoholic drink mod that works in b41 but I have no clue how to get it to b42

[hallow spade]

Pins will have data on the folder structure. If you have recipes they need to be changed too. Probably a bunch of other stuff, specially fluid items.

[hazy lava]

no i made the mod specifically for b42, followed the lua for the items etc and it only works in b41

i just got into modding

[hallow spade]

The sheet rope is the example I gave, but also one I want to change it to accept any cotton tag clothes. Wanted to add missing pieces to the rip denim/leather recipe too. Want to change some of the timers on a variety of recipes. Easy to do, just undesirable results.

[icy night]

same here. trying to replace saw logs recipe with shortened time. cant figure it out

[hallow spade]

I looked at a few mods and in theory it should work by copying/pasting and making my own, but well, it doesn't work well.

[vast pier]

Unfortunately I think recipes are loaded out of sync with lua, so the only way to modify a recipe would be to outright replace it?
Same with an item missing a tag, adding a recipe tag to an item via lua means it won't load the tag in time for the recipe to be made.

correct me if I'm wrong ofc

[hallow spade]

It is what it is. I'll see if the author of that mod that fixes food recipes has any advice they're willing to share.

[icy night]

lmk if you find the answer?

[hallow spade]

Sure thing

[vast pier]

I mean, have you tried just replacing the recipe

By using the base module and identical recipe ID

[hallow spade]

Yes. Doubles input, doubles output. It's strange

[vast pier]

even with the same module id and recipe id?

[hallow spade]

Pretty much copied the vanilla file and deleted the unneeded parts

[vast pier]

could you send me the recipe file?

[bronze yoke]

recipes cannot be overridden anymore

[vast pier]

what

why

????

😭

[bronze yoke]

🤷‍♀️ they probably just didn't think of it, it's not like they need to do it

[hallow spade]

That's certainly something

[vast pier]

So you just, can't remove recipes?

[icy night]

oof

[bronze yoke]

i figure you can probably do some weird hack with lua but not in a simple way no

[vast pier]

💀

[bronze yoke]

the api around craft recipes is a lot more complex than the old recipes and i haven't had time to look too deeply into them - at the very least these kinds of hacks are probably a bit harder than they used to be

[vast pier]

new solution, duplicate and replace every item in the recipe 😈

remove them from the loot pools

(this is a very bad idea, don't do this)

[hallow spade]

Velkiel's mod does have a lua part, and if that's the solution then I'm toast

[vast pier]

what's the mod?

[hallow spade]

Manual edits are a go lol

[vast pier]

why would you be toast, if it works then just copy it?

[hallow spade]

Velkiel's fixed baking recipes

[icy night]

I was looking at his script. Its mostly cooking fixes.

yea

[hallow spade]

If it requires lua to achieve, I don't know lua and me and programming aren't on friendly terms so probably going to default to just edit the game files and restrict myself to a few until some solution I can 'borrow' shows up

[vast pier]

me sending this message led me down the brain route of a mod adding a bread hat and muscle suit

No I do not know how.

[hallow spade]

Well, time to copy other recipes and see if maybe it was some fluke due to stupidity on my side

[vast pier]

This might be related

[hazy lava]

i think i did the script right but my mod just wont load into b42 and will for b41? Does anyone know how to fix this I wasnt even trying to make a b41 mod

[vast pier]

is it in the build 42 folder

[hazy lava]

Lmao uhm is that literally all i need to do

[vast pier]

possibly

the common folder is required tho, don't know why.
you can leave it empty

[hazy lava]

thank you very much lmaoo that was it

[hallow spade]

common is for stuff like art files from what I understand

[bronze yoke]

bug

you can and should use it for things like art and translations, but it being hard required to exist is a bug

[silent zealot]

duplicate the recipe, set it to require a workbench that does not exist, now it wil never been seen anywhere except the debug mode recipe list.

Since you can't see workbench specific recipes without clicking on that workbench

[ebon dagger]

I assume that its a limitation from the engine, but has anyone been able to change an equipped weapons ammotype and not have it crash the game?

[silent zealot]

While equipped?

Or in general?

[ebon dagger]

Yeah. While equipped

[silent zealot]

I have never tried, but given the way setting projectileCount > 9 works I would not be suprised if it crashes.

Also, are you changing the weapon item, the "template" for the weapon, or both?

[ebon dagger]

The item, not the template.

[random finch]

I want to get an IsoMovingObject that is under the mouse cursor. I have a solution but it uses squares and checks all the objects on given square. Seems cumbersome and only captures a players or zeds from the waist down.

Any tips or direction on getting a player being hovered by the cursor a better way?

[ebon dagger]

I've made a radial menu that finds al "applicable ammo" that you can swap to. Then using this code:

function ISAmmoSwapRadialMenu:onSwapAmmo(item)
    local weapon = self.character:getPrimaryHandItem()
    local current = weapon:getCurrentAmmoCount()
    if current > 0 then
        weapon:setCurrentAmmoCount(0)
        weapon:setRoundChambered(false)
        print("we should add one ammo back to inventory")
    end
    local newAmmo = item:getFullType()
    weapon:setAmmoType(newAmmo)
weapon:setAmmoBox(ammoBoxes[newAmmo])
end```

[silent zealot]

Works fine for me, I just put 9mm rounds into a .38 Revolver.

getPlayer():getPrimaryHandItem():setAmmoType("Base.Bullets9mm")
print(getPlayer():getPrimaryHandItem():getAmmoType())

[ebon dagger]

it swaps over on the items UI, but if you fire the weapon, the game freezes, crashes, and outputs this in the log:

ERROR: General      f:1458, t:1736830470829> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown
    java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot read field "projectileRed" because "<local4>" is null at IsoBulletTracerEffects.createEffect(IsoBulletTracerEffects.java:227).
    Stack trace: ```

[silent zealot]

it loaded and fired the bullets just fine.

[ebon dagger]

Interesting.

[silent zealot]

What might matter is the "projectile" fired by the gun likely did not change in any way.

Since the bullets in a gun is just an int, and ammoType only matters for reloading when it delted ammo items and increments the gun's ammo int.

but if you're using this for a crossbow, are you trying to have the new ammo type change the graphics or projectile?

[tacit pebble]

Do you use custom effect for projectile? I had similar issue, the problem was from custom(modded) blood effects.

[silent zealot]

No, I just did that in a no-mods test game

one lua call to setAmmoType (exact command a few comments up)

[ebon dagger]

Maybe, I'll check out my "On fire" function.

[ebon dagger]

I don't think I am at this point?

I removed my functions that change appearance on fire, but it still did the same thing 😄

[onyx valve]

Hello, I'm trying to increase the protection by 20 points by eating what I named "Stone Skin", at the moment I'm trying with the torso, at least I don't crash the game but in console I got this message "no such function" OnEat_StoneSkin1Effect", could someone give me a hand?

I don't know what I'm doing jajaj

[plucky junco]

hi, i'm doing a translation of the mod "Week one", basically at the beginning of each day at 9 it show the text on the middle of the screen with the exact day of the week. It is not exactly a text, but it recall a .png in the texture. Now, they didn't set it in a way that you get a different png based on the language you are using, but you always get the english one, how can I modify it in a way that it get the link to the png files from a txt in the translation folder?

I don't know how to share the code here on discord

-- params: [day]
BWOEvents.StartDay = function(params)
local player = getSpecificPlayer(0)
player:playSound("ZSDayStart")

BWOTex.tex = getTexture("media/textures/day_" .. params.day .. ".png")
BWOTex.speed = 0.011
BWOTex.mode = "center"
BWOTex.alpha = 2.4

end

for example friday

[tacit pebble]

what is the name of png that you wanna call

[plucky junco]

i'm still thinking, maybe add a "_"and "gettext" and based on the language add for example "IT" for the italian translation

so if I have the file called day_friday_IT.png it goes to pic that one

[polar gyro]

Anyone know how i can launch sneeze or cough sound based on character's voice?
So, other people should hear it too

[plucky junco]

i'm still trying to thing a better way to do it, I would have avoided to modify the lua since it would require me to update it everytimes that they update the mod, but they didn't take into account that

mind that i'm not good at all with lua, i just understand a little XD

[tacit pebble]

maybe this will work but i dont know what will be returned. (English or ENG or EN or whatever.. i've never used this one)

BWOTex.tex = getTexture("media/textures/day_" .. params.day .. "_" .. getCore():getOptionLanguageName() .. ".png")

[plucky junco]

i see what you want to do

i'll test it

[sly monolith]

guys how would i go about assigning a base game world model and then my textures to that model, to a modded item, i added:
WorldStaticModel = Holster_DoubleShoulder_Ground,
in the script that adds the item, and then:

{
    model Holster_DoubleShoulder_Ground
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/Clothing/ShoulderHolster_Ground,
        texture = ShoulderHolster_Red;ShoulderHolster_Black,
        scale = 0.125,
    }
}``` in a separate file for adding the ground mesh, but that didn't do anything heh

[tacit pebble]

if you wanna see what will be returned, go to debug and type
print(getCore():getOptionLanguageName()) in your small console window.

so if it returns EN then you can name your file
day_friday_EN.png

[plucky junco]

great

[tacit pebble]

then that's what you exactly wanted. congraturation!

[plucky junco]

thank you

you do mods?

[tacit pebble]

I guess 🤣

[plucky junco]

i'll mention you on the mod

[tacit pebble]

thanks but it's not necessary. 🫡

[slim swan]

I add multiple sound files,but it only can play the last one,WHY?

[winter bolt]

ground models for clothing items automatically use the current texture from the clothingitem .xml file

[sly monolith]

but what if the ground model is different than the one on character, and have different textures

[winter bolt]

it just uses the texture anyway i guess

the ground models for clothing are different from the character ones anyway

[sly monolith]

so what, you just have to make the character texture fit the ground model one?

oh well nvm, removing that texture line made it work as intended lmao, thanks !

[worn mica]

Does anyone know the possible reason why a persons all modded .pack icon files are blurry but base game icons arent, unable to replicate on my end

It couldn't be related to the settings since they tested it fresh off

[winter bolt]

modded icons always have texture filtering when theyre scaled for some reason

[iron hatch]

Does anyone know how to get the current players UI zoom level? I'm trying to upgrade a friends integration mod and I've got it spawning in the direction player is facing:

    local facingDirection = player:getLastAngle()
    local distance = 15
    
    px = px + (facingDirection:getX() * distance)
    py = py + (facingDirection:getY() * distance)
    
-- bonz tweaks ended```

But I want to make distance be dependant on the zoom so that it always happens just off screen

I looked at the Class LuaManager.GlobalObject on the modding reference, which has the getPlayer(), but not something like getPlayerCamera(), and I checked out the playercamera object which has some maybe useful things but I don't know how to reference/get it

[crisp fossil]

getCore():getZoom(playerNum);

[deft wave]

Hey guys, I made a mod for a hat which can be worn in different ways. Because Im new to modding I used other mods and vanilla hats as reference. Everything seems set up correctly. But somehow its not working even the actionbar appears.
Does anyone know about this issue? Thanks in advance 🙂

[umbral raptor]

Hey guys I am having trouble with a mod. Whenever I try to select it in the mod selection screen (only it) it causes the screen to freeze in a forever “reloading lua” before it brings a broken main menu

I am not sure what’s causing it. I looked over the code several times.

[drowsy pumice]

Hello, I'm looking to commission someone to make a mod for me. I would like a mod which let's us craft fried chicken from a recipe based off the fried shrimp craftable recipe in the game right now.

Essentially I need someone to copy the recipe and replace the shrimp with chicken (raw) and small foul meat (raw) as well as change the result into fried chicken.

Ideally I'd like the mod to be compatible with B41 and B42 if possible.

If anyone is interested please dm me (or ping me here) and tell me your rates. Thank you.

[umbral raptor]

This is the mod.

[bright fog]

You have errors ?

[bright fog]

You can commission modders on the modding Discord
https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1125248330595848192

[umbral raptor]

Yeah alot and a broken main menu

[drowsy pumice]

Thank you

[umbral raptor]

Plus long reloading lua time when selecting the mod

[bright fog]

Did you read the errors ?

[umbral raptor]

Question, how does one set how the clothing item will go on the player model?

[umbral raptor]

Lemme check it one sec

DEBUG: Script f:0, t:1736860243499> ScriptManager.LoadFile > media/scripts/clothing/supportcorps-clothing.txt
DEBUG: Script f:0, t:1736860243529> ScriptManager.ParseScript > Parsing...
DEBUG: Script f:0, t:1736860243529> ScriptManager.CreateFromToken > Adding new module: SupportCorps
DEBUG: Script f:0, t:1736860243529> ScriptManager.LoadFile > media/scripts/supportcorps-models.txt
DEBUG: Script f:0, t:1736860243543> ScriptManager.ParseScript > Parsing...
ERROR: General f:0, t:1736860552004> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown

Here's the file in question

[winter bolt]

clothingItem =

then it points to an xml file in media/clothing/clothingitems

but you also need to add it to media/fileguidtable.xml

[umbral raptor]

i did

[sour island]

Tell them to raise the cap on texture limits, and turn off texture compression. It's a known issue.

[winter bolt]

its missing another } at the end of the file

[umbral raptor]

Fixed several errors in that file

lemme try now

Now it works! Thanks alot!

i added backpacks but the models aren't showing

[umbral raptor]

None of the models are showing on the player.

They show up in the hand normally.

[random finch]

Any ideas on how to obtain the screen coords that a players model occupies?

I want to display information when a mouse hovers over a player. We have access to IsoObjectPicker, however it's not accurate. In the case of ContextPick, it uses squares, so hovering over a player above the waist detects nothing. Pick & PickTarget doesn't like players and looks at sprites, probably meant for pre-B41.

Currently, the most accuracy I can get is by using a static hitbox of 64x128.

[bright fog]

You can scale that box with zoom, at least that I know

As for getting what's exactly under the cursor, there might be some tricks

[random finch]

yup, Im definitely doing that.

[bright fog]

I'm not aware of any exact method to get objects in your cursor

[random finch]

IsoObjectPicker is the only thing I could find.

[umbral raptor]

Why won't my models load? Only MPBrassard does.

[random finch]

This is what is used when get a players display name when hovering them. But, it's extremely inaccurate.

[bright fog]

I had used a fairly imprecise way of getting zombies on my cursor, but exactly the model I didn't use that

I'm not familiar with what IsoObjectPicker is

[random finch]

May I ask how you did it?

[bright fog]

-- Zombies that are around the client radius cursor will be valid to show their nametags.
-- This takes into account zombies on different levels.
---@return table
ZomboidForge.GetZombiesOnCursor = function(radius)
    local zombiesOnCursor = {}

    local aiming = client_player:isAiming()
    if not Configs.NoAimingNeeded and not aiming then return zombiesOnCursor end

    -- get cursor coordinates
    local mouseX, mouseY = ISCoordConversion.ToWorld(getMouseXScaled(), getMouseYScaled(), 0)
    mouseX = aiming and mouseX + 1.5 or mouseX
    mouseY = aiming and mouseY + 1.5 or mouseY

    -- TODO: this probably needs some tricks to optimize now that it checks for 65 levels instead of just 8
    for z = -32,32 do
        for x = mouseX - radius, mouseX + radius do
            for y = mouseY - radius, mouseY + radius do
                if (x - mouseX) * (x - mouseX) + (y - mouseY) * (y - mouseY) <= radius * radius then
                    local square = getSquare(x+ z*3, y+ z*3, z)
                    if square then
                        local movingObjects = square:getMovingObjects()
                        for i = 0, movingObjects:size() -1 do
                            local zombie = movingObjects:get(i)
                            if zombie and instanceof(zombie,"IsoZombie") then
                                zombiesOnCursor[zombie] = true
                            end
                        end
                    end
                end
            end
        end
    end

    return zombiesOnCursor
end

[random finch]

Very similar to my initial method:

-- Detect if a player is being hovered over by the mouse
local function detectHoveredPlayer(self)
    local clickObject = IsoObjectPicker.Instance:ContextPick(Mouse.getXA(), Mouse.getYA())
    if not clickObject then return nil end

    local clickObjectTile = PlayerConstructionZone.getClassFieldValueByName(clickObject, "tile")
    if not clickObjectTile then return nil end

    local clickSquare = clickObjectTile:getSquare()
    if not clickSquare then return nil end

    for x = clickSquare:getX() - 1, clickSquare:getX() + 1 do
        for y = clickSquare:getY() - 1, clickSquare:getY() + 1 do
            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
                        return isoMovingObject -- Return the hovered player
                    end
                end
            end
        end
    end
    return nil
end

My best bet is to find a way to get the pixels that player model occupies.

If that's impossible, get on my hands and knees and pray to the devs for an IsoObjectPicker method that works with players. I tried to write one myself, but there are too many things that are inaccessible.

[vast pier]

is there a way for a piece of clothing to have an affect on your carry weight or have attachment slots without it being a container?

[bronze yoke]

belts/holsters have attachment slots

[half pelican]

Hi. In one of my mods I use the code:
local addPain = 13.5 head:setAdditionalPain(addPain); --variable initialized above MoodlesUI.getInstance():wiggle(MoodleType.Pain);
The pain moodle appears and wiggle, but after a while. I would like to know how to make it appear immediately.

[sly monolith]

@fading horizon hey, sorry to ping you but I saw you talking about getTexture earlier. Do you happen to know why when I craft an item the texture for the icon and the item itself gets picked correctly, but the ground model has a random one from the available pool? I use the same file structure I did for my other mod and there it works just fine, but here it's like I said, random

[sly monolith]

after further testing it seems i was wrong, it only applies the correct texture to the icon, but both the item worn and the one on ground have random texture, but it's consistent on both player model and the ground one, just randomly picked when crafted

I went through the files multiple times and I can't find any difference between one mod and the other, idk why it's happening 😵‍💫

[robust locust]

Hiya... would anyone know if.... I add a new tag to an item (i.e. Tags = Guitar)... do I need to add code anywhere else to "add" this tag to the game?

so that I can use it in a recipe?

[winter bolt]

apparently the tags used in recipes are cached when the game is started so adding them in lua won't work

if you replace the item script and add the tag there i think that works?

[fading horizon]

Hey I'm just waking up but I can try to help

What does your xml file look like?

What does your models_items look like?

That's where I would expect issues

[robust locust]

i added the tag to the item script, then in the craftRecipe inputs i have tags[Guitar]

[winter bolt]

that should work then i think

[fading horizon]

I'll pull up an example of what one of my backpacks looks like in a sec for you

[sly monolith]

i could update the mod and you'd download and check inside? if that would be best

or should i just paste the text here

[umbral raptor]

Hey, has anyone added backpacks before?

Is the model file in the scripts supposed to contain just the worldstaticmodel (worlditems) or does it include the clothing models too

[bronze yoke]

clothing models don't go through scripts

[umbral raptor]

ight

[fading horizon]

im about to post a backpack example in one sec that might interest u

item Bag_Coffin_Bat{
                DisplayCategory         = Bag,
                Type                    = Container,
                DisplayName             = Goth Bat Backpack,
                ClothingItem            = Bag_Coffin_Bat,
                CanBeEquipped           = Back,
                WeightReduction            = 85,
                Weight                  = 1,
                Capacity                = 22,
                IconsForTexture         = Bag_Coffin_Bat;Bag_Coffin_Bat_Pink;Bag_Coffin_Bat_Lavender,
                OpenSound               = OpenBag,
                CloseSound              = CloseBag,
                PutInSound              = PutItemInBag,
                EquipSound              = EquipBackpackSmall,
                SoundParameter          = EquippedBaggageContainer SchoolBag,
                OnCreate                = gothBags_onCreate,
                BloodLocation           = Bag,
                RunSpeedModifier        = 0.99,
                CanHaveHoles            = false,
                AttachmentReplacement   = Bag,
                BloodLocation           = Bag,
                ReplaceInSecondHand     = Bag_Coffin_Bat_LHand holdingbagleft,
                ReplaceInPrimaryHand    = Bag_Coffin_Bat_RHand holdingbagright,
                WorldStaticModel        = Bag_Coffin_Bat_ground,
        }```

this is the item script

[umbral raptor]

i added everything related to a backpack

[fading horizon]

the relevant part here is IconsForTexture = Bag_Coffin_Bat;Bag_Coffin_Bat_Pink;Bag_Coffin_Bat_Lavender, for icons @sly monolith

[umbral raptor]

the item script, the model script, the clothingitems, the textures, etc.

[fading horizon]

the xml is as follows <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <clothingItem> <m_MaleModel>Skinned\Backpacks\Bag_Coffin_Bat_M</m_MaleModel> <m_FemaleModel>Skinned\Backpacks\Bag_Coffin_Bat_F</m_FemaleModel> <m_GUID>a8dd1b1f-92c0-4c60-a999-05f2b2f99dc9</m_GUID> <m_Static>false</m_Static> <m_AllowRandomTint>false</m_AllowRandomTint> <m_AttachBone /> <textureChoices>clothes\backpacks\Bag_Coffin_Bat</textureChoices> <textureChoices>clothes\backpacks\bag_coffin_bat_Pink</textureChoices> <textureChoices>clothes\backpacks\bag_coffin_bat_Lavender</textureChoices> </clothingItem>

this is where textures are also defined

[umbral raptor]

does it use the model texture or icon texture?

in the itemscript

[fading horizon]

the only thing related to the ground model is related to the worldstaticmodel parameter in the item script, which is defined in your models_items script, as follows

        {
            mesh = WorldItems/Bag_Coffin_Bat_ground,
        }```

in terms of file structture

[umbral raptor]

no scale?

[fading horizon]

doesnt need it, my items are scaled in blender first

[umbral raptor]

wb texture?

[fading horizon]

i dont like fucking around with the scale. its annoying

these are the file paths to both the item textures and icons which should correspond to the filenames yyoyu see in the XML

[sly monolith]

omg i just found what was wrong

thank you so much

[fading horizon]

awesome! sometimes posting a relevant example can help more than anything i feel.

[sly monolith]

look that's the ankle holster

IconsForTexture = Holster_Evil_Red;Holster_Evil_Black;Holster_Evil_White,

now this is the shoulder holster

Icon = HolsterShoulder_Black,

😂

[fading horizon]

iconsForTexture defines which icons will be used, the <textureChoice> in the XML is what defines the actual item texture choice on the model

[sly monolith]

i was confused why the ankle one worked just fine heh

[fading horizon]

[sly monolith]

thank you again! :3

[fading horizon]

of course! Happy to help

[sly monolith]

now i can carry 6 handguns on me, who needs reloading, right 🤣

[ancient grail]

question is it possible to add gun attachment even if the attachment may not be installed cuz its from other mod?
lua i can use activated mods

but what abt scripts?

this is a b41 question

[umbral raptor]

Is this model file wrong or have any errors?

[sour island]

Could this be why sometimes the context menu doesn't find items?

[bronze yoke]

it's not accidental, the context menu is meant to only find specific objects

it deliberately searches for each of some specific objects

for players i've resorted to searching a 2x2 area with the clicked square in the northeast corner and that seems to work well enough

there is an event for clicking on an object but i don't know if it has similar limitations

[sly monolith]

i was so sure it'd work i didn't even check right away lol, but it turns out it still doesn't, idk why 😭

[round thorn]

Is there anyway to bypass the need to put everything into inventory first, before putting it into hands/held slot?

[fading horizon]

What's the issue you're getting now?

[sly monolith]

same issue, random texture on crafting

like nothing changed

[fading horizon]

Hmm

[sly monolith]

but for whatever reason the ankle holsters work as intended, just the belt and shoulder ones don't, and they are set up exactly the same, or i'm missing something

[fading horizon]

So in your item script, make sure your iconsForTexture are in the same order as <texturechoice> in the xml

If they're not in the same order, they'll be off

[sly monolith]

it is, but when i craft it's once red, once black, once white, randomly, it's not consistent

[fading horizon]

There's one more thing that might help your issue I forgot to mention lemme go get it

I think it might be the key

You may need an on create function in the item script

[sly monolith]

yeah i don't have that

[fading horizon]

I have one that takes the item and rename it and assigns texture iirc

Lemme go to my pc one sec

[sly monolith]

but like, it just worked fine with my backpacks, without it

[fading horizon]

Did that one have multiple textures?

[sly monolith]

yeah like 9

and they always corresponded

[fading horizon]

and all of the icons work? none of them turn into the circle with question mark?

[sly monolith]

ok now i got paranoid, let me recheck that

[sly monolith]

yeah, the icons work just fine, it's just the model textures

that go random

[fading horizon]

hmm

can you paste your xml / also item script here

lemme take a look

[sly monolith]

could i send you the file ?

[fading horizon]

check filenames too if you havent, a capital letter can screw you over easilyyy

yeah sure feel free to send it and ill take a look

-- !! oncreate function to set item names based on texture
function gothBags_onCreate(item)
    item:setName(
        gothBags[item:getType()][item:getVisual():getTextureChoice()].name
            .. " "
            .. gothBags[item:getType()][item:getVisual():getTextureChoice()].color
    )
end```

this is my oncreate function

i guess its just for setting name i forgot lol, been a couple days

however

this next part at least may be able to help you debug

local function changeTex(item, texture)
    -- >> set new texture
    item:getVisual():setTextureChoice(texture)

    -- >> set new name corresponding to texture
    item:setName(gothBags[item:getType()][texture].name .. " " .. gothBags[item:getType()][texture].color)

    -- >> get player object
    local player = getPlayer()

    -- >> update textures if equipped
    player:postUpdateModelTextures()

    -- >> get icon object for new icon from filepath
    local tex = getTexture("media/textures/" .. gothBags[item:getType()][texture].icon)

    -- >> set new icon
    item:setTexture(tex)
end

-- !! Hook for when inventory context menu is called
local function OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu(player, context, items)
    for _, item in ipairs(items) do
        if not instanceof(item, "InventoryItem") then
            item = item.items[1]
        end

        if item:getModule() == "gothBags" then
            -- # Check if item has multiple textures by checking if it has "iconsForTexture"  parameter
            local icons = item:getIconsForTexture()

            if icons ~= nil then
                local gothBagsOption = context:addOptionOnTop("Change color")
                local gothBagsMainMenu = ISContextMenu:getNew(context)
                context:addSubMenu(gothBagsOption, gothBagsMainMenu)

                for i = 0, #gothBags[item:getType()] do
                    -- add context menu option for each color of the bag
                    gothBagsMainMenu:addOption(tostring(gothBags[item:getType()][i].color), item, changeTex, i)
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.Add(OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu)```

this my code for adding a context menu for changing the backpacks texture at will

you could modify this and add it to yours, which would allow you to cycle through the texture choices which may help you narrow down the issue

it pulls from a table with a structure as follows

    Bag_Coffin_Bat = {
        [0] = { name = "Goth Bat Backpack", color = "(Black)", icon = "item_Bag_Coffin_Bat.png" },
        [1] = { name = "Goth Bat Backpack", color = "(Pink)", icon = "item_Bag_Coffin_Bat_Pink.png" },
        [2] = { name = "Goth Bat Backpack", color = "(Lavender)", icon = "item_Bag_Coffin_Bat_Lavender.png" },
    },
{same structure for next backpack} etc```

[sly ivy]

heya, sorry im new here, where would you guys recommend starting on learning to create a weapon mod?
I have a 3D model fully created with versions, and all the details planned and such, but i would like to learn how to add it into a game

[ornate sand]

Feel free to ask 🙂

I learned weapon modding by studying the ones in the workshop

[sly ivy]

so, what kinda tools do you use to make them?

[ornate sand]

Blender, some .txt files and some lua

Notepad+ is rad

[sly ivy]

oh fair enough then, so would you say just to look into the files and poke around a bit then?

[ornate sand]

Yes. Depending on what you want to create, study a similar mod
Then do what they did 🙂

[sly ivy]

and, thank you for being so welcoming and helpful,

tried learning how to mod reforger and figured dear god enfusion was a pain,
hope this turns out easier for me

[ornate sand]

Feel free to ask questions.
If you're planning on a melee weapon mod, your road is easy

[sly ivy]

sorry for derailing but i find that a bit funny, the exact opposite of the norm

usually modding melee is harder from what i've seen XD

[ornate sand]

Nope, try gun modding XD

Actually don't. The world has enough brain injuries

[sly ivy]

mind if i show my little rifle? i originally intended it for reforger so im probably going to have to redesign the whole thing to be lower poly

[ornate sand]

You could show it here or at #modeling

[sly ivy]

fair! brain blanked and forgot that existed

[ornate sand]

Also what's wrong with Notepad+ @bronze yoke ? 😮

[bronze yoke]

it just doesn't do much, especially for lua it's not very helpful

i'll always recommend vscode for pz

[ornate sand]

I'm a nerd, not a super nerd 😦

I use notepad+ and lose some hair every time I try to figure out LUA

[bronze yoke]

i get why people are reluctant to try a 'proper' ide but either way you're just typing text into a text editor

[ornate sand]

It's like the same thing when I really, really don't want to decompile the entire game just to find one Hook 😦

Like why custom AnimSets are still broken

[random finch]

I need to research how context menus are determined exactly. I was looking more into IsoObjectPicker to see how hovering player for display name works. It seems to be similar to context menus. I really do no like the way the 'hitboxes' are produced based off of squares. For example, this is kind of how a context menu hit box looks visually:

@sour island meant to respond to you

It may be what Albion was referring to with 2x2. It get's the job done, but, IMO, not good enough.

I can get a hitbox that looks that this now - much better.

Although, I am trying todo one better by only determining the pixels that the player model is currently occupying.

But, I am having hell with it - no doubt

[north rain]

@winter bolt hey, what bones for your player model were causing crashes due to the zombies sharing the same bone? I have a male model and it's causing crashes. It's using the b41 fbx that was pinned.

[low shell]

heya I do have question

so I rember that in item script

there was ability to offest model

to move it x,y,z cordinates on the world plain

but can I offest model by degrees?

[ancient grail]

addWorldInventory() i think

[ancient grail]

my bad that was wrong

[low shell]

it definetly not the results poeple want curently heh

[low shell]

I remeber this library, can you share me a link?

[ancient grail]

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/iso/IsoGridSquare.html#AddWorldInventoryItem(zombie.inventory.InventoryItem,float,float,float,boolean)

[ancient grail]

what exactly do you want to do

[bronze yoke]

b42 version here https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/

[ancient grail]

like position them on the ground?
or on the player?

[old ginkgo]

Bear in mind the issues of when a player is behind another object. Not everything cuts away and particularly not when two players take up two different spaces.

[old ginkgo]

Frankly the context menu is flawed at its core and I’m very glad TiS is moving away from it for most things.

[low shell]

and I look for class that wil allow me to tranform this object by 180* on z plain

[sly ivy]

hey, sorry, i was poking around another mod file to learn how to order and create the files, but im confused, in the models_x part there's just a file with the extension .x im a bit confused about it

is this a form of 3D model file?

[low shell]

I hope this will work

[ancient grail]

you want to rotate it like for example a bottle that is standing
instead you would make it look like it fell down?

its not possible
x and y positions its offset and height is how high it is

theres no rotate for that
you would have to make another item

[ancient grail]

this is on the character/zed model

[low shell]

ah i get ya

well It appears I will have to do it manualy in blender

Thanks for help

[fading horizon]

Hey yall i have a question on mod update distribution for B42.

I finally have finished the update for my goth backpacks mod. Since this mod adds a lot of models and higher res textures, its pretty big.

The original file on the workshop for b41 is 117 MB.
The updated b42 version is 77 MB.

My question is should I update the b41 mod to also have the b42 files so theres only one workshop listing for the mod, or since the filesizes are large should I make a separate workshop listing for the b42 version? The b41 version isnt updated with all the new stuff the b42 version now has, as I've basically remade the mod from the ground up including remaking every model, so using the common folder isnt really an option unless i go and remake the b41 version as well.

I dont really know what is proper etiquette here so i would appreciate some insight

[low shell]

So this is how b41 and b42 compatebile mods look like

I think "common" is meant for both game versions

[fading horizon]

yes i understand the filestructure thats not my question

im asking

do i have
1 200mb workshop listing for the mod, compatible with b41 and b42

or

2 individual workshop listings at smaller sizes, one for each build

to conserve the users space so they dont have to download everything if theyre only using one version

im not sure which is the proper etiqutte

[low shell]

well the best would be to optimise 1 file to lowest file size while still being compatebile to both, but go with "fork" first

its just easier

[north rain]

I just found the fix to B42 player model crashes :)

[bronze yoke]

up to you really, i haven't forked any of my mods because they're tiny but people will appreciate if you do - ignoring file size you don't have to worry about potentially needing to update the b42 version and forcing server hosts to restart even though their version of the mod didn't even update

[fading horizon]

thats actually going to be the deciding factor and what i hadnt considered because i dont play multiplayyer

but yeah causing b41 to update when theres a b42 only update would piss people off so i will make a separate version for the time being and maybe combine them when b42 is more stable and more congruent with b41

[low shell]

also if something breaks in b42 ,complains will be kept only at b42 fork

not on main page

[fading horizon]

another very good point

thanks yall, I appreciate it