mod_development

[tired glen]

I still put f on the end and it makes lua angy

[bronze yoke]

i'm just saying there's absolutely no difference whatsoever

[bronze yoke]

kahlua actually likes it

it still does nothing though

[tired glen]

interesting

Didn’t figure it did

[silent zealot]

It won't actually matter - using 1 or 1.0 will become a "number" in lua and then then it converts when passed to java

[silent zealot]

😂

"Put any data in here, IDGAF but don't you DARE tell me what sort of number you're using!"

[bronze yoke]

if you like type annotations you can use```lua
---@type integer
local int = 5

---@type number
local float = 5.0
-- (or just do nothing for numbers because it's the default anyway + specifying it doesn't change anything)

the language server treats integers as a subtype since it's generally convenient to do so

[last zodiac]

Ints aren't added in lua until 5.3. Though I don't know how Kahlua works so I can't give word on that. But on any version before all number types are simply number (int, float, etc etc etc)

Honestly typechecking in the future similar to Luau would be nice

[bronze yoke]

yeah, i was talking about that just a couple messages ago 😅 the language server treats them as separate types in any version because it is convenient

[last zodiac]

local mynum: number = 1000;

[bronze yoke]

there's no runtime difference but 'this function only takes integers'/'this table's keys should only be integers' etc are such common concepts and so easily checked that the language server might as well, especially if it supports the integer type for later versions anyway

[last zodiac]

that's fair

what would be nice is straying away from kahlua in the future

maybe it can be an experiment in the future, trying out something else like jua (luajit4java) or some other alternative

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't really seem like TIS are interested in something like that but i think nearly everyone would appreciate it

[last zodiac]

definitely

[bronze yoke]

most of all kahlua just runs like shit LOL

[last zodiac]

i haven't really looked much into how Kahlua works

[bronze yoke]

by far the slowest lua implementation i've seen

[last zodiac]

i haven't messed with it much since i'm too busy on other projects, but i did take a look at kahlua and i was worried about that.

[tranquil reef]

Anyone know where the code is for the temperature health gui

I'd like to replicate the UI a bit, if it's exposed

[bright fog]

Hmm someone used it for a trait mod

Let me see if I can find it back

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2914075159

You could reverse engineer their mod to easily have a working example of modding it in

If that's the temperature GUI you meant

[jolly grove]

Hmm, does anybody know where the code for weapon sharpness is located? I'm interested in how dull a blade can become before it starts to affect damage and increases condition loss and by how much.

[bright fog]

Most likely in the Java, but no idea exactly where

[silent zealot]

HandWeapon.java

InventoryItem.java

Max damage drops as soon as the wepaon isn't perfectly sharp, but will never drop below mindamage (This is why the katana with 8 min damage/8 max damage never needs sharpening.)

[jolly grove]

Mighty kind of you, thanks. :)

[bright fog]

Interesting

So it's linear

I think a non-linear decrease would probably be better ...

Something like this sounds more fair

Tho at the same time it's not it's setting the damage to zero anyway, so it's not as hard as getting tired

[jolly grove]

I really dislike the sharpness mechanic. It's a brutal straight up nerf to all bladed weapons and it's especially devastating for short blade.

Think i'm just gonna add a set of combat knives that can be crafted or found that don't have sharpness and are slightly more durable to counter the fact, that weapons can no longer be repaired like in 41.

[agile nacelle]

@bright fog IsoGridSquare:getObjects() doesn't include walls, i can't figure out how to get all the walls other than north and west(?) wall using IsoGridSquare:getWall(), by any chance do you know how i can get the walls of every direction?

[bronze yoke]

those are the only walls on that square

the wall to the east belongs to the square to the east

same with south walls

[agile nacelle]

huh

so like... each tile has 2 walls?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[agile nacelle]

i see

thanks

[bronze yoke]

the walls look like they're in-between squares, but really they're on the same grid as everything else

[bright fog]

Basically what Albion said, this was something I had to tackle with my ray casting code

[grizzled fulcrum]

ye thats what I want to do, I have the ideas for it lined up in a txt file somewhere 😂

[solar lichen]

Hello! I need help, I made a fashion for clothes and a recipe for crafting them out of money. Everything works fine in build 41, and there are crafting recipes. (I named the files with build numbers to show the differences.)

However, in build 42, the crafting script does not work and the game simply crashes with the error of not being able to load the crafts. If you remove the "craftRecipe" functions and everything in them, then the game works fine, however, logically, there will be no recipe for crafting clothes, but the clothes themselves will exist in the game and can be found using the Debug menu.

I believe something is incorrectly written in the "craftRecipe" functions, but I can't figure out what's wrong. Please help me!

[bronze yoke]

in outputs you shouldn't enclose the item name in []s

[bright fog]

Yea, what albion said

[bright fog]

Alternatively, refer to the wiki page regarding craftRecipe

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/CraftRecipe

[grizzled fulcrum]

so we're in minecraft 😂

[bright fog]

lol

[grizzled fulcrum]

next TIS is gonna add Bite Protection VII or something

[bright fog]

That's kind of a thing already ?

[grizzled fulcrum]

ik I meant like enchantments or something, it was a joke tho lol

[bright fog]

Yea ik lol

[agile nacelle]

why do coroutines loops yields the main game thread brah

i thought coroutines are supposed to be like... behave like a different thread

whatever

[bright fog]

@ancient grail I see you've only linked your workshop files and not the mod itself. Those are private mods ?

No it's not

Please, link the mod itself or I will remove those links myself !

I see Tcherno did the same

Yea I think we need to apply some policy to this so the workshop items themselves are linked

I'll clean up that page a bit I think

[manic forum]

How would you guys do a timed event for a object. Like i got a Workstation, and a GUI for it, how would you make sure that workstation works in the background
i feel like hooking the timed events like 1min and so on seems suboptimal. Or is there like a timeout ?

[queen oasis]

if you can't tell, I spent way too much time debugging why self.currentItems was nil when it got to PickupItems()
I'm gonna change that to self:PickupItems() and then go cry in a corner for a bit.

[manic forum]

Open GUI on Object, Start Progress on GUI, wait 10 min, collect from Object

[bright fog]

Imo the best method is to note the timestamp the action started, then check the current timestamp every minutes (no point doing it every seconds, in-game timestamps update only every minutes) and check how many minutes have passed, and if enough have passed

• Start progress: note current timestamp
• Every minutes, diff between current and start timestamps
• If diff > time of action: finish task

[manic forum]

hmm i will try thanks

[bright fog]

Check GameTime for timestamps I think it's in ?

[bronze yoke]

no, no version of lua can run multithreaded, it just isn't compatible with the fundamental design of the language

[agile nacelle]

am used to Luau.....

[bronze yoke]

basically the entire coroutine library is just to have functions you can pause and resume lol

[agile nacelle]

lua parallel execution is fake

[bronze yoke]

i don't find it useful even for the marginal cases where writing in that style would be helpful since it has awful overhead anyway

[steady fable]

anyone know a workaround for overriding your own craftrecipe in build42? im trying to build a compatibility patch right now

module Base
{
    local script =
    "{ inputs { item 1200 [Base.BlowTorch] flags[Prop2],} }"


    local recipe = getScriptManager():getCraftRecipe("PackBoxOfWeldingTorches")
    recipe:getInputs():clear()
    recipe:Load("PackBoxOfWeldingTorches", script)
}```

what ive got so far

i copied it from an indie stone forum post and modified it to try and make it work for my mod, ended up just making every recipe in the mod not work!

[tranquil reef]

Thank you

[bright fog]

First off I'm shocked there's up to date forum posts regarding modding stuff 😭
Secondly, you just loaded a crafting which only has inputs in it, would that replace inputs or completely override the recipe in this case ? If the last one then you're missing a lot of parameters for the craft to work

[steady fable]

well let me get the recipe set for you:

craftRecipe OpenBoxOfWeldingTorches
    {
        timedAction = OpenAmmoBox,
        Time = 15,
        Tags = InHandCraft;CanBeDoneInDark,
        inputs
        {
            item 1 [Base.BoxOfWeldingTorches] flags[Prop2],
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 12 Base.BlowTorch,
        }
    }

    craftRecipe PackBoxOfWeldingTorches
    {
        timedAction = PlaceAmmoInBox,
        Time = 15,
        Tags = InHandCraft;CanBeDoneInDark,
        OnCreate = Recipe.OnCreate.ToConditionInheriter,
        inputs
        {
            item 120 [Base.BlowTorch] mode:destroy flags[Prop2],
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 1 Base.BoxOfWeldingTorches,
        }
    }

im trying to override item 120 [Base.BlowTorch] mode:destroy flags[Prop2], with item 1200 [Base.BlowTorch] mode:destroy flags[Prop2],

[steady fable]

i'll also offer my file structure and whats going on there
the base mods craftrecipe.txt file is in Workshop\Box more!\Contents\mods\Box more!\42\media\scripts\B42FM_craftrecipes.txt

the txt file i put the script into is in Workshop\Box more!\Contents\mods\Box more! for torch fix\42\media\scripts\B42FM_craftrecipes.txt

[bright fog]

Uh

Ok so two wrong things

[bright fog]

That's a Lua script, not a script script 😭

I didn't notice the module Base

Oh god

[steady fable]

[bright fog]

Secondly you're overwriting the original script file

You shouldn't do that

[steady fable]

makes sense, i'll have to put it as a .lua in the lua folder then

[bright fog]

Inside lua/server I would say

or lua/shared at the very least

[steady fable]

remove module base?

[bright fog]

Yea, remove that completely haha

The original post you found was most likely without any of the module Base thing ;)

[solar lichen]

Thanks for the help! And one last point

Do I understand correctly that the folders Contents\mods\Mode_Name\41 and Contents\mods\Mode_Name\42 will be read by the game separately in the 41st and 42nd versions of the build? How do I make the mod work on both 41 and 42 builds?

I fixed the error above, but I would like the mod to work on both versions 41 and 42. However, the scripts are slightly different
Folders **41 **and **42 **contain the same mod.info and posters.
The **common **folder contains the working version for 42 builds

[steady fable]

it was yes

let me see if it works now!

[bright fog]

Contents\mods\Mode_Name\41 is not a thing

B41 doesn't use this

[steady fable]

oh and while im at it should i keep any other lua files

[bright fog]

Refer to the wiki page regarding the mod structure

[steady fable]

i effectively just copied the mod over earlier to make the patch

its like this now

[bright fog]

Remove all their files, if you just plan on making an addon

Completely delete every files that are not yours at all

[steady fable]

oh no the mod is mine

i copied my own mod over

[bright fog]

I'm hella confused then

You said you copied the mod

[steady fable]

i did a copy paste and renamed it in the same folder

[bright fog]

Ooooooh

A secondary mod

ok ok

[steady fable]

yeah thats what im doing

[bright fog]

Uuuh depends ?

Do you want both to be enabled together ?

[steady fable]

yes

[bright fog]

If so yes remove the files from that secondary mod

Only keep the patch in it

[steady fable]

alright i'll test it now

get back to this chat momentarily i appreciate the help

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Mod_structure

[steady fable]

pzwiki my beloved

[bright fog]

:3

[steady fable]

oh and while we're at it theres also an issue where any liquids i pack into it get a duplicate empty bottle?

[steady fable]

;3

[bright fog]

Hmm

[steady fable]

i'll get the code to you momentarily

[bright fog]

It uses crafts right ?

[steady fable]

yes

craftRecipe PackBoxOfAlcoholBottles
    {
        timedAction = PlaceAmmoInBox,
        Time = 15,
        Tags = InHandCraft;CanBeDoneInDark,
        inputs
        {
            item 11 [Base.Disinfectant] mode:destroy flags[Prop2],
            item 1 [*],
            -fluid 0.5 [Alcohol],
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 1 Base.BoxOfAlcoholBottles,
        }
    }```

this is what we got right now for it

[bright fog]

So this takes 11 bottles of disinfectant and packs them in a box ?

[steady fable]

its supposed to take 12 bottles of disinfectant and put them in a box

[bright fog]

Why 11 ?

[steady fable]

fluid is buggy in crafting right now

and the modder i commissioned to help me do this did that

that modder is unreachable right now too which is why im here

[bright fog]

What happens to the fluid ? It just disappears right ?

[steady fable]

its supposed to yes

[bright fog]

So you could just remove that fluid part right ?

And just keep the 12 bottles getting consumed ?

[steady fable]

i'll test it

but im pretty sure theres a reason for that fluid part

[bright fog]

Tho one issue would be duplications, so not sure how you should handle fluids for box recipes like that, I'm not familiar with those in the base game. Does the base game have such a recipe for items with fluids ?

[bright fog]

Figured, but that's probably why there's an empty bottle at end, bcs it destroys 11 and the 12th gets its fluid drained, which leaves an empty bottle

[bronze yoke]

yeah i don't really get what's intended by that part

[steady fable]

new code did this when packing

craftRecipe PackBoxOfAlcoholBottles
    {
        timedAction = PlaceAmmoInBox,
        Time = 15,
        Tags = InHandCraft;CanBeDoneInDark,
        inputs
        {
            item 12 [Base.Disinfectant] mode:destroy flags[Prop2],
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 1 Base.BoxOfAlcoholBottles,
        }
    }```

i did this and the alcohol bottle just appears when im done packing

[steady fable]

and yes the welding torches are fixed i forgot to add a mode:destroy

[steady fable]

i dont think it does?

well

it has some fluid recipes

for coffee and smelting

[bright fog]

Duplication of the fluid is what I meant

[steady fable]

well i packed it again and it just left me an empty bottle

[bright fog]

So in the 12 bottles being packed, the 12th didn't get destroyed ?

[steady fable]

no the 12 bottles get packed fine but 1 empty bottle gets put in the inventory

[bright fog]

Did you make sure that you do not have your own mod downloaded on the workshop

Bcs it could be it doesn't take your changes into account

[steady fable]

i have my own mod uploaded on the workshop but not this version

[bright fog]

Make sure to unsub from the original mod, to only use your own local version

[steady fable]

it overrides the workshop mod

i found that out last night trying to test out other boxes

[bright fog]

Depends, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't

Highly suggest you unsub from the original mod regardless

[steady fable]

i'll check

[bright fog]

This has caused more than a few brains to fry due to it

[bronze yoke]

it's known to cause a couple issues

[steady fable]

unsub from the workshop or just uncheck it in the mod manager

[bright fog]

Unsub

Keep it checked

You're using the same modID right ?

[steady fable]

yes

[bright fog]

Same mod so you didn't change any of that ?

Then yes unsub from the Workshop

[steady fable]

did that

[bright fog]

Bcs you got two mods locally and workshop that have the same ID

Both will mix together and that will cause issues

[steady fable]

the patch has a different mod ID

[bright fog]

After you done that, test again your new script recipe

[steady fable]

alright i unsubbed

i'll check it

[bright fog]

The patch is another story, that craft you're testing is from the main one right ?

[steady fable]

yes

it is from the main one

[bright fog]

Yea so that one would have issues

Due to another copy of it existing

[steady fable]

wow uh

its working

[bright fog]

The patch itself is new if I understood that right and so is not yet present on the workshop version, so it would work

[steady fable]

voila

[bright fog]

See ;)

[steady fable]

the patch is new and not present

here the uh mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3486522951&tscn=1748113795

[bright fog]

What I think was happening:

• the game picked one of the 12 bottles to empty with that fluid entry
• sometimes it would use the same as the bottle not being destroyed, thus leaving an empty bottle
• and other times it wouldn't and pick empty a bottle that gets destroyed anyway, leaving a full bottle

And since your own modification of the mod wasn't loaded, it used the one on the workshop, with that fluid recipe

[steady fable]

well the mod is fixed up now i believe but i have other issues with fluids

[bright fog]

That's why you unsub from your own mods when dev or use a closed environment from the Workshop

[steady fable]

like water, i wanted to make a box of water but when i did

when i opened it it just gave me half seltzer water half water

regardless of what i put in it

something to do with the [Water] fluid tag because i dont know how to indicate it

[bronze yoke]

yeah the issue there is that the game just randomly picks one when it spawns a water bottle

might need an oncreate to fix that

[steady fable]

fair enough

but it would be nicer to be able to have seperate boxes of seltzer and water bottles

[steady fable]

i'll have to look into that

im not very experienced with modding but im aware of code structure and the basics of formatting

[bright fog]

Sadly the fact the box system uses items that don't hold previous informations of the items will mean that you will never retrieve the bottles with their previous fluid content. This could be fixed however

Also

One issue: make sure that empty bottles that get packed don't unpack as full bottles

Bcs the fact it even gives you a fluid in the first place, means this is going to be an issue

[steady fable]

there is a conditioninheriter lua script intended to solve the previous information problem

i'd like it so i can pack it like batteries for example, keeping the usedelta data

[bright fog]

Doesn't seem to be doing it's job properly then for bottles 😅

[steady fable]

doesnt seem to be doing its job properly at all!

well i'd have to check of course

[bright fog]

Didn't the original modder add that in ?

[steady fable]

the person i commissioned yes

[bronze yoke]

so you paid someone to make this mod and it doesn't even work properly...?

[steady fable]

require 'recipecode'

function Recipe.OnCreate.FromConditionInheriter(craftRecipeData, player)
    local items = craftRecipeData:getAllConsumedItems();
    local results = craftRecipeData:getAllCreatedItems()
    local box = items:get(0);

    for i = 0, results:size() - 1 do
        local resultItem = results:get(i);
        if box:getModData()["condition" .. i] then
            resultItem:setCondition(box:getModData()["condition" .. i])
        end
    end
end

function Recipe.OnCreate.ToConditionInheriter(craftRecipeData, player)
    local results = craftRecipeData:getAllCreatedItems()
    local items = craftRecipeData:getAllConsumedItems();

    local box = results:get(0);
    for i = 0, items:size() - 1 do
        local item = items:get(i);
        if item:getCondition() ~= item:getConditionMax() then
            box:getModData()["condition" .. i] = item:getCondition();
        end
    end
end```

[steady fable]

it was partially complete before they canceled on me because i tried to pay them and they didnt give me an exact commission price

they just said "i dont want your scraps"

[bronze yoke]

christ

[steady fable]

never commission rainmaker 🙏

no need for slander now though

[steady fable]

this is the condition inheritor

[bright fog]

wait

[steady fable]

i still paid them some money though

and the code they gave me isnt published by them anywhere else

[bright fog]

that name doesn't ring a bell tbf

[steady fable]

they're active on the steam discussion page for zomboid

[bright fog]

Damn this shit's a thing I forgot

[steady fable]

they were harassing someone earlier because they had a typo on the word "feelings"

so that says something

[bright fog]

Yikes lmao

Anyway

[steady fable]

in any case i dont see any issues on my end with this

its likely not linked or incorporated with the craftrecipes

oh

it does have an oncreate thing

for example

so it is linked

[bronze yoke]

yeah the assholes and scammers avoid the main circles since everyone will catch onto them there 😅

[bronze yoke]

this looks good, but it only covers condition, so any other properties (e.g. fluid) aren't copied

[bright fog]

True

[steady fable]

they were in this server before but they left

[bright fog]

You just need to make a new function for OnCreate

[steady fable]

one that applies to fluid

[bright fog]

Yea

Finish my sentence for me lol

[steady fable]

i have the brain of an automechanic i cannot finish your sentence

[steady fable]

oh my god

does it work for flags[prop2] or is it exclusive to prop1

i'll test it out

[willow estuary]

Ignore props

[steady fable]

so on my end what would i have to do?

add the inherit condition to the inputs area?

[bright fog]

@ancient grail removed references to links to your mod page (as well for others that had done it) and replaced those with links to the mod itself, when I managed to find it. For the future, please link the mod itself or nothing at all. And for mods that may be hidden in private, add a note mentioning it like Private mod

[bright fog]

You shouldn't use that in your case

[bronze yoke]

i'm not really sure this is directly relevant, what they're trying to do is pack x items into a box item and then get items with the same condition/fluids/etc when unpacking

[bright fog]

Bcs your box should not inherit conditions

What albion explained more in detail

[steady fable]

yeah thats what im trying to achieve here

some items dont have a condition so they're fine the way they were

(bandages et cetera)

but then theres crowbars and welder masks

and other similar items that have condition

or some sort of data that should be kept

[bright fog]

You need to use the same method as the battery one

But replace the condition check to something for the fluid

[bronze yoke]

so the condition stuff from the oncreates you showed isn't working?

[bright fog]

So it notes:

• fluid type
• quantity

[willow estuary]

I wouldn't have packing recipes for welding masks; some items have so much individual data that storing and re-instancing it is problematic both in the sense of potential bugs, and save sizes.

[sonic needle]

he lives

[bright fog]

Welding masks don't have unique properties tho

[willow estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/grandpa-abe-exit-confused-bye-bart-gif-7694184

[bright fog]

Oh they do no ?

[bronze yoke]

although i'm not really sure why you'd want to pack them anyway 😅

[bright fog]

Yea no idea LMAO

[steady fable]

i dont think so

[bronze yoke]

i remember a patch note about something to track ingredients used to craft an item but i've never looked at it so i have no idea how detailed that is, probably not very or save size would balloon

[steady fable]

ii'll test it out

[willow estuary]

Well, according to good game design, every item must be packable if packing exists, regardless of bugs or save size issues

[steady fable]

i play with the bandits mod and im a heavy looter, so i get that stuff in large quantities

[bright fog]

But he's not packing welding masks anyway no lol ?

[steady fable]

i.. am

[bright fog]

Tbf that's fine

You can still have for "decoration" in a way

[willow estuary]

That was removed for inventory items because of the save size issue FYI.
It's used for tiles only currently.

[steady fable]

yeah

[bright fog]

Asking too much to the devs here buddy 💀

[willow estuary]

It's intention was just "if we add some way to build something with nails OR screws how does the player get the right nails or screws when taking apart it"

[bright fog]

Aaah

That's an interesting challenge to handle

I know Vintage Story has that for some recipes I believe

No idea how they handle it however

[steady fable]

alright so what ive gotta do here is copy the way the battery pack inherits its usedelta, and also add to the conditioninheriter an ability to check and return fluid type and the quantity of that fluid

[bronze yoke]

if i were doing this i'd honestly just require them to be full 😅

[steady fable]

i agree but later on i am interested in adding firearms and ammo mags to the list of packable items

(because i also play with the smokes n guns mod, get plenty of those)

[bright fog]

Yea figured something like that would be a good idea too

[steady fable]

for the time being thats actually how it is i believe

i tried to put in used caffeine pills once

[willow estuary]

To be absolutely blunt and honest I consider going down the rabbit hole of "making everything packable" to be the equivalent of a Hellraiser puzzle box of endless workshop page bug reports.

[bright fog]

I really think that even for organizing stuff, you shouldn't pack things that aren't full (or empty)

[steady fable]

but theres a rule i learnt for coding when i studied c#:

never trust the user

[bright fog]

The Hellraiser puzzle isn't that bad to achieve tho ?

[willow estuary]

And also I can't imagine anything more useless than a box of packed 5% remaining/condition/whatever screwdrivers/light bulbs/wahtever

[bright fog]

Yea 😅

[steady fable]

arent the devs adding the ability to scrap alot of items

[willow estuary]

"The garbage bins exist"

[bright fog]

At least for things you can merge

There's literally mods to merge items together

[steady fable]

yeah i consolidate alot of the pills i have

or the thread

[bright fog]

So packing half empty pills sounds so stupid lol

[steady fable]

again, never trust the user

[bright fog]

I don't see how that applies here

[willow estuary]

Imagine going through a tripe-crate stack of packed lighbulbs and they're all in crap condition.

[steady fable]

alright i concede

[bronze yoke]

in b41 i had to write item serialisation for one of my mods to work and when b42 released i immediately vowed to never update that mod ever, even if i don't mess it up it's impossible to keep it up to date with the game and people are going to get very angry when i delete their items 😅

[steady fable]

we'll work with full condition

i think we stormed off track because what i wanted to see was how i could implement water bottle boxes

full water bottles and empty water bottles

both water and seltzer

god alot of the elements of this mod sound complicated

for now we'll stop here you've all told me enough

thank you

[bright fog]

Last info: there's tags for full and empty fluid containers

So it's very easy to do

[steady fable]

but its water, and the fluid [water] refers to both seltzer and regular

[bright fog]

However you need two box items for empty and full

[steady fable]

yeah thats the gameplan

[bright fog]

👌

[steady fable]

i'll come back with my next problem sometime soon but in the meantime im gonna publish the mod and test it on a copy of my main world so I can implement what would be most useful right now

[steady fable]

condition inheriter works fine

my next move: pack empty plastic bottles into a box

because i have much more of those than filled ones

i'll have to find the right parameters on the wiki though

[tranquil reef]

any way to check if the player has been shot, or has gotten into a car crash

[silent zealot]

Don't bother, soft plastic recycling is a scam.

[steady fable]

naw i just have so many empty bottles i dont know what to do with

better to pack them

[silent zealot]

throw them out

just fill up garbage bags of rubbish, walk outside and dump them in the rubbish pile.

[steady fable]

loot respawn is off in my world and so is zombie respawn

[steady fable]

saving garbage bags for crafting

[silent zealot]

hahahaha

[steady fable]

i am very stubborn and refuse to throw out anything that isnt renewable

eating .gg/rprequesting

[silent zealot]

just throw the empty bottles on teh ground then

[steady fable]

they're currently in a crate

[silent zealot]

Oh, a full on hoarder mod.

[steady fable]

yep

[ancient grail]

you talking about the sprite?

[steady fable]

gonna wait for other mods to add renewable resources or for the game to do that for me

[silent zealot]

advanced 3D placement is the ultimate hoarder base decoration tool.

[low bramble]

[silent zealot]

(my boxes are all full of food, ammo, water, etc...)

back on track... do you need to track details of you empty plastic bottles, or are they all interchangable?

[steady fable]

somewhat

when packing it should only pack empty water bottles, and when unpacking it should only give me empty water bottles

[silent zealot]

Because if they are all generic, I think there is a generic "pack box of 12 things" recipe

(in B42)

[steady fable]

there is but my mod currently isnt formatted to work like that

and it would cause conflicts with other mods i believe

[steady fable]

im aware of that recipe yes

[silent zealot]

I'm pretty sure using lua you can add the extra input item and the extra entry to Item mapper

[steady fable]

there should be some kind of parameter or attribute i can add to the craftrecipe where it will save that it is an empty bottle

i was told that earlier

[steady fable]

the override=true thing was removed for b42

i have to use a lua function to work around it

and the lua function is very limited

[silent zealot]

Yes, because you don't want to override - you want to read the current recipe values then add one, then write back.

[steady fable]

not sure how i'd do that

currently my function would replace the entire thing

[silent zealot]

Definitely do not do that

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

I'm not sure that is still the correct object for B42 recipes, but you probably want to: 1) use recipemanager to get the item for the PackInBox recipe, 2) read the existing input and mapper fields, 3) update those fields with your extra values

Then repeat for the unpack recipe

you can extend the OnTest.GenericPacking and Recipe.OnCreate.PlaceInBox functions if needed

I'm not sure if this will appeal the same way but another option is to make container versions of the different sized boxes, then you can put anything into them using the standard inventory interface and place them around your base/in cupboards/etc.

[steady fable]

lovely website, thank you!

[steady fable]

noted!

[silent zealot]

Found the problem

local playerDirNorm = dirNormalize[pl:getDir()] or "W"

will always return "W" because dirNormalize[pl:getDir()] will never find a result

Because the output of getDir() is not a string, it's userdata which is basically Lua's way of saying "I don't have any idea what this is but I will pretend I do just enough to confuse the heck out of you"

So you can use it like a string for some things... but userdata containing "W" is not the same as a string containing "W" so you can't use it as a table index.

change it to local playerDirNorm = dirNormalize[tostring(pl:getDir())] or "W"

and the same here:

[silent zealot]

...and that was meant for a DM, oops!

@copper abyss

[copper abyss]

oop!

[silent zealot]

I'll leave it here in case one day it helps someone searching for "userdata" or "getDir"

[copper abyss]

I'll copy and paste this on a .info file rqqq-

[bright fog]

No tiledefs wiki page

[bright fog]

Wrong ref

https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/zombie/scripting/entity/components/crafting/CraftRecipe.html

Should be that one I think

[bright fog]

Oh yeah I've some bits like that, you need to manually do tostring to it I believe

Bcs if you use print, it will do it automatically, so that's why if you view it with print you think it's a string

[silent zealot]

You can also use the == comparison with userdata, though I think it only works with other userdata that is exactly the same

But not >, or .., or a bunch of other stuff.

[silent zealot]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3487312010

The loot application API interface library mod is now live.

And a gun mod that uses it: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=3487312468

[bright fog]

Nice ! I'll document that

[bright fog]

Do you have a repository for it ?

I can add it to the wiki page too

[silent zealot]

I'll make a github for it.

[bright fog]

Don't feel forced to

[silent zealot]

It's a good idea - the mod folder is already under git control, so addinga github is easy and makes sense if it's a mod I that other people will use.

https://github.com/DrStalker/Zomboid-EasyDistributions

[ancient grail]

author name column might be a good idea tho

[ancient grail]

shared
#1070852229654917180 message

[bright fog]

Thought about it

[bright fog]

Link the mod instead

[silent zealot]

mod description has a link to github, I'll link github back to the mod later when I fix up the readme.md formatting a bit

[bright fog]

Yea I meant for Glytcher

Because he linked the Github instead of the mod, that's going to be problematic if people find that and end up making copies of your script

[bright fog]

Oh also I noticed you don't use modules and your lib is in the globals

Instead use modules since you already have modders require the script

[silent zealot]

That is correct, because I know how to do it that way lol.

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_(language)#Modules

It's easy to do

Doesn't require much changes

[silent zealot]

Good idea, I'll update later tonight/tmorrow.

[bright fog]

👌

[silent zealot]

Instead of using this an excuse to avoid going shopping even longer 😛

[bright fog]

That's fair

[silent zealot]

wait, do I just add "return EasyDistro" to the end of the file? Since everything is already in a single table

[bright fog]

Yea

Told you it's easy as fuck 😂

[silent zealot]

then modders can do "local funnyname = require("EasyDistro")" and call funnyname.AddItem.

lol

[bright fog]

There's a single line to change for you and for the modders that use it

[silent zealot]

I'll do it after shops anyway because making a change and wandering off without any testing feels like a bad idea.

And it won't invalidate anyone who starts using it as a global before I do that.

(unless I make EasyDistro local)

[bright fog]

👌

Yea you should make the original table local

[bright fog]

@silent zealot https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Easy_Distributions_API

Didn't go in the detail of how to use it, wanted to but since you're probably going to change to use modules I figured I shouldn't add codes

Feel free to add to it

[manic forum]

Do ISO Objects needs to be 3d or can i use the mesh of like an oven and say Zomboid to retexture it?

[silent zealot]

World ISO objects are 2d images

with some depth map images

[manic forum]

oh that make things easier xD cuz my Photoshop skills are bad but my modeling skills are bad³

[silent zealot]

Things like placed inventory items, cars, players are actual 3D models.

[bright fog]

Actually there's something regarding tiles that can ACTUALLY be 3D objects

Not just a depth map

[silent zealot]

Good news: Zomboid 3D models have very low standards, because they are tiny in-game and getting something vaguely OK with a few polygons and a 512x512 texture is better than a highly detailed model with a 2k texture.

[bright fog]

It was Ash that showed that, washing machines being actual 3D objects, but not appearing 3D, and it's the model getting a special render to become a tile

[silent zealot]

Similar to the way dead zombies/maniquins get rendered to an "atlas" of low-res still images?

[bright fog]

Perhaps

[silent zealot]

I looked into making mannequins higher resolution, but it looked like it would be a bit of a nightmare to code and a huge pain to keep updated as the java changed.

[manic forum]

i cant seem to find the images for iso objects

Get-ChildItem -Path "G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media" -Recurse -File | Where-Object { $_.BaseName -eq "appliances_cooking_01_5" } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName

i just used the sprite name of a random oven

[silent zealot]

A lot of vanilla iso images are in texture sheets

They are in the tile picker

I don't know how to access the image tilesheets, I think there is a tool for that

[manic forum]

Thanks, will look into it

[silent zealot]

Can a weapon use a different model when equipped vs. when attached to a hotbar? I'm going to make a folding survival rifle, but I don't want to go through the tedium of having a whole separate item for the folded version and swapping back and forth via recipe.

[sly condor]

if I set up a new stash, is it possible to force the triggering map to spawn as the annotated version? I can't find the file that dictates this... I can only force it through the stash debugging atm

[bright fog]

I would say yes

[quartz kestrel]

I’m creating a mod where I need to export an fbx model for it. How can I convert the fbx to .txt? and how do I export its texture? can someone help me?

[tranquil kindle]

Where you got an idea to do fbx to txt?

Game uses X or FBX, while FBX is encouraged by most modders

[silent zealot]

.x has text and binary formats... but avoid .x if you can.

[quartz kestrel]

that’s what they told me, that to import it into my mod, it needs to be in .txt

[silent zealot]

.fbx plays a lot nicer with blender, and you don't need to convert naything after exporting.

They might have meant you need to make an item in a .txt script file.

[quartz kestrel]

I'm using blender

srry for the dumb questions, I’m new to modding and have no idea which folders I need to add to include the fbx

[silent zealot]

Back up a bit - what sort of mod are you making?

[quartz kestrel]

the main idea is a plush magazine that removes the player’s sadness

[silent zealot]

Lots of good stuff on https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding including "mod structure"

What is a "plush magazine" in game terms? And what if your model a model of?

[quartz kestrel]

I’m gonna make a magazine shaped like a duck

so that when players read it, it removes sadness

[silent zealot]

On one hand that makes no sense to me, on the other hand I know how to do it.

You're basically going to create a magazine, similar to vanilla magazines, but instead of the model for teh item looking like a magaizine it looks like a duck.

[quartz kestrel]

YES

I already made my model

[silent zealot]

Have a look in media\scipts\iitems\items_literature.txt

Unhappychange is how you remove sadness

[quartz kestrel]

module MyMagazines
{
imports
{
Base
}

item HappyMagazine
{
    DisplayName = Happy Magazine,
    DisplayCategory = Literature,
    Type = Literature,
    Icon = Item_MyMagazine,
    Weight = 0.2,
    WorldStaticModel = Magazine,
    UseDelta = 0.1,
    StressChange = -20,
    UnhappinessChange = -20,
    BoredomChange = -20,
    PanicChange = -20,
    Tags = Reading,
    Tooltip = Tooltip_HappyMagazine
}

}

dang

[silent zealot]

I don't think literature has a useDelta

But that coudl be a B42 thing

but if you copy the vailla item and change stuff, that will be fine

[quartz kestrel]

oh

I'm having more trouble exporting the texture in Blender, I think I can handle the folders

[silent zealot]

There will also be some model stuff in media\scripts\models_items.txt

I can't help with the texture export, for my blender work I've make a texture in Krita and then UV mapped the model onto it so the texture was already in png.

[quartz kestrel]

I’m not understanding anything in this wiki

[tranquil kindle]

Can you show us how it looks in blender? Also did you paint the textures inside the blender or other painting software?

[quartz kestrel]

yes

[tranquil kindle]

Thats one handsome duck. For my feeling it might be a bit big but we will see. From what i see you haven't made your model script yet?

[quartz kestrel]

thanks

idk how to put it in the folders, along with its texture

I wrote the scripts for the magazine, my mod is going to be a duck-shaped magazine

[tranquil kindle]

So in \steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\scripts you have something called "models_items.txt" files, or other "models...txt" Those are called model scripts i belive
for example :

model FlashLight_Improvised
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/Flashlight_Improvised_Hand,
        texture = WorldItems/Lights_Improvised,
        scale = 1.0,

        attachment world
        {
            offset = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
            rotate = -0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
        }
    }

Mesh is where your Model (fbx file) would be, So in this case game looks in folder Model_X (always) then will go to WorldItems folder and there will look for "Flashlight_Improvised_Hand" file which has to be either X or FBX.
With texture its same case but it will instead look for "textures" folder instead of "model_X"

"attachment world" isnt currently our goal as its pretty much a way for you to edit how model is placed on ground, but you can do it later if there is need.

[quartz kestrel]

alright

I think I understand

[tranquil kindle]

I personally suggest to make new txt file in script folder, give it module Base (you already import it in your script so everything is alrgiht).
and lets say you exort your model to media>models_x>Duck.fbx (you don't need to insert it further, but you can)
and texture to media>textures>Duck.png

Then your model script would be "

module Base
{
model MyFirstDuck
    {
        mesh = Duck,
        texture = Duck,
    }
{

[silent zealot]

When you get to updating loot tables so your item shows up in random loot I just published a library mod to make that easier by copying the loot data from an existing item. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3487312010

[tranquil kindle]

Then your item script would look somewhat like:

module MyMagazines
{
    imports
    {
        Base
    }

    item HappyMagazine
    {
        DisplayName = Happy Magazine,
        DisplayCategory = Literature,
        Type = Literature,
        Icon = Item_MyMagazine,
        Weight = 0.2,
        WorldStaticModel = MyFirstDuck,
        UseDelta = 0.1,
        StressChange = -20,
        UnhappinessChange = -20,
        BoredomChange = -20,
        PanicChange = -20,
        Tags = Reading,
        Tooltip = Tooltip_HappyMagazine
    }
}

[quartz kestrel]

Humm

gotcha

sounds simple, I’ll give it a try

[tranquil kindle]

Looks like your model did not load, the thing is you have static model which is for in hand display, you would need worldstaticmodel to show it on ground too.

No wait, my mistake you do have "WorldStaticModel", then it means that it should appear. It might be typo on your end or badly exported mesh, or maybe lack of texture?

[quartz kestrel]

I think it lacks texture

I put the icon and they never appear

[tranquil kindle]

Show me both you model and item scripts

[quartz kestrel]

I need to find someone to partner up with, lmfao. I’ll make the model and they handle the rest, because this is frying my brain

[quartz kestrel]

okay

one sec

module MyMagazines
{
imports
{
Base
}

item HappyMagazine
{
    DisplayName = Happy Magazine,
    DisplayCategory = Literature,
    Type = Moveable,
    Icon = duck_plush,
    Model = MyFirstDuck,
    WorldStaticModel = MyFirstDuck,
    PlaceStaticModel = MyFirstDuck,
    Weight = 0.2,
    MoveSpeed = 1.0,
    PickupSound = PickupGeneric,
    UseDelta = 0.1,
    StressChange = -20,
    UnhappinessChange = -20,
    BoredomChange = -20,
    PanicChange = -20,
    Tags = Reading,
    Tooltip = Tooltip_HappyMagazine
}

}

require "Items/ItemUtil"

local function debugPrint(text)
print("[MyMagazines Mod] Loaded successfully!")
end

debugPrint("MyMagazines loaded successfully!")

that's it, I think

I’ll probably create another one, this one got too messy and confusing

[bright fog]

???

[tranquil kindle]

You still don't have Model script anywhere, and there is no such thing as " PlaceStaticModel = MyFirstDuck,"
There are:
"StaticModel=" for display in hands, so in your case you need it for your model to show during reading,
"WorldStaticModel=" for displaying when item is on ground

[bright fog]

What ?

[bright fog]

What the fuck is that ?

[tranquil kindle]

And you do not put lua thing in same file as script...

[bright fog]

Did you just chatGPT this shit ?

[tranquil kindle]

Doggy calm down

[bright fog]

Yea I'm calm, just got extremely confused about it

But in more seriousness, there's a plague currently of modders trying to use AI to make mods and they end up not learning anything because AI will never give them a proper good answer in the current state it is in

[quartz kestrel]

no dude, I’m learning and I’m not making the mod alone, just chill. Not everyone is born knowing everything

[bright fog]

Never said that, and like I said I'm chill, just got kind of stunned by what I read

[quartz kestrel]

I’m not used to making mods in lua, it’s still confusing. I only know python

[bronze yoke]

you don't need a lua file in your mod at all, it doesn't do anything

[bright fog]

But in a "calmer" note, this code won't do anything, and tbh that function isn't even useful at all because you could replace it with print simply and it would do the same thing, but even worst that function has a text argument that is never actually used

And like albion said, for an item mod you don't need a Lua file

[quartz kestrel]

okay

thanks

[agile nacelle]

does https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/iso/IsoGridSquare.html#getDoorOrWindowOrWindowFrame(zombie.iso.IsoDirections,boolean) work on this version? and if so how do you create a IsoDirections data?

[bronze yoke]

the site you linked is for 41.77, there's basically no api differences between those versions so i would assume so

[bright fog]

Hmm not sure

[bronze yoke]

IsoDirections is an enum so you don't need to create it

just use IsoDirections.E for east etc

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/iso/IsoDirections.html

[agile nacelle]

oh

i see

[bright fog]

Decompile the java to check what that function does, a lot of these kind of stuff don't do anything

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Decompiling_game_code

[bronze yoke]

your item script is kind of strange as well, you should just copy a vanilla magazine and change what you need to: yours seems to have parameters copied from different kinds of items that aren't relevant here, as well as a couple that don't even exist? 😅 (that's why it looks like you used ai)

[agile nacelle]

ermmmmmm I'll just try it out in-game!!!

[bright fog]

If you do that you'll put a massive amount of work into just figuring out if you're doing a mistake or if that shit doesn't even work in the first place

And I can assure that for this kind of function, you better check there even is code behind it 😅

[agile nacelle]

good point

[bronze yoke]

looks implemented

[bright fog]

And tbf, if you continue doing modding for PZ, I'd suggest decompiling, that's kind of the next step

[bronze yoke]

i don't think it'll find stuff that isn't on that square though (so only N and W will actually work)

[bright fog]

One issue too

Actually nvm

Thought it wouldn't give you multiple possibilities, but it can't have multiple ones in the same direction

[bronze yoke]

i think there's some utils for finding stuff like walls independent of the actual square in starlit

no nevermind, there's some wall utils but they still only catch ones on the actual square

[bright fog]

Base game sort of has this kind of thing I believe

Wait no

It's also actual square too

[bronze yoke]

it kind of has it but it's really picky

[bright fog]

Thought you just meant in general catching walls etc

[bronze yoke]

in general working with walls is really annoying, i had to put a whole bunch of work into it for excavation

some of that code is supposed to move into starlit eventually but it's not general enough yet

[bright fog]

Yea

[agile nacelle]

are custom decompilers needed orrrrrr

[bright fog]

Yes

[agile nacelle]

idk i never actually tried decompiling

oh

[bright fog]

Way way better

[agile nacelle]

i see i see

[bright fog]

• the most recent one by albion requires a single double click, compared to command lines for the majority of them
• they take into account extra informations for a better decompiled code

So no it's not mandatory, but tbf if you want to decompile the game code, you're making your life way harder by picking generic decompilers

[agile nacelle]

noted

[fallow mauve]

How does map making work with B42

[bright fog]

Refer to the mapping Discord

[fallow mauve]

Where can I find the link to that discord

[bright fog]

I DMed it to you

[fallow mauve]

Alright thank you

[agile nacelle]

hmmmmm

i wonder which one to pick

real people would pick Notepad

[bright fog]

[agile nacelle]

but i dont want to give myself eyestrain just to read decompiled code

[tranquil reef]

has anyone made a gore mod yet

had one in development, weird that i'm still seemingly the only one that's tried. from what i've seen at least. not sure if i should keep going

[ancient grail]

@bright fog omg i just saw the tiledef and you actually linked it
THANK YOU SO MUCH

[icy night]

Does anyone know how to initiate puddles via Lua? I'm trying to mimic the climate settings I made in debug mode

Figured out how to get the rain, wind and fog. But puddles are tough

[bright fog]

Yea, was a pain, so make sure to do the same later down the line please 😅

But you weren't the only one in that case, it just turns out that you're the one with the most individual tile mods I guess lol

[ancient grail]

appreciate you man and yep ill keep the format

[bright fog]

Thx

[ancient grail]

lost the author name tho was sorta an advertising venue but still its worth it

[grizzled fulcrum]

not required but its recommended to use the decompiler tool ZomboidDecompiler that uses vineflower instead of just vineflower itself from the cli, faster and easier

[bright fog]

Yea but like I said that's not the point of it and I try to reduce as much as possible advertising for things that are not useful to other modders

[ancient grail]

i understand
gave you your 4th profile award

[bright fog]

Lol thx

[agile nacelle]

it seems like getDoorOrWindowOrWindowFrame doesnt work

[bright fog]

Why am I not even surprised

Check if the vanilla game uses it

Both in the Lua and in the Java

(So decompile the game)

[agile nacelle]

:(

[bright fog]

That's also why you should decompile the game

[agile nacelle]

OH NO

MY INJELLIJ IDEA

ITS BROKEN

[agile nacelle]

like,, dis?

[bright fog]

Yea

[agile nacelle]

seems like it does use it

[bright fog]

Check where it's used and how

[bright fog]

These could be deprecated code and never trigger

[agile nacelle]

its used in

getContextDoorOrWindowOrWindowFrame

[bronze yoke]

btw it's better to use code lens for this kind of thing

keyboard shortcuts may be different in vscode but in intellij it'd be ctrl-n to search classes, find the declaring class, then ctrl-click the method declaration's name to see all usages

[agile nacelle]

am using vscode rn

because intellij just uhh

blew up

i really need to fix it i had a mod project on it 💔

i cant even find the intellij community install

[bright fog]

I'll need to check this out

[bronze yoke]

but basically doing it this way is a lot more resilient to weirdness, text search can report a lot of false positives

in this case it's a really awkward long method name so it's not going to come up with anything else lol but when it isn't it's a lot faster to do it this way

[bright fog]

You can access it by ctrl clicking the method right ?

[bronze yoke]

yeah

[bright fog]

Ok I see what it is then

[bronze yoke]

you can ctrl-click basically anything to see all references to it

[bright fog]

I'll try to document that on the wiki page I guess

[agile nacelle]

i... cant find intellij idea community edition download

OH

IT WAS JUST 1 SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE

[bright fog]

Yea they try to hide lol

[agile nacelle]

honestly i dont even think i need to reinstall it because really it broke because of lua plugin

[bronze yoke]

yeah don't use that garbage

[agile nacelle]

iiii cant find the folder for it

for the plugin

[bronze yoke]

if you've seen some older guides they recommend it but it's massively out of date and doesn't even work anymore

[agile nacelle]

fr...

i... cant find it

[sly condor]

hi guys, any ideas on this? 🥲

[mellow frigate]

I've used its decompiler no problem with B42.

[steady fable]

craftRecipe OpenBoxOfDigitalWatches
    {
        timedAction = OpenAmmoBox,
        Time = 15,
        Tags = InHandCraft;CanBeDoneInDark,
        category = Packing,
        inputs
        {
            item 1 [Base.BoxOfDigitalWatches] flags[Prop2],
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 24 Base.WristWatch_Left_DigitalBlack,
        }
    }

    craftRecipe PackBoxOfDigitalWatches
    {
        timedAction = PlaceAmmoInBox,
        Time = 15,
        Tags = InHandCraft;CanBeDoneInDark,
        category = Packing,
        OnCreate = Recipe.OnCreate.ToConditionInheriter,
        inputs
        {
            item 24 [Base.WristWatch_Left_DigitalBlack;Base.WristWatch_Left_DigitalRed;Base.WristWatch_Left_DigitalDress] flags[Prop2],
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 1 Base.BoxOfDigitalWatches,
        }
    }```

any better way to accomplish packing different types of digital watches, or different types of items overall? i'd rather not have seperate boxes for black, red and dress watches

i do have a lua script to inherit condition but not types of items

[agile nacelle]

intellij idea is fixed ✨

truly, the goat of folder navigation

[bronze yoke]

the decompiler is fine, it's the lua plugin that's worthless

i use it for browsing java code since it's generally the best java ide, but it isn't good for actually writing lua mods in

[steady fable]

require 'recipecode'

function Recipe.OnCreate.FromTypeInheriter(craftRecipeData, player)
    local items = craftRecipeData:getAllConsumedItems();
    local results = craftRecipeData:getAllCreatedItems()
    local box = items:get(0);

    for i = 0, results:size() - 1 do
        local resultItem = results:get(i);
        if box:getModData()["itemID" .. i] then
            resultItem:setItemID(box:getModData()["itemID" .. i])
        end
    end
end

function Recipe.OnCreate.ToTypeInheriter(craftRecipeData, player)
    local results = craftRecipeData:getAllCreatedItems()
    local items = craftRecipeData:getAllConsumedItems();

    local box = results:get(0);
    for i = 0, items:size() - 1 do
        local item = items:get(i);
        if item:getItemID() ~= item:getItemID() then
            box:getModData()["itemID" .. i] = item:getItemID();
        end
    end
end```
i copied the condition inheritor and replaced some of the condition related bits with itemID, but i'd have to check if the parameters are correct

[steady fable]

im not seeing anything relating to item ID on the javadocs and most of the code here is meant for floats not strings

found one but its in isoanimal not craftrecipe

and its integer this time

[lunar robin]

I suspect the player object isn't ready yet when OnNewGame is fired?

[native lantern]

Guys, how do I mod?

[agile nacelle]

plot twist: doors objects were included in the GetObjects array, i was just convinced that it wasnt (womp)

or getSpecialObjects

[pine patio]

Depends on the kind of mod you want to make

[native lantern]

Map.

[pine patio]

That's for #mapping then

[native lantern]

And making buildings.

[finite scroll]

i know how to add additional clothing by professions, but is there a way to remove some of the already available clothing for a specific profession?

[agile nacelle]

i also discovered cars dont collide with doors... which is not what i want to see

[steady fable]

spent some time revising it after reviewing some of the javadocs

require 'recipecode'


function Recipe.OnCreate.FromTypeInheriter(craftRecipeData, player)
    local items = craftRecipeData:getAllConsumedItems()
    local results = craftRecipeData:getAllCreatedItems()
    
    local source = items:get(0)
    local sourceModData = source:getModData()

    for i = 0, results:size() - 1 do
        local result = results:get(i)
        local storedID = sourceModData["itemID" .. i]
        if storedID then
            result:setItemID(storedID)
        end
    end
end

function Recipe.OnCreate.ToTypeInheriter(craftRecipeData, player)
    local results = craftRecipeData:getAllCreatedItems()
    local items = craftRecipeData:getAllConsumedItems()

    local container = results:get(0)
    local containerModData = container:getModData()

    for i = 0, items:size() - 1 do
        local item = items:get(i)
        local itemID = item:getItemID()
        if itemID then
            containerModData["itemID" .. i] = itemID
        end
    end
end```

[steady fable]

not sure if it will work but i'll test it out shortly

[bronze yoke]

try something like this:```lua
---@param t table
---@param v any
local function removeByValue(t, v)
for i = 1, #t do
if t[i] == v then
table.remove(t, i)
end
end
end

removeByValue(ClothingSelectionDefinitions.fireofficer.Tshirt.items,
"Base.Tshirt_Profession_FiremanBlue")

if you want to remove every item in a slot, it's probably safer to do ClothingSelectionDefinitions.fireofficer.Tshirt = nil or else it'll leave an empty table that might cause issues later on

[finite scroll]

gotcha, i'll test it out

[steady fable]

did not work

[bright fog]

B41 or B42 ?

nvm B41 you mention server

[steady fable]

yeah no im not doing this my brain is fried

[bright fog]

Check your errors

Check what the error says, this is the next step to developping Lua mods and you basically can't work without reading them

[steady fable]

i checked the console, it didnt list any script errors

this is the most i had

even then ive already scrapped most of the typeinheriter code its just complex for me

[finite scroll]

works to remove profession specific clothing, but not base clothing

[bright fog]

Uh getItemID is a thing ?

[finite scroll]

i need to remove base clothing from a specific profession

i probably should've been more clear about that

[bright fog]

That's not a thing

getItemID doesn't exist

[bronze yoke]

oh, that won't be possible in any simple way

[bright fog]

So what are you trying to do exactly here ?

[finite scroll]

yeahh i figured

the only way i could think to do it would create huge conflicts with any mod adding more professions

[steady fable]

still working on the packaging mod, i was trying to pack multiple different watches into the same box, and be able to unpack them and receive the same items as with the input

[bright fog]

Ah

That's not how you'd do it

That's not the item ID at least

You will use item ID, but that's not the item ID

because those methods don't exist

[steady fable]

crud

[bright fog]

I'm expressing myself badly here lol

Give me a minute

You get consumed items with https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/zombie/entity/components/crafting/recipe/CraftRecipeData.html#getAllConsumedItems() like you're doing, that's good

This gives you an ArrayList of InventoryItem and you want to use getFullType

getFullType is the way to get the item ID

Then your unboxing craft cannot output anything, and instead the output will be done from Lua

And you will create the items manually

[steady fable]

mkay

[bright fog]

See this page to create items in the inventory
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/InventoryItem#InventoryItem_creation

[agile nacelle]

why is there no subclass for walls 🥀

[bronze yoke]

what would this class do?

subclassing is the devil

[bright fog]

Because they create classes for things that should get functions

That's why you got IsoWindow and IsoDoor because those have technical aspects behind them

Walls however are nothing special and most needed is handled via tile properties

[agile nacelle]

i just wanted to like if instanceof but i mean i alr got a way around it

[bright fog]

There's literally a isWall method

In IsoObject

Walls are IsoObjects

Don't trust the isWallN and isWallW however ... do that with tile properties because corners are special ...

[agile nacelle]

oh

ermmmmm

[bright fog]

That's not how you search

[agile nacelle]

outdated docs..,

[bright fog]

No it's not

[agile nacelle]

hm?

what am i missing

[bright fog]

Oh wait no it is, I mean I never used this method

But you're on B41 doc

Use the B42

You're on B42 right ?

[agile nacelle]

mmmmmm no

[bright fog]

Ah nvm then

Wait did you look at the mod we shared the other day that did exactly what you wanted to do ?

[agile nacelle]

yeah

but i wanted the vehicles to not come to a complete stop which in my testing they did not seem to achieve

which means am gonan have to... figure out also how to damage the vehicle because the vehicle doesnt actually collide

[bright fog]

But vehicles do not come to a complete stop

They literally have images of the vehicle going through fences on the mod page no ?

[agile nacelle]

they did yeah

but when i tested out, while it did break the objects, the cars also lost all momuntem

[bright fog]

uh

You tested in B42 ?

[agile nacelle]

i could test again because honestly i dont really remember well if that was the case

oh

no

[bright fog]

I didn't even knew their mod was in B41

Also, the creator was around here, or in the modding Discord when developing it

You can probably contact him

[agile nacelle]

am good so far

[bright fog]

Don't hesitate to look at mod files too to see how things work, how they handle it

Of course do not copy pasta the code without authorization, but I think there's no shame to learning from others' work

[agile nacelle]

i looked at their code to see how they got the position of the grids

oh wait

that was from the other mod

super bulldozer

i looked at super bulldozer code to see how they got the position of the grid but thats all i did really

is this normal

theres clearly loops going on how come can't i use continue

[bronze yoke]

there is no continue keyword in lua

[agile nacelle]

oh

right

Luau... mb

[bright fog]

There is a trick to have a continue however

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Lua_(language)#Repeat_until

[agile nacelle]

win!!!

getting somewhere

[icy night]

Do you have to be driving a certain speed for that to happen?

looks awesome

[agile nacelle]

yes

also takes car weight into account

[finite scroll]

holy shit that's sick

[agile nacelle]

Thx!

https://tenor.com/view/talking-regret-evator-regretevator-stat-gif-15351763671091411250

[bright fog]

Nice !

That's terrifying, but nice !

[agile nacelle]

🛻

[crimson spindle]

Working in B41. There are some tile objects that seem to not be interactable at all... how do i go about changing it so that i can pick them up, use them, etc.? I'm in debug mode and I cant even get the option to pick this up using the pickup/place context.

I've managed to locate the item at least the sprite in location_community_medical_01 but not sure how to reference that specific sprite or whatever.

[pearl prism]

Thats so cool, i need that to my mods

[brave bone]

https://tenor.com/view/kool-aid-man-oh-yeah-gif-10117983411222945873

[uncut pewter]

hi is anyone here making mods for vehicles?

would like to pay for a modder to make a vehicle for me if its possible

?

[pearl prism]

Which vehicle do you want?

[uncut pewter]

Can I private messege you?

[pearl prism]

For sure

[wanton nest]

hey so i dont know if theres already a mod for this but i want to put a simple compass rose/star on the map, how would i go about doing that?

[queen oasis]

comma's are, important. "why isn't this done yet?" - "because my brain is bad"

[true nova]

moveables are set in the tile properties. you can apply tile properties on game start or you can overwrite the default properties with your own tile definitions

[steady fable]

hey quick question how many uses do.. chips have

[silent zealot]

One. If I open a packet of chips, I eat a packet of chips.

[steady fable]

its 15

the uses are 15

i am serious

i did the math on it

[silent zealot]

Not sure about Zomboid without checking, but I think they're just a food item so no "uses" but eat/eat half/eat 1/4

[steady fable]

craftRecipe PackBoxOfPlainChips
    {
        timedAction = PlaceAmmoInBox,
        Time = 15,
        Tags = InHandCraft;CanBeDoneInDark,
        category = Packing,
        OnCreate = Recipe.OnCreate.ToConditionInheriter,
        inputs
        {
            item 180 [Base.Crisps] flags[Prop2],
        }
        outputs
        {
            item 1 Base.BoxOfPlainChips,
        }
    }```

[silent zealot]

that's probably more accurate than me tryig to remember.

[steady fable]

food items usedelta is technically the same as like glue or alcohol wipes

its the amount of hunger they give i think

[silent zealot]

Are you coding individual chips as seperate items?

[steady fable]

thats their uses

[steady fable]

currently yes

i have no better way of doing it

[silent zealot]

hides his rice

[steady fable]

RICE!

oh yeah i should add like

those dried pea bags and such

[silent zealot]

I got asked at work if I knew LUA, and now I'm writing LUA scripts for HAProxy. Somehow HAProxy has worse documentation for their LUA PAI than Zomboid does.

They wrote the introduction and then just.. stopped.

[stable mica]

I want to mod a new town into pz but im clueless and never done this before, Any ideas where i start??

[icy night]

Where are zombie outfits defined for vehicle stories?

I cant find the right file

[silent zealot]

Java.

lots of classes starting wih RVS, one for each story.

This is the outfit for "rich Jerk", the crashed car & briefcase of gold:

[silent zealot]

I'm not familiar with the mapping tools, but... start with the mapping tools. The #mapping channel is more map focused than this one, and check out https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding for general modding info, especially under the "Mapping and tiles" header.

Then come up with an idea, find a place to put it that doesn't conflict with any of the more popular map mods that already exist, and make it.

[stable mica]

thank you for your help

[south bear]

Is there a way to make altered zombie data persist through player deaths?

My game world has no sprinters allowed through the sandbox settings, but occasionally some zombies are spawned and set to be sprinters via a mod I created. When I die whilst fighting them and after I respawn, the sprinters are back to non-sprint mode.

I use this lua code:

zombie:setWalkType("sprint1")

Is there a way to make this setter persist?

(Edit: I should note that this even happens when I respawn in the same cell where I died and where the former sprinter is now suddenly a walker.)

[silent zealot]

From my understanding, the zombie objects get reused from a pool rather than being individually persistent

[south bear]

Is that something that could be potentially "solved" with moddata tables?

For example, by adding some sort of unique identifier to a zombie on spawn and then recalling that unique identifier on player respawn to re-set the parameters back to where I'd like them?

Thanks for the info BTW - I wasn't aware of the pooling thing!

[silent zealot]

Maybe, but I think anything you attach to a zombie will (at best) end up on a random other zombie

Have a look at the Bandits mod - that makes zombies into NPCs, and those are still NPCs after reloading, so it is doing something to keep state data for zombies.

[south bear]

Dang...

[south bear]

Thank you! I will have a look!

[silent zealot]

If you figure it out post the answer here for reference!

[south bear]

Will do!

[silent zealot]

They might tie it to outfit, since every "faction" has a defined outfit and outfits persist since those presumably just a single saved guid. Assuming the mod also stops the outfits in question being used by normal zombies.

But check their code instead of my guesses. 😛

[potent loom]

persistenOutfitId is close to being a good id for a zombie. it changes once a zombie looses its hat so that need fact needs to be addressed. The generated id is a combined number of outfit id and a random number of 500 plus the info about the hat and a bit determining if that is a female. Bandits uses pregenerated 200 naked outfits but then puts the clothing according to configutation. All zombie data is lost on game reload. So it stores persistenOutfitId in global mod data together with the configuration that is used to restore the zombie(bandit) to the expected state

[south bear]

Seems the Bandits they are using getPersistentOutfitID() as a GUID, caching it and recalling it... every tick. 🔥 Thankfully, there is some code to help performance on that front included though (basically skipping the entire function a tick while the process is too slow). Pretty neat stuff!

[south bear]

it changes once a zombie looses its hat so that need fact needs to be addressed.

Aha!

So that is why this bit exists:

    local hat = bits[16]
    if hat == "1" then
        bits[16] = "0"
        id = toDec(bits)
        idcache[dec] = id
    else
        id = dec
        idcache[dec] = id
    end
    return id```

realizes he is talking to the mod author

[potent loom]

yes, and there is extra caching method because bit conversion costs some performance, and the version of lua is old and do not allow bitwise operations

[south bear]

me rn:

Thanks for this info Slayer - it is so crucial for me!

I see how you store the persistent outfit IDs as the GUID in the BanditUtils.GetZombieID, and how you cache that data from zombies on the tick in UpdateZombieCache, but how is the persistent info recalled/loaded onto existing zombies as the player approaches them/as the zombies are loaded in a cell?

[potent loom]

on each zombie update, the zombie is check if has a bandit flag (local erasable on game restart), if not, its id is checked if it exists in global mod data which serves as a persistent database of bandits, if yes then it means the zombie needs to be banditized (apply visual style, put the right clothes, give weapons etc), and then mark the zombie as a bandit so that the process does not repeat

[south bear]

this?

                    light.isBandit = true
                    light.brain = BanditBrain.Get(zombie)```

[potent loom]

globalmoddata is like a soul of a bandit. Bandits work as long as they are paired. if and id of a zombie is not in global moddata the bandit immediately returns to zombie behavior

    if gmd.Queue then
        if gmd.Queue[id] then -- and id ~= 0
            if not zombie:getVariableBoolean("Bandit") then
                brain = gmd.Queue[id]
                Banditize(zombie, brain)
            end
        else
            if zombie:getVariableBoolean("Bandit") then
                Zombify(zombie)
            end
        end
    end
    ```

[south bear]

Yeah, this is my experience too - not for setting bandit-style attributes, but just a basic setter for the sprint speed. In my situation, after I die, the sprinters revert to walkers. This information is AWESOME and I am thankful to be able to pick your brain on this! Thanks so much!

[potent loom]

yea just mirror everything you want for your zombies in global mod data.

remember to garbage collect data from global mod data once zombie is killed

[south bear]

Cheers! Thanks again!

[potent loom]

np

[silent zealot]

Listen to this guy, he knows more about Bandits than I do. 😛

[bright fog]

See the wiki page regarding zombies

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/IsoZombie#Object_Pooling

I don't think I need to read everything Slayer, I kind of already see from a few mentions of what you should use

Zombie ID involves the use of the pID of zombies, and yeah that's the only way to store persistent zombie info

However I don't know if Slayer mentioned it but extremely important info: this ID is non unique

See the wiki page regarding that

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/PersistentOutfitID

All these should give you written info regarding how IsoZombie works and the pID page gives a code snipet of a pID method

[agile nacelle]

errmmmmm

why does it need an arguement and how can i get a Vector3f for the arguement

[silent zealot]

If I understand correctly, Bandits defines 200 unique outfits that don't get used by normal zombie spawns, so the mod can spawn one of those and know that is the only zombie with that outfit and hence the persistentID will be unique

[bronze yoke]

Vector3f.new()

it's often also acceptable to pass nil in situations like this

[agile nacelle]

i feel like passing nil just results in an error

but I'll try

[bronze yoke]

it takes an argument so it can reuse an existing vector3 instead of allocating a new one every time which may improve performance

i haven't checked this function but it is likely it'll just create one if you don't give it one

[agile nacelle]

i also looked at vector2 from getMovementLastFrame

and its properties were not capitalized

is this the same case for vector3

[agile nacelle]

returned nil

BRO

[small osprey]

This is great

[small osprey]

Maybe also worth to check out https://github.com/SirDoggyJvla/Zomboid-Forge-B42 though it doesn't explicitly mention per-zombi-instance persistance. Not sure if thats what you are after either.

Though the Sir himself already replied you so if he didn't bring it up, don't let me guide you astray 😅

[devout mantle]

does britas weapon pack still work multiplayer

[silent zealot]

It sets the velocity in the object you pass it then returns that.

If you don't need direction you can use getSpeed2D() instead, which gives the ground speed (ignoring any vertical component to movement) and there's also getCurrentSpeedKmHour() (the code uses kph, then they write "mph" on the dashboard because 'MERICA!)

[agile nacelle]

i need the directions

i used getMovementLastFrame instead

[silent zealot]

if it works it works, and if you just need direction and not magnitude you don't have to worry about the affect of a varied frame rate.

[agile nacelle]

also i need a slight help

how can i highlight a grid

squaregrid

[silent zealot]

Check the show generator range mod

there's a method for it that highlights and lets you specify color (or at least, you can choose good or bad aka green or red)

I think it's a property of isoSquare, but that generator mod is teh quickest way to check I can think of.

[agile nacelle]

thx

[silent zealot]

How many Zomboid modders also mod Rimworld? It looks like it's gearing up for an expansion soon so there will be two games trying to consume all of my free time.

[bright fog]

Yea that's ok it's good you shared it. I don't store persistent informations of zombies anymore but I do use the pID still to identify the zombie

[red tiger]

Is the API getModFileReader(mod, path, createIfNil) broken?

[red tiger]

HydroMancerX (Creator of Hydrocraft) went there.

[bronze yoke]

i was thinking about putting something into starlit for this and i found a method wayyyyy more efficient than the one on the wiki lol

~3-6x faster depending on if you're annoying enough about performance to inline functions

[bright fog]

Nice

What did you optimize ?

[bronze yoke]

i didn't do it the same way at all

[bright fog]

But you get the same output ?

[bronze yoke]

if it didn't work why would i brag about it 😅

[bright fog]

idk just making sure everything's checks up

[bronze yoke]

i've tried it on a range of pids and it seems to work consistently

i can't say for sure it works in 100% of cases but the maths work out to me

[bright fog]

So what did you do ?

[bronze yoke]

the bulk of the work is in here https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/StarlitLibrary/blob/zombie-data/Contents/mods/StarlitLibrary/42/media/lua/shared/Starlit/utils/Bitwise.lua

the example would be zombieId = Bitwise.set(persistentId, 16, true)

[bright fog]

Did you test on male and female zombies and compared with the original one ?

[bronze yoke]

yes

i tested against many zombies and compared performance to yours

[bright fog]

Could easily inline it yea

[bronze yoke]

this implementation is around 3x faster than yours, if you inline Bitwise.get in Bitwise.set it becomes around 6x faster instead but i don't want to do that

[bright fog]

You verify that the bit exists ?

[bronze yoke]

may look into some form of preprocessing to automatically inline performance critical functions like this but that's for another day

[bright fog]

Yea I see what you did

Yea inlining the get in set could make sure you don't recalculate local bit = 2^(pos - 1)

[bronze yoke]

that's not very expensive anyway

[bright fog]

yea

[bronze yoke]

the only real advantage to inlining is that it skips the overhead

[bright fog]

it's just some details

Yea

[bronze yoke]

which it seems is nearly the entire cost of this function lol

[bright fog]

ik

Yea that's fairly simple calculations

[bronze yoke]

i considered internal functions to reduce stuff like that but didn't seem worth the complexity

[bright fog]

what are internal functions ?

[bronze yoke]

here i mean separating implementation from API:```lua
local function get(int, bit)
...
end

Bitwise.get = function(int, pos)
return get(int, 2^(pos - 1)
end

Bitwise.set = function(int, pos, value)
local bit = 2^(pos - 1)
local hasBit = get(int, bit)
...
end

i'd avoid recalculating it if the function expected it to be already calculated, but that sucks for the API so i'd just have a separate function that the API delegates to

[bright fog]

Yea makes sense

Well tell me if you introduce a trueID function in Starlit, I'll reference it on the wiki page of pID

[red tiger]

@bright fog Need bitwise ops?

[bright fog]

No

[red tiger]

k

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/PersistentOutfitID#Tool_to_retrieve_the_trueID_of_a_zombie

That's what we're doing

[red tiger]

Ok. Saw bitwise and had flashbacks.

[bronze yoke]

i'll probably just encourage people to use Bitwise.set(pId, 16, true) since another function on top of that just adds overhead

but internally i'm not doing that anyway so maybe not 😅

---@param zombie IsoZombie
---@return integer
local function getZombieID(zombie)
    return Bitwise.set(zombie:getPersistentOutfitID(), 16, true)
end

[bright fog]

No caching ?

[bronze yoke]

you can cache if you want, i saw yours did that, it didn't seem that important to me

it's not really that expensive anyway

[bright fog]

It was extremely important actually

Kind of the core of the whole thing if you remove the bit swap operation. Because from what @sour island had said, caching was a major performance boost

[bronze yoke]

but it's also a memory leak 🤔

[bright fog]

Technically yea,

Hmmm

[bronze yoke]

actually yeah if i make this public API i'll add caching

thinking about it most people do this shit on tick

[bright fog]

Exactly

[bronze yoke]

and it's going to be in the cache literally 99% of the time

[bright fog]

That's the reason caching it was needed, because this function had to be called by N zombies x every ticks

[small osprey]

Heya, so I have Project Zomboid Script Support installed and active in my vscode. Any Idea why I see colorized output for vanilla scripts but not for my modded scripts? I even tried to copy over vanilla content 1:1 but it doesn't seem to get recognized.

I tried editing the settings, which came coded towards a windows c:/ drive, to no avail.

[bright fog]

I'm unsure why this happens but I get the same issue

You can manually force the language usage by pressing ctrl + shift + P

then

Change Language Mode

@true plinth any idea why that happens ? My guess is an existent workspace won't take the changes

[small osprey]

That worked!

[bright fog]

ctrl N doesn't seem to do anything on my side

[bronze yoke]

should be whatever this is set to in the keymap

[bright fog]

Where do you find settings I can't seem to be able to find them 😅

Oh god I found them

Too many buttons syndrom

Yea idk for some reasons it wasn't set for me

Oh god I think I know what's going on

[bronze yoke]

the defaults might have changed since i started using idea, or i might have changed it years ago and forgot about it

[bright fog]

I think it imported my VSCode keybinds ?

[bright fog]

I did find the keybind online with the same keys tbf
https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/intellij-idea/docs/IntelliJIDEA_ReferenceCard.pdf