mod_development

[bronze yoke]

i assumed it was the mr beast one

[regal umbra]

Mrbeast investments, Pewdiepie investments, hum, bank account balances after said investments

Essentially it's like 4 pics, either with Mr Beast or some known public figure fake twitter account saying to invest, then 2nd picture is where to invest, 3rd picture is how to invest and 4th is bank acount balance after said investment

Big brain stuff really

[sour island]

Oh yeah, there's been a bot spamming the same 4 pictures for a while lol

[bright fog]

Hacked accounts sending scam images so Discord doesn't pick them up with the current means

[regal umbra]

discord never picks up on hacked accounts

If they did i'd be impressed

I'd be even more impressed if people didn't fall for scams that you can see from miles away

I really wonder how in 2025 you can't really look at a link and go, "yap this is certainly fishy"

[bright fog]

That's the thing, it's hard for y'all to understand how someone can fall for that, but even you can fall for that one day and you'll simply be ashamed to have always wondered how someone can fall for it.

They abuse people who aren't that familiar with internet, Discord in itself etc. People who don't know the scam are also more likely to fall for it, especially people who just don't know scams in general. You can be in a bad moment of your life where you struggle with money and anything which says "it's your lucky day" will make you fall for it. Life can be a terrible struggle for some, "weakening" them mentally and rendering them more vulnerable to these attacks

The whole point of these scams is to abuse people who are at the deepest lows in their lives

And that's also why it's even so much more tragic because people who are already full body deep in shit end up going even deeper due to these scams

Of course there's stupid people that just don't think and fall for these, but don't ignore what despair can do to someone

[bronze yoke]

nobody deserves bad things to happen to them just because they're dumb or whatever

[bright fog]

Of course not

[bronze yoke]

so even if it really is just people being stupid, it's not something to make light of

[regal umbra]

No, like I understand which people scams target and all, I can understand all that, and honestly is not even making fun of them at least I wasn't, but like, I think there should be more awareness, the internet is not really a new thing, I'd fully comprehend if this was 20 years ago, like the amount of people that fall for scams vs how many people are aware of how scams work. But essentially the first just seems to keep rising and rising.

Might as well be a correlation doesn't imply causation situation, more people have been using the internet, the sheer number of people falling for scams has also risen due to the first fact, but knowledge of scams is also more widespread which would mean fewer victims.

Also with what I said, I was trying mainly to point out people that are well tech savy, obviously I can't expect a senior citizen to be as tech savy since it's safe to assume computers and whatnot was a whole new type to technology to people that had most of their adulthood prior to that. Same applies essentially kids, at least with ages low enough that would mean they don't really understand the whole concept of what a scam is.

I generally was pointing out to people like you or me even tho we aren't really safe from it, I can safely assume that you know your way around the internet. Sorry if I misled you into thinking otherwise. But yeah I was mainly trying thar part of the population that falls for it, I guess in what you said, that would be:

Of course there's stupid people that just don't think and fall for these

[bronze yoke]

i'd bet scam awareness is actually higher than ever, it's just that scamming has gotten easier and larger too

[bright fog]

Like awareness evolved in how it's spread, scams also followed the trend

[bronze yoke]

scams really rarely work, they just cast the net wide enough that somebody will fall for it

[regal umbra]

Yeah at least that was what I was trying to point out with the whole correlation doesn't imply causation. There's more people using the internet than there was 20 years ago.

So 10% of 100 million is a lot more than 10% of 1 billion

[bright fog]

And also the internet has only recently been extremely available to the general public. The Covid played a major role in that with a massive part of the population being stuck at home they turned to new means to entertain themselves, notably the internet

Yes the internet is getting old, but it hasn't ever been this available to everyone in the past 10 years, maybe 15 ?

[regal umbra]

I dont have the numbers, but there's probably a good amount of research and statistics about this

[bright fog]

But social media have grown up soooooooooo fucking much in past years

TikTok I think is what brought so many people on the internet nowadays

It is clear it had a major impact in how people use the internet and how people interact with it

[regal umbra]

It's amazing but at the same time it's scary. Not even 10 years ago you'd imagine about having 4k graphics in games, now it's the norm

[bright fog]

Awareness spreads thanks to tiktok, the same way scams also do

[bright fog]

Exactly

[regal umbra]

This is truly a technological era and it evolves really fast

[bright fog]

And so yes the internet is getting old but in reality the majority of the population using the internet only dates from like the past 10 years ?

[regal umbra]

I mean if you're old enough, you could see the change from

Nokias

flip phones

to smart phones

I was probably 10 around then if not a bit younger

[bronze yoke]

there's also plenty of people who think they're too smart to fall for a scam, and fall for it because they're not careful anymore 😅

[bright fog]

Those are just the stupid people, but they aren't new either

Scams are older than the internet itself, it just evolves with the current means

[regal umbra]

Well, luckily I haven't fallen into that category, at least when it comes to scams. But I'm also in europe private data is well usually more private over here.

But I'm guilty of getting a few virus 💀

[bright fog]

For the internet, it started with fake ads and pop ups

Evolved to now having automated bots sending your messages directly

[regal umbra]

A large % of scams are mostly going on in the US from what I see

I believe that's a huge amount due to privacy laws

[bright fog]

Eh

[regal umbra]

I mean one simple google search and you can essentially get a citizen's phone number

[bright fog]

I don't agree

So scammers usually will aim for countries that use the same language as them, english scamming to english, french scamming to french
In France we got a type of scammers that we "brouteur" who are from African countries that do the usualy scams and they aim for France because they also speak french
In the US, from what I understood you got a lot of indian scammers, bcs they speak english too, but if they spoke french I don't doubt they'd aim for France too

And since you have such a big population in the US and India has such a big population too, not too surprising to think there's more scammers in the US tbf

Tho yes maybe private data laws etc do play a part here

But we have the same scams in France, phone scams, messages etc

[regal umbra]

Oh yeah, they def exist lmao. Glad I know what a brouteur is. Hugs from Switzerland(French canton), but I'm originally from Portugal and I did get a lot of scams via my phone. I was just saying it's a lot more common to be seen the US thus seeming a bigger amount

I think in europe even so it exists, its not as common as in the US

[bright fog]

Idk tbf

Not sure about that

[regal umbra]

Then I guess depends on how big your ISP is and how local laws protect you and all

All I know is since I moved to Switzerland, stopped getting calls

[bright fog]

Interesting

I personally activated an options in my phone parameters that stops completely suspicious calls

And it stops every scammer calls currently

So that works great

I'm baffled at the fact the option isn't activated by default lol

[bronze yoke]

i noticed after i changed numbers i didn't get scam texts/calls for quite a while

so it's definitely someone selling numbers

[bright fog]

Yea

Definitely

Hacked data bases of phone numbers

And your phone number gets spread around

[regal umbra]

Yeah thus my theory of it being harder in europe, since well you can't really get phone numbers as easily like in the US, you really need data scrubbers

[bright fog]

Also if you answer one those fake calls, that don't say anything when you answer, they will flag your number as being more incline to answering unknown numbers and thus you'll get even more calls

[regal umbra]

Worst thing is actually either denying or accepting the call

Just let it ring

Tho I can't say i didn't have my share of fun with a few scammers, having them talk over the phone for a good hour before saying I wasn't interested at all

at least they didn't scam other people for that hour

[bright fog]

I think the funiest shit was the AI grand ma in Great Britain I believe it was setup that answered calls and talked forever with scammers lol

Best use of AI ever

[regal umbra]

Either waste their time, or hit their centers like crazy

And I'm glad people manage to do both

Only if police/governemnt were less corrupt in certain places, scams wouldn't be such a widespread problem

[bright fog]

Sadly that's why scammers are very present in developing countries

[zenith tangle]

does anybody know a good way to change color grading?
is there a mod or do i have to use reshade or something similar

[regal umbra]

Im not really aware of any mods that do that, reshade I guess would work, if you have Nvidia app could work too I guess?

In the nvidia app you have the game filters,

In reshade you'd have to go through the settings, I haven't really messed with reshade myself so can't really explain it to you

[thin swan]

I almost got got by a scam recently.
Got a text on my phone that a package I ordered couldn't be delivered and to follow a link to reschedule the delivery (which is normal for this company). It just so happened that I actually did have a package on the way and it did actually fail to be delivered because they called me and I wasn't home to get it. So I opened the link and it looked exactly like their website.
After filling out some basic info it redirected me to make a 1.50€ payment to reschedule the delivery. I was so damn close to doing it, but I was pissed off at this particular company because they suck, so I called the real customer service to complain first and that's when it became clear it was a scam attempt lol

[bright fog]

Yea, wrong moment for you, best moment for the scammer and you could have fallen for it

[bronze yoke]

a lot of scams rely on stuff like that, i used to get that exact one a lot

[thin swan]

Yeah no matter how diligent I usually am, checking URLs and stuff, slip once and that's all it can take

[regal umbra]

I used to get so many of those, even tho I didn't order anything lmao, but yeah I guess if you cast a wide enough net, it will catch at least a single fish

[thin swan]

It was the first time I got this specific one too, but now I know

[regal umbra]

At some point my service provider just went, this is likely a scam message on a lot of scam messages

[bronze yoke]

tragically a really successful kind of scam is where they text you something like 'this is your bank's anti-scam team, please give us your details so we can investigate', they hope to pick up people who have already been scammed by someone else

i haven't been scammed for the first time yet but i'd easily fall for something like that

[regal umbra]

For the bank one? Or the mail one, cuz the latter is way more effective if you tend to order a lot of stuff

[bright fog]

Received a scam email on my student mail one day that felt soooooo diffferent from everything else I've seen that I actually thought was real. Pretending to have hacked me and shit, asking a big sum of money

Tbf I wasn't sure but figured I didn't give shit, there was nothing they could have on me

[regal umbra]

Weirdly enough I never got scam emails, either that or I never actually bothered to check my email. I mean I'm fully aware most of it is just ads and whatnot, so I think I tend to disregard it a lot lmao

[bright fog]

I think they almost instantly get picked up by most email services

At the very least they go directly to the "AD" section or some shit

[regal umbra]

Yeah

That's why I really never noticed a proper scam email

Either way, even I find ads as scams lmao

[bright fog]

Yea but on my student email, it didn't get noted as an ad or potential scam and we never receive these kind of things on student emails

[bright fog]

Same concept, different mask

[regal umbra]

Never understood the whole concept behind my banks marketing team every 2 days sending me sort of ad about their amazing promotion if you deposit 5 bucks in whatever account

Like bro if I cared enough about your promotions, I'd ask a teller, not my email service inbox

And realistically I just have an account in your bank because you offered the best prices

As compared to the other 15 banks

[bright fog]

Steam Uploader

Updated the README with more detail on how to use the tool and examples for those that are not familiar with command line.
https://github.com/SirDoggyJvla/Steam-Uploader

[regal umbra]

On Windows, in the file explorer top bar with the full path of the folder you're in, you can type cmd to open the CLI inside this folder.

• In windows 11 you can right click the empty space of the folder and click Open in Terminal

[bright fog]

Nice

[regal umbra]

Dont remember if that was a feature in Windows 10 or not

[bright fog]

I'll add that thx

[bright fog]

Nop

Bcs I was using W10 before and that's not a thing, unless you have git bash

[regal umbra]

Also

app-windows-latest -a 108600 -w 123456789 -c C:\Users\user\Zomboid\Workshop\ExampleMod\Contents
Not sure if you forgot the .\ but in windows you also well tell CLI to locate the file in the folder by doing .\

[bright fog]

I have a case of someone not making it work by having ./

W10

[bronze yoke]

i've had issues using ./ on windows too

[regal umbra]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh

I see why

Yeah so

We have CMD

and

Powershell

Powershell uses .\

CMd doesn't

or nvm

[bright fog]

That explains why it didn't work for them in powershell too I guess

Told them to move to CMD instead

[regal umbra]

i just tested actually

my cmd runs fine too

if i do .\ respectively

[bright fog]

Ah yea wait

They uesd ./

[regal umbra]

Yeah

./

don't work

lmao

Windows doesn't like that

[drifting ore]

Uh

[bright fog]

Yea fuck that, I'm not going in the details of of ./ .\ 💀

I'll tell people to use cmd in windows and that's it

[regal umbra]

Just tell people to write app and tab it in 💀

[bright fog]

Yea

[bronze yoke]

that's really strange

[bright fog]

I'm not even explaining tab

They write it fully I don't care lol

[bronze yoke]

i know microsoft prefers \ (though nobody in the world seems to respect that preference) but i didn't know it was ever actually treated differently

[bright fog]

Yea it is 💀

[regal umbra]

Kind of tho

I mean

[bright fog]

It depends where

Just most people handle both cases in their apps and shit

[regal umbra]

If you write C:/Users/Download, it understands it at C:\Users\Download

[bright fog]

Ah yea that it does true

[bronze yoke]

i always use / and ./ is the only problem i've ever encountered

[regal umbra]

But not even I was aware that to locate/execute files via the CLI it was actually treated differently

Even worse

in ./ it only recognizes the dot

as the command

xD

but if you send a single / it recognizes it as command

wtf microsoft 💀

[bright fog]

<@&671452400221159444>

[dreamy birch]

damn

you were quick about it

[bright fog]

Yea I literally play and have Discord opened on the left so I tend to notice those

[stable marsh]

Any reason why a LUA refuses to run/be read? Trying to use Starlit library's InventoryUI, specifically the example that exists with a custom module item; could it be due to the item not being read?

[bright fog]

Can you show your whole code ?

[drifting ore]

You return and end if your item is Canned Bell Peppers

[bright fog]

Uh no

He returns if it isn't

[drifting ore]

Oh I see

[stable marsh]

All I did here was change the item being checked for

Example uses "Base.Apple"

[bright fog]

Why do you need to use this exactly ?

[stable marsh]

Testing rn if it at all wants to work with how the example is as is

[stable marsh]

Want to use Starlit's tooltip feature to show type of item in the tooltip

[bronze yoke]

are you getting any error?

[stable marsh]

Nope

Logs don't show any errors regarding this

[bronze yoke]

if you open the debugger you can check if your file is in the loaded files list

[bright fog]

Can you show the folder this is in please

The full path

[stable marsh]

For some reason I can't run with debugger on, game refuses to even load then X_x

[bright fog]

You have too many mods loaded I'd assume

When developping, don't use any mods but yours

[stable marsh]

Happened even with 1 mod, log cried about some script not being able to be loaded while the mod enabled worked just fine without debugger enabled

[bright fog]

Then that means you fucked up somewhere in your mod

[stable marsh]

C:\Users\%UserName%\Zomboid\Workshop\Nebula's Additions\contents\mods\Project Variety - Foods\42\media\lua\shared\PVFoods

[bright fog]

Client side only

It needs to be in the client folder

[stable marsh]

Also tested in client folder, didn't work either

[bright fog]

Bcs InventoryUI is in client

[bright fog]

Go back to client

Doesn't matter

If it doesn't work in client, that's a second error on top of that one

[bronze yoke]

yeah, the require won't work in shared

[bronze yoke]

oh there's an untested change in that example that will cause an error eventually 😅

on line 26 the + should be a ..

i doubt that's causing what you're dealing with now but it'll be a problem later

[stable marsh]

Yeah in the one I tried to get working proper I didn't use that one anyhow but good to know 🙏

[bronze yoke]

this is probably the point where i'd start putting prints to try and work out where exactly the code is failing

(or use the debugger, but i see that isn't an option for you 😅)

[stable marsh]

That I did as well but none printed so the entire LUA didn't even load somehow

[bronze yoke]

does your file actually not have an extension?

the game will only load .lua

[stable marsh]

It's a .lua file

[bright fog]

That's a subfolder

[bronze yoke]

ohh

[bright fog]

PVFoods is a subfolder

[stable marsh]

It's not working even in client folder

[stable marsh]

Getting this btw when I change that

[bright fog]

wat

Oh that's a wrong usage

I think

[bronze yoke]

that's right i changed how that function works

nobody was using it yet so i thought i could sneak in a breaking change, but i forgot i'd already written the docs 😅

[stable marsh]

I'm going to test this now, see how that goes

[bronze yoke]

thanks for making me aware of that anyway, i've updated the docs

[stable marsh]

No problem

[regal umbra]

Me: Be tired, also try to implement a new feature in my mod, proceeds to make an endless black screen when returning to menu or reseting lua 💀

Yeah guess I'm not coding today

[bronze yoke]

try pressing f11 when this happens

sometimes the debugger opens while the game is black screen, and it renders underneath the blackscreen so you can't see it

f11 will close it if it's open

[stable marsh]

@bronze yoke I got it working now, but the color doesn't seem to work. You got an example of InventoryUI.addTooltipKeyValue() where colors are used?

[regal umbra]

Well I guess it might have been that because I was getting a single error somewhere but the debugger was like, yeah im not opening

[bronze yoke]

it should look like InventoryUI.addTooltipKeyValue(layout, "Grown at:", "Sweet Apple Acres", {0.5, 1, 0.3, 1}, {0.5, 1, 0.3, 1})

[regal umbra]

Then i got mad and deleted all the code that I spent like the last 30 minutes trying to implement

👍

Perhaps don't code while being tired after a long day of work

[stable marsh]

This Hmm, it's not working it seems

[bronze yoke]

the colour values should be 0-1, not 0-255

[stable marsh]

AH

[bronze yoke]

anything above 1 is getting clamped to pure white

[stable marsh]

I'm used to regular RGBA XD

What does it use?

[bronze yoke]

it's still just rgba, just represented 0-1

[stable marsh]

That's so confusing, how does 0-255 translate to 0-1

My brain's having an error

[bright fog]

255/255 = 1

[stable marsh]

That I understand yeah

[bright fog]

Usually that's floats to have "pure" color to pass to the renderer that does the job of making it 255 or more if handled by the screen or some shit I believe

Bcs in some cases you want rgb that goes over 255

[bronze yoke]

graphics libraries usually use 0-1 values like this so there's just a tiny bit less overhead to sticking with that

[stable marsh]

Is there a way to translate 0-255 RGBA values to 0-1?

[bright fog]

Literally divide by 255 man

255/255 = 1

That's what I wrote above 😅

[stable marsh]

OH

[bright fog]

Don't think too hard xD

[stable marsh]

You meant the actual equation 💀

[bright fog]

rgba/255 = float rgba

[stable marsh]

I'm used to modding Starsector okay lmfao

[bright fog]

It's just math 🤓

[stable marsh]

Yeah now I notice

Thanks!

[stable marsh]

[bronze yoke]

oops that's supposed to take layout as its first argument

[bronze yoke]

that one can be ignored

<@&671452400221159444>

[stable marsh]

<@&671452400221159444>

[stable marsh]

Ah, good good

[dreamy birch]

im on it

[drifting ore]

Omg it’s Mr Beast

[bronze yoke]

the warning is telling you the function can return nil which won't be handled properly, but in this case we know it won't

[stable marsh]

Love quick moderation 🙏

[stable marsh]

Ah I see

[somber solar]

Question: I'm trying to make a mod that modifies the severity of endurance impacts

However, I can't seem to find the area where those are calculated.

I found where moodles are calculated, and where endurance loss/recovery is calculated, but I can't seem to find where the effects from it (IE melee damage, move speed) are calculated.

I haven't been able to find any mods that tweak this, just the total amount of stamina.

If somebody could point me to where I could keep looking, that would be appreciated.

[ancient grail]

look atall the timed action iguess

[somber solar]

Oh joy that sounds like a big file. Time to go digging

[somber solar]

surprisingly, not that big. And not in there as far as I can tell
also not in variable conditions

[bronze yoke]

it's not easy for mods to mess with that kind of thing

it'll definitely be in java somewhere, i'd look for moodle level checks

looking for all usages of the moodletype will probably find it pretty quick, it doesn't do much else

[somber solar]

The level checks just use the float to display the moodle, no changes to anything else as far as I can tell. But it is good to know its in Java and not Lua. I'll keep looking.

[ancient grail]

i have an idea you might be able to use

create a listener that checks your endurance
if it gets depleted up to a certain threshold within a short period of time then trigger a custom event

and use that to do whatever it is you want which in your case would add more penalty to the endurance

[somber solar]

well, less penalty but yeah

I hate that the second you go from 24 to 25 percent endurance usage, you lose HALF your melee damage. My goal is to basically switch it around to increase the melee SPEED debuff but decrease the actual damage level. The current system is you lose damage, so you need to attack more, which uses more stamina and repeats until you die or run away

now all I have to do is learn how to actually do that since I've never used LUA and was hoping for something as simple as the recipe replacement/edits but I should have figured it would be harder.

[stable marsh]

I should've figured it would be harder
Honestly, that hope wasn't misplaced imo, PZ has some things easily accessible that are like "yeah obviously it has" but also some things you're like "what, do I even use this for again?" X3 So it wasn't far fetched of a hope

[somber solar]

I'm looking through all the methods that can modify the player and I don't see anything that actually changes melee damage. Am I just missing it?

[distant dove]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3459875383

so this thing is underrated ngl

for some reason im having fps issues and this managed to help me clear it

id say id prob got like 15-20% more fps and opening the crafting menu lags like 2 secs less lol

but for some reason you gotta go to the youtube video to get the actual right way to se this

[waxen kiln]

What yt video

[somber solar]

ooo I found a mod doing something similar to what I was going to do. which means I can find out how they did it

[regal umbra]

That's really good, as long you dont copy paste others work without permission, but if you merely use it for reference should be fine, however I'd still credit them upon release :p

[somber solar]

oh yeah totally

I would never steal somebody elses work, I just spent 2 hours trying to find where it is in the code

but so far, I don't feel the need to make any changes. Sure its not super realistic but its better than halved damage after 10 swings

[signal meteor]

Thanks

[bright fog]

The fact this says multi-cpu is already fake. I'll check what they do but the name is missleading

Overall looks interesting, but yea the name is missleading, that's not what it does

Tho the mod looks weird as shit

[fleet bridge]

Probably ai slop

[bright fog]

Yea tho they do have bat files and shit that you manually install

So idk

[regal umbra]

I just checked the description and it says right there the game is a single threaded game, so i have no actual fucking clue where the multi-cpu comes from

xD

[bright fog]

Exactly

[fleet bridge]

Sounds pretty suspect

[bright fog]

The game does have some multi-threaded stuff but it's mostly like lighting and renders I believe that are on secondary threads

But yeah the game is single threaded

The mod is red flag upon red flag ...

[regal umbra]

also the garbage collector iirc

[drifting ore]

It says mostly everything is still single thread with some multi thread opt. Someone said they got 10 more FPS from it, but uhhh you know how people be

[bright fog]

Yea

[regal umbra]

i mean the .bat seems to be messing with the java options

i mean from an initial look of the options that the mod author says to replace, nothing seems really malicious

But at the same time they tell you to replace launcher files and core files. So even if it isn't malicious, I'd rather not do any of it and tbf Im not even sure that's allowed within the TOS

Both from Indie Stone and the steam one

[small hollow]

Hello, I just joined 🙂 I've started to play around with modding and made a simple mod to add just 3 items and 3 recipes. However, it's causing an error that won't allow me to open the crafting menu. Any ideas on how I can fix that?

[bright fog]

Did you read the error ?

[small hollow]

I don't know how to do that, or where?

[bright fog]

Inside the console.txt file

[small hollow]

Ok, I found the console.txt file. What should I be looking for?

[bright fog]

Search the key word ERROR

[small hollow]

There's a lot of them 🫠

WARN : Recipe      , 1755170851487> RecipeManager.resolveItemModuleDotType> ERROR: can't find recipe source "Beef" in recipe "Cook Anticucho"
WARN : Recipe      , 1755170851488> RecipeManager.resolveItemModuleDotType> ERROR: can't find recipe source "Salt" in recipe "Cook Arepa"
WARN : Recipe      , 1755170851489> RecipeManager.resolveItemModuleDotType> ERROR: can't find recipe source "Dough" in recipe "Cook Empanada"
WARN : Recipe      , 1755170851490> RecipeManager.resolveItemModuleDotType> ERROR: can't find recipe source "Meat" in recipe "Cook Empanada"
WARN : Recipe      , 1755170851491> RecipeManager.resolveItemModuleDotType> ERROR: can't find recipe source "Onion" in recipe "Cook Empanada"
WARN : Recipe      , 1755170851491> RecipeManager.resolveItemModuleDotType> ERROR: can't find recipe source "Salt" in recipe "Cook Empanada"

This is what I found regarding my recipes. So, this is fixable by changing the ingredients?

[bright fog]

Which game version are you modding ?

[small hollow]

Build 41

[bright fog]

Those are your recipes right ?

[small hollow]

Yes, should I share my code?

[bright fog]

Yea

[small hollow]

These are the recipes

{
    recipe Cook Anticucho
    {
        Beef,
        One of:
        {
            Salt,
            Pepper,
            SpiceChili,
        },
        One of:
        {
            Onion,
            BellPepper,
            Zucchini,
        },
        Result:Anticucho,
        Time:30,
        Category:Cooking,
        AllowFrozen:true,
        SkillRequired:Cooking=1,
    }

    recipe Cook Arepa
    {
        Cornflour,
        Water,
        Salt,
        Result:Arepa,
        Time:25,
        Category:Cooking,
        SkillRequired:Cooking=1,
    }

    recipe Cook Empanada
    {
        Dough,
        Meat,
        Onion,
        Salt,
        Result:Empanada,
        Time:35,
        Category:Cooking,
        AllowFrozen:true,
        SkillRequired:Cooking=2,
    }
}

And these the items

module Base
{
    item Anticucho
    {
        DisplayName = Anticucho,
        DisplayCategory = Food,
        Type = Food,
        Weight = 0.4,
        Icon = Anticucho,
        HungerChange = -30,
        ThirstChange = 0,
        Calories = 250,
        Carbohydrates = 10,
        Lipids = 15,
        Proteins = 20,
        CustomEatSound = EatingMeat,
        DaysFresh = 6,
        DaysTotallyRotten = 10,
        IsCookable = TRUE,
    }

    item Arepa
    {
        DisplayName = Arepa,
        DisplayCategory = Food,
        Type = Food,
        Weight = 0.3,
        Icon = Arepa,
        HungerChange = -25,
        ThirstChange = 0,
        Calories = 220,
        Carbohydrates = 40,
        Lipids = 8,
        Proteins = 5,
        CustomEatSound = EatingBread,
        DaysFresh = 5,
        DaysTotallyRotten = 9,
        IsCookable = FALSE,
    }

    item Empanada
    {
        DisplayName = Empanada,
        DisplayCategory = Food,
        Type = Food,
        Weight = 0.25,
        Icon = Empanada,
        FoodType = Prepared,
        HungerChange = -25,
        ThirstChange = 0,
        Calories = 200,
        Carbohydrates = 25,
        Lipids = 10,
        Proteins = 8,
        CustomEatSound = EatingSandwich,
        DaysFresh = 5,
        DaysTotallyRotten = 9,
        IsCookable = TRUE,
    }

}

I did these just by imitating other mods and looking at the modding wiki

[bright fog]

Is that a thing in the vanilla recipes ?

        One of:
        {
            Salt,
            Pepper,
            SpiceChili,
        },
        One of:
        {
            Onion,
            BellPepper,
            Zucchini,
        },

[bright fog]

First off, do those spawn in game ?

[bright fog]

I'm not familiar at all with the B41 recipes

[small hollow]

No, these would be new items I would be adding with my mod

[bright fog]

Yes yes, but do they spawn in game rn ?

Did you try to spawn them in ?

[small hollow]

I mean, salt and pepper do exist

[bright fog]

No but do YOUR CUSTOM ITEMS WORK

That's the question

Start with that

Do those items work first off

[small hollow]

Ah, yes, they spawned when I used the debug mode to spawn them

My only issue is that I can't open the crafting menu when I load a game with the mod on

[bright fog]

Bcs you fucked up with your recipes, simple

Tho idk where

[bright fog]

But this is weird

I don't remember anything like that in B41 recipes

Where did you find recipes using that ?

[small hollow]

I didn't, they appeared as options when typing the recipe on Visual Studio Code

[small hollow]

But also, yeah it's a thing, I saw it on the wiki too

[true nova]

that not how b41 recipes work

[bright fog]

Wdym they appeared as options when typing ?

[small hollow]

Like, I was typing the recipe and then when I had to enter ingredients, it offered to fill in "Salt"

[bright fog]

You're using an extension ?

[small hollow]

Yeah, the wiki suggested I use one for modding PZ

[bright fog]

Why one tho, bcs there's one that is for B42

B41 recipes are different

[small hollow]

I know Salt is a thing in the game, idk why it's showing an error saying it can't find it

[bright fog]

Bcs One of is not a thing I think

If you don't find it in the base game recipes

That's not a thing

And the extension you're using is for B42

[small hollow]

So which extension should I use?

[silent zealot]

Salt or Base.Salt? Sometimes you can use the short name, sometimes the full name is neeed

But definitely check against vanilla recipes instead of trusting a VS extension

[distant dove]

yeah idk lol

[silent zealot]

I bet it just tweaks some of the java startup parameters

espeically because of

[small hollow]

Alright, I'll do that. Do you know where can I look up the vanilla recipes in coded format?

[silent zealot]

ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\recipes

all the vanilla scripts and lua are under media in your games installation

I suggest using VSCode -> Open folder -> media folder for easy searching, but use whatever tools you like since it's just piles of text files

[small hollow]

ALright thanks

Last question. Is there any way to make it so that ANY meat is able to be used in a recipe?

[distant dove]

it does look weird as shit

[bright fog]

It looks very AI-ish

[distant dove]

i had to follow the video guide cuz the one on workshop was outdated

but idk it did increase my fps lol

not by 50% tho

[molten grail]

    recipe Cook Anticucho
    {
        Beef,
        Salt/Pepper/SpiceChili,
        Onion/BellPepper/Zucchini,
        Result:Anticucho,
        Time:30,
        Category:Cooking,
        AllowFrozen:true,
        SkillRequired:Cooking=1,
    }

Try this instead

That's how you do "one of" in B41 modding

[bright fog]

Also one of isn't even a thing in B42 recipes 😅

So I have no idea where this comes from

[small hollow]

Me neither, the app gave it to me 🤷‍♂️ Thanks for the help

[molten grail]

Unrelated, also noticed your recipes don't give any xp. Just figured I'd mention it

[molten grail]

You could write a lua function that returns all types of meat, such as by adding a "meat" tag to all items you want it to use

[small hollow]

Yeah I'm still figuring things out, thanks for the reminder. I've never coded before, I'm just following the wiki step by step and using that the extension gave me, but I guess I'll uninstall the extension

[molten grail]

I never used the extension, just took bits and pieces I found in the code of other mods, and slowly tweaked things until I liked it

[small hollow]

I figure I got a long way ahead lol I'll stick to the advice from here from now on

[molten grail]

local scriptItem = ScriptManager.instance:getItem("Base.ItemName")
if scriptItem then
    scriptItem:DoParam("Tags = Meat")
end

scriptItem = ScriptManager.instance:getItem("Base.ItemName2")
if scriptItem then
    scriptItem:DoParam("Tags = Meat")
end

function Recipe.GetItemTypes.Meat(scriptItems)
    scriptItems:addAll(getScriptManager():getItemsTag("Meat"))
end

Replace ItemName with each item you want to add the meat tag to. Put this in a .lua file inside the media/lua/server directory

[small hollow]

tysm!

[molten grail]

Almost forgot to mention. In your recipe, you'd call that by doing something like this:

    recipe Cook Anticucho
    {
        [Recipe.GetItemTypes.Meat],
        Salt/Pepper/SpiceChili,
        Onion/BellPepper/Zucchini,
        Result:Anticucho,
        Time:30,
        Category:Cooking,
        AllowFrozen:true,
        SkillRequired:Cooking=1,
    }

[torn igloo]

Placebo effect or you have mods collectively tiles textures heavy enough to exceed your GPU vram capacity therefore require CPU rams but you did not adjust your -xmx thus your game is starving for memory which then impact your fps.

Yes, tiles textures from mods eat vrams. It is preloaded into your memory, not loaded on demand. I think if one use all the texture packs from all the map mods, easily exceed 8gb vram which is like what, 50% of steam users.

[distant dove]

ic

i mean we got a lot of mods for building

[red tiger]

I didn't forsee maxing out the VRAM on my 1080 GPU from playing "The Sims 1: Zombie Edition". 🤔

[stable marsh]

Does anyone know if Easy Distributions API works properly atm?

[bronze yoke]

it should

[stable marsh]

Then I'm guessing I haven't come across the right containers/location yet to find the loot I'm looking for if it's spawning

What would typically be a location a crowbar may spawn most frequently next to safehouses?

[red tiger]

@bronze yoke Have you looked into the new UI systems in 42?

[bronze yoke]

i have

[red tiger]

Any good findings?

[bronze yoke]

you can use lootzed to check if your loot has actually been added

[bronze yoke]

nothing crazy, i think xui is a big improvement on usability for 99% of cases but if you're trying to do super complex stuff you'll just be using the same b41 rendering primitives anyway

i mostly just want my uis to look like the vanilla uis so xui being a simpler way to do that is all i need

[red tiger]

Alright thanks. Helps me plan my UI system

Hence the dark and winding adventures of OOP world in Lua.'

All of that was for the UI framework

[stable marsh]

In that case the items are not being added to the loot pool properly. Also doesn't say so in the item list viewer it can be looted

I know the script is running fine, hmm lets see if something's throwing errors

Nope no errors

A h, yeah that'll do it- @bronze yoke

Guessing I got "Base.Crowbar" wrong

[bronze yoke]

it might be expecting just 'Crowbar' since that's how vanilla loot entries are usually written

base is assumed

[stable marsh]

In that case the example on the Steam page would be outdated

But I'll try

[bronze yoke]

nevermind, it seems like it does handle that

[stable marsh]

Yeah no "Base.Crowbar" is also correct

I have no clue why it isn't adding any entries

[bronze yoke]

@silent zealot might know what's going on

[stable marsh]

This is the current code, gonna see if the alternative function (without altered spawn chance) does work

Oops hold on wrong screenshot lol

Nope, removing the 3rd parameter didn't change the outcome

[queen oasis]

shouldn't that be the other way around? ie AddItem("new item", "item to replace")

[stable marsh]

Omfg hold on you're right I'm blind

💀

I think I know what got me confused

The first thing also says "Base."

Instead of like "CustomModule." or smth

Knowing my ass that threw the rest of my reading off hard

[queen oasis]

I sometimes get tunnel vision real bad

and sometimes I'm just drunk

[stable marsh]

Yeah the moment I read "Base" that probably already made me finish the rest in my brain with "Oh if the first item is Base module the other must be the new item" which is wrong and I would've known if I read JUST past the first "Base." 💀

Man do I love how my brain works

[silent zealot]

Easy distro should work with either.

But yeah, looks like backwards parameters

[stable marsh]

Yeeee there we goo

[queen oasis]

friendly reminder to not be like me and forget to get those prints out before you upload

[stable marsh]

Those are built into the API, I personally only add 2 prints that I will indeed remove, right now even X3

I even found a crate with one of the new crowbars already ^^

[queen oasis]

if you call EasyDistro.EnableVerbose(false) beforehand it should set EasyDistro.Debug to false which would suppress all the prints.

[young trellis]

Did b42 change how you view mods locally? I can only ever see mods in game that I post in my workshop folder not my mods folder?

[bronze yoke]

you should still be able to see mods from the mods folder

[young trellis]

Strange I've reverified files reinstalled the game and everything and no matter how I structure my mods I can't see them in mods but I can in workshop like if I put the working mod from workshop into the mods folder it doesnt pop up

I can't even get the console to find the mods in the folder

[regal umbra]

This might be a dumb reply, but are you sure the mod is in C:\Users\YourUser\Zomboid\Workshop?

Also are you sure mod.info and everything is set correctly

[young trellis]

Yep exact tree there, the mods folder in zomboid is where I cannot see the mods. I can see it in zomboid/workshop just not zomboid/mods

[regal umbra]

Oh, you're talking about that mods folder, yeah, I never really used that, nor really had I ever had a need to use it lmao, so can't help you on that sorry

[young trellis]

Like I can test the mod at the main menu screen just the same in workshop just all the guides I watch and read say put it in the mods folder and it throws me off

[regal umbra]

But if albion says it should be working, then most likely is

[young trellis]

Do you just use workshop? I mean my goal is to post to the workshop eventually so building the mod with the file structure ahead of time isnt the end of the world

[regal umbra]

Yeah i just use the workshop to develop

In fact I believe the wiki says its recommended you develop the mod there

as you can upload it right away to workshop whenever its done

[young trellis]

Interesting

[regal umbra]

It is highly suggested to use the workshop/ folder for mod development as mods need to be uploaded from it and developing from the mods/ folder will always require you to make a copy of it inside the workshop/ folder if you want to upload it. There's also other advantages to using this folder.

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Mod_structure

Essentially if you make the mod in the mods folder you have to copy over to the workshop one either way

so just cut the middle man

[young trellis]

Well then I don't care if I can't see the mods folder then appreciate the insight 🙂

[regal umbra]

Always glad to help :p

[queen oasis]

I think mod folder structure is different than workshop folder structure. you would just need the main mod folder that's inside Contents/mods

[young trellis]

Ill have to double check this, its been 3 years since I built any mods

[regal umbra]

I have a question, do any of you think I should add more content to my mod, and if I should, what could I add, I already added a custom trait and profession that well makes a bit of sense to have in my mod, the custom trait allows you to spawn with a preset vehicle inventory.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3547444619

I really need opinions/suggestions :p

Cuz I feel this can be expanded on, just not sure what content to add

That wouldn't obviously turn my mod into a mess that just has a bunch of random stuff in it, when initially it was supposed to help players spawn with a vehicle to do nomad runs

[true nova]

trait that makes sleeping in a van comfy?

[regal umbra]

Well you're supposed to use my mod with RV interiors, so technically you aren't really supposed to sleep in the van lmao

But this iteration of RV interiors is very weirdly made, most of time you get like a 4 tile room

But yeah I think I could make that an extra

For the players that do happen to sleep in the van

[bright fog]

Steam Uploader v0.3.0

• -n or --new to create a new workshop item. This can be called alone with the provided appID to create a new empty workshop item or called alongside other main parameters such as the description or preview ones to add those at the same time.
• Completely ditched the ability to give only the workshopID which retrieves the appID automatically. This is to simplify the whole code and the whole system was already not working in every cases and it was already suggested to always provide the appID.
• Code refactor to reorganize a bunch of stuff and to allow for the use of the new parameter -n in an easy way. This should also provide better support to add more to the uploader in the future (upload screenshots, videos etc).
  https://github.com/SirDoggyJvla/Steam-Uploader/releases/tag/v0.3.0

[red tiger]

Would hate to see it buried.

Also I could make a npm dev environment with Coolua that uses this to publish mods.

[bright fog]

Uh

No idea what that is

[red tiger]

Oh I mean to import it as a node.js module and use it to publish with commands.

[bright fog]

I think it got a bunch of traction already so that's pretty good

[red tiger]

Like a proper node environment for modding.

[bright fog]

Idk anything about node.js either

[red tiger]

Coolua's compiler will run using it.

[bright fog]

idk what that is and what it's for

[red tiger]

🤔

[bright fog]

If you're solution is about bringing the uploader in-game, I'm definitely interested, I did think about it already tho my solution wasn't as fancy and would revolve on using Leaf to Java mod it in (tho idk how difficult that'd be)

[red tiger]

Hell no not in-game hahaha

[bright fog]

Well what is this for then ?

[red tiger]

I want to run managing, compiling, and publishing without launching the game.

Testing in-game ofc

In other words I don't want to launch the game to publish it.

That's what I meant.

[bright fog]

Publish what ? Coolua ?

On the workshop ?

[red tiger]

A workshop mod of any type.

I thought that was the point of your project.

[bright fog]

Yes

[red tiger]

Then what's your confusion?

[bright fog]

But I just didn't understood what you meant at all at first, using words I don't even know

[red tiger]

Ok

[bright fog]

But feel free to use the app in any project, using command lines was an extra argument to have it be usable in anything almost

I'm aware due to how the app is designed rn it could very easily be used in anything that's able to call the app with command lines

So if that's your idea, go for it

[red tiger]

Yeah and node environments use cli to compile projects or publish them.

[bright fog]

Alright, well I didn't know what a node environment is in the first place

[red tiger]

https://nodejs.org/en

[bright fog]

Alright I see

[neon rapids]

Hi, guys, I've put my mod in the [User]/Zomboid/mods, but it's not visible in the game. Is it a good place for mod testing? If yes, how can I debug the error that causes the mod to be invisible?

[bronze yoke]

if the mod doesn't show up, the mod.info is missing or not in the right place

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Mod_structure make sure you're following the mod structure for the right version of the game

[neon rapids]

It's working now! Thank you

[muted garnet]

b42. I want to speed up the character's movement in a combat stance and I do and do it by increasing the SpeedScale. But in build 42, the developers added variations of movement in a combat stance, now moving backwards is much slower than moving forward. I want to make a fast, equal speed for all 4 directions, leaving variations of animations. As far as I understand, the animation changes depending on the current movement directory, but I did not find xml files with these animation names:

strafeDefault.xml:

<m_2DBlends referenceID="1">
<m_AnimName>Bob_IdleAim1Hand</m_AnimName>
<m_XPos>0.00</m_XPos>
<m_YPos>0.00</m_YPos>
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale>
</m_2DBlends>
<m_2DBlends referenceID="2">
<m_AnimName>Bob_WalkAim1Hand</m_AnimName>
<m_XPos>0.00</m_XPos>
<m_YPos>1.00</m_YPos> 
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale> 
</m_2DBlends> 
<m_2DBlends referenceID="3"> 
<m_AnimName>Bob_WalkBwdAim1Hand</m_AnimName> 
<m_XPos>0.00</m_XPos> 
<m_YPos>-1.00</m_YPos> 
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale> 
</m_2DBlends> 
<m_2DBlends referenceID="4"> 
<m_AnimName>Bob_Strafe_Right</m_AnimName> 
<m_XPos>1.00</m_XPos> 
<m_YPos>0.00</m_YPos> 
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale> 
</m_2DBlends> 
<m_2DBlends referenceID="5"> 
<m_AnimName>Bob_Strafe_Left</m_AnimName> 
<m_XPos>-1.00</m_XPos> 
<m_YPos>0.00</m_YPos> 
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale> 
</m_2DBlends> 
<m_2DBlends referenceID="6"> 
<m_AnimName>Bob_WalkBwdAim1Hand_DiagL</m_AnimName> 
<m_XPos>-0.55</m_XPos> 
<m_YPos>-0.55</m_YPos> 
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale> 
</m_2DBlends> 
<m_2DBlends referenceID="7"> 
<m_AnimName>Bob_WalkBwdAim1Hand_DiagR</m_AnimName> 
<m_XPos>0.55</m_XPos> 
<m_YPos>-0.55</m_YPos> 
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale> 
</m_2DBlends> 
<m_2DBlends referenceID="8"> 
<m_AnimName>Bob_WalkAim1Hand_DiagR</m_AnimName> 
<m_XPos>0.55</m_XPos> 
<m_YPos>0.55</m_YPos>
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale>

</m_2DBlends>
<m_2DBlends referenceID="9">
<m_AnimName>Bob_WalkAim1Hand_DiagL</m_AnimName>
<m_XPos>-0.55</m_XPos>
<m_YPos>0.55</m_YPos>
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale>
</m_2DBlends>

Can I keep these animation variations when moving in different directions, but increase their speed so that the character in a combat stance moves equally fast in all 4 directions?

[bright fog]

Movement in the 4 directions varies based on the nimble skill

Nothing more to it

It was already like that in B41

So if you want the caracter to be fast in every directions, just set the nimble skill to 10 I suppose ?

Or if you want to go the hard way, modify AnimSets and here I can't provide much help sorry

[muted garnet]

as far as I remember, in 41b the speed of movement backwards was the same as forwards

now the speed of movement backwards is much lower, and I want to make the speed of movement in all directions equally fast

[umbral raptor]

why dont devs remove the need for the "," at the end of code in scripts? just started modding for another game that uses similar scripts but doesn't require a , gotta say, would solve alot of time debugging code specially for beginners

[bright fog]

No 100% not

I am 100% confident the backward speed was NOT the same

It was always affected by nimble

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LN-Ko7oJR5I

Ah ok I think I see what you mean, the same when you aim

[muted garnet]

Yes, but now the character moves incredibly slowly when moving backwards or sideways. This is exactly what I want to achieve - the same speed in all directions.

[bright fog]

[regal umbra]

Because depending on the parser and what you're doing the semi colon ";" represents the end of the line

Take for example in Javascript

foo() 
(1+2).toString()

To a human this is obvious that you want to call foo() first then call toString() however the parser will just read it as

 foo()(1+2).toString()

I.e

1. Call foo()
2. Get function that foo returned
3. invoke that same function with the argument 3
4. call toString() on the result

Languages that forces the semi-colons its mainly to avoid ambiguities like this

But nowadays most languages have automatic semicolon insertions

They can guess when a command ends and another starts

It can still lead to errors

But way less than before

As far as PZ goes, I sometimes use ; sometimes don't

Lua doesn't really get affected by it most of the time

[umbral raptor]

yeah, cant tell u how much time i spent looking for the missing , when i first started modding haha.

then i started modding another game and found that it inserted it automatically

[regal umbra]

Well with pz if you don't use ; most of the time you shouldn't get problems either

Unless if very specific ambiguous cases i guess

Most of the time I really just add ; out of habit

[bright fog]

It doesn't.

Nothing more, ; does nothing

[thin swan]

It's because the strafe animsets have specific "slow" animations that gets used.
For example ..\media\AnimSets\player\strafe\strafe2handedSlow.xml gets triggered when using a 2 handed weapon, which has the backwards animations:

<m_2DBlends>
    <m_AnimName>Bob_WalkBwdAimBatSlow</m_AnimName>
</m_2DBlends>
<m_2DBlends>
    <m_AnimName>Bob_WalkBwdAimBat_DiagLSlow</m_AnimName>
</m_2DBlends>
<m_2DBlends>
    <m_AnimName>Bob_WalkBwdAimBat_DiagRSlow</m_AnimName>
</m_2DBlends>

I haven't tested it myself, but probably you can just adjust the speedscale of those slow strafe xmls, or you override the slow animations with the non-slow versions

[muted garnet]

here's just the SlowingMovement condition flag becoming true at the moment of impact. In 41b the character, as far as I remember, really slowed down after the impact, but in b42 he, on the contrary, accelerates if he hits at the moment of going back, this is more noticeable at high speed. However, I'm not talking about this slowdown. In 42b the character simply, even without a weapon, moves back or to the sides in a combat stance much slower than forward. I think it's because of these lines:

strafeDefault.xml

<m_2DBlends referenceID="4">
<m_AnimName>Bob_Strafe_Right</m_AnimName>
<m_XPos>1.00</m_XPos>
<m_YPos>0.00</m_YPos>
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale>
</m_2DBlends>
<m_2DBlends referenceID="5">
<m_AnimName>Bob_Strafe_Left</m_AnimName>
<m_XPos>-1.00</m_XPos>
<m_YPos>0.00</m_YPos>
<m_SpeedScale>0.80</m_SpeedScale>
</m_2DBlends>

which switches the forward walking animation to longer animation for walking left/right/back

[tranquil reef]

Is there a way to clear the debug console without closing the game

[bright fog]

Not to my knowledge. Why do you need that ?

[tranquil reef]

When I fix errors and then reload lua, it's annoying needing to close the game to clear all the already fixed error messages

[bright fog]

Aaah

[regal umbra]

Seems the other author of the mod I'm using as a requirement is having some trouble. Sent them a message hoping that they're up for a collab

[tranquil reef]

Also is it possible to choose a texture choice for a clothing item you're spawning?

There's a debug menu tool I believe, so unless that's hardcoded in java it should be possible, right?

[small topaz]

Hi! Is it possible to remove all zombies from a given building via lua coding in B42? I already checked the B42 java doc for the class IsoBuilding but wasn't able to find anything which looks like "RemoveAllZombies()" or smth. Also: is IsoBuilding the correct class which contains building objects (residential houses, stores etc.)?

[regal umbra]

I dont think you can "RemoveAllZombies()" You can create a custom function to remove objects from world and square using removeFromWorld() removeFromSquare()

[small topaz]

yeah. there is a command IsoZombie.removeFromWorld(). Question is then how I get all zombies from a building...

[regal umbra]

and ik you can check if the object is a zombie by checking if the obj is an instance of IsoZombie

[regal umbra]

Hm, let me see if I can figure something out

[small topaz]

there is also a command IsoGridSquare.getZombie() which returns an IsoZombie object. So the problem is reduced to getting all IsoGridSquares which belong to the building...

[regal umbra]

Well yeah, I was about to point out you can simply get the square the building is on

[small topaz]

So other question: is there an easy way to get all IsoGridSquares belonging to an IsoBuilding?

[regal umbra]

local squares = building:getSquares() not sure if that's a function tho

ig

[small topaz]

btw: is the IsoGridSquare the smallest unit in which the map is partitioned?

[regal umbra]

Yeah I think so

IsoGridSquare being the equivalent to 1 tile iirc

[bright fog]

Check square per square

[bright fog]

Yea

[small topaz]

do you know how I can get all squares belonging to a building?

[bright fog]

If I remember right you need to do it room per room

[viral spire]

Is a mod to make the zombies starve to death doable? I mean more in the sense of "zombie population decreases" and the number of corpses in the world increases as a result.

[bright fog]

I'd say yes

As long as you don't need to go in the details of actually making zombies starve on your screen it shouldn't be too hard

Can simply use an exponential or log distribution across the time (not sure if these are the correct technical words to describe it) which defines the zombie population based on the start world value, then the inverse is the body count spawning
In sandbox options you dynamically modify the zombie population every time the save gets saved (quitting the save) so next time it loads in with the new zombie pop
For the corpse spawn you have to look into mods that do that, I'm not familiar with the process

And have to tweak corpse count to equivalent zombie pop

Issue is that you might not be able to use zombie density directly for the corpse count, depends if you can access the value per chunk

If you can then that makes your life simpler

[bronze yoke]

you can

[bright fog]

Nice

I remember something about being able to but I have zero idea where

[small topaz]

ok. so just from what I found in the Java doc, this might somehow work (pseudo code):

rooms = buidling:getRooms()
for room in rooms do
    squares = room:getIsoRoom():getSquares()
    for square in square do
    -- remove all zombies```

[bright fog]

Should do it I think yes

You want to remove zombies inside buildings ?

[small topaz]

many thanks! I'll try!

[small topaz]

yes. inside a specific building where the player character is in

[bright fog]

I see

What's the goal of your mod exactly ?

Is it when spawning in ?

<@&671452400221159444>

[small topaz]

Yes, I want to add custom spawn points and when the character spawns, zombies should be removed from the building.

There is ofc an easier way to do this by just adding spawnpoints.lua files to the map folder (this will automatically remove all zeds from the building). Problem is when my mod is used in multiplayer. The spawn houses coming from the spawnpoints.lua can then not be declared as safe houses afaik. So my idea is to spawn the player manually. The new spawnpoints can then easily be disabled when people play multiplayer so that they have enough options for making safe houses. (The mod also has other features, not only spawn points).

[bright fog]

👌

You can access the list of buildings on the map from a thing I forgot the name of oof

@sour island used it in his recent mod to know the position of every buildings

[small topaz]

I already defined the spawn points manually by using the B42 map from the web. So that work is already done.

[bright fog]

oof

Sounds like hell

[bronze yoke]

probably the metagrid

[bright fog]

Ah yea that

That way you could automate the definition of spawn points

Which could also adapt to any map mods added to the server

[small topaz]

Yeah quite annoying. A huge chunk of work was already done in my B41 version of the mod. I only had to adjust the Muldraugh spawns and add new spawns for Echron. Btw it is a profession mod where each profession should get specific spawn points, including an overhaul for all vanilla profession spawns.

Making this somehow automatically is in my case not so easy since the way I envision my mod requires to hand-craft it.

But when I have finished the first say 6 professions, the process becomes faster because I simply can copy-paste a lot of stuff to new professions.

[bright fog]

Hmm I feel like you can access the type of buildings

Tho yea you can't detect between police or hospital easily I suppose

Depends what kind of informations the map files give

[small topaz]

I am also quite obsessed with some very specific details: for example I have a "Retired" profession and they should never get a house with toys in the garden or a bed room for kids or teenagers in their house. I have a "gang member" profession and they should only get small houses which look a bit dirty, not having a nice garden and stuff. I have a "Priest" and they should spawn in houses near a church and so on. 😅

[bright fog]

oof

I see

[small topaz]

btw the B41 version of my mod is here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2675128168

I am currently working on the update for B42.

[bright fog]

I see yea

[regal umbra]

Finally released the new update to my mod ^_^

[bright fog]

congrats

[regal umbra]

Now the players can spawn with an RV right away as long they have the correct mods

Otherwise they can just spawn with a random vehicle from the supported mods list or vanilla

[regal umbra]

Ohh, I was working on a professions mod myself

That kinda went back to the backlog because well, I found that Nomad runs were more important lmao

[small topaz]

There are already a lot of profession mods out there. It's totally fine if people make different mods of a similar "genre" in my opinion.

[regal umbra]

Well the great thing about Build 42 is that it allows new modders like myself to get known on the scene

I find it was harder to do that in B41 because there were already so many known modders out there

And since not every major mod transitioned to B42 it gives newcomers a path to shine

I mean just take a look at the tags

[bright fog]

I suppose it's true that the modding scene is more flexible with the new update yea

[small topaz]

I already modded for B41 and I also did not yet update all of my mods. In fact, I only updated one and I am currently working on the second. Updating is somehow less fun than writing a new one lol.

[bronze yoke]

the community's just a lot quieter these days in general, it's much easier to get your name out there than it was two years ago

[regal umbra]

I guess that's true to some point

But if you started modding late into B41 it would be harder to get your name out there than if you started early

Due to so many great/widespread mods being out there already

For example you could make your own weapons mod in B41, but you'd have to do better than Brita's or Arsenal 26 for example

And as of now there's no major weapons mod for B42 as far im aware

[small topaz]

are the Brita mods not yet updated?

[regal umbra]

I don't think so

We are trying to fix the mod, no promises....Many of the work-around methods that allow the features of this mod to work have been shut-down and disabled by B42.

They're having a hard time porting it to B42

I mean b42 did a major change on how weapons worked so

[small topaz]

ah I see...

[bright fog]

Let it die

[small topaz]

it would be a pity because they made so many assets for their guns

[regal umbra]

True

Lmao this person is a genius https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3397635749&searchtext=

[small topaz]

love the song!

[regal umbra]

No one cannot not love There Goes My Hero

[bright fog]

If they make their mod less intrusive and not nuke the whole game

[sour island]

Some people like run and gun stuff, to each their own 🤷🏻‍♂️

[bright fog]

No that's not the issue

That's absolutely not a problem

The problem is how they do it

They cluelesly add a shit ton of items and don't realize they break core game features, but due to how stupidly written the game is, they don't notice it with vanilla assets

For my hunting mod that added butchery, I checked for a specific tag which is used to identify sharp knives

But bcs they copy pasted every single vanilla scripts and modifed them directly, the moment vanilla items got a change in their scripts they didn't fix it

So when the sharp knife tag was added to vanilla tags, they didn't do it

And due to the game checking BOTH the tag AND every vanilla knives refs in the functions of butchering recipes, well the vanilla knives still worked in these, but now I end up having to check for vanilla knives as well as the tag when the vanilla tags are supposed to have this tag, basically patching their mod

So lots of cool gun assets and concepts, but too intrusive to be viable for the long term

[sour island]

Oh, I didn't realize it's that bad

[small topaz]

Does anyone knows how to convert map coordinates of the form

Cell: 36x32
Rel: 169x177

to coordinates of the form

Coords: 10969x9777

??

I once knew how this worked but cannot remember anymore.

Is a cell 300x300 squares?

[bright fog]

I don't even know anymore it's kind of fuck up .....

Bcs in B41 it was 300x300 dot

Now in B42 it's 256x256 and mapping needs to be done on 300x300 but it goes to 256x256. Actually maybe it's the inverse ...
God it's so fucking confusing

[regal umbra]

i just do 300x300 dot lmao

[bronze yoke]

it might still be 300x300 for this purpose

the only thing i can think of that uses these coordinates is spawn points and i can't imagine they changed the coordinate system for those when they were so dedicated to keeping mapping using 300x300 everywhere else

[regal umbra]

ik that when i was getting spawn locations from my mod, by looking at the b42 map i was just doing 10969/300 and 9777/300

and you get worldX and worldY with that

[bronze yoke]

256x256 cells is more of an internal detail for performance, i wouldn't be surprised if the metagrid was still 300x300 too

[regal umbra]

Ig you could just do CellX * 300 + RelX, CellY * 300 + RelY and you get Absolute Coords

[small topaz]

Just did a quick test. Using coordinates of the form

{ worldX = 35, worldY = 34, posX = 251, posY = 221 }

still works as expected in B42 and gives the same map position as in B41 (for the old B41 part of the map).

[small topaz]

I'll try to test this and see whether results are correct. Thanks! Btw, ChatGPT also gave me this formula. 😉 But if a cell is indeed 300x300 squares it should be correct.

[regal umbra]

Apparently the 256x256 is only in-engine

But I also found this

Thanks, what you provided is sufficient. In B42, spawn points must be referenced to 300x300 cells, while other elements like objects.lua need to be converted to their new 256x256 coordinates. Specifically, you can use a map in its previous location by reconverting coordinates, except for spawn points; you shouldn't touch them because the game handles that conversion internally.

[small topaz]

    local player = getPlayer()
    local x = 35*300+251
    local y = 34*300+221
    player:teleportTo(x, y, 0)
    Events.OnTick.Remove(teleportToStartPos) -- do this only on the first tick when new game starts
end

Events.OnTick.Add(teleportToStartPos)```
Works like a charm when it comes to coordinates. Only problem is that it gives a small FPS hit during the first second of the game. But I'll also try doing this OnNewGame or OnCreatePlayer or smth and see whether it still works and may get better in terms of FPS.

[young trellis]

Can you reliably change the attack speed of a weapon or is the animation itself sort of a soft lock? I know fitness and skill ups it a little

[true nova]

i can't find anything definitive. attacking is handled in ISReloadWeaponAction.attackHook and it runs character:DoAttack , which is a java function. that passes a var called chargeDelta though, that may determine the speed? idk

[queen oasis]

is there a way I can make the "compatible only" font like 10x larger on the workshop?

[storm thunder]

Hey, I had a question the modders here might know the answer to. The speedrunning community is trying to figure out the probability of specific spawns. If anyone happens to know them that'd be useful (since they appear to be weighted not equally distributed). Or if anyone knows an easy way to find the data from a save, that'd be the next best option as I could just parse my saves with a script.

[mild canyon]

Hello everyone! I'm new here so please forgive me my stupid questions! I suddenly got juices flowing for creating PZ-mods! I'm not an IT-guy, I'm just creating 3d models and animations in blender. So, my question is:

Can I import in PZ my unique model with animations, based on unique self-made armature? Is it possible at all?

I have a coder in my team, who has no idea how to work with my model and how to at least spawn it. He tried so hard and got nothing and I start thinking the problem is hidden in my model (I converted my .fbx to .x, with only mesh and armature selected, sent him the texture etc.)

Are we trying to complete something impossible?

[bright fog]

Don't use .x

For custom armatures, your bone names need to be the vanilla ones but you can use custom armatures, we already have custom rigs for animating

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Animation
Read this page

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/File_formats#Modeling_and_animation_formats
And this page

Especially that

[bronze yoke]

what exactly are you trying to do with this model?

[regal umbra]

Specific spawns of what? Loot or player spawns

[mild canyon]

@bright fog
Thank you so much!
If I do have more bones than in vanilla, should I just rename them like Bip01_L_"My custom name"?

The Idea is to build a remote controllable robot, which is basically a humanoid, but has more bones, than a human. I've completed the model itself with textures, armature and animations. My idea is to do something like "playable" character, if it's possible.

I'm not sure I've answered your question, I'm very new, so I really apologize for some basic stupid questions!

[bronze yoke]

that's a good explanation, doggy was on the money then

[bright fog]

You can't have custom bones

[bronze yoke]

i was going to point out that if you were trying to make an animal or something else, the answer is completely different

[bright fog]

If it's an animal yea you can

Why do you need more bones ?

[bronze yoke]

i'm pretty sure even player models can have custom bones, the skeleton isn't hardcoded anymore, but some bones have hardcoded meanings and i wouldn't be surprised if the game would crash if they're missing

and of course your custom bones have no data in every existing animation so it's a nightmare to put yourself through

[bright fog]

That'd be weird asf, how would that even work

You can't switch from vanilla to custom armature like that ?

That'd make no sense....

[mild canyon]

What do you mean? So the animals in the game could have custom bones, but humanoids - not?

[bronze yoke]

why not...?

[bright fog]

How does it handle bones appearing in an animation then disappearing in the next ?

[bronze yoke]

most likely it doesn't and the extra bones just meatball

[bright fog]

Yea so it doesn't work, unless you reanimate everything

[bronze yoke]

which means it does work 😅

[bright fog]

I mean if meatballing means it works idk what to tell you 💀

[bronze yoke]

it's not impossible to reanimate everything 😅

depending on your usage you might not need to do very much

[bright fog]

We both know that's the worst nightmare ever created on earth lmao

So prone to so many issues too

[bright fog]

The question is why do you even need custom bones ?

[mild canyon]

Because I've modeled my robot consisting of simple mechanisms

Do I have just to delete my custom armature, take the vanilla one and remake my animations based on it? Or may I just rename the bones properly?

[bronze yoke]

if the robot only uses custom animations i don't really know why you would need to use the vanilla skeleton

but it's largely untested territory

if you want to also use vanilla animations though then you'd have to match the original rig

[mild canyon]

I don't need vanilla animations, only my custom

I have walk, combat enter, combat stance, combat exit, punching, resting, etc.

Everything this robot needs was made, the only problem is, how to import it all to the game

[bronze yoke]

loot is not weighted

[regal umbra]

is it not?

[bronze yoke]

it isn't

[regal umbra]

I was in the idea that it was lol

[bronze yoke]

every item is rolled for separately using its value as a chance

[regal umbra]

out of the total weight right

?

[bronze yoke]

the chance is multiplied by a whole bunch of bullshit factors that make it essentially impossible to know the actual spawnrate

no, there is no weighting used

if there are 10 items in the loot table, all 10 are rolled for per roll, and all 10 can spawn

[regal umbra]

what about the integer next to the item?

like in the example i gave

[bronze yoke]

that is the chance

[regal umbra]

oh

[bronze yoke]

again it's multiplied by a bunch of mystery stuff, the actual spawnrate of an item might be different in two identical containers in different places

[regal umbra]

so essentially what @storm thunder asked is pretty much impossible

Unless we get to know the mystery stuff

I wonder if it might be related with the seed

[bronze yoke]

it's not that the calculation is unknown but that too many factors are involved for it to be practical

for example where the container is affects the spawnrate

so you can't say 'duct tape has a 5% chance to spawn on shelves' because two different shelves will actually have different chances

these days the seed affects it too

[regal umbra]

Now that you're talking about it, I can see a whole lotta bs affecting it lmao

[willow tulip]

Whats the best place to report an API function acting weirdly? -_-;

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Procedural_distributions

This might help you understand it in case you case you need

[small topaz]

For player spawn points: The game files contain a folder "maps" and for each starting city, there is a file spawnpoints.lua containing the spawnpoints for each profession in that city. The probability of a specific profession spawning at a point in their spawnpoint list is 1/no-of-spawnpoints-in-the-list.

For items spawing: in the game files, lua/server/Items/ProceduralDistributions.lua controlls a lot of the spawn probabilities but only for stuff spawning in the world, not for spawning on zombies. The item spawnrates on zombies is also somewhere in the lua files but I don't know that by heart rn.

[small topaz]

As long as this doesn't result in a vanilla game bug, there is probably no successful way of reporting it.

[small topaz]

How do I get the IsoGrid square from x,y and z coordinates? Tried getSquare(x,y,0) but this resulted in nothing.

[bronze yoke]

that will only work if the square is in the loaded area

[small topaz]

Great! That fixed it!

[tulip valve]

How do you add items into survivor bags?

table.insert(Distribution_BagsAndContainers.list.SurvivorItems.items, 1);```

Dosnt seem to work

I also added a

require "Items/Distribution_BagsAndContainer"

[small topaz]

are these the bags which are equipped on the player by the vanilla game when you choose starting kits in the sandbox settings?

[tulip valve]

no

it's the survivor zombies

[regal umbra]

thanks :p

[surreal pulsar]

yo is this just mod development or mod development support

[regal umbra]

I mean both kinda

lmao

Here it's general chat about mod development, but people tend to ask stuff here too

[surreal pulsar]

I’m making a mod named featherback where you can choose a trait where you get +32 trait points but can only carry 1/5 your carry weight

[regal umbra]

mod support is to get support on mods

[surreal pulsar]

I’m trying to rip a model so I can add a figurine to the mod, the figurine functions like a pouch and a mannequin

I can sort out the coding but all I’ll need to sort out is the model

How can I convert models into blender ready models?

[regal umbra]

I guess you could ask that in #modeling

[surreal pulsar]

Ok is that active?

I’m praying it is ngl

Can’t find much that works

[regal umbra]

Yeah usually all the 3d artists are there

You might also get lucky and have Sir Doggy answer you lmao

If they're able to, I don't see why they wouldn't answer you, afaik they understand modeling too

[small topaz]

is there a way to get a square from a non loaded area?

[bronze yoke]

no

[small topaz]

sh*t... I currently use this construction:

Problem is that the player:getSquare() seems to always being true on the tick no. 1 (sometimes it is on tick 3 or 4). This results in the situation that the alarm of the building is not always disabled in a reliable manner.

Or is the command room:getBuilding():getDef():setAlarmed(false) to the right one to disable alarms for that building?

[bronze yoke]

building defs exist globally, but you wouldn't be able to start from the square because it doesn't exist

try getWorld():getMetaGrid():getBuildingAt(x, y):setAlarmed(false)

[small topaz]

thanks! I try that!!!

[small topaz]

Is it possible to manually pause the game for a few ticks using lua code?

[bright fog]

pause the game for a few ticks ?

Just set the game speed to 0 then count how many ticks passed I supposed with OnRenderTick or some shit like that ?

I assume those still run ?

[small topaz]

game speed to 0 is a good starting point for this! thanks!!

[regal umbra]

is there a method to attach trailers to vehicles on spawn or not

I'm looking to ISAttachTrailerToVehicle

through*

[small topaz]

so I guess the ticks counted in OnTick will stop to run when game speed = 0 and therefore one should choose the render ticks?

[regal umbra]

does the start() method trigger the same as if it was the player attaching the trailer using the radial menu?

might as well test it out and see what it does lmao

im cooked

now instead of spawning 1 car

is spawning 2

💀

[queen oasis]

OnTickPaused might work or OnRenderTick

[regal umbra]

nvm my dumbass was indexing the root table that's why

[main pasture]

If you want to wait for a specific square to load, you can add a function to the load event of a grid square and check if it's the correct one. That is how I do it after player teleports out of the loaded area

[shy mantle]

Does anyone know where the game makes traffic jams all rotated and stuff.

[regal umbra]

Omg this feels so good

Finally managed to organize the whole vehicles_list table

And i made the vehicle spawner dynamically detect which mods you have installed and if they're supported adds those to a validVehicles table

which then can randomly pick up a vehicle from and spawn it

instead of just going, oh we support these mods, but you dont have these mods installed yet i picked this modded vehicle

so here you have a default base vehicle to replace it

[willow tulip]

Nice

[willow tulip]

Is there anywhere for modding requests? -_-;

(to the dev team)

[bronze yoke]

https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1318920979581501502

temper your expectations though

[willow tulip]

Thanks!

[willow tulip]

Thanks, I have none, just wanted to throw it off into the void that it would be nice if it worked like setContainerCapacity like it does for trunks -_-

[small topaz]

I think the forum of the TIS homepage also has a "modders wishlist" which you might try

[young trellis]

Is it impossible to add +1 long blunt skill or something?

I made a shortblade skill trait but when making long blunt it just doesn't want to work

[willow tulip]

its prob some capitalization thing.

I see Perks.Blunt and Perks.SmallBlunt

What 'perk' tag where you using?

[young trellis]

LongBlunt

Lemme try just blunt

[young trellis]

What a hero you are

[willow tulip]

np 🙂

[young trellis]

Driving me insane for the last two hours trying to patch up my mod pack of all the little things and I've been hung up on this lmao

[willow tulip]

I just searched in files all the vanilla *.lua for 'blunt' 🙂

[young trellis]

I'll have to remember that next time, once I'm done tackling all the finer details I'm moving on to making a simple animation so wish me luck there lmao

[surreal pulsar]

I have a mod.info file but it says I don’t have one when I try and upload it (b42)

[small topaz]

Is zombie:removeFromWorld() where zombie is an IsoZombie supposed to simply remove the zombie, make it disappear?

[bright fog]

Steam Uploader v0.4.0

• Ability to upload descriptions and titles for a specific language with -L
  https://github.com/SirDoggyJvla/Steam-Uploader/releases/tag/v0.4.0

[regal umbra]

Mod is updated yippy

[queen oasis]

regarding your mod request, have you tried to test the part? mainly check if test:isContainer() is true and test:getItemContainer() exists

[regal umbra]

Also the description got so incredibly long that the workshop menu in PZ can't handle it anymore, i literally can't write anything else 💀

So i gotta copy paste stuff in

[surreal pulsar]

When I try and upload mine it says there’s no mod.info file

But there is

[regal umbra]

Might be a structure problem

[surreal pulsar]

Is it meant to be next to the poster file?

And I’m uploading it on B42

[regal umbra]

Ye

YourMod\42

[willow tulip]

test it for what? Im definately getting the gas tank, iv managed to edit its 'fluid capacity'.. except thats apparently quite different from its gas tank capacity.

[regal umbra]

It should be in there

[surreal pulsar]

I followed Dirks mod template

[willow tulip]

getContainerCapacity also gets the proper fuel capacity.

[surreal pulsar]

Does it need to say 42 anywhere in mod info?

[regal umbra]

You can also try to have YourMod\common and place another mod.info there

[regal umbra]

No that's just the folder location

For example for me is

Vanvival\42

And i have the mod.info in there

[surreal pulsar]

You made vanvival?

[regal umbra]

Ye

[surreal pulsar]

Btw the ford bus interior is great

[regal umbra]

I didn't make the interiors, that's Mickey Knox port of RV Interiors to B42 lmao

[surreal pulsar]

Oh

But still great scripting

[willow tulip]

at this point im kinda wondering if I can make my mod info different for B42/41 so I could have my mod description just say "this mod is for B42 silly" in B41

[regal umbra]

My mod just uses his mod to spawn vehicles

Like Monkey's RV start

[regal umbra]

Well mods for B42 need to be in B42 folder

You can have multiple versions in a mod

I.e

B42, B42.x

At least that's what I understood from the mods structure over at the wiki

[willow tulip]

Yea but I don't have a B41 version of my mod so I was thinking of doing that just so that I don't get people going 'omg I tried your mod in B41 and I couldn't even find it on the mod list! its brokkennnn' that iv seen on so many B42 mods

[surreal pulsar]

Is this the right structure?

[willow tulip]

copy and paste the full path lol.

[regal umbra]

Can you just copy and paste the location here entirely, I can't really read

lmao

most of it

Normally it should look something like this

[small topaz]

Still have huge problems with removing zombies from a specific square. I tried this code:

local zombie = square:getZombie()
while zombie do  
  print("ZOMBIE_REMOVED!")
  square:RemoveTileObject(zombie)
  zombie:removeFromWorld()
  zombie = square:getZombie()
end```
Whenever I find a zombie on the square, the while-loop loops to infinity. Problem is that I don't know how to properly remove all zeds from a square. I am not sure whether the commands I use are correct (they can be found in the java doc but I have no idea what they are really doing). Also, I only find the command `square:getZombie()` which gets only one zombie from a square. Isn't it possible that there are more than one zombie on a square?

[regal umbra]

C:\Users\YourUser\Zomboid\Workshop\Vanvival\Contents\mods\Vanvival\42

[bronze yoke]

this is not correct for b42

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Mod_structure

[surreal pulsar]

Sound

[regal umbra]

The 42 folder is the one that needs to have poster.png, mod.info, media folder inside

The vanvival folder (Your mod folder) needs to have 42, common

[surreal pulsar]

So replace mods with 42?

[regal umbra]

And other folders for example media/maps, if you're messing with maps

[surreal pulsar]

Oh

So I do Contents/mods/42

?

[regal umbra]

No, it should be

C:\Users\Magnet\Zomboid\Workshop\YourModName\Contents\mods\YourModName -> then here you have 42, common and other folders

[queen oasis]

idk if this is your issue, but I had to also zombie:removeFromSquare()

[surreal pulsar]

Alright so 42 with the things the players see like posters and common has all the code

[regal umbra]

well common can be empty

common is just to store stuff, so the mod doesn't get hyper large

[surreal pulsar]

great

don’t want my mod looking like a pyrocinical stream

[regal umbra]

For example

you'd use common to store textures

models

etc..

all the code goes in 42 -> media

[surreal pulsar]

ok so I think I’ve got it

Oh it still says missing mod.info

[regal umbra]

Can you show the folder where your mod.info is located

[surreal pulsar]

It’s in 42 with poster

do I need to put .png next to poster?

[regal umbra]

Because on this screenshot, you have Contents\YourMod\

then idk what those 3 files are

I assume one is media

[small topaz]

many thanks!

[regal umbra]

because it seems to start with m

[surreal pulsar]

Yeah

[regal umbra]

is it still like that

so you have like media folder, mod.info and poster

in that folder

[surreal pulsar]

Yes

No actually

In a new folder

The 42 one

[regal umbra]

ok is it just named 42

[surreal pulsar]

yeah just 42 and inside mod name

[regal umbra]

This is what your mod folder should look like

no need for that 3rd media file

just 42

and common

then inside 42

[surreal pulsar]

Yeah it looks like that

[regal umbra]

you have media

poster

and mod.info

[surreal pulsar]

oh wait media for code right?

[regal umbra]

inside the folder 42

you need to have the folder media

poster.png

and mod.info

yes

[surreal pulsar]

So media in the 42 folder?

[regal umbra]

yes you need to have a folder named media inside the 42 folder

like the picture i sent

this one

[surreal pulsar]

Do I need to relaunch to check if it worked?

Like can be uploaded

[regal umbra]

yeah you can relaunch the game

go to the workshop

in the game

and check if you can upload

[surreal pulsar]

https://tenor.com/view/metin2-servers-are-being-fixed-server-down-metin2-metin2-servers-down-metin2-fix-servers-metin2-praying-for-servers-gif-14381007301629613734

me rn

[regal umbra]

then inside the media folder

you have the mod files

your code

etc..

[surreal pulsar]

I think I’ve done that part

Just way more light compared to yours

oh no it said it again

I’ve looked it up and it said somewhere I need to go back to b41 to upload a mod

Is that true or nah

[regal umbra]

nah

try this then

you know where the common folder is right

[surreal pulsar]

yes

[regal umbra]

actually

are you sure it's saying you're missing mod.info

[surreal pulsar]

Yeah

[regal umbra]

because it will also warn you about the workshop.txt

one

iirc

[surreal pulsar]

That one just dissapeared

I programmed most of it while drunk so idk if it’ll work

[regal umbra]

hm is your mod.info correctly done

[surreal pulsar]

I have name, I’d, (with _ if that means anything) description and tags

[regal umbra]

name=Vanvival
id=twbVanvival
author=Twuben
description=Nomad Survival Challenge, but for build 42, don't die!
poster=poster.png

I think you only need this

[surreal pulsar]

I think I’m missing an author

It’s just my steam name right

[regal umbra]

I mean yeah you can use your steam username for that

[surreal pulsar]

Should I label my poster just poster or poster.png

[regal umbra]

poster.png

in the mod.info

it needs to be poster.png

in the folder itself it should already be poster.png

you can enable extensions to see

[surreal pulsar]

nvm I forgot I put .png

[surreal pulsar]

I clicked that and my poster.info had an extra .info

Is that temporary?

[bright fog]

Nop

It means you need to remove it

[surreal pulsar]

But yeah it does say .png

[bright fog]

also poster.info ... ?

What's that

[surreal pulsar]

Oh I mean mod

[regal umbra]

oh yeah that's why its not detecting it

[bright fog]

Ah yea you can't have an extra .info

[regal umbra]

you basically have

mod.info.info

lmao

[surreal pulsar]

YES

[bright fog]

mod.info.info yea

[surreal pulsar]

IT WORKED