mod_development

[haughty bridge]

Thank god luau uses almost 90% of the same syntax as lua

There is a few differences

Yeah but I personally like the way luau flows more no offense

Everyone has there preferences

I’ve tested candle and I really wasn’t a fan-

I like how I can annotate luau

[red tiger]

You mean this candle? https://github.com/asledgehammer/Candle-Compiler

[haughty bridge]

Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s not compatible with luau

I didn’t use it a ton though

function getmetatable(obj: any): table?

Btw this is how its syntax looks

[red tiger]

Candle exports to four different typings languages / formats.

You could write one for Luau specifically.

[bronze yoke]

candle compiles lua type annotations automatically from data from the game, we're saying you can just change that last step to compile to whatever format luau likes

[red tiger]

I just remembered to update the readme lol

new CLI

[bronze yoke]

in the pz community we usually use lua with type annotations like this:```lua
---@param obj any
---@return table | nil
function getmetatable(obj)

that's what candle generates

[haughty bridge]

type A = {x: number, y: number, z: number?}

It will be annoying to have to setup a type stripper, lune does that automatically.

[red tiger]

Yeah and there's a typescript typings generator in there too.

You can borrow from that.

Even better if you want I can put luau typings on my todo list.

[haughty bridge]

type A = {x: number, y: number, z: number?}
type B = {x: number, y: number, z: number}

local a1: A = {x = 1, y = 2}        -- ok
local b1: B = {x = 1, y = 2, z = 3} -- ok

local a2: A = b1 -- ok
local b2: B = a1 -- not ok

[red tiger]

Luau borrows from Typescript and Python typings concepts heavily.

[haughty bridge]

Oh yeah 100%

It’s much faster though as it’s backend uses c++

It’s much much much faster then luau in execution

[red tiger]

I'm telling you that you're not entirely lost here. Candle's typings yeah don't bother. Candle's compiler is what I'm pointing you to.

Write a Luau renderer for it.

[haughty bridge]

My idea is I’ll do something like dalbit to just strip the types and update the requires converting them to lua

For context dalbit is a already existing luau to lua transpiler but it’s very not custom and removes laus built in libraries (I don’t like it)

[red tiger]

Yes however for type-discovery of existing PZ API you'll need to compile that.

[haughty bridge]

I’m likely just gonna write a large type file and just strip it away on compile

[red tiger]

Unless you're okay with manually typing ~300K lines of type definitions, Candle-Compiler is helpful. =)

[haughty bridge]

I am actually, since a lot of times you can combine types

[red tiger]

Hahaha ok

[haughty bridge]

Using exclusions and &

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/ghost-in-the-shell-keyboard-gif-7519694

[haughty bridge]

With & I can just define a class once and inherit some of its properties

So like

type class = {
Drop:(self:class) -> nil
}

type zombie = class & {
Id:number
}

Will drop the number of types I need to write since I can use inheritance

And I can just reuse types later

Mind you I typed this on my phone so syntax may be slightly off

Hard part will be seeing all the classes zomboid has to offer

[red tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/youknow-you-gif-19056787

[haughty bridge]

I’ve been developing discord api wrappers for a long time so this is new territory

[red tiger]

Thought of you back in COVID days. That's why that compiler exists.

[haughty bridge]

I am happy though that my main language has been booming a lot more recently

Luau used to be exclusively Roblox but for whatever reason exploded in popularity outside Roblox with stuff like lune, electros, rokit, pesde

For awhile I had to compile straight form src to execute my code

[bronze yoke]

the current version of umbrella (zomboid type definitions for regular lua) has 238,665 code lines

are you *sure* you want to write this by hand

every time the game updates?

[haughty bridge]

I wrote 20,000 lines of types for love and 2000 for discords api I got this

I have some cheeky ways to lighten the load to

Dynamic type file generation

I’ve written tons and tons of dynamic type file generators that either generate types based on data or will build them from pre existing other language types

Typeof helps alot

I should mention I am insanely stubborn and refuse to use any other language. I know many languages but I adore luau

[bronze yoke]

what we're trying to tell you is that candle is already a type file generator specialised for pz

[willow tulip]

Woahhh. Thats bigger then my entire 3d engine/multiplayer voxel game I wrote -_-;

Actually, I don't think I did a line count for a long time

But whatever, still huge.

[bronze yoke]

well it covers a decade old codebase

(though only the parts exposed to lua 😨)

there's also a lot of java standard library in there

[vast pier]

each tomato is a marker for 5

[willow tulip]

hahah nice. so 17~18 is the limit (maybe less depending on UI font)

[bronze yoke]

the limit would depend entirely on the item and possibly even the game language

[vast pier]

While I will be using mod data to hold the actual item info, I think I will still maybe display the first 5 rounds in the gun

[bronze yoke]

the width of a tooltip is dynamically based on the longest element

those aren't rendered as a traditional element so it doesn't count

[willow tulip]

.... yayy I forgot about that.

[bronze yoke]

i remember getting a couple bug reports because a mod that removes the debug text causes some tooltips to become ridiculously small

[willow tulip]

also, Im half tempted to make a damn java patch that just makes all item tooltips a STANDARD $#@*%(@HGASIU WIDTH MY GOD

[bronze yoke]

i'm sure when tis removes the debug text they'll put in a minimum width

[willow tulip]

it pisses me off so much that even something as simple as a gun its like 150 pixels, 150 pixels, 170 pixels, 150 pixels... WHYYYYY

WHY IS ONE WIDER THEN THE REST

[bronze yoke]

https://imgur.com/a/KvzNs3H

this is what i was sent 😅

[willow tulip]

then I can't even compare the bar width anymore because the bars are different widths!!

[bronze yoke]

i imagine if a tooltip only had bars in it the values would not even appear

[willow tulip]

Tooltip resizing be like:

https://tenor.com/view/hpw-dbz-cell-everywordyoujustspokehasmademeviolentlyangry-every-word-you-just-spoke-gif-20166617

Like literally even the SAME ITEM in a row will have different tooltip widths

[willow tulip]

Also yes, the non standard bar width AND not using the entire area both piss me off ever so much.

I know its just a tiny UI detail but DAMN thats annoying.,

[vast pier]

Funny enough the actual issue I'm actually gonna have from this is that I want the alternative bullet types to use the sprite system instead of creating new items for each one

Which isn't compatible with the display

since it isn't real items

[bronze yoke]

it's pretty entertaining that nearly every bug with my tooltip code just ends up 'no, that's just how tooltips work'

[willow tulip]

Maybe you should just start over from an ISPanel

[bronze yoke]

no interest, the purpose is just to modify existing tooltips, if someone wants to do that they don't need me to make a framework for it

[willow tulip]

No I mean, intercept the tooltip rendering entirely 😛

[bronze yoke]

you may just want to use your own system with mod data then

[vast pier]

oh I'm just talking about the display

I'm gonna be using mod data for the actual tracking

[bronze yoke]

yeah, but again, my framework is just to allow modifying them as they are, i don't intend to change how they actually work

[willow tulip]

Ah.

[vast pier]

It just means I make some placeholder items, since the icons between rounds are gonna be similar anyway

I'll just make some dev items for each metal type of a pistol/rifle round

the actual items the player use will use the sprite system (if I can get it working the way I intend)

I might see if I can use the toolhead system to give each bullet a handle/head and have that distinguish what the bullet is made of

the tool/handle system works on non melee weapons but idk if there would be any unforseen bugs from it

It's really buggy if you try using it on a gun, which is why I wrote my own disassembly code for it

probably should go through again and polish some of my code but ughhhh

[left osprey]

Anybody able to help me with my mod? I can't get it to pop up on my mod list, it appears on the workshop page to upload it. But it won't show up on the mod list to actually activate it. It used to, until I added more items and models, all of the scripts look legit and there's no discrepancies' with image names or mesh names in the script as far as I've seen which lead me to look at other areas, I can't find anything that would cause this issue. Maybe some more seasoned eyes could catch the problem or know more than I do, I'll DM the zip if anyone could help, thanks!

[unreal pewter]

anyone have any idea whats going on here

[willow tulip]

Start with an existing recipe and alter it one line at a time. Your missing a lot of tags in that recipe and I have no idea what zomboid requires

[unreal pewter]

as far as the documentation says, only inputs outputs and at least one tag is required

[willow tulip]

ie: start with any other recipe that requires fluid, just rename it and shove it into your own mod, make sure it exists and still outputs the thing.

[unreal pewter]

yeah this is a copy paste of a vanilla recipe

[willow tulip]

Then try altering a few things. It could be something as simple as you missed a , or got a parameter with the wrong case

(PZ is randomly case sensitive)

[unreal pewter]

lemme try launching again and seeing if the console gets mad at me

[willow tulip]

what is the recipe a copy of?

also, check your console.txt

[unreal pewter]

RefillHurricaneLantern

the one on the craftRecipe wiki page
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/CraftRecipe

[willow tulip]

Ok so you removed time, timedaction, oncreate, changed the tags and category...

Might I recommend again, you start with that recipe, but this time only change one thing at a time and verify it still works?

[unreal pewter]

uhh yeah ill try that

[bronze yoke]

is that the entire file?

[unreal pewter]

its not but i didnt wanna flood the chat with the full file theres like 5 recipes and all of them have the same issue

[willow tulip]

Also note that any error anywhere in your file can cause PZ to completely die and ignore the rest of the file.

So its best to start with just getting 1 recipe working

You also might want to just post the entire file because there is things like.. the module Base {} that needs to wrap around the file..

If you upload the file itself to discord, it won't spam the chat with all the text, just a few line preview.

[unreal pewter]

heres the current state of the file

module ProjectGurashi
{

    craftRecipe injectSyringe
    {
        inputs 
        {
            item 1 [Base.AlcoholedCottonBalls],
            item 1 [ProjectGurashi.CureVaccine],
        }
        outputs {
            item 0 ProjectGurashi.CureVaccine,
        }
        category = Health,
        Tags = CanAlwaysBeResearched;RightClickOnly;CanBeDoneFromFloor,
        Time = 100,
        OnCreate = "Recipe.OnCreate.InjectSyringe",
    }
    
craftRecipe boilRamen
{
    timedAction = Making,
    Time = 50,
    OnCreate = Recipe.OnCreate.RefillHurricaneLantern,
    /* OnTest = Recipe.OnTest.RefillHurricaneLantern, */
    Tags = InHandCraft;CanBeDoneInDark,
    category = Miscellaneous, /*category = Survival,*/
        inputs
        {
            item 1 [ProjectGurashi.CupNoodles],
            item 1 [*],
            -fluid 1 [Water;TaintedWater],
        }
        outputs 
        {
            item 1 ProjectGurashi.CupNoodles,
        }
}


    craftRecipe unpackageBentou
    {
        inputs 
        {
            item 1 [ProjectGurashi.PackagedBentou],
        }
        outputs 
        {
            item 1 ProjectGurashi.Bentou,
        }
        Tags = CanAlwaysBeResearched;RightClickOnly;CanBeDoneFromFloor,
        timedAction = UnPackSack,
        Time = 60,
        category = Cooking,
    }

    craftRecipe dismantleElectronics
    {
        inputs 
        { 
            item 1 [ProjectGurashi.BrokenMobilePhone;ProjectGurashi.QSP] flags[Prop2],
            item 1 [Base.Screwdriver] mode:keep flags[Prop1],
        }
        outputs 
        {
            item 1 Base.ElectronicsScrap,
        }
        timedAction = DismantleElectrical,
        Tags = CanAlwaysBeResearched;AnySurfaceCraft,
        Time = 180,
        category = Electrical,
        SkillRequired = Electrical:1,
        xpAward = Electrical:6,
    }
}

[willow tulip]

again next time just.. drag and drop the file into discord.

[unreal pewter]

alright

do i need the module to be base?

[willow tulip]

shrugs

[unreal pewter]

im porting this from b41 by the way so i just dont know whats changed from b41

[willow tulip]

Looks fine to me, other then 'item 0 ProjectGurashi.CureVaccine,' is a little weird (0?)

(though I guess the oncreate does something)

@bronze yoke You seeing anything in his file? im stumped.

[bronze yoke]

i don't really do recipes but i didn't notice anything that looked wrong

OnCreate in injectSyringe should not be quoted but i don't think that causes a parse error

oh this might lol

[willow tulip]

Yea, that makes me sus too

[bronze yoke]

i'm pretty sure that fails an assert and if it doesn't it'll definitely crash later on

[willow tulip]

PZ is incredibly fragile and the slightest error in these files can cause it to bail -_-

[bronze yoke]

@unreal pewter assuming this is a conversion from b41, you don't need to have a fake result anymore -- you can just not have outputs

having an output with quantity 0 will only confuse the game and likely cause significant issues

[unreal pewter]

so i can just have an empty outputs list now?

[bronze yoke]

don't put an outputs list at all

[unreal pewter]

oh wow alright

[jagged wren]

you can to my knowledge, you know the skyscraper challenge on the stream workshop?

i’m mostly asking how to develop that

[bronze yoke]

they're defined in lua, i don't really know the full details but you should be able to find the vanilla ones and work from there

[unreal pewter]

so it shows the recipe in the debugger but it still has the same issue

ry odd

my category is wrong though and i dont have a timedaction but i dont think i need a timedaction

[bronze yoke]

i don't think so but you might need one

[unreal pewter]

looking through the recipe debugger, i think the wiki documentation might just be incorrect. oncreate is wrong, at least

[willow tulip]

I recommend not changing category, removing timed action, etc until you get it working. Also I don't understand why 'CanAlwaysBeResearched'

Your making wrecking ball changes to something that iv seen a single incorrect case of a character destroy.

[unreal pewter]

im trying chanigng the tags and stuff now and changing some things based on what i saw in the debugger. if that doesnt work ill copy paste and change one line at a time

[willow tulip]

Like, 'CanAlwaysBeResearched' might imply to the game that its a researchable recipe and hence it would auto-disable it at the start until you learn it by finding the correct item to research it

And being right click only, you won't be seeing any requirements in the craft menu that might help you debug why its not showing up

[unreal pewter]

i WOULD like it to be right click only but it seems a lot of the tags on the wiki just make the recipes not work

[queen oasis]

I believe you have to add the InHandCraft tag for it to be right click accessible. Show recipes used in doesn't show my handcraft recipes either.

but it will show my "workbench" recipes when I have them loaded for testing

[willow tulip]

Yes, but start with 'working' recipe, then add tags to experiment once you can narrow it down to 'The thing I just did is why it doesn't work'

And then the best way to fix said things that don't work, is search for those tags in the vanilla source and see how those recipes differe from yours. Like jimbeamdiablo's suggestion that it needs another tag.

(oh, and don't forget to check that the vanilla recipe works as expected.. Because sometimes... it doesn't)

[unreal pewter]

yeahhh the tags were the issue, thank you all

[bright fog]

Wdym oncreate is wrong ?

You're missing outputs

[unreal pewter]

on the wiki OnCreate says to use quotes for some reason

[bright fog]

Also it's not in a module either

[unreal pewter]

it is i just didnt include the whole script in the whole message, sorry

i got it figured out

[bright fog]

Can you link it please ?

[unreal pewter]

the tags were messed up

[bright fog]

The screenshot literally doesn't show that

[unreal pewter]

the recipe debugger doesnt show the whole script

[bright fog]

Like here missing module + outputs

[unreal pewter]

yeah its not supposed to have outputs its just supposed to trigger the oncreate

[bright fog]

Uh...

[unreal pewter]

recipe debugger just shows that single recipe and doesnt show the module but it is in fact in a module in my script

[bronze yoke]

that's how the debugger works yeah, it's not supposed to show the module that'd be redundant

[bright fog]

Why does it show the file comments ?

[unreal pewter]

you can see its in a module here

[unreal pewter]

those comments arent even mine, it just put them there

[bronze yoke]

it doesn't

[bright fog]

Why tf would they manually add that comment at the top, that's fucked up ?

Why would they not show the whole script either wtf

[bronze yoke]

it indicates what mod the script comes from

[bright fog]

But can they literally not fucking do it in the code block ?????

[bronze yoke]

1. it's not kept in memory, it'd be a huge waste most of the time
2. why would it need to? you only care about that one script object anyway

[bright fog]

I meant the script block of the recipe

Not the file here

[bronze yoke]

the module isn't inside the recipe

it'd be weird to show it

if it's showing up in the debugger the module was correct, otherwise it wouldn't've known what it was and failed to load it anyway

[bright fog]

Yes yes yes ok whatever but that's literally not my point here anymore

Why not show the full craftRecipe script

[bronze yoke]

it does, that recipe doesn't have an output

[unreal pewter]

because the point of the debugger is to see specific recipes

[bright fog]

But the outputs section ina recipe is mandatory

[unreal pewter]

i thought it was too

but apparently not

because it only works correctly for my intended purpose when theres no output

[bright fog]

It is, I'm fairly sure of that, I've tested it

[unreal pewter]

i just tested it too and it worked

[bright fog]

You need an empty outputs block at the very least

It literally is mandatory

[bronze yoke]

i don't think it's mandatory

[unreal pewter]

the world of TIS coding is a vast and mysterious enigma

[bright fog]

I tested that I'm fairly sure of that

[unreal pewter]

i think how it works is that it looks at your script and decides if it wants it to work or not and if it feels like it that day itll make it work

because almost all of my scripts are just a copy paste of each other and half of them work and half of them dont

recipe scripts i mean*

[bright fog]

I literally noted it as mandatory in the wiki page, I tested it back when I wrote that page, that I'm extremely sure of that part

[unreal pewter]

well i got rid of outputs and it works so i dont know what to tell you

[bright fog]

That's literally not how kt workd you just fucked up somewhere but bcs of how scripts work, it can either nuke your game, other scripts etc

[bronze yoke]

i just checked the source and an empty outputs block will do literally nothing

so it should not be possible for it to matter whether you have one or not

[bright fog]

My game broke if I removed outputs blocks from vanilla recipes

[bright fog]

An EMPTY block, a block that is present !

That's literally what I'm telling you

[bronze yoke]

yes, if it is empty nothing happens, it is the same as if you didn't have one at all

there is nothing that goes 'ok you had an empty one your recipe is okay 👍' it literally does nothing

[bright fog]

But the outputs block IS mandatory thats literally what I've been saying

Not having an OUTPUT is fine but not having an OUTPUTS wasn't fine when I wrote that wiki page

[bronze yoke]

give me five minutes to load in to be sure, but from my reading there is literally no extra code executed compared to not having one at all

[upbeat turtle]

[unreal pewter]

it worked and called the oncreate function

i only got an error in the oncreate function itself because something i used in b41 no longer works in b42 but the recipe and the function call works just fine

the debug ShowRecipesUsedIn dropdown still refuses to work but i dont need that to work if the recipe works

[bronze yoke]

yeah, recipes without outputs blocks work for me too

[unreal pewter]

maybe it was an error in a past build that was fixed or something

[bronze yoke]

i think i observed the same thing in a very early b42 build so i think doggy just did something wrong 😅

[unreal pewter]

o

[bronze yoke]

not needing outputs was one of the big improvements with the new crafting recipes that people were happy about

[unreal pewter]

i can continue to hijack the recipe system for functions that i dont wanna add a context menu option for

[unreal pewter]

hey also where can i download umbrella (specifically unstable)

[bronze yoke]

there's install instructions on this page https://github.com/asledgehammer/Umbrella

[broken briar]

ooh? what kind of mod r u making

a mod where it allows you to use syringes and fill them up with some antibiotics?

[unreal pewter]

its a mod based on a zombie series i really like
one of the plot points is the characters find a "cure" that turns out to not be a real cure and it leaves one of them in like a half-infected state

trying to make that "cure" syringe

[solar rover]

If I want to set and outfit/clothing item to have a set color, is there a hue entry for that in the XML?
I see the allow random but I cant find a reference for something like <m_Hue>1,0.06,0.9</m_Hue> ?

guess I might be stuck with just a set texture choice but I was hoping to use existing options.

[true nova]

I think it might be a thing. I know color can be set in lua for clothing with tint

[rustic condor]

Mod idea: canned items are short blunt weapons and when they break the can opens

[bright fog]

<@&671452400221159444> an absurd amount of money, newly joined, no pfp, 3 days old account, and we had some cases similar in the modding Discord that have yet to prove themselves as non-scammers

[left plank]

Thank ya

[bright fog]

A new type of scam I suppose

That's not a good news tho, because there's legit people making offers and seriously looking to commission, and I hope Discord's flagging system doesn't end up flagging legit users as scammers that way ...

@sour island letting you know, there was a scam like of a new account providing an absurd amount of money for a job, without proper explanation of what they need

Since we just had such a case on the modding Discord

This might become a common scam in the near future

[upbeat turtle]

I can confirm in another pretty big artist server — this scam has been around for a lil while

[bright fog]

Thanks

[dreamy birch]

where are you

[left plank]

I’m a bruv now mate

[bronze yoke]

<@&671452400221159444>

[fleet bridge]

Anyone ever have steam upload error 15 before

[willow tulip]

Most steam upload errors mean try again later.

[buoyant violet]

If I manage to get better. we may continue this mod idea of BF2 weapons into zomboid

[buoyant violet]

visible mag changes

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Steam_Uploader

May I sell you this ?

[teal fulcrum]

Hello, I'm looking for support getting started with making a mod. I have pretty much zero experience in any programming and just want to do some simple things like snacks and drinks

[bright fog]

Pinned messages

[teal fulcrum]

Thank you

[main pasture]

Is it possible to get the item player is trying to install to a vehicle? It doesn't seem to be given to the install test function and the vehicle part also doesn't have it as it's being installed. NVM. for reference: local actionQueue= ISTimedActionQueue.getTimedActionQueue(player) local currentAction = actionQueue.queue[1] local item = currentAction.item

[true nova]

if that is ran when the player is doing ISInstallVehiclePart then .item should be the item.

[forest herald]

Anyone know why this is returning an empty list?

getScriptManager():getAllRecipes()

Is there a way to get all recipes?

[main pasture]

Yeah. That seems to work once the timed action is started. The install test is called constantly during it

[true nova]

.item isnt really established until start()

[true nova]

youre running through the array and its giving nothing? if you're doing something like isempty() that often returns true for me regardless

[bronze yoke]

are you in build 42? recipes are deprecated, use methods that refer to craftRecipes instead

[main pasture]

Any ideas what could cause the game to stop calling the custom install test function? No errors in the console and it just started refusing to use it. It is just ignored even when I changed it to always block the install

[forest herald]

Yes Build 42. When you say methods that refer to craftRecipes, is there a known way to get all recipes or get all recipes for a specific skill?

[bronze yoke]

getScriptManager():getAllCraftRecipes()

[forest herald]

Oooo, thank you lets see 😄

[forest herald]

One step closer at least

Do craftrecipes have an autolearn level field?

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/CraftRecipe Guessing what I need is here 😄

[forest herald]

Do we have any docs on getCraftRecipe("") and the variables/accessors within?

[bronze yoke]

https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs/zombie/scripting/ScriptManager.html#getCraftRecipe(java.lang.String)

[teal fulcrum]

I’m having difficulty getting an item to use an image as it’s icon. I’ve made it so that the item should be using an image but I’m not sure where to put it as everywhere I have so far seems to not work

[fierce pond]

I'm honestly just here so I can figure out and eventually publish that translates every Redlettermedia BestoftheWorst tapes into ingame VHS tapes

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Icon

[bright fog]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Translations

[willow tulip]

Someone should add the subfolder details to that page...

[main pasture]

<@&671452400221159444>

[bright fog]

I think I wrote about it somewhere in the wiki but I never remember where haha

[willow tulip]

Yea I think the item_ folder solution is better then the item prefix for all icons lol

"dunno if bug, but going to keep using it and not report it due to fear of breaking mod"

Im FINE with it working that way, just so long as it never stops working that way.

(and ideally gets well documented so more people start using it because proper folder structure just makes all my OCD very happy.)

[bright fog]

I don't agree

It adds complexicity to something already confusing for new modders

It's more of an advanced tech

[willow tulip]

Like im not saying paragraphs about it.. just some kinda sentence stating thats what happens if you try and use a folder.

[bright fog]

Yea yea I'll write about it but that's what I'm saying, I'm pretty sure I wrote about it somewhere but somehow I never remember where

[willow tulip]

lol.

I mean, for noobs it could be 'Don't put it into a folder or this happens' but for everyone experienced thats like "oh reallyyy, I hated item_ prefixes for all my files anyway!"

someone literally told me it as a warning and I was like oh really...

https://tenor.com/view/safety-death-gif-25739095

[vivid vessel]

So like. What's a good resource to learn how to start modding pz?

Beyond wiki what are some books/coding tutorials I should look at before starting I mean

[bright fog]

Not much, there's some rare videos, 2 or 3 Steam guides to specific modding fields, but that's it

Most of these are linked on the wiki

[vivid vessel]

Got it thank you. I've never programmed before so have no idea what I'm doing lol.

[near dust]

Is there a mod in works for farm animals not beeing dead at game start in an * x Months later* run?
if not i am begging for one 😄

[rare mango]

im trying to make a mod that gives items upon spawning with a specific profession, and want to also make my own professions. can anyone help or guide me (dm preferably)?

[fickle tangle]

I accidentally clipped through my RV's walls, I use the RV interior mod, and now I see everything outside of these walls, I've ruined the fog, and now the ambience is ruined.

Is there any way to refog an area you've already discovered?
I tried with ChatGPT but he sucks at making mods, can't even get the mod to load.

[bronze yoke]

<@&671452400221159444>

[buoyant violet]

some goodies coming soon ™

[bright fog]

Pretty sure that exiting the save then reopening it does that no ?

[vale garden]

Anything special apart from existing weapon mod?
Please share more detail to us.

[buoyant violet]

you dont kiss and tell

[buoyant violet]

the most I will provide for now, is that I will take parts from guns and play around with them. example this is the famas sight on the m16a2 from the game. so yeah

[teal fulcrum]

I have a model with a pieslice as part of it and a plate as another. Even after joining the models together in Blender, the pie slice still appears by itself with no plate under it

[bronze yoke]

both meshes must use the same material

the game will only render one material

[teal fulcrum]

How do I achieve that?

Sorry, I am new to Blender

I think I figured it out

That doesn't seem to be the issue, the plate still will not appear even after merging the plate and pie into one material

Assigned to one material and deleted the other

[vast pier]

would you believe me if I said the biggest struggle I've had so far with adding a bayonet option to my modular guns is having it detect if the gun has a bayonet lug installed so that the bayonet can't be attached to the air in front of the gun ?

[vast pier]

Can't attach the lug without a screwdriver, can't attach the bayonet without a lug.

Can attach and detach the bayonet with no tools as long as the lug is installed.

Can't detach the lug if the bayonet is installed.

[icy night]

There's already lots of mods for that

Both for b41 and 42

If you want to use one that's easily customizable, you can use https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3558835419

[rare mango]

Thank you

[empty gate]

Doesn’t it seem strange to you that a character without clothing can carry quite a lot of items? What if we made the clothing system more advanced and added pockets for inventory depending on the type and amount of equipped clothing?

[trim quartz]

Apologies if this is a daft question, but is there a way to breakpoint and step through server side LUA code?

I've only done client side stuff before, and when I open the debugger the server lua just opens as blank pages

I'm building B41 incase that make any difference

[bronze yoke]

in singleplayer yes (if your server code runs in singleplayer too), in multiplayer no

[trim quartz]

whats the best way to test / debug server code in that case?

[bright fog]

In a hosted server you can technically reload files

It's a bit weird ... but if I remember right it can be done the same way as singleplayer

[trim quartz]

Thanks

[vale garden]

But I fuck around and find out.

[past radish]

I feel like im in the second grade asking this.. but does any mod creators for PZ wanna be friends? I'm looking to get into modding and would love to make friends in the community or find a mentor.. What I lack in knowledge of the space, I make up for in cheerleading new ideas or helping mod test.. plus Im a quick learner and im cool asf (at least my mom thinks so). 😬

If your bored send me a DM! I'd love to hear what your working on or shoot the sht and theorycraft

[naive crest]

Hello everyone, I must be doing something really stupid but I cannot get my map to appear in build 42

the mod shows up, i can activate it but the spawn point/map option just doesnt exist

Managed to get it working but map shows up corrupt in game

should look like that

[bright fog]

#mapping

[bronze cedar]

Hi everyone. I'm making my first mod. I am having difficulty finding the functions I need. I tried:

• referring to other mods on Steam
• https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidLuaDocs/ (but it seems to be incomplete)

What other resources for function usage do you use?

[true nova]

i personally use candle with vscode

i think the lua docs have more stuff than candle but candle is just the classes and their functions

[vast pier]

what are you tryna do ?

[vast pier]

So an issue I am currently dealing with, melee weapons do not display weapon attachments.

This is a problem because my gun models are made from their attachments.

I do not know how to go about this

[teal fulcrum]

I need assistance, my mod now crashes the save but I have no idea why

[vast pier]

what's your mod

does it crash on new saves or just your old save ?

[teal fulcrum]

Both, I tested it on the save I had originally and all that would happen is a black screen instead of loading, I had to ALT+F4 out and when loaded in a new save it crashes shortly after walking around a bit

My mod hasn't been published to the workshop yet, it's just on my computer

[teal fulcrum]

Forgot to reply instead of message

[vast pier]

does it do the same for loading a new save ?

what did you change since last time it was working

[teal fulcrum]

I changed a model, I think. I'm not sure how I changed it though

[teal fulcrum]

It creates a black-screen save and a duplicate save with _crash

[vast pier]

B41 or 42 ?

[teal fulcrum]

41

[vast pier]

what exactly does the mod do ?

[teal fulcrum]

It's a misc mod meant for just me and my girlfriend mostly. I have two food items and a weapon right now

But the models for one of the food items and the weapon are missing for some reason

[vast pier]

could you send over your console.txt ?

[teal fulcrum]

Where would I find that?

[vast pier]

C:\Users\Username\Zomboid

same place you develop mods

[vast pier]

you should try loading a save with only your mod enabled, and if it crashes then send the console.txt again

[teal fulcrum]

It didn't crash, but it made a weird sound at spawn that isn't going away and seems to be having trouble with sound in game

[teal fulcrum]

Forgot to @ again

Here's the console

[vast pier]

that's odd, I would ask to look at the mod myself but it is 3am for me and I am tired

[teal fulcrum]

Same here

[thin swan]

Melee weapons can show attachments, I've done it for my bicycle.
What is that wrapping that shows? Is that the base weapon model?

[bronze cedar]

I am making a mod that consumes double-clicked item until 0% hunger/thirst. Here's what I have so far. I harvested some functions from other mods. Other functions are placeholders that I made up for now. That's why I wrote my original message, I need a definitive resource to help me find all the functions I need.

[bronze cedar]

Can you link it? I see no relevant results for "candle" in VSCode extension marketplace

[true nova]

I dont think it's in extensions. It's a github repo set up as a workspace. Ill have to get it to you when I get home

[bright fog]

Umbrella and the JavaDocs

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Umbrella_(modding)

@true nova same guns

Don't use candle

Umbrella is the most up to date

I believe it includes Candle too ? @bronze yoke can correct me on that

[drifting ore]

Hello all. I have a problem.

TLDR: How do I spawn custom items in B42?

People asked me to make a screenshot of my mod's new tools. I've never spawned them. I usually just run around until I find them.

But I need to show all the things I added.

I read that you could spawn items via the text chat, but it doesn't work on SP.

I read that you could add "-debug" on your steam launch options and it crashes to desktop on opening.

[vast pier]

Yes that’s the base weapon model.
This is for B42 so maybe specifically custom attachments don’t render ?

[true nova]

Ah ok, a bit behind on things. I think i have umbrella as well, probably not using it right

[thin swan]

No it works for sure, my bicycle is for B42 and has custom attachments that render.
If you place the attachments just out in the world, do they show up properly? Just so you can confirm the model loads correctly at the right scale

[vast pier]

The attachments work on the normal gun, just the melee versions.

Same models for both

[thin swan]

Hmm... Gotta be something with how either the attachment/weapon item scripts or the attachments on the weapon model script is set up

[bronze yoke]

<@&671452400221159444>

[vast pier]

Oh my god you’re right i completely forgot to add the tedious as fuck attachment params on the weapon that determine what model renders for the attachment

I feel so dumb now

[vast pier]

I forgot to add these to the melee weapon lmaoooooooo, it will probably work properly, thnk u lmao

[bright fog]

The wiki page details it

[bright fog]

In debug mode, you can open a item spawning menu

From the debug icon on the left, in the first category (general if I remember right)

[shy mantle]

Why does permanentlyRemove() leave behind a completely invisible, invalid vehicle that has no id to remove or get a key for in game with debug, but when I press v for the vehicle menu, I can see this for a fraction of a second? The weird thing is is that I can DRIVE through it, but I can't WALK through it...

All I'm doing is, if vehicle:isGoodCar() then vehicle:permanentlyRemove() end lol

It doesn't even leave a shadow

[thin swan]

Haha yeah those are annoying as hell 😅 Hope it all works now!

[willow tulip]

See thats on you, you used permanentlyRemove(), not properlyRemove() /s

But seriously, consider trying removeFromWorld?

Also, matters if your removing it in server\ code or client\ code.

Interesting, so I looked into how the vanilla does it.

permanentlyRemove() is used exclusively on vehicles

while removeFromWorld is used on.. everything else.

[shy mantle]

Using it in server, client, shared, it didn't seem to matter

[willow tulip]

On client side, the cheat to remove vehicles does this:

function ISVehicleMechanics.onCheatRemoveAux(dummy, button, playerObj, vehicle)
    if button.internal == "NO" then return end
    if isClient() then
        sendClientCommand(playerObj, "vehicle", "remove", { vehicle = vehicle:getId() })
    else
        vehicle:permanentlyRemove()
    end
end

[willow tulip]

Are you accidently keeping a reference to the vehicle?

(Like by accidently assigning it to a global?)

[bronze yoke]

shouldn't matter, if anything else can see it then whatever's seeing it has a reference too

so the UI or whatever the UI draws from is holding a reference

[shy mantle]

I'm pretty sure I'm not

[willow tulip]

Does the remove vehicle cheat have the same behavior your seeing?

[shy mantle]

Nope

This is such a strange stump

[willow tulip]

How long is your code? can you post it?

[shy mantle]

ok discord is not playing nice

I'm trying to send it right here in this channel, not through a DM, not my day

[shy mantle]

sending a screenshot instead because discord won't let me send code blocks

[willow tulip]

I recommend returning after removing the vehicle.

Also note, removing a vehicle in spawn is.. a bad idea, because 'story' vehicles are edited 1 frame after spawn

[shy mantle]

I tried that as well, didn't make a difference either

[willow tulip]

Btw, 'junkyard' zone isn't really used (AFAIK? maybe for crashed vehicles?), junkyard vehicles actually spawn under traffic jam

[shy mantle]

I converted all the junkyards back into proper junkyard definitions

[willow tulip]

Neat. I looked into that and decided it was wayyy too much work lol

[shy mantle]

It was for something so simple lol

[willow tulip]

Anyway, Id recommend you consider registering the vehicles you want to remove, and try delaying the removal by a couple ticks

[shy mantle]

Alright, I'll try that

[willow tulip]

since story vehicles get edited 1 tick(?) after spawn

(the vehicles that end up with like 10% condition due to being in a car crash, for example)

[shy mantle]

Wait

[willow tulip]

they spawn as higher condition and then get edited sometime after onspawnvehicleend

[shy mantle]

OH

ok yeah that makes sense sure

But, what if it's for a normal vehicle zone?

[willow tulip]

Lemme guess, your phantom vehicles are all 10% condition? 😛

[willow tulip]

shrugs

Oh wait I guess they don't have a condition anymore judging from the screenshot

[shy mantle]

Yeah, it deletes nearly everything

It does do something, but I need to reload the chunk

[willow tulip]

Mmm.

[shy mantle]

And I'm only targeting good vehicles, if that changes anything

[willow tulip]

Yea, id try delaying it by a few ticks

[shy mantle]

Hardcoded ass good vehicles

[willow tulip]

aka survivor vehicles.

[shy mantle]

Not even

Burnt and wrecked vehicles qualify for that

It pisses me off seeing a wrecked vehicle is good condition lol

[willow tulip]

lol yeaaaa

I just added an option to project summer car to disable all wrecks lol

(spawns regular cars instead)

[shy mantle]

I'm pretty sure they already removed them from the spawn tables, except for stories

[willow tulip]

    if sv.RemoveWreckedCars == true then
        SmashedCarDefinitions.cars = {}
    end

I extra murdered them.

[shy mantle]

I use them for my insane traffic jams because.... there're too many cars lol

[willow tulip]

Yea I fixed that in other ways:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/908459714248048730/1417859990651146340/image.png?ex=68d53f04&is=68d3ed84&hm=61462f803e00e29387ec4feb54ef8f01b7ac490ec5f550637e5c5ca462e3766b&

(traffic jams now look similar)

[shy mantle]

I did the same thing with junkyards, but since I separated the zone types, I left out traffic jams because I know some people wouldn't want that

[willow tulip]

how did you change the zones anyway?

[shy mantle]

Also, thanks, the delay worked for properly removing the good vehicles

[willow tulip]

awesome!

[shy mantle]

I'll pull up the file and share it (if discord lets me, if not, another screenshot)

NewVZones = NewVZones or {}

function NewVZones.changeVZone(ZoneX, ZoneY, NewName, NewWidht, NewHeight, NewX, NewY)
    local vz = getVehicleZoneAt(ZoneX, ZoneY, 0)
    if vz ~= nil then
        if NewName ~= nil then
            vz:setName(NewName)
        end
        if NewWidht ~= nil then
            vz:setW(NewWidht)
        end
        if NewHeight ~= nil then
            vz:setH(NewHeight)
        end
        if NewX ~= nil then
            vz:setX(NewX)
        end
        if NewX ~= nil and NewY ~= nil then
            local nvz = getVehicleZoneAt(NewX, ZoneY, 0)
            nvz:setY(NewY)
        elseif NewY ~= nil then
            vz:setY(NewY)
        end
    end
end

and to make the new zones...

NewVZones = NewVZones or {}

function NewVZones.registerVZones(zoneObjs)
    for _, vz in ipairs(zoneObjs) do
        if vz.type == "ParkingStall" then
            local vzone = getWorld():registerVehiclesZone(vz.name, vz.type, vz.x, vz.y, vz.z, vz.width, vz.height, vz.properties)
            if vzone == nil then
                getWorld():registerZone(vz.name, vz.type, vz.x, vz.y, vz.z, vz.width, vz.height)
            end
        end
    end
end

[willow tulip]

So you found all the junkyard zones and called this on all of them??

[shy mantle]

And then in another file, you get overwhelmed by thousands of lines

[shy mantle]

Yeah

[willow tulip]

Yeash thats a lot of work

How many junkyards are in the game? the wiki has like 10 or something.

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Wrecking_yard Ah 7 listed here

[shy mantle]

Quite a few, yeah. Some work properly, the rest as you know... But there were a total of 124 renames, meaning 124 different noted coordinates

[willow tulip]

Neat.

[shy mantle]

I have a grand total of 412 vehicle zone changes and 1312 vehicle zone additions

[willow tulip]

Woah -_-;

[shy mantle]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah

[willow tulip]

whats the overall goal of your mod?

[shy mantle]

Pretty much to complete everything that hasn't been done for the game with vehicles.

Same mod that adds climbable vehicles btw

Tell me this isn't intimidating lol

[willow tulip]

Neat.

yea literally why I didn't do it.. my plan was to just put a marker down on junkyards and every vehicle in a traffic jam within 50 tiles of marker was going to be classifed as junkyard lol

then decided to work on other stuff instead.

[shy mantle]

Yeah, the main bit of your mod is way more important than that to focus on lol

[willow tulip]

yep

[bright fog]

Jeez are these tables ?

[willow tulip]

almost got the part repair stuff done...

[shy mantle]

Yeah, and there's more to that list, it doesn't fit lol

There's not that much of a performance impact as you might think

[willow tulip]

the fact every junkyard is like 6~12 zones -_-;

[bright fog]

No of coursd there isn't

I'd be surprised if it did.....

[shy mantle]

Well, the loading time is slow, that's for sure

[distant inlet]

hope b42 stable comes out soon so I can finish my game-breaking mods

stopping by to say hi 🙂

[thin swan]

Well you might be waiting a while 😅 What mods are you making that needs stable? Multiplayer stuff?

[teal fulcrum]

I'm having issues with my mod messing with the audio for the game despite it not having anything to do with sound. The only thing I've changed recently is the models I'm using

[teal fulcrum]

I fixed the sound issue, but now equipping a weapon I made crashes the game

Now I'm invisible 🦊

[vast pier]

yurp lmaooo

[teal fulcrum]

If anyone could help me with fixing a weapon, I would really appreciate it

[nova whale]

Hey everyone, I hope this is the right place to ask? I've been getting into mod making recently and have now been approached by a few people who'd like to commission my work, but I have no idea what kind of pricing structure I should be using. Any help would be appreciated.

[uneven harbor]

Hello guys anyone knows how to do it? I have tried this

local function setCarryWeight(player)
if not player.carryWeightSet then
local inv = player:getInventory()
if inv then -- asegurarse de que el inventario ya exista
inv:setMaxWeight(40.0) -- Capacidad máxima en kg
player.carryWeightSet = true
end
end
end

but doesnt work 🙁

[merry fjord]

did you add it on an event like OnGameStart or EveryTenMinutes?

[limber gorge]

Do weapon models have to be defined in the Base module? When I tried to putting the model definitions in a separate mod module, the game gives this error

On the other hand, if I define them in the Base module instead, the mod would break the attachment editor after loading any player model (not a problem in gameplay but it does make debugging quite annoying)

i.e: This doesn't work

module ModABC
{
    imports
    {
        Base
    }

    model WeaponA
    {
        mesh = weapons/2handed/WeaponA,
        texture = weapons/2handed/WeaponA,

        attachment world
        {
            offset = 0.0000 0.0010 -0.0010,
            rotate = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
        }

        attachment Bip01_Prop2
        {
            offset = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
            rotate = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
        }
    }

but this does

{
    model WeaponA
    {
        mesh = weapons/2handed/WeaponA,
        texture = weapons/2handed/WeaponA,

        attachment world
        {
            offset = 0.0000 0.0010 -0.0010,
            rotate = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
        }

        attachment Bip01_Prop2
        {
            offset = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
            rotate = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
        }
    }
}```

The item scripts are also defined in ModABC module instead of Base

[merry fjord]

Hi does anyone know how do i extract from a variable when it outputs like this? Basically output from getFreeRecipes()

[Make Cake Batter, Make Pie Dough]

but when I'm trying to use

for _, v in ipairs(freeRecipeList) do
print(v)
end

Nothing is printing
Solved

[small topaz]

Does anyone knows why TIS changed the body location definitions in 42.12:
group:getOrCreateLocation(ItemBodyLocation.HAT)
and also how this new way of defining them works?

[bronze yoke]

you don't need to change how you define them

all they have changed is they are using constants in place of literals

nothing about body locations has actually changed, just a style improvement

they are now using constants for nearly everything like this since it makes far more sense to do it that way, and now that they are generating their scripts they have to define these things somewhere anyway

[small topaz]

group:getOrCreateLocation("RasSkin")
this custom definition throws an error for me

[bronze yoke]

what error?

[small topaz]

this gave some call frame error

seems that you now have to use smth like group:getOrCreateLocation(ItemBodyLocation.RasSkin)

so prefixing ItemBodyLocation for some reason

but now I have the following problem: how do I recreate this chunk of code in their new definition system:

         group:getOrCreateLocation(backUpLocations[i])
end```
????

[bronze yoke]

sorry, i was looking at the wrong version -- you do need to do things differently now, i'll see if i can work it out

this is a breaking change to nearly every clothing mod 😧

[thin swan]

[bronze yoke]

yeah there is no lua api for this anymore 😅 😅 😅 you can still do it though

local bodyLocation = BodyLocation.new(group, "RasSkin")
group:getAllLocations():add(bodyLocation)

[small topaz]

Ok thanks! I'll try that. Using
group:getOrCreateLocation(ItemBodyLocation.RasSkin)
also seems to work but cannot be used if the location is stored in a variable ofc.

EDIT: This is wrong. Cannot be used!

[bronze yoke]

that should be the same as passing nil, so it won't work as you want it to

[thin swan]

Gotta hurry tf up and patch my bike before the flood of messages come in lol

[small topaz]

ok. thanks for the info. I'll then go with your chunk of code

the recent update completely smashed my mod 😅

[bronze yoke]

it caused some horrible game breaking issues with starlit too 😅 the rest seem okay thankfully

[small topaz]

         local bodyLocation = BodyLocation.new(group, backUpLocations[i])
         group:getAllLocations():add(bodyLocation)
end```
works like a charm!!!

[trim quartz]

hey, anyone know how / if its possible to reload a lua file server side, without a full restart?

I've tried reloadServerLuaFile() from the console but it doesnt seem to a do a thing

I'd hope there is a way or building out server side code will be ball breaking

[maiden comet]

Yall know where the script for calculating calories burned is stored

[mellow frigate]

I think WeaponCategory enum type was not set as exposed to lua. I hope this will be available soon

[uneven harbor]

Honestly i only did some research, idk how to program pz mods

[merry fjord]

You can check around this

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Category:Current_Lua_events

[dense rivet]

I think it'd be fun to redraw or refine like 2D objects or tiles? if that's the right term. Like the Trash tiles or rugs, etc, but how do I go about finding these files? idk anything x.x

[cold wyvern]

Hi I want to do a mod, but I don't know how to start from here, I mean: do I need some software or something?

How can I create a mod, that simple. I have the idea, but not how to do

[peak nymph]

not done any modding in a long time but getting back into it, last time just watching YouTube tutorials got me going, found this more recent one

https://youtu.be/yFMLmgM20xc?si=h8KUvYUve7n-c-UB

[bright fog]

Check the pinned messages

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Getting_started

[maiden comet]

?

[bright fog]

It'd be in the Java

Most likely, or maybe in the Lua

But I'd bet they are in the Java

[maiden comet]

Thanks

[maiden comet]

Found em but i'm generally more familiar with lua and python and the likes so idk if i'm actually going to be able to use this but i'll try

[sonic needle]

<@&671452400221159444>

[maiden comet]

?

[sonic needle]

Don't stress. There was a scam post.

[thin swan]

Time to drop a patch for the bike mod that makes big changes and has barely been tested 😎 I'm sure everything will be just fine

[muted garnet]

Am I right in understanding that something was changed with the getOrCreateLocation method in update 42.12.0? Because now, with the same code, I get an error:

ERROR: General      f:0, t:1758847629664> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown
    java.lang.RuntimeException:  at MethodArguments.assertValid(MethodArguments.java:133).
    Stack trace:
        se.krka.kahlua.integration.expose.MethodArguments.assertValid(MethodArguments.java:133)
        se.krka.kahlua.integration.expose.LuaJavaInvoker.call(LuaJavaInvoker.java:198)

[bronze yoke]

yes

[muted garnet]

thanks

[cedar hazel]

Would map mods still work?

[red tiger]

https://github.com/demiurgeQuantified/UmbrellaAddon-Unstable/commit/79c32b303add09549491080c68bf99fafb8e474d

Diffs are great

[shy mantle]

Just a little question.

Is there a way to get the data of MULTIPLE vehicles on a single tile instead of the game just... randomly picking one if there are 2 or more?

It's not a big deal for single player, but for multiplayer with individual players interacting with individual vehicles things get messy

[true nova]

tried iterating IsoGridSquare:getLuaMovingObjectList()?

[vast pier]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bcP_7sHsbQY
Really wanna try making this armour (or have someone else model it for me) for use in zomboid

Ughhhhh from scratch modeling is so scary

I might try anyway

[vast pier]

the guns are being designed to have interchangable gun parts for crafting

[vast pier]

this is technically an smg, as it's a machine gun chambered in 38 special

Yes it's left handed, but I do plan on making it so there's a right handed version too ofc

when I first designed the pistol, I designed it with myself in mind (I am left handed)

[vale garden]

I really hope someone make a high quality medieval armor

[vast pier]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2730784492
it's only for B41 but I always thought scrap smith's armour was neat

[vale garden]

Oh nice, last I saw it only has one kind of armor and it is very low poly

[vast pier]

the 2.0 update was released in march, which added in armours

[vale garden]

Yeah, I noticed that but I probably didn't go back and see if it got updated.

until now

[vast pier]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2658619264

Not medieval armour, but still

[vale garden]

Already got that, as it is pretty complete and armor detail is good.

Now if Flintlock firearm got updated with firing sound, it would be cool
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3267938638

[vast pier]

I could ask him about it, I'm a contributor to ramshackle weapons

[vale garden]

I see, then why not merge together lol

[vast pier]

He's been doing irl stuff and working on other projects I'm pretty sure, so I don't think it would be high on his priority list tho

[vast pier]

I mean one mod is black powder weaponry, and the other is improvised but modern guns

[vast pier]

I am the porter and maintainer for the B42 version

[vale garden]

I really like makeshift firearm

They looks cool

[vast pier]

This actually make me realize the workshop page was using the old layout

fixed

[vale garden]

By the way, @ me if Flintlock ever gets updated with a firing sound. I’m also not sure if this is intended for pistols, since you have to ‘equip secondary’ first before you can ‘equip primary.’

[vast pier]

I haven't used the flintlock mod myself, so I wouldn't know anything about that

[vale garden]

No problem, I just thought that since you could ask him, might as well as him whether if equip secondary is a bug or not, then fix all of them at the same time.

[vast pier]

what exactly is the bug ?

[vale garden]

When you try to use Flintlock pistol, only the 'equip secondary' appear in context menu.

But once the Flintlock pistol is in your secondary hand, you click again then the 'equip primary' will appear.

[shy mantle]

I can't get this to work either, unfortunately. I tried a couple methods, but there's a chance I still used this wrong

[empty gate]

Hello!👋
New survivor names were added in build 42.12.
I’m trying to figure out where they’re stored in the game files.

So far, I’ve only found them in a translation mod, but that’s now outdated. Since I’m working on a mod that displays all existing surnames as signatures on ID cards, I’d like to include the newly added names as well.

[bright fog]

Oh you want to make signatures for every single names out there ?

That's ... going to be kind of impossible dude 😅
Or I mean it's feasable, but you're going to have hundreds of images and I dear pray you store first names and last names separatly in images or you're going to need a billion images for the combinations

[vast pier]

I’m not gonna lie that’s a bigger task than all of my projects combined, and I have insanely bad feature creep

[bright fog]

You extremely easily could automate it tbf that's not a problem

[vast pier]

Though I presume they specifically mean the vanilla default names

[bright fog]

Yea

[bright fog]

As for where the names are stored, they should be in a Lua file iirc

[empty gate]

Dude, its already done😁
Currently it displays only surnames as the signature
And yes, it has been automated (including some optimisations for smaller .png size)

[empty gate]

yep, its ~8,4mln unique combinations for existing names (excluding new ones)

[empty gate]

It seems there’s no such file.

[bright fog]

Oh it's not that bad ok !

[bright fog]

iirc is not a file 😭

It means if I remember correctly

[bright fog]

I will point to a good resource to find what you're looking for wait

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Game_files#Searching_the_game_files

[empty gate]

I've found them:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\shared\Translate\EN\SurvivorNames_EN.txt

Here's only 16 new surnames

[cold skiff]

I need help, with the new patch 42.12.0 my mods are failing because of the changes in the body, would someone be so kind as to document these changes or help me modify my mods, I'm a bit lost with the new changes

[empty gate]

They just duplicated the names for some reason...🤔

[thin swan]

You can do this:

local locationNames = {
  "Location_One",
  "Location_Two",
  ...
}

local group = BodyLocations.getGroup("Human")
for _, location in ipairs(locationNames) do
    local bodyLocation = BodyLocation.new(group, location)
    group:getAllLocations():add(bodyLocation)
end

Just add all the old location names to that list and it'll be sorted out

[thin swan]

A fellow OneCommander user 😄 Best explorer for windows for sure

[cold skiff]

Alex, thanks for your help. If I don't understand correctly, I'll create a LK_BodyLocations.lua file in 42.0\media\lua\shared with this content:
local LKLocations = {
"KatanaSheath",
"KatanaSheathHip",
...
}

local group = BodyLocations.getGroup("Human")
for _, location in ipairs(LKLocations) do
local bodyLocation = BodyLocation.new(group, location)
group:getAllLocations():add(bodyLocation)
end

Should this work, or do I need more modifications?

[thin swan]

That'll do it! You should just remove the ... in the LKLocations though, so it should be like this:

local LKLocations = {
  "KatanaSheath",
  "KatanaSheathHip",
}

local group = BodyLocations.getGroup("Human")
for _, location in ipairs(LKLocations) do
    local bodyLocation = BodyLocation.new(group, location)
    group:getAllLocations():add(bodyLocation)
end

Those were just there for me to demonstrate that you can add as many locations as you want to the list

[cold skiff]

Ha ha ha I left out the... ellipses, thank you very much, I just tried the mod and it works correctly now, thank you very much Alex 😉

[true nova]

How'd u do it?

[cedar hazel]

Oh it’s you!! Hi! Love your mods. Thank you for your work 🙂

[cold skiff]

Hi Zara,
I hope you're referring to the Legendary Series mods. If so, I'm the author. Your comment flatters me; this chat has been very helpful in getting started creating these mods. I still have a lot to learn, though.

[cedar hazel]

Yes! I was just on one of the mod pages asking a question. Then I saw your name on here and put two and two together.

You updated very quickly though and the mods you put out work well and look good in game, so I’d say you’re a good modder 🤗 🤘

[cold skiff]

☺️

[last hornet]

Does anyone know where the contents of "media\lua\server\recipecode.lua" went? Most of the recipecode.lua recipes have went away somewhere else (into some sort of java class file) after B42.12... not finding much online yet. Alternatively if anyone still has 42.11 installed please message me, or if somehow found all of the lua scripts on 42.12 please let me know where. Thanks.

[bronze yoke]

moved into the RecipeCode classes in zombie.scripting.logic

[last hornet]

Thank you.

[late hound]

So what changed with BodyLocations? 🤔

[bronze yoke]

getOrCreateLocation no longer takes a string argument

[bronze yoke]

you can replace calls to it with this

here "RasSkin" is the body location id

[plain oak]

hello

im looking for a modder witch can help me in creating newrecipies

[lament oak]

Is there anyone that would be willing to reskin the hockymask for me?

just need an image skinned over the mask, not sure how to code it and all, though

[shy mantle]

I was getting the wrong type of object and comparing it incorrectly (even though they look the same in console), I fixed it up now! Thanks, every day I find out about a new getter

[red tiger]

If the Java devs in TheIndieStone places this line in generated.ScriptGenerator.write(), all scripts will be alphanumerically sorted:

this.elements.sort(Comparator.comparing(Named::getName));

Placing this here in the hopes that someone picks this up.

All of my generated scripts are now alphanumerically sorted and that helps me read these files.

[drifting ore]

i think instead u should just use the map drawing feature and repurpose it for the id cards to let people add signatures to the cards themselves

[bright fog]

That's true, but he wouldn't be able to use a custom a font like he does

[shy mantle]

Does anyone know what could possibly cause duplicate vehicles to spawn in a small pile...

This is so random lol

I don't even think I could do that on purpose

[vast pier]

How would I use it in this instance ?

local group = BodyLocations.getGroup("Human")
group:getOrCreateLocation("SaltyMask")
group:setHideModel("SaltyMask", "Hat")```

[bronze yoke]

replace the call to getOrCreateLocation with that code, leave the rest as is

replace "RasSkin" with "SaltyMask"

[chilly lintel]

any of you here knows how i can change the values of a moded clothing piece?

[vast pier]

thanks 💋

[chilly lintel]

like i can touch the values but cant make them actually modify ingame

[empty gate]

Sounds good, but actually, the idea - to add readable id cards (and other stuff like credit cards). So, every zombie's card can be inspected. It could enhance lore aspect of the game.

[silent zealot]

Thanks! I was checking in hoping someone had solved this so I didn't have to, and Discord opened exactly on your comment with the solution. 😛

I still need to screw around to remake Wear Anything With Anything since that relied on accessing un-exposed fields and it's not surprising that broke when they redid the java side of things

[silent zealot]

Which values are you wanting to modify? Some values are stored with each item (so you need to spawn a new one to see changes), some values always fall back to the item script. And just for fun, some things you can change but they don't have any effect because a java process has already made up it's mind about which items match it's criteria and it does not re-assess this.

[mild granite]

local square = getPlayer():getCurrentSquare()
self.emitter = getWorld():getFreeEmitter(square:getX(), square:getY(), square:getZ())
self.sound = self.emitter:playSound(swingVoice) -- try something like this @oak bison

sound should be played on client side

other players will hear it

that's how i do it

[bright fog]

You want to attach the sound to the player actually

player:getEmitter

[buoyant violet]

so, aside from files being in X, what else causes this?

custom animations?

I deleted all custom anims

so I guess there is something bork with the model 🙁

[sacred matrix]

The latest update broke our mod (Furry mod, 100K subscribers or so). We use:

local humanGroup = BodyLocations.getGroup("Human");
local furLocation = humanGroup:getOrCreateLocation("Fur");

To create new body location for the fur skin. This has worked all through b41 and b42 so far.

As of the latest b42 update, this is throwing the following exception:

        java.lang.RuntimeException:  at MethodArguments.assertValid(MethodArguments.java:133).
        Stack trace:
                se.krka.kahlua.integration.expose.MethodArguments.assertValid(MethodArguments.java:133)
                se.krka.kahlua.integration.expose.LuaJavaInvoker.call(LuaJavaInvoker.java:198)

What is the correct way now to do this?

[plush wraith]

Spent awhile trying to figure out why my mod wasn't hooking into the new 'Smoke' from cigarette pack function, they made that specific function call ISTakePillAction instead of ISEatFoodAction like the other smokable items

New Cigarette Packs also don't hold each cigarette anymore as a container, they spawn in a new cigarette everytime when taking from the pack so now I gotta create some modData system on the pack to track it I think

[sacred matrix]

Thanks!

[silver lintel]

😍

[hardy dirge]

Hey guys, how do I make mods? I’m thinking about learning how to mod, make some animations as a proof of concept

[bright fog]

Pinned messages

[tranquil reef]

does the community seem to prefer the old mod load order, or the new manual one?

[bright fog]

Old is actually better bcs we sometimes need to make sure to have our stuff be the first or last to load

[tranquil reef]

Did they ever give a reason they changed it

[bright fog]

Nop

[bronze yoke]

the new load order came with features for modders to control load order but they don't work so we're just far worse off 😭

[vast pier]

Hey any idea why my modded guns are crashing to desktop in the latest update?
I feel like they were fine not that long ago

I spawn in, spawn my gun, and shoot it a few times and then it crashes to desktop

my guns now need whatever the hell this is MuzzleFlashModelKey = muzzle_flash_assault_rifle,

[bright fog]

Even then, you can't say "load my mod before everything else"

[bright fog]

@tranquil kindle might want to add that to the gun making guide ?

[bronze yoke]

that's been my biggest complaint too, stuff that needs to load early has literally no way to express this, whereas when it was alphabetic this was extremely easy

[thin swan]

@bronze yoke Was working on some controller stuff and found access to the building editor lol
Strange that it's accessible with controller but not keyboard and mouse, unless I just missed where it is

[bronze yoke]

let me check that it's still actually commented out

i remember the place i saw it in was really strange as well

like 'why would this button ever be here' strange

yeah the keyboard access to it is disabled 😅

is the editor usable with controller? i didn't think any of the debug uis were

[thin swan]

It is yeah, but not pleasantly

but that's all controller UI navigation lol

[bronze yoke]

i wonder if it's actually meant to be used by players in the future or something??

as i've said i don't really get what this ui is meant to debug

and it seems to be associated with the zone editor in the kbm code too

i see in your screenshot it's next to that on controller too

[thin swan]

Yeah it's some odd stuff

[bronze yoke]

yeah actually, digging at some code i didn't see before, this is definitely meant to be edited by players

the phrase 'PlayerRooms' appears and they're meant to save to a file called player_buildings.bin (but it's not hooked up yet, so they aren't persistent currently)

[thin swan]

This got me hyped up

[bronze yoke]

i thought i was just hacking a debug ui 😅

[thin swan]

Is this new or something I missed before? It shows only when right clicking a square that belongs to a building (I used the editor to make a new building in the parking lot)

Doesn't do anything though

[quasi kernel]

I imagine it would change the loot distributions, but that's just my first guess.

[thin swan]

That makes sense actually yeah, I think you're right

[thin swan]

I forgot to record, but it works pretty much same as animal zones, except with room zones nested in building zones. You draw a rectangle to make a building, and then in that building you can draw rectangles to make rooms

This means shareable player made structures that are made in-game should be possible to use for like a blueprint mod right?

but I'm not gonna touch anything regarding player building until next patch I think, seems there's some new fun bugs introduced in 42.12

[fiery pecan]

HATE to ping you, but I noticed a little issue with the latest update to your mod. Thing keeps blowing errors.

So I'm sharing a more proper fix.

there's also this. It kinda got a bit buried.

[silent zealot]

That might be why I have reports of my survival rifle crashing the game.

This has not been a good update for mods (though from the changelogs I think some of the changes are long overdue and will better long-term)

[bright fog]

Yea the ECS system being pushed further is great

[silent zealot]

I'll finally be able to make Store Stuff In Your Underpants without deleting every pair of undies in the world. 😛

[bronze yoke]

well, as far as ECS goes they didn't really do anything this update 😅 they just said they'll keep doing it that way

it's definitely appreciated to know for sure that that's the direction of the game though

[silent zealot]

It feels like they hried a new dev for the fluid system who said "why don't we make things more modular?" and everyone else was "OMG that is so cool!"

[bright fog]

Yea but them communicating on gheir plans on the technical aspect of the game is great still !

[bright fog]

Yea but changing everything now is kind of insanely annoying lol

[silent zealot]

On one hand, this is unstable which is when they are meant to be doing mod-breaking stuff. On the other hand, the development cycle for Zomboid makes "unstable" 50% of the playtime

[hot void]

its mod breaking time >_>

[peak nymph]

does anyone know where I can find the existing blacksmithing recipes, don't know if I'm just blind but cant see the file in scripts, expected a file called blacksmithin or forging or metalworking or something but can't see any

[knotty stone]

ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\generated\entities\blacksmith\craftRecipes\recipes_blacksmith_armor.txt

there is like 10 blacksmith files

[peak nymph]

didn’t think it’d be in entities, me being dumb, thanks

[small topaz]

In one of recent vanilla B42 updates, did they change anything about the event Events.OnGameStart so that it is not triggered anymore when players choose "Continue with new character" after character death? Or has this always been the case?

[bitter hedge]

@fiery pecan @sacred matrix

• No other mods active with a new install of the current workshop files on a new save game

• Running on Win 11 Home. Zomboid build 42.12.0 with -debug

• Some zombies appear as a fully black 2D silhouette. When they're rendered on screen the error count continuously goes up at a steady pace until the enemy is no longer on screen.
  Disabling the mod mid game and loading back in the enemy appears correctly, and there's no additional error count. Re-enabling the mod allows for player model change as intended, but the same enemy returns to being a silhouette with errors popping up.
  The ones that appear as a 2D silhouette reappear on the ground after you remove either a back item or a weapon that they've been impaled with such as a screwdriver or knife.

• Equipping items to your character's belt or wearing bags on your back causes a crash every time.

This is what came up in the console.txt file for what I believe is the silhouette issue. I'm not sure where to find any info caused by the belt/bag issue crash.
Thanks to everyone working on fixes so quickly! I work with game engines/modeling software daily, but I don't have any experience with Java so I wanted to share what I found in hopes that it could help out. I'll keep looking around to see if there's anything else of note.
Gif of the silhouette error: https://gyazo.com/97a76583b5ca86b15931c63e5352b338

[fiery pecan]

Guess I might be uploading one of those "overwrite files to fix a bug" temporary patch mods that depend on the OG soon...

no promises.

[bitter hedge]

Feel free to ping if you put something together! I'm happy that there's progress being made, and I appreciate the time being put into all these updates going on everywhere.

[sacred matrix]

Alright. The method we use is to create the Fur layer and re-order it to below the Wound layer. If the game itself now expects a certain order, I'm not sure what we could really do but I'll take a look. I am on vacation, so I'm a bit slow.

[fiery pecan]

@sacred matrix
I'm also working on making a sort of "auto-hider" for fur, for you guys.

[sacred matrix]

Sounds like you know what is going on?

[bitter hedge]

No rush at all, and enjoy your vacation! This is my favorite mod for the game, and I'm happy to wait however long it will take. It's great you were able to get to it so quick after the update.

[sacred matrix]

I've only had 30 minutes a day to look at this.

[fiery pecan]

wild

[fiery pecan]

yeah. In a nutshell the bodyLocations code stuff was changed. AND ALL of the furry script files will need to use a new field. "hidden = true".

so I'm essentially cooking up code to auto apply the new field to any and all clothes with the "fur" tag.

[sacred matrix]

Oh jeez, yeah, the mod builder won't handle that. I could likely cook up something to do that too if you want to offload the effort. What does the field do?

[fiery pecan]

it hides the clothing item from the inventory.

and implementing the auto-applier isn't too too bad.

literally just got it to stop yelling at me about typos in my code and such. I have fat fingers... LOL.

[sacred matrix]

I did ask in feature requests for them to not short-circuit player body model to always be one model so we didn't need clothing but got no response. I pondered a Java patch to do that, but then things require an installer. I then pondered a Java exploit via Lua to patch it, but figured that was a bad idea..

[fiery pecan]

about to go into a save and test things.

[sacred matrix]

I'll add you to the credits prominently and incorporate it.

[fiery pecan]

apparently that "Knox Event Expanded NPCs" mod found out a sort of "Easier install" method. Make a jar file with your modified Java files. Have people add it to their "PZ-64.json" file.

[sacred matrix]

Ooh. I could expose a detection mechanism via Java

[fiery pecan]

heh. Thnx. Lemme verify the fixed code works first. :3

ok, so.
To fix the error in the character creator, while also incorporating the fix from "Anthro Show Me Those Bandages" so worn bandages appear over fur:

function FurManager.onGameBoot()
    local group = BodyLocations.getGroup("Human");
    local locations = group:getAllLocations();
    local bodyLocation = BodyLocation.new(group, "Fur");
    local index = group:indexOf("Bandage");
    locations:add(index, bodyLocation);
end;

-# still working on the auto-applier...

[sacred matrix]

That doesn't seem to be the latest version? I uploaded a new one yesterday using a compat layer call?

[fiery pecan]

it's an edit.

[sacred matrix]

Oh - below Bandage instead of Wound?

[fiery pecan]

ya

I also did an overhaul of that function.

here's how you had it, ya?

[sacred matrix]

Yes. My approach was to have b41 use exactly original code to avoid any issues.

[fiery pecan]

I see.

[fiery pecan]

unfortunately, from my limited experience.. This works on my end no issue.

also just got the auto-applier working.

See if this hides all fur clothing items?

function FurManager.setFurHidden()
    local maleSpecies = FurManager.getAllFurClothingNames(false)
    local femaleSpecies = FurManager.getAllFurClothingNames(true)
    for k,v in pairs(maleSpecies) do
        if getItem(v):hasTag("Fur") then
            item = getItem(v);        
            if item ~= nil then
                item:DoParam("hidden = true");
            end
        end
    end
    for k,v in pairs(femaleSpecies) do
        if getItem(v):hasTag("Fur") then
            item = getItem(v);        
            if item ~= nil then
                item:DoParam("hidden = true");
            end
        end
    end
end
Events.OnGameBoot.Add(FurManager.setFurHidden)

it MIGHT not work for the hooman_placeholder as-is...

-# last minute realizations go brrr

ok, it does. Just checked.

[sacred matrix]

I can apply these when back at my computer. What attribution name do you want?

[fiery pecan]

just a simple credit is fine.

"Jack Rossman"

make sure to do thorough testing before crediting me. Last thing I need is to be in the credits for code that might not work. Lmao

[sacred matrix]

I'll also look at a Java mod to remove all of the clothing hacks when I get some time.. I work as a Java engineer for a silicon valley firm, so tend to have no time as of late.

[small topaz]

Since the new 42.12 update, has anyonle else noticed loading time and performance issues when you start a new game or continue with a new character in an old game after player death?

What happens for me here is that the game sometimes is very laggy during the first 30sec or so. Sometimes, the interior of the starting house is also completely blacked out during those first seconds.

[cold skiff]

Hi, I need help again. It turns out that two of my mods are now unable to run simultaneously. If both are running, the katana mod loses the ability to sheath it. I suspect it's due to my ExtraHotbarAttachDefinition.lua files.

require "Hotbar/ISHotbarAttachDefinition"
if not ISHotbarAttachDefinition then
return
end

local KatanaSheath = {
type = "KatanaSheath",
name = "KatanaSheath",
animset = "back",
attachments = {
Katana = "Katana in Sheath (Back)",
},
}
table.insert(ISHotbarAttachDefinition, KatanaSheath);

local KatanaSheathHip = {
type = "KatanaSheathHip",
name = "KatanaSheathHip",
animset = "belt left",
attachments = {
Katana = "Katana in Sheath (Hip)",
},
}
table.insert(ISHotbarAttachDefinition, KatanaSheathHip);

and this for knife

require "Hotbar/ISHotbarAttachDefinition"
if not ISHotbarAttachDefinition then
return
end

local KnifeSheathBack = {
type = "KnifeSheathBack",
name = "KnifeSheathBack",
animset = "belt right",
attachments = {
Knife = "Knife in Sheath (Back)",
},
}
table.insert(ISHotbarAttachDefinition, KnifeSheathBack);

local KnifeSheathLeg = {
type = "KnifeSheathLeg",
name = "KnifeSheathLeg",
animset = "belt right",
attachments = {
Knife = "Knife in Sheath (Leg)",
},
}
table.insert(ISHotbarAttachDefinition, KnifeSheathLeg);

[storm adder]

Hi, sorry to bury the above post! I can't get my local mod to show up in the ingame mod menu (b42). Attached is the file structure and mod.info. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!

[bright fog]

File structure is wrong

Check pinned messages for the wiki page on the subject

[storm adder]

does Contents go under /Zomboid/mods, or under /zomboid/mods/[mod name] ?

[bright fog]

Did you read the Mod structure wiki page ?

[storm adder]

I did, yes. I ended up getting it to work- sorry for the trouble.

[drifting ore]

Can one of u make a 3d shoe mod that actually looks good

Like theres 0 competition in the realm of shoe mods cuz none really exist

The one from b41 is incompatible with so many mods

I require 3d shows

Sheos

Shoes!

[bright fog]

Do it then

[vast pier]

Do changes to an item's params mid game save onto said gun ?

Like if I use oncreate code to increase the fire rate of a held gun, will it keep that fire rate when reloading, or will it default back to the default stat?

And can I use lua to change the reload animation of a held gun mid game and have it only apply to that copy of the gun?
Or would I need to make placeholder items that the gun transforms into when these changes are made ?

[small topaz]

@bright fog sorry for the ping but since you are a linux user too, do you also have some performance problems when the gameplay starts since the update to 42.12?

[bright fog]

I don't think so, but my game doesn't run good at all on Linux on my end too, so that's doesn't help lol

I realized running imgui the game runs better, no idea why

[vast pier]

Behold, a rifle

[small topaz]

Has it always been the case that when your inventory is open, you scroll via mouse and hold the shift button at the same time, it switches the inventory category (for example from main inventory to keyring)? So that you can not scroll through your main inventory when running?

[true nova]

i believe that is an intentional hotkey

[next marlin]

This is very silly, but I just spent like 40 mins backreading through things here to figure out how to properly make a mod that changes the stats of a vanilla item (without using itemtweaker or a copy paste of it) and I finally figured it out

So thanks Jvla and Albion lol

I also closed and reopened the game about 8 times for testing before noticing the "reload LUA" button

[winter bolt]

reload lua never actually works for me lol

its safer to restart i think

[bronze yoke]

there are some very specific things that lua reloads don't work for, but generally there is no need to restart the game

[next marlin]

It's actually worked for me so far every time, it could be because it's a super lightweight mod

[bronze yoke]

also, you automatically reload lua when leaving a game, as well as entering a game with a different mod list -- so if you don't keep mods enabled on the main menu, you don't even have to hit the button to reload

[winter bolt]

oh my god

[next marlin]

This is all that it is so far

[willow tulip]

Yep thats how I started on beefcake!

Sometimes, just changing a couple numbers is the mod people really want.

[willow tulip]

Btw, a couple ways you can make it more readable for yourself: Put a commented out version of the function declaration above where you call it (Because its such a long and multi-variable function), just makes your eyes not have to move so far to figure out what variable goes where

or you can pass a structure, ie gunfixer("base.AssultRifle",{baseAim = 10, BaseCrit = 5, CritMult = 4})

this makes your code a little more 'self documenting' so you can remember exactly what variable is what.

[bronze yoke]

if vague parameters are a concern you can turn on inlay hints

commented out copy of the declaration is crazy 😅

[willow tulip]

Eh, iv seen it done plenty.

Not when calling a single function mind you

[next marlin]

that was the initial test to see if it worked and I just didn't delete it yet lol

[willow tulip]

but when your calling like, gun fixer 10 times over, that 1 line above it to remind you what vars go where, can be nice

[next marlin]

wanted to be able to return to it if my attempt at a function didn't work, since I've literally never used Lua before

[willow tulip]

(Moreso later in the project when the space between the function usage and declaration would be further, but yea)

[bronze yoke]

inlay hints seem like a far better solution and they're less likely to fall behind in maintenance

[bronze yoke]

oh no that's fine, i was just responding to what black moons was suggesting

[willow tulip]

Yea I do the same when trying out stuff. Also making backup copies, or if your really serious, getting a github or other source control for ultimate ability to restore to any previous version of your code.

[next marlin]

I do have a github actually, I just haven't used it in a while since I ended up having to take a job as a delivery driver to pay the bills

LUA is new to me, but I'm familiar with JS and C#

Did a bit of game dev in C# as well. Nothing professional, just projects with friends.

[ionic linden]

Asking this here cause yall probably have better resources:

Does anyone have an MP4 file for the sounds the zombies make when beating on doors? I’m trying to make some audio recordings for my friend group and I think it’d be a neat addition.

[true nova]

look for thump in media/sounds

[ionic linden]

Danke

[teal fulcrum]

I'm having an issue with a mod I'm making not allowing me to add it to a save's mods, even when making a new save

[teal fulcrum]

How do I properly ensure an empty bottle can be used to hold water? I have the "fill" option available but can't actually fill them

[umbral osprey]

Created a simple application to assist server owners, hope ya'll enjoy!
https://github.com/DuskFall9764/pz_mod_tool

[cold skiff]

Hi, I'd need help with a problem I'm having with two of my mods. They're overlapping each other, and I don't see the option to attach it to the sheath on the katana mod, but they work correctly separately. I suspect I'm doing something wrong in ExtraHotbarAttachDefinition.lua. I'll send you the code for both, so I can see if anyone would be so kind as to help me.

[warm gate]

i have a question is anyone currently working on the asura chi mod for b42 or is that a thing that would never happen

[bright fog]

I'll make a modding project wiki page for it later

[quasi kernel]

Out of curiosity, are the files named the same?

If I'm not mistaken, overwrites like to happen when two files are named exactly the same.

The code you presented doesn't look like it would obviously conflict, so my assumption is one simply got overwritten by the other.

[bronze yoke]

you uploaded a python script to github as a zip file? i skipped over it earlier assuming it was going to be some dodgy exe without source code 😅 there is another server mod tool out there that actually does that

[quasi kernel]

(Typically this only happens if they're exactly under the same directory iirc, but I could be wrong)

Directory as in general structure, not exact directory.

[cold skiff]

Yes, initially they were both called ExtraHotbarAttachDefinition.lua but now I renamed them to LTK_HotbarAttachDefinition.lua and LK_HotbarAttachDefinition.lua and it still gives problems. The first one doesn't work well when loaded. Now the equip options appear but when I try to equip it, it gives me errors.

[quasi kernel]

A step in the right direction at the very least, I imagine the nature of the errors will probably be more telling.

If you have other files, make sure they aren't encountering the same issue.

[cold skiff]

`Callframe at: setAttachedItem
function: animEvent -- file: ISAttachItemHotbar.lua line # 90 | Vanilla

`java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at se.krka.kahlua.integration.expose.caller.MethodCaller.call(MethodCaller.java:62)..................

This ERRORS and some other more...
`

[quasi kernel]

Whatever line 90 is seems to be causing some issues.

Whether that's default files or not, would be worth investigating

[cold skiff]

but this files is vanilla file

[cold skiff]

I already solved it, it was a very silly mistake because I also had the attachedlocalizations file with the same name 😭

[crisp carbon]

Hey guys! I’m working on my first ever mod and want to add a frog hat. I thought it was going pretty good until I tested it and this happened.. does anyone have some advice on how to fix this?🐸🥲

[true nova]

thats a funny way to wear a hat. Is the right one when you place on the floor?

im not sure for the model, i only know some of the xmls and idk if thats the issue. you should ask in #modeling

[crisp carbon]

yes exactly!

when I place it, it becomes this huge png haha

[true nova]

the icon being the world model can be various issues

can you send your item and model script?

[crisp carbon]

yess definitely

module FrogMod
{
item Hat_FrogHat
{
Type = Clothing,
DisplayName = FrogHat,
ClothingItem = Hat_FrogHat,
DisplayCategory = Clothing,
BodyLocation = Hat,
BloodLocation = Head,
IconsForTexture = FrogHatGreen,
BiteDefense = 5,
ScratchDefense = 25,
Insulation = 0.35,
WindResistance = 0.2,
FabricType = cotton,
WaterResistance = 0.4,
Weight = 0.5,
ChanceToFall = 30,
WorldRender = true,
WorldStaticModel = Froghat_Ground,
}
}

module Frogmod
{
model testFrog_Ground
{
mesh = WorldItems/Clothing/testFrog_Ground,
scale = 1,
}
}

is this what you mean?

[true nova]

yes. the first thing i would try is WorldStaticModel = Frogmod.Froghat_Ground, in your item script

[crisp carbon]

perfect, I'll try that!

[true nova]

wait i didnt read the name. do you have a Froghat_Ground model script?

[crisp carbon]

I have Frogmod_modelsitems & I have one called FrogHat inside the clothing folder

[true nova]

what i am meaning is if model testFrog_Ground is your hat floor model then it should be WorldStaticModel = Frogmod.testFrog_Ground

[crisp carbon]

ooh I get it! I just changed the name from testFrog_Ground to Frogmod.Froghat_Ground and changed it in the scripts aswell

so now I have FrogHat_Ground.fbx and in the script it says Frogmod.FrogHat_Ground

[tranquil kindle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3444877391

You might wanna read "Creating 3D Hoodie" as it has some info that could be usefull in making hat too.

I myself made a frog balaclava and many more, it just waits for me to update my clothing mod, but there is still more items i want to add before update

[crisp carbon]

omg!! that's adorable!!!

I think the problem is I just sculpted a frog in blender and put it in my files hoping it would sit on top of my head ingame

is it possible to size the hat really big so you don't see the character underneath anymore?

[shell holly]

Hello, I'm just starting to develop a mod and I have two noob questions to get started 😊
When I use "print" I don't see anything in the console.txt file.
When I use "local lang = getCore():getOptionLanguageName() or nil" I don't get the language.

[tranquil kindle]

It is, but it'd be better if you used armature for it to properly size it

Overall that guide will let you do that

You might wanna also add "NoHairNoBeard" Hair category to your hat, so if someone has big hair/beard it does not clip through.

[quasi kernel]

Oop, did that manage to address everything?

[cold skiff]

Yes ☺️

[quasi kernel]

Good good!

[umbral osprey]

Essentially my first time making something with the purpose of it being public, so I’m pretty new to GitHub. I’ll be sure to change that though, thanks.

And I was looking for a tool that did the same thing but couldn’t find one for the life of me. I know you can run a power shell command but that misses out on some QoL feature.

[bronze yoke]

i think the other one is some whole Environment for server hosts or something, i haven't looked too much into it since the distribution model is so dodgy

[umbral osprey]

Seems extra for a simple task

[silent zealot]

Where are you using print It has to be somewhere that gets executed. Placing a print statement in the main body of you script (i.e.: not inside a function) will run it when the file is loaded. Also, search console.txt for the name of your lua script and make sure it didn't fail to load due to a syntax error, escpecially if you're not using an IDE like VSCode or similar that will alert you to syntax issues. (tip: use an IDE like VSCode to save hours of frustration!)

When I use "local lang = getCore():getOptionLanguageName() or nil" I don't get the language.

I don't know any specifics of those methods, but in debug mode use the lua console to make sure the commands work as you expect:

x = getCore()
print(x)
y = x:getOptionLanguageName()
print(y)

[silent zealot]

Sometimes it's amazing how much work a simple task requires. It's like a mechanic going to replace a headlight bulb and then it turns out he has to remove both front wheels, build a custom rig to support the engine block so it can be raised an extra inch and then make another custom tool to access the headlight only to find out that it doesn't use standard bulbs so he has to get some tungsten wire glassblowing equipment to make the bulb. Also none of that is documented in the owners manual, it just says "replace hedlight bulbs as needed".

...sometimes I get really annoyed at the complicated mess of IT crap and work and think "I should have been a mechanic" 😛

[umbral osprey]

Haha ain’t that the truth, but sometimes there’s no need to over engineer. I’ve learnt that the hard way many times 🙃

[exotic junco]

question with practical example: in 42.12 the CDDA challenge is bugged, in which the fire that is supposed to occur never does. I located the problematic bit of lua code and figured I'd try to patch. i do know basic scripting syntax and have worked with lua before, but don't have experience with it as a java embedded language.

the problem is: method IsoGridSquare:explode() has been moved to (presumably, the java docs are not updated) IsoGenerator:explode(), but /media/lua/client/LastStand/AReallyCDDAy.lua was not updated to reflect this and still attempts to call the old method, giving a Object tried to call nil in OnGameStart

my question is: how would you go about instantiating an IsoGenerator class to call explode() on, along with positioning it to match the original chosen tile (or any random tile in a similar fashion to the original function)?

[bronze yoke]

there's actually already a mod fixing this

it doesn't seem like either of those classes have explode methods anymore, i host up to date javadocs here https://demiurgequantified.github.io/ProjectZomboidJavaDocs

[exotic junco]

ah icic, while confusing given what what was mentioned in the patch notes it makes more sense to have it there

and thank you so much for the updated docs

[bronze yoke]

ah, the IsoGenerator one is private, that's why

looking at an older decompile, it looks like all explode() did was IsoFireManager.explode(this.getCell(), this, 100000)

so you can call that method instead

[exotic junco]

ahhh alr, thank you, that is also what the mod did too, pretty nifty

[teal fulcrum]

Would anyone mind helping out with a weapon being invisible?

[tranquil kindle]

Just post everything you have in modeling. Your model view in blender, all scripts

[teal fulcrum]

@tranquil kindle Did such

[peak nymph]

Is there anyway to get the nearest entity of a type, specifically the nearest deer in this case, either that on the nearest deer animal migration path

trying to add a deer “whistle” that alerts the user to the nearest deer direction but makes a loud noise

[bright fog]

Check the JavaDocs of IsoGridSquare

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/JavaDocs

[fleet bridge]

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[sharp sage]

is it possible to change the standard missing texture (red and white checkerboard) to something else

[bright fog]

Why ? Just set a texture for your model ?

[oblique quiver]

Hello everyone! I'd like to write a mod to modify the foraging loot table, i.e. remove existing items and adding new ones. The latter is of course possible, but can the former be done as well? Thank you very much!

[bright fog]

yes

[oblique quiver]

Awesome, thank you! Do you happen to know where I can find more information about that or a mod I could use as a guideline? Apologies, these are probably very basic questions.

[vale garden]

Do you think it is possible for a mod to remove the right-click hold-to-aim function and instead make left click = primary item use and right click = secondary item use?
Something like an advanced version of Brutal/Fancy Handwork, where you can literally hold two pistols to shoot or hold two weapons to attack simultaneously, instead of using the primary followed by the secondary.

[thin swan]

Yes it's theoretically possible, but how would you aim the two pistols if you remove the aim from right click? Hold CTRL instead?

[vale garden]

Yeah, maybe something like that. I just thought that it would be cool.

Or maybe you simply don't need any button to aim, you simply stop doing any primary/secondary action, and the aiming animation automatically start.

Using semi/full auto or consecutive shooting, aiming is pretty much obsolete anyway.

I just wonder that why have no one thought of this, maybe it is not doable or something.
But since it is theoretically possible, I think a mod like this would be a game changer for the future Project Zomboid to come.

[thin swan]

The firearms are very tied in with the aiming system which can't really be manipulated with Lua mods, so it's a tricky thing to make and have it work well with consistency

[vale garden]

Oh I thought you were talking about the aiming where you hold right click to 'hold the breath' for more accurate shoot.
I mean what if you can toggle firearm/aiming mode or like I mentioned above, you simply don't need any button to aim, it automatically go in to aiming as soon as you equip 'firearm' weapon.

Guess one can only dream of dual-wielding pistols and firing them at the same time lol

[small topaz]

agree. also guess it is intentional but I am just wondering whether it is a recent addition or whether it was already in B41 that way...

[true nova]

Been there as long as I can remember I use it often

If it's lua side im sure it can be disabled

[thin swan]

I kinda remember it being that it only changed container if you held shift and hovered the mouse on the side panel where it shows the available containers, but not if you had the mouse hovering in the main inventory pane that has the items.
But I could absolutely be misremembering too

[bronze yoke]

i remember just needing to hover the mouse, don't remember shift doing anything

[warm gate]

i was wondering is there anyway to pull codes from a specific mod

and copy and modify it into your own for b42

[peak nymph]

I mean if you subscribe to a mod on steam those files are downloaded onto your computer

[warm gate]

oh alr

[finite radish]

as long as you don't reupload it without permission, yes.

[warm gate]

yeah if they dont respond ill just credit them

[finite radish]

it's more complicated than that, make sure you follow this (specifically section 8, at the bottom)
https://projectzomboid.com/blog/modding-policy/

otherwise, it's likely to be removed

[warm gate]

k

[bright fog]

@woeful elk #1318920979581501502 message
This isn't the place for game suggestions

Nor is it for players to suggest stuff to modders

[woeful elk]

ops! I thought I clicked on the right one, sorry

[noble fossil]

Is there still no way to edit vanilla blacksmith recipes? Overriding the vanilla script doesn't work like it does for regular recipes.

Changing the recipe tags only adds them on the end of the current tags. Specifically I wanted to make the jewelry scrapping recipes "InHandCraft".

[bronze yoke]

you can override entire files but this is not recommended for reasons you may already be aware of

you might be able to do it through lua using some reflection, but recipe stuff is heavily cached so that won't necessarily work

[noble fossil]

Hmmm, okay. Gotcha. Is there any way to obsolete the recipe in the script so I can just make my own recipe? I noticed obsolete = true also doesn't seem to work.

[bronze yoke]

nothing like that, to be honest mod support for craftrecipes is really bad

[noble fossil]

I'm still a noob to modding so doing it with LUA might be tricky but I'll see if I can figure out a way. Thanks for your time

[next marlin]

lmao

[willow tulip]

@noble fossil Check out this post about editing recipes in LUA: https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/86011-allow-lua-to-edit-recipes-in-b42/#comment-441055

the last couple posts have a few methods of recipe editing in B42

[silent zealot]

I wonder if you could design a game from the ground up to be moddable via AI... training an AI modding model along with the code development.

Sounds like a terrible idea, or a fun thesis for a grad student.

Or a good kickstarter/early access scam 😂

[finite radish]

AI already knows how to program pretty well, so it can already "mod" technically. it's just most people who throw something like that into it won't know the right questions to ask or how to spot errors

[silent zealot]

I'm still trying to decide if it's helpful or not for complicated sysadmin tasks. Stuff like this is not encouraging:

On the plus side, I still have job security since I'm not getting replaced by AI anytime soon 😛

[peak nymph]

probably a really dumb question but how would I go about adding tags to vanilla items in the lua

ah damn is it no longer possible in b42?
#mod_development message

[bronze yoke]

for recipe purposes, it is impossible now

if you need the tag for anything else it'll probably still work fine

[peak nymph]

yeah its for recipes unfortunately

is there a way to have a recipe be a defined item (list of defined items) or a tag,or do I need two separate recipes

[vast pier]

On the bright side, adding tags is super easy since tags don't overwrite previous tags when added in item scripts

just make sure youaren't accidentally overwriting theoriginal item file.txt

[late hound]

Transformers: More than meets the eye

[peak nymph]

just manually added the items for now, thanks tho
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3578085127

[mellow oyster]

So im trying to make a custom mod for myself, i tried putting my mod in every possible folder for it, even in the workshop folder for downloaded mods, but it doesnt show up in my mod list. Neither does the base game example mod....

[limber gorge]

Have you tried in [C:\Users%USERNAME%\Zomboid\mods]? That worked for me

if not, then maybe the mod config is incorrect, you might need to check the console log to see if the game can find your mod

[peak nymph]

i'm creating a mod to allow for "dredging" in bodies of water
basically works like build 41 fishing but uses the foraging skill

you can use a sack or a crafted "hand dredger", if you use a sack it has a chance of filling up with dirt/sand etc so they are renewable

but the main part if to make stones and junk items renewable/findable

and i've got it working but now need to decide the loot pool so just wanted to ask if people had ideas of items I should add to the loot pool (and how rare they should be)
currently got

• stone
• large stone
• clay
• mussels
• crushed ore
• tin can
• gold coin
• empty beer bottle
• empty water bottle
• empty pop can

[finite radish]

if there isn't anything like a "driftwood" item (and the sticks/branches would probably be too big to be something you sift out) then you could maybe throw wood scraps into the list

additionally probably a lot of the smaller metal crafting bits that have been added, various bits of steel/copper/tin/gold/etc.

jewelry would also make a lot of sense

splitting between freshwater/saltwater zones might be nice, or maybe even using something like zombie density to figure out whether you're near a populated area so you can have more trash vs. more natural stuff

[peak nymph]

added gold coin, silver rings, crushed iron ore, crushed copper ore and tin cans

So they can be smelted to the relevant metals