mod_development

[craggy notch]

I moved my game to another drive and it worked

[final plinth]

wait it works on one drive but not the other?

[craggy notch]

yea I had the same issue I moved it my other drive and the spawn points started working

very weird, are cars not spawning in raven creek for you

[final plinth]

I dont use raven creek personally so i dont know

ill check it out

[wooden rapids]

All map, spawnpoint mods, yes 🙂

[final plinth]

ok so, i doesnt appear cars spawn there for me either so that is probably something with the mod

but i can spawn there

so thats something with you

have you tried testing it with only raven creek enabled?

you could have a conflict

[craggy notch]

@wooden rapids do you have another drive

[final plinth]

I do

[wooden rapids]

Yes i have, it could be that the HardDrive one is the issue

[craggy notch]

try moving the steam install there, I had the same issues and I moved it there and the spawn points and car spawning worked fine after I did that

[wooden rapids]

Hmm, so you mean that i put Zomboid where my User directory is?

[final plinth]

yeah im not gonna test that but that could be something to try

[craggy notch]

@wooden rapids no just go to the games steam settings and put move install folder

[feral lion]

i tried to edit my spawnpoints but unexpected error

[final plinth]

isnt it actually project zomboid > properties > local files > move install folder?

@feral lion what was the error?

[feral lion]

1616519607588 IsoMetaGrid.Create: finished loading in 13.083 seconds
1616519607589 can't find map objects file: media/maps/Odintsovo/objects.lua
1616519607590 Max #ZONES on one chunk is 0
java.lang.RuntimeException: can't create player at x,y,z=442,11310,0 because the square is null
at zombie.iso.IsoWorld.init(IsoWorld.java:2373)
at zombie.gameStates.GameLoadingState$1.runInner(GameLoadingState.java:259)
at zombie.gameStates.GameLoadingState$1.run(GameLoadingState.java:235)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
1616519607604 LuaEventManager: adding unknown event "OnPreUIDraw"
1616519607604 LuaEventManager: adding unknown event "OnPostUIDraw"
1616519662841 waiting for UdpEngine thread termination
1616519662852 znet: Java_zombie_core_raknet_RakNetPeerInterface_Shutdown
1616519662899 znet: Java_zombie_core_znet_SteamUtils_n_1Shutdown

yea i thought something i missing

maybe the Z coordinate is wrong?

[final plinth]

oh i had this issue

i still dont know what i did

but it stopped

oh wait

it was a map mod that was bugged

i removed it and it fixed it

[feral lion]

i disabled map mod as i remember

[final plinth]

hmm

i dont know then

[feral lion]

it says 442,11310 wtf

i dont write number like that

[final plinth]

yeah it was the same when i had it

[feral lion]

{ worldX = 0, worldY = 0, posX = 64, posY = 241, posZ = 0 }

ah odintsovo have world number 0

okey try now then

[craggy furnace]

@tame mulch

need to center the main rotor

[low yarrow]

Oh i just used "auto weight". Maybe i shouldnt do that 😄

Will try to weight paint it manually

[final plinth]

you can also transfer the weight from the base body

[near pond]

next character im taking off high thirst. its so annoying

[final plinth]

hang on let me get a video throttlekitty sent me, its pretty helpful imo

[near pond]

wrong chat

[final plinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arXf5EV3H1c @low yarrow

[low yarrow]

Thanks!

That looks good 😄

[final plinth]

😄

[low yarrow]

So a few thing i found out:

1. Import the model in a scale of 100
2. Apply the bones to the visual transform before you link a mesh to it

If you select bones in edit mode they should not jump anymore

If i dont apply them they jump up in edit mode

And then select everything and "apply transformation" so the origin is in the center

[rocky lark]

Hey uh so, if anyone knows about the cheat menu mod it changed how new vehicles are added to the menu, and I have literally no idea how to add in new vehicles in a separate mod without replacing the entirety of the current modded vehicle code. How exactly would I go about this? I can try and explain but I barely code anything that isn't someone else's and... to say the least, I'm stuck and can't figure out how to use currently available code.

AFAIK It has something to do with tables? and i don't understand much else.

[lethal sparrow]

To say; you want to spawn a modded vehicle usign cheat menu, but can't?

[rocky lark]

ok so there's a table named modVehicles I think it's a table anyways and I am so unexperienced in lua I don't know how to add to it
a sample line i think was

    {"Autotsar GovNoVoz-250", "Base.TrailerFirst", "Trailers"},
}```

I have coded o n c e in project zomboid and 99% of the code was someone else's magic

[rocky lark]

I am trying to solve this problem myself by adding code

[lethal sparrow]

I'm not a savant either, but I think that looks rather intuitive.

    {"VEHICLEINTERNALNAME", "HOOKLOCATION", "VEHICLETYPE"},
}```
Would be my best guess.

[rocky lark]

the dev said they added framework to add in your own modded vehicles to the menu.... they forgot to put in an explanation that doesn't involve copying, pasting and replacing current code

it's modVehicles["MODID"] = { {"display name (can be anything)", "vehicle ID", "category name (can be anything)"} } directly quoted from the code

so what I have tried so far

1. copy all the code into a separate file and add onto that

what that did? it works! but may be copyright infringement

and overrides current code, and it gives me the chills from the time I did that and fucked over code in rimworld

[lethal sparrow]

If they included a blank template for the purpose of mod compatability, I can't help but feel it was put there to be used for mod compatability.

[rocky lark]

it wasn't blank

[lethal sparrow]

Then what was this?

[rocky lark]

it wasn't in a separate folder

it's an explanation to how the code works, above all the main code

[lethal sparrow]

Oh, I see.

[rocky lark]

this is in the main folder

and... uh... I am no expert coder on how to add my own lines without fucking up the current lines

[lethal sparrow]

If you're only looking to modify that version of cheatmenu, then you'd simply extend the way they did it, following the format. Find the vehicle ID of the mod Id that you wanted to include, and CTRL+C, CTRL+V another entry replacing the necessary variables to match the destination vehicle

[rocky lark]

CheatCoreCM.modVehicles = modVehicles -- do not modify. do not place definitions below this```

[lethal sparrow]

Looks like one ModID can contain as many entries for vehicles as you want, so go nuts. This is a personal-use copy, so I doubt you'll see lawyers over it.

[rocky lark]

at the bottom

so it kind of locks it in when it's done????

Idk

[lethal sparrow]

Probably. Only one way to find out, right?

[rocky lark]

Tried

failed

[lethal sparrow]

Did you at least get a helpful stack trace?

[rocky lark]

adding just the plain modVehicles = {} shit results in an exception

lemme get the stack trace

it says something about index... non-table

function: ReducePlank.lua -- file: ReducePlank.lua line # 8.
[23-03-21 16:37:34.150] ERROR: General     , 1616531854150> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index of non-table at KahluaUtil.fail line:82..
[23-03-21 16:37:34.151] ERROR: General     , 1616531854151> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:.
[23-03-21 16:37:34.154] LOG  : General     , 1616531854154> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE
-----------------------------------------
function: ReducePlank.lua -- file: ReducePlank.lua line # 8.```

line 8 is the final bracket

[lethal sparrow]

Is this in a separate file than what you showed me before?

[rocky lark]

yes

I want to publish the patch damnit

[lethal sparrow]

That's why. There's no definition set for modVehicles = {} where you're editing.

[rocky lark]

so the current option is copying the entire modVehicles file (1 file) and replacing it

[lethal sparrow]

You're adding an entry to somethign that doesn't exist

[rocky lark]

ok so

when I try to make a new modVehicles it totally overwrites the rest of the vehicles

so IDK how to add onto modVehicles

[lethal sparrow]

What I assumed you were doing was editing a copy of CheatMenu for personal use. Unless they included plugin hooks, I don't think you can extend their code from a separate mod.

I couldn't, anyway.

[rocky lark]

this is the file I'm trying to edit from another file. I can simply copy all the code, edit said code, and it'll be fine but IDK if he'll get mad for copyright. It still requires cheat menu

[lethal sparrow]

Then you have arrived at a moral crossroads that I cannot advise you on. Do anything you want for personal use, but I wouldn't upload it to the workshop.

[feral lion]

where to find guns in kingsmouth?

[lethal sparrow]

https://pzwiki.net/w/images/0/0f/Kingsmouth_map.png

I would guess somewhere in the area marked "military/airfield"

[feral lion]

i scanned the whole airfield

almost no any gun

https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/i3x6oe/when_i_found_my_first_m16_it_was_on_kingsmouth/

they speak about something like a secret base

[late hound]

There is an armory there in the middle of the base.

[feral lion]

you can circle me on the picture?

im in the highest weapon rarity (abundant) still no weapon

i mean "guns"

[late hound]

something is messing with your item distributions there, that is the armory

[feral lion]

it is 40.43

can i add manually loot for some place? on the map?

[lethal sparrow]

That would more a more complicated solution than you need. You should examine your mod list to see potential threats to distributions. And, if you posted your DebugLog I could peek

[feral lion]

maybe, thanks

i try totally without any mod, but i dont think its any mod fault

[willow estuary]

Nah dude, it's just that won't work properly at all in b40.
The guns, and more importantly the military loot definitions, don't even exist in build 40.

[feral lion]

ah but i had ORGM rechambered

[willow estuary]

Doesn't matter.

[feral lion]

ah thats bad

thinking about adding it manually before the match

or something o.O

maybe a zombie loot mod idk

and i can find guns in zombie bodies

what is that weapon mod name? its starts with B

cant find

[willow estuary]

That will not work in build 40 either FYI.

[feral lion]

ahhh that sucks 😦

brita weapon pack

ye its for 41

its strange that there isnt any "random loot" mod

[feral lion]

what type of shelf is this in the armory?

[lethal sparrow]

I would guess armystorage locker

[willow estuary]

Try making a mod with just this is a lua file. The filename should start with a letter after D, just to be sure.

require "Items/SuburbsDistributions"
SuburbsDistributions["armystorage"] = SuburbsDistributions["gunstore"] 

or

require "Items/SuburbsDistributions"
SuburbsDistributions["armystorage"] = SuburbsDistributions["policestorage"] 

Caveat: haven't tested, can't make any guarantees, but it should work. Won't spawn "military" class loot specifically, but I remember b40 gunstores and police armories with ORGM having a fair amount of military hardware. Policestorage is probably the better bet from what I recall.

[feral lion]

yes i want to do that

im dont understand zomboid programming yet 😦

i understand need to make a custom mod with a lua file which contains what you write

but dont understand the filename starts with d thing

if you are kind enough just make me this short file?

and i try it then

it looks a really good fix

modname/media/lua/server ? or what , this is what i dont understand

[willow estuary]

Yeah, in that directory.
This is just my good deed for the day, nobody should get any wild ideas about my generosity from this 😜

[feral lion]

😄 😄 perfect my dude

saved my day!

so the endfolder is server okey

[willow estuary]

/Server/Items to be sure.

And again, I can't guarantee that this will work? I just think it will. But I'm neither knowledgeable or smart.

[feral lion]

😄 same as me

but how does zomboid know that he needs to load that lua?

i put in to both folder XD

[fallow bridge]

there aren't really any guns in B40

there's like 3

[feral lion]

but there is with ORGM

[fallow bridge]

oh

[feral lion]

we want to add it to the loot table.

[fallow bridge]

i forgot about that mod

it should be auto

[feral lion]

also i read i add RealDurabilites and also the sounds gonna work

i think its doesnt auto cause its Kingsmouth and not the standard map 😦

[willow estuary]

Ah, explaining how to make a mod out of that... ...is beyond my limited capabilities at explaining stuff?
The pinned posts in this channel will have tutorials that should explain how to make a proper workshop mod out of this so it will work with MP.

[feral lion]

im made a mod.info file

autodidacta 😄

just probably its not enough :\

[willow estuary]

You're going to have to read the tutorial most likely.
And then keep trying until you make something that works.

[feral lion]

it appears

something happened

cause there is the police army stuff

still not found any gun o.O

[craggy furnace]

evil

just evil

[sour island]

how/where to you call this sound event? Still not having any luck incorporating a new sound

[lethal sparrow]

Depends on whether you only want the player to hear it or for it to play in the world for the purposes of zombies/multiplayer

[sour island]

I'm using playsound from a world emitter

works for vanilla sounds- not so much for custom sounds in scripts

[nimble spoke]

I use it from a vehicle emitter

[sour island]

ah, I don't have a category set

perhaps it's finicky on which emitters can play it?

[feral lion]

trying with the gunstorish

[sour island]

😘

ty for the clue

it was the category

[craggy furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/praise-the-sun-yes-i-did-it-proud-gif-3539504

[feral lion]

XDDDD

the grenade works as i see XD

[nimble spoke]

Nice

[feral lion]

which mod does the grenade launcher comes from?

are there any police on kingsmouth?

thinking of adding the loot for more place

[clear lodge]

Any modders that do commisions?

[lethal sparrow]

I'm a novice but I'm open to new ideas. What did you have in mind?

[clear lodge]

A clothing mod that add some new bulletproof vests and shirts

[lethal sparrow]

That sound interesting, but it's a complicated area above my rank. Sorry

[feral lion]

i can mix two loot distribution? require "Items/SuburbsDistributions"
SuburbsDistributions["armystorage"] = SuburbsDistributions["gunstore"] + SuburbsDistributions["policestorage"]

[lethal sparrow]

I'm doubtful, but you could try it.

Worst case scenario you get an error telling you you can't.

[feral lion]

it works this way? 😄

im thinking of adding the policestorage distribution to a crate

but i dont want to switch it

so i mean original crate loots+policestorageloots

are there any command to not "=" but "add" or something

[lethal sparrow]

It would take more elbow grease, but yes you could insert new entries to an existing table.

For the purposes of your question though, no, you can't add an entire table to another in one go, to my knowledge.

[nimble spoke]

you can append tables, but you'd have to append the items table inside one of those to the items table in the other

[drifting ore]

Thanks planetalgol for the vest repair mod, it is a mod I am quite thankful for!

[craggy furnace]

buggy but its starting to take shape

[grizzled grove]

oo nice

[nimble spoke]

so thanks to @final plinth a missing piece was found. In order to delete the body mesh when you're creating hair, beard, clothes or whatever, delete all unused bones and vertex groups as well. I think he already said that here but I just want to confirm that it works for the models I've been using that kept the body mesh

[willow estuary]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2433979097

[craggy furnace]

neat

[willow estuary]

Thanks!

[errant meteor]

@lethal sparrow I have been playing my first game in years and your soda mod has saved me a bunch lol, the water shut off. Lucky I found a soda machine with a fair amount of soda.

[nimble spoke]

Hell yeah, now I'm ready to fight zombies, sectoids.... or even street fighters!

just give me that heavy plasma and I can take the war to Cydonia

[jovial summit]

dick kickem

[craggy furnace]

i am here to chew ass and kick gum

[severe ridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iof5pRAIZmw

[drifting ore]

Hnnnnnnngh this is awesome.

[lethal sparrow]

That's a modded map, I presume? It's well made either way.

[indigo hound]

Yes. This is my mod (temporarily hidden in the workshop))

ъ

[lethal sparrow]

Well, it's quality. Well done

[indigo hound]

[carmine cosmos]

I am currently doing some research on the extent of Lua modding. If anyone has any mod ideas that are currently not possible to implement with Lua modding please let me know.

[willow estuary]

A fix for a minor "privacy" issue in MP
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2434125078

[late hound]

@indigo hound Looks great!

[fallow bridge]

It’s the vanilla challenge map actually

[indigo hound]

🤦‍♂️

[sleek saffron]

Can anyone point me to where I can find Module.ItemId of custom vehicles (in my case AquaTsar's boats on trailer) to spawn in for NecroForge?

[indigo hound]

there is a map in the game. But the game does not have its "paper version", which we talked about.

😆

sry

[fallow bridge]

I misunderstood

I couldn’t open the rest of the convo

So I couldn’t see it

[feral lion]

What is the "Granade Launcher" ID?

[clear lodge]

Im a bit confused, why does every turf have a white outlining all of a sudden?

[fallow bridge]

It’s something that just happens tbh, I’ve noticed it as well

Usually happens when you turn your lighting down or something

But I mean hey you can see the tiles now

[feral lion]

are there any method to change zomboid to use its own "mods" folder? not the one in users/name/zomboid/mods

somebody have vacation island map? 😮

[tame mulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNHxYGB6gUY

[craggy furnace]

👌

[feral lion]

a safety system in the game can work like: when im go into the PVP mode the skull symbol in the top of my head appears immediatly but i cant hurt player for X seconds.

in this way i can avoid players "backstabbing"

[drifting ore]

pog heli mod

[sonic helm]

Is there anyway to access server commands in SP?

[lethal sparrow]

I've never used it, but I'd have to assume Cheatmenu lets you, right?

[craggy furnace]

sound is coming along better

[night shard]

sounds great

[jovial summit]

Hell yeah

[craggy furnace]

its just cycling all the variations of that line

it has many more

[nimble spoke]

Return to your home! WTF are you doing out there?

[craggy furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/fight-the-power-public-enemy-flavor-flav-bet-awards2020-do-the-right-thing-gif-17829891

[feral lion]

Are there any group party like system which helps to avoid kill eachother?

[left plank]

@craggy furnace is the heli mod playable?

[craggy furnace]

@left plank wdym

[left plank]

like, is it stable?

[craggy furnace]

far from it but its getting there

we still have a ton to do

[left plank]

oh I thought it was released

[craggy furnace]

no, thats the thing i gave to aiteron

have a teaser for your trouble

this will be the first mod (and implementation of) the military beyond a formality

[feral lion]

Then what is the point... Ehhh.

[left plank]

what do you mean?

[craggy furnace]

youll have an actual military presence on the map

they will be out and about killing zombies and telling you to leave areas

there will be a cordon around the map for the first 5 days and you may not leave it

[willow estuary]

It's so people don't accidentally kill their buddies meleeing zombies.
Common occurrence in MP.
But it's only necessary if the server doesn't have the default PVP safety system enabled.

[lethal sparrow]

Besides, who doesn't like friendly fire? The only thing better than killing your friend on purpose is killing him on accient.

[feral lion]

Its really good Blair my problem is that guns can killl...

Its just not logical for me

[left plank]

I'm wondering what happens to the zombies underneath the heli? Doesn't it function as a car, and so it would run them over?

[feral lion]

I will be the happiest if it was no friendly fire in a faction

[craggy furnace]

no

[feral lion]

I miswrote sorry

[craggy furnace]

its an entire rework of the helicopter event

youll have helicopters over and over for the first week

[feral lion]

I want that if i invite a mate to my faction he then cant kill me only if he leaves the clan

[left plank]

wait is it different than the flyable one?

[craggy furnace]

entirely

[feral lion]

I want something like a delayed "warranty"

[craggy furnace]

fair to say this is the big one

[left plank]

ohhhhh okay, so you don't know when the flyable one is coming out then?

[craggy furnace]

its out

iirc aiteron threw it out

@left plank https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2434548740

[left plank]

Oh I'm confused then, sorry, I thought it was an all in one mod

do you intend on merging the two heli mods at some point?

[craggy furnace]

nope

itll be awhile before i can actively figure out how to animate those rotors

[left plank]

do you think interiors will help with that?

[craggy furnace]

yes

[left plank]

once steering wheels and tires have movement? if they do?

[craggy furnace]

i can do it in this build

[left plank]

you can?

[craggy furnace]

i need to bust open martins debug stuff

yeah

i could fix the interior car too

its all doable in this build

all the cars have interiors in vanilla have interiors they just arent rigged up

getting the rotors to work would work via lua interacting with the rig

[left plank]

damn maybe you could help TIS with car interiors or maybe get ahead of the release with some work then

interesting, it seems pretty complicated

[craggy furnace]

they know how to contact me

when i get around to it ill throw it around

id have no problem helping martin with interiors

[lethal sparrow]

Screenshot slightly related, is it achieveable to add my modded sounds to the game's "advanced" sound options, in that the player can use a slider to adjust the volume of each sound individually?

If they find the crushed can sound too grating I want them to be able to muffle it..

[willow estuary]

I believe that they automatically get added to the options.

[lethal sparrow]

That's so shockingly easy I didn't even think of it. Cheers, blair, I'll check for it during next playtest

[willow estuary]

I mean, that won't stop people from complaining by any means.

[lethal sparrow]

No, probably not. It's a conundrum, like the smell of gasoline. I personally find it satisfying (the sound, that is) but others will hate it. It's a divisive issue.

Some love the smell of gasoline, others hate it. I've never met someone with neutral feelings for it.

The sound in question, BTW.

[willow estuary]

Also, probably won't be an issue for you so much, but just be aware, that if the comments get to become an annoyance for you, say if you get people making too many rude comments and complaints about stuff like that sound etc?

You can just disable the comments and you don't owe anyone anything in that regard, especially if people behave poorly in them.

Hahaha, yeah, I can't see that sound being an issue, but there really is no bottom.

I was expecting something more grating by far 😄

[lethal sparrow]

That's good advice, but people have been greatly supportive. Maybe soda is the foundation on which common ground can be found. The only piece of malice I've recieved was from a pissed-off Russian guy in the youtube comments saying that charging a dollar for soda even in the apocalpyse was "Exemplary Capitalism"

And that was still so funny I couldn't be upset by the negative rating.

[willow estuary]

😄

Yeah, I only said that in that I expected a more abrasive sound, and that I've had people get mad at me for my slushes being loud.

[nimble spoke]

I thought you had an animated rotor

[craggy furnace]

i do

its not ingame but i do

that helicopter is just a test model for him either way

i am making more helicopters anyway

[nimble spoke]

Ohhh I saw it flying in that workshop link

are you going to update it with animated rotor?

[craggy furnace]

he is

ill be giving it to him when i get around to it

[halcyon wasp]

DO ANY ONE KNOW WHY THIS HAPPEN? the size is fine when its on hand witch i adjusted with sizes in blender ..... dunno how to adjust the item size when its on the floor... pls let me know if any of u know about this .... thanks a lot

[craggy furnace]

@halcyon wasp yes

object orientation

go into blender, size it with a similiarly sized weapon from the games models, and use object orient to size it

save and export

[halcyon wasp]

let me try it rn ~~~~~

[severe ridge]

that mechwarrior strap

[zealous wing]

More like Warhammer 40k titan strap.

[willow estuary]

That's a Jaeger strap!

[fallow bridge]

We got the lil uzi, now we got da BIG Uzi

[willow estuary]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2435023421

[low yarrow]

looking through clothing files i stumble alot about this "GUID".
Anyone know where they come from?

[late hound]

what do you mean?

[low yarrow]

I just wonder where the source of this GUIDs are.
It could be a internal tool they use who spits these out

[late hound]

nah I use a GUID generator

can be easily be made

[low yarrow]

So i just generate one, and then put it into this file so other files can be linked to that specific cloth?

[late hound]

and add an addition to the GUID table file too

[low yarrow]

Alright, thanks!

Is that the right one?

(GUID table)

[late hound]

fileGuidTable.xml in /media

[low yarrow]

Found it, thanks!

[willow estuary]

Yo Scavenger, Twitch streamer Klean's using your mod in his game 😉

[low yarrow]

Oh cool 😄 Have to check it out

[willow estuary]

He likes your Kukri.

[low yarrow]

Nice 🙂

Oh i know him. Have watched a dead matter stream once of him

[willow estuary]

Yeah, he's actually pretty stoked on a few of the mods people here have come up with. Save Our Station. Paw Low's stuff.

[halcyon wasp]

giant uzi

[feral lion]

i try to use any crowbar missing model mod but it not work, why? 40.43

1616679592471 Mod Loaded: Crowbar Model by Jab (Model by WolfeClaw) (v1.00)

[feral lion]

i tried the missing weapon models mod not work either

[mortal widget]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2434222242 in case anybody wants to use my based and sexy mod pack

[feral lion]

looks cool, only problem no MP in 41 😦

[drifting ore]

no britas...

UNbased...

[pearl monolith]

HEY EVERYONE !! 🇹🇷 GREETINGS FROM TURKEY 🇹🇷 (english is not my main languange, soo yeah sorry for the mistakes) i have some great fxxxing news for ya. Are the weapons that the game offers you is too boring ? You want more melee weapons to bash some zombie heads ? well here's your medicine. I made a mod that you can find +25 melee weapon around the world. well technically not "AROUND THE WORLD" there not spawn. you need to beat the living sh*t outta some zombies to get one of these juicy melee weapons. well maybe you asking "Hey ! madax why arent you uploading this badass melee weapon pack to steam workshop". well... i dont have the game.. yet..... I'm selling the crates I dropped from pubg to buy the game.. I still lack 10 TL(Turkish money). When I save the money to buy the game im gonna upload this mod pack to steam workshop dont worry about it. till that day comes ENJOY THE
SHOW BOIS !!!!!! (oh btw these weapons pretty rare to find and not OP)

Download Link https://megaup.net/1Ca4a/Madax_s_Weapon_Pack.rar

So which weapon would you like to see in the game? just tell me but please be realistic i can't add fantasy weapons people !! this is suppose to be a realistic weapon pack.

[opaque fiber]

looks awesome

[craggy furnace]

i wish i was better at modelling ends

[craggy furnace]

mmmmm i think this is destined for police and news chopper colors

[fallow bridge]

ignore all that

just thought about it

[craggy furnace]

@fallow bridge YOU PINGED

[fallow bridge]

I HAD A QUESTION

but decided against it

[craggy furnace]

SPEAK

[fallow bridge]

i was gonna ask you try to make sure the textures don't blend

for example the helicopter mod you textures/modeled and shit the back wing basically fucking vanishes when looked at a certain way

due to the colors

but considering the heli event your making won't really have a visible heli

or a easily visible one

i doubt you'll have to worry about that @craggy furnace

there

YOU HAPPY 😭

[craggy furnace]

i mean

that wont be an issue

[fallow bridge]

exactly why i removed the question

😠

[craggy furnace]

https://youtu.be/saaKnLX_qHU?t=6

[fallow bridge]

rude

apologize

or ban

;((((

[strange loom]

Ok, now i‘m in modding section. My first question: Wheres the nude section?

Just kidding.

[autumn sierra]

your best bet is probably #creativity

[strange loom]

Do anybody have experience in creating new 3D cloth?

[fallow bridge]

@strange loom PawLow and Shark make clothing

OI

@craggy furnace @severe ridge WAKE UP

MALEN WANTS TO MAKE CLOTHES

[strange loom]

You don‘t have to wake them up for me. 😅

[craggy furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/godzilla-dinosaur-roar-monster-beast-gif-12689966

[fallow bridge]

naw shark was awake

[strange loom]

Hello Shark. 🖖

@craggy furnace I have several questions for you if it‘s okay.

[craggy furnace]

sure

[strange loom]

Which modeling program do you use?

[craggy furnace]

blender

[strange loom]

2.79?

[craggy furnace]

2.91

[strange loom]

Is there a script to import the x-files?

[craggy furnace]

nope not for 2.91

you can export to .fbx now

[strange loom]

Just the x-files to blender 2.91?

Without script?

[craggy furnace]

you may export .fbx to zomboid

its not super widely known since its a rather recent development

[strange loom]

Ah, okay.

[craggy furnace]

you may also export your meshes to 2.79 after you export them as an obj/fbx if you want to process them in 2.79

but .x is depreciating

[strange loom]

So .fbx and directx is in this case the same?

[craggy furnace]

nope

they can just be read and used in zomboid

.fbx models have issues in zomboid as far as sizing for now

you can size them correctly on a characters head but on the ground they can be odd

[strange loom]

I understand.Which files do you use for template? I mean there are body meshes. Do you use them?

Sorry, i‘m really not the technical guy but i try my best.

[craggy furnace]

i use obj mostly to export them to 2.79

[strange loom]

So for project zomboid it‘s no matter if the 3D object is in .x or .fbx?

[craggy furnace]

yes

[strange loom]

Ah okay. Thanks for your help.

One more question.

Do you have files which you starting with or you start modeling freestyle?

I mean you importing an original object from the game and then starting editing it, right?

[lethal sparrow]

Depends on what you want to make. If there's in-game precedent similar to what you want, like a vehicle, then I'd certainly import a vanilla model to reference. Otherwise, if you're trying to make something outlandish like a bart simpson plushie, you're probably going to have to start from scratch. Never forget the old Blender classic of overlaying your reference image, though.

[craggy furnace]

i edit it live ingame

orientation wise

[strange loom]

Thanks for the adwise, Alfrety.

[fallow bridge]

they are making clothes

speaking of which

what type of clothes are you making?

[strange loom]

Can someone show me some results? Just for motivation.

[sour island]

Anyone familiar with how to implement translations for a mod?

[strange loom]

@fallow bridge Me?

[fallow bridge]

@strange loom yepperoni and cheese

[strange loom]

I want to make some command and conquer stuff. Pls dont judge. 😅

Red Alert.

[fallow bridge]

oh cool!

that's actually really fuckin cool

[nimble spoke]

Depends on what you're translating. Check media/lua/shared/Translate

most of the time inside your code you will use getText("translation_entry") instead of typing your text inthere directly

[lethal sparrow]

So that's why my translations didn't work.

I thought I was just a fool among men.

[sour island]

I keep getting offers to translate Conditional Speech

I figured I shouldn't ignore them

[nimble spoke]

Train your self to always use getText() instead of writing the string in the code and your mods will be ready for translation

[sour island]

true

most of the lines are already in tables so hopefully it won't be too much

[sonic flame]

I wanna play PZ but not until I have my mod finished, but I don't feel like finishing the mod

This is why I don't mod games lol

[sour island]

ah translations work 1 to 1

can't really use this unfortunately

[nimble spoke]

What do you mean?

[sour island]

my phrase sets are linked lists of various phrases- I would prefer to keep it that way and allow for people to add as many phrases as they want

I'm not sure if I could have entire lists loaded in using getText

[nimble spoke]

you can use getText anywhere you would be able to use a string

[sour island]

yes but this one mean my phrasesets would look like .Pain = {"pain1","pain2"}

getText("pain1")

[nimble spoke]

how do they look right now?

[sour island]

the same way- but this would mean phrasets would have to be identical lengths across languages

the syntax of translate looks like lua though

if I treat the text ID as a key and the other half as a value I wonder if I could have it grab a list

[nimble spoke]

getText uses a string to find the translation entry, you can do whatever you want to inform it that value

[sour island]

excellent

how does get text know in which file to look though?

[nimble spoke]

you can roll a random number and then local entry = "pain" .. number

[sour island]

I understand it probably automatically looks for _EN (etc)

[nimble spoke]

and then get Text(entry)

yeah, it picks from the language you're playing

[sour island]

Does it compress all the files found in Translate into a giant list of lists?

[nimble spoke]

list of lists?

[sour island]

Do I have to worry about pointing to the right file

[nimble spoke]

you don't point to a file, you point to an entry in one of the files

[sour island]

alright, thanks

[nimble spoke]

the game loads all vanilla entries and then all mod entries when you launch pz, and then again when you start/load a game

[craggy furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/dennis-angry-rage-gif-15169733

[grizzled grove]

wutcha raging about, shark?

[craggy furnace]

realizing i have to UV all of it

[final plinth]

fun

[craggy furnace]

going to do a police and news helicopter

imma just turn on some loud acid techno and turn my office into a RGB strobe fest while i UV this on the edge of sanity

[grizzled grove]

doesn't look too bad, tbh. you using that auto unwrapper for blender?

[craggy furnace]

i dont

i have a habit of projecting from view

[grizzled grove]

ew no

[craggy furnace]

yeah i know

i wonder if i should try just marking parts and smart uving

[grizzled grove]

trying to find the addon for you, there's one that acts similar to one of the methods in maya, and it's a lifesaver

[craggy furnace]

oh please throw it over

last time i worked on a heli it nearly killed me

[grizzled grove]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxxLkq2-d5c

[craggy furnace]

oh brilliant

i just wanna stream line my workflows

[grizzled grove]

$20 usd, but worth it if blender can't do that stuff natively

[craggy furnace]

its a shame really

ill go ahead and grab it

spending 3 hours uving and painting sucks

[grizzled grove]

you sweet summer child 🙂

[gaunt lava]

Hi everyone, I created my first mod and published it https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2434425002

[late hound]

Not all heroes wear capes!

[opaque fiber]

[low yarrow]

I like!

Was missing such a mod as heavy smoker 😄

[gaunt lava]

Yes no need to go into inventory. 🙂

[low yarrow]

I try to figure out what is needed to do so a new clothing appear ingame in the cheat menu.
So far i have setup this things:

Do i need more then this?

I have not done any LUA distribution things since i dont need them for testing i think.

For weapons it was just enought to make the script which is visible in the first picture

[nimble spoke]

That should be enough to get it working. You might want to lower case the texture file name as I found that to be iffy before

I mean, get it working as an item, I don't use cheat menu so I can't help with that

[low yarrow]

Thanks. I might then just do a debug distribution and see if the error is maybe in the cheat menu itself.

[sour island]

@nimble spoke I keep getting errors for missing phrases and getText is returning it's own argument? What could be doing that?

Does the name of the list in the txt file matter?

[nimble spoke]

yes, entries in ContextMenu all start with ContextMenu_ I think, try to add them to the correct file name

when in doubt check the base game files and follow that

[sour island]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong

[sleek saffron]

Any of you Silent Hill fans?

[fallow bridge]

I am

@sleek saffron

[sleek saffron]

Working on a radio static mod similar to SH1/2.

[fallow bridge]

Neato

[sleek saffron]

Gonna try to turn this game into a horror game

[fallow bridge]

Zombies cause the radio to static out?

[sleek saffron]

Yep

[fallow bridge]

Noice

[sleek saffron]

Plan is to make a mod collection (using existing mods too) to create a SH1 themed run that includes sprinters and super zombies.

[nimble spoke]

post what goes in your getText and the entry in translation files

[sour island]

I figured it out- the txt file was named UI_Phrases_EN

I thought naming it UI_EN would replace the original

[nimble spoke]

Yeah, translation files are the only instance where you use the original file name not to override the file

[sour island]

the other weird thing is if setText("example") can't find a translation, it just spits back out "example"

[nimble spoke]

setText or getText?

[sour island]

sorry getText(

[nimble spoke]

example doesn't follow any entry naming convention so what you see in game is what you typed in getText simply

[sour island]

normally I would expect it being a blank string

[nimble spoke]

If you use ContextMenu_Example and then add treanslation for those you will get it working

no, the game shows the missing entry so it is easier to identify it and fix the problem

[sleek saffron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsxt2EoG3gQ

Needs some fine tuning and some refactoring but it's getting there.

[half oak]

I know it's against the spirit of the base game, as the devs have made it clear that Project Zomboid is the story of how you died and have no intention of ever implementing a way to "win", but with all due respect I still believe that some people would really appreciate a mod that adds a "rescue" event.
It would give said players a lore friendly, overarching, long term goal to work towards over the course of their play through. A goal that many already have: survive. But now there's a payoff at the end.
What we know according to the radio / television broadcasts is that, sometime after the second wave of the Knox infection, the military had been checking survivors for bites and giving them print-outs that read as follows:

'This is addressed to those unaffected by the second wave of the Knox Infection.'
'You might know who you are by now..'
'If you don't, you will in coming days.'
'The disease will not spread to you as it has to others...'
'... but through fluid contact, by which I mean bites...'
'... it surely will.'
'The time has come to bear arms against this threat.'
'They may be your family, they may be your friends.'
'Do not hesitate to pull the trigger.'
'These are dark days, but as a nation we can and will prevail.'
'You have not been forgotten.'
'We will come for you.'

This is a clear indication that the military have plans to collect those who are immune to the airborne variant of the infection.
Perhaps it is to rally them to fight back against the zeds as the print-out suggests with the " 'These are dark days, but as a nation we can and will prevail.' " line, or for further experimentation. We don't know.
Maybe, even if the player gets rescued and "wins" the game, it still ends up being the story of how they died because they're taken to a lab for experimentation.
But either way, I still think it'd be a great addition for the people like me who sometimes enjoy having preset long term goals in place to work toward.

My idea is that there would be an adjustable period of time that would have to pass before the event could occur. Maybe a year by default.
Once the period of time has passed, a new broadcast can be heard on the radio / television to those in the exclusion zone. What's left of the military are evacuating all unbitten / unscratched survivors who are still alive. They give a location, somewhere remote on the map as to attract fewer zeds, and give a date that they will be arriving.
You, as one of these survivors must make your way to the remote location given and wait for evacuation. The chopper arrives and you are "rescued", for better or for worse.
If the player misses the evacuation, another rescue event happens in x amount of days. Maybe another adjustable variable.

Sorry for the wall of text, but do let me know what you guys think and if a mod like this would even be possible. Thanks.

[strange loom]

Hello everybody. I have a problem with modeling in blender. When I open ProjectZomboid/media/models_x/Female_body.x the model is in an uncomfortable pose. Can I change that or i need to open another file?

[low yarrow]

Try out this one, it also includes a fancy rig:

#mod_development message

[strange loom]

Thanks, mate!

The model is very tiny. When I'm zooming in it disapears.

So I have to scale it, right?

[low yarrow]

uff... If anyone who knows more about clothes and has some time i would apprecricate a quick check on this mod and why it doesnt work.
I pretty much copied the "paw low loot" settings for hats.
But my hat wont appear ingame via cheat menu or distribution.
Running out of ideas 😄

[low yarrow]

While you import the model you can set the scale to "100"

When you export it you might want to export it with a scale of "0.01" if it appears to be too big ingame

[strange loom]

Oh, okay.

[lethal sparrow]

I learned that the hard way a while ago.

"Is this 12oz can large enough?"
"Yeah, if oz is short for OCEAN"

[low yarrow]

A reasonable amount of soda 😄

[lethal sparrow]

That was the day I learned that Project Zomboid is really, really small.

[low yarrow]

This settings at the import window i mean btw.

Also if you hit "N" in blender you can under "view" set the "clip start"

If you change it to 0.001 you could technically work with very small objects

But i would not recommend it for funny reasons

So the best way is to scale it up by 100, and then scale it down by 100 at the export

[strange loom]

Thank for the information, friend. I'm learning, I make progress, I'm really happy! Thank you very much! ^^

One question.

I don't need blender 2.79 for modeling anymore, right?

[low yarrow]

No. But i would let it on your pc in case you want to import a official model as reference

[strange loom]

Ah, okay.

[low yarrow]

hopefully the official models one day are fbx

[severe ridge]

you can do tons of things with fbx only :Y

[low yarrow]

Oh paw low, i saw you are good with clothes 😄

[strange loom]

Is he?

[low yarrow]

Yea, i just used his mod as reference to get my hat into the game. But my version doesnt work for some reason.
Must be missing something

If he is that guy there: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2279084780

[strange loom]

I need people like him to learn and you need people like me to earn money.

[strange loom]

Damn!

@severe ridge Will you marry me?

[severe ridge]

Lmao, I'm kinda out right now ;-; just learning new stuff with the amazing people here before i take new directions.

[strange loom]

I have a little question: How I make a new layer of selected meshes in blender 2.79?

[severe ridge]

Looking to make proper custom and finish the ones i made next time, just don't know when 😂

Layer? You gotta group them, no?

So you can select from the model grouping list

[strange loom]

Yes...?

[severe ridge]

I just don't know a lot right now 🤣 i use grouping because it's needed for rigging. I had 0 ideas on 3D modelling before i started my mod

But I'm transitioning into the new blender for fbx only

[strange loom]

I was wrong, I was looking at scenes. This is wrong, isn't it?

[severe ridge]

Scenes is for animating? 🤔 Cameras and such?

[strange loom]

Yes, my bad.

Okay, I don't want to anoying you. I will find out by myself. I mean, this is standard blender stuff right now.

[low yarrow]

You can create collections by hitting "m"

Collections are kind of groups

Oh, you have to select a object first before you can hit m

Or right click into the outliner

[strange loom]

Nothing happend.

[low yarrow]

Are you in blender 2.9?

[strange loom]

No, 2.79.

But I can use 2.8.

[low yarrow]

Ah right, it came new in blender 2.8 🙂

[strange loom]

Ah, okay. ^^

[low yarrow]

I got so used to the new design that i dont even know anymore how it worked before 2.8

My brain just deleted that info as i dont need it anymore 😄

[strange loom]

Yes, I heard that blender 2.8 is a complet new program.

[low yarrow]

Yes, it now has default left click to select things

[strange loom]

I have so much plans to do. 😄

[severe ridge]

im just a little tired of it :x tbh

If people donated anything i would do more ofc xD but that's not the place for that i feel like

i just stay around for the subscribers :Y

i wanted to make a standalone and better holsters mod but i don't know if they actually plan adding models for them :l

[strange loom]

Everything you do should be for yourself in first line.

[severe ridge]

yeah, it's basically what it is ^^"

but i do like nice stuff and doing nice stuff :x lel

[strange loom]

Yes, I will do stuff and publishing it, but it will be C&C stuff, because I'm a huge fan of it.

[severe ridge]

c&c?

[strange loom]

And C&C isn't everybodys game.

Command and Conquer.

[severe ridge]

oh yes

[strange loom]

In first line I will do it for me and when other peolpe like it I'll be happy too. ^^

I'm really thankfull for the help I got here.

[severe ridge]

it is nice c:

[strange loom]

Selected some meshes but the button for grouping is inactive. 😦

(It's a scaled duplication)

I have find out. I have to go to "vertex groups".

[craggy furnace]

booba

[rocky lark]

Ok so for B41 I want to add parts to a car that exist in the code (IE camper van, adding a fridge from tsar's common library)
Is there some shortcut I can do in lua/scripting to avoid completely overwriting the camper?

[steady herald]

alright i had a good idea for a mod. no clue how to do it but throwing it out there. bunkers and basements. special tools like jackhammers and stuff that allow you to build underground. along with that, actual ladders.....and no this is not a really really convoluted way of me asking for ladders so i can climb stuff in raven creek......

[feral lion]

Anybody can get https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=948023908&searchtext=Mssing+weapon this work in 40.43?

[rocky lark]

I agree this is a good idea but as of right now there is not a Z-level for unerground.

[rocky lark]

build 40? possibly. build 41? no.
i'd try but i'm sticking to B41

[feral lion]

I installed to my b40 but not work

I need to also enable in the mods menu? Or is it enough to add it to my server host

Cause all of my mods work without enabling it in the main menu if i host it

[steady herald]

i just wanted to put it somewhere before my adhd brain forgot it lol. youd have to have ventilation obviously above groud thats powered by generators. or possibly solar panels. i know diy panels became widespread around 2005. but maybe some people back in the 90s were doing it?

[rocky lark]

ok that's too far

that pinged me D:<

i mean the idea is too far

[steady herald]

which part of the idea exactly?

[willow estuary]

It's currently literally impossible to so good basements in project zomboid with the engine as it.

Now you can do janky fakes with teleportation, but it's not good by any means, and has a ton of issues.

And it wouldn't work with stuff like player excavations.

[grizzled grove]

FYI there's no rig there, that's just a skeleton

[clear lodge]

Anyone doing commissions?

[final plinth]

commissions of what?

[lethal sparrow]

He wants a clothing mod done.

[clear lodge]

Yeah, some custom 3D models with code

[tacit sparrow]

when are we gonna see nunchucks added

or advanced melee combat mods

performing a din mak on some undead

[willow estuary]

Weapon models aren't animated, so nunchuks are, sadly, not possible to do in a non-lame fashion.

[sleek saffron]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2436796084 Silent Hill Radio Mod up and ready if any of ya'll interested in testing it out.

[drifting ore]

Is there any mod that changes the metal blunt weapons so they all don't use the same model?

[final plinth]

not that im aware of but if you want i could add that to my weapon mod

[drifting ore]

That would be pretty cool.

[final plinth]

alright ill finish up what im working on and try to get that done

[craggy furnace]

the fog adds to the creep factor

[late hound]

"The situation is under control"
Like hell it is!
Seriously, nice sound bits. It gives an eerie touch to the game

[craggy furnace]

working on some stuff now, yeah

[craggy notch]

Is it possible to add sounds to certain areas of the map?

Like music playing in a shop or something

[craggy furnace]

mmmm

thats a good question

id love to add mall music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ_q7OYlB-s

this is good mall music for valley station

[autumn sierra]

another idea for a voiceline is "this is not a drill. do not leave your homes." just for a bit more variation and all that

also to make the loop make more sense on some of them, maybe you should have the person say "I repeat: do not leave your homes." just a suggestion to make the looping better

but I really like that concept, it makes a lot of sense to me

[craggy furnace]

ive got some stuff i am fiddling with now

those helicopters arent joking

there is an actual threat element to them

[autumn sierra]

oh really?

do they shoot?

[craggy furnace]

yes

thats the plan

[autumn sierra]

it'll be interesting to see how that plays out

will they shoot zombies too?

[carmine cosmos]

That one in particular is a really difficult mod idea to implement.
However do you have any other mod ideas that are seemingly impossible?

Just to clarify, I am not being facetious, just genuinely interested about such ideas

[steady herald]

one cool idea i had was throw able spears. it makes sense for crafted spears, as more ranged weaponry is a definite plus when it comes to fighting hordes of zombies lol

[river plinth]

I saw a Lua based helicopter implementation a couple of months back in the TIS forum, but can't seem to find the thread now. Anyone has a link to it?

[sour island]

Like, flyable vehicles? I've only ever seen prop planes and the very recent helicopter Aiterion is working on

[river plinth]

Na, the one TIS uses (so just the sound that follows players and attracts Zeds)

I just found it, phew: https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/30583-adjustable-helicopter-function/&tab=comments#comment-297513

[river plinth]

Ok, so I've forgotten the basics and my jd-gui won't work right, sorry for the noob question, but how do I add items to a ISWoodenCrate?

crate:create(freeTile:getX(), freeTile:getY(), freeTile:getZ(), crate.north, crate.sprite)
local crateInventory = crate:getInventory()

crateInventory:AddItem("Base.Axe")```

My crateInventory is nil, but my crate is not

[willow estuary]

Try getContainer()

Also, hmm, you might not be defining the crate as a container?
Does it have an inventory space after it's created?

[uneven shell]

Is there a way to see what mods are causing the error box to pop up without having to load them one at a time and start a game?

[river plinth]

@willow estuary Yep, it has. Is a normal wooden crate after I execute create

I just tried crate:getContainer() and crate:getContainer():getInventory() and none works

I did this in the past but lost the mod files due to formatting and corrupted backup

just can't remember how

[willow estuary]

Hmm, that's odd in that getInventory(), or getContainer() should work.

[river plinth]

I can put stuff in manually, so the inventory of the crate works

[nimble spoke]

check console.txt find the error and it will inform the lua file and line where it happens

[willow estuary]

Okay, this here is probably overkill, but try this and see if it works? It's just repurposed code from a WIP of mine.

local square = freetile
local newBarrel = (IsoObject.new(getCell(), square, "carpentry_01_19"));        
local container = ItemContainer.new("crate", square, newBarrel, 1, 1)
newBarrel:setContainer(container)
square:getObjects():add(newBarrel);
square:RecalcProperties();
local crateInventory = newBarrel:getInventory()
crateInventory:AddItem("Base.Axe")

[river plinth]

Do you call local crateInventory = newBarrel:getInventory without () on purpose?

[willow estuary]

No, I'm just dumb 😛

[pearl monolith]

anyone know how to make clothing mod for project zomboid ? idk what should i use for the animations and models. all i know is blender

[final plinth]

you can do it with blender

and i dont think youd need to use custom animations

[pearl monolith]

do you have any tutorial sites or vids for me ?

(english is not my main languange btw)

[final plinth]

hang on one sec

ok so you know how to make models im assuming

?

[pearl monolith]

well im not professional but yeah i know the drill

[final plinth]

do you know how to skin a mesh?

[pearl monolith]

hmm.. probably not

[final plinth]

ok this video is what helped me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arXf5EV3H1c

[pearl monolith]

thx. it can't be that hard

[final plinth]

and these are the base character models with skeletons from throttlekitty

essentially just import those models, make your clothing item, and then do the weight transfer from the vanilla body

once thats done you should delete the vanilla body model, and any bones and vertex groups that arent linked to the clothing mesh

then once you export it youll have the model

[halcyon marlin]

are all clothes their own models? i thought some of them were just textures on the actual character model too

[final plinth]

almost all of them are just textures

the thicker clothes are another model

but they all share the same model

or things like the spiffo suit

[halcyon marlin]

how do you go about making clothes with textures instead of models

[pearl monolith]

ok m8 lemme play with these a little bit thx a lot

[final plinth]

@halcyon marlin you just make the texture and leave the male model and female model blank and it should put the texture on the character model im pretty sure

in the xml file for that clothing item

[halcyon marlin]

im not really familiar with 3d modeling and texturing, do you know if i have ot make a uv map to make the textures or can i paint directly on the model and export a texture off of it? i dont really know the best workflow

[final plinth]

the UV map is part of the model

its saved in the model file i mean

if you paint on the model and export it it should work

anything that isnt the clothing texture should be left transparent tho

[halcyon marlin]

ok thank you, you are good at explaining things

[final plinth]

lol thanks

[river plinth]

Still nil, I have the following now: local dropCrate = IsoObject.new(getCell(), freeTile, "carpentry_01_19") local container = ItemContainer.new("crate", freeTile, dropCrate, 1, 1) dropCrate:setContainer(container) freeTile:getObjects():add(dropCrate); freeTile:RecalcProperties(); print("crateInv") print(dropCrate:getInventory())

[feral lion]

AnyBody who got this working in b40?

[craggy furnace]

no

youve posted about it before

no one has managed to

[final plinth]

why has no one managed to?

because im trying to figure something out similar to that right now at great difficulty

im trying to make the lead pipe, metal pipe, and metal bar use different models

but i cant get the weapon to not be invisible

model works

but only if its replacing another already existing model file

[feral lion]

Sorry.

[craggy furnace]

@feral lion ill look later

[final plinth]

hey scratch what i said earlier i finally figured it out

[feral lion]

Thanks!👍🤷

[halcyon marlin]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2437762804

just reuploaded this ancient mod

if anyone could help me with patching it to work with other gun mods i would appreciate it

i would like to get it to work with Firearms B41 but i really just dont know how to go about it

[feral lion]

Is it already in the HydroCraft? as i know

[hexed anchor]

start with brita's weapon pack

they're active in this discord, occasionally post stuff about their work here

and I think it's currently the most popular gun pack right now

due to variety of guns

[halcyon marlin]

it is in hydro but the only reason i really used hydrocraft was for this mod and plus hydrocraft was breaking my carpentry tab, so i just reuploaded the hunting mod as standalone

[feral lion]

@final plinth @craggy furnace Missing Weapon Models conflicting with Realistic Durrabilites mod, now is fixed.

[final plinth]

LOL just a tip: make sure you export models at the correct scale...

[hexed anchor]

same

[feral lion]

XD

[severe ridge]

Holy, is that a giant crack pipe? 🤣

[final plinth]

no its supposed to be a metal bar XD

[low yarrow]

yay. Finally i got a clothing item appear in the game. Took me just 3 days 😄

Icon and mesh isnt working yet tho

[final plinth]

awesome

well that part is the easy part tho

[low yarrow]

Yea. Its probably a formatting problem from now on. Not a big deal i hope 😄

[lethal sparrow]

Talk to me if you need a sprite done. It's the only part of the modding process I do well.

[final plinth]

if you need help getting the mesh or icon i can help

[low yarrow]

Thanks for the offering of help.
I might come back to it and ask questions here if i wont come further

[final plinth]

alrighty

[craggy furnace]

mesh done

[drifting ore]

whats next

the apache

no

[craggy furnace]

@drifting ore daring me?

[hexed anchor]

do the osprey

c'mon now every zombie related piece of media has either an osprey or a chinook in it

[craggy furnace]

chinook maybe

fun fact: the chinook helicopter is due for retirement in 2060

[orchid leaf]

do build 41 mods work on build 39?

[willow estuary]

Aside from unlikely theoretical circumstances, absolutely not.

[opaque fiber]

no

[feral lion]

admin menu not work even if i use no mods

[low yarrow]

Finally my hat is in

[viscid kelp]

But it's not your hat. Your hat IRL has white brim, but in the game hat has black one.

[low yarrow]

pff 😄

Well, the brim was actually one day pitch black when i bought it

But i take him with my hiking tours and festivals and now it has absorbed so much dirt and UV light that it appears white 😄

Guess i need a new one. But as long as the shape is fine...

[severe ridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CpACsHQKi4

[severe ridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlxfDvSyPKA

[low yarrow]

Thats some solid tipping 😄

[severe ridge]

tf2 has shown that there's no such thing as enough hats 👌

[low yarrow]

This is getting a little bit sci fi

The idea is to make some endgame clothes which you find like 30-40 days in the apocalypse at zombies.
I can imagine some people would get a bit more creative to protect themself against zombies with style

[hexed anchor]

take inspiration from some early-to-mid game armor from stalker

like the NBC suit

[low yarrow]

Good call, i might look into stalkers armor as inspiration.
Funfact: The outfit i just work on i called "stalker" 😄

(I have not made that concept art btw.)

[solar mulch]

I gotta say

the new gunfighter + brita update is amazing

[low yarrow]

Backside looks a bit distorted tho

But yea, thats a 100 in neck protection 😄

[strange loom]

♨️💯♨️💯♨️

Really nice!

[severe ridge]

hot

[cunning canyon]

Anyone happen to know how to grab what language the user currently has their game in?

[craggy furnace]

dont like the edge work i did on it

@cunning canyon have you checked localization?

[cunning canyon]

like, searched the files?

[craggy furnace]

hold on let me boot up my IDE and go looking

[cunning canyon]

nothing for localization, but when i search language i get something promising in MainOptions.lua

I think the problem i'm going to run into is that MainOptions is in the client scripts... and the weather forcaster stuff is in the server scripts... not sure how mach that matters at the moment though

[craggy furnace]

i was just looking at your code too

the override specifically

[cunning canyon]

Translator looks interesting

oh dear yeah my override is garbage

i copied the whole file, very naughty

[craggy furnace]

indeed you did

[cunning canyon]

i would like to not do that eventually

[craggy furnace]

just figuring out a way to display a message via the EBS when the function is called

[cunning canyon]

if you find a clean way to override that ISWeatherChannel please please please hmu and i will unbork my override

so it can play nice with your stuff

i basically only needed to override a single method but couldn't figure it out at the time

[craggy furnace]

damn my ide is acting odd

i am cycling over ways to just get rid of the override

[clear lodge]

@craggy furnace Bowie knife?

[craggy furnace]

bolo knife

[cunning canyon]

found it @craggy furnace

there's a global Translator object you can just get the "language" variable from

[craggy furnace]

great!

[final plinth]

@drifting ore My weapon mod is now updated to contain the metal blunt weapons 🙂

I also fixed the rest of the mod for anyone interested

[cunning canyon]

spent the last 45 minutes why "languge" was returning nil >_>

you could say something was lost in translation

[craggy furnace]

lol

thats why you always have emmett

check spelling and automate that shit

its why i use VSC

[craggy furnace]

fight me

[clear lodge]

Big flat knife man is back!

[craggy furnace]

TIS: we added fbx support!

everyone: but did you really?

[low yarrow]

Did you applied the transformation within blender?

[craggy furnace]

yeah

https://tenor.com/view/excited-so-eyes-gif-10534910

[low yarrow]

Then you might just have used the wrong scales. I always export stuff with a scale of 0.01 in the export menu

[craggy furnace]

its behaving very strangely

okay

[low yarrow]

I use this transformation for weapons:

[craggy furnace]

it was my fault

i got it

something was on by default

[low yarrow]

Looks better 🙂

[craggy furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-simon-cowell-glowing-eyes-gif-16217022

ah, so FBX is fine but its very different to X

[severe ridge]

😅

[lilac night]

What all does it add?

[craggy furnace]

yikes

ive just totally gotten rusty on weapon modding

[cunning canyon]

dear god can someone explain why the length of these arrays would be different?

https://gist.github.com/BrianOstrander/b97f98d1462b6ec40e72aa378d52c20f

i assume it has to do with gsub

and the way i'm chaining it

but idk

the last entry in the second one is just "1"

[grizzled grove]

not a scripter, but...

would you need to wrap lines 10 and 11 in brackets or something, to keep them separate or something?

[cunning canyon]

but idk where the 1 is coming from, i'll probably need to make a cleaner example to fully explore the problem

my guess is gsub maybe is returning the number of replacements??? but it doesn't normally do that

[grizzled grove]

from the docs:

A pair of values is returned, the modified string and the number of substitutions made

[cunning canyon]

oooooh

so i guess if you are returning inside an array

lua like, appends it or some shit

ok well, good to know i guess

That's pretty unintuitive behaviour

i'd expect just a reference to the table to be put in the table i'm initializing

but oh well

[grizzled grove]

yeah

[cunning canyon]

welp, i pulled out all the english strings into a localization system, so now i guess i'll reupload this and make sure it doesn't break on folks before i start adding additional languages lol

[solar mulch]

It's a complete rewrite with new a lot mechanics, unification of ammo canisters, 3d canisters etc it's too much to fully explain I suggest to check it out

Just feels a lot more fleshed out now

[hearty turtle]

heres a suggestion for someone with actual modding knowledge that wants to cause people pain
-let zombies drive cars

[fallow bridge]

I... don’t think it’s possible?

Hell even superb survivors can’t drive cars and that’s thee most complex mod to exist

Would be really cool though

[grizzled grove]

with some super lo-fi "AI", that would be kinda fun actually

[hearty turtle]

id imagine mostly either
a)completely random driving, starting, stopping,turning, etc
b)can steer towards players but with low reaction time and only at full speed
c)car just stays still until zombie inside is alerted by something, then just pick a random steering angle and accelerates backwards or forwards, with no steering at all.
d)some combination of the above

[cunning canyon]

Figured i'd cross post this here since pz_chat moves fast:

Hey my mod Save Our Station! is now accepting community translation requests, if you are fluent in a language you'd like to see supported you can now help me out!!! Thanks :3
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/2398274461/3112521013664087828/

[opaque fiber]

ill check it out later

[carmine cosmos]

This would take a lot of work to implement 🤔

However this just gave me a great mod idea I might work on, remote controlled toy cars

[fallow bridge]

That mods fucking grade A btw love it so much

[lilac night]

Oh shit, didn’t realize it was you that made it! I’m using it in my current save and it’s very well done.

[clear lodge]

Seems like you forgot some polys

@willow estuary

[willow estuary]

I'll make sure and complain to Filibuster after he was nice enough to make them for me out of the kindness of his heart....

[severe ridge]

😂

[cunning canyon]

Glad you’re enjoying it!

[lilac night]

It seems hella involved. How long would you say you put into it?

[lilac night]

Guess who finally found a witch hat in the wild and then loaded up the world next session only to find it had corrupted.

[severe ridge]

Oof

How so?

[lilac night]

No clue.

I had a lot of mods, so maybe that?

[severe ridge]

:Y maybe, I've heard something related happening with swatpack but it was other mods doing. No ideia which tho e__e i haven't changed anything

[cunning canyon]

Probably 3 months. The mapping was actually the most time consuming though, the actual Lua only took like 2 weeks.

It was my first mod so it probably wouldn’t take as long the next time around.

[radiant ginkgo]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2439941364

[craggy furnace]

very nice

[slim plume]

Hey - amybody can help me out on creating Tile Properties "*.tiles" with TileZed? - or how to creat tilesets?

[grizzled grove]

sure, join us in #mapping

[craggy furnace]

https://youtu.be/Xq3zYUCK-eI

[fallow bridge]

@craggy furnace are you a shark or is that just your happy look?

😄

[craggy furnace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxK_nA2iVXw

[fallow bridge]

Good

[low yarrow]

Is it possible to replace the hair mesh of specific hairs when put on a specific hat?
Like for someone who doesnt wants jump to far into the rabbit hole of coding? 😄

I am creating a hat which is fine for some hairs. But at those who doesnt fit i would not mind to make a completly new hair model just for that hats

[lethal sparrow]

My current understanding is that some hairs become other hairs when a hat is worn (I.E. Lob becomes ponytail)

You could take a look at that and see about making it not do that?

[low yarrow]

Mh true. I it might already exist in a way i could re-use

[lethal sparrow]

Indeed, it'll just take a bit of

scavenging

[low yarrow]

😄

Actually that could be a mod idea. Like add alternative hairs for all hat items

I put it on my long to do list

pony tail is kinda ugly

[lethal sparrow]

I'd use it. I want some middle ground between my chosen hair and wearing my standard tin foil hat

[nimble spoke]

all that is defined by the hat group you set for your hat and for each hair type in media/hairStyles/hairStyles.xml

so maybe play around with hat group first, and if no group gives the desired result then possibly change the hair styles

[low yarrow]

Thanks!

[craggy furnace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQTZp1vSUkY