mod_development

[sour island]

What you can do is have two lists, one storing string indexes and values and the other simply store the string indexes of the first list as values.

P.s. for the sake of terminology, in Lua: Lists with non-numeric keys are "tables". A list keyed numerically (or non specified) is an "array".

Also you don't really ever have to numerate ModData, what exactly are you trying to do @cursive bramble ?

Also, anything at the end of a Lua list given the value of nil is collapsed (goes away)- so that would throw off lengths of lists too.

I would recommend making it 'false' when able to.

[cursive bramble]

alright will use a a 'false'

well. store mod data for one @sour island , but was noticing my modData was "empty" when i pretty printed (debug purposes)
hence iterate.

[sour island]

You can use a for loop to grab contents of tables

But it won't be in order

[cursive bramble]

didnt have any nice pretty prints out there. so write up this :

function prettyPrint(t,indent,tname)
    local indent = indent or 0
    local tname = tname or tostring(t);
    print(string.rep("\t",indent)..tostring(tname).." {")
    indent = indent + 1;
    if(type(t) == "table") then
        for k,v in pairs(t) do
            if type(v) == "userdata" or type(v) == "table" then
                prettyPrint(v,indent,k)
            else
                print(string.rep("\t",indent).." "..tostring(k).."\t:\t"..tostring(v))
            end
        end
    elseif type(t) == "userdata" then
        for k=0, t:size() -1 do
            local v = known:get(k)
            if type(v) == "userdata" or type(v) == "table" then
                prettyPrint(v,indent,k)
            else
                print(string.rep("\t",indent).." "..tostring(k).."\t:\t"..tostring(v))
            end
        end
    end
    print(string.rep("\t",indent).." }")
end
``` - fixed

for loop didnt work out for me. the size() and get() worked out. ill stick to {"items",{}} for my convention.

[sour island]

Userdata isn't the same as ModData

I believe userdata is a java array- so get and size would work

[cursive bramble]

i know so. but modData type returns as userdata in type()

if i encounter a userdata that freaks out my pretty print ill adjust. im in the initial stages afterall.

ty for the help!

[sour island]

Strange they'd have the same type

I don't think java arrays should be returning as "tables" either

[cursive bramble]

its pretty print for any table or userdata (again technically when i pass modData)
check for type and use appropriate iteration solution.

[sour island]

Try using ``` before after after code blocks

[cursive bramble]

willdo!

was wondering whats the markup

[sour island]

You can also include the language after the first set

```lua
Code
```

[cursive bramble]

gtg look after my baby...

[sour island]

No worries, good luck.

[true snow]

Which file do I add professions to? I need to look at the source file to get the structure right.

[nimble spoke]

Check the profession framework mod, you probably want to use it anyway in order to make your mod compatible with other profession mods

[true snow]

Not really worried about compatibility as I'm not going to release it

But it would be nice to have a file list over where to find what. Weird that the wiki doesn't contain one (as far as i know) since modding is quite popular for this game

[main lion]

New optics

[jovial summit]

oh god not that british rifle

[agile swallow]

Did you guys know you can format your code as lua within discord?

Distributions = Distributions or {};

local distributionTable = {

    gunstore = {
        counter ={
            rolls = 1,
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 3,
            },
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
        
        displaycase ={
            rolls = 1,
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 10,
            },
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
        
        locker ={
            rolls = 1,
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 3,
            },
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
        
        metal_shelves ={
            rolls = 1,
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 3,
            },
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
    },

    PistolCase1 = {
        rolls = 1,
        items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 5,
        },
        fillRand = 0,
    },
    
    PistolCase2 = {
        rolls = 1,
        items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 3,
        },
        fillRand = 0,
    },
    
    PistolCase3 = {
        rolls = 1,
        items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 2,
        },
        fillRand = 0,
    },
    
    gunstorestorage ={
        all={
            rolls = 1,
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 2,
            },
            
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
    },
}

table.insert(Distributions, 1, distributionTable);

--for mod compat:
SuburbsDistributions = distributionTable;

[willow estuary]

FYi don't include this part; the rolls will fuck up the rolls part of the vanilla tables and screw up the item spawning.

rolls = 1,

Each table has only one rolls value; your distro inserts sets gunstore counter from 3 rolls to 1 roll.

[agile swallow]

Oh really, I didn't know.

So just get rid of all the rolls = parts

[willow estuary]

Unless you are defining new tables altogether, in general, restrict your table inserts to this style

 gunstorestorage ={
        all={
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 2,
            },
        },
    },

That's all you need to have in there. Otherwise you run the risk of unwanted overwriting of vanilla table values.

[agile swallow]

So Like this?

Distributions = Distributions or {};

local distributionTable = {

    gunstore = {
        counter ={
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 3,
            },
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
        
        displaycase ={
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 10,
            },
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
        
        locker ={
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 3,
            },
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
        
        metal_shelves ={
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 3,
            },
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
    },

    PistolCase1 = {
        items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 5,
        },
        fillRand = 0,
    },
    
    PistolCase2 = {
        items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 3,
        },
        fillRand = 0,
    },
    
    PistolCase3 = {
        items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 2,
        },
        fillRand = 0,
    },
    
    gunstorestorage ={
        all={
            items = {
                "MAXIM9.Maxim9", 2,
            },
            
            dontSpawnAmmo = true,
        },
    },
}

table.insert(Distributions, 1, distributionTable);

--for mod compat:
SuburbsDistributions = distributionTable;

Also do you happen to know what the fillRand does? I just copied the distributions of the vanilla pistol case and I'm not really sure what it does.

[willow estuary]

That's better but, in general, refrain from stuff like dontSpawnAmmo = true, and fillRand = 0, as you're unnecessarily overwriting vanilla table values, and if you have the wrong value, as you did with rolls, you can mess up item spawning.
I dunno what fillRand does.

Preferences vary, but this is my personal favored method of distro table inserts in that, for me, it's "simpler", and also avoids that business with rolls etc.

table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["gunstore"]["counter"].items, "Base.Kukri");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["gunstore"]["counter"].items, 0.1);```

[agile swallow]

So I should probably get rid of the dontSpawnAmmo, and fillRands.

Will getting rid of the dontSpawnAmmo allow it to spawn in with ammo though?

[willow estuary]

Yep!

[willow estuary]

It'll just use whatever the value for that distro table, gunstore counter etc.
It's not defined per item, but by the roomdef/container combination itself.

In general, the vanilla table values will be the right ones and you don't need to do anything past inserting the items themselves into the roomdef/container items tables themselves.

[agile swallow]

Oh, so the container itself defines things like that?

[willow estuary]

Absolutely.

[agile swallow]

Cause obviously no gun inside a gunstore display case would be loaded.

At least they shouldn't be haha

Also, the number after the item would be the percentage chance for the item to spawn correct?

For example do I currently have it set so there's a 10% chance for my gun to spawn in the gunstore display case?

[willow estuary]

That's the value that's checked against to see that the item is spawned; the higher it being that greater that chance that it spawns.
But it's not a % value; the number thats are randomly generated and used to check if an item spawn are affected by:

• the sandbox loot settings
• the lucky + unlucky traits
• the amount of zombies in the vicinity.
  In practice, setting up those values is "an art and not a science" and really requires extensive testing to get the right values dialed in.

[agile swallow]

hmm, would you happen to have any idea what values I should go with for something as useful as an integrally suppresed gun?

[willow estuary]

I can't speak for what values would work for you, but myself I would make that thing rare as fuck with a spawn value of 0.1 or possibly even 0.01

[agile swallow]

I'll have to do some testing. Thank you very much for explaining things to me.

[willow estuary]

Yeah, NP.
In a MP situation, a consideration would be whether you want the thing to be a rare, treasured, high value item, or just something everyone has.

[agile swallow]

Oh yeah definitely a treasured item. The way I have it set up it's supposed to function as a suppressed weapon. I believe I have the sound radius set to about 10.

[fair frost]

https://gyazo.com/8c709ba461d8714de0a0f4f0c11e3243

[hexed anchor]

looking good

[grizzled grove]

not sure if you're taking critiques, but the white stripe shouldn't go over the door handles, yeah?

[fair frost]

Well actually they do...

And they should even more

[severe ridge]

Stuff around 0.1 still seems to spawn considerably a lot with some conditions, I'm setting tons of stuff to 0.05 now 🤔 haven't tried yet tho

[willow estuary]

Try using the junk table instead of items? Apparently zombie density doesn't affect that.

[severe ridge]

😎 oh, u guys talking about car distribution?

[willow estuary]

I wasn't?

[severe ridge]

Idk, i just came in 🤣

[willow estuary]

• note, a junk table has to exist in the first place before you can insert an item into it.

[severe ridge]

Indeed

[grizzled grove]

those look silver to me, but idk

[supple sapphire]

is is possible to mod container capacity ? I mean things like crates, shelves, etc, not bags ?

[carmine cosmos]

Yes

[supple sapphire]

Where i can find this info ?

And does it require extensive lua knowledge ? Tad lacking on that part.

[drifting ore]

Someone one day will make a nuke mod.

I don't expect blair or the famous mod creators being the ones, more like a crazo.

[carmine cosmos]

It requires knowledge of Java, I can DM you the links to resources if you want

[carmine cosmos]

What kind of mod would that be?

[edgy torrent]

Dammit I accidentally hit infect&murder while trying to swap char with my companion ;_; Change it to as the bottom option plz Superb Survivors creators

[supple sapphire]

I doubt i get far with it, but il give it a shot. Not my first try. Why those things cant be simple...eeeh.

[drifting ore]

The "Great Fuck You" Mod.

[carmine cosmos]

Gonna have to provide more info then that if you want to see it implemented

[agile swallow]

Nice bro, it'd be cool if the skateboard was a melee weapon. Decking zombies with the board haha.

[ruby urchin]

Nice idea, I no code done yet, I will look into the docs for that

[dull garnet]

Need help please? What am I missing for my armor mod?

[mortal widget]

seggy

[foggy salmon]

What's the mod about?

[dull garnet]

Groin Guard with no texture model

Please? Anyone?

[ruby urchin]

That's a custom BodyLocation?

[dull garnet]

Underwear

When I inspect I get:

[fair frost]

You are correct but this is the only photo of the USFS 1st gen cvpi i could so find

So 🤷

So i based it off this obe

*one

[rapid flax]

Hey all 🙂 just wondering if anyone knows what we'd have to code/modify to allow players to be added to multiple safehouses on our MP server?

[agile swallow]

@dull garnet I'm fairly new to this, but when my weapon model wasn't showing up I hadn't scripted the model.

Oh nvm the texture is missing not the model, sorry.

[solar lily]

Hello, I bought PZ on GOG, where do I ideally search for mods for the game if I can't have steam workshop mods? Or can I have steam workshop mods with the non-steam version also?

[quasi ginkgo]

Is it possible to have a vest give you protection and act as a container (like a bag)?

[quasi ginkgo]

Download the mods using steam workshop downloader

Then place the mods in user/zomboid/mods

[solar lily]

oh okay! thank you

[hollow shadow]

I think so, did you try using armormod?

[quasi ginkgo]

The patch?

I do have the patch installed

[hollow shadow]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2073178608&searchtext=armor this one

I think it allows you to give any clothing item protection stats

[quasi ginkgo]

How exactly?

I have it installed

[hollow shadow]

no you give your clothing item protection values via the mod

look at paw low loot mod for example

[quasi ginkgo]

Huh

Interesting

[severe ridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxcaSRmB8to

only the good ones knows the reference :Y

[drifting ore]

Does this mean possible skateboarding mods?

[hollow shadow]

looks realy cool!!

i would lighten up the backpack a bit tho

[hollow shadow]

is there a fast way to rename all of these to "kate_Scrap....."?

[main lion]

more new optics!

[errant meteor]

Madlad

How are you pumping out so much stuff out? make a patron, I would donate

[hollow shadow]

I wish they took more time balancing the mod instead of adding content

[echo leaf]

Looking awesome!

[twilit bison]

a have a really dumb idea for a mod

it does nothing but make zombies pog

[drifting ore]

@main lion Could you ever make 1800's weapons, and possibly a p9s?

[hollow shadow]

Female scrap warrior, took some time resizeing the models

[low yarrow]

So sexy!
Love your textures

[echo leaf]

Was the Knox County Map mod removed from the workshop?

I can't seem to find it.. and it's gone from my save now.

[drifting ore]

Hey djvirus, do you ever think you can make a scrap suit that looks like classic doomguy?

[hollow shadow]

can you put a picture?

[echo leaf]

Hmm, I wonder why the Knox County Map mod was removed...?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2436158236

[drifting ore]

Maybe this but more realistic like?

[hollow shadow]

Hmm, I think its possible but i dont think it gives enough madmax vibes

[drifting ore]

You could try and give it that, but i think it could go for a bit more of the idea of Badass scrap maker and killer.

[echo leaf]

Anyone know who Ez is? From:

[jovial summit]

earth

i think

[echo leaf]

Well I can reupload it if they dont

[errant meteor]

@nimble spoke I am having a really hard time finding the magazine to build the furnace and anvil, what is the spawn rate of those?

[nimble spoke]

less than any vanilla magazine, I should raise that a bit

[errant meteor]

Just found the propane furnace, at least I can start making stuff

[restive ginkgo]

Where does one find the text that appears over your character when you press Q

[ruby urchin]

ProjectZomboid\media\lua\shared\Translate\EN\IG_UI_EN.txt

[jovial summit]

I remember seeing a mod about realistic construction, does anyone know what I'm talking about? Has stuff like not being able to build a bunch of floors without support

[restive ginkgo]

Can one add more callouts to this, assuming it just iterates

[nimble spoke]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2181641427&searchtext=gravity

[jovial summit]

Thank you!

[grim skiff]

where do i find the errors that mods are causing?, i've looked at the logs but can't make heads or tails of it.

[jovial summit]

Debug IIRC

[ruby urchin]

ballistic mask

[errant meteor]

Looks very kek

@nimble spoke Just found the magazine in a mailbox, would it be possible to increase the spawn rate of these in hardware stores?

[echo leaf]

@errant meteor It has a chance to spawn in all types of places

Blacksmith41\media\lua\server\Items

SFLootDistributions.lua and SFVehicleDistributions.lua

you can peek for yourself

[errant meteor]

I wish there was the "place" to go to.

[echo leaf]

Knox County is the place to go

😉

[errant meteor]

Hopefully they add a big ass library in Louisville

[echo leaf]

If you're just wanting it now you could use Cheat Menu to spawn the books for yourself

[errant meteor]

Chads do not cut corners

[echo leaf]

Says man who also said, "I wish there was the 'place' to go."

[errant meteor]

There is a place for food, guns, and such, there should be a place to go get knowledge I need

[echo leaf]

Bookstores are usually a pretty solid go-to for books, my man

[errant meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/troll-pilled-gif-19289988

Well at least now I can make some ammo, and make metal sheets for repairs

[dull garnet]

Can anyone lend me their knowledge regarding armor modding please?

[twilit drift]

make sure guids are the same in the guidtables and clothing xml's

[dull garnet]

Are they still necessary if my armor mod is worn under clothes without a 3d model?

[twilit drift]

yes, as the guids show the clothing

if you want it to show on your person

especially with no clothing on

you'll want the guid's to be the same

[dull garnet]

This is my current problem, the condition/resistances don't show when inspected and spitfire ISGarmentUI.lua issues

[twilit drift]

probably an error in the scriping folder?

i'm not much of a coding guy

so i wouldn't know

[dull garnet]

``module Base
{
item GroinGuard
{
Weight = 0.5,
Type = Clothing,
DisplayName = Groin Guard,
ClothingItem = GroinGuard,
BodyLocation = Underwear,
BloodLocation = Groin,
Icon = GroinGuard,
CanHaveHoles = false,
ScratchDefense = 80,
BiteDefense = 70,
}

}``

[twilit drift]

that seems good, other than the space between the 2nd bottom and bottom }, they should look like

}
}

other than that, not much of an idea

[dull garnet]

I wish that was problem but it's not 😩 Thanks mate

[twilit drift]

hold on

it says it's a lua error

there's something fucky with said lua file

[dull garnet]

Yeah

Vanilla lua file

I'm guessing Groin protection/resistance has not been implemented for BodyLocation = Underwear? I'm not well versed in coding myself

[twilit drift]

possibly? i'm not sure

good luck though man

[dull garnet]

Cheers 👍

[chrome zealot]

Does anyone know how to fix the https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2410610242&searchtext=canteen mod.

It seems to massively fuck up the distribution of the vanilla game + all workshop mods.

[twilit drift]

that's the dev fucking w/ the lua distribution files

he prob did them wrong

[fair frost]

https://gyazo.com/81f4cc86c7d93cf9b496a1c660c77132

[trim current]

hey guys. my recipes don't show up as strings in right-click menus in english, but they do in other languages. am I missing something?

[split cipher]

has anyone made a mod so that these coolers actually reduce the speed of food decay?

[grave solstice]

Anyone have experience solving Steam Workup upload problems? I'm getting an extremely unhelpful "failed to update workshop item, result=2" error.

I tried doing this last night and this morning. Two new mods have been uploaded in between.

I'm trying to upload a new mod.

It ends up with a kind of mod stub (empty) in my workshop. I've tried deleting that stub and reloading the mod. I've also tried renaming my mod and resubmitting it.

[hollow shadow]

Yes, that guy made it so stuff from other mods dont spawn

[drifting ore]

sup djvirus.

[grave solstice]

Well, if anyone wants to participate in my mod upload issues, I've posted it on the forums: https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/37047-unable-to-upload-new-mod-to-steam-workshop-failed-to-update-workshop-item-result2/

[chrome zealot]

Intentionally? Also your mods are great man

[agile swallow]

I doubt it was intentional.

I think I also accidentally did that as well. Algol helped me fix it though.

Well I decreased the amount of rolls a contained had, idk about the other mods items not spawning.

[quasi ginkgo]

same I guess

there's already too much content

balancing loot spawns alone will make the mod great

[hollow shadow]

i think they copied from existing mods

[echo leaf]

Has anyone heard any news from EZ about their Knox County Map mod coming down from the workshop?

I'd be happy to reupload it but I don't wanna step on their toes if they took it down by accident

[maiden flax]

I wonder the same thing with that mod

[errant meteor]

@echo leaf I have everything to make the mold for 7.62 I have all of the crafting materials, but it is not letting me craft it. Is it locked behind a level?

[echo leaf]

Are they all in your hands in your main inventory?

@errant meteor

The blacksmithing mod has as limitation where it wont absorb materials from nearby or from your packs. So, unlike vanilla, all the materials have to be in your hands.

[errant meteor]

There is no way to fit 30 workable iron, way to heavy

[echo leaf]

You dont need 30

lmao

[errant meteor]

bruh

[echo leaf]

Lol dude

You dont need 30 full workable irons

1 iron will make plenty

I forget exactly how many uses each workable iron has

Get what I mean?

I admire your dedication to getting that much iron though

[errant meteor]

Then way dose it say 30 in the crafting?

[echo leaf]

So it looks like none of those materials are in your hands.

30 units

Each Workable metal has many units

Kinda like each fuel can has many units of fuel

So just put 1 workable metal, 1 ball peen hammer, and 1 tong in your inventory

then stand next to the anvil

and it should work

[errant meteor]

All of the molds are still grayed out, but it lets be craft everything else

[echo leaf]

It doesnt appear that you have any of the materials in your hands

Can you show me the three materials in your inventory?

And that you're standing next to an anvil

[echo leaf]

So you dont have the Tongs or the Ball Peen hammer in your hands

Oh you have them equipped I see

Mouse over the workable metal

How many units does it have

[echo leaf]

Try to unequip the tools

that's not what I meant by hands, sorry, my mistake

I just meant in the basic inventory, not any containers

I've got all the materials in my basic inventory (not equipped)

standing next to an anvil

Can make 762 mold

[errant meteor]

Nope not working

ill fuck around with it more lol

[echo leaf]

Hmm, that's odd :/

Maybe give it the old turn it on and off again trick

@nimble spoke any ideas^?

OH

You may know the recipe but not actually have the skills to make it yet; and unfortunately the recipes dont show required skill levels (minimum 8 smithing)

@errant meteor whats your smithing skill lvl?

[errant meteor]

4

bruh lol

@echo leaf You should add that in the mod description

thanks for the help

[echo leaf]

That's default Smthing behavior

from his mod

Nothing to do with me 👼

[errant meteor]

lol

[echo leaf]

I just whipped out a bunch of ingots until I was lvl 8

You lose a bit of materials during the conversion but you can make ingots and melt them back down

repeat

[errant meteor]

Same I got 4 lvls in 1 day, I was hording a much of metal from the intersection cars.

[echo leaf]

yee thats what I did 😄

forks spoons and knives

[errant meteor]

Have you thought about the idea of making molds of gun parts? would be a great way to make a battle worn gun in tip top shape

Something like a pistol kit or shotgun kit

[echo leaf]

With Brita there are just too many different types to keep track of

That's why I kinda just prefer using their cleaning kits and wd40

and frankly that might be it's whole own skillset

I updated the mod desc just for you

😄

[errant meteor]

Thx

Would you be willing to make a mod that lets you make a homemade hun cleaning kit?

[echo leaf]

I'm sure you can do it!

[errant meteor]

wd40 is running out and one use

[echo leaf]

It's really quite easy 🙂

[errant meteor]

0% coding here lol

[echo leaf]

I kinda asked Soul Filcher the same thing about adding the extra gun molds and the like to his mod and instead he helped me learn to make the patch

There's no coding knowledge necessary

It's all just plain text

Take a peek inside the Brita gun mod files

and dig up the references to the cleaning kits and wd40

and we can go from there

[errant meteor]

kk thanks for all the help

[echo leaf]

no problemo amigo

Now you've got me looking up what goes into WD40

lol

[errant meteor]

It makes things that are suppose to move but are not moving move

[echo leaf]

Oh I know what WD40 is

I just mean

if you were to make it from scratch

what would you need

because unless you make these recipes kinda op

they might be harder to craft than find

tbh

[errant meteor]

Do not know why brita did not included CLP

[echo leaf]

just bloat

why add it lol

[errant meteor]

I want to spread it on my body

[sour island]

guns basically never break in game right? only jam?

[echo leaf]

well they lower in quality the more you use them

and jam more frequently the lower the quality

and will eventually break

[sour island]

does wood glue fix guns too?

[echo leaf]

uhh

i dont think you can use wood glue on brita guns

Yeah just Gun Cleaning Kits and WD40

[sour island]

makes for a funny image

[echo leaf]

I mean how you about to use wood glue on a metal/plastic gun

lets be real

[errant meteor]

I do not know how hard the player cleans to gun with a gun cleaning kit that it is only one time use lol

[sour island]

that's why its funny

[errant meteor]

I be jamming in the middle of a clean op :[

[echo leaf]

There are also Gun Cleaning kits but they're incompatible with brita guns

[errant meteor]

never knew they we in the game

[echo leaf]

It's probably from a mystery mod I forgot I had

lol

Yeah I think it was from when I used this for a bit

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2026821879

Before realizing it's only compatible with vanilla guns

[hollow shadow]

We’re you working on a conditional speech mod a long time ago or was that someone else?

[sour island]

I wrote it about a month or two ago

[hollow shadow]

What happened to it, it looked realy detailed

[sour island]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2398253681

[hollow shadow]

It seems I’ve been living under a rock

[carmine cosmos]

🪨

[errant meteor]

This looks really nice

[autumn sierra]

will this be updated any time soon?

[vague minnow]

Quick question about the Save Our Station mod.

Do I need to pick the Save Our Station start, or can I choose any of the other starts?
Thanks!

[sour island]

I work on it in bursts, if you have any suggestions feel free to go to the github linked there.

[fast condor]

Is there a mod for fortified gates that can't be destroyed by the Zeds or does it already exist in the game? I'm asking as I haven't built any gate yet.

[wheat sigil]

Greetings. I have been trying out mods for a more convenient hotbar. I have tried "Bzouk Hotbar Mod B41" and "Hotbar for 5-20 often-used items", but I have not been able to get either of them to actually do anything. I am confused. I tried unequipping belt and holsters to see if that helped, but it didn't. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

[hollow shadow]

any start works

[uncut meteor]

the game allows emissive textures?

[wheat sigil]

hmm. I didn't realise that both "IWBUMS Build41 Beta" and a vanilla "Build 41 Beta" branches existed. I'm on the IWBUMS variant. I am wondering if the pair of hotbar mods that don't seem to work right need the non-IWBUMS branch? I'm confused about what the differences between those branches are. I haven't really been paying attention.

[chrome zealot]

Does pz have a console or log to check for mod incompatibilities

[spiral plover]

Finally going live with my facility mod

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2496664082

[drifting ore]

I wish we could have facility 7 without worrying about food and water.

[spiral plover]

You could tweak the sandbox settings in a custom sandbox I suppose

[drifting ore]

Actually i think that stuff with food and water disabled is on cheats menu.

[carmine cosmos]

No, but that's a good idea

[polar prairie]

does anybody know how i can change that the "lightfooted" skill doesn't decrease the actual footstep sounds? so that the skill is unchanged but the heard footsteps are back to normal like it would be with a level 0 lightfoot skill.

[autumn ether]

@spiral plover super cool location but due to performance issues i can't play it. 10 fps and that's it. are there any ways to increase fps?

[jovial summit]

Corpse shadows off, simpler zed textures, no blood

[spiral plover]

^ yeah that will help, you can also lower the zombie counts in a sandbox version of the map

[autumn ether]

@jovial summit put everything to a minimum, but still little fps. maybe because of mods?

[spiral plover]

Mods could also do that

I'd do low zombie pop, see if that helps

[jovial summit]

I played with just Fac 7, and it was still a struggle

It's just a hefty mod

[spiral plover]

at the current map settings, you're dealing with 2500 zombies

around there

[jovial summit]

Also, I'd advise to use melee weapons/ quiet guns. When all those zeds can hear you, it gets laggy quick

[spiral plover]

now if you wanted to kill your PC... Insane pop spawns in over 10k zombies c:

[novel obsidian]

motorcycle

[jovial summit]

motorcycle

[novel obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/motorcycle-moto-charlie-brown-harley-rider-gif-5394622

[echo leaf]

@spiral plover Is that map connected to the main map in some way?

Looks totally rad.

[jovial summit]

I'm pretty sure it's not, but it could've changed since he's last updated

[echo leaf]

Ah okay

[jovial summit]

It has it's own separate lore, different from PZ

[echo leaf]

I'd love to find a way to sneak into it kinda like with https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2375198145

I'll definitely give it a swing though. The challenges sound really really cool

[echo leaf]

Hey yall, I've been trying to contact EZ about their Knox County Map mod for the past few days to no avail so I decided to reupload the handy dandy mod for now:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2496947559

If anyone knows EZ or what's up please reach out; I'm totally happy to let them continue running that show.

[drifting ore]

When do you guys think prosthetics will come in?

[jovial summit]

f

*four

[twilit bison]

turn this into a mod now

[tame mulch]

Egg gun for breakfast suicide

[drifting ore]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2497075979

[errant meteor]

@echo leaf Just remembered I can repair cars with metal sheets and I got a shit ton of workable iron

https://tenor.com/view/engineer-tf2-team-fortress-gaming-dance-gif-16535204

[worldly olive]

Hi guys!
Does somebody knows if there is a method that returns a boolean when the player is doing a timed actions? And another to obtain which action is doing? I was looking in the isogamecharacter and theres one that is "hasTimedActions" but I couldn't make it work(probably because it doesn't work as I think)
Also I checked the basetimedactions lua but didn't understand the function "isValid" for the diferente timedactions

[tame mulch]

You can try check TimedActionQueue

[sour island]

timed actions are a loop, isvalid check before starting and continuing the loop if it's "isvalid" to do so

there' a start, and end function too

you could probably modify the base timeaction object all the rest are based on to get what you need

but I think they already return stuff

media\lua\shared\TimedActions\ISBaseTimedAction.lua is the base timed action

media\lua\client\TimedActions\ISTimedActionQueue.lua for the action's completion and progress

[worldly olive]

After many tries I still can't 😂
Tried to do this, I created my own functions of isValid and update for the ISReadABook (with the vanilla code to not change anything about that) and added a simple print to see if that was being executed but it was not, so I probably did something wrong and understood something wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️
Is there any lua event that is called when the player is doing timed actions to call my code?

[sour island]

check the second file

ISTimedActionQueue there's a 'complete' function there

[severe ridge]

SkillRequired: for tailoring is tailoring or tailor?

derp

[willow estuary]

SkillRequired:Tailoring=4,

[severe ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/pai-mei-kill-bill-im-waiting-gif-13608076

[errant meteor]

Question for modder, would it be possible to increase car spawns on road, they feel kind of empty.

[dim geode]

Whoever the superb survivors mod creator is-you should be put on the dev team pronto.. I went into the fast food joint and saw a spiffo mascot who attacked me on sight

Then I found a lone sheriff inside the station-shooting his ammo supply away

[tame mulch]

I thought about it. It possible by create map mod on roads with new spawn points or manually spawn by lua code

[dim geode]

Putting the spawns on very rare makes it interesting.. every so often you’ll hear alarms being triggered by unlucky survivors

[hollow shadow]

Hey, does anyone know how i can make my shields play a sound when they block an attack with it? i figured it would be easy since the player already says "blocked" above their head. but i had no success trying to add it.

[marsh beacon]

What effect does a bigger mod size have on the game?

I was looking at one of the newer weapon pack mods and people were complaining about the size of the textures

[pseudo lake]

Size of textures = Space

Depending on your GPU as well, they will take more VRAM to keep the texture loaded - It will also have an effect on processing time, however, how much really depends I guess on what compression methods are being used among other things and are generally found out just by testing 😛

If they're all 4k textures, you're probably gonna have a bad thyme

So pretty new to modding - just doing some tests at the moment, I wanna touch on some attachment points, recipes and items - Can I just load em all into the same txt file? Items, attachment points and recipes?

[hollow shadow]

I usually keep my textures at arround 1k. sometimes 2k if its a big model. but 4k for a small knife or hatchet is not right. try to keep the textures low so the pc doesnt die.

[agile swallow]

Anyone know an alternative to spawn items other than the cheat menu v2 on the workshop?

[pseudo lake]

-debug - Add this to your game params on steam and it'll load up the Debug menu, which includes the ability to spawn items

[agile swallow]

Okay, I'll give it a try.

[pseudo lake]

like dis in case you werent sure how

[agile swallow]

Ermm how would I give myself an item? I've never used this haha

[pseudo lake]

Click the little bug (ant) icon. One of the debug menus is item spawner or something

[agile swallow]

yeah i opened that and now theres a bunch of windows on my screen

[pseudo lake]

Ah looks like your mods crashed it

cheat menu it is, sorry fren

[agile swallow]

Well unfortunately cheat menus item spawner is broken, thats why I was trying this.

[viral spire]

I wonder if anybody plans to make CDDA mods after animals and human NPCs are added.

haha wouldn't that be crazy

[carmine cosmos]

Can you be more specific, are you talking about mods for CDDA or PZ?

[hexed anchor]

he wants CDDA themed mods in PZ

[viral spire]

My bad, meant PZ mods that are based on CDDA. Like modding in creatures like the Blob, Triffids, and others.

Can't remember the other names, it's been a few months since I played CDDA and I don't remember much, I'm rusty.

[pseudo lake]

FWIW Triffids are not CDDA, they came from 'DAy of the triffids' which is book from 1950's 🙂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids

[fallow bridge]

He can press F11

[pseudo lake]

@agile swallow

[fallow bridge]

Press F11 to get that debug warning off you’re screen, you may have to spam it

[fast girder]

just press "tab"

[agile swallow]

@fallow bridge Ah, thanks I just kept restarting my game. I fixed it though, there was an error with my mod.

[rapid granite]

Does anyone know what numbers are hiding, body parts (<m_Masks> 0 </m_Masks>) in the "clothingItems" folder

[late hound]

#mod_development message

[rapid granite]

Thanks

[fallen quest]

has anyone heard about a mod that would allow you to remove broken glass from window using your weapon or a piece of cloth instead of damaging your gloves ? or a mod that would make gloves stronger, cant manage to find that neither

[rapid granite]

Take any impact object in your hand and select "remove shards" from the window menu

[fallen quest]

no way

well thank you, seems like im dumb asf

[craggy furnace]

@tame mulch are you using isoplayercharacter for your npcs?

[tame mulch]

Yes

*IsoPlayer

[craggy furnace]

have you thought about assigning an AI leader to groups?

oh

[tame mulch]

Leader?

Hmmmm

[craggy furnace]

for stuff like pathing

good solution to solve clustering when trying to enter a vehicle

[tame mulch]

Problem with vehicle that they switch seat and when it empty - go to first empty place

[craggy furnace]

hmmmm

it sounds from my perspective they are just trying to fill the first availability

[tame mulch]

Yeah. Just need Add AI group logic

so when I enter vehicle - they understand at first moment which seat is need

[radiant ginkgo]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2498500781

[agile swallow]

Hey everyone, would anyone have any idea where I should start if I want to make it so when you right click on broken glass on the ground you can pick up a glass shard?

[tame mulch]

Check how works context menu. For example in mods that use context menu

[agile swallow]

Is it possible to use this broken glass in a recipe?

[late hound]

probably, whats its base. name in the code?

[agile swallow]

Not sure, how do I find it?

Does this tell you anything?

[late hound]

Wow thats a stupid name for that

[agile swallow]

Do you think if I use this as an item name it would work?

I don't think it's an item it's a prop.

[late hound]

yeah

[agile swallow]

recipe Create glass shiv
{
    RippedSheets/IsoBrokenGlass,

    Result:GlassShiv,
    Sound:PutItemInBag,
    Time:5.0,
}

Does that look right?

Hmm when I have it like that I can create a shiv with only ripped sheets.

[maiden elk]

Tried that. Seems to be considered a tile or something like that, so it's not usable as a regular item.

[agile swallow]

hmm

[maiden elk]

Rod's Store (Orphanage) mod adds shards of broken glass, so you can incorporate those into your recipes. (It actually already has a glass shiv.)

[craggy furnace]

: )

[echo leaf]

no plz no

Shrek sprinters

[low yarrow]

Clean!

[late hound]

What are you doing in my Swamp?

[craggy furnace]

no clue how to rig this

[echo leaf]

phew

we're saved

[craggy furnace]

but i am learning

[worldly olive]

I figured out how to check when the player is doing a timed action and execute my custom code, I had to override ALL the functions and not only the update
Thanks @tame mulch @sour island your info was really useful!!

[undone heron]

Check scrap weapons. They have a glass shiv so you can find it.

[sour island]

Ah, that kind of makes sense, I assume you had to add returns to each step and pass on the relevent info?

A tip in case you didn't know you can return multiple values,
return a, b, c
local x, y, c = function()

Incase you need more values to be passed through

[hollow shadow]

You are trying what i have already tried.

[agile swallow]

@hollow shadow The only thing I can think of is having it so when you right click on the broken glass on the ground you can pick up a shard but I have no clue how to do that. Probably something to do with context menus like Aiteron said.

[hollow shadow]

That requires coding

[agile swallow]

Yeah haha I have no idea where to start lol.

[hollow shadow]

You know how to code?

[agile swallow]

eh not really

I've only ever plugged and played with different variables I guess.

Not straight up coding lua from scratch

[pseudo lake]

you can do it! (if you want to enough)

[agile swallow]

Thanks for the encouragement.

[sour island]

could you make it so the broken glass is never a mapobject?

make it spawn an item when created

[agile swallow]

Well the broken glass as a map object should remain, if I remove it players won't be able to use it as a way to know if somethings lurking around.

[agile swallow]

Anyone know the size I should make my weapon icon to avoid this issue?

nvm I tried out 32x32 and it looks better

[dull garnet]

I have exported a car model with a skin from blender and I get ERROR: Animation , 1622075394257> ModelManager.addVehicle> texture not found: do I need to export the skin separately as a texture? Or am I missing something else?

[agile swallow]

For comparison

[hollow shadow]

They could make infinite glass shivs then, if the recipe is just 2 cloth and glass

[agile swallow]

Well It's glass, I wanna make it break easily.

[severe ridge]

make a single invincible sprinting shrek zombie

[drifting ore]

if its invisible how can you tell its shrek

[severe ridge]

y u made me look you mean

[pseudo lake]

invincible == invisible !?

[latent orchid]

this violates all the terms of service on steam as well as public decency ....may this mod burn in hell and God forgive your soul

[pseudo lake]

Where would I take a look if I want to add some more furniture/moveables? I've found that the moveable script looks to see what it is such as stove, or a table high/low etc - But I'm just not really sure how to define my own (if possible). Can anyone point me to the right direction?

Guessing I have to define some tiles or something?

[grizzled grove]

for a basic single tile movable, you can just set that flag in the tile properties in tilezed

[pseudo lake]

Cool yeah, didn't realise you need the mod tools to make them, but makes sense now. Thanks for the reply

[rapid granite]

there was a problem with the pants.
When the jacket is on, a bug appears.
Linked to script "BodyLocation"
Question! where the types of locations for this script are spelled out

[craggy furnace]

here are the actual layers

youll need to set a toggle on the jacket

there is a large degree of rigidity to the clothing layering system

ive had your same exact issues

[rapid granite]

Nothing has changed.
This script works on displaying the body and not the clothes.

[pseudo lake]

Is it possible to add more isoTypes in the mod tools? For example there is a TileProperies.txt in TileZed that contains an enum with the isoTypes, can I add my own in here, for tagging in the tile defines, so I can link it to my custom lua?

I can always experiment but hoping that someone already has 😛

Ohh the help menu actually contains a lot of useful information about this, seems you can 🙂

[rapid granite]

Where is the TileProperies.txt file located more precisely?

and where is this menu located?

[pseudo lake]

TileZed directory

in the TilesProperties editor (for help menu)

TileZed/docs/TileProperties/index.html

I can't seem to get it to work though 😢

[fallow bridge]

He said invincible not invisible

[ruby urchin]

Probably that happens because your incorrectly positioned the textures in the UV map, you can found all BodyLocation on ProjectZomboid\media\lua\shared\NPCs\BodyLocations.lua, if you choice "Pants" as BodyLocation for you item, you should config his UV map like the default items of the game

[grizzled grove]

I think all tile properties are handled in java, would love to be proved wrong though

[pseudo lake]

Yeah it seems it's lying to me 😦

Does the replace feature work?

[latent orchid]

i dont see why you wouldnt be able to add/link back to more tags....never really tried it myself but sounds like a thing

[pseudo lake]

I tried modifying exsiting property defines in the TileProperties and that didn't appear to work. Also tried creating a new property entry, but upon launching the tile define window again, it was still the same properties available. I was thinking maybe I could just make my object one of the other IsoTypes and then use the replace to change some behavior up

I guess I'll report back if it works or not and beg for some more halp

[latent orchid]

this would need to be part of a custom tile file i assume similar to creating a texturepack

the vanilla one i doubt can be over written if thats what ur doing

[rapid granite]

Perhaps a 3d model of the hitbox is tied to these tags. You can throw off the list of available tags. I'll try to find the right one.

[rapid granite]

Making new pants won't work.
or you need to ask the developers to remake the tag jacket
on "jacket" and "jacketlong".
because of this tag, the pants are cut off

[ruby urchin]

Makes a new BodyLocation and sets "pants" like exclusive, probably it works

[pseudo lake]

Ah, so it's not the TileProperties.txt inside the editor, it's the one under %userprofile% eg: C:\Users\kaizokuroof\.TileZed\TileProperties.txt

yay

[drifting ore]

Is there a mod that makes it easier to move furniture around in-game?

[rapid granite]

And where do you need to register?

[ruby urchin]

\media\lua\shared\NPCs\"YourScriptBodyLocations".lua in your mod folder, you can see a example other mods relationed with clothes

or the self media folder of the game

[pseudo lake]

appliances_cooking_01_16 This referes to the tilesheet and then the index?

so tilesheet appliances_cooking_01 and then object on square 17 ? Yep, looks to be that way. Any way one can determine if thier tilesheets and definitions loaded in debug?

[severe ridge]

I think bloodlocation follows vanilla's UV as well (or holes, dirt)

[rapid granite]

I don't understand lua (((((
although the principle is clear.

Although I only need 3 tags
1 tag (010) can be worn over everything
2 tag (101) is worn on top of everything but takes up the pants slot
3 tag (111) is worn on top of everything but takes up a jacket slot

Can anyone help write the code in BodyLocations and drop the file into the chat.

[rapid granite]

Is it difficult to do?
someone will explain to me how to write

[low yarrow]

This post might clear some things up: #mod_development message

In a nutshell:
If your trousers is overlapping with the jacket UV then the mask used for the jacket will be applied on the trousers as well

[rapid granite]

my uv mask is completely different.

I use a different tag and the pants are displayed fine

[sour island]

You should be able to build upon this behavior- as the code is already checking when you enter a tile - it would just be a matter or having the game check for inventoryItem rather than mapobject

Could be a neat mod if you make it so zombies make noise on trash items like bottles or cans.

Zomboid has a surprising lack of cans on string

[severe ridge]

Clothing is rendered by body location hierarchy

So anything over will mask the ones under

[rapid granite]

anyway i need 3 new tags for clothes. but I'm not getting into the lua

[severe ridge]

It's not rocket science tho, the file just lists/creates the ones available, copy that, only list the bodylocations you want to create in a renamed file (so it doesn't overwrites) in the same file location

It's all about fiddling, I can barely do LUA as well 😅

[sour island]

You may not even have to place it in the same folder

[rapid granite]

I only understand "CNC"

[sour island]

As long as it is in Lua/ client/server/shared

Cnc?

If the tag list is exposed somewhere in Lua all you have to do is insert into it.

[rapid granite]

code for a numerical control machine

I need an example or a code template. For example, clothes are worn on top of everything, but they take up a pants slot

[sour island]

Ah

I've not touched clothes personally, but it would be fairly simple to add to a list.

[rapid granite]

question how.
I look at these group: getOrCreateLocation or group: setExclusive, and I don't understand what it is

[sour island]

I'm not sure where those are but I can take a look once home.

Alternatively, you could try pinging people here that show off clothing mods.

[severe ridge]

It's literally what it is :x if you set a bodylocations exclusive to another one they can't be used together. The vanilla file has all examples and comments

RJ comments

[willow estuary]

it's all about fiddling, I can barely do LUA as well :sweat_smile:
TBH, investigating and experimenting is, IMO, 99% of pulling this modding business off if you're trying to do anything more ambitious than adding more recipes.
I call it "playing with the lego pieces until something works"

[unborn fulcrum]

Anyone have problems with true action?

I placed the Bob file

I subbed the mod

Still cant seat

I tried to seat chairs facing east or north

Didnt work

[hollow shadow]

i think it says in the desc that only chairs facing downward work

[unborn fulcrum]

I've tried 4 directions

None worked

[hollow shadow]

then you didnt install correctly

[unborn fulcrum]

Uh can you tell me where, I know I might have done it wrong but Idk where because I did what the desc said

Subbed

Placed the sitting file inside the Bob folder

[hollow shadow]

Uhh. The description is probably better explaining than i could explain

[hollow shadow]

Does anyone know how i can make all vanilla recipes recognize a modded weldermask?

Is there also one of these for weldermasks?

[eternal stirrup]

to any car specialist here - any idea why my damage textures and blood textures don't work?

damage textures used to work before the game added blood overlays

I finally decided to add blood overlays to my car and now neither damage nor blood work

[late hound]

Did you mask the car up? I believe only rust textures work without any masking.

[hollow shadow]

is there any hat that i can wear with the welders mask?

[craggy furnace]

nope

[severe ridge]

nope, welding mask uses that older rules for masks that avoids hats at all

[shrewd grove]

as far as i know, its a multi UV situation, make sure the car is using multi UV in its script setup, for the car script itself

those damage masks use the multi UV function

[radiant ginkgo]

You need to activate second UV channel in Blender

[errant meteor]

Has anyone modded PC games on the computer yet?

[eternal stirrup]

Thanks, guys. Will give this a shot.

[eternal stirrup]

Good to know, thanks

[tame mulch]

? Like what? Many of us created mods for PZ

[errant meteor]

The in game computer lol

[sour island]

I remember someone saying they wrote something that can grab all knife types for recipes?

Who was that.... lol

[hollow shadow]

Now i can wear a cool hat and have a welder mask on at the same time :3

[craggy furnace]

someones been playing too much for honor

[severe ridge]

complete madman

florida man knight

[hollow shadow]

https://youtu.be/OIk9PtgNF-g

[devout shadow]

Hi!! Is possible do mods only for server side?

[ruby urchin]

Yes

[pseudo lake]

it's in! Took me a few hours, but I got it functional now. Just need to work on bellows and anvil now 😄

[hollow shadow]

hol up, you made a craftable forge?

[pseudo lake]

Yeah

It smelts metal

Now I need to make anvil/bellows to work with it

The art is from the game files

[hollow shadow]

and it goes onto atile? with context menu??

[pseudo lake]

Smelts sheets/iron down into ingots

yes

I had it as a moveable

but I like the context menus

[hollow shadow]

I tried to do the same with my propane gas furnace and workbench. never got it to work

[pseudo lake]

Are you the scrap weapons guy?

[hollow shadow]

yes

[pseudo lake]

Oh cool I fixed some bugs for you 😄

[hollow shadow]

from the armor mod?

[pseudo lake]

yaya

[hollow shadow]

oof

[pseudo lake]

want some help with the menu?

also cool mod btw

[hollow shadow]

sure sure sure ive been wanting to get htis to work for a few months now

[pseudo lake]

nw, I'm aussie, and flat chat today (at work atm) but I can give you hand over the weekend maybe

[hollow shadow]

cool!

[pseudo lake]

If you wanna get started, look to the campfire setup

ISCampignMenu.lua (client/camping)

Then you need some timed actions to go with them

[hollow shadow]

Do I need to know how to code?

[pseudo lake]

Yeah

Well no

You can copy/paste

but you need to sorta understand the code 😄

not 100% but you gotta be able to follow along a little bit

[hollow shadow]

That’s the issue :~;

[pseudo lake]

Did you make all your assets? Like the weapons and stuff?

[hollow shadow]

All models, sounds, textures, icons, scripts are by me

Anything with code I took from somewhere else and changed it

[pseudo lake]

Ah that cool man! I can't do anything with art, but I can program a lil bit xD

so kinda the opposite but just worse kek

Well if that's the case I might be able to just make it for you then, unless you wanna learn

[hollow shadow]

I would like to learn it

But for now I go to bed

2 am here

[pseudo lake]

night night 🙂

[sour island]

do recipes handle types in keep/use etc?

[hollow shadow]

Not sure what you mean, can you write that differently?

[quiet socket]

Hey any of you know how to add music to the game? I wanna make a music mod. It will play when there is horde around you.

Is it possible to do that?

[hollow shadow]

I saw a guide on steam for exactly that. Try checking there

[quiet socket]

Do you have a link?

[sour island]

In recipe scripts, there's the ability to run functions within "keep" I was wondering if it could inherently check for type rather than writing a function to check for a specific type.

[hollow shadow]

No sorry I’m on mobile rn

[quiet socket]

I hope its not that hard tho, im new with making mods.

😄

[hollow shadow]

Hmm, I don’t know sry

[hollow shadow]

Didn’t look difficult.

[pseudo lake]

@quiet socket check the pins - there is a github and it talks about sounds 😉

[quiet socket]

Ah thanks!

[pseudo lake]

have you seen recipiecode.lua in media\shared?

[sour island]

Yes

I ended up writing a function to use

[pseudo lake]

Ah kk no worries just thought I'd mention it as I glanced over it just now 🙂

[sour island]

Thank you though

[pseudo lake]

Love/Hate relationship with modding, on one hand creating shit is awesome fun, but on the other, I'm learning the 'hidden' mechanics behind the game and it sort of ruin's the 'magic' 😦

[carmine cosmos]

It does not explain how to add new music tracks

[pseudo lake]

Yeah i know but it at least was a start

How does one contribute to the github, is there some instruction somewhere?

[carmine cosmos]

There is plenty of instructional material online about making pull requests

[pseudo lake]

Kk so just pull request no worries

[carmine cosmos]

However there is a new guide you can contribute to if you are interested

Since the author of the guide you linked is not active in the community for some time (possibly retired)

Let me know if you are interested and I will D.M you the link

[pseudo lake]

Sure, that would be cool. Ive basically just documented the stuff i worked on further so i figured could be useful to others :)

[severe ridge]

https://c.tenor.com/CprV13Qtie4AAAAM/homer-simpsons.gif

[rose sand]

Does anyone know how to disable/hide Player 1, Player 2 respawn options when you play build 41 split screen co-op? Is there any mod or file I would have to modify for this?

[carmine cosmos]

You would probably need to implement this yourself

[craggy furnace]

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

[simple ingot]

hello, any there a link to learn how to make vehicle mod?

[rose sand]

Do you know what file needs to be edited to achieve this?

[carmine cosmos]

I can show you the tools used to find this out for yourself

[rose sand]

Sure

[eternal stirrup]

This one is good "Complete Vehicle Modding Tutorial - Tutorials & Resources - The Indie Stone Forums" https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/28633-complete-vehicle-modding-tutorial/

It just doesn't cover the new blood overlays

[simple ingot]

Thank you!!!! I couldn't find any way and thought it was hopeless.👍

[sour island]

Anyone familiar with InventoryContainers know if there's a goto method of filling them?

For some reason AddItem() doesn't seem to populate created bags that would otherwise have items within them

[hollow shadow]

which containers did you try?

[sour island]

firstaidkits

[sour island]

specifically, spawning firstaidkits in the player

[sour island]

    for i=0, items:size()-1 do
        ---@type InventoryContainer | InventoryItem
        local item = items:get(i)
        local itemType = item:getType()
        local distributions = ItemPickerJava.containers
        local specificDistro = distributions:get(itemType)
        ItemPickerJava.rollContainerItem(item, player, specificDistro)
    end

distributions comes back as THashMap as expected, but when it reaches get it returns "can't get from a non-table"

🤔

all I'm trying to do is make it so when I spawn a firstaidkit in the player's inventory it is filled

[hollow shadow]

@sour island No idea how to do that. The mods that ive seen just spawn empty kit with its contents in the player

[sour island]

How do you spawn it's contents?

Or is it just done manually

[drifting ore]

@late hound

[late hound]

?

[hollow shadow]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2474838710

[quiet socket]

Ah thank you so much!

🙏

[pseudo lake]

Could someone briefly explain to me why Indie stone use strings stored in tables with the getText() func for context menus and such? I assume it just makes it easier to work with and make changes in a single point? Just wondering if there are other benefits? or if it's a khalua thing

[sour island]

getText is specifically for translations

[pseudo lake]

Totally makes sense now you mention it lmao thanks

[sour island]

no worries

[fast girder]

Hey guys, does conditional speech mod require more hardware power than vanilla game?

[dull garnet]

In regards to weapons spawning after certain amount of days AttachedWeaponDefinitions.weaponRegion = { daySurvived = 30 }, } could the same be done with Vehicles?

[pseudo lake]

Can anyone point me in the right direction of 'cooking' items in an oven? I've found some GUI stuff, but I can't seem to figure out how it gets cooked, only the UI being updated under Client/ISUI/IsInventoryPane.lua - Would this require me to decomp and look under the hood at the java code?

[topaz pendant]

any sound overhaul mods

[low yarrow]

Soonish from noiseworks 😄

[carmine cosmos]

I am working on implementing support for modding sounds with custom sound banks

So hopefully we will see a lot of sound overhaul mods soon

You should ask this in #old_techsupport

[carmine cosmos]

I would shamelessly point you to Coco Labs ➡️

[trim igloo]

I believe modding a game requires better hardware, as for the mod I don't see why you need to ups your hardware for it.

try to enable/disable as you might have conflicting mods

[craggy furnace]

not true

just use the mod

[vale parcel]

@trim igloo these are my mods i never had issues with them

[trim igloo]

aight so is it a vehicle?

showing those grid?

[vale parcel]

i think so

it could probably this mod

[trim igloo]

the one you highlighted?

[vale parcel]

i added this Vehicle and the range rover vehicles

the rest of hte mods i never experienced it

[trim igloo]

try disabling it and reload your save

[vale parcel]

@trim igloo will my cars that is a part of mod disappear as well?

[trim igloo]

it could

[vale parcel]

hmm the grid doesn't really show like whenever i use the cars it just appear sometimes twice today and disappear in just less than 10 seconds

[trim igloo]

try changing your display settings

[ruby urchin]

Tactical Bulletproof Vest (No Texture)

[autumn ether]

@ruby urchinwhen is the release date?

[hollow shadow]

Is it 1 armor piece? or 3 seperate ones

[ruby urchin]

idk exactly, but I hope soon, I want have a outfits before to release the pack

[ruby urchin]

Only one

[hollow shadow]

you used bones to animate it?

[ruby urchin]

I'm noob on modeling, so idk what to say about, but I think I did it like everyone does

[rose notch]

Question

Is it possible to edit zombies?

Like change the model to add stuff to them?

[hollow shadow]

nope

New wooden shield for scrap armor

[rose notch]

Damm

[carmine cosmos]

Yes

[carmine cosmos]

Now that looks like an authentic raider, well done!

[hollow shadow]

i Think ill make a round one that needs carpentry skill later

[analog karma]

is modding PZ any hard?

[hollow shadow]

Making good mods is hard yes

[severe ridge]

holy crap, this with textures is going to look amazing!

[hollow shadow]

i still dont know how he made it use multiple bones

[severe ridge]

we have a model

for rigging :l

its been a while actually

[hollow shadow]

a model for rigging?

what does that mean

[severe ridge]

yeah, player models

with the bones etc

[ruby urchin]

You mean this? with multiple bones
#mod_development message

[analog karma]

from scratch? I don't have any coding experience 🥲

[hollow shadow]

same

[analog karma]

dang

I'll get to it someday

[severe ridge]

vertex grouping + transfer weights

[hollow shadow]

is there a tutorial for that somewhere?

[severe ridge]

it was like this before i removed the player model

[hollow shadow]

is that blender?

[severe ridge]

there's probably a few tutorials on yt, i'm really just studying it slowly :l

yeah, new blender

saving as fbx

[hollow shadow]

works on old too?

[severe ridge]

havent tested :p

[hollow shadow]

How do i get the playermodel

[severe ridge]

theres attachments to it here, from TK too

or at least there were :l

[ruby urchin]

Those files should be attached to this channel

[severe ridge]

and given credit ofc

to throttle

[main lion]

more optics!

[hexed anchor]

Good stuff brita!

[main lion]

thanks man )))

[polar prairie]

awesome as always! :)

[ruby urchin]

Obviously, but honestly I can't remember who uploaded it, I guess it was "redo" idk

[main lion]

thanks!

[severe ridge]

nice 😉

[polar prairie]

wow.

[severe ridge]

i like that scope, if you run out of bullets you have a metal baseball bat attached to your weapon already

jk 😆 ikr

[main lion]

lol longest model I've ever seen

[drifting ore]

your mod hath broken my game

[fallow bridge]

Could you explain in more detail? Would help brita Fix the problem

[drifting ore]

i dont know how

no one helps me in techs support until an hour later or more

[fallow bridge]

Well what exactly is going on?

[drifting ore]

and all i get are errors on the bottom of my screen

anytime i mess with objects it just wont do anything piling on the errors

[fallow bridge]

I doubt it’s britas then, could be a conflict betweeen britas and another mod

[drifting ore]

and with out the mod its lets me pick up items

but if i drop them it wont let me do that

[fallow bridge]

What build are you playing on

[drifting ore]

so its part but npt entirly the problem

41.50

[fallow bridge]

What is you’re modlist

[fallow bridge]

Okaaayyy

That definitely explains it

[drifting ore]

lay it on me

[fallow bridge]

B41 shouldn’t be so heavily modded

[drifting ore]

https://tenor.com/view/handle-frustrated-angry-dad-incredibles-gif-12938060

lol

[fallow bridge]

With that many mods it might not even be britas causing issues

[drifting ore]

you might be right

[fallow bridge]

You’re best bet is to go disable one mod at a time and figure out what ones are causing the conflict

[drifting ore]

ah

no

ive already spent the whole day working ont this and im at the laptop out my window stress level right now

[fallow bridge]

All good man it can be stressful

[drifting ore]

I FUCKING GOT IT WHOOOOOO!!!!!

https://tenor.com/view/oh-yeah-parks-and-recreation-chris-pratt-amused-woah-gif-7644619

PARDON MY LANGUAGE

why is my keyboard capsing

it was this modhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=612100872

[fallow bridge]

Good job

[kindred pumice]

absolutely amazing

and the M40A1 looks amazing

[echo leaf]

awesome stuff!

[dim geode]

Yannow I think it would be cool if someone would make a modded feature where over the course of time the sprites would become more post apocalyptic

Like after the TV shuts off, then after the first month-then three months-then 6, if there were thresholds that could be met then you could have vehicle scenarios/stories that could be found-also think it could be implemented that it loads after your character sleeps on those threshold dates

[fast girder]

Have you thought about buffing optics, but making them reliable on batteries?

[drifting ore]

i cant stop seeing the USCPF logo

[desert warren]

ATF or Arma 3?

If it’s ATF, I have around 1k hours in that game-

[fallow bridge]

Vehicle stories already exist XD

Although furniture getting more decrepit would be pretty cool

I’ll have to ask Nasko if that’s something planned

[craggy furnace]

this is big dog actual, dropping tendies at the designated drop zone

[hollow shadow]

can we dismantle the airdrop for recources? maybe we can even get the boxes from it as placeables?

[craggy furnace]

yes, and no

[fallow bridge]

the real question is DO WE GET BOOM STICKS?

And perhaps ammunition

[craggy furnace]

no

[fallow bridge]

Sadge

Ammunition being in the drop would be pog

[craggy furnace]

and we have it set up where anyone wanting to make a submod to add it is easily able to

[hollow shadow]

i can already see ppl making airdrops full of guns and ammo :I

[craggy furnace]

on placeables

i understand why but i also dont

its a cardboard box

[hollow shadow]

oh i meant the big green plastic crate

[craggy furnace]

wanting to use a cardboard box as a placeable is like collecting candy wrappers

isnt moveable atm

and it may never

[hollow shadow]

;-;

[craggy furnace]

i want to watch people struggle to loot it because it fell into a difficult spot

and desperately try to take out the 44 pound boxes and escape with them

[hollow shadow]

Can it fall onto WPE hospital roof?

[craggy furnace]

theoretically, yes

[hollow shadow]

that wud be fun

[fallow bridge]

Can’t we not get up there?

[hollow shadow]

the hospital has a helipad on the roof

afaik

[craggy furnace]

i really only added the cop helicopter because louisville police station has one

[fleet yoke]

Hey! Guys, i have question about receipts. I searched this information for long time, but didnt find it.

How make random item in "Result:" from the list or table, etc?

[sour island]

you could use OnCreate to do it in Lua

rather than result:item;number,

you'd use OnCreate:example in the recipe, and in a lua file have this: function example(recipe, result, player)

[fleet yoke]

I do not quite understand what you mean. I need to specify OnCreate:example in the .txt of the recipe instead of the "result:" line, and create a "function example (recipe, result, player)" in a separate .lua file?

[sour island]

yes - that would be one way of having random results

also I think you need to have a result as well

[fleet yoke]

in this case, where should I indicate the list of possible items that can be obtained from the recipe?

[fleet yoke]

I have something like this

I'm new to this business, so I would be grateful if you could help 😄

[sour island]

you don't need the oncerate( or events stuff

just the function byitself

do you want there to be differing chances?

[fleet yoke]

I already figured it out, now everything works)

Thanks!

[sour island]

oh

oops

function randomItem(recipe, result, player)
    ---types formatting = Type(string), Chance(number), Rolls(number)
    ---Chance vs Rolls: Chance will be the flat % of the item being spawned, Rolls is how many times this is attempted
    local types = {"Base.item",100,1,"Base.item",100,1,"Base.item",100,1,"Base.item",100,1}

    for index, typeOrChance in pairs(types) do
        --if typeOrChance is a string then consider this the item ID
        if type(typeOrChance) == "string" then
            local type = typeOrChance
            local chance = 100
            local rolls = 1
            --if the following index is a number it's chance
            if types[index+1] == "number" then chance = types[index+1] end
            --if the next following index is a number it's rolls
            if types[index+2] == "number" then rolls = types[index+1] end
            
            for iteration=1, rolls do
                if ZombRand(101) <= chance then
                    --you don't need local item here but this can be used to modify the item after the fact
                    local item = player:getInventory():AddItem(type)
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

I was already neck deep in loottable logic so I modified what I had to fit what you'd want

acceptable formats for types include```lua
local types = {"Base.item","Base.item","Base.item","Base.item"}

local types = {"Base.item",50,"Base.item",25,"Base.item",10,"Base.item",10}

first number is % out of 100 for it to occur, second number is rolls or times it is attempted

both are optional

default is 100 and 1

this would spawn a number of items though

I didn't realize you wanted only 1

wait removeresultitem:true is a thing?

😮

[fleet yoke]

surprised myself 😄

[sour island]

that actually helps me lol

[fleet yoke]

initially yes, but perhaps in the future it will be necessary to issue a certain number of items. thanks anyway)

[sour island]

no prob

[fleet yoke]

by the way, removeresultitem: true opens up a lot of interesting modding ideas. for example, we can realize the chance of breaking an item when crafting, if the character's skills are insufficient 🤔

[sour island]

does it have an inherit % to it?

I've not tested it by OnCreate has 3 arguments, recipe, result, player

again, not tested, but I think result would be the item

not sure what recipe would be

[fleet yoke]

I think this can be done at the same chances as in my code for randomly spawning an item. but make it on dependencies (if made dependent on skills)

if the character's skill is less than a certain value> there is a choice of two options, where 1 - true, 2 - false for removeresultitem

sounds strange and unfinished, so it need to test

[sour island]

recipes are scripted, I don't think it would make sense to alter them in realtime- when you can just use OnCreate()

[fleet yoke]

or like you say, maybe

[sour island]

I guess we may not know unless a dev chimes in, but my guess is removeresult is for better OnCreate support

[fleet yoke]

I'll try to implement it the other day

[trim current]

this took way longer than it should have to figure out

[mortal widget]

AYO CRUSADER

[hollow shadow]

Imagine putting scrap armor on this

[drifting ore]

bro

[trim current]

I'm working towards putting plate armor over it but I'm still figuring out how to model clothing

[sour island]

anyone know if there's a way to get an output of what professions / traits add?

trying to make the skill recovery journal work retroactively

[sour island]

Profession: fireofficer zombie.characters.professions.ProfessionFactory$Profession@726b763c
- Sprinting = 1
- Fitness = 1
- Strength = 1
- Axe = 1

progress

[sour island]

current skill - bonus from profession or starting traits

figured out the automatic logic - I really didn't want to manually set things

strange, fitness and strength seem to have a bonus 3

[hollow shadow]

What if i took strong trait, died, picked a different trait? Would i still get bonus strength?

[rapid granite]

I have a question.
I created an army medical bag and want to make a military medic zombie. Where to prescribe the medical items that will appear in the bag?

[hollow shadow]

I think you can set it in a distribution.lua

I managed to make screws spawn in toolboxes

[sour island]

yes, I'm still testing this but it appears to work

in my test I took firefighter and all positive traits adding skils and then raised everything to 10

the goal would to be get the gained skills automatically rather than record each level up