mod_development

[signal pier]

Soooo i have an issue with how all my zeds are pretty much butt naked. I wasnt sure if its a modding issue or not ;-;

[craggy furnace]

it is

[swift sequoia]

Two mods uploaded in one day!

[tame mulch]

Anyone know if it exist mod, that can say you in which item container you can find item? Like item spawn helper

if not, do you think this mod would be useful?

[swift sequoia]

You mean a mod that'll tell you where stuff might spawn? That's a bit tough considering how generic the spawn files are.

[tame mulch]

Yeah, that kind of mod. I have idea how implement it and now think it would be useful or not

[dry sparrow]

"Carrots <found in: refridgerator, fruit stand>" something like that?

It's a cool idea.

It's a little immersion breaking for me though.

And most of it is pretty obvious.

[tame mulch]

Yeah, immersion. I didn't think about it. Items must be logic placed, so you can find them by logic

[dry sparrow]

I'm trying to fix a bug in the Superb Survivors mod that's causing an error in gunfighter because "zTarget:getModData().mHealth" isn't defined when targeting survivors. Is there a simple way for me to add that property to the survivors?

I'm not entirely sure how getModData() works and what's in it.

[old harbor]

Someone know what happened with Scrap Armor mod?

Everything just went missing in my save

[plucky nova]

talk to DJvirus

[old harbor]

@hollow shadow

after the update, even using only the scrap armor mod, there is no armor at all

[swift sequoia]

Is there a tutorial on making art assets? I want to make a scifi-ish pod.

[idle prawn]

whats the mod that adds severity to wounds?

[strange bronze]

Whats the mod that lets you just add any trait with no limits

[craggy furnace]

its called the sandbox menu

just go and add 9000 trait points

[agile swallow]

Does anyone know why when I make my character fall over my weapons model doesn't stay in the hand?

Oh it seems to be happening to with the vanilla pistols as well maybe it's a bug.

[late hound]

its probably something to do with the animation

[proud condor]

could i get some advice on how to make a crafting recipe be able to use a broken tool like if i break a tool like a hammer i can remove the handle and make a new hammer out of the head and a new handle?

[late hound]

prop1 bone is probably in the wrong place putting it there'

[proud condor]

i made it work on everything else but if it breaks i can not craft with it i can repair it first, then it works but not if i break it and i would like to not need to repair something i am going to just break down to fix completely.

[plucky nova]

sorry to ping you but @hollow shadow, someone has been having problems with one of your mods
edit: sorry, bro. didnt know that you were remaking it

[undone crag]

Daniel21 you could make a new timedaction for Events.OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu.

[fallow bridge]

Remember he’s remaking scrap armor, could be intentional

[plucky nova]

oh, what?

[fallow bridge]

Virus is completely reworking scrap armor, which was the mod that was broken for that person

[plucky nova]

oh, ok cool

[fallow bridge]

Says so right in the description

[plucky nova]

oh, huh

i did not see the description

[plucky nova]

sorry lol

[fallow bridge]

Yeah

[hollow shadow]

I deleted all the content from the mod as mentioned in the description. It’s only been making errors. The new armor mod will be on workshop soon. You can get it earlier from the discord but it might have bugs

@plucky nova

[plucky nova]

i know, i saw

look at my other message

[hollow shadow]

Bag man

[gusty relic]

anyone know if silencers will spawn in if i install Silencer / Suppressor Mod (Build 41) on a already started file?

[proud condor]

i am playing with mods that let me make fertilizer but when i use the fertilizer it does not give me the empty bag is that because of a mod or can i mod it in that it will give me the empty fertilizer bag

and to answer your question from what i hear if you have not actually searched the location where it is supposed to spawn you can add the mod if you have already searched that spot then no.

[gusty relic]

what i figured. was not sure how loot in containers spawned. if it was created the moment the container is spanwed or when u search it

[proud condor]

i looked up the mod it says all crates so you should be good to search unsearched crates unless you managed to search every crate on the map

[gusty relic]

ty. i have not even searche anythign since guns in vanilla are basicly sucide lol

[gusty relic]

one annoying solution till u find out is to use cheat menu and give urself a bag every time

[proud condor]

pistols i found are not actually that bad. i agree if your aiming is low it is cancer to hit anything but aiming 4 or higher its usually a 1-2 shot kill and with the beta 41 blacksmith profession you can forge more ammo

i like the idea of making 9mm ammo out of spoons

[gusty relic]

lol

i have aiming 0

rip

[old harbor]

Ok, thanks and sorry for ping you

[proud condor]

i recommend if you can for aiming is just grab a shotgun go somewhere far away from your base with a low zombie density and just start racking zombies, the aiming is leveled by how much damage you do so more damage like with a shotgun will get you leveled up then with some aiming levels you can more effectively use your suppressed pistols

don't need much skill to shoot a shotgun

[austere scarab]

if the devs will not add new primitive items for 42. which adds in hunting and animals, will someone try to do it themselves?

[hollow shadow]

theres already a hunting mod. and i doubt it can be done any better than the one that currently exists

[austere scarab]

dude primitive items not hunting

we gonna survive like our ancestors did

[hollow shadow]

"Which adds hunting and animals"

[austere scarab]

i meant "42 which adds"

[hollow shadow]

yeah

[austere scarab]

d0d i asked for items not hunting

[hollow shadow]

wahtever xd

[maiden elk]

@hollow shadow Send me the redrawn car parts if you want me to include them. I'll credit you, of course, and make separate opinions with and without borders.

[fast condor]

I keep getting the red error box in the bottom left corner, but when I go to check the "console.txt" I can't seem to understand the readings.
Is there a program that you can import the "console.txt" and that will tell you in detail what errors are those and what is exactly wrong?
I know that the mods are doing something but can't actually see what.

[swift sequoia]

Its a stacktrace. Search for 'error' to find the error then look over the stacktrace.

[dry sparrow]

Does lua have some way of programmatically adding a function to an existing object?

I've got a mod creating an incompatibility with another mod because mod #2 is expecting a function call to exist on an object mod #1 is creating.

The player, specifically, is being treated as a zombie by mod #2, and it's expecting a "getHealth()" function, but only zombies have that. Players use "getBodyDamage():getHealth()"

Would love it if I could somehow patch on a "getHealth()" call to the player object that just returns "getBodyDamage():getHealth()"

[sour island]

The easier solution would be to repair mod #2, would it not?

You can't really overwrite java stuff like that - but you could overwrite the #2 function

You'd just have to make sure your lua file is loaded after theirs

this can be done through directory order and alphabetical order

or using require but require seems to be very finicky for me

or rather than overwrite it in lua loading, overwrite it in ongameboot/ongamestart event

that'd ensure theirs would be there first

[dry sparrow]

So my first approach was to fix the code in mod #2 and add the fixed file to my mod.

Which works if you're using mod #2

But if you're not, it causes errors.

[sour island]

you can check to see if that mod is present

this is assuming the original mod author is unable or unwilling to fix it?

[dry sparrow]

Well it's not really a bug in their mod, since it's only an issue if my mod is being used.

[sour island]

they may be willing to patch it though - the mod shouldn't be treating all gamecharacters the same

[dry sparrow]

Ok, do you happen to know if Brita or Arsenal26 are active on here?

It's a very simple fix to the GunFighter mod.

[sour island]

Brita is

[dry sparrow]

I'm new here, would it be acceptable etiquette to @mention them and ask?

[sour island]

yeah

[dry sparrow]

Thank you!

@main lion I found an issue in the GunFighter mod that's causing errors when using Superb Survivors, and by extension my Subpar Survivors mod. Would it be possible to send you some very small edits?

[sour island]

This is what I wrote for swapit to work with GEAR, I wrote it so you can use a simple if statement in many places rather than constantly check for active mods.

SwapItActiveMods = {}
function PATCH_FOR_MODS()
    local activeModIDs = getActivatedMods()
    for i=1,activeModIDs:size() do
        local modID = activeModIDs:get(i-1)
        SwapItActiveMods[modID] = true
    end
end
PATCH_FOR_MODS()
```
```lua
if SwapItActiveMods["GEARCORE"] then
```

[wise lynx]

anybody know of any mods that make it more like 7 days to die? where they come for your base also is there any mods that give different zombie types like screamers etc? sorry if this is the wrong seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

section*

[sour island]

There's terror zeds

[fallow bridge]

@hollow shadow hey did you get those messages last night about people having problems with scrap armor? apparently it's not workin at all

i told em it's probably due to you remaking the mod

buuuutttt just incase it's not

it broke

[hollow shadow]

i added "(read the description)" to the mod title

[fallow bridge]

ah

[hollow shadow]

So i tried to modify this code and idk why it doesnt work xD

[solemn pebble]

Ey @sour island
I noticed that the mod frequency options have been changed.
Compared to vanilla, what would the rare option be equivalent to?

[sour island]

Common is equal to (what was) Sometimes and the default setting.

The base values are:
"Rare" 7-14 days
"Uncommon" 5-10 days
"Common" 3-6 days
"Frequent" 1-2 days

But these get adjusted as the event goes on as well

[solemn pebble]

Thanks!

[sour island]

No problem, enjoy!

[undone crag]

Hello does anyone know how to tell when the left mouse button is held down? The game has

isKeyDown(getCore():getKey("Aim"))```but there doesn't seem to be a key binding for left click, and a lot of the keys are called numbers or constants, like shift is 42 and alt is Keyboard.KEY_LMENU.

[tame mulch]

check lua events - https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Event. OnMouseDown

[undone crag]

I'd rather avoid using an event that triggers when the mouse button is pressed though, because often for me mouse clicks do not register when the game is lagging, so I am wanting to tell whether or not the key is currently held down instead.

[red dirge]

So basically the more day's that go on the less chances of you finding loot?

[sour island]

This is relation to helicopter occurrence in expanding helicopter events

the days represent the range between events of the same type

[red dirge]

ah okay

[swift sequoia]

Hmm... I'm in a mini pickle. I'm trying to think of a way where, on player death, I grab that player's character object, then on respawn replace the new character object with the old one.

Could I use getInstance and setInstance?

[sour island]

there's a lua event for player death

arguments should include the player object

[swift sequoia]

Yes, but its a reference to the same player object, I'd need to clone that.

[sour island]

the best approach would be to know which variables you want copied

and do it in that event

[swift sequoia]

Yeah, I was hoping for something a bit cleaner. lol.

[sour island]

copying something blanketly variable for variable could cause issues

[swift sequoia]

Normally in java you implement copyable and set up a .copy method.

But looking through the code .copy is not a valid function.

[sour island]

even if that were setup it may not be exposed

and there's certain variables that are meant to be temporary

[swift sequoia]

I'm probably just stuck with getting the player reference then copying off the relevent parts. Making sure I get everything is going to be a small pain.

[sour island]

I know there's a method for making a corpse that copies a character's visuals

then when the corpse is reanimated it copies it again

but that doesn't cover the skills and such

[swift sequoia]

Aye.

[sour island]

what exactly are you trying to do?

a direct "continue where you left off" ?

[swift sequoia]

I want to make a bioprinter. Basically, when the player dies, they respawn at the bioprinter IF the bioprinter has an amount of meat in it equal to the player's weight. Ergo, their body is remade from chicken and rat.

[sour island]

outside of visuals and skills is there-anything else worth worrying about?

IsoGameCharacter.SurvivorDesc could have some methods for name and other things- should be copyable

[swift sequoia]

Let's see, weight, traits, visuals, skills, kill count, Hmm... I can't think of anything right off the top of my head.

Well, the mechanics of how I'm thinking of making it work is the bioprinter checks if 1: There's enough meat, 2: if there's a 'playerDied' flag, and 3) if the newly created character has the same name.

[sour island]

could you potentially recover the dead body?

[swift sequoia]

So same name on the new character would be the trigger for replacing all the stats.

[sour island]

assuming it's not lost upon death

[swift sequoia]

Yeah, the dead body would still be there with all your equipment. The bioprinter doesn't print objects. You respawn naked.

[sour island]

the corpse isn't a player object once it dies

it's IsoDeadBody or something

you'd have to catch relevant info on death

[swift sequoia]

Yeah, looking at the code, it triggers the onPlayerDeath event before calling removeSaveFile, so the player object should still exist for the code executing the death events.

I'm thinking resetting the timed resistance to panic that characters gain after being alive a long time is perfectly fine. I mean, they died and that's gotta be traumatic.

Aside from needing meat and spawning naked, can you think of any other soft penalties I could implement?

I honestly just think its hilarious that they're being printed from meat. I can code in joke phrases like, "cough Oh god... did I just cough up feathers?"

"Why do I have a sudden urge to roll about in the mud squee"

Okay, looking at it, I basically have four goals with this project:

1. Capture player data
2. save player data
3. Intercept player object on create player
4. create bioprinter model

[sour island]

I'd say figuring out how to catch that data will be the hardest thing

for the skills recovery journal I had to dig around the perks factory code

and some of it just doesn't behave the same

[swift sequoia]

Aye. Are we sure the player object is removed over time? Is it possible its left on the player stack?

I'll need to test that.

[sour island]

When modding PZ you'll find a lot of simple ideas run into core mechanics alot

I know when an IsoPlayer dies it spawns a IsoDeadBody

and that visuals are transfered

[swift sequoia]

Oh I knew going into it this wasn't a simple idea.

[sour island]

by simple I mean "I should be able to copy a player over" is a pretty generic idea in it's own right

but the devs never considered having to do this cause death is one way

[swift sequoia]

I'm suddenly considering the possibility that player objects are not deleted on death. They're flagged dead and left on the stack.

Welp, I think that's where I'll start. Grab the index number when the player dies and see if that is on the stack on game reload.

[abstract raptor]

So, I'm making this desert map right -- I'm looking for some other modders to work with me to help me accomplish some things to make it feel more authenticly like a desert. I'm just so focused on designing the map right now that I don't have time to mod in certain things just yet, so any help would be amazing!
`

• Weather and climate adjustments : Needs to be hot at day, (which I was able to do in Calm Springs with Ravenims help) but also cold at night. Need to lower precipitation chance, save for tropical storms. Possibly change the climate colors too so that "fog" looks more like dust and comes with increased wind.

• New Foraging : I've been able to add to the foraging tables before and edit them, but because this is a new area, it would require kind of an overhaul

• New Erosion : If I were to allow vanilla erosion on this map, it would make everything look horrible and also not make much sense because the wrong kind of vegetation would be growing. For this map, I'd also definitely like to work some way for sand tiles to spread over time so that eventually main highways seem to dissappear completely.

• Compatibility with Other Popular mods : Needless to say, making sure custom cars, zombies, and other stuff work and play well with the map, would extend the life of this map.
  `

(if this sounds like something you'd like to help with send me a DM! 😄 )

[undone crag]

Hey mods if you see this I think I found a glitch in the base game, for attachments. It ignores the last one in the list.

scriptItem:DoParam("MountOn = HuntingRifle; VarmintRifle; AssaultRifle,");
If you do this you can't upgrade AssaultRifle with it.

scriptItem:DoParam("MountOn = HuntingRifle; VarmintRifle,");
Now with this you can't upgrade VarmintRifle with it.

scriptItem:DoParam("MountOn = HuntingRifle; VarmintRifle; AssaultRifle; AssaultRifle2,");
With this it works fine for both VarmintRifle and AssaultRifle.

[sour island]

so its ignoring the last one?

you should post that on the forums

[undone crag]

Aww but that requires an account :/

[errant meteor]

@craggy furnace Sorry to bother but I had a question for the heli mod, do supply drops spawn only around the player? or do they spawn all around the map.

[craggy furnace]

only around the player

[errant meteor]

got it thanks, I hope that military clothing mod comes out soon ;]

[sour island]

for now

https://tenor.com/view/sly-sneaky-patrick-spongebob-evil-plan-gif-4905592

this needs some love

also: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2138864719

Is this guy active here?

@undone elbow Great stuff

[craggy furnace]

indeed

[undone crag]

Yes attachments for melee weapons can be added, I have tested it and it works, and they can show visually on the weapon.

[late hound]

I have finished a great comprehensive tutorial on how to bring ANY 3D model to Project Zomboid! Go and check it out!
https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/37647-the-one-stop-shop-for-3d-modeling-from-blender-to-zomboid/

[sour island]

Working on getting heli events to play nice with NPC mods

"EHE: IsoPlayers removing" occurs when NPCs or players die

this is the first few seconds of a new save

😐

[calm sand]

I'm having scrap guns and weapons stack trace errors right as I start a new save and I'm not sure why, if anyone could help me figure this out I'd appreciated. Only mods I have on are Scrap Guns/Weapons/Armor(Beta), Brita's Guns/Armor and Arsenal's Gunfighter mod

[undone crag]

That does not have the word ''stack'' in it.

[undone crag]

Oh, I was looking at a shorter version ending in
LOG : General , 1624251061920> ERROR: mo... (310 KB left)
From copying it from the web-page instead of downloading it.

LOG : General , 1624251153064> -------------------------------------------------------------
attempted index: other of non-table: null

LOG : General , 1624251153064> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE

function: ScrapGun_Distributions.lua -- file: ScrapGun_Distributions.lua line # 91

ERROR: General , 1624251153064> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: other of non-table: null at KahluaThread.tableget line:1689.
ERROR: General , 1624251153065> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: other of non-table: null

LOG : General , 1624251153066> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE

function: ScrapGun_Distributions.lua -- file: ScrapGun_Distributions.lua line # 91

LOG : General , 1624251153141> -------------------------------------------------------------
attempted index: setMaxHitCount of non-table: null

LOG : General , 1624251153141> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE

function: changeProperties -- file: sw_multihit.lua line # 6

ERROR: General , 1624251153141> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: setMaxHitCount of non-table: null at KahluaThread.tableget line:1689.
ERROR: General , 1624251153141> DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: setMaxHitCount of non-table: null

LOG : General , 1624251153143> -----------------------------------------
STACK TRACE

function: changeProperties -- file: sw_multihit.lua line # 6

[hollow shadow]

Oops

I can try to fix it in 12 hrs. Just started work

[calm sand]

Oh dude no worries, take ya time! I just wanted to know if maybe I was doing something wrong lol. Thanks for letting me know it wasn't on my end haha

[abstract raptor]

yo

[abstract raptor]

say I made a custom tile, right --- next I give that tile the defs for a Custom Name and a Group Name; then I can make a lua file in Client/ISUI and Client/TimeActions to give the new custom world object a function that's executed by right clicking on the object right?

[dreamy silo]

hey, If you make recipies is there a field for some text?

I found sth about Name: xyz, but it doesnt work

[dreamy silo]

already tried "name = " or "displayname = " but both broke recipes from there...

[craggy furnace]

AlwaysWelcomeGift = TRUE,

[dreamy silo]

is there a trick for making a mod? I found a tutorial which said that you should put it into the mod folder of the PZ directory

but it doesnt appear ingame under mods

https://steamcommunity.com/app/108600/discussions/0/1457328927850352155/

[late hound]

Yeah I have always wondered what that does

[craggy furnace]

sounds like an NPC item

either its very old or was thrown in and not yanked out

[solemn pebble]

Hey @sour island @craggy furnace

I haven't noticed if it happens, but the supply boxes dropped off by events, do they disappear over time once they have been looted?
It would be cool if you could disassemble them and get some planks and nails.

Same for the crashed helicopters; being able to disassemble them like the burned vehicles in vanilla.

Also, then they wouldn't pile up in long games all over the map.

[sour island]

On the Todo list. How is the game going so far?

[craggy furnace]

Same for the crashed helicopters; being able to disassemble them like the burned vehicles in vanilla.

hmm

thought about it, ill look at it

[solemn pebble]

Perfect!
I'm playing with the settings in "rare" and I like it!

[craggy furnace]

doing some tweaks, QOL, and chasing idiosyncrasies at the moment

after that i think stuff like flyer/crate expiration will get a harder look at i suppose

i still have to make a bunch of stuff for something we've got later

[tame mulch]

NPC Info window

[proud flax]

@tame mulch Will NPC's have randomly generated jobs and traits?

[tame mulch]

yep

maybe some presets too

[proud flax]

awesome man, i cant wait to see it finished

it already looks 10 times better than superb

[tame mulch]

Also i think about create preset survivors with names of supporters (and preset equip, skills)

[fading prawn]

Man, You gonna make the TWD gang?

Lmao, You gonna make Bob and Kate?

[proud flax]

i mean some sort of ability to edit your survivors

[tame mulch]

yep, bob and kate i want to create

[proud flax]

in case your wife NPC looks horrible

[tame mulch]

Like hair, beard of wife?

[proud flax]

yeah

char features if it isnt a pain to code

[tame mulch]

need to test, but already works by this window change hair of NPC

[deft peak]

Hey Ait, you going to do survivor spawns with sandbox?

So you can start with your own group of NPC's? And pick their traits gear n stuff?

[proud flax]

i think that was planned

[deft peak]

pog

[proud flax]

i remember talk of a military expedition scenario

im not making the mod though lol

[deft peak]

lmao nooice

But i'm talking about not preset survivor starts

I'm talking about your own custom starts, being able to spawn with NPC's

and tweak them to your liking

[tame mulch]

Like create window not only for player, but for NPC too?

when start game

[deft peak]

Yeah yeah thats what im thinkin

You'd also have more points to put into those people the closer they were to you

Say for example, your relation to the survivor was sibling, Parent, Spouse, Best Freinds etc

Where as, distant people would have less points

[tame mulch]

less points for what?

[deft peak]

Like a Co-worker, relative etc

Like creating them

that would kinda be a bit unbalanced but i'm just splashing ideas

sorry if it sucks :/

[tame mulch]

I think it will be creating like main player. But for spawn in raider group for example it will be custom scenarious

[deft peak]

Yeah noice that sounds ideal 👌

[hollow shadow]

yeah man, imagine spawning in a preset where you are the leader of a random faction. and you start with a small group and can grow as you progress

[fallow bridge]

I want my two characters who are sisters to work together

SAM AND SARAH KICK ASS IN KNOX COUNTRY (gone zomboid)

[tame mulch]

By default cut hair action dont have anim. I tried use bandage head anim on it

[dry sparrow]

@tame mulch that's looking really amazing! I've been doing a lot of tweaking on Superb Survivors lately and when you get the basics done with your mod let me know if you want any help with things like task AI. I have a lot of thoughts on how it could be handled better from the ground up.

[tame mulch]

if you have ideas/ suggestions to my mod - write me in discord 😄

[fallow bridge]

Oh so we will be able to cut their hair? What about coloring?

[hollow shadow]

You mean facepaint?

[fallow bridge]

No I mean dye

Like hair dye

[hollow shadow]

Im thinking that when you use their inventory it will be like player inventory

so if you interact with an item in their inventory then they use it

so u can force them to eat stuff or use items

like hair color

[fallow bridge]

Hm

[errant meteor]

Ever thought about making the rice food into in actual big ass bag of rice, so we can make multiple bowls of rice.

[tame mulch]

Done 😄

[indigo hound]

сколько времени ты уже потратил на это?)

[tame mulch]

ну написать функцию стрижки и покраски заняло 10 минут

[indigo hound]

имеется ввиду создание НПЦ, хотя понятное дело ты чтото еще из основной игры берешь)

не я вообще о НПЦ

всего что ты делаешь)

[tame mulch]

Много)

Но меньше чем на лодки например

[fallow bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/bruh-really-tell-me-more-no-way-wth-gif-21239271

[deft peak]

I like your selection wheel that you have for your survivors mod aswell

thats cool, is it bound to V like mechanics?

[fallow bridge]

Yeh

Also mechanics isn’t technically bound

It’s a option you can choose in the wheel

[deft peak]

o i see

[fallow bridge]

Yeh

[tame mulch]

i use Tab key to show radial menu

[deft peak]

oh

[fallow bridge]

It’s his custom keybind, for us it’s v

[tame mulch]

no

i mean

for vehicle is v

for npc is tab

[fallow bridge]

Oooh

Isn’t tab already used for something?

[tame mulch]

as i know is not

[deft peak]

Just tried tab does nothing :/

[hollow shadow]

yeah also couldnt figure out how to interact with your npcs

[tame mulch]

i didnt say you about this?

[hollow shadow]

nope xd

i thought it wasnt implemented yet in the version i have

[polar prairie]

all your posts are like 300% better than the old mod. thanks for all your efforts!

[tame mulch]

Anyone know how television skill programms work?

[proud flax]

@tame mulch id imagine you gain skills by if you are able to hear the TV, not fully sure

[fallow bridge]

If you can’t hear the tv than you can’t get skills

[proud flax]

it might just be if your within the same room, idk

[fallow bridge]

It’s not

The game actually reads how loud the tv is

[undone crag]

the text after the word recipe is its name. There are also the translations in lua/shared/Translate. The mod folder in the PZ installation directory is not used, instead the one in username/zomboid is. You can see how other mods work, which if they are downloaded from workshop are in steamapps/workshop/number/number.

[hollow shadow]

Do you mean descriptions?

[hollow shadow]

@dreamy silo

[hollow shadow]

smol boye

[radiant ginkgo]

😄

[hollow shadow]

Anyone know waht i need to change in the scripts so i can change the attachment position for my sword sheath?

[errant meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/the-dictator-smile-high-five-helicopter-911-gif-15198162

[radiant ginkgo]

Confused

[undone crag]

I do not understand the question.

[hollow shadow]

The person you answered probably meant descriptions?

[undone crag]

Oh

Does anyone know what WeaponLength does? I don't see a difference between 0.3 and 0.1, it seems to just be using MaxRange.

[sour island]

Alot of the script is defunct

Some of those values may not translate to anything

Some may be changed from what they once were used for but kept the same name

Welcome to modding

[undone crag]

Hmm. I thought maybe those values were added with an update where it started measuring the distance to the zombie's head instead of the zombie's main position, and there was another value like maxrange still being kept for checking whether or not to check the distance to the head or something like that.

[sour island]

It may interact with multihit

It's just something you'd have to peak into the java to verify

I think the wiki tries to explain each one

[undone crag]

Oh, maybe it was not reloading the script because the mod was also enabled in the main menu. ps maybe it was reloaded actually.

[sour island]

The game loads Lua in main menu and again on game start

[undone crag]

Nevermind, I was successfully changing the itemtype stats without changing all the stats of current items :/
The name was changing though.

[sour island]

?

[undone crag]

If you change the MaxRange of a an item in the script .txt and then reload the game, the items your character already has are unaffected, their MaxRange's are stored in the save file.

[undone crag]

You could try the thing in debug mode where you see where on the character the item ends up.

[sour island]

Thats very strange

I would assume the save only stores a few key variables

[echo leaf]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2523485011

Requires Antiserum

Fork of the old 'Get Firstaid skill by examining dead zombies' mod

[sour island]

Thems some pixelated toes

[echo leaf]

If you cant count the pixels then there are too many.

[sour island]

I thought they were sandy at first

[echo leaf]

Why not both?

[tame mulch]

Maybe will be useful - Algorithm to generate UUID in PZ lua

[sour island]

Uuid?

[tame mulch]

unique identifier

[sour island]

Ah, like a hash?

[echo leaf]

Hmm, anyone have any idea why a mod would automatically disable itself immediately after leaving the mod list page?

It was working fine locally, then I uploaded it to the workshop and now it's automatically disabling...

🤷‍♂️

[sour island]

Could be not loading into lua

If a file doesn't parse correctly it isnt used

[echo leaf]

It's odd because if I subscribe to my own mod through the workshop it works fine

But if I try and use my local copy it just disables itself upon leaving the mod list

[swift sequoia]

Name collision?

[echo leaf]

Not sure what you mean

[swift sequoia]

You've got the mod locally and on the workshop. Assuming it loaded to the workshop just fine and that there aren't any last minute changes between the two version, then if they share identical mod IDs or some other salient value, then there may be a namespace collision.

Try changing the mod ID in mod.info for your local version?

[echo leaf]

Would that happen even before I'd subbed to it through the workshop?

[swift sequoia]

Oh, I thought you already posted it to the workshop.

I might be misunderstanding your problem.

[echo leaf]

Lemme see if I can explain better

1. Create mod

2. Test mod

3. Mod works

4. Upload mod

5. Mod (local) mysteriously disables itself

6. Subscribe to own mod

7. Enable subbed version

8. Works..?

So it was disabling itself before I'd subbed to the workshop version

[swift sequoia]

I'd start by diffing the two versions and see if anything's changed. That's pretty much all I can recommend.

[echo leaf]

Okies, thanks!

I mean atm I'm just running the workshop version of my own mod lol

🤷‍♂️

[swift sequoia]

Well, you could just copy everything from the workshop version back to your local file and call it fixed.

[sour island]

If you unsub the mod isn't listed anymore?

[echo leaf]

It's in the list, it'll just disable as soon as I leave the mod list.

(the local version)

[swift sequoia]

I personally, would be curious what the issue is so I'd diff it before overwriting with the workshop version.

[sour island]

Very strange but could be an issue with folder order and names

[echo leaf]

What would be enough of a diff?

[swift sequoia]

diffinitely diss much.

[echo leaf]

I mean does just changing some info in the mod.info work?

[swift sequoia]

That would show up in diff and depending on what's changed I can see it causing stuff to break. I'd just diff everything and see if that's the only difference.

[echo leaf]

I'm not sure what you mean by diff everything, sorry.

[swift sequoia]

Diff is just a function some programs have. It takes two files or two folders and tells you what's different between them. I use a plugin in notepad++ to do it. I think ATOM has a built in diff script. You can also get programs whose sole function is doing diffs.

[echo leaf]

Oh I see, I thought you were asking me to change something to make it different.

[swift sequoia]

This is what a diff looks like in notepad++, there aren't many changes in this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2497464911

I wonder if VSC has built in diff. Huhm.

[echo leaf]

Hmm

So for some reason

My local version ID looks like this:

It's stealing part of the mod desc for the ID

Not sure how that happened

[ruby urchin]

Aggh men, a white IDE xD

[swift sequoia]

Yep, a white IDE. I like to lick the tears off IDE snob's faces.

[proper hedge]

Hello. I am very new to modding and I don't know much about it but I have a question. Is the author of swatpack here? I want to change the swat pants texture to the forest army camo for my personal use only and won't be upload it anywhere. Is it ok?

[tame mulch]

Hell yeah. I did it! Small/Big feature

[sour island]

Those are the tears from years of screen watching turning into eye strain

My f.lux is so dark my screen looks like a pisstank

And I'm about it

[fading prawn]

Oh fuck yeah, Thats so awesome man!

How difficult was it to get that to work?

[tame mulch]

Some pain in the ass, but now i also improved Say methods for npc

[fallow bridge]

What?

[sour island]

He's become the very thing he hates

[hexed anchor]

Improvised Device of Explosion

[devout flint]

what is that music you're listening to ?

[late hound]

To quote Jurassic Park "You crazy son of a bitch, you did it"

[swift sequoia]

So using getAllSavedPlayers(), all I get is a null list. This is the code snippet:

function listPlayers(player, item)
--local players = player:getPlayers();
local players = getAllSavedPlayers();

--print(player:getSurname());
print(table.getn(players));

end

Events.OnEquipPrimary.Add(listPlayers);

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

On the stack, it looks like players == []

[sour island]

is it a java array or lua table

[swift sequoia]

@LuaMethod(name = "getAllSavedPlayers", global = true)
public static List<BufferedReader> getAllSavedPlayers()

I believe a java array.

[sour island]

if you want to parse it you'll have to use array functions

[fair frost]

Huh
I got the opposite

[swift sequoia]

@sour island Shouldn't table.getn work on arrays?

[sour island]

lua arrays/tables lists are different to java arrays

[swift sequoia]

Ah, it has no n value in iets metatable?

[sour island]

I don't think anything related to table would work

you can use :size() for length

            for i=0, array:size()-1 do
                local obj = array:get(i)
            end

[swift sequoia]

Welp, that confirms getAllSavedPlayers is giving a null array.

[sour island]

getallsavedplayers seems like a mp thing

what is it supposed to get?

[swift sequoia]

Its not commented.

[sour island]

ah

it could be MP or the fact you can start multiple characters on the same save

[swift sequoia]

Its using a file io to retrieve a player list. Its probably save state info for players on a server.

There's an internal array of players but I can't seem to expose it.

[sour island]

hm

[swift sequoia]

I was going to test if a killed player is removed from that array or if they're left on it.

If they're left on it, then that's a place where I can pull all the player data.

As far as I could tell skimming the code, I think that nothing gets removed from that array upon player death.

[sour island]

it may be more work but I'd say if something isn't readily accessible its better to write stuff yourself

although it'd be nice to rely on the menu to have a prepared save

[swift sequoia]

Okay, so how about persistance. Do lua globals persist from game run to game run?

I'll need to test that I guess.

[sour island]

no

you can save stuff though

you can slapstuff into moddata on most objects

and if that object is saved then you have a naturally saving lua table to play around with

I use getGameTime() to get the gametime object and add stuff to it's modata

saving methods may differ though - and for the most part only simply vars can be stored this way

i.e. numbers and strings

[swift sequoia]

Hmm. Gotcha. I have a lot of research to do. That's irritating.

But I see how you save stuff in skill recovery journal now. I was looking for a save or write function.

[sour island]

yeah - I add it to the object modata

since it's more pertinent

but for EHE I use gametime

If you're machine is a mapobject I would assume it gets saved and it has it's own moddata

[swift sequoia]

Correct, that's what I was thinking too.

[sour island]

you should also know it's very difficult to identify players belonging to the same user (if co-op is something you're worried about)

[swift sequoia]

Aye, I saw that.

[sour island]

playerobjects also have their own modata

and they absolutely get saved

[swift sequoia]

I'm actually thinking of having a held object, a collar called a Neurolink or something.

I need to afk. Thanks for the help, I appreciate it.

[sour island]

I noticed alot of people - and I've done in earlier mods- use multiple moddata entries

player:getModData()["mymodID"]["value1"]
player:getModData()["mymodID"]["value2"]
vs
player:getModData()["value1"]
player:getModData()["value2"]

I've begun using the first format when possible to avoid conflicts

but if you do this you can also easily swap the entire table easily

mymodID would be a table nested in the modData table

so like cloneData in this case could be taken from 1 player and dumped onto the next

in any case good luck

[drifting ore]

I'm sure no one really needs it, but if anyone needs someone to test a mod and give direct feedback/debug log I'd be delighted to somewhat help.

On an unrelated note which .txt file is better for narrowing down errors? As far as I know it's just the Debug Log.txt right?

[radiant ginkgo]

https://youtu.be/SA6aX0P0fDc

[dreamy silo]

@hollow shadow yeah, I meant some additional description for an item, because the mode has many recipies with the exact same name

[tame mulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiI7Gxb4oRw

[devout flint]

thx :)

[hollow shadow]

Try: Tooltip = INSERT TEXT HERE,

in the script

[sour island]

Actually it's console.txt - I think the other debug logs are bits and pieces of what's in console

You can test "expanded helicopter events" I'm always up for getting direct feedback

Just added npc-mod support which will probably we full of errors with superb survivors.

[sour island]

Have you got this to work? I tried yesterday and it broke the recipe when I wrote out a sentence. Does it have to be a stored phrase first?

[hollow shadow]

I think theres a limit to how much text fits

[sour island]

Ah, I'll have to test it out more.

[hollow shadow]

Maybe forgot comma

[sour island]

Are you aware if recipes can be shown at all times regardless if you have the ingredients?

[sour island]

I think you're right

Trying to figure out how to handle opening the supply boxes- most people don't think to try sharp stuff

Right now I'm thinking of two recipes per box - one requiring a tool

Might write something that acts as always true in recipe but triples the craft time...

[hollow shadow]

You could do: Tooltip : Use a knife to open this!,

[red dirge]

That looks amazing. Hope it gets released soon

[latent orchid]

Oh hell yea....this is amazing

https://tenor.com/view/baby-scream-yeah-hockey-kid-angry-gif-11733200

[drifting ore]

Как этот зил ведёт себя на большой скорости вместе с прицепом?

[radiant ginkgo]

Стоит спросить у автора данного прицепа, мой ЗИЛ ведёт себя стабильно на больших скоростях 🙂

[radiant ginkgo]

This is not my mod 😦

[drifting ore]

Просто когда я прицеплял прицеп к легковушке, то её шатало по всей дороге

[red dirge]

Rip but I hope it gets released

[radiant ginkgo]

I think I can do it

[red dirge]

Wdym?

[radiant ginkgo]

This mod is not mine, but it showed the concept of trailers, I think if he did, then it will also not be difficult for me to officially make this trailer on my ZIL's 🙂

[red dirge]

Good luck with that

[zinc pilot]

hello. I've been trying to change the zoom levels in game. Does anybody here have some experience with it? it seems like the options from the menu are being overridden from somewhere else. I've been only working with lua files for now, but at this point I'm wondering if it's not something in MultiTextureFBO2 that I'm missing

[tame mulch]

Concept - show NPC moodles by hot key on top of NPC

[indigo holly]

awesome @tame mulch looking forward to this wonder coming to light

[spiral cove]

will the mod be 41mp compatible?

[tame mulch]

Multiplayer? No

Maybe i will create separate mod with quest npc for MP

[dry sparrow]

It's hard to imagine how Indie Stone will even get NPCs eventually working with MP.

Maybe the recent efforts to offload some zombie stuff to the nearest player's PC will help, but NPC behavior is so much more complex than zombies.

[deft peak]

Whats it like talking with the NPCs?

is it more advanced than SS, in that your not just clicking one button to say: "hi"

[fallow bridge]

from what we have seen yeah

that interaction wheel really makes it better

[dreamy silo]

@hollow shadow are you sure its built 40 compatible? The whole craftin menu is gone if I add just 1 such line in a working recipe

[hollow shadow]

Didnt know u meant b40

I dont mod b40 so idk

[tame mulch]

Spiffo, are you ok?

[lethal sparrow]

Get that mascot a pepsi, god damn

[hollow shadow]

"I want to eat"

[tame mulch]

Now it's correct? 😅

[hollow shadow]

I would do "Im hungry" or "I need to eat something" or "I could go for a snack" or "Im starving" xD

[austere scarab]

what decals were used for "Random Decal T-Shirts"?

[fading prawn]

Zombified and hungry? Oh dear

[mortal widget]

I CRAVE SUSTENANCE

[agile swallow]

What are the supply boxes made out of? If it's wood I would instinctively think a crowbar.

[austere scarab]

i mean couldn't airdrops be those belt type ones like from Dying Light?

[tame mulch]

Moodles

[sour island]

They're just card board

[agile swallow]

Oh yeah than I would assume I would need a knife or something. Even though I usually open my amazon packages with a pen cause I'm too lazy to grab a knife lol.

[sour island]

We made it possible to open it with pens

At one point keys

But they clogged up the recipe

[late hound]

Cherry now only has one leg and an M16 as another. (From the movie Planet Terror)

[errant meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/pepsi-man-dance-gif-8744210

[warm pelican]

Hello all, does an in-game mini map exist for the Cherbourg map?

[red dirge]

Any plans on military zeds?

[red dirge]

Not yet.

[tame mulch]

Any modders that want help me with testing NPC mod? It's pre alpha now, but possible to test.

[late hound]

no, what more do you want from them?

[red dirge]

Tbh maybe have them with military armor on them

Juggernaut suit. Technically swat mod adds that onto zeds but idk why a swat team would need a EOD suit

[austere scarab]

@tame mulch what about clicking on the Hungry and Thirsty moodles to send the npcs to drink or eat?

[tame mulch]

They can find food water by themself if not task from player.

[austere scarab]

"where's my cheese at"

[viscid kelp]

Не считаешь ли, что в ручную проверять мудлеты может быть довольно времезатрано? Типа, если у тебя большая деревня будет, бегать к каждому НПС и кликать на него - как то не очень. Есть ли возможность сделать так, чтобы при нажатии на определенную кнопку показывались все мудлеты в округе? Например, нажал я на N и вокруг меня у каждого НПС'шника над головой появились мудлеты.
И олсо, тебе на русском писать или все ж английский лучше юзать? А то я видал, что ты с русскоговрящими на английском говорил, вот и спрашиваю.

[tame mulch]

Оно так и работает. Сразу у всех NPC показывает

[viscid kelp]

А, всё понял. Вопросов нема.

[late hound]

I am up for testing in a few hours!

[dry sparrow]

@tame mulch Happy to help with testing!

[undone crag]

You could learn Lua to make custom tooltips? xd

Gah, CraftTooltip is a local table. :/

I remembered I started making a mod for cross-mod recipes and while I was making it the base game was updated to support cross-mod recipes :/

[dreamy silo]

@undone crag Lua is ok, already made a mc turtle years ago, I just need a good example how it works all together in PZ, I found no good tutorial how to make a mod or create files, its either totally outdated or for 41

[unreal gale]

Howdy wise people.
Please tell me, is there any way to increase loot distance? distance at which you can see contents of container/corpse?

[worldly olive]

Hey @sour island @craggy furnace just to know, I created a game with the events on uncommon, the first day I got the police one, but after that nothing happened until day 9 where the vanilla helicopter appeared, is there possibility that an update affected in an already created game? I'm now trying using the reset events options to see if I start to get the mod events again

[sour island]

are you sure it's a vanilla one?

followed you around with no shadow?

I tweaked the targeting code to load blanks along with a solo player -- but this assumes the zones are set as I assumed across the map

[worldly olive]

It sounded completely like vanilla, came twice and no shadow 🤔 it's strange because first day I got the police one shooting at zombies

[sour island]

where were you in the map? in town, forest?

vanilla map or modded?

[worldly olive]

Around here when it started, day 9, since day 1 I didn't have any event

[sour island]

I will have to check the map's zones

            local iterations = 7
            local zone = p:getCurrentZone()
            if zone then
                local zoneType = zone:getType()
                if zoneType then
                    if (zoneType == "DeepForest") then
                        iterations = 0
                        playersFound = playersFound-1
                    elseif (zoneType == "Forest") then
                        iterations = 1
                    elseif (zoneType == "FarmLand") then
                        iterations = 2
                    elseif (zoneType == "Farm") then
                        iterations = 4
                    elseif (zoneType == "TrailerPark") then
                        iterations = 8
                    elseif (zoneType == "TownZone") then
                        iterations = 10
                    end
                end
            end

if that zone is considered forest it could be making the chances of an event spawning 1/10

[worldly olive]

But it never should be the vanilla one, right? I'm trying to wait a little more to see if new mod events appear or if my config was affected 🤔

[worldly olive]

I used the reset events option and the events started again 🙂

[sour island]

nice

did you set the vanilla event to never btw?

[worldly olive]

Yeap!

[sour island]

weird - it shouldn't have happened

[worldly olive]

What's weird is that I got mod events on first day 😂

Anyway, it works now 😄

[sour island]

nice

so there's always helis on day 1

forgot to mention

it only applies the date ranges after the 1st turn

I believe the idea behind that was to make a good first impression 🙂

[worldly olive]

The first impression with that mod was completely awesome 🙂 anyway I've just died 😂 one alarm + vanilla helicopter + mod helicopter + jet with zombies with 1000 tiles of audition in one day made it hard haha

[tame mulch]

Check where using addContainerButton func in default lua files. Must be here

I think need rewrite default func for update loot window or add custom with using addContainerButton to add more containers to window

[unreal gale]

Damn. I hoped theres something like
‘’’lootDistance = 2’’’ 🙂
Thank you. Searching for the line

[undone crag]

There's this. https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide

[dry sparrow]

Does anyone know if it's possible to disable fall damage?

(or even reduce it)

(or even detect that it occurred so I can heal it)

[tame mulch]

As idea - set ghost mode when player fall

I found first thing what i will do, if I start modelling for zomboid:
Blue jay mascot

[dry sparrow]

Any idea how to detect if they fall?

[tame mulch]

getPlayer():getFallTime() > 0

[dry sparrow]

Awesome, thanks!

[tame mulch]

Niice

[turbid coyote]

This seems simple enough but I just can't figure out how to do it. Anyone know what I would have to write in this LUA file to make fire spawn on the characters position whenever the player moves?

[tame mulch]

Mod request - Blue Jay armor + blue jay head

[tame mulch]

like firepath after player?

[turbid coyote]

@tame mulch Like whenever the player moves fire is spawned on the last tile he was on

[dry sparrow]

I know there's a "setFireSpreadProbability()" method on player that you can set to 0 to make them not spread fire when on fire.

I don't know if it works the other way around, to use it to spread fire even if they're not on fire. It doesn't seem likely.

[turbid coyote]

Do you know if there is a method to spawn a zombie on the player?

[dry sparrow]

I don't off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's another mod that does it you can look at.

NecroForge, I think?

[turbid coyote]

Im pretty sure cheat menu also has a zombie spawn brush so let me take a look at that

[craggy furnace]

you want a fursona?

[dry sparrow]

Well I thought it was falling but that's not it. Whenever time is sped up to max in Superb Survivors, and a NPC starts to walk down the steps, I get this error: ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1 at FliesSound.getCorpseCount line:157..

It's very strange. I'm checking on every tick and they don't register as isbFalling or getFallTime > 0

And I'm monitoring their z which hasn't changed yet.

It's the act of walking onto the stair tile, it seems.

[turbid coyote]

I can't get this to work, Im new to modding in zomboid

[dry sparrow]

Don't forget the "end" at the end of the function

[tame mulch]

you know other programming lang?

[turbid coyote]

I know some C#

[tame mulch]

Yeah. And then create Blue Jay gang

[tame mulch]

Check first lua basic (for example lua in hour topic). Then check simple mods in steam workshop

[turbid coyote]

@tame mulch Will do

[tame mulch]

Player coords you can get by getPlayer():getX() and same with Y

[dry sparrow]

Orioles 4 lyfe

[tame mulch]

Create bird gang and then kill zombie like that: XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6C9dCSYC2s

[dry sparrow]

Well there's orange jumpsuits and black helmets in the game so I have a head start.

[undone crag]

Hello does someone know how to get the items on the ground in a particular IsoGridSquare?

[upper junco]

You could make those Blue jays able to be caught in traps, kinda like an easter egg for your mods.

[undone crag]

Thou hast my thanks.

[indigo hound]

Я все жду не дождусь, когда сами разработчики добавят грузовики с прицепами.
(I still can't wait for the developers themselves to add trucks with trailers)

[neat bobcat]

Музыку из дальнобойщиков бы

[neat bobcat]

idea for mod. tank vehicle

[swift jay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDe3NHHOYCk

anyone know how to do good 3d modeling to add this to the game

[supple briar]

download blender and just learn from there

Going back to my old mod idea "armored contact" but with my new semi decent skills at 3d modeling

[dreamy silo]

thank you 🙂

[craggy furnace]

if you ever feel like a total mongoloid

just remember that i was updating and i didnt know why it wasnt updating in the game

only for me to not realize i was updating the github repo

[dreamy silo]

hey, what can go wrong with a recipe if its shown but not craftable?

[hollow shadow]

unfavorite your items

[unreal gale]

is there an easy way to achieve bigger loot distance (at least for corpses) via file editing? Just change some lines like
loot_range = 1

[mortal widget]

strap it to a superb survivors nipples to get some answers

[dreamy silo]

I found the problem, the xp giving-parameter wasn't correct 😫

[swift sequoia]

So I thought of a scenario for my bioprinter mod. You've come back in time to find patient zero and send their corpse back to the future. The twist is, you were told you'd be retrieved once they have the corpse, but once you send it back you're told it was a lie and your trip was one way.

So your basically on a hunt for one zombie in the whole of the map.

[red dirge]

Trippy

[swift sequoia]

Gotta keep the 'this is how you died' theme. So no rescue for you.

[carmine brook]

Whomever made the helicopter events mod, thanks for increasing immersion even further!

[reef hatch]

@craggy furnace @sour island they did a very good job

[craggy furnace]

👋

[tame mulch]

[swift sequoia]

Bird.

[abstract elbow]

yea, thanks for that awesome addon that the vanilla game simply cannot provide

ty to pz's innovators in the modding community

we love u

😗

[calm portal]

"I want.... to eat..."

[echo leaf]

@main lion Would it be possible to leverage the functionality of the Eris NVG mod for your own NVGs?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1793461606

[errant meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-sad-face-sad-crying-9gag-gif-14453131

[polar prairie]

i once had a mod that deleted items on the ground around you (also corpses) but i cannot find it anymore. does anybody maybe know the name?

[errant meteor]

@craggy furnace https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2524979277 looks like someone had the same idea, just the pants

[red dirge]

I don’t get it

[errant meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/you-wouldnt-get-it-arthur-joker-smoking-gif-15922420

[tame mulch]

• New big feature - attach items (back, belt, holster)

[errant meteor]

nice

Hopefully modded weapons will work without issue

[tame mulch]

If on default positions - will be work ok. If custom places (like gear) - will need add compatibility

[craggy furnace]

thats fine

[craggy furnace]

i am really not worried about that mod because i have other things too

just got done redoing this

[abstract raptor]

I'm having trouble getting an item script to work and it seems weird cuz everything looks right

module Base { item Note001 { Type = Normal, DisplayName = Survivor Note, Icon = Map, Weight = 0.1, Map = media/ui/LootableMaps/Note001.png, } }

But it's not appearing in the items list :<

[shrewd grove]

make sure you insert into base, not add.

however, that entire script looks perfectly fine

[abstract raptor]

Yeah I'm seriously scratching my head about it.

Could my distributions file be making it not appear like maybe I did something wrong there? Or does it not like numbers like that ?

man I dunno

it's being so janky with everything right now

@shrewd grove does the file name have to have the case sensitive word Items?

nope that wasn't it. No matter what I do it doesn't seem to want to add the item to the list

[dry sparrow]

Anyone know how to add traits to a player? IsoPlayer:setTraits() doesn't seem to be behaving like I'd expect.

[abstract raptor]

man, did something change with item scripts since I last did it? last I checked my other mods still worked X_X

[tame mulch]

try check in default files how work debug trait window

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9LXcl0e7V8

[abstract raptor]

Can anyone assist me? I legit for the life of me cannot figure out why this isn't working; I tried plugging in a different script from another one of my mods to see if it work, and it didnt either

But that script should've worked since it works in it's own mod

so I think there's something interfering -- or maybe I named some file or folder wrong

[errant meteor]

nice

[ruby urchin]

Any error on console?

[abstract raptor]

Not that I've noticed -- I mean some errors pop up about tiles not having defs but that's a totally seperate thing cuz I'm testing this on a different map

[ruby urchin]

have you tried in a new game? adding the mod to him?

[abstract raptor]

been starting new games everytime

[ruby urchin]

Changes your item code like notebook if it's what are you trying

module Base
{
    item Note001
    {
        Weight    =    0.5,
        Type    =    Literature,
        DisplayName    =    Survivor Note,
        Icon    =    Notebook,
        CanBeWrite  =   true,
        PageToWrite =   10,
    }
}

[abstract raptor]

No, it's gonna show up as a lootable map with stuff like this

[ruby urchin]

Oh I see, so, if you search your item in Name field as Note001, does not appear?

[abstract raptor]

Peach caught my mistake

Guess what it was its super embarrassing

||i forgot the media folder||

https://tenor.com/view/head-inthe-sand-ostrich-hide-head-gif-17079990

me rn

[ruby urchin]

Well it's a thing that anyone can happen, I guess lmao

Anyway, a good opportunity to promote this guide https://dislaik.github.io/project_zomboid_modding/scripting_manual/basic_structure/

[abstract raptor]

I just forgot

I dunno now that I fixed the file structure it's not showing up in my mods list lmao it's one thing after another I swear

I feel like someone up above is fucking with me rn

finally got it

So I set the Container Name for these to be "Note"

andddddddd

local AzasNotesDistributions = {
  all = {
    inventorymale = {
      items = {
        "Notes.Note_01", 10.0,
        "Notes.Note_02", 10.0,
      }
    },
    
    inventoryfemale = {
      items = {
        "Notes.Note_01", 10.0,
        "Notes.Note_02", 10.0,
      }
    },
    Note = {
      items = {
        "Notes.Note_01", 10.0,
        "Notes.Note_02", 10.0,
      }
    },
  }
}

-- add loot table additions to the end of Distributions, so the game will take care of merging it
table.insert(Distributions, AzasNotesDistributions)```

But when I go to the tile in question it seems to default to being a crate

Oh it's supposed to be lower case I think

changed it "notes" but to no avail

Ok I know I've been asking for help a lot

Um... I just thought that that's how you add a new container?

hm, looks like since it's new I need to add a "rolls = 1," to it

lets see if that fixese it

It worked!!!

YASS

YASSSSSSSSSSSS

[abstract raptor]

How might one...

Get a new world object / tile to spawn at specific coordinates?

[worldly olive]

Not only surprised by the quality, but also the velocity you're doing this 😮

[craggy furnace]

@tame mulch we are ready whenever you are

[abstract raptor]

    onStart = function()
        -- tent/campfire
--        SpawnNoteTest.addItem(888, 1119, 0, "camping_01_5");
--        SpawnNoteTest.addItem(889, 1119, 0, "camping_01_2");

    end,

    onLoadGS = function(sq)
        
    end
}


SpawnNoteTest.addItem = function(x, y, z, tile)
    local sq = SpawnNoteTest.getSQ(x, y, z);
    sq:AddTileObject(IsoObject.new(sq, tile));
end

SpawnNoteTest.getSQ = function(x, y, z)
    local sq = getCell():getGridSquare(x, y, z);
    if not sq then
        sq = IsoGridSquare.new(getCell(), nil, x, y, z);
        getCell():ConnectNewSquare(sq, true);
    end
    return sq;
end```

I hope this works

mfw it didn't and I suck and want to die

[strange kiln]

don't be so hard on yourself bro

get the dub

no sweat

🥴

[abstract raptor]

Yeah -- I just wish I could figure out adding a new tile on game start

There's so much potential if I can

For instance, I already proved I can create new containers ; I could thus guarantee a specific note spawned at a specific place allowing for quite the story possibilities

Not to mention I could make basements a thing

[strange kiln]

basements? damn

[abstract raptor]

Yeah, I just need to figure out how to get my new world objects to spawn at specific coordinates

[strange kiln]

i wish that there was terrain elevation n stuff

[abstract raptor]

I'm working on that @strange kiln

[errant meteor]

I always wanted a mop suit in PZ

[abstract raptor]

look what I posted in #mapping rq

[undone crag]

Does someone know how to make an item spawned from the server distribution Lua always spawn with maximum condition without using Events.OnFillContainer?

[red dirge]

Brita armor adds that

[tame mulch]

I plan full rework my AI system on utility based AI in my NPC mod. anyone want to talk about AI ?

[dry sparrow]

I would break out a behavior tree where at a top level there's something like Explore/Relax/Fortify

Each of those would have a subtree (Explore->Loot/BreakIn/Wander, Relax->Eat/Sleep/Socialize, etc.)

Then build out separate finite state machines for each of those detail behaviors that sets up the actual tasks.

Oh and there would be another top-level for "Combat" which would break down to Fight & Flight specific machines.

Any of the states at any time would immediately break out into the combat tree if they see a hostile.

[deft peak]

Can your NPC's drive cars Aiteron?

[tame mulch]

Maybe later

[tame mulch]

I use more improved Ai. I calculate each input value, remake them by function to 0-1.0 and use it to calculate score for each task and choose with best score

[deft peak]

very nice 👍

[tame mulch]

I thought about improve my better mods list mod, but Found better version in steam! Search mods, filters, mod presets, etc. Recommend!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2155197983

[craggy furnace]

holy fuck

this is very useful and ive wanted it for awhile

[main jacinth]

Hey guys, what programs would I use if I wanted to mod in a clothing variation? Ive never modded before, but all the tutorials Ive found seem to be for build 40 and below. Just trying to add a patch onto the back of the Waistcoat lol

[ruby urchin]

When you talking about add a patch, you mean modify the texture or the model?

[main jacinth]

Yeah, I wanted to add a biker patch (logo) to the back of the waistcoat item.

[red dirge]

Hot

[opal scroll]

[violet garden]

damn, what mod did you use?

[hollow shadow]

im making the scrap armor beta

not available on workshop

yet

[fallow bridge]

@tame mulch the only real input I have for your npc mod, is as long as they don’t do the superb thing where they get supplies out of thin air to farm/barricade/bandage themselves, AND that there are no prebuilt structures that makes it so that you cannot remove your npc mod once it’s added to a save, that’s it

It’ll be 500% better than superb

Best reaction

[tame mulch]

I will try my best :)

[low yarrow]

Looks great!

[mild warren]

only facts

VunderFish

[fallow bridge]

FlunderBish

[mild warren]

VunderPhys?

[strange kiln]

💤

[undone crag]

Back scabbard alert

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/431887969692024843/855976711756709968/1616563472970.gif

⚠️

[abstract raptor]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2526426470

[strange kiln]

oh shit you're the one making coyote county

[abstract raptor]

I am

I took a break to do the notes mod tho

[tame mulch]

Bot don't work, so take a meme

[undone crag]

https://tenor.com/view/sick-burn-omg-owned-ooooo-gif-5565292

[versed warren]

Hi all, I'm new to modding. Just messing around trying to get my bearings. I'm able to change the in-game name of fork items by overwriting the Base module fork DisplayName in builds earlier than 41, but not in build 41. Searching this discord I think it has something to do with DisplayName being legacy and now the in-game name has something to do with localization/translation? How would I change the in-game name of fork items in build 41 as a learning exercise? TY

[undone crag]

media\lua\shared has the things for different languages in it.
You can also use this to edit items:

ScriptManager.instance:getItem("Base.Fork"):DoParam("DisplayName = Spork");```

[tame mulch]

*Mod request - add TV program "Sick, sad world" from Daria

[radiant ginkgo]

@tame mulch

[worldly olive]

Totally... completely real 😬 In my work I worked for a triple AAA game and the IA made you to feel that you wanted to throw yourself through the window

[tame mulch]

U use Behaviour trees?

[worldly olive]

No idea, I was tester 😂 I don't really know what the devs used to be honest 🤔

Does somebody knows how to modify the speed for a certain animation? so for example if the player meets certain conditions, that animation is faster or slower

I was planning in use the event OnWeaponSwing, and there check those conditions and based on the conditions, the swing of the weapon will be faster/slower. I understand that the base game calculate the combat speed in the method: calculateCombatSpeed() but I would like to add a new condition. That could be having a "Mastery trait" for the specific weapon. Similar to the Axeman trait

[main jacinth]

Am I able to request mods on this discord? I know theres no gurantee anyone will take it up, but I am at my wits end trying to get it to work lol

[red dirge]

Doubt it

[main jacinth]

Gotcha, thanks. Didnt want to break ettiquette lol

[fallow bridge]

@main jacinth whatcha want?

depending on the difficulty

i could probably slap somethin together

i'm on my big mod break atm

-_-

[versed warren]

@undone crag Thank you.

[main jacinth]

Just a waistcoat that has interchangeable colors and The Warriors patch on the back lol

[fallow bridge]

😬

yeaaaah i don't do modeling xD

[main jacinth]

I say just, but i couldnt figure it out lol

[fallow bridge]

adding custom clothing is a little tricky

[main jacinth]

All good man! Thank you for replying

I tried using the waistcoat already in game, made the texture overlap with the warriors logo, but I messed it up somewhere shrug Ill eventually figure it out, just had to set it aside cause it was giving me a frustration headache lol

[fallow bridge]

you can't really just overlap them

the games textures are fucking weird

i'd know.

this shit was hell to properly get looking good.

[main jacinth]

I thought I could get away with this lol

[fallow bridge]

and what does it look like in game?

[main jacinth]

Can't even get it to spawn in, pretty sure I messed up the lua or something

[fallow bridge]

you, shouldn't need any lua for a simple texture change, unless your trying to add it as custom clothing entirely

in which case i'd advise starting slow

start with texture changes

like what i did

i started with scripting then texture changes

[main jacinth]

Thank you for the advise, Ill start up some research on texture changes then. Save me trying to write lua

[fallow bridge]

texture changing is very simple

[versed warren]

@undone crag Sorry, which lua directory should I make a lua file to play around with ScriptManager.instance?

[main jacinth]

@fallow bridge Man you are freakin fantastic!! Figured it out

Thank you soo much

[fallow bridge]

no problem!

[main jacinth]

Again thank you @fallow bridge Came out exactly out I wanted it

[placid dagger]

what should I look for in logs?

or console logs?

[fallow bridge]

no problem my man!

[versed warren]

@undone crag NM, I took a look at DarkSlayerEx's ItemTweaker lua file. Makes sense.

[ruby urchin]

Hey everyone, new guide about clothing soon, results in a x file

[undone crag]

:o

If it's just this it should work fine maybe

And if it doesn't work then this should work. I think probably this function makes it run a bit later in the loading.

It's worked in both client and shared for me. I'm not sure how to make it all work in multiplayer though, I've just been doing singleplayer.

[upper junco]

Has anyone ever experienced a weapon model being a different size when dropped on the ground vs being equipped or attached to belt. I can get one or the other to look right with the “scale = “ is there another parameter i can use to adjust the size on the model only when dropped on the ground?

[strange kiln]

Is it possible for modders to make a tarkov-like inventory system?

bringing this up because i always thought it was weird being able to whole ass shovel into a fanny pack

weight + actual space

plus like clothing pockets or something

[late hound]

Yes I have encountered it and found the fix for that. Try out these export settings. This is what I have used to make both in-game sizes the same.

Ignore the Forward direction, that probably won't apply to your case.

[fallow bridge]

Pretty sure the games inventory is unmoddable

It’s LUA and files we can’t access, sadly PZ isn’t 100% moddable

[strange kiln]

damn

[fallow bridge]

Yeh

[strange kiln]

could you remove the function of the original inventory UI and just build one from the ground up instead, pixel perfect BS

[fallow bridge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I guess? But why would you do that?

Way to much effort for a inventory style that’s more tedious than most games themselves

[strange kiln]

Except that inventory style is more realistic

[fallow bridge]

Realistic, and fun. Are two different things

Realistic doesn’t always mean good

I mean it’s a great mod idea

I’d like to see it as a mod, would I install it? No, dealt with that inventory system for too long I’m tired of it, but for other players hell yeah

[strange kiln]

an inventory system like Unturned which is more simple, would fit best. though I understand where you're coming from in terms of inventory management

While on one side I see how it'd be cancer, on the other, it could be less cancer. Being able to keep certain items in a certain area would be more... "organized"

instead of categories

[fallow bridge]

I personally have played every survival game where there is a inventory system like that more than enough, I nearly have 3k hours in DayZ

So you could see why I enjoy the simple inventory

[strange kiln]

Fair enough

it's all preference

[fallow bridge]

Yeh

Also current inventory system isn’t done yet

Devs are gonna remake it at some point

I highly doubt it’ll be a checker box inventory system

But it won’t be like how it is

Iirc devs planned on making certain clothing having pockets and shit

Which will be your main inventory

[strange kiln]

need to be able to carry 12 guns and explosives

all while not breaking a sweat

[fallow bridge]

Definitely won’t be like that any

More

Probably won’t be able to carry guns besides small pistols

If they do the pocket system

[versed warren]

The container system in PZ is absolutely brilliant. Being able to drop a bag on the ground and rummage through its contents creates so much immersion.

[topaz pendant]

what mod is the intel center from?

[strange kiln]

hoi4 mod?

[carmine cosmos]

Yes it is

[strange kiln]

why has it not been done

[carmine cosmos]

Because we only recently got a Java modding toolchain available to the community

So there was no time to make any crazy mods, but I hope the community will wake up and realize Storm is out there

[carmine cosmos]

If you make a good presentation, I can work on your UI mod idea

Provided it makes the game better in my eyes

[strange kiln]

Well, just off the bat, the point is to solve the issues of how the size of an object doesn't matter, only the weight

[tame mulch]

I think about this way of UI inventory, but it's too complicated for PZ. Too boring much micromanagement (IMHO)

[harsh sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/van-darkholme-gachi-gachimuchi-fuck-you-ghistiannotfunny22no-gif-18383308

[fallow bridge]

That's my reason as well

[deft peak]

Hm, having an issue with the sitting mod, i downloaded it and took the file into the right place but i can't sit on anything in my game.

Does it have to be a fresh start?

[upper junco]

I was able to add it mid playthrough on my save.

[errant meteor]

https://youtu.be/IFVa9KfCL7E

[hazy owl]

are you guys talking about a tetris style inventory?

I cant mod for shit, but some time ago I asked around, but no modder liked the idea sadly... :(

[tame mulch]

Yep

[hazy owl]

god damn it someone PLEASE do it

[craggy furnace]

after i finish the MOPP suit, i think its good

you are asking for 6 months of work

[hazy owl]

imho that will make PZ 10000 times better as far as inv managment goes

[carmine cosmos]

What do you want done?

If it's an inventory system overhaul I am very happy to hear your ideas

[hazy owl]

well there is a guy who pretty much said it

Tarkov/Stalker like inventory system

[carmine cosmos]

I haven't played any of those games though

Could you give me some visuals?

[hazy owl]

You can see it on youtibe

sure man

np, moment

https://youtu.be/HtCqPGAB9hc

screw what he says but here you can see how it works

its pretty much a "tetris like" system

with individual item sizes etc

imho it makes inv managment way more interesting and engaging I would even add immersive

but I guess this could be a T O N of work

[shrewd grove]

only problem i see with this is mod items would need to be created with their own sizes in mind, or else it would promptly break.

[hazy owl]

as in when you actually create the item?

cant they be added as sprites or?

or a "screencap" of the 3d item

excuse my idiot "terms"

[carmine cosmos]

Are we talking about the RE inventory system?

https://i.redd.it/xe2bs3gbtocz.jpg

[hazy owl]

well its similar I guess

Tarkov is a better example because of the rigs, vests, backapcks etc

it has more varied layouts

its like RE but on crack lets say

[carmine cosmos]

Still your point is that items should take a certain amount of space in the inventory

[hazy owl]

yes, in different box like sizes

1x3
2x4

etc

3x1

lets say a knife would be 1x3 size horizontal

[carmine cosmos]

I like this idea, the only problem I see is that new item sprites would need to be made that fit the scale

[hazy owl]

cant it do with basic item pictures, just scaled or not even scaled, but in a "properly" sized box

but I guess still very true what you are saying

it can open the game so muc, different pants with more pockets (cargo, military), same goes for jackets, backpacks, cars and so on

the possibilites for autism are endless, adding pockets to stuff etc

[carmine cosmos]

Okay let's do it, I will send you a DM

[hazy owl]

y i k e s

[errant meteor]

The shit bag on the far right

[fallow bridge]

Why use autism as a scale? That's not very cash money

Also I personally am just tired of seeing tetris inventory (as I said last night nearly 3k hours in DayZ, around 1k in unturned and 500 on the rest)

But go ahead

[errant meteor]

It’s very based in some circles on the internet, god dam it I miss the merchants guild

[fallow bridge]

Would be great to see it nodded in

Wont use it personally but still cool to see

[hazy owl]

well I guess that was coming, sorry for the term, I am from Eastern Europe and me and almost all my gaming friends refer with this with the meaning of complex and deep as game mechanics. Sorry if that offended someone!

[craggy furnace]

there is no offense

[fallow bridge]

Was just wondering, didn't offend me

[craggy furnace]

i do take offense someone is talking in terms as if it represents me

[carmine cosmos]

Mentioning autism...?

[craggy furnace]

i do not give a shit if people use autism as a joke

[hazy owl]

but at the end of the day this is the i n t e r n e t so fuck it lel

[errant meteor]

Man if you going to start apologizing for everything, if you do not stand your ground on somethings

[carmine cosmos]

https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn-nine-nine-brooklyn99-insulted-insult-slap-gif-16736769

[craggy furnace]

go wild

[hazy owl]

bah fuck that I go inno beefs on the web, better start doing heroin

[shrewd grove]

guys, this isnt proving anything, he just said it as a noun in a sentence.

[carmine cosmos]

Which country?

[shrewd grove]

id be interested in seeing a inventory system like it, but mod support might be extremely difficult for it

[hazy owl]

mighty and immortal Bulgaria x d

[fallow bridge]

Oh yeah anything that adds custom objects would get cucked I'd imagine

[hazy owl]

very true, especially for content mods

[carmine cosmos]

I am two countries away from you 😉

Serbia stands between us

[hazy owl]

I have no clue how one does modding, I have always bbeen on the gaming side so far, but if it is not an extremely complex process (making images of items) , mods can be patched into the inv mod

[fallow bridge]

I haven't been able to figure out how to get icons working, it's apparently lua shit.

[hazy owl]

absolutely no idea what even lua means dude 😀

[fallow bridge]

Lua is code.

Making a inventory mod like this would be a LOT of LUA work

That's for certain