mod_development

[strange kiln]

ew

selling mods

[sour island]

Yeah just becareful clicking links

[carmine cosmos]

That's the only way to go these days

With the global economy being how it is people gotta eat

[late hound]

Frank West joins Zomboid!

[errant meteor]

Putting him at the mall is a must

[errant meteor]

probe the ass

https://tenor.com/view/gachi-ямато-gif-18078141

[fallow bridge]

You can make unbuttoned clothes

[late hound]

? Yes you can

[fallow bridge]

Coolio

[warm sparrow]

does anyone else use the zombie vaccine mod?

cant seem to get it to work

[severe ridge]

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

[craggy furnace]

it gets better

[strange kiln]

i own this song on itunes

unironically

[thin hornet]

Anyone got a tip to help me test Distribution, do i have to regenerate a new game every time or is there a way to regenerate the map loot or anything really that could help.

[drifting ore]

alright stimpee

[late hound]

True Eye Cult from Dead Rising!

[rapid granite]

Now I decided to make hats, but the problem is that they are made differently than clothes. Does anyone have a blender, or a fbx file with a bone on which you can attach a headdress??.

[fickle rivet]

Hi all - does anyone know which mod might cause me to be unable to 'clean blood'? I have all the right items in my inventory, and the option is there, but when I click on it my character does nothing. Doesn't even move towards the blood.

[fickle rivet]

Trying to narrow down which mod (of the many I have installed...) might be conflicting with whichever game file the 'clean blood' command would come under.

[hollow shadow]

Head dont need bones

U pit bone head in xml

No bone in blender

Hat is x

[rapid granite]

So I just need to create a hat and put it on its side

[oak cipher]

is there a way to start a storm in single player? or is there a mod out there for it

[fair frost]

e

[hollow shadow]

Yes

[hollow oyster]

Guys I wanna make clothes mode, any advice on that? Maybe someone can help me?

[fringe oxide]

Guys, how can you turn off the sleep system in PZ? I wanted to play with a friend with the Remote Play Together.

[thin hornet]

just go to sleep Together

[fringe oxide]

Not very comfortable

[thin hornet]

Its the apocalypse no one will know man

[fringe oxide]

Listen, if you do not know how to fix this problem, do not write here

[upper junco]

Im not sure if you can on remote play and i can’t remember if its in the normal sandbox settings or not. You could turn it off in b40 multiplayer though. There may be a settings file in your save folder possibly. You could look around in there and see what you find.

Other than that sleeping tablets would be the way to go.

[thin hornet]

lol just kidding with you man

[carmine cosmos]

Which storm, the regular in-game storm or the Storm?

[zealous prairie]

Is there a mod that actually gives infinite durability cuz the repair on clothes is a pain

[carmine cosmos]

Why so angry man?

[zealous prairie]

Or at least some way to get rid of needing to repair items

[carmine cosmos]

Do you have any specific ideas how this would work, because I could make a mod like this for you if the idea makes sense

[zealous prairie]

Can we discuss in a dm

Like I’ll call u

[shrewd grove]

theres a sandbox option to turn it off

[flint seal]

if pushing wasn't enough, how 'bout martial arts and boxing just to add to Project Zomboid a little more post-apocalyptic action for a future build?

[visual wasp]

Hey anyone have time to help me out with my mod list. Red Box Error keeps climbing and i went through em all 1 at a time and i cant find the problem

[sour island]

What were the errors?

[visual wasp]

Is there a way to check

cause i just load into my game and i get 1000+ errors xD

[sour island]

You said you went through them 1 at a time- but you can find post game logs in console.txt

These reset after you start up a new session though

[visual wasp]

Alright so load em all and check console text how do i bring that up ?

[sour island]

The file can be found in: C:\Users\<username>\Zomboid\console.txt

[visual wasp]

Alright ill check it out mate thx

[sour island]

Np

You can try reading it yourself or uploading it to pastebin

"stack trace" are what errors are refered to as

[leaden moon]

I noticed that i can't load a savegame today to

Probably a mod is causing conflicts with other mods

Which mods was updated today?

[visual wasp]

console txt

here is the file

[thin hornet]

Alright so I finally released my very first mod 😄
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2539452952

[lilac night]

He’s covered wars, you know.

[pseudo lake]

fallout blastah

or that show, the Jetsons

[sour island]

jimmy neutron

pz Nickelodeon overhaul

[late hound]

BrAiN bLaSt!

[abstract raptor]

bro, revive me

I have the raygun

[dusty vortex]

trying to bring a .json into blender and getting this error

[pseudo lake]

You sure it's a proper json?

It can't read the first character I think, is there some whitespace or something?

or better yet, show us ur json

[valid cargo]

are there any quality cannibalism mods for build 41? Asking for a friend

[flint seal]

i said: if pushing wasn't enough, how 'bout martial arts and boxing just to add to Project Zomboid a little more post-apocalyptic action for a future build?

[sour island]

This would be a bit hard to mod in at the moment. The upcoming update would open some avenues.

Idk if anyone would need something like this - but I have a pretty solid isoRange function that scans through grid squares. Even supports fractal scans.

EHE uses it to scan across pretty vast areas and I've not gotten any reports on lag. 🤷‍♂️

[carmine cosmos]

I could look into making one

[undone crag]

I tried finding a meme to react to this with where a middle-aged or older African American a bit on the plump side says these words or similar words:
"That's right! That's what I'm talking about! That's why he's the man! That's why he's the goat! the goat!"

But I did not find it and I did not thereby state my agreement.

[fallow crescent]

There any mods from you that one can check out already?

[carmine cosmos]

Not that I am aware of

[fallow crescent]

Must be a long process.
Was just curious since I constantly see you saying you could make people's ideas/mods and wondering if anything came of it yet.

Best of luck.

[carmine cosmos]

Could make a mod and will make a mod are two different things

[fallow crescent]

k

[carmine cosmos]

Just because people propose mods here and I engage with them in a conversation does not mean I am promising or in any way agreeing to develop their ideas

[fallow crescent]

I guess

[strange kiln]

crushed his dreams

[timid lynx]

f

[strange kiln]

[carmine cosmos]

😢

[iron salmon]

Still on the lookout for Jennifer.

[late hound]

The oldest looking 27 year old ever

[iron salmon]

[drifting ore]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for modifying UI? More specifically the health screen.
I'm trying to port my old conversion mod to B41 and I haven't touched zomboid modding since you could drag and drop images into the ui directory.

[willow estuary]

I believe that the UI elements are in pack files; TileZed had the utilities for packing and unpacking files in it.

[drifting ore]

It's either pack or class I'll have to check

But thank you I'll look into it

[undone crag]

ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\XpSystem\ISUI

[drifting ore]

Sweet, thanks

[sour island]

In the Lua files IS= indiestone, so ISUI = indiestone UI

That may help navigate things

[drifting ore]

It will ty. Ive been looking through the file but havent found what im looking for yet. I'm primarily trying to replace the female_base.png image in the medi/ui/defense folder for now

but alas replacing the file doesnt seem to work anymore

[sour island]

Ah images are in .pack files as Blair mentioned

[drifting ore]

this is hte base image

ah makes sense

[sour island]

For the most part the game doesn't use those loose files- things are archived for faster access

This is true for sounds, and some images-- the caveat to this is scripts telling the game to pull on loose files

[drifting ore]

yeah it seems they've really optimized things since like 2017 lol

[sour island]

I'd be curious if there was a file prefix for UI though

[drifting ore]

now its just finding where the .pack file is

[sour island]

For example you can provide item textures to the game by naming a file 'item_X' where X is what you refer to it as in scripts

[willow estuary]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\texturepacks, in my case, is the location of the pack files.

[drifting ore]

same, I just found it

im assuming its either UI.pack or UI2.pack

[sour island]

Question before you meddle with pack files - is there a way to dictate the texture used?

You only need to repack textures if you're trying to use the same filename

If you can just tell it to use another image instead it can be a loose one

[drifting ore]

Ive been trying to figure that out as well

I havent found anything in the ui lua files that call the female_base/male_base.png in defense folder

but then again im a modeler and not a programmer so i'm not the best for this lol

[sour island]

Hm might be a javaside thing- so you may have to repack

[drifting ore]

nervously backs up files

[willow estuary]

FYI, in my experience, it appeared that replacing UI elements in my repacks that were a different size than the vanilla one (I believe larger) would sometimes cause error issue. It was almost a year ago when I played with it, so the specifics are hazy.

[drifting ore]

That happened back in the day as well

[willow estuary]

Oh good.

[drifting ore]

If you replaced an image with a larger or smaller one, it wouldnt appear

[sour island]

That's true for anything resembling a spritesheet

[willow estuary]

I mean in that you are aware of the issue 😄

AH, nah, I mean "mysterious error messages" or parts of the interface not working.

[drifting ore]

oh no I never got that

[sour island]

There should be a xml file when you unpack

[drifting ore]

then again I never did anything too extreme beyond the menu image, health/scratch/bandage images and sounds

[sour island]

You could technically dictate different bounds for the images

[drifting ore]

So it seems to be in UI2.pack

aye I got it to work and has updated in game. Thanks to everyone who provided info I appreciate it

now to get back to work lol

[errant meteor]

@sour island Sorry to bother, but where do you install mods that are not from the workshop, I am trying to install snakes build 41.50 mod pack.

[undone crag]

Somewhere like C:\Anon\Zomboid\mods

[sour island]

^

If you upload mods to workshop it's in the same directory

/mods/ = local mods, /Workshop/ = upload to workshop

you can put it in either

[errant meteor]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Installing_mods I was following this lol, I was wrong

[sour island]

you can also put it in the steam content

that guide is suggesting to install it in the steam content folder, yeah

[craggy furnace]

careful with stuff like that

you can get them jumbled

[errant meteor]

Thanks, also are the m16 and the m14 in the game loot tables?

[undone crag]

PZ does not have trademarked weapon names in it so I doubt it.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong with fragmotion? I'm editing a clothing model and when I create triangles I can't get them to show any texture even though they are UV mapped.

With the briefcase as well the new triangles all are just white or grey. It seems there is a hidden secret step in UV mapping in fragMOTION.

Maybe you're meant to copy and paste triangles instead of creating them...

[late hound]

Yeah UV mapping in Fragmotion is non-intuitive and confusing AF. Other than custom animations, I use the program to test retextures on the .X models.

[undone crag]

:c I tried with blender but it exported a messy model thing. It took me ten minutes to copy a triangle and reposition it and now I need to see why the normals have gone strange.

At least fragMOTION says tresspasses instead of debts though, so that's one of the good things about it in my opinion.

Ah, that's it. You have to select your triangles and assign the material to them which can be done by clicking on them with Face Info. :|

Ok so maybe finding a way to set all their materials at once will be faster than clicking on each and every new triangle in turn.
ps it's the Texture drop-down box.

[valid cargo]

that would be cool, I'd just love to begin eating the zombies in my pile outside my base 👍

[timid jewel]

yes

there are

a mod to be cannibalism

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1518390504

[valid cargo]

thanks

[timid jewel]

You Are Welcome

[marsh beacon]

How is that a stolen asset?!

Snake himself said he was a graphic designer anyways so I hardly believe he would steal

They have similar designs but its definitely not stolen

Now I have seen people straight up take textures from hydrocraft but that is not stolen

Also orgm isnt even in build 41

I said orgm not hydrocraft

[worldly olive]

And how do you know it is steal and not a collaboration maybe? Snake has made assets for multiple maps so maybe he asked for one? also most of the maps out there uses copy & paste with buildings already created by others and no one says anything 😂

[craggy furnace]

the fuck are you on about

lmao

[nimble spoke]

they look similar, but that's all. I bet Snake's version isn't an item on the ground

[willow estuary]

Deleted all that nonsense.

If people must stir up horseshit on this server, keep it out of the workshop channels.

https://tenor.com/view/kill-bill-pai-mei-beard-no-nope-gif-4537088

[stable linden]

Something tells me you are hogging all of the free CS:GO skins for yourself... These people are coming in with generous offers that mysteriously disappear

[stable linden]

Oh it was drama not free CS:GO skins 😦

[drifting ore]

would anyone here know how to ehhh

make the spawn right for certain mod items higher

[fallow bridge]

Not off the top of my head exactly

But it involves fucking with the distributions file

[drifting ore]

well i did find the distributions lua file but idk which number to change

[fallow bridge]

Ehhh I'd have to check my bat mod

[late hound]

Another Slasher joins PZ : Freddy Krueger!

[pseudo lake]

cool af

[devout flint]

🥵

[thin hornet]

Anyone know why i get a no sprite when i spawn a world object on a square?
The object in the world is seen with the correct sprite but it doesnt stay on reload obviously its not set on the object in debug, Im assigning a custom sprite from my texturepack.

okay so im missing something called tiledef

[nimble spoke]

there will be a long sequence of table.insert lines. Find the one with the item entry, the next line will have a number by the ned, that's what you want to change

[topaz rain]

IDEA for mod:

[craggy furnace]

its already been done

filibuster has a ford tractor

[balmy prism]

really? I've never seen it. That's really cool. Do you have a pic?

[sour island]

noice

[thin hornet]

i saw that tractor at a farm i was amaze to see that

[craggy furnace]

i use it for shooting

[thin hornet]

Drive by in a tractor the best xD

[undone crag]

Zombie harvesting combine harvester when?

[split prairie]

ive been having this issue with modded tiles

just the textures of the tiles being severely offset

same problem with the crates from the fort redstone mod

[split prairie]

erm

why do i need to read a book to know how to bust open a door with a crowbar

[umbral wasp]

Hey, so ive been working on a silent hill mod for PZ and i need a bunch of help with mapping a some other misc things like that

[willow estuary]

Cheeki Breeki...
EDIT: I should have said this originally, but this is just me playing with models + blender, and not anything I will ever release as a mod or anything as it's an asset from Escape From Tarkov.

[iron moth]

Scav-kun

[exotic helm]

Tarkov

[split prairie]

get out of here stalker

[exotic helm]

Opachki

[drifting ore]

Сука придумайте пж что-то смешнее, да и вроде бы всякие америкосы против стереотипов и всякой такой хрени

Ну а в принципе круто

Cool

[opaque notch]

Хех,ну-ну

[iron salmon]

Keep in in english, and tone down a notch, it's hardly a stereotype, it's a reference to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

[opaque notch]

@drifting ore А вот и ответ тебе подъехал )

[slow granite]

Templar#8831 has been warned

Reason: Keeping it in russian when effectively told not to

[opaque notch]

Okay

We'll have to in English

[iron salmon]

❤️

[opaque notch]

@iron salmon And how long will the warning hang?

[iron salmon]

Warnings don't really have any consequence, so they just stay in the background as a log, so to say.

[undone crag]

Aw cool so I could start collecting warnings.

Hey kids, want some illegal weapon designs?

[plucky nova]

lol

[tame mulch]

Cool! Where I can get this?

[willow estuary]

Ah, I should have put a disclaimer; not gonna be sharing this as it's an asset from Escape From Tarkov.

[tame mulch]

Ушанка....

[unborn brook]

does anyone know how the zombie vision is set up? I want to make a mod that makes zombies completely blind but hear extremely well

ive tried to search for a mod like that but ive had no luck, and the custom zombie options arent enough in my opinion

[indigo hound]

If you make all the backpacks, body armor, helmets, etc. from Escape from Tarkov for the zomboid project, I will build a monument to you on my map in the PZ

[willow estuary]

I am definitely not doing that; I guess it's a kink/fetish for them, but too many people are too weird and intense about soldier mans stuff 🤪

[late hound]

Work in progress Chuck Greene

[flint seal]

yeah, from Dead Rising 2

[undone crag]

YEAHHHH

[errant meteor]

Is it possible for zombies to hold objects, to beat the shit out of you

[sharp igloo]

that gave me Vietnam flash backs to Last stand and all my cool looking survivors getting there shit rocked

[errant meteor]

Hmmm yes I find another based person who has played the last stand games

But did you play dead zone?

[sharp igloo]

hang on let me take a peek at it

i have not

[errant meteor]

That’s a shame it was great, but got shit down, due to flash

Shut

At least they are making a new game for steam, so it’s not all bad news

[late hound]

There is, but not to be used by them.

[errant meteor]

That's a shame, but its one of those things that's not out of the question, that the devs would add in.

Dose anyone how many items in game have 3d models, specifically the food?

[unborn brook]

I just thought of something

What if someone makes the STALKER maps in PZ

The Zone

[errant meteor]

someone is already making them

[unborn brook]

Who

[errant meteor]

Do not remember the name, be the person posts here and there in the mapping channel

[drifting ore]

I'm talking about clothes

[drifting narwhal]

is there an easy guide i can follow to learn the basics of pz modding

[sour island]

@drifting narwhal check the pins

There's a good chunk of info

[drifting narwhal]

thanks

[sour island]

Np

[topaz rain]

will we ever see a harvester? 😋

[topaz rain]

It looks amazing. Make two looks, one with rust and the other not.

[sour island]

It's filibuster's tractor he is showing

[undone crag]

Here's an idea there could be something like a water mill by the river but the mechanism it drives is one that pwns zombies and makes a lot of noise to get the zombies to pwn and the zombie corpses get washed away also?

[craggy furnace]

if he could read that he would be very disappointed

[undone crag]

Yeah there could be a windmill except instead of milling it lifts something heavy and drops it and there are going to be zombies that get it dropped on and it's a slope too so they fall down the slope so it doesn't get clogged with zombies. Apocalypse solved.

Or you could build a raft with a farm and live on that where the zombie can't get you.

[split prairie]

hmmm

does having too many recipes in the thing cause freezing?

because it is for me

i have like 1600 recipes and when i try to craft something it freeze for a moment

before completing it

[willow estuary]

Absolutely!

[split prairie]

PISS

well hm

i like the MRE mod

but it creates an assload of recipes

ok so its not the mre mod

that only adds a few hundred

well maybe britas gun mod?

well that adds like 700 recipes for fuck all reason

still lag tho

how do i hide uncraftable recipes

[fringe patio]

Are there videos on how to mod PZ

Cause ik how to model alright but I've never modeled for this

[ruby urchin]

https://dislaik.github.io/project_zomboid_modding/scripting_manual/clothing_mod/

[craggy furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/emoji-emojis-emoticon-mood-glasses-gif-16106664

[near drift]

Hello guys, a few months back i used to play with a mod that let me attach weapons to the backpacks. I started playing yesterday and download one called BackpackAttachments but i can only use it for bottles and such? Can someone tell me the right mod or what should i do?

[faint glacier]

hello peeps

how do I best go about adding warhammer 40k stuff into the game

its an offtopic mod, I want to focus on the 40k stuff

[willow estuary]

There's a bunch of resources in the pinned messages.
But I'll warn you now, as with most things, there is a learning curve with PZ modding, and it'll likely involve an substantial investment of time and effort.
My only suggestion in regards to that is to start with a very simple mod, and build you skills upwards from that, assuming that you aren't already accomplished with the skills involved.
A fair amount of people pop into this channel wanting to fly a jet plane before they've learned how to ride a tricycle, so to speak.

[faint glacier]

yeh

can you use blender for it?

[willow estuary]

Yeah, most people that make PZ models do.
My only suggestion in that regard is to use the .fbx file format for your PZ models and not the .x format (yes, fbx does work without issue for weapons and clothing even if the vanilla PZ assets are .x) as there seems to be less headaches using .fbx

[faint glacier]

aight

[winter bolt]

yeah i was surprised that fbx files even worked since i thought they werent supported yet

[willow estuary]

I think they switched to fbx for cars either a year ago, or maybe for b41 out of the gate?
Either way I believe that nasko said something about eventually switching to .fbx, but also I'm giant dummy so I might have just daydreamt that? 🤪

[grizzled grove]

nasko did say that the plan is to move everything to fbx

[willow estuary]

whew!
||I guess this broken clock can be right twice a day...||

[craggy furnace]

yep, that is the plan

.x is deprecated and limited

[indigo hound]

@iron salmon Why don't the developers add art and images to the Steam PZ modding tool?

[abstract raptor]

agree

[fallow bridge]

that's not a mod, that's a vanilla feature.

[near drift]

I mean, i could attach two 2 handed weapons in my backpack. How do you do that now? Thanks for answering

[fallow bridge]

Your in build 41 right?

[near drift]

Yes sir

[fallow bridge]

I'd assume so considering you see backpacks

Ok right click your gun

[near drift]

Mhm

[fallow bridge]

Or 2 handed weapon

[near drift]

Yes yes

[fallow bridge]

And click "attach to back"

Now it's in your hotbar

Boom profit

[near drift]

Yes, but how can i add another one?

[fallow bridge]

You cant

Only one

[near drift]

There is no mod for that?

[fallow bridge]

Never has been

[near drift]

I couldn't find it anymore

I must be going crazy

Thanks for answering, must be my mistake

[fallow bridge]

All good

[near drift]

I'm new to the game, got hooked with the build 41

[verbal harbor]

hey all, is this the best place to ask for help with making a mod?

[hollow shadow]

Are you sure about that

[hollow shadow]

Scrap armor beta has an item that lets you attach an extra sword. so you can have rifle and sword. or 2 swords. or a long blunt and a sword

[near drift]

Thanks! Also, non-related question; Your pfp is from Crossout, yes?

[hollow shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/maybe-possibly-perhaps-gif-14588906

[near drift]

🤔

[hollow shadow]

yes

[near drift]

Game good, microtransactions bad

[hollow shadow]

My account got hacked becouse i got the game before there was phone security xd

[near drift]

Sad, but you didn't miss much. Thanks for the help again!

[rapid granite]

I have a question ! Where do I need to register Sound Radius for weapons (where can I get an example?)

[fallow crescent]

because they're not promoted on the store and therefore don't rreally need eyecandy material on their page

going through my library barely any dev puts art on there modding tool page

[fallow crescent]

from the thumbnail I thought it was a skull mask. katana gang rise up

[blissful zealot]

Want to make a mod. For lua scripts, is there a naming convention that should be followed as to make sure that zomboid will run the script or will all .lua files inside media/lua be ran?

[blissful zealot]

Also, I'm having trouble finding a few things:

How can I add an item to the right click context menu based on conditions (specifically, only if the player right clicked on a map tile while equipped with an item that can hold water)?

How can I get the tile under the mouse?

Is there a way to get certain details from a tile (ex: has it got snow on it)

local hasWaterContainerEquipped=false;


local function HandleRightClick(x,y)
    if(hasWaterContainerEquipped) then
        --ToDo: Figure out how the hell to get the tile underneath the mouse position
    end
end

local function HandleEquippedPrimary(char,item)
    hasWaterContainerEquipped=item.CanStoreWater
end

Events.OnRightMouseDown.Add(
    HandleRightClick
)

Events.OnEquipPrimary.Add(
    HandleEquippedPrimary
)

Currently this far in. Not sure if CanStoreWater is correct, going off some seemingly abandoned documentation (https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/inventory/InventoryItem.html)

still not sure how to:
Get tile underneath mouse

Get info about tile (is it covered in snow etc)

Draw button in right click context menu only if player right clicked a map tile

Add water to a water container

[iron salmon]

Pretty much what Temi said

[willow estuary]

If you want to do more stuff like that, my suggestion is to get accustomed to peeping the code in both the PZ and mods, and figuring out how to pull off that sort of stuff from that.
You'd probably also benefit from using a java decompiler to look up the java functions that the lua code uses.

AFAIK Fenris' modding guide here: https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide is the best modding guide, but it's not comprehensive.
But IMO you have to commit to a fair amount of investigation and experimentation to do stuff more ambitious than just using the item/recipe scripts and the like?
There's a fair amount of learning curve, but it gets easier over time.

[indigo hound]

[blissful zealot]

I've used that documentation and everything else related, it hasn't helped really much at all

[willow estuary]

Yeah, it really comes down to suffering through deep dives into the lua and extensive trial and error in my experience?

https://tenor.com/view/paimai-training-kill-bill-punch-gif-17107589

Fenris is probably the smartest fellow in the PZ modding scene, and even he can't make understanding it any easier 😄

[blissful zealot]

well I can't be bothered to sift through hundreds of lua files anymore.

[sour island]

You could use an IDE to make that searching that much faster

You can also search through the java code using one too

Like a "search all files" search not just 1 at a time

[willow estuary]

Also Notepad++ has a very powerful file search function

[iron salmon]

Yeah, gives you results in all opened docs. Cannot live without it

[lunar olive]

this might not be the right place to ask this but i'd like to start making a map/modded town for my server, but i cant seem to find out how to make it, could someone please help me out?

[blissful zealot]

To print to the console I just use print, correct? There's no specific zomboid API function to print to the console?

[sour island]

Yes- but I would recommend using keywords in the message

You can filter your console.txt later for specific issues

Don't be like super survivors and dump "1" every few seconds -_-

[blissful zealot]

ill take that advice but I doubt I'll ever use it lmao

my print statements usually devolve into just print("!!!!") with the amount of exclamation marks increasing with my annoyance

[sour island]

You can also use /n to linebreak

[soft plume]

I am getting this error related to some hydrocraft recipes. I can see that the assets themselves exist but there must still be something wrong.

ERROR: can't find recipe source "Animations" in recipe "Picklock"
ERROR: can't find recipe result "Animations" in recipe "Picklock"
ERROR: can't find recipe source "Animations" in recipe "CrowbarAction"
ERROR: can't find recipe result "Animations" in recipe "CrowbarAction"
ERROR: can't find recipe source "Animations" in recipe "CrowbarGarageAction"
ERROR: can't find recipe result "Animations" in recipe "CrowbarGarageAction"
ERROR: can't find recipe source "32Box" in recipe "Open Box of .32 Ammo"
ERROR: can't find recipe result "32Bullets" in recipe "Open Box of .32 Ammo"
ERROR: can't find recipe source "32Bullets" in recipe "Place .32 Ammo in Box"
ERROR: can't find recipe result "32Box" in recipe "Place .32 Ammo in Box"
WARNING: module "Base" may have forgot to import module Base
ERROR: can't find recipe source "HCWorkgloves" in recipe "Heat Beaker of Water"
ERROR: can't find recipe source "HCOvenmitts" in recipe "Heat Beaker of Water"
ERROR: can't find recipe source "HCWorkgloves" in recipe "Put Trona Powder In Hot Water"
ERROR: can't find recipe source "HCOvenmitts" in recipe "Put Trona Powder In Hot Water"

Can I safely ignore these error or is there something wrong here? Do I need to unsubscribe and subscribe again to resolve it?

Looks like some of these belong to G.E.A.R. or a similar mod too.

[sour island]

These errors won't break your game or save

Just forward them to the respective mod authors if you feel like it.

Also the picklock/crowbar looks like lockpicking mod

You may be missing a required submod of some sort

Or hydrocraft could be goobing up recipes if you've tested with out hydrocraft and it works

[soft plume]

I have gone through the mods and installed required mods when they are listed under that mod.
Gotcha, so there could be something else overriding the entry causing an incompatibility then?

[sour island]

I don't think it would be overriding persay

[soft plume]

It would be nice if the logging gave the source mod that created that reference.

[sour island]

Fortunately HC is obvious, the others seem gun related- so maybe Britas?

Are you still able to complete these recipes?

[soft plume]

I do have Britas, yes. I haven't checked yet. You have a good point, they could be duplicates that one of the compatibility patches is providing an alternate reference for

[sour island]

The game reads through the scripts for recipes- I would assume the whole recipe gets tossed out but I could also see it doing it's best and using whatever is written correctly.

[soft plume]

Fixed it. I had enabled two mods accidentally that I tried in another session. They caused a conflict with Hyrdrocraft or some other mod that then caused these errors to occur. I did some google searching and some searching on this discord. Recipe errors related to mods are typically bad. Recipe errors that reference vanilla assets are typically log spam and can be ignored.

[craggy furnace]

HC is a fuck

great mod but never do recipes like HC does them

[soft plume]

I haven't got into modding this game yet. I will have to look into it. What is a mod you would recommend does a good job handling these recipe entries?

[sour island]

It's hit or miss- there's alot of newer* techniques that people never employ(ed) or didn't have at the time.

[craggy furnace]

soul filcher and madmanandre

go dissect their mods

[sour island]

Most recipes should use tags when able to.

If they don't and they have alot of similar recipes then they're probably unaware of tags or aren't sure how to use them.

The unfortunate thing is there isn't a standard for tags that is widely used.

Vanilla seemingly only has like a handful.

[soft plume]

Thanks, good to know.

[sour island]

Np, even if you don't plan to mod it's useful to understand a little bit to deal with compatability issues.

[blissful zealot]

Is there a way to easily reload mods without having to restart project zomboid?

[sour island]

You have to go to atleast the main menu- if you toggle a mod on and off it will reload once back at the menu.

You should see a bar at the top right that says "loading Lua"

[viscid cedar]

Is it possible to turn on in the game or is there a mod that makes zombies not notice you when infected

[craggy furnace]

no

@hollow shadow @sour island

[hollow shadow]

im aware

[craggy furnace]

oh!

[hollow shadow]

tbh i didnt look at the spawnlocation before i updated mod. i made it spawn extremely rare xd

[sour island]

Oh indeed

[hollow shadow]

it was suppost to be an easter egg aswell lol

since u cant craft it

[craggy furnace]

oh!

[blissful zealot]

Trying to detect whether the player has an item that can contain water in their primary hand (water bottles, etc). I can't seem to find a way to figure out how to reliably detect it.

print(thePlayer:getPrimaryHandItem():getType())

is there anything I'm missing?

[craggy furnace]

define "thePlayer"

[blissful zealot]

IsoGameCharacter

[undone crag]

Is anything printed in the console?

[worldly olive]

Hey @craggy furnace @sour island the time passed in the game or the config of months after the apocalypse does affect in the kind of events that can occur? For example, the event that has the audio that the zone is under quarintine and bla bla bla, it can appear in a config that started 12 months after the apocalypse? I ask because there are events that I've never seen in my games.
The ones that I see are jet and the helicopter that crashes. I think once or two I saw the military one and the police one

[undone crag]

If it says non table null then thePlayer is not defined as a table there and you can print toString(thePlayer) to see what that is. If it says it tried to call nil then something does not have one of those two things.

[sour island]

It counts "months after" into the formula for days into the apocalypse.

So events you'd normally see early on are passed due.

If you want to bend the schedule a bit you can edit the "cutoffday" in settings, or turn on "never end".

I cooked up a way for event settings to appear in options but it was alot of information so I disabled it- I will readd specific info like cut-off parameters. That should make things much more clear.

[worldly olive]

Makes sense, yeah I have the never end enabled but as I play in 12 months there were events that I never saw in my games. Is there or is there going to be a possibility to have all kind of events for those kind of configurations?
because playing with 0 months makes the world so clean and I don't like it 😂

[sour island]

You can adjust cuttoffday

[worldly olive]

But the cutoffday acts even if the never end option is enabled?

[sour island]

Yes

Cutoffday is used to determine when events happen

Neverend just tells them to not stop

So a game with neverend on will have the end stage events keep happening

Some events progress/evolve as they pass a certain % of the cutoffday

You can see this in the presets file of the mod.

[worldly olive]

So if I put something like 2 years (starting already at 12 months) and never ends it means that I will have all kind of events at start and then as the year passes they will start to be more and more like the final stage of each event and finally the cutoffday will occur and I will only have the latest stage of the events?

[sour island]

Yes

Exactly

[worldly olive]

That explain everything, I had the never ending but only 30 days, so I only had the final stage of the events

[sour island]

I would recommend adding how many months you have for after-the-apoc at least.

[worldly olive]

Yes yes, I play with a year, so If I want them for one year I simply put 730 days and then the never ending

[sour island]

Yep

[worldly olive]

Awesome, thank you a lot for the explanation, I've reading the comments with each updated but I missed that part of the configuration!

[sour island]

https://github.com/sharkster91/ExpandedHelicopterEvents/blob/main/Contents/mods/Expanded Helicopter Events/media/lua/client/ExpandedHelicopter02a_Presets.lua

All the events are here.

If you ever wanted to add your own, each preset can override some of variables of eHelicopters

[worldly olive]

ooooh interesting! Anyway I like to play the mods as the modders made them, they know about the balance 😉

[sour island]

Fair enough, we're open to suggestions- currently working on a silly submod for EHE to work as an example for anyone else interested.

[worldly olive]

will let you know if something comes to my mind 😄

[craggy furnace]

you can make a PR too

we will submit it into stable too

[worldly olive]

One last question, if I already played a game for, I don't know, 10 days. And the game is a 12 months game, If I change in the menu the cutoff to 550 the game already created will be something like: 550 - 365 (the 12 months) - 10 (the 10 days that I already played) or I have to start a new game to play with new configurations?

[sour island]

You should be fine

If you want events to reset there is also a "reset" checkbox

That should reset anything that might break

[fallow dune]

Wow

[fallow dune]

And with the trailer is too?

How did I see it until the stars in my eyes were revealed

[craggy furnace]

everyone seems to dodge that this is filibusters and says as much above it

@ember orchid hey i am going to just start stealing your credit now if thats ok with you

[fallow dune]

[ember orchid]

Haha. Whatever you gotta do to get by in this harsh world, man.

[craggy furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/cowboy-hat-tip-cowboys-rodeo-gif-13746486

[willow estuary]

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

[craggy furnace]

not using VSC

https://tenor.com/view/bye-felicia-boy-bye-boy-gif-13066687

[strange kiln]

yar

[soft plume]

I use VSC for mostly everything but I still use notepad++ quite a bit for logs and other stuff like that

[craggy furnace]

VSC is a nice lite IDE and highly modular

[craggy furnace]

@reef hatch

icon will get love later

[reef hatch]

Love it

absolutely love it

[willow estuary]

Distribution and Roomdef information; relevant to the distribution changes with the 41.51 update.

[craggy furnace]

okay cool

so thats sorted

[grizzled grove]

might want to put some text on that so that someone scrolling through the pins knows what that is

[deft peak]

With britas gun mod (not sure if this is exactly from it) but with the bullet bandolier we should have to option to fuse the shells and the bullet ones together in order to make like a 4 way bandolier that works for both normal guns and shotguns

[late hound]

He killed you in Tarkov, now he's here to kill you in Zomboid. Killa to join the AuthenticZ mod in the coming days!

[unreal carbon]

It is the brassiere 2 that did this to me and some zs :c

Other than that the clothes box mod by mauser is great

[grizzled grove]

where that squat at

[rapid granite]

The textures were not loaded correctly.

[flint seal]

@unreal carbon yeah, maybe it might take some time to load that outfit

[hexed anchor]

croatian clothes pog

[drifting ore]

i mean in tarkov he was always braindead anyways

[drifting ore]

At first I thought this was a Japanese lady in a kimono that had killed a zombie

[zealous prairie]

Is there a way to make project zomboid respawn mod put you back to full health

[blissful zealot]

Still need help with this.

I can't find a way of finding out if the item in the primary hand is an item that can contain water. :getType() doesn't give me anything that is constant between all water containers and neither do other functions like :getCategories() (which gives me an error)

[blissful zealot]

yes, but the problem is that I can't find any constant for if the item is an item that can contain water

:canStoreWater() gives me an error and I'm not sure why

afaik, getPrimaryHandItem should return an InventoryItem, which should have this method

[sour island]

How are you calling the player?

[blissful zealot]

Events.OnCreatePlayer.Add(function(playerIndex,player)
    thePlayer=player;
end)

hmm I tried doing :canStoreWater() again and it works fine

maybe I wrote it wrong last time

[sour island]

Happens

[blissful zealot]

project zomboid DOES NOT like me constantly reloading my save lmao

[fallow bridge]

never has

[blissful zealot]

after like 5 reloads it becomes unplayable (constant 2-3 second long stutters)

I'm finally getting somewhere now though

remembered I can parse userdata by using getmetatable which helped me get all methods associated with tiles

[blissful zealot]

Does anyone know if there's an identifier for snow covered tiles? So far I've come up with nothing

local function HandleRightClick(x,y)
    if(thePlayer:getPrimaryHandItem():canStoreWater()) then
        local worldX = screenToIsoX(playerIndex, x, y, thePlayer:getZ())
        local worldY = screenToIsoY(playerIndex, y, y, thePlayer:getZ())
        local worldZ= thePlayer:getZ()
        local cell=getCell():getGridSquare(worldX,worldY,worldZ)
        if(cell:isOutside()) then
            local floorTexture=cell:getFloor():getTextureName()
            local floorSprite=cell:getFloor():getSpriteName()
            local floorOverlay=cell:getFloor():getOverlaySprite()
            print(floorTexture) --Just gives generic texture name 
            print(floorSprite) -- blank
            print(floorOverlay) -- nil
            
        end
    end
end

this is what I got currently

https://pastebin.com/4dZEK2wZ here's a list of all the methods I was able to get from cell:getFloor()

[sour island]

Look into isoGridSquare

You can get a players' square directly via getSquare()

There may be something like isSnow() there

Oh you have that already

[blissful zealot]

I'm already getting the grid square via getGridSquare.

ye

[sour island]

Uh if you are able to advanced search for "snow"

[blissful zealot]

I'm on cell:getFloor():getType() now

I've done that, it hasn't really helped

[sour island]

There's a section for footsteps

That checks for floor type

Snow is refered to but not used

[blissful zealot]

can't really find anything for footsteps. Just mostly translation stuff with no reference to snow

[sour island]

It is in the java

[blissful zealot]

I can only find private fields, which isn't very useful since as far as I know those aren't exposed to lua

hmm seems like snow might be part of the erosion system

[sour island]

I can't look right now, but I'm fairly certain it grabs the sprite name

But it assumes snow is in the name iirc

[sour island]

Sick

[craggy furnace]

its all in the details 🤏

[blissful zealot]

I think I found it

yep seems like this is it

[craggy furnace]

nice

[blissful zealot]

getCell():gridSquareIsSnow(worldX,worldY,worldZ)

[unreal carbon]

Hold on. In regards to my texture issue, you are saying it just has not loaded completely? So will the game eventually load the texture or do i need to wait for the author to fix the texture or fix it myself?

[late hound]

You can either wait for the author to fix or fix it yourself. The checkerboard issue is mostly caused by a missing texture/ wrong reference with the directory.

[craggy furnace]

check pathing

the texture directory is either fucked or the texture doesnt exist

[unreal carbon]

That's what i thought. Well i don't mind waiting. That mod gives too much good gear to the zombies anyways. Swear 1 out of 10 have a military backpack.

[craggy furnace]

what mod is it?

[unreal carbon]

Clothing box. There are 2 clothes with this issue as far as i can tell

[craggy furnace]

that mod is a shitshow

cool stuff overall but he doesnt understand lua and said as much

many times i tried to test that mod and my PZ shit out from it

[unreal carbon]

It's promising. Is the author's 1st pz mod if i recall correctly so i expected something wrong with it

Hopefully the author works on it some more and fixes the issue or gets some help with the mod

[worldly olive]

Hi!
Does somebody knows what means all the parameters in this function? UIManager.DrawTexture
It has 6 parameters, the first one the texture to render and the 4th and 5th parameters are the screen wide and height but what about the other 3? 😮

[blissful zealot]

Any guides online for lua UI in zomboid? I'm trying to add a button to the right click context menu and I'm unsure how

[undone crag]

You could try finding out by remembering a certain phrase that appears in it, and find it in the language data in shared translate, and search the Lua for where it uses that.

[sour island]

All UI is derive()'d from a base object

It's all Lua

All the way down

You'd have to find which type would best suite you as a base and work off that

Creating a new instance and assigning values and behaviors etc

[abstract raptor]

hewwo

[willow estuary]

Look up a mod that interact with world tiles and provides new context menu interactions for them, and use that as a guide for how to implement that.

[craggy furnace]

it turns out if you do unholy things to cars in terms of engine force and max speed

even the slightest impact will completely brick a car

[reef hatch]

i loved it

[craggy furnace]

https://youtu.be/C_I_Ke1f8tc

moved it back

i figured out how to fully break cars

[errant meteor]

drifting mod when?

[fallow bridge]

you can already drift silly

[worldly olive]

Does somebody knows if UIManager.DrawTexture can manage gifs too? or only png?

[willow estuary]

A guide for making PZ clothing models
https://dislaik.github.io/project_zomboid_modding/scripting_manual/clothing_mod/

[late hound]

AuthenticZ's Dead Rising Update is now live!
Features include:
New Zombie Outfits
-Frank West with a chance to spawn with the Servbot Mask (Lego head)
-Chuck Greene
-Brad Garrison
-Jessie McCarney
-True Eye Cult

Extras
-Clementine from Tell Tale's The Walking Dead (Season 4 Variant)
-Killa from Escape from Tarkov

Hitlist has been updated

[latent orchid]

driving this in game will make your longer...its true

[tulip valve]

Longer penis-ham yes

[proud fern]

TWD S4 alternative end
Clementine's amputation didn't in fact workd

[iron salmon]

Edit the image post with text alongside it, ideally

[willow estuary]

I'm gonna pin a re-upload with the caption ....

Nevermind 😄

[iron salmon]

ah that works too

removed

[willow estuary]

Courtesy of Commander, explanation on how to use PZ distribution (loot) system on maps and mods.

[sour island]

This looks alot better for nuanced loot

[dusty vortex]

i read it and im sitll confused

my peanut brain man

[sour island]

Looks to me, going off the fact there's furniture being checked, that loot will be less dependent on mappers to define specific loot zones/areas/types and more so generated on what is in the room?

[latent orchid]

yes and no

[sour island]

To clarify, not strictly done only this way- but primarily?

[latent orchid]

its mostly a more flexible approach for theming roomdefs unlike the present distros

if done right, you could have one roomdef for a lockeroom, but then simply have diff lockers (ie police, fire, feds, factory workers) and the roomdef would know which loot set to spawn without needing a whole set of identical distro entries

(disclaimer....i actually think about distros in my sleep 😔 )

baph would be proud of me

[willow estuary]

Interestingly enough, this procedural stuff was implemented at least as far back as b40 if not earlier, it just so happens that Baph took the system and used it to really level up how PZ loot spawns.

[latent orchid]

my hobbies mod uses it almost exclusively

[sour island]

iirc grocery stores had it right?

that's why some shelves had logical loot

[latent orchid]

iirc the gigamrt entries were the first to move towards ProcDist usage maybe mid 2020 when I was working on my WPE map i think

it was the thing that peaked my interest at the time...why some shelves spawned diff sets of things

[sour island]

I recall something in a blog post about better loot allocation

those gigamart shelves have haunted the devs for a while - first it was the fact they were bare and empty

[willow estuary]

Pffffft, try playing Tarkov if you want to have thoughts of loot spawns intruding into your dreams 😛

"Where can I find 6 more fucking spark plugs?!?!?!"

[sour island]

Kinda hope PZ gets that nuanced

doesn't have to be car mechanic simulator but there's a few common things that break down on a car

[abstract raptor]

  local function changeFogColor(color)
    local climateColor = getClimateManager():getClimateColor(1)
    climateColor:setEnableAdmin(true)
    ---@type Color
    local exteriorColor = climateColor:getAdminValue():getExterior()
    exteriorColor:set(color)
end

Events.OnGameStart.Add(
  function()
  getClimateManager();
  setWindIntensity(0.67);
  function()
  getClimateManager();
  setFogIntensity(0.82);
  function()
  getClimateManager();
  setCloudIntensity(0.92);
  function()
  changeFogColor(Color.new(.75, .35, .4))
  )
  

am I dumb

Why can't I get the thing to do the thing

[sour island]

Are you getting any errors?

Are you sure it's expecting a color and not a colorInfo? @abstract raptor

Also, in case you wanted to adjust your colors you could put them into a table for reference instead of creating new ones every time. (Not that creating them once at game start is bad in this case).

[abstract raptor]

Yeah it was throwing errors

And it didn't set anything either lol

@sour island yeah I'm basically tryna emulate a dust storm. What id really like to do is like... make it happen as a random chance each day or something.

But it would need to come with like intense wind, intense brown fog and intense cloud cover for the full effect. Also if I could get it to play a custom sound when it happens thats what im aiming for hahah but I dunno. I'm just looking at toxic fog and infinite fog and deadly fog trying to piece it together but I'm also kinda clueless lol 😆

[sour island]

It looks like climate uses colorinfos

Most of the climate system is exposed if I recall- I was neckdeep in it to get helicopters to get impacted by weather

[echo leaf]

@hollow shadow Hey bud, how're those icons coming along?

[hollow shadow]

ask @maiden elk He is the guy that is suppost to upload them

[echo leaf]

right!

@maiden elk how're those coming along? 🙂

[sharp cairn]

Hey hi guys , somebody know how make 3d models like backpacks or new clothes ? , i try to make a backpack but i have some bugs with my 3d model .x

[late hound]

What bugs are you having?

[sharp cairn]

the 3d model (.x) is drawn badly, there are transparent faces

I don't know if blender exports the .x file wrong for me

[late hound]

Export it in .fbx and the transparent faces may be because the normals are flipped.

So check the face orientation

[sharp cairn]

but the game need ".x" file right ?

[late hound]

no, fbx works as well

[sharp cairn]

o thanks , i will try to do it

nope :c

[late hound]

What is it supposed to be?

[sharp cairn]

i was testing

this

[craggy furnace]

dont waste your time

just make something

[sharp cairn]

First I test the coordinates to get an approximation to model real 3d things ...

[late hound]

Do you know how to check face orientation?

[sharp cairn]

obviously I made a quick 3d model for in-game testing

yep

[sharp cairn]

or what you mean

i checked some mods and they used a grid

but idk

[late hound]

I recommend reading my guide on 3d models. It's in the pinned tabs on this channel.

[sharp cairn]

ok ty

[craggy furnace]

@willow estuary how many perms mod admins have?

[willow estuary]

It's not my place to discuss those matters.

[craggy furnace]

yes it is

saying things like "yes, i can actually apply flair privileges for posting"

[willow estuary]

I don;t even understand what you're saying here 😄

Talk to nasko re this stuff?

It's a zero clout lowest-rung administrative thing, and not an honorific or "flair" or anything. And not anything desirable to say the least.

[sharp cairn]

....

its fixed , but i dont move nothing xD

[late hound]

nice you brought the Blender cube to zomboid

xD

[sharp cairn]

i just disable some blender add ons

[craggy furnace]

oh okay

[sharp cairn]

its just a test model

[craggy furnace]

i just wanted to know how much actual control you had

[sharp cairn]

but , nice tutorial bro

[craggy furnace]

i knew it was basically a janitorial position

[sharp cairn]

ok ... i hate this game now

bah

[late hound]

what did you do?

[sharp cairn]

i just move around the house

bah

[craggy furnace]

brother

work on a model

[proud fern]

Yeah, make like an oversized sweater

Or something

Cube will break

But it do be a cube

[severe ridge]

roblox

[grizzled grove]

skin weights fun time 😄

[sour island]

AddEvent("OnBeingHitByZombie") how long has this been here 😮

oh right its not used

[hollow shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/extreme-bucket-demo-phil-swift-flex-seal-gif-10871835

what have you done with belnder cube ;-;

[blissful zealot]

Any examples?

[abstract raptor]

@sour island I figured it out

[sharp cairn]

just testing , but i still with the bug

but it's bored work with the bug

[blissful zealot]

Is there a way to remove snow from a tile?

I found setSnowTarget but that seems to change it globally (doing setSnowTarget(-1) will make all snow in the world melt)

there's a class called snowGrid but it's private and I guess there's no way to access it from lua

[fringe patio]

Sandstorm?

[ruby urchin]

Try with this (i recommend follow the step per step)
https://dislaik.github.io/project_zomboid_modding/scripting_manual/clothing_mod/

[craggy furnace]

speaking of clothing

i think i am going to start filling out the gaps for clothing

[grizzled grove]

someone should fix that skeleton in blender so the joints don't look so nasty. it's weird that their fbx importer doesn't set the end position to match the next joint, and just sticks them up and out like that.

[willow estuary]

@grizzled grove FYI that guide's been "double tapped" in this channel so to speak 😉

[grizzled grove]

oi thanks. i was looking for that one a while back and missed it apparently

[ruby urchin]

I have one, but honestly, you save a step by having the inverse vectors

[willow estuary]

Yeah, I'm sure that'll happen a few times going forward and all?

[grizzled grove]

interesting. i don't know blender, so i'm having trouble imagining why

[ruby urchin]

I was doing a little research, and apparently it is a decision of the developer, why? idk

[craggy furnace]

maybe it has something to do with animations

not sure i am correct on that one but i have a weird inkling

[grizzled grove]

you are. Typically you'd have the bone ends sitting at the start of the next one. I think i remember now that blender could use that info to create volumes around joints for different purposes, most commonly (or only?) to set skin weights.

[craggy furnace]

good to know

[thin hornet]

First big update for my first mod Coco Liquid Overhaul
Thanks to @dusty vortex for the 3D model 😄
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2539452952

[grizzled grove]

though i guess you could do squash and stretch or similar effects, but why put that on every joint when you could just make those vectors yourself when you need them? blender is weird

[craggy furnace]

blender is the blue collar version of maya

[ruby urchin]

looks good, I hope this be introduced into the base game

[tulip valve]

Same

Can the RunSpeedModifier found on clothing be used with lua code? I want to make the character move faster after eating something, I already have the code for all this but not sure if RunSpeedModifier can be used

Is there somewhere I can see the whole list of different modifiers? Like the modifier code that makes axeman trait swing axes faster etc

[tulip valve]

@thin hornet I feel like those big water containers shouldnt be called big water bottle but something like big water canister maybe? When I read big water bottle I imagine a slightly bigger water bottle, the one you have contains 250 units lol altough changed to 100 for balance

[sour island]

They're called jugs from where I'm from

[sour island]

Are you using tags for items holding water or did you add recipes for each variant?

[pure kraken]

I tried to convert the .x model to .fbx but the website in the tutorial doesn't work for me, any idea what I can do?

[ruby urchin]

Try with another converter, I'm trying to get acquainted with assimp for a easy-usage (create an executable file so as not to depend on third parties)

[latent orchid]

wait, we talking about water containers?

[pure kraken]

any other you would recommend?

[ruby urchin]

No really, but alternatively you can get a .obj format, because you just need the model (probably will come without vertex weight, you need add manually)

[winter bolt]

you could try a .dae if you need the weights and the rig

those usually work for me

[hollow dew]

hi, i have problems to provide a translation for items in my mod using Build 40.

Only the item names are not translated and i cant figure out why. (Menue and crafting recipe works fine)
For translation i placed the ItemName_EN.txt file and the Items_EN.txt file in the lua/shared/Translate/EN folder

a line in ItemName_EN.txt is like:
ItemName_XNTree.XNSaplingApple = "Seedling Apple",
a line in Items_EN.txt is like:
DisplayName_XNSaplingApple = "Seedling Apple",

(i dont know which of the booth files is necessary so i provide booth)
(i tried to translate to DE because i thought that EN->EN translation might not work but DE also did not work)

i hope somone can give me a hint where to look to solve this

[severe ridge]

@main lion Do you want to make new muzzle flash textures? I removed mine :B so feel free, vanilla looks kinda sad rn but i didn't wanted to monopolize it lmao

[thin hornet]

Only items holding water that was added by the mod are the big bottle and the petrolcan with water. No i just set them as water container in the scripts.txt of my mod. They act the same as any other.

[sour island]

I recall there being item types for "filled with water" for vanilla items?

[thin hornet]

Yeah they are all using CanStoreWater

[sour island]

I was wondering

[thin hornet]

Only thing that i had to customize completely is rhe dispenser

[sour island]

I'm not a fan of how vanilla items are handled in a few regards- especially when it comes to liquids.

[thin hornet]

so its kind of hacked, instaid of using orignal water code

Instead of using modData.waterAmount i use a custom value

same for petrol

Because otherwise i couldnt change the IsoObject on depleted

[sour island]

wouldn't you be adjusting the delta?

[thin hornet]

for items sure

for IsoObject its moddlData stored info

[sour island]

Because the item can now hold two types of liquid?

That's the issue I have with items lol

They scale horribly

[thin hornet]

Explain me the issue

[sour island]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, you had to make your own stored water variable because you couldn't use OnDepleted?

[thin hornet]

No sorry, for InventoryItem its all normal codes

Only rhe Dispenser IsoObject the on on a tile is using custom code

[sour island]

Oh, so that's what holds the custom water (or gas) value

[thin hornet]

making water variante inventort item is pretty easy and works good

yeah

[sour island]

I'm not a fan of the variant style of handling it

[thin hornet]

once you put a bottle on the dispenser that inventory item is deleted and the equivalent amount of liquid is transfered to the tile object modData

[sour island]

I understand

[thin hornet]

its the onlyway i found to override the Diapenser usage

[sour island]

What you did is fine, I'm just not a fan of how PZ handles liquid transfer

For example could someone mix water and gas in one container?

[thin hornet]

when you use the dispenser (wash, drink, fill) it act exactly like the vanilla one but it will change to en empty bottle IsoObject when the water/fuel amount reach zero

[thin hornet]

Nah there is really just one liquid

its water

everything else is mostly just Drainable items

[sour island]

Yeah, that's what I don't like about PZ items

Nothing you did is wrong

[thin hornet]

if the item variante has CanStoreWater it will be pourable

so lets say the vanilla Gas Can cannot be poured

but by creating an object of Gas Can with water it makes it pourable

in the code somewhere they check for the drainable OnDeplete variante and if that one CanContainWater then its pourable on the ground

[sour island]

I understand how you're handling it now- I just misunderstood what you were giving a modData variable to.

[thin hornet]

oh yeah IsoObject

[sour island]

There's a few liquids in game that aren't really liquids- and I think water is the only one that has it's own "pouring" system?

[thin hornet]

Yeah

[sour island]

Like you can pour other stuff on the ground but I don't think you can transfer it like water

[thin hornet]

milk , aclohol

are "food" like

[sour island]

Yeah, I hate that lol

I was actually going to do a liquid overhaul, but probably more radical than what you've got.

[thin hornet]

cause water doesnt add anything like hapyness.

But im not done

i am planing of finding a way to improve other fake liquid

[sour island]

Oh nice

I might contribute with a few PRs

[thin hornet]

Amazing man, its a community project

[sour island]

I'd probably pull as much of the system into Lua as I could honestly

[thin hornet]

https://github.com/cocolabs/pz-liquid-overhaul

[sour island]

Nice

[thin hornet]

in my opinion the water need a weigth rebalancing. Water is probably one of the heaviest in real life

Holding 8 cooking pot with water is pretty unrealistic

but also pz inventory should also add size not just weight

[sour island]

That's not an issue with water- it's the inventory system being wonky

[thin hornet]

Yeah

ill also invite you to join the coco discord if you are not already i got a channel on there for Liquid Overhaul discution

[sour island]

I've got too many discord servers, personally unless the mod has its own community it's better to keep it here incase others want to join in.

[thin hornet]

Its okay

[worthy verge]

decoy granade

[blissful zealot]

still need help with this

[fallow bridge]

i just had a good idea for a mod i can eventually work on

craftable targets

you can shoot at them and SLOWLY level up your shooting skill

it would probably give less aiming XP as that could be easily taken advantage of

[blissful zealot]

im so annoyed because there is a function inside the snowGrid class in the java code but both the class and function are private

and afaik, it's impossible to access private stuff from lua

[tulip valve]

That would be amazing ^^

[thin hornet]

Renamed the Big Water Bottle to "Water Jug" in next update, also im adding translation for more languages.

If anyone can translate Spanish and some other language please contact me that would be appreciated. (Current languages are French, English and Polish)

[blissful zealot]

[sour island]

Ive been giving Nasko a holler when ever I run into stuff like that

[tulip valve]

Nice! More water to the People

[thin hornet]

Anyone know if script .txt file are an existing data format or is it custom made for pz

[sour island]

Short answer is it is custom to PZ

[thin hornet]

Anyone has a parser script or something that can read/convert that custom format?

[sour island]

It's parsed in the java, just grabs and applies the variables the best it can.

[thin hornet]

okay great ill take a look thanks

[sour island]

Np

[sour island]

Anyone know how gun attachments work model wise? Are the attachments separate like clothing or is it an entirely different model per combination?

Better yet- are each of the improvised spears different models with points- are are the points just attached models of their items?

[sour island]

@hollow shadow I feel like you'd know?

[winter bolt]

i'm pretty sure the gun attachments are seperated models

[thin hornet]

Made a javascript script to convert .txt into objects (used for the scripts editor im making)

[severe ridge]

make the broken glass usable in crafting 🚬

[willow estuary]

That's an easy thing to do come 41.51; you just need to make script entries for the special movables that 41.51 will make.

[severe ridge]

🧐

[willow estuary]

I'll show you how when .51 drops

Easier to show than explain

[severe ridge]

@hollow shadow i'm thinking about that glass shiv still lmao

[hollow shadow]

whats with it

[severe ridge]

making so we can craft it with broken glass too :x

[hollow shadow]

I tried to make attachments for melee weapons but couldnt get it to work

[hollow shadow]

I tried that like 3 times

implementing it*

[severe ridge]

oh, thats what we were talking about just now

soon

[undone crag]

You can add a clothing item for the player which is hidden from the inventories by having no displayname. You can make the character wear it in a new custom bodylocation. Then the item can give off light, or change the running or attack speed, for example, presumably.

[undone crag]

What did you try?

[tulip valve]

Interesting, thanks!

[sour island]

Right now mapobjects generate items when held in hand but they're all the same "type". Coming next patch it will be something like "movable.glass" rather than "movable.movable".

[sour island]

Damn. I wanted to try and make a super modular crafting system.

I figured you'd be interested in something like that- but not having the visuals work kind of defeats the purpose. 😦

My concept was ingredients would determine the weapon's stats and utilize item tags to get cool effects and make alot of mods work better together.

[undone crag]

I just tried it and it does work.

[severe ridge]

attach a knife to your kn0ife

so you can stab while you stab

kinda reminds the dead island thing of electric weapons and such

[hollow shadow]

that was my idea xD

[undone crag]

The notes said in the next PZ version weapons will be recoverable from spears better so maybe they're adding to the attachment system or maybe not?

[hollow shadow]

You can have melee attachments without using recipes?

[undone crag]

Yes

I'll record it

It's taking a long time to load :/

[sour island]

😮

that might just be a onbreak function tho

I was thinking of basically letting players go buck wild with an open ended system

ducttape a kettle to the end of the broom handle

etc

[undone crag]

What do you mean about an onbreak function?

[undone crag]

YEEE BOIIIII

[sour island]

spear with scissors breaks -> get back handle and scissors

[undone crag]

It's still not saved as mp4 :/

[sour island]

yes...

me likey

[undone crag]

I had also thought using the attachment system would be fun. You can hide the upgrade removal thing from the right-click menu by removing it after it appears. There will still be the tooltip calling it a scope etc though.

[sour island]

wait- are guns different item types than melee weapons?

[undone crag]

Maybe you could remove the attachment before the tooltip and add it again.

What do you mean by different?

[sour island]

can you attach models to melee weapons?

[undone crag]

Yes.

[sour island]

is that how spears are currently handled?

[undone crag]

I used the varmintrifle to replace the baseball bat one because it already had a canon attachment set in the model script. No spears have their own models.

[sour island]

ty for the info

[undone crag]

To use the attachments on melee weapons or ranged weapons alike you have something like this for the model

    attachment bayonnet
    {
        offset = 0.0000 0.3510 0.0160,
        rotate = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000,
    }

and this for the attachment item

    Type    =    WeaponPart,
    MountOn = moduleName.Bat2,

and this for the weapon with the attachment

    ModelWeaponPart = moduleName.WeaponAttachment Base.Broom bayonnet bayonnet,

[sour island]

This is handled through scriptmanager I assume?

[undone crag]

I know not :s

Is that a java class?

[sour island]

Yeah, it is what parses through the scripts and stores everything in a list

you can modify the list - and I know you can even generate items on the fly

so I wonder if you can generate attachments on the fly

[undone crag]

Yes the attachment points are in /scripts with the model detail and the other two are in /scripts for the item details like weight etc.

How do you generate a new item plz tell that would make deleting items easier.

[sour island]

to be clear- you can generate a new item type and ascribe values to it - in game via lua

I'm not sure what you mean about deleting items?

[undone crag]

Because when the game starts again the item types will be missing so they will be deleted easily.

[sour island]

ah

I understand what you mean about deleting but I'm not sure what you're trying to do with it lol

you can generate new item types- I don't know if it lets you remove them as easily

[undone crag]

In the base game?:
models_items.txt has the things like
attachment bayonnet

and items_weapons.txt has things like
Type = WeaponPart,
MountOn = moduleName.Bat2,
and
ModelWeaponPart = moduleName.WeaponAttachment Base.Broom bayonnet bayonnet,

[sour island]

but it should be with in an array you can modify?

[undone crag]

I'm wanting to freely add items to the game that lose their references when the game loads (a variable in mod data that refers to an item instance refers to no item after reloading) and it would be easier to have them deleted on game load than to save what squares have the items in and check those coordinates after loading. What do you mean by an array?

Where would I find what to use in Lua to make a new item type though?

[sour island]

I'm currently looking for it

[undone crag]

:o

[sour island]

I didn't end up using it so it's not on hand

also item values and such are stored in a list on game load

it's what itemtweaker edits

and you can do alot of wild stuff that protects your mod from having compatibility issues

[undone crag]

Yes I use doParam :|

[sour island]

yeah

Seems to be a glocal function called createNewScriptItem

[undone crag]

What class is that from?

[sour island]

      @LuaMethod(
         name = "createNewScriptItem",
         global = true
      )
      public static Item createNewScriptItem(String var0, String var1, String var2, String var3, String var4) {
         Item var5 = new Item();
         var5.module = ScriptManager.instance.getModule(var0);
         var5.module.ItemMap.put(var1, var5);
         var5.Icon = "Item_" + var4;
         var5.DisplayName = var2;
         var5.name = var1;
         var5.moduleDotType = var5.module.name + "." + var1;

         try {
            var5.type = Item.Type.valueOf(var3);
         } catch (Exception var7) {
         }

         return var5;
      }

      @LuaMethod(
         name = "cloneItemType",
         global = true
      )
      public static Item cloneItemType(String var0, String var1) {
         Item var2 = ScriptManager.instance.FindItem(var1);
         Item var3 = new Item();
         var3.module = var2.getModule();
         var3.module.ItemMap.put(var0, var3);
         return var3;
      }

there's also a clone- which is equally useful

it's under luamanager

it's just considered global in lua

[undone crag]

Aye aye thou hast my thanks ty kk m8 8/8 1337

[sour island]

np lol

its used in media/lua/server/Items/ScriptItemInterface.lua

createNewScriptItem("Base", name, displayname, type, inventoryIcon)

for a hint of what the arguments are

[undone crag]

Oh I missed out this bit for attachments.

item:attachWeaponPart(InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem("ModuleName.WeaponAttachment"));
player:resetEquippedHandsModels();```

[sour island]

hmhmhm

[undone crag]

Actually... you could create a new item type for the weapon you're attaching procedurally with Lua so that you have a WeaponPart item for each of them and you generate them as needed.

[sour island]

that's what I was thinking

I kind of wrote this system previously on another project

but it involved what PZ would consider mapobjects

[undone crag]

What was the problem? Was it like the broken glass thing?

[sour island]

I just stopped working on that project lol

[undone crag]

:|

[sour island]

oh no this was another engine/game entirely

[undone crag]

oh

[sour island]

I made a "connections" system - you could weld/glue/ductape/tie furniture together or to the map

the connection would take a brunt of damage if pulled/pushed/hit

it was for a space game and I thought it'd be cool if a table that was bolted to the floor could come apart

players could also hold onto the table even if other players were yanking on them

[errant meteor]

Will most mods be ok, with the new update, next week?

[sour island]

probably everything but mods with distribution list changes

[errant meteor]

sweet

[sour island]

take that with a vunder sized grain of salt

[errant meteor]

I do wonder how it will effect the pile of mods that is hydrocraft

[sour island]

badly

it will either flood/muddy up the vanilla list if they're even named the same thing or dump all of itself into a list that's not even referenced

[errant meteor]

That one guy that is doing the 41 build, is going to have fun

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-its-fine-everything-is-fine-burning-house-happy-dog-gif-21646319

[undone crag]

What guy?

[errant meteor]

The modder who is currently doing hydro craft for build 41

Forgot his name

[undone crag]

Reportedly he stopped about 7 weeks ago though and he recently made some youtube videos about skating and cooking.

[heady hemlock]

I'm an experienced 3d modeler and animator but before I start trying to make my first mod, I think it would be good for me to ask: Is it possible to entirely replace the zombie models and animations with completely new and different ones? Like if I wanted to replace them with movie monsters, for example. Would I run into some hardcoded obstacle?

(I'm planning to replace them with xenomorphs.)

It occurred to me that if they're hardcoded to use the same rigging as player models, this would be impossible.

[severe ridge]

you could adapt any model to said skeleton tho :x its just that so many animations are hard to replace, i mean, i barely fiddled with that

[heady hemlock]

For now, I'm not going to mess with their animations, but if I want the project to get to a releasable state, eventually I'll have to.

The player anims are fine, it's just the zombies that need to change.

ty

[severe ridge]

i would love to see different enemies, hell

[craggy furnace]

i got that on the back burner but meh

[heady hemlock]

Oh, what kind of enemies were you working on?

[severe ridge]

🐴 aw

https://tenor.com/view/infestedrabbit-alikopter-helicopter-gif-14922737

[craggy furnace]

vampires

peach and myself talking about making nemesis

helicopters as boss battles might also happen

dont think so though

[grizzled grove]

only obstacle i could forsee is that i think the spine might have some hardcoding for the purpose of animation blending.

[heady hemlock]

Interesting. Thank you.

[severe ridge]

its the upper and lower separation nah?

[grizzled grove]

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2019/05/advanced-zedonometry/

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2019/08/when-dabs-go-wrong/

i'm just not sure if that system is generic or has expectations from the spine joints

[grim spindle]

Do you know a good guide too creating a map

[ruby urchin]

Probably in #mapping on pinned messages

[crimson panther]

I have question. If my mod adds loot containers to wrecks by using the containers from cars such as trunks and glovebox, will the new build break it?

[waxen stratus]

pretty new to the whol PZ game anyone care to run me through how to set up my own server with mods? maybe someone can dm me good mods to add that dont make the game to easy, would be much appreciated thanks!

[fallow bridge]

Wrong chat, BUT I’ll answer you, first question is are you making a dedicated or just a normal server?

Cause you can just make a server and invite your buddies and whatever mods you had enabled are activated automatically

(Like Garrys mod)

[waxen stratus]

thats my bad i should of went to #old_techsupport my fault but yeah just for me and my buddies

[fallow bridge]

Than yeah just activate whatever mods you wanna use (warning a lot of new mods are for Build 41, and will not work with B40) and just click host and setup all that stuff, no need for port forwarding and all that

[waxen stratus]

right on mane, would you be down to dm me some mods i should add like guns, gear, ect maybe economy mods im not sure which ones are good and not ya feel

[latent orchid]

Looking at the files, the current VehicleDistribution.lua is still using the 'old' method, but its safe to assume that this file will be given the same treatment as what was described in the latest Thursdoid around loot tables.

Anything you add now, will likely need to be modified to the new approach when the time comes.

[sour island]

I forgot who asked if it was possible to add custom events to preexisting Expanded Heli events-- I had looked into it and couldn't get it working then-- just a follow-up I figured it out. 👍

This would/should allow for some very easy to do customization in submods/patches. You could feasibily spawn superb survivors from heli crashes.

[flint seal]

there's no such thing as in-game choppers

[sour island]

Where did the helicopter touch you

[deft peak]

lmao

[devout shadow]

Hi! Is there any way to test my own distributions file? I don't know if there is an error because of a bug or the items just don't spawn.

[sour island]

You could have the game print out the contents of the Lua table on game start

[devout shadow]

@sour island Can you tell me how I can do this? I'm not sure how do that. Ty!

[sour island]

Sure, I don't know how familiar you are with Lua but the distro list is a Lua table. You can actually google "how to do X in Lua" for alot of help incase I am unable to.

But basically, you use this technique.
for k,v in pairs(table) do print(k.." = "..v) end

The trick would be checking to see if v is a table itself- which is called a nested table/list

If you Google "printout recursive nested contents of Lua table" you could probably find one.

Then it would just be a matter of tying that to a command or event - you could use OnGameBoot but then you'd have to look in the console.txt

[devout shadow]

Thx!! I'll try it.

[sour island]

https://gist.github.com/hashmal/874792

This one will work, I would just change line 11: = v should be = tostring(v).

As the comments point out it will break trying to add a string and some variables together

[abstract raptor]

I need help

my challenge map isn't appearing in the challenges list X_X

[abstract raptor]

ne1 ? uwu

I think I have errything all set up correctly, and it's not throwing errors

it just won't show up so I'm stumped