mod_development

[tight blade]

Also if it's the one I found ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1095810873&searchtext=realistic+durability )
The mod author said he's updating it this week.

[rigid dock]

Are there any mods that add creatures? I would love necromorphs, or creatures that appear in the fog whenever the fog comes. Or even just any type of tougher zombie would be nice

[oak cipher]

Anyone down to be funded to make a tiny mod? 😄

Its just removing tthe burglar occupation

cause I dont want people just hotwiring everything in the MP server

[winged lotus]

Hi all! Here I come with my daily quesion, does anyone knows how to implement a parametrable key binding for a new Events.OnKeyPressed action I have created?
I would preferably do this without dependencies to Mod Options, to make sure it is more robust to future updates. Though I could use it if the standalone solution gets too complex.

Oh, just saw the message from co` from earlier, I will try to manipulate the keybinding table too

It worked!

[turbid gale]

welp, finally have the time to fix my M113. It's a bit of a mess.

And also I always hear reports of it being way too common, along with reports of it being impossible to find. I'm confused at best about that.

[pearl prism]

I'm working on an m113 too

[turbid gale]

oke 👀

[pearl prism]

what will you add to yours?

[turbid gale]

significantly overhauled durability and hopefully a new thing or two

along with probably modifications to the model and fixed overlays

[pearl prism]

Damn, I feel our mods will compete with each other

How about you abandon yours and join mine?

we make a mod together

[turbid gale]

you see now

mine's been on the workshop for like

over 2 years now?

[turbid gale]

yeah in about a month will be the thing's 2nd year on the workshop. I remember uploading version 1 before I left my dorm to go to a class.

[terse matrix]

Ok so since build 41 is out in its wholeness

is there a modding guide atm?

[upper mason]

So, all mods already compatible with 41 stable?

Nevermind, these news are only 3 days old =_=

[orchid cipher]

hey just wondering, for Authentic Z mod where could you find zombie hit lists?

[blazing radish]

anyone knows why a weapon when placed in the ground shows the icon?

i've changed icon name and I've setted up a model correctly

the weapon shows the mesh and texture on qhile equipped (hand or slot), but when it's on the floor turn into the icon

I have the same issue with some items but in weapons is more infuriating

[winged lotus]

@blazing radish I had the same issue and, from experience, I had to declare the models inside Base instead of my own module to make it work. But I may be missing something, at least this worked for me ⤵️

module Base
{
    model WoodenDowelMod_Ground
    {
        mesh = WorldItems/RifleAmmo,
        texture = WorldItems/WoodenDowels,
        scale = 0.8,
    }
}   

module DowelsMod
{
    imports
    {
        Base
    }

    item WoodDowel
    {
        CanStack = TRUE,
        Weight = 0.02,
        Type = Normal,
        DisplayName = Wooden Dowels,
        Icon = WoodenDowel,
        WorldStaticModel = WoodenDowelMod_Ground
    }
}

(full code of the mod that you can try and see it is working & how it works here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=498634342)

[blazing radish]

gonna try deleting the module and working just in base

thanks mate

[winged lotus]

You can keep your module for everything else I believe, just declare the models in base and then import Base in your module 🙂

[blazing radish]

finally

holy fuck

THANK YOU

[winged lotus]

Took me a long time until I figured that one out last Sunday 😅

Happy to help!

[blazing radish]

at first I thought I was doing something wrong with the icons

but afte rmany tries I couldn't understand what the hell happened

really weird bug

[winged lotus]

I found this one to be very usefull! https://github.com/FWolfe/Zomboid-Modding-Guide
Also check the pinned message of this channel, you can get some pretty good resources there.

[blazing radish]

thanks pal 🙂

[terse matrix]

I was just making sure of things since things changed alot over the games 41 beta

Can't wait for the animal/hunting update

(I'm one of those people who keeps up with PZ news)

and once thats done... It'll come, The ever lusted ever NPCs.

[weak turtle]

guys I want to make a mod about a radio channel, I want to add my custom music to game with creating new radio channel

how I can do that ?

[terse matrix]

You might want to mess around with those mods that add music to the game

[weak turtle]

good idea actualy

I should chek their folder order

and codes.

thanks.

[terse matrix]

Also setting up my new computer today 👀 Can't wait to digg into those files

[lunar jungle]

Random dumb question, and sorry if it sounds stupid cause I'm not much of a coder, but how does the game load up all the code from vanilla to mods? Does it grab everything on launch and bring it all in sequentially treating it all like one super long document? I was having trouble modifying some variables in the vanilla files and found just copying the whole block from vanilla, slapping it into my mod, and making the changes there did the trick. Basically overriding the vanilla code even though I left the vanilla settings the same. Are there situations where it doesn't load something until requested or under a specific condition?

[late hound]

Libraries mainly, can also craft them.

[south brook]

guys

what is the hydrocraft mod

[terse matrix]

An old mod, from the old era

before thje new testiment that is build 41

[drifting ore]

Anyone know where vanilla traits are defined?

Also, is there a place that lists all the variables that we can put when we create clothes?

    {
        /Necessary
        Type = Clothing,
        DisplayName = My Jacket,
        ClothingItem = My_Jacket,
        BodyLocation = Jacket,
        Icon = My_Jacket,
        BloodLocation = Jacket,

        /Stats
        RunSpeedModifier = 0.89,
        CombatSpeedModifier = 0.96,
        BulletDefense = 10,
        BiteDefense = 10,
        ScratchDefense = 20,
        NeckProtectionModifier = 0.5,
        Insulation = 1.0,
        WindResistance = 1.0,
        WaterResistance = 0.60,
        Weight = 3,
        ConditionLowerChanceOneIn = 15,
        ConditionMax = 15,
        RemoveOnBroken = true,

        /Switch to other cloth
        ClothingItemExtra = Jacket_Open,
        ClothingItemExtraOption = OpenJacket,

        /Optional
        Tooltip = "A vest"
        WorldStaticModel = My_Jacket_Ground,
    }```

It's all that I found but I'm curious if there is more

[winter bolt]

ClothingItemExtra = Jacket_Open,
ClothingItemExtraOption = OpenJacket,

you can also do stuff like this so that you can switch to a different clothing item using the right click menu

[drifting ore]

Nice, I did not know and it can be useful to me!

[winter bolt]

the "OpenJacket" thing would be a new context menu entry in a "ContextMenu_[LANGUAGE].txt" that you can include in your mod files

you can also add a sub-menu for multiple different clothing items in the right click menu but i cant remember how you add it

[winter bolt]

ContextMenu_EN = {
    ContextMenu_OpenJacket = "Open Jacket",
}

like this

[drifting ore]

Ok, I will try

thx

[drifting ore]

I get this error ERROR: General , 1640274269084> ExceptionLogger.logException> Exception thrown java.lang.RuntimeException: attempted index: setTint of non-table: null at KahluaThread.tableget line:1689.

My item.txt look like this

        {
            Weight = 1,
            Type = Clothing,
            DisplayCategory = Prosthesis_cloth,
            DisplayName    = Wooden hook,
            ClothingItem = ArmRight_WoodenHook,
            BodyLocation = ArmRight_Prot,
            Icon = wooden_hook,
            Tooltip = "Wooden hook for right hand",

            ClothingItemExtra = ArmLeft_WoodenHook,
            ClothingItemExtraOption = change_to_left,
        }

item ArmLeft_WoodenHook
        {
            Weight = 1,
            Type = Clothing,
            DisplayCategory = Prosthesis_cloth,
            DisplayName    = Wooden hook,
            ClothingItem = ArmLeft_WoodenHook,
            BodyLocation = ArmLeft_Prot,
            Icon = wooden_hook,
            Tooltip = "Wooden hook for left hand",

            ClothingItemExtra = ArmRight_WoodenHook,
            ClothingItemExtraOption = change_to_right,
        }```

[winter bolt]

do you have the context menu thing set up like this?

[drifting ore]

Yes

[winter bolt]

idk then,the only thing i can think of is that the body location is messing up since theyre a nightmare to deal with

[drifting ore]

The menu is displayed and I can launch the action but once the bar is full and the action ends, I have the error

[winter bolt]

do both items work normally?

oh i might know why

i think including underscores in the context menu thing might cause errors

maybe try just ChangeToRight

[drifting ore]

That's not it, anyway the menu is displayed so the game can read the variable. The problem is elsewhere

[winter bolt]

oh weird

[drifting ore]

It that newItem:getVisual() return a nil

[winter bolt]

yeah body locations are the only thing i can think of then

[drifting ore]

but newItem is a clothing so it should work

[winter bolt]

newitem?

it could also be that ClothingItemExtra breaks if the item you specify uses a different bodylocation than the original item but i'm not sure

wait nvm that cant be right

its not that

[drifting ore]

    local visual = item:getVisual()
    local newItem = InventoryItemFactory.CreateItem(itemType)
    local newVisual = newItem:getVisual()
    newVisual:setTint(visual:getTint(item:getClothingItem()))
    newVisual:setBaseTexture(visual:getBaseTexture())
    newVisual:setTextureChoice(visual:getTextureChoice())
    newVisual:setDecal(visual:getDecal(item:getClothingItem()))```
This is where the error is. It's in `media\lua\client\TimedActions\ISClothingExtraAction.lua`

[formal stone]

If I change a lua file in my workshop mods for the server I'm hosting, lets say changing one thing from true to false (disabling an option in the lua file) are clients going to be effected by this is it going to be appear as a mismatch

[winter bolt]

idk then

[drifting ore]

A custom cloth return me a nil when I use getVisual(). Where do you think the problem is coming from? The clothing must lack a variable

[winter bolt]

is the .xml file for the clothing item there?

and is it listed in the fileguidtable?

[drifting ore]

Yeah, they works separately but the swap does not work

Wait a minute ... no

I forgot the .xml of one item

It's work now thx to try help me, I was just stupid xD

[gleaming valve]

what is the range for hunger? [-100..100] ? or only positives

[drifting ore]

Very good question I also wonder the range of pain, fatigue, fear ... If it is the same for all. For me it is [0-100]

[gleaming valve]

alrighty, thanks!

how does fullness work?

[terse matrix]

Yes i belive so. howevere there are calories, fat, carbs, and protein to worry about

[winter bolt]

i end up doing stuff like that all the time lmao

sometimes i add something to a mod and then launch the game and wonder why it isnt working and then realise i never copied it to my mods folder

[west crystal]

Hello my dudes, can i ask for a bit of help?

[gleaming valve]

yes @west crystal

[west crystal]

Can you download my mod and test if it works? Never uploaded anything on my own before

[gleaming valve]

why not move the manual install to a different folder, and subscribe to it?

[west crystal]

Well it works for me, but 1 positive case is not really enough

[gleaming valve]

what is different between your game and mine?

[west crystal]

🤔

Fair enough

[gleaming valve]

if it works on your system, you should expect it to work on all systems

if it doesn't, then people can complain and maybe you can fix it

[west crystal]

Yeah, probably will wait for "does not work" comments, thx

[quartz lava]

what is everyone's fav QoL mods?

[rigid dock]

Are there any mods that add creatures? I would love necromorphs, or creatures that appear in the fog whenever the fog comes. Or even just any type of tougher zombie would be nice

[sick yew]

Anyone here interested

in fixing Raven Creek?

The new foraging system doesn't work in it

[mint sphinx]

have you asked the person who made the map ?

[gleaming valve]

How do I get the lightlevel for a square?

[sick yew]

He's been inactive for a while

[mint sphinx]

also i think its a new atributed placed with the worldedit tool and there is no current way after my knowlagde to decompile a generated map files. which mean you will need the original files of the map "not the generated onces " to be able to add the new foraging system.

[sick yew]

Fuck

alright thank you

[clever veldt]

Anyone aware of a dairy mod that works? Like, say, if a guy needs some milk and we're 8 months into an apocalypse. Craftable Dairy Foods (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1939995891) would be good but it hasn't been updated since August so I'm not wholly sure that it still works and am kinda nervous to test it.

Basically I want milk to be found even after it has spoiled, something craftable and more immersive perhaps. Not sure if this is the right place to ask.

[mint sphinx]

the mod said it work in currently Version 41.53.

so im pretty sure it work fine

[winged lotus]

Finished my latest mod 🎉 thanks @weary matrix and @quasi geode for your help during the last few days! It allows you to instantaneously loot an item... with consequences! (in the same fashion as in State of Decay) You can find it here ⤵️
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691346300

[clever veldt]

That mod looks sick!

[fair frost]

Nice

[winged lotus]

Thanks 😁 It was quite the task, I had to cut the scope a bit to have it released but I am happy with it as a first form.

Started that on Monday evening thinking "It should not be that hard, I'm starting to understand well how all of this work". Famous last words 😅

[sonic atlas]

I'm having frustrations with being able to intercept death events prior to the game processing them. I was able to intercept about 90% of them by looking for player:getHealth() == 0 on player update but some things (like the dropping of items in your hands) I cannot intercept.

We really need OnPlayerDeath to be split into OnPlayerPreDeath and OnPlayerPostDeath

[drifting ore]

Try player:getHealth() <= 0, maybe that can do the trick

[sour island]

Anyone know where watched TV shows are stored? Or if at all?

[drifting ore]

media/scripts/newitems.txt

[sour island]

I mean stored for players

[sonic atlas]

yeah, I wish the was the issue. You can see the hand items fall to the ground even before registering the death animation. So I'm trying to find out where to intercept that

[drifting ore]

yeah I just understood

[sour island]

I assume you can't keep rewatching tv shows/VHS tapes non stop?

[drifting ore]

There is a event OnCharacterDeath too

[tulip valve]

A mod adding Smileys to the MP chat would be great with the possibility of easily adding custom ones

[sonic atlas]

yeah, OnCharacterDeath actually comes after my player:getHealth() <= 0

[drifting ore]

You mean if the boredom stops going down after a while? I do not think so

[drifting ore]

Mmmmm there is a event onItemFall, maybe you can check here if the player is death

    {
        SutureNeedle,
        Thread=2,
        AlcoholWipes=2/Disinfectant=5,
        SutureNeedleHolder,
        Tweezers,
        Gloves_Surgical,
        Scalpel,
        CottonBalls,
        Bandage,


        Result: TOC.Real_surgeon_kit,
        Time: 30.0,
        NeedToBeLearn: false,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor: false,
        OnGiveXP: NoXP_OnGiveXP,
        SkillRequired: FirstAid=4,
        Category: Surgeon,
        Tooltip: "Tooltip_Real_surgeon_kit"
    }```
The line `AlcoholWipes=2/Disinfectant=5,` give me an error, what do I do wrong ?

[sonic atlas]

let me see what that returns. thanks for pointing it out

[sonic atlas]

Great job! I was able to intercept the drop. Will see if I can match it to player death and remove it.

[sonic atlas]

It is worse than I thought. On death, hand held items are forcefully spawned with no previous owner identifier. I'm going to assume this is hardcoded and cannot be modded out.

[drifting ore]

What are you trying to do ?

[sonic atlas]

ensure that all items are removed on player death in support of my mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2685600088

I have an option to "retain equipped" items upon death, but want to ensure there isn't any duping. I can ensure this with everything other than handheld items

[sour island]

I mean, the game knows if you've watched a VHS for skill xp or not

[drifting ore]

Mmmmm a somewhat complex method would be to check the player's death chunk, take all the objects on the ground, distance them from the corpses and if it is very close, delete the object

I don't know at all how to do it but it seems possible to me

[sour island]

Are the skill VHS not the same as the live tv shows?

Letting the game play on FF and none of the VHS on learning materials is getting highlighted

[warm narwhal]

does anyone know there is a mod that u can see your friends on your map while playing coop

[torpid kestrel]

Anyone knows how to do an animation mod?

[mint sphinx]

i guess animation is under modeling. and if you have made all that i would just look how the player animation was build op in vanilla if it was.. but personaly i have never tried that so far.

[torpid kestrel]

hm

[sonic atlas]

It looks like the item ID is retained on drop. So it will be a simple ID match to force delete.

[drifting ore]

What do you mean ? Btw it's the error java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "2/Disinfectant"

It doesn't seem to detect the separation

[sonic atlas]

on death, the hand items that are dropped retain their ID

I'm just saying I found a possible way to capture the correct dropped item(s)

[drifting ore]

O yeah mb

[drifting ore]

media\lua\shared\RecordedMedia

mmmm no, it seem to be the text

[eternal ingot]

Hey guys, very quick dumb question. I have a server running latest build, are mods currently somewhat stable?

[frank stirrup]

Is there any mod with a bicycle in it?

[rigid dock]

Are there any mods that add creatures? I would love necromorphs, or creatures that appear in the fog whenever the fog comes. Or even just any type of tougher zombie would be nice

[rare patrol]

Is Paw Low still an active moder in pz?

[sick yew]

Is there a mod that brings back the old foraging system

[warped night]

I wish

[winter bolt]

it'd be easier to just make a mod that increases the foraging spawns lol

[flat edge]

How hard would it be to make and Eldridge horror mod in zomboid would it be possible? To been honest I think it would be pretty cool but extremely hard to do especially if you where making it to be used in servers. But is it possible

I have no modding experience but maybe I’ll try it out because this idea is so cool

[hollow shadow]

it seems you cant do multiple items when using /

if you figure it out tho, let me know

[weary matrix]

Nice! Congrats!

[agile swallow]

Does anyone know how to get it so when the item your using breaks it gets replaced with a new item?

[weary matrix]

@agile swallow just do what you said, replace it with a new item 😛

[agile swallow]

My friend and I are trying to figure it out but we are stuck. Basically once our axe breaks we want it to add a new item to the players inventory.

[fickle musk]

Holy shite

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2642582759&searchtext=animation This is gonna be the best mod ever. Brings back a feature we already had and went away for some reason

[topaz valley]

Anyone know the reason why, when i drop any item it dissappears?

[turbid gale]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2690802166

now I can get into making my M113 better 👀

[tight blade]

You have Paws Low Loot?

[topaz valley]

I think so

[tight blade]

Because that mod is currently broken and will cause any items you drop to disappear.

[topaz valley]

Ok, thanks

[topaz valley]

Nother question, Ravencreek alot of SWAT vehicles around. Is this normal?

[pastel estuary]

Is there some sort of hook for adding ingredients to an evolved recipe? I'm developing a recipe mod that lets you put ingredients in recipes where they don't belong (like chili powder in a beverage) and want to add an unhappiness penalty to the result (since you're drinking chili water)

something like

function JustAddedToEvolvedRecipe(recipe, added, result) {
  if (added.DoesntBelong in recipe.Name) {
    result.Unhappiness += added.Unhappiness * 0.05
  }
}```

[weary matrix]

https://zomboid-javadoc.com/ 😄

[hearty fractal]

Hey all, looking for a bit of help implementing this mod to an already existing dedicated server: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2623855083

Specifically, on the mod description, it has a "Map Folder" listing along with the workshop and mod IDs. I know where to put the workshop/mod IDs in the .ini, but where do I put this "Map Folder" line? It's listed as "STRSpawn"

I assume this allows the assets to be populated into the world organically, but I've never used a mod with such a listing before

[pastel estuary]

OnMakeItem seems to trigger for evolved recipes, though I don't think I have access to the item used for a particular step of an evolved recipe

by any chance does the spices field of a Food item contain all of the ingredients in an evolved food, not just the spices @weary matrix? there appears to be no corresponding field for regular ingredients

[weary matrix]

@hearty fractal please ask in #mod_support if you need support, here it's only about developing mods

@pastel estuary sorry I have no idea

oh, the link I posted was not meant as a response to your question, sorry

[hearty fractal]

My bad, thanks

[weary matrix]

@pastel estuary mmm it seems OnMakeItem is deprecated, not sure you should be using that

try to check Lua code from vanilla for the timed action for recipes, then you could hook the :perform() method I guess

[hearty fractal]

@weary matrix Seems you tagged me by mistake in your reply, you're looking for @pastel estuary 😄

[weary matrix]

@hearty fractal aw damn, I have to stop doing this, thanks for telling me 😅

[craggy furnace]

yes and no

he is aware of the broken stuff

[weary matrix]

@craggy furnace about the item that disappear I think it shouldn't be too hard to fix

[craggy furnace]

yeah ive been wanting a fix

[weary matrix]

you just have to add the item to the square with the proper transmit*() function

[craggy furnace]

havent really gotten around to work on it

ive been meaning to do some work for eris too

[weary matrix]

@craggy furnace https://zomboid-javadoc.com/41.65/zombie/iso/IsoGridSquare.html#transmitAddObjectToSquare(zombie.iso.IsoObject,int)

[craggy furnace]

i wish i could drum up the courage to code for PZ

but its not something ive wanted to do since i do not like coding at all lol

[weary matrix]

@craggy furnace guess you have a good occasion to start right now 😅

[craggy furnace]

i saw that emote change boi

[weary matrix]

typo 😛

[craggy furnace]

yeah the best time to start to start was yesterday but the second best is yadda yadda

i am in a rush to finish atleast 4 mods atm

[weary matrix]

heh

[craggy furnace]

if i can figure out this issue thats 1/4 😅

[pastel estuary]

turns out OnMakeItem wasn't actually firing, my code was just erroring because I forgot to itemtweaker a food type onto the item

[craggy furnace]

🤞

[pastel estuary]

now I'm just blanking on how to override vanilla lua files

[weary matrix]

@pastel estuary you found the lua class for applying recipes yet?

@craggy furnace which issue?

[pastel estuary]

yeah, ISAddItemInRecipe.lua

    self.baseItem:setJobDelta(0.0);
    self.character:removeFromHands(self.baseItem)

    if self.sound and self.sound ~= 0 then
        self.character:getEmitter():stopOrTriggerSound(self.sound)
    end

    self.baseItem = self.recipe:addItem(self.baseItem, self.usedItem, self.character);
    
    ISAddItemInRecipe.checkName(self.baseItem, self.recipe);

    -- needed to remove from queue / start next.
    ISBaseTimedAction.perform(self);
end```

[weary matrix]

ah, right, you have to do something to allow adding any item, mmm

I was mostly talking about adding the malus when you apply the recipe

[pastel estuary]

I can use itemtweaker to do that part:

TweakItem("Base.DogfoodOpen", "FoodType", "NoExplicit");```

the part that probably needs lua is applying unhappiness penalties for illegal food items

[craggy furnace]

its a texture issue

seems to conflict with blood

might be a mask

[weary matrix]

@pastel estuary guess you have to check this: client/TimedActions/ISCraftAction.lua

@craggy furnace ah I can't help you with that I guess 😅

[craggy furnace]

yeah its bizarre

might have it fixed in 20

[drifting ore]

media\lua\client\ISUI\ISLiteratureUI.lua This is the menu with the books and vhs already seen that you can reach from the character menu. Should be what you're looking for in it. For exemple that looks promising: local categories = getZomboidRadio():getRecordedMedia():getCategories()

[craggy furnace]

if you wanna help, id throw a fix to pawlow

i piggy on his back for that

[pastel estuary]

oh yeah, I can just copy the file I want to override into the mod and it takes priority

it's been a while since I last did mods

[craggy furnace]

ugh

[weary matrix]

@pastel estuary no, avoid doing that, your mod would break or break the game as soon as the file is updated by the dev

@pastel estuary you can probably do something like this:

local ISCraftAction_perform = ISCraftAction.perform
ISCraftAction.perform = function(self)
    ISCraftAction_perform(self)
    -- add your malus here
end```

@pastel estuary check the :new() method in the same file, you'll see what attributes you have available

like the reicipe and the resulting item

the recipe might contain the ingredient you added, not sure though

[craggy furnace]

whoops

[weary matrix]

Anything special to do to add new traits ? I do TraitFactory.addTrait() from OnGameBoot event, also added the corresponding png in media/ui/Traits, but I can't see my new trait when starting a game

and I added the corresponding entries in media/lua/shared/Translate/UI_EN.txt

[drifting ore]

You do something like that local drinker = TraitFactory.addTrait("drinker", getText("UI_trait_drinker"), -12, getText("UI_trait_drinkerdesc"), false, false); ?

[weary matrix]

yes

ah damn, I was subscribed to the mod, so it was ignoring the one in ~/Zomboid/mods

my bad

[zealous wing]

@main lion Just curious, but did you ever figure out why Eris NVG's lua decided to murder dropped items out of the blue? I'm really curious as to why that happened. Heck, I'd probably read a white paper about it.

[weary matrix]

@zealous wing sounds like a call to square:transmitAddObjectToSquare​() is missing when dropping the items

Is the problem only with MP?

mmm wondering if modData is per mod or not

like if two mods use the same index in getModData(), does that conflict?

[zealous wing]

The issue affected singleplayer too.

It was weird, to say the least.

[craggy furnace]

so far, so good

dear PZ: please behave 🤞

any ideas why this occurs when there is blood?

[ruby urchin]

that's not static right?

[craggy furnace]

yep

i was thinking thats the issue

[ruby urchin]

yeah, so probably should be a UV mapping issue

[craggy furnace]

its not my model, its from the skeleton that TIS made so thats also possible

time to revert to static then

[craggy furnace]

it was indeed an issue of it being skinned

and away we go

[blissful meteor]

Does anyone know what the "animnode" for welding is?

tried weld or welding but neither work

[craggy furnace]

there is none specifically for "welding"

AnimNode:Disassemble,

[ionic galleon]

hello, I have some question regarding the scope of modding in PZ. I'm a modder in RimWorld and KSP but I've never modded a game that uses the java/lua combination.

[thin hornet]

Guys how do you get your iso objects on a clicked square when that iso object is on a table for example.
Cause using ClickedSquare for me doesn't always pick the items unless i click under the object on the ground (square).
Maybe there is a better way of picking the objects when we open a context menu?
(Clicking directly on the iso object which is Y offset higher doesn't pick it)

[thin hornet]

Ask your questions we will answer what we can.

[ionic galleon]

well, I intend on doing reworks for some mechanics like shadows casting for fow, projectiles with bounding boxes and more. If are you familiar with rimworld mods such as CE it would make sense. The main issue is I'm a dot net dev and my familiarity with game development/modding with games no based on unity is limited, Thus I can't tell what is possible or not. The main reason for asking this is the absence of reflection in java and function pointers so I have no idea if you can just straight up replace entire functions like we do in unity based games.

[weary matrix]

You mean in OnWorldObjectContextMenu when you right click items?

[thin hornet]

@weary matrix yeah its weird depending on what table i have my iso object it pick very well

ill show screenshot soon

[ruby urchin]

Everything happens in lua, so you will have some limitations in what you want to do

[thin hornet]

Well first, modding in PZ is done only in the Lua scripting engine.
PZ is built on Java, it uses script engine to interpret lua and exposes a specific range of classes and methods to the lua environment.
So you might be limited alot on what you want to do.

[blissful meteor]

@craggy furnace thanks

[craggy furnace]

np

[thin hornet]

@granite yacht

its like there is "things" that appear under but when right clicked its over
in the image top row: it pick the bench behind
in the image bottom row: it pick the window on the wall south of the character (which is transparent)

[ruby urchin]

you can try using IsoObjectPicker
example:

local x = getMouseX()
local y = getMouseY()
local body = IsoObjectPicker.Instance:PickCorpse(x, y)

[thin hornet]

at the moment i use local square = clickedSquare

the global clickedSquare

i will research how that global get assigned its value

ISWorldObjectContextMenu.fetch = function(v, player, doSquare)
clickedSquare = v:getSquare();

for i,v in ipairs(worldobjects) do
  ISWorldObjectContextMenu.fetch(v, player, true);
end

mhm

so basically i only get the last v object in the loop

so i should loop myself the worldobjects

[craggy furnace]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691795543

[weary matrix]

ah yes, wanted to ask if you did 😂

[errant prairie]

hey im not sure if this is the place to ask but does anyone happen to know which mod has this ID attached to it? 2619072426

i need to find out how which one it is cause one of the servers i am trying to join is apparently using a more updated version than what I have

however when i restart steam none of my workshop items are updating

[blissful meteor]

Something i just threw together this afternoon, i made it for my server but its something that should be in the base game https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691818554

[thin hornet]

@blissful meteor hey, interesting, are those iso object?

or actuall item u just drop on the ground

ah so its movable iso objects

ill take a look to see if this works with FuelAPI

[sacred cradle]

Does someone know any padlocks mod that works in doubledoors?

also, is there any way possible to claim all buildings as a safehouse not just residentials?

[polar storm]

Hey mate, sorry for the delay. Information like this would be better answered over in #mod_support.

The mod you're questioning about is this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2619072426&searchtext=2619072426

[ruby urchin]

Anyone know how works Translation_Data?

[blissful meteor]

@thin hornet I did look at FuelAPI, problem i had was if they are a 3d Object you can walk through them, This way it works and they are stackable

if its possible to be able to take and add fuel directly to them though that would be nice

[thin hornet]

yeah im testing atm

[blissful meteor]

i just updated it to remove the Gas writing

looked weird when you have too many, now they are just red haha

[thin hornet]

loll haha the way he weld the barrel is funny

[blissful meteor]

yeah i know, maybe can be improved lol

i just noticed i made they look different when empty and not, two different sprite

used different ones...... guess ill re do it later

how much gas does the large fuel can from fuelapi hold?

[thin hornet]

large gas can has a usedelta of 0.04

so 25 unit

small one is 8 unit

how do i add fuel to the gas barrel

[blissful meteor]

need 5 full gas cans worth

[thin hornet]

oh you made it so that i need to pick the barrel

[blissful meteor]

@thin hornet i did make it originally so that it worked like a gas pump

problem was with the world gas pump settings if set to empty they never had any gas

you could take fuel from it but couldnt add fuel also

[fringe finch]

I'm doing some curiosity research on how loot distribution works. I have a question about Distributions.lua.

I see the label forceForTiles, does that mean use this distribution for these tiles in room X

For example, garagestorage has:

{name="GarageFirearms", min=0, max=99, forceForTiles="furniture_storage_02_8;furniture_storage_02_9;furniture_storage_02_10;furniture_storage_02_11"},

I used the tile editor to figure out that furniture_storage is a tile map and those are the gun locker rotations.

Does this mean that If a gun locker appears in a garage, use the firearms distribution

Also, is there any way to figure out what a room looks like? Garage storage seems obvious, but some are harder to guess

[blissful meteor]

they might work better for your fuelapi with a bit of extra lua

that way

[thin hornet]

so getting fuel from pump doesnt work if the world settings is set to empty/none

[blissful meteor]

yeah and that affects the barrels too when they are made that way

but you could place them and "take fuel"

ideally thats the way i wanted it tho

[thin hornet]

well

we could write a script to make it work

ill have a look at it

[blissful meteor]

ha, im very limited in lua

i could mod a version so it works like a gas pump if you like though

and you could work from that

[thin hornet]

with a custom context menu we can probably get it to work ill check the limitation of the initial fuel world settings first

[weary matrix]

Hi, not the right place indeed. You should ask in #mod_support, better chance to get an answer there

[thin hornet]

@blissful meteor so basically square:getPipedFuelAmount() method is the one checking for SandboxOptions.getInstance().FuelStationGas.getValue() and force return 0

we can still check for the fuelAmount moddata itself

[blissful meteor]

Would you like me to make a version like the old way i had it, you can just modify it and throw it into fuelapi if you like

@thin hornet

[weary matrix]

Hey nice one, I wanted to make a mod like this! 😄

[thin hornet]

@blissful meteor yeah if you can send it to me in dm ill look at it and we can workout something.

[blissful meteor]

alright

[thin hornet]

at this point with fuelapi it could help make any isoobject an actual fuel container easily

so the barrel could have just some moddata with information on capacity and content and fuel api would make it behave as it should

[thin hornet]

So FuelStation start at 20000 litres.
Then based on the WorldFuelSetting it change it the first time getPipedFuelAmount is called.

base on the setting it multiply by this

[karmic tree]

Anyone has a good mod that spawn random items (food, melee weaps and etc) on zeds?

[weary matrix]

@karmic tree better ask in #mod_support

mmm so the lua function next() is not available in Kahlua right? If anyone knows

[thin hornet]

no its not

i had that issue at one time

[weary matrix]

ah guess I could simply use table:isEmpty() though 😅

damn, when you declare a table like this: t = {}, you can't call the methods from KahluaTable on it? 😦

[fringe finch]

Is there a command to respawn loot in a container and/or some way to see what decisions the game made? I want to see why some containers are coming up empty]

[fringe finch]

Ok so I went to the army surplus store this guy went to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0pDIvYPgTY&t=817s&ab_channel=EmberDG

The gun lockers in mine were empty, so I thought it might be bugged. But now I'm wondering if it was intentionally removed because the "locker" definition is empty, is that it?

The chunk debugger says the room name is armysurplus.

Distributions.lua:

armysurplus = {
...
locker = {
rolls = 1,
items = {
}
},

[weary matrix]

@fringe finch can you show the code you wrote for distribution?

[fringe finch]

Oh, this is just what's in Distribution.lua, I didn't write anything. I'm on a mission to understand how loot works, that's all

[terse matrix]

real qusetions that need real answers why hasen't anyone made a kg to pounds mod

[gleaming valve]

because kg are more intuitive

Again I shall ask: how do I get the lightlevel of a square?

[fringe finch]

Does the chunk debugger show that? I just started using it so idk

[opaque fiber]

because zomboid doesnt necessarily use kilos

the weight is more like a measurement or how awkward it is to carry

[brittle jewel]

@gleaming valve This is from \media\lua\shared\Foraging\forageSystem.lua - you might want to look at the file if you want more information with how this function/values is/are used for light level.

function forageSystem.getLightLevelPenalty(_character, _square)
    if not (_square and _character) then return 0; end;
    local lightLevel = _square:getLightLevel(_character:getPlayerNum());
    local dayLightStrength = getClimateManager():getDayLightStrength();
    --just make it fully bright if over 80%
    if lightLevel > 0.8 then lightLevel = 1; end;
    local effectReduction = forageSystem.getDarknessEffectReduction(_character);
    if _square:isOutside() then
        return math.max(dayLightStrength, lightLevel) * effectReduction;
    else
        return lightLevel * effectReduction;
    end;
end

[gleaming valve]

@brittle jewel I was looking at this yesterday, but I suppose I was too tired to accomplish anything with it

got it to work now, thanks

[weary matrix]

@gleaming valve not sure if it;s really doing what you need, but IsoCell has a getLightSourceAt(int x, int y, int z) method, and both IsoCell and IsoLightSource are exposed to Lua

[mint sphinx]

hmm anyone there can remember which debug option i need to turn on to be able to test out building stuff with out have the resources for it ?

[cold plover]

Anyone good with car mods as I am building my own car mod and having difficulties with debug mode and I could do with some help and tips on fixing the mod. I know the distro works as the cars do spawn in the world but as shadows so I would like to know what causes that and how to fix it. Plus I need to know how to use debug mod in order wheel aline the models and entering spots on the vehicles. Cheers

[weary matrix]

@cold plover I guess you'd get more chance in #modeling

[cold plover]

The modeling is done, its to do with code

[weary matrix]

mmm I mean if you get a shadow instead of a car it sounds more like a modeling problem, but maybe I'm wrong though

[cold plover]

I followed the format of the car modeling its now to do with the editor and code its more to do with the coding how a item spawns into the world but if somebody who does car modding knows what causes it I would like to know

[drifting ore]

@faint cape

[karmic tree]

Paying for someone to make a functional mod that spawns random items on zombies

[drifting ore]

@karmic tree I already did that

But it's still a bit basic

[karmic tree]

Where's it at? 🤔

[drifting ore]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2686972114

[karmic tree]

Is it customizable ?

[drifting ore]

you could add more items via the distributions page all you have to do is change what the item base.[name] is

It's the most basic of mods

[karmic tree]

And that would be done in the mod files right? Wouldn't that be overwritten by players?

[drifting ore]

All this mod does is have a roll chance for random specific items I added in

like crisps, peanuts, tissue, gas can, hammer etc

[karmic tree]

We gotta test it out, sounds amazing 👌

Thank you @drifting ore ❤️

[karmic tree]

Where can i find it's files?

[fringe finch]

Just curious, why did you reply with that?

[drifting ore]

Because he is a streamer and likes to find easter eggs etc @fringe finch

@karmic tree Drive>Program Files(x86)>Steam>steamapps>workshop>content>108600>2686972114

add this line for ever item you want to add and edit the bold lettering with the Base.Object you want

table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, "Base.Disinfectant");
table.insert(SuburbsDistributions["all"]["inventorymale"].items, 5);

All item codes:https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Items

[karmic tree]

Gotcha @drifting ore

The numbers are the quantity of X item?

[drifting ore]

roll chance

[karmic tree]

What would be the highest roll chance value?

And btw, are you accepting donations?

[drifting ore]

100

I don't need donations man, thanks though

I mod for fun, this is a hobby for most people here

[fringe finch]

Since this is sort of on topic, is there anything you can use to debug loot distribution? Like does it show up in any logs, are there any commands you can use in debug mode, any debug windows that show you what happened, etc.

Like those gun lockers, I'd love to force an item respawn and see if anything shows up in them. Or maybe a log file that says what it chose

[karmic tree]

I understand

[karmic tree]

I couldn't find it

Already subbed / unsubbed

[west crystal]

108600

not 570

[fringe finch]

What a coincidence

[karmic tree]

Yeah but i dont have that one

[west crystal]

do you have 2 drives? maybe on another one

[karmic tree]

Yup! Was in another drive :p

[west crystal]

:>

[karmic tree]

Thank you so much for the time @drifting ore and @west crystal 🤭

[west crystal]

I literally did nothing but ok

[karmic tree]

@drifting ore Done, i've given you every single award 🤭. Thank you again!

[west crystal]

The fuck

[sour island]

Anyone know why Say() might be getting processed through the player with SuperbSurvivors on?

When people use conditional speech with SS all of the NPCs speech goes through the player - but nothing was changed in the mods

[cold plover]

@drifting ore he won't see it till later as cheese is streaming

[analog iris]

if one wanted to make a cat ears mod completely from scratch with 0 experience, how would one do so?

[weary matrix]

@sour island have you tried to add a small mod that just does Say to see if that would reproduce the issue with SS?

[sour island]

Nope.

Just going to disable CndSpeech support for NPCs

But the debug messages have the actual NPC as the playerobject

[west crystal]

You can look for bunny ears in the game files for reference, or take a mod from workshop and look how it's done. Also don't forget about a day or two (or eight) of fucking with blender

[sour island]

it just seems like once it hits Say() it is grabbing the client's player

[weary matrix]

would be curious to know if it's a bug in the engine or in SS 😅

[sour island]

I can't even test SS - as it throws up errors non-stop and I have to spam F11

May just test it with Aiteron's NPCs instead in a next pass

[cold plover]

@analog iris authentic z adds cat and bunny ears to zombies in the world you don't need to make a mod if there is already one

[west crystal]

Well i mean if he wants to, why not

[cold plover]

true true

[analog iris]

well is there a maid dress mod

[west crystal]

I believe there is

[winter bolt]

thats in the mod as well i think

[analog iris]

THEN WHAT IF I WANNA PUT AMONG US CLOTHES THEN

[west crystal]

AMOGUS

SUS

[winter bolt]

sussy zombies

[gleaming valve]

you don't get bitten, you get ejected

[analog iris]

i WILL add catboys into project zomboid

[west crystal]

well good luck

[cold plover]

@analog iris authetic z adds full out fits and there is a maid out fit in the mod

[west crystal]

oh, yeah

are there fishnets in this mod?

[analog iris]

in authentic z?

[west crystal]

yea

[analog iris]

no clue

arent those in the base game?

i swear i remember them being there

[west crystal]

Only one

And they are only full ones

[analog iris]

oh

[west crystal]

Not short ones

[analog iris]

i should add blood gulch

[west crystal]

I just remembered why i even came back to pz modding, to make some fishnets

[analog iris]

what good is a game without blood gulch

[tall pecan]

does anyone know of a mod that would give me a clipboard copy of all the steam workshop ID's for the currently loaded mods

rather than having to manually copy them from every steam page

[bright perch]

any most have mods i am new to the game?

[west crystal]

None of the mods are must have

[bright perch]

no but what are the most recommended mods

[west crystal]

Better Sorting is my bet

Also textures to remove underwear
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691116248

(yes i am sneakily advertising my own mod)

[bright perch]

that just sounds weird

[west crystal]

[tight blade]

[west crystal]

Why does he have a pig nose

[tight blade]

Kept sniffing to keep his running nose too much.

[terse matrix]

What is a good introduction to lua PZ modding wise? and or do you guys have a guide on lua?

Got my new pc set up its time

[tight blade]

I decided to start with just making like skillbooks, I knew they were common af so I just had fun giving them dumb names.

Otherwise have a browse at people's workshop creations you can learn a lot.

[vital cipher]

I need help why the hell if i only make one server it makes 2?

whenever i edit mod settings it doesnt save em when i hit save

for example cars with gas dont save to server after i hit save

why are there multiple mod allowace windows should just have one in the mod menu for the ones i dowloaded not 2 it gets confusing af

the loot rarity is mostly common hit save go back log in nothing is set exit go to mod menu and it all resets to rare...

[ionic galleon]

Have anyone considered or created a patch system for java?

By patching the java byte code to add prefixes postfixes etc to methods or straight up patch some parts?

Like the only difference between it and an approach like harmony is that harmony works in runtime

[drifting ore]

There is an event like OnPlayerBitten or OnPlayerInfected? I find nothing. The objective is to know when the player is infected

Also, how do i equip a weapon in a specific hand in lua? And if it is possible to know if we can equip the weapon with one hand or only with two hands.

[vital cipher]

so inorder to make server settings i have to go to the bottom server copy and edit that to be the sameas the top one?

since in list there is 2 copys of my server and one is apperently the savings?

[west crystal]

Oh yeah, first one so far

[dark solar]

and so it begins

[west crystal]

Well i consider 1 out of 250 subscribers a not so bad result

[devout moat]

Hello I am here to tell modders that their mods don't work nothing happens alright got to go oh also pls fix

[dark solar]

Tells modder than their mod does not work
Does not provide any further context
Leaves

[west crystal]

YES

i can feel it because this dude does not respond and his profile is private so i can't even dm him

[devout moat]

It do be like that

[dark solar]

they probably just dont know how to enable a mod or something

[west crystal]

This would be the best case scenario because i have no fucking clue what to fix in a folder with 5 textures and nothing else

[dark solar]

i must ask, how do you acquire the specialist role because it seems like they're being handed off like candy lol

[west crystal]

I have no idea, i was survivalist last time i was present in "modding community"

[dark solar]

curious

[west crystal]

[dark solar]

lol

[west crystal]

Like, literally, what the fuck should i fix

[dark solar]

its probably just a problem on their end

i wouldn't think too much of it

people have all sorts of wacky issues all the time

[topaz valley]

Anyone know of a way to claim non residential buildings, and if i do not claim one and use it as a base, will i lose stuff in it?

[sour island]

Anyone have a way to test MP code alone?

[ruby urchin]

with two PC jeje

[sour island]

seems legit

[terse matrix]

@west crystal You might have made a coding mistake or a Typo (such as one of the textures not be capialized but in the code it is) Or your missing a comma. Happens to me all the time, Does it work for you?\

i'm pretty sure it does

[west crystal]

there is no code...

[terse matrix]

and or you didn't put all the files into the md

[west crystal]

at all

[terse matrix]

Really there is no code?

Did it work in your game?

[west crystal]

Really, that is just a folder with 5 body textures

[west crystal]

Yes

And i think other 260 peeps would tell me if it would not work

[terse matrix]

Ah ok, sorry i thought something was up

if i wasen't working for one guy then its props his game/how it was installed

[west crystal]

You can test it yourself, the more info the better for everyone

[terse matrix]

Basely tell him to reinstall zomboid and see if it works then, and or to check the error logs and send them to you

So many people forget the error logs/logs exist 🙄

The error/logs help a lot

or ask them to turn on debug mode and see the problem

[west crystal]

I think if he can't fix it himself turning on debug mode is above his level

[terse matrix]

Of course, I'm so sorry your having this problem but ask him to send the error logs tell him what file its in

And tell him the date of the file he must check it should be something liek Log-24-12-2021

[west crystal]

Well i wrote the comment, waiting for him to respond

[terse matrix]

Cool, Your doing amazing work thanks for modding the game

little labors of love they are

[west crystal]

[terse matrix]

btw do you guys have some guides on lua? beginner tips ect

[west crystal]

i was just inspecting other mods as a reference

[junior jasper]

The guy doesn't understand how to activate his mods for multiplayer, it's not your fault.

[sand shoal]

hey what do you guys think of the defecation mod

[brittle jewel]

@sour island Change 'steam=1' to 0 in the StartServer bat file and do the same in the ProjectZomboid bat file in the game directory. Then you can launch multiple instances (with the .bat)

[brittle jewel]

It is the best. I'm totally not biased and I'm totally not the mod author.

[terse matrix]

it doesn'

[sand shoal]

lol good job man love the audio

[terse matrix]

it doesn't seem to be working for me,

odd

[brittle jewel]

It works for everyone else. I would make sure you've got it installed and activated correctly.

[west crystal]

is this about my mod?

[terse matrix]

no the poop mod,

[west crystal]

ok ok, good

well not good if it's not working

good that it's not mine that doesn't work

[terse matrix]

Tbh in PZ sometimes i just play dress up before playing the game like: I'm gonna look so fine

also if possble can someone mod in facial hair for younger characters?

[west crystal]

facial hair... for younger characters?

[abstract wave]

Hey guys, is ```c
Events.EveryTenMinutes

[weary matrix]

@ionic galleon I made a system to load java mods but it's not ready for MP yet. No patching though

[weary matrix]

I guess you could use OnPlayerUpdate

[weary matrix]

        local primary = true
        local twoHands = false
        ISWorldObjectContextMenu.equip(player, player:getPrimaryHandItem(), spear, primary, twoHands)

also you can use IsoPlayer method: setPrimaryHandItem, setSecondaryHandItem

[terse matrix]

is it possble to add weight based off the streight stat?

[errant meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-agree-yup-nod-gif-14017499

[terse matrix]

Ok i think i'm ready to start my busy work where are the code files held?

[rocky lynx]

Soon! 😄

[sour island]

Oh that's handy

I got 9 comments on a single mod and now I can't see the page's comments?

[sour island]

Do you mean ProjectZomboidServer.bat?

[tight blade]

Weight as in like carry weight, I assume?

Since I know the code that handles that is "setMaxWeightBase" and it's default value is 8.
And setting it to 10 makes it increase your capacity by 25%

[terse matrix]

No i ment the characters weight.

You know more KG per streght stat

You way more because of your streght stat

[tight blade]

Oh I see, I haven't looked for that so I don't know that's line of code atm

[terse matrix]

I might be able to figure this out my self where are the code files kept?

I'll look for them my self if that can't be answered

[tight blade]

Well I know this is where you can find out how to get you can find codes so I can imagine you are able to find the code that gets the weight value and code from there

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Event

[terse matrix]

thank you jackpot

[tight blade]

np, it helped answer a lot of my own questions especially when deciding on how to do "extra damage" more reliably.

[weary matrix]

@sour island just found this in Aiteron NPC mod, though it might give a hint about the issue with conditional speech and NPC speech going through the main player:

o.sayDialog = NPCSayDialog:new(o.character)```

[trim forum]

Do modded maps work in MP?

[terse matrix]

i'd assume theres nothing that would make it conflict other what i'd assume being the mini map

Also i'm lowkey map that you don't need a map for the mini map ugh,

[torpid briar]

What's that mod

[vapid wind]

is there a specific list of known mods that work with multiplayer?

[rocky lynx]

Ammo Maker from my mod pack that will be updated soon! 😄

[ionic galleon]

Is it on GitHub?

[weary matrix]

https://github.com/quarantin/javamods

[ionic galleon]

why not make the game load it instead of the other way around?

[weary matrix]

@ionic galleon how would you do that without patching the game?

[ionic galleon]

well you would need a patcher however since it's only a hook it shouldn't be extremely complicated

[weary matrix]

@ionic galleon it's not about being complicated, the problem if you patch the game is whenever the game updates or when users check file integrity with steam your java mods would be broken basically

you'd have to reinstall the patch every time

[ionic galleon]

I'm aware of that issue, tho I have done it before

i did it in rimworld with cecil

[drifting ore]

That's what I told myself but I wanted something else for performance issues

[weary matrix]

@drifting ore don't worry too much about the performance, it's Lua

[ionic galleon]

[weary matrix]

unless you do something crazy (as in algorithm complexity) you should be fine

[ionic galleon]

how bad is the current multiplayer situation, I have a feeling that a sync horror show is happening

[weary matrix]

@ionic galleon can you imagine how much support you'd have to provide with all the people complaining about the java mods not working because there was a game update or checked file integrity with steam

[drifting ore]

Yes but it will check every moment against checked once in the game. It's the kind of little opti that I like to think about upstream

[ionic galleon]

not going to be worse than rimworld

nothing is.

[weary matrix]

@ionic galleon anyway that was just to answer your question about why I'm launching the game instead of the opposite

I don't want any patching to occur, to avoid the problems I mentioned earlier

[drifting ore]

What is the main reason to do a mod in java instead of lua ? Performance ?

[weary matrix]

@drifting ore nothing about performance, just have access to the whole java engine, you can do stuff that would be impossible from Lua

[ionic galleon]

tbh, unless it has some type of runtime patching, it's going to limit what can be done. the way I used to do it is by keeping a copy of the unpatched game and launching the patched version

[drifting ore]

Ok just for java libraries, make sense

[weary matrix]

@drifting ore for example the first javamod I made as a proof of concept was a quicksave mod, from Lua you can probably save your gave, but you won't be able to reload the saved game, unless you do it manually

@ionic galleon let's agree to disagree 😅

for example the average zomboid player is not able to locate zomboid install folder on their hard drive

I don't have the time or energy to spoon-feed all the people that would complain because their java mod don't work (after they updated the game or checked file integrity without realizing the impact)

right now I can expose any java class to Lua + add all the global functions I want

only limitation is if you want to add custom Events

but there are ways around this most of the time

@ionic galleon also there are other projects for java mods that patch the game if you need

[ionic galleon]

oh I know, I have ptsd from that

i print the path to log ingame

[sour island]

I think Aiteron made his own Say()

[ionic galleon]

100x time

and no one read it

[weary matrix]

hehe

[ionic galleon]

I have a combined of 300k users in rimworld and a small amount in ksp

[weary matrix]

prolly he did, but it makes me wonder why he would have done it unless to solve the same issue you have with conditional speech

[ionic galleon]

in my experience you educate a small part of the user base to do the support heavy lifting

and in return give them insider access and a say in what you do.

[weary matrix]

sure you could do that if you want

the way I do my stuff it can only break if the dev change the mechanism to expose java class to Lua and global functions (for the java mod loader itself I mean) or if they change the way the game is launched

[drifting ore]

Are there any changes to make for the mod to work in multiplayer? I am using getPlayer(), which is the only place I can have a problem if the game takes the wrong player

Merry christmas btw all

[weary matrix]

@drifting ore not 100% sure about that yet, but I think if it's only client-side code, getPlayer() should be ok (it's just assumption on my side though)

[drifting ore]

I hope so, I will need to find someone to test with

[weary matrix]

@drifting ore in which context do you need access to the player object?

from a Lua event handler or something else?

[weary matrix]

I can help you test it if you need

[drifting ore]

I use it everywhere, that's what scares me a little but if I'm doing well, I can clean everything and use it once per player

[drifting ore]

Thx, I don't know when I gonna finish it. In 2-3 days I think, I text you when I need you

[barren glacier]

I'm having a problem uploading a mod to steam and it's driving me nuts. Has anyone had this happen:

I don't really understand what the problem is and it's driving me insane.

[winter bolt]

you need to put the mod.info file inside the actual mod file instead of the workshop folder

the workshop folder needs a workshop.txt

[barren glacier]

What documentation are you using that instructs you to do that? I looked a few tutorials and that hasn't been mentioned as part of the upload process, so I'm sure I'm making other mistakes too. (EDIT: Turns out that there was a folder in my 'mods' directory that didn't contain a mod.info file)

[winter bolt]

theres a mod template folder in the workshop folder that has all the file structures and stuff for uploading already there

[barren glacier]

I saw that but I thought that it might be an outdated version of the requirements, I'll try it exactly that way.

@winter bolt can I message you with some additional questions?

[winter bolt]

ok

[terse matrix]

how do i change my charactera weight in debug mode?

[golden blade]

Hey Guys im having trouble getting autotsar trailers working on my dedicated server

any suggestions

[harsh sapphire]

you should try #mod_support instead

[golden blade]

ok

[thin hornet]

May it help someone i'll drop this here again:

For Client/Server communication

*replace **ModuleName *by your module name ex: MoneyMod
*replace **CommandName *by your command name ex: SendMoneyTo

On the **server ** script:
When the server receive a client command

local Commands = {};
Commands.ModuleName = {};
function Commands.ModuleName.CommandName(playerObj, arguments)
  --- do things on the server when this command has been received
  --- playerObj is the client who sent the command
  --- arguments is the kahlua table containing the data
end
function onClientCommand(module, command, playerObj, args)
  if Commands[module] and Commands[module][command] then
    Commands[module][command](playerObj, arguments);
  end
end
Events.OnClientCommand.Add(onClientCommand);

On the **client ** script:
When a client receive a server command

local Commands = {};
Commands.ModuleName = {};
function Commands.ModuleName.CommandName(arguments)
  --- do things on the client when this command has been received
  --- arguments is the kahlua table containing the data
end
function onServerCommand(module, command, arguments)
  if Commands[module] and Commands[module][command] then
    Commands[module][command](arguments);
  end
end
Events.OnServerCommand.Add(onServerCommand);

Sending Commands:

-- Send command CLIENT to SERVER
sendClientCommand(playerObj, "ModuleName", "CommandName", { someData = 1 });

-- Send command SERVER to CLIENT
sendServerCommand("ModuleName", "CommandName", { someData = 1 }); -- to all player
sendServerCommand(playerObj, "ModuleName", "CommandName", { someData = 1 }); -- to specific player

[civic galleon]

Just pushed an update for Sleep With Friends, now uses an option in Time under Sandbox thanks to @weary matrix
Also recovers endurance faster as well

[thin hornet]

@civic galleon great mod man 🙂

[civic galleon]

Thank you

We have more planned for it, but I may have to wait until the mrs goes to bed, she seems a little peeved I just spent 3 hours messing around with PZ on xmas eve 🤣

[thin hornet]

oh its xmass i forgot

[undone crag]

Right before Christmas we had a Covid and quarantine situation :|

Does someone know how the game networks moddata? Is an object's moddata edited independently on each client and on the server? Is it networked with each update, in which case care should be taken to avoid lagz? Is it networked less frequently than it may be updated?

[thin hornet]

IsoObject moddata can be transmitted

Transmit IsoObject ModData to everyone

myIsoObject:getModData().testValue = 1;
myIsoObject:transmitModData();

[undone crag]

Okay so maybe it is not networked by default. I imagine this could cause some desynchs maybe.

[thin hornet]

It is not transmitted by default you have to call the method on the IsoObject after it's changed

[undone crag]

Okay hmm thou hast my thanks for that knowledge.

[thin hornet]

I still have to test for InventoryItem modData to know how that works

didnt see a transmitModData method there

[undone crag]

I noticed there's a function to transmit removing a world item or picking up an item as well as the local picking up of the world item, and just one function for putting the world item there...

[willow estuary]

A placeholder version of one of the "workbench" items required for higher tier crafting in a project. They're not drivable; towable; or pushable, and randomly spawn with other vehicles.
ie, for MP, higher tier crafts require going to randomly generated public locations with your materials, to generate both risk and interactivity.

This vehicle would be used for crafting and repairing bladed melee weapons.

The purpose of this one should be self-evident.

And you can access the trunk/cargo while inside the vehicle for ease of crafting.

[opal wind]

very cool man!

i did Juliet Starling, the zombie killer from lollipop chainsaw game 🙂

[civic galleon]

is there a value for furniture quality that one can pull its data from?

a sleep modifier if you will but just for the furniture quality

[opal wind]

finish up her outfit with meshed baggy socks 🙂

[drifting ore]

Anyone know of a easy way to add a function to all active zombies every minute?

[hot patrol]

Speaking of chainsaws I wanna play as Power from Chainsaw man!

[opal wind]

there is a chainsaw on authenticZ mod, but he did not add a sound when you swing it yet 😛

kinda works thou lol

[dry oracle]

guys

what is this?

[hot patrol]

I know there is an animation for using a chainsaw in the game. I had wanted to test my modeling skills buy making a picture chainsaw weapon

[opal wind]

haha

[dry oracle]

please help

[hot patrol]

Looks like you gotta force update your mod

[dry oracle]

how

[opal wind]

try to unsub and sub again

[hot patrol]

First try unsubbing to it and redubbing. If that doesn't work I'm pretty sure there is a guide to a more sure fire fix but idk what the link is.

[opal wind]

oh man i still need to play the multiplayer... but i had a major problem back on b41 im kinda scared now lol

you got a server Nalmac?

i think i want to join some server sometime before i make one

[hot patrol]

I've been doing more personal coop stuff since I find the game better suited to that but for normal MP play I've just been joining well populated server I can find on the browser

Which btw I have to say the browser really needs some work. I'm hoping that is one of the first things the devs touch up after the holidays

[opal wind]

they said to join 'whitelist:On' servers but all i see there are 'off' lol

and when i try to join it says i have to be invited

[uncut meteor]

i'm having a issue right now with gun sound
When i shoot standstill the sound plays perfectly but when i shoot then move my character around or rotate my camera the sound start stuttering any idea ?

[hot patrol]

Yea that basically Means they are locked to invite only

[opal wind]

like all the servers are invite only?

[hot patrol]

Not all but most it seems

[opal wind]

never seen one that is not yet

[hot patrol]

It's hard to tell

[opal wind]

i see

[dry oracle]

well mine is also invitation only

xD

[opal wind]

maybe you guys can invite me sometime? i just want to play MP a bit lol

not now i mean when you guys play

[dry oracle]

idk the server might be lagging

like the other too

i m still checking

[opal wind]

ah

[hot patrol]

Like I said my server is only really a small coop one for me and a few friends. I'm helping them learn the game

I'm also looking for a more community server

[opal wind]

yeah i prb should make one but i had a major bug when i did back on the beta test version, i had to re-install the game

im kinda scared lol

[hot patrol]

What bug?

[dry oracle]

literally a lot

[hot patrol]

Things have been working pretty solidly on my end. Some zombie weirdness at times but I've been playing DayZ since 2012 so it's nothing I can't handle

My only real complaint lies with the server browser. I was really hoping we would get a revamped one to replace the the old build 40 one.

Because man is it not good

[thin hornet]

@civic galleon Hi mate, if i didnt set ```
SleepWithFriends = {
SleepLength = x,
},

will it default to something?

[opal wind]

i dont know man i create this server and when i tried to load it a second time it crashed the game and i had to re-install it, but was back when was on b41 and i was switching all the time to 41.56 to play solo... i think that wont happen now

was nasty

[hot patrol]

Strange.

Yea at worst I've had my server fail to start but simply retrying it works

[civic galleon]

no

if you manually applied it, x has to be replaced

[thin hornet]

no i mean if i didnt add anything

[civic galleon]

ohhhh

yes, it will default to 2, which is 2 hours

I believe I have the math right to be able to set mod by IRL times, but that is not close to ready yet

[thin hornet]

cool man 😄

[civic galleon]

like, set 1 min sleep no matter the day length

also, im close to an AutoWake toggle

[thin hornet]

In my server i used the 1 hour

its perfect

too long is anoying for me (my pref)

[civic galleon]

then you will want the setting to be 1

[thin hornet]

yes

again great mod, i hated to not sleep in MP

[civic galleon]

thank you and same

drove me nuts

and to learn how to play with lua

[civic galleon]

Alright, I have updated Sleep With Friends yet again

and it now has an option to enable or disable Auto-Wake

merry xmas

and goodnight

[thin hornet]

Nice

Gnight man

[civic galleon]

If I can manage to sleep at this point lmao. No I feel like I gotta figure out how to include a custom moodle to notify players on servers with auto-wake off and not using Minimal Display Bars when they have fully rested and are just sleeping extra

I mean, notifying via chat box would likely be easiest, but thats lame as hell

[thin hornet]

Updated FuelAPI to let modders add Fuel Containing IsoObject
Vanilla Barrel can now contain Fuel

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2688538916

[pearl prism]

Nice

[civic galleon]

Very nice

[weary matrix]

awesome!

[civic galleon]

Also, is anyone else having issues with Sleep With Friends v1.1.1?

[weary matrix]

what kind of issues?

[civic galleon]

Or is someone commenting its broken cause they didnt make sure it updated right

Oh hey lol

[weary matrix]

hey 😄

[thin hornet]

No sleep with friends work very well for me

[drifting ore]

Hi guys, is there a way to get a table with all the zombies in a chunk with players in it?

[brittle jewel]

Sorry, I was away from my computer all day. You probably already figured it out, but I have the dedicated server installed, so I edit the StartServer64.bat in the dedicated server root. I haven't tried it with the ProjectZomboidServer.bat in the game root.

[civic galleon]

I started having issues with the mod and my personal dedi not updating mods correctly, so I freaked out and delisted Sleep With Friends so people dont complain it doesnt work because it didnt update properly

If its a rare issue i will relist it, but right now I cannot work on it

[mint sphinx]

hmm is there any example on how to make or add a new meta/properties setting under sandbox options?

[thin hornet]

Hey is it just me or workshop mod update is anoying asf?

like people need to unsub/resub the updated mod

[weary matrix]

check my spear traps mod: https://github.com/quarantin/zomboid-spear-traps/blob/main/media/sandbox-options.txt

[thin hornet]

is there a way like we go all complain somewhere to steam so they fix that asap

[weary matrix]

@thin hornet are you 100% sure it's a steam bug?

[mint sphinx]

fun part was thining about pm you lol

[thin hornet]

well man, mod is updated, and we keep having issues about mod not on right version until we unsub and resub

[weary matrix]

just asking cause I never used mods with other steam games, but I guess you're right

[weary matrix]

hehe

[civic galleon]

Relisted the mod with a note for people that I cant help them if they have issues today

On xmas of all days smdh

It just sucks the issues are so over the map and never exactly the same. Personally seems like an issue with PZ commuicating with The Workshop consistently

Or vice versa

Cause even my private dedi is giving errors trying to update FluffyHair, and every mod down the line as I removed tbem

[weary matrix]

@mint sphinx also check media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/Sandbox_EN.txt
Then in code you can use the value like this: SandboxVars.SpearTraps.SpearTrapsKillPlayer

[mint sphinx]

i know i just try to see how you add a new page like foo

[weary matrix]

ah haven't tried to add a new page though

[mint sphinx]

i already knew how to grab the variable from sandbox 🙂

[weary matrix]

mmm guess you could try to set it in sandbox-options.txt directly maybe

let me know if it's working

[mint sphinx]

also guess this part might be a bit more out of normal scope for most games lol

[weary matrix]

which part do you mean?

[mint sphinx]

that people add to SandboxVars?

[weary matrix]

mm I guess it's legitimate to add custom sandbox vars, seen plenty of mods doing it

[mint sphinx]

might just play the wrong mods then

[weary matrix]

why do you need the sandbox vars anyway? Just curious

[mint sphinx]

first just to learn all small part of the game all form tiles. and tiles propeties when i have a break from writing my thesis xD and after that. i want to make a larger mod in the long run. which added quite a bit of things..

[weary matrix]

have you found your answer yet?

[drifting ore]

No not yet, i'm with my family today for the holidays so i will see tomorrow but i was asking the question upstream in case there is an easy and obvious way to do it

[weary matrix]

@drifting ore I guess OnZombieUpdate is just called for zombies that are in a chunk where there's a player but I'm not 100% sure

[drifting ore]

Make sense, worth a try, otherwise I saw a mod to help manage chunks

[weary matrix]

do you need something efficient?

[drifting ore]

but I try to calculate the distance between the zombies, if I start to do it just for all the zombies without chunking history it may quickly require too much computing power. But an isoLivingCharacter does not have a variable of the type nearbyZombie

[drifting ore]

Yep, that the main issue

[weary matrix]

then I guess your best bet is to use OnZombieUpdate and store each zombie in a table from there, something like:

AllZombies = {}
function OnZombieUpdate(zombie) {
    AllZombies[zombie:hashCode()] = zombie
}```

[drifting ore]

D'ailleurs un gros merci pour ton aide en général et les docs que tu mets a disposition, super boulot ! @weary matrix

[weary matrix]

merci 😄

ça fait plaisir que ça serve au moins

[drifting ore]

I don't think that's gonna do it, i have to calculate the distance from each zombie to all the other zombies. The number of calculations is a factorial, for just 100 zombies, that's 9.3e+157 calculations!

But I can do it for every 10min ingame and not every update so I don't need a perfect opti

[weary matrix]

what I showed you is just to get the table of zombies, then of course you'd have to compute your stuff in another place

may I ask why you need to compute distance between each zombies?

[ruby urchin]

You can get cell coords and comparate with zeds coords, this way you can get all zeds on cell

[sour island]

I can actually launch two instances of the game using the bat's and use the Host in menu - then just connect to my local ip with the other.

[drifting ore]

The idea is to make a mod which, if a zombie has enough zombies in a perimeter, it will fly for 10min (get on a higher height). The objective is to do a bit like in world war Z with the waves of zombies that stack up and can climb walls. This is to remove exploits like the impregnable base by removing the stairs

[weary matrix]

oh nice

[weary matrix]

pretty sure there's a better way than computing distance between each zombie though

[drifting ore]

Isn't that calculating the distance? I don't understand your idea I think

[drifting ore]

I don't think so, the principle is based on whether there are enough zombies in an area so I necessarily need the distance. Otherwise I have to rethink the whole idea but there may be an alternative that comes up with a similar result

[weary matrix]

mmm so for the stacking to occur, you'd need multiple zombies on the same square or how would you decide if you should stack them?

[hexed arrow]

is there a simple mod to look at for learning purposes that just has a script that triggers on an event?

[drifting ore]

Something like this, if there are 5 or more zombies within a radius of .5m from the zombies, bring them up. After I look for a good number and radius with tests

[weary matrix]

any particular event in mind?

[weary matrix]

what about checking for each zombie if the squares around it have zombies on them?

[ruby urchin]

Oh sorry, my bad
try with this

--OnZombieUpdate Event

if not zombiesCoords[Zombie] then
    
    table.insert(zombiesCoords, Zombie))
else
    for k,v in pairs(zombiesCoords) do
        if v ~= Zombie then
            local zombieCoords = {x = math.floor(Zombie:getX()), y = math.floor(Zombie:getY()), z = Zombie:getZ()}
        local Vdist = math.sqrt(((math.floor(v:getX()) - zombieCoords.x)^2) + ((math.floor(v:getY()) - zombieCoords.y)^2))

            if Vdist < 0.5 then
            --- your code
            end
        end
end

not tested (Obviously, you need improve it, for example. that the above is fulfilled only if they are at a certain distance from the player)

[drifting ore]

Try

--my code
End

Events.eventFunction(myFunction)```
Arg1, arg2 et eventFunction are on internet

[drifting ore]

Easy one, I will try it thx

[drifting ore]

I prefer not to do a gobal table, for example if I end up with a stack of 10 zombies. The risk is that 8 detects that there is enough zombie and goes up but I don't want that. I try to do it one after the other, the zombie detects this around, goes up and changes to another zombie. Like that on the stack of 10, only 2-3 goes up because there are fewer and fewer zombies nearby

[hexed arrow]

What would a script look like that plays a defined sound when a certain item is picked up or equiped?

[tall compass]

Hello.

I am trying to find a way to remove/disable a couple of vanilla recipes in a mod i'm working on.
The recipes in question are the Rip Clothing that apparently use the same name to normal clothing, denim and leather. i've tried to use Override:true and Obsolete:true to no success, anyone know how to work around it?

[weary matrix]

not sure how to catch item picked up or equipped :/

@tall compass what are you trying to achieve?

[tall compass]

Hello.

I created a mod so people can cut leather and denims with knifes, axes, machete keytars, anything edgy. The issue is that it's showing both the original recipe with the scissors and the new one, even when i put override

[weary matrix]

ah I see

[west crystal]

uhhh... since when keytars are... sharp?

[weary matrix]

@tall compass guess you could just remove the context menu entry for ripping cloth?

[tall compass]

i said edgy, not sharp. =p

[weary matrix]

guess he meant katana but spell check failed 😅

[west crystal]

i mean it's not even edgy

it's literally a midi keyboard made from plastic

[tall compass]

how i can do it?

and excuse me, it's the edgiest instrument ever created and i shall die in this hill. (also a small easter egg because why not =p)

[weary matrix]

not sure it's the best way but this should work #mod_development message

this example will remove the first menu entry

guess you'll have to iterate the context menu to find the index your want removed

[undone elbow]

How to get computed player damage (with all modifiers, including perks and debuffs)?

print(getPlayer():getDamage()) -- always 100

[tall compass]

Now out of curiosity, is there a call or tag that i can use to get all items/weapons that do cut/slash/whateverIsCalled damage? the same way i can use [Recipe.GetItemTypes.RipClothing_Leather] for things tagged to create leather?

I ask that because one obvious improvement i see in the mod is supporting knives of others mods

[weary matrix]

for example I use this to get any kind of spear from player inventory:

    local items = getPlayer():getInventory():getAllEvalRecurse(function(item, player)
        if item:isBroken() then return false end
        if item:getScriptItem():getCategories():contains('Spear') then return true end
        return false
    end, ArrayList.new())

[tall compass]

ok, thx

[weary matrix]

your check might be different though, like checking tags instead of categories etc

[tall compass]

oh boy, i just checked

i was thinking in using he category, look for small blade

but butter knife is there

know what, i'm lazy i will look for mindamage above 0.2 XD

[undone elbow]

Which decompiler works for PZ for now?

[weary matrix]

https://github.com/quarantin/beautiful-java

[weary matrix]

ButterKnife has no DamageCategory though

not sure about other small blades

[mint sphinx]

@weary matrix do you know if you can overwrite vanilla .tiles if you have other value insite a mod ?

[tall compass]

both butter and bread knife have Categories = SmallBlade,

[weary matrix]

no idea, but why do you need overwrite? Can't you just place your custom tiles on top of existing ones?

@tall compass so you check category == "SmallBlade" and DamageCategory ~= nil or something like that

[mint sphinx]

dont know if i can that i might also i kind of find it funny how the dev have made the things 🙂 you enable to set a max number on some object through the tile editor if you then go and look how the dev have done it is not even using that system xD

[weary matrix]

prolly they made the new system after making the old tiles

and haven't migrated since

[mint sphinx]

That might be true also didn't check if it was an sandbox option on it.

[heavy ginkgo]

does anyone know if Paws low loot works in MP

[mint sphinx]

dont know but did you ask in mod_support about that question ?

[terse matrix]

hey how do i change the translate files?

[zealous wing]

Question: Are there any special considerations one has to take into account when ensuring a mod works for multiplayer? I.e., things like file structure or whatnot?

Asking because I've gotten several bug reports regarding some of my mods not working in MP, despite functioning perfectly in SP.

Like I said, not sure what to fix because AFAICT there's nothing broken/to fix.

[sonic atlas]

what is the proper way to remove an item from the world? All of these return an error:

obj:remoobjeFromWorld();
obj:remoobjeFromSquare();
obj:setSquare(nil);
obj:setWorldItem(nil);
obj:setJobDelta(0.0);```

[quasi geode]

absolutely. but thats too vague to answer without specifics. 90% of bug reports i've been noticing lately are just plain wrong... being blamed on the wrong mod etc... unless they're giving a complete report with stack traces and all, best you can do is fire up a server and test yourself to reproduce the issue then go from there.

[zealous wing]

LMAO, great to know.

[zealous wing]

Also, I don't suppose you know if the devs changed how the game reads distribution files? I'm noticing a lot fewer errors on my end in regards to those.

E.g., I'm reworking a distro for one of my mods. the container "CrateRandomitems" no longer exists, but the old code no longer throws an error like it normally would have. Have they set it up to just ignore/skip wrong and broken containers like that or is it something else?

[quasi geode]

i havent looked at the distro files in ages

[zealous wing]

All right.

Sorry if I was interrupting.

[quasi geode]

not at all lol

[drifting ore]

my friend and i just got the game any qol of life mods worth getting? im getting absolutely shreked and i can't find him

[civic galleon]

Ive been wondering the same thing about mods and errors. Doesnt help that a lot of people are trying to cram 30+ mods when that wasnt the most stable in SP

Ive had so many various reports about my mod working or not working, version issues, coding not working but only sometimes

Cant tell if everyone is having a problem cause lord knows how many people just click unsub and move on

[winter bolt]

i feel that lmao. i keep getting people telling me my mods dont work in multiplayer even though they work fine whenever i use them in mp

[weary matrix]

are you trying to remove an item that is in player inventory maybe?

[weary matrix]

could you be more specific? 😅

[terse matrix]

Sure, I'm looking to change the text in the game, and i'd like to know what files i need to edit and how to make it work?

[weary matrix]

media/lua/shared/Translate/

[terse matrix]

How do i be able to put it in other peoples game/ my game?

[weary matrix]

it should work if you have same ID for the translation, I'm not 100% sure though

[terse matrix]

Can i just change the ingame file or do i have to put it in a mod file?

[weary matrix]

ingame file?

[opal wind]

lol

[weary matrix]

you mean the file from vanilla?

[terse matrix]

Yes yes

like in the games files not a mod file

[weary matrix]

if you modify the file from vanilla directly it will only affect you

[terse matrix]

Ah ok and how can i make this a mod?

[weary matrix]

well just make a mod with the translation you want to replace

[terse matrix]

And what file names do i need for that?

Mod/media/lua/shared?

then the text file to replace it?

[weary matrix]

same as in vanilla

[terse matrix]

cool,

[opal wind]

guys i made a bracer model here, but as you guys can see it protect the Hand part, i want the Forearms, but you cant simple set BodyLocation = Forearms on the item file because there is not such a body location, anybody could help me create a new bodylocation? (like the guy from scrap armor did with shoulders)

[terse matrix]

so can you tell me all the file folders i need for it to work?

then i should be good to go?

[winter bolt]

the game uses the bloodlocation to determine what body parts a clothing item protects

[weary matrix]

just mod.info and the translation files I guess

[terse matrix]

cool.

[winter bolt]

i'm not sure what the name of the one you'd want is but it might be "lowerarms" or something like that

[weary matrix]

@terse matrix if you think a translation is not good you should submit a pull-request to TIS's github though

[opal wind]

yes but you need to create new groups i think, i tried with 'forearms' and got 200 errors lol

[terse matrix]

its not a translation its just me edited a text file so something is more to my liking

[winter bolt]

try BloodLocation = LowerArms,

[terse matrix]

I made it an edit to the opening screen to make it more "Hopful" if anyone wants it here you go

I'm sick of PZ negtivety, so have fun with a more hopful zomboid

but all it says is "THESE ARE THE NEW TIMES" "THERE WAS HOPE OF SURVIVAL" AND "THIS IS HOW YOU SURVIVED"

(Yes you may upload it to the work shop

[opal wind]

i will, let u know soon

im finishing a boot mesh here

[winter swift]

Coming soon... ish..

[drifting ore]

group:getOrCreateLocation("myBodyLocation")```

you put it in lua/shared/NPCs/ExtraBodyLocations.lua

[opal wind]

BloodLocation? u mean Body right?

[opal wind]

woah! thats it?

but where do i set what parts of body (like forearms and such) my new bodylocation covers?

[drifting ore]

That I don't know, I don't use it by if you find something let me know

[sonic atlas]

trying to delete an object that fell to the ground

[opal wind]

that did not change anything, still protecting the hands

[weary matrix]

mmm each square is a container, so maybe you have to remove it from the container first?

[winter bolt]

what does your item script look like?

[opal wind]

item Wiz_SheraBracer
{
DisplayCategory = Accessory,
Type = Clothing,
DisplayName = She-ra Bracer,
ClothingItem = Wiz_SheraBracer,
BodyLocation = LowerArms,
Icon = Wiz_SheraBracer,
BloodLocation = Hands,
Insulation = 0.05,
WindResistance = 0.1,
ScratchDefense = 100,
BiteDefense = 100,
Weight = 0.4,
FabricType = Leather,
WorldStaticModel = GlovesLong_Ground,
}

i think i will remove that fabric entrance, since its a metal bracer hhee

or people would be able to rip it

aparently the game reads 'LowerArms' on body location as 'hands' too, or im missing something here?

[ruby urchin]

BodyLocation != BloodLocation

BodyLocation is only for clothing location and BloodLocation is the bodypart protection

[winter bolt]

change BloodLocation = Hands, to BloodLocation = LowerArms,

[restive fractal]

Anyone knows which mod causes most vehicles to be missing their seats?

[opal wind]

ah cool i will try now, bodylocations is for like the cloth order then? like what goes over what?

but i dont have to set a group for the lowerarms like dislaik said?

[winter bolt]

yeah pretty much

you might still want to make the bodylocation though since i'm not sure what existing clothing slots would work for bracers

[leaden bobcat]

If you do this keep the first two lines and make the last one “this is how you survived”

You don’t need the first two

[shy hearth]

ey all, anyone have any tips for making a character spawn wearing a specific item of clothing? struggling to understand which event to use, among other things lmao

[patent violet]

Is anyone able to make a mod to quickly toggle between controller/mousekeyboard? I'm guessing not a lot of people play with controller but i wish there was an option to. I wish to use the "Place item" feature a lot, but it's not very usefull on controller. But i have to turn off my controller which takes like 10+ seconds of holding the PS button, so i can finally switch back to Mouse/keyboard and then place items , then take control with controller again..

The game instantly recognizes when a controller disconnects, so i was hoping someone could figure out how to "force" it instead

[opal wind]

yeah just changing the bloodlocation give errors and the model wont show; i have to create a new group, i just dont know how to link it to Forearms part

[winter bolt]

are you sure its the blood location?

what does the error say?

[opal wind]

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: unknown location "LowerArms"
at zombie.characters.WornItems.BodyLocationGroup.getLocationNotNull(BodyLocationGroup.java:29)
at zombie.characters.WornItems.BodyLocationGroup.isExclusive(BodyLocationGroup.java:61)
at zombie.inventory.types.Clothing.DoTooltip(Clothing.java:215)
at zombie.inventory.InventoryItem.DoTooltip(InventoryItem.java:592)
... 46 more

aparently it even mess around the zombie stuff lol

this only happens when i set LowerArms to BloodLocation, when i set to Body nothing changes

[winter bolt]

thats the bodylocation lol

[weary matrix]

anyone knows how to use FMOD studio? 😅
I need to understand how the strings bank is created

[opal wind]

its set on both look

item Wiz_SheraBracer
{
DisplayCategory = Accessory,
Type = Clothing,
DisplayName = She-ra Bracer,
ClothingItem = Wiz_SheraBracer,
BodyLocation = LowerArms,
Icon = Wiz_SheraBracer,
BloodLocation = LowerArms,
Insulation = 0.1,
WindResistance = 0.5,
ScratchDefense = 100,
BiteDefense = 100,
Weight = 1.0,
WorldStaticModel = GlovesLong_Ground,
}

and dont ask me why but the errors only happens when i set the blood location lol

[winter bolt]

did you create the body location as well?

because that error is because it cant find the body location