mod_development

[sour lion]

you tried 'add safehouse' and painting around it?

you stand at the top of the building then walk across then down

and mark it as added

add safezone my bad

i can seemingly mark them on mine i dont have that map mod installed but on other ones

like a police station

i dont know if its a spawn location tho

[hollow pecan]

police station is a spawn location in rosewood at least

let e try with your fix

Ooooh ok

You have to paint the whole zone by walking ?

[sour lion]

yes

[hollow pecan]

I am officially dumb

[sour lion]

turn that flashing thing on to make it easier to see

nah no worries you got it figured out for you and your buddies - sweet!

[hollow pecan]

Yeah, thanks 😄

Safezone and safehouse have the same functions, meaning no zombies spawning inside ?

[sour lion]

seems that way ya

they will spawn outside but just come knocking ;D

[hollow pecan]

Well guess what the flashing is now red

because it is a spawn location 😦

Ah no I'm good, two zones overlapped

[sour lion]

ah ok i haven't tried that before

btw i dont know if this is helpful for your situation or not, but i also do use this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2717575749

[hollow pecan]

The safezone I put downstairs will work upstairs ?

[sour lion]

yeah

you just have to paint one level (ground) then it should work any higher levels

[hollow pecan]

Coolio

Than it's done

TYVM 😄

[sour lion]

cheers! nice glad it works

[steel jackal]

i see people play cryogenic winter on streams and their game is heavy blizzarding and i barely see light snow most of the time on a very rainy world can the difficulty of the mod change that? im 3 months in and it hasnt ever blizzarded

[placid hinge]

Fun stuff

[zealous wing]

I'd expect a Fallout super sledge to turn a zombie into a blood smear.

At least have it instakill them?

[willow estuary]

Ohhhh, looks like a clever rascal figured out the trick for adding new functional sledgehammers!

[placid hinge]

It does enough damage to better than most melee weapons enough and personally I'm not ever gonna be adding a insta kill anything unless it has very limited use like the gun on my vertibird mod

and ye lol but not my way. Found someone who made the dildo bat from the brita pack into a sledgehammer and tinkered with that

[flint beacon]

Does anyone know if anything is wrong with my code here? i keep getting an error when trying to craft the item.

function Random_Item_OnCreate(items, result, player)
   AddRandomItemToInventory({"CreditCard", "LightBulb"}, 0, 1)
   AddRandomItemToInventory({"Screwdriver", "Battery"}, 0, 1)
   player:getInventory():AddItem("Screws", 20)
end

[storm scarab]

which line is the error on

[willow estuary]

Did you make a function called AddRandomItemToInventory because I don't believe that's a actual function that exists in the game code?

[flint beacon]

@willow estuary yes i did

function AddRandomItemToInventory(items, rangeMin, rangeMax)
   local result = math.random(rangeMin, rangeMax)
   if result == 0 then return end
   
   player:getInventory():AddItem(items[result])
end

[willow estuary]

Well, in your function player isn't defined?

[storm scarab]

local?

[willow estuary]

AddRandomItemToInventory({"CreditCard", "LightBulb"}, 0, 1, player)
&
function AddRandomItemToInventory(items, rangeMin, rangeMax, player)
should work however?

[quasi geode]

for future reference, it always helps if you actually state what error you are getting.
but in this case, math.random doesnt exist in pz's kahlua. use ZombRand

[storm scarab]

oop

yeah that would be it

ZombRand can also give you zero, so if you dont want zero make sure to add on a one

[quasi geode]

function AddRandomItemToInventory(player, items)
   player:getInventory():AddItem(items[ZombRand(#items) +1])
end

though that should probably pass a player argument as well

[storm scarab]

oo

clean code

[flint beacon]

ahh i see

[thorn cipher]

Currently trying to work out how to make a new clothing set I've made spawn on zombies, are there any tutorials or pinned posts on it?

[storm scarab]

You could always just refer to another mod

They Knew does it for example

[thorn cipher]

Yeh, i've had a go at looking and recreating They Knew and Spongies's lua files for their mods, but I've got to be making a mistake somewhere in my scripting

thanks for the help btw

[storm scarab]

It takes abit of tweaking but using They Knew I was able to create an item with usability

[thorn cipher]

that spawned in on zeds?

[storm scarab]

Not on zeds no, But its mostly txt file based if I remember corrrectly

for zeds that is

[thorn cipher]

ok, will take another look at his files 🙂

[storm scarab]

Its the same concept with adding a item to a loot table, you end up inserting it into the base loot table

[thorn cipher]

yeh i think i must be making a really dumb mistake since i got it spawning in containers aha

[storm scarab]

The outfit?

[thorn cipher]

yeh just not on zeds

[storm scarab]

hm

[thorn cipher]

I think I'm probably making a spelling error or something (will triple check)

[storm scarab]

check TheyKnew_ZombieDefinition in shared npcs

has something to do with it

I wish you the best of luck

I myself have been trying to make something client side only, i'm been browsing the lua docs for hours 😂

[thorn cipher]

you and me both aha my lua file is starting to make my head spin

[storm scarab]

You will get it eventually

[fair frost]

Raccoon City Part 4

[fading prawn]

Spiffo city

Best city

Fast food and plush for all

[flint beacon]

@quasi geode sorry for the ping, i tried the code you gave me and it seemed to not work.
what my main focus for this is for it to choose a random item from the function list to create as i craft its recipe

function AddRandomItemToInventory(player, items)
   player:getInventory():AddItem(items[ZombRand(#items) +1])
end

function Credit_Card_OnCreate(items, result, player)
   AddRandomItemToInventory({"CreditCard", "LightBulb"}, 0, 1)
   AddRandomItemToInventory({"Screwdriver", "Battery"}, 0, 1)
end

I'm new to coding so i really dont know where to put what.

[quasi geode]

thats because your calling it wrong.

function AddRandomItemToInventory(player, items)
   player:getInventory():AddItem(items[ZombRand(#items) +1])
end

function Credit_Card_OnCreate(items, result, player)
   AddRandomItemToInventory(player, {"CreditCard", "LightBulb"})
   AddRandomItemToInventory(player, {"Screwdriver", "Battery"})
end

[flint beacon]

ahh i see now thank you so much for the help.

[zealous wing]

Modding Project Zomboid almost makes you wish for a Zombie Apocalypse. 😛

Adding 100s of lines of rote code can be tedious at times.

[fair frost]

Raccoon Sharks vs Spiffos Pandas football match when ???

😳

[livid mica]

can someone dm me some good mods ?

[west tapir]

can someone help me set up my gportal server?
im in bob safehouse

[dry quail]

Second mod out, still need to update first one at some point, oops

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2799742455

[viral sinew]

I was trying to modify helicopter mod to fit in MP, and I think it has to be sync between all players who are seeing choppers.
Is there a function for get all vehicles in a specific player's sight?
and if OnTick() ticks synchronously for every players in MP or is it framerate bound?

[glacial ore]

Anyone know of a mod that makes a % of the zombies to sprinters? That works for multiplayer. Apparently Customizable zombies is a bit iffy atm.

[steel jackal]

isnt there a mod that fixes long text for item descriptions from going off the side of the screen? some modded gun parts have such long descriptions that it goes off the screen

[shadow bone]

I don’t think they used a mod, they probably changed the sandbox settings and set the zombie speed to random. This means that a portion will be shambling, fast shambling, and then sprinting.

[junior raven]

When you call getCell() on the server side in MP, which cell is it getting?

[plucky rapids]

Hello, I look for mod which add animals or hunting to game to get food. Anyone knows such mod

[storm scarab]

I don't think we will get anything like that until npcs come out

[plucky rapids]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2756430960 this mod only add props or I can kill animals for food

[storm scarab]

Looks to only be props

[zenith smelt]

Is there a way to add conflict in mod info?

#mod_development message

Is there a list of mod info types somewhere?

[fast galleon]

not sure, heard mod manager does something like that

[viral sinew]

is there a way to fetch all nearby vehicles? I want to update sound and visual of cars in lua

[chrome egret]

Worst case, you should be able to scan over the cells, get their world objects, and check if any of them are vehicles (compiling those that are into a table)

[willow estuary]

getCell():getVehicles() returns an array list of vehicle IDs I believe. Or maybe the vehicle objects themselves.

[fast galleon]

I want to remove a 2nd object from server when an IsoThumpable is pickedup or destroyed but I get index error on clients. What's a good way to get around this.
I'm using the onobjectabouttoberemoved event

[near scarab]

Hey does anyone know what happened to get Better UI removed from the workshop? Anyone have any backups to reupload?

[wet sandal]

New update is out for Left Click Redux:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2795987309

If you use it and find a bug, feel free to @ me

[near scarab]

Literally just found this on the workshop and I like it so far. I didn't realise how useful it would be

[balmy prism]

What's left click redux?

[wet sandal]

@balmy prism It does a lot of stuff, the short explanation is that it makes a large amount of Zomboid playable using only the mouse.

My inspiration was Runescape's controls. Left clicking anything will make the character walk over and do a default interaction.

[balmy prism]

oh neat

[craggy furnace]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2800120579

[thorn cipher]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2800150698

[odd notch]

is there a simple method to get a list of the connected users usernames?

[honest aspen]

yes

but you have to be admin of server im pretty sure

[odd notch]

it was a small brain moment

i have recovered

[honest aspen]

ok

[pearl prism]

Nice mod, congratulations @craggy furnace @sinful vessel

[cloud crow]

Anyone know what happened to Better UI mod?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2689032656

[jovial ridge]

Hey there, Im working on a mod for a trait that interacts with music, is there a function to reference volume variable of the closest playing audio device?

[marble jay]

Does the function hooking into a lua even happen before or after the thing happens

I want to try to hook into a player update event to prevent the player from entering a state

[jovial ridge]

i have no idea :(

[junior raven]

Is ZombRand() guaranteed to be return the same values on clients and server, or is this mod code I'm reading flawed?

[quasi geode]

varies depending on the event. best to assume its happening mid-way through the event (some things will have been processed, some not) and past the point of no return. you'd have to check the decompiled java for the specific events though

[quasi geode]

will be totally different. any identical results are flukes.

[marble jay]

thank you, ill have to go check the java

[marble jay]

im decompiling the java

does anyone know what actually sets the knocked down status on players when being attacked

setKnockedDown() I think

[subtle sapphire]

Hello developers/survivors, I was sneaking into the IsoGameCharacter class, and I found this setSceneCulled​(boolean boolean1). Can someone help me understand what this mehod does? Thanks so much!

[viral sinew]

is Z's actual length different from X's and Y's?

[drifting ore]

I work, I have more time to help on discord but if when I pass I see a mention of my name I ask ofc, if I can help for a specific thing

[somber heath]

is there a value that can make a moveable's health infinite?

[torn cypress]

Is there a mod that makes my character gain unhappiness from killing zombies?

[faint jewel]

you're good mr. bounty 🙂

[near scarab]

dmca struck and deleted apparently

[faint jewel]

who wrote it?

[cloud crow]

Oof, I wonder what that broke.

[near scarab]

i personally didnt have anything that required it but playing without it even briefly felt a lot worse

[cloud crow]

I only installed that mod for the Comparison feature when hovering over items.

I'm gonna miss that feature.

[near scarab]

i know its a bummer

im sure out there has to be a copy or something but idk the rules or regulations for using something that's been DMCA'd

I presume using it yourself is fine but redistributing it isn't

[rapid jasper]

There would be no way to prove you are using the content for personal use.

To be more specific, at a glance; there does not seem to be any regulation on the personal use of copyrighted material, and the regulation is specifically placed upon the distribution and recipient of the distributed content.

Therefore you are not exactly breaking a regulation by using the content, but have already broken the regulation if you have the content in your possession.

[near scarab]

Wild

[pastel storm]

What are mandatory mods to have

[undone crag]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2761338382

[pastel storm]

[near scarab]

Lmao

[near scarab]

Better sorting, filibuster cars, that one with the inventory button...

If you search most subscribed and just scroll you'll find them

[cosmic condor]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2795987309
This helps new players who don't like ASWD movements a lot!

[pastel storm]

Keep them coming

[cosmic condor]

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

Save time to open wiki
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2787291513

Your girlfriend will like this (if you have one)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2726792138

RPG vibes
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2695471997

Hide and seek
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2732804047

[cosmic condor]

Do this, but keep in mind that some mods are out of date.

[hot patrol]

what is the one with the inventory button?

[cosmic condor]

I guess this?

[hot patrol]

ah, yea that's a good one

and better ui got DMCA? why?

[hot patrol]

expanded heli event. It is a much needed upgrade for the fairly boring vanilla one

[cosmic condor]

#mod_support message

[hot patrol]

F

[cosmic condor]

Better UI is just a collection of these mods
-ExtraSauce Quality of Life by MonsterSauce
-More Description for Traits by Champygnakx
-Simple Add Inventory Pages by RH4DB4
-Turn off the TV/Radio from the context menu by RH4DB4

People know Better UI but don't recognize the original mods. 😿

[hot patrol]

well now I do

thanks for the sauce

[coral blade]

Laren X's human female skins, can someone share them?

[broken fulcrum]

RH4DB4 mods are simple and incredible at the same time

been using Simple Add Inventory Pages for months now

[polar parcel]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2799925193

check this out

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/875170969440899075/968981790175952986/unknown.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/875170969440899075/968981793900466226/unknown.png

[safe idol]

Yo

I have an idea for a mod that in theory should be easy to make but I have no idea how to mod

I would love if somebody helped me

[past tinsel]

:getType() -- I'm having trouble finding documentation on the getType method (the frequently useful https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/iso/IsoObject.html#getType-- is singularly unhelpful and terse here). I went so far as to find this enumerated list of constants for its result (https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/iso/SpriteDetails/IsoObjectType.html) and realized this can't be right! I see it get used all over the place with lots of different kinds of items in other mods and it's definitely returning things that aren't in this list, but I can't seem to find out what value it's grabbing and returning.

TLDR; can you briefly tell me what value/field it is that getType returns when you feed it an item? (How do I know what the possibilities are, or what value to expect for a certain kind of item?)

[zealous wing]

I wonder if any of the people uploading music to the workshop realize that they ae basically committing copyright violations.

[languid roost]

what's the most hellish load out you can do

With modded traits specifically

[willow estuary]

Well, I imagine that someday in the future there may be a case where the steam workshop has uploads scanned for DMCA content the same way Twitch/YouTube/Instagram does.

[languid roost]

the blind trait definitely has to be up there

[languid roost]

they aren't violating any copyright laws

Its because of fair use

since modders Aren't making any directly stated income off these mods it all falls under fair use

If steam made any money from these mods or if the creators made any money it'd fall under copyright but 99% of time its only private income as in commissions or just a person doing it on their own time

now if indie stone put any copyrighted music in the game without getting creators permission that'd be a very different story with a very different legal outcome

[jaunty gate]

Section 107 of the Copyright Act disagrees with this.

[languid roost]

correct me if im wrong

[willow estuary]

Moreover, mods with copywritten music in them have been taken down the past.

[zealous wing]

Funny story there, they aren't transfomative in the slightest.
There's whole damn albums on the workshop, and all you have to do to get at the music is to dive into the folder through the file explorer and copy the files into a music player app.

[willow estuary]

Anyways, if this is going to start turning into some extended back and forth over people's interpretation of copyright law it would probably be better suited to #offtopic_non_pz ?

The fact of the matter, as relevant to modding for pz, is that mods with copywritten music in them have been taken down in the past, and if you upload a mod containing copywritten music you run the risk of having it taken down.

[languid roost]

Alright, I kinda thought transformative fell along the lines of adding it to game files in a certain way, well thanks for correcting me

[languid roost]

If mods that have copyrighted music generally get taken down how is there so many mods that add music to the radios n junk

[zealous wing]

Yeah, this might not 100% be the place, even though it's mod related. I was debating adding some Blue Note to the game, but I changed my mind.

[willow estuary]

Simple. Some have been reported and taken down, but not all of them have been reported.

[zealous wing]

It's a bit of a process to formally file copyright claims, IIRC. Copyright holders would baiscally have to play wack-a-mole.

[languid roost]

ah

[willow estuary]

Yeah, NBD, I just know that when people start arguing over their interpretations of stuff like copyright law on the internet it can turn into some 100-post back and forth and such? I'm headachey today so I'd rather just say something now than come back to pages of internet debating re copyright law 😄

[languid roost]

Tbh i just try and post what i know and welcome corrections to people who know more than me

Is there any mods that actually let you go inside the bigger cars

Like cargo trucks n junk

[zealous wing]

There's this one:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2795611320
Is something like what that mod does what you meant?

Basically, it's a car that connects to a worldspace isolated from the rest of the map.

[languid roost]

yeah i think thats exactly what i want

question

why does it have stairs

[zealous wing]

It's bigger on the inside. 😄

[languid roost]

thats actually pretty wacky but definitely cool

does it have english text or is the video just in, uhhh not really sure what that language is

[chrome egret]

Sure, the actual code is brief-- It returns the result of this.sprite.getType() or IsoObjectType.MAX if this.sprite is null

[zealous wing]

I think it has an English translation, yeah.

[languid roost]

my goal is to have a completely portable home

I dont like being locked to one location

btw how do zombie break-ins work

[zealous wing]

I've toyed with the idea of making a version of that with one of FR's RVs, but I've got a lot on my plate at the moment.

[chrome egret]

The return type there is IsoObjectType, which has these values (where IsoObjectType.MAX seems to be a placeholder for unknown/bad values):

[languid roost]

like for instance a zombie breaking the car

[zealous wing]

They wail on the windows til they break, and then start trying to nibble on the sweet succulent manflesh on the other side?

[languid roost]

i more meant

how do the zombies get in

to the house area

[zealous wing]

They path to you?

[languid roost]

wdym

[zealous wing]

Are you asking how their pathfinding works?

[languid roost]

so when your in the car

and you go into the little house space of the car

[zealous wing]

Oh!

[languid roost]

how do they get to you

or do they just

not

[zealous wing]

You're talking about that Armored MH mod. 😛 No clue, I've yet to even look at that mod.

They probably can't, to be honest.

I know the mod works by basically teleporting you to a whole different area of the map.

Like, to a cell outside the original bounds of the game world.

[languid roost]

so yeah they probably cant hear or see you if your in the home part of the car

[zealous wing]

That isolated cell is the "interior" of the RV.

Nope.

[languid roost]

unrealistic but fun

thanks for reccomending it to me

recommending

[zealous wing]

You should look into how it works lua-wise, if you want to know more.

I might toy with it this weekend.

[languid roost]

Tbh i dont have any plans on learning lua

[zealous wing]

Shame. All PZ modders should.

[languid roost]

I didn't exactly have fun with python so i cant imagine lua being much better

[zealous wing]

At least a basic understanding of the structure of how it works.

[languid roost]

either ways it should be fun to mess around with it

[hot patrol]

how does this work on MP if at all?

like if there are multiple of those cars on the map

[chrome egret]

"7. Each car has its own space. If you lose your car, your room will be gone. The server supports up to 25 independent spaces"

[hot patrol]

oh nice

really cool idea. Would absolutely love to see it on a proper rv or as an addon for the boat mod

[zealous wing]

The thing about the mod though is that it's reliant on the admin TP functions, and MP is real fucking bad about players teleporting all over the damn place.

[hot patrol]

the zombie thing would need the be worked on but one fix I could think of is a cooldown on going to the living space if zombies are around

[hot patrol]

maybe if more mods start using this method the devs might find a fix for it

[zealous wing]

Unless the author has figured out a way to keep the game from wigging out when trying to load 50 cells all at once, there WILL be issues in MP.

[languid roost]

bruh

so im playing with the motorhome mod u recommended

it spawned on another car

and now i can't get it off

[zealous wing]

lol

[languid roost]

and zombies surrounded me

so its basically death

[zealous wing]

rip

[past tinsel]

Thanks for the reply! I'm still a bit lost...
Yeah, this list you gave here looks just like the list I found and linked to in my original question... but people seem to use it for all sorts of things that aren't there in that values list. (For one example, it's used multiple times in Arsenal(26) GunFighter Mod, file media\lua\client\GunFighter_02Function.lua among others; they call getType and are searching the result using string.find for lots of things that don't show up in that values list, things that the mod writer must have added when they created new items in the scripts perhaps for example, like string.find(canon:getType(), "Suppressor") .) But I can't see or figure out where they would have added the phrases they're searching for, so I'm still stuck trying to figure out how to use getType because I don't know what sorts of things I should expect it to return in the context of, say, an inventory item or something. Any insights?

[quasi geode]

you're likely looking at the wrong getType method (wrong .class). theres multiple java classes that have a getType method, but are used for entirely different things (and different return values). in the case of the gunfighter mod, he'd be using it on InventoryItem.class objects, in which case it returns a string value: the name given to the item in the media/scripts/*.txt files

[past tinsel]

Oh, the DisplayName then?? (Hmm, or maybe the actual item name as in "item MyItemsName {" perhaps?) That's really helpful! Thanks a ton!

I'll look into that InventoryItem class to see if I understand that part better now too 👍

[quasi geode]

not the DisplayName

item Something {
  ... block of properties here
}

it will return Something

[past tinsel]

gotcha - was just editing to consider that, thanks for the confirmation

So helpful, you ROCK 😎 🤩

[past tinsel]

Hmm, so I see the method you're referring to (https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/inventory/InventoryItem.html#getType--) but it is terse as always... how did you know that it returns "Something"/the item name? (and how do you get it to show up with that code formatting here in Discord?) Would love to know so I can better figure stuff out on my own and not trouble generous ppl like yourself if I can help it 😉

[coral blade]

still waiting for those, if anyone has them, please 🙏

[quasi geode]

dont expect much from that documentation. its like 7 years outdated. better to look at the decompiled java. And discord code formatting is easier to explain with a screenshot:

use 3 ` backticks, followed by code, and ended with 3 more ` backticks

for language specific code blocks, include the language name after

function example()
   -- lua code example
end

[past tinsel]

Fair enough! I haven't yet looked into decompiling the java (though I've seen it mentioned in passing a couple times), but it's good to know what it could be doing for me, though. Once again, thanks for all the help (ticket closed, haha). Have a good night/day/whatever it is wherever you are!

[drifting ore]

Guys hear me out

I have an idea for a mod

In The Long Dark when you store your food outside it gets frozen

So you don't need a fridge because it's cold outside

Can someone make a mod that adds the same feature to Zomboid?

So if it's for example 4°c or less

Then the food that you put outside gets the same effect as if it was stored in working fridge

And if it'd cause lags because that would be too many calculations or something

Then make it work only if you use an option from context menu

For example : bury food in snow

[zealous wing]

I've made this suggestion once or twice before.
People up north know to put their food out on the porch if the power goes out in the winter months.

[drifting ore]

And only then it'd start calculating the temperature of only this food

[drifting ore]

Yeah and it'd be really useful when playing with Cryogenic Winter

Or when you just don't have a generator yet

Because you started in winter

And there's no electricity

I'd try to make that one myself if i knew how to make mods lol

So please guys

If any of you know how to do it

Then I would be very grateful for your help

[ancient panther]

Hello guys, I am new to this server. I want to make a small mod that will add tobacco pipe, but I completely don't know how to mod. Are there any useful modding tutorials? Thanks.

[jovial ridge]

There is already a lot of mods that do so, best bet is to download the smoker mod and reverse engineer that

[zealous wing]

@ancient panther I know for a fact that Jigga's Greenfire has a tobacco pipe.

The Smoker mod has a smoking pipe as well.

[ancient panther]

thank you

[cloud crow]

MOD IDEA:
(I don't know how modding works so it's up to you guys to make it work if you like the idea.)

For Walls, Doors, Gates, etc.
Rather than relying on just Hit points alone, how about a pressure threshold limit?

Walls, Doors, Gates, & etc., Should have a threshold limit, once reached, it starts to break down, taking permanent damage on its total HP, and the more HP it lost, the lesser threshold it wil have since, making it realistic. Just like when you bend a metal wire back and forth, it eventually cannot be returned to the same state it was before you bent it, and sooner or later it rips apart.

Walls, Doors, gates, & etc., being destroyed by multiple zombies makes sense. A Horde can definitely break down a metal gate, or tear down a wall. But right now, even a single zombie can do that.

So Example:
A garage gate threshold limit is 100.
Zombies that is trying to break through this gate, counts towards the pressure. If there are enough Zombies at this gate, it may start reaching the threshold, and the Garage Gate starts to take damage and permanently loses its maximum threshold, which eventually the gate breaks down. But if halfway the zombies are stopped, the % HP left is equivalent to the max % threshold that would remain. So if there is 50% HP left, the threshold would now be 50.
Optionally, materials also have an age. The longer the days since the apocalypse, the lesser HP and threshold structures can withstand.

[willow estuary]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2800736148

[tepid crown]

since the remove zombie hair mod is gone is there a way to do it myself

[chrome egret]

Interesting idea

[drifting ore]

Yeah but it seems like no one is interested in making that happen

[chrome egret]

Lol, I just said it was interesting because I might want to take up the torch

[drifting ore]

Oh

Yes

Please

Do it

I'll be very grateful

And I can be your beta tester

[chrome egret]

https://github.com/TheCrimsonKing92/pz-long-dark-food

More to come

[drifting ore]

Nice

Good luck with your project man

[gaunt pendant]

Heh I was just thinking of looking if that was feasible with lua mods the other day 🤔

Probably one of those things so hardcoded in java classes that if it was it'd exist as a mod already

[chrome egret]

v possible

[tawdry moss]

So I’m working on a mod that adds a bunch of water jugs for bulk storing water, one of the features will be taking water jugs out of water coolers. Is there a way to set the water in the jug to match the water in the dispenser?

[tired robin]

how different is lua from python, the only experience I have with any language is basic python? How hard would it be learning lua after python?

[rapid jasper]

Look in the tools category of your steam library for a thing called Project Zomboid Modding Tools. You can type that into the search bar.

[hot patrol]

doesn't the water dispenser mod already do all of that?

[gaunt pendant]

Yeah I think there's a mod like that already. But if u still wanna roll your own, I'd look at how the tooltip shows water level

Might be in its moddata

[tawdry moss]

I plan on making a big mod with a lot of extra water stuff, and taking jugs out of coolers is just one thing I want to add

I just don’t want to start infinite water glitches

[hot patrol]

gotcha

[sharp crystal]

Hello. When editing the item scripts for cigarettes, is it possible to add RANDOM (from 5 to 15 ) cigarettes spawn?

[wet sandal]

@tawdry moss IsoObject:getWaterAmount() will let you read the amount of water from the dispenser

[tawdry moss]

Thanks

[wet sandal]

Another thing to consider would also be checking IsoObject:isTaintedWater()

To maintain contamination across transfers

@sharp crystal you can get random integers using ZombRand(x)
So you'd want ZombRand(11) + 5
(ZombRand(11) gives whole numbers from 0 to 10, but never 11)

[fiery niche]

Hi, is there a way to assign a random animation from a set of animations to a recipe via AnimNode variable? Or I have to define a custom timedAction for that?

[sharp crystal]

thanks will do..

[frosty falcon]

@broken fulcrum I found it indeed where you said, now which script parses this recipes.txt file, is it the one we found the spear cond in? (lua\server\recipecode.lua)

hm

[broken fulcrum]

so, that's the thing, the function OnCreate is there, but I don't even think it's imported on the recipe-weapons.txt

I just simply can't understand it lol

I was thinking about making it 5 (vanilla value) + (CarpentryLvl/2)

for a maxcondition of 10

[frosty falcon]

ye we need to figure out how to make a recipe that doesn't exist in that lua file, get processed by it with our own code 🤔

this is called but I have no idea how you'd make one for axe, trying to scour through the code https://projectzomboid.com/modding/zombie/scripting/objects/Recipe.html#Recipe

like how do we hook our own recipe.oncreate.stoneaxe so its called when you make a stone axe, I don't get it xd

[broken fulcrum]

yeahh

[broken fulcrum]

that's the problem I THINK I had

because it simply would not apply

I tried making an axe with 0 and then swung it a bunch of times, it had 5 maxcondition

then with 10 carpentry

and still, 5 max condtion

[frosty falcon]

nah it won't apply unless its called, and idk how you make it get called when you create a stone axe

when you craft it the recipe should look at your own code you added, but at the moment idk how you make it do that

like, how do other modders create a new weapon recipe and make a lua function be called during crafting

[broken fulcrum]

@modders hello Kappa

[broken fulcrum]

yeah, I tried making very similar to the spear one, but to no avail

[frosty falcon]

I’m out and about now I finished work but maybe someone else can chime in, otherwise you could look at scrap weapons or something that adds custom weapon crafting recipes and find the recipe code and how it hooks

[broken fulcrum]

humm, yeah, if they have the same principle with carpentry based condition it could help me

[inner blade]

So I'm fairly new to modding for PZ, I been trying to work on a mod that adds stackable items (I know there is already one but it's out of date and I'm pretty sure the creator has abandoned it. Plus they didn't make 3d items for them.) I think it have the files set up correctly but may have screwed up some where with the coding or missing something.

[coral blade]

Is there a mod to better understand and write the log?

so if there is an error, the mod would tell from which mod it was originated

[fallen thunder]

@inner bladeDid you make the stackable planks mod??

[inner blade]

No, but I wanna try and make it.

[fallen thunder]

Ahh man, okay. XD

[inner blade]

But thanks for telling me the mod, it might help me figure out what's wrong with the one I'm making.

[zenith smelt]

I am having a problem using require

I do this but when I check it, it's nil

#mod_development message

using this as reference, it does not work

Both files in lua/server

the require mod is in require on the mod.info

why does it not work?

aaah

I need returni in the end of the first file

[strange sequoia]

Can someone please tell me how i can make multiple choices for one mod in the "mods" page in PZ ?

I saw this on some mods like Paw Low Loot, Authentic Z etc...

I want the people that uses my mod to be able to choose between two textures when playing but i can't seem to find any guides on how to do this.

[inner blade]

I can't even get the mod I'm working on to show up in my mods list.

[zenith smelt]

Try copying a mod.info from another mod and making sure your mod id is unique

[inner blade]

Think the realization is that I was putting in the mod folder and not workshop..

God I'm dumb.

[zenith smelt]

Like this ?

[strange sequoia]

Yep !

[zenith smelt]

he just had 2 mod folders

When you add your mod to workshoip, you just put multiple mod folders in the contents/mods

[strange sequoia]

Hmm, ok 😮 How do you make it so there's only one Workshop page for it tho ?

[zenith smelt]

Yes like that.

Zomboid\Workshop\aadvzmbmod\Contents\mods\Main Mod
Zomboid\Workshop\aadvzmbmod\Contents\mods\Secondary mod

Like that

2 folders

[strange sequoia]

Ooh alright, i see now, i'll try it thanks 🙂

[inner blade]

I'm still having trouble getting my mod to even show up in my list, as far as I know my id shouldn't be overriding anything.

[zenith smelt]

Try restarting the game after changes.
You can test with the template mod

[inner blade]

I have, I tired both ways using the mod folder and the workshop folder. Tried even setting up the files how it's in the workshop and nothing. I more or less need someone to look over to files and see what I did wrong.

[chrome egret]

Weren't folks just talking about custom sledgehammers recently?

"- Several new Tags were added to the item scripts, and their functionality added to the lua code.

• This allows for modders to add new items that seamlessly work with the game in several places, such as adding new fully-functional Sledgehammer items, or adding new Gasoline containers."

[vapid arrow]

can someone help with this problem? i have my super shotgun model working good but...

but when reloading, it swap to the model of the pz shotgun

i got this in the code

and my custom models

[autumn garnet]

Hey! I wanted to make a update of my texture pack but since I switched to the new TileZed, I have a problem when I try to post one of my posters.

[inner blade]

Quick question, what is that program?

[autumn garnet]

{

    imports
    {
        Base
    }
    
    item APO_PAPERBOARD
    {
        Weight    = 0.2,
        Type    = Moveable,
        WorldObjectSprite = apoflag_44,
        DisplayName    = Paperboard,
        Icon    = APOFlag,
    }
}

Thanks in advance 🙂

[autumn garnet]

I use TileZed > Tile Properties

On my backup, everything work

[inner blade]

Wish there were better tutorials on how to mod PZ. I'm really struggiling on how to even get a mod to show up in the mod list, hell idk where to even put it for it to even show up.

[rapid jasper]

I'm lazy during testing and use C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid\mods\YourModName

[inner blade]

I tried doing that and still nothing.

I feel like I'm doing something wrong but have no idea. I've had modding experience but manly with source coding. Not Lua.

[rapid jasper]

name=ModName
id=ArbitraryModID
description=This is a description string.
pack=NameOfAnyPackFiles
poster=poster.png
tiledef= nameofanytiledefs xxx

Double check your mod.info file with an editor perhaps.

[inner blade]

Pretty sure it looks fine, have no idea what the pack or tiledef is though.

[rapid jasper]

no problem those are not important to get what you need right now

Not sure if the parser will interpret your two description lines properly try removing one for now.

[inner blade]

Okay, so if there a specific place I need to put the mod? Like in the mods folder in PZ or somewhere else?

Or could I send the wip so far and have it looked over since I'm like learning as I go?

[rapid jasper]

Your mod goes into the C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid\mods folder.

Otherwise you will need to learn the workshop workflow later but this works for testing

just like the examplemod listed in that directory, if you have an issue you can study this and follow along using your own sub directory.

[inner blade]

I was trying to figure out where the hell it was, but at least I can view it now. Only issue it seemed to wipe my text from the starting screen after I enabled it.

And it just crashed my game now.

Perfect.

It gets stuck on loading scripts and then crashes.

[rapid jasper]

Something in your media folder of the mod must be causing an issue, I would suggest starting small and building the mod up piece by piece until you find what the conflict is

[inner blade]

Okay, at least I know how to put the mod in the game now. Many thanks either way.

[rapid jasper]

You are welcome Cory

[unreal mauve]

I cant for the life of me get Night Vision of Any kind to work. Anyone have advice?

[drifting ore]

Has anyone seen a mod for building a roof?

[sonic shuttle]

what are some of the best mods

[broken fulcrum]

Could someone enlarge the Frog 3d Model and make a big plushie out of it? Thanks flies away

[neon sky]

Plenty of YouTube videos for this. Do a search and you’ll be surprised

[sonic shuttle]

i did, just curious about your opinions

when I add a mod to a server do I need everyone who joins the server to download it?

[broken fulcrum]

yes

[inner blade]

Okay so what do I do when I can place an item but it only show it's invisible but when placed it only shows the icon? I have a model made but it seems to not be using it.

Hm, I think I may scale it down. Not sure if I should lol

[cosmic condor]

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2022/04/41-69-unstable-niiice/

Many mods break the game.

3D items now shown as textures rather than models. As such they now slide around less when the player moves, and have far less of a performance impact when all piled up.

[cosmic condor]

Lots of changes

[rancid tendon]

query: is anyone aware of a mod that allows you to tweak values for loot respawning at all, or is that just totally not possible anymore?

it's rather frustrating to me that 'extremely rare' is the lowest option for a lot of things when 'extremely rare' still means 'way too much'

[gilded hawk]

What do you mean?

Doesn't sound that game breaking

[latent orchid]

what app is this?

[cosmic condor]

Some mods cause the game to fail to load.

[cosmic condor]

VS Code + GitHub extension

You can check what's new and get some fresh ideas for your new mods for the next patch update.

[gilded hawk]

Dear god

[inner blade]

I'm confused what it means by that the models will be textures now.

[cosmic condor]

#modeling message

[inner blade]

So its gonna be like the player models now?

[faint jewel]

the corpses

like that

[inner blade]

Oooh

So it's still a model but just sinks into texture.

Got it

[broken fulcrum]

Where can I found the item's Icons folder? I can find the frog texture, but not the icon, unless it has other name

[cosmic condor]

You don't have to find it, you can just remap it to another location.

[broken fulcrum]

no, but the thing is that I want to copy one of the icons lol

[cosmic condor]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Frog

Just rip it off wiki

[broken fulcrum]

yeah, I ended up doing this after searching a lot and finding nothing

[wet sandal]

Anyone know solutions for client side mod configuration other than Mod Options?

People keep complaining to me about using Mod Options in my mod

[drifting ore]

oh shit are you the doom mod maker

very cool

props to you

I enjoy the model of the doomguy

[undone crag]

If you know enough about lua probably you can look at the menu lua and add things to it.

[autumn flax]

is there a mod that autounlocks ability to use generators or gives it as perk? i know there was one but i cannot find it on workshop

[vapid arrow]

yes i am, thanks

this mod will be focused just on killing zombies, less survival, making doomguy overpowered lol

[wet sandal]

Yea I hoping that wouldn't be the answer. Oh well, I guess that's what I'll do when I have time.

[inner blade]

What's the biggest a texture can be?

[rustic grove]

on a multiplayer server is there a file modified locally upon death? Like with a solo play a characters map_p.bin is cleared, but is there something similar for multi?

[zealous wing]

All the vanilla icons are sorted into .pack files. You need the mapping tools to access/unpack them.

[broken fulcrum]

ohh

Good to know

[zealous wing]

Yeah, it can be a little annoying at times. Instead of like 1000 separate files, everything you see in the UI is wrapped up in about 20-30 tilesheets of sprites.

I personally unpacked the main item icon sheets, to use them as a quick reference.

If you need to copy any of the icons, I can send you the files in a PM.

[broken fulcrum]

yeah, I think it makes sense, it's a lot smaller and it works the same

[broken fulcrum]

I stole the one I was looking for from the Wiki hehe

[zealous wing]

Hahaha, all right then.

[inner blade]

How big can a texture be?

Isn't the max like 128 x 128 for PZ?

[zealous wing]

Vehicle textures text to be a bit bigger than that. As for things like world static objects (items on the floor), you're doing something spectacularly wrong if you're making textures larger than 128x128.

[inner blade]

Okay, I was gonna remake a texture since It's a bigger model.

[junior raven]

What is a "stale" zombie?

[sand sky]

guys Can you mod Turkish food?

[zealous wing]

A zombie that's gone past its expiration date. 😄

[zealous wing]

I don't even know any Turkish food.

[sand sky]

you can search in google

[junior raven]

You would assume, but it sometimes considers brand new zombies stale.

[harsh falcon]

somebody should make a mod that makes military outposts at major roads leaving the knox event map. idk how itd fit into the lore but itd be something along the lines of the military trying to keep people in the area, with the outposts either being overrun or still manned. (IDK)

[junior raven]

What is this syntax in java with the expression (value, value), such as in:

sendObjectChange(var0, "reanimatedID", (Object[])("ID", (double)var1.OnlineID));

It looks like a tuple in other languages, but I can't find information on it working like that in Java.

I found an article that said it only resolves both sides of the comma, and only returns the one of the right.

My jdk won't compile it for some reason though

[weary lark]

@harsh falconp sure i've seen this in the survivor mods

army NPC's that shoot you if you approach the road blocks

[harsh falcon]

ok

[weary lark]

tho idk how long they last

[harsh falcon]

also how do i get mods to work on a server that im hosting

i click the host button and start making a server preset or whatever

the mods never really show up on the servver

do i need to add them to the steam workshop AND mods section or what cuz ive been here for like 3 hours just messing with mods

i wish there was a quicker way to add them (i did spend 2 hours just browsing the workshop though)

oh i see there a channel for it mod support but whatever i did it lets see if it works

[brittle kernel]

How do you make custom posters? Like the ingame posters?

[chrome egret]

That's not building a Tuple, it's calling a method, and there are two type casts in the middle of the expression

[chrome egret]

Cast var1.OnlineID to a double, then cast the string "ID" and the double value as an array of objects. After that it's just calling sendObjectChange with all three values.

[viral sinew]

anyone know how to get fps for lua?

[tawdry moss]

Did a thing that makes the first aid kits red by editing files, but when I tried using a mod to replace those files for MP use it didn’t work. How do you overwrite textures for a steam workshop mod?

[broken fulcrum]

don't know if it works with textures, but for recipes you can use the line

    Override:true,

but someone with experience can answer you better

[junior raven]

What tools do you use to decompile and recompile the java? The intellij decompiler fails to decompile some syntax, and javac encounters strange errors recompiling.

[small kernel]

usually a wrench and a screwdriver will do

[chrome egret]

What JDK/IntelliJ versions are you using? I haven't had a problem

[mild pewter]

what do you mean with "fails to decompile some syntax"? you mean the code is all obfuscated?

[autumn sierra]

i have an idea for a mod that may be cool, idk if anyone would be willing to make it or how hard it world be, but what if there was an immunity mod that was completely randomized? kinda like the story in tlou, what if there was a chance (maybe a configurable chance with the mod options mod) that every player could be immune to the bite virus? there would be nothing that tells you or indicates that you're immune, but you'd have to figure it out yourself.

maybe doctors or nurses would have a slightly higher chance of being immune or something as well.

could be kinda cool for rp servers and such, idk. just an idea. i really like the they knew mod and this is kinda like that in terms of randomization

[junior raven]

I mean it decompiles varargs function calls into invalid syntax entirely

[junior raven]

I don't remember which version I decompiled with, but it was a fresh install of IntelliJ 2 months ago

[mild pewter]

do you remember where it failed? the .class file and method? I have intelliJ open and want to check.

[drifting ore]

sounds good

[junior raven]

It doesn't error out, it just produces invalid syntax in some places

[mild pewter]

I understand, I want to see if I get the same.

in any case, regarding your question, I do not know other options for decompilling.

[junior raven]

Then look in IsoGameCharacter line 7462 after decompile

[mild pewter]

@junior raven here?

at glance I don't see anything wrong, but I don't know much about java.

[junior raven]

Sorry, GameServer.java:7462

Search for line containing: sendObjectChange(var0, "reanimatedID"

It's in the sendReanimatedZombieID method

[mild pewter]

oh I see, is the "(Object[])("ID", (double)var1.OnlineID)" bit?

I have no idea what is that.

[junior raven]

Yes

It's not valid java syntax

[mild pewter]

seems so, thanks for indulging me.

[junior raven]

Yw

@mild pewter Have you managed to compile any java for pz?

[mild pewter]

no, I just decompile for figuring out what the game is trying to do.

[junior raven]

Yeah, me too so far

[mild pewter]

hoho

@junior raven http://www.benf.org/other/cfr/

[junior raven]

Yeah, I've been looking at that one, but I'm not sure it can decompile directories recursively

[mild pewter]

ah you on windows?

[junior raven]

yes

[mild pewter]

Me being in linux so I was going to tell you to "just script it" but it wasn't going to be helpful.

[junior raven]

I can run shell scripts with cygwin

I just didnt want to make one

[zealous wing]

In my experience, overriding parts of other mods tends to be a crapshoot. Sometimes the Override function works, sometimes you just have to overwrite entire script or lua files.

[tawdry moss]

So is a single texture a nightmare

[zealous wing]

Are you overriding a vanilla texture?

[tawdry moss]

Yes

Trying to retexture the first aid kit

[zealous wing]

Vanilla then.

I've actually done the same exact thing, funnily enough. I thought the neon green was too obnoxious.

[tawdry moss]

I got it to work by editing the files on my computer but I want to be able to be on the workshop so it works in MP, cuz I do MP more than single player

[zealous wing]

Basically you use ItemTweaker to override=true the WorldStaticModel of the FAK to a custom model that uses the vanilla FAK mesh and your custom texture.

So you'd need the ItemTweaker core file, a IT script with the change, your texture and a script file detailing the new model.

Plus all the usual a accoutrements of a workshop mod: Description, icon and cover images, etc.

[tawdry moss]

The color is fine

[gritty edge]

does anyone know how to take mods from your game and transfer them over without re adding them all to the game on server side

[rose notch]

Weird question, is there anything that adds in an nun outfit

like a mod

[broken fulcrum]

probably Authentic Z or Paw Low Loot Fantasy

but can't guarantee, haven't used em

in a long time

[rose notch]

there isn't one sadly

but i did become a reporter from authentic z

[inner blade]

Woudnt be that hard to make one probably. Just a long dress with a bit extra around the neck and then the head cover.

[broken fulcrum]

yeah

tried looking for "nun" on the workshop, it literally had 1 result and it was a music addon lol

[inner blade]

I could try to make one but I have little to 0 knowledge on how to make clothing.

[broken fulcrum]

I could try to make one but I have little to 0 knowledge

[inner blade]

I know theres a guide on how to make clothing.

I just thought of a clothing mod but I'm gonna be quiet since I don't wanna be outed for it

[broken fulcrum]

🤨

[inner blade]

[broken fulcrum]

sexy nun mod when

[inner blade]

nO

Normal nun.

[broken fulcrum]

oh, ok

thank lord

[small fog]

What module can we use to get the frequencies of the radio presets of the clients?

I can't figure it out, I'm using RWMPanel

[steel jackal]

anyone know of a mod or setting i cna add to double the capacity of containers?

[latent orchid]

Can anyone point me in the right direction. I'm looking for where the game determines when to split a heavy item into multiple packages as such:

Purpose being to provide the other half of an item when crafting it

[coral blade]

Hi

Is there a mod to further analyze the log?

because all those messages don't correlate to mods, just the message itself and no explanation what and where

[fast galleon]

If I try to update steam mod and get error 8, does it mean I don't have permission to update.

[small fog]

Welp lmao

I see modding for this game is very easy

[stray bison]

Quickie, Some mods add more sandbox settings, but how do i change those settings on a multiplayer server? When i go edit server settings there is no additional settings under sandbox

[tame mulch]

Create server settings on host from ingame with this mod. Then settings will appear in one of settings file. Then copy them to your server

[tame mulch]

Update steam mod can only person who uploaded it

[clear geode]

Hello, can anyone help me with this. I wish to change the text color appearing on top of my head. It's my first mod xD

[peak sinew]

sorry for cross-posting (kind of), but it's also mod related so... has anybody an idea how to fix #old_techsupport message ? when the server kicks the client because it cannot find a specific file even though it exists and is exactly the same content (100%) as on the server and as on other clients? are there cases where the client cannot read mod files for some reason or something like that?

[shadow bough]

Anyone interested in collaborating on a mod similar to "Save Our Station" but for power and water utilities?

[livid yarrow]

Where can I find proper documentation on types like this? https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Modding:Lua_Events/ISInventoryPage

How am I supposed to know exactly what properties and methods it has?

Or do I just have to look at the game's media/lua files?

[livid yarrow]

Nvm, I see that basically the entire original definition exists in media/lua 🙂

[rancid tendon]

query

how do you guys edit .pack and .tiles files?

there's a kinda semi-abandoned mod that has a couple bugs, i wanna fix it up for personal use and it feels like they'd be simple fixes if i could figure out how to get into the files, just not sure how

[pearl prism]

Could someone send me that tutorial on how to make Zomboid run as a server and client in a single computer used to test MP mods????

[tame mulch]

I am run dedicated server and 2 clients of PZ in nosteam mode for test MP stuff

[tame mulch]

Pack files you can open by pack manager (check on theindiestone forums). Tiles file open by one of project zomboid modding tools i think

[rancid tendon]

noted. azakaela's flags mod is pretty abandoned by now and has some weird bugs that result in flags turning into other flags when placed, so i wanna see if i can fix it up to get those flags working properly

i'll see if i can figure out how to dig into those files

thanks!

[pearl prism]

Yeah, If I'm not mistaken, it is necessary to copy and edit some executables to do this, but I don't remember how to do it and I know that there is a lost tutorial that teaches how to do this, but unfortunately I didn't find it in the "pinned messages"

[mental carbon]

would be so cool to have an escape from tarkov type hud mod

[placid hinge]

Hey just making sure, Events.OnNewGame have the same effects in MP or is it messy?

Would it be only for the host or for everyone coming into server for the first time?

nvm found my answer, its on host.

[tame mulch]

Just add -nosteam param to exe file and bat file (server)

[fair frost]

Raccoon City Part 5

Fossoil and Gas 2 Go bout to have some serious competition from the City of Raccoon

Slightly updated RC Transit Authority Bus

[livid yarrow]

Does goto not work in this Lua implementation?

Exception thrown se.krka.kahlua.vm.KahluaException: Testing.lua:116: '=' expected near `nextSquare` at LexState.lexerror

About line goto nextSquare

[queen leaf]

Hey y'all, is there any mod that enables minimap automatically/only when you're in a vehicle?

[broken fulcrum]

I actually suggested it in the pz-chat this week while a discussion about the mini-map was going

but I don't think so

[quasi geode]

goto was added in lua 5.2, pz's kahlua is based off 5.1

[livid yarrow]

I see, thx for the info.

[crimson spindle]

i have an error popping on new game startup but it goes away too fast that i cant click it.. how do i catch this error so I can see what it is?

[tame mulch]

Try check console.txt in Zomboid folder

[crimson spindle]

in the documents folder/

?

found it thnk you

[drifting ore]

anyone know a good tutorial to make a vehicle mod?

also does anyone know how to add true music addons to an mp server? I tried but it just sat at a black screen and wouldnt even load

[shut valley]

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/28633-complete-vehicle-modding-tutorial

the first one is more up to date but this one has the color codes for the damage masks https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/24408-how-to-create-new-vehicle-mods/

[midnight sage]

Has the patch on unstable caused much trouble with existing mods? Wondering how safe it is to update an existing game with some mods installed

[rapid jasper]

backup your save first, though the patch notes say there would be some conflicts with certain mods.

[crimson spindle]

how does ZombRand(0,4) work?

is it picking a random number between 0 and 3 or 1 and 4? or am i misunderstanding what the 0 and 4 represent

[latent orchid]

my recent testing with it always resulted in the same number when using a small range. Not sure if I was statistically unlucky or using it incorrectly. was testing loot drops when dismantling world objects

[fast galleon]

ZombRand(4) is from 0 to 3
ZombRand(0,4) is from 0 to 4

[crimson spindle]

thanks

another question.. when looking at the console.txt.. im seeing these for my items:

WARN : Script      , 1651468232142> ModelScript.checkMesh> no such mesh "WorldItems\HTFACPack" for HTFAC.HTFACPackInjectors
WARN : Script      , 1651468232142> ModelScript.checkTexture> no such texture "WorldItems\HTFACPackInjectors" for HTFAC.HTFACPackInjectors```
however the items seem to all spawn in properly without issue. Can I just ignore this error or is there something I need to do so it doesn't throw this error?

its doing it for every single one of my items

[spiral shale]

How do I specify that an item must be cooked food in recipe? For example I want to specify Cooked Fish Fillet?

[zealous wing]

You need to do a bit of lua and use a function called OnTest I think?

function Recipe.OnTest.SliceBreadDough(sourceItem, result) if sourceItem:getFullType() == "Base.BreadDough" then return sourceItem:isCooked() end return true end

As an example.

` recipe Slice Bread
{
keep KitchenKnife/ButterKnife/BreadKnife/HuntingKnife/MeatCleaver/FlintKnife/Machete,
BreadDough,

    Result:BreadSlices=3,
    Sound:SliceBread,
    Time:40.0,
    Category:Cooking,
    OnTest:Recipe.OnTest.SliceBreadDough,
    OnGiveXP:Recipe.OnGiveXP.Cooking3,
}`

Relevant recipe.

[spiral shale]

Thanks for your help, I think I should know how to do it 😀

[zealous wing]

👍

[bronze mulch]

Does anyone have any idea if it would be possible to remove this through a mod

[zealous wing]

The craft sheet rope recipe?

[bronze mulch]

generally

the whole window

that appears after i hover my mouse over rip or craft rope

[zealous wing]

Not sure how to do it myself? Never had a desire to.
You'd probably have to mess with the UI functions regarding tooltips.

[bronze mulch]

you mod comrade?

[zealous wing]

Yeah. But I'm not too familiar with the finer bits of the lua/java.

You're better off asking someone more experienced than me in that regard.

[bronze mulch]

Welp gotta wait then

or i can start on my own

[drifting stump]

What do you need help with?

[bronze mulch]

I need help with deleting this tooltip from the game

The whole window

[drifting stump]

Remove the recipe too or just the tooltip

[bronze mulch]

just the tooltip

My game stutters because i assume

the rest 169

are also loading

Lemme show u

[drifting stump]

Lags when right clicking or only when the tooltip is shown

[bronze mulch]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/970610531104882781/970621519417970698/2022-05-02_10-41-25.mp4

[drifting stump]

Not on my pc so cant give exact help but the code is in invcontextmenu or similar name

I doubt you can do it though iirc the filling the menu is a very long function and removing the tooltip after its made would keep the lag probably

You could override the entire function and make sure its the first file loaded so it doesnt conflict with other mods

[bronze mulch]

Well you see chief i have absolutely no experience in modding

[bronze mulch]

This impossible noted

[bronze mulch]

Optimizing it

noted

[drifting stump]

Its not impossible just a bit intrusive

[bronze mulch]

Well the problem for me is getting to start

[drifting stump]

Yeah so watching the video again it only lags when creating the tooltip and not after when only displaying it

[bronze mulch]

The tutorials on youtube are usually old and include adding stuff not deleting them

i mean barely any tutorials found 1

[drifting stump]

Could also look into optimizing the tooltip code

Ive achieved i think it was ~54x performance increase in a worse case scenario ui interface

I can give better guidance later

[bronze mulch]

That would be much appreciated

My whole day is free but what hour is later since

as you said you arent around your pc

[drifting stump]

Give me like 30min-1h

[bronze mulch]

no problemo

[gaunt pendant]

Yea I have that problem, too. It loads the entire list of all clothing items you can rip for sheets and then sorts them, so the ones in your inventory show first. Gets worse and worse with more clothing items from mods.

And that's with an i5 12600k, so not exactly spec problems

[bronze mulch]

so its not a ryzen problem

[gaunt pendant]

I might look into it again tonight, maybe it can be optimized

[bronze mulch]

mod wise or game wise

Cuz pretty sure i tested everything aleardy with spiffo

[gaunt pendant]

Mod wise, see what takes so long. Mby smth can be cached.

List of items shouldn't really change once game is loaded. Sorting the table also shouldn't really take that long, with only couple hundred clothing items

Even then - I'd rather not see the available items on top, if it avoids the stutter.

But at this point it's just guessing - maybe the problem is smth else entirely. Won't know before taking a proper look

[bronze mulch]

Comrade you up today in like 1 hour or 5

[livid yarrow]

What are the arguments for ItemContainer.new exactly? I can't quite figure it out. This, for example, is the call for when it creates a floor container:

ItemContainer.new("floor", nil, nil, 10, 10)

What are the nil, nil, 10, 10?

[autumn garnet]

Hey! do you know if there is a method to overwrite a recipe in .txt from a mod like using the ItemTweaker mod? (i don't want mod pack)

[chrome egret]

That doesn't match exactly, but I decompiled from 41.65. You might be seeing a new signature introduced in 41.66+

[livid yarrow]

Yeah see, there's no constructor with 5 arguments 😄

[bronze mulch]

Comrade decenttech

[chrome egret]

Hello

[bronze mulch]

maybe you have some ideas regarding my issue

[chrome egret]

From what I read, Browser and Tiaxx seem to be on the right track

Badly optimized mod code is probably re-sorting those many items or using an inefficient search algorithm to know those clothes are involved

(I would also expect sorting 100-200 items to be reasonably fast unless the sort algo is slow)

[bronze mulch]

I mean as said

this looks like its sorting it every time if the cast is slow sort algo

case*

Problem being

This is my problem and the mod ain't gonna write himself for me

[chrome egret]

Does a particular mod you already have create that UI?

[bronze mulch]

No this is pure vanilla

[chrome egret]

oh my

Yeah I'm at work for the day but I'd be curious what's going on

[bronze mulch]

Some good folks dont have this problem

But some do

[drifting stump]

ive found where the code is but going to have to head out again plus very tired

[bronze mulch]

You do your stuff irl first and then rest lad

[drifting stump]

if you want to have a look at it its ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.lua from line 2328 to 2684

[bronze mulch]

At least somewhere to start

[drifting stump]

its probably that

havent read anything there tho and im heading out

[bronze mulch]

Im no pro at modding

if even i can say im whatever at modding

or even worse optimize it if that's the case.

[chrome egret]

Finding a performance problem in vanilla code is very motivating to modders, IMO

People would love to solve that, myself included

[drifting stump]

Most vanilla code is a performance problem

[bronze mulch]

Problem being tutorials to modding ain't really tutorials how to solve this issue

i mean i watched this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6tZujOPnDw&t=2980s

But its adding a food item

not changing the vanilla code

[gaunt pendant]

Well it NEEDS to sort it everytime, in order to show stuff you actually have in inventory at the top. There's gotta be more going on there, though. No way it stutters for that long sorting 200 elements

[broken fulcrum]

The only thing I know about that is the Override:true, but I assume it only changes recipes, it's for what I've used for at least

[gaunt pendant]

I won't be home for another 2-3h at least, feel free to share any findings 😂

[bronze mulch]

The funnier thing is it does not even show the things you have at the top of the list

[gaunt pendant]

Sum1 mind pastebinning that lua file?

[bronze mulch]

Not sure where even from but you can surely guide me there

I can surely download atom if that's the case

[gaunt pendant]

^ it's in gamedir/media/lua somewhere

[bronze mulch]

media/lue

ended up here

[livid yarrow]

If I wanted to get every container in a safehouse, would my only option be to iterate over every square within its width/height from the X/Y coordinate and check for containers on them?

[bronze mulch]

assume its client

[gaunt pendant]

Yea just use the search

[bronze mulch]

What's the best program to open code anyway

[livid yarrow]

Visual Studio Code

[bronze mulch]

atom?

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

a

ye you aleardy said it

[drifting stump]

Visual studuo code is massively overkill for this and imo too heavy of a text editor

[broken fulcrum]

yeah

[broken fulcrum]

actually true, but it has some colour features may help understand the code for beginners

[chrome egret]

That's how I do it for a room: https://github.com/TheCrimsonKing92/pz-item-searcher/blob/master/media/lua/client/TimedActions/SearchRoomContainerAction.lua#L33

[livid yarrow]

This is great, thanks 🙂

[drifting stump]

Synthax highlighting isnt unique to it

[broken fulcrum]

yeah

u right

[livid yarrow]

This is actually kinda related to what I am trying to achieve. I want to have 1 container in a safehouse that basically has the capacity of all other containers combined, and any item you put in a container in a safehouse gets moved to that container.

[bronze mulch]

Alright

gonna try the dumb way to fix my problem

[livid yarrow]

Sometimes, that's the right way.

[broken fulcrum]

what are you trying to do my friend?

[chrome egret]

Beware, there are limitations on container capacity, and if you exceed them the contents won't save correctly

[livid yarrow]

I see.

[bronze mulch]

Delete it as a whole

[chrome egret]

Though perhaps your "1 container" could rather be an interface into the contents of the various containers in the safehouse.

[livid yarrow]

I had hoped I could somehow just "show" the other containers. But don't see a way to do that.

[broken fulcrum]

delete what? a recipe?

[bronze mulch]

Delete the tooltip window

[livid yarrow]

Yeah this is what I wanted to do. But when I add a container button, it basically asks for a specific container to reference.

[broken fulcrum]

What's that again? I always hear it, but always forget

[bronze mulch]

i think this is what's it called

[broken fulcrum]

so you want to delete everything and the person is kinda like on their on?

[chrome egret]

You might have better luck not making it a true "container" per the game, then skimming the container-related code you would need to create the new interface

[bronze mulch]

at least spiffo refered to it that way

Good new

[livid yarrow]

I'll have to find a way to do that. Haven't done PZ modding before.

[bronze mulch]

rip it does not exist

i deleted the code

therefore no more lag

xD

[chrome egret]

Item Searcher is my first, so I def feel ya. You might want to have a look at MrBounty's tutorial regarding making custom UIs: https://github.com/MrBounty/PZ-Mod---Doc/blob/main/Make an custom UI.md

[bronze mulch]

Well

[livid yarrow]

Yeah custom UI is probably the way to go. Thx for all the tips. That's the kind of info you only find after trying for hours but someone experienced can tell you in a minute 😄

[bronze mulch]

lemme try to fix this using some

deleting magic

[chrome egret]

Haha exactly. I'm by no means the be-all end-all with PZ modding, but I've hung around long enough to pick a few things up 😄

[chrome egret]

def post back any time you want some help

[gaunt pendant]

Nothing more deleted lines can't fix 🤣

[drifting stump]

Get the building definition and go through the rooms iirc room defs have a getall containers

Then add the items to your ui

[bronze mulch]

I absolutely can't optimize

so deleting the whole window should work

[bronze mulch]

Problem being

its kinda hard to understand somebodys code

i think i found the whole window

[gaunt pendant]

Just comment out original line 673

That adds the crafting portion of the context menu

[bronze mulch]

update

it now looks like that

and does not lag

which is fucking amazing

its bad shit stupid

but it works

Alright the video lags

because i have rdr2 on

[gaunt pendant]

🤣

[bronze mulch]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/970610531104882781/970621519417970698/2022-05-02_10-41-25.mp4

But this isn't the problem anymore

Which is dumb

might as well be the sorting algorithm

but i suppose it works

[broken fulcrum]

that ALWAYS bothered me

maan when I'm on top of a 50 corpses pile

[bronze mulch]

Wait

[broken fulcrum]

and click on "rip clothes"

[bronze mulch]

you telling me even more ppl have this problem?

[broken fulcrum]

it lags so fucking much

yeah

When it's like what I've said right there

I think it's so much different clothes the games kinda goes boom

[gaunt pendant]

Yea it looks for like every recipe u can do with everything on any container around u

It's bit of a mess 🤣

[bronze mulch]

I mean

kinda weird the game shows u things u can rip

in the

quickcontextmenu

not in the building menu

Anyway

Anyone think they can help me with this one after they finish everything important in their life and rest?

[gaunt pendant]

Yeah it's been annoying me for way too long, too. I will find some kind of workaround in next couple days.

[bronze mulch]

i mean im just gonna try to delete the window for now on

[bronze mulch]

Alright

fresh out of ideas

i have no idea which part of the code is responsible for the window to popup

[broken fulcrum]

you would like to remove even the popup that is empty right now?

[bronze mulch]

Problem is

if i don't delete the part

like the whole popup

it generates errors

[broken fulcrum]

ohh

most "mods" i try to make it spills out errors while hovering the cursor over

[gaunt pendant]

Ok so partial progress, problem is definitely in CraftTooltip:layoutContents, in that for j=1,#itemDataList do loop

tried commenting that out; removes any stutter!

Let's see what it actually does that takes so long, it looks simple enough 😄

yeah ok that's a lot of iterations

[zealous peak]

yo

not sure if this is the best spot for this question

[bronze mulch]

How's the thing doing

[bronze mulch]

Go on comrade

[gaunt pendant]

Probably can cache the result of that shiet, got it down to 50ms from 250+ rn

[zealous peak]

I'm hcecking soulficlher's building time mod to figure out where I would have better chances of finding clay. From what I understand, it is in the "stone" category. I don't quite understand the rarity of the item on different zones, though, indicated in the highlighted line

The higher the number, the lower the chance of finding it?

[bronze mulch]

From what i understand

[zealous peak]

Or is it the opposite?

[bronze mulch]

No idea comrade

Set them to 10

Check if you find many

set them to 0

check if you find any

[zealous peak]

The game says stones are rarer outside of roads, so that's why I'm wondering

Fair. May have to do that. I'm on a server rn, so I guess I'lll just keep exploring and find out

[bronze mulch]

The thing with mods that its

y know the authors code

not the original one

I would assume

[zealous peak]

Sorry, don't know the author's code. I supose the original is the id?

[bronze mulch]

the higher the number

the higher the chance

since trailerpark does not seem like a place you would find clay

[zealous peak]

ty

Will check a nearby grassland or so

[bronze mulch]

No i ment that in general this is a mod and for all we know the 4 could mean anything because he wrote it

lol it only gives 2 xp

[zealous peak]

I guess that it is a mod, but it still needs to follow the rules. I'd suppose it would be the same standard the game has for rarity

[bronze mulch]

anyway as the thing isOnWater

search clay in near water or even in rivers lol

[zealous peak]

fair point

[bronze mulch]

would make some sense

[bronze mulch]

So you bscly fixed it lol

[gaunt pendant]

Yea but that will break smth if you just remove it 😄

What it does is it checks every item against every other item if they are "similar", i.e. Wrist watch on left hand vs wrist watch on right hand

if you have 400 clothing items that's roughly (ignoring the off-by one) 400*400 = 160,000 checks

[bronze mulch]

ye

far worse when you have open closed variation of that

when you have sponge's clothing lol

[gaunt pendant]

Yup

[bronze mulch]

Anyway like

what's the progress chief

[gaunt pendant]

So what I'm trying rn is make it save the result, so it just has a lookup, instead of fetching the item definition and checking it 400 times for every item 400 times

so I have a table { item -> extra items }

and just populate that first time it does the crazy shiet which will still lag

any time after that it'll just take a fraction of that though

good enough for me. Could populate that "cached" table on game start but first tooltip is fine for me I think

Note to self: don't print() in loop with 160k iterations

[bronze mulch]

will it work for modded concent lol

[gaunt pendant]

yes

[bronze mulch]

chad

[gaunt pendant]

Now I just have to figure out how to override that via mods

CraftTooltip is defined local 😩

[bronze mulch]

they all should count as

clothing items

i suppose

[gaunt pendant]

Nah I mean how to replace the function

I'd love to avoid replacing the entire file lol

[bronze mulch]

if that won't work comrad

remember

you can always go down my path and delete the window xD

but as said

only a matter of figurin it out

[gaunt pendant]

yeah - we don't do that here 😄

[lime heath]

Hey I'm a total newbie to modding this game but I wanted to create a mod that builds upon the erosion system. Is there a good way that I can learn about how this is implemented into the game?

[bronze mulch]

Im not gonna lie comrad the tutorials on youtube seem outdated af

Did you mod any games since you said newbie to modding this game

[lime heath]

Hearts of Iron lol so pretty far off.

I found the class files related to erosion but they are all compiled and not really readable

I'm not sure how the system works, but I wanted to redefine what tiles can be eroded and build upon what is there, to create more erosion than the base game has

[bronze mulch]

When it comes to this game you gotta go of text tutorials not videos

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/61-robomats-modding-tutorials-updated-12112013/

here is one

a pretty old one at that

2013

phew

[lime heath]

I remember @devout zephyr 's original erosion mod, the streets could eventually grow grass and trees. but that was removed when it was brought into the base game

[bronze mulch]

pretty sure there are new one

s

at the website

[lime heath]

Yeah I figure - somewhere - there are definitions of what tiles can grow plants and the asphalt/concrete is excluded.

[bronze mulch]

That i would suggest asking or reddit on steam project zomboid help

they respond pretty quickly

[lime heath]

You mean the r/projectzomboid board?

[bronze mulch]

yup

but i also mean

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

[drifting stump]

not a great approach when you could write a better algorithm

[drifting stump]

theres a global declaration

[gaunt pendant]

Open for ideas, but I think to find out if your 400 items are the same as the other 399 you have to test every single one

[gaunt pendant]

Yea using ISRecipeTooltip now

[drifting stump]

besides having read the code that portion was meant to be commented out anyway

[gaunt pendant]

well it isn't, there's an extra minus

[drifting stump]

instead of checking every single item against most other items simply check before inserting if theres already a variation inserted

[gaunt pendant]

that's the same outcome though

You'd have to check your list:contains

for every single item

I guess you could keep a blacklist, and add all item's variations

then you'd only have to check against those