mod_development

[calm depot]

Do you have an example, I haven't seen this

[undone crag]

In the beta

[calm depot]

I'm on 41.71

[undone crag]

It takes a long time for the game to start

:/

Okay the game is starting. I will see if in 41.71 it undoes what 41.70 did without the notes saying so, which I doubt

Also can you post a screenshot of what you see?

[undone crag]

Okay it took a long time for the game to start but I took some screenshots.

Hey are you still there?

:|

[cinder vault]

does anyone know a way to save and load custom mod data in case the player leaves and rejoins the game? I've made a mod that adds items which have custom effects that last anywhere between 60 to 1500 seconds and I need those effects to stay in case the player leaves and rejoins.

ah I think I found out playerObject:getModData()

[mint jolt]

I love you 3000

[undone crag]

Hey Olipro come on what happened? We were talking examples. :/

[coral blade]

uhh

Hi

Chuck's firearms Plus mods is no more?

ID is 2723232301

[old blade]

i have a 3d model of shoes + textures for them that i want to put in the game, but i tried it already and sucked really bad at it. can i pay someone to get them functional in game, spawning, rarities, and able to be uploaded on steam workshop?

[hot patrol]

The hardest part would be attaching the model to the player model bone structure so that it stays on your feet when you move around. As for all the script related stuff just look at other similar clothing mods and copy them with your adjusted values.

You can even just look at the vanilla shoes for an example

The model looks really good btw. Reminds me of Denji from Chainsaw man.

[runic bear]

I'm tweaking Even Worse Looting so that empty containers don't get locked. The event triggers on Events.OnFillContainer.Add and I've added in if shouldLock and isEmpty then shouldLock = nil end
But now nothing is being locked as far as I can tell

Do containers start empty immediately? Is there something else I can check?

I take that back, containers are spawning locked, but there are still locked and empty ones

Nevermind, if shouldLock and container:isEmpty() then works apparently

[fiery pecan]

welp. I've gotten the network code to work-ish, but now I'm getting an error...
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.util.ArrayList.get(int)" because "zombie.vehicles.VehiclePart.getScriptPart().models" is null.

how on earth do I check for this, and fix it when it occurs?

[weak hamlet]

Hey i have had a dumb problem for a hot minute, so i figured this is the best place to ask
i'm trying to log a steamID when a player is created and I can't for the life of me get any events to work related to creation of a survivor
if you have any clue as to why this may be please reach out to me thanks
sorry I changed how I did things this is no longer an issue 🙂

[drifting ore]

Is anybody here familiar with the Survivors 2-in-1 mod?

If so, how do you add unique survivors?

[pseudo lake]

#mod_support

[hot void]

i can do it.

[old blade]

ive already got someone working on it, but thank you!

[hot void]

np

[umbral heron]

huh

ima replace my gun with a donut

how do you make custom animations?

in project zomboid

[mint jolt]

Hi everyone! I need a little help with translation, I have this code on scripts/ mymodname.txt

recipe Comida_ligera_por_Dinero /*Name of the recipe*/
    {
        destroy Money=3,
        keep FoodTrader,
        Result:    Base.CannedSardines,
        CanBeDoneFromFloor:true,
        Category:Money,
        Time:5,
        OnTest:Change_All_For_Money_OnTest,
    }```
and on shared/translate/EN, I have this code on the "Recipes_EN.txt"
```prolog
Recipes_EN = {
    Recipe_Comida_ligera_por_Dinero = "Light Food for Money(3)"
}```

When I play the game, it doesn't translate, does some one know what am I doing wrong? Do I need to store the variable or call it differently? Sorry I'm pretty new at coding/moding

[keen frost]

change
recipe Comida_ligera_por_Dinero
to
recipe Comida ligera por Dinero

[mint jolt]

Damn, I'm somewhat stupid haha thanks! Will let you know if it works 😄

[mint jolt]

Erase that, I'm just learning 🙂

[keen frost]

np

[mint jolt]

It worked!! You are a genius! Thanks a lot!

I also seem to workaround the problem using:
DisplayName_Comida_Ligera_por_Dinero = "Light Food for Money(3)" But I guess the way you taught me is way better/easier 😄

Thanks!

[keen frost]

Bad practice

[mint jolt]

I thought so, I kinda felt that wasn't quite right haha

[umbral heron]

damn

lua is weird

the hell

[fiery pecan]

oh my

[fiery pecan]

for clarification: This happens whenever I use setScriptName, then scriptReloaded on a server.

[tranquil reef]

what are .pack files and how do I make them

[cunning canyon]

If I had time I would update it, is it currently broken?

DMing me is a better way to reach my btw, I don’t check here often

[latent orchid]

Pack files contain the sprites used by the game. You can view/create pack files via the map editor TileZed. Check the pins in the mapping channel
EDIT: #mapping message

[tranquil reef]

Does it have everything from build 41?

[latent orchid]

The vanilla pack files are located within media\texturepacks and always contain the latest sprites

If you download and install the editors, you can view the pack files

[tranquil reef]

okay, thank you, I had tilezed and worlded installed but didn't know about the pack viewer lol

[latent orchid]

Unless you have custom tiles, you dont need to create any pack files

[tranquil reef]

I'm on the search for the gnome tile so I can create more gnomes, so far it's been an hour long hassle solely looking for the gnome

Thank you though, now that I can find it I can truly reach best modder status

[latent orchid]

in that same link I provided, it provides a download to the latest tilesheets for the editors (these are PNG files) where you can find the gnome on this sheet:

[tranquil reef]

it's been in vegetation this entire time

[tranquil reef]

thank you even more lol

[latent orchid]

yeah, i mainly do mapping so the sheet names are almost burnt into my memory

[tranquil reef]

I think I've had an outdated tile pool this entire time lol, rip

[tranquil reef]

One more question because I'm dumb and for some reason can't figure this out, that discord link sends me to this, https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21951-the-one-stop-tilezed-mapping-shop/, where do I get the tile sheets from here

I went to "Step 1) Installation and setup", then "LATEST TILEZED AND WORLDED (DECEMBER 21 2021)", and then " Tileset images" which is where the outdated tiles are, but couldn't find them on the actual original site

[latent orchid]

Give me a sec, iirc its a bit convoluted with the links. I'll track down the latest tilesheet link.

ok, its the 2nd pinned msg in mapping!
#mapping message

[tranquil reef]

Alright, thanks a lot once again lol, I've been using year old tiles for 6 months

[abstract raptor]

I believe there was but I dunno what it was lol

I think you'd be better off adding a context menu option

[trail lotus]

Whoa who’s the modder who creating this awesome mod?????? Please pm me 🙂 😎

[cinder vault]

is it impossible to save player mod data inside the OnSave/OnPostSave event? It works outside of it but the stuff I want to save runs every tick and I'd rather save once when necessary for performance reasons like when the player quits.

[drifting stump]

modData is already saved

[cinder vault]

I mean if I define/change it in there, it's not saved

[drifting stump]

?

[cinder vault]

local function OnSave()
  local player = getSpecificPlayer(0)
  local playerModData = player:getModData()
  playerModData.test = "test"
end
Events.OnSave.Add(OnSave)

this doesn't work player:getModData().test won't be there when I load

[drifting stump]

do it during playing

type in the console do local playerModData = getPlayer():getModData(); playerModData.test = "test" end

[cinder vault]

yeah that works, I was just hoping if it was possible to do it inside the OnSave event or when the player quits since if I don't, I'd have to save it each tick because what I want to save is a timer and it's going to change each tick and I'm worried of the performance implications of that. And I wouldn't know when the player would quit which is why I'd have to save it each time it changes.

[drifting stump]

but its not saving each tick

modData is a table in memory

it gets saved when the game saves

anyway using the on tick event isnt a good idea

if you want to tick that often every minute is fast enough

[cinder vault]

well in my case it's stuff like:
"Player loses 0.5 hp every 1 second for 30 seconds" or
"Player gains 0.025 endurance every 1 second for 60 seconds" etc
I want it to be smooth instead of an instant increase in value, not sure if there's a better way to do that

the stuff that runs each tick is the timer for those

[drifting stump]

every minute is every ingame minute you underestimate how fast it is

[undone crag]

I tested OnSave and it did not seem to run when I exited to the main menu.

[cinder vault]

you sure? if I print something I see it in the console.txt afterwards

[undone crag]

I tested it months ago and I was sure that it did not print things to me when the game exited to the main menu.

[cinder vault]

there's getFileWriter and getFileReader in the exposed Lua GlobalObject, I'll try that

[drifting stump]

why

[undone crag]

y tho

[chrome egret]

Why do you need to switch instead of staying on modData? I guess I don't understand why you can't be updating the state of modData while you're ticking, which would include removing the previously added effects

[cinder vault]

I've made a custom timer class that I can specify how often it emits an event that any object can connect to with any callback it wants and it's widely used for my mod so it felt a bit too much code to write for every object that wanted something to run in a timer.
like then I would have to manually write player:getModData().timeLeft = player:getModData().timeLeft - deltaTime
and all the rest of the logic for every timer for every object that wanted a timer.
since right now it's a timer about the player I want to save I'd do player:getModData().timeLeft = timer.timeLeft which is fine and I'd manually create a new timer class based on that data when the game loads I was just curious if it was possible to not write the above line of code in an OnTick event and instead do it in an OnSave event since that's when it's needed.

@drifting stump @undone crag because if I can save a file in the OnSave event and then load it, I wouldn't have to access modData each tick/minute. It would save having to do garbage collection more often

[tame mulch]

Oh. Can you explain main concept of your mod and why you need timers? (If it not secret)

[drifting stump]

it think you still dont understand what modData really is

having a local variable = {} and assigning something to that table is the same as assigning to modData

they are both a table in memory

[undone crag]

TextureCombiner is not exposed to Lua DDD:

[cinder vault]

sure, I guess easiest way to explain is that I want to add these items
https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/Medical
in Project Zomboid. Mainly the "List of Stimulators" section, so different effects that last for some amount of time and then effects that happen after a certain delay.

I don't want the effects to be instantaneous

[cinder vault]

I get that, I'm just trying to avoid having to access both the modData table and the timer data table again. and I can't just access the modData table because of the reasoning I gave above unless I am missing something

[undone crag]

I was thinking of using three base textures - red, green and blue - and using TextureCombiner to combine the item's model's texture with primary colours, and making a new model entry with getScriptManager():ParseScript, to make people able to paint their items using paint they find in the game, but this all broke at one point in the chain - the ability to combine textures T_T

[cinder vault]

also I want the effects to be smooth which is why I'm using OnTick for the timers and not EveryMinute etc, also it's in my understanding that EveryMinute would scale with the sandbox day settings which is not something I want.

[tame mulch]

As idea:

isRegenTimerOn = false

function OnEat(food)
    if food == "regenStimulator" then
      player:getModData().regenStimulantTimer = 600
      if not isRegenTimerOn then
        Events.OnTick.Add(RegenStimulantTimer)
        isRegenTimerOn = true
      end
    end
end

function RegenStimulantTimer()
    local modData = getPlayer():getModData()
    
    if modData.regenStimulantTimer > 400 and modData.regenStimulantTimer < 600 then
      doBuff(getPlayer())
    elseif modData.regenStimulantTimer > 100 and modData.regenStimulantTimer < 200 then
        doDebuff(getPlayer())
    end
    if modData.regenStimulantTimer > 0 then
      modData.regenStimulantTimer = modData.regenStimulantTimer - 1
    else
      isRegenTimerOn = false
      Events.OnTick.Remove(RegenStimulantTimer)
    end
end

But this may not work after save load

Need add check onLoad if some timers is on

[tame mulch]

Interesting idea. I will think about it, maybe will transfer idea to other devs 🙂

[undone crag]

:o

I was thinking I might have to learn to use Storm.

[cinder vault]

ah thanks, this gave me an idea. Since I want this timer ticking to be a bit more decoupled from the effects of the stimulant when I create a new timer I could pass in an optional table where it should store the timer data(eg. the modData of the player)
so example:
local timer = Timer:new(5.0, player:getModData())
and it would save the timer data in there

and the way I made it is so I can connect any function to that timer then
example:
timer:connect("tick", function() doBuff(getPlayer()) end)

[calm depot]

@cunning canyon yeah, check the discussions on your workshop item, I posted a workaround and a code cleanup, since the copypaste of all those game functions is unnecessary

[pliant sphinx]

super dumb lua question, but i dont know how to word it for google... Do I need to define my functions in the order that they are ran similar to c++? or can i call a function that is defined later in the lua file?

[cinder vault]

as long as they are declared before calling them then it's fine, and you can define them later.
example

local foo, bar
function foo()
  bar()
end
function bar()
end
foo()

but this won't work

local function foo()
  bar()
end
local function bar()
end

read more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41070456/is-there-a-way-to-put-local-functions-in-any-order-in-lua
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65849897/in-lua-is-there-forward-declaration

@pliant sphinx

[pliant sphinx]

understood, its the same way in c++. thank you!

[quasi geode]

• note the above only applies to functions declared local, globals are uneffected

[cinder vault]

I made it work and it saves and loads correctly, thanks!

[calm depot]

Functions are first-class in lua so they are basically just variables that happen to be a function

[heavy turret]

hey guys, what does getModData() do exactly? Can't find any documentation on it, is it a global method or something, could someone clear my mind here please?

[calm depot]

It's a Java function

I guess I'll pop open intellij and figure it out, I'm feeling charitable/curious

[heavy turret]

well okay but what it gives back? a table?

[calm depot]

yeah, it just returns a KahluaTable

looks like it's a way to store data persistently

and no, it's not global

[heavy turret]

have you found it in intellij, where is the definition of this function?

[calm depot]

it's defined for: InventoryItem, GameTime, GlobalObject, GlobalObjectSystem, IsoGridSquare, IsoMetaGrid, IsoObject, IsoThumpable, ClimateManager and VehiclePart

note that it could very well be subclasses, I just did a search for all declarations

[willow estuary]

Huh, shame it's not defined for rooms and buildings, albeit you could just use an arbitrary square.

[tame mulch]

Also exist global ModData

[calm depot]

you mean the global function getServerModData ?

[tame mulch]

No, I mean class ModData

local tab = ModData.getOrCreate("SomeDatabaseTable")

[dry vessel]

working train mode

like u can fix the train and it can like go around the map

[calm depot]

ah I see, the Java class is exposed to lua

[fiery pecan]

only issue there? There's like 2 rail lines across the map. Trains would be awesome, yes. But they'd literally be useless

[tame mulch]

ModData pretty useful for client-server database or just client database

[calm depot]

@tame mulch while I have you here - is there anything built into the game that lets you profile execution times of registered lua events (rather than just the option that makes it log when something takes "too long")

[dry vessel]

💀

expand the rail roads?

[calm depot]

if you can go to the effort of making working trains, you can go to the effort of modifying the map to have more train lines 😄

[fiery pecan]

iirc, the devs fear the magical thing called "work". Jkjk, I love the PZ devs 🙂

anyways uhhhh. Aiteron

remember when you told me to use sendClientCommand?

I got that working, but I'm getting an odd bug

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.util.ArrayList.get(int)" because "zombie.vehicles.VehiclePart.getScriptPart().models" is null.

[tame mulch]

I don't sure. I think no

[fiery pecan]

occurs when I use scriptReloaded() to update the vehicle for clients?

[tame mulch]

I am not worked with profiling

[calm depot]

ah well, I guess I can just patch Event.trigger()

[tame mulch]

What exactly you want to add?

[calm depot]

an option so that it's not just hardcoded to 250

[tame mulch]

It's on serverside?

[fiery pecan]

and I HATE to be the guy yacking in the middle of a convo, but it sometimes does a similar error in regard to doors

[fiery pecan]

yep

[calm depot]

you can frequently end up with lag that's "death by a thousand cuts" - no single event takes too long, but cumulatively it is

@fiery pecan does it not also give you a stack trace for the NPE?

[fiery pecan]

uhhh

let me check

DebugLogStream.printException> Stack trace:.

that's it

[calm depot]

dang

[tame mulch]

Maybe need send command to clients, and on clients sides reload script?

[fiery pecan]

perhaps. Great... More work...

[calm depot]

oh wait, you're causing the NPE from Lua?

[fiery pecan]

yeah

[calm depot]

got a link to the code?

[fiery pecan]

can I dm the files?

[tame mulch]

It's not hard) I did big client server architecture on sendClientCommand and ModData.transmit and all works fine)

[calm depot]

sure

[fiery pecan]

k

[calm depot]

@cunning canyon actually, let me save you the time: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/2398274461/4827307257599995452/

[heavy turret]

hey guys, is there a way to call original method that was overwritten?

[calm depot]

generally, no

that is, assuming you're talking about something overwritten by someone else and you have no control over it

if you can execute some code before they do, then sure

[heavy turret]

omg then this code is a mess

[calm depot]

sounds like you might have an X Y problem - why do you need to access the original method?

[heavy turret]

not me, I'm fixing a mod

[calm depot]

OK, what's the problem, can you pastebin the relevant code?

[heavy turret]

https://pastebin.com/Q6jXfg98

[calm depot]

alrighty, and what's broken?

[heavy turret]

it just loops

[calm depot]

"it"?

[heavy turret]

I guess TCMusic.oldISRadioWindow_activate = ISRadioWindow.activate is responsible for execution of the original method?

[calm depot]

yeah

[heavy turret]

well for some reason when TCMusic.oldISRadioWindow_activate( _player, _item, bol ); executes it just goes again to the start of this method

[calm depot]

welp, then it sounds like it's getting assigned twice

personally, I prefer to use a local

local oldActivate = ISRadioWindow.activate

then just swap out all the calls to TCMusic.oldISRadioWindow_activate for oldActivate

that'll at least guarantee it can't be double assigned

thing is, are there any other locations in the code that use TCMusic.oldISRadioWindow_activate ?

(I'd hope not, but who knows)

[heavy turret]

only this place

strange though, how did it work on earlier versions then? Or it never worked?

[calm depot]

well, in the snippet you pasted, there's nothing in there that would make it call itself infinitely

but at least if you reduce it to a local, you'll rule out anything else interfering

[storm scarab]

Would anyone know the Use delta of 6 uses? as 6 uses would be 1.666 reoccurring

[calm depot]

well, it would be 0.1666...

[storm scarab]

Yeah, but surely that would leave just enough for 7?

[calm depot]

welcome to the world of floating point numbers

[storm scarab]

I thought as much

[heavy turret]

just tried it, same thing happening, any advice where to dig?

[calm depot]

if you really must limit it to 6, you'll have to write some code that checks the total amount remaining

[storm scarab]

Nah I guess ill just settle with 7 or 8

[calm depot]

although actually, doesn't the game refuse to let you use it if the use delta is > total amount anyway?

[storm scarab]

Yeah but then surely you would be left with a unusable trash item

Although that doesn't sound so bad

[calm depot]

@heavy turret I'd use debugstacktrace() to print out the call chain

I think you have to run the game with -debug to utilise that function

[storm scarab]

I did make a model for it anyway.. so I dont see the issue in an unusable trash item

hmm

I shall consider my options

[weary crypt]

If you don't define the MagazineType parameter for a weapon does it assume it has an internal magazine?

[calm depot]

it would appear so, yes

[weary crypt]

Cool, thanks.

[heavy turret]

can parameters be an issue? maybe I need to define the original ISRadioWindow somewhere?

[calm depot]

@heavy turret can you link/upload the full mod?

[heavy turret]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2613146550

[calm depot]

wut, I used that recently

it's broken?!?

[heavy turret]

if you place it on the ground then yes

[calm depot]

I see

you're working on 41.71?

[heavy turret]

in some patch they changed placeable radios to deviceObject or something

im on 41.68

[calm depot]

the first thing I see is that ISRadioWindow.activate doesn't take 3 arguments, just two: _player and _deviceObject

but that shouldn't matter, it'll just be ignored

[heavy turret]

Indeed, probably was used before

[calm depot]

OK, so lemme reproduce the issue

I need to give myself a boombox item and then do what?

just stick it on the ground and try to use it?

[heavy turret]

place item

click device options

[calm depot]

ah, you're on 41.68... I'm on unstable

(41.71) - let's see if it breaks for me

[fast galleon]

Is there an easy way to make a player say something or add Halotextnote to them, from server

[heavy turret]

probably will get the same error

since change to placed objects was before

[fast galleon]

have you tried dropping object and not placing? @heavy turret

[heavy turret]

well that is a workaround, but I wanted to fix this

[heavy turret]

oh wait, if dropping I think you get the same issue

as I recal if you drop it it should become a 3d object as if you would place it

[calm depot]

they're not the same though

3d object is an item whereas proper placement is a Moveable

[heavy turret]

F

well then one issue at a time

[ebon axle]

i noticed that if you play it before you place it it activates a 3rd Device Options that actually works haha

[calm depot]

@heavy turret yeah, I got the same error, but it's not looping

[fast galleon]

So maybe need to change tile properties?

[heavy turret]

so if you open a vanilla radio the same way the radio will work?

[calm depot]

it's broken because _item:getSprite() returns nil

[ebon axle]

if you equip it and then access the device options, one of the options after you place it works as intended

[heavy turret]

yup

[heavy turret]

could you try placing a vanilla radio on ground and click device options? will vanilla ui pop up?

I guess it should crash as well if you don't fix the getSprite issue as you can not get past if statement

[tame mulch]

If you plan to fix True music, I can help. Anyway It's me changed how works radio in patch .71

[heavy turret]

that would be great if I can get some help

[calm depot]

it indexes a table of pre-defined names to figure out if it's a boombox

but why is it doing that off the sprite

can't it just use getName() direct from the IsoObject?

[heavy turret]

idk, took me a lot of time to just understand this code, I think earlier _item was passed to Isradiowindow.activate and the mod worked

[heavy turret]

what happens if you put TCMusic.oldISRadioWindow_activate after it checks for "IsoWaveSignal", will it loop back to the start?

[calm depot]

            if sprite and TCMusic.WorldMusicPlayer[_item:getSprite():getName()] then```

I changed it to that and it no longer crashes

now I just need to find a clean way for it to figure out that it's a boombox and it should be fine

[tame mulch]

Check world items in square?

[calm depot]

well, we already have the _deviceObject

surely we can pull some unique attribute off of it

[heavy turret]

if getSprite() returns nil why do you need it?

[calm depot]

do you understand what the code is doing?

[heavy turret]

I'm not sure anymore lol

[calm depot]

TCMusic.WorldMusicPlayer is a table with key(s) used to figure out if we have a boombox

for whatever reason, he decided to call getSprite():getName() which evidently used to work

and at some point, they made the game not assign a sprite to it, probably because it's a 3D object and therefore pointless

I'm going to see what getName() returns and if it's a reasonable string, use that

welp, that's also nil

[heavy turret]

I understand that part, but why are you putting sprite in the if statement?

the if needs to be changed completely I think

you can do _item:getDeviceData():getDeviceName();

[calm depot]

ah yes, of course

perfect, that's a winner

[heavy turret]

you forgot I sent a pastbein earlier?

[calm depot]

well, that isn't localised is it?

[heavy turret]

localised means it's stored in memory?

[calm depot]

no, I mean depends on what language your game is set to

[tame mulch]

You fixed it? Need more help?

[heavy turret]

oh, the languages...

[calm depot]

ya

[heavy turret]

is there a way to check it without switching languages?

[calm depot]

doesn't appear to be localised

this feels a bit shitty, I think we should probably put a proper attribute on the item script

but for now, I'll live with this hack till it's verified fully working and then clean it up

bingo, it works

[tame mulch]

Everything works with boombox? 🙂

[calm depot]

seems to

can I define ModData for an item in its .txt script?

[tame mulch]

Yep

[calm depot]

cool, this'll be much cleaner

is the key just called ModData?

nah, can't be, no definitions

[tame mulch]

For add custom param to item script, just write any non keyword param (Like: "customItemName = boombox,")
Then you will can get it by item:getModData().customItemName
But it works for inventory items

[calm depot]

ah ok, so I can just define arbitrary key/value pairs in the item.txt

should have remembered that myself, I used it for making containers interchange gasoline/water

[heavy turret]

guys I went with my dog and you already fixed everything?

[heavy turret]

try inserting a tape, there is the same getsprite getname issue

[calm depot]

no, I lied, it just doesn't error now, I don't think the cassette GUI is rendering properly

[heavy turret]

F

we also need a workaround how to interact with vanilla radios, if we can execute vanilla isradiowindow.activate that should work

[calm depot]

so, getModData() just returns a table with RadioItemID -> 350546709

and absolutely nothing else in it

I guess I need to get the underlying item

[tame mulch]

Can you send me item script?

[calm depot]

sure, but I think this is because the WaveSignalDevice when placed in the world is different from the inventory item

[tame mulch]

Yep

[calm depot]

https://pastebin.com/KUJYaRMm

[tame mulch]

I think we can just check square for items, find item with RadioItemID and put this item to func

[calm depot]

so, the current code works by overriding ISRadioWindow.activate

we already have the _deviceObject as second param

just need a "nice" way of identifying it

[tame mulch]

We need inventory item?

[calm depot]

right, _deviceObject is an instance of IsoWaveSignal

[tame mulch]

Here how it works in PZ - to IsoWaveSignal object saved id of Inventory item, that placed on the same square

[calm depot]

brilliant, that'll do nicely

@tame mulch actually, isn't that a bit inefficient? I can obtain the IsoRadio by directly calling _deviceObject:getDeviceData():getParent()

[tame mulch]

But we need not IsoRadio. We need Inventory Item

[calm depot]

ah, I see, so it's not quite the same when you obtain it this way

[calm depot]

@tame mulch yeah, that doesn't do anything useful, the _deviceObject argument I have is identical to the object I obtain from iterating over getObjects() and finding it

[tame mulch]

Try to find InventoryItem

if instanceof(obj, "WorldInventoryItem") then obj:getItem():getId() == radioID

[calm depot]

just to see what happens, I printed out all moddata for everything on the square

there are 3 items total, 2 have nothing, one is the same IsoRadio and still only has RadioItemID

[tame mulch]

Hmmm

maybe getSpecialObjects. Hmmm

[calm depot]

worth a punt, let's see

nah, that just returns the same IsoRadio that I already have from the function param, too

on the other hand, the array has only one element

[tame mulch]

Found it:

local wobs = sq:getWorldObjects();
for i = 0, wobs:size()-1 do
  local o = wobs:get(i);
  if instanceof(o, "IsoWorldInventoryObject") then
    if o:getItem():getID() == _item:getModData().RadioItemID then
      result = o:getItem()
    end
    break;
  end
end

[old zealot]

Hello guys,i have a quick inquiry

i want to change the vehicle data of a certain vehicle mod,the skateboard mod

I have found most of the things i want to do myself,but i want to make sure i understand some variables correctly

Specifically,how are engineforce,enginequality and maxspeed put into the equation of how the game works

maxspeed is 2.0f,what does this mean for example?

How is engineforce used and what exactly is rollInfluence?

Thank you for your time

[tame mulch]

Oh, maybe better ask developer of this mod)

[old zealot]

aren't these variables globally implemented?

[tame mulch]

This is specific mod, I don't know how it works (as vehicle?). But maybe someone will can help

[old zealot]

i checked a video and i have found that all vehicles use variables such as "Engineforce","maxspeed" and "Enginequality"
I don't know about rollInfluence,that might be custom

So rollInfluence aside,how are Engineforce and maxspeed calculated into the vehicle

If i want to set a maxspeed of 100km/hour for example,what value would i need to set maxspeed to?

[calm depot]

@heavy turret alright, the UI shows up correctly finally

and it's working in a "nice" way by obtaining the moddata

however, I can't insert a cassette, don't get any errors, it just won't accept it

guess I'll have to poke through ISTCBoomboxWindow, unless someone knows something I don't

[tame mulch]

Yep, same issue 🙂 I hope not need rewrite full mod :/ I tried do this, but too much work

[calm depot]

must be an issue with isValidAddMedia()

[heavy turret]

I got errors when trying to insert the cassette

[calm depot]

who doesn't love some print() driven debugging?

what error did you get

[heavy turret]

        musicPlayer = TCMusic.WorldMusicPlayer[self.device:getSprite():getName()]``` it should be this one

I don't remember as I was stuck with the first error

[calm depot]

did you spawn in the cassette?

[heavy turret]

yes

[calm depot]

hm, it just shows in red and won't take the cassette

screw it, I'll just shove a print in the function and see if it's even executing

[heavy turret]

can you pastbein the tickcheckmusic file?

[calm depot]

I do agree with you - I would expect this to also shit itself and crash

[heavy turret]

or just pop a file here if server accepts it

[calm depot]

it's only a few lines, one sec

            local square = _item:getSquare()
            local objects = square:getWorldObjects()
            local playsMusic = false
            for i = 0, objects:size() - 1 do
                local obj = objects:get(i)
                if instanceof(obj, 'IsoWorldInventoryObject') and obj:getItem():getID() == _item:getModData().RadioItemID then
                        playsMusic = obj:getItem():getModData().PlaysMusic
                        break
                end
            end
            if playsMusic then
                ISTCBoomboxWindow.activate( _player, _item )```

you need to add PlaysMusic = TRUE to both the items in their script files

(i.e. the boombox and vinyl player)

@heavy turret did you make any changes to TCMusic.searchBoombox ?

[heavy turret]

I did not

[calm depot]

so, ISTCBoomboxAction:isValidAddMedia() doesn't even execute for me :\

[tame mulch]

I did to state when it works from loot menu device options. Need only fix for 3d objects

[heavy turret]

so the code is like this? elseif instanceof(_item, "IsoWaveSignal") then local square = _item:getSquare() local objects = square:getWorldObjects() local playsMusic = false for i = 0, objects:size() - 1 do local obj = objects:get(i) if instanceof(obj, 'IsoWorldInventoryObject') and obj:getItem():getID() == _item:getModData().RadioItemID then playsMusic = obj:getItem():getModData().PlaysMusic break end end if playsMusic then ISTCBoomboxWindow.activate( _player, _item ) else TCMusic.oldISRadioWindow_activate( _player, _item, bol ); end

[calm depot]

yep

[heavy turret]

did you test with vanilla radios?

[calm depot]

you mean do vanilla radios still behave as vanilla radios?

[heavy turret]

yea

[calm depot]

yes

[heavy turret]

and script file -> ```model TCVinyl_Ground
{
mesh = WorldItems/TCVinyl,
texture = WorldItems/TCVinyl_BaseColor,
scale = 0.015,
PlaysMusic = TRUE,
}

model TCBoombox_Ground
{
    mesh = WorldItems/TCBoombox,
    texture = WorldItems/TCBoombox_BaseColor,
    scale = 0.0015,
    PlaysMusic = TRUE,
}```

[calm depot]

no

that's the models

[heavy turret]

😢

[calm depot]

TCTrueMusic.txt

[heavy turret]

oh right, missed it

[calm depot]

ok, cool, I got it to error out when inserting the cassette

had to pick it up and place it again, weird, anyway, progress

[heavy turret]

I just started the game, F

what is happening, why is it not looping anymore and if TCMusic.oldISRadioWindow_activate it goes to the original function, maybe the game bugged out for me and I needed to restart?

and I either pasted the code in the wrong place or it doesn't work for me, the PlayMusic is NOT TRUE for me when clicking on the boombox

and when clicking boombox it just opens the vanilla ui for radio

[calm depot]

yeah, I'll just get it working and send the code over

I think we're very close to getting this working

[heavy turret]

damn, a savior for 200k people if we can get the fix in the workshop, don't know if we can without author permission

[calm depot]

ah shite, yeah, there is that

well, we can just upload it as a new item that depends on TrueMusic

it'll be a bit of a pain in the arse because we'll need additional code to inject the ModData values

unless someone knows of a way to override an item directly from scripts?

oh wait, I think we can do that

[tame mulch]

You can upload fix with dependency of original mod. You can override functions or files of original mod. And iBrRus said that he publish fix for TrueMusic when next patch released to stable

[calm depot]

weird, this can be fixed in a way that it works on both new and old :\

[tame mulch]

Not exactly. Radio in 68 build bugged. I fixed it in new patches

[calm depot]

what was bugged?

[tame mulch]

Not correct saved IsoRadio

[calm depot]

ah

speaking of bugged, vehicle radios have no DeviceData so you can't listen to radio stations on them now

[tame mulch]

It will be fixed soon I think

[calm depot]

I did an ugly hack on the Java code to get the text printed to the chat box

namely: inst.getDevices().stream() .map(WaveSignalDevice::getDeviceData) .filter(DeviceData::isVehicleDevice) .filter(DeviceData::getIsTurnedOn) .filter(data -> data.getChannel() == var4) .map(DeviceData::getParent) .forEach(dev -> distInternalInvoke(inst, dev, var1, var2, var3, var5, var6, var7, var8, var9, var10, var11));

[tame mulch]

Oh!

[calm depot]

@heavy turret guess what?

everything's working 😄

[heavy turret]

ur the mvp mate

[calm depot]

@tame mulch feeling charitable enough to tell me what I need to do to add moddata to an item from my own mod?

I know how to do it with Lua code but that's a bit hacky if there's a pure script-only way to do it

[tame mulch]

Sure! Example

item TestItem 
{
  ...,
  myCustomParam = 69420,
}

  print(item:getModData().myCustomParam) -- => 69420

[calm depot]

@tame mulch I mean say someone already created item SomeItem{ ... } - I want to then add my own values to that

do I just redeclare the item?

[tame mulch]

Oh, do like in ItemTweaker:
(one sec, I will find example)

[drifting stump]

if you want to edit an already existing item do

getScriptManager():getItem("Module.SomeItem"):DoParam("")

[calm depot]

@heavy turret here, give this a shot

[drifting stump]

there are also setters for a lot of things

[tame mulch]

local item = ScriptManager.instance:getItem("Base.TowBar")
item:DoParam("myParam = 69420")

or by setters for default params

[calm depot]

yeah, that's how I've done it before

I thought there was a pure script file way

alright, good enough

[calm depot]

@tame mulch are items guaranteed to be loaded before your Lua executes or do I need to put it in an event?

[tame mulch]

Better add to event:
Events.OnGameBoot.Add

[cinder vault]

is there a way to temporarily increase player fitness/strength? also is there a way to alter perception radius?

[calm depot]

cool

@cinder vault sure, level them up and then level them down later

[cinder vault]

what's the function to do that?

[calm depot]

just make sure you don't bugger up their XP 😉

[cinder vault]

yeah I'll keep it in mind

[calm depot]

I don't know, but if I wanted to, I'd go and look at the code for the debug window that lets you cheat your stats

[cinder vault]

true

what does "strength" actually do? maybe it would be better to alter what it does instead if possible because I was kinda hoping if the player is lvl 10 I could get them to like a temporary lvl 11

[calm depot]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Skills#Passives

[cinder vault]

oh nice

time to find out if those can be adjusted

[vapid wind]

are there any mods that add a search bar for inventories?

[calm depot]

@heavy turret right, all done, uploaded it as its own workshop mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=2809787779

[zenith smelt]

Is it okay to save stuff about the player in the moddata for the player in the server?

I mean in the multiplayer

[tame mulch]

Depends what data and how you will use it

[zenith smelt]

I want to save a new player max levels and skill points

So basically a map

and client will need to access it

Can I reliably just save data straight to player moddata and will it work on relog?

Or should I make my own database using the server and save into the lua folder

[tame mulch]

Relog I think yes. After death - no

[zenith smelt]

That's perfect

Thanks

I want to have player unlock levels from gameplay and then redistribute them manually

[calm depot]

@tame mulch was there any technical reason why predicatePetrol requires a container to have a full unit of gasoline in it in order to be allowed to fill up a generator?

[heavy turret]

you are a legend man, thank you

[tame mulch]

I think this is not full unit, this is at least 1 use of gas container

I think better load it to pastebin and attach link in comment to mod page

[thorny garnet]

Aiteron! Thanks, I would post to the mod page but comments are disabled there.

@late hound Maybe this'll work? lol

[calm depot]

@tame mulch well, the thing is, I made a mod that lets you use the various water containers as gas containers and that check prevents a water bottle being used, because its total volume is less than a single unit

[thorny garnet]

Just realized this is in the improper channel.

[tame mulch]

Hmmm. I think with water different use delta system. You used new tag system?

[calm depot]

it does now, previously I hacked it by setting up metatables that wrapped the real function calls into java

I say previously, I still do that for a lot of stuff

but since you added the tags for the generator, that looked like a nice quick fix

and far less convoluted that using metatable magic

[tame mulch]

Did similar things when I was modder 😄

[calm depot]

I live in hope one day PZ will move to LuaJ

it kicks the pants off of Kahlua

[tame mulch]

What exactly you don't like?

[calm depot]

from a functionality standpoint? not all that much - from a performance standpoint? LuaJ can compile scripts to Java bytecode rather than just interpreting them

you can also create multiple separate lua states and execute each on its own thread - I don't think Kahlua can do that

[old zealot]

Can anyone help me with this??

[calm depot]

@tame mulch so it turns out that calling BaseVehicle.scriptReloaded on a server absolutely buggers it right now because the PZBullet native library isn't loaded - ends up with java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: zombie/core/physics/Bullet.removeVehicle(I)V

looks like the server init function should also call Bullet.init()

[tame mulch]

But why we need scriptReloaded on servers?

[calm depot]

that's a question for @fiery pecan

he's using it to replace vehicle textures on the fly it seems

[fiery pecan]

well, you see. It seems to be the only way for vehicles to update changes to clients in a server environment

[tame mulch]

What changes you want to update?

[fiery pecan]

changes to the vehicle itself

like...

my mod takes a 85vicsheriff, from Filibuster's mod, and makes it a 85vic_STR_Rosewood, for example

[tame mulch]

Oh, complete change script on another. Hmmm

[fiery pecan]

yeah

it works, but it doesn't update the changes

as in, I have to TP away and come back

for the script change to appear without ScriptReloaded

[tame mulch]

It works only on 1 client or don't work anywhere?

[calm depot]

it's not a particularly healthy thing because the thread constantly throws exceptions after the failed setScriptReloaded call

[fiery pecan]

it won't appear for anyone without script-reloaded

[tame mulch]

I can check later this things, if it need. I added changing skins and colors for vehicles for MP in last patches. Maybe this thing and vehicle rotation will be next (if I will have time)

[calm depot]

if someone really needs to fix this right now, you could write a small wrapper around zombie.network.GameServer.main() that calls Bullet.init() and then invokes the original main

[fiery pecan]

sounds good Aiteron. Thanks for even considering it 🙂

[willow estuary]

@old zealot this is an excerpt from a vehicles script file from build 40; in the comments are explanations for some of the parameters used in the vehicle scripts.

[weary crypt]

Is there documentation on how each weapon parameter works? eg; I'm guessing HitChance is out of 100? Does AimingPerkHitChanceModifier increase hit chance by that value per aiming skill or that amount at 10 Aiming? etc

[willow estuary]

AimingPerk modifiers are by individual level.
I'm not sure is there is a comprehensive, up to date explanation of weapon parameters? I could definitely benefit from one of those myself.

[weary crypt]

Thanks. If you do happen to learn of one I'd be very interested

[old zealot]

I will check it out,it will help me a lot.thanks!

[old zealot]

I know almost nothing about the variables and functions in PZ but maybe add a check to see if a player is holding containers such as garbage bags and check there

Before that one,add a check to see if a player has a backpack equipped.if so,check there

[calm depot]

@outer pawn um, is it ignoring the backpack, or just removing the first item it finds?

or do you intentionally want to just remove only one item

[old zealot]

Is everything that is on the player inside "Inventory"??

[calm depot]

yes

[old zealot]

Including backpack items

?

[calm depot]

yes

[old zealot]

Hmm alright then

[calm depot]

hence the "recurse" part of the functions

[old zealot]

There should be a way for that function to record from which place it removed the item

[calm depot]

yeah, I think it's because you're calling Remove() from the wrong place

once you have the item (also, you should be checking that it actually returned a valid item) you can call getItemContainer() to get its container

then call remove from that

[rocky wagon]

Is this a good channel for general questions about published mods?

[calm depot]

depends

is it a code question or a support question?

[rocky wagon]

I’m trying to find a mod to replace a couple features from Brita’s guns. Specifically the suppressors.

I’m not a fan of just how many different guns Britas adds to the game, along with the deluge of ammo types. But I really like the different suppressors, especially shotgun suppressors.

Alternatively if there’s a way to limit what guns spawn to just one gun per “type” (handgun, revolver, shotgun, rifle, assault rifle, etc), that’d make using Britas tolerable.

[calm depot]

yeah, that's a question for #mod_support

[rocky wagon]

Okie, thanks

[calm depot]

although to answer the last sentence, yeah, there is a way - you could write your own script that manipulates ProceduralDistributions

[rocky wagon]

Oof

[calm depot]

it's not a particularly big job, but obviously, having at least some coding capability is necessary

[rocky wagon]

Yeah, I’ve got some very rudimentary experience, but it’s very rusty.

[calm depot]

have a look at media/lua/server/ProceduralDistributions.lua in Britas

[rocky wagon]

I’ll ask over in support if anyone knows about another mod with similar suppressors

[calm depot]

is this for a server or just for yourself?

[rocky wagon]

Solo play

[calm depot]

oh, then you don't even need to bother doing your own mod, that's just to avoid violating their copyright

[rocky wagon]

Not that concerned with ‘balance’. =^__^=

[calm depot]

since you're solo, just hack up the files any way you see fit

open it, delete whatever you don't like

[rocky wagon]

I’ll have a look then.

It’s not a bad mod, I just don’t feel like playing Arma Outfitter in my zombie apocalypse

[safe sinew]

I don't suppose there's a way to make it so that Brita's RPG and Flamethrower projectiles come out lower instead of on top of the player's head like an invisible halo is firing them?

[rocky wagon]

Lol

[pulsar charm]

does mod options let you turn down spawn rates of individual items?

[thorn bane]

I'm looking at the Javadoc, and I can't find anything on how to ban a SteamID on a server. Is there a function for that?

[rocky wagon]

Not sure honestly. I’ll have to check

[wintry birch]

I cant get mods to work on my server

Any diagnosis?

I do enable them but dont want to work

[white crag]

I found some strange thing about animation

aiming and shooting in strafe has no issue

but it seems like aiming and standing still bugs out animations

I see the idle turning animation is not sustaining it's weight

unlike strafe aim

plz fix

i guess this is why sometimes the attack is missing the aiming zone

maybe forcibly setting the variable is the bad idea as a modder

?

[white crag]

well kinda fixed it by turning on isturning to true

when swining the weapon

[native shore]

lol if that's in degrees, it's just a little over 4 full turns... why is that not modulo 360? 😄

[white crag]

it does in strafe

but it does not in idle state

don't ask me why

[native shore]

wheeeeeee

[white crag]

at least now you can go full auto

without .... that strange rpm decrease

based on recoil

the accuracy already tanks in burst

[undone crag]

47.19 MB

[white crag]

kinda bummer its riddled with hacks

[olive turret]

how do u repair brita's weapons

[midnight mica]

Does anyone have an example of overwriting an lua function? I made a mod to overwrite ISVehicleMechanics:doPartContextMenu(part, x, y) but i keep getting errors when i try it out, i copy pasted the original code into a new function and commented out the code i don't want. Also assigned the old function to my new function but i probably did something wrong

[tame mulch]

Can you send code here? I will check

[white crag]

idk its gonna help

It's part of my codes

it stores the original in somewhere

and replaces it in gamestart event

and you can reload the code

the reason why i did the shallowcopy is well

it did something funny when starting the new game

when i didn't used that shallow copy as original reference in monkey patch code

[tame mulch]

Interesting. This code for hook after original function calls?

[white crag]

Yes

The biggest issue was the health menu

somehow it didn't get hooked in the boot

so I had to move more further

Inventory Bag Icon was "instanced"

so I couldn't access metatable

so I had to make another hook for that one too

probably creating new button did the thing i guess

[tame mulch]

Why just not use like this?

local oldISHealthPanel_doBodyPartContextMenu = ISHealthPanel.doBodyPartContextMenu
function ISHealthPanel:doBodyPartContextMenu(bodyPart, x, y)
  oldISHealthPanel_doBodyPartContextMenu(self, bodyPart, x, y)
  -- your code
end

[white crag]

well I prefer reference original once

because while i was making inventory render code and some UI monkey patching mods

quick patching codes actually made game crash a lot

and calling things twice or third time

idk maybe im suck

but I structure things to be reloaded

because... its kinda calling out the name so i hate to say it

due to ItemTweak Framework

restarting game is actually depressing

because it prints all the overridden items

which costs I/O, resulting game to restart WAYYYYYYYY slower

so I make things can be reloaded

file by file

just it

[tame mulch]

You mean reload lua files without restart game?

[white crag]

ye

Without any sideeffects

[tame mulch]

By F11 not work in your case?

[white crag]

f11 works

but the monkypatching lives

unless i load entire lua files from start

(which still does not guarantees the initial state, even starting new game does not provides fresh state)

its still based on my personal experience

kinda looking into zomboid java code

so yet to judge anything yet

still have a lot of questions in my mind tho

[tame mulch]

As idea - try fix ItemTweaker for disable I/O overrided items

[tame mulch]

If you have questions - can ask, maybe I will can help

[white crag]

well

1. people copy pasted the whole code

into their mod

so its spreading like virus

print() is evil

but if they like to do so on every single mod

i can't help it tbh

2. the question is mostly personal ranting ;-;

like why muzzle flash is hardcoded

no render target codes (dynamic texture generation)

[tame mulch]

I heard about this. Maybe in future patches I will add param for flash to item script

[white crag]

well more like

the lua - java bindings are too niche

for like

how about setting custom model for muzzle flash (since it's harded coded mesh rendering)

maybe particle rendering (i know depth buffer is yet to come so i get it)

[tame mulch]

As i know, muzzle flash it's just images

[white crag]

huh

yeah

2 images

Yeah almost forgot to mention

idk why some model's normals get flipped

i mean

light normal is fine

but the culling is flipped

i guess some sketch thing is going on

i suspect it is related with transforms

because when i unflip the culling

the attachment coordinate get inverted

[tame mulch]

Oh, I don't know

[white crag]

bruh moments

prolly adding an option for flipping the cull

also the new version of zomboid tend to have a lot of model origin issues

[tame mulch]

Hmmm

[white crag]

i haven't looked the code

but i assume the texture rendering code is based on the model's local transform

instead of fixed camera

i guess it's time to look into fbx importer?

Also I wonder is there a way to generate items and recipes with lua

Y'know, generating bullets and things is tedious

[undone crag]

The World attachment is not used for the world items I think.

[undone crag]

This minds me. Come on Olipro we were talking examples but you disappeared.

[chrome egret]

show us yours

[pure crescent]

Hello, someone knows what needs to be done if you want to edit an mod for private use? I've been using an mod to make the vanilla guns better but it also reduces their sound radius, which I didn't want and the original author hasn't updated it for almost an year (but it does works)

the files itself are pretty easy and straightforward to edit since I only wanted the original sound radius, but what else needs to be done? simply posting it on the workshop looked like worked, but in game when I tried to open my server the game loads up briefly and closes under normal termination, checking the files to see what's up says that the mod failed to download or load basically

[shadow tulip]

1. Minimal Display Bars
   ID: 2004998206

i also have that one installed.

it does work in mp. no need to configure.

default works fine.

yes. some of those are tweaks for the mods.

all necessary.

you just have to install it from the Mod menu in settings

[undone crag]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/938628357862621184/976151164636762132/unknown.png

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[cinder vault]

does anyone know if these stats shown in the wiki are modifiable in lua?
I looked but couldn't find anything :(

[weary crypt]

What I've been doing for that is just editing the file itself and distributing the modified txt file directly over discord... but it's also just a coop server with only me and 1 other person so it's not that big of a deal.

[pure crescent]

here is probably me and 2 more who bought the game recently, but I simply fail to understand what else I need to do to make then work with the workshop

[weary crypt]

I can't help you with the workshop angle unfortunately, I found it faster to just directly overwrite rather than try to figure it out.

[trail lotus]

Can anyone build a custom respawn mod for a server or know of one. the server includes owning property so basically it has to create a character and make players keep that character after "death"

[pure crescent]

basically respawn with the skills you had pre-opening the bathroom door?

[rigid smelt]

Is there a mod who lets you chose any starting equipement you want?

[brittle apex]

Do most mods work in multiplayer thinking of downloading some and trying them with my friends

[pulsar charm]

how can i replace the context menu recipe option with a red version if the player cannot do it currently?
or if it is easier, how can i add a tooltip to an item?

[drifting ore]

how possible is a RC car mod, e.g character stands still holding controller

as a camera follows a little tiny RC

https://tenor.com/view/ever-see-heart-failure-gif-23309939

[wide widget]

How much ram yall got allocated to modded mp servers?

[drifting ore]

you need a LOT @wide widget

[wide widget]

I had to dedicate 32 gigs for like 11 or 14 mods

[ebon axle]

how often do you restart it @wide widget ? If you dont regularly restart the server the memory grows. We have to do it twice daily on our community server. 18 GB for 87 mods and roughly 10 ppl at a time

[wide widget]

I restart the server before i play, it doesnt like to stay up if i do leave it on

[polar gyro]

Anyone know how to add animations in lua?
For example i want to add cough animation for function, when character smoke too much.
Tried a lot of variations but nothing works

Even tried to make custom animation with bob cough and run it like playEmote but still nothing.

[fast galleon]

game does is like

option = context:addOption(...)
option.notAvailable = true

[winter moss]

I need help, this is my first time ever modding and I want to add an Excalibur Umbra Warframe into the game with all my build, how do I do it

[calm depot]

do you have any experience in 3D modelling and coding?

[winter moss]

No

[calm depot]

sounds like you're trying to sprint before you can crawl

[winter moss]

I have to extract the Warframe's model from the original game right?

[calm depot]

that sounds like a copyright violation, but, ignoring that detail, sure, assuming you successfully manage to do so, you need to convert it to an FBX model

although given the graphical capabilities of the game, I suspect the detail level of the model is a bit beyond what PZ will handle

[fickle relic]

is there a way to package all of the mods to avoid constant server restarts due to workshop mod update?

[calm depot]

yep, and also a copyright issue

go look at how a mod is arranged and you can figure it out. If you want to risk the ire of whoever's stuff you copy, that's on you

[fickle relic]

is there a tutorial to this? i'm not too familiar with these things

• i wouldn't worry about any form of copyright infringement 😄

[calm depot]

look at the mod template

[fickle relic]

but thank you for the warning

[calm depot]

you'll see there's a "mods" folder inside it

then look at any actual mod, you'll also see it has a "mods" folder

I'm sure you can figure out how to cut and paste folders into a single mods directory

[fickle relic]

Thank you 🙏

[smoky meadow]

how? to get it on full auto?

[old blade]

someone should make wall tiles that are corrugated metal panels

for base building

the metal walls look cool, but a bit extra for me

like 2 long metal panels bolted together

[smoky meadow]

there's a problem with the vanilla m16 sound. it gets muted halfway if you fire it on full auto. instead the shoot sound get replace by cartridge fall sound.

[little iron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mohnL9QmNrA
Is this edited or can you actually do this with the treadmill mod?

[drifting ore]

XD

Looks fun

[smoky meadow]

is there a way to make a gun fire in burst mode?

[white crag]

shoot three times

fast

and rest your finger

or wait my next mod

or go longer burst

still can't figure out that slight desync between shot

[tame mulch]

Some respawn system for my mod 🙂

[white crag]

where is the wasted text

https://youtu.be/Xfk0zviSStA

[autumn garnet]

Respawn system using simple UI library

[craggy furnace]

Interesting

Been wanting to mess with weapon anims recently too

[white crag]

Personally brita is too much for me

too many guns (with time paradox)

[calm depot]

you mean anachronistic guns?

[white crag]

no i make my own

tried brita

but brita was too intrusive

[calm depot]

anachronistic is when something is present that only exists in the future

[white crag]

for my taste

i mean

AK-12

is obviously

not available in 1990

i haven't heard of AK in 1912

which is full auto

unless BF1

[calm depot]

lol

[white crag]

also idk it's fixed in recent version

i managed to find out

why the hell gun sound

just cuts off

when player is like

20 units away

[calm depot]

nothing wrong with letting people have anachronistic guns if they want them, but having "lore-friendly" options is good

[white crag]

also i prefer less ammo types

and more gun

not like

30 different caliburs

sitting in the storage

who the fuck is going to use 22lr

in zombie apocalypse

what is this? guns for ants?

[calm depot]

I suppose if it's all you could find, and you're good at headshots, you might go for it

depends on what you're firing it out of and how many grains in the ammo

[craggy furnace]

Most gun mods for PZ past and future don’t know restraint

Everything is overdone and over cooked

[craggy furnace]

Oh hey it’s me

[white crag]

i still don't understand

why the gun sound volume

is not documented

it could be really immersive

when it comes to MP

[calm depot]

isn't that basically all FMOD driven?

[white crag]

no

who said that

that's a custom gunsound

with 3 more lines

in 3 digits on my credit cards

you want to hear all the cool gunsounds

in the far distance

i know it

[calm depot]

FMODSoundEmitter has a playSound() function which takes a string, and x/y/z coords

[smoky meadow]

is your burst mode a LUA code or just a Script?

[calm depot]

plus a few other overloads

[white crag]

lua

no

just play the sound

FMOD override only should take place

when the place is fucked up beyond the repair

[calm depot]

what are you calling to play the sound right now?

[white crag]

playSound

to play the sound

[calm depot]

right, so why don't you use the playSound() overload that takes X/Y/Z coords or an IsoGridSquare?

then it's positional audio

[white crag]

sq = getSpecificPlayer(0):getSquare()

to remember the square

to play the sound

why should i use

playSound(x,y,z,s,u,s)

[calm depot]

ah, you're already invoking it on the IsoGridSquare

[white crag]

ye

[calm depot]

and that works fine, I would hope

[white crag]

also that sound works in MP

and it's basically

free fix

no lua code

using the hack from the game

[smoky meadow]

i rely on Recoil delay to increase RPM.

[white crag]

why work when you don't have to work

this is actually firing the gun

not single fire

with 3 bullets

    {
        category = Item,
        clip
        {
            distanceMax = 150,
            reverbFactor = 15.0,
            reverbMaxRange = 150.0,
            file = media/sound/308cal_1.wav,
        }
        clip
        {
            distanceMax = 150,
            reverbFactor = 15.0,
            reverbMaxRange = 150.0,
            file = media/sound/308cal_2.wav,
        }
        clip
        {
            distanceMax = 150,
            reverbFactor = 15.0,
            reverbMaxRange = 150.0,
            file = media/sound/308cal_3.wav,
        }
    }```

It was fun

until i saw

that reverb factor

is not even used in the game

[smoky meadow]

i see.

[white crag]

so without this sound script

your/other gun mod

is basically wooden stick gunfight

because no one knows that you're using the real gun

[smoky meadow]

did you increase ProjectileCount?

[white crag]

no

[smoky meadow]

so it's set to 1?

[white crag]

yes

i will upload and post the code sooner or later

just currently bit unstable

[smoky meadow]

i like you gun mod btw. you finally manage to make it full auto.

[white crag]

brita does it too

but my method is bit different

[unique trail]

Hello guys. Would any of you big brains know how to add a button into a context menu which would trigger a timed action? 🤔

[white crag]

i wish i can teach but it's late night in here so im going to go sleep, other big brains will help

[calm depot]

into which menu?

[unique trail]

The context menu. The one you bring up with right click. I can't figure out how to add a new button into it.

[calm depot]

oh I see

yeah, one sec

you want to define a function for the OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu event

[unique trail]

Im thinking about OnFillWorldObjectContextMenu or OnFillInventoryObjectContextMenu events... but then im totally lost on how to actually insert the button

[unique trail]

Oh yeah, forgot about that one

[calm depot]

then give client/ISUI/ISWorldObjectContextMenu.lua a read

[unique trail]

context:addOption(); hmm 🤔

[calm depot]

people who use semicolons in lua make me sad

[unique trail]

Im sorry 😂

C# is too stuck in my head ;c

When using OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu... Do I need to specify all the parameters? or do I just leave it as OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu(player, table, items)?

[calm depot]

hm?

[unique trail]

Im a bit confused

[calm depot]

if a Lua function is passed more arguments than it takes, the extra arguments are discarded

OnPreFillWorldObjectContextMenu takes 4 arguments

[midnight mica]

anyone know where i can find vehicle:repair() function? i'd like to make a repair function that only repairs cars to a certain %, can't seem to find it in either server/client/shared .lua files, is it something thats beyond reach perhaps?

[calm depot]

but if you don't need them all, you don't have to define them - providing they're at the end of the list

@midnight mica you can't find it because it's defined in Java

BaseVehicle and VehiclePart

[midnight mica]

is it possible to mod this? or we limited to lua

[calm depot]

what do you mean by mod it?

oh you want to set its condition

there's setCondition for that

[midnight mica]

yes, but for the entire car in one click

[calm depot]

well then you'll have to iterate over all the car's parts and set their condition individually

[midnight mica]

don't want my server to be full of 100% cars, but also don't want em all to be stripped of engines/parts 😄

thanks, il try to work with that

[dapper vector]

Hi, how could I extend the food type so I can add a variable to it and add a new option in its item context menu?

[calm depot]

what is it you want to do?

as in, what's the goal here

(the purpose of the mod, not how you think you should code it)

[midnight mica]

is it possible to look into this function somewhere "vehicle:getPartById()"? i'd like to know all the return values

so i can loop trough em, to fix each part individually

[calm depot]

don't do that

use getPartByIndex()

and obviously, getPartCount() to figure out how many there are

[midnight mica]

ah they are indexed per vehicle, so i wont get the police lights on a nyala for example?

[calm depot]

no, it's just an array index

[midnight mica]

sweet, thanks for the tip

[calm depot]

as in, from 0 to getPartCount()

[dapper vector]

For the variable I want to add a counter, but the drainable type doesn't fullfil what I need
And in the context menu I wanna add an option that changes the item into another

[calm depot]

@dapper vector sounds like you have an XY problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

[midnight mica]

is there a website where all the vehicle functions are listed?

[calm depot]

yeah, there's the javadoc

https://projectzomboid.com/modding/

personally, I find it to be pretty useless and just dump all the .class files

[dapper vector]

Well that's how I thought I could do it

[calm depot]

yes, that's why it's called the X Y problem

rather than asking about your problem, you ask about a pre-supposed solution

[dapper vector]

Forget about extending the food type, how could I implement the changes that I describe earlier to make an item?

[calm depot]

just describe what you're trying to do with food like you would in the description of the item on the steam workshop

because right now, I'm still not clear on what you want to do

[dapper vector]

I think this is better

I wanna create a mate, a regional drink in some countries of South America. You can't drink it as any drink, you need to pour water into some kind of vessel (the mate itself), which has to be filled with leaves. You drink it with a straw.
For that, I want a countdown that diminishes every time you drink it. When it hits zero, the item changes into "another" mate, which is flavorless, but you can still keep drinking it. In the other hand, I want to add an option that you can clean the mate, so it turns into an another item.
Also, you can drink the mate as long as you have a thermos filled with water (which I have to make too, but I don't think is more complex than a drinkable item).

[calm depot]

OK, and you also need to heat it, I imagine?

this should be solveable by creating a set of recipes and an evolved recipe that handles the heating part

ReplaceOnUseOn should solve the issue of drinking it

amount hits zero, it becomes another item type that's full

[dapper vector]

The water in the thermos has to be heated

And I forgot to mention that every time you drink it, the water in the thermos should diminish a little

[calm depot]

that'll be a bit trickier and require some scripting since the game doesn't have any script vars for enforcing a specific water temperature

I would suggest getting it working purely with stuff in the scripts folder and you can later move onto making it more "fancy"

or in other words "don't try to do everything all at once or you'll have an unpleasant debugging time"

[dapper vector]

yea, you are right

But I don't think I can avoid the scripting part

Which I have no idea where I need to start to write something for the game

[pure crescent]

Is there anything that needs to be done for an server recognize and download an mod ? Still having the problem of an mod I made making the server go instantly into normal termination saying it couldnt download the mod

[kindred dagger]

Hey guys, I have a question. Is it possible to use a placed item as a "crafting station"? I'm trying to make it so that you must be in the proximity of a ham radio to do specific recipes.

[calm depot]

@dapper vector a recipe can have an OnCanPerform and OnCreate specifier to run a lua function

take a look through scripts/recipes.txt - there's plenty of vanilla stuff that uses it

@pure crescent yeah, upload it to the steam workshop and then configure its workshop ID in the server's .ini file

@kindred dagger yes, "The Workshop" mod does exactly this

I don't think they did anything special beyond making the workbench item part of the recipe

(and obviously, the recipe doesn't consume it)

yeah, you just need CanBeDoneFromFloor:true

[pure crescent]

Oh, didn't think about it, gonna try later and tell if it worked

[kindred dagger]

The Workshop adds its own item that you drop on the ground, though. I'm trying to use the existing ham radios that you gotta place like furniture

[calm depot]

if it doesn't, it's you. because that's how the vast majority of servers get their mods

oh, you want to detect a Moveable

[pure crescent]

I've an old mod that I was using for the vanilla guns and tried to simply edit the sound radius back to vanilla, hopefully I can get it working

[kindred dagger]

Basically, yeah. I'm not very good at modding so I'm asking here

[calm depot]

gonna have to write your own lua function for that and reference it in the recipe with OnCanPerform

[kindred dagger]

How would you detect that specific item? getName() or something like this?

[calm depot]

iterate through the squares in the player's vicinity and check for the object with something like getName, yes

[kindred dagger]

I don't know if the ham radios (or many items, actually) are given a name when placed, but that's a good start

[calm depot]

if not, I imagine getSprite() or getIcon() will do

[kindred dagger]

That should be easy enough to find

[calm depot]

actually, since it's a radio, you should be able to call getDeviceData():getDeviceName() if simply getName() is no-go

just make sure you validate it's an instanceof IsoRadio first

or was it just Radio - I forget, try both

[kindred dagger]

I'm not quite sure how to do that. I'm not experience with PZ modding at all

[calm depot]

you use the instanceof function

[wintry birch]

Your thoughts on better sorting?

[midnight mica]

trying to repair car parts in a loop, but it wont seem to work, anyone can check my code, maybe im overseeing something silly

[calm depot]

"won't seem to work" isn't very descriptive

it does nothing? it throws an error? what?

[midnight mica]

does nothing, made a copy of setting part condition with diff named functions, calling a command on the server, but there it doesn't seem to arrive

client side i need to enter the condition i want the car to be, then server side it should loop through each part and set it to the desired value

[calm depot]

pastebin the code

[midnight mica]

https://pastebin.com/zpUaWgic

client side i call this: sendClientCommand(playerObj, "vehicle", "setCarCondition", { vehicle = vehicle:getId(), condition = condition })

[calm depot]

have you checked the server log to see if there's any error?

[gaunt swallow]

I made a Occupation mod where each occupation is overridden with more balanced skill levels etc.
Each Occupation has their own : veteran:getFreeRecipes():add("Dismantle Weapons");
Which in turn comes from our Nirvana Crafting Mod : recipe Dismantle Weapons
I thought all I had to do here was add : NeedToBeLearn:true,
But even when the Occupation mod adds this recipe it will never show when NeedToBeLearn:true.
Turning NeedToBeLearn:false will sadly show it to all Occupations which is not what I'm going for.
What am I doing wrong here?

[midnight mica]

not specifically, im on debug so shouldn't it throw an error there?

[calm depot]

are you running solo?

[midnight mica]

hosted on my pc

[calm depot]

well then the game itself is just a client

it doesn't see server errors, because the server is a separate java process

[midnight mica]

alright thanks, il try to find if there are any

[calm depot]

@gaunt swallow make the player learn the recipe via learnRecipe

[gaunt swallow]

veteran:getFreeRecipes():add is not the only way?

[calm depot]

ah I see, you're inserting it on the trait

hm, yeah, that is a little odd - well, make the player learn it anyway, if that doesn't fix it, maybe the name is wrong

[gaunt swallow]

Do you mean via a recipe book then? Or how would this code look "LearnRecipe"?

[calm depot]

see client/RadioCom/ISRadioInteractions.lua

obviously, you don't care about the radio part

[gaunt swallow]

Where do I find this ?

[calm depot]

well, it's lua code, so under media/lua

[gaunt swallow]

righ right

Isnt that only about skills?

[calm depot]

learnRecipe

it's right there in the file.

[gaunt swallow]

srry missed that

player:learnRecipe(recipe); so this would be what im looking for?

drop that along each profession?

[calm depot]

providing you have the IsoPlayer object, sure

[gaunt swallow]

now i lost you ^^

[calm depot]

um... well that's unfortunate

[unique trail]

Something is not right here and I struggle to find documentation about context menu 'addOption' function.

I have only found the structure of the function and some usecases but that hardly helps.

[gaunt swallow]

Im not that good with coding

[calm depot]

I'm happy to provide pointers in the right direction, but that's about as far as my interest level goes

[gaunt swallow]

Totally understand that

[unique trail]

The option does show in the context menu appropriately, and is also based on a condition with an item, but getting the timed action to fire?

[calm depot]

what are you calling addOption() with?