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BigJk

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  1. New and easier Version out! (Edited the "Setup Guide" section of the top post to fit to this version) New Features: Now adds a red dot to the map for better navigation Simplified injection process to one line of code Start parameter of Project Zomboid and settings of PZTracker can now be easily changed via a automatically generated config file New Setup Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ycQgryxzw Download: v1.3
  2. So, I'm back! I fixed a little bug and uploaded a new version for everyone to try. From now on all the releases can be found and downloaded directly from the Github Repository. Just download the ZIP File of the most recent release. It will always contain everything you need for PZTracker. PZTracker Release Downloads
  3. That's an awesome Idea. I will definitly take a look into this when I'm back!
  4. Tada! First Release! So, I added a download link to the current version, wrote a little setup guide and made a little video about it. Unfortunately I won't be home from tomorrow on til next week. I can answer here but if this release contains any bugs or is broken for the majority of people I can't do much about it. This is the first release and only tested on my machine. So don't expect wonders and bugs are possible even though I never noticed any. I'm also a bit nervous. I'm not really used to releasing anything, so don't be to hard on me If there are any questions just ask and I will try to do my best to answer everything EDIT: Also added a link to the PZTracker Github Repository, so everybody can take a look at the code. It still needs to get some more structure and cleaning even if it's not that long.
  5. Glad to hear that. I will try to get a clean version out in a few days for everybody to try
  6. Is that a positive or a negative Holyshi*? XD
  7. Glad to hear that you and the others like the idea Is there a possibility to maybe integrate this into the map to get away from the manual "injecting" the code? Because it would just need a button that opens a connection to a local websocket and waits and responses to certain packages. The Javascript code is just 35 lines long. So nothing too huge and fancy Just leave me a pm when you are back (I'm also German)
  8. Hello Guys! Recently I'm playing PZ extensively with my Girlfriend and because I have 3 monitor's I always have the map (http://map.projectzomboid.com/) open on one of the other monitor's. One thing that annoyed me was that even in borderless window mode I had to click out of PZ to move the map to see everything I wanted. Finding the position of your player was also a bit annoying, so one night I sat down and started programming and PZTracker was the result. PZTracker connects the online map to the game. The map will follow your player position if you like and you can move around (arrow keys) or zoom in and out (num+ and num-) on the map by pressing the keys WITHIN PZ. No need to tab out of PZ. You really just need to press buttons ingame. Little Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJEKmZ5Nrh0 I was faced with the problem of connecting two separated systems that had no connection whatsoever. PZ and an Website. I had to get information out of PZ and into the map website. At first I thought about memory reading, but I dropped that idea when modding PZ came to my mind. And so PZTracker currently consists of 3 "components". Component 1: The PZTrackerMod I had to get the information out of the game. I realized this by writing a simple mod. So the PZTrackerMod is just a typical mod written in lua (never worked with lua before, but was easy enough to get everything working in a few minutes) that prints out important information, like player position and keypress events to the PZ cmd. Currently the PZTrackerMod has the following Shortcuts: F - Enables or Disables follow mode. If disabled the map won't follow the position of your player. Arrow Keys - Move the map up, down, left, right for easy navigation. Num + - Zooms into the map. Num - - Zooms out of the map. Component 2: pz_tracker.exe Now I had to get the data that gets printed by the PZTrackerMod out of the cmd, so I wrote a program in golang that starts PZ as a child process and reads and parses the stdout (the text stuff you see in the cmd). Now the program is able to get the data out of the game. To forward this data it also opens a websocket in wich all the data get's send if somebody is connected to it. Component 3: inject.js Now we come to the last part. We got the data that we can get through the websocket from the pz_tracker.exe. Now we have to get the data into the map. Currently I solved the Problem with a small javascript code that I lode into the running map website via the "Chrome Development Console". It,s just pasting the code into the console and hit enter, so even somebody without coding experience should be able to do this. What the code does is to connect to the websocket and read the data that get sent to him. It then uses the data to move the map to the player location or respond to key press events and move or zoom the map. Just download the ZIP File of the latest release: https://github.com/BigJk/PZTracker/releases Setup Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ycQgryxzw Step 1: Download the current Version and extract it somewhere. Step 2: Copy the "PZTrackerMod" to your "Mods" Folder (C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\Zomboid\mods) Copy the "PZTracker.exe" and "inject-min.js" to your "ProjectZomboid" Folder (With steam: C:\...\Steam\SteamApps\common\ProjectZomboid) Step 3: Start the "PZTracker.exe" and open the PZMap Step 4: Activate the "PZTrackerMod" in your running Project Zomboid. Step 5: Open the Developer Console in your PZMap browser window (Chrome: Ctrl - Shift - I). Paste the code that is displayed in PZTracker after "Insert into development console:" into the development console and hit enter. (Should be something like: $.getScript('http://127.0.0.1:9090/js');) Step 6: Load a Singleplayer Game or join a Server that has "PZTrackerMod" enabled and hit F when you see your character. Now you should see the map moving. Use the shortcuts mentioned above. Advanced Stuff If you start PZTracker for the first time it will generate a config filed called "pztracker_config.json". Open this file with a texteditor and you will find the settings for PZTracker. You should understand them just by the name, but in case an explanation of them will be added shortly. Github Repository: BigJk/PZTracker First of all I would really like to hear the opinion on this from you guys. Maybe you don't like the idea and it will just be a little tool for me to use when I play with my girlfriend, but in case you like it I will get it ready to release in a short while and think about possible future features. Any ideas? Maybe I can simplify the process of getting the data into the map and get away from this "hacky" way of doing it, even though I must admit that it works way better than I have ever expected xD Thank you for taking your time and reading this and huge thanks to blindcoder for creating this awesome map website! I hope you don't mind my playing around xP
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