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CartoZed
 
CartoZed is a little tool that can draw 2d topdown images from lotheader/lotpack data. It should work for custom maps as well.
The new version also has the option to export isometric renders of cells.
 
Most recent version:
CartoZed 1.2 (Full) || CartoZed 1.2 (Update)
 
Older versions:
CartoZed 1.1
PZCarto_v1.rar
 
Changelog:
 
Usage:
 
 
 

CartoZed
 
CartoZed is a little tool that can draw 2d topdown images from lotheader/lotpack data. It should work for custom maps as well.
The new version also has the option to export isometric renders of cells.
 
Most recent version:
CartoZed 1.2 (Full) || CartoZed 1.2 (Update)
 
Older versions:
CartoZed 1.1
PZCarto_v1.rar
 
Changelog:
 
Usage:
 
 
 

This is something people have been suggesting for a while, so I figured I'd make some special magic happen.
 
 

Hi I PM'd you, but not sure if attached, so attached here as well.  Also had a question for you in the PM.
 
Thanks for fixing this. It appears to work fine now. 
debuglog.txt
debuglog.txt

eya @ddraigcymraeg it looks like something went wrong while reading one of the filenames, ive updated 1.2 links with some better verification... 
you'd only need the 1.2 update files, if you could give it another go it should skip the files it cannot read properly and output those in the log.
if you could pm me the debuglog.txt from the mapmap dir after running the update would be great
 
regards,
turbo

eya @ddraigcymraeg it looks like something went wrong while reading one of the filenames, ive updated 1.2 links with some better verification... 
you'd only need the 1.2 update files, if you could give it another go it should skip the files it cannot read properly and output those in the log.
if you could pm me the debuglog.txt from the mapmap dir after running the update would be great
 
regards,
turbo

Thanks, getting another error now, attached. Im using multiple custom maps merged with default maps, along with custom texturepacks.
 
 
 

My bad, i overlooked another bug.
Ive updated the 1.2 links with a rebuild package that works for RingoD.
If the program still fails for anyone let me know, the MapMap process should now finish gracefully instead of crashing and outputs a debuglog.txt in the "mapmap" dir of CartoZed.
Regards,
Turbo

My bad, i overlooked another bug.
Ive updated the 1.2 links with a rebuild package that works for RingoD.
If the program still fails for anyone let me know, the MapMap process should now finish gracefully instead of crashing and outputs a debuglog.txt in the "mapmap" dir of CartoZed.
Regards,
Turbo

My bad, i overlooked another bug.
Ive updated the 1.2 links with a rebuild package that works for RingoD.
If the program still fails for anyone let me know, the MapMap process should now finish gracefully instead of crashing and outputs a debuglog.txt in the "mapmap" dir of CartoZed.
Regards,
Turbo

Hi,
I get the same error too. 

Hey Turbo, tried the 1.2 update installed over 1.1 and also the standalone 1.2, I still crash every time I try to use Iso, I don't get any images saved. Here's the error i get:

Added a new version 1.2 which should fix the issue with export to iso not working in some instances!

Added a new version 1.2 which should fix the issue with export to iso not working in some instances!

Added a new version 1.2 which should fix the issue with export to iso not working in some instances!

I try to generate an isometric image, but it stops responding, did I do something wrong?

Updated the OP with 1.2 version, which should fix the issue with no mods/no distribution. Many thanks to @GHawkins for helping out track the issue!
 
note: If you use the update package you might want to delete "config/options.txt", this will erase any stored directory setting causing the program to do a clean setup routine again once started.

CartoZed
 
CartoZed is a little tool that can draw 2d topdown images from lotheader/lotpack data. It should work for custom maps as well.
The new version also has the option to export isometric renders of cells.
 
Most recent version:
CartoZed 1.2 (Full) || CartoZed 1.2 (Update)
 
Older versions:
CartoZed 1.1
PZCarto_v1.rar
 
Changelog:
 
Usage:
 
 
 

@Void, @Crowborn and others having the issue of not seeing anything in the distribution tab, make sure youve got a updated IWBMS on steam like @russafiii mentioned and then it should be working properly. Ill update OP to include a little note concerning this.
 
@thiosk Indeed the distribution panel isnt well suited for bulk insertion operations like that atm.
Ideally id like to fix up the entire distibution panel a bit at some point in the near future so the points youve raised work better allong with some more drag and drop improvements.
However when doing amounts 250 items this may still result in quite some dragging, depending on how they need to be distributed in the list lua might be a valid option as well.
Ive played around with creating a little helper script for that purpose and came up with the following which may be helpful to you:
 
DistributionInsertion

The top part has some settings you can modify, the way it works would be to have all the items that you wanna add in bulk to the distribution in a seperate module wich will act as a category.
You can set a default spawn chance and add target containers, the nested containers need to be seperated with dots as per example and be aware that the container names are case sensitive.
When running the script it will add all the items from the defined module to the targetcontainers, afterwards you can optionally use the right side item filter box to filter on the module name (see img) instead of item name incase you need to override some default spawn chances of some of the items.


Additionally ive also created helper script to remove items from the distributions in bulk, it has somewhat similar settings in the top part:
 
DeleteItemsFromDistribution

Hope this is usefull, both scripts adjust to the mode youre running the program in (mod or dev), in mod mode the remove script for example will not touch and base game entries.
Also, if there might be need for other similar scripts feel free to post a request in this thread!
 
Regards,
Turbo

@GHawkins and @Rari gonna look into the issue asap

@Void, @Crowborn and others having the issue of not seeing anything in the distribution tab, make sure youve got a updated IWBMS on steam like @russafiii mentioned and then it should be working properly. Ill update OP to include a little note concerning this.
 
@thiosk Indeed the distribution panel isnt well suited for bulk insertion operations like that atm.
Ideally id like to fix up the entire distibution panel a bit at some point in the near future so the points youve raised work better allong with some more drag and drop improvements.
However when doing amounts 250 items this may still result in quite some dragging, depending on how they need to be distributed in the list lua might be a valid option as well.
Ive played around with creating a little helper script for that purpose and came up with the following which may be helpful to you:
 
DistributionInsertion

The top part has some settings you can modify, the way it works would be to have all the items that you wanna add in bulk to the distribution in a seperate module wich will act as a category.
You can set a default spawn chance and add target containers, the nested containers need to be seperated with dots as per example and be aware that the container names are case sensitive.
When running the script it will add all the items from the defined module to the targetcontainers, afterwards you can optionally use the right side item filter box to filter on the module name (see img) instead of item name incase you need to override some default spawn chances of some of the items.


Additionally ive also created helper script to remove items from the distributions in bulk, it has somewhat similar settings in the top part:
 
DeleteItemsFromDistribution

Hope this is usefull, both scripts adjust to the mode youre running the program in (mod or dev), in mod mode the remove script for example will not touch and base game entries.
Also, if there might be need for other similar scripts feel free to post a request in this thread!
 
Regards,
Turbo

@GHawkins and @Rari gonna look into the issue asap

To everyone who can't get the item distributions screen to work, you need to have the most recent IWBUMS version of Zomboid installed for it to work.

@void the item distribution screen is a bit of a beast. I havn't fully tamed its wild ways. I think the way we're supposed to be doing large scale distribution changes is through some kind of lua script, because it does not appear to be straightforward to select a large range of items on the right hand side and add them. T
 
The way I've currently been using the screen is to first search for a blank field in the top center, This will open up the distributions panel and enable its editing. Lets say you want to add flamethrower parts and you want it to appear with military stuff. I would then input HamRadio1 into the search field and the distributions would then open up a range of items. You then in the right panel search "flamethrower" then drag it to the right fields. Ham radio 1 shows up in 15 different distribution spots or so, so you have to add flamethrower to all 15 of those. The search field isolates them all for you nicely. 
 
The problems are: 1) when yo udrag the items from the right panel into the appropriate field, the searched term loses focus and the tree collapses except current branch. So you cant simply drop the item you want into the 15 lines and set the abundance all at once, you have to drag, search drag search drag search drag search until you have matched all the locatations you wanted to distribute to. This is a real drag if you have created a table of 250 items because you can't process in bulk as near as I'm aware.
 
Hope my comments help
 

ItemZed
Scripts & Distribution editor.
 
 
 
Welcome to ItemZed!
ItemZed is a development and modding tool that is used to edit the contents of script modules (foodstuff items, weapons, recipes etc) and the distribution table that dictates where different in-game items can be found and looted on the map. Additionally, it loads texturepacks containing icons so you can change how things appear in-game.
On top of the manual editing of data, there are options for the batch refactoring of large numbers of items and in-game objects.
We have also added lua integration that allows the entire data set to be programmatically modified, and output to any sort of format – meaning that changes and new items can quickly and easily become part of user mods, and a part of the main game. They can also be used to created handy tables in html and wiki format.
 
Videos
Video I
Video II
 
Downloads
Most recent version:
ItemZed 1.3 (FULL) | ItemZed 1.3 (UPDATE)
 
Old versions:
ItemZed 1.2 (FULL) | ItemZed 1.2 (UPDATE)
ItemZed Version 1.1b download.
(if you have 1.0 installed, put this one in a seperate directory, dont update the 1.0 version)
ItemZed Version 1.0 download.
 
Changelog
 
ItemZed instructions