Hi Zomboid-community, how are you doing?
So, long story short, I am trying to start woking on different mod ideas for zomboid, but I want to modify my local zomboid instance to make programming easier.
Sadly, I have a very ugly "shotgun debugging" approach to code-writting, which does not work well with a game that takes 1 or 2 minutes to load.
My idea was simply to reload a mod when I made some modifications and see how they modify my Zomboid instance.
I can do that by hand, but it's an arguably time-consuming process if I want to do it each time I change 2 or 3 lines.
So I have 2 questions:
Does anybody now how I can load/reload a mod (from code)?
Do we have any way to explore a computer directories from inside the LUA code?
I have already tried to do both with no luck.
Thank you for all the help!
So, by lurking online a bit I think I found the main source of my problem. Apparently zomboid interpreter of LUA (which is done inside JAVA via a virtual machine) is called KAHLUA, which explicitly exclude things like the "io" library. Does anybody how to either access JAVA's file-management from KAHLUA or if there are any other workarounds for this? I imagine that it would be possible to replace the java files and include there an auto-mod reloader, but I would like to avoid touching the java code as much as possible, since that's a very "version specific" solution.