Skillbooks - dont make them one-time-items

[Armarnis]

hi there, pretty much topic!

 

please make the skillbooks reset if read (or just make them disappear after reading). if you re-use your world (which i often do) and you go to read a few books, its sometimes VERY hard to find the beginner books for the professions that were not used up. in my current game, i lootet exactly 30 houses without finding a single beginners book (nothing else too) so, please think about that

[meonfire]

havent tried to read a book twice but +1 if you cant read them again

 

you should be able to hoard them in your safe house and use them again

 

especially in the far far future when mp is available and you want people with different professions

[gekkobear]

especially in the far far future when mp is available and you want people with different professions

 

Hadn't consider it; but "this" makes a lot of sense.  I don't replay worlds; if I did... yeah I'd want my library to be usable.

 

You'll want a "real" modder to make a mod; but I may be able to tweak a LUA file and make this happen.

 

But if you're ok changing a LUA file (with Wordpad is fine, no special tools needed) in the Project Zomboid directory... (with detailed instructions on what you're doing) you can have this today.     

 

Well from today until there's a new patch that steps on this change at least, then you'll have to redo this.

 

The file to change is:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\TimedActions\ISReadABook.lua

 

MAKE A COPY OF THAT FILE AND SAVE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE!

(was that serious enough?)  

 

** If you screw it up and don't have a copy, you can tell steam to replace any changed files by:

** Steam library, right-click on Project Zomboid, select Properties

** Click on the "Local Files" tab on top

** Select "Verify integrity of Game Cache"

** Wait for steam to see the changed file, and replace it with the standard one

 

So anyway, we're editing :

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\TimedActions\ISReadABook.lua

 

Opening and editing it with WordPad is fine, you don't need any special tools here.

 

Section to edit (toward the bottom of the file):

function ISReadABook:stop()

    ISBaseTimedAction.stop(self);

    self.item:setJobDelta(0.0);

end

 

Logic to change it to:

function ISReadABook:stop()

    ISBaseTimedAction.stop(self);

    if (self.item:getNumberOfPages() > 0 and self.item:getAlreadyReadPages() >= self.item:getNumberOfPages()) then

        self.item:setAlreadyReadPages(0);

    end

    self.item:setJobDelta(0.0);

end

 

 

What that change does?  Two things.

 

1) If you have an unread book (I had a beginner cookbook, new game, 0/220) you'll read the book, get your multiplier; your multiplier WILL apply, and the book will reset to 0/220 when you quit reading.

 

** WARNING the book will reset to 0/220 any time you quit reading; so if you stop midway; you've got to start over tog et the full multiplier; can't avoid this and get this correct**

 

** Warning: re-reading a skill book (this applies without this change if you simply have 2 books) will reset your multiplier to 0 and you'll have to finish re-reading the book to get it back.

 

2) If you've got books you already read (and you say you do), when you try to read them; they'll reset to 0/220 (and you won't read them unless you select "read" again).  Even if they're the wrong level (so you can reset all your books immediately)... isn't that handy?

 

Oh, and yes this applies to existing saves as well as new ones once you change the LUA.

So your current save can let you reset your books.

 

Because this isn't a mod (still haven't learned to do one, might try this weekend if I have time) any Steam update will step on the file and you'll have to re-apply the change.  But you can have this today if you want.

 

Heck, I'm playing with this.  I've had some multipliers somehow "end early" on me before I fill a bubble and have to grind the last part of a skillup.  RE-reading the book then makes sense; but I generally don't have duplicate books.

 

This is LUA tweak #3 for me by request (I've done 5-6 of my own on my own as well).

The LUA files aren't that bad given my programming background... I really should learn to get the MOD setup so I can save my changes more cleanly.

 

Maybe this weekend I'll do that... if so maybe I'll rewrite some of what I've done as mods.

 

This would make a decent mod; if I can override that function in a Mod I think it's done...

[meonfire]

awesome ... thanks for the instruction