@TheQwontonSoup Are you using better sorting? if so the 2 are not compativle because it changes their display category and that is what dictates whether the items can be stored in their respective containers.

i dont know what it is, im using a lot of mods, i made sure the load order and compatibilities check out but everytime i start a new game, it disallows me to store true music items such as cassettes and dance cards, into their respective containers. im not very good with coding or reading errors but im willing to work with you if you were willing to figure this out with me.

@legionite. that's the rarity of those items.

@NalMac
Thanks for letting me know. Though I don't know what each variable does.
For simplicity, I have to ask.
What does "Cassette pack chance" do, and what does "Cassette shelf chance" do?

@legionite you can up the rarity and amount of items found in pack with the sandbox options. Get the change sandbox option mod and you can fix it mid save. You might need to leave and rejoin tho.

@NalMac
I understand. I'm currently playing a modded playthrough. Specifically playing with the Russia modpack and some russian music modpacks.
I've only found 3 cassette containers and each one has only contained a singular song.
Its been a month and I only have 3 cassettes (and no other things of music).

@legionite. There is not since it's one of the main components but I might make that a sandbox option as well at some point. no promises tho.

Is there any way to disable the fact that it forces casettes and vinyls to spawn in the packages?

@NalMac
Yea no $hit, tbh I didn't even know TWO comas could fucc up your mod almostly entirely cuz everything else about our custom music pack works with no issue at all. And errors at the lil red box was no strange thing whatsoever so no one even thought to click it.

I do have one thing to report tho: It seems that the True Music mod had updated its addon maker sometime ago, making the musics players added with it all created as "Entertainment" in DisplayCategory by default.

I'm pretty sure this wouldn't mess with the cassette/vinyl packs, but this is not so for the cassette pouch/vinyl shelf. So an update would do nicely I'm just saying lolol

@>) Glad you got it all sorted out. Totally understandable typo. I can't tell you how many times something like that would trip me up whenever I tried fixing something on my own.

@NalMac
After continually testing for half a month, trying all the obvious options yet still found no avail. I glanced at the long used to bottom right corner during tremendous frustration, and realized there's been an error all along:

----There was two comas in the TCGLoadingTCBoomboxXXXX.lua, just between two sets of codes. The game had been telling me that something is wrong in this file all this time and I just didn't think once to check the little red box. I removed these 2 comas then the cassette packs work normal.

So in conclusion, your mod still works, and it's still great, it's just me being an utilmate retarded fucchead all this time.

P.S.: Word of advice to anyone watching: remember to check your ProceduralDistributions files for any unnecessary comas in your custom music pack, otherwise you might spent hours and hours and half a month to locate such a simple mistake lolol

@NalMac
I'm not using better sorting mod, and our pack is not that large I guess? It's like almost 1gb? I'll have to take your word for it, as long as I can tell the addon maker seems to be updated indeed, for the default folder name is different compare to some older music packs.

I haven't played much PZ as of late so if the main true music mod has been updated since I last played it could have perhaps broke my mod, I'll have to check. All I know is it worked fine when I last used it with all the addons I have.

Instances I know will break my mod are if an addon changes spawning in some way, if you are using better sorting alongside this mod and lastly I have been told by the coder who actually made this that very large addons could potentially break it.

@NalMac
Thanks for your time, I guess I will have to compare some with mine then, for our music pack is quite large that is.

I do find one thing weird tho: Even the Main Theme cassette from the True Music mod itself cannot be put in the container, nor can it randomly appears when open cassette packs. The only cassettes available for packs are just those from TCcachemp.

At this point I'm not sure if it's the true music mod itself or our pack did something. After all creating music packs is quite tricky. I know for a fact that some music packs can't be use together because the authors did not change the name of the item file, making some cassettes unable to go in jukebox.

If you made your addon using the official addon maker then it should work with my mod. I take it you uploaded it to the workshop, correct? if so post the link and I'll try to look at it when I get a chance. otherwise I can only suggest you look at other addons and compare them to yours. I know for a fact my own personal music addon works so you can look at that.

@NalMac
Having said that tho I did make sure to use the official addon maker to create files for our own music pack, does this counts as "having its own spawning system"? Because by opening the random cassette packs we still unable to get musics from our music pack, only TCcachemp's.

Also I just checked the DsplayCategory and it seems the musics from TCcachemp (requirement for true music mod) are having their DisplayCategory as "Entertainment" as well, just like the musics from our own addon, yet these can come out of cassette packs randomly but ours can't.

I'm sorry if I made some stupid mistakes and being bothersome :(

@>) I only comissioned this mod so gorgive me if my explaination is poor but yes, so long as the corrsponding item's deisplay category is Dance, Cassette or Vinyl they should be able to fit in their respectable containers. My mod SHOULD also automatically gave those items that display category when you open their packs but again if the music mod has it's own spawinging system or some other kind of change that goes over my mod then it kinda breaks the process.

@NalMac
I see, that makes perfectly sense actually. Which means if I make sure the DisplayCategory is the same as "Cassette" then all would be fine I take it?

If my understanding gone south somewhere plz consider leaving me some pointers, for me and my folks LOVE to go fishing, and as you might know, that character tends to do be unable to do nothing other than sweet fa, making a jukebox and a bunch of casettes our only mean of entertainment during fishing. Sincere appreciation in advance!

@>) it already should. the only exception is for music mods that change their songs DisplayCategory to not match what the addon maker for true music makes it. This generally means a lot of the really large music addons that tweak their own spawns won't be compatible. As the mod is now there isn't anything I can do about it and I don't plan on making any changes at least until b42 since all mods are likely to break with the update.

@NalMac
Great addition to True Music mod and indeed a qol mod, one thing tho the casettes contained in the cases seems to be all from the original mod, any chance could this supports the true music packs and let the musics added by players be found as well? That will be a even greater feature!

I would also second the cassette pouch allowing all types of cassettes in sadly different uploads seem to have named the items differently so some (most) cassettes i have wont go in the pouch, thank for the mod though always goes in the list!

@joshstallard The first part is pretty much intentional. because my mod reduces all true music spawns to 1 item the chance of seeing it is greatly reduced. this can be changed and made more common via the sandbox options. As for your second issues idk what to say abou that because they work on my end.

I've tried running this mod with just other true music add ons "not the ones that change spawns" and have yet to spawn a cassette pack not only that but when I spawn one with debug the model doesn't work

No worries

oh sorry

@Miami Llanfair Is this it? https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2939590929

If so it explicitly states in the important notes not to use any other music mods along side it as it can mess up spawns so it seems like a problem on it's side.

no and the effected mod is "true music add on music 1903-1993" secondairly it works with casset and vinyl packs

@wyr Better sorting has worked for me in the past so it may be a load order thing but it could aslo be a matter of it not working after a relog. I had encountered an issue where music items would work one session and then have their display category changed on the next session which breaks the ability to store them in my containers. Lastly I have not encountered that open bug when I last played but I haven't been played PZ in a bit so I can't say for sure.

Either way I comissioned this mod so the coding isn't mine. any fixes on my end will have to wait until I have an interest in playing PZ again and can pay to have them done. Sorry for the inconvenience.

One additional issue I forgot to mention, you can "open" the cassete pouch like it it a sealed box of cassettes, destroying the pouch,
This may require another of the true music mods, but I'm not sure.

I do use better sorting, and it'd be unfortunate, but acceptable if it didn't work, but you did say it worked for you when using better sorting, so I was a bit confused.

@wyr Do you use better sorting? I've gotten reports that the two are not compatible?

@miami Llanfair Fucks with them how? and which packs? If it's one of the bigger ones that have their own alternative spawning method then there isn't much I can do. No there is not any other versions, sorry.

Unfortunately, while the dance card pouch works fine, the cassette pouch does not, which is a real shame given how many I'd like to carry around with me during looting runs

fucks with the spawns of some music packs, is there a version that doesnt inherently change spawns

@Ortus sorry for the late response. I was already aware and unsurprised by this due to the nature of how this mod uses display categories but For the hell of it I tested it on a save again before doind a small tweak update and found it actually does work for me when using better sorting.

And thanks for the great mod!

This mod is not compatible with Better sorting mod. With the Better sorting mod enabled, you cannot place a cassette in a container. Turning it off everything worked. Keep in mind.

@ksarper really? my bad. when I get a chance I'll see if I can change that.

Well i just can't enable this mod if i don't use true dancing mod

@ksarper. You don't literally need to use the dancing mod for it to work. it's just there as a dependence because without it the card pouch serves no real purpose and I figured most people used true music and dancing together.

Turn off dependancy for True Dancing please. Im not using this mod and that is why i cant turn on this mod.

Thank you for the prompt response. We are using Better Sorting as well.

@Grumpy what other mods are you using. I've been told better sorting and the end of the world true music mod can conflict with mine. Basically anything that might change the display categories of cassettes and vinyls is probably incompatible.

I'm not sure if I have done something wrong or not but we are unable to put casettes/vinyls/dance cards into their respected pouches and containers.

Everything else works flawlessly.

@Knight143 sorry for the late response. The ID's are CassettePack, VinylPack, DancePack, VinylBox, DanceCardBoxm, and CassetteBox. not sure if you need it but all have NalMac. at the start.

What's the ID for both items?

@zeitresu good question. I use a metric ton myself and have yet to run into and issue so I guess even more than me. I only put that disclaimer their because the person who originally made it for me said that could possibly happen.

Glad you are enjoying the mod :) this is my first non shitpost mod so I'm very happy to see it getting used so much.

"You may run into spawning issues if you use an absurd amount of music."

Haha, how much would you consider an absurd amount? lol...

Anyways, this mod is a 10/10!

After hours of brute force testing. It turns out The Workshop was the culprit that was affecting the categories for some reason. Removing this 1 mod from my mod list solved the issue.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680473910

Just display Categories. I did a quick test of with the list of mods I've tested so far that I know work and the bugged mod list and both have the proper modified weight values I put in.

@Quill is it only the display category or does the weight also not change?