I made one for the Anime lovers out there, with 25 images, some already recognizable to the community Check it out!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3498201101

I have made a HD Main Menu Suite using this mod, please check it out here:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3490948057

Mr UnCheat thank You for this! Exactly what I needed for the Main Menu Suite :D Take my points!

What do I do if I have black screen when choosing "direct"?
I've created the direct folder and placed the "background.png" there but it doesn't work, a black screen instead of my picture.

Feel free to modify the page as needed, clarify points or add more to it

Hello, I currently lead the Project Modding for the official wiki for the game and I made a page to document your framework for other modders to be able to easily find it:
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Background_Framework

The main menu changes to a black screen when I use my direct custom image, the default ones work fine.

I am able to change the icon perfectly fine but when I go to change the background it does not work. I have all my mods disabled except this one and it still does not work. I have named it background.png

最近遇到画面闪烁的问题 不知是不是原版还是mod造成的........喜欢你的模组 ~
Recently, I encountered a problem of screen flickering. I don't know if it is caused by the original version or a mod... I like your mod.

Alright, I'll try to tinker with it to possibly add this functionality in

Nope. Out of the game for now.. so may be later after 42 stable

Hey ! I used your framework to add backgrounds for my mod, which I had already done before with single mods that need to be activated, reloading the game etc and your framework is great !

We did discuss that animated main menu backgrounds are possible and I plan on making one, have you added the ability to use the .bik videos ?

Hm, the devs tried to shove the blame onto the mods.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/108600/discussions/1/592887665229069696/

Well that's a game API problem not a mods then...

Alright, I found the issue. Your mod (along some others) try to write into & consequently create a modOptions.ini instead of the intended ModOptions.ini. This confuses PZ and breaks the mod menu on case sensitive file systems (basically everything but Windows file systems).

Oh well, might be update changed something. I do not play PZ anymore for some time so can't tell..

@UnCheat That does not answer my question. None of the mod options actually save. The moment I restart the game they're all reset to their defaults.

@Dark Thoughts
It utilizes new vanila mod options api and saves config file for all mods via api

@Blessed Mother
Well game engine does not accept JPG files...
But any size will fit and reside to any resolution

Oh, also, is it possible to make it so JPG images are recognized instead of PNG? JPG file size is a lot smaller than PNG, so it would be really helpful if we can use JPG instead. :)

If someone has a 4K monitor and they use a 1920x1080p image, will that image fill their entire screen?

Sorry if I missed it, but how does one save the mod options permanently so that they do not reset every time the game starts?

Thank you!

Thank you for the updates! :)

Is it possible to have the backgrounds images cycle every X seconds with a somewhat-slow fade between each image?

Also, I uninstalled my PZ game, and deleted a bunch of left-over folders, and re-installed the game, but the lightning strike still does not work for me. Maybe another mod I am subscribed to is conflicting?

@Ashadar Re'souley

@UnCheat alright thanks for clearing up my confusion on where to put the direct file

Stay tuned ^_^

I think I'll use your framework to make my addon for main menus instead of proposing one mod for one main menu, here it sounds way better for users to just have a pack of backgrounds related to my TLOU infected mod

And if you ever add video support, maybe I'll be able to fuck around with it and add animations to my clickers in the background for example

Nice !

@Sir Doggy Jvla
Thanks for the idea! It was interesting to dig it :)

So it's currently WIP but most likely that I'll add video support to addons on a weekend ;)

So experimenting with videos:
1. Must know perfect video resolution or it'll rended badly:
perfect: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3407481437
badly: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3407481532
2. Looks like game supports .bik and .bk2 video formats

1st issue is not bad for addons where width and height could be set explicitly via api but is abd for direct where we can workaround it with adding image(screenshot or empty) of video with perfect sizes as video

There is also restriction to put video files on media/videos/ folder but possible to add into subfolder media/videos/direct

It does

Check out the videos the game uses, if it does indeed uses that format then go for it

Well that format is an only option to feed to java via lua :P

I'm not familiar with what format the videos use

Only one not user friendly thing is .bik format, are you ok with that?

Thanks but I don't use discord. I figured it out )

Ok there is a format called .bik and it could be rendered frame by frame (every background render call)
So it's possible

https://discord.com/channels/908422782554107904/908459714248048730/1324845118376771756

The game has native abilities to play videos in the game, I believe it was Skizot who did it

Videos?
Interesting I'll check the possibility and performance and will add it if it's possible and reasonable :)

Hey, I know I had seen someone manage to have videos as backgrounds too, perhaps that could be implemented in your framework too

@Jakób .png only. It's limited by java side

And you've to create that "direct" folder

steamapps/common/ProjectZomboid/direct/background.png

do i put the direct file in "steamapps,common,ProjectZomboid"? or is that the wrong file

would I be able to add .gif file as a background or is it for .png only?

Sorry for the inconvenience if you used direct game folder before, but before this framework grows up better do all right way

Updated:
-- Direct feed changed to /direct folder
-- New multiple direct images feed possibility

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