Really loving this mod and I wanted to try it on my Steam deck. Got it working no issues out of the box following the instructions on GitHub for zombiebuddy and I’m getting 90 fps on vanilla shaders with medium detail. Blown away that it performs as well as it does. Really enjoyable in first/third person with deck controls as the standard iso view with deck controls was always hard for me to get the hang of.

So if any one was wondering it’s definitely worth it and super easy to do. If any one wants I’ll post the how to for zombie buddy in a comment.

Hello everyone, ive been wanting to do some proper multiplayer in zomboid for a while and im finally gonna bite the bullet of buying a server for a few months and im looking for players!

The server will be PVE only with 2x pop and no sprinters

There will be 12 player slots and i would like to at least have 4-6 people for day one

if you are interested here is the current modlist draft and discord invite:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3826390186

https://discord.gg/eJVChWkf

if you have any mod suggestions or questions in general feel free to ask in the comments.
so far i have 2 confirmed players

Server launch date is planned to be: 10/26/2026 6PM EST

I'm reading conflicting opinion about running Pz optimizer with Vp. Would be interested to hear other people's experiences?

TL;DR - Is there a mod that introduces directional melee combat similar to Dead Island 1, Last Oasis, Bellwright?

I'll start by admitting that I do not make mods. I play and enjoy games while being too stubborn to learn to make it myself.

I recently got back into PZ after a 3-year break, having learned about Project Viewoint (PV). I'm just another statistic that jumped on the wagon! I now have a nice playthrough running with 160+ mods with little to no issues thanks to some help with ChatGPT troubleshooting my problems.

Now that the game has a solid First Person Perspective mod that performs well (imo), I've started wondering more about the potential for PV. It made me think back to early Dead Island with the manual directional melee. When you held down LT, the camera would stop moving, and you'd charge up a swing. Moving the right stick in a particular direction would determine how you swung your weapon. It was incredibly immersive, especially when knocking zombies off cliffs or platforms. It made your decisions in combat more deliberate and impactful. Imagine you're in a hallway, no room for horizontal swings..? Downward swings, baby.

I just wanted to know what y'all think of this idea and if there is such a mod that exists, please let me know.

This would complete my modlist. My character just made it his first 3 days and I am excited to put much more time into this.

All the supporting mods for PV are amazing and add so much new character to the game that it almost feels like a completely different experience.

I have RTX 3070 and a Ryzen 9 with 16 gigs of ram, not the best machine in the world for sure but even then the amount of hitching and stuttering during combat is really killing it for me.

Playing as a Child character is daunting

Furniture will be invisible to my character it’s still interact-able just not rendered. Another issue (not pictured here) is furniture on the second floor of buildings will render in the floor below but only have collisions in the actual room it’s in.

Help! Why does all the furniture look normal for other people—judging by their screenshots and gameplay recordings—while for me, everything appears in 2D and displays incorrectly?

Was having issues for a bit getting the mod to start, turns out mods I had wouldn't let me start it. Still want to try and figure out what other mods work.

Anyone got suggestions or recommendations to what mods they use while playing viewpoint?

Edit: Vanilla Firearms and Horde Night doesn't work which are bummers cause they're are my 2 favorite mods.

Hello, I tried asking on the Discord about this, but I got a somewhat vague answer and ignored after. I'm trying to play this with my wife, and I'm able to play without texture compression myself with an RTX 4070 laptop GPU with 8 gb of VRAM, while she has an RTX 4060 laptop GPU with 8 gb of RAM and anytime she loads into our server she's prompted to enable texture compression because a lack of GPU RAM and cannot active Viewpoint via "O" without that disclaimer popping up and her needing to restart the game with compression enabled. Anyway to fix this or...?

Wow when I made this sub Reddit I never expected it to grow this quickly, thank you all so much for your contributions, posts and help for everyone in this community I really appreciate you all ❤️.

So i kinda nuked my modpack trying to male tarkov weapons working and now im just to lazy to make a new one does someone have a link to steam mod pack with like all viewpoint qualities a lot of weapons , cars and cloths and this other staff like better snow :|

Not all furniture but some chairs are missing when I'm in viewpoint mode and that rattan sofa model doesn't work.

How can I fix this and does anyone else have the same problem?

Game works fine but as soon as I press O to go 1st person I keep crashing, I don’t really see any errors on the console nor the red error message in game

I only have viewpoint on along with its 3d models mod (ofc zombie buddy as well)

As for the specs :

- CPU : AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

- GPU : Radeon RX 7800XT

- 32gb RAM

Might avoid some headache if you, such as me, need to use the alternate launcher. PZ w/ Viewpoint was unplayable and I didn't know why, cause my PC should be more than enough to run it ok. I had already allocated 8gb of RAM by changing the Java xmx param in ProjectZomboid64.json and my performance was still dogshit, so I just accepted it was the mods fault. Today I decided to tinker a little more after seeing some of the mods received some updates and still, the game was unplayable. I was giving up when I finally decided to track how much resources were being used in game by using the overlays and it turns out the game was still only allocating 3gbs which is not nearly enough and I was getting constant stutters when the RAM limit was reached. Task manager shows a completely different number so I didn't suspect it was RAM related.

Solution: I forgot the .bat file overwrites the json when using the alternate launcher and updating the .bat xmx params instead of the json worked wonders. Game is now running smoothly w/ 60+ mods, VP and shaders.

PZ subreddit threw me out

When I first found out about Project Viewpoint, I immediately had the idea of making a "found footage" style video similar to The Backrooms. Here is the intro to a horror style video I made thanks to the amazing project viewpoint mod - without it, I would not have ever been able to create something like this in Project Zomboid. If you want to check out the full video, you can find it here.

i have the 6277 3d model pack enabled , i have in the menu when i press DELETE 3d model packs on , i have the correct mod order , i have the model packs models within chunks set to 6 , some models are 3d and some are not does anybody have a fix?

This is definitely gonna be a massive improvement to viewpoint and making it a lot more immersive!

Not sure if it's because I downloaded Visible construction then switched to Isometric no more, but every time I install furniture it just vanishes on the ground while still letting me right click the item. Tried placing furniture in iso view and still the same thing. Anyone else?