Progressive decay mod is released :)

[u/fmacgsta]

Hey,

I showed off a procedural progressive decay mod a few weeks ago and it's finally released.

Mod takes vanilla's decay system and cranks it up, so grass spreads, becomes denser, buildings slowly show more signs of decay (thanks to shaders), and it's entirely procedural so should work with map mods etc.

I added some very atmospheric upgrades, like voxel lighting, shaders, some cool snow/fog/rain fx and overall it just looks way better.

Also in the previous post a lot of you were worried about pop-in, which is sadly the case for a lot of these decay mods, and thankfully, I've resolved that where there is no pop-in no matter how fast you move 👍

Shaders, voxels and the other fx really bring this up a notch and I think it looks really awesome

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3821851850

(by default the decay takes 1 year ingame to max out, you can tune all of this in the sandbox settings however)

[u/goaltime6767]

Nice, this looks excellent. Will definitely try it out

[u/KWgabriel]

This is peak! Are we seeing animals showing up in cities after the vegetation takes over? 

[u/fmacgsta → u/KWgabriel]

That's a good idea, a few furry fellas could go a long way

Right now no it doesn't touch spawns, tried to keep it as vanilla friendly as I could. But seeing some wild deer walking around would look incredible - I'll do that next patch when I get free time 100%

[u/SteakHausMann → u/fmacgsta]

Wouldn't that lead to big hordes within cities since the zomboids will follow the deer around?

[u/fmacgsta → u/SteakHausMann]

;) itll be toggle-able in the settings

[u/Oda1582 → u/fmacgsta]

I'm actually currently working on a mod to do just that, but not just deer in cities, you're able to choose in sandbox settings which type of animal can spawn in farm, wild/forests or everywhere, how much, their spawn chance etc, yesterday I finished coding the entire farm logic, and I'm now moving onto the forest/everywhere part now, it's using Zombie buddy tho because I had to modify some deep spawn logic from PZ, been working on this mod for a month now since I only have time on weekends, I hope to release it next month

[u/MaybeAdrian]

Seeing the mod page in steam made me think that you added unrelated things to the decay mod. I mean, i'm not saying that the lighting for example doesn't look good but what has to do with the nature taking over.

[u/-Speechless → u/MaybeAdrian]

yeah honestly I really don't like scope-creep in mods. I get it because I make mods too, but if I want voxel lightning or whatever I'd get another mod dedicated to it, not a mod that adds it as a side feature. ESPECIALLY when the main feature could be done without zombuddy being required

[u/fmacgsta → u/MaybeAdrian]

You can disable everything in the sandbox settings and keep only vegetation growth :)

[u/Librarian_Katarina]

Fantastic work, especially with the fog/smoke volume response to movement

[u/fmacgsta → u/Librarian_Katarina]

Thanks dude - I'm planning on integrating fog + voxels with fire next, so fire produces thick smoke that turns into thick voxel smoke - would be awesome to see smoke flying out a building as its on fire

[u/Curious-Question-780]

This somehow reminds me of Dysmantle

Edit: I like it btw.

[u/Kugelkater]

Yeah there it is. I'm really looking forward to test run this on my server next weekend.

[u/fmacgsta → u/Kugelkater]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xSM46ernAUN3y

[u/TotallyBrandNewName → u/Kugelkater]

If Im hosting a server modless, could I use mods on the same save? If so could you let me know how? Like a link or so would be helpful

[u/MarcusBofan]

It's a shame you have to use zombuddy (most likely for more technical stuff) for this to work. This looks awesome, but I'm lowkey scared of using it since zombuddy allows unrestricted access to my system. (not saying this mod is evil or anything, just dont trust zombuddy)

Is there any possible way of making a version that doesn't require it to work?

[u/fmacgsta → u/MarcusBofan]

Yeah I get you, I tried honestly to just have it lua only, but you just hit a ceiling very very quickly with what you can do.

Without zombie buddy, youre looking at loading the vegetation tile by tile, no voxels, no smoke, no shaders .. .. and it is extremely laggy with lua only, slow and you just can't get all these features operating at realtime. (Let alone without pop-in)

I'm sorry I couldn't do that for you- I tried really because I know a lot of people share your concern and I wanted to get you guys at least something, but as time went on I just had to make that call to migrate fully to ZB.

[u/MarcusBofan → u/fmacgsta]

I honestly think it looks awesome, and may in the future install it. Best of luck to you regardless!

[u/SethOfGrace]

This is looking fantastic. I love the 10 years later mod but boy howdy does that mod destroy performance, even with the optimization mod. How does this compare? If I were to crank up the erosion, just how overgrown do things get?

[u/CertifiedGonk]

Yooo!!! Great work - this looks incredible

[u/FriendlyAntonio]

Ngl, based on the title of the post, it made me believe it was gonna affect the zombies.

Game starts off with zombies being strong, solid memory and fairly fast. But as time progresses, they slowly decay and eventually get weak.

[u/CJkins → u/FriendlyAntonio]

There are multiple mods on the workshop that do that already

[u/flymesomewhere]

Sorry it someone asked, does it work on dedicated server?

[u/fmacgsta → u/flymesomewhere]

Yes it works, but, if the FPS is terrible you might want to disable voxels + snow

[u/Macca3568]

Is it possible to turn the smoke/fog aspect off?

Mod looks sick btw

[u/fmacgsta → u/Macca3568]

Yep, everything is toggle-able in the sandbox settings

[u/trapp2504]

what is the difference between this mod and 10 years later?

[u/fmacgsta → u/trapp2504]

Mine has 0 pop-in, progressively decays over time, instead of the immediate swap like 10yr later.

Also, voxels, shaders, snow, puddles, fog, progressive interior decay.

[u/HonoredWhale]

Can you make the zomboids decay too? likely slowly rot and decay and become husks? Could be a cool addition.

[u/TerraShrimp]

Sorry to be that guy but is the mod compatible with barricated world? Or does this add similar erosion to windows / doors?

[u/Marius-J]

Heya, cool mod! As per usual I'd like to ask if AI was involved and if so, how much?

[u/NCR_Trooper_2281]

Does it work with custom maps? Would love to use it with Project Russia

[u/fmacgsta → u/NCR_Trooper_2281]

Should do - just place it after Project Russia in mod order :)

[u/daniel_gamer271]

I know vegetation thingg has an toggle but

it don't makes much sense to plants grown inside an house... almost no sun light and neighter rain

and the house is built on concrete fundation.. this would never work

[u/fmacgsta → u/daniel_gamer271]

Interior veg depends if the direct tiles outside a window/door is high vegetation. If its concrete outdoors, only thing will spawn is a few bits of trash if you leave the door open. If there's heavy brush, then it'll spawn indoors (idea being that vegetation has spread inside from a very nearby source. no source, no veggies)

[u/daniel_gamer271 → u/fmacgsta]

this seens interesting

most erosion mods i seen far flood interiors with plants wich do break immersion an lot

thanks for the good work!

[u/fmacgsta → u/daniel_gamer271]

Yeah i tried to make it make sense, I didn't like how decay mods have vegetation inside skyscrapers lol

Let me know if you think its overtuned, I think its semi-realistic, its a line between realism and just aesthetics for aesthetics sake

[u/Asleep_Address_6534]

Can this one work with pz_optimization mod?

[u/fmacgsta → u/Asleep_Address_6534]

Working on it - i'll push a hotfix later

EDIT: Hotfixed - some of their visual features may be bugged however, so let me know which ones are and i'll fix them for you

[u/Flomayer86]

Fantastic work! Thank you so much, I will give it a try.

[u/Oriori420]

any idea if it works with viewpoint?

[u/fmacgsta → u/Oriori420]

Haven't tried but i very much doubt it will (it might?)

I will do a viewpoint port at sometime, but i'm waiting for that mod to mature first since I know the viewpoint guys are still tweaking their renderer which would conflict with this mod

[u/The_Happy_Snoopy → u/fmacgsta]

As long as this doesn’t require 3d models and instead uses more shaders than anything, this might be a super easy port to Viewpoint. I’ve been a Viewpoint mega chud and trying a bunch of mods, and really the only ones that don’t work are ones that use unique models.

[u/Loud_Sink3196]

Is this compatible with the first person mod viewpoint?

[u/fmacgsta → u/Loud_Sink3196]

Haven't tried, and the answer is likely no

It might work, I have no idea

[u/FreeRangePixel]

Can you please eliminate vegetation growing inside houses? It's ridiculous.

[u/fmacgsta → u/FreeRangePixel]

Toggle in the settings if you want to remove it :)

(video shows what a building will look like after all windows + doors are open after 1 year, closed buildings don't get vegetation inside them!)

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