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[b41/42] Power Window Controls

Now available for Build 42 - a few minor new features have shipped along with the update.

This is a simple lua script that enables the player in the first (driver) seat of a vehicle to control all openable windows with additional buttons on the vehicle radial menu, much like in any modern car.

I'm told power window controls were commonspread enough in the early nineties, so hopefully seeing them on every car won't feel too anachronistic, but regardless of that, this was made primarily as a workaround for a technical limitation in vanilla Zomboid.
By default, to see if you should be given control over a window, the game checks what seat you're in, then checks if that seat has a door on the same spot and, if it does, checks if that door has an openable (and unbroken) window on the same spot.
So let's say you're Filibuster Rhymes, placing whole 4 openable windows into your RV that... only has one door. What you end up with is 3 factually unusable windows.

The method this mod employs eliminates the middleman in the door and, when you are in the driver seat, directly scans for window parts with the following IDs:
WindowFrontLeft
WindowFrontRight
WindowMiddleLeft
WindowMiddleRight
WindowRearLeft
WindowRearRight
and adds the options to open/close them to the radial menu if they are present, not broken and can be opened/closed.
(if you make a vehicle with openable windows with different IDs, hit me up)

The front left (driver's) window will show up with the normal "Open/Close Window" segment, while others will display a custom prompt and a modified icon to indicate which window it is. The text prompts are currently provided for the EN, DE, RU and CN localizations.
A PTBR translation has been integrated with the 1.1 update, originally uploaded here: Power Window Controls PTBR.

The mod is entirely client side and tested on both b41 and b42 unstable. Load order should be irrelevant.

Do note that you don't get "power windows" without power - a flat or missing battery will prevent the options to control distant windows from being given to you. This is only a check though - operating windows does not consume any battery power.

With the 1.1 update the UI icons have been updated to be more dynamic - the square grid will try to match the layout of your car, showing a 2x2 for four door sedans, a single row of two for coupes and the original 2x3 grid for six door cars. Although I use "door" loosely here - the mod still looks only for windows with open/close functionality. Oh, and the "close" icons will now highlight the square in red instead of green.

The mod now supports cars with exceptional treatment: currently AutoTsar's Jeep Wranglers have been added, such that their tent windows are ignored. But further entries can be added easily - see the special thread for suggestions.

Credit goes to:
Aiteron and their Better Towing, where I spied a method to inject my code into the radial menu.
Filibuster Rhymes and their Used Cars, or more specifically, their Fleetwood Bounder RV which basically inspired this mod.
My friend Peach for helping with the localization.
Steam user Bazooka for the Simplified Chinese translation.
Steam user Não é o Gui for the previously separately uploaded PTBR localization.

Tags:B41,B42,Cars,Vehicles,Interface,Tweak

Workshop ID: 2511087277
Mod ID: WolfWindowControls