why can’t I include base game GSC files in my custom scripts?

callmejaf

Hello, I'm new to GSC and I’m trying to write a simple script that lets me drop zombies power ups with keybinds, but I’m struggling with including existing Treyarch GSC files.

For example:

#include maps\_zombiemode_powerups;

or

level thread maps\_zombiemode_powerups::specific_powerup_drop("nuke", org);

throws:

Could not find script 'maps/_zombiemode_powerups'

I can copy all the base scripts from the T5 modding GitHub so that I have:

%localappdata%\Plutonium\storage\t5\raw\maps\_zombiemode_powerups.gsc

but then _zombiemode_powerups.gsc includes other files (like maps\_zombiemode_utility, animscripts\zombie_utility, etc.), and those eventually depend on assets from fastfiles.
Once the chain reaches animtrees and FX, the game just crashes with missing asset errors.

So I’m probably missing something obvious here. Am I writing my scripts in the wrong place? raw/scripts/sp
Is there a way to reference Treyarch’s stock scripts that are already loaded in the game, without having to manually copy every dependency into raw?

Basically: why do the base GSCs seem to be out of scope when referenced from inside raw/scripts?
Is there a proper way to include or call those existing methods?

Hadi77KSA

callmejaf place zombies scripts in scripts\sp\zom and preferably use the getFunction Plutonium built-in function:

function_pointer = getFunction( "path/to/source", "function_name" );

if ( isdefined( function_pointer )
{
    <entity> [[ function_pointer ]]( <arguments> );
}

callmejaf

Hadi77KSA Thanks for the reply! I will try getFunction and we'll see if it works

I do want to ask, what's the difference between scripts/sp/zom and raw/scripts/sp?

when I put any scripts in the scripts/sp/zom folder they just don't execute at all. They only work in raw/scripts/sp.

inside scripts/sp/zom there is a zm_spawn_fix.gsc file with a comment saying

// this is intentionally blank as we moved the location of the file

The populated file is in raw/scripts/sp , so I assumed scripts/sp/zom was depreciated?

EDIT:

fn = getFunction("maps/_zombiemode_powerups", "specific_powerup_drop");

This worked thank you. I am still inside raw/scripts though.

Hadi77KSA

callmejaf I don’t think there is much difference between raw\scripts and just scripts in terms of loading custom scripts for BO1 on Plutonium. As for the difference between scripts\sp and scripts\sp\zom, the first loads scripts on any map on the SP app including main menu and campaign maps, while the second only loads scripts when the gametype is set to zom.