⚙・modding-general

[raven rover]

basically an alternative opposite version to all of the jokers

idk if that entails consumables too

[hardy brook]

It will

[sacred oyster]

So will the consumables like planet cards be mostly useless?

[winter hearth]

How the duck do I center this chips counter, i can't get it

the explaining for printf is so tough

Can someone explain?

[rare shell]

from the looks of it i think your chips are "centered" but the background of the text is centered relative to the entire width of the window itself

so maybe find a way of offsetting the background off to the side?

thats just my two cents

unless youre trying to center the chip text to the bg

[winter hearth]

nonono, the background image is not centered at all

it have only x, y with some scaling for different resolutions

[rare shell]

maybe fiddle with the x and y offsets then

[winter hearth]

im trying haha

Debugger can't show me the hitboxes((( that's sad

[heavy flax]

designed a few new jokers any ideas for what they should do
names are "suspicious joker" "photocopier" "minimalist joker" and "pastel joker"

im thinking photocopier will give +0.1 xmult per duplicate card in your deck

[white scarab]

Photocopier (Uncommon):
All hands in this round will be the same poker hand as first played hand of round

So if you play 5oak as your first hand then if you play high cards you’ll still get the base 5oak scoring

[heavy flax]

that seems more busted than an uncommon T~T

[white scarab]

It could also screw you over

[heavy flax]

true

[white scarab]

Since you can’t burn hands anymore

It’s probably similar in power to a weaker rare

[heavy flax]

but playing a high card as a 5oak with baron or steel cards

[strong swift]

stronger uncommons are fine

[heavy flax]

tbf ig anything with baron is op

yea the more i think about it that does sound pretty unique

any ideas for the other ones?

[strong swift]

i kinda want pastel to buff red cards in some way

idk why

[heavy flax]

ooh

what about having it buff diamonds and clubs since theyre the lighter colors of the black and red cards

[strong swift]

i like that yeah

[heavy flax]

oh also

thoughts on my other joker

im planning on making it basically sacraficial dagger except instead of + 2x sell value mult +7x sell value chips

[strong swift]

a bit boring

[heavy flax]

true but it provides chip scaling to a degree that doesnt really exist in the game

[strong swift]

wee joker

[white scarab]

Bull

[heavy flax]

compare that to how many xmult jokers there are T~T

[strong swift]

you mean scaling?

[heavy flax]

yea

or honestly

all xmult jokers are scaling

[strong swift]

no

the "the ___" jokers arent

[heavy flax]

?

[strong swift]

the tribe, the duo, the trio, etc

blackboard

card sharp

ramen

[heavy flax]

yea

idk

im too tired for this shi T~T

any better ideas for the carnivorous plant card?

[strong falcon]

I need balance ideas, as soon as you add any mult joker this joker becomes way too overpowered

[rare shell]

adds 25% of the excess chips

or even something like 10%

[strong falcon]

That's a good one, thank you!

I think it might have to be 1% lmao

[plush palm]

Could also just cap it

Add excess chips (up to X) from last blind to the first hand of the current round

Even better could scale that with ante. So cap * ante

[hardy brook]

Cap it at 25% the blind score

Or X%

[jagged moss]

just to throw out an idea into the ether, something that would be neat is a mod to toggle or disable boss blinds before a run starts. that would let people avoid ones they dont like or make challenge runs where every bossblind is the mark or something

[magic sandal]

full house of downloads !

or would that be a flush house since theyre all black?

[pastel wolf]

[ocean torrent]

That looks so cursed omg

[heavy acorn]

Jokonda?

[pastel wolf]

Joka lisa

[heavy flax]

ye old joker

[gilded path]

Hello all. Is there a mod out there that makes all cards in the shop negative jokers?

[heavy flax]

you could probably relatively easily just give yourself like 999 negative tags on a custom challenge

[gilded path]

Is that done in the game.lua file?

[heavy flax]

🤷‍♀️

[exotic shadow]

I mean with the save editor, you can increase the number of joker slots to a number so large, you can buy every joker you want

[strong swift]

with debug mode you can just manually change the edition of every shop joker you want to make negative

[gilded path]

Yeah, I already know how to do that in the game.lua file, but I just like the way negative jokers look.

[hexed surge]

that's not suppost to happend

its worst

[robust lily]

pick a card

any card

[hexed surge]

i can't click its done

its not e

like 1.2054e12 its just big numbers that i can't click select

[robust lily]

weird floating point error

[hexed surge]

if you type ante scaling to -1 in save editor that happends

[robust lily]

maybe it only truncates positive values

[ruby thorn]

does using mods prevent getting unlocks?

[exotic shadow]

no it shouldn't

steamodded disables acheivments by default, but theres a mod to re-enable them

[mild hull]

why does the mod injector flag the windows trojan protector

[strong swift]

because it works the same way as a trojan, but instead of injecting something bad it injects steamodded

if it were a virus steamo would have been long banned by now

[rigid jewel]

People would've realized by now yea

[mild hull]

Yeah yeah, i'd just prefer to be cautious and ask before I end up in a bad spot

[strong swift]

i get it

[ocean torrent]

my balatro isnt opening its like loading 90% then closing ive tried uninstalling and remodding ive done it so many times i cant get it to work can someone help me?

[mild hull]

how do I stop windows from flagging it and preventing me from launching it

[ocean torrent]

is it saying its virus in a red window?

[mild hull]

its doing a series of things

[ocean torrent]

send ss

[mild hull]

???

[errant basin]

heyo, does anyone have a direct link to download steamodded? link I found set off virus protection

[ocean torrent]

screenshot

[ocean torrent]

wrong injecter

u downloaded rthe wrong exe

[mild hull]

dude, then why the fuck are there 3 named the same fucking thing

[ocean torrent]

download steammodded_ps_injecter.exe

it tells you wich one to download

btw

[mild hull]

waow

[ocean torrent]

well

its not a virus

its trippin

[mild hull]

I'm glad we've gotten to where this convo started, which is "i know this isn't a virus, how do I download it without windows stopping me from launching it, and then deleting the exe"

[ocean torrent]

ill ask my computer friend

he knows

what windows do you use?

[ocean torrent]

.

[mild hull]

10, the good one

[ocean torrent]

k

[hexed surge]

becouse of python thing steamodded is like virus for windows but its not virus

[ocean torrent]

im not sure man he said somthing about windows defender try in task manager or somthing

[round ore]

how do i set up these mods

[wanton rapids]

oh I've already made one like that

[exotic shadow]

evil negative be like

[manic jasper]

I have lua code for the mod to set Unlucky Crow and Lucky Swallow to be compatible with blueprint/brainstorm and being eternal jokers, but in a challenge where they are supposed to be eternal, they can be sold and Blueprint claims it is incompatible with the jokers. Here's the code that initiates the modded jokers:

 --[[SMODS.Joker:new(
            name, slug,
            config,
            spritePos, loc_txt,
            rarity, cost, unlocked, discovered, blueprint_compat, eternal_compat
        )
        ]]
           --
        local jokers = {
            unlucky_crow = SMODS.Joker:new(
                "Unlucky Crow",
                "",
                {extra = {x_mult = 1 , x_mult_add = 0.1}},
                {},"",
                2, 6, true, true, true, true
            ),
            lucky_swallow = SMODS.Joker:new(
                "Lucky Swallow",
                "",
                {extra = {x_mult = 1 , x_mult_add = 0.1}},
                {},"",
                2, 6, true, true, true, true
            )
        }

any tips for making them eternal-compatible and blueprint-compatible?

[exotic shadow]

Something like this?

oh seals don't work

[strong swift]

even when both enhancers.png in separate mods are named different things and in different subfolders they still overlap weirdly and overwrite each other. is there any way around that or is that a steamodded thing?

like, the two mods specify different file names so thats not it

[exotic shadow]

Fixed

[crude yarrow]

Anybody know if somebody has made a hotkeys/keyboard shortcuts mod yet? I did a cursory search but didn't turn up anything and want to make sure I haven't just missed it.
I'd have to be able to play with 2 hands to speed up some of the menial tasks of playing with hotkeys instead of having to use mouse for nearly everything.

[exotic shadow]

there was a mod that added a couple shortcuts iirc

#1212796137325465651 message

[crude yarrow]

Ah cheers. This is almost exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

[grand geode]

even though they're different names, they might be occupying the same atlas

[strong swift]

ty

[lean dune]

not sure about the blueprint part, but to me it looks like these just aren't eternal, your blueprint is

[ivory crow]

How do you know if steammodded already work?

[strong swift]

it should have a "mods" button

[ivory crow]

It doesnt have it tho

[strong swift]

so it didnt work

[ivory crow]

it says this in some of the line

[mental solar]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1216754656617693255

in the feature read all of the mod description, check that first before reporting, might fix itself

[ivory crow]

Where do i even see the warnings?

Owh alright

[mental solar]

sorry, that was rude of me

[ivory crow]

nah all good you help me thanks for the reply!

[mental solar]

can someone help me understand why this effect don't work when i get my voucher?
first one is supposed to add two cards to every pack, and the other adds a pack to every shop.
note, the vouchers themselves are obtainable, game never crashes, the effect just doesn't work

[wanton rapids]

ms paint joker

[mossy ledge]

does using mods stop achievements?

[wanton rapids]

lipographic joker counterpart

[spice wadi]

Okay why is windows freaking out that Steammodded_injector is a virus? I cant install it

[rigid jewel]

Just click the underlined “run anyway”

Also I don’t think there’s a fix yet for this

Kinda just always will get a false positive due to how it works

[grand geode]

ughhhhhhhh might have to scrap the current blind effect because there is no good way to change the text of anything

i can only change jokers via a function that is also used by playing cards without any distinction

and only affecting playing cards would be far too weak

[formal wing]

Yeah but there's a mod to get around that

Well you can literally tell the code to enable them again I believe

[mossy ledge]

sadly i dunno coding so i will look into the achievement mod first

thanks a lot actually

[formal wing]

Not a problem!

[formal wing]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1210290099036885042

Here's this to speed up your searching

[mossy ledge]

NICE!

[grand geode]

okay at least i still have two more blind effects that i can shove into them i guess
Permanent -5 Chips to played cards
Destroy all Consumables, 0 consumable slots this blind

[mossy ledge]

this is so awesome for me

[formal wing]

I may look into downloading mods myself but for now I'm a base game Andy. Mainly just waiting for safety tbh

[mossy ledge]

especially i play the game wanting to see A LOT OF Joker interactions but having a 10000 joker limit causes achievement to be closed

ah

also there is this chinese made game tweaking stuff

you might wanna check that out

essentially it changes the basic game stats so yeah,we gonna open the game file with a rar reader like 7z and replace stuff

but it's quite powerful

allows the change of many card data like the amount of joker slots added by negatives,number of upgrades done by each planet cards,even the beginning hands and discards can be easily changed

[formal wing]

Sounds like what cheat engine could potentially do

[mossy ledge]

yeah true

but it's already there so yeah,pretty convenient

never figured out how to use cheat engine to change game mechanics sadly

i'm gonna look into that a bit

[round oar]

i made a mod* that lets you select up to 6 cards to play rather than 5, and added these new hands to go with it

i would like to add planet cards for them, but i unfortunately cannot art at the moment

[wanton rapids]

two of a triple should be three pair

[round oar]

three pair is different

[wanton rapids]

oh wait i see

wait is three pair there?

[round oar]

yup, between three of a kind and straight

[grand geode]

you are clinically insane

[round oar]

i did this all in two hours, who's clinically insane now?

[wanton rapids]

now combine it with six suits

[round oar]

(still me but i get to brag about it)

wait would that add any new hand types?

[wanton rapids]

spectrumer

straight spectrumer

spectrum fuller house etc.

[round oar]

oh is spectrum 5 different suits

[wanton rapids]

yeah

[round oar]

yeah i think i'm good for now

now i need to make it an actual mod that people can download and play and stuff

[grand geode]

you're still clinically insane

[round oar]

i'm taking that as a compliment

[mossy ledge]

do we have enough stars with cool names to fit those hands even?

or maybe use constellations?

[round oar]

tbh i think we're good

[mossy ledge]

HOLY

Hope that they have a name instead of numbers and stuff

[wary latch]

tbh

most are just small rocks that are slightly bigger than the stuff in the rings

[magic sandal]

#1216754656617693255 is a mod that gives a joker that enables 6 card hands, imo you should try and work together to either integrate it into his mod or just make them both work together

[grand geode]

locking them behind a joker is excessive

also one is a steamodded mod one is a balamod mod

[lean dune]

oh shit this is real now

[alpine cosmos]

hi! id be down to help make art for your mod if you want

[spice spear]

can you make one for seven

[magic sandal]

10 card hands soontm?

[strong swift]

full duplex

[delicate flax]

hey, working on a mod to add a bunch of new tarot cards using center hook, but on disabling my mod two "ghost tarots" are left behind? they don't count towards collection number and don't have any text (see screen). on re-enabling i can figure out which ones they're supposed to be but the on_disable removeTarot call is literally the same for all four tarots implemented so far.

all the ids line up and everything but these ghost tarots are duplicated every time i disable and re-enable and i am losing my mind trying to figure out whats going on

[grand geode]

@stone brook center hook is your thing i think

[hardy brook]

Alright, time to ask. Should I give Beta versions of existing decks a custom back?

The custom Checkered deck if I do make one

[finite cargo]

where do you download balatro mods

[strong swift]

yeah, the differentiation is always nice

[woeful finch]

wonder if adding a version number to the deck back would be useful

along with custom back

[hardy brook]

I'm already gonna have the verison on the name so it's just custom back or not

And it seems like it's a positive to have custom back so i'll add it

[woeful finch]

k

[late sorrel]

Hey! Does Balatro have an api reference?

Like a modding scene or anything

[cosmic shell]

the game doesn't have an API per say, most mods are done by hooking into the game's existing functions or by modifying the game's global variables. Steamodded has some apis for basic stuff like creating jokers and sprites though I believe, you can look its example mods for that. Also, Balamod has support for custom api extensions, with ones existing for doing similar things as well.

[late sorrel]

Oh, I see

Is there any documentation on the games functions?

[cosmic shell]

not currently, but the game's executable can opened as a zip archive, allowing you to read the source code directly in the meantime.

[late sorrel]

Oh, ok

[late sorrel]

Where can I get steammodded?

[rigid jewel]

This is the first time that I've seen one of my own jokers in the shop naturally

Sadly I still can't get it to work

😢

[cosmic shell]

here's the releases on github https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/releases
it also has a thread in the modding forum https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1209564621644505158
it will almost definitely set of any antiviruses you have, if you want to avoid that you can try installing it with the lovely injector (a dll style injector), which I believe there's a guide for somewhere in the modding forum too.

[round ore]

So how do you set up mods

[digital lily]

check out the thread and linked github

[digital lily]

painted deck resprite

[ocean torrent]

W

[empty brook]

based actually

[digital lily]

had to use balatro colors so it isnt quite perfect

[ocean torrent]

Its a w

[empty brook]

you know, now that (to my knowledge) level 0 hands are essentially impossible to achieve, with the nerf to The Arm, i wonder if a deck that involves level 0 hands could be interesting...

[digital lily]

you'd need like 0.5x base blind size or smth

[pastel wolf]

Would be so free if it had 0.5x base blind

U get 1 planet card for your hand and its just like base game but easier

[digital lily]

you'd have just 1 hand boosted tho

the rest would still suck

and you might roll neptune mercury mars from a booster pack or smth

[pastel wolf]

Theres always more booster packs

All it takes is one

Not to mention if you happen to roll black hole :D

[digital lily]

speaking of black hole

it doesnt trigger any "number of planet cards used" jokers

even if you get it from a celestial pack

its so bullshit

[pastel wolf]

I think it counts as a spectral card

Soul probably doesn't trigger fortune teller

So in the game files it would be tagged as spectral, and those jokers would only act on cards tagged planet

[empty brook]

yeah black hole is a spectral lol

[lean dune]

it needs to be, for balancing reasons

imagine tarot/planet spawning jokers being able to spawn soul/black hole... and the fool could copy them, too

magic deck legendaries: buy find one, get two free

[strong swift]

and once you have it in your consumables you could perkeo it

[empty brook]

can random spectral things spawn black hole and soul?

i'd imagine they can but i've never seen it myself lol

[strong swift]

no

[empty brook]

damn

perkeo can't perform a ritual to summon his 4 friends.....

[rigid jewel]

I will note that Black Hole would need changed to account for Observatory

(Assuming you want it to count as a planet card)

[empty brook]

i think counting black hole as a planet card has a really great description about it:

A Bad Idea

[stone brook]

do you have other tarots that do get removed properly?

also sry i dont read this chat very often, so if you do encounter an issue with center hook, dming me is your best option

or opening an issue on the github

[round oar]

oh that would actually be super cool! i’ll work on making it a distributable mod first, then we can talk about that

[thin pilot]

been a while but I wanted to check in

has anyone modded anything to be able to disable jokers in the pool

I'm really losing steam after about 50 hours of fun because im so damn tired of seeing the same 10 middling common jokers over and over and over

if I could either mod some of the jokers off (I dont want to turn even most of them off, there's just about 10-15 im tired of), or allow more card slots to buy without the voucher that would be so much more fun lol

[alpine cosmos]

oh sure sure sure

[spice spear]

they can! i've had it happen

they're spectral cards, and they appear in spectral packs, so they're in that pool, it just so happens that they also spawn in Arcana packs (for the soul) and Celestial packs (for Black Hole)

[empty brook]

oh shit--so Perkeo CAN perform a ritual to summon his 4 friends!!!!

[spice spear]

hypothetically yes

[strong swift]

i think they meant from things like 6th sense and ghost deck

[spice spear]

but for it to actually happen is EXTREMELY low odds

[spice spear]

I think they can appear from those still, since they're still spectral cards, they just have a uniquely low spawn chance

[strong swift]

idk i feel like if it was possible it would have beendocumented by now

[white scarab]

Soul can only spawn in packs @strong swift @spice spear

[strong swift]

yeah thats what i was thinking

[spice spear]

huh, alright then

[white scarab]

This logic is probably why

Don’t want infinite legendary jokers

[round oar]

i’ve seen both black hole and soul in spectral packs before

[white scarab]

They can both spawn in packs… just not from any spectral generators or in the shop

[proper stirrup]

did someone put a holo charizard in the game yet

[manic jasper]

The challenge I have them in is coded so that they’re eternal. I’m looking for tips as to how to make sure they are compatible with Blueprint and becoming eternal.

[spice spear]

no, but you just gave me a really cursed idea of a parody pokemon card joker that evolves the more antes you keep it for

[proper stirrup]

i need to make charizard card

[dusky reef]

hey guys, for those of you who make customized jokers, what software do you use to make the drawings? any recommendations?

[spice spear]

I use Aseprite, as do a lot of others

[dusky reef]

Thanks! If you don't mind me asking, is there a way for us to create 1x/2x version at the same time? like which one should we go for first and then convert to the next, or do we have to do them separately?

[sullen shale]

is there any sort of "best of" list to see what might be worth trying out?

[spice spear]

Make the 1x first, you can upscale when exporting

(because the 2x is literally just the 1x upscaled 100% with nearest neighbor)

[stone brook]

i use gimp xdd

[dusky reef]

good to know! thanks

[dusky reef]

will check that out, thanks

[empty brook]

photopea is what i use, as it's free and in-browser

but aseprite is a much better option lol

photopea's essentially just photoshop: Browser Edition, so it's great for photoshop stuff! but not really pixel art

it's nice if you know photoshop and don't wanna learn a new program though

[rare shell]

back to the modding grind

[thin pilot]

just wanted to bump this because I was curious and I dont really know how the modding tab on discord works, still trying to figure out whats what and what mods exist in general lol

[strong swift]

seems kinda weak tbh

[strong swift]

1x into 2x for me, aseprite has resize functionality

[opaque lagoon]

Does it matter if I use Steamodded or Balamod? Or no big difference?

[spice spear]

some mods are only available on some modloaders, but there's an effort towards unifying them

[opaque lagoon]

ahhhh ok ok thanks!

[rare shell]

too high of a mult?

also reworded stanczyk

[modern zodiac]

I hate how you have to directly edit the straight- and pair-detection functions for this, complete incompatibility with any other mods touching it.

[devout marsh]

you mean you have to change the code in those functions to check when the player has that Joker?

[wanton rapids]

8ball but worse question mark

[modern zodiac]

Yeah. If you play like a 5 5 Wild, the mod says it's a triple but the base game says it's a pair. So if you listen to the base game as well you get a full house with those three. So you have to ignore the base game, but that's also where the other mods touching that function would go. So there's no cross-compatibility.

[spice spear]

way too high for how easy it is to play those

[modern zodiac]

I disagree. It's like Torn Joker but you can discard 2 more cards. But you don't need to fish for pairs or high card, so the discards don't synergise with it.

[spice spear]

it's a common

[modern zodiac]

So's torn joker.

[spice spear]

torn joker has a downside to it, this is strictly beneficial

the joker for 3 of a kind gives +12 mult

[modern zodiac]

Torn joker doesn't have a downside. It won't trigger if you play 4/5 cards, but this won't trigger if you play three-of-a-kind (which torn joker will).

[spice spear]

I think you're wrong, but I'm not going to sit here and argue it with you

[strong swift]

that's seriously broken

25 dollars is a run-changing amount

[spice spear]

that should be like, 3 dollars

[wanton rapids]

hm

really?

[spice spear]

five would be pushing it

[wanton rapids]

ok

making it $5

[spice spear]

[rare shell]

[strong swift]

not 3, faceless is already 5 and covers 3 ranks

[modern zodiac]

When I had the same idea (apparently a common one) I made it $15

[round oar]

hey, can someone quickly test whether playing a flush house activates spare trousers?

[rare shell]

it does

[round oar]

ok, thanks

[grand geode]

new effect

[brave saddle]

Is it possible to treat card as different ranks and change the card draw order?

[rare shell]

Can someone help me with steamodded joker? I added joker but it uses default sprite instead of custom one for some reason. I can't find where should I indicate which sprite joker uses

[wanton rapids]

ho ho ho (this is too large)

[rare shell]

also can't figure out what is "slug" supposed to do

[hard grove]

not much of a modder myself (at least for balatro)
but I know all joker sprites are on a singular sprite sheet
you put the sprite there and use code to point it towards the correct part of the sheet

[rare shell]

I know this yeah

I just got the sprite working, but I do not understand why

[round oar]

k so i'm almost almost done with actually making thisinto a mod, i'm just getting one weird error that only happens like half of the time for some reason

[grand geode]

because it's taking the sprite with position {x = 0, y = 0} in the file "Jokers.png"

[modern zodiac]

Slug defines it as j_[slug] in a couple of places (in adding sprites and .calculate, at least). And define sprite with that value to set the spritesheet, along with spritePos of 0/0 or whatever (used if you're putting multiple jokers on the same spritesheet)

[grand geode]

which is the base Joker

change Jokers.png to a png with only the joker sprite

[rare shell]

no no, now it's working correctly, it is still taking path from the mod's directory

jokers.png is my own file

[rare shell]

How do I use it in .calculate in my case?

[grand geode]

hm yea

maybe because the sprite size you're defining is 426x285?

should be 71x95

[rare shell]

71x95 is only one joker

I'm saying that code on screenshot works for me

it actually loads the correct sprite

but I was (and still is) confused a little about slug thing

[grand geode]

ohhhh okay

the slug is the shortened version of the joker object

the mod automatically adds "j_" in front of it

apologies for misunderstanding the question

[rare shell]

ohhhhhhhhhh

I guess I can't make multiple jokers (with different functionality) on the same sprite then?

because they all will relate to the same slug?

[modern zodiac]

You absolutely can. Duplicate the Sprite:new line but change the slug and it works.

Then you can change the spritePos x/y in its Joker:new to get different places on the spritesheet, or don't if you want to use the literal same sprite for the different jokers.

[rare shell]

you're the best, thank you very much!

oops

Turns out x = 1 isn't one card to the right

[modern zodiac]

Wait, why does your Sprite:new line give height/width of 426/285?

That's what's used for x/y calculations, it should be 71/95 for a joker spritesheet.

[rare shell]

because it's size of my spritesheet

[modern zodiac]

Yeah, it's per sprite on the sheet, not the sheet's dimensions itself.

[rare shell]

when x = 0.5 it gets me voxel joker

without any cutoffs

[modern zodiac]

Because that's what you get when you start half-way through the spritesheet, I guess?

[rare shell]

yeah

[modern zodiac]

I suppose there's no hard rule about how to use it. You could set x to 1/6 to get the cassette I guess??

[rare shell]

The formula would be something like 1 / 6 * position in spritesheet - 1 I think? So yeah?

yep

thank you again, saving my day

[modern zodiac]

Those do look really nice.

[grand geode]

it is best if you keep it at 71x95 and change the pos values to a whole number

[rare shell]

I made my spritesheet ten times bigger than regular card now, so the numbers won't be so scuffed (x=0.1, x=0.2, x=0.3 etc)

[modern zodiac]

You don't need to touch the spritesheet, just set the Sprite:new values to 71/95 and the coordinates to whole numbers.

Besides, 0.1 is still a scuffed number to a computer, since it's not very binary-compatible.

[rare shell]

Oh that works too! I thought sprite size was referring to size of the whole thing, not the target

am I doing this correctly? Just in case

seems to work correctly

[modern zodiac]

Yeah, that's the way I've done it. Easier to plug coordinates into, and no risk of floating-point error.

[wanton rapids]

what should this do

[grand geode]

+0.01 Mult for every pixel on the joker art that is not #FFFFFF

[rare shell]

+0.01 Mult for every pixel on the joker art that is #4f6367

[strong falcon]

Anyone know why this might cause a crash whenever a round finishes with a red seal left in hand?

local get_end_of_round_effectref = Card.get_end_of_round_effect
function Card:get_end_of_round_effect(context)
    get_end_of_round_effectref(self, context)
end

[grand geode]

Card:get_end_of_round_effect(context) arguments should be self, context

[lean dune]

with colon notation, nope

[grand geode]

mmm

sheug

shrug

[alpine cosmos]

makes aces worth 0, +0.1 xmult for every ace played?

[wanton rapids]

hmm

hm

[languid hearth]

this is awesome

has this mod already released or wip?

[rare shell]

I just started making it today lol

[languid hearth]

love the aesthetic of it

beautiful work bro 🙏🏽

[rare shell]

ty!

[languid hearth]

i think its fine, half joker is 20 but also wouldnt work with splash builds, when this is 15 and can

[past canyon]

Wouldnt this be super OP with the vouchers that already do that?

[wanton rapids]

is the bottom right one a final boss blind?

[grand geode]

no totally not

nuh uh

[sand thicket]

id probably call it 'noir silence' or 'midnight' or the like as many bosses have nonstandard color names
pretty cool tho, i like the effect

[grand geode]

i'm referencing The Black Silence from Library of Ruina

though- that'd be cool methinks

[sand thicket]

ooo I wasnt familiar ;o

[grand geode]

mm yea i'm gonna change it to Noir Silence

the 3 people that also play it can probably get the reference

[torpid oxide]

What do you guys think

[heavy flax]

is there a way to make my joker use 4 slots on the spritesheet(?)

i want that card to be a joker

[dusk estuary]

noir is just french for black. how about onyx silence? will also fit with amber acorn as it's a gem

[grand geode]

meh. strays too far from main i think

i'll stick to noir for now

and for the insect

[torpid oxide]

Where is located the code of The Serpent boss ? Apparently it's not in blind.lua

[grand geode]

G.FUNCS.draw_from_deck_to_hand in functions\state_events.lua

[torpid oxide]

Ah thanks

[heavy flax]

?

[torpid oxide]

How can I add another descritption (like this description of the lucky card) ?

[grand geode]

teehee

[heavy flax]

anyone? T~T

[empty brook]

to my knowledge i'm not sure if anyone's even got legendary joker/hologram joker visual stuff working yet (As in, making a joker display 2 sprites, one of which is floating)--in my opinion, this seems like a much more difficult thing to do

so i doubt folks are ignoring you; more so a "we don't know (at least yet)" situation

[white scarab]

The downside of Stuntman isn’t copied

[rare shell]

what do you think about this effect? (I don't know all the effects in Balatro tbh, so maybe this or similar one already exists)

[grand geode]

it is not

-2 from Stuntman + -4 from blind

[empty brook]

this is a pretty neat effect! i don't believe any other jokers use anything like this

the closest is like. Card Sharp? but that's for a hand type you've already played

[heavy flax]

effect concepts for racist joker?

its too late to turn back its already on the spritesheet

[rare shell]

does it need higher amount of mult? I was thinking that this can situation with same cards appear very rarely in early game and this mult kinda sucks for mid-late game

[strong swift]

resize with aseprite

[heavy flax]

me pretending i know how to do that

[rare shell]

hey so can we totally not

[hardy brook]

The WHAT joker?

[heavy flax]

the racist joker duh

[rare shell]

so whats the joke

[hardy brook]

You can’t play any cards then

[rare shell]

is the joke that it's funny because its based off a historical racist empire that built itself off the backs of black and brown people

because i dont think thats a really good punchline

[heavy flax]

wut

the joke is i put a confederate flag on the hat T~T

[strong swift]

just don't do that

[empty brook]

I LEAVE FOR FIVE MINUTES AND THERE'S RACISM NOW

[rare shell]

stop?

yeah, the flag of a historically racist empire that built itself off the backs of black and brown people?

[strong swift]

its easy

[hardy brook]

YUP

[empty brook]

yeah please don't????

[heavy flax]

thats what im saying T~T

[hardy brook]

[rare shell]

yeah, dont do that

[hard grove]

very much don't

[empty brook]

we get that it's a joke, but it's not a great one. it's very offensive and i would recommend not making this joker.

[rare shell]

theres people here who's had their ancestors slaughtered by people waving this flag

[hardy brook]

Ngl, fitting with the name “not John Wilkes Booth”, yknow, the guy who killed the president who ended the civil war and all

[heavy flax]

im confused do you think im defending the confederates because im not T~T

[hardy brook]

We’re just saying not to make a racist joker

[heavy flax]

someone was named abraham lincoln and i was making a joke but yea in retrospect probably not the best name for this one--

[strong swift]

that doesn't matter. just dont use that imagery in fucking balatro

[rare shell]

listen, i dont think you personally support it, but you have to understand when you post things with this flag its like posting things with the nazi flag

[sand thicket]

man remember when ragebait used to Try
anyways no surprise this is the caliber of person that can't figure out how to resize an image lol

[hardy brook]

Could’ve been worse for the racist joker art

[heavy flax]

im not ragebaiting i didnt think it would be taken this seriously

honestly

im sorry

[rare shell]

going forward just learn that its a very sensitive flag

people pls stop

like

stop discussing

it's not going anywhere it just floods the chat

[hardy brook]

Surprised it only took a month for this to happen

[heavy flax]

honestly just a stupid edgy joke ill take it out my bad

[hardy brook]

But yeah uh…

Don’t do it again ok?

[rare shell]

i figured as such, just be careful in the future

[hardy brook]

Don’t be the and make something bad

[rare shell]

lest you become john wilkes booth for real

[heavy flax]

honestly i am a little confused i wanna make it clear that if anything i was calling out the flag as racist because people still dont seem to get that

[empty brook]

man

please stop this discussion at this point lmao

[hardy brook]

Okay enough about the flag

[empty brook]

absolutely

hey folks i'm making a J O K E R

[heavy flax]

kk was not the right letter choice oml T~T

[rare shell]

ill leave it at this but, just dont show the flag as racist, if you want people to know its racist, just dont use it

[hardy brook]

Is it a good joker?

[empty brook]

which turns hearts into wild cards! does that sound fine as uncommon, or am i overestimating/underestimating

[rare shell]

jonker?

[empty brook]

yes a jonkler!!

[rare shell]

a jank jonkler?

[empty brook]

unfortunately i'm not jank enough...... you out-jank me......

[rare shell]

hearts into wilds sounds like its in the same realm as smeared joker

[empty brook]

but anyways it's the effect for my new joker: "Joker (from Persona 5)"

[strong swift]

just like when mind mage disabled credit card and negative jokers for some reason!

[rare shell]

where can I see the code from other cards to reference them?

you can open up balatro.exe with any zip program

which file exactly

it should be in the .exe's card.lua

that's where most of the coding for jokers are going to be

[empty brook]

Balatro.exe, and then the various .luas you'll see right there

i think joker stuff is in... card.lua or game.lua???

correct me if i'm wrong on that

[rare shell]

its card.lua

yep it's card.lua

ty!

np

if you need descriptions of jokers and to see how they format text you can look in localization/en-us

oh hey black

did you see my new legendary jonkler

[empty brook]

yes! i saw both that and the highcard/pair one

i really like both of them!

[rare shell]

i think i decided on takin the half measure and just making this 12 mult

[empty brook]

honestly i do feel like.

kind of weird about this one?

because isn't it just worse than Half Joker

[rare shell]

naw

you get to discard 2 cards with this that you dont get with half joker

[empty brook]

i guess alongside splash (or just playing more cards to discard them)

but half joker also works with three-of-a-kind, and it's giving more mult for high card/pair

actually

hang on, i have a BETTER critique

lemme get out my Handy Dandy Screenshot

isn't this just objectively better than jolly

in every single way

...wait nevermind

it doesn't say contains it says

[rare shell]

Is there a joker that knows that if you've played the same card before?

[empty brook]

look i'm smart. i swear.

[rare shell]

exactly pair and high pair

[empty brook]

yeah i realized that the instant i posted the screenshot

critique retracted

bando foolishness proven

[dusky reef]

hey guys, I've been reading the code lately, but how do we put our custom card back into the game without changing enhancer.png?

[empty brook]

card back as in like for decks?

[dusky reef]

yes

[empty brook]

to my knowledge decks rn still require you to change that

we have ways to get around it for stuff like jokers at least, but not decks yet

[dusky reef]

yeah but that makes every deck mod imcombatible I think

[heavy flax]

the pillar boss blind knows what cards youve played this ante maybe you can use that?

[empty brook]

yeah!

[rare shell]

ooooh yes ty

[empty brook]

we're early on in the modding stages for this game, so it's kinda just an issue we deal with

for me, what i've done is i make all my enhancers.png mods compatible with each other

[dusky reef]

hmmm

[empty brook]

so Dice Deck, Pact Deck, and Baba Decks all include the graphics for the others inside their enhancers.png edit ((well dice and pact don't include baba, as it would replace textures, but baba does include them)

[rare shell]

i still want to know how to implement the legendary joker soul sprites

[empty brook]

YEAH IT'S GENUINELY INSANE TO ME WE DON'T HAVE THAT YET

it's not a huge deal but MAN

i wanna see a FLOATING HEAD

[dusky reef]

might have to write an entirely new function for loading sprite... maybe it's worth doing

[rare shell]

well, jokers have a field for soul_pos

[empty brook]

if you're able to make it so i no longer have to edit enhancers.png i will be grateful eternally

[rare shell]

i mean id imagine you would have to point to the joker soul like you point to as the soul in question and then assign the soul_pos accordingly

oh, for deck backs

lmao

reading comprehension

[empty brook]

okay to be fair a function for soul joker boys would be great too

i wanna see fortuna and stancyzk floatin' at the function

[dusky reef]

so currently they are using x-y pairs where x is column index and y is row index right?

[rare shell]

i reformatted stancyzk too

[empty brook]

i believe that's correct, yes

[rare shell]

also rip my pagliacci idea

turns out

pagliacci is in this game!

[empty brook]

wait is there an accent mark above his name on the plate but not his joker name

[rare shell]

its literally canio's name

[dusky reef]

ok let's see what I can do

[rare shell]

i am not sure if the font they use supports the accented n

[empty brook]

yeah!!! Canio's the Pagliacci guy!!!

[empty brook]

have you tried?

[rare shell]

admittedly no

would take me 2 seconds

[empty brook]

yeah exactly

a crash is worth the CONSISTENCY....!!!

[rare shell]

authentically polish,,,

[empty brook]

my polish friend would garrote me if i allowed inauthentic polish clowns in my general area

[empty brook]

hell yes

[rare shell]

[empty brook]

the power of me BULLYING LYMAN asking you to try!!!!

[rare shell]

huh

you know i just realized this game is already like localized

[empty brook]

ye

[empty brook]

hmm. in your case, you'd want card played this round, not this ante, right

[rare shell]

i mispelled his name

im dyin

[empty brook]

oh shit that's true, you did

sorry Lyman, officially a bad mod now

that's how the rules are

[rare shell]

yeah

its ok i got chewed out by my polish friend

[empty brook]

....i don't think card.ability.played_this_round would work, but part of me wonders if it does

actually wait, even if it did i dunno if that'd help you here

since you don't care about the specific cards being played, but the number of them, right

[rare shell]

number + type

[empty brook]

...WAIT

wait hold on. i think i might've misunderstood how your joker works

[rare shell]

like if you play spade 4 and then club 4 in different hand it won't count

[empty brook]

yes i think i did

[rare shell]

if you play spade 4 and then another spade 4 in different hand then it works

or maybe even in the same hand

[empty brook]

i thought it was this:
play a 5-card hand. this hand gets +0 mult, but now you have played 5 cards, so that's +3 for each
now, next hand gets +15 mult. play a 5-card hand, +3 for each
third hand gets +30 mult

now that i know your intention.... i think this joker's really weak actually lmao

[rare shell]

going for +30 mult then

🤪

[empty brook]

doesn't do anything in most decks before tarots (except for checkered deck), and +3 mult is definitely a pretty low amount. it will EVENTUALLY be able to pop off a lot though, so you probably don't want it to be too high considering it's just a common

[empty brook]

trying to think of how i'd fix this wording to ease that confusion, and i'm struggling a bit lol. i definitely suggest including "of the same rank and suit" in there

yeah don't get me wrong, i understand the mechanic now

the wording of the joker just didn't make that clear

[rare shell]

did that image just in case

[empty brook]

i thought it was essentially a flat mult joker that like. scaled up as you went through hands

balance-wise, i do think i'd at least suggest it being +4, so it's equivalent to the other similar jokers (Smiley Face, Even Steven, Suit Jokers, etc.)

it probably should be higher but i dunno how much higher is the right choice lol

[strong falcon]

I have a joker that gives a bonus if the hand is exactly the same as the previous round, maybe you could use part of this Firch?

            -- Save previous cards
            if context.cardarea == G.play and not context.repetition then
                table.insert(self.ability.extra.current_cards, context.other_card.base.id)
            end

            -- Calculate chip score
            if context.scored_chips then
                self.ability.extra.chips = context.scored_chips
            end

            -- Apply chips if previous cards are the same as the current cards
            if SMODS.end_calculate_context(context) then
                if tables_equal(self.ability.extra.prev_cards, self.ability.extra.current_cards) then
                    self.ability.extra.prev_cards = tables_copy(self.ability.extra.current_cards)
                    self.ability.extra.current_cards = {}
                    return {
                        message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_chips', vars = { self.ability.extra.chips } },
                        chip_mod = self.ability.extra.chips
                    }
                else
                    self.ability.extra.prev_cards = tables_copy(self.ability.extra.current_cards)
                    self.ability.extra.current_cards = {}
                end
            end

It basically saves each played card to a table, and then checks if this table is the same as the previous hands table

[rare shell]

I feel a little bit overwhelmed 😅

Do I understand correctly that hand-related joker abilities go into .calculate?

[strong falcon]

My bad lmao, I'll explain further

[rare shell]

I feel like I need some kind of small example, because steamodded's examplemod is not enough for me

at least how i have it implemented, generally speaking almost all your actual joker code is going to be under function Card:calculate_joker(context)

and then depending on what your joker does, they're going to be under specific contexts.

Also wait, isn't there a thing where I can connect vanilla game's files to use them as library?

not sure what you mean by that

I never modded in Lua before and I don't know how it works here, but I did some modding for Terraria and Duck Game (both are on c#), and you can connect tmodloader and dg's source code to Visual Studio so it will show game's functions and such stuff

ah, im not sure how one would do that but in theory you could extract all the lua files and implement that as a makeshift workshop

when i started my mod i just mostly vulture'd off a lot of https://github.com/iJohnMaged/multi-jokers/blob/main/MultiJokers.lua because it was formatted in the easiest way on the mods that were out at the time

(i swear i didnt mean to end up recreating math homework a week later independantly of reading this)

[strong falcon]

Have u made any joker before 🤔

[rare shell]

nope! I did set-up for the mod just today

i ought to set up a basic mult joker template

[strong falcon]

Ah okay, I'll give you a more simple example

For most basic jokers all your code will be in the .calculate function. In here you have access to the context variable, which goes about the current step that the calculation is in. An example would be context.discard which triggers whenever a card gets discarded, or context.end_of_round that triggers at the end of the round

If you want to do something after a hand has been played (like apply mult to the hand as a whole), you'd do it as follows:

        SMODS.Jokers.j_your_joker = function(self, context)
            -- Apply mult
            if SMODS.end_calculate_context(context) then
                 return {
                     message = localize {
                         type = 'variable',
                         key = 'a_mult',
                         vars = { self.ability.mult }
                     },
                     mult_mod = self.ability.mult,
                     card = self
                 }
            end
       end

Where message is the little message that shows up underneath the joker card, mult_mod is how much mult your joker will apply and card is the card that will do the shake animation whenever it gets triggered

Does that still make sense 🤔

[rare shell]

Yes, thank you very much! I think I need to try to tinker around it by myself to understand how things work

Is there an easy way to get myself a specific card?

(to debug)

Also, where can I find a list of contexts?

[strong falcon]

It gets a lot easier with time, I was struggling a lot with my first few jokers as well

To get an individual card you could use context.individual and not context.repition, which triggers for every singular card that is inside the played hand (but not repeated). To access the other card, you would use context.other_card

[rare shell]

i can second that it gets a lot easier after you make a couple of jokers

mostly

[strong falcon]

And I don't think theres a specific list of contexts anywhere, I just recommend looking at what other mods use to get familiar with it

[wanton rapids]

slight rework

[rare shell]

my work flow is usually thinking about what the closest joker to what i want to do is and look that up in the games good

I mean what do I do to acquire joker so I can test it?

its a good way of finding out what effects go under what contexts

youre going to want to install the debugmode mod

It is installed

Is there a hotkey for this?

assuming youre in debug mode

go to your collection

hover over the joker

and press 3

oh yeah that worked

ty

[pseudo pasture]

Can you use balamod and steamodded together?

[rare shell]

no guarantees that it works

[hardy brook]

Some people have tried, i think they’re trying to merge the two but atm i don’t think it does

[pseudo pasture]

Alright, just curious

[rare shell]

another legendary jonkler sprite done

thoughts about this ability?

[empty brook]

oh wow! that's quite good

kneejerk brain reaction is "maybe 3 levels since orbital is 3 and that's still really strong, despite being random"
but there's no real mathematic backing on that; just vibes

i like it, though!

[rare shell]

my only problem is figuring out how to upgrade multiple times

I'm fooling around with joker abilities, this makes the message about +mult appear correctly, but doesn't actually add any mult, why?

[strong falcon]

mult_mod (as well as chip_mod and Xmult_mod) is only for SMODS.end_calculate_context(context). If you want to return mult for other contexts you need to use mult (and chips and x_mult)

iirc

[rare shell]

now it works fine, ty!

gotta ask all the stupid questions so later this will be the easiest part of making an actual joker

[grand geode]

so true

[rare shell]

how do I put variables from here to localization?

[strong falcon]

You mean so that they show up in the joker description?

[rare shell]

yep

I was copying something from vanilla jokers earlier but got things like +ERROR

I use that now but this doesn't seem correct

(this works tho)

[strong falcon]

Copy what lushmod does 😎 👍

The whole function from line 447

[honest abyss]

Hello I have a question for y'all, if I wanted to make a mod to change the names of stuff in the game, how would I go about that

[rare shell]

probably just edit the localization files

chat i have a conundrum

i wish to upgrade a hand multiple times and i have half solutions for both ends

so the way space joker does it is just this simple return return { card = self, level_up = true, message = localize('k_level_up_ex') }

but i cant seem to figure out how to properly have this happen 4 times

burnt joker however uses the level_up_hand function as seen here
level_up_hand(context.blueprint_card or self, text, nil, 1)

which, when using this method, i can choose to level it up more than once, but the buff doesn't apply for the hand thats played (like how space joker upgrades your hand as its being played, not afterwards)

so right now the snippet i have is elseif context.before then if self.ability.name == 'Feste' then level_up_hand(self, context.scoring_name, true, 4) return { card = self, message = localize('k_level_up_ex') } end

any suggestions to make it apply the mult/chip bonus properly here?

i think level_up_hand itself happens after the hand is calculated, which is why its used with burnt joker, as the planet cards all use the same function

and if thats the case is there a way i can use event manager to... not?

oh

nevermind

just had to make it not instant

thanks for being my rubber duck chat

🦆

[digital lily]

seance is no more

[rare shell]

https://tenor.com/view/disintegrate-gif-22469816

Is it possible to check if list contains something?

what are you trying to do?

I'm creating a list of cards, and I need to check if specific card is in that list

bonus question: is there like an initialize context? for jokers first appearance in your active slot

what i'd do is first delcare a local variable
local HasYourCard = false
iterate through the list in some type of for loop
have it set the local variable to true if it iterates on a card that matches your specific card
then at the end, check if HasYourCard is false, and if it is, return nil, and then the rest is your code that you want to have happen

[rare shell]

like when you pick it up? that's actually not under initialize jokers but its own thing in add_to_deck

[empty brook]

IT'S JUST A TABLE NOW

this is really the more accurate version of the joker, because you always pick it up and then proceed to score 0 straight flushes for the rest of the run

[rare shell]

here's a not quite exact implementation, this instead checks if your hand is only sixes or gold cards, and if it isn't it returns false, but you can do some basic logic engineering here

                    local onlySixes = true
                    for k, v in ipairs(context.full_hand) do
                        onlySixes = onlySixes and (v:get_id() == 6 or v.ability.name == 'Gold Card')
                    end
                    if not onlySixes then
                        return nil
                    end
                    return {
                        message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_xmult', vars = { self.ability.extra.x_mult } },
                        Xmult_mod = self.ability.extra.x_mult
                    }
                end```

what is the context for played cards?

[strong falcon]

Every played card individually is context.individual, the played cards as a whole is SMODS.end_calculate_context(context)

[rare shell]

for some reason context.individual somehow includes cards in hand?

[strong falcon]

oh oops

if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then

is the one youre looking for

[rare shell]

🫡

[honest abyss]

Where do I find them

[rare shell]

in the balatro.exe in the localization folder

[honest abyss]

Thanks

[rare shell]

I'm still trying to figure out this one btw

it'll be something like this

I hope that it doesn't overwrite itself emptying the list

[strong falcon]

Right now you're only adding the id of the card to the list, which is the same across suits. You'd probably want to do context.other_card.base.id .. context.other_card.base.suit

[rare shell]

fixed that

[strong falcon]

As for iterating over the played cards, it'd be

for k, v in pairs(self.ability.card_list) do
  if v == context.other_card.base.id .. context.other_card.base.suit then
     -- do something
  end
end

[digital lily]

wait hold on

[rare shell]

pairs has nothing to do with poker pairs, right? Is it to addres both id and suit?

[digital lily]

why is there two of them?

[rare shell]

two smartest kids in class get different answers

[digital lily]

who added a second scholar while i wasnt looking

[strong falcon]

Pairs is just a lua function

Has nothing to do with the game

[digital lily]

ok this one just looks cursed

[strong swift]

he didnt graduate 😔

[rare shell]

Okay, it doesn't crash, but I think my first initialization of list keeps overwriting itself

because at first I accidentaly added cards to the list and then did a loop to check if it's in the list (and it always gave me +10 mult), I fixed that by rearranging and it doesn't trigger mult at all now

I think the list checking is correct tho

SMODS.Jokers.j_oonga.calculate = function(self, context)
        self.ability.mult = 10;
        self.ability.card_list = {};
        
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            for k, v in pairs(self.ability.card_list) do
                if v == context.other_card.base.id .. context.other_card.base.suit then
                    return {
                        message = localize {
                            type = 'variable',
                            key = 'a_mult',
                            vars = { self.ability.mult }
                        },
                        mult = self.ability.mult,
                        card = self
                    }
                end
            end

            table.insert(self.ability.card_list, context.other_card.base.id .. context.other_card.base.suit)
        end
    end```

I suspect that self.ability.card_list = {}; is bad

[strong falcon]

You should initialize the list (and all other joker variables like mult) along with the joker before u do joker:register(). This is how i've defined mine

printerJoker = {
        ability_name = "MMC The Printer",
        slug = "mmc_printer",
        ability = { extra = { hand = {} } },
        rarity = 3,
        cost = 9,
        unlocked = true,
        discovered = true,
        blueprint_compat = false,
        eternal_compat = true
    }

And for registering I do this, instead of value you'd do the printerJoker in this case, but I have a big list instead

local joker = SMODS.Joker:new(value.ability_name, value.slug, value.ability, { x = 0, y = 0 }, locs[key],
                value.rarity, value.cost, value.unlocked, value.discovered, value.blueprint_compat, value.eternal_compat)
            joker:register()

[rare shell]

Is it the ability that lets me do this?

[strong falcon]

I think so yea

And to reset the hand at the end of the round, you'd use if context.end_of_round and not context.individual and not context.repetition then

[rare shell]

YAYY IT WORKED

[digital lily]

ancient joker's design is so cool

[rare shell]

and suddenly it doesn't

it is weird that it tells that self.ability.card_list is a nil value, I initialize it right here

(I created new save/profile to test)

[empty brook]

wait what the fuck. i thought you were doing a bit here but wasn't sure, then just checked in my jokers.png.... there's two scholars

[digital lily]

yeah what happened there

[empty brook]

maybe at one point localthunk had a diff joker there, and instead of having a blank space once it was removed, put scholar there to fill the space??? 🤷‍♀️

[arctic heath]

is there a list of mods or a modpack for steamodded?

[rare shell]

https://github.com/jie65535/awesome-balatro

[arctic heath]

awesome thank you!

[rare shell]

damn lyman you got that x2 multiplier lmao

💥💥💥💥💥 I feel like I'm gonna explode

[autumn yew]

to me it looks like the card_list isn't correctly constructed, but I'm not an expert in Lua

i.e. you want a key-value pair (dictionary) and have given it a value (array)

I guess this is the best place to ask. I was looking into how the polychrome (and holo) shaders worked, wanting to replicate them.
(Going to thread this as otherwise this message is going to be very tall and I don't want to be that disruptive.)

[strong falcon]

I'm not sure about why it says that it's empty, but you can initialize card_list as {} and it will work fine (that's what I do as well). You should also move the context.end_of_round outside of the if context.individual... area I think

If you wanna send your whole code file over I can take a look at it and see if I can find anything

[rare shell]

oh yes it was {} without zero before, I added it just before taking the screenshot oops

[rare shell]

I think I'll create repository then

for now here's the code

[autumn yew]

yeah that's an empty whatever type which has no keys or values (its not nil, just empty, so the loop never accesses the innards)

[rare shell]

the error says it is nil tho

https://github.com/Firch/Bunco/blob/main/Bunco.lua

[autumn yew]

yeah and like I said, I'm not a Lua expert.

[strong falcon]

I think I know whats wrong

The problem is that you're defining card_list in ability, when it should be defined in a subtable of ability called extra

I'm not entirely sure why it is that way, but I think you can only define mult in ability (and maybe chips), everything else goes in extra

So this works I believe @rare shell
ability = { mult = 10, extra = { card_list = { } } },

[rare shell]

let me check if that works, one sec

It does!!

🥳

I'm more surprised that it worked before for some reason

[dusky reef]

Might have been a weird question, but I just dug into SMOD's code and realized this:

        for _i, sprite in ipairs(SMODS.Sprites) do
            sendDebugMessage(sprite.name)
            sendDebugMessage(joker_obj.key)
            if sprite.name == joker_obj.key then
                joker_obj.atlas = sprite.name
            end
        end

so this is the only difference between loading joker and loading deck

why don't we have something like this for deck sprite

(i.e. card backs)

[cosmic shell]

As someone who's been looking into this kind of functionality for the past couple days for my own api, it's because it doesn't quite work the same way, leading to bugs in the deck selection screen due to the game relying on dynamically changing the sprite position when switching deck (and not resetting the card sprites). the way I've been looking at working around this is by appending backs to the existing atlas at runtime using love2d's canvas feature, in case anyone's interested.

[dusky reef]

could you elaborate on that? I think I get that it doesn't work, probably because they put loading card back function together with enhancers; What is the work-around you found? does that allow us put customized card back in single files?

[cosmic shell]

as far as I've gathered, the deck selection screen doesn't actually change the cards being displayed when switching deck options, instead just changing the sprite position (which is stored as a reference) creating the illusion that it's a different deck. The workaround I've devised is a bit of a hack where I just create a new enhancers atlas when the game starts which is the base game's Enhancers.png with any additionally provided sprite atlases glued to the bottom. (this does allow card backs defined in single files)

[fickle elbow]

how would you check the users deck to see if they have 2 more more of a certain card?

[dusky reef]

is this gluing dynamic? or we just edit enhancers.png?

[cosmic shell]

it's dynamic yes, the aim is to avoid needing to edit enhancers.png so multiple mods can be compatible with eachother..

[dusky reef]

That's awesome work!! Would I be able to follow the convention you made? Or is this still WIP?

[heavy flax]

Collectors Coin Joker

[cosmic shell]

Sure, The main issue it has at the moment is it only being compatible with itself so it might need to have a way of using the current version of the atlas loaded in game instead of the file itself, which creates another set of issues with figuring out the sprite positions, since they're dynamic.

[dusky reef]

Do you remember which part of the code correspond to this hacky card selection the OG game did? Maybe I can look into alternatives of overwriting some of those functions with additional statement that handles extra sprites

[cosmic shell]

it's not exactly in one place, it might be possible to fix it by injecting some additional calls to set_sprites in the UI functions for the deck selection UI, I haven't really tested it as I'm happy with the current solution I'm working on.

[minor cypress]

Hi all, is this acurate?

its virus total on steamodded

?

[cosmic shell]

that is expected, they're false positives. if you still don't want to run it you could look into using lovely to install it instead (a dll style injector), and I believe there's a tutorial for that in the modding forum.

[autumn yew]

The steammodded injector works by doing the same kinds of things that trojans do

[magic sandal]

i mean the virus scanners just call it a trojan because hypothetically it acts the same way even though its not malicious. the program injects itself into balatro the same way a trojan injects itself into your pc

but first of all the code is open source so whats happenening can be viewed by anyone, secondly if a trojan would end up posted on github with intent of hacking into peoples computers github takes the page down if need be

[chrome ferry]

Hey, trying to fiddle with the sound files on this game to customize a few of them personally, y'know the sound for the balancing done with the Plasma deck? Yeah, trying to dig through the files to find which sound uses it, but I can't find it, anyone know?

[cosmic shell]

looking at the code, it appears to be called "gong"

[chrome ferry]

Cool, found it now, thanks!

[copper silo]

Sound effect mods are going to be fucking hellish

[cosmic shell]

it also looks like it plays it twice with one of them pitch shifted to play a chord with them, very odd

[sturdy light]

Bonjour savez vous quand la date du patch pour la langue en français sur Nintendo switch sortira ? Merci pour votre réponse 😀

[past tendon]

no info yet as far as I know

I just realized my jokers never appear during a run lmao. They appear in the collection, I can spawn them using debug mode and they work fine but it looks like they can't be randomly generated.

[spice spear]

you probably didn't add them to the proper pools

[odd jewel]

no mod to calculate points before playing a hand currently? just the external tools?

[spice spear]

there's a joker that does that in this mod: https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1216754656617693255 but other than that, it's all external tools afaik

[spice spear]

the joker in this mod isn't completely accurate, though

[odd jewel]

too bad, feels like a bit of an oversight with the game

like are you not supposed to know much your hand scores for

[spice spear]

yes!

it's seemingly an intentional part of the game design seeing as there's a lot of chance-based effects

[odd jewel]

yeah but you're left doing tedious math outside of those scenarios

[spice spear]

it's not actually all that bad in most cases and I rarely feel the need to actually calculate stuff

[odd jewel]

i'd say it's better to give your players options; if they want to know, let them check it

sucks to lose a run because you couldn't tell what was more valuable after 5-10 layers of chip addition and mulitplication

[minor cypress]

oh ok

[dense temple]

Has anyone else had this problem? When using Better Mouse and Gamepad, when I scroll up to play hand, occasionally the cards sort of "re-sort" and the hand plays twice. This then results in each card I played getting doubled into my deck. Super weird issue that I have no clue what is causing it. Here's the mods I'm using currently:

[white scarab]

There was a bug during the demo that caused this issue. Likely it’s a bug in the mod that is causing you to play the hand twice, as the same effect happened

[misty aurora]

is there a debug mode mod I can download

to test stuff

[white scarab]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1209857245316255744

[stoic lance]

I am curious about the game logs situation. Can gamestates be recreated exactly from the logs? I did some AI on spire logs, but was bottlenecked by their lossy/bad logging.

[twin badger]

Trying to get Steamodded to install for mac but whenever I try I end up getting this error message even though I have 7zz, I'm assuming there's some obvious thing I forgot to do bc I'm a dummy

[wispy cape]

how did you install it

[twin badger]

I followed the instructions on the Steamodded github, I'm pretty sure I installed all of the things correctly (python, pip3, Plocate, 7zip and python requests library)

[past tendon]

Yeah, forgot to add table.insert(G.P_JOKER_RARITY_POOLS[v.rarity], v). thanks

[rare shell]

Why does this happen?

[round oar]

replace +#1# with +1

[rare shell]

that'll just make it print "+1" tho?

[round oar]

what do you want it to do?

[rare shell]

Looking into other jokers from localization files, this #1# thing supposed to refer to first configured variable

so this

[round oar]

in your case the number looks like it doesn’t need to be a variable

[rare shell]

yeah it doesn't, but I want to figure this out still

[round oar]

ok i can’t help there

gl

[past tendon]

you need to add the joker in the function Card.generate_UIBox_ability_table()
like:

            loc_vars = {self.ability.extra.money_gain,self.ability.extra.money }
            customJoker = true```
In that case money_gain is #1# and money is #2#

[rare shell]

ohhh I did loc_vars but I didn't realize I was supposed to do it in different function

[past tendon]

My script is kinda outdated so there might me some easier way to do it now

[rare shell]

How is the function itself should be approached tho?

Like, what should I write to make it a function

because looking at other functions right now they look a bit different from that

structurally

[rare shell]

I know this is wrong, how should I make it?

or should I do something like
Card.Jokers.j_myjoker.generate_UIBox_ability_table = function

[tall seal]

Is modding already here?

that's crazy

free infinite DLC's

[rare shell]

booster packs

[tall seal]

If anyone wants pixel art I'm down

hit me up

[past tendon]

mine uses that. But it looks like other joker packs do things in slightly different ways 🤔

code example from another joker pack

[tall seal]

are all the textures public?

[rare shell]

yeah, you can access them by opening balatro.exe in any archiver

7zip/winrar/etc

[tall seal]

k

Found it

[rare shell]

lol I tried to implement that and now my card boxes are gone

Okay

Now it works

but only for my joker

and any other joker lost their descriptions

I think I know why

This solution feels kinda scuffed, but it works

I guess I can take everything from here and make my own function to save space?

Does Lua require ; symbol at the end of line?

It seems like it doesn't

[real oxide]

no shot balatro is made with python

[grand geode]

it isn't

it's made with Love2D, which uses Lua

[rare shell]

I think that was an /s

Oof

How do I put ability name in function so later it can be used as self.ability_name?

Maybe I can enter it as a string and later from self."ability_name" somehow turn that into self.ability_name?

[mental solar]

I keep trying to use values that are used in the game's code but they always appear nil, can someone help me figure out how to refer back to the game's functions?

[heavy acorn]

What does your code look like?

[rare shell]

how do I turn string like that into an actual table?

[tall seal]

I made something

Free to use texture

[strong falcon]

Are you still trying to get the Joker descriptions to work?

[rare shell]

yes XD

I made this function

loc_var is supposed to get config things

but I can't just pass something like self.ability.mult because self doesn't exist on the location of function

so I was thinking maybe I can pass that as a string

and then later turn it into an actual table

[rare shell]

hence why I asked this question

loc_var is supposed something like ToTable(vars)

I tried load() but with no luck

[strong falcon]

I think generate_UIBox_ability_table takes self as an argument, but I'm not entirely sure

[rare shell]

Yes it takes

[strong falcon]

I could also just send you the function I use if you want

[tall seal]

👍

[rare shell]

Yes it takes, but I can't put self. where it doesn't exist

like here for example

This is where function is called

[strong falcon]

Does generate_UIBox not get called on it's own?

Like from within the game itself

[rare shell]

Hmm

[grand geode]

you can't pass variable names through a function, only the values

this is the case for most languages i think

[strong falcon]

Either way this is the function I use, if you just wanna copy that.

[heavy acorn]

yes instead of using Card:generate_UIBox_ability_table() use Card.generate_UIBox_ability_table(self)

[rare shell]

Why?

[heavy acorn]

don't you need to reference self in your code?

[rare shell]

yes but I think it already gets self inside Card:generate_UIBox_ability_table() without mentioning it

My main thing that I don't want to deal with is having checks for joker type in different places of code

It's just for my own sanity; I see that other people in their mods have checks for the same jokers in entirely different places

[strong falcon]

I think as long as you inject into a base game function you're gonna need to check for your joker name

Not sure if there is a way to prevent that

But from my experience it hasn't been too bad 👍

[rare shell]

Okay, I did it in separate place and without calling the function

something from this hides card's rarity and editions