💻・modding-dev

[zealous glen]

hmmm, I overwrite the line that checks for Plasma Deck to also check for my own Joker (though theoretically it could find a similar Joker from another mod). I did consider making an API that allows any mod to also add their own condition to that check

[wintry solar]

I added it after the plasma balance

[frosty dock]

also those who will be confused, I can't unconfuse no matter what

[wintry solar]

So I call calculate joker with a custom context

[zealous glen]

That could work too. I wanted to do it in the same step to avoid balancing twice

[wintry solar]

I just check if it’s already been balanced

[zealous glen]

What do you check exactly?

[wintry solar]

Pretty sure it was the existence of nu_mult

[zealous glen]

I think that only works with vanilla and could have unexpected behaviour with other mods

But tbh so can my overwrite, since perhaps multiple mods can’t overwrite the same line (?)

[wintry solar]

Why would other mods have assigned a value at that step other than to balance?

[zealous glen]

Variables can have any names, so mods can name a variable nu_mult because they calculate a new Mult in a different way, or they balance but use differently named variables

[wintry solar]

Yes but nu_mult is created where I’m injecting

And I can’t think why you’d inject at the balancing point other than to balance

And if the score is already balanced, balancing again doesn’t really matter other than animations

[zealous glen]

You could inject before to add other decks

[wintry solar]

But wouldn’t you just hook into the current line that evaluates the deck?

[zealous glen]

I’m just saying it’s possible

[zealous glen]

Anyways, I wonder if adding a calculate_joker with context.balance is a good API idea

[wintry solar]

It could probably be included yeah

[long ruin]

💀

[wintry solar]

I’d probably suggest it coming after the deck evaluation and checking for the existence of variables and whether they are already equal before calling it

[frosty dock]

uhm

you're using 1.0 code on 0.9.8 steamodded

make up your mind

[zealous glen]

Again you can’t guarantee the variables mean what you want them to mean

[long ruin]

je vais tout wippin

[wintry solar]

If you can give me an idea for what else they could mean please do

[zealous glen]

I mean I already did

Any effect that sets new Chips and Mult value could reasonably have the same name

[wintry solar]

But surely balancing would always be the last event?

[zealous glen]

Not if you hook after that?

Or before

[wintry solar]

People will always be able to hook after it, you have to design it with what is already there

[zealous glen]

Except the hook order depends on the order mods are loaded

So it could happen OTHER HOOK -> YOUR HOOK -> VANILLA, or VANILLA -> OTHER HOOK -> YOUR HOOK, or OTHER HOOK -> VANILLA -> YOUR HOOK

Although if the variables are local you shouldn’t see them between arrows.

[wintry solar]

Well if you have a way of doing it, go for it

[rough furnace]

I think maybe a warning for a while as a lot of people do do that (maybe show in the mod list too) but then later it can be removed

[frosty dock]

"a lot of people do that" isn't really an argument when almost all mods have to adapt in order to be usable

but yeah, most example mods are single file and whatnot

[edgy reef]

The only one that I use that's one lone lua file is AchievementsEnabler.

[mellow sable]

I think my mod SeedUnlocker also does that

[rough furnace]

I meant as it is something a lot of people do, so showing an error will help a lot of people spend less time trying to figure it out

[zealous glen]

I mean, I have a single file that requires the other files where my code actually is

But I guess Steamodded would read it as a single file?

[rough furnace]

also do we allow nested files?

[mellow sable]

PLEASE NO

[frosty dock]

i meant that as in mods not having their own folders

[mellow sable]

detect them and give a warning

[rough furnace]

I was thinking about it and it's a bad idea

But I was thinking having some kind of config file for steamosded might be cool

[zealous glen]

What do you mean

[rough furnace]

Like where we could just point it to the entry point wherever we want to store it realistive to the mod root

[rough furnace]

Like Mods/MyMod/Folder/entrypoint.lua

[zealous glen]

I guess it’s fine to prevent that

I have a top level file that requires the other files that are in lower levels

In separate folders or sub folders

[frosty dock]

eh, forcing entry points to be at 2 depth should be fine

what's a useful but concise warning message for nested files though?

like Mods/MyMod-main/MyMod/mymod.lua

happens quite easily when downloading source from github

[maiden phoenix]

"You nest get suplex"

[frosty dock]

eh, this mostly happens due to incorrect installs by users

for which I don't think this makes a lot of sense

fair

[rough furnace]

I would just if anything, show a warning somewhere if it does happen, to make troubleshooting easier

[wintry solar]

is ther ean easy way to print jokers in the current shop pool?

[maiden phoenix]

My game crashes when I use a modded consumable I made with loc_vars inside and then hover a "The Fool" card, any idea how I can fix this?

[wooden nexus]

What you all think? gonna change the blue to match the suit

[iron sphinx]

The color is too flat i think

[wooden nexus]

I could detail it more

[hushed estuary]

tryna do something, the fifth one wont show up

ok this is kinda better?

[iron sphinx]

Probably need to make them smaller

[hushed estuary]

I'VE DONE IT

[stiff locust]

not even a dollar for tiny blind

[hushed estuary]

now gotta figure out the tags and shrink them a bit

[stiff locust]

smh

[hushed estuary]

actually yeah the original intention was to shrink a blind with a consumeable but now a dollar is probably needed

This sure is a long stake I'm making...

[mellow crag]

ooh nice

[hushed estuary]

oh yeah

[hallow forge]

skip the ante

[mellow crag]

my favorite ante

or

[hushed estuary]

skips work perfectly now

just gotta sort out the select buttons text and frame color

[royal ether]

im bouta come back after a month and be super lost

[zealous glen]

How was your vacation?

[hushed estuary]

ok so

i just need to change "when a boss blind is defeated" to "when blind in boss position is defeated" in the function responsible for raising the ante

imma do some stake sticker sprites now

[zealous glen]

hmmm I wonder if this could be an API

[hushed estuary]

is this sarcastic or..?

i genuinely can't tell

[zealous glen]

I’m wondering if it can be an API

[zealous glen]

I can see reasons to not want the position of the Blind dictate when the Blind increases so maybe it could be a separate variable

[hushed estuary]

by the way when this comes out don't ask me why the second boss position is called ''preboss"

[zealous glen]

Why is the second boss position called preboss?

[random sleet]

why is the first boss position called boss

[hushed estuary]

well i guess you followed the instruction, this hasn't come out yet

now i have to answer

at first i thought it was easier to make a thing between boss and big blind, then i moved it after boss and at that point i used the variable enough that it wasn't worth changing

[zealous glen]

Find and replace is your friend

Text editors for coding might have a refactor that’s similar to find and replace

[hushed estuary]

Alright yeah I probably should make it something like “boss2”

[royal ridge]

thanks mr. balatro! i love you

<@&1133519078540185692> i think

[livid scroll]

🔫

[grand violet]

Thanks cool

got to it before I could

[worldly sapphire]

👻

Boo

[zealous glen]

Make a mod to learn how to mod

hmmm

[wintry solar]

oh god finally some progress

porting the work I'd done on edition api to 1.0 but badges and tooltips are being a nightmare 🎉🎉

[frosty dock]

imo it's been much worse on 0.9.x

[wintry solar]

maybe I just don't understand how to call them

[zealous glen]

I should send you Negative Cards API

[wintry solar]

is it on 1.0?

[zealous glen]

But I forgot

Also lack of time during the evenings

[wintry solar]

I get double tooltips for default editions so it's just the way I'm putting data into the tables I think

[zealous glen]

I had some issues with them until I realized I needed to add the folder to lovely otherwise it wouldn’t inject

[zealous glen]

No but 99% is through injections and I think the remaining 1% is moving code outside of the INIT function

The INIT function might be empty since all I’m doing in the main file is adding a localization entry for the tooltip actually

In which case I reckon it should be inserted into some function (loc_def?) to work with 1.0

[wintry solar]

well at least this is different

it's just an error now rather than a ui error!

[regal shoal]

There is a loc_txt variable in Rank Game obj. How do you use it ?

You can't put a description text in it ?

[frosty dock]

there's no description text for ranks

it's just a string

(or a table of strings indexed by locale)

[regal shoal]

Thx

[hushed estuary]

I see there’s talk about tooltips

how do I even make them work

(on SM 1.0)

[zealous glen]

I think it depends

[frosty dock]

for centers, you can use a loc_vars function you can use, anything added to info_queue will be processed as a tooltip

[wintry solar]

what exactly needs passing to info_queue?

[frosty dock]

check generate_card_ui

can be a set and a key, or just a center object

[native osprey]

im not familiar with the balatro modding community, question I have are there a lot of artists who do joker art? and do they do it for free or for a price

[zealous glen]

I’ve mostly seen people make their own art or collaborate with each other

[native osprey]

thanks for the information

[robust coral]

any good resources to learn the basics of creating a joker mod?

[maiden phoenix]

https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/wiki

[robust coral]

i'm currently just looking at the source of another mod and using what i can see to make a very basic mod

[zealous glen]

That’s the way

See also the Polydactyly Joker in #1209506514763522108

Also I have a single Joker mod lying around that people have used as reference before

[void spear]

Hi!
I would like to add a draggable object/sprite -a card (69x93)- for a mod, can someone explain me how to do it?
I want the same effect as the Blind icon that you can drag and that comes back to its original position when you unclick it.
I know the function is somewhere in the moveable.lua file, but not sure which function exactly and how to apply it for my sprite.

[zealous glen]

Do you want that behaviour to apply to an existing playable card/Joker/consumable/etc. or do you want a new type that behaves that way

[void spear]

thanks for the response. I want it for a new sprite (so "new type" just composed of one picture)

[zealous glen]

I mean, I think if that new type had its own CardArea it would behave like that by default

I don’t know if Blinds and Tags are stored in something that isn’t a CardArea, but I don’t see why it couldn’t be a Card variant

Unless you want to animate it, I guess

But only because there’s quirks to work out with animated Cards

Although maybe if nothing else interacted with it it could work? I’m not sure what’s the issue with animated Cards since I haven’t dabbled into them myself

[void spear]

No, no animation, just be able to click on it, and drag it around, and when I unclick it it goes back to its initial position

I will take a look in the code about the CardArea, thanks

[zealous glen]

Maybe @mellow crag can help with creating new CardAreas

[mellow crag]

Someone messaged me?

[zealous glen]

Look up

[void spear]

Hi itayfeder, I'm just fooling around with the code for a mod, and I wanted to be able to drag an object (sprite) the same way it's possible to drag the blinds, and it goes back to the initial position when I unclick it. No other interaction.

So I was asking it there is a function I can call for that (and if yes, with which parameters), or if I need to create a new function for that

And Victin was telling me to look the the CardArea (function CardArea:init I guess?)

[wintry solar]

@zealous glen are you home and able to send your negative playing card code my way?

[zealous glen]

Not home

[wintry solar]

no worries

[zealous glen]

I’ll possibly just go to sleep when I get there

[frosty dock]

i may have done a thing

[zealous glen]

How many Blinds until you can’t see them

[frosty dock]

it should just keep shrinking

let me try

[zealous glen]

Exactly

How long until they’re smaller than a single pixel

[frosty dock]

that's 631

[mellow sable]

The .

[frosty dock]

i should make it have more rows

[mellow sable]

All .s are debuffed

[frosty dock]

thunk..

[worldly sapphire]

i can't make soul_pos work idk why

{
        name = "Energy Fuse",
        slug = "fuse",
        config = {},
        rarity = 2,
        soul_pos = {x=0, y=1},
        cost = 5,
        set = "Joker",
        blueprint_compat = false,
        eternal_compat = true,
        loc_txt = {
            name = "Energy Fuse",
            text = {
                "After 5 {C:attention}Four of Kind's{} played",
                "destroy itself and create a",
                "{C:attention}Energy Core",
                "{C:inactive}--------------------------",
                "{C:green}(0/5 - Four of a Kind's played.)",
            }
        },
    },```

the code

the image

[zealous glen]

try passing the atlas

see the wiki

[worldly sapphire]

like

i'm using only one image

does this still work?

[rancid imp]

base game uses a single texture file for all the jokers and souls, so yes.

you just have to treat it as a spritesheet, not a single image

[worldly sapphire]

i tried using a atlas

but idk how it works

[zealous glen]

@solar vale I explained it to someone else recently, but the issue is that the game can store individual variables for Jokers and instructions for what the Jokers do… but there's no way to look at the variables and know what they do.

[worldly sapphire]

i read the wiki

[zealous glen]

so you learned how it works?

[worldly sapphire]

i still didn't got the point

[zealous glen]

What don't you understand?

[worldly sapphire]

the custom atlas part.

idk what i need to put there

because my mod loads jokers sprites via slug

[zealous glen]

An atlas is an image file which can contain multiple sprites (or frames) in it

Which tends to save memory

Compared to having individual .pngs for everything

[worldly sapphire]

so do i just put the image name there?

its like this rn

[random sleet]

are you on 1.0?

[mellow crag]

what have you done...?

[random sleet]

what i wanna know is when is this coming to deck overview lol

[hushed estuary]

(placeholder stats)

yeah

trying to

[rancid imp]

I reccomend the phrase Stoned {x} where {x} is whatever it would normally be called. So Stoned Five, Stoned House etc

[random sleet]

feder's already got Ore Of A Kind

[frosty dock]

I'm not going to recommend an in-development version that is still receiving breaking changes to everyone

there is no released 1.0.0 version

and I recommend 1.0 ports of mods should release when there's at least a beta release

what already has documentation will probably stay as is, but having at least some modders test the APIs is something I appreciate

[crisp coral]

fuck it we ball

[frosty dock]

I can't do all the testing myself or we'd be here forever

[frosty dock]

btw I made breaking changes to blinds

I thought you'd care

[crisp coral]

oh no

[frosty dock]

same deal of passing self as the first argument everywhere

[random sleet]

aure should i start a new mod for 1.0

[frosty dock]

sure

[random sleet]

oh ok

will tags/blinds/other noncenters have mod badges

[long ruin]

i dont know how to change the 1.0 to 0.9.8 or vice versa

okay thanks !

[hushed estuary]

hehe😈

i'm having way too musch fun with this

[frosty dock]

shouldn't be too bad for tags, iunno about blinds or stuff like suits and ranks, but I can try to make those work

[random sleet]

suits/ranks i could understand, but at least having blinds have mod badges in collection would be a good compromise for them not having a standard uibox

[frosty dock]

suits/ranks aren't too bad to implement, I'm just a little worried about cluttering the UIBox with badges from suits/ranks, enhancements, editions and seals of you know what I mean

[random sleet]

yeah itll be a mess especially since then youd need to likw clarify which mod is which part of the card?

[zealous glen]

What about making Blind n be scaled by 2^(-n)

[worldly sapphire]

0.9.8

[random sleet]

are you actually setting soul_pos in your constructor

[worldly sapphire]

Its in the local jokers branch

In the right joker

[zealous glen]

Do you register the sprite?

[worldly sapphire]

Yes

[worldly sapphire]

But i use that code you handed me to use

[zealous glen]

Compare with this

Check Polydactyly and

idk then

[worldly sapphire]

I will take a look at that when i'm back home

[zealous glen]

@fast badge […] Four Leaf Clubber

it's missing the assets but it works in 0.9.8

By the way there's some unnecessary stuff there

[worldly sapphire]

I'm using this code

[zealous glen]

You don't need the name check

[random sleet]

you arent actually setting the soul_pos in the SMODS.Joker:new call

[zealous glen]

SublimeText but vsc works too

I just had Sublime on my laptop

[worldly sapphire]

:/

Oops

As i said, i can't mess with this right now bc i will not be home

So, later today i will take a look

[regal shoal]

This works amazing but then get overwrite by something when SMODS init. Does someone knows how localization works in 1.0.0 ?

local loc_additions = NFS.load(SMODS.current_mod.path .. 'localization/' .. 'en-us' .. '.lua')()

local function update_language(old, new)
    for k,v in pairs(new) do
        if type(v) == "table" then
            if type(old[k] or false) == "table" then
                update_language(old[k] or {}, new[k] or {})
            else
                old[k] = v
            end
        else
            old[k] = v
        end
    end
    return old
end

G.localization = update_language(G.localization, loc_additions)

init_localization()

By creating a challenge where you start with it

[random sleet]

you need a process_loc_text function

[regal shoal]

SMODS.Challenge {
  key = "key",
  loc_txt = {
    name = "name",
    text = {
      "text"
    }
  },
  jokers = {
    "j_joker"
  }
}

Something like that

[regal shoal]

Even for playing cards ?

[random sleet]

SMODS.current_mod.process_loc_text can handle any general loc entries you need to make

[regal shoal]

Amazing

❤️ thx

btw, a while ago I've made an Autumn Joker. You might just have the copyright of it

[zealous glen]

Not Debug mode?

[zealous glen]

Pretty

AFAIK Debug mode just sets a single variable to true

so you can do it yourself manually

@mellow sable DebugMode port when

I think it's tab

Did you hold it?

[royal ridge]

are blind chips 22 frames or 21 frames?
there are 22 frames in source images, but mystblinds uses 21

[zealous glen]

You can check the game assets

[royal ridge]

nvm i'm stupid

it's 21

[royal ridge]

yeah i did... i miscounted

😭

[zealous glen]

Balatro players versus basic arithmetic

[frosty dock]

it's in the docs

self, card, dt

https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/wiki

..

https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/wiki/05.-SMODS.Center#api-methods

you're missing the self argument

it's not passed implicitly when defining functions this way

hm

make sure you're not using the card in one place and self, i.e. the center in another

aight

[mellow sable]

Why did I use SMODS.INIT 😭

[crisp coral]

debugmode port: literally remove the init function

😭

[mellow sable]

Meth already wrote a lovely patch that would still work

[crisp coral]

it's funnier this way

[mellow sable]

The funny method is to make it more complex

Write an if statement that checks if you’re running in 1.0, and if false it’ll run the code in an INIT function, otherwise it’ll set _RELEASE_MODE instantly

[crisp coral]

here's a version that specifically does not run in 1.0.0

AngelaGremlin

[frosty dock]

yeah

just go to the mods menu and disable + re-enable anything

as long as that mod doesn't use lovely, it'll quick reload mods as soon as you exit the mods menu

uh right

it also does that if you have it at top level in your Mods dir

I'll probably deprecate that completely though, given it also doesn't behave correctly with disabling mods

disable one, and it'll disable all mods with lone files at top level

yeah

it's a flaw with my implementation tbf

it could be resolved by using a settings file, maybe I'll change to that when I add more options for mod settings

possible

there's a bug with that where the name doesn't get changed, I totally forgot 💀

[hexed coyote]

Are there any tips for finding things within the Balatro source? I'm trying to find the 'quick restart' code (i.e. the thing that happens when you hold R)

[zealous glen]

What text editor do you use

[mellow sable]

search across files is goated

[hexed coyote]

That would probably be a good idea, I was just looking through the files in 7zip lol

[zealous glen]

But yes VSC, SublimeText, Notepad++, etc. probably make it easier

[frosty dock]

what do you have so far?

if you use generate_ui, you need to do the localize call yourself

In this case I'd use loc_vars and return { main_end = ... }

[regal shoal]

Is this wrong ?

--- main.lua
SMODS.process_loc_text(G.localization.descriptions.Other, "joker_deck_jokers_Joker", {
    text = {
        "{C:mult}+#1#{} Mult"
    }
})

--- generate_ui()
localize{type = 'other', key = 'joker_deck_jokers_Joker', nodes = desc_nodes, vars = {4}}

[frosty dock]

wrap the process_loc_text call in

function SMODS.current_mod.process_loc_text()

end

it needs to be repeated on each injection, else it will get overwritten

Also you can use loc_vars and return a key field instead of hijacking the localize call

[regal shoal]

Thanks ! I'll try that

@frosty dock It's working wonderfully ty

[frosty dock]

great, np

[hidden cargo]

when nativefs mod is installed, love.filesystem can't read my file, but when i remove it, it is fine, why would they do that ?

[regal shoal]

Progress !

[frosty dock]

of Jokers

[hidden cargo]

wow

[regal shoal]

Is there any way to remove the "of x" of a suit ?

[frosty dock]

you'd have to override the localize call, probably easiest with a lovely patch

sounds fun

[regal shoal]

Yeah ok, not the n°1 priority on the list

[worldly sapphire]

ok i'm back, how do make a soul_pos work in 0.9.8?

[zealous glen]

How do I make a Joker with different dimensions from a standard Joker?

I mean, I can see Wee Joker and Morefluff's CSS

I'm just trying to wrap my head around it

so if my Joker has width my_width, if I multiply the base width by my_width / 71 it should work?

[worldly sapphire]

also, i have a question, is it possible to draw shaders in names and descriptions....?

[zealous glen]

But there's also some scale manipulation

There's no default way to verify a Joker is in the collection AFAIK, but I made my own

is_in_your_collection = function(card)
    if not G.your_collection then return false end
    for i = 1, 3 do
        if (G.your_collection[i] and card.area == G.your_collection[i]) then return true end
    end
    return false
end

I'm not sure that works while in-game

I mean during a run

Interesting

Because G.jokers should exist during a run

so it should never be nil

Actually

I'm not even sure if a == nil is correct Lua syntax

Because sometimes it throws an error when you try to compare with nil

by the way

if it's only for tooltip reasons

you can check it when generating the tooltip

which is why I created this function in the first place

I'm hooking Card.generate_UIBox_ability_table

and inside I do

I mean, you do

you're generating a tooltip

That's generate_UIBox_ability_table

Yeah but the game calls that function

huh???

That seems wrong

That seems like it could cause breaking changes

I think if you call my function inside your loc_vars it should work

huh

@frosty dock I'm curious why

[worldly sapphire]

i'm trying to make this soul_pos work for a long time now

{
        name = "Energy Fuse",
        slug = "fuse",
        config = {},
        rarity = 2,
        cost = 5,
        set = "Joker",
        atlas = "j_fuse",
        soul_pos = {x=0, y=1},
        blueprint_compat = false,
        eternal_compat = true,
        loc_txt = {
            name = "Energy Fuse",
            text = {
                "After 5 {C:attention}Four of Kind's{} played",
                "destroy itself and create a",
                "{C:attention}Energy Core",
                "{C:inactive}--------------------------",
                "{C:green}(0/5 - Four of a Kind's played.)",
            }
        },
    },```

And idk if its because of this:

```Lua
for _, v in ipairs(jokers) do
        SMODS.Joker:new(v.name, v.slug, v.config, { x = 0, y = 0 }, v.loc_txt, v.rarity, v.cost, true, true, v.blueprint_compat, v.eternal_compat, "", "j_" .. v.slug):register()
        SMODS.Sprite:new('j_' .. v.slug, SMODS.findModByID("RookieJokers").path, "j_" .. v.slug .. ".png", 71, 95, "asset_atli"):register()
    end```

i tried setting an atlas

but it doesn't work

[zealous glen]

You don't

You just need to update it when it's hovered on

[zealous glen]

here

This is a test I had made to see how Soul Sprites worked a while ago

I'm also trying to make Soul Sprites work ATM

but w i d e

[worldly sapphire]

W I D E ?

H M M M M

[zealous glen]

I managed to make the card wide but not the Soul Sprite wide

I want a normal sized card, though off center

I have a file to store some utility functions which I require

huh

Misc is just an array that contains the function

[frosty dock]

I wasn't saying not to use generate_UIBox_ability_table, but to use loc_vars instead of generate_ui

[zealous glen]

the file misc_functions.lua returns an array

[frosty dock]

generate_ui is called from generate_card_ui, which calls loc_vars in its default implementation

they tried to override that default implementation, but didn't call localize, which is part of what that function is expected to do if it exists

[frosty dock]

nope, you can check against nil just fine

[zealous glen]

I know you can't compare order

[frosty dock]

a < nil or b > nil will cause issues

a == nil doesn't care about order

So it's fine

[zealous glen]

hmmm

[zealous glen]

do you know about changing (soul sprite) sizes

[frosty dock]

haven't tried that before, actually

[worldly sapphire]

i think its wrong:

SMODS.Joker:new("Energy Fuse", 'fuse',{}, {x=0,y=0},{name = "Energy Fuse",text = {
        "After 5 {C:attention}Four of Kind's{} played",
        "destroy itself and create a",
        "{C:attention}Energy Core",
        "{C:inactive}--------------------------",
        "{C:green}(0/5 - Four of a Kind's played.)",
        }
        },1,5,true,true,false,false,"","joker_atlas",{x=0,y=1}):register()
        SMODS.Sprite:new('j_fuse',SMODS.findModByID("RookieJokers").path, "fuse.png",71,95, "asset_atli"):register()```

and probably because it is inside the same file where this guy is?

for _, v in ipairs(jokers) do
        SMODS.Joker:new(v.name, v.slug, v.config, { x = 0, y = 0 }, v.loc_txt, v.rarity, v.cost, true, true, v.blueprint_compat, v.eternal_compat, "", "j_" .. v.slug):register()
        SMODS.Sprite:new('j_' .. v.slug, SMODS.findModByID("RookieJokers").path, "j_" .. v.slug .. ".png", 71, 95, "asset_atli"):register()
    end```

[zealous glen]

@worldly sapphire

[worldly sapphire]

i saw this image

i did write everything

[zealous glen]

Is Energy Fuse inside jokers

[worldly sapphire]

now it works

i just deleted the joker from local jokers

and he works now

[zealous glen]

you were trying to register the same Joker twice

[worldly sapphire]

yea

can i register him inside local jokers?

because he feels out of place now

[zealous glen]

Yes but you need to change how you do it so it does it correctly

[worldly sapphire]

is there an example of this?

or i just use the same format?

[zealous glen]

change what needs to be changed to make it work

I think I see why Jokers copies have the wrong back

well, I don't see it, but I have a suspect

[fair inlet]

i assume it’s the same bug like what duped cards used to have

it’s just that the jokers were never flipped over in the demo

[zealous glen]

idk what I'm seeing or why you're asking

idk

[frosty dock]

looks alright, what's failing?

nah it should work

what build is this?

hm iunno

try checking the logs

[zealous glen]

Finally! WIP artwork, which I traced from the Collared MV. Well, I think the soul sprite is finished (?) but the Joker itself needs work

[frosty dock]

negate texture pack is working last I checked

nah

just can't be top level

[nocturne garnet]

cant have anything in detroit 😭

[zealous glen]

maybe they use a different atlas which you need to set

[frosty dock]

there's G.shared_seals which is initialized on load

just reassigning to shared_seals in the inject function of your sprite should do

[zealous glen]

Does anyone know what controls the depth of cards?

[frosty dock]

the issue there is that these objects don't hold an atlas name, but the atlas table

[zealous glen]

Some of it is just the scale, but when I select the card it's then draw on top of other cards

[fair inlet]

oh i remember someone else reskinning the seals with different icons

forgot which mod

[zealous glen]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_(computing)

no

I mean maybe but it's not the right way to do it

you should be able to just change the atlas Seals use before they're initialized

[frosty dock]

events mostly serve the purpose of timing things like scoring calculations to the game speed and accel

these sprites get initialized before load, so just doing a postfix patch to the atlas inject function has you set here

barely anything happens between mods loading and the splash screen

[zealous glen]

I think you could even just sprite:reset(), maybe

when are you resetting

[frosty dock]

inject = function(self)
  SMODS.Atlas.inject(self)
  your_code_here()
end

[zealous glen]

Congrats!

[zealous glen]

@fast badge

[frosty dock]

yeah it has to be on the same atlas

[zealous glen]

make an atlas with both

single atlas for all jokers

like the base game

but really if you want to do something like that find out how to pass the atlas when choosing the Joker

[frosty dock]

no

one png = one atlas

put things in the same png

simple

put one next to the other

like the literal atlases the game uses

[mellow sable]

Copy the game’s atlas and add your joker

It won’t work with modded jokers but it should work with any vanilla jokers

(or just add soul_atlas compatibility in 1.0 )

It’s hardcoded I think

[frosty dock]

yeah it's hardcoded for soul for some reason

i don't wanna add soul_atlas compat because it encourages individual files

[mellow sable]

That made it so fun to add it to Gateway 😅

So that not everyone’s mod directories look like this

Inefficient for the game I think

It’s good practice to not do that (even though I do that)

I don’t see why it needs to be barred for that reason

If it limits what mod devs can do (even in just edge cases like this)

Yep (without the overwriting part)

You can use your own atlas and it’ll map to the same sprite

[frosty dock]

it's just how it's handled by the game

no...

it can just be in the same file...

i don't mind adding a soul_atlas, but I don't see how it helps

[worldly sapphire]

Warning: E

🇪

[zealous glen]

you can just hook or inject some code that pulls from the correct atlas

[mellow sable]

m

[worldly sapphire]

i'm trying to create a joker that makes all the cards played a random enhancement

and...

[zealous glen]

injection with lovely

though maybe set_ability is all you need

set_ability

It's executed when the card is created

So you can change the artwork at the right time (once)

Just do the same thing but in calculate_joker

You do it once when it's created and then once each round

you'd probably want to change the registered atlas in the list the game keeps as well as its position

then call reset

[zealous glen]

hmmm, maybe you can instead override the atlas directly instead of changing it in the list

[worldly sapphire]

guys how do i make this affect all cards in a played pair?

SMODS.Jokers.j_energycore.calculate = function(self, context)
        if context.cardarea == G.jokers then
            if context.before and not context.blueprint then
                if context.scoring_hand then
                    context.scoring_hand[1]:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.m_wild, nil, true)
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        func = function()
                            context.scoring_hand[1]:juice_up()
                            return true
                        end
                    }))
                    return {
                        message = localize('k_wild'),
                        colour = G.C.BLUE,
                        card = self
                    }
                end
            end
        end
    end

[carmine yacht]

i'm trying to add some new boss blinds and the tooltip on the top left is not appearing at all, nor is the background changing color to reflect boss_colour. the sprite appears in the blind select and collection menus just fine. im really confused since this suddenly stopped working for reasons im unsure about. (using 1.0.0 alpha)

the blind itself is here:

SMODS.Blind {
    key = 'the_radical',
    loc_txt =      {
        name = 'The Radical',
        text = { 'All enhanced cards',  'are debuffed' }
    },
    discovered = true,
    boss = { min = 1, max = 10 },
    boss_colour = HEX("54a74b"),
    atlas = "mathblinds",
    pos = { x = 0, y = 3},
    debuff_card = function(self, card, from_blind)
        if self.debuff and not self.disabled and card.area ~= G.jokers then
            if card.config.center ~= G.P_CENTERS.c_base then
                card:set_debuff(true)
                return true
            end
            return false
        end
    end
}

[fair inlet]

maybe try reloading your game

[carmine yacht]

no dice unfortunately

[fair inlet]

damn weird

[quiet hamlet]

How realistic is it that I'd be able to make jokers on my own if I don't know how to code/script? I've got artwork done for 4 jokers but now comes the difficult part haha

[slow ocean]

you can always look at others people mods

you never know until you try

it very much is

[quiet hamlet]

Yep I've been doing that for the past hour or so and am still a bit lost unfortunately. Like I can track some of the ideas, but I'd have no idea how to implement something like "earn $7 if hand contains three 7s" since most of the custom jokers do wild stuff or very simple stuff

[slow ocean]

you can take a look at my mod's github, jankjonklers, a lot of the effects for the jokers tend to be on the simpler side

mika's is another good mod to look at

[quiet hamlet]

Thanks I'll check out the lua dings!

[slow ocean]

🫡

[quiet hamlet]

I will likely be back here with questions at some point lol

[slow ocean]

it's not helpful to dissuade people from trying to learn regardless

[quiet hamlet]

It's kinda fun to learn, if someone is willing to help I'm down of course but it's a fun-ish activity (at least at this point haha)

[slow ocean]

🙄

if you have any questions folks here are generally willing to help you as long as you explain your issue and how you got there

[edgy reef]

I exist too

[slow ocean]

ive seen many of complete lua newbies get tracked into making a mod

[quiet hamlet]

Vice-versa, I like art so if someone is looking for trade-sies I can help out!

I mean, when I say "I don't know" I mean I'm not fluent in any languages, I understand some basic coding concepts and have made platformers in unity and gscript before, so uneducated but sorta can parse some things out

[slow ocean]

once you figure out how stuff is formatted, a lot of it is just stringing stuff together from the game's base code

so, while there isn't documentation or good reference, localthunk's code is pretty intuitive to read (still spaghetti code) and you can get a good chunk of the way there simply from looking at how something else in the game does something similar

[quiet hamlet]

FYI Lyman I am absolutely ripping your code line for line all over at this point for testing purposes, I assume that's okay with open source stuff but also don't know the protocol so just letting you know

[slow ocean]

thats how i started my modding journey

its the cycle

[wild gyro]

i may or may not do some modding when steamodded full 1.0 and documentation drops

its more likely a may not but the thought that counts

[quiet hamlet]

Is there a way for me to force a card to show up? I have succesfully launched the game without breaking it and have my joker in!

I'd like to see if I managed to get the effect correct

[slow ocean]

you can use debug mode

[quiet hamlet]

oh ho ho, how do I enable that?

I'm already testing fortunately, just set it to be common and did some rerolling. It's crashing everytime I play a heart and I can use the error code to make fixes

also fortunately I can just reload to the moment before it crashed, so I always have the joker and a heart in my hand

Okay, I'm getting the following error: 83: bad argument #1 to 'insert' [table expected, got nil]

-- Heartless
    if config.j_heartless then
        local heartless = {
            loc = {
                name = "Heartless",
                text = {
                    "Destroys each {C:attention}heart card{} scored"
                }
            },
            ability_name = "Heartless",
            slug = "heartless",
            ability = {
                trash_list = {}
                },
            
            rarity = 1,
            cost = 8,
            unlocked = true,
            discovered = true,
            blueprint_compat = false,
            eternal_compat = true
        }
        -- Initialize Joker
        init_joker(heartless)
        -- Calculate
        SMODS.Jokers.j_heartless.calculate = function(self, context)
            if context.before and context.cardarea == G.jokers and not context.blueprint then
                for k, v in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) do
                    if not (v:is_suit(diamonds) or v:is_suit(clubs) or v:is_suit(spades)) then
                        table.insert(self.ability.trash_list, v)
                        local card_to_destroy = v
                        card_to_destroy.getting_sliced = true
                        card_to_destroy:start_dissolve()
                    end
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

[azure wraith]

posting this here to see if i can get another pair of eyes on it because i'm really not sure why these mods aren't working
i'm trying to play with cryptid and it's not loading the mod files correctly for some reason
file structure has been confirmed to be correct by others already, and i also have a 0.9.8 steammodded setup that works correctly and the newest version of lovely (i am using 1.0.0 for cryptid though, i swapped out the mod folder)

[hushed estuary]

how should i add loc_txt to a seal?

this is what the seal tooltip looks like rn

i found "description" and "label" in steamodded's code but it doesnt seem to work

[slow ocean]

sorry late but

theres a mod that enables it, and when you have it enabled, you can just hover over any joker in the collection and press 3

[stray warren]

Is this how to create a modded joker card? I see riff-raff accesses G.jokers so I thought maybe SMODS.Jokers was similar.

And by create I mean spawn it in the cardarea for jokers

Here is the rest in the block:

if self.sell_cost <= 50 then
    local card = create_card('Joker', SMODS.Jokers, nil, 2, nil, nil, nil, nil)

    card:add_to_deck()
    G.jokers:emplace(card)
end

[frosty dock]

you're on the wrong track there, G.jokers is just the card area for jokers

to that argument is the area to place the card into

[stray warren]

Oh, that makes sense. How would I tell it to create a specific modded joker by its name or slug?

[frosty dock]

I think there's another argument to create_card that lets you specify a key

[stray warren]

Ok, I see those spots under Riff-raff with the key_append: 'rif', but where does it get that key from?

I guess my question is, if I were to create my own key, where would I go to create it so that I can specify it in this function call?

[frosty dock]

you want forced_key

key_append is an RNG thing

[stray warren]

Ok, so is forced_key just the slug of my joker? So since my slug is rooster_joker would it be j_rooster_joker or the former? Or something else lol

[frosty dock]

yep, it would be j_rooster_joker

[stray warren]

Alright, let me give that a spin

Sweet, it works, thanks!

I'm still new to this, and wrapping my head around the codebase is tough 😆 So I appreciate it a lot

[long ruin]

Okay so I read all the things and I have questions, what version do you use (smod 0.9.8 or the 1.0) and how did you do this (if you can give me the whole code it will surely help me a lot )

[stray warren]

Me? I am on 0.9.8. Here's the calculate_joker function that I modified:

local calculate_joker_ref = Card.calculate_joker
function Card:calculate_joker(context)
    local ret = calculate_joker_ref(self, context)

    if self.ability.set == "Joker" and not self.debuff then
        -- If selling "Egg", checks if its sell_value is 50 or higher
        -- If it is, creates Rooster Joker
        if context.selling_self then
            if self.ability.name == "Egg" then
                if self.sell_cost >= 50 then
                    local card = create_card('Joker', G.joker, nil, 0, nil, nil, 'j_rooster_joker', nil)

                    card:add_to_deck()
                    G.jokers:emplace(card)
                end
            end
        end
    end

    return ret
end

I mostly studied the source code and tried to replicate the way it worked with certain mechanics

[zealous glen]

There’s one or two tutorials in #1209506514763522108 and I have a simple one-Joker mod laying around some people have used as reference

[zealous glen]

Strictly speaking you should only need the context and maybe the not self.debuff, though I’m assuming Steamodded makes owned vanilla Jokers work with modded Joker logic

[stray warren]

I'm not too sure about any of that tbh. Basically just going off what I see in other people's mods and the source code

[zealous glen]

Ah I see you didn’t take ownership of Egg

So nevermind

[long ruin]

@zealous glen how did you did your soul joker ?

[long ruin]

This one

[zealous glen]

The Steamodded wiki lists the argument you need to pass

when creating the Joker

You just need both textures to be in the same atlas

[long ruin]

Are you master yoda ?

[frosty dock]

.. what

a perfectly grammatical sentence, that is

[zealous glen]

Attacked by seagulls I was not

[long ruin]

list steamodded the pass argument, to you need ?

?

[frosty dock]

modded argument you need steam list, the pass to ?

[long ruin]

to pass the argument you need to steam the modded list ?

💀 🏯 💀
🫸 ⛩️ 🫷

(what is love.toml btw)

[frosty dock]

love.toml doesn't exist

there's lovely.toml, which contains information for patches

i.e. changing or inserting code to the game source

[long ruin]

he said love doesnt exist 😭

yeah it was lovely.toml

[mellow sable]

uh

maybe don't retrieve the sprite every frame if you're doing that?

[random sleet]

me when i make a new Sprite object every frame

[frosty dock]

ofc it's possible by just using a hook

there's no api method for it as of yet

that, I'd have to implement

until I do that, you can just modify Card.draw

[oblique gust]

checked out 1.0.0 a bit. im seeing tons of require('lovely')s but where is the lovely tho. is it referring to the version.dll or a specific lua file? im not getting any crash just out of curiosity

[frosty dock]

local card_draw_ref = Card.draw
function Card:draw(whatever)
  -- code to run before the function
  card_draw_ref(self, whatever)
  -- code to run after the function
end

[frosty dock]

the lovely module is exported from within lovely, that is version.dll

[oblique gust]

oh ok got it

[frosty dock]

omg

[austere schooner]

sorrty for the ping but do you still have that one-joker mod and can i use it as a base for my own thing

[zealous glen]

@austere schooner it’s missing the assets but you can just create whatever. The code is a bit redundant at a times since I was just starting out

[austere schooner]

👍

[zealous glen]

You don’t need to check the name of the Joker, etc.

[austere schooner]

thamk u

oh this is 0.9.8 code

[ancient finch]

Does anyone have a template to help mod in jokers?

[frosty dock]

what steamodded version?

[ancient finch]

0.9.8

[frosty dock]

https://canary.discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1227289111862448290

[ancient finch]

Thank you

[zealous glen]

@ancient finch

[ancient finch]

I'm using the template, this is super useful

Thank you

[zealous glen]

I still don’t think you should need to modify draw

I’d start with set_ability then copying that to calculate_joker to make it work every round

[oblique gust]

is there any doc available for localizing in game texts in 1.0.0?

like adding support for multiple languages

[frosty dock]

in place of any loc_txt object, you can put a table that's indexed by locale

loc_txt = {
  ['en-us'] = {
    name = '',
    text = {''},
  },
  ['fr'] = { ... },
  -- etc...
},

[wintry solar]

How are you drawing the floating sprite?

[zealous glen]

Again, just define set_ability for your Joker

Configure a soul sprite that’s just the Joker itself to start with

Then inside set_ability change the atlas and redraw it

You can also change the size and position (within the atlas)

Well, you probably want to change the scale transform rather than the scale

What part can’t you follow

[wintry solar]

I mean the actual image, are you grabbing it from the main atlas and resizing it?

[zealous glen]

For changing the atlas I recommend looking at Sprite:reset

Look at the Steamodded wiki

[wintry solar]

And where do you draw the shader?

[zealous glen]

Wherever you define calculate_joker, there you should be able to define set_ability

[wintry solar]

Is that before you resize the sprite?

[zealous glen]

When a card is created

As I said

When creating the Joker, add the variable that tells it to create a soul sprite

Then define set_ability to overwrite the soul sprite atlas and its size

You can refer to Sprite:reset as a reference

[zealous glen]

@fast badge

You don’t need to change the sprite every frame, just occasionally

[oblique gust]

so if it looks like

joker.localization = {
    name = "J",
    text = {
        "{X:mult,C:white} X3 {} Mult"
    }
}

i can do it that way too?

[zealous glen]

What do you want the Joker to do?

What am I telling you to do with set_ability?

[frosty dock]

as long as it's processed by a steamodded API, yes

[oblique gust]

got it thx

[zealous glen]

I’m telling you how to change the soul sprite when the Joker is created

[zealous glen]

@fast badge

What part of programming the Joker to be created with a soul sprite doesn’t make sense?

The Steamodded wiki should list the soul_pos parameter or whatever 1.0 uses to define soul sprites

Again

1. Program the Joker to be created with a soul sprite;
2. Overwrite the soul sprite texture when it’s loaded;
3. Overwrite the soul sprite texture whenever it’s calculated (as a function of context).

[wintry solar]

I think you’ll have to hook into draw regardless because you need to scale the sprite down right?

[zealous glen]

There’s a scale parameter

[frosty dock]

yeah i should add that

[zealous glen]

Remember why the game has two different sprite sizes but Jokers always have the same size

Again it should be on the wiki

It’s there

It’s clearer in the 0.9.8 wiki, but you can find it in 5. SMODS Center

Look at API methods

Or ctrl+F

[frosty dock]

nope

[zealous glen]

I have the wiki open Aure

[frosty dock]

soul_pos is literally not in there

[zealous glen]

I’m talking about set_ability

[frosty dock]

should be under optional params

ok nvm

[zealous glen]

It’s just an API function you can define

Like calculate_joker

Or I guess it’s just calculate now

Well, now you know how to use it, you just define what you actually want it to do

Again, look at Sprite:reset

Yes. Importantly, it shows you how to change the atlas

That’s where step 3 comes in

Whatever you do in step 2 you also do in step 3

If you want the Joker to appear in the shop while showing a sprite, you can add that in set_ability, otherwise just add a transparent texture for now

I suggest adding a copy of the Joker’s own texture so you can see something happening

After all, you’ll want to do this again anyways

Set its position so it’s redrawn

[ancient finch]

What does "atlas" mean?

[zealous glen]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_atlas?wprov=sfti1

Which Joker

I think you changed the base Joker instead of changing the soul sprite

What’s your code

Then why are you complaining it doesn’t work if you don’t know that

[oblique gust]

just tried the new loc feature. things are going nicely. but i'll still wish for a separate lang file (which modders can obviously choose to do so but most of em havent). gotta say, now translating a mod became 3x more exhausting but at least i dont have to overwrite the english texts and pray for no crash on startup

[zealous glen]

It’s written inside the sprite definition.

Pretty much

You can also change the size of the sprite

I mean that’s because you set the atlas wrong

There's probably better ways to do this but this is just the proof of concept

floating_sprite is vanilla code

oh you probably didn't define a soul sprite

to create the sprite

oh wait I misread

in 0.9.8 you just pass it a soul_pos

[hidden cargo]

what UI library is balatro using, is there any documentation or tutorial on it

[zealous glen]

Aure said it was in optional params

[zealous glen]

actually no they said this

[ancient finch]

Whenever I try and run this code I get "tried to index a nil value", and I have no idea what's causing it. I'm using the blank template, and this is the bit of code it doesn't like, specifically the line I marked

function SMODS.INIT.BlankJokerTemplate()
   --localization for the info queue key  
   G.localization.descriptions.Other["your_key"] = {
       name = "Example", --tooltip name
       text = {
           "TEXT L1",--tooltip text.        
           "TEXT L2",--you can add as many lines as you want
           "TEXT L3" --more than 5 lines look odd
       }
   }
   init_localization()

   --Create and register jokers
   for k, v in pairs(jokers) do --for every object in 'jokers'
       local joker = SMODS.Joker:new(v.name, k, v.config, v.pos, { name = v.name, text = v.text }, v.rarity, v.cost, v.unlocked, v.discovered, v.blueprint_compat, v.eternal_compat, v.atlas)
       joker:register()
       
       if not v.atlas then --if atlas=nil then use single sprites. In this case you have to save your sprite as slug.png (for example j_examplejoker.png)
           SMODS.Sprite:new("j_"..k, SMODS.findModByID("boltExtension-main").path, "j_"..k..".png", 71, 95, "asset_atli"):register()       [THIS LINE HAS ISSUES]
       end

       --add jokers calculate function:
       SMODS.Jokers[joker.slug].calculate=v.calculate
       --add jokers loc_def:
       SMODS.Jokers[joker.slug].loc_def=v.loc_def
       --if tooltip is present, add jokers tooltip
       if(v.tooltip ~= nil) then
           SMODS.Jokers[joker.slug].tooltip=v.tooltip
       end
   end
   --Create sprite atlas
   SMODS.Sprite:new("youratlasname", SMODS.findModByID("boltExtension-main").path, "example.png", 71, 95, "asset_atli"):register()
end

[frosty dock]

🏓

[zealous glen]

But I think you if you manually define a soul_pos at the right time, the game should do the work for you

[ancient finch]

It's part of a bigger file, but not by much. It has one joker in it

[frosty dock]

is boltExtension-main the exact mod ID you have in your header?

[ancient finch]

Ah, no it isn't

[zealous glen]

first, try writing ```lua
YOUR CODE HERE
``` on Discord

[zealous glen]

?

[frosty dock]

you didn't have to ping me for that

[zealous glen]

my bad

[frosty dock]

yeah soul_pos is valid, I just forgot to add it to docs

[zealous glen]

the game should handle it, not SMODS afaik

how did you do it

[frosty dock]

pro tip, "doesn't work" is never specific enough

[zealous glen]

where

[frosty dock]

you don't even have your own atlas though?

[ancient finch]

How does the badge colour work?

What scale does it use?

[frosty dock]

like all that will do is take the upper leftmost sprite in the Joker atlas (Jimbo) and place it on top of itself

[zealous glen]

Hex

[frosty dock]

it's a hex code

[ancient finch]

I tried hex but it stayed black

[slow ocean]

Oh, I think I've had this issue even with 0.9.8

[frosty dock]

show

[zealous glen]

try no #

[slow ocean]

You need to make sure you're actually defining the soul_pos at some point

[zealous glen]

That's how Balatrostuck does it

[zealous glen]

what do you mean

[slow ocean]

sorry i just woke up ungrogging myself

[zealous glen]

Good morning Lyman

[slow ocean]

when i was trying to do soul_pos shenanigans back when soul_pos just got updated to work i had to tweak how i declared my jokers

now this is for 0.9.8, so im not sure how much of this is accurate but

this was my general function to initialize variables

[zealous glen]

For mine I haven't had any issues in 0.9.8

I just pass soul_pos and it works

[ancient finch]

I removed the # and tried FFFFFF and it was still black

[slow ocean]

local function init_joker(joker, no_sprite)
    no_sprite = no_sprite or false

    local joker = SMODS.Joker:new(
        joker.ability_name,
        joker.slug,
        joker.ability,
        { x = 0, y = 0 },
        joker.loc,
        joker.rarity,
        joker.cost,
        joker.unlocked,
        joker.discovered,
        joker.blueprint_compat,
        joker.eternal_compat,
        joker.effect,
        joker.atlas,
        joker.soul_pos // important part here
    )
    joker:register()
    if not no_sprite then
        local sprite = SMODS.Sprite:new(
            joker.slug,
            SMODS.findModByID("JankJonklersMod").path,
            joker.slug .. ".png",
            71,
            95,
            "asset_atli"
        )
        sprite:register()
    end
end```

[frosty dock]

make sure you have no trailing/leading spaces either

[cosmic kernel]

Hellooo ! Does anyone have a premium freepik account by any chance? I have some questions!

[frosty dock]

doesn't apply to 1.0, it literally takes a table

[ancient finch]

This is how its written

--- BADGE_COLOR: BBBBBB

[slow ocean]

oh i figured its different now, point was that i had to add in the field for soul_pos

[ancient finch]

This is what the guide says

[slow ocean]

so id imagine maybe trying doing the 1.0 table equivalent of that of making sure the soul_pos is mentioned? shrug

what version are you on?

[frosty dock]

I thought I'd made that work, maybe I screwed it up

try BADGE_COLOUR

[slow ocean]

oh lmao

[frosty dock]

if so that's on me, either is supposed to work

[slow ocean]

its because its color yeah

[zealous glen]

The Bri'ish attack again

[ancient finch]

Ohhh

I'm british, I went with the american spelling bc its more common 😭

[slow ocean]

consumables vs consumeables moment

[frosty dock]

maybe I just don't quite get lua patterns, idk

nope, color works fine on my end

[slow ocean]

[frosty dock]

with the exact line, too

[zealous glen]

Testing a background. I think unless I add stuff to the side it won't be very visible, so I shouldn't try too hard

[ancient finch]

What does this section of the template do?

--localization for the info queue key  
   G.localization.descriptions.Other["your_key"] = {
       name = "Example", --tooltip name
       text = {
           "TEXT L1",--tooltip text.        
           "TEXT L2",--you can add as many lines as you want
           "TEXT L3" --more than 5 lines look odd
       }
   }

[frosty dock]

defines the text for a tooltip

[ancient finch]

Where does the tooltip appear, I mean, sorry

[frosty dock]

when you hover over a joker/consumable/whatever thing you put it on

[ancient finch]

Oh, so its not a necessary thing?

[frosty dock]

no, completely optional

[ancient finch]

Ah cool

Thanks for all this help

I'm gonna keep cracking at this, try adding a more complicated joker

How do you make a joker that doesn't add flat chips/mult, and is triggered by scoring cards akin to fibonacci or the sin jokers?

[frosty dock]

use context.individual in the joker's calculate function

[ancient finch]

Is there documentation for this, so I don't need to keep badgering people?

[frosty dock]

for this in particular, no. docs are still incomplete

well it'd have been nice to have the complete definition then...

ok, what is that atlas then?

yeah, the blankjoker one

[ancient finch]

How does context.individual work?

[frosty dock]

it triggers for each scoring card, which you get passed as context.other_card

[ancient finch]

How do you check enhancements on scoring cards? Specifically wild. Would it be context.other_card.wild?

[frosty dock]

there's plenty examples for this in vanilla code

context.other_card.ability.name == 'Wild Card' something like this

[ancient finch]

Ah thanks

I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing

[ancient finch]

I'm having an issue with a custom joker. It's supposed to add 50 chips and 20 mult unconditionally, but config = {extra={chips=50, mult=20}} doesn't seem to work

[zealous glen]

That's because for the most part you need to code effects yourself

[ancient finch]

Ah right, no worries

[zealous glen]

The game does a small number of automatic effects, but anything inside extra isn't it AFAIK

[ancient finch]

Would this work then?

calculate = function(self,context)
  if then
    return {
      chip_mod = 50,
      mult_mod = 20,
    }
  end
end,

[fallen tendon]

You still need to do the effects for adding chips and mult

[ancient finch]

I looked at stuntman, which adds unconditional chips

[fallen tendon]

Like the cosmetic dffects

[ancient finch]

Oh wait really?

[fallen tendon]

Forget the exact lines that do it tho

[zealous glen]

Kinda

You need to use context to make it work at the right time

[ancient finch]

What's the context for end of hand scoring?

[frosty dock]

context.after

[zealous glen]

But I think you'll specifically want context.after and context.individual and cardarea == G.jokers

Not sure

[ancient finch]

context.after triggers once a hand scores, not once the cards finish scoring and the jokers start scoring

[zealous glen]

I mean, "end of hand" and "jokers scoring" are different moments ;P

[ancient finch]

True, sorry for the bad clarification

[zealous glen]

maybe not context.before and not context.after and context.individual and cardarea == G.jokers

[frosty dock]

no

context.joker_main

stop making things more complicated

[ancient finch]

Is it possible to make the joker trigger twice, once to add chips, and then once again to add the mult?

This is what I have so far

calculate = function(self,context)
if context.joker_main then
  return {
    message = localize{type='variable',key='a_chips',vars={50}},
    chip_mod = 50,
  },
  return {
    message = localize{type='variable',key='a_mult',vars={20}},
    mult_mod = 20,
  }
 end
end,

[frosty dock]

replace the first return with SMODS.eval_this

Also on latest main, calculate arguments are self, card, context where self is the center object and card is the Card

[ancient finch]

What does SMODS.eval_this do?

[ancient finch]

Does that mean I need to add an additional parameter to the function?

Also, "eval_this" just crashed the game

[frosty dock]

yeah

[ancient finch]

It was working fine without card, what does that do?

[frosty dock]

mb, needs to be SMODS.eval_this(card, { ... })

[ancient finch]

What do I replace the 3 dots with?

[frosty dock]

basically I had to change arguments for the sake of consistency

[ancient finch]

Ah right

[frosty dock]

just put the table from the first return in place of { ... }

I'm lazy, yk

[ancient finch]

Wait, so this?

[zealous glen]

Maybe I misunderstood what they wanted

[frosty dock]

Also works, but you can return the second time just fine

[ancient finch]

It scored when abstract, stuntman, RtB etc would score

[frosty dock]

it's just that you can only return once, so if you need multiple status texts, you can use that function

[ancient finch]

Crashed on custom new game with the joker

attempt to index local 'context' (a nil value)

Swapped card and context around in order so it reads (self,context,card)
Lasted longer, crashed as soon as hand was played; attempt to call field 'eval_this' (a nil value)

[sharp lotus]

is there a guide for how to set this up

like a mod development environment

[frosty dock]

send me that crash screen please

[ancient finch]

That's what fits on screen

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/wiki/01.-Getting-started

[sharp lotus]

thanks

[frosty dock]

oh wait you had me thinking you were on 1.0 by the way that function was declared

[ancient finch]

No, you said 1.0.0 wasn't out yet didn't you?

I must've misunderstood

No, I'm on 0.9.8

[frosty dock]

its not released, but it's accessible

plenty of people are porting their mods to 1.0.0 already, it's easy to get confused

I should've asked haha

self, context is correct for 0.9.8, and there is no SMODS.eval_this

[ancient finch]

Ah

So I can't have a joker trigger multiple times with different text?

[frosty dock]

this is the function as implemented in 1.0, you can just paste it into your mod and use that

or use card_eval_status_text directly, but that's a bit annoying to deal with

[ancient finch]

I'll try eval_this and see if it works

Does it just get whacked at the top of the file?

[frosty dock]

yeah, wherever in global scope will do

[ancient finch]

Cool

Crashed upon playing a hand

Does the function need to be defined as SMODS.eval_this?

[zealous glen]

It can be defines as eval_this if you don't try to call it as SMODS.eval_this

Though I wonder if one mod could overwrite another mod's functions when defined in the global scope like that

[frosty dock]

it could

[ancient finch]

yaaaay

[frosty dock]

in that case local function eval_this would be safer

[ancient finch]

Crashed on playing a hand, different crash tho

[frosty dock]

calculate arguments on 0.9.8 are self, context

technically card, context since self isn't a center but a Card

but there's no third argument

[zealous glen]

It doesn't affect me much since I'd prefer to define everything inside other files then require then, which by default should have them defined locally somewhere, but it does reinforce me wanting to make people create their own tables for their own mods

[ancient finch]

What do I do then?

I don't even know where its referencing card

[frosty dock]

just change any card you might have in your calculate code to self

[ancient finch]

Ok cheers

What about inside eval_this?

There's _card that appears a few times

[zealous glen]

but it's an argument

[ancient finch]

But I assume as a thing inside a function it doesn't matter

[zealous glen]

as an argument name it doesn't matter

[ancient finch]

IT HECKIN WORKS

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU

These are the 2 simplest jokers as part of my "TTRPG classes as jokers" list. Barbarian, Paladin, Rogue, Wizard, etc.

[frosty dock]

the file itself ig

[ancient finch]

Oh, bizarre thing. When I declare --- BADGE_COLOUR: XXXXXX, the shape of the badge is rectangular, not rounded on the ends like the rarity tags, or tags for other mods

[frosty dock]

I think that happens when your mod name is too long

[ancient finch]

Oh right lmao

"Bolt's Extension" would probably do that

[frosty dock]

you can make it display a shorter one there with --- DISPLAY_NAME:

I just wanna see what's in it

the file is just that one sprite?

ok i don't see what you're trying to achieve with soul_pos then, it would just be that sprite floating on top of itself

[zealous glen]

That was my idea

Then override the sprite

[mellow sable]

Quarter Joker

Actually this is 5/4 Joker

[wintry solar]

I don’t think you need to scale the height and width

Let me grab how I’m doing it in edition api

[stray warren]

How do y'all scale your 1x textures up to 2x without it getting blurry? Mine are always blurry

Oof

[wintry solar]

most image software can upscale without making it blurry

[frosty dock]

just use nearest neighbor scaling

just about any image software should support that

[stray warren]

I was using GIMP and it was blurry. What software do you recommend?

Neighbor scaling? I'll look into it

[wintry solar]

self.children.floating_sprite:draw_shader(v.shader, nil, nil, nil, self.children.center, scale_mod, rotate_mod) this at least draws the shader directly on the floating sprite, I'm not sure what applying the hologram shader would look like but making a custom one is possible

I use GIMP hold on

just replace v.shader with "hologram" iirc

[wintry solar]

make sure interpolation is none on scale image

[stray warren]

Oh, thank you! I'm sure that has been on this whole time

[wintry solar]

it defaults to cubic

or at least mine does

what do you need to hide it for?

[stray warren]

Also I'm just curious, why does it have 2 different texture sizes anyway?

[zealous glen]

I thinkit should have a default, but I'd either use a transparent sprite or just hide it in another way

[wintry solar]

yeah a transparent would work nicely

[zealous glen]

depending on what the game is doing, another way is changing a boolean variable or changing the size to 0

[wintry solar]

Have you tried the shader? Does it apply properly or is it still too big like earlier?

hmmm I wonder if you need to define the things it's being passed

I know for a fact that what I have works

I mean it's slightly different because it's injected into card.lua but sure

if v.apply_to_float then
  if self.edition[v.key:sub(3)] then
    self.children.floating_sprite:draw_shader(v.shader, nil, nil, nil, self.children.center, scale_mod, rotate_mod)
  end
end

local scale_mod = 0.07 + 0.02*math.sin(1.8*G.TIMERS.REAL) + 0.00*math.sin((G.TIMERS.REAL - math.floor(G.TIMERS.REAL))*math.pi*14)*(1 - (G.TIMERS.REAL - math.floor(G.TIMERS.REAL)))^3
local rotate_mod = 0.05*math.sin(1.219*G.TIMERS.REAL) + 0.00*math.sin((G.TIMERS.REAL)*math.pi*5)*(1 - (G.TIMERS.REAL - math.floor(G.TIMERS.REAL)))^2

these are the modifiers

[ancient finch]

What makes jokers shake when they trigger? For example in my case, Onyx Agate shakes when it grants +7 mult to a card, but my custom joker doesn't when it grants mult to the same card

I can't find what causes that

[frosty dock]

juice_up

[ancient finch]

Where do I put that?

Inside the return?

[royal ridge]

usually card:juice_up()

[ancient finch]

But where do I put it in the code?

[frosty dock]

nope, you just call it

new devtool?

keybind for reloading mods

[ancient finch]

Where do I call it though? Inside the calculate, or in the main area?

[frosty dock]

normally passing card = card inside the return should do for calculate

what key should this go on

[zealous glen]

left mouse button

[frosty dock]

no

rn it's F

[zealous glen]

To pay respects

[frosty dock]

well it's hold F

[ancient finch]

Is it a known thing that jokers do the juice_up animation while SteamModded is installed?

[zealous glen]

what about Ç

[ancient finch]

Like, seemingly at random when they shouldn't

[zealous glen]

What do you mean

[frosty dock]

they're supposed to, only reason i could think of why they wouldn't is you're not passing the card, or you're using talisman to disable animations

[ancient finch]

No, it does it without my mod installed

[zealous glen]

https://tenor.com/view/peace-out-gif-22295199

[frosty dock]

perhaps Ç isn't a bad idea, but I think it may be a hassle for some

💀

Perhaps ᑎ is better

[zealous glen]

what about the ~^ key?

[frosty dock]

I prefer the ../ key

how about no

hold n, press o

[remote coral]

≈

[frosty dock]

i might just put it on M

because yk

mods

but also

m

cryptid reference

the combination is holding that key

[ancient finch]

Here is what I mean

[frosty dock]

like it is for restarting a run

[ancient finch]

Watch Druid juice up when Fighter triggers, and then they both juice up when the deck is reshuffled

[frosty dock]

that's just lag

[carmine yacht]

perhaps `?

[frosty dock]

the card did indeed shake

[ancient finch]

No, that's just my shitty laptop

[zealous glen]

Maybe it's in the wrong context

[ancient finch]

OBS barely runs on my laptop

[zealous glen]

maybe ª or º

kinda but keep in mind this doesn't preserve order

[frosty dock]

one thing to keep in mind is that util variable will be global

you might wanna give it a more unique name

[zealous glen]

I have this

The user probably does

You can do it the way I did

ipairs iterates only over integer keys from 1 to however many there are sequentially

(AFAIK on the sequential part)

[frosty dock]

context.selling_self

alpha 0530g is up

you can now hold M to reload mods, or hold Q to restart the game

context.blueprint tells you that this effect is initialized by an effect of a blueprint-like card

you might want certain effects not to trigger when this is the case, like the scaling part of any scaling joker

[wintry solar]

I'd start by trying not scaling the height and width first, I'd imagine that control s grabbing the soul image from the atlas

[waxen turtle]

If I'm starting a new mod now should I be using main branch (1.0?) or 0.9.8?

[frosty dock]

scale_x isn't a thing right?

yeah

idk then

[wintry solar]

in terms of the joker loading, is it possible to do

for k,v in ipairs(CONFIG) do
  if v then 
    load CONFIG[k]
  end
end

?

you could try just hardcoding them as something different to test

[mellow sable]

Take a look at how Jokers like Wee Joker do this