💻・modding-dev

[unkempt thicket]

yea

i believe this does it

[zealous glen]

other_card is a single card

[zealous glen]

I thought it was 32 by 32

[unkempt thicket]

it works for me, so size might not matter

[shell tangle]

Still somewhat unfamiliar with Lua's for loops, I'd assume it's something like for k, v in ipairs(context.other_card[v]) do, or is that completely off? Or, should I be searching through cardarea instead?

[zealous glen]

Neither

I think there’s a context.individual at the end of round that automatically iterates over cards in hand

[shell tangle]

Trying this, and now it doesn't activate at all, not sure context.individual works.

      if context.cardarea == G.hand and context.individual then
        for k, v in ipairs(context.other_card) do
          if v:is_suit('Hearts') then 
            self.ability.extra.Xmult = self.ability.extra.Xmult + self.ability.extra.Xmult_add
            return {
              message = "Upgraded!",
              colour = C.G.MULT
              } end
        end
      end
    end```

[royal ether]

basically, ccontext.end_of_round is already called multiple times

and when it is called, it passes a singular card in context.other_card

so you dont need the loop

[shell tangle]

Heavily cleared things up - It's getting further, but, somehow, it's saying that ability is nil - succeeding the if statement, but now, I have no idea what the issue might be. Here's how I changed the code. Any suggestions from here?

    if context.end_of_round and context.cardarea == G.hand and not context.blueprint then
      if context.other_card:is_suit('Hearts') then 
        self.ability.extra.Xmult = self.ability.extra.Xmult + self.ability.extra.Xmult_add
        return {
          message = "Upgraded!",
          colour = G.C.MULT}
      end
    end```

[sturdy glen]

im genuinely confused since this works fine in lobotomy corp but not mine ;<

[zealous glen]

Did you define mod_path

[sturdy glen]

yeah

[zealous glen]

What does the file look like

[sturdy glen]

the code or the directory? (sorry im stupid)

[zealous glen]

The code

[zealous glen]

Not that code

The code you’re loading

[sturdy glen]

oh wait shoot sorry

this?

[royal ether]

the ones in indiv_jokers i think

[zealous glen]

You’re calling NFS.load on some file

[edgy reef]

You should check if the load was successful before calling.

Like this.

Would let you have an easier time bugfixing since you'd know what the loading issue is

[zealous glen]

No checking if the load was successful we die like giant golden babies

[royal ether]

it looks like the issue is just that either one of the files is empty, or incorrectly defined

[zealous glen]

Or maybe the key v is different from the file name

[royal ether]

yea thats incorrectly defined

[sturdy glen]

this is code, sorry took a bit i was checking stuff.

[zealous glen]

The one on the left isn’t defined properly but shouldn’t break anything

What are v and what are the file names you’re loading?

[sturdy glen]

Just the Joker names for the files and v is just what was in the lobo corp code

[zealous glen]

Show them please

[solid salmon]

can someone make suggestions for my mod

[zealous glen]

What about v?

[sturdy glen]

I don't have anything about v in my code other than that bit, its not in lobotomy corp either other than that code part

unless im just blind... (< about looking in lobo corp)

[zealous glen]

Yes, show me what values v takes

[zealous glen]

Wait it’s here

[solid salmon]

look at this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hqeq9gArictq63JySjWV8s3Nd2T1Wl29d1IAgngN0vo/edit?gid=479262832#gid=479262832

[solemn coral]

@cobalt nexus (Cont. from previous channel) The best way to get started with modding is honestly to just get started. It's programmed in Lua, which is very simple, and the source code for any mod is available just by downloading the mod and looking through its files (and the base game source code isn't difficult to get either)

I'd recommend reading the Steamodded documentation and looking at and/or editing the source code for my mod, then trying to make a mod following the same style as mine.

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

[shell tangle]

Figured all the abilities out, most of it is working, but pool flags appear to do nothing. Also tried using add to deck = function() return{add = false} end to try removing it, but, neither seems to have any affect. Also tried moving the remove from pool function to activate at different times. No idea how to approach it from here.

[wintry solar]

where are you initialising the flag?

[shell tangle]

The first line after calculate, I tried bringing it out of the code, but it crashed because it couldn't index GAME.

[wintry solar]

and do you ever add the flag to the joker?

[shell tangle]

The second comment under calculate, I tried adding it at the end of round since that's when Gros Michel does it, and it used to be at the bottom, right before the message that says "Broken".

[wintry solar]

No not like that, you need yes_pool_flag = joker_broken. in your joker object

I think your code should change the flag correctly but you havent assigned it

[shell tangle]

It's within config.extra - I'll check and see if Gros Michel has it out of extra.

[wintry solar]

nah it needs to be outside that

[shell tangle]

Indeed it does, looks like that'll probably fix it, thanks for pinpointing it.

Did not fix it.

[wintry solar]

it's not removing it?

[shell tangle]

Wait - might've been dumb, moved it out of extra, not out of config - I'll try another time.

[wintry solar]

also

you set the flag to false every time calculate is called

but you don't set it to true in the calculation that destroys the joker, so I'm pretty sure it'll always be false

[shell tangle]

That'd make sense. I'll try a few more things, might come back for a bit more help.

Alright - either I'm incredibly unlucky, or I've figured it out - I'll make a quick test joker that has yes_pool_flag and see if it appears.

[shell tangle]

Seems to be perfect, thanks for all the help. And, while I have you, O' magical wizard of the shaders, do you have any recommendations on resources to go to to learn how to create shaders with custom patterns, or just try and figure it out from the source code?

[wintry solar]

You could look at the book of shaders

But I mostly just figured stuff out and trawled the internet for forum posts

[cobalt nexus]

i read that before, and i couldnt fivure out how to get the files from Balatro (I'm on Mav BTW). I copied the Balatro app, and turned it into a .zip, but it just said that the file couldnt be read

[solid salmon]

when i'm making different card types

do i make different lua

like stupidity jokers and stupidity vouchers

or do i just make a megapack

[edgy reef]

Unfortunate that it doesn't seem like the obj pool I set up doesn't remove duped cards but it's functional at least.

Maybe because the cards don't have center.name?

That's probably it.

[rough furnace]

👀

^ this also will delete any kind of card

[austere schooner]

Well that's one way to do deck thinning

[rough furnace]

you can duplicate things now

keeps all the values too

[solemn coral]

That might actually be kinda interesting as a temporary effect from a consumable

[crisp coral]

No

[autumn berry]

but what about yes?

[fallen tendon]

Can you please do a cosplay of the hanged man

[hallow forge]

Very creative insult

[fallen tendon]

Truly

[grand violet]

Can you please do a cosplay of "speak no evil"

Let's not go too crazy with the jokes, folks

[frosty dock]

Can you please stop doing a cosplay of The Fool?

[unkempt thicket]

[frosty dock]

[zealous glen]

[royal ether]

at least it isnt ai generated like the other guy?

[crisp coral]

the source material is worse

[royal ether]

fortunately i am unawar

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[oblique gust]

e

[zealous glen]

e

[frosty dock]

e

[sonic mortar]

why is my consumable causing a crash on boot when it's assigned a modded consumable type?
attempt to index local 'ref_table' (a nil value)

functions at which the crash occurs at shown below

consumable type definition:

i feel as though i've got everything right, something tells me this might be a bug with the modloader but i'm not sure at the moment

[wintry solar]

have you got the consumable definition handy?

[sonic mortar]

hold on

[edgy reef]

You’re missing undiscovered.

[wintry solar]

you don't need undiscovered

[edgy reef]

And also “Label” is so longer used as of current commit.

[sonic mortar]

i've tried adding that though, both in the table itself and nested within loc_txt.

[sonic mortar]

(note: i've been working on the mod a bit more so some variables like the consumable type name have changed from last screenshot, though the same issue still applies)

[wintry solar]

what's the current name?

[wintry solar]

the key is different to your set

they should be the same afaik

[sonic mortar]

oh, i must have misspelt it last time lol

we're good

because i did try that and it still crashed, but clearly i must have done a spelling mistake

[surreal marsh]

how to randomly create a joker of certain rarity 🤔 how to support rarities in other joker mods

[zealous glen]

How does Soul does it

[surreal marsh]

this rarity parameter is a fraud

[zealous glen]

do that

[surreal marsh]

_legendary

ohh 🤔

I want to generate a joker that has same rarity as a given joker, so I inject into it and set _starting_pool to G.P_JOKER_RARITY_POOLS[card.ability.rarity]?

[zealous glen]

If that code is like vanilla then you don’t need to inject

You just need to use the right input

[solemn coral]

I'm actually working through a very similar problem right now for my Gatito jokers

I'm pretty certain from what I've seen you do need to inject code into that function

At least, that's what I'm doing right now

[zealous glen]

If you pass 0.995 you can get a rare Joker

Likewise 0.98 and uncommon

[edgy reef]

I’m pretty sure you should be able to force a specific rarity pool as it would be a required feature for Riff-Raff to work.

[zealous glen]

And 0 and common

[frosty dock]

that's also rare

[zealous glen]

Also the rarity tags

[solemn coral]

Wait are you making a new rarity or forcing it to generate an existing rarity?

[surreal marsh]

this is not good, what if cryptid lowers the chance more

[zealous glen]

Oh I misread the Cryptid check

[surreal marsh]

existing

[solemn coral]

Ah okay that's easy then

[zealous glen]

That’s Cryptid’s fault. But also you can do what the base game does for Uncommon and Rare tags

[solemn coral]

G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = function()
    local newCard = create_card('Joker', G.jokers, nil, 2, nil, nil, nil, 'strongHeart')
    newCard:add_to_deck()
    G.jokers:emplace(newCard)
    return true end }))

This is the code I'm using to get a random rare joker

[frosty dock]

the issue here is that you pass the chance roll for a rarity and not the rarity itself

[solemn coral]

The 2 there represents the rarity (it's rarity minus 1, so 0 is common, 1 is uncommon, 2 is rare) (I think)

[zealous glen]

I’m also interested to learn from what you do because I’m considering similar things. But why are you creating a custom rarity? This should be doable without

[frosty dock]

if a chance roll of 0.9 no longer results in an uncommon joker, then uncommon tags will be broken

[surreal marsh]

I want to support mod rarities

like cry_epic

[zealous glen]

Then it needs to have a Ratity API

Pool API when

[solemn coral]

Yeah, without a consistent API for new rarities I think that's going to be tricky to support all modded rarities that way

[zealous glen]

The chance of new rarities should follow the model of Edition API

While choosing a specific one should be done by index (not integer indices)

So you’d need to replace every base call that specifies a rarity by float with a string

[solemn coral]

I don't want the Gatito jokers to show up in the standard pool, so I'm giving them a custom rarity that will never show up. The only way to get them will be from Gatito packs (which will have a very low chance of spawning normally, and a very high chance of spawning if you have an incomplete Gatito set)

[zealous glen]

You can disable Jokers from appearing by passing no_pool_flag = true

Either “no” or “yes” I forget which is which

Cavendish moment

[surreal marsh]

why rare tag checks if rare jokers in G.jokers are less than number of all rare jokers and doesn't generate if not satisfied

[solemn coral]

I think it looks nicer if it's got a fully custom rarity. They kinda occupy a similar design space to the Legendary jokers, so I want their rarity to reflect that

[surreal marsh]

and uncommon tag doesn't do that

[zealous glen]

I can understand wanting a token rarity though I personally likely wouldn’t for this mechanic

[solemn coral]

What rarity would I give them if not a custom rarity? Do I say they're "common" because they all have terrible effects (actually most of their effects are worse than Common jokers), or do I say they're "rare" or "legendary" because they have game-warping effects once you get the whole set?

[zealous glen]

I’m going to guess it’s to avoid Double Tag shenanigans but this seems rather silly since it’s not explained anywhere

[zealous glen]

I’d make at least one Common or Uncommon. The rest can match

I have a Joker that increases the chance of itself spawning and even at 1 in 12 it’s kinda rare to see

[zealous glen]

Oh, but you’re going to have packs, right?

[solemn coral]

Yeah, they only way to get them is through packs

The rarity would just be a visual thing

[zealous glen]

Then choose the rarity of whichever one you can find naturally and the rest can match

As in, in the shop

[solemn coral]

None of them will show up in the shop naturally, they're only going to be in packs

[zealous glen]

If none are in the shop they can all be Rare or Legendary as per your preference. I’d do Rare

[solemn coral]

I think fully custom rarity gives a better indication that they have their own unique design space

[zealous glen]

I think you can indicate it through other ways

[solemn coral]

Again, it's just a visual thing, so it really doesn't matter that much

[zealous glen]

Rarities do have mechanical impact

Baseball moment

Idea: for effects that don’t normally use calculate, call calculate with a custom context named after the Joker(‘s key) to make it interactable

I had had an idea for a Joker that doubled the effect of Common Jokers by calling calculate twice, but it wouldn’t work with e.g. my Cows, so doing this would make the Cows work

Having said that I don’t know how the doubling Joker would work with a calculate call rather than being hardcoded 🤔

Unless someone else has a better idea of how to retrigger Jokers

I don’t know an available mod with that mechanic

[brisk quartz]

cryptid

try looking at canvas from cryptid

it retriggers jokers to the left of it once for every non-common joker to the right of it

[zealous glen]

🤔

[wintry solar]

I had started working on it before ejwu took over the calculation stuff

[surreal marsh]

this works (not card.ability.rarity it's card.config.center.rarity)

[mellow sable]

I plan on eventually putting that API into Steamodded

[zealous glen]

I do think in my case hooking calculate would be enough, since I only want it to repeat once

Something like

function calculate(context)
    if bool and not context.loop then
        context.loop = true
        calculate_ref(context)
        calculate_ref(context)
    else
        calculate_ref(context)
end

[zealous glen]

It being what?

[solemn coral]

Small issue I've been running into with custom rarities

I've got the rarities set up in the bottom level of my main code (copied from the init function of Fusion Jokers, which is a 0.9.8 mod)

table.insert(G.P_JOKER_RARITY_POOLS, {})
table.insert(G.C.RARITY, HEX("CC9977"))
local gatitoRarity = #G.P_JOKER_RARITY_POOLS
loc_colour("mult", nil)
G.ARGS.LOC_COLOURS["gatito"] = G.C.RARITY[gatitoRarity]```

This works exactly as expected for the most part, except for when I try to reset my save file. If I do that, it throws an error when adding jokers into the new rarity pool that it can't find the pool. When I open the game up again after that crash, it works fine again.

[zealous glen]

Wait didn’t Steamodded have custom rarity support? I don’t remember

[wintry solar]

on putting joker repetition into the evaluate stack

[zealous glen]

Ah, as I said I was going to be hacky and just hook calculate

[solemn coral]

Wait hold up maybe you're right

It looks like it has this, which isn't quite a custom rarity but it's definetely close enough for my purposes

[wintry solar]

yeah your way looks like it would work

[solemn coral]

Since my way is only working 99% of the time, and I don't want to try debugging it if there's an easier and better supported way that will work 100% of the time, I'm going to just replace this with the set_card_type_badge function

[solid salmon]

has anyone ever made a joker that can turn into a random joker?

[fallen tendon]

You could just make it create a new joker and then dissolve

[solid salmon]

i have never heard about dissolve

[solid salmon]

I'm trying to make a joker that creates a random joker (like judgement) but better

[solemn coral]

Here's my code for one of my jokers. It destroys itself and creates a random rare joker after playing a certain number of Hearts

calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.individual
    and context.other_card:is_suit("Hearts")
    and context.cardarea == G.play then
        card.ability.extra.heartsLeft = card.ability.extra.heartsLeft - 1
        if card.ability.extra.heartsLeft == 0 then
            card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = "+1 Joker!"})
            destroyCard(card)
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = function()
                local newCard = create_card('Joker', G.jokers, nil, 2, nil, nil, nil, 'strongHeart')
                newCard:add_to_deck()
                G.jokers:emplace(newCard)
                return true end }))
            return {}
        end
        if card.ability.extra.heartsLeft > 0 then
            return { 
                extra = {
                    message = card.ability.extra.heartsLeft.." left",
                },
                card = card
            }
        end
    end
end

[solid salmon]

imma remove hearts

oh i see

[solemn coral]

Yeah you can just remove the reference to hearts, the inner part where it destroys itself and gives a new joker is the important part

Oooh actually I forgot that destroyCard(card) is a custom function I built

function destroyCard(card)
    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
        func = function()
            play_sound('tarot1')
            card.T.r = -0.2
            card:juice_up(0.3, 0.4)
            card.states.drag.is = true
            card.children.center.pinch.x = true
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.3, blockable = false,
                func = function()
                        G.jokers:remove_card(card)
                        card:remove()
                        card = nil
                    return true; end})) 
            return true
        end
    })) 
end

[solid salmon]

do i just add this to my code?

[solemn coral]

Yep, that should work.

[solid salmon]

thanks for the function

I'll credit you

[solemn coral]

Good luck!

[crisp coral]

shoutouts to joker self destroy code

[frosty dock]

Fun fact: v = nil is useless

[zealous glen]

Just in case a Joker is extra determined

[crisp coral]

just in case...

[frosty dock]

all it does is get rid of your local reference to the object

it doesn't actually kill the table

[solid salmon]

parchment engineer isn't 2 uncommon?

[solemn coral]

For some reason the code uses rarity-1 instead of rarity

So 0 is common, 1 is uncommon, and 2 is rare

[frosty dock]

it doesn't, it's a chance roll result

anything below 0.7 is common

[solemn coral]

OOooh okay I misunderstood

Yay for false positives I guess!

[frosty dock]

at least 0.7 but below 0.95 is uncommon, and 0.95 or above is rare

not sure how you'd get 1 being uncommon, but that case doesn't work

[solid salmon]

so i change the G.jokers value to 0.95

[crisp coral]

after rolling for rarity, it converts that to the pool

[solemn coral]

I guess I saw 0 was common, tried 2 as rare and that worked, and incorrectly extrapolated to 1 = uncommon

[crisp coral]

it doesn't roll if you put in a rarity

[solemn coral]

Never actually put that theory to the test

[frosty dock]

steamodded pool stuff should patch this to use rarity keys instead

[solid salmon]

so the number is the chance?

[frosty dock]

yeah it uses it as a result for a non-existing chance roll

otherwise it generates a number from 0 to 1 and determine the rarity the same way

[crisp coral]

oh. huh.

you're right

[solid salmon]

Please make a list of how it works for me to use as future reference

[solemn coral]

Just use these three values I think:
0 - Common
0.7 - Uncommon
1 - Rare

Should be easy enough to remember

[solid salmon]

ok

what if i wanted to have two of those values?

[zealous glen]

Is it > or >=?

[shell tangle]

Reak quick, was looking for this through the base game and steamodded's source code, but couldn't find anything about it. The only place I haven't checked is through the steamodded .tomls, but there's a chance I completely missed it somewhere.

[frosty dock]

it's > last I checked

[crisp coral]

yup it's >

[zealous glen]

You said at least 0.7

[frosty dock]

not at my PC rn, I had it backwards

[zealous glen]

@solemn coral 0.7 might not work

[solemn coral]

Ah okay then

My bad, use 0.8 then

[frosty dock]

the patch files are pretty much the backbones of it all, most API functions are put into use somewhere in there

I usually look through lovely dumps instead of source files when I'm searching something

[solid salmon]

            card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = "+2 Jokers!"})
            destroyCard(card)
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = function()
                local newCard = create_card('Joker', G.jokers, nil, 1, nil, nil, 'strongHeart')
                newCard:add_to_deck()
                G.jokers:emplace(newCard)
                return true end }))```

I removed all of the heart stuff

And adjusted it

[crisp coral]

💀

please learn lua

[frosty dock]

I can't deal with this

I've been thinking about literally writing some sort of "read this first" for questions I'm tired of answering

[solid salmon]

At this point I think i need it

[crisp coral]

also you have visual studio code so install the Lua extension

[solid salmon]

I did

[frosty dock]

at this point what it will tell you is "learn lua"

[crisp coral]

you must've disabled the syntax checking or something

[solid salmon]

nope

also wanna see how much stuff that I might to add to the mod

[crisp coral]

no docs on SMODS.Challenge yet right

[frosty dock]

no, but that one shouldn't be too much work

[solid salmon]

guys wanna see how much suggestions a few people made for my mod?

[frosty dock]

no

[shell timber]

"you do the programming, i'll do the ideas"

[solid salmon]

I was given ideas alright

100's

[crisp coral]

me who can do programming but have no ideas

no i will not program for your mod

[solid salmon]

Im the opposite

[shell timber]

wow

it's almost as if the thing i said

[solid salmon]

No seriously look how much ideas they given Red Joker
Blue Joker
Yellow Joker
Green Joker
Black Joker
Magic Joker
Nebula Joker
Ghost Joker
Abandoned Joker
Checkered Joker
Zodiac Joker
Painted Joker
Anaglyph Joker
Plasma Joker
Erratic Joker

[shell timber]

i do not care.

i am sorry

[solid salmon]

ok

[regal shoal]

I may need tips on how to handle something that has been bothering me since the beginning of the developement of my mod.
I add 150 ranks, where should I make the changes so there is only one Jkr short ?

[crisp coral]

we had 60 suits, now get prepared for 150 ranks

[frosty dock]

uhhhh

there probably needs to be a better system for individual playing cards

[crisp coral]

definitely lol

[regal shoal]

I'm all ears

[solid salmon]

now we have a total of 9000 cards in our decks

[zealous glen]

Your ideas are so creative (intentional ping)

[regal shoal]

I also don't need to have them at the beginning of a game in a Deck. So that makes total sense if they're only created by trigger

[zealous glen]

I think Bunco does that

[crisp coral]

wait does this mean the challenge doesn't get prepended with the mod prefix

[regal shoal]

Ty, Bunco is 2500 lines of code, any idea what the name of one of them so I don't read everything ?

[shell timber]

there's a reference at the top for a reason

[zealous glen]

Oh wait Bunco was suits not ranks

But maybe it will help anyways

@night pagoda how did you hide suits?

[frosty dock]

__call does that, not register

[night pagoda]

I injected into the function that creates tallies for the suits. It's in lovely toml, labeled under "UI suit hiding" or something

[regal shoal]

Oh ty a lot, I'll look if there's something for ranks too then. But what I want to achieve is to make all 150 ranks "count as one" for the UI

[night pagoda]

I think ranks are counted in the same place, so yeah

[solid salmon]

})) <-- Syntax error

[mellow sable]

Cryptid compat

[solid salmon]

oh shoot

I forgot that im making epics too

[crisp coral]

aure

aure.

why the fuck.

why the fuck is it in card.lua.

[royal ether]

why does get_current_pool even use chances instead of just the rarity key

[solid salmon]

why is })) a syntax error

[royal ether]

it isnt, youre having a syntax error somewhere else

[royal ether]

please just take a screenshot man

i cant read half the text here

[royal ether]

that is STILL not a screenshot

[fallen tendon]

Use prt scrn

[regal shoal]

You probably have an useless ')'

[fallen tendon]

Easiest shortcut ever

[solid salmon]

Nope

I think

Lemme screenshot

[fallen tendon]

Also use windows shift s

[mellow sable]

You can’t like copy and paste it?

At least

[fallen tendon]

Dont just take a photo using a phone

You cannot see anything

[royal ether]

snipping tool is window's only useful app

please use it

[stray warren]

The best tool

[regal shoal]

You're missing a 'end' after the return

[mellow sable]

Move one of the ends to there

[crisp coral]

oh nice challenge unlocks works properly... if the challenge.toml worked properly

[royal ether]

aure does a little trolling

[regal shoal]

And because it's a function in G.E_MANAGER you probably need to do return true end

[solid salmon]

I'm trying but I'm not getting images

[crisp coral]

it's in your clipboard, paste it

[solid salmon]

buh

wait lemme take a smaller one

[royal ether]

yea mjst is right

it has to be return true end}))

[solid salmon]

damn i'm dumb

also how can i make it give more than one card?

[regal shoal]

Also, I dunno how kind lua is, but having a missing parameter after a coma in "create_card" isn't something you should do

[mellow sable]

Why does the message say +2 Jokers when that’s not what the concept does 😭

[stray warren]

Loop

[solid salmon]

Im stupid

[mellow sable]

Also why are you forcing a rare/epic joker

[solid salmon]

do you want it to be a rare

or just a random rarity?

[mellow sable]

Random

[solid salmon]

ok

[mellow sable]

That was my idea

Maybe you could make it uncommon or higher but it just spawning a random rare (epic with Cryptid) is kinda stupid

But this is the stupid mod

So it’s up to you

[solid salmon]

imma stick to your version

[regal shoal]

And you may want to hover errors that shows up in VSCode and try to learn what you're doing incorrectly to make your code cleaner and working !

[mellow sable]

What you should do to implement is modify add_to_deck to replace the Joker when it is created

_card = create_card('Joker', G.jokers, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, 'cry_vermillion_virus_gen')
                G.jokers.cards[idx]:remove_from_deck()
                _card:add_to_deck()
                _card:start_materialize()
                G.jokers.cards[idx] = _card
                _card:set_card_area(G.jokers)
                G.jokers:set_ranks()
                G.jokers:align_cards()

[solid salmon]

i had a stroke

[mellow sable]

Here is a similar section of code from Cryptid, only difference is you’re replacing card instead of G.jokers.cards[idx] and you should use a different name for the RNG (instead of cry_vermillion_virus_gen)

[regal shoal]

How does a '.toml' is called ?

Does it needs to be at the root of the mod ?

[royal ether]

either root or in the lovely folder i believe

[mellow sable]

Either in Mods/Mod/lovely.toml or Mods/Mod/lovely/*.toml

Where Mod is your mod name

[regal shoal]

Ty !

[mellow sable]

Cryptid uses both if you want to see an example

yw!

[solid salmon]

so you want me to replace the card code with yours

[mellow sable]

Basically

You don’t need to use calculate though, it should be in the add_to_deck function

[solid salmon]

ok

but replace

[solid salmon]

with this

[mellow sable]

add_to_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)

end

In this function

[mellow sable]

And with these changes

Also you don’t need to check the context

[solid salmon]

remove context

[mellow sable]

Just do the card eval status text and use this code

gtg now

[solid salmon]

ok

[crisp coral]

bye math

[solid salmon]

that was helpful

just one more simple assist please

how do i close the {

[regal shoal]

Does the modifications you're doing in a ".toml" file appear in the lovely/dump/ folder ? Because if it does, I'm clearly doing something wrong

[crisp coral]

i'll let you figure it out

[crisp coral]

yes

[regal shoal]

hmm, ty

[crisp coral]

unless you specify not to dump_lua

[regal shoal]

I do not

dump_lua = true

As clear as it can be

[crisp coral]

lol, just in case

[royal ether]

might be a regex pattern issue then

[crisp coral]

can you show your patch?

[regal shoal]

Yes !

[zealous glen]

Did you specify the folder the file is in?

[regal shoal]

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = 'main.lua'
pattern = "local rank_name_mapping = {}"
position = 'after'
match_indent = true
payload = '''
local mjst_joker_id = nil
'''

That's only one of the four

[zealous glen]

Also the pattern needs to match the whole line

[crisp coral]

oh hm

[regal shoal]

Not the indent right ?

[zealous glen]

No

[crisp coral]

this one doesn't work because that code you're trying to patch comes from Steamodded's lovely patch

[regal shoal]

Do I need to change the priority then ?

[manifest]
version = "1.0.0"
dump_lua = true
priority = 0

[crisp coral]

try adding overwrite = true?

i don't know too much about lovely

[zealous glen]

I’m not sure you can patch a patch

[regal shoal]

Ok I'll try that and see

[solid salmon]

Problem solved

[royal ether]

maybe just try patching a line thats in the same area but not in a smods patch

unless the entire thing is a smods patch

[regal shoal]

In another patch I must modify a SMODS patch

I'll try changing the priority

[royal ether]

i see

[obsidian notch]

Having a bit of trouble updating my mod to steamodded 1.0. Reassigning the atlas of the planet works, but the renamed loc_txt is showing up blank

I feel like I'm missing something obvious

[crisp coral]

only the description, or both desc and name?

[obsidian notch]

Looks like this.

[crisp coral]

you need to add the description most likely

copy it over from the localization file

[obsidian notch]

Ah, I see, I'll give that a shot.

[outer hedge]

will this work to add a deck with a enternal madness and riff-raff?

    object_type = "Back",
    name = "Insanity Deck",
    key = "insanity",
    config = {
        jokers = {
            {id = 'j_madness', eternal = true},
            {id = 'j_riff_raff', eternal = true}
        }
    },
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Insanity Deck",
        text = {
            "Start with an eternal {C:attention}Madness Joker{} and eternal {C:attention}Riff-Raff{}"
        }
    },
    atlas = "budget_decks"
}

local deck_sprites = {
    object_type = "Atlas",
    key = "budget_decks",
    
    path = "decks.png",
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}```

[royal ether]

you tell us 👍

[regal shoal]

Ok just for information, I found my mistake,
my mod is in "Balatro/Mods/Modpack/MyMod/main.lua" and Steamodded doesn't seems to look from a relative path so my "lovely.toml" in "Balatro/Mods/Modpack/MyMod/lovely/lovely.toml" wasn't called

Now my mod is in "Balatro/Mods/MyMod" and it's working fine

[crisp coral]

oh yeah that's a Lovely quirk

[regal shoal]

Ty for help, Now i'll try to see if I achieve to apply my patch on a patch :/

[outer hedge]

wasn't added

[night pagoda]

trying to make fluorescent shader attempt 3

some jokers got eaten (shader is too hungry)

fix:

[solemn coral]

Having some difficulty trying to set up a booster pack

table.insert(stuffToAdd, {
    object_type = "Center",
    prefix = 'p',
    key = 'gatitoPack',
    name = "Gatito Pack",
    weight = 3000,
    kind = "Gatito",
    cost = 1,
    discovered = true,
    alerted = true,
    set = "Booster",
    atlas = "jokers",
    config = {extra = 4, choose = 1},
    loc_text = {
        name = "Gatito Pack",
        text = {
            "Choose {C:attention}1{} of up to",
            "{C:attention}4{C:joker} Gatito{} cards"
        }
    }
})```

I feel like I've gotten this somewhat right, but every time I mouse over the pack, it gives me an attempted to index a nil value in the localize function.

[outer hedge]

i got the deck loading but the jokers aren't added

    key = "insanity",
    name = "Insanity Deck",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Insanity Deck",
        text = {
            "Start with an eternal","and negative {C:attention}Madness Joker{}","and an eternal","and negative {C:attention}Riff-Raff{}"
        }
    },
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
    discovered = true,
    unlocked = true,
    config = {
        consumables = {},
        starting_jokers = {
            {key = "Madness", eternal = true, negative = true},
            {key = "Riff-Raff", eternal = true, negative = true},
        }
    },
    atlas = "budget_decks"
}

SMODS.Atlas {
    key = "budget_decks",
    path = "decks.png",
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}```

[obsidian notch]

thanks for the help, adding the description didn't work unfortunately but what did fix it was creating a localization file, as below

only thing I can't quite crack is changing the labels (ie "Dwarf Planet", "Planet?"), but that can wait.

[zealous glen]

I think since you overwrote loc_text, you overwrote the part that contained the original description

[zealous glen]

Those are badges

[obsidian notch]

I think you're right yeah. On 0.9.8 I was directly accessing loc_text.name instead of setting loc_text to a new dictionary.

[solid salmon]

Look at these fusion jokers from Marie

[obsidian notch]

It's possible you can still directly access loc_text.name in code, but ig using a localization file is cleaner.

[zealous glen]

I think you can but it's recommended to do it inside a specific function

[obsidian notch]

process_loc_text perhaps yeah

[outer hedge]

can anyone help with this please i'd really like how to get deck effects working

[zealous glen]

wrong keys probably

look at vanilla for the right keys

[outer hedge]

i used the keys from the card.lua file and they're still not added

            {key = 'Madness', eternal = true, negative = true},
            {key = 'Riff-raff', eternal = true, negative = true},
        }```

[zealous glen]

Those aren't keys

Those are names

I find it easier to peruse the localization files

[outer hedge]

so this?

            {key = 'j_madness', eternal = true, negative = true},
            {key = 'j_riff_raff', eternal = true, negative = true},
        }```

[zealous glen]

probably

[outer hedge]

still didn't work

[regal shoal]

Success ! (It's not sorted anymore but that's an easy fix)

[long gust]

Why are they in that order

[zealous glen]

pairs?

[fair inlet]

Buffon packs 🤔

[regal shoal]

I added 150 ranks and made it just one in the UI but by doing so I've destroyed stuff

[regal shoal]

True ! My bad (I'm not english)

[fair inlet]

all good

[royal ether]

nice!

[regal shoal]

I haven't changed the preview and it's what it looked like before :

And it was laggy af

[night pagoda]

fluorescent edition is a fun one gameplay-wise

[royal ether]

cool.....

[night pagoda]

Cannot!

[mellow sable]

Woah

[wintry solar]

A rival fluorescent edition!

[solid salmon]

.

i'll try to figure it out myself

[solid salmon]

how do i make rng manipulation

[sharp light]

If I want to start modding this game (having 0 prior knowledge to modding) where would I begin to learn?

[fallen tendon]

Learn lua

Then learn steamodded

Then reference other mods and the games source code (very important) to code your jokers and other stuff

[sharp light]

Awesome thanks!

[unkempt ridge]

Trying to start out simple, how do we add a joker that gives flat +mult and a joker that gives flat +chips?

Using 1.0.0 Steamodded

[fallen tendon]

Look at the game’s code

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

[fallen tendon]

Specifically card.lua, you can find jokers using ctrl + f

[unkempt ridge]

trying to wrap my head around this in card.lua
so for base joker it pulls from loc_vars whichhh I'm assuming is the same vars found in game.lua?
meanwhile mods from others (TWEWY, Cryptid, Bettmas) have all sorts of different ways they add jokers...
What's all this about SMODS-

fwiw I have very little lua knowledge and basic coding-

[mellow sable]

Cryptid is not really the best example as I use my own wrapper around the Steamodded API to enable/disable items when loaded

Are you using Steamodded 0.9.8 or 1.0.0?

[unkempt ridge]

Steamodded 1.0.0 over here

Idea is to make different tiered jokers, like an uncommon sly joker or a common stuntsman. Throw em into the pool and see what happens-

[mellow sable]

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

[near ivy]

flourescent is very cool, but it might be better if the darkened bits were made transparent

[narrow pollen]

i had a concept
Name: Metal Fool's Cap
Effect: All played 6 and 4 cards become Steel when scored.

[unkempt ridge]

welp it loads to title screen now so we're getting somewhere-
now to find out how to actually make it work

[frosty dock]

please use a different font...

[stray warren]

No monospace hurts my brain

[edgy reef]

The font is peak wdym

[unkempt ridge]

font dont matter jus if the joker works
and it doesnt still so-

[sly forge]

What editor are you using?

[stray warren]

I like the font, just not for code

[unkempt ridge]

Notepad++

[sly forge]

that's good- I was just asking in case you were completely new to coding. Try looking at SDM0's stuff, each joker there is added directly

that should get you started. code should look like just SMODS.Joker{...}

[unkempt ridge]

Where's SDM0's stuff?
We sort of are figuring the SMODS.Joker thing out, we just don't know how to make it actually appear in the collection

[stray warren]

if you register the jokers, they should appear in the collection automatically

[sly forge]

to be precise: SMODS.Joker{...} doesn't just define the joker, it automatically adds the joker into the game

[sly forge]

For all mods the process is the same, search or scroll down in modding until you find it. sorry, it's very disorganized in here

can link SDM0

[unkempt ridge]

HE EXISTS

[sly forge]

https://github.com/SDM0/Balatro-Mods

[unkempt ridge]

Oh is this for 0.9.8 or 1.0.0

[sly forge]

whoops, here https://github.com/SDM0/Balatro-Mods/tree/smods_1.0.0

[tepid egret]

btw when is the steamodded alpha going to be a release, ive had multiple people complain about how its confusing when i told them to download my mod

bcoz the readme is shite

[fast badge]

soon

Aure just wants to finish the docs, mostly

[tepid egret]

cool

i realise my message was a bit rude, didnt mean to be pushy, appreciate the work everyone does here <3

[fast badge]

All good ^^

[frosty dock]

also just ironing things out and adding things we can't do down the line because they're breaking changes, such as most recently the update to pools

[fast badge]

🤓☝🏻

[maiden phoenix]

At last I became a reference for 1.0.0 joker creation 🫡

[zealous glen]

Does anyone know how bosses are determined? I made a patch to force get_new_boss to give me Showdown Blinds but after the first two it stopped working

That might be because I rerolled the boss

But I started a new run and it didn’t work either

Also I think the ante 1 boss is determined separately

[crisp coral]

rerolling shouldn't affect boss rotation?

[queen scroll]

hey does anyone know how to cause a game over at any state during the game, not just at the end of a round?

[brisk quartz]

check lobcorp's punishing bird for reference

if you sell it you instantly get a game over

[queen scroll]

ok cool lemme check

oh easy works perfectly

thanks!

[zealous glen]

Somehow I get a normal boss instead of a showdown boss

Oops I pinged

[crisp coral]

fueled by bobm™️

[crisp coral]

don't think i can help without seeing what changes you made

[zealous glen]

Wait, I think I understand. I always add the showdown bosses to the pool, but I didn’t remove normal bosses from the pool.

I think that’s what I did now that I thought about it. I’ll check later

[tepid egret]

has anybody here encountered this? is this caused by setting incorrect resolution? it doesnt happen to me but for somebody else its fucked

[royal ether]

you need 1px transparent border

around your voucher sprite

i believe thats the issue

it happens when pixel smoothing is on? i think?

[tepid egret]

aha! thanks a lot

[cosmic kernel]

Anyone have any idea where I can find the function randomizing the main menu card ? I want it to display a random joker on every launch.
I can't find it in the source code !
thanks a lot

[regal wolf]

Look at Brainstorm mod older versions

[rough furnace]

Does anyone know off the top of their head if I can find what card area a card is in without going through every card area and checking if the card is in it?

[regal wolf]

I alter the card on main menu in there

[crisp coral]

card.area

[royal ether]

yea its usually card.area

[rough furnace]

Oh

I may not be smart

[royal ether]

i think there can technically be edge cases where a card is in an area, but card.area is a different area

but those should really only be happening in modded card areas that are incorrectly implemented

(because cardarea:emplace(card) doesnt set card.area to the cardarea you just emplaced to)

wait

it does nvm

[crisp coral]

lmao

[royal ether]

ok i think i just misremembered oops xdd

[rough furnace]

Okay

Yeah I just hard coded the copy for Debug plus based off card type but this means things like shop cards go to their respective slots, and then some things like boosters don't work, and then I was thinking playing cards in shop might crash the game so I was thinking maybe there's a better way to get the area

[royal ether]

does anyone know how the particle system works

i just wanna make a square that moves from one point to another

[crisp coral]

the particle system is something i've never touched

[royal ether]

oh gog...

[crisp coral]

you're up first

[rough furnace]

If it's anything like the ui system, my condolences

[royal ether]

my end goal is a square that moves on an arc... oh go.g...

i have to learn math ...

[rough furnace]

Sin wave

[crisp coral]

then you can sit on all my tangents

[wild gyro]

what

[royal ether]

reference to a banger

[crisp coral]

execution

🔥

[wild gyro]

i'm mildly concerned

[rough furnace]

It took you this long?

[wild gyro]

i always have been, just thought that now was as good a time as any to mention it

[solid salmon]

I need the basics on how to make enhancements

[rough furnace]

There was an example one somewhere

Maybe steamodded 1.0 has an api for it now?

[fallen tendon]

It does

SMODS.Enhancement

You can find the params by looking in core/game_object.lua in steamodded

And then ctrl f for enhancement

[royal ether]

chat does alpha=1 mean its transparent or opaque

actually lemme just test it

alright according to my scientific method, alpha=1 is transparent, and alpha=0 is transparent

(i think im doing something wrong)

[rough furnace]

Try alpha 0.5

[royal ether]

also transparent

i think im just not defining something correctly

[rough furnace]

I've have concluded that it's always transparent

[royal ether]

true!

[solid salmon]

The thing is how do I stop cards from being changeable (rank+suit)?

[fallen tendon]

Patch the functions that change rank and suit?

[fallen tendon]

Use a lovely patch on the set_base function

Not sure where it is

[royal ether]

i just realized im the use case for bounding rects, holy moly

[fallen tendon]

Just like stop it from working if your desired condition is met with an if statement

[royal ether]

⚠️(FLASHING COLOURS WARNING)⚠️
hey i got it to draw the particle

[solid salmon]

Let me just tell you that I have no idea what's happening

[royal ether]

there are not one, not two, not three, but FOUR red squiggly lines

[solid salmon]

YES I KNOW THAT

[royal ether]

there are also two red curly brackets

[solid salmon]

I haven't put in the function yet

[royal ether]

ok

you can figure this out man i believe in you

[solid salmon]

how do i fix the squiggly lines?

I used the same stuff as a joker and apparently there's no problem with it

i gotta change the text

yeah so inside the games code where could i find the red seal?

[royal ether]

yippee! green square! dunno why the bounding rect is incorrect tho

[crisp coral]

GREEN SQUARE!!!

[solid salmon]

GREEN SQUARE!!!

[solid salmon]

Myst how do i find the red seal within the games code

[limpid flint]

Uh oh

[solid salmon]

I didn't ping

[fallen tendon]

Go into card.lua or common_events.lua and search for red seal

Most things in the game are those two

[royal ether]

red seal MIGHT be in state_events.lua

which is kinda complicated

[solid salmon]

MAN

[royal ether]

nvm theres a calculate_seals function in card.lua

[crisp coral]

Card:calculate_seal(context)

[solid salmon]

But im making an enhancement

[crisp coral]

then why did you ask for seal

lol

[solid salmon]

i just remebered that red seal isn't the only thing that can retrigger

[fallen tendon]

Yeah, an enhancement can prob trigger

I believe the enhancement api lets you hook onto eval_card if im not mistaken

[royal ether]

oh my god i have to do vector math

[crisp coral]

LMAO

o7

[fallen tendon]

Poor you

[solid salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-huh-cat-huh-etr-gif-15332443943609734737

[fallen tendon]

Theres an eval card function in card.lua

The enhancement api lets you add your enhancement to it

[solid salmon]

do i add it like eval_card_function

[fallen tendon]

No

Its a calculate like the jokers

Also the calculate seal is just a subfunction of eval card so all the things done there should work for enhancements

[quasi kettle]

is there a way to modify the amount of chips that a card scores once? (To get a 10 to score as 5 but not have it be permanent)

my current solution isnt really elegant since you see two separate chip messages

[solid salmon]

so do i add function

[fallen tendon]

Yes

Its not self,card,context though

Its self,context,effect

[solid salmon]

ok

next is if...then right?

[fallen tendon]

No

Just the red seal effect

For the immutability effect, that one is quite a bit harder though

You would have to do a lovley patch to set_base in card.lua

A bit if then that takes up the whole function that only lets it play out if the card isnt laminated

[solid salmon]

ok

this is what i got out of the red seal function tho

also this

[fallen tendon]

That is uhhhh not it

[fallen tendon]

It was literally this

The return

[solid salmon]

oh

[fallen tendon]

Just use the entire return

[solid salmon]

ok

is this right

[fallen tendon]

Yeah

Now for the lovey patch suffering

[solid salmon]

excuse me

im done

now how do i patch it PROPERLY

[fallen tendon]

Look at the toml files of mods

They have the oath of the file where the patching is being done

The pattern, which is used to identify the patch region

The position, which is before, after, or at (replace)

And then the code you are adding

[solid salmon]

good god

[fallen tendon]

Just look at toml files for the formatting

Also # starts a comment

[solid salmon]

ok

[fallen tendon]

The toml must be called lovely.toml or in a folder called lovely

Id reccomend the latter as its easier to organize

[solid salmon]

I found betmmas

but ot's a full on yap session

that's how long it is

[fallen tendon]

Cryptid also has toml files

[solid salmon]

i don't have it

[fallen tendon]

Theres more but they are more concise

[fallen tendon]

You can look at the github files

[solid salmon]

ok

i found cryptid

[crisp coral]

holy shit open the game's source code in visual studio code please

[wintry solar]

It’s probably easier to wait for enhancement calculation to be implemented properly

[royal ether]

look at green square go...

[crisp coral]

holy shit...

[solid salmon]

i stole a patch

i shouldn't let marie cook

[frosty dock]

why tf is that lua syntax highlighting on a patch file

that's cursed

[crisp coral]

maybe because it's posted in their lua file LMAO

[gilded blaze]

bruh

[fallen tendon]

Uh put that in a seperate .toml file not a .lua

Also you arent patching eval_card

You are patching set_base

And making it not trigger of the card is laminated

[royal ether]

my dumb ass just searched up "find hypotenuse from 2 sides" (the answer is pythagoras) (4th grade math)

[fallen tendon]

Ok, make the actual patch now

[solid salmon]

apparently mathisfun said that the thing isn't supposed to be a patch

he said it was supposed to be something like this

v

[royal ether]

ok i got moving from point A to point B (and speed)

[royal ether]

yippee!

[solid salmon]

would something like this work

[maiden phoenix]

What

[royal ether]

sorry ignore that

:3

i was frustrated because of math

(i thought math.arctan would only return positive numbers but it was doing negative sometimes)

now i have to figure out how to move things in an arc... oh gog...

[fallen tendon]

Oh thats an override

Its kinda similar to a patch but different

[solid salmon]

ok

[fallen tendon]

Just replace all the placeholders

[solid salmon]

what

[fallen tendon]

Theres a ton of placeholder values

[solid salmon]

oh

xyz

[fallen tendon]

You have to replace them with information from the functious you are overriding

Also class.function

And class:function

Then you have to basically rewrite the function

Well not exactly

I think theres a technique where you can add your code at the start or end of the function

[wintry solar]

Yes

It depends where you call the original

[fallen tendon]

By saving the function to a variable before the override and then inserting it inside the override

[zealous glen]

It's called hooking

[fallen tendon]

You could probably stop the function from happening by putting a return before the original function

[fallen tendon]

Ik im just explaining in laymans terms

[zealous glen]

or you can just override the original

[solid salmon]

one at a time please

[wintry solar]

You are a saint, alex

[solid salmon]

huh

[unborn nexus]

hey, my game keeps crashing and idk what to do. heres my crash log

[royal ether]

looks like an archipelago issue to me, go ask in their thread

[unborn nexus]

alright, thanks for the help

[solid salmon]

Elaborate on hooking

(via example)

[fallen tendon]

Imagine you want to stuff some code at the end of eval_card

[solid salmon]

like how i want it to retrigger but ranks and suits cannot be changed

[fallen tendon]

You would do

local temp_variable = Card.eval_card
function Card:eval_card(card, context, effect)
   some code
   return temp_variable
end

Well thos kind puts it at the beginning lol

But its fine

Thats what youre going for

What you want to do with your hooks is to end it prematurely with a return if the card is laminated

[fallen tendon]

Just use the default calculate for the retrigger

[royal ether]

its return temp_variable(self, card, context, effect), but yea

[fallen tendon]

Sorry, im on mobile

Cant look at the source code

[royal ether]

all g

[fallen tendon]

Ranks and suits needs to hook a disable into set_base and change_suit

Seal hooks into set_seal

[solid salmon]

like make it false?

[fallen tendon]

No

You are ADDING CODE

this is directly inserting your code into the base games code to obtain desired functionality

[solid salmon]

so I have to make it a patch?

[fallen tendon]

Patches give you more functionality

You can insert anywhere

But hooks are good for the start or end of a function

You need the start here

[solid salmon]

ok

start with a hook

[fallen tendon]

Literally this

Just change the functions to the functions that you need

And change the arguments to match

Then add the code

[solid salmon]

eval card is the one that's in the game right?

[fallen tendon]

Yeah

BUT YOU ARENT HOOKING IT

HOOK SET_BASE

CHANGE_SUIT

AND SET_SEAL

please

[solid salmon]

I would do that if I understood what is a "hook"

[frosty dock]

this

[solid salmon]

this

[frosty dock]

basically you replace a function with something else while calling the original function somewhere inside

[solid salmon]

what do I write to replace it

[frosty dock]

this means adding code before or after the function and/or modifying the return value

[fallen tendon]

It has been explained to you 5 times

[solid salmon]

alright I get it

[fallen tendon]

Ok

Now for what do you write

Use your head

Is there some property of a card that can tell me its edition?

[solid salmon]

wait

[wintry solar]

Card.edition.type

[solid salmon]

I need to breathe for a moment

Im back

as for the actual enhancement itself

how's it looking

[wintry solar]

It looks like you have no idea how to use an api 👍

[fallen tendon]

Oh no

Also the entirety of the text is on one line

[solid salmon]

😦 👍

[fallen tendon]

Get rid of = SMODS.Center:extend

[solid salmon]

ok

next?

[wintry solar]

Honestly my suggestion is to go and read a load of code and understand it before trying your own

[fallen tendon]

Please seperate your text into multiple lines

[royal ether]

this fr

[fallen tendon]

Put a comma after each one (except for the last one)

[wintry solar]

If you need people to spell out every single step you don’t have a good enough base understanding to work from

[solid salmon]

imma check out how gold made their enhancments

welp that was a waste of time

[fallen tendon]

I think sdm’s stuff has some examples of hooks

MAKE SURE YOU USE THE 1.0.0 BRANCH

[rough furnace]

What's that log thing from?

[royal ether]

balamod's console

[rough furnace]

Oh Intresting

I've been thinking about making a console

Good to know someone made one already

[royal ether]

balamod console is highkey the best reason to use it

makes development so much easier

[frosty dock]

time to steal take inspiration from that

[rough furnace]

Does it let you run code?

I also wanted to do that

I probably would've made a console by now if it wasn't for lovely's

[solid salmon]

is this it

[frosty dock]

no, these are API functions

[solid salmon]

where do they keep the hooks

[royal ether]

yea, although its only one line at a time, and you have to save variables globally

but its usually for debug anyways so it doesnt really matter

i mean, technically you can write more lines if you use semicolons

[fallen tendon]

Maybe try to search for code that looks like the examples given already

[solid salmon]

that's what i was trying

[fallen tendon]

The code is not gonna be in a table

Find a pattern that looks similar in the top scope

[solid salmon]

i think i found it

[royal ether]

im pretty sure those are just normal functions rather than hooks

[solid salmon]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[fallen tendon]

Ill give you a hint

Hooks are sinetimes called overrides

[solid salmon]

i think i know where it is

[mellow sable]

What I was showing you before is basically a hook

[solid salmon]

ok

I can feel my will to mod drain

WHY IS IT RED?

[fallen tendon]

You have so many syntax errorsp

Your if statement is missing a then and end

its self.name and not self name

Laminated is a string

Make sure its in the top scope pleaeeeease

Arguments need to be edited

First function needs arguments and the others need arguments that are from the source function

Also uhhhh you arent patching eval card

YOU ARE PATCHING SET_BASE CHANGE_SUIT AND SET_SEAL

[wintry solar]

Alex you are sounding less like a saint now

[fallen tendon]

Im sorry

I just have no patience

Anymore

He has depleted my saintliness

[solid salmon]

For the sake of everyones sanity

imma stop

[mellow sable]

AI gen goku you should look up a Lua tutorial

And learn the syntax

And if you get red lines you should listen to them

[wintry solar]

Have you done any coding before?

[solid salmon]

the jokers

but besides that nope

[wintry solar]

At all?

[hallow forge]

does steamodded support custom enhancements now?

[solid salmon]

nope

[fallen tendon]

Yes

[wintry solar]

Yes but calculation is still wonky

[dim steeple]

Time to learn some lua bro, you're effectively asking people to make your mod for you using step by step pictures

[wintry solar]

Then go spend a few days watching YouTube

[solid salmon]

ok

[hallow forge]

does that include seals

[wintry solar]

Seals are not enhancements

[fallen tendon]

Not yet

[wintry solar]

But I’m pretty sure seals are already in too

[hallow forge]

oh

[wintry solar]

I’m not sure what functionality is there

But you can create them for the collection at least

[hallow forge]

can you apply them to cards?

[wintry solar]

Probably, I’ve not tried though

[hallow forge]

that's like pretty crucial

[fallen tendon]

I think so

[hallow forge]

k ty

[unkempt ridge]

alright so our lil brain cant figure out how SMODS.Atlas works, but we know there's a key, size, path, etc...
Do we gotta define a local as SMODS.Atlas {blahblahblah} then, put that as the pos/key in the Joker? Or

[zealous glen]

The pos is the position in the atlas where the sprite is

It’s calculated as multiples of px and py

Increasing x moves right and increasing y moves down

[unkempt ridge]

K6BD PFP
Based

Yeah so pos in the joker def would refer to the base sprite sheet, so how would we get it to refer to our sprite instead? We suspect using the Atlas

[zealous glen]

I still need to make K6BD Jokers

[zealous glen]

The Atlas object serves to register the texture. There’s an argument to the Joker constructor to configure the Atlas via the key. Remember that Steamodded automatically prepends your mod’s prefix to the key

Check out some mod like Cryptid or Myst’s to see the format, I don’t remember exactly where you need to add your prefix and where you don’t

[wintry solar]

atlas = modprefix_atlaskey iirc

[unkempt ridge]

Demiurge Jokers when-

[zealous glen]

I want a cycle of legendaries of them

I have some ideas for them but not many

[unkempt ridge]

finally he exists

[unkempt ridge]

Tryna think of how we'd configure this. Basically makes cards act as wild cards? Got the smeared joker source code on the right, at least what we've found

[stray warren]

Just a question; Why are you putting their rarity in the name when it has a badge for that?

[unkempt ridge]

iunno just cuz

rn dont have graphics so

[abstract venture]

does anyone know a mod including a xchips joker for me to cross reference?

cant figure out how to multiply chips

[regal wolf]

Well how do you add chips. Then just add chips*mult.

[abstract venture]

oh good point 💀

just thought there was a built in thing for it

[stray warren]

How do you add a Mod Icon in steamodded 1.0.0? Like what's the register function?

[solemn coral]

I think you just register a regular atlas with key = "modicon"

[solid salmon]

I'm sorry if what I am about to ask is stupid but

when i put ease hands are the values able to be negative?

[mellow sable]

Yes

[solemn coral]

For a lot of simple programming questions like that, the simplest way to get an answer is usually just to try it and see what happens

[solid salmon]

yeah i did

and i got this

to calarify

[solemn coral]

Ah, okay

[solid salmon]

this is the joker

in question

[crisp coral]

it's ease_discard

[solemn coral]

That looks like it crashed for a different reason (you typed ease_discards instead of ease_discard)

[crisp coral]

not ease_discards

[solid salmon]

oh

damn

[mellow sable]

<@&1133519078540185692>

🔨

[solid salmon]

huh

[mellow sable]

ty mods

[mellow sable]

scam message

[solid salmon]

oh

[mellow sable]

Had to get the ban hammer out

[solid salmon]

the 50$ thing

[mellow sable]

It was a fake Steam link

google.com

[crisp coral]

nice embed

LMAO

[solid salmon]

Thank god i didn't click the link

[mellow sable]

They used this trick

But no embed

Looked like a genuine gift link, led to something nefarious

[solid salmon]

is ease_joker_slots a thing

[solemn coral]

Wait why does Discord allow you do even do that?

I literally just took a cybersecurity class that talked about how risky those types of links are to use

[mellow sable]

Good for markdown

And they do warn you before clicking

[stray warren]

it shows a popup for links like that with the real address