💻・modding-dev

[brisk pond]

Now only 3 left

[zealous glen]

I think there's an offset parameter which is often set to be negative (moving it up)

[river panther]

I am porting my old 0.9.8 code over to 1.0.0. Anybody have a basic mod that just adds jokers a challenges and a testing deck that I could use for reference

[brisk pond]

Finally, the mod is out
https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1257660889520144446

[zealous glen]

Does anyone know where Boss Blind tooltips in the collection are generated?

[brisk pond]

huge thanks to all you people

[zealous glen]

Congrats on the release!

[hushed cradle]

anyone know if theres documentation for adding custom unlock requirements for jokers and vouchers and adding your own hands (secret ones) along with planet cards that only show up once youve played the hand?

[frosty dock]

for unlocks, there's a check_for_unlock function you can put on your objects that gets passed the arguments from the game's check_for_unlock global function, you should read up on that one in the game's source to see how it works - you just need to return true in your method to unlock the card

[zealous glen]

It might be create_UIBox_your_collection_blinds

[hushed cradle]

ill go digging in the source code then

thank you

[zealous glen]

Actually it calls create_UIBox_blind_popup

[frosty dock]

Poker hand API is still missing docs, you can look at the source code for that one. Use visible = false to make a hand secret

for planet cards, the corresponding property is softlock = true

[hushed cradle]

thank you lots

one thing im not too keen on in balatro is that when youre going for big scoring runs theres basically 2 builds you can go for

or flush house w trib ig

so i wanna try and make it so you can build around different hands

[zealous glen]

@frosty dock can I add a new tooltip directly to a Joker's info_queue?

[hushed cradle]

thoughts?

i did some maths and its fairly similar to playing 5 cards all with x2

[zealous glen]

Like, nested G.UI.R objects or whatever

[frosty dock]

wdym by "directly"?

that sounds like a use for a generate_ui function

[zealous glen]

I think it's a bit too niche

[hushed cradle]

do you think itd be better if it was a hand of three of the same rank?

i liked 7 cos of the jackpot thing

but any rank would work ig

[zealous glen]

The wiki doesn't say much

[hushed cradle]

i just want you to be able to build around more hands in endless

[zealous glen]

The default implementation of this function acts as a wrapper of loc_vars. For advanced UI implementations, define this function directly.

[zealous glen]

Definitely

[hushed cradle]

cool

[frosty dock]

generate_ui is passed full_UI_table, which you could insert UI elements into directly - tooltips live in full_UI_table.info

[hushed cradle]

ill get that changed

[frosty dock]

do note that this will happen before anything in info_queue is processed

[zealous glen]

Good to know, I was hooking info_tips_from_rows to create Credits directly

Although I'm asking because I'm adding a Blind tooltip to a Joker

[frosty dock]

each entry into info_queue causes a subordinate call of generate_card_ui, surely you could patch that function to allow passing through a UI element directly if it needs to be in order

[zealous glen]

local info_tip_from_rows_ref = info_tip_from_rows
function info_tip_from_rows(desc_nodes, name)
    if name == "cr_vic_credits" then
        local t = {}
        for k, v in ipairs(desc_nodes) do
          t[#t+1] = {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cm"}, nodes=v}
        end
        return {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cm", colour = darken(G.C.GREY, 0.15), r = 0.1}, nodes={
          {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "tm", minh = 0.36, padding = 0.03}, nodes={{n=G.UIT.T, config={text = localize('k_vic_credits'), scale = 0.32, colour = G.C.UI.TEXT_LIGHT}}}},
          {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cm", minw = 1.5, minh = 0.4, r = 0.1, padding = 0.05, colour = lighten(G.C.GREY, 0.15), emboss = 0.05}, nodes={{n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cm", padding = 0.03}, nodes=t}}}
        }}
    else
        return info_tip_from_rows_ref(desc_nodes, name)
    end
end

[hushed cradle]

is this clear enough to understand easily?

should i highlight the 'only'

[river panther]

so three of a kind gives over x27 mult?

[hushed cradle]

yeah

hmm

[river panther]

oh

[hushed cradle]

wait i think

i should

[river panther]

seems broken

[hushed cradle]

make it like idol

where its a specific rank maybe?

yeah ill make it specific card and suit

to balance

[river panther]

Feels very niche

[hushed cradle]

i want to make all hands viable for endless

my quick (and probably wrong) maths says that its about on par with 5 cards each x2

[river panther]

Maybe do probability to fit the theme. Something like If played hand is 3 of a kind each card has 1 in 3 chance to give 3 mult

sorry X3 mult

[hushed cradle]

ill see

i dont want it to be like bloodstone tho

where its unreliable

[river panther]

Bloodstone does troll sometimes

[hushed cradle]

i hate bloodstone

spades >>

[river panther]

You could do a scaling joker that has probability. Something like X1 mult 1 in 3 chance to increase by x0.5 when a three of a kind is played

So you always hit x mult but gotta scale it early

[hushed cradle]

thats not really viable for endless tho

[river panther]

Ohhh I see

[hushed cradle]

i think making it a specific card from your deck, and having it as a rare is fairly balanced

and then you can play 3 of a kind for high scores

[river panther]

cook it up

[hushed cradle]

or the new hand i wanna add, flush 3 💀

[hushed cradle]

^^

tryna make it so you can play whatever hand you like and still go big endless

[river panther]

I thought of a nice idea

[hushed cradle]

yea

[river panther]

Pairs retrigger all cards held in hand

it could be a common

[hushed cradle]

that would be cool

[river panther]

So its similar to mime but for pairs and stacks with it

[hushed cradle]

damn actually i really like that

can i use it?

[river panther]

Could be called like double vision or something

yeah go ahead

[hushed cradle]

cheers

i think im gonna make a post in the modding bit about this

for the pairs retriggering

do you think having it only retrigger 2s would work?

i dont think you should be able to use it with baron

prefer the idea of it being separate

[river panther]

Well the whole idea is its mime again, which is uncommon BUT there is a condition making it only work when a pair is played. I think this alone is good enough to set them apart. If you make it only 2s then you are limiting yourself for it being used only for a wee joker steel deck

But its up to you

[hushed cradle]

i reckon youre right

just a bit concerned cos there would be no real reason to pick it over baron + mime

cos you can hold 1 more card

maybe it could trigger card held in hands effects that are on the pair you play

like you play 2 steel cards and they each give 1.5

then the steel in your hand gives 1.5 too

[river panther]

okay you have 1 less card because your playing a pair BUT you are retrigging all your other cards held in hand. Of course mime is objectively better but your joker would be common making it more likely to show up

its essentially a debuffed mime

or nerfed i should say

[hushed cradle]

thats true but then youd pivot to high card for endless

instead of sticking with pairs

maybe have it trigger gold and steel effects on the pair you play

but not baron

so if i play 2 steel kings

i get the steel bonus

[river panther]

alright alright I got ANOTHER idea then scrap the old one

[hushed cradle]

but not the baron bonus

hit me w it

[river panther]

So right now you want all hands to be viable yes

[hushed cradle]

yea

[river panther]

The main issue with endless is you end up limited by your handsize

[hushed cradle]

yea

[river panther]

This card may be broken but i think its a sick idea and may code it myself or some variation of it

every 9 consecutive pairs played in a row increase handsize by +1 permanately

you can adjust the number of consecutive pairs accordingly

[hushed cradle]

that is pretty strong

maybe it should increment every time you do it

so 9 pairs, 12 pairs, 15 pairs

[river panther]

good idea

[hushed cradle]

i think that wouldnt be too strong

just up there with idol and baron mime

[river panther]

What makes it balanced is the fact it needs to be consecutive. Could get screwed with a bad draw or discards not hiting or just player the blind with no discards

Or the blind with no consecutive hand types

[hushed cradle]

yeah

its def an interesting idea

i might try implement both ideas

and play around a bit and see what its like

[river panther]

But fuck it make a broken joker. Id rather have a broken joker than an underpowered joker so people would use it

[hushed cradle]

hell yeah

endless scales too quick lol

so far ive got a joker that retriggers aces and one that gives 9 mult for every square rank card played

ace 4 and 9

actually im gonna make a post about this in the modding thing

cos i feel bad for filling up this chat w stuff

[river panther]

may be a good idea

[zealous glen]

If played hand is Three of a Kind, X32 Mult

Which is very excessive

[hushed cradle]

its gonna be a specific card like idol

otherwise its way too broken

[zealous glen]

Even if it's a specific card it's already broken

For comparison

[hushed cradle]

2^5 is x32

i think

so its on par with flush five idol

i think

[zealous glen]

X6 Mult if played hand is High Card containing a scoring Ace of Spades
was too much in thunk's opinion

Or maybe it was X13, I forget

[zealous glen]

I mean, following this logic you want to balance it with 3OAK Idol, which is X8

And The Trio is X3 IIRC

[hushed cradle]

i want it to be as strong as flush five idol so its viable in endless

cos you can only play 3 cards the mult needs to be higher to match 5 cards of x2

[zealous glen]

How do I hook functions if the hook is inside a file called with NFS.load?

It worked when I called the file directly but apparently what I'm doing right now doesn't

for _, hook in ipairs(hook_list) do
    local init, error = NFS.load(SMODS.current_mod.path .. "hooks/" .. hook ..".lua")
    if error then sendErrorMessage("VictinsCollection :: Failed to load "..hook.." with error "..error) else
        local data = init()
        sendDebugMessage("VictinsCollection :: Loaded hook: " .. hook)
    end
end

Wait nevermind only a specific hook failed and it threw an error

[zealous glen]

Is this spaghetti code?

local reroll_boss_ref = G.FUNCS.reroll_boss

G.FUNCS.reroll_boss = function(e)
    --[[…]]
    local previous_force_boss = G.FORCE_BOSS
    local changed_force_boss = true
    --[[…]]
    local get_new_boss_ref = get_new_boss

    get_new_boss = function()
        local get_new_boss_val = get_new_boss_ref()
        if changed_force_boss then
            G.FORCE_BOSS = previous_force_boss
        end
        get_new_boss = get_new_boss_ref
        return get_new_boss_val
    end

    local reroll_boss_val = reroll_boss_ref(e)

    return reroll_boss_val
end

[frosty dock]

huh, a one-time hook inside another hook

interesting

[hushed cradle]

the {V:1} thing gives me an error

i can send a ss of it

thats the top bit

idk why it doesnt like it

[river panther]

Does it work

[frosty dock]

you're not giving it a color variable

[hushed cradle]

in the localization thing thats what idol does

tbh idk what it means

i kinda assumed C was for colour

but idk why its v

[frosty dock]

that's just not how variables work in this engine

[hushed cradle]

right nvm

would you know how to get the colour of a suit from the name

[frosty dock]

G.C.SUITS[suit]

[hushed cradle]

is [suit] a string?

also what about high contrast

[frosty dock]

for vanilla suits, it's one of "Hearts", "Diamonds", "Spades", "Clubs"

high contrast is accounted for

[hushed cradle]

cool

thank you

actually carrying my modding

[frosty dock]

the V arg is for color variables, which you have to pass in through loc_vars, while C is for static, predefined coloring

[hushed cradle]

ohh

i havent bothered doing anything with loc_vars for any of my jokers

is that bad?

[frosty dock]

loc_vars is what you should be using for anything stateful in terms of descriptions instead of inlining it into the description

#n# for any number n will be replaced by the variable passed in at index n

[zealous glen]

It totally won't go wrong when multiple rerolls happen in sequence

[zealous glen]

Not quite

The forced boss is affecting the next reroll but not the first reroll

So it's delayed

[hushed cradle]

so its not hardcoded

[frosty dock]

if that piece of code is where I think it is, I don't see how that would even begin to function with any amount of state involved

[zealous glen]

I thought this would adress it because I thought the issue was that get_new_boss was called inside an event

[hushed cradle]

its in loc_txt

lol

is that bad

💀

does that mean it wont update

ah

i see

[frosty dock]

exactly

[hushed cradle]

you have enlightened me

thank you

[zealous glen]

@frosty dock any help with forcing a specific Boss?

I actually had an injection that worked, but I figured I should use a hook if a hook works

[frosty dock]

use an injection

or use a hook but don't make the hook temporary, but its condition instead

even then it won't stack unless the condition is numeric

[zealous glen]

Actually it is a conditional hook. The temporary hook is just to revert G.FORCE_BOSS to whatever it was before I used it

I couldn't find an example of G.FORCE_BOSS being used. I reckon it's an artifact of the demo which was always Verdant Green

[frosty dock]

have you tried if anything breaks if you ignore G.FORCE_BOSS's changed value?

[zealous glen]

No. Since I don't think it's used, I only foresee my own mod or other mods breaking

I'd need to clear G.FORCE_BOSS elsewhere, I think that's the only change I'd need to make

for self-compatibility

[hushed cradle]

am i doing this wrong?

[zealous glen]

yes

card not self

[hushed cradle]

oh yeah

will that fix the error tho?

[wintry solar]

What’s line 177/178?

[zealous glen]

I don't know if 1 = … is Lua syntax

[hushed cradle]

oh

[zealous glen]

You can just list the values without keys

[hushed cradle]

all my knowledge of lua is just reading the game source code and other peoples mods

cool

[zealous glen]

or do ```lua
[1]

[hushed cradle]

but doesnt the index start at 0?

[wintry solar]

Not in lua

[hushed cradle]

ofc it doesnt

[zealous glen]

Also not in Lua

[hushed cradle]

right

thanks

[wintry solar]

But yeah, just list the values

They don’t need keys

[hushed cradle]

cool

i wouldve done that if i knew it started at 1

probably

[brisk pond]

[1] is

[zealous glen]

hmm

[frosty dock]

mfw [tonumber([[[[1]]]])]

[zealous glen]

Ah wait I think I understand the issue

When add_to_deck is called, the Joker isn't in the deck yet (?)

That's why find_card doesn't find it

[hushed cradle]

does {V: take a hex value?

[frosty dock]

oh also there's another issue with this - color vars are their own thing

[hushed cradle]

damn

im tryna figure out the colour thing

[frosty dock]

vars = { ..., colours = { G.C.SUITS[...] } }

something like this

[hushed cradle]

oh

[frosty dock]

it needs to be a field inside vars

[hushed cradle]

and then 1 for colour 1

?

[frosty dock]

you don't need explicit indices for numeric arrays

[hushed cradle]

i mean in the description

[frosty dock]

yeah

[hushed cradle]

i do {V:1} for first index colour

sick

thank you

[zealous glen]

I think some colors are variables

Like

Castle or something

there's some Joker that uses Suit colors as variables

[hushed cradle]

if i have a mod that recolours the names of suits

do i need to load my mod after?

[frosty dock]

colors are only displayed after injection, so in theory it shouldn't matter

[hushed cradle]

cool

i didnt realise how dark the clubs suit is by default

so i thought it wasnt working

time to see if the card really does change every round or my pc explodes

no way

its actually different from idol and rebate and whatnot

[frosty dock]

is jackpot_card a global var?

[hushed cradle]

no

[frosty dock]

then where does it come from?

[hushed cradle]

hold on

you might die seeing this

[river panther]

After 3 hours finally ported to 1.0.0 for like 400 lines of code. I feel weak

[hushed cradle]

💀

[edgy reef]

WHAT

[frosty dock]

oh so it's just an upvalue??

[hushed cradle]

a what?

[frosty dock]

w/e

see for yourself, what happens when you savescum?

[hushed cradle]

how do i do that

you mean like exit to menu

[sly forge]

yes

[frosty dock]

yep

[hushed cradle]

its still the same card

[sly forge]

oh, sorry, reload the game

[frosty dock]

what if you close the game and re-enter the run

[hushed cradle]

alright 1 sec

ah

i see

[sly forge]

(yeah the upvalue would be the same. including across different profiles)

[hushed cradle]

how do i fix this then

cos it also doesnt change when you start a run

[sly forge]

set a variable G.GAME.XXX

[hushed cradle]

so its always same card first round

[frosty dock]

do what other cards of this kind do, use a field in G.GAME

[hushed cradle]

um

[frosty dock]

as for resetting values, you can define a function SMODS.current_mod.reset_game_globals() that will be called whenever necessary

[hushed cradle]

how do i do the other thing

the field in G.GAME

[frosty dock]

G.GAME.xxxx_jackpot_card = whatever with xxxx being some prefix to ensure there's no collision if another mod would happen to have a jackpot_card too

[hushed cradle]

how do i get it to reset and save and stuff tho

[zealous glen]

it just works

[hushed cradle]

or does the game handle that

cool

[frosty dock]

just shove that and your code for generating a new random suit and rank into reset_game_globals

applied to that field, of course

[hushed cradle]

is reset_game_globals smth i do in my own mod then

just make a function

sorry ive acc got no clue about this stuff

[frosty dock]

function SMODS.current_mod.reset_game_globals()
  -- code goes in here
end

[hushed cradle]

thank you so much

[hushed cradle]

i completely missed this message somehow

sorry

is there a set_globals thing too

[frosty dock]

there's actually an argument to the function that tells you whether or not it's being called at the start of a run

but either way it does get called there

[hushed cradle]

im tryna hover over it in the collection and its telling me im tryna index a nil value

so i wondered if i need to set it when the game boots

[zealous glen]

Actually there's another issue

When one card is added to the deck, it's not still in the deck so the check before the reroll doesn't see it

Which means it can be overridden by the older one

[frosty dock]

right, you might just need to add your default value in Game:init_game_object(), there doesn't seem to be anything else that other cards like castle do to make this work

[edgy reef]

Pretty sure they just have a default value if the global one is nil

[hushed cradle]

can i literally just append it?

oh it does return right at the top

[hushed cradle]

yeah i got no clue how to do this ngl

gonna grab some cereal and ponder

[zealous glen]

Sorry, @frosty dock, how am I supposed to use Joker.generate_ui again?

[river panther]

Recently ported over my 0.9.8 jokers to steamodded 1.0.0 and everything shows up fine with description sprites whatever. No crashes whatsover but No matter what my calculate function never triggers EVER. Has anybody ever had this problem?

[zealous glen]

what does your calculate looks like

[river panther]

        if context.joker_main and G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 0 then
            return {
                message = localize{type = 'variable', key = 'a_xmult', vars = {card.ability.extra}},
                Xmult_mod = card.ability.extra
            }
        end
    end,```

Very basic x3 mult on first hand

For all my jokers this is just a simple case

[zealous glen]

Arguments are wrong

function(self, card, context)

[river panther]

😦

Yup they all work perfectly now

4 year degree in computer science.... For what?

[languid quiver]

hello mod dev

i need help with something i reeeeeally want to implement

[brisk pond]

what do you reeeeeally want to implement?

[languid quiver]

it's a challenge where you start with 1 less discard and have to play pairs

or else your hand doesnt score

plus, you can play up to 6 cards at a time

oh, and i want to implement the hand type "three pair"

30 chips x 2 mult base

uhhhh

hmmmm

did u install lovely?

the latest version of it?

[royal ether]

iirc theres "hand of six" which does this but im not sure if its updated

also havent seen the mod author around here

[proper stratus]

im not sure

[royal ether]

this is a #⚙・modding-general question

dw about deleting, just ask again there 👍

[proper stratus]

no its ok dont worry

i made it work!

[royal ether]

o nice

[languid quiver]

yay!!

[proper stratus]

i just didnt want to clutter up the chat with unnecessary stuff

the problem was a bad version of lovely

thank you all so much

[royal ether]

bro let me tell you, the fact that youre developing something in your free time makes you better than 99% of comp sci students

keep it up

[hushed cradle]

can someone help me out rq

ive got a joker i added that gives a bonus to a certain card

like idol

and it changes every round

atm i have this

which is fine except

if i look in the collection before starting a run

i cant hover over the joker because it crashes

i need to set G.GAME.vanexp_jackpot_card on startup

but i dont know how to

is there like an SMODS.current_mod.start or smth similar?

[royal ether]

you can create a fallback variable for your loc_vars

instead of creating a variable on game startup

[hushed cradle]

this is what it looks like atm

oh can i do

or

like this or that,

[royal ether]

yea you can do if G.GAME.vanexp_jackpot_card then your code

yea an or works too

up to you

[hushed cradle]

thank you so much

[royal ether]

np

[hushed cradle]

ive been struggling over this for so long lol

[royal ether]

i was struggling over a similar issue in one of my mods too lol

didnt think of defaults for like 2 hours

[hushed cradle]

sometimes the solutions are just too simple

[royal ether]

does anyone know off the top of their heads what happens if you have 0 hand size

is it even possible to get to 0 hand size or does it floor out at 1

[crisp coral]

0 hand size kills you

[royal ether]

aw dang it

    if #G.hand.cards < 1 and #G.deck.cards < 1 and #G.play.cards < 1 then
        end_round()
    end```
i genuinely cant tell, is this what kills you if your hand size is 0?

if i set hand size to 0, wouldnt deck still have cards

yknow im just gonna test it myself instead of askin

[crisp coral]

this is running out of cards

[brisk pond]

this isnt when you play/discard all your deck?

[hushed cradle]

can i get you guys' opinion on the art for some jokers

[royal ether]

oh i found the part that kills you

theres a lot of different 'kill you' methods

as in two

[fallen tendon]

The smol joker has some serious birth defects

[hushed cradle]

yeah hes creepy asf

thats the least creepy i could get him tho

[royal ether]

i think he looks cute

[hushed cradle]

its just smth about his eyes

[royal ether]

the makeup around the eyes does kinda not look like make up

[hushed cradle]

hes strange

but i like him

[royal ether]

agree

[hushed cradle]

not to be confused with square joker lol

[fallen tendon]

Make cubed joker

[royal ether]

if my lovely pattern hits no matches, it doesnt show in the logs right

[fallen tendon]

Its just jimball but a cube

I wonder how jimballs animatuon was made though

[mellow sable]

Pyramid joker

[mellow sable]

If you look in fan art there was a whole process

Someone put Jimbo on a ball in blender and rotated it then someone else pixelized it

[river panther]

Is their a function I can call on context.other_card to check its enhanced ability

cant find one in the source code

[brisk pond]

it does, check in the first lines

alternatively, you can open Mods/lovely/dump/targetfile.lua and check yourself if the change happened

[solemn coral]

context.other_card.ability.effect == "Mult Card"

[river panther]

Thanks. I noticed get_id also gives a negative value for stone cards so I was like fuck it and just checked if that was negative lol

[royal ether]

i found my issue, i forgot to put functions/ in front of state_events.lua hee hee

[brisk pond]

it happens even to the best of us

[royal ether]

this was... surprisingly hard?

so much of the game kinda just assumes you have cards when you play a hand

which makes sense

i hope this mod doesnt explode compatibility

[hushed cradle]

why do you get a single chip lol

[royal ether]

i usually just do placeholder values when im still developing

[hushed cradle]

makes sense

ive got an unlock for a joker

but when you unlock it and exit to menu it crashes cos it cant draw an unlock box

i have no idea what any of this means

[zealous glen]

What's the error?

[zealous glen]

I do think it should be a single chip

I'm looking at a mod that defines generate_ui (D6 Jokers) but I'm still not sure how to make a tooltip out of it

[hushed cradle]

whenever i exit to menu it gives me this

i tried removing all my mods and reinstalling

but its still there

[uneven fern]

INFO - [G] 2024-07-08 22:59:00 :: ERROR :: StackTrace :: Oops! The game crashed
main.lua:4117: assertion failed!
I got this error after updating to the latset version. How can I fix it?

Update: It's Codex Arcanum making this error.

[nocturne garnet]

is there a way to check if the current context is one of the contexts in a set array

i want to make a randomized joker with a random context, but i want to filter it

[wintry solar]

So you have a list of contexts and you want to see if only one is present? Or if a set one is present?

[zealous glen]

Does Steamodded support using enhancement_gate?

[nocturne garnet]

if any one of them is present, it triggers the effect

[zealous glen]

To the people who emoted 👍 , so I just pass enhancement_gate = enhancement_key to the Joker constructor?

[wintry solar]

Would that not then lead to triggering multiple times per calculation?

[zealous glen]

It could remember if it has been triggered during a run of evaluate_play

[wintry solar]

There’s not many conditional contexts either

[nocturne garnet]

wait no, i meant if a specific one is present it triggers the effect

i dont even know how i said it this wrong

[mental wind]

I'm hoping to try and make some simple mods of my own, but I have no idea where to start on figuring out formatting other than just copy pasting other people's code formatting and hoping it works when I edit it. Is that really the best thing for me to do, or are there other resources out there where I could learn how to make balatro mods?

[languid mirage]

I mean, that's how I started, so I don't see any shame with that approach. You start by looking at solution, then try to solve it on your own.

Steamodded 1.0.0 docs are not complete yet, but there's some info https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/wiki
There's also example mods in steamodded that help you understand how API works https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/tree/main/example_mods/Mods

[mental wind]

Okay, thank you!

[languid mirage]

You're welcome

[languid mirage]

You should definitely unzip Balatro.exe with 7zip and look through source code to see how jokers and such are calculated. There's also a helpful resource for joker calculation contexts https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1247703015222149120, which might help once you get the hang of the API basics (but I personally found checking calculate_jokers function or just searching 'Joker Name' in source code much better to look for examples)

Also, keep in mind that some modded jokers might use lovely patches, which are injections directly to the game's source code (they're always in .toml files) for features not covered by the API. So just copying lua stuff might not always work. But you don't have to learn that right away

[mental wind]

I tried to make a very simple joker based off the formatting in another mod, but I got an error code saying [string (my code)] attempt to call field 'Joker' (a table value). Any idea what I did wrong here?

[frosty dock]

that's a version mismatch, your code is for steamodded 1.0, but you have 0.9.8 or below installed

[mental wind]

When I go to the releases page, it says the latest release is 0.9.8. How do I get to 1.0?

[river panther]

You have to follow the git instructions

[mental wind]

That's what I'm looking at, but it says to download steammodded from the release page, and the page it links to only has 0.9.8 and below

[frosty dock]

you get 1.0 via the source code on the main branch

[river panther]

yeah

Have you cloned the steammodded repo in the mods folder?

[frosty dock]

Specifically these instructions here: https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/wiki/01.-Getting-started#using-the-command-line-requires-git

If you prefer a direct download, you could also just use this, but it's harder to update that way: https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

[mental wind]

I found the source code download in the README on github. Is that the one that's harder to update, or will it be fine?

[river panther]

Thats the direct download. It will be harder to update

But it will work

[mental wind]

What is it that makes it harder to update? Is it like the old version where instead of just sitting in the mods folder where you can easily remove it, you need to verify your files on steam to clear it?

[river panther]

You would need to replace the download. Whereas if you use git you just pull in the command line and it updates it

No need to manually replace files

[mental wind]

Okay, that'll probably be fine, since I'd be worried about messing something up if I tried to update it that way, since I'm not sure what that means. Plus, it's not too much hassle to swap out files every so often, so I'll just do it with the direct download

Is the folder that I need to add just the entire unzipped steammodded-main, or is there a folder inside of that I'm supposed to take out?

Because the instructions say to use the folder Steamodded-1.x.x, but I don't see any folders with a similar name

[tepid crow]

the unzipped files should be directly under the balatro/mods/steamodded (or whatever it's called), no nested folders (though it might still work with them nested?)

should look something like this

[mental wind]

okay, so it is the folder that holds all of those. I guess the instructions just assumed it would have a different name than the version I downloaded did, which is why I was confused

[tepid crow]

That's one of the differences when dowloading the zip as opposed to git. I do think you chose the easier option though, to be fair

[mental wind]

Is there still supposed to be a mods tab next to collection like in the old version?

Because I just opened the game and it's not there

[tepid crow]

did you download lovely?

[mental wind]

Ah, no, I didn't. I'll do that, and hopefully it should work then

[tepid crow]

Ah. Yeah make sure to read through all the instructions on the getting started with steamodded page.

[mental wind]

Yeah, I had read through that before, but then got focused on the steammodded part and just forgot about the injector

You just put the injector here, right?

[zealous glen]

No

[tepid crow]

In balatro's install folder

[zealous glen]

Put it in the game’s files

[tepid crow]

should be here

[mental wind]

Found it, thanks

It seems to be working now, but now when I open the game it also opens a second window with this. (I would show the full window, but the last line shows my steam id, which feels like something I shouldn't publicise)

[tepid crow]

yeah that's normal

(and useful when debugging)

[mental wind]

Is it supposed to just stay open the entire time? I tried to close it and it closed balatro itself too

[tepid crow]

yes, it's directly connected with the balatro instance

I think you can hide it if you want, see here #1217867725532041369 message

but if you're planning on making mods yourself I'd suggest not doing that, balatro's built-in error screen is not as good as the console's, in my experience

[mental wind]

Okay, thanks

[zealous glen]

I prefer the built-in debug

Though you need to run it with Python

[tepid crow]

built-in debug? 👀

[zealous glen]

Yeah in Steamodded’s debug folder

[mental wind]

Now that the test mod I was trying to make works, how do I tell the game how to access an asset?

[zealous glen]

You create an Atlas object, then pass the key to the Joker

[mental wind]

k, I saw other mods using atlases, but the ones I was looking at were using sprite sheets, so I thought it might just be for those. I'll try and recreate the ones I've seen and see if that will work

[tepid crow]

Oh, neat. Thanks! Is there any reason why that one isn't .pyw btw?

[zealous glen]

idk

what’s .pyw

[tepid crow]

I think windows describes it pretty well

Python File (no console)

[mental wind]

I just got the error "Failed to collect file data for Atlas bala_test". Any idea what I did wrong?

The image I made is saved as TestingJoker.png inside an assets folder that is in the mod folder

[zealous glen]

Missing mod prefix

[mental wind]

What does that mean?

Where would I add it?

[zealous glen]

You can add one to the header but the automatic one is the first four letters of your mod’s name

Your mod’s name begins with “Bala” I presume, hence it tries to find the atlas indexed by bala_test

[mental wind]

oh, so the joker and atlas should both have the key bala_test instead of test?

Or only one of them?

[zealous glen]

No

[mental wind]

oh, it automatically adds bala_ to the atlas key, so I need the joker key to be bala_test? Is that it?

[zealous glen]

Actually wait

[mental wind]

Or is it because Bala would be used for what's already in the game, so it breaks something?

[zealous glen]

Put the error message here

[zealous glen]

Ah wait, what does your asset folder look like

[zealous glen]

You need two folders inside it, 1x and 2x

Put the image in 1x and make a double-sized copy to put in 2x

[mental wind]

Is there a simple way to create the double-sized copy?

[zealous glen]

The art program you used to make the original artwork might

[tepid crow]

Unfortunately no real tool to do so, no

you'll have to do so manually

[mental wind]

Got it to work, thanks!

Do you know if there's a mod that lets you access a console or something similar, because I'd like to be able to find it quickly so I can see if it works in game

[tepid crow]

There's debug mode (https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1209857245316255744 or https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1228149931257237664), which can spawn jokers in from the collection screen

[hushed cradle]

i use paint.net and you can do it in 1x and then resize the image to 200% using nearest neighbor sampling

[mental wind]

I wish I had checked back earlier, because I just finished a full plasma deck run where I found it in the small blind shop in ante 8, only to realize it doesn't actually work

Luckily I have 2 bulls and over $400, so I have plenty of time to test with it

[tepid crow]

hah, nice

[mental wind]

I am very confused though, on how to make the jokers effects

[hushed cradle]

have you looked through the source code?

thats super helpful

[mental wind]

No, how would I do that

[hushed cradle]

if you go to where balatro is installed on steam

you can go to local files

you make a copy of the exe somewhere

then you can extract using winrar or 7zip

or similar

[mental wind]

Would it work to just look through a bunch of other mods to see the way they do it, or is it going to be better to look through balatro itself?

[hushed cradle]

i would say def look through balatro itself

but some other mods might help

but the source code has like very basics and stuff

[brisk pond]

may I suggest you https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1257660889520144446?

[mental wind]

I think I'm going to try without it, just because it doesn't display anything, which could make it confusing to see whether it's working with more complex jokers, but if I'm still lost after looking through the game, then maybe I'll try it. Thanks for showing me though!

[mental wind]

If I just extract directly from where steam opens to when I hit browse, will it break things, or is that fine?

[tepid crow]

You could. Any direct file edits will also go to a temporary file. Don't move any files in or out of the compressed exe though, or you'll need to reverify 🙃

[hushed cradle]

i wouldnt do that

[tepid crow]

but yeah, you probably shouldnt

[hushed cradle]

easier just to make a copy of the exe somewhere

[brisk pond]

you think having debug messages would be good?

[mental wind]

I'm referring to how, in the video of you showing off the joker that does x10 chips on each played card, that is calculated at the same time that the plus chips from the actual card is, instead of being a seperate trigger after, which makes it harder to tell whether things trigger

[brisk pond]

oh now I updated it, that problem isn't a thing anymore

[mental wind]

I've tried a few times now, but everything has been crashing. How should I format the config and the mult in calculate?

[brisk pond]

problem is in config

config = {extra = {mult = 100}},

and then card.ability.extra.mult to get it

[mental wind]

I think I tried that and it didn't work, but I'll try again and see if it does

Yeah, it's still giving the same error

[mental wind]

I've tried both mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult and just card.ability.extra.mult on its own, and neither worked. Should there be something else in that line, or is it a different issue?

Here's the error I got

[tepid crow]

Do you have that as text instead of image? Kinda hard to copy-paste from an image

[mental wind]

Give me a sec to crash it again so I can grab it from the console instead of the screen

[tepid crow]

I meant your code, not the error

[crisp coral]

your config is missing the extra here

[mental wind]

INFO - [G] 2024-07-08 17:25:38 :: ERROR :: StackTrace :: Oops! The game crashed
[SMODS BalatroTesting1357 "BalatroTesting.lua"]:38: attempt to index field 'extra' (a nil value)
Stack Traceback

(1) Lua local 'handler' at file 'main.lua:1900'
Local variables:
msg = string: "[SMODS BalatroTesting1357 "BalatroTesting.lua"]:38: attempt to index field 'extra' (a nil value)"
(*temporary) = Lua function '?' (defined at line 6476 of chunk main.lua)
(*temporary) = string: "Oops! The game crashed
"
(2) Love2D metamethod at file 'boot.lua:352'
Local variables:
errhand = Lua function '?' (defined at line 1897 of chunk main.lua)
handler = Lua function '?' (defined at line 1897 of chunk main.lua)
(3) Lua method 'calculate' at file 'BalatroTesting.lua:38' (from mod with id BalatroTesting1357)
Local variables:
self = table: 0x22e87658 {alerted:true, _saved_d_u:true, original_key:test, loc_txt:table: 0x22e88190 (more...)}
card = table: 0x23548350 {under_overlay:false, sort_id:593, click_offset:table: 0x22f05200, STATIONARY:false (more...)}
context = table: 0x23149fe8 {poker_hands:table: 0x2371d910, scoring_name:High Card, scoring_hand:table: 0x236e4238 (more...)}
(*temporary) = table: 0x232369f8 {}
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = string: "attempt to index field 'extra' (a nil value)"
(4) Lua method 'calculate_joker' at file 'card.lua:2379'
Local variables:
self = table: 0x23548350 {under_overlay:false, sort_id:593, click_offset:table: 0x22f05200, STATIONARY:false (more...)}
context = table: 0x23149fe8 {poker_hands:table: 0x2371d910, scoring_name:High Card, scoring_hand:table: 0x236e4238 (more...)}
obj = table: 0x22e87658 {alerted:true, _saved_d_u:true, original_key:test, loc_txt:table: 0x22e88190 (more...)}

I added that already, and it didn't fix anything

[tepid crow]

the code, not the error

[mental wind]

Ah, my bad

    key = 'test',
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Test Joker",                                --name used by the joker
        text = {
            "{C:mult}+100{} mult",             --description text
            "{C:attention}THIS IS A TEST{}"                     --more than 5 lines look odd
        }
    },
    config = {extra = {mult = 100}},
    rarity = 1,                                        
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },                         
    atlas = 'test',                                       
    cost = 4,                                        
    unlocked = true,                                 
    discovered = true,                            
    blueprint_compat = true,                    
    eternal_compat = true,                          
    soul_pos = nil,                     

    calculate = function(self, card, context) 
        if context.joker_main then
          return {
            card.ability.extra.mult,
            card = self,
        colour = G.C.MULT,
            message = {"+100"},
                 }
        end
    end
}```

[hallow forge]

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'test',
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Test Joker",                                --name used by the joker
        text = {
            "{C:mult}+100{} mult",             --description text
            "{C:attention}THIS IS A TEST{}"                     --more than 5 lines look odd
        }
    },
    config = {extra = {mult = 100}},
    rarity = 1,
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    atlas = 'test',
    cost = 4,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,
    soul_pos = nil,

    calculate = function(self, card, context) 
        if context.joker_main then
          return {
            card.ability.extra.mult,
            card = self,
        colour = G.C.MULT,
            message = {"+100"},
                 }
        end
    end
}

please format like this

it's easier

[mental wind]

How do I make it format that way?

[tepid crow]

^ using

```lua
code
```

[brisk pond]

maybe it's because atlas key and joker key are the same?

oh wait

[hallow forge]

probably not one gets a "j_" appended the other doesn't

[brisk pond]

card.ability.extra.mult without anything before?

[mental wind]

I've also had mult = card.ability.extra.mult, and that didn't work either

I think it's probably that line, but I'm not sure what to do to fix it

[brisk pond]

try mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult

[mental wind]

Also tried that

[brisk pond]

and delete the card = self

[mental wind]

Just tried that, same crash

[brisk pond]

when does the crash happen?

while booting up the game?

[mental wind]

Once I play a hand

Is there any chance I don't need extra because the joker only uses one variable, because jokers like the default +4 don't have extra in the config

I got it to stop crashing again, but now it doesn't do anything

It now has config = {mult = 100}, and mult_mod = card.ability.mult,

My game didn't crash when I played the hand, but it didn't actually add mult, it just gave the +mult message

This is what it looked like

[tepid crow]

can you try changing the return to

return {
            mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult,
            card = card,
        colour = G.C.MULT,
            message = {"+100"},
                 }

@mental wind

[mental wind]

I did mult_mod = card.ability.mult, because otherwise my game will crash, but I tried the card = card and it didn't work

[tepid crow]

It works for me. This is my full code (I removed the atlas cuz I don't have the png, obviously)

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'test',
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Test Joker",                                --name used by the joker
        text = {
            "{C:mult}+100{} mult",             --description text
            "{C:attention}THIS IS A TEST{}"                     --more than 5 lines look odd
        }
    },
    config = {extra = {mult = 100}},
    rarity = 1,
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    cost = 4,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,
    soul_pos = nil,

    calculate = function(self, card, context) 
        if context.joker_main then
          return {
                  mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult,
                  card = card,
                  colour = G.C.MULT,
                  message = {"+100"},
                 }
        end
    end
}

[brisk pond]

inside the Joker's calculate i got some functions that create a table in card.EzSc. The problem I'm encountering is that EzSc_calculate_joker is called on the next context that is calculated.
Like when you play a hand, the game does calculate_joker with these contexts:

1. context.before
2. context.repetition on first scored card
3. context.individual on first scored card
4. context.repetition on second scored card
5. context.individual on second scored card
6. etc.
   The problem is that with this code, the EzSc table I got with context.individual on first scored card is being used on the next context, which is context.repetition on second scored card

[solid salmon]

does this look joker enough?

[brisk pond]

this problem only happens when context.individual is involved

[brisk pond]

it's like self.EzSc doesn't get the current state of self, but the starting one

[mental wind]

I just did the exact same thing and it crashes my game. It says it's because it tries to index extra, which for some reason is nil

[tepid crow]

Weird. You don't have any other code surrounding it?

[brisk pond]

confirmed, the problem I have is that v:calculate(self, context) creates the card.EzSc table, but it isn't detected later in if self.EzSc then

[shell tangle]

Have you started a new run for testing, or used the same run?

[mental wind]

Same run, but whenever I reload it does work differently, so I don’t think that matters

[shell tangle]

I think it matters for things like changing scope, since you have mult in .extra now rather than just config, it's probably why it's nil, the run needs to be reset for it to exist, I'd say at least give it a shot, but, yeah, might do absolutely nothing.

[solid salmon]

i hate K

[shell timber]

why are you redrawing the joker text?

[solid salmon]

It's for one of my potions

also imma do something with it

[brisk pond]

Is this one the portion that runs the jokers calculate functions?

[solid salmon]

E looks like batman

or something in minecraft

[brisk pond]

can't you use the basic one?

[solid salmon]

i wanted to diy

and this happened

[solid salmon]

it is now a colorful brick

[edgy reef]

NICE

[rough furnace]

unfortuantly, to do pretty much any kind of fancier text editing stuff, I'll have to write my own text renderer

or find a lib I can steal

[tepid crow]

the music really improves it a lot

[rough furnace]

arg parsing

[crisp coral]

wait this actually goes so fucking hard for archipelago

[rough furnace]

Ok I am working on paring steamodded logs, and was thinking, would you rather I just kept the logs as is, but add colour (the first two examples), or to shrink them down a bit as well (the second two examples)?

[crisp coral]

latter looks cleaner

[tepid crow]

looks like you'd lose the logging level?

or will you do something like [Level, Logger]?

[rough furnace]

The colour is based off logging level

Thinking Blue for info, yellow for warn, red for error/fatal, and haven't decided yet for trace or debug (might keep them both info blue)

[tepid crow]

Ahhhh, I see

I'm personally not sure if it's a good idea to make the level that implicit

it also kind of depends on whether you want this to be a replacement for the logs or a more of a different view

[rough furnace]

I mean I'm not replacing the logs totally (especially since this view doesn't render always [like when the game is loading or crashes]) and mods can probably screw with it, but it's kind you don't need the logs 90% of the time you use it

Oh also if you haven't seen it has a fade effect thing for live log reading (so something like this could make it more glanceable)

[edgy reef]

I'd say not have the time and date show up, it's generally not useful info for live viewing.

[tepid crow]

I like the colors and removal of clutter (especially date lol), I'm just not sure about removing the logging level

seems like something someone could easily misunderstand when looking at it for the first time

[crisp coral]

could be like

[ExampleLogger] [W] Example
[ExampleLogger] [I] Example
[ExampleLogger] [D] Example

[rough furnace]

Yeah maybe some variation of that would be good

[limpid flint]

What's ExampleLogger

[rough furnace]

The logger

Used to identify what part of the code the log is coming from

[crisp coral]

either that or

[ExampleLogger | W] Example
[ExampleLogger | I] Example
[ExampleLogger | D] Example

[limpid flint]

I think Warn/Info/Fatal is still very useful

W/I/D is a bit, confusing

[crisp coral]

[W]arn
[I]nfo
[D]ebug
[F]atal
[E]rror

that's fine imho

[limpid flint]

Well my log experience most came from, well, modded Minecraft

It has similar log screen

Just that it's not covered over the whole game

[rough furnace]

Yeah I prefer single character ones
Which of these do you all think looks best?

[ExampleLogger] [W] Example
[W] [ExampleLogger] Example
[ExampleLogger | W] Example
[W | ExampleLogger] Example
[ExampleLogger :: W] Example
[W :: ExampleLogger] Example

[mellow sable]

W should be at the end I think

[rough furnace]

Yeah I kinda took inspiration from the Minecraft chat box, although Minecraft does have an actual log it uses for development, which this is designed to more closely resemble

[crisp coral]

modded minecraft's logging is the messiest thing i've ever seen actually

< only plays modpacks

[limpid flint]

I think the character should come in front of everything, it would look tidier

Since ExampleLogger will very if I am understanding it correctly

[rough furnace]

Oh also thoughts on maybe hiding debug level logs by defsult, and an option to turn them on (so mod devs can use them without spamming the console)

[rough furnace]

Yeah example logger can have arbitrary length

[limpid flint]

I imagine this if sorted by freq is I≈D>W>F>E

[shell timber]

single letter + colour would be nice

[mellow sable]

yeah color makes it easier to tell importance

[shell timber]

ideally there should be near zero debug but in practice that'd be right

*in release build

[rough furnace]

Yeah maybe I leave it on

[limpid flint]

Then I>>D>W>E>F?

[tepid crow]

fatal and error are presumably the other way around btw

[rough furnace]

Though I think I keep debug logs off by default, and then devs can leave these logs for debugging and users can run a command to change the log level

[shell timber]

as for colours i'd go

info: white
debug: blue
warning: yellow
error + fatal: red

but you probably wouldn't see fatal(?)

[rough furnace]

Yeah I figured fatal won't be seen so ill just match error

There's also trace but tbh idk when it's supposed to be used

[shell timber]

trace is for a full stack trace so it'd probably be under debug

[rough furnace]

I was kinding thinking info would be blue but maybe it should just be white

[shell timber]

info and debug can be swapped tbh

[rough furnace]

RN its the same blue as the fps display

[tepid crow]

boy have I got a SO post for you https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2031163/when-to-use-the-different-log-levels

[limpid flint]

I don't know what to think about info, they are mostly just bunch of numbers

[shell timber]

yellow / red are really the only defined colours

[rough furnace]

Oh also any log that doesnt go through steamodded (or probably an api I'll eventually make) defaults to info

[shell timber]

that's fair enough

[limpid flint]

For developers maybe all of them are important, but for most ppl they might think it's too much. For me I am amongst the latter

[rough furnace]

Oh by a bunch of numbers do you mean the LONG DT messages?

[limpid flint]

I use debug plus mainly for debug panel feature, and a toggle to default the unimportant logs to not appear would be greatly appreciated

[limpid flint]

yes I think so

[rough furnace]

Yeah I just disabled that in the dev branch

It's a built in thing but I don't think anyone uses it

[edgy reef]

It's just a sign of lag, which is noticeable

[rough furnace]

Yeah, it's probably useful if your debugging performance, but not much else

Once I build a proper log level system, then I can just demote it to a debug log

[tepid crow]

btw wilson I feel like you'd know, shouldn't inject_class run before inject on a custom Center class?

[rough furnace]

Uhh idk I just make dev tools, not actually make new content

[tepid crow]

oop

anyone else?

[edgy reef]

...it does

[tepid crow]

right, that was my assumption too

[edgy reef]

The inject_class function is what handles inject so if you redefine it and have the super/GameObject inject_class go after that's automatically before inject

[tepid crow]

yeah I super

this is what I have

SMODS.Sleeve = SMODS.Center:extend {
    class_prefix = "sleeve",
    discovered = false,
    unlocked = true,
    set = "Sleeve",
    atlas = "sleeve_atlas",
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},  -- within `atlas`
    required_params = {"key", "atlas", "pos"},
    inject_class = function(self)
                   G.P_CENTER_POOLS[self.set] = {}
                   G.P_SLEEVES = {}
                   SMODS.Sleeve.super.inject_class(self)
                   end
}

but it errors when I try to create a custom object using the class

like this

SMODS.Sleeve{
    key = "none",
    name = "No Sleeve",
    config = {},
    loc_txt = {
        name = "No Sleeve",
        text = {""}
    },
    atlas = "jokers",
    pos = {x=0, y=9}
}

[edgy reef]

What error is it exactly?

[tepid crow]

do you want the full error?

[edgy reef]

yea

[tepid crow]

https://pastebin.com/57iHC6pF

[crisp coral]

@rough furnace going to ask this ahead of time, is it okay if we bundle the new logger into Balatro Archipelago (and modify it a tad) to allow communication between games

[tepid crow]

I'm not sure my inject_class is even getting called

yeah I dont think it's being called

[edgy reef]

If you put a debug message there is it printing anything?

[tepid crow]

no

(that's what I did and why I'm assuming it's not running 🙃)

do I need to initiate it somehow?

[edgy reef]

Should automatically

Maybe try appending inject

[tepid crow]

you mean something like this?

SMODS.Sleeve = SMODS.Center:extend {
    class_prefix = "sleeve",
    discovered = false,
    unlocked = true,
    set = "Sleeve",
    atlas = "sleeve_atlas",
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},  -- within `atlas`
    required_params = {"key", "atlas", "pos"},
    ‎inject_class = function(self)
                   G.P_CENTER_POOLS[self.set] = {}
                   G.P_SLEEVES = {}
                   sendDebugMessage("G.P_CENTER_POOLS[self.set] = " .. G.P_CENTER_POOLS[self.set], "CardSleeves")
                   SMODS.Sleeve.super.inject_class(self)
                   end,
    inject = function(self)
             SMODS.insert_pool(G.P_CENTER_POOLS[self.set], self)
             G.P_SLEEVES[self.key] = self
             end
}

cuz doing that doesn't seem to change the error

weirdly, I did try extending GameObject instead of Center, and that didnt have this issue

[edgy reef]

ohhhh

[tepid crow]

does that... explain something?

[edgy reef]

What if you specifically call SMODS.GameObject.inject_class instead of SMODS.Sleeve.super?

Lemme try and recreate it rq

[tepid crow]

just to confirm,
SMODS.Sleeve.super.inject_class(self) ->
SMODS.GameObject.inject_class(self)?

cuz that doesn't seem to fix it

[edgy reef]

Wait wtf is going on then

[tepid crow]

also, if inject_class isn't running in the first place I doubt changing any of the code in it would help...

[edgy reef]

Wait maybe it is the issue

Someone fucked up

This doesn't crash the game

I don't think this is supposed to be intended behaviour

As Steamodded API is set up so functions can be append function from classes by subclasses

[tepid crow]

I'm gonna be honest I don't know what you meant by that last sentence

[edgy reef]

Lemme double check with Steamodded API

[tepid crow]

uhm, I think I found it?

I think I had a zero-width space before the function name?

HOLY SHIT

ohmygod you can see it in my copypastes in the channel too

@edgy reef

[edgy reef]

Unfortunately I'm also not getting prints from inject_class

Although it is really funny that this is occurring

[crisp coral]

how do you even get a zwsp in there anyway

[tepid crow]

Huh. Me neither. Weird.

[tepid crow]

I might have accidentally copied it from a github page? I should probably get a better editor that warns me of this shit 🤣

also apparently U+200E is the "left-to-right mark" (aka an indicator of the direction of text when using e.g. both latin and arabic)

[tepid crow]

imagine I would've used an actual good editor, would've saved me an hour of my life

[mental wind]

If you wanna talk about bad editors, I was using replit, but then I realized I can just edit the file directly through notepad without having to reexport every time, so I've been using notepad as my editor. I'm sure there's no way that could possibly be annoying or hinder me in the future

[tepid crow]

surely not

editing in notepad kinda crazy tho

[mental wind]

It's nice, because I just have the .lua file that's already in the mods folder open in notepad, and if I need to try something, all I have to do is close the game, make the edit, hit ctrl+s, then reopen and it's implemented

[tepid crow]

... that's exactly what I do. With a proper editor (since literally 20min ago)

[mental wind]

Ah. Thing is, before that I was using replit, so I had to download all the files as a zip, extract the actual code, drop that into the mods folder replacing the old code, then reopen the game

And today is the first day I've started actually working on this, so maybe I will get an actual editor in the future, but at this point notepad hasn't been too annoying to deal with yet, so I may very well end up just sticking with it.

[tepid crow]

is replit like an online editor or something?

[mental wind]

Yeah, it's what my class used for AP Computer Science A, so that's the only editor I'm familiar with. I know there's also IntelliJ, but I think that's java specific, and it requires a bunch of other setup that I have no idea how to do

[tepid crow]

it's java-ish specific I believe yeah

it can also do some other random stuff

[shell timber]

wait

what??

at least use notepad++

[edgy reef]

VSC is also good. Has some built-in features for GitHub too which is neat (not sure if notepad++ does as well).

[shell timber]

there's also all of the terminal based editors if you want to go down that path

[tepid crow]

I wouldn't

[tepid crow]

also, this probably shouldn't exist but here we are https://github.com/vinsworldcom/nppGitSCM

[wintry solar]

Editing in notepad is WILD

[tepid crow]

y'all haven't done word processing code editing yet?

https://i.sstatic.net/Qik8H.jpg

[edgy reef]

HELL NAH

[tepid crow]

Hmm, any solutions or insight for why inject_class isn't working? Right now I've got this horrendous jank, since inject does seem to work for me

local sleeve_class_is_injected = false
SMODS.Sleeve = SMODS.Center:extend {
    ...
    inject_class = function(self)
        if sleeve_class_is_injected == false then
            sleeve_class_is_injected = true
            G.P_CENTER_POOLS[self.set] = {}
            G.P_SLEEVES = {}
            local old_inject = SMODS.Sleeve.inject
            SMODS.Sleeve.inject = function() end
            SMODS.Sleeve.super.inject_class(self)
            SMODS.Sleeve.inject = old_inject
        end
    end,
    inject = function(self)
        if sleeve_class_is_injected == false then self:inject_class() end
        G.P_SLEEVES[self.key] = self
        SMODS.insert_pool(G.P_CENTER_POOLS[self.set], self)
    end
}

[solid salmon]

is this good?

(and joker-y?)

[tepid crow]

the juicebox is still a bit simple, but I like the straw

[solid salmon]

it's supposed to be simple and thanks

[tepid crow]

Can I not reliably use SMODS.current_mod in function SMODS.current_mod.process_loc_text()? Its contents seems to change to other installed mods'

[maiden phoenix]

You can save it as a variable for later use

[tepid crow]

I guess

still seems weirdly inconsistent

[maiden phoenix]

It is

[frosty dock]

it is, maybe we should pass it self?

[maiden phoenix]

Are mods considered objects?

[tepid crow]

if it's done OOP well, everything is an object

[frosty dock]

yes, they are not GameObjects though

[maiden phoenix]

I see

[tepid crow]

That would be better, but it still is a change-up. I assume there's a reason SMODS.current_mod gets changed?

[frosty dock]

SMODS.current_mod is only valid during the load stage, i.e. while each mod file is being executed

[tepid crow]

ah, I see

makes sense

[royal ether]

google docs is built in version control, if you think really think about it

[languid mirage]

well, creating this was pain in the ass without any seal examples for 1.0.0 😭

[zealous glen]

Is there custom Seal calculation logic for 1.0?

[languid mirage]

hm no I just had a lot of issues with tooltips

well I dont know actually about calculation logic

I just couldn't find any relevant examples

had to debug a lot to figure out why it was broken

also had to change calculate a bit to be consistent with other game objects

I was creating something for cryptid tho, this seal is just an example I added in steamodded for whoever needs an example

[solid salmon]

i forgot how to make a loop

[surreal marsh]

how to change my card area's position

[queen scroll]

iirc there's just extra parameters in the cardarea's contructor

btw that's a lot of slots

[surreal marsh]

[languid mirage]

first 2 are x and y coords? I'm pretty sure

[surreal marsh]

thanks

[queen scroll]

something from my mod that i remember works

[surreal marsh]

this works but I wonder why X and Y of vanilla areas are 0

[languid mirage]

probably changed somewhere

[rough furnace]

I don't really want people redistributing the console because then it would be incompatible with DebugPlus, as there are two consoles, and things get messy.
Once i get proper command stuff working, I am going to make public api's for adding commands and having full control over logged messages.
If you do get to the point where you need to add commands, and I haven't added the api's yet, then you can distribute the console code, but make sure you follow the license.

[languid mirage]

this is supposed to set x y coords

[crisp coral]

sure can wait

and a command to send messages isn't unheard of either

[surreal marsh]

good position 🤔

[zealous glen]

I don’t know but I do know that some positions are relative to the cards in them. For example, the View Deck UI is relative to the topmost card in the deck. Recently I had a bug where the play area shifted to the right despite me never directly changing it. I suspect it’s because of its contents being moved in an awkward state

Any mods that have implemented Blind behaviour beyond what’s found in the base game? Just curious what’s out there

I think Bunco interacted with the Shop

As did MystBlinds

Though I personally was thinking having the Blind do something when defeated, but Blind:defeat isn’t quite working

[crisp coral]

MystBlinds doesn't interact with anything apart from normal blind functions

[zealous glen]

Wasn’t there a Blind that made things cost more?

[crisp coral]

That was just increasing a base game variable

[zealous glen]

It’s still outside of normal Blind boundaries

Even if vanilla supported

[crisp coral]

this is literally the entire thing

😭

[zealous glen]

LoboCorp also had multi-phase Blinds IIRC

[zealous glen]

It’s not about complexity

It’s just about the idea

[zealous glen]

I have perhaps a few ideas that would benefit from knowing if a hand beat the Blind or not before it does

The main one destroys the winning hand

But it doesn’t seem to be tracking the cards correctly

The way I had tried to print it (recursively) led to a stack overflow error ^^’

[crisp coral]

and i didn't mention lobcorp for a reason c:

[zealous glen]

Why not?

I mean, I hadn’t mentioned it because I didn’t want to go on and on since I was asking

[surreal marsh]

how do I change the display size to 34*34 like tags

[zealous glen]

Probably like Wee Joker et al. do it?

[royal ether]

you need a couple lovely patches iirc

it gets overwritten back to the card size pretty often

[surreal marsh]

here?

[royal ether]

pretty sure, yea

i remember autumn talking about it a while back

while they were working on oddities

this too

[surreal marsh]

ok thanks

[zealous glen]

I don’t think so

I’m pretty sure I had made it without any patches

[royal ether]

yea you dont need patches, just some hooks

[zealous glen]

But I don’t have access to the code right now

[zealous glen]

I think I used Card:set_ability, and maybe something in the draw function

[royal ether]

just some good ol' overwriting values after base game sets them

[zealous glen]

Maybe it was a patch in the draw function

But set_ability works because it’s called whenever the object is created

[royal ether]

personally dont like hooking draw unless its like, last ditch effort

or update

[surreal marsh]

😀

[royal ether]

lil' guy

[wintry solar]

Make a 71x95 sprite with it in the middle 🙃

[shell tangle]

Could someone explain the process Smeared Joker goes through? Found the is_suit() function in the source code, but, can't piece together how it works at all.
Wanting to make a joker that makes only hearts count as hearts and clubs.

[zealous glen]

Where’s balatrotalegaming when we need them

[royal ether]

is_suit just compares a card's suit to the suit passed to the function

if you have smeared joker (next(find_joker('Smeared Joker)))

oops i hit enter

[shell tangle]

Ah, completely makes sense now, I was missing the fact it's self.base.suit compared to just suit. Though, still unsure how it gets spades/clubs.

[royal ether]

yea im honestly kinda confused on how it works with spade and clubs too lmfao

this is the first time ive seen is_suit

if i had to guess, it probably handles spades and clubs somewhere else

[zealous glen]

I thought it handled Spades and Clubs by exclusion

Therefore any non-Hearts, non-Diamonds suit is also Spades and/or Clubs

But I don’t know

[wintry solar]

Yes that’s how it works

By design though it will handle all custom suits as equivalent

[frosty dock]

I've wanted to fix this for a while but haven't really gotten to it

it's not a huge thing but it should be done right and be extensible

[shell tangle]

Code for it is:

if next(find_joker('Smeared Joker')) and (self.base.suit == 'Hearts' or self.base.suit == 'Diamonds') == (suit == 'Hearts' or suit == 'Diamonds') then
  return true
end
return self.base.suit == suit

Wouldn't it just move down to the return base.suit == suit, if it's not Hearts or Diamonds?

[wintry solar]

No

[royal ether]

oh yea it compares the two

good point

[wintry solar]

It equates things that aren’t those as false, and checks the suit its checking too

So both would be false

Therefore it enters the if block

[shell tangle]

Ah, I see, neat.

[royal ether]

my mind kinda skipped over it and thought it was an and

i needa sleep

[wintry solar]

As with almost everything I’ve looked at in this game, it has virtually no support for extension

[royal ether]

thats my goat

[solid salmon]

do i need messages for consumables

[zealous glen]

There was a 0.9.8 API to fix it

In an extensible way

By balatrotalegaming

I forget the name of the API

[frosty dock]

BlackboardAPI, I think

[zealous glen]

Yes

[frosty dock]

i remember that

[zealous glen]

https://tenor.com/view/mumei-nanashi-mumei-nanashi-hololive-holocouncil-gif-23044011

[wintry solar]

You could create a table of tables, where the internal tables contain suits that are to be considered the same, and iterate through it

[zealous glen]

But you could have different groups of suits with intersections

Anyways I think BlackboardAPI was feature complete

But when the world needed them the most, the creator vanished

[wintry solar]

You’d just add another table

[tepid egret]

anybody know how i can change the icon for the unlock notifications? what do i set _atlas in create_UIBox_notify_alert to so it looks for the SMODS atlas thingy?

[shell tangle]

Alright, back again - Made a lovely patch, it's being applied correctly in the dumped .lua.
Doesn't crash, which is both good and bad - No crashes means it's not a stupid grammar mistake, but, I have absolutely no idea how to test for things with a lovely.toml, so I have no idea what steps to take to figure this issue out.
If anyone wants to help, or point me in the right direction, here's the joker code, and the .toml.

SMODS.Joker{
  key = 'carousel',
  loc_txt = {
    name = 'Carousel',
    text = {
      "Spades count as Hearts",
      "Hearts count as Clubs",
      "Clubs count as Diamonds",
      "Diamonds count as Spades"
    }
  },
  rarity = 3,
  atlas = 'virtues',
  pos = {x = 4, y = 1},
  cost = 6
}

[maiden phoenix]

Stinky drink

[near ivy]

a REAL invis joker

[maiden phoenix]

Just the emplace function being bad

[near ivy]

oh

[willow quiver]

Does steamodded have any sort of live reloading or do I need to restart the game every time to see new changes?

[frosty dock]

you can hold M to reload mods

[wintry solar]

What’s not working?

[shell tangle]

Simply not applying - Doesn't get affected by the suit jokers, or register as a flush.
Best guess is that it's possibly not finding the joker through the same next(find_joker('') that smeared uses, but, I took a look at it, don't know why it'd be an issue, it uses self.ability.name to find the name.

[maiden phoenix]

Man I would have loved to learn that sooner 😭

[wintry solar]

And it’s definitely applying?

The patch, I mean

[shell tangle]

This is from the dumped .lua. It appears a second time, under the else as well for when it's not flush_calc, but, didn't show it just because it'd be even more of basically same text.

[wintry solar]

Perhaps it’s not finding the joker correctly, I don’t remember off the top of my head how to set it up. You could throw a debug message in there to see if you’re getting inside the block or not

[shell tangle]

That was my thought as well, but, I don't know how to send a debug message through a lovely injection, unless the sendDebugMessage() from Steamodded will work?
Edit - It infact does.
I'm also unsure what the alternative way to find the joker would be, maybe I can try salvaging something from the find_joker() code.

[frosty dock]

you should generally use SMODS.find_card instead of find_joker, which takes a key instead of the name

but they should work exactly the same way if your joker has a name

[shell tangle]

I've been assuming that lovely injections can't use Steamodded API, is that completely wrong?

[zealous glen]

I don’t see why they couldn’t

I have no idea how Lua works, apparently one can use a reference to a function before defining it, unless I misunderstood something

[frosty dock]

lovely injections can't use steamodded if it isn't present, but there's no issue with using it as long as your mod depends on steamodded anyways

[frosty dock]

you can use a reference to a function f1 within another function f2 even if f1 isn't defined at that time because it bases things off the value the reference holds when f2 is called

[humble tartan]

Is there a way to use a package from luarocks in your mod?

Alternatively, if there’s a native way to parse a JSON response body from an HTTP call

New to LUA 🙂

[frosty dock]

you can have a package as a file included with your mod and use it by loading it with NFS, or you can use a module patch with lovely and require it using the module name you assigned to it (this is what is done in Steamodded for including NativeFS as well as lua-reload)

[shell tangle]

I now have Carousel working, thanks for all the help and explanations.

[humble tartan]

Will give this a shot. Thank you

[surreal marsh]

why it isn't displayed

[stray warren]

Why do I keep getting messages that lovely is a trojan? Windows keeps removing the version.dll file from my Balatro directory.

I've been downloading it from the official repository on Github

And it won't let me redownload it. It deletes it before I even get a chance to look at it

Weird. I get the warning when downloading it from the first image, but not from the Assets section in the second image

[royal ether]

because it is functionally a trojan

[stray warren]

You'd think it would be written somewhere on the repo that messages like that might occur and to ignore them

[royal ether]

it wasnt getting flagged until recently

also writing that honestly makes it even more sus

[river panther]

Happened to me today

Tried to load up balatro and mods were gone. Windows removed the injector

[muted pier]

finally managed to figure it out how to add custom hands

by god you have to rewrite a lot

and SMOD register adds the prefix, where most poker hands arent even prefixed and just string keys

[hushed cradle]

can you send a picture of your code or smth??

ive been tryna figure it out but im so helpless

[sly forge]

hello modding-dev, looks like people are having trouble with poker hands? First get Bunco. I'm open to DM

what are peoples' opinion on prefixes in general / prefixes on Poker Hands?

[muted pier]

best i can do is send the whole code:

basically i overwrite a function in Game which is used to determine the information of the poker hand, and also have a rewrite which is used to add your own poker hand evals. I plan to see if i can edit the SMODS.PokerHand to include an eval function, and code it from that

[hushed cradle]

thank you

[stray warren]

Is there a way to access the current context outside of a function that provides the context as a parameter? I guess context isn't a global value?

[muted pier]

you could override the function and set a local to be equal to context?

local last_context = nil

local cal_joker = Card.calculate_joker
function Card:calculate_joker(context)
  last_context = context
  return cal_joker(self, context)
end

[stray warren]

Hmm, I didn't think of that. I'll try it, thanks

Although, I don't think calculate_joker will be called at the time my function is called, so the context will be incorrect, whatever it is

[muted pier]

when do you plan on getting the context?

[stray warren]

While in a round. I'm not even sure if it's context that I'm looking for. I'm just trying to check if the user has pressed the Play Hand button and is now in the scoring phase

[muted pier]

context will definitely have that

i believe it is context.before

[stray warren]

I guess I need to find where calculate_joker's context parameter is passed in, and see where that is stored

Oh I see, the calculate_joker function creates the contexts at the function call

[rough furnace]

Thoughts chat?