💻・modding-dev

[elder vapor]

uhh

you can assign it to a local variable?

[weary jungle]

OK I DEFINATLY DID SOMETHING

its moving around the screen at rapid rate

[stiff locust]

it didn't work

[weary jungle]

uh oh

i dont think it worked

[elder vapor]

oh

the moveable engine class

is extended by literally everything in the game

[weary jungle]

i cant record, buttt everything is moving everywhere

oopsies

[elder vapor]

ok got it to work, just needed to check if context.other_joker was the card the gem is attached to

[hardy viper]

local str = "Splish Splash"
local tstr = ""
for i, v in string.gmatch(str, "*") do
 tstr = tstr.."{C:goldcolor"..tostring(i%5+1)..v.."{}"
end

something like this

[elder vapor]

erm

this is balanced

[hardy viper]

😭

[wintry solar]

I don’t think you can do this in a loc txt though

[stiff locust]

how do i put that on the joker

[hardy viper]

odd

[hardy viper]

no clue I don't make jokers

[wintry solar]

Though I’ve never tried throw in a variable in loc txt, I don’t think it’d work

[stiff locust]

isn't that

literally what we do with loc_vars

can't i just put this in the loc_vars and do it with that system

[weary jungle]

i dont think thats good

[wintry solar]

No, loc vars doesn’t parse colours

[stiff locust]

oh

this is

really difficult

[zealous glen]

Wasn’t there one loc_vars for color

It was a very specific one though

Castle?

[elder vapor]

return { colours = {} }

[hardy viper]

on skib

[weary jungle]

ok its bouncy, but fast

[hardy viper]

relatable?

[weary jungle]

ok

[elder vapor]

erm i think i should ignore being upgraded by blueprint

[weary jungle]

how do i slow down the movement

[cold peak]

Sorry to bring this back, I'm looking through the Aura code and it looks like the animation needs to be the size of a card (142x190) is that true? is there anyway to make the animation larger than that? The animation I have is ~160x180

[hardy viper]

you could always just increase game speed and decrease dt by the inverse of that increase

oh wait

that would do nothing

[weary jungle]

i think only moving every other frame

but then it wouldnt be smooth

its also spazing out

(funny)

[placid oasis]

where do i download cryptid

[weary jungle]

let me experiment in like an hour

[placid oasis]

i need help please

[weary jungle]

https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Cryptid/releases/latest

[weary jungle]

^

[placid oasis]

ok nice

[wooden nexus]

Odd question: How do I omit a deck from being loaded using SMODS.Back?

[hardy viper]

idk, I think smods objects are only loaded after every mod has loaded so you can just remove it if your mod has a higher priority

[wooden nexus]

I'm trying to make a challenge deck back

I'm not using the default one and it's not a texture pack

[hardy viper]

uh

reword the question ?

i have no idea what you're trying to do

[wooden nexus]

I'm adding a deck that I'm gonna use for challenges. I don't want it to appear as a selectable deck

how do i do it?

b_challenge= {name = "Challenge Deck", stake = 1, unlocked = true,order = 16, pos = {x=0,y=4}, set = "Back", config = {}, omit = true},

I saw this code and tried to import it into the the smods with no luck (the omit = true part)

and the smods.back doesn't say anything about it

[wooden nexus]

Does that help?

[hardy viper]

it helps i just don't know the solution

[wooden nexus]

oh

[primal robin]

Good luck

[tepid crow]

I don't think steamodded has any support for that no

[humble hound]

If you want to create a challenge, try using SMODS.Challenge

[wooden nexus]

I know that. I'm making a deck for it

[tepid crow]

they want a specific deck art for challenges

[wooden nexus]

mhm

[tepid crow]

but there's no way to specify a deck art without having an actual corresponding deck

(as far as I can tell)

[cold peak]

Is there a list of things you can take over with SMODS:take_ownership somewhere that I'm missing? I'm trying to change and animate Soul's floating bit but all I keep getting is replacing the card back, I currently use: SMODS.Consumable:take_ownership('c_soul', {atlas = 'c_soul', soul_pos = { x = 0, y = 0}, prefix_config = { key = false } }, true)

[wooden nexus]

yeah, in balatro, there's a secret deck

it crashes if you tried to load it

It has a thing saying "omit = true" in the code

If you try it in your smods the it's no dice

[tepid crow]

yeah steamodded just has no support for omit

[tepid crow]

weird, just changing soul_pos should probably work 🤔

[autumn coral]

i think an isaac d4/missingno joker that changes all of your jokers randomly each hand would be interesting (minus the joker itself obv)

i might pursue it who knows

[weary jungle]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1307051495287427173

[weary jungle]

Now that im on my main pc, i can show what this actually looked like

[cold peak]

This is my full lua file atm:

SMODS.Atlas {
    key = 'c_soul',
    path = 'c_soul_extra.png',
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}

SMODS.Consumable:take_ownership('c_soul', {atlas = 'c_soul', soul_pos = { x = 0, y = 0}, prefix_config = { key = false } }, true)
``` Am I missing something or?

[weary jungle]

this is what im going for, but its too fast. how do i fix

oh obs.....

[tepid crow]

nice recording hahaha

[rough furnace]

I'm not sure but does your mod badge appear on the soul when doing this?

[weary jungle]

now this should work

[cold peak]

Mod badge? Currently the file is just a negative filter over the default soul image for testing, and its still replacing the card and not the top part

The mod badge shows up in the mod menu and is enabled

[rough furnace]

like when you get a copy of the soul, it should have a badge on it's info box for your mod

[weary jungle]

how do i make this slower

[cold peak]

oh idk, let me find an early soul seed

[rough furnace]

the collection would be fine too

[cold peak]

oh no then, isn't that what the silent part of the takeOwnership call is though?

[rough furnace]

maybe

I was just wonderig if the issue was it's not taking ownership or not

[cold peak]

its a good debugging step, let me make that not silent

[rough furnace]

What are you doing to get this?

[cold peak]

Still no badge, no other mods installed

well installed but not enabled

[rough furnace]

actually if you change the key to soul does that work?

[cold peak]

"bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)

Maybe its not in SMODS.Consumable? The default location of the soul floaty thingy is in the Enhancement image

[rough furnace]

I don't think so

hmm that error is odd

[cold peak]

SMODS.Consumable:take_ownership('soul', {atlas = 'c_soul', soul_pos = { x = 0, y = 0}, prefix_config = { key = false } }, false)
``` Just to make sure this is what you meant, I changed the first argument from `c_soul` to `soul`

[rough furnace]

yeah that's what I meant

I just tested myself and with ```lua
SMODS.Consumable:take_ownership('soul', { }, false)

[cold peak]

Ok I removed the prefix_config, now I get a launch

[rough furnace]

yeah me too

but my soul dissapeared

the base sprite did change

[cold peak]

Yeah I get this still

[rough furnace]

I think the background missing is expected cause it's using a pos your sprite sheet doesn't have

[cold peak]

oh maybe?

I'll try copying the default soul background

[rough furnace]

oh wait we've been lua'ed

indexes start at 1

[cold peak]

so should the x and y be 1?

[rough furnace]

yeah try that

although actually I set it to a smaller sprite and it seems to still be rendering the soul under mine

[cold peak]

1s for x and y didn't work

[rough furnace]

(these are the two sprites it was using)

what does your sprite sheet look like?

[rough furnace]

ok yeah soul_pos = {x = 1, y = 1}, pos = {x = 1, y = 2} should work I think

[cold peak]

and I'm trying this:

SMODS.Consumable:take_ownership('soul', {atlas = 'soul', pos = { x = 0, y = 1}, soul_pos = { x = 0, y = 0} }, false)

ok that worked, kinda, one sec

[rough furnace]

yeah the original soul underneath it?

[cold peak]

Yeah I can still see the original soul under it animating around

[rough furnace]

yeah I saw that

not sure what's going on

@frosty dock would probably know better

[cold peak]

Soul must have some other key that it uses?

Is there just a list of the keys somewhere or can I get it via debug statement somehow?

[rough furnace]

I suspect it's probaly hard coded somewhere

the soul card doesn't even define a soul_pos

[frosty dock]

I've been summoned?

pft the soul behaves weirdly

[cold peak]

I'm trying to change the soul thing on the soul card, I'm able to get it to change to a new sprite, but the original one is still there beneath

Yeah

[frosty dock]

it's G.shared_soul or something

[rough furnace]

can SMODS disable rendering it when overwritten?

[cold peak]

so the key would be

SMODS.Consumable:take_ownership('shared_soul', {atlas = 'soul', pos = { x = 0, y = 1} }, false)
``` or something like that?

[frosty dock]

no

[rough furnace]

yeah I found G.shared_soul

[frosty dock]

you just have to change or reassign to G.shared_soul

[rough furnace]

Probably an if check here would work from SMODS side

[frosty dock]

steamodded should maybe normalize that to behave like other soul sprites

[rough furnace]

but yeah SMODS should normalize it

also the soul_pos souls behave different than the shared_soul

[cold peak]

Where are you finding that source code?

[rough furnace]

you can unzip the exe

[cold peak]

Oh duh

[rough furnace]

also partial modified sources are availble in Mods/lovely/dump (just files edited by lovely, and their edited source)

[frosty dock]

there's also lovely dumps which show the code after patches

[cold peak]

Ok so what would I overwrite the G.shared_soul with? Would I do

G.shared_soul = SMODS.Atlas { ... }
``` Like how would I create the object to overwrite

[rough furnace]

uhhhhhh

maybe try G.shared_soul = Sprite(0, 0, self.CARD_W, self.CARD_H, self.ASSET_ATLAS["yourprefix_soul"], {x = 1, y = 1})

[cold peak]

That gives me an "attempt to index field 'atlas' (a nil value)" error

[rough furnace]

probably the atlas key is wrong

[weak brook]

hey folks

trying to implement unlocking mechanics and achievements properly so i'm learning how that stuff works

Cardsauce has two legendary jokers and I wanna implement the same vanilla logic for their locked_loc_vars where the description says ???? if you havent discovered the soul card yet but i cant figure out how to implement that

you guys know how to do that?

[cold peak]

probably the atlas key is wrong

[tepid crow]

you need to have unlocked = false as property of the joker, and the way the base game does it is by having a localization entry with unlock = { "text" } (you can see this implemented in the base game localization files)

not sure if there's a better method

[weak brook]

yeah I know that but i'm referring to the dynamic aspect of the Legendary jokers

the description only shows if you have discovered the Soul card

and if you dont it says "????"

[tepid crow]

oh neat, I didn't even know it did that

[weak brook]

yeah its cool and I wanna keep that

but when I searched for instances of '?' in the code notepad++ couldnt find anything

[tepid crow]

you're probably gonna have to dig into the base game code for that 😅

[weak brook]

i dug a bit

couldnt find it

all i found was where the code sets it to the left description if its locked

and if its unlocked then it does the else statement to give it its normal effect description

didnt see any other check

[tepid crow]

try searching for joker_locked_legendary

[weak brook]

i did that

oh wait

effect = "Unlocker" is in c_soul

seems like a solid lead

nope dead end

that probably is just there so it can unlock the legendaries anyway

[rough furnace]

probably this

[weak brook]

yeah thats the

wait

i thought the else statment was for generating the normal effect description but im not so sure now

[split creek]

Hey, i've been having trouble getting a modded effect that's essentially canio (+30 chips whenever a card is destroyed, starts at +30), but it hasn't been working quite right. A lot of the code is taken from vanilla canio

            local cards = 1
            for k, v in ipairs(context.glass_shattered) do
                cards = cards + 1
            end
                if cards > 0 then
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        func = function()
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        func = function()
                            card.ability.extra.current_chips = card.ability.extra.current_chips + cards * card.ability.extra.chips_per_destroy
                          return true
                        end
                      }))
                    card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = localize{type = 'variable', key = 'a_chips', vars = {card.ability.extra.current_chips + cards*card.ability.extra.chips_per_destroy}}})
                    return true
                end
              }))
                end
        ```

            local cards = 1
            for k, v in ipairs(context.removed) do
                cards = cards + 1
            end
            if cards > 0 then
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    func = function()
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    func = function()
                        card.ability.extra.current_chips = card.ability.extra.current_chips + cards * card.ability.extra.chips_per_destroy
                      return true
                    end
                  }))
                card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = localize{type = 'variable', key = 'a_chips', vars = {card.ability.extra.current_chips + cards*card.ability.extra.chips_per_destroy}}})
                return true
            end
          }))
            end
        ```

            return {
                    message = localize{type='variable',key='a_chips',vars={card.ability.extra.current_chips}},
                    chip_mod = card.ability.extra.current_chips
                }
      end
    end```

[rough furnace]

Yeah here are the question marks

[weak brook]

what the

how did notepad++ not find those

stupid app

[rough furnace]

possibly was treating it as regex

[weak brook]

hm ok

[rough furnace]

or just a wildcard syntax

[weak brook]

is there any examples of modded jokers that use the generate_ui for dynamic descriptions like this so I can reference how they do this

i've tried messing with it before and got some jank results

[rough furnace]

uhhhhhhh idk

[rough furnace]

need more for what's not working

[split creek]

For example, when two cards are destroyed with hanged man, it gets the buff 3 times

[mellow sable]

RNJoker from Cryptid, but it's very complex

that's a lot of code

[weak brook]

ok im not exactly sure now if the proper description is every actually shown in the collection menu at all, it doesnt show when you discover The Soul

i think that might just be there for the unlock pop up

[cold peak]

Oh MathIsFun, I'm still trying to get the animated jokers working but I'm getting a crash talking about a nil atlas value when I try to add my joker. I've given up on Soul cause its so weird, but I just wanted to get the animation to work as a proof of concept now. Trying to get the hologram to use this spritesheet (I've separated the backing but its easier to send one file) named j_hologram.png and j_hologram_extra.png, in the aura.lua file I changed:

j_hologram = { frames_per_row = 1, frames = 1, start_frame = 0, extra = { frames_per_row = 8, frames = 8, fps = 10, start_frame = 0 } },
``` but get this error:

engine/sprite.lua:11: attempt to index field 'atlas' (a nil value)

[autumn coral]

how would you go about adding a custom card with custom texture scaling? i'm looking through cryptid and it looks great but it also seems optimized for a LOT of cards, and i just need one

:p

[zealous glen]

Try to see which card is doubling the buff and with which context

[mellow sable]

You can copy those patches for just one of the cards that’s similar to yours

[autumn coral]

oh nvm

no nvm i got it

i was misreading it lol

ok sorry for asking probably stupid questions, how do i actually register the new card to like. exist and have a description with smods

or is it something i have to callback to the original game for

nevermind

ok but how does ordering work? is it important

do i need to place things at a specific position

[crisp coral]

it's ordered the same as the order you declared them in

[autumn coral]

gotcha

i'm just gonna set it to 1 and hope for the best

is there any debug way to just. make it appear in my hand

[teal estuary]

debug mode/debug plus

i'd recommend plus, but debug mode works

[autumn coral]

okii

should custom jokers be in collection...

i feel like really stupid rn, lua is sorta new to me? it isn't that new, i've done isaac modding before and i have been doing python/js/c#/c++ for like 10 yrs, i just like. augh

okokok, it probably does NOT help that i have not attached like. any code

local jokers = {
    "j_gros_michel",
    "j_egg",
    "j_ice_cream",
    "j_cavendish",
    "j_turtle_bean",
    "j_diet_cola",
    "j_popcorn",
    "j_ramen",
    "j_selzer",
}

SMODS.Atlas({
    key = "atlasone",
    path = "atlasone.png",
    px = 71,
    py = 95,
}):register()

local missingjoker = {
    object_type = "Joker",
    key = "missing_no",
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    rarity = 2,
    cost = 5,
    atlas = "atlasone",
    order = 1,
    blueprint_compat = false,
    eternal_compat = true,
    perishable_compat = false
}

jokers[#jokers + 1] = "j_missingno_missing_no"

this is like the whole thing rn, i just based it off of what i saw in cryptid

[crisp coral]

if you add jokers via steamodded's SMODS.Joker then it will be in the collections

[autumn coral]

wait what

[crisp coral]

oh hm

[autumn coral]

how do i do that 😭

[mellow sable]

SMODS.Joker({
…..
})

[crisp coral]

there's an example_mods folder in steamodded's files, go in it and find the vanilla recode mod

idr what it's called

[autumn coral]

i literally keep forgetting about that

[mellow sable]

Cryptid uses object_type to determine what to call it with later, because it has an advanced loading system

Yeah those examples are much better than Cryptid for starting out imo

[autumn coral]

iunno, this joker is gonna be pretty complicated

i literally am going to have it change every joker but itself in hand on each round

[crisp coral]

that doesn't sound too complicated

ngl

[autumn coral]

ok i got the example code

[crisp coral]

is it spindown dice by any chance

[autumn coral]

no but that's a REALLY good idea

i should do that next

it's missing no

i was stuck between the actual missing no texture from pokemon, or the one from isaac, or making my own

i landed on making my own

i found something that corrupts jpg files in interesting ways and edited together a lot of the glitches that i thought were interesting onto the base joker

i think it ended up looking cool

supposedly the code will work now

oh hey it worked

wow that was shockingly easy

[rough furnace]

missprint be like

[crisp coral]

misprinting the misprint

[autumn coral]

ah yeah that DOES look like misprint a bit

hmmm

[rough furnace]

missprint is designed to be a glicted aestetic, but moreso a card that was printed wrong instead of a sprite that was corrupted

[autumn coral]

yeah

i thought about making it work like actual missing no and take random parts of every joker sprite every time it triggers

worth mentioning i have 0 clue how to make it callback to something every time a round happens

also @crisp coral since you're into the isaac stuff i'm doing, i'll let you decide, should it be every hand, round, or ante

i guess ante would make more sense if we're making it true to isaac like how it is every floor

i'm thinking about making it eternal too to make the consequences similar to isaac as well

i should make a tmtrainer

that'd be really interesting i think

[crisp coral]

round

[autumn coral]

oki

[crisp coral]

nah, ante

[autumn coral]

yeah that's what i was thinking honestly

it feels more appropriate

should i override the existing ante code and just make it check if missingno is there and then trigger missingno?

that feels like the simplest way to do this

unless if i can embed it into the joker definition

[young dew]

i'm trying to make a card that destroy 2 cards and enhance 2 others, but it crashes when i use it
it tells me something is nil, but i don't know what
here's the code for the card:

use = function(self)
  local destroyed_cards = {}
  destroyed_cards[#destroyed_cards+1] = pseudorandom_element(G.hand.highlighted, pseudoseed('random_destroy'))
  for i=1, #G.hand.highlighted do
    local percent = 1.15 - (i-0.999)/(#G.hand.highlighted-0.998)*0.3
    event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.15, func = function()
      G.hand.highlighted[i]:flip(); play_sound('card1', percent); G.hand.highlighted[i]:juice_up(0.3, 0.3);
    return true end })
  end
  delay(0.2)

  
  for i=self.config.toDestroy, 1, -1 do
    event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.1, func = function()
      destroyed_cards[i]:start_dissolve(nil, i ~= self.config.toDestroy);  -- this is the line where it crashes
    return true end })
  end


  local cen_pool = getEnhancements()
  for i=1, #G.hand.highlighted do
    event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.1, func = function()
      G.hand.highlighted[i]:set_ability(pseudorandom_element(cen_pool, pseudoseed('spe_card')), true);
    return true end })
  end
  for i=1, #G.hand.highlighted do
    local percent = 0.85 + ( i - 0.999 ) / ( #G.hand.highlighted - 0.998 ) * 0.3
    event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.15, func = function()
      G.hand.highlighted[i]:flip(); play_sound('tarot2', percent, 0.6); G.hand.highlighted[i]:juice_up(0.3, 0.3);
    return true end })
  end
  event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.2, func = function()
    G.hand:unhighlight_all();
  return true end })
  delay(0.5)
end

[autumn coral]

ok imma open up a thing in #1209506514763522108

if context.blind.boss and context.end_of_round then
  (code)
end
``` would this work for what i'm trying to do, do you think?

i'm reading through the original game code and i got most of the stuff set up, i'm just trying to figure out how to make it trigger at the end of the round

oh wait

i can check golden joker maybe?

hmmm

yeah this seems like the best way...?

ohhhhh

wait it's just in the. calculate\

i'm so stupid

ok ok ok

this is 100% the easy part, the hard part will be when i have to figure out how to make it um. randomize all of the jokers

the callback definitely works

i'm getting a weird error that says "for limit must be a number" tho

[cold peak]

sounds like you have a for loop whos loop constraint isn't an integer

[autumn coral]

i didn't have a for loop

i think i figured it out

huh

maybe i need to actually. activate something

?

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.end_of_round then -- and context.blind.boss <- set after i make sure that this works for what i want it to
            -- this should randomize the jokers!
            play_sound("missingno_static", 1, 1)
            return {
                message = 'Change!',
                colour = G.C.CHIPS,
                card = card
            }
        end
    end
``` this is the calculate code rn

i'm not sure why this doesn't work

i'm not having it do anything to any cards, so i'm not sure if that's probably the issue...?

[tepid crow]

#💻・modding-dev message

[autumn coral]

huh

ok now it does nothing

lol

i need to fix it again

sigh

yeah iunno now it just doesn't do anything

[tepid crow]

iunno man I'm also just guessing

[split creek]

How would one create a joker of a specific key?

[tepid crow]

smods.create_card I believe

[autumn coral]

the code doesn't actually do anything yet other than play a sound, which is what i'm assuming the issue mighht be

[autumn coral]

check the example_mods folder

there are a few for that in there i thnk

[split creek]

I keep forgetting that smods has utility functions

I always check the base game first lol

[autumn coral]

imma go check out gros michel, it seems to do what i am trying

i'm thinking it might be the play_sound for whatever reason

in any case, this should hypothetically work now

that's really funny

a negative version of missingno just spawned in a shop lol

oh huh it actually worked

oh cool ok iunno what i did but it works now

[split creek]

So I'm trying to use smods create_card, but I get told that the t is null
SMODS.create_card(G.P_CENTERS["j_hel_grunch"])

Am I getting the joker correctly?

I've checked and they key matches up correctly

[tepid crow]

right, I probably should've told you how to use it

here's the source code https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/blob/main/core/utils.lua#L312

here's a quick example #💻・modding-dev message,
and you can use github search for some more examples https://github.com/search?q=smods.create_card&type=code

[split creek]

Ah I see, thanks!

[autumn coral]

this is a very fun challenge ngl

i haven't had this much programming in a hot sec

ok now i just need to get an array of every single joker in the game currently

should be easy, surely

i like how i have to kinda think outside the box here because there was no code in the original game to just straight-up change the current joker entirely to something else that i know of

interesting, my code actually worked

what the hell haha

how would you go about just straight up changing every single joker to, let's just say, egg

i have it removing the jokers in my hand that aren't missing no and then replacing them with j_egg but there has to be a more optimized way to just like. actually replace them

actually, there may be a joker that replaces itself later on, i can't think of anything though...

yeah no i'm stumped here

i think i got something maybe

yea it kinda works

hmm

i'm so goddamn stupid

me when i forget about judgement

[alpine steeple]

me too fam

[autumn coral]

can judgement spawn rare jokers (?)

[orchid thunder]

anyoe know a good example of SMODS.RARITIES

[tepid crow]

should be able to yes

[autumn coral]

kk

do i need to add the create_card to an event queue? i think it spawns it like. several times

[tepid crow]

sounds more like a context issue

[autumn coral]

ion think so, it's in a loop

the context worked fine

if context.end_of_round and not context.repetition and not context.game_over and not context.blueprint then -- and context.blind.boss <- set after i make sure that this works for what i want it to
            -- this should randomize the jokers!

            play_sound("missingno_static", 1, 0.25)

            OriginalJoker = card;
            local jokers = {}
            for i=1, #G.jokers.cards do 
              if G.jokers.cards[i] ~= card then
                  jokers[#jokers+1] = G.jokers.cards[i]
              end
            end

            local joker_count = #jokers
            -- is this what's making the weird sound...?
            --G.GAME.joker_buffer = G.GAME.joker_buffer + joker_count

            if joker_count > 0 then 
              for i=1, joker_count do
                jokers[i]:remove()
                -- i'm thinking the 1 is the quality and we're just picking randomly, since I couldn't figure out where else we'd randomly get it from :p
                -- 1/4 chance for the false to be true and for jud to be soul?
                is_soul = love.math.random(0,4) == 4
                local c = create_card('Joker', G.jokers, is_soul, nil, nil, nil, nil, is_soul and 'sou' or 'jud')
                c:add_to_deck()
                G.jokers:emplace(c)
                c:start_materialize()
                --G.GAME.joker_buffer = 0
              end
              return {
                message = "Changed " .. #jokers .. " jokers!"
              }
            end
            return {
              message = "Nothing To Change!"
            }
        end
``` this is the code rn

it works, surprisingly

i'm going to change the soul chances to be much lower though lol

iunno, i just hear multiple sounds when it does this and the event queue jumps by like 20-30

i only hear multiple sounds when it's a special edition though

adding the event thing was worse sobs

it just MIGHT be broken alright

MAYBE

no clue why this is running it twice i'm ngl

maybe it's because it's getting removed from the table?

i was looking it up and apparently lua is just weird about that

seeing if setting a variable for the card instead of calling the table directly helps

um. no it just gave me one of every joker in the game

i just thought of probably a much easier way to do this

[wintry swallow]

How is extra not existing in the last line? I feel like I've done this before

 config = { extra = { has_triggered = false} },
  rarity = 2,
  atlas = 'a_circus',
  pos = { x = 1, y = 1 },
  cost = 5,
  loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
    return { vars = { card.ability.extra.has_triggered } }
  end,
  calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.joker_main and #context.scoring_hand == 5 then
      if not card.ability.extra.has_triggered then

[weary jungle]

is it self.ability?

[elder vapor]

its not self.ability

[autumn coral]

help 😭

[elder vapor]

card is undefined in loc_vars so it would error

[autumn coral]

the weirdest part is that these cards don't even exist technically

if i reload the game they disappear and the right cards stay

???

is there some method i need to call to clear all inactive cards?

i have an idea

i'm just. using a counter

[split creek]

How do you make a joker not show up in the shop?

[autumn coral]

hopefully this works

[autumn coral]

you'd probably have to override the existing methods for shop rendering

ok i have determined it is calling this WAY too many times

oh yep no i fucked the code up lol

functional counter:

damn this language is buttcheeks istg

it's just. not breaking out of the loop

lol

ok ok ok, why IS it running like 8 extra times

it breaks out of the for loop and then just like. keeps going for some reason?

[fluid lagoon]

is it easy or not to add a new spectral card?

[elder vapor]

very easy

SMODS.Consumable and the set as Spectral

[autumn coral]

if context.end_of_round and not context.repetition and not context.game_over and not context.blueprint then this runs 8 extra times for some reason

anyone have any thoughts on um. why that might happen and how i could fix it

i've narrowed it down to like. this specific line being the issue btw

do i need to replace return with eval_status or something

huh

no clue why this is happening

[autumn coral]

i made this work with the dumbest fucking solution i could think of

[wintry swallow]

If I add a joker, can I see if it was actually bought full-price?

[cold peak]

Does anyone know where/how to directly access the Atlas? I'm still trying to modify the G.shared_soul property and want to set its Atlas to something I added to SMOD's Atlas:

SMODS.Atlas {
  key = "soul",
  path = "soul.png",
  px = 71,
  py = 95
}

G.shared_soul = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, [ATLAS_GO_HERE], {x = 0, y = 0})
``` I've tried `G.ASSET_ATLAS["soul"]` but that gives me an error about indexing atlas (a nil value)

[elder vapor]

atlas = "soul", pos = { x = 0, y = 0 }

[cold peak]

That would work if I was using the SMOD command, but I'm using Balatro's Sprite function

[cold peak]

SMOD/Balatro handle the Soul card differently than other cards. You can modify the consumable soul and give it a soul_pos but the defaul soul animation will still be there and playing underneath whatever you give it, we had a discussion about it earlier today

[fluid lagoon]

when making a sheet for jokers, should I start by making them one buy one and then putting onto a bigger sheet or make the sheet and put them on there

[cold peak]

Basically my question is where does SMODs actually store the Atlases it creates, I can't seem to find it on their github, but I probably just haven't looked hard enough

[elder vapor]

ignore the nils

[autumn coral]

OHHHH MY GOD IT WORKS

[elder vapor]

what works

[autumn coral]

my thing

... sorta

i need to keep messing with it

i made working isaac missingno in balatro pretty much

i just need to um. fully get rid of the original jokers i'm replacing

which is a fun challenge

[cold peak]

Does anyone know how to properly make a Sprite call work? Or if there's a better way to reset the G.shared_soul object

[autumn coral]

ok since this isn't exactly working for me, how can i insert a new card at a specific index in my jokers

it sorta works but i can't sell them

i can't sell these for whatevber reason\

also they're drawn over everything else which prevents me from selling my joker

[cold peak]

I think to get any further I'm gonna need someone who knows SteamModded better and knows where it actually stores the sprites, I can't understand what I'm reading in the github and my playing around in the dark with the Debug statements is getting me nowhere

[autumn coral]

ITS ALIVE

GRTJKHSJKLDFHSDJKL

example hand 1 (first image)
example hand 2, after blind completed (second image)

[cold peak]

Nice!

[autumn coral]

this could be the most complicated thing i've ever added to a game

i don't think boss blinds are as much fun as i thought they would for changing it up, i think it's gonna have to be every ante

[split creek]

Does anyone know how to make an enhancement not show up naturally (the weight value doesn't actually impact packs, or anything, it's never used by smods)

[rough furnace]

not sure for enhacements but I know other things can do an in_pool function and just return false

[cerulean rose]

is it possible to ban editions in challenges

[ocean nimbus]

any advise on how to modify a save file to remove a joker that is crashing the game?

[split creek]

This worked! Before, I had had just set in_pool to false, but changing it to a function worked

[rough furnace]

you can try using https://balatro.shorty.systems

[ocean nimbus]

I can navigate the tool I think but I don't really understand how to remove a specific joker from

an onggoing save

[rough furnace]

you'll have to do it manually from the JSON

[elder vapor]

aaaaaaaaaaa

[rough furnace]

you probably want some kind of tool to help with handling the JSON but you should be able to find it in cardAreas > Jokers > cards iirc

[elder vapor]

i've had this issue since the start of my mod.. the stickers i have don't want to have a label

[ocean nimbus]

you are seriously overestimating me haha not sure how to open the save

[fluid lagoon]

is there a good way to make a joker card base?

[autumn coral]

check the steammodded example mods

they have a lot of good joker examples

[ocean nimbus]

this is my problem

[autumn coral]

is this your mod or someone else's

[zenith drum]

how do I use create_card for jokers of my custom rarity? using it for a booster pack

[ocean nimbus]

might be in the wrong chat

not mine

[autumn coral]

probably wrong chat

this is for developers

[fluid lagoon]

like the idea of the things in the steammodded folder, but my problem is what to do for making the joker graphic

[elder vapor]

oops fixed (i had misc inside descriptions)

[autumn coral]

ah

like showing the joker graphic or designing a joker

either way

https://canary.discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1311112409943113850

the joker in here is very straight-forward

just kinda copy how i made my joker graphic and u should be good

[cold peak]

If you want a base to design other Jokers on top of the Joker joker has a very simple art to remove, make this selection and press delete and you basically have a clean slate

[autumn coral]

this too ^^

but if you need help with spritesheets n stuff, my mod has a pretty simple one for you to slap this one on top of

[fluid lagoon]

I feel dumb, I didn't think about doing that, and yeah this is going to be the first major mod project ever, my last thing was just to make custom face cards before we had DeckSkins

[stiff locust]

still don't understand how to make a custom moving color

i've tried a bunch of stuff but it's always either the same color as the joker UI, or white

that makes me think i'm defining the color wrong

i can't figure out what cryptid does to make its colors move

ooh they hook a color function for it

okay hold on

holy shit I managed to change the color

i had to hook loc_colours to actually define the color

that's why it wasn't working

[fluid lagoon]

on a sprite sheet, how far apart do the jokers need to be?

[autumn coral]

how can i make my joker eternal by default

i've seen it pretty recently

[autumn coral]

check the main game's sprite atlass

alternatively tho

[stiff locust]

1 pixel gap between each joker iirc

[autumn coral]

here's the entire balatro spritesheet

[fluid lagoon]

thanks

[autumn coral]

yee!

[autumn coral]

istg i saw something about this like 2 days ago

[stiff locust]

i think you'd do it in set_ability? idk

set_ability runs once when the joker is first created, includes when it's in the shop and in packs

look at cryptid's cube, it's always eternal

[elder vapor]

been trying to make this sticker work for Jokers for the past hour with no luck 😭 am i doing something wrong

using talisman for the x chips

[cerulean rose]

how would i add a ui element to a card like what the fool has?
i'm sure i could do it using lovely patches but is there a way to with SMODS alone?

[crisp coral]

you'll need to override and use your own card ui with card.generate_ui(self, info_queue, card, desc_nodes, specific_vars, full_UI_table)
append the ui nodes to desc_nodes

[frosty dock]

actually it's also supported by loc_vars through returning a UI element as main_end field (though using generate_ui gives full control)

[nocturne garnet]

why can you unlock cards but not lock them wtf.....

[elder vapor]

unlocked = false?

[nocturne garnet]

yeah i tried

it does NOT work

[stiff locust]

cause unlocked = false is the default state of the card, not the current state

the jokers you've unlocked are stored in your profile (you could probably manually edit the save to re-lock something (i don't know why you need to do that though))

[gritty valley]

Because the player deserves to suffer?

[stiff locust]

delete system32

i don't know why you're stopping at the scale of balatro

[gritty valley]

Ofc ofc. Let’s enter mugen levels of modding fuckery

[nocturne garnet]

1 JOKER TO MIDNIGHT.

[shell timber]

evil sob

[stiff locust]

make it 99,999 in 100,000 to not destroy all

[nocturne garnet]

No.

NEVER.

[stiff locust]

lmao why not

[nocturne garnet]

would be too overpowered with oopsall6s

[stiff locust]

what

no it'd be worse with all 6s

[wintry solar]

No it wouldn’t

[nocturne garnet]

it would be 199,998 in 100,000 to not destroy

[stiff locust]

oh

wait

that makes sense

[autumn coral]

Thinking about today’s isaac item/boss/mechanic i want to recreate

[cinder briar]

One of the setup steps I was sent to start modding included "extracting Balatro [Lua] files", is there a specific tool to do that? I've got all the DLLs from the game folder open in Windows Explorer atm

[rough furnace]

you can run 7zip on the exe

mayvbe just changing the extension to .zip might work

it's not nessicary but handy

[cinder briar]

It worked off the bat, tysm!

[zealous glen]

Dancing Isaac

[autumn coral]

I already was planning on specialist at some point

Maybe a specialist item that makes legendary cards show up in shops that had the isaac specialist dance in it

That actually would be crazy

[zealous glen]

Woohoo

[gritty valley]

Does it restart with the same seed?

[nocturne garnet]

yes

[gritty valley]

lol

[rough furnace]

find a seed with an early soul and this joker, farm legendaries

[gritty valley]

Now do clicker

[nocturne garnet]

oo

yeah ill try

[nocturne garnet]

nvm it crashes already

[gritty valley]

For what reason

[nocturne garnet]

bad code

obviously

[gritty valley]

From thunk or you

[nocturne garnet]

me

[gritty valley]

Skill issue tbh

[gritty valley]

Why are there three decks next to each other?

[fluid lagoon]

what is the colors used on the different joker text boxes for the stuff like chips and tarrots?

[gritty valley]

Like the colored text?

[fluid lagoon]

yeah

[gritty valley]

You can check the localization folders for the color codes. tarot is like this {C:tarot}Tarot{} card and chips is like this {C:chips}+50{} Chips

The codes just go into a string like this

[fluid lagoon]

do you need the attention part?

[tepid crow]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1270516504470880357

[gritty valley]

C:attention is just another color code

[fluid lagoon]

thanks

[gritty valley]

It's the orangish-yellow color

[gritty valley]

thx

Why is this happening :(

Oh wait nvm

[rough furnace]

hmm actually that should work

@frosty dock

[wintry solar]

do you even need the galdur dependency?

[gritty valley]

Nah my issue was capitalization

[rough furnace]

oh

right ID not name

[gritty valley]

My whole mod is based around adding decks so it's really more of a convience. I also wanna do b-side type stuff later on and having a consistent UI is helpful.

[hardy viper]

dont add a dependency if you dont have to

especially not with the current dependency system

[rough furnace]

I mean it's easier for development to only do one way and then once finished then make it work with both

[wintry solar]

yeah but if they're just adding decks you dont require galdur

[hardy viper]

^

[rough furnace]

oh

[wintry solar]

sure, it's nice, but it's not what the dependency system is for

[rough furnace]

I see

Yeah probably just recommend galdur for users

[gritty valley]

Fair, I'll probably end up only adding it as a dependency if the UI changes are too much of a hassle to keep up with both versions.

[wintry solar]

what UI stuff are you adding?

[gritty valley]

I wanna add b-side decks, and I wanna do an animation for the switching of decks. I haven't fully worked it out in my head yet so I'll definitely first have to see how hard it is to do first.

[torpid dagger]

If I wanted to keep specific tags from appearing until Ante 4 what would I need to do? I'm not sure where to even start trying to do that.

[gritty valley]

I would start by looking at the source code for where tags are randomly chosen

[tepid crow]

there's a min_ante for tags iirc

(or something like that)

[fluid lagoon]

am tying to figure out how to tell the game to add chips when an enhanced card is played

[torpid dagger]

oh?

[gritty valley]

It's in commen_events.lua under the func get_next_tag_key

Yeah there is

[hardy viper]

eval_card is the relevant function iirc

[torpid dagger]

<3

[gritty valley]

Kind of weird that tags use .requires. Are any tags even locked behind a discovery?

[tepid crow]

some yes

I don't even think the collection shows it though

Five tags also have a hidden unlock requirement: for the Rare tag you need to have discovered Blueprint, and for the Negative, Foil, Holographic and Polychrome Tags you need to have discovered their respective editions.

[gritty valley]

Huh, that’s kinda strange for the rare tag

[weak depot]

can y'all help me out here? i've been trying for a while now but i'm having trouble figuring this out, it's throwing an error here. any thoughts?

SMODS.Joker {
    name = 'Black Friday',
    key = 'j_bla',
    atlas = 'blajokeratl',
    rarity = 3,
    cost = 8,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    config = {extra = 25},
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Black Friday',
        text = {
          "{C:attention}+2{} card slots available in shop",
          "when you have less than {C:money}$25{}"}
    },

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if G.GAME.DOLLARS < self.ability.extra then
            if context.end_of_round then
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    func = function ()
                        change_shop_size(2)
                        return true end
                }))
            end
        end
    end
}

[rough furnace]

what is the error?

[weak depot]

again i'm trying to have it add 2 card slots to the shop, but only when you have 25$

[rough furnace]

self doesn't have an ability. Probably want card.ability.extra

[weak depot]

oopsie!

okay, i'll try that :>

okay, now it's not throwing out an error per se, but it's definitely not... doing the intended thing

cardsplosion

[wintry swallow]

It's G.GAME.dollars

[weak depot]

yeah, fixed

still doesn't really work though

is there like a thing to get it to trigger once that i'm not doing properly?

[cinder briar]

If this is the first turn where you have under $25 I'm confused how it's happened, but it looks like the +2 shop size is triggered after every round.

I think the logic you're after is

ROUND ENDS
if G.GAME.dollars < 25 then
  change_shop_size(2)
  [set a flag to use later]
end
BLIND SELECTED
if flag then
  change_shop_size(-2)
  [unset flag]
end```

[gritty valley]

Yeah that's the only thing I would think of

[cinder briar]

(I assume you can add new flags in the globals object) (Is Lua even object-oriented I'm used to C/C++?)

[rough furnace]

this might be a lovely patch thing

cause though that would work you could jsut sell the joker before selecting the blind and then your +2 doesn't go away

hmm this effect is kidna weird as a conditional joker

this feel like credit card or oops where it modifes a value outside it's thing

and if it was just that you could use the add to deck and rermove from deck effects to modify it

but it doesn't really work when conditional

I guess you could just store something in your ability for is active and then when remove_from_deck or the blind selected calcualte are called then reset it

[weak depot]

i might just scrap the idea tbh 😭

[autumn coral]

i was thinking while playing isaac

i think an r key joker would actually be crazy

sell it to return to ante 1 with all of your jokers and hand

my goal is kinda gonna be to make one new isaac mod thing a day

[rough furnace]

you're never going to beliove this

#💻・modding-dev message

[autumn coral]

so i guess this is today's idea

NOOOO

ARE YOU KIDDIN GME

[autumn coral]

SOBS

[rough furnace]

I mean you can still just mkae one

theres a few mdos that have the same jokers

[autumn coral]

it's not the same

i did do missing no though which was so technical i almost got a migraine from it

table shifting in lua is no fucking joke

i still don't like how unoptimized + unbalanced it is

btw, while you're here, how can i make it immediately eternal when it shows up in-hand

or like. explicitly show up in shops as eternal even in non-eternal stakes

that's my idea of how to balance something this ridiculously op

[rough furnace]

uhhhhh you might need a lovely patch

[autumn coral]

fug

[rough furnace]

I know cryptid does it with cube

[autumn coral]

i've made other patches without lovely stuff that has worked fine

incheresting tho

[rough furnace]

lovely is generally more powerful

[autumn coral]

how can i make it eternal though

[rough furnace]

also since SMODS depends on it you can rely on it being there

[autumn coral]

i tried card:make_eternal() but it threw an error

[rough furnace]

I swear theres a method for it but in my code I just do _card.ability.eternal = true

actually

[autumn coral]

yeah wait how would u implement it

because i don't need it to spawn eternal as long as it becomes eternal on the first hand

i'd put it right here

[rough furnace]

you could add it to add_to_deck

[autumn coral]

whuh

[rough furnace]

oh wait

I found smth

[autumn coral]

oh?

[rough furnace]

stick eternal = true into config

[autumn coral]

SMODS.Joker { config={} } or something else

[autumn coral]

i don't have a config on this joker since it doesn't add any mult

[rough furnace]

yeah that

[autumn coral]

ahhhh

[rough furnace]

I belive config is what ability is set to by default

[autumn coral]

ok i tried that

[rough furnace]

you might still want to do it in add to deck in case something decides to remove it

[autumn coral]

i'll report back if it works

it did spawn as eternal

[rough furnace]

@mellow sable why doesn't cube do this?

[autumn coral]

i need to check the shop tho

[rough furnace]

it should be fine

it was eternal in the collection for me even

[autumn coral]

it worked!

this mod is so interesting honestly

i'm considering whether i should lock in the changed jokers as well?

what do you think

do you think that missingno penalty should be no-sell for all jokers after it rerolls them

because as you said, i can set that in add_to_deck :p

[rough furnace]

idk what missingno does

[autumn coral]

oh!

[gritty valley]

Where is the code for flipping a card object and changing it's base. I wanna do something similar but with the back of the card instead.

[autumn coral]

o

i'd throw a video in here

actually

give me like

3 minutes

ignore the fact that all of them are negative i made a mod that does that lol

actually it probably helps to show it without

hopefully this gives an idea!

[gritty valley]

There a mod that let's you resart the game by ctrl+r?

[autumn coral]

you don't need a mod for that

just hold down r for 5 seconds

[gritty valley]

I mean like the whole game

[autumn coral]

wdym

[gritty valley]

Like how you can restart the game from the error screen

[autumn coral]

OH

good question actually

[rough furnace]

I think hold m

[autumn coral]

this shit is annoying to constantly relaunch from steam 😅

[rough furnace]

SMODS adds a keybind

[mellow sable]

Never knew that

[autumn coral]

so the moral of the story is that smods should get better documentation, right?

😭

[rough furnace]

no thats balatro itself

[gritty valley]

Fuck yes

Well tbf balatro should get better documentation

[autumn coral]

yeah it's thunk's fault for my pain

#blamethunk

#thunkisoverparty

i guess this joke is less funny because twitter is deader than the strippers in my garage but i'm making it anyway

[rough furnace]

truely a moment

I suspect this isn't even intended behaviour but jsut a silly side effect of balatro's design

[autumn coral]

to be fair, the way that missingno works was 100% not implemented into balatro and was a pain in the ass to figure out how to functionally pull off

which did abuse some of the stuff that existed to make itself work

[rough furnace]

wait I think my SMODS keybind patch isn't matching

ok I was right hold m was it, but since my patch failed it didn't work

it's a cryptid patch

why are cryptid patches breaking everything

[mellow sable]

Didn’t you know? Late November is when it was prophesied that Cryptid’s patches would start failing

nah I’m just joking, lmk if there’s anything on my end to make the patches less incompatible

[autumn coral]

as written in the scrolls

[rough furnace]

I mean moving at patches to a later priority would probably help a bit (wouldn't have helped in the case earlier though cause it was a funnt patch). I just proposed in the lovely discord that maybe we run at patches later for the same priority we'll see what methrul thinks

probably if anything big mods like SMODS and cryptid should get better at watching for patchs failing and making sure they aren't breaking patches

SMODS should also maube move it's priority a little earlier just so it's more likely to inject and people arent relying on patching with or withut smods depending on how lovely feels that day

[mellow sable]

We also should properly move to 0.6.0

[rough furnace]

yeah

[mellow sable]

It’s been WIP for like a month lol

[rough furnace]

I wonder how many 0.6.0 patch issues would be solved if SMODS just changed it's priority

I wonder how many new issues it would cause too

maybe I should go through all my patch issues rn and make some pr's

[edgy reef]

We should also think about re-organizing the patch files, 38 files for lovely patches feels a bit too many.

Especially for the few that share names

[rough furnace]

idk if it's to many

naviagting a massive patch file isn't nice

I've been thinking about splitting DebugPlus's patches and I only have 21

Cryptid has 251 patches

SMODS has 488

Right now I have 21 patches that fail to load

oh 23 misscounted

[elder vapor]

how do you have 23 failed patches 😭

[mellow sable]

I think combined from all those mods

[rough furnace]

23/809 is only like 3% of my patches

oh actually math I broke the keybinds, you just broke the hold m keybind

[elder vapor]

is it me or does debugplus's config not save

[rough furnace]

it saves but it doesn't load

well it didn't I fixed it today

but you'll have to remake it cause the config format was changed

[mellow sable]

cryptid wanted to be the only m around

[rough furnace]

you know if we had wildcard targets in lovely talisman could just patch every number to use to_big

I found a cryptid patch that might've never matched

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/UI_definitions.lua"
pattern = "{card_limit = _size, type = 'consumeable', highlight_limit = 1}"
position = "at"
payload = "{card_limit = math.max(1,_size), type = 'consumeable', highlight_limit = 1}"
match_indent = true``` seems every instance of your thing ends with a )

I guess possible changed it

[cold peak]

So to create a new sprite for G.shared_soul I need an Atlas, the game itself does that via self.ASSET_ATLAS, but when I try to access that in my lua file G.ASSET_ATLAS is nil (sendDebugMessage(tostring(G.ASSET_ATLAS)) returns and prints nil) How would I access this properly?

[rough furnace]

when is your code running?

Also I'm thinking you might just be able to store your atlas from when you create it and then set it

[cold peak]

Uhh I'm not sure I guess, its just in a folder at %appdata%\Balatro\Mods\MyMod

[rough furnace]

Ok so when SMODS loads

unless it's a lovely patch

[cold peak]

Uhh those are .toml files right? No this is a .lua file

[rough furnace]

yeah

is it G.GAME.ASSET_ATLAS?

[cold peak]

This is the line from game.lua:

self.shared_soul = Sprite(0, 0, self.CARD_W, self.CARD_H, self.ASSET_ATLAS["centers"], self.P_CENTERS.soul.pos)

Doing this no longer crashes but I still am not modifying the shared_soul

local soulAtlas = SMODS.Atlas {
    key = "soul",
    path = "c_soul_extra.png",
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}

G.shared_soul = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, soulAtlas, { x = 0, y = 0 } )

[rough furnace]

that should modify the soul

[cold peak]

Yeah, it should be red if it worked, but still the default

[rough furnace]

also I think x= 0, y = 0 won';t work

just checked and G.ASSET_ATLAS does exist, at least at the title screen

actually

I wonder if the shared soul is being loaded after your mod

[cold peak]

Thats my only thought at this point, is there a way to make it load later?

[rough furnace]

you could hook or patch some function that is only called later

[cold peak]

Would that look like this (taken from Aura)

local upd = Game.update

function Game:update(dt)
  upd(self, dt)
  -- their code
end

[humble gale]

so quick question, this code below executes several times at the end of round and i dont know why.

if context.end_of_round and not context.game_over and not context.repetition and G.GAME.blind.boss and not context.blueprint then
   G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
       trigger = 'after',
       delay = 0.2,
       func = function()
             G.GAME.interest_cap = G.GAME.interest_cap + card.ability.extra.interInc
             card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = "Upgrade!"})
       return true end}))
end

like, i see upgrade message pop up several times and the interest cap goes up several times while i only want it to execute once

[rough furnace]

hmmm

someone else was also having some weird behvaiour with end of round effects too earlier

wonder if there is some kind of bug

[humble gale]

yeah, one some of my other jokers i just used a bool to stop it

but i wanted to know if i was doing something wrong

and thats why it was happening

[rough furnace]

I'm not too familar with why that's happening

[cold peak]

Wilson think I could do this

local start = Game.start_up
function Game.start_up
  start(self)
  local soulAtlas = --my code here
end

[gritty valley]

What's the dif between P_CENTER_POOLS and P_CENTERS?

[rough furnace]

Ok went through my patch conflicts. Ignored the talisman ones cause I didn't want to read talisman patches and figure out who was touching random numbers

[cold peak]

This is telling me that its expecting a ( near start, there is tho

[rough furnace]

I just deleted 250mb worth of lovely logs

[elder vapor]

function Game.start_up()

[cold peak]

Thats a lot of logs

[cold peak]

oh ffs, thank you

Hmm, now I'm getting startup yelling about a self being nil...

[rough furnace]

Its not getting its args properly

[cold peak]

Fixed the nil self (it was because I had () on the local variable) However, its still not working, but I know why! its not running my startup function, or at least my debug statement isn't getting printed

local start = Game.start_up

function Game.start_up(self)
    start(self)

    local soulAtlas = SMODS.Atlas {
        key = "soul",
        path = "c_soul_extra.png",
        px = 71,
        py = 95
    }

    G.shared_soul = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, soulAtlas, { x = 0, y = 0 } )

    sendDebugMessage("In startup")

end

sendDebugMessage("Not in startup")
``` Not sure why its not running my startup function

[weary jungle]

ok im gonna FOCUS now.

sidabling cryptid.. its getting serios

oh this is all fps based....

some stuff is working, others not... oopsies

[humble gale]

anyone know how to get the name of a highlighted joker?

[rough furnace]

I had something a while back I'll see if I can find it

[cold peak]

Whats the keybind to restart with SMODS?

[rough furnace]

hold m

[cold peak]

Ah, I tried ctrl + r, holding ctrl r, and the same for just R

[weary jungle]

ok, things are bouncy, but something is wrong with anything besides the menus, but only specific menus

[cold peak]

Its working!!!

[rough furnace]

G.localization.descriptions.Joker[card.config.center_key].name

[humble gale]

ty

[rough furnace]

oh wait I messed up edited

G.localization.descriptions[card.config.center.set][card.config.center_key].name also works for more types of cards

[cerulean rose]

trying to hook the consumable usage from the fool and its not working

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/misc_functions.lua"
pattern = '''
if card.config.center.set == 'Tarot' or card.config.center.set == 'Planet' then 
  G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
    trigger = 'immediate',
    func = function()
      G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
        trigger = 'immediate',
        func = function()
          G.GAME.last_tarot_planet = card.config.center_key
            return true
        end
      }))
        return true
    end
  }))
'''
position = "after"
payload = '''
else
  G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
    trigger = 'immediate',
    func = function()
      G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
        trigger = 'immediate',
        func = function()
          G.GAME.yart_last_other = card.config.center_key
            return true
        end
      }))
        return true
    end
  }))
'''
match_indent = true

[rough furnace]

pattern matches don't work with mutiple lines in the pattern

[cerulean rose]

checking the dump indicates that the patch applied successfully

[rough furnace]

really?

[cerulean rose]

yup

[weary jungle]

lovely patches are so awesome!

[cerulean rose]

hallucination but bigger

[elder vapor]

what is bro doing 😭

[weary jungle]

bouncy

its not working well

[rough furnace]

also pro tip shift + /

[weary jungle]

yea but it feels like im a steriotypicle hacke

[cold peak]

Is shift + / supposed to do something?

[weary jungle]

party!!!

[cold peak]

Very followable gameplay!

[weary jungle]

add this to the next cryptid patch

[rough furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/works-on-my-machine-ryan-gosling-works-on-my-gif-24523830

[rough furnace]

hides the console preview

[cold peak]

ah

[weary jungle]

i should figure out what the hell this function does before i do wierd things with it

[rough furnace]

@gaunt thistle since when?

[weary jungle]

what is dt

[cold peak]

delta time?

change in time

[weary jungle]

oh

[humble gale]

what would the card be in this situation? Im doing this inside a can_use on consume. would it be G.jokers.highlitghted?

[weary jungle]

that makes sense

i thought it was derivitive of t or something 😭

[rough furnace]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cold peak]

if its an update method its almost certainly delta time, but it could be context specific

you could be doing integrals in balatro who knows

[weary jungle]

its definitly delta time

i also thought it was distance time

[cold peak]

technically? not wrong

[elder vapor]

dt is always short for deltatime imo

[weary jungle]

now i have to figure out why my code works on some things but not others

[elder vapor]

basically the time in-between frames

[weary jungle]

ik

[elder vapor]

[weary jungle]

yay!!!! patches!!!!

(self.role.wh_bond == 'Strong' and (self.velocity.x * 8)) or (self.velocity.x * 2) am i dumb?

isnt that how that works??

[fluid lagoon]

am trying to figure out how to make this joker check to see if a enhanced card is played and then ad chips if one is played

[faint yacht]

Check for card.ability.name ~= "Default Base".

[fluid lagoon]

so that is the check for enhanced? but after how do I make it add the chips?

[faint yacht]

You return chips = card.ability.extra.chips.

[fluid lagoon]

and I need to give my joker the ability to give the extra chips?

[faint yacht]

Define such under the config part, yeah.

[fluid lagoon]

would it be chips = 50 for adding 50 chips

[faint yacht]

Yeah.

[fluid lagoon]

awesome

[fluid lagoon]

is that ~ or -

[cerulean rose]

~

[fluid lagoon]

thanks

[cerulean rose]

ok, after further testing incantation seems to be causing the issue

incantation overrides the same function

also for whatever reason listing the mod conflict in the header doesn't do anything

[fluid lagoon]

am getting a weird error saying there is an unexpected symbol near my ending }, but all there is if the 'end' for my function and the comment of the code end

[cerulean rose]

can you show the whole context?

[fluid lagoon]

like the section of the code?

[cerulean rose]

yeah

[fluid lagoon]

``SMODS.Joker{
key = 'bendWill',
loc_txt = {
name = 'Bend Will',
text = {
'{C:chips}+50{} if a enhanced',
'card is played'
}
},
atlas = 'Jokers',
pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
cost = 2,
blueprint_compat = true,
config = {
extra = {
chips = 50
}
},
calculate = function(self,card,context)
if card.ability.name ~= "Default Base" then
return {
card = card,
chips = card.ability.extra.chips,
message = '+' .. card.ability.extra.chips,
colour = G.C.CHIPS
}
end
}

------------MOD CODE END----------------------``

[tepid crow]

count your brackets, ,s, and ends carefully, you're probably missing one

[cerulean rose]

missing an end in calculate

[fluid lagoon]

where should it be going?

[cerulean rose]

after the return

[fluid lagoon]

thank you

and I just tried using it, it was giving chips on discard and when I went to play a hind it crashed with the info of main.lua:1794: functions/state_events.lua:1099: 'for' limit must be a number

[cerulean rose]

you also need to check for the correct context

[fluid lagoon]

???

[tepid crow]

DigitalDetective is right
I suggest you take a look at https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/wiki and https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/blob/main/example_mods/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

[rough furnace]

it should disable your mod

[fluid lagoon]

the calculate and context parts are confusing me

[cerulean rose]

this differentiates cards which trigger in different contexts (onyx agate, which triggers during card scoring; vs sly joker, which triggers during joker scoring; vs hallucination, which triggers when a booster pack is opened)

[cerulean rose]

it does not

[gritty valley]

What table does SMOD put custom deck keys in? I've tried pulling from G.P_CENTERS but it's key isn't there.

[cerulean rose]

heres the mod header btw

--- STEAMODDED HEADER
--- MOD_NAME: Yet Another Reversed Tarot mod
--- MOD_ID: YART
--- MOD_AUTHOR: [DigitalDetective47]
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: A Balatro mod that adds reversed tarot cards to the game
--- CONFLICTS: [incantation]
--- DISPLAY_NAME: YART
--- BADGE_COLOR: A782D1
--- PREFIX: yart

[rough furnace]

I think you migjht need to spcify a version

=0 should work I htink

[tepid crow]

that seems weird

you shouldn't have to 🤔

[rough furnace]

hmm the example doesn't have a version

[tepid crow]

yeah exactly

[cerulean rose]

sort of works (have to say >=0.0.0) but it still says it has conflicts even when incantation is disabled

[fluid lagoon]

I am just lost on how the coding of it works

[cerulean rose]

reference code for other mods

[fluid lagoon]

was trying but it I am struggling to understand how I need to do the calculate and context parts for my joker

[tepid crow]

huh, weird, the version number does actually seem required

oh the id pattern match is (.-)[<>] (match any character zero or more times, followed by either < or >)

wait that's been broken for 6 months

???

[hardy viper]

mfw I launch balatro and bsod

some system driver crashed for some reason

[tepid crow]

windows bsod?

🤣

nice

[hardy viper]

lmao yeah

pc restarted too fast to see which one and I honestly can't be bothered finding the crash log

[tepid crow]

I've only ever seen the Löve bsod

never had my balatro crash my entire windows before 🙃

[fluid lagoon]

am looking at these examples and it is making feel a little lost on what I need to have it check

[tepid crow]

Removing that does actually crash btw. Has to do something with other mods creating objects. I dunno, didn't look much further into it

[tepid crow]

calculate can get called hundreds of times in a single scoring hand, for calculating what to do when scoring cards, iterating cards in hand, an end of round effect, etc
context has properties that describe the current calculation context (makes sense, right?), so you'll need to check the context before doing almost anything, see the ExampleJokersMod

[fluid lagoon]

so for the case of what I am trying to do, the context would be checking if the card is enhanced?

[tepid crow]

no, that's not a context

that's not a when

the context you're looking for is probably "on card scored"?

[fluid lagoon]

so with the context of on card scored, I then check to see if it was enhanced and it it was then give chips

[tepid crow]

yeah!

I suggest you look at the walkie talkie example, it should have similar context

[tepid crow]

Actually, hold on, I might've misinterpreted. Does it give +50 chips every time an enhanced card is scored, or does it give +50 chips if the scoring hand includes an enhanced card?

[fluid lagoon]

trying to do it to when it scores

but what is the context.individual

[tepid crow]

so for every enhanced card right?

[fluid lagoon]

yeah that is played, also have been editing what the text is going to say for the joker

[tepid crow]

sure

[tepid crow]

you can read more about that here https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/wiki/Calculation-Context-Guide

[fluid lagoon]

this page is a bit confusing

[tepid crow]

I know 😩

[fluid lagoon]

but what I am guessing is that the context.individual tells to check the stuff of a chard played

[mystic river]

that's just how steamodded handles conflicts, for some reason
if the conflicting mod is installed at all, your mod won't load. even if the other mod is disabled

you have to remove the other mod entirely

[tepid crow]

Huh, you're right. That also feels like something that should probably be fixed 🤔

[mystic river]

i feel like a behavior like that has to have been intentional
... but i have no idea what the benefit is lol. i consider it a bug

[fluid lagoon]

so far for the effect of the joker I have gotten
calculate = function(self,card,context) if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then if context.other_card: end

[tepid crow]

Quickly checking the source code it says "block load even if the conflict is also blocked", presumably if 2 mods both conflict each other? But it doesn't account for disabled mods at all

[fluid lagoon]

so with what I have for the calculate part so far, what do I need to do to check for any edition

[faint yacht]

...didn't I already mention the check for that? 😛

[fluid lagoon]

oh so I do that here

[faint yacht]

if card.ability.name ~= "Default Base" then
  ...
end

[fluid lagoon]

thank you

this is what I ended up with but an getting an error saying ' '}' expected [to close '{' at line 17 (the line where I started for making this joker)] near calculate

    key = 'bendWill',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Bend Will',
        text = {
            '{C:chips}+#50#{} when a enhanced',
            'card scores'
        }
    },
    rarity = 1,
    atlas = 'Jokers',
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
    cost = 3,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    config = {
        extra = {
            chips = 50
        }
    },
    
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return {
            vars = {card.ability.extra.chips}
        }
    end
    
    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            if card.ability.name ~= "Default Base" then
                return{
                chips = card.ability.extra.chips,
                card = context.other_card
                }
            end
        end
    end
}```

[nocturne garnet]

more sprites :3

[crystal willow]

so Im attempting to get into modding and to test my jokers out Id like to make a custom challenge and put them in there

How do I add a custom challenge to my mod?

[fluid lagoon]

well there is a debug mod that allows you to give yourself the joker to test

[crystal willow]

hm

I do want to check that out but Im also planning on making custom challenges in the future

[fluid lagoon]

ok

[crystal willow]

Do you know how to implement custom challenges?

[fluid lagoon]

I personlly don't, but there are some awesome peeps in here that will be able to help

[faint yacht]

🤝 Windows Classic theme.

[stiff locust]

trying to make a gradient color the way cryptid does it, but it's crashing here and i can't understand why
the error log says it's crashing because "Tsunami" is a nil value
the red underline and error warning are also there in cryptid's code for this, but it doesn't crash for cryptid and it makes no sense to me

i would've posted in their server abt this but i didn't know where to put it

[faint yacht]

...Cryptid is a global that's set by MODID, no?

[stiff locust]

but my mod ID is tsunami, so why doesn't this work for me

oh god is it case sensitive

no the ID on mine is capitalised

[crisp coral]

Cryptid initializes its global with Cryptid = {} beforehand

[stiff locust]

oh is it that easy

i did try searching for the word cryptid in the files and then i realised

that's gonna be really slow to look through

oh my god it was that easy

well it's not crashing? but the color isn't working

progress i suppose

i'm guessing i did another thing wrong but i don't know what

the update loop is working it's just not updating the colors?

well i don't really know what it's doing to the color it's just making it look like that

tsun is my mod prefix

holy shit wait hang on

it's doing something

it's
the wrong color but I figured it out

it's just going through all the colors

the colors I put in at the start don't matter

[hybrid iris]

yippee

[teal estuary]

purdy

[elfin nova]

Hello, I try to learn modding on Balatro. How you test cards, an easy way exist for spawn joker, taro, playing card... like a console ? What is our workflow for test ?

[wintry solar]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1228149931257237664

[faint yacht]

I use https://github.com/xioxin/BalatroMods/blob/main/Mods/UltraHand.lua to spawn Jokers, tarot cards and so on.

[crisp coral]

DebugPlus is just this but better

[faint yacht]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[wintry solar]

also looks like this one only works for jokers and consumables, you cant do anything with any other object you're working on