💻・modding-dev

[zealous glen]

I was tagging grassy

[wooden nexus]

Ditpyrc be like

[valid forge]

ah

seems it has been done before 😭

[wooden nexus]

It’s fine if done before!

Make all of it

[valid forge]

fair enough

oddly enough before I saw this

I already added some extra modifiers to the Carnelian and Obsidian decks

[nova finch]

can anyone help me with making card enhancements? I'm trying to make one that has a chance to destroy itself like glass cards

[wooden nexus]

Look in N++ for how glass card works for calculation stuff

[nova finch]

what is n++?

[wooden nexus]

Notepad++

[elder vapor]

me when smeared joker

[wooden nexus]

You can search a folder’s worth of files

[winged nest]

does anyone have any ideas

[wooden nexus]

And you can use this: https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Enhancement-[wip]

[nova finch]

ohh ok

[nova finch]

i was looking through that

i was able to make the enhancement exist just not able to get the calculate to work

[nova finch]

where weould i look?

[wooden nexus]

n++ does the searching for you

[cedar stream]

well try undoing stuff til it works again to find it out

[winged nest]

well yeah but like

it only crashes when i register a joker from the link i sent.

its literally just joker2 with the mult changed as a testing thing

SMODS.Joker {
  key = 'japan',
  loc_txt = {
    name = 'Japan',
    text = {
      "{C:mult}+#1# {} Mult"
    }
  },
  config = { extra = { mult = 40000 } },
  loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
    return { vars = { card.ability.extra.mult } }
  end,
  rarity = "what",
  atlas = 'THAW',
  pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
  cost = 2,
  calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.joker_main then
      return {
        mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult,
        message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_mult', vars = { card.ability.extra.mult } }
      }
    end
  end
}

oh it happens when i do rarity = "what"

[cedar stream]

yea, if you have not made it a rarity in your mod it will do that

[winged nest]

its right above

[cedar stream]

try removing pools

if it doesnt work then undo the deleteing of it and add the "weight" of the rarity showing up

[rancid perch]

so i want to make a persona 5 royal tycoon deck but

is tehre any way to get HD/4k card faces in

[cedar stream]

wdym?

[edgy reef]

Rarities have the prefix added

[supple folio]

how do i get the rarity of a joker in the joker area?

[rancid perch]

as in really HQ detailed card textures

i want to make one based on a game's cards but they loo horrendus cmpressed

[cedar stream]

if you down scale the image to about the size of like 4 playing cards from balatro then modify the colors some then downscale again to the card size

[rancid perch]

i mean no way to make it good looking/hq?

[rancid perch]

no way to make the engine handle/run hq/4k images?

[cedar stream]

not to my knoledge

[rancid perch]

darn

example of the quality

compressing really ruins it

[cedar stream]

let me see if i cant work some magic on it,i am in a vc in the cryptid discord if you want to watch

[zealous glen]

For some reason when it depends on the time to select a random skin, it always selects a random skin, despite the selected index changing and the number of options being greater than 1

[rancid perch]

if you can get it to work without any compression id be most pleased

im making an entire set

[zealous glen]

The engine can handle higher quality images, but there's an upper limit to how big the image can be

[rancid perch]

i dont mind downscaling them

[valid forge]

they definitely feel more distinct now

[zealous glen]

I think @mellow sable found out the upper limit when trying to make animation atlii

[rancid perch]

this one is 3264 x 4440 tho so

xD

id def ened to downscale it

[wooden nexus]

Now we need one for checkered

[valid forge]

I might do a reskin for that

[faint yacht]

...huh, I thought some shader shenanigans would be needed for translucent cards.

[valid forge]

really though Checkered staying as is is perfectly fine by me

[random sleet]

nah you can just have transparency

[faint yacht]

Makes it all the easier, yeah.

[rancid perch]

lemme know if you get something drago

[random sleet]

if you want to do any cool fog/fade effects, then you do, yeah

that looks cooooooool omg

[valid forge]

hypothetically I could make Checkered+ and Tartan+ which would just be making those a bit less flush spammy

...could make it so all the odds turn into evens and vice versa, so you can't make straight flushes, but it's easier to make full houses 👀

[faint yacht]

This was not worth unpacking the archives within win32 of PSO2 stuff that ended up as 911946 files totalling up to 217GB, trying to find the actual UI parts. Ended up using green screening shenanigans.

[random sleet]

asset ripping is a passion project

[zealous glen]

Well, you can try the DeckSkin template included in Steamodded

[faint yacht]

I've not touched the other folders... I'll need to move this off to my server box. But yeah, now I can properly do the intended PSO2 reference, though the current iteration of the Joker will need to be renamed to something else, alongside a design change.

[winged nest]

nope

[radiant halo]

any clue how i would do this but with a joker from my mod instead?

[faint yacht]

j_modprefix_jokerkey

[radiant halo]

i tried that, didnt work

lemme double check tho maybe i simply typod

ok yup, guess i typod lol

ty

[supple folio]

Is there documentation for creating a deck on the newest Steamodded version?

[faint yacht]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Center#smodsback-formerly-smodsdeck

[supple folio]

Thank you!

Is there a way to reload the game without quitting and reopening it every time?

[violet void]

holding M

[supple folio]

I see. Thanks a bunch!

[violet void]

personally I find that annoying since it types in vs code after closing lol

[supple folio]

Oh, I see what you're talking about

that is annoying lol

[frosty dock]

fair enough, it also interferes with a debugplus keybind if you have the ctrl setting off

might be worth changing

[cedar stream]

387 x 289

[livid tapir]

ikr, then im in a panic trying to change it before the game loads it

[cedar stream]

but still ned more down scale

[livid tapir]

that is actually awesome

[tepid crow]

some kind of keyboard shortcut like ctrl + f5 or something would be great yeah

[livid tapir]

you can minimize vs code before doing M, that helps and it types in whatever else there is open (normally discord for me)

[rancid perch]

can ia sk how youj did tat thats amazing

[cedar stream]

that is a difficult thing to explain in text

[livid tapir]

its peak

[violet void]

I have multiple vs code windows open for references, its faster to alt+f4 at that point 😆

[crisp coral]

it's worse for me because i have autosave on focus loss LOL

[livid tapir]

you can have multiple tabs in vs-code, though for multiple references that can start getting rough on the space for main tab so

[frosty dock]

that would be super inconvenient for me lmao

so since I get to decide, no

[tepid crow]

yeah just thought about some laptop and (weird) keyboards

[livid tapir]

id do ctrl +f5 epersonally
lemme actually do that

[frosty dock]

I have a weird keyboard personally

[tepid crow]

you've mentioned it before 😄

[livid tapir]

but how do i change the M keybind tho

[violet void]

different folders

[frosty dock]

ctrl+f5 would be a hold through 3 keypresses for me

[livid tapir]

ph

oh*

[tepid crow]

eh that's not even that bad tbh

[frosty dock]

could be worse but eh

[tepid crow]

how we feeling about ctrl+T

[cedar stream]

as i did mention before im in a vc in the cryptid discord if you wanted to watch

[frosty dock]

ctrl+T seems fine

on release or short hold duration?

[rancid perch]

sadly was in middle o game hense couldnt see

and no channel vc here caled cryptid

[violet void]

release

[frosty dock]

I'd have to see if it's used by debugplus

[cedar stream]

the discord server for the cryptid mod

[frosty dock]

discord.gg/unbalanced

[tepid crow]

release, 100%

[frosty dock]

aight

[tepid crow]

(and as far as I can tell it's not used by debugplus)

[frosty dock]

as per the keys.txt it's not used

[rancid perch]

ah

[livid tapir]

so do i change keys.txt

[frosty dock]

so that's a debugplus doc

[livid tapir]

ye

[frosty dock]

no

it's in steamodded's code

[livid tapir]

o ok

[wintry solar]

I've changed it to [ on my end

[livid tapir]

theres multiple files, is it config.lua?

[frosty dock]

tbh we could have a config option for it

[livid tapir]

ikr

[frosty dock]

search for SMODS.Keybind in src/game_object.lua

the last occurrence in the file should be the definition of the keybind

[livid tapir]

ok thx

[nocturne garnet]

yippee cryptid unlocks

[violet void]

wanna do the same, what did you edit

[wintry solar]

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = 'engine/controller.lua'
pattern = 'if key == "r" and not G.SETTINGS.paused then'
position = 'at'
match_indent = true
payload = '''
if key == '[' then
    SMODS.save_all_config()
    SMODS.restart_game()
elseif key == "r" and not G.SETTINGS.paused then
'''

[livid tapir]

btw do i enter ctrl as a string like 'ctrl'

[violet void]

wasnt it M, why is it replacing R

ah I see. Smods is also doing a lovely patch

[tidal steppe]

I killed balatro, it died right after this blind. crashed with no report XD

[violet void]

it doesnt work with my keyboard (/ didnt work either for debugplus for example)

is there any place I can check to see the value of each keybind?

[cosmic notch]

    key = 'ConstellationBooster1',
    atlas = 'Booster',
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Constellation Pack',
        text = {
            'Choose {C:attention}1{} of up to',
            '{C:attention}3{} {C:purple}Constellation{} cards to',
            'be used immediately'
        }

    },
    discovered = true,
    weight = 1,
    cost = 4,
    group_key = 'ConstellationConsumableType'
}```

so ive got the booster made, it appears in shop but crashes when I open it

[livid tapir]

btw was i right to make doubled joker a rare? or should it be a different rarity (creates a duplicate of the joker to left of this one if theres room, -1 joker slots as long as this joker exists in your joker area or whatever)

[cosmic notch]

oh wait, im missing config

whoop

[violet void]

does it keep creating duplicates?

[cosmic notch]

nope still crashes

[livid tapir]

once every hand

so you could make some op combos with it

[tidal steppe]

SMODS.Back{
    key = "antimatterDeck",
    pos = {x = 1, y = 0},
    unlocked = false,
    discovered = false,
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Antimatter",
        text ={
            "Start with 1 {C:attention}Joker slot",
            "Gain 1 per {C:attention}Ante."            
        },
    },
    apply = function()
        G.GAME.starting_params.joker_slots = 1
    end,
    trigger_effect = function(self, args)
        if args.context == "eval" and G.GAME.last_blind and G.GAME.last_blind.boss then
            G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit + 1
        end
    end,
    check_for_unlock = function(self, args)
        if args.type == "ante_up" and args.ante == 9 and #G.jokers.cards >= 8 then
            unlock_card(self)
        end
    end
}

My deck is working quite well, BUT how do i add the unlock requirment text? rn the text zone is blank. you don't know how to unlock it

[violet void]

thats strong lol
permanent -1 joker slot per duplication

[livid tapir]

that just makes it terrible

ngl

[violet void]

high risk high value

[livid tapir]

i just wanna know if you think i should change it to legendary/other rarity or keep it as rare

[violet void]

legendary

[livid tapir]

ok

the cost? like 15-20?

[violet void]

you cant buy legendaries, but since their sell value is 10 it should be 20

[tidal steppe]

voucher idea: you can now buy legendaries from the shop

[livid tapir]

oh
wait so why does perkeo have a cost

[livid tapir]

LOL

[violet void]

to set the sell value (half)

[livid tapir]

ah ok

makes sense

[violet void]

at least I think so

[livid tapir]

thx

do you think Joker Lottery should also be legendary? id guess not since its just
Destroy joker to left of this card, create a random joker of the same rarity (if there is space (for edge cases like if the destroyed joker was a negative))
i mean its rare rn

[valid forge]

ooh

[merry raven]

Is there a way to make it so that if I select a card with a specific Enhancement, it disables the "Play Hand" button?

[tidal steppe]

ooh what?

[valid forge]

just looks interesting

[tidal steppe]

thx

[livid tapir]

imma try to remake the art for doubled joker
try to make it fit legendaries more

[violet void]

do you think Rare is justified for this joker

[livid tapir]

obtained from packs?

[violet void]

anything that uses create_card

[livid tapir]

id say its more of a uncommon

[violet void]

(for playing cards)

[livid tapir]

but im not very experienced so dont listen to me

[violet void]

yeah I also feel like its a bit underwhelming like packs are likely to give any of the 4 suits

maybe it should increase by 1 the amount you can pick
-# and leave it rare

[livid tapir]

also that unique thing
what does it mean when added
itll just self destruct when what

[violet void]

yes previous copy self destructs

[livid tapir]

cool idea but idk how youd do that

[livid tapir]

o ok

[violet void]

I do

[merry raven]

I need an idea for an Enhancement card that's pretty anti-gameplay but gives a significant buff

[livid tapir]

so you cant stack it

[livid tapir]

go for it then

[radiant halo]

so im almost done all the jokers of my mod but im still iffy on the effect of this specific joker. it just feels kinda boring

[violet void]

its pretty useful

[radiant halo]

if anyone has suggestions on something cooler im open to them

it is but its just kinda dull

[livid tapir]

thats nice

[violet void]

like you always get straight flushes and flush houses

its good
-# almost too good

[radiant halo]

oh no like, it changes the ancient joker selected suit

i could do that though

[violet void]

its probably broken

like baronmime level of broken

[radiant halo]

maybe i do that but make it so you always have to play 5 cards, forcing you into flush/straight flushes

or a different number of cards

ill have to workshop it

[solid surge]

hello! im new to modding balatro, and i got two questions in mind:

1. if i could, how could i get a joker that multiplies chips to work?
   2, for future reference) how would i get chance systems on jokers to work? like chance to self-destruct or chance to create a tarot / planet / spectral?

[radiant halo]

for 1) you can do ```
chip_mod = mod_chips((Xchips-1) * hand_chips)

not sure about 2 though sorry

[radiant halo]

i should specify that hand_chips is a global var containing the chips, but Xchips must be replaced with whatever number you need

[solid surge]

awesome

thanks for the assistance

[sonic sandal]

What's the best way to make an enhancement that destroys itself after the hand is finished calculating a la glass cards?

I've been trying 'context.destroying_card', but that doesn't seem to be working here - but then again I may just not be quite understanding it

[tidal steppe]

maybe it also remove the non spade tarot cards from pool?

[tidal steppe]

wdym by anti gameplay?

[merry raven]

Something that goes against how the player plays
No discards, unable to play hands, destroying cards etc
Not to worry though I already figured something out

[violet void]

maybe, this is the change I made for now

[tidal steppe]

thanks for the warning. if you have succeded could you share your progress as i wanted to make a stone like enhancement myself. if not, am i able to help? work together

[merry raven]

calculate = function(self, card, context, effect)
        if context.cardarea == G.play and context.scoring then
            if next(context.poker_hands['Full House']) or
               next(context.poker_hands['Four of a Kind']) or 
               next(context.poker_hands['Straight Flush']) or
               next(context.poker_hands['Five of a Kind']) or
               next(context.poker_hands['Flush House']) or
               next(context.poker_hands['Flush Five']) or
               next(context.poker_hands['Royal Flush']) then
                
                card.ability.extra.primed = true
                card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {
                    message = "Primed!",
                    sound = "fm_finalized",
                    colour = G.C.BLACK
                })
            end
        end

Trying to make an Enhancement's flag (primed) turn to true once it detects one of those hands while it is in the holding hand, but it's not able to detect any played hands. Any help?

[violet void]

context.scoring_hand maybe

[lusty pollen]

It's actually only really tedious if you do it exclusively with lovely injections. I ended up just using steamodded for defining enhancements for various reasons, which has several parameters that can make a card act like stone. replace_base_card, no_rank, no_suit, and overrides_base_rank should do it.

[violet void]

just realised, its free real estate with hologram

[wintry solar]

context.scoring isn't a thing

[merry raven]

I missed that out whoops

context.scoring_hand doesn't really work either

[wintry solar]

I think you want context.individual

[merry raven]

Does it replace anything in the if case?

Or just pile it on with an and

[violet void]

this is a joker right?

[wintry solar]

replace the scoring one

so you have if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual then

[violet void]

isnt context.individual used if you are checking every card like with walkie talkie

[wintry solar]

sorry, if context.cardarea == G.play and not context.individual and not context.repetition then

I should get some sleep 😴

[merry raven]

What does not context.repetition do again? Is it a retrigger like Red Seals or something

[wintry solar]

context.repetition checks for retriggers on that object, yeah

I wonder if we should name each context and build the names into better calc 2 🤔

[merry raven]

msg = string: "[SMODS FATEMAKER \"main.lua\"]:930: attempt to index field 'poker_hands' (a nil value)"

Whoops

[merry raven]

It's this exact same code except I replaced that if case line

[wintry solar]

throw a and context.poker_hands in there

[violet void]

where is the logic that checks if the enhanched card is held in hand

[livid tapir]

i think i cooked with the resprite for Doubled Joker

what do yall think

[wintry swallow]

it needs to say "joker" on it

[merry raven]

Nope, unfortunately it isn't working

My intention is that if the card with this Enhancement is scored with a hand equal or greater than Full House, it would set the flag primed to true and play that "Primed!" message

[livid tapir]

its a legendary, a common trait with them is that they have their name instead of joker
plus some non-legendary cards have no "joker" on it iirc

[wintry swallow]

ah it's a legendary

i see

[violet void]

do you mean to-do list?

[wintry swallow]

also no, every joker in the game has "joker" on it somewhere

except legendaries

[violet void]

til that one also has it

[livid tapir]

that one doesnt

[wintry swallow]

yes it does

hold on

[livid tapir]

oh it does

[violet void]

its the first character of each word

[livid tapir]

OH

thats clever

lol

[violet void]

fr

[wintry swallow]

lol yeah

[livid tapir]

i tried to mimic the general legendary style, though i couldnt figure out the little background thing so i just used some perlin noise

[violet void]

looks like a military related joker

[wintry solar]

if you throw some print messages in can you see where it's getting to?

[livid tapir]

LOL

it does tho 💀

[wintry swallow]

smeared joker is the only joker i can think of that doesn't have the word "joker" legibly on it

and that's because smeared joker's art is just a mess

[livid tapir]

yeah its all smeared

[wintry swallow]

remember guys the driver's license expires later this month

[livid tapir]

i wonder if voroni noise would look cooler

[sturdy compass]

Does anybody here happen to know how animating joker art works? I've tried asking in Cryptid but I didn't get much help there. Here's the code I wrote to handle it but I'm clearly missing something since it's not ticking/sending console messages

[merry raven]

calculate = function(self, card, context, effect)
        if context.cardarea == G.play and not context.individual and not context.repetition and context.poker_hands then
            print("Card area checked")
            if next(context.poker_hands['Full House']) or
            next(context.poker_hands['Four of a Kind']) or 
            next(context.poker_hands['Straight Flush']) or
            next(context.poker_hands['Five of a Kind']) or
            next(context.poker_hands['Flush House']) or
            next(context.poker_hands['Flush Five']) or
            next(context.poker_hands['Royal Flush']) then
                print("Poker hand checked")
                card.ability.extra.primed = true
                print("Primed")
                card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {
                    message = "Primed!",
                    sound = "fm_finalized",
                    colour = G.C.BLACK
                })
                print("Message displayed")
            end
        end

Ho shit, it's not even printing any of the messages at all in the console

[wintry solar]

this might sound dumb, but is this definitely in the right enhancement?

[violet void]

did you check Aure's mod?

[sturdy compass]

Haven't even heard of that

[violet void]

it has some animated jokers

[sturdy compass]

Six Suits?

[violet void]

no its just called aura or aure I dont recall precisely

[sturdy compass]

hmm ok

[merry raven]

Yes it is

Just checked

I'll double check the console

[violet void]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1249486500811378718

[livid tapir]

listening to the main menu music while spriting is such a vibe fr

[wintry swallow]

listening to the main music while doing anything tbh

[livid tapir]

ye

[violet void]

just wait until you hear cardsuce track

[merry raven]

Nothing in the console either hmm

[sturdy compass]

I appreciate the suggestion but I don't think this is exactly what I'm looking for

[violet void]

sorry I misunderstood then

[sturdy compass]

no worries

[livid tapir]

it infact does

imo

[violet void]

jimbo is going places

[livid tapir]

resprite done lez go

[livid tapir]

yess

btw the noise plugin im using is called YANP

[tidal steppe]

similarly; my joker is showing its ability, not unlock requirements. how do i set unlock text?

[normal crest]

you put unlocked = false

so it'll be locked

wait I think I misunderstood

[normal crest]

to loc_txt add unlock which is a list of strings just like text

[tidal steppe]

oh thx, i thought it might be smth like that, but wasnt sure

[livid tapir]

oh i should prob do that too

[merry raven]

calculate = function(self, card, context, effect)
        if context.cardarea == G.play and not context.individual and not context.repetition then
            if context.scoring_name and (
               context.scoring_name == 'Full House' or
               context.scoring_name == 'Four of a Kind' or
               context.scoring_name == 'Straight Flush' or
               context.scoring_name == 'Five of a Kind' or
               context.scoring_name == 'Flush House' or
               context.scoring_name == 'Flush Five' or
               context.scoring_name == 'Royal Flush') then
               
                card.ability.extra.primed = true
                card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {
                    message = "Primed!",
                    sound = "fm_finalized",
                    colour = G.C.BLACK
                })
            end
        end

This is killing me, I still couldn't figure out how to make this Enhancement card fetch the hand type when scored

[livid tapir]

hm how should i make doubled joker be obtained by
bc its a legendary so it doesnt go on the shop

[random sleet]

then the soul will get it

[livid tapir]

ah ok cool

imma make a deck in my mod where you start with doubled joker lol

btw is there an smods wiki thing showing all of the formatting things you can do in loc_txt text (like {C:attention})

[normal crest]

do you mean all the colors

[merry raven]

Is there a way to fetch the number of the current round?

[livid tapir]

ye

[violet void]

wrong reply but ok

[livid tapir]

oh thx

[normal crest]

these

[merry raven]

So if i want Spade's colour in my text field do I just do {C:spades}

[normal crest]

yeah

[merry raven]

Sick it works

[normal crest]

maybe G.GAME.round

[royal carbon]

I keep getting this crash on startup and I can't figure out why?

Here's the code I think is at fault, there's probably a bunch wrong with it but idk how to see that yet

I've noticed an errant reference to the no-longer-existing new_card but fixing that doesn't solve the issue

Found it. I mistyped the modded rarity on a joker

[livid tapir]

this is what doubled joker looks like in game (after setting soul_pos)

[random sleet]

i think you mean G.jokers.highlighted[1].key at the top

[royal carbon]

👍

Hm, it still won't let me use it no idea how to be clearer

[random sleet]

also recall the class and mod prefix

j_mod_joker

[royal carbon]

Where do I put that, when I'm making the card or when I'm checking the highlighted?

[random sleet]

when you're checking the key

[royal carbon]

So like G.j_mod_joker.highlighted[1].key or what

[random sleet]

no in the key you're checking

[royal carbon]

if G.jokers.highlighted[1].key == "j_bf_hoaxe"? That isn't how I have it formatted in the joker itself, but it isn't working either way

[livid tapir]

is it context.before to do smth before scoring

[humble gale]

is there any way, with SMODS.Keybind, to check the mouse position when the button is pressed?

and also get the joker if one is being hovered over

[livid tapir]

debugplus does that, you hover over a joker in collection and press 3

[humble gale]

is that another mod?

[livid tapir]

ye

[merry raven]

Is there a context that checks when a card has entered your hand from the deck

[livid tapir]

you could look through its code to see how

[sturdy compass]

Just found out this little quirk about soul rendering and I'm very frustrated by it lol

[merry raven]

Mathematically accurate 4D joker

[sturdy compass]

It'd be moving in real time if it were accurate :(

[humble gale]

debug plus doesnt need steamodded so it doesnt reallly help

thx anyways

[gilded blaze]

I've never thought I would do this but

screw it, we ball

I do need people to provide translations tho

[royal carbon]

So it turns out it's not getting the highlighted joker at all? Telling it to print the highlighted joker's key returns nil

[lethal pumice]

tutorial

[cerulean rose]

for some reason incantation refuses to stack my consumable type

SMODS.ConsumableType({
    key = "index",
    primary_colour = HEX("FFFFFF"),
    secondary_colour = HEX("FF0000"),
    shop_rate = 4,
    can_stack = true,
    can_divide = true,
    loc_txt = {},
})

[sturdy compass]

Funny

[livid tapir]

oh i didnt know

[rough furnace]

you can just use the method DebugPlus (and the game) uses to get the current hovered element

if G.CONTROLLER.hovering.target and G.CONTROLLER.hovering.target:is(Card) then

oh I meant to reply

[rough furnace]

there

the target will be the card

then you can check card.ability.set == 'Joker'

[tidal steppe]

and X:mult is for Xmult background red

[merry raven]

Yep

dark_edition shimmers between two colours

[tidal steppe]

cool animation. mean ability XD

[pine moss]

Hi it's me again. It's telling me card.ability.extra.chips doesn't exist

-- Jamminhead Joker
SMODS.Joker {
    atlas = 'Estrocards',
    key = 'jammin',
    pos = { x = 4, y = 1 },
    rarity = 3,
    immutable = true,
    config = { extra = { chips = 1, chip_mod = 0 } },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = G.P_CENTERS.m_est_transgender
        return { vars = { center.ability.extra.chips, center.ability.extra.chip_mod } }
    end,
    loc_txt = {
        ['en-us'] = {
            name = 'Jammin Joker',
            text = {"Gain {C:chips}#2# Chips{} every time",
                    "{C:attention}Transgender{} card scored",
                    "when {C:attention}Chips added >= 77{}",
                    "make every card in deck {C:attention}Transgender{}",
                    "{C:inactive}(Currently{} {C:chips}+#1#{} {C:inactive}Chips){}"
                    }
        },
    },
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual then
            if context.cardarea == G.play then
                if SMODS.has_enhancement(context.other_card, 'm_est_transgender') then
                    card.ability.extra.chips = card.ability.extra.chips + card.ability.extra.chip_mod -- Error line
                    return {
                        message = localize('k_upgrade_ex'),
                        card = card,
                        colour = G.C.CHIPS
                    }
                end
            end
        end

        if context.cardarea == G.jokers then
            if not context.before and not context.after then
                return {
                    message = localize{type='variable',key='a_chips',vars={card.ability.extra.chips}},
                    chip_mod = card.ability.extra.chips, 
                    colour = G.C.CHIPS,
                    card = card
                }
            end
        end
    end,
}

So true digital detective, I 🤷 as well

[rough furnace]

did you add the chips after creating the joker (if it's from a save)?

[sturdy compass]

That's a pretty plausible explanation to the issue

[rough furnace]

it's also the most common reason for this

[sturdy compass]

For future reference, it's usually good practice to start a new run any time you've made changes, as continued runs can have bad data

[rough furnace]

at least destory and spawn a new copy of your joker

[sturdy compass]

mfw I never thought of that because muscle memory lol

[radiant halo]

friends

it is with great pleasure that i announce i have finished functionality for all 20 of my jokers

[sturdy compass]

Huge

I just finished my 30th. We up here hitting milestones as newbies 💪

[radiant halo]

hell yeah 💪💪💪

now for the hard part

art

[sturdy compass]

I'm so glad I don't have to do that lmfao

[radiant halo]

i got friends who are helping but i actually do wanna improve at art myself

[sturdy compass]

The gang

Still plenty more to do

[radiant halo]

yeah those are great

how many are you planning to do?

[sturdy compass]

That's a good looking question

[tidal steppe]

how do i detect when cards are removed from the deck? how do i also then check the deck size(full)?

    check_for_unlock = function(self, args)
        print(args.type)
    end

args.type does nothing when i hang man delete cards

[random sleet]

oh man im only on 18 jokers....
6 vouchers, 9 tarot, 10 planets, 10 spectrals, 14 oddities, 6 joker stamps, a set of 8 booster packs, 4 tags, 2 blinds, 6 decks, 16 hands, and 17 suits also tho

[radiant halo]

context.discard if you want to execute the function for each card individually(like ramen). context.pre_discard if you wanna look at the hand as a whole(like burnt joker)

[tidal steppe]

im on 2 jokers and 1 deck XD

[sturdy compass]

You're doing VERY fine

[radiant halo]

16 hands and 17 suits?

[random sleet]

yeah 16 new poker hands

[tidal steppe]

im not wanting discard but deletion. im trying to check when the full deck has been reduced to 26 cards

[radiant halo]

ohh sorry misread

[random sleet]

though really its 6 new hands, two of which have flush/spectrum alternate versions and one has flush/spectrum house and flush/spectrum five overlap too

a Blaze (5 face cards), a Skeet (2, 5, 9, plus two other ranks between 2 and 9), and the little/big dog/cat hands, which are each basically almost-Straights with particular high/low cards with no pairs; little dog is 7-2, big dog is A-9, little cat is 8-3, big cat is K-8

[tidal steppe]

any ideas?

[radiant halo]

that must be fun to program

[random sleet]

hands are actually pretty simple once you understand how the system works

its just abit weird

[sturdy compass]

I'm gonna eventually need to learn how to make hands cuz this is a deck I wanna make

[radiant halo]

sorry im not sure maybe look in card:remove or card:remove_from_deck

[tidal steppe]

ive wanted this!

[sturdy compass]

And that's called market research LOL

[random sleet]

there was a mod a long while back called Hand of Six, that still around?

[tidal steppe]

instead of super flush why not blush XD

or we need a blush joker

instead of super straight: horseshoe gay XD

[radiant halo]

anyone do a hanafuda deck yet?

[sturdy compass]

Actually I'm considering sending the doc of ideas my artist and I have for this mod if y'all wanna take a looksee. Just no stealing >:(

[random sleet]

i'll only steal if i steal

[sturdy compass]

Welp I'll just trust lol https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y2sIFrUXv2X2r0jEcyu4bZYZPM5WBBOtF5AacrlaSCQ/edit?tab=t.0

[radiant halo]

im too lazy to steal dw

[sturdy compass]

If anything I hope it gives a little inspiration for some of y’all too

[tidal steppe]

some bangin ideas!

[sturdy compass]

Thank ya. Almost all credit goes to my artist lmao

I’m not too insanely creative ngl but I can at least code good

[tidal steppe]

i got the ideas and code but not the art :/

[sturdy compass]

Rather unfortunate

[tidal steppe]

i love all the food synergies, maybe i can offload one of my ideas to you to implement with your existing?

[radiant halo]

im curious, how easy is it to do all the food joker stuff

do you have to check each one individually

[sturdy compass]

Yes. It’s a lot of lovely patches

[tidal steppe]

The idea is the flame effect for passing scores counts as 'cooking/burning' and so would trigger some abilities.
Like Soufley (idk how to spell that) is pretty strong but is destroyed if you burn
some food that is better well done eg 'steak' grows each time you 'cook'
stuff like that

[radiant halo]

im sorry

[sturdy compass]

Worth it honestly

[sturdy compass]

Very interesting idea but I have not a clue how I’d get that to work off the top of my head lmfao

[tidal steppe]

fair

[sturdy compass]

Glad y’all like the ideas though. Makes it really feel like this project will be worthwhile

[radiant halo]

theyre very good

love the art for streaker lmao

[sturdy compass]

The artist sent an earlier iteration of it in a gc and someone else asked for a more defined buttocks, and thus here we are lol

[tidal steppe]

XD

[radiant halo]

they know what they want

also, did you ever get the shader for 4d joker working?

[tidal steppe]

i love soil joker

[sturdy compass]

😭

[tidal steppe]

well i love many of these

[sturdy compass]

It wasn’t a shader but yes I did get it working

I just couldn’t apply it to the Soul sprite for whatever reason. Probably due to how it’s rendered

[radiant halo]

oh what, howd you do it then

im asking cause i wanna do something similar, just vertical

[sturdy compass]

The same way Jimball does it, Game update ticks

Gimme a sec I can get you a link to it

[radiant halo]

please

[sturdy compass]

https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Cryptid/blob/f63ef9aeb915143aa744661b3050f372e7f9ba2b/Items/MiscJokers.lua#L6994

[radiant halo]

asesomeeee tysm

[sturdy compass]

Np

It’s a little hard to wrap your head around but once you get it it’s somewhat simple

[radiant halo]

i have no clue what jimball is so thats throwing me off a bit

[sturdy compass]

This guy

[radiant halo]

OOOO

[sturdy compass]

It’s basically just iterating through a spritesheet

[radiant halo]

i see ok

would you know how it defining Game:update here works?

i feel like that should conflict with Game:update in game.lua

[sturdy compass]

I’m not 100% in the know of how that works, just that it does lmao

[storm oar]

it gets the old Game:update function first

local upd = Game.update and then the first line of the new Game:update is upd(self, dt)

it's hooking the function and adding more to the update loop

[livid tapir]

peak

[storm oar]

i had to do some function hooks for my mod to add to the game over screen and also to prevent discards of certain cards

[radiant halo]

oh i see it now, ty

thats actually a real clever way to do animation

but also a bit annoying

[sturdy compass]

A tad

But hey it woiks

[cosmic notch]

one of these days i need to just get lost in the sauce (the sauce being the modding documentation) and actually finish my half baked mod

ive added a handful of husks of ideas, 13 consumables, 8 jokers (i have more ideas just cant get them balanced right)

but none of them do anything because i cant wrap my head around the configs for cards

[sturdy compass]

What exactly is the roadblock?

[cosmic notch]

just having an idea that isnt in the game so i try and find other examples, to no avail (not because they dont exist, but simply because i cant find what im looking for) and then sit and stare at the crash log for 10 minutes before moving on to something else

or i get really invested in making a design for a card and then when it gets to the point of actually implementing it i just lose steam

[radiant halo]

i mean no shot i would have made as much progress as i did without asking around here

[sturdy compass]

Same here. This channel is a massive resource

[storm oar]

honestly though i kinda wish there was a modding help forum where people could ask questions, and instead of having a ton of people asking the same questions, just direct them to a forum post

[radiant halo]

the code is a mess made by one guy who thought the game would sell like 6 copies so who the hells gonna see the source code, and the smods api, while helpful, does lack some documentation

[sturdy compass]

That’d be kinda nice for more involved questions, but smaller ones I think are fine for the most part

[cosmic notch]

yeah, because i dont always want to ask a bunch of questions that have already been answered and i just dont know where they are

[radiant halo]

i do think this discord should have a modding beginners channel that links to smods and the example mods

[cosmic notch]

plus, if i cant figure out the solution after the first answer i hate coming back and asking for clarification

[sturdy compass]

Coding is not a straightforward process. Following up is nothing to be ashamed of

[gaunt thistle]

I think forums would be a good idea

but I suppose people are already sorta using #1209506514763522108 for that

[cosmic notch]

SMODS.Booster{
    key = 'ConstellationBooster1',
    atlas = 'Booster',
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Constellation Pack',
        text = {
            'Choose {C:attention}1{} of up to',
            '{C:attention}3{} {C:purple}Constellation{} cards to',
            'be used immediately'
        }

    },
    discovered = true,
    config = { extra = 3, choose = 1},
    weight = 1,
    cost = 4,
    group_key = 'ConstellationConsumableType'
}

On that note... whenever i open this booster my game crashes

[sturdy compass]

What does the crash report say? Top of the screen

[cosmic notch]

hold on ill go recreate

[sturdy compass]

Do you have access to the game’s source code? Because that error is occurring within the base game’s card.lua file

It’d be worth looking at that line to help diagnose

[storm oar]

specifically you need to look at the code dumped by lovely since it'll have any patches added

[radiant halo]

this is what it is in vanilla card.lua

[sturdy compass]

I didn’t consider lovely patches whoopsies lol

[random sleet]

if steamodded has loaded then looking at vanilla line numbers is useless

always look at lovely dumps

[cosmic notch]

which can be found...

[random sleet]

mods/lovely/dumps/

[storm oar]

ah

so uh

i think its not creating the card?

idk

[radiant halo]

could you expand the screenshot up and down a bit?

[cosmic notch]

well i need it to do that i think

[storm oar]

okay

so, its a different card type, yeah?

[cosmic notch]

yes

[storm oar]

you'd need to patch the thing

[cosmic notch]

would i do that within my own lua file

[sturdy compass]

No

You’d have to make a lovely.toml file in your mod root

[radiant halo]

https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector

[storm oar]

do you have the new consumable type set up as well?

[radiant halo]

you should have installed it when you set up mods

[sturdy compass]

Damn you beat me

[radiant halo]

haha

[cosmic notch]

SMODS.ConsumableType{
    key = 'ConstellationConsumableType',

    collection_rows = {6,7},
    primary_colour = G.C.PURPLE,
    secondary_colour = G.C.DARK_EDITION,
    loc_txt = {
        collection = 'Constellation Cards',
        name = 'Constellations',
        undiscovered = {
            name = 'Not Discovered',
            text = {'Purchase or use', 'this card in an', 'unseeded run to', 'learn what it does'}
        }
    },
}

yes

they exist

[random sleet]

you aren't defining create_card in the booster

so it just.... has no idea what cards you want it to make

[storm oar]

oh then you don't need a patch

i was thinking you'd need to patch the function for boosters

[random sleet]

remember that you can always assign functions to variables and reuse them for repeat boosters

[storm oar]

but yeah that's way easier

[random sleet]

technically you do need a patch but smods did it already

[radiant halo]

you really need to manually make a create_card function?

[random sleet]

i think so?

[cosmic notch]

so where does this line go?

[random sleet]

:)

[radiant halo]

ive not made consumables or boosters yet but i feel like that shouldnt be needed

[random sleet]

idk i've made a whole suit levelling system so

[radiant halo]

just in the lua file, anywhere before it's called

you could even do create_card = function(self, card) then blahlblahblah endin smods.booster itself if you prefer that way

but defining it on the highest level allows for its reuse

[cosmic notch]

alright, im going in for the test drive

[radiant halo]

gl

[livid tapir]

btw whats that mod that had the safeguard joker called (if its publicly available)

[cosmic notch]

nvm, one sec i need to increase the weight again

[livid tapir]

wait whyd i send this here, couldve gone in #⚙・modding-general

[normal crest]

Any idea what the meaning behind 'b' and 'k' before the actual key in the localization files mean?

[radiant halo]

if you havent already, install the debugplus mod

[cosmic notch]

already got it

[radiant halo]

sick

[storm oar]

are events blocking by default?

[radiant halo]

cant you summon the pack from the collection screen then?

[random sleet]

modding this game is fun because if theres something that you can conceivably ask "can i put this in balatro" the answer is probably yes

[cosmic notch]

dont know all the features of debugplus

[radiant halo]

hold tab in game

[livid tapir]

LOL

[cosmic notch]

well, it creashed when it appeared this time

[radiant halo]

hey thats progress

[livid tapir]

press 3 while hovering over a joker in collection, itll add it to your jokers area

[cosmic notch]

good to know

[random sleet]

(i should add jokers that increase suit levels somehow so you can actually level suits that aren't SHCD)

[livid tapir]

yessss

[random sleet]

also is this the most hand name

[radiant halo]

are you calling localize() on a custom string somewhere?

[cosmic notch]

yes?

[radiant halo]

you sound unsure lmao

[cosmic notch]

well its in there

7 times

[radiant halo]

may i see?

[cosmic notch]

the jokers i was doing started as ripped from a youtube tutorial

hence the comments

[radiant halo]

hm that looks good, localize() needs specific strings passed into it so if you ever call it with something not supported it'll pop up errors. but k_upgrade_ex is supported

[cosmic notch]

it also hasnt crashed until the booster showed up

and those jokers were the first thing in the file

ok, so update. It crashes when i hover the pack

ow wait, im a dumbass

[radiant halo]

oh?

[cosmic notch]

i put the name = 'Constellation Pack', inside of the text = line

simple ctrl v error

[radiant halo]

oh lmao

[cosmic notch]

new error, yipee

culling the pool?

in the function create_card does the key_append need to be something specific

[radiant halo]

im not sure tbh, again ive never added boosters or consumables so this is new to me too

[cosmic notch]

we're all learning

[radiant halo]

its weird tho, i feel if you added everything in here it should be fine

[cosmic notch]

thats what i assumed too

[radiant halo]

can i see an example of smods.consumable?

[cosmic notch]

it doesnt have a config yet because im not focusing on that part rn

[radiant halo]

shouldnt need it yet

[cosmic notch]

i want my things in the game before i make them do things

[radiant halo]

yeah im really not sure what's going wrong

[cosmic notch]

well that makes two of us

[radiant halo]

you said the issue was when you hovered over the pack?

[cosmic notch]

no, that was solved with this

[radiant halo]

oh right

[cosmic notch]

now it crashes when it tries to spawn cards

[radiant halo]

oh

does it have a loc_vars? the booster

and when you hover does the text correctly say like "choose 1 of 3"

[cosmic notch]

i know its missing a texture. im working on it

[radiant halo]

dw lol all my textures are temps too

OHHHH

i think its cause youre using the vanilla create_card, which wont work with any custom stuff

you need SMODS.create_card()

[cosmic notch]

[radiant halo]

lmao

i did the exact same thing

[cosmic notch]

so if just toss in SMODS. in front of create cards it should do something different

WOO, new error

[radiant halo]

you need to put all the vars int a single table

just add {} and, assuming the values line up right, you should be good

[cosmic notch]

ah

wheremst should i place it

[radiant halo]

easier and clearer to do {set="constellation", area = G.pack_cards, etc....} though

[cosmic notch]

ill give it a shot

[radiant halo]

again the orders may be off, and also it might be iffy about the set name

[cosmic notch]

nope same error

[radiant halo]

ok back to loc_var

[cosmic notch]

wait, hold on

if the first one is calling the set, then i am once again made the joker

ConstellationConsumableType

is my set

not just constellation

[radiant halo]

still an error when opening right?

[cosmic notch]

well hold on i havent tried this new fix

because previously it was looking for the Constellation set, but that doesnt exist... its ConstellationConsumableType

[radiant halo]

ah that might be it

[cosmic notch]

nvm, still crashes

[cosmic notch]

same error

[radiant halo]

still when opening?

[cosmic notch]

yeah

[radiant halo]

can you comment out loc_text.text and trying hovering over it? i want to see if it crashes

[cosmic notch]

im missing some info for this

[radiant halo]

you shouldnt need all of it

i suspect theres an issue retriving the number of cards to pull and let you choose. try adding loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card) return { vars = { card.config.center.config.choose, card.ability.extra } } end, to the booster code

[cosmic notch]

ok

still the same crash message

[radiant halo]

ok just for testing, put "tarot" as the first argument to see if itll make tarot cards

[cosmic notch]

nope, thats not it... hmm

[radiant halo]

oh actually capital T Tarot

its picky

[cosmic notch]

i put it caps

i went back to check the documentation

[radiant halo]

im pretty sure that wont work yea

this is vanilla code but you can see it doesnt account for case

and i think smods version is the same

alright i gotta sleep but essentially, if that works and it spawns tarots, the issue is with the key youre giving it and you might have to mess with the casing or add the prefix of you mod (if you have one) or even maybe prepend "c_" for consumable. if it doesnt then tbh im outta ideas. gl

[cosmic notch]

alright, well thank you for trying, i appreciate it

ill try and figure it out

[radiant halo]

ofc

[elder vapor]

does this sound good

[fallow lava]

I have no context other than this picture, seems crazy

[elder vapor]

tl;dr my mod adds a new card modifier (or however you wanna call it) and i'm working on a new version

this is one of the ideas i had for a new gem slot

[tidal steppe]

how does that work? is it like a bonus per scored card or?

[tidal steppe]

depends how hard to obtain. very useful ability

[random sleet]

yes, based on the suit of the scored card :)

[tidal steppe]

flush of hearts with lvl1 means +25chips and +5mult 0_0
thats very good

[random sleet]

yes

[tidal steppe]

and mult applying on cards is nice cuz of glass/etc

how does one upgrade suits?

[random sleet]

planet cards

[tidal steppe]

noice

[storm oar]

okay i think i finally got this working right entirely now

[tidal steppe]

so i play chekered deck, level up jupiter and spade planet

[random sleet]

artwork by one Jevonn

[elder vapor]

why am i getting this out of the blue 😭

[fallow lava]

oh i love the art for these

[random sleet]

thanks its not mine

[storm oar]

don't mind the crap placeholder art for now but the start of a fancy animation thing

ended up having issues where sometimes the joker wouldn't be added and the cards not changed but i hooked start_run and added some stuff to it

that fixed the issues

[merry raven]

Holy shit that's amazing, really love the Joker spawning animation

[storm oar]

planning to make it even fancier later on

mostly was just trying to get a base for that set up for later

[merry raven]

calculate = function(self, card, context, effect)
        if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual and not context.repetition then
            if G.play and G.play.cards then
                for _, playedCard in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
                    if playedCard.config.center == G.P_CENTERS.m_fm_slow or
                       playedCard.config.center == G.P_CENTERS.m_fm_freeze or
                       playedCard.config.center == G.P_CENTERS.m_fm_shatter then
                        card.ability.extra.money = card.ability.extra.money + 3
                        card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {
                            message = "Cracked!",
                            sound = "fm_cracked",
                            colour = G.C.MONEY
                        })
                    end
                end
            end
        end
    
        ...

Man I can't figure out how to fix this [SMODS FATEMAKER "main.lua"]:787: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)

Any insights? This Enhancement stores money in itself whenever those specific cards are played

[storm oar]

i'd assume line 787 is the start of that for loop?

or is that somewhere else?

cause it's saying that G.play.cards is nil if it's that, but it can't be nil because that checks if it exists before doing the for loop

[merry raven]

Lemme recheck

Now it's 785... on a different Enhancement
for i, playedCard in ipairs(context.scoring_name) do

The one I'm having problems with is called Shatter, it detects Shatter, Slow and Freeze cards to gain money when they are played. This line 785 is on Freeze

Lemme try with different cards

[storm oar]

scoring_name isn't a table

context.scoring_hand is the cards

[merry raven]

Line 720 brings us to Slow, at this line for i, playedCard in ipairs(context.scoring_name) do

I see hmm

[storm oar]

if you're trying to find the names of hands within the played hand it's context.poker_hands

[merry raven]

No I'm trying to find those specific Enhancements that are played, ones that start with m_fm

[storm oar]

yeah ok so then change it to scoring_hand

scoring_name is a string which is the name of the played hand type

[merry raven]

Righto

Alright at least it didn't crash now, but somehow it's just not able to add money to the Shatter card
But I'll fix that on my own later, gotta head out
Thanks for the help though!

[wintry swallow]

what's the debug to skip a pack

[pine moss]

How do I get a list of played non-scoring cards?

context.unscoring, found it

[storm oar]

does that exist?

i'm not seeing anything like that in the code anywhere

[pine moss]

It might not, I found it in the Cryptid code for green seal

[storm oar]

maybe its a cryptid thing

[elder vapor]

is there a context for when a card is drawn to hand?

[pine moss]

It isn't working with my joker though, I probably just have to loop through played hand and remove the scored cards from list or smth

[storm oar]

are you trying to do something for each card individually?

or something that actually needs a list of only unscoring cards?

[pine moss]

A joker that gives an enhancement to any played unscoring card

[tidal steppe]

ooh

[pine moss]

Can i get a list of all played cards?

[storm oar]

context.full_hand

[pine moss]

thanks

[pine moss]

Is there a list of all contexts somewhere?

[tidal steppe]

i feel dumb. how do i trigger an effect on joker addition and removal, i thought it was apply, but its not working

    apply = function(self, card, context)
        G.GAME.modifiers.money_per_discard = G.GAME.modifiers.money_per_discard + 1
        print("Money per discard: " .. G.GAME.modifiers.money_per_discard)
    end

[wintry solar]

add_to_deck/remove_from_deck

[tidal steppe]

even tho jokers arent added to deck?

[random sleet]

owning something is having it in your deck

[tidal steppe]

thank you, that worked 🙂
You woldnt happen to know how to manipulate money recieved from discards like in green deck? the above i tried isnt working. G.GAME.modifiers.money_per_discard is nil

[night pagoda]

I have a Joker with custom size that I set using card.T.w and card.T.h in Joker's set_ability, but upon copying the Joker it's sprite gets "stretched" across it's size instead of adjusting the canvas (the copy gets stretched; but if I reload, it will be restored back to its normal look)

Not sure what to do, any ideas?

[wintry solar]

What’s the config of your deck look like?

[storm oar]

i'm not sure if you can change the size of a sprite because of the way atlases are set up

[crisp coral]

Not on my PC rn, but check Cardsauce's jokers/wingsoftime.lua

[night pagoda]

I checked it but not sure what I could use out of that

[crisp coral]

it's the set_sprites one

[night pagoda]

This modifies the sprite child, not the card itself

yes

[crisp coral]

you can modify the size there too

oh! i guess just copy the set_ability stuff to set_sprites

[night pagoda]

I use multiplication to do custom scaling so it just resizes two times and becomes worse lol

[crisp coral]

heck

[frosty dock]

just remake the sprite with new dimensions in set_sprites instead of modifying it maybe?

[night pagoda]

I want to determine what happens upon copying that doesn't happen upon loading or initial creation (or vice versa)

because if I just create the card as-is, it looks as expected

and in the collection too, and upon reloading the saved game all the broken ones fix

[random sleet]

does your method of sprite resizing persist through save/loading

oh dang nice :0 i couldnt figure that out when i tried

[night pagoda]

and if I reload, they act like nothing happened

[random sleet]

i really wish we could just put in the size of the joker and smods would handle it ^^;

[night pagoda]

yes 😔

[merry raven]

Even then that's a hilarious sprite lmao

[random sleet]

gee firch how come jimbo lets you have two jokers

[frosty dock]

maybe don't scale off the existing values but the default card dimensions?

[random sleet]

oh no its smodsmn everyone duck and hide

[frosty dock]

🦆

m?why hide though

[night pagoda]

I mean I don't see how that'd make any difference if the default card has the same values as default global for the dimensions

[random sleet]

idk because i insinuated smods should have more features :P

[frosty dock]

nah that's a good idea

[frosty dock]

I mean

scaling for stuff like square joker or photograph are all over the place

[random sleet]

yeah i tried to implement it back when i was makin oddityapi and i got stuck on getting it to scale the sprite correctly after reloads and in other niche situations

... these issues persist to my current version as well sigh

[night pagoda]

what's delay_sprites?

I mean I can see where it's used but is there any point in using it in joker's setup

[wintry solar]

No not in joker setup

I think it’s solely used for timing enhancement sprite updates correctly

[random sleet]

i wonder if thats related to why my finicky custom centers for my suits have been weirder since updating

[night pagoda]

uhmmm, almost?

[night pagoda]

okay card.children.center:reset() did the thing

the full thing

is there any reason why made the achievement notification not an actual card object

[narrow pendant]

Because

[nocturne garnet]

do.. do they give +8 mult?

[night pagoda]

nope, adding link/group-related jokers that aren't polymino

[crisp coral]

+9 Mult, 1 from the tape

/j

[nocturne garnet]

LINKED JOKERS....

PEAK...

[night pagoda]

it's not going to have linked jokers lmao

cryptid is right next apartment sir

(also happy birthday)

[nocturne garnet]

thank

[merry raven]

Cryptid's source code is cryptic as hell

[frosty dock]

it's in the fucking name

[crisp coral]

if so, lobcorp's source code will give you a lobotomy

[nocturne garnet]

He's just like me fr

[open bone]

Hey, I was wondering if there was a way to have a Voucher effect always be active as a sort of passive effect?
I know of the Update function but that runs on every frame, so I figure it's not a good idea to use it with a voucher- Gist of the idea is a voucher that gives you say, 5$, if you manage to one-shot a blind (aka the fire effect spawns)?

I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to inject a check at the end of a blind that gives you money if you one shot a blind upon redeeming the voucher, but I'm not really sure how to achieve that 😩

[languid mirage]

if you follow vanilla style, then you'd have something like G.GAME.boss_oneshot_reward = 5 and then check at the end of the blind if that amount is set (or > 0) and if boss got oneshotted, then give amount of dollars from that parameter

in voucher redeem function you'd just have to set that value

[open bone]

I haven't messed around with adding new g.game values or hooking into preexisting functions like the end of blind yet so I gotta learn now lmao

[languid mirage]

well anything you add to G.GAME will get automatically saved iirc

other than functions/files

[open bone]

yeah I assume that's why my test voucher did just fine keeping the +1 to hand upon reloading the save

[languid mirage]

also by end of blind I meant payout function

[open bone]

Oh yeah I figure that's what I should hook into

ok there we go
upon purchasing the voucher i have it set to true and print itself
then i reloaded the save and did an eval in the console

so I know the variable works
now i just gotta find the payout function to hook that new stuff into it lmao

[wintry solar]

You can also just check if the voucher is redeemed rather than setting a variable if this is the only effect you have that will use the variable

[open bone]

Oh true

[mighty granite]

i don't think thunk removed it

[languid mirage]

well, some mods like cryptid may modify voucher value so I'd say it is preferred to save the value

Unless steamodded now fully saves all vouchers with extra data

[earnest creek]

Can I get a bit of help here? I'm trying to make a joker that upon selling and highlighting a single card in hand, transforms 15 other cards into it. on the Steamodded Wiki, I didn't really find anything that could help me here

    if context.selling_self and not context.blueprint and #G.hand.highlighted == 1 then
      local selected_card = G.hand.highlighted[1]
      for i = 1, 15 do
        local random_index = math.random(2, #context.full_hand) -- Start from 2 to avoid selecting the first card
        local random_card = context.full_hand[random_index]

        -- Transform the random card into the selected card
        local transformcard = copy_card(selected_card)
        transformcard:start_materialize()
        transformcard:add_to_deck()
        G.hand:emplace(transformcard)
        G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
        table.insert(G.playing_cards, transformcard)
      end
    end
  end```

It just does nothing when I sell the joker

[wintry solar]

Hmmm true I hadn’t considered other mods altering the voucher

[storm oar]

for 1, do you want it to be 15 random cards in the deck? because 15+ cards in a hand is kinda crazy. also, full_hand is played cards, not the held cards. also, starting at 2 with random won't prevent it from selecting the currently selected card.

[earnest creek]

yeah in the deck

[storm oar]

and do you want it to guarantee 15 different cards, or randomly be able to pick the same?

[dreamy thunder]

how can i make a deck which adds a joker to your hand on start?

[earnest creek]

what exactly do you mean by that? I'm a bit confused

[storm oar]

you're wanting to change cards to the selected one right?

or add cards?

[earnest creek]

change cards

[storm oar]

so then if it randomly picks the same card, it wouldn't guarantee it would change 15 cards

[earnest creek]

oh, that's what you mean. yeah, I'd want to guarantee 15 different cards

[lapis mirage]

how would I make something not show up in shop and packs? I've tried G.GAME.banned_keys and SMODS.remove_pool but but items still showup

[storm oar]

what is it? a joker, voucher?

[lapis mirage]

packs, planets and vouchers

[storm oar]

outside of the SMODS.(whatever) call, you only need this once
local function nopool() return false end

then add in_pool = nopool to the item

or you could add other conditions that allow it to be in the pool

[storm oar]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
    local cards_to_change={}
    if context.selling_self and not context.blueprint and #G.hand.highlighted == 1 then
      local selected_card = G.hand.highlighted[1]
      local maxCards=#G.playing_cards>15 and 15 or #G.playing_cards-1
      for i = 1, maxCards do
        local is_in_list=true
        local random_index = math.random(1, #G.playing_cards)
        while is_in_list do
          local found=false
          for _,v in ipairs(cards_to_change) do
            if v==random_index or G.playing_cards[v]==selected_card then found=true end
          end
          if not found then 
            is_in_list=false 
            cards_to_change[#cards_to_change+1]=random_index
          else
            random_index=math.random(1, #G.playing_cards)
          end
        end
      end
      for _,v in ipairs(cards_to_change) do
        copy_card(selected_card,G.playing_cards[v])
      end
    end
  end

not the most efficient way but i think that'll work?

[frosty dock]

little nitpick, local function nopool() return false end, you don't want to define random functions in global scope

[storm oar]

ah sometimes i forget local

[earnest creek]

Oh my god, thank you so much for this. It's a little funky that the game crashes/times out if I sell it when Nopeus' Fast forward is turned off, but works when it's turned on

I can't thank you enough.

[storm oar]

huh that's weird

does it like just freeze?

or actually crash?

[earnest creek]

hold on, I'll make a recording

apparently it froze anyway, but this is what happens

[storm oar]

ah that's very weird

there's probably a better way to do that loop but i can't think enough right now

[earnest creek]

Yeah I'll see what I can do. Thank you so much again for the help, I didn't even really know where to start.

[storm oar]

wait, i just thought of something and probably would be better than a while loop

[earnest creek]

?

Okay, It works now with a few chaanges I made but it adds them to my hand O.o

[storm oar]

ah do you want it to exclude cards in hand?

cause it's just possibly changing the whole deck including ones already in the hand

[earnest creek]

no, no. I thought It'd add them to the deck, not to the hand.

[storm oar]

yeah since it's using G.playing_cards, that's the entire deck including in hand, played, and discarded, you could change that to G.deck.cards to only change cards in the deck currently

[earnest creek]

it creates 15 new cards now lol

which is arguably weaker because it adds cards, not transform

[storm oar]

ah hm

[merry raven]

Finally figured out how to solve ghost cards on destroying Enhancements

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/state_events.lua"
pattern = "if destroyed then"
position = "before"
payload = "if (scoring_hand[i].config.center == G.P_CENTERS.m_fm_volatile) end"
match_indent = true

[storm oar]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
  if context.selling_self and not context.blueprint and #G.hand.highlighted == 1 then
    local valid_cards={}
    local selected_card = G.hand.highlighted[1]
    if #G.playing_cards>1 then
      for i=1,#G.playing_cards do
        if G.playing_cards[i]~=selected_card then
          table.insert(valid_cards,i)
        end
      end
      for i = #valid_cards, 2, -1 do
        local j = math.random(1, i)
        valid_cards[i], valid_cards[j] = valid_cards[j], valid_cards[i]
      end
      local maxCards=#G.playing_cards>15 and 15 or #G.playing_cards-1
      for i = 1, maxCards do
        copy_card(selected_card,G.playing_cards[valid_cards[i]])
      end
    end
  end
end

try this, instead of using a while loop it adds all card indices except for the selected card, shuffles the indices, then grabs the first 15 or number of cards-1 if it's 15 or less, also doesn't run if for whatever reason there's only 1 card in the deck

[earnest creek]

Oh my lord, it works perfectly.

[merry raven]

But the sequence of events is a bit messed up, when scored:

• Displays the custom message from card_eval_status_text
• Scores normally, giving chips and Mult
• Scored chips added to the total chip score
• Card gets destroyed

What I want to do is to have it score first then display the custom message and destroy at the same time, any insights?

if context.cardarea == G.play and not context.repetition then
            if card.ability.extra.mult > 0 then
                effect.mult = card.ability.extra.mult
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    trigger = 'after',
                    func = function()
                        card.destroyed = true
                        return true
                    end
                }))
                card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {
                    message = "Blasted!",
                    sound = "fm_volatile",
                    colour = G.C.PURPLE
                })
            end
        end

[earnest creek]

Again, I can't thank you enough for the trouble you saved me from. Thanks for taking your time for this

[wooden nexus]

Okay question: I have a deck I'm working on and i need the starting deck to have 6 of each card, How do I make it so that it is that

Also I want a nominal to be a number (so it's in order) but I want the chips to be 0 for the rank

[nocturne garnet]

i dont know how retriggers work

[dreamy thunder]

i need help on making custom rarities. I've been reading the wiki but i cant get my head arround it

[wooden nexus]

SMODS.Rarity{
key = Your Key,
Loc_txt = {
name = "Your rarity"
}

[dreamy thunder]

i already have that. It just displays Error

[wooden nexus]

oh,

your problem is with the localization then

[dreamy thunder]

i'll check

[stiff locust]

how to overwrite vanilla localization with a mod
I can't understand what makes the fish mod work

i promise this is ethical and it's gonna be really funny

[wooden nexus]

Fish mod?

#1318248620125851749 message

[stiff locust]

Fish mod

the one that changes flush five to fish

[wooden nexus]

ah

I got too many in-progress stuff right now lol

[zealous glen]

Fish Mod mentioned

[stiff locust]

i can't understand what makes that mod work
I tried the same "method" (their lua file has 1 line of code and it's a debug message, they just have default localization that overwrites vanilla somehow)

[stiff locust]

oh you made it didn't you

[zealous glen]

https://tenor.com/view/glub-glub-the-fishbowl-fbgc-gif-22490330

[stiff locust]

yeah how'd you get it to work

[edgy reef]

Nah screw ethics.

Just cook

🔥 🔥 🔥

[stiff locust]

but how do I do it

it's not working

[zealous glen]

The current version is mostly handled by Steamodded

So I just have a localization file that replaces the entry in the vanilla localization

[stiff locust]

well yeah i have that too

but mine's not working

the mod is loaded, but the localization file doesn't overwrite vanilla

[dreamy thunder]

i js realized i dont have a localization file and have no idea on how to do it 🙏

[zealous glen]

what did you try to overwrite and how

[stiff locust]

the same method as your mod did it (by just having the localization file there) and uhhh

the entire localization file is getting overhauled

or at least, every joker and consumable and voucher and tag and blind

i'll probably stop after that this is very draining

[zealous glen]

Actually Fish seems not to work anymore

Some Steamodded update seems to have broken it v_v

[stiff locust]

well that's

annoying.

how do we do this now

[zealous glen]

reading the wiki it seems like it should work

@frosty dock bug?

[rancid perch]

is it possible to change the backgrounds?

or there colors per scren

[zealous glen]

There are a few mods that do it

[rancid perch]

was thinkingn of doing a persona 5 royal overhaul theme was all

making the shop into the velvet room

[zealous glen]

you need to be more specific for how you want it to look like

that means nothing to me :<

[rancid perch]

wrong one oops

[zealous glen]

anyways this might help https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1248865517112918016

[rancid perch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNu6ddyldY4

so tghat nice blue etc in the velvet room

[zealous glen]

If you just want the colors a Trance palette might work

[rancid perch]

will it work per setting/section

like differnt per area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyrsclFy1nA as for the gameplay section

maybe that background?

its pretty sick

[karmic kelp]

are there better ways to do these (randomly pulling from a table, constructing a consumable's ID if I know it's from my own mod)?

[rancid perch]

so how would i do a background like that on the play/hand but swirl color in shop

[tepid crow]

what are you trying to do? create a random consumable from your own mod?

[karmic kelp]

yeah, options is a subset of consumables I want to pull from

[wintry solar]

you can use pseudorandom_element

[karmic kelp]

I knew it was something along those lines... arguments are the table and the pseudoseed?

and the weight of each individual Normal Buffoon pack is 1.2, right? I'm wanting to mimic the same weight scaling as those packs for my own consumable boosters

[shell tangle]

Anyone that knows UI, any idea if there's an easy way to make a toggle call a secondary function? I want to do the toggle thing, but I also want it to call a function that spawns/removes an object when toggled, and I'm reluctant to make my own button because I don't fully get how the ref_value, ref_table, and callback all work together in the create_toggle function.

[zealous glen]

See if there’s a poll function

[karmic kelp]

I see no mention of poll in SMODS.Center, so I've got no idea what you might be talking about

[shell tangle]

Utility Functions at the bottom of the wiki table of contents.

Also you can probably search SMODS for poll_ and find the code for each one.

[karmic kelp]

that... looks like it's pulling from a pool? I'm wanting to insert with the same weight as something else

oh yeah my consumables are also doing this when pulled from a booster pack and I have no idea why
and I don't know the details of making a loc file to localize the booster pack text either

[shell tangle]

I think that error text requires a loc file, just style it like how the source code does it.

[karmic kelp]

yea that's what I was getting at, not sure where I'd look for that

[shell tangle]

localization/en-us.lua.

And, to double check, you're trying to figure out a way to fill the booster pack with cards from your custom consumable type?

[karmic kelp]

this aspect was for making a consumable spawn other consumables

[shell tangle]

You can set a set like set = 'Spectrals' in SMODS.create_card if that's what you're asking for?

[karmic kelp]

a subset of my consumables, I think we're getting lost in more general options here

[shell tangle]

Then yeah, you'd probably have to define that subset yourself in advance and use pseudorandom_element to pull from that list.

[karmic kelp]

do you have any thoughts as to why my consumables might be swarmed by green particles when spawned via booster?

[shell tangle]

I thought it was something you might've added yourself, I don't remember encountering them, you could maybe try a skip_materialize = true in the create card funtion and see if that helps? There's probably a more solid answer that I don't remember, though.

[teal estuary]

chemistry? 👀

[faint yacht]

-- extra.active is true currently.
if card.ability.extra.active and context.end_of_round and game_over then
  return {
    saved = true
  }
end

doesn't appear to "save" the run. Missing something?

[karmic kelp]

yup, 26 elements have been chosen to have rank-manipulating effects
please ignore the fact Silicon doesn't change ranks and Element X is one of the chosen elements

and the artist and I have been pretty split on if we want to have a release with just the 26 elements, or if we should hold off for jokers or the spectral card as well

[wintry solar]

boosters have a particles key, it might be defaulting to something

[teal estuary]

oh thats pretty neat, im doing something similar

every metal as an enhancement

[shell tangle]

context.game_over?

[karmic kelp]

particles isn't listed as a parameter in SMODS.Booster, so that probs needs to be documented then

[faint yacht]

Guess the https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Guide-‐-Joker-Calculation#end-of-round mention of it should be updated to be context.game_over fully, not just game_over, oop.

[edgy reef]

Also particles controls sparkles that randomly appear around the booster pack, not the cards

Hold on, someone else had a problem like this and wasn't it fixed?

[shell tangle]

Bumping this question again.

[faint yacht]

Now to replace this...

[edgy reef]

Also looking back it seemed to be fixed from specifying parameters on SMODS.create_card (no other info specified by them)

[karmic kelp]

I really do wonder if there's some better way to organize this page

[edgy reef]

There's been thoughts of changing how SMODS.Center page works

Especially since there's definitely undocumented stuff tied to info that's available for everything extending SMODS.Center, but since there's no section to put it it's undocumented.

[karmic kelp]

bah, what are the things I need to pass to SMODS.change_base to make it change to a given face card

tried J, Q, K, and 11, 12, 13, both just give me an error

[cyan dune]

I think it's Jack Queen and King, full words

[karmic kelp]

Ace too?

[cyan dune]

Yeah

That's just based on my experience with DeckSuit but I don't think they would change the way ranks are referenced elsewhere

[faint yacht]

...alright, how do I define the pattern for patching ..localize('ph_mr_bones')..? Figured I'd try adding something there to try changing the "saved" text.

[zealous glen]

Any name suggestions for this Blind?

[zealous glen]

You can just change the localization file

[faint yacht]

I'd rather keep the original as is, trying to allow custom text to be grabbed instead if a global variable is defined.

[cyan dune]

The Bottle. Because it's like a Bottle Episode!

[zealous glen]

What's that

[cyan dune]

An episode of a show that only uses 1 scene and a small number of characters to save on production costs

[zealous glen]

Couldn't you save the original then replace it?

And swap back on a toggle

[karmic kelp]

I imagine just rigging up the lovely patch they're illuding to would be less hassle, honestly.

[zealous glen]

I don't imagine it

[tidal steppe]

double or nothing

[faint yacht]

I don't want any replacing to be forced, like with my sound patch I already use.

[zealous glen]

And as I said you can replace it back

[karmic kelp]

do I need to do anything special to make my new localizations load in? Or just put them in my mod like this?

[zealous glen]

Should work that way

Are you only adding text to custom objects?

[dreamy thunder]

how do i make it so if i score anything between 2 and 9 (2 and 9 included) i get +chip and +mult?

[karmic kelp]

nope, I've got that loc file specifically for the booster pack text

everything else has a loc_txt defined on it

[zealous glen]

in theory it should work but I get the impression it's bugged

[karmic kelp]

now I need to figure out what the key I need is...