💻・modding-dev

[zealous glen]

You can just look at the vanilla dictionary

[karmic kelp]

I'm trying to figure out what combination of the vanilla dictionary, "is my mod's ID auto-prepended", and "what did I even make the ID" is the right one

[zealous glen]

There's an example in the wiki

It should be just lua return { … }

[karmic kelp]

that only offers a skeleton though, doesn't tell me what I need where... currently on this attempt

[zealous glen]

Ah wait

so that is a new object

[karmic kelp]

haha, so apparently it's just exactly the group_key, good to know

I think all that's left is to make sure the soul card actually shows up now... time to open a bunch of boosters ig

any thoughts as to why this may not be spawning? I'm only observing regular Atomic cards despite the 100% to get this

[dreamy thunder]

anyone?

[tepid crow]

take a look at walkie talkie from https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/blob/main/example_mods/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

[dreamy thunder]

'kay

[sharp gate]

How do I set up the steammoded api in vscode?

[cedar pendant]

would anyone be willing to help me learn to make my first modded joker

[wheat kayak]

how do I add mods to the game?

[zealous glen]

I thought it was already replaced

by whichever effect saved you

or maybe a generic one

[solid surge]

hello again
im tryna make a custom consumable, yet when i try to unlock it in game, it refers to the atlas as a nil value (image 1: shop error, image 2: unlock error with debugplus)
i thought i did the code right, so what gives?

[faint yacht]

Thing is... Cryptid has the ; Code card that ends the Blind w/o cash given out, and that introduces its' own text as option.

[zealous glen]

So? 🤔

Not sure why disabling this Blind persists through the same play session

[sonic cedar]

doin a lil something

[tidal steppe]

@cedar pendant @wheat kayak https://github.com/Steamodded/smods
shows how to get started and includes example mods to reference. just start by making own versions of the examples given

[frosty dock]

oh well I see what's causing this, though it wasn't my change

there was a change a while back that made defaults weak, meaning they don't replace any existing entries

[wintry swallow]

does steamodded provide any way for a mod to detect if another mod is loaded

[frosty dock]

yes

[wintry swallow]

i want to add a debug mode to my mod that is only active if another mod (that enables it) is loaded

this is so i don't forget to turn it off when sending it to people for testing

[edgy reef]

As in localization in default.lua?

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/steamodded/smods/wiki/Utility SMODS.find_mod

[edgy reef]

Speaking of which I don't think we need that anymore tbh.

[wintry swallow]

ty!

[frosty dock]

yeah while we still do breaking changes may as well get rid of it. there's not much of a reason to not use en-us as a fallback

[frosty dock]

default.lua or en-us.lua when a non-English language is selected

[zealous glen]

So, what's the recommended method now?

Or is that a bug?

[frosty dock]

renaming your default.lua to en-us.lua should work for now, but it's not exactly intended behavior

[faint yacht]

oops.

[wintry swallow]

apparently SMODS.find_mod does not exist

[frosty dock]

full crash please

[wheat kayak]

how do I add the cryptid mod?

[frosty dock]

update steamodded, you're 2 weeks out of date

[wintry swallow]

things move that fast? wow

[frosty dock]

they do

[edgy reef]

I was mostly thinking of allowing mods to specify a language other than en-us to default to.
(instead of selected lang -> en-us -> default it would be "selected lang -> mod specified default lang -> en-us").

This seemed like a better solution to what default.lua was for

[wintry swallow]

is it just meant to be this

if next(SMODS.find_mod('nightshadedebug')) ~= nil then
    NSC_DEBUG_MODE = true
end

should this work or should i do something more

[edgy reef]

Especially now that adding more info to a mod manifest isn't gonna cause a clutter issue.

[zealous glen]

I don't really see how that works with vanilla and/or multiple mods

[frosty dock]

don't need ~= nil in an if statement

but yes

[wintry swallow]

i know

just, for readability's sake

[frosty dock]

imo that makes it less readable

it's easy to confuse with == nil at a glance

[wintry swallow]

without the ~= nil there i think it to be a bool when it is in fact a table

[zealous glen]

embrace high level languages

if 1 then

[frosty dock]

all elements of the table find_mod returns are tables

so it will never be a bool

[faint yacht]

me being used to !=:

[zealous glen]

I don't think that's what they were saying

[wintry swallow]

yes. i am saying i made the nil comparison explicit because otherwise i might think the data type it returns is a bool

[frosty dock]

ah fair enough

[frosty dock]

!= in js:

[wintry swallow]

huh, that works lol

[frosty dock]

[1] != '1' // false

[zealous glen]

World -1

[zealous glen]

also why not 6 Hands and 9 Discards

[wintry swallow]

lmao

[zealous glen]

@stiff locust by the way Aure said it was a bug

[stiff locust]

yes hello

[frosty dock]

in favor of this idea

[edgy reef]

Why wouldn't it? It would act the same as now for mods made with english in mind, and mods that don't have an english language file would just do default_lang: "<other language>" in their json manifest.

[faint yacht]

me when BLua

...
elseif _G["shrine_active"] != nil and _G["DrawMotdString"] != nil then
...

[stiff locust]

nnoted

[edgy reef]

You get default.lua behavior without having to copy + maintain a duplicate loc file.

[zealous glen]

How are you tracking where each localization entry came from?

[frosty dock]

we should also add a manifest field for where the default config file should be, I forgot about thaz

[zealous glen]

"This localization came from this mod which has that default language."

[faint yacht]

Actually, can one Lovely "patch" contain both before and after payload?

[frosty dock]

no

[wheat kayak]

Oops! The game crashed:
main.lua:2083: bad argument #1 to 'load' (function expected, got nil)

Additional Context:
Balatro Version: 1.0.1m-FULL
Modded Version: 1.0.0~ALPHA-1303a-STEAMODDED
LÖVE Version: 11.5.0
Lovely Version: 0.6.0

Stack Traceback

(3) global C function 'load'
(4) main chunk of file 'main.lua' at line 2083
(5) global C function 'require'
(6) LÖVE function at file 'boot.lua:323' (best guess)
Local variables:
c = table: 0x0dabe680 {identity:false, version:11.5, accelerometerjoystick:true, modules:table: 0x0dac4710 (more...)}
openedconsole = boolean: false
confok = boolean: true
conferr = nil
(7) global C function 'xpcall'
(8) LÖVE function at file 'boot.lua:362' (best guess)
Local variables:
result = boolean: true
(9) global C function 'xpcall'
(10) LÖVE function at file 'boot.lua:377' (best guess)
Local variables:
func = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 355 of chunk [love "boot.lua"])
inerror = boolean: true
deferErrhand = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 348 of chunk [love "boot.lua"])
earlyinit = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 355 of chunk [love "boot.lua"])

Help?

[faint yacht]

2 it is.

[frosty dock]

I guess you can have an "at" patch do that

but that's not really needed and just increases conflict risk

[tidal steppe]

its a joker, not a deck:

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'oneMansTrash',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'One Man\'s Trash',
        text = {
            "At the end of each round",
            "{C:money}$1{} per remaining {C:red}discard"
        }
    },
    rarity = 2,
    atlas = 'ModdedVanilla',
    pos = {x=2,y=0},
    cost=3,
    add_to_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
        print('added to deck')
        print(G.GAME.current_round.discards_left)
        print(G.GAME.money_per_discard)
    end,
    remove_from_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
        print('removed from deck')
    end
}

sorry for late reply. went to bed lol

[faint yacht]

Technically needed for me to make a Cryptid-compatible patch...

Whilst also keeping the Mr. Bones fallback intact.

[wheat kayak]

can someone help me with this issue pls?

[faint yacht]

1.0.1m?

[wheat kayak]

It's a pirated version of the game that could be why that's the version name

[wintry swallow]

is this a cool idea to indicate which scaling we're applying

[dreamy thunder]

bro i finally got the randomness working

[wintry swallow]

there's also an equivalent

[dreamy thunder]

it took me longer than it should've

[wheat kayak]

@faint yachtIs that🤔 supposed to mean something?

[wintry swallow]

not a good look to openly talk about pirating the game in the official server

[wheat kayak]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

he asked about version, I answered.

[faint yacht]

Latest SMods might not work with older Balatro versions. 🤷

[wheat kayak]

Well it worked

Just had to rename the mod folders from xxxx-main to xxxx

[frosty dock]

that matters for Talisman and Talisman only

[wheat kayak]

Well I did that with the other mods I had and it worked

[faint yacht]

Well, as long as ya got it working.

[frosty dock]

yeah that was probably from talisman

[wheat kayak]

talisman didn't have -main anyways when I tried before

has to be one of the others

[frosty dock]

Trance maybe

[dreamy thunder]

before i had bought the original game i was using it cracked and some mods which added suits would crash my game

idk if thats the case w you though

[faint yacht]

Actually, as you're here, @frosty dock, any plans for the custom "Saved by" text being possible without other mods needing to patch it in?

[frosty dock]

yes

[long sun]

had no idea this channel existed, hi!

sorry i was bugging modding-chat 😭

i'll link there though

[faint yacht]

beginning_end?

[long sun]

no clue, it was part of Cryptid and i'm presuming it means wait for the use animation to finish

also what does card_eval_status_text actually mean?

[dreamy thunder]

where does rarities go in localization?

found it

[zealous glen]

I don't get it but

I think you can make the word have a tooltip

Decks do that at least

[wintry swallow]

there, that should be way clearer on which modifier is applying which stake's scaling level

[wintry swallow]

first challenge using the new mods!

[long sun]

weird bug causing sold Tarots to not trigger, but sold Jokers to trigger — what's wrong here?

also it's still displaying nil as its mult value

ah. i found the fix for the second issue

oooh i think i know what the bug in the first is

does it consider the selling tarot to still be there when checking for what tarots are there?

i'll add a patch

okay i have no idea how to patch this, context.consumeable is nil when selling a Tarot so i can't check if the animation is running or not

:P

[tidal steppe]

hand idea: Blush
a flush with only face cards

[royal carbon]

I'm trying to figure out how to fix my code and I've got nothing, two issues atm:

1. joker.key is returning nil for some reason
2. Even when I bypass can_use getting rid of the highlighted joker doesn't get rid of it, and places an uninteractible version of the new joker in a static place in my joker tray no matter what method I use

Well I figued #2 out at least, it was the Q(function thing I copied

[frosty dock]

joker.config.center_key

[royal carbon]

That was it, thank you so much

[random sleet]

flushblaze already exists

[tidal steppe]

oh nice

[random sleet]

everything you can combine blaze with without using pareidola

(so no blaze straights)

[tidal steppe]

How do you add the extra button on end screen? i have the idea to add a limitless option along side endless on win screen. its basically endless but removed limits such as joker slots

or i might just make it a setting to alter endless

[dreamy thunder]

finally done with this thing

didnt think it would take this much time 🙏

[random sleet]

whats a document

[long sun]

what'dya think? :D

[random sleet]

is this a joker, a tarot, or a spectral?

[dreamy thunder]

i think its a joker

it says joker on top

[long sun]

it's a joker ^^

[dreamy thunder]

and its peak

[long sun]

aaaaa thanks!! :D

ability reads:

On purchase, creates a random Negative Spectral card
self destructs```

(common)

[dreamy thunder]

oh thats neat

[long sun]

thanks ^^

actually wait maybe this should be uncommon

shrug

well i'll work on that ^^

[random sleet]

i dont get why it evokes tarot design then but ok

[long sun]

i mean why not :D

[long sun]

well it says joker

[cerulean rose]

bump

[dreamy thunder]

i mean it creates a spectral card so i can see why it looks like one

[long sun]

ya

[random sleet]

(man you can really tell which ones of these i made)
my joker tarot card is a tarot so maybe im just used to that /shrug

[long sun]

fair!

oooooh these look awesome!!

i like how you've used the minor arcana

[random sleet]

the minor arcana Pages there are used as suit conversion tarot for the minor arcana suits

see here

[long sun]

ooooooooooooh!! how do they work?

[random sleet]

see here

[long sun]

oooooh :D

das cool!!

[dreamy thunder]

i hate nerfing stuff

[solid surge]

how would i make a joker that'd score +mult/+chips or Xmult/Xchips for scoring specific cards

[tidal steppe]

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'evening',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Evening',
        text = {
            "Each played {C:attention}Even card{}",
            "gives {C:chips}+#1#{} Chips and",
            "{C:mult}+#2#{} Mult when scored"
        }
    },
    config = { extra = { chips = 4, mult = 2 } },
    rarity = 1,
    atlas = 'ModdedVanilla',
    pos = { x = 1, y = 1 },
    cost = 4,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.chips, card.ability.extra.mult } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            if context.other_card:get_id()%2 == 0 then
                return {
                    chips = card.ability.extra.chips,
                    mult = card.ability.extra.mult,
                    card = context.other_card
                }
            end
        end
    end
}

one of mine as an example

[solid surge]

thanks for the assistance

[twilit tinsel]

tried coding a joker and my head hurts

woe is me

[merry raven]

Don't forget; you're here forever

[twilit tinsel]

i wish i could just outsource the coding so i could do the funny art

[lethal pumice]

hoof, trying to get into mod dev for my partner and I to make one together, but ive only managed to make the joker appear in game (albeit with the debug mod 😅 ), but it's not yet able to trigger. is it proper ettiquette to drop the mod in a code block here for advice?

(that is, the code for a single joker's text and function 😅 )

[cerulean rose]

i think i could do that

[twilit tinsel]

oooo

[lethal pumice]

    key = 'Jokers', --atlas key
    path = 'Jokers.png', --atlas' path in (yourMod)/assets/1x or (yourMod)/assets/2x
    px = 71, --width of one card
    py = 95 -- height of one card
}
SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'baby-pi', --joker key
    loc_txt = { -- local text
        name = 'Pi',
        text = {
          'Each played {C:attention}3{}, {C:attention}Ace{}, {C:attention}4{}, {C:attention}5{} or {C:attention}9{} gives',
          '{X:mult,C:white}X#1#{} Mult when scored'
        },
    },
    config = { extra = { Xmult = 1.5 } },
    rarity = 2, --rarity: 1 = Common, 2 = Uncommon, 3 = Rare, 4 = Legendary
    atlas = 'Jokers', --atlas' key
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0}, --position in atlas, starts at 0, scales by the atlas' card size (px and py): {x = 1, y = 0} would mean the sprite is 71 pixels to the right
    cost = 8, --cost
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return {vars = {card.ability.extra.Xmult}} 
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 3 or context.other_card:get_id() == 14 or context.other_card:get_id() == 4 or context.other_card:get_id() == 5 or context.other_card:get_id() == 9 then
                return {
                    Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult,
                    card = context.other_card
                }
            end
        end
    end
}```
I'm currently trying to make a joker that gives x1.5 mult whenever 3, A, 4, 5 or 9 scores, though this is the first joker i'm making so i'm still pretty unfamiliar with balatro lua keywords, any advice?

[random sleet]

you want to return x_mult not Xmult

[cerulean rose]

add message = localize({ type = "variable", key = "a_mult", vars = { card.ability.extra.Xmult } }), to your return

[lethal pumice]

thank you so much, this worked!

[lethal pumice]

ooh, let me try this too!

that worked too! is either preferable over the other?

[cerulean rose]

don't do this

is changes nothing and doesn't fix the original issue

i thought specifying the message was necessary but i just tested and turns out i'm wrong

[merry raven]

My main.lua is chock full of code dedicated to Enhancements and has like 1k+ lines, their sounds and some overridden functions, but I heard that there's a way to isolate them in a separate lua file, are there any example mods that do this?

[lethal pumice]

alrighty, thank you anyways! this game is so much fun, and the modding scene is so lively and interesting! :D
glad to learn these things any way I can, i'm sure they'll all help me and my partner as we get more used to Lua and balatro modding as a whole!

[merry raven]

Modding is so damn versatile, I think some guy managed to cram Super Mario into a Joker

[tepid crow]

I think it's Xmult_mod?

[hardy viper]

i would imagine thats for scaling xmult?

ah nvm

[tepid crow]

no, just regular xmult afaik

[cerulean rose]

that's during main joker scoring

yes, the required key is different between the two

[tepid crow]

ugh of course

yeah it's x_mult like autumn said

[cerulean rose]

also here message can be omitted

no it can't

[hardy viper]

bluh

make up your mind 😭

[tepid crow]

my debugging sessions be like

[random sleet]

i love people trying desperately to prove me wrong its funny

meanwhile im looking at a joker that does almost exactly that functionality in my code lmao

but its based on suit instead

[cerulean rose]

it can be omitted for scoring triggered but not main joker scoring triggered

[merry raven]

I have lost count of how many ideas I have scrapped because there is a Joker out of 150 that does the same thing

[random sleet]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[tepid crow]

eh

I've made chips version of mult jokers on purpose before ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[random sleet]

my Emojiokers mod is not about creativity

[cerulean rose]

why is smods so jank

[random sleet]

smods isnt jank, balatro is

[merry raven]

My ideas go in a loop, I thought long and hard about coming up with a new idea, and then by the tail end of concepting, I realized I made a worse Glass Card

[tepid crow]

lots of people trying lots of different things, while having to build on top of Thunk's code

[merry raven]

Me when Enhancements do not have all the contexts like a Joker would

[cerulean rose]

real

[merry raven]

I've put a pin on making Enhancements for now
Making Jokers would be significantly easier right?

right?

[tepid crow]

https://uploads.dailydot.com/2023/11/does-he-know-meme.jpg?q=65&auto=format&w=1600&ar=2:1&fit=crop

[cerulean rose]

just rough gem but with hearts

[merry raven]

What do YOU know

[random sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-sir-snap-thats-right-correct-gif-15069421

[tepid crow]

https://tenor.com/bqCap.gif

[dry merlin]

can someone help me please.
how do i go about replacing these textures

[cerulean rose]

try #1300851004186820690

[dry merlin]

is there a way to do it with just steammodded

[open bone]

Hey, sorry I'm being a bit clueless about this- I wanna have an effect happen according to a variable at the end of a round, from the end_of_round context. Kinda like this-

But, well, obviously it's not working, haha. How would I go on doing this?

The variable exists just fine since I can print it with eval in the debug console

[normal crest]

By not working do you mean the game crashes?

[open bone]

yaya

Sorry I should have specified, it crashes since I assume doing an if context like this is NOT the intended way, which makes sense

so I just wanna figure out what's the proper way to do stuff at the end of the round

without it being a joker

[rough furnace]

I was skimming the channek and want to say hell yeah

[normal crest]

you'd probably want to use a hook on the function where you want your effect to happen

[rough furnace]

Why not just add sometbing to the config? You would just need to check current_mod.config.debug or smth and once set on your machine it's true

[zealous glen]

:)

Unfortunately there's a Steamodded bug (?) that breaks it

:(

[wintry swallow]

i don't want end users to have access to it

[open bone]

Oh yeah I imagine that's what I wanna do but I'm not sure what's the actual function to use 😭

I tried looking at stuff like golden joker but my Searching has bore no fruit

[normal crest]

Could you specify more what kind of effect you want?

[wintry swallow]

if you go through the effort of reading the source and making a mod with the ID that it's looking for, then you've earned my debug mode lmao

[open bone]

Give +5 dollars if you finish a blind with an Overkill (the flame-like effect)

In essence I just want a +5 added to your money at the end of a blind but without using a Joker (It's meant to be a voucher, so I'm using that variable which is turned to True with the purchase of the joker)

[rough furnace]

You don't need to have a UI for it

The config table is just what the file has

[wintry swallow]

ah

[zealous glen]

Question: is there a built-in way to check for a card's suit?

Not if it has a specific suit, but to ask its suit

I just don't remember if vanilla has one

[rough furnace]

Card:is_suit or smth

[zealous glen]

That's for a specific suit

I would prefer not to iterate over SMODS.Suits

[rough furnace]

Well things get messy with wild cards

There's something on the objext to keep track

But I don't know what it is

[zealous glen]

There's a function just to ask if a card is wild

[normal crest]

it's probably something simple like card.suit

[zealous glen]

Agreed I just wanted to know if there was a method

[rough furnace]

Check what the method to set the suit does

[zealous glen]

if only I knew it v_v

[rough furnace]

Idk I use it in DebugPlus

[zealous glen]

thanks thunk

[rough furnace]

Oh it's part of the base

I know smods overrites this

[zealous glen]

I imagine

[rough furnace]

Anywyas things that's bad look at now you change ranks in vanilla

(there's no function for it you just have to look at strength)

[zealous glen]

ye

Thankfully I don't wanna change them

Just know them

[rough furnace]

DebugPlus's rank code is stupidly cursed

[zealous glen]

Be aware

👁️ 👄 👁️

[normal crest]

I'm not actually sure what method you're looking for, perhaps evaluate_round in state_events.lua? I know that's where the money is added for remaining discards and hands

But you might not be able to accomplish what you want with a hook

Might need to use a lovely patch

But don't take my words for granted

[rough furnace]

No you shouldn't

Oh wait

I didn't see the reply

[open bone]

i will Look

[merry raven]

The thingamajiggy

[wintry swallow]

holy shit

you were not joking

[merry raven]

I see you there Victin

[zealous glen]

wait until you see localthunk's If-Else-If Tower of Babel

[merry raven]

Tower of Babelse

[rough furnace]

3am

[merry raven]

Now where do I start with

• Disabling hand types
• Spawning Boss Blind-specific cards (Enhancements/Jokers/Editions etc etc)

[normal crest]

smods takes ownership of strength, you should look at that instead

[wintry swallow]

don't worry i have had to do extensive patching, i know the horrors

[rough furnace]

I did specify vanilla game

(I unfortunately support vanilla in DebugPlus)

[normal crest]

my condolences

[zealous glen]

vanilla disables some hand types

[merry raven]

Oh yeah the Needle

[zealous glen]

Not the Needle

[merry raven]

No wait

Mouth

[wintry swallow]

these

• allow removing of the "Endless Mode" button from the win screen because in some contexts it makes no sense
• implement purple and green stake scaling challenge modifiers
• implement the ability to specify editions on consumables in challenges
• implement the ability to specify for jokers to be rental in challenges
• implement the "run starts at ante X" and "you win after ante X" modifiers
• fix a very strange edge case i didn't catch the first time, which combined with the "no hand regen" modifier, allow for the player to have -1 hands (it just forces a game over instead)
• implement the "discards do not regenerate" modifier, and the "hands do not regenerate" modifier

[zealous glen]

creating cards

[rough furnace]

card.base.suit

[zealous glen]

not card.config.card.suit?

[rough furnace]

idk they might both work

[zealous glen]

That's what set_base uses

[rough furnace]

card.config.card.suit is what is_suit uses

[open bone]

whoops
getting an error trying to add dollars-

[rough furnace]

at least vanilla

[tidal steppe]

i am one of many seeking an artist so i can just code

[wintry swallow]

i think having to add a warning like this

is probably a hallmark that a challenge is too much

[twilit tinsel]

ooo

[twilit tinsel]

oooo

[rough furnace]

I will cheat

[wintry swallow]

doing this challenge will not be required for mod 100%

it will be part of the "B-side" section, for things too strange or outlandishly difficult to land in main set

[merry raven]

Looking at the code, does this immediately place one Stone Card in your hand when you start the Blind?

[wintry swallow]

isn't that what stone joker does

oh no it's to hand not to deck

[tidal steppe]

maybe you regain some per ante? like after boss you regain 1 or X or all?

[rough furnace]

burgalar

[wintry swallow]

maybe for something in main set but this is staying this way

burglar is banned

[tidal steppe]

dayum

[rough furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/damn-bird-legs-gif-7418853116988366584

[normal crest]

dollars is a local variable defined within evaluate_round, so you can't directly modify it with a hook, that's why i said you might need a lovely patch

[tidal steppe]

@twilit tinsel wanna show off some art?

[open bone]

OH whoops

i uh
never did a lovely patch before

[hallow forge]

i made a challenge similar to this, in that yhands and discards do not reset.

[open bone]

I don't know where to start 😭

[normal crest]

Simply create a lovely.toml file within your mod folder

[twilit tinsel]

i made some flag jokers

[rough furnace]

you should be able to add money at the end of round

I think SMODS provides an api for this

[twilit tinsel]

• those genshin aces

[rough furnace]

or you can just ease_dollars

[open bone]

oh ease_dollars add money?

[rough furnace]

yes

[wintry swallow]

the joker using the flag of nepal for the K is funny

i like it

[rough furnace]

you can also just set G.GAME.dollars

[tidal steppe]

sick! any ideas for their abilities?

[open bone]

i will see if it works,,

[normal crest]

yeah but it doesn't add it to the end of round screen

[open bone]

oh I don't mind if it doesn't add it to end of round

[twilit tinsel]

not yet! i just made them for fun so i didnt think that much

[normal crest]

then you can just call ease_dollars in the hook you already made

[open bone]

Sorry for messing up something so basic lmao, I do Gamemaker, not Lua-

[zealous glen]

The Rock

[rough furnace]

you can use calc_dollar_bonus https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Center#specific-to-certain-subclasses

[zealous glen]

brazil mentioned

[merry raven]

Yoooo that's sick

[modest glen]

wanna make some custom card art, where do i start?

[normal crest]

that's for jokers specifically isn't it

they want a voucher that does it

[open bone]

Yeah I was making it as a voucher

that's why I was strugglin a bit

[rough furnace]

oh as a voucher

[open bone]

yeah otherwise i'd use calc dollar bonus fdshjk

[wintry swallow]

yo that's sick as fuck

do the stone cards go away after the blind

[zealous glen]

what color is the text on the brazilian flag

[zealous glen]

no

[wintry swallow]

i think that might be better because otherwise you run into the risk of fucking up people's, e.g. erosion, builds

[zealous glen]

Get screwd

[rough furnace]

this is a boss blind

[wintry swallow]

no i mean fucking them up for the rest of the run

[open bone]

there we go the effect works

i'll add the actual details of only triggering on an Overkill later I'm just glad I got the basics to work lmao

[twilit tinsel]

4f6367

[merry raven]

Hmmm maybe I can make my Boss Blind specific card an Enhancement
But how do you make them not show up in any Standard Pack?

[open bone]

Thank for the help,

[rough furnace]

They better be ready to adapt then

[normal crest]

yeah boss blinds don't really mess up the rest of the run

[wintry swallow]

vanilla non-final boss blinds don't have the potential to just screw your build for the rest of the run

[zealous glen]

exactly

That's the goal

also

[rough furnace]

well I mean then have the potential to screw up the rest of the run by losing

[normal crest]

but they screw up the run during the blind

[zealous glen]

the actual flag uses green that looks like Joker grey ;P

[wintry swallow]

if you survive a boss blind in the vanilla game you don't come out the other end any worse off, consumables aside

idk. the balancing doesn't quite sit right with me

[zealous glen]

The Ox

also the Rock exists to make the rest of your run worse. Or better

[karmic kelp]

The Ox's penalty is theoretically avoidable though

[zealous glen]

Avoid drawing Stones

[wintry swallow]

that's luck-based

[karmic kelp]

like if you finally got your High Card engine online, after a long run of Flushes

[tidal steppe]

as in how to implement or what to make?

[zealous glen]

Skill issue

[modest glen]

implement i guess? like the ones in game

[rough furnace]

#🎨・fan-art message

[modest glen]

the customize cards

[twilit tinsel]

yea lol

[zealous glen]

I had made a Real Joker but I didn't finish the art

Made 2s, 5s, and 10s earn money

[modest glen]

thanks, i mainly want to make skins for the deck itself tho

[rough furnace]

like what do you want help with?

[twilit tinsel]

it rapidly devalues

[zealous glen]

I stopped here

Oh I also made Brazilian Miku

[rough furnace]

if you want shitty art made in very little time, let me know

[modest glen]

if theres like a template, loader, or something for making skins for the game, then play with it in game

[wintry swallow]

oh god i've just had a horrible idea for a challenge. "Escort Mission", you start with one Joker (+4 mult jimbo), goal is to reach ante 10, "Selling the Joker doubles the size of all future Blinds"

[zealous glen]

huehuehue

[twilit tinsel]

peak

[rough furnace]

Theres this for the code https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/blob/main/example_mods/Mods/DeckSkinTemplate/DeckSkinTemplate.lua

not sure why this example deosn't include example art

[modest glen]

nice thanks, i guess ill try to find a texture dump of the base cards or something

[rough furnace]

you can extrat the games files with 7zip and get the sprites

[modest glen]

i want to make it in the same style as the free dlc ones

oh nice

[tidal steppe]

@tall wharf you able to help here?

theyve been doing reskins like the dlc's

[zealous glen]

I still don't have an effect for her

[tall wharf]

hello

i haven't looked into making custom jokers yet

[tidal steppe]

this

[tall wharf]

ah

what do you want to make a skin of

just face cards or the whole deck

@modest glen

[zealous glen]

also if you want to make DeckSkins

[modest glen]

oh im just doing face cards

[zealous glen]

I made the template included in Steamodded

You can edit it for your own use

[tall wharf]

yeah

[modest glen]

right now im figuring out how to install steamodded though lol

[tall wharf]

uh

you install lovely

download steamodded and put that in %appdata%/Balatro/Mods

done

[rough furnace]

theres like a 42% I just broke all of smods

[normal crest]

would it be the first time?

[zealous glen]

try
if crash then don't end

[rough furnace]

#1324434225822306314 be like

[rough furnace]

me breaking it maybe but it breaking no

[wintry swallow]

i can't find the fucking text parser

[modest glen]

ok so basically i just find the textures in the exe, draw over that, then implement it in the deck skin template right?

[rough furnace]

if you find it let me know I kinda want to mess with it

[wintry swallow]

i need to template #X# variables with like, the name of a joker

[rough furnace]

but it might be tied to the localization system

[wintry swallow]

it is

[wintry swallow]

in-game this appears as the joker ID

i.e. Selling j_joker doubles size of all future blinds

which is not what i want

it should be Selling Joker doubles size of all future blinds

[rough furnace]

that would be whatveer your loc_vars provides

[wintry swallow]

oh

it's in

loc_parse_string

[wintry swallow]

misc_functions.lua#1634 it looks it

[wintry swallow]

also what do you mean, the loc_var 1 is j_joker

it needs to be

it's the ID

[rough furnace]

lov_vars is whats replaced with the # placeholders

you should be able to set it to whatveer

[wintry swallow]

it's a custom rule in a challenge

does that matter

[rough furnace]

not familar with challenges

[wintry swallow]

hmm

[normal crest]

Are you trying to translate the joker key?

[wintry swallow]

i'm trying to get it to show up as the localised name of the joker

loc_var 1 is the ID of the joker

[normal crest]

Couldn't you just do G.localization.description.Joker.j_joker.name

[wintry swallow]

again it's a challenge custom rule defined in the localisation file

this is all i have to work with, lovely patches aside

this is the code that handles localising challenge rules

in the selection UI

i am going to inject some bullshit into this line

this is the only way to do what i want to do it seems

[normal crest]

Can I see the rules table in your challenge

[wintry swallow]

    rules = {
        custom = {
            {id = 'nsc_custom_win_ante', value = 10},
            {id = 'nsc_selling_card_doubles_future_blinds', value = 'j_joker'}
        }
    },
    jokers = {
        {id = 'j_joker'} -- the 'escort'
    },

dw though i've figured it out

[normal crest]

What'd you change to make it work?

[tidal steppe]

            for _, card in pairs(G.deck.cards) do
                if card:get_id() > 10 and card:get_id() < 14 then
                    face_count = face_count + 1
                end
            end

How do i access the full deck? this only counts the remaining deck. i tried G.full_deck.cards but thats nil

[normal crest]

G.playing_cards

[wintry swallow]

[manifest]
version = "1.0.0"
priority = 0

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/UI_definitions.lua"
pattern = '''game_rules[#game_rules+1] = {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cl"}, nodes= localize{type = 'text', key = 'ch_c_'..v.id, vars = {v.value}}}'''
position = "at"
payload = '''
local locvars = {v.value}
if v.id == 'nsc_selling_card_doubles_future_blinds' then
    locvars[1] = G.localization.descriptions.Joker[v.value].name
end

game_rules[#game_rules+1] = {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cl"}, nodes= localize{type = 'text', key = 'ch_c_'..v.id, vars = locvars}}
'''
match_indent = true

just a dead simple lovely patch

...which doesn't work hold on

[normal crest]

I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but couldn't you have replaced value = 'j_joker' to the localization thing?

[wintry swallow]

no

because j_joker needs to be the ID

for logic

i'm not going to go do a reverse lookup through the localisation tables to figure out what card we're thinking about

this also still doesn't work but i am confident i'm on the right track

[tidal steppe]

thx that worked 🙂 these naming conventions tho XD

[merry raven]

Is there a way to make it so that an Enhancement won't show up in Standard Packs?

[normal crest]

set weight to 0?

[wintry swallow]

yup ok

[merry raven]

Oh that's what weight does?

The wiki isn't exactly clear about it lmao

[wintry swallow]

there we go!

excellent

[wintry swallow]

here's the working version of the patch

[tidal steppe]

        if context.joker_main then
            local face_count = 0
            for _, card in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
                if card:get_id() > 10 and card:get_id() < 14 then
                    face_count = face_count + 1
                end
            end
            return {
                mult_mod = face_count/2,
                message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_mult', vars = { face_count } }
            }
        end

am i dumb? why is face_count/2 not dividing by 2. face_count is 9, yet im getting mult_mod of 9 instead of 4.5???

[zealous glen]

a few

[merry raven]

What's the simplest way? Is it the weight = 0 thingy srockw suggested earlier?

[zealous glen]

Depending on what you want to do, yes

This might be too strong 🤔

[merry raven]

Yeah it's just a blind-specific card that appears in a blind, and disappears when the blind is defeated
It cannot be obtained anywhere else

[zealous glen]

Then that should work

[merry raven]

Righto

What about the disappearing part

[wintry swallow]

on that note

does the Card class know its ID?

i.e. j_joker j_mystic_summit etc etc

[normal crest]

card.config.center_key yeah

[normal crest]

looks like blinds have a defeat method you can use

[tidal steppe]

how can i check if card is debuffed?
card:is_debuffed?

[merry raven]

I use if card.debuff then

[sonic cedar]

SMODS.Atlas{
    key = 'Jokers',
    path = 'Moriah.png',
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}
SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'moriah',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Moriah',
        text = {
            '{C:chips}+#22#{} Chips and {C:red}+#2# Mult',
            'Gain {C:money}1${} at end of round'

        },
    },
    atlas = 'Jokers',
    rarity = 3,
    cost = 6,
    unlocked = true, 
    discovered = false,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,
    perishable_compat = true,
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
    config = {
        extra = {
            chips = 22,
            mult = 2
        }
    },
    check_for_unlock = function(self, args)
        if args.type == 'isaac moriah is 5 years old' then
            unlock_card(self)
        end
        unlock_card(self)
    end,
    in_pool = function(self,wawa,wawa2)
        return true
    end,
    calc_dollar_bonus = function(self,card)
        return 1
    end,
}

can someone tell me why the chip-mult values show up as nil?

in game i mean

[tidal steppe]

another mod success!
thx for the help 🙂

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'popBonus',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Populous',
        text = {
            "{C:mult}+1{} Mult per 2",
            "{C:attention}face{} cards in your full deck"
        }
    },
    rarity = 1,
    atlas = 'ModdedVanilla',
    pos = { x = 4, y = 0 },
    cost = 4,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            local face_count = 0
            for _, card in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
                if card:is_face() and not card.debuff then
                    face_count = face_count + 1
                end
            end
            face_count = math.floor(face_count / 2)
            return {
                mult_mod = face_count,
                message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_mult', vars = { face_count } }
            }
        end
    end
}

[merry raven]

Unfortunately defining weight = 0 doesn't work, the middle card is the Wish Card (the blind-specific card)

SMODS.Enhancement {
    key = "diving_bird",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Diving Bird",
        text = {
            "{X:dark_edition,C:white}WISH CARD{}",
            "",
        }
    },
    atlas = 'Enhancements',
    no_rank = true,
    no_suit = true,
    always_scores = true,
    weight = 0,
    overrides_base_rank = true,
    replace_base_card = true,
    pos = {x=3, y=0}
}

Any insights?

[zealous glen]

@wintry solar ?

[wintry swallow]

where do prints land?

in the lovely console?

yes they do

okay, next question

when does the game calculate the size of a blind

oh of COURSE

the game calculates it twice

yeah of course why wouldn't it. why wouldn't it

thanks thunk.

[normal crest]

you need a loc_vars function that returns the actual variables, refer to https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/blob/main/example_mods/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

[tidal steppe]

https://github.com/WilsontheWolf/DebugPlus
this makes prints show in game

[wintry swallow]

huh neat

[tidal steppe]

among other great features

[normal crest]

you can also eval lua code while it's running

[wintry swallow]

neat!!

[merry raven]

SMODS.Sound({
    vol = 0.6,
    pitch = 0.7,
    key = "music_corrupted_wish",
    path = "corrupted_wish.ogg",
    select_music_track = function()
        return (G.GAME and G.GAME.blind and (G.GAME.blind.config.blind.boss and G.GAME.blind.config.blind.boss.showdown)) and 2 or false
    end,
})

Is there a way to make it so that this song plays during a specific Finisher Boss Blind? The key of the boss blind is corrupted_wish

[crimson fern]

hey could someone help me with a cryptid crash

[zealous glen]

see L Corp

[merry raven]

What I've seen from L Corp (the Steamodded example anyways) is that they play separate music for regular boss blinds and finisher boss blinds
But I want it to be specific finisher boss blinds

[zealous glen]

I think they play specific music for specific blinds

[sonic cedar]

i seeee i’ll try this out and see if it works!

[zealous glen]

but anyways you can always check what's the current boss

[merry raven]

What's the syntax?

[random sleet]

not much whats the syntax with you?

[merry raven]

What

The source code says something like if self.name == 'Cerulean Bell' then

Then should mine be like G.GAME.blind.config.blind.boss.showdown.name == "fm_corrupted_wish"?

No it wasn't

[crisp coral]

G.GAME.blind.config.blind.key == "b_fm_corrupted_wish"

[merry raven]

Ayyy thanks for helping out lemme try

[random sleet]

myst the blind whisperer

[crisp coral]

:3

[merry raven]

Like this?

return (G.GAME and G.GAME.blind and (G.GAME.blind.config.blind.boss and G.GAME.blind.config.blind.boss.showdown and G.GAME.blind.config.blind.key == "b_fm_corrupted_wish")) and 2 or false

Not sure and 2 or false is, I copied this entire segment from LobCorp's example on Steamodded

[crisp coral]

can be shortened it to

return (G.GAME and G.GAME.blind and G.GAME.blind.config.blind.key == "b_fm_corrupted_wish") and 2 or false

[crimson fern]

hey modders! trying to start the game but it crashes at steamodded, whats the issue? Heres the crash notes

[crisp coral]

2 or false means the music will be played with a priority of 2 (higher takes prio) if the conditional is met

[crisp coral]

rename Talisman-main folder to Talisman, Cryptid-main folder to Cryptid

[normal crest]

you have an old version of talisman

should be 2.0.2

[crisp coral]

orrr that

[normal crest]

probably a combination of both

[crimson fern]

ok thanks ill try both

[merry raven]

Hmmm it's still playing the default boss blind music, and I do have the ogg file in my sounds folder

Do I have to call the music's key somewhere?

[placid frigate]

my 2 X mult values are switched (only the text thew acctually code works fine) how can i switch them

[normal crest]

The number between the # means which index of the list you return from loc_vars it takes

[crisp coral]

im fucking stupid

[normal crest]

So #1# would take the first value, #2# the 2nd

[crisp coral]

bl_fm_corrupted_wish

the obj prefix is bl not b

[merry raven]

Balatro and its naming conventions istg

[crisp coral]

b is for decks (backs)

[placid frigate]

ok so just flip the values

[merry raven]

Enhancements is m
Bruh

[normal crest]

basically

[crisp coral]

m

prolly called modifier initally

[crimson fern]

yo i changed the names of the files and replaced talisman and it still crashes

[placid frigate]

yep it mworked thank you

[normal crest]

Make sure that inside the cryptid folder there isn't another cryptid folder

[crimson fern]

ok if there is how do i fix that without deleting the folders within said folder

[normal crest]

Just copy the cryptid folder inside to your Mods folder, delete the old one

[crimson fern]

got it

[quaint latch]

Hi! 2 noob questions :)

What context is used for when a hand is played and how would i go about drawing/adding a specific Standard Card to Hand but not to deck (2,3,4,K,Q,J, etc.)

[normal crest]

look at https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Guide-‐-Joker-Calculation#stages-of-evaluation for contexts

[wintry swallow]

and 2 or false is unnecessary here

that conditional will never be true

[merry raven]

Blind Whisperer I require your services

set_blind = function(self, reset, silent)
        for i = 1, 4 do
            local front = pseudorandom_element(G.P_CARDS, pseudoseed('bl_diving_bird'))
            G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
            local card = Card(G.play.T.x + G.play.T.w / 2, G.play.T.y, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, front, G.P_CENTERS.m_fm_diving_bird, {
                playing_card = G.playing_card
            })
            
            card:start_materialize({G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Enhanced})
            G.play:emplace(card)
            table.insert(G.playing_cards, card)
            
            G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
            draw_card(G.play, G.deck, 90, 'up', nil)
            
            playing_card_joker_effects({true})
        end
    end

After I shameless copy Victin's code for giving Blind-specific cards, when I select a card, I get this error:

msg = string: "blind.lua:576: bad argument #1 to 'next' (table expected, got nil)"

Line 576 points to here:

if self.debuff then
        self.triggered = false
        -- below is line 576 I figured that you'd get a better grasp of where it is used
        if self.debuff.hand and next(hand[self.debuff.hand]) then
            self.triggered = true
            return true
        end

[merry raven]

Gotcha, thanks for the heads up

[normal crest]

as for adding a card, I'd recommend looking at DNA's code, tho I'm not sure how complicated it'll be to ensure it doesn't go to your deck

[quaint latch]

Much appreciated that helped with the context question :D

[crisp coral]

rule of thumb, self in the game code refers to G.GAME.blind

[quaint latch]

[crisp coral]

so replace all instances of self with G.GAME.blind

[wintry swallow]

not really? self means 'the current object', it's context-dependent

[quaint latch]

I think i could add an enchantment to it, check for it and then remove all cards from the deck that have the enchantment

[crisp coral]

self in blind.lua is always G.GAME.blind

[quaint latch]

sounds highly inefficient though

[merry raven]

Oh line 576 points to the source code, not my custom blind
The only instance of self in my custom blind is here set_blind = function(self, reset, silent)

[wintry swallow]

oh "in blind.lua"

[crisp coral]

oh

i dont have vsc up holon

[quaint latch]

(or just check the played hand and after round end xd)

[normal crest]

actually you'd just need to create the card, and later on call remove on it

[quaint latch]

Ah that is much better, i dont have too much clue about the inner workings of balatro yet so i tend to overcomplicate things

[crisp coral]

what's your blind's config?

[merry raven]

Oh wait now I know what's wrong

[quaint latch]

Anyway thanks a lot srockw :D

[merry raven]

My blind was supposed to prep disabling all hand types and the only way to get them back is to play Wish Cards

debuff = {
        hand = {
            ['Pair'] = false,
            ['Two Pair'] = false,
            ['Three of a Kind'] = false,
            ['Full House'] = false,
            ['Four of a Kind'] = false,
            ['Five of a Kind'] = false,
            ['Straight'] = false,
            ['Flush'] = false,
            ['Straight Flush'] = false,
            ['Royal Flush'] = false,
            ['Flush Five'] = false,
            ['Flush House'] = false
        }
    },

But I haphazardly defined it like this and promptly forgot about it

[crisp coral]

[merry raven]

That's why the error was pointing to the debuff part of blind.lua

Alright shit how am I going to do the hand type disabling thingy

[crisp coral]

kid named The Eye

[merry raven]

if self.name == 'The Eye' and not reset then
        self.hands = {
            ["Flush Five"] = false,
            ["Flush House"] = false,
            ["Five of a Kind"] = false,
            ["Straight Flush"] = false,
            ["Four of a Kind"] = false,
            ["Full House"] = false,
            ["Flush"] = false,
            ["Straight"] = false,
            ["Three of a Kind"] = false,
            ["Two Pair"] = false,
            ["Pair"] = false,
            ["High Card"] = false,
        }
    end

Zero idea where to go on from here

Patch into set_blind in blind.lua? maybe?

[crisp coral]

no need but i also cant help rn gotta get some lunch before studying

[merry raven]

Go get yer lunch

I need you to whisper to my blinds in the future

Oh shit if I do this I can just put the cards in the middle of my screen and have them hover there, I can even drag them around and they will stay there
Could make for some nice displays

set_blind = function(self, reset, silent)
        for i = 1, 4 do
            local front = pseudorandom_element(G.P_CARDS, pseudoseed('bl_diving_bird'))
            G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
            local card = Card(G.play.T.x + G.play.T.w / 2, G.play.T.y, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, front, G.P_CENTERS.m_fm_diving_bird, {
                playing_card = G.playing_card
            })
            
            card:start_materialize({G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Enhanced})
        end
    end

[merry raven]

Also side note, I removed everything past the start_materialize line and the crash is gone

[wise idol]

getting this, what's wrong at line 14? this is just for a deck skin

[rare bobcat]

How does one go about making a balatro mod and how does one go about learning the language needed to do it

I’m pretty sure it’s lua but I want to make sure

[wise idol]

correct

[rough furnace]

Probably the Collabs aren't around at that point yet. You probably should be using the DeckSkin api https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.DeckSkin https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/tree/main/example_mods/Mods/DeckSkinTemplate

[rare bobcat]

Are there any resources to learn lua and balatro modding?

My only coding experience was scratch from when I was in school but I was the best in the district

It’s been a while but I could still make a good game in scratch if I wanted to

[wise idol]

okay I've done that now it's just not showing up

is the asset folder "assets" or "asset"

and the lua file should be "main" right?

[rough furnace]

The assets should be "assets".

[wise idol]

okay that's good

[rough furnace]

The mod author should be wrapped in []

[wise idol]

ok

[rough furnace]

Probably the header is invalid without it

[wise idol]

now it crashed

[rough furnace]

Make sure the file for the atlas is named correctly

[rare bobcat]

Is this the wrong channel to earn how to mod/learn where the resources to mod are?

[wise idol]

I forgot to fix it in 2x, that's what happened. But now the textures just won't show in game

Is the atlas wrong? It's J/Q/K horizontally

[rare bobcat]

Should I just look up a tutorial

[wise idol]

The selection is there, but the cards are blank

Is having a 1x and 2x folder right? I can't find anything

[rare bobcat]

I looked up a tutorial and it looks good

I’d have to download all the things to make balatro mods work on my laptop because I mostly use my main computer for that stuff but it won’t take long

[carmine burrow]

i wanted to try making a consumable that lets you put playing cards in your consumable area (and then take them back out whenever) but there are some unforeseen interactions with perkeo ...

note that the consumable area says 3/2 cards

the "negative" edition on playing cards is actually labeled as "+1 hand size" but it doesn't seem to be doing that when they're in my consumable area. .. would be really funny if they did

technically speaking i could cheat my way out of this one because perkeo says it creates a copy of a random "consumable card in your possession"

so if i made it impossible for perkeo to duplicate playing cards it wouldn't be contradicting the text

or i could just scrap the idea

other interesting thing (completely expected) is that having the foil card in my consumables gives me the +50 chips every hand

[wise idol]

yeah I have no idea what to do

I only just got into this so I don't know my way around this

[rare bobcat]

If you fix the negatives being weird then the perkeo interactions could be cool

[wise idol]

Is there perhaps something to fix with the keys?

[carmine burrow]

in order to make it possible to put cards back into hand from the consumable area i wanted to use lovely to add an extra UI definition essentially the same as this one. this uses card.ability.consumeable to check that the card's a consumable, but how could i check that any given card is a playing card?

i guess i could just put not card.ability.consumeable lol

unless that would somehow interfere with other mods

i guess there's no way to avoid interfering with other mods if i'm doing things w/ lovely

[timid parrot]

Theoretically if it’s neither a consumable nor a joker it’s a playing card

[crimson fern]

hey guys was here earlier just encountered another cryptid glitch

all my exotics are double overlaying the effects

as you can see

does anybody have a fix

?

[rare bobcat]

Unless some mod manages to add a 4th category

Oh maybe vouchers in the consumable slot

[carmine burrow]

also, i wanted to ask about the dir arguments to a lot of functions such as draw_card, the things that are either 'up' or 'down'. what do those do?

i'm sure there's somewhere i could look this up

[hardy viper]

haven't read context here but reverie and betmma abilities?

[rare bobcat]

What mod(s) are those from

[sturdy compass]

This Joker is very unpleasant

[wise idol]

anyone know how to fix blank cards in the collab selector?

[subtle merlin]

How would someone:

Create a custom edition?
Create a Joker that edits cards (like Midas mask)?
Create a joker that increases mult or chips per number of cards with a specific edition in the full deck (like Stone Joker or Blue Joker)?

[carmine burrow]

i got this to half-work but i guess i missed a few bits of logic

kind of funny that you can sell the cards

[subtle merlin]

do they add to your max hand size? (bc negative)

[carmine burrow]

it does by default

i didn't have to do anything really

[subtle merlin]

oh, nice

[carmine burrow]

i've heard it's a little janky though

[tidal steppe]

im not sure yet about your 1st or 3rd question, and i want those answers too. but i think i can help with your 2nd:

                    G.playing_cards[i]:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.m_glass)
                    G.playing_cards[i]:set_edition({
                        polychrome = true
                    }, true, true)

i was trying to give more, but frankensteining 2 of my jokers in discords text area just made spaghetti

How can i with deck advance/skip ante? start them at ante 2 for example
how do i grant booster packs?
how do i grant starting money?

[subtle merlin]

ty!

[normal crest]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Edition for editions, as for the other two questions, I recommend you look at the game's code for the jokers you mentioned

[carmine burrow]

somewhat interestingly the cards in my consumable area are counted towards the total in the deck. does that mean i'm doing something wrong or is that how it should work?

[tidal steppe]

interesting

[carmine burrow]

well i'm definitely doing something wrong because when perkeo duplicates cards they aren't added to the deck count

[dusk shoal]

maybe because theyre negative?

[carmine burrow]

and i don't think they'll be drawn again

aren't on the screen either

[crisp coral]

because perkeo is expect to dupe consumables not playing cards

[carmine burrow]

selling the holographic 10 does reduce the deck's card count

this is after selling the 10 and then putting the negative copy back into my hand, then finishing the round. the deck says there are 52 cards out of 51

but then the negative ten of hearts doesn't show up here

[wise idol]

I should have assets/1x and assets/2x for collab skins right

[carmine burrow]

i did end up drawing the card to my hand later

strange!!

(also i had played it this ante but it wasn't debuffed by the pillar)

[wintry solar]

Easiest to use in_pool and return false

[tidal steppe]

can anyone help me with this deck?

    apply = function()
        -- ante = 2
        -- money = 25
        -- gain 1 jumbo buffoon pack
    end

i dont know what variables/functions to use

[carmine burrow]

would it be easiest to create a tag rather than manually create the jumbo buffoon pack? (i'd guess the answer is "no" but it's just a thought)

[tidal steppe]

im happy with tag, do you know how to do that?

either works

[sick sparrow]

does anyone having pot of greed card?

[tidal steppe]

i think i saw one the other day in here

[carmine burrow]

as for starting w/ $25 it seems like the yellow deck just sets config.dollars = 10 and there's special code to handle it, so i guess you could have dollars = 21 in your config variable

[sick sparrow]

it draws 2 cards from pile

[tidal steppe]

ill try that

that works 🙂

[carmine burrow]

this is the code that hieroglyph et al use to set the ante, so maybe G.GAME.round_resets.blind_ante = 2 would work ... probably have to be careful though because everything might work differently when the run's just starting

[subtle merlin]

all of this code is hurting my head 😅

[carmine burrow]

and then this is the code that diet cola uses to create the double tag

fancy event & sounds stuff optional. .. maybe

[tidal steppe]

it be like that. i suffered days of headache before i felt i was making progress 😅

[carmine burrow]

(buffoon tag is tag_buffoon)

[tidal steppe]

ok, got the ante increasing, although the blind scores dont update till you enter.
now to try the tag/pack

uhh

it did not like that

    apply = function()
        -- ante = 2
        ease_ante(1)
        G.GAME.round_resets.blind_ante = G.GAME.round_resets.blind_ante or 2
        -- gain 1 jumbo buffoon pack
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            func = function()
                add_tag(Tag("tag_buffon"))
                return true
            end
        }))
    end

[hardy viper]

what's a "buffon"

[tidal steppe]

missing brackets?

that too XD

Yippe!

only issue is wrong buffoon pack

[modest glen]

--- MOD_NAME: NAME OF MOD (required)
--- MOD_ID: UNIQUE MOD ID (required)
--- PREFIX: UNIQUE MOD PREFIX (required)
--- MOD_AUTHOR: [ARTIST, CODER, Victin] (required)
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: WHAT IS THIS (required)
--- LOADER_VERSION_GEQ: 1.0.0
--- VERSION: 1.0.0
--- BADGE_COLOR: FFFFFF```
what exactly is MOD_ID and PREFIX?
this is the from the Deck Skin Template

[carmine burrow]

the prefix is a thing added to the id of every joker, consumable, challenge, etc. you put into the game through SMODS

e.g. if the prefix is jmibo and i make a joker w/ key example then the joker would be stored with the id j_jmibo_example

or if you set the prefix to gros and you made a joker w/ key michel it could potentially cause some huge problems .... probably not, i don't know much about steamodded

[modest glen]

wait i dont get it why would it

[subtle merlin]

Pulling back from coding, working on ideas for now

[modest glen]

oh its a joker already

ok so is the MOD_ID here just the key?

[elder vapor]

anyone know how to retain card bonuses after a card's center gets changed?

[carmine burrow]

i don't know what mod id is for specifically, but i'm guessing it's just a string that you want to be sure is different from that of any other mods

[modest glen]

ill just mash numbers then lmao

[carmine burrow]

i would say it's probably a good idea to have it some transformed version of the mod name in case the id is used in diagnostics (debug messages etc.)

[modest glen]

yeah that makes sense

[random sleet]

hiker's bonus does this, iirc? check how that works :)

[subtle merlin]

I need to sleep, so if anyone is interested in and/or can help with implementing these:

Edition: “Shadow”: On play: If card scores, card is destroyed. Not naturally occurring.

Jokers:
Wisp: On play: Convert all scoring cards into Shadow cards (Rarity: 1)
Umbra: Gains x0.2 mult per Shadow card destroyed (Rarity: 2)
Ghost: Gains +1 mult per Shadow card in your full deck (Rarity: 1)
Penumbra: Gains +20 chips per Shadow card in hand (Rarity: 1)
Phantom: On Blind selected, create a random card with Shadow (Rarity: 1)

Tarots:
Page of Swords: Turn two cards into Shadow cards

Spectrals:
Twilight: Turn all cards in hand into Shadow cards

[carmine burrow]

main problem w/ this idea is that it seems really really situational for a consumable... i wanted it to be another tarot but like saving a card to use it a single time in the future is Not worth $3 usually

the only case it would be useful is on foil/holo/polychrome cards since those have their effects apply when in consumable area (likely a holdover from when joker and consumable slots were merged?)

[random sleet]

that happens because consumables are calculate_joker'd
this is for Observatory :)

[dry merlin]

could someone please help me on how to replace the suit icons in the deck menu with steam modded

[elder vapor]

perma_bonus transferrs from self.ability, while x_mult and other stuff don't

[random sleet]

yes so you'd want to implement a perma bonus-like thing

[elder vapor]

sigh

[sick sparrow]

how to modify starting deck with custom cards?

[modest glen]

ok i got it working thanks guys

[crisp coral]

cute as hell

[modest glen]

thanks 😄

[tidal steppe]

idk, seems useful to bench cards to complete those specific hands

[dry merlin]

Download pls

[sick sparrow]

how to add suit and rank?

[modest glen]

where are upload usually done btw?

nexus or gamebanana?

or here?

[dry merlin]

No clue

Most mods I see are either on Nexus, GitHub, or here

[tidal steppe]

whats nexus?

[dry merlin]

Nexusmods

[modest glen]

ill just upload it here later then i dont wanna make accounts lmao

[wintry solar]

I wouldn’t recommend looking through nexus really

[modest glen]

yeah nexus is... very offbrand...

[sick sparrow]

how to add suit and rank?

[dry merlin]

Idk

[random sleet]

here's how i add mine

hope this helps ! :)

[sick sparrow]

that is picture

it should be this

[random sleet]

hey genius it's not helpful anyway

[dry merlin]

Do you know how to change the sprite for the suit icons in the deck menu?
I want to replace them with custom suit icons

[random sleet]

just override the atlas i guess?

[dry merlin]

I've been trying but I can't get it to work

I'm very new to Lua and steammodded coding

[tidal steppe]

how do i access the number of blinds that have been skipped (tags taken)

[wet sand]

how do you make an "upgrade" pop and update a cards description

ive been trying to make something like hiker just to familiarize myself with the codebase and while it is actually adding the bonus chips its not updating visually anywhere

[elder vapor]

didn't take long to add perma versions of hand xmult, xmult, played dollars, and xchips

[tidal steppe]

how do i remove cards from starting deck, like abandoned. i want to make its opposite royal/noble which is only face cards

[random sleet]

you simply do it

[dry merlin]

There's an example deck in steam modded folder, maybe check that out

[tidal steppe]

the examples only alter cards? not add or remove

[merry raven]

@crisp coral I need some tips on how to create more sophisticated blinds and possibilities

• Any functions that can display text like how a Blind displays its description at the start, but I can play it anywhere (ex: certain conditions, low hand count, low cards in deck left, tiny flavour text, etc)?
• Is there a way to display sprites directly on the screen (and also have it persist when exiting the game and coming back)? I concepted a Blind that displays weird symbols on the screen that you must play a specific hand or card to destroy.
• Is there a way to block the player from completing the Blind even if they reached the goal until they meet certain criteria? (ex: destroying all symbols mentioned in the last point)

[cerulean rose]

i've done this already

[crisp coral]

• attention_text is your friend here
• You'd want to define a UIBox as a global object when the blind starts (and a function that recreates it when the game is reloaded), a bit convoluted
• possibly! though i haven't gotten around to making a Blind that does that yet (was planned but got scrapped)

[cerulean rose]

check out royal deck here

[sick sparrow]

can you add custom rank/suitless card directly to P_CARDS?

[crisp coral]

Stone is an enhancement, not a separate playing card

[sick sparrow]

an true separate playing card

like custom four card

[wet sand]

im surprised this isnt an api someone has made already wow

[merry raven]

I fear the second point

For the third point, I haven't gotten a deeper look into the source code, but I reckon that there may be a condition that checks whether your score chips have met the goal, and then maybe we could patch in some code to add another condition before winning that blind? Just a hypothesis

[wintry solar]

That sounds like what you’d do, yeah

[sick sparrow]

well i tried by deepcopying spades of four card and it worked, but partitally

[merry raven]

Are there mods that use a global UIBox that I can reference?

[wintry solar]

You could look at how tags work

They’re just sprites on the screen with a hover effect

[merry raven]

Ooo good point

How much of a hassle is it to change their positions?

[wintry solar]

You’d just replicate the ui box however many times you need

[merry raven]

I see I see

Oh boy there's a lot more to do
Drawing the UIBox, doing the logic for spawning in sprites, and destruction/despawning logic

And making it persist between game reloads

[merry raven]

I have somewhat achieved this

[sick sparrow]

dumping the table contents, i made the custom separate playable card

G.P_CARDS["Mista"] = {
["suit"] = "Mista",
["pos"] = {x = 0, y = 0},
["name"] = "Mista Four",
["value"] = 4,
}

[night pagoda]

I have a couple of effects that debuff Jokers, but if I somehow un-debuff them and debuff them again, they will stack their effects (happens with troubadour, merry andy, etc.) - any idea how I could avoid that?

I use G.GAME.blind:debuff_card for debuffing

and mod.content.set_debuff(card) for determining the outcome

[sick sparrow]

again this crashes

might because of names and suits that are nonexistant

or maybe the number must be string

i think this game crashes because it can't find the translation string

and it was missing custom suit, thus it crashes

[brisk rose]

use smods.suit, first of all

and smods.rank if you need it

[sick sparrow]

example code?

[brisk rose]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Suit-and-SMODS.Rank

it's all here

[sick sparrow]

i meant example code this dosen't show example code

[brisk rose]

it works exactly the same way making a joker does, I get wanting code to save typing from scratch, but if you can understand the process of coding a game object, it won't do anything but that

SMODS.Suit{ -- Ringtails
key = 'Ringtails',
card_key = 'RINGTAIL',
hidden = false,
lc_atlas = 'stupid_cards',
hc_atlas = 'stupid_cards_hc',

lc_ui_atlas = 'stupid_suits',
hc_ui_atlas = 'stupid_suits_hc',

pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
ui_pos = { x = 0, y = 1 },

lc_colour = HEX('3b0082'),
hc_colour = HEX('3b0082'),

loc_txt = {
    ['en-us'] = {
        singular = 'Ringtail',
        plural = 'Ringtails',
    }},
in_pool = function(self, args) --Returns true if it's in the pool, false otherwise
        --Checks if it's initial deck spawning
        if args and args.initial_deck then
          return true
        end
        --Other cases for standard packs
        return true
end

}

In any case, here's what a full suit definition looks like

the in_pool is the hard part, and it'll be what you need to mess with for your special case

admittedly I don't know how it interacts with rank, but I'm pretty sure it's documented decently in that wiki page, just haven't needed to do it myself

[dreamy thunder]

how do i make localization work? it always says path not found

[cerulean rose]

whats your file structure

[dreamy thunder]

Main File
|-assets
|-localization
| |-en-us.lua
|-main.lua

i thought there was a problem with my code so i removed it entirely

[cerulean rose]

whats in your main.lua

[dreamy thunder]

wdym?

[sick sparrow]

how to add jokers in deck

[cerulean rose]

just do it

[long sun]

hihi! i'm back on the modding grind, and have two issues with two jokers to fix

1. the Ghost Joker doesn't see Tarots that are being sold as not in your consumable slot, but i can't patch that by saying "subtract 1", because i can't know if the selling_card event is being called by another card, eg. Planet

[sick sparrow]

how to give specific card using create_card

[long sun]

2. Identity doesn't show the message "Shattered!", even though the code i based it on, the Gros Michel, correctly says "Extinct!" and "Safe!" using the same method

[dreamy thunder]

none of my jokers show any kind of message when i try 🙏

[long sun]

you can create a random type of consumable with:

local newCard = create_card("Spectral", G.consumables, nil, nil, nil, nil)
newCard:add_to_deck()
G.consumeables:emplace(newCard)```(example for Spectral)

though i can try to find an example of creating a specific kind

[cerulean rose]

use smods functions

[dreamy thunder]

yh

[cerulean rose]

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

[cerulean rose]

not you

[dreamy thunder]

i just agreed with you

[long sun]

ooh this is really helpful, thanks!!

keeping this open for future reference

[cerulean rose]

yeah fs smods docs have gotten way better lately

[wet sand]

ftr @ revo @ ghostsalt i can get messages to appear by doing

return {
    extra = {message = localize('k_upgrade_ex'), colour = G.C.MULT},
    colour = G.C.MULT,
    card = context.other_card
}

code copied straight from base game hiker with a few variables tweaked but it seems to work (although i imagine you probably want to change the message and card reference)

[dreamy thunder]

i'll try

[long sun]

ya i've tried that, but two things:

1. i don't want to localise this yet
2. the method i'm using works with Gros Michel and Cavendish

code-dump incoming ^^

[wet sand]

you dont have to localize

[long sun]

SMODS.Joker {
  key = 'identity',
  loc_txt = {
    name = 'Identity',
    text = {
      "Create a {C:spectral}Spectral{} card",
      "when {C:attention}Blind{} is selected",
      "{C:red,E:2}self destructs{}"
    }
  },
  rarity = 1,
  atlas = 'Phanta',
  pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
  cost = 6,
  blueprint_compat = false,
  eternal_compat = false,
  calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.setting_blind and not context.repetition then
      G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
        func = function()
          play_sound('glass' .. pseudorandom_element({'1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6'}))
          play_sound('timpani')

          local newCard = create_card("Spectral", G.consumables, nil, nil, nil, nil)
          newCard:set_edition({
            negative = true,
          })
          newCard:add_to_deck()
          G.consumeables:emplace(newCard)

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

[wet sand]

try doing extra = {message = 'Shattered!'} instead in the return?

if you look at my code the message is in an extra var

[long sun]

ooh true

will give that a go!

nope :<

[wet sand]

damn

you could just copy my code 1:1 and then change the message

[tidal edge]

anyone know if anything in game has ranbom ranks

im trynna make this

[wet sand]

& card location bc other_card probably crashes here

[crisp coral]

Mail-In Rebate

[crisp coral]

context.setting_blind does not support message returns

use card_eval_status_text function

[long sun]

ah ^^

[sick sparrow]

how to give specific card using create_card

[wet sand]

your question was already answered, use a utility function instead

[long sun]

(it's funny that you're formatting that question like a google search :>)

[crisp coral]

the 7th parameter is forced_key, you can pass a card's key there

[crisp coral]

^

[sick sparrow]

me?

[long sun]

(ya :3)

(don't worry about it i was being silly)

[crisp coral]

oh yeah i forgot SMODS has a wrapper for create_card

oops

[wet sand]

how would i go about adding something to the description of playing cards (like the bonus chips of hiker)

[long sun]

bingo!! that worked, thanks!!

[wet sand]

one of my jokers does something similar but with bonus mult and while mechanically the entire system works, i cant find a way to get it to actually display

[long sun]

just #1 to work on now

[long sun]

hmm, sounds difficult — i think the extra chips are displayed using the method Bonus cards use

but that's from instinct

[sick sparrow]

soo create_card('Joker', G.jokers,nil,nil,nil,nil, "j_mista") is work?

[dreamy thunder]

wait how to use this

[sick sparrow]

spamming nils until 7th parameter

[crisp coral]

i dunno, ctrl+f the card.lua file and find out

[frosty dock]

when you're not using SMODS.create_card

[wet sand]

i tried that lol, i have a bunch of patches that inject around mentions of card_extra_chips (locale string) and i basically just duplicated the code but with my variables and i get nothing

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/steamodded/smods/wiki/Utility

[tidal edge]

hey i think i fuck up on this, im trynna make a mail in rebate style walkie talkie

[cerulean rose]

@wet sand to do with your display issues, message goes in the main table, not an extra sub‐table

[wet sand]

i mean thats what it is in my code right now and it works /shrug

[long sun]

hmm, my variable isn't being set for some reason

SMODS.Joker {
  key = 'identity',
  loc_txt = {
    name = 'Identity',
    text = {
      "Create #1# {C:dark_edition}Negative{} {C:spectral}Spectral{}",
      "cards when {C:attention}Blind{} is selected",
      "{C:red,E:2}self destructs{}"
    }
  },
  config = { extra = { no_of_cards = 2 } },
  rarity = 1,
  atlas = 'Phanta',
  pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
  cost = 8,
  loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
    return { vars = { card.ability.extra.no_of_cards } }
  end,```even though i have this code that *should* set it

[wet sand]

(in fact, i just took it out of the extra table and it proceeded to not work)

[wintry solar]

card.ability.extra.no_of_cards

[long sun]

ah :P

thanks!!

ah phooey, same issue

[tidal edge]

joker lifts stuff from both these jokers

i ont know whats goin worng

[cerulean rose]

you missing context checks

[royal ridge]

you're gonna want something like

if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual then

also you're not returning anything, you're setting the global mult variable to 8

[cerulean rose]

your config is set up wrong as well

[royal ridge]

this was fixed

[long sun]

ah oops my script doesn't say that, i edited it incorrectly

fixed

that's what my script currently says

[cerulean rose]

yeah looks good

[tidal edge]

at the beginning of the calculation?

[royal ridge]

yes

otherwise you're triggering every context and looking for an other_card

which may or may not exist

[long sun]

humhum, i don't quite get what's wrong with it

it looks like all the other Jokers with variables defined

[tidal edge]

so more smth like this?

or am i lobotomizing

[long sun]

hmm, maybe it's undefined when blind is selected?

[royal ridge]

you can also return card = card for proper juicing

[long sun]

i'm gonna change it to the end of the shop for now and see if that works

[royal ridge]

it looks stupid as hell but it's correct

[long sun]

it's what Perkeo does so i think it'd make more sense

[tidal edge]

you mean after the mult, probably yea

[royal ridge]

as long as it's an entry in the return table you're good

[tidal edge]

ill try it now, thanks a lot :)

[long sun]

ah that made a difference!

lesson learned: blind start abilities are weird

[tidal edge]

this is my stuff rn

[long sun]

oh. nevermind.

[royal ridge]

locvars i believe

[cerulean rose]

in ur loc_vars, u have self.ability

self is the center here

[royal ridge]

yeah what they said

[cerulean rose]

*they

[royal ridge]

sorry

[long sun]

this is even weirder, the ability text works fine, but it still thinks it's nil

[tidal edge]

yeah... what about it

[long sun]

ah pfffft. nevermind, i'm a moron :)

there was another card.ability.extra. i was missing :>

[tidal edge]

OOOOH

i think i realise

[wintry solar]

self almost always refers to the prototype object in smods code, card refers to the actual card you are interacting with

[tidal edge]

now its angry at this

the shuffle_car

[royal ridge]

what does shuffle_card look like

[long sun]

perfecto, Identity works!! now to fix Ghost Joker

[tidal edge]

what

what o you mean what oes it LOOK like

it looks like text?

i screenshotte it right there

[royal ridge]

?

i have no idea what shuffle card actually is

this is just a reference to it

[tidal edge]

well the mail in rebate one has mail_card

since this is called deck shuffle i made it shuffle_card

right

[royal ridge]

ye