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[stiff locust]

anyone? i don't understand how context.destroying_card tells it which cards to destroy or when

[cedar stream]

how would one check if a card is a specific suit?

[stiff locust]

if card:is_suit() == "Hearts" then iirc

[cedar stream]

thanks

[stiff locust]

wait it's

if card:is_suit('Hearts') then

both might work actually i don't know

[wintry solar]

what do you need it to do?

[stiff locust]

destroy every extra scored card

[wintry solar]

you have the extra flag, yeah?

[stiff locust]

and count how many are destroyed

[stiff locust]

yeah i've got the extra scored card stuff all sorted

it's just destroying the cards that I can't get

[wintry solar]

it just needs to return something in the return table and it'll destroy the card

[topaz sun]

Guys, is it possible to make a lovely patch for a steamodded .lua file?

I'm trying to add Xchip and Emult from Talisman to SMODS.eval_this()

[stiff locust]

what

how does it know which card to destroy or when though??

[wintry solar]

so something like lua if context.destroying_card.is_extra then return { message = 'Destroy!' } end

[stiff locust]

but how does it know which card to destroy or when

I don't get it

[wintry solar]

context.destroying_card is each card in the scoring hand

it iterates over the whole hand

[stiff locust]

oh

ii see

[violet void]

how can I remove both edition and enhanchment from a copy of a card I just made?

copy_card has strip_edition for the former but not the latter

[stiff locust]

how would I count how many cards it destroys

[stiff locust]

you can remove them by setting the edition/enhancement to nil can't you

[violet void]

?

are you asking me

[stiff locust]

no i'm suggesting that

[violet void]

so like card.enhancement = nil?

[wintry solar]

just increment a value in your joker before the return

[stiff locust]

okay

[wintry solar]

card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.c_base) should do the trick iirc

oops missed the center 🤦

[violet void]

I was about to say i got an error

This is the code

           G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function()
                    G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
                    local _card = copy_card(copycard, nil, nil, G.playing_card, true)
                    assert(SMODS.change_base(_card, nil, cs_utils.get_next_rank_value(_card)))
                    _card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.c_base)
                    _card:add_to_deck()
        
                    G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
                    table.insert(G.playing_cards, _card)
                    G.hand:emplace(_card)
                    _card.states.visible = nil
                    _card:start_materialize()
                    return true
                end
            }))```

Should be correct?

[livid tapir]

hey guys how do i make like my own deck skin? is there some sort of guide

[thick panther]

Theres a good framework mod for that called DeckSkinsLite: https://github.com/Kekulism/DeckSkinsLite

[livid tapir]

ty!

[zealous glen]

I remember discussing it with other people here and I think lazy DFS would be a reasonable way to do it

but it was in the context of arbitrary graphs for modded ranks

[zealous glen]

There's a template included in Steamodded that you can just rewrite the names and put your texture

in the folder

to make a texture mod

[livid tapir]

imma use the deckskinslite thing

[crisp coral]

swag

[zealous glen]

as you prefer

[stiff locust]

yeah uh

card_is_splashed(context.destroying_card) caused a stack overflow crash

uhh

yeah cause card_is_splashed also iterates over the whole hand so

yeah that's a lot of

hmm

[wintry solar]

can you show both blocks of code?

[stiff locust]

    function card_is_splashed(card)
        local _,_,_,scoring_hand,_ = G.FUNCS.get_poker_hand_info(G.play.cards)
        for _, scored_card in ipairs(scoring_hand) do
            if scored_card == card then
                return false
            end
        end
        return true
    end

i think its just cause card_is_splashed checks the target card against every card, checking that against every card makes too many calculations?

i think I can work around it

[wintry solar]

just put card.splashed = true before that return true

then you only need to call this function once

[carmine burrow]

average of 13ish rounds for negative ... does this suck?
(uses the usual weights for everything but never starts with negative in the shop because i figured it'd be really boring if that happened)

[wintry solar]

maybe a card.splashed = false before the return false too

[valid trench]

Does anyone know what variable I can check to see if you are currently on the main menu

like the scene or stage value or whatevrr

[tepid crow]

I think it's pretty decent, it's basically a guaranteed wheel of fortune for a joker slot (similar to e.g. diet cola)

[stiff locust]

i am now getting attempt to index value destroying_card (a nil value) crash when trying to do if context.destroying_card.unscored == true then

[wintry solar]

can you ss the crash?

[carmine burrow]

do you check if context.destroying_card first?

[stiff locust]

wwwait i think i figured it out

[carmine burrow]

if so then that's a little weird... otherwise, context.destroying_card will usually be nil (e.g. when calculate is called for card in hand effects, or like anything else)

[stiff locust]

got it working

thanks yall

[cerulean rose]

could i get some help with this?

[viscid bough]

How can i spawn a random joker? like, a random joker that can be anything from common to rare

[sick sparrow]

how to make consumables have infinite uses

using hook, btw

[viscid bough]

while im here, ill also ask, how can you check the number of cards in the played hand?

[carmine burrow]

here's how judgement does it (there's probably a more SMODS-y way of doing it):

local card = create_card('Joker', G.jokers, false, nil, nil, nil, nil, 'jud')

[rough furnace]

SMODS.create_card

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Utility#mod-facing-utilities

[carmine burrow]

i think it would be #context.full_hand including nonscoring cards or #context.scoring_hand for only scoring cards (this is assuming you're talking about inside calculate of course)

outside of calculate you could maybe use #G.play.cards (includes nonscoring cards)

[viscid bough]

thanks

[viscid bough]

and thanks

[carmine burrow]

wow! this seems nicer than nil, nil, nil, nil

[merry raven]

Is it possible to make it so that the Blind's sprite changes midgame?

[valid trench]

why is the return function just returning nil

card.ability.extra.deck is set correctly, I just want it to return what's in the array

[rough furnace]

how are you checking it?

[valid trench]

checking what

[rough furnace]

that it's nil

[valid trench]

because it doesn't do anything in game

I assume if it was something it would either crash or ya know actually work lol

[rough furnace]

I don't think returning like that does anything

Probably see https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Guide-‐-Joker-Calculation

oh wait does this not explain the return

[valid trench]

It works using if statements just checking each deck but I want to be able to add stuff to this array to make it easier

[rough furnace]

try not returning it in a table

also your effect is poorly defined

[valid trench]

I'm just trying to get it to work, the effect is just some basic give mult/chips thing

[rough furnace]

it's a global variable and also its defined after the calculate so it can be empty, and its being redefined every calculate call

[valid trench]

It wasn't in the calculate call but it kept crashing so I moved it out

Should I put it in set_ability

[rough furnace]

I mena you probabl just put it in your joekr config

[valid trench]

yeah

that makes a lot more sense doesn't it

nvm, it doesn't work

because it calls other extra variables

[thick panther]

if I have more than 4 suits, how do I prevent the custom suits from spawning cards in a new run (Start with the vanilla 52)?

[sick sparrow]

(sorry for this picture, my internet is wacky)
Mista four hand, is that really "funny"!?

[stiff locust]

where's the perkeo code i can't find it

[viscid bough]

check card.lua line 2562

[stiff locust]

ohh my god i've been looking at the lovely dump version of card.lua this whole time

no wonder i can't find shit in here

[viscid bough]

odd, im looking at the dump and its there

[stiff locust]

i couldnt find perkeo either

did find canio and chicot, didn't look for trib

[viscid bough]

im using VScode and searching card.lua in the lovely dump. If you press ctrl+f in VScode it lets you search for code. Im not sure what you're using for code editing though

[thick panther]

When did SMODS.DeckSkin get added?? Now I can make skin mods independant of DeckSkinsLite.

[viscid bough]

anyone think this card is too powerful for an uncommon/too powerful in general?

[orchid thunder]

Rare at least

[zealous glen]

Yes

[viscid bough]

think it should be debuffed or change of rarity?

[zealous glen]

This was close to thunk's suggestion

[rough furnace]

Thoughts

[viscid bough]

i thought that music was on my end

[zealous glen]

@viscid bough
#1170898696796373022 message

[zealous glen]

about what? the music? ;P

[rough furnace]

the config poping up

[viscid bough]

hmmm, i guess maybe ill make it like 3x and rare to balance it out and differentiate

[rough furnace]

and how it fits

[zealous glen]

what do you mean?

[viscid bough]

i think its pretty nice

[zealous glen]

new animation?

[rough furnace]

Like it's a tab but it opens a new menu. Does that make sense/is there anything I should change?

[rough furnace]

oh also is there a better name I could give the misc tab

[zealous glen]

I don't really understand the difference

in intuitive terms

[runic pecan]

Consider that I will put X44.5 for the same condition on a (equivalently) Epic in my mod I think you're fine

[zealous glen]

I guess it's weird that the old tabs vanish

[zealous glen]

https://tenor.com/view/tom-and-jerry-what-insomnia-no-sleep-gif-13337078

not every mod is cryptid

[vagrant cedar]

Every mod is Cryptid when you have Cryptid installed

My current custom mod for me is WONKY

[viscid bough]

2 questions:
how can you copy the ability of a random joker that you have?
how can you copy the ability of a random joker that you do or dont have?

[tall wharf]

I'm currently thinking

how do i make the straight algorithm better

[rough furnace]

you should just be able to call the calculate function on the joker reference (take at look at blueprint). For one you don't have, I would probably make a new card and then just do the same on it

[merry raven]

Sorry mate, doesn't work. Didn't add any values to my Enhancements, and no "Charged!" message either when I tried to play a hand without it

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.main_scoring and context.cardarea == G.play then
            local charged = card.ability.extra.stored_chips > 0
            local chips_bonus = 0
            local mult_bonus = 0
            
            for _, handCard in ipairs(G.hand.cards) do
                if handCard ~= card then
                    chips_bonus = chips_bonus + math.floor(handCard:get_id() * 1.2)
                    mult_bonus = mult_bonus + 5
                end
            end
            
            if chips_bonus > 0 and not charged then
                card.ability.extra.stored_chips = chips_bonus
                card.ability.extra.stored_mult = mult_bonus
                return{
                    message = "Charged!",
                    sound = "fm_jolt",
                    colour = G.C.BLUE
                }
            end
        end
...

[runic pecan]

What is the context attribute for "entering shop"?

[zealous glen]

there isn't

[stray warren]

I made one by hooking into the cash out button

[runic pecan]

Cash out button
Yeah it should work
Thanks

[runic pecan]

And what variable do I use to hook that up?

[sick sparrow]

how to quick-redeem vouchers? If there's over 100 vouchers, it will take ages!

[tall wharf]

if anyone can improve this I'll be very happy https://github.com/Aikoyori/Balatro-Aikoyoris-Shenanigans/blob/9939bd7ce02c79046abbacb61ef3e04a1bf0ac16/modules/pokerhands.lua#L93

[stray warren]

You just call calculate_joker like the base game does, with the provided context you want to use

[tall wharf]

straight detection algorithm that works with > 5 cards

as well as different suits

[sick sparrow]

how to quick-redeem vouchers? If there's over 100 vouchers that are redeeming, it will take ages!

[runic pecan]

And what context links to the cash out button?

[stray warren]

There isn't one. You create that yourself

[tall wharf]

i might have made cryptid lite

essentially

[stiff locust]

how do I check the name of the current blind

[dry merlin]

how can i make a joker that doesnt show up in the shop or booster packs or judgment, can i just use like rairity 99 or something?
i want a joker to only show up when another joker creates it

[frosty nexus]

Hey guys, newbie to balatro modding (and most modding in general here). Trying to learn how to make some basic joker mods, but idk the contexts used in calculation or most of the variables used in the game. I tried to check the definition of the base game jokers for an idea but couldn't find where in the code it does the calculation parts for each joker. I could just be dumb and/or blind, but could someone help point me in the right direction for where to learn this all? Whether that be looking through a specific file or a guide or something. I'd appreciate literally any help lol

[dry merlin]

I think all of them are grouped together by their context

So if you scroll up a bit you can find it

[tall wharf]

maybe look at steamodded example mods might help

[calm needle]

where's that example mods folder?

[tall wharf]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples

[dry merlin]

So if you go to like Bloodstone it'll be grouped together with the other 3 suit jokers and also other jokers that are under context.individual then if context card area ==G.play

Like photograph and 8 ball, which all search for specific cards played

[tall wharf]

https://github.com/Aikoyori/Balatro-Aikoyoris-Shenanigans also feel free to look at my code

if that helps

[dry merlin]

All the discard related jokers being grouped together in the discard confext

[zealous glen]

why are you doing it by suit?

[tall wharf]

so that you can have multiple flushes

sorry

straights

my bad

[zealous glen]

I don't get it

seems too specific

I think you could instead have an algorithm for a set of cards

then compute it for a subset of the hand that is a specific suit

Although that would require more iteration

I just don't see it as "better" since I don't see it being used often

[twin terrace]

Question: Is there any restriction on the size of a texture atlas in either dimension?

[zealous glen]

yes

well, there is a limit on the product of the dimensions

[stiff locust]

if it's too wide then it'll just squash it until it fits in the standard space

[twin terrace]

I assume the standard space is the same size as the Balatro texture atlas'?

[stiff locust]

except the soul_pos part seems to not have a size limit beyond the size of the atlas(?)

[tall wharf]

here i accidentally put in the wrong name it's not a flush but you get the idea

[stiff locust]

i've been trying to make a card with an unusually large soul_pos for like an hour now and i can't get it to work

is there a way to put the soul_pos for a joker on a different atlas to the base of the joker i could really use that right now

[thick panther]

28 pages

[zealous glen]

I didn't even know Lua had goto

[rough furnace]

Cursed idea a calculate_joker rest api

[zealous glen]

a what

[zealous glen]

So I'm not sure what's the computational complexity of what you're doing but I feel like there's a better way to do it still

I dunno about the multi-suit straights because I don't really understand it

[tall wharf]

there definitely is

[zealous glen]

but in my mind the algorithm would work like this

have a table indexed by rank whose values are tables of cards of that rank

[rough furnace]

You heard me

[zealous glen]

I heard "sdgnvjsdf" that's not anything that makes sense to me

[zealous glen]

call that table T. For each key in that table, check if T.SMODS.Rank.next() recursively

in a depth-first way that stops as soon as it finds a Straight

you could also memoize the depth just in case you have overlapping calculations

then you can show an example by just returning any element of the subtables

[rough furnace]

Wekl its known I can't spell

[tall wharf]

how about javascript api for steamodded

[frosty nexus]

anyone know how I could make my joker gain chips when a planet card is used? Is there a context for that? I literally have everything but that bit functioning (i think)

Didnt see any example like that on the steammodded example page

[rough furnace]

Technically possible but I don't have the expertise and it would be super cursed and probably slower

[tall wharf]

is it more cursed than calculate_joker REST API

[rough furnace]

Hard to say

[runic pecan]

What about Constellation code?

[rough furnace]

The joker rest api could be written in js

[tall wharf]

no no actually how about we make balatro ui api using react

[rough furnace]

No

I'd maybe be okay with emulating the Dom api and HTML

[frosty nexus]

I tried looking for it in the game files but didn't see the calculate portion of it? I checked most if not all of the files and only found something in game.lua which doesn't include what I need

[tall wharf]

React.

actually angular

[rough furnace]

If you do hate yourself https://github.com/jsdotlua/react-lua

[frosty nexus]

My main issue with modding so far as a newbie is idk where the actually important part of the base joker code is even though I looked (I may be blind lol)

[runic pecan]

tbh me too

[frosty nexus]

all i could find was

j_constellation= {order = 55, unlocked = true, discovered = false, blueprint_compat = true, perishable_compat = false, eternal_compat = true, rarity = 2, cost = 6, name = 'Constellation', pos = {x = 9, y = 10}, set = 'Joker', config = {extra = 0.1, Xmult = 1}},

[tall wharf]

chat i might have contracted the worst disease known to mankind

being a web developer

why am i even talking about react

[tall wharf]

uh

i would dig in the game source deeper

[frosty nexus]

but like where, thats my issue lol

again I'm probably blind

[tall wharf]

i would start by finding the joker ability name in the entire source code

[frosty nexus]

but like, I'm pretty sure i control+f'd most of the files

[rough furnace]

Card.lua

[tall wharf]

then the

card ability variables

[frosty nexus]

I'm sure I checked there but maybe it's named differently or something, I'll look again

[dry merlin]

        elseif context.using_consumeable then
            if self.ability.name == 'Constellation' and not context.blueprint and context.consumeable.ability.set == 'Planet' then
                self.ability.x_mult = self.ability.x_mult + self.ability.extra
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    func = function() card_eval_status_text(self, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = localize{type='variable',key='a_xmult',vars={self.ability.x_mult}}}); return true
                    end}))
                return
            end

[frosty nexus]

goddangit I was literally just blind

I'm sorry for being incompetent y'all 😭

I swear I looked but I probably fatfingered when searching lmao

well appreciate the help regardless, now I know exactly where to look so I won't have to ask as many stupid questions going forward 😂

[zealous glen]

@tall wharf I wrote some pseudo-code for Straight computation with DFS

[tall wharf]

nice

[zealous glen]

I can't DM you so

[tall wharf]

ah

[zealous glen]

wait

wrong file lol

I didn't save lol

[graceful seal]

can anybody in here tap into the modding chat and give me a hand? not experienced with this stuff

[zealous glen]

you could break or return inside the DFS depending on where it is called, but if you want to find multiple Straights maybe you don't want to do that

[stiff locust]

chat how do I check the name of the current blind

[zealous glen]

somewhere in G.GAME.blind

[stiff locust]

i don't know how to navigate this

uhh

G.GAME.blind.name

maybe

IT WORKED

[runic pecan]

After struggling for 1.5 hours I still don't know how to "hooking into the cash out button".

[zealous glen]

local foo_ref = foo
foo = function(args)
  local foo_val = foo(args)
  …
end

except buttons are usually in a table so foo is more like G.TABLE.KEY

[runic pecan]

And calculate_joker did not appear in G.FUNC.cash_out code

[zealous glen]

indeed

they told you to put it there

via a hook

[stray warren]

Yeah, when you create the hook, you loop through each joker and call calculate joker

[runic pecan]

I think I need to read Hooking(programming) on wikipedia first brb

[tall wharf]

in basic terms you insert your code where there already is code to read things from it or change it

that's what i understand anyway

[stiff locust]

when you hook at least when hooking a function in balatro

you change the name of the original function so that the game calls your version of the function instead

which now lets you execute whatever code you want to, where that function would normally be run

and then at the end, you run the actual function properly so nothing is disrupted

i assume the name comes from like, hooking a fish and letting it go

the fish still goes about its life as normal, you just grabbed it for a moment and took a look at it and put it back in the water

[dry merlin]

anyone know how i can make a joker that doesnt show up in the shop or booster packs or judgment, can i just use like rairity 99 or something?
i want a joker to only show up when another joker creates it

[nova finch]

I'm trying to make a joker where there's a 50/50 chance that it'll X mult when either spades or diamonds are scored but this code just does nothing
can anyone help?

[elder vapor]

context.cardare -> context.cardarea

[wintry swallow]

do be careful, i am pretty sure this gets changed with localisations

if this is what you want, nice

[carmine burrow]

i wouldn't think so ... looking at the source code it seems like the game checks blind.name against the english names to decide what to do

same as jokers, consumables, etc etc

[wintry swallow]

oh thanks thunk

yeah half the logic is like this

then no that DOESN'T get changed with loc

you have to pull it out of the loc table yourself if you want it localised

[carmine burrow]

seems like to get the localized name you'd use

localize{type = 'name_text', key = blind.key, set = 'Blind'}

[tall wharf]

i might be stupid

[gilded narwhal]

Hey guys is it possible to have unlockable things that aren't normally unlockable like consumables or challenges

[wintry swallow]

you can also just grab it out of the loc table like so: G.localization.descriptions.Blind[blind.id].name

[gilded narwhal]

Or rather how hard is it

[wintry swallow]

challenges are normally unlockable

[carmine burrow]

big fan of the "which joker is this? let's use 70 elseif statements to figure out what it's supposed to do" style of programming personally

[wintry swallow]

i'm working on a challenge pack, you can just define a function unlocked(self) --> bool on your challenge object

if it's true you're unlocked

[gilded narwhal]

Oh sweet

And you define an unlock condition for it or is the same as all the other ones?

[wintry swallow]

you can do whatever you want

if the function returns true it's unlocked

[carmine burrow]

just curious, do you also have to beat all but 5 of the challenges before as well, or is it unlocked as soon as the custom condition is met regardless of ordering within the list?

[wintry swallow]

it's unlocked regardless

[carmine burrow]

ah neat

[gilded narwhal]

Okay mb gang that was obvious in hindsight

[carmine burrow]

also does the unlock condition display in a nice place

[wintry swallow]

here's how i use it in my mod:

  -- eternal_egg_2.lua
    unlocked = function(self)
        return G.PROFILES[G.SETTINGS.profile].challenge_progress.completed['c_nsc_eternal_egg_1']
    end

[wintry swallow]

no, my mod will eventually overhaul the challenge screen to provide nice conditions

it just says locked by default

[carmine burrow]

what's the difference between eternal egg 1 and eternal egg 2

[wintry swallow]

eternal egg 2 is a harder variant

same base idea but with some twists to make it a bit more interesting

it'll be part of the "b-sides" which are going to have their own separate selection menu

[carmine burrow]

neat

[gilded narwhal]

Oh I'm also doing b sides but of decks instead

[wintry swallow]

my mod's entire concept is playing around with the game's existing challenge system and taking it places it doesn't normally go

[gilded narwhal]

Mine is pretty much just taking every decks gimmick and pushing it to the extreme by having entire new game mechanics for specific decks

[wintry swallow]

my personal favourite challenge so far is "Escort Mission"
4 joker slots, one of them is taken up by a regular base edition jimbo
but the challenge rules have the stipulation that "Selling or destroying Joker increases all future blinds"

(and not by a small amount either, it's an extra 70% to score)

[gilded narwhal]

What's the b-side of the glass challenge

[wintry swallow]

there isn't one, so far i haven't made B-sides of any vanilla challenges because my goal is to have 20 completely original challenges (B-sides not included), bringing the total from vanilla up to 40

[gilded narwhal]

I look forward to it

And b-sides are harder versions?

[wintry swallow]

can be harder, can just be different

can be fusing mechanics from two challenges together

that said now you have given me the idea to remix some challenges from vanilla

[gilded narwhal]

I actually made one for the deck mod as an unlock

--Slow Burn--
Start with 5 hands and 4 discards
Even antes permanently remove 1 discard
Odd antes(after 1) permanently remove 1 hand

[tall wharf]

chat

how does -2 hand but +1 card selection sound to you

[vapid mango]

ok so fun issue popping up now via SMODS

This is how it's supposed to look with the new font for the language pack Rainglish

but it's not changing the numbers

if you notice on the left for the panel, the numbers are the default

[vapid mango]

in order to make it look like this, i have to use the custom language AND the Trance .ttf file added

[merry raven]

I'm updating my code to be compatible with the latest Steamodded version, but I'm at an impasse

I have an Enhancement that's supposed to reset any stored values in it once it's played with this:

                card.ability.extra.stored_chips = 0
                card.ability.extra.stored_mult = 0

But now that effect is removed, where am I supposed to put it?

if context.cardarea == G.play and context.main_scoring then
            if card.ability.extra.stored_chips > 0 or card.ability.extra.stored_mult > 0 then
                card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {
                    message = "Jolted!",
                    sound = "fm_jolt",
                    colour = G.C.BLUE
                })
                return{
                    chips = card.ability.extra.stored_chips,
                    mult = card.ability.extra.stored_mult
                }
            end
        end

I've been warned that a return function is where the code ends, anything past it will make the game crash

[silk compass]

question, is there a way to rescale text on vanilla ui

[pine thunder]

trying to make a joker that gives $8 dollars at end of round and then decreases, is there a way to make the reward decrease after youve gotten the money?

[storm kraken]

woo i made a custom bg i am going nowhere places

[merry raven]

Ayyyyy that's sick

How did you change the background? What function did you use?

[storm kraken]

ease_background_colour

[merry raven]

Cheers

[frosty nexus]

anyone know what the arguments are for create_playing_card()? I'm trying to make a joker that adds and enhanced 7 to deck when a certain condition is met but I can't really understand how the function is used in the base game

[tall wharf]

places i would never go

[merry raven]

set_blind = function(self, reset, silent)
        ease_background_colour{new_colour = G.C.BLACK, contrast = 1}
        ease_hands_played(15)
        ease_discard(15)
        G.hand:change_size(5)

Hmmm I want to change the colour of a Finisher Boss Blind, it works at first, but when all the cards have been dealt, the background changes back

[wintry solar]

Hard to see on mobile but this looks like your doing all your calculations when you play it, then returning the charged message, not any scoring stuff. What effect are you seeing when you play with the enhancement?

[merry raven]

Ah no it's fine I managed to figure it out

But I got another issue in the Steamodded thread

[wintry solar]

Can you screenshot? Hard to read on mobile

[merry raven]

In a sec

[storm kraken]

may have accidentally discovered that you can change the colour of almost anything in the game with ease_colour 😭

[steep rain]

Help it keeps saying "unexpected symbol near '='" when it's just a number

ITS JUST A NUMBER

[merry raven]

So I got an Enhancement that's causing my game to instantly exit with no crash logs nor error messages. It's supposed to increase in rank if you play hands without it, but the game crashes when I select a random card
First image is for checking if any hands are played and then incrementing its rank, the second is resetting it back to normal after scoring it

[wintry solar]

Try moving that first block inside the context check

[steep rain]

HELP ME

[tall wharf]

teto where code

[merry raven]

Like this?

[tall wharf]

check the brackets

[merry raven]

Remove one of the red brackets

[tall wharf]

remove 1 bracket at line 5

[steep rain]

it says the problem is occuring at line 7

[tall wharf]

remove 1 bracket at line 12

do what i said

[wintry solar]

No, after the then

[steep rain]

[SMODS RReferences "main.lua"]:23: Error processing file 'data/jokers/claimh.lua' for mod with ID 'RReferences': [SMODS RReferences "data/jokers/claimh.lua"]:3: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 1) near 'config'

it was working before

idfk how I broke it

I only changed "name" to "key"

[wintry brook]

comma after the key

[merry raven]

Yep, it works now, thanks!

[steep rain]

and now its giving me a different error

[SMODS RReferences "main.lua"]:23: Error processing file 'data/jokers/claimh.lua' for mod with ID 'RReferences': [SMODS RReferences "data/jokers/claimh.lua"]:8: unexpected symbol near '='

AND ITS JUST A NUMBER

NOT A RANDOM SYMBOL

GRHHHGH

[merry raven]

Oh right before you go @wintry solar , another thing
A little nitpick, it has some pacing issues

if context.cardarea == G.play and context.main_scoring then
            .... suit resetting code ....
            card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = "Reset!"})
        end

This is the second part of the Enhancement where it resets back to its original rank. When it gets played, the rank instantly resets visually. Then it displays the "Reset!" message and then scores its chips.

How do I make it so that it scores first, then plays the "Reset!" message and actually reset the rank at the same time?

[steep rain]

God help me

[wintry brook]

do you still have 2 of these

[steep rain]

no

[tall wharf]

show current code

[merry raven]

You forgot a }

[tall wharf]

add one } back at line 11

[steep rain]

FINALLY IT WORKS

[tall wharf]

these things are very strict on brackets placement

rule of thumb

[wintry brook]

if bracket is red then its missing its pair

[tall wharf]

if you have {, you will need an equal amount of }

[wintry solar]

Put the code for the reset in a function that you send in the return table with func = function() —code here end

That should work

[tall wharf]

i would suggest people who want to make custom jokers n stuff to read about basics of computer programming if they don't know anything about programming

but alas

nothing just just suggesting people to dive head in

[merry raven]

My computer science degree didn't prepare me for Lua

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭😭

i don't even have a degree yet

comsci too

it's ok everything will become JavaScript

[brisk rose]

I took two seperate introductory programming classes in college and I still feel like a total beginner when I try to code mods

Though that might just be because it was over 5 years ago, lol

[merry raven]

No. You are forced to learn C++ and object oriented programming

[brisk rose]

and I'd done no coding since

I do think the fact that I can't really remember python or c++ help me have no expectations for Lua

[tall wharf]

everything must inherit Object

right at home

[merry raven]

C++ why don't you use print like the rest of the normal programming languages

[storm kraken]

question: how am i even going to start with adding particles to my booster packs bg 😭

the only help i have is this and i dont even know what to do with it

[edgy reef]

You can see how SMODS reimplements vanilla booster particles in the src/game_object.lua file.

[storm kraken]

thank you so much awflhawflawfa

holy shit its particle

it goes away too yaya

[runic pecan]

Hmmm
Just suddenly got curious about the capital G and which folder its source code is hiding in.

[tall wharf]

game.lua

[runic pecan]

Damn
It's just right there the whole time

[tall wharf]

I've been thinking about adding twenty stickers

[storm kraken]

wtf

[tall wharf]

i have some gameplay idea in mind

[frigid jetty]

i have a joker that is basically Hiker, but adds bonus mult instead of bonus chips. unfortunately, the card UI does not display this.
my current idea to do this is to add the needed UI text to loc_vars so that when the UI updates, generate_card_ui picks this up and succesfully displays the bonus mult. (see image)

so my question is: how would i add the needed loc_vars text to the vanilla playing card ui? i'm looking at using the SMODS.Object:take_ownership() function but i'm unsure which SMODS.Object to use

[runic pecan]

A dumb way I immediately think up is to make a new card object that fits your requirement and replace the old ones like a race of shapeshifting imposters taking over the deck.

[frigid jetty]

oh actually, i could just make it into an enhancement and save myself a ton of headaches 🤣

intentional game design

[random sleet]

#💻・modding-dev message

im assuming aure never added it to smods after i sent it in lol

[frosty dock]

yeah idk why

ig I just forgor

[random sleet]

it is funny to come back months later and see people reinventing the wheel so to speak lmao

[calm needle]

Sorry, i have a question

How to change the G.GAME.probabilities.normal to other value (other than 1)? I want to have joker with "3 in 4 chance" or something

[frigid jetty]

to be clear, this would be just in the code itself and not under any SMODS.objects{} ?

so something like:

local generate_UIBox_ability_table_ref = Card.generate_UIBox_ability_table
function Card:generate_UIBox_ability_table()
  --the rest of the code
end
SMODS.Joker{
  something something
}

[random sleet]

uhhhh i think i did that with mostly lovely

i recall doing some rather ambitious things when smods 1.0 was On The Horizon

[storm kraken]

custom sound is crazy

[random sleet]

since lovely would finally be mandatory

history lesson lmao

[frosty dock]

you would just use 3*G.GAME.probabilities.normal

if you change the value, it will affect all probabilities

[frosty dock]

tbh I doubt the code from like April would hold up to what steamodded now is, but doesn't seem like a terrible idea to still add into smods

[calm needle]

aight, tysm

[random sleet]

i mean its mostly just patching Card functions iirc

the localization would be the difference i guess

but i know what you mean tho, the custom centers for minor arcana and stuff dont work right anymore and i have no idea why @_@;;;

[violet void]

If I added a new context for a Joker, would SMODS read it?

[plain apex]

this doesn't work how can i get the names of the other jokers instead of just jimbo

            -- Get all Joker names
            local joker_names = {}
            for i = 1, num_jokers do
                table.insert(joker_names, G.jokers.cards[i].name)
            end
            
            -- Randomly select one Joker to say something
            local joker_name = joker_names[math.random(#joker_names)] or "Jimbo"
            SMODS.eval_this(card, {message = (joker_name .. " says hi"), colour = G.C.BLUE})

want to make it randomly say something about one of the other jokers (provided you have any)

[frigid jetty]

after removing the oddities SMODS object, now the cards don't output any UI at all

[random sleet]

oh my did you manage to find oddityapi somewhere

[frigid jetty]

nope, i just copy pasted this into my mod code, then removed the or SMODS.Oddities[key] in the first if condition , and converted the function Card:generate_UIBox_ability_table() into a hook (based from the tutorial i saw) and prayed that it worked
#💻・modding-dev message

this is what i mean

imma try and look into it more once i get back to coding this in a few

[random sleet]

did you wayback machine my code

because if so, lol lmao etc

looks like thats not even smods 1.0

[frigid jetty]

Yup, and i am not ashamed 😅

[random sleet]

good luck

idek if thac has had that feature at any point

[frigid jetty]

Thanks, i’ll definitely need it lmao

[random sleet]

which reminds me aure did you ever add subtitles

the implementation i had is broken on new smods and im too dumb now to fix them lmao

[frosty dock]

i forgot about subtitles lmao

[random sleet]

forgor

smods should have every feature i make

whens suit levels

lmao

[frosty dock]

lol

i think suit levels are too niche

[random sleet]

i think i should make a mod that exists

[frosty dock]

yes

[glass scaffold]

I yanked the code from a different mod, but I want to make it give +7 mult on trigger. What do I need to change to have it work right?

(Also, that or statement should work, yes?)

[dreamy thunder]

You are not adding mult though? Its going to be x7 instead of +7

Or im dumb

[glass scaffold]

I changed some code, but now I got a bigger issue.

#⚙・modding-general

[dreamy thunder]

What did you change

[glass scaffold]

Here's what it looks like now

I tried taking data from an example Gros Michel

[dreamy thunder]

Can you send the full error code?

[glass scaffold]

Cryptid server's helping right now

[dreamy thunder]

Alrighty

[runic pecan]

I think I need some secondary opinion and inputs.

OK so this joker I'm developing
makes every shop item
either become free or price in twice.
The current problem is that
I can't make it effect on initial items and booster packs without a bug that
makes on-shelf items doubled up prices again after
you open a booster pack and come back to the shop.
An alternate solution I'm hesitating to take is
to only calculate the chance
the moment you buy anything in the shop,
and either tax or refund you 100%
of the cost after the purchase.
The reason I'm hesitating is that
this operation, even though effects equivalently,
doesn't exactly match the description I prepared for it.
Should I keep fixing the bug
or just take the second approach?

[frosty dock]

wtf is that formatting

[random sleet]

its majestic on mobile lemme tell ya

[frosty dock]

i think you could put a property in each shop card that keeps track of if you already modified the price

[frosty dock]

ngl i thought line wrapping was a feature on mobile too

[runic pecan]

I tried that in the earlier version

[primal robin]

That looks so cool

[crisp coral]

hook to create_shop_item?

[random sleet]

it is im being sarcasm . jpeg

[frosty dock]

:todd:

[runic pecan]

the problem is what if, for some reason, a player decides to have two of this joker
either buy a second one, Ankh on it, or blueprint/brainstorm

[tall wharf]

maimai

[frosty dock]

what's the issue? you'd be putting the property on that specific card, not all copies of it

[crisp coral]

can you add the tpaz cats :plead

[frosty dock]

nvm that

[crisp coral]

there are base game cards that have no effects when duped

[runic pecan]

What property?
The goal is to effect the price of every single shop item individually

[crisp coral]

so shrug

[frosty dock]

i misunderstood your previous message

if you want to change the price multiple times if you have multiple copies of the joker, that would have to be accounted for

[frosty dock]

in which case, this?

[runic pecan]

What if there really are some idiot wanting to risk with quadrupled price?
It'd be very difficult for me to reject their gambling-addictive desire

[crisp coral]

uhhh

[glass scaffold]

WE'RE BACK

(My Trance mod was messing it all up.)

AND IT WASN'T MY MOD

I'M NOT BAD AT CODING

AND MY CODE IS WORKING FIRST TRY?????

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-dunk-explosive-lakers-lakerswin-gif-16401450

[crisp coral]

W

[runic pecan]

It's to help myself troubleshoot my grammar but forgot to put them back together, in case anyone still want to know why.

[dreamy thunder]

Nice

[glass scaffold]

Feedback:

What should the rarity of a joker that gives +7 for each scored 7 or Ace be?

[violet void]

uncommon, similar to Fibonacci

+7 mult I assume?

[glass scaffold]

Yes

[violet void]

then yes

[maiden phoenix]

I mean it covers less number than fibbo with less mult too, common sounds better but I wouldnt be surprised if it was uncommon too

[violet void]

true

[glass scaffold]

Fair enough.

Hang on, how do I get a variable to show? I need to update my +7 when it's affected by Gemini or other jokers like that

[violet void]

show your code

[maiden phoenix]

Check how loc_vars work

And in your localization replace the 7 with #1#

[glass scaffold]

All I needed was the #1#

[violet void]

also that font is sick, how did you set it

[tall wharf]

(it is not a good font for programming imo)

[glass scaffold]

it's m6x11plus in VSCode

[violet void]

I thought it was familiar

[glass scaffold]

Sometimes it sucks, but funny Balatro font

[frosty dock]

me when custom suits

SMODS.change_base not mentioned

[undone flicker]

what would I have to use to do a random range (e.g. 3 - 5)

I know pseudorandom generates between 0 and 1 but Is there an eqivalent for other ranges?

[frosty dock]

if you give pseudorandom two more arguments min, max it'll generate an integer in that range

[undone flicker]

oh perfect

thank you

[sick sparrow]

how to quick-redeem vouchers? If there's over 100 vouchers that are redeeming, it will take ages!

[violet void]

is there a SMODS function to remove any seal from a card

[storm kraken]

i wonder...
could you use an image for the background...

[runic pecan]

Before VS After

[merry raven]

Is there a way to make it so that the blind icon changes midgame?

[sick sparrow]

no, but there's way to remove seal

card = (your card)
card.seal = nil

[violet void]

this also works

_card:set_seal(nil, nil, true)

[sick sparrow]

but this method is more direct and can't be hooked by any mod

[violet void]

fair enough

[runic pecan]

I yanked a piece of code from smod example runner.
I know G.C.CHIPS is blue, but I need yellow,
so which one of G.C. is it?

Is it g.c.money, g.c.dollar, or something else?

[sick sparrow]

i mean G.C.MONEY

i almost blew up the mod

[runic pecan]

It'd be just a crash

[hardy viper]

how does one keep up with all this

[random sleet]

is it yet advisable to dev against new calc or wait for smods team to smooth it out first

[sick sparrow]

how do i prevent calling card.start_dissolve when the consumable has unbreakable sticker on?

[runic pecan]

We wait
(probably, idk)

[hardy viper]

generally you should update your mods to work with better calc asap

[random sleet]

aight what kind of thing needs updating

[hardy viper]

mainly custom enhancements are broken

idk about much else

[random sleet]

honestly its possible my mod is fine tbh i dont do too many weird calculation stuff

[hardy viper]

playtest ig

[random sleet]

im gonnnaaaa im not home yet :)))))))))) freezing on a bus

[calm crag]

What’s this about an update?

[hardy viper]

it might be worth checking out whatever commit updated cryptid to new calc and just see what they had to fix

[random sleet]

so true

[sick sparrow]

how do i prevent calling card.start_dissolve when the consumable has unbreakable sticker on?

[hardy viper]

steamodded breaking change made a lot of content mods not work

[calm crag]

Oh RIP

[stiff locust]

oh is cryptid on new calc now

[random sleet]

my famous content mod [REDACTED] might need some TLC

[stiff locust]

also hi it's me again

[random sleet]

hello splash woman

[royal ridge]

cryptid is still on old calc i believe

[stiff locust]

well that sucks

[hardy viper]

oh

that's odd

[calm crag]

I just woke up so apologies if this is a dumb question but. Is there like a guide on how to make a Balatro mod

[stiff locust]

yes there is

[calm crag]

Where

[stiff locust]

i don't remember

I also just woke up

lol

it's somewhere in the forum posts

someone made a video tutorial for it

[sick sparrow]

how do i prevent calling card.start_dissolve when the consumable has unbreakable sticker on?

[frosty dock]

check for card.ability.eternal

[sick sparrow]

it dosen't care whenever card.ability.eternal is on

[stiff locust]

no that doesnt stop it being destroyed

you just have to hard code it

[frosty dock]

ik

i'm saying you should check for it in your code

[sick sparrow]

i'm gonna find the code where it uses the use_consumeable and hook them

well the code isn't easy code to hook on

it uses local variable called dont_dissolve and not even hooking the code will make the card invicible

[stiff locust]

wait no

don't tell me you're thinking an eternal consumable will never be used up

[sick sparrow]

i have to use lovely overrides to put dont_dissolve inbetween code

[storm kraken]

ive been trying to add a custom edition to a card using a consumeable for the past 10 minutes (im also sending the edition code incase theres anything wrong over there)

    can_use = function(self,card)
        if G and G.hand then
            if #G.hand.highlighted ~= 0 and #G.hand.highlighted <= card.ability.extra.cards then
                return true
            end
        end
        return false
    end,
    use = function(self,card,area,copier)
        for i = 1, #G.hand.highlighted do 
            Card:set_edition(ascened, true, true)
            end
    end
}
SMODS.Edition{
key = "ascened",
shader = false,
loc_txt = {
        name = "Ascended",
        label = "Ascended",
        text = { "God's hand will guide you" },
        },
config = {
       chips = 150,
       mult = 15
       },
in_shop = false,
badge_colour = G.C.WHITE
}

[sick sparrow]

oh why is the card not returning to consumable cardarea

[manifest]
version = "1.0.0"
dump_lua = true
priority = -10

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/button_callbacks.lua"
pattern = "e.config.ref_table:use_consumeable(area)"
position = "after"
payload = '''--intercepting the code would be fun, this is first time to use lovely overrides
if card.ability.unbreakable then
    dont_dissolve = true
    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
        trigger = "after",
        delay = 0.2,
        func = function()
            card:add_to_deck()
            G.consumeables:emplace(card)
            return true
        end,
    }))
end'''
match_indent = true

[sick sparrow]

look up

[livid tapir]

is better calc backwards compatible with old-calc
like can i write code for better calc to give support and still use my mod in old-calc

wait my mod probably already has better calc code considering im taking things from the new wiki

though old example mods so

[sick sparrow]

it makes the game softlock

[wintry solar]

No probably not

The wiki also isn’t updated to better calc afaik

[livid tapir]

ah ok

well i hide back in my old calc dungeon

https://tenor.com/view/yippee-cat-explosion-gif-11079301938727146216

[wintry solar]

Have you tried your code on new calc?

[livid tapir]

no i havent

[wintry solar]

Unless it has enhancements or editions, or plays with score calculation or eval_card, it should just work

[livid tapir]

ok
but i mean in the future i prob will make an edition

[wintry solar]

Then might as well make the switch sooner than later

[elder vapor]

wdym SMODS.eval_this got deprecated days after i switched to it

😭

[crisp coral]

go back

[wintry solar]

You can use SMODS.calculate_effect instead

[livid tapir]

the thing is that i use other mods and other people use other mods that are broken with the new version
if i wanted to use my mod (if i did switch) then id need to find a port for or uninstall all of my other mods

id rather just wait until the new version is more adopted

[crisp coral]

@wintry solar the juice timing for other_joker and other_consumeable looks wrong

[dreamy thunder]

how do i make consumable add cash after using?

[crisp coral]

Baseball Card juices correctly, so idk

oh nvm thats why LMAO

[sick sparrow]

anyone help?

[crisp coral]

for context i was using card = context.other_joker

[worthy stirrup]

Im trying to use the cryptid mod but when selecting a deck, one specific one (unsure of the name) causes a crash

[livid tapir]

i love that font ur using

give it to me
whats the name of the font 🔫

[crisp coral]

04b03

[livid tapir]

ok then?

[crisp coral]

?

[livid tapir]

weird font name but ig it exists lmao

[dreamy thunder]

?

[crisp coral]

balatro's font is m6x11

lmao

[dry merlin]

i think it says typhoon deck

[livid tapir]

this is like some kind of hex code lmao

[weary jungle]

ease_dollars

[worthy stirrup]

I have no idea why it crashes, im only using the mods it gave plus more speed

oh yea, im also using Joker Display

[dry merlin]

try turning off all other mods

[worthy stirrup]

okay give me a 1s to try it

[dreamy thunder]

i dont know how to use it

[worthy stirrup]

that seemed to work but i also just enabled everything under the mod settings

[weary jungle]

ease_dollars(amountOfMoneyToAdd)

you know how to make a consumable right?

[dreamy thunder]

yeah

just needed that part

thank you

[worthy stirrup]

okay, when i open the "Antimatter Deck" the game crashes, im only using Cryptid and Tailsman

[dry merlin]

im trying to make it so a joker creates another joker, but for some reason it creates that joker and then also fills up a joker slot with an empty space, so it goes from 1/5 jokers to 3/5 jokers while only actually having 2 jokers. ive tried using code from Riff Raff, Judgment, and even Cryptidmod but i cant get it to work right. can anyone help?

                      if context.first_hand_drawn
            and #G.jokers.cards + G.GAME.joker_buffer < G.jokers.config.card_limit
--            and not context.retrigger_joker
            and not context.blueprint
            then    
                         if #G.jokers.cards < G.jokers.config.card_limit then --probably redundant
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function() 
    --                for i = 1, jokers_to_create do
                        local new_card = SMODS.add_card({
                        set = 'Joker',
                        area = G.jokers,
                        key = 'j_joker'
                        })
                        card:add_to_deck()
                        G.jokers:emplace(card)
                        G.GAME.joker_buffer = 0
--                    end
                    return true
                                end}))   
            end
              end

messy code is messy

[frosty dock]

you don't need to add_to_deck or emplace when using add_card

it does it for you, so it's being done twice

[dry merlin]

that was it, awesome thank you

also is it possible to make a joker that doesnt show up in any way except when a joker creates it?

[frosty dock]

in_pool = function() return false end

makes it not spawn unless forced to

[sick sparrow]

the workaround is this

[manifest]
version = "1.0.0"
dump_lua = true
priority = -10

#intercepting the code would be fun, this is first time to use lovely overrides

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/button_callbacks.lua"
pattern = "e.config.ref_table:use_consumeable(area)"
position = "after"
payload = '''if card.ability.unbreakable then
    card2 = copy_card(card, nil, nil, area)
    card2:add_to_deck()
    area:emplace(card2)
    card.ability.unbreakable = nil
end'''
match_indent = true

[tepid crow]

why are you using a priority of -10 btw

[nocturne estuary]

I need some help.
How would I make a joker gain mult depending on the number of chips a card would score when it is destroyed?

[nocturne garnet]

wait other_consumeable is a thing?

dang

didnt know

[calm crag]

Idk the specific functions you’d use (trying to learn how to make mods for this game period) but I imagine you’d store the card’s chip value, add the value to mult, and then destroy the card

[weary jungle]

what is the list that holds all cards in hand? even if its above handsize?

[nocturne garnet]

dang i am out of the loop

whats better calc....

[weary jungle]

everything has a calculate

basically

probably

like one of my consumables uses a calculate

[nocturne garnet]

is

is that it

[weary jungle]

probably not

a lot of stuff has contexts now so thats good

[weary jungle]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/discussions/372

[nocturne garnet]

dang

might not do anything serious to my mod so

[weary jungle]

you have to update things now!!! hahahahaha

[nocturne estuary]

what is the context for a card being destroyed?

[weary jungle]

what do you mean?

like every time a card is destroyed like canio

[nocturne estuary]

yea

[weary jungle]

check canio probably

[nocturne estuary]

or via hanged man, doesn't really matter

[primal robin]

I've seen 2 updates for Balatro today, 100KB and 200KB. What's happening?

[teal estuary]

canio is kinda eh, since its calls a context that just.. doesnt exist

[zealous glen]

caino*

[nocturne estuary]

yea, I looked into its code and found that too

[teal estuary]

potato shomato

[zealous glen]

[teal estuary]

thunk moment

[nocturne estuary]

so, is there any other context I could use?

[teal estuary]

i tried it myself and couldnt find it

[nocturne estuary]

man

[teal estuary]

its defintely doable

i just dont know how

[nocturne estuary]

mhm

[weary jungle]

why isnt there a += in lua

or there is and im dumb

[teal estuary]

-# what does += do

[weary jungle]

like a = a + b

is now a += b

[hollow locust]

shorthand way to add stuff, methinks(?)

[weary jungle]

some other variants are *=, /=, -= and so on

[glass scaffold]

It's giving out the mult, but not the chips. What's the fix?

[teal estuary]

cant use the same return, you'd want SMODS.eval_this

[wintry solar]

Use better calc

But that’s not the problem

Remove the two inner curly brackets in the config line

[glass scaffold]

Still not giving the chips out.

[teal estuary]

better calc made it so you only need one return?

[glass scaffold]

Where do I get BetterCalc

[wintry solar]

Yes and no messages unless you want a custom message

[teal estuary]

oooh fair

neat

[hollow locust]

And now to spring the question because i believe it is appropriate (it is not)

-# I want to make a mod. Where do i start? (Is it any help that I've used Love before, specifically Kristal, a deltarune engine)

[teal estuary]

you'd want

lemme

[glass scaffold]

I use VSCode

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki

[hollow locust]

I do too, but is there like.. A template or someth?

[glass scaffold]

smods folder should have some example mods

And I have a .lua file explaining some coding parts

[teal estuary]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods

[teal estuary]

that

[hollow locust]

Thankies

[teal estuary]

theres

example jokers in smods

[glass scaffold]

But none that I saw discussed chips

[dry merlin]

walkie talkie?

castle?

[teal estuary]

chips is the exact same as mult

just.. different name

[glass scaffold]

alright, what .lua file has Walkie Talkie?

I'm gonna try using that instead.

[glass scaffold]

Thanks (Line 298)

[dry merlin]

im trying to have a joker create a customly added joker with SMODS.add_card, and the actual creation code works, like with j_egg, but when i input a custom key, i get this error
can anyone help?

local new_card = SMODS.add_card({
    set = 'Joker',
    area = G.jokers,
    key = 'j_bird',
    no_edition = true
    })

maybe i need to put somewhere that j_bird is part of the Joker set? im not very knowledgeable

or make a new set?

[worthy stirrup]

Whenever i open the "Antimatter Deck" the game crashes, ive switched to the old counting system, im using Cryptid, and Tailsman. Any way i could fix this?

I have no idea what is causing it

[buoyant umbra]

Hey guys, I'm trying to make a joker to do stuff per held queen in hand, and while the calculate works in general, it also re-triggers when the blind is won.

My calculate for the joker is:

        calculate = function(self,context)
            if context.individual and context.cardarea ~= G.play and not context.other_card.debuff then
                if context.other_card:get_id() == 12 then
                    return {
                        x_mult = self.ability.extra.x_mult,
                        mult = self.ability.extra.mult,
                        chips = self.ability.extra.chips,
                        card = self
                    }
                end
            end
        end,

[wintry solar]

Using better calc?

[teal estuary]

-# also why use self

[stiff locust]

is there a way I can grab the key of the current blind

I did figure out how to grab the name but that'll make it break if you're on another language

[dry merlin]

how does madness do it?

[stiff locust]

it doesn't grab the key of the blind

[wintry solar]

G.GAME.blind.config.blind.key

[stiff locust]

it just goes "and not context.boss_blind" or whatever the boss blind context is

I think?

[dry merlin]

zamn

thought it might have been that

[wintry solar]

I think that’s the shortest reference

[pine thunder]

currently struggling to make a joker that does something upon clicking "cash out", is that possible?

[stiff locust]

why on cashout instead of end_of_round

[pine thunder]

its a food joker for money

so it needs to decrease after you get the money

[stiff locust]

just make it decrease when you exit the shop

[pine thunder]

yea but then its like, you buy it and it immediately loses a dollar

[stiff locust]

increase starting $ by 1 to compensate

[pine thunder]

okay yea like thats functionally the same but it doesnt feel good

[sudden dew]

When patching, is there a way to replace all ocurrences of a specific string in the target file but not replace the entire line the string is on?

[pine thunder]

i was able to add a custom context for after your end of round reward is calculated so it works, but it still looks kinda fucky cause it displays the "-$1" before the results screen

id rather have it be upon entering the shop

[sudden dew]

If you're already adding a custom context for that, is there a reason not to just create a custom context for entering the shop?

[pine thunder]

thats what i wanna do im just dumb and cant find where to put it in the code

[sudden dew]

Not dumb, the codebase is a mess and everything is put in a weird place

[tepid crow]

you can use regex instead of a pattern

[crisp coral]

if context.end_of_round and not context.blueprint and context.main_scoring then should normally trigger like if context.end_of_round and not context.blueprint and not context.repetition and not context.individual then, right?

if so, then it isn't working right

[royal ridge]

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/button_callbacks.lua"
pattern = "G.deck:shuffle('cashout'..G.GAME.round_resets.ante)"
position = "after"
payload = '''
for i = 1, #G.jokers.cards do
    G.jokers.cards[i]:calculate_joker({cash_out_something_something = true})
end
'''
match_indent = true

this is where i put it when trying to do that

[dry merlin]

bumping this pls

[cerulean rose]

need mod prefix

[nocturne estuary]

how do I check if only 1 card is in hand?
this doesn't seem to work:

if G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 0 and #context.full_hand == 1 then

[crisp coral]

j_bird is not a key

it should be j_[mod prefix]_bird

[cerulean rose]

should be just

if #context.full_hand == 1 then

right?

[weary jungle]

how is this a nil value i dont understand

[cerulean rose]

did you start a new run

[weary jungle]

no

[nocturne estuary]

nope, that crashes the game and says that the length of that field is nil

[weary jungle]

i used a savestate

[thick panther]

its good practice to start a new run everytime as sometimes things, like Jokers, dont get updated with the new code correctly.

[crisp coral]

new run

[pine thunder]

this seems to be working tysm 👍

[weary jungle]

uigh

[cerulean rose]

need help with this

[dry merlin]

awesome that was it thanks guys, for some reason i thought the prefix stuff was always automatic

[nocturne estuary]

any ideas on why full_hand is nil?

[cerulean rose]

do you have a context check?

could be that it's being calculated outside of playing a hand

[nocturne estuary]

what exactly do you mean with this?
for context, it is being checked in a custom jokers calculate function

[thick panther]

is there a way to quickly remove all cards in a deck or do I need to just iterate through it?

[pine thunder]

did someone delete their message about how to make the joker shake with a message during a custom context cause i need that back

[cerulean rose]

can i see the full calculate function?

[nocturne estuary]

calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.joker_main then
        end

        print(#context.full_hand)
        if G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 0 and #context.full_hand == 1 then
            print('hi')
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function() 
                    G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
                    local _card = copy_card(context.full_hand[1], nil, nil, G.playing_card)
                    _card:set_edition({negative = true}, true)
                    _card:add_to_deck()
                    G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
                    table.insert(G.playing_cards, _card)
                    return true
                end}))
        end
    end

[crisp coral]

that's not a custom context, that will run on every context with context.full_hand

[nocturne estuary]

oh

so how would I check if only 1 card is in the played hand?

[crisp coral]

put in one of the scoring contexts

before, joker_main, after

[thick panther]

This seems to only remove half of the deck of cards (26), instead of every card in the deck. why?

for _, card in ipairs(G.playing_cards) do
    card:remove()
end

[nocturne estuary]

like this?

#context.scoring_hand == 1

[crisp coral]

no

[nocturne estuary]

nevermind, this also returns nil

(do keep in mind this is my first time making a custom joker)

[nocturne estuary]

what would it be then?

[crisp coral]

do a while loop instead, this will skip a key whenever you remove a card

[crisp coral]

context.joker_main and #context.full_hand == 1

[cerulean rose]

programming tip: never modify the object you're iterating over

[thick panther]

how would I delete each card in the loop then? I doubt nesting a for loop inside would work well.

[nocturne estuary]

alright, that works

thanks

[crisp coral]

while loop, or iterate by key backwards

[cerulean rose]

while #G.playing_cards ~= 0 do
    G.playing_cards[1]:remove()
end

[crisp elbow]

Trying to test a mod post calc, what would I need to to do change this lovely patch to be fixed for bettercalc?

    create_consumable("Spectral", nil, nil, nil)
    ret.effect = true
end```

[maiden river]

does anyone have a joker image that they use during testing?
(like a joker that says "test" or something)
I'm using a blank tarot card lmao

[crisp elbow]

#1224362333208444989 message

that should have placeholder free use cards

[maiden river]

thanks!

[nocturne estuary]

another weird issue,
this is the code I have, which should create a negative copy of the played card if first hand has only 1 card, and add it to the deck, which it does all correctly:

calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.joker_main and G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 0 and #context.full_hand == 1 then
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function() 
                    G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
                    local _card = copy_card(context.full_hand[1], nil, nil, G.playing_card)
                    _card:set_edition({negative = true}, true)
                    _card:add_to_deck()
                    G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
                    table.insert(G.playing_cards, _card)
                    return true
                end}))
        end
    end

However as seen in the screenshot the card stays on screen for some reason?

[cerulean rose]

gonna keep bumping this

[thick panther]

If i wanted to add a modded playing card using SMODS.create_card would the key be something like prefix_<card_key>_<rank>?

[hollow patrol]

hi i'm really new to modding, i was wondering how one could edit how much money a deck gives you by default (similar to the yellow card)?

a lot of example code i've found don't seem to have that option

[thick panther]

Yellow deck has dollars = 10 in its config. I belive setting that for you deck would have the same effect. something like:

config = { dollars = 15 },

[hollow patrol]

thank you! i'll try it out

[pine thunder]

this is how i added a message under my joker when it activates, is there a better way of doing this? it feels kinda hacky but it does work deez nuts is probably a placeholder

    if context.pl_cash_out then
      card.ability.extra.money = card.ability.extra.money - card.ability.extra.money_loss
      card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = 'deez nuts', colour = G.C.MONEY})
    end
  end```

[quaint kettle]

Would it be possible to change the names of the suits in the entire game? Like if you want to change them to the names in a tarot deck (= wands, swords, cups & disks instead of clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds.) I'd like to maybe change all the playing card textures to tarot cards, but not if I can't easily change the names.

[zealous glen]

I think this was the way to do it, there’s a different suggested way with the new version of Steamodded

[pine thunder]

i tried to do it steamoddeds way but i was either missing something or steamodded doesnt like custom contexts

does anyone know what the 'extra' part means

[sudden dew]

It's just a subtable with the ability table where values related to joker abilities tend to go

[zealous glen]

Well, that’s because the custom context probably doesn’t have the code that automatically generates the popup

[sudden dew]

I think the fields in ability are meant to remain consistent, but you can go buckwild and put whatever new fields you want in extra

[zealous glen]

So you have to do it manually

But it’s still with another function I think

[pine thunder]

ahh okay

[zealous glen]

I think it’s calculate_effect

[wintry solar]

Custom contexts in better calc are easy to add

[sudden dew]

Oh or do you mean the string 'extra' that you're passing to card_eval_status_text?

[pine thunder]

yes this

[zealous glen]

How so

[sudden dew]

yeah idk what that is

[pine thunder]

i just copied it from state_events but i prefer to know what my code is actually doing

lmao okay well if it works it works

[zealous glen]

You can read vanilla to find out

But I think it’s the type of popup

[wintry solar]

If you want smods to automatically handle the results, just do SMODS.calculate_context({context table here pls})

[pine thunder]

whats a context table

[dry merlin]

how hard would it be to make this kind of effect in balatro https://i.sstatic.net/pIe10.gif, where a card can have a special background in its art

embed fail

[cerulean rose]

[wintry solar]

Why don’t you ask Jen

[thick panther]

how would you add a playing card using SMODS.create_card? i tried using H_2 as the key, but it crashes with center as a nil value.

[maiden river]

I'm having the same issue lmao

[wintry solar]

Needs a G.deck:emplace(_card)

[maiden river]

ah

[nocturne estuary]

ah

[zealous glen]

#💻・modding-dev message

[sonic cedar]

What would I have in my vs workspace to keep my globals defined?

[dry merlin]

exactly

[sonic cedar]

(ex: localize)

[zealous glen]

Let me know

I put the Balatro source code there and nothing

[wintry solar]

Balatro source code or lovely dumps should get most of it

[zealous glen]

I want an Enhancement with this effect; I need to figure out the specifics but it needs at least a custom shader

[zealous glen]

The source code didn’t do anything

[dry merlin]

damn, some advanced stuff (ive been modding for 5 days)

[dreamy thunder]

how do i change if a consumable appears in the shop or not? like i want it to appear when i have the right joker in hand

[thick panther]

What would the set in SMODS.create_card be for playing cards?

[zealous glen]

in_pool

[weak brook]

working on overhauling the deckskin api myself, got the cards changing depending on the skin working, but this animation that happens when the cards get emplaced is bugging me. dont want them to fly in from the top left for no reason. anyone know how to disable that? I tried just inserting the cards with table.insert but the same thing happened

-# also dont worry the default option wont show every card like it does in this gif, i just havent gotten to implementing the list for specifying which cards to only show in the preview

[zealous glen]

I like it tho

[zealous glen]

Also I have a feature working which I think could be part of the API

Random DeckSkin

[weak brook]

i mean its kind of a cool effect but its like wrong, every card that i remember coming in from a side of a screen comes in from the top right iirc

[zealous glen]

Maybe see how Galdur does Stake chips

[weak brook]

or how it does the deck stacking

true

anyway victin if you'd like to help with this i would love some help

[zealous glen]

There’s only two things missing, a visual feature and an in-game UI to select the set from which textures are pulled from

[weak brook]

especially if you're familiar with how to properly commit to smods

[zealous glen]

Maybe on the weekend. What are you missing?

[zealous glen]

I sent a PR for the DeckSkin Template

[weak brook]

i put together a google doc outlining all the plans i wanted to add

[zealous glen]

In the Example Mods

[hardy viper]

fork steamodded, then make a branch on your fork for whatever you want to do, then open a pull request to merge your branch into the main steamodded repository

[weak brook]

yeah i get that but moreso i was talking about like

idk if theres like etiquette for how to code in smods

[zealous glen]

is there

[weak brook]

idk

[dreamy thunder]

it still appears in the shop

[zealous glen]

did you read the wiki entry on in_pool for how to use it

[dreamy thunder]

partially

lemme re read it

[hardy viper]

commenting your code helps for reviews but they generally get removed before they're merged, other than that try not to define any globals outside of the smods table unless you have to
if there's any problems with your code they'll be sorted when the code is reviewed

i don't think there's any other "etiquette"

[thick panther]

is the key or area or something wrong? It keeps crashing with center as nil. Isnt it prefix_<card_key>_rank for a modded playing card?

for _, rank in ipairs({ '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'T', 'J', 'Q', 'K', 'A' }) do
      SMODS.create_card({
      key = 'waterSuit'..water_suit.card_key..'_'..rank,
      area = G.playing_cards
    })
end

[weak brook]

i have a couple globals i defined, i made the customize deck cardarea a global so i could change the cards it has from the change_collab function. also made another global to communicate with that same thing that just act as a reference for the amount of ranks that could be displayed in the menu

i tried to make the globals very uniquely named so they wouldnt conflict with any future stuff

[rough furnace]

I simply deticate my life to reading the modding section of the balatro discord

[zealous glen]

You can store global inside a table

Like the SMODS table

[weak brook]

ah yeah that is a table isnt it, i'll do that

anyway lemme tell ya what ive done so far victin

[hardy viper]

globals for cardareas are fine as long as they're inside G (or SMODS). you could probably just store the second thing in the cardarea object from what it seems

[weak brook]

yeah i still got a lot to learn with some of the coding

thanks for the tip

[valid trench]

I'm trying to make a new function inside my joker, does anyone know why it's just not

[hardy viper]

(also worth mentioning that defining things in global space is a problem for more reasons than conflicts, it comes with a minor speed penalty for every access, which adds up if you put something in G for example which is accessed a shit ton)

[hardy viper]

can you include all the relevant code

[hardy viper]

that works

okay yeah you can't define a function like that

[weak brook]

wouldnt it then be better to not have the cardarea be stored in G or SMODS, since it only gets called in the customize deck menu?

[hardy viper]

you're trying to define it inside a table

[valid trench]

ah, yeah that makes sense

should I just define it outside the joker

[hardy viper]

it's convention to store cardareas in G, even though it's slightly slower

[hardy viper]

yeah

[weak brook]

I just started my fork today but so far i added the 'ranks' posStyle which is a solution for people trying to load in unconventional spritesheet layouts like aces and face cards. It uses the required ranks option as reference for how the spritesheet is ordered and loads the cards accordingly. Made that the default setting for posStyle since imo it comes with the least amount of possible glitches or kinks.
I also made it so that default option gets loaded in the pipeline as well, that will come into play later when i start working on the expanded color schemes options.

Heres the google doc i made to outline all the features/changes i wanna add:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-t73xFBSDzXCaG9kqAjgRrBUMtVL7woRX9OEBSZF_KQ/edit?tab=t.0

the main thing i'm concened about is the features that have to do with dynamically changing assets, like the colors or the suit icons in full deck. last time i did it it was janky and bad and it's why i wanna make sure im doing the proper smods coding etiquette

[crisp elbow]

what would be the replacement to card:set_ability in Steamodded?

[weak brook]

i also wanna make sure it doesnt conflict with Malverk if possible

[crisp elbow]

if there is one

[maiden river]

when I add a copy of a card to the deck, it has the red card back instead of the right one (blue, in this case)
is there any way to fix this?

[rough furnace]

How are you making that card?

[hardy viper]

call card:add_to_deck() after you create it iirc?

im not sure what sets the back sprite

[maiden river]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            local hand_size = #context.scoring_hand
            local _card = copy_card(context.scoring_hand[hand_size],
                                    nil, nil, G.playing_card)
            _card:set_edition()
            _card:set_seal()
            _card:add_to_deck()
            G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
            G.deck:emplace(_card)
            table.insert(G.playing_cards, _card)
        end
    end

[hardy viper]

?

[rough furnace]

Theres a property on the card that specifies the back pos. Gimmie a minute and I can pull up my code to copy a card

[maiden river]

G.playing_cards is the table of the actual cards in the deck
G.playing_card is something else

function copy_card(other, new_card, card_scale, playing_card, strip_edition)

[violet void]

why does copilot keep thinking pseudorandom_element returns the index 😕

picking X unique cards is pain

[dreamy thunder]

how do i use this?

[hardy viper]

because copilot is stupid

you should get used to that

[hollow locust]

Bug or someth?

I put the Example Seal mod to my Mods folder, and checking in collections, the info box shows nothing?

Nothing was changed to the folder or files, it was literally a drag & drop. Everything I have installed is the latest version.

[hardy viper]

example mods often don't work yeah

[hollow locust]

Dang

[maiden river]

that's nuts lmao

[hardy viper]

they worked at one point but they aren't maintained so

[hollow locust]

Maaaaaaan

[hardy viper]

it is what it is

[livid tapir]

if i were to port my mod, how would i get info on better calc
the wiki is for old, and example mods as you say arent maintained so

[hollow locust]

I see

[hardy viper]

what do you have that's broken

[rough furnace]

hmm this looks a lot like my code to copy

so now the real question is does mine do this?

[livid tapir]

not sure but someone tested and said there was a compat issue

[thick panther]

are there any examples of creating playing cards using SMODS.create_card? I cant find anything for it.

[rough furnace]

I do know dna used to do this but was fixed

but idk if somethign in dna was changed or internally

[hardy viper]

okay well the first step to making your code work with something is testing your code with it

[livid tapir]

ye i should prob do that
later tho

[rough furnace]

no mine works fine

[hardy viper]

the secret set_back function that localthunk is hiding from us

[livid tapir]

?

[hardy viper]

im kidding

[maiden river]

oof

well I'll figure it ou

*out

[rough furnace]

hmm looking at the save it seems like it was changed from each card storing it's back pos

[violet void]

whats the method to make a shallow copy of a table

table.unpack is crashing for me

[rough furnace]

or i'm blind

[hardy viper]

idk i just defined it myself

[violet void]

😭 I had to define my own contains as well smh Lua

[rough furnace]

table.unpack doesn't exist in 5.1

[hardy viper]

speaking of

[rough furnace]

there is https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-unpack

[hardy viper]

deepfind got obliterated by some commit recently

[rough furnace]

lol

[vagrant cedar]

I tried stitching two of my Jokers together and I got lost

[hardy viper]

maybe for the best

[vagrant cedar]

Anybody able to help me figure out this Joker right quick?