💻・modding-dev

[sand oasis]

gonna install the newest steamodded rq

[wintry swallow]

do not

[sand oasis]

Oof

[wintry swallow]

you want the old_calc tag

[wintry solar]

use new calc

[wintry swallow]

is it fixed yet

[wintry solar]

its been fixed for a few days

[wintry swallow]

huh

[cedar stream]

context.individual still exists right?

[wintry solar]

yeah

[cedar stream]

ok

[sand oasis]

should 1304a be okay

[wintry swallow]

probably

[wintry solar]

thats old calc, yeah

[dull saddle]

can someone help me figure out what this invalid metadata json file error means? i can post my mod code too

[gilded narwhal]

trouabador rework for silly deck !

[sand oasis]

Not sure how an updated Steamodded would help my situtation unless someone has more specific guidance

[sand oasis]

yeah throw up your json, I don't think it should be anything hardcore that's your problem

[wintry solar]

I don't remember what weird capitalization the key has in old calc and new calc unifies them all

[dull saddle]

    "id": "sinful_jokers", 
    "name": "Sinful Jokers",
    "display_name": "Sinful Jokers",
    "author": ["Peachfroggg"], 
    "description": "Adds four new suit based jokers.", 
    "prefix": "sinf", 
    "main_file": "sinfuljokers.lua",
    "priority": -21, 
    "badge_colour": "fda0a5",
    "badge_text_colour": "a61a1f", 
    "version": "1.0.0", 
    "dependencies": [
        "Steamodded(=1.0.0~ALPHA-1309c)",
        "Lovely (>=0.6)",
        "Balatro (==1.0.0)"
    ],
    "dump_loc": false
}```

[thick panther]

what is this "new calc" i keep seeing? Is it a rework of some calculate method, like the one in SMODS.Joker?

[wintry swallow]

what mod reworks the deck selection screen like this

[gilded narwhal]

galdur

[wintry solar]

Galdur

[gilded narwhal]

and i'll rework the selection screen eventually

[mystic river]

it's a rework of calculation in general
it makes a lot of things more flexible, but it does it in a way that breaks a number of existing mods

[wintry swallow]

also the 23 hands 32 discards thing is very similar to a modifier i have in place on some of my challenges, it's cool to see people adapting the same ideas into different forms

[mystic river]

and it's still kinda in beta, so it has a few bugs of its own to work out
though iirc they've gotten the worst ones by now, all that's left is little stuff

[gilded narwhal]

What is the modifier out of curiosity

[thick panther]

Does it effect most current SMODS functions? Like mods that use those current versions break with this?

[gilded narwhal]

Oh you just have to skip every blind and beat it in one hand?

How

[wintry swallow]

down in 12 (the first image) was literally the first challenge i made and what started this modpack in the first place

[wintry swallow]

that second one is an optional "B-side" challenge and will not be required to 100% the mod, but it's doable, just hard

[wintry solar]

if you calculate enhancements or editions they will break, if you play around with evaluate_play or eval_card that will also break

[wintry swallow]

my girlfriend beat it

[wintry solar]

everything else should be fine

[gilded narwhal]

But yeah the second challenge is pretty much just my deck but you get way more resources and you can also get them back

Great minds think alike

[wintry swallow]

i want to completely rework the challenge select UI to add an entire second menu with a different colour scheme (i'm thinking purple) to pick B-sides

[sand oasis]

I did download the newest version, 1310b, and my code worked so i appreciate the heads up about the calc shenanigans

[wintry swallow]

and i also want to rework the entire vanilla challenge unlock system, in such a way where you can select locked challenges and the "custom rules" box will tell you what you need to do to unlock them

[gilded narwhal]

I'm thinking of something very similar for B-side decks. After I finish T. Red I'll probably start work on the selection menu

[wintry swallow]

the most i've done with UI so far is uh

add a modifier that turns off the "endless mode" button in the "you win" screen

i do this with the vanilla lua 'unpack' function

[wooden badge]

@sonic cedar did you solve it in the end?

[wintry swallow]

(unpack takes a table and returns its values, e.g. local one, two, three = unpack{1, 2, 3} will have one = 1, two = 2, three = 3)

[gilded narwhal]

That's very clever actually

[wintry swallow]

i'm thinking of maybe replacing the "completed X/Y challenges" text with a [B-Sides] button

what

there's code in here for a daily challenge type mode??????

this is in the challenge select menu

[late kindle]

i feel like i remember this being mentioned a while back… fingers crossed 🤞

[gilded narwhal]

balatro content update 2025: daily challenges

[wintry swallow]

man thunk is bad at keeping things hidden lmfao

[wintry solar]

iirc it's left over code from beta

[gilded narwhal]

wait what does it look like

[wintry swallow]

it does this

[minor magnet]

would this be more balanced as an uncommon or rare?

[wintry swallow]

define 'successfully triggers'\

is it the mult or the $20

[minor magnet]

both

[wintry swallow]

ah

[minor magnet]

if a lucky card gives mult or money you gain an extra 5$

[wintry swallow]

uncommon but gives $3?

[minor magnet]

mmm seems good

[wintry swallow]

$5 feels a liiiittle too much for an uncommon but a bit too little for a rare with that condition

[frosty dock]

iirc it was added in some 1.0.1 build but wasn't there before

[minor magnet]

3 seems about right

you can still earn a lot of money with the right buildù

i would use this in a lucky card run

[late kindle]

seems like thunk originally planned on daily challenges but changed their mind for the challenges we have now

[wintry swallow]

tbf i found a flag that leaked there was a mobile version in the works like 9 months before the mobile version was officially announced

[frosty dock]

G.F_MOBILE_UI?

[wintry swallow]

yup lol

[frosty dock]

yeah i remember noticing that as well

[wintry swallow]

that was added in march of 2024, whereas mobile wasn't revealed until like september

[frosty dock]

that's 6 months but alright

[wintry swallow]

i'm bad at remembering dates

[late kindle]

sorry unrelated, but does anyone know if there’s a way to detect when a booster pack is closed (either skipped OR a card is chosen)

i wanna make a joker which increases your hand size but only while you’re inside a booster pack basically

[zealous glen]

cool art

[zealous glen]

that's what Lucky Cat reads ;P

[cerulean rose]

bump

[zealous glen]

see where it is

[cerulean rose]

how do that

[zealous glen]

area

[cedar stream]

can you further elaborate on calculating enchanments or editions, im just not understanding

[wintry solar]

they calculate like jokers now

[cedar stream]

oh, so if i format it like it was a joker it would work

[thick panther]

how can I get the key for the played poker hand?

[pine thunder]

does "colour" just not do anything or am i being dumb? the "swap!" still shows up in blue regardless of what i set colour to

    if context.joker_main and context.cardarea == G.jokers then
      return 
      {
        colour = G.C.GREEN,
        message = 'Swap!',
        mult_mod = hand_chips - mult,
        chip_mod = mult - hand_chips
      }
    end
  end```

[wintry swallow]

oh god the challenge select menu is a pain to modify, but it's ok if this mod takes like a month to come out

[wintry solar]

just use swap = true

[mellow stirrup]

is there a context for when cards are drawn

[wintry solar]

actually

that's not a swap

nvm

[mellow stirrup]

or only for when you draw your first hand

[zealous glen]

aren't there modded challenges already

[wintry swallow]

yes

i mean i'm adding my own "layer" to the challenge select menu

for "b-sides", things too hard or outlandish to put in the main set

[glass scaffold]

but imagine daily runs that refresh

[wintry swallow]

i did also have an idea for this

[zealous glen]

Thunk had an idea for this

[wintry swallow]

thunk had an idea for dailies yes

[pine thunder]

i mean im mostly just worried about the color

[wintry swallow]

who knows whether he'll add it in the 2025 content update or if it's a left-over from times gone by

[pine thunder]

it works fine on other jokers but this one is being a pita for some reason

[cedar stream]

how would you check if a specific suit is being scored

[gilded narwhal]

this is not working the way it's supposed to :(

[night pagoda]

Maybe a stupid question, but how do I check if the card still exists, as in it's still within the reach and is visible?

[zealous glen]

what's reach

[zealous glen]

card and not card.removed?

[cedar stream]

some form of context.cardarea

probably

[gilded narwhal]

works for boss blinds but not normal blinds

[viscid bough]

Im making a joker that levels up the first played hand of the round. Problem is, i dont know how to level hands up or how to detect if its the first hand of the round.

[zealous glen]

read the vanilla code

[night pagoda]

Imagine a card from the deck preview - I closed the preview, but the card still technically might exist in your hand, but the exact card that was shown in the collection was removed

[zealous glen]

I don't understand this because they're different cards

Not the same card

[late kindle]

have a look at the code for burnt joker

[nocturne estuary]

can someone explain how exactly delay() works?

[zealous glen]

It creates an event that doesn't do anything but take space in the queue

[wintry swallow]

probably gonna steal the event queue concept for my next game in all honesty this is one of the coolest parts of the codebase

[zealous glen]

that's not really something thunk created

event management is probably core to many/most digital games

[wintry swallow]

definitely, but i like the way balatro's works

[zealous glen]

although I'd have expected an implementation with listeners instead of a single track queue

[viscid bough]

can someone explain why the event stuff is so good? i really dont understand its usage

[wintry swallow]

it allows you to very easily queue things to happen in the future or after one another

[long sun]

rate this new version of Identity? :3

[wintry swallow]

is this meant to be styled after a spectral card

how does the effect read

[zealous glen]

@tawny perch gappie of the mountain what is your wisdom

[long sun]

Create 2 Negative Spectral cards at the end of the shop, self destructs

uncommon, $8

[wintry swallow]

yeah it's pretty

[long sun]

thanks!! :D

[wintry swallow]

the art is good

[zealous glen]

why negative though

[nocturne estuary]

ok but if I use it like this it does not delay the dissolving?

G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
        func = function()
            local voucher = create_card('Voucher', nil ,false, nil, false, nil, pvoucher, nil)
            voucher.cost = 0
            voucher:redeem()
            delay(10)
            voucher:start_dissolve(nil, false, 10, true)
            return true
        end
    }))

why is that?

[long sun]

so you can hang onto eg. Deja Vu or Aura

[wintry swallow]

i mean it is a joker and not a tarot

so i think them being negative is fair enough

[wintry swallow]

delay pushes something else into the event queue

[zealous glen]

delay creates an Event. The dissolve happens in the same event that runs delay

[wintry swallow]

it doesn't affect the execution of the current event

[zealous glen]

so the card is dissoveldeddfdre by the time the delaying event is ran

[long sun]

you're paying for a random, but negative, Mega Spectral Pack, with the condition of needing a vacant Joker slot

[tawny perch]

its pretty nice, i think if you practice on effects itd be much better, like make it 3d, but right now its pretty

[long sun]

thanks!! :D

[gilded narwhal]

Thoughts on reworked merry andy? (the +1 hand from the boss blind is for beating it in one hand)

[long sun]

how would i practice that?

[wintry swallow]

oh fuck you're reworking a bunch of jokers to work with your mechanics????

that's super cool

[gilded narwhal]

Yeah I have like 10 done rn

[zealous glen]

What's refund?

[gilded narwhal]

Blinds and vouchers as well

[tawny perch]

a good first step is trying to replicate the vanilla spectral effects

[gilded narwhal]

Gaining discards back

[wintry swallow]

in this deck discards do not naturally regenerate

this is one way to gain discards

[tawny perch]

then doing it faster and faster

[zealous glen]

I see

[long sun]

ah ya, the background was inspired by the Spectrals ^^

[zealous glen]

what do you mean faster

[gilded narwhal]

REPLICATING CRYPTID SPECTRAL CARD SPEEDRUN (WORLD RECORD)

[tawny perch]

as in, the more you practice for 20 minutes
then you do 10 and see how you do

[tawny perch]

you can also try to replicate effects from reference not in game, or even from mods

[long sun]

ooh btw here's what it used to look like (this version was inspired by Soul, but i prefer the look of the normal Spectrals)

[gilded narwhal]

You should keep that flash I like it

[night pagoda]

That's true, I figured it out! Was an issue on my end

[zealous glen]

hmmm

I think the speed at which I do art is like, 1 Joker for 3 days of work 😭

[nocturne estuary]

so then how would I make the execution of the dissolve wait for an amount of time?

[wintry swallow]

that i don't know

[tawny perch]

i'm not sure how this was inspired by the soul

[long sun]

like so? :3

[wintry swallow]

maybe i would split it into two events

[gilded narwhal]

Maybe add some shading on the yellow stuff?

[tawny perch]

oh
well thats fine, i guess 1 hour per joker is a personal thing

[long sun]

the more tarot-y nameplate and label on top

[cerulean rose]

tarot shape

[long sun]

could do!

[cerulean rose]

:diet_cola:

[night pagoda]

Now a different question:

How do I get a center position of a card? I tried using:
{(card.VT.x + card.VT.w/2) * G.TILESCALE * G.TILESIZE, (card.VT.y + card.VT.h/2) * G.TILESCALE * G.TILESIZE}
but it doesn't seem right; tried drawing a circle there using love.graphics.circle and it's offset to the left

[tawny perch]

well yeah, the soul is a spectral tarot

identity i presume is a spectral only

[zealous glen]

I mean I'm not taking this long by choice 😭

I'm an art noob

[long sun]

it's a Joker, actually :}

[gilded narwhal]

oh yeah gappie since you're here can i have feedback on these spectrals since we're on that topic :3

[long sun]

WOAH THESE ARE COOL

i like how busy the first one is :D

[tawny perch]

well yeah, im not doing that by choice either lol

[zealous glen]

The position of the hands in Fate compared to the reference throws me off a little

[wintry swallow]

erroneous pixel on the top border of Ineptitude

[zealous glen]

also I wonder if in-between the yellow fingers should be white

[zealous glen]

get the sacrificial dagger

destroy that pixel

[random sleet]

one here on fate

[gilded narwhal]

I'm REALLY precise with pixel placement can't you guys tell

[long sun]

use masks :D

[mellow stirrup]

I saw a couple people mention looking at the balatro source code

how do I do that

[random sleet]

7zip

[wintry swallow]

extract the exe with 7zip

[zealous glen]

You can copy the executable then unzip it

[mellow stirrup]

oh lmao is it really that easy?

[wintry swallow]

yes

[gilded narwhal]

Yeah 😭

[mellow stirrup]

cool

[wintry swallow]

extracting all LOVE2D games is that easy

[tawny perch]

i think you would do good with studying lighting, fate, while has good hands, the lighting doesnt make too much sense
I think aswell, that fate should have the effects follow the flow of the drawing, theyre sort of going against that, you can look at most spectrals for reference, but the effect is already pretty cool
Ineptitude on the other hand, i think is due for some background changes
currently its uninteresting, but the good part is that it follows the 'flow' of the spectral
you just need a lot mpre variety in the background, aswell as trying to highlight the main focus of the drawing

[gilded narwhal]

mpre

sorry

[long sun]

is this any better? i'm a little convinced but the spectral colour scheme doesn't have a shaded white

and it feels busy

[gilded narwhal]

thank you gappie !

[tawny perch]

and yknow ineptitude could definitely use some work with the text, i think taking from ectoplasm is a good idea

[tawny perch]

welcome

glad to be of help

[near iris]

Does anyone know if there's a way to set a joker effect at start of run (like after deck is selected)? I've got a joker that changes effects based on the selected deck, and I tried to use G.GAME.selected_deck.name, but it seems like the ability is just set on startup. Is it possible to change the identity of a joker at runtime?

[zealous glen]

you could do something like Castle with a global variable

[near iris]

ohhhhhhh true

[zealous glen]

and set_ability maybe

[near iris]

yeah good idea

[zealous glen]

see the Castle example in Example Mods

[long sun]

okay i'm convinced by the new version :D

shadows it is!

[near iris]

yeah that's a great idea, thank you!

[long sun]

thanks to whoever suggested that :D

[zealous glen]

@tawny perch any suggestions for faster art maybe 🤔

practice, practice, practice

[tawny perch]

faster art just requires you to get to a point where youre satisfied with whatever youre drawing, and then, do it faster
this can help with line confidence and help you draft ideas faster

[gilded narwhal]

hey do you mind if I dm you because I also have all the decks i've done art for that I haven't rlly gotten feedback on but I don't really wanna flood this channel 😭

[zealous glen]

I mean you could post them in fanart

That's what the channel is for

and I'd like to see them too

[gilded narwhal]

Fair enough

[tawny perch]

alright, but you could also just, post it to the right channel

[gilded narwhal]

I'll just do that instead mb 😭

[tawny perch]

im gonna breakfast first

[crisp coral]

the breakfasterrrrr

[zealous glen]

I guess. I do think I have a bit of unusual approach because I try to do art very mathematically, while I don't think most artists do it that way

[crisp coral]

so like, vector art

[zealous glen]

no

[gilded narwhal]

I think I'm gonna finish this deck art I'm working on then I'll post to fart

[long sun]

SVG art is my main art outlet :D

it's smaller in file size, easy to edit, infinitely scaleable and lets me think mathematically about my art :D

also, the jonklers!!

[thick panther]

how do i add a playing card to the deck in apply?

[vital pine]

i never saw that joker coming

[long sun]

my mind is too fast for eyes 🎶

[night pagoda]

Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zealous glen]

Hey!!!

That's gotta be a standalone mod ;P

-# so I can read the code

[night pagoda]

I hate canvases, I had so many trial-and-error with those

what I do is:
create a global table of blackholes in card:init
in the game:draw, switch a canvas to apply a local shader for each blackhole that exists in the table
then switch it back so it doesn't break the CRT shader

canvas switching looks like literal juggling, I do not understand why the order I made them in works

[zealous glen]

what's a canvas

and how do you switch them

[night pagoda]

a separate rendering space

[minor magnet]

is there a way to add a random edition with card:set_edition()?

[wintry swallow]

cool shader

[night pagoda]

and switch with love.graphics.setCanvas() and love.graphics.draw()

I'll release this when I'll figure out how to properly detect black holes

because I don't think init is called on load?

[zealous glen]

there's a way to poll a random edition

check the wiki

[zealous glen]

try set_ability

[minor magnet]

there's a wiki?

omg

[wintry swallow]

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

this is the docs

[zealous glen]

there's also a homestuck mod

[minor magnet]

oh ye i shoulda checked if there was a smods function for it

[zealous glen]

technically it's vanilla IIRC

[minor magnet]

I KNOWWWW ITS CRAZY GOOD

IM WAITING FOR IT TO RELEASE

my autism flares up

i love homestuck

[zealous glen]

@long sun how to play kyudosudoku

[long sun]

Ooh you read my site!!

Awesome!!

[zealous glen]

but really I only got three 4s so far 😭

[sonic cedar]

asking again now that there's less happening
how would i set up a custom ability for a joker?

[zealous glen]

usually it's all inside calculate

[sonic cedar]

i was hoping you wouldnt say that

[night pagoda]

Nah, doesn't set on run load

[zealous glen]

it should

[viscid bough]

got this code heavily copied from burnt joker thats supposed to do basically the same except on the first played hand. But it doesnt work. No errors no crashing, the effect just isnt working. any idea why? Heres the calculate code:

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.area == G.jokers and context.before and G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 0 then
            local text,disp_text = G.FUNCS.get_poker_hand_info(context.scoring_hand)
            card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or self, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = localize('k_upgrade_ex')})
            update_hand_text({sound = 'button', volume = 0.7, pitch = 0.8, delay = 0.3}, {handname=localize(text, 'poker_hands'),chips = G.GAME.hands[text].chips, mult = G.GAME.hands[text].mult, level=G.GAME.hands[text].level})
            level_up_hand(context.blueprint_card or self, text, nil, 1)
            update_hand_text({sound = 'button', volume = 0.7, pitch = 1.1, delay = 0}, {mult = 0, chips = 0, handname = '', level = ''})
        end
    end

[zealous glen]

set_sprites does but I'm sure set_ability also does at some point

[zealous glen]

card not self

[night pagoda]

When I load the run, it seems that only the base playing cards are being ran through set_ability

no signs of black holes

[zealous glen]

are there any anywhere

[night pagoda]

when I open the collection it runs the set_ability weirdly, yes

[viscid bough]

replaced it but it still doesnt seem to do anything

[night pagoda]

set_sprites works

[tawny perch]

okay

[zealous glen]

So, set_ability is run whe the card is created, and when you load a run it recreates every card

[thick panther]

is there a way to insert a playing card into the deck without spawning an actual card object?

[night pagoda]

oops

also I forgot to mention, but I actually had to unscramble the black hole sprite

looks a bit cursed by itself

[zealous glen]

try printing values like hands_played etc.

[viscid bough]

did that and it says its 0 until after everything is finished calculating

[zealous glen]

keep doing that

[stiff locust]

can localize{} with the vars argument be used outside card_eval_status_text or message =
i need to localize something and put it in a variable, but I also need it to have a variable inside the localized text, like how return message = localize{type = 'variable', key = 'a_xmult', vars = {card.ability.extra.x_mult}} would work
copying that localize function doesn't work, it just gives ERROR or nil instead

[viscid bough]

okay i changed the if statement to be seperated instead of using ands so that i could check what stage it didnt work. Apparently its not counting the area as being G.jokers. Im gonna remove that to see if it works

[late kindle]

sorry for typo, what happens if you remove the check for context.before?

[wintry solar]

yeah you should be fine to do that

[stiff locust]

well it's not working

[viscid bough]

Removing the area check makes it work! Im not actually sure why it was there anyways

[wintry solar]

it's context.cardarea

[stiff locust]

card.ability.extra.last = localize{type = "dictionary", key = "k_soup_hand", vars = {card.ability.extra.interval} } just gives ERROR and idk what's not working here

[minor magnet]

would adding a random seal to each played card be a balanced ability for a legendary?

[viscid bough]

is the checking needed for what im doing though? im only upgrading the played hand. Im not sure it needs to check it and it seems to work fine without a check

[wintry solar]

I don't think dictionary is a valid type of localize

[stiff locust]

well the entry is in misc.dictionary

so what do I put

[wintry solar]

just leveling up the played hand?

[viscid bough]

yes.

[frosty dock]

put it in misc.v_dictionary and use type = 'variable'

vars aren't supported in dictionary

[viscid bough]

im gonna be honest i think my brain malfunctioned when i added the area check

[stiff locust]

oh

[frosty dock]

you get strings out of dictionary with localize('k_something')

[wintry solar]

just do ```lua
if context.before and G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 0 then
return {
level_up = true
}
end

assuming you're using bettercalc

[viscid bough]

is bettercalc a seperate mod that changes the stuff or is it part of smods i forgot

[wintry solar]

it's just newest smods

[viscid bough]

oh i think i should have it, i updated like a few days ago

[thick panther]

are there any mods that add cards to the deck to make it more than 52 on a new run? I cant seem to find anything for that.

[viscid bough]

works well thanks

[minor magnet]

would adding a random seal to each played card be a balanced ability for a legendary?
or would it be too strong / weak?
i can see it being incredibly strong and like you have basically no reason to not pick that up
but since it's a legendary it's meant to be strong so idk

i was thinking about nerfing it by adding a chance to not add anything, but i think it would make the joker underwhelming

[elder vapor]

me when this doesn't work for stickers

(i am the only person using stickers)

[wintry solar]

it should work for stickers

[elder vapor]

unless level_up = 1 doesn't count

then i'm stupid

[wintry solar]

numbers should work too

smods version?

[elder vapor]

1308a iirc

oh its 1309b

[wintry solar]

huh

let me try on my end

[thick panther]

is there a way to set args.initial_deck based on what deck is being played on?

[frosty dock]

args.initial_deck is just a flag for if the starting deck is being generated

[hardy viper]

@mellow sable we need to talk

[stiff locust]

this worked thanks

[frosty dock]

you can use G.GAME.selected_back to get info on the selected deck

[thick panther]

would I compare that to the key of a deck?

[wintry solar]

100% works, can you show your code?

update your lovely

[elder vapor]

lovely is on 0.6.0

oh that wasn't directed towards me lol

[wintry solar]

whats context.from_playing_card

[wintry swallow]

straight black hole isnt real it cant hurt you

[elder vapor]

its added from the function i use to support stickers on playing cards

[wintry solar]

you don't need to add anything to support stickers on playing cards with better calc

[elder vapor]

oh fr?

awesome

i've had that since i started on my mod

[wintry solar]

and that function doesn't return anywthing

[elder vapor]

better calc is just better huh

[wintry solar]

that's why it doesnt work for you

[elder vapor]

oh 💀

[wintry solar]

like the calculate part

[elder vapor]

no wonder

[wintry swallow]

you used to manually have to check stickers?

[wintry solar]

they were never very well supported

[ancient ore]

Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening

Attempting to use pseudorandom in an effect for a joker

[viscid bough]

which looks better, outline or no outline?

[buoyant umbra]

the argumetn can be string or number, but you must have put in an object

[ancient ore]

No outline

[ancient ore]

Ill peep

[buoyant umbra]

I'm having trouble with adding a deck to my mod; I've done the SMODS.Back{} call, but does that even add it to the options or do I have to initialize it somehow?

[ancient ore]

Ah is that the difference

is center an object identifier

[nova finch]

I'm trying to add a custom rarity but whenever I try to set a joker to the rarity it crashes with this message

[elder vapor]

what is your mod prefix and what is your custom rarity?

[ancient ore]

Many lost souls in the chat rn

[nova finch]

like the key for the rarity?

[elder vapor]

yeah

[nova finch]

"jmrcrd" and "album"

[elder vapor]

okay so to apply a custom rarity you have to add your mod prefix

so for you it'd be jmrcrd_album

[nova finch]

ok

[ancient ore]

Ok that wasn't it

Anyone know what i did wrong in that image

[ionic verge]

where would i start to add a joker to the game

[wintry solar]

pseudoseed takes a string, not self, and you don't have a center to look at, replace it with card

[ancient ore]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/tree/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod

[ancient ore]

Ah thanks

[ancient ore]

Theres also a youtube tutorial

[ionic verge]

mhm, thanks

two things before i check that out, is card.lua gonna be useful at all (i presume yes), and second:

its beautiful

[ancient ore]

I haven't used it yet for any of my purposes

[wintry swallow]

thunk-like coding

[elder vapor]

thunk is a really good programmer

[ionic verge]

tbh i presume its fine, just like
i kinda chuckled seeing it

[ancient ore]

I have zero experience in programming but thunk left a pretty intuitive trail for my small brain to understand

[wintry swallow]

It Could Be Better

but it works

[ionic verge]

frankly the game is like 50mb i think its fine to have a little bit of stuff like this

[ancient ore]

What actually is a string?

[wintry swallow]

a piece of text

doesn't matter how long or short it is, a 'string' is just, well, a string of characters

[ancient ore]

Ah alr

[wintry swallow]

all of the message content in this channel is all strings for example

[ionic verge]

or images

[ancient ore]

so am I just replacing "self" with the joker key?

[wintry swallow]

pseudorandom(pseudoseed('whatever your jokers name is'))

[ancient ore]

Oh ok thanks a ton

[wintry swallow]

for instance vanilla uses pseudorandom(pseudoseed('wheel')) for wheel of fortune

you can also directly use pseudorandom('key')

[ancient ore]

What does psuedoseed do?

Awesome it no longer crashes when I pick a card thanks a ton

[wintry swallow]

oh, pseudorandom(pseudoseed('key')) and pseudorandom('key') do literally the exact same thing

[ancient ore]

intesting

[autumn vortex]

I have an idea but I need to know if its possible

Can you like, make hand types, but instead of like playing them to unlock their planet cards, you get a planet card to unlock the ability to play them?

[wintry swallow]

probably

[rare bobcat]

I made it to ante 15 with one of my modded jokers

2 of them from invisible technically

And 2 brainstorms

And a blueprint

Wait wouldn’t this be #⚙・modding-general

I just realized

[gilded narwhal]

check #🎨・fan-art

[rare bobcat]

Is there a way to have custom textures for vanilla files

Easily

And bundled with a mod

And by easily I mean something that I can do within the span of the weekend

Other than the sprites themselves

[ionic verge]

hey real quick just being 100% sure
the lovely injector thing is safe to download right?

[rare bobcat]

Yes

[ionic verge]

just making sure i didnt download the wrong thing

ol

ok

[rare bobcat]

It uses the same technology as a Trojan virus but it isn’t

[ionic verge]

yeah i read that part i just wanted to be sure

[rare bobcat]

You can build the same thing yourself if you’re worried

[ionic verge]

yeah no im good now

i just wanted community confirmation

[livid tapir]

yes
basically it is a trojan, but dw it doesnt interact with the pc it just messes with love games so you can make MODIFICATIONS >:)
so its a friendly trojan basically

[wintry swallow]

it's not a trojan, it's not malicious

by this logic, ReShade is a trojan

[rare bobcat]

It would’ve been funny to tell you you’re cooked but you seem nice and I don’t want to do that to some random dude

Or dudette

[wintry swallow]

Lovely is safe to download though yes

[rare bobcat]

Or non-binary duderino

[ionic verge]

.jkr?
bruh lol

[livid tapir]

yeah, its just similar

[rare bobcat]

I just checked and it’s all of the above

[wintry swallow]

jkr is the save file extension (save files are actually just compressed Lua source code piped through love.data.compress)

[sick sparrow]

how to enable demo mode in balatro full game?

[wintry swallow]

you don't

the demo mode code was removed from the game

[ionic verge]

yeah
i just found it funny he named it that

[rare bobcat]

Time to draw a trout

[livid tapir]

"JUST KIDDING real" files fr

[sick sparrow]

so to add balatro demo you need to get balatro demo from steam and inject it?

[livid tapir]

theres a demo?

[sick sparrow]

yes but it might have been removed

[wintry swallow]

the balatro demo was removed from steam around the time of the full release

[sick sparrow]

does anyone have demo version? i seem to can't find from archive

[wintry swallow]

i wish i had the demo

[livid tapir]

guys like
is there any info at all on how better calc works
like how to use the thing
so that i can port my mod
or should i just wait until they actually put smth in the wiki about it or its more adopted

[rare bobcat]

How do you have multiple joker atlases in the same file

I forgot

Is it multiple SMODS.Altas

[viscid bough]

Is it possible to make custom rarities?

[rare bobcat]

Or all the things inside the same thing

[rare bobcat]

Yes, cryptid did it

[wintry swallow]

yes

[thick panther]

You have all your jokers in one image, then use one atlas for that image. just use pos = { x = #, y = # } to set the image to display.

[viscid bough]

is there documentation for this yet?

[livid tapir]

id assume so

[thick panther]

x and y start at 0 too

[tepid crow]

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

[livid tapir]

tysm

[rare bobcat]

So 0,0 for joker 1, 71,0 for a joker that’s adjacent to it, etc.

[ancient ore]

Alright gang how do you test a joker that triggers on a probability

Wait nvm

[sick sparrow]

does SMODS.Rarity take key as number?

[livid tapir]

no, it doesnt go by px it goes by like the size of each card and the one adjacent to it would be 1,0

[thick panther]

no its 0,0 for joker in top left, 1,0 for joker adjacent to that, etc.

[rare bobcat]

That’s easier

[wintry solar]

this is the start of calculation docs for better calc

[nova finch]

got a new joker done
now have 10 jokers total

[livid tapir]

yes

[livid tapir]

ooh cool
so is it supposed to be beginner friendly?

[rare bobcat]

Do you take suggestions?

[wintry swallow]

this is cool art

[nova finch]

of course!

[nova finch]

thank you! i make it all myself

[wintry solar]

yeah it should be easier than before

[wintry swallow]

all jokers should say 'joker' on them somewhere (aside legendaries) so i'd consider making the text on the weezer blue album joker say 'joker' in lowercase on the top right to match the real cover

every vanilla joker aside the 5 legendaries says 'joker' on it somewhere

[sick sparrow]

as they are transitioning to full game, did they remove the demo code?

[wintry swallow]

probably

setting _DEMO to true does nothing

[rare bobcat]

Toxicity (or Steal this Album, your choice but toxicity is more iconic) - System of a Down
Wonder what’s next - Chevelle
Slipknot - Slipknot
The sickness - Disturbed
Endless hallway - He is Legend

[sick sparrow]

does SMODS.Rarity take key as number?

[wintry swallow]

likely yes

[sick sparrow]

as i know, rarity is a number

[wintry swallow]

hmm

that might not be true

because of

mod prefixes

let me check something

[rare bobcat]

These are some of my favorite albums

[wintry swallow]

no, custom rarities are strings

[nova finch]

even if it did you would still need the prefix so you would have to make it a string anyway

[rare bobcat]

LD-50 by mudvayne is also an amazing album but you should not make that a joker

[ancient ore]

I have 2 variables in Xmult and Xmult2 that call for x10 and x0.01 mult respectively.
How do I make which variable it uses for mult random

[wintry solar]

are you on latest smods?

[ancient ore]

I stink so

Downloaded very recently

[wintry solar]

do lua return { xmult = pseudorandom('joseluckreturn') > 0.5 and card.ability.extra.Xmult or card.ability.extra.Xmult2 }

[ancient ore]

Thanks brotha

Just replacing the current body for return?

[rare bobcat]

Isn’t it Xmult_mod to set the x mult

[wintry solar]

not anymore

[rare bobcat]

Ah

So does that mean my steammodded is outdated?

[ancient ore]

Now its mult vs xmult right?

[wintry solar]

you can still use Xmult_mod

[rare bobcat]

When did this happen?

[wintry solar]

but why bother remembering all the slight differences depending on which part of scoring it is when you can just use xmult now

#bettercalc

[sick sparrow]

SMODS.Rarity{
    key = "gerio_unobtainium",
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Unobtainium', -- used on rarity badge
    },
    pools = {}, -- you are not supposed to get this cards anyway
}
```no getting this card

[mellow sable]

?

[rare bobcat]

Wait

That’s the cryptid mod guy

Is it?

[mellow sable]

m

[rare bobcat]

[livid tapir]

♒ this is the closest thing i can do not being in cryptid and not having nitro lmao

or Ⓜ️

[sacred fern]

Anyone got a fix for the Deck Creator mod? needs updating for the newer steamodded

[ionic verge]

lua isnt going to yell at me if i have the first bracket not be on the same line as the thing its tied to, right?

i just know lua is a little weird with things, and wanted to make sure

[hardy viper]

the main issue is that you're checking if the file exists by reading the whole thing and discarding that, when a similar thing can be done by just checking if the file exists
the second issue is that if the config is empty you get a very nondescriptive "attempt to call a nil value" in main.lua (which you need to request a lovely dump for)
the third issue is that the load family of functions never fail, only returns nil, so you can do

local cfgfunc = loadfile("/config/Trance.lua")
Trance_config = cfgfunc and cfgfunc()

which never fails even if the config is malformed
so basically im just finding an excuse to yell at you for fun because you did something wrong which is okay and acceptable because we all make mistakes sometimes but the REAL reason im upset is because the person who had this issue sent me an incorrect lovely log which happened to have the line mentioned in the crash be an oldfunc() call (which lines up with the original error, attempt to call a nil value) which led to me spending like 15 minutes trying to figure out why tf love.update somehow became nil (that random line that it happened to fall under was my code by the way so i felt responsible for this somehow even though it was the trance thing all along)

rant done

[mellow sable]

lmao

[gilded narwhal]

Hey what's the context for detecting if you are on a specific blind?

[mellow sable]

Balatro mod developer tries and fails to code file loading (real)

[gilded narwhal]

Or rather specific boss blind

[hardy viper]

is trance a lovely mod or are you just not using the smods loadfile

i assume the first one

[mellow sable]

First one

I don’t like making my mods Steamodded-dependent unless they have a reason to be

Even Talisman has partial functionality without it

[gilded narwhal]

Would it be like if G.GAME.blind == "The Needle"

or G.GAME.blind.name

Idk

[ionic verge]

?

[pure quail]

why do decks show up like this when i add 1

💔

[ionic verge]

figured out my answer, it is no, it does not yell at me

in other news: im doing it!

[nova finch]

is there any documentation on SMODS.Consumable? I can't find it on the smods wiki

[cerulean rose]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Center#smodsconsumable

calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual and not context.blueprint then
        if context.other_card:is_suit("Clubs") then
            card.ability.mult = card.ability.mult + card.ability.gain
            return {
                message = localize({ type = "variable", key = "a_mult", vars = { card.ability.gain } }),
                card = card
            }
        end
        if context.other_card:is_suit("Hearts") and card.ability.mult ~= 0 then
            card.ability.mult = math.max(card.ability.mult - card.ability.loss, 0)
            return {
                message = localize({ type = "variable", key = "a_mult_minus", vars = { card.ability.loss } }),
                colour = G.C.RED,
                card = card
            }
        end
    elseif context.joker_main then
        return { mult = card.ability.mult }
    end
end

i can't get the message here to show up on my joker instead of the playing card

[gilded narwhal]

Why does this not work?

Or how can I make this work

[cerulean rose]

what kind of object is that on?

[gilded narwhal]

this is a deck

[cerulean rose]

try removing the check for hands played

since the effect happens after hands are removed the variable would be set on hand 2 and would only apply from hand 3 onward

[warped mason]

I just realized

I have NO idea how to use Lua

[livid tapir]

its awesome :)

[full kayak]

Is there a template anywhere for creating custom jokers? Goal is to simply add one that is a x2 mult just to learn how to mod

[cerulean rose]

check the example mods in steammodded

[full kayak]

Is that on the github page or is that a channel here?

Ah found it on the github! THanks

[wooden nexus]

Question: is there a way to disable the rarity and mod badges? (I don't mean the config option, I mean like... for a specific card)

[cerulean rose]

hm. might have something to do with the bettercalc update

[gilded narwhal]

I'm curious

are the args.contexts any different from the normal contexts

[ionic verge]

what context would i need for looking for money spent in the shop

like context.[thing]

[wind turtle]

how do I debug my joker? like, do I just reroll until I get it or is there a way to make it so a game starts out with it?

[ionic verge]

theres a debug mod that im using

[wind turtle]

nvm (i'm just learning the thing this is not real)

[ionic verge]

real

[ionic verge]

https://github.com/WilsontheWolf/DebugPlus?tab=readme-ov-file
you should be able to use this if you arent already

theres a lot of different keybinds

[wind turtle]

okay so how do i modify mult when my joker triggers

[cerulean rose]

what do you mean by that

[ionic verge]

you need a calculate function

[cerulean rose]

check out the example mods

[ionic verge]

im going through this myself right this second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-4U5TlbxY
heres a tutorial vid im using

[wind turtle]

i am, i just hate lua

Well

[hardy viper]

meow

[wind turtle]

so. why is context null

i have this

it's probabky horrible because. again. i hate lua

[gilded narwhal]

content

[wind turtle]

oh

[wind turtle]

the docs say context

[hardy viper]

content

[gilded narwhal]

yeah I'm saying that you have it as content

[wind turtle]

oh my god 😭

i love coding

[gilded narwhal]

true

[ionic verge]

im trying to check if anything is done in the shop, will this do?

[gilded narwhal]

the only ones that I'm aware of are eval and final_scoring_step but can you use others

[wind turtle]

it's now crashing because extra is null

[cerulean rose]

your config has a semicolon instead of a comma after it

[wind turtle]

my c++ ass is not liking this so far

[cerulean rose]

also instead of defining a custom message just return { xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult }

[wind turtle]

unfortunately this is still happening

[cerulean rose]

when is it crashing

[wind turtle]

when i hover the card

let me try playing a hand without hovering it

the card works but hovering crashes

[cerulean rose]

try starting a new run

[wind turtle]

i just changed the variable to a constant and it works

[faint yacht]

Just if context.buying_card or context.reroll_shop will work.

[gilded narwhal]

Blind reworks

Thoughts?

[faint yacht]

Cartomancer?

[cerulean rose]

could also be "discarding is disabled"

[hybrid island]

Legend, thank you!

[wind turtle]

figured this out btw, i needed to do self.xyz

[warped mason]

My first sprites XD

They're emoticons-

(I am cringing on the inside)

[calm crag]

Hey, how would one have a Joker select a random card in the player’s hand after new cards are drawn?

Not to force play it a la Cerulean Bell but to essentially have the joker be looking out for that card in the next scoring hand

[cerulean rose]

bump

[gilded narwhal]

JOKER REWORKS WOO

(and vouchers)

[hardy viper]

that dusk is NOT helping

[cerulean rose]

why's merry andy lost -1 hand size?

[ionic verge]

question, what's the color you use for the (currently whatever status) thing at the bottom of scaling jokers description?

[sand oasis]

C:inactive

i believe

[ionic verge]

thanks

do i have to change size too?

[cerulean rose]

no

[sand oasis]

not necessarily but you can

[ionic verge]

no

i thought that text was smaller

its not by the looks of it

[sand oasis]

yeah that's its own modifier

s:

[cerulean rose]

any way to add custom characters to the font?

[wind turtle]

so i'm trying to make a shitpost. how do i change the probability when a joker is in the hand like all 6s does?

[cerulean rose]

check the code for oops

[gilded narwhal]

honestly i just forgot to write it

It still has the -1 hand size

[gilded narwhal]

And also the boss blind is +4 discards and +2 hands because

1 hand from beating the boss in one hand
1 hand from grabber
2 discards from beating the boss without discarding
1 discard from drunkard
1 discard from merry andy, as the discard being removed from burglar technically counts as a discard being used, so merry andy was able to "refund" it

[wind turtle]

how would i end up doing that?

[cerulean rose]

extract the balatro exe as a zip

[wind turtle]

this is quite literally my first time making my own mod for anything excluding mcreator

[gilded narwhal]

balatro file -> cards -> ctrl f oops

[wind turtle]

damn its that easy huh

[cerulean rose]

yep

[sand oasis]

yeah it's crazy

[ionic verge]

it is done

though, its just buying anything

which is slightly different

[gilded narwhal]

is it the 2/3 hands played

[sand oasis]

Can someone help figure out why the end_of_round statement is always activating despite it being gated behind chance? Bizarrely the money is always stolen but the message never appears

[gilded narwhal]

idk why it doesn't reset once a blind is finished

[hardy viper]

huh

[gilded narwhal]

Only when selecting a new one

[hardy viper]

doesnt dusk retrigger stuff on the last hand of the round

[gilded narwhal]

Yeah it's been reworked

[hardy viper]

oh

[gilded narwhal]

To trigger after the third hand

Same with acrobat

[sand oasis]

the sort of syntax for adjusting probability is in card.lua

I do not fully understand how to interpret this though

[wind turtle]

it worked

[sand oasis]

nice!

[wind turtle]

finally, the wheel's REAL odds

[ionic verge]

my game crashes here when this is triggered at end of round, is this not the way to increase Xmult on a scaling joker?

using this to define Xmult

[cerulean rose]

ur statement ends with a comma

[ionic verge]

does it not need to?

[cerulean rose]

it absolutely shouldnt

[sand oasis]

do you have DebugPlus? should say why or at least point in the right direction

[cerulean rose]

oh i see whats happening

[ionic verge]

74 being that line

[cerulean rose]

no you dont put the scaling code in the return value

you set the ability value then return

[ionic verge]

i seeeee

it felt like a thing that would happen in return, cus the actual application of that mult does

so this?

[wind turtle]

so i'm trying to make a card repeat like hanging chad, but it crashed. what do i do here?

it's crashing because scoring_hand is null

[cerulean rose]

you also need to check for retrigger context

[wind turtle]

added an error handler for when scoring_hand is null but then it throws this

[elder vapor]

card = self

also what they said

[wind turtle]

so... how

[elder vapor]

change it to card = context.scoring_hand[1]

[ionic verge]

uh

why...?

[cerulean rose]

wdym why

[elder vapor]

context.end_of_round happens multiple times

[ionic verge]

it was supposed to be 1.5x end of this round

[cerulean rose]

oh yeah

it do

[ionic verge]

oh

so how do i make it do it just once?

[wind turtle]

ok figutred it out

it works now

[ionic verge]

i found it

[cerulean rose]

my custom rank isn't able to make straights

[fallen tendon]

how feasible would it be to make a cardarea under the deck?

and also the cards are sideways so they poke out

[hollow locust]

How would I go around increasing odds of a consumable appearing in shop?

[ionic verge]

i did it
its done
it doesnt break

it might not work with blueprint bc i dont know how exactly that works but it works

[cerulean rose]

blueprint calls the calculate function of the joker it's copying with its config
blueprint is distinguished by the fact that it sets context.blueprint to true

[ionic verge]

i seee

[cerulean rose]

also btw blueprint_compat is purely visual, you still need to handle blueprint in calculate

[ionic verge]

so do context blueprint and make it do the things i want it to do?

[ionic verge]

yeah i saw that part

[cerulean rose]

actually you should do not context.blueprint on the end of round check

[ionic verge]

mhm

[fallen tendon]

???

i need to know if theres something weird with the deck

[wind turtle]

ok now trying to add a joker that adds chips when a certain card is played, it once again crashed at attempt to call juice_up (a nil value)

[cerulean rose]

just have card be the card played

check the code for gluttonous joker

but beware that Card:calculate_joker has different parameter names

self there will be card in your function

[wind turtle]

ok changed the return to have card = context.other_card instead of card = self and now it works

[cerulean rose]

+20 markiplier

[sick sparrow]

an moment

[runic pecan]

Is this sprite ok for a joker?

(Disclaimer: methods involved screenshot and resize)

(Maybe I should've do the same for my previous joker)

[livid tapir]

the compression of the art is funny so 10/10

[hollow locust]

We need a mod that adds a new thing to chip calc called markiplier

[wind turtle]

markiplier is exponent

[hollow locust]

Yes.

[wind turtle]

i did also put it in as +20 markiplier

[hollow locust]

dew it

[merry raven]

Hello everybody my name is multiplier

[hollow locust]

@wind turtle Idea

Market Pliers consumable
Allows to swap a joker you own with one from the shop at no cost

[wind turtle]

this is literally my first ever mod

[hollow locust]

Dang

well uhr

Maybe over time(?)

[tacit gyro]

Is there a way to see a joker without having to discover it first? I'm trying to test mine out.

[hollow locust]

discovered = true in the joker's code i think

[tacit gyro]

ah ok. Thank you

[nova finch]

I'm trying to make a consumable that gives a random joker of a custom rarity, but in game it just makes jokers infinitely.
can anyone help? I have no idea why this is happening

[weak depot]

oh this is a consumable i'm so dumb

have you returned anything in the use() function?

[nova finch]

no
idk what that means this is my first time getting this far with smods.consumable

[wind turtle]

i think i'm cooking here

[runic pecan]

Would it be deceptive if I give a joker some positive effects without including them in description?
(Specifically, making a rare joker that holds a hidden mechanic which if you also have a specific legendary joker, the rare one will act as a copy of the legendary one on top of its own effect.)

[sick sparrow]

if you put AAAH?! It's Infinity!? from snow's mod, it will make you instantly lose?

[runic pecan]

rather than 99/100 I’d just say “otherwise”

it could make the description a little bit shorter

[nova finch]

is there any more people that can help?

[cerulean rose]

you are spawning a joker for every center in the game

what the heck is that for loop about

[nova finch]

idk

[cerulean rose]

also use SMODS.add_card to handle other addition stuff

[sick sparrow]

you didn't return true

[ionic verge]

wait wait wait
are those chances inclusive or exclusive currently

500 mult then immediately loses

[runic pecan]

I believe it means
1% loss and 99% 500 mult on first
2% loss and 98% 500 mult on second
3% loss and 97% 500 mult on third
and so on

[wind turtle]

how do i trigger a joker when the hand is played>

[ionic verge]

no no no i mean
can both trigger at once

[wind turtle]

nah it's 99% chance to get +500 and 1% to lose, then 98% to get +500 and 2% to lose, etc etc

[wind turtle]

no

the mult does not increase

i might make it gain for funsies

[ionic verge]

ok i realized i got my wording wrong

are the chances independent or dependent on each other

[nova finch]

ok so i stopped the infinite spawn problem but now it just puts it on top of everything and not in the joker area

[wind turtle]

no

[ionic verge]

i.e. does getting one influence the other
i.e can you get both chances to trigger at the same time or not

ok

but consider

itd be really funny

[nova finch]

it just can be dragged freely

[wind turtle]

it would

[wind turtle]

what the fuck

[ionic verge]

also the really low chance of neither triggering

[runic pecan]

This is why I suggested using the word “otherwise” instead of listing both of the chances

[ionic verge]

ye

[nova finch]

yeah idk why the fuck it's doing this 😭 this should be fine right?

            func = function()
                SMODS.create_card({
                    set = 'Joker',
                    area = G.jokers,
                    legendary = false,
                    rarity = 'jmrcrd_album'
                })
                return true
            end
        }))```

[wind turtle]

so now how do i do random

[faint yacht]

...did you :emplace it? Alternatively, use SMODS.add_card instead.

[wind turtle]

how do i make the loc_vars have a value from config without it crashing? do i do self.config?

[nova finch]

where do i put smods.add_card? do i just put it below the smods.create_card?

[cerulean rose]

replace SMODS.create_card with SMODS.add_card

[nova finch]

oh ok

[faint yacht]

Example:

config = { extra = { curchips = 0, bonuschips = 10 } },
loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
    return { vars = { card.ability.extra.curchips, card.ability.extra.bonuschips } }
end,

[wind turtle]

ok it increases now

so how do i change how many hands the player has?

[faint yacht]

ease_hands_played(number)

[glacial zinc]

so sorry to say this but i think i beat you to the punch </3

[wind turtle]

that worked... once and stopped after i made it random, but the rest of it still works and the message still displays

is there any way for a joker to just. end the game

[hollow locust]

So, I'm tryjng to have a Consumable Type's name show up. I have it made, with a card there, but all that is messed up is the name. It shows "ERROR".

If it helps, the code:

   key = "Testing" --change soon
   primary_colour = G.C.MONEY,
   secondary_colour = G.C.MONEY,
   collectiom_rows = {4, 4}
   shop_rate = 0,
   loc_txt = {"Testing"},
   can_stack = false,
   can_divide = false,
}```

[warped mason]

Okay I have a dumb idea for a joker and need to see if anyone thinks it will be balanced.

It consumes the joker to the left of it except for another copy of itself, add's the sell value to it's multiplier, and then copies itself

[sick sparrow]

how to get use from consumable?

[wind turtle]

when i try to do ease_hands_played(0) it tries but doesn't work

[sick sparrow]

like it only changes function when you enable the settings

[nocturne garnet]

erm

ease_hands_played adds hands

and setting hands to 0 wont make you instantly lose iirc

[nocturne garnet]

you need to return true in an event function, otherwise it repeats forever

and you need to emplace the card in G.jokers (unless smods handles that, i personally dont use SMODS.create_card)

[cerulean rose]

smods only handles it if you use SMODS.add_card instead

[sick sparrow]

try G.STATE = G.STATES.GAME_OVER; G.STATE_COMPLETE = false

[runic pecan]

A joker that eats another joker except its own kind and then goes mitosis?
I'd set it to Rare if not Epic.

Sacrificial Dagger but reproductable

[hollow locust]

so fixed this, halfway

Name shows in collections but hovering on the card itself still pulls up "ERROR"

Think i messed up the consumable itself-

[sick sparrow]

how to get use() from consumable?
like it only changes function when you enable the settings

[runic pecan]

Behold, my second joker:

[stray warren]

How do I put Red Seal's description in the info_queue of a loc_vars function? info_queue[#info_queue+1] = G.P_SEALS.Red isn't working

[molten ice]

info_queue[#info_queue+1] = {set = 'Other', key = 'red_seal'}

seal descriptions are in the 'Other' set

[stray warren]

Thank you

[molten ice]

np

[runic pecan]

How do I make my joker "jump" like bloodstone or other "Played cards [...] when scored" jokers?

[elder vapor]

card:juice_up(0.5, 0.5)

[runic pecan]

Do I put it right above return?

[elder vapor]

yes

[runic pecan]

Thanks

[sick sparrow]

how to get use() from consumable?
like it only changes function when you enable the settings

[runic pecan]

Is the highlighted part correct?

[wind turtle]

i’ll try that tomorrow thanks

[tall wharf]

😭

Canadian English???

[sick sparrow]

replacing balatro's source code with my own tetris does work (has balatro icon)

it will hard to prove but my own tetris is also made in love2d

[tall wharf]

(it's love2d of course it will work)

yep sounds about right

[hollow locust]

Now make 6 jokers, each a letter that spell "Tetris" (Also always Negative)

And when you have all of them in hand, it boots up Tetris

[sick sparrow]

no i'm not making that card
i'm making the tetris joker that produces 2 monomino jokers every round, destroying itself after 4 rounds. these 4 monomino jokers can be combined to random tetrimino jokers.

[cerulean rose]

no

use SMODS.has_enhancement

[hollow locust]

Dang

[tall wharf]

how the hell do i make a config pAGE

[runic pecan]

I already changed it to
"not context.other_card.config.center == G.P_CENTERS.m_stone"

[tall wharf]

(i want to make a textbox that allows you to limit the limit of x of a kind hands

in case

[runic pecan]

Copied from golbat of pokermon, by the way.

[cerulean rose]

use ~=

[runic pecan]

SMODS.has_enhancement(context.other_card, "stone") ?

[cerulean rose]

SMODS.has_enhancement(context.other_card, "m_stone")

[runic pecan]

Thanks

[wintry solar]

Though checking for all stone like cards would be better

[cerulean rose]

depends on use case really

[runic pecan]

So like
"not context.other_card.config.center ~= G.P_CENTERS.m_stone" ?

[cerulean rose]

actually don't use ~= here

i just meant use ~= instead of not ==

[runic pecan]

Oh

[wintry solar]

No like not context.other_card.config.center.always_scores

It might need the stone check too

So put this on the end on the has enhancement part

[runic pecan]

I changed it to look like this

[wintry solar]

Looks good

Are you on latest smods?

[runic pecan]

old-calc

[wintry solar]

You should update and develop on new calc

[runic pecan]

Done

[wintry solar]

Now you can do things like lua return { xmult = 7 } and not have to worry about the messages and stuff

[night pagoda]

How do I get the exact xy position of the center of the card on screen?

[wintry solar]

iirc card.T.x is the top left of the card, so you can add card.T.w / 2 and similarly for y

[night pagoda]

I was trying that but it didn't really work with different screen sizes for some reason

On the other hand G.CURSOR.T.x doesn't behave like that

drawing a circle at those coordinates results in this

and it gets different on different screen width/height

[tall wharf]

😭 wtf is partial flush

i have decided to put a hard limit on this

[granite wharf]

No

You need a flush 100

[tall wharf]

we already have flush 100

[granite wharf]

But 33x3 is 99

[tall wharf]

yes

that is to

not make it error the fuck out

[granite wharf]

But that’s not 100

[tall wharf]

close enough

[granite wharf]

99≠100

[tall wharf]

no

99 = 100

[granite wharf]

Flush 500 when

[tall wharf]

no

100 is already pushing lua

[granite wharf]

But lua isn’t real

[sick sparrow]

well cryptid doesn't support controllers (and it's impossible to control balatro cryptid mod cards that use joker selections with xbox controller/dualshock 4)

[granite wharf]

Don’t use controller controls, use a button mapper

[sick sparrow]

balatro is easier to select specific cards with xbox controller than mouse

because there will be so many cards that is not feasible to select with mouse

like this (126 consumables)

also normally you can't sell the potion from cryptid but with controller you can

[sick sparrow]

here's cryptid code that removes sell button from cursed jokers

    --Really hacky patch to remove sell button for cursed jokers
    local G_UIDEF_use_and_sell_buttons_ref = G.UIDEF.use_and_sell_buttons
    function G.UIDEF.use_and_sell_buttons(card)
        local m = G_UIDEF_use_and_sell_buttons_ref(card)
        if card.area and card.area.config.type == 'joker' and card.config and card.config.center and card.config.center.rarity == "cry_cursed" and card.ability.name ~= "cry-Monopoly" then
            table.remove(m.nodes[1].nodes, 1)
        end
        if card.config and card.config.center and card.config.center.key == "c_cry_potion" then
            table.remove(m.nodes[1].nodes, 1)
        end
        return m
    end
```except this dosen't go well with controllers

1 mere controller breaks cryptid so hard

like you must buy everything then you can buy a legendary but with controller you can bypass restrictions and buy

like the controller is murdering cryptid

xbox controller is selecting phantom cards too (from preventing removal with my unbreakable sticker)

it still correctly handles can_sell()

[night pagoda]

Any ideas?

[sick sparrow]

this is called phantom card

that it got survived from removal

how do i deal with phantom cards, like bypassing the absolute by lovely replacements?

[tall wharf]

🔥

[frosty dock]

👀

[tall wharf]

new gameplay element needs this

I'm sorry

[sick sparrow]

how to get card's area?

it's simple, card.area

[tall wharf]

thank you mr qwertyuiopfgfg

[crisp coral]

what the fuck have you been cooking

[tall wharf]

🔥

[sick sparrow]

this large lua file won't able to handle by playstation 1

[tall wharf]

time to add like 30 stickers

[sick sparrow]

if the carddeck is about to deleted, it marks the card area being deleted and removes absolute card accordingly but it doesn't work for some reason

does card.area return cardarea or cardarea.cards?

[frosty dock]

cardarea

[sick sparrow]

then explain why isn't working

[frosty dock]

I can't if you don't show code

💀

[random sleet]

what the hell is an absolute card

[sick sparrow]

in card:remove()
i used checks for bypassing absolute's ability by checking if cardarea is marked for removal

--in lovely modified cardarea:remove():
self.marked_for_removal = true
--in hooked card:remove:()
if self.ability.unbreakable and not self.area.marked_for_removal then
else
originalremove(self,...)
end

[frosty dock]

remove only takes care of on-remove effect and getting rid of references to the card

the actual remove animation and whatnot already happens in start_dissolve

so I think that's what you want to hook

[bold sleet]

wtf is that?

[sick sparrow]

i already hooked and it still not working

and it's wrong reference

it happens if you exit the run or closing (or changing page on) sticker page

[sick sparrow]

the true reason why it didn't work is because it returns nil instead of true or false (if the function does not end with return, it will automatically append return nil to end of function)

[crisp coral]

well yeah that's how functions work

[sick sparrow]

and, here's some info
truthy values: number, string, function, true booleans, anything else
falsy values: false booleans, nils

[crisp coral]

if you don't return anything then it returns nothing

[bold sleet]

Jelp, my brain is stupid and doesn't know how to make so I can load more than one file for my mod.

[frosty dock]

we have docs for this... SMODS.load_file returns a function

you're supposed to use it like

assert(SMODS.load_file("/contents/"..v))()

[bold sleet]

random bs go!

[frosty dock]

https://tenor.com/view/random-tuesday-i-followed-the-instructions-and-it-worked-instructions-followed-it-worked-read-the-instructions-gif-26855334

[thorny adder]

Fr

Me when I try to code something my way for 4h and look up the tutorial

[random sleet]

oh smods has a file loading thingy now? cool

[tall wharf]

i can't hook to start_up

i wanna add some custom "stickers" that isn't really stickers

ok

maybe i have to put it somewhere else

[crisp coral]

i just lovely patched start_up

[tall wharf]

fair

[crisp coral]

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "game.lua"
pattern = "set_profile_progress()"
position = "before"

this should be right after smods is initialized

[tall wharf]

ty