💻・modding-dev

[tight thistle]

just tried that, it seems like that causes every single event to immediatly play one after the other with no delay

[cedar bronze]

am i forgetting something obvious in terms of the icon not changing (there is def an image file in the folders)

[ionic verge]

what are all the description function things (i.e. the C: X: S: etc)

or where can i find them listed

[ionic verge]

well thanks, but i was asking about the things those can be assigned to

like is there anything other than C: X: and S:?

cus i kinda want a specific thing of my description text shaking

or something

[runic pecan]

You might need to look into Cryptid's codes for that...

[ionic verge]

mmm
would that involve downloading cryptid?

[runic pecan]

No, there's source code online
https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Cryptid/blob/main/localization/en-us.lua

[ionic verge]

to be able to use them

[pastel dagger]

How do you go about modifying the sprites in the game? do i need any particular programs?

[runic pecan]

I use Libresprite, it was recommended to me from someone on this channel/server.

[pastel dagger]

i use aseprite for the purpose of editing the sprites, i was wondering about how to actually replace them in the files, unless libresprite has that functionality? it looks like a drawing program

i've opened the executable with winrar but it doesn't let me make any changes, what else can i use?

[ionic verge]

you can crack open the .exe of the game using something like 7zip

[pastel dagger]

going to try with 7zip

[runic pecan]

Wait, which executable are we talking about?

[pastel dagger]

the balatro executable

in the steam local files

[runic pecan]

And which sprite do you want to replace, and with what change?

[pastel dagger]

i'm trying to replace the file holding the sprites for the jokers, both the x1 and x2 versions, with an altered version i did for some sprites

[runic pecan]

So you're doing a texture pack, now I get it.

[pastel dagger]

oh yes

[runic pecan]

I think there's a texture pack manager mod post in the modding channel, maybe check those up to see if you can get any help from there.

[pastel dagger]

for now if just replacing the files works i can just use that, then i can do the verify file integrity thing to restore to default probably

[tight thistle]

how does the trigger "ease" work? i dont understand the guide's explanation

[runic pecan]

I have a guess.
Are you directly change the sprites of the vanilla jokers? In the folder you extracted from Balatro.exe?

[pastel dagger]

ah, yes, will modifying the game's files directly not work?

[runic pecan]

When you extract an .exe, you essentially create a copy of that thing.

Making changes in the branched out timeline doesn't make any change to your past.

[pastel dagger]

i believe i picked the option to open it instead of extracting

plus, the changes seem to actually have taken place in-game

[runic pecan]

Would you elaborate more about "doesn't let me make any changes"?

[winged quest]

Anybody know if it's possible to make the spawn rate of edition jokers INCLUDING NEGATIVES in shops and booster packs into a variable or something?

[pastel dagger]

when i opened the executable with winrar, anytime i tried to replace a file it then gave me a warning saying the file was corrupted

using 7zip i can replace files

[runic pecan]

That... would not be a correct way to edit those sprites, I think.

The safer way would be drawing a new sprite sheet and link the jokers to the new paths. Which I don't know how to but know it's doable.

[pastel dagger]

seems reasonable, how do i make it so that the game looks at that other spritesheet instead? i don't know LUA but i can probably figure it out if i know which file to look in

oh well, i'll check the files

it's just a joke edit so i'll do it the bruteforce way if i can't find it

[runic pecan]

You may also ask the same question some time later when there's a different set of people on-line. Maybe they can help you.

[pastel dagger]

can't seem to find the file, will ask later

[cedar bronze]

how would one go about making an item create a joker from a list of modded ones? ive made an item that creates a random joker but unsure where to go from here

[winged quest]

Anybody know if it's possible to make the spawn rate of edition jokers INCLUDING NEGATIVES in shops and booster packs into a variable or something?

[pastel dagger]

this is the only balatro mod you need

[foggy carbon]

I'd look at that code for the one voucher that increases their chances (yes I know it doesn't increase negative chances)

[tight thistle]

"add_event also has a third argument, front. This is a boolean that will put the event at the front of the queue. Useful to block stuff already in the queue."

can anybody tell me how to use this?

sounds like it might be what i need to stop my events and base game's events from overlapping

[sturdy compass]

Exodia

[pastel dagger]

Assemble The Bear

If you have all 5 of them it grants x1987 mult

[sturdy compass]

perfect

deploy the freddy

[lethal mural]

so in my mod since its based on dungeons and degenerate gamblers it needs to add cards like 0, 1, 11, 12, 13 etc.
but apparently there's a mod that already DOES that (UnStable, though my spriting of those cards is admittedly alot worse) so i was wondering if ther was a way i could do this without my mod being incompatible with UnStable

[hardy viper]

elaborate on "overlapping" please

regardless if that's true the event you add will always be processed first, before any of the other events in that queue
ideally your event should also be blocking

but blocking is on by default so bleh

[tight thistle]

i made a joker thats supposed plays 5 different text boxes in succession with no interruption, the issue is that for some reason the game events (reshuffling the deck, entering the cashout screen) happen inbetween each text box, causing the text boxes to be misaligned and some missing entirely

[hardy viper]

@weary jungle idk if you figured this out already but set timer to "REAL" in your event call to make it unaffected by game speed

[hardy viper]

is it possible that these text boxes are returning true early

[tight thistle]

what do you mean?

[hardy viper]

okay there's two possible issues i could imagine

• text box event returns true and allows for more events to run even if the text box is still visible and/or
• the events for the text boxes are being added after the previous text box is gone, and not all at once

[tight thistle]

i believe its the latter

[hardy viper]

alright

ideally add the events all at once

[tight thistle]

because all my events are set up one after the other like this

[hardy viper]

if you want to use front (which i don't think you should) youd need to apply them in reverse order

[hardy viper]

ah

secret third issye

that add_event is unreachable because you return early

oh wait

comma

[molten ice]

First of all nooo I've seen your spritework and they looks great, please don't say that aaa
Also, I'm pretty sure I've already seen other mods do something similar like rank 0, 1, and inbetweens as well. Since SMODS applies mod prefix automatically, I'm pretty sure they could have been loaded alongside without any problem.
They would occupied a different slot though, as internally they would count as a different rank

I think the problem part is less so of a conflict between our mods but rather a support for these rank for the other (especially modded) Jokers and boss blinds. (I made UnStableEX handle stuff like odd/even based on the rank's nominal value though, so technically it should made your ranks also works with those by default)

[lethal mural]

ohh hi adsf

[random sleet]

oh man someone else made ranks

im not cool anymore

[hardy viper]

yeah try using front and if that doesn't fix your issue then add those all at once

[hardy viper]

TWO whole users of smods rank api

[lethal mural]

yeah my mod is basically porting stuff from dungeons and degenerate gamblers and apparently i wasnt the first to think of porting the weird number cards it has 😅

[hardy viper]

nevermind three unstable

[molten ice]

lol same inspiration technically

[lethal mural]

i was actually going to use unstable as reference to figure out how to add the ranks in the first place hehe

[tight thistle]

how should i use front?

[hardy viper]

add_event(event, nil, true)

if you're applying them one at a time you don't need reverse order shenanigans

[random sleet]

i added 0,1,11-20,three face cards,21-30, three face cards, þ, and oracle

[lethal mural]

im adding 0, 0.5, 1, pi, 11, 12, 13 and 21
and also making it so negative playing cards are possible to get
(one of the jokers added so far is capable of adding them but they drop at standard rate so they still are very rare)

[random sleet]

never released it tho cuz i wanted to add jokers for em

i made it so my Chance spectral can make negative playing cards

[lethal mural]

DNDG types out pi instead of using the symbol so i did the same thing and it looks so silly

[random sleet]

pi!

[lethal mural]

using pi symbol would have been easier but it would be less funny and also not accurate to the source material

[tight thistle]

sorry i mean, where does the front go?

[lethal mural]

been super drained and tired today but ill probs work on adding these tmrw and then figure out UnStable compatibility (i.e. not having two copies of the same cards) way down the line cus idfk lmao,,

[hardy viper]

true is front

in that message

sorry i shouldve specified

[tight thistle]

GOT IT, thank you, sorry for the denseness lol

[hardy viper]

lol it's alright

[hardy viper]

the number is much funnier

if you change it to the pi symbol ever let me know so i can kill you

[lethal mural]

true!

na the designs for these are likely finalized

i just have to make like

the other suit versions

(and the Nothing suit from DnDG)

[molten ice]

I think having two different versions of the cards are fine if they have different functions imo, cause they have unique function here and changing them would break one or the other

[lethal mural]

if you mean the straights thing i actually wanted to add that to mine too heh

cus uh

im pretty sure in DnDG they have that same mechanic

like pi can be both 3 or 4

it's called "round-up" in that game but same thing really

[hardy viper]

who woulda

[molten ice]

true, that's the reason I came up with the inbetween gimmick to begin with

[lethal mural]

i actually left it open and took a nap

[hardy viper]

that's so real

[lethal mural]

=w=

i was sooo tired

[hardy viper]

id sooner play a game of hockey than spend 7 hours doing anything

[lethal mural]

havent actually done anything with it i kinda just leave it on in the background and forget its there since its just

another program

[hardy viper]

id sooner play hockey than do a lot of things honestly it seems hella fun

and i can skate relatively well

[lethal mural]

ill make sure to credit for any snippets

oh also

[tight thistle]

what, like this?

[lethal mural]

really appreciate your kind comments to me and complimenting the sprites i did that was really nice :)

[hardy viper]

not like that

[tight thistle]

i figured, it crashed my game when i tried it

[hardy viper]

the event is a placeholder for your Event({ stuff

after the closing brace and parentheses of that event you'd put a comma, then nil and true

[molten ice]

it's a little bit jank but technically it's just the weird way of using steamodded already built-in feature so dw about the credits lol

[hardy viper]

so G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({ --args }), nil, true)

[tight thistle]

--args?

[lethal mural]

ohh i see

[hardy viper]

placeholder again

[lethal mural]

i know its common practice in balatro modding but i always feel slightly bad when using code from others

[hardy viper]

anything you normally put in your event

[lethal mural]

feels like theft ,,

[tight thistle]

oh ok, got it

[hardy viper]

more like a gift except instead of it being handed to you it's left on a counter with a paper saying "whoever finds this, take it it's yours"

[lethal mural]

i guess its true

[hardy viper]

that's what I tell myself whenever i steal things from people anyways

[lethal mural]

yeah its different to something like artwork

alot of my jokers actually utilize stock imagery believe it or not lol

[hardy viper]

how does that work

[lethal mural]

aseprite rotsprite function:

https://tenor.com/view/mercy-overwatch-come-here-gif-14280244

[hardy viper]

i have 2 seconds on aseprite i wouldn't know

[lethal mural]

fair enough ,

[hardy viper]

i think i just bought it made a really shitty logo for tmj (that i could have made in mspaint or anything else) and never did anything of value with it ever again

i was gonna compile it but i couldn't figure that out so bleh

[lethal mural]

i bought it before knowing you could compile it but i have literal hundreds of hours in it so i got my money's worth lmao

[molten ice]

I started doing Balatro modding back in around September/October last year when lots of documentation aren't as complete as it is today so most of my modding knowledge are either completely trial and error and/or study how other mods work

[tight thistle]

so uh, question... how many of them should i ideally be putting nil, true on?

[hardy viper]

all of them except the first

[lethal mural]

that's so true even with the documentation that exists today

[hardy viper]

alternatively all of them

[tight thistle]

okay, i did all of them including the first and somethign very bad happened

[hardy viper]

i miss when i could complain about smods not having documentation

now i complain about it not having annotation

[tight thistle]

(it started playing the sound effect VERY loudly, over and over, froze up my game and prevented me from alt tabbing or closing the game without the task managed)

[hardy viper]

next i will complain about it not having a complete luals addon

[tight thistle]

yeah no matter what it always crashes, badly

[hardy viper]

crashes?

can you send your code

[tight thistle]

like, all of it? including all the nil, true that make it crash?

[tight thistle]

also this is what happens, the game freezes and stops working entirely (LOUD WARNING)

[hardy viper]

okay uh

just add them all at once and not nested

idk why its doing that

[tight thistle]

by "all at once", what do you mean

cause someone already told me before to do my events "outside" and all it led to was them not actually working

ill send you my code if you need to look at it

[hardy viper]

so ```G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
--args
}))

--event two
G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
--args two
}))

accidentally pasted the so

my life is over

[tight thistle]

like so?

[hardy viper]

looks good

[tight thistle]

alright, ill keep doing this and let you know if it works

[tight thistle]

i was already told to do this before, not sure why i expected it to work this time

[hardy viper]

yeah idk

[polar owl]

hello balatroians

what code editor should i be using for this whole modding thing

i don't code

(i'm on windows)

[sturdy compass]

Visual Studio Code is probably the option you’d be recommended most

[polar owl]

Ok cool tyyy

[wild patrol]

Notepad++ if you're an elitist
VisualCode if ur a hobbist
Notepad if ur a masochist

[gaunt thistle]

no vim????

use vscode

people who use notepad++ are wild

(not in a bad way mind you)

[wild patrol]

It was a joke

[gaunt thistle]

vim users don't get jokes

[wild patrol]

vim is if u hate yourself

[gaunt thistle]

[silk compass]

ahem..

petition to include the allowed usage of "non-ai OSS" to #📜・modding-rules

well, I guess an oss isnt required so my petition is useless

[polar owl]

i remember why i don't code now

i'm more of an ideas kinda guy

[random sleet]

the lovers

[foggy carbon]

outside of calculate, how do you make a card have a message? I tried card_eval_status_text but nothing happened

[wintry solar]

Can you show the full code for your events?

[tight thistle]

sure thing, good morning

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/vodubibovi.pgsql too large to send in a discord message, apologies

[wintry solar]

That’s perfect

So the reason it isn’t working is because you’re adding the next event within the event itself, so it only gets added to the queue when that event triggers. If you unnest them all it should work correctly

[tight thistle]

is there something im not understanding about how to unnest them? because this is the third time im recommended this

[tight thistle]

would this not be how you do that?

[wintry solar]

Hmmm, what do your add speech bubble and say stuff functions look like?

I don’t think sounds would block future events like that

[tight thistle]

my add speech bubble and say stuff functions? like, how they are in the code?

[wintry solar]

Yeah

[tight thistle]

card:jcbb_add_speech_bubble(text_key,align,loc_vars)
                                    card:jcbb_say_stuff(n,false)```

[wintry solar]

No, what are these functions?

[tight thistle]

what do you mean?

[wintry solar]

I need to see the code for these functions

[tight thistle]

OH sorry

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/okupufohix.pgsql

[vital rapids]

I can have animated consumable cards right? Has that been done before?

[languid mirage]

dont know if anyone did it, but it shouldnt be any different from animated joker cards

[wintry solar]

Do the speech bubbles ever show up?

[wild patrol]

What's a quick way to create a random joker card?

[tight thistle]

yeah, this is what happens

the 4th text box is eaten up by the cashout screen

its supposed to say
"...drag it to the deepest corners of inferno..."

[violet void]

Does it happen to anyone else that the pc freezes completely after starting the game and the lovely console opens?

[wintry solar]

I wonder if it’s the event in the sat stuff function

[tight thistle]

how so?

[gritty dirge]

i´ve got a question regarding changing some of the localization and globals with SMODS to make custom suit names and colours but i´m not sure if i understand the info on the github correctly:

i´m currently making a custom deck with custom art and suits but now i want to change the name of the suits with the en-us localization and the colour of the text with the globals.lua (both changes work with direct injection into the .exe)
since i want to make it semi-public i´ve started making it compatible with SMODS but i´m currently stumped on how to edit/replace the en-us.lua and globals.lua of the game with in-mod alternatives.
Looking at the github documentation i gather that localizations, when in the mod root directory under "localization -> en-us.lua" in this case, should be loaded into the language as well? But do i understand it correctly that i can only input new text with this and not just have it use my .lua?

what i´ve changed in the modded files is:
replace all suit mentions (plural and singular) with their respective counterpart in en-us.lua
changed the HEX codes of the LC default suits to their new colour code

(note: every change was made into the whole standard file, aka the 2 modded files are complete like used in the unmodded game, just the right parts edited)

[wild patrol]

U run the game in window or fullscreen

Sounds like the game going fullscreen but not fully loaded yet

[frosty dock]

Localization files with smods can replace existing text

[violet void]

you think that causes it? weird

[wild patrol]

Not entirely sure

But sometimes programs kinda load a blank window before fully appearing

Run the game in windowed mode see if it still happens

If it doesn't then it's just the game loading in

[violet void]

I was using borderless

[wild patrol]

Borderless still fills the screen

[violet void]

Windowed it is

[wild patrol]

When u say freeze

U mean like everything locks up key presses like windows key doesn't work

[violet void]

Yes, I have to reboot the pc

[wild patrol]

Or just the screen looks Frozen but u can still open task manager

[violet void]

the former

[wild patrol]

So u can still press the windows key

And bring up ur task bar?

When that happens

[violet void]

thats the latter

[wild patrol]

Then yeah just sounds like the game not fully loading

And since ur in borderless full screen

Just looks like ur frozen

[violet void]

I'll see how it goes now

[wild patrol]

U used nvme SSD or HDD?

[violet void]

it happens after restarting a few times

[wild patrol]

Also balatro for some fucking reason really hates discord?

And crashes the game

Maybe it's discord overlay

[gritty dirge]

do i understand it correctly that already existing key localizations are first loaded from the modfolder and if nothing is there it defaults to the standard ones?

[violet void]

SSD

[frosty dock]

localization from the game itself is loaded first, then overwritten with whatever mods provide in load order

that's functionally almost the same though, except for the fact that you can replace keys partially (i.e. change only the name and not the description or vice versa)

[wild patrol]

@frosty dock hey quick question what's the best function for generating a random joker card using the crate card thing

[violet void]

you still havent succeeded

:0

[wild patrol]

No

Game keeps telling me I need to set the ability

[violet void]

how did you fare with smods.add_card

[wild patrol]

Otherwise it turns nil

I got pot of greed working

Right now trying figure out random generation

[frosty dock]

SMODS.add_card { set = 'Joker', key_append = 'whatever' }

wait technically there should be an RNG key

[wild patrol]

Isn't Derek the flag for joker cards?

[frosty dock]

there

[violet void]

is this correct for the RNG key

local new_card = SMODS.add_card({set = 'Tarot', key_append = 'randomteleport'})

[frosty dock]

I already edited the key_append in-?

but yes

[wild patrol]

Ok so this would be for the use function?

[violet void]

I didn't see it, my bad

[wild patrol]

For when the card is used

[frosty dock]

if that's when you're creating a joker, yes

[wild patrol]

Alright

[vital rapids]

Thoughts on using just plain black

vs a background

[wild patrol]

Background looks better but depends on the theme

[vital rapids]

Theme isnt really decided yet

Im going for like an occult type thing

Or perhaps i should darken the background

[wintry solar]

I like the background ones better

[gritty dirge]

so it should grab it out of this localization folder and use it? or am i understanding something fundamental wrong? (this is my first time modding and for now it hasnt grabbed it)

[vital rapids]

I think this might be a good compromise

[wintry solar]

This will look very dark in game btw

[vital rapids]

How dark is very dark

Okay i just compared

I think i have enough contrast here tho

And the background is only supplementary anyway

Adjusted for contrast

[frosty dock]

looks alright, you'd have to show me the files to see if there's anything wrong with it

[gritty dirge]

this is the changed localization (i´ve just used ctrl+H to swap the standard suit names with the custom ones, which worked on direct injecting) (suits are: Peach-Peaches; Ducky-Duckies; Piplow-Piplows; Pumpkin-Pumpkins)

(does this type of changing files also work with the globals.lua?)

[frosty dock]

file looks good, though you don't need to include unchanged keys. Does the mod show up in the mods menu?

other values like from globals.lua you just change in your main mod file

and third what version of smods are you using?

[tight thistle]

i suppose something is wrong

[frosty dock]

maybe something is wrong?

[tight thistle]

maybe, just maybe
something is wrong

[crisp coral]

perhaps, something is wrong

[gritty dirge]

The mod loads correctly, as it shows up in the "mods" tab ingame and the custom Sprite work

[gritty dirge]

That's good to hear, i was hoping that was the case ^^

[gritty dirge]

Should be the latest, i've installed it like 3 days ago from the github directly, am not on my PC currently to check though (windows)

[frosty dock]

releases or main branch?

[gritty dirge]

"1.0.0~ALPHA-1323b-STEAMODDED" says the version.lua of my smods-main

[frosty dock]

yep that's latest, should be all good then

I do recommend removing the parts of the localization you're not changing, just so you're not overriding changes of other mods that load before you

[gritty dirge]

yeah, i figured that as soon as you said i dont need unchanged stuff, i´ll pick it apart when i find the time later, thanks!

[frosty dock]

👍

[violet void]

I am still locked out, but what's the link for the modding wiki discord server?

if its allowed to be shared

[crisp coral]

#1300973742972866660 message

[violet void]

Joined, ty

[long sun]

thoughts on this ability for Shackles?
+250 Chips, forces 1 card to always be selected

[tall wharf]

Cerulean Bell type beat

could work

[long sun]

exactly

[tall wharf]

how does it interact with cerulean bell

[long sun]

i haven't implemented it yet, so i'll guess it forces two selected cards

[tall wharf]

😰

if you see cerulean bell you are COOKED

[long sun]

true :}

maybe just one, then

unsure how the game will handle that

[tall wharf]

this also applies to tarot card selection does it not

[long sun]

no, it doesn't

[tall wharf]

aw shame

could've add +10 mult if it does

or x3

or somth

[vocal verge]

I feel like it wouldn't really do much then unless it forced you to use that card beforehand

[vocal verge]

pretty much similar strength to stuntman

banger

high card builds gonna be lovin that one

[long sun]

awesome!! :D

thanks ^^

[dry bobcat]

hello guys. nice to meet you all. i wanted to ask a question. ive been playing balatro on my windows steam and messing around with game.lua. since now im using macos i couldnt find the file. can i ask you guys where to find it on my macos? thank you for the advance

[tall wharf]

how do i deal with this grey outline

[mystic river]

like this

[sudden dew]

Right click balatro.app, click Show Package Contents. Then right click contents/resources/Balatro.love and click Open With > Archive Utility

[wild patrol]

What was the line of code to add a seperate lua file to the main one

[tight thistle]

front specifically causes a freeze

i dont know if im using it wrong or what but it does not work

[tall wharf]

ah ok

[mellow prism]

aside from manually reordering them in the code, is there a way to reorder jokers you make in the collection?

[dry bobcat]

okay gonna try this. thank you

[tall wharf]

thanks it worked

[dry bobcat]

if im done editing after using archive utility, should i zip them again intoBalatro.love or just save them and play the game?

[sudden dew]

I've never personally modded the game by just altering the source code directly. I think you should zip the contents into Balatro.love again

[wild patrol]

assert(SMODS.load_file('yugiohcards.lua'))()

is this all I need for the assert fuction?

[dry bobcat]

thats why i thought initially, thank you so much

[silver turret]

hi! how would i go about adding a font to a language?

this is not loading the font

the font is located in /assets/fonts/m6x11plusCZ.ttf

[wild patrol]

@frosty dock so getting an error saying that an atlas doesn't exist but it's trying to combine both the atlas of the booster and the card into one as an error?

and nothing in my code is typo'd as what the atlas the error is looking for?

    key = "joeymod",
    path = "joeypacks.png",
    px = 71,
    py = 95
})

SMODS.Atlas({ -- png for yugioh cards
    key = 'TCGyugioh', --atlas key
    path = 'TCGyugioh.png', --atlas' path in (yourMod)/assets/1x or (yourMod)/assets/2x
    px = 71, --width of one card
    py = 95 -- height of one card
})```

both are closed properly

and both pngs are in the right directory

are we just not allowed to have two atlas next to each other?

wait nvm I found the issue it was a typo on my end

ffs

[zealous glen]

Isn’t that “reuse”?

[viscid bough]

Didn’t think about that but that does make more sense

[mystic river]

reduce: 1 in 4 chance for consumable not to be consumed on use
reuse: 1 in 4 chance for consumable to be duplicated on use
recycle: 1 in 4 chance when using a consumable to create a random consumable of the same type

[wild patrol]

you know I haven't figured out how I made the text under booster say yugioh card

and I don't know how to change it lol

How do I change the text under the booster tag?

I honestly can't find it lol

wait I see it

[silver turret]

hi! how would i go about adding a font to a new language?
i cannot get it to set properly

[wild patrol]

reading from the mod name

any way to seperate that or is that kinda hard coded?

[frosty dock]

the properties of the font go in a font table inside the language

[silver turret]

ah ok will try 👍

okay so it works but now it looks like this

[long sun]

is there a context like drawn_to_hand (Blinds) for Jokers?

[silver turret]

but i assume this may be an issue with my font file itself

[long sun]

(i'm making a joker that does something every time your hand is stocked back up to full)

[frosty dock]

is this config_tab or extra_tabs

[wild patrol]

@frosty dock is there away to change the text under booster in the booster packs menu or is it restricted to the mod_name?

[wild patrol]

this what I mean

[tight thistle]

can somebody explain to me in detail how front works?

[frosty dock]

what's a mod_name

[tight thistle]

all its doing is making the game freeze up

[wild patrol]

--- MOD_NAME: Yu-gi-oh Cards
--- MOD_ID: Yugioh
--- MOD_AUTHOR: [elial1]
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: An example mod on how to create Jokers.
--- PREFIX: tcgyugi
----------------------------------------------
------------MOD CODE -------------------------```

[frosty dock]

oh that

you can set a display name

it's display_name for json metadata, if you're still using old headers that's on you

pretty sure it's on the wiki what it is for that though

[wild patrol]

couldn't find anything in the booster section

[frosty dock]

well mod badges are anything but specific to boosters?

it's a global property of your mod

[wild patrol]

Reason using the old method was becauise was the only template tutorial I could find to get started with lol

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Mod-Metadata

this literally exists

[violet void]

It's been for a while but all my display texts have disappeared, what could possibly be the problem?

[frosty dock]

uh

do you have the mod badges config off?

[wild patrol]

@frosty dock wait I though this was something I could put in the smod.booster part

I have two boosters in the same mod

[violet void]

    "id": "CrazyStairs",
    "name": "Crazy Stairs",
    "display_name": "Crazy Stairs",
    "author": ["Roloversion"],
    "description": "New Jokers and new item (Alignments)",
    "prefix": "cs",
    "main_file": "CrazyStairs.lua",
    "priority": -2,
    "badge_colour": "ef9553",
    "badge_text_colour": "6429a9",
    "version": "0.1",
    "dependencies": [
        "Steamodded (>=1.0.0~ALPHA-1310*)",
        "Lovely (==0.6.0)"
    ],
    "dump_loc": false
}```

[wild patrol]

but wanna have them have two different names is what I was saying

[frosty dock]

no like

in your game

[frosty dock]

so you mean the "Booster" badge and not the mod name badge??

[wild patrol]

the part where is says yugioh card

if that is the mod badge then yes

[frosty dock]

yeah that's your mod badge

[wintry solar]

Press 9 iirc

[wild patrol]

is there anyway to change it would I have to make a seperate mod for that lol

[wintry solar]

Debug plus turns them off on 8 or 9

Oh wait I didn’t watch the video nvm

[frosty dock]

you can set no_mod_badges = true on any object to get rid of it and use set_badges to make a new one

[violet void]

it was enabled, I didnt even remember doing that lol
thanks

[wild patrol]

set mod badges go in the .json

[frosty dock]

I don't want everyone using it because mod badges are supposed to be standard, hence why it's not in the docs

[wild patrol]

or is it part of the smod.booster code

[frosty dock]

read the docs again, there's set_badges under API methods on boosters

no_mod_badges goes on the booster

you could also just change the badge to more clearly describe the mod rather than the cards?

[wild patrol]

k_ is the prefix for key

i'm gonna guess?

or is that for G.localization.misc.dictionary

[frosty dock]

yes

[wild patrol]

ok

[frosty dock]

you can also just put a string in directly if you don't need it to be localized
-# (not recommended)

[wild patrol]

    key = 'varg_Thumb',
    loc_txt = {
            name = 'vargThumb Pack',
            group_name = 'vargThumb',
            text = { 'A collection of terrible cards' }
        },
    atlas = 'joeymod',
    pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
    config = { extra = 5, choose = 1 },
    weight = 998,
    cost = 4,
    group_key = 'vargThumb',
    draw_hand = true,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,
    MOD_NAME = 'Joey Cards',  
    kind = { Tarot, Jokers },
    no_mod_badges = true,
    {
        set_badges = function(self, card, badges)
        badges[#badges+1] = create_badge(localize('k_JoelCards'), G.C.RED, G.C.BLACK, 1.2 )
        end,
    }
    create_card = function(self)
        return { set = 'varg_Thumb', area = G.pack_cards }
    end
})```

make sure doing this right

[ocean dock]

ask some questions
how to add new language to mods without modify mods files because i want the localization works normally after the mods upgraded

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Your-First-Mod https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Language https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Localization

let me know if any questions come up

[ocean dock]

thanks

[wintry solar]

Should be C:white for the first, and what does your loc vars function look like?

Why are you using a bizarre way of doing loc vars instead of the standard?

[wild patrol]

I get an error trying to use a G.localization.misc.dictionary

like not a crash error just a big red error badge lol

[frosty dock]

show code

[wild patrol]

I figured it out

apparetnly u don't need the k_?

if ur doing G.localization.misc.dictionary

[frosty dock]

the k_ is just convention

it doesn't automagically get added

[wild patrol]

well I figured it was needed since u need a mod prefix for custom cards for some things

but this will def be usefull in the future tho

I def should update the mod header tho

[tight thistle]

is there a way to see whats happening in the event queue? i really would love to see whats going on with the order these events are being executed

just anything that would get me closer to figuring out why this is working the way its working

[wild patrol]

also a little update to the yugioh part of the mod

scapegoat works

not gonna add joker limit

more fun that way

I still need to learn how to do these text stuff

like x5 logo

and how to change color properly

[zealous glen]

You can refer to vanilla localization

[tight thistle]

nobody knows? dang

[worthy stirrup]

How could i make a mod that replaces the joker art

[frosty dock]

DebugPlus displays the amount of events in queue, you could go off that. Though events are inherently mostly the same shape, so you'd have to either use debug to inspect function data or add other info to the event itself

[minor gyro]

How do i count for spectral cards in context.other_consumeable?

[tight thistle]

oh yeah, i already know that but it doesnt really help me much outside of cases where for some reason the event queue reaches the 10k mark

[frosty dock]

context.other_consumeable.ability.set == 'Spectral'

i think the more effective thing to do is to just add debug logs to the events you're trying to trace

[minor gyro]

thanks

[tight thistle]

that sounds lovely, how would i go about doing that

[frosty dock]

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

but just print also works if you use debugplus

[worthy stirrup]

kitty

[sturdy compass]

It seems like the cat image for the repo has been a very popular change lol

[hardy viper]

best thing to happen to steamodded since 1.0

[minor gyro]

where is that in smods git?

[tight thistle]

i am using debugplus, but how does that change print specifically?

doesnt print just print what you write in it?

[hardy viper]

does print just not work without debugplus? ive always remembered it working fine

[minor gyro]

it shows ingame what is being printed

[hardy viper]

regardless print is overrated use io.write

[frosty dock]

no it does, just not if you're using the smods debug socket for some reason

[hardy viper]

moment

[frosty dock]

wdym

[minor gyro]

context

which page

talks about context

[hardy viper]

joker calculation

[minor gyro]

danke

[frosty dock]

how's that about context though

context.other_consumeable is a card like any other

[frosty dock]

calculate functions actually, i think joker calculation is the outdated one

[tight thistle]

clearly theres something im not understanding, how am i supposed to be using print?

[minor gyro]

      if context.setting_blind then
          if #G.jokers.cards > 1 then
              local wraith_index
              for i, joker in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
                  if joker == self.card then
                      wraith_index = i
                      break
                  end
              end
              local swap_index
              repeat
                  swap_index = math.random(#G.jokers.cards)
              until swap_index ~= wraith_index
              G.jokers.cards[wraith_index], G.jokers.cards[swap_index] = 
              G.jokers.cards[swap_index], G.jokers.cards[wraith_index]
              G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                  func = function()
                      G.jokers:align_cards()
                      return true
                  end
              }))
              print(string.format("[Wraith Joker] Swapped positions with Joker at index %d", swap_index))
          end
      end

[minor gyro]

in this case, it will print what happend in the bottom of the screen

if u have the debug+ mod

[tight thistle]

right

ill see what i can do, thank you

[minor gyro]

I want a joker to check te consum cards for spectral and give mult per spectral card (just like the observatory), but i cannot find the code for that voucher in any of the .luas...

[faint yacht]

if context.other_consumeable and context.other_consumeable.ability.set == 'Spectral'

[wintry solar]

Use the context aure gave you and return your Xmult

[minor gyro]

My problem is the for loop actually, but imma take a look at the game's joker codes and see how they work

thanks

[wintry solar]

You don’t need a for loop

[minor gyro]

really?

ok then

[tight thistle]

nope, sorry, i still dont understand

[minor gyro]

Idk what u want, i just was talking about how the print works in game

[tight thistle]

i want to be able to see whats happening in the event queue, i was told to add debug logs

[violet void]

if G.STAGE == G.STAGES.RUN then

also I finally got in the wiki

https://tenor.com/view/hallelujah-gif-gif-26301934

[minor gyro]

then why does this not work?

the second print is not fully funcional also, but at least it does not crash when i hover, and it just adds mult instead of Xmult (if I put Xmult(mod ) = new_mod it does not work also

[frosty dock]

events get cleared when you start a run, I'm pretty sure

[coral cobalt]

@dry hamlet Are you available rn? I had a question for you if you dont mind and you were super helpful the other day

[tight thistle]

is this what im supposed to be seeing?

[wintry solar]

You’re using joker_main, which doesn’t have other_consumeable

[dry hamlet]

yuhhh

what up

[coral cobalt]

could you dm me so we dont fill the chat too much

[dry hamlet]

yeah for sure

[coral cobalt]

if your not ok with that we can discuss here

[dry hamlet]

go for it

[coral cobalt]

oki cool, your dms are closed tho so you gotta start it

[frosty dock]

i mean discussing here is usually better so others can pitch in to help too

[cedar stream]

struggling to figure out what i need to do here

[coral cobalt]

ok well the baseline is i wanna go into the cryptid mod folder and toggle certain things to only have the more balanced stuff active

but idk how i would do that

i have no experience messing with balatro mods

[cedar stream]

we all start somewhere

[frosty dock]

uhhh don't play cryptid if you want it to be balanced? lmao

[dry hamlet]

oh my b lol

[frosty dock]

anyways cryptid splits its files by item types

[coral cobalt]

well theres some really cool and interesting jokers in there

[frosty dock]

if you go into each file in Cryptid/items/, there's a list returned at the bottom of the file

[coral cobalt]

there just also happens to be some heinous crimes against humanity in there too lol

[cedar stream]

use the refactor branch

[frosty dock]

you can edit that list to remove anything

[dry hamlet]

i don't know much about cryptid, but i do know lua and yeah there's probably a list somewhere you can edit

[frosty dock]

there's also the refactor branch

[dry hamlet]

mr smods would probably be a better help than me lol

[coral cobalt]

i see thats helpful

[cedar stream]

this is what i do with my code

[coral cobalt]

whats a refractor branch idk what that means sorry

[cedar stream]

just add those brackets, then the set of them on the top remove the back space

[dry hamlet]

a different branch on github, it's like a different version of the mod

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Cryptid/tree/refactor

[coral cobalt]

ooooh

[tight thistle]

im still lost on how to use print for this

[frosty dock]

it's an in-progress update of cryptid

[dry hamlet]

https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Cryptid

[orchid thunder]

Can someone help me find a function to detect if any key is pressed

[cedar stream]

code?

[frosty dock]

... wdym

tprint takes a table and returns a stringified version of it

[orchid thunder]

Yeah I can't access the balatro code rn

[cedar stream]

well i figured that

[dry hamlet]

if you click on the dropdown called main on the top left third of the window, you can see the different branches of a github repo

[cedar stream]

i will see what i can do

[frosty dock]

love.keypressed or G.CONTROLLER:key_press

[coral cobalt]

i see

[orchid thunder]

I really need to send a copy to my school computer to look at

[orchid thunder]

How can I mKe it check for ANY key that's for specific key

[coral cobalt]

whats generally different about the rerefacor branch?

[cedar stream]

is there a draft on the cryptid PR's

[coral cobalt]

or refactor

[frosty dock]

wdym

[orchid thunder]

Or is key press just all keys

[frosty dock]

it's called with the key as an argument

[cedar stream]

the refactor adds gamesets so that you can somewhat control how busted the game is

[orchid thunder]

Oh ok nvm I'm dumb yeah thanks

[coral cobalt]

oh dope

[cedar stream]

i only play refactor branch now, cuz that is the best way to test the compat with the mod im working on

[coral cobalt]

ooh ok

whats rerefactor then lol

[frosty dock]

that's just a temp branch based off refactor

[cedar stream]

as i already expect people to play the mod with cryptid

[coral cobalt]

ah ok

[hardy viper]

what kinda print doesn't even print

[frosty dock]

ask

[coral cobalt]

this was all super helpful thanks guys

[orchid thunder]

How can I turn this into a function

[coral cobalt]

oh.

[hardy viper]

same way you'd hook any other function

[orchid thunder]

I'm looking at what crypid does for cry_press but I don't know how controller works

[hardy viper]

can we change text color for important stuff like missing dependencies and the such? is that even a thing we can do

[frosty dock]

local kp = love.keypressed
function love.keypressed(key)
  -- do whatever here
  kp(key)
end

[orchid thunder]

Oh ok

[coral cobalt]

?

[hardy viper]

oh sorry that wasn't directed at you

[orchid thunder]

If it's just key will it detect all keys

[hardy viper]

well it was

but you just have outdated steamodded

[coral cobalt]

ah ok

ty

[hardy viper]

and outdated cryptid but that's not why it's dying

[coral cobalt]

i just downloaded it again lol

[frosty dock]

haven't tried but seems possible

[coral cobalt]

not steamodded cryptid

[frosty dock]

atleast it should be moved up

[hardy viper]

im worried about it maybe being rendered as one big piece of text which would make love.graphics.setColor (or setTextColor i forget) not do much

[orchid thunder]

Thanks I GTG now

[hardy viper]

https://love2d.org/wiki/Text:addf looks perfect

[coral cobalt]

oh this is super cool

thanks for the refracted suggestion @frosty dock, @cedar stream and @dry hamlet

imma test to see if its compatable with some other mods now yall take care

[frosty dock]

the crash info is just collected as one huge string

[hardy crystal]

unrelated question! sorry for butting in.

currently trying to make my custom joker incompatible with Oops! All 6s due to calculation bugs, also just redundancy.

from what i've read and understood, this code should make my joker not spawn if all 6s is in my hand, but is there a way to do the opposite?

    return not SMODS.find_card("j_oops"), {allow_duplicates = false}
  end```

[hardy viper]

why not just don't include oa6 compatibility

[hardy crystal]

right, how would i go about doing that?

[hardy viper]

remove any G.GAME.probabilities.normal stuff in your rng calculations

that's oa6

[frosty dock]

also your code doesn't work, find_card always returns something so you've effectively made your joker unable to spawn ever

[hardy viper]

that's true

[hardy crystal]

that does explain a lot. tbh i really didn't understand how this function worked lol

[frosty dock]

you'd need not next(SMODS.find_card("j_oops")) to check if there's actually anything in the returned table

basically it returns a list of jokers that you have with this key

[minor gyro]

should i use context.before? or context.cardarea = G.consumables (if that exists)?

[coral cobalt]

Ive encountered an odd bug, why are my high contrast cards funky lol

some are and some arent

[frosty dock]

context.other_consumeable qualifies as a valid context by itself

[coral cobalt]

imma mess with stuff a bit to see if i can fix it

[frosty dock]

btw we should maybe add a generic other_main to be able to catch all of these contexts at the same time if anyone ever needed that

[hardy viper]

also worth mentioning that this doesn't stop oa6 from spawning when your joker is present, so you can get both that way
you CAN take ownership of the oa6 in_pool function but that's mod incompat any%

[coral cobalt]

i think its bunco that messed it up for some reason, or this version of cryptid

[frosty dock]

i can make it compat

[hardy crystal]

is there another way to modify probabilities without messing with this array? my joker is the exact opposite of oa6

[hardy viper]

ya in_pool functions probably stack fine

[hardy viper]

ah i see

[frosty dock]

you can just ref whatever it currently is and hook on top of that

[hardy viper]

in that case just set the normal probability to 0

[coral cobalt]

funny

[hardy viper]

all oa6 does is double/half it so

[hardy crystal]

right, but it leads to issues if oa6 is in the mix

[hardy viper]

im not sure i see the issues in question

[hardy crystal]

that's why i just want to make them impossible to be in your possession at the same time

[frosty dock]

there's some weirdness with selling oops, right

[hardy crystal]

mhm

[frosty dock]

i mean you can just make something like G.GAME.probabilities.saved to save the old value and just put that back when you sell it

[minor gyro]

Thanks!

[frosty dock]

oops modifies all values in G.GAME.probabilities iirc

even though only normal is used

holy futureproofing

[dry hamlet]

wait for real?

[coral cobalt]

ah i see what happened with my high contrast cards, bunco adds new suits so thats whats going on

[hardy viper]

when you sell chud just set probability to 1*(#SMODS.find_card("j_oops")+1) idk

[dry hamlet]

i mean if it works lmao

[frosty dock]

i can think of at least one mod that's incompatible with but sure

I still like just making another probabilities entry

[hardy viper]

it's okay nothing ever happens

[dry hamlet]

being in here is dangerous, i'm gonna start another project and never finish it lmao

[frosty dock]

also wouldn't it be 2^#find_card

[hardy viper]

also works

[coral cobalt]

thats gonna be me 100% if i figure out how to mod for this game 😭

[frosty dock]

how does yours work exactly

[hardy viper]

it doesn't

whoops

sorry

i blame the 3 hours of sleep

[frosty dock]

[hardy crystal]

we have egg emoji? sweet

[hardy viper]

true

[hardy crystal]

[coral cobalt]

[minor gyro]

eg

[hardy viper]

cg

[dry hamlet]

i mean i think if i do anything it'll be more ui/qol style, i don't find myself using any gameplay mods

[hardy crystal]

anywho thank you for the help i will try to implement ur code

[dry hamlet]

outside of super simple stuff yk

[hardy crystal]

i'm super ass at lua all i've done with it is some ring racers stuff

[coral cobalt]

paperback and extra credit gamer i assume

love the vanilla mods so so much

[dry hamlet]

i just want to finish the collection before i add anything new, call it pride or ego or whatever but i just don't wanna cheat the collection

[hardy crystal]

just make a new profile ez

[orchid thunder]

I might have fully working code now

[dry hamlet]

probably a good idea

[hardy viper]

i could never

my joker specific searching still doesn't work

that's okay because nobody uses it

but still

[hardy crystal]

just to recap, there's no way i could change the in_pool function for oa6?

[hardy viper]

that is the opposite of what we said

[hardy crystal]

i understand

[hardy viper]

^

take_ownership has steamodded documentation

[hardy crystal]

oh i didn't see that message sorry

[minor gyro]

fuck it my vars is not working imma just delete it and people will need to do the math themselves

[cedar stream]

what would one add to make it so the numbers from a mod doesnt cap at e308 when using talisman

[cedar stream]

?

[minor gyro]

tried to do a thing that is not coded by default in main game and couldn't do it 👍

I have 18 mor jokers to code so I'll go back after if needed

[cedar stream]

is there a public source of this code i can see?

[minor gyro]

a git? not yet, but if u add me I can send u in your dm the file

[main mica]

bro someone copied my shit https://x.com/deathisforming/status/1882535228222427160

jon (@deathisforming) on X

X · Jan 23, 2025, 9:05 PM

[hardy viper]

ive seen it like 5 different times

[main mica]

i came up with it first

[hardy viper]

yeah you don't own a concept

go ahead and sue all of them for the twitter likes

[main mica]

pfft im not salty 😅

[vital rapids]

Nothing ever happens

[wintry solar]

Is this still the spectral thing or something else?

[minor gyro]

It's the spectral but it's fine, it's working as I want

thanks again

[coral cobalt]

So my game seems to crash when i play rusty cards for some reason o.o

imma try a diff version of demo 3

[wintry solar]

Yeah that’s an old calc ortalab install

[coral cobalt]

yup i figured that was the issue

my mistake ty for confirming it

[hardy crystal]

got chudjoker working with oa6, now i'm gonna make a challenge with it :)

[minor gyro]

can i use card:set_edition for jokers?

like

G.jokers:set_edition? cuz mine is crashing

[frosty dock]

G.jokers is a CardArea, not a Card

if you have an actual joker card, yes you can use set_edition on that

[minor gyro]

so i get a value at g.jokers and then use set edition?

[frosty dock]

G.jokers.cards[1] would get you the leftmost joker, for example

[minor gyro]

              func = function()
                G.jokers:remove_card(card)
                card:remove()
                card = nil
                return true;
```that's how gros michael is writen in the example mod

[elder vapor]

posting here since ik help is better asked in this channel

[minor gyro]

ok...

[frosty dock]

idk, at least not if you don't tell what it's doing

[elder vapor]

oh sorry

basically i'm trying to add relics (which act like jokers but are permanent & in a new card area) but i'm having trouble figuring out how to get the card size to be smaller

[frosty dock]

so... they're still card-sized with this?

[minor gyro]

I think u just need to scale them in the atlas

[frosty dock]

try adding display_size with the same value as pixel_size

[frosty dock]

An atlas doesn't scale

[elder vapor]

trying this

still 71x95

[minor gyro]

The wee joker is smaller in the atlas image

[elder vapor]

because the center is scaled down

[frosty dock]

smods version?

[elder vapor]

1321b

would i need to update?

[wild patrol]

Very balanced card

[frosty dock]

oh that's 3 days ago

I think that feature was merged more recently than that

[solar tide]

Hi, someone know why this doesnt create the Joker pinata ? (the key is good) :

local card = create_card('Joker',G.Jokers, nil, nil, nil, nil, 'pinata', nil)
                                card:add_to_deck()
                                G.jokers:emplace(card)
                                G.GAME.joker_buffer = 1 

[wintry solar]

The key is not good

[solar tide]

why ?

SMODS.Joker{
key = 'pinata', --joker key
loc_txt = { -- local text
name = 'Pinata',
atlas = 'pinata',

[wintry solar]

j_modprefix_pinata

[elder vapor]

hmm

[solar tide]

but we didnt create mod_prefix

[frosty dock]

no I'm trippin

[wintry solar]

First four characters of your mod id then

[frosty dock]

I dunno then, though I only tested the resizing on jokers

[solar tide]

ty it work

[elder vapor]

does the resizing only work for jokers?

or for all centers

[frosty dock]

might be something about how you're creating the cards then

it works for other centers too normally

[elder vapor]

hmm

for the collection ui i'm just using the SMODS.card_collection_UIBox func

[frosty dock]

🤔

[lyric blade]

When to do the Card:shatter()? If it is what I should use
I want to make Glass Cards shatter 100% after play (I do NOT want to change the probability). I have the if glass card but just don't know where/at what context it has to be

[coral cobalt]

so for some reason even on the other version the games still crashing

[lyric blade]

I thought returning remove = true would do it but it doesn't somehow. Or wait I got an idea

[coral cobalt]

so odd

[frosty dock]

not odd, you're using old calc mods on better calc

[tepid crow]

Debugplus:

[coral cobalt]

i switched to the newcalc version

OH

i misread

[frosty dock]

one of your other mods is old calc

[coral cobalt]

i seeeee

so i gotta figure out which one is what your saying

[frosty dock]

the crash is from ortalab

[coral cobalt]

i just downloaded newcalc version

its only when i play rusty cards

from my limited knowledge i wanna say the issues are paperback and pampa with the ortalab stuff

imma double check tho

[lyric blade]

I thought this would remove/shatter the glass cards, but it doesn't. What am I doing wrong?

[frosty dock]

you don't get to remove cards during scoring

use context.destroying_card to destroy after play

[lyric blade]

Aaaaah oke thanks

[frosty dock]

Also you don't need a debuff check

[tepid crow]

also I don't think it would be self.debuff 🤔

[wintry solar]

This isn’t the new calc version of ortalab still

New calc is demo 3.1

[lyric blade]

Idk I just saw it and use it xD

[coral cobalt]

highest i see is 3.0

[wintry solar]

Download from main, not releases

[coral cobalt]

which branch?

[wintry solar]

Main

[coral cobalt]

i assume main is "master" for theres

ty

ill let ya know how it goes

:^)

imma do a backflip

[wintry solar]

You’ll need to start a new run

[coral cobalt]

ah ok

ill update you after then

[hardy crystal]

game pulls a nil atlas error when i open my challenge. am i calling my joker wrong? i saw it was j_prefix_key iirc

    key = 'chudchallenge',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Betting Man'
    },
    jokers = {
        {id = 'j_chjk_chud', eternal = true}
    }

}```

[frosty dock]

what's a "nil atlas error"

like at least post the crash log

[coral cobalt]

fixed awesome

thanks @frosty dock and @wintry solar

[frosty dock]

np

[coral cobalt]

[wild patrol]

Finally put my mod on GitHub before something happens to my code

Can't wait to abandon this project in a few weeks

Need to think of some more cards I could slap into this mode

[hardy crystal]

fixed it

[weak brook]

anyone know how to properly intercept the game's controller functionality? tried using this function but the button values it prints from this are always some weird random long string of numbers, but the game code compares it with strings like "dpup". very confused by this
https://i.imgur.com/l8WELPl.png

its extra confusing cause these button values that are being printed below are all me pressing the A button. but none of them are the same. the hell is going on here
https://i.imgur.com/CXkwXO1.png

[tepid crow]

that looks more like dt 🤔

[edgy reef]

That's dt

[weak brook]

huh? oh. did I mess up the function values then?

if i change the print to print dt its the same thing.

weird

[edgy reef]

That should not be happening since all the times vanilla checks it there's an assumption it's a string value.

[weak brook]

yeah i dunno what i did wrong here

ok i fixed it? still not sure how that happened or how i fixed it but its printing the right values now

[tepid crow]

sounds like the file not being saved or something?

[weak brook]

i use IntelliJ IDEA to code Lua so it always saves upon any edit

whatever the case its good now

[frosty dock]

me when I don't notice I'm editing dumps again

[urban veldt]

Any good mods to help with playtesting Jokers?

[minor gyro]

500 base event queue lmao

[tight thistle]

what are these "+[X] more values"?

[frosty dock]

print a specific element and you'll see

[tight thistle]

how?

[maiden phoenix]

DebugPlus

[hushed briar]

do we know how to add the "compatible" indicator to a joker, like on blueprint/brainstorm?

or does anyone know of a modded joker that does this so i can look at it for reference?

[tight thistle]

i still have no idea how to use print, anything that manages to happen is because im throwing out random shit and some of it seems to stick

[frosty dock]

...? I don't think I understand what you're confused about

[tight thistle]

what do you mean by "a specific element"

[frosty dock]

like if you're printing t, you could try printing t[1] to see more closely what an element of t generally looks like

[tight thistle]

adding [1] to my print prints nothing

[tight thistle]

for reference this was print(G.E_MANAGER)

[frosty dock]

like i said printing events won't give you a lot of information, as what they do is always inside a function

[tight thistle]

then why did you tell me to use print?

[frosty dock]

... I didn't say you should print events, did I?

I said you could add debug logs to the events you're trying to trace, whatever they are

[hardy viper]

doesn't every ide have this

/ every text editor

[tight thistle]

could you please tell me how to do that then? because thats what ive been trying to figure out all night long

[hardy viper]

i think even base windows notepad has autosave

[frosty dock]

... you've given nowhere near enough information about what you're trying to do for me to get any more specific than that

[tight thistle]

i made this joker that is supposed to say 5 text boxes in quick succession with no interruption, but for some reason ingame events, such as reshuffling the deck and entering the cash out screen, play inbetween the text boxes, causing them to be misaligned and one of them doesnt even appear at all

what im trying to do is figure out whats causing base game events to play overlapped with the joker's events

[frosty dock]

uhh

are you creating these events inside of each other?

[tight thistle]

not anymore

[frosty dock]

very much seems like a result of that

[tight thistle]

well, its not

[frosty dock]

can I see some code then

it's hard to give instructions on how to debug something if I don't know what you're doing

[frosty dock]

yeah that's just an effect of how you're using delays

[tight thistle]

the delays?

i thought they just controlled the length of each event

[frosty dock]

nvm i can't read

your events are still nested

what you have now is basically

G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
  func = function()
    return true, G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({...}))
  end
}))

with a formatting that suggests the events aren't actually nested

denest it properly and adjust the delays so they don't all go off that the same time

[tight thistle]

how do i "denest it properly"? because ive been told to "denest the events" 4 times, including you, and all 3 previous times they told me "yeah that looks good"

is it something to do with the return trues?

[wintry solar]

The new event needs to be entirely outside of the other event

[frosty dock]

1 (one) event manager call should look like

G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
    trigger = 'after',
    delay = 0.0,
    blocking = true,
    blockable = false,
    func = function ()
        local text_key = 'bodysack_corrosion_1'
        local align = nil
        local loc_vars = {quip = true}
        local n = 5
        card:jcbb_add_speech_bubble(text_key,align,loc_vars)
        card:jcbb_say_stuff(n,false)
        play_sound('jcbb_bodysackcorrosion')
        return true
  end,
}))

what you're doing is put the next event manager call into the return of the previous

you're unlucky this isn't a syntax error, this is because lua supports returning multiple values from a function

so your code tells lua to "the first value you should return is true, and the second value you should return is the return value of this function call I'm making to add another event"

[tight thistle]

so like this?

[frosty dock]

not the formatting of my choice, but yes

[tight thistle]

as long as it works

it does not, gonna try the exact way you sent it now

[frosty dock]

elaborate

how does it not work

[tight thistle]

plays the sound, does not show any of the text boxes, seemingly plays all say_stuff all at once before going into the cash out screen

[frosty dock]

...

the delays don't stack, they all count down at the same time

[tight thistle]

the delays are all set to values greater than the previous one, this still happens

also, shouldnt the first text box at least show up regardless of the next delays?

[frosty dock]

show code again

[frosty dock]

🤔

not super confident with the event manager tbh, but try without blockable = false?

[tight thistle]

not much changes, i believe it locks up the game slightly longer, but doesnt show any of the text boxes

this is so weird

[minor gyro]

is there a way for a joker to check how many OTHER jokers there are that have the negative effect?
local negative_joker_count = 0
for _, joker in ipairs(G.jokers.cards or {}) do
if joker:has_edition('e_negative') then
negative_joker_count = negative_joker_count + 1
end
end
that does not work and crashes...

[austere tree]

Hey everyone! I wanna learn Lua syntax! Does anybody have any idea on idea on how to install Lua on a Windows 10? I tried to look at getting lua 5.4.7 binaries or whatever but it needs to be compiled via Linux, so I'm probably doing something wrong :|. Also, any idea on a good and fast tutorial to learn the ropes?

[frosty dock]

98% of Balatro modders don't have a standalone lua installation, if you were to let me guess

also i wouldn't recommend starting with lua 5.4 if you're looking to make balatro mods

balatro uses LuaJIT with a 5.1 featureset

[austere tree]

Yee but I kinda wanna learn the language overall

[normal crest]

what's the crash log

[austere tree]

Are the differences that big?

I'm used to mod to a game whose language version is way older that the current version

[frosty dock]

i mean there's quite a few

i just recommend learning the versn the game uses if you want to learn it for making balatro mods. otherwise do whatever, really

[austere tree]

I'm very surprised to see that integers and bitwise operators are only available on 5.3 lmao. I guess it's better to just learn 5.1 at this point you're right

[edgy reef]

LuaJIT does take some stuff from lua versions past 5.1.

[frosty dock]

yeah, some

[edgy reef]

You should be able to safely assume that all Lua 5.1 features + this extensions list (minus 5.2 flag required) found here: https://luajit.org/extensions.html

(LOVE uses LuaJIT 2.1 w/o DLUAJIT_ENABLE_LUA52COMPAT flag enabled iirc).

[obsidian nexus]

I am making a joker that, among other things, debuffs all figures
I have no idea about how to do that and came up with this, which does not work

[stark zinc]

Does anyone have a list of Joker IDs so I can make custom OP "challenges" with weird combos of negative jokers and such?

[gritty dirge]

no dice, trimmed both files down to only changed whole parts (aka all of the influenced joker/boss/etc) and only affected hexcodes and neither works (and now the colour of the joker descriptions talking about the suitnames is default black, even when only the localization is in the folder and not the edited globals.lua?)

[obsidian nexus]

use the key of the joker you want

[frosty dock]

it's the keys in this list that are important (j_joker and so on), not the order

[frosty dock]

anything else not working beside the colours?

because for localization colours, there's a separate function loc_colour in misc_functions.lua that defines them

the valid keys for this can be modified without hooking any functions #💻・modding-dev message

[tender gale]

did the way to check a card's suit change with bettercalc

because this does nothing

[stark zinc]

Ok, thats most of it. Now i just need to know how to make them negative and such

[frosty dock]

no that's always been wrong

your Hearts aren't in quotes

[tender gale]

oh damn

[frosty dock]

so you're refencing a global named Hearts that doesn't exist

[tender gale]

its a silly error like that

thanks

[gritty dirge]

the localization doesnt change the text but removes the standard colours of the suit descriptions and the global does nothing as far as i can see

i´m wondering if i edited too much in the localization and accidentally swapped a keyword to a custom one and that causes the colour to fail because it can no longer find the right one?

[frosty dock]

hm can you send me the mod in full?

[autumn geode]

is it possible to make a joker that decreases the level of the hand played?

same way in which the boss blind does

[gritty dirge]

sure, just plop it in this chat?

[frosty dock]

either that or in DMs if you don't want it public

[gritty dirge]

i´ll make it available later anyways and noone i could spoil should be here ^^

(dont worry about the vandalism of the OG joker)

[frosty dock]

hm okay

that mod file is steamodded 0.9.8-shaped

[gritty dirge]

oh you´re kidding me, i´ve gone through a bunch of tutorials on how to mod the textures, might be that they were on the old version

but the textures work

[frosty dock]

yeah there's a compat layer

i don't think it should prevent the loc files from being loaded though?

the globals.lua plopped into the mod folder like this certainly doesn't do anything

[gritty dirge]

the localization and globals .lua are both directly from the game as well, and the modloader says it is 1.0.0 in the version info

[tender gale]

is gain +4 mult for every 5 heart cards scored too good for an uncommon? I want to keep the +4 mult but open to suggestions on number of cards required

[frosty dock]

yeah we've established you're using latest steamodded

[gritty dirge]

wasnt it supposed to go in the mod root folder? i assumed because it is the same in the .exe

[minor gyro]

sorry for the delay, since u didn't @ me at the answer i didn't see...
the first crash happens when i hover it in the collection tabs in the home screen
the second is if in mid game.

[frosty dock]

that works for localization files because smods loads them specifically

[minor gyro]

I saw something like that in the smods git.. I'l try to find it

[frosty dock]

it does seem you're trying to use a changed internal name of the suits in some places

[orchid thunder]

anyone know how i can make a timer work for 1 second no matter game speed

becuase stupid ass dt has to be affected by game speed

[frosty dock]

wait is it?

[orchid thunder]

yep

[frosty dock]

damn

[orchid thunder]

-atleast for undate funtion

[gritty dirge]

alright, i thought it meant that all of the files get checked for edited files in the modfolder

[orchid thunder]

update*

[gritty dirge]

yeah i know i suck at coding and modding ^^'

[frosty dock]

there's no chance to make mods any compatible with each other like that lmao

[minor gyro]

@autumn geode
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/calculate_functions#step-3-returning-effects
it only mentions leveling it up tho...

[autumn geode]

thanks just found it myself and it does work if i return a negative number

now i just need to find the played level hand and dont go off if its less than one or it sets it to 0 lol

[gritty dirge]

i just got to where i am by looking at other modfiles and tutorials to kinda understand what is going on and what to look out for so it can certainly just be an incomprehensible mess ^^' but on direct injection it works like intended, so it cant be THAT wrong... right? Just have no idea how to load them via the modloader

[orchid thunder]

wait

[orchid thunder]

do you know how i could force set the game speed

NO WAY

fuck\

[frosty dock]

i mean you can force set the setting whenever it's changed

[orchid thunder]

how cna i make the jokers eval status text have no delay

[autumn geode]

would anyone happen to know how to get the level of the currently played poker hand i know i can check for if a hand type was played but nothing on the level of it that i can see

[frosty dock]

Alright I think I got it. What you were doing before was replacing the suits across the entire game files, right? so changing internal names would work with that approach, but that's a total mess for turning into a mod

Changes I've made:

• Convert sprites to smods 1.0 format
• Move colour overrides to the main mod file so they actually apply
• Revert any references to internal names, i.e. object keys and colour identifiers
• Remove some redundant localization strings, mostly from collabs

[minor gyro]

hey, Mr.Smods... Do you know how can i check if a joker has a negative edition?
joker.ability.edition == 'e_negative'?
joker:has_edition('e_negative') (I know it ain't this one cuz it's crashing so yh)