💻・modding-dev

[sturdy compass]

That took a little bit of doing

I'm talking about the "Posted" functionality

[naive notch]

I did the art for my first terrain card. I decided to design it to look like a photo. Thoughts?

[elder vapor]

https://tenor.com/view/minor-spelling-mistake-thanos-thanos-snap-dust-gif-16037423944121739362

volcano

[sturdy compass]

I didn't wanna mention it 😭

[naive notch]

no no, gald this got pointed out right away rather than it going unnoticed

this is what it always looked like 100%

[sturdy compass]

[naive notch]

Looks really nice in-game!

[cursive glade]

Sorry, I'm new to modding balatro, so pardon my noob questions here.
I'm working on a joker that can destroy other jokers. I looked at the code for Madness to see how it does it, but when I try that same code to select another joker to destroy, on occasion it'll destroy itself even with the Eternal sticker applied.
I want it to only choose from the jokers currently active and never itself. If there's no other joker to destroy (either by eternal sticker, or some other protection, or it's the only joker), then it does nothing.

[grand sage]

hello I was wondering if anyone could tell me why its giving me an error? I would very much appreciate the help.

[cursive glade]

Failed to collect file data for Atlas Mode_ModernFoods suggests there was trouble finding your atlas info or .png file.
The atlas section for your mod file should look something like this:

SMODS.Atlas {
    key = "Mode_ModernFoods",
    path = "GoldFinger.png",
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}

key is your mod's folder name

[grand sage]

my atlas folder looks exactly like this SMODS.Atlas {
key = "Mode_ModernFoods",
path = "GoldFinger.png",
px = 71,
py = 95

and after I changed multiple other things like name of name of the folder i was getting the same error

[spring osprey]

hey, where in the default code does it calculate what the tarot cards do? i wanna make like an anti strength tarot card but i cant find the code to reference

[cerulean rose]

no, key is how the altas is referenced by other mod elements

[cursive glade]

my mistake

[lucid owl]

what context could i use to make this run once the joker is "acquired"? like when it's bought, spawned, or really just added to the hand in any way. the idea is that it'll double blind amounts once when it's bought, but with the current context it doubles blinds every single round lol

[spring osprey]

context.buying_card

[lucid owl]

unfortunately that would only work for buying in the shop, and there's a definite chance of getting the joker from judgement or other means

[spring osprey]

well then i would assume u would have to make a check to see if it activated

and then not activate it again

[lucid owl]

yeah, that's where my issue lies lol

[spring osprey]

prob in the extra config, idk im new here

[lucid owl]

i wasn't sure how to make it occur only once

it probably does have to do with a simple boolean but nothing was actually going into effect unfortunately

[spring osprey]

something like config = { extra = { activated = false } },

then once it runs set it to true

and bada bing bada boom

maybe im crazy but i think that would work

[tall wharf]

❤️

[lucid owl]

i tried that, for whatever reason it wasn working but maybe that's a skill issue on my part

[random sleet]

error!

[random sleet]

effect is 100% not the variable you want

it's probably key

(self.config.center.key)

(because it's not in ability because funny)

[lucid owl]

i think i'll either have to make a check from scratch, or if i'm lucky i just fucked up the syntax for the applied boolean when i tried it the first time

[tall wharf]

why is life such a pain

[spring osprey]

does anyone know were the default code for the tarot card is, or have a working example of one? im lost there only seems to be good documentation on adding jokers

[random sleet]

-# read my mod

[tall wharf]

-# i changed the thing

[spring osprey]

was this directed at me??

[random sleet]

yeah

sorry lol

[spring osprey]

kk wat ur mod

send the github

[random sleet]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1331462654732144721

[random sleet]

what are you actually doing here? like whats this fucntion

[lucid owl]

bumping this once before i head to bed if anyone has an idea

[spring osprey]

tysm

[tall wharf]

a hook to Card:generate_UIBox_ability_table()

[grand sage]

hello does anyone know why when I try to start the game it gives me this error (Im trying to make a custom joker) [SMODS _ "src/game_object.lua"]:363: Failed to collect file data for Atlas Mode_ModernFoods

[naive notch]

Ok making art was a fun break but its time to go back to the code trenches

[wintry swallow]

how do card references work? when do i lose the pointer?

[tall wharf]

i just made my own function to help myself

works wonders

[spring osprey]

what do i use to set the id of a card?

        selected_card.base.id = selected_card:get_id() - 1

this isnt crashing me but its not working either

    use = function(self, card, area, copier)
        local selected_card = G.hand.highlighted[1]
        selected_card.id = selected_card:get_id() - 1
    end,``` i feel like im doing something wrong

[cerulean rose]

add_to_deck

[lucid owl]

as in context.add_to_deck?

[cerulean rose]

no

[lucid owl]

or wait, would that be card.add_to_deck

[cerulean rose]

its a separate function

[lucid owl]

ohhh

[runic pecan]

How do I access my mod config value?

[tall wharf]

i think SMODS.current_mod.config

[runic pecan]

So SMODS.current_mod.config['config name']?

[tall wharf]

config key i believe

do not count me on that i haven't touched anything related to config yet

[faint yacht]

SMODS.current_mod.config.farts also can work.

[woeful tundra]

ive been digging around and can t seem to find how people make consumeables be added to consumables instead of being used right away from booster packs

[naive notch]

How would I go about changing the sticker on my playing cards?

[grand sage]

im 90% sure the code for the joker is wrong somewhere does anyone know what might be cyuasing problems?

[runic pecan]

Bad news: SMODS.current_mod.config won't work in patches.

[tall wharf]

is this new calc

[tall wharf]

check if smods.current is valid first maybe

like i would check cascadingly

SMODS -> SMODS.current_mod -> SMODS.current_mod.config

[runic pecan]

I think it's because the patched code is inside the main game files so there's no "current_mod" to speak of.

[grand sage]

what do you mean by new calc?

[edgy reef]

SMODS.current_mod is only ever true when loading mods.

This is code outside of that

[runic pecan]

There are different versions of SMODS calculation code

[edgy reef]

You need to check for SMODS.Mods[<mod id>].config

[grand sage]

whats the difference?

[runic pecan]

Not sure how much, but as far as I've heard it's plentiful.

[tall wharf]

new calc is newer and more up to date

[sturdy compass]

And more efficient

[tall wharf]

anyhow

more word puzzle in balatro when

[grand sage]

I was using the example mod on github as a base but ive been looking and following all the guides so i would garner a guess and say new calc

[faint yacht]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/tree/master/Mods Such?

[grand sage]

yes

[runic pecan]

Good news: I've learned how to separate the text boxes.
Bad news: They are... a bit too separated.

[naive notch]

I'll fix the error later but I got a sticker in the game. It doesn't do anything yet but the text is there.

[sturdy compass]

This just looks wrong lmao

[woeful tundra]

I just feel like the card is trying to do too much lol

[tall wharf]

this is how it feels working with CSS

[sturdy compass]

TRUE LMAO

[tall wharf]

and also tailwindcss

[crisp coral]

have you played lingo by any chance

[tall wharf]

nope

i should add that

[crisp coral]

:walcomebuck:

[tall wharf]

hmmmm'

maybe i can put this in the game

[crisp coral]

no.

the one on steam

because this lingo is literally wordle

[tall wharf]

nope

[crisp coral]

[tall wharf]

ok

i am adding trivia to the game

oh boy do you not like trivia

the capital city of Senegal is Dakar

[runic pecan]

Now it's separated correctly.

[tall wharf]

please add the rounded background back

[runic pecan]

Yep, workin on it

[tall wharf]

time to patch the entire source code

[primal robin]

[tall wharf]

ok well then lemme write some trivia question as a test

[sturdy compass]

hey I knew that

[tall wharf]

i bet you don't even know the capital city of

Namibia

(i just looked it up it is Windhoek)

[runic pecan]

There.

[tall wharf]

😌

[sturdy compass]

That one I did not know

[tall wharf]

just a silly trivia blind

i think that could be fun

right???

[sturdy compass]

I wonder if there's a point where you start using external APIs or libraries to generate your blind puzzles lol

[runic pecan]

I think I'm gonna make a separate mod to handle multi_text_boxes

[tall wharf]

there has to be a point right

[sturdy compass]

Probably

[tall wharf]

istg minecraft modders will make their own library to make their mod

just to make people download two mods

smfh

im joking some libraries are in fact useful

[sturdy compass]

the yung's api in question

[tall wharf]

terrablend

[sturdy compass]

eh, I've had my issues with terrablend lol

[runic pecan]

No,
I do this because it can be compat with other mods if the authors choose to.

[tall wharf]

look i come from modding minecraft i had a bit of stigma for library mods

aka half the modpack consists of library mods

[versed swan]

me trying to download the scrimblo bimblo modpack and having to download 23548139 libraries including poopshit library, teamsigma library, library library, mojangsucksihatemojang library, mr skibidi library...

[random sleet]

(i have my own library mod)

(but it's mostly so that ppl can utilize the mechanics i make in their own mods and not depend on the content)

(idk if anyone will but it's open as an option)

[versed swan]

I want to say that we should make like a single library for a bunch of convenient features that anyone can refer to, but I worry that it will just lead to this situation

there are 52 standard libraries
"let's make a singular library that everyone can reference to so we dont have so many libraries"
there are 53 standard libraries

[tall wharf]

i was gonna make cursed item as a library mod

where you can obtain fire as item

[tall wharf]

https://xkcd.com/927/

xkcd: Standards

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

[random sleet]

guess what chat

[tall wharf]

in this case it is better they are incompatible

[tall wharf]

what the fuck

[crisp coral]

ODDITIES WOOOOO

[tall wharf]

i should add better art to my mod

i am terrible at art so i just look at things and draw

[random sleet]

inside you there are two wolves

[tall wharf]

anyhow

[naive notch]

I give up for now. I will go to sleep knowing the thing that beat me was stickers

[tall wharf]

btw the letters in my mod are not actually stickers

every playing card comes with one

[crisp coral]

imagine actually making stickers

[tall wharf]

true

[crisp coral]

(none of my card modifiers are smods objects

[random sleet]

ugh the stupid "save item from pack" code is broken again AUGHHHHH

[naive notch]

Im trying to make a new card modifier and was told stickers is the best way to do it

[random sleet]

is there a clean way to do this yet

[sturdy compass]

The unicorn horn is fantastic

[random sleet]

narwhal horn

i've got zero idea what it does

[sturdy compass]

Potato potahto

[random sleet]

but it's there

[sturdy compass]

Narwhals are unicorns of the sea. Unicorn horn

[naive notch]

i can make the stickers fine but the problem is idk how to put them on my playing cards

[runic pecan]

So currently my main issue is to make them having different width...

[runic pecan]

Looks much better

[woeful tundra]

Welp, not what I was looking to do...

[tall wharf]

there we go

everything should be replaced correctly

[tall wharf]

bro turned himself into gold funniest econ ever

[woeful tundra]

I got an even worse mess up coming right up:

[tall wharf]

Depleted!

[woeful tundra]

I struggle to get consumables to destroy themselves cleanly

[tall wharf]

it's fine

my game crashed without showing the crash screen

[woeful tundra]

cleanest ive been able to do it, and it does it way too early, but the effect still does what it needs to

[violet void]

Hi, is there a way to make a custom Booster guaranteed to appear in the first shop with smods?

[tall wharf]

show code :>

[woeful tundra]

    name = "Hand of Midas",
    key = "ancient_Midas",
    set = "ancients",
    atlas = "leapfrog",
    cost = 4,
    destroyed = false,
    config = {extra = {remaining = 3, destroyed = false}},
    pos = {x = 6, y = 0},

    loc_txt = {
        name = "Hand of Midas",
        text ={
            "Turns the next {C:attention}#1#{} scored cards into {C:attention}Gold Cards{}",
        },
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.remaining } }
    end,

    
        can_use = function(self,card)
            return(false)
        end,
        calculate = function(self, card, context)
            if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
                if card.ability.extra.remaining >= 1 then
                    card.ability.extra.remaining = card.ability.extra.remaining - 1
                    context.other_card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.m_gold, nil, true)
                    return{
                        message = "Touched!",
                        card = context.other_card,
                        focus = card
                    }
                end
                if card.ability.extra.remaining <= 0 then
                    card:start_dissolve()
                    return{
                        focus = context.other_card,
                        card = context.other_card,
                        message = "Depleted!"
                    }
                end
            end
        end
    
}```

[wintry solar]

Just put the destruction in context.after

[tall wharf]

ye

[wintry solar]

Or

Put it in a function in the return if you want it to deplete after the third change

[tall wharf]

func = function()
dissolve?
end
?

[wintry solar]

It would need to be in an event, but yes

[violet void]

oh eremel do you know if smods allows this or should I go with lovely patches (following buffoon pack)

[wintry solar]

That’s not a smods feature afaik

[violet void]

lovely patching it is then 🔨

[tall wharf]

damn so first shop will have 2 forced packs

[violet void]

fair point, I might have to add one more slot in the first one

[tall wharf]

I'm really proud of myself for figuring out how to add UI elements

literally feels like CSS

[night pagoda]

I had a specific case for this, so all I had to do to fix this is to not close the old pack iirc

[woeful tundra]

ok, so I was making events sound harder in my head

[lucid sun]

this worked a treat thank you and john smods 😊

[native cargo]

Are Suits stuck in the pool? Or is there a way of taking a custom one out and only allowing them in certain decks? I've tried adding the in_pool = false in side the suit constructor(? I'm a java dev, don't really know what to call it), but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

[frosty dock]

in_pool should be a function, not a bool

the suit is available and in deck when it returns true or isn't a function

[native cargo]

okay, that makes sense. Thank you!

[maiden phoenix]

Thoughts on this held consumable? Too broken, too specific, too underwhelming?

[worthy anchor]

i want to generate a card from a small pool of jokers (like "any joker in my mod") but, when the joker is randomly added, still have it generate at normal rarities (i.e. still usually generate a common card and such). is this something that's easily doable with create_card and normal stuff and i just need to understand something i'm not currently understanding, or is this gonna be An Issue

[random sleet]

hee hee hoo hoo
twice the goodies for you

[viral stream]

how would i count for enhancements in the deck? like with steel joker, i tried to look for how steel/stone jokers is set up in src but it's specifically set for steel_tally/stone_tally so how else would i count for a modded enhancement

[viral stream]

imagine a run with 6s and perkeo that would be 🤑

[maiden phoenix]

stone_tally is counted in the update function

Example with stone joker

if self.ability.name == "Stone Joker" then 
            self.ability.stone_tally = 0
            for k, v in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
                if v.config.center == G.P_CENTERS.m_stone then self.ability.stone_tally = self.ability.stone_tally+1 end
            end
        end

[maiden phoenix]

Perkeo makes most consumable broken anyway

[viral stream]

true it would be a fun run though

[maiden phoenix]

Who needs Cryptid rigged when you got infinite bread

[random sleet]

when you have like 4 bread

that keep expiring

[maiden phoenix]

When the bread turns solid after 1 picosecond 😔

[random sleet]

when the astro isn't

[maiden phoenix]

Me when the first card of scoring in a modded null card

[random sleet]

if it's aikoyori's letter deck it'll still upgrade the suit

but i do check SMODS.has_no_suit so when they get on fixing that, it'll work properly lol

(and suit levels will stop applying to them also lol)

[maiden phoenix]

What if you made a suit level up specificaly for no suits? 🤔

[random sleet]

that is a nonsense statement

you cannot index an array at nil

[woeful tundra]

is there a way to check if someone has 2 or more cards in their hand selected, similar to how some of the tarot cards do

[random sleet]

is this for a consumable? there's config.max_highlighted that I think will take care of that for you

[woeful tundra]

yeah, it is, and thanks!

[viral stream]

sorry, im being stupid and cant figure it out but how would i then count something to update, would it be the calculate function and if so what sort of context? i have a enhancement called m_blr_wisp that i'm trying to count here

[maiden phoenix]

I gave you the name of the function

[viral stream]

oml i was puttign update in calculate amazing 😭

ok ty

[maiden phoenix]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Joker#api-methods in case you need details

[merry raven]

What's the ability.set for Seals, Stickers and Editions, Enhancements is "Enhanced"

Oh it's just "Seal" and "Edition" respectively, not sure for Stickers

[violet void]

why didnt thunk use the config.card_limit 😭

[wintry solar]

card counting in update 😭

[frosty dock]

woo hardcoding

[merry raven]

No one is immune to "if it works it works"

[viral stream]

what would you have done it as sorry its just me being stupid again as usual 😁

[frosty dock]

none of those define a card's ability

[merry raven]

Huh

I'm just like checking a card's modifiers

[wintry solar]

Do it in loc vars and calculate, there’s no need to count them every frame

[viral stream]

ok got it to work perfectly thanks

[woeful tundra]

actually got more done than I thought id get working, granted most a simple

artwork is not my thing, so that will come later

[violet void]

relatable

[vital rapids]

Whats the real difference between an enhancement and an edition, like would there be a reason to pick one over the other?

Curse, like in gungeon, big blinds have a chance to be boss blinds, each point of curse gives x0.2 mult(min 1)
Max 9 increases chance of cards being cursed.
Cursed cards cannot be destroyed and score half their chip value
Cursed cards have a 1 in 10 chance of giving 10$ when scored

And which would best fit a mechanic like this

[violet void]

sounds like an enhancement

[wintry solar]

they're just different ways to modify a card, there's not really a difference in what they do

[runic pecan]

How do I make my config toggleable in-game?

[vital rapids]

I see

I'll go with enhancement for this one

[merry raven]

G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        trigger = 'after',
                        delay = 0.1,
                        func = function()
                            local new_rank = math.ceil(playCard.base.id / 2)
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(playCard.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            local rank_suffix = new_rank < 10 and tostring(new_rank)
                                or new_rank == 10 and 'T'
                                or new_rank == 11 and 'J'
                                or new_rank == 12 and 'Q'
                                or new_rank == 13 and 'K'
                                or 'A'
             
                            G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
                            local new_card = copy_card(playCard, nil, nil, G.playing_card)
                            new_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..rank_suffix])
                            G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
             
                            for i = 1, 2 do
                                table.insert(G.playing_cards, new_card)
                                G.hand:emplace(new_card)
                                new_card.states.visible = nil
                                new_card:start_materialize()
                            end
                            return true
                        end
                    }))

Trying to make a Joker that divides a Pair into two clones for each card but with their ranks halved, but when the clones get made, some ghost cards get created, and the cloned cards have this particle stuck to them. If I played the cloned cards they just go back to my hand flipped.

Any insights?

[manic rune]

Touched! 😭

[woeful tundra]

its midas touch 😛

[manic rune]

the midas touch's allegations going crazy

[woeful tundra]

[viral stream]

this one's more of just a general lua question but im making mods without knowing lua 😁

local function getMult(enhanceType)
    local enhanceCount = 0
    for k, v in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
        if v.config.center == enhanceType then enhanceCount = enhanceCount+1 end
    end
    return enhanceCount
end

could i not just pass center through enhancetype? as there's other jokers with similar effects based on x cards in deck for different enhancements just thought it would be better not to hard code the count for each one and just do something like this getMult(G.P_CENTERS.m_blr_wisp)

[fresh igloo]

hey every time i put the Deck builder mod into my modfolder it shows this when i start balatro
Bild
already did a fresh install and reinstalled smods and talisman
and lovley installed itself
oh and i put the versions.dll in the game directory of Balatro
i rly have no clue what else to do

[frosty dock]

this deck creator is outdated and doesn't work on current steamodded

there's a fork that should be updated

this one, i think https://github.com/Kenidur1561/Balatro-DeckCreator

[fresh igloo]

i dont get it

why are there so many problems with the smod and its versions

[frosty dock]

that's not a problem with steamodded

that's just deck creator

[fresh igloo]

oh so the mod is just scuffed

should i install the old smod cal and retry

?

[frosty dock]

this isn't an old calc vs. new calc problem

deck creator is way older

https://canary.discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1325492282421547018 I'm under the impression from this thread that the fork I sent above should work though?

[fresh igloo]

nope

[fresh igloo]

i think it is a new error code

[frosty dock]

apparently you need this version? idk

[fresh igloo]

now it works

thank u so much

but how did u know/find the version i need

teach me sempai

[frosty dock]

i knew off the top of my head that the fork existed, i just didn't also check the thread at first to see that there's a different version posted there (which is ahead of the one on github)

[fresh igloo]

i rly dont understand what u mean be fork

and what threat do u mean spasifficly

[frosty dock]

this post in the modding forum https://canary.discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1325492282421547018

a fork is just someone else's modified version of the original code

[fresh igloo]

ah now i get it

Thanks for the help ;3

[ionic timber]

what's the "correct way" to use probabilities (in a way that is compatible with "Oops all 6s" for instance)

[random sleet]

G.GAME.probabilities.normal

it's the "1" in "1 in X chance" effects that gets modified by oops

[ionic timber]

Alright, thanks a lot mate!

[wintry solar]

👀

[crisp coral]

fucked up and evil

[sick sparrow]

here's the api you are looking for
https://www.grac.or.kr/WebService/GameSearchSvc.asmx/game?op=game&gametitle=balatro&display=10&pageno=1

if the rating isn't 19+, then mult x100

[icy cobalt]

If I want to set the reroll cost to 1 with a joker, how can I do that without impacting the reroll cost when the joker is sold?

[ionic timber]

what's the best way to delete a card in hand , (the hanged man style, with the animation that come with it) I can't find a way to use remove_card() , and remove() does work but without the animation

[frosty dock]

start_dissolve

[ionic timber]

is it the function that remove it or that plays the anim ? (like, should it be used with remove() or should it be used alone for the described purpose ?)

[frosty dock]

it does both

[ionic timber]

okay, just making sure ; thanks man , appreciate it

works like a charm , thanks again

[old bane]

is there a way to replace jimbo's sprite? i don't want him to appear in my shops but i keep on seeing him everywhere

[cursive glade]

What's the proper way to have a joker show a message? Like when it destroys a card, or adds to mult or something? card_eval_status_text keeps giving me an error

[frosty dock]

just return the message in your calculate function

[viral stream]

thought to myself 'oh why can't i find canio in the code?' 😭

[random sleet]

custom card layer,,,,,,,,

(no they're not stickers in disguise)

[frosty dock]

[random sleet]

card layer api when /j

[wintry solar]

It’s been something I’ve toyed with

[royal ridge]

shoutout to shadow_parrallax

[hardy viper]

everything is british

[wintry solar]

Not everything

Looking at you, consumeable

[frosty dock]

gluttenous_joker

[hardy viper]

?

[random sleet]

a lot of things are just wrong

[royal ridge]

to make it worse, it's referred to as parallax in other places

[random sleet]

arent there even some spots where consumable is used in vanilla code

[royal ridge]

negative_consumable apparently

[random sleet]

oh yeah for uh deck backs

consistency is for chumps hee hee hoo hoo

[icy cobalt]

Do we have a start of shop context?

[random sleet]

me when i mod an entire card layer in in 3 hours because i thought it'd be funny
(still need to make them all have unique effects rn they're all just X3 Mult lul)

[wintry solar]

No

[icy cobalt]

Is there a reasonable alternative?

[wintry solar]

It depends what your effect is

[icy cobalt]

I'm just looking to set the G.GAME.round_resets.temp_reroll_cost to zero when the shop starts

[viral stream]

making a joker that just gives 3$ every time a card is added or destroyed, it works normally but when using hanged man it only procs once from the 2 deleted cards how would i fix that

[cursive glade]

so, that's just one message per calculate?
What If I want it to say multiple messages like making decisions in a multi-step if statement?

[frosty dock]

also very much possible as of better calc

[random sleet]

return {
  message = "Hee Hee!",
  extra = {
    message = "Hoo hoo!",
  },
}

this can be repeated ad infinitum

[frosty dock]

linked list mentioned?

[random sleet]

i'm not mentioning whatever the hell a linking list is and you can't make me

[hardy viper]

who up linking they list

[random sleet]

-# help now i have to code 12 card upgrades

[frosty dock]

don't you link my list

[hardy viper]

[dreamy thunder]

how to disable jokers in custom blinds?

[viral stream]

bumping on this one rq

[prisma loom]

Is this a proper way to make description for cards?

it seems like it doesnt work

mb I did something wrong with prefix/key?

need help

[viral stream]

nvm

[prisma loom]

ok :D

[viral stream]

that's in locale my bad

[prisma loom]

yeah

Basically what I understood is that its more cleaner to use a separate file for all descp instead of writing loc_txt for each joker/card in main.lua

and it has better functionality

[viral stream]

ok this may be dumb but try rename the locale file to en-us.lua

[prisma loom]

It worked!

:D

[cursive glade]

Random question. If Madness doesn't have any joker available to destroy that's active (eternal, to slice, etc.), why is it still gaining x0.5 per small/big blind? Is it destroying a joker in_pool?

[wooden badge]

Madness is just programmed to gain Xmult regardless of joker destruction

in the text it is written as such

[cursive glade]

ah, makes sense

[frosty dock]

it doesn't need to destroy a joker to gain mult

madness is worded roughly as "gain mult and destroy a joker", whereas dagger is the other way around

the implicit rule is that only the former is a condition for the latter

[wooden badge]

implies that the second event is reliant on the first event

with dagger, if it can't complete destruction then there is no sell value to add if that makes sense

gaining .5 xmult can just happen

[cursive glade]

yeah, it's that and that gets it. I thought the effect worked something like "Destroys 1 Joker when Small/Big Blind selected. Gains x0.5 when a joker is destroyed". The way it's currently written makes more sense.

[wooden badge]

For your own effects that could be a gray area with this, something like 'Do A to do B' probably shows most concisely that B happening relies on A's completion

'Do A and do B' just means they both happen (or at least try and happen)

[wooden badge]

Unless the specifics of B's text already imply that A needed to happen, like dagger

[manic rune]

now that i think about it

is there a way to turn balatro completely upside down lol

[devout pewter]

How would one go about learning how to code mods from the ground up?

[manic rune]

for one, you should learn lua as a coding language first

and when you are familiarized with it, you can start checking out the steamodded wiki, balatro's source code, example mods, and such to understand what to do next
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Your-First-Mod

[devout pewter]

thanks

[manic rune]

np, feel free to post your problems here when you find yourself troubled too, there should be a lot of people willing to help you

[old bane]

i know this is like super late but how would i use this in the lua file? I wanna make something similar to 'The Wheel' but for a Joker, and I saw this, but idk how to use it >_<

[zealous glen]

The code is for a lovely patch (.toml file)

To use the new context, you program just like for any other context

although I do recommend changing the name of the context

[old bane]

i know, i already put the patch in lovely, but how would i then use the new context in a mod?

[zealous glen]

Like this

[old bane]

how would i do this then

cause i dont wanna get it confused

[mystic river]

i didn't do that, i picked up lua by writing my mod :p
this probably only worked because i already had a basic understanding of general coding principles

[manic rune]

i had like, 2 years of experience coding on roblox before trying out balatro modding 😭

luau and lua r pretty much identical so it didnt take long for me to actually make my first functional mod lol

[viral stream]

is setting a random joker's edition to negative just :set_edition('e_negative', true) ?
i've been trying to make one where when defeating a boss blind it has a 1 in 2 chance of giving negative to a random joker but idk what im doing wrong in making it

[manic rune]

yep

[zealous glen]

just change vic to your mod's prefix

[manic rune]

card:[that]

[viral stream]

do you know what i'm doing wrong in here? i thought i could just take the logic for madness and just make it negative instead of destroying the card

  if context.end_of_round and G.GAME.blind.boss and not context.blueprint then
    if pseudorandom('machina') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal / card.ability.extra.odds then
        local negativePool = {}
        for i = 1, #G.jokers.cards do
            if G.jokers.cards[i] ~= self and G.jokers.cards[i].eligible_editionless_jokers then negativePool[#negativePool+1] = G.jokers.cards[i] end
        end
        local negativePick = #negativePool > 0 and pseudorandom_element(negativePool, pseudoseed('machina')) or nil
        return {
            negativePick:set_edition('e_negative', true)
        }

[manic rune]

hm, wait a bit, let me try

[cedar stream]

if i want to define a suit in a different way would i do G.suits = or G.GAME.suits

[prisma loom]

What does 'collect repititions' mean?

can someone give an example?

[random sleet]

when the game is going to retrigger something, it figures out how many times it will retrigger it before it does anything else related to scoring that card

so it looks at all possible effects (jokers and seals by default) that can grant a playing card retriggers, and tallies them all up, then gets to scoring

[prisma loom]

Thanks! But what "context.individual = true" is responsible for?

[random sleet]

indicating the timing of the context, individual means "on a playing card"

[prisma loom]

oooh

that sounds a lot easier to digest

[random sleet]

no wait thats not right cards in hand get individual too dont they

[prisma loom]

it says it goes through all scoring cards and held in hand cards

[random sleet]

yeah that makes sense

[prisma loom]

basically 'scoring' or 'held in hand'

trigger

[random sleet]

you can check context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play for played cards, or context.individual and context.cardarea == G.hand for held in hand

if you want to narrow it down

[prisma loom]

thanks!

that makes sense

Can 'context.other_card = [CARD]' used for specific suits?

and if there are multiple, should it look like context.other_card = Spade, Diamond or I have to type out each individually

?

[random sleet]

so context.other_card (while we're talking about context.individual anyway) is going to be the playing card actually being scored

not the name of it or anything, the whole card object

you can check whatever values you want thereof, i believe there's a card:is_suit function?

[prisma loom]

yeah

this wording

[cedar stream]

yea there is

[manic rune]

ok, sorry for being a bit late since i was a bit confused over something

here, i think the code should be like this

[random sleet]

so that would look like context.other_card:is_suit("Diamonds") or whichever

[manic rune]

if context.end_of_round and context.cardarea == G.jokers and G.GAME.blind.boss and not context.blueprint then
         local pool = {}
         for i,v in pairs(G.jokers.cards) do                                                          
            if not v:get_edition() and v ~= self then
               pool[#pool + 1] = v
            end
         end
         local randomJokerChosen = pool[math.random(1,#pool)]
         if randomJokerChosen then
            randomJokerChosen:set_edition('e_negative',true)
         end
      end

[viral stream]

i'll give that a try, thanks

[cedar stream]

here is how i use it

[prisma loom]

what is main_scoring?

[random sleet]

main_scoring is the context for when a playing card scores itself

it's used for enhancements and other card upgrade effects

[prisma loom]

so I cant use scoring_hand for this?

[random sleet]

context.scoring_hand isn't a timing context

it'll just have all the cards that are actively being scored (i.e. are part of the scoring hand)

there's two kinds of contexts

and it's annoying that there's not really much obvious difference

[prisma loom]

an array of them, right

[random sleet]

but some are meant for timing and some are just ways to get information about things happening at the moment (i.e. context)

yep its an array

or table or whatever lua's calling them this month

[manic rune]

whats the difference between an array and a table

💀

[random sleet]

i'll tell you when you're older

[manic rune]

😭

whaaaaa

bros gatekeeping like this is the story between bees and birds bruv

[random sleet]

context.other_card is just that; the other card.
it's the card your card is being "compared" or "checked" against; usually meaning it's the impetus for the context being calculated

[manic rune]

oh, real quick

[prisma loom]

So one is for "when" and the other is for "what"

[manic rune]

whats the difference between "self" and "card"?

[random sleet]

all four letters

next question

[manic rune]

i had this assumption thinking "self" means the whatever is using the calculation, but turned out it was "card"

i havent figured out wtf is self yet 💀

[dreamy thunder]

bump^

im trying to disable every joker in hand

[random sleet]

so you see, words in programming languages only mean things when they're told to

[elder vapor]

the card itself?

[random sleet]

if you're looking at base balatro code, or writing a function that's an extension of the Card object (or other vanilla objects) you'll likely use self more, since the notation object:function() is the same as object.function(self)

[cedar stream]

so how does card:is_suit work with custom suits

[prisma loom]

OHH
I understand it now
game looks at the card being scored and compare it to what I typed in

sounds logical

[random sleet]

but for smods code, you'll usually write functions with (self, card, ...) in the function definition

this is because the self here isn't a card

it's the center; the SMODS object you're defining

self is "this object"

[worthy anchor]

-scrolls up to see what I missed- she link on my list till I incorrect buzzer noise

[random sleet]

the tricky part is keeping track of what object "this" is

[manic rune]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

yeah, i think i understand it a little, thanks

[prisma loom]

Is it some constant?

that you shouldnt change

[random sleet]

no it's just a variable name with this special property

[prisma loom]

so its a name, gotcha

[random sleet]

if you're working within a SMODS object, you probably don't want to change self

not because you can't, but because it probably means you're doing something wrong

[manic rune]

i think it works the same as verdant leaf

[prisma loom]

So if I need to check if poker hand contains X, I use scoring_hand? Lets say I want Joker to check if poker hand contains a card of each suit, what do I type in? Should I add: context.scoring_hand and context.other_card:is_suit("Diamonds") and context.other_card:is_suit("Spades")... etc. ?

[cedar stream]

can i see where you are using card:is_suit

[prisma loom]

there's not much here yet

[viral stream]

this pretty much works but it can trigger itself which i thought this would prevent right?

[manic rune]

oh, you should change the "self" to "card"

i just noticed that, sorry

[viral stream]

awesome thank you

[manic rune]

no probs :D

[cedar stream]

card:is_suit goes in a if statment

[manic rune]

just a small thing, but you dont really need to use "context.joker_main == true", you can just use "context.joker_main" and it means pretty much the same thing

[naive notch]

Does anyone know how you would write code to put a sticker on a playing card?

[mortal arrow]

Hi guys i wanted to try to make a mod but how do i do that ? I know nothing about balatro modding

[cedar stream]

stickers are read as abbilities if i remember correctly

[random sleet]

no, context.other_card will have no meaning here in context.joker_main. you could instead iterate over context.scoring_hand, and count how many of each suit appear, then check it against whatever parameters you wish. vanilla's flower pot may be helpful to you to look at; all vanilla joker code is in card.lua in the balatro executable (which can be opened with 7zip :3 )

[prisma loom]

Are
context.other_card:is_suit("Diamonds")
and
card:is_suit("Diamonds")
the same thing?

[random sleet]

here card is your joker, so i imagine you probably dont want to do that

context.other_card would mean the playing card being scored if you were in context.individual, but this check appears to be in context.joker_main

where i forget if context.other_card even exists but if it does it's probably just your joker again

[random sleet]

while technically both of these are valid statements to make, it's pretty nonsensical to ask what the suit of a joker is

context.scoring_hand has what you need; loop over it with ipairs or something idk

[dreamy thunder]

im trying this but cant figure out how to use it

[prisma loom]

So this part of the code (from Flower Pot) checks for wild cards in played hand and counts if hand has certain suits in it (at the end)

[dreamy thunder]

i meant to reply to this

[dreamy thunder]

^

[manic rune]

mmm i never actually coded a blind before, let me try to make one with that function (probably will take a decent amount of time since im relatively new, dont have high expectations 💀)

hmmmm

@dreamy thunder how do you spawn a blind using debug menu?

[dreamy thunder]

using 3

[manic rune]

huh, thought it would be different, lemme try

[dreamy thunder]

i hate blinds

[manic rune]

its probably this tbh

but the problem here is

i dont know how to get a blind to function to begin with

so i cant even test it out

:sku

...like, what is this?

[dreamy thunder]

im just as confused as you are

[cerulean rose]

don't set_debuff manually

[manic rune]

oof

hmmmmmmm

the playing cards got debuffed too 💀

[dreamy thunder]

when i tried only playing cards got debuffed

not the jokers

😭** **

[manic rune]

alright sooo its actually this

the only thing left here is to figure out if theres a way to see whether "card" is a joker

uhhh

is there a way to do that?

[frosty dock]

card.ability.set == 'Joker'

[manic rune]

thanks

:D

@dreamy thunder it works now

[dreamy thunder]

thanks!

[manic rune]

recalc_debuff = function(self,card,from_blind)
      if card.ability.set == 'Joker' then return true end
   end

[ionic verge]

how hard would it be to combine hands and discards into one as an ability for a deck?

[manic rune]

i remember a mod being able to do that, so its plausible, though i forgot which 😭

something like, if you have no discard left then it will use your hand to discard, vice versa

[prisma loom]

can I use set_ability with scoring_hand?

how could I apply set ability to all scoring cards?

[manic rune]

i dont think so, no

[storm kraken]

for i=1, #context.scoring_hand do
blah blah blah i forgot the rest 😭

[manic rune]

its just this

context.other_card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.m_wild,nil,true)

[ionic verge]

for i,v in ipairs(somethingscoringhand) do
v:setability(yadayada)

i think

i v ipairs is so so so good

[prisma loom]

for this?

[manic rune]

huh

didnt know context.scoring_hand exist

💀

but uh, wait

[prisma loom]

I dont know either

I need to check if poker hand contains a card of each suit first

[manic rune]

mhm, got it

[cerulean rose]

flower pot

[prisma loom]

yeah

[ionic timber]

how to actually call smods.change_base() ? like, putting a str for a suit doesn't work so I guess it's a specific type but after looking for 30min I still don't know what to put instead

[prisma loom]

oh nvm

you send the right stuff

it works now

[manic rune]

oh lol

i never used context.scoring_hand so i was a bit worried context.other_card wouldnt work

so im kinda typing out your entire code here for me to try out first 💀

[prisma loom]

one problem tho

Midas Mask turns cards into gold before they start giving score

[manic rune]

oh

so you want it to turn into wild cards before scoring?

[prisma loom]

but my code makes it so that card becomes Wild right when it scores

[prisma loom]

It basically makes no difference but yes

for consisntency ig

[manic rune]

yeah, got it, let me try out smt

[cerulean rose]

can you show the full code

[ionic verge]

i have a specific thing in mind that i want to clarify, i specifically want it to like change the ui of the hands/discards to be one box that has one counter that counts for both discards and hands

(and then everything that gives one or the other adds it to that one mixed counter)

[cerulean rose]

it would probably be best to keep them separate internally and then just add them for the hud

[ionic verge]

mhm

makes sense

[ionic timber]

elseif random_effect == 3 then
                -- Remplace des cartes
                local random_num = math.random(1, #G.hand.cards)
                local SuitChosen = PickRandomRank()
                local NumberChosen = PickRandomCard()
                for i = 1, random_num, 1 do
                    if #G.hand.cards > 0 then
                        local random_card = math.random(1, #G.hand.cards)
                        --G.hand.cards[random_card]:start_dissolve()
                        SMODS.change_base(G.hand.cards[random_card], SMODS.Suits[math.random(1, #SMODS.Ranks)], SMODS.Ranks[math.random(1, #SMODS.Ranks)])
                    end
                end
            
                return {
                    message = "CAr..Card ?replac.Z.?e "
                }

            end

I just don't really know how to get a table for every suits in the game , saw something similar to that in the code but it doesn't work unfortunately (also don't mind the message, it's intentional lmao)

[naive notch]

Im trying to put stickers on playing cards through a consumable but it crashes everytime

[ionic verge]

just whatever achieves the intended effect

[cerulean rose]

use suit keys (ex. "Clubs")

[ionic timber]

it doesn't actually work , that's the thing

[cerulean rose]

also tables like SMODS.Suits aren't indexed numerically

[manic rune]

alrighttt, so

you want to change the "context.scoring_hand" in the first if statement to "context.before"

and it should work

ah, and change your "context.cardarea == G.play" to "context.cardarea == G.jokers" too

[ionic timber]

yeah I figured, I created a table with the suits string and tried to access one randomly and still nothing , I figured it doesn't accept strings for some reason

[old bane]

how would i make it so that a joker has a chance to flip cards over and keep them flipped over?

[naive notch]

like keep them flipped between rounds?

[cerulean rose]

can you show code for that?

[manic rune]

:flip(), i dont think they will be flipped back if you dont flip them again anyways

[cerulean rose]

set_ability is for enhancements

[ionic timber]

simply "local suits = { 'Hearts', 'Diamonds','Spades','Clubs'}" at the top of the file, and accessed it like suits[math.random( 1, #suits)]

[old bane]

just for the singular round, i'm trying to make it so that a Joker gives good X mult but the downside is that whenever you draw cards they have a chance to be flipped over

[naive notch]

flip()

[cerulean rose]

what's with the quotation marks?

[naive notch]

I did that on accident last night

[prisma loom]

it breaks everything! :D

now game crashes

[naive notch]

do you know how I would set stickers?

[ionic timber]

mistake while sending the message

[cerulean rose]

set_STICKER_NAME(true)

[manic rune]

😭

wha

thats odd, whats the error?

midas mask works under the same context too, so its weird how yours just crash

[prisma loom]

like this?

[manic rune]

oh, you gotta change the "context.other_card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.m_wild,nil,true)" part this time

[frosty dock]

Sticker:apply(card, true):?

[manic rune]

for i,v in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) do
v:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.m_wild,nil,true)
end

replace it with that

[ionic timber]

nvm I fixed it for some reason it works if I use a function , do you just know by any chance if there's a way to flip the cards after modifying them ?

[manic rune]

remove the "and context.individual" if it still crashes, though im (kinda?) sure it wont affect anything

[cerulean rose]

look at how strength animates

i say strength specifically because its easiest to ctrl-f

[ionic timber]

yeah I figured it would be easier to look into strength specifically

thanks for the help btw !

[prisma loom]

I works now!

thanks <3

[manic rune]

nice :D

[old bane]

for the little tooltips on the side that say related cards (for example if a card creates a specific Tarot card it'll say what that Tarot card does) is that automatic or do we have to do that ourselves?

[cerulean rose]

you have to do it manually

info_queue[#info_queue+1] = YOUR_CENTER_HERE

within the loc_vars function

[old bane]

ah gotcha

[open aspen]

is there a template for creating joker cards

[shell lagoon]

check the steamodded github page, there's a lot of documentation on how to start making jokers, and there are some example jokers that you can take code from if needed

[open aspen]

i meant art wise

i swear there was a thread in this discord

[shell lagoon]

oh, i used the atlas from the example jokers for the sizing

[open aspen]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1250386587691388989

found it

[shell lagoon]

wow that's really useful, wish i saw that before doing two joker arts already lmao

[naive notch]

Ok I give up on stickers for now, not enough people work with them so using them makes my life way harder. Im just gonna make these editions for now and once I have a better idea of how things work in lua I'll try and see if I can make stickers work again

[shell lagoon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/905648601156423691/1335868379604717619/image.png?ex=67a264a0&is=67a11320&hm=30ee514913f395ac23fcdb6042f8db6190bec6188f8b55eb69b18f2463d10261& i wondered why the background on the left one looked wrong, it's too dark

[prisma loom]

Is this correct? (I want to implement custom sfx)

It doesn't seem to work tho :(

[open aspen]

its great

had an idea for a joker

note the word joker on the edges

[twilit cargo]

Try adding your mod prefix to the key in play_sound()

[shell lagoon]

https://streamable.com/ds4qp4 these two jokers in action together are a stone generator

[shell lagoon]

i love that

what does it do?

[open aspen]

no idea yet

[naive notch]

x e mult

[shell lagoon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/905648601156423691/1335559093175320628/Screenshot_2025-02-02_022718.png?ex=67a1ed55&is=67a09bd5&hm=e5aa96c28b9d97f34df182857ad4a2237e9ffb5fd0147c75f4e1e297d192c37c& function of the globe one, it might be a little bit busted

[wintry solar]

A little?

[shell lagoon]

okay a lot busted

i might nerf it at some point

it's only cards played not cards in hand but still, very unbalanced and that's the point

i've updated it to state that since i took that screenshot

[prisma loom]

didn't help

unfortunately

[ionic verge]

how would i have a deck modify the starting deck like checkered and ancient do?

specifically i want it to do this

[violet void]

how does one mess up the saving system, my game isn't saving anymore welp

debugplus save states are broken too

ok it was this

[frosty dock]

(self, args)

[ionic verge]

any thoughts?

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/Aurelius7309/SixSuits/blob/master/SixSuits.lua#L242 check this out as an example

[ionic verge]

cool

[violet void]

that fixed it, ty

[cerulean rose]

https://github.com/DigitalDetective47/strange-pencil/blob/6ce9224d93bc9d1f8214a44f4088232c12adc288/decks.lua#L1

G.GAME.starting_deck_size = #G.playing_cards is important to make sure erosion works properly

[dreamy thunder]

what to use to edit the discard ammount?

[wintry solar]

<@&1133519078540185692>

[dreamy thunder]

oh well

[frosty dock]

ease_discard

[mystic river]

how do you destroy unscored cards? context.destroying_card doesn't seem to interact with them at all

[dreamy thunder]

thanks

[wintry solar]

nothing interacts with unscored cards

[mystic river]

well that's inconvenient :T

[wintry solar]

we could maybe add it as an optional feature

@frosty dock thoughts?

[frosty dock]

doesn't sound like it adds a lot of overhead

so long as it doesn't interfere with existing calculation, i don't think it'd need to be optional

but sounds nice to have in smods

[frosty dock]

on another note... https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/pull/428#discussion_r1936446211 is this something that old skins do? if not i think i can just get away with checking for outdated

[cerulean rose]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Suit-and-SMODS.Rank#utility-pools-and-randomness

[wintry solar]

I'm not sure what any old skin stuff does tbh

[frosty dock]

fair. i assume you were referring to new skins that use hc and lc palette keys then?

[ionic timber]

thanks , I've kinda fixed my issue but this might be cleaner, I'll try it

[wintry solar]

yes

[frosty dock]

then I'll just make it a fallback i guess

the other case should cover it if it's not an elseif

[wintry solar]

though I'm not sure on the need to use hc and lc on custom skins

[frosty dock]

i mean it's bad to have them be magic values

[naive notch]

is it possible to make cards with multiple enhancements?

[frosty dock]

steamodded allows cards to act as though they had multiple enhancements, added by means of a joker (i guess we could support other sources of extra enhancements, but as of now we don't)

[wintry solar]

you could have modifiers do it too right?

<@&1133519078540185692>

[karmic creek]

aww shit here we go again

[wintry solar]

2 in 15 mins!

[naive notch]

Originally I was gonna use stickers to function as a new enhancement without interfering with the original ones but I couldn't figure out how to actually get them onto my playing cards

[cerulean rose]

[raw geyser]

How would you destroy a card after playing but before scoring? Just remove it from scoring_hand and G.play.cards?

[frosty dock]

🤔

[wintry solar]

ewwwww

[frosty dock]

yeah it's terrible

[hardy viper]

medium contrast 🔥

[open aspen]

how does blueprint decide whats compatible

[hardy viper]

blueprint_compat on the center

[frosty dock]

except that's just how it decides if it should display something as compatible

[hardy viper]

yeah thats what they asked

[frosty dock]

the actual compat happens in code

[open aspen]

follow up, can i modify that? id like my card to not work with all stuff blueprint does and also not work with blueprint

[frosty dock]

got me a better way?

[wintry solar]

I'll have a think

[hardy viper]

idk what u mean by this

[wintry solar]

do we definitely want the toggle rather than a config value on the actual palette?

[open aspen]

ok

[frosty dock]

you set blueprint_compat = false on your joker and check not context.blueprint in your calculation

[frosty dock]

this is just for cards that aren't replaced by the deck skin

[wintry solar]

yeah that's what I mean, we could have a config that controls the lc/hc-ness of the unchanged cards

[open aspen]

hmm, how would the first line change anything?

[wintry solar]

like it you're using a hc skin, why would you ever want lc other cards

[open aspen]

like, it seems like 1 line to control all of that is a bit weird

what if i changed my card to copy the right most card just as an example

[frosty dock]

#1209564621644505158 message i just don't want it to have to be jank like this that everyone won't do in their own skins

[frosty dock]

as i already said, it only controls the display

[mystic river]

blueprint_compat doesn't control "all of that", it just controls the part where blueprint says it's compatible
context.blueprint means "i am currently a blueprint copying this card", so you put not context.blueprint in your calculation function in appropriate places

[wintry solar]

I was thinking something like hc_others = true to toggle it

[open aspen]

ah

i realize what the miscommunicaton is

im making a card that has a function similar to blueprint

so this card should 1. be able to copy the effects of other cards similar to blueprint, and 2. not be able to copy blueprint or be copied by blueprint

i can do the first one

[frosty dock]

then you'd need to check if context.blueprint_card is a blueprint

[open aspen]

im just curious if i can make it so this card cant copy blueprint

ykw

i realized

this is so easy

[frosty dock]

or check if the card you're trying to copy is a blueprint^

[open aspen]

after saying that last part out loud

yea

[frosty dock]

whichever way

[open aspen]

i just do this (addresses the part where it cant be copied)

wait i have a question

like in vanilla, if i took a blueprint and a brainstorm

and nothing else

and put the blueprint on the left

what happens

[frosty dock]

absolutely nothing

there's no effect to copy, and they stop looking after going too deep

[open aspen]

i ask because the card i was making is like blueprint but it copies a different card so in theory u could do the same situation with my card

[frosty dock]

too deep being however many jokers there are

[open aspen]

ah so it would actually recursively loop and the game will just stop it?

after a while

[naive notch]

So if I switch "m_gold" to "element_fire" it should apply my custume enhancement to the card, correct?

[frosty dock]

m_modprefix_element_fire

[naive notch]

ty

[frosty dock]

where modprefix is whatever your mod prefix is (duh)

[prisma loom]

Thanks everyone for help! here's the showcase :D

@manic rune <3

[naive notch]

Worked perfect! (I have to change the spirit because it was made with the intend of being a sticker orignally)

[frosty dock]

chat i think i messed up

[raw geyser]

Can you remove a card before scoring?

[frosty dock]

no

[naive notch]

Can a card be destoryed mid scoring?

[frosty dock]

no

[raw geyser]

Can a card be destroyed post scoring?

[frosty dock]

yes

[raw geyser]

We did it boys

[frosty dock]

we did it boys

[wintry solar]

what was the solution?

[frosty dock]

i ended up giving palettes an hc_default option

everything else seemed too convoluted and bad for api design

i think it's about ready now

[naive notch]

Seeing this working makes me so happy

[frosty dock]

deck skins seem good to go. there's probably an issue or two hiding somewhere :cba:

do i say fuck it we ball 🤔

[wintry solar]

they seemed pretty much done when I tested the other day

[hardy viper]

ball it we fuck

[glass scaffold]

and the crowd exchanges confused glances 🔥 🔥 🔥

[frosty dock]

ball fuck we it

[glass scaffold]

it we ball fuck

[frosty dock]

we fuck it ball

[gilded narwhal]

ball, fuck it we

[naive notch]

ball we fuck it

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/orange-cat-staring-orange-cat-staring-cat-gif-13724146065807985297

this chat is purgatory

[frosty dock]

bucket if wall

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-in-pail-gif-14923923055359071500

[frosty dock]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-pointing-finger-pointing-fingers-at-cat-stupid-cat-silly-cat-gif-1844176374237301129

buck it we fall

[tender ermine]

How would I check for a scored suit?

Like whats the function for that

[manic rune]

check for the played card, then use :is_suit(), it can be Spades, Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts

for instance, context.other_card:is_suit("Diamonds"), which checks if the card suit is diamonds

[tender ermine]

Gotcha

Thanks

[manic rune]

no probs

[manic rune]

nicee

[zealous glen]

Does any mod add a single Booster pack?

[manic rune]

that one MASSIVE voucher mod does add a voucher booster pack

(i actually still cant remember the mod name, holy shit)

[zealous glen]

betmma's?

[manic rune]

i think so, yeah

[zealous glen]

I've never been able to understand Betmma's code v_v

[manic rune]

their code is complex? 💀

i never checked lol

[zealous glen]

more like jank ;P

[manic rune]

oof, so spaghetti code?

[zealous glen]

Maybe the rumours of Betmma's spaghetti are overstated

But that was my impression back then

[manic rune]

well at least it works, so we don't question it 😭

[lucid owl]

lol ai guy deleted

[manic rune]

what was that

💀

[lucid owl]

someone asked about the right ai model to use to generate joker functions

[frosty dock]

hell naw

[lucid owl]

i don't think i've ever seen any person use ai for a mod and have it actually work

[runic pecan]

How do I access hand level number?
I thought G.GAME.hands[hand_type].level was it but it's a table instead of a number if with Talisman for some reason.

[foggy carbon]

All numbers are tables with Talisman

it's how they get past the e308 limit - they store numbers as tables, with the first part being before the e and the second part being after the e

[shell lagoon]

https://streamable.com/poiqda something is definitely not working right

i missed a return true and it made it loop infinitely apparently

[foggy carbon]

a couple days ago my brother suggested a joker idea, and I like the concept, but I don't know how I'd go about it. I could probably use context.before to change what a hand scores as, but how would I add cards to the scoring hand?

[lucid owl]

concrete mixer joker that does this on purpose 🔥

[shell lagoon]

cobblestone generator

now for the actual problem i'm trying to solve which caused that video

https://streamable.com/2y32ex this is mostly the intended behavior but for whatever reason the alert always happens after scoring is done, instead of when the stone card is created

as far as i know, this should happen at the same time as the rest of the event, and i don't know what to change to make that happen

[sturdy compass]

Huh, that is a weird one. If I had to guess, maybe card_eval_status_text doesn't go odd during context.individual?

[random sleet]

you want to return a table with a message and a func that then creates your stone card

[shell lagoon]

ohh so should i not be using the event manager at all?

[random sleet]

you might need to queue an event from the func

[sturdy compass]

I didn't even know you could return a function. How 'bout that

[random sleet]

i'm not sure how the timing works out precisely, you'll have to tweak it, but i know this is the general form you want

[shell lagoon]

okay i'll try reformatting it like that, hopefully i can figure it out

[wintry solar]

you can leave the stone bit in the main part, just return the message

the reason its mistimed is card{_eval_status_text queues an event, so it gets pushed to the end of the queue

[shell lagoon]

is this what you mean?

i tested this and it doesn't display the message, i'll try putting the function in the return

[shell lagoon]

how would i format this? i tried just putting the event into the function and it threw a bunch of syntax errors at me (i might have been dumb and messed up the syntax idk)

[normal crest]

keep your previous card_eval_status_text code but pass instant = true to it alongside colour and message

[coral smelt]

Hey yall, this may be dumb but is there some sort of template or something for reskinning jokers mods?

[random sleet]

you're not ending the func function

the rest looks like your code program going apeshit

oh no i see

[shell lagoon]

...this just works immediately lmao

[random sleet]

the Event is malformed now

[shell lagoon]

of course it was something simple loll

[random sleet]

but also go off if instant worked lol

[terse hull]

heya, is is possible to force a particular voucher to be in a shop via debug console or some such? need a specific one for testing

[random sleet]

debugplus spawns stuff with 3 from collection

[shell lagoon]

i just wanna say that i'm diving into balatro modding without learning lua first so uh. i'm just surprised that anything i'm doing is affecting the game in the first place

it's been really fun though

[runic pecan]

So I hooked up this function by using the highlighted part as pattern:

Should I use the whole function as pattern instead to be safer or this is good enough?
position is 'after' by the way.

[normal crest]

Do you want to add something before or after that

[runic pecan]

after

[normal crest]

then you don't need to use a lovely patch, you can use a hook

[shell lagoon]

https://streamable.com/4szfud it functions properly now, alert pops when the stone is spawned like intended

[terse hull]

Thank you very much, that worked perfectly :)

[runic pecan]

Wait, I thought patching is how to do a hook... wut

[normal crest]

lovely patches and hooks are different

[runic pecan]

OK

[normal crest]

let me find an example

#💻・modding-dev message this is an example

you store a reference to the original function, then you replace it, making sure to make use of the reference previously saved in some part of the new function

[runic pecan]

So like,local LUH = level_up_hand function level_up_hand(card, hand, instant, amount) LUH(card, hand, instant, amount) for _,J in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do J:calculate_joker({level_up_hand = hand, level_up_amount = amount}) end

[normal crest]

exactly

[runic pecan]

Where do I put this piece of code?

[normal crest]

Anywhere in your mod's code, as long as it runs

[tender ermine]

Balatro isn’t reviving the return messages, please help

They are in a calc function btw

[normal crest]

What's your code

And what's the issue exactly?

[spark tapir]

Anyone knows how to mod pirated balatro?

I wanna try the Neato mod Roffle streamed earlier

Is it possible to mod pirated balatro?

[jagged sun]

you should genuinely be ashamed of yourself- it's one thing to pirate a triple a video game but a) this is an indie game by an independent developer who deserves every cent you give him and b) you're asking such a question IN HIS OWN SERVER. like do you realize how disrespectful that is? if you're gonna pirate don't do it so blatantly, you look like an ass for doing such

[ionic verge]

jesus christ maybe they just cant afford it

[jagged sun]

🤷

[spark tapir]

I know that and I plan on buying it. I don't have money rn. I'm just wondering if you can mod it

[runic pecan]

I wholeheartly recommend modding AFTER purchase.

[crisp coral]

you're on your own for this

[spark tapir]

Ok thanks for answering

Last question

[lucid owl]

i know it's probably just a matter of order, but how do i keep the message from showing up twice? the joker functions entirely correctly otherwise

[spark tapir]

Is mobile balatro possible to mod? I bought mobile balatro. If not when will mobile balatro be moddable?

[ionic verge]

no unfortunately

sorry bud

[spark tapir]

Ok thanks

[normal crest]

context.individual runs for each card individually, you can refer to it using context.other_card

[tender ermine]

The code that isn’t in the return’s selection runs fine, but everything inside of it doesn’t do anything. My code btw (can’t get discord on my computer, never worked for some reason. So sorry for bad image quality)

[runic pecan]

Why only trans to Queen? Why not both(K<->Q) ways?

[tender ermine]

The problem is only in calc btw

[ionic verge]

its estrogen specifically

[lucid owl]

it's an estrogen joker, although in theory it'd be pretty easy to make a T one as well

[ionic verge]

from what i saw earlier

[normal crest]

what's your steamodded version

[runic pecan]

Oops, I didn't saw that.

[ionic verge]

s'all good

[tender ermine]

1.0.0~alpha-1304a-steammodded

[naive notch]

hold up this is fire 🔥

[ionic verge]

when first created how is G.playing_cards ordered? is it sorted by rank or suit?

(i.e. is it 2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-etc or 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-etc)

(im asking bc im making a deck)

[lucid owl]

a little unsure what you mean here, should i change context.individual to context.other_card or?

[ionic verge]

wait does print() print to the debug log or what

[tender ermine]

1.0.0~alpha-1304a-steammodded

[lucid owl]

yeah, with debugplus it'll print to the in game log as well

[ionic verge]

cool

why is the apply function running multiple times seemingly?

(print(i) is just for debugging)

[weak gate]

can I increase the line limit in the Lovely console?

[cerulean rose]

is it possible to disable/hide the lovely console

[cerulean rose]

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

[ionic verge]

yeah i figured out that one

[cerulean rose]

you're getting multiple prints of each number?

[ionic verge]

yeah seemingly infinitely

like it just straight just doesnt stop

(this obviously happens when i actually start up with the deck)

[cerulean rose]

you forgot to return true in the event

[random sleet]

i am eliciting responses and thoughts and aggravations

[ionic verge]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

danke

[late shadow]

how do u make a joker check if theres a specific word in the name of other jokers that u have ?

the main parts im having trouble with r getting it to actually check for the word,
and im not entirely sure which things let a joker check text/variable (etc) in other jokers in hand

[ionic verge]

whats a good way to randomize the suit of a card?

[late shadow]

ik theres other_jokers but im lowk tired and been doing this for like 5 hours

[ionic verge]

like G.playing_cards[i]:{whatfunctionhere}

[late shadow]

i think incorperating psuedorandom would be nice

psuedorandom makes it so that the same card can be gotten on a specific seed

[random sleet]

well i can tell you this gets a random suit and rank

[ionic verge]

true

[late shadow]

normal random would be random regardless of seed

[ionic verge]

i need just the suit

[random sleet]

i believe in you

[ionic verge]

the goal is this but all random suits

[normal crest]

no, what you should do is not loop through every card in the scoring_hand, since context.individual already does that for you

[cursive glade]

I'm iterating through G.playing_cards[i] and looking at the joker's key j_* to look for other jokers in play.

[late shadow]

u can use the ` bracket to make italics not work

[normal crest]

each scoring card will be evaluated in that context, and you can get the reference to that card from context.other_card

[late shadow]

like *dfsfsdfjk*

part of the issue im having is im not not sure like how to make it so that it can be from anytime a joker is added (like baseball card)

the joker is conceptually very similar to baseball card

[cerulean rose]

SMODS.change_base(G.playing_cards[i], pseudorandom_element(SMODS.Suits, "your_key"))

[cursive glade]

Ugh... I'm on mobile and it's not letting me edit my message

[late shadow]

dang yeah discord mobile is buns

[cerulean rose]

if that doesn't work try SMODS.change_base(G.playing_cards[i], pseudorandom_element(SMODS.Suits, "your_key").key)

[late shadow]

tysm

the wording makes me think that playing_cards means like, your deck?

[random sleet]

that sounds like a *really* unnecessary step

[late shadow]

is it just confusing words

[random sleet]

G.playing_cards is your full deck

[late shadow]

i was talking abt discord texts (discord italics messags with underscores, not just asterisks)

[random sleet]

you didnt even notice? lol

[cursive glade]

You right. I'm tired too. Hang on...

[late shadow]

yeah i thought so 😭

is there a specific name for the jokers area

[random sleet]

well i think _that_ is also possible?

[ionic verge]

this happened with both of the things you sent

[cerulean rose]

use SMODS.find_card to search for a specific jokers

[random sleet]

G.jokers surprisingly enough

[late shadow]

discor works weirdly with it idfk

[late shadow]

i did try that actually im just not sure where to put that

so im kinda leading myself in circles 😭

[weak gate]

if this is my joker's key, how do I create this card with SMODS.create_joker?

[late shadow]

im new to modding sorry

[cerulean rose]

SMODS.change_base(G.playing_cards[i], pseudorandom_element(SMODS.Suits, pseudoseed("your_key")).key) how about

[cerulean rose]

that function returns a table of all matching jokers

[cursive glade]

for i = 1, #G.jokers.cards do
    local currentJoker = G.jokers.cards[i]
    -- look for the joker's key "j_*" as currentJoker
end

[late shadow]

AH currentjoker

i think thats the single term i was missing somehow

[cursive glade]

currentJoker is just the variable name I gave the joker the for loop is currently looking at

[late shadow]

ohh

[random sleet]

the trick is that escape characters still work \_ \_

[late shadow]

im stupid