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[livid tapir]

ok

whats kind though?

[sullen fern]

how do i set the mult and chips of a seal and how to i refer to them in the description

[maiden river]

oh that's just another thing you can add to boosters
it groups them together based on the name you give it

[livid tapir]

ohhh thats cool

thx raevyn

[maiden river]

no problem

[maiden river]

probably in the seal's calculate function

and then referring to them in the description would be the same way you would in a joker

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

[sullen fern]

how do i make a card with the specific seal self destruct after scoring is complete (like a glass card)

that's the main point of the self destruct seal after all

[smoky talon]

the code i made for a tag isnt working

i copied the cryptid schematic code and altered it for my joker

not showing up though

game works, just my tag doesnt exist

[hollow charm]

hey i'm trying to use EnhanceAPI and just loading it in crashes whenever i play a card
this is what my mods folder looks like

[livid tapir]

i wanna make my booster pack appear in shop so that i can test it

[weak gate]

made a minimal sticker that does nothing, but where does the Error come from...

[hollow charm]

(i also tried it on the latest version of smods and it doesn't work either)

[smoky talon]

try replacing the name with this

[smoky talon]

maybe without the text part

idk thats what worked for me

looks like it should work but i guess not

[edgy reef]

Add label = bonus2

name and text refer to the tooltip, label is the badge text.

[livid tapir]

i do have debugplu

plus*

[weak gate]

Aha, thank you kindly

[smoky talon]

any ideas?

[sullen fern]

to give it to yall straight i don’t really feel like combing through the code of balatro just to find out how self destruction works

lol

the plight of a newbie balatro modder

[weak gate]

like, doesn't show up in your mod's additions/tags at all?

[smoky talon]

correct

not in collection, not in gameplay

[weak gate]

Hmm, can you send the whole file it's in?

[smoky talon]

like just send a copy of the lua file?

ok

its a bit messy lol but it works so idc

[tepid crow]

I suggest you use SMODS.Tag instead and stop looking at the cryptid source code, it's a mess

[smoky talon]

lol ok i wanted to use smods tag but couldnt figure out what to put in it

the wiki is confusing for someone not super used to coding

so what do i do?

[tepid crow]

take a look at other mods that properly use SMODS.Tag, e.g. ortalab https://github.com/Eremel/Ortalab/blob/master/objects/patches.lua#L66

[tepid crow]

can't you press 3 on your booster pack in the collection?

[weak gate]

Finding out which mod to emulate to find good examples is non-trivial... seems like it'd be a worthy goal to

1. ensure the wiki has one example for each kind of game object, or 2) get e.g. Eremel's permission to link to their tag code in the wiki, someone else's code for a sticker, etc

[tepid crow]

there's https://github.com/Steamodded/examples but it has no examples for SMODS.Tag (and is also a bit of a mess to navigate in general ngl)

[weak gate]

aye, I'm referring to that part, which has many helpful examples for some things

[tepid crow]

yea

[smoky talon]

clearly i screwed something up

its hard to know what is needed and wht needs to change

[weak gate]

there seems to be one too many "end"

[smoky talon]

k ill delete one

[livid tapir]

no it doesnt work

[tepid crow]

It should. Are you sure your debugplus is updated?

[smoky talon]

game launches but the happens when using debug to spawn it

the atlas part is unchanged aside from just changing their atlas name to mine

unless

nvm i misspelled my atlas

lemme try now

now it spawns but gives me this after reaching the next shop

also how do i give it a name and description?

[livid tapir]

idk i got i a little while ago

ill download a new version soon

im in bopl rn

[mystic river]

try ctrl+3

[high stag]

so the intent is for this to, at the end of thre round, give 2 dollars per Joker on that list on line 279 currently owned. Right now it's instead giving 10 dollars when all 5 are owned.

I don't get why since it should be looping from 277 to 283 once for each joker, (in the current test 5 times total), increasing by 2 each time, and then going on to give the dollar value once, for a total of 10 dollars.

[untold pilot]

is there like a table of events i could use as reference for when i want to put them into code?

such as gaining chips/mult or resetting

[livid tapir]

hm i may have somehow allowed jokers guys

[high stag]

hey, want a +4 mult?

[livid tapir]

and i gotta make the uno cards pullable not usable

but howwww do i make the pack not use a consumable

PLUHHH

[scarlet spire]

extremely new to modding- am I missing something? why does this always say nil?

[random sleet]

are you giving a loc_vars function for the (enhancement?)

(also vvv cool art i like wood card)

[scarlet spire]

thank you, I spent ages trying to get it to look right

[random sleet]

if theres a wooden joker you gotta make it look like its carved into the wood

[scarlet spire]

uhh, I do have it but it's currently empty, what would I need for this? this might be a bit complex for a first mod but I'm trying to make this enhancement be worth 20 chips for every wooden enhancement in your deck

[naive notch]

wrong channel lol

[paper zealot]

What's the preferred way to throw an error for logging in Lovely?

[random sleet]

that's totally doable, but the thing is the way you're writing the description right now means that it's looking for the second variable in the vars table in the table returned from loc_vars (complicated wording lol)

the two pound signs denote a variable; the number between is the index

[scarlet spire]

ahh I see

[random sleet]

i.e. loc_vars needs to have something to the effect of

return { vars = { 1, 2, 3... } }```

[scarlet spire]

nice, okay now I just need to figure out how to calculate this

[hardy viper]

error() like in traditional lua

love2d implements an error handler which lovely sees (balatro overrides that error handler but it works mostly the same) (steamodded overrides that error handler but it works mostly the same with a much greater amount of info)

[rough furnace]

fallback card moment

[rough furnace]

theres also assert() which may be more useful in some cases, but is otherwise the same

if you just want to log somthing to the console see https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Logging

and print

[paper zealot]

sendErrorMessage(message, logger) is what I'm after, thanks

[hardy viper]

interesting

why so

[rough furnace]

also as a shill note, DebugPlus lets you see logs in game

pretty handy

[paper zealot]

Good to know. In my case i wanted a non-fatal report without prompting a crash

[rough furnace]

ah

[hardy viper]

crashing is usually good for that kinda thing because of the stack traceback

but i get it

[rough furnace]

for the crash log theres also a method of adding info under your mod in the crash log

see https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Mod-functions#moddebug_info

[paper zealot]

I'm manually invoking SMODS.save_mod_config and would like to see reports if it fails, but it's not critical if the config isn't able to write to disk every time

[hardy viper]

i think that crashes if it fails anyways

looks like it doesn't on the love end so maybe im wrong

[rough furnace]

oh are you looking for pcall?

[paper zealot]

I don't think it's necessary. Looks like save_mod_config would only actually error on assert(mod.config and next(mod.config)) failing, all other calls just return the success state. I'm almost definitely overthinking this though

[paper zealot]

Actually pcall probably is best practice for this, thanks

[carmine burrow]

is the default version of the consumable not set? i'd assume it ran out of those consumables in the pool and now it's spawning default cards

yeah it looks like the default default card is jimbo

does smods have something to set those?

[scarlet spire]

got it working! though, there's still a bug that I'm not sure how to fix. the value is very commonly out of date, only refreshing when playing a hand or discarding cards, and always updates before using death, so if you're adding new cards, it's always going to be one card out of date, how do I fix this?

here's the code as well

[tepid crow]

What I usually do for my jokers is I externalize the counter to outside the enhancement in a seperate function, then call it in both loc_vars and calculate

[weak gate]

Interesting, if you have 5 jokers and 5.1 joker slots, you can add one more joker to stay at 6/5.1

(Nothing in particular seems to break if you have fractional joker slots)

[tall wharf]

1.8 discards left

[weak gate]

The localization for this sticker doesn't work - ideas?

(and the add_to_deck and remove_from_deck don't work either, I assume they're only for cards...?)

[livid tapir]

yeah i know why its cuz i onlt have one consumable and i have no duplicates turned on

[scarlet spire]

actually, playing with it now, the bonus_chips aren't actually even added when the card triggers?

[weak gate]

Aha, self.config.extra_jokers whould be the variable I use in loc_vars

I think a lovely patch is probably the best way to make this sticker do its thing without having to add code in all cards

[scarlet spire]

i'll see if I can try to figure this out, been trying for like half an hour to fix literally anything

[tall wharf]

i think hooking works

[sturdy compass]

Just came across a really funny bug with this Joker. I've since fixed it but I thought I'd share lol

[plush cove]

HEY 🗣️

[sturdy compass]

HEY 🗣️

[noble anchor]

Unsure why, but the variable in the description is always showing as nil

[faint yacht]

Tried without the brackets for the returning value?

[noble anchor]

yes, still returns nil

[plush cove]

why is "max = 70" outside of the extra

[noble anchor]

Whoops, fixed it

Still showing nil though

[faint yacht]

Show the full, bit difficult from just snippets alone. Chalking up to Joker key not being right imo.

[rough furnace]

Also did you save the file(s)

[noble anchor]

Here it is

[long sun]

rate this ability?
The Spear (Rare): If played hand contains any Spades, destroy one and upgrade Straight

[obtuse silo]

seems pretty cool! It's deck thinning and scaling!

[long sun]

yas :D

cheers!!

[obtuse silo]

okay lemme go for mine
Lifesteal Scythe (Uncommon): Whenever a card is destroyed, this gains +5 mult.

this ranges from playing cards to jokers

so like
using hanged man, Madness, and most of the spectral cards ngl

most of them destroy a card

[long sun]

hmm, doesn't scale fast enough imo

[obtuse silo]

what do you suggest?

[long sun]

hah wait no that's fine

[marble flint]

Jimbo doesn't scale fast enough either :bonk:

[long sun]

just, destroying cards is quite difficult to do consistently

[plush cove]

[long sun]

that's why Canio grants X1 per destroyed face card

[obtuse silo]

i see
but that plays more into specific cards being destroyed

[marble flint]

ah heck there's a balatro related :bonk:, we'll need to find some other non-existent emote to use instead

[obtuse silo]

Lifesteal Scythe targets any destroyed card.

canio lite ig

[long sun]

ya but consider, it starts really small

[plush cove]

i mean it's specifically related to Cryptid

[long sun]

you could probably get a Green Joker to scale faster

i mean i'm not one to be good with game balance, so =w=

[plush cove]

doesnt green joker only interact with hands and discards?

[obtuse silo]

it's not necessarily about having the mod outclass the base game

[long sun]

ya i mean, fair =w=

[obtuse silo]

yeah
what she's saying is that playing hands is more common and consistent than destroying cards

[long sun]

well i mean +5 is fine i guess :>

[faint yacht]

At the end of the day, do what drives ye.

[long sun]

hokai ideas for the other three

The Fuse: If played hand contains any Hearts, destroy one and gain X0.1 Mult
The Mace: If played hand contains any Clubs, destroy one and gain $5
The Dagger: If played hand contains any Diamonds, destroy one and gain +10 Mult```

[obtuse silo]

liking these

liking the theming

[long sun]

thanks ^^"

they're these jokers

[obtuse silo]

RE:VENANT (Rare): After 6 rounds, sell this to instantly clear current blind.
The thing was 12, but feedback from elsewhere suggested otherwise.

I lowered it to 6 so it's not that much of a burden

[marble flint]

12 rounds would be at minimum half the game (excluding hieroglyph)

6 is at minimum a quarter of it

[obtuse silo]

3 then??

[marble flint]

6 does feel fair though

[obtuse silo]

yeah.
I have another joker this works well with.

[marble flint]

although I'd probably take any other rare joker than this, cus it feels like a worse Mr Bones (who already isn't that impressive)

interesting concept, though

[obtuse silo]

I'm trying to make this actually practical
maybe lowering it's rarity to Uncommon would help

that way it's more likely to appear, and still benefits off of being in your hand thanks to Baseball Card

[marble flint]

yeah

I can't see much of a reason to take this except for the ante 8 finisher (in endless, buying one free round is either absolutely unnecessary (and has quite a high opportunity cost) or won't save you for the following blind)

which means you need to find it before the ante 6 boss and already be decently confident you'll need it, plus you need the spare cash to afford it, so you're probably only buying this in antes 4-6

Feels Bad

[obtuse silo]

i mean i guess there are jokers that exist to get outclassed

[plush cove]

Ride the Bus 🙏

[marble flint]

there's something salvageable here, though

[obtuse silo]

mm?

[marble flint]

a joker that makes some alternate condition win the blind

maybe drawing your whole deck?

[obtuse silo]

oh yeaa that sounds good

[marble flint]

maybe using a number/type/etc of consumables?

[obtuse silo]

like
the joker is meant to be a massive greatsword/railcannon thing
so "putting it all into one shot" could work

(hi, this is RE:VENANT)

[marble flint]

i think it needs to be at least a little bit reusable to be an interesting option, but also not consistent reusable

[obtuse silo]

how so?

like how would i make it more reusable

like
just
instead of selling it, just give it a cooldown period?

[marble flint]

perhaps, I'm very not sure

another idea:

the main thing about railguns is their speed, so how about skipping a blind (which powers the speed tag) activates it?

[obtuse silo]

that sounds real cool

would it start activated or deactivated?

RE:VENANT (Uncommon): Instantly clears blind upon drawing whole deck. Recharges after skipping a blind.

[broken cliff]

so ur supposed to have no cards left in ur deck

sounds cool

[obtuse silo]

yea

[marble flint]

to be clear what i meant by that, the lose condition where you still have hands left but no cards to play

[obtuse silo]

right, that.

[scarlet spire]

gave up a few hours ago, gonna try getting some help with this again

this enhancement gives +10 chips per all other cards with that same enhancement in your deck. the issue I'm having is that the chip value calculates correctly, but is very commonly out of date, only updating right before changes are made to your deck, so it ends up being wrong if you've just loaded the game (nil or default value) or have added or removed one of them to your deck (off by 10 chips). it's also not actually applying the bonus chips when scored.

[broken cliff]

does it crash?

[scarlet spire]

it doesn't crash, just has some issues that I have no idea where i'd start looking for

since i'm extremely new to this kind of modding

[marble flint]

i suggest instead of storing the current value in extra, write a function that determines the value when you need it

trying to keep every card up to date all the time will be a major hassle to get right (as you've already discovered)

does that make sense?

[broken cliff]

is there an event when the edition has been applied

[scarlet spire]

I do yeah, I tried earlier but messed up the syntax horribly, so i'll try again

[broken cliff]

so could u create a G.storagenum for storing all the chips u need to give out later

when edition is applied, add ten
otherwise, subtract

[marble flint]

actually

you can just copy and paste what you have in calculate to loc_vars

[long sun]

question, how do you level up a particular hand?

[obtuse silo]

try looking at the code for Space Joker

[long sun]

i did

return {
  card = self,
  level_up = true,
  message = localize('k_level_up_ex')
}```

[scarlet spire]

will try this, lets see

[long sun]

that's for the played hand

but i wanna upgrade Straight in particular

[marble flint]

look at the code for Black Hole

[obtuse silo]

or Saturn

[scarlet spire]

would this account for creating new cards with it already applied via death, any spectral cards that create new enhanced cards, opening packs, etc?

[obtuse silo]

since you want Straights specifically

[marble flint]

Saturn is less helpful to look at

[broken cliff]

try checking if the played hand is a straight

[long sun]

that's not my card's ability

[obtuse silo]

that's the thing, it doesn't check for played hand

[marble flint]

this is why i suggest not trying to keep your value in sync

[broken cliff]

hm

[long sun]

where do i find Black Hole in the game's source?

[broken cliff]

spectral cards

[marble flint]

find in files exists in many text editors

searching for "Black Hole" will get you most of the way there

or at least get you an ID to search for after

[plush cove]

@long sun try this maybe?
level_up_hand(self, "Straight", nil, 1)

[long sun]

hmm just thinking, actually

(ah thanks :D)

but i think creating a copy of Saturn might be more useful in this modpack, for Luke

[plush cove]

found that by scowering through the files, let me know how that works out for ya

[long sun]

ah nevermind, it would make more jokers a little worse by needing a slot

cheers ^^

[obtuse silo]

okay so i may end up editing a legendary joker
Birus (Legendary): -1 Ante when sold.

[scarlet spire]

hmm, yeah, copying the calculation into loc_vars still seemingly updates it right before the new card is created, so it's out of date

like, the value is updated by a new card being created, but it happens too early

I am also still having trouble getting the chips themselves to apply to scoring?

[marble flint]

you need to return the chips from your calculate function, like return { chips = 47 }

(but only in the correct context)

[plush cove]

@long sun
update_hand_text({sound = 'button', volume = 0.7, pitch = 0.8, delay = 0.3}, {handname="Straight",chips = G.GAME.hands["Straight"].chips, mult = G.GAME.hands["Straight"].mult, level=G.GAME.hands["Straight"].level}) level_up_hand(self, "Straight", nil, 1) update_hand_text({sound = 'button', volume = 0.7, pitch = 0.8, delay = 0.3}, {handname=context.scoring_name,chips = G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].chips, mult = G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].mult, level=G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].level})

its a bit clunky but let me know if that works out for you

update: i forgot to put "context" in a few places, whoops, but it should be all fixed

yup, I tried it out in my own code, and it worked like a charm!

[long sun]

it threw an error for me =w=

[plush cove]

that might have been before I put the context. bit in

try copy-pasting the new message

it should work fine

[long sun]

possible ^^

indeed!

though it's a bit clunky, it scored the cards that were destroyed

but i'll change the timing :D

nah wait no this can be fixed

[plush cove]

what's your overall card code looking like? i wanna see if you have the joker context set up properly for how you want it to work

[long sun]

if context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.before then
      local destructable_card = {}
            for i = 1, #context.scoring_hand do
                if context.scoring_hand[i]:is_suit("Spades") and not context.scoring_hand[i].getting_sliced then
                    destructable_card[#destructable_card + 1] = context.scoring_hand[i]
                end
            end
            local card_to_destroy = #destructable_card > 0 and pseudorandom_element(destructable_card, pseudoseed("thespear")) or nil

            if card_to_destroy then
                card_to_destroy.getting_sliced = true
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    func = function()
                        (context.blueprint_card or card):juice_up(0.8, 0.8)
                        card_to_destroy:start_dissolve({ G.C.RED }, nil, 1.6)
                        return true
                    end,
                }))
                update_hand_text({sound = 'button', volume = 0.7, pitch = 0.8, delay = 0.3}, {handname="Straight",chips = G.GAME.hands["Straight"].chips, mult = G.GAME.hands["Straight"].mult, level=G.GAME.hands["Straight"].level})
                level_up_hand(self, "Straight", nil, 1)
                update_hand_text({sound = 'button', volume = 0.7, pitch = 0.8, delay = 0.3}, {handname=context.scoring_name,chips = G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].chips, mult = G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].mult, level=G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].level})
                return nil, true
            end
    end```

i mean, they work otherwise!

except The Mace but i can probably fix that

[plush cove]

glad to help out a little bit!

[long sun]

tysm!!

so the cards aren't being destroyed properly

[plush cove]

have you checked how the hanged man does it?

[broken cliff]

Maybe

i think u should add remove = true

somewhere in the code

[crisp coral]

return remove in context.destroying_cards

[rose dragon]

how can i directly set/get the chips/mult for custom xchips implementations?

[faint yacht]

hand_chips and mult are globals for currently scored Chips and Mult respectively.

[rose dragon]

thx

[scarlet spire]

this crashes
I know i'm definitely doing like a million things wrong but even looking at lua tutorials I can't tell how the syntax works at all, my brain can't parse any of it even though I know exactly what the smaller pieces are doing

[broken cliff]

the error?

bcuz normally isnt it supposed to return a table?

and not just a number

[broken cliff]

line counter not shown 💀

[scarlet spire]

god oops

instinctively cropped it out

[broken cliff]

anywho calculate function should have context and return the table

[broken cliff]

wait

did u forget an end

[scarlet spire]

wait that's. an old version of the code ignore that

why did I have that image lying around

there we go, same code just with line counter

[broken cliff]

calculate should be a function returning a table

it should return the table with chips equalling out to the chips u want to score

and calculate should feature a context check

so it doesnt trigger every context possible

heres an example of calculate function

[karmic arch]

(I'm a bad coder, so maybe that's not what the advice is about) But if there is a function without checking if there is a G.playing_cards, then when you look at the collection, it will cause an error since g.playing_cards is nil

[broken cliff]

the error is prob in the wrong context

it triggers in every context, mind u

so it would trigger when ur in shop

or rerolling

or at the end of the round

afaik theres no card to be spoken of when ur in shop

so u should add the context check

[karmic arch]

I know, it's just that there will be another bugs if look at the collection in main menu

Although I can easily be wrong.

[broken cliff]

and u can do chips = woodScoreCalc(self.config.chips) so u could still do ur check

[broken cliff]

G.playing_cards will always exist afaik

u can modify it when in shop(when the joker is added to the joker area)

[karmic arch]

When I tried make mod without checking if there is a G.playing_cards using debugplus, and I got the bugs in the main menu like problem with pairs, meaning there was no G.playing_cards.

[broken cliff]

"in main menu" ur not ingame

therefore it doesnt exist

anywho whats ur progress @wheat

[karmic arch]

Huh, true

[scarlet spire]

alright the game is launching now, but woodScoreChips in the function is nil

[broken cliff]

declare/put the function above the enhancement

[scarlet spire]

hm, same thing happens

[broken cliff]

hm

[broken cliff]

it should be self.config.extra.bonus_chips

thats why its nil

[wintry solar]

give me 2 mins to write it up for you, hold on

[karmic arch]

Swap return woodscorechips with with the last end?

[broken cliff]

no the problem is not there

function received an improper reference to bonus chips value, and accepted nil instead

aka u put the wrong value that doesnt exist

[scarlet spire]

alright it's not crashing now, though it's not updating the value whatsoever

[wintry solar]

loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
    return {vars = {count_wood() * card.ability.config.bonus_chips}}
end,
calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.cardarea == G.play and context.main_scoring then
        return {
            chips = count_wood() * card.ability.config.bonus_chips
        }
    end
end


function count_wood()
    local count = 0
    for _, v in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
        if v.config.center_key == 'm_ytf_wooden' then count = count + 1 end
    end
    return count
end

there you go

[broken cliff]

u didnt update loc_valc

js use what eremel posted

[wintry solar]

loc_vars and calculate go in the nehancement, the function underneath

oh hold on

it's an enhancment 2 secs

fixed

[broken cliff]

what does to_big() do

could it be used to take in the mult to alter it?

[scarlet spire]

okay thank you, this works- though I had to replace card.ability.config.bonus_chips with self.config.extra.bonus_chips otherwise it'd crash

thanks for sticking through my complete lack of understanding with everything, been trying to learn an actual programming language for years now but nothing's ever stuck, so I'm hoping this mod is gonna be a project interesting enough to keep me in it until I understand

[tall wharf]

what the fuck am i doing

[high stag]

Anime by the looks of it

[karmic arch]

Yoasobi^^

[tawny perch]

All they did was the opening song of the anime

[dire palm]

How can I make text appear above a card in hand when a joker ability triggers?

[wintry solar]

oh my bad, it should be card.ability.extra.bonus_chips, it's more correct to do it this way

[tall wharf]

i know it's outside of the card rn but

[scarlet spire]

ahhh I see, thanks

[signal bloom]

Hey everyone. I want to lead off with: I've never modded anything, or coded anything. I have a general idea of things pertaining to it, but I've never done it. However. My friend and I were joking about it one day, imagine if there was a post run screen, that shows how many blunders you've made, like on chess.com how it shows how many blunders you've made. So, I had chatgpt write a mod for it. I don't know how to implement that into a mod though, so I was wondering if someone here, could do that for me, if I were to send the code. Obviously I don't care for anything from it, or credit or anything. I had the idea but don't have the ability to carry it out, so I thought I'd ask y'all. I also don't know if the code is going to work 100%...

[royal ridge]

curious what even counts as a blunder

[signal bloom]

Not picking up a certain joker, not playing a specific hand that would've mathematically been better etc

Which of course not picking up a certain joker could be because you're going for a specific build

[scarlet spire]

chess is a pretty straightforward (structurally) game that afaik makes it easy to calculate how "good" a move is, I don't know if blunders are really calculable for something like balatro?

[signal bloom]

So that could be potential for the mod to say you have more blunders. So could be potential for not ideal things, but could be interesting

[signal bloom]

I think they are in an aspect, I'm just unsure of how deep it really can be...

[royal ridge]

i'm not saying a total run analysis is impossible but would require a lot of work on the backend

[signal bloom]

I can send the code, because I honestly have like no idea what I'm looking at, but if someone wants to take a glance at it, they're more then welcome to lol

[tall wharf]

ok i think i am done

actually i have a few more things

[signal bloom]

This is what I'm assuming the code is classifying as a blunder:

if (move.PlayedHandStrength < move.PossibleMaxHandStrength)
return "Played a weaker hand than possible.";
if (move.UsedJoker && move.JokerEffectiveness < 50)
return "Used a Joker inefficiently.";

    return "Unknown blunder."

[royal ridge]

magic variables

if only

[scarlet spire]

I'm curious, what are people's opinions on what new tarot cards in mods should be? minor arcana? making up new tarot cards? something else? I need to add new tarot cards so you can even access my enhancements outside packs but I'm sort of lost in regards to what they should actually be

[royal ridge]

i think first course of action for run analysis would be a way to define material/tempo

[signal bloom]

I can only assume that's some code terminology 😅

[manic rune]

does anyone have a guide on patches? i see a lot of mods having them but i dont know how to make one, their function and basically the basics

[signal bloom]

I've thought about this a lil, we have strength, but a weakness card would be kinda nice. If you were early commiting to aces and find a trib, you wouldn't have to work so hard to rebuild around it...

[royal ridge]

the joke is that if everything was already defined it technically works but like, no idea where the numbers are coming from

[signal bloom]

I gotcha. So this may just be something that won't pan out at all? 😆😅

[royal ridge]

maybe one day but you'd need to build quite a big system for this

[vagrant flax]

hi guys, I'm new here
I created a mod with a new seal and a new tarot that applies that seal to max 3 selected cards, but when I try to use the tarot the game crashes
This is the code for the new tarot, any advice?

[signal bloom]

I gotcha. Well I appreciate the feedback🫡

[manic rune]

just a guess, but if those are modded seals then they should be seal_(your mod's prefix)_(the seal's key)

[royal ridge]

it would just be prefix_sealkey for seals i think

[manic rune]

oh, i see

[vagrant flax]

i'm trying both bepis and tone methods, see u later

[royal ridge]

in Mods/lovely/dump/ there's a dump of the modified game code that's being run when you launch the game

um

i'm not exactly sure how much you know already actually

[manic rune]

literally nothing lol

[royal ridge]

oh ok

[vagrant flax]

IT WORKS THANK YOU SO MUCH

[royal ridge]

gg

[scarlet spire]

thinking on this, it's probably not impossible to find nonstandard tarot decks that include extra major arcana cards, though at that point it's indifferent from making up your own tarot cards

[vagrant flax]

I did this

[manic rune]

itd be really nice if you can help me go through what patches can do, im practically new to this whole balatro modding scene :D

[runic pecan]

How do I separate my joker's name into multiple lines?
I don't like the way those letters being squeezed together.

[tall wharf]

there we go

[maiden river]

I've spent the past week adding the friends vs friends cards to balatro
I just got done with the weapons yesterday

[vagrant flax]

Hi again guys, second dilemma
I tried to create a new deck wich starts with 2 tarot cards called "The Sauce" (key = sauce) but when I start a game with it, it doesn't have any consumables and it crashes
Any advice?

@manic rune @royal ridge

[maiden river]

If I remember right, you have to use events to add the consumables in the apply function of the deck

I could be wrong tho, it's been a while

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

[royal ridge]

you can have a look in card.lua, buncha interesting game code there (basegame joker calculates and stuff)

once you've found a place where you want to patch, you can make a (yourmod)/lovely/(filename).toml file beginning with the structure that goes something like

[manifest]
version = "1.0.0"
dump_lua = true
priority = 0

(just open .toml files in notepad, no big deal)

then you can actually do a pattern match, the file will usually look something like

[manifest]
version = "1.0.0"
dump_lua = true
priority = 0

# description of patch can go here, this patch makes spare trousers work on flushes instead of two pairs
[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = 'card.lua'
pattern = '''if self.ability.name == 'Spare Trousers' and (next(context.poker_hands['Two Pair']) or next(context.poker_hands['Full House'])) and not context.blueprint then'''
position = 'at'
payload = '''if self.ability.name == 'Spare Trousers' and (next(context.poker_hands['Flush'])) and not context.blueprint then'''
match_indent = true


# square joker gives $4 when scaling
[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = 'card.lua'
pattern = '''if self.ability.name == 'Square Joker' and #context.full_hand == 4 and not context.blueprint then'''
position = 'after'
payload = '''
ease_dollars(4)
G.GAME.dollar_buffer = (G.GAME.dollar_buffer or 0) + 4'''
match_indent = true

the line that is the focus is pattern. you can also put multiple lines here, but you shouldn't need to do that most of the time. note that a pattern match will match multiple lines if possible which can cause syntax errors and unexpected behaviour
target is card.lua, since that's the file which is being patched
payload is the stuff you want to inject/change, it can be pretty much anything
position can be either before, after, or at. at overwrites the code, while the other two are self-explanatory

forgot to reply lol

[maiden river]

lmao

[royal ridge]

.

[manic rune]

mmm, i think i got it now, thanks :D

[vagrant flax]

yes I already read this doc and I found some example but none of them explains how to create a deck that starts with 2 consumables

[worthy stirrup]

im getting a crash from my mod but idk whats causing it

ill send the crash log in just a sec

[crisp coral]

px and py should be numbers not strings

[worthy stirrup]

ohhh

[dire palm]

How can I make text appear above a card in hand when a joker ability triggers?

[worthy stirrup]

oops

I fixed it and im still getting a crash

crash log ^

updated code ^

[crisp coral]

your requires isn't a table

requires = {'v_hone', 'v_glow_up'}

[worthy stirrup]

oh, its a table? thank you

[manic rune]

its "cost", not "costs"

[timid star]

how would i go about storing a custom variable in a playing card?

[tall wharf]

i believe you store it in ability table

[manic rune]

what i did for my mod is using context.other_card.ability["blah blah blah"]

[timid star]

oh i wasn't setting a new index i think that's why mine doesn't work

still makes an error huh

oh im using extra whoops

[worthy stirrup]

is there any way to quickly get all non modded vouchers so i could test my vouchers

[dire palm]

How can I make my Joker shake and show a message when its ability triggers?

[worthy stirrup]

i think its message()

or its return()

does this increase the chances of a negative?

[manic rune]

probably? the best way to know is to test lol

[weak brook]

doed anyone know a good example of a modded joker that uses the functionality of matador? where a joker ability goes off when the boss blind "is activated"?

had issues with this before

[worthy stirrup]

well, im not sure if i refresh the mod it will apply the redeem effect twice upon the reload or if i need to buy it again

[zealous glen]

Matador isn’t a good example of a Joker that uses the functionality of Matador

Thunk has said they want to rework it

[manic rune]

what would i need to do if i want to add more boxes in a joker's description?

[weak brook]

ah yeah i can see that

damn guess depressed brother is gonna be disabled for a while then

[zealous glen]

What do you mean

[zealous glen]

Better swap depressed brother for something else ;P

[manic rune]

like what Riv_Falcon did in their mod, you can see how their joker's description has 2 boxes

[zealous glen]

You probably need to hook or patch into the code that creates the boxes manipulate the UI nodes directly

An easy alternative would be to add boxes inside the white box

[dire palm]

I don't understand why my message doesn't appear in-game.

[manic rune]

damn, gotta learn about hook then 💀

thanks

[zealous glen]

You’re returning it to the Event Manager

The Event Manager doesn’t care

[dire palm]

So, where should I return it?

[zealous glen]

Maybe in the body of the calculate function

[vagrant flax]

ehy victin
do you know how to solve this?
I tried to create a new deck wich starts with 2 tarot cards called "The Sauce" (key = sauce) but when I start a game with it, it doesn't have any consumables and it crashes

[worthy stirrup]

how can i check if theres consumables in the shop

[zealous glen]

Idk I’ve never created a deck

[zealous glen]

Try iterating over the shop and checking

[worthy stirrup]

wait, how do i check the shop

bc i only see when the shop is rerolled

[dusk harness]

how do you check that, are you hooking on the SMODS hook? if not tell me which function, and to see whats in the shop you need to check the contents of G.shop_joker.cards

[manic rune]

what do i need to do to have a joker working like blueprint?

[worthy stirrup]

found it on this
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Calculate-Functions

[dusk harness]

good to know ill keep that around

[timid star]

thingy works now i just need a sound effect, i think i can check the balatro files and use the same file name for it right

[dusk harness]

sick, what does the joker do?

[timid star]

the video explains it all

[timid star]

conceals your cards, the cards are given a random suit and rank but when played, they return to their original rank and suit

[dusk harness]

uhm, cool concept

[timid star]

could be a boss blind ability now that i think about it

[dusk harness]

would have been more like it

[worthy stirrup]

i got one of my vouchers to work

[timid star]

it's a joker ability due to the reference

[dusk harness]

where and how do you call the function this doc makes you create?

[timid star]

but it works perfectly

[dusk harness]

it does, good job on that

[worthy stirrup]

ive removed that part of the code but now im just trying to figure out how to make it call for it when the shop is rerolled/ first opened

[dusk harness]

i figured both of those out, let me show you, i just need to get my github repo

[dusk harness]

first load is not perfect
https://github.com/PILIX123/TwitchOverlay/blob/57e650c34b0554808a0af387a8adb12a490a4185/main.lua#L61

but this is for the reroll context
https://github.com/PILIX123/TwitchOverlay/blob/57e650c34b0554808a0af387a8adb12a490a4185/main.lua#L53

[worthy stirrup]

thanks

[dusk harness]

been trying to do that too for 2 weeks,

why are you trying to read shop state?

[worthy stirrup]

im gonna work on the art of my other vouchers and then work on it more

im trying to make consumables in the shop negatives

[dusk harness]

sick

good idea

[worthy stirrup]

yea, part of a voucher mod im working on

[dusk harness]

very nice, hope we cross path again with more updates to our mods

[runic pecan]

I'm planning on making a small mod solely for handling these hover ui, but I haven't make it stable enough, hence not publishing it on github yet.

[manic rune]

ah i see, it looked really nice so i wanted to do that too lol

[crisp coral]

i shoota da gun

[wintry solar]

That’s a nice offset sprite you’ve got there 😉

[manic rune]

this SHOULD work like brainstorm except it uses the rightmost joker's effect, right?

[zealous glen]

How to make the offset sprite?

[crisp coral]

­

[zealous glen]

Thanks

[manic rune]

https://streamable.com/35uoo8 somehow brainstorm works but my joker which should have the exact same function doesnt, and my joker can still copy vanilla jokers which is so weird 😭

[wintry solar]

I mean it doesn’t look like there’s anything to copy until you’ve added the brainstorm

[manic rune]

it should add some variables to the cards in hand when i played a hand

but for some reason it just straight up disables the rightmost joker's function too

[wintry solar]

Can you show the code for both jokers?

[manic rune]

its this one (rightmost joker)

this is the one with the copying function

i assumed its because of the "and not context.blueprint" which made the code not run, but brainstorm and blueprint still allowed it so idk whats going on 💀

[normal crest]

Never thought I'd see star rail in balatro

[manic rune]

been working on this for a few days or so lol

[wintry solar]

Nah that code should still run

Can you throw a print outside that event and see if it prints?

[manic rune]

lemme see

istg am i doing smt wrong here 💀

i even tried copying blueprint's code once and slapped it on my joker, the same bug still happens

[normal crest]

not related to your issue but that for loop is pretty unnecessary

and your check should compare against card not self

[manic rune]

oh yeah i know, i was so desperate i tried copying Thinktank's code from Familiar to see if it works

though the problem still remains, which is that my modded jokers' effects r disabled if they have that "not context.blueprint" in the condition

[wintry solar]

If you remove the copying joker does it print?

[manic rune]

yeah

[wintry solar]

oh

I know what this is

[manic rune]

😭 fr?

[wintry solar]

You need to set context.bluepritn back to nil

[normal crest]

In your copying joker ^

[manic rune]

im kinda lost here, where am i supposed to put that?

[wintry solar]

After you calculate the other joker

[manic rune]

like this?

oh my god, thank yall so much 😭

[normal crest]

and you should set blueprint_card to nil too

just make sure to store the value before

[lament steeple]

👋

Hello! Using SMODS, is there an easy way to access stuff provided by another mod? I see SMODS.current_mod.* stuff, so I tried (specifically trying to use Pokermon stuff in mine) - SMODS.pokermon.config and SMODS.Pokermon.config but neither worked - I figured I should search out documentation/help rather than continuing to randomly stab at it at that point

[faint yacht]

SMODS.Mods['Pokermon']?

[crisp coral]

SMODS.Mods["Pokermon"]

[lament steeple]

awsome, thank you both!!! ❤️

[normal crest]

And you don't need the [] or "

[faint yacht]

But as nothing was done for suit/ranks by SMODS itself, if I want a rank to also be considered a different one (Aces count as 10s, for example) w/ a Joker, do I hook or patch?

[wintry solar]

I say good luck lol

[manic rune]

i remember cryptid OR ortalab (i cant remember) having a joker like that (all face cards are consider K, all number cards are considered 10s, something similar to that function)

[wintry solar]

that's cryptid

[dire palm]

The game never goes in my

  return {message = "Isekai'd",}
end```
and I'm confused as to why. Anything stupid I'm missing?

[normal crest]

because you're modifying it in an event

events don't happen immediately

[dire palm]

I see... How could I solve the problem, then?

[normal crest]

from what I see only the code within your for loop after you define destroyed_cards should go in the event

Tho I just realized you're using that textkai variable to see if jokers_to_create is >= 1

[dire palm]

Yeah. That's the point. The message should not appear if no joker is created.

[normal crest]

then you could replace textkai == 1 with that, jokers_to_create > 0

and just get rid of it entirely

[wintry solar]

use SMODS.calculate_effect within your event

[dire palm]

Gotta love when the simplest solution just doesn't appear in your brain... 😅

[shell geyser]

hi sorry to bother i am trying to create a joker similar to dna that create a negative copy if the first hand is a single card but can't get it to work , the error is that "full hand is a nill value"

[normal crest]

you need to check the context too, when do you want it to happen

[pulsar flower]

you want to check for if context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.before and G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 0

if you don't narrow down the context, i believe it triggers when the hand isn't drawn, causing a crash

[shell geyser]

when the first played hand is a single card similar to dna

[normal crest]

So after a hand is played?

Or before a hand is played

[pulsar flower]

pretty sure dna triggers before

[shell geyser]

before i think

[normal crest]

then use this

[pulsar flower]

^

[shell geyser]

ok thx i will try this

[shell geyser]

thx

[pulsar flower]

right so how would i add a custom enhancement to the info queue of a consumable?

[normal crest]

info_queue[#1116390750314307698_queue + 1] = G.P_CENTERS.m_gold

but instead of m_gold you put m_prefix_id where prefix is your mod prefix and id is well, the id of your enhancement

[pulsar flower]

yeah i figured

didn't think it would be as straight forward, oops

actually, speaking of info queue

how would i access the smods negative playing card info where it says +1 hand size

[worthy stirrup]

to be sure, is context.buying_card or context.selling_card relating to jokers

[faint yacht]

Any card.

[worthy stirrup]

okay, im probablt just gonna check this at the start of every blind then

[pulsar flower]

i think you just check the set

[normal crest]

same as above but G.P_CENTERS.e_negative

Oh wait

[pulsar flower]

yeah

[normal crest]

try e_negative_playing_card

[faint yacht]

Well, sticking with hooking it.

[nocturne garnet]

Fivest five of a kind I've ever seen

that truly is a five of a kind of only one rank

[violet void]

do you guys think this Joker can be helpful

[wintry solar]

It would be better with hand types it can work with

Otherwise it’s just extra discard limit, which is fine

[violet void]

would you say its worth a joker slot

this is while I was testing and I thought it was funny lol

[wintry solar]

Oh it working in straights like that is cool

Do flushes and oaks work too?

[violet void]

Yes

[wintry solar]

That’s pretty neat then, I’d say it’s worth it

[sage reef]

Hey there yall, I am thinking about making a mod for Balatro but have never had any experience in the field beyond some very basic coding. Any advice, tips, or tools yall find especially useful? I can do the pixel art myself no sweat, but its the coding aspect thats a bit daunting

[wintry solar]

Start simple to get the hang of things then slowly work up to more complex effects. Make sure you read the wiki and don’t be afraid to ask questions if you need help, there are plenty of us who do know what we’re doing that are happy to help!

[edgy mountain]

hey, how do i make sure other_joker gets assigned?
right now it is always turning out as nil when the joker is being sold

i copied blueprints code to select the joker to the right of this

[wintry solar]

== card not == self

Also why is the entire logic inside an event?

[dense vector]

How does it work with full houses and 5 of a kinds?

[edgy mountain]

cuz i was trying out stuff since it was not wanting to work

thanks tho

[sage reef]

thanks! i appreciate it

[shell geyser]

sorry to bother again i feel like my conditions are close but wrong it never seems to enter inside the loop (trying to make a negative dna)

[violet void]

It picks the highest hand in the tier

[dense vector]

Could you technically play an eight of a kind of all of your held in hand cards are aces?

[wintry solar]

What’s this for?

[dense vector]

I know that it would count as a five of a kind but still

[violet void]

yes

scholar would be happy

[shell geyser]

same as before , i am trying to add a negative copy of a card to the deck, given that it is the only card played on the first hand (similar to dna)

[tall wharf]

can someone add coulrophobia mode for balatro

where every single instance of jimbos are replaced with cats

[wintry solar]

No like what object

Joker?

[shell geyser]

yes yes joker

[wintry solar]

Then remove the cardarea check

[shell geyser]

ok i will try

[violet void]

it probably has its uses

[maiden river]

how do you add chips to a card, like hiker does?

[vagrant flax]

hey guys, anyone has evere modded a deck in Balatro?

[maiden river]

I have

did you ever figure out that thing from earlier

[vagrant flax]

still hasn't

[wintry solar]

What’s the question?

[vagrant flax]

I need to create a new deck that starts with 2 tarots that I created and a Joker
I did this, but when I start a game it crashes

[normal crest]

Probably have to put the full id for the consumable

[shell geyser]

now the conditions are met (i enter the loop) but i am back to my previous error

[wintry solar]

Problem with your return table

Remove the card = line

[smoky beacon]

Does anyone here know how to sort modded out on linux?

[foggy carbon]

The joker still works as intended, but hovering over it gives this error. No other joker with info_queue breaks this way. I wonder if this is something I did?

[vagrant flax]

I tried with the key and with the prefix_key version but none of them works

[normal crest]

Try c_prefix_key

[normal crest]

What's your loc_vars code

[shell geyser]

it works u are my goat

[wintry solar]

config = {consumables = {'c_ortalab_lot_barrel'}},

Something like this but with your key

[foggy carbon]

for a vanilla joker? I didn't take ownership of it, so whatever's vanilla

[normal crest]

Or rather, do you have any lovely patches, didn't notice it was a vanilla joker

[foggy carbon]

I think they're just Smods. All the other mods I have sit on top of smods rather than using lovely

[wintry solar]

What’s your mod list?

[vagrant flax]

IT WORKED

[maiden river]

SMODS.Back({
    key = "regazzi",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Ragazzi Deck",
        text = {
            "Start with two {C:attention}sauce",
            "and the joker {C:green}Pios Balls"
        }
    },
    apply = function(self, back)
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            func = function()
                for i = 1, 2 do
                    SMODS.add_card({
                        set = "Tarot"
                    })
                end
                return true
            end
        }))
    end
})```

Here's how I added two random tarot cards

[vagrant flax]

thank you so much guys ur pretious

[maiden river]

huge

[vagrant flax]

love from italy porcoddio!!!

[maiden river]

dang you can put that in the config
never knew 😭

[foggy carbon]

Red are mods I have but turned off. Yellow are my own mods and I did turn them off to look, but it still happens.

[wintry solar]

It very well could be one of those mods, I’m not aware of anyone else having this issue

[normal crest]

Yeah you have a lot of mods, hard to pinpoint the culprit

[urban veldt]

Is there a font for Spectral/Tarot cards?

Or do I just gotta pixel-art something thats legible and nice?

[foggy carbon]

using SMODS to disable them all and enable them one-at-a-time, it seems to be Tag Preview doing it

[wintry solar]

That was my guess

[foggy carbon]

which I guess makes sense? This is the only joker that has info_queue relating to tags

[cerulean rose]

yup, known issue

[smoky talon]

im trying to make a tag that spawns a custom joker, and im having problems. I spawned the tag with debug mode and at the next shop the joker appeared, but the game seemingly froze as the tag stayed and i couldn't interact with anything, but the music continued. Any idea why this is happening? (Also, how do I add a description to the tag?)

[faint yacht]

?

if context.type == "store_joker_create" then
  local card = create_card("Joker", context.area, nil, nil, nil, nil, "j_gcbm_avo")
  create_shop_card_ui(card, "Joker", context.area)
  card.states.visible = false
  tag:yep("+", G.C.RED, function()
    card:start_materialize()
    card:set_cost()
    return true
  end)
  tag.triggered = true
  return card
end

[smoky talon]

i got the basis for the code from someone else in here yesterday, so some of it may be wrong idk

[wintry solar]

You need the yep

[smoky talon]

that works

i just need tto know how to add a name and description for the tag

its just blank rn

also i put set_cost to 0 and the joker still costs 15

any idea why?

why did it send that bunny lol

[faint yacht]

card.ability.couponed = true in yep.

[vagrant flax]

yeah that's crazy, I found it out from the source code of the game

[smoky talon]

and how do i add a name and description?

[faint yacht]

Same loc_txt structure.

[smoky talon]

k

[vagrant flax]

ehy @wintry solar , do you know how to create a deck that starts with a joker?

[wintry solar]

I believe you add joker = {‘key’} to that config table

It might be jokers

[zealous glen]

Can this be pixel precise?

[wintry solar]

It’ll have to be in terms of the games coordinates

[vagrant flax]

tried and didn't work

[zealous glen]

hmmm do you know the correspondence to 1 pixel

[wintry solar]

🤷‍♂️ dunno I just adjusted until it was where I wanted

[cursive glade]

Is it possible to add a new hand type through SMODS?

[maiden river]

yup

I think?

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

[wintry solar]

I think I based it off self.T.w being 71 pixels

[cursive glade]

thx

[wintry solar]

oh looks like this isn't actually a thing and has to be done manually, shall I make it a thing that works instead?

[cursive glade]

I think it needs to be a lovely patch

[zealous glen]

Yeah I was thinking it could scale off the size it should have and the in-game one

[maiden river]

every time I get a modded consumable from a booster pack, it adds itself twice?
one is invisible tho

oh wait I think I fixed it lmao

yeah it was be being clueless

[wintry solar]

@vagrant flax using jokers = {'key'} in your config on newest smods will work now

[maiden river]

should someone add the information about config on decks to the wiki? seems like that would be helpful

[livid tapir]

how do i make it so that my booster pack has the consumable type be pulled into your consumable slot and not be used
what i mean is
i have a booster pack
and the cards inside it (besides all the placeholder joker guys) have a use button instead of a button that like adds to your consumables

[maiden river]

oh I was just doing this

[livid tapir]

raevyn howw are you always doing what im trying to do-- 💀
literally a smarter version of me lol

[maiden river]

so you're going to want to use the keep_on_use function and make that always return true

and then in your use function, at the end, add card:start_dissolve()

so it destroys itself when you actually use it

[livid tapir]

in the consumable, consumable type or booster

[maiden river]

in the consumable

[livid tapir]

makes sense

ok

thxxx

[maiden river]

no problem

[wintry solar]

no

don't do that

[maiden river]

oh

[wintry solar]

that's not how to do it

[maiden river]

nvm guess I'm cancelled

what's the issue with that

just wondering

[wintry solar]

it'll mess with usage counting for one

[pulsar flower]

is there a way to access a card's key to index into G.P_CENTERS later?

unsure if it's an actual property of it or if i should make a patch that stores it

[wintry solar]

card.config.center_key

[livid tapir]

so how should we?

[pulsar flower]

[bleak bone]

Does anyone know if it's possible to have a card and joker set only appear if you choose the deck for them?

[vagrant flax]

sure you can

[wintry solar]

uhhh it's probably something we should handle on the smods side tbh

[livid tapir]

yeah ngl, thats a pretty essential feature
so should i just do raevyns suggestion for now?

[maiden river]

So I win for now

[livid tapir]

uhh

i tried it

doesnt seem to work

see use is grayed out

and unclickable

[maiden river]

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that

[cerulean rose]

seems like an issue with your can_use function

[wintry solar]

just need to figure out the best way to enable it

[maiden river]

Make can_use return true

I have all of mine all return true all the time

Which isn't good lma

Lmao

Rae's Scuffed Solutions™️

[wintry solar]

super scuffed 🤣

[maiden river]

There's a state that's when a booster pack is open, I believe

G.STATES_SMODS_BOOSTER_OPENED, iirc

[livid tapir]

ok

[maiden river]

I don't know if that's just for modded boosters tho

[vagrant flax]

what did you do?

[livid tapir]

well this is a modded booster so EEEEEEEE

[maiden river]

I've learned so much about modding from the project I'm working on

Mainly that debugging is hell

And holding the m key is a bit annoying

Shoutout to whoever made the LSP definitions for smods btw

[livid tapir]

ikr, it always types in my vs code

[maiden river]

You're my hero

[maiden river]

Wish there was a simple way to change the keybind

I think you can make your own keybinds with some code

[edgy reef]

Yea

[livid tapir]

this is the consumable ```
SMODS.Consumable {
key = 'skip',
set = 'unoc',
loc_txt = {
name = "Skip",
text = {"pluh"}
},
atlas = 'uno',
pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
keep_on_use = function(self, card)
return true
end,
use = function(self, card, area, copier)
card.start_dissolve()
end,
can_use = function(self, card)
return true
end
}

and then when i use the thing in a booster it decides to crash bc it indexed self

[maiden river]

Well, you dissolve the card after you actually use it (also I believe it's card:start_dissolve())

so you have to have some kind of check to see if the card is being used in a booster pack

Here's some of my code

At the very end of the function is where the start_dissolve is

[livid tapir]

so smth like this?

SMODS.Consumable {
    key = 'skip',
    set = 'unoc',
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Skip",
        text = {"pluh"}
    },
    atlas = 'uno',
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
    keep_on_use = function(self, card)
        return true
    end,
    use = function(self, card, area, copier)
        if G.STATE == G.STATES.SMODS_BOOSTER_OPENED then
            return
        else 
            card:start_dissolve()
        end
    end,
    can_use = function(self, card)
        return true
    end
}

[maiden river]

Yeah

You technically don't need the else since the function returns

[livid tapir]

oh yeah

optimization 101

[wintry solar]

it's nearly done dw

[maiden river]

My goat

[livid tapir]

ok so i opened the pack and when i clicked use on it
it just disappeared LOL

[maiden river]

Oop

Well apparently we won't have to worry about all this in a little bit lol

[pulsar flower]

i also need this for my mod

[mystic river]

give it a yes_pool_flag and have the deck set it on game start
see gros michel and cavendish for the flag code and.... hmm, i can't think of a good example for the deck code

[wintry solar]

There we go, pushed. Use select_card = 'key of card area to save the card to' in your booster object

for example, select_card = 'consumeables' to save to the consumable slots

I also need this for ortalab so I'd have been doing it at some point anyway 🤣

[maiden river]

Big

Also btw

Is there a way to disable the use button? Like hide it

[wintry solar]

when?

[tall wharf]

oh in the booster pack?

[rough furnace]

consumeables have a can_use function on them

[hushed briar]

is there a way to have the color of text in a description be variable? {C:#4#}#1#{} Joker doesnt work and neither does passing the whole thing as a loc_var work, like loc_vars = function() return {"{C:blue}Common{}"} end and then #1# Joker

[rough furnace]

you can define custom colours in loc_vars

[tall wharf]

i guess you're trying to add dynamic formatting

[rough furnace]

see colours in the return here https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Localization#loc_vars

[hushed briar]

oohhh i see, thank you

[tall wharf]

ah

sounds simple

[sullen fern]

if i wanna create the self destruct seal i need to learn how to trigger self destruct after scoring is finished

[tall wharf]

hey uh

i made kinda same concept but it does it at the end of the round

not every hand

[sullen fern]

yeah i want it to trigger after every hand scored

[tall wharf]

i guess i won't be much help for you but if you are interested https://github.com/Aikoyori/Balatro-Aikoyoris-Shenanigans/blob/7a55d3cc747206388bf65958e81c00dc26119358/modules/hooks.lua#L525

[wintry solar]

you can use the destroying_card context in that case

[noble anchor]

I think that’s context.after

[edgy reef]

Is select_card a string to the CardArea?

[wintry solar]

yes

[edgy reef]

ok

[wintry solar]

it wouldn't work referencing the cardarea directly

[dire palm]

Wondering something... How can I get the number of cards currently held in hand?

[normal crest]

#G.hand.cards

[summer torrent]

Do y'all think it's realistic for me to try to make a mod with very little experience, or should I start somewhere else?

[stiff locust]

uhh

[stiff locust]

yeah absolutely
modding this game is easy if you're not adding new mechanics or shit

[rough furnace]

as long as you're willing to read docs and stuff you should be fine

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

[stiff locust]

also balaui

https://www.balaui.dev it's pretty cool

shows you joker code format
but be warned, it likes putting variables as strings instead of integers, not a difficult fix tho

anyway

my sound is being distorted by the game

[summer torrent]

Thanks!

[stiff locust]

i knew the game changed sound files a bit but how do I reverse engineer it

to make the sound normal ingame

[naive notch]

Finished these 2 cards, how they looking?

heres a better ss (idk why the first one was so small)

[sullen fern]

i forgot to show off the alabell card and seal sprites

[solar tide]

Hi

Someone have some documentation about card_eval_status_text

i already created a additionnal script for implemt the "x_chips" and want to put a message when i multiply the x_chips

but dont rly understand the parameters about the fonction card_eval_status_text

[zealous glen]

I think Steamodded implements xChips no?

[solar tide]

no

its only Talisman

But its okay i already implement it

the problem is with the card_eval_status_text

[vagrant flax]

what do you mean by "newest mods"?

[sullen fern]

this may be the greatest joker ever

[solar tide]

no. but it is cool

[tepid crow]

newest smods (also known as steamodded)

[wintry solar]

not currently but aure and I have mentioned adding it

[solar tide]

Ohhhhh

and u know when its gonna be release

[tepid crow]

I don't even think they have decided whether to add it or not

[rough furnace]

talisman does iirc

[solar tide]

'cause if its soon, maybe i can more focus on the other jokers and for this one juste w8 the implementation of xchips

but i dont want to made a dependency with talisman

[wintry solar]

it isn't hard to add though

[solar tide]

i just want my mod can be launch without it

[wintry solar]

so if we do decide to it'd be pretty speedy

[solar tide]

hmmm okay

thats can be really cool for me, if u implement it

why y hesitate ?

[wintry solar]

imo it steps a bit far from vanilla, and it;s functionally xmult in almost every circumstance

I only suggest adding it so people stop asking about how to add it 🤣

[zealous glen]

I think xChips is just Mult

and xxChips is xMult

[rough furnace]

^chips\

[tepid crow]

something something xChips slippery slope

[mystic river]

iirc it was also suggested to implement ^mult (and ^chips) so people can stop requiring talisman for those
(if people want ^^things they'll probably need talisman anyway :v)

[tepid crow]

^mult (and ^chips) seem too far for me but idk

[wintry solar]

I don't think we'd implement ^mult/chips

[tepid crow]

"slippery slope" and all that

[zealous glen]

They can require Talisman for those

[rough furnace]

esepcially since your going to be needing talisman for the higher scores anyways

[zealous glen]

I don't like xChips but I think it's ok for SMODS to add it as an API

[scarlet spire]

/chips that always divides your chips into a smaller number

[zealous glen]

I think for the most part they only want ^Chips because Cryptid does it

[zealous glen]

that's just Mult

[rough furnace]

0.5x mult

[scarlet spire]

I love <X1 mult

[rough furnace]

-1x mult

[wintry solar]

negative scoring is fun

[mystic river]

oh yeah did playing cards accumulating mult and xmult hiker-style get added to smods or was that just put on the to do list

[zealous glen]

I don't think I like negative scoring

[wintry solar]

I think victin and lars are working on it

[zealous glen]

https://tenor.com/view/puppet-awkward-looking-what-side-eye-gif-15476992

[scarlet spire]

is there any documentation/template for specifically making tarot cards?

[zealous glen]

-# Lars has put in all the work so far, I need to stop procastinating

[wintry solar]

thats fine take your time
-# jk I need it for ortalab hurry up pls

[tepid crow]

-# I was wondering if you had worked on it recently actually

[livid tapir]

yeah

[livid tapir]

wow that was quick! thx eremel, btw will i need to maneuver the change into old calc cuz i use old calc

[orchid thunder]

WHY

[wintry solar]

no you just need to use new calc why are you using old calc

[livid tapir]

bc as i have heard not very much mods use new calc, i download mods too

[orchid thunder]

bc people hate new calc

[rough furnace]

pretty much every mod but crytpid uses new calc at this point

and cryptid is being updated

[livid tapir]

Mika's Mod Collection?

[rough furnace]

ikd what that is

[livid tapir]

it has some decks and stuff

[tepid crow]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1215775159638818826

[livid tapir]

ill try switching then

[wintry solar]

mika's isnt even 1.0

[livid tapir]

huh, it just works

[wintry solar]

if we remove the compat layer it will just stop working

[rough furnace]

0.9.8 compat layer go brrrrrrrrrrr

[livid tapir]

ah ok

[tepid crow]

yeah I was about to say that's 10 months old

[tepid crow]

that's hilarious lmao

[livid tapir]

me finally giving in to the breaking change propaganda-- /j (about propaganda)

ok i just switched and guess what
a miracle
the game launched

i was expecting 40 errors to be thrown at me

so

[tepid crow]

yeah you should really be developing for new-calc anyway

[wintry solar]

you just might have a few calcs trigger more than once or not trigger depending on what they were

or some patches miss

[livid tapir]

is it a problem with the mods or the new calc

[rough furnace]

the mods

[livid tapir]

ok

[zealous glen]

The names people use here are interesting

[livid tapir]

lol

[zealous glen]

When is stupid meeting dumb*ss

[livid tapir]

bc i am #1 dumbass, its no secret

[zealous glen]

SMODS Cinematic Universe

[livid tapir]

LOL

[mystic river]

a lot of mods used weird shortcuts that worked on old calc because only certain contexts got passed to certain items
better calc passes every context to every item so being insufficiently specific with contexts will have funky results now

[livid tapir]

ah i see

also fellow cat pfp no way

[mystic river]

some of the shortcuts were so weird I'm surprised they even worked under old calc

also

[wintry solar]

it's just a far superior system now

you have so much more control

[livid tapir]

ngl i have a slight feeling my jokers could be funnied by the new context stuff, though im sure its simple fix so

i just realized
NO
everytime i say "must be simple fix" it is 10x harder than i thought

WHAT HAVE I DONEEE

[graceful magnet]

so I'm quite literally just starting working on something (I wrote out 50 Joker ideas and decided that's my current limit for ideas before I need to start making them), and I'm wondering what the 'key' it talks about here. I'm not familiar with this area of modding so I'm just wondering like, Mod name or something, should this be the same for every object, etc?

[livid tapir]

50 is an oddly large limit--

[wintry solar]

key is individual to each object, it's how the game refers to it

[graceful magnet]

okay, good to know

[livid tapir]

ok eremel your new feature good
YAY
ty

yknow i just realized smth
im kinda stupid
why would i not let duplicates in a booster pack about uno 💀

a booster pack that has a sprite made to look like a deck too

[molten kestrel]

Hey everyone im pretty new to modding but wanted to try doing some statistical analysis on bits of the game as a sort of a personal project. Where should i start in pulling things like game infomation like the hand a deck (probably with the end goal of giving it to Python)?

[rough furnace]

You probably would want to look into how the code works (https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Your-First-Mod#useful-resources has some info on this). https://canary.discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1224730080056573972 may also be useful

the current hand is stored under G.hand iirc

or well the cards are in G.hand.cards

[molten kestrel]

This is super helpful thank you!

[scarlet spire]

I made a custom enhancement tarot card that works perfectly, except it doesn't do the card flip animation when converting to a different enhancement, what am I supposed to do for that?

(video example)

[wintry solar]

you need to add the flips in events before and after you change the ability

[dense copper]

Hey yall, I have the json all set up for my face card reskins. how do i set up the lua file to make it work? i have been rummaging through the github wiki but i cant seem to figure it out

[solar eagle]

            local percent = 1.15 - (i-0.999)/(#G.hand.highlighted-0.998)*0.3
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                trigger = 'after',
                delay = 0.15,
                func = function()
                    G.hand.highlighted[i]:flip();
                    play_sound('card1', percent);
                    G.hand.highlighted[i]:juice_up(0.3, 0.3);
                    return true
                end
            }))
        end
        delay(0.2)```
*before* the code that converts to enhancement
```for i = 1, #G.hand.highlighted do --unflips cards
            local percent = 0.85 + (i-0.999)/(#G.hand.highlighted-0.998)*0.3
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                trigger = 'after',
                delay = 0.15,
                func = function()
                     G.hand.highlighted[i]:flip();
                     play_sound('tarot2', percent, 0.6);
                     G.hand.highlighted[i]:juice_up(0.3, 0.3);
                     return true
                end
            }))
        end
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            trigger = 'after',
            delay = 0.2,
            func = function()
                G.hand:unhighlight_all();
            return true
        end })) --unselects cards
        delay(0.5)```
*after* the code that converts to enhancement

you'll notice that the hierophant unselects the cards that you selected after converting them but your tarot does not

[scarlet spire]

oh yeah, that too

thank you!

I wish there was more example code in the docs for how to achieve base behaviors like this

[solar eagle]

yeaa

the best documentation is really just the game source code lol

cryptid helps too, sometimes

[scarlet spire]

I should take a look at that

[cerulean rose]

doesn't seem to work

it won't let me reference outside locals during the take_ownership call

[graceful magnet]

is there an example Joker somewhere so I have like a good guide for formatting and how to actually like, slot in functions and stuff?

[solar eagle]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua
this can help Somewhat

what exactly are you trying to do tho?

[graceful magnet]

currently reading through things mostly but attempting to make a Joker that gains + 1 Mult for each scored face card, then obviously adds that when it gets scored itself

[solar eagle]

    key = "placeholder",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Placeholder",
        text = {
            "Text goes",
            "here, on",
            "{C:attention}multiple lines!{} by {C:mult}+#1#{}",
            "{C:inactive}(Currently {C:mult}+#2#{C:inactive} Mult)"
        }
    },
    config = { extra = { mult_add = 1, pool = 0 } },
    rarity = 0,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,
    atlas = "jokers",
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    cost = 4,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.mult_add, card.ability.extra.pool } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and not SMODS.has_no_rank(context.other_card) then
            if context.other_card:is_face() then
                card.ability.extra.pool + card.ability.extra.pool + card.ability.extra.mult_add
                return {
                    extra = { message = localize('k_upgrade_ex'), colour = G.C.MULT },
                    colour = G.C.MULT,
                    card = card
                }
        elseif context.joker_main then
            return {
                message = localize { type = "variable", key = "a_mult", vars = { card.ability.extra.pool } },
                mult_mod = card.ability.extra.pool
            }
        end
    end
}

heres what should do exactly that

breakdown!

key is the key of the joker, in case you want to check for it later or something
loc_txt is the name and description
config is where you can store variables and the like, so for example mult_add is how much mult it will add to itself when a face card scores, and pool is what it sounds like - a pool of all the mult to add

rarity is whether its common, uncommon, rare, legendary which are 0, 1, 2, 3 respectively

blueprint_compat means it can be cloned with blueprint or brainstorm, eternal_compat means it can have the eternal sticker

atlas and pos are to do with the sprite - i can explain those separately if you want

cost is how much it costs in balatro bux

loc_vars is how you return variables to the description field, so you can use #n# to display them, where N is their order in the array you return

the description there shows +1 (mult_add) highlighted with {C:mult}{} so it will show in the red text

And then the line below that shows how much mult it would currently be adding, like how Runner does with chips

[cerulean rose]

i would reccomend using localization files

[wintry solar]

this should be 1, 2, 3, 4

[ionic verge]

how easy would it be to make extra booster packs spawn

[solar eagle]

have i misremembered

i might have misremembered im tired lol

[cerulean rose]

see booster joker from cryptid

[ionic verge]

using a deck, specifically

ok

[solar eagle]

i still cant figure out how to use loc_vars with these

but anyway

[cerulean rose]

loc_vars is the same as it is with loc_txt

[solar eagle]

And finally calculate is where everything actually happens! you can read more about the various things it can do here:
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Guide-‐-Joker-Calculation
but for our purposes, we only need two contexts.
the first makes sure that what's currently happening is that cards are being played, then checks if the card is a face card, and if it is, increases the joker's pool count by one.
then later, it checks for context.joker_main which means that jokers are adding chips/mult/xmult etc etc, and adds the mult from its pool!

sorry if this was a lot

[wintry solar]

thats the old guide

[graceful magnet]

Oh, and in regards to formatting, is using the tab key instead of a bunch of spaces acceptable?

I have not touched lua I do not know what breaks it

[solar eagle]

Yeah you should use tab

Discord just hates formatting and changes it to spaces

[solar eagle]

look i am linking to what i was given

cause it works

[wintry solar]

bits of it might work, but bits of it are wrong now

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

this is the updated one

[plush cove]

heya! so I'm trying to make a Joker that adds +1 free Reroll every time you go through a shop without rerolling, and it works mostly as intended, but there's one major bug that I only realized after discussing in the Cryptid server

if you have only one of these jokers, it works perfectly as intended. but if you have two of them, and you reroll, the value is subtracted from both rather than from just one

is there any way around this? besides swapping to using D6 Tags rather than a native free reroll function

    remove = function(self, card, from_debuff)
        G.GAME.current_round.free_rerolls = G.GAME.current_round.free_rerolls - card.ability.extra.reroll_total
        calculate_reroll_cost(true)
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.setting_blind and not context.blueprint then
            card.ability.extra.win_reroll = true
            G.GAME.current_round.free_rerolls = G.GAME.current_round.free_rerolls + card.ability.extra.reroll_total
            calculate_reroll_cost(true)
        end
        
        if context.reroll_shop and card.ability.extra.reroll_total == 0 then
            card.ability.extra.win_reroll = false
            return {
                play_sound('tarot2', 1, 0.4),
                message = localize('k_nope_ex')
            }
        end

        if context.reroll_shop and card.ability.extra.reroll_total ~= 0 then
            card.ability.extra.win_reroll = false
            card.ability.extra.reroll_total = card.ability.extra.reroll_total - 1
        end

        if context.ending_shop and card.ability.extra.reroll_total < card.ability.extra.reroll_max and card.ability.extra.win_reroll then
            card.ability.extra.reroll_total = card.ability.extra.reroll_total + 1
            return {
                message = localize('k_upgrade_ex')
            }
        end
    end```

and here's the config if you need it

    config = { extra = {reroll_bonus = 1, reroll_total = 0, reroll_max = 10, win_reroll = true}},
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return {vars = {card.ability.extra.reroll_bonus, card.ability.extra.reroll_max, card.ability.extra.reroll_total}}
    end,```

[ionic verge]

ok where can i find the lovely patch that adds the extra booster pack slots that cryptid adds

[cerulean rose]

search the repo for G.GAME.modifiers.cry_booster_packs

[graceful magnet]

So if I have this right

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'princess',
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Princess",
        text = {
            "Gains {C:mult}+1{} Mult for each",
            "scored face card",
            "{C:inactive}(Currently {C:mult}+#0#{C:inactive} Mult)"
        }
    },
    rarity = 1,
    discovered = true,
    cost = 4,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,
    perishable_compat = false,
    atlas = "Princess",
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.mult_add, card.ability.extra.pool } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and not SMODS.has_no_rank(context.other_card) then
            if context.other_card:is_face() then
                card.ability.extra.pool + card.ability.extra.pool + card.ability.extra.mult_add
            return {
                extra = { message = localize('k_upgrade_ex'), colour = G.C.MULT },
                colour = G.C.MULT,
                card = card
            }
        elseif context.joker_main then
            return {
                message = localize { type = "variable", key = "a_mult", vars = { card.ability.extra.pool } },
                mult_mod = card.ability.extra.pool
            }
        end
    end
}

this should be functional so long as the files are all properly organized?

[solar eagle]

yeah should work fine!