💻・modding-dev

[frosty dock]

(also I highly recommend you use a real code editor)

[graceful magnet]

so like so

[graceful magnet]

yeah, will get to that

[graceful magnet]

does this account for Bonus enhancements and Hiker upgrades?

[frosty dock]

no

[novel dagger]

How do you do grey text in card descriptions

[graceful magnet]

ah, okay, what'll need to be adjusted for that

[frosty dock]

{C:inactive}

[dark kite]

forgive me if im dumb as a rock but is there ways to make random rolls not overlap? say like, lucky card chances can overlap in their activation, but i want something to activate x OR activate y

[frosty dock]

uhhh you could hardcode those specific bonus values, but it's hard to catch all chips sources during main scoring that modded objects may add without hooking scoring calculation to keep track of a scored chips value or something similar

[frosty dock]

use a single chance roll and use disjoint ranges

[cerulean rose]

or you could use context.other_card:get_chip_bonus() like a reasonable person

[frosty dock]

local x = pseudorandom('abcdef')
if x < 1/15 then
elseif x < 2/15 then
end

for two 1/15 chances that don't overlap, for example

[graceful magnet]

so swap context.other_card.base.nominal with that?

[cerulean rose]

yup

[dark kite]

ahh that makes sense

forgot theres such a thing as elseif for some reason

[frosty dock]

I mean I was taking it to account for all chips effects in main scoring, which this doesn't

but fair

[cerulean rose]

you mean like odd todd?

[graceful magnet]

if it accounts for base value, Bonus, and Hiker, all I want it to do

[cerulean rose]

cus i think of that as not being part of the chips scored by the card

[frosty dock]

no, like foil edition

[cerulean rose]

foil scores in a separate step

hiker bonus scores in the same step as base chips

[frosty dock]

or an enhancement that adds chips in main scoring calculation if you want something more comparable to bonus cards

[cerulean rose]

alatro is weird man

[frosty dock]

[cerulean rose]

someone should make a 🅱️ joker

[graceful magnet]

for what I want, get_chip_bonus() seems like the right call

sweet

[runic quiver]

small update on that: the crash definitely comes from Saturn, it crashes when i sell a perkeo-affected card or just by starting a blind with one in hand. idk why though, so i just removed saturn sadly. going to sleep now but can maybe investigate tomorrow if someone knows his way around

[wintry solar]

supported now as select_card = {CardSet = 'area', CardSet = 'area'}, e.g. select_card = {Weapon = 'weapons', Tarot = 'consumeable'}

[maiden river]

huge

thanks 🙏🏿

[wintry solar]

I figured it out. Saturn sets card.edition as {} if it's nil for some unknown reason

[runic quiver]

you sure do know your way around lua lol. i might try to learn exactly what happens one day or so

thanks a lot, i'll try fixing that tomorrow

thanks so much anyway

[rapid trail]

SMODS.Joker {
  key = 'ethereal_j',
  loc_txt = {
    name = 'Ethereal Joker',
    text = {
      "Each played Planet Card gives",
      "a Tarot Card"
    }
  },
  rarity = 1,
  atlas = 'vopjs',
  pos = {x = 1, y = 0 },
  cost = 6,
  loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
  end,
  calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.using_consumeable then
      if context.consumeable.ability.set == 'Planet' then
        local card = copy_card(pseudorandom_element('Tarot', G.consumeables, pseudoseed('ethereal_j')), nil)
        card:add_to_deck()
        G.consumeables:emplace(card)
      end
    end
  end
}

Y'all know what's wrong with this? The game runs fine now until I try to open a planet booster, then crashes saying something about randomseed errors

[iron iron]

@novel dagger

sorry eremel didnt mean to ping you

[sullen fern]

how would i impliment something like this

[glad osprey]

steal the code from stencil ?

[timid parrot]

Isn’t that just stencil?

[sullen fern]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1325584036458008681/1330965204707836054/IMG_7719.gif

[solar eagle]

What the flip

[glad osprey]

it like slightly different so its ok

[glad osprey]

holy fuck its you

[solar eagle]

its YOU

[glad osprey]

ITS you

[timid parrot]

In what way?

[crisp coral]

Despite everything, it's still you.

[solar eagle]

im just here to figure out if you can make a boss blind manually trigger the debuff sound and visual effect

[timid parrot]

To me it just looks like stencil but with 1.5X instead of 1X

[sullen fern]

see, i changed it!

[glad osprey]

stencils dont count for stencil and only give 1x mult, this isnt excluded from the calculation and is 1.5x

[timid parrot]

Or wait

My brain

[glad osprey]

oh thats cool

very clever

[timid parrot]

Either way yeah just rip off stencil

[sullen fern]

so basically it would just be “1.5x mult for every negative joker”

[timid parrot]

More unique

Then you can adjust the numbers as you see fit

And the rarity cuz that definitely isn’t common lol

[sullen fern]

i didnt bother to change the rarity on balaui

i use balaui to conceptualize jokers sometimes

[timid parrot]

Ah makes sense

[sullen fern]

anyways, two more jokers from me

[solar eagle]

dont stone cards mostly do that anyway?

well, kinda - they flag as having no suit not any suit

[timid parrot]

I take it the Casino Night Zone is not recursive?

[sullen fern]

no

it’s not

because that would be broken!

[timid parrot]

It would be but the thought experiment is funny

[glad osprey]

might wanna add "excluding Casino Night Zone" to its description

[timid parrot]

Enabling rock flushes is actually an interesting concept

[sullen fern]

oh yeah i’m referring to these jokers i made

all sega genesis themed

[wintry swallow]

what does arranging child notes vertically mean

are children of column node supposed to align as A B C or
A
B
C

[solar eagle]

where is the splash handling code??

im trying to replicate how it makes all cards score but i dont know Where it does things

[sullen fern]

whats fun about making balatro mods is making descriptions for jokers and delaying the inevitable

[scarlet spire]

is there a context for when a poker hand gets upgraded? there's a context for consumables being used that I could filter for planet cards only, but that ignores other methods of upgrading hands, i'd imagine (unless it doesn't?)

[solar eagle]

see how constellation works!

[scarlet spire]

constellation triggers specifically on planet cards, though

[solar eagle]

ahh i see what you mean

i dont believe there's one by default

[paper zealot]

Any good/best practices for cross-mod compatibility? If i were wanting to hook into a function for Trance, is it as simple as something like this?

local g_funcs_set_Trance_font = G.FUNCS.set_Trance_font
function G.FUNCS.set_Trance_font(...)
    local ret = {g_funcs_set_Trance_font(...)}
    SystemClock.reset_clock_ui()
    return unpack(ret)
end

Any other checks or compatibility notes required?

[glad osprey]

wheres the code for jokers typically stored, i can have a look for it

[crisp coral]

prolly should check whether the function exists

or you'd be calling nil

[solar eagle]

card.lua and game.lua but i searched for 'Splash' and found nothing??

i assume its where the code that handles which cards get scored and which dont are but i have No iDea where that is

[crisp coral]

Splash is in... functions/common_events.lua i think?

[glad osprey]

idk if that helps or not but i found smth

[crisp coral]

that function is for setting variables inside the description

[glad osprey]

ah

[solar eagle]

its just loc_vars :(

[solar eagle]

ill check again might have missed it

im not seeing it, or its not referenced by name

[crisp coral]

i omor

it's in one of those functions files

[glad osprey]

FOUND IT

@solar eagle functions/state_events

[crisp coral]

close enough

[glad osprey]

now way itsd abbier from mindstorm

[upper ibex]

i want to make a joker that retriggers all luck based effects

how would i go about coding that?

like in the sense that
when something like a lucky card is played
and it rolls the 1 in 5 and 1 in 15 odds
i want it to make the lucky card roll those odds a second time

or for example a heart card is played and i also have bloodstone
and it rolls that 1 in 2 to give that x1.5 mult
i want it to do it again

[solar eagle]

aha so this will be a lovely patch

[glad osprey]

id check oops's code first

[solar eagle]

this just sets G.GAME.PROBABILTIES.Normal to 2 instead of 1

[glad osprey]

dam

[solar eagle]

the way probability in the game works, you call pseudorandom and it spits out a number between 0 and 1

[glad osprey]

so

just

[solar eagle]

you divide G.GAME.probabilities.normal by your 1 in N chance

then if pseudorandom is in that range, you hit the probability

what you'd probably want to do is hook pseudorandom? im not sure

[glad osprey]

question does lua not have select statements

[solar eagle]

select statements?

[glad osprey]

match

[wintry swallow]

no switch case

[glad osprey]

like

dam

that explains these

[solar eagle]

yea its annoying

me when probability

[crisp coral]

if it works it works

[wintry swallow]

itd still be solved with oop tbh

[crisp coral]

⁉️

whats this for

[plush cove]

also this in Bunco

[solar eagle]

multiple actions out of a list

[plush cove]

which I'm borrowing code from for my own mod, but I've also changed this

[solar eagle]

lucky cards on steroids basically

[scarlet spire]

this context occurs after a card has been played, and means removing it from the deck for the rest of the blind, right? it's a bit vague

[crisp coral]

this context occurs when a card is destroyed

(Canio, etc.)

[upper ibex]

how would i go about making that patch (im sorry, i only started doing balatro modding like 3 days ago)

[crisp coral]

the context you're looking for is destroying_cards

[glad osprey]

also random question, are spectral cards based on anything

[wintry swallow]

nah

[glad osprey]

like how tarot cars are actual tarot cards

[solar eagle]

john balatro just made them up i think

[glad osprey]

ok cool

time to make an evil strength spectral card

[solar eagle]

im not exactly sure abt the specific patch

[wintry swallow]

i feel like one of these is wrong

[glad osprey]

yes except it makes sense since that isnt a tarot card

[scarlet spire]

I can only find context.destroy_card, which is for marking cards to be destroyed? the main thing I'm trying to do is have a card that goes back into the deck when played

[crisp coral]

neither is wrong

[solar eagle]

i mean neither is estrogen

[glad osprey]

urgh i like really wanna make a mod but ive got zero ideas

[glad osprey]

does this just make any card into a queen

[crisp coral]

no context for that, gotta hook to one of the card play functions

[solar eagle]

yep

[glad osprey]

peak

[scarlet spire]

I see, thanks

[plush cove]

converts all face cards into queens

[wintry swallow]

money colored box has 2 rows but is in column mode, in the other image container is in column mode but has 3 columns, what am i missing?

[solar eagle]

any card!

[plush cove]

have you also got a testosterone one

[glad osprey]

testosterone converts any card to a king (including jack bcus thats the third gender)

[crisp coral]

oh the right one should be 1 column 3 rows...?

[glad osprey]

pueberty blockers for jack

[mystic river]

ah yes, the three genders

[wintry swallow]

there is an error right???

[scarlet spire]

there's some precedent tarot decks with nonstandard major arcana, basically the only choice in this scenario besides inverted cards anyways

[crisp coral]

@wintry solar

[plush cove]

for the transgenderism tarot cards, would the card have the "Transgender" enhancement and have its background become the pride flag

[solar eagle]

no but we do have spiro

it turns all your cards into gold cards

[scarlet spire]

is hooking not in the documentation?

[solar eagle]

hooking is part of lovely not steamodded

[scarlet spire]

ahh okay

[untold pilot]

whats the context i use to run code when a specific hand type is played?

im making yaoi/yuri cards that reset when a straight is played

[twilit cargo]

next(context.poker_hands["type"]) iirc

[glad osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-gif-24533171

[gaunt thistle]

it's standard lua function hooking. lovely is purely for code injection - you can hook functions using it, but it's not as convenient.

[tepid crow]

breeze posted the link to an awesome guide/tutorial on lua hooking recently: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/129557-tutorial-function-hooking-and-you/

[west wing]

I have a weird problem. I sent my friend a stripped template folder to give them a quickstart with making their own mod. Neither this nor a changed version of this template show up in their Mods list, but both show up in my Mods list.

Both mods are set up the exact same way in the exact same place (that being, with the rest of our mods). What are we missing?

[scarlet spire]

I see, will look into it

[gaunt thistle]

100% refer to the link Larswijin shared

[small moon]

Friend is making a mod, and this is her calculate function rn, what's weird is the game just crashed saying "other_card is nil"

calculate = function (self, card, context)
    if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual then
        if pseudorandom('wah_nurture') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/15 then
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = (function() context.other_card:set_seal("Red", nil, true); return true end)}))
            return {
                message = "EWNIAH",
                colour = G.C.GREEN,
                card = card
            }
        end
    end
end

[normal crest]

by the time the event runs context could have been modified and you can't guarantee it'll be there

you should store the value of context.other_card in a local variable outside the event and use it instead inside the event

[hollow zenith]

Hihi! Im working on a Spanish Suits texture pack but i cant get it to show up in the game its self. I mean- the game starts up and the mod its self shows up in the mods area but the textures just dont show up? Im trying to figure out if its the code of the .lua file or something else

Anybody having the same problem?

edit: this has been solved!

[cerulean rose]

does anyone know why my mod causes the game to randomly crash when executing completely unrelated code?
https://github.com/DigitalDetective47/strange-library

[orchid thunder]

Anyone?

[stiff locust]

splash

mentioned

[cerulean rose]

only crashes on #1336473631483760791

[west wing]

Bumping this message because they're still ticked off lol

[cerulean rose]

make sure they don't have their folders double nested

ex. Mods/Cryptid/Cryptid/…

[west wing]

Waiter, there's Cryptid in my Cryptid

[plush cove]

hmm yes the cryptid is made out of cryptid

[vocal verge]

quite cryptid

[halcyon torrent]

I'm not :P

[cerulean rose]

(())

[west wing]

(^ this is the friend in question)

[halcyon torrent]

hi :3

[vocal verge]

as cryptic as bigfoot hitting the griddy

[west wing]

anyway no the folders are not double nested

[cerulean rose]

are you both using the same version of steammodded?

[west wing]

"min_version": "1.0.0~ALPHA-1030e"
Mine is 1122a

[untold pilot]

is there a way to separate purchase price from sell price and set them to independent values?

[cerulean rose]

latest version is 1409a

[cerulean rose]

check cube from cryptid

[west wing]

that doesn't mean anything for the problem at hand

[cerulean rose]

it absolutely does

[untold pilot]

i guess ill look at that

[west wing]

the minimum version is less than either of our versions and it works for my version. i'll tell them to boost the min version for their files but we have a bunch of other mods that are perfectly functional

[cerulean rose]

mod metadata handling might've changed idk

[solar eagle]

for this section on SMODS.Consumable, would i set the parameters as

  soul_rate = 0.005
}```
?

or is soul_rate something else

[solar eagle]

how would you display an info_queue for a seal? like how you can do info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = G.P_CENTERS.m_enhancement for enhancements

oh its just part of "Other" ok

[west wing]

Steammodded tutorial VS json

[scarlet spire]

how can I prevent a playing card from being debuffed via a seal/enhancement/whatever?

[vocal verge]

truthy and falsy

[scarlet spire]

truthy and falsy...

[vocal verge]

sounds liek some cocomelon shit

[void pecan]

Where can I access this thing (forgot the term)

[normal crest]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Utility it's here

[void pecan]

thx

[normal crest]

to my knowledge everything is truthy except nil and false

[manic rune]

im new to booster packs so idk what im actually doing here, the green particles r there at all times + flashing weirdly, and also that "ERROR" on top of Choose 2, how do i fix all of them?

[cerulean rose]

for the particles, make sure to set skip_materialize = true

also kind should be a string value

it acts as a key for booster pack types

[manic rune]

ah, i see

so it would be smt like this?

[cerulean rose]

nope, that would put it in the same pool as the standard arcana packs

[manic rune]

huh, so the kind should be different from them?

[cerulean rose]

yeah

[manic rune]

alright, thanks, though i have an additional question now, how would you use "kind"?

[cerulean rose]

when spawning a booster pack

[manic rune]

oof, didnt seem to fix it

[south folio]

trying to make a joker that behaves like DNA but for face cards (Played face cards are copied twice to Hand when hand size is 1) having problems where it doesn't wanna copy the card to the deck

[runic pecan]

Would it be equivalent if I move this to the calculation function instead?
Like, does every possible case of changes in consumeable slot run through calculate_joker?

[cerulean rose]

set that in the table returned from create_card

[solar eagle]

on a consumable, is this structure correct to give this card a 7.1% chance to spawn?

[cerulean rose]

yeah

[solar eagle]

perfect ty

[manic rune]

oof, got it

[runic pecan]

Was experimenting with patches but wow, this is new to me. Like, very new.

[cursive glade]

What's the global variable for the count of how many times a specific hand was played this run?

[cerulean rose]

check supernova

[manic rune]

thanks ;D the particles r gone now, though how do i change this "ERROR" part?

[cursive glade]

nice! thanks G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].played is what i'm looking for

[south folio]

sstill having issues with this one

[cerulean rose]

copied cards is never updated

[south folio]

copied cards is never updated?

[south folio]

:(

[cerulean rose]

idk how that would work with loc_txt

[cerulean rose]

this is referring to me btw

[south folio]

O

no but actually what does it mean

[manic rune]

oof, same, i should probably go investigate some mods with booster packs then 💀

[scarlet spire]

how can I detect if a card is changing in some way (i.e. a card is being used to change the seal, enhancement, etc)?

[cerulean rose]

hook Card:set_seal

[scarlet spire]

I have a seal that applies prevent_debuff to a card, but I can't figure out a clean way to remove it once the seal is gone, so it's just never debuffable again

ah

actually, figured out a safer way to do it that doesn't go around applying semi-permanent anti debuffing to cards

[timid star]

how do i make it so that card_eval_status_text trigger immediately instead of it waiting for the round to end?

i am struggling to figure out how it might work like activating per card animation just like how returning a message works

unless im using the event manager wrong

[normal crest]

What's your code

[timid star]

trying to make it show the process of chips being changed and then mult

but the events always end at the very end of the scoring animation

[normal crest]

you should be able to just return multiple effects and replace the message

return {
  chips = whatever,
  mult = whatever,
  chip_message = "whatever",
  mult_message = "whatever",
}

as a random example

[timid star]

chips_message is a thing?

[normal crest]

assuming you're using a recent version of steamodded yes

it will replace the default chips message

[timid star]

yeah i had to update my steamodded from the version cryptid uses to the recent one

[normal crest]

then that should work

as a replacement for all your code in joker main

actually it's "chip_message" without the s

[timid star]

how about a message per card activated, specifically for a setup like this

also what's the boolean arg for the second value on set_ability for

[normal crest]

usually if you want to do a message on each evaluated card you do if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual where you can replace G.play with any area

and whatever you return there will be evaluated on each card

i'm not sure why you're using pre_joker

[timid star]

this joker is specifically set to wipe the cards clear after the cards have been scored

[solar eagle]

is it possible to lovely patch steamodded code?

[timid star]

this works exactly like i wanted to except the messages don't display anything, it's a table right?

yep it's a table, i figured it out

[normal crest]

i feel like you should use context.after instead

if you want to make a card show a message at any point in time you can always do
SMODS.calculate_effect({ message = "whatever" }, card)

and you can add instant = true to that table if needed

[timid star]

yeah i'll try that, along with another joker to see if it helps

[frosty dock]

[timid star]

a little, odd

i don't think the numbers look right

[normal crest]

can you send the entire calculate function

[normal crest]

oh well it's probably because you're modifying them twice here

[timid star]

yeah isn't it adding the numbers again?

[normal crest]

when returning effects they are applied automatically to the hand, so you shouldn't need to set hand_chips or mult before

[timid star]

returning chips and mult adds the value to the chips and mult again

i can just set those to 0 when calculating so it returns the exact numbers

[void pecan]

mmmmmm what did I do

[timid star]

wait have to tweak it a bit more

[normal crest]

i mean sure, that works, but I was more thinking like

local chips = mod_chips(hand_chips * blah blah)
local mult = mod_mult(mult + chips)

return {
  chips = chips,
  mult = mult,
  blah blah
}

[normal crest]

what's your metadata file

[normal crest]

to each their own i guess

if it works it works

[timid star]

i mean well it works like that

[timid star]

the issue was that returning chips = chips will just add the new value of chips, to the chips again

same with mult

[normal crest]

yeah you'd have to multiply by card.ability.extra.xchip - 1 instead

[timid star]

though. xchips work i think?

[normal crest]

either way

if it works it works

[timid star]

true

just have to fix the card wiping thing

[bold sleet]

Hello, question: Is there a way to get the enhancements, editions and stuff from any given card?

[timid star]

wait, is there a context that ignores card repetitions? i don't want the cards to be constantly check to be wiped

[normal crest]

check not context.repetition

[normal crest]

card.edition and card.seal, for enhancements you can use SMODS.has_enhancement(card, 'm_wild') as an example to check whether it is a wild card, or SMODS.get_enhancements(card) to get a table with the enhancements it has

[wicked spire]

I'm trying to make a Joker with the description of:

Gains +1 Mult for each card scored, resets at end of round.
(Currently +0 Mult)
I have it in game and the description is right, but the Mult doesn't increase when I score a card. Is anyone able to help me see what I'm doing wrong?

SMODS.Joker {
    key = "my_joker",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "My Joker",
        text = {
            "Gains {C:mult}+#2#{} Mult for",
            "each card scored,",
            "resets at end of round.",
            "{C:inactive}(Currently {C:mult}+#1#{C:inactive} Mult)"
        }
    },
    config = { extra = { mult = 0, mult_gain = 1 } },
    cost = 5,
    rarity = 1,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    perishable_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,

    atlas = "MyMod",
    pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
    
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return {
            vars = {
                card.ability.extra.mult,
                card.ability.extra.mult_gain
            }
        }
    end,
    
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        -- When a card is scored, upgrade joker
        if context.main_scoring and context.cardarea == G.play and not context.blueprint then
            card.ability.extra.mult = card.ability.extra.mult + card.ability.extra.mult_gain
            return {
                card = card,
                colour = G.C.MULT,
                message = localize("k_upgrade_ex")
            }
        end
        
        -- When joker is triggered, add mult
        if context.joker_main then
            return {
                message = localize {
                    type = "variable",
                    key = "a_mult",
                    vars = {
                        card.ability.extra.mult
                    }
                },
                mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult
            }
        end

        -- At end of round, reset mult
        if context.end_of_round and context.cardarea == G.jokers then
            card.ability.extra.mult = 0
            return {
                card = card,
                colour = G.C.MULT,
                message = localize("k_reset")
            }
        end
    end
}

[manic rune]

is that a cookie run mod 😭

[timid star]

it's only part of my mod

[normal crest]

context.main_scoring is not for jokers

you should replace it with context.individual to run on every scored card

[scarlet spire]

I'm applying shaders to seals, and the 'voucher' shader works fine for giving a shiny effect, but isn't nearly as visually strong as what appears on the gold seal?
apparently, looking at the code, the gold seal does just use 'voucher', even though there's a separate 'gold_seal' shader in the files? and attempting to use gold_seal just crashes my game

[wicked spire]

omg it's working now this is so cool, thank you!!

[normal crest]

np, also your end of round thing is missing a blueprint check

[wicked spire]

oh true good catch thanks, so that would just be ```lua
if context.end_of_round and context.cardarea == G.jokers and not context.blueprint then
-- (...)

[bold sleet]

got ya, ty

[void pecan]

where can I find it? Or is that my json idk what staff is called just how to code it

nvm its the json

[normal crest]

the error says "Skidibi Mod/mod.json"

[void pecan]

{
    "id": "gambling",
    "name": "Gambling",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "description": "Adds a 50% chance for a tarot card to either turn all Jokers into Poly or destroy them.",
    "author": "Hallowed",
    "main": "main.lua"
}

I have 0 idea on metadata files, so don't judge if this is wrong

[normal crest]

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

you're missing a lot of information, and it's main_file not main

[normal crest]

you only need what says "[required]" next to it

[foggy carbon]

while in the middle of defining a table, can I do something like this if I want two attributes to be the same?

  var1 = {
    -- definition of big table
  },
  var2 = var1
}```

doesn't look like it

[wintry swallow]

yeah in the wiki, i noticed the issue but pr'ing to a wiki page felt like so much work

[normal crest]

I don't see why you'd need to do that

[normal crest]

you really could've been more specific.... at least link the page, in what section it is

[wintry swallow]

i didnt open this issue

true though

[manic rune]

meta trash bag 🗣️

[void pecan]

I feel very dumb for not knowing my errors

I'm very sorry if this is easy 😭

[plush cove]

what's your actual code looking like?

[normal crest]

Oh, then nevermind

[void pecan]

Is there a way I can just add some random code to make sure its initializing? @normal crest

[normal crest]

to what

[void pecan]

my main.lua

[normal crest]

if your game is crashing that's a sign your code broke smt

[void pecan]

yeahh

[normal crest]

so your mod is running

[void pecan]

I'm looking through API to do it step by step what I want to do, maybe that will help

[scarlet spire]

welp. bodged this with a custom shader that's pretty much just a dupe of voucher but it multiplies a value by 2

[frosty dock]

nah it's a full separate repo, same amount of effort

[wintry swallow]

true

wish it was more wikipedia like

[scarlet spire]

is there an always_scores = true but for seals instead of enhancements?

or do I have to make that myself

[frosty dock]

anyways I still have no clue where the issue is

and I'm not gonna look through the wiki to search for it

[wintry swallow]

lemme find it

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Your-First-Mod#useful-resources "nessicary" in the last sentence

[frosty dock]

no but you can hook SMODS.always_scores to add it

[frosty dock]

I am not surprised

[wintry swallow]

shots fired at wilson i suppose

[void pecan]

im getting an error idk how to fix 😭
I may be new to this

[wintry swallow]

is that what fire at will means

[scarlet spire]

I see, will try to figure this out then

[frosty dock]

clearly

[normal crest]

without your code we won't be able to help

[void pecan]

mbmbmb one sec

[frosty dock]

try me

[void pecan]

and PLEASE judge as I have little idea on what i'm doing

local tarotCard = SMODS.Consumable({
    key = "tarot_card_joker_effect",
    loc_txt = {
        title = "Balance",
        description = "50% chance to turn every joker polychrome, 50% chance every joker is destroyed"
    },
    image = "Tarot.png",
    rarity = "common",
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true
})

tarotCard.in_pool = function(self, args)
    return true, { allow_duplicates = true }
end

local rarityCommon = SMODS.Rarity({
    key = "common",
    loc_txt = { name = "Common" },
    pools = {
        ["Consumable"] = { rate = 1.0 }
    },
    badge_colour = {0.5, 0.5, 0.5},
    default_weight = 10
})


tarotCard.use = function(self, card, area, copier)
    if math.random() < 0.5 then
        local jokers = SMODS.GetAllObjectsOfType("SMODS.Joker") or {}
        for _, joker in ipairs(jokers) do
            joker:set_sprites(card, "polychrome_sprite")
        end
    else
        local jokers = SMODS.GetAllObjectsOfType("SMODS.Joker") or {}
        for _, joker in ipairs(jokers) do
            joker:remove_from_deck(false)
        end
    end
end

[frosty dock]

my guess is you have a consumable with a set that doesn't correspond to any valid pool

[maiden phoenix]

Read my mind and figure out my problem

[frosty dock]

i correct, no set at all

[normal crest]

pretty good guess

[void pecan]

is it this?

[frosty dock]

no, you never reach that function

[normal crest]

no need to correct yourself, nil is not a set that corresponds to a valid pool

[normal crest]

add a 'set' key to your consumable definition

[frosty dock]

set = 'Tarot'

assuming it should be a tarot

[void pecan]

very good assumption

[frosty dock]

also I have some questions

[frosty dock]

a lot of what you're doing just isn't how steamodded works

[normal crest]

i'd love to see what you used to base your code in

[void pecan]

oh yeah I barly know it, i'm trying 😅

[frosty dock]

e.g. image = "Tarot.png", is not used (or referenced anywhere I know of) to specify the spritesheet of a card

[normal crest]

chatgpt?

[frosty dock]

SMODS.GetAllObjectsOfType just doesn't exist

[frosty dock]

probably

[void pecan]

not all, but the parts I don't know

so like half lol

[frosty dock]

joker:set_sprites(card, "polychrome_sprite") also isn't how that works in the slightest

it's not how you make a card polychrome, and it's not the right arguments to Card:set_sprites either

[frosty dock]

very bad idea

[void pecan]

I very much assumed that lol, I knew that wouldn't work but was trying to find how it did

[void pecan]

I know that now 😅

[frosty dock]

in fact polychrome doesn't even have a sprite

[void pecan]

I just can't find what I need to find on the API, Idk how to look for what I need

[void pecan]

yeahhh, I assumed that

[frosty dock]

start by looking through the docs

https://tenor.com/view/read-the-fucking-docs-rtfm-skill-issue-legion-gif-26463667

[maiden phoenix]

Gonna tell people to use nonexisting SMODS function

[frosty dock]

also does your tarot really need a rarity?

seems like it would break a lot of things unless you give all other tarots rarities too

[maiden phoenix]

Mod cross compat gonna be hell unless you're somehow able to give them a default rarity

[cerulean rose]

saving this

[void pecan]

that was me, you right you right

[edgy reef]

Kinda why I wondered on allowing handling of “no rarity” as if it was a rarity.

But idk that would work cleanly, and I still have god knows how much more to annotate.

[frosty dock]

uh

the simplest solution i can think of is this

introduce a default bool to rarities and assume only one rarity for an object type has it

then just use that when there's no rarity

maybe that's a bit backwards and the object types should have a default rarity instead

[scarlet spire]

hm, I'm seeing the function for always_scores in the smods code, but I'm not entirely sure what i'd need to do in the hook in order to make it seal compatible

[void pecan]

I looked through a lot of this, I may have missed it but how do I modify jokers? As in making them holo or poly?

I didn't see much in Jokers, Edition, Rank, and others

....

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Edition#edition-methods look harder

[void pecan]

0.5 steps ahead of you

[frosty dock]

you sent that just as i pasted the link in smh

[void pecan]

yeahhhh but its before so I win

[frosty dock]

[void pecan]

to check if it works, do I litterly just have to to go in the game and pray I see it 😭

[wintry solar]

Nah just ship it and hope it works

[normal crest]

unfortunately

[frosty dock]

nah we have debug tools for that

#1228149931257237664

[normal crest]

They probably meant see in collection

[frosty dock]

ion think so

[nocturne garnet]

a coders best tool is a prayer 🙏

[frosty dock]

that doesn't confirm if it works, it just confirms if it's there

[south folio]

eyea

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'j_calibri',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Calibri',
        text = {
            'Played {C:attention}face cards{}',
            'are copied {C:attention}twice{} to Hand when hand size is 1',
        },
    },
    atlas = 'Jokers',
    rarity = 3,
    cost = 3,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,
    blueprint_compat = false,
    eternal_compat = true,
    perishable_compat = true,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return {}
    end,
    pos = {x = 1, y = 1},
    
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.after and context.played_cards and #G.hand.cards == 1 then
            local copied_cards = {}

            for _, v in ipairs(context.played_cards) do
                if v:is_face() then 
                    for i = 1, 2 do
                        local _card = copy_card(v, nil, nil, G.playing_card)
                    return
                        G.hand:emplace(_card)  
                        _card.states.visible = true

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

                        table.insert(copied_cards, _card)
                    end
                end
            end

            if #copied_cards > 0 then
                return {
                    message = localize('k_copied_ex'),
                    colour = G.C.CHIPS,
                    card = self,
                    playing_cards_created = copied_cards
                }
            end
        end
    end
}```

[normal crest]

you're right

[south folio]

Speaking of coding I still don't know why it. doesn't wanna copy the cards

[frosty dock]

that's because your condition always fails

there is no such thing as context.played_cards

[nocturne garnet]

when hand size is 1 🔥

[south folio]

im fucking stupid

[nocturne garnet]

most useful joker of all time

[frosty dock]

also G.hand is cards held in hand

[wintry solar]

I wish discord didn’t format code blocks like shit on mobile

[frosty dock]

not played cards

[normal crest]

Me tooooo

What a pain to read

[frosty dock]

also what the return doing

[frosty dock]

i mean this one doesn't have syntax highlighting on pc either

[south folio]

I just kinda. copied the dna joker

[scarlet spire]

I thought i've seen it with syntax highlighting before

[wintry solar]

At least it doesn’t wrap every line though

[frosty dock]

you're just returning in the middle of the function-?

[wintry solar]

It’s two screens long on my phone 😭

[frosty dock]

```lua

```

[scarlet spire]

ah you have to specify

I see

[south folio]

have I mentioned that I have 0 knowledge of coding and kinda winging it as I go

[void pecan]

I don't know how to set that up, do I just drop the extracted folder into my mods folder?

[frosty dock]

yep

just make sure it isn't nested

[normal crest]

You kinda need to know at least the basics of lua

Or rather programming itself

[frosty dock]

may I refer to https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

[south folio]

fair fair

[void pecan]

wanted to make sure because I did that and this happened

[south folio]

sorry guys

[normal crest]

Mods/Mods?

[scarlet spire]

would you mind helping me with this? I'm still quite new to balatro modding (and lua, though i've learned a lot the past few days) so while I know what hooking is, I have no idea what i'd actually need to change about the function to make it compatible with seals

[normal crest]

That is nesting indeed

[wintry solar]

Everything is nested wooooo

[void pecan]

I see, it might be nested

possibly

[normal crest]

Maybe you need another nested Mods folder, surely that'll fix it

[frosty dock]

I'd suggest something like this

local smas = SMODS.always_scores
SMODS.always_scores = function(card)
  if card.ability.seal and card.ability.seal.always_scores then return true end
  return smas(card)
end

[void pecan]

3 more mods folders will fix it

[frosty dock]

then you could put always_scores = true into a seal's config and this function will mark it as always scoring

the more "hardcoded" way would be to check for your seal directly

[scarlet spire]

I see, thank you very much

[normal crest]

this feels like it should be in smods directly

[scarlet spire]

it would be nice if functionality was more universal between seals, enhancements, and editions, but obviously way easier said than done

[frosty dock]

we're a good step closer to that with better calc

[wintry solar]

I can see always scoring being a property of all 3

[scarlet spire]

ooh, that's nice to hear

[frosty dock]

I've realized this would be inconsistent and if i add this always_scores should be on the seal directly and not the config

[frosty dock]

I'll throw stickers in the mix

[wintry solar]

True

[scarlet spire]

sometimes I forget about stickers

[wintry solar]

I wasn’t really sure how should apply worked either when briefly looking at it last night

It has a lot of arguments 😂

[frosty dock]

i wish lua had clean optional chaining

imagine G.P_CENTERS[card.edition?.key]?.always_scores

[normal crest]

won't you get nil in the index there if it has no edition

Idk if that's a problem in lua

[wintry swallow]

it has a 3mb compiler chill

[frosty dock]

pretty sure that's fine so long as I don't try to assign to it

yeah

[normal crest]

odd

[void pecan]

just tell me what i did wrong ATP

local tarotCard = SMODS.Consumable({
    key = "tarot_card_joker_effect",
    set = 'Tarot',
    loc_txt = {
        title = "Balance",
        description = "50% chance to turn every joker polychrome, 50% chance every joker is destroyed"
    },
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true
})```

If you need more tell me

[normal crest]

Change title to name

Description to text

[frosty dock]

https://tenor.com/view/read-the-fucking-docs-rtfm-skill-issue-legion-gif-26463667

[void pecan]

I DIDDDDDDDDD

But I forgor

[frosty dock]

no need to space wall me

[void pecan]

so I make my thing

loc_txt = {
name = 'Balance',
text = { '50% chance to turn every joker polychrome, 50% chance every joker is destroyed'}
}

[normal crest]

You will have a very long line but yes

[void pecan]

even after changing that, didn't work.

I swear if I see that read the docs gif

[fallen pelican]

split the lines in the description as
"line 1",
"line 2",
"line 3"

[void pecan]

yeah, but that wouldn't change my issue 😭

[normal crest]

Putting what is 5 lines ingame into one line of code just feels extremely wrong

[normal crest]

Referring to this

[void pecan]

thats it, entire paragraph on one line

[frosty dock]

you're right, but I didn't want to make that block even longer

it's already more than a full page at normal scale

[normal crest]

What's your Entire code

[frosty dock]

-# not sure who left this outdated info here, that's no longer in use for anything

[void pecan]

not much changed, there WILL be errors

local tarotCard = SMODS.Consumable({
    key = "tarot_card_joker_effect",
    set = 'Tarot',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Balance',
        text = {"50% chance joker will turn polychrome", "50% chance every joker is destroyed"}
    },
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true
})

tarotCard.in_pool = function(self, args)
    return true, { allow_duplicates = true }
end


--ignore this I WILL READ THE DOCS
tarotCard.use = function(self, card, area, copier)
    local jokers = SMODS.GetAllObjectsOfType("SMODS.Joker") or {}

    if #jokers == 0 then
        SMODS.DisplayMessage("No jokers available.")
        return
    end

    if math.random() < 0.5 then
        for _, joker in ipairs(jokers) do
            joker:set_edition("polychrome", true, false)
        end
        SMODS.DisplayMessage("All jokers are now polychrome!")
    else
        for _, joker in ipairs(jokers) do
            joker:remove_from_deck(false)
        end
        SMODS.DisplayMessage("All jokers have been destroyed!")
    end
end

[frosty dock]

why are the functions outside the constructor 🤔

[wintry solar]

Probably using cryptid as a reference 🙃

[normal crest]

no, it was chatgpt

Look at that use function

[wintry solar]

Oh god really

[void pecan]

I said ignore it

[frosty dock]

even cryptid doesn't do that

[wintry solar]

Huh I thought it did, maybe I am misremembering

Something definitely does

[void pecan]

Pushing aside the horrid chatgpt code, what do I need to manually fix to get it registering properly 😭

[south folio]

oh yeah i was also using chatgpt-

[frosty dock]

0.9.8 things did

[normal crest]

Remove all the useless code for now, only keep the SMODS.Consumable part

[wintry swallow]

what are units in ui size? is it relative?

[void pecan]

alr

[normal crest]

Does chatgpt even know what balatro is

[void pecan]

no, I had to "teach" it (it didn't work)

local tarotCard = SMODS.Consumable({
    key = "tarot_card_joker_effect",
    set = 'Tarot',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Balance',
        text = {"50% chance joker will turn polychrome", "50% chance every joker is destroyed"}
    },
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true
})

thats all of the code I am using

[normal crest]

What version of steamodded are you using

It says at the top right while ingame

[normal crest]

honestly I've no idea

[void pecan]

ima sleep and figure out tomorrow, thank you guys for a bunch of help

(I have no idea how im going to figure it out)

[normal crest]

Maybe change the key to something else

What's your mod prefix in the json

[void pecan]

"hola" (first thing I thought of)

[normal crest]

that should be fine

[void pecan]

are dependencies required?

[normal crest]

No

[void pecan]

alr good

{
    "id": "gambling",
    "name": "Gambling",
    "author": ["Hallowed"],
    "description": "adds stuff",
    "prefix": "hola",
    "main_file": "main.lua",
    "priority": 0,
    "badge_colour": "FF230B",
    "badge_text_colour": "FF230A",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "dependencies": []
}

this is my json

[normal crest]

Idk everything looks fine

did you try changing the key of the consumable to something else

I doubt it'll do anything but I'm out of ideas

also I assume you got rid of the nestsd Mods foldrr right

[void pecan]

yeah did that

and changing it didnt help

[normal crest]

And I assume you've restarted your game since changing it

[void pecan]

yes

wait huh??

I changed set to "spectral", why is it tarot?

[normal crest]

have you been saving your changes

[void pecan]

yes

maybe i'm editing the wrong main.lua somehow

[wintry solar]

Are you editing a different file?

[normal crest]

probably

[plush cove]

for the love of Photochad can you PLEASE change either the banner colour or the text?!

[void pecan]

I somehow DUPED the folder then edited the wrong one........

[normal crest]

Yayyy

[void pecan]

-# no

nowwww how do I change the image?

(only spectral for test)

im going to... read the docs

I need help

is it "set_sprites(self, card, front)"

[normal crest]

no

what sprite do u want it to be

[void pecan]

wdym? I just want it to be my custom picture

[normal crest]

you need to make an atlas

[void pecan]

like from fortnite STW?

[normal crest]

An atlas from read the docs

[frosty dock]

https://tenor.com/view/read-the-fucking-docs-rtfm-skill-issue-legion-gif-26463667

[normal crest]

Thank you

Gifs are broken for me on phone

i couldn't send it

[void pecan]

ima sleep and do this tomorrow

[frosty dock]

didn't you already say that like half an hour ago

[void pecan]

yeahhhhhh

buts its 3:00am now so the spooky monsters will get me if I don't sleep

[runic pecan]

Which one looks better?
OK, right side it is.

[prisma loom]

How hard it'll be to implement these? And just in general how complicated it is to add new seals?

[violet void]

Adding seals is fairly easy
Green seal doesnt look complicated (can peek at hook's code), but black seal does look interesting

[wintry solar]

They’re both fairly straightforward

[prisma loom]

Is hook some sort of a mod?

can u link it?

[runic pecan]

Now it looks like this.

[runic quiver]

isnt hook just the boss blind?

[runic pecan]

The hook is a lua technic,

[south folio]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before and context.cardarea == G.play and #G.hand.cards == 1 then
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function()
                    local copied_cards = {}
                        for _, scoring_hand in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) do
                            if scoring_hand:is_face() then 
                                for i = 1, 2 do
                                    local _card = copy_card(played_card, nil, nil, G.hand)
                                    G.consumeables:emplace(card)
                                    card:add_to_deck()
                                return true
                            end
                        })) 

                    end
                end
            end
        end
    end```

just wonderin, is this any better?

[scarlet spire]

that message was referring to the hook boss blind, i'm fairly sure

though that's the wrong one, for the green seal, you'd wanna take a look at the code for the serpent boss blind I think

[violet void]

true,

[runic pecan]

Series of train wreck

[violet void]

with draw_from_deck_to_hand

[runic quiver]

small question about that. did you find where in the code was the problem?? i'm trying to fix it but it's not easy for me

[bold sleet]

hello again. Is there a way to check if a card is negative?

[wintry solar]

Search across the entire mod for edition = and you’ll find it

[frosty dock]

card.edition and card.edition.key == 'e_negative'

[runic quiver]

do i just replace the self.edition = self.edition or {} by self.edition = self.edition or nil or is that not at all the problem

[violet void]

If Im making a joker that converts to next/previous suit, what would be the correct list to reference if I want to account for custom suits

this one doesnt seem to be correctly ordered

[wintry swallow]

i dont think suits are ordered

[violet void]

Isnt this the order?

There is even a mod that changes it

[frosty dock]

this one ain't ordered at all

SMODS.Suit.obj_buffer is what you need, possibly in reverse

[wintry solar]

It will need to check it’s not nil where you see the something.edition.type

[bold sleet]

how do i do the set_edition thing for custom editions? All of them work except for the last one

[frosty dock]

is fg your mod prefix?

[bold sleet]

nevermind, I am a bit stupid.

the other dev named the edition 'Polished' instead of 'polished'. It is fixed now.

[runic quiver]

sorry but i think i'm just not used to lua. i do not know what to change i'm very sorry but could you please explain exactly what you did? thanks a lot :(

[wintry solar]

I haven’t changed it as I don’t use Saturn

[runic quiver]

ah, i thought you knew how to fix it

sorry

[wintry swallow]

in the ui code, is there a heuristic for how long 1 is? is it a multiple of pixels or something?

[runic pecan]

Which format looks better?

[wintry swallow]

right cuz its 1 line shorter

[wintry solar]

The break shouldn’t be between the number and the counter

But the left is better imo

Unsure on the need for a reminder of what is odd or even too

[wintry swallow]

how else am i supposed to know what 7 is

[runic pecan]

Yeah, that being said,
does anyone know how to make a custom info_queue entry?

[wintry solar]

Yes

Let me grab code example

Oh hang on all my custom tooltips use a custom function

I’m pretty sure if you just do {set = ‘Set’, key = ‘key’} it’ll pull it from the relevant place in your loc table

[runic pecan]

And how do I do that without making something occupying collection pages?

[wintry solar]

Are you using a localization file?

[runic pecan]

Currently no. Am looking for a temporary solution.
I do understand that putting it in localization files is the long term solution though, just haven't bothered to set them up yet.

[wintry solar]

need to use process_loc_txt then

[runic pecan]

As in, info_queue[#info_queue+1]={process_loc_txt={}}?

[wintry solar]

no no, the function

[runic pecan]

end```Like this?

[wintry solar]

no

its a function that adds stuff to the loc tables

I dont remember how to use it though becuase loc files are infinitely better

and have been the standard use for months

[runic pecan]

OK, loc files it is, then.

[runic quiver]

ok i fixed the saturn thingy, just used the old-calc version of smod

that worked for some reason

[primal robin]

Because better-calc is "breaking change" which leads to bugs if not modify mod

[wintry solar]

this is more of an issue with saturn doing something really weird

[runic pecan]

Umm...

[wintry swallow]

why is it 22

[runic pecan]

because Twins

[wintry swallow]

but its an even number 😭

[runic pecan]

It's meant to be side-by-side with this one.
I personally have no reason to be biased toward either of the twins.

[wintry solar]

might need a specific_vars arg, I dont remember

[violet void]

love it when things just work first try

-# it was reversed yeah

[prisma loom]

What is Badge Color?

[broken cliff]

color of the seal perhaps

[wintry solar]

its the colour of the badge

[prisma loom]

the seal itsefl?

would it affect png I use?

[broken cliff]

hm

[prisma loom]

this is from baladrone mod

what is that cs keeper thingy?

[wintry solar]

the little bubble on the tooltip that tells you the name of the seal

it has nothing to do with your image

[prisma loom]

understood

[runic pecan]

How do I simplify this with SMODS utility functions?

[runic pecan]

I was glaring at this but didn't feel like getting what I want.

[violet void]

baladrone mentioned 🔥

[merry raven]

What did you use to create that more dynamic flipping animation? card:flip() doesn't have a shaking animation like that

[prisma loom]

which timing context should be used for black seal? After?

this mb?

so I came down to this but I have no idea where to look for the function which forces the card to score

Splash Joker?

[runic pecan]

:juice_up([size scale],[rotation scale])

[merry raven]

Oh so they're pairing both flip and juice_up?

[wintry solar]

You’d need the before context, not the ending ones

[violet void]

I use this utils

cs_utils.flip_cards({target})
cs_utils.unflip_cards({target})

-- Uses game Flip Cards logic
function cs_utils.flip_cards(table, trigger, delay)
    for i=1, #table do
        local percent = 1.15 - (i-0.999)/(#table-0.998)*0.3
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = trigger,delay = delay,func = function() table[i]:flip();play_sound('card1', percent);table[i]:juice_up(0.3, 0.3);return true end }))
    end
end

-- Uses game Unflip Cards logic
function cs_utils.unflip_cards(table, trigger, delay)
    for i=1, #table do
        local percent = 0.85 + (i-0.999)/(#table-0.998)*0.3
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = trigger,delay = delay,func = function() table[i]:flip();play_sound('tarot2', percent, 0.6);table[i]:juice_up(0.3, 0.3);return true end }))
    end
end```

[prisma loom]

like this?

btw I havent found any code related to Splash Joker

wtf

[random sleet]

splash doesn't have a calculate function

its just hardcoded into how hand scoring is determined

[prisma loom]

where should I look then?

[random sleet]

in the game's source code, and get ready to do a lovely patch

[prisma loom]

?

what is lovely patch?

and also I thought I alredy was looking into the source code

[violet void]

the .toml files inject code in specific parts of the game's code (In lovely folder in baladrone if you're still referencing that)

[prisma loom]

I use baladrone as a example

to see the structre of modded seal

[violet void]

it also does lovely patches

[shell geyser]

hii i am trying to make a joker similar to mr bones that saves u one time before destroying itself but can't get it to remove itself

[prisma loom]

Can I add seals without that scary lovely patch?

[random sleet]

yeah but if you wanna do anything like splash you're gonna probably need to

[violet void]

depends on functionality of the seal, for the black one im afraid you need to

[prisma loom]

Also where did you guys learn so much in depth stuff about Balatro modding?

[violet void]

by cross-referencing other mods lol

[random sleet]

actually wait it might be possible to do some jank

so SMODS enhancements have an always_scores property

[prisma loom]

That's sounds like it'd very long and inefficient

[random sleet]

you might be able to do something very roundabout to trigger this from a seal

but i doubt it's easy, straightforward, or sane

[wintry solar]

You just need to do table.insert(scoring_hand, card)

[violet void]

if you're looking for a specific thing it can be helpful

[wintry solar]

It’s very easy

[prisma loom]

Yeah for sure

[prisma loom]

Like where did you get that from

[random sleet]

you're joking

[prisma loom]

I doubt

[wintry solar]

I just know how the scoring works

[prisma loom]

I bet this guy's smart smh

[random sleet]

i believe i am known to be a charlatan and a fool in these parts

i reflect my role

[wintry solar]

I rewrote the scoring last month so I understand it pretty well

[random sleet]

im sorry

[prisma loom]

The elder has spoken

[manic rune]

is thereeeee x_chips?

[wintry solar]

I just know how to do a lot of stuff because I’ve done a lot of stuff/written a lot of stuff for smods

[prisma loom]

before balatro?

[violet void]

when the seal code runs wouldnt it be too late to add it to scoring hand?

[wintry solar]

General programming wise of course, but that doesn’t help for the specifics oh balatro

[wintry solar]

Not in context.before

It might miss a couple of effects

There’s a more thorough way of doing it but this should work well enough

[violet void]

was curious to try and it indeed works, but if you plan to make it affect the hand played you'd probably need patches

[manic rune]

where in balatro's source code can i find the code for "card_eval_status_text" function?

[faint yacht]

common_events.lua

[prisma loom]

Is this how you add custom seals?

its just neither seal or its respective spectral card show up

did I miss something?

[violet void]

you didnt import it in the main file

I think

[prisma loom]

I didnt touch it

how do I import them?

[violet void]

this is how I did it for my seals at least

-- List all seals files here
local seal_files = {
    "lift_seal",
    "rank_seal",
}```
```lua
for i = 1, #seal_files do
    NFS.load(SMODS.current_mod.path .. "/seals/" .. seal_files[i] .. ".lua")()
end

[prisma loom]

game crashes now :(

[manic rune]

does this patch work? (it adds x_chips)

[violet void]

theres talisman that adds x_chips afaik

[manic rune]

wait, so if i have talisman in my mods folder then i can just use that without a patch?

[violet void]

I think so but I havent used it personally

[prisma loom]

it also uses nebula deck png for some reason

and crashes when I hover over it

[tepid crow]

steamodded itself has added xchips

no more need for mods to implement it

[violet void]

oh thats neat

[manic rune]

o

[violet void]

can you send your code

[manic rune]

nice

[tepid crow]

just have a minimum smods version

[prisma loom]

@violet void

[tepid crow]

no idea why this is happening but it is pretty funny ngl

[prisma loom]

My assets

[violet void]

you didnt quite import it like I sent earlier

[prisma loom]

?

[violet void]

in seal_files you need to put the name of the files, and your file is called "blk_seal" not "black"

also youre importing consumables while looping the seal files

[violet void]

.

".." is string concatenation

[tepid crow]

If I had a nickel for every time someone misinterpreted an automatic import script, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[prisma loom]

like this?

[wintry solar]

This is a bad import script

[tepid crow]

the second load should be outside the for loop

[violet void]

how could we improve it

[tepid crow]

also you should fix that indentation

[prisma loom]

[violet void]

I took it from cardsauce

[wintry solar]

Use SMODS.load_file

[violet void]

other than that its fine?

[prisma loom]

?

(from ortalab)

[wintry solar]

They should be wrapped with assert too

[prisma loom]

Oh i see

Sry

[wintry solar]

for k, v in pairs(Ortalab.load_table) do
    if v then assert(SMODS.load_file('objects/'..k..'.lua'))() end
end

[tepid crow]

I'm personally also a fan of just auto-loading every lua file in a given directory but I understand if some people don't want that

[wintry solar]

That’s for a table where keys are either equal to true or false

[prisma loom]

should I use prefix of my mod?

[violet void]

hmmm how would one do that?

[tepid crow]

this is what I use

local subdir = "cards"
local cards = NFS.getDirectoryItems(SMODS.current_mod.path .. subdir)
for _, filename in pairs(cards) do
    assert(SMODS.load_file(subdir .. "/" .. filename))()
end

[violet void]

what would be the downside

[wintry solar]

Can’t toggle things

[prisma loom]

Is everything correct?

[violet void]

fair

[wintry solar]

Do you understand what a for loop does

[prisma loom]

counts something iirc

I watched lua tutorials like 3 years ago

[violet void]

this worked for me

for i = 1, #seal_files do
    if seal_files[i] then assert(SMODS.load_file('seals/'.. seal_files[i] ..'.lua'))() end
end```

[prisma loom]

my game crashes

cuz of this

[prisma loom]

same for this

I dont understand what Im doing wrong :(

[runic pecan]

If I flip a scoring card, does that prevent it from scoring?

[prisma loom]

do I just copy this in?

straight up

[violet void]

It should be like this

-- List all seals files here
local seal_files = {
    "lift_seal",
    "rank_seal",
}```

```lua
for i = 1, #seal_files do
    if seal_files[i] then assert(SMODS.load_file('seals/'.. seal_files[i] ..'.lua'))() end
end

[prisma loom]

now game crashes when I hover over the seal in collection

[prisma loom]

and this bug returned

[violet void]

do you have a localization file

[prisma loom]

yes

[violet void]

and did you set the name and desc of the seal correctly

[prisma loom]

not yet

jokers work without it

[violet void]

you should probably do that

[prisma loom]

what is the prefix for seals?

in localization file

[wintry solar]

Go and watch them again

[violet void]

it appends "_seal" at the end of the key (in localization only apparently)

[prisma loom]

so like I should type blk_seal_seal?

[violet void]

Is your seal file still like this?

If so, just "prefix_black_seal"

[prisma loom]

Im currently on a 2 week vacation and it's already ending tomorrow, so I dont think I have any time or motivation left for that

[runic pecan]

Rare or Uncommon?

[tepid crow]

rare

[prisma loom]

yeah

ic ic

[prisma loom]

whats prefix here?

[tepid crow]

actually hold on there are so many uncommons that have a x3 conditional 🤔

[violet void]

your mod's prefix

[tepid crow]

maybe uncommon works better than I thought

[prisma loom]

nothings changed, game still crashes unfortunately

[violet void]

Seal localization goes in ["Other"], not ["Seal"]

[prisma loom]

keeps crashing

Sorry guys for bothering you too much I'm primarily an artist and have nothing to do with coding, just got into it while I had time on vacation

[pallid jay]

Is there a way to give yourself a specific achievement for steam?
I have completed the requirements of an achievement, and a bug is preventing it from triggering.

[errant lance]

SteamAchievementManager on Github

[frosty dock]

depending on what the achievement is, you probably just need to win another run?

[spring lantern]

the newest addition to my jimbo collection

[pallid jay]

nope it's fully bugged

[pallid jay]

you're a lifesaver

[frosty dock]

how so

[prisma loom]

this is the progress so far

but still crashes the game unfortunately

+adjusted directory

[worthy stirrup]

how can i check how many negatives the player is holding

[sturdy compass]

I'm trying to make a Boss Blind that randomly disables 1/4 of the full deck. Anyone have any ideas as to why none of the cards are getting disabled?

[sturdy compass]

Loop through G.jokers and check each edition

[worthy stirrup]

also how do the legendary jokers do the two art thing

[worthy stirrup]

thanks

[sturdy compass]

The floating heads are referred to as "Souls"

[worthy stirrup]

they took their souls? /j

[sturdy compass]

that's what the soul_pos variable in the config is

[worthy stirrup]

ohhh

does the soul art have to be below it or is soul_pos where the soul art is

or where it will be on the card

if that makes sense

[sturdy compass]

soul_pos is where it is on the spritesheet

[vocal verge]

same as atlas x/y, right?

cause it basically is atlas x/y

[sturdy compass]

yep

[worthy stirrup]

okay

thanks

[sturdy compass]

Keep in mind though it must be in the same atlas as the base card since you can't change it for the soul specifically

[fallen pelican]

trying to make a joker that does basically the same thing as the boss blind that discards your cards. I got the cards highlighted to discard but I'm not seeing G.FUNCS.discard_cards_from_highlighted fire up to actually discard them here:

        local any_selected = nil

        if context.before and not context.blueprint then
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({ func = function()
                
                for i = 1, #G.hand.cards do
                    if G.hand.cards[i] then
                        G.hand:add_to_highlighted(G.hand.cards[i], true)
                        any_selected = true
                        play_sound('card1', 1)
                    end
                end
                if any_selected then
                    G.FUNCS.discard_cards_from_highlighted(nil, true)
                end
                return true
            end }))
        end

[vocal verge]

ngl, it makes total sense that hologram uses a shader for the hologram effect and the card is just super boringly gray

[fallen pelican]

also... is the card selection limit simply a variable I can change? would be helpful if it is

[vocal verge]

shouldn't the local any_selected be in the manager

[fallen pelican]

not sure if declaring it anywhere above changes anything

okay it's technically better for it to exist within the event

[timid parrot]

There’s a dedicated card debuffing function that gets called after set_blind I believe and is undoing all your hard work. You should try using that instead

[sturdy compass]

I saw mention of that on the docs but nothing in the API methods section. How would I define that?

[timid parrot]

Same as set_blind I believe, just with a different name and parameters list

Unless smods has changed some stuff

[sturdy compass]

alr thank you

[wicked spire]

What's the best way to iterate and test a mod? Right now I've just been pushing changes to GitHub, downloading the ZIP, then unzipping it into the Mods folder, but that process takes a while and means I have to redownload it for each test.

[timid parrot]

I just put the github project in my mods folder

[sturdy compass]

^

[timid parrot]

works like a charm

[lucid owl]

just have the area you're working in be the mods folder itself, save your code then restart the game and you're golden

[violet void]

I cant imagine how much time you wasted doing that 😱

[wicked spire]

I only started making a mod as of last night, so thankfully not too much lol

[violet void]

phew

[wicked spire]

Would I just do like git checkout within the Mods folder?

[violet void]

ctrl + s then open the game

cant get faster than that

[timid parrot]

tbh it's been a while since I've used the git console

but I think so?

[wicked spire]

Tbh I prefer non-console, I'm just not sure how else to do it

[timid parrot]

oh just move your project into the mods folder

[violet void]

yeah, I have my visual studio project in the mods folder so I just do ctrl + s to save and open the game to test the changes

[wicked spire]

but it's on GitHub remotely so I don't have it stored locally

[timid parrot]

ahhhh

you're gonna need git clone

tbh I recommend getting the desktop app https://desktop.github.com/download/

[wicked spire]

Might consider getting the desktop version in the future, for now though I did git clone and it worked perfectly. Thank you guys

[foggy carbon]

is there a way to detect ending a booster pack, even by "chose the card limit so it automatically closed", not just skipped?

[tepid crow]

doesn't sound like a context that currently would exist, mostly because in 99% of cases the "on open booster pack" context is sufficient

you could add your own though

[fallen pelican]

bump

[wintry solar]

I dont remember if I buuilt it into smods or ortalab 🤔

[foggy carbon]

got what I was hoping for another way

[sturdy compass]

ok yeah I have no idea what the param list would be here

[tepid crow]

Ooohhh you were just looking for a "while in booster pack", that makes more sense. Yeah using G.STATES would work for that

[shell geyser]

hey does anybody know how to make a joker delete itself (like mr.bones) ? tried this but didn't succeed

[violet void]

card:start_dissolve()

[shell geyser]

THERE IS NO WAY

thank u so much

[hollow zenith]

How would i go about coding only face cards? i have one mod i got from nexus to mess around with(the deltarune one thats supposed to only change the face cards of the heart K,Q,J).
This is the code i used to replace ALL player cards, but it (not so surprisingly) doesnt work for a mod that only changes specific cards.
Does anybody have the code that DOES work for that?

[violet void]

you should also do card:remove_from_deck()

[frosty dock]

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

[south folio]

    if context.before and context.cardarea == G.play and #G.hand.cards == 1 then
        for _, scoring_card in ipairs(context.scoring_hand or {}) do
            if scoring_card:is_face() then
                local success, err = pcall(function()
                    for i = 1, 2 do
                        local _card = copy_card(scoring_card, nil, nil, G.hand)
                        _card:add_to_deck()
                        G.hand:emplace(_card)
                        _card.states.visible = true
                        _card:reset()
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                            func = function()
                                _card:start_materialize()
                                return true
                            end
                        }))
                    end
                end)
            end
        end
    end```

After having a personal breakdown and asking chatgpt multiple times can anyone pretty please help me with why this doesn't copy the card

[frosty dock]

that mod from nexus is really really old

[frosty dock]

maybe stop asking ChatGPT for coding advice

[violet void]

hi aure a question, is there a function that does both remove_from_deck and start_dissolve like SMODS.add_card does both the emplacing and add_to_deck

[hollow zenith]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[frosty dock]

not at my PC rn, but does start_dissolve not call remove_from_deck already?

[frosty dock]

when is this supposed to trigger?

[south folio]

before?

[shell geyser]

why it seem that it working from now or is it just visual ?

[south folio]

before?

[frosty dock]

no like

[hollow zenith]

the Deltarune one? i figured as such, it shows on the ingame mods, but it just doesnt replace the actual textures

[frosty dock]

under what conditions

[south folio]

when there is only 1 face card played, copy said face card 2 times and put it to the deck

[violet void]

oh yeah it does my bad

[violet void]

disregard that

[frosty dock]

then why are you checking the amount of cards in G.hand?

that's the cards held in hand

not the played cards

[shell geyser]

np np i understand now no need to remove because desolve calls the method already

[south folio]

what's the played cards again?

[shell geyser]

thx !!

[frosty dock]

you've even used it in your code, no?

context.scoring_hand

[south folio]

right, I forgot

[frosty dock]

you need to stop mindlessly copying things you see and from ChatGPT and actually learn some coding

[south folio]

honestly I just felt shy asking y'all so much ;-;

[frosty dock]

there's no need to be

[south folio]

do I check the like.

[frosty dock]

if the alternative is ChatGPT 💀

[south folio]

#context.scoring_hand == 1?

instead of G.hand?

[frosty dock]

that's assuming you don't mind there being extra unscored cards

else check #context.full_hand == 1

[south folio]

hm, aight let's see

did not work

[edgy reef]

ChatGPT + modding is the worst possible combination.

[novel dagger]

Balatro modders finally find something worse than copying the source code

[south folio]

I'm trying ok

[teal estuary]

theres nothing wrong with trying, but theres no reason to ever trust what an AI says

[dense vector]

cough google cough

[teal estuary]

-# i cant tell if thats agreeing or disgareeing with me, im stupid

[fallen pelican]

I think AI is so much worse here knowing chatgpt doesnt know what balatro or smods code looks like

[teal estuary]

yeah literally

theres just not enough data to scrape to get a """"good"""" response

[dense vector]

True

[novel dagger]

All I've gotten from Googling is popular Balatro mods

[dense vector]

I was talking about the AI shit that Google was doing

[fallen pelican]

tbf here you can only peek at the smods docs or other ppls mods

[novel dagger]

Oh lmao

[wintry solar]

looking at popular, well written mods is probably the best place to start if you look at them alongside smods documentation

[teal estuary]

fr fr

[wintry solar]

and then just asking questions here when you get stuck

[gusty sequoia]

What do I write to just get the name and description thing to show? :(

[wintry solar]

there are plenty of us who know what we're doing and are happy to help

[fallen pelican]

yeah I solved the problem I posted a while ago by just looking around

[teal estuary]

the little text to appear when hovering over something?

[gusty sequoia]

Yeah that

I'm just trying to make a joker that gives 1 chip, to test & learn

[teal estuary]

hold on, let me whip out my old dusty balatro mods

oh, hold on then