💻・modding-dev

[frosty dock]

but really it should get fixed on talisman's end

[lavish lake]

me omw to report:

[past forge]

are stonce cards in the back normal cards or they keep being stone?

[manic rune]

them on their way to assassinate anyone who reports the aforementioned bug:

[manic rune]

normal cards

[frosty dock]

just checked and it should already be fixed

the first thing you should try to do about an issue with another mod is update it

[manic rune]

how much does update have an impact on framerate

[frosty dock]

it's called every frame, don't use it unless you really have to

it can tank performance if you're not careful

[manic rune]

^2 mult every frame

:3

i see, thanks

[ionic timber]

what exactly is the area argument supposed to be in the use function of a consumable ? because

"if area == G.booster_pack then" doesn't seems to be true even when the consumable is in a booster pack , or "if not area == G.consumeable" also doesn't work, so how exactly do I check if it's in a booster pack ?

[lavish lake]

Ok nice, though I wonder how to make a "Yep!" and "Nope!" message when the card triggers and when it doesn't

[manic rune]

i think gros michel have smt similar to that

[frosty dock]

The area would be G.pack_cards or G.consumeables

[manic rune]

the Safe! and Destroyed!(?), i think

[frosty dock]

you can always have a message in your return table

[past forge]

doesnt work

[manic rune]

huh

wait a bit, let me try myself

[ionic timber]

maybe I'm just doing this wrong, but I want one specific consumable to be placed in the consumable slot if it's obtained in a booster pack, is there an easier way to do this than verifying if it's in a booster pack ? because verifying with G.pack_cards or G.consumeables just doesn't work unfortunately

[lavish lake]

The message outputs on the retriggered joker

[frosty dock]

yeah that's how retriggers work

you cna change the card where it displays with message_card

[lavish lake]

Well I want to display the message on the joker that retriggered the other joker

[prisma loom]

Asking here cuz mb its some complicated issue:

[frosty dock]

message_card = card then

[fickle quail]

Yo that art looks so good though

[ionic verge]

oh yeah it is different from antimatter

nice

[hushed field]

what filetype did you save it as? And at which resolution? I have no clue how love 2d does things, but that kind of line is often a sign of scale issues in unity

[past forge]

that blank stone card is giving me headache

im going to take a nap

[wintry solar]

Blank stone cards are my jam, what’s the issue?

[past forge]

my joker is supposed to turn face cards into stone cards

but before they turn into stone cards, they are white

[wintry solar]

Ah yes I know this issue

[past forge]

they keep turning into stone cards so is just an aesthetic issue

[wintry solar]

I should probably fix this on the backend rather than giving you the workaround

[prisma loom]

I literally took out the png spritesheet of Enhancers and just pasted in my stuff then put it back in

[past forge]

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'medusa',
    subtitle = "Art and idea by Toyrapple",
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Medusa',
        text = {
            "This Joker gains {X:mult,C:white}X#2#{} Mult per scoring {C:gold}Face card{}", 
            "played and turns them into {C:gold}Stone cards{}",
            "{C:inactive}(Currently {X:mult,C:white}+#1# {C:inactive}Mult)"
        }
    },
    config = { extra = { xmult = 1, scaling_factor = 0.2 } },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.xmult, card.ability.extra.scaling_factor } }
    end,
    rarity = 1,
    atlas = 'ToyrappleCollection',
    pos = { x = 2, y = 1 },
    cost = 2,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        card.ability.extra.xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult or 1
    
        if context.before and context.cardarea == G.jokers then
            for i = 1, #context.scoring_hand do
                if context.scoring_hand[i]:is_face() then
                    card.ability.extra.xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult + card.ability.extra.scaling_factor
                end
            end
            return {
                message = localize('k_upgrade_ex'),
                colour = G.C.RED
            }
        end
    
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            for i = 1, #context.scoring_hand do
                if context.scoring_hand[i]:is_face() then
                    context.scoring_hand[i]:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.m_stone, nil, true)
                    context.scoring_hand[i]:juice_up(0.3, 0.3)
                end
            end

            return {
                mult_mod = card.ability.extra.xmult,
                message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_xmult', vars = { card.ability.extra.xmult } }
            }
        end
    end
}

This is the code

i tried adding delays, event manager, etc

nohing seems to work

[wintry solar]

Let’s leave it as a, when you update smods later it will just work as intended

[past forge]

i updated it this morning

il do it again tho

[prisma loom]

Oh and btw:
@past forge
#1335221042204901396 message
(Just in case if you haven't seen yet)

We are doing basically the same thing

hahaha

[past forge]

Literally the same lmao

even the 0.2 xmult

[prisma loom]

Ikr

That's some serious star alignment

[prisma loom]

I can share the code with you

It's fully finished

[past forge]

if you are that kind i would thankfully use it

[wintry solar]

No, like, give me a chance to fix it first

[past forge]

okay

[opal spade]

im back on my bs

its so nice being able to do this w/o having to rewrite half of state_events.lua

[hushed field]

with both the right sizes, and the transparency properly set? I could see if I get the same lines when trying to import it?

[past forge]

what did i just see

[turbid maple]

ah yes the jimbo two pair

[opal spade]

playable jokers and non-playable cards

[prisma loom]

#💻・modding-dev message

[opal spade]

i still need to rewire joker_main so playable jokers do it as their scoring (rn they do it as part of the actual joker_main so the timings are kinda messed up) + cover all the places that break when u have jokers reacting to things intended for playing cards

and also adding ways to change how jokers are treated by mechanics intended for playing cards bcos sinful jokers not counting as their respective suits is kinda not right imo

[prisma loom]

I don't quite understand where should I put this py file

Where main.lua is located?

Or in assets folder

[ionic verge]

ok im really curious, how would you make a perkeo card work

[past forge]

or observatory

[opal spade]

playable perkeo would do nothing because perkeo's effect triggers when leaving shop and playable perkeo would be in the deck, when the effects only happen for cards held or played

[ionic verge]

damn

[opal spade]

if it were old calc planet cards would give x1.5 mult on held and on play, although observatory way rewritten for new calc so i'd need to check how it'd work

i think it would stay the same with the difference of the effect relying on an off-screen observatory voucher card entity rather than coming directly from the cards themselves

[frosty dock]

new calc observatory uses context.other_consumeable with the main card being the off-screen voucher

previously it just hijacked the joker_main calc, which wouldn't allow for planets to have other joker-like effects at the same time

[edgy mountain]

this crashes the game
its supposed to generate a negative perishable joker

[opal spade]

whats the crash message

[frosty dock]

replace the 4 lines above the return with ```lua
SMODS.add_card({ area = G.jokers, set = 'Joker', edition = 'e_negative', stickers = { perishable = true } })

(keep the rarity if you want it to only spawn common jokers)

(the issue is the edition)

[edgy mountain]

where can i find the proper names for the parameters?

[frosty dock]

you can check in the definition of the P_CENTERS table in the game's code, it has all the keys

[edgy mountain]

k thanks!

[edgy mountain]

SMODS.add_card({ area = G.jokers, set = 'Joker',rarity = 0, edition = 'e_negative', stickers = { perishable = true } })

everything works except the perishable sticker

[frosty dock]

i blame my memory

it should be stickers = { 'perishable' }, mb

[ionic timber]

still having trouble with this, if someone can help I'll gladly take it; is there any way to return the name of the current value of "area" ?

ok nvm I'm just stupid

[weak brook]

hey @frosty dock saw you talking in here about retrigger_joker like 3 hours ago. got a question about that as well by coincidence

it works with joker-like abilities that consumables have right?

seems like it should from the code i've looked at but this doesnt work for some reason

    if context.retrigger_joker_check and context.other_card ~= card then
        if context.other_card.ability.set == "Stand" then
            return {
                repetitions = card.ability.extra
            }
        end
    end
end```

[manic rune]

how do you use a localization file?

[frosty dock]

there should be no restrictions on what can use joker retriggers so long as it's in a joker-like card area (like jokers, consumables or vouchers). you have the optional feature enabled, right?

[weak brook]

yeah i put this in the top of my main.lua after i noticed you saying you had to that

SMODS.current_mod.optional_features = {
    retrigger_joker = true,
    post_trigger = true,
}

[frosty dock]

i don't see what shouldn't work then

[weak brook]

im checking to see if maybe the set check screwed it up

no even with this it doesnt work

if context.retrigger_joker_check and context.other_card ~= card then
        return {
            repetitions = card.ability.extra
        }
    end

does it not apply to abilities that use certain contexts?

[maiden river]

did this ever happen btw?
no presure if not

[weak brook]

trying to get it to retrigger this one since it seems like the only stand we've currently implemented in cardsauce that makes sense to retrigger

if context.before and not card.debuff and G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 0 then
    local diamonds = G.FUNCS.csau_all_suit(context, "Diamonds")
    if diamonds then
        ease_hands_played(1)
        return {
            card = card,
            message = localize('k_plus_hand'),
            colour = G.C.BLUE
        }
    end
end

hmm think thats the issue actually yeah

seems like the calculate code cant retrigger abilities in the before context

[wintry solar]

I'll try get tp it today

[weak brook]

@frosty dock is this use i'm trying to do too specific or do you think this is worth addressing in a change to bettercalc?

[maiden river]

huge

[wintry solar]

every context is retriggerable

[weak brook]

im not so sure, check above. the second to last code block i sent is a joker that i'm trying to get to retrigger abilities of a joker-like consumable, which is the code in the latest code block

doesnt retrigger

dunno why exactly

hm yeah i was mistaken in that the code for the before context does allow retriggers, i see that now

but still, what i'm trying to do doesnt work for some reason

[wintry solar]

wheres the retrigger coming from?

[weak brook]

this one

[wintry solar]

like what type of card

[weak brook]

its just a general "all cards of this type retrigger once"

i set it to all for testing purposes

but in the abilitiy it should filter for card type of "Stand"

which is a new consumable type we're making for cardsauce

but only consumable in name and where its located in slots, its basically a joker

[uneven bobcat]

anyone know what the context for using a specific tarot card would be

[wintry solar]

so a joker that retriggers consumables calc functions?

[weak brook]

yes exactly

[wintry solar]

what area is it in?

[weak brook]

consumables

the retrigger joker is in jokers, but the card that should be retriggered is in consumables

[wintry solar]

it calculates normlly, right?

[weak brook]

yeah it works fine

[wintry solar]

oh I see it

have yopu just testesd that one card?

[weak brook]

the stand?

[wintry solar]

yeah

[weak brook]

yeah it works

[sturdy compass]

Hey, I'm trying to check if the ante's boss blind is a showdown boss. Here's what I've tried but with no dice

[weak brook]

to be more clear the stand works on its own

this general issue still is not solved though

[wintry solar]

can you throw a print('test') in the retrigger joker?

[weak brook]

yeah i did try that, and it works

it seems that the code works up until the return, think whatever is going wrong is beyond that return

oh shit

it works now

somehow

hang on i need to test some more

huh. i have no idea what changed here but this code works now for some reason

  if context.retrigger_joker_check and context.other_card ~= card then
        send("hi")
        if context.other_card.ability.set == "Stand" then
            send("wow")
            return {
                repetitions = card.ability.extra
            }
        end
    end

[bold sleet]

Hello. Uh, how do I retrigger cards (like hanging chad, for example)?

[prisma loom]

Is something wrong? The outlines didnt get fixed

I have python and pip installed

[weak brook]

now i'm wondering how to juice up the joker when it retriggers a stand

🤔

[frosty dock]

uh, do you want to retrigger cards that are similar to hanging chad, or retrigger cards in the same way as hanging chad? 🤔

[maiden river]

would it not be card:juice_up()?

[weak brook]

yeah but that makes the timing off

[night pagoda]

Did the console pop-up and showed anything?

[hushed field]

Juicing Up is what Dio's power is in Part 1, right?

[maiden river]

ah I see

[night pagoda]

It should tell inside if it even processes sprites

[graceful magnet]

looked at how Burnt Joker and The Arm do level ups and level downs of hands, and am trying to incorporate those into a card that decreases the most played hand's level by 1 while increasing the least played hand's level by 2, but it's getting hung up on the second for loop trying to do the comparison and I'm not quite sure why (line that errors darkened for ease)

[wintry solar]

do juice_card = card iirc

[prisma loom]

in game?

[weak brook]

thanks

[night pagoda]

no, when launching the script

[prisma loom]

it popped up and insta closed

I had to edit it via Notedpad

[night pagoda]

Did you install pillow?

the path looks correct at least

[graceful magnet]

okay it doesn't crash anymore, doesn't do anything either

[prisma loom]

yes!

[graceful magnet]

(well actually it might, I should, remember to level up my hands)

oop yep

[bold sleet]

Retrrigger cards in general. I am checking for their rank, nothing else.

[night pagoda]

okay something must be wrong because it worked before for other people
can you insert input('blablabla') at the end of the script and launch it like that?

[viscid field]

wait, does it count as copyright infringement if you rewrite the game but share the XOR'd result of your rewrite and the balatro exe
because you technically still have to buy the game

[prisma loom]

wait

with blabla?

[night pagoda]

yeah it doesn't matter

[prisma loom]

yes I did

Whats next?

[night pagoda]

it's so the console window doesn't close after running the script

anything in the console?

[prisma loom]

no, it still insta closes

oh wait

I have 2 pythons

3.9

and 3.11

3.11 opens it

[night pagoda]

let me check which one I'm using

[prisma loom]

opened it with 3.11

[graceful magnet]

GOT IT WORKING

[night pagoda]

oh this should do the thing

yeah the one I'm using is 3.10, it should be fine

[prisma loom]

Everythings clean af now!

THANKS!

[night pagoda]

🫡

[prisma loom]

Do other ppl have to run it too?

when they install this mod

[night pagoda]

you can also drag the 1x sprites individually into the script and it will fix them without the need to reupscale everything

nope it only changes the pngs in your mod

I use the script constantly, so I added it to my windows' context menu and it saves me a few clicks without the need to find the script every time I add or edit a sprite

[manic rune]

im guessing the moment you played your hand, the game already locked on calculating the 5 3s

so even if you turn them into Ks, the game still sees those cards as 3s

[surreal kernel]

How do I detect the suit of G.playing_cards?

[manic rune]

:is_suit()

{Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades} are the suits btw

[surreal kernel]

Ok I'm doing it wrong elsewhere then cause I did it that way hmm

Thank you

[dire palm]

So any idea when I should make the change happen?

[manic rune]

i actually dont know myself, sorry, you can try finding mods which do that though

[surreal kernel]

    update = function(self, card, dt)
        if G.playing_cards then
            for _, v in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
                if v:is_suit() == "Diamonds" then
                    card.ability.extra.Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult + card.ability.extra.Xmult_gain
                end
            end
        end
    end,

What should I change there? Can't get it to work

Trying to get a joker to give x amount of mult per diamond in deck

[manic rune]

so first of all, dont use update, its pretty unnecessary

inside loc_vars, you can put something like:

card.ability.extra.Xmult = 1
for i,v in ipairs(G.playing_cards) do
  if v:is_suit() == "Diamonds" then
    card.ability.extra.Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult + card.ability.extra.Xmult_gain
  end
end
return {...}

uh wait

why does it look like that 😭

there

[surreal kernel]

Thank you

    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        card.ability.extra.Xmult = 1
        for i,v in ipairs(G.playing_cards) do
             if v:is_suit() == "Diamonds" then
                card.ability.extra.Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult + card.ability.extra.Xmult_gain
              end
        end
        return {vars = {card.ability.extra.Xmult, card.ability.extra.Xmult_gain}}
    end,

Like this?

[manic rune]

mhm, i believe so

[surreal kernel]

Hmm doesn't seem to work either

[manic rune]

ok so another idea, put that inside calculate with no context, like

calculate = function(self,card,context)
        card.ability.extra.Xmult = 1
        for i,v in ipairs(G.playing_cards) do
             if v:is_suit() == "Diamonds" then
                card.ability.extra.Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult + card.ability.extra.Xmult_gain
              end
        end
end

if only im better at coding, i wouldnt have to make multiple takes like this 💔

[surreal kernel]

Don't worry I'm worse lmao

You're really helpful ❤️

Hmmm not working either

Tried adding if context.before then before it and neither

Let me try printing

[prisma loom]

what does above_hand param means?

[wintry solar]

This needs to be within if context.joker_main then

[surreal kernel]

Doesn't seem to work either

[unkempt thicket]

for some reason this edition code is triggering twice

[manic rune]

what is it supposed to do?

[surreal kernel]

Alright what isn't working is the is_suit() part it seems after putting prints everywhere

[manic rune]

oh wait

ohhhh

i realized whats wrong

[manic rune]

it should be :is_suit("Diamonds") 😭

i just realized it, im sorry

if v:is_suit("Diamonds") then

[surreal kernel]

That did it!

Tysm!

[wintry solar]

You don’t need to ease dollar and return dollars

[prisma loom]

So I have a modded poker hand but I want to add extra functionality to it which is "Upgrade [this poker hand] for each Stone card scored this Ante" +10 chips". Here's my code rn:

    "stone_ocean",
    stone_ocean = {
        name = "Stone Ocean",
        above_hand = "Three of a Kind",
        text = { "5 Stone cards" },
        visible = false,
        chips = 50,
        mult = 1,
        l_chips = 10,
        l_mult = 0,
        example = {
            { "S_2", true, "m_stone" },
            { "S_2", true, "m_stone" },
            { "S_2", true, "m_stone" },
            { "S_2", true, "m_stone" },
            { "S_2", true, "m_stone" }
        },
    },
}

local handparts = {
    "stone_ocean",
    stone_ocean = {
        func = function(hand)
            if #hand < 5 then return {} end
            local ret = {}
            local stones = 0
            for i = 1, #hand do
                local v = hand[i].base.value
                -- Skip anything we can't interpret (for whatever reason)
                if v then
                    -- The "Base" of a Castle is comprised of three face
                    -- cards of any ranks
                    if hand[i].ability.name == "Stone Card" and stones < 5 then
                        stones = stones + 1
                        table.insert(ret, hand[i])
                    end
                end
            end
            if stones >= 3 and #ret >= 5 then
                return { ret }
            else
                return {}
            end
        end
    }
}```

this functinality is supposed to be on a Planet card itself

Has someone ever done Planet card effects with extra effects?

i could use a reference

[hushed field]

as in the planet card takes into account the number of stone cards scored?

[prisma loom]

Yeah!

and displayed

it

[hushed field]

cryptid's neutron star upgrades once for every previous neutron star. There's probably logic in there that's handy to see for you

[prisma loom]

thanks

[silver turret]

hi so is it just not possible to add smodded strings to a language in a mod

got this error on load

Oops! The game crashed:
[SMODS _ "src/utils.lua"]:191: 159456:3370: '<eof>' expected near '='

Additional Context:
Balatro Version: 1.0.1n-FULL
Modded Version: 1.0.0~ALPHA-1410d-STEAMODDED
LÖVE Version: 11.5.0
Lovely Version: 0.7.1
Platform: Windows
Steamodded Mods:
    1: CZ Balatro by WolfPlay013, ProkopLoronz [ID: CZBALATRO]
Lovely Mods:

[smoky talon]

is there a way to detect when the date changes? I'm trying to make a knee surgery joker that self destructs when the date changes to tomorrow lol

[red flower]

I would check how the SystemClock mod checks time https://github.com/Breezebuilder/SystemClock/tree/v1.5.0

I think it's os.date

[frosty dock]

you just have a syntax error

[silver turret]

oh lmao i guess i missed that

i keep on forgetting that this technically is not json

so it doesn't warn me for stuff like that

ty!

[smoky talon]

i tried creating a new variable at the start that tracks the date when you start the game so that i can detect chanegs in it, but it crashes when i open it.

[maiden river]

os.date is a function

[smoky talon]

ah, what is the best method of doing this then

[maiden river]

https://www.lua.org/pil/22.1.html you could start by reading the docs
I've never really used it before

you could also look at that clock mod to see how they use it

[frosty dock]

can you show the surrounding lines?

[maiden river]

true

john smods strikes again

[smoky talon]

gorbcount is for something else and the print is just to see when it starts what it has for the variable, havent gotten that far yet

[frosty dock]

line 13 is not valid lua syntax

and line 10 has a trailing comma

[smoky talon]

that fixed it

[frosty dock]

you can do multiple assignments but not comma-separated statements

[smoky talon]

thanks so much

how do i do the print function for real? i did it for something before but forgot

[frosty dock]

you just need parentheses

they can be omitted on function calls in two cases only

[fluid pecan]

how do i change the deck of a challenge to one from cryptid? do i just do:

deck = {
        type = "equilibrium",
    },
```?

[frosty dock]

that is when the argument is a single string literal or table constructor

[frosty dock]

I'd have to look at the code for how it actually works, but probably just put the type as 'b_cry_equilibrium'

[fluid pecan]

i had that at first whoops, but cuz it was "Challenge deck" I thought b_cry_ should've not been there but literallyt as i'm writing this i realise cry just stands for cryptid

[frosty dock]

that's just because vanilla is jank and uses names instead of keys here

[fluid pecan]

aha tyty

[frosty dock]

there's no good reason for that and steamodded just fills names with keys

[fluid pecan]

    name = "cry-Equilibrium",

this one right? or do i need to add b_?

local equilibrium = {
    object_type = "Back",
    name = "cry-Equilibrium",
    key = "equilibrium",
    order = 3,
    config = { vouchers = { "v_overstock_norm", "v_overstock_plus" }, cry_equilibrium = true },
    pos = { x = 0, y = 1 },
    atlas = "atlasdeck",
}

full code for reference:

[frosty dock]

yeah try that then

[sturdy compass]

Don’t mind me just bumping this

[frosty dock]

again I'd have to check the implementation for any further specifics, but I think I recall that's the way this works

[prisma loom]

Do I import poker hands like this?

[silver turret]

ok this is fucked up because i literally cannot figure out where it is 😭
can someone help me out with it

[frosty dock]

you don't need that if statement but looks good

[frosty dock]

can I see the file?

[silver turret]

yeah lemme dm you

[prisma loom]

other times it worked with if statement

[frosty dock]

it sure works but it doesn't do anything

[smoky talon]

im trying to figure out how the date function works in the clock mod but cant seem to figure it out

[prisma loom]

other content didnt crash my game when imported but this does for some reason

[smoky talon]

its only mentioned once in the whole thing

[frosty dock]

more likely the file you're importing has an error then

[smoky talon]

this is the only time its mentioned in any of the clock mod files

[fluid pecan]

ty that worked, have a nice evening!!

[prisma loom]

Is this the right way to make a poker hand via SMODS? Cryptid and other mods I found use some other strange methods

    key = stone_ocean,
    name = "Stone Ocean",
    above_hand = "Three of a Kind",
    text = { "5 Stone cards" },
    visible = false,
    chips = 50,
    mult = 1,
    l_chips = 10,
    l_mult = 0,
    example = {
        { "S_2", true, "m_stone" },
        { "S_2", true, "m_stone" },
        { "S_2", true, "m_stone" },
        { "S_2", true, "m_stone" },
        { "S_2", true, "m_stone" }
    },
    evaluate = function(hand)
        return hand.stone_ocean
    end,
    func = function(hand)
        if #hand < 5 then return {} end
        local ret = {}
        local stones = 0
        for i = 1, #hand do
            local v = hand[i].base.value
            -- Skip anything we can't interpret (for whatever reason)
            if v then
                -- The "Base" of a Castle is comprised of three face
                -- cards of any ranks
                if hand[i].ability.name == "Stone Card" and stones < 5 then
                    stones = stones + 1
                    table.insert(ret, hand[i])
                end
            end
        end
        if stones >= 3 and #ret >= 5 then
            return { ret }
        else
            return {}
        end
    end
}```

[bold sleet]

I ask again, how do I retrigger cards (from jokers)

[frosty dock]

your func can just be the evaluate function there. func is a thing in poker hand parts, which is useful when you want to reuse evaluation code across multiple related poker hands (like flush, full house and flush house). That's a separate class though

[frosty dock]

check for context.repetition and have repetitions = <amount of repetitions> in your return table

[bold sleet]

Alright, thanks you.

[prisma loom]

like this?

[ionic verge]

my tangentially related advice is if someone asks you to check cryptid's code you are very likely not to find an answer

source, me at least twice

[frosty dock]

don't need that last return, but looks good

[frosty dock]

well duh

you're setting the key to the global var stone_ocean

which is not defined, so there is no key

you need that to be a string

[prisma loom]

omfg

I forgot ""

[frosty dock]

I did not pay attention to that because code display is ass on mobile

[prisma loom]

my bad

[vivid solstice]

hey, whats the mod that allows for you to spawn tarot cards and jokers from your collection?

[obtuse silo]

debug ?

[vivid solstice]

Which debug? Debug plus or?

[prisma loom]

thankfully game doesnt crash anymore tho the poker hand itself doesnt appear in game at all

[frosty dock]

you told it not to

its visibility is set to false, so it doesn't appear until you play it

[prisma loom]

thats the thing

it doesnt appear when I select the poker hand

[ionic verge]

no mod, just hit 3 on it in the collection

[prisma loom]

neither when I play it

or after I played it

[frosty dock]

oh I see your eval logic is flawed

you're only inserting stones to ret

so it'll only find something when you play 5 stones

[tired marsh]

What file are the basegame jokers and their calculate functions under? for the life of me I can't find it

I want to steal the popcorn and ice cream code

[frosty dock]

mb it's a read the docs moment

evaluate has different args

(parts, hand)

[versed basin]

something to consider unless if im crazy, won't stones and #ret be the same value? The stones >= 3 and ret >= 5 condition will only ever be true if the ret has 5 (or more) stones in it

[prisma loom]

So I dont need ret?

[frosty dock]

you need it if you're gonna add the faces to it like the comment says

[prisma loom]

ahhh

[prisma loom]

?

I dont understand

[red osprey]

evaluate = function(parts, hand)

Unrelated, random Joker idea:

Student (Common) - Whenever you score a hand that doesn't clear the blind, this gains +1 Mult

[prisma loom]

thats what I had, no?

[red osprey]

You were missing the "parts, "

[frosty dock]

as I said, that's a "read the docs" moment

[vivid solstice]

i dont know how to activate the card, as in how to make it usable,

[prisma loom]

it says that table expected but got nil

[frosty dock]

where

[native raft]

Hello trying to figure out the outline issue can't seem to get the script to work right?

[prisma loom]

I fixed it! Tho another issue appeared:

[night pagoda]

Try the same troubleshooting that @kars_on_mars was doing today
#💻・modding-dev message

[native raft]

ah maybe the pillow thing

[night pagoda]

Yeah you need pillow and need to check if yours python version is around 3.10 - 3.11

[frosty dock]

you're inserting into parts and returning a table of the number of stones

[native raft]

using a future version, and don't have pillow, I'll work on that

[past forge]

is there any guide on file structure? i want to make my own localization messages but dont know how or if i have to do it in main.lua or where

[frosty dock]

I feel like you lack some amount of understanding about coding, you should work on that

[past forge]

and how to access another files from main.lua

[frosty dock]

Localization files are loaded by steamodded itself, you just need to provide them

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

for loading other files, use SMODS.load_file

Usage: assert(SMODS.load_file('path/to/file.lua'))(), where that path is relative to your mod's main folder

[prisma loom]

I have no idea what Im doing tbh

[past forge]

perfect

[frosty dock]

note this isn't what you should do for localization strings. refer to the wiki page I sent for that

[night pagoda]

Speaking of localization files, I was trying to do the deckskin palettes today and this seems super scuffed (screenshot is from a localization file): How am I supposed to add a palette to a deckskin without worrying that some other mod's localization won't overwrite it?

[frosty dock]

-# I can tell

[prisma loom]

:(

[frosty dock]

I've thought about that actually. It's the format that vanilla uses and I'm not sure of a good way to change it

you're right, it's super scuffed

[night pagoda]

I was expecting it to check for a key, and not an index; had a lot of tries to even make it visible

and the fact that hc & lc already claimed first two places didn't help

[frosty dock]

that would be better for sure

maybe it's easy enough to just statically redirect lc/default and hc to 1 and 2 and make the rest use keys

wait I think I'm just dumb

I don't think there's this kind of restriction at all

maybe my brain is a bit fried

[prisma loom]

so I returned "hand" since i need all cards to be scored, right?

[past forge]

so if i paste my localization messages like this:

return {
    descriptions = {
        Back={},
        Blind={},
        Edition={},
        Enhanced={},
        Joker={},
        Other={},
        Planet={},
        Spectral={},
        Stake={},
        Tag={},
        Tarot={},
        Voucher={},
    },
    misc = {
        achievement_descriptions={},
        achievement_names={},
        blind_states={},
        challenge_names={},
        collabs={},
        dictionary={},
        high_scores={},
        labels={},
        poker_hand_descriptions={},
        poker_hands={},
        quips={},
        ranks={},
        suits_plural={},
        suits_singular={},
        tutorial={},
        v_dictionary={},
        v_text={},
    },
}
``` at the top of my main.lua will it work?

i just want to make the messages on the cards

[frosty dock]

no, that's not how it works

read the wiki page properly

localization gets a separate file (per locale)

[past forge]

i meant localization.lua instead of main.lua 🤦‍♂️

[past forge]

and then on main.lua i shuld add this line

[frosty dock]

[frosty dock]

...

[past forge]

touché

im bad at reading

[left lance]

What wiki are y'all referring to? I'm new to balatro modding and have many questions, but don't wanna be a bother to folks

[ionic verge]

ok what in cryptid does this im curious

[past forge]

smods wiki itself

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

[frosty dock]

nothing, it's a reference to the famous quote by Jen Walter

"fun fact: 98% of Balatro players can't read"

[ionic verge]

so if 98% can read balatro players cant

[frosty dock]

mobile messed me up 😓

[ionic verge]

real

[hardy viper]

98% of players read balatro can't...

[hushed field]

wait so what does the 98% reference??

[frosty dock]

Players% of 98 Balatro can't read

[past forge]

thats a lot of players that can read balatro

[maiden phoenix]

The real question is who are the 2%

[past forge]

i would say localthunk but nope

[frosty dock]

localthunk can read but not spell

[past forge]

since colours and colors and the "caino" ability

[frosty dock]

gluttenous joker my beloved

[maiden phoenix]

tbh colours and colors is arguable

[frosty dock]

isn't the game pretty consistent with using the bri'ish spelling?

[maiden phoenix]

steam'odded

[graceful magnet]

So I managed to make the card increase the lowest hand level by 2 and decrease the highest hand level by 1

However, once it completes a full cycle of this, increasing every hand once, the next time it activates it crashes, what's going on?

not entirely sure what conclusion to draw from where I'm being directed (this being the crash error line)

[past forge]

Okay about the localization:

Should i have one file named localization.lua or a folder named Localization and all the files like the balatro source code?

[maiden phoenix]

Dunno if the first's possible but the second is

[past forge]

okay

[graceful magnet]

ah-, ohhhh, it's trying to target an undiscovered hand

[maiden phoenix]

Whatever you use to iterate and find which hand to change, you could do a G.GAME.hands[i].visibile check to ignore those who aren't

[vivid solstice]

i have no clue what im doing, would this tarot card work?

[frosty dock]

no

that's a whole feckin for loop inside a loc_vars return table

[graceful magnet]

banger, that fixed the crash and some other minor adjustments I made fixed some of the bugs

[past forge]

isnt this a valid localization table?

im trying to refer it like this in the main.lua

but it gives ERROR

[frosty dock]

https://tenor.com/view/saucerswap-larry-defi-crypto-hbar-gif-26791945

[past forge]

😭

[frosty dock]

you see messages here anywhere?

[stray warren]

It's not messages, I know that much

[frosty dock]

cause i certainly don't

it's misc.dictionary for accessing it the way you're trying to

[prisma loom]

what's the issue here?

[past forge]

this is me rn

hahhaha

[prisma loom]

Docs say that return { hand } if all cards score

[past forge]

and whats the difference between dictionary and v_dictionary

[stray warren]

v_dictionary has variable values inside

[frosty dock]

v_dictionary supports vars and is called like localize { type = 'variable', key = 'key_here', vars = {'abcdef'} }

[tired marsh]

How thick should the borders of my joker art be?

[vivid solstice]

i think its 2pixels but you can check the pinned messages in the fan art section to make sure

[past forge]

if its full art, 2 px

[tired marsh]

bet

[vivid solstice]

was checking the docs for ages but I still dont know how to make this tarot card work

im trying to make it work like world or sun

[smoky beacon]

How do I make a mod

[maiden phoenix]

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

[versed basin]

I believe your function header may be incorrect? See: https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Consumable
I believe it should be function(self, card, area, copier)

Steammodded also provides example mods that have example consumables, see: https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/SealExample/SealsMod.lua

[smoky beacon]

I have no idea what I'm doing

Could anyone hop in vc and walk me through it? I have plenty of ideas for jokers and such but no clue on the code side

[maiden phoenix]

If you got no coding knowledge it's gonna be very hard

[past forge]

that sentence just keep appearing in this chat

[smoky beacon]

Would anyone wanna like Collab on a mod?

I have ideas

[past forge]

just ideas?

[smoky beacon]

And artwork

For a joker

But can make more

[past forge]

okay, so you want to learn how to make mods or you want your joker ideas/art to be made in-game?

[smoky beacon]

Stuff in game

[past forge]

im currently working with a guy that gives me the art and we come with ideas, and i code the jokers because im still learning an practicing

[smoky beacon]

Would you like some more ideas? :3

[past forge]

yeah, why not

you can dm me if ypu want

[versed basin]

I see a lot of references in mods and the example mods to the G object, but I can't seem to find any documentation on it aside from the event queue? Is there anywhere I can find the properties of this object?

[maiden phoenix]

You can find everything related to G in the game.lua file

[versed basin]

Where is this file? I don't see it in the smods github repo, nor the steam install folder, nor Balatro's appdata folder

[normal crest]

Mods/lovely/dump

[maiden phoenix]

In Steam\steamapps\common\Balatro, extract the .exe

[normal crest]

if you extract the exe you will be missing everything smods adds with lovely patches

[versed basin]

ahhhh i see! thank you both!

[maiden phoenix]

Yea this is useful if you wanna see base code + smods modifications

[past forge]

I have no idea why the joker_main never triggers

[normal crest]

because you defined those variables inside the calculate function

[past forge]

i tried to do it in the context.before

[maiden phoenix]

two_suits will reset to false each calculate call

[normal crest]

before a hand is scored, your calculate function will be called with context.before first, and then context.joker_main later

each time it's called, two_suits will be set to false

[past forge]

i see

[normal crest]

you can put your entire logic in joker_main

[vivid solstice]

the game gave me this crash

[normal crest]

there error says you did something along the lines of c.something and c was nil

[vivid solstice]

well it doesnt look like it
heres my code for help

[normal crest]

and where does c come from

you never defined it

[glad osprey]

how do i check if a card is in the consumables area

[normal crest]

card.area == G.consumeables

[glad osprey]

ty

[versed basin]

once again, thank you SDM_0 and srockw! i'm looking through the dump and im finally seeing things like cardarea and card which also weren't well defined in the smods wiki* before :D

[maiden phoenix]

Instead of c it should be G.hand.highlighted[i]

[past forge]

now it works but just adds mult and not chips

also, is there a way to display 2 messages, one after the another?

[maiden phoenix]

Which smods version do you use?

[past forge]

the last one

[maiden phoenix]

try replacing chips_mod and mult_mod by chips and mult respectively

[glad osprey]

why isnt the card un-debuffing

[past forge]

oh

it even does the message on its own

thank you so much

[maiden phoenix]

You should give this a look to see what better-calc can do https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/calculate_functions

[normal crest]

that'd remove only the debuff with the id "delayed", i'm not sure about the details but maybe you can skip that last argument to remove all debuffs

[glad osprey]

i dont want to remove all debuffs just delayed

which is the only one im adding

[normal crest]

Oh wait

if the joker is debuffed its calculate function isn't called

[glad osprey]

wat

[unkempt thicket]

Do i have the context wrong? (it's suppose to give money once after the end of round, it instead triggers multiple times and sometimes just delaminations)

[glad osprey]

but it worked for verdant

[normal crest]

you're trying to remove the debuff from your own joker

[maiden phoenix]

Do you want it to give money like Golden Joker?

[glad osprey]

its a consumable sticker btw

[past forge]

if you want it to be like golden joker is not that

en of round is before the cashout

[unkempt thicket]

oh i should clarify its a enhancment

[maiden phoenix]

Oh

[normal crest]

same thing I think, if a card is debuffed it won't be calculated

[past forge]

oh okay so like golden cards

[maiden phoenix]

add and context.main_eval

maybe

[glad osprey]

but it worked before??????

[unkempt thicket]

yea but decreasing amount after each use

[normal crest]

what is "before"

[glad osprey]

with a different similar sticker i made

joker disabled until a joker is sold

[normal crest]

The sticker was on the joker?

[glad osprey]

yes

[unkempt thicket]

that didn't work

[maiden phoenix]

try debugging context see which returns true

[normal crest]

it looks like stickers on jokers are calculated even when they're debuffed, but not on other cards

presumably to prevent you from, for example, selling an eternal joker when it's debuffed, or not losing $3 on a debuffed rental

[past forge]

is there a way to check if a scoring card has any enhancement, edition or seal?

[frosty dock]

Enhancement: if next(SMODS.get_enhancements(context.scoring_hand[i]) then
Edition: if card.edition then
Seal: if card.seal then

[jovial harness]

For a joker, would this add 1 to totalHand if it's an ace, 2-10, adds number, face cards, ignore it?

[glad osprey]

good lord its notepad ++

[maiden river]

is there a way to make a run start at a higher ante?

my mod makes the first antes way too easy lmao

[maiden river]

yeah, seems good to me
there's no += support in lua, though

[plush cove]

yup. somewhat annoyingly, you always have to do variable = variable + other_variable

[jovial harness]

Wonderful, thank you! Will rewrite it for that

[past forge]

i guess i make a possibility with math.random the dice wont take effect on it??

[bold sleet]

hello, again, how does one change the rank of a given card to an arbitrary rank?

also, when using context.repetition, how do I access the other card? (playing card)

[maiden river]

There's a function, SMODS.change_base, that does this
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Utility

[bold sleet]

yummers

[bold sleet]

I am stupid and I shouldn't be coding at literally midnight but whatever

[maiden river]

in calc function, use if context.repetition and context.cardarea == G.play
I believe accessing the other card would just be context.other_card

[bold sleet]

so context.other_card:SMODS.change_base()?

[frosty dock]

excuse me what

assert(SMODS.change_base(context.other_card, <suit>, <rank>))

[bold sleet]

12 am coding yay

[bold sleet]

shit will do

[frosty dock]

leave suit as nil when just changing the rank

[maiden river]

john smods strikes again

[plush cove]

okay so I'm trying to make a Joker that sacrifices itself if another Joker is supposed to instead, and I have one idea of how to make it, but it's a very specific method

i could add in patches that specifically target Mr. Bones and Cavendish

but I want to have broader compatibility with other mods, so what's the best way I can target self-destructing Jokers (that don't have inherently diminishing value, like Ramen, Ice Cream, Popcorn, etc)

[unkempt thicket]

How can I send a debug message of the current context in a given situation?

[versed basin]

I just started skimming through the source code so this is likely incorrect however there is this function that eases the ante, and in the source code the Hieroglyph and Petroglyph vouchers both use the ease_ante function as well as ```lua
G.GAME.round_resets.blind_ante = G.GAME.round_resets.blind_ante or G.GAME.round_resets.ante
G.GAME.round_resets.blind_ante = G.GAME.round_resets.blind_ante-center_table.extra

[frosty dock]

if you have DebugPlus, i think print(context) works well enough

[jovial harness]

Is there a calculate() context for if a playing card is retriggered? I have a joker that's counting up the total value of numbered cards via if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and not context.blueprint then but there's a bug when a playing card is triggered more than once.

[prisma loom]

Tried another iteration of 5 stones hand still aint working

any ideas why?

[maiden river]

I see

[chrome prawn]

for some reason whenever I try to play this custom poker hand the game doesn't score the queen it's suppose to check for
does someone know how to fix this

[uneven bobcat]

could anyone help me with something silly

i am creating a joker that activates whenever you use a tarot card that is NOT the fool and somehow i have not figured this out yet

mostly just the Not Fool part

[ionic verge]

so im setting up localization for the first time and i just want to confirm, i dont need to initialize it through my main.lua file, right?

[versed basin]

the .name property of the fool is "The Fool"

[uneven bobcat]

thank you :D

[versed basin]

np!

[frosty dock]

-# key supremacy

[versed basin]

It may be superior, but nothing is funnier than unending if/else name checks

[frosty dock]

why yes there is something funnier

[versed basin]

oh?

[frosty dock]

you can make a completely different card behave like a vanilla card in certain aspects just by giving it that name

[versed basin]

wait, oh my

[frosty dock]

like giving something the name 'Wee Joker' makes it wee-sized

[ionic verge]

does all of this need to be in G.localization or is it good as is?

[versed basin]

with this knowledge, i will make the most reliable balatro mod that will surely stand the test of time of updates

[frosty dock]

good as is

[ionic verge]

cool

[frosty dock]

don't

[ionic verge]

now to cut this down to what im actually using

to survive the onslaught of updates you must be fluid like them, like water

[versed basin]

don't worry i have a healthy fear of updates breaking everything

[chrome prawn]

I tried to fix it but it ended up not working
the game still isn't scoring the queen when scoring the hand

[versed basin]

does it recognize that you're trying to play the hand?

[chrome prawn]

yeah

the game recognizes that I'm trying to play the custom hand

but it just doesn't score the queen

[versed basin]

that is odd

[tired marsh]

Is there something similar to breakpoints in vs code that I can use to step by step go through my function to see if its doing what I want it to

My joker is doing all of the stuff it needs to do initially, but its a food joker so it should be decaying over time

And I don't think its doing that

[novel dagger]

Silly question: How do you make a joker just give 6X mult

[jovial harness]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua Look at the Cavendish 2 example

[fallen vigil]

how do i round a number down

[versed basin]

math.floor(x) see: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html, contains a bunch of the built-in functions of lua

[fallen vigil]

thanks so this would be correct to round the equation in () down?

[versed basin]

looks like it!

[fallen vigil]

thank you appreciate it ^^

is there a way to make a joker only able to be purchased once per game?

[red flower]

my guess is to do what gros michel does here but set the flag in add_to_deck instead of calculate https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

[unkempt thicket]

what's the better calc version of eval_this?

[fallen vigil]

this doesnt seem to be working

[jovial harness]

Is there a way to make a legendary joker that can't be found through The Soul?

[red flower]

maybe no_pool_flag doesn't work anymore, try adding

in_pool = function(self, args)
        return not G.GAME.pool_flags.jimdoepurchased
end

[fallen vigil]

does rare tag bypass the check?

[red flower]

I don't think so

[fallen vigil]

it seems to still be showing up

[scarlet spire]

where can I find a list of all of the text color codes?

[red flower]

globals.lua has all the colors but the localization colors are in misc_functions inside loc_colour()

[fallen vigil]

i rewrote it and it seem to be working so user error ig

[ionic verge]

how would i localize messages?
(i.e the 'message =' stuff in calculate)

would i just do it like vanilla or nah?

[bold sleet]

the thing is not doing the thing god it is 3 am

[unkempt thicket]

stuff like this usually works

[jovial harness]

Is there a way to set custom colours for a joker name?

[ionic verge]

...
can you do {C:whathaveyou} in the name part?

[jovial harness]

Like beyond {C:red} tags, I'm looking to do a specific hex code unfortunately

[ionic verge]

i think you have to define your own color

unfortunately i dont know how youd do that

[jovial harness]

{C:HEX(3EFFCC)} doesn't give 3EFFCC for the joker name unfortunately

[ionic verge]

no i mean like

elsewhere

set it up as a G.COLOUR thing or something

[jovial harness]

Nah, that makes sense, I'll look into that

[red flower]

idk if theres a better way but i do it like this

(oh inside the if clause there's a loc_colour_ref() )

[ionic verge]

i mean
problem is i use some unique text in a good few of my jokers' messages

so will that work without any more input?

i presume that'd go in one of these?

[unkempt thicket]

yea, in a localization file you can have stuff like that

[ionic verge]

got it

[unkempt thicket]

with vars too

[ionic verge]

mhm

[random sleet]

holy shit its snow

[left lance]

Looking through the wiki; am I just dumb or is there no section on applying editions to jokers? I'm trying to make a custom joker that is always negative. I see the wiki/documentation on how to make new editions or update weighting of current editions, but not about fixing/forcing a joker to have that edition

[celest olive]

(assuming youre using steamodded)
could you do something like

set_ability = function(self, card)
  card:set_edition({negative = true}, true)
end,```

[vague pendant]

Is there an easy way to see what badges a card has?

[left lance]

I'll test this, thank you!

[undone flicker]

what would I need to call in a custon deck (SMODS.back) to give a specific joker at the start of a run?

[vague pendant]

probably SMODS.create_card({...})

[undone flicker]

perfect, I'll look into it

and that's under the apply function?

[vague pendant]

yeah

[hardy viper]

i believe theres a config for this (in which you give a joker key)

so no calling

check the code for some other mods deck

[undone flicker]

any mods you recommend looking into? I'm trying to find some but I'm not having much luck

nevermind, found kuso-mods which has a bunch of good sample decks

[spare elk]

yeah i got no clue what i'm doing wrong

[red flower]

you should update steamodded and lovely

[hardy viper]

ancient mods folder

[random sleet]

prehistoric lovely version

[spare elk]

i... cannot uninstall the old lovely to update it

"access to folder refused, you need an autorisation from DESKTOP-07ROSI0/[my name] to modify this folder"

thats... concerning

no wait im an idiot i still had balatro running in the background

we're good

[hardy viper]

okay cool

[spare elk]

alright what does this mean now

[plush cove]

bump

[rough furnace]

Well for one steamodded isn't being injected

[spare elk]

what

[red flower]

I don't think this is possible without explicit cross mod compatibility

[spare elk]

i noticed the "cry" like cryptid so i tried to make lovely ignore cryptid when booting up and it's like i never had mods

[red flower]

i would try removing everything from the mods folder and installing everything again

[fallen vigil]

how do i set the sell price of a joker

[spare elk]

and now the game doesnt even want to boot, this is getting worse and worse

[spare elk]

cost = [insert number of money (not in brackets)]

[merry condor]

that's to set the buy price

[spare elk]

oh

hm

[red flower]

the way i do it is hook into card:set_cost and make card.sell_cost = value at the end

[nova finch]

how do i make a joker that upgrades when a boss blind's ability triggers? i referenced the code I have off of matador but it isnt doing anything

[fallen vigil]

i dont exactly know how to do that

[red flower]

im on my phone so i dont remember the exact names

local set_cost_ref = Card.set_cost
function Card:set_cost()
set_cost_ref(self)
self.sell_cost = 0
end

obviously you would add whatever value instead of 0 and check if it fulfills whatever conditions you want

[fallen vigil]

tysm

[merry condor]

Gosh, I'm sorry to contribute another question to the already existing sea of them, but I'm experiencing a crash when the game attempts to call the "juice_up" function from within the "juice_card" function (functions/common_events.lua:1238: attempt to call method 'juice_up' (a nil value)) and I'm not really sure what's causing it or how to fix it. Here is the code from within the scoring section of my joker definition, I mostly took it straight from Midas Mask. As far as I can tell, it functionally changes the suit from hearts to spades pretty OK but then it crashes when it reaches the last card in the line.

Since it (seems?) goes through "v:change_suit" ok as it changes the suits, maybe it's the message part of the last segment?

For more context, the offending function and line in lovely seems to be this

I haven't been able to track down what chain of events is causing this or why it is misbehaving

[spare elk]

removed every negative that made the lovely injector crash, now the game boots up for 1 frame before crashing im so fucking done

[undone flicker]

how do you use the create_card() function to create a specific modded joker?

[red flower]

does it crash only with cryptid or did you try with just steamodded

[spare elk]

did both

[red flower]

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

weird

[undone flicker]

perfect thanks

[spare elk]

first with only cryptid but it crashed with smods so i removed the negative priorities from there too

[red flower]

i mean thats probably not the issue

[spare elk]

actually wait why are the lovely negative priorities so bad when a bunch of other mods have those and they dont cause issues

[red flower]

yeah i think you have something installed wrong

or maybe a bad version of something

[spare elk]

oh wait is this the uhh

whats it called

refactor shenanigans

[red flower]

maybe that's why I asked if just smods worked

[spare elk]

yeah refactored or not it still hates negative priorities

[undone flicker]

hate to be back so soon but, how would I spawn the joker at the start of a run from a deck, I tried using the apply function and spawning a card, but it seems it tries to do that before the area is loaded which returns a nil and I get a
"attempt to index local "area" [a nil value]"
crash

[gaunt thistle]

negative lovely priorities should not be a problem

[spare elk]

well idk they seem to be a problem

[gaunt thistle]

you need to update lovely

[spare elk]

same error on the latest lovely i can find

[gaunt thistle]

let me see your logs

[spare elk]

logs as in..?

[chrome prawn]

yo I still need a little help with this problem I'm having

[gaunt thistle]

in your mods folder. lovely/logs, share the latest one

[unkempt thicket]

The game claims I am comparing a table and var, when did G.GAME.dollars become a table. also, what do I use instead?

[gaunt thistle]

ya you need to update lovely

your version is ancient

[spare elk]

https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector/releases/tag/v0.7.1 is this not the most recent lovely?

this is the one i just downloaded

[gaunt thistle]

that is the most recent, yes, but your log doesn't indicate that you've installed it

[spare elk]

thats odd

[plush cove]

Lovely 0.5.0-beta6

[gaunt thistle]

did you follow the install guide referenced to in that release?

[spare elk]

yep that appears to have done it

thank you!!!

[gaunt thistle]

np!

[gaunt thistle]

which guide did you follow?

initially

[spare elk]

i just thought it went like every other mod and you just needed to put it in the mods folder

it had been a while since i last installed lovely :p

[gaunt thistle]

I was just wondering how you ended up with that version

[tall wharf]

i should make a second guide to install Balatro mod

[gaunt thistle]

the more the merrier

[spare elk]

ironically all of this didn't fix the problem i originally had

[fallen vigil]

how do i set the card in context.buying/selling_card to the joker initiating it and not the joker being sold/bought

[gaunt thistle]

uninstall all of your mods and reinstall them

you likely have some ancient mod files kicking around

and when I say uninstall I mean "completely delete, not overwrite"

[spare elk]

yeah dont worry i already do that

[gaunt thistle]

gotcha

[scarlet spire]

I'm tired so I'm probably missing something obvious, but this calculate function (on a seal) is supposed to check if the card is in the hand but unscoring, but it doesn't seem to work. any ideas on what's going wrong here?

[undone flicker]

is there a rightmost equvalent to the "pinned" sticker?

[spare elk]

only had 1 mod pre-2025, hopefully replacing it should fix it

nope, nothing

maybe my indexing is wrong? i dont think so, since the other atlases work well

[plush cove]

why do you have "key = false"?

[spare elk]

your guess is as good as mine

these were some of the first lines of code i made for this mod

lemme try removing it

[nova finch]

I'm trying to make a joker that works like mr bones, and I'm using code from mr bones. is there a way to do it to make it not say the 'saved by mr. bones' text?

[spare elk]

well this is new

[undone flicker]

How could I force a joker to always be rightmost?

[lavish lake]

How do I loop through all played cards in a hand, check if any cards rank is 4, and then retrigger it?

[plush cove]

check the code for Hack

and just modify it a bit

[scarlet spire]

the smods example jokers mod has a sock and buskin reimplementation that should be pretty easy to convert to 4s instead of face cards

[spare elk]

wait the smods example jokers still exist? i couldn't find them last i checked

[rose dragon]

what's the name of the lua file are the jokers code in?

[jovial harness]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/tree/master/Mods Here ya go

[plush cove]

card.lua

[lavish lake]

I got a crash and here's my code:

SMODS.Joker {
    key = "letter_d",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "D",
        text = {
            "Retrigger each played {C:attention}#1#{}"
        }
    },
    config = { extra = { cardRank = 4 } },
    rarity = 2,
    atlas = "alphabet_atlas",
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    loc_vars = function (self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.cardRank } }
    end,
    calculate = function (self, card, context)
        if context.other_card:get_id() == card.ability.extra.cardRank then
            return {
                repetitions = 1,
                card = card
            }
        end
    end
}

[jovial harness]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua Specific link to the joker example code here

[spare elk]

wow thanks

thought for sure the example jokers were lost media

[jovial harness]

Nah, if they were I'd be SOL, haha

[scarlet spire]

context.other_card is nil because you'

oops, hit enter too soon

you're not actually checking for a context as far as I'm aware

[lavish lake]

I got soul in a test run....

[scarlet spire]

see this calculate function from the example sock and buskin

[lavish lake]

Also i fixed the problem

[jovial harness]

How does loc_color() work? Been trying to figure out how to get a custom colour for joker names through looking at cryptid code but it just isn't clicking in my head

[normal crest]

Can you change the text color of the badge on a sticker

[faint yacht]

A Lovely patch is required for custom text instead of "Saved by Mr. Bones"... something like I had done with https://github.com/TheOneGoofAli/TOGAPackBalatro/blob/main/lovely.toml ... then set G.GAME.current_round.usesavedtext = true & specify string with G.GAME.current_round.savedtext = "customtext". Crude patch, but works.

[chrome widget]

Looking to see if anyone can help me with sprite positioning for a thing. I need these sprites to glowing outline sprites to overlay atop their respective parents, but I'm not sure i fully understand how the nested coordinates for the movables/nodes work?

It looks like they're all starting in the top left (the largest outline is 153 pixels wide to 95 pixels of the yellow joker beneath, so it feels like I should just be able to offset the position somehow, but my experiments to do so always seem to lead to weird results

Can anyone advise?

[chrome widget]

Okay I think I figured it out kinda? It's not super self explanatory but "offset" isn't actually set anywhere normally when you create a sprite/moveable, and setting the transform position directly even if it's a weak bond will cause the offset to be reset automatically. I think you need to call set_alignment()

[limpid halo]

Do jokers spawned with DebugPlus still show up in the shop?

[desert ore]

yes, I believe so. iirc it's happened to me when debugging a joker

[limpid halo]

okay awesome, no weird shop bug for me

[desert ore]

anybody know if it's possible to make a joker that's larger than standard size? If there's an example of it, I'd love to know which mod

[normal crest]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/API-Documentation#pixel_size

or display_size right above that

[lethal mural]

it wont add the sticker

[desert ore]

tysm, I assume this is put alongside stuff like the atlas key and position?

[plush cove]

heya! i'm trying to make a joker that guarantees a gros michel or cavendish in the next shop if the player doesn't already have one

this is how much progress I've made (creating_store_joker is a custom context), and while the card spawns, it's not buyable and it appears on top of one of the buyable cards

what's the best way to fix this?

worst case scenario I can always just add a custom tag, but I really want to see if it's possible to just do it within the code

[normal crest]

You forgot to emplace it

Unless create_card does that automatically

I can't remember

[lethal mural]

i cant figure out why my sticker wont add

[rose dragon]

create_card doesnt do that

[normal crest]

bump

[lethal mural]

ok so the sticker itself works

but for some reason create_card wont add it

[plush cove]

that fixed it, ty!

[normal crest]

solve it with a lovely patch targetting badges[#badges + 1] = create_badge(localize(v, "labels"), get_badge_colour(v)) on UI_definitions.lua, for anyone else looking to do the same on a sticker

[lethal mural]

is there any way to add legendaries to the pool in create_card without making it ONLY legendaries

[scarlet spire]

still trying to figure this out

[plush cove]

it says you've got a line printing, what happens with that?

[lethal mural]

figured this out
it seems create_card is incompatible with modded stickers so you have to add it directly to the card using SMODS.Stickers

[scarlet spire]

spits out a massive table

probably two?

I think the table is of the card being played

too big to really tell anything, the console is really limited

[plush cove]

isnt "card" usually used to refer to the joker itself?

[scarlet spire]

this is on a seal, so card refers to the card it's on

since iirc self is the seal

does the debugplus console dump anywhere?

doesn't seem like it

[random sleet]

lovely's console log should contain it?

i think ( i dont think :3 )

[scarlet spire]

okay it does

okay it prints the data of the same card twice when just playing the card itself (so it scores)

which, is correct

it DOESN'T print when playing it unscoring, so. that means it's not running that code at all, which is ALSO correct

so that means isinhand is false

so WHY doesn't the if trigger???

[cerulean rose]

vscode lua extension really doesn't like hooks

shows a warning on every single one

[scarlet spire]

okay huh. the calculate function doesn't even try to run if the card is unscoring

I didn't know that worked like that?

literally not even this will work

which I guess makes sense, but hmm

[lavish lake]

Hmm guys what should the joker "F" do in my mod? There's not much context behind the name, but I need at least some idea that is balanced and creative

[random sleet]

yea youd need to add unscored cards to the calculation routine

[scarlet spire]

this just means I need to add a new calculate context when the appropriate conditions are met, right

or is there something more to adding them to the calculation routine

[vital rapids]

Hi autumn

[random sleet]

so youd actually be patching how the game scores cards while calculating a played hand which is different

[lavish lake]

Ok someone in #⚙・modding-general came up with an idea but I'm not sure how to implement their idea of "Destroyed cards give 3$". How would I even do that??? Im very new

[random sleet]

search through..... i forget if its functions/common_events.lua???

[scarlet spire]

i've been looking through, scoring is in state_events I believe

[random sleet]

ah oops

[cerulean rose]

check canio

[random sleet]

look for where smods adds the hook for -- TARGET: Add your own ...

for card scoring

[scarlet spire]

cryptid has an unscoring context patch for this file, but the code it's looking for in the pattern doesn't seem to exist in newcalc smods

[random sleet]

somewhere around there you might be able to make it have a context for unscoring cards

sorry im not at my pc rn just kinda going from memory haha

[scarlet spire]

found this, but it's in what appears to be joker code

[lavish lake]

I checked and... I still don't understand. I see "glass_shattered" as the context, but surely my joker is supposed to trigger not just when a glass card gets shattered.

[cerulean rose]

actually look here https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/calculate_functions

[lavish lake]

Ok I now know how to check when a card is destroyed, but I don't know how to give money

[spring lantern]

any of yall got a link to the example jokers mod repo? can't find it anymore :(

[lavish lake]

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

[spring lantern]

cheers

[cerulean rose]

ease_dollars

[lavish lake]

So in the return I need to call the function ease_dollars() right>

[normal crest]

you can add dollars = 3 to your return for example

[lavish lake]

That sets dollars to 3 though right?

[normal crest]

well yes I just picked a random number

what's your code so far?

[lavish lake]

SMODS.Joker {
    key = "letter_f",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "F",
        text = {
            "Destroyed cards give {C:money}#1#${}"
        }
    },
    config = { extra = { money = 3 } },
    rarity = 2,
    atlas = "alphabet_atlas",
    pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
    loc_vars = function (self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.money } }
    end,
    calculate = function (self, card, context)
        if context.destroy_card then
            return {
                ease_dollars(card.ability.extra.money)
            }
        end
    end
}

[normal crest]

that's the wrong context for what you're trying to do

that's for your joker destroying cards

you want to use this

[lavish lake]

And the ease_dollars bit? Is it also incorrect?

[normal crest]

if you ran that I believe you'd get 3 dollars per card played

[cerulean rose]

yup

[cerulean rose]

do this

[lavish lake]

For some reason it shows that you can earn 72 dollars not 3

[normal crest]

that's unexpected

but still, you're using the wrong context

[lavish lake]

I changed the context

[scarlet spire]

was able to find this? maybe?

in state_events

[normal crest]

what's your calculate function now

[lavish lake]

    calculate = function (self, card, context)
        if context.remove_playing_cards then
            for index, value in ipairs(cards_destroyed) do
                return {
                    dollars = card.ability.extra.money
                } 
            end
        end
    end

[normal crest]

that doesn't crash?

[lavish lake]

I havent tested

[normal crest]

i think it'll crash

anyway

cards_destroyed is not defined there, you can access them in context.removed

if you return inside a for loop you will not finish looping through all cards

you will return on the first element always

[lavish lake]

Then how do I know how many times to give money

[lavish lake]

And yes it did crash

[normal crest]

well if context.removed contains all destroyed cards

then you just get the length of that and multiply by your money

[lavish lake]

So I change the context to that?

[normal crest]

No

within context.remove_playing_cards you have access to context.removed which is a list of the destroyed cards

[lavish lake]

    calculate = function (self, card, context)
        if context.remove_playing_cards then
            return {
                dollars = card.ability.extra.money * #context.removed
            } 
        end
    end

So like this?

[cerulean rose]

ye

[lavish lake]

Ok it works but now I wonder why the amount is 72 even though I set it to 3

[normal crest]

Start a new run

[stiff locust]

is there a way i can check what language the game is set to

[normal crest]

G.SETTINGS.language

[stiff locust]

so would the language be written in the language it is set to when checking that language

like would it be G.SETTINGS.language == "French" or G.SETTINGS.language = "Francais"

[normal crest]

if you wanted to check for french you do G.SETTINGS.language == 'fr'

they're language codes

[stiff locust]

oh

alright

[normal crest]

these are all of them it seems

[stiff locust]

i was just about to ask if there was a place that has all of them

thanks

[normal crest]

game.lua:958

[cerulean rose]

SMODS.Joker({
    key = "commie",
    rarity = 2,
    pos = { x = 3, y = 3 },
    atlas = "jokers",
    cost = 9,
    blueprint_compat = false,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before and not context.blueprint then
            local targets = {}
            local target_total = 0
            for k, v in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) do
                if SMODS.Ranks[v.base.value].is_numeric then
                    table.insert(targets, v)
                    target_total = target_total + v.base.nominal
                end
            end
            if #targets > 0 then
                local ranks = {}
                for k, v in pairs(SMODS.Ranks) do
                    if v.is_numeric then
                        table.insert(ranks, v)
                    end
                end
                table.sort(ranks, function(a, b) return a.nominal < b.nominal end)
                target_total = target_total / #targets
                local target_rank = ranks[#ranks]
                for k, v in ipairs(ranks) do
                    if target_total < v.nominal then
                        if k <= 1 then
                            sendErrorMessage("Mathematical paradox detected! Aborting calculation...", self.key)
                            return { message = "ERROR" }
                        else
                            target_rank = ranks[k - 1]
                            break
                        end
                    end
                end
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    func = function()
                        for k, v in ipairs(targets) do
                            SMODS.change_base(v, nil, target_rank.key)
                        end
                        play_sound("gong", 0.94, 0.3)
                        play_sound("gong", 0.94 * 1.5, 0.2)
                        play_sound("tarot1", 1.5)
                        return true
                    end
                }))
                return { message = localize("k_balanced"), volume = 0, colour = { 0.8, 0.45, 0.85, 1 } }
            end
        end
    end,
})

this joker plays generic1 when more than one number card is scored?

[spring lantern]

this might be a little OP

(it starts at 1.2x i just upgraded it a bunch before this hand

[quasi comet]

im trying to make a joker that gives x3 mult when the whole hand is enhanced; but it triggers as long as 1 card in the hand is enhanced right now, i think the issue is im not sure how to check if a card is not enhanced

[bold sleet]

help, why be shit not working?

How do I access the other card?

[paper zealot]

There are also community mods that add more localizations if you want to cover all the bases:
vi Vietnamese
ro Romanian
tr Turkish
uk_UA Ukrainian
zh_HK Hong Kong Cantonese
There was also a Finnish mod that's since disappeared
The language codes follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag standards

[past forge]

because you are only checking if there is at least one card enhanced

[frosty dock]

the rank may have to be a string

but also why context.repetition

[bold sleet]

ah

Because I need stuff to re-trigger.

uh...

[quasi comet]

how would I check for multiple cards?

[past forge]

I would check if the number of enhanced cards in my scoring hand is equal to the size of my scoring hand

[quasi comet]

weirdly enough it was working fine but now its giving me random center = nil stuff ? ? ?

[past forge]

Honestly im pretty new also so im not sure why that happens

[paper zealot]

Why the need to check the language specifically? The function localize() is usually used to get text for display in the current language

[stiff locust]

spanish button

gives X3 mult if game language is set to spanish

[spring lantern]

LOL

that's heat

[paper zealot]

Haha, great

[past forge]

🇪🇸

[frosty dock]

Who's Paul?

[past forge]

i dont know

[frosty dock]

none of y'all get that reference lmao

[past forge]

[spring lantern]

apparently held in hand ability jokers don't get retriggered when using the repetitions return 😭

[frosty dock]

they should

what are you retriggering and how?

[vale lake]

sorry to interupt but does anyone know why G.hand.cards is empty here?
edit: nvm this was fixed in a steammodded update, putting this here in case anyone else is confused here

[spring lantern]

this guy works just fine on xmult jokers for example

but on this new jimbo i made it's just doing nothing

[bold sleet]

I am requesting help from smarter people than me please :3.

[past forge]

Is there any SMODS function to add a random enhancement, edition or seal to a card?

cant find it in the docs

[spring lantern]

i think there's poll_edition, poll_enhancement etc

that returns a randm edition enhancement etc and then you just apply it to the card

found em

[frosty dock]

you've just given a line number

I dont have telepathic powers

[spring lantern]

cant find poll_edition but im using it in a joker of mine

[frosty dock]

I guess I haven't asked, what smods version are you using?

[spring lantern]

last time i had an issue because my smods was mega outdated, but now i'm on 1410d

which i think is pretty up to date or should be

gonna check git jic

[frosty dock]

that's a few days out of date, no changes since then to retriggers

[spring lantern]

gonna pull the latest updates anyway

[past forge]

one thing ive learned is that you can never have the latest version

[fallen vigil]

is there an easy way to make this work how i want it to

[spring lantern]

so you're creating the card, now what

[frosty dock]

first off don't use vanilla create_card

use SMODS.add_card

[fallen vigil]

i have the emplace everything setup i mean the randomized joker

[spring lantern]

oh right

lol

[fallen vigil]

whats the difference?

[frosty dock]

it provides an interface that doesn't suck (it takes a single table instead of 7 arguments with 4 nils) and does the emplacing and adding to deck for you

for the randomness

[fallen vigil]

oh i already used create card on like over 10 cards 🥲

[frosty dock]

you can make a SMODS.ObjectType with all the jokers this pool should be able to spawn

[fallen vigil]

how do i do that

[frosty dock]

you start by reading the docs

[plush cove]

although the latter two don't work if you're adding a Joker to the shop, so I had to do this

[fallen vigil]

oki doki

[frosty dock]

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

[spring lantern]

just double checked, updating smods changed nothing unsurprisingly, gonna have to check what's going on...

[frosty dock]

not sure then, it should work

either way I can't follow what's going on in the video, there's too much unnecessary stuff going on

[plush cove]

btw: I'm not having issues with this code, but if there is a better way to do this then please let me know

[spring lantern]

tru lmao let me just do a less overwhelming example

[frosty dock]

that's perfectly valid, SMODS.add_card specifically exists to facilitate putting joker-like cards directly into joker-like areas

[plush cove]

would it make sense to do for the shop?

[spring lantern]

okay so this confirms it's not the blueprint mime silliness that's messing up the retrigger logic

ima go take a shower and come back to this

[past forge]

So if i want a 1 in 4 chance to add a random seal to a card it should be something like card.SMODS.poll_seal(*some random seed*, stdseal, 0.25, false) ?

[frosty dock]

no

[frosty dock]

card.SMODS? 💀

[plush cove]

alright, ty for the teensy bit of insight though! good to know my code's not totally hacky 😅