💻・modding-dev

[grim remnant]

could i perhaps just put G.GAME.hands["High Card"].played in the equation, or would that not work? :o

[wicked spire]

Yeah that should work

[rose dragon]

update: i changed it to start with 2.50 xMult and removed the natural decay and now you get an average of 30k chips when scoring a flush of the chosen suit; i think it may need to be debuffed again

[grim remnant]

what am i not seein' here?

[nova finch]

how would I get the name of a joker? I'm trying to make a joker that takes the joker to the left of it and gives mult for each letter in the joker's name

[plush cove]

old loader file

new loader file

[plush cove]

I honestly wouldn't recommend making something like this, because then if you're going to later localize your mod, the other Joker's name might be way shorter or way longer and make this new Joker better or worse

But if you want to do so anyway, maybe try localize{type = 'name_text', set = 'Back', key = [OTHER_JOKER_KEY]}

(replace [OTHER_JOKER_KEY] with some method of retrieving the other Joker's key)

[grim remnant]

i'm still trying to figure this out, but no dice?

[limpid halo]

The first line of your return statement

Take that out

[runic pecan]

Does anyone here know how the second input of play_sound works?
Like, I know it's pitch, but what number do I put there to shift it from F to G?

[mint hull]

how do i get the game assets?

im trying to get the high contrast / non high contrast sprites of the playing cards

[paper zealot]

Open Balatro.exe as an archive with 7-zip, winzip, winrar or similar

Then look in resources/textures/1x or 2x

Regular card sprites are 8BitDeck.png, high contrast is 8BitDeck_opt2.png

[mint hull]

what the hell is that

[lavish lake]

hit the toad

[runic pecan]

bump

[long sun]

if it helps, the base pitch of a sound is 1

i'd wager that it works logarithmically? so 2 is 1 octave above, 4 is 2 octaves, 0.5 is 1 octave below?

you'd have to calculate the ratio yourself though

[scarlet spire]

how can I stop this calculate from destroying all face cards in the played hand? I just want it to destroy the last one played

I had it working without destroy context but that's apparently prone to making ghost cards, but I'm not quite sure how destroy context works

[red osprey]

Change if lastfacecard to if lastfacecard == context.other_card

The context is called once for each scored card

And the return of destroying_card is not doing anything, only remove = true does

[violet void]

you could also probably simplify the check like this

            if context.destroying_card == context.scoring_hand[#context.scoring_hand] then
                return true
            end
        end```

[scarlet spire]

hmm, now it doesn't destroy any of them

[red osprey]

My bad, destroying_card, not other_card

Standardization is for nerds

[scarlet spire]

ahh

[red osprey]

Destroys the last card, not the last face card

[scarlet spire]

okay thank you, that works!

[red osprey]

However removing blueprint from the equation is a good idea

[limpid halo]

this does not look "simpler"

[red osprey]

Just so that it doesn't also ramp blueprint (this won't do anything as blueprint doesn't return its chips, mult, and Xmult, but still would look weird)

[violet void]

missed that mb

[scarlet spire]

oh wait it would be adding mult to blueprint, I see

for cases like this would blueprint copying it just return the xmult of what the original is returning

I'm not 100% sure how copying jokers work under the hood

[limpid halo]

isn't all blueprint does is just call the calculate again but with context.blueprint?

[red osprey]

Currently it would copy the entire calculate function, so copying both the Xmult of joker_main, and the destroying in destroy_card

[violet void]

pretty much

[scarlet spire]

ah so anything I don't want to happen to the blueprint I just specify with not context.blueprint

[red osprey]

So you just need to add and not context.blueprint to the second one to avoid weird stuff, and it will just copy the Xmult

[limpid halo]

i like just putting if context.blueprint then return end at the top if blueprint is unsupported

or wathever it is not at my balatro gaming device

[red osprey]

Since SMODS follows OOP principles much more closely than regular Balatro, this is also an option, yes

[limpid halo]

[scarlet spire]

here we are

[red osprey]

The irony is that the calculate function, while messy and only really possible because of how lax Lua is, is not a bad idea on its own

The massive 500 lines if else is

[scarlet spire]

will probably rebalance the mult values, it might be a bit op right now

[red osprey]

I think it's fine

It ramps twice as slow as Canio and requires you scoring the cards (so you can't burst out mult with Hanged Man or Immolate)

[limpid halo]

it's really funny looking at the source code of balatro and having that initial reaction of "oh god what the fuck" but then going "actually, this sorta does make sense in a weird way"

[scarlet spire]

true, yeah

[red osprey]

And has the same issue of "at some point you don't have face cards anymore"

[scarlet spire]

originally it was literally just mini canio but I wanted something more unique

[red osprey]

I do like it

Thematic and a good buildaround

Probably would consider it over something like Hologram or Constellation

Also small nitpick: Xmult jokers generally don't do anything when they're at x1

So a small check that the Xmult is above 1 in the joker_main would be nice

[scarlet spire]

ah never noticed that

though it does make sense i'd never notice that

[red osprey]

Yeah it's supposed to not be confusing to see the Xmult animation but nothing happens

[sturdy compass]

I love that art, well done

[sturdy compass]

Modding the game has given me more knowledge about how it works than I would have ever wanted lmao

[red osprey]

So many things that could have been factorized into helper functions...

[sturdy compass]

Shhhhhhhh

[scarlet spire]

thank you, it was fun to make

[manic rune]

i have an idea for a joker

[scarlet spire]

fun fact, the four digits at the end of the phone number spell out joke (or, well, they're meant to)

[sturdy compass]

It was a practice project give thunk some slack

[limpid halo]

I love how there is only 1 comment about weird bullshit and it’s about love.timer.getTime()

[manic rune]

Where's Waldo but as a joker, and when you have it, it randomly chooses one card in your deck and turns it into SOMETHING, and if it is played, big gains

[violet void]

Astra it seems we are all fighting for that one spot 😆

[sturdy compass]

That's great lmao

[limpid halo]

code it like a seal and have like 4 pixels on the card

[sturdy compass]

It's prime real estate 😭

[red osprey]

Oh definitely, me saying bad stuff about the code is in no way related to Localthunk themself. I've written way worse code when starting out

And I assume programming is not their career

[limpid halo]

hey a functional game > a pretty coded game

at the end of the day

[sturdy compass]

this is so true

[manic rune]

undertale can relate

[red osprey]

(Ironically I also started out programming by making LÖVE games after seeing Move or Die used it, and yeah my code wasn't much better)

[sturdy compass]

if it works it works and you should never touch it again so you don't break it

[limpid halo]

I could not imagine using lua for a game myself though

[sturdy compass]

<--- is speaking from experience

[violet void]

like hard coding the number of boosters in the shop sigh

[red osprey]

I could with the intellisense afforded by the VSCode extensions. Once you have touched autocompletion from more strongly typed languages you can't really go back

[sturdy compass]

For all we know, a ton of this stuff gets polished with the gameplay update

That might just be wishful thinking tho

[red osprey]

If so, that's nice because cleaning, and not nice because SMODS would most likely go down for a bit because of all the changes

[sturdy compass]

yep

lovely probably not ngl, but definitely smods

[red osprey]

Yeah lovely won't

[sturdy compass]

it'd be a hell of a week or so

[violet void]

indirectly, if syntax changes a lot of patches would need to be updated

I fear that moment

[red osprey]

Yeah, that's what I meant by SMODS

Lovely itself should still work (in fact I'm surprised it's so explicitly tied to Balatro, it should work with literally anything made in Lua)

[violet void]

🙏🏽

[runic pecan]

🤔

This happens when I played a hand.

[sturdy compass]

Show code?

[violet void]

wouldve been nice with the line numbers

[manic rune]

thats weird, did you declare card.ability.extra.vol_mod in configs and loc_vars?

[sturdy compass]

That’s what I was gonna ask

Those should be getting defined in a config array

[manic rune]

yeah, just declaring variables in loc_vars wont add them to card.ability.extra, i think

[runic pecan]

Ah crap, I forgot it should be in config.extra, not loc_vars

[sturdy compass]

Yep lol

[red osprey]

And loc_vars probably should return card.ability.extra.mod and card.ability.extra.vol_mod

[sturdy compass]

Assuming they’re used in the description

[manic rune]

yup

but im pretty sure they just got config mixed up with loc_vars

oh also

whats the joker in cryptid with a spinning ball?

i forgot its name

[sturdy compass]

Jimball

[limpid halo]

Kimball

[manic rune]

Limball

[sturdy compass]

[manic rune]

thanks guys

also ngl beeps, your name wouldve been really similar to me if i removed the Fever part lol

[limpid halo]

Thank you jimball for teaching me music how

True

[sturdy compass]

Jumball taught me joker animation lol

[manic rune]

im gonna see what i can learn from jimball and try to code an api for animated sprites

[limpid halo]

I should look into animated or at least sprite replacement for my timeout joker

[runic pecan]

Same Error

[manic rune]

huh

oh wait

[runic pecan]

Before anyone ask, I did hit Ctrl+S

[manic rune]

try to make a new run

damn

hm

oh its not R

[runic pecan]

Maybe that's it

[sturdy compass]

Probably

[manic rune]

did you make a new run before testing again?

[red osprey]

Yep, the card doesn't have the ability configured correctly

A new run is not necessary, just a new copy of the joker

[runic pecan]

No I didn't, which must have been the issue.

[manic rune]

since im pretty sure existing jokers dont add new variables in their .extra.ability when you change them in code

[sturdy compass]

They do not

[red osprey]

Config is copied into ability upon creation

[wintry solar]

Worth noting that using xmult = … does this check automatically iirc

[limpid halo]

Making a custom challenge for testing has been the best thing I’ve ever done

[sturdy compass]

Making custom challenges in general is just fun

[red osprey]

Right, they weren't using SMODS functionality

[sturdy compass]

I just put out 2 more for my mod today

[limpid halo]

This is true

[red osprey]

I recommend installing DebugPlus

[limpid halo]

I have it but testing stuff with multiple jokers is annoying

[red osprey]

Allows you to spawn jokers and consumables among a lot of other cool stuff

Fair

There's also TooManyJokers

[violet void]

I wish you could pin jokers with tmj

[wintry solar]

What would that be for?

[manic rune]

ah, so this is how they animate their sprites

[sturdy compass]

Indeed

[limpid halo]

Ahhh just in update that’s not too bad

[violet void]

so that they would be the first ones to show up when you click T, useful when you keep restarting

[sturdy compass]

Yeah it’s not (luckily)

[wintry solar]

You don’t use save states?

[manic rune]

theres save states?

https://tenor.com/view/cat-wait-cat-looking-gif-9703586837421179457

[wintry solar]

Someone needs to figure out how to get the animatedsprites built in to work on things other than blinds

[limpid halo]

In debugplus ye

[gray apex]

UI is my passion

[sturdy compass]

Beeps you keep saying the exact same stuff I’m tryna say but mobile keyboard makes me SLOW

[violet void]

there are situations where save states cant be used

just a small thing

[manic rune]

wow that description is pretty long

[limpid halo]

I’m on mobile too so, skill issue

[manic rune]

but i am in no position whatsoever to comment on that 😭

[sturdy compass]

[wintry solar]

Only when you change the config but then you can just respawn the joker easily and resave the state

[sturdy compass]

[gray apex]

It's just a really good description smh

[red osprey]

So quitting gives you almost a full salary? Sign me up

[atomic edge]

what language are balatro shaders made in?

[red osprey]

F# iirc

[violet void]

Navigating collection each time is pain

[sturdy compass]

Making someone play Papers Please through a fkn joker is absolutely diabolical

[manic rune]

i mean, only 2 regulations are not that bad

[limpid halo]

Ok I’m adding a joker to my todo list that gives you mult or smth but if you deselect a card it’ll cost you $1 or smth

[manic rune]

you should make it so new regulations are added for each ante passed, alongside more rewards and penalty

❤️

[sturdy compass]

It’s not but the way it’s worded makes is seem like it rotates frequently

[wintry solar]

You just Tmj and type the joker in?

[limpid halo]

Can’t wait to have to play papers please, cookie clicker, candy crush and solitaire during my hands for optimal scoring

[sturdy compass]

https://tenor.com/view/sweaty-speedruner-gif-20263880

[manic rune]

again, 2 regulations are not so bad when you can just dart your eyes over both of those zones, and you can completely ignore other fields

paper please is worse because theres deadass a handbook with 10+ regulations to take note of

[gray apex]

The regulations change after each boss blind, but if I try and add more, 10 years will be taken off my life

[violet void]

yeah, what I mean is that it would be a convenient addition altho I can do without it

[manic rune]

nah but hear me out

a joker which has BALATRO installed

beat balatro in there for xmult

balatro squared

[sturdy compass]

Don’t you dare make a fractal 😭

[gray apex]

But with one button controls, somehow

[manic rune]

arrow keys to navigate between uis, Z to interact

❤️

[limpid halo]

The alternate: a run with your current seed +1 that sends half its score over to your current run and self destructs if it dies

Toy Freddy from UCN 😭

[sturdy compass]

So this is what happens at 5 AM in dev chat huh

[limpid halo]

Oh you could make a security guard joker huh fuck

[gray apex]

Security guard joker, but you need to move it to the left and right ends of the Joker area to close the doors

[manic rune]

nah but imagine playing fnaf in balatro 😭

[limpid halo]

That’s how you move the screen left and right to see the doors

[sturdy compass]

What if no jokers to allow that movement?

[limpid halo]

No 6am for you

[sturdy compass]

L

[gray apex]

It adds a desk fan Joker that does nothing except allow repositioning

[sturdy compass]

Lmao perfect

[sturdy compass]

NO PLEASE I’M SO CLOSE

[limpid halo]

[manic rune]

im calling forth power outage on your ass

[sturdy compass]

Lowkey please I need sleep

[manic rune]

2 days ago i stayed up late until 5 am when i had school at 6 lol

[limpid halo]

then sleep

[manic rune]

play balatro instead of sleeping

let the jimbo consume you

🗣️

[sturdy compass]

If only it were that simple

Oh god the angel and devil on my shoulders rn

[manic rune]

shrimple

https://tenor.com/view/orange-cat-bite-orange-cat-orange-cat-attack-gif-10142361798712867466

[sturdy compass]

$6 shimp special

[limpid halo]

it's as shrimple as that

[violet void]

that sounds unhealthy

[sturdy compass]

I’m a college student this is normal I swear

it’s not normal

[manic rune]

it is not normal

but i have the exact same routine even as a high school student lol

[limpid halo]

this is the time my alarm goes off when i have to get up to raid in d2 / ffxiv ☠️

[sturdy compass]

[manic rune]

whats d2

[limpid halo]

destiny 2

[sturdy compass]

Destiny

[manic rune]

i see

[limpid halo]

or a coin, i suppose

[violet void]

what is it thats keeping you up lol

[sturdy compass]

My horrendous sleep schedule over the weekend (and also the fact I got up at 4 cuz there were unsolved bug reports that were tormenting my brain)

[manic rune]

quick question

does "dt" here mean deltatime or smt?

[sturdy compass]

Precisely

[manic rune]

mhm, thanks

[limpid halo]

better commit messages than i ever write

[manic rune]

istg among the normal gifs i have an absolutely diabolical one which i accidentally sent before 😭

[sturdy compass]

Fr

[violet void]

it may sound cheesy but your health is more important than the mod, close your eyes and sleep 😴

[plush cove]

sometimes

[manic rune]

wish theres a way to reorder my favorite gifs bruv

(im not refavoriting everything)

actually, i shouldve spoilered that

[limpid halo]

i wish favorite gifs were not a underbaked afterthoughts

[manic rune]

the gifs u send r the literal manifestation of your thoughts

[dire palm]

Any idea in which context I should put my code so that the rank change is taken into account in the scoring?

[manic rune]

✍️ 🔥

[sturdy compass]

Bruv I know that and I’ve definitely been trying 😭

[manic rune]

watch a cryptid gameplay vid

[sturdy compass]

I already watched Roffle’s no legendary naneinf 😭

[manic rune]

damn

[violet void]

study for college

-# (youre bound to get bored)

[sturdy compass]

It’s the events that’s messing with it since those technically fire off after scoring

[plush cove]

off topic but never before have I seen someone play Balatro PC with a controller

[manic rune]

accidentally peeled off those black stuff which form on top of your wounds

💀

damn its bleeding

[limpid halo]

the crust?

why

[manic rune]

lowkey itchy

so i scratched around the zone

[sturdy compass]

“I broke it more!” LMAO felt

[plush cove]

Bruise Crust
+1 Mult (increases every round), -20 Mult if you peel it off

[manic rune]

😭 thats wild

[plush cove]

new Mistigris joker dropped

[limpid halo]

but what if it was a seal instead

[manic rune]

i think they should destroy themselves after a certain number of round though

[sturdy compass]

Calling a scab “bruise crust” is foul

[limpid halo]

seal has a 1 in 4 chance to fall off

[manic rune]

since those crusts r gone after a while I THINK

[violet void]

from experience, you should change the rank first before the event, and then you change the visuals when the cards are flipped

[manic rune]

because i never left them intact for that long 😭

[plush cove]

would you prefer I say "crusty musty bruisy woozy"

[manic rune]

krispy crust

[sturdy compass]

Blegh

[tall heron]

Could someone please tell me where I can find .lua files on Steam Mac version? Cuz I don't see it inside Balatro.exe, even through search

[plush cove]

i am so sorry

[sturdy compass]

No you’re not
Liar

[manic rune]

(he was, indeed, not sorry)

[plush cove]

(hands you this)

[limpid halo]

i kinda wanna take a try at a fnaf joker now ffs

[sturdy compass]

Why is there an eternal sticker on the card sprite 😭

[manic rune]

do it

[manic rune]

forever noob 🗣️

[plush cove]

its Sob from Cryptid

i photoshopped the eternal sticker on

it gives you obelisks <3

[sturdy compass]

Ah

[manic rune]

nah but slap Foil on top of that

for maximum noobiness

[random sleet]

this chat isnt tech support rn oops

[manic rune]

GRAVEYARD???

YUGIOH REFERENCE????

[limpid halo]

+1 mult for every blind skipped

[random sleet]

me when i steal peoples abandoned projects like a vulture

[plush cove]

no its from Cryptid

its actual effect is that:

• when you buy it, you get a negative eternal obelisk
• when you make any move while having an open joker slot, it makes another obelisk

[manic rune]

third time im asking this, but can you change the text in loc_txt of a joker?

through code

[violet void]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1338302514616995892

this one also has it

[limpid halo]

oh my gods

that's scary

[plush cove]

i am a firm believer in the "localization/en-us.lua" philosophy rather than the "loc_txt" philosophy

because of ✨ flexibility ✨

[random sleet]

you have to do something like this

[manic rune]

this is my my localization file 😭

[limpid halo]

i will succumb to the will of localization when i wanna release my mod but for now we simply look the other way

[violet void]

Same

[sturdy compass]

This looks like the rambling of an insane person

[violet void]

altho I have 0 intention to add more localizations

[random sleet]

it's rude to talk about someone who's listening

[plush cove]

you never know

I strongly doubt Mistigris or any other mod I ever make will get popular enough to warrant localization, but it's always nice to keep the door open

[limpid halo]

also doesn't it let other people localize for you if they really want

[violet void]

I suppose so

[manic rune]

do the chinese even play balatro

[sturdy compass]

I’d love for Maximus to get localization but I’m not a polyglot 😭

[limpid halo]

just only add the languages you know and someone speaking a different language with enough skill points invested will send a random PR

[violet void]

I dont even know the balatro terms in my language so english only it is

[sturdy compass]

English

[limpid halo]

congrats you have served 99.9% of modded balatro players

[plush cove]

that 1 french player:

[sturdy compass]

I mean true but accessibility do be important

[limpid halo]

like i dont think even any installation guide for lovely and smod is available in non-english?

[violet void]

skill points
grim doesnt have that one, dang

[manic rune]

can i ask what this does?

[limpid halo]

i wanted to say autism but that felt rude

[random sleet]

nothing

[sturdy compass]

Huh. I think you’re right about that. Never thought about that

[manic rune]

huh, thought it was for hooking or something

[random sleet]

idk maybe

[violet void]

I dont get the correlation

[plush cove]

y'all want bananas?

[limpid halo]

the bananerrrrrr

[sturdy compass]

You should make this work with Showman

[manic rune]

make it work with showman please

[sturdy compass]

LMAO

[random sleet]

make showman work please

[manic rune]

i had the same thought 😭

[random sleet]

hes slacking off

[manic rune]

fr

[plush cove]

way ahead of you

[limpid halo]

wait what happens if you have two of them or brainstorm or smth

does it spawn 2 bananas

[manic rune]

epic

[plush cove]

it's not blueprint compatible

[manic rune]

you can never have too many bananas

[limpid halo]

[manic rune]

🐒

oh nevermind

i think i know how hooks work now

[sturdy compass]

It’s a weird concept to get a grasp on but it makes sense once you do

[violet void]

it took me a while to get it

[sturdy compass]

Same

[manic rune]

so basically, "igo" is the function im hooking to, and im supposed to run it again in the function below?

[limpid halo]

once you get it you're hooked though

[violet void]

I understood lovely patches faster than hooks

[manic rune]

then i can add the stuff i want below

[left sonnet]

Hey folks, I'm getting an error with Cryptid, specifically the Calculate Jokers function. My game's crashing, saying that callback is a nil value, which it is being set to. What is the reason for it being set as nil? Thanks. I'd send the function code but it's too long for Discord, it's in calculate.lua

[limpid halo]

wait hooks are just overriding functions? oh ezzzzz

[manic rune]

you should ctrl + c that crash log and send it over here

[sturdy compass]

Think about it like this. A hook is essentially a non-destructive redefinition of an existing function

[violet void]

not overriding, adding to it (to the end or to the start)

[plush cove]

well it can be destructive if you forget to reference the original function

[limpid halo]

well you're overriding it and then calling the old one inside your new one

[sturdy compass]

That’s true but that’s a pretty shitty hook in that case lmao

[royal ridge]

smh my head THIS is how you localise

[manic rune]

enh

eh

[limpid halo]

"The joke's on you"

[sturdy compass]

[manic rune]

so basically jokerless challenge, damn

[royal ridge]

it's enh because i don't think there's a single person alive who can spell enhenchancmant

[manic rune]

ngl lcorp mod was the sole reason i even decided to get into this whole modding stuff

such a cool mod, gotta credit it out of nowhere 🗣️

[frosty dock]

[plush cove]

i actually did make a useful SMODS.Joker hook that's used to

1. impart the Cryptid placeholder art on jokers instead of Jimbo
   and
2. allow Jokers to be disabled if certain mods are missing

[manic rune]

you mean enhenehancement?

[violet void]

or if you forget the (self)

-# my game stopped saving as a result once

[sturdy compass]

I credit my designer/artist for making a doc of ideas, causing me to think “hey I can do that!”

[frosty dock]

either way you'd hook a function of SMODS.Joker and not the class itself

because it damn well isn't a function, it's just callable

[manic rune]

back when i was a child i legit didnt know how to spell "resource pack", so i went on youtube and quite literally went haybale on my keyboard

[plush cove]

funny you mention that

[manic rune]

"resurcece pack"

[left sonnet]

Had to save this one as a file manually, usually Discord does it automatically, weird

[manic rune]

correct me if im wrong but isnt cryptid an old-calc mod?

[sturdy compass]

Yes

[frosty dock]

they're using refactor

[manic rune]

oh i see

[plush cove]

i'll just update it so that instead of SMODS.Joker it uses SMODS.Joker.register

code will still remain the same, and I think I can also benefit from the definition files in that one pull request this way

[frosty dock]

interesting how that doesn't just fall apart completely

[plush cove]

its probably because I made sure that whenever I use SMODS.Joker in other contexts, I always had the () so it was used as a function rather than to create a class

if I had just done
SMODS.Joker { (stuff) }
then it might have fallen apart

[random sleet]

i think what aure's thinking of would be much more obvious and catastrophic

[frosty dock]

nah that's syntactic sugar for the same thing

somewhat miraculously, steamodded just never has to refer to SMODS.Joker like a table directly

[violet void]

real

[limpid halo]

good job everyone

[frosty dock]

like if you were to do the same for enhancements, it would break here

[runic pecan]

How do I play a sound at the same timing of the returned message?

[wintry solar]

sound = 'key' in your return

[violet void]

with the prefix I think

[runic pecan]

I thought that wasn't a thing. Huge thanks!

[wintry solar]

aure do you have any insight on #467?

[violet void]

it was added with new-calc

[runic pecan]

Can I set the pitch and volumn too?

[wintry solar]

yeah

pitch = X, volume = X

[plush cove]

@frosty dock okay so I ended up having to go back to SMODS.Joker because using SMODS.Joker.register means that Jimbo appears instead of the placeholder atlases I'm using

so unless there's another method I have to go back to the old hacky ways

[dire palm]

And how do I separate the rank change and the visual change exactly?

[frosty dock]

you might just have to add your mod prefix to the atlas

because you're not modifying the arguments to SMODS.Joker anymore, that doesn't happen automatically

[plush cove]

ok yeah that fixed it, ty

[violet void]

I made it like this for my own Joker

play_sound('cs_flip')

for i = 1, #toflip do
    local hooked_card = toflip[i]
    hooked_card.base.id = target_rank
    hooked_card.base.nominal = target_rank

    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
        local suit_prefix = string.sub(hooked_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
        hooked_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..target_rank])
    return true end }))
end

delay(0.8)
cs_utils.unflip_cards(toflip, 'before', 0.1)```

[manic rune]

whats G.P_CENTERS?

[limpid halo]

Pokemon Centres
(i think the card type like lucky?)

[sturdy compass]

It’s basically a master table of all card definitions

[manic rune]

thats a nice joke but i dont think thats the case lol

[manic rune]

ah i see

so basically pokedex

[limpid halo]

oops mb

aye!

[sturdy compass]

Lmfao

[manic rune]

im seeing if i can use that to make a universal API for animated sprites rn

[plush cove]

I'd like to use that to show the effects of Gros Michel and Cavendish on Banana Factory, but I haven't quite figured out how that works with the whole tooltip system

[manic rune]

oh, isnt that info_queue?

[random sleet]

info_queue[#info_queue+1] = G.P_CENTERS['j_gros_michel']

[scarlet spire]

putting this on all of my jokers

[past forge]

Anyone knows why both of this patches are not taking effect, like the effect changes but everytime, even if i dont have the joker

[violet void]

would that work for custom stuff too

[past forge]

i think i should use next() but not sure how to do it

[random sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/try-it-and-see-give-it-a-try-try-try-and-see-try-it-yourself-gif-24095805

[plush cove]

ok yup that did it, ty!

[manic rune]

it would

[random sleet]

oh no ive been identified

[red osprey]

(I prefer to use the link for that, bonus music: https://tryitands.ee)

[limpid halo]

ahh thats awesome

[atomic edge]

are there any tutorials on how to make a balatro shader?

[scarlet spire]

is something up with my screen or is that mult orange

[manic rune]

for instance, if its a modded joker, you would use j_(mod's prefix)_(joker's key)

[manic rune]

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

[past forge]

ive already try, and i dont know how to use it

[manic rune]

thetes some tutorial down there

[past forge]

thats why im asking 😭

[wintry solar]

don't look at that readme 🤣

[plush cove]

if you dont want credit lmk, i just think it's nice to acknowledge people who've helped even if it's small

[wintry solar]

it's like 8 months old

[limpid halo]

i love "Notes in case you can't read"

[plush cove]

custom stuff does work! (Up To 11 is a custom Joker)

[manic rune]

i mean, yeah, but the resources below r still pretty useful lol

[manic rune]

shouldnt the background be red?

[wintry solar]

that's true

[plush cove]

custom colour palette

[manic rune]

i see

[violet void]

I see, I was doing it like this until now

[manic rune]

a bit off but i dont mind

[runic pecan]

Beautiful

[manic rune]

basing on just the first rendered frame, i already know this is gonna be melody to the ears

[wintry solar]

that 10s being two colours is cursed

[limpid halo]

now play megalovania

[manic rune]

oh wait actually

that sprite kinda reminds me of holocure

i think theres an attachment which does exactly just that, though my memory might serve me wrong on this one

[runic pecan]

I... did snagged it from holocure wiki

[manic rune]

😭 makes sense

[runic pecan]

In fact this joker is completely inspired by the "Trumpet Stamp" in that game.

[manic rune]

mhm, always used that to enhance my other stamps

honestly your mod really reminded me of holocure as a whole lol

[plush cove]

i just realized

I have a Joker that guarantees all probabilities for the rest of the round

what if I made a Joker that ensures no probabilities happen for the rest of the round

[manic rune]

glass card deck winning

[runic pecan]

NO [TheOffice_Michael_NO.mp4]

[manic rune]

downside: wheel of fucking misfortune

[plush cove]

to be fair you weren't getting the wheel anyway

[manic rune]

true

[violet void]

it doesnt, going back to how it was before

[plush cove]

glass card cavendish

[manic rune]

oof

[scarlet spire]

what if you had both

[manic rune]

imagine having to break gros michel with that joker 😭

[plush cove]

If I decide there is enough practical use cases for a Joker that makes nothing happen, I will add it alongside Weighted Dice

[limpid halo]

i mean glass cards would go hard with it but

"Nothing ever happens"

[past forge]

how do i use the next() instead of SMODS.find_card("j_toyr_four_leaf_clover") ?

[plush cove]

next(SMODS.find_card("j_toyr_four_leaf_clover"))

[past forge]

thanks

[dire palm]

Where do I get the cs_utils?

[manic rune]

should i be concerned about this?

[plain wyvern]

nah

[frosty dock]

nah

[random sleet]

nah

[jovial harness]

Is there a way to show a custom description with the info queue? Not referencing another card

[wintry solar]

hooking update 🫣

[random sleet]

yes :)

[manic rune]

TECHNICALLY, yes

[frosty dock]

wdym technically

you just make a loc entry to Other type descriptions and reference it in info_queue with set='Other' and the key you used

[violet void]

thats my utility file for flipping the cards, you should use your own flipping logic

[dire palm]

Okay.

[wintry solar]

shop adjustments here we go!

[random sleet]

this a smods feature?

based if so

[wintry solar]

mhmm

[random sleet]

real if based

[limpid halo]

hell yeah

[wintry solar]

not to adapt the voucher stuff to be expandable

then I'll do reroll stuff

[random sleet]

pack card quantity

use and select both being available on the same card

[wintry solar]

pack card quantity is a really easy patch

[random sleet]

yeah just like a unified way would be dope

[wintry solar]

perhaps, yeah

[random sleet]

but idk maybe something like that would want to be more featureful than just a number

runs into the probabilities' issues and that's a constant headache

[manic rune]

stuff["currentdt"] SHOULD increase every frame, right?

[past forge]

what part of the code did you patch to open a shop when skipping a blind?

[manic rune]

but its not, somehow

im confused

[wintry solar]

you reset it to 0 every frame

[manic rune]

.

oh im fucking dumb

yeah you are right

😭

[jovial harness]

Thank you! Looks like I'll need to actually stop putting off making a localization file then

[manic rune]

oh, i actually made an entirely new joker to achieve the same result since i couldnt think of that

💀

[random sleet]

Can you beat Balatro if time is frozen?!!!

[manic rune]

ok so it works now

https://gyazo.com/ec1129aca2608d31e90fe7738133fcbb

(i dont have any spritesheet ready for this)

[limpid halo]

jezus

[wintry solar]

does it use AnimatedSprite?

[jovial harness]

If it's stupid but works it isn't stupid (but there's probably a better way)

[manic rune]

i basically did the same stuff as what jimball in cryptid did, except it now checks for a table with different variables to account for multiple objects, which, i think, go beyond jokers

i have no clue how laggy it will be if a lot of objects r running this ngl

[plush cove]

will these make this code less of a mess?

[wintry solar]

what is this code doing

[plush cove]

creating a Gros Michel or Cavendish in the shop

[wintry solar]

probably not

[plush cove]

to replace one of the items

[plush cove]

damn

[manic rune]

theres also different stuff to choose from (the image below)

[wintry solar]

can it use a frames setting instead of using the entire sheet?

[manic rune]

theres "endX" and "endY" which should basically do that, i think

[crisp coral]

oh i forgot to mention #1249486500811378718 to you

[manic rune]

damn.

[jovial harness]

hell yeah, actually got myself a workin custom info box too

Time to actually write up some Actual text now and this joker will be 100% complete

[manic rune]

well off to the garbage bin we go, at least i know a bit more about hooking from this

[wintry solar]

this looks much better than how I understand aura to work

[crisp coral]

well aura is also only designed for vanilla jonklers

[wintry solar]

I'd still prefer it to use AnimatedSprite though

[manic rune]

whats AnimatedSprite tho

[wintry solar]

a vanilla class

[manic rune]

oof, i see

[wintry solar]

its how blinds are animated

[manic rune]

ohh, i will look into that later then

[crisp coral]

i feel like itd screw up some sprite drawing stuff

[manic rune]

i should probably add "startX" and "endY" as optional variables at the end, so if its a huge spritesheet then you can tell the code where to begin

[random sleet]

the problem is AnimatedSprite is like slightly different from Sprite in about a hundred ways that makes it not a drop-in replacement

source: i tried this before too

[wintry solar]

yeah I've never been bothered to look into it properly

[violet void]

looks good

[jovial harness]

I can do anything!

[random sleet]

yeah uhhhh im like 90% sure that old code straight up doesnt work now

[limpid halo]

does a flip

[random sleet]

and wasn't that good before either ngl

[past forge]

is there a way to increase the wave effect on the name of a joker?

[random sleet]

yes

[past forge]

how?

[random sleet]

idk

[past forge]

https://tenor.com/view/chill-guy-my-new-character-gif-2777893510283028272

[neat plover]

does anyone know if it's possible to access the hud graphics or not?

[past forge]

i know its possible, since a lot of people use the ui methods

but ive never used it

[neat plover]

ui methods?

[past forge]

there is a whole ui_definitions.lua in the source code

i guess you could start there

[neat plover]

thanks

[neat plover]

oh

this means that they are drawn in game instead of being textures

[past forge]

mostly

the textures are in the assets folder

[neat plover]

i swear i can't find it

[past forge]

resources>textures

[neat plover]

i mean the file with the textures not the folder

[wintry solar]

what sort of texures are you looking for?

[neat plover]

the hud like the red and blue rectangles and the pause button

[past forge]

those are definitely drawn by code

[manic rune]

^ im pretty sure this is the case

[wintry solar]

yup

[neat plover]

man...

[wintry solar]

they're just shapes on the canvas

[unkempt thicket]

What's the variable for total payout at the end of a blind?

[neat plover]

wanted to do some texture swap but that's going to wait

[manic rune]

if you want to change those buttons appearance, then i think you might need a patch

[wintry solar]

you can absolutely chagne them to sprites

[neat plover]

that's okay i think i'll wait and try to get familiar with coding the lua before i try that

[maiden phoenix]

It's prob in G.FUNCS.cash_out

or function end_round() 🤔

[manic rune]

how do i tell animatedSprite where to exactly find animatedSprite.lua?

[frosty dock]

you don't, it's already loaded on startup

nvm

you mean your own, not the engine file

use SMODS.load_file instead of require

require doesn't have the context of your mod

[manic rune]

i see, thanks

[runic pecan]

What should I replace cfg?

[manic rune]

uhh nope, it didn't do what i need, since animatedSprite.lua is supposed to be a module file, thats why i used require() at first

[frosty dock]

you should still be able to use load_file, else set up a lovely module

[frosty dock]

loc_vars should be a function, not a table

but card.ability

[runic pecan]

This is the easiest way I could think of to tamper with 5 and 15 since those are hardcoded.

(Two screenshots from lovely/dump/card.lua)
I'll patch these up as well.

[random sleet]

hee hee hoo hoo

[runic pecan]

How did you make a second line under the name of the joker

[neat plover]

from the game

[random sleet]

from the game

[neat plover]

??

thats crazy

[neat plover]

even in another run?

[random sleet]

no lol

its like old magic the gathering syntax

"remove <card> from the game"

[neat plover]

oh ok

[random sleet]

here it's remove 2 random playing cards in your graveyard from the game

the graveyard necessitates the distinction of destruction and removal

[manic rune]

#1341041293119459449

im done with the code, i think

[random sleet]

every time someone asks im going to send an increasingly shitty crop of this function

[manic rune]

how did you add that additional line below the joker's name

[manic rune]

this should allow sprites of basically anything to be animated, hopefully

[neat plover]

thats cool

[limpid halo]

function so good had to gatekeep

[manic rune]

fr

[random sleet]

its???? literally on github

[wintry solar]

woah autumn how did you get that subtitle???

[manic rune]

yeah but how did you add that subtitle

[random sleet]

eremel can you please make ortalab check SMODS.has_no_suit(card) and SMODS.has_no_rank(card) more for its blinds please

[wintry solar]

I have done on the v1 private branch

[random sleet]

please i am tired of my stone and ore cards being actually useless

[manic rune]

stone cards should get more support jokers ngl

its actually so useless its sad

[limpid halo]

grinder to grind up stonre cards

[wintry solar]

look I did it this morning 🥳

[manic rune]

anyways, @wintry solar can you check the code for #1341041293119459449?

[violet void]

where do you put the text in the loc file?

[manic rune]

pickaxe joker

[limpid halo]

"There's gold in them cards"

• prospector, encryption

[hushed field]

it's honestly baffling how you apparently are working on things just when I'm looking into them, Eremel

[manic rune]

https://tenor.com/view/orange-cat-bite-orange-cat-orange-cat-attack-gif-10142361798712867466

i require more cat gifs

im running out of them...

[random sleet]

subtitle = "..." in the same level as name and text

[limpid halo]

https://tenor.com/view/vampire-cat-cat-eating-box-cat-box-cat-fangs-gif-23385382

i like this one

[manic rune]

very nice

[wintry solar]

hmmm?

[unkempt thicket]

What's the context of payout? after the payout calculations.

[hushed field]

when I needed the drawn cards on drawn_hand you'd just pushed that, then when I was looking into making some patches for splash, you showed you were working on better splash contexts, and just when I'm looking into no_rank interactions, you're posting about that, haha

[wintry solar]

oh the no_rank stuff is for ortalab blinds

[manic rune]

hes quite a literal 🧙‍♂️ after all

[wintry solar]

I'm not fond of modifying the center object rather than each occurance of the object but it looks okay to me

[random sleet]

animations are probably the one case where you could get away with it

changing the center object ensures all instances would be synchronized

[maiden phoenix]

There's none iirc

[wintry solar]

that's why I don't like it 🤣

[limpid halo]

How hard would it be to construct a jokers sprite from multiple sprites?
(Like have a var change/add a small thing without a completely different atlas entry)
Basically like a legendary joker without the animation

[unkempt thicket]

It's done in cryptid

[runic pecan]

It uses calc_dollar_bonus(self) instead of calculate(self,card,context)

[limpid halo]

Any specific card that does it?

[unkempt thicket]

I believe there's lovely patches for them, and exotic cards.

[manic rune]

mm i suppose there r cases when that is more desired, though currently i dont know how to get the pos of only one card

[limpid halo]

im lookin at exotic.lua rn and it seems thats limited to 3 layers too, hm.

[manic rune]

oh so its like, assembling parts to make one joker?

[unkempt thicket]

you can use similer code to make more, i've done it with this.

[manic rune]

is that

[unkempt thicket]

it uses about 4 layers. (it doesn't use the base layer or soul)

[limpid halo]

aight cool

fnaf joker will be real

[manic rune]

🔥

arh arh arh arh

[wintry solar]

is this minor reordering acceptable 🤔

[royal ridge]

wait why does that happen exactly?

[wintry solar]

lua table jank

[manic rune]

ok i kinda wanted to replicate the animated jevil joker i saw earlier, but the spritesheet i got is horrendous so ig not

[royal ridge]

surely they would be in an indexed table

but idk

[manic rune]

https://tenor.com/view/vampire-cat-cat-eating-box-cat-box-cat-fangs-gif-23385382

[minor furnace]

is there a resource out there somewhere for how to write lovely patches to modify the base game code?

[manic rune]

https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector?tab=readme-ov-file#patches

[limpid halo]

i just look at the steammodded patches for examples

[minor furnace]

thanks!

[violet void]

is it a keybind that lets you access the shop instantly?

[wintry solar]

no it's the deck I'm using

[minor furnace]

oh ok lovely patches actually seem super straightforward

[manic rune]

mhm

its just finding a specific part of a file, then you can choose to add your code inside it before/after/at that part

[maiden phoenix]

No way...

[lavish lake]

Guys what should the "J" joker in my mod do?

[manic rune]

buff Js

[glad osprey]

hone looks like buddy Holly imo

[foggy carbon]

does anyone know the mod that will stack copies of the same card in the deck view?

[red flower]

cartomancer

[neat plover]

i needed that thanks

[minor furnace]

I'm just gonna bump this because I'm still not entirely sure where the infinite call is coming from, but commenting out the info_queue[#info_queue+1] = fool_c fixes it , at the cost of not showing the previously used card

In theory, if the previously used card is either the Fool or Reverse Fool it shouldn't be adding anything to the queue

[lavish lake]

Make a non-joke idea

[manic rune]

i mean, i have no clue what the joker is supposed to look like and all that, so i cant really suggest anything

oh, how about making "J" gives more mult depending on how many "J"s there are in every joker's name combined?

[limpid halo]

localization based buffs my beloved

[red flower]

idk why it's not doing what you want but a quick workaround might be checking for not center.fake_card

[gusty sequoia]

How would I make my joker take away money?

[limpid halo]

add negative money

[gusty sequoia]

Interesting

Idk what I expected

[minor furnace]

I found an issue in my if statement, the .name for my reverse fool card wasn't The Fool?, it was c_reverse_c_reverse_fool

[red flower]

yeah, I would probably check for keys instead to avoid those problems

[jovial harness]

Is there a way to give a custom back sprite to a joker?

[red flower]

this is how i do it

[gusty sequoia]

So how do I add money...?

[red osprey]

ease_dollars

[lavish lake]

Can someone give actual good ideas for the joker in my mod "J"?

[gusty sequoia]

Thanks

[limpid halo]

Something related to amount of Jacks in deck/hand?

[lavish lake]

Each scored jack gives +5 mult maybe?

[red osprey]

Would need more, because currently that's worse Smiley Face

[limpid halo]

Worse smiley face?

[lavish lake]

Maybe +10 mult

for every jack

[red osprey]

Could be scaling mult

"This Joker gains +5 Mult each time you score a Jack"

[neat plover]

not 5

[red osprey]

Most likely, just throwing ideas

[unkempt thicket]

x1.25 chips per jack in hand?

[limpid halo]

Jack of all trades, $3 for each jack held in hand on round end?

[lavish lake]

I don't know how to make XChips

[neat plover]

this joker gains +6 mult for every unscored jack

[red osprey]

If you are using SMODS, you can now return Xchips (or x_chips)

It was recently added

[limpid halo]

i misread, my bad

[lavish lake]

I like that

[limpid halo]

x_chips doesn't exist iirc

[red osprey]

It does since less than a week ago or so

[unkempt thicket]

it does, it was recently added to smods

[limpid halo]

Oh, Awesome

[stray wing]

How can I have a Joker copy the ability of any other jokers present from a specific list? So if I have a list of Jokers (Joker A, Joker B, Joker C), Joker X will copy the abilities of them like blueprint if they are present

[red osprey]

Look at how Blueprint/Brainstorm does it, and instead of checking for the Joker to the left/first Joker, check all Jokers and do it for each one taht falls within that list

[lavish lake]

Guys how do i check unscored cards again?

[red osprey]

If you don't know how to access existing source code, go into your Balatro Steam folder (Steam/steamapss/common/Balatro) and unzip Balatro.exe (you might need to copy it and rename it to Balatro.zip)

[red osprey]

SMODS recently added support for that too, lemme check

[neat plover]

how do i check if a scored card is a stone card

[limpid halo]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Calculate-Functions#main-scoring-loop
check the full_hand

[wintry solar]

Xchips isn't a valid key, they're xchips,x_chips or Xchip_mod

[red osprey]

You can enable it with SMODS.optional_features.cardareas.unscored
And then you can check it with context.area == 'unscored'

[red osprey]

Good to know, my bad

[stray wing]

this part is checking the relative positions of the cards right? So I'd replace this part with checking the joker ids

[wintry solar]

I believe it's to stop infinite loops

[red osprey]

Seems like it yeah

[neat plover]

is there a variable to do that

[red osprey]

It increment context.blueprint and stops when it exceeds the number of Jokers

@neat plover

[neat plover]

thanks very much

[red osprey]

card.config.center == G.P_CENTERS.m_stone

[lavish lake]

Yeah okay but do I insert anything before context.area?

What do I insert?

[red osprey]

Just like regular scoring

So main_scoring

[lavish lake]

Wait isn't it supposed to be context.cardarea == "unscored" and not context.area?

[red osprey]

Yes, I don't have the wiki open

And I'm not at my PC right now, so it's not exact

[solid surge]

hey again
how would i change the info of a locked joker (smth like a legendary which has the '?????' until unlocked instead of its ability info)

[tidal edge]

help im having a stroke

how to calculate this i've lost all my knowledge of this game like overnight id k what happen

[minor furnace]

Why is this line spawinging in a Temperance card instead of a Magician?
local card = create_card('Tarot_Planet', G.consumeables, nil, nil, nil, nil, c_magician, 'fool')

[wintry solar]

key needs to be a string

[minor furnace]

ah

sure enough

[gusty sequoia]

What's the thing I write in text for it to be money colour?

[minor furnace]

{C:money}$#2#{}

[gusty sequoia]

Thanks!

[stray wing]

thanks, I think I'm progressing in the right direction, but what would I do if there is more than one joker to copy? I think I understand what blueprint is doing here but do I need to somehow trigger the copying joker twice? Concatenate the effects of two copied jokers?

[cursive glade]

does SMODS.DeckSkin have a way to skin the standard background of playing cards as well as the pip's & faces?
I want to modify the standard faces in the vanilla Enhancers.png

[unkempt thicket]

How do I add text to the payout? just the text though.

[cursive glade]

return {
  message = "Your message here",
  extra = "Another subsequent message here",
}

[unkempt thicket]

I meant to this screen

[cursive glade]

ah, end_of_round screen. I'm not sure on that one

I'd like to know as well >.>

[runic pecan]

Would putting a for k,v in pairs(G.playing_cards)do in calculate without an if cause any problem?

[wintry solar]

what were the reroll things people wanted bundled in to smods?

[runic pecan]

Use calc_dollar_bonus(self) instead of calculate(self,card,context)
And then return the number of the interest you want player to earn at end of round.

[hushed field]

maybe make it so it always gives me the joker I need?

[neat plover]

how to test a joker in game after modding it in

?

[violet void]

spawn it with debugplus

[neat plover]

is this a mod?

[cursive glade]

I usually make a custom deck that spawn the joker at the beginning of the run. no need for extra plugins

[violet void]

smart, im gonna do that

[frosty dock]

that sounds like so much more effort than just using debug tools

[neat plover]

i have the mod but how do i use it

[frosty dock]

just hover the joker in the collection and press 3

(it tells you this if you hold tab in-game)

[hardy viper]

it takes like 3 seconds yea

[minor furnace]

How would I generate something like this, but for the specific tarot card that I want?
local fool_c = G.GAME.last_tarot_planet and G.P_CENTERS[G.GAME.last_tarot_planet] or nil

[spring lantern]

leaving some space for character art from the jokers in the mod

[cursive glade]

I didn't know about the Debug Tools when I started modding, so I made a standard template for a custom deck, and I just change the joker to spawn when I want to test it. 4 seconds of setup then no need for extra menus or anything in the future, unless you want to spawn more of that joker.

[sturdy compass]

Does anyone know if smods has a built-in bonus mult system yet? I remember there being chatter about it but no clue if any work was done on it

[red osprey]

Unsure, maybe you could look at how Baseball Card does multiple triggers based on other jokers

[wintry solar]

not yet

[minor furnace]

basically, how do I make my own reference to a tarot card object?

[stray wing]

thanks, I'll have a poke around

[neat plover]

i can't seem to make this work but i think it's because i'm dense

[stray wing]

In G.jokers.cards[i], how can I check what a given card is? I tried G.jokers.cards[i].key but that is not correct

[red osprey]

That is not the code I pointed you towards

[neat plover]

?

[frosty dock]

G.jokers.cards[i].config.center.key

[stray wing]

amazing thank you

[red osprey]

You need to check context.scoring_hand[i].config.center == G.P_CENTERS.m_stone

Not is_suit

[neat plover]

ok

thanks so much i modded my first joker

[sturdy compass]

Would anyone happen to know why my PokerHandPart is causing this crash on startup with the JokerDisplay mod?

Actually wait nvm I think I see the potential issue

[violet void]

its too bad ctrl + b doesnt auto select it

[cursive glade]

yeah 😄

[violet void]

actually I can just add smods.create_card in the start run function

[violet void]

this is the error I got when starting the game with maximus too

[sturdy compass]

Is there a G.STATE for being in a run?

[violet void]

G.STAGE == G.STAGES.RUN

[sturdy compass]

sick

[violet void]

oh but did you sleep

[sturdy compass]

I think the problem is I have a check for the hand part that checks for the highlight limit to be >= 6 so shortcut and four finger don't activate the hand type when they're not supposed to lol

[sturdy compass]

like 3 hours but yes

[violet void]

3 hours is better than 0 I guess

[sturdy compass]

For sure, I'd be miserable rn without it

[hushed field]

Ever since I have a Baron, I just hold a bunch of kings and sleep for like 2 hours, but it counts for like 8

[violet void]

wouldnt that function already have a run check

[sturdy compass]

Apparently not with JokerDisplay

So I'm accommodating for it

[violet void]

or you could check for G.jokers

[sturdy compass]

I got it working with the method I thought of so we ball

[neat plover]

meet the frickin carved joker

gives you 1.4xmult for 3 hands if you have a stone card in your hand

[obtuse silo]

bumping this ._.

[neat plover]

where is the lua to edit a joker's detail in the collection or shop?

[runic pecan]

How do I word Earn $1 per card less than 5 in played hand. better?
It'd be equivalent to Earn $5 each played hand but -$1 per played card.

[dim lynx]

I think second one is more clear

[minor furnace]

working in lua is only strengthening my preference for strongly typed languages

[sturdy compass]

I hear that lmao

[snow axle]

Progress post B)

[minor furnace]

so, I've tracked down that G.GAME.last_tarot_planet holds a card.config.center_key, and in the Card:init() of card.lua we have

        card = card or {},
        center = center
 }```

[neat plover]

is it mod specific or something

[minor furnace]

are you trying to edit an existing joker, or a custom one?

[neat plover]

a custom one rn

[minor furnace]

what does your SMODS.Joker currently look like for it?

[neat plover]

you mean the lua file in the jokers folder ?

here you go

[minor furnace]

ah ok you need a loc_txt field

something like this

    key = 'Rekoj',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Rekoj',
        text = {
            '{X:mult,C:white}#1#{} Mult'
        }
    },
    atlas = "Rekoj",
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
    config = {extra = {mult = -4}},
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        return {vars = {center.ability.extra.mult}}
    end,
    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.joker_main then
            return {
                card = card,
                mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult,
                message = "" .. card.ability.extra.mult,
                colour = G.C.Mult
            }
        end
    end
}```

[wicked spire]

What about:

Earn $5 when hand is played, payout decreases by $1 for each scoring card
(Roughly based off of Rocket’s description

[neat plover]

thanks!

wasn't really where you told me, but searching in the files i found the localization files

[minor furnace]

got it! The line I was looking for was new_card = G.P_CENTERS["c_" .. words[#words]]

[neat plover]

and sure enough, i found where to put the desc

[unkempt thicket]

How do you change the cost of a joker?

[minor furnace]

currently I've just been putting all of my custom cards in my main.lua

[spring lantern]

okay so like.... why

what did i do wrong

[red osprey]

What is your mod prefix, what is the joker's key?

Actually found it, it's Joker, not Jokers

[spring lantern]

LOL

[red osprey]

Also is it inside descriptions?

[spring lantern]

it-s not inside descriptions

\i think i-m dumb

[violet void]

thats a long prefix

[spring lantern]

wait no it is

[red osprey]

return {
    descriptions = {
        Joker = {
            j_reg_soldier_spades = {
                name = 'Soldier of Spades',
                text = {
                    'Each scored card with',
                    '{C:spades}Spade{} suit reduces the blind',
                    '{C:attention}2%{} of its starting value'
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Make sure it's Joker not Joker__s__

[spring lantern]

Okay it works thx

[grim remnant]

how can i make a joker run a calculation anytime a queen is scored? :o

[wicked spire]

FYI xMult values are typically represented with a capital X (e.g. “X2 Mult”)
{X:mult,C:white}X#3#{}

[spring lantern]

what da hell...

[grim remnant]

i'm maybe not the best authority to ask, but did you remember to specify it in loc_vars?

(unless it's always meant to be a high card, then you should probably just have it say "High Card" in the text itself)

[spring lantern]

i'm new to this whole localization stuff

[grim remnant]

it's a little annoying for sure; the main thing is that what you do to one (e.g. the actual variables), you do to the other (e.g. the loc_vars section). like this:

    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        return { vars = { center.ability.extra.scaler , center.ability.extra.roundsElapsed , center.ability.extra.Echips } }
    end,```

[spring lantern]

that much i understand but the problem is localizing the current poker hand

[hushed briar]

having the strangest issue where the first variable green_seal_draws is getting passed to the game object but the second variable ante_stones_scored just isnt getting passed?

Game.init_game_object = function(self)
    old_ret = old_game_init(self)

    old_ret.green_seal_draws = 0
    old_ret.atne_stones_scored = 0
    
    return old_ret
end```

[spring lantern]

i think so at least

[grim remnant]

what's your card's description code look like, perchance? :o

[spring lantern]

atne_stones_scored

[grim remnant]

okay, at least that checks out. i'm admittedly unsure of how to handle a variable with a string, but the issue at least doesn't seem to be, like, the description itself isn't calling the variables right. can you tell i have had that issue before ;P

[hushed briar]

oh my god 🤦 it took me a bit to figure out what you meant, thank you lol

[iron socket]

Hi, I'm looking to learn how to add new jokers, tarots, planets, etc. but I'm not sure where to start. I have the Steamodded wiki page, but not sure how to use anything there. I've done texture, malverk, and challenge mods before, just not adding completely new content.

I'd like to start out by creating a new tarot that decreases the rank of two cards (opposite of strength). Can anyone give me some pointers?

[grim remnant]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/API-Documentation
on the sidebar, SMODS.Consumable. that's the routine that handles adding consumables.

woah... cat jumpscare

[spring lantern]

i removed the localize func and suddenly table jumpscare

so the problem isn't the loc it's the variable being assigned wrong

[iron socket]

Right, I have that but I still have no idea how to use any of the information there. I tried looking for a mod that adds a tarot to copy and lean from it but I can't really find anything. That's what I did to learn everything else I have.

[grim remnant]

do you know how to set up a .lua and .json yet?

[spring lantern]

okay so i gotta get the key rather than the whole table

[fickle quail]

How would I check to see if a card is in the "new run" menu?

[marsh basalt]

I have been using this as a reference, if it can be any help
This is for jokers specifically but I imagine tarot cards just have different properties that you define that are documented in the page linked by camwoodstock
https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

[grim remnant]

oh ModdedVanilla.lua has come in clutch a lot for me fsdgljk

[iron socket]

If you're referring to setting up the whole top bit to work with Steamodded, yes. I've used .lua and .json for the malverk mods already

[grim remnant]

in regards to this: making a consumable is literally a very similar process to making a new joker, you just use SMODS.Consumable instead of SMODS.Joker ;P

[iron socket]

I'll take a look at that and come back if I have any questions, thanks!

[marsh basalt]

...also hello, does context.post_trigger on joker calcuations do anything?

It is listed in the calculation doc as "triggering when a joker triggers" but it is always nil from my testing

[hardy viper]

probably an optional feature

[frosty dock]

yeah it's an optional feature

(still need to get that into the docs)

[marsh basalt]

Ah, I assume I ask the SMODS API to enable it or something?

I can't find it in the docs ^^"

[grim remnant]

question! how do i make it so a joker activates whenever a queen is scored? docs are unclear how we're meant to make an effect proc every time a card of a given rank is scored. :o

[frosty dock]

SMODS.current_mod.optional_features = { post_trigger = true }

[marsh basalt]

Thank you ^^

[frosty dock]

you just add this line in your main file

I'll get to docs for that soon

[hardy viper]

context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and context.other_card:get_id() == 12

[grim remnant]

...i think i borked it ^^;

[marsh basalt]

You missed the "then" in the if check

[wintry solar]

Also just return xchips = …

[spring lantern]

this might need a nerf...

maybe just X0.5 per upgrade is fine

im on ante 6 for reference

[hardy viper]

for sure

[surreal yacht]

its a legendary

[hardy viper]

scaling 1x mult per round is far too much

[spring lantern]

still tho im thinking about the scaling of stuff like yorick or canio

they're way slower unless you have a very specific setup for them

this one's more flexible and works with almost any setup so i think it should scale less for each upgrade

[hardy viper]

actually nvm

it scales like slightly faster than yorick

[surreal yacht]

id argue with canio on scaling

[spring lantern]

i mean if you can get a consistent stream of hangmans then sure

[surreal yacht]

but yorick sure i guess if you dont get merry andy and ur on blue stake+

[spring lantern]

i guess it ain't that bad

[hardy viper]

not sure how yorick would be less flexible

it's just discarding

[spring lantern]

i meant like it's slower unless you have a billion discards

this one's almost once per round unless you hit a straight flush or smth

[surreal yacht]

not a good comparison

anyways the legendary is strong af but i dont think it should be nerfed

[spring lantern]

guess he can stay strong until testing tells me whether or not it's too much

[grim remnant]

this is a very silly question; how do i check for queens held in hand, under the context of them either being steel, or owning Shoot The Moon? i think it'd be really fun if those queens also procced the joker i'm making

[fickle quail]

How would I check to see if a card (e.g. deck) is in the "new run" menu?

[neat plover]

does anyone know how to check when a lucky card is triggered or fails

[grim remnant]

two questions:

1. how can i take the amount of clubs cards in the current deck as a variable?
2. how can i have the text color for clubs in a card text?

[red flower]

{C:clubs} for the color

[neat plover]

i just need the variable

[red flower]

card.lucky_trigger
if you need it in calculate the context seems to be context.individual and context.other_card.lucky_trigger

[neat plover]

so if i want to test if a lucky card fails?

[red flower]

you need to check if it's a lucky card and if not card.lucky_trigger

[neat plover]

thanks!

[red flower]

keep in mind that it's reset after card scoring

[spring lantern]

how can i apply a sticker to a joker generated by another joker?

i know cryptid does it with the banana perishable joker guy