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[manic rune]

am i doing this correctly?

...oh nevermind, the 'Hello World!' part is supposed to be localization stuff

i cant just directly put a string there it seems

i hate my life

[violet void]

restarting balatro be like

[atomic edge]

are there any mods that change the soul sprite dynamically which i can check?

[manic rune]

ok so genuinely, how do i call my own localization in this case?

[gilded narwhal]

Guys would you say "reveals the next 5 cards in your deck at all times" is a legendary

[manic rune]

uhhhh i remember theres a mod with an Exotic joker that always gives you max hand when you are in a round, but the more rounds pass with it in the slot, the more damaged it becomes

thats all i remember, im sorry :(

[manic rune]

ehhh, wouldnt say so, probably Rare at most

[lavish lake]

Oops! The game crashed:
[SMODS _ "src/utils.lua"]:1547: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)

Additional Context:
Balatro Version: 1.0.1n-FULL
Modded Version: 1.0.0~ALPHA-1415c-STEAMODDED
LÖVE Version: 11.5.0
Lovely Version: 0.6.0
Platform: Windows
Steamodded Mods:
    1: Alphabet Jokers by Runtem [ID: alphabet_jokers, Version: 1.0.0]
    2: DebugPlus by WilsontheWolf [ID: DebugPlus, Version: 1.3.1, Uses Lovely]
Lovely Mods:

Stack Traceback
===============
(3) LÖVE function at file 'boot.lua:352' (best guess)
Local variables:
 errhand = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 553 of chunk [lovely debugplus.console "console.lua"])
 handler = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 553 of chunk [lovely debugplus.console "console.lua"])
(4) global C function 'ipairs'
(5) Lua field 'calculate_end_of_round_effects' at Steamodded file 'src/utils.lua:1547' 
Local variables:
 context = table: 0x38b4d1c0  {cardarea:unscored, end_of_round:true}
(6) Lua field 'func' at file 'functions/state_events.lua:168'
Local variables:
 game_over = boolean: false
 game_won = boolean: false
 (for generator) = C function: builtin#6
 (for state) = table: 0x38b4d198  {1:unscored, 2:table: 0x389b7878}
 (for control) = number: 1
 _ = number: 1
 v = string: "unscored"
(7) Lua method 'handle' at file 'engine/event.lua:55'
Local variables:
 self = table: 0x3890ea58  {start_timer:true, timer:TOTAL, blockable:true, trigger:after, func:function: 0x38944380 (more...)}
 _results = table: 0x389a3a58  {blocking:true, pause_skip:false, time_done:true, completed:false}
(8) Lua method 'update' at file 'engine/event.lua:182'
Local variables:
 self = table: 0x386d59b0  {queue_last_processed:50.749999999998, queues:table: 0x386d59d8, queue_dt:0.016666666666667 (more...)}
 dt = number: 0.0133364
 forced = nil
 (for generator) = C function: next
 (for state) = table: 0x386d59d8  {unlock:table: 0x386d5c90, other:table: 0x386d6638, tutorial:table: 0x386d6148 (more...)}
 (for control) = number: nan
 k = string: "base"
 v = table: 0x386d5cb8  {1:table: 0x3886e558, 2:table: 0x3869b7e0, 3:table: 0x39016380, 4:table: 0x38f3efa8 (more...)}
 blocked = boolean: false
 i = number: 11
 results = table: 0x389a3a58  {blocking:true, pause_skip:false, time_done:true, completed:false}
(9) Lua upvalue 'gameUpdateRef' at file 'game.lua:2524'
Local variables:
 self = table: 0x38176750  {F_GUIDE:false, F_CRASH_REPORTS:false, F_QUIT_BUTTON:true, HUD_tags:table: 0x387e3af8 (more...)}
 dt = number: 0.0133364
 http_resp = nil
(10) Lua method 'update' at Steamodded file 'src/ui.lua:84' 
Local variables:
 self = table: 0x38176750  {F_GUIDE:false, F_CRASH_REPORTS:false, F_QUIT_BUTTON:true, HUD_tags:table: 0x387e3af8 (more...)}
 dt = number: 0.0133364
(11) Lua field 'update' at file 'main.lua:996'
Local variables:
 dt = number: 0.0133364
(12) Lua function '?' at file 'main.lua:935' (best guess)
(13) global C function 'xpcall'
(14) LÖVE function at file 'boot.lua:377' (best guess)
Local variables:
 func = Lua function '?' (defined at line 906 of chunk main.lua)
 inerror = boolean: true
 deferErrhand = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 348 of chunk [love "boot.lua"])
 earlyinit = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 355 of chunk [love "boot.lua"])

My game is crashing
Here's the new joker:

SMODS.Joker {
    key = "letter_j",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "J",
        text = {
            "This joker gains {C:mult}+#1#{} Mult per unscored {C:attention}Jack{}",
            "{C:inactive}(Currently {}{C:mult}+#2#{} {C:inactive}Mult){}"
        }
    },
    config = { extra = { gainMult = 6, mult = 0 } },
    rarity = 2,
    atlas = "alphabet_atlas",
    pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
    loc_vars = function (self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.gainMult, card.ability.extra.mult } }
    end,
    calculate = function (self, card, context)
        if context.cardarea == 'unscored' and context.individual then
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 11 then
                card.ability.extra.mult = card.ability.extra.mult + card.ability.extra.gainMult
            end
        end
        if context.joker_main then
            return {
                mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult,
                message = localize { type = "variable", key = "a_mult", vars = { card.ability.extra.mult }}
            }
        end
    end
}

[manic rune]

uh wait, is localize supposed to look like that?

[lavish lake]

yes

every other joker i have has this kind of localization message

[manic rune]

i see

[lavish lake]

and the game didnt crash

[manic rune]

well my best guess is probably at the if context.cardarea == 'unscored' and context.individual then part

[lavish lake]

we need to call our police officer mr. john smods

[dreamy thunder]

im returning localized messages like this

[wintry solar]

Update smods

[lavish lake]

are you saying that to me

[wintry solar]

Yes

[lavish lake]

i already have the latest version

[wintry solar]

No you don’t

[manic rune]

am i doing it right, never used localization in my life (probably a bad idea not learning this earlier)

[atomic edge]

are you thinking of this card maybe?

[manic rune]

oh, no

[atomic edge]

shiet

[manic rune]

uhh lemme try finding it myself lol

[atomic edge]

no dont worry about it

[lavish lake]

nvm updating helped

[manic rune]

no no, im relatively certain i can find it

[violet void]

do you mean to change it once or like in a loop

[atomic edge]

oh that would be great but dont make it take too much of your time

[atomic edge]

so the card is a quest and i want it to have a soul card when its completed

so basically once

i mean soul sprite

[manic rune]

oh

its a jen's almanac joker

[atomic edge]

thanks

[atomic edge]

do you maybe remember its name?

[manic rune]

im booting up the mod to find, wait a bit

....oh im fucking dumb, its a legendary

not sure why i thought it was an exotic, sorry 😭

[violet void]

this worked for me but maybe its wrong

card.children.floating_sprite = Sprite(card.T.x, card.T.y, card.T.w, card.T.h, G.ASSET_ATLAS['prefix_atlas'], { x = 4, y = 5 })

this will come in handy hmmm

[minor furnace]

I did this which does both, and seems to be working as I intended, so far at least

            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                trigger = 'after',
                delay = 0.1,
                func = function()
                    card:shatter()
                    return {remove = true}
                end
            }))
        end```

[manic rune]

alright so can anyone explain to me how 'b_unlock_all' doesn't work, but 'ml_demo_thanks_message' does? they are both inside balatro's localization file

is it simply because b_unlock_all value isnt a table?

[runic pecan]

So I just defined a sticker.
How do I apply it to a playing card?

[red flower]

yes

[manic rune]

thanks :D

FINALLY saw some progress, and its not even something impressive 😭

[neat plover]

how would i check if played card is a certain suit or rank

[manic rune]

:is_suit() and :get_id()

[neat plover]

ok

[ionic timber]

is there any way to check if a certain sound is playing or not ?

[autumn coral]

q: would this work the way i'm thinking it would in my head

i need it to check if the probabilities after buying an oops all 6es is bigger than the saved probabilities

i know most of this is right i'm just thinking the context.after might not work the way i was thinking it would

i need it to pull the probability after tbh

[wintry solar]

Don’t call the shatter yourself pls

And remove the event

Literally just need the return

[runic pecan]

bump

[wintry solar]

card:set_sticker(“key”) iirc

Maybe add sticker?

Let me check

[iron socket]

Hey, me again. I've tried looking into the Steamodded documentation, as well as the example jokers mod and the source code, but I'm still pretty stumped on how to add a new Tarot card (specifically one that does the reverse of the strength card, reducing the rank of two cards by 1). Does anyone have an example mod that just adds a couple Tarot cards that I could investigate and learn from?

[maiden phoenix]

My mod has some if you want, check SDM_0's Stuff (dev branch preferably), in the data/consumables file

[autumn coral]

if anyone has a quick answer for this i'd suuuuuper appreciate it :p just wanna make sure my code is accurate LOL

[runic pecan]

SMODS.Consumable with set = 'Tarot'

[autumn coral]

i haven't worked on my mod in like well over a month

[wintry solar]

No you can’t combine contexts like that, they’re entirely independent

[autumn coral]

so how could i do this in a way that makes sense? i need it to get the probabilities AFTER an oops all 6s is added to the deck

the way it works is basically it supplies a minimum that it needs to surpass based on the highest value in order to change itself

[wintry solar]

I don’t remember if the buying context is before or after the add to deck call

[autumn coral]

gotcha

[hardy viper]

add an event maybe

[autumn coral]

hmm

[hardy viper]

and do the logic in there

[autumn coral]

yeah

wait should i just do context.added_to_deck?

is that even a thing

lmao

it should b e

honestly it should be

[hardy viper]

considering that doesn't exist

no

[autumn coral]

ok so how WOULD i get an event after oops all 6es is added,,, i'm sowwy my ass has forgotten this workflow

also did the context.other_card work in this context with buying_card

that's the only thing i need an answer to actually

[hardy viper]

it's context.card

for some reason

[autumn coral]

gotcha

so this would be right then?

[hardy viper]

probably better to do the check for oops outside of the event so you don't create a bunch of useless events even when your joker won't do anything

also, you need to return true at the end of your event so it doesn't loop forever

[autumn coral]

right right

?

[wintry solar]

Change name to key

[autumn coral]

gotcha

tbf both work

[wintry solar]

But also I don’t think this event will work

[autumn coral]

why

oh i forgot the return true again

lmao

[wintry solar]

It won’t be at the right point of the stack

[autumn coral]

any ideas on how to make this work realistically?

[hardy viper]

looks like it'd work to me? what would be wrong about it

[wintry solar]

Well first you need to check the order of the things, whether it’s calculate or add to deck first

[autumn coral]

i mean i can test it rn

[atomic edge]

does anyone know if there is a mod that dynamically changes the soul sprite of a card that i could look at (jen's jokers do something similar but not what im looking for)

[autumn coral]

vaguely, you could try something similar to what my mod does to dynamically change charge bar sprites

https://github.com/h3llo-wor1d/the-binding-of-jimbo

[violet void]

Did you try this?

[atomic edge]

oh

i didnt even see you guys responded to me

im sorry

[manic rune]

how do i make it so those text can be colored?

[atomic edge]

thanks so much ill try it

[long sun]

hi, this code is triggering on the last two cards, and not only the last card:
if context.cardarea == G.play and context.other_card == context.scoring_hand[#context.scoring_hand] and context.other_card.edition == nil then

what'd i do wrong? 😭

[atomic edge]

oh my god i can just do this card.children.floating_sprite:set_sprite_pos({x = 1, y = k - 1})

its from the hunter

thanks both of you so much

[violet void]

oh thanks for the info

[autumn coral]

it works

well, the first half works

let's see if it gets that the probabilities are higher

because yeah i forgot to write a print statement to check for that oops

cool

[manic rune]

hmmm try adding context.individual?

idk

[autumn coral]

yep it works

[manic rune]

bump, i cant figure this out

[autumn coral]

{C:(variable)}text here{}

[manic rune]

i tried doing that, doesnt seem to work

[autumn coral]

check steammodded wiki for the variables you can replace it with

weird

no clue

[long sun]

that worked, thanks!!

[violet void]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1336746173008056320

Neato joker does it maybe you peek its code

[spark tinsel]

Hey, is there any fast reload game (with mods/mod) ingame (like keyboard shortcut or smth) - smods?

[violet void]

holding M

[spark tinsel]

Thank you <3

[atomic edge]

how does juice_card_until work?

nvm got it

[tepid crow]

Neato jokers referenced lets go

[limpid flint]

M

[minor furnace]

nevermind, we still have ghost cards

[neat plover]

why is my lua always crashing and attempting to call a nil value

[minor furnace]

it should tell you which line is throwing the error

[neat plover]

nah it just says its attempting to call a nil value

[limpid halo]

further down

[spring lantern]

i'm not sure how to make this joker bp compatible without this happening

i guess i could specifically have it not copy any instances of brainstorm but iunno

[iron socket]

Thanks that helped out a lot! I was able to get the actual function part of the tarot working, now just gonna figure out the sound and animation as the change just happens instantly. I can probably figure that out on my own but if anyone has any pointers that would certainly be welcome!

[limpid halo]

You could track a iteration count and prevent the effect if it has triggered more than the maximum amount of times

i think blueprint stops if it triggers more than the amount of jokers or smth

[spring lantern]

guess that could be one way to do it but it still seems a bit scuffed LOL

[long sun]

hi again, my sound effect isn't playing when my status text appears, how do i fix that?

play_sound("bfdi_david", 1, 0.5)
        card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or card, "extra", nil, nil, nil, {
          message = "Nope!",
          colour = G.C.FILTER
        })```

[manic rune]

it doesnt really help, since its just the description part of the mod which already allows you to color text 😭

[violet void]

when is it playing

[long sun]

if i have five of them, they all play their sounds before the first message

[violet void]

have you tried adding it in an event

[long sun]

mhm

i don't think i did it correctly though

[violet void]

card_eval_status_text should already be an event

play_sound isnt

[long sun]

rightright

so, what should i do?

[manic rune]

yeah so im researching joyous spring (yugioh mod)

[red flower]

joyousspring mentioned

[violet void]

   play_sound()
return true end }))```

[manic rune]

goated mod, gg

[red flower]

ty let me know if u need any help

[manic rune]

i cant replicate how you colored the text 😭

[long sun]

cheers, will try that :D

[manic rune]

im reading this part rn

[red flower]

if you have your text in a description table and call localize it will make an ui object with the color

[long sun]

okay, cheers, it worked! thanks!!

[manic rune]

i basically copied your code over, except maybe the return part, to see if it works, but they just turned out to be two empty white boxes

...oh, now that i think about it, maybe the big difference here is that mine has more than 1 line in the localization stuff

lemme try smt

[red flower]

misc dictionary doesn't work with color

[manic rune]

oh

wait so that affects things too?

i thought its just for organizing stuffs, damn

[red flower]

basically the game parses the descriptions beforehand and makes text objects with the colors, scale, etc

it doesn't do that with the dictionary

or at least not that one

[manic rune]

oh damn, i never knew about that, thanks a lot 😭

gotta make sure im more careful with putting stuff in localization then, jeez

[neat plover]

someone help me im gonna go crazy wtf is this nil value

[autumn coral]

now that i'm thinking about it, how does swashbuckler dynamically get the sell values of all cards in the joker slots?

there has to be a way to actually get if cards are added in real time other than the buying_card

[neat plover]

yeah that could be useful

[red flower]

card.sell_cost?

[autumn coral]

no sorry that was for what i'm doing

[autumn coral]

no that's not what i'm saying

like right now my joker is wrapping buying_card to get when a joker is added to the library, but that's REALLY annoying for debug reasons and also would NOT work with an ankh so

like this only works with buying it

surely there's no way that swashbuckler checks every tick for the values LMAO

[maiden phoenix]

Putting them in an event might help

[violet void]

it uses the update function which runs at every frame

[autumn coral]

CRYING

[neat plover]

man this nil value is getting me angry now

[autumn coral]

ok i'm gonna create my own event then i'm not scared of this shit

this shit's so inefficient

[iron socket]

I actually just figured out how to set the animation and sound up :) Now I'm trying to figure out a few bugs. I can select more than two cards at once and decrease the rank of all of them, and if I try to do it on a 2 some very weird things happen 😂

[hardy viper]

i don't think you need to use update? you should just be able to only do it right before it's relevant (loc_vars and calculate)

[red flower]

what's the log

[maiden phoenix]

You can use a can_use function on your consumable and check if the highlighted hand has 2 cards like this

can_use = function(self, card, area, copier)
        if G.STATE == G.STATES.SELECTING_HAND or G.STATE == G.STATES.TAROT_PACK or G.STATE == G.STATES.SPECTRAL_PACK or G.STATE == G.STATES.PLANET_PACK then
            return card.ability.extra.max_highlighted >= #G.hand.highlighted and #G.hand.highlighted >= 1
        end
        return false
    end,

[red flower]

missing a comma

[maiden phoenix]

card.ability.extra.max_highlighted is a config value

[iron socket]

Oh sweet, thanks!

[maiden phoenix]

(I should update the code since there's a SMODS booster thing iirc)

[neat plover]

where?

[autumn coral]

mfw created my own context event because i'm not going to lag my game like that

lmao

[red flower]

the places marked in red lol

you also have an extra comma

[neat plover]

after mod?

[red flower]

yes

[ivory igloo]

Really stupid github question
How do you just link to "latest release" directly, or is it just "link to the main zip download"

[iron socket]

Just figured out the last bug (that I know of), when converting Aces they'd still turn into 2s, and when converting 2s they'd stay 2s but with no values, and then crash the game. The mod (hopefully) fully works now! Thanks for all of your help!

[minor furnace]

If this is what you meant, then the card doesn't get removed from the deck, and does't get destroyed

            return {remove = true}
        end```

[tepid crow]

Copy the link of the green button that says "latest" on the release's page

[wintry solar]

It’s the wrong context, should be destroying card

[minor furnace]

ah I see

[ivory igloo]

I'm guessing opening the page is the best I'll get? I was thinking like a direct download link but if that's not a thing that's fine

[tepid crow]

You can also link to the direct download if you want I guess

BMM might have some mods that directly link to the latest release download, idk what the link looks like by memory

[ivory igloo]

Ah I see, looking here I can always link to the correct page, but making sure it's always the latest file is down to the dev using the same zip file name it seems.

[minor furnace]

thanks! I think that worked. Now I just need to add my custom enhancement to wherever it determines whether the shatter animation or normal destroy should be played

[wintry solar]

Add shatter = true to the enhancement definition iirc

[minor furnace]

oh that's just a built-in thing?

[wintry solar]

As of the other week yeah

[minor furnace]

it's crazy how many things are just not on the documentation page

because xchip also exists despite not being on the smods.enhancements page

[wintry solar]

Writing docs is boring I have better things to do 😂

[minor furnace]

fair enough lmao

I assume this goes inside of the config? it did not

[wintry swallow]

is there some introduction to making a mod, im wanting to make some card editions ideas i had

[wintry solar]

No just in the main part with the other properties like key, pos etc

[minor furnace]

that was going to be the next thing I tried

[tepid crow]

You should be able to link to the zipped source code, that name doesnt change

(it'll be the source code instead of the provided zip, but that shouldn't matter for balatro mods afaik)

[minor furnace]

it did not work 💀

    key = "crystal",
    atlas = "New_Enhance",
    pos = {x = 1, y = 6},
    loc_txt={
        name="Crystal Card",
        text = {
            "{X:chips,C:white} X#1# {} Chips",
            "{C:green}#2# in #3#{} chance to",
            "destroy card",
        }
    },
    shatter = true,
    config = {
        extra = {
            x_chips = 2,
            shatter_prob = 4
        }
    }```

[wintry solar]

Let me check what it should be hold on

shatters

[minor furnace]

ahhhh

[ivory igloo]

Okay cool, I'll check with Skyline later too but I'll dig a little more and see if I can find it (basically I'm just going through and trying to set up a bunch of older mods for the Mod Manager - like there would be on the old github list and stuff - so I don't wanna be linking to unstable/changing versions if possible)

[minor furnace]

somehow, this still didn't do it...

[wintry solar]

Show code pls

[minor furnace]

    key = "crystal",
    atlas = "New_Enhance",
    pos = {x = 1, y = 6},
    loc_txt={
        name="Crystal Card",
        text = {
            "{X:chips,C:white} X#1# {} Chips",
            "{C:green}#2# in #3#{} chance to",
            "destroy card",
        }
    },
    shatters = true,
    config = {
        extra = {
            x_chips = 2,
            shatter_prob = 4
        }
    },```

[wintry solar]

That should work

What smods version are you on?

[minor furnace]

excellent question, let me check

I downloaded it like 3 days ago

[wintry solar]

Oh that will be fine

[minor furnace]

0.9.8 by the looks of it? in manifest.json

[wintry solar]

Check in your main menu

Top right

[minor furnace]

1.0.0 ALPHA 1415c

[wintry solar]

Yeah that’s fine

[minor furnace]

hmmm

well this is the full enhancement if it makes any difference

    key = "crystal",
    atlas = "New_Enhance",
    pos = {x = 1, y = 6},
    loc_txt={
        name="Crystal Card",
        text = {
            "{X:chips,C:white} X#1# {} Chips",
            "{C:green}#2# in #3#{} chance to",
            "destroy card",
        }
    },
    shatters = true,
    config = {
        extra = {
            x_chips = 2,
            shatter_prob = 4
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        return {
            vars = {
                center.ability.extra.x_chips,
                G.GAME.probabilities.normal,
                center.ability.extra.shatter_prob
            }
        }
    end,
    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.main_scoring and context.cardarea == G.play then
            return { x_chips = card.ability.extra.x_chips}
        end
        if context.destroy_card and context.cardarea == G.play and pseudorandom('crystal') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/4 then
            return {remove = true}
        end
    end
}```

[wintry solar]

And it doesn’t shatter?

[minor furnace]

nope, just the normal dissolve

[past forge]

any help on this?

[past forge]

SMODS.Enhancement { 
    key = "burnt",
    atlas = "enhancements",
    pos = {x=0, y = 0},
    
    replace_base_card = false,
    no_suit = false,
    no_rank = false,
    always_scores = false,
    
    config = {extra = { mult_mod = 1 }},
    
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return {
            vars = { card.ability.extra.mult_mod}
        }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context, ret)
        if context.cardarea == G.play and context.main_scoring then
            local text = G.FUNCS.get_poker_hand_info(G.play.cards)
            card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = localize('k_upgrade_ex')})
            

            if not instant then 
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.2, func = function()
                    play_sound('tarot1')
                    if card then card:juice_up(0.8, 0.5) end
                    G.TAROT_INTERRUPT_PULSE = true
                    return true end }))
                G.GAME.hands[text].mult = G.GAME.hands[text].mult + card.ability.extra.mult_mod
                update_hand_text({delay = 0}, {mult = G.GAME.hands[text].mult, StatusText = true})
                delay(0.6)
            end
        end
    end
}

this is the code btw

[wintry solar]

Can you send me the state events dump file?

[wintry solar]

What’s it supposed to do?

[past forge]

Every time one card with that enhancement scores, the scoring hand gets +1 mult permanently

[wintry solar]

Oh the shatter stuff isn’t changed

[past forge]

it works (the ui doenst update properly) but the problem is that when you use a planet card the mult will go to the mult of the level

[wintry solar]

I’ll check mine later and update smods if necessary

[minor furnace]

could I just write a lovely patch for this

                    G.hand.highlighted[i]:shatter()
                else```

[wintry solar]

Yeah that will happen due to how he’d coded hand levels are

[autumn coral]

IT WORKS LETS GOOOO

[past forge]

just add an or statement to check if your enhancement is there i guess

[minor furnace]

yeah that was my plan

[past forge]

i looked for that to see if i can patch it, but didnt found it

[wintry solar]

I’ll fix it this evening on the smods side @minor furnace

[minor furnace]

thanks!

I'll see if I can get a patch working in the meantime, and then take it out once the update comes

[past forge]

if SMODS.has_enhancement(G.hand.highlighted[i], 'm_glass') or SMODS.has_enhancement(G.hand.highlighted[i], 'm_[your_mod_prefix]_crystal')  then
                    G.hand.highlighted[i]:shatter()
                else

maybe something like this should work

[minor furnace]

yeah that was what I was planning to try

[past forge]

nice

[wintry solar]

Literally just wait it’s just wasting your time otherwise

It’s like a thirty second job for me to change when I’m not on mobile

[minor furnace]

although I think it's "m_reverse_crystal" because of the prefix

[wintry solar]

And you won’t have to change any of your code

[minor furnace]

it gives me practice patching

it's a fun exercise at least

oh well the pattern didn't match I'll just move on then

[marsh basalt]

Hello, can I ask - how could I get the playing card negative info blurb on the joker?

I'm currently using G.P_CENTERS.e_negative info queue with the Joker but I cannot find what the playing cards use

[autumn coral]

how do i get the current mult and chip values of the current played hand? i already have the post-scoring stuff set up, i just forgot, it's blind something i don't remember

i need to store it in a variable :p

wait isn't it just mult and hand_chips

am i stupid

[marsh basalt]

Strangely enough, I cannot find the exact string that the playing card blurb is using in the translation files, only times +x hand size appears is with yellow or red colors

[red flower]

its an smods thing

[marsh basalt]

Ah

My bad

Oh, right, SMODS is itself a mod

I should be checking that too

[marsh basalt]

Thank you!

[autumn coral]

how can you get the final mult and chips from a hand after all other jokers have scored actually

can't figure out the context event for some reason

💀

bc uh

if context.final_scoring_step and context.cardarea == G.play then unfortunately this doesn't work

pretty sure this one's locked to plasma iirc

[faint yacht]

hand_chips and mult are globals you can access, which are the currently scored chips and mult as shown in the boxes respectively.

[autumn coral]

why are they tables lmao

[high stag]

any idea why this is giving nil?

[primal robin]

talisman

[autumn coral]

OHHH

[autumn coral]

how can i retrieve the real value from the table from talisman

thanks actually i wouldn't have caught that lmao

[primal robin]

You should use all values in your calculations as to_big(number) instead

Do not try reverse it

[autumn coral]

no i need to like retrieve the value

my card takes the max value of chips and mult played this run and sets all hands to use that instead of anything lower, or use whatever is higher

[primal robin]

This not how it works

If you're interacting with big numbers, you must do all stuff in big numbers

[autumn coral]

ok well how can i compare one to another

because that's the only thing i need to do here

[primal robin]

if to_big(hand.chips) > to_big(my_stored_chips) then end

[autumn coral]

cool

thaanks

thanks*

that's all i neede

[manic rune]

do u have loc_vars

[primal robin]

And to prevent mod from crashing, you must include on start of file

to_big = to_big or function(n) return n end

[high stag]

that would be the issue yeah, i do not

[autumn coral]

how can i represent it at

mk

oops didn't mean to press enter

how can i represent it as a string lmao

or does it do that automatically

nevermind

i see it

[manic rune]

mhm, thats the problem, add it and it should be fine

[primal robin]

No clue

[left lance]

did you define the local variables?

[high stag]

yeah that solved it, thanks y'all
now to make the card actually work

[left lance]

may i ask, is the card you showed above not just Canio? Could you just pull the code from there?

[high stag]

it's Caino-based and I've been tweaking the code from that one, idk why its not proccing yet, currently working through that

[grim remnant]

silly question, how do i make a food joker that like, decays over time a-la ice cream/popcorn?

(namely, how could i like, designate it as a food joker, for the sake of other mods.)

[autumn coral]

:to_number()

[left lance]

what do you mean designate as a food joker? Popcorn/ice cream aren't labelled as some other rarity type or something but rather have added event managers that destroy the card when a condition is met

[grim remnant]

there are a few mods that consider "food joker" to be like, its own weird little sub-category, and i was wondering if there was like. Some agreed-upon thing to designate those as food jokers. Or if this would be something for those mod creators to handle themselves. ;P

like, we just don't wanna be caught off-guard if there is some unspoken agreement of "oh you mark a food joker as isFoodJoker = yea, in the code for other mods". totally understand if this is just me overthinking it tho, fdsgjhk

[left lance]

Oh if other mods have other ones they're handling that separately from how the base game does it. From what I can tell the basegame just treats them like any other joker, but with a destroy event after a certain number of rounds (though admittedly I am trying to make my own but am running into an issue with it never updating the value, so take what I say with a grain of salt)

[hardy viper]

i think there was and it changed at some point

[high stag]

you could snag the extra values from every joker in play every hand, then snag them again and compare to see if they go down, but that would probably grab a few jokers you dont intend

[maiden river]

does anyone have any sort of template/reference for making art for seals
it's not in the community assets

[grim remnant]

if you know the current method lmk and i could perhaps add that in :o

[autumn coral]

waow

[minor furnace]

Ain't no way I got this code to work first try

[autumn coral]

ok so how do i make my joker trigger directly at the end of all other calculations

like i want it to be after all x mults and all other effects

bc that's the last step here

[maiden river]

there's context.after, right?

[minor furnace]

ah I still need the "nope"

[autumn coral]

yeah but i couldn't get that one to work

[left lance]

cue Mattman scream

[autumn coral]

LOL

[maiden river]

really?
interesting

[autumn coral]

mattman scream

[autumn coral]

yea

context.final_scoring_step doesn't work either

i can try again though!

[maiden river]

this is what it says in the wiki

[autumn coral]

yeah i tried that too

didn't do anything

but also i don't want it to be after scoring, i want it to be after all effects

i want it to be the final effect that occurs, like plasma or smf like that (well, actually i want to do it after plasma)

actually i could just look at cryptid there's a card that does something similar

the answer is always cryptid sigh

[stray wing]

Posted about an issue before , but I've narrowed down the cause and am looking for some advice. I'm writing a joker that replaces Gift card, and the code for that is here

    "j_gift",
    {
        loc_txt = {
            name = "Skips",
            text = {
                "Current xmult #1#",
                "Gain xmult is #2#"
            }
        },
        atlas = "Wada",
        config = {extra = {xmult = 2, xmult_gain = 1}},
        pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
        loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
            return {
                vars = {
                    card.ability.extra.xmult,
                    card.ability.extra.xmult_gain
                }
            }
        end,
        calculate = function(self, card, context)
            if context.joker_main then
                return {
                    xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult
                }
            end
            if context.after then
                card.ability.extra.xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult + card.ability.extra.xmult_gain
                return {
                    message = "Charged up!",
                    colour = G.C.CHIPS,
                    card = card
                }
            end
        end
    }
)

I'm getting a crash for trying to perform arithmetic on a table extra, and I finally figured it out.

Gift card's base config has this:

j_gift= {order = 79, unlocked = true, discovered = false, blueprint_compat = false, perishable_compat = true, eternal_compat = true, rarity = 2, cost = 6, name = "Gift Card",set = "Joker", config = {extra = 1}, pos = {x=3,y=13}},

where the sole variable is stored under the name extra. I tried changing the name of the inner table on my joker to extran, so like this:
config = {extran = {xmult = 2, xmult_gain = 1}},
but that didn't solve the issue. Is there an easy way to fix this?

[tepid crow]

Cryptid has something like this iirc

[maiden river]

too real

[autumn coral]

ok i found it

if context.cardarea == G.jokers and not context.before and not context.after and not context.debuffed_hand and hand_chips and mult then

this is what cryptid has for sync catalyst which essentially does this exact thing

[wintry solar]

context.final_scoring_step is the plasma step

[autumn coral]

yeah

figured

[wintry solar]

if it "doesn't work" then you're likely using it incorrectly

[autumn coral]

no i got it

[autumn coral]

100% this will work

[minor furnace]

well uhh, it sure does say Nope somewhere on the screen

[hardy viper]

explodes your computer

99.999%

[wintry solar]

don't use that

its old jank that will break with other stuff

[autumn coral]

me or

uh

[tepid crow]

Found it: https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Cryptid/blob/refactor/items/misc_joker.lua#L537

[hardy viper]

not context.before and not context.after is probably what eremel is referring to

[left lance]

in reference to 'food-like' jokers, do you know why the above code seemingly never actually procs? config is config = { extra = { money = 10, adj = 2 } }, but seemingly this calculation/update never actually happens at end of round

[autumn coral]

gotcha

i'll check it out in a sec

[minor furnace]

literally just copied this from the regular wheel of fortune, not sure why the offset is wonky

                attention_text({
                    text = localize('k_nope_ex'),
                    scale = 1.3, 
                    hold = 1.4,
                    major = used_tarot,
                    backdrop_colour = G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Tarot,
                    align = (G.STATE == G.STATES.TAROT_PACK or G.STATE == G.STATES.SPECTRAL_PACK) and 'tm' or 'cm',
                    offset = {x = 0, y = (G.STATE == G.STATES.TAROT_PACK or G.STATE == G.STATES.SPECTRAL_PACK) and -0.2 or 0},
                    silent = true
                    })
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.06*G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED, blockable = false, blocking = false, func = function()
                        play_sound('tarot2', 0.76, 0.4);return true end}))
                    play_sound('tarot2', 1, 0.4)
            return true end }))```

[stray wing]

I have solved this if you come across this in future (search terms: arithmetic, extra, xmult, gift card) - you can define the extra variable as 1 as normal, then proceed with keeping the rest of your variables in a table called e.g. extran. See below:

config = {extra = 1, extran = {xmult = 2, xmult_gain = 1}},

As a general question, is there a reason modded jokers usually have their variables as extra inside config?

[tepid crow]

Other stuff doesnt get stored by default iirc

[stray wing]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean

[tepid crow]

To the save file. When exiting the game

[stray wing]

okay, so if I were keeping variables like config = { cost = 2 }, I'd have issues loading a save?

[wintry solar]

it just wouldnt be there when you loaded

[tepid crow]

Double check whether .game_over actually exists would be my first guess

It might just not be provided instead of being false

[wintry solar]

@minor furnace fixed in 1418a

[autumn coral]

removing the stuff you asked for broke it lol

actually wait

[wintry solar]

what code do you have

[autumn coral]

i might've broken it myself

hold on

lmao

no yeah it broke lmao

ok whateevr

i'll just bring it back

clearly it works bc cryptid has it and honestly idrc if it's bad practice bc if it works it works

[minor furnace]

did a git pull and saw 6 line changes to enhancement.toml so that's probably it then

[wintry solar]

it works in old calc but new calc it either wont work or will likely break with other mods

just do it properly

[grim remnant]

        if context.joker_main then --score Xchips
            xchips = card.ability.extra.Xchip
            return {message = "TEST" }
        end```
for whatever reason this isn't scoring xchips? everything else works just fine...

[wintry solar]

smods version?

[minor furnace]

oh yeah, wer're shattering cards now

[tepid crow]

You're setting xchips but not returning them?

[left lance]

I thought it existed, at least based on line 377 of the steammodded/examples/jokers page https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

[grim remnant]

OH. i forgor the return 😔

[autumn coral]

i got it to work

[stark moss]

how hard is balatro modding? i kinda wanna look at it and get into it but im curious. it doesnt sound too difficult but idk

[autumn coral]

meh i'll fix it when cryptid fixes their codebase bc most of my players play cryptid

i'll make sure to add that they need the cryptid version of smods though in the release notes

[tepid crow]

I love actively developing for old-calc

[wintry solar]

its the best right?

only 6 weeks out of date 🤷‍♂️

[autumn coral]

i'm a college student i really don't give enough of a shit lmao

when it's convenient i'll fix it

[tepid crow]

Hmm, good point. Time to throw some prints in there then I guess

[autumn coral]

it is not convenient right now

[midnight heath]

is there a way to make a soundtrack mod where it can be toggleable like the cardsauce mod? I never used lua

[left lance]

so i tried prints but they also did nothing... I mean, are prints not just print(message) and it gets printed to console?

[tepid crow]

To the lovely console yes

[left lance]

... man this one is really thowing me for a loop, but I'll try again to see if I can get the print statements working

[wintry solar]

try changing it to not context.game_over

[tepid crow]

If the print is the first thing in your calculate and its not printing, sounds like your calculate isnt being called

[wintry solar]

OH

it's calculate = function(self, card, context)

you have them the wrong way round

but also change the game_over thing, nil doesn't equal false

[left lance]

HA damn genuinely I don't know when I ever would've caught that, huge so many thanks

[tepid crow]

Ugh good catch

[wintry solar]

lars do you remember any of the shop util stuff people wanteD?

[tepid crow]

Shop util stuff?

Wdym

[wintry solar]

like people wanted an easy way to icnrease the number of boosters

I've done booster count, voucher count and free reroll count, but I don't remember what else there was, if anything

[tepid crow]

Ah

I dont think I was ever part of those conversations tbh

Though it might be nice if steamodded automatically supported big shops?

iirc the shop starts going off-screen at like 8 items in the main shop

[wintry solar]

hmmm I'll take a look

[grim remnant]

wuh oh, what are we doing wrong here

[wintry solar]

hmmmm it seems I have already patched this somewhere

[tepid crow]

I'm assuming cryptid isnt in your mod list?

[wintry solar]

you have code after a return

it is not

[tepid crow]

Alright, already fixed it is then

Perfect

[grim remnant]

the message, you mean?

[wintry solar]

I remember doing it sometime ago but I don't know if its in smods or something locally I have

[wintry solar]

you can never put code after a return in lua

[tepid crow]

I don't recall this being in a recent smods version

[wintry solar]

lemme see if I can track down what's handling it

[grim remnant]

wait i think i spoted PART of the issue

[wintry solar]

it's in ortalab for some reason 🤣

[grim remnant]

okay no, that made the error happen earlier and i feel like i was not meant to remove that return.

[tepid crow]

Your lua is right to complain

Why is there a { on line 332

[wintry solar]

you can also just call card:start_dissolve() to remove it iirc

[midnight heath]

?

[tepid crow]

I mean... If someone else can do it you should be able to too?

[grim remnant]

okay, it works now, but i can't figure out how to display the "Eaten!" text. what do?

[midnight heath]

i dont know how to work lua or code though. Its confusing

[wintry solar]

I'm 99% sure you can just change your code to be

if card.ability.extra.Xchip <= 1 then
  card:start_dissolve()
  return { message = localize('k_eaten_ex') }
end

[tepid crow]

So what's your question

[orchid thunder]

how can i do something to a joker when it is triggerd

[neat plover]

how do you have that in vs code?

[neat plover]

where is that

[grim remnant]

the message doesn't appear correctly (it only appears after the full dissolve), but that mostly works

[red flower]

extensions

[wintry solar]

try adding instant = true in the return

[old bane]

Would this code make it so that each card in the scoring hand be one random rank?

local rank = pseudorandom('washing', 2, 14)
for k, c in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) do
  assert(SMODS.change_base(c, nil, rank))
end 

[orchid thunder]

what is the table telling me

so if i do other_card it will use the said triggerd card?

[grim remnant]

that works! though uh. in testing all this i accidentally stumbled upon a bug for an entirely unrelated thing

for whatever reason, this doesn't detect cards self-destructing; like food cards being eaten, or gros michel going extinct. uh. How would we do that?

local card_remove_ref = Card.remove
function Card:remove()
    if self.area and (self.area == G.jokers) and not G.CONTROLLER.locks.selling_card then
        SMODS.calculate_context({joker_destroyed = true , card_destroyed = self})
    end
    card_remove_ref(self)
end```

[normal crest]

Instead of checking self.area check self.added_to_deck

If you do thar you'll have to add another check for if the card is actually a joker

[grim remnant]

how would we go about that? we mean, outside of just appending another "and" check--that much is obvious--we mean like, what variable ;P

[normal crest]

if self.ability.set == "Joker" and self.added_to_deck and not G.CONTROLLER.locks.selling_card then

Food jokers get removed from the jokers card area before Card.remove is called, which is why checking for the area doesn't work

but added_to_deck gets set to nil in Card.remove, so you can use that if you hook at the start

[wintry solar]

is this a custom context?

[normal crest]

Yes

[grim remnant]

that worked, thank you very much!

[wintry solar]

put it in remove from deck

[grim remnant]

Danton will now re-imburse you for your Gros Michel.

(sentence that makes a LOT of sense, we're sure.)

[normal crest]

As in hook into Card.remove_from_deck?

Why would that be better

[wintry solar]

the table is just telling you whats i the context table

[primal robin]

Most likely if number too big you'll get infinity

[wintry solar]

saves on checks

[minor furnace]

do custom enhancements automatically get added to the G.P_CENTER_POOLS["Enhanced"] enhancement pool?

[normal crest]

performance impact's gotta be negligible tho, but i see what you mean

[orchid thunder]

so if i do other_card:set_edition("polychrome") it will set the triggerd card to polychrome

[normal crest]

e_polychrome

[orchid thunder]

oh ok

[wintry solar]

context.other_card

[orchid thunder]

oh ok

[minor furnace]

the answer is yes

[wintry solar]

yeah it isnt a huge deal

[old bane]

am i able to make it so that a steel card permanently gives more mult when it's held in hand?

[orchid thunder]

how can i "upgrade" an edition

[hardy viper]

iterate through the pool of editions, find the index of the edition you currently have, increment it by 1, and index the pool of editions with that to figure out the next one (and if that doesn't exist you wrap around to 1)

alternatively do center.order

i think they should be the same

[grim remnant]

wuh oh. when hovering over spring mushroom in the collection menu when you haven't started or loaded a run yet, the game. Dislikes that.

[ionic timber]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.discard and #G.consumeables.cards + G.GAME.consumeable_buffer < G.consumeables.config.card_limit then
            G.GAME.consumeable_buffer = G.GAME.consumeable_buffer + 1
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                trigger = 'before',
                delay = 0.0,
                func = (function()
                        local _card = create_card('Uncannycard',G.consumeables, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil)
                        _card:add_to_deck()
                        G.consumeables:emplace(_card)
                        G.GAME.consumeable_buffer = 0
                    return true
                end)}))
            card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = "Feur", colour = G.C.PURPLE})
        end
    end

I kinda need help, I'm trying to have an effect on my custom seal similar to the purple seal, but for some reason it creates two cards instead of one, I might just be missing something but this code is mostly similar to the purple seal so I'm confused

[orchid thunder]

this didnt work

[red flower]

you need to check that G.playing_cards exists before doing the for loop

in loc vars

[grim remnant]

uhhhh, how do i do that

[red flower]

if G.playing_cards then

[orchid thunder]

this doesnt work either

[wintry solar]

you're on old calc jank mode

[orchid thunder]

oh shit

[grim remnant]

i've tried various combinations of adding commas but nothin's worked out

[red flower]

the syntax is

if your_condition then
-- your code
end

[grim remnant]

THERE we go

[midnight heath]

i'm not sure. i'm so new to this whole thing and im afraid if any question is gonna be very dumb to the smartest masters of lua coding, even though i'm new.

[tepid crow]

If you're completely new, I suggest checking out some "how to code in lua" tutorials

[orchid thunder]

this sounds hard to do

[midnight heath]

i'm only trying to do one thing and that's to make a soundtrack pack that can be toggleable

[tepid crow]

Regardless your 2 options are either to ask someone to do it for you, or learn how to do it yourself

[midnight heath]

are you good at that kind of stuff?

[long sun]

hiya, this ability triggers at the right time, but doesn't destroy the cards it triggers on — how would i do that?

if context.destroying_card and context.destroying_card.ability.name == 'Glass Card' then
      card_eval_status_text(card, "extra", nil, nil, nil, { message = "Pranked!", colour = G.C.FILTER })
      return nil, true
    end```

[tepid crow]

I won't be doing it for you (I'm on vacation and dont have a pc or laptop with me) if that's what your question is

[midnight heath]

ok

[orchid thunder]

um what

\

[minor magnet]

can someone tell me why this doesn't display correctly?

the green bar which should show you what's your last used tarot doesn't show up

at all

[wintry solar]

I believe you need to return the main_end

[minor magnet]

in the vars or outside?

[wintry solar]

outside, like main_end = main_end

also probably need a local on where you create it

[limpid halo]

im having a bit of a brainfart but is it possible to get card variables in Card:draw ?
self.config.center.config seems to just get the default values and not anything that's been modified since the card was spawned

[olive moth]

trying to create a simple deck mod, what am i missing here? what could cause this?

it seems like it's not an error in my code necessarily, but the way it interacts with the game i think?

this is literally the whole code rn
do i need to add actual functionality before i can see the deck ingame or..?

[minor magnet]

ok now it displays the red bar with none but crashes when it has to display any tarot names

[wintry solar]

what does the crash say?

[olive moth]

yall asking advanced questions, i feel like a neanderthal among you lowkey 😭

[tepid crow]

Loc txt needs to be a table, not a string

[sturdy compass]

Just put some brackets around the string and all should be good

[tepid crow]

Well

I'd use the proper keys too

[sturdy compass]

oh yeah u right about that too

[olive moth]

oh dang, true

thank youuu

[long sun]

(bump)

[tepid crow]

Return remove = true

Not literally, in a table

[sturdy compass]

Oh yeah random question I've been wondering but haven't tried yet: Is it possible to pass a sound variable in the extra table of a card_eval_status_text call?

[wintry solar]

do you need to use card_eval_status_text?

[long sun]

ah that worked! cheers ^^

[wintry solar]

-# the answer is yes but you shouldn't need to use that jank ass function

[limpid halo]

wait why not what's the correct func to use

[wintry solar]

just use the return table

[limpid halo]

but what if you want to do multiple / outside of calculate?

[sturdy compass]

Unfortunately yes due to the timing of things

[wintry solar]

then you can use SMODS.calculate_effect({table here}, card_to_act_on) if outside of calculate

if you need to chain messages you can add extra = {new table here} to your return table

[sturdy compass]

Here's the code I've currently got that's causing this ask

It's probably bad but to be fair it worked

[wintry solar]

I mean card_eval... works it's just jank to use

like you could replace it with SMODS.calculate_effect({message = "success!", colour = G.C.GREEN}, card) there and avoid all the nils

[sturdy compass]

And judging from the answer, I would be able to add a sound field?

[wintry solar]

yes

[sturdy compass]

sick, thank ya

[wintry solar]

it'll also work if you just add sound to cest

[left lance]

Okay y'all, a final quesiton I have before I stop bothering y'all for a bit; I'm trying to make a version of abstract joker with money instead of mult; if I test it in a game it works fine, but it crashes my game if I view it in the collection not in a game. I know I have to do something where I tell it because it can't access #G.jokers outside a game it displays 0, but I'm unsure how to actually enforce it

[sturdy compass]

I'll probably just end up refactoring to use calc_effect. Again, thanks

[minor furnace]

working as intended 🙂

[tepid crow]

Check if G.jokers exists

[left lance]

do i just add an if/else based on "if not G.jokers then"

[tepid crow]

That would work yes

[orchid thunder]

how can i make post trigger happen well On trigger

it happens beforee they trigger

[tepid crow]

I don't think you can? That's why it's called post trigger?

[orchid thunder]

post is after 💀

[tepid crow]

Wait you're saying "post triggers are happening before the actual trigger"?

[orchid thunder]

yeah at the beginign of scoring

[tepid crow]

How can you tell that's happening?

[orchid thunder]

il get a video

i cant explain

[tepid crow]

Sure

[wintry solar]

post triggers definitely happen after

[wintry solar]

show your code

you're using instant messages

[tepid crow]

Yeah that's my guess too

[orchid thunder]

Oh

[normal crest]

G.jokers and #G.jokers.cards * 2 or 0

[left lance]

OH G.jokers is the check for if the variable exist isn't it

[normal crest]

Yeah if G.jokers exists it'll return the length of cards * 2, otherwise 0

[left lance]

huh yeah, thats def me thinking things work like they would in python, or close to it

[orchid thunder]

edition still happens at start bu the mesage works ass expected

[wintry solar]

add the delay argument to the edition

[orchid thunder]

?

[wintry solar]

immediate to false

[orchid thunder]

is it set on to default?\

[wintry solar]

I don't remember

but worth a try

otherwise throw them in events

[orchid thunder]

what do i do for the event

[limpid halo]

im having an immense skill issue trying to get a soul_pos to not be centered on the base card.
Anyone know what to change to get a Sprite() to draw at a offset? i was trying with it's X and Y but that doesn't seem to do anything
also modifying stuff with the draw_shader call i don't really get any usable results :v

[left lance]

now I get a slightly different error that I'm 'attempting to index field vars (a number value)'... is that some keyword issue with count or some syntax error?

[wintry solar]

put {count}

[left lance]

ah it is literally that easy

Lua... truly one of the programming languages of all time

[normal crest]

dont blame it on lua

vars is just meant to be a table

[left lance]

oh no genuine skill issue on my part no blame to Lua... but it is truly a language of all time

[hardy viper]

i love ambiguous typing!

does zig do that

i don't think zig does that

oh it does

sick

[edgy reef]

It is extremely strange but I do value Lua since imo it's less painful to learn as a first language compared to the presumed hell of immediately jumping into C or C-ish languages.

(technically I learned Python first but that language is fake)

I do wish the Lua LSP was less... atrocious to work with.

[normal crest]

I also found myself really enjoying Lua

[orchid thunder]

i put it in an event and caused an infiinite loop so il juyst deal with it happening early

[normal crest]

But it comes with all the problems of dynamically typed languages that's annoying

[wintry solar]

I think dynamically typed languages are only annoying if you already know how to use a typed language

[normal crest]

Yeah, then you know what you're missing out on

[edgy reef]

"Fuck it we ball" typing is fun sometimes

[wintry solar]

I don't mind it now I'm used to it again though, it's actually remarkably useful in some situations

[normal crest]

It is but making large projects with it becomes more difficult imo

[edgy reef]

Hobby language moment

I just wished the LSP got the memo because it genuinely think Lua is statically typed (or at least tried to force it).

[hardy viper]

lua doesn't have too much bullshit with iterators and it doesn't force an abysmal amount of OOP onto you which i love

[violet void]

is self.deck_preview the thing I need to check if I want these custom card areas to move down too when hovering the deck?

[high stag]

I'm not insane for thinking that nothing should be able to hit the else to print "after" right? like, I have a yes or no question as the other 2 if options, is the score nil? If yes, return "score is nil" if it isnt return that it isnt and do the rest of the code

and yet, somehow, "after" returned

the errors are about booting up the shop

[normal crest]

Maybe nil * nil is nan, but idk

[orchid thunder]

accualy its just applying of the shader happens early the sound happends at the right time?

[wintry solar]

I think it's this

try wrapping the math.floor(... in brackets

[gaunt thistle]

lua doesn't need types. Mike Hall didn't sacrifice all he loved so you could sully luajit with types.

[normal crest]

I don't think anyone said lua needs types tbh

[wintry idol]

i despite python imo

i learnt it and liked it for a bit but

man

[high stag]

that solved that
and apparently G.GAME.blind.blind isnt a value I can use as a number

[wintry idol]

it’s like inconsistent with other languages and inconsistent with itself

and then also slower than other languages

[gaunt thistle]

python is fun

but it's a pain

[high stag]

it came back saying i was comparing the value of the hand with nil

[chrome widget]

Ideally for really big projects, it can be beneficial to use both weakly and strongly typed languages tbh. My last job had us use this big C#/C++ engine, but had a whole big typescript scripting engine hooked into it

[wintry solar]

G.GAME.blind.chips is what you need I think

[chrome widget]

That said I'm kinda shit at backend programming and have hated what little of it I've done, so I'm glad to not have to work with that

[wintry idol]

this isn’t about your error (kinda) but if you’re a beginner i’d recommend learning about early returns in your code to help
keep it meet

neat**

the more nested your code is the harder it gets to manage

but it does come down to preference

[chrome widget]

Can concur, early returns are neat

[high stag]

for me its a preference thing, the more nested it is the easier it is for me to chunk it apart

I can go "okay we are still within that function/loop/if/etc's bounds" just by seeing the tier

[normal crest]

But if your entire function is inside a condition then you might as well early return

[high stag]

the messy part comes from when I just flat shove chunks of the base game code in the middle of that

[left lance]

okay as ACTUALLY a final question... this currently changes money not once per round but continuously... is there a way to fix that without making some weird local variable and doing tracking that way? also is context.start_of_round not the opposite of context.end_of_round?

[normal crest]

add and context.main_eval

There's no start_of_round, there's setting_blind tho

Or first_hand_drawn if that's what you want

[left lance]

oh yeah first hand drawn is best

[violet void]

Neat 👌🏽

[gloomy rain]

need help with making kinda unique joker code

I want to make a joker that gives you a 1 dollar at the end of a roudn for every face card that gets destroyed

Like Canio but for money instead of mult

[wintry solar]

can you hide the counter on the secondary areas?

[neat plover]

for some reason my upgrade triggers every time the for loop checks for scored cards. any ideas why?

[violet void]

I was thinking the same thing

[maiden phoenix]

Holy shit

[wintry solar]

some of the types of area don't have them

[neat plover]

don't see what you are talking about

[gloomy rain]

like the 7/8 that shows you cards in hand at the bttom right

I think

[neat plover]

oohh

[neat plover]

at least it's not attempting TO REACH A NIL VALUE

LIKE IT'S BEEN TRYING TO FOR THE PAST HOUR

[wintry solar]

your context check isn't specific enough

[neat plover]

what is that?

[hallow slate]

So you have three rows of cards?

[violet void]

Kinda

[minor furnace]

For some reason, it's triggering the effect to lose money twice at the end of the round

    key = "pyrite",
    atlas = "New_Enhance",
    pos = {x = 2, y = 6},
    loc_txt={
        name="Pyrite Card",
        text = {
            "{C:mult}+#1#{} Mult",
            "when {C:attention}played",
            "{C:money}-$#2#{} if this",
            "card is held in hand",
            "at end of round",
        }
    },
    config = {
        extra = {
            mult = 6,
            p_dollars = 2
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        return {vars = {center.ability.extra.mult, center.ability.extra.p_dollars}}
    end,
    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.main_scoring and context.cardarea == G.play then
            return { mult = card.ability.extra.mult}
        elseif context.end_of_round and context.cardarea == G.hand then
            return { p_dollars = -card.ability.extra.p_dollars}
        end
    end
}```

[grim remnant]

Silly question; how can we make it so that a specific calculation doesn't happen when Blueprint'd, but others will? Some scaling jokers are acting rather strangely with blueprint, and while it's funny, it's also causing some cards to become... A little counter-intuitive.. ;P

[neat plover]

what's a context check?

[minor furnace]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Calculate-Functions

[minor furnace]

is there a more specific context I can use than end_of_round?

oh for consistency I shoul probably call the extra h_dollars I suppose

[neat plover]

how is it not specific

i really don't see the problem with my code

[spark tinsel]

any ideas are helpful <3

[wintry solar]

if context.cardarea == G.play then this triggers on every single context where you have played cards

[neat plover]

how do i make this work then

[wintry solar]

look at the calculate guide and find the timing you want and copy the check

[neat plover]

well its the one im using if i want to upgrade the joker when a certain card with suit played

[zealous glen]

Ohh

Cool

[placid ember]

I'm making a version of balatro called IRLtro that uses ARUco tags on cards to read them automatically with a webcam, and since I need to recreate the entire game in python for it to work it's currently playable in the command line

am I allowed to publically share the repo? it doesn't use any source code from the game, I've just taken all of the information on the wiki and recreated it

[wintry solar]

then you need context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play

[neat plover]

ok thnks!!

[violet void]

do you know of any other than title and title_2 (which have a setting for not selecting cards)

[wintry solar]

not off the top of my head

[neat plover]

ok

before it triggered between 3 and 6 times now its only 2 but still the same problem

[normal crest]

You need to add not context.blueprint as a condition to whatever part of your code shouldn't trigger on Blueprint

[neat plover]

im completely lost here

[wintry solar]

what does your code look like now?

[unkempt thicket]

where can I iterate though each joker, right after they are initiated?

[vestal ore]

is there a way to set a playing card in the deck to be a steel card in debug mode while in a run?

(or just, any enhancement?)

[violet void]

looking better

[vestal ore]

nvm forgot i can use tarot cards LOL

[wintry solar]

you don't need to loop inside individual contexts

[wintry solar]

looks great! I wonder if the shaded area could be disabled too

[neat plover]

wait so i remove the for loop?

[wintry solar]

yes, for every card you play you loop over the entire hand right now

[unkempt thicket]

How can I check if each in-game joker contains a specific var?

[minor furnace]

What is it about this context that loses the money twice at the end of the round?

        if context.main_scoring and context.cardarea == G.play then
            return { mult = 6}
        elseif context.end_of_round and context.cardarea == G.hand then
            return { dollars = -2}
        end
end```

Or I guess, I should dig through and see what Gold cards do

[graceful magnet]

is there an easy way to check when the player's money decreases?

[junior pine]

bumping this, I've been digging through the G.blind_select_opts table, but can't find the things I'm looking for

[unkempt thicket]

use context.playing_card_end_of_round instead of context.end_of_round

[rain latch]

anyone know how to fix this with the images

[minor furnace]

Thousand Year Door 👀

[neat plover]

problem with that is i check if card v is a certain suit, but there is no v without the for loop

[wintry solar]

use context.other_card

[neat plover]

ok i feel really dumb now

[high stag]

what's the context for checking something about each individual card in a played hand before score starts getting counted?

[neat plover]

broad question, in lua, to put an if after another one, do you need particular syntax or not?

[novel dagger]

I got this error saying [SMODS _ "src/game_object.lua"]:363: Failed to collect file data for Atlas Garty_Jokers and I have no idea what that means

[minor furnace]

as long as you put an end to close the first one then you can put another if after. Or if the conditions are mutually exclusive, you can put an elseif after the if, and then an end after the final elseif

or do you mean the if statement is nested?

[neat plover]

no no that was what i meant thanks

YESSSS

FINNNAALLLY

[coral grotto]

i'm trying to make a joker that scales when a specific modded tarot card is used, what i've got now doesn't seem to be working
i tried using context.consumeable.ability.name as well (which worked when i switched it to a vanilla tarot), is there some specific SMODS thing i need to use to make this work

        if context.using_consumeable then
            if context.consumeable.key == "tarot_grungler" then
                card.ability.extra.xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult + card.ability.extra.extra
                card_eval_status_text(card, "extra", nil, nil, nil, {message = localize({type = "variable", key = "a_xmult", vars = {card.ability.extra.xmult}})})
                return nil, true
            end
        end

[novel dagger]

Nvm I forgot to change the name of an image

[rapid heart]

Does anyone know how to change the speed of the music in game?

[ionic timber]

up, if anyone knows anything about this

[junior pine]

if anyone is wondering, you can get the tag if skipped can be found in G.GAME.round_resets.blind_tags, win chips is get_blind_amount(G.GAME.round_resets.ante)*G.UIDEF.current_blinds().nodes[i].nodes[1].nodes[1].nodes[1].nodes[1].config.ref_table.mult*G.GAME.starting_params.ante_scaling, reward is G.UIDEF.current_blinds().nodes[i].nodes[1].nodes[1].nodes[1].nodes[1].config.ref_table.dollars and the name of the blind is G.UIDEF.current_blinds().nodes[i].nodes[1].nodes[1].nodes[1].nodes[1].config.ref_table.name

[zealous glen]

maybe it's being called twice

[ionic timber]

that's the thing, I don't know why

I'm only discarding one card, and most of the code is like purple seal , and this one works well

[sturdy compass]

Alright time to get a bit technical (maybe). I have two jokers that act as blueprints, but they both copy the ability of cards whose positions can change. My current solution is to store the card table in a variable, and that works fine unless the player closes the game and continues the run later, causing a crash. I believe I have been told that variables that hold tables are cleared on restart so I'm sure that's what's causing it, but I'm unsure of how I should go about fixing this. I had an idea that involved just storing the card's key instead, but I'm not sure how I should calculate the card's ability from that key. Any ideas? Here's the code of one of the two jokers to give an idea of what I'm working with

[unkempt thicket]

how do you get a cards cardarea from the card itself? (in this context SMODS.current_mod.set_debuff(card))

[red flower]

card.area

[grim remnant]

how do we add a new deck exactly?

[rapid heart]

Is there any way to stop just the music's pitch from changing? There's a custom song I want to import and it always changes the pitch and stuff
There was a line of code that I changed that fixed the issue but then the pitches for other sounds were messed up and Idk if there is another way around it

[sturdy compass]

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

[grim remnant]

oh my god. psychic link achieved

we also went to the well of Big Penny for joker design inspo

[limber blaze]

looks awesome

[grim remnant]

please do not change yours. we think it is objectively hilarious if there are two distinct pennies that double in size that function differently based on mod. of all the concepts to run into the "50 minecraft mods that all add copper ore" conundrum

[limber blaze]

oh yeah this one increases size every time too like physically it gets bigger but its not doubling its not even multiplicative

it just gains 0.1 scale

[grim remnant]

AWESOOOME

[limber blaze]

i keep adding rare jokers that are annoying to implement and by keep i mean its happened only 1 other time so far

[normal crest]

surely the scale is limited

[limber blaze]

i mean to get high enough for it to matter youd have to go past ante 38 cause the max scale getting it on ante 1 would put the scale at 4.9 which is honestly not too outrageous

[minor furnace]

Making a Mult equivalent of a Stone card, but it didn't score when I played it with a pair

    key = "marble",
    atlas = "New_Enhance",
    pos = {x = 3, y = 6},
    loc_txt={
        name="Marble Card",
        text = {
            "{C:mult}+#1#{} Mult",
            "no rank or suit",
        }
    },
    config = {
        extra = {
            mult = 10
        }
    },
    replace_base_card = true,
    no_rank = true,
    no_suit = true,
    alaways_scores = true,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        return {vars = {center.ability.extra.mult}}
    end,
    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.main_scoring and context.cardarea == G.play then
            return { mult = card.ability.extra.mult}
        end
    end
}```

[coral grotto]

misspelled always

[minor furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-emoji-gif-21922016

thank you

I swear it's always the dumbest things

yeah that did it

[coral grotto]

i've tried the following:

        if context.using_consumeable then
            if context.consumeable.config.center_key == "The Grungler" then
                card.ability.extra.xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult + card.ability.extra.extra
                card_eval_status_text(card, "extra", nil, nil, nil, {message = localize({type = "variable", key = "a_xmult", vars = {card.ability.extra.xmult}})})
                return nil, true
            end
        end

and have added this to my consumable:

config = {
        center_key = 'The Grungler'
    },

still doesn't appear to be working, is there anything i'm doing wrong

[sturdy compass]

Woahhhhh this is reaaaaaaaally cool

[minor furnace]

so you can disable Oops All 6's while playing glass then? 👀

[limber blaze]

you can do many things

[high stag]

So I am still working on that joker that changes card suits
With this layout of Jokers, a played Heart card currently follows this order of events:
displays as heart
changes to spade
triggers Lusty Joker
triggers Reverse Card
triggers Wrathful Joker

I am looking to make it follow this order instead:
displays as heart
triggers Lusty Joker
triggers Reverse Card
changes to spade
triggers Wrathful Joker

any idea what needs to change about this code to cause the "changes to spade" element to not trigger until the reverse card is triggered? (and yes I know that the return currently triggers an Upgrade! message, I'm gonna fix that once the card functions correctly otherwise

[foggy carbon]

vivian!

[marble flint]

move the message and colour out of extra?

[grim remnant]

does anyone know if it's possible to give a deck a soul layer? i had a really cool effect in mind, but uh, just trying to insert pos = { x = 1, y = 0 }, soul_pos = { x = 2, y = 0 } did nothing

[sturdy compass]

You'd probably have to make some injects into Back rendering code to get that to work

[grim remnant]

whoof, guess i'm not doing that unless steamodded updates to vastly streamline that particular process ;P

[high stag]

this changed nothing

[old bane]

how do i update the info center to match a dynamic tarot card? I want to make it so that a Joker gives you the tarot card matching the suit you have the most of (if you have more Spades, it'll give you the World), and I want the info_center bubble to update to the appropriate tarot card (like if it'll give you a Moon card, the info_center will show you the description of the Moon)

[grim remnant]

more on the actual functionality side, how can i make it so the player starts with a random joker of a given (custom) rarity? i mean i could also start them with the card that SPAWNS that given rarity but that is vulnerable to a Perkeo Moment

[high stag]

let em perkeo

[neat plover]

for common, give em a riff raff

[grim remnant]

i mean, i need it to be for a custom rarity. the closest thing i can think of to compare it to is Wormhole Deck in Cryptid.

[sturdy compass]

I think you should just do a normal create_card() process the deck's apply function

For the rarity parameter, here's what the vanilla rarities act as

Not entirely sure how a custom rarity would factor into that tho

[rain latch]

making this mod pack is def guna push me to the edge lmao

[grim remnant]

how do we run the apply(self, back) function and put create_card() in it, exactly? (this is the first time we've made a deck so we have NO idea what the syntax is here)

(also would it be like, bad to use SMODS.add_card over create_card() for this)

[normal crest]

the apply function is not run by you

and do use SMODS.add_card

[old bane]

how would i use localize to get the name of a tarot card by key? would it be like
localize{type = "Tarot", key = 'c_world'}?

[grim remnant]

okay, yeah, the syntax here is all wrong. how do we apply?

[sturdy compass]

you forgot an end

[unkempt thicket]

How can I check if each in-game joker contains a specific var?

[sturdy compass]

Are you checking for a returned value or just one that's being stored?

[unkempt thicket]

A vaule thats being stored, one each joker would have.

[sturdy compass]

What exactly are you looking for?

[unkempt thicket]

if joker has a stored var then i want to add it to a list, the key. if it doesn't have the var it doesn't add the joker key to the list.

my problem is doing this for every joker before the game begins (a run)

[grim remnant]

tried with both it in and out of the add_card but nothing. still not sure if we even set up the apply correctly... ^^;

[high stag]

i think all jokers fall into a set you can for loop through, then you can be like "if i in joker_set has var == X, add to list"

[sturdy compass]

ah I see it. The function declaration should be apply = function(self, back)

[grim remnant]

game boots, but on trying to start a game with the deck, this happens.

[unkempt thicket]

i did this for a similar effect though create joker can be replaced with something similar too G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({ func = function() local card = create_card('Joker', G.jokers, nil, nil, nil, nil, jester_key, 'jest') card:add_to_deck() G.jokers:emplace(card) card:start_materialize() G.GAME.joker_buffer = 0 return true end}))

[sturdy compass]

Try putting the create card function in an event , that's how Magic Deck handles it

You don't need to do the loop or all the other fancy stuff, just the SMODS.create_card

[chrome widget]

What's the cheapest way to find every joker the player has that is part of a valid list of jokers? Literally just nested for loops?

I don't know off the top of my head if there's some fun lua shenanigans I can pull here

[sturdy compass]

Yeah probably

[normal crest]

well instead of a list you can do a map like local valid_jokers = { j_joker = true }, and then do, if valid_jokers[G.jokers.cards[i].config.center_key] then for example

that'd avoid using nested loops

[chrome widget]

Oh true! Lua shenanigans

[sturdy compass]

Does SMODS.create_card return the card it created?

nvm it does

[normal crest]

if you don't emplace it it just floats around tho

which is pretty silly

[sturdy compass]

I thought it emplaced by default?

huh, guess not lol

@real temple

[normal crest]

add_card does emplace it

[sturdy compass]

Ahhhhh ok

[unkempt thicket]

How can I check if each in-game joker contains a specific stored var, before the game begins (a run)?

[sonic cedar]

I have the descriptions for my jokers stored in a localization file, but how do i get the file to find them? The jokers just keep showing up with blank description boxes.

[old bane]

do the keys of the localizations match this format:

j_(your mod prefix)_(joker key)

[sonic cedar]

i

forgot the j_

[old bane]

oop

[sonic cedar]

does it need to be like in the actual joker too?

[old bane]

like this key format? or the text and descriptions of the jokers?

[sonic cedar]

like

localization key= j_prefix_joker

does the SMODS.Joker also now have to use j_prefix_joker, or can it still use joker

[old bane]

it can just be joker

[sonic cedar]

ok thanks

[old bane]

cause if you do j_prefix_joker for the joker key the localization key has to be j_prefix_j_prefix_joker and that's a bit ridiculous

how do i have a shader be just a transparent image overlaid on top of the card? I wanna have like a "watermark" effect with one of the jokers

[sturdy compass]

imma bump this one

[unkempt thicket]

could you do this?

[sturdy compass]

The key isn't a card object tho and would error

[unkempt thicket]

i know that why its geting the cards.config.center_key

which gets the jokers key that equals the set key

in the players jokers

[sturdy compass]

Ah I see what you're trying to do now, but that would require the copied joker to be in the card area. Ideally they retain the effect even if the copied joker isn't in the jokers area

[unkempt thicket]

i see there was a joker that would copy a random joker from the player collection, i'll try to find it could be of use.

[next pivot]

how do i make a hand that is more than 5 cards playable?

[sturdy compass]

You want to change G.hand.config.highlighted_limit

[next pivot]

I've done that, and it's not letting me play it.
This is the code: (It's just the entire 52 card deck poker hand from Cryptid)

[unkempt thicket]

I found it

https://github.com/GitNether/nethers-jokers/blob/blank-joker-standalone/standalone_blankjoker/blank_joker.lua

[sturdy compass]

This is just the hand type?

[unkempt thicket]

this should also prove useful to me

[next pivot]

Yeah, here's the joker if it's needed.

SMODS.Joker{
    key="draw_full",
    loc_txt={
        name="Draw Full",
        text = {
            "Draw {C:attention}literally your entire deck{}",
            "into your hand",
            "Also, lets you select your entire #1# card deck."
        }
    },
    rarity = 1,
    atlas="spark",
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    config = {extra = 52},
    center = {config = {extra = 52},},
    cost = 2,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue)
        return { vars = { math.max(1, math.floor(self.config.extra)) } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if not context.blueprint and not context.retrigger_joker then
            if context.first_hand_drawn then
                G.FUNCS.draw_from_deck_to_hand(#G.deck.cards)
                return nil, true
            elseif G.hand.config.card_limit < 1 then
                G.hand.config.card_limit = 1
            end
        end
        G.hand.config.highlighted_limit = G.hand.config.highlighted_limit
        + math.max(1, math.floor(self.config.extra))
    end
}

[sturdy compass]

Why are you changing the highlighted_limit to highlighted_limit? There's no change there

[next pivot]

There's a plus added below it

It's just indented to the bottom

[sturdy compass]

Ah

Ok instead of doing that in calculate() you should do this in add_to_deck()

[next pivot]

So just change calculate() to add_to_deck()?

[sturdy compass]

Just the part where you change the highlighted_limit

You should also add a remove_from_deck function to reset it when you get rid of the card

[next pivot]

The Play Hand button is still grayed out.

[sturdy compass]

did you set up the function correctly?

[next pivot]

this is what i changed it to:

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if not context.blueprint and not context.retrigger_joker then
            if context.first_hand_drawn then
                G.FUNCS.draw_from_deck_to_hand(#G.deck.cards)
                return nil, true
            elseif G.hand.config.card_limit < 1 then
                G.hand.config.card_limit = 1
            end
        end

    end,
    add_to_deck = function(self,card,context)
        G.hand.config.highlighted_limit = G.hand.config.highlighted_limit
        + math.max(1, math.floor(self.config.extra))
    end,
    remove_from_deck = function(self,card,context)
        G.hand.config.highlighted_limit = G.hand.config.highlighted_limit
        - math.max(1, math.floor(self.config.extra))
    end

[sturdy compass]

It looks like you declared the functions incorrectly

[sturdy compass]

Unfortunately doesn't look helpful for my uses. I appreciate the effort tho

[unkempt thicket]

I thought it was kind of what you were trying to do, well not randomized but very similar

[next pivot]

declared the functions the correct way, same thing.

    add_to_deck = function(self,card,from_debuff)
        print("added")
        G.hand.config.highlighted_limit = G.hand.config.highlighted_limit
        + math.max(1, math.floor(self.config.extra))
    end,
    remove_from_deck = function(self,card,from_debuff)
        print("removed")
        G.hand.config.highlighted_limit = G.hand.config.highlighted_limit
        - math.max(1, math.floor(self.config.extra))
    end

-# quickly added some debug prints, yeah it's working

[sturdy compass]

It's still storing a card object as a variable

[old bane]

okay so i really want to draw a sprite over a card like the soul or legendary cards (but instead of it floating it'll be on the card like an enhancement) and i'm struggling with trying to comprehend how the draw functions work, does anyone have any idea how one might accomplish this?

I would like to avoid having it be a sticker but if I have to have it be a sticker because editions aren't flexible enough I can

[sturdy compass]

Ah I forgot you need to make a lovely patch to allow playing more than five cards. You can use mine

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/button_callbacks.lua"
pattern = "if #G.hand.highlighted <= 0 or G.GAME.blind.block_play or #G.hand.highlighted > 5 then "
position = "at"
payload = "if #G.hand.highlighted <= 0 or G.GAME.blind.block_play or #G.hand.highlighted > G.hand.config.highlighted_limit then "
match_indent = true
times = 1

[next pivot]

Gotcha, makes sense, thanks!

[sturdy compass]

np

[rain latch]

would anyone know why the Jokers.png is making the jokers appear like this instead of the individual jokers

[old bane]

your jokers have a soul_pos that goes to the position of those floating sprites in the atlas, correct?

[sturdy compass]

Can you show the code for the cards?

[rain latch]

its very bare bones so if i dont have what i need it would not shock me 😓

im still learning LUA

so any tips is appreciated

[sturdy compass]

Also it looks like the cards are misaligned on the sprite sheet due to other cards bleeding through on the bottom

[rain latch]

this is truew

i wasnt sure how the legendarys would work

with the layered cards

[sturdy compass]

Yeah for legendaries you just need to add a soul_pos that has the coordinates to the floating head on the spritesheet

[rain latch]

ooooh okay

doe sthe sprite sheet seem to be made incorrect?

i didnt do the art im just the coder guy lol

[sturdy compass]

Here's an example of a correct soul_pos addition

[rain latch]

ooooh

[sturdy compass]

Yeah. The cards are misaligned or too close together (or both)

[rain latch]

okay thankyou

[sturdy compass]

The general rule of thumb is the art should have a 2px border on each side

[rain latch]

2px okay these are only 1

i shall let the art guy know

[sturdy compass]

It should total to 4px between cards

[rain latch]

i think that may be 4

bad pciture lemme send a better one sorry

[sturdy compass]

Sorry not border

Like 2px of blank space surrounding it

[rain latch]

okay so the white should be 2 and then grey 2 aswell

cuz i know the joker should be 71x95

and i think these are like 2-3 less

[sturdy compass]

No

gimme a sec

[rain latch]

okie dokie

[sturdy compass]

This should show it a bit better

and if that 4px gap doesn't work then try 2px. My sprites might be a little oversized

[rain latch]

okay thankyou

this is guna be hard but its very fun!

if i have any other questisons am i good to ask you

[sturdy compass]

Sure. Just ask here cuz I'm one of many lol

[rain latch]

no issue lol

[nova finch]

how do i add these little description things?

nvm i just remembered

[small moon]

print("Adding Achievement !!!!!!")

SMODS.Achievement {
    key = "true_clown",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "A True Clown",
        text = {
            "Complete a Gold Stake run without using any Jokers"
        },
        unlock = {
            '???'
        }
    },
    atlas = "BoingularMisc",
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
    bypass_all_unlocked = true,
    hidden_text = true,
    unlock_condition = function(self, args)
        --  and (args.stake or self.GAME.stake or 1) == 8
        if args.type == "add_card" and args.args.ability.set == "Joker" then
            print("Mel: Adding Joker!")
            G.GAME.current_round.mel_true_clown_status = false
        end
        print("Checking: "..args.type)
        print(G.GAME.current_round.mel_true_clown_status)
        return args.type == "win" and G.GAME.current_round.mel_true_clown_status
    end
}

I have the above code for a custom achievement, but in the Achievements menu it shows "ERROR" as the description, and unlock_condition is never run, even with Achievements enabled in the menu (or else I'd be seeing a lot of debug messages when the game first starts)

[umbral zodiac]

is context.after for when a played hand is done scoring

[nova finch]

how do i make a info_queue for a tag?

[stray warren]

info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = G.P_TAGS.tag_rare for example

[nova finch]

ohhh

that's why

i was uing P_CENTERS

[stray warren]

yeah, a Tag isn't a Center

[timid lynx]

I’m trying to make a simple skin pack, and I just imported the few jokers I’ve made so far into the game. But for some reason only one of them is actually changed in game? I’m wondering how that’s possible since all jokers are on the same PNG file

[wintry swallow]

Can you send me your mod files so I can experiment?

I have a minor annoyance due to insufficient information about it on the web. I have successfully merged a ton of skin mods to change the appearance of the card but I cannot find any documentation on what the key for the actual 52 card deck is. Everything else has a name such as Joker for Jokers and Planet for the planet cards.

[timid lynx]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bRMdJWU1cGGgqEneYDLAaCYG2uvYhxf1?usp=sharing

I only changed 2 jokers (and only one of them actually updated in game) and I changed all of the planet cards but none of those updated either

[paper zealot]

You can avoid the need for documentation by checking the game functions directly. If you open up Balatro.exe as an archive with 7-zip, Winzip, etc. all of the game assets and .lua files are easily readable

I believe it's G.playing_cards that you're interested in

[wintry swallow]

Which joker did you change? The Lua looks good

[timid lynx]

I changed Scholar and Madness, only Madness actually changed

[wintry swallow]

To change the planet cards, you have to use the Planet key. You spefied Tarot

[timid lynx]

ooooooooooh gotcha

[wintry swallow]

Planet, spectral, Tarot. Even though they are all the same image

The one you change on the bottom right appears to be too large on the right side

[wintry swallow]

The code is a doozy. I can probably figure it out but I was hoping someone could answer definitively

[nova finch]

is there a way to make one rank count as another? (e.g. make a 8 count as a 9)

[old bane]

there might be a way to do it like smeared joker? check the code for that and use it but with ids instead of suits

how do i add a sticker and have it be like the perishable sticker? I have it set up to where there's calculate and set functions for the sticker but i'm stuck on how and where to declare

self.ability.drained = true

as a part of the Card object.

[timid lynx]

What do you mean?

[wintry swallow]

The second image is too far to the right

[timid lynx]

Which image?

[wintry swallow]

The one you added. Not the one from baldis basics

[timid lynx]

Madness? Thats the only one that’s showing up in game though, so if it’s too far to the right why is that the one that’s working?

[wintry swallow]

Interesting. It loaded differently for me. Let me check