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[olive moth]

:,,,,)

of course it doesn't work, i have no idea what i'm doing........

[hushed field]

you can just check whether a card has an edition already, right?

[glad osprey]

how would I make a sticker take away money like the rental sticker

[olive moth]

tried to rip self-destruction code off Gros michel/Cavendish, either crashes or does nothing

[prisma loom]

how do you write that? context.other_card:is_foil ?

[olive moth]

someday i'll get it 🤞

[wintry solar]

You can look at how chameleon works in ortalab, that does something similar

[ionic timber]

a friend of mine wanted to try my mod

[onyx sonnet]

the adachi true invasion

[ionic timber]

he plays his theme everytime he scores

[hushed field]

not sure, i can check, but i'm quite sure that logic should already be there in wheel of fortune

[onyx sonnet]

@wintry solar for this joker here, is there a way to check for retriggers instead of regular scoring?

oop i forgot to paste

[wintry solar]

Just do not context.other_card.edition

[onyx sonnet]

    key = "aroace",
    config = { extra = { repetitions = 0 } },
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true, 
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,
    perishable_compat = true,
    rarity = 2,
    atlas = "NeatoJokers",
    pos = { x = 5, y = 0 },
    cost = 6,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.cardarea == G.play and context.repetition and not context.repetition_only then
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 14 and context.other_card ~= context.scoring_hand[table.getn(context.scoring_hand)] then
                card.ability.extra.repetitions = card.ability.extra.repetitions + 1
            end
            if context.other_card == context.scoring_hand[table.getn(context.scoring_hand)] then
                rep = card.ability.extra.repetitions
                card.ability.extra.repetitions = 0
                return {
                    repetitions = rep,
                    card=self,
                }
            end
        end
    end
}```

[wintry solar]

Can you screenshot for mobile pls

[onyx sonnet]

okk

oh wait i just realized its probbaly the Not repetition thats stopping the retriggers from counting

[prisma loom]

what about enhancements?

not context.other_card.enhancement?

[wintry solar]

context.other_card.ability.set ~= “Enhanced”

[prisma loom]

thanks!

[wintry solar]

What’s it trying to do?

[onyx sonnet]

Well the joker itself is trying to retrigger the rightmost scored everytime a played ace is triggered

but it seems to ignore retriggers and only cares about the quantity of scored aces

[wintry solar]

Don’t check for repetition on the first block, check for individual

[onyx sonnet]

so just context.individual

?

[prisma loom]

like this?

[wintry solar]

And the value check too

[onyx sonnet]

oh thank you very much!!

[olive moth]

and back to our regular rubric "Sophie asking the most obvious questions"

how do i make a joker self-destruct 😭

what do i call

[wintry solar]

joker:start_dissolve()

[olive moth]

YAAAAY

TY

[onyx sonnet]

im not sure what you exactly mean...

[wintry solar]

The repetition context is called once per card to check for how many further triggers to do, individual is called every time the card triggers, so to count triggers you want to increment your counter within the individual context

You still need the check for an ace that you already had though

[minor furnace]

is there a prefix for adding a custom sticker center to the infoqueue, like how enhancements take m_ or tarots/planets take c_?

[minor magnet]

i am bumping this again even tho i said i wouldnt because i just can't figure it out and it's literally the last piece im missing for completing the most complex joker i've ever made

[onyx sonnet]

so for the first block of ifs, i would need to change it to this?
if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual then

[minor magnet]

nono it's just perishable

set should be other

[minor furnace]

I'm not sure I follow

[minor magnet]

info_queue[#info_queue+1] = {set = "Other", key = "perishable", specific_vars = {}}

should work

[minor furnace]

and so I just replace "perishable" with whatever the name of my custom sticker is?

[limpid wing]

I will ask again, what is the key word for change the atlas for tarots, planets and spectral cards

[minor magnet]

did you put your custom sticker's description in a localization file? if so then yes

[minor magnet]

wdym

[limpid wing]

the key word for the joker atlas is "Joker"

but what is the one for the consumable atlas

[minor furnace]

I created an SMODS.Sticker{} for it with a loc_txt field so I think so

[limpid wing]

i was thinking its "Tarot" but that dont work

[glad osprey]

how would i force a consumeable to be unusable

like judgement without any joker space

[minor furnace]

you have to add a

        return true
    end,```
to the card's data

except with a condition on how to use it and when to return true or false

[minor furnace]

this worked, thanks!

just had to make it key = "prefix_stickerName"

[glad osprey]

what if i was trying to make a sticker block a consumables use

[minor furnace]

does the consumable have the sticker on it, or does the target card have the sticker?

[glad osprey]

consumable

[minor furnace]

I don't think I'm qualified to answer this one, I'm not sure how stickers are stored yet. This is my first time trying to implement something sticker-related

[foggy carbon]

can I change a joker's rarity dynamically? What I want to do is make my fusions have the default fusion rarity unless the player has DeFused installed, at which point they would have my pre-defined rarities for them

[onyx sonnet]

@wintry solar ive been trying many permutations of adding context.individual into the first if block and it doesnt seem to work at all, it completely obstructs the joker's functionality and it ends up doing nothing

[chrome widget]

Is there a way to dynamically and selectively apply lovely patches? Would I literally just need to move the patches I don't want to be applied outside of the lovely folder and reload the mod?

[foggy carbon]

nevermind, got it

[chrome widget]

How did you do it, Rot8er?

[olive moth]

Trying to add a self-destruct message to sisyphus :,>

[minor furnace]

one must imagine

[olive moth]

the developer happy

once again, the responsible code

also it plays the sound multiple times fsr (i'm guessing 13, once for every card turned gold, EVEN THOUGH IT SHOULDNT(?))

[marsh basalt]

I think it's executing for every card in hand

[olive moth]

...in deck

[maiden phoenix]

Your play_sound isnt in a context check

[olive moth]

...wait

[marsh basalt]

No, it is in the context check

Tabs are just weird

[olive moth]

yea

[marsh basalt]

Try adding not context.repetition into your context check

[olive moth]

wait no, hold up

it's not in the check

wait it is

i need to sleep

[olive moth]

on this

[minor furnace]

Does the loc_vars function require a different kind of return than for other objects? Because I don't think this should be giving nil

    key = "ephemeral",
    atlas = "New_Sticker",
    pos = {x = 4, y = 2},
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Ephemeral",
        text = {
            "Debuffed after",
            "{C:attention}#1#{} rounds",
            "Has no sell value",
            "{C:inactive}({C:attention}#2#{C:inactive} remaining)"
        }
    },
    default_compat = true,
    sets = {
        Joker = true
    },
    config = {
        extra = {
            total_turns = 3,
            current_turns = 3
        }
    },
    rate = 0,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        return {vars = {center.ability.extra.total_turns, center.ability.extra.current_turns}}
    end,
}```

related question, are the values inside config mutable?

[rose dragon]

config.extra is mutable

[minor furnace]

awesome

[minor furnace]

and it's also a separate instance for every object it applies to?

[rose dragon]

yea

[minor furnace]

perfect, thanks

[neat plover]

when is the blueprint actually triggered

?

[limpid halo]

after 3 days i finally got this effect to work properly
am happy
https://awoo.download/SvcrRGUh-.mp4

[minor magnet]

holy shit this is so cool

[marsh basalt]

Ooh that's a sick visual

[chrome widget]

oooh that's cool as shit

[tepid crow]

Yooo thats awesome

[acoustic kernel]

oo... econ jokers if they were cool(er)

[neat plover]

amazing

[nocturne garnet]

MROE GAMBLING?!?!>@<

[minor magnet]

i give my soul to whoever can fix this

NO WAIT

I FIXED IT MYSELF LMAO IM AN IDIOT

[wintry solar]

Can you show the code as you have it now?

[minor magnet]

that was a joke lads, nothing was fixed, i bamboozled myself

[wintry solar]

You need to hijack the function where loc vars are calculated

[neat plover]

the holy trinity

in this world its copy or be copied

[minor magnet]

ye wait imma show you the full code

[wintry solar]

Wait

Can’t you just add the center?

[olive moth]

thank you 😭

the machine spirit is unknowable in its ways (i have no idea how and why it worked but it did)

[wintry solar]

info_queue[#info_queue+1] = G.P_CENTERS[G.GAME.last_tarot_planet]

[hushed field]

oh damn, that looks rad! very smooth

[olive moth]

them DOUBLE TAGS, good lord

[onyx sonnet]

this version works just the same as the old one which isnt what im looking for

[minor magnet]

(line 39 is just the return function for the hermit tarot)

hermit code even if it doesn't matter since this happens with all tarots

[foggy carbon]

I added this within my mod's code. FusionJokers already does something similar to make a new rarity, so I just highjack it to go "does fusion exist? use its new rarity"

[chrome widget]

Ah, I see. Thank you!!

This might be useful in the future

[wintry solar]

oh you'll need to pull the bottom part out of that check

[grim remnant]

so like, stupid question; how can i set up two if context.s, one for "after playing a hand" and one for "at the end of a boss blind"? my attempts managed to result in "after playing the last hand of a blind" and "Nothing™️", and the former is somehow proccing with our attempt at the latter somehow. (please pardon the excessive pseudocode for what we're planning to do later, first we just want to make sure the contexts Work And Are Good gsdjkhl)

[onyx sonnet]

the bottom part?

[minor magnet]

all tarots with variables*

[wintry solar]

yeah where you return the reps

[minor magnet]

judgement works fine

[wintry solar]

yeah why can't you just replace the line that's trying to add the specific vars with the one I posted?

[minor magnet]

i did, the crash happens when i use the center

[wintry solar]

what's the crash?

[minor magnet]

otherwise it just doesn't display the variables

[minor magnet]

.

[wintry solar]

hmmm

you could try patching in the info_Queues instead of taking ownership perhaps?

[olive moth]

yall, how do i make custom variables?
i know it's not really good practice, but i need a boolean variable that flips on once the decay animation/its sfx is played to make sure it's not repeated

and it just crashes when i try to make one up

[minor magnet]

local var = true

[onyx sonnet]

thank you!!!

[minor magnet]

honestly yeah probs what i'm gonna do for the fool card

took ownership of all other tarots but fool doesn't cooperate

[glad osprey]

how do i log tables

[gray apex]

Is there anything wrong with this patch file? The logs aren't turning up anything helpful...
The file is lovely.toml, and is placed in my mod's base directory, as per the instructions

[manifest]
version = "1.0.0"
dump_lua = true
priority = -9

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "localization/en_us.lua"
pattern = '''name = "Chicot"'''
position = "at"
payload = '''name = "Lorem Ipsum"'''
match_indent = true

[limpid halo]

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

[wintry solar]

you can't patch loc files

[gray apex]

Understood

I was having trouble with patching the misc_functions.lua file too, lemme grab the patch

version = "1.0.0"
dump_lua = true
priority = -9


[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/main_functions.lua"
pattern = '''elseif not _c and char ~= '#' and not _s_gather then str_parts[str_it] = (str_parts[str_it] or '')..(control['X'] and char:gsub("%s+", "") or char)'''
position = "before"
payload = '''--'''
match_indent = true```

[normal crest]

you typed main instead of misc

[olive moth]

that's how i tried to do it

anywhere i put this, it crashes

[gray apex]

Thanks, maybe modding at 4am wasn't a smart decision...

[olive moth]

ok nvm sorry, doesn't crash outside of the joker

[minor magnet]

this isn't working, any clue why?

[normal crest]

common_events.lua is under the functions directory

so you should target functions/common_events.lua

[minor magnet]

thank you!

i'll try

same crash as before, even with patches

@wintry solar

[normal crest]

Also find_joker doesn't work with keys

use SMODS.find_card

[minor magnet]

yes it does?

[normal crest]

What's on unleashed_tarots.lua at line 39

[minor magnet]

it's the return for hermit

[minor magnet]

.

it also happens with other tarots which return variables

the crash only happens when The Fool calls them as info_queues, not on the tarots themselves

[minor furnace]

I assume if I want any sort of behavior for my custom stickers I'm going to need to use Lovely injections?

[minor magnet]

fuck it imma dump the ownership and rewrite everything as patches

[olive moth]

okayyy, all the visual/audio fluff is finally done

imma call it a day for today, thank yall who helped me🥹

[glad osprey]

wheres the code for the stake stickers

(eternal, perishable, rental)

[minor furnace]

I believe in card.lua

on a related note, how do I force my custom sticker to be added to a Joker I've forced to be created?

I already have the joker creation done

[neat plover]

question: how would someone create a new seal or edition?

[glad osprey]

ok new question does anyone know how to not allow a sticker to apply to a card with another sticker

[glad osprey]

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

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

[normal crest]

if you used SMODS.add_card or create_card

you can add a stickers field that is a list of stickers by their keys

[minor furnace]

I used create_card

I'll check the fields again then

[normal crest]

stickers = { 'eternal', 'rental' } for example

[glad osprey]

(sticker keys are <mod prefix>_<sticker key> btw)

[minor magnet]

this is what hate feels like

i am challenging the gods by running into concrete walls

[neat plover]

hope you understood : i mean a custom seal or edition

[glad osprey]

yes that is what those links are for

did you even look at them

[neat plover]

no i wanted to clarify before

[glad osprey]

ah alr

[minor furnace]

I don't see it in the function declaration, but I guess it reads it anyways?

function create_card(_type, area, legendary, _rarity, skip_materialize, soulable, forced_key, key_append)

[wintry solar]

any other shop functionality requests before I finish off this update?

[frosty dock]

that's vanilla create_card

[minor furnace]

ah I guess I should be looking in the Lovely dump then?

[frosty dock]

SMODS.create_card and SMODS.add_card are wrappers around that function that take a single table as argument

for those you can just look at the docs

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

[glad osprey]

you know what i cant read the docs for i think

how to make stickers incompatable with eachother

[dreamy thunder]

bump

[frosty dock]

that's because the current system for that basically doesn't exist and it really needs to be reworked

[glad osprey]

that would explain it yes

[zealous glen]

add this as a sticker

[frosty dock]

you can set a should_apply function on both, but that doesn't get you the exact incompatibility that eternal and perishable share

[zealous glen]

idk where but add it

[frosty dock]

sure

[glad osprey]

how does should apply work tho ive been trying to figure out how to do that

like what next

[wintry solar]

return true when you want to apply

return false when you dont

[glad osprey]

how do i integrate the original true or false of it tho

do i just gotta remake that

[frosty dock]

I don't remember there being a base implementation on that

lemme check

no there totally is

[glad osprey]

just like how do i check whether or not it rolled succesfully to be added

[frosty dock]

you can call the base with SMODS.Sticker.should_apply(self, card, center, area, bypass_roll)

[glad osprey]

oh i can just put that in there?

[minor furnace]

this the function in question?

    if not t.area and t.key and G.P_CENTERS[t.key] then
        t.area = G.P_CENTERS[t.key].consumeable and G.consumeables or G.P_CENTERS[t.key].set == 'Joker' and G.jokers
    end
    if not t.area and not t.key and t.set and SMODS.ConsumableTypes[t.set] then
        t.area = G.consumeables
    end
    SMODS.bypass_create_card_edition = t.no_edition
    local _card = create_card(t.set, t.area, t.legendary, t.rarity, t.skip_materialize, t.soulable, t.key, t.key_append)
    SMODS.bypass_create_card_edition = nil

    -- Should this be restricted to only cards able to handle these
    -- or should that be left to the person calling SMODS.create_card to use it correctly? 
    if t.edition then _card:set_edition(t.edition) end
    if t.enhancement then _card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS[t.enhancement]) end
    if t.seal then _card:set_seal(t.seal) end
    if t.stickers then 
        for i, v in ipairs(t.stickers) do
            local s = SMODS.Stickers[v]
            if not s or type(s.should_apply) ~= 'function' or s:should_apply(_card, t.area, true) then
                SMODS.Stickers[v]:apply(_card, true)
            end
        end
    end

    return _card
end```

I think I can piece back together how to format it from here

[glad osprey]

like this correct?

[minor furnace]

although if I've already used the default card creation I could just copy the part that adds the sticker from this function and call it a day

[hushed field]

I've been looking around the code but I haven't found an approach that I love. What'd be the best way to go about creating consumables that when used do something based on your next hand? My current approach would be to have them spawn tags, but I'm sure that there's a leaner approach

[glad osprey]

next hand?

[frosty dock]

local, not var. but yes

[glad osprey]

alr cool

[limpid halo]

how the heck do i even explain this joker better...
https://awoo.download/45IO1337L.png

[glad osprey]

why didnt it work :(

[hushed field]

Thinking about it, maybe tags isn't such a bad idea, because that means they'd stay visible too

[onyx sonnet]

symbols?

dont you mean ranks?

[grim remnant]

psst, sorry to nag but still looking for help with this. while we are fairly confident in our ability to cobble things together (and troubleshoot if/when it turns out it doesn't work), that means nothing if we can't get the conditions working. ;P

[limpid halo]

the 3 on the card itself, watch the reply video for context

[onyx sonnet]

yeah but those "symbols" are called ranks

[limpid halo]

it can be a suit, # or 🧑‍🦱 too

[onyx sonnet]

oh hm

i guess symbol works well then?

its a complex joker it makes sense that explaining it is hard

[limpid halo]

yeah fair

[minor furnace]

Ok so this creates the card exactly as I want, except without the sticker
local new_card = SMODS.create_card({area = G.jokers, set = "Joker", stickers = {'reverse_ephemeral'}, edition = 'e_negative'})

[frosty dock]

like I said there's barely a system

[wintry solar]

stickers seem pretty jank still tbh

[frosty dock]

you'd need the should_apply of all involved stickers involved to make them incompatible. With only your sticker having the changed should_apply, eternal and perishable can still happen if they do so after your sticker

[frosty dock]

that's because they are

they've been on my to-do for a bit, I should work on them soon(-ish)

I'd recommend not to bother with the current system until there's something better I think

[glad osprey]

would hypothetically just adding card.ability.perishable and card.ability.eternal to the card work

[frosty dock]

that will make them perishable and eternal

[glad osprey]

dammit

[dreamy thunder]

still need help here

[frosty dock]

basically what I'm saying is this

your apply check does nothing after your sticker is applied

so if the card first gets your sticker, it can still become eternal

[glad osprey]

yea i understand that im just trying to make eternal and perishable not apply aswell

would ownership or hooking be the next best thing then?

[frosty dock]

yeah but iirc they're in a bit of a weird spot with being hardcoded to be incompatible from being on the same chance roll

[glad osprey]

.

[frosty dock]

I will work on making a better API for this either way, it's easiest to just wait for that

[prisma loom]

So I want the joker to give a card a random edition if your first hand of round is a single enhanced card. Is everything correct? Game doesnt crash but the joker doesnt work

[minor magnet]

can anyone tell me why this patch isn't applying?

[glad osprey]

yea i will update it when that gets added but for now i really wanna make this lol

[dim lynx]

thanks for all your hard work john smods

[frosty dock]

you'll save yourself some work by not doing it just yet, once it's implemented properly it will be very easy

[glad osprey]

i literally have nothing better to do

[prisma loom]

is this correct?
context.other_card.ability.set ~= "Enhanced"

[minor magnet]

omg john smods can you save me some time and help me understand this crash

[frosty dock]

it is correct for checking if a card physically doesn't have an enhancement

it does not account for there being any quantum enhancements of base cards though

[prisma loom]

wait it does the opposite?

I thought it checks for enhancement

not the lack of it

[glad osprey]

~=

[prisma loom]

ahhh

[frosty dock]

you put ~=, which reads not equals

[prisma loom]

ic ic

[glad osprey]

should be == if you are looking for equals

[minor magnet]

context: trying to take ownership of fool, crash only happens when a different tarot (which has a variable return)'s description is called as info_queue

[hushed field]

what exactly are quantum enhancements? is it just functionality for jokers that would say 'all 7s count as Steel cards'?

[prisma loom]

didnt notice tilda

[wintry solar]

yes

[glad osprey]

nevermind i have plenty better to do

[frosty dock]

to account for quantum enhancements, use next(SMODS.get_enhancements(card)) or its inverse

[hushed field]

just gonna quickly note this down for if I end up implementing a joker like that, haha. Better to refactor the code now than when it's a huge mess

[frosty dock]

can I see the full crash please

[minor magnet]

ok ye give me a sec

[prisma loom]

ohhh count as mechanic is interesting

[glad osprey]

how do i disable a sticker if the stakes are black or higher

[frosty dock]

set a flag in G.GAME and check for it in should_apply or use a built-in enable flag that is on by default and set to false when black stake is applied

[frosty dock]

oh 1308a

[wintry solar]

oh I think this is before fake cards were added right?

[frosty dock]

you need to update smods

[minor magnet]

omfg thank you

i love you john smods

it works now

[wintry solar]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/pull/469 aure pls check this before I blindly merge

[frosty dock]

will test and review it tmr if that's okay

[prisma loom]

So I wanna add 3 tooltips (one for each edition) for my joker. Is this correct?

I fkd up something didnt i

[frosty dock]

what's in the dumps where the crash points to, I'm not sure how that relates

[frosty dock]

I didn't ask for the full crash

[prisma loom]

dumps?

[frosty dock]

I want to see what is around line 2827 in functions/common_events.lua in your lovely dumps

I already turned off my PC and I'm too lazy to get back on it

besides you're not on latest smods so the line numbers would be different either way

[prisma loom]

nvm! I've mismatched code when copy pasting it

my bad

all works

[frosty dock]

mkay

[wintry solar]

yeah no problem

[prisma loom]

new version already out?

sorry how often it's updated?

[frosty dock]

always

there's new commits almost every day haha

[prisma loom]

I trust you on that jonh SMODS

[frosty dock]

I only know of one jonh around here

and that's Jonh DebugPkus

[prisma loom]

lmao

sorry for wrong splelling

im a bit dizzy rn

[frosty dock]

I won't judge you if you can't dpell

I'll just make fun of you 🤪

[prisma loom]

Also, again big thanks to all ya folks for helping me out. This is the progress so far

[frosty dock]

truth is I haven't been doing much dev work on smods recently as it's been exam season for me. But I'll get back to some stuff I've been wanting to get done soon

[prisma loom]

im finishing med uni in the next 4-5 months

I can relate

Just passed winter session

on the finish line rn

[frosty dock]

gl with that

[prisma loom]

thanks

same to you

[frosty dock]

ty

[glad osprey]

is this how i would hook end_round in state_events.lua

[frosty dock]

yeah looks good from what I can see

[glad osprey]

shit

[wintry solar]

you could throw that in a consumable calculate function too so it doesnt check every round regardless of if you have them or not

[glad osprey]

doesnt work

[frosty dock]

fuck I'm tired

[glad osprey]

debuffed consumables stickers dont get calculated

[frosty dock]

throw a local card = G.consumeables.cards[i] in there

[wintry solar]

oh that is a good point I didn't pick that up from your code 🤣

[frosty dock]

or replace the for loop line with for _, card in ipairs(G.consumeables.cards) do

[hushed field]

hmm, all of a sudden doubt is back and I'm not sure whether tags are the most eloquent solution 🤔

[glad osprey]

works now tysm 🙏

whats the G.area for booster packs

like the cards that come from booster packs

[wintry solar]

G.pack_cards

[glad osprey]

ty

how did i fuck this up

oh waiyt

tharts how

area not card.area lol

[hushed field]

If a tag has an Apply that does something in the right context, but doesn't return tag:yep, does it just not get rid of the tag?

[unkempt thicket]

How can I iterate though each joker checking to see if it has a specific variable (i know how to iterate though each joker in G.joker.cards, but i want to iterate though each joker in the collection before a run is started)

[hushed field]

what variable are you looking for?

[unkempt thicket]

its a custom one, stored in each joker if added

[glad osprey]

how would one change what sprite is used for the card here specifically

[hushed field]

I currently have something similar, and when loading in my jokers, check for that variable and put it into an array

[unkempt thicket]

I have a similiar system but i want to expand it to every joker instead of just mine

[vestal ore]

how would i change the back sprite of a custom joker when it flips over on amber acorn?

[hushed field]

is it a variable that existing jokers in the game already can have?

[vestal ore]

ik Photograph does it i think

[vestal ore]

oops i mean

square joker

[unkempt thicket]

It doesn't exist naturally but can be added, this is the all the code I use for it currently. what I want is to do is this but for every joker in game instead of just the ones from my joker folder.

It wont be used on base jokers

[chrome widget]

Am I able to just change the global color table to add a color to it at any time, or do I have to do something specific? I remember having issues attempting to add a different global value to the game before and ended up having ot patch it into game.lua in the main_menu() function

[unkempt thicket]

I used item not G.your_collection[i], that was a test.

[chrome widget]

How could I use a deck to increase the rates of mod-specific jokers?

The docs for backs/decks includes in_pool(), but with exactly the same description that most of the other Centers have, which tends to specify how that card specifically (I.E. the deck as a card) could spawn

[minor magnet]

how do i get position in hand of current card being scored? (context.individual)

[hushed field]

iterate over the hand and check if it matches card

[minor magnet]

many thanks

[lean dew]

where should i look for sprite dumps from the vanilla game? is there a pinned post for it somewhere?

[vestal ore]

balatro.exe can be renamed to balatro.zip and you can extract the resources folder inside and then set it back to .exe

[lean dew]

is this an admin permissions thing? because renaming the file doesn't change its internal properties

at least not on my end

[twilit cargo]

afaik they're all on spriters resource

[glad osprey]

turn on file name extensions

[lean dew]

thats more my speed

[limpid halo]

if you have 7-zip you can also just right click balatro.exe and 7-zip > open archive

[modern kindle]

im trying to make a joker so that if you skip blinds then itll send you to the shop, i have its functionality mostly working with the one issue of any of the packs, if one opens it wont send me to the shop

i tried utilizing g.game.pack_interrupt to make it wait, but that didnt seem tow ork
is there a way to check when any of those packs are currently being used?

[minor magnet]

scopacane is basically done, rejoice!

[ivory coral]

simply problem here, i have a joker that has rng and also needs to display that side enhancement preview thing (like stone joker does for stone cards), how can i get loc_vars to do both? I tried just tossing in extra code:

        info_queue[#info_queue+1] = {set = 'Other', key = 'acrylic_info'},
        return {vars = {(G.GAME.probabilities.normal or 1), card.ability.extra.odds}} --1 in 4 normally
    end,```
but this just crashes (unexpected symbol near 'return')

[normal crest]

remove the comma right after 'acrylic_info'}

[limpid halo]

yo maybe stupid question but are custom rarities excluded from the shop by default? If not what pool do i need to supply to remove it them from the shop.

[normal crest]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Rarity any of the weight options

[limpid halo]

ty

missed the default_weight one,

another silly thing, is it possible to add consumables to buffoon packs?

[ivory coral]

ah cheers

[normal crest]

most likely, look at how the base game adds spectral cards to arcanas with omen globe

(idk how it actually does it)

[minor furnace]

ok so my code accurately adds base game stickers to my created joker, it must be an issue with how I defined my custom one then

[normal crest]

did you define a should apply function

in your sticker

[minor furnace]

ah

no

let me try that real quick

[normal crest]

I don't think you need to define one

I don't know why your sticcker isn't applying

Would you be able to send your sticker definition

[minor furnace]

yeah

    key = "ephemeral",
    atlas = "New_Sticker",
    pos = {x = 4, y = 2},
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Ephemeral",
        text = {
            "Debuffed after",
            "{C:attention}#1#{} rounds",
            "Has no sell value",
            "{C:inactive}({C:attention}#2#{C:inactive} remaining)"
        }
    },
    default_compat = true,
    sets = {
        Joker = true
    },
    config = {
        extra = {
            total_turns = 3,
            turns_remaining = 3
        }
    },
    rate = 0,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        return {vars = {center.ability.extra.total_turns, center.ability.extra.turns_remaining}}
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        card.cost = 0
        if self.ability.extra.turns_remaining > 0 and context.end_of_round then
            self.ability.extra.turns_remaining = self.ability.extra.turns_remaining - 1
        end
        if self.ability.extra.turns_remaining <= 0 then
            card.debuff = true
        end
    end
}```

[normal crest]

I don't see why it would not spawn

Do you have debug plus

[minor furnace]

I do, maybe I could try adding a print somewhere

[normal crest]

try going ingame and spawning a joker with your sticker

and then do eval G.jokers.cards[1].ability and send a screenshot of what that shows

[minor furnace]

I may need help figuring out what the command to spawn the joker is

relatively new to modding in general

[normal crest]

eval SMODS.add_card { set = 'Joker', stickers = { 'reverse_ephemeral' } } I think reverse was your mod prefix, but if it isn't change it

put that in the debugplus console while ingame

[minor furnace]

yeah that's the prefix

and oh it's basically just the line I would normally write in the lua file?

[normal crest]

yeah with debug plus u can execute lua code like that

it's just to see what's going on with your joker when the sticker is applied

[minor furnace]

I got error : attempt to index local 'center' [a nil value]

[normal crest]

with this?

[minor furnace]

yes

[normal crest]

that is odd

can you do eval SMODS.Stickers.reverse_ephemeral

[minor furnace]

INFO - [G] < Table:
loc_vars: function: 0x2a44be98
default_compat: true
_saved_d_u: true
original_key: ephemeral
sticker_sprite: Table:
  click_offset: Table:
    y: 0
    x: 0

  children: Table:

  sprite_pos: Table:
    y: 2
    x: 4

  T: Table:
    x: 0
    w: 2.0487804878049
    y: 0
    h: 2.7512195121951
    +2 more values.

  offset: Table:
    y: 0
    x: 0

  role: Table:
    xy_bond: Strong
    offset: Table:
      y: 0
      +1 more value.

    role_type: Major
    draw_major: Table:
      click_offset: table: 0x2a4a7818
      +34 more values.

    +3 more values.

  last_aligned: -1
  +28 more values.

loc_txt: Table:
  name_parsed: Table:
    1: Table:
      1: table: 0x2a5ee1f0


  text_parsed: Table:
    1: Table:
      1: table: 0x2a5ed668

    2: Table:
      1: table: 0x2a5ed868
      +1 more value.

    3: Table:
      1: table: 0x2a5edc60

    4: Table:
      1: table: 0x2a5ede10
      +2 more values.


  name: Ephemeral
  text: Table:
    1: Debuffed after
    2: {C:attention}#1#{} rounds
    3: Has no sell value
    4: {C:inactive}({C:attention}#2#{C:inactive} remaining)


registered: true
sets: Table:
  Joker: true

order: 5
calculate: function: 0x2a44beb8
rate: 0
pos: Table:
  y: 2
  x: 4

mod: Table:
  version: 1.0.0
  id: reverse_tarot
  main_file: reverse_tarot.lua
  lovely: true
  can_load: true
  badge_colour: Table:
    1: 0.058823529411765
    2: 0.87843137254902
    3: 0.83137254901961
    4: 1

  badge_text_colour: Table:
    1: 0.87843137254902
    2: 0.058823529411765
    3: 0.4078431372549
    4: 1

  +12 more values.

atlas: reverse_New_Sticker
prefix_config: Table:

key: reverse_ephemeral
config: Table:
  extra: Table:
    turns_remaining: 3
    total_turns: 3```

[normal crest]

huh

I assume you see your sticker in the collection

[minor furnace]

ah

it crashes when I hover over it so I think I messed up the text

[normal crest]

Oh

stickers don't apply their config to the cards they're in

at least not by default

so you should so self.config instead of center.ability

[minor furnace]

interesting, guess they're the exception to that then?

because I've been using center.ability for everything else

[normal crest]

yeah, i mean, stickers aren't a center

[minor furnace]

yk that would make sense

it doesn't crash now so that's good

[normal crest]

That said

[minor furnace]

still didn't apply to the joker though

[normal crest]

For that specific effect you probably want to attach information to the card itself

you should add this to your sticker

and do something like card.ability[self.key] = val and copy_table(self.config)

[minor furnace]

Thanks! I'll give it a shot

[normal crest]

Then, within your sticker loc_vars and calculate

You should access those values by doing card.ability[self.key].extra.turns_remaining for example

[minor furnace]

in this instance, self.key would just be reverse_ephemeral, right?

[normal crest]

Yeah

better to use self.key directly tho, if you ever decide to change the key later

[minor furnace]

good point

[normal crest]

or your mod prefix for that matter

[minor furnace]

yeah...

well the sticker's still not applying, at the very least visually

[normal crest]

Hm

okay one last idea, do eval SMODS.Stickers.reverse_ephemeral:apply(G.jokers.cards[1], true)

that should apply it to your first joker

so make sure you have one

[limpid halo]

Hmmm, set is required for consumable.. but I don't want it to appear in Tarot, planet or spectral packs.

[minor furnace]

it did in fact apply it

although I have an Error where the sticker name should be

[normal crest]

add label = "Something" to your loc_txt

[normal crest]

you can make your own set https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.ObjectType#api-documentation-smodsconsumabletype

[normal crest]

I have no idea why add_card is not applying it

[minor furnace]

yeah that fixed it. Strange, that field wasn't on the documentation page for smods.stickers

[normal crest]

worst case scenario you can do local joker = SMODS.add_card { set = 'Joker' } and then SMODS.Stickers.reverse_ephemeral:apply(joker, true)

[minor furnace]

honestly yeah I think that's the easiest solution

[normal crest]

it is incredibly weird to me that it's not working when you add the stickers to add_card, considering smods literally calls apply on it

unless you have an old version of smods where it's broken?

[minor furnace]

yeah this literally worked

[minor furnace]

I don't think so, I did a pull last night

thank you for the help!

still have to test its functionality but I should hopefully be able to manage that

[minor magnet]

is there a way to trigger something on context.individual but only on the first trigger of a card?

[limpid halo]

do you happen to know what the prefix key is for the ConsumableType?

[minor magnet]

i don't need context.repetition, because i need my effect to trigger as the card is scored

[normal crest]

for your loc file?

[limpid halo]

Yeah and to call it with create_card

[normal crest]

well in create_card you just put set = key where key is whatever you put in your consumabletype key

it doesn't have your mod prefix added

[limpid halo]

Oh so it has no prefix then

got it

[normal crest]

personally i don't like that it's not added by default

[limpid halo]

Yeah thats weirdly inconsistent

[normal crest]

if you're like me you can add prefix_config = { key = true }, to its definition

and then it'll be prefixed

[normal crest]

as for the loc file stuff, it's a bit weird, but in misc.dictionary you can add k_key = "whatever" for the text on the badge and b_key_cards = "whatever" for the text in collection

[normal crest]

if context.other_card == G.play.cards[1] or any other cardarea besides G.play

Oh nvm

I completely misunderstood

Sorry

[minor furnace]

Is there a full list of contexts somewhere? because it's not on the Calculate Functions page

[normal crest]

what context are you looking for?

[minor furnace]

an end of round, but when I use context.end_of_round it triggers the code inside of the conditional more than once

[normal crest]

Yeah that's because end_of_round is also called for each card held in hand with context.individual

you can add context.end_of_round and context.main_eval

I don't think that one is in the wiki, but i could be wrong

[minor furnace]

I believe you're right that it isn't there

[wintry solar]

it is but not specifically

main_eval is a part of every context

[normal crest]

it's mentioned at a note at the end of the page

maybe should have its own section considering how important it is

[minor furnace]

it does seem pretty important

Now I'm getting a strange interaction, the sticker is debuffing the Joker properly, but it gets un-debuffed when I enter the cash out screen, and re-debuffed after I perform another action like using a card, buying something from the shop, or exiting the shop

[normal crest]

What does your code look like now

[scarlet spire]

why does this happen
the visual bug with vampire is weird, but it looks even weirder when I have this custom joker that turns cards into stone cards??
vampire causes the ranks of stone cards to appear before the stone is removed, but then having the joker that turns them into stone cards makes the rank disappear again once the stone is removed... even though the joker ONLY triggers on context.after, and isn't in effect yet whatsoever

(here is the code that turns clubs cards into stone cards)

[minor furnace]

these are the functions

        return {vars = {self.config.extra.total_turns, self.config.extra.turns_remaining}}
    end,
    apply = function(self, card, val)
        card.ability[self.key] = val and copy_table(self.config)
        card.base_cost = 0
        return
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if card.ability[self.key].extra.turns_remaining > 0 and context.end_of_round and context.main_eval then
            print(card.base_cost)
            print("end of round")
            card.ability[self.key].extra.turns_remaining = card.ability[self.key].extra.turns_remaining - 1
            print(card.ability[self.key].extra.turns_remaining)
        end
        if card.ability[self.key].extra.turns_remaining <= 0 then
            card:set_debuff(true)
        end
    end```

although I'll also need to figure out how to make the display of the rounds remaining update based on the card data too, since it always says 3/3 despite it updating the card.ability correctly

[ionic timber]

update

[foggy carbon]

that looks like Cryptid lol

[ionic timber]

my thought exactly lmao

[long sun]

ADACHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!

[normal crest]

for the updating the text, use center.ability[self.key] in loc_vars too

[normal crest]

probably use SMODS.debuff_card instead of set_debuff

but I'm not sure what the exact problem is

[minor furnace]

doing this gives me nil

        return {vars = {center.ability[self.key].total_turns, center.ability[self.key].turns_remaining}}
    end,```

[normal crest]

you forgot to access extra

remember center.ability[self.key] is a copy of your config

cus that's how you have it in apply

@minor furnace

[minor furnace]

ah shoot you're right

sure enough that fixed it

and this fixed the debuff issue

    SMODS.debuff_card(card, true, self)
end```

[candid willow]

Does anyone have a tutorial they can point me to on how to get started w/ Lua? Wanna try my hand at making a mod. I have a rudimentary understanding of Java and that's about it

[minor furnace]

I cannot for the life of me find what field I need to set for the background color of my sticker name

[old bane]

i think that's just how the game normally renders it, cause I think i've seen that issue before and I don't think it has anything to do with your joker.

[scarlet spire]

the ranks showing before the stone is removed is vampire, but the ranks being completely gone when the stone is removed only happens when my joker is affecting those cards alongside vampire

[minor furnace]

white on white is not a good look

[old bane]

i think that's just what happens when applying stone card sometimes, it'll lose its suit and number before rendering the stone part

[old bane]

badge_color i think

[scarlet spire]

it looks completely normal used on it's own, again it only occurs when you have both vampire and this joker

[maiden river]

is there a way to tell when an ante was just started? I'm working on a deck that gives a joker every three antes

[maiden river]

I guess this also just means if you've left the boss shop

[hushed field]

Check the blind number and divide by 3

[maiden river]

I did consider that

but that doesn't really account for heiro/petroglyph

[old bane]

you could have it be an internal counter in the card that counts down every time a new ante happens if you're worried about hieroglyph

and then if you want hieroglyph to lower the counter you can probably detect that with the proper context

[maiden river]

true

I guess the counter method is the best way to go

[old bane]

idk how that would exactly work with decks but if it's possible for jokers it'll probably be simple enough for decks as well

[maiden river]

the only reason I was worried about heiroglyph was if someone went ante 3 -> heiro -> ante 2 -> ante3 and got a joker an ante early

which would happen if I just checked for [ante] % 3 == 0

[old bane]

yeah then you wouldn't want to rely on the ante counter itself and just have your own counter going

is there somewhere that can show me an example of how a custom sticker can be implemented? Cause I tried looking at how Cryptid does their banana sticker but it seemed way too complicated for the use case I want (I want to make a sticker similar to Perishable, but it removes itself after 3 rounds instead of debuffing the Joker after 5 rounds)

[maiden river]

I mean
the docs on SMODS.Sticker don't seem too bad

unless you already checked that

[old bane]

yeah im just unsure of how one would implement what im looking for because stickers themselves don't have variables

i mean i guess i could just inject code into Card.lua so that the card itself keeps track but idk

[maiden river]

I didn't notice that, actually

interesting

[old bane]

Cause like normally with Jokers you would put custom vars into config.extra

but with Stickers it doesn't seem there is a field for config

Which I'm confused with because it has its own calculate function so like idk

[manic rune]

your phone linging

[normal crest]

Anyone know in what part of the code tags are rendered

[manic rune]

how can i make it so that this line triggers everytime the round ends, instead of having to be inside a joker's calculation?

[old bane]

okay so apparently stickers are jank rn so im trying this using a seal, i hope i can apply it to a joker.

[normal crest]

you can modify the apply function of your sticker

[normal crest]

what I said here

[old bane]

oh lmao

[red flower]

i hook smods.calculate_context, idk if there's a nicer way

[manic rune]

thanks :D

[maiden river]

that worked pretty well! thanks for the help

was for this deck lol

[old bane]

um-

[normal crest]

What does your sticker look like

[old bane]

I fixed it but I made it so that instead of being a sprite it instead makes the joker monochrome with a shader

tho idk why it's just white

[old bane]

“it” being the text, idk why it is just white

[normal crest]

What's your localization file

or loc_txt

whatever you used

[old bane]

originally i just had the key for the localization entry be the key but then i realized i did still need the prefix

[crystal crater]

blank

[old bane]

okay i got everything working with the ability itself, i just don't know why the shader doesn't work (i think it draws an enlargened version of the joker instead of the joker but monochrome)

[coral grotto]

the way to make text for a custom challenge rule is to just put it in descriptions.misc.v_text under ch_c_[challenge_name] right? for some reason it's not working properly for me

[gusty sequoia]

Whenever I try to split the description of my joker the thing just crashes, what am I doing wrong?

It's written like such
loc_txt ={ name = 'Family Man', text = { 'This joker gains {X:mult,C:white}+0.2X{} Mult' 'if played hand contains a Full House (Currently {X:mult,C:white} X#1#{} Mult)' } }

[coral grotto]

missing a comma

[gusty sequoia]

Ah

Where...?

[coral grotto]

loc_txt ={
 name = 'Family Man',
 text = {
  'This joker gains {X:mult,C:white}+0.2X{} Mult',
  'if played hand contains a Full House (Currently {X:mult,C:white} X#1#{} Mult)' } } 

you need a comma after every line

[gusty sequoia]

I had not noticed, thanks

Also how do I make the "currently blablabla mult" grey?

[coral grotto]

loc_txt = {
  name = 'Family Man',
  text = {
    'This Joker gains {X:mult,C:white}0.2X{} Mult',
    'if played hand contains a Full House',
    '{C:inactive}(Currently {X:mult,C:white} X#1# {C:inactive} Mult)'
  }
}

C:inactive

[gusty sequoia]

Thank you!

[sonic cedar]

am i doing this right

like will this load the lua file if i run it

[minor furnace]

What am I missing here to make the sell value 0?

card.extra_value = 0
card.sell_cost = 0
card.base_cost = 0
card:set_cost()

I might just write a patch for the Card:sell_cost() function for my custom sticker

[marble flint]

that should work, yeah

[sonic cedar]

oh hello again

thanks (it works thanku!!)

[coral grotto]

bumping this, i still haven't managed to figure this out despite trying a lot of different things

i've looked at other mods' code and am pretty sure i'm doing what they're doing?

[marble flint]

misc.challenge_names.c_ModId_challengeKey

[coral grotto]

that's the challenge name, i'm trying to do custom rules

like the ch_c stuff

[marble flint]

oh rules

[coral grotto]

yeah

[marble flint]

yeah that's misc.v_text.ch_c_ModId_challengeKey

[coral grotto]

yeah i have that, it's not showing up

[marble flint]

oh that doesn't include the mod id

is the custom rule functioning other than that?

[coral grotto]

i have a custom rule named grg_so_grunglover, seems to work for G.GAME.modifiers but putting ch_c_grg_so_grunglover in localization/default.lua under descriptions/misc/v_text is breaking

[minor furnace]

we stay winning

[patches.pattern]
target = "card.lua"
pattern = '''if self.area and self.ability.couponed and (self.area == G.shop_jokers or self.area == G.shop_booster) then self.cost = 0 end'''
position = "after"
payload = '''
if self.ability['reverse_ephemeral'] then
    self.sell_cost = 0
end
'''
match_indent = true
times = 1```

[coral grotto]

here's what default.lua looks like

return {
    descriptions = {
        misc = {
            v_text = {
                ch_c_grg_so_grunglover = {"All {C:attention}Tarot{} cards are {C:attention}The Grungler{}"}
            }
        }
    }
}

[coral grotto]

it is

[marble flint]

misc goes outside of descriptions

[coral grotto]

ah

yeah now it works thanks

must have misread the localization page

[weak gate]

is it wise to use a card's unique_val to check if a card is a specific one?

mmm yes it seems to stay consistent after reloading

[sonic cedar]

how would i play two sounds in quick succession here? (one for the chips, one for the mult)

[faint yacht]

?

return {
  chips = card.ability.extra.chips,
  sound = "hpfx_thumbsup",
  extra = {
    mult = card.ability.extra.mult,
    sound = "hpfx_thumbsup"
  },
  card = card
}

[sonic cedar]

oh my god i forgot about extra

thanks ali

[faint yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/king-harkinian-harkinian-link-jimmy-davis-ytp-gif-27318057

[desert ore]

any recommendantions for what image software to use? Have been using gimp, but the scaling feature makes the pixels blurry, so I'll have to make the art twice for 1x and 2x

[faint yacht]

Are you resizing with "nearest neighbour" in mind?

[paper zealot]

You want to disable interpolation if you're scaling up pixel art. But in answer to your question, Aseprite or the free fork LibreSprite are great for pixel art especially

[desert ore]

oh sweet thanks

[paper zealot]

Aseprite has about 9 years of extra development on top of the point where LibreSprite forked it and is worth the money imo. There's also a free trial version which you can grab on Steam of all places

[desert ore]

yeah I'll try it out at the very least

[chrome widget]

Huh, I'm having trouble with an includes file for some reason?

require "libs.serpent"
require "utils"

I'm trying to find this library, in the same folder as the file that's requiring it, but for some reason it says it can't be found?

Is this something specific with SMODS?

[paper zealot]

If you're just making a lovely mod and don't want to require Steamodded, you can get Lovely to load modules like so in lovely.toml:

[manifest]
version = '1.0.0'
dump_lua = true
priority = 1

[[patches]]
[patches.module]
source = 'libs/serpent.lua'
before = 'main.lua'
name = 'libs.serpent'

With SMODS, you can instead just do
SMODS.load_file('libs/serpent.lua')() and skip the require entirely

[chrome widget]

SMODS is required so I'll do the latter

Let's see if this works....

Ugh, still struggling for whatever reason

[normal crest]

Note Balatro runs on Lua 5.1

So if those libraries are for a different version then they might not work

[chrome widget]

Seem to have got it past

[paper zealot]

Anyone know of any Lovely mods that have implemented their own language/localization system outside of SMODS? I'd like to give it a try but want to know if there are any neat ways of doing it

[random sleet]

you just patch the localization files directly at that point i reckon

[paper zealot]

Import them all as modules then write a wrapper to check the relevant one as needed?

[chrome widget]

Okay I think it finally worked???

[sonic cedar]

so it didnt end up playing any sounds, anyone know if these are set up wrong?

[minor furnace]

Less of a "how to do" question and more of a "which way" question, but opinions on how to implement a card being able to count as two suits at once? Debating making it an enhancement or a seal, and not sure which to go with

[chrome widget]

I implemented a card that acts as basically a rotating version of smeared if that's what you wat

in which case I wrote a lovely patch for the is_suit() function

[minor furnace]

hmm that's interesting

I think I want the secondary suit to stay fixed though

[sonic cedar]

realizing i should also probably show how it's implemented because maybe i just messed up

[minor furnace]

and I think I was going to have to do this regardless of which way I did it

should be as simple as slapping a conditional onto it

I think my real question is, do I think it's too unbalanced to make it compatible with other enhancements or not

[random sleet]

you just patch the localization files directly at that point i reckon

[minor furnace]

I should probably check to see how Seeing Double and Flower Pot work with this...

And Blackboard for that matter

[normal crest]

you can't patch localization files

[minor furnace]

ETA: it most definitely will require me to patch Seeing Double and Flower Pot, Blackboard I suppose is up to my discretion whether I want it to count or not

but if wild cards don't break Blackboard then I'm fine if this doesn't either

[paper zealot]

That's a pity, do you know why?

[random sleet]

source?

theyre just lua files that return a massive table

[normal crest]

Someone attempted it right above this too

And no, I don't know why

It seems odd to me too

[random sleet]

so the alternate answer is to stop pretending anyone cares if your mod is lovely only or requires smods

and thus not reinvent the wheel. for the fifth time.

[normal crest]

Actually now that I look at it, it seems that person typed _ instead of -

so maybe it's possible to patch loc files

Lesson learned to not blindly trust what eremel says lol

[chrome widget]

Hmm.... I'm attempting to draw a canvas but it's not working as intended

I will admit, graphics programming goes over my head most of the time

[normal crest]

Nope

It doesn't work

[paper zealot]

That's very wise. Alternatively, i can reduce my dependencies and learn more along the way.
This is a relatively straightforward way to build a simple but functional localization table. No safety checks yet

local locale = {}

if not SMODS then
locale = {
    ['de'] = require('systemclock.locale.de').misc.dictionary,
    ['en-us'] = require('systemclock.locale.en-us').misc.dictionary,
    ['es_419'] = require('systemclock.locale.es_419').misc.dictionary,
    ['es_ES'] = require('systemclock.locale.es_ES').misc.dictionary,
    ['fr'] = require('systemclock.locale.fr').misc.dictionary,
...
}
end

function locale.translate(key)
    if SMODS then return localize(key) end
    return locale[G.SETTINGS.language][key  ] or locale['en-us'][key] or nil
end

return locale

[scarlet spire]

it makes sense, it seems lovely just straight up doesn't dump the localization files at all, which I imagine means it doesn't touch them at all

not sure why though

[normal crest]

I wonder what logic it uses to decide those files to be excluded

[random sleet]

i wonder who will ping dave lovely first

[edgy reef]

Maybe it's loadstring vs. load/require diff?

[paper zealot]

Someone tell me if i'm insane for doing things this way

[frank ore]

alright I realised I probably put this in the wrong channel so:

ive been messing around with balatro and kinda making a mod, but it's not something I could easily send to someone else, as it's a modification to the base game files.
I saw the github for steammodded, and i've poked around in the guides, it looks like thats more useful for adding new cards, but what im doing moreso alters existing cards and some of the game files unrelated to the individual cards themselves
I don't know if there is a way to transfer that into a mod easily, and I dont know what to do at this point xd
I can easily keep poking around in the files and changing stuff but I would like to be able to send it to other people

[normal crest]

I don't really understand why you'd need to do that

[paper zealot]

What's the better way?

[normal crest]

also this seems probable

[chrome widget]

Okay yeah, can anyone help with basically just drawing something to the screen using base Love2D functions?

I want to use a canvas to just draw something a box in the center of the screen, but I can't seem to figure out exactly how to do that

I thought it was just create canvas -> renderTo() function containing a draw call with the image to render on the canvas

[normal crest]

oh I don't know

[gaunt thistle]

TOO LATE

[normal crest]

and localize is a balatro function so why would it depend on SMODS being loaded

[chrome widget]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-fire-burn-gif-5103666

[gaunt thistle]

simple: the game loads localization files in a really weird way

a way that doesn't end up touching the function(s) that lovely hooks to do patching

[paper zealot]

Localize doesn't, but without SMODS auto-loading the localization files into the tables, it returns nothing

[gaunt thistle]

iirc yeah it was something like this

members of the load* family of functions that don't end up calling lual_loadbuffer can't be patched in current lovely

[normal crest]

in that case wouldn't you want to load the files into G.localization when SMODS isn't present

sorry if I'm misunderstanding the problem

[paper zealot]

I haven't found any way to read the localization files that wouldn't have to rely on nativefs or SMODS - and if i'm importing them as lovely modules, I might as well just access them directly instead of recursively inserting entries one-at-a-time into G.localization, only to have to do multiple dictionary lookups to get them back out again

I'm not stubborn about this approach, if anyone can think of a better way that doesn't require nativefs i'm keen to hear it. I don't like that importing each locale file through lovely means that the game won't launch if a localization file isn't found, so i'm not totally smitten by it

[gaunt thistle]

what about loading your localization file as a lovely module and then injecting it into the global table via patching the localization load function doodad thingie

I will clarify that I have only read up a little bit so I'm probably missing context

ah but no lovely

[paper zealot]

That would make the lua code a little cleaner, but might be more brittle if there are changes to the localization code later on

[gaunt thistle]

depends on how you implement it

but it shouldn't be that brittle, especially compared to your other options

[iron iron]

loading this says theres invalid metadata in this file

obv not just this but this is the json for the mod

[plush cove]

you need an id

[iron iron]

ic

[rose dragon]

leaked new balatro joker

[plush cove]

what if it added a number of chips equal to the frame that its currently on

[minor furnace]

how on earth do you animate a Joker like that

[candid willow]

bad apple speedrun 💀

[minor furnace]

and more imporantly, can you make a Joker run Doom

(seriously though the Bad Apple is awesome)

[versed swan]

Plss don't say you used a bazillion sprites for that /j

[paper zealot]

#💻・modding-dev message

[rose dragon]

i made a program in rust that decreases the framerate of a chosen video and puts all of its frames on a spritesheet, and then i just copied the jimball code and changed it up a little
so i could just reuse the code and make roffles latest stream (or something, idk that was the first that came to mind) as a joker

[versed swan]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-walter-white-falling-gif-25293991

[minor furnace]

are you going to make it play the song when you hover over it too?

[versed swan]

I think it's still cool tho lmao

[candid willow]

starting on my first modded joker, it's a really basic one that's supposed to double the amount of cards you can apply Lucky to when using magician (from 2 to 4)
the way I'm thinking about it, it should be as easy as simply changing the max_highlighted from a 2 to a 4, but like...
i dont know how to do that as a joker effect
and this is the first lua project ive ever made (much less programming thing ive done in years)

[chrome widget]

Is there a way to manually suspend the ability to interact with things like how you can't do most actions when there are events still happening?

[minor furnace]

when in doubt, patch it out

[candid willow]

you mean like

[paper zealot]

What are your thoughts on the ability? I feel like swapping jokers between regular and negative would be fitting

[candid willow]

directly modifying the game's lua file????

[minor furnace]

my naive approach would be to write a lovely patch for the code for using The Magician to check to see if you have that Joker

So yeah basically modifying the game's lua file, but writing a script to do it instead of editing the file directly

however, there may be a better way to do this interaction that I'm unaware of

[candid willow]

hmm

[sturdy compass]

I finally broke down my single lovely file into multiple

[gaunt thistle]

good god

[plush cove]

same, but currently I only have two jokers that really need lovely files

[minor furnace]

that's a lot of lovely patches

[candid willow]

jesus tapdancing christ

that was all one file before?????

[sturdy compass]

Yeah

[minor furnace]

I only have two Reverse Tarots that require tomls, and it's only one replacement each

[candid willow]

https://tenor.com/view/madness-elden-ring-frenzy-frenzy-flame-flame-of-frenzy-gif-25870095

[plush cove]

Up To Eleven - Aces and 10s count as face cards (so I had to add that to the "is_face" function)
Weighted Dice - All probabilities are guaranteed when this card is sold (so I added a new "base_normal" variable that the probabilities can reset to after the round ends)

[gaunt thistle]

patching that much would make anyone go crazy

[minor furnace]

although, the remaining 5 card will require quite a few because I'm doing wonky things with ranks and suits

[gaunt thistle]

props, you're taking full advantage of the tools I've made

very proud

[sturdy compass]

There are admittedly a few things I could deprecate but most of it is very necessary lmao

[plush cove]

deprecate the whole mod

start over

[gaunt thistle]

deprecate lovely

[plush cove]

deprecate steamodded

[gaunt thistle]

thoughts on the development experience?

[minor furnace]

I'm doing something very silly

[sturdy compass]

Thank you for making something that helped me stay motivated to working on a personal project for once lmao

[gaunt thistle]

:3

you're the one that made it happen

[sturdy compass]

Now I should probs do the same thing with my main.lua

[rose dragon]

deprecate lua

[plush cove]

...

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/worried-scared-oh-no-stop-it-fearful-gif-12534009

[plush cove]

how do you people survive with putting everything in main.lua

[minor furnace]

well that's about 4 times longer than mine currently is...

[sturdy compass]

adhd probably

[plush cove]

i have ADHD as well

[normal crest]

those shouldn't be global variables!!

[gaunt thistle]

for context lovely is only about ~3k LOC

[scarlet spire]

I section it off with big comment blocks

[sturdy compass]

LMAO

[minor furnace]

I should probably separate out my main into files by SMOD type

[scarlet spire]

and always collapse the code I'm not using so the file is super short until I need to actually modify something there

[rose dragon]

-# i have no clue how to link multiple files

[plush cove]

i'm making everything a global variable, fuck u

[gaunt thistle]

LOC doesn't matter, it's all about how you use it

[minor furnace]

amen

[gaunt thistle]

just overwrite smods' metatable with your vars

[minor furnace]

I assume if I want to separate it out into files I just add whatever lua's version of an import statement is to my main?

[normal crest]

SMODS.load_file is your friend

[plush cove]

@normal crest is this better (right is in the only file that actually uses it)

[sturdy compass]

This is very very true

[plush cove]

srock when I release mistigris and there are a billion different global variables that could be made local

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/luccabug-angry-cat-angry-cat-being-pet-cat-pet-cat-gif-16721872127246114794

[normal crest]

if you only use it in one place then yeah, local

[gaunt thistle]

namespace globals pls

[normal crest]

otherwise i'd stick into a global object that has your mod id or prefix in it

[minor furnace]

Is there a way to conditionally apply a different sprite for a single enhancement? Without having to define more than one enhancement

[normal crest]

hey just trying to give good advice

[gaunt thistle]

honestly using locals is an antipattern

[plush cove]

unironically i do appreciate it, i just like to be silly

[rose dragon]

reminder that i will be pull requesting a bug to your util functions

[sturdy compass]

Bleh it's too late at night for me to do this rn. I don't even know where to begin cuz this file is such a mess lmao

Like it's organized kinda but it's a LOTTTT

[plush cove]

maximus refers to Astra maximizing his line count

[sturdy compass]

what 76 jokers and a whole shit ton of other features does to a main.lua

[minor furnace]

yeah that'd do it

[sturdy compass]

All one file

[gaunt thistle]

I mean this alone is probably > 4k loc

[minor furnace]

if my current 17 tarots is only 1600 lines, their corresponding jokers are going to add a decent bit as well

[plush cove]

remember kids, start organizing early so you don't have to refactor later on

[rose dragon]

the way it was meant to be 🙏

[plush cove]

(18 Jokers, 1 Blind, 2 Decks that are both temporary)

[minor furnace]

let's be real though, how many lines in the code are literally a single curly brace

[sturdy compass]

About 1k off according to github

[gaunt thistle]

daaaaaaaaang

close guess

[sturdy compass]

indeed

[gaunt thistle]

40 lines per kb, 104 kb in total

[plush cove]

Tired Programmer (Legendary)
Gains X0.1 Mult for every line of code that's in this mod's main.lua file

[normal crest]

more accurately in lua how many of them are just end

[sturdy compass]

not as good of a guess

[rose dragon]

gains an additional X0.1 Mult for each time you boot the game up with debugplus installed and keep the game open for less than three minutes

[gaunt thistle]

dang

I'm a fraud

[minor furnace]

I mean, that guess was only off by about 12%, the first one was off by about 25%

[normal crest]

how many files are in your lovely/log

[gaunt thistle]

it's all about the vibes

[rose dragon]

i just deleted it all like yesterday but currently right now 17 files

[normal crest]

mine has 1157...

at least they're very small files

[sturdy compass]

Absolutely agree with this

[minor furnace]

my lovely file is currently at 34 lines, but that's going to go up exponentially soon

[plush cove]

place your bets: will I be able to keep my mod files organized the more I add to mistigris?!

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-chew-kitty-silly-eating-gif-13017001213853077398

your patch file is a snack

it needs to be a meal

[minor furnace]

we're getting there

once I introduce my abomination that is 'The Lovers?' I'm going to have to do a lot

[candid willow]

you terrify me

[sturdy compass]

Is it worse that only recently it's starting to become unbearable for me?

[rose dragon]

what is the lovers? going to do?

[minor furnace]

so you know how the normal one turns it into a wild card that can count as any suit

this is going to let it count as any rank

[rose dragon]

only counts if you need to ctrl+f every 30 seconds

[sturdy compass]

Oh trust me I do

[gaunt thistle]

Astra just has a really small font size

[normal crest]

and very good vision

and a gigantic monitor

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/luna-cat-crunchy-cat-glasses-cat-luna-glasses-cat-gif-12732289841207803174

[minor furnace]

I'd ctrl+f even if my file were only a few hundred lines long

it's faster

[sturdy compass]

my left eye has a -5.00 perscription

[gaunt thistle]

astigmatic af hell yeah brother

[sturdy compass]

Astigmatism from the hit Balatro mod Maximus????

[gaunt thistle]

astigmaximus

[minor furnace]

let me just G my way to the end of the file real quick

[gaunt thistle]

glad I'm not the only one who has one good eye and one massively fucked up eye

I'm like +0.5 -4.5

[plush cove]

autism from the hit balatro mod maximus?!

[sturdy compass]

Oh no both of my eyes are fucked, my right eye is -4.75

I'm blind as hell without my contact lenses

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/kitty-wtf-ew-cute-cat-gif-5684227202751298545

[minor furnace]

for legal reasons, I do not actually edit my files in vim

[rose dragon]

^2 mult if you have astigmatism

[limpid halo]

ctrl f > opening up structure and clicking

[sturdy compass]

Luckily I'm not THAT cursed

[limpid halo]

not that that works in lua in IDEA 😭

[plush cove]

holy shit!!!

[minor furnace]

y'all aren't using vscode?

[gaunt thistle]

erhm why use IDEA when you can use kakoune

[minor furnace]

two vey different responses lmao

[plush cove]

french spotted, opinion invalid

[rose dragon]

idea supremacy

[gaunt thistle]

you better watch it

[plush cove]

intelliJ supremacy

[minor furnace]

I'll use intelliJ for Java, sure

[plush cove]

I use Jetbrains Rider which isn't exactly the same thing as Idea but it's close enough

[limpid halo]

vscode is doodoo compared to IntelliJ 💀
can't even do git correctly without breaking in a 1 in 4 chance with 3 oops all 6's

[sturdy compass]

[gaunt thistle]

why use intelliJ when you can use helix

[sturdy compass]

the tism!

[rose dragon]

localthunk new joker leak

[limpid halo]

i get it from work anyways so

[minor furnace]

I unironically do all of my git stuff from the command line

[limpid halo]

that's fair!

[rose dragon]

nuh uh

[gaunt thistle]

I use cli git unless I'm doing big rebases or merge conflicts

[limpid halo]

the soyker

[rose dragon]

what mod is this from lmfao

[minor furnace]

speaking of git I should probably make a repo for my mod at some point

[gaunt thistle]

what sorta twisted mind comes up with a joker like that

[sturdy compass]

Maximus (mine)

[sturdy compass]

@deft bane

[minor furnace]

I have not been controlling my versions on this project

[gaunt thistle]

[limpid halo]

i decided to version my control because i was getting far enough along that if i lost anything i would want to commit Joker ( 2019)

[gaunt thistle]

ehrm why use github desktop when you can use github mobile

[sturdy compass]

oh god

[rose dragon]

dont use github mobile, i use github ps5

[limpid halo]

GitHub for Apple TV

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-cat-muscle-muscle-cat-meme-gif-551006329262101208

average github ps5 user

[minor furnace]

github for my smart fridge

[edgy reef]

I should probably use git cli more, I've basically only used it so far via desktop for repo and command line for installations.

[candid willow]

github gameboy

[limpid halo]

idk whenever i try to git add skill it says not found??

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/closed-source-open-source-foss-github-code-gif-26506919

[minor furnace]

common mistake, you're supposed to clone it

[sturdy compass]

Guys I'm a github Nook user, how long does it usually take to push again?

[limpid halo]

you have to manually push it like a car in neutral

[sturdy compass]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-wheel-run-gif-10746499

[minor furnace]

I had to do that once. Was not fun
Alternator was broken

[paper zealot]

So I've noticed that after using the Cartomancer mod, even when the mod is deleted and the config is removed, it still creates a cartomancer.jkr config file every launch. What's responsible for this happening and how can I avoid it from happening in my mod?

[edgy reef]

iirc turn off cloud saves for Balatro through steam.

[frosty dock]

that's steam cloud doing steam cloud things

you can delete it while the game is running iirc

[paper zealot]

Ah, that's no problem then. I was concerned that functions were being serialized in the profile or something

[edgy reef]

They can't.

[candid willow]

hey so just to make sure I have my understanding of lovely patches down right:
what they basically do is refer to a line of code within a specified lua file, and "overwrite" the content of that line with whatever is in the patch?

[frosty dock]

that's one use of them

they can also insert code before or after a pattern

and then there's regex patches, which are a lot more powerful

[candid willow]

how so

[gaunt thistle]

they can let you select large amounts of text with a minimal amount of syntax, weave code into other code (like you wanted to replace an if statement's expression), etc. etc.

it's the pattern patch but on mondo steroids.

[random sleet]

oh god i need to learn how to do that

[deft bane]

[random sleet]

the one if statement in Card:draw that is my mortal nemesis.....

[candid willow]

i only ask bc I have literally zero clue where to actually start on this
do I make just a lua? do I need to make a patch?
this is all flying over my head and giving me a headache (although prob doesnt help that its past midnight)

[gaunt thistle]

https://rustexp.lpil.uk/

[candid willow]

i feel so out of my depth

[gaunt thistle]

that's ok! It's a lot to take in

if you just want to make a mod then you probably don't need to mess around with lovely

if you do want to mess around with lovely then the best way is to learn by copying what other people have done

the lovely readme is a good place to start: https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector/. you can also dig around the smods repo and see how they do their patches

[normal crest]

ngl you do not need a lovely patch to do the effect you mentioned

unless you want to conditionally increase the max_highlighted amount

[candid willow]

that's what I thought initially, but I think I just need to be able to read lua better so I can see how other people do it within their mods

[minor furnace]

I wonder what the utility of having a consumable that lets you scry the top few cards of the deck would be 🤔

[candid willow]

like how misprint used to do (idk if it still does)?

I actually wanted to turn that into its own joker too lol

[minor furnace]

Yeah misprint still tells you the top card

Scrying would let you rearrange them though, or push them to the bottom of the deck

[candid willow]

ah

i guess itd be really good for deck fixing that requires you to not remove certain cards from your deck

like say you have Ancient Joker right

you scry the top few (let's say 3 cards) and none of them are the suit being called for by ancient

[chrome widget]

how do you get the screen coordinates of a joker's sprite?

[candid willow]

send em to the end of the deck in hopes of getting the cards that ARE called for below them

[plush cove]

wdym by screen coordinates?

do you mean the position used for their sprite?

[chrome widget]

when getting the transform coordinates of say a card's front, I believe it's relative to the parent node/movable/whatever

[minor furnace]

I think scry could be a fun thing, but I’d hate to have to make an interface for it 💀

[candid willow]

you wouldn't have to, I think

[minor furnace]

I’d need a place to hold the cards, and a way for the player to choose where on the deck it goes

[candid willow]

oh you want to MANUALLY place cards within the deck

[minor furnace]

Well not within the deck. But on a per card basis you can choose to either put it on the bottom, or what order to put it back on top with the others

[candid willow]

ohhhhhhhhhh

[minor furnace]

Like how it works in MTG

[random sleet]

i can definitely tell you manipulating deck order is possible but yeah UI code is beans

[candid willow]

yeah that might require its own interface which would suck

[minor furnace]

That’s about what I figured

[random sleet]

but of course not impossible im just no ui wizard

[minor furnace]

This is future me’s problem after I finish my current ideas

[random sleet]

and most people arent

[minor furnace]

And I need sleep because it is 2:30 in the am

[paper zealot]

card.T might be enough to get you started. Has T = {x, y, w, h, r}

[minor furnace]

Average coder sleep schedule

[candid willow]

does anyone know if theres a mod somewhere that changes the effects of existing arcana cards?

if I have that I might be able to reverse engineer what I need for this joker

wait

i think I mightve found it?

[frosty dock]

yeah that's what you use for that

[candid willow]

https://tenor.com/view/femc-rin-amamiya-persona-5-royal-persona-5-cute-gif-15099490482768595301

im learning

[plush cove]

cryptid fandom in shambles rn

[candid willow]

not so jolly now wendigos

[plush cove]

relax, liberals, it's called dark humour

[rose dragon]

if cryptid installed then remove jolly joker

[limpid halo]

This is how cryptocurrency was born

[candid willow]

man im so mad i didn't find this earlier

ill have to look over it in full later tho, i have class in the morning 😭

[icy coral]

Is this linked anywhere?

[limpid halo]

it's been posted in here a few times but here's the link
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Your-First-Mod

[chrome widget]

Unfortunately, yeah, these coordinates aren't screen coordinates

[candid willow]

Can someone pin this for easier access itf

[tepid crow]

What do you mean they're not 🤔

[chrome widget]

The screen cordinates of a card's center are somewhere in the 10-15 range it looks like. They're relative either to the parent node, or to the area they're in, or w/e

[wintry solar]

I’m pretty sure they’re just screen coordinates it’s just the unit is some weird jank

[tepid crow]

That yeah

I'm assuming Thunk didnt want to deal with different screensizes so he used some sort of fixed size