💻・modding-dev

[manic rune]

anaxa and castorice kits r getting reworked a lot lol

anaxa just got his kit leaked yesterday and its already getting reworked

😭

[red flower]

i usually ignore leaks because i dont understand game mechanics until i play with them

[manic rune]

mostly because his kit is a bit too rng, 64% to inflict a debuff (i wont go further than that, unless ur interested) on a lv 95 enemy

and theres no way to work around that

since its a fixed percentage

oh wait i just realized something

the name should be a dynatext object

[red flower]

if you put it in the localization you can just call localize and it will make it for you

[manic rune]

oh, so stuff in 'name' is automatically converted into DynaText i assume?

[red flower]

yes

[manic rune]

thats very convenient, thank

[polar marlin]

what are yall using to do the coding part?

[red flower]

vscode

[polar marlin]

whats that

this is my first time ever touching code/mods

[red flower]

It's a popular code editor

[manic rune]

arguably the most popular and versatile one

ok maybe notepad is more versatile

❤️

[polar marlin]

okay wait, heres a better question, how do i start putting the code to work the joker?

i have the .lua file

made in notepad

[manic rune]

uhh

just type in the code

❤️

[polar marlin]

do i just use the code from smods jokers

oh wait actually?

its that easy?

[manic rune]

yeah it is

[polar marlin]

well shit

[hot island]

you might wanna start out learning some basic lua if you wanna add functionality and stuff

[manic rune]

^

[polar marlin]

im just gonna pray it works gnag

[hot island]

like if this is your first time programming you should start with the basics instead of trying to skip to the end and getting overwhelmed

[paper zealot]

Crawl before you can walk before you can run before you can fly

[hot island]

bars

[manic rune]

absolute cinema

breezebuilder cooked

🗣️

[polar marlin]

i just want to atleast see my silly boykisser joker in the game even if it doesnt work

[plush cove]

genuinely baffled on how LocalThunk didn't already have a function for this and just coded it manually for every food joker

[hot island]

then just edit the textures of another joker

[plush cove]

(this specific iteration was cannibalized from a mix of JenLib, Ortalab and Paperback <3)

[polar marlin]

thats boring

[manic rune]

agreed

[polar marlin]

ill let yall know how it goes

[hot island]

it is but if all you want is to see it in game then its much easier than learning to program

[polar marlin]

im going to learn how to program watch me

[hot island]

alrighty

good luck

[polar marlin]

uhh nvm

i just remembered im stupid

yeah ima just modify a different joker then

a premade joker

how would i do that?

[wintry solar]

@graceful magnet sorted

[polar marlin]

do i just find the card in the balatro files?

[hot island]

hey theres some pretty simple lua tutorials out there

[polar marlin]

yeah but... im also pretty stupid

[graceful magnet]

huh?

[polar marlin]

like beachball mentality

[hot island]

are you talking adding a new joker or editing an existing joker

[polar marlin]

editing an existing

[wintry solar]

oh shit I have pinged the wrong person sorry

@spring lantern sorted

[graceful magnet]

[hot island]

open the exe with 7zip

[polar marlin]

okay how do i get 7zip T-T

[graceful magnet]

it is most definitely easier to make a new one than edit an existing one

[graceful magnet]

Internet

[polar marlin]

internet

thanks

[plush cove]

Internet

[hot island]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=7zip+download

[polar marlin]

i went on the 7zip website

[hot island]

are you on windows

[polar marlin]

yea

i downloaded it

[hot island]

alright now install it

[polar marlin]

now how would i open the game with 7zip

i did that

[hot island]

right click the balatro exe

and open with 7zip

[polar marlin]

okay

[high stag]

A much easier to implement deck

--- Gambler Deck
--- Gain no money from beating Blinds
--- Gain no Interest
--- All cards are Lucky
------------------------------
SMODS.Back{
    name = "GamblerDeck",
    key = "gamblerDeck",
    atlas = 'tgmp-other',
    pos = {
        x = 1,
        y = 0,
    },
    config = {},
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Gambler Deck",
        text = {
            "{C:attention}Blinds{} give no reward money",
            "Earn no {C:attention}Interest{}",
            "All cards are {C:attention}Lucky{}",
        }
    },
    apply = function()
        
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            func = function()
                for i = #G.playing_cards, 1, -1 do
                    G.playing_cards[i]:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.m_lucky)
                end
                G.GAME.modifiers.no_blind_reward = G.GAME.modifiers.no_blind_reward or {}
                G.GAME.modifiers.no_blind_reward.Small = true
                G.GAME.modifiers.no_blind_reward.Big = true
                G.GAME.modifiers.no_blind_reward.Boss = true
                G.GAME.modifiers.no_interest = true
                return true
            end
        }))
    end
}```

[hot island]

do you know how to find the exe

[manic rune]

hmmmm

it almost works now

[polar marlin]

no

[manic rune]

just that there seems to be a white box

[hot island]

you have it on steam?

[polar marlin]

yeah

[hot island]

right click it on steam and click browse local files

[polar marlin]

no pirating here

okay

i got it

[rose dragon]

open the exe with winrar

[manic rune]

how would i remove this box?

[hot island]

now open the exe with 7zip

[random sleet]

eremel i stole them look /s
guess i cant have this thing queue up rustys
-# net's down here so sorry for the picture of a screen

[polar marlin]

got it

[hot island]

then go to resources/textures/

[red flower]

whats ur code

[polar marlin]

im there

[hot island]

and open one of the folders

[polar marlin]

okay

[rose dragon]

the badge?

[polar marlin]

got it

[hot island]

and edit jokers.png

[hot island]

just paste it into the spot of the joker you wanna replace

[manic rune]

nope, you can actually see another box in the joker's description

[polar marlin]

oh aight

[hot island]

and do that for 1x and 2x

[polar marlin]

how would i change the properties of a card tho?

[manic rune]

...oh wait, i can probably just remove the .config.color line

[polar marlin]

in theory

[hot island]

you would need a mod for that or to edit the game files

[wintry solar]

oh this is just jank from when loc_txt updated that I haven't been bothered to change 🤣

[rose dragon]

change the card.ability.extra

[hot island]

which is a lot more work

[manic rune]

nope, still the same

[hot island]

theyve never programmed before they have no idea what that means

[hot island]

like youd need to learn lua and how balatro works and shit

[polar marlin]

fuck.

[red flower]

try passing true to desc_from_rows as the second value

[polar marlin]

i bearly even know how to play the game

[hot island]

if you wanted to change the joker name you can edit that in the localization folder

[red flower]

i dont know how to play balatro, that's not a requirement for modding

[manic rune]

wonderful, it works, thanks :D

[polar marlin]

oh aight

[hot island]

just ctrl+f the joker you replaced with your boykisser or whatever

and replace it with what you want

[polar marlin]

where in the localization files do i change it

[hot island]

en-us.lua is english

[manic rune]

does it look like a normal joker's description now?

[polar marlin]

oh thanks

[hot island]

make sure to only replace the text in quotes

if you replace anything else itll fuck it up

[manic rune]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

is this how i get a joker's loc_vars?

i have no clue

💔

im just gonna do a workaround to be sure

[polar marlin]

alright i changed some stuff yall wanna see?

[manic rune]

nvm, hm

i thought changing specific_vars would allow me to do #1# stuff

[hot island]

yep

[manic rune]

oh im dumb, figured it out

[polar marlin]

alright nevermind it doesnt work

plus it was stupidly immature and a reflection of my anger

alot of racism i would say

[hot island]

damn 😔

[polar marlin]

the way this game is coded makes me angry as fuck

[manic rune]

💀

relatable

[polar marlin]

makes me want to kill something

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-oriental-shorthair-scared-cat-scared-what-the-dog-doin-gif-23135676

it's not that bad

[manic rune]

yeah uhhh

wait

i SOMEHOW

made my type cursor weird

[polar marlin]

It angers me because ive never coded before

[gaunt thistle]

well... yeah

[manic rune]

like, it turned into a box and it starts overwriting letters

[gaunt thistle]

it's not a great first programming project

ok I wouldn't go thaaaaat far

but big projects like this are never super clean

[polar marlin]

i was bored and wanted to turn jimbo into a boykisser to release my anger

[gaunt thistle]

interesting method

[manic rune]

its definitely better than yandere simulator imo, i would say the code readability is on par with undertale

[random sleet]

me when i make random ortalab compat in my mod because funny

[gaunt thistle]

it's pretty good considering it's > 100k loc

localthunk is very talented :-)

[manic rune]

mhm

[polar marlin]

The thought of local thunk angers me

[gaunt thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/crunchy-cat-monkeycatluna-monkey-cat-luna-judging-cat-cat-judging-gif-11023608558760086053

[polar marlin]

like no hate, but all hate

[manic rune]

it cant seriously be that deep 😭

[gaunt thistle]

damn that's a big opinion to have for someone who doesn't really know the codebase :-/

let's not trash lt, he's great

[polar marlin]

not saying hes bad

the code angers me immensly tho

like wdym i cant name the blueprint "penis"?

i am angry

and i wish to take it out on the cards

[manic rune]

i feel like the same could apply for basically every game's code, unless you are directly involved with the development then you would have to spend quite a while learning how everything works in the code

[polar marlin]

the jokers

[gaunt thistle]

idk what makes you so mad about it

[polar marlin]

jimbo

jimbo is number one opp now

[manic rune]

and honestly, we should be glad that localthunk actually didnt make his code too complex

[polar marlin]

fair enough

[manic rune]

else it would gatekeep quite a lot of modders

[polar marlin]

yea

[gaunt thistle]

you probably don't even need to touch real code to do what you want to do

just an asset mod and a localization change

[polar marlin]

it at one point was more than just a asset mod

[scarlet spire]

I knew absolutely nothing about lua until I started balatro modding and i've been learning pretty well

[polar marlin]

it was an actual custom joker

[manic rune]

lua is really easy to learn ngl

[polar marlin]

and then i realized im stupid

[manic rune]

false

[random sleet]

i started coding with lua like 13 years ago ??? lmao

[manic rune]

i started coding in Roblox studio, its basically lua but a bit more convenient

[gaunt thistle]

yeah it's not a bad language to learn on

it's just weird

[manic rune]

mhm, after learning lua you actually start to question some other languages

like, you automatically assume if statements to have "end'

and then some languages dont have it

[red flower]

what do you mean

[manic rune]

the next thing i need to learn next is adding another button to a joker

hm

shouldn't be that hard

[wintry solar]

Buttons aren’t too bad, you can reuse a lot of what is already there

[red flower]

I wasn't replying to that lol, what do you need from the code

this?

this is for the shop

yw

[plush cove]

question: is this code for Sleepy Joker's Nightmare function optimized like at all?

what it's meant to do is detect if the player also has Scary Face, and if so, destroy the card and create awake joker

and I feel like this is the simplest solution but i'm not sure if it's flawed at all

[normal crest]

It depends on what your destroy joker function does

[plush cove]

this is it (add_event is basically just the same thing as G.E_MANAGER:add_event)

[normal crest]

Btw food jokers in vanilla don't dissolve when they're "eaten"

[plush cove]

ik, I've looked through that code, but I saw Ortalab used start_dissolve() and thought it looked neater to do everything with that one line

[normal crest]

I don't remember exactly what start_dissolve does but make sure it handles removing the joker from the cardarea

Otherwise if it works it works

Idk about setting card to nil tho

[plush cove]

i think it does but I'm moving back to this because I figured out how to get it onto one line

[grim remnant]

for whatever reason, if you use this while having more than 1 negative card, it actually shrinks the amount of joker slots you have. what're we missing here?

    key = 'dissociate',
    set = 'Spectral',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Dissociate',
        text = {
            "{C:dark_edition}+1{} Joker Slot"
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card) --make colors exist
        return { vars = { colours = {HEX('CE001F')}} } end,
    atlas = 'Tarot',
    pos = { x = 2, y = 0 },
    cost = 3,
    can_use = function(self, card, area, copier)
        return true -- you're always allowed to use this, of course
        end,
    use = function(self, card, area, copier)
        G.jokers:change_size(1) --BUG: this just breaks HARD if you have negatives
        play_sound(timpani)
    end,
}```

[normal crest]

Does it shrink when you sell the negatives

[gusty sequoia]

How do I make juice up actually work, because for me it just crashes because it's nil

[normal crest]

What's your relevant code

[gusty sequoia]

return { message = 'Again!', repetitions = card.ability.extra.repetitions, juice_up() }

[normal crest]

put juice_card = card instead

[gusty sequoia]

Okie

I'll go test that rq

[grim remnant]

it's like. if you use it, then ectoplasm or otherwise convert to negative, then use it again, it eats the negative slots.

[gusty sequoia]

It worked :D

[plush cove]

Check the code for Antimatter

        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = function()
            if G.jokers then 
                G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit + 1
            end
            return true end }))```

@grim remnant

[minor furnace]

I may not have solved the issue of hands not scoring at all when they contain an Omnirank card, but I at least optimized this function :/

    if best_hand then
        for _, v in ipairs(G.handlist) do
            if next(current_hand[v]) then return current_hand
            elseif next(best_hand[v])then return best_hand end 
        end
    else
        return current_hand
    end
end```

[grim remnant]

that worked, tysm!

[minor furnace]

I think I need somebody to sanity check my code, because I don't know what would be causing my return from my get_best_omnihand() to differ from the output format of evaluate_poker_hand(), considering the omnihand function uses that evaluate function as its calculation

If I sent the code would someone be willing to review it?

[grim remnant]

how can we make a consumable that can target either 1 joker or 1 playing card, but not both at the same time? (for that matter, how do you just, Select 1 Joker in the first place?)

[red flower]

anyone knows what this could be? outdated lovely?

[gaunt thistle]

it's hard to tell without a full log. there's a good chance that they have 0.7.0 and need to update to latest.

I fixed that specific bug in 0.7.1 iirc

[red flower]

ty I'll tell that to them
honestly i hate troubleshooting through github issues

[fathom thunder]

does anyone know why it shows up as "j_melo_scribbal" instead of just "Scribbal" it's copying itself in which it's not supposed to and i think this is why

[plush cove]

code?

[fathom thunder]

figured that i didnt need to post any code since it'd probably just be a matter of me missing some info that i had to put in the table but

SMODS.Joker{
    key = "scribbal",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Scribbal",
        text = {
            "When blind is selected,",
            "randomly copies one of",
            "your {C:attention}Jokers' abilities{}.",
            "{s:0.75}Currently copying: {C:attention}#1#{}"
        }
    },
    rarity = 3,
    atlas = "Jokers",
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
    config = { 
        extra = {
            copying = "None",
            instCopy = nil
        }
    },
}

excluding all the functions cuz that just makes it really long

[plush cove]

localize({type = 'name_text', set = 'Joker', key = [KEY OF COPIED JOKER]})

[grim remnant]

        if #G.hand.highlighted == 1 or #G.jokers.highlighted == 1 then
        return true
        end,```
well, this isn't working. uh. how do we do this? (it's MEANT to be an exclusive or, but we're taking this one step at a time here)

[fathom thunder]

elaborate what i do with this?

[plush cove]

put it in your loc_vars

[fathom thunder]

alr

[plush cove]

replace [KEY OF COPIED JOKER] with card.ability.extra.copying

[red flower]

is it crashing or is it just not working

[grim remnant]

crashing

[red flower]

you're missing an end

[normal crest]

I am once more begging you to get an IDE that can tell you of your syntax errors

[grim remnant]

okay, almost there. uh. we understand roughly how for loops work now, but how exactly do we clarify two things for it? (this isn't crashing, but it is ignoring jokers altogether here.)

        for i = 1, #G.hand.highlighted or #G.jokers.highlighted do --for the first card or joker highlighted (of only 1, of course)...
            local highlighted = G.hand.highlighted[i] or G.jokers.highlighted[i] --set that 1 card or joker highlighted to local variable highlighted.```

[red flower]

they had 0.6.0

[normal crest]

Because #G.hand.highlighted is never a false value, that will always be picked in the or

[grim remnant]

do we like, swap jokers and hand highlighted then, or will that just cause the reverse problem?

[normal crest]

That will cause the same problem but reversed yes

What exactly is your use function meant to do

[grim remnant]

it is supposed to take either 1 playing card, or 1 joker, but not both 1 playing card AND 1 joker

[red flower]

because of your condition in can_use you don't need a loop because it's always 1

you can do
local highlighted = #G.hand.highlighted == 1 and G.hand.highlighted[1] or G.jokers.highlighted[1]

[normal crest]

^ if you had a joker and a playing card highlighted that condition above would prioritize the playing card

[red flower]

you will need to change can_use to an exclusive or like you said

yeah

[paper zealot]

While you're learning it might be easier to understand if you break it down to its simplest parts in an if-else

local highlighted = nil
if #G.hand.highlighted == 1 then
    highlighted = G.hand.highlighted[1]
elseif #G.jokers.highlighted == 1 then
    highlighted = G.jokers.highlighted[1]
end

[grim remnant]

so, this is how we learn lua actually lacks an xor keyword innately. Which. Wild.

[lucid owl]

is there a context called when cards are destroyed? like how canio has a condition that activates when face cards are destroyed

[normal crest]

context.remove_playing_cards

[stray warren]

Lua has ~ in 5.3, but Balatro only runs 5.1

[lucid owl]

thanks!

[normal crest]

it is called one time with a list of all destroyed cards in context.removed

[red flower]

can we ask for balatro to be remade in php

[grim remnant]

...Ah.

[normal crest]

funniliy enough, that Eremel mention to you was related to what you were struggling with like two weeks ago with a joker that depended on playing cards added

this

[graceful magnet]

oh funn

[normal crest]

so that behaviour was fixed, if it's still relevant to you

if perhaps you gave up on the joker temporarily

[graceful magnet]

sorta did but I might circle back to the idea now

[grim remnant]

it's still not registering jokers highlighted, not entirely sure we even inserted this correctly tbh.

[plush cove]

did that fix it?

[normal crest]

you do not need a for loop for this

[fathom thunder]

no, but i found just simply adding name = "Scribbal" fixed it, i had to find some other solution for it copying itself
new issue though if you don't mind, this is a sort of blueprint-like ability i guess, and i got it working somewhat, jokers like say gros michel with joker_calculate work perfectly fine, however something like lusty joker doesn't and I don't know why, i simply copied the blueprint code from old blueprint from cryptid

if context.joker_main then
    other_joker = card.ability.extra.instCopy
    if other_joker and other_joker ~= card then
        context.blueprint = (context.blueprint and (context.blueprint + 1)) or 1
        context.blueprint_card = context.blueprint_card or card
    
        if context.blueprint > #G.jokers.cards + 1 then
            return
        end
    
        local other_joker_ret, trig = other_joker:calculate_joker(context)
        if other_joker_ret or trig then
            if not other_joker_ret then
                other_joker_ret = {}
            end
            other_joker_ret.card = context.blueprint_card or card
            other_joker_ret.colour = G.C.BLUE
            other_joker_ret.no_callback = true
            return other_joker_ret
        end
    end
end

i think it has to do with the fact that jokers like lusty joker for example dont have anything related to calculate_joker but I don't know what exactly I'd use otherwise

[normal crest]

you're meant to set context.blueprint and context.blueprint_card to nil after calling calculate_joker

And make sure to save a reference to context.blueprint_card before doing that

So you can use it in other_joker_ret.card

[grim remnant]

okay, now the opposite problem is happening... jokers can be buffed, playing cards can't be. kinda at a loss for how that even happens.

[candid willow]

is there a context for a joker just sitting in the joker area or would I just set it to true?

[normal crest]

Did you have both a joker and a playing card highlighted

[normal crest]

you'll need to specify a bit more

[grim remnant]

no, and it's impossible to even use the card if you have both a joker and a playing card selected

[normal crest]

I guess you changed the can_use function from the last time you sent that screenshot

can you send your entire use function

[candid willow]

I'm trying to make a joker that has no active effects, simply increases the number of cards one can highlight when applying Lucky to a set of given cards

[normal crest]

you'll have to do hooks/lovely patches to achieve this

[candid willow]

fml

[grim remnant]

for context, we were able to nab an xor function from a stackoverflow thread and just used that in can_use. literally it's just this:

if a ~= b then return true else return false end
end```
which is used like so:
```    can_use = function(card)
        if xor( #G.hand.highlighted , #G.jokers.highlighted ) then
        return true
        end
    end,```

[normal crest]

and then you can check next(SMODS.find_card(your joker key here)) to check if the player has your joker

[fathom thunder]

elaborate a bit please? cuz i did just that but it's still not working unless i misunderstood

local other_joker_ret, trig = other_joker:calculate_joker(context)
local other_joker_cbc = context.blueprint_card
context.blueprint = nil
context.blueprint_card = nil
if other_joker_ret or trig then
    if not other_joker_ret then
        other_joker_ret = {}
    end
    other_joker_ret.card = other_joker_cbc or card
    other_joker_ret.colour = G.C.BLUE
    other_joker_ret.no_callback = true
    return other_joker_ret
end

[manic rune]

yeah so uhh, managed to get the description swapping stuff working

[red flower]

the arguments for the xor need to be boolean values i.e.
xor( #G.hands.highlighted == 1, #G.jokers.highlighted == 1)

[manic rune]

is there any examples for jokers with another button below SELL?

[red flower]

so there's this mod called joyousspring that has cards with extra buttons

[normal crest]

that looks fine, I am not sure about the trig check

[manic rune]

joyousspring my beloved

[normal crest]

you can pretty much reference all the blueprint behavior from the vanilla code

[grim remnant]

did that, still only works on jokers while ignoring playing cards, so. no idea. (we feel like the elseif has to be set up wrong but couldn't tell you how)

[manic rune]

(what card to be more specific? 😭)

[red flower]

look at the card:highlighted hook in zones.lua

[manic rune]

wonderful, thanks 🙏

[fathom thunder]

im gonna print trig to see what it is in the first place then i guess

[normal crest]

it's either nil or true

in the base game

[candid willow]

you're on Paperback, right? mind if I kitbash a patch for it using the one for shopping center as a base?

[normal crest]

I don't think shopping center has a patch

But feel free to use any of the patches in paperback as a reference

Ideally look in the beta branch of it too, cus the version in the main branch is a bit old

[fathom thunder]

i see, i dont know whats going on here then

[normal crest]

try copying the vanilla blueprint code as it is

just make sure to change self for card

[fathom thunder]

still nothing

[paper zealot]

Apply your brain!

    if xor( #G.hand.highlighted , #G.jokers.highlighted ) then return true

is just checking #G.hand.highlighted ~= #G.jokers.highlighted three times over.
The reason xor isn't defined as a function is that it's totally unnecessary. Don't check to check if the check is true is true. Just return the result

[grim remnant]

is this for can_use because our problem lies with the actual use function

since, filling this out and adding the "else" debug message, it now does. Absolutely nothing. implying the only reason it was only buffing jokers initially is because jokers were listed last.

[normal crest]

can you send the entire use function and define what the problem is exactly

[grim remnant]

for the ENTIRE use function, see this

[paper zealot]

Further to this, what you're actually checking here is if the number of highlighted cards is not equal to the number of highlighted jokers.
What you want to check is if only one card is highlighted. So:

can_use = function(card)
    if #G.hand.highlighted == 1 and #G.jokers.highlighted == 0 then
        return true
    elseif #G.jokers.highlighted == 1 and #G.hand.highlighted == 0 then
        return true
    end
end,

[hot island]

yeah that xor function is hilarious

[red flower]

The problem is that you need an end after the if condition
You have an extra at the bottom so it doesn't crash but the events are always ran in the last block of the if because of the misplaced end

[paper zealot]

There are shorter and simpler ways to do this, i'm just trying to help you through understanding the logic

Don't just copy the code, try to understand what it's doing and why

[grim remnant]

we get that, but like, we don't need an elseif in the can_use, =~ was basically just doing the xor operand we wanted

[paper zealot]

It wasn't checking for what you wanted it to check for

It was checking if the number of selected joker and playing cards was unequal

So it would still be valid if you'd selected 4 playing cards and 5 jokers, but not if you'd selected 4 of each

[normal crest]

Or a more vanilla like example, if you selected 2 playing cards and 1 joker

[candid willow]

what is G.jokers?

[normal crest]

the card area where the jokers go

[candid willow]

so if I just check if my joker is in g.jokers, i can have this effect work without having to draft a lovely patch?

[normal crest]

not quite, you can indeed check if your joker is in the area to apply your effect outside of its calculate function and such

but you still need to find the part where the game determines how many cards magician can turn into lucky and modify them

[candid willow]

couldn't I just use take ownership to do that?

[grim remnant]

okay, that makes sense, but it isn't fixing the use function, which is currently valid for only 1 or the other, but it's doing absolutely nothing; fixing can_use, while helpful, wasn't what we were after, and now it's just doing absolutely nothing to the valid targets. and adding end to the end of the if condition is just doing this.

yes we downloaded an IDE. yes we debugged and tried end, end end, end, end, end end, and all it got was a bunch of syntax errors.

[normal crest]

that'd unconditionally make all magicians have a different value

[normal crest]

Are you in vscode

[raven tusk]

i'm working on a mod with my friend (i have no clue how to code but he doesnt own a copy of balatro on pc so i'm basically testing everything for him), so i dont know how to access the source code or the code of certain jokers. would anyone be able to help me figure out how, because i cant find anything on the internet (that or i'm just not understanding)

[grim remnant]

ZeroBrane.

[fathom thunder]

im still so lost 🕊️

[paper zealot]

You've clearly just changed the theme of notepad++, but alright. What are you doing with highlighted once it's assigned?

[normal crest]

And it doesn't tell you where syntax errors are?

That doesn't feel like a very helpful IDE

[candid willow]

open balatro as an archive (like you're opening a zipfile), all the game's code is in a lua file called "game.lua"

[fathom thunder]

the balatro executable is basically just a fancy zip file you can extract its contents to see the source code

[raven tusk]

would i need to copy it somewhere as to not explode my game

ah wait

[candid willow]

you can always just reverify the integrity of your files if you screw up the game but yeah

[grim remnant]

2. highlighted is used in the subsequent events to represent the target card or joker

[raven tusk]

ah yeah i figured it out

thank you guys <3

[normal crest]

That error is very explicit

There is an extra comma in that line

That shouldn't be there

Also unless you set it up properly (if it even has the option to) that IDE might not be helpful at all

[grim remnant]

and we tried that. and it did this. and then we tried other combinations of ends and ,s and it didn't work.

[normal crest]

Exactly what I mean, not helpful at all

You have more syntax errors

Further down in your code it seems

[grim remnant]

line 1003 is the end that's meant for the use function.

[normal crest]

The "end" on line 1002 is the issue

[grim remnant]

...oh my god is it seriously just because we forgot to remove the end when removing the for loop like an hour ago

We are going to become the joker, and because of the game we are modding, this is literal.

[candid willow]

lmao

[paper zealot]

Your inconsistent indentation and use of commas unnecessarily is probably making things more confusing for you and harder to see where statements don't match up

[candid willow]

yall gotta admit its pretty funny though

[grim remnant]

okay. so uh. significantly less intense of a question, is there an equivalent to G.hand:unhighlight_all() but for jokers

[paper zealot]

I'd never heard of ZeroBrane, but check to see if it has a way to auto-format and auto-indent your code

[normal crest]

Just replace hand with jokers

[grim remnant]

uhhhhh

[normal crest]

you put _ instead of :

[plush cove]

ok so

is it more efficient to:

A. have a global table that contains all of my functions, load it once, and just keep indexing it

or

B. make that same table local, and run this in every file I want to use it

[lucid owl]

seems like zerobrane is a lua-specific IDE for reference

[grim remnant]

okay, THERE we go.

[lucid owl]

how would one modify prices of items in the shop?

[normal crest]

Loading the utils file once for every other file doesn't feel very efficient

[plush cove]

true, but I'm aware of the lua debate between global and local variables, and apparently local variables/these hacky workarounds might be more efficient because of something about global variables taking longer to index than local ones

[normal crest]

I wouldn't know about that, but just keep in mind that if in your utils file you have anything other than just function definitions, for example, a hook, that will cause issues

[lucid owl]

bump

[plush cove]

my utils file is just function definitions so that's nothing to worry about

[weak gate]

how do I watch a shader with debugplus?

[normal crest]

G.shop_jokers.cards[1].cost = x, shop_jokers can be shop_vouchers, shop_boosters

I am not actually too sure about shop_jokers

[lucid owl]

awesome, thanks

[weak gate]

ahh
watch shaders Mods/mymod/assets/shaders/myshader.fs

[paper zealot]

Whichever does the least number of lookups is the most efficient, but usually good organisation is worth a very slight loss in efficiency. It's rare that the need for efficiency trumps the importance of organisation.
Keeping it all in a global table is fine for organisation, though if you were doing MyMod.mistiutils.anotherobject.yetanotherobject.function() dozens of times every frame, then those lookups are going to be expensive, and at that point you might want to refactor that code to improve the performance.

Also, instead of using NFS.load to load it yourself, you can instead load the file as a module with Lovely and require it like so:

lovely.toml:

[[patches]]
[patches.module]
source = 'src/moveable_container.lua'
before = 'main.lua'
name = 'systemclock.moveablecontainer'

Then local moveable_container = require('systemclock.moveablecontainer') where necessary.
require is smart enough to check if the code has already been run, and to return the existing instance instead of a whole new one.

It also makes small patches easier, as you can just access the required module directly:

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
...
payload = '''
    tab_definition_function = require('systemclock.config_ui').create_config_tab
end
'''

[plush cove]

ooh, i'm definitely gonna go with this approach. ty for the insight! 🧡

[candid willow]

can someone show me an example and/or breakdown of a hook pls

within a joker, i should say

[normal crest]

you do not hook "within" a joker

local level_up_hand_ref = level_up_hand
function level_up_hand(card, hand, instant, amount)
  -- your code before

  local ret = level_up_hand_ref(card, hand, instant, amount)

  -- your code after
  return ret
end

this is an example of a hook

on a global function

[raven tusk]

if i have an econ joker that resets after a boss blind is there any way to make it so the reset comes after the cash out?

[gaunt thistle]

excellent advice breeze

[lucid owl]

this makes all shop items (except rerolls) free which is intended, but that only takes effect after buying a booster pack of some kind - when you get to the shop from the end of a blind everything is still normally priced. is there an issue with contexts? i basically copied the code of the coupon tag but i don't see why it's not taking effect right away

[paper zealot]

In Lua, everything is a variable and all variables can be changed at runtime.
First it's good to be aware that

function level_up_hand(card, hand, instant, amount)
``` is actually just shorthand for:
```lua
global level_up_hand = function(card, hand, instant, amount)
```and you can change what `level_up_hand` is at any time.

So if there's a function like `level_up_hand(...)` declared before your code, and you declare `level_up_hand(...)` again, then anytime `level_up_hand` is called, it'll be running your new function instead.

To make a hook, if you first copy a reference of the original function:
```lua
local level_up_hand_ref = level_up_hand
```then declare your own:
```lua
function level_up_hand(card, hand, instant, amount)
```and call the old function inside your new one:
```lua
local return_value = level_up_hand_ref(card, hand, instant, amount)
``` then you've effectively made a wrapper around the original function where you can do things immediately before or immediately after the original function, like this:
[#💻・modding-dev message](/guild/1116389027176787968/channel/1233186615086813277/)

You can also modify the original arguments before they're passed to the original function:
```lua
amount = 1000
``` or replace the original function's return value
```lua
return_value = 'something completely different'

The most important thing to remember is that because you're completely replacing all the calls of that function, you need to ensure that your replacement function also returns a value if the original one did!

return return_value

[fathom thunder]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/calculate_functions you can check the lists of contexts though i dont think i saw one of what you're looking for when i skimmed through it
maybe ending_shop is close enough

[candid willow]

this is incredibly comprehensive, thank you

[bold gyro]

I'm trying to get the ceiling of current chips for a Joker, and I have Talisman installed. I'm finding this to be a troubling combo, as Talisman makes hand_chips a table, and math.ceil does not like tables. Is there an alternative ceiling calculation function? Otherwise, how do I retrieve current chips such that both hand_chips and math.ceil behave nicely together?

[fathom thunder]

i can't tell you myself since i don't have talisman rn for my needs but you should try checking the table contents to see if there's anything that you can refer to in math.ceil

[lucid owl]

bump

[raven tusk]

i think this should work yeah

thank you again

[fathom thunder]

im pretty sure end of round is before cashing out? but you can check for yourself

[raven tusk]

hmm

[minor furnace]

why on earth does enhancing my card change hands_played_at_create to 3

and add a field for order = 22

[primal iron]

apologies if this is a dumb question haha, but how would i get "Joker to the right", i.e index of 'card' + 1?

[minor furnace]

ok, so the order thing happens for any enhancement, apparently

[fathom thunder]

something like this basically how blueprint does it

for i=1, #G.jokers.cards do 
    if G.jokers.cards[i] == card then
        joker = G.jokers.cards[i+1]
    end
end

of course replacing joker with whatever its supposed to be

speaking of blueprint im gonna crash out if i dont figure this out

[primal iron]

ahh makes sense, thought i would have to loop but i thought there might have been an easier way, thanks!

[fathom thunder]

even if there was an easier way the amount of objects itd have to loop through is so miniscule that it wouldn't really matter anyway

[foggy carbon]

so this works as intended, but how would I be able to edit the edition of the joker before placing it

[minor furnace]

I solved the issue of hands containing omnirank cards not scoring

turns out, creating a deep copy of the played hand was actually causing issues, because when comparing the cards played vs the cards that count towards scoring, it checks for equality by comparing the pointers, not the actual contents of the card

I though I was being clever by making a copy so I didn't accidentally manipulate the real cards in an unwanted way, but that was what was causing the problem in the first place

[candid willow]

are all of the game's objects global?

[marble flint]

kinda? just about everything is accessible indirectly via a global, but depending on the thing it's more or less annoying

most functions are simply globally scoped, though (or like, G.whatever which is basically the same thing)

[candid willow]

so I can just hook into a tarot card like so?

[marble flint]

nnnno

[opal spade]

tarot cards are not functions

[marble flint]

you should look through the game's code for a little bit, i recommend searching for "magician" across the files

[opal spade]

SMODS take_ownership

[lucid owl]

also to clarify something with hooks - they're defined outside of jokers, right? so if i wanted to hook set_cost() this would be how i do it, outside of any joker code?

[candid willow]

i was told thAT THIS WOULDNT WORK

im going to become jimbo

[opal spade]

what are you trying to do

[candid willow]

create a Joker that modifies the behavior of the Magician, increasing the number of cards you can apply Lucky to at a time from 2 to 4

i feel like I'm constantly flailing and hearing conflicting things from different people about how to do something that should be extremely simple and so very little of it makes sense

[lucid owl]

adding onto this, can SMODS functions be used in hooks? i'm attempting to make a joker that works similarly to astronomer, but that one uses find_joker(). and i know it's been recommended to use SMODS.find_card() instead, but i'm unsure if the way hooks work allow SMODS functions like that one

[opal spade]

yes, you can use any functions in hooks

[lucid owl]

awesome, thank you!

[marble flint]

you're allowed to do a lot of Very Illegal things in lua

[candid willow]

also, I DID do this
magician cards are only referenced in the game.lua twice, both on the same line here

[marble flint]

might be because the specific thing your trying to do is weirdly complicated for how simple it should be

[plush cove]

(my answer to this btw)

[candid willow]

thats

just wonderful

[marble flint]

oh I'm forgetting how awful tarots are

[plush cove]

(btw I switched from JetBrains to VSCodium :3)

[opal spade]

it's simple to do if you know how the game works but I'd recommend doing simpler things first or reading more code

[marble flint]

so in that table, magician has something in config for the limit

that needs to be changed in the finished card objects (it ends up in ability)

[opal spade]

that's the prototype, you don't want to change that unless you want to make your changes permanent

[frosty dock]

it's not too bad to do with take_ownership without changing the on-use behavior

[normal crest]

Does anyone know how to update the text of a blind on the blind selection screen

Like changing the shown score value

[frosty dock]

actually we don't have a context before using a consumable

[candid willow]

I dont need a context for before using a consumable, I just need a context for the joker effect to be active as long as it is in g.jokers

[marble flint]

well actually you could just override the can_use function, no?

[candid willow]

once you're done making Lucky cards, you can just discard the Joker and the ability to make more Luckys with only one Magician goes away

[frosty dock]

you're right, the use function for these just loops through all highlighted cards

[candid willow]

you can only make 2 luckys again

[frosty dock]

so just doing can_use is good enough for working properly

might also need to update it in loc_vars so it displays correctly though

[candid willow]

can you point me in the general direction of can_use's description so I have an idea of what you're talking about

[normal crest]

well I was able to access the text by doing G.blind_select_opts.boss:get_UIE_by_ID('blind_desc').children[2].children[2].children[3].config.text but changing it doesn't do anything

So I am lost

[opal spade]

after changing the values u need to run a function that recalculates it to update

I'll check rn

[normal crest]

yeah I ran this and it made it again

But I don't know if they're stacking

Doesn't seem like the previous UI is getting removed so I'm afraid calling that might lag the game.. but who knows

if you have any other ideas please do share

[opal spade]

I meant general ui code

when changing values in the boxes u need to recalculate the UI element for it to update

[normal crest]

How would one do that

[opal spade]

looking at my own older ui code it should be just :recalculate() on the root node

running that should update all the text and stuff

[normal crest]

Oh that does work

Now how likely is it that another mod messes with the structure of the UI

and all the children indexing I did gets messed up

[opal spade]

what's the thing that distinguishes the node you want to replace from all the other nodes

you could write a function that looks for that

[normal crest]

It seems the only distinguishable thing about it is that it has the score of the boss blind

I wish it had an id

[normal crest]

Where is this function defined?

engine/ui.lua

[opal spade]

yeah

[runic pecan]

Which rarity should this one be?

[minor furnace]

Insane thing: I patched out the get_straight() from the smods override so that the original get_straight()from the base game would be active, and now my Omnirank cards are correctly being identified in straights and scoring properly

also, the goofiest looking straight you will ever see

goofy straight flush

this feature is now working as I intended it to, aside from the joker interactions which I need to add

[runic pecan]

Rewording.

[candid willow]

can ANYONE point me in the general direction of can_use's description

[normal crest]

can_use should be a function that returns true if it can be used, false otherwise

the parameters are (self, card) where card is the actual consumable card

[candid willow]

thank you

[iron iron]

im making an econ joker where the payout is halved after the boss blind is defeated, but this doesnt work. what should i be doing instead

[minor furnace]

Imagine writing docstrings

[normal crest]

By not working what do you mean

Does it not execute

[iron iron]

it just goes to 0

[normal crest]

Add and context.main_eval

[iron iron]

it just crashes now

[normal crest]

did you do main.eval accidentally

[iron iron]

indeed

https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExandpdzY1ZnZpcnhzaXRrODh2MGYwYXR5cGkxY29tdmphNGI2MGZiMSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/MehfW4V9lXtdyG437N/giphy.gif

[rose dragon]

if you can't read this; it goes to show that 98% of balala players cant read

cantread

[iron iron]

if you cant read it then you're proving the original point

[rose dragon]

wait wtf that is the original 98% message
-# i actually couldn't read this 😭

[paper zealot]

Man i wish i learned how to read, i feel like i'm missing out on some real wisdom here

[stiff locust]

trying to make an effect that gives +1 card selection limit, but after running
G.hand.config.highlighted_limit = G.hand.config.highlighted_limit + 1
I am able to select 6 cards, but I cannot play all 6 of them. I'm guessing I am missing a step that makes you able to play hands with more than 5 cards?

[normal crest]

Probably whatever function decides whether the play button is enabled or not

I don't know where it is tho, maybe UI definitions

[faint yacht]

I hooked for that. https://github.com/TheOneGoofAli/TOGAPackBalatro/blob/24781891f3d097bd80fe460232d4712f7423c52d/togastuff.lua#L149-L164

[shadow rapids]

me: has a blind idea to debuff rarer jokers
me: oh wow, a cool idea for a blind! I hope no other mods have this blind!
cryptid mod pin blind:

[spring lantern]

@wintry solar just woke up, latest SMODS patch works wonders! huge thanks :3

[normal crest]

Thanks ere mel

for fixing local thunks code

[spring lantern]

still baffled that these spectrals returned {true}

like i get it probably made implementing hologram 1% easier but damn 😭

[wintry solar]

Yeah I do t understand why they were like that, the jokers at least made sense for timing animations

[bold gyro]

I have Talisman installed, and I'm trying to get the ceiling of current chips for a Joker. I'm finding this to be a troubling combo, as Talisman makes hand_chips a table, and math.ceil does not like tables. How do I get the current chips from hand_chips as a value?

[plush cove]

to_big(hand_chips)

[wintry solar]

I imagine there’s some talisman function you need to use instead of math.ceil

[stiff locust]

how do I check the mod a card is from again

[bold gyro]

this still gives a table unfortunately

[stiff locust]

config.center.mod.id?
-# i brute forced it i was right

[rose dragon]

is there a guide to lovely patches? the lovely-injector page is lacking
-# 98%

[bold gyro]

Where can I find a list of talisman functions? I've looked all over its github and this server to no avail

[spring lantern]

i hate how G.C.EDITION goes into this bright yellow, should i just have it be no color?

[long sun]

Try G.C.FILTER?

[humble girder]

{C:dark_edition} exists

(and is used for editions everywhere)

[long sun]

Ya that :D

[spring lantern]

right, i thought that was exclusive to negative

like it's meant to represent negative while G.C.EDITION is for the others

does look way better of course so ima just keep it either way

[humble girder]

c_aura={
    name="Aura",
    text={
        "Add {C:dark_edition}Foil{}, {C:dark_edition}Holographic{},",
        "or {C:dark_edition}Polychrome{} effect to",
        "{C:attention}1{} selected card in hand",
    },
},```

[spring lantern]

ahh ic

quick question how do i access a card's edition again?

[humble girder]

btw with the old joker calcs page gone from the smods wiki I'm pretty sure there's currently no page that exactly describes the order in which contexts are evaluated

[humble girder]

card.edition

[spring lantern]

right was it like this? my memory is so ass lmao

[humble girder]

no, it's a table

card.edition and card.edition.key == X

[spring lantern]

there ya go thx

i always forget the most basic stuff

[humble girder]

also due to vanilla things, card.edition.holo also works

[halcyon osprey]

Anyone have a guide to begin making your own balatro mod cause i tbh, have no clue what i am doing

[spring lantern]

uh... are playing card retriggers off by default now too or am i doing this wrong?

[spring lantern]

also https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki this is a good place to start

[halcyon osprey]

Ive gotten Steamodded

dunno what to do after xD

[spring lantern]

then just check through the wiki, there's documentation and guides on how to set things up

[halcyon osprey]

Ooh oki

[spring lantern]

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

[runic pecan]

How do my sprites look?

[spring lantern]

absolute fire

home run

off the park

[rose dragon]

0/10 they dont say joker /j

[spring lantern]

meanwhile this the kinda shit im doin

[humble girder]

this is correct, but you need to return it if context.repetition

[spring lantern]

ohh shit alright thx

it's not doing the thing, am i stupid?

[runic pecan]

individual and repetition is now separated

[spring lantern]

oops

makes sense

it now does the thing, thank you

[warm sphinx]

How would you go about making a joker that just adds a .3 mult every round to it?

I still trying to firgue this stuff out

[manic rune]

I FINALLY GOT THE BUTTON WORKING 😭

[manic rune]

use context.end_of_round then increases some stuff in the joker's config within that context

[warm sphinx]

Thank you!!!

[rose dragon]

why isn't this patch changing the tooltip?

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/common_events.lua"
pattern = "elseif _c.name == \"The Hermit\" then loc_vars = {_c.config.extra}"
position = "at"
payload = "elseif _c.name == \"The Hermit\" then loc_vars = {_c.config.extra*(G.GAME.investment_mult or 1)}"
match_indent = true

[warm sphinx]

I been trying to firgue this out for about 4 days

[manic rune]

i really suggest checking out this: https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/calculate_functions

[warm sphinx]

I had a silly idea and went out of my way to try to firgue all this stuff out

[manic rune]

im pretty sure it documents all the contexts

[warm sphinx]

Ooooo

The hardest part for me now is most likely trying to find a way to make a joker run a python script now

[manic rune]

...run a python script?

[warm sphinx]

I had a really stupid idea for a joker that basically has a chance to jumpscare and this is the best idea I had so far to make it work

And I already messed something up again

[rose dragon]

bump

[warm sphinx]

Is there a way to make a simple way to tell what I can delete so there isnt a bunch of extra stuff?

[runic pecan]

Usually I'd draw a flow chart of what a piece a code does, and then untangle the net to make it look simpler.

[warm sphinx]

Thats a good idea thank you

[wintry solar]

The calculation page does this

[runic pecan]

I just checked lovely/dump/functions/common_events.lua and found this:

So you need[[patches]] [patches.pattern] target = "functions/common_events.lua" pattern = "elseif _c.name == \"The Hermit\" then loc_vars = {cfg.extra}" position = "at" payload = "elseif _c.name == \"The Hermit\" then loc_vars = {cfg.extra*(G.GAME.investment_mult or 1)}" match_indent = trueinstead.

[rose dragon]

thx

[warm sphinx]

My brain is overloading I have zero clue what I doing again

Would anyone maybe be free to vc to help me understand what I doing?

I deleted something and now its crashing

Is it ment to say (Currently Xnil Mult) ?

[bold gyro]

If anyone is in a similar situation to what I was in, you can use to_number(hand_chips), and that'll get rid of the table problem!

[warm sphinx]

I broke the joker

It now gives only a .3 mult but still does gives a 1.3 I think

It is in fact giving a 1.3 mult

4 to 5.2

[manic rune]

nop

[warm sphinx]

I trying this with a mod with a lot less text to try to set this up right and I feel like I getting further and further from what I trying to do

[manic rune]

can you send your code over here

[stiff locust]

that means you're not returning the right vars in loc_vars

[warm sphinx]

Loc_vars?

[stiff locust]

send your code i'll run through it

[warm sphinx]

I just sent it to bepis

[manic rune]

the best way to get someone to help you with your code is sending it here, since all we can do is assuming rn

[manic rune]

damn, you can just post it here tho 😭

[warm sphinx]

config = { extra = { XmultGain = 1.3, Xmult = 1, containsSpade = false } },
rarity = 3,
atlas = '',
pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
cost = 10,
loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
return { vars = { card.ability.extra.XmultGain, card.ability.extra.Xmult } }
end,
calculate = function(self, card, context)
if context.using_consumeable then
if context.consumeable.ability.set == "Spectral" then
card.ability.extra.Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult + card.ability.extra.XmultGain
return { message = "Upgraded!" }
end
end
if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
if context.other_card:is_suit("Spades") then
card.ability.extra.containsSpade = true
end
end
if context.joker_main then
if context.poker_hands['Flush'] and card.ability.extra.containsSpade then
card.ability.extra.containsSpade = false
return {
message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_xmult', vars = { card.ability.extra.Xmult } },
Xmult_mod = card.ability.extra.Xmult
}
end
end
end
}

I just using this to try and set up the mult right

[stiff locust]

and what about your localization

[manic rune]

oh i see whats wrong

#1.3#

[warm sphinx]

Wait thats wrong?

[manic rune]

yeah

[warm sphinx]

I just trying to get it to go up by .3 each time

[manic rune]

its supposed to be a whole number, corresponding to the order of the variable you want it to represent

[stiff locust]

when you return values in loc_vars

#1# refers to the first value, #2# refers to the second, etc

[warm sphinx]

So you mean the 2 didn't need to change to

[manic rune]

mhm

[stiff locust]

the number just denotes which variable it's displaying

[manic rune]

--- STEAMODDED HEADER
--- MOD_NAME: Meg Of Spades
--- MOD_ID: mos_card
--- PREFIX: mos
--- MOD_AUTHOR: [Crossu]
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: Meg jokersona
--- LOADER_VERSION_GEQ: 1.0.0
--- VERSION: 1.0.0
--- BADGE_COLOR: 8839ef

SMODS.Atlas {
    key = "MegOfSpades",
    path = "MegOfSpades.png",
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'meg',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Bunny',
        text = {
            'When a {C:attention}Flush{} is played with',
            '{C:spades}Spade{} cards, {X:mult,C:white} X#1# {} Mult per',
            '{C:spectral}Spectral{} card used this run',
            '{C:inactive}(Currently {X:mult,C:white} X#1.3# {}{C:inactive} Mult){}'
        }
    },
    config = { extra = { XmultGain = .3, Xmult = 1, containsSpade = false } },
    rarity = 3,
    atlas = 'MegOfSpades',
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    cost = 10,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.XmultGain, card.ability.extra.Xmult } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.using_consumeable then
            if context.consumeable.ability.set == "Spectral" then
                card.ability.extra.Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult + card.ability.extra.XmultGain
                return { message = "Upgraded!" }
            end
        end
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            if context.other_card:is_suit("Spades") then
                card.ability.extra.containsSpade = true
            end
        end
        if context.joker_main then
            if context.poker_hands['Flush'] and card.ability.extra.containsSpade then
                card.ability.extra.containsSpade = false
                return {
                    message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_xmult', vars = { card.ability.extra.Xmult } },
                    Xmult_mod = card.ability.extra.Xmult
                }
            end
        end
    end
}

this is their entire code

they didnt send the loc_txt part so yeah

[warm sphinx]

So that fixed that problem

[stiff locust]

oh you'll want to split localization at some point

[warm sphinx]

Now I need to firgue out how to make it do it at the end of each round and not for just hands and stuff

[stiff locust]

having your localization in a separate file makes it easier to translate

[warm sphinx]

Localitzation?

[stiff locust]

the text on the joker

[warm sphinx]

Oh

[stiff locust]

everything inside loc_txt is the localization

but with using loc_txt, the text cannot be translated

you can automatically set up a localization file with smods

remove all other content mods (keep your mod, its dependencies if any, and smods) then put "dump_loc": true in your .json mod file (or smods header if you're still using that)

then open and close balatro

[warm sphinx]

So thats what a json was in there for

[stiff locust]

no

the json tells smods info about your mod

[warm sphinx]

Oh

[stiff locust]

the mod name, ID, prefix, main file, version number, the authors, the description, its dependencies

[stiff locust]

but the metadata file also can do this

after you do this, your mod folder will have a localization folder with a dump.lua file inside it

[warm sphinx]

Why is it now going straight from 1 to 2.3 and not going up to 1.3

[stiff locust]

change the name of that to default or en-us and then remove all loc_txt from your mod and then make sure you change dump_loc back to false or remove it from your metadata file and you're done

[warm sphinx]

So I renaming localization to default?

[stiff locust]

no

the dump.lua file it creates

inside the localization folder it also creates in your mod folder

change the name of that to default or en-us

[warm sphinx]

I having a hard time understanding sorry!

I'm super new to all this and I honestly getting super confused

[stiff locust]

it's alright

you only gotta do this once, after that you can copy paste stuff

[warm sphinx]

Would it be alright to vc so I might be able to understand a bit better?

[stiff locust]

i can't immediately but a bit later sure

[warm sphinx]

Thank you

[stiff locust]

brb

[rose dragon]

first patch!!1111
-# ignore less than mediocre artwork
-# also ignore that i forgot to include "when used"

[wintry solar]

That’s not how doubling works

[stiff locust]

i return

yeah that's scaling quadratically or smthn

[rose dragon]

nuh uh
it's doubling for the first time!!!

like mult

[frosty dock]

that's just linear scaling

just say you're adding the base value

[warm sphinx]

I feel like I gonna lose my mind with this

[stiff locust]

you'll be fine

[neat plover]

is the misprint predict something thats possible to access?

[stiff locust]

brb again

[rose dragon]

no, for econ tag its:
40>80>120
hermit:
20>40>60
(like mult)
-# (again)

[spring lantern]

what we thinkin of this one

[frosty dock]

yeah it adds the base value (20 for hermit, 40 for econ)

[neat plover]

thats great

[rose dragon]

multiplies the base value

[frosty dock]

if you want to phrase it that way, it gains one multiplier to the base value

[rose dragon]

i think the card eval status should be on the joker, not the card
if you are going to keep the eval status on the playing cards, i think you should make it so that after the eval status is shown it destroys the card, instead of all at once

[frosty dock]

Increase maximum values on
The Hermit and Economy Tag
by X1
(Currently X2)

[warm sphinx]

I got the card to go up by .3!!!!

[sweet nimbus]

In a custom deck, is it possible to force bosses like Ante 1: The Hook, Ante 2: The Mouth? So that it's the same every run

[neat plover]

i guess not

[humble girder]

not without some heavy patching

[wintry swallow]

heyo, is there a way to have an order of events when a joker is triggered? Like a message first and then an action or smth. I'm trying to mess around with the event stuff but it doesn't work

[spring lantern]

think ima just time it like this

[humble girder]

canio on steroids

[neat plover]

yeah

[spring lantern]

if you have a source to pump out steel/gold cards this could go insane i reckon

[humble girder]

well consider this

it's under on the rarity for sure

[spring lantern]

i totally forgot midas mask exists

wow

that's quite

[humble girder]

canio only counts card being destroyed after it pops into existence, you naturally set up for this joker from ante 1 because you want to put steel/gold on cards that aren't desirable to play anyway

[spring lantern]

WAIT IT'S MEANT TO BE LEGENDARY LOL

why does it say uncommon

[humble girder]

rarity = 4

[spring lantern]

yea i goofed up

[wintry solar]

You can use the perscribed_bosses table

[warm sphinx]

I'm nervous to remove anythign to try to make this go off each round

[stiff locust]

if your joker code breaks, the worst you'll get is a crash

fuck around and find out

[shadow rapids]

how do i make my mod talisman-compatiable?

[warm sphinx]

So maybe I should save a copy and then mess with it

I do have areally odd question through

what is these green things?

[halcyon osprey]

i think im just dumb but also ive never used Lui, and adding all these variabled even looking at the steamodded stuff, im just confused 😭 but im trying to make a joker that Scores xmult on every diamond, but also Increase said xmult for each diamond scored

[stiff locust]

what are you editing in

[warm sphinx]

Notepad++

[stiff locust]

use vscode with the lua plugin

[warm sphinx]

Its the only one I really know anything about

Vscode?

[shadow rapids]

probably diffs

[stiff locust]

visual studio code

shortened to vscode

[warm sphinx]

Ohhh

[shadow rapids]

use the config.extra field when creating the card, and card.ability.extra in the functions

is it possible to force my mod to load after talisman without neccessarily requiring it to be installed

[red flower]

put a priority lower than talisman's

[shadow rapids]

ok

does talisman auto-convert numbers returned from calculate functions

[stiff locust]

talisman converts G.GAME.chips and G.GAME.dollars

[shadow rapids]

not mult?

[warm sphinx]

I changed one line of stuff and deleted other stuff and already crashed it

[stiff locust]

if your mult exceeds 1e300, you have bigger problems

[shadow rapids]

like?

[stiff locust]

.

it's an expression

[shadow rapids]

oh ok

[stiff locust]

the mult given by a joker should not be going anywhere near that high

how are you the chosen one

[shadow rapids]

oh i thought you meant in general

[stiff locust]

i think it also converts the current chips and mult i forgot those

that's all it does

[shadow rapids]

ok

[warm sphinx]

Ok I changed a single line and it worked (started up)

[stiff locust]

crashing isn't a big deal

[warm sphinx]

Yeah but its a success if it doesn't crash right away for me now I just got to firgue out what I got to change next

[shadow rapids]

whats the main way to detect if talisman exists

is it if tobig then

[stiff locust]

no

one sec

[warm sphinx]

Whats a boolean value?

[wintry swallow]

or at least if someone can help me with this event? i see the delay happen before the cards are scored but for some reason the message is delayed after they score

[neat plover]

ill ask again: how does the misprint access the cards drawn next turn

[stiff locust]

misprint doesn't

[shadow rapids]

joker or deck

i know theres a misprint deck in cryptid

[wintry swallow]

"true" or "false"

[stiff locust]

don't include the ""

it's just true or false

[wintry swallow]

yeah in the code

yeah better way to show it

[neat plover]

yes it does

[stiff locust]

what do you mean misprint, the joker that randomly gives between 0 and 23 mult, predicts the cards drawn next turn

[neat plover]

in the garbled text you can see the next card drawn

[shadow rapids]

wait what

[neat plover]

its an easter egg

[stiff locust]

what the fuck

[shadow rapids]

haow

one sec

[stiff locust]

since when???

[shadow rapids]

i need to check the localisation files

[neat plover]

try it

[stiff locust]

i will not be trying it i'll take your word for it

[warm sphinx]

Now the card is suddenly jumping up 1.5

[shadow rapids]

fudging. the localisation for it is empty

[warm sphinx]

4 to 5.5 to 7.6 ???

[stiff locust]

yeah the misprint code is elsewhere

[wintry solar]

Don’t use events, just return what you need and smods will likely handle the timings for you, if you need more advanced timings than that you’d need to give more context to your problem

[warm sphinx]

9.7

[shadow rapids]

jasp

[daring dirge]

im making a mod with new decks and i wanted to be able to remove certain tarot cards / booster packs from appearing, how would i do that

[warm sphinx]

Ok something I did broke it

[stiff locust]

i can vc now

[shadow rapids]

line 776 of card.lua

                    {string = 'rand()', colour = G.C.JOKER_GREY},{string = "#@"..(G.deck and G.deck.cards[1] and G.deck.cards[#G.deck.cards].base.id or 11)..(G.deck and G.deck.cards[1] and G.deck.cards[#G.deck.cards].base.suit:sub(1,1) or 'D'), colour = G.C.RED},```

[warm sphinx]

Add

[wintry swallow]

alright so i'm making a joker that makes you lose the game if you have it in your hand when playing a card (for the funny)
For readability reasons i'd like for the joker to do the animation and have the text and then to game over

[wintry solar]

What a strange idea

[wintry swallow]

yeah

but it's what i wanna do

for fun

[shadow rapids]

do any of yall know how to detect if talisman is active

new question: does talisman make hand_chips a bigg

well only one way to find out

[daring dirge]

for reference i want to remove (3 different decks)

• the fool from all sources
• spectral cards from all sources (remove the tag and spectral packs too)
• remove tarots and planets from appearing in the main shop slots
  are any of these not possible to do?

[shadow rapids]

i know you can take ownership of different features

i got hit with a crash

[edgy mountain]

this returns some really weird values

its supposed to give just the nominals

when discarding one card, it returns 10 times the value

if you discard more, the value is completely wrong

it goes into the thousands quick

[wintry solar]

Discard is called on every card

You want context.pre_discard

[shadow rapids]

also youre not returning

[wintry solar]

You don’t need to return

[shadow rapids]

also can i have some help debugging my joker?

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            if Big then
                return {
                    chips = hand_chips:pow(0.5),
                    card = card
                }
            end
            return {
                chips = math.sqrt(hand_chips),
                card = card
            }
        end
    end```
this crashes with talisman, but only when scoring animations are enabled. it says its comparing a number with a table

[wintry solar]

Delete talisman problem solved 🙃

[edgy mountain]

it weirdly consistently returns 10 times the ID number instead of the nominal

[shadow rapids]

i dont want to add "conflicts" = ["talisman"] thoughhh

[opal spade]

?

notepad++ is fine

[paper zealot]

Ah, it's because

↯⟜(×10-1×2÷⟜⇡)200
-≡⊃∠(⍜∩°√+)⊸⍉
-π◿τ⊞-×τ÷⟜⇡20

when it should obviously

↯⟜(×10-1×2÷⟜⇡)200
+≡⊃∠(⍜∩°√+)⊸⍉
-π◿τ⊞-×τ÷⟜⇡20

[bold gyro]

use to_number(hand_chips), which should convert the table type (talisman shenanigans) into a value

[shadow rapids]

uiuua mention???

UIUA MENTUION!!!!!!

UIUA UIUA UIAU UIUA UIAU

[shadow rapids]

id rather not do that as that risks an infinity if the chips are too high

wait is hand chips just from planet cards or is it the current running total

[bold gyro]

current running total

[bold gyro]

yeah that's fair enough

[shadow rapids]

sooo is there any way to fix the crash without resorting to risking an infinity or just banning talisman from my mod

[wintry solar]

You don’t have to design your mod around talisman existing

[shadow rapids]

well i want it to at least function with it

please

[runic pecan]

Common or Uncommon?

[runic pecan]

Reworded a little:

[prisma loom]

So, the upper block gets executed and my Joker gains xMult (all good here)
but the lower block gets ignored. Is there a way to make code not ignore it?

(without for loop or whatever its called)

cuz idk how to do it

[manic rune]

use only one context.scoring_hand, and use or instead

[shadow rapids]

fool, youre returning

one return executes the function exits

[prisma loom]

one return for all suits?

[shadow rapids]

thats taking the hearts return if you have any hearts

and ignoring the diamonds, etc

because the function has already eturned

[manic rune]

if suits["Hearts"] > 0 or suits["Diamonds"] >0 then

[prisma loom]

like this?

oh wait

[manic rune]

the other suits should also have the > 0

[prisma loom]

I forgor

[manic rune]

but yes, that should work

[prisma loom]

Is context correct?

(under calculate)

this whole wall of text is supposed to to take into account wild cards

when scoring

[prisma loom]

still checks only 1 suit

[unkempt thicket]

try if statements instead of elseif

[runic pecan]

Why not merge those two for loops and use if wild than... else... end?

[prisma loom]

I took flower pot as a base

that's literally how its coded

[raw geyser]

I'm making a booster pack with forced items, and now there's lots of green squares everywhere... anyone know why?

[runic pecan]

Also you can use SMODS.has_enhancement(context.scoring_hand[i],'m_wild') instead of context.scoring_hand[i].ability.name == 'Wild Card'.

[runic pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/disney-marvel-black-panther-shuri-princess-shuri-gif-15801204

[prisma loom]

instead of that wall of text?

[runic pecan]

No, just the if condition.

[prisma loom]

wait, so what's different then?

just the condition line?

[runic pecan]

Replace context.scoring_hand[i].ability.name == 'Wild Card'
with SMODS.has_enhancement(context.scoring_hand[i],'m_wild')

Wait, I didn't notice it'd be longer.

[prisma loom]

could I merge blocks tho?

if I use this line

[humble girder]

it's still best practice because quantum and stuff

[runic pecan]

I mean, you iterated through the same list (which is context.scoring_hand in this case) twice.

[manic rune]

yeah so i just noticed the second for loop, even though its a wild card you are still checking for its suit?

or am i understanding it wrong 💀

[runic pecan]

Yeah, I'd rather +1 to every suit in the list if it's a Wild card.

[manic rune]

also, i would have a table with all of the suits name ngl

[humble girder]

    for suit, _ in pairs(SMODS.Suits) do
       suits[suit] = (suits[suit] or 0) + 1
    end
end```

accounts for custom suits, works with wild cards

[runic pecan]

Which, at that point, you can just :is_suit([suit name]) all the way down.

[manic rune]

local Suits = {"Hearts", "Diamonds", "Clubs", "Spades"}

for i,v in pairs(Suits) do
  for d = 1, #context.scoring.hand do
    if context.scoring.hand[d]:is_suit(v) and suits[v] == 0 then
      suits[v] = 1
    end
  end
end

basically that

i forgot to account for the wild card

[humble girder]

don't ignore custom suits :v

[manic rune]

but you can see how its much shorter

[manic rune]

...i mean, his joker only seems to account for the vanilla suits

[runic pecan]

pattern = "\"Clubs,",
payload = "\"Clubs\","

[manic rune]

i forgot

💔

[humble girder]

I guess you can still make an util function and use only the vanilla suit data if that's all you care about

[manic rune]

oh but i actually just knew about this smods function

thanks ❤️

[humble girder]

thing is, this doesn't work with cards that aren't all suits

like suit seals from unstable

so yeah i guess it'd be like

[prisma loom]

my processing power is 1 comment per hour
be kind with me folks

[manic rune]

just take it slow lol

sometimes i have to reread ppl's feedback for like 5 times to actually understand it 😭

[raw geyser]

Can anyone help me find out why this is happening?

[humble girder]

for suit, _ in pairs(SMODS.Suits) do
    if context.scoring_hand[i]:has_suit(suit) then suits[suit] = (suits[suit] or 0) + 1 end
end```

[manic rune]

its a booster pack bug, im sure

[runic pecan]

That's a lot of confetti.

[manic rune]

...since i got it before

[raw geyser]

So much confetti, T-T

[manic rune]

thats a lot of jirachi

[humble girder]

and using that snippet you don't even need to handle default cards and enhanced cards differently

in fact that should work with any mod for any purpose forever

[manic rune]

thats neat, thank you wise man

[minor furnace]

Me on my way to patch every single rank-based joker in the name of making these abominations functional

[humble girder]

🙈

[manic rune]

what the fuck is that rank

😭

[raw geyser]

Just make it rip off the corners, XD

[minor furnace]

yes

[raw geyser]

It's rank is "Yes"

[manic rune]

baldi last question ahh rank 😭

[humble girder]

dude, implement Card:has_rank() instead patching get_id into everything 🙈

[minor furnace]

I already have it correctly playing the hand it should

[wintry solar]

Nah we’re hard coding the shit out of this card

[manic rune]

we love hard coding around here

[humble girder]

it is very much in the spirit of vanilla i'll give you that

[runic pecan]

Speaking of hardcoding, here's an example of my latest joker:

[manic rune]

23.76

thats an oddly specific number, but alright

[minor furnace]

considering basically every rank-based joker calles either get_id() or is_face() and there isn't already an is_rank() I think I actually must patch every joker individually

[runic pecan]

https://youtu.be/0IYqY9I2LzI

[manic rune]

seems quite good for early game too

[prisma loom]

So this for loop checks hand for suit (any) and adds them up to the total amount?
or I should insert certain suit in the brackets?

[humble girder]

true but the point is if you're patching it you might as well make it nicer

[minor furnace]

this is true

[manic rune]

goddamn it i cant even hear what they r talking about, theres a literal storm outside my house 😭

[humble girder]

local suits = {}
for suit, _ in pairs(SMODS.Suits) do
    if context.scoring_hand[i]:has_suit(suit) then suits[suit] = (suits[suit] or 0) + 1 end
end```

[minor furnace]

anis_rank() that takes an array of values and returns true if one of them matches would be nice

[manic rune]

ohhhh so thats the reference

[humble girder]

output is suits{} has any suit that appeared at least once as key

[manic rune]

thats neat, i will save the video for relistening later

[humble girder]

value is the times it appeared

[runic pecan]

You don't need to since there's english subtitles and they were speaking Japanese.

[manic rune]

yeah but lets be honest, thats half the fun gone

[strong jacinth]

Yo

[humble girder]

so you can check if it ever appeared with if suits.Hearts or if suits['Hearts'], get its value, w/e, just don't forget to check for nil (you have to add an extra for loop if you want to convenience-initialize each possible suit to 0)

[manic rune]

are you the suits guy baliame

you seem to know a lot about suits

[strong jacinth]

Does anyone here know how to get the card value

[minor furnace]

this is a straight flush btw

[manic rune]

(playing card here):get_id()

[humble girder]

oxford, not brogues

[strong jacinth]

So card:get_id()?

[manic rune]

i fucking refuse to believe thats a straight flush, what the hell.

[humble girder]

four fingers

the queen is not scored

[manic rune]

oh, right

[minor furnace]

yes it is

because the longest straight you can form includes the queen

[manic rune]

i actually never used a straight build before so i straight up forgot its existence 💀

[humble girder]

hold up, does the queen actually get scored?

it's not supposed to if it's a straight flush

[manic rune]

9 J Q A

it seems so

i dont think you can get a straight with 9 J A A unless some dark magic is involved here

[runic pecan]

These are so cursed, I like them.

[minor furnace]

those aren't necessarily aces though

[manic rune]

oh

so are they like uhhh

wild cards, but for ranks?

[humble girder]

are you looking for chip value or what exactly?

card.base.nominal if so

[manic rune]

ngl i like the idea of just straight up ripping the corners, i think someone said that earlier

[strong jacinth]

So the answer is 7, if the card is a 7?

[humble girder]

no

[limpid halo]

Just a nibble off the top

[humble girder]

it's a 7 if card.base.value == '7'

[manic rune]

is that the same as :get_id()?

[humble girder]

also i guess card:get_id() == 7 works as well

[manic rune]

also, is that 7 supposed to be a string

[humble girder]

should be, but i have absolutely no idea if you can have conflicting ids or values

yes

[manic rune]

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thats confusing

[humble girder]

it's not if you consider a jack

[manic rune]

my half activated ass would immediately forget that and ask why it doesnt work

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[minor furnace]

I do have one last issue with these cards (aside from the joker compatibility which I should be able to handle). But because of my current implementation, it's internally technically a different enhancement for each suit. But I've just realized that if I use, say, a Wolrd Tarot on one of them, the suit will change but the sprite will not

[humble girder]

<jack>:get_id() == 11 and <jack>.base.nominal == 10 and <jack>.base.value == 'Jack'

pick your poison

[limpid halo]

:(

[manic rune]

yeahhhhhhhhh no, get_id() is clearly the superior here

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