💻・modding-dev

[normal crest]

mult, x_mult, chips, x_chips and dollars are some basic valid keys for the return table

[whole hornet]

so i dont need to have that extra = {mult ?

i can just return it?

[normal crest]

the stuff in your config gets attached to the actual card ingame

which is why you're able to do card.ability.extra.mult

you don't really need it

[whole hornet]

oh, so i was useing the actual text to define the mult, which i did not need to do at all

lol

i get it

[normal crest]

but it's encouraged so if you want to change it at some point you just change it in one place

[whole hornet]

oh

[normal crest]

I mean the extra stuff, not the text

[whole hornet]

im sure you explained it really well, im just not getting it lol

[normal crest]

Also, stuff in your config are the initial values for the card, so that will be locked to the same value always

if you didn't get it then I'm not explaining it well lol

Okay look at this https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

[whole hornet]

so for it to work I need a return

[normal crest]

This is a bit outdated so

[whole hornet]

ive been useing this

https://github.com/art-muncher/Example-Mod/blob/main/main.lua

[normal crest]

In the return section of every calculate, whenever it says mult_mod you can just do mult and remove the message

[whole hornet]

lets see, i think i got it

would removing the message remove the popup that tells me the added mult?

[normal crest]

nope

[minor furnace]

Done spritework, time to figure out how to do enhancement gates and unlock conditions for custom jokers

[whole hornet]

oh

[normal crest]

steamodded automatically handles the message for you

[whole hornet]

nice

[scarlet spire]

returning mult is automatically handled

[normal crest]

those are just outdated examples unfortunately

[whole hornet]

bummer

so it no longer crashes

but now it does nothing

      key = 'Clint',
      loc_txt = {
          name = 'Clint Eastwood',
          text = {
            'Gain {C:red}Mult{} equal to the {C:blue}value{}',
            "of the next {C:attention}card{} in the deck.",
            "{s:0.7}''The future is coming on,",
            "{s:0.7}It's coming on, it's coming on''"
              } 
      },
      atlas = 'Clint',
      pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
      effect = "Mult",
      cost_mult = 1.0,
      config = { extra = 
        {
          mult = 0,
        }
       },
      loc_vars = function(self,info_queue,center)
        return {vars = center.ability.extra.mult},
        {mult = (G.deck and G.deck.cards[1] and G.deck.cards[#G.deck.cards].base.id or 11)}
      end,
      calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.joker_main then
          return {
            card = card,
            mult = card.ability.extra.mult,
            color = G.C.MULT
          }
        end
      end
     }
  

oh

i see

return {
card = card,
mult = (G.deck and G.deck.cards[1] and G.deck.cards[#G.deck.cards].base.id or 11) ,
color = G.C.MULT
}

that might fix it

[normal crest]

you only need to specify mult btw

[tired marsh]

hello, i want to create an effect on a joker for it to randomly destroy a common joker at the end of the round and i am stumped on how to do it. i attempted to create a list and add all of the common jokers you currently have to it, but it keeps crashing the game whenever i include it. i might not understand how to define local variables/lists in lua. can anyone help me?

[chrome widget]

hehe, animated joker sprite. Objectively I probably could've used the AnimatedSprite for this, but I ended up just using sprite pos on a large atlas texture

[whole hornet]

I GOT IT TO WORK

THANK YOU

theres proably a lot of code that i dont need

but yay

[tired marsh]

i've read back some logs and seen someone say "if all else fails, copy the madness code" which might help, but i do not know how to find that lol

[old bane]

card.lua in the game's files, you can find it by extracting the game's exe file with 7zip or similar programs

[fathom thunder]

this seems pretty inefficient, you could instead just try and loop through all currently owned jokers in your deck and check if its a common joker and add it to an array that you can choose from randomly to select which joker to delete

[old bane]

this too ^
just check if the joker's rarity is == 1

[tired marsh]

this is what i am currently trying to do

[tired marsh]

i've searched for "madness" but i cannot find the source code

[fathom thunder]

in card.lua?
i found it right here

[tired marsh]

i would appreciate help on how to do this. soz if i come off as kind of cold, but i am so dialed in rn learning lua and this engine at the same time lol

[tired marsh]

like, i think i'm looking in the right spot but ctrl F is not getting me to where it talks about it

ok i found it

[minor furnace]

So the unlock condition works correctly, but the text only displays the values when I hover over it

oh wait I swapped the values too lmao

[fathom thunder]

dont worry you dont come off like that at all

if context.end_of_round then
    for i = 1, #G.jokers.cards do
        if G.jokers.cards[i].config.center.rarity == 1 then -- ? i've never tried this and reading baseball card's code i think this is how it's done
            -- destroy, no clue how to destroy the card and im not gonna try and look into it right now since i gotta dip like rn rn
        end
    end
end

[tired marsh]

alr, ty, i appreciate the starting point

[chrome widget]

What's the correct blueprint context for SMODS?

I.E. to stop blueprint from scaling itself when copying the effect of a scaling joker

[pulsar flower]

wrap the scaling part of the joker's calculation with if not context.blueprint then

[spring lantern]

well then

turns out i've made a joker that makes skipping straight to the boss blind on every ante a valid strategy

[pulsar flower]

is Card.base.value the rank's key?

[minor furnace]

well, my custom enhancement shattering scaled the wrong joker, this is why we test things

[plush cove]

heya! tryna make a Joker that copies the effect of the first Joker acquired that run. I've got the Joker's key, how would I use that to copy the ability?

ty in advance!

[minor furnace]

I think I may need to create a new context? Because this is probably why it's scaling glass joker
for k, v in ipairs(context.glass_shattered) do

[plush cove]

And as far as I know, find_card wouldn't work because I'm assuming the player doesn't still have their first Joker

[pulsar flower]

hm, that actually sounds a bit difficult?

copying jokers rely on the joker it's copying to actually exist and be in the jokers area

[chrome widget]

I guess you could basically get all the various config values for the first joker's key, save its functions such as calculate, loc_vars, add_to_deck, etc, and then have your copying joker call those references to the copied joker?

That's how I would do it tbh

[pulsar flower]

in theory you could make a hidden cardarea, then make it so your first joker moves to that card area when destroyed

it would be nice if you could just store a reference to the joker, but it breaks when saving/loading

[onyx sonnet]

is there a way to check if a player enters a shop?

[minor furnace]

Just when I finally think I know what I'm doing, this crashes with attempt to index field 'extra' (a number value) when I hover over

        extra = {
            x_chips = 1,
            gain = 0.75
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        return {vars = {center.ability.extra.gain, center.ability.extra.x_chips}}
    end,```

[spark remnant]

what would the context be for when a hand is played but before each individual card is scored?

[minor furnace]

I think I just need to step away and look at something else for a while

[scarlet spire]

I have a joker that creates tags... how do I ensure it doesn't do this, which tries to upgrade a nil poker hand, crashing the game?

[tired marsh]

hello again, i have made it so that my joker destroys common jokers at the end of the round by using the madness script, but now i am not sure how to make it so it only does this once as using context.end_of_round is causing it to trigger 20 times. would appreciate some tips on how to fix this 🙏

[red flower]

check for context.main_eval too

[tired marsh]

what does that do?

regardless of if u hav an explanation, it worked perfectly so ty!!

[red flower]

end_of_round is called for cards too so it ensures you're in the main joker evaluation

[orchid thunder]

    key = "greedy",
    name = "omega_greedy",
    config = {
        extra = {
            Emult = 2,
            suit = 'Diamonds'
        },
    },
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    soul_pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
    cost = 50,
    rarity = 'b_omega_omegacommon',
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,
    blueprint_compat = false,
    eternal_compat = true,
    perishable_compat = false,
    atlas = 'b_omegagreedy',
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        return {
            vars = {
                center.ability.extra.Emult
            }
        }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual then
             if context.other_card:is_suit(card.ability.extra.suit) then
                return {
                    message = '^' .. card.ability.extra.Emult .. ' Mult',
                    Emult_mod = card.ability.extra.Emult,
                    colour = G.C.MULT,
                    card = context.other_card
                }, true
           end
        end
    end,
}```



Anyone know why this doesn't work

[faint yacht]

...why the , true?

[crisp coral]

joker retrig compat i think???

[gloomy rain]

Im running into issues while trying to make a dollar version of Canio, I know I have to do something with context.remove_playing_cards

but I suck with Lua and I am so lost right now

[orchid thunder]

Idk but with and without both don't work

[gloomy rain]

it's eating me

[atomic hornet]

Oops I slipped. (How do they look, is the yellow a bit too... not balatro yellow? Should I make red and black cards only and not assume everyone uses high contrast?)

[gloomy rain]

Are they the Scarlet and Violet box icons?

[atomic hornet]

Yea, they conveniently fit perfectly into Balatro card sizes

[gloomy rain]

yea it looks nice, but a bit basic

I would've prolly made the box around the characters look a little different. Maybe just inward curving around the edges

It would be pretty easy overall to make the low contrast colors aswell, just fill tool

and of my friend group, half of them use low contrast

[atomic hornet]

Yea, at the moment it's just using the black frame from the base game cards, recoloured. I would say I done a quick and easy job... but uh... I sort of made a whole mix and match your team thing with loads of pokemon.

But yeah, I didn't want to go too far down a hole of making my own fancy backgrounds when I'm aware there needs to be room for enhancements and things. So I tried to keep focus mostly central, so they'd work with whatever mods people use.

[gloomy rain]

yea makes sense

[plush cove]

guys i just got this fatal error, i dont know what i should do should I be scared?!?! /j

[daring dirge]

how do i use SMODS.Back calculate to retrigger cards

wait i got an idea

nope didnt work

ive got it triggering on the cards i want it to, but whenever it does it crashes, saying "attempt to index field 'ability' (a nil value)"

[bold gyro]

Hey y'all, I'm trying to implement a joker with a rotating rank similar to Mail-in-Rebate, but I'm having trouble with programming the code that specifically chooses the rank. This code is heavily based on the Castle2 code from the SMODS example jokers, and I believe I've made a mistake somewhere converting from suit terms to rank terms. As is, the Joker does nothing, as a valid rank isn't found.

-- WORDSEARCH JOKER SELECTION FUNCTIONALITY
local igo = Game.init_game_object
function Game:init_game_object()
  local ret = igo(self)
  ret.current_round.wordsearch_card = { rank = '14' } 
  return ret
end

function SMODS.current_mod.reset_game_globals(run_start)
  G.GAME.current_round.wordsearch_card = { rank = '14' }
  local valid_wordsearch_cards = {}
  for _, v in ipairs(G.playing_cards) do
    if not SMODS.has_no_rank(v) then 
        valid_wordsearch_cards[#valid_wordsearch_cards+1] = v
    end
  end
  if valid_wordsearch_cards[1] then 
      local wordsearch_card = pseudorandom_element(valid_wordsearch_cards, pseudoseed('wordsearch'))
      G.GAME.current_round.wordsearch_card.rank = wordsearch_card.base.rank
  end
end```

[orchid thunder]

Anyone?

[copper ermine]

heat?

(i did not make this art i just took the portraits from disco elysium and put a gradient map on it)

[main mica]

trying out retrigger_joker_check, this does nothing, what am I doint wrong?

[faint yacht]

Add to enable joker retrigger with your mod.

SMODS.current_mod.optional_features = function()
  return { retrigger_joker = true }
end

[daring dirge]

how do i get certain card values to retrigger with the deck calculate()

[plush cove]

check the code for Hack

[daring dirge]

ive gotten it to detect the values i want but the return{} never does it

[daring dirge]

done that already

well not hack

but sock and buskin + walkie talkie

the problem i think is those are for jokers while i want it for the deck

the sock and buskin code mentions "card.ability.extra.repetitions" but whenever i do something with that it says something to do with ability being a nil value

[plush cove]

have you set repetitions in your config

[daring dirge]

i have

at least i think i have

"config = {extra = {repetitions = 1}}"?

[kind olive]

hey stupid question, but where do I find all of the keys? I'm trying to replace default textures for all images and can't figure out where to look.

[daring dirge]

nvm i got it

had to change it to self.config.extra.repetitions

i had tried self.extra.repetitions and config.extra.repetitions

[main mica]

thanks!

[keen coral]

finishing up a test mod- do i need to make a custom sprite before i can attach a png to the modded atlas, or can i route it to an existing image in the source code?

[zinc turtle]

How do I replace text strings with a mod? I'm re-skinning all the consumable cards. Have figured out the art, but not sure where to find an example of changing strings.

[minor furnace]

Time to figure out how to set up a custom context for when my custom probability-based enhancement triggers

[grim remnant]

say, if we're making an edition, where do we put the code for it to do something? does it really just go in config?

[noble schooner]

Is there a "how to make a mod" tutorial? I wanna try adding something like a second shelf for jokers so that Blueprint is manageable in absurd runs with like 27 jokers

[minor furnace]

I have been unsuccessful thus far in my attempts at figuring out how to implement a custom context

The reason I (think I) need it:

[crisp coral]

don't need, just loop through SMODS.find_card(key) at the end of the round and add the value to them

[minor furnace]

well, even if it wasn't necessary I just figured out how to do it

[grim remnant]

still looking for pointers on this, the docs aren't clear what exactly is meant to make editions proc... ^^;

[gloomy rain]

How would I add more "collab" things

[iron iron]

do you mean like how cryptid does it

[gloomy rain]

haven't played cryptid, but I mean like having an extra selection on the new face cards selections

instead of changing an already existing one

[iron iron]

oh you mean friends of jimbo

[gloomy rain]

yea

I forgot the name

[iron iron]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1327789793018380431

should help

[gloomy rain]

thanks

[random sleet]

chat hi i made another card

[iron iron]

now we just need the xmult rankless/suitless card

[gloomy rain]

Wait, I already made one

I meant liek the coding aspect of adding it

[random sleet]

and an xchip one

[iron iron]

and the one that does absolutely nothing

[gloomy rain]

52 "Blank" cards

best build

[vivid dirge]

Hey I have never modded anything before, but some of my buddies and I have stupid ideas we want to add to balatro. How would I go about starting? and any tips for a complete beginner?

[gloomy rain]

Do you have other mods installed

I'm not great with the coding aspect

but I'll get you started

[vivid dirge]

no i have 0 mods installed currently

[scarlet spire]

ooh I love the sprite

[gloomy rain]

let me dm

[iron iron]

steamodded example mods might help https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

[rose dragon]

install steamodded and lovely, and start reading the docs

cantread

[vivid dirge]

thank you all for the help!

[minor furnace]

so glas joker checks for where context.glass_shattered, but I did Ctrl + Shift + F in the Lovely dump files and could not find any instance of it being set anywhere

[faint yacht]

card.shattered is something that's set by Card:shatter(), fwiw.

[rose dragon]

If I'm looking for a pattern with lovely patches, how can I tell it which instance of the line if it's been repeated multiple times?

[minor furnace]

the thing I'm trying to solve is, my custom x_chip version of glass shatters, and when it does it incorrectly triggers Glass Joker

and instead I want it to trigger the effect of my custom joker when it shatters

[shell belfry]

If I wanted to check for a full house, then compare the ranks of the 2 of a kind and the 3 of a kind, how would i do that

[paper zealot]

PSA: https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Cryptid/commit/53727c128c23f01f7d26aa44b9c2eb895fbeb0a5
Cryptid-refactor merged to main now

[random sleet]

thanks !!!!! i made it : 3

[minor furnace]

this issue is also exclusive to shattering from natural play. Using Hanged Man to shatter my custom card does not increment Glass Joker. Only when it breaks from being in a hand does Glass Joker scale

[rose dragon]

patch glass joker to check for card enhancement?

[minor furnace]

I patched one check, but it looks like I missed a different one so we'll see if that fixes it

sure enough

[quasi comet]

How do you add cards to your consumeable area from a booster pack? I've tried select_card but it doesn't let me choose anything

[edgy reef]

YAAAAAAAY

[minor furnace]

ETA: I believe all interactions with this enhancement and joker are now working properly 🫡

[full flame]

Is there a way to change the back sprites of jokers with SMOD functions?

[rose dragon]

like as in the deck?

[full flame]

The way that custom decks are declared, yes. I want to make a joker similar to e.g. Square Joker that looks different when flipped

[rose dragon]

bump

[sturdy compass]

Does anyone happen to know if it's possible to do Splash-like functionality?

[sturdy compass]

Your best bet is to add extra context to the pattern honestly

[fathom thunder]

Wdym? Like recreate splash as a modded joker?

[sturdy compass]

Kinda? The idea is Splash with a few extra steps. The main thing I’m after is the full hand scoring regardless of if they fit the hand type

[fathom thunder]

You can look at the code for splash in the balatro source code I guess to get a start on the general idea

[sturdy compass]

I did and I didn’t like what I saw, hence why I’m turning to here to see if anyone has cracked that code a bit better

[fathom thunder]

Show me the code cuz I can’t check for myself since I’m on mobile

[sturdy compass]

I just got in bed so no can do lmao

[fathom thunder]

Oh lmao

[sturdy compass]

But basically it’s not handled in a calculate function, it’s done during actual hand scoring (which makes sense but kinda tells you why I’m not a fan)

[rose dragon]

Should I keep or remove the indentation?

[sturdy compass]

I don’t think indentation messes with it, though I usually do just for readability

[rose dragon]

If there are multiple instances of the pattern, does it replace them all or just one?

[sturdy compass]

I will replace all of them unless you add a “times” value to the patch syntax. It will always start from the first instance of the pattern

[rose dragon]

Additionally, just to be sure, if it is surrounded by other text on the same line then it will still be replaced?

[sturdy compass]

No. If your pattern is looking for one line, it will look for a line that is an exact match (not counting indents). Same goes for code blocks in the sense it looks for an exact match

[rose dragon]

Is there a way to get around this?

[sturdy compass]

You could use regex but that’s a little more resource intensive

[paper zealot]

What are you looking to patch specifically? Just to get an idea

[rose dragon]

I'm looking to patch the tooltip loc_vars of the tarot cards that enhance cards and increase the amount of cards it can enhance.

[novel violet]

been thinking of taking a break from my main project, expanding my horizons, and working on something potentially a little easier - balatro modding seems pretty perfect for me!

is there anyone currently making a genshin-themed content mod (beyond that one with element textures on the cards)?

that's what i'm thinking of doing but i don't want to step on anyone's toes if it's already a project

[rose dragon]

search for it in #1209506514763522108

[sturdy compass]

Even if someone is don’t let that discourage you. There’s plenty of mods out there with duplicate themes or ideas

[novel violet]

ty! i did & got that one result for a texture mod, but i was asking just in case someone here is working on one and hasn't published it yet

[novel violet]

hehehe i understand, i just like to try and develop unique things you know? that's more motivating to me xD i think i'll probably go through with it since I haven't found much on it yet and i already have a few ideas~

[paper zealot]

Speaking a bit beyond my experience, but are you sure that's not something you can access at runtime? It looks like cards like magician use the number as an argument in their localization text

"Enhances {C:attention}#1#{}",
"selected cards to",
"{C:attention}#2#s",

Would just changing c_magician.config.max_highlighted do the trick?

[sturdy compass]

I totally understand and feel that lol

[rose dragon]

or i could just patch:

self.ability.consumeable.mod_num+(G.GAME.enhance_bonus or 1) >= #G.hand.highlighted

[sturdy compass]

Actually I’ve done something similar with one of my cards. Lemme get you a link to the file I have for it

https://github.com/the-Astra/Maximus/blob/main/lovely/war.toml

The Hanged Man section is probs what you should look at

[rose dragon]

nvm i got it working with regex

[quasi comet]

So now it goes there, but there's nothing there (no cards)

but still shows the counter has increased?

it's strange

[daring dirge]

can you use calc_dollar_bonus on decks?

if not how do i simulate it

[random sleet]

chat why does this joker work

i figured out i could just do this for graveyard so i can arbitrarily check parameters of cards
functions are just variables hee hee hoo hoo

[marsh basalt]

Would it be a bad idea to call the calculate functions on jokers manually with my own context?

Uh

[normal crest]

Not really, but SMODS.calculate_context allows you to do that already

[marsh basalt]

Yeah that's a scam

[normal crest]

<@&1133519078540185692>

[marsh basalt]

<@&1133519078540185692> ?

Ah, oops

[grand violet]

[robust tundra]

🔫

hi egg

[normal crest]

Just call SMODS.calculate_context with your own context

[grand violet]

hello mario

[marsh basalt]

Ah, okay, I was trying to find a function like that in the docs but I missed it, thank you ^^

[random sleet]

i do this here to rescore all jokers

the added context flag avoids an infinite loop

[normal crest]

Honestly there's a chance it's just undocumented

At this point I just look at smods source so I don't know what's in the wiki anymore

[random sleet]

fellow ctrl shift f user

[normal crest]

honestly I just use grep

[marsh basalt]

Funnily enough, I did find eval_this and, while being a thing I was not looking for, was also yelling at me that it is deprecated

[edgy reef]

grep users where

[random sleet]

🫡

i love that my stupid name for that function stayed btw

[edgy reef]

Cause it is.

Funny enough it was not indicated correctly.

[wintry solar]

There’s a calculate context for this now I just haven’t got round to documenting it yet, maybe today who knows

[edgy reef]

Surely today won’t be eaten by new Cryptid update or SMODS beta setup (clueless)

[wintry solar]

I have no idea how you motivated yourself to do all the lsp stuff, writing docs is dull as hell

[plush cove]

speaking of @edgy reef I actually am using those right now and they're proving helpful so ty for that!

[daring dirge]

how i increase the interest payout

like $2 every $5, but still cap at the same amount of $25

[robust tundra]

(I haven't coded a Balatro mod before but) perhaps look at how To The Moon works?

[paper zealot]

Should be as simple as setting G.GAME.interest_amount = 2

[daring dirge]

indeed it was

[daring dirge]

i did do this but i think the method used in jokers is different

(i looked at golden specifically)

[random sleet]

to the moon is the joker that does exactly that

[daring dirge]

oh wait

i was thinking of rocket lmao

for future reference where do i find the vanilla jokers that arent in the example doc

[random sleet]

in the game executable; 7zip can open it

[daring dirge]

obligatory ty even if i misremembered the joker name

[daring dirge]

i have that, do you know the name of the folder/file?

[paper zealot]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Balatro\Balatro.exe

[daring dirge]

i meant i have that file open

[random sleet]

most joker effects are in card.lua

but its worth extracting the whole source so you can refer to it

treat it like documentation for itself, as that is what code is

[opal spade]

most joker functionality is realized within the Card.lua file but i'd recommend reading the lovely dump of the file in %appdata%/Balatro/Mods/lovely/dumps/ instead due to how much of the code is changed by SMODS

[daring dirge]

yeah ive extracted it just couldn't find the file with the code that runs it, i checked main and game but not card

got it now ty

[onyx sonnet]

Pls...

[shadow rapids]

how do you make a blind that has effects that occur after a hand scores

[vale tulip]

hello, I've just started out, can anyone share with me the available guides and docs? I've found the steamodded documentation, but I still cannot figure some things out.

[bold sleet]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples

Here.

A repository with examples of some stuff.

If you still don't get how something works, ask about it.

Now my question: Is there a way to have a joker trigger it's effect immediately after being bought/created?

nevermind, got answered elsewere

[tepid crow]

use add_to_deck

oop

[bold sleet]

nevermind2

[bold sleet]

huh?

[vale tulip]

thank you, I've come across this already it sadly still didn't answer my questions.

[tepid crow]

see e.g. Merry Andy https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua#L183

[vale tulip]

Are there easier ways to test things than just using them ingame?

[tepid crow]

not really lol

[bold sleet]

no

[tepid crow]

you can use #1228149931257237664 if you don't want to reroll for them etc though

[vale tulip]

I've also been trying to insert the joker i've made into a deck, but I keep getting crashes when I'm trying to create a card using it's declared key

So let's say that I declare a joker with the key "my_joker", i would need to create the card using
create_card("Joker', G.Jokers, nil, nil, nil, nil, "my_joker") right?

[bold sleet]

You need your mod's prefix first.

[spark remnant]

iirc create_card is mainly used for joker effects, the easiest way to give yourself a joker is by using either first round joker or DebugPlus

[bold sleet]

j_[your_prefix]_[your_joker_key]

[vale tulip]

oh thank you very much, both of you.

[random sleet]

looking for feedback on this graveyard counter ui

-# the (27) at the bottom, if unclear

[strong jacinth]

Whats the standard joker size?

[random sleet]

71x95

[strong jacinth]

Thanks

[strong jacinth]

Can you have different size?

Like 138x186

[tepid crow]

I feel like the graveyard counter would make more sense on the right than on the left? 🤔

[random sleet]

the deck counter defaults to that position; i figured err on the side of not pissing off people used to vanilla

[tepid crow]

I know haha

it'd still say see if it works or not 😅

[tall wharf]

❤️

[random sleet]

i tried it first and i didnt like it and i dont consider myself a vanilla purist to any degree so

[tepid crow]

ah okay

[wintry solar]

Omg cryptid new calc is live will people finally stop developing on old versions now 🤞

[tall wharf]

ill just have to find a way to make my mod work with that i guess

[tall wharf]

exactly

people will finally stop complaining about Cryptid crashing their game because they downloaded the wrong version of Talisman

and Steamodded

[tepid crow]

you guys seem to have way too much faith in people

[random sleet]

no now people will just complain that they downloaded thac and talisman together

[tall wharf]

😭

i can't have faith anymore can i

[tepid crow]

like someone is gonna develop on old-calc just because Jen's is still on old-calc

[random sleet]

why does cryptid not work on smods 0.9.8 its the latest release

[tepid crow]

SO TRUE

[tall wharf]

😭

THERE IS A BIG TEXT SAYING "DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS"

[random sleet]

98%

[crisp coral]

is there cryptid on 0.9.2

[tepid crow]

literally 3 days ago #⚙・modding-general message

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭

if you didn't read the giant text you deserve to get stung

i don't get the 98% can someone explain

[tepid crow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1339969634484621422.webp?size=96

aww man that doesn't work?

[tall wharf]

[tepid crow]

https://media.discordapp.net/stickers/1301305934924087306.webp?size=160&quality=lossless

(the reference)

[tall wharf]

i can't read

[random sleet]

sorry got distracted
here's what this looks like, for the merit of its attempt

[tepid crow]

I like it, idk about you

[wintry solar]

is it possible to get it underneath?

[random sleet]

not with the method i'm using currently

[tepid crow]

oh underneath might not be bad either

[random sleet]

oh but yeah underneath actually isnt that hard one sec

[runic pecan]

Just ran into this issue:

Which corresponding to this part:

However I did check nil at the very start of the function:

Now I don't know why is this happening.

[tepid crow]

_c.key is nil, not _c

[runic pecan]

How come something in this game doesn't have its key?

[tepid crow]

idk why it happened, only that it happened 🤷‍♂️

[wintry solar]

isn't _c just a card?

[runic pecan]

And, if there is a card not having a key, how do I identify the card that caused the problem?

[wintry solar]

I dont think a card object will ever have a key

it's within the center of the object

[spring lantern]

this is gonna be fun

[runic pecan]

You mean like _c.center.key instead?

[spring lantern]

🥲

[wintry solar]

_c.config.center.key

[tall wharf]

just store it somewhere in the game

"seen"

[tepid crow]

heya Eremel, I'm trying to use retrigger_joker_check, but Mods that only use Events for their joker and return nothing don't get retriggered

[spring lantern]

yea im jus gonna create a table and use my create card hook to check when new cards appear

[wintry solar]

they need to return nil, true

[tepid crow]

would adding return {} to their calculate work without unexpected side-behaviour?

oh

[tall wharf]

seen Pokémon

[crisp coral]

honestly i thought i never needed this again

damn.

[wintry solar]

I don't think there's any other clean way of knowing if a joker was triggered or not

[tepid crow]

ah yeah I found the code for it

that sucks

thanks

[random sleet]

nvm underneath is a nightmare

[final pewter]

hey uh does anyone know any guide for how to make mods? i genuinely cannot find anything, there is only one youtube tutorial that misses a lot of things that need to be addressed

and outside of youtube i am either too blind or have also not found anything

[opal spade]

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

this

[final pewter]

thanks you are my saving grace

[tall wharf]

hello friends

[storm kraken]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if G.GAME.current_round.hands_left == 0 then
    if context.retrigger_joker_check and not context.retrigger_joker then
                return {
                    message = localize("k_again_ex"),
                    repetitions = card.ability.extra.repetitions,
                    card = G.joker.cards,
                }
    end
end
end

the compounds in my brain are being decomposed (trying to retrigger all jokers)

[onyx sonnet]

is there a context for checking when the player enters the shop?

[frosty dock]

no

[bold gyro]

I'm trying to make a joker that removes the enhancement from Stone cards, and then adds 50 permanent chips to the card. I've cobbled together this code based on the Vampire and Hiker jokers, but then the game crashes when the Stone card's enhancement is removed. What should I do to fix this?

calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.cardarea == G.play and #context.full_hand == 1 and not context.blueprint then
      if SMODS.has_enhancement(context.other_card, 'm_stone') and not context.other_card.debuff then
        
card.set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.c_base, nil, true) --Remove enhancement from playing card
        
context.other_card.ability.perma_bonus = context.other_card.ability.perma_bonus or 0 --idk what this bit does
        
context.other_card.ability.perma_bonus = context.other_card.ability.perma_bonus + self.ability.extra --add permanent chips to playing card
        
          return {
              message = "Chisel!",
              colour = G.C.CHIPS,
              card = self
          }
      end
    end
    end```

[marsh basalt]

Try changing the period to a colon in the set_ability

[wintry solar]

should be card:set_ability

[frosty dock]

[marsh basalt]

Okay

[frosty dock]

the base center is still a center, and a card can't just not have one

[marsh basalt]

I think I might've mistaken it with an another function ^^"

[bold gyro]

Okay, the change to a colon now stops a crash from that part now. Unfortunately, the part where permanent chips are added causes a crash:
attempt to index field 'extra' (a nil value)

context.other_card.ability.perma_bonus = context.other_card.ability.perma_bonus + card.ability.extra.big_bonus --add permanent chips to playing card```
Is there something fundamentally wrong here that causes the crash?

[marsh basalt]

What does the config table in your joker look like?

[onyx sonnet]

heartbreaking

[bold gyro]

config = { extra = { big_bonus = 50 } }

[wintry solar]

there will be soon

[onyx sonnet]

ty for the info!

@wintry solar sorry for the ping but i honestly still cannot figure out how to make it work with retriggers

[wintry solar]

what's it supposed to do?

[onyx sonnet]

Retrigger the rightmost card per scored ace (including retriggers like chad or seal)

[wintry solar]

if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and context.other_card ~= context.scoring_hand[#context.scoring_hand] and context.other_card:get_id() == 14 then
  card.ability.extra.repetitions = card.ability.extra.repetitions + 1
end
if context.repetition and context.cardarea == G.play and context.other_card == context.scoring_hand[#context.scoring_hand] then
  return {
    repetitions = card.ability.extra.repetitions
  }
end
if context.after then
  card.ability.extra.repetitions = 0
end```

[onyx sonnet]

what was i doing wrong?

[wintry solar]

you're doing everything in the individual context

[onyx sonnet]

ohhh

thank you so much!!

[prisma loom]

Is there a way to prevent the transfer of Negative edition from one playing card to another (via Death, Cryptid, DNA etc.)?

(yes, playing cards)

[broken cliff]

1. prob via lovely patches
2. why exactly would u ever need negative edition in the first place

[manic rune]

good morning everyone

[crisp coral]

bestie its fuckin 10:25pm

[manic rune]

sounds like morning to me ❤️

[prisma loom]

Negative playing card is technically a +1 handsize and you can apply it to a card you always wanna keep in hand like steel or gold or blue seal

It's very useful

Or just your most pump up card for the powerful poker hand play

[manic rune]

i think that will require a patch, as smell has said, you will have to edit the code of Death, Cryptid, and DNA so that they will remove the Negative edition from the new cards

[prisma loom]

Like polychrom red seal

[prisma loom]

So manual? I see

[wintry solar]

I dont see why you'd want a copy effect to strip certain editions

[manic rune]

true

[prisma loom]

For the same reason you can't copy negative edition on jokers

[manic rune]

i mean, jokers are fundamentally different compared to playing cards because they are literal powerhouses, you can just make negative playing cards somewhat rare honestly

[prisma loom]

What's the point of a spectral card that gives negative to a playing card if after just one use it becomes pointless?

[manic rune]

a negative steel card isn't as good as most uncommon jokers when they are negative (i love lucky cat), but if you still want to do it then sure

[prisma loom]

Sure, negative playing card isn't as strong as a negative Joker but the payment is less smaller

-1 hand

[wintry solar]

how is it pointless after one use

[prisma loom]

Just use death, no reason gain more -1 hand

[manic rune]

that patch alone would certainly make some strategies in other mods worse btw lol

[wintry solar]

I genuinely have no idea what you're on about

[prisma loom]

I'm talking about a spectral card from the mod I'm working on

that's all

[manic rune]

honestly, id never pick exchange

[marsh basalt]

I feel -1 hand is an extremely bad downside

[manic rune]

mhm

[prisma loom]

I don't think this should be free either

[manic rune]

look at black deck and see how -1 hand made it extremely annoying to play with ❤️

[wintry solar]

yeah I feel like you're vastly overestimating the power of negative on a playing card

and if you do keep this downside, you should absolutely be able to copy it to other cards

[prisma loom]

Then there's no point in using this spectral for the rest of the run

[manic rune]

either that or you are underestimating how big of a drawback -1 hand is

[marsh basalt]

also super late to this but I'm not sure what could be going wrong - I'd suggest putting for k, v in pairs(card.ability) do print(k) end before the crash as a sanity check to see everything inside of the ability table if you have not fixed it yet

[wintry solar]

I mean I would never use this spectral anyway

[prisma loom]

I think you underestimate the power of negative playing card

Especially since it's not the only thing that mod adds

[marsh basalt]

...also to add to this - don't other spectral cards kind of have this "issue" as well in some cases?

[manic rune]

i think that the only way for negative playing cards to actually have an impact on your run would be:

• get perkeo
• somehow get exchange inside your consumable slot

and thats IF exchange didnt have that big of a cost

[vapid cloak]

hey yall how can i access the source code for balatro through steam? im trying to read through it to get a better idea of how to woprk with the cards

[manic rune]

download 7-zip, then extract balatro.exe

[vapid cloak]

tyty

[prisma loom]

Hex for sure, ankh is not
IDK what else

[manic rune]

that's because i dont think having 3 more playing cards in your hand is gonna make that big of a difference

or maybe about 6, definitely under 10 if you got dem voucher to give bonus hands

[prisma loom]

Pls don't think about this in a vacuum, there's enough stuff that make negative playing cards worth it

[vapid cloak]

what about deaths with it?

[prisma loom]

Just saying

[wintry solar]

like what?

[prisma loom]

Obsidian and Antimatter enhancement and black seal

And green seal in rare scenarios

[wintry solar]

which do?

[prisma ferry]

I'm sure this has been asked a million times but what resources can i look at to begin modding balatro

[prisma loom]

"Anti-matter Enhancement"
X0.5 Mult
1 in 4 chance to upgrade by X0.5 Mult
(Up to X2 Mult)

"Obsidian Enhancement"
Lose 1$
1 in 4 chance to create a Negative consumable card

Black Seal
Counts in scoring if held in hand

Green Seal
Draw 2 extra cards when scored or discarded

[manic rune]

id use this instead of exchange ngl 😭

[prisma loom]

That's a -1 Joker slot

[wintry solar]

black seal is the only card there that works with a negative card

[marsh basalt]

Steammodded's "Your First Mod"
Example mod: Implementation of some vanilla game jokers into the game.

[prisma ferry]

appreciate it

[prisma loom]

Wdym?

[wintry solar]

well why would any of the others care about being negative

[manic rune]

negative troubadour would net you +1 hand size in exchange for -1 hand, and that hand size will work for every playing card ❤️

ok but its very unlikely you are gonna get one so maybe thats a bad point

[prisma loom]

with black seal

Also steel, gold and blue seal as I've mentioned before

[manic rune]

i thought you need to score cards with gold seals to get the bonus cash

[prisma loom]

Gold Enhancement

[wintry solar]

but you already need a handful of those effects to get an increase

[manic rune]

oh

[prisma loom]

Wait actually now that I think about it

[manic rune]

^ i find the seals and enhancement overall fail to make the cost worth it

[prisma loom]

Negative transfer protection a big downside

Yeah, -1 hand is unnecessary

[manic rune]

it really is

[wintry solar]

I still think both are unnecessary

[manic rune]

and even without -1 hand, you would still need perkeo to consistently build a negative card deck because of not being able to copy negative

[wintry solar]

a negative card is +1 hand size, some of the time

[manic rune]

and i dont think having to rely on a legendary joker for a spectral card to work is a good idea

[prisma loom]

Isn't handsize buff one of the most powerful vouchers?

[manic rune]

yeah but not when its locked to one playing card

[onyx sonnet]

emphasis on "some of the time"

[wintry solar]

you have to draw the card to make use of the hand size and keep the card in hand

[onyx sonnet]

mhm

[wintry solar]

which if it isnt providing you a benefit for being in your hand, either with it's own effect or making up the hand you want to play, also doesn't really do much

[onyx sonnet]

-1 hands played stunts your possible scoring and early econ so much

[manic rune]

literally the reason for black deck hate lol

[prisma loom]

Well, I trust you folks on that but if it turns out to be as broken as I've imagined then I'll just add negative transfer protection

I hope that sounds reasonable

[onyx sonnet]

with enough deck fixing the profit from a negative card would be insane

but that requires work

[prisma loom]

Well, deck fixing enables a lot of broken stuff in general

[manic rune]

it really wont, you still need a bunch of Death to make it work beautifully anyways

(i shouldve replied to the specific message, but what i mean is that it will take quite a few rounds and cash to ramp up its potential)

[marsh basalt]

I don't think negative transfer protection is a good idea personally

[manic rune]

it blocks playstyles from other mods too, dont forget that

[marsh basalt]

Other editions and seals transfer over

[onyx sonnet]

It makes sense for jokers because joker copying is already powerful on its own, but playing cards dont need it

[prisma loom]

Cuz power of playing cards is much more limited

ic

[wintry solar]

it's also because of the fact that you won't always have the playing card, whereas a joker is a permanent thing you have

[quartz ravine]

oh are we hating on the black deck? It is by far the deck I struggle with the most

[manic rune]

pretty much everyone does

[prisma loom]

where's obligatory all my homies hate pic

[quartz ravine]

I also find plasma to be super hard too. I can't put into words why I struggle with it. I guess it gets super duper hard at the second or third stake

[onyx sonnet]

yeah its just inherently harder to play because hand reduction limits you in so many ways but i was mainly talking about hand reductions in general

[manic rune]

i usually get jokers which give a lot of chips as they work beautifully in early game for plasma decks lol

stone cards actually become quite viable for early game too

[quartz ravine]

So is everyone who makes mods also pixel artists? I programmed a bunch of cards for a vanilla style mod and am now trying my hand at pixel art and...wow is it hard to make things look good

[onyx sonnet]

plasma's weird, you either want to really spec into Xmult or Chips, going inbetween is suboptimal

[quartz ravine]

going into both is worse? Maybe I need to change my approach

[onyx sonnet]

Im personally dogshit at art but i need sprites for my mods and i cant use placeholders forever :P, even if its mid ill have to make it

You could also ask friends for help if they want to make stuff with you, or commission someone

[prisma loom]

I've managed to put out 30 mediocre art pieces in less than a month without any prior experience

Aseprite app was huge "skill" boost for me

It's very good

[onyx sonnet]

i just use gimp lol,i used to use paint.net when i had windows

[manic rune]

aseprite works so beautifully when it comes to pixel art

[onyx sonnet]

really any image editing software with basic functionality like layers will work

[prisma loom]

Yeah, but the comfort and speed is better in aseprite imo

[onyx sonnet]

That is a perfectly valid take

[manic rune]

paint has layers now

🗣️

[onyx sonnet]

i was talking about paint DOT net

[prisma loom]

Paint2 just dropped

[manic rune]

yeh but by that logic, paint should work too ❤️

[onyx sonnet]

which is an image editing software separate from MS paint

[wintry solar]

paint has layers?

[manic rune]

yeah

[marsh basalt]

Since Windows 11

[onyx sonnet]

oh shit really?

damn

[wintry solar]

oh shit I have never seen this button lol

[crisp coral]

pros:
layers for mspaint

cons:
having to update to win11

[onyx sonnet]

well with this new knowledge yeah it would also work perfectly

[manic rune]

for computers in the IT room, id rather them having win 11 so i can mess around with paint even more 🔥

[broken cliff]

paint.net is better anywhos

[quartz ravine]

I'm using paint.net on my pc too! I did just get a pencil for my eight year old ipad, I am going to try that.

I think my biggest sin was starting with the 2x resolution cards. That allows for extra detail and when I shrink it down, wow it looks bad. I was reading up on pixel art and the style ideas and it seems liek folks generally start with smaller images and scale up.

[crisp coral]

i download hoyo games on them

[quartz ravine]

But the new update also makes the Text box take like 6 seconds to render the first time you reopen the app!

[onyx sonnet]

I dont think modded jokers really even need 1x, its only used in the challenge screens

[crisp coral]

1x sprites are used if you untick one of the settings i forgot which one

[manic rune]

if im lucky then we get to study in the room with a computer containing balatro 😭

[quartz ravine]

Texture smoothing?

[crisp coral]

that

[broken cliff]

dayum bro

[onyx sonnet]

ah ic

[broken cliff]

so u can make 1x look ugli and make 2x look good?

[quartz ravine]

i love how much detail I can put in a 2x card but then it doesn't really fit the pixel aesthetic

[manic rune]

make 1x card sprites nothing but the text: "Turn On Texture Smoothing"

❤️

[onyx sonnet]

Also for scaling pixel art, you should generally turn off interpolation

i scaled my jokers from 2x to 1x with interpolation off and they looked fine

[quartz ravine]

I feel like the jokers and packs and tarots I added are very vanilla friendly and folks will like them, if I can spend a week of free time learning lua and adding the jokers, I can take two more weeks to do good hand made art too.

[onyx sonnet]

Lua isnt all that hard to understand, as far as programming languages go its pretty similar to human speech, the difficult part is learning all the contexts smods has and what they mean in regards to ingame circumstances

[minor furnace]

I can't decide if I should make this x0.1 to match the scaling of Vampire or not

[manic rune]

i think it should be x0.1

[quartz ravine]

In hindsight I wish I'd tried learning lua 10 years ago, I could have made some fun WoW mods. It's been easy to understand

[minor furnace]

I also just realized I forgot to include the context for Midas Mask making things gold... time to do that now

[manic rune]

the hardest part of modding balatro is actually remembering all the functions, variable names and allat ngl

[quartz ravine]

Would you also count if a steel card is turned to glass, or only when a hologram card becomes lucky, etc?

I also confuse ability, enhancement and ability. End users might too

[minor furnace]

It's only when an enhancement is placed on a card that already has an enhancement

[onyx sonnet]

Enhancements are the ones on playing cards

LIke gold, steel, bonus, mult, glass, stone

[manic rune]

much easier to use than vampire if thats the case lol

would turning a lucky card to a lucky card work

[minor furnace]

yes

[broken cliff]

"pretty similar to human speech"
SMODS DOT JOKER OPEN BRACKETS KEY EQUALS QUOTE EXAMPLE DASH JOKER QUOTE COMMA LOC DASH TXT EQUALS OPEN BRACKET NAME EQUALS QUOTE EXAMPLE JOKER QUOTE COMMA TEXT EQUALS OPEN BRACKET QUOTE EXAMPLE TEXT QUOTE COMMA QUOTE EXAMPLE TEXT 2 QUOTE CLOSED BRACKETS CLOSED BRACKETS COMMA CONFIG EQUALS etc

ur right about everything else tho

[manic rune]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9jsLr7UZbC0

sounds like human speech to me

[quartz ravine]

Would you listen to context.consumable_used? SMODs lets you take ownership so you could do something afterwards

Now if lua took in lambda functions...that would make it pretty easy

[broken cliff]

lua is like the easiest

then python

put c on the last place bcuz u also have to make it S A F E

[minor furnace]

My only complaint is please give me my strong typing back

We put respect on declaring variable types in this household 🗣️

[tall wharf]

😭

[minor furnace]

The duality of man

[strong jacinth]

Yo

[quartz ravine]

Why isn't it null safe? I had to write safety functions for it. I do love the SMODS.Inspect option

Does anyone here have good recommendations for pixel artists they worked with?

[strong jacinth]

X mult is for multiplying the mult. How do you add?

Like +10 to the mult

[long sun]

mult

[strong jacinth]

Wdym?

[broken cliff]

return {
mult = 10(or whatever u need)
}

[long sun]

eg. return { mult = card.ability.extra.mult }

[broken cliff]

^

[strong jacinth]

Oooh

Thanks!!

[long sun]

and then add mult to your loc_vars

np!

[broken cliff]

alr how do i add cards into the deck with a specific rank and suit

[strong jacinth]

elseif (context.other_card:get_id() <= 9) and (context.other_card:get_id() >= 2) then
  xmult = context.other_card:get_id()
end

So this line returns 2 - 9 depending on the card, how do i add 0. before?

ex. instead of 9 0.9

[broken cliff]

divide by 10 🧠

[long sun]

divide it by 10.0

not 10, that does integer division

which will return 0

[strong jacinth]

By using ... / 10.0

[long sun]

mhm

[final pewter]

does your mod have to contain content to be detected by steammodded? i have implemented the .json metadata file but it still hasnt been detected
heres the metadata

    "id": "Examplumod", 
    "name": "Examplumod", 
    "author": ["biggie"], 
    "description": "adds genuinly nothing", 
    "prefix": "xmpl", 
    "main_file": "main.lua", 
    "priority": 0, 
    "badge_colour": "FF230A", 
    "badge_text_colour": "FFFFFF", 
    "display_name": "ballers", 
    "version": "~1.0.0", 
    "dependencies": [
        "Steamodded (>=1.*)"
         ]
}```

there is nothing in main.lua

[broken cliff]

--- MOD_NAME: The Nothing Mod
--- MOD_ID: NothingMod
--- MOD_AUTHOR: [Steamo, TheVoid]
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: This Mod doesn't do anything !

----------------------------------------------
------------MOD CODE -------------------------

----------------------------------------------
------------MOD CODE END----------------------```

[limpid halo]

dont use the header

its deprecated

[frosty dock]

this is the old format and should not be used in combination with json metadata

[strong jacinth]

How do i change the joker rairyty

[wintry solar]

you can / 10 just fine

[broken cliff]

rarity is defined in the joker by rarity = x

where is is the rarity

afaik 4 is legendary

[frosty dock]

can i see your mod's file structure?

[bold sleet]

SMODS.Joker {
  rarity = 1
}

[broken cliff]

3 is rare
2 is uncommon
1 is common

[frosty dock]

SMODS.Joker=

[final pewter]

you mean this?

[bold sleet]

stupid af

[frosty dock]

that looks perfectly fine (assuming it's in your mods folder). and nothing is showing up in the mods menu-?

[broken cliff]

do i add playing cards with smods.create_card()?

[bold sleet]

The json and lua file should not be inside the assets folder.

[final pewter]

its not...

[bold sleet]

then uh...

beats me

[final pewter]

imma try and reinstall lovely

[broken cliff]

wait

@final pewter did u save the file

[frosty dock]

?

[broken cliff]

json file is 0 kb

[final pewter]

yep only debug mod

[final pewter]

yeah

probably the cause

[broken cliff]

yh u should prob save the file

in whatever editor u are

[frosty dock]

smh

[final pewter]

sorry for wasting y'alls time 😭

[broken cliff]

its fine

[strong jacinth]

So uh this crashes

[broken cliff]

error?

[broken cliff]

whats at line 110

[frosty dock]

that's not how lua tables work

also change your centers to card

[strong jacinth]

Uhh, how do they work

[minor furnace]

I assume you’d want return {x_mult = …}

[frosty dock]

you put a key like x_mult and a value

if you want to give xmult, you put x_mult = <value> into a returned table

[strong jacinth]

I want center.ability.extra.Xmult to be xmult more

[frosty dock]

if you want to change a config value of the card, you do that outside of a table

[strong jacinth]

center.ability.extra.Xmult = center.ability.extra.Xmult + xmult

[frosty dock]

also like i said

you're using center but it's not defined

change it to card

[strong jacinth]

Thats how you wouldve done it in another lang

[crisp coral]

cryptid really made a bad example on how jokers are structured huh

[frosty dock]

no that's fine

[strong jacinth]

done 👍

[frosty dock]

you just don't shove it in a table constructor

you can't wrap random statements into a table

either you do card.ability.extra.Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult + xmult and change the config value

or you return { Xmult = <value here> } and tell the game to give that xmult

a combination of the two does not work

[strong jacinth]

So like this

[frosty dock]

good so far but you're never giving the xmult, you're just changing around config values

[strong jacinth]

Thue

[frosty dock]

also line 113 is assigning to a global mult

[strong jacinth]

Yeah

[frosty dock]

in every possible context

[strong jacinth]

So i should change that to?

[frosty dock]

you should change that

I don't know the exact effect you have in mind, but you probably want to give the mult in context.joker_main?

[strong jacinth]

So a seven adds 0.7 to the total mult of the joker when scored

Then it multiplies your total hand with this

[broken cliff]

wait he should return {mult = card.ability.extra.xmult}

to add +0.7 to mult

if u want to multiply then its return {xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult}

at line 113

[normal crest]

that will give mult on every possible context

[broken cliff]

oh right

he should put that inside the context

[broken cliff]

change center to card

[quartz ravine]

Can you show your cards ability section?

[strong jacinth]

Like thias section

[quartz ravine]

It should have a section like this

 config = {
            odds = 2,
            extra = 1.5,
            earnedPlusmult = 0,
            multGrowthRate = 1
        },

Config for a joker is interpretted as ability

[normal crest]

Did you start a new run

After adding that

[broken cliff]

u should chance xMult to Xmult at line 113

and put the line 113 into a context

[quartz ravine]

Your line 96 has a typo. Locvars isn't taking in card, it's taking in self. So change line 96 to self.ability.blah

[broken cliff]

does anyone know how to create a playing card?

[quartz ravine]

tell me more? Like add a new card to the deck or hand, or what?

[broken cliff]

to deck

[frosty dock]

that's also wrong

[strong jacinth]

So like this?

[frosty dock]

no

[broken cliff]

put the line 113 into the context Please

like put it in the if statement

[frosty dock]

change the center in the loc_vars arguments to card and change self back to card

Also put line 113 into if context.joker_main then ... end

[wintry solar]

I love watching people give bad advice

[strong jacinth]

Soo next question. How do i check the suit?

[broken cliff]

alr heres my questions(purpose is to have 1/4 chance of card splitting into 2)

1. how do i create a playing card and put it into deck
   or(if 1 is hard to answer)
2. how do i clone a card and THEN edit the cards rank

[broken cliff]

the quit?

[strong jacinth]

Suit, typo

[wintry solar]

use create_playing_card()

[broken cliff]

alr thx

[normal crest]

For #2 use copy_card and then SMODS.change_base on it

[broken cliff]

alr

[quartz ravine]

I'm looking at a modder joker I made and it basically looks like this and works

[broken cliff]

one way is to do card:is_suit(suit)

[strong jacinth]

so card:is_suit(clubs)?

[normal crest]

"Clubs"

[broken cliff]

"Clubs"

[wintry solar]

if you just want to know the suit rather than check it is a certain one you can use card.base.suit

[final pewter]

it seems like after saving it still isnt appearing, could this be a problem aswell?
in the smods src and in general alot of other files some variables are unknown, but the debugplus mod still loads perfectly fine, just my test mod wont load

[final pewter]

yeah this is probably a bad thing

[normal crest]

Btw the starting shop context you did doesn't have enough information, like if you did what was intiuitive and wanted to spawn an extra voucher when shop is starting, you'd create a voucher every time the game is loaded too

[wintry solar]

that sounds like a problem

[vapid cloak]

hey for art for mods what pxl height/width should it be

for a joeklr

joker*

[normal crest]

I think so anyway, I didn't test it, but it looks similar to what we did in paperback

And I had that issue

[hardy viper]

all this info and more can be found in https://discordapp.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1250386587691388989

but 69x93

[vapid cloak]

thank you!!!!!!!!

[hardy viper]

np

[wintry solar]

should be an easy fix

[strong jacinth]

How do you check which cards the player has in hand

[broken cliff]

G.play perhaps

oh wait

hold on

in hand as in not playing right

its G.hand for the hand cards

[strong jacinth]

Do you need to loop through them?

Or can i like G.hand(1)

[normal crest]

G.hand.cards[1] to get the first card

[strong jacinth]

Can you get the total amount of cards?

[normal crest]

#G.hand.cards

or if you want the hand size, G.hand.config.card_limit

[broken cliff]

afaik u can js do
if context.cardarea == G.hand then

it will go through each card in the hand area

OH AND CONTEXT.INDIVIDUAL

so its
if context.individual and context.cardarea = G.hand then

then it will loop through all cards in ur g.hand

[strong jacinth]

What? Why the #?

[hardy viper]

length operator

[broken cliff]

oops

[hardy viper]

lol

[broken cliff]

#gets the lenght of a table

[final pewter]

so my mod still isnt being detected by steammodded, could it be because of this in the metadata? every mod has a specified version but idk if this works either

[broken cliff]

can u chance the version to be 1.0.0?

maybe thatll do it

[final pewter]

ill see

[hardy viper]

thats redundant

0.9.8 doesnt recognize json formatted metadata anyways

[final pewter]

so i have to use <=1.*

[broken cliff]

no the version: "1.0.0"

[hardy viper]

??

just remove the dependency

[final pewter]

alright

[hardy viper]

anything <1.* wont recognize the mod anyways

[broken cliff]

i confused Everyone

what i meant by My statemtents was "version": "1.0.0"

not "~1.0.0"

[final pewter]

it worked!!

thx!

[strong jacinth]

How do i do a for each loop in lua

Like foreach .... #G.hand.cards

[broken cliff]

for i,v in ipairs(table) do

[frosty dock]

for i, v in ipairs(G.hand.cards) do
  -- i is the index, v is the value
end
for i = 1, #G.hand.cards do
  local v = G.hand.cards[i]
  -- this is the same thing effectively
end

if you're modifying the table you're traversing, you need a while loop instead

[strong jacinth]

So v would be 7 if the card was a seven?

[minor furnace]

G.hand.cards[i].base.id would be 7, or G.hand.cards[i]:get_id() (I think that’s the method I’m not at my computer rn)

[frosty dock]

v would be the corresponding card table

[final pewter]

in game the name and description wont show up, did i get misorganized with the {} brackets?

[normal crest]

yes you're missing a closing bracket

[final pewter]

no, its just not in the screenshot

[normal crest]

ah, it's loc_txt not loc_text

[final pewter]

ohhh, makes sense, thanks!

[normal crest]

also please format your code!

[final pewter]

what was formating again, i am rly new to this

[normal crest]

ctrl + shift + i if you have the lua extension should do it

or just right click anywhere in the text and press format document

[final pewter]

kk, looks a lot better now

oh yeah, its all coming together

now i just gotta make it eternal and not provide the negative mult

[final pewter]

(in the description

[strong jacinth]

What if its a jack

What will the base id be

[minor furnace]

Jack is 11, Queen 12, King 13, Ace 14

This is also the value displayed for them when you hover over Misprint

[strong jacinth]

Thanks

[minor furnace]

Do you have a variable called mult somewhere else that you forgot to make local?

[strong jacinth]

No, i want it to use the global

Like mult is the multiplier

[minor furnace]

Oh wait nvm it’s throwing the error because you didn’t set a context, so it’s calling it when there are no cards in your hand

[strong jacinth]

Wait, how should i set the context?

(Im new to lua, in case you didn't notice)

[minor furnace]

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

[minor gyro]

break that txt pls 😭

[strong jacinth]

Wdym

[minor furnace]

The documentation is your friend (until you realize there are some contexts you need that exist but the wiki does not mention)

[minor gyro]

this
it's too much text in one line

[copper ermine]

(sorry if this is obvious i'm a complete beginner) the joker resets if a face card is scored, the actual reset part works fine but the "Reset!" message isn't showing up, how do i fix it

[minor gyro]

this is how u break code in case u didn't know

[minor furnace]

What languages do you have experience in?

[strong jacinth]

Some, in python and very little in C++

[strong jacinth]

So like this

[minor furnace]

I would put the context outside of the for loop

[strong jacinth]

Thats smart thanks

[rose hamlet]

yo guys i need help making a mod
i want to make a mod that adds new skins for the face cards
but idk how to add a new tab to scroll to and how to add the cards in the game
just like yk the witcher face cards thing etc
i want to make my own face cards and add them into the game in customize cards area but idk how if someone can help me out that would be amazing

[strong jacinth]

It doesn't work for some reason, no crash

But the stuff wont work

[wintry solar]

Smods version?

[copper ermine]

yea

also i got rid of that stray comma at the end of localize but it still doesn't display the message

[frosty dock]

Uh I'm pretty sure Eremel is asking what version of smods you're running, not if you have it at all

[minor furnace]

For one, returning inside the for loop will break it and only do anything for the first card in the array

[copper ermine]

oh sorry LOL 1.0.0

[wintry solar]

The full version…

[frosty dock]

you have no idea how little that narrows it down

[strong jacinth]

So like this?

And whats 2

[copper ermine]

sorry i'm a little stupid

[frosty dock]

you're almost 2 months out of date

joker calculation was changed fundamentally since then, so it's a huge difference

[copper ermine]

ah ok thank you

[frosty dock]

your code should work just fine on the latest version

[strong jacinth]

Still doesn't work 🥲

[minor furnace]

This is probably the context you want to use, and not loop over the cards

[frosty dock]

what are you trying to do exactly?

[hushed field]

context.destroying_card only checks for cards played, right, not cards held in hand?

[copper ermine]

yep that was the problem thank you

[frosty dock]

new calc has destroying checks for other areas including cards held in hand

[strong jacinth]

How does the function display thingy look

[frosty dock]

context.destroying_card is explicitly only played scoring cards, for others use context.destroy_card and context.cardarea == G.hand (or whatever other area)

[hushed field]

aaah okay

[frosty dock]

you're using a variable you never defined

Also that's not how context.individual works

[strong jacinth]

Which?

[frosty dock]

totalmult

[minor furnace]

You need to declare
local totalmult = 0 before you use it

[strong jacinth]

Oooh

[frosty dock]

if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual and context.other_card:get_id() < 11 then
  return { mult = context.other_card:get_id() }
end

this should be closer to what you need if you want to use context.individual

or if you want cards held in hand, you need to evaluate in G.hand. I'm still not sure what you're trying to do exactly though

[strong jacinth]

You mean like this?

[frosty dock]

you don't need to totalmult then

but uh

I realize that breaks with stones

[strong jacinth]

Stones?

[minor furnace]

Stone cards are assigned a negative id iirc

[normal crest]

stone cards have a negative id

[frosty dock]

if context.cardarea == G.hand and context.individual then
  local id = context.other_card:get_id()
  if id > 0 and id < 11 then
    return { mult = id}
  end
end

more like this

[normal crest]

And it's a really small number like -48000 or whatever

it's random iirc

[frosty dock]

yeah it's random, I didn't check for these kinds of errors lmao

[strong jacinth]

It doesnt work?

[frosty dock]

how so?

[strong jacinth]

Oooh, it gives mult for each played card, i want it to give mult for every card in hand

[frosty dock]

see you never specified that

[strong jacinth]

Every numberd card

[normal crest]

change G.play to G.hand

[frosty dock]

yet I said this

I'm not here to write your code for you

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

[strong jacinth]

What happens here, at end it does it again?

So this happens

[wintry solar]

Needs context.main_scoring too

Which we could have told you straight away if you told us what the effect was

[strong jacinth]

You mean like this?

[frosty dock]

isn't that on playing card eval

[strong jacinth]

Im pretty sure i did

[half mesa]

is cryptid refactor branch gone?

[frosty dock]

it was merged into main

[strong jacinth]

But i want it to add mult for every card in hand, so for a 7 it adds 7

Face cards not included

So no mult for face cards

[frosty dock]

you can undo that

what you had before that change should be good

[strong jacinth]

Sometimes it play at the end again?

[frosty dock]

oh right there's some confusion here

[strong jacinth]

What do you mean?

Like this happens

[normal crest]

ah

[wintry solar]

oh maybe it is just on playing card eval

[normal crest]

try adding not context.end_of_round

[frosty dock]

I don't think we actually have a positive identifier for that

[wintry solar]

no I was just thinking that

[frosty dock]

it can't be context.main_eval either

[strong jacinth]

It solved it

Thanks

[wintry solar]

my initial thought would be to change the end_of_round one

but that is ehhhh

maybe context.score_eval?

[strong jacinth]

Last question

How do I check what cards the playes has in deck

[unkempt thicket]

What causes this? The layers i added looks like they're also being emplaced.

[normal crest]

Full deck or current deck

[strong jacinth]

What's the difference again

[minor furnace]

Current deck excludes cards already seen in the round

[strong jacinth]

Ooh, full deck

[minor furnace]

i.e. Blue Joker calculates off of current deck, Cloud 9 calculates off of full deck

[strong jacinth]

Full deck

[normal crest]

full deck is in G.playing_cards

[gloomy rain]

Yo, I am AWFUL with lua

anyone got a good source or video that would help me learn it

[strong jacinth]

Can I do like G.playing_cards.Aces

To get number of aced

[normal crest]

No

[strong jacinth]

Aces

[normal crest]

it's an array of cards

[strong jacinth]

How would i do then?

Use a for each

[normal crest]

yes

you'll have to count them manually

[strong jacinth]

Awe

[grim remnant]

still need some help with this if anyone has any pointers, editions documentation is a bit unclear how exactly you make editions Function

[wintry solar]

in calculate

[grim remnant]

Ah. we were taking the docs too literally in this case, as calculate() isn't mentioned on the SMODS.Edition page atm. ;P

[wintry solar]

that is very strange

[humble girder]

docs have a few oddities - ever since joker calculation is gone as a page i don't think there's a description of the exact order contexts happen in scoring

[grim remnant]

for whatever reason, editions is pitching a fit about the "extra" in the config line. is this normal?

[humble girder]

that can't be the direct issue with it

oh dude

you're referencing card.ability.extra on 148

you're looking for card.edition.extra

[grim remnant]

oh, that'd do it ;P

[humble girder]

i'm also not sure returning repetitions will do anything on context.main_scoring

but that's just a hunch

[nova finch]

How do I make a joker that updates its values in real time? (ex. Joker Stencil)

[humble girder]

stuff like this should be happening on if context.repetition and context.repetition_only

[wintry solar]

the calculate page does have them in the exact order they happen?

[grim remnant]

it does at least proc the "Again!" message, so it's not like it's being entirely ignored. still, gonna try another context at least.

[humble girder]

i understand this but i don't think that is made quite clear

[humble girder]

i'd suggest looking at red seal
but also, since this is available in shops, you'll have jokers with it, which needs a separate feature and context

[nova finch]

anyone that can help?

[humble girder]

what do you want to know

[wintry solar]

just calculate the values you need in the calculate function and loc_vars function

[humble girder]

stencil doesn't "update its values" in real time, it just calculates it every time in those functions ^

[nova finch]

oh ok

i thought it was

[rose dragon]

does anyone know the sticker id of eternity?

[humble girder]

'eternal'

[wintry solar]

it does actually do it in real time because thunk doesn't care about your performance 🙃

[humble girder]

stickers are weird

[rose dragon]

doesn't show up?

[humble girder]

stickers aren't exactly a center

they're weird

[gusty sequoia]

What do I write for the orange text, is it just {C:orange}?

[humble girder]

it's just a flag on the card ability

[gusty sequoia]

Interesting

[humble girder]

joker.ability.eternal = true | nil

[humble girder]

I assume you're looking for {C:attention}

[gusty sequoia]

Yeah that's probably it

[rose dragon]

yeah but how do I add them to the info_queue?

[humble girder]

info_queue[#info_queue+1] = {key='eternal', set='Other'}

that's how vanilla does it, anyway

[edgy reef]

SMODS does store both custom and vanilla stickers the same way other SMODS objects do, but idk if you can just pass them into info_queue and get the sticker tooltip output.

[humble girder]

that's actually incorrect though

SMODS.Sticker extends GameObject, not Center

[frosty dock]

iirc it doesn't work with SMODS.Stickers.xyz, maybe I should implement that

[humble girder]

stickers are so all over the place

[minor furnace]

I now realized that I’m terrified of any updates horribly breaking any of the modded content I’ve made

[humble girder]

vanilla set_perishable cannot even unset perishable

[wintry solar]

stickers are mega jank

[frosty dock]

they are

[minor furnace]

yeah they're really weird

[frosty dock]

they were even more jank before better calc though

guys i think we should make localization files have proper buffer names

[orchid thunder]

how can i have multiple mesages show up on a card

[humble girder]

nah it's fine just stop comparing numbers with tables?

[unkempt thicket]

How do you check if a certain mod is installed?