💻・modding-dev

[halcyon osprey]

they jsut

casually appear

How do i prevent them appearing in the shop without showman 😭

[tall wharf]

huh

[halcyon osprey]

Like ill hold the card in my joker hand, and then suddenly its in the shop

[tall wharf]

i never had this problem

have you started a new run

[halcyon osprey]

I have, it might be because im debugging it into my hand?

[spring lantern]

yeah it's def because of spawning it via debug

the game doesn't actually realise you have it

[halcyon osprey]

havent seen any but the burger but i have made it the burger can appear more than ince

once

[spring lantern]

it's happened to me plenty while testing

[plush cove]

M!

[spring lantern]

this joker is feeling quite jolly

is there a way to insert the variable associated with a challenge rule into its loc text?

[short mauve]

-# I wish I had enough brainpower to make a mod :(

[spring lantern]

there's some great resources out there to help you get started!

it's very scary at first but really rewarding once you learn the basics

[rose dragon]

evil alternate universe

[short mauve]

Oooo

[jovial harness]

The examples and smods wiki are really helpful!

[short mauve]

I just need to have the pc version first ig idk

[spring lantern]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki and https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/tree/master/Mods are two places i check often

i mean pc version is a requirement

[plush cove]

i developed Cryptid after being inspired by an intentionally unbalanced mod called Mistigris

[short mauve]

Cool

I might try that out

[warm harness]

Omg are you really a cryptid dev

[plush cove]

[rose dragon]

deja vu as a dependency

[warm harness]

You’re still cool to me so nothings changed

Does anybody know how i can get a joker i made to have additional effects with another joker from the same mod? Like if i have Joker A it does +10 mult but if Joker B is in your Joker slot then it would do +20 instead something like that.

[hushed field]

you can check the key of the joker next to it by checking what the position of your first joker is (iterating over G.jokers.cards), and then checking the key for G.jokers.cards[i+1]

[halcyon osprey]

Im wanting to make a card that converts a random joker into negative every 6 rounds, How would i tackle this

[hushed field]

tick down a variable each round, and when it reaches the threshold, pick a random joker using pseudorandom_element() and use card:set_edition({negative = true}, true)

[halcyon osprey]

what would i put into the psuydorandom?

cause i doubt this would work and is enough lmao

[hushed field]

G.jokers.cards

which is a selection of all of your jokers. If you don't want to be able to pick itself, you can add a check to see if the selected object is the same as 'card'

[halcyon osprey]

yep entitycount crashes it agh

[hushed field]

card:set_edition() in this case will set the joker itself to negative, btw! you want to store the pseudorandom_element result in a variable, and use :set_edition on that one!

store entitycount like config = { extra = { entitycount = 0} }

that way you can increment it by using card.ability.extra.entitycount = card.ability.extra.entitycount + 1

[halcyon osprey]

where would config go?

in the joker or at the start of the code

[hushed field]

Because currently, you're storing entitycount as an element of the joker, while in the calculate function, you're looking for a global variable called entitycount, which doesn't exist

[halcyon osprey]

i did crash cause of that

[hushed field]

Have you looked at the smods example jokers? the structure is laid out really well in there

[red flower]

check for card.config.center.mod.id

[hushed field]

might be easier than trying to fully explain the structure. Each joker should basically always have a config = { extra = {}}, even if it's empty, I'd say

[halcyon osprey]

yeah i have no clue what i am doing

` config = { extra = { entitycount = 0} }

SMODS.Joker{
key = 'Entity',
loc_txt = {
name = 'Glitched Entity',
text = {
'Every 6 rounds, Turn 1 Random Joker Negative',
'{entitycount}'
}
},
atlas = 'Jokers',
rarity = 3,
cost = 10,
unlocked = false,
discovered = false,
blueprint_compat = false,
eternal_compat = true,
perishable_compat = false,
pos = {x = 1, y = 0},
config = { extra = {
}
},
calculate = function(self,card,context)
if context.end_of_round then
card.ability.extra.entitycount = card.ability.extra.entitycount + 1
if card.ability.extra.entitycount == 6 then
pseudorandom_element(G.jokers.cards)
card:set_edition({negative = true}, true)
card.ability.extra.entitycount = 0
end
end
end
}`

[spring lantern]

i thought this challenge would be hard but i guess i'm way too good at white stake

don't think i can really make it harder in any way that feels natural and fair

[red flower]

I really recommend looking at the example mod

[spring lantern]

but like starting off with a legendary that goes crazy with xmult is a big help

[hushed field]

three ` marks on each side will create a better codeblock! But you can see that below pos, there is already a config. That's where you want to store information that changes throughout the round

[halcyon osprey]

where 😭

[red flower]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

[hushed field]

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

oh, damn, sniped 😛

[red flower]

(it's in the steamodded docs)

[halcyon osprey]

under what category

[hushed field]

don't worry too much about knowing what you're doing. Just play around with it so you learn and figure out how lua and SMODS store information, and you'll start to make sense of the gibberish at some point!

[red flower]

they should really update this to the new returns tho

oh they do, just later

it should probably be reversed so that people don't use mult_mod + message

[halcyon osprey]

Okay well i can make it make things negative

Just

adding the 6 round timer on it

it just makes a negative every turn

[hushed field]

Values in the config.extra table are stored and altered through the run, so there's where you want to store the base, and count it down

[halcyon osprey]

the extra table?

[warm harness]

Thank you! I’ll look into that

[halcyon osprey]

idk what u mean lol but heres this

[hushed field]

you see above the calculate function, there's config = { extra = {} }, right?

[halcyon osprey]

ye

[hushed field]

information you store there is able to be changed and saved during the run

so if you put a 'countdown = 0' and a 'threshold = 6' there, you can tick it up each end_of_round, and only trigger the event when the countdown and threshold meet

[halcyon osprey]

so like this?

?

[halcyon osprey]

boop

[hushed field]

I'm also working my job, so please don't bump! I'll get to it when I look at discord again

[hushed field]

sell your joker and respawn it

it should work then

[halcyon osprey]

o sorry

[hushed field]

Do be aware that in this case, it'll only trigger once, and then never again. You wanna set entitimer back to 0 whenever it goes through

[halcyon osprey]

hmmm Okay so it can hit already negative jokers which is an issue

[hushed field]

in that case, you want to check if the joker's already negative, and keep selecting new ones until it isn't. At which point, you'd also want it to be able to check if there are even any valid targets, before it gets stuck, ofc

[halcyon osprey]

hmmmm

well this caused a crash

and this doesnt reset the variable

Oh got that working!

[frosty dock]

(you were redefining the local card)

[halcyon osprey]

i got it to work for the resetting

now, i just need it to sense negative jokers

also got no clue how to display the variables on the description

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Localization#loc_vars

[jovial harness]

From my understanding, the variables returned in loc_vars can be referenced in the order they're listed, starting as #1# and incrementing 1 each. So in the (partial) joker screenshot here, #1# returns the value of XMult, and #2# returns the value of XMult_mod

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua The example jokers have a lot of good examples of all sorts of things, but the basic Joker 2 has a good explanation of what you're looking for

[granite bane]

Question, is there anything out there that just has all the base game decks and jokers but as code?

to reference

[frosty dock]

that's called the game's code. the way we do things modded is significantly different though so it might not be of that much help

[granite bane]

that's what I mean though

like remade

[frosty dock]

i don't think anyone wants to implement every vanilla effect in smods

[granite bane]

Ah

I'm just trying to find all the variables

like if I want to make a deck increase ante size (like plasma deck), what would I do?

[frosty dock]

for a general idea of how something works, you can still just have a look at the game code and go from there

esp decks aren't that different

[granite bane]

where do I find deck code in the game

[frosty dock]

plasma just has this as its config for the ante scaling and the game converts it to a starting parameter

[frosty dock]

it's a bit over the place. it's best to search for the deck name first across all files and then for any config values that might be interesting

[halcyon osprey]

curious on how to do this tbh, Locking is preffered but this could be better hmmm

[west mason]

would it be possible to divide a joker's values by 2 temporarily?

[calm dock]

Im currently trying to adding new editions with SMODS.Edition. Everything works fine but it doesnt seem to apply anything regarding the config/loc_vars

I tried comparing it with other editions of other mods, but the main difference is only Im using SMODS.Edition instead of item with object_type = "edition"

Can someone recommend working with SMODS.Edition or just with the object_type variation

[frosty dock]

how are you accessing the config values?

[calm dock]

loc_vars = function(self)
return { vars = { self.config.p_dollars } }
end

[frosty dock]

you're not supposed to use the config directly, though I don't see how that doesn't work if you've set up the respective config. I should be like

loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
  return { vars = { card.edition.p_dollars } }
end,

[halcyon osprey]

what if though, I have this joker as Last Pirority, and if you play any hand thats Not the one its locked, your chips and mult become 0, which saves me actually going into thingsa

[pearl trout]

hello, i've made a retexture of some cards for myself, i already have the 8bitdeck.png file edited with them, how do i get it to work with steammodded? i know it's related to lua but i'm too dumb to understand the language

[halcyon osprey]

or i can have it give less of a penalty and it has no pirority, instead it does the x0 on both, but you can set it to go first so then your other jokers could possibly activate

[calm dock]

I tried this as well with chips, mult and p_dollar but it doesnt work as well

[frosty dock]

can you show me the edition code in full?

[calm dock]

    key = "royal",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "royal",
        label = "Royal",
        text = {
            "Earn {C:money}$#1#{} when",
            "King is played."
        }
    },
    discovered = true,
    unlocked = true,
    shader = 'royal',
    config = { p_dollars = 3 },
    in_shop = true,
    weight = 2,
    extra_cost = 8,
    apply_to_float = true,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.edition.p_dollars } }
    end
})

[frosty dock]

```lua
-- code here
```

please

oh wait

[runic pecan]

So I just spent about half an hour putting up this kind of thing:

[frosty dock]

i don't think edition loc_vars works correctly with card.edition

[runic pecan]

Ignore what I just typed, I forgot edition works differently.

[glad osprey]

how would I add a string to the beginning of every jokers name during specific situations

[onyx sonnet]

How do I create a new tooltip entry for a patched in attribute to playing cards? I wanted it to show up similarly to the extra chips from hiker

[halcyon osprey]

like a guide for us?

[frosty dock]

just pushed something to steamodded that should make this work with card.edition. previously it had to be self.config

[runic pecan]

More like, you local ctx = context_timing(context) at the start of calculate = function(self, card, context), and then you use if ctx == 'when scored' then instead of if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then.

[halcyon osprey]

anyways, How can i make a joker keep track of what hand i play

[runic pecan]

context.scoring_name

[halcyon osprey]

I dont want a specific hand, i want it to Get the first hand that it sees, and then only score off that hand

[hushed field]

I'd check this wiki page https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/calculate_functions

[calm dock]

Just pulled the newest one but it still doesnt seem to trigger.

[hushed field]

it has a lot of info on which information is passed to the jokers in each specific context

[runic pecan]

    card.ability.extra.hand = context.scoring_name
end```Something like this?

[halcyon osprey]

pokerhand, so like, Play a flush, Only scores off flushes, or if it sees highcard, only scores off that

[runic pecan]

For current round or for entire run?

[halcyon osprey]

for as long as you have the joker

so entire run

[runic pecan]

And "scores off" as in...?

[halcyon osprey]

grants Mult

my brain may have come with something from what you gave me, but i wont be suprised if it crashes

[runic pecan]

So your calculate function would be like if context.scoring_name and (card.ability.extra.hand == 'nothing') then card.ability.extra.hand = context.scoring_name end if context.joker_main and context.scoring_name == card.ability.extra.hand then return {mult=card.ability.extra.mult} end with config = { extra = { mult = 10, hand = 'nothing' } }

[halcyon osprey]

well, it didnt crash but it did just casually score everything in hand

[frosty dock]

i think the wiki is just wrong then. config.p_dollars on editions doesn't do anything (automatically)

[halcyon osprey]

Okay, Wait, what i did, Kinda worked but it is, SO weird

[pearl trout]

what do i put as the second constructor for SMODS.Sprite:new? i'm not really sure what this "name".path is

[frosty dock]

SMODS.Sprite:new is the old API

you're not supposed to be using it

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

[halcyon osprey]

small lil edit before i use your one Riv

[pearl trout]

oh gotcha

[calm dock]

Yes and no. In the Wiki it mentions also the same method with mult.
I saw in one other mods Source code their Edition, that it uses the same method with the config / self.config.mult.

But when I try to apply it with smods.edition it recognizes the value but doesnt seem to handle it in any way.

[granite bane]

Well I got my first deck done

I was gonna word it differently with the "3-7" part but eh it gets the message across. not a very balanced deck I'm sure

Trifolium subterraneum is a type of clover that ranges from 3 to 7 leaves, instead of the typical 3-4.

[runic pecan]

Me when I finally had enough for all the time I have to type ggameprobnorm:

[frosty dock]

It doesn't handle p_dollars even though the docs claim it does. You need to use a calculate function for that

[halcyon osprey]

okay so, It works, but the thing is, if its the wrong hand, it deletes the cards

and idrk why

[runic pecan]

I think you did not just only delete the cards.

[halcyon osprey]

the x0 is what i want lol, i dont want cards to get deleted 😭

[frosty dock]

context.cardarea == G.play doesn't uniquely identify a context

So it happens in destroying_card too

[runic pecan]

Also, SMODS should automatically add "X0 !" message without you specifying it.

[halcyon osprey]

oooh

[halcyon osprey]

it was saying x3 from smth else lol

[runic pecan]

Also G.C.MULT is already its default colour when Xmult is specified.

[pearl trout]

do you know of a retexture mod that uses this? there's not really a code snippet in the page using the function fully from what i understand

[jagged mortar]

btw does SMODS.Joker.key have to not have any spaces?

[runic pecan]

Honestly, your code is kinda an example as why I wanted to write the context_timing function in the first place.

[halcyon osprey]

😭

Im new to this

this is like, the first time ive done something kinda by myself

other joker cards i had bigger help

and I actually got it to work

[runic pecan]

What I meat was that it's suppose to help new modders to understand context timings more easily.

[halcyon osprey]

The card that i made, Triggers x3 mult on every card played, however the first Pokerhand you play is the only one you are permitted to play, playing anything else puts your chips and mult to 0 (aka a debuff but i dont have to do the weird stuff that i dont know what to do)

[pearl trout]

what is key here?

[runic pecan]

Then I'd suggest that you put {Xmult=3} under if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then, and {Xmult=0} under if context.joker_main then.

[halcyon osprey]

only part i havent done is setting chips to 0

[runic pecan]

I dont think you need to, since anything times zero would still become zero.
Unless you wanna be extra cruel.

[hushed field]

the string you want to use to refer to your atlas in your code

[pearl trout]

ah so like a variable name

[opal spade]

key = unique identifier in the code

[halcyon osprey]

I mean like the boss blind i want other jokers to still be able to score, so setting chips to 0 would be nice for that

then any joker that grants chips is your chip gen for said hand

okay this is just crazy luck the only card i summoned was the spider one (for testing) the others are all rares

[opal spade]

one important thing to know is that mods appends prefixes to keys so each of the mods can use similar keys but still be distinct
by default u wouldnt worry about it bcos smods does the appending for all the items ur mods adds (so like if u have an atlas with the key of "myatlas" and a joker that uses that atlas, you'll just write "myatlas" in the joker)

[pearl trout]

for atlas, do i still have to call it with something like register? or will it work without that

[opal spade]

just defining it as SMODS.Atlas{} is enough

[pearl trout]

gotcha

[opal spade]

key = 'myatlas',
path = 'myatlas.png',
px = 71,
py = 95
}```
^^ this by itself is already a valid atlas as long as the file exists

[halcyon osprey]

actually, how do i make it that cards dont trigger?

that would solve the chip issue

[opal spade]

if the card returns nothing in its eval card then it doesnt trigger/retrigger

[pearl trout]

my pngs are in a folder named 1x/2x that's inside an assets folder with the lua file, will it find the png by itself or do i have to specify the folder/path it needs to find it in

[opal spade]

just the file name

unless your 1x and 2x folders have subfolders

basically path already assumes the file to exist at 1x and 2x

[opal spade]

im not sure how you'd achieve this with playing cards but i know this bcos i was writing custom played joker handler and by default as long as you make the jokers not crash in play area, they dont trigger anything bcos they dont return anything

so like no chad no anything

perhaps you could just hook eval_card to return blanks for played cards if the condition is met

[calm dock]

SMODS.Edition({
    key = "royal",
    loc_txt = {
        name = "Royal",
        label = "Royal",
        text = {
            "+{C:mult}#1#{} Mult"
        }
    },
    discovered = true,
    unlocked = true,
    shader = 'royal',
    config = { mult = 100 },
    in_shop = true,
    weight = 8,
    extra_cost = 4,
    apply_to_float = true,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { self.config.mult } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.scoring_hand then
          if context.joker_main then
            return {
              colour = G.C.MULT,
              mult_mod = self.config.mult
            }
          end
        end
      end,
})

I also tried hits with card.edition.mult. None responses. But the Tooltip seems to acknowledges the config value.

[pearl trout]

This is my whole code and it's not working, should the console that appears when booting up the game show that the script loaded?

local mayburideck_mod = SMODS.findModByID("Mayburideck")

SMODS.Atlas {

    key = 'mayburireplace',
    px = 71,
    py = 95,
    path = 'MayburiDeck.png'

    }

end```

hold on... there's nothing here that indicates what this should be used for, like for the playing cards, tarot, etc

[frosty dock]

damn where are you pulling this old code from

btw it's best to use malverk for texture mods

[pearl trout]

i wanna try finishing this though

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/eremel/malverk

there's plenty of examples out there

there's no point in basing your mod off the old system when there's something better available

[tall wharf]

is it just the playing cards

[frosty dock]

oh right, playing cards

if it's playing cards, use SMODS.DeckSkin

[tall wharf]

bridget playing cards ❤️

[mystic river]

brisket <3

[crisp coral]

brisket?? where

[pearl trout]

okay i’ll try this tomorrow

[minor furnace]

development resumes today

[pearl trout]

damn people fw bridget here?

[minor furnace]

time to figure out how to initialize a dummy version of a blind

[pearl trout]

i’m making a retexture of her

[minor furnace]

like from guilty gear?

[pearl trout]

yeah

i already have the designs, i just can’t code to save my life, and i’m taking CS LMAO

[minor furnace]

nice

[tall wharf]

look

i also take CS

[crisp coral]

im planning to take cs

🥀

[tall wharf]

and here i am drawing

[minor furnace]

I have a bachelor's in CS, but game design is a different skillset entirely from what you learn in the classroom lol

[pearl trout]

that’s funny cause i’m shifting to art instead after 2 semesters of CS

but i wanna continue modding balatro cause it’s p fun

[tall wharf]

I'm in year 4 of com sci i think it's too late to quit 💔

[minor furnace]

maybe just a little late 💀

[sonic cedar]

cant put down the cup

[crisp coral]

no time is too late

[strong jacinth]

If I wanted to add a button that did something similar to the Run info button, (With a popup) And a centered checkbox, how would i do that

(I want the button to be where the run info and the button is, Instead of the ri and op being ½ i want it to be ⅓ With my button)

[frosty dock]

grim does something of the sort of its skills button iirc

[glad osprey]

BAGEL

[strong jacinth]

Where do i find the code for that

-# Ik its github

-# But where

[runic pecan]

AppData/Roaming/Balatro/Mods/lovely/dump/...

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/Mathguy23/Grim

[runic pecan]

Oh, that grim. Sorry.

[tall wharf]

and yes it's ok

[frosty dock]

you thought I meant the spectral? lmao

[pearl trout]

i'm a bit confused, if i'm gonna use this, what do i need to upload on modding sites to share my retexture?

[tall wharf]

for playing cards you don't need that

[pearl trout]

that looks great

[tall wharf]

SMODS.DeckSkin will work

[pearl trout]

omg i keep getting redirected to different stuff

i'll try that

[tall wharf]

sorry

Malverk works good if you want to retexture jokers

[frosty dock]

Malverk works for anything but playing card textures

[strong jacinth]

It's crashing...

[proud pier]

since the ink suit color is similar to spades, i dont know how to make the tarot look different from the world

maybe i color the background instead and make the center white?

[pearl trout]

where do i indicate the file name of the textures?

[tall wharf]

path

hold on

u have to

make an atlas

[frosty dock]

you need to also have an atlas

[tall wharf]

and use that in the atlas option

[frosty dock]

the thing we had before

[pearl trout]

ohhh

[frosty dock]

the DeckSkin then uses the atlas

[pearl trout]

it's starting to make sense now

[tall wharf]

so you make these

then you put it here

don't forget the mod prefix in the lc_atlas

[frosty dock]

(Note: that's the old format)

[tall wharf]

oh?

ill check the wiki in a second

[frosty dock]

there's been an overhaul to the DeckSkin API. It's still compatible with the old format but it's been removed from the docs

[tall wharf]

palettes you say

[pearl trout]

do i need to put the atlas_table thing too? what does that do

[frosty dock]

no

[tall wharf]

the default value is that

(i do not remember why i put it there)

[frosty dock]

in fact that's the default value, you only need to touch it if it's a different kind of sprite

(like an animated one)

[pearl trout]

is there a way to have only one deckskin for all suits?

[manic rune]

is there a context for when you discard?

i mean, there's context.discard but it seems to run for each card discarded, while i only want it to be once

[frosty dock]

oh I forgot to mention, there's also an example mod https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/tree/master/Mods/DeckSkinTemplate

[strong jacinth]

Grim crashes, so i cant see how it looks...

[frosty dock]

no, a DeckSkin is for one specific suit. That's how the game lays these out

[pearl trout]

oh i see

[proud pier]

seems different enough

[pearl trout]

what am i supposed to put for my lc_atlas and hc_atlas? the documentation doesn't mention them

[red flower]

pre_discard is only run once afaik

[tall wharf]

mr smods mentioned that this is the old format

[tall wharf]

but lc is for low contrast and hc is for high contrast

[pearl trout]

is this just atlas = prefix_key of the atlas i made?

is the prefix required

[strong jacinth]

Is the modding code the same as game code?

[manic rune]

o, thank

[tall wharf]

modprefix_atlaskey

[red flower]

what do you mean?

[strong jacinth]

If i copy the game code for a button, and edit the size, would that work.

[red flower]

yes

[strong jacinth]

And how do i modify existing UI

[pearl trout]

should i just go collab for the pos_style too?

[red flower]

you either hook or patch the function that creates that UI element

[tall wharf]

i believe so

[strong jacinth]

Uhh, ookay

[tall wharf]

does your png look like mine

if so i think you can use collab

[pearl trout]

i just edited in my pixel art to the 8bitdeck.png of the game

[manic rune]

hn

[pearl trout]

put it on top of the face cards basically

[tall wharf]

so like the entire thing

[pearl trout]

yeah

[tall wharf]

'deck'

[strong jacinth]

Any mod that does that

That i can learn from

[red flower]

a lot of them, what specifically do you want to do

[manic rune]

i tried

if context.pre_discard then
   print("wassup big dawg")
end

it seems it still runs correlatively to the number of cards i discarded + 1

or do i need to declare a specific card area here?

[strong jacinth]

Change the size of the Options and run info button

[minor furnace]

this might just be a Lua unfamiliarity thing for me, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how objects of a specific class type are initialized

[red flower]

I think aure already told you a good example

[proud pier]

yeah im not sure about this one

[manic rune]

i think Grim does smt like that?

[strong jacinth]

Grim? It crashes.

[manic rune]

odd

[strong jacinth]

So its hard to look for something i dont know how it looks.

[pearl trout]

any idea why this is still not working

SMODS.Atlas {

    key = 'mayburireplace',
    px = 71,
    py = 95,
    path = 'MayburiDeck.png'
    }

end    

SMOD.DeckSkin {
    key = 'mayburiskinhearts',
    suit = "hearts",
    ranks = ranks,
    atlas = 'maybr_mayburireplace'
    pos_style = 'deck'
    }
end```

[manic rune]

prob bcz of steammodded ver conflicts

idk

[strong jacinth]

I know that it does "something like that." But its hard to look for "Something like that"

[strong jacinth]

prob

[tall wharf]

no need to have the end

also

i think you need both lc_atlas and hc_atlas but i am not sure

[pearl trout]

oh i see

[tall wharf]

you can just set it to be the same one for now

[strong jacinth]

Especially on a "big" mod

[manic rune]

my pc wifi decided to crash on me so cant show the footage of this, but the print output when i discard one card is:

"wassup big dawg"
"wassup big dawg"

[pearl trout]

oh i missed a comma

[manic rune]

man

[tall wharf]

wassup big dawg

[manic rune]

wassup big dawg

[tall wharf]

this is still a hell of a description

[manic rune]

and why isnt pre_discard documented

or uh, im missing smt

[strong jacinth]

Wait, how do you create a custom side window

[manic rune]

false...

[strong jacinth]

Like gives

[manic rune]

info queue

it adds the small box next to your joker

[pearl trout]

@tall wharf can i see what your function looks like?

[tall wharf]

https://github.com/Aikoyori/Vocalatro/blob/main/Vocalatro.lua

have a look

[red flower]

?

[manic rune]

wha

i used ctrl + F to find it 😭

[tall wharf]

time to

add what i wanted

actually i feel like doing art

so i will not code

[manic rune]

oh wait

i think my wifi is genuinely so shit it didnt fully load the page

thats the end of my page

😭

[red flower]

clone the wiki locally 🙂

[tall wharf]

why is video game

[cerulean rose]

[manic rune]

why is game video

[tall wharf]

why the long face

[manic rune]

why so serious

yeah uh

[manic rune]

i tried this, it still prints equal to the number of cards i discard

[tall wharf]

hello my mod now has 10 jokers

[manic rune]

glorious

[tall wharf]

i will make art for the rest of them

[manic rune]

istg do not the joker looks so weird

when i look at it unzoomed

😭

[ivory coral]

whats the ability.name for Bonus cards? ability.name == 'Bonus Card' doesnt seem to work, though it does work for wild cards so im guessing the name is different for some reason

[tall wharf]

intended effect

[cerulean rose]

use SMODS.has_enhancement

[red flower]

if context.pre_discard and context.main_eval then

[manic rune]

is it forbidden to though

[minor furnace]

how would one initialize a blind object?

[manic rune]

oh thanks, what does context.main_eval mean?

[pearl trout]

the debugger window when opening the game is showing "Could not open device." is this supposed to happen?

[tall wharf]

huh

[manic rune]

(i keep forgetting to turn off the mention when reply)

[tall wharf]

does it crash

[pearl trout]

nope

[pearl trout]

i run the game normally, i check the decks in the setting and it doesnt apply

[red flower]

i prefer pings honestly

[tall wharf]

did you add prefix to the atlast in deckskin

[manic rune]

oh, i think it can be annoying when ur in the middle of something and the mention sounds pop out of nowhere

[ivory coral]

ah figures, thanks

[red flower]

im in the middle of working so this is the best time to annoy me

i dont want to work (dont tell my boss)

[pearl trout]

yup

[manic rune]

im your boss N'

[minor furnace]

real

[manic rune]

this was a social experiment.

[pearl trout]

the prefix is initialized at the header right

[tall wharf]

header?

uh

yeahh

right

the header format

[pearl trout]

yeah

[manic rune]

man

[tall wharf]

show code rn

[manic rune]

i freaking love SMODS.Jokermmmmmmmmm{}

[red flower]

i have balatro pinned to the taskbar, resetting with m is annoying

[manic rune]

i could just add another keybind to restart on press honestly

[tall wharf]

❤️

[manic rune]

but my lazy ass aint doing that even though its easy 💔

[pearl trout]

oh i removed my mod from the mod folder and the error is still there, might be an issue with my injector, gonna redownload it

[minor furnace]

oshi no ko mention 👀

[manic rune]

🔪

[tall wharf]

🩸

[manic rune]

🔵 🔴

[tall wharf]

💢

[manic rune]

💩 ending

[tall wharf]

lmao

[manic rune]

forever hating onk for the ending 💔

[tall wharf]

no lighting

with "lightning"

[manic rune]

it actually looks like the skybox in Minecraft

[halcyon osprey]

allo there again

[manic rune]

immense aura

[tall wharf]

ello mate

[halcyon osprey]

i got a joker functioning on my own mostly lol

[tall wharf]

nice

[manic rune]

nice

hello im tony

[halcyon osprey]

anyways is it bad i dont know what the variable for the money is, is it cash, gold, or what 😭

im like searching the thingy

[manic rune]

G.GAME.dollars

i dont know why its called dollars, but yeah

[tall wharf]

depends on what u wanna do

[manic rune]

its how much money you have in the run

[halcyon osprey]

i wanna make a cloud 9 but with just every card on deck

[tall wharf]

that is truer

[manic rune]

oh nvm

[halcyon osprey]

and then it breaks forever

[manic rune]

isnt it just cloud 9 with modified if statement for the cash tho

[tall wharf]

i haven't messed around with money much

[manic rune]

sam

jetstream sam

[halcyon osprey]

also the card i did was the lock one

such messy code but it functions

i got the first bit at the top from someone

[proud pier]

How do i reskin a modded tarot with malverk?

[pearl trout]

SMODS.Atlas {
    key = 'mayburireplace',
    px = 71,
    py = 95,
    disable_mipmap = true,
    path = 'mayburideck.png'
    }
    

SMODS.DeckSkin {
    key = 'mayburiskinhearts',
    suit = "hearts",
    ranks = ranks,
    lc_atlas = 'maybr_mayburireplace',
    hc_atlas = 'maybr_mayburireplace',
    pos_style = 'deck'
    }``` i fixed some obvious stuff but it still wont work :(((

it still uses the default deck

[tall wharf]

try Hearts with uppercase H

[minor furnace]

so the blind effects don't work yet but I love the way this switches the blind when the hand is played. And I didn't have to do anything special to implement that

visually I think this is really cool

[tall wharf]

@pearl trout

[pearl trout]

no way

it worked

omg

[modest lake]

are localization files loaded automatically?

[tall wharf]

❤️

bridget

[frosty dock]

suit = 'Hearts'

[long sun]

how can i get the number of enhanced cards in the deck?

the method that Driver's Licence uses isn't immediately copyable

[tall wharf]

hmmm

what do i do with the quasi connectivity

3d is so weird to do in pixel art

[minor furnace]

So this seems to create the blind object at least visually, but it doesn't let me call Blind:press_play() on it

        G.GAME.blank_played = false
        G.GAME.blank_blind = self.eligible_blinds[math.floor(pseudorandom('blinds')*#self.eligible_blinds) + 1]
        G.GAME.blank_obj = Blind(G.GAME.blind.T.x, G.GAME.blind.T.y, G.GAME.blind.T.w, G.GAME.blind.T.h)
        G.GAME.blank_obj:set_blind(G.P_BLINDS[G.GAME.blank_blind])
        return
    end,```

```press_play = function(self)
        G.GAME.blank_played = true
        G.GAME.blank_obj:press_play()
    end,```

because it crashes saying attempt to call method 'press_play' (a nil value)

[onyx sonnet]

im pretty sure you can loop through the deck to do your own checks if you want

[long sun]

true

i could write a function

hokai, thanks :)

[onyx sonnet]

👍

[tall wharf]

😭

😭

wrong emoji

this is difficult

[minor furnace]

maybe there's another method I need to call when I set the blind?

on the bright side, any blind that has a card debuff effect appears to have taken care of itself, because they debuff and rebuff on their respective hands without me having to do anything fancy

[tall wharf]

i wonder what would happen if you add a nil check in the press play

[minor furnace]

oh wait

you might be right

I think I might have called it on one of my custom blinds that doesn't have a press_play effect

[runic pecan]

I think these are everything listed in smods wiki. Am I missing anything?

[manic rune]

whats that for?

[minor furnace]

Well, it should still call the default one anyways though

[manic rune]

did you include context from optional features

[runic pecan]

I'm tired of typing "context." over and over again, so I made this.

[tall wharf]

-# *undocumented features

[manic rune]

-# gotta love when someone tells you to read non-existent data 🗣️

[runic pecan]

I am confident that every documented context (that I'm going to need) has been included.

[broken cliff]

u could also uh do for i,v in pairs(context) and printout i ig

might work

idk. only helps if there are undocumented contexts

[halcyon osprey]

gn chat

[manic rune]

gn

[tall wharf]

gn chat

[manic rune]

thac ng

[modern kindle]

Gm chat

[red flower]

modify_scoring_hand and starting_shop

[minor furnace]

I think if I add a nil check it simply never executes...

so that's fun

[whole grove]

Could someone plsssssss help me. I have a joker idea, but I don't know how to do it. I want to make a joker: If the first hand of a round is 1 card it transforms that card into a queen. Any idea how I would do that.

[crisp coral]

check DNA's code for first hand

[minor furnace]

so, if I move the set_blind() outside of this if statement, it throws a nil error..

            G.GAME.blank_blind = self.eligible_blinds[math.floor(pseudorandom('blinds')*#self.eligible_blinds) + 1]
            G.GAME.blank_obj = Blind(G.GAME.blind.T.x, G.GAME.blind.T.y, G.GAME.blind.T.w, G.GAME.blind.T.h)
            G.GAME.blank_obj:set_blind(G.P_BLINDS[G.GAME.blank_blind])
            G.GAME.blind:set_text()
        end```

I thought I had properly defined a global for it, but it seems like something's not persisting

[mellow torrent]

hey quick question, is there a way to quick reset balatro when testing localization? it's a bit slow to relauch balatro to look at the changes

[west mason]

how can i make a joker be debuffed for a certain number of rounds?

[minor furnace]

the fastest way I know is to hold m

which still relaunches it, but you don't have to do it manually

[mellow torrent]

oh well it's better than nothing! thanks

[crisp coral]

if you have debugplus, you can do eval init_localization() in the console i believe

also hi blooky

[mellow torrent]

oh hi!!

also yeah i do have debugplus

[mellow torrent]

well it just receives back, "nil"

[crisp coral]

yeah that's normal

[tidal eagle]

can someone tell me how i can get started making my own mods?

[crisp coral]

the cards' loc should have changed

[red flower]

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

[tidal eagle]

thank you i appreciate it

[novel violet]

Hey out of curiosity, has anyone made a super-basic mod template with basically nothing but a very basic test joker? I think it'd be a really nice resource for new modders to have

Just want to make sure no one's made something like that before I do it myself later today ;p

[frosty dock]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples this has a bunch of examples on things

[novel violet]

Well sure, those are great examples of code to look at, but I'm moreso talking about a skeleton with a common.lua, assets folder with a placeholder Jimbo texture, placeholder json, and code for one test joker

[mellow torrent]

not really, they stay the same, unless it's only changing the vanilla localizations and not modded ones (like ortalab)

which honestly i think that's it

[novel violet]

This would mainly be for ppl who want to learn balatro modding but don't know very much programming at all. I found a template extremely useful when I first started SPM modding because there were a ton of moving parts, balatro is nowhere near as complex at all but I still think it could maybe be a useful resource ;p

[manic rune]

true

[novel violet]

You'd just pull it, replace json stuff, import your own assets, rewrite common.lua to have whatever you want, etc. etc. just saves time and could be a good learning resource

[steady smelt]

how do i make a custom suit list below the default ones instead of above them?

[minor furnace]

So apparently, it's only my custom blind object that doesn't persist when I reload the game...

print(G.GAME.blank_played)
print(G.GAME.blank_blind)```

[modern kindle]

If you click the steammodded examples link and click the example joker mod it DOES have that
It has the json, assets, etc

[minor furnace]

this is how I was handling them, but I guess it's not quite right

    local eligible_blinds = {
        'bl_hook',
        'bl_ox',
        'bl_arm',
        'bl_club',
        'bl_wheel',
        'bl_fish',
        'bl_psychic',
        'bl_goad',
        'bl_plant',
        'bl_serpent',
        'bl_pillar',
        'bl_head',
        'bl_tooth',
        'bl_flint',
        'bl_mark',
        'bl_reverse_berkano',
        'bl_reverse_dagaz',
        'bl_reverse_perthro',
        'bl_reverse_ansuz'
        --'bl_reverse_void'
    }
    G.GAME.blank_blind = G.GAME.blank_blind or eligible_blinds[math.floor(pseudorandom('blinds')*#eligible_blinds) + 1]
    G.GAME.blank_played = G.GAME.blank_played
    G.GAME.blank_obj = G.GAME.blank_obj
    return
end```

[novel violet]

Ahhhh!!! I didn't think it'd be in a subdir 😭 Tysm sorry I should've looked more closely

[steady smelt]

and is there a way to hide a custom suit from the menu on the left in the deck menu until it's actually in your deck?

[modern kindle]

Np, this was actually how I got my stuff running was using this :)

[novel violet]

I didn't know these could be used as templates & I wanted to learn how other mods worked, so what I did was pull the source for a mod (I think it was plantain?) and modified it until none of the original code remained xD

I found that to be a really cool way to figure out how all the files are read in lua, very interesting to me that you don't have to do #include for literally everything you use like i did in c++ 😭

[modern kindle]

I think i started working on 1326a for steammodded
So my code still retains alot of stuff from that because 'fuck you it works' but I need to start going back and changing things to the better way they have things set up now

[manic rune]

someone should definitely start making tutorial vids

[minor furnace]

what is the correct way to set a custom global variable that persists over a reboot?

[novel violet]

This would be fantastic

[manic rune]

G.GAME should do just that, idk why it doesnt for you

[minor furnace]

and it's only that one variable

[manic rune]

hm

[minor furnace]

is it because it's a table?

[manic rune]

probably something setting it wrong

[manic rune]

nope, shouldnt be

[minor furnace]

this is the only place in the code I could find "MANUAL_REPLACE" at, so maybe this is related

I'm going to post the code, because I feel like the odds I'm doing something wrong with the global implementation are pretty high

I should probably make the list of eligible blinds a global too for simplicity's sake

[minor furnace]

yeah it's not a table issue because this persists print(G.GAME.eligible_blinds) after I made the eligible blinds a global and reload the game

so it must be with the way I'm initializing the dummy blind?

[tall wharf]

idk

[minor furnace]

minecraft joker

[minor furnace]

I was gonna say that looked like a redstone block and a piston

[tall wharf]

i mean

those are

in fact

redstone block and piston

[minor furnace]

indeed

[tall wharf]

art by

me

™️

[minor furnace]

very nice very nice

[tall wharf]

3d is hard to do in pixel art

[minor furnace]

yeah I bet

[hushed field]

luckily squares you can measure out generally, but oof once the corners get complex, it becomes so much harder

[minor furnace]

just model it in 3d and then project the image down to a flat surface

[jovial harness]

Hard to do but you made it work! I love the art

Also the JOKER text being like minecraft chat is a really neat touch

[minor furnace]

meanwhile I will continue to be vexed by my ambitions exceeding my current knowledge of how to implement features

I'm this close to hard-coding in all of the blind effects

[tall wharf]

ty

i guess 2000 hours in aseprite paid off

[pseudo cape]

does anyone know where a good place to start would be when learning to mod Balatro? I know some lua and I've got like a basic understanding of how lovely and steamodded work, but I didn't know if there was a like guide anyone had made with tips for getting started

[jovial harness]

The SMODS wiki and the examples

Lemme go get the links

[pseudo cape]

thank you!

[jovial harness]

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

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

You don't even need to know how lovely works, but it's definitely helpful if you want to do more particular things like changing joker backs

[pseudo cape]

just starting I'll probably just try and make a basic joker or something, I made a custom deck design for face cards before, but I've got no clue if the mod I made even still works (or where I put it :p)

I've still got the art for it I made at least

[minor furnace]

yeah I've got absolutely no clue why my global object is resetting to 'MANUAL_REPLACE' when I reload the game

[west mason]

how can i make an an edition applied to a joker remove itself from the joker and then apply a different edition?

[tall wharf]

@pearl trout did you post the mod on gamebanana 😭

for future reference please post it in #1209506514763522108 and probably GitHub nobody uses gamebanana for Balatro

[minor furnace]

This is definitely the function that is causing me problems, and I'm pretty sure it is because I'm trying to use a table...

  local ret_t = {}
  for k, v in pairs(t) do 
      if type(v) == 'table' then
          if v.is and v:is(Object) then ret_t[k] = [["]].."MANUAL_REPLACE"..[["]] 
          else ret_t[k] = recursive_table_cull(v)
          end
      else ret_t[k] = v end
  end
  return ret_t
end```

so I need to figure out how to load it manually when the game boots up I think

[wintry solar]

You can’t save objects like that

[hasty ravine]

I'm getting an error saying that there's an unknown value near 'local', but I don't see anything weird.

[minor furnace]

I can't save objects that way, or it isn't possible to save that kind of object?

[graceful magnet]

encountering an error trying to make a deck start with vouchers

[wintry solar]

That way

[tall wharf]

you have to cover the stuff inside the event with func = function

[wintry solar]

It won’t save objects in G.GAME

[minor furnace]

so then, where can I put it that it will save?

[hasty ravine]

I see

[wintry solar]

Look at how it saves the card areas

[wintry solar]

You need to add a vouchers = {“key1”, “key2”,} to your config, not whatever madness you have here

[minor furnace]

I'm not seeing what about the CardArea doesn't also make it get culled

[cerulean rose]

you forgot to define the start of the function

[hasty ravine]

Whenever I open a booster pack, it's giving me an error due to the pseudorandom and I'm not sure why

[graceful magnet]

now I get a different error

[hasty ravine]

Oh dw I already fixed that

[graceful magnet]

(okay I forgot the [1] but this is after I tried debugging myself, the [1] not being there doesn't make a difference)

[minor furnace]

like, it calls CardArea:save() on all of the cardareas, but what it returns is still a table so why would it not get culled?

[graceful magnet]

it's getting caught up on the apply_to_run parts now, and it's getting hung up on one of the game's own variables??

[sonic cedar]

for some reason, the chip gain on my joker isnt working? is there any ideas to make this work?

[onyx sonnet]

How do I create a new tooltip entry for a patched in attribute to playing cards? I wanted it to show up similarly to the extra chips from hiker

[onyx sonnet]

how are you checking for lost mult?

[sonic cedar]

this litttle thing here

[onyx sonnet]

i dont think im qualified to assist in this

maybe its your return?

what is new_mult being returned as

[graceful magnet]

god I wish I could find the actual place where Zodiac Deck's functionality is defined

[sonic cedar]

whats the best way to check that

[onyx sonnet]

well im pretty sure you are the one that defines how returns are managed, and your return is just giving back a value without modifying any values

what is the return new_mult suppossed to be doing

wait this isnt in calc

[sonic cedar]

no

[onyx sonnet]

yeah im just gonna step back and let someone else help

[sonic cedar]

ok thanks for the attempt

[warm harness]

Hello, it's been hours and i can't figure out how to make one of my jokers to display a message at the start of a round. Anybody would like to enlighten me on how i could figure it out?

[old bane]

use context.first_hand_drawn and card_eval_status_text() for that

or a return { message = } call (tho i haven't tested that)

[warm harness]

Okie i'll try that thanks!

[graceful magnet]

I did find it

Didn't change the result though

[tall wharf]

uh

[tall wharf]

i would store the old mult somewhere

i think it should call a different function

[sonic cedar]

well i have to do that to get the difference in mult

[tardy wind]

bro using vim theme

[sonic cedar]

i giggled at this but thank you

wait what was the tag for checking jokers again
i dont think ive had to use it yet

[tall wharf]

joker ability name idk if steamodded has a util for this

nah

[sonic cedar]

damn

well then what do i do?

[tall wharf]

self.config.center_key == "prefix_key" ?

[sonic cedar]

ill try that out

[minor furnace]

persistent global variables on save continue to elude me

[graceful magnet]

Ough it finally works I'm gonna combust

[wintry solar]

Get rid of the apply function

[tall wharf]

❤️

[wintry solar]

Look at the save function on the card objects

[minor furnace]

again, a table

[wintry solar]

It’s to do with how it serializes it though iirc

[minor furnace]

is it because it indexes it like this cardAreaTable.cards[#cardAreaTable.cards + 1] = self.cards[i]:save() instead of doing a table.insert() or something similar?

[pseudo cape]

yippie

finally got something to work

[wintry solar]

I don’t remember exactly how it works but I’m sure it’s to do with table depth or something

[sonic cedar]

oop. global self value. can i do like you would do in calc and put self in the function?

[tall wharf]

what is wrong with the joker file

[hasty ravine]

Am I not implementing pseudorandom here correctly? Why is it saying 'a nil value'?

[sturdy compass]

"pseudorandom", not "psuedorandom"

[sonic cedar]

if self.config.center_key == 'j_hpfx_cyanosis' then

[tall wharf]

card.config

i think

@sturdy compass YOU

[sturdy compass]

hi

[hasty ravine]

oh my god

[tall wharf]

why are you faster than me again

[sturdy compass]

[sonic cedar]

testing

[hasty ravine]

Thank you 😭 I cant believe I missed that lol

[sturdy compass]

It happens lmao

[hushed field]

Code shouldn't ever have used complicated words like pseudo, ability, and consumable, the spelling errors cause too much harm

[minor furnace]

well, the name of the copied blind persists through save so I can probably set it up to create the table when the save is loaded 🤔

that might be easier

[sturdy compass]

banana man

[glad osprey]

how the fuck

[hushed field]

Is that the moon, looking away?

[tall wharf]

PICKAXE 😭

[sonic cedar]

global card

[hushed field]

Is that in the dump?

[tall wharf]

ah

[glad osprey]

?

[old bane]

so i copied the code from debugplus's "win blind" function to use in a consumeable, but if i tried just copying the code directly, i could never actually use it, but if i remove the
if G.STATE ~= G.STATES.SELECTING_HAND then return end
then it bugs out and draws another hand while the win screen is playing >_<

[tall wharf]

G.jokers.cards[i].config

❤️

[sonic cedar]

bluenana

[hushed field]

Because of lovely injects, the line numbers in those files won't actually match the line numbers in the source code. The lovely folder in your mods folder should have a dump of the injected code

[neat plover]

ow would i check the number of cards being played???

[glad osprey]

ooooh

[old bane]

#context.full_hand

[neat plover]

oh i am braindead

[hushed field]

Smart, tell the zombie you're braindead so he thinks you ain't tasty

[onyx sonnet]

How do I create a new tooltip entry for a patched in attribute to playing cards? I wanted it to show up similarly to the extra chips from hiker

[old bane]

the question of the ages (i haven't figured this out but i think i saw some other mod was able to do this, one sec lemme pull it up)

[hushed field]

I can check how I'm doing it later, but AutumnModMechanics' mult and xmult upgrades code does this, and is something you can peek at!

[onyx sonnet]

oooh

ill look rn

[hushed field]

That's upgraded like hiker, at least

[old bane]

https://github.com/art-muncher/Card-Value-Display

[sonic cedar]

no crash (:D) but no score (:ᗡ)

[tall wharf]

😭

[hushed field]

If you want a separate text box, Kino has one for genres you could peak at, though I won't act like I write competent code

[onyx sonnet]

I will look at those some other time, could be useful for custom enhancements

[sonic cedar]

here's what im looking at

[onyx sonnet]

thank you!

[sonic cedar]

now THAT is a pickaxe

[onyx sonnet]

do i just, add this in its own folder?

[tall wharf]

idk if it's safe to put a function in card ability

because cryptid might very well change that to 4.2

[old bane]

for custom enhancements, i think if you have like the basic stats (+mult, +mult in hand, etc.) then it should already show up in the description?

when you define a custom enhancement too, you can also just make its localization description include the extra stats you want

[tall wharf]

or crashes

[onyx sonnet]

im not sure designing your card around gimmicks that crash the game more often than not is a wise idea, anything can crash in cryptid if you have enough fun

[hushed field]

I should start looking into how to make descriptions dynamically change. I'm working on a system for jokers to change effect based on whether they're in slot 1 or not, and I wanna keep the descriptions a slight bit contained

[onyx sonnet]

i see, thank you!

btw where do i put the lua file from that repo?

[tall wharf]

ok it shouldn't

there is a check

[hushed field]

Also considering whether I should make a system that expands descriptions into more detailed ones if you press a key, because some of my jokers are... Wordy

[tall wharf]

so i think you can just put a function that changes the card

[old bane]

i think you put it in it's own folder? idk i haven't installed it yet

[tall wharf]

inside the ability

[old bane]

you can actually make it so entire lines are based on a variable, i've done that before with my dry bones joker.

[sonic cedar]

my most painful part is it used to work (but no i wanted "big number" too curse you talisman compatibility)

[old bane]

Something like
card.ability.extra.bool and localize(' your first message key here ') or localize('your second message key here')

[hushed field]

I do have that, but I don't love how I have to pass that information on. I'd prefer to just be able to have a second entry in the localization file

[sturdy compass]

Bruhhhhh I still can't figure out this stuff I started trying to do last night curse you straight calc

[old bane]

that i don't know exactly how to do, but i think you might be able to change the loc_txt variable on the fly? idk

[tall wharf]

are you trying to do shenanigans with straight calculations?

[sturdy compass]

yes...

[clever abyss]

is there already a boss blind that was made that is kind of like an opposite of psychic, basically played hands cannot have 5 card? if not i was wondering how i could go about doing that

[sturdy compass]

I have NO clue how it works lmao

[tall wharf]

it's ok vro i spent 3 days just to throw the work away

[sturdy compass]

The horror

[hushed field]

I'm planning on just diving deep into undocumented waters and seeing if I can give jokers specialized descriptions. Updating in the fly would still leave the problem of having to put game text in the code rather than in the localization file

[sturdy compass]

The worst part is that I feel like I'm close. What I have rn makes any 5-card hand return as a straight for some reason

[clever abyss]

im just trying to make it where any 5 card hand just doesnt score

[old bane]

idea for new joker: any hand now counts as a straight

[hushed field]

Closeted Joker

[sturdy compass]

That sounds very easy to do ngl

[tardy wind]

are you changing the priorities in power ?

[sturdy compass]

the huh

[old bane]

how dare you be funnier than i /s

[clever abyss]

aint for me 👁️

[tardy wind]

if #current_hand == 5 then card:debuf or something like that ?

[sturdy compass]

smthn like that

[clever abyss]

i need the template for a blind in general actually

[tardy wind]

actually, show code

[sturdy compass]

it'd probably be a return true in debuff_hand

[tardy wind]

did you make a new Straight hand ?

[sturdy compass]

No I did not. I'm hooking into get_straight

[rose kettle]

hey people im working on making a custom language mod for balatro and for some reason every time i test it it returns to base english, i used balatro uni as an example and for some reason even the base mod doesnt work

[clever abyss]

actually is there a fresh custom blind template?

[tardy wind]

is it returning a bool ?

you might be modifying/returning always true so it always returns as a straight

[sturdy compass]

It's basically an exact copy of SMODS' get_straight override with the edits I've put in which come right after the shortcut check. here's the code

ew yucky formatting

[tardy wind]

ew

[sturdy compass]

why it look like that

[granite bane]

If I wanted a deck to remove every card and then manually add a specific set of cards, what would I do?

remove_card doesn't seem to work unless I'm using it wrong

[tardy wind]

oh wait

you need to expand

[sturdy compass]

yeah lol

trust me tho it does NOT look like that in IDE

[tardy wind]

and whats your goal essentially ? do thinks to straights but all hands are straigtht ?

[old bane]

um i haven't worked much with decks but try deck creator? it's really easy to make the kind of deck you're looking for

[granite bane]

deck creator?

[old bane]

https://github.com/adambennett/Balatro-DeckCreator

[proven stump]

On the subject of tooltips, I'm attempting to add a tooltip to a UI element that is NOT a card. tooltip is insufficient as doesn't seem to allow customizing the style.

Ideally I'd leverage detailed_tooltip, but this process involves passing the config through the generate_card_ui function, which is a bit unwieldy to grok and is producing an Error tooltip. Is there a source that better describes how to use detailed_tooltip correctly?

[sturdy compass]

no. basically the idea is allow faces or aces to fill in gaps within a straight

[granite bane]

is deck creator up to date with the current version though?

[tardy wind]

oh use face/aces as any cards in a straigth

[sturdy compass]

basically yeah

[tardy wind]

https://github.com/XLuma/Balatro-DeckCreator I updated the mod for latest smods/balatro/calc here

[old bane]

are you limiting how many faces/aces can be used in a straight or can you just like do

A Q A K Q

[tardy wind]

and even hands like high cards get treated as straight ?

(without having 5 cards played)

[sturdy compass]

Yeah I have it so the boolean can only be set once

[sturdy compass]

No, it's only 5-card hands

[tardy wind]

if straight_length >= (5 - (four_fingers and 1 or 0)) then
            straight = true
        end``` this dont make sense ? its always true

[sturdy compass]

That's base SMODS, not me

[tardy wind]

which code is yours if you can strip it down

[sturdy compass]

This right here is all I added (not counting the initial has_face_filled declaration at the top)

[tardy wind]

since I assume get_straigth actually doesnt make your hand become one

[kindred heron]

What is this juice up

[sturdy compass]

The little shake animation cards do

[kindred heron]

https://tenor.com/view/drake-computer-notebook-explaning-gif-21152267

[sturdy compass]

I reread the question and I'm so sorry lol

but like wdym "what is it" lmao

[tardy wind]

this alone seems alright, nothing looks like it would make evrey 5 hand become a straigth

[sturdy compass]

I agree lol

[kindred heron]

Making a card like the baseball one and i look for the code for reference and i find "juice up"
and im like "what is this?"

So i go to discord and ask

[kindred heron]

"Tf is juice up"

[sturdy compass]

However

[hushed field]

Juice up is the card shaking

[sturdy compass]

byeah

[kindred heron]

Ok

[sturdy compass]

so I was answering the question right

the fkn gif made me think you already knew 😭

[tardy wind]

Looks like the code works as intended lol

[kindred heron]

No lol

[old bane]

maybe you're not checking the rank properly? dk

[sturdy compass]

There's a chance of that

SMODS ranks are weird man

[tardy wind]

the two is clearly filling in a gap it shouldnt

[sturdy compass]

And as I said, it goes for any 5-card hand

[old bane]

can you test if it does that for something like 9 6 2 3 10

just so we can have it be like absolutely no straight is possible there

[tardy wind]

do nil checks on face and shorthand

[sturdy compass]

I'll test that when I get the chance. I can't launch the game for a half hour or so due to classes lol (the screenshot was old)

[tall wharf]

how about this

[sonic cedar]

i am mining blocks and shit

[tardy wind]

also indexing via val works ? isnt vals a table so val is an object, not an index ?

[sturdy compass]

Imma be so real, I've stared at the function for so long and I cannot make sense of how it actually ticks

[rose kettle]

?

[hushed field]

You really nailed the diamond block. I reckon some edge lighting the pickaxe would look great too

[tardy wind]

also sendTraceMessage() exists and you should use it

[sturdy compass]

I'm aware. I've tried

[kindred heron]

Stupid problem
i cant get this thing to say 1.5 mult instead of nul ingame

[sturdy compass]

you just want #1#

that gives you the first entry in the returned vars table

[granite bane]

Where do I find the message sent from sendDebugMessage

[sturdy compass]

your console

[kindred heron]

So it has to be 1?

[sturdy compass]

yes

'{X:mult,C:white}X#1#{} Mult'

[old bane]

because each number inside # # represents a variable in loc_vars i.e. #1# is your first variable, #2# is your second, and so on

[tall wharf]

ill fix smth

[old bane]

i noticed your loc_vars uses center instead of card, maybe try replacing center with card in both the function() and the return {vars =}

[tall wharf]

a streak of blue

no more placeholder

[kindred heron]

Ok lemme see

[granite bane]

why is this not working in deck code?
sendDebugMessage(tostring(G.playing_cards))

its crashin

[sturdy compass]

center does work, it's just a different name for the function input, it's just not standard lol

[old bane]

ah

but- but- my standard ‼️

[kindred heron]

No still

[sturdy compass]

show code

[minor magnet]

opinions?

[sturdy compass]

Wait that's a sick concept

[chrome widget]

Is the information about stickers stored anywhere specific? Like how Seals are in G.P_SEALS, centers are in G.P_CENTERS? I want to add the sticker information on a consumable popup, do I just feed in G.localization.descriptions.other.[sticker]?

[old bane]

Joker? Boss Blind?

[sturdy compass]

capitalize Xmult

[minor magnet]

hell yeah

[pearl trout]

oh i’m sorry! i just wanted a place to put the mod in to share on twitter

[tall wharf]

i saw it on bsky 😭

[kindred heron]

Oh please don't let this be the bug

[pearl trout]

ohhh gotcha

[sturdy compass]

it is

variables are case sensitive lmao

[old bane]

wait so how does this work? like how do you deal damage

[tall wharf]

there are literally 11 mods for Balatro on GB

[kindred heron]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1053135969034969149.png?size=64&quality=lossless&

[tall wharf]

😭

[kindred heron]

You were right

[sturdy compass]

Yeah mod hosting sites won't do you any good

[kindred heron]

It was

[sturdy compass]

yep

[old bane]

it's so much easier to upload to github too i love using github desktop ❤️

[tepid crow]

github is so much easier for mod creators and so much worse for users haha

[minor furnace]

apparently the latest version of steammodded causes this condition to fail inside of tarot packs if G.STATE == G.STATES.SELECTING_HAND or G.STATE == G.STATES.TAROT_PACK or G.STATE == G.STATES.SPECTRAL_PACK or G.STATE == G.STATES.PLANET_PACK and #G.hand.cards > 1 then

[old bane]

tbf with balatro mods you can legit just download the "source code" and put it in it's really easy

[hasty ravine]

Will a context like this count for all hands that have a Pair in them (like Pair, Three of a kind, four of a kind, two pair, full house, etc)?

[old bane]

i think you gotta surround it with next() but yes

[minor magnet]

ok i need to work out the description

chips scored are damage

[frosty dock]

as it stands, it hits for all hands

[hasty ravine]

Like this?

[old bane]

ah
i love fifty mile long descriptions lmao

[kindred heron]

Forgot the sprite lol

[minor magnet]

i try not to be too verbose

[hasty ravine]

Okay yay

[kindred heron]

The true invisible joker

[frosty dock]

now it works for all hands that contain a pair

[minor magnet]

i'm probably going to put that in an info queue

[old bane]

me too, but sometimes it just happens...

[hasty ravine]

Perfect!

[frosty dock]

that doesn't just mean all hand types that inherently contain pairs though

[minor furnace]

it worked on 1418a but it does not on 1427c

[frosty dock]

if a flush contains a pair, that counts too

heck even straights can contain pairs

[old bane]

(this used to also apply splash btw)

[frosty dock]

Doesn't seem like a smods version issue

[minor magnet]

you can totally split that into three lines it would work much better

[frosty dock]

I think you're just forgetting about G.STATES.SMODS_BOOSTER_OPENED

[sturdy compass]

I should really show my Poet joker here...

[old bane]

this one needed three info-queues because i didn't want the description to be fifty miles long

[minor magnet]

much better

[edgy reef]

Vanilla boosters no longer have their respective states to be true (this was to address a bug related to vanilla booster relying on logic with their state instead of SMODS_BOOSTER_OPENED, such as their UIBox overriding SMODS reimplementation).

[tall wharf]

creative process

[sonic cedar]

forged in the fires of mordor

[final pewter]

so i am following the example mod of Runtem for the random chance of being destroyed taking some bits of the gros michel 2 example and it wont understand what "context" means.
i have checked for typos and therre are none, any advice?

link to the example mod, the thing i attempted to copy is at line 377 (https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua)

[old bane]

i wonder if i can make a consumable that allows you to skip a blind and go straight to shop 🤔 I know it's possible to go into shop inside a blind because of cryptid's code cards but idk if it's possible to win/skip a blind through a consumable

[tall wharf]

this is the first time ever i feel like the fire i draw feels hot

[granite bane]

what function would I used to add a card to a deck

right now I'm doing

                local t_cards = {
                    "7",
                    "6",
                    "5",
                    "4",
                    "3",
                    "7",
                    "6",
                    "5",
                    "4",
                    "3"
            }
            G.playing_cards = []
                for i = #t_cards, 1, -1 do
            G.playing_cards[i] = create_playing_card({front = G.P_CARDS['Clubs'..'_'..t_cards[i]]})
 
                   -- G.playing_cards[i]:set_base(G.P_CARDS[random_s .. "_" .. random_r])
                   
                end```

and it's not working

so I assume it's either not create_playing_card, or I'm not using it right

oh nevermind G.playing_cards = [] doesn't work

huh.

oh wait

oof i used wrong brackets

i think

[pseudo cape]

I'm working on a joker and I'm attempting to make it play a sound when triggering, for some reason the sound isn't being registered though, and the game crashes when the joker triggers. All my folders are in the right place, and my sound registering looks like this:

SMODS.Sound:register_global()

SMODS.Sound ({
    key = 'yippie',
    path = 'yippie.ogg'
})

when I try to trigger it later I'm using this:

play_sound('yippie')

[minor furnace]

  if G.STATE == G.STATES.SELECTING_HAND or G.STATE == G.STATES.TAROT_PACK or G.STATE == G.STATES.SPECTRAL_PACK or G.STATE == G.STATES.PLANET_PACK and #G.hand.cards > 1 then
    return true
  end
end

[onyx sonnet]

is there a context for when a joker appears in general? like when its seen in shop or gets created by judgement

basically a context for when a joker starts existing in any shape or form

[tall wharf]

so when a specific joker appears

[onyx sonnet]

yea

[tall wharf]

you want it to do somethingh

maybe

[onyx sonnet]

its for a joker that uses random poker hands, i cant figure out how to randomize the first

[onyx sonnet]

what?

[tall wharf]

so

like if the joker appear

as in

if you already have a joker and if another specific one appears

[onyx sonnet]

no

[tall wharf]

or just if joker appears

[onyx sonnet]

just if the joker itself appears

[tall wharf]

then you can use add to deck i believe

[onyx sonnet]

does that work for when it appears in shop before you buy it?

[sturdy compass]

I believe it only works after you purchase

[onyx sonnet]

grr

how does To Do List randomize its first poker hand

[granite bane]

is there somewhere I can find all the base functions?

stuff like "set_base"

I'm searching through the wiki on the steammodded page and can't find a lot of stuff

[onyx sonnet]

i reccomend reading the balatro source code

[granite bane]

I don't know how to do that

[onyx sonnet]

you can extract the exe for balatro with anything like 7zip or winrar

[sturdy compass]

to-do list is weird cuz it randomizes its rotating variable different from all the other vanilla rotators lmao

What functionality are you going after?

[onyx sonnet]

This joker is meant to scale with each hand played of the same type as the random type, and the type changes at the end of the round

[granite bane]

I did that. so where would I go to look for functions for decks like set_base?

[minor furnace]

and now back to my regularly scheduled trying to figure out how to make a global table variable that persists on reload

[spring lantern]

you can probably just create it in reset_game_globals

[onyx sonnet]

im not sure where decks are located

[sturdy compass]

aha ok
so what you're gonna want to do is set up a SMODS.current_mod.reset_game_globals function

[onyx sonnet]

i mostly look at the functions in jokers (inside the card.lua file)

[minor furnace]

I have done this, and every time I reload the game, it gets reset to 'MANUAL_REPLACE'

[spring lantern]

huh

[tender python]

is there a file or place that has simple mechanics we can mix and match for those who aren't good with coding? example something like increasing xmult by x1 when a blind is selected. Sorry if this has been asked a lot!

[spring lantern]

works fine for my case

[sturdy compass]

First time someone's actually asked for something like this

[minor furnace]

this is the code in question

[granite bane]

So from what I'm looking at, is G.playing_cards[i]:remove_card() right?

[onyx sonnet]

does the function have any paramaters? or do i just write the code inside that function

[sturdy compass]

Refer to this screenshot for more specifics (thanks alrex)

[minor furnace]

how did you implement it?

[spring lantern]

in my case i create the table only if run_start

[red flower]

no, remove_card is for CardArea and that's an array of cards

[spring lantern]

mostly because it changes dynamically

[granite bane]

ugh

[onyx sonnet]

where would i add this function?

[granite bane]

are there people out there who are able to legitimately just look at the source code and know exactly what to do?

[sturdy compass]

You're also probably gonna want to hook into init_game_objects so you can set an initial fallback value for when you're not mid-run

[sturdy compass]

Anywhere in your main.lua

[red flower]

me

[granite bane]

I'm looking at the source code and I just can't figure out what i'd do here