💻・modding-dev

[shell belfry]

What context would I use to check if a joker is being activated

[umbral zodiac]

anyone know why this results in 'attempt to index field "colour" (a nil value)'? i am very stupid with balatro modding pls be patient with me 🙏😭

[tall wharf]

what's the full error log like

[umbral zodiac]

one sec i caused another error while trying to do something intentionally wrong

[tall wharf]

😭

[paper zealot]

This error is usually caused when a UI element expects to have an args.colour value but nothing was assigned. Could be anywhere

[tall wharf]

wait

is that old ahh steamodded

[umbral zodiac]

yeah lol

i play almanac so i cannot update atm

[tall wharf]

😭

[umbral zodiac]

its still on oldcalc

[umbral zodiac]

well its not in the description thats all i know

[paper zealot]

Alright, so in engine/ui.lua when initializing a UIBox, it first calls Moveable.init(), but butchers args.T in a way that means Moveable.init() will never actually use the contents of args.T.

function UIBox:init(args)
    --First initialize the moveable
    Moveable.init(self,{args.T})
```and
```lua
function Moveable:init(X,Y,W,H)
    local args = (type(X) == 'table') and X or {T ={X or 0,Y or 0,W or 0,H or 0}}
    Node.init(self, args)

Does anyone forsee any issues if I patch fix this? Is this behaviour that other mods are likely to depend upon?

Or maybe it's better if I entirely write my own init instead

It's not as long as I thought

[shell belfry]

how can I check If a joker has been triggered.

[tall wharf]

what are you doing 😭

[shell belfry]

Im trying to make a joker that gains +1 mult every time a joker is scored.

This is what I have so far

Right now it is gaining 1 mult for every joker

I don't know what the context is

[plush cove]

do you have any sort of schema or anything set up?

[crystal perch]

i've been struggling with this too, i was looking at context.post_trigger but there's like virtually no documentation for it cuz it's new so it's not been working

i'll let you know if i find a solution

[sturdy compass]

Nah this is literally all I have

[shell belfry]

I'll try that

[plush cove]

i dont get it

its just not working for me, i'm not even getting autocomplete for toml, I'm just getting syntax highlighting

[sturdy compass]

very weird

[plush cove]

did you set up any workspace settings or changes to your plugins that got the toml autocomplete working?

[sturdy compass]

Nope

Literally all I did was make that file

Nothing more, nothing less

[plush cove]

I am so confused

[simple mural]

I have this joker and its works well...

But this not fully works with the Oops! joker because its doubles only when adding and removing from joker slot

How can I fix this so that the points from the HUE joker don't conflict with the Oops! joker?

[hushed field]

I think your best bet is either to check for the presence of Oops all Sixes, and have a separate counter that doubles the probability gained afterwards, or to write a patch

[zealous glen]

Change the Joker to multiply the probabilities

[pearl jacinth]

how do i make a consumable that generates a specific card

i'm making a mod around the chemical elements

[zealous glen]

What type of card

[pearl jacinth]

another consumable

[zealous glen]

Not too different from how vanilla does it but SMODS provides add_card as an utility to help

Check the wiki

[nocturne aspen]

does anyone know how to detect when a card w/ a seal is destroyed? im trying to make a seal trigger some things when its card is destroyed, but im a fair bit new to balatro modding

[safe cobalt]

hmm, what's G

[nocturne aspen]

G.play i think? should it be differnt?

[safe cobalt]

oh oops meant that as a general question

[nocturne aspen]

ah lol

[hushed field]

you can check the remove_playing_card context, and then check if the card had a seal!

[nocturne aspen]

oh! thank you!

[hushed field]

I do think you may need to check separately for hanged man destruction 😬

[simple mural]

I came up with something that could be done.
Let Hue golden joker give 2 times more if there are oops all sixes in the hand

[hushed field]

And I haven't tested anything like it myself yet, but I also think spectral cards that destroy cards don't trigger it? 🤔

[simple mural]

[nocturne aspen]

i try it out and report back 🫡

[simple mural]

It's not that difficult and overall it will work.

[hushed field]

only issue is that it wouldn't remove that when sixes is sold, right?

[simple mural]

If you sell the sixes, then as usual it will decrease by 2 times

[hushed field]

Oh wait, you're adding straight to the global, yeah than that works!

clever effective solve!

[simple mural]

It will be quite interesting to play when I make at least all the jokers.
The only problem is to balance everything +-

[hushed field]

balancing's a skill, and it's impressive that people ever learn it, honestly

I've been considering doing a devlog-esque thingy in my too abundant free time that's just me playing my mod and taking notes on balancing, just so I actually feel motivate to do it, haha

[simple mural]

To balance, it is enough to look at the usual jokers and deduce the approximate rate of each type (probability, money, mult, chips, etc.)

[hushed field]

Best way to balance things is just to play some rounds with it and see how it feels

some synergies feel stronger than they are, others feel weaker than they are. Make a good guess when you make the joker, and just play around with it

[zealous glen]

The industry wisdom is that players are good at identifying problems but bad at solving them

[zealous glen]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-neuro-gif-14391375928822161533

[nocturne aspen]

report: goal - make a seal do somthing when the card its on is destroyed
using 'context.remove_playing_cards' will trigger in any context where card is destroyed, wether in blind via somthing like trading card / 6th sense or in the hand that apears when using a consumable in a booster pack. like hanged man / immolate. but the condition triggers whenever any card in the displayed hand is destroyed, not just specifically the one w/ the seal, ive tried a few different things to limit it to the destruction of the sealed card, but idk lol

[hushed field]

that's any creative field, honestly. Probably outside of it too 😛 In my dayjob, whenever a client has feedback, their own posed solutions are rarely ever an actually good translation. And in fiction writing, I also generally notice that readers rarely pitch an alternative that's better 😛 But what they're trying to change probably does need changing

[zealous glen]

You don’t define removed

[nocturne aspen]

it apears i am occasionaly stupid - also oop didnt mean to interupt soz

[hushed field]

nah you're more on topic, and I really appreciated the report back!

[zealous glen]

With fiction, I think people usually do both of the following: they suggest how the story could suit their tastes better; and they suggest assuming it would be well-written

[hushed field]

because I have some non-coded jokers that I was gonna need that answer for, haha

[zealous glen]

Me three

Well

Enhancement not Joker

[zealous glen]

Game design also has a strong psychological component to it

Sometimes you just need to change the dressing

And people flip their opinion even though in practice everything is the same

Would you rather be taxed for all but 1 option, or to get a discount for 1 option? 🤔

[hushed field]

part of why Obelisk is a controversial design, honestly. Resets feel bad, so the joker is seen as worse than it is

[zealous glen]

I mean, I don’t use it because I feel like I have to change what I’m doing only to inevitably pivot away

brb

[hushed field]

i don't use it much either, but it's situationally strong, rather than weak, i'd say

[zealous glen]

I see it has a niche but since you can’t guarantee to find it when you need it, I’d call it weak

[hushed field]

yeah, that's fair

I don't think a buff would be bad, but I think the reason a lot of players really dislike it is not because its niche, but because of how it feels punishing.

[zealous glen]

Well, just in principle anyways. I can also see the argument for it being strong in its niche. It depends on what is trying to be said

[zealous glen]

Personally I find the design counter-intuitive, so maybe “hard to play”
-# ||also not a big fan of the art||

[simple mural]

How can i get a count of current jokers in the joker hand?

[zealous glen]

As in, changing how you view your long term strategy and that you can eventually pivot out of it

[zealous glen]

You could count it manually, but I imagine there’s some easier way. See Abstract

[hushed field]

what do you mean by joker hand?

#G.jokers.cards gives you the count, no?

[zealous glen]

I think the right way to look at balancing is to look at general strategies than individual Jokers, especially as more Jokers are added

[frosty dock]

#G.jokers.cards

[hushed field]

yeah, for sure. Card games aren't about the cards but about the synergies, after all

[zealous glen]

One complaint I saw recently is that there’s only two consistent strategies to go to endless mode: Baron Mime and Perkeo Observatory

[simple mural]

How to write this in code inside if?

[frosty dock]

???

[zealous glen]

What for?

[hushed field]

Yeah, I'd say that is true. But I also think that's misjudging the game as being balanced around endless, rather than ante 8

But for mods, I do think it's something worth solving

[zealous glen]

It’s not misjudging the balance, it’s expressing a personal preference

But also it’s not asking for Jokers that break the game harder, it’s asking for more variety in how to do it

[hushed field]

Yeah, fair

[zealous glen]

So the difficult part is introducing new synergies without making them too common

[hushed field]

It's a hard line to walk. The more varied endless options there are, the easier beating ante 8 becomes, I reckon

[simple mural]

For my joker I need to know how many sixes jokers there are to add the probability correctly #💻・modding-dev message

[zealous glen]

There’s an “easy” way to do it without making earlier antes easier

A system identical to Legendary Jokers

You can’t find them in the shop, so the entrance point is heavily gated

Which also touches on my opinion that I think Legendary as a rarity is poorly designed for what it is

Flavorfully it’s great, but the juice isn’t worth the squeeze necessarily

[zealous glen]

What’s a sixes joker

[simple mural]

"Oops! All 6s"

[zealous glen]

Ah you’re making a Joker that changes probability additively

Don’t

That’s my suggestion

Do it multiplicatively

That way it’ll also work with mods

[tall wharf]

😭

[sacred lily]

how can i add a new card type?

[zealous glen]

Probably doesn’t like the

[zealous glen]

What type

[hushed field]

I like the way legendaries work in vanilla. It's not as great a mechanic when mods start increasing the pool, I find. Especially when legendaries are synergy specific, which makes finding it when you're not aiming for that build a feel-bad

[zealous glen]

Exactly

[sacred lily]

one similar to a stone card

[zealous glen]

I think I forgot to say that for vanilla, Legendaries work

Because they’re heavily curated

[simple mural]

I don't want to make a multiplier because then the essence is lost

[zealous glen]

So you don’t see the issues

[tall wharf]

soooo

[sacred lily]

yeah like that

[zealous glen]

What essence

[zealous glen]

SMODS.Enhancement

Check the wiki

[gleaming zealot]

i wanna code my mod but i dont wanna code my mod

[rose dragon]

ok

[gleaming zealot]

ok

[zealous glen]

depression v_v

Anyways if you just wanna count O!A6s you can use find_card provided by SMODS

[simple mural]

I won't be able to explain it clearly, but maybe it will become clearer

[zealous glen]

Not much

You can try dividing by the current value

[hushed field]

I haven't figured out exactly how I wanna do it, but it's why I'm changing the way Legendaries spawn for Kino's legendaries. I want them to be able to spawn if you're meeting certain requirements. I'm thinking of having you match ~3 meta elements of the legendary joker for it to be added to the rare pool. So if your current movie jokers have an actor, director, genre, release decade or so shared.

[zealous glen]

Then multiplying it back later

[hushed field]

I might add keyword to that, to make them easier within synergy, because currently, the spawn conditions for the legendary Rattatouille joker don't really cater towards builds that benefit it

[zealous glen]

I’d say maybe make a different Rarity, just for consistency with other mods.

I think in terms of “stronger than rare but niche”, it ought to be a Super Rare rarity.

Personally, I try to design Legendaries that change how you play the game

So they’re always relevant

[hushed field]

Yeah, internally at least, they'll for sure be their own rarity. I might make it a config option to allow them into the soul pool

My preferred legendary design is generally good, nichely fucking amazing

[zealous glen]

Soul Joker

https://tenor.com/view/soul-gif-19713523

[hushed field]

hahaha

[zealous glen]

I have 1.5 Legendaries so far and a few in the works

The 0.5 is pending a slight rework

[simple mural]

The question was how to find out the number of identical specific jokers

[zealous glen]

I also want to give them unlock conditions

And a Joker that makes finding one of them easier

[hushed field]

iterate over G.jokers.cards and just check if they're oops all sixes

[zealous glen]

I already answered tho

[hushed field]

why didn't I think to have a joker for Soul that actually does something with the Soul card??? My current WIP version spawns a negative and quickly perishable version of a joker that's been destroyed this ante

[tall wharf]

alrugth

[zealous glen]

There’s a built-in function for that

[simple mural]

oh

[hushed field]

yes i realized as soon as you said it. I never even do what I suggested myself 😅

I need to think twice before giving coding advice 😛

[zealous glen]

Yeah earlier I suggested counting manually lol

Brain hasn’t loaded yet

[hushed field]

But doesn't find_card return a true or false value, rather than a count?

The only legendary I have code for currently is the Indiana Jones one, which is a stacking version of the Idol. Though I haven't tested it enough to know whether it's fun or feels like it's worth it

[tall wharf]

uh drunkard

[zealous glen]

My Legendaries so far are:

Jagganoth
After you play a hand, play it again
If you can’t, DESTROY IT

And the 0.5 pending a minor rework

Solomon David
Keep remaining Hands
Every Blind is a Boss Blind

[zealous glen]

Table

[hushed field]

Oh, that Solomon David does sound fun

[zealous glen]

Solomon already kept the remaining hands, I’ll just change the code behind it. The condition is different though

[hushed field]

I do think maybe that's better suited for a deck or challenge than a legendary, though 🤔

[zealous glen]

It’ll either be making everything into a Boss, or making every Boss into two Bosses

[zealous glen]

Well, I do want Legendaries to change how you play the game

[hushed field]

what does play it again mean in this context?

[zealous glen]

“You’re in my world now, not your world”

[zealous glen]

What do you think it means

-# I prefer asking before responding

[hushed field]

I'd say just a really fundamental level of retrigger, basically. But the 'if you can't' implies to me that it'd try and play a hand of the same type from cards in your hand

[zealous glen]

Hmmm no

It takes the same hand and plays it

Oh, you played a hand, let’s play it again

Oh, you played a hand, let’s play it again

[hushed field]

My current planned legendaries are Barbie, Rattatouille, 2001: a space odyssey, Indiana Jones, and The Avengers. I might add Citizen Kane too, but I haven't seen that movie in years, and don't have a good concept for it, but I do want a b&w era representative in the legendary pool.

[zealous glen]

Oh, you played a hand, let’s—oh, you’ve won. Goodbye, cards

[hushed field]

Aaah, that makes more sense

[zealous glen]

Alternatively, you run out of hands and lose

[hushed field]

Is winning the only context in which you wouldn't be able to play the hand again 🤔

I guess certain modded boss blinds?

The wording would definitely have me confused, currently

[zealous glen]

As I just said, if you ran out of hands

[zealous glen]

Well, it’s meant to be interpreted literally

I know people would struggle with it

But I hope they’ll at least recognize the Joker did exactly what it told them it’d do

[sacred lily]

This card is supposed to gain +4 Mult every time a glass card is played, but ends up getting +8 instead. Anyone know why this is?

[zealous glen]

“After you play a hand, play it again”

It triggers upon playing a hand, and it itself plays a hand

[hushed field]

So each time you play a hand, it costs an additional hand

[zealous glen]

It costs all hands

[hushed field]

The wording does say exactly that, that's true 😛

[zealous glen]

Because it keeps triggering itself

I suppose if you played only Glass they could break and it would stop before all were played

[hushed field]

Ah, I guess I interpreted 'you' from a humanist perspective that implies the existence of the soul 😛

[zealous glen]

You can interpret it that way. It says “play it again” not “this Joker plays it again”, or “the game plays it again”

It forces you to play it again

Automatically, but you

[hushed field]

Yeah but in that case the wording does run into Balatro using shorthand. But I don't think that's fundamentally an issue

[zealous glen]

Either way, this Joker should be locked behind a Boss Blind that applies this effect

[maiden phoenix]

Context.before is called multiple time in calculate, you need to add more context check but rn I dont remember which one

[sacred lily]

ok

[sacred lily]

yeah i've tried a few things and i'm also not sure

[maiden phoenix]

Check the SMODS wiki on the github page on the calculate point, see which context refers before

[sacred lily]

alright

[sacred lily]

i've noticed that if the played hand contains more than one glass card the mult isn't given

how do i fix this

[red flower]

don't break inside the for loop and also only return after the for loop if has_glass is true

the break I added before was because it stopped when it found 1 glass card, if you need to find all you need to get rid of it

[sacred lily]

ok

i've also seen that the hand is played before the upgrade is given, which is weird

[red flower]

oh, because you're calling it in final_scoring_step which is... the final scoring step

[sacred lily]

shit

accidentally pressed undo too many times probably

i remember setting it to joker main

[red flower]

if you put it in joker_main it will not reach the second return

[sacred lily]

so context.before then?

[red flower]

probably

[sacred lily]

ok thanks

[frosty dock]

that is usually when upgrades happen

[hushed field]

reading through the way cardareas function, and am I right into thinking that the deck cardarea actually displays and contains all cards in it? That's not a visual trick, but an actual stack of your cards?

[frosty dock]

it does indeed contain a real stack of cards

[hushed field]

fascinating

I fully assumed it'd just be sprites of the back, but then I was surprised by not being able to find where it turned the display for the cards off

[woven turtle]

how could i test out custom stickers? apply it to what i want anytime preferably ingame?

[dreamy thunder]

DebugPlus

[hushed field]

for custom stickers you do not to add some code to debugplus yourself to apply them, iirc

[dreamy thunder]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1228149931257237664

oh wait

i forgot ye

mb

[woven turtle]

cant see sticker in debugplus keybinds

[dreamy thunder]

ASD for Eternal/Perishable/Rental

[frosty dock]

you need to use console commands

for custom stickers

[dreamy thunder]

i missed the custom part ;-;

[bold sleet]

Help. The text isn't vertical idk why aaaaa

[wintry solar]

assuming you have debugplus you can run eval dp.hovered:add_sticker('sticker_key', true) when you hover a card

[woven turtle]

ah thanks

where can i find other commands aswell

[pale temple]

still cant wrap my head around destroying cards, can you do it at the end of a round

while doing a check for the card to be destroyed

[red flower]

the UIT.R and UIT.C are reversed

[stuck seal]

Hello fellas, I need a bit of help. I'm making a consumable that halfs the current blinds chip requirement. However the UI doesn't update, any way of fixing that?

    key = 'Bewilder_untarot_uncounter',
    set = 'Bewilder_untarot_type',
    loc_txt = {
        name = "The great uncounter",
        text = {
            "{C:attention}Half{} the blind's ",
            "{C:chips}chip{} requirement",
        },
    },
    discovered = true,
    pools = { ["tarot"]=true },
    config = { extra = { time_blind_by = 0.5, }, },
    cost = 4,
    can_use = function(self, card)
        if G.GAME.blind.chips then return true end
        return false
    end,
    use = function(self, card, area, copier)
        G.GAME.blind.chips = G.GAME.blind.chips * card.ability.extra.time_blind_by
    end,
    keep_on_use = function(self, card)
        return false
    end,
}```

[red flower]

G.GAME.blind.chip_text = number_format(G.GAME.blind.chips)

[hushed field]

I'm working on my abduction mechanic, and I know I need to make a new card area to store abducted cards, but I'm trying to figure out specific behaviours of cardareas to see what the best way to go about it. I'm considering either making a general 'G.abduction' that contains all abducted cards, and then just marks each card for its abductor internally, though that'd require that I'd have to iterate and check each abducted card each time I go in there. The other option is to make it so that jokers that can abduct cards create a card area when you buy the joker and have a dictionary of abduction areas with the specific jokers as keys 🤔

I'm wondering if giving a card a cardarea as a child (which is as a default set to invisible) is going to create potential issues

[red flower]

It's not going to be saved on reload I'm pretty sure

[hushed field]

Aaaah, that's good to know

[tall wharf]

does time variable in shader not update in real time 😭

[hushed field]

I should check out how the save function works at some point, because I think Confections run into problems with it too.

I guess making a general cardarea, and then just tying card behaviour to that is probably the best way to go.

[unkempt thicket]

how do i check a jokers rarity?

[red flower]

card.config.center.rarity

[stuck seal]

Thank you, that worked perfectly

[hushed field]

The base game declares every cardarea with 0,0 to start with. That's because it's actual position is set later by another function, right?

[wintry solar]

which variable are you using?

[tall wharf]

for now i want a texture to do this

but it doesn't rotate in game

like live rotation

[red flower]

yes

[wintry solar]

are you not using the second property of your shader name variable for time?

[tall wharf]

i mean i just copied it from debuff as a base

my end goal is to make it look like this

[wintry solar]

do sliced.y

[tall wharf]

a

[wintry solar]

that'll be G.TIMERS.REAL

[tall wharf]

ok that works

thank you

what does time even do then

[hushed field]

is that a vsc extension you're using to see a live render of your shader?

[tall wharf]

glsl.app

[wintry solar]

the "time" value is this 123.33412*(_draw_major.ID/1.14212 or 12.5123152)%3000

I don't know why this is named time

[hushed field]

oooh, sick. Thanks aiko

[tall wharf]

😭

this is probably thunk moment

[runic pecan]

Not sure if this is going to be a good idea or just another 15th standard thing, but what if we replace G.GAME.probabilities.normal with a function, so that any joker/etc that alters probability in one way or another can just define something like calc_probability = function(self, card, prob) and then define a global function function get_probability() if G.jokers == nil then return 1 end local probabilities = {normal=1} for _,J in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do if J.config and J.config.center and J.config.center.calc_probability then J.config.center.calc_probability(J,probabilities) end end return probabilities.normal end

Anyway, this is what I'm going to do in my mod.

[tall wharf]

is it possible to retrigger cards entirely as if it wasn't a retrigger

[frosty dock]

sounds like the same thing with extra steps

you could probably do that in-place with metatables though

[runic pecan]

Gotta spend some time learning about metatables, I guess.

[simple mural]

What happens if you add more vars to the vanilla probabilities? Will the game break?

[runic pecan]

I think nothing bad would happen if you stop there, since the game usually only access normal.

[simple mural]

If I want to integrate my functionality into a vanilla variable in this way, without touching "normal"

[runic pecan]

Yeah, I believe you should be able to do that.
Just have to remember the nil check, though.

[hushed field]

If I'm moving a playing card out of the deck and into a separate card area, just calling G.deck:remove_card(card) would still keep that card contained in G.playing_cards, right? So I would need to remove it from that table still?

[simple mural]

Tell me if you know how to check the availability of a certain joker and its quantity in the hand

Please

[hushed field]

I'm seeing that the Remove() function iterates over G.playing_cards after removing something from the table. Is that to set the indexes right, so instead of a gap at the removed spot, the count is correct?

[red flower]

SMODS.find_card("j_joker_key")

[simple mural]

Does this return a boolean or a number?

[red flower]

a list of all the ones you have

[bold sleet]

why is it so smol?

[simple mural]

thx

[simple mural]

And how can i get count from the list?

[red flower]

# gets the length of a list

[simple mural]

how, I hardly know Lua

[red flower]

#SMODS.find_card(...)

[hushed field]

if you put # before a list, it'll return the length instead of the items inside the list

[simple mural]

# returns quantity?

[red flower]

yes, it returns a number indicating how many values are in a list

[simple mural]

thx

I'll try when I'm home.

[bold sleet]

help

[red flower]

try minh and minw maybe idk UI is like sorcery

[hushed field]

it's not encouraging to see you say that 😛

[bold sleet]

Problem is that it gets pushed outwards when I have stuff inside.

Like the menu simply gets larger the more stuff I put inside it.

[red flower]

I just copy what worked before

well yeah

[pale temple]

still don't know how

is it possible in the first place

[red flower]

what do you want to do?

like exactly

[simple mural]

I think it sounds interesting

[pale temple]

destroy the leftmost card held in hand at the end of the round

[red flower]

does G.hand.cards[1]:start_dissolve() work

[tall tangle]

Take a look at the Lobotomy Corp mod, several of the abnormalities destroy cards

[simple mural]

Can I make something like this as an edition and not a separate joker?

[red flower]

take a look at lobotomy corp but because it's rad

[simple mural]

And will it be much more difficult?

[pale temple]

it works but the effects trigger like 30 times lol

[red flower]

try this

[sacred lily]

i can't tell how to actually get this to work

i want the card to trigger upon a hand with a 3, 6, and 9

[hushed field]

you're checking each individual card, and whether they are a 3, 6 and 9. No single card will be both a 3 and a 6 and a 9

[red flower]

you want or instead of and

[runic pecan]

Also, "in the same hand" is kinda redundant, to be honest.

[sacred lily]

Ok.

[modern kindle]

eh, give or take

without it, one could think 'oh, if i just play a 3, 6, or 9 im getting mult' and not think it required them together

[runic pecan]

Unless you want them only be triggered if a played hand has more than one card with ranks of 3, 6, or 9.
Yeah, like that.

[manic rune]

once again adding niche functions to maybe reduce lines my jokers take up by like 2% :3

[quartz ravine]

oh god I have spent a day working on a cool ass shader for a Risk / Reward style glass card idea for a special edition card. And I just now realized that enhancements don't support shaders without me doing a lot of extra work

[sacred lily]

yeah so i changed it to "or" and now it triggers if only one of the three is played

[quartz ravine]

So someone could...get by edition applied ontop of a glass card for something truly unhinged

[modern kindle]

to be fair 2% of your line count is not a small amount lmao

[manic rune]

fair ❤️

[modern kindle]

i support your efforts

[quartz ravine]

I am in love with utility and guard functions

[modern kindle]

i am in love with poor practices myself

[manic rune]

i have a whole different file for functions :3

[modern kindle]

no localization file my beloved ♥

[modern kindle]

(one day i will fix this)

[red flower]

ohhh i get it
you don't want context.individual for that effect

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭

[quartz ravine]

meanwhile half of my loc_vars use the weird [0] syntax while the other half use string concatenation

[manic rune]

whats going on 😭

[modern kindle]

im gonna need you to speed up your freaking game fam
out here waiting years

[quartz ravine]

Soon you will just be mining meme coins in your jokers

[tall wharf]

I'm at 4x

[modern kindle]

this dont feel like no 4x

[quartz ravine]

if the game is running at 4x speed we just need to add 4x the effects, animations and joker popups to compensate

[sacred lily]

now it crashes if i play a hand with all 3, do i need to change other_card to something?

[red flower]

yes, how does the code look now

[modern kindle]

it feels so slow still, at 4x my cards score significantly faster

but either way i fw ur ideas

[pale temple]

it doesnt trigger now

apparently

[red flower]

oh you need to add another context still, probably context.joker_main
and you need to iterate through context.scoring_hand like you did with glass cards

[sacred lily]

ok cool

[onyx sonnet]

Im trying to create a random playing card with equal chance for all seals, editions, enhancements and lack thereof but instead of the card being added to the deck it gets created on the screen and it kinda just stays there?

[quartz ravine]

Where is the behavior of where glass cards are handled? I am hunting all over for it

[hushed field]

vanilla behaviours aren't really centralized

[quartz ravine]

I am reimplementing it on my own with a twist and wanted to know how it determines it it's going to oof itself

If I had to guess, I would say it has a calculate set to context.after and context.individual where it checks probabilities

[runic pecan]

You'll need to G.deck:emplace(isocard)

[sacred lily]

do i replace the context.cardarea with scoring hand or is that wrong

[hushed field]

them breaking is done in state_events.lua

[red flower]

remove the cardarea check entirely

[sacred lily]

aight

[onyx sonnet]

thank you!

[runic pecan]

SMODS, src/utils.lua line:1653

[quartz ravine]

interesting, their behavior isnt in the enhancemet logic at all.

[sacred lily]

how am i supposed to check for it then? the one i used to check glass cards only looks for enhancements

[hushed field]

Oh, considering you're using SMODS, I think it's handled in the SMODS.calculate_destroying_cards calc now

[red flower]

like you were doing with get_id

[manic rune]

i wonder if this is even useful 😭

(that one function replaces what i turned into comments)

unnecessarily convoluted code 🗣️

[sacred lily]

this is what i did for glass, should i do this agai

[quartz ravine]

Sweet I have discovered yet another self inflicted problem. I copied something and forgot to change self to card

[sacred lily]

n

[red flower]

i have a ton of functions that are just one boolean condition

[onyx sonnet]

the created card doesnt seem to be permanent

[manic rune]

75 lines function

in place of uhhh

6 lines

❤️

probably will be worth it on the long run, idfk

[red flower]

you want the same for loop but you need to change the rest

[sacred lily]

alright

[onyx sonnet]

it gets added to the hand but not the actual deck

[tall wharf]

@frosty dock funky!

[quartz ravine]

hmm, do you see what i am doing wrong here? I am getting this error

     (*temporary) = Lua function '?' (defined at line 31 of chunk [SMODS _ "src/logging.lua"])
     (*temporary) = string: "Oops! The game crashed\
"
(2) L..VE function at file 'boot.lua:352' (best guess)
    Local variables:
     errhand = Lua function '?' (defined at line 598 of chunk main.lua)
     handler = Lua function '?' (defined at line 598 of chunk main.lua)
(3) global C function 'ipairs'
(4) Lua global 'init_localization' at file 'functions/misc_functions.lua:1695'
    Local variables:
     (for generator) = C function: next
     (for state) = table: 0x16d81a68  {descriptions:table: 0x16d81ac8, tutorial_parsed:table: 0x16fc78e8, quips_parsed:table: 0x170be360 (more...)}
     (for control) = number: nan
     g_k = string: "descriptions"
     group = table: 0x16d81ac8  {Back:table: 0x16dc2508, Tag:table: 0x16928610, Blind:table: 0x16dc3160 (more...)}
     (for generator) = C function: next
     (for state) = table: 0x16d81ac8  {Back:table: 0x16dc2508, Tag:table: 0x16928610, Blind:table: 0x16dc3160 (more...)}
     (for control) = number: nan
     _ = string: "Edition"

for this edition code

    key = "fragileRelic",
        loc_txt = {
            name = "Ether Overdrive",
            label = "Ether Overdrive",
            text =  "{X:mult,C:white}X#1#{} Mult",
            "{C:green}#2# in #3#{} chance to destroy card"
        },
        discovered = true,
        unlocked = true,
        shader = 'etherOverdrive',        
        config = {            
            x_mult = 3,
            odds = 3
        },
        in_shop = true,
        weight = 80,
        extra_cost = 4,
        apply_to_float = true,--false,
        loc_vars = function(self)
            return { vars = { card.config.x_mult, G.GAME.probabilities.normal, card.config.odds } }
        end,```

[hushed field]

you're gonna wanna send the entire code, instead of just a fragment of it 😛

[runic pecan]

Then I'd recommend you to try use this instead.

[red flower]

that doesn't work for playing cards

use create_playing_card

[quartz ravine]

Commenting out that edition does let the game load gain, so I think my problem is definitely in here somewhere

        key = "fragileRelic",
        loc_txt = {
            name = "Ether Overdrive",
            label = "Ether Overdrive",
            text =  "{X:mult,C:white}X#1#{} Mult",
            "{C:green}#2# in #3#{} chance to destroy card"
        },
        discovered = true,
        unlocked = true,
        shader = 'etherOverdrive',
        config = {            
            x_mult = 3,
            odds = 3
        },
        in_shop = true,
        weight = 80,
        extra_cost = 4,
        apply_to_float = true,--false,
        loc_vars = function(self, card)
            return { vars = { card.config.x_mult, G.GAME.probabilities.normal, card.config.odds } }
        end,
        sound = {
            sound = "Fox_ghostRare",
            per = 1,
            vol = 0.3,
        },
        calculate = function(self, card, context)
            if
                context.joker_triggered
                or context.from_consumable
                or (
                    context.from_playing_card
                    and context.cardarea
                    and context.cardarea == G.play                    
                )
            then
                ease_dollars(self.config.dollars)
                card_eval_status_text(
                    card,
                    "extra",
                    nil,
                    nil,
                    nil,
                    { message = localize("$") .. self.config.dollars, colour = G.C.MONEY }
                )
                return {
                    message = localize('k_again_ex'),
                    repetitions = 1,
                    card = self
                }
            end
        end,
    })

[pale temple]

so close yet so far

[red flower]

purged

[tall wharf]

how do i reset card ability to its original value :P

[pale temple]

it's surely gone from existence

[tall wharf]

n vm i think i might figure something out

[onyx sonnet]

so cardname:create_playing_card()?

[red flower]

no, it's a standalone function

i dont remember the syntax tho

[onyx sonnet]

ill look it up on smods, thank you!

[red flower]

here https://github.com/nh6574/JoyousSpring/blob/56da491c1dbcd362b61f189335ef3bc454fba207/src/effects.lua#L119

[hushed field]

your loc_txt has text that should be wrapped in {} brackets

[manic rune]

oh crap

i forgot to report to 🧙 about the no_retrigger bug

ghhhh

[quartz ravine]

Found my issue

[onyx sonnet]

So i add this to my main.lua and call it when necessary?

[quartz ravine]

Ah thank you for looking, I was just coming back to say I saw the issue when I compared this edition to my other editions which work!

[red flower]

that's a thing specific to my mod, you can check if it does what you want
i sent it because i use create_playing_card there

[onyx sonnet]

ah, i see

[sacred lily]

yeah idk

[red flower]

please format your code

[hushed field]

the error tells you what went wrong. In this case, it's saying you're attempting to call a field that's nil. That makes sense, because you're trying to call a function. The difference there is that you need to do SMODS:has_card()

[red flower]

no?

has_card doesn't exist

that's the issue

[manic rune]

what would i do if i want to uhhh add more text in playing cards' description

like how Hiker adds +15 Bonus Chips or something

[sacred lily]

what do i use then

[manic rune]

are you checking for rank

if so, :get_id() should work

[red flower]

i told you, what you were using was fine

[sacred lily]

ok

[hushed field]

hahah jeesz, good point, I just assumed

I should think before giving advice, proof #2

[manic rune]

please dont tell me i need to patch

this is a bad sign

[red flower]

not your fault haha
if it was what you said it would have said something like attempting to index self

[hushed field]

bit my fault, but luckily not fully mine 😛

[quartz ravine]

Is this wrong here?

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

{
    cardarea = G.play, -- G.hand, (G.deck and G.discard optionally enabled)
    full_hand = G.play.cards,
    scoring_hand = scoring_hand,
    scoring_name = text,
    poker_hands = poker_hands,
    destroy_card = card,
    destroying_card = card -- only when calculating in G.play
}

I think this section should be changed to

if context.destroying_card and context.cardarea == G.play then
{

[hushed field]

what are you wanting to do?

[manic rune]

my jokers can inflict debuffs on playing cards, which allow other jokers to have stronger attacks

so uh

[red flower]

the perma values page on the wiki says how to change the localization for the text but i dont think you can add custom text

[manic rune]

i want those playing cards to show exactly what debuffs they got

[red flower]

idk if editions can add that

or stickers

[pale temple]

figured it out apparently it's just whatever was in the joker calculation page of the docs

[manic rune]

so, it would probably be something like

Queen of Spades
+10 Chips
Affected Debuffs: something something (+ blah blah)

when a debuff is inflicted

[manic rune]

im thinking about enhancements, like how lucky cards add a ton of new lines into the description, though im not sure where the code to do that is

[quartz ravine]

Well I have done something weird to myself

My consumable appears but I cannot use it!

[manic rune]

did you add code to can_use

this thing

it should always be a function, if it returns true then the consumable can be used

[quartz ravine]

Thanks! I have this function here, I don't remember what I was trying to do with it

     can_use = function(self, card)
            if G.STATE ~= G.STATES.HAND_PLAYED and G.STATE ~= G.STATES.DRAW_TO_HAND and G.STATE ~= G.STATES.PLAY_TAROT or
                any_state then
                if next(SMODS.Edition:get_edition_cards(G.jokers, true)) then
                    return true
                end
            end
        end,

[manic rune]

uhhh

im guessing it adds the editions to jokers specifically?

oh, but i thought you can only highlight 1 joker every time?

-# or am i missing something here, i actually dont know how this is supposed to work

[quartz ravine]

I forgot I was even trying to do that! Ok I removed that and am good. Now to see how my logic crashes the game too!

[manic rune]

im guessing what your consumable do is applying an edition to a highlighted joker

but two actually doesnt work unless you tweak some other stuffs by increasing the number of jokers you can highlight, which i kinda advise against

[manic rune]

after searching for "lucky" through the entire balatro folder

i still cant find it

im probably too dumb for this 😭

this MIGHT be it, but im not sure myself

[sacred lily]

tried this in a couple ways, game crashes and claims it's a nil value

[manic rune]

s_card:get_id() is a nil value?

[sacred lily]

apparently so??

[manic rune]

also, you dont have this "do" part

[sacred lily]

alright

this is currently where i'm at.

[manic rune]

wha

you still need the for loop

[pale temple]

does start_dissolve() always go first before message

i want them to be at the same time

[manic rune]

for _,v in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) do
  if v:get_id() == blah blah blah
end

and also, unrelated, but fix your indentation ❤️

[red flower]

return func = function() card:start_dissolve() end

[manic rune]

-# at least its not as bad as peak

[pale temple]

oh func

ic

[sacred lily]

same error as usual

[red flower]

because you're not checking for a context

you need context.joker_main or something

I recommend heavily to look at the example mod

[sacred lily]

i keep reading about this kinda stuff but none of it ever stays in my head

[sacred lily]

yeah i have been

[manic rune]

sorry for bothering, but do i need to patch this if i want to do the uhh add new lines to playing cards' description stuff 😭

[manic rune]

your old code had "context.before", which was correct

all you had to do was just replacing the content inside it

[sacred lily]

a lot of this is coming to trial and error for me really as there are so many things that have to be changed around and whatnot

[red flower]

you would never bother me
and yeah probably but by that point I think it's better to make an enhancement instead

[manic rune]

you will get the hang of it when you get enough errors, you shouldnt be afraid of crashes at all ❤️

[hushed field]

UI will be my fucking death 🥲

[sacred lily]

i'm not afraid, just more slightly annoyed

[red flower]

i love UI i wish balatro didn't have gameplay and it was just UI

[manic rune]

oh, so like an uhhh, collective enhancement to show the debuffs?

but wouldnt it conflict with pre-existing enhancements, like Glass cards or something

[red flower]

doesn't smods have quantum enhancements

you can also make stickers

[manic rune]

oh yeah, forgot about quantum enhancements

do their descriptions stack upon each other though

or its just their effects, while the description has some sort of priority going on

[red flower]

I would guess so, but never used them

[manic rune]

welp, its worth a shot i suppose, or alternatively i can just let players blindly calculate the debuffs they inflicted ❤️

[hushed field]

quantum enhancements don't change the descriptions, as far as I'm aware. though I've removed any reliance on quantum enhancements because it caused a lot of bugs for me

[manic rune]

🔫

[sacred lily]

i'm sure the error is an incredibly easy fix i'm just failing to see

[manic rune]

welp, fuck me sideways i suppose

[red flower]

i think stickers and info_queues would look better anyway

[hushed field]

I'm trying to figure out how to make a display atop of the joker, and god the amount of nodes I need to just display a sprite and some information. And I can't even see how the coordinates impact the placement until I launch the game

[red flower]

remove "SMODS." and change "s_card" for "v"

also you need "or" not "and"

[red flower]

hey so there's this mod called jokerdisplay

[hushed field]

haha, I'm browsing your code already

[red flower]

it's basically just adding a UIBox child to the joker

[hushed field]

Once Kino is finished, my code will just be your code with some variable names changed. I also checked your graveyard and banishment implementation to check how you did new cardareas, and I'm also quite sure JoyousSpring's got the best example of a toggleable card area, so I'll dive into your code again when I'm implementing the snack pack, haha

[red flower]

: )

I'm trying to figure out how to fit the field spell area on screen rn

[manic rune]

hmmm, how do i
add info queue to playing cards?

[hushed field]

The main issue with ui is the amount of information that's passed on in shorthand

[red flower]

i think stickers do that by default

idk how you do it without that

[sacred lily]

if i use "or " instead of and, will it still only trigger if the hand contains a 6 and a 9/

[hushed field]

you can Card:loc_vars to check for debuffs on a card, and pass those to an info_queue

[manic rune]

damn, but if there were a LOT of debuffs (look at this), can the sticker's info queue dynamically change

[red flower]

yeah, you have to take out the return from there

[sacred lily]

alright

[red flower]

if it needs to contain all of them then you need booleans for each value

[hushed field]

stickers are weird objects, which makes them super versatile, because they're really just a bare bones info queue and sprite

[red flower]

it can probably change yeah

[exotic island]

alright im new to balatro modding and all i want to do is change the graphics of a card enhancement, how could i do that

[manic rune]

i seeeeee

i can just make the stickers having no sprite right :3

thats very useful, thanks everyone

[hushed field]

the only issue I think is that stickers don't have ability fields or anything, but I do think you can have them read out the information that's on the card they're applied to

[hushed field]

yes, that's how the pinned sticker works

[manic rune]

mhm, thats what i intend to do

since i mostly add debuffs to card.ability

[red flower]

pinned is a sticker? i guess it makes sense

[manic rune]

for my jokers to read

[hushed field]

Stickers are weird. They're really a support object that allows you to toggle variables and get a sprite to possible go with it, honestly. I made a custom sticker set for Confections, just because the sticker back end works for it, but their functionality is really largely separate

[manic rune]

stickers sound incredibly useful

i should learn them

motherf-

[low matrix]

do yall have any tips on how to code a mod on a mac for someone who knows basically nothing about coding lmao

i have a big idea and am very bored

[manic rune]

do you know how to mod yet...

:3

[low matrix]

yea

i gots lotsa mods

[manic rune]

-# damn it, that was the perfect opportunity to release the copypasta

[hushed field]

For jokerdisplay, are you update_joker_display() in card:update() to keep it on the screen, or is it for dynamic text reasons?

[red flower]

for text

[manic rune]

r there any sticker mod examples

hmm

surely joyousspring doesnt have stickers

[red flower]

no

yet

[manic rune]

damn.

[hushed field]

If you want to see an example, Kino has stickers

[low matrix]

cryptid has stickers im pretty sure

the rigged stuff

[manic rune]

i am NOT touching cryptid, no offense, it usually only works because of a shit ton of patches and hooks 😭

[red flower]

looking at cryptid for references is hard

[manic rune]

yup

[low matrix]

ah

[manic rune]

ah i see, thanks :D

[hushed field]

Ah okay. I guess if I want the sprite to jiggle a bit, I'll have to tie it to the update function as well then

[sacred lily]

yeah so the crashes have stopped but now the mult doesn't get applied

[manic rune]

isnt that juice_up

[red flower]

the jokerdisplay movement is tied to the card, so you would need to have a logic for movement in update yeah

[hushed field]

can you call juice_up on just anything?

[sacred lily]

writing this from scratch instead of messing with the walkie talkie code was probably a terrible idea

[hushed field]

https://github.com/icyethics/Kino/blob/main/items/Stickers/stickers.lua

[manic rune]

oh wonderful

im downloading your mod with 20kb/s 😭

thanks!

[hushed field]

vanilla code isn't really comparable with how you structure your own jokers, so it's not a bad choice to start from scratch.

[sacred lily]

yeah ive realised that now

[manic rune]

i think adding mult in context.before doesnt work very well

someone told me that before

[red flower]

any moveable apparently

[sacred lily]

my issue was really stupid actually

[exotic island]

hey lads i want to make a mod that changes the sprite of stone cards, how do i do that

[sacred lily]

i apparently forgot to capitalise something or other

[hushed field]

I'm not using the loc_vars on any stickers, btw, but I think you can just pass the parent to it through there

[manic rune]

im very inexperienced with stickers so i might post some dumb questions relating to them here 😭

[hushed field]

that's worth keeping in the backpocket for when I want to shake a cardarea, I guess

[red flower]

i will try that

[hushed field]

the most important thing with stickers is that every time you say sticker, you have to follow it up by saying 'sticker? I hardly know 'r!'

[red flower]

i will tag the mods

[manic rune]

tag the what

[red flower]

https://tenor.com/view/silver-wolf-gaming-honkai-star-gif-5591560293678873854

[manic rune]

im deleting all of her accounts.

:3

[red flower]

hehe funny

[waxen mesa]

uh

stupid question

how do i do that

[manic rune]

make it 🧃 everything :3

[manic rune]

use = function(self, card, area)

end,

[hushed field]

i now have the strong urge to make a mod in which jokers have weight, and they can unbalance the joker cardarea and fall off

[waxen mesa]

ok

and... how do i do the stuff in the comments?

is there some kind of card constructer?

[manic rune]

now thats a good 🧃

[manic rune]

i think its in the Utils function section of smods documentation

[manic rune]

i actually think it would be cool if a boss blind has a passive thats so strong it shakes everything like an earthquake 😭

[hushed field]

vertigo boss blind that makes everything juice up depending on your mouse velocity

[manic rune]

is this how i do it (im thinking about removing the badge_color part too)

[hushed field]

yeah that should work

[manic rune]

im a bit dumb, how do i uhh change what text it should be showing :3

[hushed field]

I am now realizing that I'm not sure stickers have access to their parent. Probably, that would seem logical, but let me check

[manic rune]

if i can set a variable inside the sticker as the parent, and tell the sticker to check it, it should be fine

which should be simple as i can do that through apply

(i was dumb)

[red flower]

i forgot about this and it jump scared me

[quartz ravine]

this shader tweaking is too slow, I am now just installing Love2d and learning how to do this properly

[manic rune]

does this work for stickers

[waxen mesa]

am i doing this correctly? i feel kinda bad

[hushed field]

feature request: When I summon an archetype's boss monster, I need everything to shake

[quartz ravine]

You need commas after each parameter

[manic rune]

ohh yeah, it would be cool to see the entire game shake when you summon a high level monster

[quartz ravine]

When I use 'Pot of greed' I need to hear Joey's goofy voice saying 'Pot of greed!?!'

[red flower]

create_card doesn't make playing cards

[manic rune]

pot of greed is forbidden.

we dont talk about that here

[quartz ravine]

I opened a pack yesterday and actually drew a 'Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring'

[waxen mesa]

headdesk

ok, which function do i need then?

[red flower]

create_playing_card

[runic pecan]

Is there any way to make a card's soul_pos sprite jiggle like The Soul's gem
...that is easier than this?

[red flower]

it's not an smods function tho

[manic rune]

i just realized im not equipped with any knowledge regarding stickers, at all.

how do i apply stickers to cards??

[waxen mesa]

For the unfamiliar, this card is a absolute staple and just another expression of yugioh powercreep

[manic rune]

is it card:apply_sticker("key")

or something

[red flower]

i love ash blossom

[quartz ravine]

My son is little and loves Eldlich and dragons, I can't bring myself to use a card like this against him

[manic rune]

if only we got maxx C...

[red flower]

we have the mulcharmy now

[manic rune]

isnt it worse maxx C tho

[runic pecan]

card:add_sticker([sticker_key])

[waxen mesa]

play mtg with him

its simultaniously more and less broken than yugioh

[manic rune]

close, close

thanks!

[quartz ravine]

There is a shader I saw on shadertoy of bugs...

[waxen mesa]

uh

where do i find the documentation for that? 😄

[red flower]

there's none i don't think

[manic rune]

is this it

[sacred lily]

wait never mind i just realised i still need to add that other thing

[manic rune]

actually wait, probably doesnt have the "s_" at the beginning

[glad osprey]

can jokers have seals

[quartz ravine]

here is a Yugioh referencing shader I was working on. Warning for seizure folks

[glad osprey]

like if you forced one onto a joker would it work

[manic rune]

...doesnt seem to show anything, hm

[quartz ravine]

warning for epilepsy risk, shader is borked

[quartz ravine]

I don't know, I will test it

[glad osprey]

I know for a fact using debugplus doesn't work but idk what happens if you force it too code wise

[manic rune]

im so confused, how do i call the key of a modded sticker, s_modprefix_key?

[glad osprey]

Just modprefix_key

iirc

[waxen mesa]

create_playing_card({front = G.P_CARDS[suit..'_'..rank], center = G.P_CENTERS.c_base}, G.hand, nil, nil, {G.C.PURPLE})

something from the pokermon mod

[manic rune]

this doesnt seem to print anything

[waxen mesa]

exceptionally not helpful lol

[red flower]

what are you confused about

[quartz ravine]

Sorry but I can't figure out how to select a joker to act on

[waxen mesa]

everything lol

[glad osprey]

that's what worked for me

[waxen mesa]

dont even know what the purple is for

[glad osprey]

https://github.com/Squidguset/Sticker-Sheet/blob/main/stickers.lua

[red flower]

it's the color of the animation when it's created

[manic rune]

...god im so bad at stickers

😭

[quartz ravine]

One normal dev thing I would do is rely on external utility classes but I am still learning how these fragment shaders work. I want to not have this boilerPlate in everything I am working on

[manic rune]

ghhh nothings working

[quartz ravine]

boo, Love, the base game engine does not support includes yet 😦

[waxen mesa]

i hate how much pseudo code i am writing simply because i have no idea where to search

[red flower]

you need localbefore your variables

also you have to remove -> Card,

[exotic island]

im doing a thing

@lament agate

[waxen mesa]

still does burn like a charismas tree

[red flower]

remove all the commas at the end

[tall wharf]

how do i reset card ability to the base value 😭

[hushed field]

you know what, giving up on this ui thing for now, and just doing it in the text box for the time being

[quartz ravine]

it looks like you are making a tarot card, and you want it to add a random card to your hand or deck when used?

[tall wharf]

do i yank it out of the P_CENTERS

[red flower]

you can probably check the values in G.P_CENTERS?

[pale temple]

does context.full_hand reference the played cards

[waxen mesa]

something like that, specifically a red card with a red seal

[pale temple]

nvm G.play.cards

[red flower]

both work

[manic rune]

how

do

you apply stickers 😭

im so confused

[simple mural]

How to use degree in Lua?

[manic rune]

math.rad() or something

:3

im actually not sure myself, did a lot of degree-related stuff back in roblox but idk about 2d

[simple mural]

I was wrong, I was talking about the power of the number

[manic rune]

oh

[red flower]

^

[manic rune]

so like, 6^3 or something?

[manic rune]

i am so close to just ctrl + Z everything

ggghhh

[manic rune]

oh.

so its not card:add_sticker

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

this cat gif shall fully represent my emotions right now.

[red flower]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cats-pet-cat-cat-pet-cute-cat-gif-24810247

[sacred lily]

same

[graceful plover]

how do you start modding balatro? i couldn't find any guides

[plain apex]

this should be applying x_chips on new calc but is only applying the x_mult what did i do wrong?

if config.newcalccompat ~= false then
    Cubic = SMODS.Enhancement({
        object_type = "Enhancement",
        key = "Cubic",
        loc_txt = {
            name = "Cubic",
            text = {
                "{X:chips,C:white}X#1#{} Chips {X:mult,C:white}X#2#{} Mult",
                "Idea: BoiRowan",
            },
        },
        atlas = "Jokers",
        pos = { x = 1, y = 17 },
        config = { extra = { x_chips = 3, x_mult = 0.6 } },
        weight = 0,

        loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
            return {
                vars = { 
                    card.ability.extra.x_chips, 
                    card.ability.extra.x_mult 
                }
            }
        end,

        calculate = function(self, card, context)
            if context.main_scoring and context.cardarea == G.play then
                return {
                    x_chips = card.ability.extra.x_chips,
                    x_mult = card.ability.extra.x_mult
                }
            end
        end
    })
end

[plain apex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-4U5TlbxY&ab_channel=artmuncher

[manic rune]

Balatro Modding Starter Pack, the copypasta :3

If you are new to modding, make sure that you understand the basics of LUA first before proceeding. There are a lot of good tutorials out there, so I won't link one here :)

For beginners, here are some links you should check out in order to familiarize yourself with what you are getting into:

1. https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Your-First-Mod
   ◦ This should give you some instructions, and it also serves as Steamodded's Documentation. Please read it :)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-4U5TlbxY&t=7s
   ◦ A Modding Tutorial video. It is a bit outdated, but generally does well at telling you what to do.
   -# (Note: There are some parts in the video where they called cards "center". Don't do that, it's bad practice, they are cards.)
3. https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/EditionExamples/EditionExamples.lua
   ◦ It's good practice to check out the example mods, as well as other mods too for reference.

Once again, remember to read the Documentation. There also other links which you might find useful, such as:

1. https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector?tab=readme-ov-file#patches
   ◦ Patches.
2. https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1228149931257237664
   ◦ DebugPlus, a very useful tool for modding.

-# Sent: 7 times

[quartz ravine]

LOL, I gave it a try and look what happened

[manic rune]

im incredibly sorry, but im still lost 😭

[red flower]

how's the code

[waxen mesa]

what

lol

[manic rune]

i initially thought what i needed to do was just finding the sticker object, and use :apply() onto the card, which is conceptually easy enough

where do find it

and i think im dumb for actually thinking thats how it works

[red flower]

SMODS.Stickers["key"]

[manic rune]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030666281948545025/1260782728178171924/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker_3.gif

:3

nothing is showing though

hm

[quartz ravine]

Ok, I have a fully working tarot for you. Just mod it to suit your needs. One thing I did not handle was contraining the suit. So you could just write some little function to randomly give you either Hearts or Diamonds, then change the suit

[waxen mesa]

that sounds good 😄

[manic rune]

MAN

if only autumn was still here

his mod had stickers :(

[pale temple]

wait i dont know how card comparisons work

how do you know if a card in hand was played

[manic rune]

isnt that just checking for when a hand is played

if thats the case, context.before should suffice

[pale temple]

context is already at end of round

[manic rune]

your jokers can have multiple context

not just one

[pale temple]

wait yeah

forgot about that

[manic rune]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1010038037989838958/1193389673402343424/ezgif.com-gif-maker_3.gif

[simple mural]

Oh, this is really works

[manic rune]

actually

if my theory is correct and "card" here means the card the sticker is applied to

do i have to add info queue...

hm

[pale temple]

actually hold on

my brain is so fried rn nothing is coming in

[manic rune]

me too

ive been coding since about 1 pm

[red flower]

go to sleep

[manic rune]

stickers are wrecking my brain wide open

😭

[manic rune]

i need to at least get them show text first...

[pale temple]

i think this isn't enough i need the leftmost held card

[red flower]

no you don't

[manic rune]

no i do

i NEED to get this working

else i will have nightmares about stickers

i cant be hunted by white stickers man

[red flower]

G.hand.cards[1] ?

[pale temple]

at the end of round

[red flower]

yeah

[pale temple]

apparently it doesn't do anything

[red flower]

oh i get it, you might need to do your own context

[exotic island]

not looking bad so far

[pale temple]

something like getting the 7h

i think what it picks up is the ace dia

[manic rune]

how do i refer to a modded sticker again...
-# now that i think about it, its the first time i used this

[red flower]

wait no i dont get it

[pale temple]

we have collectively fried our brains i see

[red flower]

can i see your code

[pale temple]

this

[manic rune]

if you want to get 7h, i think you can do context.after

and uhhh

G.hand.cards[1]

like N' said

im going mildly insane

https://tenor.com/view/i-am-losing-my-grip-on-reality-the-voices-are-getting-louder-i-have-gone-clinically-insane-end-my-suffering-my-descent-to-madness-is-complete-gif-24665895

[green plank]

idek if this is right

[red flower]

no

[manic rune]

nope

[manic rune]

anddd nope, thats not how you add a new info_queue box to the playing card either

ghghghghghghghghgh

[pale temple]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.end_of_round and context.game_over == false and not context.individual and not context.repetition then
            local leftmost = G.hand.cards[1]
            G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
            local copied = copy_card(G.hand.cards[#G.hand.cards], nil, nil, G.playing_card)
            copied:add_to_deck()
            G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
            table.insert(G.playing_cards, copied)
            G.hand:emplace(copied)
            copied.states.visible = nil
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function()
                    copied:start_materialize()
                    return true
                end
            })) 
            return {
                func = function () leftmost:start_dissolve() end,
                message = "Converted"
            }
            
        end
    end

oh thats not it lol

[red flower]

the way you read the docs is that everything inside the brackets is what context has inside
I would suggest rereading the first part of the page

[pale temple]

that for loop is a placeholder

lesson: dont do this at 2am

[manic rune]

...welp

i guess it really comes down to this after all

im gonna read cryptid code 😭

-# please dont be complex, for god sake

[red flower]

and what does this do?

like, what does it do wrong

[pale temple]

i'll get a recording

hold on

[quartz ravine]

When using Debug plus, how does the watch command work? I can't figure out the path syntax

Ah, I got it, it wants front slashes in the path! It would be cool if it swapped slashes so it would work the same in windows as mac

[latent portal]

hi chat

so

i'm trying to make a suitless suit

what's the best way to go about this?

should i make a suit and then somehow assign the suitless property to it?

or should i use enhancements instead?

[frosty dock]

hook SMODS.has_no_suit to check for your suit as the base suit

[latent portal]

how exactly would i do that

im kind of new to lua

[manic rune]

they DO use info queue, hm

weird

[green plank]

maybe but still doubting

[manic rune]

nevermind, that was the wrong place to look at

[pale temple]

oh hmmm start_dissolve didnt work again

[distant grove]

Good afternoon fr!

[pale temple]

oh

i see the issue now

[latent portal]

does anyone know how to do this? im horrendous at coding

[pale temple]

returning func does nothing

for some reason

[manic rune]

this is the sticker, just how did they add the info_queue

[hushed field]

the info_queue is automatically generated based on the info in loc_text and loc_vars

[manic rune]

i tried

this was my code

the apply was definitely successful

BUT no info queue

[pale temple]

yeah this is how it should be

[hushed field]

I think hide_badge turns of the info_queue, no?

[pale temple]

i just need the timing of the destroy and the copy to be the sam

e

[manic rune]

...it does???

oh my 🦆ing god i will go punch my fumos if thats the case

[sonic cedar]

Any of you guys know how turn a joker into another joker?
like after it triggers

[manic rune]

ADsadASKL IT IS

[hushed field]

I'd have to check, but I have the info queue turned off for the confection stickers, which hide it, and turned on for the award sticker, which doesn't hide it

[manic rune]

IT IS REALLY becaUSE OF THAT

OH MY GODDDDD

[tall apex]

jonkler assimilatione

[latent portal]

do any of u guys know how to do this please help

[sonic cedar]

more like transformation

[latent portal]

[tall apex]

waow.., trans jonkler.,,

[manic rune]

i have the perfect piece of code for this, wait

[distant grove]

I’m going to turn into a truck now

[manic rune]

is this what you are looking for :3

[tall apex]

the joker im making is just a chain smoker smh

[distant grove]

Smoking

W

Gotta build that smoke stack

[tall apex]

he shlonkin' the buffoon pack

[sonic cedar]

holddddd- what does this do actually? does it just change the ability or does it actually change the whole guy

[latent portal]

joker:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS["j_other_joker"])

[manic rune]

it changes the entire guy, i think

[latent portal]

it does

[sonic cedar]

here we go then

[manic rune]

fun fact: the reason why cherry knows that (probably) is because of the exact message i took a ss of 😭

[distant grove]

Should I make the rats just chips or mult or both?

[manic rune]

you could make it give either chips or mult, 50/50

[latent portal]

yes

[distant grove]

Yeaaa I don’t think i should make it both

Maybe just chips

And money

Gotta sell those guts🔥

[manic rune]

its now this

[distant grove]

That sounds so wrong without context

[latent portal]

PLEASE HELP ME I DONT KNOW SHIT FROM FUCK

[manic rune]

huh?

[hushed field]

I'm quite sure that's from errors in your loc_text

[manic rune]

yeah it is, i just realized in the localizations file i just put it:
key = {"text"}

without the name =, text = thingies

😭

[latent portal]

so um

how exactly do I make a hook

[manic rune]

SDASKLDMSADLSAMKL IT WORKSSSSSSSSSSS

[hushed field]

a hook is done by storing the original function in a variable, first

[manic rune]

https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/129557-tutorial-function-hooking-and-you/

[hushed field]

that's probably better as a tutorial, haha

[manic rune]

can i remove this somehow?

[simple mural]

How can i change the chips?

[exotic island]

rate the stone card sprite

[simple mural]

From the joker

[manic rune]

🔥

[manic rune]

like, directly changing the Chips x Mult
^?

[simple mural]

Maybe

[manic rune]

:3 uhh its related to G.GAME something

[latent portal]

ok so i got this

but like

[simple mural]

I need to multiply the number of chips counted by the number

[manic rune]

oh, so x_chips

[teal herald]

what code destroys a joker?

[manic rune]

return{
x_chips = number,
}

[latent portal]

i want to understand how to make SMODS.has_no_suit look for my suit and recognize it

[manic rune]

hi aiko

[manic rune]

G.jokers:remove_card(card)
card:remove()

[simple mural]

Can an edition completely change the behavior of a joker, card, or anything else?

[manic rune]

nope

i mean, yes, but you will have to do a lot of work for that

[simple mural]

Oke

[safe cobalt]

i feel like im committing a crime haha

im not a fan of lua syntax so im compiling typescript to lua for a mod

[manic rune]

oh, thats really cool

[safe cobalt]

blursed

[manic rune]

thats really nice

[teal herald]

ty

[manic rune]

but the bad thing about coding in an entirely different language compared to others is that asking for help can be significantly harder lol

[safe cobalt]

true true

[manic rune]

but thats super cool, i didnt know you can do that :D

[safe cobalt]

me neither until now hahaha

[distant grove]

I’m going to eat a gros michel

[manic rune]

dont peak

1/6 it will make you combust

[distant grove]

Nuh uh

1/10000 chance I become candevish

[granite turret]

[distant grove]

And than I become Roland

It’s called metamorphosis trust!

[tall wharf]

aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[distant grove]

Bro is imploding

[latent portal]

okay so i got this.

SMODS.has_no_suit = function(card)
    
end```

and now im lost

what now

[manic rune]

dont worry aiko, ive been stuck on one singular sticker for the past few hours now

im as insane as you if anything :3

[distant grove]

Is there a way to change the background of balatro?

Or nah

[latent portal]

like how does this help with making the function check for my custom suit

[manic rune]

i actually never used that function before, so i cant provide any help further than that

[tall wharf]

what are you doing

[manic rune]

you can try reading the og function code and see if you can make sense out of it

[manic rune]

dont do that

[latent portal]

where could that be

[manic rune]

just return x_chips

[tall wharf]

i think has_no_suit automatically checks if the card has NO suit at all

[latent portal]

im trying to make a suitless suit

[manic rune]

x_chips = card.ability.extra.Xchips

suitless suit

doesnt that make it then?

[latent portal]

no it makes it an undershirt

[hushed field]

a birthday suit?

[manic rune]

sticker man, how do you remove this :3

(it will be the LAST question i ask about stickers, i promise)

[hushed field]

the error?

[manic rune]

no

uhh

the entire thingy

[tall wharf]

😡

[manic rune]

did you give up on the shader aiko

[hushed field]

let me check, i'm not sure which badge funcs stickers have

[simple mural]

There is no error, but nothing happens either

[manic rune]

what version is your smods

[simple mural]

1421a

[manic rune]

is it the latest ver

try updating

:3

[gleaming zealot]

https://tenor.com/view/hsr-honkai-honkai-star-rail-star-rail-firefly-gif-3765619312346731013

[manic rune]

its not the latest version

omg firefly

[tall wharf]

❤️

[latent portal]

i know

[distant grove]

Mmmm gros michel