💻・modding-dev

[latent portal]

...as long as you don't return an area

also shoot

[zealous glen]

sometimes people see something SMODS did and people think thunk did it

*looks at Negative playing cards*

[tall apex]

do you know by any chance what kind i would put if i wanted it to be the same kind as a celestial pack?

or.,., the planets one

i think thats what its called

[latent portal]

i'm not sure actually

let me check

yeah it's just "Celestial"

make sure to put it in quotation marks so it counts as a string

[tall apex]

i'm making a nonconspicuous pack with nothing in it that just makes a shitty skeleton run gif past the screen and give you an acheavement that says "WHAT THE FUCK?? DID YOU SEE THAT??"

[tall apex]

tyty!

[frosty dock]

so much for hooking

local scie = SMODS.calculate_individual_effect -- save a reference to the original function
function SMODS.calculate_individual_effect(effect, scored_card, key, amount, from_edition)
  if key == 'my_key' and amount then
    -- do something. refer to the original function for what to do here
    return true -- the effect was calculated, so we return early
  end
  return scie(effect, scored_card, key, amount, from_edition) -- run the base function as normal
end

you'll also need to insert any keys you add into SMODS.calculation_keys

probably easiest to do by patching as to get an order that makes sense

you'd be looking to target some line within this

[ivory coral]

uhhh okay ive never done lovely patching before really so let me make sure im getting this right
the pattern is the original code im searching for and payload is the new code, position = after puts the new code right after the old code

[tardy wind]

yers

its not going to patch the "old" code tho

unless you do position="at"

[ivory coral]

im thinking i just add a new if key == 'something' thing inside of SMODS.calculate_individual_effect

[frosty dock]

you can lovely patch that as well, but it doesn't have patch target comments

so it may break in the future if something changes in smods. that part is perfectly reasonable to do with a hook, so that's the safer bet

[ivory coral]

im not sure what that means?
what am i trying to patch here

[glacial bloom]

Just wanted to say that this is cool as hell

[frosty dock]

you're trying to patch a line into this (in smods src/utils.lua)

SMODS.calculate_individual_effect is fine to do with hooks

[frosty dock]

the target buffer name for that is target = '=[SMODS _ "src/utils.lua"]'

[ivory coral]

so i add a new key into the SMODS.calculation_keys{} table?
but that wouldnt have any effect on its own would it

[frosty dock]

you need both

you need to add a key to SMODS.calculation_keys, and you need to hook SMODS.calculate_individual_effect

or patch it, but like i said that's too fragile

[sullen fern]

time to create suit jokers.

[ivory coral]

whats the difference and how do i hook instead of patch

[frosty dock]

^

a hook basically just inserts code before or after a function as well as its parameters and return values

patches add or change code anywhere

[ivory coral]

so a hook is made by defining an already existing function it looks like?
does it go in my lua file or the lovely.toml?

[frosty dock]

hooks are just lua code

they go in lua files

[ivory coral]

alright
so i add that hook in my mod's code and then make a patch to add the key

[frosty dock]

yep

[sullen fern]

looking at six suit's suit jokers

so suit should just equal a suit i made

[unkempt thicket]

How can I make custom consumables appear in shop, like how spectral cards do when a certain trigger is true?

[ivory coral]

does this look about right for the key patch? im pretty sure this would put 'my_key' right after SMODS.calculation_keys = { which is what i want

[[patches.pattern]]
target = "src/utils.lua"
match_indent = true
pattern = '''
SMODS.calculation_keys = {
'''
position = "after"
payload = '''
    'my_key',
'''```

[frosty dock]

yes, if you want it to happen before any other effects returned in the same table

[ivory coral]

i dont think it should matter much when in the table it is
i think im starting to understand how this works

[frosty dock]

it does, it defines the order in which effects are applied if there's multiple

[frosty dock]

e.g. if my joker applies xmult and flat mult, the flat mult happens first because it's earlier in the table

depending on the effects, that does or doesn't make a difference

[ivory coral]

aah yes thats what i was thinking
good to know but that shouldnt matter for what im adding here

[frosty dock]

yeah it's just visuals then

[sullen fern]

does this work

[frosty dock]

needs to be a string

mine just grabs it directly from the saved definition of the suit

[ivory coral]

just one more thing, does the local scie's name matter? i see its used to call the rest of the normal function
if i wanted to add more hooks theoretically would i just have to make more local variables with different names

[frosty dock]

you can name it anything you want

[ivory coral]

thought so, just wanted to be sure, thanks lad

[frosty dock]

acronyms of function names are common practice, but it can be anything really

ideally you shouldn't reuse variable names in the same scope, that's all

[turbid maple]

I like to copy the name verbatim and add an underscore at the front

[hardy viper]

surely thats not against luas convention of using underscore prefixed variables for system/internal variables

[frosty dock]

there isn't really a convention for that lmao

[hardy viper]

(thats specifically for globals it doesnt apply here)

[frosty dock]

_ in locals often just means it's unused

[turbid maple]

if it breaks it breaks

[ivory coral]

hang on im looking at it now and now im not sure ive got the right thing
what does SMODS.calculate_individual_effect actually do like what is it

[zealous glen]

this is what the LSP says

[ivory coral]

yeah i saw that but what does that mean
because at first here i was trying to just make a custom key parameter for localize but now i think ive done something else

[sullen fern]

I LOVE USING A LOCALIZATION LUA!!!!!!

[ivory coral]

i dont think youre supposed to have the [s and ]s?

also of course make sure your loc_txt is setup right

[sullen fern]

there we go

the suit name isn't colored but idrc

[ivory coral]

actually hang on how do i handle the localize inside the new calculate_individual_effect since that seems to use 'a_mult' or something like that which isnt what i want
and where do i tell it what sound to play

[sullen fern]

there's also these jokers tied to mechanics i have yet to impliment

the suit rarity system (the main 5 puyo colors + nuisance puyo are common, the other 3 are rare)

and two custom hands (puyo chain and puyo rainbow)

[tall apex]

im trying to make a boosterpack with nothing in it i dont understand what im missing :c

it loads the game fine but it tries to index a nil value when i try to discover it

[formal parrot]

Why the fuck do you want to make an empty boosterpack

[crimson marlin]

does anyone know how to make cycles in UI? this is all i have 💀
SMODS.current_mod.config_tab = function()
return {n = G.UIT.ROOT, config = {
r = 0.2, minw = 12, minh = 9, align = "tm", padding = 0.1, colour = G.C.BLACK
}, nodes = {
{n = G.UIT.C, config = {minw=6, minh=9, colour = G.C.MONEY, padding = 0.15, r = 0.1}, nodes = {
-- how tf do you add cycles :(

    }}

}}

end

[formal parrot]

Maybe add card and make them do nothing or give 0 selection limit

[tall apex]

wdym? c:

[formal parrot]

Blank

[tall apex]

i made the limit 0 but idk what the other thing is

[formal parrot]

Zero out of zero

I think it’s how many you can choose out of how many idk man i’m dumb asf

I never codded a boosterpack

[tall apex]

i already have that that way

i think its something else

[formal parrot]

Scam boosterpack

You can still skip it tho

[unkempt thicket]

How do you set the edition of a card to base/none?

nvm

[formal parrot]

Damn got it already?

[gleaming zealot]

Disgrace. Humiliation.

[tall apex]

thats what im aiming for yes

[formal parrot]

Make selecting a card add it and then remove it

Then it does nothing that was

Way*

[tall apex]

thats not

the issue im having

[formal parrot]

Are you trying to scam ? Or what

Whats the idea you’re going for man 😭

[tall apex]

i have what im going for i just need it to not crash-

[gleaming zealot]

Divine Intervention

[formal parrot]

Ohhhhhhhhhh

Good luck man

[formal parrot]

😭😭WHAT THE FUCK

[tall apex]

respectfully please don't call me that

[gleaming zealot]

Altars of Apostasy

[formal parrot]

Good luck bro ?

[formal parrot]

ULTRAKILL MENTIONED

!!!!!!!

[gleaming zealot]

took you 3 somgs

[formal parrot]

Favorite track btw

[tall apex]

[gleaming zealot]

Foolish.

[formal parrot]

Man i forgor the names

[tall apex]

-# dude my pronouns are they/she it's not that hard-

[gleaming zealot]

call her something girly

:3

[formal parrot]

Into fire is one of my fav

[formal parrot]

Good luck my lady

[gleaming zealot]

without sounding like a discord mod

[formal parrot]

My lady is cute right?

[gleaming zealot]

lets just do “sis”

[formal parrot]

I DON’T WANNA OFFEND THEM

what if they thinks i’m a creep

Bro

[gleaming zealot]

well if u continue like that

[formal parrot]

I’m gonna

Alr anyways

Ultrakill

[formal parrot]

Nah we besties fr

[gleaming zealot]

uhh dont worry he’s never seen a woman in his life before this is a new experience for an ultrakill player

[formal parrot]

Real i have 2k hours

And p ranked p-2

[formal parrot]

Thats like virgin with extra step

[formal parrot]

Me fr

Literally me

NEW UPDATE DROPPED

EXAMS

[tall apex]

i genuinely just dissociated for the past few minutes ngl

[formal parrot]

CAN’T P RANK NEW LEVELS

I’M WASHED

[gleaming zealot]

have castorice

[formal parrot]

Why is w spelled double u when it’s double v

[tall apex]

87 is divisable by 29

[formal parrot]

No shot

[tall apex]

[formal parrot]

It’s not

Calculator said no

[unkempt thicket]

How do you call SMODS.current_mod.set_debuff(card)?

[formal parrot]

Nvm i typed 78 instead of 87

HOWWWWWW

[tall apex]

nmumbers

[formal parrot]

You see that

[gleaming zealot]

20*3=60
9*3=27

[formal parrot]

Alright bro you’re frying my brain

[formal parrot]

No like genuinely why is this a thing and how did nobody noticed it before ?

Am i a genius? Is english fake ?

ARE WE REAL CHAT ?

I hope teto ‘s real

[gleaming zealot]

https://tenor.com/view/teto-kasane-kasane-teto-i-am-a-pear-pearto-gif-613662767852815438

[formal parrot]

MY EYES

ARE BURNING

AHHHHHH

[tall apex]

wimter

[chrome widget]

I'm struggling with the most effective way to translate sprites relative to a parent. The built in offsets in the draw_shader function are kind of... bizarre? And seemingly don't account for local rotation. The only time this is used in the base game is for the soul layers, all of which are exactly the same dimensions and have the same pivot point (in the direct center of the card)

[tall apex]

pivyot..,

i have no idea how to help unfortunately :c

[chrome widget]

So for example if you use the horizontal or vertical offsets, and an object like a sticker is moved from the origin, it's still going to rotate according to the top left of the card, even though the rotation should technically be inverted when something is across the horizontal or vertical axis

[tall apex]

hm

[chrome widget]

(problem I'm trying to solve is how to successfully move a sticker without changing the assets used, for the sake of vanilla compatibility)

Also yes hello! 🫵

[tall apex]

oh um im having a problem that you can problibly help with bcos your are smart

i zoned out

[chrome widget]

Yes? Maybe I can help?

[tall apex]

im making a booster pack, and the game opens okay, but when i go to discover it i get a crash with attempt to index a nil value

and i donut understnad

here is my bad code, im just trying anything to get it to work x-x

[chrome widget]

You should also show the crash log!!

[tall apex]

i thought maybe it HAS to have particles or somethin so i stealed some for later changeses

crasj lawg

[chrome widget]

I can armchair diagnose based on the line number

Okay so off the top of my head, card should never be nil when calling loc vars

So you don't need to nil check for it

[tall apex]

okie c:

[hard flume]

I have so many ideas, so little time

[tall apex]

do i need a create cardd argument at all? im trying to create an empty booster pack

same crash TwT

[chrome widget]

Okay, so my second idea:

It's probably because of how loc_txt is formatted

For most objects, you're required to have a name property and a text property

[tall apex]

ohhh

[chrome widget]

So my guess (without being at my computer) is that you need to wrap the text in a table, call it text, and add name = 'Something'

[tall apex]

yeah the loc text scared me i dont understand it

what are tables? that's ssomething i shouldd know

[chrome widget]

A table is the core data structure in Lua. Anytime you create something in braces {}, you're making a table

[tall apex]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH

that makes a LOT of sense.

ty for helping me learn c:

[chrome widget]

So your loc_txt should be

    name = 'Skeletal Pack',
    text = {
        'amogus',
        'sussy'
    }
}```

[tall apex]

the name should actually be Celestial pack and the text is just filler c:

but that helps a lot!!

[hard flume]

Isn't there already a Celestial Pack?

[tall apex]

the whole point is im making a booster pack with no cards that just gives you an achievement and makes a shitty 3d skeleton run across the screen

[tall apex]

EXACTLY

they'll never see it coming

[hard flume]

Oh that's silly silly

[tall apex]

cringe circus is not going to be a very serious mod LMAO

[hard flume]

Silly :3 silly even

[tall apex]

me when someone says my mod isn't helpful, useful, or is wildly unbalanced

if you would consult the blahaj joker

[hard flume]

My mod isn't necessarily meant to be balanced either

[tall apex]

mine is actually striving to maintain some balance, but we get silly when we wanna

[hard flume]

I'm just adding whatever I want

[tall apex]

@chrome widget IT WORKED YOU ARE THE BEST

[chrome widget]

👍

[chrome widget]

Need

I will dual wield my two blahaj

[tall apex]

wait have you seen it?

[gleaming zealot]

yesh

[hard flume]

I mean, this is the same mod that adds Women to the game as a suit

[chrome widget]

That's fair, I also added women specifically so one of my jokers could flirt with them

I LOVE BLAHAJ

[tall apex]

isn't it the best joker

[hard flume]

I added Women specifically so I could make a bunch of Trans Jokers

[gleaming zealot]

:3

[hard flume]

Now I'm adding Yume Nikki Effects as Cards

[chrome widget]

I have three genders: women, trans women, and miscellanous

[hard flume]

And then I'll add Runes

I'm not sure what else after that tbh

But we'll get there when we get there

Here are all the cards for the Woman Suit btw

[tall apex]

ESTROGEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chrome widget]

Funny cause I don't even take oral estradiol anymore, but still, based

[tall tangle]

Okay now make a man suit

[tall apex]

im still trying to get on it tbh..,,

[tall tangle]

With literally nothing but negative effects

[hard flume]

Lmao. That's mean though

[tall tangle]

Yes

[chrome widget]

If you're in the U.S., planned parenthood!!

[hard flume]

:(

[tall tangle]

Because men suck

As a man

[chrome widget]

Giving hrt advice in the Balatro modding channel is funny

[tall tangle]

Like I'm fully aware that I'm ragging on myself here but men suck.

[tall apex]

as much as I appreciate it, it's a lot more complicated then most cases

[tall tangle]

Women are simple better™️

[gleaming zealot]

[hard flume]

What if I added this into the game

Cat Rank

I might in the future tbh. Depends if I can find a good use for it

[gleaming zealot]

I am female suit

[hard flume]

Yeah but I don't like being mean :(

[tall apex]

can i remove my mod's tag from an object?

[hard flume]

Alright. I'm going to work on a couple Dream Cards for this booster.

Dream Cards add Effects, a new type of modifier, to your cards.

(Effects aren't made right now, but I'm looking at other mods to see how it's done)

[chrome widget]

Yep! On the object's definition, put no_mod_badges = true

[tall apex]

life saver

[hard flume]

Do I make my mod's tag orange and green, like a Carrot, or do I keep it as periwinkle, my favorite color

My mods name is Carrot Field

[tall apex]

i set mine as my fav color combo red and gold

[chrome widget]

Orange and Green!

Mine is just a light pink because Cardsauce used the color for Stand/JoJo related content

[tall apex]

ok now i just have to do the hard part..,,

winter

how do i code a skeleton to run across the screen when you open this pack

[chrome widget]

Depends, what assets do you have?

[tall apex]

skeleton gif c:

[gleaming zealot]

After that compose and use music in it

[tall apex]

it's just gonna be silent, i think it'll be really funny that way

[steep bronze]

People, what program do I use to program in Lua?

[gleaming zealot]

Notepad

[tall apex]

based

i use visual studio but notepad works as much

[chrome widget]

use fnaf jumpscare sound

[tall apex]

bad to the bone riff

[chrome widget]

LMAO i actually have a joker in my mod right now that uses it

[gleaming zealot]

i use jetbrains intellij idea

[tall apex]

REAL X3

[tall apex]

oh my GOD that's so good

[gleaming zealot]

i should eep school in less than 5 hours

[tall apex]

i wasn't joking btw i need to figure out how to make a gif run across the screen LMAO

[chrome widget]

Okay so the simplest option: ("simple" in quotes)

Creating a UI object node that's large enough to cover the screen, feeding in the gif

Using an AnimatedSprite as the object

[steep bronze]

wait, this notepad?

[tall apex]

yur

[gleaming zealot]

i mean you can

notepad++ is a lil more professional

vscode and especially jetbrains is overkill for lua

[charred halo]

what is the naming scheme for modded jokers (trying to make my joker create a copy of itself in this line, just cant figure out what itd be named) ''local new_card = create_card('Joker', G.jokers, nil,nil,nil,nil,'j_joker')''

[tall apex]

would this be incorperated into the pack i just made?

[steep bronze]

ok ok

[chrome widget]

generally it's 'j_[mod prefix]_[supplied joker name]'

[steep bronze]

thanks

[paper zealot]

VSCode is definitely not overkill, what do you mean?

[gleaming zealot]

i guess yea

[fresh fiber]

j_[prefix]_tag

[chrome widget]

VSCode is kinda amazing

[tall apex]

i can make my code PINK

[chrome widget]

Intellisense really is very helpful, I'd recommend it

[gleaming zealot]

But i mean a baby can write in Lua if i told him the basic concepts and gave him documentation

[tall apex]

mfw im baby

[gleaming zealot]

nop, you’re not a he

[tall apex]

no but i mean thats how much exp i have writing in lua

i genuinely started 4 days ago

[gleaming zealot]

meow

[tall apex]

meowmeowmeow

[gleaming zealot]

should i eep

[tall apex]

yur

[chrome widget]

yes

[tall apex]

oh did you see my ask btw

[hard flume]

why isnt obs recording balatro properly wtf

[chrome widget]

So like yeah, can it be applied to the current pack, yes. It's probably too intensive to like armchair it over discord messages though, sadge

[tall apex]

ohhhh okie c:

for now ill code the acheavo then

[hard flume]

got it working

[tall apex]

womem.,,,

[hard flume]

yep

what we think so far

[gleaming zealot]

gay

[tall apex]

i like c:

ok so how would i make an achievement check for if i've opened a specific pack

i can assume context stuff but i just wanna make sure

[chrome widget]

Far as I'm aware, you just call the function unlock_achievement([key])

[tall apex]

oh literally just the key?

[chrome widget]

Oh wait that's vanilla

[tall apex]

ctrl z

[fresh fiber]

Anyone know of any mods that add cards to a (played) hand after it has been "played" but before it has been scored?

I'm able to get the card to be added but the game doesn't score it or properly discard it (which prevents you from playing subsequent hands).

[tall apex]

this is what i have so far, everything besides reffering to the pack itself

[chrome widget]

Through smods, your achievement defintion should have an unlock_condition(self, args) function, and then you can call check_for_unlock() with a specific argument

[tall apex]

i need it to check for that specific pack

[chrome widget]

Well, what I would do is add a create_card(self, card, i) method to your skeletal pack, and then have it call check_for_unlock({ type = '[something]' })

Packs typically call create_card to create contents

[tall apex]

hmmmmmmmm okie

[chrome widget]

Alternatively, you can hook Card:open()

[tall apex]

hook?

[tall apex]

well im gonna need something in the pack eventually (the skelington) so i might as well do this no?

[chrome widget]

So, hooking is something you to do overwrite/change vanilla code. The vanilla function for opening booster packs is Card:open().

[tall apex]

oohhhhhh..,,,

[scarlet spire]

in a boss blind, this would debuff multiple ranks, right?

[chrome widget]

What's your mod prefix?

I believe you need to specify one

(this is @ Kawaii, sorry)

(multiple convo threads)

[scarlet spire]

ah okay

[steep bronze]

random question: does anyone know how to erase the white background in paint (I made the sprites in paint)

[tepid crow]

step 1 would probably be don't use paint ngl

[tall apex]

for doing spritework i would highly reccomend aseprite

[hard flume]

I use a copy of photoshop

[charred halo]

i mean not a mod but DNA no?

[tepid crow]

I've heard good things about aseprite. Paint.net also works for the minimal amount of sprites editing I do

[tall apex]

lots of qol since its specifically for spritework and pixel art

[scarlet spire]

okay the odd version of this is debuffing aces but not 3/5/7/9, so it seems like this doesn't work

[tall apex]

oh me?? my prefix is cringe c:

[chrome widget]

So I'd just do something like this:

function Card:open()
    if self.config.center.key == 'p_cringe_skeletal_pack' then
        check_for_unlock({type = 'skeleton'})
    end

    return ref_card_open(self)
end```

You need to put this in a file for SMODS to load in main

[tall apex]

i have an acheavement lua file loaded by main

achievement

.., i can spell

[tepid crow]

pretty sure that code doesn't do what you think it does

[scarlet spire]

can you specify?

[chrome widget]

Actually you could probably just put that code in main

[scarlet spire]

i'm following smods.blind docs which have this parameter

[tepid crow]

Check out https://onecompiler.com/lua/43bn6ura3

[chrome widget]

And then you just check for args.type == 'skeleton' in your achievement's unlock condition and return true

[tall apex]

i like to organize and keep stuff seprate tbh

[chrome widget]

That's fair, so do I

[paper zealot]

Make sure to return ref_card_open(self)! Otherwise you're discarding the original's return value and always returning nil

[scarlet spire]

okay yeah I realized as soon as it didn't work that it was just creating different entries in one table

[chrome widget]

Oop! You're right

[scarlet spire]

wait i'm stupid it probably just has to be a table under value = ?
edit: nope, doesn't like tables

[tall apex]

im a little lost sorry X3

[chrome widget]

That said, I don't think the original function returns anything but nil

[hard flume]

I'm eepy but I want to program my Effect Cards :(

[night juniper]

is there some sort of a lua standardlib (for table operations) that's popular for Balatro modding / included as dev utils in something like steamodded? i wrote my first mod in pure lua first as .patch files then moved it to lovely, and now im looking to replace the table utilities i implemented by something more standard

[paper zealot]

True, but that doesn't mean it'll always be that way, or that someone else hasn't also hooked the function and is returning their own data through it

[hard flume]

I need to design them first

[tall apex]

god these bracket things are annoying .3.

[tall wharf]

:(

[tall apex]

why sad whujh

[sonic cedar]

guys is this proper formatting

[tall wharf]

comma where

[sonic cedar]

it's a custom color value, i'm asking about the size addition

[sonic cedar]

ok cool

knew i wasnt crazy

[tall wharf]

are you not!

[sonic cedar]

no im batshit insane

but now i get to pretend otherwise

[tall apex]

im going to bed but i shall work more tomoorooworr

gn modding dev balatro chat

[tall wharf]

me when i constantly work on my mod

[tall apex]

me when i hjave to be responsalbe and sleeeeeeeeep

:((((((((

[ivory coral]

hey guys, never really done lovely patches before so forgive me if ive missed something obvious here but this code is giving me the lovely crash invalid type: map, expected a string at [[patches.pattern]], how do i fix it? it looks right to me

[[patches]]
[[patches.pattern]]
target = "src/utils.lua"
match_indent = true
pattern = '''
SMODS.calculation_keys = {
'''
position = "after"
payload = '''
    'test',
'''```

[tall wharf]

you're patching steamodded right

[ivory coral]

yes

src/utils.lua is in smods

[tall wharf]

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = '''=[SMODS _ "src/utils.lua"]'''
pattern = '''            card_eval_status_text(card, 'debuff')'''
position = "after"
payload = '''
SMODS.score_card(card, context)
'''
match_indent = true

[ivory coral]

oooh does it need some extra specificity

[tall wharf]

note the specific target

that's one of my patches

[ivory coral]

still giving me the same error

[tall wharf]

strange

[ivory coral]

on [[patches.pattern]]

[tall wharf]

oh

that one needs only one pair of square bracket

[ivory coral]

aaah crud

[tall wharf]

that line

[ivory coral]

yeah it works now
mustve misread it in the docs

tyvm

[tall apex]

Unrelated to gamedev but light has been frozen

Saw that on my way to bed so that’s interesting

[full fable]

Anyone know how do view balatros source code? Or atleast the jokers?

[tall wharf]

:3

[tall wharf]

extract game with 7zip

[full fable]

...How?

[tall wharf]

you use 7zip

and you open Balatro.exe as archive

or are you on macos

[full fable]

Window

nvm got it thanks

[buoyant shard]

how can I change the price of items in the shop with a joker ability? I'm trying to find examples but I can't

[scarlet spire]

G.shop_jokers and G.shop_booster are card areas that contain all the cards in the shop except for the voucher, I forget what to do to change the prices directly but I know you can set card.ability.couponed to make said card free in the shop

so, G.shop_jokers[1].ability.couponed = true would set the first item in the jokers section of the shop to free, afaik

[buoyant shard]

Is their a way to access their price? I want to make everything half off

[scarlet spire]

you definitely can but i've never done it before

I think you can actually set G.GAME.discount_percent to change that?

[solar eagle]

is it possible to have a multiline joker name?

[ionic verge]

trying to look for answers for this again

[tall wharf]

color gone 😭

[ionic verge]

though currently this is my solution

i did just slightly change it so imma test that

[ionic verge]

ok i am once again making process

oh god it works

ok!!!!

[buoyant shard]

How do you create a specific joker?

[tall wharf]

SMODS.create_card{key = "j_joker"}

i think

[buoyant shard]

how do I specify a joker with that?

[tall wharf]

change j_joker to something else

i think

SMODS.create_card{key = "j_perkeo", set = "Joker"}

[buoyant shard]

now I'm getting this error

whenever I leave shop

[tall wharf]

is this not correct f or the colour variable

[unkempt thicket]

How can I calculate an edition without a card having it?

[red flower]

s has to be lowercase

[tall wharf]

😭

i copied from the base game

scaling i kinda don't care but the colours

[unkempt thicket]

I tried something like this and it just doesn't trigger (the print works)

[red flower]

oh maybe im wrong on that, colors look fine

[scarlet spire]

is it possible to debuff consumables? this boss blind code doesn't do anything

[tall wharf]

figured it out i think

[ionic verge]

hey how does the get_flush function work?

im hoping to make a pokerhandpart thats a flush but six cards long

(or five with fingers)

dont tell me im going to have to mod this shit to take length

[tall wharf]

@red flower issue is talisman

[modern kindle]

can i ask what on earth you did to make that fuller house work
i have only been able to make it return either full house or 4oak and its been maddening

[ionic verge]

evaluate = function(parts,hand)
        if #parts._4 < 1 or #parts._3 < 1 or #parts._2 < 2 then return {} end
        return {SMODS.merge_lists(parts._4,parts._2)}
    end

[ivory coral]

hey chat, this may be an odd one here
ive got this hook into calculate_individual_effect and im trying to make it so that it increments the score gradually like it would with chips or mult but at the moment its just giving me this weird effect (see image) where the score all gets added instantly and it increments inside the hand name instead
is there a way to get this to work more properly?

function SMODS.calculate_individual_effect(effect, scored_card, key, amount, from_edition)
    if key == 'osquo_ext_rscore' and amount then
        G.GAME.chips = G.GAME.chips + amount
        update_hand_text({delay = 0}, {chip_total = G.GAME.chips})
        if not effect.remove_default_message then
            if from_edition then
                --currently not a thing so no need
            else
                card_eval_status_text(scored_card or effect.card or effect.focus, 'osquo_ext_rscore', amount, percent)
            end
        end
        return true -- the effect was calculated, so we return early
    end
    return _calculate_individual_effect(effect, scored_card, key, amount, from_edition) -- run the base function as normal
end```

[ionic verge]

hmm it appears i forgot how to do the code link thing

[modern kindle]

three of those dashes

you did 2

[nova finch]

this is probably a stupid question, but how do i check for if a certain joker is in the current set of jokers?

[ionic verge]

test

ok hmm

[modern kindle]

test```

like that

[ionic verge]

i was having a different problem than the block

[modern kindle]

o

[ionic verge]

edits werent working for some reason??

but i got it to work

[modern kindle]

ooo

[turbid maple]

dumb question what's the difference between putting stuff into G.GAME and G.GAME.current_round

[ionic verge]

but yeah this

[stiff locust]

uhh

[modern kindle]

thank you very much ive been losing my marbles on it, i had tried just merging 2 and 4 and it kept not doing what i wanted

[stiff locust]

anyone know why the console would be crashing before balatro opens

[turbid maple]

like unless there's something special that goes on with current_round I don't know why I should just shove my run-wide variables into G.GAME because I'm the one manually updating them in things like reset_game_globals anyway

[ionic verge]

i feel ya

[stiff locust]

the game was working like 20 minutes ago, then I coded a consumable, and now it refuses to open

[latent portal]

peak?

[ionic verge]

does anyone know how to define a six card long flush?

actually you know what

@frosty dock is it intentional that get_flush doesnt have a length input unlike how get_straight and get_X_same do?

cus i saw that smods modifies the vanilla get_straight to take the length of the straight, but not get_flush

specifically, min_length is what im refering to
get_flush is not modified to have that as well

[stiff locust]

flood?

water?

[ionic verge]

idk

would large flush sound better?

[stiff locust]

would you say it

splashes around

[wintry arch]

instead of a flush it's a saturate

[scarlet spire]

okay wait recalc_debuff just doesn't interact with the consumables slots at all

[green plank]

ok so idk if it's like this since i haven't seen it go off yet

[modern kindle]

i actually did this myself, but i probably did it in a needlessly extra way, im sure youll find a better way but i did it like this

  evaluate = function(parts, hand)
    if #hand < 6 then 
        return {} 
    end -- Ensure at least 6 cards are present

    local first_card = hand[1]
    local target_rank = first_card:get_id()
    local suit = nil

    -- Determine the suit using is_suit()
    if first_card:is_suit('Hearts') then suit = "Hearts" end
    if first_card:is_suit('Spades') then suit = "Spades" end
    if first_card:is_suit('Clubs') then suit = "Clubs" end
    if first_card:is_suit('Diamonds') then suit = "Diamonds" end

    local matching_cards = {}
    local same_suit = true

    for _, card in ipairs(hand) do
        -- Check if card matches both rank and suit
        if card:get_id() == target_rank and card:is_suit(suit) then
            table.insert(matching_cards, card)
        else
            same_suit = false  -- If any card differs, it's not a valid hand
            break
        end
    end

    if same_suit and #matching_cards == 6 then
        return { matching_cards }
    end

    return {}  -- Not a valid Flush Six
end
}

[ionic verge]

mhm

tbh imma just wait for a response from johnsmods before i work on this

[modern kindle]

that is very fair

just wanted to try and return the favor 😎

[ionic verge]

ye, thanks!

if i dont get somethin from him ill be using your code

[modern kindle]

not a problem at all!

[tall wharf]

fixed

[modern kindle]

u should add somethin called alphabet soup

[tall wharf]

❓

[modern kindle]

youre a fantastic entity

[tall wharf]

#1326135270759993364

[ionic verge]

what does voucher two do?

[mint fossil]

Hiya question, any way to disable achievements whilst my mod is being used?

[tall wharf]

achievement disabled by default

generally a good idea to play modded stuff on a separate profile

[mint fossil]

One of my friends complained they were getting achievements, where do I guarantee this?

[tall wharf]

go to mods and then go to config

[mint fossil]

Oh it's not even a mod thing, thanks

[paper zealot]

It's a Steamodded Thing™

[gilded blaze]

is there a way to remove edition from a card
I took a look at Card:set_edition() I'm confused 😭

[plucky vortex]

is modded on ios (this is a stupid question but…)

[tall wharf]

card:set_edition({})?

[gilded blaze]

there are only options to set to something other than no edition

[unkempt thicket]

If you set it to nil it removes it so card:set_edition(nil)

[gilded blaze]

yea that got me confused there I figured it out

thanks a lot

[tall wharf]

amitie

wtf

[sullen fern]

evil puyomod be like

bejeweledmod

[tall wharf]

#1332345661932175441

[sullen fern]

fuck.

[tall wharf]

evil aikoyori mods be like

[unkempt thicket]

How do you use quantum enhancements?

[sullen fern]

it would be really funny to make the virtues only appear when ortalab is being used

[solar eagle]

where's the code that determines if a glass card breaks or not?

ive looked but cant seem to find it

[tall wharf]

evil aikoyori's shenanigans be like disabling this boss blind instantly wins the run

[sullen fern]

i feel like having specific jokers appear when specific mods are being used is funny

[tall wharf]

i had a revelation last night that ortalab is balatro in reverse literally

[sullen fern]

then again i’m probably not keeping the virtues

i do have the siivagunner arg balatro mod though

so everything’s good

i think i know how to impliment the suit rarity system

the rare suits like chu, teal, and sun can only be obtained through spectral cards

while common types can be obtained through tarot cards

i just need to figure out how to exclude specific suits from the deck

like, the suits will still exist, but they won't be in the deck by default

[scarlet spire]

ough

[hard flume]

Okay so. I finally figured out what Effects would do. They'd be Run Modifiers that go in their own section, like Betmma's abilities/spells. You can only have one at a time, and they drastically change gameplay.

I'm really happy, cuz I've been struggling with coming up with a reasonable use for Effects for the past day, but didn't want to scrap another feature, like I did the Cat Rank

[sullen fern]

is that possible to do? excluding specific suits from appearing in the deck by default

[hard flume]

Almost definitely. Inks and Colors does it

[unkempt thicket]

I just deleted the other cards lol

[sullen fern]

from EVERY deck

not just a specific one

[hard flume]

Oh yeah that's also possible. Don't know how, though. You'd want to look at the SMODS guide

Fuck. Am I really going to work in an Area System into Balatro...? Yes, yes I am.

[sullen fern]

in_pool(self, args)

i want them to appear rarely in standard packs and also from specific spectral cards

which means that i have to exclude them from the main decks

[rapid stag]

is there a context for on joker creation?

[chrome widget]

There isn't a specific one, I had to make one myself

There's one for buying cards, but it doesn't account for Judgement/Wraith/Rif-Raff or Ankh/Invisible Joker

Similarly there's not a specific vanilla one for joker destroyed (via Hex/Ankh, Dagger/Madness), only card sold, so I also had to make one for that too

If you want, here's the patches I use for them

Contexts are context.joker_created with the new card passed into context.card, and context.joker_destroyed with the destroyed card passed into context.removed

[rapid stag]

huh.

okay, so how is fortune teller retroactive

[sullen fern]

once i get that setup everything will fall in place

[chrome widget]

Fortune teller is retroactive because the game has a tracker for used tarot count that it accesses, afaik

Same for Throwback and blind skips

[rapid stag]

ah. i'm trying to make a joker that's basically throwback/fortune teller, but neptunes

[chrome widget]

Unfortunately you'll have to make a more specific tracker for that. I made one for a card that scales specifically with deck fixing consumables, but the tracker itself just records every consumable and number of times used in a table, so it could be used for whatever. Want it?

The only thing the game naturally records types of consumable usage for is the global profile tracker which isn't useful

[rapid stag]

would i not be able to just get the level of straight flush, though

[chrome widget]

No

[rapid stag]

oh right, there's instances where it can decrease

[chrome widget]

Plus Orbit Tags and Space Joker, just in vanilla

[rapid stag]

eh. i can just patch misc_functions to make it increment a neptune counter then

how would i be able to determine that it's neptune starting from card.config.center? card.config.center.key == 'c_neptune'?

[chrome widget]

Yeah

[rapid stag]

great, thanks

[scarlet spire]

can blinds hold values like the config tables? I need to track literally just a counter but it doesn't seem possible

the blind decreases hand size based on how many hands you've played, and I need to reverse that once you defeat/disable the blind

it'd be so useful if blinds were integrated with the calculate/context system, this is really hard to work with, it looks like I have to patch just to make a blind activate on discard

[tall wharf]

chat what about this one

[sonic cedar]

in my completely unbiased opinion this is what we call fire

[tall wharf]

i want to get creative with the game

[sonic cedar]

is this a teaser

[tall wharf]

"Vanilla-like"? what's that

i add whatever the fuck i want to

next joker is hibana

[scarlet spire]

oh that's a clever mechanic

[tall wharf]

as in

DECO27 Hibana

[sonic cedar]

it was not a teaser

[sonic cedar]

guys i wonder what the card’s gonna do

[sullen fern]

you’ll paint your face with tears that won’t feel the same

now heart reinforce’s up to end this game

you better give up and throw your mp5 away

there are lots of things this card can do

[sonic cedar]

make it do nothing

[tall wharf]

❤️

hibana

[scarlet spire]

how do I force a blind loss? i've got a boss blind that can reduce hands remaining without you playing a hand, but it doesn't kill you when that happens

[lost fern]

Hey ummm Ive decided I am confused enough to actually ask the discord chat. The game is giving me an error for a section of code I have commented out (and subsequently saved) so what how do I fix this (Im trying to figure out editions so Im just testing how to make one, hence using glitched here) I am baffled by this how is this what what is happening why is it trying to run commented code

[iron iron]

i think maybe its context.before not working with my other shit

[unkempt thicket]

I believe each line is supposed to be commented out, also that calculate function isn't going to work. Try
if context.main_scoring and context.cardarea == G.play then SMODS.calculate_effect({chip_mod = card.ability.extra.chips, message = localize{type='variable',key='a_chips',vars={card.ability.extra.chips}}},card) end
instead (with chips = number in the config)

[lost fern]

That didnt seem to fix it
(also thx on the calculate function :) )

Ok I actually tried deleting the code line and it still has the error what the heck

[unkempt thicket]

there is a uncommented } right there

[lost fern]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

wait no but I deleted the whole block and it still throws the same error

[lost fern]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ok Im stupid I figured it out

I changed the mod folder name and so visual studio stopped saving to the correct file

Completely unrelated issue to the actual code

[strong jacinth]

This reminds me of 'Every day I'm sufferin'

[lost fern]

Also I added the chips code to the edition but its not working so Imma go figure that out almost got it working

[tall wharf]

yay

[sturdy compass]

Black goker

[gleaming zealot]

tetoris

[scarlet spire]

okay even copying the code straight from the "lose game" debug button doesn't work, and just breaks hand size calculations for some reason

[gleaming zealot]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-meme-petting-my-cat-harder-each-time-pats-patting-gif-2116822158946238962

[sturdy compass]

Oh fascinating

I didn’t even know it was possible to mess with the drawing order

[tall wharf]

did i steal this off someone

[gleaming zealot]

mabe you should also give it -1 hand size

but maybe thats too weak

[tall wharf]

it's a rare

[gleaming zealot]

yea ig

[tall wharf]

i just have this

@sturdy compass i am not that smart okay

[sturdy compass]

Whar

[tall wharf]

😭

i just pushed the code to github

[sturdy compass]

Unprompted 😭

[sturdy compass]

Yuge

[tall wharf]

if u wanna have a look feel free

[sturdy compass]

So fucking true

[tall wharf]

we ball

[sturdy compass]

Ballin

[tall wharf]

unbalanced? probably

[scarlet spire]

as funny as this is, this seems a LITTLE MEAN if it happens before the cards score

[lost fern]

I am very unlucky, moment I post question I find the answers while searching

Also wiki is outdated, joker_main isnt in edition, its pre_joker and post_joker its just not noted to what I found that joker_main doesnt work on editions

[tall wharf]

@sullen fern

[tall wharf]

and it does allat 😭

[rapid stag]

what if you wanted to test your joker

but localthunk said

[tall wharf]

nope

[versed swan]

How do I detect if a Joker is moved around in the tray?

[zealous glen]

4-5

[unkempt thicket]

You can make a patch in the Card:move(dt) function

[zealous glen]

Also how are you choosing what to draw @tall wharf ?

[tall wharf]

wdym

[zealous glen]

Actually maybe it doesn’t matter in your case if you draw all Aces before you can draw non-Aces

Well it does matter a little bit

Because players can sell it mid-round

Do you draw the Aces from the top to bottom?

[tall wharf]

it affects on shuffle

[zealous glen]

Ah ok

Well

Not ok

Oh but it does stack all Aces at the top

So selling won’t change the shuffle

[tall wharf]

yeah

[zealous glen]

hmmm

[tall wharf]

you can reap the effect at that moment

[zealous glen]

If one wants to draw an X card, the way to preserve uniform shuffling is to draw a random one from the deck, not the topmost

But most people don’t realize that I think

[versed swan]

sorry i should have clarified it a bit better, i mean like when a joker changes position in the tray (i.e. moved to the left of another joker, etc)

[unkempt thicket]

yea, that should work i used the same thing to make this

[hushed field]

I've hooked the set_rank function that cards have, which snaps a card to its spot

[tall wharf]

i just hook into shuffle because i think that's the best

i might as well shuffle once more when you sell the card

[zealous glen]

I had different types of such effects. Some draw an extra, specific set of cards. Some change the shuffling, but it doesn’t stack them completely

So either way I had to care about it, and reshuffling every time is too much

[versed swan]

i checked, there isn't a set_rank function/method?

[hushed field]

oh my bad, I'll have the name wrong

lm check the actual name

[tall wharf]

hi

[hushed field]

CardArea:set_ranks(), it's on the card area not on the card

[tall wharf]

actually what does set ranks do

[hushed field]

it snaps the position of cards in the card area

[tall wharf]

cryptic ahh name tbh

[hushed field]

took me some time to find it, that's for sure

[random turret]

any recommendations on where to start if someone wants to create their own balatro mod (mainly custom jokers)

[tall wharf]

ah

[plush cove]

reconsider

and if that doesnt work for you start here https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Your-First-Mod

[random turret]

alright

[versed swan]

i'll keep this in mind, but what is the "dt" parameter for?

[versed swan]

it seems to only activate whenever a new item is added/removed, not everytime an item is moved

[plain apex]

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

[zealous glen]

#⚙・modding-general message

[hushed field]

dt is time in seconds between two frames

[versed swan]

ah

[manic rune]

#1349064230825103441

[zealous glen]

I linked to your message

I couldn’t find the thread

[manic rune]

oh :3

yeah, i saw that

but i think i added a few more stuff to my thread that they will probably need

[fickle stag]

hi all, i'm thinking of trying to code a neural network to play Balatro, any recommendations on how I can get the game's state? ie. cards in hand, in deck, current jokers, possible hands to play etc.

I'm not sure how the modding system in the game works or if I can access these kinds of stuff, any help is appreciated :D

[manic rune]

G.STATES

but thats likely not what you are looking for

G.play, G.hand, and G.jokers mean the playing hand, cards in hand, and jokers in your joker area respectively

[hushed field]

the source code is fully accessible! I'm not sure what approach you wanna take when it comes to a modding framework, whether you just want to read the gamestate of a vanilla game, or if you want it to interface with a mod that passes that info, because Steamodded does give you some different options when it comes to accessing info

[zealous glen]

There was a mod for replays, I think that would help

[fickle stag]

i was thinking of coding my neural network in Python and interfacing w the mod api somehow to get the variables that way, the other way round (eg. playing the game via Python) would be nice too

[fickle stag]

may I know the mod's name? :D

[zealous glen]

Idk but it was @mellow sable’s I think

[hushed field]

I've written theses about neural nets but I secretly understand jackshit about them, so I can't say too much, but that'd definitely be very possible. The game makes the current game state super accessible, and lua can call python functions incredibly easily, as far as I understand it. SMODS wiki will be a good help, and luckily all the code is open source. The main thing you'll wanna be able to check are which cards are in the card areas, after all, and that's not too difficult

[fickle stag]

i'm even more clueless about neural nets too HAHAHH i'm just trying to learn and thought making it play my favorite game would be cool :p

[hushed field]

It'll really depend on what info you wanna pass through to the nn, but the difficult part of your plan is making a nn, not making it interface with balatro, so that's definitely a good sign!

[sudden pike]

Is there some method already set up for converting a card id (that you get from card:get_id) to a playing card prefix (like K_H)? i'm about to make my own utility function for it but it feels like there should be an array or an existing method for that.

or shouldn't i be using create_playing_card()?

[manic rune]

...why the fuck is this not "number" 💔

[plush cove]

are you asking for solutions or criticizing code

[manic rune]

im threatening myself

i will quite literally throw myself off a bridge rn :3

its been inside the function to inflict status effects on playing cards

for the past few weeks

💔

i just recently noticed it

[manic rune]

you aint rizzing me up

[gleaming zealot]

i didnt want to do that

i have a girlfriend so

[manic rune]

oh, good for you

[plush cove]

[fickle stag]

omg hi

[manic rune]

this led to uhhh debuffs being able to stack infinitely

:3

[gleaming zealot]

haii :3

[tall tangle]

OMG no way me tooooooo

[opal holly]

Quite a nice informative guide, I'll be studying this alongside Lua so get a feel of the mod dev experience before I work on my first actual mod

[manic rune]

:3 you can also check #1349064230825103441, i made sure to gather everything a beginner will need in there

[clear mason]

where does one find a list with all the jokers?

like the atlas

[manic rune]

card.lua in balatro source code

but thats a very vague question, there is also the one file with all the jokers' keys

[clear mason]

No like the picture

image

[manic rune]

spritesheet?

[clear mason]

yeah

[opal holly]

I've been checking out the code for NeatoJokers mod because its mostly a joker mod (with hatsune joku sounds), really like the organisation

[clear mason]

I see

[manic rune]

bruh

[rapid stag]

turns out the game already keeps track of specifically every single consumable use ever.
i was just able to do G.GAME.consumeable_usage['c_neptune'].count

useful info in case anyone else needs it

[gilded blaze]

couldn't create a Jack on playing King and Queen 😭

[fickle stag]

is there any documentation on how the game seeds work? like how do shops, card drawing, rerolls work etc

[manic rune]

pseudorandom stuff

it works like math.random(), but remains the same if you replay the seed

[fickle stag]

i mean like how do people do seed science to find ante 1 soul etc

HAHAHHA

[red flower]

the game just passes a seed to math.random basically

[fickle stag]

wait it's in the game code right

[red flower]

yeah look for pseudorandom in functions/misc_functions

[fickle stag]

oooo okies

thanks <333

[hushed arrow]

what's a key, like for example key = "fours" in one of the example mods. Is it like something that you can use to reference?

[red flower]

it's basically the ID of the object that you're making

you have to use that id to reference it in other places

[hushed arrow]

aight got it

[mellow sable]

Ankh

[zealous glen]

Probably with one of MathIsFun’s tools

[zealous glen]

@mellow sable also made the replay mod I think

[fickle stag]

oh cool

okay

!

[gilded blaze]

😭

[manic rune]

is this a bit too simple

[fickle stag]

wait so i can just set up a socket server in lua and make it listen for my python right

it's just normal lua?

[hushed field]

I'm not sure I can help you with that, I've never had to make them interact, I just know it's not too difficult! I'm sorry!

[fickle stag]

npnpnp thanks

[clear mason]

ok so uhh

how do I package this

[iron iron]

this joker turns 4s into an enhancement in my mod. currently it does nothing. is it context.before not being the right one or smth like that

wait i can copy midas mask

i may be stupid

[turbid maple]

you're iterating over G.play.cards with v as the variable but in the body you have context.other_card

[gleaming zealot]

a lesbian one :3

[plush cove]

have you two done crime yet

[iron iron]

instead of v:is_face what do i put

[hushed arrow]

does config = { extra = { chips = -100 } } work? can the extra chip accept negative numbers? because it works with mult = -100

[faint yacht]

if v:get_id() == 4 then if you are to modify only 4s.

[iron iron]

yeah thats what i thought

still aint working

[red flower]

don't use context.other_card

use v

[iron iron]

ughhh i am stupid...

yet another 98% moment

still nothing

[frosty dock]

why context.cardarea == G.play

context.before doesn't need an area check

[iron iron]

i dont know

[frosty dock]

you should remove that check

[iron iron]

yeah i just did

[vast fractal]

Help: since im new to modding, i'm trying to make a joker that will act as a plasma deck when it triggers but the chips part is not working (or the whole thing is broken) 😭

[gilded blaze]

what a weird case
why would you not use full copy-paste
you're returning chip_mod and mult_mod, both of which are additive

[zealous glen]

Idk if there’s a SMODS recommended way to do it, but you can check out the Joker Syzygy in my mod for how I did it

Old video

[vast fractal]

it will result into null reference if I full copy paste the code from the deck, because of args part

[zealous glen]

@vast fractal you can find the code in the GitHub linked here https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1343670935122870342

[wintry solar]

maybe I should add a balanced return value

[vast fractal]

i forgor threads exists 😭

[zealous glen]

But when would it balanced

[gilded blaze]

I mean

[wintry solar]

when whatver card returns it triggers?

[gilded blaze]

just replace args with context

[quartz ravine]

How do you get it in the game? Well first save it with a one px margin on the left and right side, and put that in \assets\1x. Then you load it in your mod by adding an Asset line like this

[clear mason]

I got it working

just look at this absolute abomination

[quartz ravine]

Wow, this python resize script is awesome. Somehow when I try to do it by hand in Paint Dot net the image looks terrible

[zealous glen]

I think Balance should always apply last

[clear mason]

Wym terrible? do you forget to turn of smoothing or what?

[zealous glen]

So at the timing of Plasma Deck

Otherwise it’s imbalanced

[wintry solar]

no

it should apply whenever people want it to apply

[zealous glen]

True, but it’s easier to make it happen at calculation time than at the last possible second

Just create an event

And it works at the time the card triggers

No need to handle it automatically

But making it execute at the timing of Plasma Deck is harder

[wintry solar]

you just need to use the final_scoring_step context

being able to do return { balance = true } is much more beneficial to implement rather than locking it down

[quartz ravine]

Woot, this is looking pretty nice!

it's a riskier glass, I am really happy with how the shader turned out too

[zealous glen]

Ah is that new?

Maybe I can update Syzygy then

[wintry solar]

no

[zealous glen]

I meant new as in added by new calc

Because I had had to patch into Plasma Deck’s condition

For Syzygy

[wintry solar]

oh then probably yeah

[dire palm]

So, I'm working on making new challenges. How can I make it so flushes don't score during my challenge?

[gleaming zealot]

i think 2 in 5 is better probably

maybe

[prisma loom]

Is there a way to change the weights of Jokers of different rarities in the shop?

[tardy wind]

Look at how debuffs work

[vast fractal]

omg it finally worked, thank you

[ionic verge]

no response from smods yet, so imma use this

[modern kindle]

just for ref, it is both suit and rank in this so youll just have to make it suit if you want only suit, this was to make it like the flush 5 in basegame

[ionic verge]

mhm

thanks for tellin

im also moving it to a poker hand part, so i can use it for six card flushes, and flush varients of all the other six card hands

[gilded blaze]

message did not return in eval
am I wrong somewhere

[modern kindle]

sick, works out then

[maiden phoenix]

You could try using a card_eval func instead

[gilded blaze]

alr

you mean card_eval_status_text?

[ionic verge]

hmmm id like to note for your sake that this isnt affected by four fingers

that could be intentional but personally i want fingers to also reduce six card flushes to only require five, so im modifying that on my end

[modern kindle]

Ah yea i hadn't yet looked at vanilla stuff interacting yet
That makes sense

[ionic verge]

oh and also thinking about it it would also get a little fucky with wild cards

if ya want ill send you the solution i come up with once im done

[gilded blaze]

ah bummer
this is a deck effect, I couldn't pass in the deck itself for the first parameter

[modern kindle]

I actually haven't considered wild cards, I know the game still debuffs even wilds in specific blinds so I assume it still counts it as some form of a suit

[gilded blaze]

unless I'm doing it wrong

[modern kindle]

But absolutely send once you've messed with it if you don't mind

[hard flume]

Hihi. How do I go about organizing my jokers and other features into organized files?

[ionic verge]

like this?

[hard flume]

Yeah

[ionic verge]

add these to your main.lua file

create a modules folder

and put the files you want in that folder

(and make sure to name the files correctly in both main.lua and the modules folder)

[tall wharf]

in any case do you think the effect is a bit busted

[maiden river]

still doing localization stuff
how do you use the localize function again? there's only one example and it doesn't explain much 😭

[maiden river]

does this keep drawing until all of those cards are in your hand?
like if you had seven aces, does it draw all seven aces and then one other card (assuming a hand size of 8)

[ionic verge]

i think i got it to work, lemme test a little and then ill post it

[maiden river]

erm

[ionic verge]

<@&1133519078540185692>

[maiden river]

get this guy

[tall wharf]

no

[maiden river]

thanks mods

[ionic verge]

me being like an artillary spotter for the mods

[maiden river]

so how does it work
does it draw one card?

[tall wharf]

no

when you have to draw

you draw the prioritized ones first

[ionic verge]

yep it works

[ionic verge]

func = function(hand)
        if SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers') and #hand < 5 and #hand < 6 then 
            return {} 
        end -- Ensure at least 6 cards are present
    
        local suit1 = 0
        local suit2 = 0
        local suit3 = 0
        local suit4 = 0
    
        for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
            if v:is_suit('Hearts') then suit1 = suit1+1 end
            if v:is_suit('Spades') then suit2 = suit2+1 end
            if v:is_suit('Clubs') then suit3 = suit3+1 end
            if v:is_suit('Diamonds') then suit4 = suit4+1 end
        end

        local flood = {}

        if SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers') and suit1 >= 5 or suit1 >= 6 then
            for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
                flood[#flood+1] = v:is_suit('Hearts') and v
            end
        end
        if SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers') and suit2 >= 5 or suit2 >= 6 then
            for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
                flood[#flood+1] = v:is_suit('Spades') and v
            end
        end
        if SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers') and suit3 >= 5 or suit3 >= 6 then
            for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
                flood[#flood+1] = v:is_suit('Clubs') and v
            end
        end
        if SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers') and suit4 >= 5 or suit4 >= 6 then
            for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
                flood[#flood+1] = v:is_suit('Diamonds') and v
            end
        end
    
        return flood
    end

works with four fingers and wild cards just fine

[maiden river]

how does that work? Im curious

[ionic verge]

(this is currently set up to be a pokerhandpart, but its a pretty easy change to make it work for a pokerhand)

[modern kindle]

Awesome, thanks
I'm on my way into the city but once I'm back I'll grab it

[maiden river]

for that first if statement
do you really need #hand < 5 and #hand < 6, since anything less than 5 is less than 6 anyway?
I'm assuming that it's supposed to be #hand < 5 or #hand < 6 (for the lua ternary thing)

[ionic verge]

four fingers exists

though

ig i dont need that

can just check < 5

[maiden river]

what I'm saying is that it should be if SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers') and #hand < 5 or #hand < 6 then

[hard flume]

Hi hi!!! Gonna work on my first lovely patch today to hopefully make custom modifiers work

[ionic verge]

that didnt work

[ionic verge]

i tried that first

[maiden river]

oh wait
did you try if (SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers') and #hand < 5) or #hand < 6 then

[ionic verge]

no

i kinda presumed that didnt matter

[maiden river]

it does

[ionic verge]

yeah the same is true

i can use not statements though

to get the right effect

[hard flume]

Once I get that done, I'm gonna try and add an Area System to Balatro.

But once I get those two things done, the core features of my mod will be done and I can work on adding whatever fits my mind

[sullen fern]

now i need to figure out how to exclude specific suits from all decks

[maiden river]

oh find_card returns a table
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be next(SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers'))

[ionic verge]

oh

[maiden river]

like how find_mod works

[hard flume]

I think this will be the hardest part of my mod, but I think it will be worth it

[ionic verge]

yknow what

imma just check for hand being <5

[tall wharf]

@maiden river ok i recorded the video

[ionic verge]

SMODS.PokerHandPart {
    key = "flood",
    func = function(hand)
        if #hand < 5 then 
            return {} 
        end -- Ensure at least 5 (for four fingers) cards are present
    
        local suit1 = 0
        local suit2 = 0
        local suit3 = 0
        local suit4 = 0
    
        for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
            if v:is_suit('Hearts') then suit1 = suit1+1 end
            if v:is_suit('Spades') then suit2 = suit2+1 end
            if v:is_suit('Clubs') then suit3 = suit3+1 end
            if v:is_suit('Diamonds') then suit4 = suit4+1 end
        end

        local flood = {}

        if (next(SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers')) and suit1 >= 5) or suit1 >= 6 then
            for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
                flood[#flood+1] = v:is_suit('Hearts') and v
            end
        end
        if (next(SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers')) and suit2 >= 5) or suit2 >= 6 then
            for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
                flood[#flood+1] = v:is_suit('Spades') and v
            end
        end
        if (next(SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers')) and suit3 >= 5) or suit3 >= 6 then
            for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
                flood[#flood+1] = v:is_suit('Clubs') and v
            end
        end
        if (next(SMODS.find_card('j_four_fingers')) and suit4 >= 5) or suit4 >= 6 then
            for i,v in ipairs(hand) do
                flood[#flood+1] = v:is_suit('Diamonds') and v
            end
        end
    
        return flood
    end
}

SMODS.PokerHand
{
    key = 'flood',
    chips = 35,
    mult = 5,
    visible = false,
    l_chips = 20,
    l_mult = 2,
    example =
    {
        {'S_2', true},
        {'S_6', true},
        {'S_9', true},
        {'S_J', true},
        {'S_K', true},
        {'S_A', true},
    },
    evaluate = function(parts,hand)
        return parts.sixf_flood
    end
}

[maiden river]

okay yeah that's what I was saying
so all of the cards you have of that type are drawn first

[ionic verge]

ok heres the fixed version

[bold sleet]

hello and goodbye

[maiden river]

actually are there any mods that are completely able to be localized I can look at for reference?
the docs are lackin lmao

[fickle stag]

how do I see print logs in my mod?

am I even doing it correctly? i made a directory and moved it to Mods/ basically but I don't see any change unless I did a silly

[maiden river]

that should be right
if you don't have DebugPlus installed, you should install it; it shows you the logs ingame

[red flower]

both my mods have localization files and one of them has translations if that helps

[fickle stag]

uh nothing shows up in game

[maiden river]

other than that, I don't know if it's the same on mac, but you can look at the other window that spawns to see them

[maiden river]

what a goat

[red flower]

https://github.com/nh6574/JoyousSpring/tree/main/localization
https://github.com/nh6574/JokerDisplay/tree/main/localization

[maiden river]

oh yeah I forgot that my mod is jokerdisplay compatible

[fickle stag]

okay something's def wrong the "mods" menu doesn't show up

hmm

i'm running the love thing directly

[maiden river]

is your smods folder nested

[fickle stag]

uh no

[maiden river]

huh
interesting

I'm not too familiar with mac tbh, but I'm assuming you followed the instructions
it's probably better to ask someone else tbh

[tall wharf]

hi

[maiden river]

hello

[tall wharf]

@fickle stag I'm sorry for going off topic but why are you in Thailand 😭

[fickle stag]

internship :D

[tall wharf]

ah

[fickle stag]

i have to do an AI project

so like

balatro

[tall wharf]

fair

I'm also in Thailand funnily enough

[fickle stag]

ooooo sick

what for :o

[tall wharf]

uh

I

live here

[fickle stag]

OH

cool !!!