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[deft niche]

no dwdw

[unkempt thicket]

It's not released yet, but i'll be part of familiar

[deft niche]

it's that in the source code I can't find it, so I'm assuming it's a mod only thing

[noble schooner]

(pleasedon'tsmitemeforaskingthis)
Anyone know any good tutorials for learning lua?

[hushed field]

it's definitely in the source code! but it takes arguments, so if you're searching the codebase with closed brackets, it won't pop up!

[neat plover]

IT ACTUALLY TRIGGERED YIIPPPEEEE§§!!!!§§ but know i get this error after playing a hand

[hushed field]

https://tenor.com/view/smite-smite-2-moba-conquest-logo-gif-7918795321323520002

[noble schooner]

NOOO

[hushed field]

(I don't know of any good tutorials, but it's an entirely reasonable and worthwhile question to ask 😛 )

[noble schooner]

is vaporized

o, oki

[agile thistle]

if you're willing to snoop around a bit the Lua Manual itself is a nice resource https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/

[hushed field]

read the error message, it explains what and where your code is going wrong

[agile thistle]

it sorta has the assumption you know a little programming background though

[agile thistle]

also, the LÖVE wiki! for love-specific things https://love2d.org/wiki/Main_Page

[neat plover]

idk wat it means tho

[hushed field]

you're not defining a card area

[hushed field]

indexing means you're trying to see a specific element in a table or list. Nil means it doesn't exist, so you can't index it

[deft niche]

what does calculate_effect do, roughly? so I can get a better idea of what I'm looking for

[hushed field]

I haven't ever used it I don't think 😬

[red flower]

you know the tables you return in calculate witht he messages and the chips and stuff? well, you can put that in SMODS.calculate_effect(table, card) to use them outside of calculate

[neat plover]

like this?????

[red flower]

so for a message you do SMODS.calculate_effect({message = "hi"}, card)

[hushed field]

please just try your code before asking if it's going to work, man

[deft niche]

Can I use this to make a trigger happen during the 'joker trigger' and not the initial scoring of the card?

[deft niche]

I feel called out, lol

[hushed field]

don't 😛

[red flower]

idk the timings so I'd just try it out

[deft niche]

I still don't understand the syntax but I'll just brute force it ig

[red flower]

you haven't truly learned until the game has crashed on you 100 times

[hushed field]

It took me 2 days to get abductions to work and I still don't understand exactly why it didn't work in my earlier implementations 😛

[deft niche]

for example, how would I go about putting this inside a calculate_effect? wouldn't it defeat the point of having it be an event in the first place?

[hard flume]

I've already reached that I think

[neat plover]

it is working now, but its triggering every turn

[red flower]

no, put calculate_effect after juice_up() like this SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Chaos!'}, ocard) and remove the other message

[next timber]

what the, how come for gold seal the ability.seal table is empty

[hallow slate]

How do I hide custom suits until they have been discovered in game?

[next timber]

no this seems to be the case for every vanilla seal

[deft niche]

but then the trigger would happen at the same time as the card's scoring, it would be extremely confusing

[next timber]

i guess i gotta hardcode gold seal support

[deft niche]

unless I'm misinterpreting

[hushed field]

[red flower]

wdym

[deft niche]

like, the "chaos" message and the modifier changes would happen in the same frame as the card scoring its chips

[red flower]

events are queued and don't happen at the same time

[deft niche]

oh ok

I'll try then

[next timber]

im gonna. not include money in the black hole card

at least for now

[deft niche]

because here it does them at the same time (except the text popup)

[red flower]

i mean, try it maybe I'm wrong

I was just following up on what Ice said so I don't know the full context of what was discussed before

[deft niche]

yeah sadly it works as I'd anticipated

the animations just happen at the same time

and the joker doesn't even juice up ahah

[deft niche]

nw

[noble schooner]

I'm just gonna smile and wave for now-

[gentle rain]

hypothetically could you just divide chips by 9999 and have it round up to 1 to achieve setting it to 1 chip

doesnt the flint divide and round up

[deft niche]

i tried adding a 1 second delay to the event but it just delays the text too

[hushed field]

i definitely used it before but I'm not finding it my code, what's the proper way to get the key for a card?

[deft niche]

and if I try to put the text before the event it crashes

[hushed field]

center.config.key, I remembered

[noble schooner]

me, having opened ModdedVanilla.lua and is now trying to modify the Perkeo example but doesn't know where the hell any of these keys are stored:

[red flower]

try putting the event inside the return func I told you about before

[red flower]

what keys

[deft niche]

like this?

[noble schooner]

idk what they're called but like

the context.ending_shop and e_negative
where would I find a list of those

[red flower]

return {
   message = ...,
   colour = ...,
   func = function()
       G.E_MANAGER:add_event(...)
   end
}

@deft niche

[fallen osprey]

oh sorry didnt realize somethin was goin on

[rapid stag]

does anyone have any insight as to why my take ownership isn't working as it should?

[red flower]

for the contexts: https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/calculate_functions
for the other keys you have to look at the games code

[red flower]

use SMODS.add_card instead https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Utility

how many of aure's cat can fit on the screen

[deft niche]

OMG IT'S PERFECT

thank you so much

[fallen osprey]

sorry im new to modding I just started this today, where do I add the SMODS.add_card

[red flower]

replace all 3 lines inside the if for that

[fallen osprey]

(i god the base code from a tutorial so 🤷‍♂️ )

ok

[red flower]

also use the joker's key instead of the name

[deft niche]

I'm still trying to understand why it works
like, it needs to execute the return function all at once, so it requires to wait until the text appears before changing the cards' properties???

or something

[red flower]

it would be something like j_modprefix_key

[hushed field]

make the counter something you're storing on the card, not a global!

so in the confix.extra

like any other variable you want to keep consistent!

[thorn ridge]

tht makes sense

[thorn ridge]

so to access it i would do card.ability.extra.counter?

[hushed field]

yup 😄

[stiff locust]

alright chat how do I make a soul-like consumable

[fallen osprey]

Another thing im trying to fix, How do I make this display correctly

[red flower]

it's not +:mult it's just {C:mult}

[fallen osprey]

ok

thank you

you are a godsend istg

[stiff locust]

also is there a context.other_joker for consumables or nah

[red flower]

other_consumable

or consumeable one of the 2

[thorn ridge]

The card won't trigger after 6 hands or take away money. The money part I get I did wrong. but im not sure why its not activating

[hushed field]

give me a sec to figure it out, the indentation is a bit confusing

[hushed field]

you're not returning properly

[stiff locust]

right click and press format document and itll fix indents for you

[hushed field]

you're returning a value, but the game doesn't know what it is

[fallen osprey]

ok i got the + and color stuff but its saying nil

[red flower]

what's the code?

[formal parrot]

Because it has no value

Just make it one

Or zero

[fallen osprey]

i dont know how to set the value

[dusty void]

you need to make a loc_vars function to tell it what the values are

[deft niche]

sorry to bother yet again but I still don't understand how to give a joker class both the legendary background and the legendary's png

[stiff locust]

soul_pos for the front layer

assign a location in spritesheet the same as when you declare the pos of the regular joker sprite

[chrome widget]

I have no mods enabled except SMODS/Lovely, and I encounterd a regular Overstock in the shop after having already redeemed one?

[shut crest]

Can someone help me on This bug

Wrong chat

[deft niche]

oooohhhh

ok now I got it I feel stupid

thanks

so it needs to be double the normal joker sprite in width?

[stiff locust]

no

why would it have to be

what

[deft niche]

ok then I don't get it

[stiff locust]

there is a separate sprite position on the atlas for the second layer

[deft niche]

how can the sprite contain both bg and character if i make it normal sized

[stiff locust]

there is a separate sprite position on the atlas for the second layer

[zealous glen]

how did you redeem the first one

[chrome widget]

Just as usual, bought it the ante just prior

[deft niche]

so this is incorrect?

[stiff locust]

no that's correct

the second layer is not in the same position as the first layer

therefore the second layer is in a separate position

[deft niche]

oh ok
then we were both saying the same thing without understanding each other

[zealous glen]

send a bug report in a proper channel then I guess

[chrome widget]

I'm not certain this is a vanilla bug though

[stiff locust]

is there a way to override the badge for a consumable's type

[zealous glen]

I didn't say to report it to thunk. I said to report it to the proper modded channels

[stiff locust]

i wanna give a particular set of consumables a different badge color and name

but i don't wanna have to make an entire new consumable type for that

[zealous glen]

I know you can add extra Badges

you can probably remove specific Badges

[stiff locust]

well then how do I do that

is there any mod that does that

[hushed field]

set_card_type_badge(self, card, badges) would work

[zealous glen]

I used to add a new Badge

but I forgot how

[stiff locust]

can you give an example of how to use this

[hushed field]

lm check, I think I use it on some stickers

no wait, stickers have hide_badge ofc

[stiff locust]

well if i can hide the original badge and add a new one that works too

[hushed field]

set_card_type_badge = function(self, card, badges)
badges[#badges+1] = create_badge(localize('k_spell'), G.C.PURPLE, G.C.WHITE, 1.2 )
end,

is how I use it on a custom game object, but that's directly at the source. I suspect that if you use it on a specific item, it'd overrule it and not create that badge

it would also allow you to just kick things from the badges table, as it's exposed in that function

[stiff locust]

i will give it a shot

[stiff locust]

wait but

[thorn ridge]

How would I go about taking away money from the player

[stiff locust]

if you start it with badges[#badges+1]

couldn't you just do badges[1] to override the first badge

[hushed field]

yes

[stiff locust]

yeah okay this should work

[hushed field]

that's what I meant with kicking it, haha

[stiff locust]

oh isee

[stiff locust]

ease_dollars(-10)

[stiff locust]

oh it worked easily thanks a million

[hushed field]

😄

[next timber]

all current content for boplatro (name subject to change):

chat do i make the asbestos enhancement or the big edition next

[dusty void]

big edition sounds funny

[next timber]

asbestos enhancement: x3 mult, decrease by x0.1 every card played (can reach x0)
big edition: takes up 2 slots, all values doubled

[minor furnace]

how do I import a file into main?

[quartz ravine]

Lol, somehwo my legendary card has no foreground!

[minor furnace]

I am finally breaking my content into different files

[minor furnace]

thank you kindly

[next timber]

what language are shaders written in?

[quartz ravine]

It's love2d shader format, which uses a file / convention called fragment shader

[thorn ridge]

How do I minus from the players chips, but not like the total they have scored so far.

[agile thistle]

looks like it's based on GLSL

[quartz ravine]

It has a full longer name too, let me look it up

OpenGL has its own shading language: GLSL (openGL Shading Language). GLSL can be a little overwhelming and there are not alot of really basic 'get to know' GLSL out there, this article will help you grasp some of the fundamental concepts of this wonderfull language.

sorry

anyone have a working example of how to do the floating effect like Yorick and co have? I didn't see it listed in the smodded docs!

[zealous glen]

soul sprite

[thorn ridge]

.

[zealous glen]

it's there

[zealous glen]

where

[thorn ridge]

In the ChipsXmult

[zealous glen]

no

Where is the effect coming from

[quartz ravine]

Ah, I had my floating guy in the background, lol

[latent portal]

hi chat

[zealous glen]

hello sylveon

[thorn ridge]

Joker

[zealous glen]

when

[quartz ravine]

My first legendary joker!

[zealous glen]

I think returning {chips = …} should work most of the time

[zealous glen]

Hatsune Joku!?

[latent portal]

does anyone know how to reference the description for negative consumables? i tried but it keeps crashing, and G.P_CENTERS.e_negative just puts the description of negative jokers

[zealous glen]

there is another key for negative consumeables

[tardy wind]

negative consumables are a thing ?

[zealous glen]

but Idk if you can access directy

[zealous glen]

perkeo

[latent portal]

yea

[zealous glen]

I mean

[latent portal]

i can't

[tardy wind]

ive never went over green stake

[latent portal]

it crashes

[tardy wind]

so perkeo i have never seen

[zealous glen]

I don't know if you can do it except by accessing them directly

[zealous glen]

not what I said ;P

[red flower]

info_queue[#1116390750314307698_queue+1] = {key = 'e_negative_consumable', set = 'Edition', config = {extra = 1}}

[cursive ocean]

Is there a way to do something like

SMODS.Joker:take_ownership('baron', {
    ...
    doSomething = function (self)
        print("hello cruel world")
        return true
    end
})

and then in another function do

if self.ability.name == 'Baron' then
  self.doSomething()

the function assignment works/doesnt throw any errors, and there is other code that currently runs correctly in the if statement

it throws

 attempt to call field 'doSomething'

[thorn ridge]

ur being confusing af

tbh

[zealous glen]

I said {chips = …} should work

[thorn ridge]

DIdnt see it

[latent portal]

is the I in info_queue supposed to be capitalized

[thorn ridge]

I was looking at the message you replied to, this was after it

[red flower]

no, and it wasn't in the code i copied

[zealous glen]

yeah this is accessing it directly

[red flower]

weird discord thing i guess

[chrome widget]

Uhh curiosity, I'm working on UI for locked/undiscovered cards, and for whatever reason, my general mod badge doesn't show up on the undiscovered/locked tooltip, but the custom badges I added in addition to the main mod badge do. How do I enable the mod badge on the former or disable the custom badge on the latter?

[zealous glen]

you can probably check if the card has been discovered (or not) to choose not to add the badge

[zealous glen]

syntax error

You forgot something

[chrome widget]

I'm just more confused why I'd have to manually add the main mod badge back

[zealous glen]

a } or an end etc.

[zealous glen]

I think the logic is that you should hide the custom badge

not that you should show the main badge

but whether that should be the logic is a different topic

[thorn ridge]

I can see that

But im not noticing where

[chrome widget]

I'm thinking I'd prefer to show the main mod badge

[zealous glen]

try an extension that formats Lua code

[chrome widget]

Since the groups of badges for undiscovered cards makes collection a little more exciting (see: I've completed this group!!)

[red flower]

ok i went for the crazy route of adding a chain of extra to the return of every calculate

lets see if it works

[zealous glen]

Maybe ask in the SMODS thread or the SMODS server or GitHub then

[deft niche]

quick question, what's the {C:color}{} for light gray (the color scaling jokers have for text in brackets)

[red flower]

inactive

[deft niche]

thanks

[noble schooner]

I set up the json metadata for my mod but steamodded still isn't detecting it

nvm, I'm stupid lol

I forgot to rename my .lua file to the correct name 😭

...nevermind again, that didn't fix it

[chrome widget]

Whelp, I managed to force it by the same way I'm doing the other custom badges, which is technically not the best solution, but it is easier than patching the code

Seems SMODS doesn't do its normal badge code if it's undiscovered

But my custom ones don't check for it shrug

[noble schooner]

Anyone know why this isn't working?

[zealous glen]

Code?

[noble schooner]

Does it not like the version thingy?

[red flower]

try the version without the space

[zealous glen]

do you want to reduce player's chips by 50?

[noble schooner]

Didn't fix it

[zealous glen]

I didn't ask what Chips are, I asked how much you want to reduce it by

[thorn ridge]

yes..

[zealous glen]

put -50 then

[noble schooner]

actually, wait a minute

is there a mod limit on Balatro?

because I have 30 mods but only 28 are loading

[red flower]

i dont think so

[thorn ridge]

are u rage baiting

[zealous glen]

you didn't put -50

you put chips-50

[noble schooner]

nope, that isn't it then

[zealous glen]

as I said

[noble schooner]

wait wait wait, do I need a copy of lovely.toml in my mod's folder, or is that optional?

[red flower]

are you rage baiting? lol

[zealous glen]

you didn't put -50

you put chips-50

[red flower]

thats optional

[zealous glen]

write chips = -50

inside the brackets

[noble schooner]

OHH

[zealous glen]

that are returned

[noble schooner]

does the id have to be lowercase?

[red flower]

are you sure the problem is the json

[noble schooner]

I'm brand new to modding so I have no clue lol

er, brand new to making mods

[zealous glen]

what's your issue

[noble schooner]

my mod isn't loading

at all

[zealous glen]

does it detect your mod

[noble schooner]

no

[zealous glen]

do you have python

[noble schooner]

yep

3.12 and 3.13

should I do something on python?

[zealous glen]

go to the Steamodded folder and run tk_debug whatever .py

[minor furnace]

is there an smods parameter for custom undiscovered consumable sprites?

[zealous glen]

then open the game

[zealous glen]

I think so

[hushed field]

yes, for sure

there's undiscoveredSprite, i think. lm see how i did it for confections

yeah, it's just a this. It will have the standard circle with a question mark in it, though

SMODS.UndiscoveredSprite {
key = "confection",
atlas = "kino_confections",
pos = {x = 0, y = 3}
}

[noble schooner]

2025-03-16 19:09:29 :: ERROR :: Loader :: Found invalid metadata JSON file at C:\Users\crisp\AppData\Roaming\Balatro\Mods/Galaxia/Galaxia.json, ignoring: [lovely json "libs/json/json.lua"]:185: unexpected character '' at line 15 col 20

oh

[zealous glen]

another debug script user joins the community

[noble schooner]

I swear to god if it's the comma

[zealous glen]

there's threes of us! threes!

[minor furnace]

thanks! I'll try this out

[noble schooner]

nope, wasn't the comma

WAIT A MINUTE

it complains that I have a comma on line 15 col 20, then complains that I should have a comma there when I remove it??

make up your damn mind 😭

OHHH

I forgot the brackets

OKAY THE GAME CRASHED, IT DETECTS THE MOD

[thorn ridge]

Where would I start looking if I wanted to setup a joker that only activates when you have a certain other joker.

[chrome widget]

Most effects based on having a speific joker would now use the condition if next(SMODS.find_card([key])) then

In vanilla, it's if next(find_joker([name])) then

[hushed field]

_joker.config.center == G.P_CENTERS.j_splash is how I do it in my code

with _joker just being what I named my variable in the loop this is in

[red flower]

check for next(SMODS.find_card("other_joker_key"))

[deft niche]

it's giving me a nil error at this line

i've tried changing the syntax a couple times but same thing happens

[minor furnace]

how did you declare the new pool/consumable type?

[noble schooner]

Now I'm getting this error and can't figure out why

[hushed field]

I don't remember by heart, but it's in my mod in the consumeables folder under Confections, if you're in a hurry. Can check for you in a few minutes!

[noble schooner]

(also yes I'm using ModdedVanilla.lua as a base)

[minor furnace]

thanks! I'll see if I can dig around for it in your mod files then (if I can find your mod)

[frosty dock]

there's a comma missing here

[deft niche]

apparently it gives me an error each time I try to use the prefix 'ability'

[noble schooner]

oh, thank you!

aaand now it's not detecting my atlas

sigh

[frosty dock]

use card, not self

[deft niche]

oki

do I keep ability?

[frosty dock]

yeah

just replace self with card within the entire function

(also remove card = self)

[noble schooner]

fym failed to collect file data for Atlas GLX_Galaxia 😭

[stiff locust]

getting a thread error when trying to play a custom sound

[next timber]

trying and failing horribly to make a shader

[deft niche]

okok
do I delcare it before the if statement or remove it completely?

thanks fir your help btw

[stiff locust]

playing it with play_sound() properly and defined it properly but when i try to play the sound it just dies

[frosty dock]

that line you can just remove

replace all the others

[noble schooner]

does it pull from assets/1x automatically or do I have to tell it to do that?

[frosty dock]

do you have the 2x version too? you need both

[noble schooner]

oh

[next timber]

ok so the example ionized shader just. doesn't work anymore? fun

[frosty dock]

you have pixel smoothing on, so it looks for the 2x

[frosty dock]

what's the error message

[stiff locust]

full log

[stiff locust]

it just says thread error /shrug

[noble schooner]

HOLY CRAP IT BOOTED

[stiff locust]

i did the sound the same way i did my last custom sound and the other one works

[thorn ridge]

?

[frosty dock]

have you checked there isn't some mistake in the sound declaration and that the sound file is intact?

[stiff locust]

yeah windows can play the sound perfectly fine

the sound declaration i'm pretty sure i got right

[frosty dock]

j_modprefix_redbull

[stiff locust]

SMODS.Sound({
    key = "probability_st",
    path = "probability.ogg"
})

and i add the mod prefix before the sound key when playing it

[thorn ridge]

where do i put that

[stiff locust]

because that's how it works

and it's in the sounds folder

[frosty dock]

in place of redbull

[stiff locust]

yeah my other custom sound plays fine

idk what's up with this one

[frosty dock]

well something went wrong with getting the data of the sound

idk what would cause that other than incorrect path or malformed file

[stiff locust]

it might be the file? but idk how i'd check that

[frosty dock]

can i see the sounds folder

[stiff locust]

it looks fine to me and hasnt had trouble in any programs ive opened it in

[frosty dock]

keep the quotes

i'm just lazy

[stiff locust]

this is the only file in the sounds folder and the sounds folder is in the right place

[frosty dock]

that being inside assets

[hushed field]

did you manage to figure this out?

[minor furnace]

yeah I found it, thanks!

[stiff locust]

oh

right, yeah

[thorn ridge]

it still dont work

[hushed field]

great!

[stiff locust]

totally didn't leave the sounds folder in the mod root or anything

haha

[frosty dock]

expected, unless modprefix literally is your mod prefix 🥴

😭

[minor furnace]

well, I'm nearly there

[noble schooner]

???

why does this happen whenever I end the round with my joker

[thorn ridge]

oh thats my fault im stupid

[frosty dock]

you're doing the end of round check incorrectly

[noble schooner]

?

[frosty dock]

but also you're developing on old calc ...?

[noble schooner]

ah right, forgot I was on old calc

I play on old calc because Jen's Almanac doesn't support new calc yet

[frosty dock]

on new calc, the correct check for a single end of round trigger is context.end_of_round and context.main_eval

[next timber]

ok so the example mod for shaders just does not seem to work anymore unless ive royally fucked it somehow. i dont suppose anybody happens to have a perfectly commented shader with full explanations on hand

[frosty dock]

still i don't recommend developing on it

[noble schooner]

I'll switch to new calc

[red flower]

this code was slightly wrong but the idea worked 🔥
time to make a joker with a million stacked effects

[noble schooner]

so do I reinstall both lovely and smods or just smods?

[paper zealot]

If you create a copy of your Balatro installation somewhere else and rename the exe, you can have two entirely independent versions using different lovely, Steamodded, mods and saves

The folder in appdata uses the name of the exe

[frosty dock]

both, you should have 0.7.1 with latest smods

[minor furnace]

clearly I am missing a filed here of some sort

    key = "Zodiac",
    primary_colour = HEX("C61CBB"),
    secondary_colour = HEX("96108D"),
    loc_text = {
        name = "Zodiac",
        collection = "Zodiac Cards"
    },
    collection_row = {7, 2},
    shop_rate = 2,
    default = "c_reverse_aquarius",
}```

[formal parrot]

Doesn’t it need a name

[next timber]

lol

[minor furnace]

isn't the name in loc_txt?

[formal parrot]

Damn you named you consumable error

Who does that

[minor furnace]

trueee

I got a little silly

[formal parrot]

LMFAO

[minor furnace]

sorry I eated the name

[formal parrot]

Don’t you need a “,” after collection “zoldiac cards”

[frosty dock]

the loc_text in question:

[minor furnace]

oh shoot

[minor furnace]

no, because it's the last item in the table

[frosty dock]

I'll trade the e for an s at the end of collection_row

[minor furnace]

yeah that would do it

we're back in business

who would have thought spelling would be this hard

[hushed field]

hahaha i love that it's zodiac cards

[frosty dock]

how many zodiac sets does that make

[minor furnace]

idk, I haven't even checked to see if others exist

[formal parrot]

No cards ?

Yet?

[zealous glen]

8?

[minor furnace]

Sprite work resumes now

[formal parrot]

How many zodiac signs there are ?

[noble schooner]

alright, got newcalc working

[next timber]

ice please learn shaders so i can steal more code from kino 🙏

[minor furnace]

12, but I'm being quirky and adding in Ophiuchus too

[hushed field]

I literally don't understand anything about shaders ❤️

[next timber]

neither do i. which sucks when the error for a faulty shader is a big fat wall of nonsense

[frosty dock]

that makes 99.96% of us

[minor furnace]

top 10 reasons to never make a shader

[next timber]

i just want my joker to be big 😭

[frosty dock]

98% can't read, and 98% of those who can read don't understand shader code

[next timber]

literally thats all i need this shader to do. i need it to make the joker bigger

[hushed field]

Haha, I want to get into them, because I want some flair to add to abduction and spellcasting, but they I don't even know how to get started on shaders

[minor furnace]

shaders aren't real, they can't hurt you

[next timber]

ok what are some good recent mods with shaders i can rummage through the code of

cause im not entirely sure the example mod actually. works

[noble schooner]

AYY, it works!

[hushed field]

Aiko's been playing around with them, that's the only thing I know of that's recent

[deft niche]

less of a coding question and more of a logic question. The joker works as intended, except that it still gains 1 mult after being reset...

i don't understand what's making it do that

[zealous glen]

bunco, paperback, I don't have any in the alpha release but I did reference the examples to make my shaders

-# including Paperback's Dichrome

-# although they put another shader on top of mine

[hushed field]

Wait, you're hiding shader knowledge in that noggin, knuckles?

[zealous glen]

no

it was all from stupid's head

I just did the lobotomy

[hushed field]

Hahaha

[zealous glen]

well, myst did L corp not me

-#

[zealous glen]

it feels weird talking about someone whose username is stupid

"Who knows shader code?"
"stupid"
"well F you too buddy I'm just asking a question"

[frosty dock]

"stupxd"

[deft niche]

fixed it!

i was making it more complicated for myself than it needed to be

btw, every time I tweak anything in my code the required number of "end" changes, it's making me insane

lua really is the quantum language

[next timber]

ok i have stolen the fluorescent shader code from bunco and it is. not working

the shader does not display in the collection menu and after a few seconds it crashed

[rapid stag]

is there a way i can get the name of the currently active skin in 'customize deck'?

this text value at the bottom, basically

[scarlet thorn]

I am attempting to make a 1-to-1 copy of the "Raised Fist" joker from vanilla, however, once the blind is won, the round never ends. I am able to use all menus, I see no errors in console. I can provide the code used, but it is just a copy from vanilla, not context.end_of_round added.

[quartz ravine]

I have no idea how this fits into my mods theme now but I love it

[deft niche]

really happy that they're working
thanks a lot for the help guys 💝

[deft niche]

blursed

[next timber]

i am simply unintelligent

[quartz ravine]

Such a cute and christmasy little stocking

I love the tiled background on it

[scarlet thorn]

G.SETTINGS.CUSTOM_DECK

G.collab_credits

[next timber]

man boplatro_big_shader is fun to say

[deft niche]

thanks! The christmas colors weren't intentional, actually, I just used the opposite colors of spare trousers (which is blue and yellow)

[frosty dock]

else if isn't something you should use in lua btw. it's elseif

[rapid stag]

thank you!

[frosty dock]

the former works but it makes you need an extra end

[deft niche]

the joke is that with socks you can never find the other one, so it scales with everything BUT pairs

[next timber]

its a funny joker effect i like it lol

[deft niche]

oh ok, I'll keep that in mind!

thanks

[rapid stag]

would also like some insight, if anyone has any, as to why my steamodded take_ownership() isn't working as intended

[next timber]

is it safe to have two objects of different classes with the same key? i'd presume not but idk maybe the prefixes save it or smth
for example, can i have an Edition with the key "big" and then have the corresponding shader's key also be "big"

wait bunco does it so i presume its ok

[frosty dock]

yeah that's almost always fine

[next timber]

that almost unnerves me

[frosty dock]

centers are stored in a shared table but have different class prefixes, and anything else usually has its own map

[stoic sedge]

^ this

It's generally fine to do that unless you like, have some really odd edge case

[next timber]

ok the shader's working, now i just gut most of the effect stuff and make the joker 2x bigger lol

[scarlet thorn]

Forgot to mention, using new calc

[frosty dock]

I say almost because of consumables, they all share a class prefix

So you can't have a tarot and a planet with the same key

however they're not fundamentally different objects either

[noble schooner]

ah great, another random syntax error that I can't find

[gentle rain]

uhm. how do you type out an apostrophe without it being syntax

lmao

[scarlet thorn]

\'

[gentle rain]

ah

ty

[mental nacelle]

you could also use speech marks instead of apostrophes

[gentle rain]

would doing return math.max(math.floor(hand_chips = 1), 1) work?

[quartz ravine]

I do not know if that is possible, if the shader reshades every pixel, I don’t see how it could make the thing bigger

[gentle rain]

well im trying to write poker hands', poker hands" would be improper lol

[gentle rain]

also what is the point of the , 1) at the end? is that a boss blind thing or is it needed for math.max

[faint yacht]

math.max, yes.

[gentle rain]

right

[mental nacelle]

i meant "poker hands' (...)" lol

[gentle rain]

ohhh

yeah i guess but idk i use apostrophes

[noble schooner]

anyone know why this is happening? The bracket it's wanting me to close is already closed

[next timber]

transparent is a colour 🤷
there's an image in the docs of a shader changing the shape of a joker making it wavy so

i am indeed struggling though

[fallen osprey]

im having an issue where the +Chips value is copying the +Mult, Im assuming its because the +#1# being the same for the two but i dont know

[quartz ravine]

Here’s some thing weird

I tried making a card partially see through and found you i could not make it transparent with a shader

The cards background texture was still there

[next timber]

PROGRESS

THE TEXUTRE IS BIG BUT ITS BEING CROPPED

[mental nacelle]

each variable has a different #X#

#1# is your Xmult, #2# is Cmult and #3# is Cchips

[next timber]

im not gonna be able to uncrop it am i.

[noble schooner]

sigh

[fallen osprey]

im so dumb thank you

[mental nacelle]

it's ok, all part of learning

[noble schooner]

trying to find this stupid syntax error that Balatro is saying it's finding

despite the fact that I can't find it anywhere when I open the file in notepad++

oh

I had an extra end

anyone know where my save file is stored?

I wanna back it up because the card I made works like Gros Michel

[quartz ravine]

Crytpid has a huge joker card

[noble schooner]

total noob here, but maybe try changing the atlas sprite size?

[noble schooner]

found it :D

[next timber]

idk how i'd do that in an edition. though truth be told idk how to do much of anything in an edition lmao

[fallen osprey]

Ok, new problem, they are nil now.

[noble schooner]

ah, fair point

[quartz ravine]

I have a bunch of working editions I made, let me know if you’d like to see them

[next timber]

would i put the code in on_apply and on_load?

[noble schooner]

...but the value isn't nil? it's 4?

[mental nacelle]

ohhh i see why

(sorry forgot to reply to someone)

[mental nacelle]

vars is an array, it should be {center.ability.extra.Xmult, center.ability.extra.Cmult, center.ability.extra.Cchips}

[fallen osprey]

ohhhhh

ok

[noble schooner]

ohhh, I forgot about that LOL

[fallen osprey]

tysm

[mental nacelle]

np

[noble schooner]

aaand it still crashed :///

oh, I need game.probability

IT STILL CRASHED WTF

[mental nacelle]

gimme a sec to read through the file you sent

[noble schooner]

new file btw

[mental nacelle]

could you put a #3# in your joker text and screenshot what shows up in game?

(that refers to your variable that should be card.ability.extra.odds, if it is nil then it should say

[noble schooner]

Same thing

[mental nacelle]

wait does it crash on loading the game?

[noble schooner]

Nope

It crashes upon the end of the round

[mental nacelle]

could you show me the description of the joker (with the #3#)

in-game, i mean

[noble schooner]

1 in nil

I don't know why it's nil, I defined odds = 4

is it possible that it's a bug with smods?

[tardy wind]

show code

[mental nacelle]

i have no idea, actually

[tardy wind]

Would it be possible to share the code snippets for the loc_vars

[mental nacelle]

this is a very patchy way of fixing it but if worst comes to worst just stick a card.ability.extra.odds = 4 before you check for it

[tardy wind]

rather than full file

[fallen osprey]

how can I make this happen? Also, for future reference, is there somewhere I can look to find what to put together because I dont want to be dependent on y'alls help

[noble schooner]

loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
return {vars = {card.ability.extra.chips, card.ability.extra.chip_gain, card.ability.extra.odds, (G.GAME.probabilities.normal or 1)}}
end,

[thorn ridge]

How do I detect certain suites of playing cards and echancements in my current hand.
Im making a joker that will give a x3 multiplier if you have atleast 3 enchanced clubs in your hand.

[tardy wind]

dos card.ability.extra.odds have a value at this point ?

like in your config, how do you initialize the variable

[noble schooner]

wdym

wrong reply

[noble schooner]

wdym

I just did odds = 4

[tardy wind]

paste config object

[noble schooner]

config = {extra = {chips = 0, chip_gain = 1, odds = 4}},

given that chips = 0 and chip_gain = 1 work, I'd assume it'd just set card.ability.extra.odds to 4

[tardy wind]

yes

[noble schooner]

mhm

so why isn't it doing that

[mental nacelle]

you can find a list of example mods at https://github.com/Steamodded/examples, if you don't find what you need you could read the steamodded wiki or search for what you need in the modding channels

[tardy wind]

gimme a min ill take a look once i get to the computer

[thorn ridge]

.

[tardy wind]

Likely with a hook wherever it ups the ante

or i wonder if theres a context for boos blind defeated

[mental nacelle]

you could iterate through the played hand and check if each card is a spade and has an enhancement

[thorn ridge]

How do I get the played hand

I know how to iterate through stuff but how do I get the hand and detect suites/enchancements

[stiff locust]

G.hand.cards for held hand, G.play.cards for played hand

card:is_suit('Hearts') for suit

there's a few ways to get the enhancements

[gentle rain]

i might not be understanding how math.max works,,, the 4x mult works just fine but the base chips being set to 1 isnt doing anything

[stiff locust]

math.max chooses the largest number inside its arguments

[thorn ridge]

like?

[gentle rain]

ahhhh

[stiff locust]

if v.config.center == G.P_CENTERS.m_steel then
is how i do it, that one does it for steel

[gentle rain]

so i could just do math.max(1)?

[stiff locust]

well idk why you would do that

math.max(1) is the same as 1

[stiff locust]

you can also do G.P.CENTERS["enhancement key"] for this

[gentle rain]

yeah im trying to set the base chips to 1

[stiff locust]

so like G.P.CENTERS["m_splat_mammalized"] for the mammalised cards from splatro

if it's a modded enhancement it needs the mod prefix

[thorn ridge]

is there just a general way to see if a card is encahnced, like not caring aobut what enhancement

[stiff locust]

if not v.config.center == G.P_CENTERS.base or if v.config.center ~= G.P_CENTERS.base

where v is the card to check

[next timber]

damn it doesn't look like i'm gonna be able to make the big edition 😔 i literally just cannot find where a joker stores its display size, if it does at all

[gentle rain]

ok i completely misunderstood math.max sorry lol

i thought math.max was the command that set what the chips or mult was :P

[stiff locust]

no math.max is just a base lua thing

it chooses the largest number within its arguments

math.min also exists for the opposite, chooses smallest within its arguments

[next timber]

I FIGURED OUT HOW TO SCALE JOKERS

IT LOOKS GOOFY AF AND IS ALMOST DEFINITELY NOT WHAT YOURE MEANT TO DO

i feel like something as tucked away as card.role.draw_major.T.scale is something i should definitely not be messing with, but we'll just see how it goes

[thorn ridge]

This is wrong and doesn't work, its not spitting any sytnax errors or crashing.
So its def a logic error on my end.

[next timber]

but now im realising. is it actually possible to 'double all values' on a joker

[stiff locust]

for index, value in ipairs(G.play.cards do

do that

the index/value can be swapped with anything, a lot of people use i, v but i prefer writing them out fully

[gentle rain]

hmmm, so currently it sets it to 1 chip for a second before adding any number of chips immediately undoes it

was told to put hand_chips before return

[thorn ridge]

write out value?

aswell?

[stiff locust]

both need to be present but the variables can be anything

index is the numbered index you are checking
value is the current thing you are checking

[thorn ridge]

what do i put inplce of value

[noble schooner]

have you figured it out-

[stiff locust]

anything

whatever you want

[stiff locust]

you're only changing the display number i'd assume

[thorn ridge]

like it really doesn't matter?

[fallen osprey]

Of course in the middle of bug fixing my power goes out

[stiff locust]

as long as it's not a syntax keyword (like print) then yeah make it whatever you want

but you should probably keep it as i,v or index,value for readability

again value is the current thing in the loop so when you're checking cards here use value:is_suit("Hearts") for example

[thorn ridge]

still so confused

[stiff locust]

i'll break it down

[noble schooner]

hey, marie, you seem like you know what you're doing
do you know why odds is nil even though I very clearly set it to 4-?

[thorn ridge]

Is it skipping the need for my if statement

[stiff locust]

i'll get to you

[thorn ridge]

So its just checking for the value on each one automitcally

[tardy wind]

if theres an issue i cant find it sadly, everything does look fine

[noble schooner]

...sigh

pulls up github issues page for smods

[tardy wind]

what is (G.GAME.probabilities.normal or 1) in your loc_vars for

[stiff locust]

for index, value in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
will go through every card in G.play.cards in index order from left to right
G.play.cards is an indexed list, so you can refer to values in it with G.play.cards[1], G.play.cards[2], G.play.cards[3], which the loop iterates through with index
value is equal to G.play.cards[index], which is the current card being checked

[noble schooner]

I got it from the probability example used in the example mod for the gros michel

[stiff locust]

this is because sometimes G.GAME.probabilities.normal isn't present, like in the collection outside a run

[noble schooner]

the crash still happens either way, it seems to be unrelated to the crash

[stiff locust]

the or 1 prevents it from returning nil, it instead returns 1 if that value isn't there

[thorn ridge]

so what needs to be changed here

[stiff locust]

add and context.main_eval to make the end of round only trigger once

unrelated bug but a bug nonetheless

[noble schooner]

that bug's actually present in the example mod, funnily enough

it's what broke the first function lol

[stiff locust]

that is because the example mod was made before that was a problem

[noble schooner]

ah, fair

[stiff locust]

and before we had context.main_eval to fix it

[stiff locust]

change G.hand.cards[i] to v
instead of if v == card:is_suit("Clubs") you need to do v:is_suit("Clubs")

also you need to return the xmult at the end

[hard flume]

Yo :3

[formal parrot]

Hello

[stiff locust]

return { x_mult = card.ability.extra.Xmult} at the end instead of Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult

[thorn ridge]

so this

[stiff locust]

one more thing

right click and press Format Document to fix indents

it doesn't change the functionality of the code so you don't have to

but it makes your code easier to read

[thorn ridge]

aight

[hard flume]

Alternatively, you can do ctrl-A + shift-alt-f

[noble schooner]

hmm, so odds = 4 seems to be the culprit
if I manually set line 60 (the crashing line) to if pseudorandom('andromeda0') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/(card.ability.extra.odds or 4) then, the description still says 1 in nil but the actual function itself still works

[thorn ridge]

still doesn't pop

[noble schooner]

though actually the message doesn't appear properly

[stiff locust]

oh if it's just the description that is wrong

[thorn ridge]

This is the full code.

[stiff locust]

then hold on

[noble schooner]

nonono, I had to manually set the function to 4 in the line itself

[stiff locust]

oh also probabilities should use {C:green}

[noble schooner]

the card.ability.extra.odds is still nil

[stiff locust]

try adding a set_ability function that sets it to 4

[noble schooner]

a w h a t

[stiff locust]

you never reset clubcount back to 0 once you're done with it

unrelated bug but bug nonetheless

[stiff locust]

you wrote card.ability.extra.xmult in the return but the value is x_mult in the config = {}

remove the underscore from the config one

[stiff locust]

set_ability runs one time when the card is created

[noble schooner]

ah

so how would I go about doing that

[stiff locust]

it's like your calculate function

doesn't go inside any functions, just goes in the joker

[noble schooner]

oh, oki

[stiff locust]

here's an example of one from my rainstorm in tsunami

set_ability = function(self, card, initial, delay_sprites)
        card.ability.extra.nines = 0
        if G.playing_cards then
            for k, v in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
                if v:get_id() == 9 then card.ability.extra.nines = card.ability.extra.nines + card.ability.extra.moneys end
            end
        end
    end,

you need to end it with end, and the comma is VERY important it breaks otherwise

[noble schooner]

so should the first line be set_ability = function(self, card, initial) in this case?

[stiff locust]

no you still need delay_sprites

the first line should not ever be changed

even if you don't use those values

everything between the first and last line you can do whatever you want in there

[noble schooner]

alright, I got

  card.ability.extra.odds = 4
  end,```

[stiff locust]

yep that should do it

[noble schooner]

alrighty

[stiff locust]

i don't know why your value would be nil and someone more experienced can probably explain why

[thorn ridge]

Also, Unrelated but for some reaosn there is copies of my joker showing up in the collection, like 2 of each

[stiff locust]

but that should solve the problem indirectly

[stiff locust]

on your mods list are there 2 entries for your mod

[noble schooner]

it's still nil

lemme try putting it above the text

[stiff locust]

you could hardcode it

and just write 4 instead of card.ability.extra.odds being used

[noble schooner]

fair

I might have to do that

[stiff locust]

this will make it incompatible with value modification, like cryptid's oil lamp and betmma's gameplay update

[noble schooner]

yeah, looks like I'll have to do that

that's a weird bug though

[stiff locust]

if you see john aure smods around he'll probably know what to do

he's like the god of smods

[noble schooner]

oh yeah, he was helping me earlier

[thorn ridge]

One last question, How do I make a joker make specific consumbable,

Like a certain tarot card

[stiff locust]

quick tip for you

balatro is open source modding

go find something that does what you wanna do and borrow their homework

[noble schooner]

"Yo, what'd you get for number 8?"

[hard flume]

Hmm... How do I make it so a booster pack ALWAYS appears after a boss blind?

[stiff locust]

try looking at riff raft's code

there's a deck in there that forces a void pack to spawn in every shop

that's similar to what you wanna do

[hard flume]

Oki, oki got it.

[thorn ridge]

any tips of where to look for what i want

[stiff locust]

cryptid has almost everything but its code can be kinda confusing to read
as a more simple example for creating a specific consumable, MoreFluff has a joker called Bad Legal Defense which creates a Death tarot when boss blind is selected

[gentle rain]

ok i figured out the issue, it just doesnt work when the chips are changed at all during context.before

so how would i be able to reduce the chips before scoring then?

[stiff locust]

check how the flint boss does it

that reduces base chips and mult by half

[noble schooner]

THE JOKER WORKS WOOOOOO

[gentle rain]

i know ive been referencing it but it does it through Blind:modify_hands

[next timber]

is there any way to add custom conditions to whether a joker can be purchased/otherwise added to your jokers? i need to make sure Big jokers can't be obtained unless you have at least two free spaces left

[stiff locust]

you'd have to do a lovely patch

you can either modify the buy button to not work unless you have 2 free slots or you can try making big jokers take up 2 joker slots by default? maybe?

or they could just give -1 joker slot as an edition effect to simulate it

[next timber]

that is the effect it has

[stiff locust]

which would make you able to take one if you have only 1 slot free, but then you'd be 1 slot in the red

[next timber]

yeah you can still go 1 slot too far

thats the issue

[stiff locust]

uhhh maybe checkkk

morefluff's philosophical joker

that has code that allows it to be bought when your slots are full

like a negative joker

that might help? idk

[thorn ridge]

my jokers are still making duplicates for some reason

[thorn ridge]

Ive also been loking at the Smod docs and past chat history,
But still no way to just check if a card has ANY enchancement. Not just a specific one

[stiff locust]

i already gave you that method

[stiff locust]

this

should be it

if not, i'm misremembering, and the actual code for that should be in vampire's code

[opal spade]

if card.config.center.set == 'Enhanced' maybe?

[thorn ridge]

Vampires code is confusing cuz its not in SMODs format

[stiff locust]

the only thing that changes is changing self to card

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[thorn ridge]

Fair

I also still have my duping problem, I se that its making two mods but Im not sure how to get rid of it

[glacial bloom]

What software do you guys recommend for creating art for the jokers?

[stiff locust]

aseprite

[stiff locust]

it's because you have both a metadata.json file and a steamodded header, most likely

remove the steamodded header from your mod's lua file and it'll fix that

[gentle rain]

bleurgh is there any way i could happen during main.scoring but before any card is scored

setting the chips to 1 after context.before

[thorn ridge]

ahg, the check for enhancements still isn't working

[stiff locust]

you combined both of my methods and used the wrong one

you are checking for cards that do not have enhancements

either add not or change == to ~=

[gentle rain]

context.cardarea == G.play doesnt do anything

just crashes the game

buhhh

ok i have a solution, but it crashes saying "attempt to perform arithmetic on global 'hand_chips' [a nil value]"

essentially it triggers before the first card is scored but not on retriggers

[thorn ridge]

Still doesn't work.

It pops with or without any enchancements

[stiff locust]

i did tell you that you aren't resetting clubcount back to zero after you're done with it

so it's currently counting every club card you will ever play

so once you play 3 it will always give mult forever

[stiff locust]

you

changed the suit to diamonds?

[gentle rain]

how come hand_chips stops working when outside of context.before?

[thorn ridge]

this is a seperate card

[stiff locust]

right

no idea then

looks fine

[noble schooner]

Is ^Mult built into smods or would I have to program that myself?

[thorn ridge]

@red flower

Any idea why its not detecting enchancements

[solar eagle]

its in talisman i believe

[red flower]

please don't ping me for help, I help out when I'm lurking and I know the problem lol

[noble schooner]

oh, ty

[solar eagle]

target = '''=[SMODS _ "src/utils.lua"]'''
is this the proper format to lovely patch into smods? cause it is not working for me

[gentle rain]

where is hand_chips in the api documentation?

[hard flume]

Looking at rift rafts codes didn't help me

[solar eagle]

in the wha

[gentle rain]

typo, i meant api documentation :v

[gentle rain]

,

[iron orchid]

function CAL.BOSS.bosses_tab()
return {
label = "Bosses",
tab_definition_function = G.UIDEF.settings_tab,
nodes = {
n=G.UIT.T, config={text = "Bosses Completed", colour = G.C.UI.TEXT_LIGHT, align = "tm",
}
}
}

end

can someone tell me why my text injection is not working?

https://dpaste.com/5G8Q4YPZA

lua

toml:

https://dpaste.com/CD3AYDFQM

anyone up lol?

[next timber]

i have discovered a new problem with the black hole enhancement
right now so it doesnt get super op super fast, when it consumes a card with xmult it add's the card's xmult to it's own
however, all cards have 1 xmult by default, so it just. goes up by 1 for every card it consumes no matter what
i dont think i need to say how broken this is. how do i solve this

[iron orchid]

anyways, I'm gonna do some runs for now. feel free to @ me if you know what I'm doing wrong

[scarlet spire]

subtract the value it adds by 1

I think that works properly

if it doesn't, just checking if the xmult of the consumed card == 1 and not adding it if so should work

[stiff locust]

just reduce the value it takes by 1 ...

[next timber]

true

[stiff locust]

oh the other guy already said it

[gentle rain]

bleh this wouldnt work anyways it happens after the hand plays

AAAA sorry wrong replyu

ijgjgirjgigrjg

imeant to reply to myself imso sorry aaaaaaaa

[gentle rain]

yeah i need to do it before but like would i need to write a custom script to make chips carry over from context.before to the main scoring

cause i have noooo clue how to translate the way the flint does it to this

(im trying to set the base chips of a hand to 1)

soooo the flint has THIS which is like exactly what i need,,,, only it isnt a hand function but is a blind function

is there no way i could like use a blind function as a jokers ability

sorry for asking so much abt this i just rly wanna know if what i wanna do is feasible,,,,,

and i know very very little about programming ,w,

[iron orchid]

https://dpaste.com/GUUGJVPAD

getting closer I think, any help would be greatly appreciated

[red flower]

I think aure is adding that to smods soon so you might have to wait

[iron orchid]

@red flower hey joyous, I followed your lead but...well got stuck

[gentle rain]

ok ty !!!

ill leave this on the shelf for now then hehe

[red flower]

my lead on what

[iron orchid]

creating a new tab in the run info screen

and then filling it

For tonight I would feel really good to even get a label to show up

twitch.tv/calexil

live rn if you wanna follow along

[mental delta]

trying to do a basic texture pack anyone know what might be wrong with this code of if I need to do something.
this happens on start

[paper zealot]

Sounds like it's not finding the files. Are they located in YourMod/assets/1x and YourMod/assets/2x?

[mental delta]

so yes

[paper zealot]

You also have standard-size assets in 1x?

[gentle rain]

compromised .w.

now sets the chips to 1 during joker scoring
probably underpowered but whatevaaaaaaa its in

[mental delta]

what do you mean

[paper zealot]

You need to make two copies of all texture assets.
One at regular 1-to-1 pixel display size, located in /assets/1x, and a second 200% scale version in /assets/2x

[mental delta]

I have that yes

[thorn ridge]

Why doesi t show up as nil

[paper zealot]

Are the file types all .png?

[mental delta]

yes they are all edited pngs from the 7z extracted game files

[scarlet spire]

how can I do the description tag that blueprint and the fool have for their respective behaviors?

[paper zealot]

Just for a sanity check, that's AADeck_lc with a lowercase L, not an uppercase I?

[mental delta]

that is a lowercase l

[paper zealot]

Then i've run out of ideas, sorry

[scarlet spire]

what are your loc_vars?

well, even then, #3# wouldn't pull from config, right? it'd pull from loc_vars

[ivory coral]

Hello guys, i have this bit of code thats supposed to make my joker juice continuously if it detects a specific card in hand, but with this it just keeps juicing after playing the card too and i have no clue why. I've tried debugging it and it sets potential to false correctly but it still just keeps on juicing anyway

        local potential = false
        if context.hand_drawn or context.after then
            for k, v in ipairs(G.hand.cards) do
                if (v:get_id() == G.GAME.current_round.osquo_ext_bountyhunter_card.id and v:is_suit(G.GAME.current_round.osquo_ext_bountyhunter_card.suit)) then
                    potential = true
                    break
                else potential = false end
            end
        end
        local eval = function() return potential == true end
        juice_card_until(card, eval, true)```

[paper zealot]

My guess is that it's because your eval function is only using whatever the value of potential was when you create it, not a reference to the variable potential.
Try making potential a member of the card config in card.config.extras.potential, then access it through the card argument provided to the eval func when it's called:

local eval = function(card) return card.config.extras.potential end

[scarlet spire]

what do you want current: to be? you're calling for #4# but you only have two variables in your loc vars

[glad osprey]

is it possible to force a shop open

[ivory coral]

that can't be it though since it starts juicing correctly when the card appears in hand
the problem is that it will never stop juicing after it leaves the hand

[thorn ridge]

ah ui see nvm

[paper zealot]

It will juice until that eval function returns false, which it never will if potential is always nil

[ivory coral]

ok yeah that did fix it actually
i wonder why it starts off not juicing then though but oh well

[glad osprey]

guys i need help making my deck actually possible to beat

[paper zealot]

It's to do with values vs references.
When you declare eval as lua local eval = function() return potential == true end it's creating a function that will return (the value of potential when the function was created == true)
If instead you declare it as lua local eval = function(card) return card.config.extras.potential end it's creating a function that will return (the current value of the reference of ...extras.potential == true)
Hope that makes sense

[minor furnace]

what does it do rn?

[glad osprey]

start with one card in deck
x0.5 mult

fuck you

[stiff locust]

create splash after beating each boss blind
for moral support

oh my god I need to make splash give moral support somewhere in tsunami

i'll find a place for it

[glad osprey]

I love splash

[minor furnace]

so you literally cannot clear a blind without like a god-tier buffoon pack

[glad osprey]

whats the small blinds blind at in ante-2

[glad osprey]

that's where your wrong

you cannot get a buffon skip ante one

[minor furnace]

so it's literally impossible

[glad osprey]

WRONG AGAIN

charm tags babeeee

[minor furnace]

🤨

[glad osprey]

judgement

[minor furnace]

oof

spectral packs don't appear ante 1 either do they?

[glad osprey]

nopw

[minor furnace]

so you need a charm tag, judgement + fool

and have god-tier luck

[glad osprey]

yea basically

also the best deck of my mod is locked behind that deck so :3

[scarlet spire]

I'm seeing the UI code that the fool/blueprint use for their description tags, but I'm not quite sure how to implement it into the smods format?

are there any references I can look at for this, or anyone who knows about this

[noble schooner]

just released the first public build of my mod :D

ty for the help, everyone! /gen

[lilac tapir]

Hi! I'm new to modding Balatro and I'm attempting to make my first joker. I'm a bit familiar with Lua but not to the point of understanding what's going on in mods :/

I'm just trying to make a joker that checks if the played hand has 4 cards, and if it does, retriggers scoring cards 3 extra times.

I'm currently trying to get the joker to detect a specific number of cards played without any luck

[glad osprey]

context.scoring_hand is a table of the cards data

what you want is #context.scoring_hand

[lilac tapir]

so it'd be if #context.scoring_hand == 1?

[glad osprey]

also you want to check context.full_hand if you want the amount of card played regardless of scoring

[glad osprey]

yes

[rapid stag]

is it just not possible to take ownership of consumeables?

[lilac tapir]

Nope, amount of scoring cards

[glad osprey]

ah gotcha

[lilac tapir]

also is that the right way to put a message under a triggering joker?

[glad osprey]

yes, but it won't retrigger the cards

[lilac tapir]

cause currently not getting anything when i play one card with this updated

i know that much

[glad osprey]

oh wait

put it in a return

return {
message = "Again!"
}

[lilac tapir]

nice

gonna try that

oh a crash

[glad osprey]

also what you want is context.individual, not context.joker_main

[lilac tapir]

ah

[glad osprey]

whats the error?

[lilac tapir]

fixed it

It does do the text now!

now to make it repeat

I've been looking at the script for Neato's Hatsune Joku without much luck

[acoustic sundial]

Is there a function for checking if a playing card has an edition, or what edition is has? I've been looking for a bit and can't find anything

[fickle stag]

card.edition

if it's empty it has nothing, if not it's edition = {negative = true}

[acoustic sundial]

omg you're a life saver and I'm an IDIOT.

ty ty

[fickle stag]

so just check if card.edition.negative / anything ==true

to set an edition just use card:set_edition

example

idk what the second arg does

[acoustic sundial]

all good, thank you so much

[scarlet spire]

figured it out

[glacial bloom]

So i'm completely new to coding all together. No prior experience. Trying to create my own joker. I understand everything I have down currently, but I'm not sure how to actually implement it from here, any advice? (It's not meant to be balanced, just a first time project)

[paper zealot]

I think your next step is making the calculate function of the Joker:
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/calculate_functions

[paper zealot]

Also a teeny-tiny typo: I believe unLocked should be unlocked

[glacial bloom]

Do you know if it matters? It shows both variants whenever I type it

[glacial bloom]

but also, thank you!

[paper zealot]

@mossy ivy Moving the convo here since this is more about "how to make a mod"
Briefly if you wanted to use them, you would make a mod for either Steamodded or Steamodded + Malverk.

For the pure Steamodded approach, you can provide alternative Localization files to overwrite the names - puten-us.lua file within the localization folder containing your new names, using this format:
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Localization
This could be as simple as

return {
    descriptions={
        Joker={
            j_vampire={ name="Werewolf" }
        }
    }
}
``` if you just wanted to rename the Vampire joker to Werewolf, for example.

Replacing textures with Steamodded is more complex, but you can read through the SMODS documentation here to find out more: 
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Atlas


Alternatively, Malverk makes things way easier. It can replace both textures and localizations in one go, using something like:
```lua
AltTexture({
    key = 'joker',
    keys = { 'j_vampire' },
    set = 'Joker',
    path = 'MyMod_Joker.png',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'My Custom Werewolf Joker',
        text = { 'Werewolves', 'not swearwolves' }
    },
    localization = {
        j_vampire={ name="Werewolf" }
})

• You can find more on this guide:
  https://github.com/Eremel/Malverk?tab=readme-ov-file#using-malverk
  and look at any of these for good examples of how to define replacements:
  https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1342187005244866700
  https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1338027978935763055
  https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1323027321825001604
  https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1236675603495653416

[mossy ivy]

Oh dang

Much appreciated🙏

[paper zealot]

Only responding because I'm literally incapable of not answering questions, but for your purposes it's almost definitely easier to just replace the files in the exe and call it a day

[lost oar]

Quick question, is there a flag that checks if a Mr. Bones saved the player in the run? If not, is there a way to add events to existing jokers or replace them with a rewritten version of them?

[glacial bloom]

goated

[mossy ivy]

Fr

[mossy ivy]

See the thing is though

I've tried to do the easy way and got an error

Which literally doesn't make any sense

[paper zealot]

Is this is you opening Balatro.exe as an archive and dragging the replacement files in?

[mossy ivy]

Yup

[paper zealot]

Balatro definitely isn't running? Ctrl+ESC doesn't show it?

[mossy ivy]

Nothing but peazip and dolphin

[paper zealot]

Hmm. I haven't tried this myself, but you could~~ try extracting Balatro.exe as an archive into a different folder, making your changes there, then creating a new .zip file from that folder and renaming it to change it's extension back to .exe~~

[mossy ivy]

That could work

Lemme see

[paper zealot]

Making sure that you create a zip archive specifically, not 7z, gzip, tarball or anything wacky

[paper zealot]

No, this is unlikely to work, there's too much additional header data that gets stripped out when you do this

[paper zealot]

Try making a copy of Balatro.exe into a different location, double-checking your permissions, and possibly using a different archiver program

[mossy ivy]

Alrighty I'll try that. I honestly don't know of any other good archiver programs(not that the one i was using was even good in the first place)

[halcyon osprey]

How to make a joker function where each time an Earth card is used, it scales up?

[carmine burrow]

laziest possible "JOKER" text placement lmao

ways in which i cheated w/ this joker sprite:

• used campfire's darkest color as well as normal black because i couldn't find a nice dark grey and i figured it's a different kind of card and all
• shamelessly and messily copied the card design from seven different svgs (the claw thing has seen better days)
• put the "JOKER" in some random empty space rather than considering how to incorporate it into the design in a more clever way

looks pretty cool as a negative though

just noticed the misplaced pixel in the bottom right. lmao

[tall wharf]

lazy? here
-# maxwell's notebook not by me

[halcyon osprey]

bump

[minor furnace]

So uhh why is the last one not showing a 10 of diamonds

        {'S_2', true},
        {'H_2', true},
        {'C_6', true},
        {'C_8', true},
        {'D_T', true},
    },```

answer: I needed to start a new run for changes to take effect

[sturdy compass]

Probably with context.using_consumeable and checking if context.consumeable is an earth card

[halcyon osprey]

how would i check that? i know i would need the cards ID or something like that

[sturdy compass]

Honestly whatever method you see fit

[halcyon osprey]

i love the art i did for the card though, the negative looks amazing

[tall wharf]

UI

[glacial bloom]

How do you guys make such good art. Mine is tragic 😔

[minor furnace]

anybody know of a sample custom planet card I could look at?

[tall wharf]

i guess i got what i wanted