💻・modding-dev

[zealous glen]

[tawdry coyote]

I'm not sure why this doesn't work, but every time I try to play this modded card I made, it keeps saying mult_mod is nul

{
    config = {
        extra = {
            mult = 4,
            mult_mod = 4
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self,info_queue,card)
        return {vars = {card.ability.extra.mult, card.ability.extra.mult_mod}}
    end,
    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            -- :get_id tests for the rank of the card. Other than 2-10, Jack is 11, Queen is 12, King is 13, and Ace is 14.
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 14 or context.other_card:get_id() == 10 then
                -- Specifically returning to context.other_card is fine with multiple values in a single return value, chips/mult are different from chip_mod and mult_mod, and automatically come with a message which plays in order of return.
                    card.ability.extra.mult = card.ability.extra.mult + card.ability.extra.mult_mod
                    return {
                    message = localize('k_upgrade_ex'),
                    colour = G.C.MULT,
                    card = card
                    }
                end
                if context.joker_main then
                return {
                    message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_mult', vars = { card.ability.extra.mult } },
                    mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult,
                    card = card
                }
            end
        end
end,
}```

[dire palm]

So, I started working on a boss blind for the first time and I'm wondering how I can affect cards in scoring hand. Here is what I have so far:

        for k, v in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) do
            local suit_prefix = string.sub(v.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
            local rank_suffix = v:get_id() - 1
            if rank_suffix < 10 and not rank_suffix == 1 then rank_suffix = tostring(rank_suffix)
            elseif rank_suffix == 10 then rank_suffix = 'T'
            elseif rank_suffix == 11 then rank_suffix = 'J'
            elseif rank_suffix == 12 then rank_suffix = 'Q'
            elseif rank_suffix == 13 then rank_suffix = 'K'
            elseif rank_suffix == 1 then 
                rank_suffix = '2'
                v.debuff = true
            end

            v:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..rank_suffix])
        end
        return true
    end```
I know the error comes from `context.scoring_hand` so what should I replace it with in this case?

[maiden river]

dunno much about boss blinds, but there is a nicer set_base function that comes with SMODS

[long urchin]

how do i trigger a function when the game starts? I'm making a card similar to mail-in rebate, and it works by triggering reset_mail_rank() when the run starts, so how do i do that?

    if not saveTable then
        G.GAME.current_round.discards_left = G.GAME.round_resets.discards
        G.GAME.current_round.hands_left = G.GAME.round_resets.hands
        self.deck:shuffle()
        self.deck:hard_set_T()
        reset_idol_card()
        reset_mail_rank()
        self.GAME.current_round.ancient_card.suit = nil
        reset_ancient_card()
        reset_castle_card()
    end```

[maiden river]

also, what's the actual error that's occuring?

[long urchin]

bc without it, itll always start as an ace rather than being random each time you pick it up

[maiden river]

you can hook Game:start_run; that's what I do

dunno if that's the best option, but it's something

[long urchin]

so would it be if Game:start_run then?

[sour marsh]

AARVLO = {}
SMODS.Atlas {
    key = "aarvlo_ancient_suits",
    px = 71,
    py = 95,
    path = "aarvlo_ancient_suits.png",
    atlas_table = 'ASSET_ATLAS'
}

AARVLO.ancient_suits = {
    Clubs = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, G.ASSET_ATLAS["aarvlo_ancient_suits"], {x = 0,y = 0}),
    Spades = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, G.ASSET_ATLAS["aarvlo_ancient_suits"], {x = 1,y = 0}),
    Hearts = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, G.ASSET_ATLAS["aarvlo_ancient_suits"], {x = 2,y = 0}),
    Diamonds = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, G.ASSET_ATLAS["aarvlo_ancient_suits"], {x = 3,y = 0}),
}
SMODS.DrawStep {
    key = 'ancient_joker_clubs',
    order = 100,
    conditions = {facing = 'front'},
    func = function(card, layer)
        if card.ability.name == "Ancient Joker" and G.GAME.current_round.ancient_card.suit then
            AARVLO.ancient_suits[G.GAME.current_round.ancient_card.suit].role.draw_major = card
            AARVLO.ancient_suits[G.GAME.current_round.ancient_card.suit]:draw_shader('dissolve', nil, nil, nil, card.children.center)
        end
    end
}```
Still not working i have no idea why `attempt to index field 'atlas' (a nil value)`

[dim ice]

quick question : how do you delete a card mid play but without it being scored (like sixth sense if an example is need)? ive been able to remove it but for some reason it scores the destroyed card before moving on

[frosty dock]

you need to include your mod prefix when referencing the atlas

[frosty dock]

the card is scored first with sixth sense

[zealous glen]

Sixth sense isn’t mid-play

[maiden river]

it'd be more like

local start_run_ref = Game.start_run
function Game:start_run(args)
  --- stuff that you want to do
  start_run_ref(self, args)
end

[long urchin]

tysm

[dim ice]

oh, well good to know

[zealous glen]

Do you want it like Sixth Sense or mid-play

[maiden river]

boss blinds don't have access to context

or blinds in general, I guess

[zealous glen]

-# yet

[maiden river]

yet

[zealous glen]

-#

-# look at SMODS’ PRs

[long urchin]

:(

[dim ice]

i think i understand what do to now, i forgot to add remove_from_deck() also so it didnt really remove the cards from the deck

[sour marsh]

ohhh so it's mod prefix+key like this?

AARVLO = {}
SMODS.Atlas {
    key = "ancient_suits",
    px = 71,
    py = 95,
    path = "ancient_suits.png",
    atlas_table = 'ASSET_ATLAS'
}

AARVLO.ancient_suits = {
    Clubs = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, G.ASSET_ATLAS["aarvlo_ancient_suits"], {x = 0,y = 0}),
    Spades = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, G.ASSET_ATLAS["aarvlo_ancient_suits"], {x = 1,y = 0}),
    Hearts = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, G.ASSET_ATLAS["aarvlo_ancient_suits"], {x = 2,y = 0}),
    Diamonds = Sprite(0, 0, G.CARD_W, G.CARD_H, G.ASSET_ATLAS["aarvlo_ancient_suits"], {x = 3,y = 0}),
}```

[maiden river]

what's your code look like?

[zealous glen]

If you want to do it with Sixth Sense timing, SMODS handles it. Otherwise, you should maybe use Card:can_calculate and definitely set getting_sliced to true

[long urchin]

Oh I just realized the issue I think, but idk how to fix it

the problem is that i used card.ability.extra outside of the card...

but idk what id use instead?

[long urchin]

why the fuck isnt it indented

[maiden river]

holy indentation

[long urchin]

idk why its normally indented

[maiden river]

it's indented when you download it tho lmao

[long urchin]

i copy pasted it and then pressed upload message as text cuz it was too long

lemme tryyyyy

[tepid crow]

I think discord fucked up an update in file previews

[long urchin]

here, its not colored like code but its indented at least

oh nope

yeah its justed fucked like he said

[maiden river]

yeah the card.ability.extra stuff won't work without the card actually there

[tepid crow]

it is intendented just use the two expanding arrows to look at it (or download the file)

[long urchin]

so then what would i use? how do i call the card's ability outside of the card

cuz if i use a separate variable wouldnt it fuck up the text in the description?

[maiden river]

well I'm pretty sure you could use next(SMODS.find_card(...)) to see if you actually have one first

and then use the result from that

[maiden river]

you could also look at the example joker mod's implementation of Castle

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

line 482+

apparently john smods wrote that one

[frosty dock]

you can change the file name to have a .lua extension when uploading and it'll have the highlighting

though it still won't have the indentation unless you click the arrows

[maiden river]

oh look
it's john smods

[long urchin]

did that before, that was my attempt to fix the indentation

[frosty dock]

oh I just didn't scroll up far enough, mb

yeah the indentation is messed up no matter what

doesn't compare to the mobile experience though

[maiden river]

we love mobile 🗣️

[dire palm]

So, how do I go through the scoring hand with a boss?

[maiden river]

no clue

I'm sure it's in the docs tho

[tawdry coyote]

I'm not sure why this doesn't work, but every time I try to play this modded card I made, it keeps saying mult_mod is nul

{
    key = 'binary',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Binary',
        text = {
            'Gains {C:mult}+#1# {}Mult',
            'if played hand',
            'contains {C:attention}Ace{} or {C:attention}10{}',
            '{+:mult,C:white}+#1#{} Mult'
        }
    },
    atlas = 'Jokers',
    rarity = 2, --rarity: 1 = Common, 2 = Uncommon, 3 = Rare, 4 = Legendary
    
    cost = 5,
    unlocked = true, 
    discovered = true, 
    blueprint_compat = true, 
    eternal_compat = false, 
    perishable_compat = false, 
    pos = {x = 1, y = 0},
    config = {
        extra = {
            mult = 4,
            mult_mod = 4
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self,info_queue,card)
        return {vars = {card.ability.extra.mult, card.ability.extra.mult_mod}}
    end,
    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 14 or context.other_card:get_id() == 10 then

                    card.ability.extra.mult = card.ability.extra.mult + card.ability.extra.mult_mod
                    return {
                    message = localize('k_upgrade_ex'),
                    colour = G.C.MULT,
                    card = card
                    }
                end
                if context.joker_main then
                return {
                    message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_mult', vars = { card.ability.extra.mult } },
                    mult_mod = card.ability.extra.mult,
                    card = card
                }
            end
        end
end,
}```

[hushed field]

What determines which items get saved and which don't?

[sour marsh]

still not working :(

[long urchin]

so i used the castle as a base and I think i did something wrong :(

here lemme send it like this so it looks normal

[maiden river]

you only need to return one thing in vars

[long urchin]

didnt fix it :(

[maiden river]

oh it's that localize function you're using

something's up with that

[long urchin]

but its what the example used??

    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return {
            vars = {
                card.ability.extra.chip_mod,
                localize(G.GAME.current_round.castle2_card.suit, 'suits_singular'), -- gets the localized name of the suit
                card.ability.extra.chips,
                colours = { G.C.SUITS[G.GAME.current_round.castle2_card.suit] } -- sets the colour of the text affected by `{V:1}`
            }
        }
    end,```

[hushed field]

raevyn, you're working with custom cardareas, right?

[maiden river]

I'm not too sure of the usage of the localize function beyond the more basic stuff
-# (would be awesome if there was some notes about it in the SMODS wiki. just sayin)

[maiden river]

yup!

[hushed field]

My cards are moved into it, but they don't seem to be visually appearing the cardarea at all. I can't find anything about needing to explicitely ensuring that happens, would you know if that's something I'd need to actually set up?

[maiden river]

hmm

lemme see

[hushed field]

oh wait, nevermind, I'm realizing what's going wrong, haha

[maiden river]

😭 what is it

[hushed field]

they are being rendered, I think, but of screen, accidentally added a 0 to the width of the cardarea so it's huge and mostly off screen

[maiden river]

😭

[hushed field]

I just assumed my placement had put it slighty further left than I wanted, haha

[maiden river]

that would do it

[hushed field]

you only realize dumb mistakes like that once you start asking for help. It's the universe's way to ensure you tell people about the dumb mistkaes you make, ofc

[maiden river]

fr

[frosty dock]

fr

[hushed field]

oh, no wait, they're still not rendering, though that was causing me problems still, haha

[maiden river]

interesting

is your code up on github?

[hushed field]

this isn't yet

[maiden river]

I see
well I can't really tell you what's going on without that
so if it gets up there let me know

I'll take a look

[mossy ivy]

Anyone know what verifying the integrity of game files do?

I'm trying to troubleshoot and I'm not sure if I'm in the right direction

[wintry solar]

What’s the definition of your card area looking like?

[maiden river]

true

[frosty dock]

it restores your game files to be the same as what steam provides, basically a forced update even if the version hasn't changed. it resets any kind of tampering that you've done to the game files. These days no mods need you to mess with those files anymore, so unless you're coming off a really old modded version it shouldn't be needed

[hushed field]

like this currently

[wintry solar]

Have you defined all the behaviours for your custom type?

[mossy ivy]

Dang ok, definitely not that then

Thank you

[hushed field]

yes, I have, but that's plural and this type isn't 🥲 Though you're also making me aware that I don't think there's a need for me to have a custom cardarea type

[wintry solar]

Yeah I don’t remember what they default too but that might be why they aren’t showing up

[knotty copper]

Is there a list of key names for SMODS.Atlas?

[sour marsh]

i literally cannot figure this out, i tried injecting this to game.lua and it doesn't work, i tried putting it directly on my mod's main.lua and it doesn't work

i may be stupid

[hushed field]

god, I was not going to solve that in a reasonable amount of time, haha. Gonna remove all the code for the custom type because it's only gonna cause more of this issue, and default it to joker. Thanks for noticing

[sour marsh]

im coming back to it tomorrow maybe i realize my mistake

[knotty copper]

Like what is the key name for card backs?

[maiden river]

oh yeah
the types for all of mine are 'joker'

[wintry solar]

Did it fix it?

[subtle mason]

How does one make a lovely mod run after another lovely mod has finished running?

[hushed field]

yup

[wintry solar]

🥳

[knotty copper]

I'm trying to replace the back of the deck textures but it doesn't seem to work and replace anything as the regular back deck textures are still there

[maiden river]

huge

[wintry solar]

Use Malverk ezpz

[chrome widget]

How do you check the current cost of a reroll given the reroll_shop context?

[knotty copper]

How do you properly list the mod as a dependency in the .lua and .json?

[wintry solar]

context.cost should be it

[chrome widget]

Huh. It doesn't list that in the calculate functions docs

[wintry solar]

I know

They’re slightly outdated

Rereading your question that might not be what you’re looking for though

Do you want the cost of the reroll that just happened or the next one?

[chrome widget]

the reroll that just happened

[wintry solar]

Yeah cost is fine then

[chrome widget]

Cool

[mossy ivy]

Anyone know what is needed for Malverk to work? I dragged and dropped my texture into Assets>1x and 2x and nothing shows up

[glad osprey]

how would one force all cards to be permanently flipped

[sour marsh]

just kidding im the goat

[knotty copper]

Okay getting this error with malverk
Not entirely sure what I screwed up

Okay now it is say it can't find the texture

I have the texture stored in a folder called "default" in the assets folder

[wintry solar]

You need the mod prefix on the key in the textures table

[sturdy compass]

Oooo that's nice

[knotty copper]

wydm mod prefix?

[mossy ivy]

Mind if I ask what Lua file this is?

[knotty copper]

the main one?

[chrome widget]

Hm, a recent update to smods seems to have broken a bunch of my shader code but I'm not certain why

[mossy ivy]

Yeah, nvm though. I'm just trying to find information on how to work this damn Malverk out

Theres like, no information to work with for noobs

Crazy

[rapid stag]

how can i change the colour of the planet cards button in the collections menu?

[knotty copper]

Okay now getting this error

[old bane]

so-

[chrome widget]

Okay yeah I'm really confused here

[charred halo]

anyone know how to prevent a joker from showing in shop

[modern kindle]

    in_pool = function(self)
        return false
    end,

[charred halo]

goat thanks

[chrome widget]

I have this bit of shader code inside Card:draw(layer), which handles a custom water shader effect if a card has these values set. And for some reason it's just never reaching this code despite all the conditions being true? It broke from a recent update

    sendDebugMessage('drawing water shader')
    local cursor_pos = {}
    cursor_pos[1] = self.tilt_var and self.tilt_var.mx*G.CANV_SCALE or G.CONTROLLER.cursor_position.x*G.CANV_SCALE
    cursor_pos[2] = self.tilt_var and self.tilt_var.my*G.CANV_SCALE or G.CONTROLLER.cursor_position.y*G.CANV_SCALE
    local screen_scale = G.TILESCALE*G.TILESIZE*(self.children.center.mouse_damping or 1)*G.CANV_SCALE
    local shader_args = {}
    local hovering = (self.hover_tilt or 0)
            
    shader_args[1] = { name = 'time', val = self.ability.water_time}
    shader_args[2] = { name = 'water', val = G.ASSET_ATLAS[self.ability.water_atlas].image}
    shader_args[3] = { name = 'mouse_screen_pos', val = cursor_pos }
    shader_args[4] = { name = 'screen_scale', val = screen_scale }
    shader_args[5] = { name = 'hovering', val = hovering }
    self.children.center:draw_shader('fnwk_water_mask', nil, shader_args, false, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, true)
end```

I assume it's part of the new SMODS.DrawStep thing?

Hmm yeah guess I'll have to update a buncha stuff to use this now

[tall wharf]

YEAHHH

[knotty copper]

What does this error mean?

[old bane]

The holy trifecta of making Stone Cards viable
Morton: makes stone cards count as a flush and flushes with stone cards give X3 mult
Bone: makes face cards Stone and makes Stone cards held in hand give +50 chips

[chrome widget]

Typically it just means you don't have the 1x and 2x versions of a sprite, or something's incorrectly named

[noble schooner]

Is there a set_enhancement function that's just not on the wiki?

or do I just use poll_enchancement?

[chrome widget]

It's the vanilla Card:set_ability() function

[noble schooner]

ah, got it

[noble schooner]

is there anywhere I could find documentation on how this works? Google's not gonna be any help lol

[zinc forum]

I've found enhancements to be a bit weird to work with

[chrome widget]

Easiest way is to just look at the source code directly, typically in your Lovely dump

[knotty copper]

I have it in the malverk and my mods asset folders so not sure on the issue

I doubled checked to make sure I had the folder routes right

[zinc forum]

v:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS["m_stone"]) is how you'd make a Stone card for instance

[chrome widget]

For setting enhancements, it works like this:
card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS[key])

So you use the key of whatever enhancement center, which are all formatted like m_stone, m_gold, m_lucky, etc

[noble schooner]

alrighty!

[chrome widget]

If you want to set it back to base, it's c_base

[tall wharf]

yooooooo\

[dense vector]

c

[tall wharf]

wild card

[glad osprey]

someone should make a crafting mod

[tall wharf]

damn it

there goes my idea

[glad osprey]

what

[knotty copper]

Figured out the issue
The issue was I didn't put the name of my main lua file "BalaRTo.lua" before my texture key name

[tall wharf]

there goes my idea 😔

[glad osprey]

i just said someone should

you can

[old bane]

can i get the score from the previous round or no?

[glad osprey]

saving it would probably be the easiest way to get it

[old bane]

thats what i was thinking

[glad osprey]

unless there is already one

[old bane]

would it be like

G.GAME.chips and then i store it at the end of the round?

[glad osprey]

probably not chips but ya

[dreamy thunder]

G.GAME.blind.chips iirc

[old bane]

is that the player's score or the score requirement

[dreamy thunder]

requirement

oh wait

thats not wht you want

mb

[old bane]

i mean technically yes it is

cause i wanna get the current blind's requirement but also save the last blind's player score

[mossy ivy]

Anyone got a list of alt_tex keys

[glad osprey]

G.GAME.blind.chips is required

[old bane]

okay

[dreamy thunder]

ye G.GAME.chips was player score

[knotty copper]

For Malverk which wiki is it referring to?

[neat plover]

how do i check the enhancement of a card????

[sturdy compass]

SMODS.has_enhancement

[zealous glen]

also Jokers have long had a draw method so you didn't need to patch

even before the update

[mossy ivy]

I'm looking for the exact same thing

[neat plover]

IF it has enhancements or WHICH enhancements ?

[mossy ivy]

Malverk is a pain in the ass

For a pea brain like myself at least

[sturdy compass]

Which

[neat plover]

how do i format that then???

[sturdy compass]

That's the function

[neat plover]

like that??

[sturdy compass]

no, the function returns a boolean. You pass in the card and the key of the enhancement you want to check for

[neat plover]

oh

[glad osprey]

who was the one who made that daily double joker

[neat plover]

so like that

[glad osprey]

oh wait nevermind

[sturdy compass]

I think just 'm_wild' is what you want for the key

[neat plover]

oki

[glad osprey]

alternatively does anyone know how to make custom format things

[glad osprey]

these

mainly the tooltips

[neat plover]

this should be good then

[sturdy compass]

put m_wild should be a string

[sturdy compass]

You're gonna want to patch a new value into globals.lua under the C table

[mossy ivy]

Did you ever find it?

[knotty copper]

Not yet

[mossy ivy]

Gotchya

[tall wharf]

oh.

[glad osprey]

and how about tooltips?

[sturdy compass]

wdym by tooltips

[tall wharf]

which one

[knotty copper]

For malverk to change the texture of a deck what do you put as the set value?

[glad osprey]

{T:j_egg} for example

[tall wharf]

i think you just do that

[sturdy compass]

I have never seen that before

[knotty copper]

nvm found it

[glad osprey]

how do i make new ones

[glad osprey]

either "Deck" or "Back" if i had to guess

[knotty copper]

Ye Back was the thing which worked

[neat plover]

wwhy the fucckk arent you giving me muklttt......

[glad osprey]

the enhancement check isnt in a context

wait nvrm

[tall wharf]

wdym by new ones

[glad osprey]

like create an original one

[tall wharf]

i believe you can put whatever keys you want in place of that

[glad osprey]

yea but how do i make one

of the keys

[tall wharf]

it's done when you make new things in the mod

[glad osprey]

i would like to add something that is not already exsisting without making a new joker or edition or anything

[red flower]

you can add it to descriptions.Other

in the loc file

[tall wharf]

yay

[glad osprey]

i dont have a loc file 😭

[red flower]

make one

[neat plover]

this,breained my fryies so much i cant type anymore

[glad osprey]

bayl

[mossy ivy]

How do you find this information

[glad osprey]

random guessing

bcus backs are what decks are called internally

[mossy ivy]

Well dang

So I just have to guess for my case

[zealous glen]

BHATSUNEAMIKUY

[thorn ridge]

back after school and taking some rest to tackle the boosters problem.
Decided the best way was the reformat my entire mod and make it actually neat.
(i had it all in one singular lua file)

[red flower]

we love restructuring and refactoring

[thorn ridge]

so far its working well

[neat plover]

i am dead inside

[tall wharf]

i use source control properly

[red flower]

i just barely have a dev branch

[minor furnace]

anybody here have experience with making a deck skin for a suit?

[noble schooner]

oh, that's strange

[glad osprey]

bumping this

[noble schooner]

the new talisman update broke my mod

[red flower]

for a blind or forever?

[glad osprey]

forever

its a deck

[noble schooner]

I have modified literally nothing about the joker causing the crash, yet it still crashes lol

[red flower]

you probably need to add some property to the card and then hook card:flip() so that it doesn't get called for them

[minor furnace]

something here is giving me attempt to get length of local 'd_ranks' (nil) in smods src/utils.lua

    key = "Purple_Spades",
    path = "purple_spades.png",
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}
SMODS.DeckSkin{
    key = "purple_spade",
    suit = "Spades",
    loc_txt ={
        name = "Purple Spades",
        text = "Spades but ourple"
    },
    palettes = {
        key = "hc",
        ranks = {"2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "Jack", "Queen", "King", "Ace"},
        display_ranks = {"2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "Jack", "Queen", "King", "Ace"},
        atlas = "Purple_Spades",
        pos_style = "suit",
        colour = "6E36B6"
    }
}

[glad osprey]

i can add extra info to cards right

aslong as it doesnt conflict

[minor furnace]

I've probably misdefinied a field somewhere

[old bane]

does SMODS.Enhancements work as a list of all enhancements? if so, can I grab a random one from that list and use it to enhance a card with a random enhancement

[red flower]

you can use SMODS.poll_enhancement

[mossy ivy]

Can someone explain what a key is in this case? I'm planning to use this mod as a base so I can finally be done with this crap

[wintry solar]

a key is just a name

[mossy ivy]

Oh

What's the set then?

[wintry solar]

the type of object

[old bane]

if i wanted a completely random one would i just pass in no args?

[mossy ivy]

That's actually pretty simple

Ty

[red flower]

only if you want a chance for no enhancement too
if you need it to always give one then you set guaranteed to true

[minor furnace]

I have ranks and display_ranks defined though?? so why is it telling me d_ranks is nil

    key = "purple_spade",
    suit = "Spades",
    loc_txt ={
        ["en-us"] = "Purple Spades",
    },
    palettes = {
        key = "hc",
        ranks = {"2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "Jack", "Queen", "King", "Ace"},
        display_ranks = {"2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "Jack", "Queen", "King", "Ace"},
        atlas = "Purple_Spades",
        pos_style = "suit",
        colour = "6E36B6"
    }
}```

[mossy ivy]

I just realized I'm looking at the mod you made

[wintry solar]

yes

[neat plover]

i hate myself

whyyyyyyyyyy??? the code seems good

its like the fifth time it isnt working and i dont know whyyyy

[noble schooner]

thank you smods, that really narrows it down /s
(this is line 448, for reference)
pcard:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS[poll_enhancements("SERAPH", "SERAPH", 100%, true, {{name = "m_lucky", weight = 1,}, {name = "m_mult", weight = 1,}, {name = "m_bonus", weight = 1,}, {name = "m_wild", weight = 1,}, {name = "m_steel", weight = 1,}, {name = "m_gold", weight = 1,}, {name = "m_cry_echo", weight = 1,}, })]

[knotty copper]

How do you change the texture of the logo on the main screen and the shop sign logo?

[mossy ivy]

Man I give up, if anyone wants to get $ for fixing this dm me

[neat plover]

please dont, else i will

ive spent way too much time on this

[mossy ivy]

How long have you been at it

And what are you trying to do

[neat plover]

10 hrs i think soon 11

[mossy ivy]

Ive been doing this for 5 days so far

[neat plover]

get the highest scoring card, check if its wild, then give mult

[mossy ivy]

You're actually doing something decently complicated

You should definitely keep going

[neat plover]

what are YOU doing

[mossy ivy]

Trying to get a texture to work☠️

Wild right

[neat plover]

yes

[mossy ivy]

What took me 2 minutes to do on windows, is now taking me 5 days to do on a steam deck

I'll never not hate linux

[glad osprey]

what do i do next

[old bane]

so with {V:1} I can change the text colors of things, right? how would i make it so that the variable color can be either something like {X:red,C:white} or {C:red}

[neat plover]

i think the universe just doesnt want me finishing this joker

[warm canyon]

hey everyone, is anyone able to make saturn mod work on macos? brainstorm mod works but not saturn for some reason

[minor furnace]

well, it doesn't crash, but it isn't using my file either

[noble schooner]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ABOUT THIS GAME

sighhh

I hate dev sm

[neat plover]

"why are the cards purple" if ykyk

[minor furnace]

I actually don't know...

I am not a Knower

[glad osprey]

why are they blue mixed with red

[minor furnace]

why not, I suppose

[mossy ivy]

Real

[noble schooner]

real

[neat plover]

roffle

[mossy ivy]

I think I need to wait for a certain person to go online to help me with my problem

I rarely even see them online in the first place

[neat plover]

me too

[hard flume]

I've been planning ™️

[noble schooner]

okay so apparently smods just doesn't wanna work anymore

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

[thorn ridge]

Im trying to ban a bunch of boosters from a challenge, whats to ids for the base game boosters

[knotty copper]

Trying to change the shop sign texture but it keeps bugging out when played
What do I change to make it play the animation properly?

[zealous glen]

wrong size presumably

put in the correct size

71 by 95 are Jokers

[minor furnace]

arghhhhh

why is it not taking my file

[neat plover]

please work 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[minor furnace]

I literally copy/pasted an existing deckskin file I found, edited the values, and it still doesn't work

I'm certain I typed the name of the png right

so why

literally
local atlas_path = "purple_spades.png" -- Filename for the image in the asset folder

it does not get simpler than this

[glad osprey]

why does this crashhhhhhh

[mossy ivy]

Did it work?

[neat plover]

i was talking about the image

[minor furnace]

byeah

I'm descending into madness

I have the 1x and 2x versions in my mod folder

they are the correct size

this is the full deckskin file

-- See end of file for notes
local atlas_path = "purple_spades.png" -- Filename for the image in the asset folder
local atlas_path_hc = nil -- Filename for the high-contrast version of the texture, if existing

local suits = {"spades"} -- Which suits to replace
local ranks = {"2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "Jack", "Queen", "King", "Ace"} -- Which ranks to replace

local description = "Please Work" -- English-language description, also used as default

-----------------------------------------------------------
-- You should only need to change things above this line --
-----------------------------------------------------------

SMODS.Atlas{  
    key = atlas_key .. "_lc",
    px = 71,
    py = 95,
    path = atlas_path,
    prefix_config = {key = false}, -- See end of file for notes
}

if atlas_path_hc then
    SMODS.Atlas{  
        key = atlas_key .. "_hc",
        px = 71,
        py = 95,
        path = atlas_path_hc,
        prefix_config = {key = false}, -- See end of file for notes
    }
end

for _, suit in ipairs(suits) do
    SMODS.DeckSkin{
        key = suit .. "_skin",
        suit = suit:gsub("^%l", string.upper),
        ranks = ranks,
        lc_atlas = atlas_key .. "_lc",
        hc_atlas = atlas_path_hc and atlas_key .. "_hc",
        loc_txt = {
            ["en-us"] = description
        },
        posStyle = "deck"
    }
end```

am I just stupid?

[neat plover]

who knows, you might?

[minor furnace]

so true bestie

[zealous glen]

what's the mod's key

[rapid stag]

format in atlas_key MUST be [MOD KEY]_[whatever you want]

[minor furnace]

as in the mod prefix?

[rapid stag]

for example, the mod i'm working on, the mod prefix is cir. the playing card atlas in its deckskin is thus called cir_CardAtlas. you need to change your atlas_key to [YOUR MOD'S PREFIX]_purple_spades

[knotty copper]

Yup that fixed it 👍

[minor furnace]

why have I never needed to do this for any other atlas I've made

is this literally just for deck skins?

[rapid stag]

i believe so to my understanding, deckskin is one of steamodded's more jankier implementations

[glad osprey]

how do i get if a card is a playing card

[minor furnace]

well I added the prefix and now it's doing this lmao

[neat plover]

gn everyone, the fucking enhancement functions are gonne be in my nightmares for sure. im gonna wake up in sweat cause i forgot an end or smth

[minor furnace]

this is actually driving me crazy lol

[mossy ivy]

I can't rap my head around how a card game can be so hard to mod

Literally doesn't make sense

[rapid stag]

localthunk moment

[minor furnace]

also, this format does not match the smods wiki page for DeckSkin in the slightest, but somehow it still worked with the other mod

[stray warren]

This game is actually pretty easy to mod once you actually understand the code a little bit

[zealous glen]

You don't need to anymore. The template was made when Deck Skins were bugged

so it was made to avoid the bug

[mossy ivy]

But coding just to change a texture, is kinda insane

[zealous glen]

Ironically, the template and the bugfix were added to Steamodded in the same update

[neat plover]

learning how the code works being mind numbingly difficult:

[stray warren]

I mean you can say that about any game, not just a card game

[minor furnace]

so what is the proper implementation of it then?

[zealous glen]

You don't need to code to change a texture. You need to code to change a texture in an user-friendly way

[zealous glen]

I mean the template should still work

[mossy ivy]

Wym by user friendly way?

[minor furnace]

any reason it wouldn't be reading my file, if I double-checked the png name and made sure it exists in both the 1x and 2x folders?

[mossy ivy]

My template hardly works and only shows my custom tarot cards rather than the entire template(which also doesn't make any sense)

[zealous glen]

idk; try taking the original, working texture and changing it bit-by-bit

[zealous glen]

If you just replace the vanilla texture files, it would display the new textures, but they'd be delete when the game updated. Also, for partial texture replacements, you'd need to include part of the original textures, and distributing a file with the original textures is arguably a violation of the rules

also

mods make choosing and managing textures easier

[minor furnace]

My laptop just crashed 💀

[zealous glen]

so you can mix-and-match them in-game

[mossy ivy]

I can't get into the exe archive so I have to do it the Looonggg way

[high eagle]

...idk why this happened

[minor furnace]

We love bluescreening our machines 🙃

[zealous glen]

I mean you can copy-paste the .exe then unzip it

[zealous glen]

were you loading a game

[high eagle]

yeah

then it crashed

[zealous glen]

probably tried to do something while the hand didn't exist

[high eagle]

ohhhhh

[zealous glen]

I ran into this issue yesterday

[high eagle]

mzybr

[zealous glen]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-mxy-my-adventures-with-superman-dc-maws-gif-2807443121036483503

[high eagle]

trueeeeeeeeee

[mossy ivy]

I would, but I kinda already have steamodded, Malverk, and all that other crap so I'm just trying to get it done that way

[zealous glen]

Good but also it's useful to have access to the game's files like this

for referencing vanilla stuff

[stray warren]

You learn a lot by just looking at the card.lua file

[zealous glen]

like "why are thunk's bad coding practices destroying my life"

[mossy ivy]

Looking in there is like reading Japanese

There's like, hardly any information out there that helps with Malverk problems

[minor furnace]

so I tried the most basic thing, pasting my png file into the other mod and changing just the name of the png. and it did not work 💀

[high eagle]

how can i pull a specific value within a function for a hook?

[zealous glen]

what do you mean

[high eagle]

ok so

[zealous glen]

what's troubling you

[high eagle]

im trying to make a joker that gains mult whenever a card changes suits via the "set base"
function

[minor furnace]

this deckskin thing is baffling

[high eagle]

and in the set_base function, it defines the original suit

(i think)

im trying to find how i would pull that for a new function

[opal holly]

As a first-time modder, seeing things just work never fails to bring tears to the eye

[neat plover]

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[zealous glen]

it needs to be passed as an argument or saved somewhere accessible

[neat plover]

I TRIED IT RANDOMLY

IT WORKS

I WANT TO DIE

WTF

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

[high eagle]

how would i do that? /genq

[neat plover]

WHY DOES THIS WLRK IT SHOULDNT

[zealous glen]

more hololive Jokers

[neat plover]

you fucking bet it does

[zealous glen]

well, Idk the function structure. Either you override the original function to give it a signature, use an existing argument to stowaway the value, or put it in a global

I imagine 2 is your best bet here

[opal holly]

its prob gonna be part of a larger project down the line

[mossy ivy]

So I have a Texture ready to go, is s Tarot.png, it replaces all textures for the tarot cards and spectral cards. Having this as a mod by itself without Malverk shows all the retextured tarots and only 1 retextured spectral(which I don't understand at all???)

and when copying and pasting my x1 and x2 texture into Malverks assets folder it does nothing

[neat plover]

yall, why does my joker work
its been 11hrs, and i dont even know why it works

[opal holly]

i made a rin penrose sprite a while ago and i want to put her in the game

[zealous glen]

To have a working Malverk mod, you need to make your own mod

[zealous glen]

🅱️in 🅱️enrose

[mossy ivy]

Dang :/

I think I'll just forget it

[zealous glen]

Although I know her from her Kirby and the Forgotten Land playthrough

[zealous glen]

I mean, it's not too hard, especially if it's a full texture replacement

[minor furnace]

we are so close

[high eagle]

why he ourple

[zealous glen]

2222222222342

[next timber]

man i love the 2 of spades

got any more

uhhhhh

2 of spades

[zealous glen]

if 2 of spades is so good why isn't there a 2 of spades 2

[mossy ivy]

Well, I don't really know how to code. And there really isn't any template to go off of that's helped to far

[high eagle]

... see above (how would i do that)

[next timber]

someone should make a mod that adds sequels to cards

[high eagle]

so true

[next timber]

if you play a card and it's sequel you get the hand type "electric boogaloo"

[violet iris]

does anyone know why my game keeps crashing?
used the brainstorm mod for a filtered seed but keeps crashing on when i click Ante 2 big blind

[high eagle]

a new sticker that just adds a "2"

[zealous glen]

Isn't there a Malverk template?

[zealous glen]

I mean Idk the specifics

[mossy ivy]

I still don't even understand the first part of my problem, it doesn't even make sense for my texture to work partly

[next timber]

damn the condition for check_for_buy_space is kinda confusing

[mossy ivy]

In the github?

[zealous glen]

I believe so

[zealous glen]

what is the partial part that works again

[mossy ivy]

All the Tarot cards and a singular spectral card

[next timber]

what is the point of and 1 or 0 in a condition???

[zealous glen]

which spectral

[zealous glen]

short circuit evaluation

(true and 1) or 0 -> 1
(false and 1) or 0 -> 0

[frosty dock]

it's effectively a ternary operator

condition and a or b -> a if condition is true, b otherwise

[next timber]

ahh i see

[mossy ivy]

Incantation

[minor furnace]

I've finally done it 😭

[zealous glen]

🅱️in 🅱️enrose

[minor furnace]

In🅱️eed

I made these sprites today

[zealous glen]

huh

[zealous glen]

although as I just said I am more familiar with 🅱️in's Kirby in the Forgotten Lands' playthrough

[next timber]

how do i patch into the middle of a line? like if a line is print("hello world") how could i patch it to be print("hello new world") without replacing the whole line? trying to be as compatibility friendly as possible

[minor furnace]

also what are the odds of you saying this as I'm trying to get my deck skin working

[zealous glen]

I think you just override the line with the same line slightly different

[next timber]

ok so replacing the whole line is the best option

i mean realistically who's gonna be overwriting the code checking if you have space to buy a joker anyways

theres probably already a mod that does

wouldnt be surprised if like cryptid did

[opal holly]

mine is a bit more jokery so

[next timber]

ive never actually played cryptid

[frosty dock]

you can use a regex patch to not replace the whole line

[minor furnace]

very jokery indeed lol

looks cool!

[opal holly]

(also I would wanna do a self-insert into the game)

[zealous glen]

I wanted to do some HoloLive members

into Balatro Jokers

so far I've only done one indie

[minor furnace]

ok this looks a lot less cluttered now, much better

[opal holly]

i rmb theres a ID mod

[frosty dock]

you just need to be extra careful about your patch target being unique when matching partial lines

[zealous glen]

because I was inspired

[opal holly]

snebby!

[zealous glen]

there was someone doing a HoloLive mod

[minor furnace]

I feel like someone who's actually good at art could make Snebby look better, but I'm happy enough with how it looks for now

[zealous glen]

I like how they look

very clean

[minor furnace]

thank you 🙏

[opal holly]

i have been gathering input from the hololive fan server so yeah

[minor furnace]

man this started out as a reverse tarot mod and now I'm just kind of putting whatever I want into it

just for the fun of it

[opal holly]

i think i'll start working on sprites after like 15 jokers

[minor furnace]

are you just using placeholders for now?

[opal holly]

rn my placeholders are just like this

[zinc forum]

You guys use placeholders?

I just leave the default card x)

[zealous glen]

yes

[minor furnace]

I do the art before implementing the joker…

[zealous glen]

I almost never do the art first

[scarlet spire]

getting around to splitting up my main lua file, how do I have the extra files be detected?

[zealous glen]

the art can fit the theme and effect later

[minor furnace]

my workflow goes concept -> art -> programming

[upbeat bronze]

real men draw the art first

[opal holly]

i feel like i have more inertia with the art lol

[zealous glen]

the other way around is hard

[zealous glen]

what if the balance is off or the programming isn't feasible

;P

[opal holly]

if i did the art first we will have gta 6 before my first mod

[minor furnace]

I'm stubborn, and will make the programming work. Case in point, Omnirank cards

[zealous glen]

you could do with less but I like this

[zealous glen]

when the mod compatibility

[zinc forum]

Tbh I wanted to draw art for my cards, but I shared the mod in another server and immediately found an artist that basically made all the cards already x)

[zealous glen]

yeah my art output is measured in days at best

[minor furnace]

mod compatibility who?

/s

[zealous glen]

exactly

[zinc forum]

I'm just lazy and don't implement the art

[zealous glen]

I think mod compatibility is important

that's why my mod auto deletes cryptid /j

[minor furnace]

It definitely is, but if I think an idea is fun I'm going to implement it regardless

[zealous glen]

also crossing fingers

[glad osprey]

how do I replace the splash screen jokers

[zealous glen]

will dog live again

[zinc forum]

Ok does anybody know how G.FUNCS.draw_from_deck_to_hand() works

Because apparently it does not draw from the deck to your hand

[zealous glen]

it lives

[next timber]

i thought it said pet

[zealous glen]

it does but if you called it apropos of nothing your hand might be full

[next timber]

and yeah. that checks out

[zinc forum]

(Here's my code btw

use = function(self, card, area, copier)   
        inc_flow_count()     
        local to_discard = {}
        for k, v in ipairs(G.hand.cards) do
            if v.highlighted ==false then
                to_discard[#to_discard+1] = v
            end
        end
        G.hand:unhighlight_all()
        for k, v in ipairs(to_discard) do
            G.hand:add_to_highlighted(v, true)
            G.FUNCS.discard_cards_from_highlighted(nil, true)
            G.hand:remove_from_highlighted(v, true)
        end
        G.FUNCS.draw_from_deck_to_hand()
    end,```

[zealous glen]

petplay the jimbo

[zinc forum]

What it's supposed to do is keep the selected cards, discards everything else, and then redraw cards

And I can in fact see that it is mostly what's happening

Just, without the drawing part

[zealous glen]

also I got almost 9 Chips in a roll before getting Mult

[glad osprey]

I wanna make them my decks for funsies

[next timber]

they should let you pet jokers

[zealous glen]

I thought it was broken

[zealous glen]

this is how my Blind, the Spin, does it

[maiden phoenix]

That's it removes your reroll button

[next timber]

MA FUCKIN REROLL

[worthy stirrup]

How do I replace base game sounds with mods?

[knotty copper]

In malverk what are these errors from?
From configuring pack screen

[glad osprey]

blows up reroll with mind

[maiden phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-manhattan-gif-18899941

[knotty copper]

Also with malverk is it possible to change the default jokers which appear for the editions screen with the joker of the selected mod pack?

[zinc forum]

I don't know which part of the code did it, but it worked

I'm thinking setting G.STATE, then G.STATE_COMPLETE

[rapid stag]

this wording is kinda weird imo - any valid hand that contains a three of a kind and 3 scored 7s will always have a three of a kind of 3 scored 7s. why not say "{C:Attention}Three of a Kind{} of 7s" instead

[fast tapir]

Normally I’d start poking around in files to learn but my computer’s dead- How hard is it to make a mod to modify suit colors? Does it require manually making a bunch of assets, is it just tweaking some variables, what about the Friends of Jimbo alt arts?

[rapid stag]

when it comes to the actual cards themselves, the colours are part of the asset textures. would need to provide custom edits

[fast tapir]

I seeee
Thank you!

[zinc forum]

As for the Friends of Jimbo packs, each collab is its own file

[opal holly]

hmm i was thinking of ambiguity when it comes to playing a full house since you can have a full house with 2 scored 7s and 3 scored others and a full house contains a three of a kind

[zinc forum]

Which is doubled thanks to high contrast

[opal holly]

so my thinking was the 3 7s have to be part of any hand that contains three of a kind

[rapid stag]

i can see how you came to that conclusion - but a full house in which strictly the pair is 7s, would under no circumstances contain a three of a kind of 7s

[primal robin]

Just remove a button is not enough you know

[opal holly]

true

[unkempt thicket]

What does this do?

[modern kindle]

i dont think people should download that

tentative <@&1133519078540185692> ping

[limber kraken]

bang

[modern kindle]

quick on the draw, thanks goat

[maiden phoenix]

I took care of that

[rapid stag]

i believe it makes that selection option setting where it's two < & > buttons with a thing between that says whatever the current selected thing is and the buttons cycle it, ala things like the friends of jimbo deck customise screen

but i wish i knew the arguments for it

[unkempt thicket]

Then that is what i am looking for, and i also wish i knew the args. Am going to snoop in the smods code

[maiden phoenix]

It's the thing that let you change options trough a slider, like game speed

[crimson marlin]

do you know how dna works? im trying to make a boss blind that duplicates your hand

[maiden phoenix]

Ah someone was faster

[unkempt thicket]

I'm trying to page deck preview

[old bane]

how do quantum enhancements, editions, and/or seals work?

[neat plover]

can anyone reformat my text?

"Creates 3 {C:attention}wild{} cards when {C:attention}blind{}",
"is selected. If the highest scored card",
"is a wild card, {X:mult,C:white}X#6#{} Mult",
"and gains {X:mult,C:white}X#4#{} Mult",
"{s:0.8}Currently {X:mult,C:white}X#5#{} Mult",
"{C:inactive,s:0.8}''P-Ranking this ante...''{}"

[zealous glen]

where are the wild cards created

[neat plover]

in your hand

[zealous glen]

When Blind is selected,
get 3 Wild cards

If the highest scoring card
in a hand is a Wild Card,
this Joker gains xMult

(Currently…)

[neat plover]

ok, ik this is hard to get, it gives X2 mult(every time) and GAINS X0.5 mult

[rapid stag]

is it possible to make a lovely.toml patch happen based on a condition?
like say, only do the patch if a certain variable is true

[hushed field]

how so?

[zealous glen]

that into "currently"

the X2 only really matters at the start, and it can read "Currently X2…" in the shop

[unkempt thicket]

How can i remove the base suits from pool

[old bane]

i love applying editions

(this was cause i use set_ability and not set_edition)

[neat plover]

it has to give x 2 mult separatively from its own mult count which gets upgraded

[zealous glen]

that's just confusing

[neat plover]

ik

idc

[rapid stag]

ahhh i was gonna give my interpretation of the joker effect, but i didn't because i thought i was wrong. but i might not have been

[neat plover]

its funny

[rapid stag]

anyone?

[unkempt thicket]

you could try only loading the file if x is true

[charred halo]

anyone know how to set hands to one

[onyx sonnet]

Is there a way to achieve "quantum" ranks?

[zealous glen]

not yet

[onyx sonnet]

Unfortunate...

[zealous glen]

@frosty dock the people yearn for the mines quantum ranks

[onyx sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/tony-stark-limited-tech-meme-technology-gif-10681570624129307805

Given how they needed to ban certain functions for quantum enhancing because of how easily it can recurse infinitely, they're probably having the same issue here

[frosty dock]

then why has no one made them yet 🤔

[tepid crow]

the people also yearn for cheap labour by others

[zealous glen]

also whoever approves PRs doesn't want to do it halfway

[zealous glen]

the main setback is Straight calculation

[tepid crow]

also true

[frosty dock]

the people also yearn for cheap free labour by others
ftfy

[zealous glen]

the people also yearn for cheap free labour by others miners
ftfy

[frosty dock]

so far I don't think I've received a half-baked quantum ranks PR

[zealous glen]

aure is still a miner ⬛ ⛏️

[frosty dock]

what do i mine

[zealous glen]

I wouldn't try to do a PR that's not going to be accepted

catch-22 upon ye

[unkempt thicket]

Gold cards

[zealous glen]

aging

[glad osprey]

the people children also yearn for cheap free labour by others the miners
ftfy

[onyx sonnet]

Oh yeah that does sound like an extremely costly and complicated algorithm

[zealous glen]

the people children also yearn for cheap free labour by others the miners banana
ftfy

[frosty dock]

it could still be a base for a complete feature once straights would be figured out, although this is currently out of scope for me

[glad osprey]

~~the people children also yearn for cheap free labour by others the miners banana ~~ the game
ftfy

[maiden phoenix]

You know it's bad when it's out of Aure's scope

[frosty dock]

the people children also yearn for cheap free labour by others the miners banana

[zealous glen]

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/anti_mind_virus.png

[frosty dock]

wise words

[glad osprey]

help

[iron mantle]

Did you ever manage to figure out how to get this? I'm trying to figure this out myself and I can't quite seem to find anything concrete

[zealous glen]

"could" doesn't mean will :P

[rapid stag]

this doesn't make any sense within the context of what i'm trying to do. that is not a thing that is possible:

• i am not loading any specific files for this. if you mean the patcher itself, then not only is that not possible within the context of what i'm trying to do, but also would brick the rest of the mod because entire patcher wouldn't be run dependant on one condition for which i am trying to do one thing for. if you mean globals.lua, then i'm fairly certain that just bricks the game.

• the condition does not exist in the way i would normally check it at this point in runtime; to clarify, it exists, but what i normally check to check if x is true in this circumstance is not created yet. i don't know how to retrieve the condition in a way that works in this context

[hushed field]

Is there a reason you want the loading of the patch to be conditional, rather than insert a condition into the patch?

[glad osprey]

how do i duplicate the first joker held

[rapid stag]

i'm just approaching this from the wrong direction. what's the code in the game that directly determines the colour of the planet cards button in collections

where can i expect to find it

[unkempt thicket]

That wasn't what i meant, but lovely files are automatically loaded which i forgot.

[rapid stag]

ah

[tardy wind]

did SMODS.https get a new definition or something ? trying to use it results into smods.https not found

[zealous glen]

I have no knowledge but I saw someone else complain about an issue earlier

[hushed field]

the colour is set by the secondary colour marker in the UI definitions file

searching ' your_collection_planets' should get you there

[frosty dock]

G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Planet should be where that's stored

[tardy wind]

there was indeed a similar issue couple days ago

[glad osprey]

how do i check if the player is in a blind

[hushed field]

G.GAME.blind.in_blind

[rapid stag]

thanks! how do i write a lovely patch to target a file in another mod (i.e. what should target be)?

[glad osprey]

ty 🙏

[zinc forum]

Wait huh? Is it not G.STATES.SELECTING_HAND?

[frosty dock]

target = '=[SMODS modid "path/to/file.lua"]

where that path is relative to the root folder of the mod you're patching, and the ID is replaced by an _ if you're patching steamodded's own files

[rapid stag]

thanks!

[frosty dock]

works for anything loaded using steamodded, for things like talisman that don't use steamodded to load files, this won't work

[tepid crow]

also be aware that this doesn't work on (some versions?) of mac

[old bane]

gaming

[zinc elbow]

If i were making a texture pack mod for malverk and i wanted to replace the textures for the playing cards (both normal and high contrast) which keys and sets should i use

[glad osprey]

how do i make sure copied cards have the correct back

[rapid stag]

...what am i doing wrooooooooooongggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

this should have worked

oh wait, the ui_definitions patch didn't take

...wait, why? why wouldn't it find that

[tepid crow]

playing card textures can be done through SMODS.DeckSkin

[rapid stag]

i'd ask if pattern has to be the entire line but that's clearly not the case since my other patterns work and they're all partial

why can't lovely find something i directly copy-pasted from the ui_definitions.lua file

[tepid crow]

patterns should be the entire line

though you can omit whitespace

[old bane]

quantum car

[rapid stag]

oh, does lovely not return a couldn't find line when the target is '=[ SMODS [modid] "[filepath]"]'?

[rapid stag]

lovely still can't find the line

am i crazy or should this just not be happening

[tepid crow]

check out mods/lovely/dump

[glad osprey]

bump

[latent portal]

I read the docs

[paper zealot]

SMODS also patches this section so the code is different by the time your patch attempts to change it. Like Larswijn said, look at lovely/dump/functions/UI_definitions.lua to see how it's been changed

[thorn ridge]

why doing dis

[rapid stag]

i seeeee

[paper zealot]

SMODS patches a LOT, so it's a good general rule to double check the dump code alongside the source when writing new patches

[tepid crow]

can I use something to just auto-react "👆" to everything breeze says

[red flower]

i think that's a vanilla bug? you might need to change the back manually

[paper zealot]

I mean most of the time i'm just repeating what you say but with slightly more context and as a reply

[glad osprey]

also sometimes it just doesnt happen????

[tepid crow]

True that

[zinc elbow]

Alright so if i wanted to add a playing card texture through SMODS.DeckSkin what would be the process for that, if anyone would be able to help me, i'm really new to this and havent rlly been able to understand how it's done

[turbid maple]

pretty sure properly implementing quantum ranks with all the conditions they want to support could warrant an entire academic paper

[tepid crow]

Check out the docs https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.DeckSkin or some practical examples #💻・modding-dev message

[zinc elbow]

alriight thank you

[next timber]

stupid question but how do i set the hand size of a deck?

[shy wagon]

just calculate the final score of all ~400k possible hands and pick the biggest one! ezpz

[dense adder]

trying to read through the documentation on SMODS
is there a functional difference when using dollars and money when trying to return a calculation.
context wise i am trying to have a joker give 1$ per scoring lucky card.

[turbid maple]

400k? youre funny

[shy wagon]

well assuming five-card hands max

wouldn't it be 13^5+13^4+13^3+13^2+13?

oh wait

you're right, I forgot about suit

it's actually ~2.6 million

hey am I doing this right?

what else do I have to define besides the new edition?

[rapid stag]

now i seem to be doing something else wrong because i think my function is nil?

[long sun]

hiya! sorry, i'm missing something in my code. here's a part of the code for one of my Jokers:

if context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.after and not context.blueprint then
        card.ability.extra.remaining_hands = card.ability.extra.remaining_hands - 1
      if card.ability.extra.remaining_hands == 0 then 
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
          func = function()
            play_sound('tarot1')
            card.T.r = -0.2
            card:juice_up(0.3, 0.4)
            card.states.drag.is = true
            card.children.center.pinch.x = true
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.3, blockable = false,
              func = function()
                G.jokers:remove_card(card)
                card:remove()
                card = nil
              return true; end})) 
            return true
          end
        })) 
        return {
          message = "Drained!",
          colour = G.C.FILTER
        }
          else
        return {
          message = card.ability.extra.remaining_hands.."",
          colour = G.C.FILTER
        }
      end
    end```

but when being run, i get an error, telling me i'm probably missing an end somewhere

but i don't see where?

[rapid stag]

does it specify a line number or

[long sun]

just that it found an unexpected symbol after my code

[rapid stag]

it usually says a line number when you get unexpected symbols

[long sun]

ya, that line was after my code

[rapid stag]

can we see the error you get? i don't notice any immediate issues with this cope snippet

[long sun]

okay, so adding an end to the end of my code lets it execute, but it doesn't work as expected

[unkempt thicket]

How can I remove the base suits from the pool?

[long sun]

(the else statement is being attached to the if up above)

(i think.)

okay no maybe this is unrelated?

hmmhmm. will send my whole code

if context.joker_main then
      return { xmult = card.ability.extra.given_xmult }
    end
    
    if context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.before and not context.blueprint then
      local kings = false
      local queens = false
      for i = 1, #context.scoring_hand do
        if context.scoring_hand[i]:get_id() == 12 then queens = true end
        if context.scoring_hand[i]:get_id() == 13 then kings = true end
      end
      if kings and queens then
        card.ability.extra.remaining_hands = card.ability.extra.remaining_hands + card.ability.extra.added_hands
          card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, { message = "+"..card.ability.extra.remaining_hands.." Hands" })
      end

    if context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.after and not context.blueprint then
        card.ability.extra.remaining_hands = card.ability.extra.remaining_hands - 1
      if card.ability.extra.remaining_hands == 0 then 
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
          func = function()
            play_sound('tarot1')
            card.T.r = -0.2
            card:juice_up(0.3, 0.4)
            card.states.drag.is = true
            card.children.center.pinch.x = true
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.3, blockable = false,
              func = function()
                G.jokers:remove_card(card)
                card:remove()
                card = nil
              return true; end})) 
            return true
          end
        })) 
        return {
          message = "Drained!",
          colour = G.C.FILTER
        }
          else
        return {
          message = card.ability.extra.remaining_hands.."",
          colour = G.C.FILTER
        }
      end
    end
  end```

(sorry for codewalling)

[paper zealot]

Unsure what the issue is, but if you're just trying to change the planet colour, you can change G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Planet directly

[long sun]

the code within the if statement with context.after doesn't do anything, it seems

[rapid stag]

tried that, doesn't work

[wintry solar]

you can't return money, it wont do anything

[wintry solar]

your after check is within the before check I think

[long sun]

OH AHA THANKS YOU'RE A GENIUS 😭

thankyouthankyouthankyou i've been looking for that for hours 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[minor furnace]

I just lost the game...

[old bane]

we're in there

[minor furnace]

every seal, everywhere, all at once

[old bane]

all because of this one joker lmao

ignore the temp art

[unkempt thicket]

I think you could do every with something similar to what I did with my enhancement.

[old bane]

he's in there

[old bane]

oh wow

them all together just looks weird

at least king boo looks fine (not really this isn't actually what negative looks like

[long sun]

boo;;;;;

when does his ability activate?

[old bane]

end of round (prolly should like change that lmao)

[long sun]

rightright ^^

does he self destruct if the chance fails?

[old bane]

nope

only if it succeeds

[long sun]

grand

[sour marsh]

is there an easy way to make a sprite drawn on a card with DrawStep inherit all the shaders applied to the card?

[rapid stag]

anyway, trhe function isn't nil, it's being called properly, but for whatever reason, it's just making all the UI elements red now

[sour marsh]

i would manually check but it might break other mods that use shaders

[minor furnace]

ah yes, "Bowser"

[sour marsh]

order 20 draws it under the card when there's a shader applied but order 21 draws it on top with no shader

[manic rune]

whats the function when you press Play Hand called

[minor furnace]

if you're in a blind, it's press_play(self)

if you're looking for a joker effect, I think the best approximation you can get is context.before?

[rapid stag]

is there a function that's called at the start of a shop phase?

[manic rune]

nop, lookin for a hook

[minor furnace]

ah

I think pressing the button may be an event handler

[manic rune]

this one?

or is it this one

-# i just found it earlier

[minor furnace]

this calculates the blind effect when you press play

[manic rune]

oh

i think its not good if theres chicot then

[minor furnace]

this function, among other things, calls the blind play effect

I think that's probably the one you'd want to hook into

[manic rune]

mhm, i see

thanks!

[minor furnace]

what are you trying to do?

[manic rune]

status effects in my mod last for a number of turns

i decided to make it so that one hand = 1 turn

[minor furnace]

ooh ok

[warped marsh]

All Jokers for my Wave 1 of the Miku mod are made :) thank you to everyone who helped me with my silly questions

[weak gate]

what variable has the player's current money?

[manic rune]

G.GAME.dollars

[manic rune]

holy shit thats cool

[warped marsh]

Thank you! Mostly proud of the bottom row (most intense with art and programming wise!)

[manic rune]

yeah i can see why :3

love the teto joker

[warped marsh]

ESPECIALLY KING

[warped marsh]

Guess what her ability is :)

[minor furnace]

something to do with Kings, I hope lol

[warped marsh]

It’s a little broken but turns every scored card into a King

Pain in the ass to program surprisingly

Especially the animation

[minor furnace]

I was going to guess gains x1 mult when turning a card into a king

[warped marsh]

That would’ve be cool as well, but have a lot of x1 multi in the mod so far

[minor furnace]

that is fair

[warped marsh]

The last jokers are mostly utility/money

[minor furnace]

I have way too much xmult in my mod rn too...

[manic rune]

yall think you have too many

i have eidolons which give xmult

:3

[warped marsh]

I find it easy to program

[manic rune]

• equipments which make jokers give xmult

[warped marsh]

Like xmult

[wide narwhal]

hey so i'm working on a mod that just adds a bunch of jokers that are variations on the Egg, and one of them is supposed to increase sell value by 1.5x (adding half of current sell value) at end of round with a 1 in 4 chance of being destroyed at end of round. i got the self destruct working, that was basically just copied right from gros michel, but i don't know how to get the extra_value to increase by half the current sell value. i also have never programmed in lua before today so i have no idea what i'm doing. any help would be very appreciated !! :+)

[warped marsh]

Could you send the text file please? Just the snippet of it

[manic rune]

wait nevermind

whats the state after scoring?

[warped marsh]

Or DM me the code I think I see the issue

[wide narwhal]

ya sure !!

[vocal cedar]

to all of you

[minor furnace]

straight up jorkering it

[manic rune]

you know what

what if

i combine this with new_round

:3

it seems to work even when you dont draw after playing a hand

which is nice

-# surely theres no jokers that use this function

[warped marsh]

-# we live in pure hope

[manic rune]

🙏

adding ALL mods which use the function to incompat

:3

[dense adder]

is there a fix to context.scoring_hand and context.cardarea == G.play triggering the effect on the cards twice, once when they score and the other times when the hand is done

[glad osprey]

this keeps crashing what am i doing wrong

[old bane]

can i not shuffle the order of the played cards?

[manic rune]

you can, ive seen some mods doing that before

[glad osprey]

should be able to

[manic rune]

never used a deck before but, uhh: does card refer to the deck in this case?

[old bane]

i just grabbed the code from amber acorn:
G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({ func = function() G.play:shuffle('aajk'); play_sound('cardSlide1', 0.85);return true end }))

[glad osprey]

yes

[manic rune]

hm

[rapid stag]

just as a sanity check, i did try directly setting G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Planet again and it had no effect, same as when i tried before

[manic rune]

do decks use "effect.config" instead of "ability"?

[glad osprey]

yea

[manic rune]

oh

hm

[glad osprey]

it prints the value just fine

[manic rune]

how did the print go

dang

[manic rune]

can you try returning dollars as just a number, like "1" to see if it works

-# im dumb so i cant figure out whatsa wrong immediately :(

[glad osprey]

already did and it works then

[manic rune]

gah

ok im confused, maybe try tonumber(card.effect.config.extra.payout)?

[glad osprey]

i am going to commit arson

it doesnt crash

but doesnt give any money

[manic rune]

what the fuck

[manic rune]

??

[paper zealot]

That's surprising. What have you tried?
This works for me:

--colour_test.lua
G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Planet = { 1, 0, 1, 1 }
``` with
```toml
[[patches]]
[patches.copy]
target = 'main.lua'
position = 'append'
sources = [
    'colour_test.lua'
]

[manic rune]

i have no idea, i guess using math.floor() on smt makes it not a number??

let me check

[glad osprey]

it returns a number supposedly!!!!!

[manic rune]

yeah but

if you use tonumber(5) then it still prints 5

so its definitely not a number

😭

wtf

[paper zealot]

Make sure you're not setting it before main.lua is run, since it's defined in globals.lua which is run at the very beginning of main

[rapid stag]

...well i think that's abit more than just directly setting G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Planet as you suggested

but this was what i was doing. just in my mod's main lua file

[manic rune]

???

WAIT

@glad osprey

ITS A FUCKING TABLE

[paper zealot]

Mine was just a lovely patch to append it to main.lua, as a minimum-code test case

[manic rune]

😭

[glad osprey]

i stg

[rapid stag]

ah. so what i'm doinjg should work, but isn't

[glad osprey]

OH WAIT NO

[sour marsh]

there's an annoying little delay between ancient joker changing suit and context.end_of_round

[glad osprey]

IS HAND_CHIPS A TABLE

[paper zealot]

I suspect this is running before main, but i'm not sure of the order of operatios of SMODS loading

[sour marsh]

everything is a table

it's lua

[paper zealot]

Maybe someone more knowledgable about SMODS could weigh in on the "right way" to do this

[edgy reef]

do what

[glad osprey]

local thunk

[manic rune]

you would probably need to grab "v" from hand_chips

idfk

💔

[edgy reef]

I am knowledgeable on SMODS and LocAltHunk code

[manic rune]

yeah you need to run a for loop to grab the actual hand_chips from there

-# thats dumb, what

[glad osprey]

why doesnt this work??????

[manic rune]

[manic rune]

i dont think its [1]

i tried too, it returned nil

[native zinc]

how does G.FUNCS.get_poker_hand_info() work

[paper zealot]

Run code once after main.lua finishes

[manic rune]

@glad osprey

turned out, this is how you grab that

hand_chips["array"][1]

[native zinc]

oh i found the docs

[manic rune]

-# what the fuck

[glad osprey]

why did i have to be balatro autistic

[manic rune]

💔

i will add that to my thread

[native zinc]

oh how do you detect unscored cards

[paper zealot]

As a lovely patch, it's just

[[patches]]
[patches.copy]
target = 'main.lua'
position = 'append'
```or 
```toml
[[patches]]
[patches.module]
source = 'my_code.lua'
after = 'main.lua'
name = 'mymod.my_module'
```or even
```toml
[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "main.lua"
match_indent = true
position = "after"
pattern = '''G.CANVAS:setFilter('linear', 'linear')
end
'''
payload = '''
--my_code_here
'''

[manic rune]

added

💔

[native zinc]

ah wait G.play.cards

array so for loop ok

[paper zealot]

You could also patch it directly into globals with

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "globals.lua"
match_indent = true
position = "at"
pattern = '''Planet = HEX('13afce'),'''
payload = '''Planet = { 1, 0, 1, 1 },'''
``` but that won't allow you to change it later or modify it at runtime

[manic rune]

-# whats with the numbers

is that vector4

my brain is still cooked from trying to learn shaders yesterday

💔

[edgy reef]

Bigger issue here is that if this is a SMODS mod then SMODS's ConsumableType object would override this anyways.

[rapid stag]

i appreciate it but as suggested in the snippet i posted, the colour needs to be changed based on a mod config option, so it needs to be conditional rather than set

[edgy reef]

Actually maybe not?

It might still reference G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Planet in the end

But regardless, your SMODS mod will always run once on load after everything is initialized, so you should be able to modify it in your mod's lua file.

[paper zealot]

Then I reckon you could just set G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Planet when your config is set, and on load sometime after main.lua finishes

[edgy reef]

I cannot remember if this results in an override based on the ConsumableType or not.

[old bane]

would i be able to make it so that a hand with hearts is not allowed with a blind?

[rapid stag]

...is there a function that's called immediately when the main/options menu loads?

[paper zealot]

That would definitely override the value, but would override it with the contents of the same value, so wouldn't be a problem

[rapid stag]

...wait a minute. i already override G.FUNCS.title_screen_card()

what if i just stuck it in there

[paper zealot]

Game.main_menu is common. You can hook it like this

local game_main_menu_ref = Game.main_menu
function Game:main_menu(change_context)
    local ret = game_main_menu_ref(self, change_context)
        -- things and such
    return ret
end

[rapid stag]

oh duhh i'm already overriding this for another reason

[glad osprey]

where is this

[paper zealot]

I should definitely read up on the SMODSian approach to see if there's a neater way than hooking existing vanilla functions though

[manic rune]

#1349064230825103441

:3

[paper zealot]

My written code:read code ratio is way too high

[manic rune]

its in the common questions, figured quite a few features would need it

[paper zealot]

This could just be hand_chips.array[1], right?

[daring fern]

Still looking for an answer to this.

[rapid stag]

finally, it works

alright, i think it's time to try and tackle the big thing i've been putting off since my last failed attempt at it.

how can i change the colours of the vortex in the main menu screen?

[paper zealot]

Look into how Trance or Cryptid do it, I think a patch is required

https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Trance/blob/main/lovely.toml

[rapid stag]

when i started, i looked into how cardsauce does it, which is basically just directly lifted from cryptid as far as i can tell

and i could never get anywhere. i just kept getting errors

and a bunch of the patches i tried never took

[paper zealot]

The relevant lines are in game.lua:
{name = 'colour_1', ref_table = G.C, ref_value = 'RED'},
{name = 'colour_2', ref_table = G.C, ref_value = 'BLUE'},

[old bane]

i love this boss blind (even though the description is super small)

yippee

[sour marsh]

is there a way to predict pseudorandom_element without using it? when you use it it's gonna affect the next use right?

[open aspen]

whats the best place to start when it comes to learning modding

[sour marsh]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1349064230825103441 @open aspen

ok i give up, whatever, i'm picking this problem back up later

[open aspen]

im not sure how balatro modding works (evidently), but for a lot of these random generators is there not a seed that determines all the choices (again im not 100% without knowing the code but it of course seems that way in vanilla balatro considering the seed system is a thing).

If so, would it not be possible to use the function and roll it back to the previous state it was at? or is that missing some fundamental understanding of how it would work

[manic rune]

its the same, yeah

[open aspen]

i feel like wanting to know the next value of a random generator is already a very niche thing to want to know so i wouldnt be surprised if the solution is a headache

also again thanks for the link 🙏

[sour marsh]

i'm also new to modding but if i call the reset_ancient_card() function which uses pseudorandom_element it alters the order of ancient joker triggers in the future, i used to think that it didn't matter if you called it again as long as you were in the same round but that's not true apparently

[open aspen]

oof

not fun

[sour marsh]

for context this is the stupid reason why i need that

[paper zealot]

TagPreview predicts the next joker card by

local _pool, _pool_key = get_current_pool(type, rarity, nil, key_append)
center_key = pseudorandom_element(_pool, pseudoseed(_pool_key))
local it = 1
while center_key == 'UNAVAILABLE' do
    it = it + 1
    center_key = pseudorandom_element(_pool, pseudoseed(_pool_key .. '_resample' .. it))
end
center = G.P_CENTERS[center_key]

[sour marsh]

hmmmmmm

ok i need to figure out how to apply that to ancient joker, to do list, etc

because those updates happen like .5 seconds after context.end_of_round

thanks for the info i'll see if i can figure out how to use it

[native zinc]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
        local rank = context.other_card:get_id()
        for i=1, #G.play.cards do
            local cards = G.play.cards[i]
            if cards == 11 and rank == 5 then
                card.ability.extra.mult = 0
                card.ability.extra.mult = card.ability.extra.mult + 15
            end
        end
    end
    return {
        mult = card.ability.extra.mult
    }
end

hm

wait

i am too sleep deprived for this

[dense adder]

when using SMOD.has_enhancement(card, key) is there documentation to see what the key is for base game enhancements and editions, as i am trying to reference lucky cards SMOD.has_enhancement(card, 'm_lucky') but that does not seem to work. Or have i done something wrong?

[daring fern]

Is something like this possible to do?

[noble schooner]

just realized that enhancements use textures, that makes my life easier lol

[open aspen]

where can i find source code on mac