💻・modding-dev

[hushed field]

Oh that's a fun concept!

[vivid solstice]

probably dumb question but how do you make a planet card only appear after you discover the hidden hand?

[glad osprey]

if there's ever a mod that gives a shit ton of negative mult this would be so good

[lofty axle]

i keep getting the error message [SMODS _ \"src/loader.lua\"]:571: [SMODS tribouletions \"thing.lua\"]:96: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 95) near '=' whenever i do this. im currently trying to upgrade the joker's chips and display the "Upgraded!" message after a 1 in 10 chance. any pointers?

probably shouldve added actual code line numbers oops

[faint yacht]

Move the card.ability.extra.chipsAdded outside the return.

[vivid solstice]

how come the name isnt showing?

        ['en-us'] = {
            ['name'] = 'CFBDSIR2419'
        }
    },```

[lofty axle]

so i managed to get the chip adding stuff working but the message doesnt appear :T (thank you btw)

wait nvm it just shows the +chips and thats it

realized thats how its supposed to be for other jokers lol

thank you!!

[vast lily]

anyone know how to make an event that messes with the probability weight of certain card types appearing in the shop for the rest of the run?

nvm i got it, the GAME script just stores the rates as ints and stuff like the Tarot Merchant voucher just applies a change to that int to the run

[next timber]

im a little confused about the variables being passed into shaders, does texture_coords go from 0 to 1 or from 0 to pixel width/height, or from top left x/y on atlas to bottom right x/y on atlas

[knotty copper]

@wintry solar If you are not busy, would you be able to help me figure out this issue?

[worthy stirrup]

I know that context.discard happens once per card discarded, is there an equivalent for playing the card

[hushed field]

Context.individual

[worthy stirrup]

ah, thanks

[heady siren]

I might be stupid, but I'm trying to add a deck that just gives you one of my jokers so I can test it's functionality, and it just throws an error whenever I click play

The smod modding guide doesn't say anything about a center field, do I need to add it, and if so, what do I put in it?

[frosty dock]

the key you're passing is incomplete

there's prefixes added to object keys

[heady siren]

This is my first mod, I do not know what you mean by incomplete, what do I need to do to make it complete?

[frosty dock]

in this case the full key looks like j_modprefix_tennisjoker where modprefix is the prefix from your mod's metadata file

[heady siren]

Alright, thank you

[frosty dock]

also you should probably update steamodded and lovely, both of those are a good bit out of date

[heady siren]

It works with the mods I play, and when I update a lot of them stop working

[frosty dock]

then you need to update those mods as well

I really don't recommend developing on an outdated version, any features you see in the docs or elsewhere might not yet be supported on the version you're using

[heady siren]

Now it says area is nil even though area is specifically defined

[frosty dock]

two things there

you should use SMODS.add_card instead of SMODS.create_card or it won't be placed into the jokers area properly

and you need to do it inside of an event, otherwise you're acting before the jokers area is created

[simple mural]

What do you think of this mod structure?

[frosty dock]

something like this

G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
  func = function()
    SMODS.add_card({
      key = 'j_modprefix_tennisjoker',
    })
    return true
  end
}))

yes you can remove the set and area, set is only needed when generating something random and area defaults to G.jokers anyway

[heady siren]

Got it

[simple mural]

Good or not so good?

[next timber]

i am trying to comprehend shaders, how is image_details a vec4? i presume the first 2 values are width and height of the atlas, so what are the 3rd and 4th??

wait nvm i may be stupid

its texture_details a vec4

ok why is texture_details a vec4

oh shit the z and w are its position in the atlas

incredibly useful

OUGHGHGHHHGH

I KILLED JIMBO

PROMISING

NOPE

I MEANT THIS

ok now does it work on all jokers

thats the deciding factor

no.

no it does not

[vivid solstice]

game crashes on load, it says unexpected symbol on the 23rd (second here) line

            { hand }```

[open aspen]

is there a context for when the played hand is on screen, and after the scoring is done, but before the played cards disappear? (e.g like a context that would activate before stuff like mime works on gold cards)

[worthy stirrup]

im trying to make blueprint but in the other way, would this be right?

[pulsar canyon]

I've trying to make a config menu for my Gamepad Button Prompt mod. I'm looking into adding a menu portion where you can simply choose between button icons without needing to drag-and-drop specific icon files.

I already got the config.lua portion mostly sorted (in terms of getting the menu to se it), but I haven't gotten the actual config menu to work.

here's a concept image on what I'm trying to achieve right now:

[thin anchor]

bump

[open aspen]

the effect of my card happens before the message pops up

can I delay the effect or have the message appear sooner?

[maiden river]

G.GAME.chips is what you've scored, and G.GAME.blind.chips is what the blind requirement is

[thin anchor]

thank you

[maiden river]

note that they're not going to be numbers if you have talisman installed

[open aspen]

how does this work?

[thin anchor]

what would they be then? just curious

[hexed heath]

the malverk experience

[maiden river]

they're tables, because they represent bigger numbers

there's more info on talisman's readme

[thin anchor]

interesting

[red flower]

if you use an event inside that function it will run after all the messages that are sent in the return, for example

so the timing of whatever you want to run is correct with the scoring steps instead of doing everything before

[long sun]

hi! having trouble getting a Tarot card to work

wait hold on i might've fixed it

[next timber]

fuck you (melts your jokers)

anyways I CAN REST!! THE HARD PART IS FINALLY FUCKING DONE

it looks a bit jank on square joker

but quite frankly

i do not

[long sun]

yep, nope, still broken -w-

[next timber]

care

[long sun]

code

the error's telling me that line 561 of card.lua is throwing

[thin anchor]

how the fuck did he do this to all of my precious jonklers

[long sun]

which is this line:
for k, v in pairs(G.P_SEALS[_seal].config or {}) do

[next timber]

painful joker fuckery

[thin anchor]

but actually how did you do that

its really cool

[long sun]

(sorry, but correction: she)

[thin anchor]

[open aspen]

sorry i didnt get it?

[long sun]

OOP OKAY I FIXED IT NEVERMIND :D

still getting weird errors, but the card works!!

[red flower]

all the scoring contexts run immediately when the hand is played and the returns run inside events so they get played in order
func allows you to put an event at the appropriate place in the queue

[next timber]

thank you kind ghost

[long sun]

ignore the fact that the ability doesn't line up btw, i made the seal first because the code was at hand for creating seals

[vivid solstice]

the error is somthing to do with your localization file i think

[long sun]

ah, i don't have one of those

[vivid solstice]

anyway my one card scoring hand doesnt work and shows high card even though its higher than high card

[warped marsh]

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'pumpkinmoon',
    atlas = 'Jokers',
    pos = { x = 3, y = 3 },

    cost = 6,
    rarity = 2,
    blueprint_compat = false,
    eternal_compat = true,
    unlocked = true,
    unlock_card = true,
    discovered = true,
    config = { extra = { money = 8}},

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.cardarea == G.play and context.individual and next(conext.poker_hands['Three of a Kind']) and context.destroy_card then
            return{
                money = (card.ability.extra.money or 8),
                destroy_card = card,
                destroying_card = card
            }
        end
    end
}```
I'm getting an error for missing context value, what am I missing here?

[faint yacht]

conext?

[warped marsh]

omg

my horrible spelling

strikes again

[next timber]

conext

[vivid solstice]

the code for the hand

        if G.hand.cards == 1 and G.deck.cards == 0 and G.hand.highlighted == 1 and next(parts._highest) then
            return { hand } end```

[lofty axle]

how would i go about destroying all cards in hand when a joker is sold?

i cant lie, looking at all the stuff about contexts with destroying cards is confusing me LOL

[open aspen]

ah i see, is there any example mod or documentation for func?

[next timber]

why does the edition property not have any of the config data?

this is being printed in on_apply

ok so it has it after the fact so it seems i just can't access it during on_apply?

[red flower]

no, it's just a function that gets run after the messages

[next timber]

is there a way around this? i need to randomly set the x_mult using the variables in extra

[thin anchor]

would this be how you use an if statment?

[next timber]

missing an end on it

otherwise yes that checks out

[thin anchor]

sweet

[red flower]

you have extra commas too

[thin anchor]

ah

[red flower]

none of those commas go there

[heady siren]

How does one make a joker not trigger in the individual context if the scored card is being retriggered?

[warped marsh]

Is there docs on info_queue? I want to put an infoqueue on glass card based Joker :)

[thin anchor]

is this correct

[marble finch]

is there any way i can get a jokers original config? i thought G.P_CENTERS would be right but nope, for some reason the values there are also modified?

[sonic cedar]

try info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = G.P_CENTERS.m_glass

[sonic cedar]

like from base game?

[marble finch]

essentially as if the joker just spawned in, im trying to revert a certain food joker to its original state but when i use G.P_CENTERS its also already changed

[sonic cedar]

game.lua

has each joker’s config, but some are in code format

i should send an example in case you mean something else

here's ice cream

[marble finch]

thats in G.P_CENTERS. i literally had used that .-.

so i guess i modified the original index or ive used it wrong, brb

[sonic cedar]

😭

[marble finch]

so i did modify the original index. WHAT

[sonic cedar]

im saying cause as far as i knew that’s where they go

[marble finch]

G.P_CENTERS is definetely right, but somehow the way i modify my joker modifies it too

[heady siren]

Figured it out by keeping track of triggers in joker_main and individual and then resetting in after

[chrome widget]

When you're accessing from G.P_CENTERS or G.P_CENTER_POOLS, what's the nesting for the center's basic config values? I'm trying to access the cost of all centers in the game, not just existing cards (as Clearance and Liquidation do to update existing ones)

[thin anchor]

how would you make it so you earn money if the chips earned is equal to or more than the blind requirement?

[crisp elbow]

is there a context that exists for a start of an ante?

[red flower]

setting_blind? or what do you mean by start of ante?

[sonic cedar]

how to check if a played hand included a certain suit?

[manic rune]

for loop through the entire G.play.cards

check suit

if v:is_suit("...") then

[sonic cedar]

and that works with “and” right

like i can add context.after

[knotty copper]

Need help diagnosing an issue for some reason when I have the TexturePack object in my code it causes some of the decks descriptions for plasma - erratic decks to not update when you select a new language and only updates when you reload the game and I don't know why, I'm not sure if the issue is due to a mess up in declaring the AltTextures or the TexturePack object itself
I know the issue is coming from this as when I remove the TexturePack object it works fine

[manic rune]

i mean, if G.play.cards is still the same in context.after then yes

[sonic cedar]

so
if context.after and v:is_suit(suit) then

would work right?

suit is a variable i have set in the joker’s config

[rain slate]

how do I make something open a random booster pack?

[vocal cedar]

is there a mod or a way i can quickly reload the game without having to close and reopen it each time i change one single line in my mods code lol

[rose dragon]

is there a way to replace all joker slots in the shop?

[rain slate]

there's no hot reload but you can hold M to restart the game I believe

[vocal cedar]

gangster

correct thank you

[rain slate]

careful though because if you have your cursor in the IDE it can just type a bunch of m's and it won't reload correctly because of the syntax errors caused by that

[vocal cedar]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

HA yeah

that just happened in discord 😢

how do i pull the edition of a played card again?

context.scored_hand[i].edition?

[manic rune]

if context.after then
for i,v in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
--check v here
end
end

[rain slate]

how do I stop it from just going to the blind selection screen? https://medal.tv/games/balatro/clips/jW629mInqPc8TyZCP?invite=cr-MSxONGUsMTk5Nzk5MzE1

[sonic cedar]

wdym check v— ohhhh the is_suit right?

[manic rune]

yeah

[manic rune]

that's supposed to be a condition

[sonic cedar]

ohh ok

[simple mural]

I made it shorter

[thin anchor]

really confused rn

[sonic cedar]

so if v: then ??

[simple mural]

Does a structure like this make sense in mods for balatro?

I've just never seen this kind of file splitting before

[sonic cedar]

honestly whatever works best for you. if you do plan on adding a lot of jokers, though, i do recommend not putting each in a separate lua file

[simple mural]

What can you offer in return?

I want to make ~450 new jokers

[vocal cedar]

whats an easy and quick way to define blueprint features?
like if i have a super simple joker how do i define his blueprint behavior

[modern kindle]

do you even have 450 unique joker ideas

im at just over 50 and scraping bottom of the barrel

[simple mural]

I have a one idea for 450 unique jokers

[sonic cedar]

ok so maybe have a 90.lua 180.lua and a 270.lua

and then put your corresponding jokers into each file

like 90 jokers into 90.lua

etc

[vocal cedar]

like if i have a joker that just adds x2 mult how do i make a blueprint or brainstorm do this?

[simple mural]

I'll think about it, it's just that when there's a lot of code in one file, I start to get confused

[simple mural]

Just set 'blueprint_compat = true' in the SMODS.Joker

[vocal cedar]

thats it? i thought i have to define my jokers function in code

[simple mural]

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

[sonic cedar]

that’s a visual thing. as long as you don’t tell it not to be, blueprint applies the same effect

[vocal cedar]

yeah

Ah i see

[simple mural]

Then idk

[manic rune]

that seems right, mhm

[modern kindle]

hi bepis, i sent u a dm bestie

[sonic cedar]

testing time then 🫡

[simple mural]

This is my jokers

[manic rune]

oh but you probably have to do context.after and context.cardarea == G.jokers too

else it will probably trigger more than once

[sonic cedar]

OH TRUE

ok NOW testing time

[zinc forum]

I am getting a weird issue, anyone knows why card.ability.extra.parity doesn't actually swap around?

if context.end_of_round and context.cardarea == G.jokers then
    if card.ability.extra.parity == 1 then card.ability.extra.parity = 0
    else card.ability.extra.parity = 1 end
    return {
        message = localize('k_reset')
    }
end```

The "Reset!" message does appear so I know the code is being run

[sonic cedar]

what’s going on with your equalities

[zinc forum]

Unraveling it it's just lua if card.ability.extra.parity == 1 then card.ability.extra.parity = 0 else card.ability.extra.parity = 1 end

[sonic cedar]

no but

why are you using double on the first one

[zinc forum]

I tried some fancier stuff before but no dice

[sonic cedar]

if it’s a number

== and not =

[zinc forum]

Ok now I'm lost x)

I am checking to see if parity is 1

[sonic cedar]

you set your parity equal to a number but you didn’t use the number equality sign

[zinc forum]

I also tried removing the == 1 which should've worked but didn't work so I specified as much I could

[sonic cedar]

change it to = 1

[toxic rain]

???

[zinc forum]

That would assign it 1 wouldn't it?

[toxic rain]

isnt single = for assigning value and not checking it

[zinc forum]

Unless it's some weird lua thing I'm too java brained to understand x)

[sonic cedar]

i JUST saw the if disregard me

[toxic rain]

understandable

[vast lily]

loc_txt = {
    name = "Clueless Deck",
    text = {
        "Start with {C:attention,T:v_tarot_tycoon}Tarot Tycoon{}",
        "and 7 {C:negative,T:e_negative}Negative{} copies",
        "of {C:tarot,T:c_fool}The Fool{}",
        "{C:inactive}at a price...{}",
    },
},

The C:negative indicator isn't changing the text color. Anyone know what the color indicator I need for the spooky color changing text is?

[zinc forum]

understandable

[paper zealot]

You want either edition or dark_edition

[lethal ridge]

hi guys

[vast lily]

oooo thanks

[lethal ridge]

how do i modify how the game does score calculations?

[zinc forum]

Ooh that's a handy chart, where did you get it?

[vast lily]

was about to ask the same thing

[zinc forum]

Wdym?

[simple mural]

Where can i find this?

[lethal ridge]

for example

the game can only go up to e308 before naninf

and also it doesnt work with imaginary numbers

[toxic rain]

how would imaginary numbers work for scoring?

[lethal ridge]

like

[paper zealot]

That's mine, as part of the documentation of text styling that I started and might continue with at some point

[lethal ridge]

it would mess up your score

[zinc forum]

Ok then no clue x) I'd say look up Talisman, maybe there's something there

[lethal ridge]

unless you multiply by imaginary again

until its back to normal number

but with a higher multiplier

[toxic rain]

that sounds like an interesting mechanic

[lethal ridge]

i know how i will make imaginary number gameplay but idk how to make the calculations

[lethal ridge]

i tried but i dont understand anything there

its a bit hard to read

[zinc forum]

Oh interesting

[toxic rain]

i tried studing uni math but dropped out so this is way too big brain for me

[vast lily]

found it, dark_edition is what's used for Negative

[fervent thicket]

I'm VERY new to coding balatro mods. What am I doing wrong?

[sonic cedar]

might just be a formatting issue then

[zinc forum]

Maaaan, and I wanted it to look good x)

[sonic cedar]

that doesn’t matter if it’s not gonna work 😭

[zinc forum]

Trying the more verbose one see if it works

[sonic cedar]

i think it might be messing up your end statements

[simple mural]

gn

[zinc forum]

G'night!

[hardy viper]

SMODS.INIT is a very old thing

[zinc forum]

Why is it still not working.

if card.ability.extra.parity then
                card.ability.extra.parity = 0
            else 
                card.ability.extra.parity = 1
            end```

[hardy viper]

which is why it doesnt exist

[fervent thicket]

Oh, ok. What should I use instead?

I was just looking at a guide lol.

[sonic cedar]

try it like

[hardy viper]

must be a very outdated guide, theres no replacement since its useless

[fervent thicket]

So how should I initialize my jokers so they appear in game?

[hardy viper]

you can just put the code in the top level scope

SMODS.Joker

start with the steamodded documentation at https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki

[zinc forum]

[hardy viper]

it looks like youre initializing them the 0.9.8 way

so yeah that guide is completely worthless

0.9.8 is long gone

[zinc forum]

This is literally my code lua if context.end_of_round and context.cardarea == G.jokers then if card.ability.extra.parity == 1 then card.ability.extra.parity = 0 else card.ability.extra.parity = 1 end return { message = localize('k_reset') } end

[fervent thicket]

I see. That's fantastic.

[zinc forum]

I am checking, yes my config is config = { extra = { parity = 0, chips = 20, mult = 2 }}, so naming is right, the reset message is shown so the code gets run

[sonic cedar]

your end statement isnt lined up with your if

[zinc forum]

That's just me not copying right, it looks fine in code

[thin anchor]

may i have an example of how this is used?

[zinc forum]

Besides Lua doesn't use indents for blocks, that's a python thing

[sonic cedar]

(ignore the for loop, it's for my sequence)

[sonic cedar]

no the

the indents matter

[zinc forum]

I swear I saw some weird indents in the base code

[sonic cedar]

coding...

[zinc forum]

Yeah

In any case guess I'll just try to like, put it in an event or something???

[sonic cedar]

oh you meant functionality "matter" no with lua indents just make the code readable

[zinc forum]

Yeah nah I meant functionally Lua doesn't do anything with indents

[sonic cedar]

yeah

[zinc forum]

I reassure you my code is properly indented everywhere x)

[sonic cedar]

can i see the full calculate function?

[zinc forum]

Sure

calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
        if (context.other_card:get_id() <= 10 and
        context.other_card:get_id() >= 0 and
        context.other_card:get_id()%2 == card.ability.extra.parity)
        then
            return {
                chips = card.ability.extra.chips,
                mult = card.ability.extra.mult
            }
        end
        -- I can't be bothered to write it better right now...
        if context.other_card:get_id() == 14 and card.ability.extra.parity then
            return {
                chips = card.ability.extra.chips,
                mult = card.ability.extra.mult
            }
        end
    end
    if context.end_of_round and context.cardarea == G.jokers then
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            func = (function()
                if card.ability.extra.parity == 1 then
                    card.ability.extra.parity = 0
                else 
                    card.ability.extra.parity = 1
                end
                return true
            end)
        }))
        return {
            message = localize('k_reset')
        }
    end
end```

It's basically a Joker that's like, a fusion of Even Steven/Odd Todd that changes parity each round

[zinc forum]

(This didn't work btw)

[vocal cedar]

based upon my good friend who loves balatro

finished my first two jokers!

[fervent thicket]

Did it the correct way as it is now showing 151 in collection, but the atlas won't load despite it being the correct name.

[vocal cedar]

thank you to @hushed field for the help with this last night also i 100% used some of your empress of light polychrome code from way ago so thanks for figuring this out

so thanks lmao

this whole discord server is the best wiki

[sonic cedar]

im not..... ice........

[vocal cedar]

no i know

i replied to you on purpose lol

[sonic cedar]

villainous

[vocal cedar]

you did an empress joker a while ago right>

[hardy viper]

can i see the name of the atlas youre using in the joker, the SMODS.Atlas call youre doing for that joker, and a screenshot of YourMod/assets/1x in file explorer

[sonic cedar]

i did?

[vocal cedar]

OH no

nvm sorry lol

[sonic cedar]

best thing i got now is to uhhh run some print checks

[vocal cedar]

you helped @warped marsh with their joker lmao

[sonic cedar]

yes 😭

[vocal cedar]

so thank you to both of you lol

[fervent thicket]

Sorry, I was being a little stupid and accidentally put an = after SMODS.Atlas. Sorry.

[zinc forum]

Oh cool x)

[sonic cedar]

yeah run some print checks and see what’s going on

[fervent thicket]

Although I did get another error now lol.

[hardy viper]

happens to the best of us

[fervent thicket]

Now I got this error.

[zinc forum]

Ok so imagine a reality in which I was stupid and it worked this entire time

And it's just the card description that didn't update properly

[warped marsh]

Huh

[zinc forum]

(In my defense it's almost 3am)

[warped marsh]

Oh toma

[sonic cedar]

i’m gonna eat you alive actually

[warped marsh]

I forgot to tell you

[sonic cedar]

hi

[sonic cedar]

nvm justified

[warped marsh]

I changed all my files so it actually looks decent now and like I have it all localisation based now

[vocal cedar]

you made a really cool empress of light joker a while ago that so happened to exactly have the code i was scratching my head trying to figure out how to get

[sonic cedar]

peak 🥹

[vocal cedar]

i was just searching thru the discord and i was like "OH thats how i do it"

[warped marsh]

The changing to the polychrome?

Or the colour of the name

[vocal cedar]

mhm! made a joker that has a 1 in 10 chance to turn each played and scored card into a negative playing card

couldnt figure out how to target one specefic playing card at a time

you did the scoring_hand[i] for loop

which was the answer

[warped marsh]

Oh yeah yeah

[vocal cedar]

so thanks

[warped marsh]

No worries :)

[sonic cedar]

crashes because of a bad argument to ipairs

[errant fulcrum]

I understand that Castle picks a suit from your playing cards, but how does Ancient Joker pick? Does it just pull a random suit from SMODS.Suit?

[warped marsh]

That Joker took me actual hours to code (originally used for another Joker) I’ve been so proud of the code I’ve recycled it 3 times already

[vocal cedar]

did you look at midas code for it?

[warped marsh]

Look into my mod and look at wall of flesh

The code is above it

[vocal cedar]

i feel like thats exactly how midas works

also the flipping of your cards to make em fancy is quite cool

[zinc forum]

Quick question, do the loc_var variables update over time or are they locked to the variables set at the start
Apparently card.ability.extra.parity and "even" or "odd" didn't work, so I just wanna make sure for later

[warped marsh]

Got the code for enhancing cards yeah, and then just copied and tweaked other people’s code for animations

Since you have to do it manually (cringe)

[vocal cedar]

now i gotta make a spectral card that does a few things

Ghost:

• Select up to 3 playing cards
• For each chosen card, add Negative to that card and have a (amount of cards chosen) in 4 chance to lose 1 discard

thats gonna be fun to figure out i think

i wish there were example tarot cards like the example jokers mod somewhere

[warped marsh]

What do you mean?

Creating Tarots?

[errant fulcrum]

Isn't that also just pulling from suits you have in your deck?

[vocal cedar]

yeah just

a framework i g

[warped marsh]

Pretty sure yeah, I don’t have the code right now with me and it’s been a while

[vocal cedar]

if i could see like The Magician in SMODS terms this would be fire

[warped marsh]

Look into my mod again, I have a lot of creating Tarot cards

Miku and Terraria one

[vocal cedar]

yknow what sure, already used your code already whats more right

ill take a look lemmie check

[warped marsh]

More specially for specific tarot cards it’s Rotten Girl in MIKU mod

I have an update version of my Terraria mod that I’ll update tomorrow that’s cleaner and more refined btw

[vocal cedar]

you do that pixel art?

[primal shoal]

does hanging chad increase the amount of context.scoring_hand

[vocal cedar]

that shits kinda clean with it

[warped marsh]

For terraria?

[vocal cedar]

mhm

[warped marsh]

No. Only for my Miku mod

[vocal cedar]

oh okay

dude the person who did your terrara art is clean with ut

[warped marsh]

I collared with someone :)

[vocal cedar]

peak shit

some people have talent

[warped marsh]

Collabed*

[vocal cedar]

some people can code lol

[warped marsh]

I mean I did both

And it got too much to manage

Here’s my Miku stuff

[vocal cedar]

reworking the base game legendaries and im collabing with someone who turned all the jokers into yandere anime grils

king

[vocal cedar]

bro that last one what

[warped marsh]

I do digital art so the full art jokers are the easiest xd

[vocal cedar]

AH

i see

i am

[warped marsh]

Well it’s a hobby

[vocal cedar]

not articically talented!

[warped marsh]

I study programming, art is my hobby

Because originally I learnt art to make art for my games, got into art instead

[vocal cedar]

I study AI, programming is my hobby 😭

[vocal cedar]

oh peak

[warped marsh]

Ah me too! I do Data science with ai

[pearl jacinth]

might need some help

[zinc forum]

Damn saaaaaame

[pearl jacinth]

how do i make a consumable create a joker

[zinc forum]

Anyways thanks Toma! Even though in the end it was my own fault everything is working properly now :p

except for aces but that's a tomorrow me problem

[vocal cedar]

like judgement?

[pearl jacinth]

yes

but a set joker

[zinc forum]

It should be fairly easy

[pearl jacinth]

it's my first time modding

[fleet mango]

ight i dont understand lua much

[primal shoal]

        if G.jokers.config.card_limit > #G.jokers.cards then
            SMODS.add_card{
                set = 'Joker',
            }
        end
    end

[minor furnace]

Look at the judgement code, and you can provide the key of the joker to the create_card function

[fleet mango]

anyone know why morejokerpacks is bricking rn

[minor furnace]

There is also smods.add_card I suppose

[zinc forum]

use = function(self, card, area, copier)
    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.4, func = function()
        if G.jokers.config.card_limit > #G.jokers.cards then
            play_sound('timpani')
            local card_t = {
                set = "Joker",
                area = G.jokers,
                key = "j_rh_lockstep"
            }
            local new_card = SMODS.create_card(card_t)
            new_card:add_to_deck()
            G.jokers:emplace(new_card)
            card:juice_up(0.3, 0.5)
        end
        return true 
    end }))
end```

[fleet mango]

i understand nil

but thats it

[zinc forum]

That's how the base game does it

Look at the j_rh_lockstep string, that's where SMODS defines which joker to spawn

[fervent thicket]

Can someone please tell me why I'm getting this error? I'm very new to modding.

[faint yacht]

pos = { x = 0, y = 0 }

[fervent thicket]

Oh... welp, I'm a little dumb. Probably should've noticed that looking at the docs.

Thank you

[primal shoal]

why does hanging chad overide the #context.scoring_hand

            if #context.scoring_hand == 1 then
                card.ability.extra.count = card.ability.extra.count + 1
            end
        end

[thin anchor]

what ability shall this poker joker have

[glad crane]

Also, you have a semicolon ; at the end of your config, it should just be a comma

[warped marsh]

Look at https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1350849322408738828 a Joker called Rotten Girl

[primal shoal]

sharp corner spotted
but for an ability
maybe mult become chips and chips become mult

[thin anchor]

i will try to figure that out

[quartz ravine]

Wow, I am in love with this card

Anyone super great with Lua? I feel like surely there must be a more efficient way to do this, but I don't know if lua is just really limited. Many languages let you use

foreach (var x in collection) to spin out an easy enumeration of an array

In Lua this was the best way I could come up with to build an array of cards that aren't scored

for i = 1, #context.full_hand do
   local thisCard = context.full_hand[i]
   if has_value(context.scoring_hand, thisCard) then
      sendInfoMessage("card " .. thisCard:get_id() .. " was played and scored", self.key)
  else
    sendInfoMessage("card " .. thisCard:get_id()  .. " was played but not scored", self.key)
    local cardINdex = #unscoredCards + 1
    unscoredCards[cardINdex] = thisCard
  end
end

sendInfoMessage("count of unscored cards " .. #unscoredCards, self.key)

for i = 1, #unscoredCards do
   local thisUnscoredCard = unscoredCards[i]
   sendInfoMessage("confirming would be modifying card " .. thisUnscoredCard:get_id(), self.key)
   --to do decrease this card
end

[primal shoal]

       if v.var then
             rest of code`
``` this right?
k is i and v is all the elements in the collection

[warped marsh]

k is the index (starting from 1), v is the value at that index in the collection

so yep

[primal shoal]

yippe i know my stuff

[quartz ravine]

i was hoping there might be some 'syntax sugar', but I guess not

[warped marsh]

Your code seems pretty good here

Like it’s only super minor things I think could be changed

[quartz ravine]

Why the heck doesn't lua have a continue?!?!?! I read the Lua authors statement on it and they said it would cause confusion with variable scopes, but to me it is very intuitive

[warped marsh]

Wait Fox can you try something for me?

[quartz ravine]

Thank you, it felt so verbose! But thanks

[primal shoal]

i miss var++

or var += 1

[heady siren]

How would I go about referencing a joker to the left of the current joker?

[gentle rain]

:131: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'felt_discards' [a nil value]
attempted to copy yorick's homework, but what confuses me is that yorick's variable for how many discards are left uses self.ability.yorick_discards, when normally don't variables like this use self.ability.extra.[...]?

[warped marsh]

local scoringSet = {}
for _, card in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) do
    scoringSet[card] = true
end

local unscoredCards = {}

for _, thisCard in ipairs(context.full_hand) do
    if scoringSet[thisCard] then
        sendInfoMessage("card " .. thisCard:get_id() .. " was played and scored", self.key)
    else
        sendInfoMessage("card " .. thisCard:get_id() .. " was played but not scored", self.key)
        table.insert(unscoredCards, thisCard)
    end
end

sendInfoMessage("count of unscored cards " .. #unscoredCards, self.key)

for _, thisUnscoredCard in ipairs(unscoredCards) do
    sendInfoMessage("confirming would be modifying card " .. thisUnscoredCard:get_id(), self.key)
end ```

[quartz ravine]

me too, it is like i am working in an ancient language suddenly. Also to see the % sign used for modulo really shocked me! I am used to that being foreach

[warped marsh]

See if this works

It might break

I’m not sure

[gentle rain]

also wanted to ask where variables are stored too

[primal shoal]

what are felt_discards

[sonic cedar]

hey misen you use the card flip animation right? how do i make it only trigger once

[gentle rain]

the amount of discards that are needed to increment the mult

[warped marsh]

Can you please send me the code here? I don’t have it with me (a screenshot is fine)

[sonic cedar]

yes of course

[gentle rain]

heres how yorick increments

[native zinc]

how doth one send a message to the playing card and the joker

i assume card_eval_status_text

[chrome widget]

Uhh.... I'm having a very strange circumstance where modded jokers correctly have their atlas stored on card.config.center.atlas, but vanilla cards don't?

[sonic cedar]

for context i have it do the animation after a scoring hand, but it does the animation for each scoring card

[quartz ravine]

That does work, but I don't understand this ipairs(context.scoring_hand) syntax.

I really like that this syntax assigns the variable directly, it removes the need to assign a local thisCard = cards[i] which is fantastic! @warped marsh Thanks 🙂

[vocal cedar]

nil value: your trying to reference something on line 18 that doesnt exist

check there first

[vocal cedar]

is this in the base games code?

[gentle rain]

mhm

[vocal cedar]

localthunk my goat

putting jokers basically anywhere bro feels like it

[gentle rain]

wdym

[warped marsh]

Wait sorry what?

[vocal cedar]

the base game code is so hard to scout through sometimes 💀

[gentle rain]

ctrl f my friend

[warped marsh]

It’s late

No brain

[vocal cedar]

they gotta make a ctrl f for all the luas man

like

the code for midas is not in the same file as yorick etc

stuff like thagt

[gentle rain]

is every ability not in card.lua?

[vocal cedar]

no lol

only the onces that like

[sonic cedar]

the joker does the flip animation after a scoring hand, which is correct. however, it repeats the animation for each card that was scored, which i do NOT want. how do i make it so the animation only plays ONCE

[vocal cedar]

actually effect the score

[heady siren]

In VS Code you can search an entire workspace and in Github you can search the whole repo

[vocal cedar]

remove the delay so it flips all cards at the same time?

[gentle rain]

yeah like i cant find where yorick applies its own xmult or where it stores any of its variables

like. where is the 23 discards

[sonic cedar]

the joker is the one flipping

[vocal cedar]

OH so

[chrome widget]

Yeah this is really bizarre to me. This log shows that the center for the jokers are valid (both modded and vanilla), but trying to access config.center.atlas on the vanilla joker is nil??????

sendDebugMessage('atlas: '..tostring(rand_joker.config.center.atlas))```

[vocal cedar]

that joker is flipping for every single card?

thats

actually really funny lol

[sonic cedar]

it is

[warped marsh]

You based it on my code right?

If i remember correctly removing the bottom third should do it

[vocal cedar]

are you flipping the joker inside the for loop?

[warped marsh]

Because the first part flips it

[vocal cedar]

obvs question i know but

[sonic cedar]

i’ll check

[vocal cedar]

if theres a for loop shawty gonna flip a bunch

[open aspen]

Ah okay, thanks

[sonic cedar]

mistakes were made HOWEVER IT WONT DO IT UNDER PROPER CONTEXT OTHERWISE

[vocal cedar]

LMFAO

was that it 😭

[warped marsh]

Because how the code works Toma is that the card flips and it changes suits (in you are king for example) and then it flips again, but it goes by so fast it looks somewhat natural

[gentle rain]

OH so yorick.discards isnt even stored in the extras table okokok

[vocal cedar]

lol

[minor furnace]

who else up developing they mods

[errant fulcrum]

Oh my god I figured it out

[vocal cedar]

everyone bro

[minor furnace]

real

[sonic cedar]

oh so flipping once is a full 360

[edgy reef]

real

[warped marsh]

Yes pretty sure

[primal shoal]

use ```if context.discard then
var = var + 1
if var == required val then
Xmult = xmult + x
end
end

[warped marsh]

Get rid of the last bit of code and see how it reacts

And shorten delay maybe?

The delay is there so you can see the cards turn into whatever

[fleet mango]

thanks for the help but why is it doing that

[warped marsh]

Adding delay like most people don’t play on x8 or x16

[fleet mango]

there is nothing there for line 18

[vocal cedar]

i need to see your code tbh

like the error statement isnt gonna say much unfort

[rancid bridge]

making a joker that has a chance to give Xmult
how would i add the chance

[vocal cedar]

here i gotcha

[warped marsh]

Look at Michel in Steammodded Mod examples

[heady siren]

Also gonna bump this since I wanna figure out how to do this

[lucid owl]

why are cards just... not being destroyed? am i using context.destroy_card incorrectly?

[errant fulcrum]

If anyone wants a joker to pick a random suit like Ancient Joker and not from your deck pool like Castle, you can do something like this:

function SMODS.current_mod.reset_game_globals(run_start)
    G.GAME.current_round.traffic_card = { suit = 'Spades' }
    local valid_traffic_cards = {'Spades', 'Clubs', 'Diamonds'}
    if valid_traffic_cards[1] then
        local traffic_card = pseudorandom_element(valid_traffic_cards, pseudoseed('traf' .. G.GAME.round_resets.ante))
        G.GAME.current_round.traffic_card.suit = traffic_card
    end
end

I removed the loop that gathers all the suits in your deck and indexed the table valid_traffic_cards with the suits I wanted

[sonic cedar]

i’ll get back to you if it works

[warped marsh]

I might be eeping but okay

[vocal cedar]

make something like this

@rancid bridge

[fleet mango]

welp im very new to lua and dont understand how to get to the raw code for that

[plush cove]

usually I do SMODS.Suits to accomodate for modded suits

[hushed field]

You store destroy in a local array. Each pass deleted the contents, so the context.destroy will always have an empty table!

[vocal cedar]

bascially set up a config to have your chance not be hardcoded
then that if function is the most important part so you joker can work with things like Oops all 6 etc

@rancid bridge

[lucid owl]

oh, you're right lol! so no need to delete the contents of the array then?

[sonic cedar]

misen

[vocal cedar]

now its just flipped over lol

[hushed field]

You're also taking a lot of steps you don't wanna take! You don't want to call dissolve on playing cards yourself. That's luckily what the destroy context is already going to be doing for you

[lucid owl]

oh awesome, thanks lol. i probably would have realized that sooner if i managed to even get the actual destruction working lol

[warped marsh]

QHAHAH

[vocal cedar]

hey was looking for you actually

how do i stop a spectral or tarot card that assigns editions to a card from being used if i select more than the amount of cards it can modify?

[warped marsh]

Hmmm OKAY HEAR ME OUT

[vocal cedar]

like change 3 cards to clubs wont work if i have 5 chosen

[sonic cedar]

how do i get it to do it outside of the for loop then 😭

[warped marsh]

HESR ME OUT

[sonic cedar]

OK

[warped marsh]

PUT IT IN ANOTHER LOOP

SO IT DOES IT TWICE

[warped marsh]

HOLY

[vocal cedar]

what if you just

called flip() two times

lol

[chrome widget]

Hmm okay I figured out the weird atlas issue but im annoyed by it

[warped marsh]

WEE LOVE LOOPS

[quartz ravine]

Check out this legendary card I added. If you play a high card for your first hand, but play multiple cards, it will decrease the rank of the other cards!

It also will eat played 2's and increase mult. I am not sure why other than I like the idea of kirby eating cards

[warped marsh]

1/4 of the screen

Tihihi

[quartz ravine]

yeah I don't know what that is about, sorry

[hushed field]

So, the effect destroys all cards that match the dark idol's current rank/suit combo? You can fully remove the context.after you have there! As well as the looping you do in context.destroy_card. I recommend just marking the card you want to be destroyed with a custom bool, and checking for that bool in the destroy context.

[warped marsh]

That’s cool though

[sonic cedar]

ok but it’s repeating because of the for loop 😭

[vocal cedar]

the humble common legendary

[rancid bridge]

alright
i... totally understand all this..

[warped marsh]

Can you send me the code in a file please, and let me tinker

[sonic cedar]

okidoke

[hushed field]

You shouldn't have to, it's part of the core set up of a consumable of that type to have a selection limit

[quartz ravine]

the very last thing I am going to do before release is to fix rarities, I promise

[vocal cedar]

im gonna cream thank you john smods for making SMODS actually peak

thank you

[warped marsh]

And tell me again, what you want it to do

Actually Toma go to the thread we made

[sonic cedar]

true

[warped marsh]

This chat is overwhelming

[hushed field]

Also lucky you found me because it's 4 am for me haha

[lucid owl]

how would you do a custom bool to mark a card? would i add something to the joker itself then or what?

also yup, you're right about the effect

[vocal cedar]

@rancid bridge check ya dms king

[vocal cedar]

bro it was 4 am for me last night when we were talking 😭

[lucid owl]

it gains .5x permanent mult for a random card in the deck every round, then destroys it

[hushed field]

Let me grab one of my jokers and show ya! I'm going to bed soon and I'm on my phone so it's a little bit harder to explain haha

[lucid owl]

all good, i appreciate you helping me out with this lol

[heady siren]

Nobody has responded to me asking a question ;~;

[warped marsh]

If I don’t respond to a question is because I’m clueless

[heady siren]

My question keeps getting lost in the sauce

[quartz ravine]

Wow, that is gorgeous and a fantastic design idea too.

[hushed field]

https://github.com/icyethics/Kino/blob/main/items/Jokers/fight_club.lua

You can ignore everything but the calculate function, but this joker picks a random card to destroy, and it does that by setting an arbitrary boolean on the other_card. The naming is entirely unimportant!

[hushed field]

Very similar to my Indiana Jones legendary joker, haha, so I have to like the concept

[lucid owl]

i can't take credit here unfortunately, i'm just on programming duty lol. we're over at #1335221042204901396 if you wanna check it out, lord of the deep dawn does great joker art/concepts

[marble flint]

Does anyone know offhand how to add an entry to info_queue for e_negative applied to a consumable? never mind, found it

[fleet mango]

@vocal cedar

[vocal cedar]

oeugh

[lucid owl]

ohh, okay! i didn't think you could give variables to cards that easy lol, thanks

[vocal cedar]

to the dms

[quartz ravine]

See I just want other folks to come up with cool ideas and then me get to program then

[hushed field]

You iterate over G.jokers.cards, to find your current joker's position. Then you save that position. That position -1 in the G.jokerd.cards array is the joker to the left of it

[lucid owl]

i did that for a while as well lol

[hushed field]

They don't get saved, iirc, but that doesn't matter for this purpose!

[marble flint]

in case you're curious:

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

[heady siren]

Do I just do a for loop and break when it hits the current joker?

[hushed field]

I have 200 more joker concepts for Kink I wanna set up, if you're looking for busy work 😋 and like 3 enhancement types, haha

[hushed field]

Save the index, then you can break, yeah

[primal shoal]

ooh throw me a enhancement type and I'll try it to learn how to do enhancement

[quartz ravine]

I wrote a bunch of editions and fell into the weirdness of shaders, never did enhancements

let me finish my mod before I sign up, but I really like doing this 🙂

[red flower]

for what

[hushed field]

Look kino isn't a dutch word and kink is, so my autocorrect is gonna mess it up okay

[vocal cedar]

i also have 200 + kinks

[heady siren]

inb4 I see jokers based on Rule34 tags

[vocal cedar]

yknow what i gotcha

[primal shoal]

hmm really?

[vocal cedar]

ill make one right after this specral card

i was gonna make one anyway for my practice mod you can use it in yours

[heady siren]

Would this be correct for debuffing the joker to the left?

[stable agate]

Quick question: How does hologram check for a card being added to the deck to update its xMult? The copy in question is:

            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function() 
                    local jacks = {}
                    for k, v in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
                        if v:get_id() == 11 then jacks[#jacks + 1] = v end
                    end
                    local chosen_jack = pseudorandom_element(jacks, pseudoseed('the_function'))
                    if #jacks > 0 then
                        card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, { message = 'Pull up' })
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = function()
                        local card = copy_card(chosen_jack, nil, nil, G.playing_card)
                        card:add_to_deck()
                        G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
                        table.insert(G.playing_cards, card)
                        G.hand:emplace(card)
                        return true end }))```

[primal shoal]

thats the wrong one?

[hushed field]

Haha they're all a bit cumbersome to set up and need either sprite rendering code or some card eval patching, so I'm not sure they're the best ones to practice with, haha. But if you wanna take a crack at Mystery Cards, which are always face down, showing your deck's card back, and give X2.5 mult but lose x0.5 mult every turn they're in your hand, while also revealing either randomly suit, rank, seal or edition each hand, you're definitely welcome to!

[stable agate]

This is the code that's doing the copying. Hologram won't detect it adding the copied card to the deck

[red flower]

call SMODS.calculate_context({playing_card_added = true, cards = cards})

[primal shoal]

gotta be thrown in the deep end sometimes

[stable agate]

call it where, at the context or in the jacks > 0 ssection?

[vocal cedar]

ah yeah nice and simple

revealed rank suit or seal/ edition through like a message or

[hushed field]

No, ideally I want that on the sprite

[red flower]

anoywhere in that event after you make the copy
cards should be { card } probably

[vocal cedar]

[vocal cedar]

Says the god to the pesant

i might need a few more days of modding under my belt first... good luck lol

[hushed field]

It's why it's one of the enhancements I haven't implemented yet after 200 jokers haha

[vocal cedar]

thats a viceral idea

love it but

shiver

cant wait to rework smeared joker into a rare and make all rnumbers count as all numbers and all faces count as all faces

while making aces count as anything

go ahead

play a straight flush every round

see if i care

[heady siren]

Bump

[vocal cedar]

give it a whilr

if it errors we will know what caused it

just rip it and see if it works ol

if it doesnt and it crashes its gonna tell us why

[heady siren]

It doesn't like the if stoppos != nil then line for some reason

Should I make it define a number and check if it's not that number instead?

[vocal cedar]

the if statement is probl written wrong one sec

no np this should be fine

nil is just a scary thing to use in code

[stable agate]

Here's what I tried adding, still haven't gotten it to trigger hologram

        if context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.setting_blind then
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function() 
                    local jacks = {}
                    for k, v in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
                        if v:get_id() == 11 then jacks[#jacks + 1] = v end
                    end
                    local chosen_jack = pseudorandom_element(jacks, pseudoseed('the_function'))
                    if #jacks > 0 then
                        card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, { message = 'Pull up' })
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = function()
                        local card = copy_card(chosen_jack, nil, nil, G.playing_card)
                        card:add_to_deck()
                        G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
                        table.insert(G.playing_cards, card)
                        G.hand:emplace(card)
                        return true end }))
                return true end
                SMODS.calculate_context({playing_card_added = true, card = card})
            return true end }))
        end
    end
})```

[vocal cedar]

oh lol

thats why

!= isnt actually a lua thing lol

use ~=

[heady siren]

Ah

Too used to GLua

[vocal cedar]

wait lowkey

[red flower]

SMODS.calculate_context({playing_card_added = true, cards = {card}})

[vocal cedar]

remove that entirely just straight up say if stoppos then

[open aspen]

is there a context for after score is fully calculated and displayed, but before the hand played disappears

[vocal cedar]

nil is treated as "false" in lua

[heady siren]

Also, it's not debuffing the card to it's left

[primal shoal]

end_of_hand

[modern kindle]

funnily enough, glua is whats helped me here haha

[primal shoal]

^

[modern kindle]

oh hi ice

[heady siren]

Been making addons for years, still haven't posted them to the workshop [=

[hushed field]

I doubt it'll be too complex, it's just that I need to look into how sprites are actually rendered in this game. Same reason for why I haven't implemented Crime Cards yet, which Retrigger for each crime card you are holding in your hand, but only give 2 chips on each Retrigger, instead of the nominal value + upgrades

[stable agate]

        if context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.setting_blind then
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function() 
                    local jacks = {}
                    for k, v in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
                        if v:get_id() == 11 then jacks[#jacks + 1] = v end
                    end
                    local chosen_jack = pseudorandom_element(jacks, pseudoseed('the_function'))
                    if #jacks > 0 then
                        card_eval_status_text(card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, { message = 'Pull up' })
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = function()
                        local card = copy_card(chosen_jack, nil, nil, G.playing_card)
                        card:add_to_deck()
                        G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
                        table.insert(G.playing_cards, card)
                        G.hand:emplace(card)
                        return true end }))
                return true end
                SMODS.calculate_context({playing_card_added = true, cards = {card}})
            return true end }))
        end
    end
})```

Tried envoking it here, is this right?

[modern kindle]

i feel you, i worked a little bit on pointshop 2 with kamshak and ran some of the more popular prophunt and ttt servers back in...2014-2018

[open aspen]

ty

[left lance]

Quick question: I wanted to make a joker that was default negative (and had no other effects). I have code
card:set_edition({ negative = true }, true)
which almost works? In the collection it's always negative but in the shops it isn't. Any guidance much appreciated

[heady siren]

Also, the game runs now, but it isn't actually debuffing the joker, is there a dedicated function for debuffing cards, and am I using SMODS.recalc_debuff correctly?

[modern kindle]

i always used set_debuff

[red flower]

no, you're returning true before you get to the calculate

[stable agate]

ohhhh

[heady siren]

Will this debuff the joker to it's left?

It is not debuffing the joker to it's left

[quartz ravine]

When using context.destroying_card, is that context window looking at an individual card, or the whole hand of cards?

[red flower]

individual

[primal shoal]

context.individual my beloved

[quartz ravine]

it looks like card in that context is actually the joker itself. So what is the handle for the other card? I need to check it's ID to see what it's number is

[red flower]

it's literally context.destroying_card

[lucid owl]

use context.destroying_card to refer to the card being looped through

it seems like it shouldn't work but it basically acts the same as context.other_card

[quartz ravine]

ah, so I could call context.destroying_card:baseId or whatever

Thank you guys, or girls

[lucid owl]

context.destroying_card.base.id or context.destroying_card:get_id()

pretty sure get_id() is generally recommended more than the base id but not sure

[fervent thicket]

Why is there no text on the joker?

SMODS.Joker {
  name = "Mouthwashing",
  key = "mouthwashing",
  text = "Gives 20X Mult",
  config = {
    extra = {
      x_mult = 20
    }
  };
  atlas = 'test',
  pos = {x= 0, y= 0},
  rarity = 3,
  cost = 10,
  blueprint_compat = true,
  eternal_compat = true,
  unlocked = true,
  discovered = true,
  effect = 'XMult',
  calculate = function (self, context)
    if(context.joker_main) then
      return {
        card = self,
        x_mult = self.ability.extra.x_mult
      }
    end
  end
}

My main lua file.

return {
  descriptions = {
    Joker = {
      j_mouthwashing = {
        name = 'j_mouthwashing',
        text = {'Gives 20X Mult'}
      }
    }
  }
}

And here's my localization file.

[heady siren]

You probably need the mod prefix

[fervent thicket]

What would that be? I have it set to "Frosted Gambler" in the json but I don't think that would work for it, right?

[heady siren]

You have that set as the prefix or as the name?

[fervent thicket]

So, I thought the prefix was that little name that shows up on the cards at the bottom with the card name. It should be changed then, shouldn't it?

[heady siren]

The prefix is internal identifier for the mod

[fervent thicket]

So could I use "fg" and change the joker id to "j_fg_mouthwashing"?

Well the reference to it I mean.

[heady siren]

I'd use the name instead to avoid conflicts, but yeah

[fervent thicket]

Ok, will do, thank you!

Still didn't work. Nevermind

[open aspen]

i dont think this is a context

at least from the calculate functions page on the wiki

[last sentinel]

When within a joker's calculate function, and then in context.discard, would context.other_card reference each discarded card individually?

[glad crane]

I'm trying to use a custom gradient for my editions badge color, but its crashing due to a number comparison to nil. When calling a custom gradient, im assuming I just use the gradients key right? Such as:
badge_colour = 'gradient_key_here'

[open aspen]

any documentation on this?

[lucid owl]

1. the joker's name and text aren't needed here as it has a localization key set (also, remove the card = self in the calculate function)

[lucid owl]

2. the joker's key for this localization file (j_mouthwashing) should be j_(your mod prefix here)_mouthwashing

[open aspen]

i want a function to be called at the time the message pops up in my calculate function. as of right now, the function runs (causing a visible change on the screen) and its out of sync with the message

this is my current code

[fervent thicket]

Thank you, but someone else already helped me figure it out. Got a question though, I'm trying to figure out why the 20x mult won't trigger.

[lucid owl]

returning xmult is xmult instead of x_mult (no underscore)

[open aspen]

xMult, not x_mult

[fervent thicket]

Ah, ok, thank you!

Still doesn't work.

SMODS.Joker {
  key = "mouthwashing",
  config = {
    extra = {
      xmult = 20
    }
  };
  atlas = 'test',
  pos = {x= 0, y= 0},
  rarity = 3,
  cost = 10,
  blueprint_compat = true,
  eternal_compat = true,
  unlocked = true,
  discovered = true,
  effect = 'XMult',
  calculate = function (self, context)
    if(context.joker_main) then
      return {
        xmult = self.ability.extra.xmult
      }
    end
  end
}

[feral jay]

confused because this exact value is accessed for judgement, why is it screaming at me

wait nvm i just notice

that is not G.jokers

[open aspen]

as u can see its completely off

[quartz ravine]

This destroying_card business is weird!

When I played a hand full of 2's instead of each of them being destroyed, it replayed the animation over and over for the last card

            --it was a  high card, we will eat 2's

            if context.destroying_card:get_id() == 2 then
                sendInfoMessage("This is a 2 " .. context.destroying_card:get_id(), self.key)

                card.ability.extra = card.ability.extra + card.ability.extraGrowthRate
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    trigger = 'after',
                    delay = 0.45,
                    func = function()
                        play_sound("Fox_yoshiEat", 1.05)
                        context.destroying_card:juice_up(0.3, 0.3);
                        return { remove = true }
                    end
                }))
                sendInfoMessage("we are going to destroy this card", self.key)

                return { remove = true }
            end
        end

[feral jay]

ok this was completely unrelated i'm just tired lmao

[lucid owl]

you're referencing self for the card's ability, which is used in the base code and works fine, however with how smods does stuff, self refers to the card object itself (as in, every single instance of the joker). instead, change that self to card

[open aspen]

animation plays as soon as cards finish calculating, but the message pops up way after

[lucid owl]

card references that specific joker's variables, which is useful when jokers have changing variables that are independent of each other (therefore why it's used, at least iirc). self references the general joker object

[open aspen]

your also missing card in the calculate hook i think

[heady siren]

Can anybody tell me what's wrong with my code? It's not establishing the stoppos value when iterating through the table, so it isn't debuffing any cards

[lucid owl]

nah, that's not required anymore as far as i know

[open aspen]

ah okay

[open aspen]

anyone know how to fix this? can i use an event?

[lucid owl]

two more things to note - while it doesn't mess up your code to have it, effect = 'XMult' isn't needed. also, you have a semicolon after config, which should be changed to a comma

[fervent thicket]

It worked, thank you trif and balatroni

[fervent thicket]

Sorry, instinct from c# lol.

[lucid owl]

what are you using update for instead of calculate?

[heady siren]

I want it to be running basically at all times

[lucid owl]

hm, i see

idk if that will work perfectly

[heady siren]

Should I replace it with calculate, would that fix anything, or is it just an optimization fix?

Either way it isn't doing the thing I need it to do

[daring fern]

Is there a context for redeeming a voucher?

[heady siren]

Changing to calculate does not fix the problem

[lucid owl]

definitely keep it calculate though, update happens every frame

[manic rune]

G.jokers.cards

[heady siren]

Probably context.buying_card but you need to figure out if it's a voucher

[heady siren]

Thank you

It's still not debuffing

[open aspen]

can someone help me fix this weird offset between the visual and message showing? ideally I want this visual change to be held off on until the message pops up

and i have no idea how to do that

[heady siren]

The message is in the return so it tends to be more closely tied to the visual part of the context rather than the actual code execution of the context

[fluid tapir]

is there a way to make a joker that does X mult if there are less than a certain number of cards in the full deck?

[heady siren]

But I don't know how you'd make the message appear otherwise or make the visual appear in the return

[lucid owl]

have you tried making a message show up with card_eval_status_text()?

[open aspen]

no, is there an example on how to use that

[lucid owl]

it basically just gives a message from a card without using an actual return value, here's an excerpt from the smods example joker mod that explains it (also check the vanilla code for it, and how it's used in vanilla jokers!)

[last sentinel]

            context.other_card:explode()
        end ```

This the correct way to destroy discarded gold cards?

[open aspen]

okay that works. The question tho is why the message appears at the end of scoring. but the visual change happens at the beginning?

[lucid owl]

could i see the full code for the section handling this?

[heady siren]

The visual change is probably happening right as the scoring is calculated

[lucid owl]

yeah

you can always put the visual change itself into an event

[open aspen]

sure

[lucid owl]

are you wanting the two to both occur after scoring, or before?

[open aspen]

i changed it to before in that screenshot

the video was when it was context.after tho

and i would want after if possible

[daring fern]

I tried context.consumeable and context.other_card but it didn't work, so what do I use to check?

[lucid owl]

i think you could try putting both the visual change and the message in an event, with the message happening after

as in card_eval_status_text being lines after the visual change lines

[open aspen]

when would the event happen?

[lucid owl]

depends on the triggering but if you leave it default, i think it'd happen after scoring

[open aspen]

okay

[rancid bridge]

trying to add a joker that has a chance to disable the boss blind (like the ability)

i am slightly stuck at loc_vars

as in i am just sitting here, looking at this

[lucid owl]

why is that

[rancid bridge]

what

did i do something wrong

[lucid owl]

no, like why are you stuck on loc_vars

[rancid bridge]

oh
i don't really know what variables to put there..

[daring fern]

How does one check when buying a card that it is a voucher?

[lucid owl]

well first off, loc_vars is just for setting variables to a card's description

config is where variables are declared

and secondly, i would assume you would have a variable for the card's chance to trigger (as in, if it's a 1 in 2 chance, a variable for 2)

[rancid bridge]

yeah

[open aspen]

alright, well this code again changes the enhancement immediately and doesnt display a message (probably because i fucked up something with the message code)

why are the contexts ambigious in nature

wait

oh thank god

[rancid bridge]

would this all work...

[open aspen]

this worked. its voodoo on why this configuration in the code worked. but it worked

fuck yea

[lucid owl]

yup

[lucid owl]

strange, but good that it actually did it lol

[heady siren]

The game is now telling me that "ability" on card is nil, when I'm just referencing a variable

[rancid bridge]

oh dear lord how do i calculate this now...

[heady siren]

Is it because the "debuffed_joker" table is empty?

[lucid owl]

agh

[lucid owl]

a if G.GAME.blind and G.GAME.blind.boss and not G.GAME.blind.disabled then check would suffice, plus a if pseudorandom('any key you want') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal / card.ability.extra.odds then should do just the trick

then just do G.GAME.blind:disable() and optionally return something

[scarlet spire]

is it possible to get a random joker without creating it? I'm attempting to create a joker that will spawn a completely random joker when sold, but tells you what that joker is going to be, which changes every round

[daring fern]

Is this possible?

[lament agate]

in which lua in the game that contains the balancing system for plasma

[heady siren]

Can card variables not be tables?

[rancid bridge]

would if math.random work instead of if pseudorandom or is that a different thing

[heady siren]

Yes but it won't be based on the seed

[rancid bridge]

what's the difference..?

[heady siren]

That it won't be based on the seed, if you put in the same seed twice and use pseudorandom, it'll have the same outcome both times, but if you put in the same seed twice and use math.random, it'll be two different outcomes

Psuedorandom should be used for functional random outcomes, math.random should be used for visual random outcomes

[daring fern]

What if you got a random value from every value in G.P_CENTERS that starts with j_?

[rancid bridge]

eh i'm gonna use math.random tbh

[heady siren]

I got it working, I had to make the variable start as 0, and then it'll run the code to un-debuff the old joker if the debuffed joker variable isn't 0

[heady siren]

And it's working exactly like I want it to, but to make it work properly I had to set the function to update instead of calculate

[scarlet spire]

it's generally good practice to use pseudorandom otherwise your mod is incompatible with seeded runs

[modern kindle]

would you mind posting your joker debuff stuff so i can snag it
for some odd reason the debuffs im attempting to enact are like 'false' debuffs where it shows them as debuffed but the effects ar still playing

[heady siren]

        local stoppos
        local currentpos = 0

        for k,v in pairs(G.jokers.cards) do

            currentpos = currentpos + 1

            if v == card then

                stoppos = currentpos
                break

            end
            
        end

        print(stoppos)

        local debuffjoker

        if stoppos then

            debuffjoker = G.jokers.cards[stoppos - 1]

                if card.ability.extra.debuffed_joker ~= 0 then

                    if card.ability.extra.debuffed_joker ~= debuffjoker then
                        SMODS.debuff_card(card.ability.extra.debuffed_joker, 'reset', 'stopjoker')
                        SMODS.recalc_debuff(card.ability.extra.debuffed_joker)
                    end

                end

                if debuffjoker then

                    SMODS.debuff_card(debuffjoker, true, 'stopjoker')
                    SMODS.recalc_debuff(debuffjoker)
                    card.ability.extra.debuffed_joker = debuffjoker

                end

        end

end,```

[rancid bridge]

alright i'll use pseudorandom
i'm making the key "stupidfuckingkey" though

[modern kindle]

much obliged thank you

[heady siren]

I mean hey you do you, the key just exists so the pseudorandom value isn't shared with something else

[scarlet spire]

i mean yeah the key can be whatever you want, just as as long as its not the same as a different key

[rancid bridge]

brilliant.

[lucid owl]

pseudorandom is a lot better and more compatible

[lucid owl]

damn, my bad lol

[heady siren]

Since it dynamically changes based on your joker order in real time in needs to well, change in real time

Also I made the card infinitely more annoying by making it debuff your first hand drawn in it's put in the leftmost slot [=

[rancid bridge]

also uhh
for some reason this only works if you have more than two aces
like if you have 3 aces THEN it gives +25 chips
yeah why why's it doing that.

it's not subtracting chips either, no
if you have one or two aces in your hand it just does nothing

[brazen tusk]

Hi, I just started learning and putting together a few jokers today and was wondering if i could have a hand with getting the same functionality as Egg (increasing sell value) after the pseudorandom if, I tried looking at egg itself but can't figure it out

[heady siren]

Oh god the cards stay debuffed after the round ends how do I fix that

[daring fern]

card.ability.extra_value = card.ability.extra_value + (number of sell cost you want to add)

I think.

[brazen tusk]

thats what i had in there but i didn't have the actual number adding to it 💀
i'll try it out ty

[lament agate]

bump

[daring fern]

I think it is back.lua

[lament agate]

thanks doc

[rancid bridge]

why is it being evil

[brazen tusk]

how are you wanting it to function?

[native zinc]

hey how does deck.cards in SMODS.Challenge work

[red flower]

silly question, are you restarting a run to test it?

[rancid bridge]

i know i've been stupid a lot let me retest it

[red flower]

it looks ok to me so it might be because some other values are wrong

[brazen tusk]

i did this earlier and rewrote the same 3 lines about 10 times before restarting the run lmao

[rancid bridge]

it's not giving chips
and i haven't restarted a run yet

okay why is it just not giving chips now

wait

HUH???

OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED

IT'S GIVING CHIPS BASED ON HOW MANY ACES ARE IN THE PLAYED HAND

NOT HELD IN HAND

OH MY FUCKING GOD

[tall wharf]

me when i didn't see you saying anything

and then thought

logic looks correct

[rancid bridge]

okay now i need to rewrite the code so that it gives chips based on aces held in hand not in the played hand

[tall wharf]

just use G.hand.cards instead of context.scoring_hand ig

[brazen tusk]

Chips Ace Baron??

or more like shoot the moon ig

[primal shoal]

joker art mock up don't know what to call it

[tall wharf]

the Yin Yang

sorry

[brazen tusk]

whats it do?

[unkempt kestrel]

so uh wondering if i could get a bit of help with something, i was trying to make it so that the shop would pretty much be only this rarity and it kinda works, but the default joker is also in there for some reason

[primal shoal]

idk the art just came to me

[brazen tusk]

Make it give +4 Mult and -4 Mult xD

[rancid bridge]

that worked

[primal shoal]

kinda thinking it swaps in and out of negitive

[rancid bridge]

i need to fix my formatting with some of my descriptions now

[brazen tusk]

Could give it +4 mult and +1 joker slot so its basically just a free Joker and if it gets negative then you essentially have +2 slots

[tall wharf]

because

[unkempt kestrel]

tbh im not sure how it works the wiki doesnt give examples

[tall wharf]

if pool empty it fills the pool with a Jimbo

[unkempt kestrel]

+2 joker slots if theres at least one spare joker slot

so if they arent all full give some more

[scarlet spire]

why isn't this following psuedorandom rules? every time I load from a save state, this spits out a completely different joker key even though it should be the same

[rain slate]

Maybe G.P_CENTERS isn't initialized that deterministically?

[scarlet spire]

surely a game so heavily based on deterministic randomness and seeded RNG wouldn't do that

[rain slate]

surely

[scarlet spire]

^clueless

[unkempt kestrel]

so how do i actually make it work because i tried using the key of the joker i wanted but that didnt seem to work

[rain slate]

Jimbo is omnipresent

You can't escape him

He will always find his way to you

[tall wharf]

does the rarity even have things in it

[unkempt kestrel]

i mean ive got this in the one joker i have

tbh im not sure how rarities work

it wasnt working before so i tried adding the pools thing

[rain slate]

I think you set the rarity key wrong

[brazen tusk]

rarities are typically numbers but beyond that i have no idea

taking a guess though i'd imagine you'd have to implement the rarity?

[tall wharf]

i think you have to set by indexing SMODS.Rarities idk

I'll try that later

[unkempt kestrel]

it still has the rarity tag in the collection it just seems to be the shop that isnt really working

[rain slate]

maybe the weight is too high and it can't process the number correctly?

[brazen tusk]

could it be the "ja_" difference or is that intentional?

[rain slate]

set it to like 99999 and see what happens

[rain slate]

if it shows up in the collection and that's his mod prefix it should be fine

I looked it up and rarity key format is {mod prefix}_{rarity key set in SMODS.Rarity}

[scarlet spire]

oh god, is there any way to fix nil values on jokers when they're in the info_queue

[heady siren]

How would one run code if the joker you want to run it on is sold?

[heady siren]

You might be able to help with this one if your code is finished

[rain slate]

if context.selling_self

[heady siren]

Got it

[unkempt kestrel]

do i actually need this pools table like what does it do

is it just the chance of getting each joker in that rarity?

[unkempt kestrel]

doesnt seem to be it

its still seems weird that when i add just jimbo into the pools thing both jimbo and the other joker have an equal chance of appearing

and nothing else

just with jimbo

[scarlet spire]

what did you mean by this?

[heady siren]

Because you sell your joker to do something

[scarlet spire]

ah, yeah it's just selling_self iirc

but I haven't implemented that part yet

[daring fern]

How could one do the misprint effect on the text?

[heady siren]

How do I add a card to the hand or deck with a direct card table?

[primal shoal]

oh no i just had the idea to do a wordle joker
you type in the info box that show up and if you get the wordle correct it give you X5 mult

[iron iron]

trying to make a hiker but for mult and only lucky cards, but this doesnt work

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭😭

don't you dare

[primal shoal]

oh you did it already LMAO

[tall wharf]

nuh uh

[iron iron]

i love the infinity symbol being a sideways 8

[tall wharf]

gotta make do

[heady siren]

How hard is it to add a playing card to the player's hand or deck? I'm looking around for how to do it and I can't find anything in the documentation

[tall wharf]

area:emplace(card)...

[tall wharf]

you look in the game source code...

[lofty axle]

so i have a joker thats meant to destroy all cards held in hand once sold, but i have no idea how id go about doing that. closest thing ive done is print the value for all cards held in hand :/

[heady siren]

I did, and "emplace" isn't the most self-explanatory phrase to search for

[tall wharf]

i think you would look for something that does what you want

then you look at code for it

not finding the function directly

[primal shoal]

  if context.other_joker and context.other_joker ~= card and not self.safe then --safe chance roll fails
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function()
                    play_sound('tarot1')
                    context.other_joker.T.r = -0.2
                    context.other_joker:juice_up(0.3, 0.4)
                    context.other_joker.states.drag.is = true
                    context.other_joker.children.center.pinch.x = true
                    -- This part destroys the card.
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        trigger = 'after',
                        delay = 0.3,
                        blockable = false,
                        func = function()
                            G.jokers:remove_card(context.other_joker)
                            context.other_joker:remove()
                            context.other_joker = nil
                            return true;
                        end
                    }))
                    return true
                end
            }))
``` this deletes all other jokers on a chance roll
you can use this is a base if you want

[lofty axle]

sweet, thanks!!

[heady siren]

I don't even know where the source code is

Just crack open the .exe?

[primal shoal]

unpack the exe file with 7zip

[heady siren]

So I don't have the luxury of using like, any of the stuff I've used thus far, awesome

Okay I've looked through every .lua file in the .exe file and can't find anything related to "dna" that actually shows it's functions

[heady siren]

How do I look through the source code to find what I want?

[tall wharf]

look for like

something in the base game

[primal shoal]

                        if #context.full_hand == 1 then
                            G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
                            local _card = copy_card(context.full_hand[1], nil, nil, G.playing_card)
                            _card:add_to_deck()
                            G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
                            table.insert(G.playing_cards, _card)
                            G.hand:emplace(_card)
                            _card.states.visible = nil

                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                                func = function()
                                    _card:start_materialize()
                                    return true
                                end
                            })) 
                            return {
                                message = localize('k_copied_ex'),
                                colour = G.C.CHIPS,
                                card = self,
                                playing_cards_created = {true}
                            }
                        end
                    end
``` here

[tall wharf]

that does kinda what you want

then mix them together

[solar eagle]

look at what hanged man does for the selected cards and point it to G.hand.cards instead

[heady siren]

I saved the "card" variable to a table that's stored inside a joker, and the original card is destroyed, and I want to create a new card that is a carbon copy of the original card, how do I do that?

[solar eagle]

ctrl+f for something you know the base game does

[solar eagle]

copy_card

[brazen tusk]

which file are the joker things in because im looking in card.lua atm and its like, half there

[heady siren]

That's what I did

[solar eagle]

the joker definitions are in game.lua

[brazen tusk]

ah ty!!

[solar eagle]

all the definitions are

you can find vouchers, decks, tarot spectral etc etc

[heady siren]

Anyways, this

[solar eagle]

card.lua is just the handling

[solar eagle]

copy_card

go see how death does it

[heady siren]

Does that allow a card variable to be passed through?

[solar eagle]

go look at the code

and test it!

find out for yourself

[daring fern]

This one?

[solar eagle]

no clue

havent needed to yet

look at the big loc_vars table i forget where it is

or the localization files maybe idk

[vast fractal]

Ctrl + F it

[solar eagle]

ctrl+f is your friend

[daring fern]

I do not understand that.

[solar eagle]

like

press control (or command)

then F

then type in the name of the joker or something

until you find what's relevant

[daring fern]

No, I don't understand what this means.

[solar eagle]

it's what does the misprint random text

[daring fern]

I know.

[solar eagle]

i am not here to understand things for you

that's your job

[iron iron]

bump

[solar eagle]

perma_mult isnt a thing