💻・modding-dev

[open aspen]

yea its still quite a new thing

[hushed field]

and nobody's getting paid to document everything 😛

[open aspen]

a lot of features seem to be added in PRs that arent yet documented properly

[open aspen]

ofc thats fair

its all volunteering here afaik

[hollow marsh]

dope thanks

[small mango]

yeah my first guess was to 'copy' from other mods or the source code as well, cheers yall :3

[open aspen]

the source code is also immensely useful

not sure if ur familiar with lua or lua modding but you can hook functions that exist in the game and modify them

[burnt lance]

Huh. Thats interesting.

I’m not familiar enough with Lua to know that functionality

[red flower]

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

[vast lily]

ive never done anything in lua other than this and i only started this 2 weeks ago

[hushed field]

Lua's in that strange spot where I feel like if you feel comfortable as a programmer, but haven't touched a language like it, you're going to be making a lot of mistakes again, accidentally, haha

[open aspen]

its quite easy

[open aspen]

that was my experience

[red flower]

i have never made a mistake

in my life

[open aspen]

especially because my only experience with lua is roblox lmao

[burnt lance]

Interesting.

[vast lily]

well ive been translating a lot of concepts i know from other languages into this so hopefully i havent screwed anything up

[open aspen]

ive made some cool stuff on there but its not like using lua for modding

[burnt lance]

All of my game coding experience is in C#/c++ and renpy (Python VN engine) Lua is new to me

[hushed field]

N, the rumour is that you're the designer behind Tearlaments and Zoodiacs, tho

[red flower]

i love both of them so yes

[hushed field]

It's mostly that the indexing is different, typing isn't hard set, hooking is a thing. Not difficult to learn, but things you're gonna stumble up against when you assume it'll work like C, haha

[burnt lance]

Yeah, I’m definitely trying to utilize examples more than my regular programming knowledge base.

[open aspen]

^

it doesnt help that the documentation aint there (again totally fair)

[vast lily]

the bulk of my experience is in godot's gdscript and p5.js

[open aspen]

i think if the modding api was fully documented magically our lives would be a lot easier

[burnt lance]

I think some of the docs are ok, but if you don’t understand how things work already they’re not super helpful

[red flower]

the lsp definitions are a lot more complete

[open aspen]

i mean to say

theres a lot of stuff that isnt documented very well

like new PRs are done all the time afaik

and they dont come with documentation

[burnt lance]

I will say, after looking at plantain I was able to pretty quickly get a joker into the game (using no assets, so it’s just a description)

This is vouching for using all the resources available rather than just documentation

[open aspen]

i think jokers are better documented

[burnt lance]

Jokers are probably the best documented yeah.

[open aspen]

it was hell to make my sticker work properly (especially because I designed it at twice the size of a regular sticker)

so the issue i had was it was twice as big as a regular sticker

[gentle rain]

id reccommend always having this on hand https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/

infinitely useful

[open aspen]

and i ended up having to hook 3 drawing related functions to get it to render properly

[gentle rain]

that and the steamodded wiki

[burnt lance]

The other types of cards aren’t, and adding new card types/seals isn’t easy either.

[open aspen]

like i was able to scale it down easily

[red flower]

i would use this one for balatro https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/

[open aspen]

but it rendered like this

(green border i added to the sprite for debugging)

[manic rune]

good morning chat

[gentle rain]

oh huh

[red flower]

isnt that a problem with vanilla rather than steamodded

[gentle rain]

good to know

[burnt lance]

Ah, the joys of programming

[open aspen]

yea but im venting anyways

[red flower]

i mean documenting vanilla is a whole other project

[open aspen]

yea no no

documentation not being there for this was okay

but like i think having more documentation for draw functions could be nice for example

ofc again i totally get why stuff isnt documented but it would be nice

[red flower]

i think flowey is doing lsp for vanilla stuff but idk how far is that yet

chat how hard would it be to make an individually weighted rarity system

[modern kindle]

hardest thing youve ever done in your life squared

(i have no idea)

[red flower]

im going to try

[modern kindle]

also N as youre a ui fella i ahve a question for you

[red flower]

shoot

[modern kindle]

i can make the infoqueue change left to right if theres not enough space in the joker area, but i cant seem to make it give a shit when its in the shop
is there some way i could make it when in shop default at the bottom, but then move left/right like i have it set?

[stark geode]

i keep getting this error when trying to dissolve a card

Oops! The game crashed:
[SMODS Perkolator "main.lua"]:56: attempt to index local 'card' (a nil value)

i keep getting this error

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'Perkmentia',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Perkmentia',
        text = {
            "at the ",
            "destroy a random {C:attention}Consumable{}",
            "replace it with a random {C:dark_edition}Negative{} Consumable"
        }
    },
    calculate = function (self,card,context)
        if context.ending_shop then
            local des_con = true
            if des_con then 
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({

                    func = function()

                        local card = pseudorandom_element(G.consumeables.cards, pseudoseed('Perkmentia'))
                        card:start_dissolve()
                    end
                }))
                des_con = false
            end
        end
    end
}

the joker in question

[hushed field]

you're not storing anything in the local

Ah, yeah

is it crashing when you don't have any items?

[stark geode]

yeah

[hushed field]

add a check

[stark geode]

its also destroying more items then it should

[manic rune]

its running start_dissolve() on nil

you need to add if card then too

[hushed field]

ending shop is probably called multiple times

[stark geode]

why tho

[manic rune]

you would need context.main_eval for that one, i think

-# or was it just context.cardarea == G.jokers?

[hushed field]

i don't know, i haven't looked at the code. I assume for different cardareas?

[manic rune]

i will assume it runs for cardarea G.consumeables too

but also, is des_con necessary?

[stark geode]

so im guessing i need it to check if this is the first time the shop end context is closed

[hushed field]

nah just check the cardarea, I reckon

i'm forgetting if i have jokers that trigger at that time, lm check what I did, if I did anything

[stark geode]

well it destroys both cards then crashes

[hushed field]

yah, because it's probably triggering more than twice, and the third time there's no card

[stark geode]

my other joker uses the same context but only triggers once

[hushed field]

you want to add the nil check regardless

[manic rune]

i can confirm if context.ending_shop and context.main_eval then is the answer

[open aspen]

also perhaps it could be worth using a localization file over loc_txt

this isnt an issue obviously

[manic rune]

at the

[open aspen]

but its nice imo

[hushed field]

hmm no I don't check for cardarea

[stark geode]

i want to add all of my jokers before i do that

[open aspen]

alr

[red flower]

hook align_h_popup and check if the area is the shop probably
i have it so it shows at the bottom when they're in my own card area but you could change it to G.shop_jokers

[modern kindle]

i recommend doing it sooner than later, im 55 in and now making a localization file is so daunting

[open aspen]

i think it might be harder to move everything over but that still works

[modern kindle]

thanks!

[manic rune]

-# JOYOUSSPRING IN THE RESCUE 🗣️

[hushed field]

unasked advice, so feel free to ignore it, and that's the wrong way around 😛

you want to set up localization before you have a lot of text

[open aspen]

ye fs, i just personally found it a lot easier once i made my localization file so i want to spread the word

[manic rune]

i agree

[hushed field]

not after, because it's very little effort when it comes to upkeep, and a lot of effort to transfer to one

[stark geode]

when i fiish this one i will do that

[open aspen]

otherwise you have to move all the text to a file after yea

[open aspen]

fs fs

[manic rune]

my mod has a lot of text, so i can back up that claim

[open aspen]

better to have your joker work before worrying about how the description works

[hushed field]

I can't see why it'd trigger multiple times, though, I'm curious. If you add a print statement to that function, what does it show in the logs?

[tall wharf]

@manic rune :3

[manic rune]

:3 hello

[hushed field]

What's gonna be better, make my config have submenus with buttons at the top, or have each category be an entire pop-up itself?

[stark geode]

it still destroys both cards

[red flower]

managing diferent windows is hard, I'd recommend tabs

[open aspen]

odd

[manic rune]

weird

ending_shop only runs once

those are all the contexts

[hushed field]

tabs it is. and UI is hard regardless 😛

[stark geode]

i nver added that null check

[manic rune]

its mandatory to have that added

you must

[manic rune]

-# please add the check

[stark geode]

how do

[hushed field]

if card then

[manic rune]

if card then
  card:start_dissolve()
end

replace your singular line card:start_dissolve() with that

[bold sleet]

So uh... does anyone know UI wizardy to help me this do... stuff..?

Like how do I get it to change idk, variables, call functions, anything I can read later?

[stark geode]

cool now it just destroys a consumable and then freezes

[red flower]

you give it a ref_table and ref_value like with the toggle

[bold sleet]

a sec...

help

[midnight coyote]

does socks and buskin affect held in hand stuff

[bold sleet]

I don't know fuck I am meant to pass.

[stark geode]

now i understand why i see return true in everything lol

[red flower]

ref_table = FG.config, ref_value = "special_version"

[bold sleet]

ah

so that will change FG.config.special_version?

[red flower]

it should

[bold sleet]

wait why isn't this shit saving hold on a sec

[stark geode]

what is key_append in create_card

[stark geode]

ah

[maiden river]

where is the read the docs gif

[manic rune]

how do i change a sound's time

[hushed field]

the play button, I reckon

[manic rune]

like, i want to make a sound start at 0:50 instead

[manic rune]

what if its already being played though?

like, as the replacement for the boss blind's theme

[hushed field]

i have no clue, i haven't touched sound yet. I should only make annoying jokes when I can also actually answer the questions, haha

[stark geode]

what does this meannnn

[hushed field]

centers are basically all objects. You're calling center.[anything] somewhere, but that center doesn't have anything inside of it

[modern kindle]

negative ghost rider, make all jokes

[stark geode]

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'Perkmentia',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Perkmentia',
        text = {
            "at the ",
            "destroy a random {C:attention}Consumable{}",
            "replace it with a random {C:dark_edition}Negative{} Consumable"
        }
    },
    calculate = function (self,card,context)
        if context.ending_shop and context.main_eval then
            local card = pseudorandom_element(G.consumeables.cards, pseudoseed('Perkmentia'))
            if card then 
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    func = function()
                        card:start_dissolve()
                        local consumable_types = {'Tarot','Spectral','Planet'}
                        card = create_card(pseudorandom_element(consumable_types, pseudoseed('Perkmentia')),G.consumeables,nil,nil,nil,nil,'Perkmentia')
                        card:add_to_deck()
                        G.consumeables:emplace(card)
                        return true
                    end
                }))
            end
        end
    end
}

[hushed field]

in this case, you're passing things through to a basic function, but you're not passing through correctly

[hushed field]

do you have the full error report?

[hushed field]

oh i assume you're creating issues by using card as your local variable

never use card as a local inside of a calculate function

[stark geode]

ah

[hushed field]

because card is already one of the arguments of the func

[stark geode]

so this is better?

[hushed field]

that's unrelated to this crash, though, btw

[stark geode]

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'Perkmentia',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Perkmentia',
        text = {
            "at the ",
            "destroy a random {C:attention}Consumable{}",
            "replace it with a random {C:dark_edition}Negative{} Consumable"
        }
    },
    calculate = function (self,card,context)
        if context.ending_shop and context.main_eval then
            local card = pseudorandom_element(G.consumeables.cards, pseudoseed('Perkmentia'))
            if card then 
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    func = function()
                        card:start_dissolve()
                        local consumable_types = {'Tarot','Spectral','Planet'}
                        local consumeable = create_card(pseudorandom_element(consumable_types, pseudoseed('Perkmentia')),G.consumeables,nil,nil,nil,nil,'Perkmentia')
                        consumeable:add_to_deck()
                        G.consumeables:emplace(card)
                        return true
                    end
                }))
            end
        end
    end
}

[hushed field]

but I suspect you're having an issue with create_card function

[red flower]

please use SMODS.create_card

[sturdy compass]

👆

It’s so much nicer

[hushed field]

N, have you messed around with sliders?

[red flower]

nope

[stark geode]

i would if knew how

is there documentaion for this

[red flower]

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

add_card does the emplacing for you too

[sturdy compass]

It’s basically the same as the vanilla function but it takes a table of values instead of the long line of variables and nils

[stark geode]

cool

[sturdy compass]

The main point of it is so you don’t have to do the nils lol

[hushed field]

sliders are confounding, just gonna put the idea of a slider as a node on hold, and make a clock indicator for jokers with timers on them

[rain slate]

I've been completely forgetting what a stupid language lua is and writing ```lua
for i = 0, #array do
local item = array[i]
end

when array indices start from 1 and not 0

[modern kindle]

@red flower hi bestie both bepis and i tried breaking it down for how you hooked and we have no clue how to do so lmfao

[manic rune]

sowwe :3

[red flower]

the align thing?

[modern kindle]

yes

[manic rune]

but also, bump:

i think the more precise question here would be: how do i change the time of an already playing sound

i want this sound specifically to skip to a part

[modern kindle]

you could do the lazy way and just, cut the sound file and treat it as a new sound and then play the cut sound

[red flower]

is this what you need?

local card_align_h_popup = Card.align_h_popup
function Card:align_h_popup()
    local ret = card_align_h_popup(self)
    local focused_ui = self.children.focused_ui and true or false
    if self.area and self.area == G.shop_jokers then -- add a check for your specific card too
        ret.offset.x = 0
        ret.offset.y = focused_ui and 0.12 or 0.1
        ret.type = 'bm'
    end
    return ret
end

[stark geode]

it isnt emplacing

[sturdy compass]

Use add_card

[manic rune]

...you know, i actually thought about that too

but surely its not the only way

[modern kindle]

let me take a gander

[sturdy compass]

Same syntax but it emplaces instead

[red flower]

oops its shop_jokers

[stark geode]

lmao im dum

i did create insted

w

it workd

[hushed field]

I feel so dumb when I make an indicator by just layering two UIs atop each other but at this point I'm sure base Balatro actually just doesn't have a way to put a uit element atop a sprite

[stark geode]

now i need art

[manic rune]

yall, is this balanced

[sturdy compass]

Gg

[stark geode]

thank you guys

i propblably look like an idiot

[rain slate]

what was the localization thing for making the text smaller?

[stark geode]

but this is very new to me

[sturdy compass]

Nah you’ve gotta start somewhere

[manic rune]

{s:0.5}?

[rain slate]

thanks

[sturdy compass]

Doesn’t necessarily have to be 0.5 btw

[rain slate]

obviously

[red flower]

I find anything lower than 0.85 too small in descriptions

[rain slate]

ye 0.5 is a bit small

[manic rune]

true

[next timber]

damn i always use 0.8

[open aspen]

eh, i think it could be. deckfixing kinda crazy tho

[manic rune]

its a showdown boss blind's passive

i think you should prioritize actually winning the blind instead of fixing your deck

💔

[next timber]

ughh literally every single calculate function i have for my edition isnt triggering at the right time

[rain slate]

deck fixing in a boss blind 💔

[manic rune]

the boss has 3 phases too, sooooo

destroy too many cards and you wont have any left to win the other phases

:3

[next timber]

im just gonna. comment it all out and start from scratch i think

[maiden river]

is there a nice way to make hands not score?

[red flower]

yes there's a new context for that

[manic rune]

context.modify_scoring_hand or something?

dunno

[red flower]

context.debuff_hand

[manic rune]

-# fu-

[maiden river]

I see
but say I was making a challenge

[open aspen]

wanna see something funny

[maiden river]

my goat is washed

[red flower]

that one is for splash effects

[next timber]

wha

[manic rune]

was i ever a 🐐 😭

[red flower]

hook calculate_context :3

[manic rune]

:3

[open aspen]

see this? for some reason the code i have only happens at the same time as my message if i put it in an event

[maiden river]

I'm aware someone else had a similar idea

but I'm going to cook trust

[open aspen]

dont even ask me how i figured that out

[stark geode]

Does @here in a thread only ping people who follow it?

[open aspen]

before the change would show up instantly when the hand was played, and the message showed up after scoring

[maiden river]

people who follow it and are online, I believe

[open aspen]

only with the event did both happen at the end of scoring

[manic rune]

hmmm

is it weird how

if mult gets below 0, then weird visual stuff happens?

[maiden river]

kid named return { func }

[open aspen]

that didnt work either

laughable

[stark geode]

So @ everyone in a thread pings the followers

[maiden river]

damn

[open aspen]

i tried a lot of things

[rugged pier]

is there a way to store how many times a particular poker hand is played?

[red flower]

all the calculates are run before all the animations so it makes sense

[open aspen]

why does having it in an event change anything

[red flower]

because the event gets put in the queue and it's ran after all the other events

[open aspen]

ohhh

[gentle rain]

is ante 1 possible

i think you should add a perishable jimbo

but i quite like the idea of this

[open aspen]

you have splash

can u win blind 1 with splash

probably not tbh

[stray warren]

With no jokes a high card with 4 aces and a king is 65x1

[maiden river]

yes

[stray warren]

70x1

[gentle rain]

thats a four of a kind though

[next timber]

lmao

[open aspen]

so it wont score

[gentle rain]

would it just be like, the hand doesnt score at all, or that every hand counts as high card

[maiden river]

btw high card is going to start at a higher level 😭

[stray warren]

I figured it would count as high card

[open aspen]

oh ok

[gentle rain]

mmm you should say that in the challenge desc

[maiden river]

I just started writing it 😭

[sturdy compass]

Huge

Very good challenge concept, bravo

[maiden river]

I'm still trying to figure out hooking calculate_context for this

hello astra

long time no see

[sturdy compass]

Yo

[gentle rain]

you COULD just have it start with 2 plutos

[maiden river]

also true

[gentle rain]

or like i said, perishable jimbo

which i think a very temporary bonus is a lot more interesting than two immediate plutos

because then it isnt much of a challenge

https://tenor.com/view/big-challenges-sanrio-characters-sanrio-hello-kitty-gif-8426829210880550417

[maiden river]

just wait until making a splash II drops

[maiden river]

you simply must be joking

[gentle rain]

you must be joker

[wintry solar]

How so?

[sturdy compass]

You could do a nondetructive patch into the area of game.lua that handles challenge modifiers and add logic for a new one

[manic rune]

no i was dumb, i tried return{mult = -5} in blind's context.after

i dont think ur supposed to do that, i changed the context to context.final_scoring_step :3

[maiden river]

no example for changing hands in the docs
although it makes sense, since that's pretty specific

[bold sleet]

ayo my shit ain't updating.

[bold sleet]

@red flower UI wizard guy.

[tall wharf]

😭

[open aspen]

what the fuck have i done

[next timber]

wow

[bold sleet]

yes

[sturdy compass]

[open aspen]

oh god

[hardy viper]

looks normal enough

[sturdy compass]

What in the fresh hell

[bold sleet]

trying to update FG.config.special_version_value.

[thin anchor]

balllabalalatrrrorrro

[red flower]

where can i download this it seems like good QoL

[open aspen]

ok

[red flower]

then change the ref_value, the problem is that youre putting them in tables

[open aspen]

i really hate this stupid ass vanilla bug ass shit

[minor furnace]

cursed and evil

[bold sleet]

            create_option_cycle{
                current_option = FG.config.special_version.selected_n or 1,
                options = FG.config.special_version.options,
                ref_table = {
                    FG.config
                },
                ref_value = {
                    "special_version_active"
                },
                w = 4
            },

I am so fucking clueless

Shit it has to change: FG.config.special_version_active.

[open aspen]

look, basically my hook adds an extra parameter that it checks to see if it should use my modified version

[red flower]

spot the difference

[open aspen]

but in the vanilla code, in draw_from, they include an extra parameter which is true

even tho the actual function doesnt have that extra parameter normally

but since i now added it

omfg

does that make sense?

[bold sleet]

when the guy you are talking to is fucking blind

[open aspen]

this is my solution (i added a parameter called meh i dont use at all)

and then the actual parameter

[bold sleet]

mayball?

[open aspen]

can i report this as a bug that smods should patch

how do i report a buf

bug

[red flower]

either make an issue on their repo or suggest it in their discord

[bold sleet]

[open aspen]

its kind of a bug but not really

[manic rune]

...uh

what is this supposed to be again?

[open aspen]

you will only encounter this if u hook it the way i did

[manic rune]

i cant remember the name 😭

[red flower]

then make it a feature request or PR it yourself

[tall wharf]

what the fuck are you hooking

[bold sleet]

99% sure it is RGBA ranging from 0 to 1

[tall wharf]

did you hook ui box

[open aspen]

i just hooked prep_draw

this function has 4 arguments

my hook has a fifth that is a boolean

but the vanilla code in sprite.draw_from includes an extra variable

see

[red flower]

then make it a sixth argument?

[open aspen]

i did

but

thats annoying that i had to do that

to me this is a minor bug

[red flower]

i don't think dealing with vanilla jank is an smods issue

[open aspen]

fair enough

i think its okay

i know even if smods would address this, its such a minor thing it would be at the bottom of the priority list

[maiden river]

oh forgot to answer this

every hand counts as high card

[manic rune]

https://gyazo.com/b68c35c8914eb379a9917daab964580f

[maiden river]

I just need to figure out how to make that work 😭

[red flower]

oh that sounds like a different effect then, you probably need to change the evaluate functions

[hushed field]

This whole time I thought I was rendering the 0 atop the ufo sprite, but no, it's underneath it, the beam is just so transparent that it doesn't matter

[manic rune]

car

[bold sleet]

😭 my shit isn't working idk why at this point

[maiden river]

yeah I'm pretty sure that's the way

[bold sleet]

carbs

[hushed field]

car. If I get this working, and I end up adding more car jokers, I'll update that clock to be a spedometer

[manic rune]

what would it even be for tho

seeing how fast u win a blind?

[bold sleet]

google it and brain:dissolve()

[manic rune]

or how fast u play a hand

smt

[maiden river]

I just don't know how to do it 😭

[bold sleet]

gaem sdeep

[maiden river]

I mean the actual logic, not hooking the function

[hushed field]

no, that joker gives 120 chips at the start of the blind, and lowers it by 1/60th every second, so that shows the amount of chips you're gonna get

[manic rune]

oh

-# hm

my mod does seem quite unbalanced in terms of scaling compared to you guys'

maybe except joyousspring

[tall wharf]

bepis

[manic rune]

good morning

[tall wharf]

IT'S MIDNIGHT

[manic rune]

:3

[red flower]

my mod might need talisman compat if i dont start balancing it lol

[hushed field]

putting this on hold, holy shit it's tanking my frame rate, haha

[manic rune]

wait

u didnt add talisman compat to ur mod yet, N'?

[maiden river]

I'm going to create the anti-talisman

[manic rune]

istg i ran ur mod with talisman before 😭

[maiden river]

to_small incoming

[red flower]

i did but i never test so idk if theres something broken

[manic rune]

probably not

[red flower]

i think its broken with cryptid

[manic rune]

limit numbers to 2048 only please

nah actually

[maiden river]

true

[manic rune]

how about 64

a stack of mult

[red flower]

i love terraria

[manic rune]

9999

[maiden river]

another question: if there's a way to tell if you're in a challenge

[red flower]

a mod where you have an starting amount of chips and you need to beat ante 8 without going over it in total score

[thin anchor]

jimbo

evil.

[red flower]

using G.GAME.modifiers

[maiden river]

oh yeah

[manic rune]

is this brutal

wait

played hand*

[tall wharf]

G.GAME.challenge?

[stark geode]

This gameplay is ass: session terminated

[tall wharf]

no time to be homesick

development resumes today

[maiden river]

also true

[tall wharf]

-# (i do miss my home tho)

[manic rune]

i think

i miss my wife...

[tall wharf]

look it's not been that long

since i went back home

[maiden river]

I do need to reuse this specific modifier tho

[next timber]

is there a keybind to reload shaders as there is to reload atlases?

[tall wharf]

you can use debugpkus to watch shader code

[bronze ocean]

How do you guys balance your mods?

[manic rune]

playtest your mod

[bronze ocean]

Like yes but how do you know if you're just a god gamer or it's too easy

[maiden river]

true!

[manic rune]

go on your guts feelings

orrr let others playtest your mod too

[maiden river]

true

[manic rune]

:true:

oh yeah

no nitro

💔

[bronze ocean]

turns out my mod makes us all god gamers

it's just built different

[hushed field]

If i end up buying the same jokers over and over again, too strong, if I never use a joker outside of testing purposes, probably too weak

[maiden river]

evaluate_ref = SMODS.PokerHand.evaluate
function SMODS.PokerHand.evaluate(parts, hand)
    if G.GAME.modifiers.only_high_card == true then
        return { parts._highest }
    end
    return evaluate_ref(parts, hand)
end

to no one's surprise, this didn't work

although this would just only make the first card score anyway, not actually change the hand type

[next timber]

testing editions on playing cards is so annoying cause cycling through them always cycles past negative which adds a new card to the hand and moves them all

[vast lily]

ive been doing a lot of playtesting and balance shifts on my mod in the past week or so, its different for me bc my mod only adds decks and no jokers, but the biggest thing im thinking about for balance is how many different ways a player could strategize a run around the thing that im adding

[maiden river]

oh this is the wrong function lmao

[bronze ocean]

I'm making a custom deck, the idea was to expand on Ace in the Hole.

You begin the game with 4 cards of a random rank (same rank on all 4 suits), and after each round you get the mega card pack so you can build out your deck. Optionally, you get a spectral card on boss defeat

The thing is, it's fairly easy to start farming 5 of a kinds or 5 flush. And even when cards are debuffed, you can generally power through it with a high enough base level

I was thinking a few things:
1.- Increase the required chips, like with the plasma deck
2.- Make it so your hand doesn't score if there's more than 2 debuffed cards
3.- Decreasing base chip and mult for all hands?
4.- Just plain disable 5 of a kind-related hands or make it turn your money to 0 if used (in case of emergency?) and only be usable with >1 $?

[vast lily]

ooh ok ok

[bronze ocean]

OH SHIT HOW ARE YOU MANAGING DECKS? The docs say it's deprecated so I'm a bit worried I'm doing it wrong

[vast lily]

im using the deprecated trigger effect thing for some stuff and its working fine

deprecated doesnt mean it doesnt work. it just means theres a newer, better thing that can be used to the same effect in most scenarios, and thats what the devs are gonna support more instead of the old method

[bronze ocean]

yah I know, but I didn't see any alternatives. Granted, I was making the mod on breaks at work and then at 1 am so I might have just missed something

[vast lily]

oh yea i havent had enough time to invest into this to learn how to do things properly either

[bronze ocean]

n i c e

[modern kindle]

ive realized this is moving the entirety of the text, not just specifically the info queue im trying to move

[vast lily]

ur deck idea is similar in concept to one of mine but with completely different implementation

[bronze ocean]

how many decks do you have? What are the rulesets on yours? I'm interested, I haven't seen (nor looked for, if I'm being fully honest) much deck mos

[bronze ocean]

interesting!

[vast lily]

i havent seen that many either

lemme put the uhhhhh

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1353808053077540964 this is my mod

[red flower]

ohhh i get it now
thats a bit harder, I have to look up how to do it for my mod too lol

[modern kindle]

ah gotcha gotcha, i was fuckin with it since you sent it to me, and i ws like "this is not working' and then set a huge value and saw it mvoes all text lmfao

cause i was expecting solely the info queue to move tot he bottom

[maiden river]

it works

[bronze ocean]

Nice, I'mma take a look, maybe playing with ante progress might be good as well

[vast lily]

thats something i did too

if ur starting people off with a free 4 of a kind anyway u definitely want to lean into 5 of a kind strategies instead of lean out of them

[maiden river]

nvm I'm clueless

[bronze ocean]

My main "goal" was to have a "unique" deck in the sense that you get to build it out. But beggining with a free 4 of a kind does make the "optimal" solution to just go for 5 flushes or 5 of a kinds and I feel like it's defeating the purpose

But I didn't see a way of being able to trigger the card packs before the first round begins ):

[normal crest]

What do you have so far

[vast lily]

u could do something like

start with 6 tags that give mega standard packs and 0 cards in deck

[bronze ocean]

It's working, but it's too easy. I'm trying to balance it out

You begin with 4 cards of the same (by default random, but you can pick any in the config screen) rank on all 4 suits. After every shop, you get to open a mega standard pack

[vast lily]

forcing the player to skip the first blind but triggering the start of deck building that way

idk how starting with tags would work from a code perspective thats not something ive ever tried to implement

[maiden river]

okay now it works

[hushed field]

people should plug their mods more actively, because i have no clue what people are working on if they don't tell me 😛 I'm gonna check your decks out Freeze, they seem fun

[normal crest]

You should define a calculate function within your back definition

[vast lily]

nice

[bronze ocean]

I have no idea what that means, I just modified the code from Ace in the Hole and prayed it worked (I've used Lua like thrice)

[next timber]

i think i've successfully implemented the Parasite edition and its accompanying power card Symbiosis?

[normal crest]

Oh

[bronze ocean]

But I am intereted on knowing what it means

[vast lily]

ayyy i appreciate it

[normal crest]

Send your current back definition

[vast lily]

theres good documentation on calculate functions in the smods wiki

[normal crest]

I'm on phone so be patient with me wtiting code lol

[hushed field]

the calculate function is what is used to make joker logic work. With it being functional for backs, they can basically do whatever jokers can do now, with the same code set up

[normal crest]

It's a bit different according to the wiki

[bronze ocean]

h u h

[red flower]

send your code

[normal crest]

Where you call SMODS.Back

[vast lily]

the SMODS.Back function that has all the stuff for ur deck in it

[old bane]

how do i make it so a button exits you out of the config screen? I'm trying to make a reset config button and i want it to either update the values in real time or for the player to automatically be booted out so the UI has a chance to laod in the new values

[bronze ocean]

local old_apply = Back.apply_to_run
function Back.apply_to_run(self)
    old_apply(self)
    if self.effect and self.effect.config and self.effect.config.card_rank ~= nil then
        setup_all_of_one_deck()
    end
end

local Backtrigger_effectref_aces = Back.trigger_effect
function Back.trigger_effect(self, args)
    if self.name == "All_of_One" and args.context == "eval" and G.GAME.round then
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            func = (function()
                add_tag(Tag("tag_standard"))
                return true
            end)
        }))

        if G.GAME.blind.boss and SMODS.Mods.AllOfOne.config.boss_spectral_loot then
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = (function()
                    add_tag(Tag("tag_ethereal"))
                    return true
                end)
            }))
        end
    end
    return Backtrigger_effectref_aces(self, args)
end

that's everything with Back in it

[maiden river]

is there a way to make something happen when a challenge is started? kinda like how decks have an apply function

[normal crest]

you're not calling SMODS.Back anywhere there

[red flower]

everything is done in start_run

[maiden river]

back to my old nemesis

I just need to level up high card a few times when the run starts

I considered just using an orbital tag but apparently that's not a great idea

[bronze ocean]

Idk my guy

[sturdy compass]

I’d once again suggest patching into the area that challenge modifiers are applied in

[maiden river]

why are you hooking the back functions 😭

no smods?

[red flower]

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

[bronze ocean]

idk man I just started off from another mod 😭

[maiden river]

you should read the docs

[normal crest]

Time to start again with SMODS now

[bronze ocean]

it was a 10 minute adventure that's been lasting for the past 2 days I didn't expect to like it so much

[sturdy compass]

It’s be as simple as adding another else if to the chain with the new logic within the block so it’d be pretty nondestructive

[vast lily]

thats how i feel too LMAO

[tall wharf]

chat am i cooking

[maiden river]

I see

[vast lily]

i havent hyperfixated on something as much as balatro modding in literal years

[red flower]

heres a deck example https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/LabyrinthDeck.lua
https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/DeckOf4s.lua

[old bane]

first wordle, now math? balatro is becoming puzzle game confirmed

[next timber]

LETS GO GAMBLING!!! (trying to unlock my new card """naturally""")

[maiden river]

but the level_up_hand function doesn't make the hand name show up + keeps the level and flames up

[tall wharf]

me just tryingt to adding difficulty to the game:

[red flower]

i made my own to fix that

[maiden river]

[normal crest]

Just copy what space joker does for example

[maiden river]

hand it over

this is a stickup

[manic rune]

pushed svarog to my mod

yipee

[maiden river]

space joker just returns level_up = true 😭

[red flower]

https://github.com/nh6574/JoyousSpring/blob/1b08302dd479967067c04d7c18a7ed5fe3aef684/src/utils.lua#L332

[maiden river]

believe me, I try to solve problems on my own first

[normal crest]

My bad I meant a planet card being used

[bronze ocean]

oh nice

[maiden river]

thank you n

[hushed field]

it is believed that over time, every creature will evolve into a crab. Similarly, every balatro mod will slowly optimize to become JoyousSpring

[bronze ocean]

I will but I should really be working right now and even though developing is my job I do have a deadline today so I will now silence this siren call before I get fired

[red flower]

i mean i just copied what planet cards do

[next timber]

cardcinisation

[red flower]

same!!

[manic rune]

my mod is halfway to becoming joyousspring but for hsr 💔

[next timber]

damn i forgot to change the atlas pos so i didnt get a cool texture reveal

[maiden river]

true 😔

[next timber]

has John Aure Smods made any progress with the animated cards recently, i am very eager to add my glitch card

[hushed field]

this chat is a beautiful mixture of students that should be studying, and employees secretly developing balatro mods on their boss's dime haha

[next timber]

real

[manic rune]

so true

[rugged pier]

holy shit something like this was exactly what i was looking for

[rugged pier]

i am graduating in 2 weeks and have 2 massive projects due in a few days

but balatro comes first

[red flower]

for what

[manic rune]

can we make a big billboard advertising JoyousSpring in honor of his contributions

[rugged pier]

leveling up hands

[zealous glen]

congrats on graduating from idk vtubing I guess

[rugged pier]

i was just about to put up a question here

[red flower]

if you're doing it inside calculate then use { level_up = true }

[buoyant merlin]

How do you check if you have a specific joker?

[rugged pier]

yes pls

[hushed field]

I'm working on a balatro mod in the off-time of my job, generally, but I think judging by some of the things I'm working on, you'd guess I'm 13 🙂

[manic rune]

no, no 13 would be watching that many movies

[rugged pier]

this is...beautiful

[zealous glen]

I'd you're 13 if I were rating how cool you are out of 10

[next timber]

Windowkill fan spotted. You. should I add the windowkill bosses as blinds and the characters as jokers.

[vast lily]

paperback has this, gimme a second

[zealous glen]

what's a windowkill

defenestration?

[manic rune]

🪟 🔫

[next timber]

hit game by torcado

[manic rune]

im killing the window

[zealous glen]

what's torcado

[buoyant merlin]

Wait...... You're right

[next timber]

twinstick shooter, shoot the edge of the window and it expands

[hushed field]

you can check for their key by accessing it through config.center.key, and comparing it with the joker's key

[tall wharf]

chat

[next timber]

not enough

add trigenometry

add factorial

add

[tall wharf]

what the fuck?

[next timber]

Lamda Calculus

[zealous glen]

ok puppet https://youtu.be/u8ccGjar4Es?si=zEiwaMo4YSyBGaGV

[next timber]

lamda calculus in aikos shenanigans would actually go hard af

[vast lily]

if next(SMODS.find_card("j_yourprefix_yourjoker")) then
  -- thing u want the code to do if the player has a specific joker
end

[open aspen]

mathlatro

[zealous glen]

so just balatro

[next timber]

whats stopping you from just doing 930

[tall wharf]

nothing

[next timber]

9830 even

damn

easiest game ever

[open aspen]

yea

[tall wharf]

you will just lose for free

[open aspen]

wtf

oh

[next timber]

why

[tall wharf]

if you are not within a threshold of the value

[open aspen]

do number cards not count together

[tall wharf]

you will lose

[open aspen]

OHHH

[next timber]

ohhh

balatro but it's countdown

[buoyant merlin]

Oh that's easier than a loop
I'll try it

[hushed field]

ah fuck, I didn't index the database numbers for the joker art I made

[tall wharf]

im thinking within 1%

[rugged pier]

1% too difficult for earlier antes, too easy for later antes?

could make it dynamic

[tall wharf]

within 10

[next timber]

ayyyyy

symbiosis card is real

not sure how i feel about the small icon and big image being the same but i can change it later

[vast lily]

i love how we have

CHAOS
IMMORTALITY
UMBRAKINESIS
and the most powerful esoteric aspect of reality
S I Z E

[rugged pier]

wait is level_up_hand recursive?

[red flower]

wdym

[next timber]

i couldn't come up with a cool name for size

lol

[vast lily]

ive been there

[rugged pier]

it calls itself within the function?

[red flower]

level_up_hand is the base game function, JoyousSpring.level_up_hand is my function

[rugged pier]

ahhh gotcha

[next timber]

if anyone can come up with a cool name for the "size" power id be happy to hear it

shapeshifting doesnt seem accurate enough

lol

[rugged pier]

what does it do

[next timber]

makes the card Big

[vast lily]

Gigantism

[next timber]

(takes 2 slots, doubled values)

[rugged pier]

e x p a n d

[next timber]

both good names

[tall wharf]

LMAO EASIEST GAME EVER

[rugged pier]

Even Grandma's love would would very well lol but i think its too big

since you get "fatter" at your grandma's

[zealous glen]

Dimension?

[red flower]

that seems like cheating

[tall wharf]

i have not implemented

the get close to the target yet

[manic rune]

creative mode in balatro

💔

[zealous glen]

is this the same ren that invented asbestos

[tall wharf]

fluttershy?

[zealous glen]

aiko adding Minecraft command cards to Balatro

[zealous glen]

yes

[next timber]

yes hi

thats me

[manic rune]

debuffing flush five hands with this one

[next timber]

my parnter wanted to change mathcing pfps so we changed matching pfps

[next timber]

oh god power

[zealous glen]

we have a confession, get them

[next timber]

add tetration. do it you coward.

[zealous glen]

cute :3

[manic rune]

*gets ren

[maiden river]

the challenge now works as expected

[zealous glen]

Idk much about the Muppets but people make good funny Muppet parodies

[chrome widget]

is this homestuck

[next timber]

no

??

those are aspects and theyre zodiac signs

whos the one making jimbostuck

[zealous glen]

akai

and others

[next timber]

get them in here

[zealous glen]

oh my bad

there is actually Jimbostuck

I was thinking of Balatrostuck

[hushed field]

they give between -5 and +35 mult whenever a Diamond triggers

[next timber]

the muppets???

oh right you're kino yeah

[zealous glen]

I like that the Muppets are canon to SCP

[next timber]

why is that their effect

[zealous glen]

tax evasion

[next timber]

lmao

[onyx sonnet]

Jumbo

[vast lily]

u know what

thats genius

[next timber]

omg Jumbo

[zealous glen]

I also like SCP-4481: A Casualty of the Single Worst Astronautical Disaster In History

[next timber]

Jumbo Jimbo

[zealous glen]

and unrelated to SCP, there's the Muppet Cypher and the video where Grover goes on a quest to kill god

[hushed field]

I've rewatched all theatrical muppet movies over the last year, Victin, they're generally all good, give them a watch

[rugged pier]

Im trying to upgrade a poker hand every 8th time it is played

here is my calculate function

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.after and context.cardarea == G.play then
            local hand_type = context.poker_hand  
            if hand_type and card.ability.extra.played_hands[hand_type] ~= nil then
                card.ability.extra.played_hands[hand_type] = card.ability.extra.played_hands[hand_type] + 1
                if card.ability.extra.played_hands[hand_type] % card.ability.extra.hands == 0 then
                    return {
                        level_up = true,
                        message = localize('k_level_up_ex')
                    }
                end
            end
        end
    end

this is my config:

config = {
        extra = {
            hands = 8,
            played_hands = {
                high_card = 0,
                pair = 0,
                two_pair = 0,
                three_of_a_kind = 0,
                straight = 0,
                flush = 0,
                full_house = 0,
                four_of_a_kind = 0,
                straight_flush = 0,
                royal_flush = 0,
                five_of_a_kind = 0,
                flush_house = 0,
                flush_five = 0
            }
        }
    },

what am i doing incorrectly

[hushed field]

hands store the number of times they've been played already, so you don't need to store it in the joker

[rugged pier]

oh thank god

[onyx sonnet]

usually level ups are calculated in context.before

[zealous glen]

have you watched the movie where Kermit kills n*z*s

[red flower]

context.scoring_name instead of poker_hand

[next timber]

not a week goes by where "we're doing a sequel" doesn't pop into my head at some point

[rugged pier]

what if the hand is played for the 8th time during a turn, i would have to update it after correct?

[zealous glen]

I think I watched the movie with Walter and that's about it

[next timber]

its so damn catchy

[onyx sonnet]

pretty sure the played hands counter increases the moment you press Play Hand

[zealous glen]

https://youtu.be/FbyiFa2H4KE?si=jdy6S3cjTA_SE716

[rugged pier]

i see okay perfect then

[red flower]

also the names of the hands are written like "High Card" not "high_card"

[rugged pier]

ahh gotcha

as it turns out i dont have to store them altogether so shouldnt be an issue

[rugged pier]

how do i access this variable?

[hushed field]

lm check

[zealous glen]

however Supernova does

[hushed field]

https://github.com/icyethics/Kino/blob/main/items/Jokers/beetlejuice_1988.lua this joker checks for every 3rd hand instead of the 8th, but otherwise should work basically like yours

[zealous glen]

when is Aiko adding Cookie Monster https://youtu.be/lYIRO97dhII?si=pFblohfsu10Kcl8C

[rugged pier]

wow thank you so much

thats perfect

[red flower]

c is for cookie thats good enough for me

[manic rune]

https://streamable.com/m3mdbs

i need a better laptop 💔

[tall wharf]

n am i cooking

[zealous glen]

ccc ccc cccc ccccc cccc?

[hushed field]

the goal is to have every potential joker idea in kino so that if someone asks 'how do I do this?' I can just send them a random joker

[next timber]

ok now ive finished symbiosis i really should work on adding some jokers, the whole reason i've held the mod's release back... however.. i can't just leave the power cards on 7, that's not nicely divisible into rows...

[rugged pier]

implement everything known to man in balatro

"how to make a joker play doom in balatro"

[manic rune]

actually

[zealous glen]

hello I'm new to balatro modding how do I make a joker that pays for my mortgage

[manic rune]

can we have 0/0 creating a black hole spectral card please :3

[red flower]

this reminds me of some educational math NES games i played recently

[open aspen]

it would be funny if 0/0 was a instant lose imo

with a crash effect like cryptid

[hushed field]

you'd wanna steal the jojo's mod implementation for the joker that makes you play donkey kong, ofc

[next timber]

you get black hole enhancement from rendoms final offer

[open aspen]

so u have to make sure ur expression doesnt evaluate to 0/0

[maiden river]

hater arc

[zealous glen]

I like that the 9s have a bar under them so that if I add an effect that rotates cards people will know what number it is

[next timber]

2 hands per round????

lmao

[maiden river]

told you it was my hater arc

[zealous glen]

they won't be able to tell L and I apart though

[next timber]

i need to add an upside down card edition

[rugged pier]

this is a thing???????

[next timber]

it would fit perfectly with Big

[zealous glen]

@chrome widget

shove their soul into an arcade cabinet

[hushed field]

#💻・modding-dev message

[next timber]

lemon demon reference????? or smth i dont actually listen to him

[zealous glen]

ah they've already shared the updated version

[next timber]

oh wait damn ti literally is

its called cabinet man

[chrome widget]

Correct yes I've done this

[zealous glen]

ren has been punished for their asbestos crimes

[rugged pier]

HOLY SHIT

THIS IS INSANE

[zealous glen]

finally we can rest in peace knowing their soul is imprisoned inside an arcade cabinet

[red flower]

what's the difference between that and eternal?

[chrome widget]

Get trapped inside Cabinet Man woosh

[rugged pier]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before and context.cardarea == G.play then
            local hand_type = context.scoring_name  
            if G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].played % card.ability.extra.hands then
                return {
                    level_up = true,
                    message = localize('k_level_up_ex')
                }
            end
        end
    end

now this should work?

[rugged pier]

i suppose i dont need the variable anymore

[hushed field]

yeah. I don't think you even need to store the hand_type local

if it doesn't work, lmk, I'm probably not reading it thoroughly haha

[rugged pier]

awesome thank you so much! let me test it out now

[next timber]

how have you punished me exactly

i am still fine

[zealous glen]

soul in arcade cabinet

[next timber]

nuh uh

bold of you to assume i have one

[zealous glen]

you dont need to own an arcade cabinet

[next timber]

i sold my soul to get good at programming. i think i got scammed

[zealous glen]

one will be provided

[chrome widget]

Regardless, running doom depends particularly on whether or not someone's already implemented a DOS game emulator in Lua, since I'm not really up to writing one myself

[manic rune]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1340728931090956339/1348373341127311463/tenor_1.gif

[next timber]

no a soul dummy

[manic rune]

nice to table you

[zealous glen]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

/tableflip

[next timber]

https://tenor.com/view/spin-chair-spin-spinning-chair-foldable-chair-gif-27635879

[manic rune]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1340728931090956339/1348373341399945266/tenor.gif

[modern kindle]

https://tenor.com/view/whimsical-creature-me-as-a-baby-silly-whimsical-creature-floating-thing-gif-27172376

[next timber]

┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

[zealous glen]

hello dilly

[modern kindle]

hi vic

[zealous glen]

why's your pfp freaking out

[chrome widget]

Hi dilly!!

[next timber]

get unflipped

[modern kindle]

mine?

[next timber]

hii dilly of dilatro fame

[modern kindle]

winter!

hello ren

[zealous glen]

yes

[modern kindle]

i feel so popular rn

[rugged pier]

doesnt work, i updated function to 2 hands for testing purposes

[modern kindle]

idk my pfp vibin

[zealous glen]

@rugged pier do you want to level up a hand?

[rugged pier]

yes

[zealous glen]

you can return {level_up = true}

[hushed field]

does the message trigger?

[manic rune]

eeeeeeeeeeee5

[zealous glen]

and SMODS automatically levels up the hand

[manic rune]

gonna work on the other two phases of cocolia tmr

ghgh

[rugged pier]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before and context.cardarea == G.play then
            if G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].played % card.ability.extra.hands then
                return {
                    level_up = true,
                    message = localize('k_level_up_ex')
                }
            end
        end
    end
``` this is my implementation

[rugged pier]

nope

[modern kindle]

go 2 schleep bepis

[manic rune]

thank

good night dilly :3

[wintry solar]

You don’t need the area check

[modern kindle]

gngn

[hushed field]

oh, wait perhaps try without the message

[next timber]

what do you guys think of the idea of a joker that destroys the highest card of any played straight and reduces the blind by 10%? totally not a hamilton reference i am totally not a hamilton fan trust me guys

[wintry solar]

Assuming this is a joker

It’s never in G.play

[zealous glen]

good night bepsis

[rugged pier]

oh?

[manic rune]

gn victin :D

[rugged pier]

okay let me try

[wintry solar]

And context.before is only called once per joker iirc

[rugged pier]

why would i remove message, isnt this how space joker has it

[hushed field]

oh god yeah, cardarea, i'm clearly tired enough to no longer focus haha

[hushed field]

yeah, no you're right, haha, I'm confusing things!

[rugged pier]

no worries, i apprecitate your help :)

okay testing now

[wintry solar]

You don’t need the message

[rugged pier]

i dont?

[wintry solar]

It should be handled for you

I think

[rugged pier]

i see

[wintry solar]

I haven’t been actively working on mods for a few weeks so my memory is bit hazy

But generally, and “default” messages are auto applied for you

[hushed field]

SMODS does handle things a lot differently from vanilla at this point, so looking at the source code is handy, but it might not give you the correct answer

[tall wharf]

@manic rune

[red flower]

lets goo

[rugged pier]

gotcha

[wintry solar]

Levelling up might be one that doesn’t though, I don’t remember

[chrome widget]

Look at my awful ampersand son. He has every disease

[tall wharf]

does he have homesick

[rugged pier]

okay i found a new problem with my implementation, i need to upgrade poker hand every 8th time but should only start counting from when the joker is owned

any ideas?

[wintry solar]

You need to store them as you originally were planning

[buoyant merlin]

It is time consuming, but you could go through all the smod toml files and replace stuff in the source code

[wintry solar]

But you can have the table be dynamically created

[rugged pier]

ah

[rugged pier]

how so

[tall wharf]

there has to be a better way

[chrome widget]

Okay it's not that bad but I still hate it y'know

[hushed field]

you can use the string as a key, so your table doesn't have to be populated when you make it. Setting a table as so hands = {} will allow you to do card.ability.extra.hands[context.scoring_name] = card.ability.extra.hands[context.scoring_name] and card.ability.extra.hands[context.scoring_name] + 1 or 1 or maybe even a more efficient notation

[wintry solar]

table[context.scoring_name] = (table[context.scoring_name] or 0) + 1

[rugged pier]

this is super useful, thank you

[tall wharf]

how do i make the game error on purpose

[rugged pier]

beautiful

i love this community

will report back

[tall wharf]

i guess

😭

peak gaming?

[vast lily]

real af

[tall wharf]

are my shenanigans going to far?

[vast lily]

it seems super interesting

[buoyant merlin]

It should do some awesome full-screen shader and THEN crash

[open aspen]

i like it

lowkey it would be cool to do something like cryptids crash code card

[vast lily]

normally i dont like when mods feel like a completely different game from the base game but this is such a cool concept that i love it anyway

[open aspen]

its its own deck

so i think it works

[tall wharf]

i am not forcing this deck upon anyone

[red flower]

i am, everyone go play it or else

[vast lily]

i added ur mod to my game with like 12 other mods and hit a boss blind that was a word puzzle on a deck that wasnt the letter deck and i couldnt beat it

[tall wharf]

oh wtf

wordle boss should not show up if you don't have letter enabled

[thin anchor]

lol

[tall wharf]

did you buy them vouchers

[vast lily]

i wish i remembered better how it happened

[thin anchor]

wait what
math deck
???

[tall wharf]

did i say i was joking?

[thin anchor]

uhhh

well its really cool and creative!

[vast lily]

i have neither of the vouchers ur mod adds discovered @tall wharf

so i assume i didnt buy them

[tall wharf]

huh

maybe old ahh version idk

[rugged pier]

config = {
        extra = {
            hands = 8,
            played_hands = {}
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { 
            vars = { 
                card.ability.extra.hands,
            } 
        }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before then
            card.ability.played_hands[context.scoring_name] = (card.ability.played_hands[context.scoring_name] or 0) + 1
            if card.ability.played_hands[context.scoring_name] % card.ability.extra.hands == 0 then
                return {
                    level_up = true,
                }
            end
        end
    end

implementing this caused my main file to stop recognizing my joker file 😭

@hushed field @wintry solar

[red flower]

card.ability.played_hands[context.scoring_name]d <--- d

[rugged pier]

oh my god

[wintry solar]

I think you actually need the message here too 😅

Level up seems to not auto add the message

[chrome widget]

Woooooo dragona joestar my transfem queen!!!!!!!

[rugged pier]

that fixed it, thank you!

[rugged pier]

ah gotcha

let me try

broke the game upon playing a high card

[red flower]

card.ability.extra.played_hands

[rugged pier]

this is the current implementation

[wintry solar]

You probably need to respawn the card too

[rugged pier]

hm? wdym

[rugged pier]

doesnt my implementation dynamically populate that table

[red flower]

there's no table in ability, it's in ability.extra

[rugged pier]

oh shoot

yes

it works now, thank you!

[red flower]

time to break everything by implementing a new rarity system

[stark geode]

anyone know how to do the titlescreen thing where you replace the cards

[red flower]

you need to modify G.title_top

[stark geode]

how do

[chrome widget]

How can you check for something's suit without using the is_suit() function?

self.base.suit?

[red flower]

yes

[red flower]

i would look at how other mods do it like cryptid or aikoyori's one

[uncut grail]

i mean... is_suit is the only right way because it accounts for stone cards and stuff

you probably should stick to it

at least try to stick to it

[chrome widget]

If you call is_suit() within a check_enhancements context, the game crashes due to infinite loop, because the modded is_suit checks for quantum wild cards

I suppose I could literally disable quantum enhancements and turn it back on lmao

[hushed field]

the hackiness of quantum enhancements is why I've opted out of using them, honestly

[uncut grail]

oh and yeah guys, has anybody ever encountered this issue? (the card stuff appears on top of stone cards)

[red flower]

it works :)))

[hushed field]

it's because when stone cards have their enhancement removed by vampire, they will start showing their rank. However, animation wise, their center hasn't changed. I'm sad to say I don't know the exact solve for this

[uncut grail]

so is this just in vanilla balatro

[hushed field]

i haven't played without smods installed in a long while, I'd have to check

[open aspen]

is this correct localization for stickers?

cause it aint working

[uncut grail]

oh yeah that is not caused by my joker. thank you for the help you saved me a lot of sanity

[uncut grail]

you should add this in loc_vars, no?

[primal robin]

Nope, localization files exists

[uncut grail]

oh yeah i forgor

[open aspen]

yea, but its a custom sticker so idk how info_queue is gonna work with that

i mean it worked before and i lost half my project including localization

[primal robin]

descriptions.Other["sticker_key"] = { name = "Sticker", text = { "My sticker" } }

[open aspen]

so i assume i fucked something up now

[narrow iron]

oops

[primal robin]

And also

[open aspen]

uhm

well its not working

why

[primal robin]

Show me how yiu init sticker

[open aspen]

you want the whole code?

[primal robin]

you key for sticker should be <mod_prefix>_<sticker_key>

[tall wharf]

lmao wtf

[open aspen]

yes

i mean

heres whats weird

[open aspen]

is it clearly is correct since the misc label shows up

only the popout description is an error

wtf.....

[primal robin]

well...

[open aspen]

perhaps the error is in here then

also for proof its not the wrong key:

[primal robin]

Pass as key a value with mod prefix

so key = "untitledtagmod_tagged"

[tall wharf]

\

[open aspen]

where would i pass it to?

[primal robin]

Just here

[open aspen]

i dont think that will fix it

but

[primal robin]

At least you should try

[open aspen]

worth a. shot

[primal robin]

This works in my mod at least

[open aspen]

really?

[buoyant merlin]

So I stopped a glass card from being destroyed..... how would I put it back into the discard

Its just stuck in the middle of the screen

[open aspen]

i figured it out

i wrote description instead of descriptions in my localization fil

[primal robin]

I'm not surprised

[open aspen]

me neither

[stark geode]

how do i call localisations out of a localisation file

[open aspen]

i had to remake my localizations

[open aspen]

you dont

[primal robin]

G.localization is current localization used

[open aspen]

you just need to make a loc_vars

[primal robin]

So G.localization.descriptions.Other.tagger.name

[open aspen]

if u need to get it do that

[red flower]

or use localize

[open aspen]

anyways if u just mean how to use localization file

you just gotta put the right key

[primal robin]

In a right place

[open aspen]

for a sticker its like this

this is an example