💻・modding-dev

[rain slate]

you're using vs code right?

[rain slate]

then it's just an extension

[tired skiff]

correct

[tired skiff]

do i get even better toml?

[zealous glen]

no

[rain slate]

if you want to

[zealous glen]

You can choose a Lua one

[tired skiff]

what do i get :<

[rain slate]

you search formatter in the marketplace and get one of those

[red flower]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sumneko.lua

[heady siren]

Me: Why is my card freaking out?!?!?!
Also me: puts an event inside of an event

[tired skiff]

what does it do

[rain slate]

it gives you syntax highlighting and code formatting

[thin anchor]

eye see you

[zealous glen]

note the outside event continues below the bottom

[rain slate]

helps you catch syntax errors like the one you just had

[heady siren]

I have no idea why mine freaked out then

But it stopped freaking out when I didn't put the event inside the event

[zealous glen]

function() if true then foo()
end
end

might become

function()
  if true then
    foo()
  end
end

[zealous glen]

You did something wrong probably

[manic rune]

i wonder why it doesn't show a yellow line or smt here

[zealous glen]

a common mistake is forgetting return true

[rain slate]

you most likely forgot to return true

[manic rune]

without return true, does it just run forever

[tired skiff]

what does return true do?

[rain slate]

if you don't return true it will assume that the event has not yet concluded and continue running it endlessly

[zealous glen]

it returns true

[red flower]

https://tenor.com/view/balatro-true-balatro-true-shop-gif-4925313940125427945

[manic rune]

true...

[heady siren]

I've got this code to shove a card into the shop inside a deck back, and it's doing so, but then the card doesn't have the shop UI, can't be highlighted, and you can drag it anywhere on the screen

[rain slate]

https://tenor.com/view/plastic-man-real-real-powder-powder-that-makes-you-say-real-animated-comic-plastic-man-gif-7493651428267836743

[zealous glen]

For Events, it notifies the Event Manager that the Event has concluded and should be removed from the Event Queue

[manic rune]

dont use card as a var please

[thin anchor]

what are the names of the consumable pools?

[manic rune]

💔

[zealous glen]

didn't emplace it

use SMODS.add_card

[heady siren]

This is copied straight from the base game code

[zealous glen]

specify the correct area

[midnight coyote]

channeling all of my creative energy into making more ritual cards

[rain slate]

yeah don't use create_card it's kinda annoying

[midnight coyote]

i should make cursed cards into a thing

[heady siren]

Am I able to use SMODS.add_card as a variable in the same way create_card does it?

[midnight coyote]

so i have the mechanic for later

[zealous glen]

but you're likely overwriting your function signature

[zealous glen]

-ish

[midnight coyote]

hey quick question can i have an event display a message on a card

like a joker effect

[rain slate]

yes

[midnight coyote]

like let’s say my cursed cards activates and debuffs the card

can i have a message displaying that for extra effect

and if so how can i do that

[zealous glen]

yes

but depending on how you do it

you don't need an Event

just return the message

like with Jokers

[midnight coyote]

can i pack it into an event

[rain slate]

card_eval_status_text

[red flower]

i have a lovely patch for this if you want it

[heady siren]

Would this work?

[rain slate]

I think you need to do local new_joker?

I have no idea how that wouldn't cause a syntax error the way you're doing it right now

[red flower]

use SMODS.calculate_effect instead

[rain slate]

but guessing by the colors you don't have syntax highlighting

[midnight coyote]

what ide are you using

[manic rune]

actually

[rain slate]

doesn't that like also actually do the effect?

[midnight coyote]

i can find a plugin

[rain slate]

like if you put mult it will give mult

[red flower]

no

SMODS.calculate_effect({ message = "your message" }, card)

[manic rune]

can i do SMODS.calculate_effect({mult_mod = 5}, nil)?

[red flower]

yes but it might not like it at the wrong timing

[manic rune]

nice

[rain slate]

I guess that's easier

[red flower]

oh just checked, it will crash if you do nil i think

[manic rune]

oof

[tired skiff]

so now that i have added 1 joker how do i say add another

[red flower]

just do the same thing below that one

[tired skiff]

oh really?

ok

[thin anchor]

whats the filename of the png of tarot cards?

[rain slate]

the same way you added the first one?

[rain slate]

Tarots.png

literally

[thin anchor]

u

hhhhhh

😭

[rain slate]

if you mean inside like the .exe, I mean

that's what it's called in /resources/textures/1x

[thin anchor]

yeah

[limber warren]

hey, did you ever find a fix for this issue?

sorry for the necro post, but im running into a similar problem

[scarlet spire]

was actually gonna ask about it here again, still dealing with it

[limber warren]

bummer

[manic rune]

yall

[rain slate]

I think you need to provide vars

[manic rune]

rate the design of ♾️ from 0 to 10

[rain slate]

somehow

[limber warren]

thats what im thinking but how

[rain slate]

cuz to get perishable and rental stickers working I had to include their vars else they would crash the game ```lua
info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = { key = "eternal", set = "Other" }
info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = { key = "perishable", set = "Other", vars = { G.GAME.perishable_rounds or 1 } }
info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = { key = "rental", set = "Other", vars = { G.GAME.rental_rate or 1 } }

[rain slate]

I'm assuming you'd just do { key = "j_constellation", set = "Joker", vars = { 1, 1 }}

set is either Joker or Jokers idk which one

[limber warren]

this is the version im dealing with

[scarlet spire]

my issue is that I have an info queue that changes to completely random jokers, so I need a way to fetch that dynamically

[limber warren]

uh oh

[rain slate]

oof

maybe you can somehow get their configs and then fetch those values?

[limber warren]

i tried this, but whenever i tried to hover over the joker it crashed the game

hold on let me send the log

[rain slate]

did you try with Jokers instead of Joker? cuz i wasn't 100% sure about that

[limber warren]

this is kind of pissing me off because this is an easy joker otherwise lmao

[rain slate]

I'm voting option number 1 but if it gets dissolved after 3 rounds it should be way stronger

because it'd just be a worse polychrome otherwise

[limber warren]

INFO - [G] 2025-03-27 21:53:49 :: ERROR :: StackTrace :: Oops! The game crashed                                         [SMODS BALATRO2 "main.lua"]:545: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'dollars_per_hand' (a nil value)                Stack Traceback 

info_queue[#info_queue+1] = {key = 'tag_handy', set = 'Tag', vars = {self.config.dollars_per_hand, self.config.dollars_per_hand*(G.GAME.hands_played or 0)} }

i just copy pasted tag.lua lmoa

[lavish lake]

Im achieving realism here
Carbon dioxide from burning oils is good in the short term, but terrible in the long term

[rain slate]

well that obviously wouldn't work because we aren't doing this on the tag itself

so self is just the joker or whatever this is on

[limber warren]

true

[heady siren]

Alternate idea: Gives X2.5 mult, loses X0.5 per trigger, destroy itself at X1 mult

[limber warren]

i tried key.name instead of self but it said key is null

[rain slate]

well yeah that's kinda obvious too

[limber warren]

lol

[heady siren]

I just realized is the whole reason M is a huge part of Cryptid is because you accidentally spam mmmmmmmmm into your text editor when you're holding to restart your game?

[rain slate]

wait I think I got it

[thin anchor]

what do yall think

[limber warren]

looks good

[thin anchor]

yay

[heady siren]

A card from RandomDude that actually fits the Balatro style no way

[thin anchor]

😭

[limber warren]

if you want a nitpick you could move the word dart to the right a little bit

its a bit off center

[thin anchor]

oh yeah

[limber warren]

by like 2 pixels

[tired skiff]

so Xmult gives Xmult but how do you get a joker to give chips or flat mult

[lavish lake]

What does it do

[rain slate]

@scarlet spire I GOT IT

[dense adder]

anyone have the base game tarrots.png?, i overrid the originals when i started modding and never it backed up

[heady siren]

Extract the balatro.exe file

[limber warren]

kino?

[dense adder]

thats the issue

[thin anchor]

adds this to a card

[midnight coyote]

wait black deck is one of the harder ones

[rain slate]

local constellation = G.P_CENTERS.j_constellation

constellation.config = {
  extra = 0.1,
  x_mult = 1
}

info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = constellation
``` this is what I had to do

[scarlet spire]

https://www.spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/balatro/sheet/222139/

[dense adder]

thanks

[heady siren]

Verify integrity of game files?

[scarlet spire]

you should also probably verify integrity to restore the base files

[tired skiff]

what is the config name for chips and flat mult

[rain slate]

I was not answering you with this

[tired skiff]

i know

im just wondering

:3

[rain slate]

for chips and flat mult you just do ```lua
return {
chips = 1,
mult = 1
}

[scarlet spire]

is it without manually specifying each var?

[rain slate]

change the values

[rain slate]

@scarlet spire

[tired skiff]

oh lol its that shrimple

[rain slate]

this is what I did

[dense adder]

ok

[scarlet spire]

ah wait, okay, hmm

[rain slate]

you might want to read the documentation on SMODS https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/calculate_functions

there is little documentation as of now, but there is some

[scarlet spire]

okay yeah I don't want to do that for every single joker in the game

hmm

[rain slate]

I think the problem is that

it can for some reason only properly copy one variable?

or smtn

so like the first variable shows up fine

but every other one after that is just fucked

[tired skiff]

thank you tecci :3

so kind

[rain slate]

no problem :3

[limber warren]

how are you calling for each joker?

[rain slate]

let me test a theory

[limber warren]

theoretically maybe you can try to pull a config from somewhere, but i have no idea how you'd do that

[red flower]

i think its because in P_CENTERS it's called Xmult instead of x_mult

[limber warren]

Tecci you're the goat

[scarlet spire]

I have a key for a random joker that's initialized as j_joker and randomized whenever a hand is played

[rain slate]

didn't notice that actually, was tryna copy it

[hardy viper]

i caved im wsling it 😔

[red flower]

i love wsl

[scarlet spire]

if this is what you were asking

[rain slate]

ok yeah you're right, if I do it with Xmult it doesn't work anymore ??

[heady siren]

There's the RandomDude style I know

[thin anchor]

lmao

[rain slate]

I wonder why that is

[heady siren]

Absolutely peak

[thin anchor]

beauty

[heady siren]

✋🤚

[red flower]

[thin anchor]

[tired skiff]

so why is the function red

i litterlay just copyed it from the previouse joker

[rain slate]

because you need another end for the function itself

whenever you have a function there has to be an end to close it, and same for if statements

[tired skiff]

ahh ofc

[heady siren]

Every function, for, and if needs an end

[slender bay]

Game keeps crashing because extra is a nil value, not sure what to do to fix it

[scarlet spire]

to actually get a random joker, I just get a random element of G.P_CENTERS and check if the key starts with j_ because I don't want it affected by weights

[stark geode]

are we allowed to ask the thunk questions

[rain slate]

what does that mean

[heady siren]

Also I don't think G.Jokers is right, it's G.jokers, right?

[red flower]

there's G.P_CENTER_POOLS.Joker

[scarlet spire]

oh, neat

I still need to make it exclude legendaries but that helps

[heady siren]

Is that a reference to the hit Balatro mod Neato Jokers?

[scarlet spire]

my jokers... they're neat

[heady siren]

Oh

[red flower]

neat Oh

neato

[scarlet spire]

oh...

[heady siren]

🧠 💥

[thin anchor]

dartboard

[heady siren]

Also I think it's meant to be self, not card, add_to_deck and remove_from_deck only has from_debuff as arguments in the documentation

Nevermind

I read the documentation wrong

[lavish lake]

Guys how do I enhance cards again? And how do I check what cards are selected?

[red flower]

self is always the center, not the card

[rain slate]

        elseif self.ability.name == 'Constellation' then loc_vars = {self.ability.extra, self.ability.x_mult}

``` oh my god I think I just found out why Xmult doesn't work

oh my god this is painful ```lua
if self.ability.name == 'Constellation' and not context.blueprint and context.consumeable.ability.set == 'Planet' then
self.ability.x_mult = self.ability.x_mult + self.ability.extra

[red flower]

1. :set_ability
2. area.highlighted

[rain slate]

the centers of some jokers in the game are initialized incorrectly

[limber warren]

thank you thunk

[rain slate]

Constellation's center is initialized as Xmult

but then loc_vars and calculate_joker use x_mult

[red flower]

[heady siren]

Balatro was not made for mods, he was content with inconsistency because nobody's supposed to be digging through the game code

[red flower]

thats why my mod is entirely self contained and doesnt touch vanilla much

[rain slate]

so if you wanna make something like what Wheat is doing display them correctly I think you might have to go through the code and ptach the incorrect ones or something

[heady siren]

Now my own code doesn't replace any functions thanks to N', which means my code is a little bit smarter
-# (but -inf smartness + some is still -inf smartness) [=

[rain slate]

or make a function of your own that outputs the correct center

would be better since you don't have to patch it; better compatibility with other mods

[tall apex]

Smortness

[heady siren]

RIP mod compatibility

[rain slate]

? it'd be worse if you patched the original code

[red flower]

i would just copy the entire loc_vars if chain

[rain slate]

yeah that's smart

but also you'd need a card for that, no?

cuz it references self

[red flower]

i would input the values manually but you can also call :create_fake_card

[rain slate]

is that a thing?

[red flower]

i think smods adds it

[rain slate]

no documentation at the very least

[red flower]

i mean i dont think its something most people would use

it's used for tooltips

[rain slate]

imo everything no matter how obscure should have documentation, but ofc not the most realistic goal

[red flower]

it has an lsp definition

[rain slate]

oh I see

[limber blaze]

do you like my awesome new rarity

[rain slate]

create_fake_card = function(self)
            return { ability = copy_table(self.config), fake_card = true }
        end,

oops ping

I don't think this would work cuz no key

maybe with ability.name but idk

[red flower]

wdym no key

[rain slate]

well that's just a table with ability and fake_card and it needs a key to be localized

otherwise it'll just show error

[red flower]

i meant using that instead of self in the loc_vars and then passing those manually

[open aspen]

why is this running twice? i see the tagged return message twice for some reason

[trail arrow]

hi, how would i go about making my own blueprint styled joker?

[hexed heath]

what's the difference between G.play and G.playing_cards?

[stark geode]

You can look at the balatro source code, just extract the .exe with 7z

You can look at blueprint

[spark remnant]

I'm currently trying to make a joker that allows for 7 card hands to be played, I've got it to allow selecting 7 cards but can't play any hand, I'm guessing cause the vanilla balatro hands are coded for 5 card hands, is there any way I can allow for the vanilla hands to be played with 7 cards instead of 5?

[open aspen]

G.play i believe refers to the played hand?

or all cards in play?

what do u want to do

[hexed heath]

add a card to the deck

[open aspen]

i would assume neither of those is what u want then (or at least, not G.play)

i think G.deck

yea its probably G.deck

that is indeed a thing

[heady siren]

How do I get a joker's key from it's card?

I've tried .key and .base.key and neither worked, so I might as well just ask

[heavy hare]

game.lua has all the jokers and their "order" number, not sure if that's the key you're needing

[heady siren]

It's internal identifier, not it's key as in keys and values

[red flower]

i told you 😒

[heady siren]

This

[hexed heath]

thanks

[open aspen]

oops sorry!

[heady siren]

My fix for this kind of thing is to just store a "triggers" variable and make it only happen if triggers == 0, increment trigger by 1 when the condition passes, and then reset triggers at another point

[open aspen]

i would just check if not context.repetition then right?

[red flower]

it's better to do a positive check of context.individual

[lament agate]

is it possible to change the vanilla joker with the modded one, as in reworking it

[red flower]

yes that's what take_ownership is for

[lament agate]

oh right

[open aspen]

i mean the thing is this isnt a joker its a sticker

i assume it still works

[red flower]

no idea 🙂

[rugged pier]

is there a context for cards that are played but not scored?

[open aspen]

nw

ill experiement

it was already a big help

apologies for somehow missing ur message earlier

[red flower]

there's an optional feature to enable context.cardarea = 'unscored'
or you can just check the unplayed cards in context.full_hand

[open aspen]

ok adding that made it do nothing again lol

so it probably isnt why its repeating

ill figure it out tmrw

[red flower]

maybe context.main_eval then?

[open aspen]

either that or repetition is the culprit?

[limber warren]

@scarlet spire were any of the other jokers giving you issues with delivery? r just constellation?

[open aspen]

ill give this a shot

[limber warren]

maybe you can patch the config with lovely

[heady siren]

This was my solution to the problem

[open aspen]

if. that dont work i gtg sleep etc

[open aspen]

yea ill do this worst case

[limber warren]

my friends and i are trying to fix the problem

[open aspen]

that makes sense

thanks for all the help u guys

[rugged pier]

ooo cool and i can combine it with context.individual and context.cardarea = 'unscored' to loop over those cards and do effects with context.other_card?

[scarlet spire]

there's a bunch of them, I don't remember off the top of my head

[open aspen]

i mean this is the easiest way

[red flower]

yes

[scarlet spire]

mostly the scaling jokers

[open aspen]

i just wanna do it with context if possible for clean code

[rugged pier]

thank you!

[red flower]

keep in mind it's an optional feature you have to enable manually

[rugged pier]

where can i enable it?

[heady siren]

Also still looking for this

[red flower]

i think it's
SMODS.optional_features = {cardareas= {unscored=true}}

[red flower]

card.config.center.key

[heady siren]

Thank you

[lament agate]

like this right?

[rugged pier]

awesome, and id put this in my main file yes?

[red flower]

yeah

[rugged pier]

thank you!

[red flower]

never done it, no idea

[lament agate]

fair

[last sentinel]

What do people do for "resets every ante" triggers? not seeing the context for it listed nvm just remembered campfire exists

[heavy hare]

also hello again,
i'm looking for a way to spawn a tag (Investment, Negative, etc.) as a part of a new UI element. where do i find the logic that spawns/animates the tag appearing? thanks

[trail arrow]

i've already done that, found where blueprint is to look at how it's done but i have less then 0 idea how it does what it does

if only the example joker mod has blueprint

[rugged pier]

card id for jacks is 11 yes?

[native zinc]

ye

[coral flume]

Anyone know of a way to randomly select a scored card

[ivory coral]

pseudorandom_element(context.scoring_hand)

[coral flume]

Thank you so much, I really ought to read through all the syntax. Regardless, many thanks once again!

[ivory coral]

might want to toss in a pseudoseed() argument as well
so it would be pseudorandom_element(context.scoring_hand, pseudoseed('<seed>')
and replace <seed> with whatever, it just makes it so it chooses something different for different jokers when they use the pseudorandom_element() function
in vanilla the game usually just uses the joker's name as a seed so its always unique

to be more specific pseudorandom_element(table, pseudoseed(seed)) will pull a random entry from the table, and context.scoring_hand is just a table of all your scoring cards

glad to help!

[trail arrow]

my end goal is to make a blueprint joker that selects a random joker (apart from itself) to copy the ability of

[daring fern]

SMODS.blueprint_effect(card, copiedjoker, context)

[gilded blaze]

how do I embed a custom save parameter into save.jkr 💀

I'm trying to do stuff similar to Ancient/Idol/Rebate

[rugged pier]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and context.scoring_hand then
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 11 then
                if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                        if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                            local card = context.other_card
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            card:juice_up()
                            card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                        else
                            local card = context.other_card
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            card:juice_up()
                            card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                        end
                        return true end }))
                end 
            end
        end
    end

Trying to convert jacks to either kings or queens but im running into this error message, not sure whats going on

local card = context.other_card this seems to be causing an issue

[ivory coral]

You'd use a global variable for that, the example mods have a castle2 that shows it off a bit

[trail arrow]

?

how do i use this? and why isn't this in the docs?

[daring fern]

card is the blueprint and copiedjoker is the joker your copying, I'm not sure why it's not in the docs.

[tawny narwhal]

    key = 'singular',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Singularity',
        text = {
            "Squares the current {X:mult,C:white}Multiplier{}",
            "{C:inactive}(Currently {X:mult,C:white}x#1#{} {C:inactive}Mult)",
        }
    },
    rarity = 1, -- Rare rarity
    atlas = 'singularity', -- Replace with actual sprite atlas if different
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    cost = 1, -- Adjust cost as needed

    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { "x" .. tostring(info_queue.Xmult * info_queue.Xmult) } }
    end,

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            local new_mult = context.Xmult * context.Xmult
            return {
                message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_xmult', vars = { new_mult } },
                Xmult_mod = new_mult
            }
        end
    end
}

I'm trying to make a joker that sqiares the mult, but whenever it pops up in the shop I get this error.

[gilded blaze]

ok, takes time for me to learn Ig

the more I know

[mystic river]

today in "things which definitely do what i want them to do but also feel like literally torturing the code, like with knives and stuff"

[ivory coral]

which line here is line 247?

[rugged pier]

local suit_prefix = string.sub(card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'

[manic rune]

again, please stop referring stuff as "card"

that is your joker

you will have no means to refer to your joker after you do that

[trail arrow]

doesn't really help me much, i could intuit what the var's would contain, but i don't know how to use it in my mod

how does this help me achive my goals?

[rugged pier]

i see, okay i just saw the implementation in the base game for strength and thought it would work, thank you!

[manic rune]

oh but also

i think the reason why it doesnt work is that

it runs "local card = context.other_card" only when the event happens, and by that time, its likely the context.other_card no longer exists

[rugged pier]

i tried to remove the event manager and that made it work but it happens so quickly that i had no way of seeing an animation for it

[rugged pier]

so how do i store that card?

[manic rune]

put the local stuff outside the event

and it should work, i think

[rugged pier]

gotcha

okay let me test

[manic rune]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and context.scoring_hand then
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 11 then
                if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                    local card = context.other_card --just a ref, change the var's name too :3
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                        if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            card:juice_up()
                            card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                        else
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            card:juice_up()
                            card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                        end
                        return true end }))
                end 
            end
        end
    end

[rugged pier]

appreciate it!

[manic rune]

i actually dont remember if thats the solution or not :3

[ivory coral]

im not sure since ive not used it but looking at the code i think you just call the function in your calculate?

[manic rune]

tell me if it doesnt work lol

[tawny narwhal]

wait I might be dumb

[rugged pier]

new crash

if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
this is line 246

oh

[manic rune]

did u change the var's name

[rugged pier]

this is the problem you were talking about

lol

yup

let me fix

[manic rune]

exactly

[rugged pier]

it works!

thank you so much @manic rune

[ivory coral]

context.Xmult isnt a thing
i assume you're trying to get the current mult which would be simply mult

[manic rune]

np :D

[tawny narwhal]

yeah I was using another mod for reference and they have a goofy repository

or whatever it's called

I use python for math, Modding is new ground for me lmao

[gilded blaze]

I'm a bit confused here
it says that G.GAME.current_round.castle2_card should reset every round, but I don't see the end_round() check

[ivory coral]

ah i see
anyhow you would do this by just adding whatever the current mult is as xmult

[rugged pier]

If i wanted to add a message on the joker when the change happens, would i do it like this?

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and context.scoring_hand then
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 11 then
                if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                    local jack_card = context.other_card
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                        if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                            message = 'Queened!'
                            message_card = card
                        else
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                            message = 'Kinged!'
                            message_card = card
                        end
                        return true end }))
                end 
            end
        end
    end

[trail arrow]

that makes a lot of sense, i was thinking it would go outside my SMODS.Joker, now all i need to do it get a random joker and boom, thanks!

[tawny narwhal]

lwgwnd, cheers

[tawny narwhal]

I swear I can spell

[manic rune]

message only works when you return it, but you can also do

SMODS.calculate_effect({message = smt}, cardYouWantTheMessageToBeOn)

[rugged pier]

and i would use this line to replace my current "message" line

[manic rune]

mhm

[rugged pier]

awesome let me try

[ivory coral]

im pretty sure it just runs at end of round despite what it looks like
at the very least i can attest to it working

also wow i didnt realize they updated the example mods to explain what hooks are

[manic rune]

oh, they didnt have hooks before?

[ivory coral]

nah my download of it doesnt have it

well it has the hook

it just doesnt explain it

[manic rune]

icic, i started modding a month ago and the example mod already explained hooks

its convenient

[ivory coral]

it is very convenient once you learn its a thing

[rugged pier]

tried this

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and context.scoring_hand then
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 11 then
                if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                    local jack_card = context.other_card
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                        if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Queened!'}, card)
                        else
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Kinged!'}, card)
                        end
                        return true end }))
                end 
            end
        end
    end

but the message didnt pop up on my joker

[manic rune]

weird, it should do that

maybe bcz its inside an event? i doubt it though

can u try running the line outside the event rq

[rugged pier]

i just realised another issue with this, what if the game calculates the hand as a two pair but after it changes the card it becomes a 3 of a kind?

[rugged pier]

yup one second

[ivory coral]

ive not actually seen SMODS.calculate_effect() inside an event before, its always outside of it from my experience
so it could be that

[manic rune]

true

maybe you need to use the uhhh

eval smt smt for the message instead

damn, i forgot its name

💔

[rugged pier]

does work outside the event btw

[manic rune]

shit, one dec

sec

[rugged pier]

okok

[manic rune]

lemme go find the function's name

[rugged pier]

i suppose i could make two different events, one for kind one for queen and return the message like that? @manic rune

[ivory coral]

you should be able to just check a local variable if it gets kinged/queened and add an if outside the event that triggers the message

[gilded blaze]

ah, so SMODS.current_mod.reset_game_globals(run_start) is called at end of round
therefore I don't have to define that, only overriding init_game_object is needed

[manic rune]

card_eval_status_text(cardInHand, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = d_message})

[gilded blaze]

I just need to inject a custom parameter, the resetting logic can also be defined on my side

[manic rune]

change the d_message with your message, and cardInHand with card

maybe it will work?

[ivory coral]

the first part just defines the variable and gives it a default value
the second part makes it change each round

[manic rune]

but i do suggest Osquo's approach too, actually

the timing seems to be more accurate that way

[gilded blaze]

so I don't need the second part, I can define the resetting logic myself
got it

[rugged pier]

okay let me try

[ivory coral]

    func = function()
        toconvert:juice_up() --JUUUUIICEEE
        return true
    end}))
if check then SMODS.calculate_effect({message = localize('osquo_ext_amberconvert'), colour = G.C.ATTENTION}, card) end```
heres an example of how i did it in a mod im making

this converts a card but same principle

check is a local variable defined earlier

[rugged pier]

hmm okay this helps, let me modify

[manic rune]

juice

🧃

[rugged pier]

any idea if this breaks the game?

[manic rune]

probably not

[ivory coral]

i dont think poker hands can change mid-scoring

[manic rune]

it wont affect your hand at all

[rugged pier]

hmm if i did context.before?

[ivory coral]

itll just calculate as whatever it was when you clicked play

[manic rune]

yeah

[rugged pier]

ah

so no way of changing the hand

[manic rune]

it only changes the poker hand when you do it in context.before

im pretty sure

[rugged pier]

okay

i will try this next once this message thing is fixed

[rugged pier]

what does check do here?

[ivory coral]

yeah i forgot to specificy my bad
check is set to true earlier when finding the card to be converted

[manic rune]

maybe u can do stuff like
...message = (checkA and localize("a")) or (checkB and localize("b")) or nil
?

im actually not sure what happens when message is nil

if it doesn't do anything then i think it looks cleaner :3

[rugged pier]

i think i figured out a solution

will report back in a min if it works

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and context.scoring_hand then
            if context.other_card:get_id() == 11 then
                if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                    local jack_card = context.other_card
                    if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                            return true end }))
                        SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Queened!'}, jack_card)
                    else
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                            return true end }))
                        SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Kinged!'}, jack_card)
                    end
                end 
            end
        end
    end

technically this uses the SMODS thing outside the event but still inside the if condition

[rain slate]

this is most certainly not what I anticipated would happen

[manic rune]

-# why is it there

[rugged pier]

omg this works perfectly

[rain slate]

that is a very good question

[rugged pier]

thank you @ivory coral and @manic rune

now to see if i can get poker hand to change

[ivory coral]

np lad

[manic rune]

np :D

[manic rune]

why r they hanging around there tho 😭

bluds think they r part of the team

[ivory coral]

...can you play cards from the joker area?

[manic rune]

i dont think so, no

[rain slate]

I am checking for context.card_destroyed and context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.other_card ~= card with lua SMODS.calculate_context({ card_destroyed = true, cardarea = self.area, other_card = self }, nil) , and yet it triggers when self.area == G.play or self.area == G.hand

[manic rune]

im pretty sure it checks G.hand.highlighted for playing hand

those cards are in G.jokers

[rain slate]

yeah that's because uhh

[ivory coral]

would be kinda cool if you could
like you could "reserve" a card for later

[rain slate]

it's copying the card that gets destroyed

and placing it into G.jokers

[manic rune]

oh, autumn mood actually had a joker which does that

[rain slate]

but

[manic rune]

butttttt

stuff happened

[rain slate]

how the fuck does it even trigger for G.play and G.hand

[manic rune]

:(

[manic rune]

you can actualy put anything in any area :3

[rain slate]

well yes, but I am explicitly checking if it's G.jokers

[manic rune]

just that some stuff will break, since they lack vars which code of the respective area checks

context.cardarea == G.jokers is wrong here

since

it kinda means nothing

[rain slate]

how come?

[manic rune]

its telling ur joker to run the effect

u know when u add context.cardarea == G.jokers in stuff like context.end_of_round?

[rugged pier]

okay so the answer is no, even this cant change the poker hand
i changed the initial if conditon to
if context.before and context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then

[rain slate]

oh but I made it so cardarea = self.area

[manic rune]

context.before isnt supposed to go with context.individual and allat

its just context.before

[rugged pier]

ah i see

[manic rune]

and you are supposed to run a loop through G.play.cards, which refers to your playing hand

[rugged pier]

hmm how do i iterate over full_hand though

[tawny narwhal]

Bruh this coding stuff ain't easy lmao

[rain slate]

I now realize where I went wrong though

cuz it

fucking overrides that or smtn

[manic rune]

for _,otherCard in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
    
end

[rugged pier]

ah so like for k,v in ipairs(G.play.cards)

[rugged pier]

ah

[manic rune]

mhm

u got it :D

[rugged pier]

okay let me try

[rugged pier]

for REAL

[rain slate]

I'll just check context.other_card.area == G.jokers and context.other_card ~= card

[manic rune]

it becomes easy when you code a lot lol

dw

most of the time its just the sheer amount of contexts, functions and stuff that confuse you

[tawny narwhal]

All I'm trying to do is mult * mult and I can't

[manic rune]

when you remember them, they r not that big of a deal

[manic rune]

watchu doin

[rugged pier]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before then
            for _,otherCard in ipairs(G.play.cards)
            if otherCard:get_id() == 11 then
                if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                    local jack_card = otherCard
                    if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                            return true end }))
                        SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Queened!'}, jack_card)
                    else
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                            return true end }))
                        SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Kinged!'}, jack_card)
                    end
                end 
            end
        end
    end

testing this out, moment of truth

[tawny narwhal]

Making a joker that squares mult

[manic rune]

ah

[tawny narwhal]

unbalenced as hell

[manic rune]

i think you should use talisman for that one

they support squaring mult and chips within return itself

[tawny narwhal]

Yeah see I would

If i knew what that meant

[manic rune]

wait wait

otherCard, other_card

[tawny narwhal]

I'm just using a prexisting modded joker as a skeleton

seems it isn't so simple though

[manic rune]

its a lib mod to allow for insanely big numbers

they also add ^mult and stuff

[rugged pier]

yup i just fixed the other_card to otherCard

[rain slate]

ok now it works

pog

[manic rune]

nice

[rain slate]

completely forgot about the cardarea thing SMODS does in calculate_context

[ivory coral]

Talisman is a mod that adds new ways to return scoring effects
so instead of just mult or xmult you can do emult which is exponential mult
in this case return { emult = 2 } would square your mult

[tall wharf]

@manic rune

math deck

[manic rune]

helo

where

:3

[rugged pier]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before then
            for k,v in ipairs(G.play.cards)
            if v:get_id() == 11 then
                if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                    local jack_card = v
                    if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                            return true end }))
                        SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Queened!'}, jack_card)
                    else
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                            local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                            jack_card:juice_up()
                            jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                            return true end }))
                        SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Kinged!'}, jack_card)
                    end
                end 
            end
        end
    end

this just breaks my game by invalidating my joker file

[tawny narwhal]

AHhhhh now that's an idea

[manic rune]

oh thats cool

[manic rune]

wait, how so

[ivory coral]

so your calculate function would be something like

  if context.joker_main then
    return {
      emult = 2
    }
  end
end```

[rugged pier]

no clue, last time something like this happened, it was like a typo or something

[ivory coral]

since this depends on talisman though you'll have to add it as a dependancy or itll crash without it installed

[rugged pier]

oh wait

[tall wharf]

excuse me

are you British

[rugged pier]

i think i figured it out

[rugged pier]

forgot to close the loop

smh

[manic rune]

oof, icic

[tall wharf]

oh no

[manic rune]

you know what

i actually wonder if

you can do this

[rugged pier]

nvm that didnt fix it either

[manic rune]

would it be mult^2?

[ivory coral]

what on earth

[tall wharf]

math deck.

[ivory coral]

coolmathgames / balatro crossover

[manic rune]

time to work on cocolia phase 2

yipee

[rugged pier]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before then
            for k,v in ipairs(G.play.cards)
                if v:get_id() == 11 then
                    if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                        local jack_card = v
                        if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                                local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                                jack_card:juice_up()
                                jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                                return true end }))
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Queened!'}, jack_card)
                        else
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                                local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                                jack_card:juice_up()
                                jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                                return true end }))
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Kinged!'}, jack_card)
                        end
                    end 
                end
            end
        end
    end

any idea why this would just invalidate my joker file lol

any syntax errors?

[manic rune]

whats the crash log

[tawny narwhal]

pretty sure it would

[rugged pier]

doesnt find my mod file, as in it didnt load in

[manic rune]

wha

thats odd

[rugged pier]

this is the crash log

[tawny narwhal]

In python the equivalent would work, but lua aint python

Engineering did't teach me lua...

sadge

[rugged pier]

everyday i wish there was a google translate for languages

[tawny narwhal]

There is

[manic rune]

how about this?

[manic rune]

you just

described what google translate does

[tawny narwhal]

It's called being cranked outta your gorg at computers

[manic rune]

💔

[rugged pier]

coding languages

😔

[rugged pier]

unfortunately i dont fall within this category

[tawny narwhal]

Me neither

I'm better at sleeping and failing to not play WT

[rugged pier]

giving up on this, i will just put a disclaimer saying this will not change poker hand

[manic rune]

you seem to be

missing something

[rugged pier]

hm?

[rugged pier]

what is that

[manic rune]

i tried pasting your code in my own file

[rugged pier]

and it works?

[manic rune]

no, the opposite

[sonic cedar]

ending my night with something basic

[rugged pier]

lol

[rugged pier]

WAIT CAN YOU CHANGE JOKERS BY FLIPPING THEM

[manic rune]

oh wait

ohhh

[rugged pier]

BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE GAME CHANGING FOR MY MOD

[manic rune]

@rugged pier

you forgot "do" in the for loop

[rugged pier]

oh my god

[native zinc]

card_flip()

[sonic cedar]

you change jokers by changing them
the flip is just to mask it

[rugged pier]

omg

[manic rune]

isnt it just

[rugged pier]

this is game changing holy shit thank you

[manic rune]

:flip()

[native zinc]

oop

card:flip()*

[ivory coral]

i recommend getting used to this feeling

[manic rune]

yeah, never have your expectations high when you are testing your code

be prepared to debug a seemingly simple function like 10 times

[rain slate]

wtf is that

[manic rune]

before actually getting it to work

[rugged pier]

i hate that vscode doesnt have errors that i can see in my code for lua before i open the game

[sonic cedar]

me when i hate you

[manic rune]

i

need to step up my game

yall be making too cool stuff

💔

[rain slate]

why you hate me :(

[sonic cedar]

it's nothing personal i hate everyone

[manic rune]

its not racism if i hate everyone equally

❤️

[tawny narwhal]

That's it

I can't fix my own mistakes

[rain slate]

yeah it's misanthropy 💔

[tawny narwhal]

My PC is going out the window

[ivory coral]

balatro modding, or, a tale on how a single-letter typo can cause decades worth of sanity deterioration within a few hours

[manic rune]

whats wrong?

[manic rune]

how

im also using vsc

[tawny narwhal]

Literally everything

[manic rune]

did you download the lua extension?

[rugged pier]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before then
            for k,v in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
                if v:get_id() == 11 then
                    if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                        local jack_card = v
                        if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                                local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                                jack_card:juice_up()
                                jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                                return true end }))
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Queened!'}, jack_card)
                        else
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                                local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                                jack_card:juice_up()
                                jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                                return true end }))
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Kinged!'}, jack_card)
                        end
                    end 
                end
            end
        end
    end

this works but will NOT change the poker hand @manic rune

[tawny narwhal]

Mainly that I don't know lua

[manic rune]

mmmm

[rain slate]

they probably don't have the lua extension installed and hence no syntax highlighting and whatnot

[sonic cedar]

doesnt that mean it doesnt work

[rugged pier]

this is probably why, but would it show the "do" issue we saw?

[manic rune]

yes

[sonic cedar]

yes

[ivory coral]

wait what do you mean theres a lua extension for vscode

[manic rune]

it shows whenever your code is wrong

[rugged pier]

yes i just meant that it doesnt break the game

[manic rune]

HOW DO YALL CODE WITHOUT IT

💔

[tall wharf]

chat what should i add to the letter deck 😭😭😭

[rugged pier]

no literally LMAO

[rain slate]

oh yeah I think I had a problem similar to this one

[sonic cedar]

greek

[rugged pier]

dude ive just been opening the game and closing the game...

[tall wharf]

it's getting less attention from me because it has 0 sunergies

[ivory coral]

painfully

[tall wharf]

math deck also has literally 0 synergies

[rugged pier]

what did you do to fix it?

[rain slate]

where aces were getting counted as face cards when scored after I'd changed their rank in context.before

[manic rune]

mmm i guess changing enhancements do work, but they dont change the poker hand themselves

wait

[rain slate]

I scrapped the joker before I thought about it 💔

[manic rune]

isnt there context.modify_scoring_hand?

[rugged pier]

LMAOOOO

SO REAL

[tall wharf]

belis

[manic rune]

who tf is belis 😭

[tall wharf]

belis

it's your name now

bepil

[rugged pier]

I have finally installed the lua extention for vscode...

[tall wharf]

bepilus

bel

[rugged pier]

is there?

[manic rune]

guess im belis now

[sonic cedar]

belias

[tall wharf]

belis i still have

a secret feature i haven't added

[rugged pier]

oh my god i have to uninstall the vscode extention

[tall wharf]

i think i revealed it to exactly 1 person

[manic rune]

im pretty certain calculate in blind has it

not sure

[rugged pier]

let me check

[manic rune]

and what would it be

and did u try myst's new blind :3

[ivory coral]

wth there is
its used like 4 times in smods code
@manic rune how on earth do you find this

[sonic cedar]

do you mean the thing

[tall wharf]

what blind

she never explained it to me

[manic rune]

benefit of being friends with insanely talented people, i suppose

[tall wharf]

nor did any of you

[manic rune]

:3

[rain slate]

I forgot about modify_scoring_hand tbh

[manic rune]

thats the neat thing

❤️

[tall wharf]

what thing

[rugged pier]

i cant even find it on the wiki

[tall wharf]

WHAT

[tawny narwhal]

wait where do you get these from

[tall wharf]

JUST EXPLAIN IT TO ME

[rain slate]

I've seen it in auto-completion but hadn't thought about what it might very obviously do

[tall wharf]

I'm missing the fuck out

[manic rune]

get wat

[ivory coral]

because its not on it lmao
i love undocumented features

[rugged pier]

wait so how do i implement this 😭 do i just add that context alongside context.before

[rugged pier]

oh god

[manic rune]

I LOVE UNDOCUMENTED FUNCTIONS 🗣️

[tawny narwhal]

I assume those lua files are examples?

[radiant plank]

can someone help me diagnose why my joker isnt showing up in the collection? it works for others but not for me for some reason

[manic rune]

no, its my mod

[tawny narwhal]

holy canoli

[manic rune]

#1338562637453066240

https://streamable.com/whnjiz

i shall flex

a bit

:3

[rain slate]

yeah you need intellisense to see it after typing context.

[tall wharf]

silksong

[rugged pier]

man smods really needs a rework on documentation

[tawny narwhal]

wait...

[rugged pier]

i see

[tawny narwhal]

I've tried that one

[rain slate]

easy way to get it is to open your entire mods folder as a workspace in VSCode

[rugged pier]

so would context.modify_scoring_hand solve your problem too @tall wharf ?

[manic rune]

dw, Eremel is working on a better documentation

[tawny narwhal]

I shoulda seen that coming, since it's in your name....

[manic rune]

i mean, do you think its a nickname or smt 😭

[rugged pier]

i do have it open on vscode

[tawny narwhal]

Yknow what...

[rain slate]

then it's probably cuz you don't have the lua extension or smtn

[tall wharf]

what problem

[rain slate]

it should show up

[tawny narwhal]

I'll go back to my theology homework for now

I'm coded out

[sonic cedar]

then there's the other way.......

[ivory coral]

finally, gambling in the funny poker game

[rain slate]

what would that be

[rugged pier]

wrong tag sorry, i meant @rain slate

[rugged pier]

i do :(

[sonic cedar]

fraud 🗣️

[rugged pier]

just installed it

[rain slate]

yeah it's ok I didn't wanna make the joker anyway

was js an exercise to see if I could do it

[sonic cedar]

using the smods lua lsp

[rain slate]

saw a cool joker on YouTube and wanted to try implement it

[rugged pier]

if context.modify_scoring_hand and context.before then

this is what i would do @manic rune ?

[radiant plank]

if i have in my main.lua

SMODS.Atlas{
    key = 'Jokers',
    path = 'Jokers.png',
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}
SMODS.Joker{
  key = 'Redboard',
  loc_txt = {
    name = 'Redboard',
    text = {
      '{X:mult,C:white}X#1#{} Mult If all',
      'cards held in hand',
      'are Hearts or Diamonds'
    },
  },
  atlas = 'Jokers',
...

and my folder structure looks like

Redboard/
├── assets
│   ├── 1x
│   │   └── Jokers.png
│   └── 2x
│       └── Jokers.png
└── main.lua

why might my joker not show up in the collection? it works for a friend but not for me

[rugged pier]

i see

[rain slate]

what is pos?

[manic rune]

what is love

[radiant plank]

pos={x=0,y=0}

[rain slate]

oh wait show up in the collection nvm

[daring fern]

Does your mod show up when you load up the game?

[rain slate]

wait do you have the

json file or whatever

with your mod prefix and shit

pretty sure SMODS needs that to load it

[radiant plank]

wait no i never did any of that

[rain slate]

since you need to specify your main file in there

[rugged pier]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.modify_scoring_hand then
            for k,v in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
                if v:get_id() == 11 then
                    if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                        local jack_card = v
                        if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                                local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                                jack_card:juice_up()
                                jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                                return true end }))
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Queened!'}, jack_card)
                        else
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                                local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                                jack_card:juice_up()
                                jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                                return true end }))
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Kinged!'}, jack_card)
                        end
                    end 
                end
            end
        end
    end

so i did this, it modified the card 3 times and then did NOT change the playing hand? lol
any ideas?

[rain slate]

Yeah that'd be it

[radiant plank]

it doesnt and i cant believe i didnt think to check this

[radiant plank]

thanks for the help

[ivory coral]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Mod-Metadata

[rain slate]

Might it be because you're doing it in the event after a delay?

[manic rune]

i actually dont know how to use context.modify_scoring_hand myself

i only remember that it exists

😭

[rugged pier]

this is what i found

[manic rune]

i love undocumented functions for god sake

[rugged pier]

thats just for animations sake

[rain slate]

well yeah, but, it's still after a delay

maybe the poker hand gets set somewhere there, and you're supposed to change it immediately?

[rugged pier]

okay let me remove the delay

[ivory coral]

try checking how context.modify_scoring_hand is set up in better_calc.toml in smods

[tall wharf]

belis

[ivory coral]

i dont really know how it works either
personally i recommend bashing rocks together until it works

[rugged pier]

no results lol

[ivory coral]

oh really

[manic rune]

belis

[rugged pier]

wait

[ivory coral]

should be line 1385

[rugged pier]

i searched for modify_scoring_hand and it shows now

[ivory coral]

nice

[rugged pier]

SMODS.calculate_context({modify_scoring_hand = true, other_card = G.play.cards[i], full_hand = G.play.cards, scoring_hand = scoring_hand}

[rain slate]

Look at the surrounding code

It'll tell you what kind of context (not like calculation context) you're in

[rugged pier]

for i=1, #G.play.cards do
    local splashed = SMODS.always_scores(G.play.cards[i]) or next(find_joker('Splash'))
    local unsplashed = SMODS.never_scores(G.play.cards[i])
    if not splashed then
        for _, card in pairs(scoring_hand) do
            if card == G.play.cards[i] then splashed = true end
        end
    end
    local effects = {}
    SMODS.calculate_context({modify_scoring_hand = true, other_card =  G.play.cards[i], full_hand = G.play.cards, scoring_hand = scoring_hand}, effects)
    SMODS.trigger_effects(effects, G.play.cards[i])
    for _, eval in pairs(effects) do
        if type(eval) == 'table' then
            for key, eval2 in pairs(eval) do
                if key == 'add_to_hand' or (type(eval2) == 'table' and eval2.add_to_hand) then splashed = true end
                if key == 'remove_from_hand' or (type(eval2) == 'table' and eval2.remove_from_hand) then unsplashed = true end
            end
        end
    end
    if splashed and not unsplashed then table.insert(final_scoring_hand, G.play.cards[i]) end
end
-- TARGET: adding to hand effects
scoring_hand = final_scoring_hand
'''```

i think its not a context but something i add? to the calculate function?

[rain slate]

oh it's only for like

[ivory coral]

dont miss that at the end it sets scoring_hand to final_scoring_hand

[rugged pier]

i could be fully wrong

[rain slate]

adding and removing ?

[rugged pier]

oh yes

added it

[tawny narwhal]

NVM we're so back

[rugged pier]

stealing this

[ivory coral]

i thiiiink it makes a new table of cards to be scored and just modifies the scoring_hand table
at least thats how id intuitively assume it works

[rugged pier]

yeah thats what i think as well, i just dont know how my function needs to change to incorporate this

i think i have to set the variable to true

[rain slate]

I think it's some return table bullshit

[rugged pier]

modify_scoring_hand

[manic rune]

probably return a table with all the modified cards in order

[rain slate]

Look at the add_to_hand and remove_from_hand thingy

[manic rune]

my mom took my pc to do her work

:/

[rugged pier]

ill be honest i have no clue what that means lol, this is my first modding project

[tall wharf]

girl sounding name but no judgment my name is literally aikoyori

[manic rune]

no excuses harmonious, mine is too

[sturdy compass]

LOL

[tall wharf]

I'm sorry astra

[manic rune]

😭 wha

[rugged pier]

something tells me, this is not your first rodeo

[tall wharf]

i can't say these i made Minecraft mods before

[manic rune]

first time im modding a game, but def not the first time im coding smt

[ivory coral]

it searches effects in context.modify_scoring_hand for keys
and adds and removes cards from scoring accordingly

[rain slate]

it calculates that context, gets its return table (i.e. the table you return in calculate), calculates it individually per card (i think) and then it also does something with add_to_hand or remove_from_hand if its5in the table

[ivory coral]

so i think this is used to add/remove specific cards from scoring?

[manic rune]

are we breaking down the modify_scoring_hand's code

[rugged pier]

yes

[edgy reef]

yea, altho idk how it should be done

[rain slate]

oh my god yeah this is probably only for the scoring hand

[rugged pier]

yeah which like completely defeats the purpose

[manic rune]

if only a smods god is here rn

[rain slate]

so it can't like change the type of poker hand or smtn

[rugged pier]

since scoring hand is decided when you hit play

[ivory coral]

no it doesnt seem like it
its just splash-lite

[rugged pier]

so what the flip does "modify_scoring_hand" even mean

[edgy reef]

You got one of them, just the one that didn't write this code 😭

[manic rune]

😭

[rain slate]

It modifies the scoring hand by letting you add or remove cards from it I think

[rugged pier]

wait did you help in making smods?

[rain slate]

like not literally the whole hand, just the ones that score

like what the Splash joker does in vanilla

[rugged pier]

i see....

okay that makes sense

[manic rune]

in that case

[rugged pier]

but you cant really change the exact scoring hand

hmm

[manic rune]

youd probably need a hook or a patch

[rugged pier]

chat is this above my paygrade

[ivory coral]

only thing i can think of is that one code card from cryptid that forces a certain hand to be calculated as [x] poker hand

[rain slate]

Yeah this seems like something that isn't covered by SMODS

[rugged pier]

:0

[manic rune]

pretty surprised smods doesn't have smt to support this

[tall wharf]

played cards are permanently debuffed

[manic rune]

wtf aiko

[rain slate]

there are a lot of things smods doesn't support

[rugged pier]

so i have to reimplement the scoring hand function with the new set of cards just to get this to work huh

[manic rune]

context.card_removed, the brother of context.card_added when...

[tall wharf]

?

[rugged pier]

isnt this done with destroyed?

[rain slate]

when will we get context.rank_changed and context.suit_changed by default 😭

[manic rune]

nop

[tall wharf]

what's wrong belis

[manic rune]

:3

check out myst's blind

[ivory coral]

its probably not easy, that much i can say
game wasnt exactly designed for this kinda stuff lol

[manic rune]

is good

[tall wharf]

any triggered cards are permanently debuffed

[manic rune]

i ran out of gifs

so

heres an alien image

[rugged pier]

that is fair

how do i get rid of these messages holy shit

[rain slate]

yeah good luck, you have to somehow get your shit to trigger somewhere in between and change the poker hand

[tall wharf]

red seal steel king build killer

[ivory coral]

wild ranks...

[rugged pier]

i am going to just say it will not modify your poker hand and call it a day lol

[tall wharf]

mario

[rain slate]

I'd do it so this runs before stuff like midas mask or vampire so like before before if that makes sense

[edgy reef]

Include Balatro source code as a workspace.

[rugged pier]

it changes jacks to kings or queens so face card stuff should be okay

[rain slate]

Just get new ones tbh

[manic rune]

smods too

[rain slate]

no i mean like

midas mask was just an example

[rugged pier]

i see

youre right actually

[rain slate]

it should run before stuff in context.before or smtn

[rugged pier]

for other things that trigger with kings and queens

yes

okay done

[rain slate]

like you play the hand and then your stuff triggers and changes the stuff

[tall wharf]

all cards with seals are permanently debuffed

[rugged pier]

what is

[rain slate]

evil

[rugged pier]

implemented

[rain slate]

damn you're fast

[rugged pier]

lol i just had to ctrl z, i had it before i tried to do the whole modify_scoring_hand

[rain slate]

what

no it's not gonna be this easy

[rugged pier]

like i had context.before implemented before i tried to do the other stuff

[rain slate]

yeah but that's not what I meant...

whatever

[rugged pier]

am i dumb

what did you mean

[rain slate]

doesn't matter

[rugged pier]

this is going to keep me up at night

[rain slate]

you still have to patch stuff because it can't be done by default

I think

[rugged pier]

what cant be done by default im confused

[rain slate]

or you can look into the code that gets called when a hand is played

and somehow change the poker hand by referencing that

[rugged pier]

okay i just realized

what you meant

i thought you meant like as a temporary thing, you were telling me to just do context.before and not change the poker hand

but yeah

ill look more into it later

[manic rune]

back

[heady siren]

Is this a good Plasma Deck-like sound for my rare joker that turns every flushable hand into it's flush variant and turns all played cards into wild cards?

[rugged pier]

new question for you

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before then
            for k,v in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
                if v:get_id() == 11 then
                    if pseudorandom('tindwyl_one') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.init_odds then
                        local jack_card = v
                        if pseudorandom('tindwyl_two') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.end_odds then
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                                local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                                jack_card:juice_up()
                                jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'Q'])
                                return true end }))
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Queened!'}, jack_card)
                        else
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                                local suit_prefix = string.sub(jack_card.base.suit, 1, 1)..'_'
                                jack_card:juice_up()
                                jack_card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..'K'])
                                return true end }))
                            SMODS.calculate_effect({message = 'Kinged!'}, jack_card)
                        end
                    end 
                end
            end
        end
    end

how do i make sure it only converts those jacks that are being scored

for k,v in ipairs(G.play.cards) -> for k,v in ipairs(context.scoring_hand)?

[manic rune]

mhm

[rugged pier]

awesome

[sacred eagle]

Hi! I'm making a custom texture pack for friends and I got all the art done but I have no clue how to implement this in a way that'd be easy for others to download other than manually replacing the sprites with 7zip. All I really want to do is replace the base cards front and back sprites.

I'm extremely new to lua so any and all help would be appreciated if possible

[heady siren]

I despise how good at art you are because I can't ever see it again for the first time

[ivory coral]

firstly it sounds pretty over the top for balatro, especially with how long it lasts
if you want to have a custom sound for it i'd go for something more minimalist sound-wise, like how vanilla does it mostly
second, does this cause the played poker hand to change? because it looks like it does and there was just a question here about how to do that

[sacred eagle]

lmao ty

[daring fern]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1300851004186820690

[tall wharf]

hello chat

[tall wharf]

i think you can just use deckskin api from steamodded

no need for malverk

[heady siren]

I hooked into the modify_hand and calculate_joker functions to change all of the hand parameters like text, chips, and mult, and then reversed all the hands played counters to be the flush variants instead, and forced every joker that gives chips, mult, or xmult based on flushes to trigger, as well as Seance

[rugged pier]

oh my god how did you do all this? is your mod available on github

[tall wharf]

i only wish i was as good

[sacred eagle]

so that would allow me to edit front and back sprites? I'll try that since malverk just confused me and kept crashing on attempts, tyvm!

[tall wharf]

back?

oh i missed that

[heady siren]

Also, I kinda want it to be over-the-top because it's a unique joker, and I wanna show off my music making and sound design with the mod

[rugged pier]

it sounds really cool

[heady siren]

I haven't even thought about making a github for this, I probably won't even publicize this, this is my code, it's pretty shoddily put together, so

[rugged pier]

i cant thank you enough tbh this is insane

[tall wharf]

i only wish

[heady siren]

The Seance force trigger just straight up steals the Seance code to make it work, because I can't figure out how to make it just use the same code

[tawny narwhal]

Okay, not sure what I've done wrong now

(Lines 25 and 26) loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card) return { vars = { card.ability.extra.Xmult } }

[rugged pier]

whats your config line?

[heady siren]

I put this in my joker code to tell the game what to force trigger

[rugged pier]

gotcha, i will be trying to reimplement this during class tomorrow, thank you

[heady siren]

Just a tip, it isn't compatible with Space Joker, and I don't know how to make it compatible

[tawny narwhal]

loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card) return { vars = { card.ability.extra.Xmult } }

[rugged pier]

maybe you can force it to retrugger space joker after your joker if it exists?

[heady siren]

It'll trigger for the base hand and the modified hand in that case, which isn't desirable

[rugged pier]

thats not your config line, heres an example:

config = { extra = { chip = 0, chip_mod = 20, faces = 3 } },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { 
            vars = { 
                card.ability.extra.chip_mod,
                card.ability.extra.chip
            } 
        }
    end,

[rugged pier]

debuff the joker before your joker runs and un-debuff it after?

[heady siren]

I also put this line in to make it update the text, which is also why it has quotation marks
update_hand_text({delay = 0}, {chips = G.GAME.hands[G.GAME.new_poker_hand].chips, mult = G.GAME.hands[G.GAME.new_poker_hand].mult, handname = '"'..G.GAME.new_poker_hand..'"'})

[tawny narwhal]

oop... I may not have one

Goober moment

[heady siren]

Maybe, but seeing the joker debuff itself temporarily would seem a bit janky

[rugged pier]

theres the problem, it needs to find that variable somewhere, the config line is where you add it

[rugged pier]

i see, this makes sense

[rugged pier]

yeah i agree, maybe theres a way to do it without the visual effects

[heady siren]

Also for how long the sound is, the 5 notes at the end are for each card turned into a wild card, so it only plays that many times

[ivory coral]

ooooh now thats cool

[rugged pier]

why are different jokers displaying messages for same functionality?

[heady siren]

Those are 3 different jokers, I don't have art for any of my jokers yet

[rugged pier]

ah okay makes sense

but this is really cool, amazing idea

[tawny narwhal]

OKay now it's working

[heady siren]

That last one gives X0.1 mult for all 4 suits played in sequence

[tawny narwhal]

I just need an effiecent way to have it square the mult in the function

[rugged pier]

ah gotcha, makes sense now

[heady siren]

So Spades > Hearts > Clubs > Diamonds = +X0.1