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[tall apex]

gotcha!! thanks a bunch <3

[analog spoke]

ahh, okey

[long urchin]

@wintry solar i messaged you btw

[tall apex]

and i dont put the second half in the return right?

[modern kindle]

you dont need my print or anything no, just the sprite related stuff really

[scarlet thorn]

I've done this before. I'm pretty sure you can just do card.pos

[tall apex]

oh i meant the sprite related stuff

[scarlet thorn]

Not at home to be able to look at the code rn though

[modern kindle]

probably, but this is what worked several months ago for me so did this

[thin anchor]

ok so this destroys every card in hand
-# issue

[modern kindle]

ive just got it thrown in my calc and thats it, mine is oriented around money so i just do this

        -- **Instantly trigger Neglected state if money reaches 0**
        if to_big(G.GAME.dollars) <= to_big(0) and not card.ability.extra.debuffed then
            card.ability.extra.debuffed = true -- Mark as permanently debuffed
            card:set_debuff(true)             -- Apply debuff immediately
            card.sell_cost = to_big(0)        -- Set sell value to $0

            -- Change texture instantly to Neglected version
            local desiredx, desiredy = 1, 1 -- sets new points of atlas for new texture on neglection.
            if card.children and card.children.center then
                card.children.center:set_sprite_pos({ x = desiredx, y = desiredy })
            else
                print("Error: Unable to update Tamagotchi sprite.")
            end

            return {
                message = "Neglected! Tamagotchi stops growing!{}",
            }
        end

[cursive sentinel]

i dont have a context.individual

[wintry solar]

destroying_card

[scarlet thorn]

Which card are you trying to remove specifically

[daring fern]

Wrong reply.

[thin anchor]

so confusing

[thin anchor]

all played

[glad osprey]

question what are ways yall have seen credits shows (ie cryptids badges with the changing text)

[thin anchor]

ok it works
its crazy how "ing" can make such a difference

[tall apex]

andd what is the card cchildren stuff?

[wintry solar]

It’s just a different flag, it’s not that crazy

[thin anchor]

hm

[scarlet thorn]

I use another shorter badge. I can dm you how I did it later when I get home (I'll prolly just call you)

[thin anchor]

i see

[glad osprey]

I wanna have something original lol

[modern kindle]

as far as i recall card children has the sprite objects

[glad osprey]

tis why I'm asking

[scarlet thorn]

I meant like how it looks

[tall apex]

something like this then?

[glad osprey]

ah

[tall apex]

the else is triggering when its not context.joker_main im hoping.,,

[scarlet thorn]

You're missing an end in the joker_main statement

[wintry solar]

This won’t have any visible effect

[tall apex]

its just cut off

[scarlet thorn]

Before the return?

[tall apex]

oh! would i seperate that and the return if i want it to happen at the same time?

[thin anchor]

is there a documentation on all of the animations? (like flip, dissolve, shatter, etc)

[scarlet thorn]

I mean if the code works it works, but it looks like the if statement right before the return doesn't end

[tall apex]

shouldn't it end after the else?

[wintry solar]

You need an end after the return

[scarlet thorn]

You would probably be best off looking in card.lua

[thin anchor]

k

[wintry solar]

You should wrap the set sprites inside events too

[tall apex]

homie im not a coder im learning

[wintry solar]

Otherwise it will change back and forth instantly

[tall apex]

[zealous glen]

I thought that would go into the else

[tall apex]

same

[wintry solar]

The else looks like it’s intended for the first if check, not the second

[scarlet thorn]

With the line that you have selected, tou need to have an end somewhere for that. Whether that be right before or after the return depends on how you want it to work

[zealous glen]

That would be a logic error then

Idk what they’re trying to do to comment on the logic

[tall apex]

ohhh ic :3

[wintry solar]

No it’s just a syntax error, it’s pretty clear how the code is supposed to be if you actually read the conditions

[tall apex]

what about this?

[scarlet thorn]

You are still missing an end

Actually

The way you have it, everything in the code is inside the context.jokermain

No. There is an ending bracket

[tall apex]

ohhhh

so this then

[scarlet thorn]

Yea!

[tall apex]

oh yipee!!!

[crystal perch]

basically every if should have an end

[tall apex]

right, i was nesting the if statements oops

[scarlet thorn]

You can do that, they just need separate ends

[tall apex]

i hope this works, i have an essay to write.,,

[thin anchor]

how would i play the dissolve animation to all played cards?

[scarlet thorn]

Cardarea equals g.play
Context.othercard.dissolve

[daring fern]

Ghost cards.

[scarlet thorn]

.remove them afterward

[tall apex]

hey it works besides the fact i got the x's mixed up!!

for some reason the sound isn't triggering anymore tho

[scarlet thorn]

Wait I'm pretty sure dissolve removes them itself

[scarlet thorn]

Look at the way that ritual dagger does it

I'd show it off, but I'm on mobile rn

[limber blaze]

how do i setup localisation for seals because the way ive seen other mods doing it just doesnt work

[scarlet thorn]

Remove ur mod prefix from Smods.seal

[daring fern]

You don't need to define with the prefix.

[scarlet thorn]

It will automatically add it, unless you specify it not to (which you didnt)

[limber blaze]

im pretty sure i tried that and it showed up blank still but let me test

[wintry solar]

If it’s there it won’t add it again fyi

[hushed field]

do you wanna destroy them too, or just play teh animation?

[scarlet thorn]

You may also need to add s_ to the localization

[daring fern]

No.

[minor furnace]

seals don't have a letter prefix

[limber blaze]

the localisation doesnt show up with or without the entr_ prefix in the key, with or without _seal at the end of the loc key and with or withou s_ at the start of the loc key

[daring fern]

Where are you putting the entry?

[limber blaze]

in Other

[scarlet thorn]

Is it in descriptions.other?

[wintry solar]

iirc seals are modprefix_key_seal

[limber blaze]

yes i tried that

[scarlet thorn]

It needs to be in descriptions.Other

[limber blaze]

it is

i just said that it is

[minor furnace]

this is why I don't use localization and just put the description directly into the smods object

[limber blaze]

the seal key rn is crimson and the localisation key is entr_crimson_seal

unless the mod prefix is not automatically prepended like it isnt for stickers but im pretty sure i tested that also

[scarlet thorn]

Alogn with misc.labels

[limber blaze]

well the labels work

it shows up in the image

[wintry solar]

You must have something set up wrong, the key is definitely correct

[scarlet thorn]

Maybe the extra label definition under desc.other is breaking it? I don't use loc files, and all my knowledge is from helping someone yesterday.

[limber blaze]

idk how i would have something setup wrong since theres no loc_txt in the seals definition and it works fine for every other thing including stickers

[tall apex]

ok so i tested it, and the top line is only adding mult and not doing the other two things :(

i think i need a break this hurts my head

[scarlet thorn]

Can you show the full setup of your loc file

[limber blaze]

you want me to just post the whole thing?

[scarlet thorn]

Try just card.pos = {}.

[scarlet thorn]

Yea

[scarlet thorn]

Or actually it's cause post joker runs right afger

So it is doing it, just undoing it instantly

[next timber]

why is this giving me an error saying that ability is nil?

[tall apex]

huh.,,

[tall apex]

thats what i was gonna try

[scarlet thorn]

You need smth like this https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Guide-‐-Event-Manager

[tall apex]

oh im on that :3

[minor furnace]

that should work, as long as the context is correct

[tall apex]

idk why it would be instant the editions stuff happens after.,,

[minor furnace]

because I do this

[tall apex]

rn i have this

[scarlet thorn]

All jokers are calculated (calculated function ran), and the the return value is processed later

[tall apex]

....

so can i have it in the return?

[scarlet thorn]

using an event is better

[tall apex]

idk how events work so ig im not doing this today

bcos i got shiet to do unfortunately

[scarlet thorn]

I'm like 90% sure of you move h_size out of extra, and just put it in the config, the game will change the hand count for you, and you don't need the add/remove. No idea why ability isn't defined though.

[next timber]

no i tired that and it didnt work

this is how troubadour does it

oh wait im a bit stupid for a different reason

im setting hand size instead of hand count

i am dum

[minor furnace]

as I understand it, there's a queue (FIFO) of events that ensures things execute in the correct order

[next timber]

ok so now why is THIS telling me ability is nil?

[minor furnace]

use card not self

[next timber]

oh yeah

[tall apex]

It’s for another day I have an essay due really soon and I’ve been procrastinating

[minor furnace]

godspeed

and good luck with that essay

[tall apex]

Tyty :3

[south lintel]

how do I properly format the info box? I want it to display the stats of another joker

[dapper sun]

i can't find jolly joker's effect in card.lua

[hushed field]

the hand type and suit mult jokers are collectively gathered under their effect types

instead of their name

[dapper sun]

ty

[scarlet thorn]

Replace e_negative with the joker key? Possbily

[south lintel]

well that was really simple, thanks

[manic rune]

did i cook

[dapper sun]

yes

[south lintel]

you cooked

[manic rune]

i will probably need to rework my other jokers at this pace, im familarizing with this pixel art stuff a bit too fast

this was the previous joker i made a week ago 😭

[scarlet thorn]

Asian fan?

[manic rune]

mhm

i think the design is fine, just that the background is too bland

[primal shoal]

"uh hello"

[modern kindle]

u got games on ur phone?

[plain apex]

i've done that before lmao

[primal shoal]

you know the quick fix?

[lament agate]

what do you type in debugplus to change the Ante to a specific one

[plain apex]

depends what you are trying to do where you ended up doing that? lol

[primal shoal]

...destroy them...

[plain apex]

when i did that i was trying to create them lol

[primal shoal]

 if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then 
                if  self.safe then
                    for _, card_in_play in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
                        card_in_play.ability.perma_mult = card_in_play.ability.perma_mult or 0
                        card_in_play.ability.perma_mult = card_in_play.ability.perma_mult + card.ability.extra.mult
                    end
                else
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        trigger = 'after',
                        delay = 0.4,
                        blockable = false,
                        func = function()
                            for _, card_in_play in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
                                G.play:remove_card(card_in_play)
                                card_in_play:remove()
                                card_in_play = nil
                            end
                            return true;
                        end
                    }))
                end
            end    

take a look if you want

[daring fern]

eval G.GAME.round_resets.blind_ante = number

[plain apex]

heres a tarot i did that destroys cards if that helps

SMODS.Consumable{
    key = 'Midas',
    set = 'Tarot',
    atlas = 'Jokers',
    pos = {x = 4, y = 21},
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Midas Touch',
        text = {
            'Select up to {C:attention}#1#{} cards and destroy them',
            'Earn {C:money}$#2#{} for each card destroyed'
        }
    },
    config = {
        extra = {
            cards = 3, -- configurable value (default to 3 cards)
            money_per_card = 2, -- $2 per card destroyed
        },
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
        if center and center.ability and center.ability.extra then
            return {vars = {center.ability.extra.cards, center.ability.extra.money_per_card}} 
        end
        return {vars = {}}
    end,
    can_use = function(self, card)
        return G and G.hand and G.hand.highlighted and card.ability and card.ability.extra and 
            card.ability.extra.cards and #G.hand.highlighted > 0 and #G.hand.highlighted <= card.ability.extra.cards
    end,
    use = function(self, card, area, copier)
        -- Remove the selected cards in hand with redundancy
        if G and G.hand and G.hand.highlighted then
            local money_earned = 0

            for _, selected_card in ipairs(G.hand.highlighted) do
                selected_card:start_dissolve() -- Ensures visual effect of removal

                -- Ensure jokers properly process the removed card
                if selected_card.playing_card then
                    for j = 1, #G.jokers.cards do
                        eval_card(G.jokers.cards[j], {
                            cardarea = G.jokers,
                            remove_playing_cards = true,
                            removed = {selected_card}
                        })
                    end
                end

                -- Add money for each destroyed card
                money_earned = money_earned + (card.ability.extra.money_per_card or 0)
            end

            -- Use ease_dollars to add the money earned
            if money_earned > 0 then
                ease_dollars(money_earned)
                G.GAME.dollar_buffer = (G.GAME.dollar_buffer or 0) + money_earned
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = (function() 
                    G.GAME.dollar_buffer = 0
                    return true
                end)}))
            end
        end
    end,
}

anyway im trying to make a blind that ignores enhancements, editions, and seals ive got removing and restoring editions and seals but haven't got enhancements and its restoring them too early

SMODS.Blind {
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'The Truth',
        text = { 'Ignores all seals, enhancements, and editions for cards' }
    },
    key = 'Truth',
    name = 'The Truth',
    config = {},
    boss = { min = 1, max = 10, hardcore = true },
    boss_colour = HEX("7f7373"),
    atlas = "BlindChips",
    pos = { x = 0, y = 2 },
    dollars = 5,

    press_play = function(self)
        -- Store the original values before making changes
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            func = function()
                for _, card in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
                    -- Save original values (to restore after scoring)
                    card._truth_backup = {
                        seal = card.seal,
                        edition = card.edition,
                        
                    }

                    -- Wipe them
                    if card.ability then
                        card.seal = nil
                        card.edition = nil
                    end
                end
                return true
            end
        }))

        -- After scoring, restore original values
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            func = function()
                for _, card in ipairs(G.play.cards) do
                    -- Restore the original values
                    if card._truth_backup then
                        card.seal = card._truth_backup.seal
                        card.edition = card._truth_backup.edition
                        
                    end
                end
                return true
            end
        }))
        return true
    end
}

how to get card enhancement for this?

[wintry solar]

I think it would be cleaner if you just told the calculation code not to run in that blind

[plain apex]

how to do that?

[glad osprey]

question why does the showman glitch work

like what flags get fucked with to make it work

[wintry solar]

I think you should just be able to hook the relevant functions and not run the original during your blind

[thin anchor]

is this correct?

[primal shoal]

 .dissolve()
``` maybe idk

[glad osprey]

:start_dissolve()

[red flower]

no, what do you want to do

[thin anchor]

destroy played cards
trying to play the dissolve animation

[wintry solar]

Destroying cards will automatically do that

[red flower]

remove should play the animation already

[primal shoal]

wait ".remove()" is all you need to destroy a card?

[glad osprey]

no

destroying card context

or :start_dissolve iirc

[plain apex]

how to hook the relevant functions and not run them? (i haven't hooked anything)

[red flower]

I meant the { remove = true } part
:remove() can destroy a card but it doesn't play any animations and if you do it during scoring it can create ghost cards

[primal shoal]

ic

[thin anchor]

ok yeah just checked it does

[primal shoal]

ghost cards being this?

[daring fern]

No its invisible cards in your hand that you cant select.

[primal shoal]

yeah it does that aswell

[thin anchor]

how.

i want that

[primal shoal]

can't select them and the texture is f*cked

[primal shoal]

posted the code a bit under it if you want it

[thin anchor]

yay

[manic rune]

accidental breakthrough in shitposting

congratulations, berry

[primal shoal]

thx

[thin anchor]

i love giant cards

just fucked up cards in general

i love em

[shell timber]

Tall Joker
+44 Mult

uncommon? rare?

[plain apex]

have more from when i did this myself

[manic rune]

😭

vr balala

[glad osprey]

card area cards

[plain apex]

this would probably also be good for shitposting

made the deck scared

[thin anchor]

i love this game

[plain apex]

or the time i made the deck radioactive and it just constantly emitted green particles

[thin anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/spell-cat-ai-gif-620154279285248380

[plain apex]

you could play with that one but the deck would just emit green particles forever

[primal shoal]

is this any good and if so what rarity would it be?

[plain apex]

so if you play a flush thats like 10 mult?

[daring fern]

I think it means total times played for each card this run.

[plain apex]

OH

thats interesting

id say like uncommon probably?

[long urchin]

how do i set up a joker file system?

[glad osprey]

elaborate

[long urchin]

like, where each joker is in a separate file under a folder that the main.lua pulls from

i tried to just copy Neato Jokers but it gave me an error

[glad osprey]

I would not reccomend having each joker in it's own file

imo that seems very inefficient

[long urchin]

its a group made mod so its best if each joker has its own file so that we can work independently of eachother

[modern kindle]

ive got smth kinda similar with a joker with cards that gain mult every time they are played and we have it at rare

[glad osprey]

ah

[hardy viper]

y not use git

[long urchin]

plenty of mods do it?

[glad osprey]

I haven't seen any but I haven't been looking

[hushed field]

I would recommend having each joker in it's own file. But it's something up for your organizational preferences. But I really prefer the each joker as a separate file approach both for testing and the way it's friendly towards merges

[modern kindle]

with a shit ton of jokers scouring through one file for what you want is admittedly tiring
so having each joker in its own file lets you readily access whatever joker you need to mess with

ive got about 50 jokers and already its a emss to go through one file for each

[long urchin]

Neato, Cryptid, i think Aikoyori does too

[modern kindle]

if i split it up itd be way easier

[hardy viper]

i know cryptid doesn't do that

[glad osprey]

cryptid doesn't

it does have different files for stuff but not 1 file for each joker

[hushed field]

What's your current set up? Really, the way to read them is just a loop over the list of files. Or you can do what Kino does, which is what Ortalab does because I stole it from Eremel's Ortalab code, and have the joker keys in a specific file, so you can easily add and remove them without moving the files

[long urchin]

not for jokers individually but it separates the code based on type

[primal shoal]

crtl f is useful here
ive got around 60

doesn't effect me much me

[modern kindle]

ctrl f is also slower than clicking one file and being directly in it

[plain apex]

i have 60+ jokers and keep everything in the same file so i can reference my own code for how i did something while trying to code more stuff lol

[modern kindle]

plus i have jokers who reference other jokers which makes ctrl f not take me directly to the same shit

[hushed field]

I mean, split screen is in most IDEs 😛

[modern kindle]

thats true, split screen my beloved

[primal shoal]

nah i want to see all the blank space in full

[hushed field]

But it's honestly just personal preference, whatever way you go about it. I don't think there's any performance related arguments to make for either one. I've got 250 jokers, and that's a lot of files, but it's quite helpful in navigating everything for me. I'm sure ctrl f would also do, but I use Vsc's search for referencing other code, anyway. The best thing about it, for me, is honestly just that it tells me exactly which joker is the cause of a crash

@long urchin what's your current loading code?

[long urchin]

main.lua:```lua
-- atlas definitions
SMODS.Atlas {
key = "roffers",
path = "Jokers.png",
px = 71,
py = 95,
}

SMODS.Atlas {
key = "rickers",
path = "Stickers.png",
px = 71,
py = 95,
}

SMODS.Atlas {
key = "reffs",
path = "Decks.png",
px = 71,
py = 95,
}

-- load common util funcs
assert(SMODS.load_file("globals.lua"))()

-- load all individual cards
local subdir = "cards"
local cards = NFS.getDirectoryItems(SMODS.current_mod.path .. subdir)
for _, filename in pairs(cards) do
assert(SMODS.load_file(subdir .. "/" .. filename))()
end

--favorite card calc
local igo = Game.init_game_object
function Game:init_game_object()
local ret = igo(self)
ret.current_round.most_played_card_amount = 0
return ret
end

function SMODS.current_mod.reset_game_globals(run_start)
if not run_start and G.playing_cards then
for _, c in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
if c.base.times_played > G.GAME.current_round.most_played_card_amount then
G.GAME.current_round.most_played_card_amount = c.base.times_played
end
end
if G.GAME.current_round.most_played_card_amount > 0 then
for _, c in pairs(G.playing_cards) do
if c.base.times_played == G.GAME.current_round.most_played_card_amount then
c:add_sticker('roff_favorite', true)
elseif c.ability.roff_favorite then
c.ability.roff_favorite = false
end
end
end
end
end

SMODS.current_mod.description_loc_vars = function()
return { background_colour = G.C.CLEAR, text_colour = G.C.WHITE, scale = 1.2 }
end```

[plain apex]

it'd make updating it on github take longer tho cause theres a limit on how many files you can upload at once right?

[primal shoal]

ooh github backups for every joker does sound nice though

[hushed field]

I think it's like 2 gigs at which a free git repo starts throwing up issues, and you're really not likely to reach that due to your code

[long urchin]

not really cuz youd just import the individual joker files right? you wouldnt have to replace everything

[modern kindle]

my mod is at 25g so far

[rapid stag]

bump

[hushed field]

also, I don't think there's a file count limit on git when you commit something

I've had free repos with projects that had 5000+ files and not have it be an issue

[long urchin]

scam

dont click

[plain apex]

damn we got scammers in here lol

[hushed field]

what error was popping up?

[primal shoal]

i mean i separate my types of additions at least

[hushed field]

it sounds like your code is reading in metadata files.

[long urchin]

how do i fix that

[minor magnet]

how to make context.end_of_round trigger only once in g.deck?

[long urchin]

i have holes in my brain

[hushed field]

I have no clue how that popped in there, but just add a check to see if the string ends in .lua

[minor magnet]

if not, just delete that file

[primal shoal]

"and not context.repeition" i think

[long urchin]

girl thats a system file 😭

[hushed field]

I checked the file type out, deleting the file can't work, it's a file mac systems create in a folder while it's open.

[minor magnet]

context.repetition is to see if any cards need to be retriggered, i don't think it's that

[hushed field]

You'll wanna be safe and check for .lua regardless, because this crash could also be something a user can recreate, then

[minor magnet]

oh! just close the folder then

no ok jk

it's an issue with the loader

it's trying to load non-lua files when it shouldn't

[hushed field]

just split the string at the . and check if the final 3 chars in the string are 'lua'

[plain apex]

way i've been updating is just oh im releasing a new update just throwing the entire folder for the mod back in and release it lol

[next timber]

how do i get the chips and mult any given hand should gain when upgraded? or is that just stored in the planets and i gotta do it myself

[long urchin]

im trying to figure out how to check the end of file names and the internet guides are not spelling the answer out like im a third grader how do i do that

[hushed field]

doesn't that kinda defeat the whole purpose of using github?

[hushed field]

lm see if i still do it in kino's code

[minor magnet]

?

[long urchin]

https://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html this dont make too much sense

[crisp coral]

i suppose the purpose here is just to host code

[long urchin]

i think someone mentioned context.repitition?

[long urchin]

yeah this

[red flower]

l_chips and l_mult

[crisp coral]

add context.main_eval

[minor magnet]

ok thanks

[next timber]

awesome thx

[crisp coral]

main_eval is favored over not repetition

[plain apex]

i honestly only used github cause thats like the standard for balatro mods never used github for development before making a balatro mod lol

[hushed field]

yeah fair, the norm for balatro mods is github anyway, so it makes sense from that perspective

I mean, I'm no star at github, but check out the desktop client. It'll not have you upload the files by hand onto the website, and it gives you good access to the simple version management features

[minor magnet]

that isn't working, may be due to it being a deck

[crisp coral]

i suppose, i have no experience working with decks

[hushed field]

I've changed my loading system in Kino so I don't iterate over the files anymore, so I had to check a bit longer. But string.sub(string, 4) == '.lua' should work

[plain apex]

i've made 2 decks but they are just decks that start you with a joker and then play absolutely normally

[hushed field]

also, Kino's file loading isn't super neat (I do keep single files for consumables and other types, and I don't automatically load in helper files yet, or iterate through item types), but the code I copied from Ortalab for loading jokers by string has been a great change. Allows me to re-order the jokers in the collection however I want, and also disable any jokers by just commenting out their key from the file https://github.com/icyethics/Kino/blob/main/Kino.lua

[long urchin]

this resulted in this did i do it wrong

for _, filename in pairs(cards) and string.sub(string, 4) == '.lua' do
    assert(SMODS.load_file(subdir .. "/" .. filename))()
end```

[long urchin]

hmmmm sounds neato

[hushed field]

string in this case should be the variable name. You're combining a for loop and and if statement there, haha

[long urchin]

ah

[hushed field]

string should be filename, and it should be an if statement inside your for loop

[long urchin]

ok so

weird situation

it got one

the other two are from a different mod

there should be 16 jokers here

wait i think i may know

its cuz that file is called DVD.lua, its checking the 4th character specifically for that string and thats the only file that has character 4 beyond as .lua

[graceful magnet]

how do you, make multiple badges, because this errors

[primal shoal]

programming more programming it always more programming

[daring fern]

It should be +1 instead of +2

[graceful magnet]

that literally changed nothing

[daring fern]

What is line 73?

[long urchin]

fixed it :D

[thin anchor]

how would i make a card always have a sticker?

like
a joker always has the eternal sticker

[faint yacht]

Could always force it on via update.

[primal shoal]

if not sticker
give sticker
end

[thin anchor]

i see

[cursive sentinel]

                        card:add_to_deck()
                        G.consumeables:emplace(card)
                        G.GAME.consumeable_buffer = 0

                    return{
                        message = 'Death',
                        colour = G.C.PURPLE,
                        card = card
                    }```

i have how but i would like to add a delay on the first part so it happens at the same time as the return, any clue how?

[minor furnace]

put it inside of an event, probably

[wintry solar]

Just use the ortalab loading instead of the jank folder reading one

It’s ezpz

[long urchin]

how do i do that

[wintry solar]

https://github.com/Eremel/Ortalab/blob/master/objects/jokers.lua

[cursive sentinel]

i try to but then my joker doesn't do anything at all, i think i put it wrongly in the event created

if King == true and Queen == true and Jack == true then
                if #G.consumeables.cards + G.GAME.consumeable_buffer < G.consumeables.config.card_limit then
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        trigger = 'after',
                        delay = 0.8,
                        func = (function()
                            G.GAME.consumeable_buffer = G.GAME.consumeable_buffer + 1
                            local card = create_card (nil, G.consumeables, nil, nil, nil, nil, 'c_death', 'sup')
                            card:add_to_deck()
                            G.consumeables:emplace(card)
                            G.GAME.consumeable_buffer = 0
                            return true
                        end)
                    }))
                    
                    return{
                        message = 'Death',
                        colour = G.C.PURPLE,
                        card = card
                    }
                end
            end

[primal shoal]

are you king, queen, and jack vars defined

[cursive sentinel]

yes, they're not the issue

[primal shoal]

try putting prints in places and check if it actually getting to where you think it is

[cursive sentinel]

when it's not in an event, it works, although the death tarot card is created when hand is played, but then the effect of the return procs after the hand is secured and put into discard pile

thats why i tried adding it into an event

so i could control a common delay (although im not sure itd work either, was from an answer of a previous message of mine advising me to do it)

[primal shoal]

"end)" the extra bracket?

[cursive sentinel]

the ) is for the ( of the opening of the function

there is no syntax error or the game would crash (as it did before i added it)

or they render invalid the event although i have no enough knowledge to detect it

[primal shoal]

again go though it and print every step and check where it going wrong

[cursive sentinel]

i dont know how it would help me as i already know the problem is my event, and i dont understand events to start with

i know the problem is the event, bcs before putting it into an event as is, it worked, and with the event it doesn't, because i dont know how to make a functional event to start with and i don't understand the documentation

[primal shoal]

 
G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after',delay = 0.1,func = function()
                -- caluations and changes
                end
return true end }))
``` i have mind set up like this

[zealous glen]

Has anyone else made a Tag that applies multiple times?

[cursive sentinel]

seems to work! i don't really understand the syntax difference, but i'll take it as is, thanks !

[dense adder]

does soul_pos not work on enhancements?

[next timber]

what do we think of this planet

[primal shoal]

design could be more exotic ig

[next timber]

unfortunately i am not an artist this was my best attempt

[primal shoal]

yeah i feel you there

[zealous glen]

Interesting

[next timber]

the gibberish in the card is in fact a real conscript i am currently teaching myself how to read/write

its never too late to pivot to obelisk

[zealous glen]

Never buy Obelisk

[dense adder]

the biggest flaw gameplay wise is that it would rarely be taken, most people and builds are based on specific hands, and the least played hand can be any of them which could be highcard or flush straight, so too much of a risk to use unless you don't have any other choice, unless obelisk build
in theory its a great add but needs better variability, maybe levels up 2nd or 3rd most played hand a few times.

[ruby delta]

Can anyone check if they know how I can fix this real quick

Oops! The game crashed:
[SMODS _ "src/utils.lua"]:303: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)

[zealous glen]

You need to figure out what passed a bad argument to that function

[thin anchor]

i could redraw it for you if youre not the happiest about it

[marsh radish]

nice mod by breeze

[ruby delta]

It's my joker card and I can't figure it how to fix it

[marsh radish]

he should add a timer to count how many time did your run last

like a timer

[glass scaffold]

Aren't there mods that add an in-game timer?

[next timber]

this seems like a lot but idk

[glass scaffold]

now you're thinking with portals

[thin anchor]

wheaties

[dense adder]

oh no that was just an idea, only go with one of those options, thats way too powerful, just keep game balance in mind and what would be weak

[next timber]

i mean i could make it upgrade by 3,2,1 levels, that seems pretty fair assuming you dont get it early game, i can probably make it not show up until you have a hand youve played a lot or smth

[thin anchor]

just a silly thought but
maybe you could upgrade the least (or 2nd (or 3rd)) played hand by how many times you used the planet

[dense adder]

oh thats good

[next timber]

update 2 least used hands by their amount of uses?

that seems balancedish idk

[thin anchor]

yeah maybe

[dense adder]

maybe make it degrading, where the more you use it the less you get so it will either uprgrade your lowest played, 2nd most, or 3rd most, but it goes from 6 and lowers by 1 each time used until it stops at 1

[thin anchor]

update the graphic to have little people mining the planet :trol:

[next timber]

i dont wanna mess with the art too much because avalon is a preestablished fictional planet made by not me

lol

[thin anchor]

i was just half-jokering

lmao

[next timber]

lol

[thin anchor]

wait i typed jokering
balatro brainrot i didnt mean to type that

[next timber]

lmao

[scarlet thorn]

There is probably a point where wider is better than taller, and I think this crossed it

[next timber]

lmao

yes i agree

[peak obsidian]

graphic is a placeholder

[next timber]

but the effect is still a wip so

[next timber]

ante 1 0 heiroglyph:

[scarlet thorn]

I think just drop the 3rd least

[dense adder]

this is good

[next timber]

yeah its neat

ok. upgrade least used by 5, upgrade second least used by 3
is that fair

im getting so many conflicting suggestions

[thin anchor]

what if ante went down by 0.1 every ~60 seconds youre scoring cards
silly idea i know

[gilded goblet]

placeholder?? this looks amazing

[next timber]

"yo what ante did you make it to"
"13.2"
"what"

[gilded goblet]

big things are happening at #💻・modding-dev

[thin anchor]

lol

[runic pecan]

Just came up a stupid way to detect if you have any chance joker:

1. Save G.GAME.probability.normal to a local variable;
2. Set G.GAME.probability.normal to a very particular and peculiar value;
3. for _,J in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
   3a. Get the return table from J's loc_vars function;
   3b. Check if vars of the returned table contains a very particular and peculiar value;
4. Set G.GAME.probability.normal back to its original value.
   ...Yes, I'm asking for a better method. Please help.

[next timber]

alternatively, dothat method but just check if the jokers values change when you change probability.normal

[peak obsidian]

its an edited version of the blueprint background, i plan on making something original and different for it

[scarlet thorn]

What specifically are you trying to do with it

[gilded goblet]

oh okay

[dense adder]

does anyone know how to get those black bars to show up over the card for enhancements, as soul_pos does not function with enhancements

[runic pecan]

"...if you have any chance joker"
More specifically: any joker that has "1 in N chance" in its description.

[next timber]

youtube drama thumbnail enhancement..

[dense adder]

lmao, the REDACTED enhancment

[runic pecan]

I'd recommend SMODS.Sticker.

[next timber]

just.. check the description for "chance"?

[dense adder]

yeah i thought about doing so.. wait that actually better for what it does

[runic pecan]

What if they're not in en-us?

[next timber]

true

[zealous glen]

You can apply the sprite at a separate step

[scarlet thorn]

Good luck then

Or well

[zealous glen]

Pause the game; send the game to some person; that person decides; unpause the game

[dense adder]

yeah im having trouble with that bit, not finding any documentation for set_sprites

[scarlet thorn]

Have a 1d table with a list of joker keys that you consider to be a chance joker. @runic pecan. Include any jokers from mods you want to support too

What mods do you have installed? NVM you said on joker

[runic pecan]

So it's like an ore dictionary

[scarlet thorn]

Show the code for your joker

[scarlet thorn]

Ye

[runic pecan]

What in the F did your joker do?

[modern kindle]

is there a reliable way i could go about making a tarot card that grabs the levels from the most played hand and the second most played hand
then divides the number by 2 and applies those levels and values normally to a hand?

as an example, you have full house which has 50 levels
you use tarot card, it sees you have 10 levels in 4 of a kind

it then divides the 50 levels of full house by 2 (25) and add those 25 to 4 of a kind while setting full house back down to 1 (including its chips and mult, while adding the respective chips and mult to 4 of a kind)

[scarlet thorn]

We're about to see....

[zealous glen]

Yes

[modern kindle]

assist me great vic

[ruby delta]

Sorry if I am disturbing you

[zealous glen]

You can check each hand to see which one is the most used

[terse marsh]

how can i get the context for a hand after its scoring

im trying to recreate a joker similar to flower pot but only with 3 hand colors

[runic pecan]

That is some Whitehole-level shenanigan, wow.

[scarlet thorn]

AFAIK flower pot uses context.joker_main

[runic pecan]

I guess your main bottleneck is to find the second-most played hand?

[modern kindle]

my main bottleneck has appeared to be in restoring the values properly

[runic pecan]

Oof, let me guess: you also got Talisman installed, didn't you?

[modern kindle]

sure so

do*

my mod is compat with and without talisman

which, has been a menace

as a showcase (ignore the text and the cryptid palceholder)

it does remove the levels visually, but the chips remain instead of resetting to their default values, or increasing for the respective hand it went to

[limber blaze]

the main way i would go about this is creating helper functions that check if talisman exists and use bignum functions otherwise use the built in one

[dense adder]

shit, what is good recording software there is no words to describe this issue, i got set_sprite working a bit

[modern kindle]

well ive already got that, which is not my issue

[scarlet thorn]

obs

[peak obsidian]

new clockwork deck graphic, pretty proud of how this came out

[terse marsh]

ik im asking lots of dumb questions but how can i get the length of the hand played so i can iterate thru it lol

any tips on what im doing wrong

[rapid stag]

bump

[terse marsh]

keep getting the error for the for loop for the suits

but im not too sure what to replace the context.scoring_hand with

[tired silo]

anyone know how I can programmatically move a joker left/right in the order? Can't find it in the game code

[runic pecan]

SMODS.Suits is a list that contains all in-game suits. You should try that.

[terse marsh]

well im asking about iterating through the hand

[broken rivet]

is there documentation of smod anywhere

[limber blaze]

#context.scoring_hand

# is the length operator in lua which gets the length of whatever table you put after it

[terse marsh]

thank you

[rapid stag]

in my experience, it produces incorrect values when the table is key-based

[broken rivet]

yeah it ignores non-numeric keys

[limber blaze]

yeah it can be weird but itll be fine for scoring hand

but you can just do for i, v in pairs(table) in this context anyway

[minor furnace]

Now make it orange

[dense adder]

shit video didnt work let me do that again

        card.children.floating_sprite_vic_belt = Sprite(card.T.x, card.T.y, card.T.w, card.T.h,
                G.ASSET_ATLAS[card.config.center.atlas], {
                    x = 5,
                    y = 0
                })
              
        card.children.floating_sprite_vic_belt.role.draw_major = card
        card.children.floating_sprite_vic_belt.states.hover.can = false
        card.children.floating_sprite_vic_belt.states.click.can = false

[broken rivet]

also i really need this because i do not want to have to look through balatro's source code constantly if i ever want to make mods

[tired silo]

To move jokers left/right do I just iterate through G.jokers.cards and change their order?

[terse marsh]

even when i play a hand with 3 suits it isnt scoring my guess is im doing something wrong in the second for loop is there some lua syntax im fuckng up

[limber blaze]

yes

[terse marsh]

im not super familiar w lua lol

[glass scaffold]

I've never touched Lua, I came from Java

[terse marsh]

me too LOL

[terse marsh]

^

[thick panther]

Is there an easy way to add a full suit (2 - Ace) to a deck?

[open aspen]

is there a default prefix for consumables like there is for jokers

eg how the key for a joker if using debugplus for example, would be "j_modprefix_jokername"

[zealous glen]

Yes

[open aspen]

is it c_

i assume it would be c_

[thick panther]

How would I create a Playing Card using SMODS.create_card?

[dense adder]

Anyone familiar with set_sprites help me understand why the sprite will be set in the last place it was dragged to and not centered on the card

        card.children.redacted = Sprite(card.T.x, card.T.y, card.T.w, card.T.h,
                G.ASSET_ATLAS[card.config.center.atlas], {
                    x = 5,
                    y = 0
                })
        
        --card.children.redacted.role.draw_major = card
        --card.children.redacted.role.role_type = 'Glued'
        card.children.redacted.states.drag.can = false
        card.children.redacted.states.hover.can = true
        card.children.redacted.states.click.can = false
    end```

[zealous glen]

You wouldn't

[thick panther]

Then, how would I add a specific playing card to the deck?

[zealous glen]

create_playing_card

[chrome widget]

What's the most effective way to force a UI box to render below another if you can't guarantee the order they're created in?

[red flower]

draw_layer = 1

in the one that has to go above

[chrome widget]

Hmm, can I set to force one to go below?

[red flower]

never tried it

[chrome widget]

I'm creating something that's supposed to tuck behind the shop UI, and I don't want to risk redefining the shop UI because doing so would result in a reroll of the items in it

I could patch it, but I try to make patches a last resort

[terse marsh]

Joker still wont score and im not too sure why

[coral oasis]

So I've never modded a game before, but I had an idea for a joker and I'm not even sure how to go about making it. Basically it'll be like madness, but for food jokers only. I called it Hungry joker. Instead of a base Xmult added every time it destroys a joker it would take the value the food joker currently has. When the food gets sold, or in this case eaten it would be added to the Hungry joker. For example you could sell popcorn, ramen and ice cream, and it could have values such as: +16 mult, X1.29 mult, and +65 chips. I would probably exclude things like bean because that could get ridiculous. Any points on where I should start, or if that's even possible?

[long urchin]

how do i update the pos value in a context

[coral oasis]

Might tweak it for balancing, so it can only "eat" a food joker once an ante or something, I'm not sure yet.

[modern kindle]

hi winter :D

[high sinew]

My imaging is acting up in my mod does the file for my joker look right? i gave one ex of how I am doing it for files

[wintry solar]

has anyone tried modifying the colours used in start_dissolve? My testing doesn't appear to be doing anything

[red flower]

wdym, it doesn't change colors at all?

[wintry solar]

yeah they just stay as the default

materialize works fine though 🤔

[red flower]

works for me, unless you're talking about something else

[scarlet thorn]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/API-Documentation

[wintry solar]

this is supposed to be blue :/

[scarlet thorn]

show where you define the atlas

[scarlet thorn]

what part of that

[scarlet thorn]

card:start_dissolve({COLOR})

[wintry solar]

yes I know how it works...

I'm just saying it doesn't

[scarlet thorn]

What colors are you passing to it

[wintry solar]

it doesn't matter what colours I pass

it always plays the default

[red flower]

something else might be messing with it

[wintry solar]

weird

[scarlet thorn]

Works for me too.

Show how you're calling it

[scarlet thorn]

What does the pepper_jokers atlas look like, and how do you register it

[high sinew]

i figured it out

quick question how do i have a joker not be able to show up in shop if its an upgrade of another joker like cavendish?

[scarlet thorn]

define in_pool or add yes or no flags

[broken rivet]

nice, ty

[red flower]

i hate that it goes out the screen u.u

[zealous glen]

If you just care about vanilla Jokers and not modded Jokers it's possible

[modern kindle]

I've been trying to figure out how to move info queues down on some cases, best I did was make infoqueue switch sides based on the jokers position in the jokers area

[zealous glen]

I could try to help move it based on position, but Idk how you could do it dynamically

and by try I mean ping aure because they did it for collection Jokers IIRC

[red flower]

it's easy based on the card's position but i have to figure out how to do it based on the description box's position

and also make it look nice because i think on the top, bottom and right side would look ugly

[wintry solar]

🤯 I don't understand

[red flower]

cursed

[high sinew]

ok ber

[wintry solar]

it jsut... ignores my arguments

[scarlet thorn]

What mods are installed?

It could be the case that one of them redefine the function in their own files

Ive had that issue with cryptid

[wintry solar]

none of them touch start dissolve, please stop acting like I don't know what I'm doing

I can still make this work without this though 🥳

[scarlet thorn]

You are asking for help in a public forum. Asking what mods you have is a very normal thing when vanilla features arent working.

My other 2 messages are not only for you to read, anyone who looks here and maybe searches for their issue of start_dissolve will see them, and know that those issues can occure.

[modern kindle]

even if they were just for him, something working immediately for 2 others and not himself would imply an error regarding his setup alone

[rapid stag]

bump

[wintry solar]

cool it works

[scarlet thorn]

context.card.base has some playing card specific values

Could also check what the card's area is

[high sinew]

the joker displays the mult twice first from calulation and in red saying "+5 Mult" then again in gold "+5 Mult" why is that?

[scarlet thorn]

Are you removing a joker and replacing it with this one, or are you just specifically spawning this one

[high sinew]

yea they get replaced by jokers

but the jokers are displaying mult twice

[scarlet thorn]

is the joker count correct? like the X/5

Ive had issues in the past where I "removed" a joker but all it did was delete the rendering, so it was still being calculated

[high sinew]

yea the count for all joker is currently right but i just dont want when triggered to show up twice

its showing up two times rn

[wintry solar]

remove the message from your return table

[scarlet thorn]

Oh yea, mult has a message of itself. No need for your own, unless you want to replace the default one

[red flower]

this could probably look a bit better but its nicer

[high sinew]

ok bet

[modern kindle]

Now how did you manage that because I must steal it

[red flower]

im still deciding how to patch it/hook it so it only works with my jokers (i think this function doesnt have the card info) but i just replaced this

[modern kindle]

Huh, interesting
Thanks!
I have a joker who's info does not like staying visible

[maiden phoenix]

Smh Eremel just read the docs

[thin anchor]

where is the deck code located

nevermind found it

[hard flume]

I'm thinking of picking this up again

Just need to think of new mechanics I can focus on

[cinder light]

Hey, um how would I change the probability for just one thing, say I want a joker to add better chance for lucky cards to trigger and only that

[scarlet thorn]

You would need to modify how the lucky card gets its probabilities

Like say, patch this to replace G.GAME.probabilities.normal with your own variable

[cinder light]

alright, just curious then, what file is that in the 7zip

[wintry solar]

this effect looks okay or should I make the balanced text appear under the joker by default instead?

@zealous glen I think you were someone who was interested in this beign bundled

[scarlet thorn]

Huh?

Oh.

Card.lua

Line 1317

For mult, its the same file, line 1228

[red flower]

i think the joker should at least juice up

[hard flume]

Should I work on Jokers for the Bells and Whistles suits? Or should I add Card Genders first?

[formal parrot]

Bells ? Suit

🥖

[wintry solar]

oh it should definitely do that, I forget that the standard juice comes from the message

[cinder light]

I'm not seeing the same code as the one you sent

[scarlet thorn]

What do you see?

[red flower]

hmm

cursed right aligned infotip

[scarlet thorn]

And are you looking in steammodded? because that code isnt from that. its from the base game

[thin anchor]

god dammit

[scarlet thorn]

1x moment

[thin anchor]

so true

[cinder light]

yeah its card.lua from the 7zip of Balatro

[scarlet thorn]

Hit control+f and type Lucky Card

I think i might've formatted my file, and the line numbers are all outta wack

[cinder light]

oh okay I found it that way

im trying to change the probabilities of glass cards breaking, can I do that with something similar to this?

[thin anchor]

how would i convert a joker's rarity to a value

[wintry solar]

@red flower I think I prefer it like this, thoughts?

[red flower]

ohh that looks nicer yeah

[dense adder]

does anyone know how to make sure that the set_sprites stays in the same position as the main card
heres my most up to date code

    set_sprites = function(self, card, front)
          pos = get_front_spriteinfo(card)
          card.children.redacted = Sprite(card.T.x, card.T.y, card.T.w, card.T.h, card.T.r,
                  G.ASSET_ATLAS[card.config.center.atlas], {
                      x = 5,
                      y = 0
                  },pos) or card.set
          
          card.children.redacted.role.draw_major = card
          card.children.redacted.states.drag.can = false
          card.children.redacted.states.hover.can = false
          card.children.redacted.states.click.can = false
          
          return
    end

[scarlet thorn]

Rarity in vanilla is already a value. 1,2,3,4. Mods on the other hand are strings

[thin anchor]

oh

just need to figure out how to get their values

[daring fern]

card.config.center.rarity

[thin anchor]

ok

[zealous glen]

Kinda though I had my patch for it (and I always use it at the same timing as Plasma)

[high sinew]

trying to figure out how to do exponential mult

rn it displays +0 for total mult should be 100 and then it squares it but ERROR shows whe calcs but doesnt crash

[daring fern]

Do you have talisman?

[high sinew]

i do

is that the way?

[formal parrot]

Yes talisman has built in exponential mult

[high sinew]

ok bet

[thin anchor]

err

never made a deck before so im confused

would i replace card with deck?

[tired silo]

How do I get an unique ID for a joker? I see card has get_id() but that doesn't seem to be unique

[zealous glen]

I think you'd need to make one

[sullen fern]

how do i specifically make it do only modded seals

[high sinew]

@daring fern does this look right for how I wrote the tailsman code? i have it impleted now for game but seems its not applying still

[daring fern]

You don’t need to to_big() every number

[sullen fern]

no vanilla, just modded

[tired silo]

There has to be some kind of unique id, considering jokers can be duped

[zealous glen]

Oh do you mean like the key?

[tired silo]

yea

is it just card.key?

[daring fern]

Get a random seal key that has 2 underscores

[zealous glen]

It's not unique per instance of a card but it's unique for all of the same Joker

[sullen fern]

what?

[zealous glen]

card.config.center.key I believe is the easiest way to access it from a Card

[tired silo]

Can you elaborate on this? Could I use the key to correctly identify any given joker in my hand?

[sullen fern]

elaborate please

[thin anchor]

help?

[zealous glen]

You can use Invisible Joker to duplicate a Joker; both would have the same key

[tired silo]

hmm that won't do. While I have you, is there any way to go in the reverse direction? Get a card from it's key?

[daring fern]

Get a pseudorandom_element of G.P_SEALS and check if the key has more than 1 underscore

[sullen fern]

i see.

[zealous glen]

You can create a card given a key, and you can count how many cards have a given key

[sullen fern]

so how would i do that

[tired silo]

Could I get the card name from a key without creating a copy?

[zealous glen]

Yes

[tired silo]

Cool. Happen to know the syntax for that? I appreicate all the help btw

[sullen fern]

how do i make a psuedorandom like that again

[zealous glen]

I think there's some argument to localize that would return the name associated with a given key in the current localization

I'm not sure which

[sullen fern]

because if i know how to make a card create only modded objects then i can do it for other desired object types like jokers and consumables

[high sinew]

still giving an error without to_big on it

[daring fern]

What’s the error?

[high sinew]

when carolina reaper activates card literally says ERROR

[red flower]

localize({ type = 'name_text', set = card.set, key = card.key })

[high sinew]

game doesnt crash

[sullen fern]

because

[tired silo]

thank you

[tired silo]

So I need both the key and the set

(only need this function for jokers)

[zealous glen]

The set would be Joker then

[tired silo]

ah okay

[sullen fern]

why’d you reply to me

[daring fern]

pseudorandom_element(G.P_SEALS, psuedoseed(‘seed’))

[tired silo]

misclick

[zealous glen]

why are puyos killing god

[neat plover]

anyone know why this shit aint workie?
effect should be: When buying a Joker leaves no empty Joker Slots, this Joker gains x0.25 Mult.

[sullen fern]

i dont know

[sullen fern]

so like this?

[daring fern]

You need to check if it has 2 or more underscores

[sullen fern]

hm

would that be an if statement thing or

[neat plover]

cause it aint workie rn

[runic pecan]

Why is this sticker not sticking?

[sullen fern]

yeah but how do i do that

[formal parrot]

Omg i love your pfp

[sullen fern]

thank you, i made it in emo maker 2000

[tired silo]

card.ID is unique even for duplicate cards/jokers?

[sullen fern]

like, how do i tell the game to check for keys with 2 or more underscores

[daring fern]

Try putting it in a while loop checking if pseudorandom:gsub("_","") < 2

[sullen fern]

what kind of loop would it be

[glad osprey]

how do I allow a card to show up again like showman does

[faint yacht]

In in_pool, return true, { allow_duplicates = true }.

[sullen fern]

where exactly do i put this loop

my code btw

[glad osprey]

how do i use this tho

like

make other cards do that

[high sinew]

idk if im still not doing this right can someone help?

[thin anchor]

is this right for a deck?

[faint yacht]

Other cards? Not... sure about that, actually, oop. 💀

[thin anchor]

this channel is so dead

[red flower]

F

[rapid stag]

i don't think pseudorandom() exists yet at that point in runtime i was wondering why it wasn't proccing and tried printing a pseudorandom() result to no effect

[red flower]

im pretty sure it should exist at that point

[thin anchor]

double stonk

[rapid stag]

then why does this not work? nothing is output into the console. not even an empty line. just no print at all

wait

it did it way later

what

[red flower]

is the pattern unique

[rapid stag]

no. it gets 2 matches

[red flower]

you might need to change the pattern then or change times to 2

[rapid stag]

well without the check for the pseudorandom value, it does it just fine. the pseudorandom check seems to be the weird point

wait no, it does it at the right time, i just wasn't paying attention

[sullen fern]

still need an answer to this

[rapid stag]

i am just astronomically unlucky with it it seems

[red flower]

i have failed many 1 in 4s while testing lol

[slate bison]

anyone have the link for the steammodded documentation talking about changing text colour in game?

or where is it in the documentation

[rapid stag]

what kind of text? like in loc_txt?

{s:1,C:white} type stuff?

[thin anchor]

is this right for a deck? trying to make it so it gives money based on the rarities of all your jokers

[red flower]

like this? https://github.com/Breezebuilder/Steamodded-Wiki/wiki/Text-Styling

[slate bison]

exactlyyy

thank u

[chrome widget]

Is there a way to edit the draw layer of an existing UI element?

I'm trying to parse the UI code because I need to bring the shop UI front one layer, but it seems there's some nesting here I don't understand

Attempting to set my own UI to -1 or such doesn't seem to draw it behind the shop

[red flower]

i dont know if this works because im not on my pc but i would try

local choices = {}
for k, v in pairs(G.P_SEALS) do
    if v.mod then
        choices[#choices+1] = v.key
    end
end
local random_seal = pseudorandom_element(choices, pseudoseed("seed"))

[sullen fern]

where would i put it

[red flower]

just before conv_card and then use random_seal inside set_seal

[sullen fern]

i see

can you give a little pointer to where exactly you're talking about

[red flower]

you can do it anywhere inside the for loop before the second event

[sullen fern]

ah, i see

[wintry solar]

hmmmmm

[scarlet spire]

oh?? default implementation for +selection limit?

weird question. can it go below 5

[faint yacht]

Should.

[sullen fern]

so like this

[wintry solar]

yeah, hand limit is capped at 1 and discard at 0

[sullen fern]

i forgot to reply to the message, fuck

[red flower]

yes but "random_seal" shouldn't have quotes

[scarlet spire]

discarding 0 cards...

[sullen fern]

yeah i figured that out immediatley

[tall apex]

you are on that weak shit, behold. DISCARDING JOKERS

https://tenor.com/view/brain-brain-meme-big-brain-big-brain-meme-big-brain-time-gif-2441110471562975014

[scarlet spire]

I assume the discard button being frozen if you manage to discard 0 cards is fixed in that case, then

[scarlet spire]

implement this now

[thin anchor]

help

[tall apex]

unironically trying to

[tall apex]

behold my biblical angel and weep as your game crashes :3

[reef belfry]

Discard a chicot to draw a raised fist

[wintry solar]

what does this mean

[faint yacht]

That should go in a calculate, much like a Joker would have one.

[thin anchor]

so like this

[sullen fern]

behold.

[faint yacht]

SMODS.Back{
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        ...
    end
}

[thin anchor]

thanks

[sullen fern]

i can pretty much do the same with enhancements and editions, right?

[scarlet spire]

I've encountered scenarios in my own mod where, if the discard_cards_from_highlighted function is called with no selected cards, it freezes up and never lets you discard for that round again because there's no built-in case for that (for obvious reasons)

[sullen fern]

this but like, enhancments and editions

[scarlet spire]

unless the discard button is completely disabled when you set the discard cap to 0, in which case this doesn't matter at all

[wintry solar]

the game has a check to see if you have cards highlighted built in, you must have called the function wrong

but yes, the buttons are disabled if the cap is 0

[scarlet spire]

in this case the discard button was doing it, I was just deselecting specific cards before the function was called but after the button was pressed (which works fine outside of this case)
I think the issue is that the function seemingly sets a bunch of UI stuff, but if the check for highlighted cards fails, the function never resets those values iirc, it only does so if you have highlighted cards and the check is successful

[paper zealot]

I believe UI is rendered per-frame according to the the contents of the G.I table, in the following order:

• G.I.NODE
• G.I.MOVEABLE
• G.I.UIBOX
• G.I.CARDAREA
• G.I.CARD
• G.I.UI_BOX
• G.I.ALERT
• G.I.POPUP
  You can control which "layer" your UI element gets put into by setting config.instance_type to a string of the table you want it to be placed within when it's created, by

config = {
    instance_type = 'ALERT'
}
```To change the rendering order of a UI Element *after* it's been created, you'd have to remove it from the relevant `G.I` table and re-add it to another one, which would be messy and potentially require you to deal with some weird edge cases

[thin anchor]

ok so

[wintry solar]

interestingly, the discard pile has a limit of 500 and stops you discarding if its full

[faint yacht]

The apply shouldn't be there at all.

[thin anchor]

oh

[wintry solar]

the cardarea check is also redundant

[red flower]

this is probably going to crash for any modded rarity

[sullen fern]

does conv_card work for editions and and enhancements too

[scarlet spire]

actually I'm not even sure this is true, I just know that if you discard, and the whole hand is deselected before the discard carries out, the discard button breaks
obviously this isn't really a bug because this only happens with absurd patching, but still

[thin anchor]

i believe this is correct

[thin anchor]

ok no it isnt

[chrome widget]

Ugh damn

[wintry solar]

UI layering is difficult

[sullen fern]

would this just be set_enhancement

[faint yacht]

self.config > card.ability ?

[red flower]

set_ability for enhancements
set_edition for editions

[tall apex]

winter i have a very ambitious idea if you wanna help me commit balatrocities and wanna help me learn to code :3

[paper zealot]

There are also some sneaky tricks you can pull. If you set self.attention_text to any string on a UIBox element, it's rendered last within that layer - you could try putting your custom UI on the same layer as the shop, then setting attention_text on the shop HUD as needed?

[tall apex]

i asked keku but they didn't know what to do besides pointing me in the direction of hooks

[chrome widget]

Gimme a second to show my fundamental problem. It's functionally really minor and it annoys me that the skills required to fix it are so big

[sullen fern]

so that means it would be G.P_ABILITY

[red flower]

no, enhancements are in G.P_CENTERS

[sullen fern]

so it would be this then

[red flower]

you need to check if the value is an enhancement or the list will have modded jokers and consumables too

also pls format the code : (

[thin anchor]

question mark?????

[chrome widget]

Here's the issue. I have a UI area in addition to the shop that is currently created during the voucher redeem screen, which means that it must be created after a shop already exists, and therefore layers overtop the shop. But the actual definition of it (and indeed the regular code for loading the shop) involves it appearing behind the so it looks like a little drawer

The main reason it's such an issue is because unlike all the other shop areas, this one persists across shops, so I have to do some weirder stuff than the rest of the UI which is always destroyed and then recreated with new cards

[paper zealot]

I reckon you can just set config.instance_type to 'MOVEABLE' or 'NODE' when you create the drawer, that should be enough

[chrome widget]

So it's probably easier to just create it as usual with the shop and keep it invisible until I need it, but I'm already running into issues with serialization of a new cardarea for save/load that it's displaying because it doesn't work like any of the regular cardareas in the game in that regard

[red flower]

silly question, cant you create it before the shop and hide it

[sullen fern]

formatted.

[sullen fern]

anyways, how would i check for that

[red flower]

i think it's v.set == 'Enhanced'

[thin anchor]

i am going insane

[red flower]

no you're not

[red flower]

yeah

[sullen fern]

alright.

[paper zealot]

There *is * a slight cost penalty for creating UIs with state.visible set false, since they're still added to the G.I table and iterated on every frame, but that UI looks like it would only have 4 or 5 nodes at most, so the performance impact would be pretty negligible.

[chrome widget]

Probably, yeah. It's not a super complex UI

[faint yacht]

Is the money being given tied to end of a round or something?

[red flower]

people play with jokerdisplay which creates 5 UIboxes per joker it's fine

[sullen fern]

what?

why can't i use it

[paper zealot]

Just try setting instance_type = 'MOVEABLE' on it first, i'm curious about the result

[chrome widget]

Lemme see.....4

[sullen fern]

shit i forgot to add config = { max_highlighted = 2 },

[chrome widget]

    definition = G.UIDEF.morshu_save(),
    config = {align='tmi', instance_type = 'NODE', offset = {x=7.3,y=G.ROOM.T.y+10}, major = G.hand, bond = 'Weak'}
}```

Just like this?

[paper zealot]

Any chance of cutting that number down a smidge? JokerDisplay does have a noticeable performance impact with more than 10 Jokers

[thin anchor]

is this right

[sullen fern]

nope i still can't use it

[rapid stag]

how can i get these juice_up()s to happen in sequence and not simultaneously

[chrome widget]

👀

We're in business

[red flower]

the reason it's that way is that I found that deleting the boxes had some kind of memory leak so i opted for not doing that and hiding them

i will probably not come back to jokerdisplay for a long while tho

[chrome widget]

Now I just have to figure out why the game is being annoying and failing to recreate the UI on reload

[sullen fern]

any reason why this could be the case?

[thin anchor]

rope, bombs? you want it? its yours my friend, as long as you have enough rupees

[chrome widget]

Yep yep, that's the gag

It allows you to save a card that persists to the next shop

[thin anchor]

ha. ha.

[chrome widget]

You come back when you're a little
mmmmmmmmm
richer

[rapid stag]

actually, these timings are completely wrong altogether. it needs to be on the 'upgrade!', first the blueprint, then the other one.

do i have to use a func in the return table for this

[sullen fern]

i don't think that anything is wrong...

[thin anchor]

what does this mean

[high sinew]

The exponential mult still isnt working for some reason I have tailsman on and it just keeps crashing can anyone help?

[rapid stag]

ok so an event wrapper in the return table func is the closest to the correct timing i can get it, but for some reason it's 1 late i don't understand how the event queue is achieving this.

[sullen fern]

does anyone know why it's not letting me use the card even though all the code is correct

[rapid stag]

any insight? left, how i changed blueprint - right, code for the joker to its right

[tall apex]

so um, i wanted to ask, do people occasionally use llms to help them code? my college gives me access to one and idk if i should try to learn lua with it

[proud moon]

as a tool for learning they work great, in my opinion. Its what ive used for other coding languages

[sturdy compass]

As for generating code, not really

[tall apex]

hm, okay ill give it a shot, as an artist im naturally repelled by them as far as image generation but i think using it to help learn a new skill isn't so bad

[wintry solar]

What is this supposed to do?

[proud moon]

yea its great for shortcuts and learning, but its only good for shortcuts if you know what you are already doing, its not the best at solving problems past syntax. At least, i think.

[rapid stag]

essentially - if the joker being copied is going to put the return message on the card ala hiker, do not override the return message target or colour and juice_up() the joker on the message timing instead
but as you can see in the clip, it's 1 event late in the queue for some reason

[stark geode]

Time to setup my balatro modding computer

Because my other one died

[tall apex]

i toyed around with it by asking a challenging mod for it to make, and it certanly generated code, as far as troubleshooting it, idk what im doing, but it was fun to toy around with and i think is only as useful as your skill level and comprehension of game mechanics :3

[stark geode]

Arch Linux go brrr

[tall apex]

.,,,, don't ask how complex one of my jokers is

[tall apex]

linxus

[proud moon]

how complex is one of your jokers

[tall apex]

I'm trying to make a joker that actually just replaces the background with the entirety of mario 64, and gives you mult based on your stars and money on course clear

[stark geode]

Doesn't help that the other laptop I was using to make Bali mods was my school pc but it died and I cant get my old trick to work that got lovely running on my new one

[tall apex]

im a little shitter and i like mario 64 sue me

[sturdy compass]

Rip school pc

[stark geode]

The screen died

[tall apex]

it'd also be cool if the mult carried over between runs, since mario 64 uses save files you can preserve that data

[stark geode]

Now I'm setting up a Linux shit box to go back to making mods

[tall apex]

i hope

..,,, anyways im gonna make a joker that gives -4 mult

[sturdy compass]

I love making a system out of random parts laying around

[wintry solar]

This should all be handled for you, your code looks to over complicate it massively

[proud moon]

wh
why. or rather, how? is this even possible?

[rapid stag]

it's because that wasn't happening, that i'm doing this.

[stark geode]

It's a laptop I bought of a friend for 85 dollars

I think I overpaid lol

[sturdy compass]

Holy shitbox lmao

[proud moon]

downright dubious

[stark geode]

Idk if it'll run balatro tbh

[tall apex]

idk but its gonna be funny if i do ever get it to work, rn i have the emulator core and the .z64 sitting in my balatro mod X3

[sturdy compass]

A potato sounds better 😭

[stark geode]

Hopefully arch can give it all the horsepower it needs

[proud moon]

i wish you the best of luck, ur gonna need it

[tall apex]

my silly knows no bounds, i will become an expert lua coder for the bit

[stark geode]

Lua is so wierd

[glad osprey]

balareo

[sturdy compass]

batro

[stark geode]

As someone whos first language was python

[tall apex]

balalo :3

[wintry solar]

I’m not at my pc right now, but can you show me what the problem is without your take ownership being in place?

[tall apex]

thanks a bunch :3

[sturdy compass]

Python is weirder imo

[stark geode]

Joker poker balala

[tall apex]

jonlker ponkler

[glad osprey]

good lord it's my evil counterpart

[sturdy compass]

Oh shit

[stark geode]

Maybe my problem isn't Lua, but smods and balatro

[stark geode]

A rival stand user???

[sturdy compass]

Lua is still a weird language tho don't get me wrong

[stark geode]

-# I know nothing about jojos

[glad osprey]

no you are perkeo

i am chicot

[tall apex]

im cleo c:

[rapid stag]

this is what happens without my take_ownership() or the func return in the second joker:

[tall apex]

ERM ACTUALLY ITS AN ENEMY STAND USER??? RIVALRY IS CHILDIKSH AND STAND USERS FACE A VERY REAL LIFE OR DEATH SCENEREO WHEN APPROACHED BY AN OPPONETNT

[wintry solar]

Can I see the joker code?

[proud moon]

this scared me lmao, the text shifted my whole screen

[rapid stag]

all of the joker?

[tall apex]

sorry a;lskgasdl;jg;alsdg

[wintry solar]

Just the calculate function

[sturdy compass]

I’m astra :D

[stark geode]

Rival stand user is acting like a Roffel chat member

[rapid stag]

how's this

[tall apex]

-# sorry im deleting that i dont wanna overshadow nope's code

-# but funny cat flop

[wintry solar]

I think it just needs no card = or if that doesn’t work change it to message_card =

The individual context should default messages onto the playing cards

[rapid stag]

without card =, the message defaults onto the joker.

but yes, message_card was my panacea, thanks

and then of course, i just put that all in an extra table to prevent blueprint/brainstorm overriding the colour. very cool

[wintry solar]

If you are bothered about the colour, sure

[glass scaffold]

wait what mod allows you to drag-click

[sullen fern]

does anyone know why i can't use my card?

[rapid stag]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1270746376312979456

[wind steppe]

does anyone know how to implement a booster pack?

steamodded documentation isn't saying much about how to put things in it

[rapid stag]

actually, question about extra.
if i returned the table

{
  extra = { message = "Test B" },
  message = "Test A"
}

which order do the messages appear in
or does that not work like that

[red flower]

it should be A then B

[rapid stag]

that was my thinking too

[red flower]

i have a system in my mod that just appends a bunch of extras together and it works like that

[rapid stag]

you can nest extras...?

[red flower]

yes

[rapid stag]

oh my god

[unborn bay]

nesting extra tables is very useful

and that reminds me i need to account for that somehow while making my own extra nesting system

[rapid stag]

so how does balatro parse the return table then?
does it look through the table at everything but the extra, then recursively calls whatever handles the return table with the extra?

[red flower]

i can show you my code for that

[unborn bay]

please 🙏

[red flower]

it's pretty simple
https://github.com/nh6574/JoyousSpring/blob/ad8d37887e4f6cc7f4ab569e2667451e578f71d7/src/effects.lua#L483

the only thing this doesn't account for is returning something like true because I don't care about vanilla jokers

[manic rune]

after 2 weeks i only got 6 jokers done

🥀

[unborn bay]

currently all it does it this, with the input being a list of effect return tables

-- Recursively create an extra table for each returned effect table
function PTASaka.recursive_extra(table_return_table, index)
    local ret = table_return_table[index]
    if index <= #table_return_table then
        --local extra = PTASaka.get_extra_table_for_ret(ret, ret.extra)
        ret.extra = PTASaka.recursive_extra(table_return_table, index + 1)
    end
    --if ret ~= nil and index == 1 then print(ret) end
    return ret
end

the commented out line before setting ret.extra was my feeble attempt at handling existing extra tables (and failed)

[rapid stag]

anyway, did anyone prescribe nightmares

[unborn bay]

why is she negative 😭

[sullen fern]

still wondering about this

[pulsar gull]

hi, i have kinda little experience with coding and im trying to make a joker mod, does someone have an idea how do i make my joker activate every time the score gain alternates between chips and mult?

[sullen fern]

because this shit is driving me up the wall

why do you NOT want to be used

[crisp coral]

have you given it a can_use?

[sullen fern]

like, this is the code.

[crisp coral]

you haven't given it a can_use

[sullen fern]

but cherry on top can be used and it doesn't have a can_use

[crisp coral]

que

[sullen fern]

i based the code for cherry on top off of this alabell card and even this can be used without a can_use

[crisp coral]

shrug, i dont know much about consumables

[sullen fern]

this is pissing me off...

[scarlet thorn]

Why are you so adamant for not having a can_use?

The bare minimum it can be is

can_use = function() return true end

[sullen fern]

two of the seal-based consumables i made did not require it

[sullen fern]

i have nowhere to put it though

[scarlet thorn]

you can put it literally anywhere what

[sullen fern]

like. where?

okay but like

[scarlet thorn]

notice how theres 2 ends.

[crisp coral]

😭 you have 2 ends and no commas

[sullen fern]

ah, i see the issue.

and yet.

[hasty mist]

how do you replicate blueprint-type functionality

[sullen fern]

and now it's always usable when i want it to act like the seal giving consumables

notice how cherry on top isn't usable yet, because i haven't selected any cards

when i select a card, it becomes usable

and it becomes unusable again when i select more than 2

and again, the game crashes when i try to use it.

full crashlog if anyone cares

note that i'm specifically trying to call modded enhancements

[slate bison]

hey anyone what would be the game context for checking a player is using a tarot card?

[slate bison]

ok im not an expert of anything, but i had similar problem but i was attempting to index a nil value, turned out to be related to the context

[sturdy compass]

if context.using_consumeable and context.consumeable.ability.set == 'Tarot" then

[slate bison]

thank you

[sturdy compass]

u got it

[tepid rock]

does anyone know why it is mad at me and how to fix it? says it cant find the ifs

[runic pecan]

bump

[runic pecan]

First of all, I would merge the fisrt two for loop into for i,J in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do if J == card then my_pos = i else jokers[#jokers+1] = J end end

[tepid rock]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        for i,J in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
            if J == card then
                my_pos = i
            else
                jokers[#jokers+1] = J
            end
        end
            if context.setting_blind and not card.getting_sliced then
                if #jokers > 0 then 
                    if my_pos and G.jokers.cards[my_pos+1] and not card.getting_sliced and not G.jokers.cards[my_pos+1].ability.eternal and not G.jokers.cards[my_pos+1].getting_sliced then 
                        if #G.jokers.cards <= G.jokers.config.card_limit then 

                            local sliced_card = G.jokers.cards[my_pos+1]
                            local left_card = G.jokers.cards[my_pos-1]
                                sliced_card.getting_sliced = true
                                G.GAME.joker_buffer = G.GAME.joker_buffer - 1
                                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({func = function()
                                card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or self, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = localize('k_duplicated_ex')})
                                left_card:add_to_deck()
                                G.jokers:emplace(card)
                                
                        else
                            card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or self, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = localize('k_no_room_ex')})
                        end
                else
                    card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or self, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = localize('k_no_other_jokers')})
                end
            end
        end
    end
end
end
    end

like this?

[tall wharf]

chat are we cooking

[tepid rock]

whats the second last one?

[runic pecan]

Yeah.
Secondly, since my_pos would never be nil, you don't need to put my_pos and in if condition.

[tepid rock]

I love it, I would either make it less rare or buff ashes

[tepid rock]

Tbh, I have no clue why it is there but thats also how ceremonial dagger does it

and i am scared to remove it

[runic pecan]

Thirdly, I'd recommend local joker_to_the_right = G.jokers.cards[my_pos+1] and do some nil check before operating on it.

[runic pecan]

Oh, that explains.