💻・modding-dev

[timid star]

i also like your mod btw like

fucking wordle? how

[tall wharf]

thanks i used to make fnf mods

-# (to this day i hate the community still because they can't behave but that's in the past)

[timid star]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-ishowspeed-sped-sped-monkey-fnaf-jumpscare-gif-24611965

i was known as an fnf content creator once

[tall wharf]

once?

[timid star]

[crisp coral]

til

[timid star]

im pretty sure my name is dead, or at least i hope so

im the guy who sparked up gmod bandu or that one psych engine 50 note video

[uneven bobcat]

might it be possible to make a custom rarity of joker only appear past a certain ante?

[timid star]

i stopped uploading anything because i dont feel like being a youtuber kind of content creator

[timid star]

would be possible with the in_pool function i think

though not on rarities

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

the whole keyboard ahh playfield

[timid star]

i think get_weight would do it

[timid star]

oh i meant by 50 note types, though i did make one shaggy video that had something like that

[uneven bobcat]

thfank you i appreciate it :3

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[timid star]

not to mention the 8 million viewed video that i have that is one hour of unedited footage of me playing one mod

[shell timber]

oh wait you're the person that made that uno thing

[timid star]

holy shit, being recognized by uno lobotomy

[uneven bobcat]

something along the lines of returning 0 for the weight if the ante is < 8 but some other value otherwise?

i'm gonna test it tmrw if so

[timid star]

yeah it seems simple

weight being 0 means it has no chance so

[uneven bobcat]

yes ...

okay ty :D

[timid star]

unless you have cryptid equilibrium deck

[reef belfry]

never figured out how to do this

my brain is too sstinky

[uneven bobcat]

lmfao the text is killing me

[timid star]

use the event manager ! !

[reef belfry]

i alr did

wel lthatss the old code

[timid star]

something like this should work fine

[tall wharf]

v

[timid star]

ignore the function code but yeah

[uneven bobcat]

that's a lot of jokers

that's a lot of everything

[timid star]

what the hell

i can only wish of being able to make that many jokers

[tall wharf]

70 something mods

[timid star]

oh

[uneven bobcat]

i see

[shell timber]

one balalillion jokers

[uneven bobcat]

the combined joker creating power of at LEAST 70 people but likely much more

[timid star]

i hope what im modding is a new concept 🙏

[tall wharf]

crash like no tomorrow but i fixed them myself

[timid star]

all the mods balatro edition

[crisp coral]

collect all 2000 jokers to get the jimbo star

[tall wharf]

i was doing that...

[uneven bobcat]

what is it? asking so i can ensure it wont be >:)

[timid star]

it will take 6000 steps to complete one peice of the star

[timid star]

blind that ends the run without explanation (tm)

[tall wharf]

balatro story mode

[shell timber]

assuming an area of 69x93 for the sprite, with there being 256^3 + 1 (transparent) colours, and with 3 layers (assuming cryptid's midlayer), there are 4.48664580904739e46490 or so possible joker sprites

[tall wharf]

i have that in my mod...

[timid star]

for my mod i want to make it like an rpg

because well, card health

[marble flint]

you can also have translucent pixels

[shell timber]

true

[tall wharf]

@manic rune has card health

[marble flint]

so 69*93*256^3*255+1

[shell timber]

nonono

[timid star]

damn because https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1233186615086813277/1361559327428706514/20250415-0414-52.7246545.mp4?ex=67ff3270&is=67fde0f0&hm=409485a2dbeedc97368a4b6be2cf88cb094d0420f8cb8af1aee00fdcb6fab104&

[shell timber]

it's (256^3*255 + 1)^(69*93*3)

[crisp coral]

who needs card health when you can kill the card immediately

[shell timber]

since each pixel is individual

[tall wharf]

not my vocaloid card skin mod

kill

[iron mantle]

I've tested it a couple of times in different contexts now but it doesn't seem to trigger upon selecting a joker from the buffoon pack still for some reason

[timid star]

yeah but the blinds became sentient and started attacking

[timid star]

mine has watsapp gordon freeman so it's superior

[chrome widget]

The change I made causes the context to play when the Joker is created inside the pack

[tall wharf]

smh

[chrome widget]

If you want to leverage when a joker is added to your deck, I would recommend using the new card_added context in SMODS

My patch only covers when a joker is actually created

[timid star]

hell i printed them out physically so i can enjoy having them

[tall wharf]

i saw that

[timid star]

💔

[marble flint]

so 1e185411 then

[timid star]

well, now im back to designing joker cards

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭

[timid star]

im horrible at pixel art but i am a man of many ideas

[tall wharf]

chicken jockey

[timid star]

i love modding and making shit but when it comes to making individual things i start to lose themotivation for some reason even though i have ideas that i want to make

[marble flint]

joker that lets you play a smaller game of balatro on it

[timid star]

can you use the game camera as a shader to put on a card

balatroception

[tall wharf]

til my grandpa is 98

i thought he was 96

[marble flint]

idk, probably

[timid star]

grand dad

[marble flint]

that'd be really funny

[timid star]

in rtgame's mod demonstration im pretty sure overlay shaders onto the game camera was made

[timid star]

so, it is possible to manipulate the camera

[timid star]

la la la lava

[tall wharf]

ch ch ch chicken

[marble flint]

balatro deck where each card has one of +-<>[],. and you play brainf--- programs to generate your score (@ aikoyori this one's on you)

[tall wharf]

i can do that

i have the art ready already

[crisp coral]

why does chicken jockey scale with popcorn

[timid star]

people throw popcorn

[marble flint]

okay but what about infinite loops

[tall wharf]

cinema

[uneven bobcat]

this

is a crafting table ....

[crisp coral]

im going to throw you

[tall wharf]

game will just crash

[tall wharf]

please throw me

you're stronger than me

[uneven bobcat]

do not reply ping has been replied to

it's over

[crisp coral]

nuh uh

[timid star]

i completely forgot i had these fusion jokers that i haven't added

forgot what they do

[tall wharf]

fucking vagabolia

[timid star]

gold erosion though

[tall wharf]

Looks like some lemon milk thing seeping through the crack

[timid star]

yum

[timid star]

right... i have unfinished business

[tall wharf]

😭

[timid star]

sins have been forgiven

[tall wharf]

what the fuck

this is why I'm adding solitaire to balatro

[timid star]

i had that idea because of my mom being too into christian ideals

so i was a bit pissed

[timid star]

ah yes i can stack my cards to be able to play them as one

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭😭

i thought bunco has it

[reef belfry]

the suit might have been accepted

[tall wharf]

nah

[rapid stag]

...does returning a main_end work for SMODS.Achievements...?

oh wait no, because they use description tables...

hmm

[red flower]

for i = 1, #table, 2

if you mean a non-indexed table then no because the point of them is that the order is not guaranteed

[rapid stag]

lua is such a garbage language smh

why on earth is that the point of a non-indexed table

[timid star]

why does context.hand_drawn not work for me

[red flower]

? it's a hashmap

if you want order make it an array

[rapid stag]

i have a hashmap table of joker keys that's basically just

myKeyList = {
  j_blahblah = true,
  j_blahblah2 = true,
  j_blahblah3 = true...
}

for the express purpose that i can go myKeyList[joker_key] so i can enter a condition depending on if a given joker is part of a group i define.
how else can i do this in a way that allows me to do that, with an ordered array table

[red flower]

make another array with the keys in order

you can even give your entries an order field and then use table.sort on a new array, if you want to do it dynamically

[rapid stag]

hmmm... well, i don't particularly care about the specific order of keys, so i could just populate an array from that table...

[red flower]

what's that for btw

[rapid stag]

like, specifically in my mod?

[red flower]

yeah

[rapid stag]

i mean, i have a few instances of this for various reasons, but this specific circumstance, i'm using to populate additional tooltips for a custom joker, by the joker's name, provided that said joker has been encountered at least once with the mod active, otherwise the name is question marks.

so like "group X," "?????, ?????, ?????, ?????," etc.

[red flower]

i dont get why you would need to skip entries

[sturdy compass]

Nah I kinda get it. Arbitrary order set by the creator moment

Or maybe not arbitrary

idk

But I get wanting to have a set order

[rapid stag]

i don't care about the specific order -

[sturdy compass]

Mmm my bad, it kinda read like you did. I gotta stop assuming things lmao

[rapid stag]

i'm doing UI code and i'm adding text nodes, but if i do that with a long list of items, it'll basically end up as

item1,
item2,
item3,
item4,
item5,
item6,
item7,
item8```

the reason i want to be skipping entries is so i can do multiple at once per node/line, so the ui can look more like:

item1, item2,
item3, item4,
item5, item6,
item7, item8```

[red flower]

cant you use an index

[sturdy compass]

Can you make Enums with Lua? If you can that might work

[red flower]

local i = 1
for k, v in ipairs(table) do
    if i%2 == 0 then
       table.insert(ui_table1, v)
    else
       table.insert(ui_table2,v)
    end
    i = i +1
end

[sturdy compass]

oh yeah modulo totally works too

[rapid stag]

what if my list gets longer and i need to make it wider over taller again - and want to do 3 or 4

[red flower]

then change the number

[rapid stag]

what i'm moduloing by?

[red flower]

yeah thats the number of columns

if you want to make it like max 5 rows per column then make the modulo math.floor(#table/5)

(#table wont work in your case you need to count it manually)

[rapid stag]

?

    if i%3 == 0 then
       table.insert(ui_table1, v)
    elseif i%2 == 0 then
       table.insert(ui_table2, v)
    else
       table.insert(ui_table3,v)
    end

[red flower]

yeah it's easier if you make it a table like ui_table[i%number_of_columns]

[reef belfry]

how do you send a message in this event where it would send during the suit change..

[rapid stag]

my immediate first thought is to move the change suit timing to match the message instead, using a func in your return table

[red flower]

instead of using return do SMODS.calculate_effect({[what's in your return table]}, card)

[sturdy compass]

probably SMODS.calculate_effect? You can't really return a table from an event

[rapid stag]

oh, i was misreading it

didn't see that this was an event

actually, you could refactor it that way

[red flower]

i do agree that func is probably better but its also a bit more complicated so calculate_effect might be the easier solution

[rapid stag]

...wait, do you want the timing to be all at once or in sequence

[rapid stag]

actualy, that's a thought. is it even possible to make SMODS.calculate_effect() messages happen all at once? because they make events, so it's always in sequence, right

[daring fern]

How could one prevent card_eval_status_text from triggering before the scoring card scores when triggered on a scoring card?

[hasty mist]

does anyone know how to create a custom dynamic color (like how cryptid has dark_edition)

[daring fern]

dark_edition is vanilla but the answer would probably be SMODS.Gradient

[hasty mist]

it is?

where is it used ingame?

[sturdy compass]

Negative

[hasty mist]

ty though

ohh i see

i didn't know that

[sturdy compass]

https://tenor.com/view/now-you-know-the-more-you-know-no-kidding-no-shit-obviously-gif-1342210079425559607

[daring fern]

On editions.

[heavy hare]

i can't find this patching pattern in UI_ definitions:

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/UI_definitions.lua"
pattern = '''
    return {n=G.UIT.ROOT, config = {align = "cm", padding = 0.03, colour = G.C.UI.TRANSPARENT_DARK}, nodes={
      {n=G.UIT.R, config = {align = "cm", padding= 0.05, colour = G.C.DYN_UI.MAIN, r=0.1}, nodes={
        {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cm", colour = G.C.DYN_UI.BOSS_DARK, r=0.1, minh = 30, padding = 0.08}, nodes={
          {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cm", minh = 0.3}, nodes={}},
          {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cm", id = 'row_blind', minw = 1, minh = 3.75}, nodes={}},
          contents.dollars_chips,
          contents.hand,
          {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cm", id = 'row_round'}, nodes={
            {n=G.UIT.C, config={align = "cm"}, nodes=contents.buttons},
            {n=G.UIT.C, config={align = "cm"}, nodes=contents.round}
          }},
        }}
      }}
    }}
'''
position = "at"
payload='''

'''
match_indent = true
times = 1

it's copied directly from the file

[sturdy compass]

Are you looking at the vanilla files or your lovely dump

[heavy hare]

vanilla

[sturdy compass]

Use your lovely dump

[heavy hare]

will try, than kyou

[daring fern]

How could one draw a playing card on a joker?

[tall wharf]

a what

[chrome widget]

I still ate with this flame aura effect. Also I only just recently learned that SMODS.Gradient was a thing so I'm using it a lot more now

[tall wharf]

is this a shader

i would assume so

oh my god is that

kirbio from unstable

[chrome widget]

Yeah

Also what is kirbio?

[hasty mist]

wait i def did that wrong

[tall wharf]

someone

[daring fern]

Something like this but in the joker slots.

[tall wharf]

what the sigma

i wonder if you can just set base on the joker

[hasty mist]

alright this should be working but it isnt

shows as white ingame

[daring fern]

You need to put the gradient in a variable then refer to the variable.

[reef belfry]

well uh...

[wintry solar]

Put the calc effect after the event

And the if suit check before

You just want the actual suit changing bit in the event

[reef belfry]

do i have to set some sort of check if the messages have been sent since it sends them multiple times

[wintry solar]

Which message is sent multiple times?

[reef belfry]

hello

[rapid stag]

is there any reason it needs to be context.before? why not do context.individual instead

[wintry solar]

It’s sent on every card that changes

[reef belfry]

oh..

[rapid stag]

like unless there's something inherent to the joker that you want, about the effect, it's timing and how you're building it design-wise, don't see why this absolutely has to be in context.before and it appears to be causing more trouble than it's worth

if it's incumbent on trying to change the suit before any suit-related jokers take effect,context.individual still comes before context.joker_main iirc, so something like arrowhead for example would still proc

[wintry solar]

That’s not true

If you want to change suits I’d recommend using context.before

[sturdy compass]

Changing a suit within an event doesn't have them as that suit during joker_main unfortunately

[wintry solar]

No you have to do some magic

[sturdy compass]

Well you are clearly the wizard here

[rapid stag]

huh. kinda makes me wish that something like context.beforeindividual was a thing

[wintry solar]

You just set card.base.suit = “Spades” and then put the change suit in the event still

That’ll let it calculate as a spade but only change in time

[sturdy compass]

funky

[rapid stag]

couldn't that solve their issue, too? have the suits be set in context.before and then do the visuals in context.individual?

[sturdy compass]

I think you technically could

[wintry solar]

That wouldn’t be the right sequencing

[rapid stag]

ah

[sturdy compass]

nvm then lol

[wintry solar]

They’d change after giving their base value in that case

And depending on joker order it might look mega weird

[sturdy compass]

Ah right, (somehow) forgot the suit jokers also triggered on individual too

[rapid stag]

shouldn't that just be a matter of joker order, then? like you could do something like bloodstone before, arrowhead after to trigger both jokers

or lusty joker before, wrathful joker after

completely useless in an actual build, but would be fun

[sturdy compass]

It is a matter of joker order and that's exactly the point Eremel is trying to make. The card could still trigger for the card despite not actually showing that suit yet

[wintry solar]

Depending on what you want the effect to be, yeah you could do that

But then you wouldn’t use context before

[sturdy compass]

Reading closer and yeah I suppose the base would just change at individual

[thin lance]

Is this the channel for if Joker ideas I have are good?

Or should I make a thread for that if I eventually wanna make a mod?

[sturdy compass]

#⚙・modding-general may be better for that since that's more for players (not that we aren't players here)

[thin lance]

Ah, okay.

[sturdy compass]

If you were to ask here we'd probably talk about balance and feasibility, not really critique the idea itself lol

[hushed field]

Is the way card objects draw their back by just grabbing a sprite from their .back variable? I'm trying to see if I can add sprites specifically to the back of a card

[wintry solar]

I think you can create draw steps on cards they are facing backwards

[zealous glen]

I think they have a back center somewhere

[hushed field]

ah, that's good to know. I'll peruse the code to see how I go about that.

[timid star]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/840600570641645568/1361612259071365261/20250415-0759-27.0272500.mp4?ex=67ff63bc&is=67fe123c&hm=4cd6913b638b6fe6d79276aa94cca4c9476fabf9dd0b1c682d21c35475938394&

maybe i should make the bible an uncommon, imagine getting riff-raff to hit this

[thin lance]

Okay chat, I actually got a balance question this time.

[sturdy compass]

lmao what

[thin lance]

"Oh man, I sure do love playing Balatro!"
"FUCK YOU!" said the Fuck You Joker.

[sturdy compass]

The sounds are perfect lol

[rapid stag]

does this still operate with https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1270746376312979456 's quick card selection

[timid star]

the bible probably has something against gambling

[thin lance]

Greed is one of the deadly sins.

[timid star]

idk i made the bible because my mom told me that tarot cards are not to be played around with

[thin lance]

Anyway.

[Uncommon] Fun House Mirror - If first discard is a single card, destroy it and replace it with a random card that is already in your deck.
I had an idea for a joker (shown above) that I think is just. Worse DNA? But I wanna know what you guys think.

[timid star]

while i was working on a tarot sprite

[sturdy compass]

The power of christ really did compel you holy shit

[timid star]

im gonna replace the white screen flashes with images of jesus

[sturdy compass]

LMFAO

[thin lance]

Good.

[sturdy compass]

YES

[thin lance]

GOOD!

That's perfect.

I hate that I keep making jokes and then end up like "If I ever make an actual mod I'm gonna have to actually make that".

Like shit, now I gotta figure out what the fuck the Fuck You Joker does. XD

[rapid stag]

if joker would trigger, joker does not trigger

wait no

if played hand is random hand, restarts the game

unlike other random hand jokers like to do list it doesn't tell you what the hand is
and it randomises on load, too

easy

[thin lance]

I think restarting the game is a bit much.

...

Now destroying every card in your hand, on the other hand.

[daring fern]

Rise.

[cursive sentinel]

looking at retrigger code, why is it that dusk, sock and buskin and hack have config mentionning "self.ability.extra+1" whereas seltzer or hanging chad just have "self.ability.extra"?

[sturdy compass]

Hey wait a second

[tall wharf]

miku cursor

[thin lance]

I fuck heavy with Schrodinger's Cat Joker, but that's not quite what I was going for.

[timid star]

yes

also the bible prevents you from pressing play or discard

that took me a bit

[tall wharf]

I'm going insane over miku

[sturdy compass]

So it's essentially just totally random deck thinning until you sell it

[tall wharf]

you can't sell it

it's eternal...

[thin lance]

It's always eternal is peak.

[sturdy compass]

Is it always eternal???????

[rapid stag]

probably forces itself eternal immediately

[thin lance]

Would you sell your Bible?

[sturdy compass]

Oh my god 😭

The power of Christ is too fucking strong apparently

[daring fern]

Is it possible to add a joker to the scoring hand?

[tall wharf]

Christianity moment?

[timid star]

it becomes eternal when you obtain it

[tall wharf]

tarot cards are just cards tho

[timid star]

yeah it's funny

[thin lance]

Should the Fuck You Joker have some upside that procs whenever you don't play the hand it will destroy, or should it entirely be a meme joker that's purely negative?

[timid star]

idk what tarot cards have to do with christanity beef but whatever

[sturdy compass]

So it's a kill switch basically

[sturdy compass]

"Witchcraft" bullshit or whatever probably

[thin lance]

Like it X2 or X3 your mult or it gives you $5-$10.

[timid star]

yeah it also clears your jokers and consumables, sets your money to -77

instant loss really

it's free in the shop but

lol

[thin lance]

Perfect.

[sturdy compass]

So it's your version of Crash

[rapid stag]

nah, if i appears in the shop, it should force buy itself

[sturdy compass]

Very creative lol

[thin lance]

No, that's too much.

[timid star]

my parents believe in witchcraft and it's the funniest thing

[timid star]

i mean technically doesn't softlocks the game, it just makes you lose

[sturdy compass]

Well yeah but both are kill switches

[timid star]

true

[tall wharf]

what happens if you obtain it in the shop

[sturdy compass]

It probs doesn't do anything until in hand lol

Though it would be funny if it played a stock "Hallelujah" choir when it appears

[timid star]

it does what it does in the video

the instant you claim it

it clears your cards one by one when you start a round

[tall wharf]

ah right

[timid star]

preventing you from playing to advance

[timid star]

one of my arguments is that if witches are actually real, where are the wizards then

[sturdy compass]

Your parents sound like they took part in the Salem Witch Trials lmao

[timid star]

i was forced to sit through a podcast about an interview with "ex-witches"

[sturdy compass]

??????????????????

[timid star]

im like damn, what the hell this is the fakest shit ive ever seen

then my whole family is like "why are you hating"

[daring fern]

Rise.

[timid star]

maybe

[sturdy compass]

Nah speed why you tryin not to laaaaugh bruh

[rapid stag]

i would also like to know if this is possible, but in the sense of "joker temporarily moves from the joker cardarea to the play cardarea and then back after cards were scored"

[sturdy compass]

That sounds doable in both cases

could probably just G.play:emplace(card)

[thin lance]

New bullshit time, it's the fucking Sled Racing card from Club Penguin's Card Jitsu.

[Rare] Sled Racing - When a card is played, flip its value to the opposite (2 <-> A, 3 <-> K, etc.) and retrigger it.

[sturdy compass]

Oh hey

[timid star]

this is peak

i love the part in coding where i can name shit like "biblekillcount"

[thin lance]

Okay, so that effect is physically possible in some capacity.

[sturdy compass]

That might be the longest add_to_deck function I've seen

[thin lance]

I just got the stupidest idea.

If you have a Blueprint when you pick up the bible, the image of Jesus will be tinted blue.

And you get the rare (and probably impossible to implement) Blue Jesus achievement.

[daring fern]

Because I have playing cards as jokers and I want them to activate when something would trigger them in hand or in play.

[peak tiger]

is there a way to make it so that when I press a certain keybind I get a billion chips?

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[sturdy compass]

what a question

[thin lance]

Weird Joker - ??? [Must be a play on "Weird Al" Yankovic somehow.)
[Rare] Receipt - X1 Mult for every food-based Joker destroyed. (Currently X1) [Might reword to make clear it involves stuff like Diet Coke.)
[Uncommon] Fun House Mirror - If first discard is a single card, destroy it and replace it with a random card that is already in your deck.
[Rare] Fuck You Joker - If it doesn't like your played hand, destroy every card in hand. Otherwise, X2 mult.
1e300 Joker - ??? (This is another joke joker like the Fuck You Joker, haven't figured out what to do with it yet.)
[Rare] Sled Racing - When a card is played, flip its value to the opposite (2 <-> A, 3 <-> K, etc.) and retrigger it.

Here's the joker set I got so far, including some jokers I haven't worked out the full idea of- trying to figure out where my ideas are on a scale of like- canon-adjacent to Cryptid. (Do not base this on the sheer concept of the 1e300 Joker.)

[cursive sentinel]

the idea seems rly fun

[rapid stag]

i mean, you could pick any good weird al song at random and make a fun reference to that

[timid star]

oh my god

well, god

the images also, block your input to go to the menu so jesus can mostly lock you into this cutscene

[sturdy compass]

BAHAHAHAHA

I've seen some crazy things via bugs, this might be the craziest I've seen that actually functions properly LOL

[timid star]

i could make versions of the bible which do the exact same thing but retextured

might have to give it a rarity of itself

[peak tiger]

is there any way to make a debug keybind to win a blind instantly without having to make a joker/deck?

[timid star]

anyone know how to slow down the music by will?

[sturdy compass]

The Mormon BIble and the Scientology Bible would go crazy

[rapid stag]

i kinda wanna make a majora's mask joker that when you encounter it, you HAVE to use a hieroglyph or petroglyph voucher to your run from ending

oh right, wait

i wanted to make the sonic '06 joker

[timid star]

i was given the suggestion of an islam and judaism one

[daring fern]

Where does the card.base.times_played variable get incremented?

[sturdy compass]

Dude the fucking Jesus pictures interrupting the pause menu are sending me 😭

[thin lance]

Maybe...

[thin lance]

Perfect.

[faint yacht]

G.FUNCS.play_cards_from_highlighted,

for i=1, #G.hand.highlighted do
  if G.hand.highlighted[i]:is_face() then inc_career_stat('c_face_cards_played', 1) end
  G.hand.highlighted[i].base.times_played = G.hand.highlighted[i].base.times_played + 1
  G.hand.highlighted[i].ability.played_this_ante = true
  G.GAME.round_scores.cards_played.amt = G.GAME.round_scores.cards_played.amt + 1
  draw_card(G.hand, G.play, i*100/#G.hand.highlighted, 'up', nil, G.hand.highlighted[i])
end

[thin lance]

Also I had the stupidest idea for a powerful Joker.

[timid star]

for some reason the game over cutscene plays... twice?

which adds to the funnies this bible has

[thin lance]

[Rare] Censor Bar - Retriggers all multiplicative Jokers twice.

In other words, it takes your Xs...

...and turns them into XXXs!

[faint yacht]

-# ...adding a card to the Main Menu doesn't let the much slower fade-in of the logo and menu appear... where I have added a sound...

[thin lance]

I don't get this one.

[daring fern]

Now when I play the joker as a card it works as a card but how do I get it to act like its being played when its in the joker slots?

[thin lance]

For some reason I am also imagining just straight up having Exodia. Like get all five Exodia pieces and you get +1e100 chips.

[daring fern]

Do you have DebugPlus?

[peak tiger]

no, but I figured it out anyway

kinda

[daring fern]

DebugPlus has a win blind button.

[peak tiger]

is there a way to make a booster pack only have a certain set of jokers or make a pool of some jokers?

[timid star]

figured out how to adjust the music speed

dont know what i'd do with that knowledge but lmao

[daring fern]

How does one prevent cards that are being inserted into the scoring hand from moving to the scoring hand?

[brisk rose]

I mean... yes though, just look at whatever debugplus is doing and extrapolate

[brisk rose]

there must be because there are both raritty and 'modded only; boosters afoot

[brisk rose]

I'm not sure, but I'd reference betmma for such shananigans, iirc there's multiple parts of their mod which do similar things

[rapid stag]

hhhhhhhhhhh finally got it working. and i did need to make it three
here's the implementation i ended up going with
turns out there was a way simpler solution

[timid star]

music transitions are possible with this tech ig

[zealous glen]

What do you think of this text?

[timid star]

neat

[shell timber]

For every 3 (3)
Planet cards sold,
create a Black Hole

[zealous glen]

Maybe

Every 3 [3] Planet cards sold,
create a Black Hole

[lavish lake]

what happened

[timid star]

beat the blind

[lavish lake]

is there some special ability to this blind

[timid star]

and it slows down the song

then it goes back to normal

[timid star]

funny you ask https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1291656452301262889/1361555741990977667/20250415-0414-52.7246545.mp4?ex=67ff2f19&is=67fddd99&hm=89ef217d464602334b7df4be603850363d9e53a3ab69654592a8eb7c28742f6f&

[zealous glen]

wow a cutscene

[manic rune]

dawg done outperforming my blind in all ways possible

🥀

damn.

[timid star]

are you the guy that implemented health to playing cards

[zealous glen]

Are you moving the UI elements or are you rendering them differently

[lavish lake]

that is too fucking much

[timid star]

nothing is moving

it's all animated sprites

and ig the screen shake

[manic rune]

yea

progress bar too

:3

[timid star]

neat

i thought i was the first to come up with my kind of blind

[manic rune]

:p its actually a core mechanic of my mod

[zealous glen]

The deck is a sprite of the deck shaking?

[timid star]

no the screen shake is a vanilla thing

[zealous glen]

Multistage Blinds?

[manic rune]

but also - i also tried making an asriel blind for fun

[timid star]

nah, blinds that specifically attack your cards

[manic rune]

turned out i completely forgot ur making one

[timid star]

dealing damage

[zealous glen]

ah

[manic rune]

and much cooler than mine 😭

i had the uhh moving window code

[lavish lake]

heres a even more crazy finisher blind idea:
God of Gods
Apply every single boss and finisher blind with all downside values 100X'ed,
Blind requirement is last played blind requirement ^ 3

[timid star]

i mod at a snail's pace

[timid star]

https://tenor.com/view/void-memes-cat-void-mejor-me-void-eyes-gif-14708429958419784806

[zealous glen]

can the screen shrink too?

[timid star]

idk

[manic rune]

https://streamable.com/11kyag

[timid star]

dont know much about the screen camera

[timid star]

this is epic

idk how you do the music sync with the background though

[manic rune]

update, basically

it does account for frame drops, i think? but if the drops are incredibly bad, straight up 2 fps then it does delay a bit

[timid star]

ah

the asriel bossfight i made is going to be a one off unique fight, there will be other bossfights that behave differently that i have in mind

though i do want combat to be a regular occurance in small and big blinds too

would be fun to randomly add rpg mechanics to balatro

[manic rune]

oh, i did add unique small/big blinds as a mechanic too

[timid star]

figures

[manic rune]

surprisingly didnt need patches, just a bunch of hooks to account for some stuff

[timid star]

i'll prob look into it but for now i need to add more content than just blinds lmao

[manic rune]

my idea for an asriel blind was for them to interfere with the game that doesn't rely on timing like "After hand is played" and such, straight up "Every 2 second, do smt"

[timid star]

damn that is a good idea too

my version attacks every time cards are drawn to your hand

[manic rune]

i think the first move i made for them was smt like

"Every 3 seconds, marks a card. If its position remains the same after 3 seconds, destroys it"

[timid star]

there's a list of moves asriel can use to damage your cards in a pattern, discarding also triggers it

you do need to beat the required score in one hit btw, not making it will just count as a miss

[daring fern]

Is it possible to do this temporarily or do I have to do everything manually?

[timid star]

and you have to do it 6 times in a row

[manic rune]

i feel like it would be a bit unfair if theres no way to evade the damage, or at least minimize it imo

else it just encourages using Cryptid-level jokers more

[timid star]

i did want to plan mechanics based around card health

maybe healing jokers too

[manic rune]

what i want for a fun boss blind is that it doesn't rely on extremely broken jokers, straight up skill and concentration instead

[shell timber]

balatro soulslike?

[manic rune]

that does fit ur rpg mod idea :p

[zealous glen]

make the boss shoot projectiles and you have to drag cards around so they can avoid being hit

[timid star]

i didn't think much about the asriel bossfight, it just looks way damn cool
but it'll be probably annoying to actually complete, your cards will always get damaged

your cards are recycled back after every hit but

major damage

[manic rune]

true

[timid star]

encourages you to as few discards as possible

[manic rune]

it does look extremely cool

[manic rune]

burglar...

[timid star]

and it will break stuff like baron steel kings setup

(unless you have a shit ton of cryptids at your disposal)

[manic rune]

true

[timid star]

would not work i think idk

since your hands and discards are set to 4 after each successful hit

[manic rune]

ohh icic

[timid star]

it's a pretty challenging boss in practice, which is why it's locked up in a special tarot card

[manic rune]

thought it would restore to ur max hands/discards

[timid star]

that would be too good...

or bad whichever it may go

[manic rune]

true

[timid star]

i decided 4 on each is balanced and gives enough space

still, playing and discarding will attack your cards

[manic rune]

i added a "SWITCH BOSS" button next to showdown boss blinds that switch between normal boss blinds and my mega boss blinds :p

[zealous glen]

Like Ortalab…

[manic rune]

im still proud i didnt need to read eremel's code to implement that ❤️

-# definitely a lot of bugs because of that

[timid star]

i have the barrier to summon special boss blinds

[manic rune]

we are saving the goat child with this one ✊

[timid star]

i only have asriel as the special boss blind but i have 2 more planned in my head

[hushed field]

I'm trying to figure out how to have an addition alter a card back by adding a sprite onto it, and I'm running into just a lot of variables that don't tell me what they're for. Anyone know what the goal of the .role.draw_major is?

[timid star]

one is inspired by a certain game demo and one is alpeh null

[manic rune]

mindwave? :3

[timid star]

you fucking sniped that

how

[manic rune]

LMAO

its the BEST game demo rn, and it definitely fits the insane stuff u r doing

[timid star]

https://tenor.com/view/silly-bunny-bunnies-mindwave-abbie-gif-15420108425016743051

yeah it's gonna be minigame based

no clue how i'd formulate it out but i'll find a way

the other special blind would be that one alpeh zero reference

(math jumspcare)

[manic rune]

i dont doubt u will succeed, gl :D

[crisp coral]

mindwave mindwave i heard mindwave

[timid star]

the major issue i'll see me encountering would be timers

never done such a timer setup before so

[crisp coral]

and aleph null like.... the LeaF song???

[manic rune]

void made timers before

but they uhhhh left

[timid star]

yes

fuck replied with a ping

[crisp coral]

holy fuck o7

[manic rune]

i think theres a speed timer clock mod

[timid star]

hmm

[manic rune]

maybe that works too? :3

[crisp coral]

im obligated to explode you but
o7

[timid star]

i'll be needing a timer that runs separately in the background so balator events don't mess it up

[manic rune]

myst u gotta emphasise the NOT

[crisp coral]

nope, wariowaresque games run on beat

[manic rune]

hook to lovely update instead

should work, i think

[timid star]

[crisp coral]

love2d

not lovely

[manic rune]

my bad

[timid star]

yeah i've gotten comfortable looking at base game balatro files but beyond that it's alien language

it's like me using lua to code a whole fnf mod for a year without actually touching hardcoding in haxeflixel

[crisp coral]

the sound manager for balatro is soooo utterly ass for making rhythm based shit

[manic rune]

https://love2d.org/wiki/love.update

this shooould be what u want :3

[zealous glen]

why

[timid star]

thanks

for now i will be pouring my ideas into jokers, enhancements, and possibly card status effects

[manic rune]

first thing i noticed: you cant check the current running time of the sound

or at least, no one has told me how to yet :3

[timid star]

ive been thinking of animated sprite status effects on cards as a separate enhancement from the rest of the enhancements

[manic rune]

so for stuff like syncing to music: gotta use update 🥀

[timid star]

[manic rune]

card status effects...........

[crisp coral]

there's a Source function for doing that

[timid star]

really, i've been wondering how other mods like cryptid add extra effects to cards that aren't seals

like with cryptid seeds

that renders on cards and everything

[timid star]

exactly

[crisp coral]

the trusty LobotomyCorp source code:

[zealous glen]

SMODS provides SMODS.DrawStep for this sort of thing now but so far I haven't used it

[timid star]

i have looked for it, don't know how the hell you do it though lmao

[crisp coral]

me neither :3

[manic rune]

how do i grab balatro's currently running sounds as a var

[crisp coral]

every time i add one i have to scramble between 5 different functions for 30 minutes

[crisp coral]

threaded :3

[manic rune]

nghshsbsbsnndnf

WHY 😭

[zealous glen]

what's the issue with threading?

[timid star]

i did ask you how to make multiple files for easier management but

i didn't go around doing it because having them all in one lua file seems much simpler than accounting the concequences of doing them separately

[crisp coral]

you cannot easily pass variables between threads

[zealous glen]

nooo
-# nooo

[timid star]

if alamac does it then i can do this too

[zealous glen]

that was in response to having a single monolithic file

[crisp coral]

it's just an organization thing lol

[timid star]

i am sure quite fond of scrolling through the whole file, still not as big as the alamac mega file but it'll get there sooner or later

[zealous glen]

what variables would you be passing

[manic rune]

do i have to

fucking make a new sound manager mod?? 😭

[timid star]

if the function aint there then you have to make it, that's just how modding is 💔

[manic rune]

honestly at this rate, learning how to make one is better than relying on hard-coded timestamps...

[zealous glen]

why do different threads need to communicate with each other for music anyways?

[paper zealot]

Wait, Almanac is a single lua file?

[crisp coral]

vanilla balala passes the sound key and the request type, and doesn't need to receive anything i believe
making a rhythm based thing requires passing through bpm, offset, crochets, etc. and receive current time, beat and bar

[manic rune]

i want to move a music to a certain position

in which case, i would need to know the current time of the- (nvm myst sent stuff up there)

[crisp coral]

unfortunately

[zealous glen]

but why do rhythm games need all that

[crisp coral]

precision down to the millisecond

[paper zealot]

Oh my god, it's 23300 lines long

[zealous glen]

I can see that when not doing rhythm games

Like in Cineraft

[timid star]

yes, it is amazing

[zealous glen]

the cinema rafting game

@paper zealot you okay?

[crisp coral]

almanac code is very non-jen-friendly

[paper zealot]

I don't understand why people do this to themselves, it's just insane

[zealous glen]

who's jen

[zealous glen]

me looking at Bunco

[manic rune]

you know what, delaying my mod development to make a sound manager mod

[crisp coral]

okay victin you must be trolling

[manic rune]

someone will have to do this at one point anyways 🥀

[timid star]

has anyone implemented balala molecules as a consumeable mod yet

[manic rune]

someones making a chemistry mod

does that count

[timid star]

ig

[hushed field]

I have no clue how people program anything in one file. I need many files so I can think without getting overwhelmed

[zealous glen]

I know there's a mod named after jen

idk who's jen

[timid star]

im dumb and stupid so i will make it all in one file for my convenience

[crisp coral]

cryptid is

[manic rune]

which will completely use lovely stuff, im guessing

[hushed field]

that said, I do need to separate out kinofunctions.lua so it's not just every function that's not on an item specifically

[manic rune]

-# aka cant even rely on copying other people's stuff around here anymore

[crisp coral]

yes, you can't hook sound_manager.lua

[timid star]

me awaiting cryptid to update to the new calc so my mod can work intangent with it in a newer smod version

[crisp coral]

cryptid did update

qhar

[timid star]

oh

i've not been caught up

[crisp coral]

evidently

[manic rune]

i have lived long enough to see the day jen almanac being new-calc compat

[paper zealot]

As your mod gets larger, it'll quickly become for your inconvenience. Code organisation is meant to help you as the dev, and keeping things modular is good practice for both improving code re-use and keeping things easy to keep track of in your brain

[timid star]

ive seen like an image of new content but never thought it'd be in new calc

[crisp coral]

ykn it would be funny to add almanac as the only mod in lobcorp's incompat list

[crisp coral]

almanac also doesnt use a localization file :3

[manic rune]

do i need to patch a huge portion of sound_manager.lua if i were to make a sound manager mod

and do mods even patch sound_manager.lua?

[crisp coral]

smods patches sound manager

[manic rune]

-# oh right

[hushed field]

.... 😭

[manic rune]

well at least its just smods

[timid star]

the thing is i do actually want to separate it into multiple files but i don't exactly know how to properly do so im kinda just

[manic rune]

hopefully

[manic rune]

wait, u actually code everything in one file?

[paper zealot]

Haha, alrighty. I personally recommend using Lovely to load separate modules, there's a very brief overview here:
#💻・modding-dev message
But it might be easier to check other mods for examples of how it's done specifically

[timid star]

currently 1877 lines on main

not that bad

[manic rune]

true, true

[crisp coral]

i need to make a cutscene manager because hardcoding everything in game update is so cringe

[paper zealot]

A lot of Steamodded-based mods use SMODS.load_file, which is okay too, but Lovely modules are neater and provide clearer error stack tracks imo

[manic rune]

everything manager mod

manage everything, even your taxes

[timid star]

i turned your original image showing cutscene function into an animated sprite displayer for my end

i now understand how scaling the sprites work

or somewhat at least

using magic numbers to fine tune it but whatecver

[crisp coral]

you can't even manage your star rail world :3

[manic rune]

:3 i dont sweat a lot, sorry myst

i prefer staying clean

[zealous glen]

Isn’t your country hot

[manic rune]

right now its cold

[timid star]

hmm so basically it uses the lovely toml file to make each separated files connected r something

[unborn bay]

it's hot af here

[manic rune]

i dont even know wtf is going on with my city's temperature rn

few days ago its hot

[timid star]

im in the philippines so

[manic rune]

now its suddenly cold

i dont even feel the transition

its straight up "oh its cold now"

[timid star]

i am sweating, at night

why is it hot at night

[zealous glen]

:filipino: lol

[manic rune]

the shadow of the sun haunts you

[zealous glen]

Asphalt?

Concrete?

[red flower]

this knocked me out what

[timid star]

im standing still on the middle of the house with one fan

or well sitting still but yeah

[manic rune]

almanac feels like a "first project", so i dont really blame them

[zealous glen]

To be fair many objects can have their localization provided in their definition

[crisp coral]

WHY IS EVERYONE I KNOW FILIPINO

[candid sleet]

idk if anyone can help at all, i've been trying to look at bunco to see how it draws all cards at once for virtual packs but i'm struggling to find it. basically though i wanted to make a russian roulette version of gros michel that has a 1 in 6 chance of destroying all cards in your deck
this image is of the example mod for how Gros Michel works

[timid star]

fuckkkk, i also have not done any localization yet but i DON'T FEEL LIKE IT GRAHH!!

[zealous glen]

But if your house is next to asphalt and concrete they it could be warmed up by those

[red flower]

but im assuming it's a big enough project people want to translate it

[shell timber]

i should put the loose strings in mf into the loc file

[timid star]

huh maybe

[zealous glen]

I’m sorry I’m not philipino

[hushed field]

Destroying all cards in your deck would cause an insta-loss, no?

[candid sleet]

yeah that's the point

i'm gonna make the reward pretty high

[timid star]

one dollar

[manic rune]

i read that as mother-you-know 🥀

[red flower]

isn't it like an actual inst loss the next round unless you find a standard pack

[zealous glen]

Mother you would like to know?

[timid star]

https://tenor.com/view/vinesauce-joey-1-dollar-i-have-over-1-2-mil-gif-17106740214069420436

[manic rune]

mhm

i miss my mom...

[candid sleet]

if there's an easier way to cause insta-loss i'm all for doing it but destroying all cards in your deck sounds funny

[hushed field]

Ah, I thought the game showed the loss screen if G.playing_cards became 0

[zealous glen]

Sorry v_v

[red flower]

i know it does it when drawing but maybe thats true too

[manic rune]

its more like "oh shit no card to draw" timing, the same goes for yugioh :p

[zealous glen]

Only if your hand is empty right

[timid star]

i mean you could use this for loop (ignore the contents of it) if you want to affect every playing card in your deck

[hushed field]

Main thing is that I think the effect might be a bit underwhelming if you're not making an animation for it. The way I'd go about it is to draw cards to the a cardarea, like hand, and call dissolve on them. Important thing there is that if this happens on end of round, you don't get access to destroying_cards as a context, I think, so you don't just wanna destroy the cards, you want to also iterate over G.playing_cards and remove the destroyed card from the table

[timid star]

for cards held in hand it would be G.hand.cards

[hushed field]

Otherwise the game creates ghost cards, which it thinks exists but do not

[red flower]

is there a way to cause an insta-loss with smods? i did a lovely patch for it but maybe there's an easier way i didn't notice

[timid star]

setting the game condition to be a game over?

[hushed field]

Not a function, I don't think. But setting the game state works, I do that on the Ring joker

[crisp coral]

g.state = game_over

[timid star]

yeah

[crisp coral]

and state_complete to nil

[red flower]

ohh yeah thats what i do

sometimes i forget whats in my mod at this point, i went to look at the lovely patch i referenced and it wasnt there so i might have imagined it

or the other day ice said something about my mod i thought was not true and i checked and it was

[manic rune]

N' so talented they got dementia now 🥀

[red flower]

so true

who were you again

[timid star]

coder's dementia

it always happens

[hushed field]

That it was good?

[manic rune]

i dunno

can u tell me :3

[red flower]

yes, checked the source code and saw that i had the good optional feature on

(it was a localization thing)

[cursive sentinel]

does "next(context.poker_hands['Flush'])" means contains flush, or is flush?

[frosty dock]

contains

[unborn bay]

contains flush

[shell timber]

that's contains flush

[cursive sentinel]

is there a way for "is" instead?

[frosty dock]

context.scoring_name == 'Flush'

[shell timber]

Triangle More Fluff does that but there's probably a better way

[unborn bay]

if you wanna compare if it is flush make a direct comparison with context.scoring_hand

[cursive sentinel]

thank you !

[rain slate]

is there a predefined way to add the center of a modded Joker to the info_queue like would info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = SMODS.Centers['key'] work or do you have to do like { key = 'key', set = 'Set' }

[red flower]

info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = G.P_CENTERS.j_prefix_key?

[rain slate]

a modded joker

wait are they added to P_CENTERS?

[red flower]

yes

[rain slate]

ok

[forest ivy]

did she die

[manic rune]

it was a joke 🪫

[forest ivy]

u just ruined mine

i was gonna say 'are u playing dota 2' 💔

[manic rune]

djdnsjnsjs

😭

jumping off a 🌉

[forest ivy]

why not off a ⛰️

[manic rune]

🌉 is closer

[forest ivy]

they are both 💀 enough to 🔪 you

[zealous glen]

Oh I thought that she had… (not “died”, something else)

[forest ivy]

bro might be living in 🆕🇺🇸

[zealous glen]

Are you?

[forest ivy]

nuh uh

[manic rune]

might be

[forest ivy]

cs 2 peaker

[unborn bay]

we should add counter strike to balatro

[forest ivy]

actually

wait actually

we need ts

i'd surely get ak47 with armor and rush b 🔥

[unborn bay]

gun jokers ,,,,

[zealous glen]

I added DotA 2 to Balatro

[unborn bay]

bless your soul

[zealous glen]

Isn’t this like those gacha games that turn things into anime girls

[unborn bay]

which one specifically

arknights

gfl

kancolle

azur lane

actually i might be wrong about arknights

[forest ivy]

x2 Mult
If "Terrorist" is present double the mult
If "B Plant" and "Terrorist" are present triple the mult

[unborn bay]

i forgor

[forest ivy]

Il

[crisp coral]

arknights doesnt only have gun anime girls

[candid sleet]

i think i'll come back to this once i understand everything a bit better, very lost and i don't even know how to just do the simple solution of using g.state = game_over

[crisp coral]

but gfl is a good example

[zealous glen]

All of them

[unborn bay]

i hate knowing about gacha games i have having this knowledge

[crisp coral]

same

[unborn bay]

with this coming to mind i should add more gacha game references to my mod

geniunely wanna expand this more to a playstyle deck like monopoly does but what else can i add to this

[zealous glen]

What do those words mean

[unborn bay]

3 jokers that correlate to the theme of the deck

maybe i could try adding rerolling to booster packs with this deck but im positive someone has already tried that idea

has anyone tried adding a separate currency in the game besides dollars yet

[timid star]

evil bucks

[runic pecan]

Which one looks better?

[tall apex]

Me when I start with dobonhongolahooghs

[tall apex]

Mix top of 1 with bottom of 2

[runic pecan]

Actual size

[tall apex]

Other than that I’d say 2

[paper zealot]

I feel like the opposite would look better, haha. It's all personal taste at this point, i guess

[tall apex]

When you have angles like that pushing perspective is a good way to make the shapes feel like they line up, especially with teeth because they rest snug against one another

[candid sleet]

any clues as to why this crashes on game load, prob just missing something obvious but i'm still new to this

[runic pecan]

Like this?

[tall apex]

Yur :3

[tall apex]

Top teef bigger than bottom teef, es anatomy

[zealous glen]

Do you want to rate teeth I drew

[tall apex]

Our front two teeth need a lower teeth on the bottom jaw to rest comfortably

[tall apex]

Yes

I am the teeth rater now

Show me your teeth

[tall apex]

HE GAWT THE BLING OMG

Those look really good though! Esp with that angle it really pushes the perspective

[zealous glen]

I had a reference

[unborn bay]

bri ish teeth

[tall apex]

I think my suggestion would be to push the 3 dimensionality of the bottom row, I’d show an example but I’m on my phone in class rn

[unborn bay]

joj

[zealous glen]

Maybe later

[tall apex]

joj

[zealous glen]

joj

[tall apex]

Wait I think I was incorrect here it translates much better over lineart then pixel art, you do wanna push perspective but you’ll be able to do that by slanting the joker letters on the bottom along with the angle of the teeth

Might be hard in pixel art but life finds away and so do teeth

[zealous glen]

I thought about changing the perspective but I couldn’t make the letters look readable

The first G is already hard to read

A slanted J doesn’t read very clearly in that tiny space

[tall apex]

No? Hrmm

[zealous glen]

A slanted J would move along the diagonal

So the proportions would look off

[zealous glen]

Maybe with clever sub pixel coloring but Idk

[hushed field]

You can use 'half'pixels to imply a less steep angle than pixels would allow for

[tall apex]

Maybe something like that?

[tall apex]

That’s a skill I need to learn for SURE

[zealous glen]

Yeah I’m not that skilled

[hushed field]

Half pixels are clever sub coloring so I guess you're already up to date on that tech, Victin, haha

[zealous glen]

Akai might be

[tall apex]

also sorry if I’m yapping I’m an art nerd and I love talking about art <3

[zealous glen]

Yap more

[tall apex]

I love giving people tips and critique while maintaining a respectful and objective composure RAHHHHHH

[hushed field]

I'd ease the dithering a bit, btw, you don't need it, as it makes these kind of textures look a bit more hairy or fabric-y.

[tall apex]

I kinda fw it in a weird way

[unborn bay]

man i wish i was good at art

[hushed field]

If you wanna imitate the hatched shading that JJBA uses, I'd use another shade to imply the hatching partially

[zealous glen]

The original version didn't have dithering but it looked too incomplete to me

[zealous glen]

?

[hushed field]

Yeah, the white is very present, I can see why it feels a bit more necessary. I think at this level of detail, it's better served by a transitory shade, but that's maybe breaking palette restrictions a bit

[zealous glen]

Yeah I was trying to stick to the vanilla palette

I could maybe ease the dithering on the clothing

I'm not sure it looks good

[hushed field]

What you could do is go harsher on the shade, and just shade it in Balatro black, using hatching, and then use the darker white shade as the median colour

Mind if I try to mess around with it a bit?

[zealous glen]

I don't mind

[daring fern]

How does one check if a card has any sticker?

[candid sleet]

crash occured when 5oak with 5s was played

trying to make a joker that adds 5X Xmult when you play five 5s

also i think even if this didnt crash it would have added 5x mult per 5 played which is also something i'd need to fix

[hushed field]

you're using old syntax! if you just return x_mult, instead of Xmult_mod, you will not need to return the message or colour yourself!

[candid sleet]

ah ok

that doesnt really address the crash though i don't think

ok well i say that

now it crashed after adding chips for the 5s

does it have something to do with the setup for checking for five 5s

right now i think all it's doing is checking to see how many 5s it needs to trigger and if it's a foak

this was working fine earlier though when it was chips and flat mult instead of xMult

[hushed field]

it's a strange crash. Which line is the one crashing?

[candid sleet]

idk how to check that

[hushed field]

the crash log tells you that it's line 47 in the ModdedVanilla.lua file. It's just that your screenshot doesn't include line numbers so I can't see why it'd crash

[daring fern]

Rise.

[hushed field]

check if it doesn't have no sticker, basically.

[candid sleet]

return {vars = { card.ability.extra.Xmult }}

[daring fern]

How?

[hushed field]

i was gonna say .sticker ~= nil, but I'm realizing that would check for stake win stickers as well

[hushed field]

oh yeah, you write center where you should be writing card

should've spotted that earlier

[long sun]

hihi, i'm back :3

the console says nothing when i use this Spectral

[candid sleet]

no worries prob would have helped if i included line numbers in the first place

[long sun]

and the localize() functiont throws an error

so i'm assuming _hand is nil

[hushed field]

the issue is that stickers aren't as defined of an object class in base game, but I think you can use SMODS.stickers to iterate and check. Let me see how you can see if it's got gameplay-related stickers

[candid sleet]

uhhh no crash anymore but there is also just no xmult

[long sun]

do you see anything immediately wrong? :>

[daring fern]

What is G.handlist?

[long sun]

i'm guessing it's the list of hands in the game

what you'd see if you opened Run Info

that's how the game seems to use it, anyway

[limber blaze]

G.GAME.hands is that i thought

[daring fern]

Why are you iterating through G.handlist but checking through G.GAME.hands?

[hushed field]

your context conditions might not be entered. The previous crash was happening in loc_vars, after all

[long sun]

hmm true ^^

[tall apex]

Try pushing in the J and lowering the angle, specifically where the cross section meets move that one pixel left and up, then extend the left part of the top :3

[hushed field]

I think stickers are set without notifying the card they're on taht they're stickers, so you can't specifically find out if they generally, unless smods added a function, I'm missing. But you can iterate through SMODS.Stickers, and check if card.ability[sticker_key] is true, which is how vanilla stickers are implemented

[candid sleet]

anything odd about them here?

[tall apex]

Something like that might work!

[hushed field]

not spotting something that'd immediately indicates why it doesn't trigger, but I'd just add some print statements after each if statement, see which ones get printed

[tall apex]

I tried to do new dark pixels in red, remove dark pixels in yellow, and blue for the implied line of motion

I’d do more but again, phone

[unborn bay]

phon,,,,,

[candid sleet]

they all printed 5 times, presumably once per card played

[long sun]

changing the code to this didn't work either

[hushed field]

hmm, strange, if the hello 2 gets printed, then the x mult should be given out.

[daring fern]

Is what you showed the entire code of the use function?

[long sun]

no

it's crashing when trying to localise it

[candid sleet]

yeah i got hello 1 hello 2 hello 3 five times in a row

[zealous glen]

This?

[hushed field]

that's really weird. There's nothing there that should stop that from triggering, unless the x_mult returned happens to be 1. Have you spawned a clean copy of the joker?

[candid sleet]

i'll start a new run and see

[daring fern]

It's because v is the hand and k is the name of the hand, you need to set _hand to k

[long sun]

ah grand

thanks :D

nah, same error

[daring fern]

I don't think you can do var1, var2 = '1', '2' in lua.

[candid sleet]

yeah doing a new run fixed it

[paper zealot]

Good catch, that should be G.C.UI.TEXT_INACTIVE. Not sure how that snuck in, will fix. Did you find any other errors?

[candid sleet]

it's giving x5 mult for each card though, how would i make it so it only gives one x5 mult after the chips

[scarlet thorn]

I haven't, but if I do, I know who to contact now!

[runic pecan]

Does playing card have anything similar to remove_from_deck? A function that runs when it is destroyed?

[cursive sentinel]

is it possible to enter personnalized text in the tooltip? and if so, is it also in the info queue of loc vars, or is it more complicated?

[tall apex]

I think that looks really good yeah! :3

[cursive sentinel]

which wouldnt be related to another card's text

[zealous glen]

Any suggestions for the first G?

[long sun]

context.cards_destroyed

oh wait i see

nevermind =w=

[tall apex]

This’d be what I’d do is clear up that pixel on the bottom so it doesn’t push on his lip, and move that dark pixel to the other side to convey consistent weight

[tall apex]

That one’s gonna be very hard, g is such a detailed letter that needs a lot of space, but with pixel art it’s hell trying to get the little swirly in the middle

[long sun]

complex numbers?? whar??

[limber blaze]

this is purely visual but i might actually use the idea for something

i dont wanna encroach on green deck for the corruption mod tho

[long sun]

does it take the real component as the hand size, or the magnitude?

[limber blaze]

no questions

[zealous glen]

I don't think it needs to be detailed

I think if it were 1 pixel wider it would read clearer

[long sun]

the plot thickens. the loop isn't being run at all

[daring fern]

Are you sure this is in the right function?

[long sun]

print?

[daring fern]

Is it just the loop thats not being run?

[long sun]

mhm

oh do you mean it might be just pairs?

[daring fern]

Yes.

[long sun]

aha! thanks :D

[runic pecan]

I have a sticker that triples prob.norm at context.before and divides prob.norm by 3 at context.after, and I'm worried that it being destroyed (e.g. shattered) will prevent it from doing the after step.
Is it that a thing or do I not need to worry about that case?

[long sun]

ah, no, still broken, but it ran the loop :D

[limber blaze]

its meant to say clockwise for chips but its a mistake

[long sun]

okay now the loop isn't running again :P

[long sun]

i think it should specify that this is on an Argand diagram

[daring fern]

Entries in G.GAME.hands don't have a key in them.

[long sun]

so:
Rotates Mult 90 degrees clockwise and Chips 90 degrees counterclockwise on an Argand diagram

[long sun]

ah ^^

what would the fix be? .name?

also, i'm guessing i didn't write the for loop correctly :>

[runic pecan]

bump

[daring fern]

Also you don't have to declare a variable as nil

You just have to declare it.

[long sun]

fair

okay well i think this is an XY problem, so lemme undo a bit and explain what i'm trying to fix

the level_up_hand function takes a number for the hand

like, as an index into G.GAME.hands

and, i'm not sure how to get that ^^"

[daring fern]

It can take a number or a string.

[long sun]

ah

[iron iron]

i assume its meant to do nothing

bait at its finest

[long sun]

woah it worked!!!!!

is there a way to sort the hands from highest to lowest, though? ^^

[daring fern]

Highest to lowest in terms of what?

[long sun]

Flush Five to High Card

so, order on the Run Info page

[daring fern]

G.GAME.hands is in that order.

[native zinc]

now the question is what count's as "greater than 300 chips" in the imaginary plane

absolute value? horizontal vector length?

[long sun]

no? logging them gave me Three of a Kind last, and using the Spectral upgraded Straight

[long sun]

oh weird, it seems to be random each time. i tried it again, and it upgraded Four of a Kind

[daring fern]

What is the goal of your card?

[long sun]

Upgrade your most played poker hand 3 times

new code

[daring fern]

If it's getting the most played hand why would the order matter?

[long sun]

if it's a tie

ooh i might make it random if it is, though

[limber blaze]

opposite rotations cancel out so it doesnt matter

90 degrees clockwise * 90 degrees counterclockwise = 0 degrees

its basically just a do nothing joker

[long sun]

not quite

it's like swapping Chips and Mult