💻・modding-dev

[maiden river]

reading the docs 🗣️

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Calculate-Functions

[zealous glen]

Wikipedia just says an index is a key in an associative array. I don't think CS keys have their own page, although in mathematics there are pages for indexed sets and stuff

[worldly fractal]

how are yall so fast at that

[hardy viper]

which makes me wonder, if you have a table with indexes 1-8 being normal, and you nil 5, does that relocate 6/7/8 to the hashmap or what

i don't know how that works

[zealous glen]

people ask about it all the time and we use this as reference all the time

[maiden river]

well I just had the page open 😭
it's handy

[red flower]

i mean yeah that also complies with what I said that they imply order lol

[zealous glen]

ipairs stops when there are breaks AFAIK

[zealous glen]

not really in either CS or mathematics

[limber blaze]

ipairs iirc starts at 1 and stops if theres a gap

[zealous glen]

they just need to identify another member of the pair

[hardy viper]

ya im aware but it probably only operates on the array section

[burnt cairn]

wait this was just there 😭

[zealous glen]

Wikipedia doesn't say anything about order, and I know it's true for mathematics

[maiden river]

also if you have the lua language engine in your ide and you point it towards the smods folder the contexts have autocomplete

[hardy viper]

so like, ipairs might loosely not follow the convention there

[maiden river]

it's been here the whole time

https://tenor.com/view/game-changer-dropout-tv-collegehumor-sam-reich-ive-been-here-the-whole-time-gif-25178988

[burnt cairn]

labyrinth ass wiki its all there but god knows im not getting there myself

[maiden river]

every day I become more like sam

[next timber]

sam reich jumpscare

[maiden river]

well it's on the sidebar 😭

[zealous glen]

Wikipedia also says this in the Associative Array page

[burnt cairn]

its called calculate functions not list of context functions 😭

[red flower]

yeah thats a dictionary

[maiden river]

well calculate is pretty much the only time you're using context anyway

[zealous glen]

yeah I was about to say that

[maiden river]

but I agree, the wording is a little confusing at first glance

[zealous glen]

Dictionary indices don't require order

[maiden river]

the great lua table debate of 2025

[burnt cairn]

as someone who doesnt know what calculate is. its a lottle confusing at most of the other glances as well

its not very beginner friendly

[next timber]

tbf it did take me some time to come to grips with how balatros code works

[maiden river]

I do wish the example mods covered a few more jokers

[zealous glen]

There's a page to get started that explains what calculate is

[next timber]

but looking through the examples cleared up a bunch

[hardy viper]

nvm i forgot luajit code is unreadable ill never know

[maiden river]

like sixth sense/trading card and pareidolia

or smth like golden joker

oh wait golden's in there nvm

[burnt cairn]

im pretty sure it- yeah

[hardy viper]

i would imagine that relocating at worst case an entire array into a hashmap is slow so he doesn't do that but meh

[maiden river]

another nice one would be steel joker, to show better ways to display numbers that can change at any time

[hardy viper]

i don't think a gap in the array is a big deal

now that i think about it those exist anyways

[lyric wadi]

actually this so much

i have a problem with numbers on my card lagging behind sometimes

[maiden river]

(psa: just do it in the loc_vars function)

[lyric wadi]

cuz it's not updating frequently enough

[thorn flame]

how do i make it so every card is drawn face down

or like anything simialr

[zealous glen]

what the heck are you people doing @_@

[burnt cairn]

teleporting 6 months into the future to when i know all this and fixing the documentation myself

[zealous glen]

use the Blind context

[maiden river]

it's run every time you hover over the joker
just make sure you check that whatever you're counting isn't nil first

[thorn flame]

context setting blind?

i want to do it for a joker

[zealous glen]

no

[maiden river]

well it's hard to "fix the docs" because there's not really a specified level of information that needs to be there, as of yet
all you can really do is add the info people ask for

[burnt cairn]

true

[maiden river]

like I'd like a lot more information on localization stuff

[burnt cairn]

im just moody cause im confused

[maiden river]

which apparently john smods said was coming

but it's been
a while

[thorn flame]

i get it

[zealous glen]

context.stay_flipped

[thorn flame]

then

[zealous glen]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/pull/548

[thorn flame]

ah

[zealous glen]

wait it's dave strider

[red flower]

I'm fine with making more guides and stuff but please don't tutorialize the docs I'd like things to be easy to find lol

[maiden river]

that's also important

I think there should be a different wiki for examples

[thorn flame]

yes

hi

its me dave strider

[shut crater]

It's called GitHub /s

[maiden river]

huh 😭

[burnt cairn]

clicking on your site and seeing "boyfriend named john" was extremely funny

[maiden river]

whose site?

[burnt cairn]

arizonas

[zealous glen]

davejohn?

that's an og ship

[placid star]

can anyone diagnose the issue here? my tarot doesnt do anything upon use

[thorn flame]

ITS CRAZY RIGHT

[limber blaze]

its case sensitive so you need to do use and not Use

[maiden river]

does anyone know how to retrigger cards in areas that aren't the played hand

I need to retrigger a card in a custom area

[zealous glen]

I mean, if context.repetitions is called there

[red flower]

did you register that custom area with a patch?

if so then it should be sent to repetitions

[maiden river]

yeah

nothing's happening tho

lemme send the actual code

[red flower]

is this for playing cards or joker-like stuff

[zealous glen]

That's Joker evaluation not playing cards

[maiden river]

yeah it's not a playing card

[maiden river]

joker-like, I suppose? technically it's a consumable card

the one on the right

[zealous glen]

Jokers can't retrigger in vanilla, but maybe if you enable Joker retriggers it should work?

[burnt cairn]

is that a friends vs friends mod

[maiden river]

yes

#1341490760889143327

[burnt cairn]

banger?

[maiden river]

indeed

it would be more banger if I could figure this out 😭

now I need to figure out how to turn on the joker retrigger thing

curse you, docs

[burnt cairn]

looking at https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Calculate-Functions it does not seem to mention context.scoring_hand

[maiden river]

scoring_hand isn't available all the time, so it's under all the contexts where it is

[burnt cairn]

.

[languid mirage]

all you really need is scoring_hand =

[red flower]

it's not a "main context" is more like a field inside the context table

[burnt cairn]

this is confusing

[languid mirage]

context variable is just a table

table stores data

[red flower]

i do think the way that's structured is confusing, but I think it's being rewritten

[burnt cairn]

cause im looking at #💻・modding-dev message trying to derive what im meant to be doing for myself and. it uses a context.scoring_hand

and alledgedly does what its meant to just fine

[red flower]

the way that you read this is

if context.joker_main then -- if this condition is true
---then the context table contains this information
context = {
    cardarea = G.jokers,
    full_hand = G.play.cards,
    scoring_hand = scoring_hand,
    scoring_name = text,
    poker_hands = poker_hands,
    joker_main = true,
}

[burnt cairn]

ookay

then for for index, _card in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) do, context.scoring_hand refers to a table of card keys and the ipairs is iterating through it

is there a reason to use context.scoring_hand and not just scoring_hand

[red flower]

not card keys but card objects

[red flower]

scoring_hand doesn't exist as a global variable (as far as i know)

[languid mirage]

nope it does not

if you go to the source code, you can perform Ctrl + Shift + F and search scoring_hand =

that will give you an idea how that is being calculated & used

[burnt cairn]

which file is this

getting a lot of

[languid mirage]

uhh

any reason you aren't using vscode?

[burnt cairn]

mostly the install is intimidating

[languid mirage]

I usually disable as much as I can

then install whatever is necessary whenever it is necessary

but uh state_events.lua

[burnt cairn]

🫡

i think what im gonna do is scour through #💻・modding-dev message and comment it to hell until i know how it works

[faint yacht]

They wouldn't be alone in using N++ for developing stuff. 😛

[languid mirage]

I prefer IDE's mostly because of the LSP

so much easier to spot mistakes

[next timber]

all my python gets written in n++

whenever i read n++ i think of the hit platforming game for the nintendo ds

[red flower]

same

[last sentinel]

if im making a joker that does something like: "if played hand is a straight, all face cards held in hand give +10 mult", would the best context to trigger the face cards be context.individual? Idk why but my head is having a hard time wrapping around this one

[red flower]

the ds game i mean, if i had to program in notepad++ i would die

[next timber]

lmao

n++ was fun i should play more n++

[languid mirage]

shouldn't it be held in hand context if you want held in hand effect?

oh

I guess it is

context.individual and context.cardarea == G.hand

[last sentinel]

Thats what i figured, does that only trigger before scoring?

[brisk rose]

My very few small cracks at modding have been done in my Linux distro's default text editor, xed (a fork of gedit) which I think is a step below n++ in pretty much every way

[maiden river]

What distro do you use?

[brisk rose]

Linux Mint

[lavish pine]

can someone help me import some textures we've drawn into my balatro modpack, I have no idea how to do it even though its simple mb

[maiden river]

Cool!
I've never used it but I've heard nice things

[brisk rose]

It's like Ubuntu but without Canonical's nonsense

[torpid garden]

the game crashes when i use joker and it says attempt to call table value. the error is on line 56 idk whats wrong

[brisk rose]

It's literally built on Ubuntu

[burnt cairn]

im yet to find a reason to switch from windows 🙂‍↕️

[red flower]

you got the answer in the other channel

[torpid garden]

didnt work

[torpid garden]

yeah

[red flower]

well thats the problem

[torpid garden]

still crashes

with the same issue

[brisk rose]

The vast availability of .deb packages and things like ppas make Ubuntu and to a lesser extent Debian based distros the obvious choice to me, even compared to other 'it just works' distros

[red flower]

can you post the crash log

[burnt cairn]

when youre asking for help its generally a good idea to give as much information as possible

[maiden river]

It really shouldn't be
Also do you ever put anything in seen_ranks before you try using pairs anyway

[brisk rose]

I'm probably smart enough to f with arch but I don't hate myself enough

[sturdy compass]

Just found out Seals don't have an in_pool function. Day ruined
(Or at the very least it isn't documented if it exists)

[brisk rose]

Either t o fuck or fuck w i t h is a banned string, weird

[placid star]

what would be the code to make a specific joker spawn as often as a common whilst being another rarity?

[maiden river]

Technically it wouldn't matter, but still

[sturdy compass]

It's just not documented. Day saved

[maiden river]

I used to use EndeavourOS, which is arch-based, but without a lot of the headache

[maiden river]

We love undocumented functions

The pairs thing reminded me of when I was writing a nested loop and my teacher wanted me to use i twice instead of i and j

[red flower]

what

lmao

[zealous glen]

???

[hardy viper]

i can understand i and j

i can understand _ and i

but i and i is out of touch

[red flower]

me trying not to be egocentric:

[hardy viper]

lmao

[rapid stag]

bump

[torpid garden]

there was a double space before "do"

[red flower]

i hope you get an answer to this someday

[placid star]

bump... 👉 👈

[ancient plinth]

Rq, can I have y'alls thoughts on a joker idea I had for my mod?

[placid star]

id love to hear!!

[ancient plinth]

The winning hand of a blind upgrades the ranks of all scored cards

[placid star]

hmm i like that, but considering you cant choose a minimal amount of cards to upgrade it could be a risk to pick up

[hardy viper]

bump

[ancient plinth]

So it's good?

[placid star]

personally id make it something more like it only changes the two most left cards but that could work yeah

[ancient plinth]

I have another version of the idea, wanna hear it?

I thought of it just now

[placid star]

yeah sure

[ancient plinth]

When you play any hand, the lowest ranked scored card ranks up

[sturdy compass]

Thought of this silly interaction that could happen with these Seals

Free $20!!!

[ancient plinth]

How's the idea?

[placid star]

i like that more yeah

[ancient plinth]

K, thx

Wanna hear an idea I had for another joker?

[placid star]

sure

[ancient plinth]

All played hands get the Jelly enhancement, the Jelly enhancement causes played cards to retrigger once for every joker, there is only a limited number of cards this joker can affect before it destroys itself though

How is the joker idea? As well as the enhancement idea

[thorn flame]

@sturdy compass COSPLAY JOKER WORKS I PATCHED IT THANK YOU SO MUCH

[sturdy compass]

Yahoo!

[thorn flame]

and YES it stacks with smeared

[sturdy compass]

Enjoy your free flushes and total destruction during suit bosses lol

[zealous glen]

the trollker

[ancient plinth]

How is this idea?

[formal parrot]

Yo mr white someone’s at the door

[rapid stag]

eremel told me they would look into it, so i am still waiting on them, but i don't understand why i'm the only one experiencing this - this literally just happens when i'm adding to the info_queue of certain enhancements. i can't be the only person that wants to do or has run into this

[red flower]

i have seen stuff like that asked before but i dont know if they got an answer

[glad osprey]

why the FUCK doesnt this work

[red flower]

i purposefully dont touch vanilla stuff in my mod so idk the answer

[glad osprey]

it just like doesnt change the fucking function

[carmine burrow]

shouldnt most of those be ret:method() not ccr:method()

[glad osprey]

im going to

do something bad

still doesnt hook tho

that print isnt printing

[red flower]

is it printing the over here part?

[glad osprey]

yes

[red flower]

then your file is cursed im sorry

[glad osprey]

yea that makes sense

even when i run the create_card manually it still doesnt work 😭

[sturdy compass]

try create_card = function(yadda yadda) instead

[ancient plinth]

How is this joker and enhancement idea also?

[ancient plinth]

Same as the other person?

[red flower]

yeah 5x red seal for multiple cards is more cryptid level

[glad osprey]

NOPE!!!!!

[sturdy compass]

damn, worth a shot

Is the base create card function still working?

[red flower]

is any of your mods overriding create_card maybe??

[glad osprey]

i am going to commit war crimes

[glad osprey]

cryptid!! !!!!!!!

[red flower]

i love cryptid

[sturdy compass]

stank

[ancient plinth]

Any other ideas for what to make the enhancement do?

I still wanna keep the theme of having more jokers makes it stronger

[glad osprey]

i forgot cryptid just says fuck you and rewrites the entirety of create_card

[unborn bay]

how's your generate_ui looking

[ancient plinth]

What about Xchips equivilant to how many jokers you have?

[unborn bay]

info_queue works by recursively calling generate_card_ui and adding it to the info table of the full_UI_table

[ancient plinth]

Does Xchips work in base balatro?

[glad osprey]

no

[hard needle]

yo you play grace rifght

[glad osprey]

but with smods it does

[glad osprey]

yea

[sturdy compass]

It does with SMODS now

[red flower]

damn

[hard needle]

you know what slugfish is right

[glad osprey]

yea

worm

[ancient plinth]

Do I need talisman for it?

[red flower]

nope

[hard needle]

hhhhhhhhhhhhh bro the art looks so shit but i dont know how to draw slugfish

[unborn bay]

if you don't have a check for desc_nodes checking for full_UI_table.main then its always gonna go to the description

[hard needle]

what do You think of This>>>>

[glad osprey]

gimmick is cool

[zealous glen]

do you mean ranks 3 and 5

[glad osprey]

art is eh

[modern kindle]

does this have any benefit or is it just limiting you for no gain

[ancient plinth]

Then how do I do Xchips?

[red flower]

xchips = value

[hard needle]

no i mean if the length of the played hand is 3 or 5 cards

[glad osprey]

deckfixing

[hard needle]

deck thinning

[glad osprey]

also maybe do if hand has an odd amount of cards

[rapid stag]

when i had it on, it looked like this.

but my first port of call is a lovely patch i have that appends to info_queue in the vanilla generate_card_ui() based on conditions

and each time, without fail, with the exception of stone cards, for enhancements, it merges the tooltip info into the description

[glad osprey]

and somehow work in greater than 1 card

[ancient plinth]

How's this version of the enhancement also?

[rapid stag]

actually no

[ancient plinth]

it's +0.1x chips per joker btw

[hard needle]

i feel like its a pretty Good joker

[rapid stag]

for this and when i tried in loc_vars, it did the tooltip correctly, but it broke the normal description

[hard needle]

the mechanic Even symbolizes what slugfish does in grace

[rapid stag]

because gold card's description expects a var for its dollar value that it gets from generate_card_ui(), and you can't feed it in via a take_ownership() so it breaks

[glad osprey]

maybe use the peer pressure badge for reference in terms of art

[hard needle]

i tried to use the note as a reference

[scenic pewter]

Where do I learn to code lovely lua? Preferably free…

[hard needle]

but the note is so weird

so i looked for fanart

and tried to use that as a reference

[rapid stag]

but eremel says i should be able to just append to info_queue via lovely patch

which is and has always been my first method

which is what results in the tooltip merging when i do it for enhancements other than stone

so i don't know what's going wrong

[unborn bay]

have you tried putting the info_queue insert before you call SMODS.Center.generate_ui

[rapid stag]

i don't see how it could have fixed it, but i tried and it is as i said,

same result. the tooltip is added correctly, but as i said is what happens when i do this, the var in the description is broken

[next timber]

it just works

[unborn bay]

actually i think i know the problem

SMODS.Enhancement has its own override for generate_ui

maybe call that instead of SMODS.Centers.generate_ui

[cyan lagoon]

question is there something like SMODS.poll_seal for editions?

[rapid stag]

no change

[red flower]

poll_edition (no SMODS)

[cyan lagoon]

thanks

[ancient plinth]

How do I make it so the game detects the cards with the lowest rank?

[cyan lagoon]

getting an error

[cyan lagoon]

pretty sure you can just go into the game's source and find Raised Fist for that

[ancient plinth]

Idk how

[cyan lagoon]

open Balatro.exe with 7Zip

[next timber]

why does this code (modified so it always trigges and always produces chicot, shown in screenshot) lead to the first egg not flipping back properly?

[ancient plinth]

do I need to copy the exe?

[cyan lagoon]

no

just open it

right click > 7-Zip > open archive

[ancient plinth]

There are two open archive options

[cyan lagoon]

first one

[ancient plinth]

K, thx

[cyan lagoon]

card.lua

that's where the jokers are

[ancient plinth]

Thx

[cyan lagoon]

ur welcome

[zealous glen]

I mean it's recommended to copy it to have a backup

But you can probably just redownload it from Steam

[ancient plinth]

I found and copied the code for Raised Fist's ability

[next timber]

bump? please this is like the last thing before i can post an alpha

[cyan lagoon]

maybe do the second flip in another G.E_MANAGER?

[next timber]

you mean, seperate to the set_ability?

[cyan lagoon]

yeah

that's how i have it

[agile dew]

how do i make a joker trigger after scoring? to, for example, delete a playing card

[next timber]

didnt work

[next timber]

looking closer it looks like it's actually flipping 3 times??

[zealous glen]

maybe try to print something to track how often it's flipping

[cyan lagoon]

well, the extent of my knowledge end here

[rapid stag]

bump

[ancient plinth]

Same

[desert ore]

how do I make a joker that effects base chips like same timing as the flint?

[cyan lagoon]

i'd say context.before but i think that triggers before the hand gets calculated

[glad osprey]

how do I make it so a card activates when ANYTHING is bought, not just a card

[desert ore]

yeah this is the issue

[glad osprey]

fhat only works for cards

i want it to be when anything is bought

like vouchers or booster packs

[cyan lagoon]

safe bet is to go into the game source and look at the flint

[desert ore]

already have, blind contexts work differently than joker contexts from what I can tell

unless I can use those some how

[glad osprey]

what context does the flint use?

[restive pine]

hi, uh... how do i make a texture pack? (for jokers specifically if that means anything)

[desert ore]

it doesn't even really use contexts, tbh I don't even really get it

it's just not the same format as how jokers work

[glad osprey]

ah

wait why wouldn't before work?

[cyan lagoon]

.

[glad osprey]

isnt that what they wanted tho?

[next timber]

i put prints in all the events and theyre printing the expected amount of times

[glad osprey]

or am I misunderstanding

[desert ore]

whenever I modify chips during context.before, whenever any new chips are added it goes to what it would be otherwise

[glad osprey]

aaaah

[desert ore]

mult works fine from what I can tell

[glad osprey]

try adding

return {
   chips = 0,
   mult = 0
}

to a before context

see if that works

[desert ore]

I think I've tried but I'll try again to show what happens

[glad osprey]

sometimes it just doesn't like recognizing that chips have changed without that

so worth a shot

[desert ore]

wait what

so setting chips to zero before I do things?

[glad osprey]

no return chips = 0

[glad osprey]

like this

inside of the before context

if context.before then
    -- other stuff here
    return {
          chips = 0
     }
end

for example

but don't just copy that

[desert ore]

yeah ok

[tall wharf]

I'm so done with solitaire

I'll just disable double click stacking

[steady smelt]

is there a way to make emplace() happen instantly instead of having tweening?

like G.play:emplace(_card)

[ancient plinth]

Ngl I am so confused with what I am doing with this joker

[desert ore]

I don't know why this worked but tysm

[glad osprey]

localthunk

[ancient plinth]

the Joker ranks up the lowest ranked scored card after you play a hand

I have no idea what I am doing with this one

[glad osprey]

bump

[brisk rose]

Check for buying cards, boosters, and vouchers? Pretty sure that's all you can buy

[glad osprey]

HOW??????

and no context.buying_card doesnt work because that only applies to cards not boosters or vouchers

[sturdy compass]

It does apply to vouchers

[glad osprey]

oh

well it still doesnt apply to boosters

[sturdy compass]

for boosters it's context.open_booster

[brisk rose]

Is there a way to separate boosters purchased from those from tags and whatnot?

I presume they'd wanna

[sturdy compass]

Could maybe check for G.STATE == G.STATES.SHOP

[iron haven]

who is a modding pro?

[sturdy compass]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[red flower]

please don't do this

[iron haven]

oh U works now.

okay so how am I going to make V?

[glad osprey]

why are you telling us 😭

[sturdy compass]

They just do this man

[iron haven]

creates a voucher tag if last hand contains a 5. How am I going to make this into code?

[brisk rose]

That shouldn't be too hard if you have any experience

[steady smelt]

when you use a comsumable from an arcana pack, what position does it get moved to? like, usually it gets moved to play, but from an arcana pack it gets moved down lower since cards are in the way

[sturdy compass]

Considering they've gone through most of the alphabet I'd hope so

[steady smelt]

or even just using a consumable while in an arcana pack

actually easier question

is there a way to make the hand displayed while in a pack opening screen disappear temporarily?

[zinc forum]

Sharing the thing I was trying to do yesterday and failed miserably (but this time, it's done and I'm proud of it)
It's an enhancement that copies rank, suit and enhancement of the card on its left

[glad osprey]

that fucking rhythm heaven megamix alien i hate

[zinc forum]

xDDD

[glad osprey]

cool tho

[iron haven]

How do I make make tags?

[zinc forum]

Hope it's OP enough to change your mind :>

[glad osprey]

look at the source code

please 🙏

learn from already existing content rather than immediately going to us for help

[iron haven]

what's a badge mean in code?

[zinc forum]

It has been hell to make work honestly

[glad osprey]

that is not at all related to tags those are the things the rarities of jokers show up on

these

@iron haven think of any already exsisting vanilla joker that does what you are looking for (creating tags in this case)

[iron haven]

Diet Cola.

[glad osprey]

yes!

now look at it's code in card.lau

lua

(source code is dumped into mods/lovely/dump fyi)

[iron haven]

card.lua?

[glad osprey]

the source code file

[iron haven]

oh

[glad osprey]

found here

[iron haven]

oh yes. NOTHING.

[sturdy compass]

I really hate being harsh like this but we've told you we cannot handhold you for the entire development cycle of a mod. You've gotta learn how to do things yourself man

[iron haven]

oh that's the text file.

play_sound('generic1', 0.9 + math.random()*0.1, 0.8) play_sound('holo1', 1.2 + math.random()*0.1, 0.4) what's this?

[sturdy compass]

no way bro

[glad osprey]

please use some basic observation skills and read what you sent

what do you think play_sound could possibly do

[iron haven]

oh yeah. to make voucher tags? would the code be tag_voucher?

brb

[glad osprey]

whats the key that diet cola uses

[ancient plinth]

Can someone please help me with this? I am confused

[glad osprey]

what does that even mean

[ancient plinth]

I am trying to figure out how to make a joker, I am quite confused

[glad osprey]

yea no

i am asking what the joker means

bcus that just sounded like a word salad

[ancient plinth]

So basically combine Strength and Raised Fist

When you play a hand

[glad osprey]

ah I see

[ancient plinth]

The lowest ranked card in the hand you played ranks up

[glad osprey]

how do you want to handle multiple of the same rank?

[gilded narwhal]

hey gang is there a mod that does the thing where there's like a button to discover all

in the config i mean

[ancient plinth]

They all rank up

[glad osprey]

just use the normal discover all button

[glad osprey]

ok in that case I'd say look at how raised fist checks for the lowest rank and then apply strengths code to all of the cards of that rank

[rapid stag]

bump

[ancient plinth]

I looked at it earlier and am quite confused

[sturdy compass]

I feel so bad for not being able to help every time you bump this

[gilded narwhal]

That exists?

I had no idea

[rapid stag]

in profile

[zealous glen]

I've added tooltips to my modded Enhancement without issues, so idk

[sturdy compass]

NTF's have some complicated mumbo jumbo to 'em that I barely understand

[rapid stag]

yes, but i'm just trying to add a tooltip to a vanilla enhancement. and so far it's been straightforward for literally only stone

stone you can just append to the info_queue in generate_card_ui() and it works as you'd expect

everything else has so far been an uphill battle and i'm left hanging with gold because either i do it that way and it merges the text into the description, or i try taking ownership and it breaks the var

[zinc forum]

Uhhhhhh
Might have already been suggested but I know Pokermon has like a thousand infoboxes, surely there's something there right...?

[rapid stag]

for vanilla items?

[zinc forum]

I'm gonna be honest I'm not quite sure x)

I should double check

[iron haven]

back

[glad osprey]

yea thats it

[ancient plinth]

I feel so confused

[zinc forum]

Yeah nevermind, my bad

Trying to think about a mod that would add to vanilla infoboxes

[iron haven]

ok now I have a logic error for V.

It doesn't spawn the tag when last hand contains a 5.

[glad osprey]

ok

fix it then

[scarlet spire]

we can't know what the issue is if you don't show the code

[glad osprey]

also we arent gonna hold your hand throughout the entire development of your mod

that is the entirety of your code we did not need that

only the one jokers snippet

[zinc forum]

Well the code for SMODS does generate_card_ui for each item in the info_queue so at this point I'm not sure

for _, v in ipairs(info_queue) do
    generate_card_ui(v, full_UI_table)
end

Can I see how you add to the info queue?

[iron haven]

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'victor',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'V',
        text = {
            "Creates a {C:attention}Voucher Tag{} if last hand contains a {C:attention}5{}."
        }
    },
    atlas = "Jokers",
    pos = {x = 5, y = 2},
    config = { extra = {
        }
    }, 
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,
    rarity = 2,
    cost = 7,
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.final_scoring_step and G.GAME.current_round.hands_left == 0 and ( context.cardarea == G.play and context.other_card:get_id() == 5 ) then
                add_tag(Tag('tag_voucher'))
                play_sound('generic1', 0.9 + math.random()*0.1, 0.8)
                play_sound('holo1', 1.2 + math.random()*0.1, 0.4)
                   return true
        end
    end
end
}

[glad osprey]

why is that one part of the if in parenthesis

also final scoring step doesnt have a other_card i think

[iron haven]

really?

[glad osprey]

yea

read the docs

[iron haven]

I guess it doesn't. So how do I fix that?

[glad osprey]

figure it out

youve gone through more than half the alphabet surely you can figure stuff out on your own 😭

[iron haven]

I don't know...

if context.final_scoring_step and G.GAME.current_round.hands_left == 0 and context.cardarea == G.play and context.other_card:get_id() == 5 then
``` Has to be about this line?

[scarlet spire]

you're going to want to loop through G.play.cards and check if any of them equal 5

final scoring step doesn't have an other_card because that refers to contexts where cards are evaluated individually (like context.individual, context.repetitions, etc)

[formal parrot]

YEAH I NEVER WANNA DANCE AGAIN

[iron haven]

how do I make a for loop in lua?

is it just for?

[glad osprey]

GOOGLE !!!!!

(just google questions that apply to lua in general)

but yea

[formal parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/google-gif-google-gif-for-messages-google-gif-gif-1045234766527568383

[iron haven]

why are there %'s?

[rapid stag]

alright well, it's a complex pipeline i've worked out that just basically lets me specify tooltip keys (defined in my localization file) in a table based on item key - it looks overly complex, but basically the lovely patch basically just puts in a call to my mod's function, which looks for the key of the thing in my table (works a little differently for playing cards) and returns the correct tooltip key if there is one.

boiled down, literally all that's happening is that it's doing info_queue[#info_queue+1] = { key = [key of item in my localization file], set = 'Other' } there isn't really much point going into the nuance of this system, especially since i can show that it works for every other case i have where i use this. the point of the system is to just enable convenience of being able to specify "hey, for this item, append this tooltip to it, here's the key, go"

right before that loop from generate_card_ui() that you showed

[iron haven]

{% for i in range(11) %}
  {{ i }}
{% endfor %}

what?

[glad osprey]

where the fuck are you looking

that is def not lua

[scarlet spire]

that's definitely not lua yeah

[formal parrot]

This is python bro

[scarlet spire]

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lua/lua_for_loop.htm

[formal parrot]

This is if python and c had a child

[scarlet spire]

this seems to be a good introduction to for loops in lua

[iron haven]

wtf is Jinja?

[formal parrot]

Ninja but with j

[glad osprey]

definitely NOT lua

[iron haven]

it's just ```lua
for

[glad osprey]

yes like i said

[ancient plinth]

What do I do?

[rapid stag]

here's an example of it working

[glad osprey]

fix it?????

[ancient plinth]

How?

[glad osprey]

read the error

[scarlet spire]

error is at line 571, you showed completely unrelated code

[glad osprey]

no

thats the smods error

their error is at 104

[scarlet spire]

ah wait

yeah

[brisk rose]

But there is no bracketing issues I can see

[rapid stag]

this error is actually not intuitive - it doesn't like what you're trying to set the variable to and thinks you should be ending the table there instead

[brisk rose]

Oh it needs to be a string

It thinks it's just another variable which confuses it

[glad osprey]

also there isnt a self in the context so

[brisk rose]

(From what I can pull out of my ass)

[glad osprey]

rather when your calling it

should be var_name = "value"

[rapid stag]

wait, why are you trying to set anything inside self.ability inside the config.extra definition

[glad osprey]

yea thats the issue

should be name = "whatever it was"

[ancient plinth]

Idk, I only started with lua yesterday

[glad osprey]

nop

AHA

boosters have a "from_tag" attribute!

now then how do i force a reroll

your kidding me.

its that easy?????

[ancient plinth]

What now?

[glad osprey]

why are you returning code

[ancient plinth]

Idk, I am using the strength and raised fist code

[glad osprey]

you shouldnt return code

[ancient plinth]

and I only started using LUA yesterday, so I am still quite unsure of how to do stuff

[glad osprey]

you should only return values

[ancient plinth]

So what should I do?

[glad osprey]

not return the code

infact you shouldnt have to return anything

[ancient plinth]

Do I just delete the return text?

[glad osprey]

yea

[ancient plinth]

The error code thing is still the same

with the unexpected symbol near the {

What's wrong?

[glad osprey]

you still have the curly brackets

[ancient plinth]

Which ones do I need to delete?

There are multiple curly brackets

You there?

[glad osprey]

the ones that were part of the return

[gilded narwhal]

hey guys why can this activate in the blind select

[faint yacht]

and #G.hand.cards > 0?

[ancient plinth]

Now what

[glad osprey]

you forgot the curly brackets for the event

[gilded narwhal]

This works ty

[ancient plinth]

at line 120?

[glad osprey]

yea

[ancient plinth]

What do I put the brackets around?

[glad osprey]

the entire event

[ancient plinth]

the entirety of line 120?

[glad osprey]

like this

[ancient plinth]

Now what?

[paper zealot]

I recommend installing the Lua extension and then running the auto-formatter with Shift+Alt+F first, it might help you recognise problems for yourself

[edgy reef]

The issue is on line 132 you're not returning true

You just have true.

But yeah Lua extension tells you about syntax errors like these.

[ancient plinth]

Now what?

[gentle rain]

how would i implement a check that occurs over an entire run, like tarot merchant tracking the number of tarots used in a whole game?

[brisk rose]

Store it in a G.game variable? But in just talking our of my ass tbh

[limber blaze]

that should work

[brisk rose]

I did possibly think of a possible alternate solution that doesn't require taking ownership, if you're interested at all. Maybe you could have the variable with the offset and do a check on every gold card to see if the pay got set back up the default and if it did, add it?

[gentle rain]

how would i store a game variable? would i just do "G.game.[var] = [value]"?

[limber blaze]

G.GAME.var = value yea

[ancient plinth]

Even with the extension I am still confused

What do I do?

[paper zealot]

First hit Shift+Alt+F to auto-format the code and indentation.
The first issue is the trailing comma on line 132, which is marked as an error by the red squiggly line, and by the red highlights on the right side.
Second issue is that there are mismatched statements or braces somewhere, which that final red squiggle is indicating. If you hover over the red squiggle, it'll explain the issue.

Lua doesn't allow trailing commas. The reason they're included in the SMODS.Joker initialisation is that each named parameter is being passed as a member of a table in a function call to SMODS.Joker init:

SMODS.Joker( --calling function
  { --start of table being passed to function
    key = 'balloon', -- table member named "key"
    rarity = 2,      -- table member named "rarity"
      --etc...
  } --end of table
)
```Anything outside of that table is code to be run, not a member of a table, and shouldn't have trailing commas

This is slightly hidden by the usage of the syntax SMODS.Joker{ ... } which is just a "convenient" shorthand for SMODS.Joker( { ... } ), but in my opinion makes it less obvious what's actually going on

[rapid stag]

bump

[paper zealot]

You say only the first additional info_queue entry gets merged to the tooltip - have you tried adding just an empty placeholder entry first, then adding your other desired tooltips afterwards?

[gentle rain]

whats the context for when any joker is destroyed? i'm not sure if remove_from_deck would work here

[rapid stag]

yes - what happens is it overrides the badge text with the set name
attempting to create a new blank one in a set with the correct name just causes it to say 'ERROR' instead.

[gentle rain]

im trying to make a global function that tracks when food jokers are destroyed

[gusty iron]

hihi!! quick question

how do i mark a boss blind as a finisher?

or

showdown

or whatever theyre called

[paper zealot]

Try adding a member replace_base_card = true to your table that you're adding onto info_queue

[shrewd cobalt]

trying to make a joker that makes a card when a glass heart card is destroyed, but its not sensing the context I think (testing using print functions) I'm using the code from glass joker

[gentle rain]

oh i found cards_destroyed in the code!!! does that apply to jokers?

[gusty iron]

bump

[paper zealot]

To follow onto this, it seems like this section in generate_card_ui() is what's responsible for the oddness around enhancements and Stone Cards being specifically excluded

So replace_base_card might work as a substitute

[proud moon]

Well the cards that are already gold retain their value, it’s just the ones made after reloading won’t be set to the new value, they get set to 3 like vanilla.

But I did realize while taking a shower that the idol works exactly how I need this to work, and that hooking is absolutely the right method for this.

..As I was told previously lol. I just didn’t realize how it was the right method.

My only confusion is how to setup the hook

[paper zealot]

Looking at the SMODS.Blind wiki page, it should just be boss.showdown = true

[gusty iron]

yeah i figured it out

now time to do the very painful coding

yayyyy

[proud moon]

If you get this working, does it also retain that value through reloading?

[gentle rain]

well currently im trying to find the context for when ANY joker is destroyed

would i have to like. create a new context for that?

[rapid stag]

no change 😔

[shut crater]

Mmm I don't think jokers get destroyed, just sold or debuffed

Unless I'm forgetting something

[gentle rain]

FOOD jokers get destroyed

[shut crater]

Ah

[gentle rain]

which is what im specifically looking for

food jokers

[paper zealot]

Is your code up on GitHub, or do you have a minimum reproducible example somewhere?

[proud moon]

i dont see anything in the docs for it, but there might be a a destroy context if you search this chat

[shut crater]

Have you searched through the balatro source code or the lovely dump folder to see how vanilla food jokers handle that?

[gentle rain]

yes and i can't find any reference for a context that activates when other jokers are destroyed, only remove_from_deck which only applies to one specific joker

[shut crater]

Hmm, my thought is that you could hook into remove_from_deck and check if the card being removed is a joker and if the cardarea is G.jokers

[gentle rain]

yeah you might be onto somethin there!!

[shut crater]

If that's the function that is consistently used for those jokers

[proud moon]

does it have to be in your hand for the joker to increment, or does it work like fortune teller

[sturdy monolith]

made something i think might be really useful for making animated jokers
it converts video files to spritesheets
you can specify the desired tile size, number of columns, and even the fps to process into the output
https://github.com/TheBearodactyl/vid2ss

[gentle rain]

fortune teller

[proud moon]

hm, im hoping youve got a way to store that value somewhere so its not wiped when the game reloads, like continuing a run

[gentle rain]

are G.game values like that not normally stored? it should only be reset upon starting a new run

[proud moon]

they should, that gives me an idea

i was gonna take a break from coding today, but i gotta get this to work lmao

[gentle rain]

is there documentation for hooks on steamodded wiki

all i have is this and im having trouble understanding it and applying it to my situation

[proud moon]

thats all i could find as well, and im stumped on the same step

[gentle rain]

bluh

[thorn flame]

hi im back again

[gentle rain]

i wanna try figuring this out myself b4 i ask for people to write my code for me if thats what youre doing devdelta

[gentle rain]

woah davestrider from homes hi

[thorn flame]

i want this joker to destroy a random face card in your hand on your first hand but for some reason if your score exceeds the blind it just. skips that

[red flower]

it's more of a lua thing
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/129557-tutorial-function-hooking-and-you/

[paper zealot]

Hooks are a feature of Lua, not of Steamodded, so it's more about understanding the general principle.

• you store a copy of the original function
• you replace the original function with your own version
• you call the original function that you copied within your own new version
• you return the value that the original function returned

[proud moon]

ive tried figuring it out myself, for most of yesterday, for too many hours to justify lol. I also want to learn this for myself, otherwise ill always keep coming back here, but this has really confused me since i dont know lua well at all.

[proud moon]

this is perfect, i know it wasnt sent for me but its exactly what im looking for, thank you

[gentle rain]

god my brain is getting scrambled

[red flower]

i sent it for both 🙂

[hasty mist]

ive been looking for the syntax error for like 20 minutes, any ideas?

[gentle rain]

the help is very appreciated

just

im not very good at understanding coding

[red flower]

this comma

[rapid stag]

attempt at a minimum reproducible example, but for some reason all it does is cause stack overflow when hovering any card?

[hasty mist]

figured it out, it was the brackets in the if statements

[rapid stag]

oh right

duh, i know why. it keeps constantly adding the tooltip to the new thing it's looking at

[paper zealot]

Thanks, i'll do some digging

[rapid stag]

lemme fix that first

[rapid stag]

there. one functioning minimum reproducible example

[hasty mist]

how do i write this correctly?

the card.ability.extra.score part

i'm trying to make it not occur if score in the config is equal to 0

[steady smelt]

i have a custom consumable that creates cards by adding them to play then drawing them to your deck, but if used in a pack opening they show up here and overlap hand cards, how can I move play down or adjust their position specifically in this case?

[hybrid galleon]

Hi, I'm new to modding and I have something to ask
I want to create an event to delete all cards with certain suits in the deck(because I added custom suits and that made vanilla decks have hundreds of cards I just want to avoid that) but I got no idea to do that

[brisk rose]

You can just change your suit's in_poil

[proud moon]

i understand it now

to initialize the variable a hook is used, hooking init_game_object (igo) where a bunch of the game's global values are stored like skips and shop spectral rates and whatnot
local ret = igo(self) makes sure the base game's function runs normally, and then the ret.current_round.castle2_card creates the var

Then, the next section is just to change it each round like it says, by looking through the entire deck to see what cards you have, selecting a valid one to use the suit of, and then setting the suit of the new G.GAME.current_round.castle2_card.suit to the card's suit.
(i never knew castle was deck based lol, i never use it)

[gentle rain]

so if im understanding correctlu, this'd be how i'd hook in the check for if it's a food joker being destroyed?

[proud moon]

should G.game be G.GAME? or no

[gentle rain]

i think it should yeah

[gentle rain]

sorry i was a bit dialed in but could you post ur code?

[hasty mist]

i'm trying to set the joker's values to 0 after a hand has been played, but when i use context.after, it sets it to 0 while the joker scores, meaning it only scores 0, and context.after is the ONLY context that works for the joker's main scoring, and i'm pretty sure context.after is the latest context when you score a hand, so i'm not sure what to do here

[ancient plinth]

The game no longer crashes when I load it, but now the game crashes when I attempt to score a hand, what do I do?

[thorn flame]

its ok i fixed it

[hybrid galleon]

that's not working

[proud moon]

should it be card.ability.name? (idk)

[gentle rain]

cant you just pit the first context.after after the first context.after?

[brisk rose]

Then you're doing something wrong. I strongly recommend against letting it create the cards and then deleting them

[hasty mist]

wdym

[gentle rain]

like, have it set the score to 0 AFTER adding the score rather than before

[hasty mist]

that's what i'm trying to do

the code that sets it to 0 is after the code that scores

but it still executes simultaneously

[gentle rain]

i had this issue before, having two of the same contexts is going to cause it to ignore the second one i believe

id try putting them under the same context

rather than under two contexts like you currently have

[hasty mist]

ill try that

though my issue isnt that it's ignoring one of them

both are happening

[brisk rose]

#1298894429159166043 this is one of the very very few things I actually have done myself modding-wise. I'm pretty sure I detailed it somewhere in that theead

[hasty mist]

it's just not executing in the right order

[brisk rose]

Code isn't released and is on my laptop (I'm on my phone) so can't share now

[hasty mist]

you were right, it does work now

[open aspen]

i was looking through paperback code to see how they made certain jokers more likely and found this toml file. I was wondering if its possible to do the same with a deck sleeve (from the deck sleeves mod)

like idk if people have worked with deck sleeves, im basically wondering how to check what sleeve is selected

[gentle rain]

yeahhhh idk where i should create G.GAME.food_eaten that wont reset on startup

[proud moon]

yea im working through that rn, seeing what resets what

fun fact, function SMODS.current_mod.reset_game_globals(run_start) runs every round blind select (at least from testing it does)

[gentle rain]

guh

yeah idek where to define it in the first place

this crashes on line 12

this is probably just a not understanding game variables moment

[open aspen]

how do i do a lovely patch

[proud moon]

i defined mine like this

it doesnt save, but it doesnt crash

This was all that was necessary for the hook i think, at least to make the variable in the first place.

ig i should find out how the game normally stores the value for castle

[naive flame]

Ok so hi, I wanna mod Balatro, but when I watched a tutorial it said that I had to extract the .exe file which

i couldn't figure out how to do

[hybrid galleon]

I don't get it
aren't I supposed to type in_pool = false in my custom suits? I did that and it simply doesn't work for me

[naive flame]

I have Windows 11 btw

if its a feature that was removed in the new windows version

[open aspen]

guys how does priority work with mods

and with lovely patches

i think im fucking something up because the priority of a lovely patch i have is incorrect

[ancient plinth]

Anyone know what to do?

[proud moon]

wait, the normal game uses another function to load from a save,

[shut crater]

winrar

or 7zip

idk if winrar works

[steady smelt]

bump

[urban wasp]

i get a stack overflow when this tag tries to create a joker, any ideas?

SMODS.Tag {
    key = "mythic_tag",
    atlas = "crp_tags",
    pos = { x = 7, y = 0 },
    min_ante = 5,
    config = { type = "store_joker_create" },
    apply = function(self, tag, context)
        if context.type == "store_joker_create" then
            local rares_in_posession = { 0 }
            for k, v in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
                if v.config.center.rarity == "crp_mythic" and not rares_in_posession[v.config.center.key] then
                    rares_in_posession[1] = rares_in_posession[1] + 1
                    rares_in_posession[v.config.center.key] = true
                end
            end
            local card
            if #G.P_JOKER_RARITY_POOLS.crp_mythic > rares_in_posession[1] then
                card = create_card("Joker", context.area, nil, "crp_mythic", nil, nil, nil, "cry_eta")
                create_shop_card_ui(card, "Joker", context.area)
                card.states.visible = false
                tag:yep("+", G.C.RARITY.crp_mythic, function()
                    card:start_materialize()
                    card.misprint_cost_fac = 2
                    card:set_cost()
                    return true
                end)
            else
                tag:nope()
            end
            tag.triggered = true
            return card
        end
    end,
}

[proud moon]

nvm that might be something else

[naive flame]

It worked

[shut crater]

can someone explain how this hook could possibly be causing this error

commenting out my hook prevents the crash

[shut crater]

stack overflow sounds like infinite recursion

but idk anything about tags

[brisk rose]

@hybrid galleon

Sorry for the random @ aure, forgot to turn off pings

[shut crater]

(the answer was to pass self as the first argument to the reference function)

[naive flame]

What would be a good place to start for making a balatro mod?

[shut crater]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Your-First-Mod

(be warned, the documentation is a little rough)

[urban wasp]

yeah, but i have no idea why that's happening

[shut crater]

if you can read code then other mods' source code is probably better

[naive flame]

Is Steamodded the same as the Balatro Mod Manager, or is it a separate thing?

[proud moon]

separate

[gentle rain]

i am gonna explode i think

[shut crater]

mood

[ancient plinth]

How do I fix this?

[shut crater]

card.ability

[ancient plinth]

how do I use it?

[shut crater]

on line 112 you write self.ability.name, but you should use card.ability.name

[gentle rain]

this was meant to be easier than "copies the ability of food jokers" and ended up significantly harder

[shut crater]

yeah it be like that

[unborn bay]

"eaten" can really be many things which is a problem

could be it self destructs could be its sold

etc

[shut crater]

hard to write code that expects a standardized way of doing things when there is no standard

[gentle rain]

id like it NOT to be sold but

idk how to do that

and atp i think id have to hard code in the contexts in which jokers are destroyed

so

yeah this ideas dead

[shut crater]

surely there is a context for selling a joker?

[gentle rain]

like

maybe

but i dont wanna search for that

[unborn bay]

context.selling_card i think

[lethal stratus]

how do i make this, sufferin

[ancient plinth]

Thanks, anything else?

[shut crater]

idk, test it and post if you get a new error

[ancient plinth]

It didn't give an error, but the card didn't rank up

[shut crater]

can you screenshot your whole calculate function

[lethal stratus]

?

[daring fern]

Try looking at cryptids reroll exchange?

[lethal stratus]

i dont have cryptid installed :/

[ancient plinth]

I ripped the code from Raised Fist and Strength

[shut crater]

https://github.com/SpectralPack/Cryptid

[lethal stratus]

nobody goes to stack overflow and gets told to google it

this isnt why im here

[shut crater]

I wasn't here for the whole conversation, what's the goal of this joker

[open aspen]

is there a way for me to make my joker epic rarity if cryptid is installed, else rare?

[ancient plinth]

Rank up the lowest ranked scored card after all cards are scored

[daring fern]

Maybe set G.GAME.current_round.reroll_cost = number every frame?

[shut crater]

when the response is google it, it's because no one in chat knows how to do what you're doing

[lethal stratus]

that sounds so laggy, couldnt i just do an on reroll trigger

[shut crater]

we all learn as much as we need to make the mod we're making

[daring fern]

No?

[open aspen]

why not just look at cryptid code

when it works 🙏

u dont need to download it github search works fine

[lethal stratus]

im trying to not look at any other mods so that i dont copy their ideas

[daring fern]

If you're only changing a variable its not going to lag the game?

[open aspen]

ig thats fair enough

[paper zealot]

Alrighty, I have a possible solution for you that involves patching the problematic line in the vanilla generate_card_ui code to allow all enhanced cards to have added tooltips.

It will break any mods that rely on the arguably bugged vanilla behaviour of overwriting the original tooltip of non-stone enhanced cards instead of adding new ones, but I've tested it with all the big dogs and haven't found any immediately obvious issues. There are much cleaner ways to change existing tooltips than info_queue, so it's probably not ever desired behaviour.

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "functions/common_events.lua"
pattern = '''
elseif specific_vars and (card_type == 'Default' or card_type == 'Enhanced') then
    if _c.name == 'Stone Card' or _c.replace_base_card then full_UI_table.name = true
'''
position = "at"
payload = '''
elseif specific_vars and (card_type == 'Enhanced') then
    full_UI_table.name = true
elseif specific_vars and (card_type == 'Default') then
    if _c.replace_base_card then full_UI_table.name = true
'''
times = 1
match_indent = true
``` Valid for SMODS 0323b - 0423c at least.

This is probably the simplest solution, and could probably be included in SMODS by being added onto the existing SMODS patch (that adds the `or _c.replace_base_card` check) if there are no other obvious conflicts

[red flower]

thats the worst way to learn

[open aspen]

yea i dont agree with that

but i understand the reasoning

[lethal stratus]

wish lua was more straightforward

99% of my issues coding this are not knowing keywords

[open aspen]

fwiw i can just tell u what cryptid did

they hooked calculate_reroll_cost to get it to work

[shut crater]

Rank up the lowest ranked scored card

[lethal stratus]

that doesn't seem too bad

[true dune]

Hey quick question. Can anyone tell me the mod that ya can gain xp and level up as you play?

[open aspen]

you sohuld be able to check if ur voucher was redeemed

[lethal stratus]

not a voucher, its a joker

[daring fern]

No, they overwrited it.

[lethal stratus]

while held it sets the value of rerolls to a flat 7$

[open aspen]

well yea

[open aspen]

ah i see

[open aspen]

is hooking not a similar process

its literdally just redefining the function. hooking just means u also have the original function called

[lethal stratus]

from what i know from other languages i think its relatively similar

[open aspen]

eg run ur code before a fucntion

[paper zealot]

Lua 5.1 has only 21 keywords, and the syntax is usually pretty straightforward (imo)

     and       break     do        else      elseif
     end       false     for       function  if
     in        local     nil       not       or
     repeat    return    then      true      until     while
```The trickier part of Lua is that it includes a lot of syntactic sugar that overly simplifies what's actually going on, which can make it kinda odd on a first read

[open aspen]

and its not strongly typed

which can make problems sometimes not apparent

if ur not familiar

[lethal stratus]

there's lua, and then there's Steamodded 🤮

[open aspen]

eg i remember an issue where what was done was setting G.GAME.banned_keys (a vanilla array fyi) indexes = true to remove certain cards

and there was an option to make the cards u banned inverted (eg a blacklist and not a whitelist)

[paper zealot]

That sounds like https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1279275441009459222

[open aspen]

but it didnt work right because they checked like array_allowed_cards[i], and not array_allowed_cards[i] == false

and it got all fucked up cause nil evaluates to false

[red flower]

i mean nil evaluating to false is not that weird

[open aspen]

it isnt but sometimes u dont consider it

esp if ur not super familiar

[red flower]

most stuff being truthy maybe is

[open aspen]

i caught it after like 5-10 mins of trying to figure it out

[desert ore]

ok well, I technically found a way to for a joker to modify base mult before cards are scored, but there has to be a better way to do this calculate = function(self,card,context) if context.before then G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].mult = G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].mult*card.ability.extra.x_mult G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].chips = G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].chips*card.ability.extra.x_chips return { mult = 0, chips = 0 } elseif context.after then G.GAME.hands[G.GAME.last_hand_played].mult = G.GAME.hands[G.GAME.last_hand_played].mult/card.ability.extra.x_mult G.GAME.hands[G.GAME.last_hand_played].chips = G.GAME.hands[G.GAME.last_hand_played].chips/card.ability.extra.x_chips end end

[red flower]

I'm pretty sure context.modify_hand is made for that but it's not documented yet and I've never used it

[desert ore]

as a context? what

[desert ore]

yeah I've checked that out but I don't think blind contexts can be used for jokers?

[red flower]

they can

[desert ore]

😶

[shut crater]

that's good to know actually

[lethal stratus]

yeah uh... no

[shut crater]

SMODS.calculate_context calculates for all cards, that's wild

[red flower]

yes

[lethal stratus]

classic case of complete fumble

[desert ore]

how? do I just use it as a regular context or do I use it as the function itself or?

[red flower]

I think you just modify mult and hand_chips in that context and maybe you need to return calculated = true?

[naive flame]

Ok I'm struggling a bit with installing the Lovely Injector

[red flower]

that one is kinda confusing but i think that's it

[naive flame]

Mainly this part

[red flower]

that means that you put the mod's folder into %appdata%/Balatro/Mods (or the equivalent for your OS)

(create it if you don't have it)

[naive flame]

How do I get to there?

[shut crater]

windows key + R

[shut crater]

or that

[naive flame]

Isn't the mods folder outdated or something?

Because like, Balatro Mod Manager tells you to delete the Mods Folder before installing (i think)

[red flower]

no

i think thats because BMM reinstalls everything so it tells you to delete it to not cause conflicts

[naive flame]

Ah, I see

Is the folder name caps-sensative?

[red flower]

i dont think so

[naive flame]

Do I need to put mods into the mod folder before running balatro?

[red flower]

yes

unless what you mean is if you can run it without mods which yes you can
but if you add a mod you need to restart the game

[naive flame]

Do I need to run it with mods in the folder to install the injector thing?

[red flower]

no

if the console pops up when you open the game then it's installed correctly

[naive flame]

Alright

Ok the console popped up

Now, to install Steamodded

[thorn flame]

ITS IN

feels so good having it in

[paper zealot]

Is that the Zodiac cipher??

[thorn flame]

yeah

[daring fern]

How would one do blueprint for non-jokers?

[shut crater]

like

a blueprint playing card?

[daring fern]

Yes, but I was thinking all things that are not jokers.

[shut crater]

so playing cards and consumables?

[daring fern]

Yes, but I was thinking all things that are not jokers.

[shut crater]

what is there that you're trying to copy that isn't a joker, playing card, or consumable?

I'm confused about your goal so I'm not sure how you would implement it

what is included in "all things"?

blinds? decks? the play button?

[daring fern]

Everything here:

[shut crater]

is the thing doing this a joker?

what is triggering the effect

[daring fern]

A blueprint of the respective type.

For example, a blueprint voucher.

[shut crater]

I imagine you would have to write a custom version of each thing you are trying to copy

[manic rune]

how would i remove an UI

[shut crater]

and the implementation would probably vary for each one

[daring fern]

Is there a way to make score card score from a specific card?

[naive flame]

Is this right for the mods folder?

[paper zealot]

You can call :remove() on the UIElement, or otherwise remove it from the relevant table in G.I (#💻・modding-dev message), but if you're removing a UI that's referenced elsewhere in the code, then you'll just end up causing crashes unless you also patch out those accesses

[manic rune]

hm

[iron haven]

ah yes. a blank button

[shut crater]

don't underestimate the blank button blueprint

it lets you open the joker collection twice

[manic rune]

ok i THINK i understand it now, thanks breeze :3

[thorn flame]

14 jokers!!

[shut crater]

anyone know the best place to check if a joker is being hovered?

I can think of 2 and there are probably more

[thorn flame]

my newest ADDITION

holy shit

[shut crater]

I hate that but it's probably great with Bunco

(lovingly hate)

(very neat concept)

(but it would infuriate me)

[thorn flame]

loved spriting it

[daring fern]

Rise.

[thorn flame]

it;s the great milenko

[brisk rose]

It's a bit of wesk rare tbh. Saying that hologram is an uncommon, isn't hard to get to 4x, abd doesn't have a downside like that

[shut crater]

hologram is an outlier and should not be counted in the statistic

but yeah maybe a 1 in 2 chance?

[thorn flame]

hologram is uncommon for some fucking random ass reason

i mean base balatro has some weak rares

[brisk rose]

Lol that may well be fair

[brisk rose]

Also very true

[thorn flame]

burnt joker has no business being a rare

same with like hit the road that shit sucks

[steady smelt]

does CardArea:move just not work? it seems like exactly what i need but trying it with G.play doesn't seem to do anything

[shut crater]

you probably want to modify the cardarea's T instead

what is the broader goal?

[steady smelt]

^ this

[thorn flame]

would x5 be better

[steady smelt]

been looking for something for awhile but haven't found anything that works, even changing the cards' T.y

[shut crater]

for some reason clicking on the reply doesn't take me to your message

[steady smelt]

here's a copy:

i have a custom consumable that creates cards by adding them to play then drawing them to your deck, but if used in a pack opening they show up here and overlap hand cards, how can I move play down or adjust their position specifically in this case?

[shut crater]

have you tried creating your own cardarea?

[steady smelt]

i have no idea how to do that and it feels super niche for something like this, this seems like it should be easy and i just don't know how to do it

[shut crater]

my guess is that G.play is having its transform manually set

thus why it won't let you move it

[brisk rose]

Tbh my playstyle (flush ad infinitum) isn't compatible with all face down cards, so I'm probably not the one to ask

[steady smelt]

changing G.play's T directly does seem to work though

dunno how i didn't try that at first lol

just gotta remember to change it back after

[shut crater]

oh cool lol

[steady smelt]

i tested by accidentally shifting it up like 10x the amount i wanted to at first and it shifted the background too fsr? but doesn't seem to be doing that now

[shut crater]

I genuinely think making it a percent chance to draw facedown fixes it

[steady smelt]

i assume it was just trying to make the background stay behind the 'in focus' area

[thorn flame]

ill consult w my mod partner

[steady smelt]

i do like it conceptually but it is def underpowered given the downside and rarity

x5 and 1 in 2 cards drawn face down (and affected by oops) i think would be more balanced

but would be a playtesting thing

[manic rune]

i am now a bit confused

[steady smelt]

hi bepis

[manic rune]

G.UIT.C should make it so all the children nodes align vertically, right?

hi kuro

[steady smelt]

this is out of my area of expertise i wish you luck

[manic rune]

same

thanks tho :3

[steady smelt]

:3

[shut crater]

what is create_progress_bar

for some reason I don't see that when I search the source

[manic rune]

thats something i made myself

does exactly what you think it does

[shut crater]

I've barely touched UI but it seems like you're using G.UIT.C on the overall box but not the text

[steady smelt]

can you not just use create_progress_box? which is used for collection menu bars

[daring fern]

Or is there a way to make a card be the same as card next to it?

[manic rune]

i think its use is really limited, not sure myself - and i didnt know that even existed :p

[steady smelt]

thats fair

[manic rune]

nop, doesnt seem to be it

[naive flame]

Ok so I got the modding tool stuff all loaded in...

so what do I do now?

[manic rune]

wat do u want to do

[paper zealot]

Install whichever mods you like, by extracting them into their own non-nested folders within %AppData%/Balatro/Mods.
Plenty of people will make recommendations if you ask, #1209506514763522108 has a bunch

[shut crater]

did a little digging and found this, could be useful?

[naive flame]

I want to make mods of my own

[daring fern]

That's for jokers.

[steady smelt]

gahhh i hate event ordering

[shut crater]

yep, but it sure does seem like a great starting point

[manic rune]

mmm i see

#1349064230825103441

:3

I HATE UIS

WHY ARE THEY SO CONFUSING

😭

[unborn bay]

blame the existence of css

[naive flame]

What would be a good thing to start with when making a mod? New jokers?

[unborn bay]

new jokers

jokers are p easy to make

[manic rune]

like, it should align vertically but WHY is it horizontallyadsdma

[shut crater]

litereally shooting in the dark but what is the G.UIT.T doing on the line below

[steady smelt]

why in the world does this last event always trigger before the first event(s) no matter how i change the delays

[manic rune]

adding text next to the box

i mean