💻・modding-dev

[heady siren]

I like lua [=

[lethal stratus]

do you like my joker

[limber blaze]

btw for manually loading files you should prob do something similar to entropy where you store file names in a table then load them instead of calling SMODS.load_file manually multiple times

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭😭

[gusty iron]

oh my god please teach me how to do ui

[unborn bay]

gulp

[hasty mist]

lua is frustrating sometimes, it SCARES me that its one of the easiest languages to code in

[unborn bay]

im technically doing that for jokers by rarity but that's it

[hearty sun]

Here it is
Divide every number by 9 cause this is the breakdown among the "minority groups" and 1/9th answered the question

[hasty mist]

i was just looking at entropy to see how you did it lmao

[limber blaze]

ie:

local files = {
"tags",
"jokers"
}
for i, v in pairs(files) do
  local result, err = SMODS.load_file(v..".lua")
  if results then results() else error("error in file: "..v..": err)
end```

[hasty mist]

thank you ruby this is perfect

[lethal stratus]

?

[heady siren]

Statistics jumpscare

[gusty iron]

i legit just cant use my leftshift for a while gg guys 😭

[hearty sun]

Like, a 3.5% of trans people is enormous compared to the average
It's honestly quite funny

[lethal stratus]

programmer socks :)

[tall wharf]

did you get a shift lock moment

[unborn bay]

insert roffle lite speech bubble image

[hasty mist]

ive been around trans people for like 5 years its quite embarrassing i didnt realize i was trans until a year ago

[gusty iron]

no my keyboard is just old as hell and needs some time to dry out

[lethal stratus]

:((((

[heady siren]

Oh no I can't use my backspace or arrow keys! (I didn't tap alt)

[gusty iron]

i like it!!!!!

[hasty mist]

this looks so fun

[heady siren]

Voucher city

[hasty mist]

i love vouchers

[tall wharf]

i think it should give you an extra booster pack just for the funsies

[lethal stratus]

last time i showed it off i got clowned

[sage crater]

hey folks,
trying to import some card art for face cards.
a) does the art need to be in a sprite sheet?
b) do the cards need to be a certain width apart?
c) I copied the code from another mod I found and tried to only edit what I needed to. Is there any reason code-wise that my game is crashing? ```lua
local atlas_key = 'MW' -- Format: PREFIX_KEY
-- See end of file for notes
local atlas_path = 'MW_lc.png' -- Filename for the image in the asset folder
-- local atlas_path_hc = 'MW_hc.png' -- Filename for the high-contrast version of the texture, if existing

local suits = {'hearts'} -- Which suits to replace
local ranks = {'King', 'Queen', "Jack"} -- Which ranks to replace

local description = 'Mouthwashing cards' -- English-language description, also used as default

---

-- You should only need to change things above this line --

SMODS.Atlas {
key = atlas_key .. '_lc',
px = 71,
py = 95,
path = atlas_path,
prefix_config = {
key = false
} -- See end of file for notes
}

if atlas_path_hc then
SMODS.Atlas {
key = atlas_key .. '_hc',
px = 71,
py = 95,
path = atlas_path_hc,
prefix_config = {
key = false
} -- See end of file for notes
}
end

for _, suit in ipairs(suits) do
SMODS.DeckSkin {
key = suit .. "_skin",
suit = suit:gsub("^%l", string.upper),
ranks = ranks,
lc_atlas = atlas_key .. '_lc',
hc_atlas = (atlas_path_hc and atlas_key .. '_hc') or atlas_key .. '_lc',
loc_txt = {
['en-us'] = description
},
posStyle = 'deck'
}
end

[lethal stratus]

code jumpscare

[sage crater]

sorry. meant to send as a file

[unborn bay]

ally

[lethal stratus]

:3

[unborn bay]

aikoyori when are you adding ally as a joker

[tall wharf]

rog ally joker

[paper zealot]

It gives you enough rope to hang yourself with, and no compile-time safety or type checking to prevent it. It's a simple language, but I'd argue it's actually a pretty challenging language to learn good practice in. Especially in a modding environment where there are so many interconnected systems and no real structure to it all

[lethal stratus]

allison is the name of a vivid stasis characteer

[sage crater]

what is this server's fascination with the question mark emoji

[lethal stratus]

(also lesbians)

[heady siren]

How do I get a value inside an enhancement config from a separate source, I tried self.ability.value and self.config.value and it's not working

[tall wharf]

yuri

[hasty mist]

yeah thats true

[lethal stratus]

for free!

with a side of plurality

[tall wharf]

(I'm bad at rhythm games)

[hasty mist]

im using this computer as we speak

[lethal stratus]

@tall wharf there's a prelude mode so you can beat the bosses and enjoy the story

[hearty sun]

Lua is not easy, it's simple; and it's not a good thing for a language
See Go for the exact same fucking problem

[heady siren]

I used to have headmates but they recombined with my main host after a breakdown ;~;

[lethal stratus]

:(

hey, they might come back sometime, if you want them around they'll show up someday

[tall wharf]

i just think it's neat

[gusty iron]

I LOVE THAT GAME SO MUCH

[heady siren]

Bump, I wanna make it so that certain enhancements can't be changed using jokers or consumeables

[tall wharf]

you meant maimai?

[hasty mist]

ive never been able to learn a coding language before until lua, now i already have a basic grasp of lua, ive made 7 jokers and a boss blind in the span of 3 weeks

[tall wharf]

or the yuri game

[gusty iron]

yeah

i always just call it "washing machine rhythm game"

[hasty mist]

i remember trying to learn java (or javascript whatever idk the difference) on khan academy and getting so upset i quit using technology for a week

(i was TIRED of drawing ELIPSES)

[unborn bay]

22 jokers, 1 boss blind, a new consumable type, and others in 2 weeks ,,,,,,,

[gusty iron]

i have alot of experience with lua (roblox developer!!!!!!!)

[unborn bay]

i only started modding balala because i saw aiko's mod and thought "hey i wanna do that"

[gusty iron]

i originally made retextures

[paper zealot]

I can't help with a) or b), but chances are it's crashing because it's not finding the atlas files. What's the crash, and what do you have in your 1x and 2x folders?

[tall wharf]

omg hi

[gusty iron]

but i wanted to do something more

[heady siren]

I managed to make a modular consumeable that functions in an entirely different way for each instance of itself

[unborn bay]

hi aikoyori

[gusty iron]

also aiko's mod lets you play "nitoglycerine", so it gets an instant 10/10 from me

[tall wharf]

tnt

[hasty mist]

a few things inspired me to start modding and i was considering trying to learn for a few weeks but ruby's entropy is what really convinced me to commit to learning

[tall wharf]

i can't keep up with the new mods

i need to one up myself

[unborn bay]

i need to add chess deck to my mod

[gusty iron]

rhythm game joker

you get more chips based off of rating

[tall wharf]

no you just

[hasty mist]

unfortunately i am an extremely ambitious person and will always dig myself into a hole of frustration trying to code something COMPELTELY unfeasible for my skill level

[tall wharf]

start playing stepmania

[hasty mist]

i was trying to make boss blinds skippable the other day

[tall wharf]

if you lose all energy you just lose the game

[hasty mist]

didnt go well

[gusty iron]

Warioware joker go brrr

this is gonna be

funny to code

[tall wharf]

adding klondike to balatro

[brisk rose]

I'm like... the worst at teaching myself anything, hence why I still haven't properly started modding

[tall wharf]

if you ask me how to ui i wouldn't be able to answer

[hasty mist]

i dread the day ill have to dip my feet into ui

i know itll happen

but its scary...

[unborn bay]

the worst part about ui is lovely patching ui

[gusty iron]

i looked at the documentation and it seems okay-ish

[unborn bay]

its goddamn FLEXBOXES !!!!

a web dev's worst nightmare

also you'd also need to account for the odd restrictions that ui nodes have

[sage crater]

I figured out the answer to A, I think I figured out the answer to B,
and here is the crash log

atm I don't have a x2 folder

if that is necessary, then that's probably why haha

[brisk rose]

That's not gonna work, lol

[sage crater]

damn

ok, what if I just input a big white png for the time being?

[hearty sun]

I assure you, while flexboxes are kinda bad, they are WAY better than any other solution that exist on the web
(And honestly, people overexaggerate how bad they are)

[sage crater]

will that still load everything at least?

[brisk rose]

That's fine, but integer rescaling a png is very trivial

[sage crater]

oh ok

how do you do that on gimp lol

[unborn bay]

this is the unfortunate truth

[hearty sun]

Was it ever considered to add an option to auto-generate it?

[unborn bay]

there's a python script that can do that for you

[brisk rose]

Gimp makes me wanna commit die so I'm not sure. I'd say it'd be called 'resize image' and make sure to set it to nearest neighbor

Or none I guess they call it in gimp

[sage crater]

thanks!

[hearty sun]

Image > Scale Image
Interpolation: None

[tall wharf]

you're gonna have fun adding micro games

[unborn bay]

game development !!!

[brisk rose]

And ofc to make it 2x just keep them linked and multiple one dimension by 2

[hearty sun]

And multiply by 2 any of the width or height field (adding *2 to it is enough)

[tall wharf]

i was thinking

what if

[gusty iron]

Im gonna make a simple "AH SCARY CLICK THE BUTTON IN TIME OR DIE" microgame to get a handle of it

[brisk rose]

Lol that's I guess a non-self-die invoking niceity of gimp

Once of the few

[gusty iron]

but if you want to make the ui as a collab (im delusional), feel free to help!

[tall wharf]

you play rhythm games but you start the game with the total score in the round

as starting HP

🤯🤯🤯

[hearty sun]

Honestly, GIMP is far better than most people give it credit for
Its UI used to suck massively, but it improved A LOT since
Like 3.0 is so nice to use; non-destructive editing is so nice

[brisk rose]

Look, I love open source software and gimp is very powerful, it's just alien go someone who learned raster image editors from pirated photoshop

Which is why I prefer krita

[tall wharf]

speech bubbly

like i wanna get solitaire running in the game first

[hearty sun]

I mean, yeah of course preference is fine
But criticizing something for the sole reason of not being used to it is a bit dumb

[hasty mist]

i forgot about solitaire

[gusty iron]

KRITA MENTIONED

[gusty iron]

i love solitaire

[brisk rose]

I mean joking that using it makes me wanna off myself is a preference not a serious criticism

[gusty iron]

Im gonna make the timer just a simple countdown because i do NOT feel like making bomb sprites

[hasty mist]

im not sure whats wrong here

[paper zealot]

results instead of result means that it's always falling through to the error case, even though it's (probably) successful

[hasty mist]

changing to result gives the same crash

wait i think i fixed it

fuck

how in the world did that happen

[paper zealot]

Iterating through files might also require ipairs, not pairs

[paper zealot]

Your joker.lua file references the variable start that hasn't been created yet. When you're using multiple files, you have to be careful of what's declared when, and in which order they're being loaded

[hasty mist]

this is where its crashing, this code worked just fine when everything was in one file

[hasty mist]

the variable should be loading first, as it's in items/lib, and the joker is in items/joker

do i have to do something else to make it load first

[woeful pivot]

how can i make a joker detect if a card is a specific number?

[daring fern]

if card:get_id() == number

[paper zealot]

Your use of pairs as the iterator means that it's not necessarily iterating in the order that they're written there. You want ipairs for iterating through simple arrays

[outer dagger]

Is there a good github repo I can fork to just look at some mods?

I have a joker I want to trigger at the START of round

[hasty mist]

ah

ughh what now

same line different crash

start is being loaded first now

this is the start variable for reference

should it not just load as intended?

i dont get whats failing

[paper zealot]

The problem is the scope. start only exists in its own local file

[sage crater]

ok, its working now! thanks so much

[brisk rose]

Yw :3

[paper zealot]

But you don't just want to make it global, because then you've introduced a new global that pollutes the namespace for all mods. Good practice is to just keep one global table for your mod, then add variables that you want to share between files as members of that table

[hasty mist]

how would i do that?

i only have three variables right now that are in different files to where they're referenced

[tall wharf]

wait

why don't you just use math.pi

[unborn bay]

im pretty sure euler and pi are defined in the math library

[hasty mist]

because i did this before i knew about math.pi 😭

i am a brand new coder

[paper zealot]

Convention is that in your main_file, you declare the global YourMod = {}, then add variables to it with something like YourMod.start = love.timer.getTime(), which can then be accessed both by you and others anywhere

[hasty mist]

alright, thank you

[tall wharf]

idk i just do current_mod thing

[paper zealot]

That's exactly what SMODS is, by the way - SMODS is the global table, and SMODS.Joker is just calling the function Joker that's stored as an entry inSMODS

[hasty mist]

i see

[paper zealot]

I was under the impression that SMODS.current_mod changes as mods are loaded in, and it's never guaranteed to point to your own mod after the initialization

[unborn bay]

here's the funny thing about tables

they're like pointers

[limber blaze]

SMODS.current_mod iirc is your mod when your mod loads in

[tall wharf]

they are like 5 data structures in one

[limber blaze]

so when the main file is loaded

but i dont use current_mod anyway so idk

[gusty iron]

question, how do i actually draw the ui?

[limber blaze]

im just doing what cryptid does where i lovely patch my table initialisation really early for crossmod support

[hasty mist]

also, i have many jokers that perform arithmetic directly on your score, such as this one, all of them are extremely hardcoded, how do i migrate these to their own function that i can call so i don't have to keep them hardcoded?

[paper zealot]

If it's created and parented properly, it'll draw itself. You just need to create the type of UIElement you want, with a definition and a first node of type G.UIT.ROOT, and with the config.major set to an appropriate parent (typically G.ROOM)

[gusty iron]

so would this work?

            -- Create a UI overlay for the microgame
            local microgame_ui = {
                n = G.UIT.ROOT,
                config = {
                    align = "cm",
                    colour = G.C.CLEAR,
                    padding = 0.1,
                    r = 0.1
                },
                nodes = {
                    {
                        n = G.UIT.R,
                        config = {
                            align = "cm",
                            colour = G.C.CLEAR,
                            padding = 0.05
                        },
                        nodes = {
                            {
                                n = G.UIT.T,
                                config = {
                                    text = "Press Space!",
                                    colour = G.C.UI.TEXT_LIGHT,
                                    scale = 0.5
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

[manic rune]

do i hook into SMODS.calculate_context to always have an effect running in a certain context?

just to be sure

[weak brook]

does anyone have a clue as to what this crash might be caused by? im getting reports of this from playtesters and i cant for the life of me reproduce it

[hasty mist]

god this is a mess

i have no idea how to do any of this

[paper zealot]

That's a set of nodes, which you then provide as the definition when creating a UI.
Try something like:

if G.HUD_microgame then
  G.HUD_microgame:remove() --if HUD already exists, remove existing one
end
G.HUD_microgame = UIBox({    --create and initialise a new UIBox
  definition = microgame_ui, --your definition here
  config = {
    major = G.ROOM,          --attach to the room
    align = 'cm',
    offset = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    colour = G.C.CLEAR       --set background colour clear
  }
})
``` and see what happens

[gusty iron]

where/what do i replace with this?

[paper zealot]

No need to replace anything, just place it in an appropriate spot after you create the microgame_ui definition

[gusty iron]

i dont think its showing up

[weak brook]

pulling my hair out over this i dont know what the problem is

[hasty mist]

im so lost

ive done this wrong but i cant figure out how

ive tried multiple variations of this

[paper zealot]

Almost there. You're trying to add members of the table to the table within the table.
Just define AST = {}, then do AST.etc = etc as needed

[hasty mist]

ah

[gusty iron]

heres the entire joker code if anyonec an help

[hasty mist]

this seems to work now, thank you!

[woeful pivot]

and would i put like (8) in the paren

[daring fern]

No, you would replace number with 8

[paper zealot]

I can't see any obvious issues, though the text will be white and very small, and will probably show up in the top left of the screen. Try making it a bit bigger with some kind of frame

[gusty iron]

note!!!

J, Q, K, and A are 11, 12, 13, and 14 respectively!

[woeful pivot]

Ace is 14?

[gusty iron]

yeah

cause it returns the RANK

[gusty iron]

the size is relatively good, i just need to center it

[sonic cedar]

Will this trigger a chip gain whenever one of these certain boss blinds is triggered? That is the intent but i want to make sure that it's correct

[gusty iron]

though, how do i center it?

[hearty sun]

Are ... you coding with the Balatro font???
Incredible

Otherwise, trying it in game is the best way to know if it works

[unborn bay]

if m6x11 was monospace i would use it as a coding font

[paper zealot]

Is it showing up now?
You can try setting major = G.ROOM_ATTACH and setting offset = { x = 0, y = 10 }

[gusty iron]

yeah i looked in the top left and i saw the text!!!

ill try this

[sonic cedar]

Was planning on it. My PC just SUCKS so i was asking around before the laborious task of booting it up'

[gusty iron]

we are one step closer to mindwave joker

[paper zealot]

If you prefer, you can also parent it to your joker by setting major = card, and just tweaking the offset as needed

[gusty iron]

OKAY

THE TEXT IS IN THE MIDDLE NOW

I just need to

check if you press space

how the HELL do i do that-

[brazen tusk]

anyone down to help me troubleshoot getting a sound to work that is currently crashing the game?

currently says the sound doesn't exist so i imagine its a naming issue

this is where is put the sound in, can only imagine the problem is there?

[paper zealot]

Not the simplest thing, if you want to be compatible with other mods that add keybinds like Handy and typist. I'd check how they do it - would involve Controller:key_press

[unborn bay]

you could also not care about that and just use love2d input check functions

[paper zealot]

To check the obvious first - does resources/sounds/Test_chomp.ogg exist?

[gusty iron]

could i get a repository for that

[brazen tusk]

chomp.ogg does which is what ive told it to look for in the path part

[paper zealot]

SMODS adds the Mod prefix. Try renaming it to Test_chomp.ogg

[unborn bay]

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

:]

[brazen tusk]

in both filename and path?

oh i just made the key and the file name the same and that seemed to work

not gonna question it

[gusty iron]

okay so like

        if context.before then
    
            microgame(self)
            repeat
    delay(0.1)
    until finished
            if pressed then
                card.ability.extra.multg = card.ability.extra.multg + card.ability.extra.Xmult
            else
                card.ability.extra.lives = card.ability.extra.lives - 1
                if card.ability.extra.lives <= 0 then
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        func = function() 
                            card:start_dissolve(nil, G.jokers)
                            return true
                        end
                    }))
                end
            end
        end

        if context.joker_main and not context.blueprint then
            return{
                card = card,
                mult_mod = card.ability.extra.multg,
                message = '+'..card.ability.extra.multg.." Mult",
                colour = G.C.MULT
            }
        end
    end
}

this just hard-crashes the game

any help

im trying to make it so that it waits to score until the microgame is finished

[ancient plinth]

I finally got that one joker working

[hearty sun]

The answer is YES, it does trigger!
I don't see any other problem, at all!

[thorn flame]

tooltip: triggers everything for no reason

[hasty mist]

what in the world is this even doing 😭

[sonic cedar]

I just wanted chip gain matador is that so much to ask

[brazen tusk]

should this go down to a 2? bit easy to get mult quick

[manic rune]

really nice for deck fixing

[brazen tusk]

yeah i feel like thats a huge boon as is

[manic rune]

mhm, but thats honestly all i find it useful for

the Mult isnt too good

[brazen tusk]

theres an initial 39 mult off of the base 13 hearts cards then it slows down a lot

[outer dagger]

Vibe check?

[brazen tusk]

really good if you get it early but so are most Rares ig and not ideal for late game, you've convinced me to leave it

[shut crater]

1 in 3 chance to lose all of your money, 2 in 3 chance to have a really strong buff with no downside?

[chrome widget]

How do I remove items from their default pool?

[brazen tusk]

I'd say its a little wordy

[manic rune]

+50 mult isnt that good

but the handsize definitely is

[brazen tusk]

the hand size is great

[chrome widget]

I.E. I have a "joker" item that's meant to just be used for Challenge displays, but it's not a real joker. I can easily hide it from the collection, but what's the best way to avoid keeping it in the regular joker pool?

Just use the in_pool function individually?

[brazen tusk]

whats vibe are you wanting it to hit?

[outer dagger]

Good upsides, bad downsides

but evenly distributed good and bad

[shut crater]

well right now only one of the 3 buffs has both an upside and a downside

[outer dagger]

What would be a good downside for Mult?

[brazen tusk]

well you've already got random chance so

[outer dagger]

I think adding hand size but destroying cards randomly is good for hand size

[brazen tusk]

id say just have a good result and a bad one maybe?

[shut crater]

I worry that adding more mechanics to what you already have is going to make it very wordy and convoluted

[brazen tusk]

i agree

depends on what your mod is doing though, if its all about adding wordy jokers then thats the intention

[sturdy compass]

Does anyone happen to know how I would access the number of jokers (or any card type) are unlocked from my mod specifically?

Alternatively, how would I add new stats to a profile?

[shut crater]

I think you could make the ability choose 1 of these 3:

• +50 mult
• +4 hand size
• +lose all $

and it would feel reasonable

[outer dagger]

Every time I tried to make a choose UI box I got crashes xD

if you can point me to a good example haha

[shut crater]

oh I didn't mean choose lol

[brazen tusk]

well it would be random still

[shut crater]

I meant the joker chooses

[outer dagger]

Hmmm this is the "Demonic Ritual" meaning something is sacrificed

and something is gained

but I hear yall

[brazen tusk]

maybe it takes $10 and does one of a couple good things?

[shut crater]

what about essentially being a rental joker and randomly select one buff?

[shut crater]

yee

[outer dagger]

HMMMMM

Good vibes

okay thank you

[brazen tusk]

easier to balance then bc you just change the money it takes based on how good your effects are

& what rarity you want it ig

[naive raptor]

im trying to make a joker that creates a spectral card when both blinds are skipped. im assuming the best way to do this is just a variable that goes up 1 whenever a blind is skipped, resets to 0 when a blind is selected, and when it it = 2, set it to 0 and create a spectral card. how would i detect when the blind is skipped?

[subtle hawk]

            isDoorult = false
            card:start_dissolve()
        end```
This one is meant to set isDoorult to false before dissolving so if you get the joker again it would usable. But that doesn't seem to work

[shut crater]

probably should have the variable in card.ability.extra?

then it would die with the joker

[naive raptor]

is this in the smods wiki? if so what page

[shut crater]

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

[daring fern]

Put it in G.GAME

[icy oak]

how do i split my main mod file into multiple files?

[outer dagger]

Is there a good way to display a choosing UI box I don't know about?

[icy oak]

i see other mods doing it but idk how

[shut crater]

not that I'm aware of, but I'm still pretty new here

[outer dagger]

hmhmmamamam thank you! 🙂

[brazen tusk]

do you mean like, have the jokers in files seperate to the main lua?

[shut crater]

I also would like to know this

[brazen tusk]

i can show you guys my set up

[icy oak]

yea kinda

[brazen tusk]

so in the main folder i have a jokers folder and in that i have the luas for all my jokers

those are set up like jokers would be in main

[icy oak]

i wanna know like how those files can get loaded in
i think either through main lua declared in metadata or some kind of smods process

[subtle hawk]

The thing with it is the Joker is creating a playing card that when scored sets isDoorult = true

[subtle hawk]

What is G.GAME and what should I put in it?

[brazen tusk]

im using assert(SMODS.load_file('jokers/NAME.lua'))()

like this

[shut crater]

G.GAME is where global variables should usually go, and in this case it seems like the right place for your isDoorult variable

[daring fern]

G.GAME.prefix_isDoorult = false

[icy oak]

smods.load_file i see

looks like a pain to copy paste tho

[brazen tusk]

in what sense?

[unborn bay]

you'd have to manually add each joker to the list instead of automatically adding each of them

i guess

[icy oak]

^

[brazen tusk]

i'd argue its a lot easier than scrolling through a gigantic lua file with all of your mods code in it

[icy oak]

thats true, thats what im looking to do

[unborn bay]

personally i just do something like this

-- Load all files in a folder
function PTASaka.RequireFolder(path)
    local files = NFS.getDirectoryItemsInfo(PTASaka.Mod.path .. "/" .. path)
    for i = 1, #files do
        local file_name = files[i].name
        if file_name:sub(-4) == ".lua" then
            assert(SMODS.load_file(path .. file_name))()
        end
    end
end

PTASaka.RequireFolder("content/jokers/rare/")

PTASaka.Mod is a shortcut to uhh SMODS.current_mod btw

[brazen tusk]

see thats a lot of words i dont know the function of xD

[dense adder]

is there a way to only retexture some of the boosters in the booster png, rather than all of them
SMODS.Atlas {kind = 'Celestial', key = "Booster", path = "boosters.png", px = 71, py = 95, prefix_config = { key = false } } im just trying to retexture the celestial boosters not all

[daring fern]

Use malverk.

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

[sturdy compass]

Bump

[gilded narwhal]

okay guys if i wanted to modify the base sprites of jokers with a soul layer but not touch the sprite of the soul layer as they are being generated in a booster pack, how would I go about doing that?

I have this thing that's pretty advanced and I would like all the help I can get 😭

[tender ermine]

How would one create a tarot card with a specific key? I have been trying forever and I can’t stop this error about an error about center being nil. This only happens when I use the key property to force a specific card.

[daring fern]

SMODS.add_card({key = 'c_prefix_key'})

[shut crater]

SMODS.add_card({area = G.consumeables, key = "c_prefix_tarotKey"})

[shut crater]

set not needed if key is forced, also j_ is for jokers

[subtle hawk]

How do I enable G.deck optional feature?

[gilded narwhal]

For those that would be interested I'm trying to make a booster pack that

1. Offers 3 random legendaries
2. These legendaries have a random background, with one of 4 possible ones
3. The soul layers have a shader that turns them entirely black
4. The description of the jokers are hidden until they're selected
5. Maybe a cool reveal effect once you select one

I've gotten step 1 but that's basically it

[daring fern]

Area isn't needed either.

[subtle hawk]

    return {
        G.deck = true
    }
end```
Like that or?..

[daring fern]

SMODS.current_mod.optional_features = function()
    return {
        cardareas = {
            deck = true
        }
    }
end

[subtle hawk]

Thanks!

[tender ermine]

OOOH, I was missing the c_ (responding to some 2 people a couple messages up) thank yall!

[shut crater]

oh really? that's neat

[heady siren]

Is it possible to add extra layers to a card? Non-legendary / floating / whatever

Worst case scenario I can use stickers

[daring fern]

Yes.

[heady siren]

Can I do it based on code rather than definition of the card?

[icy oak]

is NFS some kind of external library or something

[daring fern]

What do you mean?

[heady siren]

I wanna make the layers of the card change depending on extra variables of the card

[brisk rose]

Will this work for any arbitrary legendary or just base game/ones from your mod?

[gilded narwhal]

Any

[brisk rose]

Then an additional thing to account for is not all legendaries actually having soul layers

[hearty sun]

How do you fetch the localize name of a Poker Hand?
Cause I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know why...

-- jokers.lua
config = {
  extra = {
    hand = "aod_sequence",
    xmult = 2,
  },
},

loc_vars = function(self, _, _)
  return {
    vars = {
      self.config.extra.xmult,
      localize(self.config.extra.hand),
    }
  }
end,

-- en-us.lua
misc = {
  poker_hands = {
    ["aod_sequence"] = "Sequence",
  },
},

[brisk rose]

Besides that it seems doable to hijack the draw routine while in a specific booster pack and do everything it is that you have planned

[daring fern]

You should be using card and localize(card.ability.extra.hand, 'poker_hands')

[unborn bay]

yes though it should be provided by smods by default

[high sinew]

anyone know why this is an error?

[brisk rose]

Is that supposed to be the mod badge?

[high sinew]

yea i think so

[unkempt thicket]

Or drawstep

[high sinew]

idk if i need to add something for it

[brisk rose]

Oh yeah I forgor that exists

[daring fern]

You need to define the label for it.

[brisk rose]

I think it's there by default if you stunt do something to disable it and it reads from your header

[high sinew]

how do i do this?

i thought i did

[brisk rose]

Or json Metadata file now? Idk if t trust somethingcom over me, they're actually a modder

[daring fern]

Do you have this in your localization?

[high sinew]

no that makes so much sense

im still elarned localization just caught onto how it works lol thx man

[brisk rose]

I'm confused. Mod badges are just the mod's "name" value and the "badge_color" as the bg... unless it's supposed to be a different type of badge

Or seals don't have mod badges by default?

[high sinew]

its how i set up localization

[hearty sun]

Dumb question, but is there a mod to spawn in jokers for testing?

[manic rune]

i got it working :3

[manic rune]

DebugPlus

[brisk rose]

#1228149931257237664

[manic rune]

yup, that ☝️

[daring fern]

I know the ones in the collection don't.

[brisk rose]

I hate that then... and that blinds dint either

I mean... They're smods objects so it should just be built in like fir jokers abs consumables

[manic rune]

bump

or does anyone know a mod that uses it?

[brisk rose]

I'm pretty sure tooltips are all through the info queue?

[high sinew]

if i have a consumeable i made same issue how would i do that one?

[manic rune]

thats what i initially thought too, but its different for detailed tooltips i guess

[daring fern]

What do you mean?

[brisk rose]

That's definitely supposed to be automatic I'm almost certain

[high sinew]

here

[high sinew]

not seeing sum sadly

[brisk rose]

Oh it's the consumable type badge

The mod badge is fine

[high sinew]

lemme try

[manic rune]

maybe i need to use localization for this one?

but how

[gilded narwhal]

How do i use drawstep?

[brisk rose]

The thing smods wiki says to use is a function called set_badges

[crystal perch]

anyone know how to set up a use function on a consumable that would destroy the selected jokers

[brisk rose]

I guess that's for additional pet-item badges so nvm

[daring fern]

for k, v in pairs(G.jokers.highlighted) do
    v:start_dissolve()
end

[crystal perch]

thank you!

[brisk rose]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.ObjectType#api-documentation-smodsconsumabletype

Actually it seems like it should be automatic and your formating may be off

You're using double quotes for one, I don't remember if Lua is okay with that

[shut crater]

it's fine, I do that too cause screw '

[brisk rose]

In any case they're missing the collection label

[manic rune]

huh

so its mandatory that i use something from G.P_CENTERS

thats not too flexible

[brisk rose]

Which is part of the consumabletype definition

[manic rune]

hm

[brisk rose]

And I think they're localization fine night just be overwriting the default badge with error, because it should draw from 'name'

[chrome widget]

For the uiheads here, is there a way to intentionally make a UI element extend beyond the bounds of its parent?

[brisk rose]

It also doesn't seem like 'set' is a thing for consumabletype from the wiki?

[crystal perch]

anyone know if there's a function i can call that opens a specified booster pack type?

ideally one that could be used anywhere, not just part of the calculate function, for example

[brisk rose]

Maybe check what modded tags that do such a thing do?

[crystal perch]

good idea

[brisk rose]

Toga has a few

#1307810407389593630

[crystal perch]

the base game also does

ill look in my extracted balatro code first just to see

[brisk rose]

Yes but base game code is different from smodded code

[crystal perch]

yeah but it still works

just gotta reformat it here and there

[brisk rose]

I mean.. ofc your can usually stuff base game code in snodded but it's probably gonna be worse and less compatible

[crystal perch]

cross referencing the toga and base game stuff it's the same

[brisk rose]

Ah very fair. I didn't look myself so didn't wanna lead you down a non-ideal path is there was a nice steamodded way to do it

[sturdy compass]

bump

[brisk rose]

Well... the approach I'd take would be to iterate over everything, check one by one, and increment a variable for each one that is

But I'm... not by any means a proper modder

[sturdy compass]

The thing is I feel like there should be an easy way to do this since you can see the number in the mods menu under the mod's additions tab

[brisk rose]

Hmm that does suggest there is a variable somewhere you can check

[sturdy compass]

Exactly. However, I cannot find it lol

[unborn bay]

could be something in the profile

idk

[brisk rose]

If only memory-viewer style debugging wasn't deadass against the rules for some reason

At least I think that's what rule 3 means

[unborn bay]

printing the entire profile table

[crystal perch]

there might be a game variable

[sturdy compass]

[sturdy compass]

Yes there probably is, but I cannot find it

[brisk rose]

I'd suggest to find the code that generates the additions dialog abs see what it's doing

[sturdy compass]

I tried that too and it was not helpful at all 😭

[crystal perch]

actually it just seems like each joker just has a discovered true/false variable

i don't think there's a game variable that tracks total jokers discovered, especially not filtered by mod

you may just have to iterate through every joker with your mod key and check if their discovered is true 😭

[sturdy compass]

wait holy shit I think I found it in a very generic looking function LOL

[high sinew]

why is this happening XD

[sturdy compass]

And unfortunately for me it looks like the tallies are done on the spot

[unborn bay]

green

[unborn bay]

are you talking about the one on Game:save_progress

[sturdy compass]

nah, modsCollectionTally

Welp time to derive it lol

[subtle hawk]

Not sure if it's the right place to ask, but is there any documentation to when vanilla uses bumping or floating motion modifiers?

[brisk rose]

    local consumable_nodes = {}
    for _, key in ipairs(SMODS.ConsumableType.visible_buffer) do
        local id = 'your_collection_'..key:lower()..'s'
        local tally = modsCollectionTally(G.P_CENTER_POOLS[key])
        if tally.of > 0 then
            consumable_nodes[#consumable_nodes+1] = UIBox_button({button = id, label = {localize('b_'..key:lower()..'_cards')}, count = tally, minw = 4, id = id, colour = G.C.SECONDARY_SET[key]})
        end
    end
    if #consumable_nodes > 3 then
        consumable_nodes = { UIBox_button({ button = 'your_collection_consumables', label = {localize('b_stat_consumables'), localize{ type = 'variable', key = 'c_types', vars = {#consumable_nodes} } }, count = modsCollectionTally(G.P_CENTER_POOLS.Consumeables), minw = 4, minh = 4, id = 'your_collection_consumables', colour = G.C.FILTER }) }
    end

    local leftside_nodes = {}
    for _, v in ipairs { { k = 'Joker', minh = 1.7, scale = 0.6 }, { k = 'Back', b = 'decks' }, { k = 'Voucher' } } do
        v.b = v.b or v.k:lower()..'s'
        v.l = v.l or v.b
        local tally = modsCollectionTally(G.P_CENTER_POOLS[v.k])
        if tally.of > 0 then
            leftside_nodes[#leftside_nodes+1] = UIBox_button({button = 'your_collection_'..v.b, label = {localize('b_'..v.l)}, count = modsCollectionTally(G.P_CENTER_POOLS[v.k]),  minw = 5, minh = v.minh, scale = v.scale, id = 'your_collection_'..v.b})
        end
    end
    if #consumable_nodes > 0 then
        leftside_nodes[#leftside_nodes + 1] = {
            n = G.UIT.R,
            config = { align = "cm", padding = 0.1, r = 0.2, colour = G.C.BLACK },
            nodes = {
                {
                    n = G.UIT.C,
                    config = { align = "cm", maxh = 2.9 },
                    nodes = {
                        { n = G.UIT.T, config = { text = localize('k_cap_consumables'), scale = 0.45, colour = G.C.L_BLACK, vert = true, maxh = 2.2 } },
                    }
                },
                { n = G.UIT.C, config = { align = "cm", padding = 0.15 }, nodes = consumable_nodes }
            }
        }
    end

Almost looks like this is just doing what I said in the first place

[subtle hawk]

In stylizing descriptions, I mean

[brisk rose]

Sorry I know the convo has progressed, just is a pain in the ass to look at code from github on my phone, lol

[heady siren]

Bump

[high sinew]

anyone know?

[sturdy compass]

set_sprite_pos will be your friend. Here's an example of how I do it in a similar application

You can do the same thing for back and front

[heady siren]

What about additional layers?

[sturdy compass]

wdym additional?

[heady siren]

I'm also looking to have extra non-legendary / non-floating layers on top of the card

[sturdy compass]

I think that should work just the same

[heady siren]

How do I make those layers?

[sturdy compass]

Oooooh

I know Cryptid adds another layer so that might be worth looking into, but I am not well versed in it

[heady siren]

I honestly really don't wanna go digging through Cryptid code

[sturdy compass]

And I cannot blame you for that in the slightest

[heady siren]

I might just be flying too close to the sun, I'm making a modular consumeable with 4 different layers

[sturdy compass]

Mayhaps

[heady siren]

First layer has 4 options, second layer has 17 options, third layer has 4 options, fourth layer has 4 options, and I just realized, there's actually a 5th layer, with 3 options

I also need to learn how to do dynatext

[strange wasp]

Hi, I have been having a tsunami of good mod ideas for Balatro, I've only started to learn how to code about a couple weeks ago. And so for things have been okay. When it comes to modding balatro, I find it difficult as to how to use the steammodded or love frameworks. Is there any good resources I can use to help me start creating mods?

[daring fern]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1349064230825103441

[ancient plinth]

Is it possible to track jokers triggering?

[daring fern]

context.post_trigger you have to enable it as an optional feature though.

[ancient plinth]

How so?

[heady siren]

I literally have a variable in my own jokers called "triggers" that goes up by one whenever they're triggered and resets on final scoring step

[scarlet spire]

you just need a little snippet of code in your file that looks like this

[daring fern]

SMODS.current_mod.optional_features = function()
    return {
        post_trigger = true,
    }
end

[scarlet spire]

actually didn't unscored cards get moved out of optional features at some point? I should probably just remove that

[daring fern]

They did.

[ancient plinth]

thx

How do I use it to track jokers triggering also? I wanna use it to make a joker that scales when a joker triggers

[high sinew]

does anyone know issue?

[daring fern]

context.post_trigger works on jokers by default.

[high sinew]

plz😭

[ancient plinth]

Thx

How do I make a joker scale also?

[daring fern]

card.ability.extra.mult = card.ability.extra.mult + card.ability.extra.mult_gain for example.

[daring fern]

What does your code look like?

[heady siren]

Bump 2.0

[ancient plinth]

Anyone wanna hear a joker idea I had?

[sturdy compass]

This took a SURPISINGLY little amount of patches. Just three and they're all non-destructive

[unborn bay]

lovely patch ,,,

[runic pecan]

What would happen if return true in G.E_MANAGER is conditional, such as putting it under if #G.jokers.cards < G.jokers.config.card_limit?

Would that event keep on queuing until the condition meets?

[outer dagger]

Is there a guide on how to mod? pitfalls, functions, etc?

[runic pecan]

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

[native zinc]

pitfalls: not knowing lua

[daring fern]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1349064230825103441

[native zinc]

also the typos in the vanilla code are pretty funny

and assuming some functions exist that don't

is_suit() and get_id()

[daring fern]

Is there a way to check if a UIBox is currently open?

[runic pecan]

Wait, I get that it's get_id instead of get_rank, but what do you meanis_suit doesn't exist?

[sturdy compass]

card:is_suit

[native zinc]

no, is_suit and get_rank exist

i'm saying that is_rank and get_suit don't exist

[daring fern]

No, it's get_id

[native zinc]

oops

i've fallen in my own hole

oh wait i redefined get_id to be get rank in my misc functions that's why

i'm stupid

[high sinew]

can u look at my code?

[daring fern]

What if you removed the particles function?

[high sinew]

it was there before it existed

those are background

[runic pecan]

bump

[rustic swallow]

why is extra nil here

[daring fern]

Show your config.

[runic pecan]

Because there's no extra in this picture?

[runic pecan]

In this case you should return card.ability.extra.money*(G.GAME.current_round.hands_left + 1)

[daring fern]

No, It queues everything else permanently.

[heady siren]

That doesn't work that way, the return true tells the function it's done executing, if that's ever false, it will continue to run the event every frame

[manic rune]

SO CLOSE

[daring fern]

Unless a joker is force removed.

[manic rune]

i just need to somehow move the (0/25) to the line below

[rustic swallow]

this returns nil at 1432 now

[manic rune]

and i legit dont know where im doing wrong

[daring fern]

What type of object is this?

[runic pecan]

Return the number, not the table.

[rustic swallow]

a joker

[manic rune]

what do i need to change here 😭

i assumed i needed to change this from G.UIT.R to G.UIT.C, but it didnt change anything

[rustic swallow]

this then?

[manic rune]

did you try starting a new run

[rustic swallow]

thank you all for the help, it worked

[heady siren]

'

Bump again

I just want additional sprite layers

[daring fern]

What do you mean by layer?

[manic rune]

they probably mean stuff like Souls

[shell timber]

like how cryptid has a mid layer?

look at how cryptid does it

[brisk rose]

If you go up they want one they can change based on values on the card

I think 2 layers is fine just a changing layer

It must be possible because aura has some dynamic sprites I think and I don't think it'd be too different

Idk how it's done though

[heady siren]

I'm looking for static layers, none of the floating offsets

Worst case scenario I can use stickers

[manic rune]

static layers?

[heady siren]

Not floating

Just looking like part of the card itself

[shell timber]

look into SMODS.DrawStep

[manic rune]

i have decided to just make my own ui box from scratch 😭

[wintry solar]

What’s this for?

[brisk rose]

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

God this documentation is lacking though

[heady siren]

Now I'm just looking at Card:draw

[manic rune]

skill tree im working on

i wanted to try and use detailed_tooltip to achieve something like this

i wanted to make it so that it read from localization instead of a center

but after 30 minutes of tweaking - i genuinely dont know why it doesnt want to move the (0/25) to another line, even when i changed everything to G.UIT.C

[brisk rose]

Also I can't figure out how to control when it executes a certain drawstep.

[brisk rose]

If it's just any time the card it acts on is rendered, that doesn't solve káeda's needs

[wintry solar]

Draw step is exactly what they need

[brisk rose]

Unless steps can be conditional

[wintry solar]

Of course they can

[brisk rose]

Fair, lol

I'm a bit slow sometimes ngl

Though the documentation is... obtuse

[heady siren]

It's really hard to tell what I'm supposed to actually do with SMODS.DrawStep

[high sinew]

why cantI use this?

[wintry solar]

Look in carddraw.lua in your smods folder

[manic rune]

...i wonder wheres the name

unless im doing something wrong im not aware of, hm

[heady siren]

How would I add additional draw layers?

[wintry solar]

Just make your own

[brisk rose]

It looks like you're just using it automatically when created?

And then making it as used

[high sinew]

yea

[heady siren]

I'm currently staring at card_draw.lua and trying to figure out what I'm supposed to copy and what I'm not supposed to copy, I have no idea

[high sinew]

im just making it be where u can always use

[brisk rose]

I mean in the booster logic

[wintry solar]

Just take one of the draw steps and then change it to draw what you need it to draw

[high sinew]

where?

[brisk rose]

        local c = create_card("Snack", G.pack_cards, nil, nil, true, true, nil, 'mills')
    
        -- auto-use the snack card immediately
        if c and c.use then
            c:use(c)
            -- optionally mark as used
            c.ability.used = true
        end
    
        -- optionally remove the card afterwards so it doesn't clog inventory
        c.remove_from_deck = true
    
        return c
    end```

[heady siren]

I feel like a fucking idiot

[brisk rose]

I'm probably being stupid but afaik "if c.use" executes the use function

[high sinew]

i put that in cause it wasnt working

[manic rune]

added {E:1} and shi straight up disappeared 🥀

[heady siren]

How do I reference an atlas, where do I put the position, what variable do I tell to :draw? I do not know how this works

[brisk rose]

When you open the booster, do you get a buff? If so the card is auto-using but not dissolving

[heady siren]

I'm just stuck here staring at the file and my own empty DrawStep and I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to type

[high sinew]

yea i think this is what u mean

[manic rune]

i think this looks good enough

[heady siren]

It's Multin' time

Mults everywhere

[manic rune]

fr...

upgrades in I'm Multin' it pretty much just gives you free Mult :p

[heady siren]

She Mults on my Jimbo 'til I The Water

[manic rune]

Splash

[heady siren]

So good I'm Seeing Double

Okay, so, if I'm referencing this, what do I replace these variables with to render my own sprite from a specific atlas?

[rustic swallow]

why does this not retrigger even when i have oops all 6s

[heady siren]

You're an insane person

[daring fern]

Replace context.individual with context.repetition

[heady siren]

Is there a specific way to reference an Atlas using this format?

[high sinew]

i cant use this consumable why is that?

[heady siren]

Just like, SMODS.Atlases['atlasname'], and then define a pos somewhere

[sturdy compass]

Anyone who can comfortably do UI stuff is insane

[manic rune]

huh, so blueprint is pretty much the same as brainstorm?

[daring fern]

I guess.

[wintry solar]

It just randomly selects?

[manic rune]

i am so close to

[daring fern]

No, you get to choose for both.

[wintry solar]

Oh I see

[golden lake]

chat i remember this was answered here before but i lost the place where it was answered

what causes these white alpha artifacts around the edges of cards in 2X?

i remember this being an encoding issue

this issue is exclusive to 2X/pixel art smoothing

[brisk rose]

Did you use nearest neighbor/ no interpolation scaling when you upscaled

[golden lake]

i upscale from aseprite

[shell timber]

the pixels on the outside are probably white with 0 alpha

[golden lake]

this is with no pixel art smoothing

[golden lake]

that shouldn't be possible since i exported from aseprite just now

i deleted the whole 2X sheet

re-exported it from Aseprite

[brisk rose]

Just normal exporting at 2x? Weird

[tall wharf]

p sure there is a script that makes it look better

[golden lake]

does this issue persist if even one of my atlases is wrong?

[manic rune]

i think im cooking

[golden lake]

i don't care

[manic rune]

:(

[golden lake]

i'm troubleshooting an issue

read the room please

[manic rune]

sorry

[unborn bay]

why are you roffle lite bepis

[golden lake]

do you have a link

[unborn bay]

the creator of balatro star rail would never be roffle lite

[golden lake]

yeah from aseprite, so there should be no alpha issues

[manic rune]

the plague took over

[golden lake]

which is why i'm thinking if a single atlas being wrong could affect it

[brisk rose]

Yta

[tall wharf]

i don't

[heady siren]

Just a reminder that this is not your channel

[brisk rose]

This chat always has multiple threads of conversation going and it's no one's place just to hog it

[golden lake]

i just asked a question and I'm trying to get an answer so I can move on with this

this is already frustrating as is

forgive me if i'm a little on edge but i've been trying to solve this for an hour

and i just want to get this done and over with

[heady siren]

This channel isn't typically known to be consistent, don't shut people down from sharing things because you're personally in a bad mood

[golden lake]

that was a repost in my defense

[brisk rose]

First thing I'd do is just... make sure it's not just how the engine works. Are the vanilla jokers doing it too?

[heady siren]

Because bepis is actively working on their custom UI system

[manic rune]

i added the " (0 SP)" to show how many skill points you accumulated throughout the run

[golden lake]

no they are not

[manic rune]

so not exactly a repost

[golden lake]

i'm sorry then, it just seemed like one

[manic rune]

its fine

[tall wharf]

okay i found that script

[golden lake]

i didn't notice there was any change

[tall wharf]

the addition of 0 SP

[brisk rose]

If it's 2x upscale with no interpolation it's going to be identical regardless of how it's done. That is how it is in aseperite

[golden lake]

the ui system is neat this has just been a headache for me because it's been fine until some other people working with me on the mod insisted that uploading jokers directly to 2X is fine

[tall wharf]

surprisingly it's not

[golden lake]

and then these artifacts happened

[tall wharf]

if you export 2x directly from aseprite you'll have that weird glow

in game

[unborn bay]

i feel like in this case its less of an issue with upscaling and more with love2d being a goofhead

[tall wharf]

which is why that script exists

[unborn bay]

i personally just don't play in 2x so i don't have to worry about it too much 😛

[brisk rose]

Then either aesperite or the script is doing something different than normal nearest neighbor 2x

I wonder which it is

[wintry solar]

I think the cost should be the bottom box

[scarlet spire]

due to the way balatro displays 2x sprites, it is going to be different depending on how the upscaling handles fully transparent pixels
the white outline comes from pixel interpolation between transparent pixels, which just happen to be white because I assume aesprite blanks them to save file size or something, but in turn some interpolation techniques see them as white pixels that need to be blended to, introducing the artifact

[wintry solar]

I’ve seen some people before saying you need a transparent outline of your sprites that is the same colour as the adjacent pixels but I’ve never had the weird white glow on my stuff and I just upscale using aseprite 🤷‍♂️

[unborn bay]

i upscale using a python script i stole from morefluff

[wintry solar]

Maybe it’s a screen res issue?

[scarlet spire]

just fix the rendering its so easy (lie)

[golden lake]

for whatever reason just upscaling the sprite not using the export option works

this is plain silly

i need a break

[brisk rose]

There... should be no confusion. 1 fully transparent pixel should become 4

That's what nearest neighbor is

[manic rune]

moved the cost to bottom

[scarlet spire]

yes, but balatro renders the 2x sprites with slight interpolation, thats the whole point of the pixel art smoothing setting

the interpolation is on balatro's side, not on the process of creating the 2x sprites

[brisk rose]

Which is why i said one of the methods must not be actually doing scaling sans interpolation

For the following interpolation to be different

[scarlet spire]

and that's what I'm saying

the game interpolates the sprites on purpose for pixel art smoothing mode

the game only uses nearest neighbor sampling when pixel art smoothing is off

[golden lake]

btw for anyone who encounters this issue in the future

the solution is to literally upscale *2 in "Sprite Size" in aseprite or whatever program you use

do not use export options, they have some weird encoding crap that causes the artifacts

[unborn bay]

when are we getting a lovely patch to fix pixel art smoothing

[scarlet spire]

take it up with whoever invented bilinear sampling

[unborn bay]

bilinear filterz

,,,,

when are we normalizing bicubic

[crisp coral]

wait i thought the export upscale is the same as sprite size

[scarlet spire]

it might be bicubic I have no idea I just thought that was a funny thing to say

[crisp coral]

bruhhh

oh wait i don't use that lol i have an upscale script

[unborn bay]

hi myst

[scarlet spire]

but yeah I assume the export function of aesprite blanks out transparent pixels for... extremely slim file space savings?

you're really saving a handful of bytes with this one

[golden lake]

it is not

export upscale does some weird stuff

sprite size keeps the thing right

it is the most painfully weird thing i've encountered

[wintry solar]

I’ve always just exported at 1x with the open spritesheet option checked, then resized that and exported again

[heady siren]

How would I get a DrawStep to draw onto a specific card? It's a consumeable card

[unborn bay]

just use a normal draw function on the card

[wintry solar]

Check the key of the card

[unborn bay]

alternatively just make the drawstep check for the key

yeah

[scarlet spire]

I need to get my hands on an upscale script, the number of spritesheets in my mod keeps growing and the only ones I have 2x versions of is an extremely outdated jokers sheet and enhancements sheet

[unborn bay]

we should add hq2x to balatro so that upscaled cards look WORSE

emulator filters

[scarlet spire]

script that purposefully applies gaussian blur to your spritesheets and saves over them

[undone maple]

how do i draw a specific thing after each discard? for example, 3 random diamond cards from the deck

[hushed field]

It's the one thing I keep forgetting to fix. The outline artifacts can be ignored sometimes but they look really off on seals

[tall wharf]

why does it look so ass tho

[heady siren]

How do I get the key? I've only ever used the key to create a new card or used next(SMODS.find_card('key'))

[wintry solar]

card.config.center_key

[faint yacht]

card.config.center.key

[heady siren]

Got it

Prefix for consumeables is c_ correct?

[faint yacht]

ye.

[brisk rose]

I know that... I meant for the output of that to be different so must be the input

[scarlet spire]

in this case it's that the export function of aesprite is overwriting transparent pixels to be white, for whatever reason

[thorn flame]

whats causing this?

[brisk rose]

That's weird because it's definitely supposed to be strict nearest neighbor

[scarlet spire]

well it is

[wintry solar]

It’s to do with how the engine up scales the images with pixel smoothing on

[heady siren]

It just renders in the corner

[brisk rose]

But it supports transparency in general so as I said the already fully transparent pixels /should/ be turning into 4 which are thus

[paper zealot]

Can you upload the 2x png here?

[golden lake]

it's solved already

[heady siren]

What am I doing wrong here that's causing this?

[golden lake]

i did post the solution

also hm

[thorn flame]

is it for k v in ipairs? this happened when i was trying to code insane joker too

[paper zealot]

Okay. Can you upload the 2x png, so that I can check the alpha colours?

[scarlet spire]

and they are, 1 transparent pixel becomes four fully transparent pixels
the issue here is not related to nearest neighbor at all, but the export function culling transparent pixels to be fully white, in conjuction with how balatro renders the sprites with pixel interpolation

[brisk rose]

Oh you mean white as in ffffffff

As opposed to having a hue too

As well as being transparent

[golden lake]

it's no longer an issue though

and i did say what i did to solve the issue

my obligation is done

[heady siren]

It's probably because the alpha and color interpolation are done at the same time, so it interpolates towards the color alongside interpolating towards the alpha, making it turn halfway to white while halfway to transparent

[scarlet spire]

yep, the exporter botches transparent pixels and causes unexpected artifacts when the pixel art is displayed in an unconventional way, like balatro does with pixel smoothing on

[golden lake]

yeah so basically you have to upscale using the sprite size operation

rather than using the exporter

which is annoying

but not the end of the world

[rustic swallow]

thank you

[brisk rose]

Also I think that might be ffffff00. I forget whether transparent is 00 alpha or ff alpha. I think it's 00 egged though ff makes more intuitive sense to me despite knowing that alpha means lack of transparency abs ff is 255

[undone maple]

is it possible to reorder cards in the deck?

[daring fern]

Hook CardArea:shuffle

[brisk rose]

Just realized that rgba is a nice clean 32 bit standard

[undone maple]

does that shuffle everything randomly?

[manic rune]

it does

[undone maple]

well is it possible to order specifically?

can i put the cards i want on top of the deck

[daring fern]

Yes.

[heady siren]

I wanna make the sprite connected to the card and not just hanging out in the corner ;~;

[manic rune]

im pretty sure how cards are drawn in the deck is that it goes from index 1 to index n, so you will need to shuffle the entire table around manually

[manic rune]

basically: put the card you want to be drawn first in index 1 of G.deck.cards, i think

[undone maple]

alright

[daring fern]

1: Don't create a new sprite every frame 2: Try using card.T.x, card.T.y, card.T.w, card.T.h for the first inputs

[heady siren]

How do I not create a new sprite every frame

Could I store the sprite somewhere in the card table?

[hushed field]

Store the local outside the draw step code! Or store it in a global table

[heady siren]

Would I need to make a new sprite for each individual atlas position I'd like to use?

[shell timber]

here's how morefluff does the sts mana values, this should be useful

where G.mf_mv_spr is set up earlier

[heady siren]

I'm adding an extra layer on top of the base card sprite

[shell timber]

that's what this does

[heady siren]

I also wanna have multiple instances of the card that uses different sprites, so making an individual sprite for each one would probably work better

[shell timber]

you can have an atlas with different positions

if you look at the code you can see how

[heady siren]

Can you post what G.mf_mv_spr looks like?

[shell timber]

wdym

[heady siren]

That's a variable it's referencing

[shell timber]

it's a sprite that's set up before

[heady siren]

Does set_sprite_pos override the position for all cards that use that sprite?

[shell timber]

yes, but if you call it before every draw then it can be in multiple places

[heady siren]

Ah, that makes sense

Should I make one sprite per layer, or just render it all using the same sprite if it's in the same atlas?

[thorn flame]

anyone?

[heady siren]

Set the third argument of set_ability to true, that'll delay the sprite change until it's processed

[daring fern]

You going through every card when any card scores.

[manic rune]

first of all - the context is wrong, you should put it to context.before instead

reason being: exactly what smt said, im too slow 🥀

[thorn flame]

thats what i FIGURED but i dont know how ipairs works 💔

[manic rune]

runs through a table from index 1 to index #table

[heady siren]

context.individual = for each card
for k,v in ipairs(context.scoring_hand) = for each card
So for each card... you're checking each card

[manic rune]

local a = {1,5,9}
for i,v in ipairs(a) do
  print(i.." has "..v)
end

=>
1 has 1
2 has 5
3 has 9

[heady siren]

This is how I did a played hand full enhancement change

[manic rune]

https://gyazo.com/923f60168e864cc8188c1340c91737b1 now checks for requirements

[heady siren]

It looks so mundane to anybody who doesn't know how much effort you've put into this

Which means you're doing UI right but regardless good job

[manic rune]

it was honestly SO painful to get everything like how i wanted 😭

especially the info box - i had to manually create it myself

and thanks :3

[heady siren]

And it looks official

[zealous glen]

If Bepis were here to see this

They'd be proud

[heady siren]

I still wanna see what G.mf_mv_spr looks like so I can figure out where to put card.T.x, card.T.y, card.T.w, card.T.h

[manic rune]

so true

its so sad bepis died of ligma

[shell timber]

it's just a normal 71x95 atlas

[heady siren]

Yeah and the first 2 are the position of the sprite

And the card isn't full size

If I do this it's just gonna be like wtf do you mean "card.T.x"

Because card isn't defined as a variable

[shell timber]

just do whatever your card is

0, 0, 71, 95 whatever

[heady siren]

How do I make it follow the card itself then? Wouldn't that just render the sprite at position 0, 0 with default sizing?

[thorn flame]

i want it to do every card

i might not be underttsanding right because it IS 4 am

[shell timber]

this is why you do

    G.mf_mv_spr.role.draw_major = self
``` or whatever

[heady siren]

You're doing all 5 cards for each card, so you're processing every card 5 times

[manic rune]

jesus christ, get some sleep 😭

[heady siren]

So each card is checking every other card including itself

25 total card processes instead of 5

[heady siren]

Alrighty that's what I needed

[heady siren]

What function is that in? It's throwing an error because it can't find the atlas

[manic rune]

is it a good approach to have stuff saved to G.GAME first, then when the run is over - save those back to G.PROFILES?

[heady siren]

Roffle Blight has evolved into dog bepis

[thorn flame]

But then . freddy egt me

[manic rune]

its the origin of my name too :3

[heady siren]

Congrats on your transition

[rapid stag]

laughs in having woken up after getting only roughly 2 hours of sleep because people in the house were loud and continued to remain loud for multiple hours and prevented me from getting back to sleep

[manic rune]

does everyone here have a fucked up sleeping schedule or something

because me too

🥀

[heady siren]

Went to sleep at 9:30 AM woke up at 4 PM

Currently 2:30 in the morning

Probably won't sleep for a while

[thorn flame]

so these are just redudanbt then

[heady siren]

Yes, they're both doing the same thing, but one is happening inside the other, so it's doubling up

[undone maple]

doesnt seem to work well, how can i limit the deck reordering to a maximum of 3 times

[daring fern]

You can't hook inside of calculate.

What is the goal?

[faint yacht]

If a Joker is .getting_sliced, I can assume it doesn't have its' calculate go through?

[daring fern]

As long as it checks for that I'm pretty sure.

[thorn flame]

sorry if these all seem like stupiud questions or whatever but like im majoing in biochemistry not coding

[daring fern]

You probably don't want to hook shuffle then.

[undone maple]

how would i do it?

[thorn flame]

ok it works now

THANK YOU GUYS 🫀

[heady siren]

I was able to make a card draw to your hand from your deck but it copies the card to your hand and deletes the original from your deck ;~;

[undone maple]

sounds pretty unoptimized

[heady siren]

Yep

[undone maple]

but if it works i guess

[faint yacht]

...about that...

Though, I suppose it still might do its' remove_from_deck call...

[heady siren]

IT'S WORKING

https://tenor.com/view/rage-emoji-rage-gif-2922587064166244739

[thorn flame]

whats iut do

[heady siren]

Damnit it doesn't work with resizing

[karmic arch]

What is this? is this a consumables that you can build yourself?

[heady siren]

It's a randomly generated card that essentially acts as a basic stat joker, this one gives +8 Mult for every played 5

It even goes into it's own cardarea

It can give chips, mult, xmult, or money when scored, discarded, held in hand, or in deck, and it can trigger on any default suits and ranks

[undone maple]

yeaa i couldnt figure out how i can do it, id appreciate some help

[zealous glen]

who's steve jobs

[manic rune]

ligma balls

[thorn pumice]

hiii meow

[zealous glen]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-manhattan-gif-18899941

[heady siren]

How would I go about fixing this?

[zealous glen]

what are you trying to do

[high sinew]

for keep_on_use and checking cardings in consumable why isnt this working

[thorn pumice]

me exploding someone with my mind powers

[heady siren]

Put a sprite on a card using a DrawStep that matches the card's size, I've done everything except the last one

[heady siren]

blows up pancakes with mind

[heady siren]

.

[wintry solar]

What does the draw step look like?

[zealous glen]

did you set the sprite's major?

[heady siren]

This is where G.buffsprite is defined

[heady siren]

Yes, it's in the image above

G.buffsprite.role.draw_major = self

It follows the card properly, but doesn't resize itself to match the card's scale

[zealous glen]

I do this when defining sprites

[thorn pumice]

may i ask what mod you’re using to spawn stuff?

[zealous glen]

I think that's the wrong object

if you just want to attach it to another object

I've also done confused cards

[daring fern]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1228149931257237664

[thorn pumice]

oh that’s built into debug plus? how do you open that menu

i’ve been using debug plus 💔😭

[daring fern]

My mistake, that is Too Many Jokers

[thorn pumice]

oh okie bet

[heady siren]

I was told to define the sprite elsewhere

[thorn pumice]

do you have a link to a repo by chance?

[heady siren]

And in a DrawStep

[heady siren]

Yo repo that's just like the hit game R.E.P.O. no way

[thorn pumice]

wait no fucking way i love that game

[heady siren]

🤯

[daring fern]

https://github.com/cg-223/toomanyjokers

[zealous glen]

if you're going to reuse the sprite

then it makes sense to define a single one

to reuse

[heady siren]

My main problem is that it doesn't resize, that's it, besides that it's working just fine

Wrong image

This is where I've told the card to resize itself, is this wrong?

[zealous glen]

I think either you're not setting the major correctly or the atlas is wrongly sized

[heady siren]

At full size it works fine

It looks perfect

[zealous glen]

card sizing is difficult so I just need to figure it out when I try to

[heady siren]

But once the size of the card changes, it becomes out of sync

[heady siren]

This is the DrawStep for the card, the major is being set in the same way as with yours, just with a single sprite instead of an individual sprite for each card

Do you think the individual method would fix the problem?

[zealous glen]

I'm not setting it in the draw step

[heady siren]

Moving it to the draw function did not solve the problem

It's the exact same

But I'll move them to the draw function for simplicity's sake

[zealous glen]

I'm not doing it in the draw function

[heady siren]

Ya think set_sprites would fix it?

[manic rune]

do i hook here to do smt like

give +4 mult in context.joker_main everytime

[heady siren]

I think you'd hook calculate_joker not calculate_context

[manic rune]

oh

:3 my bad

[heady siren]

That's what I'm doing to force certain jokers to trigger

[daring fern]

Then if you had no jokers or consumables or vouchers, nothing would happen.

[heady siren]

I wasn't sure if that's specifically what they're looking for or not

[manic rune]

its a passive-kinda thing

not a joker effect

[heady siren]

Ah, not triggering on every joker, just triggering as if from a joker

[manic rune]

mhm

[heady siren]

I have no idea in that case

Very helpful I know

[manic rune]

lmao

all good, i will eventually figure this out myself :p

[eager pendant]

Help make the joker immediately polychrome in the store, how to implement in the

[zealous glen]

idk

either that or whatever I did for confused cards

[manic rune]

...i cant tell which context i need to use

😭

[wintry solar]

try using G.CARD_W and G.CARD_H instead of hard coding those numbers

[heady siren]

Scale still is not working

[wintry solar]

the draw step all looks fine

[heady siren]

Well now I put it in the card draw function, so

[manic rune]

i should

try printing all contexts and see what im working with

[wintry solar]

A drawstep allows you much more control over when and at what layer it's drawn