💻・modding-dev

[manic rune]

hm

no context thats similar to context.main_scoring/context.joker_main

damn

[wintry solar]

what are you trying to do bepis?

[manic rune]

so like, im planning to add skills that give +n mult, the timing should be similar to context.joker_main

i faintly remember someone saying i need to hook to SMODS.calculate_context to do stuff like that

[wintry solar]

you could add a dummy voucher that'll do it all for you, or add your own dummy area to store those effects

[manic rune]

dang, i never tried neither 🥀

if i were to go with the latter approach, im assuming id need to create like, dummy jokers to add to the area, and hook the area to calculate_context?

[wintry solar]

to SMODS.calculate_card_areas

[zealous glen]

kinda

it also removes some capabilities

so it's a sidegrade IMO

[wintry solar]

what does it remove?

[manic rune]

...in my defense i saw this and thought its used for that purpose ❤️

[zealous glen]

synchronicity with soul sprite, it adds an extra check to every object instead of it being just local

[zealous glen]

you can refer to my code if you need help

[manic rune]

thanks eremel :p

[manic rune]

oh, thatd save a lot of time

❤️

[heady siren]

Those numbers are global variables, setting it to that didn't change anything

This is how it looks at full card size vs when it's shrunk down to 2/3rd size

Card changes size, sprites don't

This is my code for changing card size, it just shrinks them down once they enter a cardarea

[zealous glen]

maybe you're shrinking them wrong

[heady siren]

How else would I do it?

That's how the game resizes the non-standard jokers like Half Joker and Square Joker

[zealous glen]

you could change the visual size or the scale

[manic rune]

wheres the code btw :p

[zealous glen]

see how SMODS does it

[zealous glen]

search zodiacs

[wintry solar]

I think it's because you're changing the size after the sprite has been created

[manic rune]

wtf

i cant tell if this is synergy or 👽 😭

[manic rune]

watdahell

guess im simply dumb ❤️

[heady siren]

https://tenor.com/view/community-small-gif-5412400

That's required for the size of them in booster packs and shops so you don't get this situation

They have small elements you wanna be able to parse at a glance

The cards get smaller so that you don't have to worry about them taking up your whole screen

[wintry solar]

you'll just need to change the size of the extra sprites too

[heady siren]

Okay how

I've tried to make them match the card size but it hasn't worked

Tried G.buffsprite.T.w/h = card.T.w/h and G.buffsprite.VT.w/h = card.VT.w/h and combinations of both and neither worked

It didn't even like, scale them incorrectly, it just didn't do anything

I also tried scale_mod in the shader but it puts them in the wrong offset

[manic rune]

...hm

[heady siren]

Even setting the size of G.buffsprite in it's definition doesn't work, it stays at full size

[manic rune]

now that i think about it, if i go with this approach, theres no way for me to organize the +mult, +chips and such in an optimized way

[wintry solar]

I was thinking you just have one object that adds them all

and redeeming the skill changing the values in a G.GAME.modifiers table

[manic rune]

oh yeah, good idea

[heady siren]

I really wish resizing was just working, this would look so good

[zealous glen]

what do you mean

[manic rune]

initially planned to add each skill as its separate card

but maybe grouping all of their effects into one card is the best approach

[zealous glen]

I disagree

I think it's easier to code if they're separate

and to handle too

you're just recreating

thunk's if-else-if tower of babel otherwise

[heady siren]

I'm basically doing the same thing but with buff cards instead of skills, and you can see them in a cardarea

[zealous glen]

or not see them

[wintry solar]

a single object is really easy

[zealous glen]

— , writing a single function to calculate all Jokers effects

[wintry solar]

but it's not 150 different effects

its one system providing certain values

it makes sense for them all to be together

[zealous glen]

they're together in the CardArea

[heady siren]

At least there's not repeat code for the same effect over and over and over

[wintry solar]

I am talking about bepis' problem

[heady siren]

Yeh I'm just expanding on this

Sorry

[primal robin]

Nope

[zealous glen]

what's their problem

[paper zealot]

What do you use?

[primal robin]

love.keypress

Theoretically this can break controller in a manner if event will be prevented, key hold can stuck more than needed

[heady siren]

Still wanna fix this, this sucks

[paper zealot]

Does Love provide any neat way of "consuming" keypresses so that multiple mods don't end up with conflicting binds? Would extending Controller be a more cooperative approach?
Mods naively polling for keypresses without regard for whether the keypress has been "consumed" by another mod seems like bad engineering, but without a common API, I guess there's not really any other option

[gray apex]

This took way too long

[manic rune]

what the fuck

[heady siren]

HUH

[manic rune]

thats insane

😭

[faint yacht]

-# Petscop texture editor.

[heady siren]

First thing I'm making is a joker that's called Photochad

[faint yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/nice-gif-27348966

[primal robin]

This is the most insane I seen so far

[gray apex]

I never wish to look at a UI element again

[crisp coral]

that's fucking sick

[unborn bay]

mario paint joker .....

[gray apex]

Once the texture is drawn, I intend to have it swap to a menu where you can pick between one of several abilities, which are then applied to all copies of the Joker.
The custom joker data persists between runs and game instances, so I already have a button to purge them in the config

[heady siren]

At first I thought you were putting down random scribbles, but no, you're just an actually good artist, and I had no idea what you were even drawing until it was done

[gray apex]

Graphic design is my passion

[proud moon]

is there somewhere i could find a neat list of sounds the play_sound function will play?

[hard needle]

no way you're making a joker creator

[heady siren]

The game files

[proud moon]

darn

[heady siren]

Same

[manic rune]

how are people doing those cool stuff

😭

[proud moon]

i was hoping for a doc or smth, but ig i can just go to the files

[gray apex]

Spite, trial and error

[primal robin]

And skill

[manic rune]

how long did it take u to do that

[primal robin]

[unborn bay]

skill has nothing to do with ui code

[gray apex]

I started work on it around this time yesterday

[unborn bay]

it's cope actually

[manic rune]

im still flabbergasted even though i replayed that shit like 10 times already

WHAT

yesTERDAY?????

[heady siren]

The only skill you have is patience

[primal robin]

Ui is not that bad as it can be

It works at least

[unborn bay]

the problem is getting it to work

🥀

[heady siren]

Isn't that every problem here?

[unborn bay]

double down for ui code

[primal robin]

When you're web dev this ui is kinda understandable

With some exceptions of course

[tall wharf]

me...

[eager pendant]

How to put a shader on top of a joker texture

[gray apex]

The weirdest hack I had to do for this was to overlay an invisible button over the image using negative padding
I'm not going to touch it, lest it will break

[primal robin]

Never touch bond property so far

So whole joker sprite is a field with buttons?

[unborn bay]

that probably explains why you have to put each pixel one at a time

[gray apex]

The image and button are sibling nodes, but the parent node has negative padding, which causes them to overlap

[manic rune]

https://gyazo.com/d318af8c467c0877284cefb762371f51

[gray apex]

When the button is pressed, it does some jank maths to figure out the (almost consistently) closest pixel

[eager pendant]

Please tell me how to make the Joker always be polychrome in the store is a particular joker this one

[heady siren]

You don't even have a calculate function

[primal robin]

In one time I should finish implementing scrollbar

[manic rune]

sometimes i wonder what my mod is about

[primal robin]

A lot of texts under each joker

[unborn bay]

multiple mods can be described as thay

pokermon joyousspring

uhhh

almanac

[heady siren]

Please read the documentation before coming here
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/API-Documentation

[unborn bay]

almanac has a lot of text

[manic rune]

my mod is leading the "how many words can you pack into a joker" competition ❤️

[heady siren]

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

[manic rune]

i mean - you got 5 pages

you cant possibly top that

[primal robin]

Not 7 pages on each joker, you know

[heady siren]

Those can't even be considered jokers anymore

[wintry solar]

you need a set_ability function on your joker

[heady siren]

They're the whole damn circus

[manic rune]

stats, equipments

i will need to learn to make cinematic cutscenes and dialogues soon

[heady siren]

Even my modular consumeables are just 1 line

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭😭

[primal robin]

Draw this equipment as UI on hover

[unborn bay]

i mean that's understandable since you're implementing gacha game in balatro

[tall wharf]

😭😭😭😭😭

[unborn bay]

when are you making it 3d bepis

so we can see 3d jimbo

[manic rune]

-# "jimbo" is supposedly the final boss in my mod, actually

[unborn bay]

jimbo balatro final boss ??????!

[manic rune]

i decided to give jimbo some backstory in my lore

:p

[heady siren]

Still wanna try to fix this, it's so close to looking good

[primal robin]

Talking cards are weird

If you make a card separately, and replace card in talking card with created one, calling say_stuff makes this card wiggle much more intense than intented

[manic rune]

the overall concept of my mod's story is:

• lost in weird reality, find self in casino
• jimbo tells you your memory is scattered throughout the place
• survive

thats the surface

[heady siren]

In the booster pack they look so good ;~;

[unborn bay]

there's lore in my balatro mod

[manic rune]

thats also why bosses from hsr take form of blinds

[eager pendant]

Show me how it will look like in the code, I don't understand I tried the options, they don't work

[tall wharf]

you know how?

just set sprite on that mf

[primal robin]

At one time I want implement storytellers like in Rimworld

[manic rune]

since those memories are manifested into those stuff, and you recover them back from beating them

[heady siren]

I've tried like, 6 different methods

[wintry solar]

I think they'd look better if they were behind the base card, assuming the bse card has a big transparent section

[manic rune]

id discuss more about my mod's story, but that would be too much spoilers for what will hopefully make my mod different from others :p

[tall wharf]

https://github.com/Aikoyori/Balatro-Aikoyoris-Shenanigans/blob/a476048f41a63399073f02f60d3e8435d5e7ad05/modules/misc.lua#L334

[primal robin]

[wintry solar]

@heady siren I figured it out!

[primal robin]

blob

[heady siren]

Behind wouldn't change anything because the elements are made to fit together perfectly, no space overlaps besides the background gradient and rank / suit outline

[heady siren]

Oh?

[wintry solar]

change your resize code to card.T.scale = 0.66

[tall wharf]

i think this might have problem with juice up

where it looks a bit jittery

was trying to fix this for my own letter thing

[wintry solar]

they kind of look like they're stuck on top though, maybe the chips bit needs a defined edge?

[heady siren]

I don't even care if they get funny when juiced up

It worked

[tall wharf]

actually does it look funny when juicd up

[wintry solar]

I'd definitely try and reverse the order they're drawn, just to see what the difference is

[heady siren]

I'd have to change how the code for the layers work

[primal robin]

This drawing stuff is too complicated for me

[heady siren]

I like it how it looks now, that's how I designed it to look

[wintry solar]

are you using the draw step?

[tall wharf]

when was drawstep introduced

early march?

[wintry solar]

28th Feb

[heady siren]

Now, is there a way to force a card to be layered above all other cards?

[manic rune]

an option to reset the skill tree, options to add +5,+10,max skill points to skills, and skills that also have downsides would probably be fun to play around with

[tall wharf]

there is but you'll need to patch

[heady siren]

Also they work but now the card hitboxes are full size

https://tenor.com/view/crying-emoji-dies-gif-21956120

So halfway past one card will select the card on it's right

Lerping my beloved

And it automatically expands when you enter a blind

[hushed field]

that looks amazing. Might be a bit tight in the screen space when the cards are being scored, but the animation for it looks amazing

[heady siren]

Which is why I really wanted them to be resized

I'm not sure where else to put them

[maiden phoenix]

Nice, since there's a drawstep talk going on, how exactly do you fetch a sprite to add it on top of a card? Is it an atlas call or something?

Or does the key already reference that sprite?

[heady siren]

Slap this in here

Change it's position like this, though without the table and stuff, that's just how I did it

buffsprite can be anything you want

[maiden phoenix]

I'm surprised you can't use a SMODS.Atlas for that

[zealous glen]

nice

[heady siren]

You probably can

I'm just stupid [=

[maiden phoenix]

lol

Thanks for the pointer anyway 👍

[heady siren]

Should there also be a keybind or button to expand the buff area or should it just stay as a hover?

[wintry solar]

the hover is good I think

[heady siren]

Well I fixed the scale juice_up issue

Literally just multiply it by the scale

And it still works fully as intended with normal scale stuff

[heady siren]

Much better compared to here

Aaaand it crashes when I select a blind, damn

Fixed very easily

[daring fern]

How would one make it so a playing card draws its ranks and suits as a soul?

[heady siren]

Crazed ramblings of a lunatic

[maiden phoenix]

Yea a SMODS.Atlas works fine, but glad I got it working

[wintry solar]

you just need to make the drawstep that draws the front of the card have the floaty soul stuff too

[undone maple]

how do i put a card on top of the deck?

[maiden phoenix]

I don't know if it's the set_ability calls or my drawstep but if I get multiple Ditto to transform overtime it drops my fps

[daring fern]

Are you creating a new sprite every frame?

[maiden phoenix]

Selling the jokers does not fix this, I reached 27 fps

[maiden phoenix]

I'm not sure if I am or not

[daring fern]

What does your drawstep look like?

[maiden phoenix]

Oh actually maybe I am, should I move the Sprite being created elsewhere?

[daring fern]

You are creating a new sprite every frame, and you should probably put it in a global variable instead.

[maiden phoenix]

Fair, but does Sprite exist while SMODS loads files?

[daring fern]

Probably not, but there is this.

[maiden phoenix]

It's kinda dumb how DrawStep exists to load new sprites in but you still need an override/lovely patch to create said sprite.

[zealous glen]

I mean, it works with Cards because you can define it in set_sprite

with non-cards, yes, you need to define it elsewhere

[maiden phoenix]

Would be nice if DrawStep allowed for optional atlas and pos

[dense dirge]

i have never coded before, however i wanna make a jonkler with a very specific effect. i just want to know if its possible for a joker to either retrigger a used planet card, or something that essentially serves the same function.

[maiden phoenix]

There's like 2 instances of this I know of so yes it's possible

[dense dirge]

oh nice

thanks for lettin me know

[maiden phoenix]

Just check those mods dev branch if you need refs https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1343670935122870342 https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1228825966940393483

[eager pendant]

I have a custom Joker, how do I add a polychrome effect to it when it appears in the store, thanks in advance

[wintry solar]

it's just like stickers and seals, the sprites are created once and then drawn onto the relevant cards

[tall wharf]

that steamodded is old

holy shit

[maiden phoenix]

Check set_ability

Why the fuck does the github copy doesn't work 😭

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Joker#api-methods

[maiden phoenix]

Yea but you have to go to some length to get those added

[daring fern]

How could one make it so selected jokers get played and turned into their respective enhancements temporarily?

[wintry solar]

Can't you just put a MOD.sprite_name = Sprite(blabla) in your file somewhere?

[maiden phoenix]

I didn't get an answer to this but does Sprite exist when SMODS loads files?

I didn't expect so since the screenshots I got uses a game_menu override

[timber oriole]

ok so i want an audio to play when i have some joker (like cryptid's jimball) but adding select_music_track crashes the game on load

[daring fern]

You need to have music in your file name or key.

[timber oriole]

oh ok

[eager pendant]

I horrible code, it adds polychrome effect to the menu collection, but when it comes in the store it's plain

[wintry solar]

I think it should do, I do mine in a custom object's inject function so it should be okay I think

[zealous glen]

I don't think so because the atlas haven't been loaded yet

[tall wharf]

-# is that AI generated joker image

[maiden phoenix]

Not sure if there's a more efficient way but try with an update function?

[wintry solar]

it's whether or not the atlas has been loaded

[daring fern]

Also you should be checking for j_prefix_arcario in find_card

[zealous glen]

to make Confused Sprites, I had to hook SMODS.Inject

[zealous glen]

The more efficient way is with set_ability

[eager pendant]

Okay, give me a hint on how to make it look right in the code

[maiden phoenix]

Well apparently it didn't work for them 🤷

[wintry solar]

then they did it wrong 🤣

[gilded narwhal]

might be placeholder i wont judge

[tall wharf]

gold stake tho.

[zealous glen]

testing?

[tall wharf]

could be but still

[tall wharf]

what does your set ability look like

[timber oriole]

that works thx

[pale venture]

Is there a way to make a blueprint-like joker that copies multiple times? Ideally it would copy a joker as usual and then retrigger itself x times but i'm not sure if it's even possible with the returns

[daring fern]

I think it's SMODS.calculate_effect()

[tall wharf]

isn't it like

SMODS.blueprint_effect

[unborn bay]

if you just want blueprint you can just use SMODS.blueprint_effect yeah

[pale venture]

Oh, i was referencing how other mods do blueprint effects, i'll have to see then

[daring fern]

Yes, then you would do SMODS.calculate_effect() for not returning I think.

[gray apex]

Is there a function that can be called that saves the mod config? If I set the config values through some method outside of the config tab, and reopen the game, it seems like it saves very inconsistently.

[unborn bay]

honestly calculate_effect never worked for me

atleast with my experience with making adult card which copies a random card from cards you sold

and even more the rigged variant

[wintry solar]

calc_effect is to handle an effects table

[unborn bay]

which copies all of them

[maiden phoenix]

This is even stupider if you have to hook the function that's suppose to handle this

[tall wharf]

what version of steamodded are you using

[tall wharf]

i want a photo of your code

that is not the code in your editor

[eager pendant]

The newest

[wintry solar]

yeah that code you've sent is absolutely fine, it's either not what you're running on you have some cursed shit going on

[tall wharf]

did you restart the run

[wintry solar]

I mean you can hook any function that runs after the atlas is injected

[eager pendant]

It works, but the polychrome effect only shows up in the collection menu, and in the game itself, the Joker appears non-polychrome in the store

[wintry solar]

then you've broken the game somewhere else

[maiden phoenix]

Whatever, it seems like hooking/patching is the only way anyway..

[wintry solar]

you can also throw it in your drawstep so it only creates it once

[undone maple]

does G.deck:emplace copy cards or just place an already existing card?

[wintry solar]

if not MOD.sprite then MOD.sprite = Sprite() end

[gray apex]

Aight, nevermind, found a function that handles this, SMODS.save_mod_config(mod)

[zealous glen]

It would be nice to not need to patch global sprites

[maiden phoenix]

Oh interesting

[unborn bay]

nil checking is an art

[zealous glen]

Also it just occurred to me it would be nice to be able to apply shaders to objects like Editions without Editions

[wintry solar]

that's what draw step is for...

[unborn bay]

the 1 billion drawsteps

[zealous glen]

But it checks every object

Instead of being a property of the object itself

[wintry solar]

being a property would be checked on every card too though

[zealous glen]

But it’s one versus n

The card just runs its own Draw function that knows how to draw itself

Instead of every draw step asking every card “should I draw you”

[maiden phoenix]

Center objects have a draw function tho?

[zealous glen]

That’s what I usually use

The main limitation is drawing behind cards

It’s also slightly janky since SMODS doesn’t explicitly support it, but it works

(janky just how it’s written; it works fine)

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1153815324643299458/1350951666916130917/champions-belt-showcase.gif

[eager pendant]

This is what the code looks like, but it's polychrome in the collection and regular in the store

[zealous glen]

Actually maybe if I used the object’s draw function I would be able to draw behind the card. I wonder 🤔

[wintry solar]

you cant

the only way to draw behind is drawstep

[unborn bay]

honestly i don't really think this is gonna be that costly to check if the card is the card you want to draw to

[tall wharf]

you restarted the run right

[eager pendant]

Restarted many times, in the collection works, in the store

[wintry solar]

huh

seems like something is stripping editions

[eager pendant]

What could it be

[zealous glen]

I wonder if it was the set_ability change still

[zealous glen]

Do you have other mods

[wintry solar]

it's a smods bug

[eager pendant]

DebugPlus
Paperback
That's it, no more

[zenith quarry]

guys can someone help me with something real quick

[eager pendant]

And what is the current version of steamodded at the moment

[wintry solar]

redownload smods now, it's fixed

[pale venture]

Sadly it doesn't seem like i can use the calculate_effect for blueprint_effect, i also tried to calculate_effect the retrigger and return blueprint_effect as usual with no luck

[tall wharf]

ah

[wintry solar]

casual 9 month old bug fix 🥳

[red flower]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[tall wharf]

ok so

how do i even add the fucking solitaire as blinds

[hard needle]

can someone help me ask

[tall wharf]

hold on

how do i start decompose in the soil

i don't think i am up for this task

[pale venture]

i guess i could simply copy the joker normally and then give it a retrigger, not exactly the same but it would do.

[zealous glen]

You return the table from blueprint_effect AFAIK

[wise spruce]

can anyone link an example of making a mod for a mod? like if i want to remove or modify some cards from another mod, but do it with my own mod, like a patch, instead of modifying the original mod outright

[eager pendant]

I have version 421c, deleted all mods, no

[wise spruce]

as in, i have the original mod which is untouched, and my patch mod which reads that mod and changes/removes specific cards

[pale venture]

oh like, appending repetitions = x to it?

[eager pendant]

I have version 421c, deleted all mods, no

[zealous glen]

No

[zealous glen]

Get 426

[eager pendant]

Looked on the website now, there is only 0323b available at all

[zealous glen]

323 is older than 421

Get 426 the same way you got 421

[eager pendant]

So where to get it, only 323b is available on the website

[zealous glen]

How did you get 421

[eager pendant]

It was in the archive with some mod.

[tall wharf]

cryptid.

[pale venture]

Fyi it does work like blueprint if i return it but i have no way to make it copy multiple times unless i'm mistaken

[eager pendant]

On GitHub right now the current release is 323b, where did you find 426?

[daring fern]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

[zealous glen]

You can manipulate the values or put copies in extra

[zealous glen]

Green button

[pale venture]

how would i go about doing either? Cause right now i have all the checks my joker does to find the card to copy followed by this

[eager pendant]

Thank you so much mate, much appreciated, but lovely doesn't need to update just in case?
Polychrome works great!!!

[zealous glen]

Probably not

SMODS updates more often

[unborn bay]

note that you'll probably need to update the smods version in your mod metadata file too so that people also don't get The Polychrome Problem when they get their mod

[pale venture]

whoops imagine there's a return there lol

[zealous glen]

You take the returned table then you give it an extra key with another returned table; do this recursively however many times you want. Just don’t overwrite any extra tables

[unborn bay]

i loooove extra table !

[manic rune]

development is delayed because my dad accidentally locked all of us out of the house

:3

amazing

[zealous glen]

IIRC that has happened to me too

At like 2 AM

Thanks dad

[tall wharf]

how

[manic rune]

left keys inside

[tall wharf]

what.

[manic rune]

didnt bring phone with the app to unlock it

???

[unborn bay]

phone?????

[tall wharf]

what.

phone.

how.

what.

high tech houses.

[unborn bay]

people should stop relying on electronics to open their belongings

[tall wharf]

we just use keys

[unborn bay]

like their entire fucking house

this is why we are doomed as a species

[manic rune]

im genuinely so frustrated rn

[zealous glen]

The Cyan Subplot

[tall wharf]

i just hook my single key to a massive bunch of keychains and a lanyard

i only forgot it once since

[zealous glen]

Also I can’t say much because my apartment does require an electronic for me to be able to get inside

It’s not a cellphone tho

[manic rune]

god

my day is so unlucky today for no reason

my friend got food all over my shirt

my bike got locked up because someone took it onto the side road

and now im locked outside

[zealous glen]

Dang

[tall wharf]

😭

[hearty sun]

So, apparently The Duo works off the full hand, and not the the scored hand, for some goddamn reason?

[undone maple]

well it says if the played hand includes pair, not played hand is or scoring hand is

[zealous glen]

Usually Balatro means scoring hand when it says that

[undone maple]

ive always seen it specify if scoring or not

[zealous glen]

Or maybe I’m misremembering

[zealous glen]

Sometimes it says poker hand

Neither scoring nor played

[hearty sun]

Yeah, it makes sense after rereading it, but oh boy was it surprising at first!

[undone maple]

not the case for the duo :P if it said "played poker hand is pair" then id understand but it just tells to include on the hand you played

[manic rune]

i got inside

[zealous glen]

Vanilla wording is bad and inconsistent so I wouldn’t be surprised

[zealous glen]

Nice

[manic rune]

my dad sawed off the door

😭

i have nothing to say about today

[tall wharf]

your dad what

[zealous glen]

Chainsaw Dad

[manic rune]

you didnt read it wrong at all

[tall wharf]

it's 9:50pm...

[manic rune]

mhm

[zealous glen]

where did they get a saw

[manic rune]

neighbor's home

[zealous glen]

did they saw the neighbor’s door to get inside to get the saw too

[manic rune]

:sob

[zealous glen]

-#

[manic rune]

took 20 minutes to call the neighbor since they were sleeping

ghh

[undone maple]

thats dedication to saw off a door

[naive raptor]

ok i have no clue what im doing so bear with me. right now im not worrying about functionality, just trying to get the game to boot up without crashing.

i keep getting an error saying on line 58, there was an unexpected symbol near '{'. (line 58 is right underneath if.context.skip_blind then).

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'doubledown',
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'Double Down',
        text = {
            "Create a random",
            "{C:spectral}Spectral{} card if all",
            "{C:attention}Blinds{} are skipped",
            "this Ante",
            "{C:inactive}(Must have room){}"
        }
    },
    config = { extra = { } },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return {}
    end,
    rarity = 2,
    atlas = 'BrummAndVortexsJokers',
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    cost = 5,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.skip_blind then
        {
            cardarea = G.jokers,
            skip_blind = true
        }
        end
        if context.setting_blind then
        {
            cardarea = G.jokers,
            setting_blind = true,
            blind = G.GAME.round_resets.blind
        }
        end
}

[manic rune]

if i get a power outage right at this moment

im not even surprised

[hearty sun]

Lua doesn't use {} for scope

[manic rune]

remove all of these

[hearty sun]

You just write

if cond then
  action
end

[manic rune]

^

[naive raptor]

alr thx

[undone maple]

ill just bump this again since im here, i still didnt figure out how to order cards inside the deck :')

[zealous glen]

Check how I manipulate the shuffler in my mod

I think it’s in a hook

[hearty sun]

Is there any way to set Collection order other than reordering the code?

[manic rune]

i dont think so

i mean - maybe there r some options i dont know of, but you are probably better off reordering the code :p

[zealous glen]

Someone did it

the Ortalab OC person

Shinku

[zealous glen]

You’re probably better off not reordering the code, unless they want to reorder their own Jokers

[manic rune]

i mean - i did so :3

[hearty sun]

Thanks!
Also found that Cryptid use an hack to accomplish the same thing: https://github.com/SpectralPack/Cryptid/blob/main/Cryptid.lua#L155

[zealous glen]

Not the one file andy

I just have a for loop to load them in order

I’m beginning to think I need sub folders for my Jokers

<@&1133519078540185692>

[manic rune]

me too

my jokers file is 6k lines already

[karmic creek]

yeet bigly

[manic rune]

🥀

[hearty sun]

I am NOT using 500+ lines files
(Also my editor doesn't have folds, so this will be painful)

[manic rune]

thank you good sir

[heady glen]

Hey, does anyone know where I can access the code for the jokers so I can see how exactly to program one?

[zealous glen]

Vanilla Jokers are programmed differently

Though they do help

Copy the EXE then unzip it

[heady glen]

I see

[hearty sun]

Go look inside the code of a mod, it's better

[zealous glen]

Check the examples mods

In the SMODS Examples collection

[heady glen]

Tried doing that for Cryptid, I didn't know exactly where the jokers were coded

[zealous glen]

I meant like, folders for my joker folder

[manic rune]

wha

[zealous glen]

Try a mod that’s a easier to read

Like mine

[zealous glen]

A Joker folder with a file for each Joker

[heady glen]

DM me it if you please

[zealous glen]

I think I need sub folders

[manic rune]

yeah, thats what im thinking

[zealous glen]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1343670935122870342

[hearty sun]

Cryptid/items/misc_jokers.lua

[hard needle]

does context.destroy_card only trigger for scored cards?

[manic rune]

nop

trigger for every card

[hard needle]

hm

[manic rune]

you can limit its scope though

[hard needle]

no my joker is destroying only scored cards 🤔

[manic rune]

whats the code

[hard needle]

if context.destroy_card and context.cardarea == G.play and #context.full_hand >= card.ability.extra.min and G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 0 then
            if (context.destroy_card ~= context.full_hand[1]) and (context.destroy_card ~= context.full_hand[#context.full_hand]) then
                return {
                    remove = true
                }
            end
        end

[manic rune]

yeah, you limited it to only scored cards

[hard needle]

emm how

[hard needle]

hm okay

wait but then what context would i use? 😅

[manic rune]

what are you trying to do rn?

[hard needle]

if first hand of round contains 3 or more cards, destroy all cards in played hand except leftmost and rightmost

[manic rune]

hm

so the problem is that it doesnt destroy unscored cards?

[hard needle]

seems to be so

[manic rune]

well, im currently a bit tired so i cant hop on balatro to test myself, but you can try changing context.full_hand to G.play.cards, not sure if theres any difference

[daring fern]

context.cardarea == G.play or context.cardarea == 'unscored'?

[manic rune]

oh yeah, forgot that context.cardarea == G.play doesnt account for unscored cards

[hearty sun]

Well, found my solution...

local jokers = {
  -- Hand - Mult
  "hand/mult/merry_joker.lua",
  "hand/mult/glad_joker.lua",
  -- Hand - Chips
  "hand/chips/astute_joker.lua",
  "hand/chips/keen_joker.lua",
  -- Hand - XMult
  "hand/xmult/the_file.lua",
  "hand/xmult/the_platoon.lua",
}

for _, file in ipairs(jokers) do
  local f, err = SMODS.load_file("jokers/" .. file)
  if err then
    error(err)
  end
  f()
end

[zealous glen]

Yeah I do something like that

[hard needle]

that works, thanks!

[undone maple]

dm'd you a few questions regarding the code :')

[manic rune]

those work now

[glad osprey]

how in hells name does one make a config page

[tender ermine]

How do you add polychrome to a card?

[manic rune]

SMODS.current_mod.config_tab = function()

  return --the fuckin ui here
end

[daring fern]

You steal it from other mods.

[manic rune]

cant forget scaling skills ❤️

...

[glad osprey]

hex

[tender ermine]

Bruh, thanks! I just won my balatro run because of you!

[glad osprey]

card:set_edition should be the function you need

[manic rune]

would you guys choose a skill that does something like

Shuffles all Jokers when hand is played
Played cards give X1.5 Mult

[wintry solar]

Situationally

[proud moon]

yea

[wintry solar]

How is xp obtained?

[tender ermine]

Thanks

[manic rune]

right now, its after defeating a blind

[glad osprey]

yes if you can disable bought skills

[wintry solar]

Booooo

[manic rune]

im thinking about making it so that you can only reset your skill tree at the start of each run

[pale venture]

sorry to bother again but is this what it should look like for 2 triggers? because it just erratically juices all the cards in scoring order right now

[manic rune]

else those situational skills would become too versatile

[manic rune]

i mean, i can add other methods to get xp, but i dont know what 😭

[zealous glen]

No

The return or extra table needs to be the table returned by blueprint effect

[zealous glen]

Cross-mod content with my mod to gain bonus XP

[manic rune]

"Play with Victin's Collection for X1.5 XP!"

🗣️

[zealous glen]

I didn’t mean like that 😭

[manic rune]

:3

[wintry solar]

I definitely thing earning xp for different game actions would be interesting, that was one of the things I wasn’t too keen on with grim

[manic rune]

hm

[zealous glen]

Maybe choose a Joker deity that grants you XP based on different actions

[wintry solar]

Skipping is another are that I think would be good for guaranteed xp

It depends how much depth you want th system to have

[zealous glen]

Maybe Cartomancer gives you XP based on Tarots used

[zealous glen]

-ish

[manic rune]

i definitely dont want xp to just be obtained through defeating blinds, thats boring :p

[zealous glen]

That’s what I meant with my mod

Because I want to replace skipping

With my own mechanic

[manic rune]

its more fun to allow the player to earn xp through other means too, skipping definitely works since skipping blinds is usually really bad

and you actually cant just farm xp by skipping blinds everytime and die, since xp doesnt carry on through new runs unlike levels

[naive raptor]

how do i set the text and color for card_eval_status_text?

[proud moon]

man whenever i think ive got a cool idea i look back in this chat and see what everyone else is up that and sit there like ._. lmao

these mods are amazing

[wintry solar]

Yeah, I think having a guaranteed amount from skipping, but being able to potentially earn more by playing encourages more choice

As long as the numbers are tuned appropriately

[manic rune]

thats not just you lol, someone added donkey kong into the game, and then another person added custom jokers that you can draw on 😭

[zealous glen]

What’s the second one

[manic rune]

im thinking about making it so that the more blinds you defeat, the more xp you would earn from the next skip - but that increase goes back to 0 after skipping (or reduces by a lot)

[manic rune]

this one

[daring fern]

The sixth input would be {message = "message", colour = G.C.COLOUR}

[proud moon]

says the one working with skill trees

[manic rune]

im not the first person to add it ❤️

Grim did it before, but i think im the first person to make one that saves for next runs

[proud moon]

no, but thats not any less impressive

[unkempt thicket]

Grinding in balatro

[proud moon]

we need mmorpg balatro i think, thoughts?

[zealous glen]

Roguelike players vibrating in their graves

[brazen tusk]

Need more out of run progression!!!!!!

[manic rune]

an issue im facing currently is that the xp bar is overlapped by pretty much everything else: the shop, the blind selection screen, not entirely sure what approach i should go with here

[naive raptor]

hide it

[zealous glen]

Remove the screen then draw it on top 👍

[naive raptor]

idk

nvm im stupid

[proud moon]

is it possible to make the text fade in the shop and only show when you mouse over the bar? it would look quite clean

[manic rune]

is there even something to make ui transparent

now that i think about it

[proud moon]

i have no idea lol

[glad osprey]

only draw the full bar in the menu, otherwise add a small number which tells you the necessary info

[manic rune]

the text from the xp bar would actually overlap with the button in which case :3

[brazen tusk]

For this case you could make the bar thicker and have the text inside it?

[zealous glen]

You didn’t remove everything else

[brazen tusk]

Idk about blind select though

[daring fern]

How does one apply a voucher without redeeming it?

[zealous glen]

Do it like Minecraft and delete the XP bar

[manic rune]

smt what kind of shenanigan are you doing this time 😭

[zealous glen]

Make it track the position of other players

In Multiplayer

[manic rune]

😭

[brazen tusk]

I hate that so much

[proud moon]

wait how come the beginning of the bar when filled in with red doesnt have rounded edges?

[manic rune]

...oh, i just saw that

[brazen tusk]

Real world tracker of your opponent lmao

[manic rune]

hm

[glad osprey]

localthunk™️

[manic rune]

thats odd, both the bars have r = 0.1

[daring fern]

Still blueprint vouchers.

[proud moon]

ah

[naive raptor]

how do i check if the player's consumable slots are full? im trying to make a "must have room" effect

[manic rune]

#G.consumeables.cards >= G.consumeables.config.card_limit or something

[glad osprey]

look at how other cards do it
I'm pretty sure it's something like
#G.consumeables.cards < G.consumeables.config.limit

[glad osprey]

that's probably more right

[proud moon]

thats what it is in the vanilla code

not sure what the buffer does tho

[glad osprey]

probably some local thunk shenanigans

[manic rune]

uh

[daring fern]

It includes consumables that are in the event queue but not created yet I think.

[manic rune]

is it normal to have a spectral pack with 6 cards?

first time seeing it personally

[proud moon]

...no?

[manic rune]

thats odd

[glad osprey]

sleeve

[manic rune]

i dont think i have any mod that interferes with booster packs

dsOIDmSA

I FORGOT

[proud moon]

yea, that sleeve

lmao

[manic rune]

😭

[brazen tusk]

Lmao

[proud moon]

it looks just like the cards

[gilded narwhal]

Guys does anyone know how to override a specific jokers sprite in specific conditions

[glad osprey]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1351648094642503830/1365302257108914266/image-70au7.gif-ezgif.com-webp-to-gif-converter.gif

[proud moon]

||its invisible||

[glad osprey]

yea 1 sec lemme find the code

[unkempt thicket]

I'd shove it in options like i did to my custom currency

[glad osprey]

then why can I kill it

[manic rune]

mmm good idea

[unkempt thicket]

Drawstep would probably work

[manic rune]

i should probably

find a mod that adds a button like that

:p

[gilded narwhal]

I'm using this rn

[glad osprey]

card.config.center.pos

[glad osprey]

oh for a draw step?

idk then

[gilded narwhal]

It's very primitive but i'm just trying to make it use a specific sprite for its base

[manic rune]

can i have the code for adding a button to that menu ❤️

[unkempt thicket]

It was a simple lovely patch to add the button in options ```[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = 'functions/UI_definitions.lua'
pattern = '''{
label = localize('b_vouchers'),
tab_definition_function = G.UIDEF.used_vouchers,
},'''
position = 'after'
payload = '''{
label = "Currencies",
tab_definition_function = G.UIDEF.insc_extra_currenicies,
},'''
match_indent = true

[zealous glen]

I think L Corp might do it

They have Censored Jokers and Bald Jokers

[unkempt thicket]

Isn't the base self.center.front?

[gilded narwhal]

I just mean the part that isn't the soul layer

Which I think is center (?)

Oh wait

[zealous glen]

Try looking at L Corp

[gilded narwhal]

I am

[pale venture]

finally it's working 🥳 , thank you so much.

[zealous glen]

How are you doing it

[pale venture]

i didn't really understand how the table worked, now i managed to use calculate_effect correctly and it works perfectly

[unkempt thicket]

The tab_definition_function needs a function which would be where you return the UI, like the xp bar. Example: ```function G.UIDEF.insc_extra_currenicies()
local scale = 0.4
local foil_sprite = get_foil_sprite()

local contents = {}

local spacing = 0.13
local temp_col = G.C.DYN_UI.BOSS_MAIN
contents.currenicies = {
          {n=G.UIT.C, config={align = "cm", minw = 3.3, minh = 0.7, r = 0.1, colour = G.C.DYN_UI.BOSS_DARK}, nodes={
            {n=G.UIT.O, config={w=0.5,h=0.5 , object = foil_sprite, hover = true, can_collide = false}},
            {n=G.UIT.B, config={w=0.1,h=0.1}},
            {n=G.UIT.O, config={object = DynaText({string = {{ref_table = G.GAME, ref_value = 'foil'}}, maxw = 1.35, colours = {HEX("bebebe")}, font = G.LANGUAGES['en-us'].font, shadow = true,spacing = 2, bump = true, scale = 2.2*scale}), id = 'foil_text_UI'}}
          }},
          {n=G.UIT.R, config={minh = spacing},nodes={}},}
return {n=G.UIT.ROOT, config = {align = "cm", padding = 0.03, colour = G.C.UI.TRANSPARENT_DARK}, nodes={
  {n=G.UIT.R, config = {align = "cm", padding= 0.05, colour = G.C.DYN_UI.MAIN, r=0.1}, nodes={
    {n=G.UIT.R, config={align = "cm", colour = G.C.DYN_UI.BOSS_DARK, r=0.1, minh = 0.3, padding = 0.08}, nodes={
      {n=G.UIT.C, config={align = "cm"}, nodes=contents.currenicies}
    }}
  }}
}}

end```

[manic rune]

mhm, i got it working, but i wonder if its possible to make the box smaller

feels a bit too empty

[glad osprey]

maybe add the skill tree to that aswell?

[brazen tusk]

is it not the same size for all the tabs?

[manic rune]

oh, thats actually a great idea, lemme try

[unkempt thicket]

All the tabs are the same size, I agree the skill tree in the same tab.

[faint yacht]

-# How do I clear enhancements, editions and seals off of a given playing card?

[unkempt thicket]

set_seal(nil)

And the similar versions for enhancements and editions, just set them to nil

[glad osprey]

look at code for the man who sucks

[gilded narwhal]

Oops

[wintry solar]

This is a worse place imo

[gilded narwhal]

Uhhh so does this change only the sprite or the jonkler itself?

[wintry solar]

I think it should be possible to get it in the left panel somewhere if you put the text inside the bar or as a hover pop up

[unkempt thicket]

I think it changes the text as well

[manic rune]

thats progress

[brazen tusk]

!!

[young pollen]

if i want to make a joker that gives x$ for every king in hand, which context should i use?

[gilded narwhal]

Okay I think I'm just going to use the same logic that the game uses for stickers. Define global sprites, make every joker in the pack have a random key that corresponds to the sprites, and then draw it over the initial card

[outer dagger]

Does someone have an example of adding +mult to cards?

[wintry solar]

if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            context.other_card.ability.perma_mult = context.other_card.ability.perma_mult + 1
            return {
                message = localize('k_upgrade_ex'),
                colour = G.C.RED
            }
        end

[outer dagger]

:blessed:

[manic rune]

maybe i should make it so that its only the text thats shown, and when you hover over it then the bar appears too?

should hopefully solve the issue

im probably still gonna keep this, i think it looks nice :p

[brittle bough]

Hey guys, anyone have a starter guide to modding?

[manic rune]

pressing anything in the skill tree leads you to the full UI

[manic rune]

#1349064230825103441

[wintry solar]

You mean that’s not a functional skill tree?

[manic rune]

it actually still works normally

but that skill tree version is smaller than the full one

so i was thinking: if you plan on pressing something in there, it should open the full version instead

[wintry solar]

That would be very unintuitive

[manic rune]

aka this

hm

i guess thats true, maybe i should make the smaller version functionable too

i dont think i need that much space, anyways

[wintry solar]

I just don’t think you need that button at all

[manic rune]

a

[wintry solar]

If you have the button on the main screen ofc

[manic rune]

so just the hover -> expand thing will suffice?

[wintry solar]

I think hiding the bar away in a menu would be bad design, so fitting it somewhere on the screen is infinitely better

[manic rune]

my original design was actually to make the bar vertical, on the rightmost side of the screen

[wintry solar]

I was thinking a vertical bar might work

[manic rune]

smt like this

but uhhhhhhh, i should probably mention that the progress_bar_function kinda breaks at the vertical part

:3

its weird

heres the current problem

[wintry solar]

I see

I think you could also put it between the money display and the round display

[manic rune]

im guessing you mean here, i will look into almanac's code to see how to add uis to this section

[wintry solar]

Yeah somewhere over there

I forgot the run info and options buttons were so tall 😭

[manic rune]

...jen almanac has everything in one file???

[brazen tusk]

I changed my jokers recently to just load everything in the jokers file into the main lua, is there a way i can choose the order they load (or display in game) other than renaming the files?

[manic rune]

having a table with the respective joker files' name, like {"joker1","joker2"} might help, idk

[manic rune]

i genuinely have no clue where to look at

holy fuck

23k3 lines

[brazen tusk]

kinda how i had it before but it was getting a little annoying adding them in manually to both the atlas and import list

[manic rune]

its a lovely patch, pretty much overwriting the entire code that adds those display boxes to fit in the "Tension", "Relief" display

but im not sure if i want that, since it will conflict with mods that do the same

hmmmm

[wintry solar]

There’ll be a much easier way

[gilded narwhal]

I'm not actually sure how this is supposed to work

Like is the last argument of Sprite() not supposed to be coordinates?

Because from what I've seen in the files it's coordinates

[wintry solar]

Pretty sure the atlas should be the actual atlas and not just a string

[gilded narwhal]

So SMODS.Atlas['mystery_atlas']?

Apparently not bc I get a new crash

[tepid crow]

try G.ASSET_ATLAS['atlas_key'] instead?

[gilded narwhal]

Tried that as well

Same crash

[tepid crow]

are you sure the atlas key is correct

[gilded narwhal]

Yes

[tepid crow]

for reference, this works for me Sprite(x, y, w, h, G.ASSET_ATLAS["casl_sleeve_atlas"], {x=0, y=3})

[gilded narwhal]

It might be when I'm running it

Because I'm running it as soon as I start the game

But if that was the case then I think new_sprite_atlas wouldn't be nil

[tepid crow]

why don't you print out the content of G.ASSET_ATLAS

[gilded narwhal]

I KNOW WHY

I need the prefix

[tepid crow]

so the atlas key wasn't correct

[gilded narwhal]

😭

Good to know

Okay well that didn't fix the problem actually

[tepid crow]

well I'm hoping it'll at least be a different error

[gilded narwhal]

Now it's a number value instead of a nil value

[tepid crow]

what are you indexing

[young pollen]

hey guys, tryna create a joker that gives money for every king held in hand after the final scoring, however it doesnt really do anything.

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.end_of_round and context.individual then
            for _, v in ipairs(G.hand.cards) do
                if v.rank == 13 then
                    return {
                        card.ability.extra.money
                    }

[gilded narwhal]

Oh wait shoot

lmao

I put an extra thing in the list

[tepid crow]

remember the teacher in highschool that always said "4 what? apples?"

it's that

[gilded narwhal]

I was using self.T.h as an atlas

[tepid crow]

you're just throwing a number back and not specifying what you want the game to do with the number

[young pollen]

oh alr thankyou

[tepid crow]

check out https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Calculate-Functions#step-3-returning-effects for some more info

[gilded narwhal]

:3

[tepid crow]

how'd that happen 😭

[gilded narwhal]

I just forgot to remove a 0 when I was replacing numbers with variables

[tepid crow]

rip

[gilded narwhal]

I'm gonna move that stuff because it defining a new sprite every frame isn't very efficient go figure

[tepid crow]

damn that's crazy

[wintry solar]

Oh we talked about this earlier

Just check if the sprite already exists or not

[proud moon]

is there a function for a joker's own index in the joker area? im trying to make a joker incompatible with duplicates of itself (because it hard crashes the game and would also give infinite money if it worked)

actually, i can just make a list of all of that key of the joker in the area, and make a check for if its the first in that list

[unkempt thicket]

I had a similar problem, but fixed it a different way.

[zealous glen]

I think this is for a different mod right

[gilded narwhal]

its lobc

[zealous glen]

nice

[zealous glen]

Yeah but I think it's JokerDisplay compat

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1241580123766128761

[gilded narwhal]

Ohh I see

Also guys how do I make my own global like how paperback does with PB_UTILS

[proud moon]

even better, each joker will have an "active" variable set to false, and the first joker found in the list will have it set to true, and the rest get set to false

[zealous glen]

I have a file which I import in other files

[unkempt thicket]

Something like this would work, though sometimes i also just use G.GAME.var via a lovely patch. This would be in your main file

[zealous glen]

It might not be the best way to do it

I mean, it depends on what you want to do

[gilded narwhal]

I just need to define the sprite I'm using as a global like how these are

[unkempt thicket]

I do this

For literally the same effect

[zealous glen]

I hook SMODS.Inject

so it works in the Collection

[unkempt thicket]

Inject is best if you need it in collection, i didn't for what i was doing

[gilded narwhal]

I'll use Inject

I've never used that before is it simple

[wintry solar]

You could hook a myriad of functions

[hearty sun]

Quick question, how cursed does a non-spheric moon look?

[unkempt thicket]

Very

[hearty sun]

Should I keep it? Or is it way too cursed?

[thorn flame]

keep it it's how hyperion is irl

[zealous glen]

you can check how I do it for Confused Cards

[hearty sun]

Yeah, it just looks so wrong, but it's so funny
I'm so divided on this lmao

[gilded narwhal]

Which mod?

[zealous glen]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1343670935122870342

[gilded narwhal]

Oh wait nvm

[thorn flame]

i think it looks weird because it looks like it was a circle but the middle was cut out

[eager pendant]

I don't understand how to fix it

[hearty sun]

That's because it's exactly how I did it; I did try to fix some of it, but will do a second pass then

[errant karma]

the jokers so far in my wii-themed texture pack

[thorn flame]

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/oumuamua/

[errant karma]

in higher quality

[thorn flame]

Oumuamua next

[hearty sun]

Oh mama,
This one should be so long, it would clip out of the borders...

[gilded narwhal]

Where is that specifically

[zealous glen]

are you looking at the dev branch

[gilded narwhal]

Oh there we go

[unkempt thicket]

Anyone got a image of jimbo, no background?

[unkempt thicket]

Give me a few hours, jimbos going places

[hearty sun]

In general, I recommend extracting the base textures from the game
It's very easy to use magic/fuzzy selection to extract that sort of things

[gilded narwhal]

Okay we're making progress

It properly overrides the sprites AND isn't super laggy

Now I need to figure out how to make it only apply to cards from a specific booster

How would I apply specific config options to jokers generated from a booster?

Like would I put it here?

[errant karma]

question about malverk

can you make a texture pack that replaces things like the shop sign with malverk

[zealous glen]

I don't think so

[errant karma]

mk

[wintry solar]

No it’s not an object

Malverk is for objects

[errant karma]

ah ok

trying to replace jokers
this is what i have, am i stupid?

[glad osprey]

maybe it's the way your font is dressed

[worthy stirrup]

How do I check what rank a played card is

[cyan lagoon]

get_id()

or context.other_card.base.value == "rank"

question how do i make a joker jiggle like dna or invis?

[gusty iron]

can anyone help with this? im trying to update the card with every win but its not updating, and still returning 5 less mult than it should.

[errant karma]

ok so question
how would i change the sounds for jimbo speaking

[rustic swallow]

hpw would i make a joker that counts all cards as non-face cards

[gusty iron]

so just... opposite paridolia? or whatever its called

[rustic swallow]

yes

[gusty iron]

try looking into the game's code for that

[hard needle]

with an is_face hook

[lethal stratus]

the again displays on the card instead of the joker

[errant karma]

question
is there a list of keys somewhere? gonna try to replace the jimbo speaking sounds but idk what their key is, if there are keys for it

[sturdy compass]

Well yeah, you’re passing in other_card as the card

[gusty iron]

rate the card 🔥

[hard needle]

oh?

how do the "microgames" work?

[gusty iron]

Theres currently only 3 so far

Press Space!
Click Me!
Press [Random Key from A~Z]!

[twin basin]

hey, i cant access other_cards.
can someone help?

[errant karma]

may someone help (i am trying to make a texture pack loll)

[faint yacht]

context.other_card is usually with context.individual.

[gusty iron]

as the things suggest, you have to either click, or press a key\

[hybrid galleon]

I made a poker hand needs 5 wild cards to play, and the evaluate works all well, but I don't know how to add the enhancements to the poker hand example. any ideas?

[gentle rain]

are you able to have more than 1 return under a single context

[sturdy compass]

What are you trying to do?

[gentle rain]

currently trying to have SMODS.blueprint copy more than one joker at a time

[sturdy compass]

In that case I’d do SMODS.calculcate_effect instead of doing a return

That function basically runs a return table independently

[gentle rain]

OH

oh thats very useful

[sturdy compass]

It was game changing when I found out it existed lol

[gentle rain]

ur a lifesaver thats so huge

[errant karma]

can anybody help me change the jimbo speaking sounds

[sturdy compass]

Happy to help

[tepid crow]

last time I tried blueprinting multiple jokers, I couldn't make it work without having some weird edge cases

retriggers in particular were weird

iirc

[sturdy compass]

That makes sense

[tepid crow]

let me know if you find something that works 👀

[gentle rain]

i think im struggling with the calculate_effect syntax

btw

[sturdy compass]

You’re forgetting to pass in a card object as the second variable

[gentle rain]

oh is it structured like (self,card,context)?

[sturdy compass]

Nah, it’s like SMODS.calculate_effect(return table, card)

[gentle rain]

aah

[tepid crow]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/blob/main/src/utils.lua#L1412

^ SMODS.calculate_effect

[gentle rain]

also how come my cursor is doing this and writing over text instead of inserting :P

[restive pine]

not sure if i ask here or not but what is the filename of gros michel, because it doesnt appear to be gros_michel

[gentle rain]

i think i fatfingered somewhere

[gilded narwhal]

Insert key

[gentle rain]

ah

lolol

[sturdy compass]

Vanilla jokers don’t reside in individual files. How are you trying to access it?

[tepid crow]

If I had a nickel every time someone in #💻・modding-dev asked why their cursor is replacing instead of adding

[restive pine]

uh

[gentle rain]

if you wanna reference it you'd use if self.ability.name == 'Gros Michel'

thats how card.lua does it

[gentle rain]

blows u up with awesome mind powers IDC

[restive pine]

oki

[tepid crow]

it's just weird it happened twice 😭

[gentle rain]

idunno i like

probably have never pressed insert in my life

lmao

[sturdy compass]

Lmao

[restive pine]

okay yeah i just made a dumb mistake lmao

[sturdy compass]

It does happen

[gentle rain]

hmmmmm

[tepid crow]

minor spelling mistake strikes again

[gentle rain]

AAAACK

[frosty rampart]

calculcate 🔥

[gentle rain]

christ how didnt i see that

[sturdy compass]

I love to calculcate my cards

[gentle rain]

LITERALY ONLY THING MAKING IT NOT WORK WOIOOOOOOOO

[sturdy compass]

M F Doom putting in work

[gentle rain]

im gonna have to hard code a seltzer interaction but otherwise we move

[gentle rain]

@tepid crow this copies all joker_main abilities but id imagine it wouldnt be too hard to add other contexts

[sturdy compass]

I think most blueprint effects don’t even take context into account

[gentle rain]

well mine has to scan thru every joker slot to identify food jokers so i think it'd need a context?

[tepid crow]

Yeah I really don't want to hardcode anything like that if I can avoid it since I want it to be cross-mod compatible

[zealous glen]

is that MF DOOM

[gentle rain]

ye

[zealous glen]

Nice art

[faint yacht]

-# An idea.

[gentle rain]

cheers

[zealous glen]

is the idea MF DOOM versus Doctor Doofenshmirtz

[brazen tusk]

amazing

MF DOOM my beloved

[faint yacht]

What, Doofenshmirtz would copy any Joker that "involves technology"? Like Photochad?

[brazen tusk]

idea for the doof

[minor magnet]

how do you get an enhancement's actual name?

[brazen tusk]

Makes a copy of a random joker (except for itself) at the start of the round <cardname>inator then it gets destroyed at the end of the round lmao

[minor magnet]

since Bonus and Mult cards just have Bonus and Mult as their name, instead of Bonus Card and Mult Card

[frosty rampart]

ok sorry to drop a big wall of text but uh
as a fairly new modder of the game, i've found steamodded's documentation to be somewhat lackluster; i've muddled my way through fine enough referencing other mods where i need to, but that shouldn't be something everybody needs to do (at least not for the more basic stuff). in particular, the examples repo is out of date in some places (the reimplementation of vanilla jokers still returns things like mult_mod and a separate message in the calculate functions, even though it's just mult now and steamodded autogenerates messages for standard +chips/+mult/xmult/+money effects)
i'm probably gonna send some pull requests to the examples and wiki repos eventually, but that's a big task. so for now uhhhh quick template mod that reimplements the basic Joker (+4 Mult). again. generous commenting by me, but comments + implementation are based on the version from the examples repo. also some beautiful placeholder art by me

[faint yacht]

Grab G.P_CENTERS['enhancekey'].name?

[minor magnet]

yes that's what im doing

but

[zealous glen]

I don't think so

[minor magnet]

first of all bonus and mult cards just have bonus and mult there

second

modded enhancements have their keys as name

[zealous glen]

localize it

[sturdy compass]

You’re planning on doing god’s work fr

[brazen tusk]

^^

[zealous glen]

localize{key = …, set = …, something else I forgot}

[hard needle]

🫡 i learnt my first modding knowledge from the examples repo

[minor magnet]

ok thank you!!

[minor magnet]

i still very do much do things the old way

[sturdy compass]

SMODS docs are notoriously lacking (and honestly it's probably because of the work going towards features as opposed to housekeeping) so that's a hurculean effort. Might be willing to lend ya a hand in that

[frosty rampart]

ye it would be awesome to have support
if any of y'all have specific things you think are currently missing from the smods docs i'd love to hear them

anyway this is also an elaborate scheme to avoid working on the art for the actual mod i'm developing

[sturdy compass]

[brazen tusk]

if i think of anything ill jot it down

[zealous glen]

Keep in mind there's already a rework of the docs in the works

I believe

[brazen tusk]

o

[zealous glen]

I know they wanted to, but I'm not sure if it's actually in the works or not

[faint yacht]

localize{key = 'm_modprefix_key', set = 'Enhanced', type = 'raw_descriptions'} would get the description of a given enhancement.

[frosty rampart]

if that's already goin on i'll probably focus my efforts more towards cleaning up the examples repo, otherwise hopefully i can help kickstart it

[tepid crow]

I don't think anything's actively in the works?

more so that they said they want it to change?

[zealous glen]

I'd suggest talking to idk @wintry solar or aure or other people

[frosty rampart]

gotcha

[brazen tusk]

what we think of this ability?

[wintry solar]

I'm just rewriting the calculation page

but motivation to write them is zero

[shut crater]

strong

strong early game

[tepid crow]

the card splash wishes it could be

[brazen tusk]

yeah its main thing is it makes high card viable early but it falls off pretty quick

lmao

[shut crater]

because high card with 5 cards is easy to get

I would compare to something like the jokers that give chips for a specific hand and make it weaker than those

because at least for those you have to meet a certain condition

[faint yacht]

localize{key = 'm_modprefix_key', set = 'Enhanced', type = 'name_text'} !
-# Ping on just in case.

[frosty rampart]

mood
it's a big task for sure, but good documentation is something i'm fairly passionate about everywhere

[brazen tusk]

i had it at 20 originally but blue joker is common and gives +104 base and every card can score

[zealous glen]

I realized what they were doing and I message them elsewhere

because I knew exactly what it was

[faint yacht]

🦐

[zealous glen]

-# long story

[brazen tusk]

20 might be more reasonable though bc blue is remaining not just in deck

[shut crater]

-16 because you draw 8 cards, and then you have to discard a few times to get a decent hand

and it falls off every time you play or discard cards

[brazen tusk]

round that to 20 which is 4x the 4 cards that dont score

[shut crater]

I guess the question is, what kind of playstyle are you trying to incentivize

[brazen tusk]

im just trying to give tools, its a common card so people arent going to be building around it most of the time

[shut crater]

sure but it would still be good to have a purpose for making a joker instead of just making a joker