💻・modding-dev

[zealous glen]

I'm talking about accessing the correct inputs and files

[quartz ravine]

Yep. Plus the fact the the Love2d shader chain requires us to pipe into dissolve shader is also weird. plus how variables get optimized away? Also wierd.

[zealous glen]

I think that's a Balatro quirk not a Love2d quirk

[shut crater]

not exactly a tutorial but you can look at how I did it
https://github.com/chaseoqueso/Powerful_Balatro

[zealous glen]

Variables getting optimized away I can understand, but it's annoying when it demands we use a variable named after the file

[quartz ravine]

I agree again!

[zealous glen]

You can also check my mod

[zealous glen]

You're the best Yes Fox

[shut crater]

someone posted the function in my main.lua and I just copied it lol

[zealous glen]

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

[worthy stirrup]

deadass, its crashing and i got no idea why

ill send the shader, my code, and the crash log

[zealous glen]

do you use a variable named after the shader

[worthy stirrup]

yes

[zealous glen]

do you actually use it or is it just there

[worthy stirrup]

I used it

[zealous glen]

hmmm

[worthy stirrup]

give me a sec and ill send the code

oh

wait

i have the shader key as TheHiss

let me see if that fixes it

it was the key..

[quartz ravine]

This is normal.

[worthy stirrup]

those who know (im sorry)

[quartz ravine]

I don't know

[zealous glen]

I don't know

[quartz ravine]

But make sure you use your shader name in your shader.

[worthy stirrup]

its Routine, from the song Its Normal

ive fixed it

[quartz ravine]

It's a weird quirk. if you look at negative or holo, you'll see it has an extern at the top that matches the file name. That variable also must be referenced within the shader itself

[zealous glen]

I mean I was just listening to I~ya I~ya I~ya

[quartz ravine]

Also just a general tip, use watch shader <yourShader.fs> from debug plus which will keep the game from crashing most of he time. You can even change the shader and it will reload in real time!!!!

[worthy stirrup]

no way

fr?

[quartz ravine]

it is amazing. WilsonTheWolf did a good job

[zealous glen]

IIRC it didn't replicate every shader feature

[quartz ravine]

It's better than a kick in the nose, that's for sure

truthfully though one or two of my shaders look weird when i use it's shader watcher. I reported it to them, it's a hard problem to solve. They actually use another love2d shader watch library and the weirdness comes from in there

[zealous glen]

hmmm

[zealous glen]

what's the weirdness

[quartz ravine]

Different size of rendered circles! It's weird. In their shader preview, it looks really good, but in game actually runnning in the engine, they result is diferent. I can't think of what's doing it

[zealous glen]

how do you compute the size of the circles?

[brisk rose]

so... ngl shaders are one thing ai can kinda do, and i don't care at all if people use it for that

just a random tangent

[worthy stirrup]

only after 50 tries, i am now watching the file (i forgot to include the shader folder)

[hasty mist]

is there a way to completely nullify mult? (including the base operation)

like

chips are the only way to add to score

[zealous glen]

you could set Mult to 1

and keep it at 1

[hasty mist]

how would i force it to stay at 1

[quartz ravine]

Oh yeah I remember what it ended up being! The circles were different size on built in jokers, versus modded jokers. Any modded joker looked different.

Then we discovered that it wasn't with the shader watch after all. Sorry I remembered that wrong

[zealous glen]

hook the vanilla function that changes Mult; or just do it last

[brisk rose]

Jonh DebugPkus is goated af

[zealous glen]

Chips and Mult both have functions to manipulate their values before they're added

[worthy stirrup]

ignore this :3c

watch shader Mods/Mist/assets/shaders/hiss.fs

[midnight coyote]

how do i check for an edition

just any edition

[daring fern]

if card.edition

[midnight coyote]

thanks

[quartz ravine]

I'm using a smooth_step function which results in rendering circles thanks to...math stuff I am not 100% on!

[zealous glen]

that didn't answer my question tho

[hasty mist]

what exactly are they?

[shut crater]

I'm pretty sure there's a patch on mod_chips, that's not normally what it looks like is it?

I might be misremembering but I thought they both just returned

[zealous glen]

This is what it looks like in vanilla

[shut crater]

sometimes I don't know what I'm talking about

apologies

[zealous glen]

I don't remember if any challenge in the final game uses chips_dollar_cap

So it's possible that if never evaluates to true

[shut crater]

sounds incredibly difficult

[zealous glen]

what?

[hasty mist]

i am not smart enough for this

[shut crater]

it sounds like a hard challenge

to play

[zealous glen]

hook mod_mult to contain something like if condition then return 1 end

[zealous glen]

If it's not in vanilla, maybe that's why

I did decide not to use it as a Showdown mechanic

Instead I just modified base chips

[hasty mist]

im not familliar with hooking

[zealous glen]

you save a reference to the original function and overwrite the function, but using the reference inside

[shut crater]

local original_func = mod_mult
mod_mult = function(mult)
  --do stuff, then call the original
  return original_func(mult)
end

[zealous glen]

specifically you'll either want the condition return before that so you can ignore the original return, or you'll want to call it first then manipulate it after

[hasty mist]

im sorry this doesnt make any sense to me

let me try to make sense of this

[spring thistle]

They hijack the original function and make a replacement

[hasty mist]

i understand that part

[spring thistle]

vortex is cooking up a storm vortex

[hasty mist]

i only have about a month of experience in coding

im pretty sure i get whats happening

i just dont know how to actually implement it

[spring thistle]

what part did you not understand? the part where they got the functions?

[hasty mist]

well

hm

how do i explain

ugh i dont even know what question to ask

[spring thistle]

one of the worst feelings

[hasty mist]

like

alright

[hasty mist]

firstly,

i dont understand exactly what this is doing

i mean i sorta do

[brisk rose]

@rough furnace my first eketch of the thing from yesterda

[hasty mist]

but each component i dont get

[brisk rose]

read down to here for full contexrt

[spring thistle]

first, they store the original function in a variable (in case it is useful to run) then they redefine the original function to do whatever they want (which was run the original function, but usually other stuff are done)

[hasty mist]

the "local" part im assuming goes in my variables, right?

does the rest go in the same place

stupid question but

i am so lost

[spring thistle]

the local is so the other files can't run this random function named 'original_function' (its purpose is solely to remember the previous version)

[shut crater]

what I wrote for you is the template for all hooks. You write that anywhere directly in your main mod file

[hasty mist]

alright

[shut crater]

the first line creates a variable for us to hang on to the original function (so we can call it later, otherwise we would be completely erasing the original function)

[hasty mist]

so inside of this hook, i can check for conditions, and do return 1 end then?

[spring thistle]

^

yeah

you can do whatever you want

[hasty mist]

alright

[shut crater]

then we write a new function, but store it in the original function's variable to replace it

[spring thistle]

ACE!

[naive raptor]

me?

[rough furnace]

Yeah local keeps that variable in the scope of your block (this would be the current file, function, if statement, loop, etc. Its in. ) its prevents other blocks from accessign it which prevents issues with named being the same, and also helps with performance a bit.

[hasty mist]

let me try this

[spring thistle]

i think so, i was making a joke about how long you are typing

[naive raptor]

oh lol

i wasn't typing anything

well not on discord

[hasty mist]

so does this work or have i completely misunderstood

[spring thistle]

yeah

[zealous glen]

you probably want some nil checks but yeah

[brisk rose]

I think i can refactor the way i'm doing it to combine the additional entries first like i want, finish it, turn it into real lua, and iron out the specifics myself, I mostly wanna know if the approach would generally work, and if ther's anything else i need to keep in mind

[hasty mist]

nil checks?

[spring thistle]

is this to merge duplicate jokers?

[naive raptor]

why doesn't holographic show up in my info queue?
info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = G.P_CENTERS.e_holographic

[scarlet thorn]

e_holo im psure

[naive raptor]

ah

[spring thistle]

anyone here code from roblox luau?

normal lua feels familiar yet not

so used to typing local

[rough furnace]

Normal Lua has local?

[spring thistle]

lol

in roblox luau, global variables tend to be taboo

[naive raptor]

i've never coded in lua before balatro modding

[old bane]

same

[spring thistle]

interesting!

[naive raptor]

that may make it eaisier though because then i don't get messed up from previous experience

[spring thistle]

yeah

[rough furnace]

I mean your code should probably use locals but accessing thunks stuff is globals

[marble flint]

they're taboo here too (unless you have a strong reason to create one)

[shut crater]

global variables are bad practice in most programming languages

[spring thistle]

i see

[old bane]

i legit don't use globals normally except from the game itself

[zealous glen]

a long time ago, localthunk banished globalthunk

[shut crater]

which is why lua is terrifying because there is no data encapsulation

[rough furnace]

Yeah DebugPlus has like 1 global I think

[shut crater]

you can't say something that funny while I'm at work

[spring thistle]

long before time had a name, the first...

[hollow sphinx]

making a card effect that's basically just baron but for 7s and 2s, but the effect is also activating at the end of a round after you clear the score rerquirement, if anyone knows how to fix it i would like the help

[rough furnace]

What do you mean?

[brisk rose]

yes, specifically for purposes of the stats screen

[spring thistle]

ah

[edgy reef]

Hiding implementation details from the people using your API basically

technically more general but whatev

[rough furnace]

Yes but why doesnt Lua have this?

[spring thistle]

i hope someone makes something like that for ingame

[red flower]

i have an excuse to use this 🙂 https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/46a1c466de9ca37089199737963a5857769e9f94/src/jokers.lua#L2046

[brisk rose]

in my usage it's ones that are literally the same but have just had their keys or prefix changed over the months

[marble flint]

pro tip: if you want something that's technically a global, but with an incredibly hard to spell name, you can put local my_globals = _G[SMODS.current_mod] at the top of each of your files (make sure to initialize it first).

[brisk rose]

you can just use banner to ban all but one

[spring thistle]

every value is exposed

[rough furnace]

No its not

[old bane]

just add "not context.end_of_round" in the if statement

[rough furnace]

Try getting the console open state from DebugPlus

[marble flint]

challenge accepted

[spring thistle]

to merge jokers in the joker card area?

or as a hack

[hasty mist]

awesome this works perfectly thanks for your patience yall

[spring thistle]

gl

if you combine with other mods, set yours to a high priority so your set definitions gets run last

[shut crater]

because everything is tables and there is no way to hide keys, you can change the value of any key to be anything you want

[rough furnace]

Local variables

[spring thistle]

i was thinking about that. is locking metatables a thing?

[brisk rose]

oh nvm, i thought you meant different jokers that did the same thing

[edgy reef]

Yes

[rough furnace]

Also metatables

[edgy reef]

https://www.lua.org/pil/13.4.5.html

Example of read-only tables

[brisk rose]

like keep them from both appearing

[spring thistle]

ah

sorry for the misunderstanding

[shut crater]

I guess but you can't have a global table with some local properties

it's all or nothing

[shut crater]

que es

[spring thistle]

uh oh

[shut crater]

(lua noob)

[spring thistle]

metatables are the most fantastical thing in lua

praise teh metatable

[zealous glen]

when metatable binary operators

[edgy reef]

Lua is surprisingly capable of doing stuff, it's just that as a language meant for embedding and small stuff you have to implement what other languages have by default yourself.

[spring thistle]

^

[brisk rose]

you're good

[rough furnace]

I don't understand

[brisk rose]

every langyage can do anything in theory, or it wouldn't be turing complete

[spring thistle]

'what that'

[rough furnace]

OK solve the halting problem in lua

[zealous glen]

problem.halting == 'solved'

[spring thistle]

'You know how to code? Alright. Solve the halting problem in every language."

[brisk rose]

that's not considered computable for the purpose of the defintioon of turing complete, no?

[rough furnace]

https://lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.8

[brisk rose]

isn't it kinda defintional

[red flower]

lua is the only language where NP = P

[rough furnace]

You said it could do anything

[brisk rose]

i meant anything other languages could, lol

but fair, pedant

[zealous glen]

Write a Lua program that creates a rock so heavy even Lua itself can't lift it

[spring thistle]

Lua can make me a waffle.

[scarlet thorn]

no it cant

[spring thistle]

Propaganda.

[brisk rose]

interfacing with the right hardware, asbolutely

[spring thistle]

^

[zealous glen]

Big Waffle doesn't want you to know

[rough furnace]

LuaJIT is really powerful cause FFI

[shut crater]

so...Python classes?

that is very neat

[rough furnace]

Idk I don't yse Python

[spring thistle]

you can use them to implement them

lotta metamethods

[shut crater]

that's neat

[spring thistle]

i remember when // wasnt a thing

[zealous glen]

what about Julia

[zealous glen]

still isn't

for the version Balatro uses

[spring thistle]

i remember that^

[zealous glen]

cool language

I don't understand how to use Type Unions correctly

[spring thistle]

what about dylan?

dang. twice my age

[zealous glen]

convert(Julia, dylan)

[marble flint]

(function()
    local i = 1
    while true do
        local k, v = debug.getupvalue(require 'debugplus.console'.doConsoleRender, i)
        if k == 'consoleOpen' then
            return v, i
        end
        i = i + 1
    end
end)()

prove it with this:

(function(x)
    x(x)
end)(function(self)
        print((function()
            local i = 1
            while true do
                local k, v = debug.getupvalue(require 'debugplus.console'.doConsoleRender, i)
                if k == 'consoleOpen' then
                    return v, i
                end
                i = i + 1
            end
        end)())
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event {
            func = self
        })
    end)

[worthy stirrup]

How could I edit my shader to have the card fit to the shader, if thats even able to be done?

[zealous glen]

what do you mean

[brisk rose]

you can make the shader warp the card

[spring thistle]

Whoa. This didn't cross my mind. We have access to debug utilities.

[brisk rose]

which is what they mean i think

[rough furnace]

Shoot I forgot about that

[brisk rose]

but idk how

[marble flint]

:P

[brisk rose]

I think it's possible at least

[spring thistle]

maybe use a shader to do the warping instead of warping it manually. that might also work

[brisk rose]

i mean glsl is a lnaguage so it is, i mean without modifying the card draw code

[zealous glen]

If you want to change the shape of the card

You can use vertex shaders

[spring thistle]

i think so

[brisk rose]

basically you need to act on more than just the color values, which shaders can def too

i think is the point

[rough furnace]

I think there's something you can set in the edition to tell it to not do thst

[zealous glen]

that's another thing

Balatro renders multiple layers of the same card

you can pass a value to SMODS to ask it not to do that

[spring thistle]

will it flatten?

[zealous glen]

for shaders with transparency

[zealous glen]

Flatten?

[brisk rose]

or shape, just read it

[spring thistle]

like merge all the layers into one then render that

[zealous glen]

No

[brisk rose]

set this to true

[zealous glen]

Anyways

That's why I asked what they want

[brisk rose]

@worthy stirrup

[zealous glen]

Because there are two answers

[brisk rose]

sorry wrong reply

[zealous glen]

and one is easier than the other

[brisk rose]

can you disable base shader for non-edition shader application? I presume you can too, this is tangential i know that's not the disctinvtion you asked about

[zealous glen]

idk

[brisk rose]

I mean... do we know if they aren't already? because i think this is how it'd look with the base shader on, saying it says to disable it if changing shape

[cunning barn]

is there like a plugin somewhere that adds the vanilla balatro variables and such to a code editor? ive decided i want to try and start making a balatro mod and i was wondering if there was smoething like that to make coding SLIGHTLY easier. i can probably just try and figure stuff out from other mods and vanilla code either way, but i remember reading something about some addon that adds definitions

[spring thistle]

yes please i would like that

[worthy stirrup]

oh thanks

[zealous glen]

It looks to be within the bounds of the card, so I thought they had just changed the colors to make it look like it had moved

[brisk rose]

just load the dump with your ide?

[willow plinth]

you could add the smods repo to your workspace, then maybe just maybe ctrl+click could work

[cunning barn]

wait how are people making these. like what program are they using. i am like. NEW new

[brisk rose]

oh defintions

sorry

yes it is a good idea

[spring thistle]

vs code

i use the dump from lovely

[zealous glen]

the SMODS lsp might help too

[cunning barn]

visual studio right. i had a hunch

[brisk rose]

visual studio code, not full vs

full vs is way overkill i think

[rough furnace]

You can tell the lua ls to look at balatris souce and it figures out most stuff

[spring thistle]

what is lsp

[zealous glen]

lumpy space princess

[spring thistle]

from adventure time?

[brisk rose]

i don't use either but i'm very nre to actually ytying to start modding, lol

[hasty mist]

when i first got into balatro modding i tried coding with notepad, switched to vscode in 5 minutes

[hasty mist]

i hate her

[marble flint]

visual studio is for microsoft languages (i.e. not Lua)

[cunning barn]

language server something right? like basically how the studio interprets different kinds of coding languages

[willow plinth]

yeah this...just be aware that when you have other mods in the same workspace or folder, vscode gets confused because many mods redefine functions

[brisk rose]

it seems to support a lot more than that? including lua

[hasty mist]

iirc full vs is egregiously bloated

[rough furnace]

I have a bit if a weird setup but you can copy my notes
https://github.com/WilsontheWolf/DebugPlus/blob/master/.luarc.json
https://github.com/WilsontheWolf/DebugPlus/blob/master/dev/luals.md

[brisk rose]

but what do i know

[spring thistle]

^

[brisk rose]

did you take a look at my thing?

[willow plinth]

oh that's sick, that should fix vscode getting confused for me, thanks for sharing

[zealous glen]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/pull/399

[zealous glen]

yes

[hasty mist]

i remember installing it once and it took like a full hour

[rough furnace]

No

[brisk rose]

fair, take your time

[zealous glen]

why

[rough furnace]

I'm at work

[spring thistle]

thanks, ill take a look

[brisk rose]

oh then yeah dw about it anytime soon

[hasty mist]

i dont like her character

adventure time is goated though best show ever, watched it whole way through a few months ago for the first time

[spring thistle]

designwise? personality wise?

[hasty mist]

everything.

[zealous glen]

AT is one of if not my favorite show

[hasty mist]

yess

one of my friends forced me to watch it and i am so glad they did

[brisk rose]

it's not my thing at all ngl

the one CN show from that time I liked was Regular Show

[cunning barn]

alright, setting up VS Code. i am deeply new to this, not super good at code, kinda thinking i'm gonna be in over my head
but i have ideas. WOW do i have ideas. if anyone wants to take a look at the google doc im making compiling my ideas i can send it over to ya- i don't anticipate making even a tenth of them anytime soon but i just want to develop the skill to be able to do it yk
like. i have jokers that have to be recharged with actions. i have jokers that can evolve when other jokers are present. i have a LOT of stuff but i am fully aware I will have to pour myself deep into coding to make like half of em

[hasty mist]

it was a tough watch at first but the show just gets exponentially better every season

[zealous glen]

I enjoyed Regular Show for a little bit but I found it too repetitive. Adventure Time is both funny and deep

[spring thistle]

i believe in you

[cunning barn]

(if anyone wants to know WHAT the mod is- homestar runner. just a ton of homestar runner content)

[hasty mist]

awesome to see you starting coding! excited to see what you make with it

[zealous glen]

The beginning is very silly. I don't think that's bad, but some people dislike that. However, most of it is still plot relevant

[hasty mist]

yeah, definetely

[brisk rose]

it's a more cringy type of humor to me

[hasty mist]

its definetely like that at first but as the show matures its humor does as well

[zealous glen]

LSP is a self-centered teenager except she accidentally committed murder once
PB is Big Brother
uhhh tell me another AT character I can oversimplify until my description becomes detached from reality

[spring thistle]

lemongrab

[thorn flame]

Hi it's fun. im in over my head too and its worth it just to see how the code works and try to make a few jokers like that

[hasty mist]

i love pb i dont get why people hate her

[thorn flame]

speaking of in over your head i need help making a booster pack

[chrome widget]

Misogyny usually. God forbid women do anything

[spring thistle]

god permit

[zealous glen]

war crimes, covert dictatorship, manipulating people

[cunning barn]

jake the dog is that guy- you know the guy im talking about? i think his names chester stone. like the guy who did the video about the clock, and the one where he beats up the giant teddy bear

[red flower]

based

[zealous glen]

I mean, I think that's what people who dislike her would say

[hasty mist]

yeah, i began coding about a month ago and i'd say i'm extremely ambitious

[hasty mist]

god forbid a woman have hobbies /j

[spring thistle]

god permit

[surreal coral]

Yo how often does in_pool run? Like, say I'm trying to prevent a joker from spawning if another one is present.

[red flower]

every time it would be generated randomly

[hasty mist]

like i will NOT discard an idea unless i have exhausted everything

ive made some insane shit already

[surreal coral]

Oh sweet, that's what I was hopin. Thank ya

[brazen tusk]

stopped modding for like 2 weeks and i come back and can't get a joker in game ;-;

[hasty mist]

this was my second ever functioning joker

[spring thistle]

gg

[zealous glen]

But I mean her handling of FP and the Flame Kingdom is dubious, as is her creation of the Candy People and how she controls them; both are explained by her backstory, though YMMV if it's justified

[brazen tusk]

a typo, classic

[hasty mist]

yeah fair, but i love complex/morally grey characters

[zealous glen]

I mean people can enjoy the character in fiction and hate her as a person

[hasty mist]

mhm

[spring thistle]

is there a way to see all the contexts? (context.enteringshop, jokermain, endofround, etc...)

to broaden my knowledge

[zealous glen]

The wiki can help

[cunning barn]

ugh ive been going through the smods github and trying to go thru the files on the example joker mod to figure out where to start but i keep forgetting that github has that crazy secondary rate limit and i have to wait for like 5 minutes to be able to check it

[zealous glen]

Most are listed there

not the Blind contexts though

[spring thistle]

yeah, i noticed though that some weren't when I was trying to make a joker. should I look in the calculate function itself?

[hasty mist]

i have a massive list of them in one of my jokers

this isnt exhaustive though i think

[zealous glen]

which ones weren't

[spring thistle]

anything helps honestly

[thorn flame]

I'm genuinely lost as hell with the booster

i got the consumables working fine

[chrome widget]

I think it tends to come down to a difference of perspective, like for example I don't typically reserve a judgement of a character "as a person" because they're inherently not real people

[spring thistle]

i know enter shop wasnt

[thorn flame]

this happens when i "discover" it in the menu

[chrome widget]

If I like the character, I like the character. That's kinda the end of it for me, aside from what large amount of thematic depth I would want to yap about

[spring thistle]

is entering_shop even real?

did I confabulate?

[zealous glen]

I don't think it's a vanilla context

So unless someone added it to SMODS but not to the wiki

you made it up

[hasty mist]

i think the closest thing to entering shop is ending round maybe

[red flower]

wrote this for the wiki server:

These should be all the other ones not on the wiki aside from starting_shop AFAIK

• context.ending_booster

{
    booster = booster_obj
}

• context.modify_scoring_hand

{ 
    other_card =  G.play.cards[i], 
    full_hand = G.play.cards, 
    scoring_hand = scoring_hand
}
return {
    add_to_hand = true,
    remove_from_hand = true
}

Blind calc

• context.blind_disabled

• context.blind_defeated

• context.press_play

• context.debuff_card

{ 
    ignore_debuff = true 
}

• context.debuff_hand

{ 
    full_hand = cards, 
    scoring_hand = final_scoring_hand, 
    poker_hands = hand, 
    scoring_name = handname, 
    check = check 
}

• context.stay_flipped

{ 
    to_area = to_area, 
    from_area = from_area, 
    other_card = card
}

• context.modify_hand

{ 
    poker_hands = poker_hands, 
    scoring_name = text, 
    scoring_hand = scoring_hand, 
    full_hand = cards 
}

[spring thistle]

ah, yeah i was looking at jen's almanac

[zealous glen]

There are other factors at play; some people will tend to express an opinion if they find the rest of the fandom doesn't express it enough.

[spring thistle]

thanks a lot

[zealous glen]

Maybe they added it themselves

[spring thistle]

that's what i think

i know they changed the calculate function

[chrome widget]

shrug maybe. I do actively go out of my way to try to write about and care about characters who are women since fandoms in general don't do that and prioritize men instead. Get that M/M shipfic outta here, it's womens' turn. Anyway I'm getting off topic lmao

[spring thistle]

JOSEI!

[zealous glen]

I feel like PB committing war crimes is part of her thematic depth, and I don't think there's many other ways to discuss it besides criticizing her

[spring thistle]

• Victin, 2025

[zealous glen]

and this kind of discussion is caring about PB

[spring thistle]

||i thought PB was pubblegum brincess :(||

[chrome widget]

No but yeah that's what I mean I don't really criticize characters like I would a person. I would talk about the thematic depth, but I can't really be critical of actions that don't materially exist. I'd be more likely to critique the choices of the author

[zealous glen]

PB is bubblegum yes

[spring thistle]

phew

[chrome widget]

Peebs :)

How did AT become the topic anyway?

[zealous glen]

like, I do imagine there are fans who hate her because she's a woman or whatever, but also criticizing her actions is respecting her character

[zealous glen]

LSP

[spring thistle]

i asked what lsp was

[gentle rain]

god i need an adventure time joker

[zealous glen]

I have more to say about this general consequence of prejudice but that is even more off-topic

[zealous glen]

I have Baby's Building a Tower into Space

[gentle rain]

every single one of finn's swords

[gentle rain]

AWESOMEEE

[zealous glen]

You can play with it right now

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

[gentle rain]

maaaaybe ;3

[cunning barn]

ok new question. i'm trying to get the lua LSP that is mentioned on the lsp_definitions branch info page of steamodded. it doesn't really say which it is, and i think it's a specific one because it doesn't say "a lua LSP" it just says "lua LSP"
in general im kinda confused by how this is worded. is there a more in-depth tutorial about this? like another github rep or a yt video or something about how i'd install something like the smods lsp into a visual studio project? visual studio feels a bit intimidating to me ive only really used it for like bare-simple ren'py VN stuff

[chrome widget]

Mmm yeah regardless I don't think I could carry on the discussion further. I'm at a point where the idea of criticizing a characters actions is like... complete nonsense to me tbh. Not that I have too much experience with the AT fandom anyway, I've been basically a RWBY fandom girlie for the past decade as my only consistent one

[zealous glen]

I have mostly not mingled with fandom except with specific small communities which bring news of the larger fandom to me

[spring thistle]

i found rwby interesting but a bit odd, probably because i was really young

[zealous glen]

For AT I haven't really interacted with any group of fans really

[spring thistle]

i couldn't get a grasp on the narrative and how it unfolded

[brazen tusk]

thoughts on the ability?

[chrome widget]

Hmm... very specific

[spring thistle]

wee synergy

[hasty mist]

also, how easy is it to mess with ui elements? i'd like to completely get rid of the mult box for this specific boss blind, but if its too much of a pain ill just keep it

[spring thistle]

i like wee

[zealous glen]

I'd keep it

[naive raptor]

put a rectangle on top of it maybe? i've never messed with ui so i dont know how hard that is

[spring thistle]

im looking in that too

seems like a hassle

[gentle rain]

im a big fan

[hasty mist]

well ideally id have it centered lol

ill probably keep it though

[thorn flame]

nvm i got it

[brazen tusk]

if joey likes it, it must be a w
so proud of myself

[spring thistle]

👍

[brazen tusk]

now to actually make the effect lmao

[paper zealot]

For both Visual Studio (bulky and slow) and VSCode (recommended), it's a matter of installing a Lua extension that provides a Lua Language Server, then including SMODS in your workspace.
There are a number of Lua extensions, but this is the most commonly-used one for VSCode

[red flower]

hi breeze how are you doing

happy about the smods release?

[paper zealot]

I'm good mate, how are you?

It's good to see the ship slowly turning away from rolling releases and towards more stable occasional feature releases, for sure

[hasty mist]

what is the "max" for in the boss parameter for blinds

is it just the max ante a boss can appear in

[red flower]

Doing good thankfully thank you

[red flower]

AFAIK yes

[zealous glen]

does it get used

[red flower]

no lol

[hasty mist]

so, min 1 and max 10 would mean it can appear at ante 1 and later, but no further than ante 10?

[red flower]

supposedly but the docs say it doesn't work

[hasty mist]

ah

[red flower]

you would need to use in_pool

[cunning barn]

oh hey sumneko's the one i'm using that's convenient
so to include smods in your workspace do you just use the folder that has all the smods stuff in it, or just the LSP?
i think once i get that figured out and get, like, the joker lua, lovely and smods hooked up, i'll be set to start makin' stuff

[hasty mist]

yeah

i was just confused because it seemed a bit vague on the exact effect

[zealous glen]

min works

[edgy reef]

Yeah boss.max is never used in vanilla.

But loads of vanilla bosses still have it set to 10.

[red flower]

did he plan the game to end at 10 lol

[lucid owl]

does undiscoveredsprite include the question mark icon part? as in, the moving question mark used in other undiscovered sprites

[zealous glen]

I wonder if it was ever used during the demo

[red flower]

oh btw i have a dev question too
Is there any easy example of sprite manipulation similar to vanilla in a mod? I need to fix half joker, wee, etc for the vanilla recreation but I've never done that

[zealous glen]

yes

[red flower]

also hologram but that's probably applying a shader which i have done

[zealous glen]

SMODS provides variables

to set when you create the Joker

[lucid owl]

hologram is a shader and special floating_sprite

[zealous glen]

Take a look at Champion's Belt or Humbleing Bundle or Paranoia from my mod

[red flower]

i will thank you

[zealous glen]

you can replicate it by passing a custom draw function inside soul_pos

[lucid owl]

you can pass draw in soul_pos????

did i really copy the movement of the soul all for nothing lmao

[paper zealot]

Either is fine, VSCode will read every folder recursively in the workspace anyway. Personally i've included the full SMODS directory along with the vanilla source, it's just easier to be able to reference everything that way

[lucid owl]

how does that custom draw func operate?

[zealous glen]

you tell the game how to draw the soul_sprite

specifically, you can think of it as just a callback

you can use it to render the soul_sprite

but you can do anything there

[cunning barn]

shoot, i just realized i think i put LOVE into the exe of the game that i extracted to get to the source. theres a ton of VS errors about LOVE being an undefined variable

[zealous glen]

I use it to render additional sprites

[lucid owl]

for mine i just referenced how cryptid does their gateway sprites, which just was defining a custom DrawStep and setting a specific floating_sprite on a specific consumable

i'll have to see how you can define a draw func in soul_pos

[zealous glen]

I think DrawSteps are a side-and-downgrade

[lucid owl]

damn, didn't know

[cunning barn]

version.dll overwrites the exe when lovely is installed right? because if so i might need to do some stuff

[zealous glen]

I mean other people have disagreed

This is my opinion

[lucid owl]

i'll have to check how you do it but i definitely like how you've done floating sprites

[red flower]

I personally wouldn't use a DrawStep just for one card

seems like an efficiency waste

[lucid owl]

yeah true

[zealous glen]

I didn't use DrawStep except for a single card

because that one required a DrawStep

That's the "side" of "side-and-downgrade"

[red flower]

I do use it for a shader that can draw over any card in my mod

[zealous glen]

I used it for a Joker that requires ||drawing behind the card||

[red flower]

hmmm i do need to draw behind cards too

for the xyz monsters

[hasty mist]

me when my voucher.lua is still empty because every time i make a voucher idea it ends up being better as a joker instead

how do i make VOUCHER IDEAS

[lucid owl]

joker, but permanent

[zealous glen]

take a look at chaseoqueso's frog

[hasty mist]

and the one good voucher idea i DID have (rerolling boosters) apparently already exists in another mod

[cunning barn]

i'd make a thread for my homestar mod, but i feel like i dont have enough in my repertoire to get people's hopes up. like its just an ideas doc. i could make a gc or something? and get some interested people in?

[lucid owl]

just make your idea anyways, who cares if another mod has it

[red flower]

I've seen threads done for less
you can make one and share your ideas

[zealous glen]

@red flower

[red flower]

i think people might be interested especially if it's for something based on another piece of media

[hasty mist]

i should probably make a thread for astronomica too here i suppose

[red flower]

oh that looks very cool

[zealous glen]

top 10 coolest Jokers

[red flower]

im still waiting for the blood on the clocktower mod

[zealous glen]

Idk anything about Blood on the Clocktower but I know a YouTube channel that makes content about it

[cunning barn]

well i have an idea doc that is just. its just HUNDREDS of jokers i am rapidly eclipsing base game
there is a TON of stuff in there and most of it is super ambitious
the first jokers i made were the legendaries LOL
but ykw i'll make a thread and post it since im actively planning to start coding this anyway

[red flower]

it's pretty cool i wish i had friends to play it with irl

[zealous glen]

Idk anything about it but I'd play it with you if I was IRL

[hasty mist]

the plan for astronomica is essentially for it to be to cryptid what cryptid is to vanilla

[red flower]

as long as it doesn't have more jokers than my mod it's ok /j

[zealous glen]

finally someone is gonna add TREE to Balatro

[red flower]

you're not irl are you virtual?

[zealous glen]

it's like reverse solipsism where only you are real

[hasty mist]

definetely not tree, i do have this though

tee hee

[red flower]

that's so true

oh and btw if anyone has time someday and wants to add other things besides jokers to this i would appreciate it :3

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/tree/main

[zealous glen]

Maybe sometime that's not 4 AM

[red flower]

im just advertising mostly

i want people to stop using card = self

[zealous glen]

play gorgeous ping

[hasty mist]

omg this is absolutely amazing

[zealous glen]

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

[hasty mist]

i would help but unfortunately im the target audience for this kind of resource

perhaps sometime i migh try something though

[red flower]

dont worry about it
once you get good enough you can try adding the other stuff : )

[hasty mist]

though i dont have great modding habits so

yeahh

ive actually remade judgement though

maybe i could add it

it would need to be cleaned up a lot though

the code i mean

[cunning barn]

well actually how many does yours have?
because. i think i have like hundreds in my idea doc im just not sure how many are gonna make it in the first build

[red flower]

329 right now

im probably doing an average of 150 per update going forward

[cunning barn]

i mean. i just raelized id have to count. but i posted my idea doc in my mod thread so you can see how many in there and also actually see what they do

[red flower]

ok i gave up counting at 100

[red flower]

i think having blinds using blind calc instead of the functions would be cool

[worthy stirrup]

I love this

[brazen tusk]

is there a better way to do nested text colour than having the outside colour each side of the inside colour?

[red flower]

can you elaborate?

[hasty mist]

finally

set up my thread

what a headache

[brazen tusk]

like this

[hasty mist]

i never know what to put in these things

[red flower]

no then

you can get rid of the ending {} but there's no other way to do colors inside each other

[brazen tusk]

aight ty

[red flower]

after writing 300 descriptions i just have vscode snippets set up for stuff

[hasty mist]

what are snippets

[red flower]

this

[brazen tusk]

my files are too complicated for me as is 😭
description arent that much of a pain for me yet

[red flower]

i recently separated my localization file into 40 lol

[brazen tusk]

that is something i need to do

maybe not 40 though xD

[hasty mist]

i still haven't started localization...

[brazen tusk]

that will be a pain to retroactively add in

[rough furnace]

You could write a function to help you but there's no built in way

[cunning barn]

probably gonna try to get started coding 2morrow tbh
tonight i am feeling. a bit woozy idk why
but hey if yall wanna help im open
im excited to get this stuff on the road

[brazen tusk]

most of the people in here are more than happy to help, we all learn from each other so just ask whenever you have a question

(joke will be on me when you say this is your 5th mod)

[cunning barn]

oh no yeah its my first, i havent even touched lua stuff before now lol

[brazen tusk]

ah ok cool lol

said that one time and it was someone who made a pretty big mod xD

[cunning barn]

i was moreso thinking like making a GC with people who would want to actively contribute but i will definitely come here if i have a general question, for sure
i have this rlly cool set of cheat commandos jokers in particular im super excited to code- i have like a gunshots edition and everything and one of the jokers can be evolved when in the presence of another, and one of them actually does something with wild cards, and i have another joker that also makes wild cards count as the rank before and after them and i have a ton of legendaries and stuff and. wow i love just sharing these ideas

[brazen tusk]

all sounds very cool

[brisk rose]

combine = func(temp_profile, key1, key2}
    combined = temp-profile.joker_usage[key1]
        doner =  temp-profile.joker_usage[key2]

    orig_order=key1.order


    for e, r in in pairs(doner) do
        if type(e) == "number" then combined[e] = combined[e] + r
     end


    for e,r n pairs doner) do
        if type(e) == "table" then
                           if not combined[e] then  combined[e] = r
            end
            else
            if combined[e] ~= r then
                for k, v in pairs(e) do 
                    if type(r) == "table' then 
                        for t, y in in pairs(r) do
                            if type(t) == "number" then combined.r[t] = combined.r[t] + y
                            end
                        end
                end
            end
    end

    combined.order=orig_order
 G.PROFILES[1] = temp-profile
end
                                
        ```

@rough furnace whenever you're free and up for it, i actually completely overhwaulted the thing, and simplified it to only take 2 keyes, because honestly it doesn't ened to take any more

I think this is everything, still not proper lua most likely but a lot closer in that aspect too

[brisk rose]

sure there's about 50 reasons why I'm trying to do it all wrong, but maybe i'll clean it up, make it real lua and see how if works in game anyway, lol

what's the worset that could happen?

the other issue is, idk how to execute an actual scrpit like this in game

i'm sure debugplus can do it ofc, i just dk how to go about it

with their not being any cursor in the deubplus console that i can figure out how to move, trying it in the eval option seems hopeless

nor do i think my clipboard would real there

[brazen tusk]

this looking more like a common?

[red flower]

how do you destroy it

dagger or madness or are there other sources?

[brazen tusk]

hex

couple things my mod adds

[red flower]

hmm if it's not that many things i would say it's a common yeah

maybe if the amount was higher

[brazen tusk]

was thinking of maybe doubling it

idk if that would be too much though

30 on ante 5 roughly

[brisk rose]

i sometimes play like 10 rounds to in the first 8 antes, so idk how useful it'd be for me

[brazen tusk]

why are you skipping that much ;-;

[brisk rose]

Thowback's my boyye

also love style meter

and a lot of other skip-related stuff

but that's because i love to skip, not the other way around ig

[brazen tusk]

i dont think ive picked up abstract more than a handful of times

[brisk rose]

i think that he's (all jokers are persons to me, lol) on there from modded runs

lot more jokers to add to it

[brazen tusk]

ah ok

makes sense in that case

i tend to only play with a few small mods at a time

[brisk rose]

i play with a lot of mods at once and sometimes my joker amount gets balls to the wall insane even though i don't do cryptid or anything actually op

just having a lot of mods will do that

not to mention sandbox deck/sleeve from sdm's stuff, so i often have 7 or even 9 slots in the first place

I need to... play the heckin game though, i barely have since i came back

like 2 months ago

(I've been in the modding scene on and off since april 2024)

and rarely play the game when i'm not also in the modding community participating

i came back to the community and the participation, less so the playing so far

[gilded blaze]

uh

how do you handle factorial in the code

Gamma function for non-integers?

[hasty mist]

I use direct computation for small numbers, and stirlings approximation for numbers in the e's

[gilded blaze]

damn

maf

[hasty mist]

wait

hold on

completely got the name of the thing wrong

[gilded blaze]

lmao

[hasty mist]

there we go

[hasty mist]

this is how everything works

[thorn flame]

how can i affect the pixel size without making it skew weirdly?

want it to be able to have stickers

[brisk rose]

I feel like it's skewing the same as any joker?

[thorn flame]

it kinda is but like it's intensified

[scarlet thorn]

thats a small guy

whats specifially skewed?

[thorn flame]

it feels squashed vertically

[scarlet thorn]

whats the pixel height stuff you set it to

[scarlet spire]

I think that's just the perspective on all cards

[thorn flame]

it might just be how pixel size works

[scarlet thorn]

thats why

just set the number to 20

[scarlet spire]

you should just be setting the pixel size to how big the sprite is

[scarlet thorn]

or 22

ur thing is 20 pixels tall

[thorn flame]

ah yeah

[regal ether]

0.2 * 71 💔

[scarlet thorn]

close enough to 15 tbh

[scarlet spire]

in this case, it's 17 x 22, if you include the single-pixel border of transparency

[thorn flame]

i was toying with it

also it was aligned wrong on the sheet by like 1 pixel

it's fixed

thats how they did it on cryptid cube

[sleek cliff]

Is there a code that checks if a certain joker has triggered, like would it be something like G.Joker

[regal ether]

cryptid is full of weird shit tbf

[gilded blaze]

uh, I'm assuming context.forcetrigger is from demicolon

[hasty mist]

yep!

[gilded blaze]

nice

[hasty mist]

that was a recent addition

[gilded blaze]

I'd been around since its draft PR

demicolon is certainly interesting

[hasty mist]

i absolutely love demicolon

[gilded blaze]

although it requires very heavy reimplementations of vanilla jokers

[hasty mist]

yeah

[gilded blaze]

do I have to include context.forcetrigger in my next mod 💀

probably

since I intend it to contain endgame contents, powerful enough to urge people to install Talisman

[sturdy compass]

IT'S SO CUTE

[gilded blaze]

it could be the third mod to include its own ^mult (besides Buffoonery and Prism)

[hasty mist]

wdym by that

[gilded blaze]

I implemented ^mult without talisman dependency

[hasty mist]

ohh

my mod is heavily dependent on talisman

[gilded blaze]

it's still balanced enough tho

I mean, the rarity is called obscure and it's equivalent to Cryptid's epic

[brisk rose]

there's a lot of reason to do that it seems, though mostly because people don't know that talisman compat isn't needed if you keep it on vanillia

[brisk rose]

what i mean is for it not to crash

mods don't need to do that "to_big" nonsense

if you play with talkisman on vanillia

[hasty mist]

i actually implemented direct score addition/multiplication/exponentiation in my mod

which has either not been done before or only been done by one or two obscure mods probably

[native zinc]

hhh

why isn't it doubling properl y.

[brisk rose]

what isn't doubling and when?

[native zinc]

well bait is supposed to double shop prices

vouchers are 10 dollars and 10*2^5 = 320

it's close but it's trying it's best

[brazen tusk]

could anyone direct me to an example of how to change a cards rank? tried searching in here but couldnt find much

[native zinc]

https://github.com/threeofaband/bountiful/blob/main/joker/bitshift.lua

[brazen tusk]

ty

[cyan lagoon]

SMODS.change_base

or SMODS.modify_rank

[brazen tusk]

they do anything different?

[cyan lagoon]

change base changes the card whole

modify reduces or increases rank specifically

[brazen tusk]

ah ok so if i was changing to a specific number then i'd change base but for smth like strength id do modify rank

awesome

[cyan lagoon]

yeah

[sleek cliff]

and a new problem arises

[last sentinel]

When using "context.individual and context.cardarea == G.hand", how can i prevent the cards from activating at the end of round. i.e. only cards in hand when playing a hand (like shoot the moon)

[brisk rose]

so, in a table of variables, can you add a new entrey just by saying like butts[big] = "no lie"? or do you have to insert it in another way?

[hasty mist]

unless i misunderstand, can't you just exclude context.end_of_round?

[brisk rose]

assumingthere is no big entry yet

[last sentinel]

hmm i thought end_of_round and individual were mutually exclusive but maybe i was wrong

[hasty mist]

Well, wouldn't hurt to try

[brisk rose]

asking in relation to this, which does such things a lot

[last sentinel]

yeah totally trying rn

[last sentinel]

yep that totally did it, thanks

[hasty mist]

of course!

[cyan lagoon]

how do i disallow a flush from being played in my challenge?

[hasty mist]

try looking at cryptid's code, it has a boss blind that disallows flushes from being played

[cyan lagoon]

yeah. what is it again?

[rough furnace]

the temp_profile doesn't do anything as it's a reference (though storing as a vatible is probably nice for convience), and doesn't need to be re set.

[hasty mist]

Nostalgic flint

[cyan lagoon]

alright, there it is

now how do i work it into a challenge?

[brisk rose]

wym, like changing it changes the underlying table as it is?

[rough furnace]

its the same table

[glad osprey]

tables are more like a map leading you to where the table info is stored

[brisk rose]

oh yeah fair

[glad osprey]

rather than being the table themselves

[brisk rose]

is there a simply way to like... copy it as a new table?

[glad osprey]

no

:)

[rough furnace]

simply no

[brisk rose]

JustLuaThings I guess

lol

[brazen tusk]

context.after would be the best context to use for after playing a hand right?
(if i dont ask stupid questions i will continue to be stupid)

[brisk rose]

well I'll have to live with that limitation

[glad osprey]

depends on when you want the card to trigger

[rough furnace]

this is the same behavipur with like any language with a key value data struicture

[brisk rose]

it's kinda strange that you can only refer to them with a variable not store them

but whatever

[brazen tusk]

after the hand is done scoring

[glad osprey]

I think so let me double check

maybe??? idk it's not very clear

[rough furnace]

well
a. tables can be massive and copying them can be really resource intensive
b. there size is dynamic which makes it hard to store copies of them somewhere.
c. tables in tables would be really confusing then

[edgy reef]

The ease_dollars function is not easing dollars but hey, the concept works!

[rough furnace]

DefaultLogger my beloved

[glad osprey]

if your using it to change the score then you wanna use final_scoring_step otherwise after is the right one I think

[brisk rose]

so besides the keys needing to be passed as strings which i just learned, what else is wrong?

[rough furnace]

what is your goal?

why does it need to be a copy?

[edgy reef]

hmm actually it's not changing discards either...

[brisk rose]

it doesn't it was just for peace of mind and making it less likely to have to restart the game

[edgy reef]

:[

[brisk rose]

if i screw up

i have a backup of my profile file

[brisk rose]

my goal is to take two keys from that section of the profile and fuck them together, to combine jokers for stats purposes which are the same joker but have had their keys or prefixes changed

[rough furnace]

just run G:load_profile(1) to re load your profile form disc

[brisk rose]

i presume to save changes i need to do something similar

[rough furnace]

uhh that snippet from earlier for the unlock all has the code you need

[hasty mist]

how would i implement rerolling booster packs

[rough furnace]

but yeah

[brisk rose]

you don't do anything special to commit it, you just change the P_CENTERS table directly

[rough furnace]

no the one I linked

to reenable the button

[brisk rose]

oh that one

[brisk rose]

G:save_progress()
G.FILE_HANDLER.force = true```

so yeah the bottom 2 commands?

save it

[wooden swift]

this is for sure a dumb question but how do i change the color of my custom jokers description to the spades color?

[cyan lagoon]

{C:spades}{}

[wooden swift]

yknow i probably shoudlve assumed that but thank you

[cyan lagoon]

what's the function i can hook to remove jokers and consumables from the shop?

[brazen tusk]

is there smth already for random rank or would i have to make my own table and use pseudorandom

[cyan lagoon]

you'd use local pseudorandom and change the rank to that

i think

[cunning barn]

ok i decided im gonna be trying to add like ONE joker tonight. it's gonna be the one that just adds +25 chips.
so im just gonna overview what i think i need.
so im assuming i need a json file that allows the mod to be loaded, then i would need an atlas to call for the images, and then after that i'd need to actually code the thang ding
but those are the required parts right

[thorn flame]

im free tonight i can help you if you need it

[hasty mist]

how do i check if a certain voucher has been redeemed

[hollow sphinx]

trying to make a joker that destroys a random joker and then gives xmult, but im getting an error on line 119 that says "attempt to call a table value"

[thorn flame]

for another voucher?

[hasty mist]

no for a function

i think

i have no idea what im doing

[thorn flame]

probably would be in pool

[native zinc]

why no ipairs

[thorn flame]

im looking

[hasty mist]

im trying to modify the code of a small mod that lets you reroll booster packs so that its apart of a voucher, instead of just being always active

idk how to put it in a calculate function so i figured id just make it check if the voucher was redeemed?

[hollow sphinx]

took some code from someone else's solution, I assume i just remove the g.jokers.cards and replace it with ipairs then?

[naive raptor]

sorry i know this is late, i've been coding other things. choosing the face card works fine, but the suit shows up as table: 0x1b5f1460

[hollow sphinx]

if thats what you wanted i get this instead

[hasty mist]

this seems to be quite egregiously incorrect

[brazen tusk]

would this set the rank of a card matching randold to randnew?

[cunning barn]

alright that'd be great, cheers!
right now i'm making the json. im gonna be copying formatting from the example mods in smods but im gonna make the files themselves individual.
i am just mad excited about making this honestly. id love to introduce the balatro comm to homestar runner if they havent already seen it

[native zinc]

for k, v in ipairs(G.jokers.cards)

[hasty mist]

absolutely no idea how "for" even works in lua

[hollow sphinx]

thanks, that worked

[brazen tusk]

.

[brazen tusk]

^ that explain alr?

i still barely understand them but that helped me a lot

[hasty mist]

sorta

how would i modify this to work in the context of a voucher

[brazen tusk]

light mode

my eyes!!!

[hasty mist]

this is github my bad

i have github desktop installed but idk how to use it

[faint yacht]

Is this meant to reroll booster packs if the voucher has been redeemed? If so, check if said voucher is redeemed and execute the reroll if that's the case.

[hasty mist]

that's what i was thinking i had to do, but everything i do to this thing makes it crash

i dont know how to work with this kind of code i think

[faint yacht]

Does that actually execute on its' own?

[hasty mist]

it does, it's the entire code in this mod

https://github.com/DorkDad141/balatro/blob/main/RerollPacks.lua

[faint yacht]

What's the key of the voucher?

[hasty mist]

just 'test' for now

[brazen tusk]

so the numbers above 10 obvs break this, is there an easy way to amend the ranks here?

[faint yacht]

Assuming rero is the prefix, due to usage of legacy file header and, if not defined, defaults to first 4 letters of MOD_ID, this is the check.

if G.GAME.used_vouchers['v_rero_test'] == true then
  -- do reroll pack stuff here.
end

[gilded blaze]

I just realized something

all retrigger joker calculations for emult (JokerDisplay) in Cryptid is broken

[hasty mist]

would the entire function go inside here?

[gilded blaze]

-- From Cryptid's exponential mult Jokers
{ 
    ref_table = "card.joker_display_values",
    ref_value = "e_mult",
    retrigger_type = function (base_number, triggers)
        local num = base_number
        for i=1, triggers-1 do
            num = num ^ base_number
        end
        return num
    end
}

this crap right here would work if it's applied directly to mult in the score, not the display 💀

[brazen tusk]

i

[faint yacht]

The "hook" is outside of the if check, but the actual booster pack rerolling stuff goes in there, yes.

[hasty mist]

this seems to be breaking no matter what i do,

[faint yacht]

Ah, right, should be if G and G.GAME and G.GAME.used_vouchers['v_rero_test'] == true then so that it doesn't trigger crash.

[hasty mist]

ah

this is what i was getting earlier, too, what did i do wrong here?

[faint yacht]

...uh, the whole

if G and G.GAME and G.GAME.used_vouchers['v_rero_test'] == true then
  ...
end

should be in the hooking function, just after the original one executes. 💀

[sleek cliff]

is there a way to make this NOT happen?

[faint yacht]

not context.end_of_round

[hasty mist]

alr, my bad, im still learning the basics of coding

[sleek cliff]

where in there do I put that

[faint yacht]

Next to the conditions where you define where to trigger the X1.5 Mult.

[sleek cliff]

oki

[cyan lagoon]

am i doing this right?

it crashes rn

[faint yacht]

At least mention how, where and when.

[daring fern]

self.debuff.hand?

[cyan lagoon]

i took it from the source code

[daring fern]

What is the crash log?

[cyan lagoon]

blind.lua:542 config (nil)

[shut crater]

I'm up to a full page of jokers :)

[sleek cliff]

hell yeah

I gotta make mine compatable w/Brain nad Blueprint

[brazen tusk]

hm

not quite the intended outcome 💀

what im i getting wrong here

[normal crest]

randold and randnew are rank tables

[brazen tusk]

oh i

changed how it works i can just

give the variables the pseudorandom_elements

ty lol

[normal crest]

i mean you'd just do randold.id for the rank id

[brazen tusk]

this will work fine no?

[normal crest]

no, the result of pseudorandom_element is a table with a lot of info about the rank itself

[brazen tusk]

ah

[normal crest]

you can try printing it in the console to see what it has

But you're probably most interested in .id and .key

[faint yacht]

...wouldn't adding .id to the end of the pseudorandom_element() work as well?

[normal crest]

yeah that'd be ideal, you don't want to store the entire rank object in the ability

[brazen tusk]

true true

[hollow sphinx]

trying to make a joker that is basically just baseball card for commons right now, but this ends up happening.

[shut crater]

show your whole joker

also I should know this by now but how do I check if a card has a certain enhancement

[daring fern]

SMODS.has_enhancement(card, 'm_prefix_key')

[daring fern]

card.ability.extra is a table.

[shut crater]

in your localize, you need to pass in card.ability.extra.chips

[hollow sphinx]

ooh right thanks

[daring fern]

Also you should replace Xmult_mod with chips I think?

[shut crater]

that seems like probably the intended effect

[faint yacht]

...usually, doesn't mean it 100% is. 😛

[shut crater]

based on their config declaration, it is

[faint yacht]

In their case, it is, yes.

[hollow sphinx]

ok, all I did was change the chips to xmult and its still having the issue, I'm not too sure how I would make extra not be a table

[shut crater]

it's fine that extra is a table

[shut crater]

^

do this

[faint yacht]

chips = card.ability.extra.chips works on its' own.

[shut crater]

the reason your message is a weird table string is because you're passing it a table (extra) instead of the value you want to show (extra.chips)

[faint yacht]

The messages are usually automatically handled for +Chips, +Mult and XMult.

[shut crater]

oh true

[hollow sphinx]

ok i think i get it now

[shut crater]

yeah probably just remove the message line

[brazen tusk]

any obvious reason this wouldnt be working that im being oblivious to?

[hollow sphinx]

yep fixed it

thanks so much

[brazen tusk]

lil stamp

[thorn flame]

my new consumables

[brazen tusk]

very cute

[thorn flame]

my fav is pin currently

[faint yacht]

Does the condition set even pass? Also, assert(SMODS.change_base())...

[daring fern]

How does one make it so editions happen on trigger instead of at the end of scoring?

[hollow sphinx]

ok, so I am back right away but this one should be a lot quicker, I just want this to target a specific joker instead of the rarities it was before

[shut crater]

joker keys follow the pattern "j_modprefix_key"

[daring fern]

context.other_joker.config.center.key and that ^

[shut crater]

tbh I don't even know how editions work normally

[hollow sphinx]

thanks, that works.

[sleek cliff]

how could I target a specific joker with the context? cause I have 3 Jokers to make (so far) with this idea

[daring fern]

You would check if context.other_card.config.center.key is equal to the key.

[faint yacht]

context.post_trigger... which is an optional feature to be enabled.

[sleek cliff]

alrighty

[faint yacht]

Which I just found out... Windows 7 would have had a different function, oh well.

[daring fern]

‎

[faint yacht]

...I think context.post_trigger also could work here.

[thorn flame]

how do i add this additional info?

[cyan lagoon]

info_queue

[daring fern]

Yes, but how would I call the edition?

[thorn flame]

i see i see i see

[brazen tusk]

im assuming the card here is wrong, what would i need instead?

[faint yacht]

Are you changing order of calculations on editions or is this for a custom edition?

[daring fern]

This is for a custom seal.

[shut crater]

context.other_card

[sleek cliff]

should I remove card = context.other_card from it then

[faint yacht]

card = isn't necessary.

[sleek cliff]

or keep just in case

[brazen tusk]

i was just putting other_card im so dumb 😭

[faint yacht]

Sounds like changing the calculation order... not too sure about that.

[brazen tusk]

hm

[cyan lagoon]

i got this working, but now the game crashes outside of the challenge. what's wrong?

[shut crater]

just a guess (since no crash log was provided) but try G.GAME.modifiers and G.GAME.modifiers.no_flush

[cyan lagoon]

here's crash

[cyan lagoon]

i'll try that

[sleek cliff]

So, it shows up, but does nothing

[faint yacht]

Change .id to .key?

[daring fern]

You need to check context.post_trigger and also the key needs to be a string also it needs to be like "j_modprefix_doc1"

[brazen tusk]

oh true bc the face cards and aces are giving number still so that would make sense

[faint yacht]

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

?

[cyan lagoon]

nope

same crash

[daring fern]

What is the crash log?

[cyan lagoon]

.

[faint yacht]

...that's a snippet.

[sleek cliff]

I do have the post trigger context at the very end with an and

[daring fern]

Yes, but it does not happen during context.individual

[cyan lagoon]

here's more of it

[sleek cliff]

where in there do I set this

[daring fern]

Anywhere but outside of everything.

[faint yacht]

It is supposed to be outside any definitions on its' own, like so. togabalatro is my SMODS.current_mod.

[sleek cliff]

Oh oki

[cunning barn]

would one theoretically be able to expand the atlas sheet if one wants to later on? like, keep the atlas images the same but just expand the borders to add more around the sides

[daring fern]

Yes.

[brisk rose]

function combine(key1, key2)
    local combined = temp_profile.joker_usage[key1]
        local doner =  temp_profile.joker_usage[key2]

    local orig_order = combined.order


    for e, r in pairs(doner) do
        if type(e) == "number" then 
        if not combined[e] then combined[e] = 0 end
         combined[e] = combined[e] + r
         end
end


    for e,r in pairs (doner) do
        if type(e) == "table" then
                           if not combined[e] then combined[e] = r
            end
            if combined[e] ~= r then
                for t, y in pairs(e) do
                        if not combined.e[t] then combined.e[t] = 0 end
                        if type(t) == "number" then combined.e[t] = combined.e[t] + y
                        end
                end
            end
        end
    end
    combined.order = orig_order
return combined
end
                                
        
combine("j_mf_couponcatalogue", "j_mf_coupon_catalogue")

@rough furnace so after a lot more twaking, here's what i have now, it actually evals just fine in debug plus, but i get no change when i check

is it because i'm checking the profile directly?

or does it just not work yet

[sleek cliff]

so what context should I change it to

like, context global?

[daring fern]

context.post_trigger

[sleek cliff]

oh

[brisk rose]

i mean directly as in eval print(G;PROFILES[1].whatever)

[brazen tusk]

the contexts are definitely working but nothing happens

also did it with just the assert to make sure, same result

[brisk rose]

should you be returning something you aren't?

that seems to be the primary cause if functions that should work fine but aren't doing anything

[sleek cliff]

and it is still doing nothing

[brazen tusk]

It was giving a crash when I had the values in the change_base wrong so I assume it would have to be being called in that case

[daring fern]

Remove the context.cardarea check.

and also the key needs to be a string also it needs to be like "j_modprefix_doc1"

[brisk rose]

well that's what i mean, in the problem i'm talking about the function is being called and running

unless you knew what i meant and i misunderstood

basically from what i understand if you don't return the right things, the function runs but then output goes nowhere

[brazen tusk]

Ah hm

I’ve been assessing what other people have done with change base and I don’t think anything needs returning?

Ig I’ll try returning true

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hollow sphinx]

joker is supposed to generate one hash brown joker at the end of round, it instead generates ~10 of them without regard for the max joker size.

[daring fern]

context.end_of_round and context.main_eval

[hollow sphinx]

thanks

[sleek cliff]

norp

it might be because I have them sorted to or and not and?

[daring fern]

Current code?

[brisk rose]

re: your bio:i I wonder sometimes if people think I'm actually ofline so don't wanna ping me

i'm just always on invisible

[sleek cliff]

looks like a bit of a mess lol

[shut crater]

Your key comparisons don't look right to me

[sleek cliff]

how so

[hollow sphinx]

this works, but it still doesnt take the max joker size into account, so it will just generate over the max size

[daring fern]

The key needs to be a string.

[shut crater]

Is doc1 a variable or is it the key of a joker?

As it's written, you're treating it like a variable

[sleek cliff]

doc1 is the key of a joker

oh

[shut crater]

So use "j_modprefix_doc1" instead

Also the way you're doing this seems cumbersome

You're checking every single doctor key, aren't you

[sleek cliff]

maybe...

[shut crater]

What if you just gave all doctor jokers a special variable in their config that you check for

Then just context.other_card.ability.extra.is_doctor or something like that

[brisk rose]

this would also enable cross-mod easier down the road if you or anyone else was ever interested

[sleek cliff]

true!

[sleek cliff]

how could I add that variable in

like, Variable = is_doctor