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[vast fractal]

how to do talisman compat stuff

[midnight coyote]

got that too

[hybrid shadow]

add your hand to the dictionary

[rustic swallow]

how would i make two pairs be considered full houses?
with a hook

[midnight coyote]

i found the problem

had to make a new save

[daring fern]

Maybe hook evaluate hand?

[midnight coyote]

i hate everything

if i had a jimbo plushie at this very moment i would hang him on my door

[daring fern]

if (add_mult or 0) > 0 then?

[scarlet thorn]

Basil's issue was creating a new hand requires you to make a new save, or else it crashes.

[vast fractal]

the balancing part will not work tho

[daring fern]

Try looking at Sync Catalyst?

[sullen fern]

how the fuck do you solve this

balatro-kai is now shoving this in my face whenever i try to launch it

[midnight coyote]

here's some ideas ive been doing for jokers

[vast fractal]

it is just uses mult

[sullen fern]

always trim your mod folders of lovelyignores

[vast fractal]

im going insane

[digital sun]

how do you destroy cards

cards held in hand i mean

[daring fern]

if context.destroy_card and context.cardarea == G.hand then
    return {remove = true}
end

[digital sun]

how do i make the uhh joker detect which card i want to destroy
i have a function that picks a random number from 1 to however many cards are in hand

[wintry arch]

is there a context for cards drawn after opening a booster pack?

context.open_booster doesn't seem to work

[daring fern]

Don't return remove true if the card is the selected card.

[shut crater]

Why do the cool joker effects take the longest to make

I spent like all day on one joker

[unborn bay]

whats with all this setup here just wrap any comparisons with to_big

as in to_big(1) < to_big(0) lmao

[daring fern]

return = context.destroy_card == G.hand.cards[destroycard]?

Also context.destroy_card does not happen during joker main.

[wintry arch]

i've made a "mystery" enhancement that hides a card's suit and rank until it's drawn, and i've got it removing itself when drawn during a blind but it's still there when you open a tarot pack or spectral pack and i need this to not be the case.

is there an easy way to do this?

[timid star]

yahiamice saw my bluesky post so i have to stop procastinating on this (wait i'll fix that double message)

[cyan lagoon]

why this crashes?

crashes when it tries to add the enhancement

[daring fern]

Try G.P_CENTERS.m_wild

[cyan lagoon]

nope

[brazen tusk]

try nil instead of false

context.other_card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS["m_wild"], nil, true)
smth like this

[cyan lagoon]

nope

[wheat pulsar]

Hey can i put to vanilla jokers pools?
for example cavendish, gross michel, etc in a food pool?

[daring fern]

Take ownership of it then do pools = {["Food"] = true}?

Or you could just put the key in cards of the object type?

[hasty mist]

asking again what the issue here is

[brisk rose]

are you trying to return a concatonated string?

[hasty mist]

no idea

[brisk rose]

like "X" and then the chip value all as one strong?

what are you trying to return i should ask

[hasty mist]

this is how the joker code looks

[hasty mist]

im setting up operator scaling

[brisk rose]

just try putting shit in parentehses ngl

[unborn bay]

card.ability.chips

not card.ability.extra.chips

[brisk rose]

I don't really know how this shit works, but concatination might not be concatonating

[brisk rose]

or just this

[unborn bay]

yeah you ofc cannot concatenate a nil value :V

[hasty mist]

huh

[brisk rose]

they put a chips value in their extra table?

but they might not have used it

[hasty mist]

so do i have to move chips from extra to the root of the config?

[brisk rose]

I see card.ability.extra.chups existing

are you syre they just don't need parentheses?

[hasty mist]

i am not sure of anything 😭

[brisk rose]

I meant haya

[brisk rose]

tbh I don't blame you, I might be new to coding for mods, but this shit looks weird

[hasty mist]

yeah

[brisk rose]

like idek what this means

[hasty mist]

this is probably the most complicated joker ive coded yet

or one of the mostr

[hasty mist]

this is what the joker is intended to do

except nil should be 100

[brisk rose]

tbh I've coded 0 kokers, all my experience has been fucking with the graphics code

[hasty mist]

basically

[brisk rose]

which is... its own beast

[hasty mist]

chips scale

when it reaches X100, it increases the operator and resets to 1

so, it would become ^1

reach 100 again and it becomes ^^1

etc

[brisk rose]

I mean... this feels simplier to do with loc vars and just normal joker code, then all the weird concatination

[hasty mist]

i dont think i understand

[brisk rose]

like have the operated as a loc var in your description and switch it and reset using normal if statements?

[hasty mist]

"arrows" is the operator

[brisk rose]

I just mean you don't need to use the in-built lua formatting when the game has loc vars for that, and you can switch it in the logic with normall loops and if statements and whatnot. The arrows are like any other text i presume

unicode is unicode, just need to escape them or smth

or do the arrows not use unocde characters in the font?

[hasty mist]

it might be late or i might be stupid but i have no idea what you're trying to say 😭

[brisk rose]

same tho. i might be being stupid

[hasty mist]

wait what the fuck

i think i fixed it

????

[faint harbor]

sorry if this is the wrong place and sorry to interrupt your chat but im trying to add a new challenge and the game recognizes it but its locked. how do i make it unlocked

[brisk rose]

definitely the right chat

[hasty mist]

alright i think i coded the effect properly

but

[hasty mist]

why does it still say nil?

[brisk rose]

lemme see the code again and actually try to make sense of it this time

[hasty mist]

its long so let me know if i need to zoom in the screenshot a bit

[daring fern]

Because you're asking for #4# but you aren't providing it?

[hasty mist]

#4# is in config and loc_vars

also, happens when the operator is supposed to increase

[hasty mist]

ah i see

[hasty mist]

what could be causing this?

this is supposed to detect if the chips reach or go above 100, increase the operator, and reset it to 1

[brisk rose]

there is no loc var 4?

there are 3

[hasty mist]

yeah that's my bad

[brisk rose]

talisman

which is required in this cazse i know

probably missing some to_big's

[hasty mist]

alr

now i need to figure out where

[brisk rose]

also is the 'message' how you send values to loc vars? As I said I'm new, sorry

@daring fern I just don't see themdefining it anywhere?

[daring fern]

What "message"?

[brisk rose]

so I was wendering if it was in built

[brisk rose]

it's in her returns

[hasty mist]

holy shit it works now

peak

[faint harbor]

what does this mean? i'm very new to modding balatro and lua as a whole

[hasty mist]

okay one more issue

it is giving mult instead of chips

for some inexplicable reason

OH

i know why

[icy oak]

how do i generate a random joker while respecting their rarities

[daring fern]

Does SMODS.add_card({set = "Joker"}) not do that by default?

[icy oak]

i dont know, ill try that

[faint harbor]

i figured it out sorry for being dumb

[wintry arch]

hey yall,
i'm making an enhancement that's supposed to remove itself when the card is drawn to hand. i've got it working for drawing cards during a blind, but i'm not sure how to go about making it do the same thing when it's drawn for a tarot/spectral booster pack. the "open_booster" context seems to be useless

[daring fern]

if G.booster_pack and not G.booster_pack.REMOVED and SMODS.OPENED_BOOSTER?

[wintry arch]

w here would that be applicable. in the context check function?

i can try that there, sure

[daring fern]

It should be true while a booster pack is open.

[wintry arch]

huh! seems to work so far

i think that works, thank you!

[shell timber]

oh is this for the erratic deck testing

[maiden phoenix]

github issues

[analog spoke]

mhh, I'll look into it, thank you

[red flower]

a txt file that you edit occasionally and says stuff like "check the thing that makes the jokers bad"

[ripe thicket]

im new to modding and I'm looking through the example jokers mod on the steammodded github
what's the purpose for this?

[manic rune]

text in the joker's description

[ripe thicket]

ohhh ok

[maiden phoenix]

If you mean the #1# it references variables returned from an object's loc_vars function. For example here the #1# will be replaced by the value from card.ability.extra

[manic rune]

{C:mult} changes the color of the text, #1# has it so the text in there changes dynamically depending on a variable's value

[ripe thicket]

I'm trying to figure out what the whole "text = {" part is used for

[maiden phoenix]

Oh then yea it's for object descriptions

[cyan lagoon]

anyone knows the key of a gluttonous joker?

[hasty mist]

i think gluttonous is misspelled as "gluttenous"

cant remember if its gluttenous or gluttenous_joker though

[wintry solar]

Assuming you check for context.hand_drawn you can also check for context.other_drawn for when it’s in packs/any other addition that draws cards

[vast fractal]

Suit Joker

[wintry arch]

is that a thing? i didnt see that in docs for smods

[cyan lagoon]

gluttonous doesn't work, i'll try _joker

[wintry solar]

Yes it is a thing

[wintry arch]

hmm, well the other solution i got seems to be working for now but the thing im doing might break it, i'll consider that if i need to change it cuz that looks more stable

[cyan lagoon]

there it is, thanks

[hasty mist]

mhm!

[manic rune]

do i use if context.other_consumeable then... to go through all held consumables for effects

just to be sure :p

[shell timber]

yes

[maiden phoenix]

It works the same as how you'd use context.other_joker

[manic rune]

icic, thanks

[dull sage]

Question, you get a cards seal by doing card.seal, easy enough

Why is it to get the enhancment it's SMODS.get_enhancements()?

[manic rune]

because of quantum enhancements

you usually use SMODS.has_enhancement instead btw

[hexed heath]

hmm

[daring fern]

Why did they add only quantum enhancements specifically?

[manic rune]

idk, it was there when i first started modding lol

might need to ask the ogs around here :p

[wraith kiln]

errr can anyone help me with some smod stuff

i want there to be a 1 in 3 chance to turn playing cards into bonus cards but im not really sure how the pseudorandom function works and i cant find any documentation on it

[daring fern]

Why are you returning SMODS.calculate_effect?

[wraith kiln]

idk

have been kind of frankenstying code from diff jokers togheter

to learn

[daring fern]

Put everything in there directly in the return.

[wraith kiln]

i was guessing calculate effect was the function blueprint would look for

[wraith kiln]

okay

[daring fern]

No, it doesn't look at anything, it just runs calculate.

[wraith kiln]

what about the pseudorandomness though

should it work now?

nope

i might just be very super duper lucky but it hits on every card

nope set the pseudorandom to 100000 and it still hits every card

unless im like the luckiest person alive

[daring fern]

pseudorandom first input needs to be a string

[wraith kiln]

and the second is the max of the output number?

cause i've looked at the vanilla revamped code for 8 ball

and all it gives is a string

[daring fern]

No, you need to just do pseudorandom(string)

[wraith kiln]

so the chance is hardcoded to be a max of 4?

i mean like

[daring fern]

No?

You change the odds?

[wraith kiln]

oh my god im so stupid

[wraith kiln]

thank youuu

wait but

aren't the odds what the oops all 6's changes

like the 1 in "1 in 3 chance"

[daring fern]

That's G.GAME.probabilities.normal

[wraith kiln]

oh okay

[tired kestrel]

How do you detect the held cards?

[daring fern]

G.hand.cards?

[tired kestrel]

ah.

also is there such as "is_stone"?

[daring fern]

Yes, it's called SMODS.has_enhancement(card, "m_stone")

[wraith kiln]

randomness still dosent work and im not really sure of what to do atp

[wintry solar]

No your return table is just wrong

[wraith kiln]

wdym

like whats the issue

[wintry solar]

The set ability shouldn’t be in it, message shouldn’t be in its own table

[wraith kiln]

where should the set ability be then

[wintry solar]

Before the return

[wraith kiln]

oh okay so return runs regardless if the chance hit or not

?

[wintry solar]

No

[wraith kiln]

then what is it for

sorry im not that experienced in lua

[wintry solar]

Have you read the calculation guide?

[wraith kiln]

no

is it in like the api

[wintry solar]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Calculate-Functions#step-3-returning-effects

[wraith kiln]

ah i see thanks :-)

[tired kestrel]

what the-? I thought it's make it work.

someohw it's not detecting the cards if the cards haven't played and of course it's meant to convert stone cards to their original state.

[daring fern]

Code?

[tired kestrel]

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'stonebreaker', 
    loc_txt = {
        ['en-us'] = {
            name = "Stonebreaker", 
            text = {
                "Convert held Stone cards",
                "into a random Enchancement"
            }
        }
    },
    atlas = 'Jokers',
    pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
    config = {
        extra = {
            -- No additional properties required for now
        }
    },
    rarity = 2,
    cost = 4,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.cardarea == G.hand then
            for k, v in ipairs(context.other_card) do
                if SMODS.has_enhancement(card, "m_stone") then 
                    return {
                        m_stone = false
                    }
                end
            end
        end
    end
}

I had thought about trying to see if I can like make a custom card that I thought that is about unconverting the card into stone

[wintry solar]

Oh god where to start

You can’t use ipairs on a singular card

Returning an enhancement value as false does absolutely nothing

You’re checking if the joker is a stone card

Your context check isn’t tight enough

[tired kestrel]

Actually a joker checks the held cards, and then converts stone cards to the ones with rank and suit.

[daring fern]

if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.hand then
    if SMODS.has_enhancement(context.other_card, "m_stone") then 
        context.other_card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.c_base)
    end
end

[wintry solar]

No it doesn’t I’m telling you what your code does

[tired kestrel]

Ah. Well the descriotion was temporary but I at first thought how I can like rephrase it

also

I need to try to see if

I can get the stone card to turn into a base card then try to reincoperate

like I need to know the variables of like each enchancement

or give a random enchancement

sorry if it sounds confusing.

[daring fern]

I just told you how to do that?

[native zinc]

turn held in hand stone cards into a random enhancement

which yeah is what somethingcom's code does

[tired kestrel]

Ah. I see.

[native zinc]

can confirm

[tired kestrel]

Oh?

did know someone already did that.

but yeah.

let me test it out first.

[daring fern]

No, it just removes the enhancement.

[wraith kiln]

finally works !1! thanks everyone

[native zinc]

i mean yes it just sets it to m_base but that can be changed easily

just pseudorandom the global list of enhancements and put it in

[daring fern]

m_base?

[wintry solar]

Just use poll enhancement

That’s what it’s for

[tired kestrel]

Something I tried your code and apperently this happened:

it didn't actually get the hand deck to like turn the stone card into a playing card

[tired kestrel]

not sure why if I did it right but this ia the code I had so far:

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'stonebreaker', 
    loc_txt = {
        ['en-us'] = {
            name = "Stonebreaker", 
            text = {
                "Convert held Stone cards",
                "into a random Enchancement"
            }
        }
    },
    atlas = 'Jokers',
    pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
    config = {
        extra = {
            -- No additional properties required for now
        }
    },
    rarity = 2,
    cost = 4,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.hand then
            if SMODS.has_enhancement(context.other_card, "m_stone") then 
                context.other_card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS.c_base)
            end
        end
    end
}

also sorry for the confusions.

[daring fern]

Cards in hand are not cards in play?

Try keeping them in your hand.

[tired kestrel]

well yeah I tried even also when the blind started the joker didn't trigger

let me check

yup the removal did work just somehow it didn't trigger upon starting the round.

or starting the blind

but I have an idea

[native zinc]

upon starting the round is a different context

[tired kestrel]

also hwo does poll work?

or poll enchancement work?

[native zinc]

card:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS[poll_enhancement()])

[tired kestrel]

ah.

well I got an error but now I'm wondering how can I randomize the enhancement?

[native zinc]

this is what poll_enhancement does

it's polling the list of enhancement

s

[tired kestrel]

alright but right now it crashed:

[daring fern]

It's SMODS.poll_enhancement

Also you need to do SMODS.poll_enhancement({guaranteed = true})

[tired kestrel]

alright I see now

Now it works!

[cursive sentinel]

is it possible to still call shatter/destroy stuff despite blocking destroy through a patch?

[daring fern]

Give it conditions.

[cursive sentinel]

wdym?

i basically did a destroyed = nil patch if my joker is there

in addition to a hook

[daring fern]

Yes, give it more conditions.

[cursive sentinel]

wdym by conditions?

[daring heron]

tryna make a custom card skin, would this work?

[daring fern]

if joker and conditions

[cursive sentinel]

but adding conditions will just disable the destruction preventing no?

[daring fern]

No?

[cursive sentinel]

im not sure to follow; my issue is that cards that are shattered when played but prevented to be destroyed dont call caino stacking, adding conditions to the destroy = nil will just disable the destruction prevention? or am i getting it wrong?

im not sure to get the logic

[daring fern]

You want jokers that get called from cards being destroyed to still work when its not being destroyed?

[cursive sentinel]

yes, and it is

except for shattered glass

this is the only exception for now and i have no clue why

[cursive sentinel]

for now, if i hanged man 2 cards, it prevents their destruction and still calls caino for example

[daring heron]

does anyone know why this doesnt work?

[cursive sentinel]

but if i play a 6 with 6th sense and pareidolia or if i play shattering glass cards, wont call

its like my patch stops the call at all and my hook doesnt

[daring heron]

i honestly have no idea what i need to do with these 2

[next timber]

setting pos_style to collab makes it assume your atlas only contains face cards, i believe

[daring heron]

oh

[next timber]

been a while since i made a deckskin but i think thats how it works

[daring heron]

yeah mb

[next timber]

you want 'suit' i think

no

[daring heron]

so would this work?

--- STEAMODDED HEADER
--- MOD_NAME: Fancy Suits
--- MOD_ID: fancysuits
--- MOD_AUTHOR: [CebeeDrawz]
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: Y e s
--- PREFIX: fancysuits

SMODS.Atlas {
    key = 'FancySuits',
    path = 'FancySuits_lc.png',
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}

SMODS.DeckSkin{
    key = "DeckSkin_lc",
    suit = "Hearts", --???
    loc_txt = "default",
    palettes = {
        ranks =  "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "Jack", "Queen", "King",
        display_ranks =  "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "Jack", "Queen", "King",
        atlas = FancySuits,
        pos_style = 'suit', --???
    },
    colour = "f03464",
}

[next timber]

what does your atlas look like

if all the suits are in one file youll want 'deck'

[daring heron]

aand what do i put here?

[next timber]

thats still correct i think

[daring heron]

(and it also still crashes)

[next timber]

ah

[daring heron]

hm?

[next timber]

idk whats going on there

[daring heron]

oh

wait i might have it

[next timber]

oh the pallette needs a key

[daring heron]

nvm 😔

yeah i tried

this still wont work

[next timber]

try just lc?

[daring heron]

welp..

--- STEAMODDED HEADER
--- MOD_NAME: Fancy Suits
--- MOD_ID: fancysuits
--- MOD_AUTHOR: [CebeeDrawz]
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: Y e s
--- PREFIX: fancysuits

SMODS.Atlas {
    key = 'FancySuits',
    path = 'FancySuits_lc.png',
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}

SMODS.DeckSkin{
    key = 'DeckSkin',
    suit = 'Hearts',
    loc_txt = 'default',
    palettes = {
        key = 'lc',
        ranks =  '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', 'Jack', 'Queen', 'King',
        display_ranks =  'Two', 'Three', 'Four', 'Five', 'Six', 'Seven', 'Eight', 'Nine', 'Ten', 'Jack', 'Queen', 'King',
        atlas = 'FancySuits',
        pos_style = 'deck',
    },
    colour = 'f03464',
}

[misty gorge]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/d0e99fb83af5765f200adf2ffeb01ea732e60e6b/src/jokers.lua#L1351 New to modding, is it okay if I just copy the copying playing card function from this code and put it into my mod?

I wanna make sure I don't somehow end up pissing people off that way

[next timber]

let me find my code and see if i can spot any differences

[daring fern]

It should be fine.

[misty gorge]

Okie, cool

[daring heron]

might be something with the palette, but cant find what

[next timber]

try taking the numbres out of quotes

its having an issue with "3" somewhere

[daring heron]

the ranks?

[next timber]

yes

[wraith kiln]

how do i get the cards in hand?

[daring fern]

G.hand.cards

[next timber]

oh wait what the hell put those in tables

thats the issue,

[wraith kiln]

thanks

[next timber]

you havent wrapped the ranks in tables

lmao

[daring heron]

huh?

like this?

[next timber]

yes and for display_ranks too

its interpreting

ranks =  '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', 'Jack', 'Queen', 'King',

as

ranks = '2',
'3',
'4',
'5',
...

if that makes sense. it thinks 3 is a key without a value

[daring heron]

ohh

[next timber]

unless theres any inner lua workings i dont know about that makes this fine. but i cant imagine so

[daring heron]

okay well it doesnt crash anymore

but theyre not there either

[next timber]

take the numbers out of quotes still

they should be numbers not strings

[daring heron]

oh ok

[wraith kiln]

theres an api method for destroy_card() but for some reason its a nil value

[next timber]

and put the colour in a HEX('...') maybe

idk if it changes anyting but its in my code

so worth a shot

[wraith kiln]

*delete_card(=)

[daring heron]

the jack king and queen too?

or should those be in quotes

[next timber]

no those arent numbers

[daring fern]

No? Those are for object types?

[wraith kiln]

ah okay i thought it was like the object class in general

[next timber]

also if you want every single rank to be shown on the skin select menu (that's what display_ranks is for btw) then display_ranks should be identical to ranks

[wraith kiln]

whats the method to destroy cards then

[daring heron]

--- STEAMODDED HEADER
--- MOD_NAME: Fancy Suits
--- MOD_ID: fancysuits
--- MOD_AUTHOR: [CebeeDrawz]
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: Y e s
--- PREFIX: fancysuits

SMODS.Atlas {
    key = 'FancySuits',
    path = 'FancySuits_lc.png',
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}

SMODS.DeckSkin{
    key = 'DeckSkin',
    suit = 'Hearts',
    loc_txt = 'default',
    palettes = {
        key = 'lc',
        ranks = {
            2,
            3,
            4,
            5,
            6,
            7,
            8,
            9,
            10,
            'Jack',
            'Queen',
            'King'
        },
        display_ranks = {
            2,
            3,
            4,
            5,
            6,
            7,
            8,
            9,
            10,
            'Jack',
            'Queen',
            'King'
        },
        atlas = 'FancySuits',
        pos_style = 'deck',
        colour = ('f03464'),
        suit_icon = {
            atlas = 'FancySuits',
            pos = 0
        }
    },

}

so like this?

they still dont show up

[next timber]

yep

ah

hm

[daring heron]

is a suit icon neccesary?

[spice wadi]

I personally use fire (I can't remember the actual method)

[daring heron]

i use a chainsaw

[next timber]

ok heres my full code for one of my deckskins knock your socks off

SMODS.DeckSkin {
    key = "mlp_spades",
    suit = "Spades",
    palettes = {
        {
            key = 'lc',
            ranks = {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,"Jack","Queen","King","Ace"},
            display_ranks = {"King","Queen","Jack"},
            atlas = "mlpgim_mlp_suits_atlas",
            pos_style = "deck",
            colour = HEX("3C4368"),
            suit_icon = {
                atlas = "mlpgim_base_suit_icon_atlas",
                pos = 0
            }
        },
        {
            key = 'lc_con',
            ranks = {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,"Jack","Queen","King","Ace"},
            display_ranks = {"King","Queen","Jack"},
            atlas = "mlpgim_mlp_suits_2_atlas",
            pos_style = "deck",
            colour = HEX("3C4368"),
            suit_icon = {
                atlas = "mlpgim_base_suit_icon_atlas",
                pos = 0
            }
        }
    },
    loc_txt = "My Little Pony"
}

[wraith kiln]

like on sixth sense it just returns remove = true but what if i wanted to remove all cards in hand

[daring heron]

hm?

[next timber]

colour needs to be HEX('f03464') not just ('f03464')

wait yeah what filetype is this??

[daring heron]

yeah if you put swift after code in discord it color codes it

[next timber]

it

also does that for lua

[daring heron]

oh

[next timber]

and every large programming language

[tired kestrel]

I ended up with this. What do you guys think?

[daring heron]

i mean it does it by default for me

[daring heron]

.lua

[next timber]

ok

so its not a swift file

good

lol

you arent

you arent prefixing your atlas id

[daring heron]

hm?

[next timber]

what is your atlas name

and your mod prefix

[daring heron]

'FancySuits' and fancysuits

[next timber]

so in the atlas argument for the deckskin you should be putting 'fancysuits_FancySuits'

[wraith kiln]

maybe the message "break" should appear once on the joker

[daring heron]

shows up now but still breaks when i try to select it

[next timber]

what does your code look like now

[daring heron]

--- STEAMODDED HEADER
--- MOD_NAME: Fancy Suits
--- MOD_ID: fancysuits
--- MOD_AUTHOR: [CebeeDrawz]
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: Y e s
--- PREFIX: fancysuits

SMODS.Atlas {
    key = 'FancySuits',
    path = 'FancySuits_lc.png',
    px = 71,
    py = 95
}

SMODS.DeckSkin{
    key = 'DeckSkin',
    suit = 'Spades',
    loc_txt = 'default',
    palettes = {
        key = 'lc',
        ranks = {
            2,
            3,
            4,
            5,
            6,
            7,
            8,
            9,
            10,
            'Jack',
            'Queen',
            'King'
        },
        display_ranks = {
            2,
            3,
            4,
            5,
            6,
            7,
            8,
            9,
            10,
            'Jack',
            'Queen',
            'King'
        },
        atlas = 'fancysuits_FancySuits',
        pos_style = 'deck',
        colour = ('f03464'),
        suit_icon = {
            atlas = 'fancysuits_FancySuits',
            pos = 0
        }
    },

}

[tired kestrel]

Ah.

I'll try that and see

[spice wadi]

This might be a dumb question but doesn't malverk have an easier method of implementing skins or did I misunderstand what that mod is for

[daring fern]

No.

[next timber]

try wrapping everything in palletes in a second table

idfk

im copying this into my own code to compare them side by side

[daring heron]

same

[wraith kiln]

how do i destroy cards?

[daring heron]

wait it works 🔥

[next timber]

lets goo

[spice wadi]

Does it not work for playing cards then? I don't know exactly what malverk can change which is why I was asking

[daring heron]

only for spades tho, should i copy this for every suit?

[next timber]

yes

[daring fern]

It doesn't.

[daring heron]

can it only display 3 cards at a time?

[next timber]

dunno, should display every card you put in display_ranks but im not entirely sure ont hat

[daring heron]

yeah it crashed when i tried but i just needed to put 'rank' instead of just rank

strangely it does only show up for the ace tho

i think

[next timber]

i can help you no further

[daring heron]

fair

[next timber]

how come removing the tag ui element moves the dark background to be behind the 'or' instead of the skip button?

hang on i think i got it

its an issue with a different part of code

[daring heron]

found it

[next timber]

👍

[next timber]

i fixed it but at what cost. it looks kinda uggy now

ive removed the background again bbut that bug was indicative of a slightly larger issue thats fixed now

[daring heron]

how could i add compatability for the bunco suits?

[wintry solar]

Removing the reason to skip? What for?

[next timber]

in rascal the reason for skipping can be to avoid getting ganged up on by a full room of black suit face cards

(rascal is a different game entirely wearing a balatro shaped trenchcoat)

[wintry solar]

I see

[wintry solar]

Malverk doesn’t handle suit skins because thunk released the in game version whilst I was still making it and I didn’t feel like it was worth overwriting that method, especially as people had made progress in making thunks system accessible

[hard mica]

which joker gave chips based on how many cards you got in your deck?

[brisk rose]

Yes, I've been using chatgpt for the ffmpeg part of this, well strmm originally wrote it, but Istring replacement and filter workflows and a million different flags spread acrorss a novel-length manpage hurt my head, so I happily let the dumb computer whi thinks it can think hand;e that part when I thought it could do with tweaking, lol.

lol, how dare I even mention generative ai

[gaunt thistle]

the ffmpeg manpage is pretty scary

but nice work :-)

idk as long as you're honest about it's usage then it's fine. it's a big spectrum in terms of what's ok and what's less ok.

I've used chatgpt to make regex queries haha

it's not amazing at it but it gives me enough to expand upon

[daring heron]

how would i add a high contrast mode for my deck?

[gaunt thistle]

so I feel like using it to set ffmpeg flags is not an outrageous thing to do

[brisk rose]

yeah, it tends to be good at string processing to an extent, like it never messed up the lua string format stuff here

which was already in place by strmnn

[daring heron]

tried just duplicating the code but that adds a new deck skin lol

nvm i think i know

[brisk rose]

To make it clear, the actual mod code wasn't touched by ai, besides me asking it some troybleshooting quesgtions as I wrote

it doesn't understand balatro and i do

lmdao

I spent hours combing through every file in the source, the dumps, and thew smods source

days even

[gaunt thistle]

yeah, that's pretty appropriate

it's not something that I would ever personally do but like, it's not a crime or anything

it's not like you're creating AI slop

[wintry solar]

AI is a reasonably useful programming tool

[gaunt thistle]

@next timber the spectrum exists and we as an industry need to figure out our relationship with it, unfortunately.

I rarely ever use genai both because it sucks the fun out of my work and because my wife is a creative impacted by it, but it's here to stay.

[spice wadi]

Oh I see
Ty for explaining that for me
Also I didn't realise that you made that too

[native zinc]

just say LLM or something to ward off the weird ai slop people

somehow this works

i don't know why

[misty gorge]

Yeah, you definitely shouldn't rely on it to fully write its own balatro mod but for smaller things like troubleshooting and that, it's fine imo

[tired kestrel]

I know I was late but here's how it is so far.

[gaunt thistle]

I wish that genai died an expensive death but it's here to stay

sucks but whatever

[spice wadi]

Yeah that's similar to what I do
If smth isn't working or I need to learn smth I go through ChatGPT first in case there's an easy solution because I don't want to ask in this discord and waste people's time
I always learn from what I'm given tho to reduce the amount I have to go back to smth like ChatGPT in the future

[gaunt thistle]

yeah. as a natural language search engine it's pretty great, but don't rely on it any more than to inform you of options. It's terrible at technicals.

But it also should never be a crutch for your ability to formulate research.

[brisk rose]

yeah, it's also about what's worth learning, for me, it's not so much that I desire to learn how to use ffmpeg properly, especially with 2 different types of string substitution at play

[tall wharf]

i think movement should be sine based i think

[brisk rose]

I just wanted to edit the already made ffmpeg commands to do what I wanted

[gaunt thistle]

Yeah it's not a ridiculous use case

[brisk rose]

the linear mouse movement looks better than if it accelerates

[hard mica]

anyone know how i can check how many playing cards i got in my deck?

[brisk rose]

especially with the boomeraning

(it's simulated mouse movement i'm using)

[tall wharf]

i think it looks a bit stiff

[spice wadi]

I do know that
I use it sparingly as I'd rather learn it properly, but it's good for when I need an ultra specific solution
Like I had to override pseudorandom and pull the arguments from the function calling it, the documentation fried my brain so I had ChatGPT mockup part of it and explain it in depth to me
Then I wrote everything else myself

It would've been a lot more work just for one joker and for code that I'll probably never have to use again

[gaunt thistle]

Yeah

[hard needle]

is there a context for when a planet card is used?

[gaunt thistle]

I mean I feel like that's reasonable

The issue is when you have people generating entire blocks of code with it, not questioning the output, not learning anything, and then hammering this forum for help when it breaks.

[brisk rose]

hmm... lemme see

[hard needle]

oh wai

[spice wadi]

Mhm exactly
I wanted to learn how it worked so I could do everything else myself

[hard needle]

nevermind i forgot constellation exis

[zealous glen]

I’ve used ChatGPT to figure out how something in a library worked because I knew it was possible but I couldn’t find an example of someone doing it

After I had the example I could replicate it but I was also able to find a reference (the book explaining the library by the people who made it)

I’m not sure the book had an explicit example for what I wanted, but it was a good reference for other stuff

[cursive sentinel]

when calling next(SMODS.find_card('j_prefix_joker)) in another joker's calculate, can i change j_prefix_joker's c.a.e? if so, how?

[zealous glen]

c.a.e?

[cursive sentinel]

card.ability.extra

[zealous glen]

You can change any table any time anywhere in Lua

[brisk rose]

let's try this

[cursive sentinel]

but how do i call the prefix_joker's abilities?

[zealous glen]

What do you mean

[cursive sentinel]

like is it other_card? context.other_joker? or some thing of the sort?

like for example if i wanted to get its position

[zealous glen]

SMODS.find_card returns you a list of all cards it found

[cursive sentinel]

so this just checks if there is one, w/o further info?

[zealous glen]

Basically it checks if the table is not empty

[hard mica]

does anyone know how i can check for how many cards i got in my deck?

[cursive sentinel]

mh okay, sadge

[zealous glen]

Why

[cursive sentinel]

#G.playing_cards ?

[zealous glen]

Why sadge

You have the cards you’re trying to find

Just use them

[cursive sentinel]

but how do i mention it?

[zealous glen]

What do you mean

[cursive sentinel]

how do i call its position for example

[zealous glen]

How do you call a card’s position?

[cursive sentinel]

the specific card

do i loop over until i find == then use [i] ?

[wintry solar]

Save the table of cards and then access them

[zealous glen]

Oh you don’t want the position of the card

You want the index in the CardArea that corresponds to it

[cursive sentinel]

i think? for example, it is not the case but, if i had a joker that made that "oops all 6 instead triple probabilities"

[zealous glen]

But if you need the index specifically then you need to manually iterate, yes

[cursive sentinel]

okok

thank you

[zealous glen]

But do you need the index

Or do you need the card

What are you using the index for

[cursive sentinel]

got a bad interaction with a joker and want to manually hard code it, it's a card destruction prevention that sometimes does sometimes doesn't proc caino (doesnt proc when cards destroyed are played ones) so wanted to manually call 'when this joker's context's called, increase caino's stuff'

[wintry solar]

You’re just not destroying cards correctly then

[zealous glen]

If you want to make Canio proc, you need to manually pass the destroyed cards to a calculation context

[cursive sentinel]

yes probably but i'm not good enough to improve it by myself so im doing what i can

[brisk rose]

@tall wharf yeah I'll definitely say that's a bit more natural looking

the pause actually makes sense when it's a sin wave, lol

[zealous glen]

Which shader is that last one

I had a similar one but it wasn’t as shiny

[brisk rose]

goldrare from ficklefox

[tall wharf]

can u try with noire shader

[brisk rose]

what is that from?

[tall wharf]

my mod

[brisk rose]

oh yeah I'll just have to dl it real qucik

[tall wharf]

https://github.com/Aikoyori/Balatro-Aikoyoris-Shenanigans/blob/main/assets/shaders/noire.fs

here

[hard mica]

trying to make it so it gives +5 mult for every card in your deck but not sure how to do it lmao

[brisk rose]

because ithis isn't set up atm to jsut be a shader viewer i'mma need to actually install the mod and have it export based on the edition. There is an edition assicated with it, right?

[cursive sentinel]

you could just do your mult * #G.playing_cards i think?

no need for a for

and the return in the for stops it i think?

[tall wharf]

yes

it's literally called noire so

[cursive sentinel]

so probably

if context.joker_main then
  return{
    mult = card.ability.extra.Plusmult * #G.playing_cards
  }
end

and i think instead of mod_mult it would be just mult

[wintry solar]

Yeah mod_mult isn’t a thing

[brisk rose]

just to give you an idea of how this thing is currently used, Though strmnn is rewriting the interface and outputted website entirely

@tall wharf

[hard mica]

yeah that works thank you

[cursive sentinel]

in case, i've re-used jen's almanac's stuff of diplopia (only for playing cards) as a hook, and did an additional patch (jen's stuff does make caino proc but stopped the game from working (not crash) when breaking cards played (like glass or sixth sense), and the patch was to prevent the game stop working but doesnt proc caino on the cards that it fixes)

[brisk rose]

looks like the right-bottom one of jimbo's neck bobules is glitching out

[hard mica]

how can i change the mod icon?

[cursive sentinel]

that i don't know 😔

apparently there's this (go a bit up the conv)

[wintry solar]

Fwiw, smods will be provided a util function to destroy cards at any point that won’t be jank and broken

[brisk rose]

oh that happens in game too

so it's not an error in my reproducing the drawing routines

yay

[cursive sentinel]

wdym? (the patch is in the util)

[wintry solar]

As in, wait a day or so and use the smods function rather than whatever jank you’re currently doing

[tall wharf]

nice

[brisk rose]

and yes, I did indeed have to ewrite Card:draw and Sprite:draw_self from scratch

[cursive sentinel]

ahhh didn't read the will,, thank you, love yall

[tall wharf]

shader jank 😭

[brisk rose]

well I mostly used smods version of Card:draw and copied it all anyway with some tweaks, but it took me a long time to figure out how to do that

[brisk rose]

it means a value is going out of bounds i think. something should be bounded that isn't

oh actualloy it's normal? it just looks off

I think it's a low res thing tbh

[tall wharf]

yeah 😭

[brisk rose]

not enough pixels

though ngl I am glad cards are actually rendered, including shader at 71x95

because then the exporter works as expected, lol

or maybe they aren't?

either way it's fine

[cyan lagoon]

how do i scale the card like photo or half joker?

[brisk rose]

just realized i'm missing all the reflections

do you have another shader on top?

[brisk rose]

@tall wharf

[tall wharf]

i don't remember

maybe it does actually

[brisk rose]

unfortunately I don't think that type of thing can be auto-detected, so it's a limitation of the current approach

unless you added it an an smods.drawstep, then i can probably just drop it in

if it's set up right

[nova eagle]

does anybody know if its possible to cancel out chicots effect?

like with another joker?

[zealous glen]

You mean reenable the Blind or prevent Chicot from activating?

[nova eagle]

re-enable the boss blind

this is the joker i plan on adding

[zealous glen]

The Joker pictured seems unrelated to your question

[nova eagle]

well this joker would just be made irrelevant if you had chicot, thats why i want to know if its possible to make this joker negate chicot, and keep all boss blinds active

[zealous glen]

I mean, I think that’s how it should work

This Jokers gives Blinds Boss Blind abilities

Chicot disables Boss Blind abilities

That’s called synergy

[red flower]

you could hook Blind:disable
but yeah i agree with victin, chicot is a legendary for a reason

[nova eagle]

if you say so...

[zealous glen]

Because it’s boring

[nova eagle]

i'll give that a try

[red flower]

exactly

[zealous glen]

Also it wouldn’t undo the disability

[red flower]

it would prevent it

[zealous glen]

Undoing the disability is between hard to impossible IMO

Maybe you could set the Blind again, but it’s hard to tell if there would be secondary consequences

[zealous glen]

🇳🤝🐴
finding Chicot boring

[red flower]

i made some boss negation cards because of the yugioh negate thing and they make the game so boring

i am going to make aiko-like boss blinds to compensate

[cyan lagoon]

bump

i found some way, but it doesn't work the way i want it

[zealous glen]

I made Stheno

It turns all Bosses into The Rock (except Showdown Boss Blinds)

[red flower]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/058bedca263b90fead8ec5d2fa868674e91aadef/src/jokers.lua#L2253

[zealous glen]

So it’s Chicotn’t

[red flower]

chican't

[zealous glen]

Do you know Mônica’s Gang

[red flower]

no

[cyan lagoon]

oh, damn

thanks

[zealous glen]

YGO-like design (derogatory)

[distant junco]

are there any guides or anything on getting to grips with balatro modding

[red flower]

not many, check the thread pinned in #⚙・modding-general

[distant junco]

thanks

[dark roost]

How do you bind functions to events that don't have a built in smods context?
I see a lot about hooks but i can't for the life of me find the documentation on how to use them and looking at some example code didn't help either (I promise i tried man)

[red flower]

for hooks: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/129557-tutorial-function-hooking-and-you/

other than that it depends on what you want to do

[dark roost]

it's for tracking money earned and lost, but I'll go look at that tutorial first

[slender island]

how do i make jokers in another file in items folder?

[red flower]

something like this probably

local ease_dollars_ref = ease_dollars
function ease_dollars(mod)
     ease_dollars_ref(mod)
     SMODS.calculate_context{money_changed = mod}
end

[red flower]

SMODS.load_file
https://github.com/nh6574/JoyousSpring/blob/main/JoyousSpring.lua

[manic rune]

surely theres no mod that would alter money by directly changing money instead of using ease_dollars

[red flower]

i mean there probably is

[manic rune]

surely not

:3

[daring fern]

How does one make an enhancement that is just the base enhancement but with an edition on it?

[manic rune]

😭

[red flower]

i think you can just replicate both effects in an enhancement and use draw to draw the shader

[modern kindle]

Good schmorning chat

[manic rune]

good afternoon dilly

[modern kindle]

How is the bepis

[red flower]

the bepis is not

[hard mica]

how can i check if scored hands has 5 cards

[manic rune]

#context.scoring_hand returns how many cards there are in the scoring hand, i think

[red flower]

don't do context.scoring_hand without a proper context alongside it

[hard mica]

lemme try

[hard mica]

wdym?

[red flower]

context.scoring_hand is a property of many contexts

this will run many times

[hard mica]

then waht do i use

[red flower]

always use one of the ones that say if context... not the ones between the {} as the main context check
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Calculate-Functions

[hard mica]

like this?

[red flower]

yes

[hard mica]

pog

[manic rune]

turned out

this doesnt remove all the cards inside it, a

what approach should i go with to remove both the cardarea and all the objects inside it

[red flower]

if you remove a cardarea it should remove all the cards

[manic rune]

weird

[red flower]

i had the opposite problem actually where i didnt want it to do that

[manic rune]

i get a lot of lag after spamming the inventory button to open and close it rapidly

and the lag seems to increase faster when there r more cards in the delete areas

so im p sure its from the cards not deleting properly

🤔

[wintry solar]

How are you creating the cards

[manic rune]

:3
-# this code was taken from how joyousspring created cards in their mod introduction btw

[wintry solar]

You need to remove the old back sprite

[manic rune]

oh

mm how would i do that

go through the cardareas, card.back:remove()?

[wintry solar]

card.children.back:remove()

[manic rune]

a yeah, i meant card.children.back

thanks

[wintry solar]

I think that should solve it

[manic rune]

this worked, tks :3

[wintry solar]

Oh dont do it there

Do it where you create the cards

[manic rune]

oh

[wintry solar]

Doing it there does nothing 😂

[manic rune]

i

it doesnt??

i couldve swore the framerate issue is fixed now sob

[wintry solar]

No, the remove on the area will clean up the cards properly, the problem is that when you create the card it has a back sprite by default and when you overwrite it it doesn’t get deleted, it just stays in memory

[manic rune]

mm so do i put card.children.back:remove() here instead?

underneath the emplace line

wait nvm

underneath local card, right?

[hard mica]

how can i make one of these and add it to my joker? since this jokers idea is from a friend

<@&1133519078540185692>

smite him

[grand violet]

So many

[hard mica]

thanks egg

[broken cliff]

Oh THAT'S WHAT THAT WAS FOR

[manic rune]

wuh

oh hi smell, its been a while since i last saw you around here 🤔

[karmic creek]

wow

stolen valor

[hard mica]

can you send link to that i cant find it

[manic rune]

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

[grand violet]

Hey if I click the ban I send the mote

[broken cliff]

I stopped balatro modding for a while

[manic rune]

ah lol

[broken cliff]

I got exams and scripting commission's to do

[karmic creek]

STOLEN VALOR

[grand violet]

I CLICKED THE BUTTON

[manic rune]

mm i see i see

while ur gone i managed to make 2 semi-complete mods :p

[broken cliff]

Gg

I would still prob roam balatro mods related servers to occasionally bring out unofficial hot fixes for bugs I encountered or the bugs sm1 else encountered

[manic rune]

oh thats actually really cool

[runic frigate]

how do i code a changing description of a joker, like popcorn,

[hard mica]

erm

[broken cliff]

I think you would need to add the changing value to config

[red flower]

localize takes a key from a localization file

remove the localize call or add it to a localization file

[faint yacht]

If you need to just display the "Idea: Boyaka", omit the localize, ye.

[broken cliff]

Then add "{#1}" (Pls correct me) to description

[hard mica]

Oh damn

[manic rune]

its #1#

[broken cliff]

Oh aight

[maiden phoenix]

MOD FIGHT MOD FIGHT MOD FIGHT! 🍿

[manic rune]

we went from humans watching chickens fight to chickens watching humans fight

[plain apex]

what do i have to change to change the selectable amount on the vanilla tarot cards this is setting the number but then i can still only select the normal amount
card.ability.max_highlighted = card.ability.max_highlighted + card.ability.extra.cards

[broken cliff]

What if we combine Humans and Chickens

[manic rune]

i

chicken jockey

[broken cliff]

You could perhaps call them

You beat me to it

[manic rune]

:3

[manic rune]

you want to change card.ability.consumeable.max_highlighted

card.ability.max_highlighted is only used for loc_vars im p sure

-# i know because my mod changes tarots' max highlight too, its dumb

[plain apex]

epic

[dark roost]

Also I didn't respond earlier, but thank you this worked perfectly

[hard mica]

How can I lock a jokers position until the round ends then it randomizes it's position then it locks again repeat

[analog spoke]

ok, back at this today, lmao, how would one make a passive "-reroll cost" edition?

[broken cliff]

passive as in

you get it into your deck and it has -2 reroll cost?

[broken cliff]

G.GAME.round_resets.reroll_cost = G.GAME.round_resets.reroll_cost - (amount u need to subtract)

[analog spoke]

yeah, similar to how Negative works

[broken cliff]

alr then that line of code should work

when it gets out of the hand uhh i think you would add instead

[wintry solar]

I hate this

it's so ugly

[analog spoke]

got a crash, this is the current iteration of this edition's code

[wintry solar]

oh on_apply is mistimed

I didn't fix that yet

[analog spoke]

ahh, right

[analog spoke]

is there a place I should report that? or?

[wintry solar]

yeah it's me

[analog spoke]

lol, okey, haha

[orchid thunder]

is there a list ingamer for all suits/modded suits

[prime sorrel]

Help, why is it saying nil

        text = {                                             --description text. each line is a new line, try to keep to 5 lines.            
           "When a card is {C:mult}destroyed{}",
            "Add the card back to your deck with {C:chips}+#1#{} Chips and {C:mult}+#3#{} Mult",
            "and grow this joker by {C:chips}+#2#{} Chips and {C:mult}+#4#{} Mult",
            "{C:inactive}(Currently {C:chips}+#1#{C:inactive} Chips and {C:mult}+#3#{C:inactive} Mult)"
        },
        config = { extra = { chips = 0, chip_mod = 20, mult = 0, mult_mod = 5} },

[analog spoke]

what does your loc_vars look like?

[prime sorrel]

New to modding, I dont actually see it

        loc_def = function(self)                              --defines variables to use in the UI. you can use #1# for example to show the chips variable
            return {self.ability.extra.chips, self.ability.extra.chip_mod}
        end

This?

would it be self.ability.extra.mult, self.ability.extra.mult_mod?

yep thats it

[analog spoke]

ok, so, the thing is, is the #1# and #2# and so on, are actually refrencing this bit here, not the config vars, so you'd want to add the mult and mult_mod in here as well

[prime sorrel]

ty ty

[analog spoke]

np!

[prime sorrel]

Also is the wording alright? It feels a bit wordy

[analog spoke]

fun fact here, only learned this recently (as I myself am kinda new to modding too), you can actually put numbers other than config vars in here, that's how jokers that work with chance are able to display oops all sixes effects and such

[prime sorrel]

neat

[analog spoke]

hmm, a little bit, yeah, though, I'm not entirely sure how I'd fix it, wording descriptions is the thing I'm worst at I think, lol, lmao

[prime sorrel]

lol

Maybe toss the last line because the second line kinda covers it or vice versa

[wintry solar]

loc_def?

[manic rune]

defense sob

[tall wharf]

is there a better way than this

[wild zinc]

Is there a way to make my Joker increment xyz per skipped blind? I was able to make it trigger on blind skipped, but not for each blind skipped in the run, like Throwback

[tall wharf]

i want to update the blind hud but this call is very unoptimized and lags the game like shit

[prime sorrel]

Are you asking what that is or are you telling me the location

[wintry solar]

where did you get it from

[prime sorrel]

Boilerplate code from sample jokers mod

[prime sorrel]

Is this a more consise version?

[wintry solar]

can you link it please

[prime sorrel]

Uhh

one sec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CdaHAP1sCw&t=140s

In the description of this video @wintry solar

[manic rune]

oh is that a new modding tutorial

[wintry solar]

oh my god please do not use that

[manic rune]

wtf is loc def

sob

[wintry solar]

that code is literally over 12 months out of date

[prime sorrel]

hm lol, what do you suggest I use

[wintry solar]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

this and N's vanilla jokers

and then the general smods wiki

[bleak coral]

Anyone know how to make something like imgui w/ mods?

[analog spoke]

I really do reccomend vanilla remade, it's awesome, you can see how each base game joker (and more) are made
https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/main/src/jokers.lua

[prime sorrel]

also also

          if self.debuff then return nil end               --if joker is debuffed return nil
            if context.destroy_card then 
                if not context.blueprint then 
                        self.ability.extra.chips = self.ability.extra.chips + self.ability.extra.chip_mod 
                        return {
                            extra = {focus = self, message = localize('k_upgrade_ex')},
                            card = self,
                            colour = G.C.CHIPS
                        }

                end
            end

I want the joker to upgrade itself when a card is destroyed, but it doesnt do that

It actually just upgrades itself like 5 timeswhen a card is played

[manic rune]

save to G.GAME

[hearty mesa]

oh woops

[manic rune]

wait i didjt reply

[hearty mesa]

accidentally deleted it

[manic rune]

oh lol

yeah, that was towards you

[hearty mesa]

thx

[manic rune]

i suggest following another tutorial

a lot of things here are wrong/outdated

[prime sorrel]

Okay, what tutorial do you suggest?

[manic rune]

https://youtu.be/Zp-4U5TlbxY?si=rKWR8jAvFSrnVnD3 still outdated but not as that one i suppose

-# change every "center" you see in that video to "card" btw

[prime sorrel]

Even still, Im looking for the specific, heres the code for the trading card:

-- Trading Card
SMODS.Joker {
    key = "trading",
    blueprint_compat = false,
    rarity = 2,
    cost = 6,
    pos = { x = 9, y = 14 },
    config = { extra = { dollars = 3 } },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.dollars } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.first_hand_drawn then
            local eval = function() return G.GAME.current_round.discards_used == 0 and not G.RESET_JIGGLES end
            juice_card_until(card, eval, true)
        end
        if context.discard and not context.blueprint and
            G.GAME.current_round.discards_used <= 0 and #context.full_hand == 1 then
            return {
                dollars = card.ability.extra.dollars,
                remove = true
            }
        end
    end
}

But it just checks for discards and gives the money

there is a context.destroy_card but im not sre how its used

Oh I know I can look at the legendary joker

Canio

[manic rune]

yeah, id suggest checking there

[prime sorrel]

context.remove_playing_card apparently is the right context

I wonder what destroy_card is for then

yess it works

[manic rune]

it's for destroying cards

[prime sorrel]

@manic rune You wouldnt know how to get the data of the destroyed card would you?

        if context.remove_playing_cards and not context.blueprint then
            local face_cards = 0
            for _, removed_card in ipairs(context.removed) do
                if removed_card:is_face() then face_cards = face_cards + 1 end
            end

I found this in canio but it just checks if the card is a face card or not

[manic rune]

context.removed is a table of all the destroyed cards

use for loop to go through it and do stuff in there

[prime sorrel]

okay

[bleak coral]

How do you make a UI mod? Looking for preferrably something that can be moved around like a window.

[prime sorrel]

                    for _, removed_card in ipairs(context.removed) do
                        if removed_card:is_() then found = true end
                        if found then break;
                    end
``` what would I put in is_x()?

[split saddle]

hello it's me again
does the game track jokers obtained this run? if not how do you do that?

[prime sorrel]

well, more like this

                    local found = 0
                    local card_id = 0;
                    for i, removed_card in ipairs(context.removed) do
                        if removed_card:is_() then found = true card_id = i end
                        if found then break;
                    end

[next timber]

what actually are G.TILE_W and G.TILE_H?

ok actually more important question, how do you hide the card count/limit of a cardarea?

[cyan lagoon]

why does this not reduce with removed/sold?

i'm trying to add a extra choice to booster packs

[next timber]

remove_from_deck not remove_to_deck

[cyan lagoon]

facepalm

[prime sorrel]

Okay so I got this far

axolotl_joker = {
    name = "Axolotl Joker",
    text = {
        "When a card is {C:mult}destroyed{},",
        "Return it to the deck with {C:chips}+#1#{} Chips, {C:mult}+#3#{} Mult.",
        "This Joker gains {C:chips}+#2#{} Chips, {C:mult}+#4#{} Mult.",
        "{C:inactive}(Currently {C:chips}+#1#{C:inactive}, {C:mult}+#3#{C:inactive})"
    },
    config = { extra = { chips = 0, chip_mod = 20, mult = 0, mult_mod = 5 } },
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },
    rarity = 3,
    cost = 8,
    blueprint_compat = false,
    eternal_compat = true,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,

    calculate = function(self, context)
        if self.debuff then return nil end
        if context.remove_playing_cards and context.removed then
            for _, removed_card in ipairs(context.removed) do
                local card_clone = copy_card(removed_card, nil, nil, G.playing_card or 1)
                if card_clone then
                    card_clone:add_to_deck()
                    G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1

                    -- Axolotl Joker upgrades itself
                    self.ability.extra.chips = self.ability.extra.chips + self.ability.extra.chip_mod
                    self.ability.extra.mult = self.ability.extra.mult + self.ability.extra.mult_mod

                    shakecard(self)

                    return {
                        message = localize('k_upgrade_ex'),
                        colour = G.C.CHIPS,
                        card = self
                    }
                end
            end
        end

        if context.joker_main and context.cardarea == G.jokers then
            return {
                chips = self.ability.extra.chips,
                mult = self.ability.extra.mult,
                colour = G.C.CHIPS
            }
        end
    end,

    loc_def = function(self)
        return {
            self.ability.extra.chips,
            self.ability.extra.chip_mod,
            self.ability.extra.mult,
            self.ability.extra.mult_mod
        }
    end

But when I destroy a card it kida

Stays on the screen

I can drag it around

but I cant play it

Whats going on?

[shut crater]

What's the goal?

[prime sorrel]

Add the card back into the deck when a card is destroyed

[shut crater]

Mmm there might be a helper function I'm forgetting, I know how to do it with vanilla code. Gimme a sec

[prime sorrel]

no rush

Lol it stays after the round and I can make multiple

[shut crater]

Yeah I don't think there's a better way to do what you're doing. After you copy the card you need to emplace it into a cardarea. Do you want it drawn to hand or put into the discard pile or put directly into the deck?

[prime sorrel]

We can just place it directly in the hand

or literally whatevers easiest

[shut crater]

Actually the answer to that probably depends on where it's destroyed huh

Like during a blind vs in the shop

[prime sorrel]

yeah

I want it to apply to both

[shut crater]

Well you'll need to context check probably

[marble flint]

Unfortunately, the game's UI system is a retained mode GUI. If by IMGUI you actually mean a floating dialogue like you might find in a game using Dear IMGUI, look here

[shut crater]

But regardless choose the cardarea you want the card to go (G.hand, G.deck, etc) and call :emplace() passing in the card

(this is from memory, I am on mobile)

[marble flint]

It would also be possible to make an immediate mode wrapper around the game's UI but I don't wanna be the person to do that

[prime sorrel]

                    copy_card:add_to_deck()
                    G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
                    table.insert(G.playing_cards, copy_card)
                    G.hand:emplace(copy_card)
                    copy_card.states.visible = nil

Like this? (Copied directly from DNA Code)

[shut crater]

Actually y'know what, go into the utils.lua file and check out the SMODS.add_card function

It calls SMODS.create_card and then does like two lines of code, those two lines are what you need to do

[prime sorrel]

Nope that crashes

[faint yacht]

-# If you are making playing cards, SMODS.create_card is not what is needed.

[wind steppe]

does anyone know how tags remove the blind select screen when booster packs are opened?

[shut crater]

No but the two lines after the create_card call should do what they need to get it into a cardarea properly. They're able to create the playing card already

(though maybe there's a better way overall)

[wind steppe]

right now i have this (should open a pack when the shop after the boss blind is exited)

    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.end_of_round and G.GAME.blind.boss then
            card.ability.extra.active = true
        elseif context.ending_shop and card.ability.extra.active then
            local booster = SMODS.create_card({set = "Booster", key = "p_para_foodpack"})
            G.FUNCS.use_card({ config = { ref_table = booster } })
        end
    end

but the blind select goes over the cards in the pack

[hybrid shadow]

two random questions

1. what's the cardarea for the unscoring part of the played hand?
2. what's the #context for the number of scoring/unscoring cards?

[digital sun]

how do you destroy a random card in hand with a joker?
ive gotten the game to detect which card im talking about but im not sure how to destroy it

[red flower]

1. there's no area, but context.cardarea is literally the string "unscored" in that case
2. #context.scoring_hand for scoring. For unscoring you need to calculate it yourself with context.scoring_hand and context.full_hand
   SMODS.in_scoring is a helper function for that if you need the specific cards, else you can do a simple subtraction

[prime sorrel]

So after learning how the emplace code works

All I had to do was

                    card_clone:add_to_deck()
                    G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
                    G.hand:emplace(card_clone)

And it worked

[hybrid shadow]

thanks, don't need the specific cards b/c that's not what the joker is looking for but the rest helps

[next timber]

what?? the fuck??????

[split saddle]

hello it's me again
does the game track jokers obtained this run? if not how do you do that?

[prime sorrel]

the game does track that, not sure how tho

[split saddle]

looking @ cryptid source code, it tracks sold jokers this run

[wind steppe]

thats specifically for the cryptid necromancer afaik

wouldn't be in base steammodded

[split saddle]

oh ok

[wind steppe]

does anyone know how tags remove the blind select screen when booster packs are opened?

[split saddle]

let me see if i can find how do they do that

so that i can maybe try to do it myself?

[hybrid shadow]

small followup question would number 1 be expressed as
context.cardarea == 'unscored'?

[hybrid shadow]

actually wait i cant use that
i need to test if
if context.destroy_card and cardarea == 'unscored' then would work

[red flower]

yes

[red flower]

context.cardarea but yes it should

[sullen fern]

i know this sounds stupid but how do i have a joker only appear when cryptid is installed

[hybrid shadow]

i thought the destroy card context wasnt allowed to have any other context in the if statement

[red flower]

no, you actually want to have an area check with destroy_card

[hard needle]

What if you could destroy the blind

No more eternal poker

[wind steppe]

does anyone know how tags remove the blind select screen when booster packs are opened?

[split saddle]

found the thing i'm looking for, but idk how does this work and i got a few questions
there's card:sell_card() in the source code. does this override or append to the code there?
will it work the same if i write this in my mod's main.lua ?
at the end of this function, it calls sell_card_stuff(self), what does it do here?

jokers_sold is initted earlier in the file

[wind steppe]

(SMODS.Mods["Cryptid"] or {}).can_load should return true if and only if cryptid is installed

[hard needle]

G.GAME.hands["Full House"].played would give me the amount of times full house was played the whole run right

[hybrid shadow]

doesnt Cryptid have a function at the start of its main file that sets Cryptid to true?

[red flower]

this is a hook, it basically appends the functionality
sell_card_stuff is the reference to the original function, you need to call it so it does all the vanilla stuff

[red flower]

i think so

[hybrid shadow]

because if this is the case you could probably just put the joker inside some kind of if statement where
if Cryptid then

[digital sun]

Do anyone know?

[red flower]

cryptid is so big that I actually wouldn't trust that no other mod accidentally creates a Cryptid table

[digital sun]

Gah i wish the wiki told you about this kinda stuff

[red flower]

it does. check context.destroy_card

[wind steppe]

how would i open a booster pack at the end of the shop without the blind select screen going over it?

[split saddle]

in my case, the vanilla card_added is add_to_deck (?) so i'll do ```lua
local vanilla_add_to_deck = Card.add_to_deck
function Card:add_to_deck()
-- tracking code idk
vanilla_add_to_deck(self)
end

[split saddle]

maybe not the right solution, but give yourself a booster tag on shop exit?

[wind steppe]

this is a custom booster pack though

so i'd need to make a tag for that

[hybrid shadow]

does the booster pack get summoned by a joker upon leaving the shop?

[split saddle]

maybe it will come in handy later

[wind steppe]

yes

[hybrid shadow]

does your code to summon the booster pack in the first place work with a different context?

[digital sun]

Where

[red flower]

in the wiki with all the other contexts?

[wind steppe]

just tried skipping_booster and that didn't work

[digital sun]

Is there another wiki besides the smods one or am i just dumb and didnt see it

[wind steppe]

but it DOES summon the pack with ending_shop

the blind select just goes over it

[red flower]

no, it's in calculate functions

[wind steppe]

    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.end_of_round and G.GAME.blind.boss then
            card.ability.extra.active = true
        elseif context.ending_shop and card.ability.extra.active then
            local booster = SMODS.create_card({set = "Booster", key = "p_para_foodpack"})
            G.FUNCS.use_card({ config = { ref_table = booster } })
            card.ability.extra.active = false
        end
    end

[digital sun]

Oh i did not see that mb

[next timber]

seriously wtf is this

[hybrid shadow]

hmm

do you know any other mods that create booster packs in the blinds menu (like with tags)?

[wind steppe]

only cryptid

and cryptid is a mess

[hybrid shadow]

yeah i looked through the github for those tags and it doesnt even look like it makes booster packs

like it makes the menu and everything show up manually

[wind steppe]

just looked through #1209506514763522108

apparently fortnite balatro has booster tags so im going to look through their code

[split saddle]

what a landmark find

what is the property of a card that states if it's a joker?

[wind steppe]

update: fortnite balatro looks to be programmed the same way as cryptid (badly)

[red flower]

card.ability.set == "Joker"

[cyan lagoon]

how do i make this target consumables (so it's compatible with something like code cards in cryptid)?

[red flower]

context.card.ability.consumeable iirc

[cyan lagoon]

tried

or wait

goddamnit

thunk and his misspellings

[wind steppe]

does anyone know a mod other than cryptid or fortnite balatro that has a booster pack tag?

[red flower]

you can search on the modded wiki maybe

[hard mica]

How can I lock a jokers position until the round ends then it randomizes it's position then it locks again repeat

[wintry solar]

newest smods update should let this work now

[split saddle]

nice, i don't know what this means and i don't know what caused it :/

[wind steppe]

you might be accessing pool instead of card.ability.extra.pool

[split saddle]

i'm not using pool

[wind steppe]

balatro rhythm heaven save me

[split saddle]

how the hell do you even debug this?

this is way above my paygrade

[wind steppe]

idk

this doesn't seem to be a modded error?

i've played with these mods before and it hasn't crashed on startup

[red flower]

this usually means that you're using a wrong key for card creation or something like that

[hard mica]

anyone know?

[wind steppe]

apparently it was bunco (forgot to uninstall it)

[wind steppe]

i know cryptid has a sticker that locks position, maybe try looking there?

that being said cryptid is coded horribly

[split saddle]

i'm not very good at this :( what does this mean

[glad osprey]

how do people transfer sprites from aseprite so easily

[split saddle]

wait i'm stupid

i wrote rarity = 0 which is not right

🤦

[analog spoke]

ooooo yippee! :33

sorry, didn't mean to make that an @ lol

[wintry solar]

if it doesn't, please let me know

[wind steppe]

does anyone know how i could make a joker that opens a booster pack at the end of the shop (after boss blind is defeated)

currently i just have

    config = {extra = {active = false}},
    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.end_of_round and G.GAME.blind.boss then
            card.ability.extra.active = true
        elseif context.ending_shop and card.ability.extra.active then
            local booster = SMODS.create_card({set = "Booster", key = "p_para_foodpack"})
            G.FUNCS.use_card({ config = { ref_table = booster } })
            card.ability.extra.active = false
        end
    end

but when the pack opens the blind select screen goes over it

[glad osprey]

maybe make a tag for the booster pack instead

[wind steppe]

steammodded documentation is wholly unhelpful on doing that and i've never made a tag