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[red flower]

so I would wait or use that instead

[cyan lagoon]

i saw somewhere a line related to that, so may be i can just patch that

[heady siren]

How would I go about creating a card that's one of my own consumeables? I'm trying to do it based on Judgement / Emperor logic, but it doesn't wanna work, it just throws an error instead

[hard needle]

what is G.STAGE?

[red flower]

isn't it c_ather_...

[heady siren]

Class letter first?

[red flower]

yes

[heady siren]

Yeah, I'm kinda dumb

[hard mica]

any how i can make this joker idea ? it basically gives + mult the wider your hand is so lets say:

1 played card = +1 mult

2 played cards = +2 mult for each card

3 played cards = +3 mult for each card

4 played cards = +4 for each card

5 played cards = +5 for each card

[heady siren]

Do you know how to make mods and / or jokers?

[red flower]

return { mult = #context.full_hand }?

[heady siren]

It seems like G.STAGE is similar to G.STATE but for pausing and screen transitions, like a layer above

[hard needle]

interesting

[hard mica]

damn

[daring fern]

When are you returning this?

[hard mica]

wait i forgot to add smth lemme retryt rq

[hard mica]

it gives only +5 mult

[pure salmon]

oh you want +(hand size) mult per card

in that case you want the square of the hand size

[red flower]

you need to be more specific

[hard mica]

i thought i was specific in the idea

[red flower]

no you weren't

[hard mica]

like i meant if you play 2 played cards it gives +2 mult for each played card

etc etc

[red flower]

well you didn't say each played card
anyway my thing also does that

you need to use it in context.individual

[pure salmon]

return { mult = #context.full_hand ^ 2} if you want the +mult to trigger on the joker

[red flower]

or that

[pure salmon]

anyways how do i get the key of a joker

i can't find it in the smods docs anywhere

[daring fern]

card.config.center.key

[sleek siren]

Is there a way I can have a special effect when a custom rank is played, not by any voucher or joker, but just naturally?

[hard mica]

i did and it aint what i wanted lol

[cyan warren]

pretty new to modding,is there a way to get the current game speed?

tried going on the source but speedfactor doesnt work

[red flower]

i can't play videos rn but i assume cards in hand are giving mult too?

[hard mica]

found

how to do it

just looked at lusty joker

[zealous glen]

@minor magnet

[zealous glen]

What do you mean by current game speed

[cyan warren]

the current speed that scoring is being processed

like when you retrigger too much and the game starts speeding up

[zealous glen]

It is speedfactor

[cyan warren]

like this?

bc it is returning nil for me

[zealous glen]

when are you trying to access it

[cyan warren]

update on joker

and trying to set a variable as that number

[zealous glen]

but when are you trying to access it

[cyan warren]

wdym

like the order im accessing?

[ivory coral]

im not familiar with it but wouldnt G.GAME.SPEEDFACTOR only change during the animation and not calculation

[zealous glen]

At which moment are you accessing it

[zealous glen]

AFAIK it's only used during a specific phase of scoring and only under some conditions, so it might not exist otherwise

[cyan warren]

heres the screenshot i think its easier

[zealous glen]

Oh so you're doing it in update

[primal robin]

[zealous glen]

First, you rarely should need to use update

This is not one of those situations

[cyan warren]

yea im gonna use a timer after a finish the code

its just to test if it gets the time right

[zealous glen]

You only need to access speedfactor when you actually use it

So, once during calculation, and once when generating the description

Second, as I said before, SPEEDFACTOR is only used at specific moments

So outside of those specific moments, it's possible it doesn't exist

[red flower]

yeah i think the problem is that calculations are before animations

[zealous glen]

That too

[primal robin]

Calculations always before animations

[ivory coral]

thats what i was thinking
since the calculation doesnt care about how fast the animation plays, its just for show

its already done by then

maybe you could theoretically calculate what the speedfactor would be at that point as a substitute? but i wouldnt even know where to begin there

[cyan warren]

gonna try doing that then

ty

[placid star]

would it be better to use draw = ffunc or update = func for jokers that change sprites?

[daring fern]

update

[placid star]

yeah thats what i was hoping for since i have little experience with draw lmao

[pure salmon]

hmm, i think this error is happening at SMODS.add_card(). to clarify, if i wanted to add a card with key "purple_rain", and my mod prefix is "gb", it should generate the card if i provide the key "gb_purple_rain", right?

[daring fern]

No, it would be j_gb_purple_rain

[pure salmon]

oh, that explains it then

thank you

[neat leaf]

Is there a template mod I can start from? The example mod I've been using has far more things than expected and takes some effort to rename the variables and whatnot.

[hot granite]

I absolutely hate how blinds are currently handled lmao what a pain

[shut crater]

there are a lot of good examples in here
https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade

but idk that there's necessarily a "template"

[hot granite]

but so far so good

[red flower]

wdym

[hot granite]

just had some frustrations trying to get my blinds to be recognized

it's all good now, as you can see by the image above

[sleek cliff]

I'm changing how the Barbara joker works to be when Big Bling is started, would I have to put something like blind.big for it to sense a big blind being started?

[digital niche]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.destroy_card and context.cardarea == G.play and context.destroy_card == card and pseudorandom("stain") < G.GAME.probabilities.normal / card.ability.extra.odds then
            return { 
                remove = true 
            }

this isnt working for some reason

[shut crater]

where is this code located and what is the goal?

[digital niche]

in an enhancement, want it to work like glass

[shut crater]

yeah I actually don't see an issue with that code

does it crash or just do nothing?

[digital niche]

just do nothing, the odd doesnt work 😕

[shut crater]

if you remove the random check does it work?

[zealous glen]

what do you mean

[digital niche]

if i use like the rigged thing from cryptid to test it works, but otherwise just never

[hot granite]

I already said above, just had a lot of fun learning how it works

[zealous glen]

context.destroy_card is a boolean

[zealous glen]

I don't see your message explaining what you dislike about them

[digital niche]

what do i change for it to work?

[hot granite]

Eh, I think it was more like a skill issue on my part, being unfamiliar with lua

[zealous glen]

wait maybe I was wrong

[cursive sentinel]

is there some sort of coroutine in lua?

[wintry solar]

it's not a boolean

[digital niche]

nothing that uses pseudorandom from my mod is working

[wintry solar]

what does the config of your joker look like?

[zealous glen]

My bad, I thought it'd use other_card or something

[digital niche]

its an enhancement

 config = {
        extra = {
            x_mult = 2.5, 
            odds = 5
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return {
            vars = {
                card.ability.extra.odds, 
                card.ability.extra.x_mult, 
                (G.GAME.probabilities.normal or 1)
            }
        }
    end,

[wintry solar]

of your enhancement then

try wrapping the calculation part

[cursive sentinel]

bump, not ultra important but would like to know if i misunderstood something

[digital niche]

wym?

[pure salmon]

this currently isn't appearing in spectral or arcana packs, am i misreading the SMODS.Consumable docs?

[digital niche]

"hidden = true"

[zealous glen]

I think the checks could happen outside of the Event. It might not make a difference (besides objects possibly not existing and such)

[pure salmon]

yeah it's a soul-like card

[digital niche]

if its hidden it doesnt show in collection im afraid

[digital niche]

try setting hidden to false

[pure salmon]

that's no_collection, no?

[digital niche]

im not sure

[cursive sentinel]

i dont remember exactly how i arrived to this structure, but i iterated 1st all outside and it was a big weird as the first ifs would happen at their rythm, and the elses at their own too, didn't have that cohesion of 1 Nope 2 Edition 3 Nope 4 Nope 5 Nope, was more like 2 Edition 1 Nope ,etc

set:edition happens turbo fast

[zealous glen]

I mean, you do need to time Events correctly

But knowing whether the effect succeeds or not doesn't need to wait

[wintry solar]

like (pseudorandom(...) < division here)

[zealous glen]

Maybe the loop structure works better in terms of timing

[digital niche]

ooh, gotcha, okok, 1 sec!

[cursive sentinel]

so, taking off the 1st event and trying again?

[digital niche]

its workingg!! tyty!

[sleek siren]

Is there a way I can make text appear in the corner of the screen for a short amount of time?

[pure salmon]

does anyone have experience with soul-like cards? i can't think of a mod off the top of my head that would use these

[cursive sentinel]

ok yeah i remember, 1st event is so the joker doesnt get stuck in its "getting sold" position which is akward, and 2nd event is the delay except it adds it before, and i want it to add after the even happened

[zealous glen]

yes

[cursive sentinel]

and putting the card_eval in a event is ew

[sleek siren]

Yay! ^^ How can I do so?

[zealous glen]

idk

what do you want exactly

[sleek siren]

I want there to be a minecraft chat message in the bottom left that says "Null joined the game", and then disappears after

[zealous glen]

Sounds doable

[wooden nexus]

Gonna ask again since it got bumped away

[red flower]

first instinct is to modify the max_highlighted in the ability of each tarot/spectral when it's obtained and also when the joker is added/removed

take_ownership will work as well but it's more work

[digital niche]

how do i make something not show up in shop/packs?

[red flower]

something like this
#💻・modding-dev message

but 'ar1' depends on the pack you want to ban it from

[digital niche]

do i change it to the pack key?

[red flower]

no, it's a specific string depending on the type of pack

ar1 is tarots in arcana, buf is buffoon

ar2 is spectrals in arcana

i dont know the rest

[sleek siren]

How do I add a flag into a save? I'm attempting to have a joker only appear once a card dies, sort of like gros michel, but it can still appear in shop later

[digital niche]

where can i find it?

[red flower]

card:open i think?

[digital niche]

tyty!

[wraith kiln]

can anyone help me on this?

i think the code is fine i just dont know how to get the suit of the playing card

[red flower]

playing_card.base.suit

but also insert doesn't do what you want here

you want to do foundsuit[playing_card.base.suit] = true

[wraith kiln]

kay ill try that thanks

[red flower]

also you can't do #foundsuits

because it's not an integer indexed table

[wraith kiln]

also does anyone know if its possible to get like

the autofill tips

idrk how to call them

im just not sure i setup the thing correctly

[red flower]

you can add SMODS to your workspace and it has a bunch of them

i think you also need to enable indexing? idk

[wraith kiln]

like here?

sry idrk all that much about vcs

[red flower]

no, go to file > add folder to workspace

i think you need to have a folder open for that

[wraith kiln]

like this?

[spice wadi]

whats the easiest way to see if the score has been reached while in a calculate function? i have a joker that retriggers itself until the required score is reached, and im guessing i might need to "predict"/calculate the current score myself but how do i get the required score

[red flower]

yes

[wraith kiln]

oh that works thanksomuch

[red flower]

hand_chips * mult

that's the hand score

[spice wadi]

do i need to put anything before those variables or is it just those on its own
and what about the required score?

[red flower]

they're globals so just that

G.GAME.chips is the current scored chips (i think)
G.GAME.blind.chips is the requirement

[spice wadi]

until((hand_chips * mult) >= (G.GAME.blind.chips * G.GAME.blind.mult))
would this be right or is G.GAME.blind.chips the entire score requirement?

[wraith kiln]

for some reason this dosen't do anything which i'm guessing is because the table is empty

[red flower]

chips is the entire requirement, there's no mult requirement

[spice wadi]

interesting

that seems a little stupid 💀

[red flower]

#💻・modding-dev message

[red flower]

?

[wraith kiln]

oh i see

missed this message

[spice wadi]

chips being used interchangeably to mean chips as in blue score but also the entire score requirement depending on context

[wraith kiln]

how can i check the size of a table then

[red flower]

i mean you need points to beat a point requirement

[red flower]

loop through it and count manually

[sleek siren]

Sorry for the repost, but my message got bumped a but,

is there a way I can make a joker that appears when a card is destroyed, like Cavendish, but, the destroyed card can still be picked up in the shop?

[wraith kiln]

shucks allright

[spice wadi]

ofc that makes sense, i just thought itd be called like score or smth separate

[zealous glen]

yes

[sleek siren]

Oh! How so?

[zealous glen]

N's mod might help as a reference

[sleek siren]

Yay! ^^ Where can I find it?

[zealous glen]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/32df0061783f763f721cd0b331aab16e8f611868/src/jokers.lua#L1733C31-L1733C32

[sleek siren]

Thanks! ^^

[red flower]

just copy what Cavendish does in in_pool without copying what gros michel does in there

[sleek siren]

Okie dokie, thank you!

[wraith kiln]

works now :-) thanks for all the help

[spice wadi]

should be my last question, what should i change here to circumvent the problem that returning the mult prevents it from looping?

if context.joker_main then
            print("final step")
            repeat
                if to_big(G.GAME.dollars) - 1 >= to_big(G.GAME.bankrupt_at) then
                    print("mmm money")
                    G.GAME.dollar_buffer = (G.GAME.dollar_buffer or 0) -card.ability.extra.dollars
                    return {
                        xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult,
                        dollars = -card.ability.extra.dollars,
                        func = function() -- This is for timing purposes, it runs after the dollar manipulation
                            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                                func = function()
                                    G.GAME.dollar_buffer = 0
                                    return true
                                end
                            }))
                        end
                    }
                end
            until((hand_chips * mult) >= G.GAME.blind.chips)
        end

im guessing its about the context im using but im not sure which would be better

or how else to trigger the mult effect

[red flower]

calculate the xmult and dollars separately and return once after the loop

or if you want it to be multiple animations then append a bunch of extra tables

[spice wadi]

didnt know that was possible, how roughly does that look

nevermind

missed it on the wiki

[sleek siren]

It works!!!! Thank you!

[digital niche]

is there any documentation on unlock things?

[rugged helm]

is there a not-annoyingly-coded blind .lua file that i coudl reference anywhere?

[heavy orchid]

hey guys! I wanted to change the name of a voucher on balatro, how could I do that? I wanna make some other things too but I need some help in how start doing it!

[quick kraken]

How does one make a custom joker set like Cryptid's M jokers?

I need a set to give to create_card() because otherwise I would have to completely re-implement the rarity system and duplicate tracking

[frosty dock]

this is what object types are for

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

[digital niche]

im trying to make the card be destroyed on use, would this work?

 calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.cardarea == G.play and context.main_scoring then
            return {
                x_mult = card.ability.extra.x_mult
            }
        end
        if context.destroy_card and context.cardarea == G.play and context.main_scoring then
            return { 
                remove = true 
            }
        end
end
}

[frosty dock]

no, main_scoring is a different context

[quick kraken]

This seems very unclear unless one is specifically making a new consumable type

[frosty dock]

remove that and you should be good

[spice wadi]

look into how localisation works on the smods wiki
all the text is controlled by 1 file, so you can make a new localisation file in your mod and add the entry for the voucher you wanna change and alter the text

[heavy orchid]

okay! tysm!

[digital niche]

tyty!

[quick kraken]

What does it mean that there's such few parameters?

How does one make a joker part of that type?

[frosty dock]

the page needs some work, but it's no different than how it works for consumable types. i.e., you create the ObjectType and either provide the keys you want in the object type as cards or use pools on the objects being created (I should check if that's documented elsewhere?)

then use the key as the set being passed to create_card

[quick kraken]

I think I might get it

[frosty dock]

yeah, pools is indeed documented on the joker page. should put it on the ObjectType page as well smh

[nova eagle]

what funciton would i call to create a spectral pack?

[quick kraken]

Further question: jokers of this type are supposed to appear in buffoon packs but not in the shop unless a specific voucher is redeemed

Can I streamline this with a set or do I have to implement the same in_pool for every joker of this set?

[frosty dock]

that sounds like a bad timing to have a spectral pack opened. you'd be better off creating a tag for that (add_tag)

[quick kraken]

I already wrote the in_pool for the 2 jokers that test the functionality of this set and it works

[nova eagle]

would it be done with this? lua add_tag = etherial tag

or is this completely wrong?

[frosty dock]

not directly, being part of the ObjectType doesn't affect it showing up in places not affected by the ObjectType. Best I can think of is to hook the ObjectType's inject_card to change each added object's in_pool function

[frosty dock]

yes, add_tag is a function

[quick kraken]

Seems like I'm still better off copy-pasting the same in_pool then

[frosty dock]

you use it like add_tag(Tag('tag_ethereal'))

[frosty dock]

no need to copy-paste it, really

you can just define it once as a variable and then put that reference into each object

[quick kraken]

Yeah that makes more sense

but at the same time it's also just one line so eh

[frosty dock]

what if you want to change it in the future

[nova eagle]

something tells me thats not the right way to create an etherial tag

[frosty dock]

(it's just a simple find and replace so no big deal, but not defining the same function in multiple places prevents inconsistencies emerging)

[frosty dock]

i already told you it isn't

that also just isn't how lua works at all

[frosty dock]

.

[nova eagle]

oh, i didnt see that

[quick kraken]

It's unlikely that I will, and if I do I don't think it'll be too much of a problem

SInce again, the logic is all implemented within one line

[frosty dock]

more of a general code style thing than potential for a problem with this function in particular

up to you

[nova eagle]

cool that fixed it, thanks

[frosty dock]

np

[spice wadi]

local return_table = {
                xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult,
                dollars = -card.ability.extra.dollars,
                
            }

            for i = 1, triggers do
                return_table.extra = return_table
            end
            print("made table with extras")

            return_table.func = function()
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        func = function()
                            G.GAME.dollar_buffer = 0
                            return true
                        end
                }))
            end
            print("added func")

            G.GAME.dollar_buffer = (G.GAME.dollar_buffer or 0) - (triggers * card.ability.extra.dollars)
            print("buffer")

            return return_table```

is this the correct way of using extra tables to stack the same effect repeatedly?
if so, why does it cause stack overflow when i return the table, and if this is a bad method should i instead try to retrigger the joker or smth?

[quick kraken]

Yes, I know basic programming principles and am making a personal decision not to follow them in this specific example

Thanks for the suggestion anyways

And thanks for the help with object type

[frosty dock]

this is an issue of not understanding how lua tables work

[spice wadi]

sounds about right 😭

[frosty dock]

you've basically referenced the table within itself

so when steamodded looks for extra tables, it will keep recursively finding the same table because it keeps referring back to itself

[spice wadi]

ah, i thought it was more just leaving the data

what do i need to change then

[nova eagle]

how do i set it so that my joker only triggers if the points scored are exactly whats required for the blind? right now it seems like its only more, or less

G.GAME.blind.chips = 1

returns an error

and </> is too broad

[spice wadi]

should be == right?

[nova eagle]

ohhh

[frosty dock]

something along the lines of this

local ret = {
  xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult,
  dollars = -card.ability.extra.dollars
}
local head = ret
local copy = copy_table(ret)
for i=1, triggers-1 do
    ret.extra = copy_table(copy)
    ret = ret.extra
end
-- do dollar buffer stuff here if you need to
return head

couple things going on here, note that extra returns work like linked lists. if you need more tables, you need to attach them at the end of the list (to the most deeply nested table). also using a fresh copy for each layer so no self-reference can happen

and ret already contains one trigger, so if you want triggers amount of triggers, you need to do one less than that for the loop

[spice wadi]

i was gonna do the last part but forgot

out of interest why does it need to be copied so many times?

the table i mean

[frosty dock]

the first copy is just so i have a free dupe that's not gonna change if i mess with the return table

then i copy that copy again each time i attach it to the return table as not to have the original copy modified when i continue adding tables to that copy

[hard flume]

Hey!

[frosty dock]

oh one more thing, it's safer to use SMODS.shallow_copy instead of copy_table for this in case you ever have cards in your return table. cards really don't like being deep copied

[spice wadi]

thank you for explaining this to me

[hard flume]

I'm having trouble with getting a playing card to move from one area to another. What method would I use to get the specific playing card I attached a button to to move to another card area?

[spice wadi]

incredibly helpful

oh actually id like to ask

[frosty dock]

i know it sounds confusing

[spice wadi]

you return head but ret is the one thats changed?

[frosty dock]

could use some better naming there haha

[spice wadi]

is that intentional because wouldnt head be the original table or am i wrong

[frosty dock]

head points to the start of the list

ret however points to the end of the list

in linked list language, it's the tail

basically there's two different references i need to have

one has to contain the topmost layer of return tables, containing all of the extra tables within. this top layer is the head, and its reference doesn't change

[wooden nexus]

What's going on here?

[frosty dock]

one has to point to the bottom layer, the one that currently doesn't have any extra tables attached. i need this one because it's the only table in the whole list that can have another extra table attached to it

but it holds no reference to the outer layers, which is what i need the head for

[spice wadi]

i think im understanding this

[frosty dock]

just explaining returning multiple calculation effects

[spice wadi]

so despite not making any changes to head, it still gets them because youre changing ret or smth like that?

apologies if i got it wrong

my brain is a little fries

[wooden nexus]

I see. Afterwards, could you help me figure out how to make a joker that increases the max_highlighted value on consumables that use it?

been trying for a bit to no avail

[frosty dock]

i was gonna go to sleep after this, it's getting late

[spice wadi]

yeah same

[wooden nexus]

RIP

[spice wadi]

i didnt even notice i put fries instead of fried

[hard flume]

Bump for anyone who may be able to help

[wooden nexus]

Never getting this joker completed at this rate

[frosty dock]

before entering the loop, head and ret are the same table. they don't just have the same context, they point to the literal same exact piece of memory

at that point you have two references to the same memory

when you set ret.extra, that change is happening to both ret and head because they are the same

in then changing ret to ret.extra, ret is now the same as head.extra

do that again, now you have ret and head.extra.extra being the same

[spice wadi]

i think i just about get this

very interesting tbh

it works btw, thank you so much

and for taking the time to explain it all

[heavy orchid]

how can I spawn a voucher with debug plus?

[frosty dock]

by the way, this is what == checks for when used on tables (given they don't have metamethods for equality)

[spice wadi]

for future reference, does this sharing-memory thing apply when you set any variable to be another one? sorry if i didnt explain that right

i just wanna make sure in other areas where ive tried to copy a variable, i dont mess with the original

[spice wadi]

i dont know what that means 😭 sorry

[frosty dock]

press 3 on the voucher in the collection while you're in the shop and it will spawn in the shop

[frosty dock]

a == b where a and b are tables only returns true if they are the same table in the way I've described, it will be false if they're just copies of each other

[heavy orchid]

ty!

[spice wadi]

ohhh i see, makes sense

[frosty dock]

that applies to tables and functions, essentially

though functions are immutable I think, so it only really matters for tables

[sleek siren]

How does saving work in Balatro? Where is all of the data that is being saved per run get stored to?

[frosty dock]

it gets compressed and saved to a profile-specific save.jkr file

[spice wadi]

noted, thank you so much
im sorry if i asked any stupid questions but i did learn a lot from this

[frosty dock]

if you decompress it, it's just lua code that looks like return { [massive table here] }

[tepid crow]

what else but massive table

[frosty dock]

lua consists of nothing else

[sleek siren]

Where can I find the table to add my own things?

[frosty dock]

G.GAME

[sleek siren]

And out of curiosity, how do I decompress it?

Ohhh!!! Cool! Thank you ^^

[heavy orchid]

What I do after I extract balatro and edit the files I wanted? I dont know how to apply into the game

[frosty dock]

generally you shouldn't just edit files, just make it a mod

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

[heavy orchid]

Its because I wanted to rename a voucher

But I dont know how I apply it

[frosty dock]

See this wiki page for how to do that with steamodded

[heavy orchid]

Okay! I will take a look! (Sorry btw Im kinda dumb on this type of thing)

[sleek siren]

Also, is there a way I could have an effect happen when a certain rank is played?

Not as a joker, but as the rank itself?

[frosty dock]

you don't really need to. you can use DebugPlus to inspect the G.GAME table at runtime if you want to, and other than that you just put your values in there and they get saved

[sleek siren]

Oh cool! ^^ ok!

[frosty dock]

planned, but not easily doable as of yet

[placid star]

doesnt almanac do that?

[frosty dock]

i didn't say it's not possible

steamodded just doesn't support it

[sleek siren]

Oh, alrighty ^^

Is there a way I can implement a "secret" joker of sorts, that acts behind the scenes but doesn't show up? So it's just always there?

[nova eagle]

how do i debuff a joker after a certain ante?

[placid star]

if G.GAME.round_resets.ante >= 4 then

card.debuff = true

[frosty dock]

yeah that's not too hard. one way is to make it a voucher and just have it be redeemed at the start of runs

[sleek siren]

Ooooooo ok! ^^ Thanks!

[nova eagle]

thx

[sleek siren]

Is there a way to make sure the voucher doesn't show up in the collected vouchers page?

[quick kraken]

Is apply() the tag equivalent of calculate()?

I need a tag to store last blind's reward money and tags seem to be not cooperative

[frosty dock]

tags are one of the few things left that don't have support for calculate yet. so apply is all you get smh

[quick kraken]

Can I do that through apply?

[frosty dock]

it only supports what vanilla tags need

[quick kraken]

Or do I have to do someting convoluted?

[frosty dock]

you probably do, or wait for tags to get support for calculate

[quick kraken]

I'm also not sure about what tag:yep does

Or how apply works

[frosty dock]

that's a side effect of using that method, there's other ways to do it, but probably there should just be a streamlined way on smods' end to make mods have effects not tied to some imaginary object. this was suggested a while ago but i have no capacity atm to implement new features. so not happening for a bit unless someone else does it

[frosty dock]

well i'm too tired to explain and gonna go to sleep now

[sleek siren]

ahhhhhh, that's fair

Thank you! ^^

[quick kraken]

makes cents

[sleek siren]

have a goodnight ^^

[nova eagle]

can someone help me figure out why this is only giving me regular mult instead of xmult?

[placid star]

because youre returning mult??

return Xmult = instead

[nova eagle]

oh, i didnt catch that

thanks

[sleek siren]

Is there a way I can modify values of a SMODS.Rank mid game sort of like how you can with jokers?

[rugged helm]

how could i make a blind have a chance to destroy a played card?

[placid star]

use this and use smth like pseduorandom('customblind') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal / card.ability.extra.odds then context.other_card:start_dissolve()

[red flower]

you can use calculate with context.destroy_card

[glad osprey]

how do i make my music sync

what i have here doesnt sync

[brazen tusk]

what contexts would be used for obtaining a joker (specifically itself)

[primal robin]

Should I keybinds system I'm using for Handy mod transfer into separate mod with convenient API at some point?

[red flower]

the add_to_deck function, not a context

[brazen tusk]

ah alr ty

wait like

[brazen tusk]

to check for when its obtained sorry

idk if thats still the same

[red flower]

add_to_deck runs when the joker is obtained

[brazen tusk]

ah ok cool

[gentle rain]

whats the variable for the amount of chips you currently have? G.GAME.hand_chips returns a nil value

[glad osprey]

G.GAME.chips iirc

for round total right?

[gentle rain]

i meant as in like, the blue chips next to your mult btw

no

[glad osprey]

ah

just chips then i think

no wait

hand_chips

[gentle rain]

i think i tried hand_chips before but ill try again

mightve done G.GAME.hand_chips

ah, seems like chips still dont wanna be altered during context.before

what file are contexts stored in again

as in where contexts are defined

and how does one do lovely patches

^ experiencing the horros

[wheat jewel]

How does one allow for a specific sound effect to play when a joker triggers

[glad osprey]

play_sound

[wheat jewel]

Should i use the filepath for the sound effect when using that function

[glad osprey]

no

SMODS.Sound

[wheat jewel]

Ok

Not sure if i use the key as a parameter

[glad osprey]

read the docs

[gentle rain]

blehhhhh i cant find anything on how to patch on the lovely wiki or smods wiki

[glad osprey]

thats the love2d wiki'

[gentle rain]

oh

lol

ok i found on the lovely page where theyre docummented

[rugged helm]

how would i destroy a random card from the played hand

[last sentinel]

Is there a built-in toggle for "if the player has the upgraded version of this voucher, do not calculate" or should that just be done manually by searching for the upgraded voucher

e.g. Voucher A gives $5 every round, Voucher A2 gives $10 every round and is only available if A is already purchased(with requires:). Since the player would have both voucher A and A2 would it award $15 total?

[gentle rain]

by vanilla's wording, it could be either $10 or $15. while both handy and nacho tong, as well as wasteful and reyclomancy, say they all give +1 hand or discard, liquidation instead says 50%, overriding its inferior voucher

more examples of varying contradiction

[last sentinel]

Fascinating

[tight notch]

does anyone see any bracket related errors the game crashes on launch saying it excepted to close a bracket but i dont see an error

[gentle rain]

bump

[gentle rain]

did you use the balatro how to make a joker video as a reference

[manic rune]

loc txt

[gentle rain]

cause thats a bit outdated

[manic rune]

missing a ,

[tight notch]

aah ok

I wasn't using the make a joker video i was using the api docs, small knowledge of lua, and using other mods as a ref

[shut crater]

you should install the lua extension for vscode

it will highlight syntax errors like that

[gentle rain]

loc vars should be loc_vars = function(self,info_queue,card) and your variables within it should read like return {vars = {card.ability.extra.[VARIABLE NAME]}}

like this

[tight notch]

the game is now telling me that a comma is excpected after a hashtag

[gentle rain]

can you post a screenshot of the crash

[tight notch]

trying to screenshot doesnt work

it just unfocuses the window when i press either screenshot key

[gentle rain]

once you launch the game you should set it to windowed so it doesnt do that lol

[hexed heath]

is there a way to tell when a card is added to a cardarea?

[gentle rain]

any card? or a specific card type

[hexed heath]

a specific card type

[tight notch]

here

[hexed heath]

i've tried adding a add_to_deck but the card doesnt seem to have a .area in it

[gentle rain]

which card type then

[hexed heath]

a specific consumable

[gentle rain]

what consumable >.>

[tight notch]

ah nvm

[glad osprey]

bump

[vale glen]

For I equals 1, hashtag context scoring hand. Missing a comma there.

[foggy carbon]

What are the names of the per-suit high contrast settings (or is this a mod thing)?

not the global setting

[unreal cosmos]

fourth time asking. can someone please explain to me why boss blind screen looks like this

[gilded narwhal]

hey gang how do I make a joker that retriggers itself a bunch of times

[shut crater]

if it's your fourth time asking and no one has given you an answer, it's probably because no one knows the answer. But by the looks of it you have a lot of mods installed, I would suggest disabling them one at a time until it gets fixed and then seeing what's wrong with that mod

[unreal cosmos]

i have 87 mods installed

is there a fast way to comb through mods?

[gilded narwhal]

Disable a random half of them, see if anything changes

If it doesn't then do it again

And repeat until you've found the section its in

[unreal cosmos]

my game is crashing without certain mods, so how do I renable them without booting the game?

[gilded narwhal]

ctrl z

oh wait did you like disable them or delete the files

[unreal cosmos]

i disabled them

[red flower]

remove the .lovelyignore in the folder

[unreal cosmos]

where is that?

[red flower]

in the mods folder that you disabled

[unreal cosmos]

is there a setting that makes it so steammodded doesnt sort disabled mods into seperate groups in the mod menu

[rugged helm]

there's no context.other_card, issa blind

[red flower]

no

[unreal cosmos]

;(

[rugged helm]

[red flower]

#💻・modding-dev message

[gilded narwhal]

bump

[lofty sand]

is there any way I can hook specific game events, like perkeo's ability?

[rugged helm]

so wait, press_play or calculate

[red flower]

calculate

[rugged helm]

what are the args for blind:calculate

[red flower]

same ones as a joker's

[rugged helm]

oh it just . iterates an effect over every played card?

cool

[shut crater]

you can hook any function in the whole game if you can find the right one to hook

[lofty sand]

that's what I'm concerned about though, I don't want to hook: "G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event" in general, I have no idea how to hook a specific event like that

[red flower]

you can't really

you should patch for that

[lofty sand]

not familliar with patching, how would I go about that

[red flower]

but also what is the X to your XY problem, what do you want to do

maybe there's an easier way than whatever you're thinking

[lofty sand]

trying to make a copy effect joker that deducts the sell cost when it returns the ability of that copied joker. problem is, there's some jokers that just don't return a table or have a calculate function at all, like marble joker, cartomancer, perkeo, burnt joker, etc

it works fine for literally any other joker, there's like 8 of them that work like this lmao

it's really annoying

[red flower]

yeah you would need a patch or take_ownership for that

but also all vanilla jokers return at least nil, true as far as i know, is there no way to check for that?

[lofty sand]

yeah that's what I tried to do at first, however those jokers return nil like eighty times when their abilities are copied for some reason

hold on, i might have a clip. it's really funny

[red flower]

i mean yeah every calculate call returns nil

you need to check for the , true part

but if you ask me for my opinion I wouldn't even bother to patch the jokers, just make a table of which jokers have problems and do it manually

not like the solution would be very mod-friendly anyway

[hollow locust]

Hey, N
Could I get some help on my poker hand, again?
-# please

[lofty sand]

that's what I have rn lol, it still doesn't work and I'm not sure why

[red flower]

you have 10 minutes before i try to go to sleep again

[red flower]

can i see

[lofty sand]

sure, just a sec

[hollow locust]

Dang
uhhh

It just won't appear.
For context, it's a Flush Five made with a specific card, i want it to show "Why"

I make the Flush Five with the cards, it shows Flush Five and not the other thing

[red flower]

flush five is probably higher

[hollow locust]

In value, or?

[red flower]

yeah

[rugged helm]

how could i make it display a message on the card when it's destroyed?

[hollow locust]

Nope, i changed the chips & Mult values. Still returns flush five

[red flower]

does adj.key work even?

shouldn't it be adj.config.center.key == "j_certificate" for example?

[red flower]

no idea then, i would have to test it

[hollow locust]

Hm.

[red flower]

{ message = "message", remove = true }

[hollow locust]

One sec.

[lofty sand]

yeah, that works for checking the key of the card object

[hollow locust]

Last line in Wasteful.lua

[lofty sand]

I tried that too, still didn't work

I guess I should check by printing the jokers key

let me try that real quick

[red flower]

i wouldn't modify dollars directly either

use ease_dollars(-card.sell_cost)

[lofty sand]

what's the difference? I thought they did pretty much the same thing

[red flower]

it does a couple more things to update the text

also you would be setting the dollars to 0 even if you're in the negatives

[lofty sand]

should it be doing that based on my code? cause it doesn't

[red flower]

well i think it doesn't reach that part of the code at all so it makes sense

oh another thing, if left_joker is nil I don't think ipairs will go through both

i might be wrong tho

[lofty sand]

I did have that issue at one point, I don't remember what I did to fix it

I don't think it's an issue anymore?

[red flower]

ok, again I'm looking at the part of the code you say isn't working

[lofty sand]

ah you may have been right up here, it's returning the key as nil

[foggy carbon]

that's what I meant to forward

[red flower]

no

why

[foggy carbon]

I made some jokers use update to change their sprites dependent on the high contrast setting, but update updates every frame so that feels wasteful

[wheat jewel]

how do i get my mod to recognize the json prefix in order to play a sound from the assets’ sound folder

Read up on the smods api documentation but i’m feeling a bit lost atm

[red flower]

i think it's fine honestly, many graphic things update each frame
the other option is hooking into the button function that changes that setting

[analog spoke]

how would I make a joker which made a certain rarity be more common while held? Such as "Uncommon jokers are x3 as common"

not sure wording on this idea, lol, but, how would I make it?

[rugged helm]

would i need to specify that card = context.other_card in the return

wait

[analog spoke]

actually, do you think this'd be better as a voucher? that may be interesting, as I've never made a voucher before

OOO, OR WHAT ABOUT BOTH? HAVE IT BE MULTIPLITIVE?

[red flower]

you don't need card = anything in any return

[vale glen]

Wondering how that would interact with copies of itself, or other things that adjust rarities. It might not be as simple as storing the rarity values before or after the joker was added. Hrm.

[red flower]

i think you can change G.GAME.uncommon_mod in add_to_deck

[analog spoke]

hmmm, ahh, so, uhm, I was using uncommon as an example, hehe uhm, so, I wanted this for a custom rarity I had, so, uhm...

sorry, lol, should have been clearer on that, lol

[red flower]

key:lower() _mod

it's in the docs

[analog spoke]

ahh, sorry 😭 the docs are wrong so often I've kinda stopped checking some times, adbfsjhsf

[rapid stag]

chat, i forget. if i HAVE to start from a joker's self, how do i get to config.extra?

or is it ability

[red flower]

self.config.extra

why do you need to start from self tho

[rapid stag]

because i'm working on implementing something that starts from Card:calculate_seal(context) and looks for a function in self

it's very funky

[crisp coral]

self there refers to the Card object

[rugged helm]

this is dissolving and TRYING to display the message but the message only displays where the card was a little bit after it gets dissolved

[red flower]

ok that's what i imagined
in that, self refers to a card object so it's self.ability.extra

[rapid stag]

that's what i was wondering about, yeah. since self here is the joker

[red flower]

that seems like a bug

oh wait

remove the start_dissolve

[vale glen]

awawa is a good testing message

[glad osprey]

bump again

[rugged helm]

:333

[vale glen]

Just idly theorizing here, but would it work if the return message had a func as a parameter, containing the context.other_card:start_dissolve() in the function?

[red flower]

don't use start_dissolve to destroy a playing card in scoring

that's the answer

[vale glen]

Ah

[rugged helm]

not destroying now

it's also showing ERROR! instead of Burned! but that's a diff issue

[red flower]

i said context.destroy_card

not individual

and it's not going to say burned if you don't have a k_burned_ex in your localization file

[rugged helm]

i do

[red flower]

it seems to be inside descriptions

[analog spoke]

where would I find this in the docs? I would've assumed it to be in Rarity, but I can't see it there, hmm

[rugged helm]

this isn't working either

[red flower]

rarity

[analog spoke]

ahh thank you

[red flower]

well it should

what's your smods version

[rugged helm]

1.0.0

[red flower]

more specific

[rugged helm]

OH

theres a version.lua

1.0.0~BETA-0406a-STEAMODDED

[red flower]

yeah or on the main screen

can you try updating

[wheat jewel]

i'm trying to have a specific sound play for failing a probability but it keeps crashing when i try to play it even if i have everything set up for the sound to play for the joker i'm making

if anyone has any tips let me know

[gentle rain]

bleurgh whys it keep saying its incompatible when im defining it as compatible in the code (doing blueprint = true)

hell im even hard coding in blueprint interactions

[red flower]

sizimod_bob

[rugged helm]

updated, trying it now

[gentle rain]

wait why are none of my jokers blueprint compatible

[glad osprey]

blueprint_compat = true

[wheat jewel]

will try that

[red flower]

can i see your code

[gentle rain]

OH

[rugged helm]

WOOO it works

[glad osprey]

saturday...

[gentle rain]

here, this creates the consumables

[glad osprey]

triple bump

[red flower]

oh i just wanted to see the blueprint thing but squidguset already answered by the time i typed it

[gentle rain]

i c

well i think i know the issue neways

[brazen tusk]

pov you were just about to ask if theres anything other than soul_pos you need to get soul sprites working and i read soul_post on my screen 💀

[analog spoke]

ok, so, how do I translate this into actually usable code? what do the .. represent?

[vale glen]

String concatenation

[wheat jewel]

Got a crash

[red flower]

it's saying that you need to use the key in lowercase + _mod

[analog spoke]

hmm ok, so, that'd be... let me try this

[red flower]

no idea sorry
maybe the path is wrong

[wheat jewel]

Probably

[analog spoke]

like this? Well, I mean, I'm still missing something ofc, as it's still red lined lol

[wheat jewel]

this is where i have it

[red flower]

yes, if you do = 2 it makes it twice as likely to appear

[red flower]

should be assets/sounds/file.ogg

[wheat jewel]

i might have to put it in the assets folder hold up

just realized it

ty

[analog spoke]

ahh ok, thank you
how would one reverse this effect afterwards? like, as in, if the first way was the Add_To_deck effect, how would one have the Remove_From_deck undo the first effect?

[red flower]

yes

the better way would be
G.GAME[...] = not from_debuff and (G.GAME[...] or 1) * 2 or G.GAME[...] in add
G.GAME[...] = not from_debuff and G.GAME[...]/ 2 or G.GAME[...] in remove

[analog spoke]

mmmmmh, I see, thank you

[red flower]

wait give me a sec

there

[vale glen]

Ah heck, forgot to think about debuffed cards for Axy's code

[rapid stag]

what does [...] do

[red flower]

nothing, i didnt want to write this

[vale glen]

It's just shorthand, replace it with your own values in actual code

[analog spoke]

have I understood this right? :3

[rapid stag]

i see

[red flower]

yeah that works
now that i think about it the from_debuff stuff doesn't do anything, im just too sleepy

[vale glen]

Ouh

[analog spoke]

fair lol, I just took a midday nap not too long ago, woke up at 8 pm lmao

[red flower]

in this case you want to change it when it's debuffed

but anyway the code you sent is ok

[brazen tusk]

would you be able to change an atlas position in an if statement and if so what function would it be done in?

[burnt warren]

theres a way to make animated ones i think

surley you could switch the frames with one of those

[sleek siren]

Is there a way I can make a custom consumable appear more often?

[gentle rain]

is there any way to add a message to this function? as in, the card creating this event has a little message below itself when it triggers

[vale glen]

SMODS.calculate_effect should help

[gentle rain]

nightmare nightmare nightmare nightmare

unrelated does vs code have a find and replace tool

[burnt warren]

click the arrow on the find box

[sleek cliff]

so, im trying to have it only sense if the Big Blind is started, so how would I set it up, cause I know theres setting_blind.boss but that would only be boss

ive tried boss.big but it crashed

[vale glen]

What happens with setting_blind.big?

[vale glen]

You're doing if context.setting_blind and context.setting_blind.big, yes?

Not sure how that context is like

Should read the docs prolly

[sleek cliff]

i'll try that

i've looked at what I got and all I can find is setting_blind.boss

[vale glen]

Prolly need to change some value in G.GAME

Would get out of bed to check the code, but lazy...

[sleek cliff]

Real

[sturdy compass]

context.setting_blind is a boolean, why are you trying to index it?

[red flower]

G.GAME.blind:get_type() == "Big" iirc

[sleek siren]

Is there a way to set a rarity to a consumable?

[sleek cliff]

Add that to the calculate?

[red flower]

to the if condition yes

[sleek cliff]

Oki

[burnt warren]

ive been trying to figure out ui but i have no clue where to start

i peeped around the documentation and some other mods code but nothing really makes sense to me

[sturdy compass]

UI is not fun at all lmao

Best of luck with it

[lucid owl]

trying to add a crossmod deck skin with paperback's stars, why the hell is my deckskin's loc_txt being set as the base? (for reference pic #2 should say "PEPPERED")

i may just go ask them but wanted to see if you guys knew

[sleek cliff]

oki, now Barbara finally works

[burnt warren]

it might just be easier to recreate the game from scratch with what i want

[oblique pond]

how would i check what the key of a sold card is?

[misty yacht]

hiii where can i start on getting decompiled balatro?

[oblique pond]

currently trying to do it like this but it does not work

[misty yacht]

im just trying to see how balatro makes the deck based on seed

[oblique pond]

you can use 7zip to extract it iirc, thats how i did it

[misty yacht]

how do i run it though?

[oblique pond]

idk

[misty yacht]

._.

[oblique pond]

i just use that to look at code for how vanilla does things

[scarlet storm]

you can use 7zip to open the exe archive; then look through the code to see how it does what

you can also edit the code and save it to the archive to make changes to certain things (i.e make a deck function differently)

[oblique pond]

for that last part you should probably use lovely for that

but yeah

[scarlet storm]

probably

[green dust]

Hi, I'm trying to change the rank of cards in a deck. What value do the numbered cards like one have? It doesn't seem to work whether I have it as "1" or "One" but if I put "Ace" it successfully updates the cards?

[native zinc]

14

[scarlet storm]

1 doesn't exist

it goes 2-14

[green dust]

💀

How did I forget

[oblique pond]

the UnStable experience hits hard

[green dust]

For two or the other numbers would it be Two or 2?

[scarlet storm]

2

[green dust]

Thanks!

[vale glen]

Ah, right. Speaking of card changing effects, Axy wanted to change just the displayed sprite of a played card into a blank one, but not change it's functionality like rank or bonus or the like. Not sure which field should be changed in a card to do that. Guessing it would be restored in a remove_from_deck function as well, but not certain yet.

[misty yacht]

does this line make the erratic deck?

-- game.lua line 2342
if self.GAME.starting_params.erratic_suits_and_ranks then _, k = pseudorandom_element(G.P_CARDS, pseudoseed('erratic')) end

[scarlet storm]

btw how would I make it so when I sell a joker, it creates a new joker that isnt already in hand

I wanna make it so that when I sell a joker, it creates a new joker that the player doesn't already have

[scarlet storm]

I would assume it's somewhere around where that is if not that, not entirely sure tho

[turbid maple]

Is there no way to cancel a specific event or do I need to resort to either fiddling with timers on my own or patch the event queue

only thing like that seems to be clearing an entire queue which sounds like a nuclear option

[shut crater]

you could try adding an if statement that returns early if a boolean is true

but also I do not have an intimate knowledge of the event system so that might simply not work

[turbid maple]

mm

I was trying to use trigger = "after" with a delay set

and have the event be cancellable within said delay

[shut crater]

yeah that sounds very difficult

godspeed soldier

[turbid maple]

i'm just gonna patch the event queue

sounds a lot simpler

[shut crater]

reasonable

[lucid owl]

trying to add a crossmod deck skin, why the hell is my deckskin's loc_txt being set as the base? (for reference pic #2 should say "PEPPERED")

ignore the jank of the deckskin palettes code

[tired kestrel]

Honestly how did you actually add a new suit?

[lucid owl]

i'm just trying to add a deckskin for a suit from paperback, see here for how they did it https://github.com/Balatro-Paperback/paperback/blob/main/content/suit/crowns.lua

it's pretty simple

[daring fern]

Shouldn’t loc_txt be a table?

[sleek cliff]

now its time for the difficult multi layered one

[frosty rampart]

deckskin can (or at least is supposed to be able to) take either a table or a string for loc_txt, because it's only ever the name of the deck skin that you're defining

[lucid owl]

setting as a table never seemed to work for me, i just accepted it lol

i still have no clue why it's setting that as the base deck text, and giving a placeholder for the one i want it to be on

[frosty rampart]

i wonder if maybe it's a priority issue

[lucid owl]

maybe? both mods have either no set priority or 0 though

[frosty rampart]

yea, so try setting your mod's priority to 1

[sleek cliff]

im just trying to discover this joker, but the code keeps making it crash??

nvm????

[lucid owl]

didn't do anything 😔

[daring fern]

Log?

[compact girder]

Hey! I'm working on a balatro mod but I cant seem to get it to trigger at all, what am I doing wrong?

SMODS.Joker{
key = 'jokerkaite',
loc_txt = {
name = 'Kaite',
text = {
'Gains {C:red}+2 {C:black}Mult every time {C:gold}High Card {C:black}is played.',
'{C:green}1 in 4 {C:black}chance to upgrade {C:gold}High Card {C:black}when played.',
'{C:inactive}(Currently {C:red}+#1# {C:inactive}Mult)'
}
},
atlas = 'Jokers3',
pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
config = {
extra = {
base_mult = 0,
growth = 2,
}
},
rarity = 3,
cost = 8,
loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, center)
return {vars = {center.ability.extra.base_mult}}
end,
calculate = function(self, card, context)
local message = 'A'
local color = G.C.BLUE
if context.hand and context.hand.hand_type == 'High Card' then
card.ability.extra.base_mult = card.ability.extra.base_mult + card.ability.extra.growth
local message = '+2'
local color = G.C.RED

    if math.random() < 0.25 then
      ---UPGRADE HIGH CARD
            local message = 'Upgraded!'
        local color = G.C.PURPLE
      end
    end
  end

  if context.joker_main then
    return {
      mult = card.ability.extra.base_mult
    }
  end
end

}

[daring fern]

You can’t just do local message =

[turbid maple]

okay got my dumb idea working

[crisp coral]

this is EVIL

i alt tab like 50 times during every run

[vale glen]

Imagining this with a misprint deck

[compact girder]

Do I have the stuff for the high card only working tho?

[turbid maple]

I am exclusively adding stupid evil ideas to this mod

big fan of this one

[lucid owl]

nevermind, i was copying files wrong. this worked!!

[vale glen]

Play cards in time to the music, or they get debuffed

[daring fern]

context.hand.hand_type doesn’t exist?

[scarlet storm]

wait this is cinema

[turbid maple]

its peak cinema

[scarlet storm]

I need to make more jokers .....

[compact girder]

ok yeah i honestly have no clue what im doing this is my first time making a joker with a restriction like that 😭

what would I put instead

[scarlet storm]

ive been stuck on 2
one i just can't execute and the other i can't balance properly

[sturdy compass]

[unborn bay]

me taking a screenshot with sharex and constantly getting a black screen not noticing my canio is fucking gone until it works

[scarlet storm]

this one
I have 0 clue how to make it work

[sleek cliff]

holy shit fellow Dr Who thingy

[turbid maple]

skill issue im afraid

[unborn bay]

i actually fucking hate how sharex or any fucking screen grab app does that btw

i have no idea why

im on borderless

[turbid maple]

sorry im a poser i actually never watched dr who i just wanted this effect and didn't want to call it scp-173

[sleek cliff]

lucky for you i have a slideshow :)

[compact girder]

haelp

[frosty rampart]

oh good, i was stumped if that didn't work lol

[unborn bay]

if context.scoring_name == 'High Card' then
  return {
    message = "whatever",
    mult = 10,
  }
end

this what you were looking for

[bleak crane]

quick question, how do i make a joker self destruct after however many rounds?

[sleek cliff]

mmm

[compact girder]

This is triggering the message whenever I select high card, not play it

[manic rune]

what are you trying to do

[manic rune]

i see

if context.before and context.main_eval and context.scoring_name == 'High Card' then should work

[compact girder]

Ill try that

[manic rune]

context.other_card doesnt exist in context.end_of_round

[sleek cliff]

oh fun

[manic rune]

what do u want to do here?

[manic rune]

doesnt seem like it needs context.end_of_round

[oblique pond]

is this how to properly check if a sold consumable is a certain consumable?

[manic rune]

use this instead

[manic rune]

context.card.config.center.key == "c_world"

[oblique pond]

thank you

[compact girder]

How can I make a message pop up before the return function

[manic rune]

SMODS.calculate_effect({message = "..."}, card) --card refers to which card the message will pop up on/below

-# use it outside return btw

somethingcom you are poking literally all of my messages sob

[sleek cliff]

whats weird is that other card/context has worked before with another joker

[manic rune]

context.other_card only exists for some contexts

[sleek cliff]

ah

[manic rune]

you can check here to see if the context has it or not

[manic rune]

show code

:3

[sleek cliff]

this is the problem line
if not context.repetition and context.game_over == false and not context.blueprint and context.other_context.ability.extra.is_dalek then

[manic rune]

change
if not context.repetition and context.game_over == false and not context.blueprint and context.other_context.ability.extra.is_dalek then

to
if context.post_trigger and context.other_card.ability.extra and context.other_card.ability.extra.is_dalek then

[sleek cliff]

Yaaaay no more crash

[analog spoke]

I wish more people played my mod, feels barren sometimes in my thread 😔 who shall I ever ask balancing questions too, lmao, hehehe nhfhsdjhb sorry this is all nonsense aint it? I'm so tired, I shouldn't be up rn, it's almost 3am bnjhbfjhsd

[gaunt thistle]

share thread

[manic rune]

^

[sleek cliff]

Just gotta let the Katarina explode and have it create planets

[analog spoke]

yippeee, tho, notes to be had here
1: It requires both talisman and fusion jokers, tho, it is preeetty vanilla balanced other than the fusion jokers I'd say, hopefully
2: It's pretty work in progress atm, so some art might be placeholders, lol
https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1371935681592426556
thank you for checking it out if you do! hehehe, I'mma head to bed rq tho, I'm so tired lmao, have fun!

[gaunt thistle]

I'm not afraid of talisman

cool, thanks, I'll check it out later

[sleek cliff]

IT CRASHED WHEN I REROLLED WITH FLASHCARD WHAT

[manic rune]

whats the crash log

i think i already know whats wrong, but just gotta be sure

[manic rune]

i

damn.

[daring fern]

card.ability.extra doesn't always exist and its not always a table.

[manic rune]

yeah i forgot it can be a number or just anything instead

if context.post_trigger and context.other_card.ability.extra and type(context.other_card.ability.extra) == "table" and context.other_card.ability.extra.is_dalek then

change the thing i said to that

[sleek cliff]

There were go, much better

Took 5 antes to be destroyed but it gets destroyed by the Dalek!!

Ok, now how the hell do I make this woman make Planets when she explodes

[daring fern]

SMODS.add_card({set = "Planet"})

[sleek cliff]

Which section should I put that, and 2 of them (if they have room)

GYAHAHA IT WORKS

I still need to figure out how to create 2 instead of just one

[daring fern]

SMODS.add_card({set = "Planet"})
SMODS.add_card({set = "Planet"})

[sleek cliff]

Oh cool

Love how simple yet complex this shit is

[bleak crane]

how would i made it so a joker makes a card act like any suit? kinda like smear joker

[daring fern]

Why when one buys a booster pack with negative cost, no money is gained or lost?

[wheat jewel]

i keep getting an error when trying to play specific music when having a specific joker

[daring fern]

Log?

Your key can't have spaces.

[wheat jewel]

oh ok

trying that now

[manic rune]

im pretty sure you return a number in select_music_track

priority stuff, idk

[wheat jewel]

really?

[daring fern]

No, you can return anything, a number just means it'll have priority.

[manic rune]

does returning true automatically consider the music track as having the highest priority

[wheat jewel]

i removed the space but i'm still getting an assertion error

[daring fern]

No.

[sleek cliff]

14 working jokers >:)

[manic rune]

🤔

how does the game determine which music track to run, then?

[daring fern]

The one with highest returned number.

[daring fern]

‎

[wheat jewel]

I commented it out for now and everything is working fine i just need to figure out what is causing an assertion error

Do i have to have the prefix infront of the key?

for the joker

like j_prefix_jokername?

[vast night]

Why dosen't it print anything when i buy any card
calculate = function(self, card, context)
if context.buying_card then
print(card.cost)
return {

        }
    end
end

[daring fern]

No?

Yes?

[wheat jewel]

mainly looking at the find card function

[daring fern]

Where are you using the key?

[wheat jewel]

that's the key for the joker i'm working on

[tired kestrel]

Oh.

[daring fern]

Yes then.

[wheat jewel]

ok will try that now

[slow brook]

If I want to make a one-time power up consumable that has a unique effect for every joker, would that be hard to make or could I maybe write a function for every joker, like WhenPoweredUp(), and the consumable would only call that function and done (I have 0 modding experience so I don’t even know if I can make my own function for a Joker)

[daring fern]

Yes.

That would take way too long.

It would probably be better to make a custom context though.

[slow brook]

What is that

[daring fern]

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

[bleak crane]

is this correct or should it be 4 of a kind?

[daring fern]

That is not correct it should be "Four of a Kind"

[bleak crane]

right

alright

how would i check the suit of a scored card?

[last sentinel]

If i had a voucher that awarded money at the end of round (similar to Golden joker or Investment tag) would it just be a return = {dollars = N} in context.end_of_round?

[daring fern]

card:is_suit("Hearts")

[wheat jewel]

the commented out method is causing an assertion error, tried to do a jimball thing with playing the dk rap when getting a specific joker but i'm getting nonstop crashes

might be doing something wrong but i tried to look at the jimball code but couldn't find the portion that plays the music

[daring fern]

No it wouldn't but yes it would because calc_dollar_bonus doesn't seem to exist on vouchers.

[daring fern]

You need j_modprefix_key

[wheat jewel]

tried that and it still causes an error

[daring fern]

Code?

Also your returning a table I think because next() returns a table.

[bleak crane]

why does this not work,?

[daring fern]

A card cannot be multiple suits unless it is wild?

[wheat jewel]

idk which portion to show

[daring fern]

Also it's xmult not Xmult

[last sentinel]

that code will only run if the Joker is Hearts and also Diamonds and also Spades and also Clubs, of which it cant be any

might be wrong but pretty sure "card" there the Joker?

[bleak crane]

oh

bwa

how do i check if theres every suit in the played hand

[last sentinel]

context.scoring_hand[i] will give you the i'th card that is scored

[wheat jewel]

Was mainly referencing this when searching for jimball stuff to reference

[bleak crane]

i'th ?

[last sentinel]

as in
context.scoring_hand[1] = 1st scored card,
context.scoring_hand[2] = 2nd scored card... etc

[bleak crane]

ah ok

so like this?

[last sentinel]

check each of the cards scored and check to see if there's one of each suit, keeping in mind what Somethingcom said that a wild card will return true for all of those suit checks

[bleak crane]

wait would this not look for these suits in this exact order?

if context.scoring_hand[1]:is_suit("Hearts") and context.scoring_hand[2]:is_suit("Diamonds") and context.scoring_hand[3]:is_suit("Spades") and context.scoring_hand[4]:is_suit("Clubs") then

[last sentinel]

why would something like this not work then? seems to never issue the money

[wintry solar]

It would

[wintry solar]

Where are you sending context hooked from?

[bleak crane]

how would i check to make sure each suit is in the played hand without looking for a specific order

[last sentinel]

custom context for destroying jokers, that part seems to be triggering correctly so not the issue as far as i can tell just provided for context. if i understand your question

[wintry solar]

Can you send it

[bleak crane]

the idea is check for if the scored cards contain every suit & is a four of a kind

[last sentinel]

use a for loop that runs from i = 1 to i = #context.scoring_hand(the size of the scoring hand), and replace the 1,2,3,4 in your previous code with i.

That would then check the first card for which suits it is, and then the second card, etc. You'll need some internal logic/variables to make sure each suit exists, that way one wild card wouldnt just pass through the whole thing, if you would want that to be prevented/

[bleak crane]

i have no idea what that mmeans

qwq

[wheat jewel]

tryna figure out how to make a joker play music similar to jimball but i'm getting assertion errors rn

[last sentinel]

pretty directly from paberback but variables renamed for locality

[wheat jewel]

referenced some code from others in this channel but i'm kinda stuck atm

[daring fern]

It's SMODS.find_card

[wheat jewel]

had that earlier and changed it to find.joker cuz i thought it would change smthn but it didn't unfortunately

[wintry solar]

I’m not 100% then. Does it work if you remove the line that resets it back to 0?

[daring fern]

This is because I have a joker that makes money used on cards in the shop not spent but earned, but booster packs are different they leave no money returned.

[last sentinel]

nah, i also get this in debugplus log if that provides any helpful context

[wintry solar]

Oh

Throw a and context.main_eval in

[bleak crane]

alright new question
how do i make it so when my joker is sold, it creates a different joker (that isnt held in hand)

i wanna make it so when the left card is sold, it creates the right card

[daring fern]

if context.selling_self then
    SMODS.add_card({key = "j_modprefix_key"})
end

[scarlet storm]

alright n now how do I make a joker destroy itself after scoring

[daring fern]

if context.after then
    card:start_dissolve()
end

[scarlet storm]

yayy :3

[wheat jewel]

i keep getting assertion errors when trying to play music and i removed the next() because i assumed it wasn't doing anything, tryna see how i can play the music somehow

don't know why the errors happen even if i use the mod prefix and the right key when using find_card

[last sentinel]

ah okay, it's awarding the money now. it just tosses it onto the current money instead of in the summary a-la Golden/Investment Tag, but sounds like that would require me patching calc_dollar_bonus into Voucher context yeah?

[scarlet storm]

last question, how do I make it do that idle shake that like ,, DNA does when its active?

wait and how do I make it not show up in shops

[daring fern]

in_pool = function(self)
    return false
end

[wheat jewel]

using j_modprefix_key doesn't work me when using find_card function

[scarlet storm]

uh this doesn't seem to work

[daring fern]

Code?

[daring fern]

context.selling_self

[scarlet storm]

ough

[scarlet storm]

still doesn't work

[daring fern]

Code?

[scarlet storm]

I assume by mod prefix you mean this

[scarlet storm]

and the jokers key is saviour2

[flat pier]

I'm trying to make a joker that keeps track of the number of type played, like fortune teller, but struggling to figure out where to keep track of that, and how to increase it when that card type is scored

[daring fern]

Is that the correct key?

[daring fern]

It's self, card, context not self, context, card

[bleak crane]

ok the selling function works now

new issue

the new card instantly dissolves without scoring

[wheat jewel]

does anyone have an example of how jimball plays music when selected

[glass scaffold]

If you mean when Jimball is held, then I have some code from TWC to show how.

[wheat jewel]

Please do

Thank you so much

[daring fern]

if context.after then
    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
        func = function()
            card:start_dissolve()
            return true
        end
    }))
end

[bleak crane]

replace the second if statement with this?

[daring fern]

Yes.

[scarlet storm]

sorry for asking so many questions hh

[glass scaffold]

Hope this helps.

[glass scaffold]

You need the key thing.

[daring fern]

It can be .ogg also the key requires music in it also sync means it syncs with other music.

[glass scaffold]

That too. Thanks

[wheat jewel]

i have a question, do we have to set the "j_" portion of a joker name somewhere because it think that's what is causing assertion errors for me rn

this is what i had before

[glass scaffold]

j_MODPREFIX_JOKERKEY

[daring fern]

It's SMODS.find_card and you need music in the key.

[bleak crane]

I only have a few more questions then i'll stop bothering u ><

1. how do I make a card shake like DNA when its ready to activate,
2. how do I play the sfx that plasma deck plays when it does the "balanced" thing

[daring fern]

1. juice_card_until()
2. play_sound("gong")

[bleak crane]

tysm

for the juice card, where do i put that?

[bleak crane]

also for the play sound, how do i make that happen when it adds the mult? it seems to do it immediately no matter where i put it

[daring fern]

sound = "gong"

[wheat jewel]

i did implement it but music doesn't play

might be missing something

[bleak crane]

like this? this seems to do nothing