💻・modding-dev

[solid mesa]

mmmmm i see, i understand less than before

[normal crest]

that will add 4 mult to the score, exactly as the basic +4 mult joker does

[solid mesa]

thx guys, i will read more

[wind steppe]

dw about func its not used very often

[untold vigil]

How did you get it to appear?

[wind steppe]

get what to appear?

[solid mesa]

what jokers usually use?

[untold vigil]

The joker

[solid mesa]

like, the hiker?

[normal crest]

can you show a screenshot of your mod folder

of what's inside it

[daring fern]

It's only used for jokers that don't return so they can be retriggered.

[wind steppe]

the main.lua?

also main.json should be changed to FolderName.json

[solid mesa]

I thought func was only used in return

[sonic cedar]

And what’s the achievement code rn

[wind steppe]

does your mod show up

[untold vigil]

Like SpadeAceBlade.json

[untold vigil]

[wind steppe]

yeah change the metadata file

[next pivot]

this is the achievement code rn

SMODS.Achievement{
    key="touch_grass",
    atlas="achieve",
    -- hidden_text = true,
    pos={x=1,y=0},
    hidden_pos={x=0,y=0},
    unlock_condition = function(self,args)
        if args.type=="touch_grass" then
            print("Came without the prefix")
        end
        if args.type == "touch_grass" or args.type == "SPL_touch_grass" then
            print("unlocked with the prefix")
            return true
        end
    end
}

[wind steppe]

all my other jokers show up idk why this one decided to dip

[daring fern]

Yes, it is.

[untold vigil]

Iiin which mode?

[wind steppe]

wdym "which mode"

[untold vigil]

At this point I have no idea

[wind steppe]

metadata file is the .json

[untold vigil]

Like adding or removing something

[daring fern]

I meant jokers that wouldn't return normally.

[wind steppe]

rename it

[untold vigil]

I'll check if it does show up

[daring fern]

They would be put in a func in a return.

[untold vigil]

Nope

[wind steppe]

show us whats inside the metadata file

[normal crest]

it can be any name for the json file

[wind steppe]

wait rlly?

[solid mesa]

so func would be like a return for those jokers that can't use it?

[wind steppe]

eh good practice regardless

[normal crest]

yeah smods just looks for any file with json extension

I'd name it metadata.json

[daring fern]

No, it would be in the return.

[normal crest]

but it's whatever

[solid mesa]

im lost

[normal crest]

delete everything inside the [] in dependencies

[scarlet imp]

you're missing commas

[daring fern]

This would be cartomancer for example:

[normal crest]

@solid mesa what kind of joker do you want to make

[normal crest]

Yeah save that and try again

Also your prefix should really be longer

[untold vigil]

I saw that it was j for jokers

[normal crest]

that's different

each mod has its unique prefix

[scarlet imp]

Probably like "sab" for "Space Ace Blade", but you just want to be absolutely sure its unique

[untold vigil]

Yay made some progress

[wind steppe]

my joker doesn't show up for some reason (its not cause of the files i have other jokers in the same file that show up)

[scarlet imp]

loc_vars issue?

or is it the whole thing since its also missing art

[untold vigil]

Now I'll check if I can make it so it shows the "art" and text

[wind steppe]

nvm i just reset balatro and it works fine now

[solid mesa]

so you put this structure the many times you want retrigger?

G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event ({
func = (function()

--content

return true
end

[scarlet imp]

for art use:

atlas = "<your-atlas",
pos = "{ x = <some-val>, y = <someval2> },

for text use:

loc_txt = {
  name = "<your-jokers-name>",
  text = {
    "separate lines",
    "like this"
  }
}

[wind steppe]

text can also be done through localization files

[normal crest]

there is no step by step guide on how to make a joker

the way a joker is made depends entirely on its intended effect

[scarlet imp]

for retriggering cards, use context.repetition and return { repetitons = number )

[solid mesa]

not like the "idea", but im learning lua too

[solid mesa]

oh

[solid mesa]

by card you mean anything in the game?

[scarlet imp]

I actually wanted to make a video about my journey making Deckception (my mod) that's sort of a modding guide for beginners

[scarlet imp]

playing cards

[scarlet imp]

jokers have a special retrigger that you need to activate through SMODS

[normal crest]

i feel like you're just confusing them more and more

[untold vigil]

Kay

[solid mesa]

but that well be like jokers in cards, what about jokers in jokers?

[untold vigil]

The atlas and text/loc_txt has to be inside SMODS.jokers or Smods.atlas

?

[next pivot]

-# if you dont mind im doing that reply ping thing again
-# heres the message link to the achievement code if needed
-# #💻・modding-dev message

[scarlet imp]

put something like this in your main.lua:

-- Opt-in to SMODS features
SMODS.current_mod.optional_features = {
    retrigger_joker = true
}

this activates the ability to retrigger a Joker

[solid mesa]

dont put ? in me, im more lost of how i start asking things XDDD

[sonic cedar]

i was abt to reply

take out the either or stuff and just leave it as the modprefix version of the args

[daring fern]

What is a "Joker in a Joker"?

[normal crest]

yes this is not what they're asking about

[solid mesa]

nah that's too advanced for me already

[normal crest]

they don't even know lua apparently

so saying all of this isn't really helping them

[scarlet imp]

-- Context to use when retriggering jokers
if context.retrigger_joker_check and
      -- Makes sure it doesn't retrigger copies of itself
     context.other_card.config.center_key ~= self.key then

      --- Code

  end

[wind steppe]

does anyone know why my joker does nothing

     calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before and context.cardarea == G.play and not context.blueprint then
            print("a")
            if context.full_hand[1]:get_edition() == "e_base" then
                print("b")
                context.full_hand[1]:set_edition('e_negative')
                card.ability.extra.hands = card.ability.extra.hands - 1
                  return {
                      message = localize('para_k_transformed'),
                      colour = G.C.ATTENTION
                  }
            end
        elseif context.after and card.ability.extra.hands <= 0 and not context.blueprint then
            para_consumefood(card)
            print("c")
            return {
                message = localize('k_eaten_ex'),
                colour = G.C.ATTENTION
            }
        end
    end

none of the print statements trigger

[solid mesa]

you have jokers that retrigger playing card, and have jokers that retrigger another jokers, and even jokers that retrigger himself

[daring fern]

It wouldn't retrigger copies of itself by default if that's the only thing it does.

[next pivot]

welp i did that
still didn't work for some reason.

[daring fern]

Jokers can't retrigger jokers that retrigger jokers.

[scarlet imp]

better to have the extra security imo

[solid mesa]

boredom?

[wind steppe]

does boredom retrigger chad?

[normal crest]

jokers can do anything you want and they're limited by your knowledge of lua and creativity

[daring fern]

Jokers can retrigger the part that retriggers playing cards but not jokers.

[wind steppe]

new joker where i become the us president

[daring fern]

Yes.

Jokers can retrigger jokers that retrigger playing cards.

[solid mesa]

boredom can retrigger boredom
(at least that's what I interpret when I see them play)

[wind steppe]

no chad from cryptid not hanging chad

[solid mesa]

note that

[daring fern]

Yes, but only the part that retriggers playing cards.

[daring fern]

Then no.

[solid mesa]

ok its like commom sense or stucks in scoring, but sometimes it looks like that

[wind steppe]

[daring fern]

Remove the card area checks.

[untold vigil]

I feel like i'm getting closer

[faint yacht]

Not just Jokers... but you can pretty much do more the more "advanced" you go.
-# Like me spending ~8 consequtive hours trying to make cards score forwards and backwards nicely and still not fully getting it right. :c
-# And you can see my suffering in https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1307810407389593630 --

[scarlet imp]

pos = { x = 0, y = 0}, is that what the line looks like

[sonic cedar]

can you show me what that looks like

[normal crest]

you accidentally put a quote (") where it doesn't go

in the pos = blah blah line

[next pivot]

what do you mean by that exactly

[wind steppe]

how do i get the edition of a playing card

and whats the key for base edition

[faint yacht]

if context.other_card.edition to check if an edition exists.

[untold vigil]

Got it
Getting more errors

[sonic cedar]

after you changed it

[normal crest]

if you want to check if it doesn't have an edition do if not other_card.edition

[daring fern]

e_base

[sonic cedar]

but anyway for something like this you're probably gonna wanna use generate_ui instead

[next pivot]

-- Achievement
SMODS.Achievement{
    key="touch_grass",
    atlas="achieve",
    -- hidden_text = true,
    pos={x=1,y=0},
    hidden_pos={x=0,y=0},
    unlock_condition = function(self,args)
        if args.type == "SPL_touch_grass" then
            print("unlocked with the prefix")
            return true
        end
    end
}
-- Joker
SMODS.Joker{
    key="grass_joker",
    rarity=1,
    cost=3,
    atlas="grass",
    pos={x=0,y=0},
    loc_vars = function(self,info_queue,card)
        SparkLatro.touched_grass = true -- actually not really used but
        check_for_unlock({type="SPL_touch_grass"})
    end,
}

[untold vigil]

The more I try to analise and think of smt the more my brain breaks
I'm cooked chat 🥀

[normal crest]

you just have syntax errors in your code

[sonic cedar]

ok then yeah use generate_ui instead of trying to do it in locvars

[normal crest]

are you using vscode

[untold vigil]

Like unnecesary {}

[untold vigil]

yup

[normal crest]

get the lua extension

it will help a lot

[normal crest]

the error says you're missing a } somewhere

[next pivot]

well i changed it to generate_ui and it still did not unlock

[sonic cedar]

....send the code

[normal crest]

first one

[next pivot]

SMODS.Joker{
    key="grass_joker",
    rarity=1,
    cost=3,
    atlas="grass",
    pos={x=0,y=0},
    generate_ui = function(self,info_queue,card,desc_nodes,specific_vars,full_UI_table)
        -- yes the variables are not going to be used its fine
        SparkLatro.touched_grass = true
        check_for_unlock({type="SPL_touch_grass"})
    end,
    calculate = function(self,info_queue,card)
    end
}

[wind steppe]

is there a way to check if you're playing balatro in windowed mode vs. fullscreen

[normal crest]

define your atlas before your joker

[untold vigil]

So after the smods.joker it goes the atlas then the joker

[normal crest]

no

first SMODS.Atlas

Then after all that

SMODS.Joker

[hybrid shadow]

bump (currently center, not card, but still having the error)

[untold vigil]

So I'm currently missing key... It's that meant to be the file name or something?

[normal crest]

key is just a string

can be anything you want to name it

and when you use the atlas in a joker or in any other object you use the key that you put

[umbral zodiac]

does anyone know the vanilla chances for each rarity in the shop

[hybrid shadow]

common is 75%, uncommon is 20%, rare is 5%

[umbral zodiac]

oh thank god its in percentages and not weights

ty ty

[hybrid shadow]

it is in weights

nobody knows what the weights are from what i can tell

[umbral zodiac]

oh, well then thank you for giving it to me in percentages

[hybrid shadow]

but those are the chances

[upper onyx]

is there any way to get loc_vars from an arbitrary joker?

[normal crest]

only if you have an instance of that joker

[solid mesa]

weights?

[upper onyx]

i do, how do i get it?

[sonic cedar]

send a log message to see if it's running

[hybrid shadow]

yeah, the joker rarities are expressed in the code as weights, not percentages

[normal crest]

first you should check if it even has a loc_vars function, vanilla ones don't

[normal crest]

if joker.config.center.loc_vars

[solid mesa]

tf, explain that

[normal crest]

and then you should be able to call it with joker.config.center:loc_vars({}, joker)

I'm not 100% sure if this will work btw

just an educated guess

[solid mesa]

like the "em" for pixels?

[upper onyx]

will it work on vanilla jokers then? or no?

[normal crest]

vanilla jokers don't have the loc_vars function

[next pivot]

    generate_ui = function(self,info_queue,card,desc_nodes,specific_vars,full_UI_table)
        print("hi yes we are generating the uI")
        -- yes the variables are not going to be used its fine
        SparkLatro.touched_grass = true
        check_for_unlock({type="SPL_touch_grass"})
    end,

[upper onyx]

so theres no way for vanilla jokers. ok

[hybrid shadow]

like the percent chance is 75% but that might be expressed as 1.5 in the code, it may be expressed as 20, it might be 700

[normal crest]

the loc_vars of vanilla jokers are in Mods/lovely/dump/functions/common_events.lua, and search for "loc_vars"

they're all inside a generate_ui function that is common to all cards

hard coded basically

[upper onyx]

ah, fair enough

[solid mesa]

how you can put american metric system in programming? jesus

[hybrid shadow]

i didnt make balatro, dont ask me 🤷‍♀️

[sonic cedar]

ok cool it runs fine! in that case can you send the achievement code setup?

[keen totem]

weights are actually 9000 times better than percents

and i will stand by this

[normal crest]

agreed

[solid mesa]

explain

[keen totem]

do you not know how weights work?

cause if you do youd agree with me

[paper zealot]

It's the only way you can really create a chance-based picking system while still allowing unlimited additions

[next pivot]

i dont think ive changed it but here it is

SMODS.Achievement{
    key="touch_grass",
    atlas="achieve",
    -- hidden_text = true,
    -- reset_on_startup = true, -- TODO: remove once you've actually finished the mod lol
    pos={x=1,y=0},
    hidden_pos={x=0,y=0},
    unlock_condition = function(self,args)
        if args.type == "SPL_touch_grass" then
            print("unlocked with the prefix")
            return true
        end
    end
}

[solid mesa]

first time i heard that

[hybrid shadow]

truth

[solid mesa]

oh so you just remove the coma?

[keen totem]

for a common, what value of n is fair in
1 in n chance to give Xn Mult
?

[hybrid shadow]

im wishing i could make a custom rarity but since i have no clue what the vanilla weights are i can't really do that

[keen totem]

its probably just the percent numbers tbh

[solid mesa]

oh sumatorias

[hybrid shadow]

like just straight up 75, 20, and 5?

[keen totem]

probably

[paper zealot]

No, it's all relative. An item of weight 2 will be chosen 2x as often as an item of weight 1

[outer basalt]

i found this on the smods doc idk if you already found it lol

[umbral zodiac]

i did not
interesting

[solid mesa]

so they are not chances anymore, they are situations?

[normal crest]

Imagine you have a pool of items where each item has its own weight, you can interpret the weight as the amount of copies of that item in that pool, so items with more weight (aka more copies) are more likely to be drawn

[hybrid shadow]

i put in .75, .20, and .05 in my code and that did not work at all lol

[outer basalt]

This is on the create card in utility functions

speaking of, if I wanted to create a card a la The Fool how would I do that?

[wind steppe]

how would i detect if a blind ended and i didn't lose?

[hybrid shadow]

context.end_of_round and not context.game_over

[solid mesa]

but you dont have 0 n 100, all relative to all weights of the objects?

[normal crest]

i'm not sure what you're asking

[solid mesa]

I understand it, I just need to interpret it.

weights are the only system or smods have another?

[sonic cedar]

is the achievement already unlocked?

[hybrid shadow]

smods uses weight

[next pivot]

nope

[wind steppe]

how would i detect if i was saved by a joker? (ex: mr bones)

[gentle python]

Uhh

[solid mesa]

no

[gentle python]

?

[solid mesa]

rule 4 dude

only pc mod

[keen totem]

wait how do you see that as not PC?

obv theres a reason but idk what sticks out there

[solid mesa]

wh@t

[daring fern]

I saw what they deleted.

[solid mesa]

what

[keen totem]

oh they deleted smth

[solid mesa]

see what? the rule?

[wind steppe]

[keen totem]

does this image show something that makes it not PC?

im just curious

or is it smth they posted and deleted

[solid mesa]

the previous one

[solid mesa]

the previous one had volumen bar

[daring fern]

Does context.game_over persist?

[keen totem]

crazy work

[sonic cedar]

it should be working then
are you sure it isnt unlocked?

[hybrid shadow]

mr bones works in context.game_over

[wind steppe]

yeah but so does actually losing

[next pivot]

its not unlocked

[solid mesa]

and the imagen above have wrong pc width, if you are asking that

[keen totem]

is there a rule against modding non-PC balatro cause you have to do some weird stuff that youre not supposed to do in order to make it moddable

[red flower]

this is how the round eval checks

[hybrid shadow]

at least on mobile you have to do a lot of workarounds

[red flower]

no, its just because its against platform TOS

[hybrid shadow]

i havent modded mobile balatro before but there's a reason it isnt possible

[keen totem]

yea so stuff youre not supposed to do

[solid mesa]

piracy surely

[hybrid shadow]

anyways

[outer basalt]

I have managed to create an invisible, uninteractible neptune

[red flower]

no, just any modding not necessarily for doing "weird stuff"

[hybrid shadow]

bump again

[normal crest]

against google play store TOS probably

[wind steppe]

how do you even know it's there then

[normal crest]

not that I know what exactly

[outer basalt]

its not negative

[wind steppe]

how can you tell it's neptune

[hybrid shadow]

prob bc thats the function of the card

[normal crest]

you guys can't see it?

[red flower]

looks like neptune to me

[outer basalt]

emplaced a neptune

[solid mesa]

yeah i can see the

[wind steppe]

personally i prefer

[outer basalt]

anyways i want my neptune to be usable 😭

[solid mesa]

btw, what do to that dude? 😭

[outer basalt]

tis what i was doing.

[daring fern]

eval G.consumeables.cards[1]:use_consumeable()?

[outer basalt]

returns nil

[normal crest]

returning nil is not unexpected, but did it use it

[red flower]

yeah it returns nil because it doesnt have a return thats normal

[outer basalt]

still 1/2

[normal crest]

maybe just kill it and try again

[red flower]

D:

[normal crest]

what did you do to emplace it

[outer basalt]

this

consumable saves the last used card

[normal crest]

uhhh

don't save card objects in your ability tables

you will break your save file

[outer basalt]

oop

what should i do then?

. save it as a variable outside the card..

somehow, forgot that was an option

[hybrid shadow]

lol

[normal crest]

are you trying to replicate the fool behaviour

[sonic cedar]

if only there was a mod that replicates every tarot in an smods friendly way

[red flower]

!!

it doesnt help with the fool because it uses the vanilla variable

[sonic cedar]

damnit!!

[keen totem]

vanilla remado my beloved

[sonic cedar]

i fumbles

[midnight coyote]

how can i make an enhancement replicate the card played next to it, regardless if it's being scored or not?

[keen totem]

context.full_hand

[midnight coyote]

i know what the full hand is

but

[sonic cedar]

conte- you guys are just demons i swear

[keen totem]

then this should be easy

[midnight coyote]

but how do i

[normal crest]

you want to get the effects the card next to it would have had if it was scored?

[midnight coyote]

yes

it replicates it thrice

[outer basalt]

yes, but i want to do more than just tarots and planets

[red flower]

you can keep the key saved instead of the card

[normal crest]

honestly that sounds very complicated and probably requires a lot of lovely patching in my mind

[outer basalt]

how would I acess that? I tried card.key

[midnight coyote]

guh

[red flower]

card.config.center.key

[outer basalt]

ohhh

mfw im just missing the config

[daring fern]

A blueprint for playing cards?

[midnight coyote]

kinda!

[daring fern]

I think you would just eval_card it but change the card area to G.play temporarily.

[solid mesa]

more like chad, but just right, not rightmost

[midnight coyote]

hm? could i see a place where i would find an implementation for this

[next pivot]

for the time being i have just disabled achievements in the mod

[daring fern]

https://github.com/Somethingcom515/SealsOnJokers/blob/allinone/main.lua#L1366 But change context.cardarea to G.play before the eval and change it back after.

[keen totem]

is 1 in 2 chance for X4 Mult too OP?

[wind steppe]

on what

[keen totem]

idk

[midnight coyote]

alright

[keen totem]

what rarity should it be

feels uncommon

[midnight coyote]

chances for XMult at all feel pretty weak because of how unreliable they are

[normal crest]

oh nice, i didn't think of that, was overcomplicating it

[keen totem]

the thing im basing this off of literally has to be chances

or else its loyalty card

[wind steppe]

why doesn't this prevent me from being saved by mr bones

        elseif context.end_of_round and not context.game_over and ((to_big(G.GAME.chips) - to_big(G.GAME.blind_chips)) < to_big(0)) then
            G.STATE = G.STATES.GAME_OVER
            G.STATE_COMPLETE = false
        end

[hasty ravine]

I've been trying to do a card that makes specific played cards retrigger, but that's not happening for some reason. Does it not work when the id its being compared to is a variable?

[normal crest]

card.ability.extra.marcVal

not just marcVal

[sonic cedar]

where main_eval

[wind steppe]

wdym

[hasty ravine]

Ah, that's right. Thank you!

[hybrid shadow]

one rarity higher than bloodstone since its better than bloodstone in 2 aspects

[wind steppe]

is it on a jonkler or a playing card though

because jonklers dont trigger as much

[sonic cedar]

and context.main_eval
(also you should probably move the number comparison to a separate conditional)

[hybrid shadow]

they were asking for rarity

[keen totem]

holy shit youre right

without retriggers, this is better than bloodstone

[hybrid shadow]

unless its 1 in 2 chance after hand is played

[keen totem]

wdym after hand is played

[hybrid shadow]

like when does it trigger

[keen totem]

context.joker_main

but, it is technically better than bloodstone unless you have retriggers

[hybrid shadow]

if it triggers off of cards then yes bump, if not keep it same rarity as bloodstone

[normal crest]

yeah it's not really better than bloodstone in that aspect

[wind steppe]

        elseif context.end_of_round and not context.game_over and context.main_eval then
            if ((to_big(G.GAME.chips) - to_big(G.GAME.blind_chips)) < to_big(0)) then
                   G.STATE = G.STATES.GAME_OVER
                G.STATE_COMPLETE = false
            end
        end
``` does not work

[keen totem]

once you get retriggers its worse

just like in the game its from, first few antes joker (i mean, early game thing in that game but same premise)

[hybrid shadow]

the only buff a joker that has 1 in 2 chance of scoring x4 mult in context.joker_main can have is from oa6s

[sonic cedar]

is it supposed to be like mr bones

[keen totem]

its based on the Eoka Pistol from Rust

[wind steppe]

it kills you even if bones saves you

[hybrid shadow]

and polychrome

[keen totem]

i think this joker makes a LOT more sense with that info

[wind steppe]

but doesn't kill you if you beat the blind normally

[sonic cedar]

shouldnt it run in the same context as mr bones then

[wind steppe]

which is?

[hybrid shadow]

just make it same rarity as bloodstone since a joker that doesnt trigger off of scoring cards can't be upgraded as much as one that does can

[sonic cedar]

what you have already but get rid of the not

iirc

[keen totem]

its meant to be early game so i kinda want it to be common

[sonic cedar]

cause mr bones operates in game_over (who wouldve guessed)

[wind steppe]

doesn't work

[hybrid shadow]

id say reduce the effect then because loyalty card which has the same effect in a slightly worse activation way is uncommon

[keen totem]

loyalty card is not something i want to be balancing based on

[hybrid shadow]

ignore everything i say then

[keen totem]

im not balancing a joker based on one of the worst in the game

[sonic cedar]

oh wait shouldnt the forced game over be an event

like E_MANAGER event

[wind steppe]

idk

[hybrid shadow]

does nobody know how to fix this

[untold vigil]

Soo finally made it load without crashing the game
-# Darn I need it so it triggers with spades, make it load the art cuz even with the atlas stuff it dosen't load and make the spade part be dark blue

First I'll lock in and check if it works

[hybrid shadow]

what do you mean by the atlas stuff

[untold vigil]

The art

[hybrid shadow]

no, your issue with it

[outer basalt]

my neptune is real now ^^,

[hybrid shadow]

joker 2

[wind steppe]

visible neptune? preposterous

[hybrid shadow]

you dont need the second atlas in that code

also

what does your joker call for as the atlas

[outer basalt]

hush they have art im just too lazy to actually put it in thw atlas

[untold vigil]

Srry did not understand

[hybrid shadow]

your joker code

it has atlas = somewhere in there right?

[untold vigil]

nope

[hybrid shadow]

put in your joker code atlas = 'ae',

[untold vigil]

OMG TY

I'll figure a way to do something myself, it's a personal nitpick

[hybrid shadow]

alr

[wind steppe]

        elseif context.end_of_round and context.game_over and context.main_eval then
            if ((to_big(G.GAME.chips) - to_big(G.GAME.blind_chips)) < to_big(0)) then
                   G.STATE = G.STATES.GAME_OVER
                G.STATE_COMPLETE = false
            end
        end

why doesn't this prevent mr bones from saving me

[solid mesa]

finally, n't

[solid mesa]

æ

[outer basalt]

ae therskye real

what happened to the atlas ??? lmao???

[trail roost]

Yo, I need help with something, anyone able to?

[wind steppe]

just ask your question

don't ask if you can ask something

[solid mesa]

XD???????

[trail roost]

This keeps happening

[wind steppe]

bump

[wind steppe]

reinstall lovely

[solid mesa]

another one

[trail roost]

I have, 3 times

[wind steppe]

reinstall steamodded and lovely

[trail roost]

Still didn’t work

[wind steppe]

what mods do you have

[trail roost]

Cryptid and Pokermon

[outer basalt]

okay her backsprite is a bit fucked up (I guess its too dark?) buuuut thats my second joker almost finished up.
Anyways enjoy literally just my username lol

[wind steppe]

do you have talisman

[trail roost]

Yeah

[wind steppe]

reinstall everything

[solid mesa]

its the 3's dude in two days with the same problem

something recent is causing that

[wind steppe]

bump

[paper zealot]

Where did you install it to? It should go in the Balatro installation folder (usually at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Balatro), not in the Mods folder with the other mods

[trail roost]

It’s still not working? Idk what’s going on

[paper zealot]

Also make sure your Balatro is updated to version 1.0.1o

[trail roost]

Yeah it’s updated

its still crashing every time

[paper zealot]

➡️ #⚙・modding-general message

[sleek cliff]

ok, so someone was playing my mod and got this error when they played a Royal Flush

[daring fern]

Is this a joker? Also your lines don't match it seems because extra is not present.

What does that line look like on their side?

[sleek cliff]

yes

[trail roost]

It’s loading

[wind steppe]

bump

[daring fern]

Do you want to prevent all jokers that save or just mr bones?

[wind steppe]

all jokers

[daring fern]

You should probably just patch where saved is checked.

[wind steppe]

where is that?

[sleek cliff]

about the exact same

[daring fern]

The problem is you need to check context.other_card.ability.extra and type(context.other_card.ability.extra) == "table"

[sleek cliff]

like this?

[untold vigil]

LETSGOOOOO

Thank yall for your help

[daring fern]

Yes.

[sleek cliff]

awesome

[wild escarp]

Is this not correct for displaying a negative tooltip?
"{C:dark_edition,T:e_negative}negative"

[glad osprey]

tooltips are only for decks btw

if your not using it for a deck then you need to use loc_vars "info queue" system

[wild escarp]

I've done them on jokers too, but I guess vouchers are not that easy?

[glad osprey]

I didn't expect it to work for jokers

but yea I would still reccomend doing the info queue stuff

[wild escarp]

Yeah, that worked, thanks!

[scarlet imp]

trying to make a new consumable type, but I need to make a pool for it it seems

SMODS.ConsumableType {
    key = "tboi_reversed",
    default = "c_tboi_r_fool",
    primary_colour = HEX("89093a"),
    secondary_colour = HEX("89093a"),
    collection_rows = { 5, 6 },
    shop_rate = 2.5
}

I pretty much copied this code from the VanillaRemade consumable for regular Tarots, so is this where I put the pool for my consumables?

[wild escarp]

Is there some good documentation for taking ownership?

[topaz monolith]

How would I check if the player has a specific tag?

[daring fern]

Iterate over G.GAME.tags and check tag.key

[stiff quiver]

how can i make a joker add a card to your hand?

[daring fern]

Try looking at Certificate?

[vale glen]

Although the request has been resolved, wondering what a tooltip with a negative color would look like, or act like. Likeeee, edition shaders would be applied on the tooltip itself.

[stiff quiver]

i'll try that thanks

[strange wasp]

Hi, I think I may have gotten a grasp on how to get things started with SMODS documentation. I also am about to start making my first joker, but I am running into a problem. Whenever I type in SMODS , there's a red line under it. Is there anyway I can fix those? I'm using VSC

[vale glen]

Include the Steamodded folder in your workspace, if you're using VS Code or some IDE like that

[paper zealot]

You'll also need to make sure your file has the .lua filetype - this means naming it sunny.lua, not sunny.lua.txt like it is now

[scenic elm]

another way to include workspace libraries with lua is creating a .luarc.json file at the root of your project and adding the path to whatever other library you're using under "workspace.library"

https://luals.github.io/wiki/settings/#workspacelibrary

[scarlet imp]

bump

[manic rune]

huh

balatro star rail's code is fucked up now that i look back at it

sob

[stiff quiver]

hi, i asked before how to make a joker add cards to your hand and i was told to look at certificate so i copied the part of its code that creates the card but for some reason its creating like 20 cards and i dont know why ```lua calculate = function(self,card,context)
if context.discard then
if #context.full_hand == 4 and context.full_hand[1]:get_id() == 6 and context.full_hand[2]:get_id() == 6 and context.full_hand[3]:get_id() == 6 and context.full_hand[4]:get_id() == 6 then
for _,playing_card in ipairs(context.full_hand) do
SMODS.destroy_cards(context.other_card)
card.ability.extra.happen = true
end
end
end
if card.ability.extra.happen then
card.ability.extra.happen = false
G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
func = function()
local _card = create_playing_card({
front = pseudorandom_element(G.P_CARDS, pseudoseed('seed')),
center = G.P_CENTERS.c_base}, G.hand, nil, nil, {G.C.SECONDARY_SET.Enhanced})
local seal_type = pseudorandom('seed')
if seal_type > 0.75 then _card:set_seal('Red', true)
elseif seal_type > 0.5 then _card:set_seal('Blue', true)
elseif seal_type > 0.25 then _card:set_seal('Gold', true)
else _card:set_seal('Purple', true)
end
G.GAME.blind:debuff_card(_card)
G.hand:sort()

                      return true
                  end}))
          
    
  end

end,

[manic rune]

context.discard runs everytime a card is discarded, afaik

[hasty mist]

i think context.pre_discard is for every discard

[stiff quiver]

i'll try that

[hasty mist]

what broke here?

is it not other_card?

[daring fern]

You need to check for context.individual

[vale glen]

Dun think other_card exists in every context

[thorn furnace]

What are the keys for the different editions?

[daring fern]

e_foil, e_holo, e_polychrome and e_negative

[stiff quiver]

ok that worked, thanks everyone

[hasty mist]

context.individual instead of context.other_card?

[thorn furnace]

huh
my code might just not be working then
hold on

[daring fern]

No, you check for it when you check the card area.

[vale glen]

if context.individual and ...

[scarlet imp]

trying to add my own consumable type, got this error

[thorn furnace]

nevermind I guess

[hybrid shadow]

bump

[hasty mist]

also, is this incorrect? it seems to not be applying echips or emult

[hybrid shadow]

are you using talisman

[hasty mist]

yeah

[daring fern]

echip_mod and emult_mod should not be a table.

[manic rune]

do you really need to use emult_mod instead of emult?

[stiff quiver]

btw how do i set an enhancement/edition to the created card? does it work the same way as adding the seal?

[hasty mist]

that's just how i've seen it done in the past

[daring fern]

Also the message wouldn't work.

[hasty mist]

huh why not

[daring fern]

Because you're defining it twice.

[daring fern]

Just do return {emult = card.ability.extra.emult, echips = card.ability.extra.echips}

[manic rune]

im surprised your vsc didnt underline that actually

[daring fern]

They don't have the lua extension.

[manic rune]

sob

[hasty mist]

i do have it i just keep it off most of the time, bad habit i know

[manic rune]

whats with people coding without Lua extension

[unborn bay]

maybe to save on ram?

like yeah lsps do take up some ram

[vale glen]

Axy codes in Notepad++, with only a low contrast color theme.

[unborn bay]

but then again you're already running vsc

[hasty mist]

nah i have plenty i just have a habit of turning it off

[unborn bay]

which is already electron

so you're not saving anything

[solid mesa]

in notepad++ you can style the color of the code?

[vale glen]

Axy just doesn't like the telemetry from VS Code, and VS Codium starts up a bit slower than Notepad++, soooo.

[daring fern]

I'm pretty sure they said they turn it off because they don't like that the colour changes.

[hasty mist]

i actually fixed that one

but yeah by default the lua extension makes like almost all the text green

[scarlet imp]

bump 🙏

[hasty mist]

makes it kinda hard to read

[vale glen]

Not sure, but there's syntax highlighting and line numbers and code folding.

[unborn bay]

n++ does not have code completion though its fine if you don't need that

[vale glen]

Axy never got used to code completion, so that works out

[unborn bay]

lsps like the sumneko lua extension provides provide that

[vale glen]

VS Code probably has VIM keybinds, come to think of it

Or maybe Emacs

[solid mesa]

yea, its just sometimes dont color none of the code

even it is in formatt

[vale glen]

You might want to specify the language then

[hasty mist]

awesome, works great now, ty for the help yall

[vale glen]

Futhark font

Amaze

[hasty mist]

yess

[vale glen]

Imagine if you replaced all letters with that

[hasty mist]

was an absolute pain to implement

[vale glen]

Yeah, sounds like it

You'd prolly have to mess with generate_ui directly or something

[scarlet imp]

did you change the max size of blinds?

[hasty mist]

actually, it's just this

[thorn furnace]

how do I check if a played card is a certain rank

[hasty mist]

the font system is a recent smods addition

[hasty mist]

wdym?

[daring fern]

if card:get_id() == id

[vale glen]

They merged Aiko's font PR already?

[hasty mist]

yep!

[unborn bay]

yeye

[thorn furnace]

I guess i more mean in what context do I do that

[vale glen]

hypeeee

[daring fern]

context.individual?

[thorn furnace]

I don't want it to trigger multiple times if the card is scored multiple times

[thorn furnace]

okii
thanks

[scarlet imp]

blinds cap out at like 1e308, going over it is what gives you naneinf in game. If you raise the cap, you could play with a Joker like that for alot longer yknow

[hasty mist]

oh yeah, talisman makes (most) numbers in the game able to go way above 1e308

theoretically infinite, if your pc can handle it

[scarlet imp]

epic 👍

[hasty mist]

you can get scores like this lmao

[vale glen]

...Wondering how difficult it would be to run it well on an FPGA

Use the massively parallel power of VHDL/Verilog

[hasty mist]

lmao yeah

[vale glen]

To run... high frequency financials Balatro

[hybrid shadow]

im not using talisman for my mod bc i could never get used to having to wrap everything in to_bigs

[scenic elm]

for some reason i can't fast reload the game with alt + f5, only the holding m fast reload works. y'all got any ideas as to why? i'm on the latest version of smods

[solid mesa]

what joker are you using?

[hasty mist]

asgard, from my mod

[solid mesa]

what he does?

[hybrid shadow]

bump

[solid mesa]

the first time i reach that score (actually was ## ) i have cosmos and his puppet

[solid mesa]

oh sorry i dont see you name, i play your mod a few days ago

[thorn furnace]

How do you tell if a Wheel of Fortune has failed

[sturdy compass]

I made checks for that and you need to patch/take ownership to make that work

[thorn furnace]

i feel bad patching these things because it makes my compatibility with other mods worse

but I guess I have 4 different Jokers based around modifying/using Wheel of Fortune so I guess it balances out

[sturdy compass]

Taking ownership is a lot less destuctive if compatibility is a concern

Also it is very possible to make non-destructive patches

[thorn furnace]

o

[solid mesa]

[stiff quiver]

how do i change a cards rank to a selected number? is it with this? lua card:set_base(G.P_CARDS[suit_prefix..rank_suffix])

[thorn furnace]

I might as well just patch the entire thing since I'm changing it anyway
How do I patch the use function of it

[daring fern]

SMODS.change_base(card, suit, rank)

[vagrant cedar]

@vale glen

[vale glen]

Ooh, am curious about how one would do that

[stiff quiver]

thats easier lol, is it necessary to specify suit if the card already has one?

[sturdy compass]

This is the patch I made for my purposes

[daring fern]

No.

[stiff quiver]

ok, thanks!

[sturdy compass]

Basically using befores and afters are way more sustainable than using ats

[vale glen]

Ohhh, patches, not taking ownership

Read that wrong

[sturdy compass]

all good lmaooo

[vale glen]

Non destructive taking ownership would be nice though, then it could be like hooking a function

[sturdy compass]

ownership taking in general is pretty non-destructive honestly

[thorn furnace]

thank u again meoww
wat would the flag be here

[sturdy compass]

It's just when multiple mods start to try taking ownership at the same time where it starts getting hairl

[vagrant cedar]

Anyone know what's going wrong here?

[daring fern]

Firstly, it should be Mod/assets/sounds/1.ogg

[sturdy compass]

Use the key in play_sound

[vagrant cedar]

Yeah thats what I originally had

But the game is telling me different

[sturdy compass]

Not necessarily

It can just be the file name and it works just fine

[vale glen]

What's your mod prefix?

[vagrant cedar]

MAES

[daring fern]

No, I was referring to the file location.

[sturdy compass]

Ah, so you are

[vagrant cedar]

oh is it play_sound('MAES_joker_spawn_ping')?

[sturdy compass]

Thought you were talking about the path attribute

[hybrid shadow]

bump

[vale glen]

Use play_sound('MAES_1',1,1) to get your original sound

[vale glen]

Also do this, since the resources folder isn't the right spot

[vagrant cedar]

yeah putting that back to how I originally had it

I was confused as to why it keeps saying resources in Balatro itself

because nowhere in my code did I say resources

[sturdy compass]

"Flag" is honestly an outdated term for this functionality. What I'm doing here is adding a custom context call to Wheel's fail code, allowing some of my jokers to detect when a Wheel fails

Technically I use this for more than just the Wheel, but that's moot for your purposes

[vale glen]

Your mod prefix is whatever's in this line, in your JSON metadata file

[thorn furnace]

fair
Not sure how I detect it with a Joker tho

[vagrant cedar]

Yeah.

MAES

I was asking if the corrected line was what I sent

[sturdy compass]

For your purposes I would replace my payload with simply SMODS.calculate_context({failed_wheel = true}) and then check if context.failed_wheel in your Joker

[vale glen]

Then prefix your sound files like written here

[sturdy compass]

Finding out calculate_context exists was a game changer for me so I hope you find use out of it too

[vale glen]

Oh, do you know how the return table works for that function? The second parameter to calculate_context

[thorn furnace]

Ooo

[vagrant cedar]

this worked

[thorn furnace]

Im probably gonna ask for help again because i also wanted to rewrite the functionality of the card itself
I had a Joker that allowed Wheel of Fortune to make jokers negative

[sturdy compass]

Admittedly I do not

[vale glen]

Awh

Some contexts use it, but Axy's never, like, actually read those contexts to see how they're used, or what they contain

[sturdy compass]

I honestly have never seen another mod use that arg so I never looked into it lmao

[vale glen]

Mmh, just copying existing mods isn't great software engineering practice, bweh... Axy's never worked with code this large before though, so just reading all these fields is slow going

All of Balatro is a giant table, but it's also a giant table

[sturdy compass]

Ain't that the truth lol

How new are you to modding the game?

[thorn furnace]

i think the brackets are mismatched unless i messed up somewhere

[vale glen]

Basically started around April 7 of last month, with some chatter among friends about making Jokers based on us

Made a few jokers and have 'em on a Github, if you wanted to have a look

[sturdy compass]

I highly recommend you get the Even Better TOML extension for linting and formatting purposes

[sturdy compass]

Ah so still pretty new, gotcha

[vale glen]

After your juice_up line, add a closing curly bracket and two closing rounded brackets

[sturdy compass]

No this is a patch, this is ok

My guess is you forgot a set of ''' at the beginning of the pattern argument

[vale glen]

That seems to be the only place they're unpaired, so

[thorn furnace]

in my mind I say "I'm probably fine as this is probably gonna be the last patch I do" and then immediately the next day I'm like "gah I gotta modify how Wheel of Fortune works in like three different ways"

[sturdy compass]

Trust me, you will very likely do more patches lol

[thorn furnace]

i dont know why i didnt include that part in the screenshot

[vale glen]

Mmh, although the ideas the friends gave are ambitious and things

[sturdy compass]

Ok yeah I think that's just a result of VSC not knowing how to format TOML without the extension lmao

[thorn furnace]

o

[sturdy compass]

Oh trust me I FULLY understand that pain LOL

[hybrid shadow]

last gamba of today to see if this is gonna get buried again or if someone is actually gonna help

[thorn furnace]

vsc's ui is so confusing to me ;-;
Why can't it be more like vs

[vale glen]

Like, this was a joker Axy coded in recently, and added dynamic descriptions so it's not a wall of text.

[sturdy compass]

goodness me

[sturdy compass]

I've come around to VSC after using VS for awhile ngl

It's honestly a lot more sleek

Better keyboard shortcuts too

[vale glen]

Would it not be card.config.center.config.hand_type?

[thorn furnace]

I mean you can use vsc shortcuts on vs

[sturdy compass]

Sometimes

[thorn furnace]

not by default but it's in settings

[sturdy compass]

oh huh

the more you know

[thorn furnace]

I've only really used vsc when I haven't had any other IDEs that support a certain language

[hybrid shadow]

lemme see if that works

[thorn furnace]

which has been slowly decreasing

[hybrid shadow]

it's a planet btw if thats important

yup card returned nil again

[vale glen]

Hm

Are you available for a screenshare to figure it out?

Axy has some time, if you don't mind that

[sturdy compass]

Did you by any chance put hand_type in an extra table in your config?

[hybrid shadow]

it is not in an extra table, i was under the impression from other mods that it was not required

[sturdy compass]

It is not

That's why I was asking lol

Could you send the full code of the card?

[thorn furnace]

double checking
you mean the payload is like this right?
Tested it in game and doesn't seem to be working

[sturdy compass]

yeah that should work

[thorn furnace]

hm

[sturdy compass]

Show the full patch if you could

[vale glen]

Is that line in the right spot? Hrm

[thorn furnace]

while we're at it the joker too

[sturdy compass]

Ah that's why. Your check in the joker is wrong

[hybrid shadow]

full code, line inside colours trying to index a nil value

[sturdy compass]

Literally the only context check you need is context.failed_wheel

[vale glen]

How Axy does it is in [this message](#💻・modding-dev message), if that helps any.

[thorn furnace]

oh

well then

this is like the second smallest Joker I've made so far

actually it might be the smallest

[hybrid shadow]

the problem is colours not working, i haven't even been able to test the planet yet because of colours perpetually returning nil

[sturdy compass]

I SEE THE PROBLEM!!!

The colours table needs to be in your vars table

[vale glen]

Right, using center.config.hand_type doesn't reference itself. Try self.config.hand_type maybe?

[sturdy compass]

Like this

[vale glen]

Ah, that too!

Yeah, colours are a variable

[sturdy compass]

That's 100% the crux of the problem. Don't try anything with self, that will BREAK!

[vale glen]

Eh? They... don't break though?

They're the prototype of a card, shared between instances of a card

While stuff accessed with card refer to the copy of the card

[thorn furnace]

this doesn't work either actually

[hybrid shadow]

changed that

still nil

[sturdy compass]

I've had it break on me before so that's odd, but this is even more of a reason to use card instead

cuz the values could potentially be different

[vale glen]

Ehhhh... Depends on what you're doing with it. Can't imagine hand_type changing unless other cards take ownership of that Joker, to change that specifically

[sturdy compass]

Check your logs, see if the patch is failing

[vale glen]

What does your code look like now?

[thorn furnace]

where do i check those

[sturdy compass]

change all of your card.config.whatevers to card.ability.hand_type

[hybrid shadow]

card is still nil, but even just center.config was returning overall nil for the line

[sturdy compass]

mods/lovely/logs

[hybrid shadow]

will see if that works

[hybrid shadow]

card is still nil

[sturdy compass]

because your loc_vars argument is still center

lol

[hybrid shadow]

wdym

[vale glen]

pft

Axy's so used to just using self, info_queue, card that they never saw that

[hybrid shadow]

ah ffs

[sturdy compass]

I've gotten pretty good at sniffing out small things like that over the months I've bummed around here lol

[vale glen]

Why was it changed at all xD

[sturdy compass]

They changed it to center as a last ditch effort I assume

[hybrid shadow]

i do not remember why it's center (prob from the mod i copied to try and get the colours right)

[thorn furnace]

WARN - [♥] Pattern [I'm not pasting the entire patch here] for pattern patch from JoJoMod\lovely.toml resulted in no matches

[sturdy compass]

Do you by any chance have any other mod installed?

[thorn furnace]

just a few qol ones

ill try disabling them

[sturdy compass]

You might just have a tiny typo in your pattern somewhere then ngl

[daring fern]

Try looking for a less broad pattern.

[hybrid shadow]

works now at least (it seems), will full test rn

[vale glen]

yayyyy

[sturdy compass]

They were copying mine so that's kinda on me lol

[hybrid shadow]

for anyone wondering why it doesnt say the hand name

the hand has no name

[thorn furnace]

it's my worst nightmare

[hybrid shadow]

HELL YEAH IT FULLY WORKS

[sturdy compass]

Gimme a sec, I'm gonna make a smaller pattern to check and give it to you to use

[thorn furnace]

okiii

[vale glen]

Does your approach work for vanilla Jokers too? Axy is trying to access hand_type or hand_types too, in their own Joker, and wandered around until they found this table that was shared between vanilla Planets and Cryptid Planets, among others.

[sturdy compass]

pattern = '''
G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'after', delay = 0.06*G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED, blockable = false, blocking = false, func = function()
    play_sound('tarot2', 0.76, 0.4);return true end}))
play_sound('tarot2', 1, 0.4)
used_tarot:juice_up(0.3, 0.5)
'''

[thorn furnace]

that seems a lot smaller

[sturdy compass]

it is lol

Sometimes my adhd brain wants to make extra sure I don't patch something I don't wanna 😭

[thorn furnace]

I'll test it out then
Got my jokers all ready

all 21 of them

[sturdy compass]

I have never ever seen SMODS.deepfind before 😭

[thorn furnace]

it works :3

thank uuu

[sturdy compass]

Woohoo!!

[thorn furnace]

[sturdy compass]

Happy to help

[thorn furnace]

am i going to have to go through this for every single joker

[sturdy compass]

[vale glen]

Well, it worksssss

Just wondering if using a different field would be better

[thorn furnace]

this is going to be a very long weekend I'm guessing

[vale glen]

What happens if you have an Act 2 and an Act 4 in the same hand, would they override each other based on the order of the joker

[stiff quiver]

im getting this crash when looking at the joker outside of a run, how can i fix it? lua loc_vars = function(self,info_queue,center) return {vars = {center.ability.extra.chip_bonus * G.GAME.consumeable_usage_total.planet}} end, calculate = function(self,card,context) if context.joker_main then return { chips = card.ability.extra.chip_bonus * G.GAME.consumeable_usage_total.planet} end end,

[sturdy compass]

You should be able to access hand_type from planet cards in your loop with v.ability.hand_type if that's what you're asking

[thorn furnace]

4 would override 2
Though it would be quite hard to get into that position
You upgrade the Joker by getting a Stand Arrow consumable which is supposed to be almost like "The Soul" levels of rare

[daring fern]

G.GAME and G.GAME.consumeable_usage_total.planet or 0

[stiff quiver]

ok thanks!

[vale glen]

Could possibly have a card that duplicates a given Joker then self destructs, then keep upgrading only one of the other Jokers. It'd be difficult, but not impossible.

[thorn furnace]

true
invisible joker could allow for that

[vale glen]

Yeah, although Cryptid has cards that look at hand_types instead, and Aikoyori has their own field name for it. So just checking v.ability might work, will try it soon. Thanks!

[daring fern]

How does one allow for retriggers on a joker that doesn't return?

[strange wasp]

So, little bit of quick context, I am following along to the outdated YT video on how to make a joker and I'm at 4:52. So I finally got myself to the point to which I want to test to see if my Joker would be detected by smods and it seems to not show up.

[thorn furnace]

I kinda wanna buff the joker because three stand arrows is insane but I think it's powerful enough

[sturdy compass]

Cryptid compatibility is ambitious lol

But I wish you luck

[strange wasp]

Like I said, the video is outdated. Is there anything else I need to do for the Joker to appear in the game.

[vale glen]

Well, it works for Cryptid planets with this method, outside of Ascended hands, soooo

[daring fern]

This doesn't do anything:

[sturdy compass]

Take your wins lol

[daring fern]

It does print "no effects" though.

[stiff quiver]

got this crash with that lua loc_vars = function(self,info_queue,center) return {vars = {center.ability.extra.chip_bonus * G.GAME and G.GAME.consumeable_usage_total.planet or 0}} end, calculate = function(self,card,context) if context.joker_main then return { chips = card.ability.extra.chip_bonus * G.GAME.consumeable_usage_total.planet} end end, in_pool = function(self,wawa,wawa2) return true end

[daring fern]

(G.GAME and G.GAME.consumeable_usage_total.planet or 0)

[sturdy compass]

The biggest mistake I've typically seen is a missing metadata file. Do you have one?

[hybrid shadow]

the funny part abt having a really good enhancement that's all suits means it gets debuffed by boss blinds that target suits 4x as often

[manic rune]

just have it unable to be debuffed, so shrimple

[strange wasp]

Yes. And it's a json.

[sturdy compass]

What does your joker code look like then?

[manic rune]

sunny.json.json

[sturdy compass]

.jsom

[umbral zodiac]

jsom

[manic rune]

oh

sunny.jsom.json

sob

[umbral zodiac]

erm what the scallops

[vale glen]

main.lua.txt

[manic rune]

me when the arrow hops between messages

[vale glen]

[stiff quiver]

crashed again lua loc_vars = function(self,info_queue,center) return {vars = {center.ability.extra.chip_bonus * (G.GAME and G.GAME.consumeable_usage_total.planet or 0)}} end,

[vale glen]

main_fille

[sturdy compass]

main_fille

[vale glen]

badge_tect_color too

[manic rune]

G.GAME and G.GAME.consumeable_usage_total and G.GAME.consumeable_usage_total.planet or 0

[vale glen]

xD

There's so much happening here

[strange wasp]

The code

[sturdy compass]

Lotsa typos in your metadata. Might wanna look it over. Likely the cause of your missing joker

main.lua.txt is DIABOLICAL

[unkempt kestrel]

how would one go about removing the main menu button

[manic rune]

badge tect colour

[daring fern]

Try using the JSON template.

[sturdy compass]

I'm so tired 😭

[strange wasp]

Me too.

[stiff quiver]

that worked, thanks

[hybrid shadow]

eternal... has no functionality of its own...?

[sturdy compass]

Correct lol

[manic rune]

lalala

[sturdy compass]

Eternal’s “functionality” is just other methods checking if a card has it lol

[hybrid shadow]

how do i make a sticker thats like eternal but for playing cards (the tarot card meant to apply it to playing cards already exists)

[strange wasp]

I used the steammodded template to make the code from the first picture I took a few minutes ago.

[sturdy compass]

How did it get messed up so bad????

[daring fern]

You hook Card:start_dissolve and Card:shatter and you patch SMODS.calculate_destroy_cards

[hybrid shadow]

cool code terminology

how

[strange wasp]

When you said templates I was confused if you were talking about the metadata or the example mod? Or was it something else?

[sturdy compass]

Million dollar question right there

[hybrid shadow]

-# ive learned that i barely if ever get somewhat useful answers from him tbh

[sturdy compass]

The metadata

[strange wasp]

I am so new to making mods. This is my first ever mod project.

[hybrid shadow]

show how it looks in your folder

[thorn furnace]

is there a version of G.playing_cards that works outside of game
My card keeps crashing because the preview keeps trying to access it

[strange wasp]

If it was from the metadata, then I pretty much used the templates anfd copuied it

[sturdy compass]

Can you show the code you have have that’s accessing it?

[thorn furnace]

set_ability = function(self, card, initial, delay_sprites)
        local valid_cards = {}
        for _, card in ipairs(G.playing_cards) do
            if not SMODS.has_no_suit(card) and not SMODS.has_no_rank(card) then
                valid_cards[#valid_cards + 1] = card
            end
        end
            
        local lucky_card = pseudorandom_element(valid_cards, pseudoseed('dragonsDreamLucky' .. G.GAME.round_resets.ante))
        if lucky_card then
            card.ability.extra.luckyHand = lucky_card.base.value
        end
        valid_cards[lucky_card] = nil
        local unlucky_card = pseudorandom_element(valid_cards, pseudoseed('dragonsDreamUnlucky' .. G.GAME.round_resets.ante))
        if unlucky_card then
            card.ability.extra.unluckyHand = unlucky_card.base.value
        end
    end

[strange wasp]

This is inside the mod folder.

[hybrid shadow]

where is main.lua

[sturdy compass]

You should check for if G.STATE == G.STATES.RUN then for that entire set_ability code

[strange wasp]

I think I know where I messed up. I put the main. lua inside of Sunny.lua

[hybrid shadow]

move it out

[sturdy compass]

And make sure you have fallbacks set

[strange wasp]

Already done.

[thorn furnace]

I was mainly just doing it so that I could have some random preview text if I go into collections and view the joker

i figured if there was some generic deck table I could pull from I would just use that instead

[plain apex]

can you check if other jokers do not trigger like how you can check if cards dont score?

[sturdy compass]

There is not unfortunately. You just need to set some static fallbacks

[hybrid shadow]

what is in the smods folder there

[thorn furnace]

unfortunate

[daring fern]

Yes.

[plain apex]

how?

[daring fern]

https://github.com/Somethingcom515/SealsOnJokers/blob/main/main.lua#L1858

[thorn furnace]

if not G.STATE == G.STATES.RUN then return nil end feels a bit cleaner

[sturdy compass]

Fair nuff

[thorn furnace]

nested ifs just kinda get under my skin sometimes

[sturdy compass]

Also fair lol

[thorn furnace]

wait im dumb that would just be if G.STATE ~= G.STATES.RUN then return nil end

[sturdy compass]

Oop yep

[strange wasp]

I was told to put the smods folder into the mod, it has helped. Before I was told that, smods would have a red line under it.

[daring fern]

You do not put it in the mod folder, you put it in the workspace.

Also the line was yellow.

[strange wasp]

My bad. Also, when I took it out of the mod, the yellow underlined came back.

Does it matter if it stays like that?

[daring fern]

No.

[cyan lagoon]

anyone knows how to make partners for the partner mod?

[daring fern]

Try looking at the mod and other mods for reference.

[cyan lagoon]

all mods i can find with partner compat are either not updated or not even out. or i'm just blind

[daring fern]

Try looking at partner itself then.

[cyan lagoon]

tried, it either didn't do anything or crashed

like i'll give it another shot but still

[plain gazelle]

I rewrote the code for that Joker I mentioned yesterday and XMult scaling works now for some reason.
I don't know how to change the card (like Idol) at the end of the round. I looked in the example Castle 2 code and I do not understand when reset_game_globals is called

[daring fern]

It is called when the round ends.

[plain gazelle]

Thanks, got it

[subtle hawk]

Does anyone know why the infoqueue is empty?

The description of the cards themselves is fine btw

[plain gazelle]

Wait,
If it's called at the end of round, then why "print(Resetting card)" does not appear in console when I have this Joker?

[hybrid shadow]

you're missing commas

regardless, its a bit odd that it isnt crashing and instead leaving it blank

[subtle hawk]

If you're talking about here, then no, that definitely isn't the problem

Since descriptions on cards themselves work just fine. Commas on last lines aren't needed or smth like that

[hybrid shadow]

are you allowed to define custom sets like that and not use the prefix

[daring fern]

If they are cards why don't you link to their center?

[subtle hawk]

Names are showing correctly so I think yes

[hybrid shadow]

and the names aren't defined anywhere else?

[subtle hawk]

Nope

[hybrid shadow]

hmm

[subtle hawk]

That works, still kinda curious why it only showed names when I tried doing it the other way tho

[daring fern]

‎

[plain gazelle]

ok, now I know what reset game globals does but why doesn't it trigger at the end of round, there is no debug message in the console

I don't understand how the Castle 2 is coded. In VanillaRemade, there is a reset game globals function that triggers several other change suit/rank functions, but here it just triggers 1 block of code? But when I try to do the same thing Castle 2 did but with my Joker it doesn't work?

[livid nimbus]

Are you having any problems? Feel free to leave a comment in the API thread.🥺

[cyan lagoon]

i fixed it and it was a load order issue

both of our mods had -10 priority

[livid nimbus]

OK☺️

[stiff quiver]

how do i check if the card pack being opened is a standard pack (the one that gives playing cards)?

[hushed field]

What was the proper way to pass values from a calculate's return function back to the return from a SMODS.calculate_context call?

[tall wharf]

is it possible to use malverk to replace the whole sheet

[cyan lagoon]

self.ability.set == "Booster" and self.ability.name:find('Standard')

that from the game source

[stiff quiver]

whenever base game used self it had to be changed to card right?

[cyan lagoon]

yeah

just replace self with card

[cyan lagoon]

you wanna make a custom context right?

[thorn furnace]

How would I have a Joker retrigger itself a certain amount of times?

[cyan lagoon]

you have the retrigger joker optional feature?

[thorn furnace]

retrigger joker optional?

[cyan lagoon]

yeah, it's not enabled by default

that's how you enable it

just put it into your main file

[hushed field]

specifically one that can change specific values. I have it in Kino already but I've not properly documented how I did it and don't remember which functions and hooks cascade into each other, there, haha

[thorn furnace]

what does that do

[cyan lagoon]

enables two things: the ability for jokers to be retriggered and unscored cards being a separate cardarea (you dont need the latter)

[thorn furnace]

it is enabled now

[cyan lagoon]

next i think you wanna check 'context.retrigger_joker_check and context.other_card == card'

[thorn furnace]

ok

[cyan lagoon]

oh and dont forget 'not context.retrigger_joker'

or it's just gonna retrigger itself over and over

[thorn furnace]

yea

what do i put inside the check to retrigger it

[cyan lagoon]

you return 'repetitions'

like context.repetition

[thorn furnace]

o

[thorn furnace]

like return { repetitions = 1 } repeats it once?

[cyan lagoon]

yeah

[thorn furnace]

neat

thank u :3

[cyan lagoon]

np

[wintry solar]

You don’t need the latter either, it doesn’t do anything

[cyan lagoon]

wot?

you mean you dont need to enable the retrigger_joker optional feature?

[wintry solar]

No the unscored area

[cyan lagoon]

i said that

(you dont need the latter)

[wintry solar]

No, you don’t need it

It doesn’t do anything

[cyan lagoon]

a

[wintry solar]

Unscored isn’t an optional feature

[stiff quiver]

was Ace id 1 or 14?

[cyan lagoon]

14

[stiff quiver]

ok thanks

[cyan lagoon]

like this unscored?

[wintry solar]

Yes

[cyan lagoon]

aight

[long ruin]

[faint yacht]

context.cardarea.cards ends up as nil if I play these 4 cards... because of the unscoring cards?

(3) Lua global 'ReverseTable' at file 'togastuff.lua:513' (from mod with id TOGAPack)
    Local variables:
     t = nil
     rt = table: 0x1e87daf8  {}
     (*temporary) = number: 7.17034e-164
     (*temporary) = table: 0x1e122f18  {click_offset:table: 0x1e1232e8, ignore_base_shader:table: 0x1de20530, children:table: 0x1e3cea38, ambient_tilt:0.2, parent:table: 0x1e6fb330 (more...)}
     (*temporary) = table: 0x1dcb70a8  {poker_hands:table: 0x1e0fc6a0, cardarea:unscored, scoring_name:Pair, scoring_hand:table: 0x1e0f69d8, full_hand:table: 0x1e5ba9d8, main_scoring:true (more...)}
     (*temporary) = table: 0x1e0c5f60  {1:1}
     (*temporary) = number: 2
     (*temporary) = number: 1
     (*temporary) = string: "attempt to get length of local 't' (a nil value)"
(4) Lua field 'preprocess' at file 'togastuff.lua:526' (from mod with id TOGAPack)
    Local variables:
     cards = nil
     context = table: 0x1dcb70a8  {poker_hands:table: 0x1e0fc6a0, cardarea:unscored, scoring_name:Pair, scoring_hand:table: 0x1e0f69d8, full_hand:table: 0x1e5ba9d8, main_scoring:true (more...)}
     output = nil
(5) Lua upvalue 'calcmainscoreref' at Steamodded file 'src/utils.lua:1807' 
    Local variables:
     context = table: 0x1dcb70a8  {poker_hands:table: 0x1e0fc6a0, cardarea:unscored, scoring_name:Pair, scoring_hand:table: 0x1e0f69d8, full_hand:table: 0x1e5ba9d8, main_scoring:true (more...)}
     scoring_hand = table: 0x1e0f69d8  {1:table: 0x1e7b3d90, 2:table: 0x1dd74188}
(6) Lua field 'calculate_main_scoring' at file 'togastuff.lua:539' (from mod with id TOGAPack)
    Local variables:
     context = table: 0x1dcb70a8  {poker_hands:table: 0x1e0fc6a0, cardarea:unscored, scoring_name:Pair, scoring_hand:table: 0x1e0f69d8, full_hand:table: 0x1e5ba9d8, main_scoring:true (more...)}
     scoring_hand = table: 0x1e0f69d8  {1:table: 0x1e7b3d90, 2:table: 0x1dd74188}

[maiden phoenix]

The context you use doesn't have cards in it

[faint yacht]

Well, the original function doesn't seem to be checking explicitly for it, no?

[wintry solar]

you can't blanket use context.cardarea.cards in any context

[faint yacht]

Well, as I am patching such anyway...

function SMODS.calculate_main_scoring(context, scoring_hand)
    local curcards = togabalatro.preprocess(context.cardarea.cards, context)
    for _, card in ipairs(curcards) do

...do I toss a check in here then?

[long ruin]

i think i have a problem with my consumable key, anyone can help me ?

[wintry solar]

I mean I have no idea what your functions do, but I'd just pass the context to your preprocess function and do any checks necessary in there

it'd keep this hook cleaner

[wintry solar]

yeah so do all your checks in there

[thorn furnace]

what does collection_rows mean here?

[faint yacht]

Which exact ones? For specific context.cardareas?

[maiden phoenix]

Card display in collection, 4 cards at the top, 5 at the bottom

[thorn furnace]

o

[clever rose]

is there a way to determine the winning hand? i was going to make a joker that applied a purple seal to each card in the winning hand

[thorn furnace]

So I want a consumable that's usable on a select few different Jokers
How would I go about making sure it can't be used unless the selected joker is one of those jokers

[faint yacht]

In can_use, iirc, return true if cards in G.jokers.highlighted ('tis a table) match the keys.

[wintry solar]

so I'd just pass the context, and then the first line would be something like local cards = context.cardarea and context.cardarea.cards or nil

[thorn furnace]

thank uu

[faint yacht]

...so this-

togabalatro.preprocess = function(context)
  local output = context.cardarea and context.cardarea.cards or nil
  if not output then return end
  ...
end

-would lead into me doing-

function SMODS.calculate_main_scoring(context, scoring_hand)
  local curcards = togabalatro.preprocess(context)
  if not curcards then return end
  for _, card in ipairs(curcards) do

Which doesn't really let the "backwards" scoring occur after the initial "forwards" one.

If I do this, however, it works.

togabalatro.preprocess = function(context)
    local output = context.cardarea and context.cardarea.cards or nil
    if not output then
        if context.cardarea == G.play then output = context.full_hand
        elseif context.cardarea == G.hand then output = G.hand.cards
        elseif context.cardarea == 'unscored' then output = context.full_hand end
    end
    
    if not output then return end

[wintry solar]

there should never be a context.cardarea == 'unscored' anyway

[faint yacht]

...so that's saying that my checks are fine? 'cause this basically more or less (I hope--) fixed why I was on the goose chase yesterday for a good while through the entire day.

[cyan lagoon]

how to do i create a bunch of playing cards from a table?

[wintry solar]

well unless you're doing other stuff or are on a very old smods build, this cardarea should never be unscored in this function

[faint yacht]

cards variable is no longer existent, anyway.

[stiff quiver]

how could i make a joker apply a boss blind effect on the start of the round?

[cyan lagoon]

how do i return something multiple times?

[faint yacht]

{ extra = { xmult = ..., extra = { xmult = ... } } }

[cyan lagoon]

card.ability.extra.shots can scale infinitely. would that still work here?

[faint yacht]

You'd probably want to do a recursive table prep, which you then return.

[manic rune]

whats the difference between a recursive table and a loop with multiple SMODS.calculate_effect? 🤔

[thorn furnace]

I'm so confused

[unborn bay]

what is your smods version

[thorn furnace]

uhh lemme check

1.0.0~BETA-0511b-STEAMODDED

[keen loom]

should i even bother adding joker display support?

[long ruin]

    key = 'Jokers', --joker key
    atlas = 'Jokers', --atlas' key
    rarity = 4, --rarity: 1 = Common, 2 = Uncommon, 3 = Rare, 4 = Legendary
    soul_pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },
    cost = 5, --cost
    unlocked = true, --where it is unlocked or not: if true, 
    discovered = true, --whether or not it starts discovered
    blueprint_compat = true, --can it be blueprinted/brainstormed/other
    eternal_compat = false, --can it be eternal
    perishable_compat = false, --can it be perishable
    pos = {x = 0, y = 0}, --position in atlas, starts at 0, scales by the atlas' card size (px and py): {x = 1, y = 0} would mean the sprite is 71 pixels to the right
    config = { extra = { mult = 4 }, },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.mult } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            return {
                mult = card.ability.extra.mult
            }
        end
    end
}

SMODS.Joker{
    key = 'Jokers', --joker key
    loc_txt = { -- local text
        name = 'Sequel the Sequel',
        text = {
          'When Blind is selected,',
          'create a {C:attention}Joker{}',
          '{X:mult,C:white}X#1#{} Mult',
          'Gain {C:money}123${} at end of round'
        },
        --[[unlock = {
            'Be {C:legendary}cool{}',
        }]]
    },
    atlas = 'Jokers', --atlas' key
    rarity = 4, --rarity: 1 = Common, 2 = Uncommon, 3 = Rare, 4 = Legendary
    cost = 5, --cost
    unlocked = true, --where it is unlocked or not: if true, 
    discovered = true, --whether or not it starts discovered
    blueprint_compat = true, --can it be blueprinted/brainstormed/other
    eternal_compat = false, --can it be eternal
    perishable_compat = false, --can it be perishable
    pos = {x = 0, y = 1}, --position in atlas, starts at 0, scales by the atlas' card size (px and py): {x = 1, y = 0} would mean the sprite is 71 pixels to the right
    config = { 
      extra = {
        Xmult = 4 --configurable value
      }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self,info_queue,center)
        info_queue[#info_queue+1] = G.P_CENTERS.j_joker --adds "Joker"'s description next to this card's description
        return {vars = {center.ability.extra.Xmult}} --#1# is replaced with card.ability.extra.Xmult
    end,
    check_for_unlock = function(self, args)
        if args.type == 'derek_loves_you' then --not a real type, just a joke
            unlock_card(self)
        end
        unlock_card(self) --unlocks the card if it isnt unlocked
    end,
    calculate = function(self,card,context)
        if context.joker_main then
            return {
                card = card,
                Xmult_mod = card.ability.extra.Xmult,
                message = 'X' .. card.ability.extra.Xmult,
                colour = G.C.MULT
            }
        end

        if context.setting_blind then
            local new_card = create_card('Joker', G.jokers, nil,nil,nil,nil,'j_joker')
            new_card:add_to_deck()
            G.jokers:emplace(new_card)
        end
    end,
    in_pool = function(self,wawa,wawa2)
        --whether or not this card is in the pool, return true if it is, return false if its not
        return true
    end,
    calc_dollar_bonus = function(self,card)
        return 123
    end,
}

Hi guys ! got a problem, my second joker wont spawn...

[unborn bay]

update smods

[thorn furnace]

oki

[long ruin]

between the legendary and the m, it should be an exodia joker