💻・modding-dev

[north lodge]

Why do UI elements interacting with each other have to be so frustrating 😭

[turbid maple]

as a hypothetical example a joker that turns +mult from other jokers into +$

[daring fern]

No, because context.post_trigger happens after the joker triggers, you would hook SMODS.calculate_individual_effect for that I think.

[turbid maple]

[[gif of emoji exploding with two arms held up]]

how lovely

[astral zinc]

Should be gone now

[spice wadi]

ty, theres still one in modding chat in case you havent seen it yet

nevermind as soon as i wrote that message

[broken cliff]

@astral zincits in #⚙・modding-general , #🎥・videos-and-streams , #🌱・seed-chat and every other channel with image perms

[proud ridge]

i see that vanilla remade uses the card:remove() function to delete cards like icecream and popcorn when they run out. Would there be a way for me to detect that?

[daring fern]

Yes, you would hook it.

[finite onyx]

Hello, does anyone know how to fix this? I have created a folder to store sound assets. I have created SMOD sound and its key, and in (sound = (key name)) an error like this occurs.

[mint raven]

my mod isn't showing up in the game, anyone knows what I might have done wrong? I tried following documentation closely when making this and the tutorial video by bepis looks about the same too

[proud ridge]

how do you do that?

[daring fern]

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

[proud ridge]

this randomly started happening when i boot up the game

[mint raven]

ok nvm figured it out

[gaunt phoenix]

How could I check how many differents suits there is in played hand ?
(Ping me if you answer please)

[proud ridge]

would anyone know whats causing this?

[daring fern]

You would iterate over the full hand and put each suit found in a table.

[wind steppe]

can we see your assets folder

[spice wadi]

how do i move a ui element to be in front of everything else? is it a setting of the uibox, root, or is it to do with how its created

[copper thorn]

hey, im back, and i got a problem, or more of "idk how to this" issue,

i have a legendary card with a texture, but how do i make it show up like the other (perkeo, chicot and ush) mine just shows up as is with the card on top and the char on the bottom

or for exemple like the screen above

[proud ridge]

it randomly went away, im not really sure what was wrong

[daring fern]

You mean the soul is below the main card?

[proud ridge]

it stopped happening before i could debug

[wind steppe]

you mean the assets folder is gone?

[proud ridge]

no the error

[copper thorn]

yh

[broken cliff]

soul_pos?

[wind steppe]

oh

weird

[proud ridge]

mhm

[daring fern]

Swap soul_pos and pos

[copper thorn]

i can't really test it rn but i'll trust you for sure

[broken cliff]

so you need to have an atlas with 2 cards

[copper thorn]

im on a secondary computer, without moded balatro and haven't got the time to mod it

[broken cliff]

pos is for the background aka your first card

the soul_pos is the thing that will be displayed up on the card

[copper thorn]

mmmh mhhhhhh

[broken cliff]

anyways, how would i access this rarity for my joker? putting rarity = "use_uselessrarity" does not work

[copper thorn]

soul_pos = {x = 0, y = 0},
rarity = 4,
pos = { x = 0, y = 1},

like this ?

[daring fern]

rarity = "modprefix_key"

[copper thorn]

i still can't post photos i think

[broken cliff]

swap them around

[copper thorn]

i swapped them it was pos in first

for more of the atlas part if needed

[broken cliff]

thats what i did

[broken cliff]

is 0,0 card the thing ytou want to display on top?

[daring fern]

Your mod prefix is use?

[broken cliff]

yes

[copper thorn]

i forgor to change it 💀

[wind steppe]

what mod adds r

[broken cliff]

None

its supposed to be useless

but i wanted to add a synergy with letter deck js for fun

[broken cliff]

which makes it less useless tho.

[wind steppe]

ohhhh

[thorn basin]

Does somebody know how to replace a default sound effect of a joker with a custom one?

[broken cliff]

nvm the error is not because of that

[daring fern]

Is it a crash?

[broken cliff]

SMODS.Sound

[broken cliff]

the issue is with hex colors rn

[daring fern]

You forgot to put HEX() around the badge colour.

[thorn basin]

I mean, I tried like this but it still doesn't work.
I can play the sound directly but it doesn't activate at the exact moment when my joker upgrades...

[daring fern]

Remove .ogg from replace

[thorn basin]

aight imma try like this

[broken cliff]

alr it worked, thx!

[thorn basin]

OMG IT WORKS... but for some reason that sound also plays when I select a blind.
I want it only to play when the joker upgrades its current value

[daring fern]

Yes, because you're replacing the entire sound.

Everytime it is used it will instead be that one.

[thorn basin]

is... there a way I can fix this?

[daring fern]

What is the goal?

[thorn basin]

what do you mean by that?
I just said that I wanna make the sound play ONLY when the joker upgrades its mult value.

[sage crater]

Iirc it’s called possession or something

[thorn basin]

possession?

[daring fern]

sound = 'modprefix_Dodgeball_sfx'

In the return.

[sage crater]

Mm maybe not. I’m not finding the wiki page

But it’s something like SMODS.take_over

[thorn basin]

should I get rid of the replace?

[wise terrace]

Hey, I tried to use quantum enhancements in smods, but it makes the game quite slow, this is the code I used for it:

if context.check_enhancement and context.other_card:get_id() == 2 then
        return {m_wild = true}
end

[daring fern]

Yes.

[daring fern]

Quantum enhancements does that.

[copper thorn]

why is it like this T-T

[thorn basin]

OMG IT WORKS NOW, THANK U!!!

[daring fern]

It's because it checks everytime something checks for an enhancement.

[wise terrace]

thanks for the clarification

[copper thorn]

it works only when smooting is disabed T-T

[wise terrace]

and it'll have to calculate for each joker, yh?

[formal parrot]

You didn’t export your 1x and 2x files properly

[copper thorn]

i know the error, dumb stuff, i forgot to resize the x2

[formal parrot]

Lol

[copper thorn]

but i did on krita i can't resize it freely without losing quality :(

[hybrid shadow]

wdym

[daring fern]

No, just it being enabled lags the game.

[wise terrace]

damm

[zealous glen]

There’s probably a setting for it

[copper thorn]

i took the perkeo part of the jokers.png from the files of the game, but it was already in 71x190, and with krita when i resize it to x2 it gets all blurry

[hybrid shadow]

use Nearest Neighbor not Bicubic

[copper thorn]

?

i ain't a image nerd

[zealous glen]

@knotty compass also had that issue. Maybe @chrome widget too. I suggest creating an issue because that had been marked as solved AFAIK

[copper thorn]

explain this things to me

[zealous glen]

Use “no interpolation”

[hybrid shadow]

when you select image and select scale image to new size, itll ask what resize method to use, itll show up as Auto(Bicubic) but you need to switch it to Nearest Neighbor

[copper thorn]

oh ok

[formal parrot]

Is there a function that closes the game

[chrome widget]

My solution was quite literally just disabling the G.deck and G.discard card areas. In combination with quantum enhancements, the game's performance was piss poor. Don't know if that is still an issue with current versions

[maiden phoenix]

I get the same crash I think

[proud ridge]

ok so i found the function the game uses for food jokers to destroy themselves. its ```lua
G.jokers:remove_card(self)

is that something i can hook onto?

[daring fern]

No, it is card:remove()

[zealous glen]

SMODS had an utility to destroy playing cards maybe it could be used here

Idk

Check the wiki

[maiden phoenix]

@tall wharf

[daring fern]

That just unemplaces it from the area.

[proud ridge]

isnt that just vanillaremade? not base game?

[daring fern]

No, it's a vanilla function.

[turbid maple]

hooking card:remove is not viable for their use case because they want to check if a food joker destroyed itself

[proud ridge]

mhm

[tall wharf]

yep

[turbid maple]

i mean yeah you could have things apply a flag and check it in card:remove or whatever but you get the point

[sage crater]

Really abusable

[tall wharf]

i wonder if it's luajit2 moment

[proud ridge]

im just not sure how exactly i would hook G.jokers:remove_card(self). My guess is that i will need a global flag and then have my joker check if the flag is changed

[turbid maple]

"food jokers" is not a well defined term and it becomes impossible when you get to cross mod compatibility

thats the problem

[tall wharf]

when does this happen btw

[sage crater]

Lmao

[tall wharf]

LMAO

oh

[maiden phoenix]

When I click on the Mods button

[daring fern]

It is though?

[proud ridge]

i am looking at the base game code and the food jokers dont use card:remove to destroy themselves

they use G.jokers:remove_card(self)

[turbid maple]

how do you check a food joker was removed specifically by it expiring

[proud ridge]

unless i am looking in the wrong place

[daring fern]

They do use card:remove()

[turbid maple]

im 99% sure it ends up getting called somewhere down the line

[proud ridge]

i am not seeing it in card.lua

[proud ridge]

is self more or less a pointer in this case then?

[daring fern]

self is the card.

[turbid maple]

even if you hard code to check for specific jokers you have no idea if the popcorn ran out or it got killed by dagger unless you patch every single food joker to set a flag and at that point id consider it triggering a custom context instead

okay dagger was a poor example because you can actually check that

[proud ridge]

madness?

[turbid maple]

they both set getting_sliced so you can actually check that

[proud ridge]

so i would check for card:remove() and not getting_sliced?

[turbid maple]

youre still gonna hard code things unless you consider mr bones edible

[tardy juniper]

is there a way i can make the game play a custom sound?

[daring fern]

Yes.

[turbid maple]

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

[pulsar furnace]

how do i create a ui?

[turbid maple]

as opposed to a yui

[proud ridge]

mr bones uses start_dissolve

[daring fern]

Yes.

But it does not set getting_sliced

[turbid maple]

and start_dissolve will eventually call card:remove

... right?

[daring fern]

Yes.

[turbid maple]

im pretty sure theres more destruction methods dont set getting_sliced

[proud ridge]

so i would need to hook onto G.jokers:remove_card(self) since this is only called for food jokers

right?

[daring fern]

No.

[proud ridge]

unless i am completely misunderstanding smth

[daring fern]

That is called in card:remove()

[proud ridge]

i am very new to this

[daring fern]

So it would trigger twice.

[lusty pasture]

I still am going to treat this as the place to dump crash logs if i don't know the culprit

[proud ridge]

so is there any way i could do this easily?

or is this gonna be a pain in the ass

[turbid maple]

i do not see an easy way to implement this

[proud ridge]

is there a way i can detect messages being sent?

cuz each food item has a special message it sends when it dies

[turbid maple]

"food joker" is a category that does not exist so trying to handle them specifically is kind of a pain in the ass

[daring fern]

Yes, but how would that be better than checking the key?

[turbid maple]

the simplest way would be patching every food joker to trigger a custom context when it expires but that obv doesnt play well with other mods

[tall wharf]

@maiden phoenix i know the issue now

[proud ridge]

fair enough. wait does selling a card also use card:remove?

[turbid maple]

yes

[maiden phoenix]

Awesome

[turbid maple]

it also gets called when you open your collection and close your collection

these things can be checked for obviously

[daring fern]

Every time a card leaves the screen, it is often removed.

[tall wharf]

ui being schewpid

[civic elm]

Can someone explain to me why I have two .lua deck files in the same folder (under the same mod name) and only one of the two decks are loading?

[turbid maple]

did you ever load the file

[civic elm]

Yeah, both should be getting loaded.

[turbid maple]

smods wont load every single lua file it finds it a folder

you have to tell it to get loaded

[civic elm]

How do I do that?

[turbid maple]

you have the main lua file you set it in your json

that main lua file has to load the others

SMODS.load_file

[civic elm]

Main lua file?

[turbid maple]

"main_file" in your json

only that file gets loaded by smods

that file has to do the job of loading all others

[civic elm]

What is the json?

[turbid maple]

simplest way would be
assert(SMODS.load_file("relativepath/to/luafile"))()

uhhh where are you setting your mod metadata

[proud ridge]

so am i sorta just screwed? /gen

[civic elm]

Uh... metadata?

[proud ridge]

cuz im not entirely sure how i can implement my idea

[turbid maple]

information about your mod

name of mod the author you know

[proud ridge]

i mean it currently scales whenever one of the food jokers is purchased

[civic elm]

All of that is in the headers of the lua files.

[proud ridge]

it just might not have the resetting capabiliteis

[daring fern]

What is the goal?

[turbid maple]

okay then look at the "main_file" field

that's the file SMODS is loading

[proud ridge]

well currently my joker gains X1 mult for each food joker purchased, i want to make it so the scaling resets whevever a food joker naturally dies (it will be like the food is spoiling)

[turbid maple]

that main file needs to load all the others

[wind steppe]

only by its own effect (eg. not by something like ceremonial dagger) right?

[proud ridge]

yes

[wind steppe]

if so you'd need to manually take ownership of every food joker you want compatible

[proud ridge]

I can just scrap the resetting concept

[vale beacon]

is there a guide on making deck texture packs somewhere?

[turbid maple]

it is kind of a weird concept anyway

[proud ridge]

i liked it :/

[daring fern]

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

[turbid maple]

well sure its cute but in terms of gameplay it just says you cant keep gros michel around

not eternal

what am i saying

[copper thorn]

wait ... "gros michel" is cross-language ? not only in french ?

[wind steppe]

gros michel is the name of a banana species

same with cavendish

gros michel below

[copper thorn]

i knew for vaendish but not for gros michel, go on with your convo sorry

[tall wharf]

@maiden phoenix

[maiden phoenix]

?

[tall wharf]

i fixed it

[maiden phoenix]

nice

[tall wharf]

does it still crash

[maiden phoenix]

testing it rn

sick

[tall wharf]

vely

lovely

[maiden phoenix]

Oh the alignement is funky here

[gaunt thistle]

it's so beautiful

[tall wharf]

@tepid crow i fixed it

[tall wharf]

can't be helped tbh

[civic elm]

Would I need an end statement after the assert command?

[tall wharf]

the text is long

[primal robin]

Use maxw for text, game will figure out for you how to scale it

[tall wharf]

ok

maxw for text node?

[primal robin]

container

Maybe it doesn't work without more advanced technology, I don't remember tbh

[signal lotus]

what im i doing wrong

[wind steppe]

can we see the loc_vars

[signal lotus]

the whats

sorry im very new to this stuff

[spice wadi]

in the joker definition

[wind steppe]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Localization

[spice wadi]

there should be a property called loc_vars

[viral ember]

"#20#" makes it sound like you have 20 vars

[spice wadi]

also you put #20# here

yeah

[viral ember]

do #1#

[spice wadi]

meaning its looking for the 20th variable currently

[signal lotus]

but then how much mult is it supposted to know it has

[wind steppe]

the number between the hashtags isn't actually what the real number is

it's which number to access in loc_vars

[tall wharf]

britain

[signal lotus]

oh

[spice wadi]

it knows if you put #1# because itll put the 1st variable from loc_vars there

[signal lotus]

the local vars dont have a number that i see tohugh

[spice wadi]

it does

[signal lotus]

it just says card.ability orer smth does it not

[wind steppe]

yeah

[viral ember]

yea that IS a variable

[wind steppe]

card.ability.extra.mult is a number

[spice wadi]

card.ability.extra.mult corresponds to this

[signal lotus]

oh

this makes no sense to me

[spice wadi]

the config of a card is stored in card.ability

[wind steppe]

it's looking for your cards config table, then the extra table, and it checks for mult then (and it finds 20) so it gives you 20

[tall wharf]

@primal robin it works i just needlower num

[spice wadi]

and you usually put all your variables in extra (aka card.ability.extra)

[wind steppe]

actually hold on go back
how much basic coding experience do you have (doesn't have to be in balatro modding)?

[signal lotus]

no balatro modding experience

[spice wadi]

so if you want a different variable (such as chips, money, etc) you can add another variable there (like chips = 10)

[signal lotus]

I know lua and python though

[primal robin]

My hard working on UI have some good results

[wind steppe]

k

[signal lotus]

a little bit of lua but im a python dev

[wind steppe]

so card.ability.extra.mult is checking for what's in your joker's config table, in the extra table (within the config table), and then it checks for mult

[spice wadi]

if you know UI stuff can i ask some questions (ik dontasktoask but i dont want to bother you cos i have quite a few questions)

[tall wharf]

i am going to sleep

[primal robin]

Nope

Maxw for mods's title

[signal lotus]

where does the card.ability poart come from thoughh

[spice wadi]

😭 damn

[spice wadi]

alright who here knows the basics about UIs 😭

[tall wharf]

im going to sleep idc

[wind steppe]

card is being passed into loc_vars as a table

[primal robin]

fine

Good night then

[wind steppe]

ability is an object of card that is the same as config

[tall wharf]

what's wrong here

[primal robin]

Left block obviously bigger than right one

[wind steppe]

*element

[primal robin]

Because title have 2 lines

[spice wadi]

anything in config is put in card.ability

[wind steppe]

dont ask why its ability and not config idk either

[copper thorn]

i need help with textures and things like that

[signal lotus]

im just going to copy and paste code from vanilla remade together to make it

[wind steppe]

just ask the question don't be vague

[copper thorn]

it <orks fine in not smoothing, and <hen smoothing textures it does this, the card is in 142x380

and i was vague to know if i could ask without interrupting

[wind steppe]

can i see the assets folder

[wind steppe]

dw about it the point of the channel is to ask questions

[copper thorn]

the blank one is x2 frogor to mark it

[signal lotus]

im looking through the source code of various mods, it seems kind of similar to roblox studio which ive done before

which amkes sense they are the same language

[wind steppe]

huh

dont see any issues?

and it works fine when textures arent smooth?

[copper thorn]

if needed

[copper thorn]

yeah when 1x is used

[wind steppe]

show us the measurements of both images

if i had to guess the x2 version is too small

[copper thorn]

for the x2

and x1 is 7&x90

71*

[wind steppe]

try doubling the height and width of the image in the x2 folder

[copper thorn]

x)

[signal lotus]

I dont get this snippet, why do they need to calculate the driver tally twice

[copper thorn]

so i put back the old texture and voila i guess

[wind steppe]

cause its a local variable in both

[signal lotus]

why does it need to be there twice

[wind steppe]

it needs to check the driver tally whenever you look at it

but also when it scores

[signal lotus]

oh yeah

[wind steppe]

theres probably a faster way to do it but im not smart enough to figure that out

[signal lotus]

this crashes the game why

[primal robin]

syntax error

Consider installing lua extension

[formal parrot]

Return

Isn’t closed

You can see its red

[signal lotus]

why doesnt this work

I play a hand with that joker and it crashes the game

[wind steppe]

what is it meant to do?

[signal lotus]

if the sell value of all jokers is less than $8 gives x 3 mult

[wind steppe]

seems right?
send the crash report

[signal lotus]

nvrm i fixed it

ngl balatro modding is easier than i thought

pretty much every idea tyou have is in base game so just copy and paste the code change some stuff and boom

[modern kindle]

go on, make the card that plays doom

just off vanilla copy

:b

[gleaming yew]

How do I make custom suits?

[wind steppe]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Rank-and-SMODS.Suit

does anyone know why my hooks don't work? ```lua
local para_extra_slots = function(self)
return self.ability.para_negativesticker or self.config.center_key == "j_para_cooledwater"
end
local para_card_removal_old = Card.remove_from_deck
local para_card_addition_old = Card.add_to_deck
Card.remove_from_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
if para_extra_slots(self) and G.jokers ~= nil and self.area == G.jokers then
G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit - 1
end
return para_card_removal_old(self, card, from_debuff)
end
Card.add_to_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
if para_extra_slots(self) and G.jokers ~= nil and self.area == G.jokers then
G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit + 1
end
return para_card_addition_old(self, card, from_debuff)
end

this is supposed to make cards with negative stickers and cooled water give +1 joker slot but it does nothing

(cooled water will never have the negative sticker)

[gleaming yew]

...i probably shouldve asked if theres like a. template mod thing. like something you should start making a mod with.

like how, for lack of a better example, Psych engine has a template for pack.png and pack.json or whatever

[subtle merlin]

Idk abt templates, but: https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Your-First-Mod

[pure salmon]

there’s a .json file template in the Mod Metadata section on the SMODS wiki

[vivid grotto]

hey anyone here able to help me with this problem? I posted it a while ago but didn't see anyone respond 😭

[chrome widget]

Ugh fine, I'll break out the programmer socks

[modern kindle]

Lmfao
Youre a cheater cause you already are a goddess of knowledge

[chrome widget]

Damn getting called a goddess rules. Thanks dilly

[modern kindle]

:D

[wind steppe]

can we see it more in detail (like with a video)?

also can you repaste the images down here

[vivid grotto]

yeah, one second

[chrome widget]

I'm kinda wiped but I'm getting ever, ever closer to finishing this damn mod

Almost 100% complete programming Stands aside from one that I still want to do in anticipation of Quantum Ranks

[vivid grotto]

Here are the iamges, let me see if I can get a recording

alright, here is a pretty bad steam recording:

[scarlet imp]

SMODS.Joker:take_ownership("abstract",
    {
        config = {
            extra = {
                mult = 3
            }
        },
        loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
            return {
                vars = {
                    card.ability.extra.mult,
                    card.ability.extra.mult * (G.jokers and #G.jokers.cards or 0)
                }
            }
        end,
        calculate = function(self, card, context)
            if context.joker_main then
                return {
                    mult = card.ability.extra.mult * #G.jokers.cards
                }
            end
        end
    }
)

just hovering over Abstract Joker is causing the game to crash

[wind steppe]

your video doesnt play

[tepid crow]

did you manage to fix this btw?

[vivid grotto]

I have no clue why that would be the case, I can play it one my end through steam?

[hybrid shadow]

changing the second part of math.min to self.config didnt fix it

[wind steppe]

i tried downloading it and it says i need to pay a dollar to watch it

upload it to youtube or something

[vivid grotto]

wtf

[tepid crow]

do you know which one of the 2 numbers turned into a table?

[chrome widget]

Gosh I'm tired. Been working on this mod for about four months and my enthusiasm isn't really waning but I'm certainly feeling it drag on

[hybrid shadow]

heres the full config + where math is

[tepid crow]

hmm that all seems fine

[faint urchin]

why is this saying assertation failed?

[spice wadi]

with a UI element like this, how do i make it like other menu popups? ie its in front of everything, has a transparent backdrop preventing clicking on anything else, and closes with escape

[scarlet imp]

bump

[daring fern]

Remove assets/sounds/ in the path and make the M in the key lowercase.

[spice wadi]

im guessing its to do with the G.jokers bit in the loc_vars, maybe add a check to make sure G.jokers exists first

[scarlet imp]

alright I'll try that, thx

[wind steppe]

how do i check if a card is being added or removed from the joker slots? (in a hook of Card.remove_from_deck and Card.add_to_deck)
self.area == G.jokers doesnt work

[scarlet imp]

Same error, here's the response code

[vivid grotto]

I made it into a gif instead, does this work?

[scarlet imp]

context.card_added

if context.card_added and context.card.ability.set == "Joker" then to be clearer

[wind steppe]

yeah that works

idk why that doesnt do anything honestly

check midas mask?

[wind steppe]

i dont have context im hooking Card.add_to_deck not in a calculate function

[scarlet imp]

ahh ok, idk then. sorry

[daring fern]

Code?

[sturdy compass]

Does anyone have any good examples of patching/hooking loc_colour? I'd like to move my colors off of a globals.lua patch and handle them better

[wind steppe]

local para_extra_slots = function(self)
    local slots = 0
    if self.ability.para_negativesticker then
        slots = slots + 1
    end
    if self.config.center_key == "j_para_cooledwater" then
        slots = slots + 1
    end
    --print("extra slots:" .. slots)
    return slots
end
local para_empty_slots = function(self)
    if G.jokers ~= nil then
        --print("empty slots?" .. tostring((G.jokers.config.card_limit - #G.jokers.cards + para_extra_slots(self)) > 0))
        return (G.jokers.config.card_limit - #G.jokers.cards + para_extra_slots(self)) > 0
    else
        return false
    end
end
local para_card_removal_old = Card.remove_from_deck
local para_card_addition_old = Card.add_to_deck
Card.remove_from_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
    print("In jokers: " .. tostring(self.area == G.jokers))
    print("Joker existence: " .. tostring(G.jokers ~= nil))
    print("Space:" .. tostring(para_empty_slots(self)))
     if para_empty_slots(self) and G.jokers ~= nil and self.area == G.jokers then
        print("Card has been removed.")
         G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit - para_extra_slots(self)
    end
    return para_card_removal_old(self, card, from_debuff)
end
Card.add_to_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
     if para_empty_slots(self) and G.jokers ~= nil and self.area == G.jokers then
        print("Card has been added.")
         G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit + para_extra_slots(self)
    end
    return para_card_addition_old(self, card, from_debuff)
end

[daring fern]

What is the goal?

[wind steppe]

to add joker slots when a card with the negative sticker or cooled water is added to joker slots

[scarlet imp]

I can't tell where in my code I'm doing math using the extra table, especially since this is similar to what they have for abstract Joker in Vanilla Remade

[wind steppe]

and remove those slots when theyre removed

[daring fern]

Do local ret = oldfunction(...) at the start then do return ret at the end for both.

[wind steppe]

this doesnt help whatsoever

[tepid crow]

make sure you've restarted the run btw

[hybrid shadow]

i did

[tepid crow]

and its not crashing in collection, only in run?

[sturdy compass]

nvm I figured it out

[vague crest]

helloooo new modder here!

[wind steppe]

send us the assets folder

[vague crest]

assets folder of what specifically?

[wind steppe]

your mod?

[vague crest]

because this happens even with my new mod im working on gone 🔥

yeah sure lemme grab it

[wind steppe]

what mods do u have

besides yours

[vague crest]

off the top of my head i think debugplus, nopeus, and the example jokers mod is enabled

plus a couple friends of jimbo additions

its referencing paperback and bunco in the error which is crazy to me because theyre not in my mods folder they havent been for a while 😭

[wind steppe]

example jokers?

[vague crest]

its one of the mods that adds like, smods implementations of a few vanilla jokers, like castle, gros michel, i think runner is in there

[wind steppe]

why do you have it actually installed

ur just supposed to look at the code

[vague crest]

great question actually i can remove it

[wind steppe]

also vanillaremade is more complete

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/main/src/jokers.lua

[vague crest]

oh wow that seems much nicer also

removing it did not fix the crash however

[wind steppe]

can we get a more exact list of the mods?

(given the crash im inclined to believe one of the friends of jimbo mod is causing the error)

[dense bough]

Hey sorry to interupt, but I changed the playing card base art, while maintaining the same file name, and now it renders as blank. Any reason why?

[vague crest]

uh yeah sure, is there a way to get the list of enabled mods without having balatro open?

[wind steppe]

no

[hybrid shadow]

yeah any time inside the run, just not in main menu

[wind steppe]

you can get all mods (enabled or not) though through looking at the mods folder

[hybrid shadow]

like any time i view it in collection inside the run

[wind steppe]

like in the balatro files?

[dense bough]

yes

[vague crest]

im gonna try removing all the foj first and then ill get back to you then because theres like 3 qol things besides that and no acatual mods on

[dense bough]

extracted with 7 zip, replaced and in files it looks fine

[wind steppe]

dont do it like that

[dense bough]

oh how should I?

[wind steppe]

reinstall balatro and smods first

to reset

[dense bough]

I don't have smods

[scarlet imp]

bump

[wind steppe]

oh

[dense bough]

I did source code modification

[wind steppe]

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

do not modify the source code thats stupid

once you learn smods you should be able to take ownership of SMODS.Rank and SMODS.Suit

[dense bough]

I do have lovely installed however

[tepid crow]

weird... do you have a minimum reproducible example?

[hybrid shadow]

wdym

[tepid crow]

the smallest code possible that still causes a crash

that I can just copy-paste into my machine and make it crash

[vague crest]

ok got it to work not sure exactly what i did just kept removing stuff but 👍 thank you friends

[wind steppe]

you can just binary search every friends of jimbo mod to find the one that crashes if you want to keep some of those mods

how many did you actually have anyways

[vague crest]

literally just 3 😭 its fine now that theyre back idk what this was

[blazing salmon]

hi, what's the best way to modify the function of an existing joker?

[wind steppe]

oh so this was just a curse of the machine spirits then

[wind steppe]

take ownership

[vague crest]

thats what im gathering yeah

[wind steppe]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/API-Documentation#taking-ownership

[modern kindle]

how much is left overall

[blazing salmon]

ty ty, ill read up on it

[gray quartz]

i fucked up hard by writing all the code for my jokers before doing any of the art cause now i gotta draw 12 more jokers 😭😭😭

[shut marsh]

how do i mod balatro

[wind steppe]

local para_extra_slots = function(self)
    local slots = 0
    if self.ability.para_negativesticker then
        slots = slots + 1
    end
    if self.config.center_key == "j_para_cooledwater" then
        slots = slots + 1
    end
    --print("extra slots:" .. slots)
    return slots
end
local para_empty_slots = function(self)
    if G.jokers ~= nil then
        --print("empty slots?" .. tostring((G.jokers.config.card_limit - #G.jokers.cards + para_extra_slots(self)) > 0))
        return (G.jokers.config.card_limit - #G.jokers.cards + para_extra_slots(self)) > 0
    else
        return false
    end
end
local para_card_removal_old = Card.remove_from_deck
local para_card_addition_old = Card.add_to_deck
Card.remove_from_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
    local ret = para_card_removal_old(self, card, from_debuff)
    print("In jokers: " .. tostring(self.area == G.jokers)) -- This is always false
    print("Joker existence: " .. tostring(G.jokers ~= nil)) -- This works as intended
    print("Space:" .. tostring(para_empty_slots(self))) -- This works as intended
     if para_empty_slots(self) and G.jokers ~= nil and self.area == G.jokers then
        print("Card has been removed.")
         G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit - para_extra_slots(self)
    end
    return ret
end
Card.add_to_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
    local ret = para_card_addition_old(self, card, from_debuff)
     if para_empty_slots(self) and G.jokers ~= nil and self.area == G.jokers then
        print("Card has been added.")
         G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit + para_extra_slots(self)
    end
    return ret
end
```why doesn't this check if a card is being added or removed from joker slots?

[daring fern]

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

[obtuse silo]

is there a way to trigger a sound when opening a pack

[wind steppe]

do you want to do it yourself or install other peoples mods

[daring fern]

Yes.

[shut marsh]

make my own

[wind steppe]

yeah use the balatro modding starter pack then

[shut marsh]

ok thanks

[obtuse silo]

alright
do i need to use a certain function for boosters?

[chrome widget]

Programming wise, about 15-20 cards, 6 blinds, and then an undetermined amount of achievements and challenges

[daring fern]

What is the goal?

[modern kindle]

youre getting there for sure
i give you 17 minutes to do it all=]

[chrome widget]

Ugh

Can I eat my Chocolate Chunk Brownie Blast from my local Sonic Drive-In first

[obtuse silo]

when a certain pack opens
i want it to play this sound

[modern kindle]

yes but you gotta gimme a small piece

[hybrid shadow]

SMODS.Consumable:take_ownership('temperance',
 {
  config = { extra = { max = 50, money = 0 } },
  loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
   local money = 0
   if G.jokers then
    for i = 1, #G.jokers.cards do
     if G.jokers.cards[i].ability.set == 'Joker' then
      money = money + G.jokers.cards[i].sell_cost
     end
    end
   end
   card.ability.extra.money = math.min(money, self.config.extra.max)
   return { vars = { card.ability.extra.max, card.ability.extra.money } }
  end
 }
)```

[gusty hatch]

hello I'm new to modding; and i need a lil help with something

[gray quartz]

what is it?

[wind steppe]

dont ask if you can ask just ask the question

[gusty hatch]

i want to playtest my jokers

[wind steppe]

debugplus

https://github.com/WilsontheWolf/DebugPlus

[gusty hatch]

yes i do

but i dont have the command list

[wind steppe]

hold tab

[hybrid shadow]

hold tab

[gray quartz]

"help" command

and hold tab yeah

[gusty hatch]

OMG TY

[thorn basin]

how can I check if two or more different face cards played have different suits?
I tried like this by adding the "and context.other_card.suit ~= context.other_card.suit" but it it crashes the game.

[daring fern]

Perhaps patch card:explode()?

[obtuse silo]

ahhh
patches
never was good with those

[wind steppe]

you could maybe hook it instead

[daring fern]

No, the play sound is in the middle of the function.

[gray quartz]

i remember my days as a youngin where i just set my money to 1 trillion and just kept rerolling the shop cause i didnt know abt the tab menu

[wind steppe]

oh

[obtuse silo]

i could try to work with patches
the soulsborne games would say it's a bad idea though /j

[gusty hatch]

ok guys I made a thing:

but it has no behaviour

[wind steppe]

diet beer

[gusty hatch]

lmao yeah

[sonic cedar]

can someone tell me why the function doesn't get called, despite me scoring while the joker's xmult is equal to 0?

[wind steppe]

yeah it needs a calculate function

[hybrid shadow]

if greater than 0

thats what the if statement is doing

[gusty hatch]

my studio code is dumb and cannot locate SMOD

so i cant navigate under .

[daring fern]

You are still not returning the func

[sonic cedar]

??? is that not less than equal to

[wind steppe]

open the whole mods folder in vscode

[sonic cedar]

i literally realized the moment i hit send

[wind steppe]

that should fix it

[hybrid shadow]

i was looking at the wrong spot

[gusty hatch]

alr tyty

[sonic cedar]

i JUST did this on the LAST joker 😭

[gusty hatch]

BTW if you look closely there is a hidden amogus in my sprite

[obtuse silo]

could you please help me with this patch
i'm not sure how to make those

[gusty hatch]

well, "my" sprite

[gray quartz]

got it

[thorn basin]

How can I check if two or more different face cards played have different suits?
I tried like this by adding the "and context.other_card.suit ~= context.other_card.suit" but it it crashes the game.

[daring fern]

https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector?tab=readme-ov-file#patches

[gusty hatch]

ye >:3

[wind steppe]

how do i check if a card is being added or removed from the joker slots? (in a hook of Card.remove_from_deck and Card.add_to_deck) self.area == G.jokers doesnt work

[obtuse silo]

thank you

[daring fern]

card.suit doesn't exist.

It's card.base.suit

[thorn basin]

aight, imma try like this

[sonic cedar]

loc_vars only applies when the card is added to deck right?

like visually

[daring fern]

Also card.suit will never not be equal to itself.

[gray quartz]

its 100% on the github page for calc functions

hold on

[wind steppe]

its not in a calculate function

its in a hook

[daring fern]

Also context.other_card doesn't exist.

[sonic cedar]

Card:

[thorn basin]

oh, that's why it still crashes

[wind steppe]

it works fine either way

[sonic cedar]

i thought you just said it didnt work

[gray quartz]

oh then i have no idea

i fully did not know this game had a hooks system

[thorn basin]

wait, so then how can I fix this?

[wind steppe]

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

it doesnt thats just how lua works

[daring fern]

context.other_card would be context.scoring_hand[i] here.

[scarlet imp]

🙏

[tepid crow]

that's just how languages in which functions are full objects work

[gusty hatch]

OMG SMOD IS IN DA HOUSEEE

[tepid crow]

oh my god I found it I'm an idiot

[gusty hatch]

YAAAAAAAAAHHHH

[thorn basin]

so both replacing the context.other.card but still keeping the .base.suit , right?

[tepid crow]

it's crashing on this line self.ability.money = math.min(self.ability.money, self.ability.extra) in card.lua's Card:update

[daring fern]

Yes.

[hybrid shadow]

what does that mean

[wind steppe]

how do i check if a card is being added or removed from the joker slots? In a hook of Card.remove_from_deck and Card.add_to_deck. There is no calculate function and I have no context. self.area == G.jokers doesnt work

[ionic hill]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[tepid crow]

that you didn't overwrite that code and that's the default behaviour of temperance (in the function I specified)

[hybrid shadow]

so temperance is entirely hardcoded?

[gray quartz]

is that what functional programming is? where you can use functions as variables?

[obtuse silo]

this patch stuff is confusing...
i'm looking at the booster repo
and i gather what i'm supposed to do is:
use pattern target card:explode()
and then the payload needs to check that it is my specific booster pack
and then play the sound?

[daring fern]

No.

[tepid crow]

not really, just... split across multiple functions

[hybrid shadow]

because i changed the use behavior of temperance as well but i dont know if thats the problem

[gusty hatch]

javascript does that too, its not functional prog its just functions can be stored

[thorn basin]

weird, it doesn't upgrade the joker if the face suits are different, but it doesn't crash this time.
It is probably because of the "~=" ?

[tepid crow]

There's a lot of different running pieces, of which you overwrote one. The other pieces then made assumptions that were no longer true

[gusty hatch]

functional prog is just a philosophy of "not using classes" paradigm

[hybrid shadow]

is there a way fo fix that

[gusty hatch]

more or less

[daring fern]

@thorn basin

[tepid crow]

Not really? Most languages support using functions as variables though, which has some very nice use cases and is definitely an important part of functional programming

[thorn basin]

oh, in this case then I should add a "==", right?

[daring fern]

Then it would be useless because a variable will always be equal to itself.

[thorn basin]

oh

[tepid crow]

Probably. Why are you taking ownership of temperance again?

[obtuse silo]

i am correct, right?

[pure salmon]

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.before and context.main_eval then
            card.ability.extra.scored_suits = {}
        end
        if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
            if context.other_card.base.suit 
            and not card.ability.extra.scored_suits[context.other_card.base.suit] 
            then 
                card.ability.extra.scored_suits[context.other_card.base.suit] = true 
                return {
                    mult = card.ability.extra.mult
                }
            end
        end
    end
end

@signal lotus here you go

[daring fern]

Perhaps.

[hybrid shadow]

i have a joker thats supposed to double the effect of tarot cards but if i cant get temperance to work then it doesnt have to affect it

[signal lotus]

absolute cinema

[pure salmon]

config = { extra = { mult = 4, scored_suits = {} } }, here's what's in config

[obtuse silo]

-# you are not peter griffin bro /j

[pure salmon]

most of the other code is grab bag-specific and boilerplate stuff

[thorn basin]

then which prompt should I put to see if a card suit is different from another one?

[tepid crow]

Hmm... did any other tarots give issues or have you not even looked at other tarots yet?

[gray quartz]

im def still learning so thanks 🙏

[daring fern]

if card1.base.suit ~= card2.base.suit

[obtuse silo]

i'm looking at the repositories and they all use the .toml file type
do i need to create a separate file?

[daring fern]

Yes.

[signal lotus]

for loc var?

[pure salmon]

no, for the config.ability.extra calls

[signal lotus]

i know

but what is the local var section

oh

nvrm

i just realized

[thorn basin]

I'm kinda lost rn, are the card1 and card2 are local variables?

[daring fern]

What is the goal?

[hybrid shadow]

all of the tarots where the can_use is tied to max_highlighted seem to work in terms of my modifications (ive tested that kind of thing with Death and that worked, havent tested the other ones but theyve been similarly changed in code). WoF was a weird one but i just realized smth else i could do to fix that up a bit. other than that, emperor, high priestess, judgement, and fool have yet to be fully tested

[pure salmon]

yours would just be return { vars = { card.ability.extra.xmult } } (or Xmult or whatever you use for xmult)

[gusty hatch]

is anyone here mikas?

a modder

[obtuse silo]

the repo also has this patch
is this acceptable to use?

[gusty hatch]

they have a nice page look:
https://mikaschoenmakers.github.io/MikasBalatro/

their jokers are a lil quirky but design wise i think they are not balanced enough to be fun

[obtuse silo]

or should i stick with just putting the pattern as self:explode()?

[long sun]

hiya! remind me how to check if a playing card has a particular edition?

[gusty hatch]

but they have a very good grip on the modding fr fr

[daring fern]

if card.edition and card.edition.key == "e_modprefix_key"

[long sun]

cheers ^^

mm, then why doesn't this work?

local waxed_cards = {}
      for i = 1, #context.removed do
        if context.removed[i].edition and context.removed[i].edition.key == 'e_phanta_waxed' then waxed_cards[#waxed_cards + 1] = context.removed[i].key end
      end```

[daring fern]

card.key doesn't exist.

[gray quartz]

wait i do 'if card.edition and card.edition.prefix_key' ?

[long sun]

ah oops -u-

[gray quartz]

hold on

[long sun]

wait, but the length of waxed_cards is 0

[gray quartz]

ep1n is my mod prefix and charred is the edition key

[thorn basin]

The joker's goal is to check that if two or more face cards (that have different rank and can have the same suit but it must be different rank; for example jack of hearts and queen of hearts is allowed, king of spades and king of diamonds is allowed but jack of clubs and another jack of clubs is NOT allowed ) are played in a poker hand.
If the condition is satisfied, the said joker gains XMult.
Basically faces with same rank and same suit at the same time are not allowed.

[long sun]

wait no, it is working, it's just not returning the message properly -u- sorry to bother!

[obtuse silo]

@daring fern?

[gray quartz]

this does seem to work @daring fern

[daring fern]

No, it needs to be Card:explode()

[gentle rain]

is it possible for a tag to trigger under two different circumstances? currently trying to add a double tag that triggers like normal when getting a tag but dissapears when a blind is selected

[sonic cedar]

can anyone tell me why this triggers twice? like the "cut off the first trigger to trigger it again" type of double trigger

[tepid crow]

Yeah it's difficult... some of the tarots like fool or strength are hard and especially modded tarots are difficult. You could do something like this for temperance (you'll have to fill in the if-statement)

SMODS.Consumable:take_ownership('temperance',
 {
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        if ... then
            return { vars = { 2*card.ability.extra, 2*card.ability.money } }
        end
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra, card.ability.money } }
    end,
    use_consumeable = function(...)
        ...
    end
 }
)

[vague crest]

if i have a boolean for if a planet card has been used this round

i typed enter too early gonna try that again

[gray quartz]

in my experience its generally cardarea, if cardarea is not defined there it runs the calc function for every card area

not sure exactly tho

[obtuse silo]

just that?

[vague crest]

if i have a boolean for if a planet card has been used this round, would i want that where i have it now or in the bottom variable bit in the screenshot? for reference this is the first joker ive done, ive gotten it to scale by 5 mult each round but the gimmick is that it should reset on not using a planet card

[sonic cedar]

would the area be jokers here

[daring fern]

You would want it in the config.

[vague crest]

oh so i need a new file for defining variables?

[gray quartz]

thats the most readable, but like i said it runs for every card area, so you can pick any one of them @sonic cedar

[daring fern]

No.

[vague crest]

waittt no sorry i see what youre saying 🤭

[thorn basin]

so how can I check if a face card is NOT ENTIRELY equal to another face card?

[hybrid shadow]

this finally fixed it (im not doing the adaptive description thing though, its funnier that way)

[daring fern]

if face1.base.name ~= face2.base.name

[pulsar furnace]

how could i modify this ui?

[wintry solar]

into what?

[pulsar furnace]

uhh

[sonic cedar]

ok well G.jokers makes it not trigger at all

[obtuse silo]

what would be the right position & payload for this?

[pulsar furnace]

like i want to show diffrent decks

[wintry solar]

just use galdur https://github.com/Eremel/Galdur

[pulsar furnace]

with a button

ok

[gray quartz]

oh well then it's not bc of cardarea and i haven't the slightest clue 💔

[wind steppe]

how do i check if a card is being added or removed from the joker slots? In a hook of Card.remove_from_deck and Card.add_to_deck. There is no calculate function and I have no context. self.area == G.jokers doesnt work

[sonic cedar]

back on the burner it goes

[vague crest]

i think this is the part thats crashing but im not really sure why? its saying to add an extra end but that doesnt actually fix anything it still gives the same error i fear

[daring fern]

The pattern would be play_sound('explosion_release1'), the position would be after and the payload would be play_sound('modprefix_key')

[tough temple]

hello people

[thorn basin]

like this?

[tough temple]

how would get a joker to make a random consumable IF the card played is a 4,2, or ace

idk how to get the current hand or how to spawn consumables basically

[daring fern]

card.base.face.name doesn't exist and any property cannot not be equal to itself

[obtuse silo]

okay, done
anything else?
do i need to reference it anywhere in my lua code?

[daring fern]

No.

[thorn basin]

ok, so how can I make the properties different if they cannot be equal to themselves?

wait

maybe I found the solution

[daring fern]

If you want to check 2 different cards you need to check 2 cards and not the same 1 card.

[hybrid shadow]

all modified tarots seem to be working as intended (if i can get WoF to work)

[gusty hatch]

IM A FUCKING GENIUS

IT WERKS

[obtuse silo]

this didn't work

[gusty hatch]

"If you sell, you get uncommon tag"

EZ

[daring fern]

Remove the space in the pattern.

[gusty hatch]

I got my first joker made sankiu team im very grateful <3

[wind steppe]

this seems significantly worse than cola

[gusty hatch]

yes, its a common one

[tough temple]

small cola can

[gusty hatch]

next one is going to be wine

[hybrid shadow]

i mean thats true but also this is beer so its already significantly worse than cola

[gusty hatch]

which gives you the rare

[wind steppe]

true

[gusty hatch]

yeah i want to introduce some common beverages first

[wind steppe]

add a rare that gives you a legendary when you sell it

[gusty hatch]

thats called cocktail

[tough temple]

hey how do i get access to balatros source code

[gusty hatch]

and its super duper expesiv but yh

[gusty hatch]

you unzip the .exe

from steam files

[tough temple]

thats possible?

[gusty hatch]

ye

[vivid grotto]

Hey guys, how possible do you think this joker would be, the Joker's name is Zalgo
-- Possible Effect: After Boss Blind, Randomly selects 2 non-Zalgo and non-combined jokers and creates a new joker with the
-- same effect as the selected jokers with randomn variation, remove original jokers from poll if in play. ( 3 usages max???)
-- 0.75 to 1.25 range for variation round up for higher then 1, round down for lower then 1. minimum value of 1
-- non-blueprint compatible? only allow blueprint to and brainstorm to only combine with each other?

[obtuse silo]

still no change

[wind steppe]

do not

[gusty hatch]

Do not modify

[wind steppe]

99 percent of the time theres a better way to do what ur trying to do

[gusty hatch]

but yes you can read its v cool

[tough temple]

?

[wind steppe]

readings unhelpful cause it doesnt use smods

[tough temple]

wdym

oh

that is so saddening

[gusty hatch]

modding is safer

[wind steppe]

vanillaremade better

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/main/src/jokers.lua

[daring fern]

What does that line look like in the lovely dump?

[gusty hatch]

its wot we do

[hybrid shadow]

WoF finally stopped being a stubborn bastard so now im done with tarots

[tough temple]

thank you

so much

[gusty hatch]

you can go to this guide first:
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki

it has a cat

cute

[sonic cedar]

hi aure's cat

[vivid grotto]

is this possible 🥺

[wind steppe]

theoretically yes

[obtuse silo]

it looks like this

[sonic cedar]

it will take forever to do but yes

[wind steppe]

with the catch that you'd have to make 22500 jokers

assuming this is the only joker ur adding

[gusty hatch]

so it merges two cards?

[wind steppe]

wait no not quite

[wild escarp]

How would I check the id of a joker in the shop?

[obtuse silo]

i'm guessing it being in the lovely dump means that it didn't change

[wind steppe]

21906 jokers

[vivid grotto]

merge 2 jokers and slgihtly randomize their effects, asusming numbers

[gusty hatch]

meh idk it would make negatives a lil redundant

game design wise i think its better to just have a chance to make negative with debuff

its in most effects the same thing

[tough temple]

would this work?

context.other_card:get_id() == "Ace"

[wind steppe]

maybe you can code like a joker-linking thing or something

[daring fern]

No.

[wind steppe]

where if one gets destroyed they both do

[tough temple]

do i put 14 instead?

[daring fern]

Yes.

[tough temple]

thx

[vivid grotto]

would it be possible to add another joker's effect to an existing joker? like how you can add chips to a card?

[gusty hatch]

thats new features my head would get dizzy coding that

[daring fern]

Is the file called lovely.toml or a toml in a lovely folder?

[wind steppe]

No™️

[vivid grotto]

😂

[wind steppe]

unless you mean without the fusion (so unconditionally)

[obtuse silo]

there doesn't look to be a toml file

[gusty hatch]

yes but you would need to like, use a lot of queries

[vivid grotto]

what does mean?

[daring fern]

No, I mean the file with the lovely patch.

[wind steppe]

how do i check if a card is being added or removed from the joker slots? In a hook of Card.remove_from_deck and Card.add_to_deck. There is no calculate function and I have no context. self.area == G.jokers doesnt work

[gusty hatch]

pretty much for each value existing if its non default from the cards and then manually pass all as parameter for the new one

[wild escarp]

bump

[obtuse silo]

no
i'll get around to doing that i guess

[gusty hatch]

so a if cascade thats ugly

[thorn basin]

I swear to god, I'm trying every command possible but I stil don't know how to check 2 different cards:

[gusty hatch]

or a foreach that captures on a list

[daring fern]

card.face.base.name doesn't exist.

[vivid grotto]

welp, it was an idea 😦

thanks for help tho

[gusty hatch]

ideas are cool have more of em

[obtuse silo]

renamed it to lovely.toml
still nothing

[gusty hatch]

the thing is that making a negative with debuff is gameplay wise super similar and implementation wise duper simple

[wind steppe]

what are you trying to do here?

[gusty hatch]

@vivid grotto so if you are willing to make that smol adjustment you got yourself a new legendary

gg

[obtuse silo]

i renamed the file
still nothing

[thorn basin]

check if two or more face cards are entirely different.
by that I mean that they cannot be the same suit and rank at the same time (like jack of clubs and another jack of clubs).

[worthy stirrup]

Im trying to have it so the soul card does an animation, but its not moving, the soul is there

[daring fern]

if card11111111111111111111111111111.base.name ~= card222222222222222222222.base.name

[vivid grotto]

Ya know, I'll look into it my friend, much appreciated

[gusty hatch]

I can put it on my list if you want, i think it sounds like an interesting joker!

but im going to implement some other jokers first

[wind steppe]

loop through all cards, save all face cards in a table, and if you find a face card not in the table and the table isn't empty, then there are 2 different face cards

[gusty hatch]

get some practice

[vivid grotto]

Sounds good to me 👍

[gusty hatch]

@wind steppe could not be possible without chu

sankiu

[daring fern]

No?

[wind steppe]

if you just want suit and rank then instead of saving face cards as a whole save the suit and rank of any face cards as a table

[wind steppe]

then what exactly is the problem here

[worthy stirrup]

instead of saying no, tell them why you disagree

[daring fern]

If you put all face cards in the table there will be no face cards that are not in the table.

[spice wadi]

Same with the question mark react

[worthy stirrup]

bump

[spice wadi]

Just saying no or reacting like that without explain at all generally is not helpful

[thorn basin]

but if I try like this the card1 and card 2 are not defined:

[daring fern]

Yes.

[thorn basin]

...uuuh

[wind steppe]

in the loop you check if that card is already in the table

[tough temple]

what are collection_rows in consumable types?

[daring fern]

That would never work.

card.sort_id is always different.

Also card.playing_card

[wind steppe]

save suit-rank pairs instead of card objects and check for duplicate suit-rank pairs

considering they wanted to check for suit and rank

[worthy stirrup]

if i remember correcly, each number is a row with the number being how many cards are in that row

for example: {2, 1}
x x
x

[tough temple]

so like

[obtuse silo]

is it because it's in the src file?

[tough temple]

what does it do im confused

it is required?

[worthy stirrup]

i am not sure to be honest

[daring fern]

Yes, it needs to be directly in the mod folder.

[wind steppe]

probably

[thorn basin]

then how can I define them?

[wind steppe]

wow very helpful something

[spice wadi]

What actually is the goal here?

[wind steppe]

hold on let me write pseudocode for my solution

[obtuse silo]

so

lovely.toml
assets
  sounds
    sound.wav
  1x
    [image files]
  2x
    [image files
src
  [insert lua files]
main.lua
modname.json```

is this the correct file structure?

[spice wadi]

What does the joker do

[daring fern]

Yes.

[thorn basin]

Check if 2 or more face cards are entirely different on a played poker hand.
By that I mean that they cannot be the same suit and rank at the same time (like jack of clubs and another jack of clubs).
If there are no same face cards then the joker gains an amount of XMult (currently X1)

[obtuse silo]

well
after fixing the "match indent" part
it crashed :]

[daring fern]

local faces = {}
local passed
for k, v in pairs(context.full_hand) do
    if card:is_face() then
        if not faces[v.base.name] then
          faces[v.base.name] = true
        else
            passed = true
            break
        end
    end
end
if passed then
    -- gain xmult
end

[wild escarp]

What could I use in Card:set_cost() to look for a specific joker?

[daring fern]

if self.config.center.key == "j_modprefix_key"

[wild escarp]

Thanks!

[spice wadi]

This is getting ridiculous 😭

I don't want the crypto thanks

Thanks mods

[wind steppe]

how do i check for a card's base suit?

[daring fern]

card.base.suit

[obtuse silo]

could use some help here

[daring fern]

What does it look like in the lovely dump?

[obtuse silo]

to be clear
are we referring to the dump folder in the lovely mod folder

[daring fern]

Yes.

[obtuse silo]

it displays one after the other

[thorn basin]

well, now it doesn't crash but it still doesn't upgrade the card If I play 2 or more different face cards.

[wind steppe]

I have a solution

One sec

[hybrid shadow]

question for future reference, does context.destroy_card tie all of the playing card's attributes (suit, enhancement, etc) to destroy_card?

[wind steppe]

local isdifferent = false
local facecard = nil
for i = 1, #context.scoring_hand do
    if (context.scoring_hand[i]:is_face()) then
        if facecard == nil then
            facecard = {context.scoring_hand[i]:get_id(), context.scoring_hand[i].base.suit}
        elseif facecard != {context.scoring_hand[i]:get_id(), context.scoring_hand[i].base.suit}
            isdifferent = true
        end
    end
end

[daring fern]

Change it to local passed = false and the if to if not passed then

[wind steppe]

isdifferent will be true if there are two different face cards

[daring fern]

!= doesn't exist.

[wind steppe]

I meant ~=

too used to python

[daring fern]

context.destroy_card is the card.

So yes.

[thorn basin]

well, now there are 2 problems, the joker upgrades even if the face cards don't score and it also upgrades if there's only one.
hold up lemme try the code that SMODS.fool sent.

[daring fern]

Change it to context.scoring_hand

[scarlet spire]

how can I, on a blueprint-like joker, detect when it copies another joker to decrease a variable?

[daring fern]

Also check if #context.scoring_hand >= 2

[scarlet spire]

I'm specifically working off of the vanilla remade blueprint joker

[spice wadi]

I had to solve this exact issue gimme a moment to find the code I used

[daring fern]

You would check if SMODS.blueprint_effect returns anything.

[spice wadi]

local blueprint = SMODS.blueprint_effect(card, other_joker, context)
        if blueprint then```

[scarlet spire]

oh, huh

I see

[spice wadi]

The function only returns something when there's a trigger

I think it's kinda important to note that it really is per trigger
So if it's copying a joker that acts per card (eg 3 mult per diamond card), your variable would be changed once for each card

[daring fern]

Yes, but it won't always return something if there is a trigger.

[spice wadi]

Oh that's interesting, in what cases does that happen

And why

[vague crest]

theyre beautiful im clicking my heels together

[daring fern]

When copying jokers that don't return anything, because they don't return anything.

[spice wadi]

Nice!

[sturdy compass]

These are banger joker arts

[spice wadi]

That's not a particularly useful answer
Is this something that occurs with any vanilla jokers because if it does then I might have to write a patch to change that

[vague crest]

the tuna is by my friend and atlas is mine :3 very proud of them

[daring fern]

If a joker doesn't return anything then SMODS.blueprint_effect wont return anything but it will still copy the card.

[spice wadi]

No I get that

But I also want to detect when a blueprint style card copies a card

So if there's any jokers that you know of that don't return anything when triggered, I'd like to know so I can change them to return something

[formal parrot]

Hey modders

I have a question

How can i make an animated sprite ?

[spice wadi]

Also it really feels like you're patronising me instead of answering my question and you're still doing the question mark react thing which I've asked you before not to do so I'll ask again

[spice wadi]

Can't answer that but I know yahimod has a subway surfers joker with an animated sprite so you can look at that

[spice wadi]

Brother what part of my request is that hard to understand 😭
The question mark thing is honestly passive aggressive and counter productive
I'm more than happy to try and answer any questions that you may have
So ask away

[thorn basin]

well, it works but also on the same face cards with the same rank and same suit unfortunately.

[formal parrot]

Lmao okay thanks

[thorn furnace]

How do I go about adding the little information bubble to the right

[daring fern]

info_queue

[thorn furnace]

what would I put in there

[wind steppe]

Print facecard before the joker scores

[daring fern]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Localization#loc_vars

[thorn furnace]

o
thanks

[spice wadi]

I'll rephrase my original question, something, in case I worded it wrong
You mentioned that some jokers may return nothing when triggered, so I'd like to ask if this is a purely hypothetical issue or there are some jokers in vanilla that do not return anything
The return when triggered is important to me so I'll fix any that don't return anything, if there are any in vanilla

[thorn basin]

wait, i'm confused, wdym by that?

[daring fern]

I couldn't find any vanilla jokers that do that.

[gentle rain]

is there a variable for how many slots a card (specifically a consumable) occupies?

[spice wadi]

Alright that's good to know, thanks

[thorn furnace]

If I wanted like a custom information box that wasn't for a specific Joker or enhancement, how would that go

[daring fern]

Replace the center with {key = "keyoflocalization", set = "setoflocalization"}

[thorn furnace]

o I meant more like custom text
Like if I wanted to use it to explain a mechanic or smth

Sorri im bad at explaining things

[gentle rain]

trying to implement a group of cards which occupy half a slot

[daring fern]

You have to put it in the localization.

[daring fern]

No.

[thorn furnace]

Oki
I'll see if I can do something
Thank u :3

[daring fern]

You would just do area.config.card_limit = area.config.card_limit + 0.5 when added and do the opposite when removed.

[gentle rain]

ah right

[wind steppe]

run print(facecard) in context.joker_main

[scarlet spire]

been away from lua for a bit, how can I return SMODS.blueprint_effect alongside other things like messages? is that possible?

I'm forgetting basic syntax...

[thorn basin]

like this?

[spice wadi]

I don't think you need to return that, it's a function

However

For returning multiple effects in general

[daring fern]

You do need to return it.

[spice wadi]

BRO stop with that question mark thing I'm so tired of it 😭

Okay looking back at my original code I realise I made a mistake

However

You can do two things to return multiple effects

You can add another return effects table in the extra field

[wind steppe]

If I knew how to make a discord bot I’d detect Something’s question mark reacts and call him out on it

I don’t tho

[daring fern]

local ret = SMODS.blueprint_effect(...)
return recursiveextrafunction({ret, {message = "message"}})

[spice wadi]

So like in my earlier example where I put the effects in blueprint, you can put it in blueprint.extra

You can also run the function SMODS.calculate_effect

[daring fern]

Then retriggers wouldn't work.

[spice wadi]

Retriggers of what sorry

[daring fern]

Retriggers of anything.

[spice wadi]

Could you expand more on how that would play out in practice
Because I use that function primarily for things like extra messages

[wintry solar]

as long as you do return nil, true retriggers would work fine

or return a standard effects table of course

[daring fern]

No, I'm referring to using SMODS.calculate_effect to add retriggers to a card.

[scarlet spire]

what is recursiveextrafunction?

[spice wadi]

I personally wouldn't use it for smth as important as that
I've only really used it as a substitute to having a massive nested table

[daring fern]

A function that goes down all the extra tables, and when it finds one that doesn't exist it will put the new extras in it.

You need to define it though.

[thorn basin]

@wind steppe there's still the problem that the joker upgrades with two equal faces with the same suits and ranks (if I play a pair).

[wintry solar]

you'll be able to use SMODS.merge_effects(...) when the new release is out

[rapid stag]

how do i get the length of a key-based table?

[faint yacht]

Iterate and count up with pairs.

[rapid stag]

i guess that's my only option huh

[spice wadi]

This is me asking for my own knowledge but why doesn't using # work for counting these?

[wintry solar]

# finds the highest consecutive index

[rapid stag]

because # only cares about indexed tables

[wind steppe]

yeah

What’s in the console when it scores?

[wintry solar]

it doesn't technically count the size of a table

[wind steppe]

You should see it if you have DebugPlus

[thorn basin]

nil

[spice wadi]

Ah that's good to know

[scarlet spire]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. do you have an implementation of this function?

[wind steppe]

Replace if facecard == nil then with if not facecard then

[thorn basin]

...it still prints nil and upgrades the joker

[wind steppe]

Fix the indentation maybe?

Idk

[spice wadi]

Can you send the full code again

[humble elk]

does anyone know how stuff is cached? Ive changed this config label a couple times and rebooted the game but it isnt reflecting that name change in game
initially i had
get_reps = function(params) dosomething end
which just didnt show in the extra table at all.

repetitions: 1

When i changed the line to
another_label = "another thing"
i get the following. Anyone know how to get the game to recognize the most recent version?
in my joker's config:

        extra = {
            repetitions = 1,
            another_label = "another thing"
        }
    },
... (later)
logger.log(card.ability.extra)
...```
Log:
```INFO - [G] [Example] Table:
repetitions: 1
get_reps: another thing```

[wind steppe]

Make facecard start as false instead of nil

[spice wadi]

Change the if statement to beif ifdifferent == true then

[wind steppe]

*isdifferent

[spice wadi]

Yeah that

It's 2am and I'm on mobile haha

[thorn basin]

I applied both changes and it still has the same problem

and still prints nil

[spice wadi]

I'm too tired for this I'm gonna sleep

My main recommendation to you is to do a ton of debugging

Put print statements in each step

Including to print out some of the variables if needed

[daring fern]

Did you try my solution but with the changes I said?

[thorn basin]

yeah and it still has the same result.

I'm gonna go sleep too at this point

gonna work on it tomorrow

thank you guys still

[daring fern]

No, I meant these ones:

[thorn basin]

oh, I haven't tried those, gonna try them tomorrow.

I hope I haven't exhausted your patience.
thank you guys still for the help, really appreciated it.

[spice wadi]

Ofc, I hope anything I suggested has helped

[vivid grotto]

hey I am trying to make this rat enchantment that acts as both a steel and stone card, but I want it to convert unscoring cards into rat cards, my current implimentation isn't working, any ideas?

[scarlet imp]

I have this Joker that applies a multiplier to other Jokers' mult effects. I want to make it amplify the mult gain on things like Ride the Bus and Obelisk, and the effect seems to work based on the updated description, but the game crashes every time. I took ownership of Ride the Bus to try and fix the problem, but nothing worked

[daring fern]

context.held doesn't exist and you should be using quantum enhancements.

Neither does context.scored or card.scored

[vivid grotto]

gonna probably need the full error log and the code for the joker

[daring fern]

if context.individual and context.cardarea == "unscored" then
    local other_card = context.other_card
    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
        func = function()
            other_card:juice_up()
            other_card:set_ability('m_mbm_rat')
            return true
        end
    }))
    return {message = "Ratted", colour = G.C.PURPLE, message_card = other_card}
end

[sonic cedar]

I can hear it in my head
ba bada baaaa

[lucid owl]

@signal lotus adding a pool to a joker and indexing said pool (your implementation would slightly differ in how you index)

so you could do
pools = { ["Your_Pool"] = true },

shit

[signal lotus]

how do i add pools to the mod or is there a way i make them before i add them to jokers or does just adding them to the koker make them exist

[vague crest]

how would i go about removing chips from scored cards?