💻・modding-dev

[chrome widget]

Some teachers, unfortunately, actively want the benefit of a position that allows them to oppress and deligitimize children. Sorry that happened to you

[rocky plaza]

the t was just a dummy variable name to show a little bit about how table syntax works

[split saddle]

using that crashed my game

or do I have to add the extra.seal ability?

[red flower]

then you used it wrong, show code

[red flower]

you can replace what's in [] for "Gold"

[rocky plaza]

but yeah if ur still used to having to specify types in advance then vscode and other editors should have a lua plugin that lets you specify types with comments

[agile path]

i'm using visual studio code

and i got the lua plugin, yes

[sturdy compass]

Beautiful

[agile path]

that's how i been working on mt texture pack

except all the pack does is change stuff lol

not add

[agile path]

thank you thank you :>

[sturdy compass]

Once again, I think you'll pick stuff up real quick

[agile path]

yessir!

[rocky plaza]

i too recently picked up learning lua
i didnt know how to use lua until like a month ago
just dont be afraid to ask here, someone will have the answer to help you

[modern kindle]

Even if you get stuck there are very helpful people here as well! So dont be shy

[agile path]

even if i sound hella annoying, i will be bombarding yo guys lol

you*

[chrome widget]

Oh also and ⛓️ we winning we winning

Glad to have you!!!!

[rocky plaza]

np
i also learn a little bit every time i make a mistake helping people

[agile path]

don't click the ||spoiler|| or you'll get scared

[modern kindle]

I always get scared I give bad advice helping people

[chrome widget]

AH

SCAREY

[sturdy compass]

Bumming around this chat is probably one of the biggest ways I learned lol

[rocky plaza]

i mean we're all human we make mistakes even with good intentions
especially if its late at night and our brains aren't fully functioning

[red flower]

i have never made a mistake

[chrome widget]

this is true

[modern kindle]

N is perfect its true

[sturdy compass]

This is factual

[rocky plaza]

true

[red flower]

nooo

[manic rune]

i concur

[red flower]

now i feel bad

[agile path]

what do you guys think i start the mod from?
the mod id, name, author etc?

[sturdy compass]

Definitely

[chrome widget]

You'll need a json file with all your metadata, and then a main file

[modern kindle]

I should buy N another game to praise his perfection when im home from the game store

[red flower]

nooo

[rocky plaza]

praise be to N'

[modern kindle]

I wonder how long it would take me to buy Ns wishlist

[agile path]

"i've never made any mistakes, if you ignore all my past mistakes, then i actually never made mistakes"

-darkviper

[sturdy compass]

I know you've been pointed to the Starter Pack thread already but that will really help you get development off the ground

[modern kindle]

He got so many games on there

[sturdy compass]

I wish I had it when I got started

[modern kindle]

My beginning was the smods example mod
That lifted me right off the ground as initially I only did small edits

Vremade now is a fantastic tool for people

[agile path]

wait, can i ask something that is frying me?

[rocky plaza]

go ahead

[split saddle]

didn't work :(

[agile path]

i think i have these installed, do i have to do any of these?

[red flower]

weird

did you save?

[split saddle]

yes

[rocky plaza]

if u have smods installed then u do not need to do any of that

[split saddle]

reloaded twice

[chrome widget]

Typically follow the manual instructions unless you really need latest dev code SMODS, or are uploading commits to SMODS

[sturdy compass]

Since you're diving into dev stuff, I would recommend transitioning to using Method A, but either works just fine

[chrome widget]

Method A is preferred at high level, but also. Not everyone uses git with command line like I do cause im stupid and insane

[agile path]

is smods... steammoded?

[rocky plaza]

yes

[modern kindle]

I've never used method a

[chrome widget]

yep

[agile path]

oh

then i do have it

[rocky plaza]

whats a command line? /j

[red flower]

my favorite mod manager

[modern kindle]

Fax

[chrome widget]

I should probably use vscode source control except, uhh, cd ../smods go brr

[sturdy compass]

I'm too used to GitHub Desktop atp

[chrome widget]

git checkout -b dumbass-branch
git add .
git status
git commit -m "insane commit message depicting my failing sanity"
git push origin -u dumbass-branch

[rocky plaza]

same

[maiden phoenix]

Wow cant believe you made SMODS

And 2 VanillaRemade

[manic rune]

am i dumb for not knowing how to connect github to my vsc

:3

[red flower]

https://github.nh6574.com/smods

[maiden phoenix]

Lol

[sturdy compass]

Speaking of SMODS there are so many PRs on deck that I can't wait to see pulled

[agile path]

it does start with n tho

[rocky plaza]

i should get more comfortable with the command line but i aint got time for that when im tryna read up on gradschool-level books on diff eqs

[chrome widget]

what's floating around rn?

[red flower]

nh6574 is my username

[agile path]

lmao, i didn't see

[red flower]

(thats just a fork tho)

[red flower]

i need the in_pool one

[sturdy compass]

Chip-Mult Operator API, N's Challenge API expansion (apply and calculate for challenges), your scaling tracker, is_in_pool

Just a lot of really nice stuff

[agile path]

can y'all resend the links for the basic starting stuff please?

if that's okay ofc

[red flower]

#1349064230825103441 message

it should all be there

[agile path]

obrigada :3

[chrome widget]

At least according to Eremel, I wouldn't expect the scaling tracker to actually get into SMODS

Feel free to grab it and incorporate it for yourself tho

[sturdy compass]

Unfortunate but makes sense

[red flower]

I think haya had some problems with it

[chrome widget]

Haya?

[red flower]

haya of paya's terrible additions fame

[chrome widget]

(if people have problems with it they should comment so I can fix it lmao. I've not gotten any other feedback aside from the key blacklist feature that I added)

[red flower]

people dont like reporting bugs sadly

[chrome widget]

genuinely the first time i'm hearing of it so like

💅

not my problem

[sturdy compass]

Felt

[agile path]

so, for starters, i need a .json file with the 'identification" of my mod, correct?

[red flower]

yes

[rocky plaza]

yep

[sturdy compass]

Who wants software to be bug free?: 🖐️ 🖐️ 🖐️ 🖐️ 🖐️ 🖐️

Who wants to report bugs?: 🦗

[agile path]

would it be considered... laziness if i used some templates...?

[sturdy compass]

No

[red flower]

no

[rocky plaza]

heres the appropriate page containing the info u need
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Mod-Metadata

[modern kindle]

If i never get told about a bug then frankly there are no bugs and I am perfect

[chrome widget]

copying code is not laziness and is actually praxis for development

[agile path]

bless

[chrome widget]

you should always steal from everyone

[rocky plaza]

especially with open source stuff

[agile path]

the only place where plagiarism is acceptable

lol

[red flower]

i made mods specifically for people to steal from me

[sturdy compass]

You'd be surprised how much code is "stolen" on the regular

[agile path]

nah nah, i'm aware
we learned that

[rocky plaza]

assuming the approprate license
also please credit even if u steal, its just good practice
but realistically not many people are going to be offended

[modern kindle]

Im stealing Ns joker graveyard as we speak and making a yugioh mod called joyous spring

[chrome widget]

Nah I think plagiarism is generally acceptable in most cases and is only hightened as a problem by the vested interest of copyright, but that's typically a take Too Woke for people

[red flower]

very different from JoyousSpring

[chrome widget]

That said like giving credit is fun so people can see and point to your inspirations

[red flower]

can we abolish copyright

[agile path]

do i need anything on vscode to make the jason file

[chrome widget]

I want to so fucking bad

[modern kindle]

I love Jason file

[rocky plaza]

TRUE

[red flower]

no

just make the file

[chrome widget]

just create a new file, name it smth.json

[agile path]

jason smith goes hard 🗣️

got it

[red flower]

json stands for joyousspring is on

[rocky plaza]

be the first person to name their metadata file jason_smith.json 🔥🔥

[agile path]

wait, so i should name metada.json?

medatada

fuck

[red flower]

it can be named anything

.json of course

[agile path]

oh, smods detects it either way?

[red flower]

yes

[chrome widget]

Yeah it doesn't need to be named anything specific, it's just the only json in the top level folder

I just typically give it the mod name

[agile path]

jeson smith it is

[chrome widget]

so mine is Fanworks.json

[agile path]

json*

[red flower]

smods tries to load all my json config files

[chrome widget]

<@&1133519078540185692>

Sorry for whoever got autocorrected lmao

[unkempt thicket]

mods don't come up which i type @ mods

[sturdy compass]

Same link too

[agile path]

on "dependancies", that's like
stuff that my mod depends on to work right?

[sturdy compass]

blegh

Correct

[chrome widget]

Mhm. Most mods won't have dependencies aside from an smods version

Feel free to put the most recent release version of smods, because people who use it should be keeping up to date

[agile path]

got it

[sturdy compass]

iirc most recent is 0711a rn?

[unkempt thicket]

I think so

[chrome widget]

"dependencies": [
    "Steamodded (>=1.0.0~BETA-0711a)"
    "Lovely (>=0.8)"
],```

[unkempt thicket]

I still don't have lovely 0.8

[agile path]

can i get some info on some of these parameters?

like, priority, the badge stuff and prefix mainly

[red flower]

my mod needs lovely 0.8 because of cross mod patches on mac

[proven belfry]

what's the resolution for blind icons

[sturdy compass]

The metadata page should give you the info you need

[agile path]

fuck, true
i didn't see it, my bad-

[sturdy compass]

98% strikes again

[rocky plaza]

?

[sturdy compass]

98% of Balatro players/modders do not know how to read

[rocky plaza]

i thought a gd streamer got 98% on a level and u just announced it here 💀

[sturdy compass]

Bro

I cannot escape this game man

[proven belfry]

bump

[agile path]

i can't read 98% of the boss blinds

checkls out

[chrome widget]

• id is the identification for the mod within smods
• name is just a general readable name in the SMODS mod menu
• authors is an array of the author names, shown in the SMODS mod menu
• description is self explanatory
• prefix is what smods uses to index keys for added items unless specifically turned off, to prevent conflicts. so whereas a vanilla joker is 'j_joker', your jokers will by default be 'j_prefix_joker'
• priority is the order in which a mod is loaded. For most use cases this should be 0, but you can set it higher or lower if you absolutely need to load before or after other mods
• badge_colour and badge_text_colour are used to add little badges on your added items to show what mod they're from, as a little flair. These can also be disabled if you want, but it's useful for organization
• display_name is what's shown on the mod badge (and a few other places)
• version is the internal version numbering for your mod. 1.0 is typically used for first public releases

[agile path]

gf today lost a run cause she forgot to read too

[sturdy compass]

rip

[proven belfry]

there aren't even 50 blinds

[chrome widget]

@proven belfry btw 34x34

[proven belfry]

thx

[agile path]

does the badge have to be in hex color code?

[sturdy compass]

yes

[agile path]

time to pink-ify this mf

[sturdy compass]

also don't include the #

[chrome widget]

samesies!!!!

[agile path]

i figured, yes

[chrome widget]

We pink!!!!!!!!

[agile path]

omg, we onto some gay shit :3

[sturdy compass]

That's also like 98% of the dev community 😭

[chrome widget]

I already got my lesbian joker

[versed swan]

How do you reach this card area? (i.e which G key)

[agile path]

what's main file?

[chrome widget]

G.pack_cards

It's only valid when a booster pack is opened, otherwise it's nil

[versed swan]

gotcha, thank you

[sturdy compass]

That's the main lua file of your mod

[agile path]

so, for now it should be empty, i assume

i have nothing lol

[sturdy compass]

the value for that is just a string of the file's name, i.e. "main.lua"

[agile path]

so it has to match the name, so it can access it, yes?

[chrome widget]

main.lua is the typical practice for program entry files in lua, but you can technically name it anything here

(also a lot of other languages)

[agile path]

i'll keep it simple and keep main
i'm alread naming my metadata jason_smith

CHAT

it is working

i need to update it tho lol

[chrome widget]

JGBT

LMAOOOO

[agile path]

yes lol

[chrome widget]

Also ugh Galdur................

[agile path]

j stands for jokers lol

[sturdy compass]

Holy shit 😭

Joker sexuality goes crazy

[chrome widget]

I'll have to do smth here to properly add my mod badges because it maintains no_mod_badges by default

[agile path]

clown make up sexuality goes crazy

[chrome widget]

clowns are hot

[rocky plaza]

we have another woke mod (biggest \j known to mankind)

[sturdy compass]

Meh, not my type

[chrome widget]

this is why I have four girlfriends obviously

honk honk

[agile path]

mods, exile them

[red flower]

do u all fit in a tiny car

[sturdy compass]

LMFAO

[versed swan]

lesbians are jokers?

[chrome widget]

all my partners are fat so unfortunately probably not

[sturdy compass]

Not real clowns smh

[agile path]

yes

source: me

okay, after the json file, is there anything else i should do?

[rocky plaza]

what else do you want to add?

[sturdy compass]

Assuming you've made your main file, start blazing your path

[agile path]

obviously, i'd like to try adding a joker, so i can get things started

nothing too complex

[rocky plaza]

start brainstorming some effects

[agile path]

i'll need a folder for the images, 1x and 2x i assume?

[chrome widget]

yep

[rocky plaza]

yep

[sturdy compass]

Here's the documentation for a Joker https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Joker

[agile path]

danke!

[chrome widget]

assets/1x and assets/2x

[sturdy compass]

Also yeah an assets folder is a definite

[agile path]

i don't plan on adding sounds, do i need the folder too?

[sturdy compass]

nope

[chrome widget]

Nope

[agile path]

i'm so lucky i'm cracked at the artstyle department

[chrome widget]

You need the sounds and shaders folders only if you're using the SMODS.Sound and SMODS.Shader APIs

[agile path]

what does api stand for?

[chrome widget]

application programming interface

Its a term that basically means a set of functions used to interface with some platform

In this case, the "platform" is Balatro

[agile path]

interesting

but since i won't add sounds, no need to do anything with that, yes?

[sturdy compass]

correct

[agile path]

am i able to make joker artwork individually?

like

individual files instead of all smushed together?

[red flower]

yes

[sturdy compass]

You can do that but it is not recommended

[agile path]

oh*

[red flower]

i mean it's an organization thing, having them all together is more organized and you need to copy paste less code

but you can just have them separated

[rocky plaza]

i would recommend making them individually then combining them all together into a spritesheet

[chrome widget]

Are individual files not recommended? Lmao

[agile path]

i can do that, yes

[sturdy compass]

Depends how many atlases you wanna make ig

[agile path]

i might use the original game files and go from there

[red flower]

i have like 30 atlases

[chrome widget]

I found larger atlases typically more clunky to manage, though a lot of my jokers use larger atlases for multiple effects

[agile path]

wait, what is the difference in game of 1x and 2x? is the smooth pixelart option?

[red flower]

yes

[agile path]

ah

so, no copy n pasting artwork lol

i can, i'd just need to rescale really

[red flower]

you can just scale it by 2x

[rocky plaza]

if you want to use placeholder art then i strongly advise against using vanilla jokers for placeholders, use dedicated placeholder art so it's more easily detectable when you still have a placeholder
make your own, or use some from other mods

[chrome widget]

Based on my total number of additions, I have 176 atlases in the game at minimum

[sturdy compass]

Cryptid has a really great placeholder spritesheet that I yoinked for my own uses. I would recommend that ngl

[red flower]

hi something

[chrome widget]

Genuinely though idk most people considered that odd. It means I can have a basic assumption that almost all of my items start at 0,0 sprite pos

[sturdy compass]

I like my organization lol

[rocky plaza]

i just counted the atlases in my mod, i have 8 😭

baby numbers smh

[chrome widget]

I do wonder what the actual file size difference for a combined atlas would be

[red flower]

as long as i dont have to read anyone's code they can organize it how they want :3

[sturdy compass]

I have 13 atlases for way too many objects to count

[agile path]

done, next

[sturdy compass]

Hello hodler

[agile path]

💀

[chrome widget]

My code is actually well organized so 💅
<------ might be lying I don't actually know

[red flower]

i got told today that mine wasn't

so

[rocky plaza]

lmao here's my placeholder art

[agile path]

can i steal use that?

[sturdy compass]

No

Tarot

I pressed enter too early 😭

[agile path]

nah, i already made mine lol

i'm using placehodler

[rocky plaza]

placehodler has too much charm lol

[sturdy compass]

Knowing how things happen here, Place Hodler will appear as an actual Joker in your mod eventually

[agile path]

STFU

...maybe it will

lol

[rocky plaza]

or in someone elses' idk

[sturdy compass]

Nah probably not that

[agile path]

disclaimer: i don't actual mean this stuff, but if anyone dislikes my love language, do tell me and i'll stop

[sturdy compass]

Sarcasm is usually picked up pretty consistently here

[agile path]

perfect

those server ads posted earlier were also sarcasm /j

[sturdy compass]

oh nah

[agile path]

so, do i make the texture in 1x and upscale it to 2x?

or the other way around?

[rocky plaza]

either way works, but i prefer starting at 1x

[agile path]

got it

[rocky plaza]

so i dont screw up the downscaling

[sturdy compass]

I know there's a script floating around that automatically makes 2x assets from files in the 1x folder. I think it might be in the starter pack thread

[rocky plaza]

cuz you have to remember that if u start at 2x then ur gonna have to remember that every 2x2 area of pixels corresponds to a single pixel at 1x

[agile path]

i might actually make the artstyle individually... i know you all recommended to do the spreadsheet stuff but...

[rocky plaza]

cryptid has it
but honestly i just made my own with a gui
so i dont have to deal with clis

[agile path]

adhd man....

[sturdy compass]

I'm also adhd and I do a sheet 😭

[agile path]

brain already focused on doing individually, fuck 😰

[chrome widget]

fear my power

[agile path]

yup, this

[vernal path]

atlas, who's she

[sturdy compass]

This terrifies me

[chrome widget]

But yeah I do have a ton of atlases that are multiple units wide

I'm thinking to combine some of them that are currently split up, I have some in separate atlases because I just didn't write whatever shaders I was using well and they don't respect atlas sizes as much as they could

[sturdy compass]

Ok but this is just very nice to me

Holy shit this is how I notice a dupe file

lmao

[agile path]

4d joker?

[sturdy compass]

No

[agile path]

no no

like

wdym 4d joker

does it spin

[sturdy compass]

Not quite

[rocky plaza]

backs and modifiers lol

[rocky plaza]

oh yeah animated jokers
unfortunately smods does not natively support animations

[chrome widget]

Cardsauce does some internal animation for some of its jokers like Sprunk

[agile path]

upscaling is just...

duplicating the height and the width by 2x essentially, no?

[chrome widget]

Yeah, nearest neighbor scaling by 200%

[agile path]

i use ibis paint to do my art, do i just

double the canvas size

lol

[modern kindle]

I would like to devour this

[chrome widget]

Most paint programs have a resize option

[agile path]

yup, mine does

[errant talon]

Hello, new to making jokers, trying to learn soemthing new, apparently my atlas is a nil value

[rocky plaza]

whats ur joker code

[agile path]

each one of these is a pixel, yes? so i can use the proper brush

[chrome widget]

shilling my own joker animation lol

[errant talon]

SMODS.Joker { key = 'test', loc_txt = { name = 'test', text = { "Retrigger all", "played {C:attention}Ace's}" } }, config = { extra = { repetitions = 1 } }, rarity = 2, atlas = 'MAKMOD', pos = { x = 0, y = 0 }, cost = 5, calculate = function(self, card, context) if context.cardarea == G.play and context.repetition and not context.repetition_only then if context.other_card:is_Ace() then return { message = 'Sog!', repetitions = card.ability.extra.repetitions, } end end end }

[rocky plaza]

while we're at it

[errant talon]

Ah I see

Atlas is set incorrectly

[chrome widget]

Oooo, cool stuff

[modern kindle]

I should steal everyone's animation stuff

[errant talon]

atlas = 'MAKMOD', since the atlas png is called differently

[rocky plaza]

yep, u need to put the key of the atlas

[errant talon]

Thanks

[rocky plaza]

best part: no hooks, done entirely within the update function

[agile path]

what's a hook?

[errant talon]

one more thing i am going to ask, what is the context.other_card:() for aces?

[red flower]

context.other_card:get_id() == 14

[errant talon]

Thank you

[rocky plaza]

so basically (assuming you got to overriding functions in java) its like overriding where you can change what a function does by making it do new things before or after the original was called

[agile path]

ah, i see

so, i just did placeholder art for both 1x and 2x

71 x 95
142 x 195

[rocky plaza]

huh it should be 142 x 190 for 2x

[agile path]

wait, what about 1x?

[frigid cargo]

Math aint mathing

[rocky plaza]

1x is correct

[agile path]

...i added a 5

from somewhere

[frigid cargo]

95x2 is 190

[rocky plaza]

you prob messed up upscaling somewhere

[agile path]

typo, oops

[rocky plaza]

oh

[frigid cargo]

Lol

[rocky plaza]

well hopefully it upscaled properly

[rocky plaza]

yep

[agile path]

see? i just did a typo lol

[rocky plaza]

👍

[agile path]

bless

[rocky plaza]

i thought it was bad mental maths lol

[agile path]

no no, just a typo really

[rocky plaza]

tbf a lot of people are bad at mental math so cant fault them

[agile path]

if it was bad math, i'd have to tell you to complain to my calculator

[modern kindle]

math sure is mental alright
drives me insane

[rocky plaza]

bro those videos of people having 200 numbers flashed on screen for 0.1 seconds each then having to give the sum of all those numbers at the end makes me jealous

[modern kindle]

i learned early on math is not my calling
yet here i am, programming

idk what it is but the math i do in this sort of thing comes to me easy versus math in a class

[rocky plaza]

i mean math skills and programming logic knowledge are not mutually exclusive

also math in high school often is just fancy arithmetic at its core, doesnt really get to what makes math interesting

[modern kindle]

they arent mutually exclusive obviously but you are still getting a general format together in both
there are very clearly similar applications within it which i can solve in a programming format to get my result than i could if you put the paper in front of me and told me to solve it

[rocky plaza]

its unfortunate that most geometry classes (which is where proofs are usually introduced) dont teach proofs in an interesting way
and really, high-level math is a lot about being able to figure out what we can, especially since it's not all solvable

[sturdy compass]

[modern kindle]

i actually intended on having a similar joker where it loses mult for time and then gains mult if you beat your previous time in a round

[sturdy compass]

interesting

[modern kindle]

you hate me and want me to explode

[sturdy compass]

😭

[modern kindle]

[sturdy compass]

[modern kindle]

hows hot potato going

[sturdy compass]

The first team just got their hands on it today

They've had it for around 7 hours now

[modern kindle]

i was pondering joining but im so inconsistent at even working on my own mod

but hope it turns out epic

[sturdy compass]

It's gonna be an epic mess that's for sure

We love our soon-to-be codebase from hell

[modern kindle]

i shouldve joined to make one joker be 467 lines

[sturdy compass]

Lmfao

Also even tho ur not participating you're still more than welcome to join the server and hang out with the cool dev people

[modern kindle]

i might do that, i know alot of you guys are very cool
(yes even u)

[sturdy compass]

I know a few were asking if you were in there at some point

[modern kindle]

:0

thats awesome of people to ask

where is the link anyway i assume theres a thread yea

[sturdy compass]

yeah

[agile path]

After hyperfocusing

I'm still working on it

Something i came up with
may differ from the finished version

Still ain't done as you can see

[sturdy compass]

yass joker

[agile path]

Something like that

[sturdy compass]

lmao

This is Jina instead of Jimbo

[agile path]

I present to you...

Bimbo

[sturdy compass]

😭

That's not very nice

[agile path]

I will obviously make the artwork better

[modern kindle]

bimbo nation represent

[agile path]

Since i made a placeholder, can i just tell my jokers file to access the placeholder texture in the meantime?

[sturdy compass]

Yeah changing what asset your joker points to is pretty easy

[proven belfry]

how do I make a blind debuff ALL jokers (including Chicot and Matador)

hello?

[red flower]

hi

[spice wadi]

Maybe look at an example of a blind that debuffs all jokers
Study and copy it

[azure laurel]

someone could tell me how use the utility functions please?

[ocean sinew]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Utility these explain what each one does

[azure laurel]

yeah i been reading and looking examples but i still dont get it

[ocean sinew]

what one you aren't being able to get?

[azure laurel]

the ones that creates things like cards or vouchers

[ocean sinew]

SMODS.create_card?

[azure laurel]

yea, for example

[ocean sinew]

it take params like set(the set of the card Joker Tarot Spectral etc)
area (the area the card will be emplaced into)
key(the key of the card If you wanna generate a specific one)
and other stuff like edition enchancement seal

what are you not understanding though?

[azure laurel]

how to integrate it in the returns or context.smth then

like make a joker that when sold, creates a specific card (ik how to make the context)

[ocean sinew]

you do:
SMODS.create_card({
key="<card_key_here">
area="<area_here">
edition={}(editions inside the table if it has any example:{"e_negative"})
stickers={}(same as above)
})

like

[azure laurel]

that goes where?

[ocean sinew]

if context.selling_card then
SMODS.create_card({
key = "j_greedy_joker",
area = G.jokers,
})
end
this creates a greedy joker whenever a card is sold

[azure laurel]

ok and i can do the same with every function?

[ocean sinew]

for creating card you'll just do SMODS.create_card()

but

you need to put it at the right place

[ocean sinew]

this for example creates a card whenever ANY card is sold

cuz of if context.selling_card

If u wanted to do it whenever YOUR card is sold for example you would do:
if context.selling_card and context.card == card then
--rest of code here
end

did you understand now??

[azure laurel]

for that wouldnt be more easy put context.selling_self?

[ocean sinew]

you can also do it that way

both works though

but yeah

[azure laurel]

ok, thank you very much man, really

[ocean sinew]

np

If you have any questions you can dm me or ping me

If I'm able to I'll respond

[azure laurel]

thx

[proven belfry]

idk where to find one

[spice wadi]

VanillaRemade

[azure laurel]

i tried to make a new consumable and the game crashed fuck

@ocean sinew srry if its been like five minutes but could you help me?

[ocean sinew]

yes

try key = "v_blank" instead

@azure laurel

[azure laurel]

nope, still crashed

[spice wadi]

It's at like 1031

You misspelled consumeable I'm guessing? Check the spelling in the docs

[azure laurel]

still

[ocean sinew]

oh

@azure laurel

did you change it to SMODS.Consumable{

}
instead

and If you did whats the crash now?

[azure laurel]

THERE

[red flower]

it doesn't take a table it takes a key

[proven belfry]

debuff = { is_face = true } isnt debuffing face cards

[red flower]

can i see the code

[azure laurel]

now im testing the consumable as a tarot, then ill give another shot to the new type

[proven belfry]

also just now found out that winning the blind crashes the game

[red flower]

i dont understand what you mean

i meant the SMODS.add_voucher_to_shop

[azure laurel]

oh

[azure laurel]

wait whats a table?

[ocean sinew]

{}

this

[azure laurel]

and this is a key = ()?

[ocean sinew]

no

the key parameter is a string

[proven belfry]

key = ""

[red flower]

disable and defeat don't have context

the is_face thing might be that you cant use that and the context to debuff at the same time but idk

[azure laurel]

oh

[ocean sinew]

aka dictionary

or map

but in lua you call it a table

[red flower]

i mean SMODS.add_voucher_to_shop("v_blank")

[proven belfry]

what am i supposed to do then? i copied the joker debuff stuff from vremade crimson heart so what do i toss and what do i keep

[red flower]

you will need to also add a check for face cards there I'm guessing

[proven belfry]

so toss the if_face stuff

[red flower]

yeah

and remove the disable and defeat too

[proven belfry]

k

[azure laurel]

yay it works

[proven belfry]

i already assumed i dont need the disable stuff cuz chicot and matador cant save you

[wind steppe]

how would i get celestial packs to draw cards only if you have a specific joker?

[proven belfry]

i dont think you can

[ocean sinew]

you can but the question is how

idk as well

[proven belfry]

how do I check that

[wind steppe]

could i, theoretically, repeatedly take ownership of celestial packs in add_to_deck and remove_from_deck?

so that when i get it it's true and when i sell it it's false (with a check to check if i still had more of that joker)

[ocean sinew]

idk if booster packs uses add_to_deck and remove_from_deck but If It does couldn't you just hook Card:add_to_deck?

[wind steppe]

no in the joker

[ocean sinew]

Idk

[distant junco]

can i has some help? (card.ability.extra.suit = 'Heart' atm)

[ocean sinew]

though If you want to not draw cards to booster packs you can hook Card:open()

[ocean sinew]

should be context.debuff_card:is_suit(card.ability.extra.suit) == true

[wind steppe]

should be is_suit(card.ability.extra.suit) not is_suit() == card.ability.extra.suit

[distant junco]

ahhhhh

that makes sense thanks

[wind steppe]

also i don't think debuff_card is called for jokers?

[proven belfry]

so

if context.debuff_card.area == G.playing_cards then
    if rank = 'Jack' or rank = 'Queen' or rank = 'King' then
        return {
            debuff = true
        }
    end
end

[wind steppe]

if thats what youre doing

[distant junco]

well we'll see

[wind steppe]

just do is_face()

[proven belfry]

k

how do i do lua formatting

[wind steppe]

context.debuff_card:is_face()

[proven belfry]

in discord

[wind steppe]

on your keyboard to the left of 1

`

[ocean sinew]

Am trying to make a edit button

[proven belfry]

ahhhhhh

[wind steppe]

that's the character you need

```lua
would look like this (i escaped it with backslashes to show you)
```

[distant junco]

yeah ok that doesnt work, do i do it in like context.setting_blind

[azure laurel]

how i make that in the collection, this consumables had name, they just appear as ERROR in black

[wind steppe]

seems like debuff_card is called for jokers... (looking at grab bag code)

let me test if this actually works

[ocean sinew]

your loctxt is not correct

one is outside

and you need a ["default"] one too when it has no loc_txt for a set language

also is es_419 a valid language prefix??

[wind steppe]

why aren't you using localization files

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Localization#localization-files-recommended

[azure laurel]

that is what happen

[ocean sinew]

.

["es_419"] is outside

[azure laurel]

how?

[wind steppe]

collection in the loc_txt

[ocean sinew]

oh yeah that

[azure laurel]

how?

[ocean sinew]

and ["es_419"] is also outside

[proven belfry]

if context.debuff_card:is_face() then is crashing the game

[azure laurel]

outside where?

[ocean sinew]

collection = ""

[ocean sinew]

outside of the loc_txt table

[errant talon]

Hi, I am trying to make a joker that changes played face card into queen
calculate = function(self, card, context) if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then if context.other_card:get_id() == 13 or context.other_card:get_id() == 11 then return { message = 'Queen!', assert(SMODS.change_base(played_card, "12")), } end
however, assert triggers before hand is played, crashing, is there G.play that happens before scoring but not after hand is played?

[wind steppe]

if context.debuff_card and context.debuff_card:is_face() then

[proven belfry]

ahhhhhhhhhhh

[ocean sinew]

It's structured like this rn
{
loc_txt = {
["en_us"] = {
},
["es_418"] = {

}

}
}

[wind steppe]

your assert is in the return

take it out

[errant talon]

ohhh thank you

[wind steppe]

also you might be looking for context.before?

[azure laurel]

there it works

[ocean sinew]

nice

[wild escarp]

Is there a way to have a booster pack just pick from a table of joker keys?

[wind steppe]

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

and you make the set your objecttype's key

[distant junco]

its currently doing a load of nothing

[misty radish]

How do I center the background image?

[proven belfry]

put that in and played on a deck of only steel red seal kings, none of them were debuffed

[wind steppe]

if context.debuff_card and context.debuff_card:is_face(true) then

[proven belfry]

ahhhhhhhhh

[distant junco]

is this right?

[wind steppe]

yeah that should work

it'll only apply in blinds though

[wind steppe]

bump

[distant junco]

it doesnt >:(

[wind steppe]

update steamodded

[distant junco]

ive got the most recent videos

videos????

version

[wind steppe]

if context.debuff_card and context.debuff_card.area ~= G.jokers and context.debuff_card:is_suit(card.ability.extra.suit)

[distant junco]

still nothing??

[wind steppe]

are you in a blind

[distant junco]

yep

what is "is_suit" expecting

[wind steppe]

a string i think

[distant junco]

would it be 'Hearts' or 'Heart'

[wind steppe]

"Hearts"

[distant junco]

ahh okay

[unkempt thicket]

How can i modify the winning hand of a blind?

[distant junco]

ok its debuffing for the first blind, it then debuffs the next one in the shop, and then when the blind starts, gets rid of the debuff

[wind steppe]

get a random suit at the end of every round and change card.ability.extra.suit based on that

[distant junco]

thats what im doing

[wind steppe]

vanillaremade has a couple jokers that do that

how would i get celestial packs to draw cards only if you have a specific joker?

[versed swan]

is there a context for after cards are drawn?

[faint yacht]

context.hand_drawn?

[ocean sinew]

local function create_placeholder(align,colour,extra)
    align=align or "tm"
    colour=colour or G.C.CLEAR
    extra = extra or {}
    return {n=G.UIT.C,config={align="tm",colour=colour,button=extra.button,ref_table=extra.ref_table,},nodes={},}
end 

function enter_edit_page(ref,target)
   local contents = {
    create_placeholder()
   }
   --create_edit_prompts(target, contents)
   local edit_page=create_UIBox_generic_options({
    contents=contents,
   })
   --G.FUNCS.exit_overlay_menu()
   print("overlaying?")
   G.FUNCS.overlay_menu({
    definiton = edit_page,
   })
   print('overlay?')
end

why is this crashing?

[versed swan]

it is, thank you

[chrome widget]

Modding dev might enjoy learning that I'm gonna make a lot of the experimental, custom features I use in my mod in a publicly available API mod

(I will document it well dw)

[red flower]

i love me some apis

we need more of those

[unborn bay]

Any attempts of iterating through the ability table for whatever purpose fails as the ability table is empty
This means that Invisible Joker doesn't make an exact copy of a Joker for example

[chrome widget]

easily fixable afaik

[unborn bay]

I just hooked pairs for that 🚎

[chrome widget]

I mean yeah. If we had Lua 5.2 there's apparently a metamethod thing for it

But alas, stuck in the 5.1 mines

[ocean sinew]

metamethod thing for what???

I'm just curious sorry

and what metamethod

[chrome widget]

that said I can update my PR for it

[ocean sinew]

__ipairs metamethod

__pairs metamethod??

smth like that

[chrome widget]

yeah, they're relatively recent additions

[ocean sinew]

you can do it though

[chrome widget]

But in general we're talking about an SMODS PR I put up to track scaling changes

[ocean sinew]

local o_pairs = t
pairs = function(t)
    if t then
        local mt = getmetatable(t)
        if mt and mt.__pairs then
            return mt.__pairs(t)
        end
    end
    return o_pairs(t)
end

this works

[chrome widget]

it............ shouldn't

[ocean sinew]

it does

I use it in my scaling_mod class

for some stuff

[chrome widget]

Unless Love2D 11.5 doesn't actually use Lua 5.1

[ocean sinew]

meta.__pairs = function(t)
--print("pairs called")
return next,reference,nil
end

[ocean sinew]

it uses

but you can just hook the pairs function

and then add it yourself

[chrome widget]

Oh sorry I misread

No yeah that's what I mea

[ocean sinew]

you can do the same for ipairs

[red flower]

overwriting ipairs to always do one less iteration

[short girder]

what context calculates selling a card with a specific key

[ocean sinew]

context.selling_card and context.card.config.center.key == "<key_here>"

[ocean sinew]

G.FUNCS.bl_utils_back_to_last_edit_page = function (e)
   print("current page:",this_variables.current_page)
   local last_page = this_variables.pages[this_variables.current_page-1]
   print("last page:",last_page)
   G.FUNCS.overlay_menu{
    definition=last_page
   }
   print("overlayed")
   for i = this_variables.current_page,#this_variables.pages do
      this_variables.pages[i] = nil
   end
   this_variables.current_page=this_variables.current_page-1
end

why this doesnt work 😔

last page is valid

G.FUNCS.edit = function (e)
  local card = e.config.ref_table
  local this_menu = create_edit_menu(card)
  G.FUNCS.overlay_menu({
    definition=this_menu
  })
  table.insert(this_variables.pages, this_menu)
  this_variables.current_page=this_variables.current_page+1
end

I'mma show error wait

[wind steppe]

is there a way to trigger something that isn't an unlock condition when continuing a run from the menu?

[ocean sinew]

yess I fixed it

I just had to clone the table

[wind steppe]

local runstartold = Game.start_run
Game.start_run = function(args)
    local ret = runstartold(args)
    if next(SMODS.find_card("j_para_garagefork", false)) then
        SMODS.Booster:take_ownership_by_kind('Celestial', {draw_hand = true}, true)
    else
        SMODS.Booster:take_ownership_by_kind('Celestial', {draw_hand = false}, true)
    end
    return ret
end

why does this hook crash on the third line

[red flower]

you're missing the self

also i forgot to answer before because i had to go out but i think the easiest way to do your effect is to literally make the joker draw cards

[wind steppe]

can you do that

(without significant patching/hooking)

[red flower]

this is all draw_hand does

you can probably just put that in context.open_booster

but i haven't tried it

[modern kindle]

N go to sleep

[red flower]

no

u

[wind steppe]

what property of the booster pack determines if it's a celestial pack?

[modern kindle]

Thank you for the invitation I will be in your bed in moments

[red flower]

.config.center.kind

[red flower]

yay

[ocean sinew]

I was very focused then my cat randomly jumps into the desks and starts pressing the keyboard keys

😭

how do I put this green thing down?

[manic rune]

use G.UIT.C

[dense ginkgo]

config = {
        extra = 2,
        choose = 1, 
    },

    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.choose, card.ability.extra } }
    end,

    weight = 0.9,
    cost = 4,
    kind = "BTCTPack",
    
    create_card = function(self, card, i)
        ease_background_colour(HEX("2a61eb"))
        return SMODS.create_card({
            set = "Batrocities",
            area = G.pack_cards,
            skip_materialize = true,
            soulable = false,
        })
    end,
    select_card = 'jokers',

    in_pool = function() return true end
}

does anybody know why this booster pack crashes the game?

[daring fern]

What is that line in the lovely dump?

[frosty rampart]

don't return an SMODS.create_card call, just return the table that you passed as the argument

[daring fern]

No, that is fine.

[dense ginkgo]

what does that mean? sorry I'm new to coding

[daring fern]

Go to Mods/lovely/dump/functions/common_events.lua and what is on line 2168?

[frosty rampart]

oh cool

[dense ginkgo]

for k, v in ipairs(_starting_pool) do

[daring fern]

Is Batrocities a valid ObjectType/ConsumableType?

[dense ginkgo]

The pack is trying to spawn jokers from the Batrocities pool if that's what you're asking.

[daring fern]

Yes, is Batrocities a valid SMODS.ObjectType?

Did you make a SMODS.ObjectType with the key Batrocities?

[dense ginkgo]

how do you tell if something is a valid object type? My friend coded most of the mod and I'm unsure if he did.

[ocean sinew]

can you find anything like this
SMODS.ObjectType{
key = "Batrocities"
}

[daring fern]

No, it's a SMODS.ObjectType

[ocean sinew]

ohh

fixed

[daring fern]

Consumable types can't have jokers.

[frigid elm]

Does anybody know exactly what function is used to sort Jokers when you drag a Joker?

[dense ginkgo]

-- Batrocity joker pool
SMODS.ObjectType({
    key = "Batrocity",
    default = "j_btct_MichaelWave",
    cards = {},
    inject = function(self)
        SMODS.ObjectType.inject(self)
    end,
})

like this?

[ocean sinew]

yes

the set is Batrocities but it should be Batrocity instead @dense ginkgo

@dense ginkgo just do this

SMODS.ObjectType({
    key = "Batrocities",
    default = "j_btct_MichaelWave",
    cards = {},
    inject = function(self)
        SMODS.ObjectType.inject(self)
    end,
})

change that line

[daring fern]

Yes, the key is wrong.

[dense ginkgo]

The key changing worked but the pack is only spawning the fallback joker.

[daring fern]

You mean the default?

[dense ginkgo]

yes

[daring fern]

How many jokers are supposed to be in the pool?

[dense ginkgo]

65 and counting

[daring fern]

Did you solve the problem by changing the key of the ObjectType or by changing the set that the Booster was using?

[dense ginkgo]

The set

[daring fern]

Are you using the right key when putting the jokers in the pool?

[dense ginkgo]

I will test that

[dense ginkgo]

It worked thank you very much.

[oak meadow]

    key = 'catner',
    blueprint_compat = true,
    loc_txt = {
        name = 'catner',
        text = {
            "Gives {C:money}+$1{}, {C:chips}+20 Chips{},",
            "{C:mult}+15 Mult{}, and {C:mult}+x0.2 Mult{}",
            "for each cat joker.",
            "{C:inactive}Currently #1# cats.",
            "{C:inactive, s:0.8}' 'catner catner catner; catns the amount of catners that catn catners in this encatner' when'"
        }
    },
    cost = 5,
    rarity = "cry_epic",
    pools = {
        ["cat_shop"] = true,
        ["cat"] = true
    },
    atlas = 'spr',
    pos = { x = 3, y = 0, },
    config = { extra = { cats = 0 } },
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            local catcount = 0
            for _, J in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
                if J.config.center.pools and J.config.center.pools.cat then
                    catcount = catcount + 1
                end
            end
-- here is where it sets
            card.ability.extra.cats = catcount
            return {
                dollars = catcount,
                chips = catcount * 20,
                mult = catcount * 15,
                xmult = (catcount / 5) + 1
            }
        end
    end
}```
why does the 'cats' local variable not get set to catcount every check (everything else about the card works as intended)

[daring fern]

Because you're not putting it in loc_vars?

[oak meadow]

oh dang im stupid

thanks

[versed swan]

Is there a way to temporarily disable card selection?

[daring fern]

G.hand.config.highlighted_limit = 0

[earnest stratus]

can anyone help me understand why the ankh mod isn't working? It's showing as activated in my mods list but no menus/settings available for it. Timer doesn't start either

[foggy ginkgo]

Hi something 👋

[versed swan]

Works, thank you

[mystic river]

hey does anyone know why the hell this tarot flip is happening in the wrong order?

use = function(self, card, area, copier)
        for i=1, #G.hand.highlighted do --Flip to back
            local percent = 1.15 - (i-0.999)/(#G.hand.highlighted-0.998)*0.3
            local target = G.hand.highlighted[i]
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                trigger = 'after',
                delay = 0.15,
                func = function()
                    target:flip()
                    play_sound('card1', percent)
                    target:juice_up(0.3, 0.3)
                    return true
                end
            }))
        end
        delay(0.2)
        for i=1, #G.hand.highlighted do --Change enhancement (should be while still flipped back but it's not?)
            local target = G.hand.highlighted[i]
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                trigger = 'after',
                delay = 0.1,
                func = function()
                    target:set_ability(G.P_CENTERS[card.ability.enh_conv], nil, true)
                    return true
                end
            }))
        end
        for i=1, #G.hand.highlighted do --Flip back (should be after the enhancement happens but it's before????)
            local percent = 0.85 + ( i - 0.999 ) / ( #G.hand.highlighted - 0.998 ) * 0.3
            local target = G.hand.highlighted[i]
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                trigger = 'after',
                delay = 0.15,
                func = function()
                    target:flip()
                    play_sound('tarot2', percent, 0.6)
                    target:juice_up(0.3, 0.3)
                    return true
                end
            }))
        end
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            trigger = 'after',
            delay = 0.2,
            func = function()
                G.hand:unhighlight_all()
                return true
            end
        }))
        delay(0.5)
    end,

i'm comparing it to the vanilla function and i can't see where the difference is

what if i just swapped their order. maybe the event manager just does things in the order of 1 3 2 and nobody mentioned this anywhere ever. that's not insane to think

-# can you tell i've been frustrated about this for quite some time

[manic rune]

you set delay_sprites in :set_ability() to true

when its true another event is added

which will be after all the events below

[mystic river]

... HUH
i
have no idea why that is there

both in my code and in the function

[manic rune]

shrug

[ripe thicket]

I tried creating a booster pack for my custom consumables but for some reason I can't get the name or description for it to show up in game

[daring fern]

Have you tried making the prefix lowercase?

[ripe thicket]

which prefix?

[mystic river]

that argument is used in vanilla for vampire and midas mask
... i think i figured out how i got here. lol. i copied that line all the way back when from the bucket of cement. the joker that acts like vampire and midas mask.
thanks past me for not even making a comment "i don't know what this delay_sprites thing does but vanilla did it in these contexts"

[daring fern]

The mod prefix.

[ripe thicket]

just tried that, it didn't work

[gleaming crescent]

Guys, is translating consumable type possible? I have a consumable type "Fruit" and I don't know how to translate it's label to other languages

[daring fern]

Yes, you use a localization file.

[gleaming crescent]

How?

It translates anything but consumable type

[daring fern]

k_consumabletypekey = "Consumable Type Name"

In Localization > misc > dictionary

And b_consumabletypekey_cards = "Consumable Type Name Cards"

[gleaming crescent]

Oh, I accidentally added mod prefix inside of key. Thank you very much

[hardy ibex]

Theres a way to add animated jokers? And if so, how can i do it?

[flint fern]

how do u replace a texture (not something u can do with malverk like jokers, i meant like the title screen logo)

[gleaming crescent]

I guess you can use set_ability(self, card, initial, delay_sprites) to do so

Found it in SMODS wiki

[daring fern]

No.

[gleaming crescent]

Now I don't trust SMODS wiki

[daring fern]

You use the same key as the atlas and you put raw_key = true in the SMODS.Atlas

[daring fern]

Yes, https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1341041293119459449

[flint fern]

whats the key to the logo in the main menu screen

[daring fern]

balatro

[hardy ibex]

Thx

[vestal magnet]

how do i make a joker retrigger itself specifically 9 times

[daring fern]

if context.retrigger_joker_check and context.other_card == card then
    return {repetitions = 9}
end

[gleaming crescent]

Also you have to enable it in SMODS.current_mod.optional_features

[gilded blaze]

SMODS.current_mod.optional_features = {retrigger_joker = true}

[vestal magnet]

ok

[red flower]

how do i retrigger a joker 10 times

[distant junco]

bumping from last night: trying to debuff certain suits and its behaving really weirdly

if context.debuff_card and context.debuff_card:is_suit(card.ability.extra.suit) then
  return {
    debuff = true
  }
end

card.ability.extra.suit has a random suit chosen at the end of the round and that works fine.
however, it will debuff on the first blind, then it will debuff in the shop and remove the debuff for the next blind, then it will add the debuff for the next blind but for the wrong suit and from then on it does the debuff in the shop but not in the blind thing

[distant junco]

if context.retrigger_joker_check and context.other_card == card then
return {repetitions = 9}
end

gurrrhh i think its like this but with like a ten mauybe

[red flower]

what about 11 times

[distant junco]

dunno

[red flower]

yeah this is a thing with the debuff timing
are you using context.end_of_round to change it?

[distant junco]

yes

[red flower]

try context.starting_shop

[distant junco]

alright

does the context.debuff_card need to be inside another context

[red flower]

no

[distant junco]

ok

[distant junco]

what about 10 times

[distant junco]

works great! thanks!

i wonder why the timing needs to be specific you'd think it would just work huh

[red flower]

debuff_card is also called at end of round and it undebuffs whatever was debuffed, if you change the suit it will instead debuff the other suit during the shop basically

so you need to change the suit after that debuff_card

[distant junco]

ahhh okay

[oak meadow]

could i do
G.consumables.config.card_limit
to change consumable limit

[manic rune]

consumeables*, but yes

[oak meadow]

ty

[foggy ginkgo]

How do you add japanese characters in text

[rotund sable]

Custom font

As far as I'm aware

[foggy ginkgo]

Do yknow how to do that or

[distant junco]

have you tried just putting them in and seeing what happens

[rotund sable]

You could look at https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1326135270759993364 or https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1379136953307500645 because I remember seeing fonts there

[rotund sable]

Nothing displays

[foggy ginkgo]

Won't display

[distant junco]

ah fair enough

[red flower]

"text {f:5}日本語{} text"

[rotund sable]

Is it really that simple 😭

[red flower]

yes

[foggy ginkgo]

Wow

[red flower]

5 is the default japanese font

iirc

[foggy ginkgo]

Thank you N

[rotund sable]

N' the modding-dev legend

[foggy ginkgo]

Indeed

[agile path]

good morning chat

[red flower]

good morning!

[zealous glen]

Good morning!

[agile path]

my head hurts

but only on the right side

maybe cause i'm left handed

time to go work on the artwork

[manic rune]

good morning

[bold sleet]

help how do I make this actually work?

i.e. just change the spawn rate thing of rarities.

both vanilla and modded

[primal robin]

get_weight function

[oak meadow]

how would i make something not appear in shops

[bold sleet]

like, would I just hook it and shit?

[daring fern]

in_pool = function(self) return false end

[red flower]

G.GAME.modprefix_key_mod

(read the docs)

[bold sleet]

Which one

[red flower]

rarity

[bold sleet]

not helpful

[bold sleet]

I need to change that value dynamically, as well as vanilla rarities.

Can I modify directly default weight?

[wintry solar]

why can't you just change the value in G.GAME like N said?

[bold sleet]

whatever, I'll just do the _mod thing

If it clashes with other mods, oh well

[wintry solar]

why would it clash

what are you trying to do

[bold sleet]

Multiply certain rarities weight by 0.95, others by 0.05

those numbers can change via a voucher

[agile path]

oh yeah?
yassifies your jimbo

[wintry solar]

so why would it clash with other mods if you change the _mod value?

[bold sleet]

idk, I figured they would change the silly mod number and the fine-tuned bs would break

[gleaming crescent]

Am I doing it wrong?

[agile path]

the comment is the best part

[red flower]

is it not working? what are you trying to do

[gleaming crescent]

It's working. I have a consumable that gives 1$ for each fruit-themed joker. And it should work with gros michel and cavendish, so I just hardcoded this thing

I don't think it's a good implementation

[red flower]

it looks fine
it would be better with an SMODS.ObjectType but that basically does the same thing

[oak meadow]

is there a way to add certain things to pools
not as in cards, like effects on the cards (such as doing things to them like forcing editions or setting cost)

[red flower]

there's no pool calculate functions or anything like that if that's what you're asking

[oak meadow]

what abt the other 2 things

[manic rune]

for those kinda stuff you just gotta pray other mods that add fruit jokers add them to a Fruit pool

:3

[agile path]

upscalling was... horrendous
why are things never easy

[manic rune]

i need my glasses

[agile path]

shit, so do i

[red flower]

sorry maybe i misunderstood what are the other two things

[oak meadow]

wrong pic

[manic rune]

what does "forcing editions" even mean

like, forcing them to have 1 edition that cant be changed?

[oak meadow]

ye kinda like that
and also spawning w/ that

[barren egret]

Can someone give me a simple example code for creating ui boxes with squares and text?

[oak meadow]

look i got emperor glitched that had 13 on it, and i thought it was funny

[manic rune]

hook to :set_ability (or create_card) and :set_edition i think

[red flower]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/UI-Guide

[manic rune]

the former hooks are there to give the joker that edition

[barren egret]

Yea i read it, but i still dont understand

[manic rune]

you then want to hook to :set_edition to make sure they cant get other editions

[oak meadow]

ne way i just wanted to ask because i could have gotten some really funny ideas from that
also i have no clue how to hook currently and dont want to learn :P

[manic rune]

sob

hooks are simple though

the whole idea, basically, is just making your code run whenever a function you hook to runs

[red flower]

i would recommend following the creating a uibox part

[agile path]

fixed the scalling issue

[oak meadow]

to me it seems the 2 hard parts about balatro modding is 1. hooks and 2. patching
its probably more something else for the first one but ive also heard stuff abt patching

[manic rune]

so you can directly modify what the function does

[oak meadow]

hm neet

[gleaming crescent]

I guess I'll just take ownership

[manic rune]

both are relatively simple to understand

the real beasts of modding are ui, using love2d functions and shaders lol

[red flower]

you don't need to take_ownership to add things to pools

you can add the key when you create the pool

[oak meadow]

yeah prob

[gleaming crescent]

Uh, does Lua have something like .contains? Or should I make my own search?

[red flower]

you have to make your own

but also what are you trying to do

<@&1133519078540185692>

[gleaming crescent]

:(

[red flower]

it's better to save it as an index in that case

[lament agate]

omg im used as an example

hihihihihihihihihihihi

🥺

[agile path]

woah, another doggo person

[rotund sable]

I used tangents as an example not "Tuahngents" so yk

[lament agate]

hawk tuah bro!

[manic rune]

i still use you as an example of what modders shouldnt do :3

[lament agate]

fuck..

[lament agate]

haaaiii

[barren egret]

How do I only show a button/text during a run (not in shop, or when selectief blinds)?

Selecting*

[red flower]

you would need to add a func field to the config that points to a G.FUNCS function that hides it

sorry i dont have any examples on hand

[agile path]

for jokers, do i need a jokers.lua or

[distant junco]

you dont need one but some people like to for organisation

[red flower]

no it can be named whatever you want and you can add whatever other stuff there

[distant junco]

i've just got all of my stuff in one lua file lol

[spice wadi]

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that just hide the button when clicked
I think the question was more about when to show it to begin with but I might be missing smth
(I'm also trying to learn UI)

[agile path]

i might divide the jonklers, consumables, etc into different stuff

[red flower]

no, func runs every frame
you're thinking of button

[spice wadi]

Ohhh my bad

I forgot those are separate things 💀

I need to lock in on UI dev

[spice wadi]

That's generally what most do
You can take like 3 paths

• all in one file (sinful)
• one file per category (normal)
• one file per item (mildly overkill but can have benefits)

[distant junco]

ohhhh thats not right

if context.debuff_card and not context.debuff_card:is_suit(card.ability.extra.suit) and not context.debuff_card:is_suit() then
    return {
        debuff = true
    }
end

worked for the first blind

[agile path]

i'll go for the 2nd option, sounds like me

[spice wadi]

Fair

[distant junco]

i am sinful and proud

[spice wadi]

I did that too at first then switched to the 3rd option

Cos I made smth that skips broken files/items instead of crashing

[red flower]

what's the second is_suit doing

[distant junco]

stopping it from debuffing jokers

[red flower]

then the not is wrong

[gleaming crescent]

Check if a joker is inside of specified pool

[red flower]

but also idk if that works

[spice wadi]

Mods lobotomise this individual

[distant junco]

it does because i just put it in and it worked

[red flower]

if you're doing pools properly with object types then it's just if (joker.config.center.pools or {}).poolkey then

[distant junco]

see?

[gleaming crescent]

You can check if a card is not from Joker set

[distant junco]

how do

[red flower]

idk how the not works there

[red flower]

context.debuff_card.ability.set == "Joker"

[buoyant thorn]

hello!

[gleaming crescent]

Hi!

[buoyant thorn]

im working on a deck that causes changes to ante to also effect the total joker slots

I don't actually know how to code in lua so i wanna ask to make sure this isnt gonna cause a
memory leak
or something
calculate = function(self, back, context, card) self.config.extra.current_ante = G.GAME.round_resets.blind_ante or G.GAME.round_resets.ante if self.config.extra.current_ante != self.config.extra.last_ante then G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit + (self.config.extra.current_ante - self.config.extra.last_ante) self.config.extra.last_ante = self.config.extra.current_ante end end

wow thats hard to read

since im checking for != instead of == like usual

it should be fine right?

[cursive gazelle]

It’s ~=

not !=

[buoyant thorn]

i wont be able to test this until la-

[distant junco]

now nothing gets debuffed

[buoyant thorn]

ah thank you
most of my coding experience is python

[distant junco]

oh THATS what that means

ok

[red flower]

this looks fine, I usually wouldn't recommend doing stuff in calculate outside a context check but this one will work

[buoyant thorn]

yummy spaghetti noodle between my chopsticks! 💖

[gleaming crescent]

Sometimes Lua feels like it's not a real language

[distant junco]

i thought it meant approximately but thought that made no sense so i wasnt sure at all

[red flower]

may i see the code

[buoyant thorn]

i dont really know what calculate is (i cant read im an undertale fan!!)
but okay!

[cursive gazelle]

Personally i hate lua syntax but you get used to it

[distant junco]

NO! jk

[gleaming crescent]

Same

[buoyant thorn]

does this mean i could just do this outside calculate and it would work fine?

[red flower]

funnily enough it's because you need to use ~=

[distant junco]

oh my fucking god

[red flower]

not a == b
is wrong

[cursive gazelle]

I think you better do it in an event

[red flower]

(unless b is boolean)

[distant junco]

ok

gotcha

[distant junco]

do it inside claculate but you should have an if context.whatever check

[red flower]

no, this is fine
i meant that calculate does things with contexts (check the docs) and doing things outside can cause issues if not careful

[buoyant thorn]

i have a bunch of context checks for beating the boss, hieroglyph, petroglyph, and even antimatter because i felt like nerfing it at first but changed my mind

and then i thought
maybe i should just not bother checking and it might work?

anyway thanks for the help

[red flower]

oh also i didn't notice but you should use card.ability instead of self.config

[distant junco]

still debuffs everything after the second blind!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[gilded blaze]

deck configs cannot keep track of state (unlike cards, they have the ability field)

[red flower]

when are you changing the suit

[buoyant thorn]

as in card.ability.extra.*?

[red flower]

yes

[distant junco]

start of the shop like you said

[red flower]

hmm

no idea

debuffing is hard

[distant junco]

you're telling me