💻・modding-dev

[modern kindle]

Oh goodness

[tropic hawk]

me for like the entirety of may through october

now i need to figure out how to code my joker

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

meh i dont know

[modern kindle]

You can read the docs and get started there, vanilla remade is a great resource to check out too and its wiki is fantastic

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade

[tropic hawk]

:o

[blazing helm]

dont think the game was intended to ban this many stuff 💀 🤣

[wispy falcon]

What do i put in the brackets of SMODS.destroy_cards() if i want it to destroy 1 card out of the whole deck?

[modern kindle]

i wish you could stack those icons if enough was banned, or if banned was excessively long instead of a blacklist it was a whitelist on what isnt banned

[wispy falcon]

Would be very nice to have

[faint yacht]

You point either just 1 card or a table of cards.

[red flower]

the card you want to destroy

[faint yacht]

If it's just one card, it gets converted to a table and processed still.

[wispy falcon]

I want it to be a random card, should've clarified that

[red flower]

you would need to get the random card yourself

that function doesn't handle that part

[wispy falcon]

Okay, how do I get the table that has all the cards of the deck in it?

[slim ferry]

G.playing_cards

[red flower]

hi dilly

[modern kindle]

how are you N my goat

[red flower]

very tired

[modern kindle]

me too

i had gotten a call from the repair shop and got out of bed sooner than i wanted of them saying he would let me know when the store was open

[wispy falcon]

Using pseudorandom, right?

[red flower]

yeah

[modern kindle]

ye for a random

[red flower]

pseudorandom_element

[modern kindle]

i have a blind that destroys 1-3 random

[wispy falcon]

Can I use the same for destroying a random Joker?

SMODS.destroy_cards(destroyCard)```

[azure valley]

yes, but you might want to change the pseudorandom_element key (currently "Card")

[wispy falcon]

And what do I put instead of G.playing_cards?

[azure valley]

G.jokers

[wispy falcon]

But destroy_cards() isn't for Jokers, is it?

[azure valley]

Joker cards are considered cards.

[wispy falcon]

So like this?

SMODS.destroy_cards(destroyJoker)```

[modern kindle]

is there a particularly easy way i can replace a cards chips with mult?

[azure valley]

Generally the key used is descriptive and unique. So if you were, for instance, using a Joker named "Madness" to destroy other jokers you would say pseudorandom_elements(G.jokers, "MadnessTarget")

[azure valley]

Permanently?

[wispy falcon]

Gonna change that after I thought of a name

[modern kindle]

yea
im in the process of making a card that has a chance to upgrade your playing cards from adding chip value to adding mult

so instead of +10 chips, itll give +10 mult

[wispy falcon]

Yeah, erm... It crashed

[red flower]

G.jokers.cards

[modern kindle]

N bestie i need u

[azure valley]

so how do you want it to interact with Hiker?

[modern kindle]

it wont

[azure valley]

so if you have a 5 card that gives +20 chips from hiker, and it's converted by this joker it will give +15 chips and +5 mult?

[modern kindle]

if you play a 5 said 5 will give 5 mult,but since the card has no chip value it cant get an icnrease in chip value, it will not work for that card

if the 5 had already gained 30 chips, that value gets converted to mult

[red flower]

no idea

[azure valley]

if so you just need to do:

if card.ability.mult == 0 then
  card.ability.mult = card.ability.bonus
  card.ability.bonus = 0
end

[azure valley]

that's...

ok what I did will do what I said above

What you're asking for (Hiker no longer working) is not really possible.

(without changing hiker)

[modern kindle]

anything is always possible

[red flower]

maybe you need to hook the get_chip_bonus and get_chip_mult?

[modern kindle]

yea thats what i was considering

[wispy falcon]

Okay, quick question... If there are no Jokers in play, I get an error since it tries to remove something that's not there. How do i prevent that?

[red flower]

if destroyJoker then

[azure valley]

if #G.joker.cards > 0 then

either one

ok so I had a question, following up from last night

Currently attempting to insert a stake between Orange and Gold stake. I have the following code:

SMODS.Stake {
    name = "Silver Stake",
    key = "silver",
    applied_stakes = { "orange" },
    unlocked_stake = "gold",

    atlas = "Chips",
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },

    sticker_atlas = "Stickers",
    sticker_pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },

    modifiers = function()
        G.GAME.modifiers.enable_preorder = true
    end,
    colour = G.C.GREY,
    shiny = true,
    loc_txt = {},
    above_stake = "orange"
}

SMODS.Stake:take_ownership('orange', {
    unlocked_stake = "silver",
  }, true
)

SMODS.Stake:take_ownership('gold', {
    applied_stakes = { "silver" },
    above_stake = "silver"
  }, true
)

Observed behavior is silver stake is above gold, and not unlockable (I have beat both orange and gold stake to test).

(This was tested on a profile that already had gold stake unlocked and beaten)

[red flower]

iirc for applying vanilla stakes you need to use prefix_config so it doesn't auto apply your prefix

#💻・modding-dev message

[azure valley]

where does this live? inside of the stake table?

[red flower]

yes

you might need it for unlocked_stake too

[azure valley]

and for above_stake

ok, progress

SMODS.Stake {
    name = "Silver Stake",
    key = "silver",
    applied_stakes = { "orange" },
    unlocked_stake = "gold",
    prefix_config = {
      applied_stakes = { mod = false },
      unlocked_stake = { mod = false },
      above_stake = { mod = false },
    },

    atlas = "Chips",
    pos = { x = 0, y = 0 },

    sticker_atlas = "Stickers",
    sticker_pos = { x = 1, y = 0 },

    modifiers = function()
        G.GAME.modifiers.enable_preorder = true
    end,
    colour = G.C.GREY,
    shiny = true,
    loc_txt = {},
    above_stake = "orange"
}

SMODS.Stake:take_ownership('orange', {
    unlocked_stake = "uvdm_silver",
  }, true
)

SMODS.Stake:take_ownership('gold', {
    applied_stakes = { "uvdm_silver" },
    above_stake = "uvdm_silver"
  }, true
)

I also adjusted the references to silver stake to have the proper mod prefix in the other stakes. Currently, it is in the correct location, but it errors without an diagnostic.

(also the chip is not shiny, so I assume there's something wrong with my stake table somehow)

[wispy falcon]

How do i change the Joker amount the player can hold? I looked at negative's code and black deck's code but both do it differently

[azure valley]

what is applying this change?

is it temporary or permanent?

[wispy falcon]

Permanent

And a blind

[plain gazelle]

For whatever reason my hook of get_straight() stops Shortcut from working. Everything in the hook only executes when you have the custom Joker so there shouldn't be any problems, but Shortcut starts working only when I remove my hook. (Is that what 'Lovely patch' from VanillaRemade is for?)

[red flower]

what are you trying to do

also thats an old version of vanillaremade, just so you are aware

[plain gazelle]

wait, then where's the new one? I use this https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/tree/058bedca263b90fead8ec5d2fa868674e91aadef

[manic rune]

is there something im overlooking here?

whats its supposed to do is that it counts cards held in hand as scored cards for joker effects

[red flower]

thats an old commit

also the problem is that get_straight is missing arguments

[manic rune]

so far those two worked so idk

[plain gazelle]

lmao I used an old version this entire time

also thanks

[azure valley]

G.jokers.config.card_limit = G.jokers.config.card_limit + 1

[manic rune]

rn it uhh probably loops infinitely

since it crashes right when i play a hand, no crash log

[azure valley]

oh gosh, so, I do something similar with a joker I made, but it's very invasive.

[manic rune]

mine shouldnt be

[azure valley]

I don't immediately see what's wrong here, but if you want to crib off of my code

[manic rune]

its just rerunning the joker's calculate with the new contexts

[manic rune]

like, its only this specific effect that crashes??

[azure valley]

hmm... let me review a little better.

[manic rune]

oh wait im missing individual = true in here, not sure if thats the cause, hm

though even if it is im pretty concerned why it crashes

yeah it still crashes, damn

well im just gonna guess that this effect in particular needs more tweaking than i thought, hm

[azure valley]

it might have something to do with the fact that calculate_joker calls calculate_joker.

[manic rune]

yeah thats why i added hsr_change_context to the new contexts

[wispy falcon]

Wait, you can have negative Joker Slots? xD

[manic rune]

yes

[wispy falcon]

It's the same as zero in the game though, right?

[azure valley]

you can even trigger it in vanilla iirc. By having negative jokers in the typecast challenge and then selling a negative joker after ante 4.

[azure valley]

I honestly don't see what's wrong.

wait

[azure valley]

you only add this to the contexts if there is a joker modifying these contexts. You don't seem to add it normally. Which means that you don't skip this shuffling about when you chain call into calculate_joker. But then again, that shouldn't really matter, unless Balatro normally has a call stack here half as deep at the call stack limit?

[carmine kiln]

Has anyone experience with modding jokers, that look for a specific card that changes every round?

[red flower]

?
https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/caf49367a7b58a4ad6f6bf36cd23fae3bb5e9d26/src/jokers.lua#L4016

[carmine kiln]

yea i used that a bit, yet the game tries to index a nil

[red flower]

well post the code and the crash log then

[carmine kiln]

how does one get the crash log?

[red flower]

you can either copy paste it from the crash screen or find it in Mods/lovely/log

[carmine kiln]

as files or in text?

[reef condor]

Making a balatro mod about SEALS!!!
Need help with one. using jokerforge
I wanna make a seal that turns the card into a heart suit.

[manic rune]

OHHHHHH I FIGURED IT OUT

it was table.clone 😭

[red flower]

as files is nicer

[carmine kiln]

rightio

[red flower]

ask in the jokerforge thread

[manic rune]

well that was very annoying to figure out

sob

[reef condor]

i did

[primal robin]

[reef condor]

no response

[red flower]

i would recommend waiting, i think no regulars here use jokerforge

[manic rune]

im guessing its because it tried to clone the context.cardarea part which caused it to freak out

since cards also have .area which also refers back to the card 😭

[red flower]

makes sense

[red flower]

this is a syntax error, you wrote the code wrong

i would recommend getting vscode and the lua extension

[carmine kiln]

so notepad++ won't cut it?

[red flower]

i wouldnt recommend it, no

[manic rune]

-# at least its not notepad honestly

[wispy falcon]

How do I give the player a random voucher?

[red flower]

if only there was a wiki i wrote with answers for things..

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#voucher

[wispy falcon]

Sorryyyyy

I always forget that

[azure valley]

This is the first I am hearing of it

thanks!

[manic rune]

🤔 how do i make this only run during scoring again

[red flower]

not end of round

[manic rune]

ic thanks

[carmine kiln]

umm which lua extension exactly?

[red flower]

the sumneko one

[red flower]

this wiki has more info

i would recommend following the first question

[manic rune]

what the fuck

this doesnt crash anymore but it counts all cards in hand as scoring cards now?? like, not just for the joker but for the ENTIRE scoring process

3:

[red flower]

did you just remove the table.clone

[manic rune]

yea

this is how it looks like rn

[red flower]

yeah youre replacing the context table permanently

[manic rune]

hm

maybe i should just not touch the context table

[red flower]

you can edit it and then revert it maybe

[manic rune]

yeah not changing the context table worked, no clue if this will have any consequences

well if im seeing it right then it shouldnt anyways, so

:3

i will see if my mod's players crash and know myself lmao

[wispy falcon]

Does this also work mid-round?

[red flower]

maybe

[wispy falcon]

This gives me an error

                local voucher_pool = get_current_pool('Voucher')
                local selected_voucher = pseudorandom_element(voucher_pool, 'modprefix_seed')
                local it = 1
                while selected_voucher == 'UNAVAILABLE' do
                    it = it + 1
                    selected_voucher = pseudorandom_element(voucher_pool, pseudoseed('giveVoucher'..it))
                end
                selected_voucher:redeem()
            end```

in context. after and context.final_scoring_step

[red flower]

oh yeah i think i deleted something there

[jolly shadow]

I want to make a consumable add a passive effect (i.e. 2 additional retriggers on all jokers owned), is there any way to like, run a calculate function isolated ? or would there be a better way to go about that

[red flower]

consumables have calculate

[red flower]

gimme a sec to find the correct code

[jolly shadow]

will it still work once the consumable is used?

[red flower]

ah no

[jolly shadow]

that's what im going for

[red flower]

the next smods update has a global mod calculate

[wintry solar]

You need to create the voucher before you can redeem it

[wispy falcon]

What do I need to add/change in my code?

[jolly shadow]

what should I do in the meantime? should i just wait for that?

[red flower]

you can hook SMODS.calculate_context maybe

[wintry solar]

What’s the exact effect?

[manic rune]

mmm hasnt global calculate been added yet

you can probably use that?

[jolly shadow]

N' already mentioned that

[manic rune]

oh

hm

well if you want to have it done early then you can

1. create a dummy joker in an invisible cardarea (i did this one)
2. hook to SMODS.calculate_context like N' said (i didnt do this one, but its probably better idk)

[wintry solar]

You can just get the consumable to do it too

[red flower]

oh wait does the :redeem function always subtract the cost

[jolly shadow]

the consumable Ceases to Exist when it is used, no ?

[manic rune]

they want it to basically have calculate after the consumable is used, which i dont think you can do just from consumable's calculate alone 🤔

orrrrr you can go with kino's approach, which is to have the consumable linger in the area for the calculate effect

:3

[jolly shadow]

wouldnt quite work for what im trying to do

[manic rune]

mm

[wintry solar]

Just get it to stay when used

And set an internal flag when used that triggers the calculate and stops future use

[jolly shadow]

wouldnt quite work for what im trying to do

[wintry solar]

It’s a bit jank but it works

[wintry solar]

Yeah you can do card.couponed = true iirc

[red flower]

tried it but it only works if the area is the shop, card.cost = 0 works tho

im trying to add the voucher animation now

[wispy falcon]

Okay

[wintry solar]

Let me check what I use

[red flower]

local voucher_pool = get_current_pool('Voucher')
local selected_voucher = pseudorandom_element(voucher_pool, 'modprefix_seed')
local it = 1
while selected_voucher == 'UNAVAILABLE' do
    it = it + 1
    selected_voucher = pseudorandom_element(voucher_pool, 'giveVoucher' .. it)
end
local voucher = SMODS.add_card { key = selected_voucher, area = G.vouchers }
voucher.cost = 0
voucher:redeem()

that works but the voucher doesnt get shown

[wispy falcon]

That's fine, I'll figure something out. Thank you :3

[wintry solar]

You need to create it in G.play

[red flower]

yeah but that doesnt dissolve it

im trying to find where thats done

[wintry solar]

My code is like this

local voucher_card = SMODS.create_card({area = G.play, key = voucher})
                voucher_card:start_materialize()
                voucher_card.cost = 0
                G.play:emplace(voucher_card)
                delay(0.8)
                voucher_card:redeem()
                
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    trigger = 'after',
                    delay = 0.5,
                    func = function()
                        voucher_card:start_dissolve()                
                        juice_hooligan = false
                        return true
                    end
                }))

[brave blade]

Is there a calculate context that activates on each card drawn? (SImilar to the context for each card discarded)

[manic rune]

orrrrrr maybe you can have a global table (not in G.GAME) with the calculate function, then when the consumable is used it adds a key to refer to the global table in a table within G.GAME, like G.GAME.consumable_passives then hook to SMODS.calculate_context?

so it would look something like

ConsumablePassives = {
  deadass = {
    calculate = function(...)
      ...
    end,
  }
}

local hookTo = SMODS.calculate_context
function SMODS.calculate_context(context, return_table, no_resolve)
  for _,v in ipairs(G.GAME.consumable_passives) do
    local ret = ConsumablePassives[v].calculate(context)
      if ret then
        --probably add it to return_table idk
      end
    end
  end
  local ret = hookTo(context, return_table, no_resolve)
  return ret
end

:3 i havent checked what return_table is supposed to be yet, but i assume thats where you want to change for the effect to happen

i just realized i took so long to type this we already moved to another topic

sob

[manic rune]

this way you can basically "store" calculate without directly storing it into G.GAME

-# that's also kinda what i did for stacked :3

@jolly shadow sorry if i took too long lol

[jolly shadow]

this is what i was going to attempt

was focusing on implementingthe booster first n stuff which looks neat

[manic rune]

yeah it looks really cool

[carmine kiln]

is there a steammodded support for VS code?

[red flower]

i just pasted whatever there

[red flower]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#3-set-up-the-lua-lsp

[red flower]

context.hand_drawn but its only called once

[jolly shadow]

is it possible to use variables in a custom info queue localization entry ?

[brave blade]

Yeah, I saw that, but I was kind of hoping there was one for each card drawn

[red flower]

no sadly you will need to iterate manually

[brave blade]

I wanted to make my Joker visually juice up and display a message for each card drawn kind of like Ramen

Ok what is the point of this if statement

[jolly shadow]

lmfao

[faint yacht]

?

[ocean sinew]

check If It's a tarot pack or spectral pack

[brave blade]

But both of the statements are the same

[jolly shadow]

doesnt do anything

[ocean sinew]

Wait what fr 💀

I noticed now

[brave blade]

It's basically saying "If X is true, do A, else do A"

[chrome widget]

I keep seeing these cards, what are they from?

[ocean sinew]

fr

[faint yacht]

Mine.

[ocean sinew]

localthunk prob did something else and forgot to change it later

[faint yacht]

https://github.com/TheOneGoofAli/TOGAPackBalatro/blob/bc14eb89003ae10e073cfdf56754441d03a4a2b6/togastuff.lua#L1087-L1091

[brave blade]

Do you mind me using your code? (I haven't done much modding so idk if that's frowned upon or not)

[faint yacht]

Go ham with it.

[brave blade]

Ok, thank you :)

[faint yacht]

Just adjust the context call for your unique needs.

[brave blade]

Yeah, I think I'll need to add an other_card field since I need to check properties of the drawn card

[faint yacht]

card can not be defined when calling draw_card, though.

If it is not, it is internally defined and you may need to patch instead.

[brave blade]

Wdym it can't be defined? Isn't there a field in draw_card() for the card being drawn?

[faint yacht]

It's optional.

[red flower]

it can be nil

[brave blade]

Well, how does the game draw the card if it's nil then?

[faint yacht]

The else bit.

[brave blade]

Ohh, wait, so it's nil if it doesn't have a specific card it's targeting?

Am I understanding that correctly?

[carmine kiln]

uhh sorry if i interrupt or somthin i can't for the life of me figure out the Lua LSP part, i do atleast have VS code with lua extension.

[faint yacht]

If the specific card is not defined, it picks the top card of the cardarea and sets that as card.

[red flower]

what have you tried

[carmine kiln]

i can't use the F1 method as it hasn't found anything that matches of what should be searched for.

[brave blade]

Wait but hold on a minute, if it sets the top card of the cardarea as card if card isn't already defined, then what causes the card to be nil? Is that just if there's nothing to draw?

[faint yacht]

card is an optional argument. However, if the cardarea to pull from is empty, card will stay nil.

[brave blade]

Ok, so to my understanding, if the card is specified originally then it's defined, and if it's not specified but it's able to pull from the cardarea then it's defined. The only case where it's nil is if no card was originally specified and there's nothing to pull from the cardarea. Is that correct?

[faint yacht]

Yeah.

I mainly use it in this function for stuff.

[carmine kiln]

also i can't seem to get what the laurc.json method is

[brave blade]

Ohhhh ok, I think I get it now

So the reason I need to use an injection is so that I can access the data from card to check if it's nil? (Or just to check the drawn variable I guess)

[faint yacht]

Patch, but if you wish to be able to examine any given card that is being drawn, then yeah. Otherwise, my hook is enough.

[brave blade]

Yeah, I need to check if it's a mult card

[faint yacht]

Or you could iterate over SMODS.drawn_cards to check.

[red flower]

you add it to your mod's folder

[faint yacht]

But the patch will be a bit easier to manage, I guess.

[brave blade]

As in check the last entry in SMODS.drawn_cards each time the context is called?

[faint yacht]

...I suppose? Never really used that yet.

-# And, frankly, I am not in the mental mindset to be able to mod... despite needing to take hospital things off of my mind. x.x

[brave blade]

I'm sorry, if these questions are bothering you I can figure it out

[faint yacht]

Barely functioning. You are free to look at my mod's code for stuff if need be.

[brave blade]

Ok, thanks for all of your help! :)

[carmine kiln]

so this right?

[red flower]

yes

[wild escarp]

How can I destroy a card before scoring?

[oblique lotus]

What's the variable that stores the total money you get on the cashout screen?

[carmine kiln]

i still get warnings and errors, am i missing some steps?

[red flower]

it's .luarc.json

[carmine kiln]

oh... seems like i can't type today anymore, whoops...

okay thank you, N'.

[wispy falcon]

Does every sprite in the game need 1x and 2x or do some only need 1x?

[faint yacht]

Both.

[wicked pollen]

hello

how to make a new joker

[vernal path]

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

[azure valley]

check the wiki, there's also some examples in the example mod.

[slim ferry]

dont use steamodded example mods PLEASE...

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/main/VanillaRemade.lua use vanillaremade as reference instead

[vernal path]

this info_queue is crashing when it's drawn, which is really strange to me:
info_queue[#info_queue+1] = {key = "m_mode_flesh_zygote", set = "Enhanced"} my localization is set up like how it's supposed to for enhancements, like return { descriptions = { Enhanced = { m_mode_flesh_zygote = {...}}}} It says cfg is nil, which, i'm not even sure what cfg means here

[slim ferry]

cfg means config

you should instead of that just do

[vernal path]

im aware. i mean in this context

[slim ferry]

its missing the loc vars because of the way you added the info queue

[vernal path]

the flesh doesnt have loc vars

[slim ferry]

you should instead do info_queue[#info_queue+1] = G.P_CENTERS.m_mod_flesh_zygote works toobtw

oh

well then idk

[vernal path]

Oh, right, forgot about that one as well

[carmine kiln]

I started a run to try out my joker in action and it crashed, seems like something slip through VS Code's warnings. and it's something about the thatcher effect, can someone please lend me a hand?

[slim ferry]

send the crash log too

[vernal path]

that is the crash log

its the full log

[carmine kiln]

yep

[slim ferry]

well the error says that there is not such file/directory so if i had to assume you have the incorrect file path in your atlas definition

and it says that there is no main.lua file before the crash

[vernal path]

seems like you have nested folders

it should look like Mods > mod > main.lua

[carmine kiln]

but it is already

[slim ferry]

thats

nested folder diagram go thanks aikoyori

[carmine kiln]

umm if that would be a nested folder then the .luarc.json fails to find the correct path.

[slim ferry]

okay then idk what the issue is

what does your assets folder look like?

[carmine kiln]

got only the images

although i do have some warnings at VS Code but they lead to Lovely

[wispy falcon]

Why do I get this error when I want to look at my blind in my collection?

[carmine kiln]

oh wait! i do get some warning a ln: 29Col 29 & Ln 137 Col 29.
i don't get it, why does it do that with the word "mult"?

oh god it should have been "Mult"

[slim ferry]

did you do mult = <value> outside of the return...

because it shouldnt give that error

unless you do

also its not a warning its like info or whatever vscode calls it

[slim ferry]

a blind references an atlas that doesnt exist

[red flower]

you can disable this warning if you want, balatro has a lot of lowercase globals

[slim ferry]

i found your issue

dont

do that?

why is there a function in the return of your calculate

just return mult = card.ability.extra.mult

[clear ocean]

using the latest dev version and probably something changed but not sure

[red flower]

missing the =

check vanillaremade it does that

[timid zinc]

NVM

[red flower]

lol

[clear ocean]

i did the opposite now

used to do smods.SOMETHING = {}

[wispy falcon]

Makes no sense to me...

    key = "slots",
    path = "chips.png",
    px = 34,
    py = 34
})```

and `atlas = "slots",` in my `SMODS.Blind`

[red flower]

the atlas needs to be defined as an animation atlas

[clear ocean]

did i miss something

        Joker = {
            j_farceur_stanczyk = {
                name = {
                    "Stańczyk"
                },
                text = {
                    "{C:inactive}(no effect added)"
                }
            }
        }

[red flower]

that looks fine

[clear ocean]

weird

thinking on having the effect where it disables or reverts the stickers

[red flower]

descriptions

[wispy falcon]

Where do I do that?

[red flower]

in the atlas

[clear ocean]

thanks

[wispy falcon]

Like this?

    key = "slots",
    path = "chips.png",
    atlas_table = 'ANIMATION_ATLAS',
    px = 34,
    py = 34
})```

[clear ocean]

is this a good effect for a legendary

@fresh bear @wet crag

[wet crag]

thank you!

[brave blade]

No, it's useless below Black Stake and probably won't do that much a lot of the time even in higher stakes

[wet crag]

What if it inverted sticker effects to be beneficial instead?
Rental - Gain $3 at end of round
Eternal - Can be sold but not destroyed
Perishable - I'm not sure here. Maybe it can't be debuffed? Maybe after 3 rounds of owning the Joker it increases in strength? Maybe every 3 rounds / hands / triggers it retriggers once?

[clear ocean]

ohh maybe

a bit burnt out of modding but once in a while i got an idea

[wispy falcon]

bump

[wet crag]

I don't know how difficult that would be to implement but that might feel more Legendary

[wet crag]

I feel the same. I sent my mod to my friend for his birthday and he really enjoyed it now I'm just taking a break. My hard work paid off at least. I want to do more but I need to slow my pace somewhat

[clear ocean]

its more that i spent like the last few weeks just spending most of my free time and i think this isn't for me like i only have a few ideas

at least i tried and made me appreciate the game even more

[azure valley]

Babalatro!

[jolly shadow]

worst 3 hours ive ever had in balatro modding but we got there in the end

[wispy falcon]

bump2

[wild escarp]

How can I destroy playing cards before they're scored?

[frosty rampart]

aw darn if I had woken up earlier I could've helped
my dice do exactly what you're trying to do; upon use they explicitly don't destroy themselves, so they can just calculate normally and destroy themselves in the calculate function

[jolly shadow]

i just decided to update smods

after hacking at a hook for 2 hours

and getting undescribable bugs

[frosty rampart]

ye global calculate works too

[candid prism]

maybe try loc_txt = {

oh nvm you already had it solved lmao

[ivory widget]

Is there a way to create cards into the "discard pile", or wherever the cards go after being scored? I.E. not added to hand or shuffled into the deck

[wild escarp]

Anyone know if there's a way to destroy playing cards before they score?

[wispy falcon]

bump3

[frosty rampart]

https://tryitands.ee

[red flower]

destroy them in context.press_play

[wild escarp]

I guess there's no overlap between context.press_play and context.scoring_hand?

[red flower]

no, i think it's G.hand.highlighted

[wispy falcon]

It gives me an error

[red flower]

you need to add a frames field

pls read the docs

[azure valley]

Potentially dumb question about stake cosmetics. I set shiny to true, but the sprite doesn't appear as shiny. When checking whether or not the shader function returned by get_stake_sprite is different (and therefore set by the lambda in the function), it is different from stakes 1-7 (which are equal to each other), and different from gold (9), yet I still don't get the shiny effect.

Can anyone think of anything else I can do to diagnose why it's not working?

[red flower]

yeah just add them to G.discard

[brave blade]

Sorry to bother you again, but why do you need to check if the source and destination are playing card areas?

[carmine kiln]

i coded something, you guys think that this works?

[slim ferry]

idk why it wouldnt

but also

you should return xmult for Xmult and not just mult

[brave blade]

I think it should be math.max(G.GAME.hands.level)

[red flower]

no, discard doesnt have scoring_name and the syntax for max is wrong

[carmine kiln]

well guess what... it didn't lol

[fluid nebula]

yo how can i get started with balatro modding

i have a dumb idea for a joker

and i know basic code

[slim ferry]

check the pins in modding-chat

[azure valley]

you might also want to check out the smod examples repo, vanilla remade repo, and the wiki of both.

[slim ferry]

smod examples kinda suck

they are very outdated

[frosty rampart]

still occasionally useful but vanillaremade is definitely much more helpful

[wild escarp]

Maybe it's just an issue with my code, but it seems that nothing happens when I return remove in context.press_play.

[carmine kiln]

well i tried to figure out what needs to be gotten.

[red flower]

you need to use SMODS.destroy_cards instead

[red flower]

check burnt joker

[fluid nebula]

i see

[timid zinc]

    key = 'crystalline',
    config = {
        extra = {
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { } }
    end,
    in_shop = false,
    shader = 'crystalline'
}```
I have a file `assets/shader/crystalline.fs` but i get this error:

[fluid nebula]

oh damn this game is programmed in lua? i don't know this language

[slim ferry]

lua is pretty simple imo

[fluid nebula]

oh, nice

[red flower]

i didnt know lua before starting its really easy

[slim ferry]

what language do you know

[fluid nebula]

does anybody want to hear my joker idea

[jolly shadow]

literally one of the simplest dw

[azure valley]

It's easy, the only things that are gotchas are 1-indexing and the existence of metatables.

[fluid nebula]

fairly limited honestly. visual basic

[fluid nebula]

just to check how difficult it'll be to implement

[azure valley]

what's the idea?

[slim ferry]

i mean i was able to mod the game without knowing lua just from my experience in python

the docs for modding the game are very helpful too

thats where like 99% of my lua knowledge comes from tbh

[fluid nebula]

Oker
x999,999 mult
1 in 10 chance to crash the game

[azure valley]

easy to implement

[fluid nebula]

or maybe a higher chance

[fluid nebula]

that's good then

[azure valley]

probably not the best joker in the world tho

[fluid nebula]

the point isn't to make good or balanced jokers for me. the point is to make whatever joker comes up in my mind

maybe a subway surfers joker that does nothing but plays a subway surfers gameplay video

[jolly shadow]

ha

[zealous scaffold]

beautiful

[carmine kiln]

well now the thing with get highlighted works yet, even if i used Glowing0v3rlord's idea the max is nil...

[red flower]

you need to loop through G.GAME.hands and get the highest level manually

[carmine kiln]

that would be a for in method right?

[zealous scaffold]

O: X 1.8e308 multi (1 in 2 chance to corrupt your game files and delete the folder)

[brave blade]

Yeah I was wrong, I didn't fully read what you had put there

[zealous scaffold]

(He appears in the store after Oker closes game Like Cavendish)

[fluid nebula]

horrible idea. i love it

okay now i need to learn how to create balatro mods

[zealous scaffold]

That's what I have the most.

[fluid nebula]

my idea is to reference the game's pre-existing jokers as a basis for my code. i can learn. i can adapt.

[zealous scaffold]

I help you

[fluid nebula]

thank you. how may i begin?

[carmine kiln]

hold on...the hands table should work like a array perhaps i could use a size getter for this

[zealous scaffold]

vanillaremade

[zealous scaffold]

is good

It is a "mod" that recreates jokers etc. from the base game using smods.

[red flower]

why would the size of the table help

also it's not an array

[zealous scaffold]

I learned a lot from him.

[rotund sable]

It also has a nice wiki

10/10 Would recommend

[fluid nebula]

i would rather just code them myself, honestly

[rotund sable]

It's a good point of reference

[zealous scaffold]

I would recommend learning the basics about SMODs and seeing Vanillaremade, so you can see how jokers work and change values here and there to understand.

[rotund sable]

Let's say you want to do something that is already made in vanilla, you can always look there and learn from that

[fluid nebula]

oh, i see

[red flower]

vanillaremade is there for reference because there are a lot of undocumented things

[zealous scaffold]

yeah

[fluid nebula]

google brings nothing because search engines all suck now

[zealous scaffold]

I've seen a site that does balatro mods with block programming, like Scrath, but it's not my beach.

[rotund sable]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade

And the wiki https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki

[molten relic]

JokerForge?

[fluid nebula]

thanks

[carmine kiln]

to get the Integer/ Value for the in part.

[zealous scaffold]

I don't remember exactly the name, but I've been saving it somewhere.

[rotund sable]

Yeah it's JokerForge

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1386843228330004611

[molten relic]

i have still not found the problem in my object type, by the way

[zealous scaffold]

I found Q very well done, for those who want more basic things like creating only a few wildcards for fun, etc., but I prefer to do it myself.

[red flower]

use pairs

[carmine kiln]

whats that

[zealous scaffold]

2 values in a variable, you can make a vector where each IT holds 2 values together (more or less this).

(If that's what I'm thinking)

And you can make pairs of pairs.

[red flower]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55108794/what-is-the-difference-between-pairs-and-ipairs-in-lua

[candid prism]

X1 mult for every hour of subway surfers watched

[red flower]

this is not true for lua

[zealous scaffold]

I don't know much about lua, sorry.

I imagined it might not be that.

[molten relic]

would you perhaps be able to useth thy knowledge to helpeth me?
whats wrong with this here code

    key = "Passive Items",
    default = "j_bali_breakfast",
    cards = {},
    inject = function(self)
        SMODS.ObjectType.inject(self)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_sadonion)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_innereye)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_spoonbender)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_cricketshead)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_myreflection)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_numberone)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_bloodmartyr)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_brotherbob)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_skatole)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_haloflies)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_magicmush)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_thevirus)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_roidrage)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_heart)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_rawliver)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_skelekey)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_dollar)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_boom)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_trans)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_compass)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_lunch)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_dinner)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_dessert)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_breakfast)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_rotten)
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS.j_bali_spoon)
    end,
})

[red flower]

dunno

whats the problem

[zealous scaffold]

I know Pair for C++.

[red flower]

when does that happen

[molten relic]

when i open the game

i think this is the problem btw

[red flower]

is the object type defined before or after the jokers

[molten relic]

after

[red flower]

no idea

[molten relic]

ill paste code for a booster pack

[fluid nebula]

okay so vanilla remade has just made a duplicate of every deck i can play

[molten relic]

maybe thats the problem?

[fluid nebula]

and everything in the collection.

like merging my save file with a new one

remind me what this is meant to do?

[molten relic]

    key = 'p_bali_itempack1',
    loc_txt = {
        ['name'] = 'Item Pack',
        ['text'] = {
            "Choose {C:attention}1{} out of {C:attention}3{} {C:gold}Item Cards{}"
        }
    },
    atlas = 'customBoosters',
    pos = {
        x = 0,
        y = 0
    },
    config = {
        extra = 3,
        choose = 1
    },
    create_card = function(self, card)
        return {
            set = "Passive Items", area = G.pack_cards, skip_materialize = true, soulable = true, key_append = "bali"
        }
    end,
    discovered = false,
    draw_hand = false,
    group_key = "bali_itempacks",
    cost = 4,
}     ```

[rotund sable]

Did you download it as a mod😭

[frosty rampart]

vanillaremade isn't meant to be a mod you play, it's a reference for how to use SMODS's tools

if you want to reproduce a certain functionality of vanilla content (e.g. "how do i make my joker give +mult"), you can look at VR's implementation of the basic Joker and borrow that

[fluid nebula]

yes

[fluid nebula]

oh, i see. so i essentially just reference the code

[frosty rampart]

ye

[fluid nebula]

guess i need to look into the source code

[rotund sable]

It's neatly organized

By category

[fluid nebula]

category of what?

[molten relic]

jokers, decks, tarots, etc.

[ocean sinew]

YESSS I EXPORTED PARSER TO BALATRO

https://github.com/thenumbernine/lua-parser/ lua parser

I know exporting a module Is simple but I took a long time figuring it out 😭

now I can parse code though

[fluid nebula]

oh, i see

[ocean sinew]

NOW I CAN DO THAT TALISMAN FIX

[fluid nebula]

sorry if i sound dumb, but how specifically do i access the source code?

[red flower]

mods are just text files with code

[molten relic]

open the src folder

and open a text file

[ocean sinew]

I'LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL FIX TALISMANNNNNNNNNNNN

[fluid nebula]

found it. chose "Open archive" with 7zip

[red flower]

oh you mean the balatro source code?

i recommend checking the files on Mods/lovely/dump instead

those are the source code after lovely patches

[fluid nebula]

oh

now i just need a program to read .lua files

[modern kindle]

youve got one, installed right into your head

[red flower]

lua files are text files

[modern kindle]

i recommend vscode and not notepad

please do not notepad

[rotund sable]

Also recommend setting up a Lua LSP https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#3-set-up-the-lua-lsp

[fluid nebula]

thanks

[rotund sable]

Even notepad++ is better (still bad tho)

[rapid stag]

notepad++ is fine

[carmine kiln]

i'm in a superposition of understanding and not understanding

[rapid stag]

i've been writing my mod in it for the past 8 months now

[carmine kiln]

This for in method has a tiny little flaw, yippie

[red flower]

it would be G.GAME.hands[i].level

[fluid nebula]

now i must learn what this all means

thanks tho

[red flower]

or v.level

[idle plaza]

In a for loop like that, the v is just short for G.GAME.hands[i]

[red flower]

also you what the comparison in the if below to be the key of the hand, not the max level

[rotund sable]

Take your time

Trying to learn everything at once can be overwhelming

[fluid nebula]

you're right

[wild escarp]

Is there a way for a joker to check if it's been destroyed?

[red flower]

specifically destroyed?

[wild escarp]

Yes

[red flower]

you can maybe use the new context.joker_type_destroyed but idk if its passed to itself

[red flower]

i dont think it is

i think somethingcom had a snippet for this but i cant find it

[carmine kiln]

would've been really nice if i could get the highest level in one line... but what do you mean with the if segment?

[red flower]

get_max is a number G.FUNCS.get_poker_hand_info returns a string

(well it has multiple returns, idk if it works in the if condition)

[carmine kiln]

well i tried avoiding that since the VS Code tells you if a var swaps from a value to something else and vise versa

oh

you mean the if section after the for in ended, right?

[red flower]

yes

[carmine kiln]

does selecting a card count as pre-discard? since thats whenever i'm crashing since i added the post for in compairision.

[red flower]

no, its probably crashing in the loop because its not in a context

[carmine kiln]

huh

well here's what i did so far, in Case anyone wonders

[red flower]

this is how i would do it

if context.pre_discard then
    local get_max = 1
    local max_key
    for key, v in pairs(G.GAME.hands) do
        if v.level > get_max then
            get_max = v.level
            max_key = key
        end
    end
    local scoring_name, _ = G.FUNCS.get_poker_hand_info(G.hand.highlighted)
    if scoring_name == max_key then
        card.ability.extra.mult = card.ability.extra.mult + card.ability.extra.mult_gain
    end
end

you also had the wrong syntax in pairs

[idle plaza]

Any calculate function code that is not within a specified context, will instead run under ALL contexts.

[carmine kiln]

imma test your theory there, if i may.

So that is working yet i also wanted to make it add normal Mult yet it does not change the mult.

[idle plaza]

What is it doing instead? N's code was entirely about changing the mult.

[azure valley]

if your stake is not shiny but you have set shiny = true in the SMODS.Stake definition, what might be going on?

[jolly shadow]

is it possible to change collection order? tried setting order on the card centers but it doesnt seem to do anything

[carmine kiln]

oh apologies, i meant it does change the jokers mult albeit the Hand mult is unchanged

[slim ferry]

it depends on what order the SMODS.Joker functions are called

[jolly shadow]

could just say no lmao

i can't change the load order or it messes shit up

[azure valley]

that's really scary edward.

You should probably have each joker more independent

why would it mess shit up?

If I want to reorder jokers in my mod, I just reorder a list.

(because each joker is in its own file)

[jolly shadow]

because one of my jokers needs every other joker to be loaded first in order to work

[idle plaza]

Did you remove the joker_main part of your code? Because that was perfectly fine and should still be there.

[jolly shadow]

ykno thats like, common sense

if i cant reorder shit one probably needs to be later?

[carmine kiln]

probs

[azure valley]

that's not really common sense...

[carmine kiln]

i have re-added it let's see if that works

[jolly shadow]

its common sense that messing with the order would only mess shit up if the order mattered lol

[idle plaza]

What exactly does that particular Joker do? There could be an alternate solution that removes it from any strict load order requirement.

[jolly shadow]

im already looking into the other solution because of the lack of any helpful info lmao

[carmine kiln]

it does work yet, i tried giving it a message to let the player know it gained some mult.

[idle plaza]

A separate return statement, with just that message, in the pre_discard context should work for that.

[fluid nebula]

trying to mod a joker with this tutorial but it's not appearing in my collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-4U5TlbxY

[candid elbow]

It should work

You have some issues

[jolly shadow]

this card just sucks dude

[candid elbow]

Bro doing bunch of nothin

[ocean sinew]

It would be op If It worked

[jolly shadow]

it works on some other cards

[candid elbow]

Hey steve

[jolly shadow]

just fuckin gives up on salon for some reason

[ocean sinew]

btw edward robinson

I exported lua parser to balatro

[candid elbow]

On occasions 😭

[jolly shadow]

no clue what this means

[ocean sinew]

It takes a lua string

and give a table which you can change to change code easily

then you call a function

and it transforms back to lua code

I'm gonna use that for automatic scaling detection and fixing talisman

[ocean sinew]

you can do lot of stuff with that

cuz u can easily replace code

[candid elbow]

GASP

[fluid nebula]

i do have issues but can we stick to the mod please

okay in all seriousness

[candid elbow]

Fixing talisman

[ocean sinew]

yes

[fluid nebula]

do you want to see my code and joker asset files

[candid elbow]

Yes

[candid elbow]

You may be a descender from the gods

[ocean sinew]

they told me it was impossible...

they told me I was crazy

who's crazy now

[slim ferry]

joker would probably help the most if its not loading at all

[candid elbow]

Eris back off

Lemme cook

[slim ferry]

okay okay

i trust

[jolly shadow]

so a patch

[ocean sinew]

basically a patch but 1000x better

[jolly shadow]

lmao

if u say so

[candid elbow]

I’ll ban myself if this shit works

[fluid nebula]

sorry if this is a simple mistake and i am dumb

[candid elbow]

Missing pos

[ocean sinew]

I already figured out local assignments

now I need to figure out for loops

[candid elbow]

In smods.joker

[slim ferry]

that wouldnt stop it from loading

[candid elbow]

He doesn’t say it doesn’t load he said it doesn’t appear

Mhm

WHERE’S THE JSON FILE

[slim ferry]

also pos defaults to 0,0

[fluid nebula]

oh. it's not showing up in the collection... probably explains it

[candid elbow]

Json file where

[slim ferry]

also you should probably be using visual studio code instead of n++

[fluid nebula]

oh my bad

[fluid nebula]

one second let me try and find it

this is rapidly devolving into a shitshow

[candid elbow]

Yeah that shit has no colors vscode just better

[candid elbow]

Should be under your mod folder along with the main lua file

[slim ferry]

also you shouldnt need that header if you have a metadata json file

[fluid nebula]

nothing here @candid elbow

[candid elbow]

Inside

[candid elbow]

Smods doesn’t even load the header now

It just ignores it

Lol

[fluid nebula]

there's only assets and main.lua

[slim ferry]

you need a json file with your mod metadata

[candid elbow]

Create a json file

Wait 1 second

[slim ferry]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Mod-Metadata

[candid elbow]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/tree/master/Mods/ExampleJokersMod

Use this example as a template

[candid elbow]

Eris let me cook man goddamnit 😭

[slim ferry]

why would you link to an smods example mod instead of just to the docs....

[candid elbow]

Because examples made me under better

Understand *

[slim ferry]

fair

[fluid nebula]

wait a second

does the json file contain the metadata of the mod?

[candid elbow]

Yes

You don’t need the header

Set the main file to your lua file btw

[fluid nebula]

okay

[candid elbow]

You can do it fred

I believe in you

You’re him

[fluid nebula]

thank you

what do i call you

kate?

put the metadata into the json file @candid elbow

[candid elbow]

It should load

Can i see the json file

To make sure you didn’t fuck up

[candid elbow]

Yea that works >-<

[fluid nebula]

nice

[candid elbow]

Not like this

[candid elbow]

Tale the json file from here and change the values

[candid elbow]

(That’s the old format)

[fluid nebula]

oh sorry

[candid elbow]

It’s okay trial and error is what makes you better >-<

[fluid nebula]

nice :>

[candid elbow]

Mhm

Now lunch the game

[fluid nebula]

mmmm lunch

[candid elbow]

😭

Sob

I meant launch

Please don’t eat the game

[fluid nebula]

i won't

anyway the mod itself is being recognised in the mods section, but it cannot be launched because it can't find the file main.lua

which is weird, since the file containing the joker template is called main.lua

[candid elbow]

Silly fred

You named it

Main.lua.txt

It’s not lua its txt

Hehe

Also the json file

[candid elbow]

See here

[fluid nebula]

AHHHH

trying again

[candid elbow]

That’s why vscode is goated

[jolly shadow]

this will have to do, this shit doesnt wanna work no matter how hard i try lmfao

big nerf to bird but what ever

[fluid nebula]

hmmmmm

[candid elbow]

Close your lua file code

It’s open

Probably needs a , after loc_txt

And in atlas

After key

Missing ,

[fluid nebula]

okay. added the commas in. trying now

[candid elbow]

And after path

Lol

Add all the commas

[manic rune]

whats wrong

[fluid nebula]

i assume the commas are how lua tells itself to go to the next line of code

hmmmm

[candid elbow]

Extra comma

LOL

[fluid nebula]

i see it now

saw it before you sent the message

this really is a shitshow

[candid elbow]

Yeah syntax is fucked

[slim ferry]

commas are used to seperate table entries, just like with arrays and such in most other languages

[candid elbow]

It’s just every item in a table needs to be separated with a ,

[fluid nebula]

YESSSS

[candid elbow]

Hell yeah

GOOD JOB FRED

Now add atlas=“your atlas key”, and pos{x=0,y=0}, to your joker code

Add discovered=true , id you don’t have debug plus (please install it )

[foggy ginkgo]

Bros a genius

[candid elbow]

If you have debug plus hover over it and press ctrl +2

[candid elbow]

I’m just good at reading

[fluid nebula]

don't worry i have debug plus

[candid elbow]

Good job

You need vscode

NOW

[fluid nebula]

i should get it you are correct

i am fine with using notepad++ but i guess it's better

[candid elbow]

Trust me it’s way better + support all languages and theme customizable and highlights your variables / syntax

It makes everything easier visually

[fluid nebula]

Oker is birthed

[fluid nebula]

i see

i took computer science. i know IDEs are better

(sorry if that sounds arrogant. was not the intention)

[azure valley]

It's ok, I still use Vim

[candid elbow]

Wrong sprite size

[fluid nebula]

yeah

[azure valley]

I understand if you don't want to VS Code

[candid elbow]

It should be

71x95

Pixels

1 pixel border (empty)

Check the mod repo i sent you earlier it has a sprite example and everything
For editing I recommend aseprite if you can afford it (by all means ) or kirita (good free alternative)

[azure valley]

libresprite is an aseprite clone from the same code base

[candid elbow]

It’s ass

Let’s be real

[azure valley]

It's good enough for programmer art

Which is all I do

[candid elbow]

You can compile aseprite for free

[azure valley]

Oh, then I'll do that then

[fluid nebula]

i copied the joker image incorrectly

[candid elbow]

There’s plenty of tutorials online

[candid elbow]

Hehe

[fluid nebula]

should work now

[candid elbow]

Hands crossed

[fluid nebula]

my child is born

[candid elbow]

Hell yeah

He can’t speak thi

Lol

[fluid nebula]

now it's time to program the actual mechanics at half past midnight 🔥

thank you for your help, kate. you were pretty much my bridge across a valley

[candid elbow]

Need help making it work

?

[candid elbow]

No problem >-<

[fluid nebula]

i think i can do this if i just look through more code

currently implementing only the 999,999 mult

[timid zinc]

is there a context for debuffing a card?

[candid elbow]

Yes

Check vanilla remade or the docs for calculate function

It’s down

[candid elbow]

Okay if you don’t understand something or what does something do ping me

[timid zinc]

I don't see anything in the docs for it, only stuff about playing a debuffed hand

[fluid nebula]

nevermind it's a shitshow again

this happens when i hover over it

[candid elbow]

Can i see the code

[candid elbow]

Look in calculate

[fluid nebula]

sorry to eat up so much of your time

[timid zinc]

card.ability.extra.Xmult

not ability.extra.Xmult

[candid elbow]

Card

Not center

And replace center with card

In loc_vars

[manic rune]

center**,**ability lmao

[candid elbow]

Shut up bepis

[fluid nebula]

oh, i guess the tutorial i'm using is a bit outdated

[candid elbow]

Mhm

Just a little

S is working on a new one

[manic rune]

if u checked #1349064230825103441 there would be a specific line telling you NOT to use center

3:

[candid elbow]

Pfff

[fluid nebula]

still crashing

[candid elbow]

Who reads

[fluid nebula]

wait i misread some code

just give it a sec

[candid elbow]

Card.ability.extra.xmult

[fluid nebula]

yeah that's what i just did

[candid elbow]

And card instead of center

In loc_vars =

[manic rune]

i forgot to ping, whats wrong here, this looks fine

[timid zinc]

Calculate Functions right?

[jolly shadow]

i changed the function because the old one stopped working :]

[manic rune]

mm ic

[fluid nebula]

good news, it's not crashing. bad news, it's not working.

it just doesn't apply mult

[manic rune]

what's the calculate code

[candid elbow]

Wait it’s not thzre

Lol

I swear i saw ig

It

[candid elbow]

Missing the calculate function

[split cairn]

is this correct for detecting steel cards and making them give x chips when held in hand?

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual 
        and context.cardarea == G.hand 
        and not context.end_of_round 
        and SMODS.has_enhancement('m_steel') then
            if context.other_card.debuff then
                return {
                    message = localize('k_debuffed'),
                    colour = G.C.RED
                }
            else
                return {
                    x_chips = card.ability.extra.huntress
                }
            end
        end
    end,

[manic rune]

no

SMODS.has_enhancement(context.other_card, "m_steel")

[candid elbow]

https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/blob/d43316d97bc927f3de431dd84c0283d41e69761a/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua#L70

[fluid nebula]

ah. my mistake

[candid elbow]

you got it

[fluid nebula]

i should have just watched more of the tutorial lmao

my bad

[split cairn]

i'll try it rq

[candid elbow]

Lmao

[split cairn]

thank you, it worked

[manic rune]

oh yeah im pretty sure you dont need the debuff check
-# though i might be wrong

[split cairn]

that might be true, i was just following vanilla remade

[manic rune]

oh maybe not then lol

[timid zinc]

then what is it? i couldn't find anything like that in vanilla remade

[manic rune]

i trust N'

[candid elbow]

I trust N and S with my life

[carmine kiln]

So i while i tried out the free fall jokers i made with some help.
I encountered one in the shop
Should the stats of it stay this way?

[split cairn]

how can i make it so that if a specific joker is present, the x chips amount is different?

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual 
        and context.cardarea == G.hand 
        and not context.end_of_round 
        and SMODS.has_enhancement(context.other_card, "m_steel") then
            if context.other_card.debuff then
                return {
                    message = localize('k_debuffed'),
                    colour = G.C.RED
                }
            else
                return {
                    x_chips = card.ability.extra.huntress
                }
            end
        end
    end,

[brave blade]

Can anyone tell me why per-card discard effects like Ramen are able to pause other actions for a moment? I'm trying to pause in a similar way for a custom individual card draw context and I can't get it to work (all of the actions just happen after the cards are done drawing)

[timid zinc]

Likely a G.E_MANAGER call in my experience, check out https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/blob/caf49367a7b58a4ad6f6bf36cd23fae3bb5e9d26/src/jokers.lua#L2916

[fluid nebula]

oh my fucking god i'm getting tired of this shit

[brave blade]

Seems like it just returns like normal though

[fluid nebula]

my joker is giving the message of the mult without affecting the score

i've followed this tutorial to the letter

[brave blade]

The G.E_MANAGER call is just for the joker being eaten I think

[timid zinc]

Oh yeah i forgot to read LMAO

[timid zinc]

include xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult, in your return statement

[timid zinc]

My guess is that discard effects add a delay automatically while draw effects dont, maybe you could try delay(num)?

[fluid nebula]

which line?

[timid zinc]

idk what your code looks like but here's an example:

        if context.cardarea == G.jokers and context.joker_main and context.scoring_hand and card.ability.extra.xmult > 1 then
            return {
                message = localize{type='variable',key='a_xmult',vars={card.ability.extra.xmult}},
                xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult,
                colour = G.C.RED
            }
        end

[timid zinc]

Xmult_mod, not Xmult_Mod

It's capitilization sensitive I believe

[fluid nebula]

my bad

[jolly shadow]

also you dont need to specify the message

[fluid nebula]

it finally worked. thank you, @timid zinc

[jolly shadow]

it puts an X# message on it already

[fluid nebula]

i think i'll add the 1 in 6 chance to crash the game tomorrow

[slim ferry]

do xmult, not xmult_mod. xmult does the message automatically

[fluid nebula]

hope it isn't too hard to implement

[timid zinc]

either works tho, so it's not that big a deal imo

[fluid nebula]

i imagine i just need to set something up, similar to wheel of fortune

[slim ferry]

xmult_mod is like old tho

[fluid nebula]

if i can find it in the code, i'll replicate some of it and include the line that closes the program if it triggers

[gusty iron]

how would i set up a new variable to be saved? im trying to set something up like G.GAME.Voucher_Mult, but it doesn't seem to be working

[split cairn]

im really curious as to how a joker can just crash the game, like does it close to game or cause an error screen like when you mess up code?

[ornate meteor]

i've had jokers crash the game when they pop up, no clue how but it can happen

[split cairn]

but was that the intended? like how that guy wants the game to purposefully crash

[fluid nebula]

close the game

that's what i mean

i think saying it "crashes" the game sounds better though

[ornate meteor]

apparently the number one way to crash the game is to call a nil value according to my absolute dogshit coding so maybe do that?

[fluid nebula]

i think i'll just make it close the game

actually, in fact, 1 in 6 is too lenient. why not 1 in 2

[brave blade]

You can probably check cryptid's ://CRASH card to see how it does it (might be somewhat complicated though because it has other crashes that are "fake" crash animations)

[fluid nebula]

i'm gonna be making abysmal dogshit

[ornate meteor]

btw this makes 3 days trying to get my custom joker text into the game : D

[gusty iron]

the humble os.exit()

[ornate meteor]

what the fuck is an os.exit()

[gusty iron]

immediately closes the game

[fluid nebula]

thanks for this, i'll remember it later

[ornate meteor]

ah

[gusty iron]

like not crash

it just closes

[ornate meteor]

yknow makes sense that os.exit exits the game

[fluid nebula]

plus if i make it a 1 in 2 chance, i'll punish an oops all 6s

[clear ocean]

what do you think of this idea

[brave blade]

I still can't figure this out, is there anyone who can help?

[clear ocean]

not sure if theres a calc function in order to do this though

[split cairn]

how can i modify the judgement tarot to summon jokers from a specific pool? like i list the jokers i want in that pool and it randomly creates one

    use = function(self, card, area, copier)
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
            trigger = 'after',
            delay = 0.4,
            func = function()
                play_sound('timpani')
                SMODS.add_card({ set = 'Joker', edition = 'e_negative' })
                card:juice_up(0.3, 0.5)
                return true
            end
        }))
        delay(0.6)
    end,

[clear ocean]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#whats-a-poolset this might be a good start

[split cairn]

thank you, i'll try that

[gusty iron]

bump?

[clear ocean]

this might be what i am looking for

let me try a jiggle animation to see if thats possible if not it would be something like banner where it will give you the chips when scoring

[gusty iron]

okay i got the mult system working, but the messages dont seem to be updating, any help? heres my current function:

local old = SMODS.calculate_individual_effect

SMODS.calculate_individual_effect = function(effect, scored_card, key, amount, from_edition)
    -- ...
    if (key == 'mult' or key == 'h_mult' or key == 'mult_mod') and amount then
        if effect.card and effect.card ~= scored_card then juice_card(effect.card) end
       local effective = amount
    if G.Mult_50 then
    effective = amount + amount * 1.5
    end
    
        -- give 50% more mult based on effective yeah
        mult = mod_mult(mult + (effective))

        update_hand_text({delay = 0}, {chips = hand_chips, mult = mult})
        if not effect.remove_default_message then
            if from_edition then
                card_eval_status_text(scored_card, 'jokers', nil, percent, nil, {
                    message = localize{type = 'variable', key = effective > 0 and 'a_mult' or 'a_mult_minus', vars = {effective}},
                    mult_mod = effective,
                    colour = G.C.DARK_EDITION,
                    edition = true
                })
            else
                if key ~= 'mult_mod' then
                    if effect.mult_message then
                        card_eval_status_text(effect.message_card or effect.juice_card or scored_card or effect.card or effect.focus,
                                              'extra', nil, percent, nil, effect.mult_message)
                    else
                        card_eval_status_text(effect.message_card or effect.juice_card or scored_card or effect.card or effect.focus,
                                              'mult', effective, percent)
                    end
                end
            end
        end
        return true
    end
    return old(effect, scored_card, key, amount, from_edition)
end

[clear ocean]

what do you think the rarity should be? i can try with some other jokers real quick

if i need to tweak it to be more balanced as well you let me know too

using blueprint/brainstorm on record increases the chips it looks cursed

[split cairn]

it worked tysm!

[clear ocean]

here's in slow speed if you want to see

so three questions that the community can suggest on (democracy wins)

1. the rarity
2. if 12 chips per trigger is balanced and if not what would be a better option (try to keep it music related)
3. should i patch this oversight but either not counting itself, blueprint/brainstorm, or any other joker like that

[clear ocean]

Thinking on having the joker art not only be random from an atlas (not sure how to do that) but based off actual covers. which ordination do you prefer? (the sleeve is to protect the vinyl on my sheets just in case it won’t appear in the art, unless you want that)

[oblique lotus]

What's the easiest way to define a new color and make it usable in localization?

[clear ocean]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Text-Styling#named-colours-dictionary-gargsloc_colours this could be a good start

[oblique lotus]

Thanks

[oblique lotus]

Odd to me that SMODS doesn't have a SMODS.Colour function to automatically add a new colour to LOC_COLOURS

[red flower]

there's a PR for it but I think it doesnt really make sense for something that takes 2 lines to do

[rapid stag]

i mean, there's a few days to do it. i do it with a hook

[frosty rampart]

yea i feel like it doesn't really need an object
at most it'd have 3 parameters- the color itself, the name of the color, and if it should count as a "UI" color or not (and that doesn't particularly sound like something that users should have easy access to)

[oblique lotus]

Even if it is simple, it would definitely save people like me some time trying to figure out how to do this. Still not sure how to fully do it even with Nope's example.

[red flower]

hey if only there was a wiki i wrote that explains things like that!

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#how-do-i-add-my-own-custom-colors-to-use-in-descriptions

[oblique lotus]

Thanks! Still, I feel like that should be at least mentioned in the SMODS wiki if they aren't gonna add that function.

[clear ocean]

is that coming from the cards that gain? let me try with some other jokers

looks like static jokers goes towards the plus which does help with the display but a card like castle is weird visually

it looks like the post joker function will allow cards like castle not go uncounted

still not sure which rarity should the card be and any documention on how to make it where i can make an atlas of different albums where it picks one randomly when it spawns in the shop or via judgement

and oh yeah! i plan to have the design like this where the sticker has the joker itself (might have where each one is based off the designs of the vanilla jokers

so if you have an album art suggestion feel free to suggest

[oblique lotus]

Apologies for the delayed reply. Is "CirnoMod" the id of your mod?

[rapid stag]

no, it's just the name of my global mod variable

[clear ocean]

so your prefix?

[rapid stag]

no

literally just a global variable

the point is, i have a table i stuff colours in
the hook checks against that table to see if the string in {C:colour}
is a key present in the table. if so, it returns the colour. otherwise it just does the function normally

[oblique lotus]

Gotcha

[wild escarp]

Is there a destruction equivalent of context.selling_self?

[daring fern]

Yes, but it's not a context.

[wild escarp]

What is it and how do I use it?

[frigid birch]

triggering my desire to collect records

[daring fern]

In remove_from_deck you would check if not G.CONTROLLER.locks.selling_card

[clear ocean]

https://www.discogs.com/user/mudkippy/collection

https://www.pricecharting.com/offers?seller=inavxd3jd225wp6s37rssex3tm&status=collection i also collect video games and home media of shows and movies

[frigid birch]

I got good kid 4 and Weezer blue and green albums

others too

[clear ocean]

not sure how to do the atlas random thing yet might look at it either tomorrow or the weekend

[wild escarp]

So if I want something to trigger if sold or destroyed, I could just put the effect in remove_from~deck instead of checking if contex.selling_self as well as what you suggested?

[daring fern]

Yes.

[drowsy heath]

if i were to add a custom enhancement and wanted a joker to apply it to a card at random when played what would i use to do so, i was able to do glass cards using m_glass but for a custom enhancement what is it

[clear ocean]

what do you think of this idea? basically it doesn't appear normally in shops, boosters, or via judgement, but spawns in (and self destructs after scoring) similar to the aftermention perk in the fallout series

could rename it to "mysterious joker"

but the main thing is i'm not sure if that's possible since unlike something like rift raft

[oblique lotus]

Maybe make it tied to another card? Maybe something like a tarot that allows the stranger to appear for x turns? The only reason I suggest this is that it can be potentially harmful depending on the build (e.g. stencil Joker) and could end up as a nuisance instead of a benefit.

[clear ocean]

i could make the card negative which shouldn't hurt cards like stencil joker

[frosty rampart]

"can't spawn normally": set in_pool to always return false for the joker itself. ez
"can spawn in at random": you'll probably want to hook whatever function runs when you press play and handle the spawning code there

[clear ocean]

wait nvm discord's text pointed out the problem

[frosty rampart]

yea I saw it too lol

[clear ocean]

vscode didn't point it out so that's a bit weird

[drowsy heath]

vscode doesnt help at the most random times

[clear ocean]

can probably have it in the code where if its over the joker limit or you have a joker like stencil joker make it negative or i can make it always negative

[oblique lotus]

Probably better to always make it negative for consistancy

[drowsy heath]

just wondering if the joker limit was reached how would it add the card or would the game see it as negatie as a first thing and allow it to be added to hand

[frigid cargo]

What does the new smods update bring? I would also like to ask where i can check

[clear ocean]

its a dev update not a full release

if you want to take advantage of the features and bugs you have to copy/clone/download the repo

might make it even more mysterious™ i can def do the retriggering and disappearing/self destructing code but gonna have to learn about hooks to do the appearing

[drowsy heath]

bump

[clear ocean]

just the hook itself which is something i need to look into later

even got the in pool thing down which was easy peasy lemon squesy

[wild escarp]

How can I check if a joker belongs to a set?

[clear ocean]

elaborte

[wild escarp]

An objecttype, my bad