💻・modding-dev

[silent root]

Thank you

[charred widget]

ok all it's doing is putting a red seal on the joker

[pseudo radish]

how to unlock one challenge if another specific challenge was unlocked?

[thorn basin]

well, it works now but why the dirt card sprite is still applied after the cards are flipped?
do I have to manually set the other enhancement sprite?

[silent root]

I don't even know how to code lol, I hope I'll get it

[daring fern]

No, you're telling Card:set_ability to delay the sprites.

[thorn basin]

in that case how can I fix that?

[daring fern]

Remove all inputs after the first.

[thorn basin]

alright, thx!

[lament agate]

whats the fix of mods not showing up in mod menu again

[red flower]

make your json well?

[long urchin]

can someone help with this error? i just installed this mod and now im having the error https://github.com/Fantom-Balatro/Fantoms-Preview/releases/tag/v2.3.1

[red flower]

for issues not related to dev it's better to seek help in #⚙・modding-general

[obtuse silo]

can you make a boss_colour a gradient?

[silent root]

So I follow the instructions but the open workspace settings doesn't show up in vscode

[slim ferry]

you can also just create/open a settings.json file in the .vscode folder of your mod

[silent root]

I want to make my own mod but I don't even understand you rmessage :<

in the .vscode folder of your mod

this part in fact

[slim ferry]

you can make it if it doesnt exist yet, vscode automatically creates it for workspaces to store workspace-specific settings

the .vscode folder

[silent root]

just a folder named .vscode ?

[slim ferry]

yeah

[silent root]

Alright thank you

[hollow horizon]

Does anyone know why my custom poker hand doesn't work? I wanted to make a hand that consits of 5 custom suits, just like a flush, but the game sees it as a generic flush

[slim ferry]

where does it appear on the hands list?

[hollow horizon]

Above flush

[chrome widget]

Huh, is the slow mode still here as a precaution?

[slim ferry]

when did it even get added

and also why

[frosty dock]

a mod pinged everyone, that's what happened

[silent root]

the classic

[frosty dock]

not sure why it spilled to modding chats

[slim ferry]

idk why the slowmode would even be needed outside the channel with the ping since thats where the people will be

[chrome widget]

I think it's just that in general we've Alerted The Horde so now there's a hundred thousand people all of a sudden with eyes on a server likely to message at once, many of whom may have forgotten they were even in here at all

Upside is that every time an everyone ping happens in a bit server, like hundreds of people who hadn't been active in months realize they're still here and leave the server

[slim ferry]

fair point

[obtuse silo]

my blinds don't show up in the collection

[chrome widget]

Do they have localization entries in a localization file?

[obtuse silo]

yup

[chrome widget]

Also if you're declaring "boss", you need to also redeclare the min and max ante

Since they optional ones are entirely cleared if you replace the default

....I think

[slim ferry]

min and max are optional for showdowns

[chrome widget]

Oh then yeah ignore me

[slim ferry]

showdown blinds are a little funny and just ignore min for some reason

[obtuse silo]

no wait
i forgot that i haven't asserted the file with these

[chrome widget]

Oop! That's it then

[thorn basin]

How can I make the joker create a booster pack at the end of the round?
(right after the game gives you money and before entering the shop.

[obtuse silo]

hrm

[red flower]

blinds need an animation atlas

[obtuse silo]

i see

[thorn basin]

I tried to put the scripts of creating a booster pack inside the caluclate function and if condition but... when it happens it all mixes up

like... it creates the booster pack and shows the results at the same time making it a mess

[silent root]

For someone who doesn't know any code, how hard do you peeps think it would be to code a mod to keep things such as special cards and jokers from oen run to the other

[wispy falcon]

Is there a way to detect what sprite pos the card uses right now?

[wintry solar]

card.children.center.pos iirc

[wispy falcon]

And how would I use that in an if statement? if card.children.center.pos == ? then

[plain ember]

what's the .center property?

[slim ferry]

as in, card.config.center or?

[plain ember]

card.center i think

i've seen it a lot in the wiki, but not good references of what is it

[slim ferry]

as far as i know card.center isnt a thing

[wispy falcon]

Wait, card.children.center.pos is nil...

[plain ember]

I mean, its something related to that

like the card.config.center

[slim ferry]

card.config.center contains all the information related to the center in G.P_CENTERS such as rarity, key, and like probably a bunch of other stuff that i dont know because i never needed them

[plain ember]

or this: card.children.center.pos

[slim ferry]

card.children is related to like rendering and stuff afaik

[plain ember]

Oh i see

That's why i'm confused lmao

[daring fern]

card.children.center.sprite_pos

[wispy falcon]

How would I use it in an if statement?

[daring fern]

What is the goal?

[wispy falcon]

I want to change the sprite of my joker when it's effect is starting and stop when it's back on the x = 0, y = 0 of the spritesheet. Normally I'd use math.floor(G.TIMERS.REAL * 10) % 7 but that doesn't stop

[daring fern]

if card.children.center.sprite_pos.x == 0 and card.children.center.sprite_pos.y == 0

[wispy falcon]

That works, thank you :3

[unkempt thicket]

How do you make an object appear more often in pool?

[thorn basin]

I just created a boss blind with all the requirements and the game crashes for some reason:
how can I fix this?

[wintry solar]

Rewrite the pool function for now

Alternatively wait for official support

[unkempt thicket]

Ill do that for now, thanks

[long urchin]

whats the command to add a floaty thingy like the legendaries or hologram to a card

i forgort....

[thorn basin]

I just figured it out: I needed to add the boss_colour

[red flower]

soul_pos

[long urchin]

ty

[frosty rampart]

as per #1406740128231194644, i'd like to be able to create a single Sprite object that i can re-adjust its atlas.image property during a DrawStep (if i create the sprite within the DrawStep, the game shits itself and fps drops a ton). however, creating a sprite object just in a file that's loaded at boot crashes the game on startup, because the dummy atlas i'm passing to it doesn't actually exist (fully?) yet. how can i. do this

[long urchin]

whats the context for defeating a boss blind? would it be end_of_round and whatever the boss blind context is or something else?

[frosty rampart]

if context.end_of_round and G.GAME.blind.boss then
it's not a context, G.GAME.blind.boss is just true during a boss blind

[daring fern]

No, it is a context, context.beat_boss

[long urchin]

ah thanks

[frosty rampart]

i sure do wish it was documented

[long urchin]

i felt like it had to be one since like

hit the road and campfire exist

[red flower]

no its an smods one

[long urchin]

oh lol

[red flower]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/releases/tag/1.0.0-beta-0711a

[frosty rampart]

fuck

[frosty rampart]

anyway bump

[dreamy lodge]

How do I make a joker have an effect right before scoring? what is the context for it?

[rotund sable]

context.before perhaps?

you can see most of the context in the wiki

[dreamy lodge]

thx

[candid prism]

what causes this usually (i took out talisman and this still happened)

[red flower]

pls post whole log

[candid prism]

kk hold on

[red flower]

something is passing a string instead of a table for a joker description

[long urchin]

what are the parameters of the copy_card function?

[candid prism]

oh yep

my code fucky as always

[daring fern]

other, new_card, card_scale, playing_card, strip_edition

[long urchin]

im trying to make a card that creates 2 negative copies of a card and so im looking at the code for ankh. the way it does this is by selecting a card from the joker area as the variable 'chosen_joker' then doing local card = copy_card(params) and card:add_to_deck().

is this how i go about doing that :?

[daring fern]

No, because it is removing negative.

[long urchin]

well but id just replace that with nil and add card:set_edition({negative = true}, true) before card:add_to_deck()

im mainly asking if this is the current up to date way to do this since i know smods does streamline some methods

tis the problem with referencing code from the base game

whats the code for a joker? like, if i wanted to exclude a specific joker from a for k, v in pairs function what would that be?

card.key = 'j_joker'?

[red flower]

card.config.center_key

[long urchin]

ty

[jolly pivot]

if i wanted to use a joker to retrigger other jokers (not copy) how would i do that

like if a joker from the list activates, retrigger it

[frosty rampart]

first, you need to enable the optional feature to allow for retriggering jokers. then you can retrigger a joker by returning repetitions = [number of retriggers] during context.retrigger_joker_check

[slim ferry]

first you want to enable the joker retrigger optional feature (https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#what-are-optional-features), then its the same as retriggering cards but in the retrigger_joker_check context

[jolly pivot]

icic

thank you

[long urchin]

why does my mod cause this error when the base game doesnt? (second image is the code for ankh i referenced, third is my code)

[brave blade]

What is the best way to create an exact copy of a card?

[ocean sinew]

copy_card

[long urchin]

local card = copy_card(-thing youre copying-, nil)
card:start_materialize()
card:add_to_deck()
G.jokers:emplace(card)```

[brave blade]

It's a playing card that needs to go into the deck actually

[red flower]

youre missing a = in the condition

actually the condition is wrong

[ocean sinew]

copy_card(-thing youre copying-, nil) will give a error

[red flower]

card.config.center.key ~= "j_kj_kaito"

[long urchin]

It was supposed to be a filler for the actual thing you're copying, idk what you're using it for :v

[red flower]

center_key also works im just used to the .

[gilded goblet]

What is a "center" in Balatro? Been meaning to ask

[red flower]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#whats-a-frontcenterback

[ocean sinew]

different name for game objects

[gilded goblet]

Should've probably already read through that in its entirety

[frosty dock]

to give a more precise answer, prototypes for properties of cards - defining the properties of jokers, consumables, enhancements, editions etc. It's not quite consistent what is or isn't a center, some prototypes (like for blinds) are defined in the same way but are not considered centers by the game

[obtuse silo]

would this check if a selected card is debuffed?

[long urchin]

Don't worry, this channel is for those who did read to tell you stuff you'd know by reading

[frosty dock]

being the main ability is the closest consistent answer you can get, but it's not quite correct either

[red flower]

.debuff

[long urchin]

I haven't read a thing, just got other people to do stuff for me!

[frosty dock]

enhancements and editions are centers, while seals aren't

[red flower]

[slim ferry]

also editions are a bit wierd

because they can actually be applied to cards without replacing the existing center, unlike enhancements

[long urchin]

If you think of the terms literally it kinda makes sense

Editions and enhancements change the card at the core while seals add things on top

[red flower]

what about backs

[slim ferry]

editions also just add something on top

[frosty dock]

there's no deeper reasoning behind that, all there is to that is that there was only one seal in the beginning - so thunk didn't need to prototype them to start

[wispy falcon]

Is it possible to make it, so that I don't always have to make this 'window' when I do this but rather switch the person depending on the card it is shown next to?

                name = "Idea:",
                text = {
                    "{C:purple}Person"
                },
            },

[long urchin]

No no editions on cards irl quite literally affect the printing, it's not like a sleeve or wtv

[slim ferry]

put a variable in it, and add a specific_vars field when putting into the loc_vars

as in #1#, etc

[wispy falcon]

What?

[frosty dock]

that's not how it's applied to Balatro cards though, it's a shader that overlays the sprite

[frosty rampart]

editions are shaders applied directly to both card.children.center and card.children.front

[long urchin]

yeah but we're thinking in literal terms :b

balatro cards are also not printed

[frosty rampart]

as opposed to a seal, which is its own layer

[gilded goblet]

So seals are?...

[red flower]

seals

[gilded goblet]

Oh

Fair enough

[slim ferry]

i mean regardless theres no deeper meaning behind whats a center and isnt

[wispy falcon]

Could you maybe give me a little example or explain it a bit more, please?

[frosty dock]

Kind of their own thing, Balatro source code isn't that organized

[slim ferry]

garbshit for example does (left image) in the localization, and enters the variables for the description in the loc_vars (right image)

[frosty dock]

Being a center is defined by being stored in a table called G.P_CENTERS

seals have their own table G.P_SEALS

[jolly pivot]

huh i sure wonder why my code isnt working

[slim ferry]

"guys why isnt my code working"

looks inside
like 10x10 pixel screenshot at most

[jolly pivot]

dude

💔

read the screenshot

[slim ferry]

oh

lmfao

calcute 🔥

[wispy falcon]

calcute :3

[gilded goblet]

I hate when that happens

[versed swan]

lua language servers when you give number|scrimblo to parameter expecting number: 😭 😭 😭 😭 🤬 🤬

lua language servers when misspell parameter by 1 letter: 😊 😊 😊

[slim ferry]

lua language servers when there is no possible way a given value is nil: need check nil 😡

[long urchin]

ok so i did that and now when i get to the context this crash happens :?

        if context.beat_boss and context.game_over == false then
            local dupeable_jokers = {}
            for k, v in pairs(G.jokers.cards) do
                if card.config.center.key ~= "j_kj_kaito" then dupeable_jokers[#dupeable_jokers + 1] = v end
            end
            local card = copy_card(pseudorandom_element(dupeable_jokers, pseudoseed('kaito_choice')), nil)
            card:set_edition({negative = true}, true)
            card:start_materialize()
            card:add_to_deck()
            G.jokers:emplace(card)
            card:add_to_deck()
            G.jokers:emplace(card)
        end```

[red flower]

its better if you post the logs in full

[slim ferry]

why are you doing emplace and add_to_deck twice

[long urchin]

cuz theres 2 cards :V

[slim ferry]

oh

[red flower]

youre only copying one

[long urchin]

ik

it makes two copies of the same card

[red flower]

no it doesnt

[long urchin]

?

[red flower]

thats what we're saying

[slim ferry]

you need to create two cards

[long urchin]

ohhh

[slim ferry]

you cant just do emplace and add_to_deck twice on one card

also dont call it card, since that already exists in the function's arguments

could do wierd shit

[unborn smelt]

does anyone here know if you have to submit your mod somewhere to add it to bmm?

[red flower]

it should be v.config.center.key ~= "j_kj_kaito"

[long urchin]

i thought thats what im supposed to do, im just mainly copying code from the ankh card

[red flower]

yes, to the balatro mod index, it should be in the bmm thread

[slim ferry]

i mean

i dont think ankh uses the regular card parameter anywhere

though generally overriding function arguments isnt needed anyway

[fair osprey]

Is this is a good way to select two random cards from the scoring hand? It seems like the destruction table always is nil

[slim ferry]

you should use a local variable to store the cards to destroy, game does not like storing objects in card ability tables

also use context.destroy_cards if you want to destroy played cards

[red flower]

also dont shuffle the scoring hand or you might mess up other effects

try pseudorandom_element to pick a random card

[fair osprey]

Sweet, g2k

[fair osprey]

Nice, thanks

pretty new to this

[long urchin]

    if self.ability.name == 'Ankh' then 
        --Need to check for edgecases - if there are max Jokers and all are eternal OR there is a max of 1 joker this isn't possible already
        --If there are max Jokers and exactly 1 is not eternal, that joker cannot be the one selected
        --otherwise, the selected joker can be totally random and all other non-eternal jokers can be removed
        local deletable_jokers = {}
        for k, v in pairs(G.jokers.cards) do
            if not v.ability.eternal then deletable_jokers[#deletable_jokers + 1] = v end
        end
        local chosen_joker = pseudorandom_element(G.jokers.cards, pseudoseed('ankh_choice'))
        local _first_dissolve = nil
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'before', delay = 0.75, func = function()
            for k, v in pairs(deletable_jokers) do
                if v ~= chosen_joker then 
                    v:start_dissolve(nil, _first_dissolve)
                    _first_dissolve = true
                end
            end
            return true end }))
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({trigger = 'before', delay = 0.4, func = function()
            local card = copy_card(chosen_joker, nil, nil, nil, chosen_joker.edition and chosen_joker.edition.negative)
            card:start_materialize()
            card:add_to_deck()
            if card.edition and card.edition.negative then
                card:set_edition(nil, true)
            end
            G.jokers:emplace(card)
            return true end }))
    end```

[slim ferry]

oh this is vanilla code

you should generally always use vanillaremade for reference over vanilla code since vanilla code is a little funky sometimesx

[long urchin]

where would i aquire such vanillaremade code

[slim ferry]

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

[brave blade]

VanillaRemade also more accurately reflects how things would be implemented in mods

[red flower]

thats me

[slim ferry]

thanks N for making vanillaremade

[red flower]

❤️

[dreamy thunder]

N is so goated

[red flower]

the spectrals are astra tho

[long urchin]

alr coolio ill just rewrite it using vanillaremade as a base

[red flower]

<@&1133519078540185692>

[long urchin]

gayyyy

fake and gay

[slim ferry]

alive but gay

anyone got that thumbnail

[obtuse silo]

are the cards in you played hand considered "highlighted"?

[red flower]

why

[obtuse silo]

i wanna create a boss blind that destroys the cards left in hand when you play a hand

[slim ferry]

the played cards are in an entirely different area

[red flower]

that but in context.press_play, which is where you should probably do this, they are in G.hand.highlighted

[obtuse silo]

alr
so
if i pass an additional check that determines if the card is part of the hand then that should work?

[red flower]

depends on what the check looks like lol

[obtuse silo]

okay
so
my idea is to check the card against the highlighted hand
if the card is found in the highlighted hand, it shouldn't get cut

[sonic cedar]

i return with another puzzle
card.ability.extra.repetitions is set to 2, yet by the end of a single round that function is called as if it is equal to 0, when it should actually be set to 1
why is this?

[slim ferry]

add a context.main_eval check to the end of round check

[sonic cedar]

wsa just about to ask that lmao

ty eris

[long urchin]

how would i add a special variable to a copied card so that i can keep track of it for something else?

[red flower]

yeah

[sonic cedar]

-# omg maxx hiiiii

[obtuse silo]

would .highlighted check for this?

[sonic cedar]

isnt that what appending does

[long urchin]

the negatives im copying are supposed to be temporary, so my thought process is to create them with a specific variable, then when the timers up i check for the variable and delete all cards with that variable

[long urchin]

haiiii where do i know you from? im a little slow :b

[sonic cedar]

ijiraq

[slim ferry]

why dont you just make them perishable

you can set perishable rounds to any value

[long urchin]

oh what

[sonic cedar]

oh wow really

sick

[long urchin]

hm. can i make something perishable without having the perishable sticker? i kinda dont like the visual itd have

[slim ferry]

i dont think you could

[long urchin]

beh

[slim ferry]

you could make like an invisible sticker with a similar effect

[obtuse silo]

the answer is yes.

[slim ferry]

also stickers can have configs now so that makes it even easier

[long urchin]

that could work but seems like over-making a solution. couldnt i just like give the card a variable and then do a check in a context and destroy the cards with the variable

[slim ferry]

you could definitely do that

[sonic cedar]

i literally do that (granted it's not for destruction but i have to do it in cases)

[long urchin]

yea

[slim ferry]

though you should check for that in a global mod calculate so it still works if the associated card doesnt exist

[long urchin]

thats a good point

how do i do those

[slim ferry]

SMODS.current_mod.calculate = function(self, context)

and then its just the same as any other calculate

[long urchin]

gotcha

ok so how do i append custom variables onto cards

[red flower]

card.ability.custom_variable

[long urchin]

bet thanx

im a little slow how do i implement that

[slim ferry]

card.ability.custom_variable = some value

well its card2/card1 in this case

[long urchin]

gotcha

[rotund sable]

Pretty sure the copied_card should be replaced with corresponding cardn

With the set_edition

[long urchin]

ik i was just in the process of doing it when i took the screenshot

[rotund sable]

Just making sure

[urban yew]

off topic: I've started "modding" a couple of days ago by tweaking the game.lua file. assuming I make a mod I want to share, what's SOP for modding? I'm guessing directly modifying game.lua isn't the way

[red flower]

yeah you should make a lovely or smods mod

check the pins in #⚙・modding-general

[urban yew]

cool thanks!

[long urchin]

how do you destroy a card?

[slim ferry]

theres quite a few ways:
returning remove = true in context.discard/destroy_cards (playing card only)
SMODS.destroy_cards (generally cant go wrong with this one)
Card:start_dissolve (generic dissolve anim)

and theres Card:remove ig but that is just no animations it just vanishes

[dreamy lodge]

how does one change handsize 🗿

[errant arrow]

I feel like I've asked this before, but I forgot and can't access my other jokers at the moment...

What was the context for the end of a round?

was it just context.end_of_round

[slim ferry]

G.hand:change_size(amount)

[slim ferry]

yeah

[long urchin]

am i just stupid or like

[errant arrow]

kk, thanks

[slim ferry]

should be ==

[long urchin]

yeah i am lol

[dreamy lodge]

thx

[dreamy thunder]

I cant type fast in mobile

Dang it

[red flower]

the bottom part works to add a copy of a card to the hand before scoring
does anyone know how to make it add it to the last position instead of the front of the area?

[chrome widget]

Uhhh how can I double sprite resolution within the same dimensions?

[dreamy lodge]

uuh do I need to put it in something? does it not work on its own

[slim ferry]

can i see the entire code

[chrome widget]

Oh right this is what display_size is for methonks

[dreamy lodge]

I just put G.hand:change_size(-2) in the joker

[slim ferry]

where in the joker

[dreamy lodge]

just in it

[slim ferry]

yeah but

?

just show the code vro

this doesnt really help

like yeah i get that its in the joker

[dreamy lodge]

I just put it in the joker

thats it

[slim ferry]

can i see

more than 1 line

please

[dreamy lodge]

none of the surronding code is related to it though

[slim ferry]

just

[cursive gazelle]

Wdym 😭

[slim ferry]

why cant you just screenshot the whole joker man

this is like absolute peak of shitty screenshots in modding-dev

[cursive gazelle]

hall of indexing nil values

[slim ferry]

okay actually the one thing i can make out from this is the comma after tha function

which like idk what that implies but i dont think its good

also why didnt you like

look at vanillaremade stuntman or smth before any of this

[dreamy lodge]

idk what that is

[slim ferry]

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

[dreamy lodge]

Oh so I do have to put it in something got it

[dreamy lodge]

Also I don't get why that matters when none of it was related

[slim ferry]

well i could BARELY tell

[dreamy lodge]

I literally just put that line in the joker by itself

[slim ferry]

only the comma let me see the issue

[cursive gazelle]

[slim ferry]

because that tells me you just... put it as a parameter in the joker

[cursive gazelle]

You should add it to add_to_deck

Placing it randomly in the code does nothing and will ultimately crash your game because it’s not a know parameter

[dreamy lodge]

shouldnt it be remove_from_deck since I want to lower hand size?

[dreamy lodge]

Sorry I didnt realize it was something that needed a thing i thought it was just a line that lowered hand size by itself

[cursive gazelle]

Yes to cancel the effect

No

You want it to be add_to_deck

To lower handsize

And add handsize back in remove

Just like how stuntman works

[dreamy lodge]

interesting

Thanks for the help even though I'm el stupido

[dreamy lodge]

Also now that I know this exists I should be able to figure out a lot of things by myself from now on so thats cool 😄

[rotund sable]

The best kind of feeling Is when you figure something out without asking in modding dev 🔥

[red flower]

i just asked something and then figured it out immediately does it count

[timid zinc]

wrong chat

[chrome widget]

My body is a machine that turns sprite art into shader effect (I already did this joke sorry)

[cursive gazelle]

Winter i need this

[chrome widget]

my body, or.......?

[cursive gazelle]

What

No

The shader code

😭

[chrome widget]

Which one

[cursive gazelle]

The flame one

Is this with love graphics ?

[chrome widget]

Ye

[cursive gazelle]

The display

[chrome widget]

Can't really give it to you, not because I can't show the code to you, but because it's fairly specific so I doubt it would be an easily portable solution to use elsewhere

[cursive gazelle]

Can i see how you draw it behind the joker at least?

Oh thanks

[chrome widget]

These are the textures used for it

[cursive gazelle]

Oh i see

[versed swan]

you can import textures into shaders?

[cursive gazelle]

What about the love.graphics implementation?

Are you hooking this to the hover ?

[rapid stag]

2

[rotund sable]

worst thing about ui code in balatro is maintenance

[chrome widget]

Basically, I have this whole DrawStep that handles the auras, which are "queued" to play for a certain amount of time. In the collection, there's a centralized hover value that queues an aura on an item that's given 0 duration, which means it doesn't cancel itself until it's manually removed

---------------------------
--------------------------- For stand auras in the collection
---------------------------

local ref_card_hover = Card.hover
function Card:hover(...)
    if ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover and ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover ~= self then
        ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover.ability.aura_flare_queued = nil
        ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover.ability.stand_activated = nil
        ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover = nil
    end

    if self.ability.aura_hover or (self.area and (self.area.config.collection or self.area == G.pack_cards) and self.ability.set == 'Stand') then
        ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover = self
        self.ability.aura_flare_queued = true
    end

    local ret = ref_card_hover(self, ...)
    if self.facing == 'back' and self.area and self.area == G.deck and (not self.states.drag.is or G.CONTROLLER.HID.touch)
    and not self.no_ui and not G.debug_tooltip_toggle and G.GAME.selected_back.effect.center.artist then
        self.config.h_popup = G.UIDEF.deck_artist_popup(G.GAME.selected_back.effect.center)
        self.config.h_popup_config = {align = 'cl', offset = {x=-0.1, y=0}, parent = self}
        Node.hover(self)
    end

    return ret
end

local ref_card_stop_hover = Card.stop_hover
function Card:stop_hover()
    if self.ability.aura_hover or (self.area and (self.area.config.collection or self.area == G.pack_cards) and self.ability.set == 'Stand') then
        self.ability.aura_flare_queued = nil
        self.ability.stand_activated = nil
    end

    return ref_card_stop_hover(self)
end

function love.focus(f)
    if not f then return end

    if ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover then
        ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover.ability.aura_flare_queued = nil
        ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover.ability.stand_activated = nil
        ArrowAPI.col_stand_hover = nil
    end
end

Sorry for big code block

[cursive gazelle]

No worries

Than you so much

[chrome widget]

Like yeah the code's all here, it's not a trade secret or anything, I would just struggle in your position to modify it........ especially since I didn't comment it much

[cursive gazelle]

Dw about it

[wintry solar]

winter is a shader wizard

[rotund sable]

this looks like 2am code

[robust marsh]

this is SCARY

[cursive gazelle]

I love doing minigames in a game like it’s a game engine

[rotund sable]

i have 3 atm 👀

[modern kindle]

no ideas are ever original.........

[chrome widget]

I think this is the implementation I built mine off, it's based on a really old technique that can be done in older graphics hardware. Basically, it goes like this:

• using the texture coords, look up the r value on the noise texture (amount of black, essentially)
• you "scroll" the noise texture vertically by adding a time value to tex_coords.y
• aftewrwards, determine an alpha values for the edges of the flame effect by subtracting the alpha of neighboring pixels
• "step" along the gradient's r values using the random noise value. This is what creates your flame effect
• you can step multiple times to give multiple distinct sections of flame color (like yellow -> orange -> red), though I only use two colors for mine

https://blog.febucci.com/2019/05/fire-shader/

There was some other resource I used for the "spread" thing that kind of pulls it into a ball but I can't find it

[rotund sable]

when was this recorded

[modern kindle]

few days ago

[rotund sable]

yay i was first

[modern kindle]

recorded and implemented are 2 different things

[rotund sable]

-# hopefully

shit

no ideas are unique

[modern kindle]

ive also got battleship

[wintry solar]

yo this is dope

[modern kindle]

hi eremel!

the ai beats my ass in battleship but its fun

[wintry solar]

hi dilly!

[chrome widget]

This one: https://godotshaders.com/shader/2d-fire/

[vernal path]

How does create_card() work? Is the second to last argument expecting a key? or a name? Or does it like, ignore that if you give it a set

[chrome widget]

I've used a lot of Godot shader references

[wintry solar]

did you program the ai or borrow it from somewhere

[modern kindle]

i did the ai

i was initially going to try and use this fuckin lua battleship thing i found but i couldnt really figure out their shit so i did my own

[wintry solar]

nice

[modern kindle]

it also places its own ships depending on strategy it chooses and hunts for ships based on size

so itll only make shots if for instance the cruiser can be there (meaning 4 squares)

and then goes down depending on whats left

[wintry solar]

I am guessing it takes it's shots somewhat randomly until it finds a ship rahter than on a sequential pattern?

[long sun]

how can I check if a hand has any unscoring cards?

[wintry solar]

#context.full_hand > #context.scoring_hand

[modern kindle]

yea, itll shoot in random spots that fulfill the 4 square guideline until it gets a hit, once it gets a hit on any ship that becomes a point of interest which it focuses on until a ship is sunk, then it resumes its search

as the grid is filled it aims for areas that can only fit the ships its looking for

[long sun]

can i do something similar in Blind:debuff_hand?

[wintry solar]

that's cool

[wintry solar]

you can use calculate functions for blinds now, I don't remember what gets passed to the actual debuff hand function off the top of my head

[long sun]

gotcha :D thanks

[vernal path]

I feel dumb
how do you get the key of context.consumeable in context.using_consumeable?

like, context.consumeable.key is nil and also context.consumeable.ability.key is also nil?

[modern kindle]

how does yours work opponent wise

[wintry solar]

context.consumeable.config.center_key

[rotund sable]

you mean the apple?

[bold sleet]

tf

[rotund sable]

idk what opponent would be in snake

[vernal path]

yeah lol that was snake

[modern kindle]

oh wait that was snake you were showing huh, i thought it was your own battleship

[modern kindle]

do you like it

[rotund sable]

i mean it kinda looked like battleships (with the boxes)

[modern kindle]

yea thats what i thought you had lmfao

but nah your snake prob looks better than mine admittedly

i think my battleship looks great though

[bold sleet]

I mean, i'd suck at it, but it's interesting, to say the least.

(and very cool)

[vernal path]

I think you could dress it up a little
You could have the balatro crt effects over it, and the bloom

[modern kindle]

dont worry im ass at it myself

i didnt want any of the filters and stuff because i felt it messed with readability

[bold sleet]

I can feel that raw love.graphics

[vernal path]

make it kinda look like a text-mode game for cp/m computers of the '80s

[modern kindle]

thats why i settled for a black background witht he grid over it

[vernal path]

I mean, thats why balatro has those settings, lol

[final zealot]

im working on a menu where you can choose a joker but i dont know how to make the jokers clickeble and how would i put it in my joker slots?

function joker_menu()
return {
n = G.UIT.ROOT,
config = {r = 0.1, minw = 8, minh = 6, align = "tm", padding = 0.2, colour = G.C.BLACK},
nodes = {
{n = G.UIT.C, config = {minw=4, minh=1, colour = G.C.MONEY, padding = 0.15}, nodes = {
{n = G.UIT.R, config = {minw=4, minh=4, colour = G.C.MONEY, padding = 0.15}, nodes = {
{n = G.UIT.T, config={text = "Choose a joker", colour = G.C.UI.TEXT_LIGHT, scale = 0.7}},
}},
{n = G.UIT.R, config = {minw=4, minh=4, colour = G.C.MONEY, padding = 0.15}, nodes = {
-- card
{n = G.UIT.O, config = {object = create_card("Joker", G.jokers, nil, 1, nil, nil)}},
-- card
{n = G.UIT.O, config = {object = create_card("Joker", G.jokers, nil, 1, nil, nil)}},
-- card
{n = G.UIT.O, config = {object = create_card("Joker", G.jokers, nil, 1, nil, nil)}},
}},
{n = G.UIT.R, config={button="my_button_click", padding=0.05}, nodes={
{n = G.UIT.T, config={text="Click Me!", colour=G.C.UI.TEXT_LIGHT, scale=0.5}},
}},
}},
}
}
end

[bold sleet]

You probably want to hook Card.click

I think that's the function name.

or something similar

[bold sleet]

And give a special property to the cards you create in that menu.

[long sun]

so my Boss is mostly working, but when selecting a hand, it always says it won't score, even if it does

code

i assume i need to determine if the hand will contain an unscoring card before playing it, but how?

[bold sleet]

How is this boss of yours meant to work?

-# litol ghost™

[long sun]

hands containing unscoring cards don't score :3

[bold sleet]

mmm

[long sun]

i know there's a boss in Ortalab that does the same thing, but i didn't intend for that :3 tis parallel thinking

[rotund sable]

there

[bold sleet]

Maybe the issue is it checking even before you play the hand, idk

Maybe more context conditionals can do the trick..?

I don't really know.

[jolly shadow]

wouldnt you use debuff_hand rather than calculate ?

like, the function

i feel like that'd fix the whole visual side of things, personally i woulda only went for calculate when debuffing a hand using a joker or the like

[wintry solar]

calculate is fine it just won't have the scoring hand stuff available iirc

just look at the ortalab one and rip the condition out

[jolly shadow]

the condition wasnt the issue

thats why im saying it might be better to use debuff_hand

[wintry solar]

the condition is absolutely the issue

[jolly shadow]

no it isn't, the debuff functions, it's the visual side of it that theyre trying to fix

[wintry solar]

the calculate does the same thing

[jolly shadow]

am i missing something here? like ive reread their message several times
unless theres a misunderstanding there

[wintry solar]

the condition is wrong

[jolly shadow]

the condition is practically the exact same as the ortalab one though

they do the same thing

checks scoring cards count vs total cards count

[plain ember]

Does somebody know how can i add a "Take" Button below the use?

[jolly shadow]

idk but u could probably look at the cryptid "pull" button in code packs

[plain ember]

I tried, i havent found anything yet

[jolly shadow]

ill help look then

[slim ferry]

its a parameter attached to booster packs normally

[jolly shadow]

oh thats a thing?

oops ^^

[wintry solar]

if you want use and take you'll have to patch in your own button

[slim ferry]

select_card = "consumeables" would pull them consumables i think

[plain ember]

Well, let me see, thanks

[modern kindle]

while not perfect, does this look better to you?

[ocean sinew]

Hey read the pinned message

Very cool though btw

[long sun]

the issue isn't when the hand is played, it's before it's played

[modern kindle]

i am doing neither of these things

[jolly shadow]

is that not what ive been saying😭

[ocean sinew]

Oh I thought you were cuz it said "play battleship against (prohibited word)"

[bold sleet]

ye

[long sun]

context.scoring_hand is nil before the hand is played iirc

[jolly shadow]

well you dont use a context with debuff_hand function anyways

nor does the ortalab solution

[modern kindle]

but @exotic hedge can i get some clarification if this context is okay?
the context is the battleship gamemode i have implemented for a blind has its own 'ai' which plays against you
it does not train through balatro mods or balatro itself, it just is a form of intelligence that is facing you

[long sun]

i'd do what ortalab does, with the debuff_hand function and all, but i don't trust it, with the always-scoring check and all that

i'd rather directly check the hand itself

which i suppose it does too but whatev

[jolly shadow]

sub cards for G.play.cards ?

[iron steeple]

wouldnt be surprised if the rule applied specifically to gen ai or ai that uses models to train in general, where a basic battleship ai with heuristics doesnt really apply

[long sun]

i can't find where the G.FUNCS function is defined

[ocean sinew]

That's not (prohibited word) unless It's something like the (prohibited word) chess thingy that beat world-class players which learned by playing game I think

[jolly shadow]

1. that's a table
2. probably vanilla

[modern kindle]

thats what i took it as, but im asking to just know for sure instead of us guessing

[long sun]

ya i looked through the vanilla game

couldn't find it

[wintry solar]

oh I know what it is

your calculate function has too m any arguments

[ocean sinew]

True I think they should edit the message for it to be more specific and no mistakes to be made

[bold sleet]

You aren't going to get obliterated if you say the word, I believe.

[wintry solar]

blidns are just calculate = function(self, context) iirc

[long sun]

oh :D! will try

[bold sleet]

Issues arise only when the context starts going into that direction.

[wintry solar]

dilly you are fine dont worry

[jolly shadow]

it's in state_events.lua (and i would hope that smods overrides it to account for modded hands)

[long sun]

ah okie

[ocean sinew]

I can't risk it cuz the message says to not talk about it so I think It's better to not do that

[long sun]

i didn't look in that file

[wintry solar]

referencing this with my message btw

[long sun]

👍

i haven't changed it since then

[modern kindle]

i definitely thought so but i figured better safe than sorry

[ocean sinew]

True

[bold sleet]

whatever, up to you

[modern kindle]

smh you didnt tell me if that looked better to you mr jogla

[long sun]

i can fix dw

[wintry solar]

wait maybe I am wrong

[jolly shadow]

(self, blind, context) probably correct then if this only happened after the fact

[wintry solar]

I am sleepy T_T

[bold sleet]

Oh, I thought I did

It looks nicer.

A lot nicer.

[modern kindle]

awesome

[ocean sinew]

That blind is hell

[long sun]

right

[ocean sinew]

Idk how to play battleship

[modern kindle]

my friend has been beating my ass in battleship online recently, theres this site you can play it on

so it inspired my to make this

and shocker, i lose alot here too lmao

[bold sleet]

You would probably beat me lol

[wintry solar]

I am just bad at reading today lol

GhostSalt, what's exactly the issue?

[ocean sinew]

make a upvalue for Card.click function

local l_click = Card.click
function Card:click()
local ret = l_click(self)
if _G.mod_prefix_choosing_joker and self.config.center.set == "Joker" then
local t_card = copy_card(self)
t_card:add_to_deck()
G.jokers:emplace(t_card)
end

return ret
end

[long sun]

the blind works, except before the hand is played

it evaluates every hand as not-going-to-score

even though they sometimes do score

[jolly shadow]

id say it wouldnt hurt to try this in your blind, substitute calculate for this and see if it works as intended

debuff_hand = function(self, cards, hand, handname, check)
    local _, _, _, scoring_hand, _ = G.FUNCS.get_poker_hand_info(cards)

    local always_scores_count = 0;
    for _, card in pairs(cards) do
        if card.config.center.always_scores then always_scores_count = always_scores_count + 1 end
    end

    if #scoring_hand + always_scores_count ~= #cards then return true end
end

[long sun]

ya i have no doubt that works

that's Ortalab's code

[jolly shadow]

yea

[clear acorn]

Balancing question, for common joker that gains chips after you beat a boss blind, how many chips would make it a useful joker without straying into uncommon joker levels of strong?

I was thinking +50 chips per boss beaten

[long sun]

i wanna avoid the always_scores thing though

bah nevermind, i can't be arsed 😭

[vernal path]

tbh i think that my main criticism is that it's too small. Like, 14x14? I feel like 10x10 is much more common a board size, and making the board smaller means you can increase the scale of the board. This would improve the readability a lot, and so you might be able to add better "graphics" (I still think a "text mode" esque graphical simulation would look great, and would go great with balatro's sort of "video poker" styling well)

[wintry solar]

hmmm

[frosty dock]

i had a bit of a look at the quantum ranks PR

and uh

[wintry solar]

there is an issue here in that the scoring hand isn't being passed through

[vernal path]

I'll try to come up with something

[frosty dock]

im not quite sure yet what's going on with straights

[jolly shadow]

is there a way to get the full scoring hand (accounting for splash) without a context?

[ocean sinew]

you meant It's too big?(Cuz It's bigger than 10x10)

[bold sleet]

dunno, it looks just fine to me

[frosty dock]

and I also have some API design complaints

[red flower]

sad

[frosty dock]

but it's quite the thing

[modern kindle]

well its 15x15, 0 counts

10 x 10 would be smaller than the current 15x15 which wouldnt solve that

[frosty dock]

meaning I haven't taken the time to try to understand what exactly they did with straights

[vernal path]

No I mean like
the scale of the board is too small. It's too complex and zoomed out

[wintry solar]

can we say quantum anything is cursed and delete quantum enhancements too? 🤞

[modern kindle]

window wise it doesnt feel small either imo

[final zealot]

yeah thank you i was almost there just didnt know about copy_card lmao

[modern kindle]

one cell here fits like 10 or so of your cursors

[ocean sinew]

np

[wintry solar]

oh I see the issue 😭

[frosty dock]

modern smods is too bloated, revert to 0.7.2

[vernal path]

I mean, you have to look at it not in fullscreen. Oh, and consider the GUI scale of the rest of balatro. there's good reason why it's so large

[slim ferry]

Yes please

[jolly shadow]

the hell even

[jolly shadow]

i have no idea what any of this means

[frosty dock]

i love breaking changes

[modern kindle]

well this isnt suppose to be like the rest of balatro, battleship is not IN balatro
its suppose to be battleship, just accessible here

im not sure though, cause i play in windowed mode where it looks like this which looks even better than full screen

[vernal path]

assuming that's at like, the standard size of windowed balatro
do you have like, a 1440p monitor? Scale seems way off

[wintry solar]

your calc function will be fixed in the next smods release 👍

[wispy falcon]

Dude, that's crazy :O

[modern kindle]

i do yea, but my testers play on laptops and on a normal 1080 and ive asked them what youve said and they said they dont understand where you are coming from either

so im unsure, cause theyve liked how its scaled thus far

[modern kindle]

thank you :D

[wispy falcon]

Why are y'all implementing Games in Balatro, a Game xD

[rotund sable]

because they're fun

and i wanted to do something unique-ish

[modern kindle]

go on

play

[wispy falcon]

Looks good

[vernal path]

I mean, I think a lot of people who are willing to test unfinished things are also people to use gui scale 1 in minecraft
its just too small for a lot of people

[wispy falcon]

I should really play your mod some time

[frosty dock]

games inside games have become boring, we need games inside games inside games

[ocean sinew]

Can someone do balatro in balatro

[modern kindle]

dont worry once it releases youll know lmfao

[vernal path]

Also, you tend to sit way closer to a laptop than to a computer monitor, so it's kinda not ideal

[ocean sinew]

Thats boring we need operating systems inside balatro

[frosty dock]

me when os lib

[modern kindle]

but thats why im saying how for me and one of my other testers they say its fine, if people arent struggling to read the text or click the boxes it feels like there is a non issue at play

one person of 4 on a laptop where 3 others are desktop see it as scaled fine doesnt math up to being poor scaling i feel

it being an unfinished mod doesnt apply to testers being okay with it when i ask 'does the scaling feel fine for a release' and the answer being yes

[wispy falcon]

Quick question since I've seen it multiple times by now: What is next(Something) for and what does it do?

[red flower]

it gives you the next key value pair in a table, usually used to see if the table has something

[vernal path]

Well you said that the CRT effect and bloom makes it harder to read, which is why it's a good idea to make it way more readable than it reasonably has to be. To make it accessible to those who need to have the CRT effect off in normal balatro. Most people could have it on, and it be fine. But if having it on for your situation makes it unreadable, then you should consider improving it.

[wispy falcon]

So I would use that to see if a joker is in the joker area?

[modern kindle]

i didnt say it did, i just said i felt putting effects over text does by default impact readability
so leaving something by default without it wont end anyones run or ruin their moods

[vernal path]

its more about checking if a table is empty, at least for a lot of usecases

[modern kindle]

all settings effects apply for the normal balatro, this is just a black box OVER the normal blind thing

[wispy falcon]

So I would use it without next instead?

[red flower]

I'm assuming you're talking about next(SMODS.find_card("jokerkey")), that's because SMODS.find_card("jokerkey") gives you a table of jokers

[wispy falcon]

Yes. So which one would I use to detect a joker?

[red flower]

the first one

[vernal path]

So then what does it look like with the CRT effects on?

[red flower]

I would recommend brushing up on some lua tho

[wintry solar]

it would look exactly the same as with it off

dilly said it's drawn over the top of everything else

[modern kindle]

yes

im not overlayting the crt effect onto the grid because i think that would impact readability to some margin

and having it this way does not impact anyones runs, moods, or otherwise

drawing everything on top just makes the most sense

[vernal path]

Well that's what I'm saying! You said that it would affect readability, so you just completely disabled it. But then also, normal balatro is perfectly fine with the CRT but you can turn it off to make it more accessible!

Which means there is a problem

[modern kindle]

but its not disabled techncially, the effect exists underneath the drawing of the black box

its just not rendered onto the grid

[vernal path]

thats

thats not

please read the words i am saying

Drawing something on top instead of beneath effects is disabling it

[wispy falcon]

Yeah, should probably do that

[vernal path]

There's no difference between "ignoring an effect" and "disabling it"

[wispy falcon]

How do I get the chips from one of my jokers?

[twilit tundra]

okay ive got a mega cursed joker idea where do i begin with this one

want a joker that on being sold, will “insert” another ante between this ante and the next one

say you sell it on ante 6
it’d make it so after beating the ante, you then go to ante -1 instead of 7, and then after beating ante -1 you actually go to ante 7
how the hell do i store the “next ante” for this?

the joker would already be gone as its been sold

[red flower]

you can store in a global and use the new mod object calculate for this

and maybe the new ante contexts

the global would be like G.GAME.modprefix_extra_antes = 1 or something

[twilit tundra]

interesting
definitely gonna look into the new ante contexts

[wintry solar]

they're a bit dodgy if mods are hooking ease ante for now

[wispy falcon]

bump

[rotund sable]

What do you exactly mean by that?

Like how many it scored ?

[wispy falcon]

No, how many it currently is holding. I want a different joker be able to use that for something

[frosty rampart]

if you know that it's going to be that specific joker, you can literally just do [whatever card it is].ability.extra.[whatever the name of the chips parameter is]

[rotund sable]

Couldn't you just do
joker.ability.extra.val

You have to get the joker tho

For example using SMODS.find_card

[wispy falcon]

What does that do? I never used that before

[frosty rampart]

you can access the variables in the ability table from anywhere, just like you do from within the joker itself

[rotund sable]

card.ability.extra but on other jokers?

[wispy falcon]

Oh, okay

[frosty rampart]

this isn't java, there's no private/public to deal with. everything is public

[wispy falcon]

I don't know any java, I'm used to C# xD

[frosty rampart]

same deal i think (i've never touched C#, java is just the language i go to when i want to make fun of programming)

[willow scroll]

iirc C# is just microsoft flavored java

[rotund sable]

Hi MaxBoi o/

[willow scroll]

hello easternmorning :clueless:

[rotund sable]

:clueless:

[wispy falcon]

Yeah... Heard that before

[modern kindle]

[rotund sable]

Nitro perms

[red flower]

hi dilly

[rotund sable]

Smh

[modern kindle]

hi N

[willow scroll]

nitro user detected

[red flower]

im making my new mod

[modern kindle]

peasants the lot of u

[modern kindle]

is it called deckdisplay

[red flower]

no 💔

[modern kindle]

sad.....

whats the new mod

[modern kindle]

people out here have released multiple mods and i havent released one yet

hate to see it

[red flower]

i just add jokers

[modern kindle]

N slop....

[red flower]

one has a musical number

[modern kindle]

you already were music to my eyes

idk how it works but it does

[willow scroll]

anyhow anybody here familiar with how smods edits card:open? and its related things
im currently making a dumb silly function to open anything like its a booster pack
everything is working fine
except the shop doesnt rise back up after skipping/using a card 💀

[red flower]

you should get that checked

[modern kindle]

surely its alright

[red flower]

these ones have short descriptions

[modern kindle]

i need to multibox at some point

[red flower]

multibox is nice

[sonic cedar]

-# @daring fern when you get a chance, can you help me out with your safe_set_ability? the one you set me up with cant reach things like burglar's hand extra or chaos' reroll thing. basically theres stuff i still gotta reimplement myself and i wanna make sure thats intentional and not something being missed by the code?

[red flower]

multiline name is cool too :3

[sonic cedar]

i gotta get around to doing that

[modern kindle]

you shoudl get around to eating some soup

[willow scroll]

like what the fuck 😭

[red flower]

i should get around to eating actually

maybe i should order something

[thorn pumice]

get mcdonalds

mmmmmmm i love mcdonalds

[modern kindle]

i have 14 bags of chips if you want one

family size

[red flower]

please

[modern kindle]

my jewel osco was having buy 2 get 3 free

so naturally i splurged

[thorn pumice]

how what the heck

where do u find a deal like that

[jolly shadow]

isnt this just loyalty card popcorn 😭

interesting combination i will say but like 🤯

[red flower]

yes :3

[thorn pumice]

its cool tho

[red flower]

it also switches sprites when the mult is 0

[jolly shadow]

thats cool

i jus hate loyalty card lmfaooo

[willow scroll]

insane deal

[red flower]

he punching

[modern kindle]

i had never seen it before, asked a friend near me and she said they always do that sorta stuff on holidays

so i need to use it much more often

[willow scroll]

function Card:pseudo_open()
    self.config.center = SMODS.Centers['p_arcana_normal_1']
    draw_card(self.area, G.play, 1, 'up', true, self, nil, true)
    self.config.pseudo_open = true
    self.ability.extra = 4
    self.config.center.config = {
        choose = 1
    }
    
    self:open()
    
    G.CONTROLLER.locks.use = false
    G.TAROT_INTERRUPT = nil
end

like what am i missing 😭

[willow scroll]

(this will severaly be revamped right now i just need it to work)

[wispy falcon]

Is there something in the wiki for joker.ability.extra.val?

[red flower]

no thats custom for each card

[willow scroll]

diabolical

[wispy falcon]

Do you have an example on how to use it?

[willow scroll]

can someone tell me what the default G.shop.alignment.offset.y is :clueless: (as in visible on screen)

im gonna do more jank

[red flower]

you know how your jokers have a config? and you do card.ability to access it? well all jokers hve that nd their values hve different names

i wish my keyboard worked

maybe i need to clen it

clen

clean

[willow scroll]

nvm got it

i have an idea :clueless:

[wispy falcon]

And how would I grab a specific value like, lets say from my variable 'chips'?

[red flower]

If your joker has config = { extra = { chips = 10 } } then it would be in card.ability.extra.chips

[wispy falcon]

That much I know, I just don't know how to use joker.ability.extra.val to get that. Do I type joker.ability.extra.val(card.ability.extra.chips) for it?

[red flower]

ok, joker.ability.extra.val is not a thing per se

you replace val for the key you want

and joker for the variable that stores the joker

in this case joker is card and val is chips

[rotund sable]

I love when people take a random example as something super specific and needed to be copied word for word

Maybe I should stop giving random examples

[wispy falcon]

Sorry, I said I never used it before TwT

[willow scroll]

or just preface with

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE AND NOT SPECIFIC

:clueless:

[rotund sable]

Clueless overuse !

[wispy falcon]

But then I don't get it from the different joker, do I? Since that results in card.ability.extra.chips and would just try to get it out of it's own config or am I dumb?

[willow scroll]

you cant make me not use :clueless:

[red flower]

Well, yes but in the case you want it from a different joker you would need to use whatever variable you used to get that other joker

whatever you named it, it could be joker or x or my_cool_value

[wispy falcon]

Oh, okay. I think I get it now

[thorn pumice]

dude i am literally killking myself over making a sticker

it feels like it's supposed to be so simple

[cursive gazelle]

Been there

[willow scroll]

oh dont worry stickers are slightly evil

[thorn pumice]

using this to check for jokers / make it incompatible with something but checking using card.ability.rental just is not working even though it works here in bunco bro

but then checking if something is a joker with card.ability.set == "Joker" works perfectly fine

i'm going crazy

[wispy falcon]

Why does this just crash my game without an error?

            local _, shnack = next(SMODS.find_card("j_cstorm_shnack"))
            print(shnack.ability.extra.chips)
            SMODS.destroy_cards(shnack)
            card.ability.extra.activated = true
        end```

[thorn pumice]

infinite loop probably

[rotund sable]

You could look at the log

[willow scroll]

i believe next(...) only returns 1 value?

unless im crazy

[rotund sable]

Mods/lovely/logs

[left breach]

how do I make an ehancement apply ^mult after exporting it without ^mult in jokerforge

[red flower]

i should return two im pretty sure

[left breach]

cause I want ^mult but I'm making my mod in jokerforge

[red flower]

why am i typing the answer when i have a wiki

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#how-do-i-add-exponential-multchips

[rotund sable]

Pretty sure you return emult

You need to have talisman tho

[red flower]

I should update this to add cryptlib

[left breach]

okay so like

I export the files with no ^mult

then I edit n the ^mult

right?

[rotund sable]

Should work like that

[willow scroll]

ah i am idior

you right

[left breach]

how do I prevent jf from overwriting my modified file

[wispy falcon]

Doesn't say anything about that

[rotund sable]

Anything at all?

[willow scroll]

i have located the source of the problem

[left breach]

so I replace x_mult wth emult

right?

[wispy falcon]

If I remove the _, it says that ability is undefined

[rotund sable]

Not there

[left breach]

huh

[rotund sable]

Calculate

[left breach]

so replace all mention of xmult here with emult?

[willow scroll]

new problem:
im fucking :clueless:

[wispy falcon]

The last things are literally

INFO - [G] 2025-09-04 00:57:44 :: INFO  :: TIMER :: [0021] Injected Draw Step in 0.265 ms 
INFO - [G] 2025-09-04 00:57:44 :: INFO  :: TIMER :: [0000] Injected [INTERNAL] in 1.613 ms 
INFO - [G] [DebugPlus] Press [-] to toggle console and press [shift] + [-] to toggle new log previews 

[left breach]

chat

[rotund sable]

"I fucking beg"

[rotund sable]

Just x_mult = with emult

[left breach]

alr

[willow scroll]

i name my debug prints however the hell i want

[left breach]

like this?

[frosty rampart]

well yes, but now you should also go back to the initial spot you were at and replace x_mult to emult too
card.ability.extra.[something] refers to the variables you set in the config table

[left breach]

so just replacing x_mult with emult everywhere in the file

like this?

[rotund sable]

Where did you take that _ from

Up there

[left breach]

o

right

[willow scroll]

wait

[left breach]

thx for pointing dat out :33

[frosty rampart]

card.ability.extra.[something] refers to the variables you set in the config table

[willow scroll]

🤦‍♂️

[left breach]

so this is better?

[willow scroll]

my genior strikes again

[exotic hedge]

yes :) intelligence is not the same as those AI chatbots 😡 thank you for asking though

sorry for the late response

[willow scroll]

as long as your battleship ai is not powered by a LLM it is aok

[left breach]

????????

[bold sleet]

Hello. Is there a way to tell SMODS to open this UI through whatever button/function?

[willow scroll]

or stable diffusion, somehow

[red flower]

update smods

[bold sleet]

Or any tab from a given mod.

[left breach]

did not realiise that would be an issue

alr will do :33

[wispy falcon]

Why does this not work but if I add a context it does work:

            if next(SMODS.find_card("j_cstorm_shnack")) and card.ability.extra.activated == false then
                local _, shnack = next(SMODS.find_card("j_cstorm_shnack"))
                print(shnack.ability.extra.chips)
                SMODS.destroy_cards(shnack)
                card.ability.extra.activated = true
            end
        end```

Why TwT

[left breach]

it says theres no update available tho

[red flower]

mod manager is kinda bad at this

[bold sleet]

Get it from the github repository.

[bold sleet]

bump, mayb?

[left breach]

alr!!

[red flower]

depends on the page, i have this to open my collection

[left breach]

:DDDDD

[willow scroll]

it works now!

me evil function works now

[wispy falcon]

bump

[bold sleet]

Do you happen to know which function is the one in charge of creating the settings menu?

Or where it is defined?

[red flower]

let me check what the menu button does

it's all in smods/src/ui.lua

[fallow urchin]

does anyone know the keys for seltzer and showman? they're not j_showman/j_seltzer apparently

[bold sleet]

Nickpick and shit, but usually exponentia mult is purple and fuck I know exponentia chips. Also separate the text and the number.

[red flower]

https://jokerforge.jaydchw.com/keys/jokers

[fallow urchin]

praise

[willow scroll]

thats a page?

they putting in crazy work over at jokerforge

all of them????

[left breach]

I tried separating them

[willow scroll]

god bless

[left breach]

like there's a space in jokerforge

it just doesn't work for some reason

[timid zinc]

For some reason when seltzer self-destroys itself, it's "getting sliced"

[red flower]

yeah i think thats a new change

does it conflict with something

[bold sleet]

Found anythin', N'?

[red flower]

im on it

[bold sleet]

alright

thanks you, btw

[wispy falcon]

bump2

[red flower]

G.SETTINGS.paused = true
_, G.ACTIVE_MOD_UI = next(SMODS.find_mod("modid"))
SMODS.LAST_SELECTED_MOD_TAB = "config"
G.FUNCS.overlay_menu({
    definition = create_UIBox_mods(e)
})

[bold sleet]

oh!

[fallow urchin]

is there a way to set a challenge to gold stake?

[bold sleet]

What do I do with the e?

Put the UI I want?

[red flower]

oh you can remoe that

[bold sleet]

oh

ok

[willow scroll]

my jank... worked?

thats not supposed to happen

i can now pretend that anything is a booster pack 🔥

[bold sleet]

yum

[rotund sable]

Wait did that redrew the same cards or different?

[wispy falcon]

bump3

[rotund sable]

Would it return the cards to deck from the discard pile?

[willow scroll]

different

[willow scroll]

they are in my discard pile i believe

actually wait imm stuipid

one moment

ignore what i said for now

they are not in my discard pile no

[warm umbra]

im trying to make a joker that gives 2x multi on every card but decreases game speed by 0.05, but it crashes whenever it activates, can anyone help

[willow scroll]

this is the first time ive seen someone actually use freeform screenshot (if its windows)

[warm umbra]

freeform on top

[rotund sable]

Interesting shape for a screenshot I must say

[willow scroll]

respectfully,

no

[warm umbra]

well do you have any ideas on what im doing wrong

[fallow urchin]

anyone got any ideas on how to only remove jokers from the shop but still allow them to be made by judgement/riff-raff/ etc. ? this would be for a challenge

[willow scroll]

no because the error talks about juice up for some reason

but lemme check whats at that smods line

[fallow urchin]

found it myself sorry for the basic ah question

[warm umbra]

wait let me see if its something else other than the game speed changing

[willow scroll]

it probably is because its trying to juice up a card but the card its told to juice is nil?

[warm umbra]

oh i fixed it

but the gamespeed is incorrect

huh

well thanks for the help

[wispy falcon]

bump4

[rotund sable]

Probably an infinite loop somewhere

If you remove the context and add a print statement I wouldn't be surprised if the log was spammed

[wispy falcon]

Gonna test that

It is spammed by the print... But why is it an infinite loop?

[dreamy thunder]

Doesnt end of round trigger multiple times without main_eval

But there is a check so idk

Im probably wrong/

[rotund sable]

They said it closes without an error if they ommit the context.end_of_round

So that suggests infinite loop

Of some sorts

[willow scroll]

i think i made my delay too long :clueless:

[dreamy thunder]

Maybe a little

[willow scroll]

do i need to use gamespeed in my delay() ?

or is just a number fine

[wispy falcon]

But why is it infinite? I mean, I'm checking if card.ability.extra.activated == false and set it to true in that if statement, as you can see

                local _, shnack = next(SMODS.find_card("j_cstorm_shnack"))
                print("Spam?")
                card.ability.extra.mult = shnack.ability.extra.chips * card.ability.extra.multiplier
                SMODS.destroy_cards(shnack)
                card.ability.extra.activated = true
            end```

[rotund sable]

Need to? no. preferred? Probably (idk never used it)

[rotund sable]

Maybe find_card calls a context which calls this function again?

[willow scroll]

ok after rerunnning it at 0.5 i can confirm that delay incorporates gamespeed

[rotund sable]

Did they hook delay 🥺

[willow scroll]

idk i just mod here

[rotund sable]

Same 💖

[shut monolith]

I'm trying to put a bunch of joker atlases to a separate file from my main file, then use require, but lovely can't find the file?

[warm umbra]

how do i put this color inside the description of a joker

ive tried different things but cant get it to work

[red flower]

are you using smods?

[shut monolith]

yes

[red flower]

then you dont need require

atlases in assets/1x and assets/2x load automatically

[versed swan]

"Uncolored text {C:inactive}Grey text {}Uncolored text"

[warm umbra]

ty

[red flower]

see https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#how-do-i-organize-my-files

and https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#how-do-i-add-the-custom-art-for-my-cards-to-my-mod

[wispy falcon]

Why the fuck does it run through this 17 times when I use context.end_of round before stopping?!

[timid zinc]

yeah my modded joker that checks if a joker is destroying itself (a.k.a not getting sliced)

[warm umbra]

how do i make a joker not appear in the shop at all

[red flower]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#how-can-i-make-my-card-not-appear-in-the-shopboostersothers

[red flower]

i would send an issue to smods

[warm umbra]

ty

[frank ridge]

how can i read/display what the "value" is that Oil Lamp is modifying?

[warm umbra]

how do i make it so that you can only hold one of a certain joker at a time, even with showman

or like how do i add custom flags

[willow scroll]

obscure error from left field: 💥

oh wait no i forgot to pass on loc vars :clueless:

i think thats the problem?

no i need this thing to have a name 🤯

ok wow another stupid obscure bug

[idle ivy]

Can I show you the effects of my jokers and you tell me if it's balanced?

[twilit tundra]

post it

[wispy falcon]

What does rate do? (SMODS.Rarity)

        ["Joker"] = true,
        ["Joker"] = { rate = 0.7 },
    },```

[jolly shadow]

its rate in the pool

[willow scroll]

anybody know what in the game would cause everything to work fine except block you from playing hands and selling jokers?

[jolly shadow]

like a jokers rarity but for the custom rarity in a specific pool

[wispy falcon]

The higher the number the higher the probability to show up?

[jolly shadow]

yea

[willow scroll]

the only thing stopping my silly pseudo open from being peam rn (alongside minor cosmetic bug)

[pastel osprey]

im trying to make my deck make negatives not cost more money

but its crashing

crash log

i tried a few things for this

here's the code

local card_set_cost_ref = Card:set_cost()

SMODS.Card:take_ownership('card', {
    set_cost = function()
        card_set_cost_ref()
        if self.edition then
            local cost_sub = self.edition.negative and G.GAME.modifiers.rad_extra_cost_negative or 0
            self.extra_cost = self.extra_cost - cost_sub
            self.cost = self.cost - cost_sub
        end
    end
})

i may be doing this horribly wrong

[red flower]

SMODS.Card:take_ownership('card' is not a thing

[pastel osprey]

i thought so

the last thing didnt work either though

so i thought it was worth a shot

local card_set_cost_ref = Card:set_cost()
function Card:set_cost()
    card_set_cost_ref()

    if self.edition then
        local cost_sub = self.edition.negative and G.GAME.modifiers.rad_extra_cost_negative or 0
        self.extra_cost = self.extra_cost - cost_sub
        self.cost = self.cost - cost_sub
    end
end

here was the other thing

[ocean sinew]

why didnt that work

also why are you not returning the ref function

[pastel osprey]

gimme a sec

[ocean sinew]

and not passing the self parameter to it

[pastel osprey]

oh shit yeah you right

[red flower]

that should work, how are you testing it

[pastel osprey]

sorry im terrible at lua

[pastel osprey]

it crashes on boot

[ocean sinew]

Everyone makes mistakes

[pastel osprey]

do i need to?

[ocean sinew]

you get better with time though

[pastel osprey]

of course

[ocean sinew]

recommended

[pastel osprey]

you should have seen me when i started rust lol

that took me 2 years to learn

[ocean sinew]

bc even if it returns nil

[pastel osprey]

but thats rust so

[ocean sinew]

maybe theres a mod that hooks it to return something else

and needs that specific stuff

[ocean sinew]

I started with roblox studio

I was not very good

• arrogant

and too confident

[pastel osprey]

still crash