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[broken rivet]

jokerforge(tm)

[tired otter]

don't judge me i do not know lua 😭

[broken rivet]

i'd honestly recommend learning it

[tired otter]

ok but where do i start

[broken rivet]

just get a hold on very basic things

[hallow slate]

How come this doesn't work:

[patches.pattern]
target = "cardarea.lua"
pattern = '''if self.ARGS.invisible_area_types[self.config.type] or
        (self.config.type == 'hand' and ({[G.STATES.SHOP]=1, [G.STATES.TAROT_PACK]=1, [G.STATES.SPECTRAL_PACK]=1, [G.STATES.STANDARD_PACK]=1,[G.STATES.BUFFOON_PACK]=1,[G.STATES.PLANET_PACK]=1, [G.STATES.ROUND_EVAL]=1, [G.STATES.BLIND_SELECT]=1})[state]) or
        (self.config.type == 'hand' and state == G.STATES.SMODS_BOOSTER_OPENED) or
        (self.config.type == 'deck' and self ~= G.deck) or
        (self.config.type == 'shop' and self ~= G.shop_vouchers) then'''
position = "at"
payload =  '''    if self:can_draw() then'''
overwrite = true
match_indent = true```

[native bone]

So what context should I use to retrigger Jokers. I was using context.before, but that didnt work for specifically Jokers. Do I need to do it again for specifically context.joker_main?

[wind steppe]

context.retrigger_joker_check

make sure the optional feature is enabled

[native bone]

What I mean is what context should I put the retrigger = true?

[wind steppe]

context.retrigger_joker_check

[native bone]

Okay, sure, I'll try that

[slim ferry]

also its repetitions = <amount>

like playing cards

[vale grove]

is there a universal context check? like one that always checks

[native bone]

context.before? It checks before anything happens with your whatever

[daring fern]

SMODS.current_mod.calculate?

[timid zinc]

is there any context for after discarding

[slim ferry]

what are you trying to do

[vale grove]

welll its a little complicated

but i want a joker that turns your gamespeed to 8

and most of it already works

[slim ferry]

and just keep it that way?

[vale grove]

yes

[slim ferry]

you would set it in update repeatedly

[vale grove]

            if G.GAME.normalgamespeed then
                G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 8
               G.GAME.normalgamespeed = nil
            end
            if not G.GAME.normalgamespeed then
                G.GAME.normalgamespeed = G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED
            end
            G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 8
   
        if context.remove_from_deck then
                 G.GAME.normalgamespeed = 4
        end

[dusty fractal]

yo gang

[vale grove]

i have it like this currently

[dusty fractal]

i just realized i was in the wrong chat BUT

how do you mess with hand calc

[daring fern]

No, remove_from_deck is a function not a context.

[vale grove]

and the only thing that doesnt work is the remove from deck

[dusty fractal]

i want to make flushes playable with one off suit card

but smeared joker is hardcoded

do i need to patch

[slim ferry]

is that not just four fingers

[vale grove]

ahh i see

[dusty fractal]

hmmm

[slim ferry]

just hook SMODS.four_fingers and return 4 if the hand is a flush

[dusty fractal]

yeah it would be but question still stands

ive not used hooks b4

thats why im asking

is there any good documentation on how they function

[slim ferry]

check four fingers vanillaremade

and

one moment

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

[slim ferry]

to lock it you can repeatedly set the game speed in update on the joker

[vale grove]

        update = function(self, card, dt)
            if G.GAME.normalgamespeed then
                G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 8
                G.GAME.normalgamespeed = nil
            end
            if not G.GAME.normalgamespeed then
                G.GAME.normalgamespeed = G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED
            end
            G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 8
        end

so like this?

[slim ferry]

just do G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 8 and keep the old game speed saving in add_to_deck

[vale grove]

wait wdym?

why would i keep the old game speed in add_to_deck?

[slim ferry]

well because update runs every frame

and you dont need to save the old game speed every frame

[vale grove]

yeah i get that

but why would i save the old game speed in add to deck

        update = function(self, card, dt)

              G.GAME.normalgamespeed = 8
        remove_from_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
            G.GAME.normalgamespeed = 4
        end

wouldnt this work?

[slim ferry]

i assume you meant G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED

but yeah that also works

[vale grove]

the issue i have with this currentl

is that when i put the gamespeed down

it just

goes down

[slim ferry]

wdym

[vale grove]

well if i go into my settings

and set gamespeed to 4

it stays at 4

previously it would go back to 8 (unless you were playing a hand)

[slim ferry]

update should prevent that though

[vale grove]

but it doesnt

[vale grove]

im running this right now

[slim ferry]

shouldnt those be G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED

both of them

[vale grove]

well when i obtain the joker the gamespeed does go up (nvm it doesnt me when i lie)

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        update = function(self, card, dt)
            G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 8
            remove_from_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
                G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 4
            end
            if context.end_of_round and G.GAME.current_round.hands_played == 1 and context.main_eval then
                card.ability.extra.Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult + card.ability.extra.Xmult_mod
                return {
                    message = 'Vroom',
                    sound = 'YA_calcium'
                }
            end
            if context.end_of_round and G.GAME.current_round.hands_played >= 1 and context.main_eval then
                card.ability.extra.Xmult = 1
            end
            if context.joker_main then
                return {
                    card = card,
                    Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult,
                    colour = G.C.MULT
                }
            end
        end
    end

this is what the full joker looks like right now (ignore the other stuff its for a different function)

[slim ferry]

yeah because update and remove_from_deck are in calculate lol

they should be outside

[vale grove]

ohhh

ive never used either lol 😭

[slim ferry]

all seperate functions should go outside of calculate

[native bone]

I've been trying to get this to retrigger Jokers that are eternal(I removed the eternal condition for testing), but it has never seemed to actually retrigger Jokers.

[vale grove]

ahh yeah now it works

thank you kind stranger

[sour garden]

i have a joker that is supposed to unlock if you win a run without having any consumables, but i'm not sure the best way to do it.
i have something like:

check_for_unlock = function(self, args)
    if args.type == 'win' and G.GAME.modname.never_held_consumable then
      return true
    end
  end,
update = function(self, card, dt)
    if G.consumeables then
      if #G.consumeables.cards > 0 then
        G.GAME.modname.never_held_consumable = false
      end
    end
  end,

but it's not triggering, probably cuz update only happens when you have the joker spawned in. how do i do a global update function when you get a consumable?

[slim ferry]

hook Card:add_to_deck to check when a consumable is added

or use SMODS.current_mod.calculate and check for a consumable being added in context.card_added

[vale grove]

something else i just realized

i wanna make a joker that changes the langauge

that should probably also go in update shouldnt it?

[slim ferry]

probably

but for where you reload localization after the change do check if the current language isnt already the language youre changing to

since idk if its a good idea to reload localization every frame unconditionally

[vale grove]

maybe maybe

first i need to figure out how to actually change the language

ive been doing alot of digging and reading but i cannot find a single thing about how to do it outside of the main way

[sour garden]

is there a good guide on doing hooks cuz i'm not sure the best way to format it

[slim ferry]

the line above has to use . and not :

also its not stored in G.FUNCS

[daring fern]

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

[tired otter]

soo HOW do i fix it if i can

[sour garden]

so like this?

[slim ferry]

also the syntax with : only works when creating a function as function x(...) rather than x = function(...)

[slim ferry]

the arguments have to be the same as the original function, have a look at the vanillaremade example https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#whats-a-hook (happens to be for the same function but rules apply for all functions)

[sour garden]

i've formatted it like the example, but vsc is still yelling at me

[slim ferry]

yeah the syntax with : only works if you do function Card:add_to_deck(...) and not if you do Card:add_to_deck = function(...)

[sour garden]

ah okay, that's what i missed

local card_add_to_deck_ref = Card.add_to_deck
function Card:add_to_deck(self)
  local ret = card_add_to_deck_ref(self)
  if self.ability.set == 'Consumable' then
    G.GAME.modname.never_held_consumable = false
  end
  return ret
end

what did i mess up this time

this happens when i buy a consumable from the shop

oh wait, it also happens when i buy jokers too

[normal crest]

the : syntax is for skipping the self argument in the function

[sour garden]

ah, okay

[normal crest]

I'd recommend just doing Card.add_to_deck = function(self, e) if it's confusing with :

[daring fern]

No, it's from_debuff not e

[normal crest]

🤷 just took it from their screenshot

[wintry solar]

It doesn’t matter what it’s called

[normal crest]

we know, but I'd suggest naming it the same as the original function to be consistent if for no other reason

[crimson echo]

does anyone know how to bypass the character limit on a joker? or just in general?

[native bone]

As far as I'm aware there is no character limit

You can just make new lines by doing [x] = "This is a description", where x is the line you want

replace the string with whatever you want

inside of your loc_txt

[crimson echo]

i have this as the name for a joker i wanna do

[normal crest]

you want the name to be multiple lines of text?

[wind steppe]

\n is your friend

[crimson echo]

i formatted it that way thinking that would work

[native bone]

Yeah, use \n to make a new line

[normal crest]

it won't, but I think \n does work, do name = "text in first line\ntext in second line"

[wind steppe]

try name = "Joker That's Been Crumpled Up, Torn Slightly, Soaked In The Lagoon And Kissed With Coral Blue\n#2 Semi Gloss Lipstick"

[crimson echo]

so like this

[wind steppe]

i wouldnt put the space before the \n

itll move the first line left a bit instead of centering it

[crimson echo]

imma load it now

[sharp arch]

This is good code, right

[daring fern]

No, it's G.P_CENTERS.j_credit_card

[sharp arch]

thanks

are non-scoring card checkscontext.cardarea == unscored
or context.cardarea.unscored

[daring fern]

context.cardarea == 'unscored'

[viscid talon]

ok gamers uh

ive decided to code a joker semi-manually for the first time

in the sense that i make a blank joker in jokerforge with no functions, nothing

and i do everything else manually in vscode

so far its working well, i just need help with a scoring issue

    key = "wheelbarrow",
    config = { extra = { mult = 8} },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        local numerator, denominator = SMODS.get_probability_vars(card, 1, card.ability.extra.odds,
            'vremade_wheelbarrow' .. G.GAME.round_resets.ante)
        return { vars = { numerator, denominator }, card.ability.extra.mult }
    end,
    loc_txt = {
        ['name'] = 'Wheelbarrow',
        ['text'] = {
            [1] = '{C:green}1 in 2{} cards get drawn face down',
            [2] = 'All {C:attention}facedown{} cards give {C:red}+8{} Mult when scored'
        },
        ['unlock'] = {
            [1] = ''
        }
    },
    pos = {
        x = 6,
        y = 3
    },
    display_size = {
        w = 71 * 1, 
        h = 95 * 1
    },
    cost = 4,
    rarity = 2,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,
    perishable_compat = true,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = false,
    atlas = 'CustomJokers',
    pools = { ["hatchet_hatchet_jokers"] = true },

    calculate = function(self, blind, context)
            if context.stay_flipped and context.to_area == G.hand and
                SMODS.pseudorandom_probability(blind, 'vremade_wheelbarrow', 1, 2) then
                return {
                    stay_flipped = true
                }
            end
            if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play and
            context.stay_flipped then
            return {
                mult = card.ability.extra.s_mult
            }
        end
    end,
}

the idea is that cards that are flipped give +8 when scored

[river grail]

Is it possible for a suit to naturally count as two other suits? I wanna make a suit that acts like a smeared joker card (without smeared joker, of course)

[viscid talon]

how so?#

[daring fern]

Hook Card:is_suit

[viscid talon]

however, its not doing that

its not giving da extra mult 😔

at least it runs without any crashes LMAO

[slim ferry]

context.stay_flipped is only used when checking if a card should be drawn face down, so that doesnt run alongside context.individual

[viscid talon]

i see, so how do i make it so that when a card is flipped, it sends out some sort of variable that the joker can recognise and provide +8 mult ? if that makes sense

also i just realised loc_vars literally means "local variables" LMAOOOOO

[slim ferry]

it means localization variables

im fairly certain

[viscid talon]

o

😭

i have so much 2 learn,,

[zealous glen]

What do you mean “card is flipped”

[slim ferry]

you should set a flag on all the cards that were face down in context.press_play (since the cards get flipped up before scoring), check if the card has that flag in context.individual, and then reset the flags in context.after

[viscid talon]

its called "wheelbarrow" bc its meant to be sorta like the wheel but as a joker kind of

[viscid talon]

okay, ill try that

uhh

i dont know how to set a flag,,

arent flags the g.game thing

[slim ferry]

not specifically

[viscid talon]

oh

[zealous glen]

A flag here is jargon for a boolean or binary variable

[viscid talon]

also i cant find context.pressplay

[slim ferry]

press_play

[zealous glen]

See the wiki

[viscid talon]

boolean is anumber thing right

oke

oh wait no

its the opposite

it can only hold true or false values

[slim ferry]

yeah

[zealous glen]

Yes

[slim ferry]

so you would loop over G.play.cards, check for each card if their facing value is "back", and set a flag on the card if true

[zealous glen]

Put the flag in each relevant card’s ability table, and name the key something like PREFIX_NAME

[viscid talon]

okay hm

[gusty compass]

Can I per chance attach a custom effect for an edition other than the normal ones, as if it was calculate, since I can only infer about on_apply, on_remove and on_load

[slim ferry]

you can put a calculate on an edition

[gusty compass]

For a minute I believed that was not possible via the smods wiki

[crimson echo]

didn't fucking work

[daring fern]

Names can be tables I think.

[crimson echo]

explain?

[daring fern]

name = {
    "Joker That's Been Crumpled Up, Torn Slightly, Soaked In The Lagoon And Kissed With Coral Blue",
    "2 Semi Gloss Lipstick"
}

[viscid talon]

ok chat im gonna admit

I dont know what im doing

like at all

i dont know how to make this

SOBS

im trying to lock in and i just cant

[zealous glen]

What have you tried so far

[viscid talon]

i think its just having no idea how lua works

[zealous glen]

Have you been able to identify the face down cards

[viscid talon]

IDK HOW ANY OF THIS WORKSSSSSS

loc variables are fine and all but flags are like

so confusing

[zealous glen]

I think it's that you don't know how Balatro is coded

Take a look at the wiki page for calculation

Not all contexts exist at the same time

The way it works is that sometimes the game processes calculation, which passes some contexts to some objects

You can think of these as timings when abilities can activate

First, you want an ability that flags face down cards during a context where the press_play flag is true

[viscid talon]

so press_play is a flag then?

[zealous glen]

if context.press_play
    --INSERT FOR LOOP OVER PLAYED CARDS
end

Something like this is what you want

[viscid talon]

ohh interesting interesting

so context is used for flags then?

[zealous glen]

I fixed it

[zealous glen]

Flag is just programmer lingo

Context is Balatro lingo

[viscid talon]

i see,,

[zealous glen]

Again sometimes the (modded) game will call calculate_context with a table as argument

[viscid talon]

whats a loop then?

yeah, ive seen calculate_context be used

[frosty rampart]

a joker's calculate function is called many times over the course of a single hand, and even outside of when hands are played. each time, it's called with a different set of values in context. some of them are flags, like context.press_play. some of them store more information than just true or false, like context.full_hand contains the full played hand when it's relevant to the current context that is being calculated.

[zealous glen]

This table is nicknamed context and has variables players can access

Typically one of these variables is something like key = true, which is like the name of the context

For example, press_play = true only in the "press_play" context

[frosty rampart]

a loop is a programming structure that repeats itself multiple times so that you don't have to rewrite a bunch of code to do the same task on a number of things, e.g. going over the full hand being played and marking which ones are face down

[viscid talon]

oh right okay

[viscid talon]

yeah, i remember covering that in javascript ages ago

[viscid talon]

thats,,, confusing

[frosty rampart]

it's a very important concept to grasp

[viscid talon]

ofc, im not disagreeing

im just trying to break it down in my head

so calculate is what a joker does

im guessing

like lusty joker calculates if a suit flag is heart then returns with extra mult

and hand_size is a flag that isnt a boolean but rather carries a specific value

[zealous glen]

The Balatro system isn't the best but it's good enough. Here, you can think of each Joker knowing what they can do and when, so a worker has to visit each Joker individually with whatever raw materials they have and ask the Joker to do their thing. Most of the time the Jokers do nothing

[frosty rampart]

you're too hung up on what a "flag" is

[viscid talon]

i see

[viscid talon]

YEAH BC IT STILL DEOSNT MAKE MUCH SENSE TO ME 😭

[frosty rampart]

it's just a variable

[zealous glen]

Typically you'll call these variables or properties or something else

[frosty rampart]

if that helps

[viscid talon]

global or local?!?!?!

[viscid talon]

yeah i use variable often

^ used scratch as a kid

[zealous glen]

It depends

[native bone]

A flag is just a variable that can be accessed by any other Joker, but it is only true or false

[viscid talon]

i see,, 🤔

so flags are exclusively boolean then

[native bone]

Yes

[viscid talon]

they cant go beyond true or false

[native bone]

Nope

[viscid talon]

hmm

[frosty rampart]

again
a "flag" is not a strictly defined thing
it's literally just a special name some people use for a boolean variable

it's very willy nilly in lua because lua variables don't do any strict sort of type checking, so you can have a variable equal to true and then you can immediately just set it to 5.3 or "Hello world!" or whatever you want

[zealous glen]

Have you played visual novels or history games

not history

games with a story

multiple-choice stories makes more sense

testg

[viscid talon]

yeah i played ddlc

and ace attorney

[zealous glen]

Sorry my internet went ballistic

[zealous glen]

I want to say they make a joke about flags but I forget

Anyways, in DDLC depending on the poems you write you have scenes with different girls

In programming and visual novel player slang this is called setting a flag

Because you took a decision or made an action that set you along a specific path in the game

There’s a specific variation of this slang, “death flag”, from when you end in a route where a character dies

Maybe the character says something like “I sure love being alive and not being dead” and that’s like the game yelling at you this character is gonna die; players will call this a “death flag” I think

[viscid talon]

AHHHH

okay i think i get it now

[zealous glen]

I don't know how DDLC is programmed but it's a didactic example in the sense that you could also imagine that instead of a boolean variable, the game has a variable with the name of a girl (or a number), and it would work essentially the same

[viscid talon]

flag = type of variable known by other jokers that can only be true/false

[frosty rampart]

in ddlc the characters are more analogous to tables i think
in that characters are whole files that (ostensibly) contain various information about each characters
(this is obviously more accurately about classes in a more traditional object-oriented language, but lua is silly and quirky like that)

[viscid talon]

i have smth like this rn

                hand.flipped = true
             end```

[frosty rampart]

you've got a vague idea of where you're headed

[zealous glen]

Are you talking about the characters-as-characters or the actual code

[frosty rampart]

well both tbh
that's why i said ostensibly, the actual chr files in the code just contain various spooky images/sounds/messages

but the existence or absence of the files can be considered "flags" in that the removal of the chr file denotes monika killing the relevant character

[zealous glen]

True

But also I just noticed this is unrelated to what I said

[frosty rampart]

true, perhaps i went too fast

[zealous glen]

Unless you imagine a more complicated structure behind the game

[frosty rampart]

my understanding is that the chr files are meant to be interpreted by the average layman as containing actual data about the characters

[zealous glen]

For example, instead of directly setting you on a path, your actions change the characters' happiness, and then the game decides your path based on which character is happiest

[frosty rampart]

but we're way off topic now lol

[viscid talon]

i think the issue is that i cant find context.press_play on the wiki

so its confusing me even more

i dont even know what it does

im guessing its used for defining when a round starts

[zealous glen]

Yeah I guess it's only listed on an old commit

[zealous glen]

no

[primal robin]

whats happening here, teaching someone what's programming is?

[viscid talon]

yeah, im very new to it

[frosty rampart]

oh yea calculation documentation is. limited
but context.press_play is for calculation during the instant that the player presses the button to play a hand

[viscid talon]

okay, im starting to get it a little

is there a when thing in lua

[normal crest]

this is the goal @primal robin

[viscid talon]

like when context.press_play if cards_flipped = true return ability.extra.mult

[wind steppe]

you're looking for if

[frosty rampart]

you're just looking for if context.press_play

[zealous glen]

Meta explained what it is. Blind.press_play is a vanilla method (in Blind objects of course) which SMODS turned into a calculation context for modders to use

[vale grove]

how do you remove something from every pool?

a joker specifically

[frosty rampart]

when the play hand button is pressed, a calculation is run with context.press_play set to true

[native bone]

It's handled by the calculate functions

[primal robin]

by flipped you mean face down

[viscid talon]

yeas

[zealous glen]

Do you want to remove it or do you just want to make it unavailable?

For example, Cavendish isn't removed, it's just unavailable

[native bone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-4U5TlbxY Best tutorial to get started making Jokers

[vale grove]

well i have a joker that when purchased gives one of three jokers

and i want the three jokers to not be in the normal pool

only available through that one joker

[viscid talon]

isnt this tutorial out of date

[vale grove]

just a quick comment , some of this stuff is really outdated

some of it is still accurate

[normal crest]

if you created these jokers, you can add an in_pool function to them that just returns false

[vale grove]

but when i started couple months ago some of it was not up to date

[zealous glen]

So Cavendish

[vale grove]

okay thanks

[vale grove]

kinda but cavendish can still be in the pool

i want these to not be in the pool at all

[primal robin]

local flipped_count = 0
for _, card in pairs(G.play.cards) do
    if card.facing == "back" then
        flipped_count = flipped_count + 1
    end
end
if flipped_count > 0 then
    return {
        mult = flipped_count * card.ability.extra.mult_per_flipped
    }
end

[zealous glen]

Not before Grös michel expires

[primal robin]

Probably this?

[vale grove]

true but mr srockw told me what i needed to know

[zealous glen]

That's where I was gonna get at

I just wanted to know if you wanted to make something like Cavendish, which this does

[vale grove]

kinda its a little complicated tho

but for this specific question it doesnt really matter

[sharp arch]

hanging chad is j_chad right

[viscid talon]

oo, yes that could help

what does in pairs do

what is for _ 😭

[sharp arch]

its a way to make loops

[normal crest]

_ is a name given to variables you're not gonna use

[sharp arch]

in pairs find how many are in

[zealous glen]

Cavendish is always in the Joker pool it's just there as you can see there's an in_pool function that can flag it as unavailable. You can think of Jokers like Stone Joker as functioning similarly.

Showman involves something similar in the sense it's another part of the check to see if a Joker is available, but they're always in the pool before being processed

[viscid talon]

hmm

[sharp arch]

and then for_ is the loop

[primal robin]

You better learn basics of Lua first rather then guessing things

[normal crest]

Do you know what a table is

[viscid talon]

true,, i normally just use jokerforge for stuffs

the knowledge i have of programming is still quite new

[primal robin]

I see, someone provide video about what is lua and how it works

[viscid talon]

i only started development on the mod like

two months ago

[vale grove]

iam making a "pull request", the intial pull request works like gros michel than you get a pullrequest??? which behaves like a cavendish would and you get either merged,declined, or request changes, i got everything else working already i just wanted to know how to get merged declind and request changes out of every pool

[normal crest]

what I told you should be enough to get those 3 jokers out of the pool completely, you can still spawn them with SMODS.add_card in the joker that's meant to create them

[timid zinc]

how do i shorten this patch, it'd be easy to make it just recognize the first line of the pattern but how would i add the two ends

[vale grove]

yeah im pretty sure i got everything else working

oh now that i think about it

is there a universal key for food jokers?

or something i can use to identify all of them

[red flower]

do you need to shorten it

[zealous glen]

Not yet

@wintry solar was working on it

[timid zinc]

not really but i don't really wanna do long patches because they lead to compatibility issues

also it doesn't work with cryptid at all

[red flower]

you could use goto instead of wrapping everything in a condition

[normal crest]

oh no...

[timid zinc]

goto?

[zealous glen]

[red flower]

-- before the code
if condition then goto skip_voucher end

-- after the code
::skip_voucher::

[slim ferry]

i mean you can make a food pool

and a lot of mods use a food pool

so it should be usable

[timid zinc]

That's scary......

[normal crest]

doesn't this require the same amount of patching as adding the ifs and the ends separately

[wind steppe]

just steal another mod's code for it

[red flower]

it makes the pattern to match shorter

or rather it's less patches because you don't need to match to add the ends

[normal crest]

but you need to match to add the goto locations, no?

[red flower]

yeah

[timid zinc]

the original code is left untouched but it would be an issue if another mod patched the same location in a non-goto way which is an improvement

[normal crest]

so it'd be 4 matches in total still

[red flower]

oh yeah that's right

i still think it's cleaner

[primal robin]

goto meh

[normal crest]

it might look as cleaner code in the dump i guess

[vale grove]

wait you can shorten context to ctx?

[red flower]

no

you can change any argument to any name

[normal crest]

yeah the argument doesn't have to be called context, so you can name it ctx if you want

[vale grove]

hmm i see i see

also mr Vanilla remade is this a typo?

[wind steppe]

no

well not on vanillaremades part

thunk calls it selzer in the code

[vale grove]

oh lol

do we know why

or is that just

something that is a thing now

[red flower]

thunk

i added a (sic) to the other typos but i didnt notice that one lol

[vale grove]

oh its no big issue im just looking through food jokers because i need them for smth and i find that typo

[timid zinc]

This is how I do it (Code partially from other mods, obviously):

  j_gros_michel = true,
  j_ice_cream = true,
  j_cavendish = true,
  j_turtle_bean = true,
  j_diet_cola = true,
  j_popcorn = true,
  j_ramen = true,
  j_selzer = true,
  j_egg = true,
}

-- Initialize pool of food jokers if it doesn't exist already, which may be created by other mods.
-- Any joker can add itself to this pool by adding pools = { Food = true } to its code
-- Credits to Cryptid for the idea and Paperback for this code
if not SMODS.ObjectTypes.Food then
  SMODS.ObjectType {
    key = 'Food',
    default = 'j_joker',
    cards = {},
    inject = function(self)
      SMODS.ObjectType.inject(self)
      -- Insert base game food jokers
      for k, _ in pairs(Cracker.vanilla_food) do
        self:inject_card(G.P_CENTERS[k])
      end
    end
  }
end```

[normal crest]

btw the inject function in that code is no longer needed, you can just do cards = copy_table(Cracker.vanilla_food)

[timid zinc]

the = true part is completely unneccessary

[normal crest]

that was cus of an old bug in steamodded

[timid zinc]

what kind of bug would make tables not be made properly if you dont do that

[normal crest]

and then the = true part becomes necessary without the inject function cus that's the format of the cards table in object types

[timid zinc]

ah

[normal crest]

the bug was that the cards table wasn't being loaded iirc

[timid zinc]

so like this:

  j_gros_michel = true,
  j_ice_cream = true,
  j_cavendish = true,
  j_turtle_bean = true,
  j_diet_cola = true,
  j_popcorn = true,
  j_ramen = true,
  j_selzer = true,
  j_egg = true,
}

-- Initialize pool of food jokers if it doesn't exist already, which may be created by other mods.
-- Any joker can add itself to this pool by adding pools = { Food = true } to its code
-- Credits to Cryptid for the idea and Paperback for this code
if not SMODS.ObjectTypes.Food then
    SMODS.ObjectType {
        key = 'Food',
        default = 'j_joker',
        cards = copy_table(Cracker.vanilla_food)
    }
end```

[vale zinc]

Blue Joker uses G.deck.cards to keep track of all cards remaining in deck -- which includes cards in hand. Is there a G.<???> thing that returns all cards except those held in hand, or must I first loop through G.deck.cards and then prune all the cards in G.hand.cards?

[normal crest]

yep

[slim ferry]

blue joker doesnt include cards in hand though

[vale zinc]

My bad.

[umbral zodiac]

yea, G.deck is just your deck, there is no trickery in what cards it contains

[spiral crown]

does anyone know if there is a context specifically for leveling up a hand type/poker hand

[red flower]

do you want to level up a hand or know when a hand is leveled up?

[timid zinc]

i have an issue with creating Jokers, if i create a joker using a pool besides Joker (Like object type Food), it doesn't respect challenges that do "All Jokers are [Sticker]"

[spiral crown]

well actually both lol but I was looking to see if there was context that would return true if a hand was leveled up

[red flower]

you would need to add them manually afaik

[crimson echo]

still nothing

[red flower]

i dont think so, you would need to hook the level_up_hand function

[timid zinc]

i think i had a context like that patched at one point but it stopped patching correctly and it wasn't super necessary so i just removed it

[wintry solar]

what smods version are you using?

[crimson echo]

the latest

[wintry solar]

the actual version is more helpful when someone asks

[crimson echo]

1.0.0~BETA~1016c

[wintry solar]

then your code is wrong

[spiral crown]

have you tried smart_level_up_hand ? looks like level_up_hand may be legacy

[crimson echo]

elaborate please, because if that is the case, jabon might have to update the code

[red flower]

the smart one calls the vanilla one so you want to hook the vanilla one because it covers all cases

for leveling up a hand you can use the smods one

[wintry solar]

well I don't know what your specific code looks like, but what you were told to do is correct

[crimson echo]

...do you want to look at the code yourself?

[dusty fractal]

how do you format localized description

ie loc_txt in a joker

[red flower]

?
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Text-Styling

[dusty fractal]

not what im asking about

the localization area in smods wiki is right there, too.

i was looking for something in particular but i found it just looking there

[red flower]

ok

[dusty fractal]

now i just need to know how prefixes are appended

[brave blade]

Is add_tag(Tag('tag_' + string.lower(context.card.edition))) the most elegant way to create an edition tag according to context.card's edition or is there a better way?

[slim ferry]

its .. for concatention

[red flower]

also .edition is a table

[slim ferry]

also card.edition is a table

yeah

[red flower]

and it won't work for modded editions

[slim ferry]

you probably want context.card.edition.key:gsub("e_", "tag_") instead too

i assume thats what youre going for

[civic solstice]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[red flower]

lmao

[slim ferry]

what

[civic solstice]

i coded a joker to crash the game when bought LOL

[brave blade]

Oops ok

[brave blade]

Thanks :)

[slim ferry]

and probably also check if it exists first

[brave blade]

Like check if it has an edition?

I did that in a separate condition

[slim ferry]

check if the tag exists i mean

[brave blade]

Can I just use Tag(context.card.edition.key:gsub("e_", "tag_")) as a condition?

[red flower]

i dont think so

G.P_TAGS[key] might work

[obsidian spear]

wtf is there more than one jimbo? is it from pools? no. cuz there wasnt any before i added a pool i rthink

[red flower]

yes if a pool runs out it uses the default, which is jimbo for vanilla jokers

your pool might also use jimbo

[lyric maple]

for some reason my seal localizations don't have locvars???

i'm trying to change gold seals into Filipino Seals (inside joke, long story)
and this code works:

        Other={
            gold_seal = {
                name = "Filipino Seal",
                text = {
                    "Earn {C:money}$3{} when this",
                    "card is played",
                    "and scores",
                },
            },
        },

but this doesn't, as it indexes an empty var:

        Other={
            gold_seal = {
                name = "Filipino Seal",
                text = {
                    "Earn {C:money}$#1#{} when this",
                    "card is played",
                    "and scores",
                },
            },
        },

i thought seals had variables??

[red flower]

are you adding the loc_vars yourself?

[lyric maple]

no

[red flower]

well

as you can see there the vanilla one is hardcoded

[lyric maple]

ohhhhhhh

say for example if a mod changes that number is there a way to make some sort of internal if/else that gives the hardcoded value if no loc_var is present and the loc_var otherwise

[red flower]

it's easier in that case to just give it a loc_vars but the problem is that if another mod changes the value it will also probably change the localization

i personally wouldn't worry about it

[lyric maple]

ah ok then

[brave blade]

Reroll cost is staying the same, did I do something wrong?

Nvm, I just set reroll_discount to -2 instead

[fluid steppe]

chat how do you get the localized name of a joker

localize('j_joker') isnt working

[daring fern]

localize({type = 'name_text', key = 'j_modprefix_key', set = 'Joker'})

[fluid steppe]

thank you

[civic solstice]

why did my if statement stop if statementing

it thinks if is a context when it just isnt

[wind steppe]

unicode shenanigans my beloved

[brave blade]

Oh hello Hyper

[normal crest]

remove the last == true

[fluid steppe]

hii

[wind steppe]

i think if you want debug help you should probably. get rid of the unicode bit for a second

hard to see

[wind steppe]

show more of the code also

looks like the error is higher up

[brave blade]

Yeah this

[primal robin]

formatting

[civic solstice]

me when i type random code in random places

[wind steppe]

indent yo code

[civic solstice]

it worked before so idk what happened

[wind steppe]

also what is a

[obsidian spear]

a

[wind steppe]

i dont see it defined anywhere

[normal crest]

if the goal is to crash the game then you're doing good

[wind steppe]

should be card.ability.extra.a

[normal crest]

keep it up

[civic solstice]

now that i think about it yeah

[wind steppe]

also that for loop doesnt do anything

either one

[civic solstice]

it is

[wind steppe]

and SMODS.cost is. not a thing

and the first for loop will actually crash i think

[slim ferry]

if you want to force the game to crash just do a for i = 1, math.huge or a local function x() x() end; x()

Instant stack overflow

[wind steppe]

G = nil

[slim ferry]

Or do {} > 0

[civic solstice]

basically what im tryna do since this is supposed to be a joker that makes it seem like it shouldnt exist is to make the price go haywire

[wind steppe]

blame it on talisman

[willow scroll]

anybody know why my scoring calculation crashes if i use a planet card?

[wind steppe]

show us the code

[willow scroll]

huh

i pasted my code fym

[wind steppe]

huh???

[willow scroll]

again??/

[wind steppe]

third time's the charm

[willow scroll]

they hate me

[wind steppe]

third time was not, in fact, the charm

[willow scroll]

they hate me

screensots it is ig fml

[civic solstice]

okay i fixed the majority of the things suggested anyways what tf is happening with my if statement???

[wind steppe]

show the code above

[willow scroll]

that calculate function doesnt have a end statement

[civic solstice]

i needa change the for i loop rq

[wind steppe]

show both in the same screenshot

[willow scroll]

wait no the indents are fucked mb

[wind steppe]

you ended the calculate too early

[slim ferry]

Your message could not be delivered. This is usually because you don't share a server with the recipient or the recipient is only accepting direct messages from friends. You cant see the full list of reasons here

[wind steppe]

remove the fourth end

[willow scroll]

💥

[wind steppe]

Your message could be delivered. This is usually because you share a server with the recipient or the recipient is accepting direct messages from anyone. You can't see the full list of reasons here

[slim ferry]

They stop when discord works

[civic solstice]

okay that fixed it ty

[willow scroll]

anyhow anybody know why?

i have a color right there

am i required to define hand level ups for my parameter?

[vale grove]

i have a very unique bug

card.ability.extra.h_size = card.ability.extra.h_size + 1
 G.hand:change_size(card.ability.extra.h_size)

This joker has a way of increasing the hand_size, i want it to go up by ` everytime this happens (asin it happens twice handize goes up by 2 total) however what it does is go +1 everytime the methoc is called (so if i were to do the method twice it would go to 3 total handsize for a third time would but the total handsize at 6 etc) how do i fix this

[slim ferry]

Change size by 1

Instead of the h_size value

[vale grove]

wdym change by 1?

[slim ferry]

G.hand:change_size(1)

Instead of what you have now for that

[civic solstice]

oh yeah also idk if this is smth i can fix or not but the game just doesnt process the unicode text properly like at all

[slim ferry]

Thats probably expected

Since the game doesnt support every character

[civic solstice]

fair

[slim ferry]

And its fucky unicode shenanigans

[civic solstice]

so i assume no it cant be fixed

[vale grove]

okay yeah that works but how do i display it in my loc_txt?

card.ability.extra.h_size,
{C:attention}#3#{}

i previously had this display it (accurately despite the value itself being inaccurate) how do i change that?

[wind steppe]

you could try a custom font

that would work still

[slim ferry]

Well you can just return card.ability.extra.h_size right

Since it increases hand size by the same amount as the actual joker config value increases by now

[vale grove]

wdym?

[slim ferry]

For loc_vars

I assume youre already doing that though

[vale grove]

this is what i did

but i dont use extra.h_size anymore

[wind steppe]

what happens when it's removed from deck

[slim ferry]

Dont you use it to get rid of the hand size in remove_from_deck

Yeah

[wind steppe]

you should still scale that value for display reasons

[vale grove]

i didnt even test that yet lol

gimme a minute

[naive agate]

adding a custom rank and having a card similar to baron with it. the ids for jack and 10 are 11 and 10 and I wanna sandwich this rank's id in between, how can this be done?

[civic solstice]

its telling me it cant index this line here, do i need all of this to make it not do that

[river grail]

surprisingly there wasnt documentation for this so i was staring at it for like, 30 minutes and now i think i understand what it does
then again i dont know anything about lua

[obsidian spear]

take ownership and change it yourself

i assume thats how you do it

[wind steppe]

wdym SMODS.ability

is that meant to be accessing something on the card

if so use card.ability

[civic solstice]

oh right

[gaunt folio]

I think he means like how can the code read the modded card like what would he have to place

[wind steppe]

and then is that an integer?

[obsidian spear]

change everything over one

and put it as 11 or wht ever

[wind steppe]

if so you want for i=1, card.ability.extra.repeatThisManyTimes do

[civic solstice]

so i assume i have to do that for all of these too right

i did it anyways

[gaunt folio]

It seems like Leon just needs it to identify the rank, changing it to a string even would work like ‘prefix_rank’

[obsidian spear]

SMODS.Rank:take_ownership("[rank]",
  nominal = [the right nominal]
)

you could also do this with tables

local ranks = {
  [1] = {key='king', nominal=new nominal}
}
for _,v in pairs(ranks) do
    SMODS.Rank:take_ownership(v.key,
        nominal = v.nominal
    )
end

whoops forgot to reply

[obsidian spear]

^^^

[naive agate]

i see

[obsidian spear]

cut down 2 lines per rank is pretty nice

it mightnt work thats just what I think would work

[gaunt folio]

Kw We’ll figure it out but will try that just in case (he and I co-develop lmao)

[obsidian spear]

uh can someone just help me quick, it's smth easy and i cant be bothered looking for it

how do i get the seal thats on the card? like key

nvm found it

[civic solstice]

i tried reworking the entire list randomization and bro this has to be the most overcomplicated list ever conceived by human hands

i mean i think it makes some kinda sense

[fluid steppe]

chat where do i see saved logs

balatro's crashing w/o breadcrumbs

[civic solstice]

in the while loop from top to bottom

selects a number from given pool (1, 9999)
sets a (an empty list) to the generated number
tags setA (a variable to detect whether or not to display the text) to true
resets randomlist
resets a

[red flower]

Mods/lovely/log

[fluid steppe]

thanks

ok it left nothing in the console either

fun

[obsidian spear]

please 😢

[maiden phoenix]

card.seal = nil

[obsidian spear]

can I do this from the seal

[maiden phoenix]

self references the card in the seal calculate function iirc

[obsidian spear]

ight

[maiden phoenix]

Never made seals myself so I'm not 100% sure

[obsidian spear]

ah alr

@maiden phoenix im in limbo

nothing changing

wait i forgot to save

[maiden phoenix]

show your code

[obsidian spear]

🐴

[maiden phoenix]

oh

[obsidian spear]

nvm

still in limbo

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.repetition then
            return {
                repetitions = card.ability.seal.extra.retriggers,
                message = "Melted!",
                func = function()
                    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                        trigger = "after",
                        delay = 1,
                        func = function()
                            card.seal = nil
                        end
                    }))
                end
            }
        end
    end,

i tried it in different contexts

they didnt work before

but ig i can try them

oh wow wheres the documentation for
context.playing_card_end_of_round

🙏

[viscid talon]

this is what i got

    key = "wheelbarrow",
    config = { 
        extra = { 
            mult = 8, flippy = 0
        }
    },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        local numerator, denominator = SMODS.get_probability_vars(card, 1, card.ability.extra.odds,
            'vremade_wheelbarrow' .. G.GAME.round_resets.ante)
        return { vars = { numerator, denominator }, card.ability.extra.mult }
    end,
    loc_txt = {
        ['name'] = 'Wheelbarrow',
        ['text'] = {
            [1] = '{C:green}1 in 2{} cards get drawn face down',
            [2] = 'All {C:attention}facedown{} cards give {C:red}+8{} Mult when scored'
        },
        ['unlock'] = {
            [1] = ''
        }
    },
    pos = {
        x = 6,
        y = 3
    },
    display_size = {
        w = 71 * 1, 
        h = 95 * 1
    },
    cost = 4,
    rarity = 2,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,
    perishable_compat = true,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = false,
    atlas = 'CustomJokers',
    pools = { ["hatchet_hatchet_jokers"] = true },

    calculate = function(self, blind, context)
        if context.stay_flipped and context.to_area == G.hand and
                SMODS.pseudorandom_probability(blind, 'vremade_wheelbarrow', 1, 2) then
                card.ability.extra.flippy = (card.ability.extra.flippy) + 1
                return {
                    stay_flipped = true
                }
            end
            if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play then
                if (card.ability.extra.flippy or 0) >= 1 then
                    return {
                        mult = card.ability.extra.mult
                    }
                end
            end
        end
}```

for wheelbarrow

index global nil value error

[obsidian spear]

@maiden phoenix its still happening 😭

stuck in limbo

[maiden phoenix]

Yea idk sorry

[obsidian spear]

prob
SMODS.pseudorandom_probability(blind, 'vremade_wheelbarrow', 1, 2) then
with blind??

@viscid talon

i think

[viscid talon]

henlo

hmm

also thats not what it is

here is the error

[normal crest]

in your calculate definition replace blind with card, so it ends up like calculate = function(self, card, context)

and you have to change where you used pseudorandom_probability to use card instead of blind

[stuck ore]

Quick question, whats the context.other_card that detects the rank of the card? I want to make a joker gain chips based on the cards rank

[normal crest]

When do you want your joker to gain chips

[stuck ore]

on trigger of the card

[normal crest]

it's context.individual

context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play

[stuck ore]

I have that as the overarching if statement but what would i put in place of chips_gain if I want the joker to gain based off of the cards rank?
if context.other_card:is_suit("Clubs") then card:juice_up(1,0.5) card:juice_up(1,0.5) card.ability.extra.chips = card.ability.extra.chips + card.ability.extra.chips_gain return { message = "+1", colour = G.C.CHIPS, card = card } end

I think I did the lua thing wrong

[viscid talon]

ill try that tmrw

[normal crest]

Hmm, I'd do

if not SMODS.has_no_rank(context.other_card) then
  card.ability.extra.chips = card.ability.extra.chips + context.other_card.base.nominal
end

[stuck ore]

That worked a treat thank you

I guess follow up question, how do you make a message include a variable? or I guess in this instance just a integer. I know how in other forms of code with f'{variable}' but here I'm confused
return { message = "+context.other_card.base.nominal", colour = G.C.CHIPS, card = card }

[normal crest]

simplest way would be message = "+" .. context.other_card.base.nominal

[stuck ore]

Also just so I understand for future reference, what is .. ? and also if I were to put something after the variable would it be "+" .. context.other_card.base.nominal .. "+"?

[wind steppe]

.. is concatenation

so "a" .. "b" becomes "ab"

and "a" .. "b" .. "7" becomes "ab7"

[stuck ore]

ah gotcha I understand it now thank you

[brave blade]

That works, a more elegant solution would perhaps be message = localize { type = 'variable', key = 'a_chips', vars = { context.other_card.base.nominal } }

Which basically gets this key from the localization table and inserts your variable

[normal crest]

Yeah long term you always wanna use localized stuff

But if you're just testing it's fine for now

[stuck ore]

Btw is there a way to make a joker create a message when a card is scored or can it only produce a message from itself (I.E. how do I write card = card to make the message originate from the joker instead)

[normal crest]

message_card = card inside the return table

you can change the message to appear on any card like that

[stuck ore]

It seems like when I try that the message appears on the card when it is scored but I was curious if there was a way to make the joker itself create the message when the card is scored?

[normal crest]

it should just be that tho, what is your current code?

[stuck ore]

oh my god

I'm a moron

Thank you I had just changed the message of something that wasn't trigger so I didn't see the difference

[unkempt bronze]

Has anyone made answerable trivia in Balatro?

[small wigeon]

chat i know this is a rreally silly question but

i played modded ONCE and now i cant turn my achivemnts back on..,. how do i do it

OOPS

WRONG CHAT

AAAA

[rocky plaza]

i havent gone thru the process of uninstallation but i presume u would need to reset the profile

[small wigeon]

that gets rid of all my progress doesnt it...

[rocky plaza]

on that profile yes

[small wigeon]

awhwhhhh

can i swear

can we do that here

[rocky plaza]

swearing is fine here
as long as its not hate speech lmao

[small wigeon]

FUCK!!!!!

[rocky plaza]

mood

[small wigeon]

man wtf am im gonna do

[rocky plaza]

what mod were u playing lol

[granite jay]

Hey so I want a separate pop up to indicate when the played hand is set on fire (Like what was done with the black sticker)

How do I do this for things that aren't related to things like stickers?

[stuck ore]

whats the ease for discards?

nvm its ease_discard

[turbid solstice]

I have no clue im really new to modding i just wanted to say the art is super cute

[small wigeon]

Sigh I was playing mayhem

[granite jay]

A friend made it lol

[turbid solstice]

They are very talented

[normal crest]

How do you mark them as set on fire

[rocky plaza]

do u have a localization file set up?

[granite jay]

Yup

[granite jay]

Played hand is set on fire if it’s score exceeds the target score

[normal crest]

I get that but are you just putting a flag on the card

Or am I misunderstanding

[granite jay]

I just use info_queue[info_queue + 1] = blah blah blah

[normal crest]

Oh I did misunderstand

in your localization file add a new entry in descriptions.Other.whatever_name

just like a joker whatever_name = { name = "something", text = { "line1", "line2" } }

and in your joker's loc_vars do info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = { set = "Other", key = "whatever_name" }

[granite jay]

I managed to get the pop up showing but it's blank with the title being ERROR

        g_onfire = {
            name = "Hand On Fire",
            text = {
                "Occurs when played hand",
                "scores greater than Blind",
                "score"
            },
        },
    },```
This is in the localisation under descriptions

Oh wiat

I just realised it isn't in descriptions lmfao

[granite jay]

Ay thx!

[normal crest]

:D

[chrome widget]

Holy shit im doing it (this probably doesn't look impressive without code)

I'm a fucking genius

To explain: this credits tab is being generated programmatically, rather than manually
Given some basic information, my loaded items have built a table of credit sections, "Concept", "Artists", and "Programmers", and based on whether or not there are tagged information on items, it sets out the columns as necessary. If I only have artist listed, it's one column, since only the Artists section is valid. With two tags, two columns. With three tags, three columns

Now that I have the sectioning and the lists of contributors working, all that remains is adding rows of names with some reasonable scaling based on the number provided

[normal crest]

we're witnessing the ascension of a new ui wizard

[chrome widget]

Let me see if I can get my custom provided data tables working too

[stuck ore]

is there a context.other_card for enhancements? In my instance I'm looking for a way to detect if the card is a wild card

[stuck ore]

I found a work around nvm

[chrome widget]

I AM A FUCKING GENIUS

Automatically built from this table

[wintry solar]

That artists logic seems wrong, or is it supposed to automatically fill a dimension if you give it 0?

[chrome widget]

It still fills the dimension if you give it nothing. It's establishing the sections/categories to use for the credit, to which loaded items will add to the contributors table

The provided contributors here are for things not easily associated with a single item

So you can add an entry directly for a slight bit of manual control for more abstract things (at least I think it would be weirder to create my "direction" table based on putting "direction" tags on some items. Like duh I directed it, I'm the co-creator of the mod)

[chrome widget]

Not 100% certain why this second column is weirdly small

[latent perch]

oh god ui

[chrome widget]

Not just UI. Procedural UI

[latent perch]

no

dear god

[chrome widget]

I've made well enough progress today and hopefully I can finish this tomorrow!!!

All this was basically because I was sick of doing UI trees for the credits of my mods, so this automates the process

[latent perch]

I need to do some procedural UI too (help)

do you perchance know what function(s) change the children's position/size?

[chrome widget]

like in general?

[latent perch]

yup

(I'm trying to make a pannable container)

(so a container that doesn't align it's children but moves them when panning)

(like a map or somethin)

[chrome widget]

At a node level, it'd just be the Moveable:move_xy function I'd think

[latent perch]

mhm mhm taking notes

also wth is up with UIBox and UIElement?! a UIBox creates a self.UIRoot which is a UIElement right? why? what for? To what end?

[zealous glen]

Idk if it serves you but there’s offset variables

[zealous glen]

Wow

[latent perch]

might may possibly help thx

[zealous glen]

Do you want an example

[latent perch]

sure!

[primal robin]

Guy basically invented web's display: grid, not bad

[zealous glen]

Take a look at my Blinds with tooltips on them; I remember adjusting the horizontal offset so the tooltip wouldn’t cover the Blind selection column

[latent perch]

aight, thx!

[zealous glen]

@latent perch here’s something to look for

[latent perch]

👍🦐

[elder rune]

How do you get the description of a joker

I tried card.config.center.text but it didnt work

[slim ferry]

localize{ type = "name_text", key = card.config.center.key, set = card.ability.set}

oh wait description

uhhhhh

just try that but without the type = "name_text" ig

[daring fern]

No, it would be type = 'raw_descriptions'

[elder rune]

after adding type = 'raw_descriptions'

im doing ipairs on it btw

[wintry solar]

What are you trying to do

[elder rune]

+1 mult for every vowel in the description

[wintry solar]

Ewwww
Anyway, you need to use string methods on it instead

[elder rune]

yeah thats why im doing ipairs

I changed how I did it and it worked

[neon plank]

anyone know how to check if another modded joker is owned?

(i want to make a joker so that you get 10x if another specific joker is owned)

[wintry solar]

next(SMODS.find_card('j_modprefix_key'))

[neon plank]

thanks!

[primal robin]

@wintry solar maybe make sense for SMODS.process_loc_text return value it sets?
Like yk I can manually select it, but why not just add 1 line of code to make life a bit easier?

Like because of this missing return I need to do this

And if any changes will happen in future for this function, I'll be sad!

[umbral spire]

im tryna give x5 mult when chips and mult are (exactly) equal, this just does nothing?

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            if G.GAME.current_round.current_hand.chips == G.GAME.current_round.current_hand.mult then
                return { xmult = 5 }
            end
        end
    end,

[daring fern]

if mult == hand_chips

[umbral spire]

that exactly or with G.GAME.current_round.current_hand prefixed?

[daring fern]

It would be exactly that.

[umbral spire]

Ah ok

[vale grove]

how do i make a joker retrigger itself?

[daring fern]

if context.retrigger_joker_check and context.other_card == card then return {repetitions = 1} end

[vale grove]

card.ability.extra.repetitions = card.ability.extra.repetitions + 1
this joker can increase the amount of times it retrigger itself, is this compatible with that?

[daring fern]

Yes, just replace 1 with card.ability.extra.repetitions

[vale grove]

alr thank youi\

[umbral spire]

still didn't work, should it not be in an if context.joker_main then?

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            if mult == hand_chips then
                return { xmult = 5 }
            end
        end
    end,

or is it the way I'm testing?
im using the plasma deck and then just playing a hand, but after the 'balanced' message it doesn't do anything

[wintry solar]

Are you 100% sure they are equal

[umbral spire]

^ @wintry solar

[wintry solar]

Then its the way you are testing, the balance from plasma happens after joker main

[umbral spire]

oh, then how would I test it.

[umbral spire]

or actually, can I just use context.afterinstead?

[daring fern]

Play a level 1 High Card with a 4 and 2 Jokers.

[umbral spire]

wdym by 2 jokers?

[daring fern]

The joker called Joker

[umbral spire]

oh

[vale grove]

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.setting_blind and not context.blueprint then
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event{func = function()
                (context.blueprint_card or card):juice_up(0.8, 0.8)

                for _, j in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
                    if j ~= card and not j.getting_sliced then
                        local key = j.config and j.config.center and j.config.center.key
                        if key then
                             elseif key:find("selzer") then
                                 card.ability.extra.repetitions = card.ability.extra.repetitions + 1
                                j.getting_sliced = true
                                j:start_dissolve({G.C.RED}, nil, 1.6)
                            end
                            
                        end
                    end
                end

                return true
            end})

            return {
                message = "His hunger grows...",
            }
        elseif context.joker_main then
            return {
                mult = card.ability.extra.mult,
                chips = card.ability.extra.chips,
                Xmult = card.ability.extra.Xmult,
            }
        else if context.retrigger_joker_check and context.other_card == card then return {repetitions = card.ability.extra.repetitions} end
        end

i currently have this and idk why it isnt working (the full method has every food joker but its too long for a discord message lol)

[daring fern]

Do you have retriggers enabled?

[vale grove]

    config = {extra = {mult = 0, chips = 0, dollars = 0, Xmult = 1, h_size = 0, price = 2, repetitions = 0 }},
        return {vars = {card.ability.extra.mult, card.ability.extra.chips, card.ability.extra.h_size, card.ability.extra.dollars, card.ability.extra.Xmult, card.ability.extra.repetitions}}

this is currently all it has lol

i know it says zero but destroying the selzer does make the number go up in my loc_txt

[slim ferry]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#what-are-optional-features

enabled as in the optional feature for retriggering jokers

[vale grove]

do i need to enable this?

SMODS.current_mod.optional_features = {
retrigger_joker = true,
post_trigger = true,
quantum_enhancements = true,
cardareas = {
discard = true,
deck = true
}
}

or well

[slim ferry]

well only retrigger_joker

[vale grove]

only the retrigger joker

yeah\

[slim ferry]

yeah

you need to just put that somewhere

main file is what people usually do

[vale grove]

probably main.lua right

yeah

[vale grove]

oh yeah @slim ferry

update = function(self, card, dt)
G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 8
end,
remove_from_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 4
end

this works

but sometimes even when i dont have the joke the gamepseed just goes up

[slim ferry]

uh

try adding if card.area ~= G.shop_jokers and card.area ~= G.pack_cards to the update

so it doesnt trigger when its in the shop or in a booster

[vale grove]

how do you add an ifstatement to something outside of calculate?

or do i do it inside of update?

inside of update got it

it still happend when i hover over it in the collection 😭\

[slim ferry]

eyah

oh

uhh

actually

you should check if card:can_calculate()

that probably works better

[vale grove]

            update = function(self, card, dt)
         if card:can_calculate() then
            G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 8
            end

so like this right?

[slim ferry]

yeah

though idk if it likes running can_calculate every frame but 🤷 youll see ig

[vale grove]

lol

[slim ferry]

if it doesnt like that just make it G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED ~= 8 and card:can_calculate()

[vale grove]

that didnt work

it still does the game speed up when i hover over it sadly

[slim ferry]

oh

fuck idk then

[vale grove]

well this was close

[slim ferry]

uhhh just check for not the collection cardarea

idk what that one is tho

[vale grove]

does that even exist?

[slim ferry]

yeah

[vale grove]

also its not even over hovering just seeing it in collection

[vale grove]

couldnt i also technically swap out remove from deck to not in deck?

            update = function(self, card, dt)
         if card.area ~= G.shop_jokers and card.area ~= G.pack_cards then
            G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 8
            end
            remove_from_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
                G.SETTINGS.GAMESPEED = 4
            end
        end
```because this is what the full thing looks like

but couldnt i added a check on if its on in deck?

[slim ferry]

actually thats a good idea

just set like

card.ability.extra.active in add_to_deck or smth

and then check that in update

[vale grove]

so instead of update do add_to_deck?

wait but then you can just change it cant you?

[slim ferry]

no like

keep update

just set some value on the joker in add_to_deck

and check if that value is set in update

so it only does something if the card is in your deck

[vale grove]

ohhh so like

in add to deck i add local test = true

and then remove from deck local test = false

and then in update if local test = true then gamespeed up

[slim ferry]

well you would have to store it in card.ability since local variables dont exist outside of the function where you create them

[vale grove]

wait wdym store it in card.ability?

[slim ferry]

do like

[slim ferry]

like this

and then check that value in update

[vale grove]

            add_to_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
                 card.ability.extra.active = true
            end
```so like this?

and then set update to if card.ability.extra.active = true then game speed up?

[slim ferry]

yeah

[lament agate]

how would you check if a player played on a certain dec

deck

[maiden phoenix]

G.GAME.selected_back

[lament agate]

thanks

[slim ferry]

.effect.center.key

[lament agate]

that too?

[slim ferry]

G.GAME.selected_back.effect.center.key

is the think

thing

afaik

[lament agate]

also how would you detect the first joker trigger

[bleak shore]

hi guys , i was wondering why the message didn't show , is it because "add_card" erase it ?

[slim ferry]

you shouldnt return SMODS.add_card regardless

also is the joker even triggering at all

[bleak shore]

yup is it triggering , else i wouldn't be here

[bleak shore]

nvm , found the problem

[turbid igloo]

is there a way to check what number you scored??

[obtuse silo]

ok so i need a way to identify the current deck in use

[obtuse silo]

i mean to get the score of your hand you can just multiply hand_chips by mult

[maiden phoenix]

Scroll up a little

[daring fern]

No, it's SMODS.calculate_round_score()

[obtuse silo]

oh right

[dusty fractal]

how does card.facing work

[slim ferry]

if card.facing is "back" then the card is face down

if its "front" then its face up

[fluid steppe]

anyone have any idea

[slim ferry]

do you have "only show commands" turned on in the debugplus settings

[fluid steppe]

lemme check

no

[dusty fractal]

okay but it doesnt seem to be set by flip()?

[slim ferry]

it should be

[dusty fractal]

oh hmm it is but its not being read properly

[wicked heron]

Has anyone had any experience adding/removing keys from a joker.config.extra table dynamically during gameplay? I know config doesn't play well with tables sometimes

[slim ferry]

joker config tables should work just fine with tables in them

all that doesnt work is storing functions and gameobjects in them

[wicked heron]

ok, g2k, ty

[obtuse silo]

hold on
is there a way to identify when a run has been won?

[slim ferry]

hook win_game

is probably the best option

[turbid igloo]

ok thanks

[normal crest]

usually happens when you're stuck in an infinite loop, what is the code?

[fluid steppe]

uh one sec

        card.ability.ijhpool = {}
        local random_seed = (G.GAME and G.GAME.pseudorandom.seed or "")..G.hypr.ijhpsr
        for i=1,4 do
            local a = 'dgfhkasdgfashf'
            local fl = true
            while fl or where(card.ability.ijhpool,a) do
                fl = false
                random_seed = random_seed..pseudoseed(random_seed)
                a=pseudorandom_element(G.hypr.ijhjokers,pseudoseed(random_seed)).key
            end
            card.ability.ijhpool[i]=a
        end

where() is defined dw

where(v,t) is a function that returns where v is in a table t, or nil if it's not in there

[daring fern]

What is the goal?

[fluid steppe]

actually wait

hold on

function where(t, thing)
    if not t then return end
    for k, v in ipairs(t) do
        if v == thing then
            return k
        end
    end
end

i misremembered how my own function works

or wait

[normal crest]

Are you trying to pick 4 different jokers from a list of jokers

[fluid steppe]

no that should work

[fluid steppe]

kinda yea

that's what card.ability.ijhpool is

it's the keys not the joker prototypes themselves but that should work

[normal crest]

I don't think that code is the source of the crash

what is after that?

[fluid steppe]

actually lemme not clog chat

[daring fern]

#💻・modding-dev message

[fluid steppe]

oh uh

oh i should prob get rid of dblog()

its not doing anything

[obtuse silo]

what parameters would i need for the function

[slim ferry]

none

[neon plank]

Can you add another "friends of Jimbo" like skin to the cards if you have the textures for one made?

[fluid steppe]

yeag

[neon plank]

oh shit thanks

[normal crest]

honestly I'm not sure, sorry

[fluid steppe]

its fine

[normal crest]

if I had to guess the problem is with the ijhmanage function

[fluid steppe]

nnnope

                func = function()
                    if not G.hypr.ijhpsr then G.hypr.ijhpsr = 0 end
                    G.hypr.ijhpsr = G.hypr.ijhpsr + (G.GAME and pseudoseed(G.GAME.pseudorandom.seed) or math.random())
                    local random_seed = (G.GAME and G.GAME.pseudorandom.seed or "")..G.hypr.ijhpsr
                    ijhmanage(card,pseudorandom_element(card.ability.ijhpool))
                    play_sound('tarot2')
                    card:flip()
                    assert(false,'Breakpoint Reached!')
                    return true
                end

this reaches the breakpoint

[neon plank]

how would you destroy a specific card in hand via a joker if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play function?

sorry for all the surface level questions, im quite new to lua 😅

also is there a way to make it so that sounds don't increase in pitch with each card played?

[gaunt folio]

I made a custom rank, how do i make this card identify it? (its supposed to be like a baron clone)

[umbral spire]

is there a "register all" function for assets like there is for sounds?

[neon plank]

is there a way to quick refresh a mod in smodded?

(dont want to have to reboot every time imakea small change)

[chrome widget]

I believe someone put up a soft reset PR but it's not merged yet

[neon plank]

👍

[daring fern]

You wouldn't, you would use context.destroy_card

[neon plank]

thank you

[gaunt folio]

nvm i got it

[neon plank]

thank you :)

[turbid solstice]

Is there some type of method or function that can be used to influence a rarities weight in the shop including Legendaries? (Basically, I want a very low chance for legendaries to always be in the shop) I've been trying to find it on my own but can't find any documentation or messages here that helps me.

[daring fern]

Did you do context.other_card:get_id() == SMODS.Ranks['modprefix_key'].id?

[gaunt folio]

weirdly i did just rank "15" and it worked

but that might be a better solution ngl

[daring fern]

Yes, if you have other mods installed that number could be higher.

[gaunt folio]

yeah ill fix that

k it works thanks

[viral steppe]

Hey! Is there some beginner documentation or templates to help with learning to mod Balatro?

[daring fern]

#1349064230825103441 message

[viral steppe]

Thank you!

[distant junco]

yo would
if card.ability.extra.lines[card.ability.extra.tries][i] ~= (11 or 12 or 13 or 14) then

do what i think it would

[daring fern]

No.

[distant junco]

alright then ill do it the big way then

[daring fern]

You could do if not ({11=1,12=1,13=1,14=1})[card.ability.extra.lines[card.ability.extra.tries][i]]

[distant junco]

could you explain what thats doing please

[daring fern]

It's checking if there isn't an index of card.ability.extra.lines[card.ability.extra.tries][i] in {11=1,12=1,13=1,14=1}

[distant junco]

why do they all =1

[neon plank]

how would i destroy a random card from the played hand?

[daring fern]

It can be any truthy value but 1 is the shortest I think.

[neon plank]

nvm i got it working like this

SMODS.destroy_cards(full_hand[math.floor(pseudorandom('sqarefrom128')*(#full_hand-0+1))+0])```

[daring fern]

No, use pseudorandom_element

[distant junco]

if context.destroy_card and context.cardarea == G.play and not context.blueprint then
    if context.scoring_hand[pseudorandom('seed',1,#contex.scoring_hand)]
        return {
            remove = true
        }
    end
end```

[daring fern]

No, that would destroy every played and scoring card also it's context not contex.

[distant junco]

would it

[daring fern]

Yes.

[distant junco]

minor spelling mistake

[distant junco]

fuck

psa: never follow my advice ever

[neon plank]

oh, i didnt catch that, thanks :)

is SMODS.destroy_cards(pseudorandom_element(full_hand, pseudoseed('sqarefrom128'))) correct?

[daring fern]

Yes.

[viscid talon]

back on my bullshit

the wheelbarrow joker gives +8 mult when there are flipped cards present