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[acoustic drum]

Gets the next element of a table while iterating over it
It's mostly used to check if a table is empty or not (i.e. if next(...) returns something then there is at least 1 element, otherwise it's empty)

[umbral spire]

Ah

why not just do if table[1] then ?

[acoustic drum]

Because some tables might have string keys, like local t = {["Apples"] = 4}. There is 1 element in the table but its key isn't 1

Doing table[1] would return nil in this case

[umbral spire]

oh I see.

[umbral spire]

and what about #table > 1 (or > 0)

[slim ferry]

#table will be 0 if it has no numbered indexes

[acoustic drum]

#table isn't actually the amount of items in the table, it's just the biggest numeric index inside the table

[umbral spire]

Oh, I thought it was.

[acoustic drum]

Yeah it's always explained as table size since it's almost always the case with array-like tables

[slim ferry]

More specifically it just returns some number n where t[n] ~= nil and t[n+1] == nil

[acoustic drum]

I thought it was like that for years

[umbral spire]

I see...

[slim ferry]

So having gaps if you have those for whatever reason can also lead to wierd behaviour

[acoustic drum]

Yeah

Like if you had a table local t = {[1000] = true} then #t would be 1000

[umbral spire]

mime does if context.repetition and context.cardarea == G.hand and (next(context.card_effects[1]) or #context.card_effects > 1) then (vanillaremade)

why do you do next(context.card_effects>>**[1]**<<) ?

what's the point of the [1]

[umbral spire]

Yeah

[acoustic drum]

Not 100% sure how context.card_effects works but I think it's to check if there were any effects that activated?

[umbral spire]

That makes sense

[acoustic drum]

With stuff like this it's usually weirdly programmed and instead of just making a list of all effects the game stores a list of tables, and every table is the list of all the effects of a single card (i.e. if you had 2 jokers that do 3 things each, the game would store 2 tables each containing the 3 effects)

Again, not 100% sure though

[slim ferry]

i think context.card_effects would contain the eval_card results?

[slim ferry]

Or somethinng similar

[acoustic drum]

Could be

The wiki says
context.card_effects -- this is a table of effects that has been calculated during the end of round step

[umbral spire]

Oh ok.

[acoustic drum]

Can you make a custom rarity poll for SMODS.create_card()?
Like, if I had a custom pool of jokers made with SMODS.ObjectType() and wanted to create a random joker out of that pool but with different probabilities so a Legendary could also spawn, how would I do that? The documentation makes it seem you can only choose the exact rarity or do nothing

[reef bobcat]

    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.xmult, card.ability.extra.dollars } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if G.GAME.dollars => card.ability.extra.dollars then
            return {
                    xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult
                }
            end
        end,
    }```

this should give x3 mult if you have more than the specified dollars but the game crashes, says there's no ```=``` near ```then```

[acoustic drum]

You inverted the > and = near the if, it's supposed to be if G.GAME.dollars >= card.ability.extra.dollars then

[red flower]

the object type needs to support rarities

[reef bobcat]

thank you, can't believe i missed that

tho now it's multiplying each time i select a card

lmao

[red flower]

you need a context check

probably context.joker_main in this case

[reef bobcat]

yeah i figured ;-;

[acoustic drum]

Ohhh alright, completely missed that, thanks!

[acoustic drum]

Happens

[queen crescent]

uhm

[reef bobcat]

        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.creates, card.ability.extra.dollars } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.setting_blind and G.GAME.dollars >= card.ability.extra.dollars then
            local jokers_to_create = math.min(card.ability.extra.creates,
                G.jokers.config.card_limit - (#G.jokers.cards + G.GAME.joker_buffer))
            G.GAME.joker_buffer = G.GAME.joker_buffer + jokers_to_create
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function()
                    for _ = 1, jokers_to_create do
                        SMODS.add_card {
                            set = 'Joker',
                            edition = 'e_negative',
                        }
                        G.GAME.joker_buffer = 0
                    end
                    return true
                end```

tried a few different things but idk how to get this to ignore joker slots

[red flower]

do you want it to create even if the slots are full?

[reef bobcat]

yeah but dont worry i figured it out

[bright ivy]

Anyone have thoughts on this joker:

[fading rivet]

worse jimbo

[umbral spire]

How do I create a Joker with a specific rarity?

[cerulean rose]

best way for a sticker to trigger an effect when its joker is added/removed?

[elder rune]

Like changing its rarity from what it normally is?

[umbral spire]

No. Spawn a random joker that's of specified rarity.

[umbral spire]

^

[elder rune]

Oh

I think smods does that somewhere idk

[faint yacht]

get_current_pool function, that's to be involved.

[cerulean rose]

riff raff

top-up tag

wraith

uncommon tag

rare tag

[elder rune]

So true tho

[frosty dock]

SMODS.add_card accepts a rarity field

[cerulean rose]

the soul

[umbral spire]

o

[umbral spire]

can it be rarity = "Legendary" ? Because soul uses legendary = true?

[cerulean rose]

no, rarity = 4 per the smods documentation

[shell timber]

string rarities are only used for modded rarities

[red flower]

yes it can

[umbral spire]

Riff-raff (VanillaRemade) uses rarity = "Common".

[cerulean rose]

VanillaRemade has its own common rarity

[red flower]

smods.add_card takes strings for vanilla rarities

[umbral spire]

Oh?

[cerulean rose]

so that is not the vanilla one

[red flower]

pls stop misinforming

[umbral spire]

No wait

then it would be

vanillaremade_Common

[red flower]

(it also takes the numbers i mean in addition to)

[shell timber]

oh, sorry

[umbral spire]

https://giphy.com/gifs/aura-benjammins-ara-zWxXlcFYJZ6BaoL2ce

-# cringe gif 😭

[round lion]

they keep saying dawg takes down other gifs.

[bright ivy]

Is there a context to see if a joker card is destroyed?

[round lion]

context.joker_type_destroyed

and context.card.area == G.jokers

[bright ivy]

thanks

[short mauve]

how do i make a deck that has the same effect as green stake?

[shell timber]

increased scaling?

just increment the variable that green stake does when you buy it and decrement it when you lose it

[short mauve]

i did not know you can buy decks

wait can i just do that

[shell timber]

oh i thought you meant joker

the idea still applies

[short mauve]

oh thanks

[frosty dock]

have y'all never bought playing card decks irl?

that's literally the way to obtain them

[normal crest]

no I haven't

[median veldt]

i just had the most shit idea for a joker

in essence it would do background rolls to add a random effect (from a list or stolen from an existing joker) to an internal list and another roll to decide if it'll switch the effect that it currently has, and one more roll to decide which effect from its own list to switch to

would be a pain to make but yk

what rarity would that even BE

[hushed field]

That's how the RNJoker in Cryptid works, I think, so you could use that for reference

[median veldt]

i suppose

cryptid's codebase is a little hard to parse though

okay I do NOT know how to make cardareas

sigh

line 298 is table.insert(card.ability.storage.cards, _card)

so i'm assuming it didn't init properly

copy the cards to a hidden cardarea

update, removed the code from the old version of the joker that didn't use cardareas and didnt work with modifiers

one sec

[red flower]

you shouldn't save a cardarea to card.ability

[median veldt]

ah

[red flower]

save it to G like i said before

[median veldt]

oh did you say that

i don't think i saw that

so like this

some of the parameters will be changed later i just need to test it out

[red flower]

yes

[median veldt]

one moment

[hushed field]

If there are two sandcastles, how do they interact?

would cards be returned regardless of which one I sell?

[median veldt]

hm.

[red flower]

did you restart the run to test

[median veldt]

with the old version, yes
with the new version, ideally

[red flower]

or add a new copy

[median veldt]

yeah

[hushed field]

Ah, that's good, haha, because that's way easier to set up 😛

[median veldt]

it's like each sandcastle is a box and u put the cards in the box

so if u have two you'd end up with two copies of every card

[red flower]

try removing the :init

[hushed field]

I would not use the word return in that case, but that's me being pendantic, haha

I'd use the word create.

[median veldt]

also why is it that if i restart the game it leaves behind a vestigial console log

[hushed field]

that's just what happens if you restart with a hotkey

[red flower]

lovely stuff, it gets fixed next update

[median veldt]

sweet

[hushed field]

I've got a system like this in Kino, which could work as reference, as I've had to deal with a bunch of strange issues related to how cards are saved and loaded that stem from doing something like this. But if it's not the cards being moved, but more so a copy being made, you might be better off looking into the code for the #1331462654732144721 graveyard, I think

[median veldt]

whoops

big cardarea

[red flower]

after you create the area you can do area.states.visible = false

and it should disable the collision too

[umbral zodiac]

big and fat cards

[median veldt]

okay cool there they are

now i just gotta finish the code and then make the cardarea invisible

[hushed field]

make sure to test this kind of stuff with saving and loading runs, btw. Lots of potential for weird interactions

[red flower]

ah you also need to recreate the area on load i forgot about that

[median veldt]

oh yeah true

i dont know how to do that

[hushed field]

and save each card, and disable each card from being read as an existing playing card

otherwise the game will add them to your deck again on load

[red flower]

if it's just one area i would actually recommend setting up SMODS.current_mod.custom_card_areas instead of add_to_deck

[median veldt]

oh?

[red flower]

im not sure if this is in the release lol

[median veldt]

Lets Find Out

[red flower]

but it should be out today or tomorrow anyway

[red flower]

this take care of all the loading stuff

[median veldt]

should be right

[red flower]

game instead of gamea but yes

[median veldt]

LFMAO

WHOOPS

[acoustic drum]

How do I create a custom info field for joker cards that i can read?
I've already added something like this:

evo_info = {
    key = 'lmd_ultra'
},

to one of my jokers inside the SMODS.Joker() table but when I try to check it with G.jokers.highlighted[1].evo_info it says the field evo_info is always nil. It might have to do with it not being a center but I'm not sure, it's my first time working with custom info.

[faint yacht]

Did you spawn a fresh copy?

[red flower]

G.jokers.highlighted[1].config.center.evo_info

[acoustic drum]

Oh alr thanks, didn't know it was so simple

[median veldt]

i mean upon reload the deck skin died but that's not a problem considering that it'll be hidden

okay actually i should set it back to hand to make sure i can actually see the cards to ensure they're the right cards

funny that the z order of the cards in this area is irrelevant, you can shuffle them around but some will be shown above others
again, doesn't matter, but it's funny

hmm alright, new problem

haven't actually made the code for selling the joker yet but

how's it gonna know which cards belong to which sandcastle?

i guess I could in theory modify it slightly to where if you sell one, it sells all of them and just gives you the entirety of the cardarea

[red flower]

thats why i said before that you would need multiple areas lol

you can tag each card probably too

[median veldt]

mm yeah true but I'm not sure how easy that'd be

[median veldt]

?

[red flower]

like card.ability.from_sandcatle1 for example

in both cases you would need to give each card a unique id

[median veldt]

can you even do that

i guess I could just
do a random number

in ability somewhere

[red flower]

which would be just doing G.GAME.modprefix_count = (G.GAME.modprefix_count or 0) +1

[median veldt]

Oh

[red flower]

sorry im a slow typer

[median veldt]

which function would that be in, add_to_deck?

[red flower]

yes

[median veldt]

give me a minute

wait I don't see how that actually gives each card a unique id

[red flower]

i meant each joker

[median veldt]

yeah ik

ordo i not need the removal

[red flower]

so then you would tag the cards (or the cardareas if you go that route) with playing_card.ability.["from_sandcastle".. count] = true

[hushed field]

If you need to assign each card the source joker that destroyed it, I really recommend referencing the Abduction code from #1340334060597285025. Abduction is almost exactly this system, except it doesn't trigger destroy effects

[median veldt]

i might not be understanding this properly but

wouldn't that just

give each card from_sandcastle1 and then when you have two of them it would give each card from_sandcastle2

[hushed field]

I ran into a bunch of interesting issues while setting that up, so even if the systems are more separate, it might give you some insight. One of the issues I had with it was animation timing

[median veldt]

like that doesn't really tell me which specific one it comes from

[red flower]

oops forgot the important part lol

joker.ability.extra.id = count in add_to_deck

[median veldt]

ah

figured actually

i was about to ask that

so, all in all, something like this

[red flower]

dont decrease on remove

[hushed field]

also, you do not want to decrease the count in this case

[median veldt]

ok

yea fair

[hushed field]

as you'll be able to have multiple jokers with the same ID, and it'd give you a lot of issues with sell order

[red flower]

unless the player manages to get 1e308 of the joker nothing will happen

[median veldt]

trust

[red flower]

also card.ability[ without the .

[median veldt]

that one's on you lol

[red flower]

:3

[hushed field]

https://github.com/icyethics/Kino/blob/main/src/abduction.lua

Here's my code for the abduction system, btw.

which I'm realizing now I should update in part, because I check for hardcoded qualities, rather than use can_calculate

[median veldt]

Whoops

forgot to put a dummy value in here

[mighty yarrow]

So I was trying to fix a huge lag spike and now my game just says this does anyone know how to fix this (I have tried a lot of potential fixes but none of them worked, I need the mod out by tomorrow)

[red flower]

what's the code for beautifulart

[median veldt]

uuuh i think i might want to see your joker code

[red flower]

i suspect the rarity is wrong

[median veldt]

mm yeah

[mighty yarrow]

SMODS.Joker{ --Beautiful Art
key = "beautifulart",
config = {
extra = {
odds = 1,
emult0 = 100
}
},
loc_txt = {
['name'] = 'Beautiful Art',
['text'] = {
[1] = 'WOW TIMMY THIS IS THE BEST',
[2] = 'ART IVE EVER SEEN'
},
['unlock'] = {
[1] = 'Unlocked by default.'
}
},
pos = {
x = 3,
y = 0
},
display_size = {
w = 71 * 1,
h = 95 * 1
},
cost = 50,
rarity = "balatrop_transending",
blueprint_compat = true,
eternal_compat = true,
perishable_compat = true,
unlocked = true,
discovered = true,
atlas = 'CustomJokers',
pools = { ["balatrop_balatrop_jokers"] = true },

loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
    
    local new_numerator, new_denominator = SMODS.get_probability_vars(card, 1, card.ability.extra.odds, 'j_balatrop_beautifulart') 
    return {vars = {new_numerator, new_denominator}}
end,

calculate = function(self, card, context)
    if context.individual and context.cardarea == G.play  then
        if true then
            if SMODS.pseudorandom_probability(card, 'group_0_e2efa2bc', 1, card.ability.extra.odds, 'j_balatrop_beautifulart', false) then
                SMODS.calculate_effect({e_mult = 100}, card)
                card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil, {message = "fridge", colour = G.C.DARK_EDITION})
                SMODS.calculate_effect({balance = true}, card)
            end
        end
    end
end

}

[median veldt]

may i see your code for balatrop_transending

ohwaitno

uh ok i don't know how custom pools work but that could also be defined wrong

[red flower]

yeah it's either of those

[mighty yarrow]

it was because i put a typo in transcending

i just noticed

[median veldt]

lol

k is this. right

woops not _card but once i fix that yeah

[red flower]

card:add_to_deck()

[median veldt]

ah shit

[red flower]

also you need to emplace it somewhere

the hand or the deck

[median veldt]

saw that when looking at vremade, what's that

[red flower]

G.playing_cards puts it in the list of all the cards but not in an area
G.deck:emplace(card) would put it in the deck area

[median veldt]

k so

[red flower]

i think thats correct

[median veldt]

lets test

whoops

didn't notice i wrote for...then instead of for...do

[red flower]

the lua extension shouts at me for that i do it often lol

[median veldt]

i dont use vscode anymore but this code editor doesnt have a lua extension yet lol

???

oh whoops

maybe i shouldn't have done _, card

uh

they jus flipped over

they did get added to the deck though

[hushed field]

playing cards being visible isn't their default, iirc most areas would default to them being face down

[median veldt]

oh i actually like NEED to add something to my "increase joker values" card that doesn't affect the id LMAO

what the fuck?

[median veldt]

yeah but they shouldn't be there anymore at all

[red flower]

oh i forgot about something imporant again

[median veldt]

it happens

[red flower]

and i looked it up too lol

[median veldt]

what'd we miss

[hushed field]

you're like a tutorial npc explaining mechanics, damn

[median veldt]

LMAO

[red flower]

area:remove_card(card)

[hushed field]

N wanted to say you can hold shift to run

[red flower]

before emplacing

[median veldt]

ah

why r u still here

[umbral zodiac]

what would be the best way to add/remove a variable amount of shop slots smoothly

[median veldt]

there was two cards and i sold the sandcastle and that one's still here

[red flower]

evil card

[median veldt]

check vremade for that one voucher im guessing

[umbral zodiac]

nah this is like uhh

[median veldt]

it didnt even get added what the hell

[red flower]

im guessing if you remove cards while looping it doesnt reach it

[umbral zodiac]

i want it to change w/o requiring manually changing like the smods card area stuff

[median veldt]

yeah that is exactly what's happening it's only removing one card lol

[umbral zodiac]

because it would just be a bit more painful for me if i implemented starts / ends to what im doing

[median veldt]

unfortunately i think you might have to

[red flower]

i would store the cards in a local list and then remove them

[red flower]

wdym

[primal robin]

setup update function which checks does amount of slots matches amount you need and if not, use smods function to adjust it?

[umbral zodiac]

like how you can just change extra_slots_used on a card and itll update accordingly

is there a way to do something similar for shop slots with a different variable

[red flower]

i dont think so

[umbral zodiac]

bleh

[red flower]

seems very hardcoded

[umbral zodiac]

im just gonna do the jank solution and delete the last card in the shop i guess

[median veldt]

Can I ask like

Why

[primal robin]

This card will reappear when you redeem overstock

[median veldt]

am I overcoding this

[umbral zodiac]

this is intended to be a temporary -1 shop slot effect but its based on a number that changes fairly often so if anything i'd prefer not to check every time it updates to see if the -1 shop slot effect should apply or not

[primal robin]

or rather new card will take it place so amount of slots will not change

[red flower]

i think this will break because youre removing after emplacing

[median veldt]

i wonder if change_shop_size(-1) would work

[red flower]

just do all the adding emplacing stuff in the bottom loop

[median veldt]

hm so what just move emplace to the second loop? yeah ok

[umbral zodiac]

i mean it'd do that properly but then i would have to check for when it updates again to see if it should re-add or not

and then i'd also probably have to store if it already took away one or not

[median veldt]

wait, all of it?

[umbral zodiac]

i just wanted to see if there was a way that avoided that jank

[median veldt]

like this??

or like this

[red flower]

either

[median veldt]

holding back tears emoji

hold on

[red flower]

also make cards to remove a local

[median veldt]

ok cool it works properly

[median veldt]

is it not? i forget how lua owrks

well it is now

ok now to test tbhis

this should work right

No, It Doesnt

well i guess the area might be invisible but

[primal robin]

it does. it's in 0,0 pos with 0,0 size

[red flower]

the cards should be invisible too if the area is invisible

so thats weird

[median veldt]

just checked it is in fact invisible

and like i mean technically? even if the cards inside were invisible, wouldn't that animation of them getting moved into the area still be shown

[red flower]

probably

[median veldt]

i would prefer if that did not happen

[red flower]

like,

[median veldt]

here hold on

[hushed field]

does this not relate to cardarea type as well?

[red flower]

possibly

[median veldt]

yeah,, the area is in fact invisible

oh shit yeah it might be the type

[red flower]

ah yeah the hand is also invisible in vanilla, no?

[median veldt]

oh yeah

actually i can check

nope

[red flower]

well,

[hushed field]

checking the code for it, it seems to have some particularities, but it seems to me like setting the state to visible should just hide it, regardless, as that return is the first thing that code does. I wonder if it doesn't affect cards that get added after the state is changed?

[median veldt]

oh true

[red flower]

it definitely does apply to cards added after for me

[hushed field]

as in, for the joker area?

[red flower]

but it might be a type thing as well

yeah i always do the joker type

[hushed field]

Cause I suspect there might be something that syncs the visible state for cards with their area, but only in certain cases

[red flower]

anyway, the area type doesnt matter if its invisible

[median veldt]

I fear I accidentally fucked up and now I need to start the run over LMFAOOO

yeah anyway area type didnt do anything

do cards have the same states?

maybe I could just set their state to invisible when they're created

[red flower]

yes

[median veldt]

oh that actually worked

[rigid solar]

I got sent this bug report but I have honestly no idea what's even happening there, any idea? Apparently it's tied to negative hand level but I don't see how exactly

the log only shows calls to draw functions which I havent touched in any way

[frosty dock]

oh hey a useless crash report

[median veldt]

yeah that literally does not mean anything

[rigid solar]

ok glad to see it's not useless to just me lol

[median veldt]

i mean clearly there's a bug in your code but that crash report doesnt mean anything

[frosty dock]

it appears this crash happens somewhat frequently when using cryptid with the wrong smods version

not sure rn what exactly that's about, but might be a similar case

would be good to know if it still happens with the latest dev version of smods

[red flower]

if you use a table when you return messages it will do this crash

because eremel added the ability to use ui elements in messages

[red flower]

it is fixed

[rigid solar]

there's no return in the use function of the consumable that allegedly caused the crash

and can_use is just return true

[red flower]

does it use attention_text or smods.calculate_effect

actually, whats the code lol

[rigid solar]

pick a random hand, 1 in 3 to decrease its level by 2 otherwise increase it

i have nothing besides whoever reported the bug's words to know that this is the thing that crashed
they could be wrong and the cause could be anything else, idk

[red flower]

hmm i dont see how this would do it

[frosty dock]

good to know, I've seen instances of the crash before that was a thing but I didn't know about / remember that change happening

[rigid solar]

i'll ignore it for now and told them to be more precise on what happened if they get it again

[red flower]

yeah it also happens every time you make ui wrong

[frosty dock]

hm, could also be something going on within the level up UI logic

[frosty dock]

yeah, that I know. at root it's trying to treat something as a UI element that isn't

[rigid solar]

they said it's leveling down to -3 that did this, but i leveled multiple hands to -3 on my end and it didnt do anything

[faint yacht]

fwiw, SMODS.is_poker_hand_visible(v).

[frosty dock]

sanity check, do all the versions match between the report and what you're running?

[red flower]

thank you for promoting my function

[daring fern]

21

[rigid solar]

i think i have lovely .9 instead of .8, but the rest is the same

[frosty dock]

mkay that shouldn't matter

[rigid solar]

assumed so too

[thorn ingot]

Do any of you know if it's possible to reference the perishable sticker in localization?

Something like "T:j_mail", but for perishable.

[frosty dock]

I don't think that's a thing yet

[thorn ingot]

damn, Life.

thanks

[hardy vessel]

I'm trying to make a sticker for playing cards that gives xmult of some kind, but no luck. (No message or anything)

 calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.individual then
            if context.cardarea == G.hand and not context.end_of_round then
                return {
                    xmult = 1.5,
                    message_card = context.other_card
                }
            end
        end
    end,```

[red flower]

main_scoring instead of individual

[hardy vessel]

working, ty

[sturdy compass]

New smods release get crackin’ dev chat

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/1501a

[rapid stag]

https://giphy.com/gifs/anime-bocchi-the-rock-UsVX1QDSLlCjw8PpJS

now i have to migrate my draw to hand and main menu card stuff to this

...wait... how... would i?

uh, the menu card stuff, that is.

i have like a whole thing that cycles the card out with other stuff - i populate a pool of stuff to be picked from at random and then every 20 seconds or so, the card in the main menu is replaced with it

[red flower]

you can keep that code and just create the card in menu_cards probably

[brave blade]

Has anyone figured out how to ban enhancements/editions/seals yet?

[daring fern]

G.GAME.banned_keys[key] = true

[brave blade]

Wait does that just work now?

I swear it didn't before

Yeah no it definitely doesn't work, they're still showing up from things like Incantation

[red flower]

incantation is just hardcoded to use all enhancements from what i see

it does call each individual in_pool but thats it

[median veldt]

wait is this a thing and does this work for cards themselves (namely tarots) i literally was given an idea for a consumable that this'd be perfect for

[red flower]

it works for consumables at least yes

[chrome harness]

What do I put in my main.lua file to be able to have/load other .lua files for less clutter?

[red flower]

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

theres code at the bottom of the question

[chrome harness]

Thanks never saw that page

[wild bison]

Hi, is there a way to edit the mult value of a boss blind in code? I am trying to make a boss blind that increases in value based on how many cards you have destroyed.

[sturdy compass]

Just developed a method to buffer Booster Pack openings and I feel so smart because of it

[bright ivy]

-- COPYCAT JOKER
SMODS.Joker {
    key = "test",

    in_pool = function(self, args)
        return true
    end,

    blueprint_compat = true,
    rarity = 3,
    cost = 9,

    loc_txt = {
        name = "Copycat",
        text = {
            "Imitates a random Joker.",
            "Changes after each hand.",
            "Currently imitating: {C:attention}#1#{}"
        }
    },

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

    set_ability = function(self, card, initial)
        card.ability.extra = card.ability.extra or {}
        card.ability.extra.copied_key = "j_joker" -- safe default
    end,

    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        local key = card.ability.extra and card.ability.extra.copied_key
        local copied = key and G.P_CENTERS[key]
        local name = copied and copied.name or "Copycat Joker"

        return {
            vars = { name },
            name_vars = { name }
        }
    end,

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        -- 🔁 Change when a blind is exited
        if context.end_of_round and not context.blueprint then
            local pool = {}

            for _, joker in ipairs(G.P_CENTER_POOLS.Joker) do
                -- ❌ Don't copy itself
                if joker.key ~= self.key then
                    pool[#pool + 1] = joker
                end
            end

            if #pool > 0 then
                local choice = pseudorandom_element(
                    pool,
                    pseudoseed("copycat_blind_change")
                )
                card.ability.extra.copied_key = choice.key
            end
        end
    end
}

How to find the text of the copied joker and add it as a tool tip on the side?

[frosty dock]

Just add its center to info_queue

[granite jay]

Anyone how to make it so through boss blinds, certain cards cannot score any base chips?

[daring fern]

Hook Card:get_chip_bonus

[granite jay]

thx

[hidden aspen]

is there a way to get a list of all enabled mods, and then check list of jokers that belong to that mod?

i wanna make a compatible effect that spawns a joker from a different currently enabled mod

[daring fern]

local mods = {}
for k, v in pairs(SMODS.Mods) do
    if not v.disabled and v.can_load then
        table.insert(mods, v)
    end
end
local mod = pseudorandom_element(mods, 'seed').id
local jokers = {}
for k, v in pairs(get_current_pool('Joker')) do
    if G.P_CENTERS[v] then
        if G.P_CENTERS[v].set == 'Joker' and G.P_CENTERS[v].original_mod and G.P_CENTERS[v].original_mod.id == mod then
            table.insert(jokers, G.P_CENTERS[v].key)
        end
    end
end
local key = pseudorandom_element(jokers, 'seed')
SMODS.add_card({key = key})

[wintry solar]

You absolutely don’t need to check the set of the centre

[hardy vessel]

Working on a playing card sticker that gives a dollar when held in hand during scoring, then removes itself. However, I don't want it to activate multiple times if it were to have something like a red seal or having mime in play. Is there some sort of check I can add to prevent the repetitions?

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        local sticker = self.config
        if context.main_scoring then
            if context.cardarea == G.hand and not context.end_of_round then
                G.GAME.dollar_buffer = (G.GAME.dollar_buffer or 0) + sticker.dollars
                G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                    func = function()
                        card.ability[self.key] = false
                        return true
                    end
                }))
                return {
                    dollars = sticker.dollars,
                    func = function()
                        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                            func = function()
                                G.GAME.dollar_buffer = 0
                                return true
                            end
                        }))
                    end
                }
            end
        end
        if context.after then
            G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
                func = function()
                    if card.ability[self.key] then
                        card:juice_up()
                        card.ability[self.key] = false
                    end
                    return true
                end
            }))
        end
    end,

[hidden aspen]

this works perfectly, except for the fact that mod can also be an ID of a disabled mod (which then results in a crash). is there some sort of way to check if Mod Object is active/pull from pool of active mods? because SMODS itself does know about which mods are loaded

wait is this actually because of Balatro Mod Manager?

[hardy vessel]

SMODS.Mods[original_mod.id] or {}).can_load maybe?

having this check should only allow something to work if the specified mod is currently active

[hidden aspen]

yes thank you, can_load is the right property

[hardy vessel]

i dont know the specifics, but it may help

[primal robin]

it is correct

[hidden aspen]

it doesnt seem to be documented on the wiki

[hidden aspen]

https://github.com/Steamodded/Wiki/pull/77 🗣️ hopefully it will be now

[hidden aspen]

what's get_current_pool('Joker') and why does it return 62 jokers? like i dont get the meaning of a "current pool", wouldnt that be every joker in the game?

[frosty dock]

current pool means it only includes the cards that are currently available and not blocked from spawning

which depends on what you've unlocked and what you currently own

[hidden aspen]

i see

[slim ferry]

does the inject function of an SMODS.ObjectType run after all centers have been injected already?

[frosty dock]

nope

[pastel kernel]

there should be an easier way to do this

--Checks if you have a Grandiose Rarity Joker
add_to_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
        G.GAME.grandiose_check = true
    end,
    remove_from_deck = function(self, card, from_debuff)
        G.GAME.grandiose_check = false
    end,

[mystic river]

the check should be a function that iterates through G.jokers.cards (and any custom areas you care about) and looks at the card's rarity directly

cause this method will fail if the player acquires a second one

[pastel kernel]

function has_rarity(rarity)
    if G.jokers then
        for _, v in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
            if v:is_rarity(rarity) then
                return true
            end
        end
    end
end
if has_rarity("busterb_Grandiose") then
    G.GAME.grandiose_check = true
end

i just put this on top of grandjokers.lua where all the grandiose jokers are

idk what i'm doing

[normal crest]

Remove the last if statement, since that'd only be ran once
You just wanna use has_rarity any time you'd check for G.GAME.grandiose_check

Also I wouldn't recommend making it a global function

[pastel kernel]

I’m using a lovely patch that changes the background color if a joker of a specific rarity is present

Right now my current tasks look like this.

[normal crest]

What does your patch look like

[pastel kernel]

ignore the special_colour

[normal crest]

Yeah so where you did G.GAME.grandiose_check == true you'd now replace with has_rarity("busterb_Grandiose")

[pastel kernel]

Ohh

[normal crest]

I only looked at it because you mentioned it

:p

[pastel kernel]

dawg

wdym attempting to call a global

so you only look for globals and not locals?

fuck you

[mystic river]

probably you typed local has_rarity in one file and then tried to call it in a different file
this is how scope works and lua does it that way on purpose

i would recommend putting any global functions in your mod's global table

[pastel kernel]

actually it's a function

[mystic river]

changes nothing

local function has_rarity is still local

[pastel kernel]

actually no, it's not a local

[mystic river]

then you may be attempting to call it before it is defined

[pastel kernel]

the entire snippet looks like this:

function has_rarity(rarity)
    if G.jokers then
        for _, v in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
            if v:is_rarity(rarity) then
                return true
            end
        end
    end
end```

[mystic river]

and where is that snippet?

[pastel kernel]

functionalities.lua

assert(SMODS.load_file("items/functionalities.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/gradients.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/rarities.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/pools.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/spectrals.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/infinity.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/packs.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/rarejoker.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/dreamyjokers.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/hyperjokers.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/deck.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/grandjokers.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/secret_jokers.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/edition.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/voucher.lua"))()
assert(SMODS.load_file("items/ace.lua"))()

[mystic river]

and is it called in any lovely patches?

[pastel kernel]

no?

[keen atlas]

did you try printing?

[pastel kernel]

printing what

[fading rivet]

anything

[mystic river]

just to confirm that you're reaching that part of the code

[keen atlas]

print"added has_rarity"
function has_rarity(rarity)
  ...

[pastel kernel]

ok so it printed

[mystic river]

hmm
is anything erasing has rarity later? search for has_rarity =

[pastel kernel]

so it turns out putting them all in one functions file breaks, so i just separated them, no more crashes but no noticable change

[pastel kernel]

search?

[mystic river]

like
search your mod files

grep, to use the Linux term

if you're using vscode there's a search tab for this

[pastel kernel]

erasing has_rarity? that's possible?

[mystic river]

it's a variable
if anything runs has_rarity = nil later (and isn't referring to its own local variable) then poof. it's gone

[pastel kernel]

i'll just rename my variable

in case has_rarity is already being used

[mystic river]

that's a good idea as well

[pastel kernel]

i

i don't think i have one unless every mod has a custom one by default

[mystic river]

you don't, but it's very simple to make

BusBuf = {}

or whatever you feel like calling it

[pastel kernel]

ok now i wanna make BB.grand_check if that's a valid whatchamacallit

[mystic river]

yeah, you can store functions in tables like that

[pastel kernel]

what like this?

BB.has_rarity = {
function bb_has_rarity(rarity)
    if G.jokers then
        for _, v in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
            if v:is_rarity(rarity) then
                return true
            end
        end
    end
end
}

[faint yacht]

BB.has_rarity = function(rarity)

Or function BB.has_rarity(rarity).

[pastel kernel]

BB.has_rarity = function(rarity)
    if G.jokers then
        for _, v in ipairs(G.jokers.cards) do
            if v:is_rarity(rarity) then
                return true
            end
        end
    end
end

like this?

it's already 1am, i'll handle this later...

[normal crest]

that's fine, as long as you had BB = {} somewhere before that

[hidden aspen]

im using this

localize({ type = "name_text", key = event.ability.extra.joker_key, set = "Joker" }),

to fetch localization for a joker.
however when key is a vanilla joker it fails.
how do i correcttly fetch the joker's name?

[daring fern]

No, that should work for every joker.

[hidden aspen]

okay i'll look through crash log again

[wild patrol]

how can I get this properly centered

    return {
        n = G.UIT.ROOT,
        config = {align = "cm", padding = 0.05, colour = G.C.BLACK},
        nodes = {
            { n = G.UIT.R, nodes = {
                { n = G.UIT.T, config = { align = "cm", text = "Status: ", scale = 0.4, colour = G.C.WHITE } },
                { n = G.UIT.T, config = { align = "cm", text = "Disconnected", scale = 0.4, colour = G.C.RED, id = "twitch_status" } },
            }},
            { n = G.UIT.R, nodes = { { n = G.UIT.T, config = { align = "cm", text = "Cooldown (s):", scale = 0.4, colour = G.C.WHITE } } } },
            { n = G.UIT.R, nodes = { create_text_input({
                max_length = 3, align = "cm", text = tostring(mod_obj.config.cooldown_sec), ref_table = mod_obj.config, ref_value = 'cooldown_sec',
            }) } },
            { n = G.UIT.R, nodes = {
                { n = G.UIT.C, config = { id = "connect_button", align = "cm", padding = 0.1, button = 'twitch_connect_trigger', colour = G.C.PURPLE, r = 0.1, minw = 2, minh = 0.6 },
                nodes = { { n = G.UIT.T, config = { align = "cm", text = "CONNECT", scale = 0.4, colour = G.C.WHITE, id = "connect_text" } } } }
            }},
        }
    }
end```

[blazing helm]

align = "cm" -> align = "tm" i think

[wild patrol]

didn't work ;/

[blazing helm]

then idfk i dont understand UI at all lmao

[wild patrol]

lol

[rapid stag]

the release was tested, right?

[hidden aspen]

yeah i looked at the wrong line, problem was with game not fetching the atlas for vanilla asset

[frosty dock]

Update lovely

you're way behind

[rapid stag]

oh, there was a lovely update

[frosty dock]

two, actually

the one you have is from over a year ago

[rapid stag]

wao

wait, so was the orphaned console issue solved

[red flower]

yes

[rapid stag]

yay

[frosty dock]

what did you update smods from, like 0827 or 1016?

[rapid stag]

1224a

the previous release

[frosty dock]

wait we were still supporting 0.7.1? that's wild

I didn't think that was the case

[rapid stag]

i was about to say, that's pretty crazy that that happened

[red flower]

i think 0.8 was just the macos fix and no much more lol

[frosty dock]

the crash above is actually from a 0.8.0 change

which is before on module patches being optional

we just weren't making use of it before preflight

[rapid stag]

do i just need to specify a ref_table in the extension declaration?
something like ref_table = {}?

or is there more to this

[scenic steeple]

hey quick dumb question, why order no work no matter number?

[frosty dock]

smods doesn't let you take control of the ordering of objects

they're organized in the order they're created in

[scenic steeple]

so either byebye smods or find a way to override smods ordering

[frosty dock]

what do you need a specific order for and in what way isn't it achievable by just registering your objects in that order?

[scenic steeple]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh personally I'd like the vouchers to be actually together instead of split

so like, how the vouchers are actually placed where tier1 on left & corresponding tier2 on right

[frosty dock]

then don't register them out of order? you have control over what order you register each voucher

[scenic steeple]

I have a feeling my reluctance to put them all in 1 file is now biting me in the ass

[rapid stag]

bump

[wild patrol]

honestly one file would still have beena pain to edit

[frosty dock]

meh, you'd just have to make a list of the order to load the files in and then follow that

[scenic steeple]

aaaannddd how?

[wild patrol]

UI stuff just doesn't wanna work with me I can't get anything to center

[frosty dock]

uh what are you doing with the object?

[wintry solar]

How are you currently loading your files?

[scenic steeple]

a very simple solution that is now gonna be my downfall

[rapid stag]

these are just dummy centers whose express purpose is to be added to info_queue

[frosty dock]

so this happens whenever you throw the object into an info_queue?

[rapid stag]

no, this was on game startup

[frosty dock]

ok one sec

you need to initialize G.localization.descriptions[self.set]

we should probably make that null safe on smods' end

[hidden aspen]

is there a way with SMODS to perform certain function AFTER all the other mods have loaded? i want to count total amount of custom jokers, but since my mod has a priority of -10000 i load in before other mods

[wintry solar]

Yeah this isn’t a consistent order

[rapid stag]

one thing i've also noticed now is that pressing R on the crash screen or some other methods of restart such as opening mods menu and enabling/disabling a mod isn't actually restarting balatro and just leaving it closed

is this an issue on my end or

lemme check the restart shortcuts, actually
ok those work

[frosty dock]

we should probably provide a uniform way to do that, but no. you should calculate the information when you need it if it doesn't need to be available at load time, else find an appropriately timed function to hook. or if it doesn't need to be after everything being injected, you can hijack an object's inject function

or you can use an event

[hidden aspen]

yeah im gonna see if event works

[frosty dock]

on the crash screen, I think that can happen if the game crashed too early. Should be less prone to that on 1501 with preflight, but it might be that

[hidden aspen]

yesssss event works

[hidden aspen]

what's the proper way of moving a Card between CardAreas?

[red flower]

draw_card(area1, area2) should work?
if not then
area1:remove_card(card)
card:add_to_deck()
area2:emplace(card)

the add to deck is assuming youre trying to do the thing you were talking about in modding general

[worthy stirrup]

Are these ass, lol

[hidden aspen]

yeah

but draw_card also works

is there a downside?

i guess second one specifies which card we're taking, and the first one only takes 1

[red flower]

you can also specify the card with draw_card, its one of the arguments

[hidden aspen]

i see

[red flower]

im not sure if it calls add_to_deck tho

[hidden aspen]

does add_to_deck() call some calculate context?

[worthy stirrup]

is modding dev not serious talking about mods, i still dont know how the new sorting of channels works lol

[red flower]

it calls the card's add_to_deck :3

[worthy stirrup]

ah, i thought that was support, mb

[hidden aspen]

ahahahahh that makes sense

[worthy stirrup]

i see

[red flower]

i mean people talk about making mods here and it's part of what the channel is for

[wild patrol]

is there away to change the size of a create_text_input

still ugly but better than before

ty

[worthy stirrup]

i forgot fools gold wasnt even a thing lmao

thank you btw

[median veldt]

this is my idea for the record.

could that be done?

[sturdy compass]

That can be done fairly easily I think

[blazing helm]

anyway to swap the sprite of the joker on the startup animation?

[sturdy compass]

You can do that very easily with a patch

[blazing helm]

oh cool, how do patch :3 (ive never used them and the syntax scars me qwq)

[sturdy compass]

Patches are very simple, it’s basically telling lovely “Here’s this line of code, put this code nearby or replace it”

[median veldt]

i almost just explained a hook, whoops

[sturdy compass]

Lmao

[blazing helm]

i understand what they are in concept, i just have no idea how you use then or what code i would replace for something like this :/

[sturdy compass]

Here’s my patch for replacing the splash card

[manifest]
version = "1.0.0"
dump_lua = true
priority = 1

[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "game.lua"
pattern = '''
SC = Card(G.ROOM.T.w/2 - SC_scale*G.CARD_W/2, 10. + G.ROOM.T.h/2 - SC_scale*G.CARD_H/2, SC_scale*G.CARD_W, SC_scale*G.CARD_H, G.P_CARDS.empty, G.P_CENTERS['j_joker'])
'''
position = "after"
payload = '''
SC = Card(G.ROOM.T.w/2 - SC_scale*G.CARD_W/2, 10. + G.ROOM.T.h/2 - SC_scale*G.CARD_H/2, SC_scale*G.CARD_W, SC_scale*G.CARD_H, G.P_CARDS.empty, G.P_CENTERS['j_mxms_normal'],{bypass_discovery_center = true, bypass_discovery_ui = true})
'''
match_indent = true
times = 1```

Looking in the game dump will help you a lot in looking for stuff like this

In all honesty, looking through the dump code has elevated my ability to read and understand code a ton

[blazing helm]

same, the first real mod i made hooked vanilla code so much i had usually had a second instance of vs code open for the dump lmao

[blazing helm]

also thx, got it working ^w^

[sturdy compass]

👌

[quick scarab]

Just this?

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'endo_01',
    atlas = 'Joker',
    pos = { x = 7, y = 0 },
    rarity = 1,
    cost = 2,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,

    fnaf_type = "Animatronic", -- Type of Card
    fnaf_broken = false, -- Fixable or Not

    config = { extra = { chip_mod = 100 }, },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        info_type(self, info_queue, center)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.chip_mod } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            return {
                chips = card.ability.extra.chip_mod
            }
        end
    end
}```

also I'm trying to make a function to give info_queue of the type of the card as well

[dapper sun]

yea

[quick scarab]

info_type = function(self, info_queue, center)
    if card.config.center.fnaf_type == 'Animatronic' then
        info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = { key = "fnaf_Animatronic" , set = "Other" }
    end
    
end

[dapper sun]

i did something like this in my mod ,,

[quick scarab]

hold up let me check

[dapper sun]

https://github.com/ellestuff/slimeutils/blob/main/lovely/upgrades.toml

[daring fern]

Change the center input to card

[quick scarab]

ok it worked, I just need to simplify so that it doesn't have 4 if states

[tidal hemlock]

i might be missing some combos idk

not going to do quadritrib

[rapid stag]

how can i reference the card i created

does SMODS.current_mod.menu_cards() return a table with any created cards or

[sturdy compass]

It does not

[bright ivy]

-- COPYCAT JOKER
SMODS.Joker {
    key = "test",

    in_pool = function(self, args)
        return true
    end,

    blueprint_compat = true,
    rarity = 3,
    cost = 9,

    loc_txt = {
        name = "Copycat",
        text = {
            "Imitates a random Joker.",
            "Changes after each hand.",
            "Currently imitating: {C:attention}#1#{}"
        }
    },

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

    set_ability = function(self, card, initial)
        card.ability.extra = card.ability.extra or {}
        card.ability.extra.copied_key = "j_joker" -- safe default
    end,

    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        local key = card.ability.extra and card.ability.extra.copied_key
        local copied = key and G.P_CENTERS[key]
        local name = copied and copied.name or "Copycat Joker"

        return {
            vars = { name },
            name_vars = { name }
        }
    end,

    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        -- 🔁 Change when a blind is exited
        if context.end_of_round and not context.blueprint then
            local pool = {}

            for _, joker in ipairs(G.P_CENTER_POOLS.Joker) do
                -- ❌ Don't copy itself
                -- ✅ Only copy blueprint-compatible Jokers
                if joker.key ~= self.key
                and joker.blueprint_compat == true then
                    pool[#pool + 1] = joker
                end
            end

            if #pool > 0 then
                local choice = pseudorandom_element(
                    pool,
                    pseudoseed("copycat_blind_change")
                )
                card.ability.extra.copied_key = choice.key
            end
        end
    end
}

How can I add this as the 'other card' param needs a center of a card the user has.

local ret = SMODS.blueprint_effect(card, other_joker, context)
        if ret then
            ret.colour = G.C.BLUE
        end
        return ret

[rapid stag]

the arg you pass in for card is your joker, other_joker is the joker you've picked to imitate, then you just pass in context

[slim ferry]

Fyi copying a card that doesnt exist is very difficult

[rapid stag]

this is a little janky, but what you might end up having to do is instead of going by key, store a reference to the target joker in a variable in G.GAME and then referencing that

[bright ivy]

Im figuring this out

[rapid stag]

oh god wait

you mean a random joker out of any joker, not just ones in hand

[bright ivy]

like as a card like throwback if copied gives Xnil

[bright ivy]

yea

[slim ferry]

Also fyi

Blueprint compat is opt out now

So you should check if the blueprint compat value is true or nil

I think

[bright ivy]

ok

thanks

[rapid stag]

i guess you could try instantiating a dummy version of the joker in a G.GAME var and try copying that, then? so long as it doesnt end up in a cardarea that gets calculated

[bright ivy]

I tried that before but couldnt figure out exactly how to make it work ended up like this:

They wernt calculated in the hand, but neither was the copycat joker 😢

[rapid stag]

do you think i could like, poach it by returning a func from the menu_cards func that puts cardinto a variable?

like just

    myVar = card
 end```

[junior tapir]

Does anyone know how to insert logic at the point in time when chad says 'again'? I've tried to patch something in functions/state_events.lua under the for h = 1, eval.jokers.repetitions do section or the SMODS src/utils.lua under repeat in SMODS.insert_repetitions, but idk why the logic doesn't work in the first case or triggers a single time before even the first card scoring in the second case

[rapid stag]

reptition context is an optional context, do you have it enabled

[junior tapir]

wdym do I have it enabled, I precisely want for the joker Hanging Chad to make it work, haven't checked if that joker uses this precise context

[slim ferry]

How is joker retriggers related to this

[rapid stag]

oh

[junior tapir]

jokers do use repetitions in some contexts

[timid zinc]

is there a way to tell if a discard is coming from the hook during pre_discard?

[slim ferry]

context.hook

[daring fern]

Create a fake card.

[timid zinc]

Thank you

[rapid stag]

bump

[daring fern]

#⚙・modding-general message

[wintry solar]

Use the function if you need to do anything to your cards (what do you need to do to your cards?)

[rapid stag]

i'm trying to migrate my title card cycling thing to work with menu_cards

[fading rivet]

any idea why this is this causes all cards in deck to be debuffed by suit debuffing blinds

[brazen kite]

is there a reason it shouldn't do that?

thats what happens to wild cards no

oh is it because it's only supposed to be flipped over cards

uhh i suspect it's because all cards in G.deck are face down before you draw them to your deck

but idk for sure

[wintry solar]

You can just call this function with the card, find it in the cardarea, I forget the name now but it’s in the release notes

[rapid stag]

G.title_top yes - but i'm not sure how to explicitly find what i'm looking for

also i'm trying to wrestle with this crash that cropped up while picking all this apart

[fading rivet]

yes and its supposed to not check cards in the deck

[brazen kite]

oh oops

misread

[fading rivet]

hence the context.cardarea ~= G.deck

[brazen kite]

not sure entirely since i cant like boot up the game and do any experiments

[wintry solar]

Find card looking for card.mod_flag then use set_ability to change ezpz

[rapid stag]

will that still work after i've dissolved the card?

[wintry solar]

I think you can just materialize th card again

[daring fern]

Change context.cardarea ~= G.deck to context.other_card.area ~= G.deck

[fading rivet]

omg

thank you idk how I didnt realize yhat

[timid zinc]

i can't see what i'm doing wrong here

[daring fern]

if G.jokers then
    for k, v in pairs(G.jokers.cards) do
        if v.edition and v.edition.negative then
            negative_count = negative_count+1
        end
    end
end

[timid zinc]

Oh

[rapid stag]

wait, this works for base cards?

[quick scarab]

Ok now my function that I have doesn't seem to work now despite working before, where it tries to locate if a card has as prefix

SMODS.Joker {
    key = 'catalog',
    atlas = 'Joker',
    pos = { x = 4, y = 3 },
    rarity = 2,
    cost = 4,
    unlocked = true,
    discovered = true,
    blueprint_compat = true,
    eternal_compat = true,

    fnaf_type = "Misc", -- Type of Card
    fnaf_broken = false, -- Fixable or Not

    config = { extra = { chip_mod = 100, chips = 0 }, },
    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        info_type(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { card.ability.extra.chip_mod, card.ability.extra.chips } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.joker_main then
            print(#Find_type("Animatronic", card))
            local Chips = card.ability.extra.chip_mod * #Find_type("Animatronic", card)
            return {
                chips = Chips
            }
        end
    end
}

function:

Find_type = function(type, card)
  local found = {}
  if G.jokers and G.jokers.cards then
    for k, v in pairs(G.jokers.cards) do
      if card.config.center.fnaf_type == type then
        table.insert(found, v)
      end
    end
  end
  return found
end

[daring fern]

It should be v.config.center.fnaf_type == type

[quick scarab]

thank you

I don't know why it was working before

[ocean goblet]

anyone know how to make a booster pack automatically either
a. pull up a hand of cards
or
b. have them be added to the consumable tray instead of immediately used?

[rapid stag]

bump. i actually have no idea what's happening with this crash

[fading rivet]

I might be stupid how do I get the rank of a card

[rapid stag]

card.base.value

[red flower]

https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#how-do-i-check-if-a-playing-card-has-a-specific-suitrank

[fading rivet]

thx

[pearl whale]

Does anyone know the details of how jokers are selected to show up in the shop/booster packs? I know it rolls rarity first but it seems to also favor against jokers you have or jokers earlier in the roll. I want to make it disregard any duplicate checks and let a shop/booster be all the same joker if RNG rolls that way

[frosty rampart]

it's not just favored against jokers you have, it outright cannot roll jokers you already have. that said, the Showman joker explicitly makes it so you can roll jokers you already have, so i wouldn't recommend changing the system because that just makes showman useless

and i don't think the game does any weighting against jokers that have appeared recently in the shop at all, the pool is just big enough that it rarely rolls the same joker twice that quickly

[red flower]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't roll the same jokers you have in the shop if you open a booster iirc

[frosty rampart]

if you really do want the showman effect to always be active, you can just hook the SMODS.showman() function to make it always return true

[frosty rampart]

wouldn't that just fall under showman's effect? the joker exists in the shop so it's out of the pool unless the showman function returns true

[pearl whale]

As part of my mod right now, I banned all jokers except 4, one for each rarity, and still on a fresh run with no jokers sometimes it shows the default Jimbo joker after one of the approved jokers.

Let me try making the showman effect always on though, that might be exactly what I want

[red flower]

yes, I'm just clarifying because "appeared recently in the shop" might also include things that might be in the shop already and that might not be obvious

[frosty rampart]

gotcha

[pearl whale]

Making showman always return true was exactly what I wanted, ty!

[violet chasm]

How do I use preexisting variables in jokerforge?

[rapid stag]

bump

[timid zinc]

is there a cardsleeves equivilant of back.effect.config that gets saved?

[timid zinc]

I see

I will have to figure out an alternative

[red flower]

G.GAME.sleeve_key = { stuff } is probably good enough

[granite jay]

Anyone know where to find SMODS.recalc_debuff so I can hook it to trigger another function?

[red flower]

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3ASteamodded%2Fsmods smods.recalc_debuff&type=code

[fading rivet]

oh glad I didnt realize back was passed in a context when making adaptive deck and stored everything in G.game

[red flower]

what

[fading rivet]

when I made my adaptive deck I stored everything on G.game, which makes my card sleeve for it work without any modifications

[red flower]

ah ok

[rapid stag]

ah yes, astigmatism coding

[rapid stag]

bump

oh, figured it out one of my patches was overwriting an important call

[rapid stag]

bump (can set_ability work for base cards? and if so, how? do i just do :set_ability('S_A') for an ace of spades?)

[frosty rampart]

set_ability sets enhancements for playing cards. "unenhanced" counts as an enhancement
to set the suit and rank of a card, use SMODS.change_base instead
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Utility

[rapid stag]

but i'll work for everything else? jokers and consumables i know will - but what about vouchers

[frosty rampart]

it should, yea
if you're curious, under the hood, set_ability is used to set the "center" of a card object, and a bunch of stuff counts as a "center"- decks, booster packs, consumables, enhancements, jokers, and vouchers
playing cards additionally have a "front", which is where the rank and suit are relevant. touching the center won't do anything for that

[wild patrol]

what would be away to make it where if u can't use a tarot card from a pack you can send it to ur consumable slot?

[daring fern]

Hook G.FUNCS.can_use_consumeable and G.FUNCS.use_card

[rapid stag]

doesn't work

in fact, it just makes a new thing over the card instead of replacing it, even without my function call. although it doesn't get rid of the card

...oh, because start_dissolve calls remove()

[wild patrol]

what's the gamestate when inside a tarot pack called

[frosty rampart]

there's not a specific state for types of packs, it's just G.STATE.SMODS_BOOSTER_OPENED inside any booster pack

[wild patrol]

Yeah was about to say I found it

[daring fern]

if booster_obj and booster_obj.kind == 'Arcana'

[granite jay]

Thx

[bright ivy]

how?

[daring fern]

#💻・modding-dev message

[rapid stag]

kinda has some weird effects when it tries to turn a joker into a playing card do i have to do :set_ability('Base') first?

[frosty rampart]

probably something of that nature?

[rapid stag]

and what about the other way around

why did it shrink

[daring fern]

No, it would be card:set_ability('c_base')

[naive coral]

does anyone know why this crash occurs when i try and use a joker to make a custom enhancement?

[rapid stag]

is there something i need to do to a playing card to turn it into a joker without the face sprite?

doesn't look like it

still would like to nkow what to do about the shrinking though

alright and now it just straight up vanishes after a few changes and doesn't come back.

migrating is so much fun

ended up fixing both of these, but any cards with floating sprites end up with small floating sprites when materialised for the first time - then if they're materialised again later, their floating sprites are bigger but still a little too small, but actually centred

[wild escarp]

How would I give a card a random seal and enhancement?

[frosty rampart]

should jump straight to it
https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#how-do-i-give-a-card-a-random-editionenhancementseal

[wild escarp]

Thank you!

[glass scaffold]

So with this, it'll debuff the target cards, but if I sell ANYTHING, it undoes the debuff.

[daring fern]

Add true as the second input to the Card:is_suit calls.

[hallow moat]

Question: would anyone take a modding request for a relatively easy mod to make?

It would be cool to have a mod that has a little display of misprint that shows what the next drawn card is.

(Misprint tells you what the next drawn card will be in vanilla balatro.)

[daring fern]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1283901927448510527

[hallow moat]

Oh sick! Didn't know that exists alr. Thanks!

[glass scaffold]

So if I understand it right, it would be:

... (check for suit calls = true)?

I can't get on PC because my wifi is dead for now.

[daring fern]

No, it would be context.debuff_card:is_suit('Clubs', true) or context.debuff_card:is_suit('Spades', true)

[glass scaffold]

Ah, thanks for clearing that up.

-# Also NOW my wifi wants to fix itself!?

[tulip pecan]

I have a large number of consumable sets in my mod (currently 4), and am thinking of adding more. This clutters the collection menu greatly, so I want to put all of the consumables inside one set to show in the collection. However, one of my sets requires that I change the shop_rate value to toggle availability in the shop for those cards. Am I able to use SMODS.ObjectType to "section off" all my consumables into different pools, and have a shop rate tied to each object type individually? And if not, what would be the best way to go about a fix for this?

[glass scaffold]

I think you'd be better off using SMODS.ConsumableType to group them together.

[tulip pecan]

that's what I'm hoping to do, as long as I can call each individual group using ObjectType and can also change shop rate for each of them

which is the part im unsure about

[short mauve]

is there even a way to align the chips (and X) container with the mult one?

[frosty dock]

yes, put box nodes of the same size as the extra score container below them

[pastel kernel]

how does this snippet work?```lua
select_music_track = function()
return (
#Cryptid.advanced_find_joker(nil, "busterb_Grandiose", nil, nil, true) ~= 0
) and 100.000
end,

[hidden aspen]

if advenced_find_joker size is not 0,then it returns 100000

if its 0,then it returns nil

[frosty dock]

100, not 100000

other than that, that's technically what happens here

[hidden aspen]

oh why would they put a floating point there, wierd

[frosty dock]

how the function works is that each track returns a priority value

so the track that returns the highest value is chosen to be played at any given time

[frosty dock]

why not, integers aren't special in lua

it's just numbers

[hidden aspen]

yeah but... wierd to specify 3 zeros after the floating point ?

[frosty dock]

the number of digits is to be consistent with what they're doing elsewhere, e.g., 100.002

[hidden aspen]

thats fair

[short mauve]

Wdym

[verbal vigil]

Does anyone know if there is a way to create a UI box in the main menu? I want to create one whenever the game loads.

[red flower]

yeah, you can just create the box in a hook to Game:main_menu and it works

what for

[verbal vigil]

I want to let the user know there is a new update of the mod out

[red flower]

that should work then
toga's stuff and stocking stuffer both have similar things you can look into

[primal robin]

I hate when mods do that

[red flower]

youre not going to like mine then :p

[primal robin]

this one os okay since it's one-time welcome message fir reasonably complex mod

Plus initial reading test

[verbal vigil]

Ah, I think I got it. Thank you so much!

[red flower]

i should do an iq test before the game starts

[verbal vigil]

One more thing, my UI is appearing behind the center card for some reason

[red flower]

create the ui after the function runs

not before

[verbal vigil]

I think I am?

[red flower]

can i see

[verbal vigil]

function Game:main_menu(change_context)
    local ret = game_main_menu_ref(self, change_context)

    update_checker.check_for_update(mod.SMODS_VERSION)

    return ret
end```

[red flower]

hmm then how's the ui defined? you might gave set it to a lower priority

this i mean

[thorn basin]

what should I do to fix this?

[slim ferry]

!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please make sure your lovely is up to date (Minimum lovely v0.9.0)
!!!!!!!!!!!!

[red flower]

what does this say

[keen atlas]

!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!

[primal robin]

see? people cant read

98% is fact

[keen atlas]

i thought it's 0%

or 100%

[thorn basin]

So I updated the lovely and... uuuh...

[red flower]

do you have an smods zip in your mods folder

[thorn basin]

nope

[red flower]

it looks like smods is loaded as lovely-only for some reason

check if its not nested, you dont have a second one, etc

[slim ferry]

there most likely is a second one somewhere since smods shouldnt be listed under mods at all

[thorn basin]

Ok so for some reason it works now... basically I removed the smods-main folder that you see in this screenshot

[red flower]

yeah you had 2, make sure that's the updated one

[thorn basin]

so steamodded was the 2nd one?

Prolly it was the outdated one

[red flower]

yeah

[thorn basin]

aight, thanks N'!

also nice to see ya again!

[red flower]

[gilded blaze]

it seems like the duplicate label "continue" no longer appears for duped smods installation
it's the syntax error inside functions/misc_functions.lua now

[tepid crow]

that'd be unfortunate, it was a really unique error to spot lol

[wintry solar]

I'm not sure if this new error is unique or not 🤔

[gilded blaze]

at least we're seeing that quite commonly
but yea, it doesn't seem to be unique enough

[wintry solar]

will see if I can get a proper message sorted out

[wintry solar]

sorted it out, I think I'll push a new release this evening to fix this crash identification and also the profile crash

[jolly rain]

Heya, tried using take_ownership with smod to increase Ride The Bus's mult increment to +2. Caused an error, error-log attached. Lemme know if I'm overthinking this or if I made an obvious mistake. Testing lua attached as well.

[mystic river]

does lua get mad if you declare a label and then never use it? could someone make a label that exists solely to detect duplicate installations?

[keen atlas]

unused label is fine

duplicate label is not

also you can't jump over locals

[red flower]

it is trying to run the original function in vanilla

you can change the name of it and it should fix it

[mystic river]

so if i made a lovely patch that adds a label named ::this label exists for the sole purpose of detecting duplicate installs; if you're seeing this please sanitize your mods folder::, that would work as expected?
(plus or minus some string formatting, I'm not sure whether you can do it exactly like that)

[red flower]

but also keep in mind this will get rid of the SMODS.scale_card call since vanillaremade doesn't use it

[keen atlas]

label isnt a comment unfortunately

you_can_probably_do_like_this

but if you make a new global var you can probably detect that

[jolly rain]

That makes sense, thankyou again N'. I'll see what I can do.

[loud crescent]

whats the easiest way that i can simulate button presses through code (new blind, skip blind, play, discard, reroll...)?

[red flower]

call the function that button calls

[thorn basin]

Long time ago I made a custom consumable that is supposed to "mix" 2 enhanced cards by deleting one and setting the other with another enhancement.
the problem is that I wanna specify which enhancements need to be "mixed" to set the card that isn't gonna be destroyed with a specific enhancemement.
For example: I select 2 cards with the chemical enhancement, one red and one blue and when I use the consumable it flips both, destroys the leftmost and sets the rightmost with another enhancement and then flips the card again.
also this crash shows up when I try to do that:

[red flower]

the key will never equal the center prototype

the right value should be a string

or get rid of .key

it seems like leftmost doesnt have a center tho

it's probably leftmost.config.center

[loud crescent]

they seem to be just stored as strings (e.g. e.config.button = 'play_cards_from_highlighted') but the actual functions often receive extra parameters (e.g. G.FUNCS.play_cards_from_highlighted = function(e)). how do i find out what should be passed (for e in this case)?

[wintry solar]

e is just the object that was pressed

[red flower]

e is the button node, but for most of them it can be an empty table usually

[wintry solar]

the only ones I can think of that actually use the information are the option selectors

[red flower]

like, that one doesnt use e at all

[loud crescent]

thanks, ig i will just try passing {} to everything and see if that works

[thorn basin]

thanks!
also I would like to know how can I make it so when I select playing cards, the "USE" button of said consumable can be used only if at least 2 playing cards specific enhancements are selected.

[red flower]

check for it in can_use

[thorn basin]

it's been a long time since I got used to the lua coding for balatro...
do you know which source or guide I can look up for the can_use function to make a condition for such?

[red flower]

it should be in the SMODS.Consumable wiki but you just need to return true if it can be used

for checking enhancements: https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemade/wiki#how-do-i-get-if-a-card-has-a-specific-editionenhancementsealsticker

[thorn basin]

Tried like this but it doesn't work:

[red flower]

card is the consumable here

you want to check G.hand.highlighted which is the table of highlighted cards in hand

[thorn basin]

oh, now appears this crash when I click on the consumable

[red flower]

don't use G.hand.highlighted in has_enhancement

it's a table of cards, you need to loop through it

and you probably want to check if there are 2 or more

[thorn basin]

yeah

[thorn basin]

wait so what should I use in has_enhancement then?
G.hand.highlighted[i]?

[red flower]

yes

[thorn basin]

tried like this but it still doesn't work (but it doesn't crash)
those comments are for checking if there are 2 selected

[keen atlas]

is_chemical might be nil?

[thorn basin]

it is

[keen atlas]

you might wanna do not is_chemical == not ...

[thorn basin]

now it's the situation as before, where the "USE" button gets active even if I selected a card without a specified enhancement

[umbral spire]

what's the difference between Card.debuffed and Card.debuff?

[keen atlas]

do yo uwant to make it so that if is_chemical is true it only accepts 3 enhancement and if it's false it doesnt accept 3 enhancements?

[red flower]

why are you using is_chemical at all

[keen atlas]

🤷‍♂️

[umbral spire]

Also is G.GAME.hands[context.scoring_name].played the amount of times context.scoring_name was played this run or..?

[keen atlas]

this run

[umbral spire]

this?

[keen atlas]

Card.debuff is the current debuffed state, a boolean
afaik theres no Card.debuffed

[umbral spire]

afaik theres no Card.debuffed
oh

How do you set the enhancement of a card?

[red flower]

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

[umbral spire]

I'm confused because Vampire (VanillaRemade) uses c_base (Card:set_ability("c_base")) but I thought the class prefix is m_?

What's the prefix?

[umbral spire]

Doesn't answer my question above.

[mystic river]

c_base is unenhanced playing cards

[umbral spire]

isn't c the consumable prefix?

[keen atlas]

still m_

[mystic river]

playing cards break several rules because
they also have three names

[umbral spire]

so m_base is the same as c_base?

in this case

[red flower]

it is c_base

[keen atlas]

theres no m_base

[mystic river]

m_base doesn't exist

[umbral spire]

oh

[red flower]

this is a 'because thunk said so' moment

[mystic river]

"it's not m because it's not modified" - thunk probably maybe idk

[umbral spire]

So it would be m_lucky but for base c_base?

[mystic river]

yes

[umbral spire]

Alright.

[red flower]

also im pretty sure this is answered in the wiki

just in another question

hmm i guess not

speaking of the wiki

how the hell do i sort it to be more searchable

[thorn basin]

I want to check if 2 playing cards that have one of the 3 specified enhancements are selected.

[red flower]

im thinking about making a page for each topic and just duplicating the questions that are relevant for each

[thorn basin]

but I'm still unsure how

[red flower]

local is_chemical = true
if #G.hand.highlighted == 2 then
  for _, playing_card in ipairs(G.hand.highlighted) do
    if not SMODS.has_enhancement(playing_card, "key") and ... then -- do the rest
      is_chemical = false
      break
    end
  end
  return is_chemical
end

im stupid

[thorn basin]

huh?

[red flower]

there

[rapid stag]

why isn't my hook working?

[red flower]

r is lowercase

[rapid stag]

right

[thorn basin]

it works now, thank you so much!
sorry if I overwhelmed you with tons of questions... I lost most of my experience in balatro lua coding

[rapid stag]

...wait, is load_profile not the function called when you switch profiles?

[red flower]

are there any common vanilla functions people want docs for

[rapid stag]

every function that runs on game start and every function that runs at every point of switching profiles

but outside of niche use cases like mine, i guess... maybe shop functions

[red flower]

wdym

[rapid stag]

every function that gets called on shop start

and anything that can happen while in the shop

from what i've seen, a lot of people like to try either just messing with the shop or building some extra thing for it

[red flower]

im asking more for utility functions

[rapid stag]

ah

[red flower]

there are contexts for shop things now as well

[frosty dock]

the c sure doesn't mean consumable. it probably just means center

it's the base center or something

idk

[slim ferry]

c is for card

clearly

[frosty dock]

what even is a card

[slim ferry]

you are an card

[frosty dock]

clearly an instance of Card

and c_base is not a Card

so the c can't possibly mean card

[slim ferry]

wdym c_base is not a Card

[frosty dock]

i am not an card

[red flower]

it stands for cstring

[frosty dock]

it's a center

[red flower]

cdata_base

[frosty dock]

not an instance of the Card class

[slim ferry]

the c is short for c_base

c_base_base

it stands for consumable everywhere else though

[frosty dock]

is this a GNU = GNU's Not Unix situation

[frosty dock]

this is wrong

it stands for consumeable half the time

[slim ferry]

true...

[red flower]

anyone can pr the wiki now pls make it better idk how to write https://github.com/nh6574/VanillaRemadeWiki/

[rapid stag]

is floating_sprite:remove() a thing?

[red flower]

yeah

[rapid stag]

doesn't work

[red flower]

whats the code

[red flower]

hmm no idea

[mystic river]

it stands for Cat obviously

[versed swan]

How do you add a localization entry for deck skins?

(besides loc_txt)

[red flower]

https://github.com/EremelMods/Ortalab/blob/abfa713121ce6a99407273bfb0db73f8282aa0c5/localization/default.lua#L167
like this i think

[viscid talon]

How do I make a Joker unlock after discovering every other Joker in that mod

For example if I had a mod with 30 jokers and you need to have discovered all 30 of those jokers before unlocking that secret 31st joker

[viscid talon]

bump

😭

IM LOSING MY MIND

i got some help from n and got this code

        local all_unlocked = true
        for _, center in ipairs(G.P_CENTER_POOLS.minus_collectibles) do
            if center.key ~= self.key and center.mod and center.mod.id == "balatrominus" and not center.unlocked then
                all_unlocked = false
                break   
            end
        end
        return all_unlocked
    end
}

but it no worky

[wanton jolt]

says tg is nil

[frosty rampart]

card.ability isn't populated until after the load function is run i think

[wanton jolt]

how would i persist the sprite change after load then

[viscid talon]

who tf pinged me

[wanton jolt]

i did accidentally

[viscid talon]

boooo

[granite jay]

How do you override the description of a card for debuff-like effects?

[viscid talon]

boooooooooooooo

[wanton jolt]

well fuck you 🖕

[viscid talon]

wow how could you be so mean to eventlesstew

@granite jay im very sorry for feli's behaviour here

[wanton jolt]

deflect, deny

[viscid talon]

no

am truthful

i have never lied

[wanton jolt]

don't lie at this time

😛

[viscid talon]

OH COME ON 😭

IM NOT FASTING

NOT RN AT LEAST

ITS 10PM

[wanton jolt]

shoud i use set_sprites then

[granite jay]

Bump

[wanton jolt]

what do you mean

[granite jay]

All g
(Insult redacted)

[frosty rampart]

use set_sprites, but use an event inside it, because card.ability also isn't populated until after set_sprites runs

i do the same thing for high roller

[wanton jolt]

oh wow now i get insulted because mari successfully decieved someone else

[granite jay]

Oh, I just read it, sorry about that

[wanton jolt]

its fine

[wanton jolt]

anyway wdym by override descriptionb

[granite jay]

You know how the debuffed cards have the “score no chips and all abilities are disabled” description rather than +5 chips? I wanna do that for a boss blind condition where cards score no chips

[wanton jolt]

so like you want to make something different from a debuff?

that works like one?