BalatrOverlay

[vivid pebble]

Hi there~

I would like to introduce you to a mod that I am (and hope to continue) working on.
This mod provides an overlay for the game, which helps you find combinations when your eyes are blurry or you're just in a hurry.
At the moment the functionality is limited to basic poker combinations, but in the future I hope to complete all the other functionality described on GitHub.
I'm really looking forward to your feedback, suggestions and comments!
https://github.com/cantlookback/BalatrOverlay

[minor tundra]

Great idea, maybe hit up the balatro calculator too, if the overlay could tell you the best hand in your current cards and jokers that need to be re-arranged would be really useful

The biggest problem with the calculator is that it's external, I don't know if you're doing this with code but I'm sure with even this you have the groundwork to hook up into his calculator via an api

We're still working on the typescript stuff so if you need code help now I'd consult him but if you want to hold off the ts stuff should be done in a week or two

[vivid pebble]

I think then it will be too easy to play. And I can’t even imagine how huge and resource-intensive the algorithm must be

[minor tundra]

Not necessarily, as long as it doesn't know your deck you'll never know if you could've scored more if you discarde/drew but I also see your concern

As to the computation, no idea

[vivid pebble]

to calculate every hand you have with different order of cards + different order of jokers

that's 14400 combinations with 5 cards and 5 jokers, if im not mistaken

[astral yoke]

is this for balamod or steamodded? or both?

oh i see on the github its for steamodded. i'll probably download this later since it looks really convenient and nice. i'll finally be able to play fast without glasses too lol

[slow acorn]

hello, at 2k resolution curve interface

[vivid pebble]

yea i know this, fill fix soon

[spark bear]

could you make the ui similar to balatro's? the ASCII art seems weird.

[vivid pebble]

I tried to inject some .png canvas but looks like it's not supported yet. Or I just can't figure it out. 😦

[gentle lance]

Hey there, thank you for you mod :)
Noticed that it continues being drawn if you open the deck. Can you somehow see when a player opens the menu and stop drawing the Overlay during that?

[spark bear]

why dont you just overlay onto a blank playing card?

[vivid pebble]

Oh, I didn't think about it, thanks

[vivid pebble]

I'll try to figure it out. There's no gamestate for deck open but maybe somewhere there's a bool value for it

[toxic falcon]

yoooo this is exactly the kind of thing i've been hoping to see

[peak root]

Same because I find that mods like this really help streamline my play experience. I have extremely bad eyesight and overlays help me play games that require quick viewing

[wind harness]

Really cool and I like the idea. I have some visual issues with mine where it's cut off on the side though. I'm using a 4k monitor. The first pic is fullscreen/borderless. The second pic is windowed (which is how I usually play).

If/when you fix this, I'll definitely be using it!

[vivid pebble]

Yes, I undersnad this, this is because i have only fullhd monitor and I don't use any functions to scale the size/position for the boxes, will fix soon, I promise 🙂

[vivid pebble]

Looks like it does pretty well, but i can't check for resolution bigger than mine heh. Uploaded to git

[vivid pebble]

And I fixed that too

[wind harness]

That's awesome!

[uneven sun]

Enjoying this mod, thanks for making it! I'm excited for new improvements 🙂

FYI I tested in 4K and 2K, the placement works great

[vivid pebble]

Thanks for the respond, appreciate it

[uneven sun]

Keep up the good work! ❤️

[vivid pebble]

Okay, at least it does calculate chips without jokers

Thanks god I can just copy evaluate function and just rewrite it a bit (not a bit tbh)

[vivid pebble]

Okay I pushed it on github, seems like it works pretty well

The only problem I see is only with cards that have a chance of triggering.

The chips amount just changing when you highlight-unhighlight card if you have those cards/jokers

Ah yes, and also I did use a blank card sprite for the interface

[oak oxide]

this is great, looks really smart now

[oak oxide]

Just curious, how does it run the calculation? I just had a run where I had space joker, then got a double tag and used it on "level up two pairs 3 times" so it levelled up 6 times. From that point on, space joker levels up a hand if I select it

Selecting a full house will level up high card, then pair, then two pair, then full house of I select the right cards in that order

Unsure if it's a bug, or the calculation is making the game think the hand is being played

[crude nexus]

im guessing the code for chip calculation piggybacks on the game code for calculating chips

which triggers any jokers that trigger when chips are calculated

such as space joker

one of the other modders looking into score calculation also ran into this problem I believe

[oak oxide]

Ok understood, I'll bear in mind. Thanks for clarifying

[vivid pebble]

There's a lot of bugs in calculation, because im using in-game function as a reference

And this function activates some things in a very unexpected way

Like this

[vivid pebble]

There's the other? Didn't see any similar mods

I will make a button or a config variables in code so you will be able to turn off features that you don't want to use

[crude nexus]

this guy added a joker that calculates your score when you hover over it
he posted about one of the issues he ran into
#1216754656617693255 message

[vivid pebble]

Thanks a lot

[crude nexus]

thanks for your work btw, I'm really interested in having a functional score calculator if you are able to work out the bugs

[vivid pebble]

yes, it’s a cool thing, but it kills all the intrigue when you’re not sure if you have enough chips

[crude nexus]

its mostly because there are a lot of things in this game that encourage playing more hands instead of less
if you just want to play your biggest score hand and win, that's easy to do without a calculator
but if you're trying to optimize, you often want to kill in exactly 4 hands meaning you have to do a lot of math to make sure you're not winning too early

[vivid pebble]

More hands instead of less? What about $ for each remaining hand?

Sounds weird

[next glade]

There have been various requests for just a pre-calculation of what the selected hand would give, which isn't too intensive to calculate.
My calculator does about 250,000 simulations per second. Just doing a few is nothing.

[vivid pebble]

This message was about calculating probabilities of drawing different combinations, not about calculating chips

Oh, or maybe no

[crude nexus]

some of the current best jokers are ones like supernova, ride the bus, square joker, etc. which effectively trade 1 gold (playing an extra hand) for permanent scaling

[vivid pebble]

Yes, you're right, silly me

[crude nexus]

sure I could get 3 more gold, but then I need to hope to buy something strong with that gold, and if nothing shows up in the shop I have to spend a lot of gold rerolling
or I play 3 extra hands and get a guaranteed +3 mult with no variance

[vivid pebble]

yes, to some extent you are right

[crude nexus]

if I just want to play my best hand and win, I don't think it's too hard to do so without a calculator, it's fairly easy to optimize

but if I want to play worse hands so that I win in exactly 4 hands, now I need to spend extra work making sure im not winning too fast while also not risking dying

[next glade]

I haven't looked into this at all, but I imagine I could make the main engine of my calculator an NPM library which a mod (like yours) could call from Lua with the game state and the JS library would send back the result.
That would solve a few big problems:

1. you don't have to write a Lua calculator
2. you don't run into issues trying to use the game's built-in score calculation code (which seems to have bad side effects with some jokers because it's not meant to be run multiple times)
3. While there'd probably be some overhead in connecting to JS, my calculator is pretty well optimized so would be able to do many calculations very quickly if needed; probably much faster than you'd get if it were written in Lua.

The main hurdles are connecting to Node.js in the first place (which probably means having to install the Node.js V8 engine alongside the mod) and exporting the state in a JS readable format.
If this seems like something you'd want to pursue, I can try and help.

[oak oxide]

Also this, the mod has great utility and I'm excited to see it develop

[next glade]

There have been several times where playing an extra hand would've given more money than not for me.

[vivid pebble]

If a player need to install nodeja to use a mod, I think it's a bad idea

But anyways, thanks for your idea, I'll think about it later, i promise

[languid knoll]

Just decided to try this, then got a crash upon clicking on the card on the main screen. Haven't checked if that just happens on the current steamodded on its own though

you might be missing a nil check on hand interacts, since i think that counts as interacting with a card despite not actually having a hand

Something... very silly may also be happening with Ice Cream

okay, did just check, that crash doesn't happen without the mod

and ice cream doesn't die

I'll record a quick video of the latter lol

okay, here's a clip demoing both bugs back-to-back. neither of these weirdnesses happen without the mod, and i just pulled the latest version off main

thanks for working on this mod btw! it's a really neat idea

none of the other mods here should conflict with this. i just have a card texture swap and more speeds, and that's it

black screen for a few seconds there is just me relaunching the game

the actual starting of that icecream was +75 when the hand started, so it dropping to 5 so quickly would (i bet) be because you're triggering some "hand played" callback once a frame when cards are selected and you're drawing UI, or something goofy like that

i've copied down my save in case you'd like to test against it

[vivid pebble]

Omg really

Hahah

I didn't even think about that

That happens because i have a listener for card.click, but i didn't realise it will be working there too

[languid knoll]

Hilarious

Probably pretty easy to check for though lol

[vivid pebble]

Yes, won't be a problem

[languid knoll]

the callbacks on the built-in eval are probably more of a problem lol

[vivid pebble]

Yes that's true, I don't know how I will fix that, I have several solutions

Hope I'll fix that

Thanks for the respond

[languid knoll]

🫡 anytime

[burnt dock]

The reason i look forward to using this is that you can just use a calculator to figure it out, but it takes you away from the game.
It's not too difficult to make your own calculations in a spreadsheet either, just can be more back and forth from the game than i want.
But also yeah, this problem wouldn't be so bad if you weren't rewarded to play every hand instead of just winning

[vivid pebble]

Okay so I fixed bug with number of hands played in "Run Info" menu. And "Played This Round" number too, but it will interrupt some of the jokers like "Card Sharp"

[vivid pebble]

The only way I see to solve this type of bug is to rewrite "calculate_joker" function and use it instead of in-game function

Will take a time to override it ugh

And I fixed a bug with main screen card click

added a config variables to turn off features you don't want to use (like bugged chips calc)

[hexed cosmos]

something about this is hilarious to me

[languid knoll]

"oh man, can't wait to eat this delicious new ice cream." you take one step out the door and it starts rapidly melting in front of your very eyes. then it melts completely and the cone crumbles into dust. then the cone crumbles into dust. then the cone crumbles into dust. then the cone crumbles into dust. then--

[brazen vessel]

is it supposed to be doing that

like the extra border

[vivid pebble]

uum no

that's weird

[faint dragon]

The mod is not working for me. Did I do something wrong?

[faint dragon]

Nvm, I have to fix Steamodded

Ok, I got Steamodded working and I see the mod in the mod list

And it is still not working

Please help

Ok, I got it from the Zip file instead of downloading the file directly from github and it worked

[faint dragon]

Is this still being worked on btw? I'm really excited about this mod

[vivid pebble]

I have some troubles irl, so development has slowed down 😦

[faint dragon]

I'm sorry to hear that! Hope your situation gets better soon 🍀💚

[vivid pebble]

Thanks bud

[uneven sun]

Just got back from vacation, great to see the progress that's been made. I might have a bit of time to contribute myself if there's interest? I guess when you have time you're working on the probabilities box? I might do some small QoL and docs PRs to get started

[vivid pebble]

of course, I'd love to. Dm me whenever you want

[dark willow]

So, I thought it calculated more than possible hands? like chips for selected cards + the hand? Open to being wrong here. I' ve been looking at the other screen shots in this thread and am mildly confused

[vivid pebble]

you can activate needed functions by changing the configs in the beginning of a .lua file

[scarlet lance]

There is no new update , will you update it? If not is there a mod like it you can recommend?

[vivid pebble]

I wish I had time for this, maybe someday. I didn't play balatro in a while, so I can't promise or recommend anything, sorry