X Card

[woven socket]

To celebrate the release of EnhanceAPI (which you will need for this mod), I give you the enhancement that inspired it. Perfect for Straight enthusiasts who want a card to give the hand type more build options!

How does it work?
Each X Card in a played hand analyzes the non-X cards in the hand, and transforms into whatever rank would create the highest scoring hand without transforming into the same rank as another X Card in the same hand. For some examples:

• AAAAX would mimic Ace, turning Four of a Kind into Five of a Kind.
• A8XXX would mimic the Ace and the 8, to turn Pair into Two Pair; the third X is not scored under normal circumstances.
• If the third X would be scored or otherwise have its value queried, like Splash, it would mimic a random value.
• A2XX5 would mimic a 3 and a 4, to turn High Card into a Straight.

Go give it a try down in the GitHub link below, and let me know if you run into any issues!

https://github.com/Numbuh214/X-Card

[formal path]

link isnt real

[woeful fjord]

Shouldn’t it be “analyzes non-X cards in the hand”?

[woven socket]

yes, thank you

[woeful fjord]

Did you do dynamic programming?

[minor bobcat]

what modloader is this for

[woven socket]

this requires steamodded

which is why steamodded was selected as a tag

[minor bobcat]

ah

right

the link is broken though

so i cant download it

also does it add a new tarot or something

to turn cards into x cards

[woven socket]

yes, it adds "page of cups"

[minor bobcat]

hm

can you fix the link

[woven socket]

@here the repository is public now

apologies, i'm still learning github

[woven socket]

oop, forgot i started throwing that code in. one moment!

there we go, updated!

[formal path]

you need EnhanceAPI

[minor bobcat]

oh right

[woven socket]

yeah, i should have specified that more clearly

my bad!

[minor bobcat]

huh

the page converts 5 cards

that seems like a lot

also the art

game crashed when i changed pages in the enhanced cards menu thing

[woven socket]

oh yeah, forgot to fix that

[dull imp]

whoo

[woven socket]

there, page of cups is nerfed and the bug should be fixed

[woven socket]

all right that should be everything

wait what

[dull imp]

me when

[woven socket]

oh there we go

[crude plume]

badges for polychrome and red seal aint showing up

[minor bobcat]

how do i fix this

[crude plume]

copying a x card via cryptid doesnt keep the x card sprite

and then crashes

[minor bobcat]

what about death

[formal path]

try dev ver of steamodded? release has some issues with vanilla tooltips not mixing well

[woven socket]

that's weird

and nah, autumn... i literally had to hack my own badge code in, and i forgot about edition/seal badges

that's on the to-do list

[formal path]

oh the badges

tooltips are also yeetified tho

[woven socket]

let me see how copy_card works...

oop, there's the problem

[woven socket]

this should be fixed now, at least sprite-wise...? lmk if it still crashes

new version of enhanceAPI

[crude plume]

gotcha ill test it later

[woven socket]

yep, works perfect on my end

literally just needed to call the set_sprites function

which apparently it never did

[crude plume]

to be specific on what i did that lead to the crash, i used offering from autumn’s mod a few times to get one card, made it an x card, placed a red seal and polychrome on it, spammed cryptid, and then tried to play five of them

[woven socket]

ohhhhhhhhh

[crude plume]

when i clicked the last one it crashed

[minor bobcat]

actually what would happen if you did play 5 of them

[woven socket]

the five X code might be fucked then

[minor bobcat]

would it just choose a random rank and then make the highest possible straight with that rank

[woven socket]

what should happen is that you get the best hand that can be made with five unique ranks

that is, an AKQJT straight

[minor bobcat]

T?

ten

right

[woven socket]

yeah, people use T for 10 and

it makes sense

[crude plume]

do red seals fuck with them at all?

[woven socket]

they shouldn't?

but i'll add that in

[minor bobcat]

how do i fix this

[woven socket]

oh, i updated awhile ago

download the latest version and it should be fixed

[minor bobcat]

ok

[woven socket]

or just go in that line of the file and put suit = at the start of it, if you wanna save yourself some time

that's literally all i did

forgot to add suit =

anyway, if it's dying on final card click

it's dying during straight calculation

yep, there it is

it's just some debug nonsense

fixed

comitting now

@crude plume issue fixed

[crude plume]

sweet

[woven socket]

yeah, like

there's no convenient name for a non-flush "royal flush"

also, they randomize values as a failsafe

[dull imp]

i found a specific error

[woven socket]

is it this?

[dull imp]

no, happens when i play a 3 of a kind with this mod installed

not with the edition specifically i haven't tried that, just a 3 of a kind

[woven socket]

yeah, it's full house coding being fucked

[dull imp]

ah, okay. i'm just not play 3 of a kind considering it did take me a while before getting the error

[woven socket]

there we go, that's THAT issue fixed

[woven socket]

another small update to be compatible with the new version of EnhanceAPI and stop an issue i almost didn't catch, where two pair might score over straight

[woeful fjord]

What kind of issues? I was trying to add some tooltips (to Jokers) and it didn’t work

[woven socket]

the issue of crashing when playing a three of a kind

oh, mb

@woeful fjord that was because i forgot to add the rest of the badges to enhanceAPI

as you can see, i fixed that earlier

[dull imp]

me when enhancing a modded suit with x-card and trying to play it

[dull imp]

also a few spare pixels lying around

[minor bobcat]

what would happen if you played a debuffed x card

would it just not score

and if you forced it to with a high card would it just give 0 chips or something

[woven socket]

i imagine debuffed X cards would work the same as any other card; they would still contribute to the hand in rank, but no score would be given

[woven socket]

yeah, that's... mainly a problem of the atlas not having a sprite for the modded suit.

or at least, that's what i'd imagine anyway

(...i wonder if there could be a better way to create "compatibility" sprites...)

...what i could do is see if the suit is greater than three and then have it search for an atlas m_xcard_[suit] instead of its default atlas of m_xcard

then it would be on custom suit creators to make their own sprite for X cards

there, now the vanilla suits will still work properly at least.

so the solution to your problem going forward, @dull imp, is to make a custom atlas for it with the name "m_xcard_[suit]", where the [suit] variable is the suit's name, converted to lowercase, and replacing spaces with underscores

here's a template i whipped up for anyone wanting to make sprites for mod suits (either their own or one they use

just make sure the small graphic for the sprite (the one used on 2-10) is aligned with the big circle, and that the suit denoters are aligned with the small ovals in the corners

then change the rest of the sprite to the same colour as the suit itself and then you're golden

[nocturne epoch]

I honestly like the idea of this far more than the current vanilla wildcards. Getting a straight build to work is way harder than a flush build, so this might actually make it a viable hand to build for.

[woven socket]

that's been the goal of this, and the personal balance mod i made that this splintered off from

#1226055105204453428 <- the personal balance mod, for those interested

in that, i made superposition capable of fully looping straights, improved the numbers for both crazy and devious joker, and improved the planet mults for straight and straight flush

among other plans i have

this way, straights are more than just "hehe just get one of these two specific jokers and it's easy"

[nocturne epoch]

Wouldn't this make royal flushes be very easy to get though? Do the cards automatically calculate to the highest value? Say you have a 10 and a Jack of spades, and the rest are spade X-cards, would that result in a royal flush?

[woven socket]

yes, it would!

but they're not easy to come by under normal circumstances

[ripe herald]

I'm not at my PC rn i,ll be there in about an hour. But I also noticed this edition overlays the original sprite for the card I'm wondering would it be possible without making a whole new spritesheet to make half playing cards. If you do have to make a whole new spritesheet I would also do that.

[woven socket]

you have to get 3 page of cups tarots, specifically for that to work

[nocturne epoch]

Death card would make it trivial if you just get one

[woven socket]

you could use the old version and add to the sprite sheet... but at the same time, that template is easy to use. i'll show you if you can tell me the name of the suit you want to add and/or link me to the mod that has it

[ripe herald]

I want to make half cards as an edition, I'm basically wondering if I can make it so it removes the top of the card. Of all vanilla suits, and my modded suits

No thread for it just concepting

[woven socket]

mmmmmm...

i don't know if that will work as an edition, because editions are usually just shaders

i'm sure there's a way to do it, but... i'm not sure if it isn't an uphill battle

[woven socket]

so in essence, death cards would serve as a replacement to page of cups cards in my argument

you'd still need multiple in order to get a royal/straight flush more easily

and it's nice to have those be as much an auxiliary to straight deck builds as they are to flush deck builds

especially because oftentimes you're upgrading straight OR flush enough to where playing a straight flush is actually a detriment

and besides that, you're acting like guaranteeing a straight flush is objectively the best use of a death card

[nocturne epoch]

Fair enough. Would take a lot of Death cards to guarantee a royal flush each round.

[woven socket]

mhm

and death cards are better used for the secret hands anyway

i know i'm hitting balatro balance where i hear "if things go right, you can go to the moon"

[dull imp]

when when modded suit 😔

[woven socket]

the suit names are ink and color, right?

[dull imp]

yea

[woven socket]

  "m_xcard_color",
  this_mod.path,
  "m_xcard_color.png",
  71, 95,
  "asset_atli"
)
local m_xcard_ink_sprite = SMODS.Sprite:new(
  "m_xcard_ink",
  this_mod.path,
  "m_xcard_ink.png",
  71, 95,
  "asset_atli"
)```

creating and registering these two sprites will fix the issue

HOWEVER, i will also need to fix enhanceAPI to be compatible with your suits

this_mod is a variable that uses SMODS.findModByID(mod_name) btw

[formal path]

i wonder if this is related to the issue i had

[woven socket]

potentially

i don't have custom suit/rank compatibility yet

quite frankly, X cards probably aren't going to--

just too many moving parts to consider with automatically making straights out of...

yes many ranks

[minor bobcat]

what about the stars and moons

[woven socket]

i think i've detailed the process enough with how i've helped mr. ink and color

all you have to do is make the sprites, define them in your mod, and my code will do the rest

[minor bobcat]

oh cool

[woven socket]

because it actively looks for asset atli's with the format: m_xcard_[suit]

where [suit] is your suit's name, converted to lowercase, with spaces being replaced by underscores

so for stars and moons, you'd just need to define m_xcard_stars and m_xcard_moons

[formal path]

im referring to enhanceapi as a whole

[woven socket]

yeah, probably is. you're the one with like... yes many ranks, right?

i don't have enhanceAPI compatible with custom suits and ranks yet

[formal path]

i was having issues on collection screen

[nocturne epoch]

Tried some pixel art. Went for a combination of the vanilla mult card and wildcard style. Not sure I'm happy with the result, but figured I'd post it either way.

[minor bobcat]

does this have high contrast suit textures

[woven socket]

it does not, yet

but i could probably whip some up really quick and commit them

there, updated

[woven socket]

you know, that looks pretty good! but the question mark kinda just fell into place after i deemed the placeholder images to have outlived their usefulness.

[woven socket]

but you know, maybe that would be a good "default" x card image

[nocturne epoch]

Did some further tinkering, and I think I like this version better. Also changed the lower right scribble so the red parts went on the top side of the figure, and added an extra black line to the X.
Idea was that the X is cut up, so there's space in between the pieces, which is kinda what it's used for, to fill in the blanks in incomplete hands.

[nocturne epoch]

Further tinkering with new ideas.

[nocturne epoch]

I think the torn / cut corners are a bit too much actually

[minor bobcat]

?

what is that png supposed to be

[woven socket]

oh wait

did i not commit those changes?

swore i did

@minor bobcat if you haven't updated before now, definitely do so.

[minor bobcat]

?

i have the high contrast versions if that is what you were talking about

[woven socket]

i just fixed my attempt at high contrast compatibility

[minor bobcat]

ok

oh thats cool

it flips over and visually turns into the best card when its played

[woven socket]

mhm!

that added visual flair is something i wanted to do, to convey what rank it decided to copy

[muted ice]

i made an halberds suit version of the x card but when i try to play it my game freezes

i don't know what might cause it

my bad it's me who is dumb i just used an x-card before a normal card

[woven socket]

all right

x cards should now be at least partially compatible with new ranks

i'm fairly confident that it won't crash

i'm not sure if they will work properly, but it won't crash

[dull imp]

i enhanced a color suit card, it turn into the club art for the card and then this happened

club art of x-card

[muted ice]

in order : crowns, fleurons, halberds, moons, notes, stars

[muted ice]

i saw that yours already are in the mod

[minor bobcat]

oh hey thanks

[muted ice]

you're welcome

[karmic bramble]

Good evening! I'm getting this error and I'm having trouble figuring out what's gone wrong.

[woven socket]

oh, i see

the 2x assets ARE used somewhere

[woven socket]

there, all assets should be accounted for