Cerlo's questions

[green patio]

Ok I know I'm not very good at modding, and I have a lot of questions on how to make things work. So instead of asking each one separately on #💻・modding-dev, I will post all my questions here and everyone can answer them whenever they like. Please use QUESTION [NUMBER] when you answer so it is easy to understand which question you are answering.
Remember I don't understand nothing about lua coding, I'll be very happy if you include the code and where to put it inside the mod, thanks ❤️

QUESTION 1
+ not solved
How do I make a separated sprite go on my Joker's sprite? I want to have a little number displayed on the bottom left of my Jokers. It starts at 1 and during the run it can increment up to 10.

QUESTION 2
+ solved
How do I have a separated text box near the Joker's text? An example is the glass Joker's description that has a separated box telling you what a Glass card is. I want to add something like that but with my own custom text.

Solution to Q2 #1252643810853523577 message

QUESTION 3
+ solved
How can I change a Joker so that it doesn't spawn in shops, packs, and other Jokers' spawning abilites (Judgement doesn't spawn this Joker)?

Solution to Q3 #1252643810853523577 message

QUESTION 4
- not solved
How can I color a text in a Joker's text box with a new color which is not already implemented in Balatro?

[trail mesa]

first of all, have you had a look at docs?

https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/wiki/05.-SMODS.Center#api-methods

[green patio]

yes

English is not my first language and I understood a few things

also the documentation is incomplete

[trail mesa]

yeah but it has information on some of your questions

Q3:

add_to_pool = function(self)
  return { add = false }
end

[green patio]

like, I got that I have to use generate_ui for QUESTION 2, but what to add inside that?

[trail mesa]

you don't need to touch generate_ui, you can just use loc_vars

if you want to show information of some other card, you just put that table in

loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
  info_queue[#info_queue+1] = G.P_CENTERS['c_mod_your_card']
  return whatever_else
end

otherwise you can add a loc entry of type Other and reference it like this:

[green patio]

what really is info_queue?

[trail mesa]

loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
  info_queue[#info_queue+1] = { key = 'some_key_you_added', set = 'Other' }
  return whatever_else
end

generate_card_ui calls itself recursively based on what's in info_queue, generating the needed UI elements for that additional information as tooltips

[green patio]

if you were to add this particular box (with this text), what would the code be like?

[trail mesa]

for the text, you can either use a function like this

function SMODS.current_mod.process_loc_text()
  -- you might have other things to put here
  G.localization.descriptions.Other['my_mod_example_text'] = { name = 'Text', text = { 'Other', 'text' } }
end

or a loc file like this

-- localization/en-us.lua
return {
  descriptions = {
    Other = {
      ['my_mod_example_text'] = {
        name = 'Text',
        text = { 'Other', 'text' },
    },
  },
}

Then, you would need to add this to your joker definition

loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
  info_queue[#info_queue+1] = { key = 'my_mod_example_text', set = 'Other' }
  return {} -- add vars to this if the joker needs it
end

[green patio]

Tried it but got ERROR

if I type SMODS.PhantomThieves.process_loc_text() the game doesn't start because PhantomThieves is nil

I tried different versions but never got the expected result

[candid anvil]

What about SMODS.current_mod.process_loc_text()?

[pallid quail]

must be current_mod

[pallid quail]

what we said

your loc also needs to be in smods.process_loc_text

on mobile so can't send you an example code

[green patio]

doesn't seems to be needed

[pallid quail]

hm ok

[green patio]

can I have vars inside this box?

like Currently #1#

[pallid quail]

should be able to

[trail mesa]

yeah, you can add them to the table in info_queue like vars = {}

[green patio]

got it, thanks

I made this function

function SMODS.current_mod.process_loc_text()
  G.localization.descriptions.Other['my_key'] = {
    name = 'Text',
    text = {'Other', 'text'}
  }
end

and called it inside loc_vars like this

  loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
    info_queue[#info_queue + 1] = {key = 'my_key', set = 'Other', vars = { 'vars needed inside the text' }}
     return {}
  end,

[green patio]

QUESTION 4
+ solved
How do I make my Joker's probability to change when 'Oops all 6s' is used?

Solution to Q4 #1252643810853523577 message

I tried to look at the base code, and I understood nothing. Please tell me how you would do it

[random sleet]

I used pseudorandom('<insert key here>') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal/card.ability.extra.odds as a condition to make a joker's probability double with oops all 6s, but this might only work for steamodded

[trail mesa]

that's not specific to Steamodded ^