[Texture Pack] Marvel Universe

[rocky isle]

Hello, Balatro discord! I made a mod that swaps the planets of Balatro's planet cards with planets, space stations, realms, and planes of reality from the Marvel universe.

UPDATE WITH GITHUB: https://github.com/ztgarrett/MarvelUniverseBalatroMod
Compatible with Steammodded 1.0.0

original message:

I'll edit this message to add the github link eventually, but I thought it might be fun (maybe? idk) to first share just the icons on the planet cards and let people take guesses at what each icon might be. Here are the icons for the nine base planets as well as the three secret planets along with the Black Hole replacement. Most of these are specific to the comics, but the imagery for a few of them come from the films, I just went with whatever I thought would be most visually interesting.

I don't want to make this thread without posting any art though, so here's probably the most obvious of the cards:

Can't do a project like this and not draw a planet with a big face on it

[eager sapphire]

LOVE THIS !!!

[grand drift]

I think we can all agree this is Asgard

[rocky isle]

Correct! This is pretty much the only card where I went with a mix of the classic comics version (buildings and mountains on an asteroid, the Bifrost zigzagging away) and the film version (the Royal Palace of Valaskjalf in the center, waterfalls off the edge of the world).

[eager sapphire]

Now I wanna try this! These arts are amazing

[rocky isle]

aw thanks! I'll leave this open for guessing a bit longer and also reveal a few more.

So, you (a person who happens to open this thread) might be asking, "OP, the cards come in CELESTIAL packs, why didn't you just make the cards all characters like Gammenon the Gatherer and Ziran the Tester?" Ha haha, you're so right! That would have been clever! However, I thought those would be a little too much to draw over and over, plus their names are too long for such tiny images. BUT, I did give a couple of them priority placement on the mega booster packs.

[eager sapphire]

I can spot Master Mold

[eager sapphire]

and a Galactus ?

[rocky isle]

No Master Mold or Galactus in the planets! (Though if you're referring to Mega Booster pack guys, those are Eson the Searcher (who makes a cameo in the first Guardians movie) and Nezarr the Calculator (who uhhh he's a guy, I liked his smile.))

But there is a Galactus-related planet which I'll drop now, it's probably one of the two deepest cuts in this set, so no one would likely ever guess it, a little utopian planet that's canonically the first planet that Galactus ever ate

That's what it looks like when he eats, it's messy, all that energy just blasting out of the core

[eager sapphire]

This is incredibly well done ! Congrats !

Following the thread and looking forward to the realease !

[rocky isle]

The only actual Celestial to appear within the Celestial packs for this mod, it's Knowhere, the dead head of an unnamed Celestial. Its appearance isn't very consistent in the comics, and I thought the most interesting silhouette was this version featuring wings and a little mohawk.

[eager sapphire]

I'm familiar with Knowhere

Marvel Snap player ✌️

[rocky isle]

Oh yeah, I directly traded my obsession with that card game for an obsession with this card game.

Xandar, the home of the Nova Corps, is just a normal looking planet in the films, but in the comics it's far sillier. The planet gets exploded and, for some reason, Uatu puts forcefields around four chunks of it. The survivors create passageways between each chunk and designate a use for each district: residential, farming, mining, and industrial.

And for a film version, here's Sakaar! It's covered in garbage!

[eager sapphire]

When can we expect a release? 🥹

[rocky isle]

I think I'm going to try making a modicon tonight (EDT) and then release it tomorrow.

The other planet I took directly from how it looks in the films, Vormir! Where there's always an eclipse happening for some reason.

[umbral niche]

are you overriding localisation texts with this too?

[rocky isle]

Yep! The new names should display in-game.

I also made some goofy new badges for the planet cards that aren't technically "planets".

[umbral niche]

hmmm, I'll have to figure out a way to switch localisation tables based on textures for my alt texture work

[rocky isle]

I (as someone who has not created any other mods before) wasn't immediately clear on how to update the name of the planet without also updating its text until I found this example in the Six Suits mod: https://github.com/Aurelius7309/SixSuits/blob/master/SixSuits.lua#L263-L273

I adapted it to look like this:
`-- update consumable text and badges
local copy_loc = function(self)
local target_text = G.localization.descriptions[self.set][self.key].text
SMODS.Consumable.process_loc_text(self)
G.localization.descriptions[self.set][self.key].text = target_text
end

local get_consumable_obj = function(key, consumable)
local consumable_obj = {
atlas = "MarvelTarot",
process_loc_text = copy_loc,
generate_ui = 0,
loc_txt = {name = consumable.name}
}
if consumable.badge then
consumable_obj.set_card_type_badge = consumable.badge
end

return consumable_obj

end`

sorry if that isn't helpful, but it sounds like it might be what you're looking for?

overriding the names in particular was quite a bit more straightforward in 0.9.8

[umbral niche]

I'll figure a way out for it when I get round to it, here is the context I'm looking at it for btw

[rocky isle]

oh that's rad! That's making planet sets selectable in game? Maybe this is difficult to answer since I haven't put the code out there yet, I'll try to get the last task done tonight and then put up the github, but do you think I would need to do something to make my texture pack compatible with what you're making?

Excited to think that what I'm doing could be compatible with the Outer Wilds mod.

[umbral niche]

That's the plan! I'm working on this being part of SMODS at the moment, just finalising a few UI placement decisions, and it's playing funny with certain categories, but then at least artistically, it's super easy to add new options. The localisation stuff will come in the near future I hope.

it's a simple as doing this for just the art

[rocky isle]

Extremely cool, thanks for working on that!

For some edge cases on what people might do when editing planets, the other things I've done are:

• New textures for all of the Celestial packs
• Added those badges I mentioned
• New texture for Black Hole as well, which the Outer Wilds mod also has
• I edited Astronomer to have the new base planet icons

[umbral niche]

yeah black hole is a funny one to categorise for me

I think ultimately being able to toggle individual cards would be the best result

[rocky isle]

Yeah that makes sense. Sets are pretty convenient too though if those can coexist.

[umbral niche]

yeah, it's just figuring out how to configure sets across mulitple types of card

[eager sapphire]

this is amazing ! Never seen it before

[quasi pulsar]

Thought that's a cat sitting on there for some reason

[rocky isle]

haha fair, perhaps I was a bit too loyal to the precisely one image of Vormir from space in the films + the Balatro black levels and created a cloud that looks like a frightened, brown kitty

it's a modicon! The "B" is for "Bavengers".

The final base planets before I publish this tomorrow! First, the single pixel icon, Asteroid M!

And BATTLEWORLD! The planet made of other planets. I'm kind of surprised that this isn't in Marvel SNAP yet as a location given how popular (on a comics scale) the Secret Wars event from eight years ago was. The film adaptation, if it is an adaptation at all, isn't coming out for years, so that's some patience if they're hoping to time it to that release.

[eager sapphire]

The devs of Marvel Snap are a bunch of lazy people! They need to fix the client before going forward with the game.

It's really like a trash bin and they keep adding more trash inside with every patch hahah

[rocky isle]

The final planets!

The Negative Zone! This is the only drawing I fully restarted. This version apes Jack Kirby's original conception of using collage art to draw the Negative Zone. I originally tried to draw how it has been subsequently depicted, a place with a lot of planets and comets and other celestial bodies all much too close together with dozens of different colors happening at once, but my drawing turned out to look like a bowl of Fruity Pebbles.

The White Hot Room! The realm of the Phoenix force!

The House of Ideas! The meta zone!

And for the Black Hole card, the Multiverse!

github link! https://github.com/ztgarrett/MarvelUniverseBalatroMod

[grand drift]

love it ❤️

[rocky isle]

ty!

[heady jolt]

any chance of malverk support?

[umbral niche]

https://github.com/Eremel/MarvelUniverse

it's one of the malverk examples