Balatro Editions on any image

[tender dock]

DISCLAIMER: I am NOT the developer of GIPS. This is a program made by someone else, I am simply providing steps on how to use it.
Shaders in archive are NOT my work either. They were made by localthunk, I simply ported them to work with GIPS.

Requirements

• GLSL Image Processing System (GIPS)

Installation

1. Download ZIP attached to this post (updated: #1276894022656462910 message)
2. Navigate to GIPS installation folder. Unzip files into shaders folder.

How to use

1. Launch GIPS.

2. Under input image, choose Image and open desired image.
   Note: Image should be cropped to only 1 asset that you want to apply edition to.

Alternatively, you can paste image directly with Ctrl+V

3. Choose Add filter. If installed correctly, you will see Balatro (look attached image), where you can select which filter to apply.

4. File > Save (or Ctrl+S).
   Change Save as types to Image Files, write the File name with .png at the end (e.g. placeholder.png).

Alternatively, you can copy image directly with Ctrl + C

IMPORTANT NOTES

• For a saturated image (like in game), you need to add CRT filter with default settings as the last layer.
• Negative cards use Shine filter after Negative.
• Spectral cards, Vouchers and Booster Packs use Shine filter.
• Some filters have 2 sliders range and time that make it change visually.

This imitates in-game behaviour e.g. when hovering on the card and over time.

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[eternal crow]

Can anyone test gips on Linux if possible?

[eternal crow]

oh nvm I answered my own question - it works fine lol

[tender dock]

Update - fixed polychrome
For some reason it wasn't properly ported

[desert sinew]

he has seen things

[halcyon turret]

been having a fair bit of fun with this

[tender dock]

[desert sinew]

is there any way one of these could be done for the background shader?

[umbral vine]

like the twirl?

[tender dock]

if you know GLSL enough, it can be done
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1259119745953828904/1280905372382527588/image.png?ex=66ea4256&is=66e8f0d6&hm=45f8acf60258de1211d092204d8407e6b84d18843facbcac131b3a182b89a28f&

[umbral vine]

Oh wow

[high marsh]

would it be possible to add the shaders from cryptid?

it has very nice stuff like this

[eternal crow]

They would have to be ported to glsl proper first

[high marsh]

how would you do that? do you have to know glsl to do it

[tender dock]

yeah you need to know glsl

[high marsh]

how complicated is that

[tender dock]

not too much

I know someone managed to port negative shader with gippity

[high marsh]

ill look into it and see if i could do it myself (or atleast learn by trying)

[eternal crow]

Isn't love glsl just slightly outdated and there's some different funcs

I know there's documentation on the love2d website for their glsl code it is just a matter of unporting it

[high marsh]

after going through the shader code of the oversaturated effect and replacing invalid stuff from the ported foil effect, i am left with this

which is correct but still lighter than it should be

my thought of why comes from this, which due to my lack of knowledge i am unable to figure out, so if any of you know it would be much appreciated

i will now go to see if i can port any of the other effects

wait no wrong one

there we go

actually i probably ported it quite wrongly but yk i did my best

[fallen elbow]

I know the game messes with coloirs a bit and I think it makes it darker

[high marsh]

i can believe that yeah

id imagine thats another shader though

doesnt seem to be apart of the crt effect though

[tender dock]

CRT shader increases saturation a bit

even if the effect is at 0

noticed when I was adding https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1267076420388130876 shader into the game

[high marsh]

is there a way to get that effect as a gips shader?

[high marsh]

if i were to guess they come from this tiny line of code

[tender dock]

probably, can't check rn

[eternal crow]

https://love2d.org/wiki/Shader

Here's this if you don't have it already

https://blogs.love2d.org/content/beginners-guide-shaders

[barren cargo]

Is there a reason "static" edition (like "debuff") aren't included, not sure what this "run" error is (I never used GLSL)

[barren cargo]

Nvm balatro shaders seems to be different from the typical ones it seems

[tender dock]

Didn't think they'd be needed, can port that as well

[thorn void]

You sure this is how it looks like in game?

[tender dock]

^

[thorn void]

@tender dock Is there way to add other shades?

[tender dock]

there isn't any tool to port them, you have to do it manually

format is pretty similar

[thorn void]

[tender dock]

Added Balatro-CRT shader, which accounts for increased saturation, if you want bit more accurate picture.

(it has to always go last since that's how it works in game)

[tender dock]

should've asked earlier, but @tranquil shuttle can you pin please

[dry grove]

why is gips not opening

and wow that was so long ago

[tender dock]

hm

[dry grove]

i installed gips but it's just not opening and idk why

[tender dock]

weird

what system are you using

[dry grove]

wdym

[tender dock]

OS

sorry

[dry grove]

hmm

[tender dock]

windows/linux/mac?

[dry grove]

windows

[tender dock]

11?

[dry grove]

10

[tender dock]

did you install GPU drivers yourself? seems like it might be an issue with video drivers installed by windows

[dry grove]

o

[dry grove]

discovered that people that have those that arent compatible with opengl 3.3 get an error (apparently ig idk), but i actually don't get an error, all what's happening it that if i try to openthe executable nothing happens

that is actually a good reason tho

im not much of a pc nerd so idk

[tender dock]

weird

maybe try uninstalling and re-installing, I am not sure. I didn't write that program so can't help you too much

[dry grove]

ok then

tried it out but didnt work

[dry grove]

maybe because of this

[tender dock]

yeah, there's a way to see in windows logs if something's up

lemme remember where was it

oh yea if you search for event logs in control panel

then I think this

and then here at the top you would see if there's any recent errors

and if they correlate with GIPS launch attempts

[dry grove]

tried to open gips and refresh the event viewer
nothing related appeared

this is so complicated

[dry grove]

is there an alternative to GIPS

[tender dock]

What if you go to the installation folder, and try running EXE directly?

[tender dock]

if there is, then it would probably have slightly different syntax, so maybe that won't work without any code adjustments

[dry grove]

I did that before I told you it doesn't open

[dry grove]

Oh...

I might just give up

[tender dock]

hm yeah, sorry then, I unfortunately don't know what else would help

[dry grove]

-# I mean I'm about to sleep

I could just take the harder route of trying to replicate the enhancements with drawing

[tender dock]

is there just 1 thing you wanted to preview or is it something for long term (thumbnails etc.)? because if you just want to preview one thing I could just send you the image

[dry grove]

I just want the editions for fun

To add them to images and stuff

[tender dock]

I see

[dry grove]

Not anything important

[tender dock]

unfortunate that this didn't work out then

maybe installing GPU drivers could help, but yeah, if not then the only thing you could do is try creating an issue on their github - maybe the developer could help better

[dry grove]

Wdym by send the image?

[tender dock]

I meant, if you just wanted to preview 1 asset with specific edition, I could do it right now

[dry grove]

Oh

[tender dock]

but otherwise can't really help

[dry grove]

m

Well ok then

[dry grove]

Hey uhhh

Is there a way to turn the editions into a solid image? (Except negative because that's obvious)

Like the foil, holographic, polychrome and shine

Because I got this "polychrome" gem by making a new layer with some colors and added additive mixing (or whatever it is called)

[tender dock]

https://efhiii.github.io/balatro-calculator/

something like that

[dry grove]

.

Thank you so much

I realized I could easily replicate foil

It doesn't look good in there

[tender dock]

yeah I just noticed foil looks meh

but poly and holo are pretty close

[dry grove]

Ok but how could I download those images

[tender dock]

https://github.com/EFHIII/balatro-calculator/blob/main/assets/Editions.png

[dry grove]

Ok then

Thx

All there is left is the shine one

Hmm

Seems like I can't find it

[dry grove]

@tender dock can you put all 4 editions on a black screen? The foil holographic polychrome and shine ones (I wanna know how they look)

[tender dock]

Some (foil) wont look like anything on black/white screen.
Here's an example on a light blueish empty card

actually this looks kinda ass because it's on a x1 sprite version

on full black screen only holo looks like anything

on full white screen poly can be barely seen

[dry grove]

M

Well thanks anyways

[dry grove]

Wait what

What about poly

It's Visible on the black color of the spades

Oh well the more you know

[tender dock]

balatro "black" is not pitch black

[dry grove]

Oh I forgot

You tried light blue, now what about dark blue?

Might be the last one I'm asking Abt because I'm just curious

[tender dock]

Also I'm going to stop with these. I never signed up to be doing them at request, I only wanted to help once and this is getting out of control now.

If you want to test more - try to resolve issue on your PC, I won't be available to do this at any time.

[dry grove]

Ok

[dry grove]

That's it actually

This is what I wanted

Thanks

In advance

[summer kettle]

@robust sable pointed out that the foil pattern is an oval instead of a circle, I looked inside and figured out that the pattern's shape is relative to the dimensions of the inputted image, not static
so if you want an accurate foil look you have to put the image on a square canvas in addition to tinting it blue before putting it into GIPS

(btw I'm not demanding a fix, just letting people know)

[summer kettle]

sorry to bother you, but could you share the .fs you used to make this? I've been trying to translate the game's background from love glsl to regular glsl and after being up all night working on this all I've managed to do is get it to render a single solid color that changes when you mess with the sliders

this is what I've got so far

[summer kettle]

thanks a million!

ohhh

I didn't know gips image size is a thing

here's my version, fixed!

[tender dock]

there are some example shaders, which I used to learn syntax

they're pretty handy

[summer kettle]

thank you!

[tender dock]

No problem, happy to share. Also just realized I still had colors in that shader as separate values instead of using vectors

learned that you can use vectors at a later point

[summer kettle]

yeah I did a lot of research and somehow none of it turned up "use the image's size as the screen size dummy"

I got into this literally yesterday lol

[tender dock]

Updated version:

• Fixed foil #1276894022656462910 message
• Added background shader #1276894022656462910 message

[urban geyser]

would i be able to use this code to try and make a browser based thing to render any of the cards with the effects? not sure exactly how id do it yet but i should be able to figure out. i feel like itd be really useful for people making thumbnails and also jsut to satiate curiosity of what each joker/card would look like with the effects. these filters seem really game accurate but i dont wanna steal your code without permission lol

[tender dock]

it's not my code tho, don't worry, this is all copied from the game and slightly edited to work with GIPS

there's a reason I didn't put this on github

[urban geyser]

ohh ok i see

wasnt sure if you reverse engineered them or what because i didnt look too far back lol

i would probably still be using your edited gips versions probably since i looked it up and it seems like itll be possible to use glsl effects in browser (maybe without having to pay for my own server for it) but ill have to look into how it could work with the original versions of the filters as well

[urban geyser]

real or what

[prime willow]

how would I use this to test my shader I made? I was recommended to come here, but I'm not sure on how to use gips yet lol

this is what it says when I try to use it in the app atm

[fallen elbow]

I'm not sure but if you want to just have soething to quickly test shaders, DebugPlus has a command to watch for changes and reload them https://github.com/WilsontheWolf/DebugPlus/blob/master/docs/dev.md#shader

[prime willow]

hmm, I'll see if I can figure that out

[tender dock]

if you want to use this, you gotta follow the gips syntax which is a bit different from love2d shaders syntax

you can use shaders I ported from balatro as an example

[prime willow]

hmm, okey

samnkfjs I really gotta learn how to port these shaders into balatro lol

[prime willow]

I made a cool looking shader but it fucks up whenever the time is between 32 and 48 for some reason 😭 it turns the whole card pink for some reason lol

the pattern of the shader is really cool but I feel like I did something there which messed things up lol

did a few changes and as cool as this shader looks now, I feel like a balatro edition shouldn't need a flash warning lmaooo

this should be an example of how bad it is lol (spoilered for flashing image reasons, of course)

in short though, how do I make it avoid looking like this? lmao

[prime willow]

😭 how I fix this

lmao

I'm such a noob here, lol

[tender dock]

This thread isn't really for helping with creating shaders, you should ask in #💻・modding-dev

Also you should always provide source code for issues like this

I think from the error message the likely issue is that you ported shader to work with GIPS, but you didn't port the result back into LOVE2D format

[prime willow]

ahh, ok, sorry, lol

I'm still figuring this shader stuff out lol

[tender dock]

One thing that I only recently noticed is that foil (and probably shine) implementations are incorrect -
The end result is much brighter from the original

Those 2 shaders create a semi transparent layer that is layered on top of the sprite
Which doesn't really work with GIPS and OBS.

My solution was to combine outputs, but seems like I messed that up a little bit.

I'll probably look into that today and release an updated version

[tender dock]

alright seems like my first idea worked

• Fixed Foil and Shine editions being way too bright.

[sweet spire]

I noticed the math in Shine.fs (left) doesn't line up with balatro's voucher.fs (right), is that intended?

[tender dock]

oh, did not notice that, whoops

[sweet spire]

I've tried matching it with the original but it honestly looks too bright

maybe I'm doing smth wrong though

left is in-game aka voucher.fs, right top is original Shine.fs + balatro-crt.fs, right bottom is my modified Shine.fs + balatro-crt.fs

[sweet spire]

Back again with more notes; booster packs do not use the shine voucher.fs shader, but rather the booster.fs shader. There's a small difference in the total brightness. This version I made is based on some small modifications to Stupxd's shine shader

[tender dock]

Thanks! I did not notice that there were small differences for voucher and booster pack shaders when I was porting them

I know they look fairly similar to shine so I just assumed it's the same shader

[fringe charm]

I've got everything working, but I'm unable to download it as anything but a .gips file and it's gotten to the point that I'm about to just make my own pipeline and script to export it as a png

Like I just realized I've spent the last hour trying to convert this omg

Well I'm taking a break now then but any help on this would be greatly appreciated

[sweet spire]

There's a file > save as..., then make sure to change the type from GIPS Pipelines (.gips) to Image Files or All Files

I pressed enter too soon haha

[fringe charm]

Yeah it still turns into a .gips though

[fringe charm]

all good lol

[sweet spire]

Oh wtf it just automatically adds .gips if I don't give it anything. Try adding .png manually at the end of the filename

[fringe charm]

oh my gosh

boom

all of that for a negative stencil

thank you so much you're actually a life saver

[sweet spire]

that joker text seems weirdly white

here's the result I got with: Negative, (my custom) Shine, (my custom) Balatro-CRT

[sweet spire]

oh you added it to the wiki? haha

[fringe charm]

Yeah I'm trying to add all the negative editions cuz I don't see them anywhere else online

which is a whole hassle in of itself 😭

trying to edit the templates to accept a second image

[sweet spire]

there's a reason I haven't added them yet :)

[fringe charm]

‼️

what

[sweet spire]

bit of a pain to manually create 150 images and apply the negative edition to them 😅

[fringe charm]

yeahhhh

[sweet spire]

you'll need a tabber so the user can switch between the different images

[fringe charm]

It all started because I wanted to rank which one looked the coolest and somehow it led to this hours later

but I'm determined

[sweet spire]

respect haha

[fringe charm]

ohhh okay that's a good idea

[sweet spire]

let me see if I can figure that out

[fringe charm]

my problem right now though is that I added the image but it's not showing up so I'm looking around the template page itself

Honestly to me making the 150 images is the easy part if you can handle implementation I'm good cranking all the negatives out

[sweet spire]

I do want to double check which shaders you're using exactly, that first image you sent doesn't look quite right

[fringe charm]

okay yeah

It was just the default ones from the message stupid sent

and then negative->shine->crt

[sweet spire]

Hmm, weird. You grabbed the latest version of the shaders?

[fringe charm]

yeah

I could also just use your custom ones if you sent those

[sweet spire]

Here are the ones I use. I believe they look slightly better than the ones stupxd sent, but still not fully accurate

[fringe charm]

okay gimme a sec then

wtf did my gips delete itself

nvmd we good

we not good???

we good

for some reason its being racist against stencils so here's acrobat

left is yours, right is default

and yeah the right just has too much shine

[sweet spire]

Yeah, it's just too white

okay well it needs a lot of CSS changes but it works

[fringe charm]

OOOOOH that cooks

okay I'll just upload these to the wiki then when I finish them and you can add them and everyone will be happy

[sweet spire]

Feel free to add them as |negativeimage = .... in the infobox.
Please name the file properly when uploading, negativestencil.png is not a good name. Probably jokername (negative).png e.g. Joker Stencil (negative).png
And don't forget to add the right categories to the file, Category:Images - Negative Jokers and Category:Generated using GIPS

[fringe charm]

okay got it

Legendaries might be tricky but this is going pretty well so far, probably be done in less than an hour

[sweet spire]

you'll have some issues with the legendaries and hologram haha

legendaries aren't that difficult in theory, but you would need to add the bust (and its shadow) back on in an image editor

[fringe charm]

oh I didn't even think about the shadow, I have files for the other two but yeah

[sweet spire]

the hologram gif is probably not even worth it, though you could make a png version if you want

[fringe charm]

thats a later me problem

[sweet spire]

feel free to skip any or all of them if you don't feel like it

[fringe charm]

other than those I think I'm good though

it's fun to see all the negatives too, I've seen most but not all of them so it's pretty cool

dagger COOKS wow

[sweet spire]

oh yeah dagger looks awesome

[rotund yacht]

Is this an AA Apollo reference?

[fringe charm]

I think 8 ball or hologram is my favorite overall but now I'm getting to the fun jokers

[fringe charm]

I'm putting in the ones I have so far, how do I add the categories to the file?

[sweet spire]

you should be able to add [[Category:<CategoryName>]] to the file's upload summary

[fringe charm]

to the description?

because I don't see anywhere else I can add stuff

[sweet spire]

if you've already uploaded the file, you'll need to edit the file's page

if you're uploading, then in the summary

also it looks like your files don't have spaces in them? they really should haha

[fringe charm]

how important are the spaces 😭

[sweet spire]

pretty important since I'd like to be able to automatically grab the negative image in the future

so I would just have to add (Negative) to the filename

[fringe charm]

I can change them it's okay

so Greedy Joker (Negative).png works?

[sweet spire]

yea

[fringe charm]

cool

[fringe charm]

for this though there just isn't a summary I can edit anywhere

[sweet spire]

go to the file's page and press "edit source"

then add the [[Category:<name>]]s to the text

[fringe charm]

mmmmmhmmmmmm

so sorry I'm quite sleepy

[sweet spire]

microwave moment

[fringe charm]

okay so like this

just wanna check

[sweet spire]

without the <>, sorry

[fringe charm]

all good

[fringe charm]

at least I didn't put "name" instead of the actual name lmao 😭

[sweet spire]

if you want to rename the file you should be able to use More > Move

[fringe charm]

okay cool

and I've renamed all of the other ones I haven't put in yet so we're chilling

I think tonight I'm just gonna make them and worry about putting them in tomorrow

[sweet spire]

sure

[fringe charm]

boom all done before 2 am

minus legendaries and holo

[sweet spire]

this seems pretty good

[fringe charm]

Yeah that looks great

[fringe charm]

just did all the legendaries but I realized something, the head are scaled up aren't they?

Yeah here's in game vs mine

I tried scaling it up and it looked better but the non negative legendaries on the wiki aren't scaled so I'm gonna keep it consistent

[fringe charm]

Alright i'm putting them all in the wiki now, thank you so much for your help again Larswijn!

[sweet spire]

The head wobbles around and changes size in-game, and at its smallest its like on the wiki 🤷🏻‍♂️

[sweet spire]

Nice job! I'll take a look later and see how it worked out

[tall marten]

new to this, where balala shaders 🥀

nvm found it

[tall marten]

can anyone here explain to me how negative actually works?

[long portal]

I'm doing something (trying to have PNG for each card editions) and i had a question, did you figure out a way to batch process with GIPS or did you do all individually ?

[sweet spire]

As far as I know, no way to tell GIPS to apply shaders automatically to a batch. There are some keyboard shortcuts though, you might be able to combine that with a hotkey script written in e.g. Python or AutoHotkey. That's what I've done in the past anyway.

Are you making 150 jokers * 4 editions = 600 images?

[long portal]

No i'm making 52cards* 5seals(that i applied using ImBatch) * 8 enhancments * 4 editions soif i need to do them by hand it would be a nightmare.

Would you mind sharing the autohotkey script cause i have absolutly no idea howto dothis myself

[tender dock]

I mean you can just use love2d directly for this

https://love2d.org/wiki/love.graphics

you can draw stuff on canvas, then save it as png file

this does require a bit of coding knowledge tho

[long portal]

Yeah i do not have that much of coding knowledge, guess i'll do only the basic edition or use the png overlay technique

[sweet spire]

It's a python script, though I doubt it'll be very useful for you as I only used it for a saving a single joker over time (hologram) as opposed to multiple jokers in a batch. Would you still like to see it?

[sweet spire]

Last time I checked the modded balatro wiki for this, nobody had been able to successfully export balatro shaders using love2d itself (though there were some attempts)

[tender dock]

wah

when I was workig on blueprint shader I had a love2d project setup where I would test it

you just need to remove unnecessary stuff (dissolve and vertex shader)

basically what I did with my GIPS port

setup that I had (already removed code that saved png but you can find that in docs)

actually that code was in the mod itself, I remember now

[long portal]

I'd say why not i'd give me a base to work from

[sweet spire]

Here ya go

[long portal]

Thks man

[short shuttle]

Anyone

Here?

[short shuttle]

@tender dock

Sorry for the pin

How do you launch GIPS

Well I guess I don't have it, even though I downloaded the files

I think it might be for some reason some files didn't download?

Still frustrated

Wait so I need all 7 files

[tender dock]

That is not very helpful. What did you download exactly?

[short shuttle]

so which do i need

it worked i think

i got them all or something and put them all in the main folder

[short shuttle]

Yeah it worked, mb for being super inexperienced,

How do I add more colour change to the code

In the negative one, It registered dark purple as black and changed it to white, I kinda Wana add more colours