(Very Early) Modded Customized Deck

[boreal knot]

This is a simple template mod showcasing how you can add your own customized deck into the game. It's very rough and SMOD will probably support it better some day so I'm not willing to put that much more effort into it.

To add some pointers:
-Replace any instances of "Hearts" with any other suit you wish to modify
-The key values in Atlas must match the value in G.COLLABS.options... with _1 for normal and _2 for high contrast

If you want to see a mod that makes better use of the template with multiple examples check out this mod: #1278135842774319195 message

[open hull]

I was literally just about to Google this exact question when I saw a new post in the modding channel, thank you king SDM_0 🙏

[heady path]

cool

[open hull]

quick Q, does the game itself support adding faces for cards other than KQJ? Or are those 3 hardcoded? I imagine you could get around it hackily but I don't feel like trying to tbh LOL

[boreal knot]

Maybe you can edit G.COLLABS.pos into your mod to add said rank

[open hull]

ahhhhhh yeah that looks like exactly what I was looking for, I didn't read too much into the code for the new collabs yet so I wasn't sure

[cursive wren]

nope, it's hardcoded so it only changes if the card has "King", "Queen" or "Jack" as its rank

[boreal knot]

Maybe I'm completly wrong lol, I know Guigui typping rn has been messing with it more than me

[cursive wren]

lmaooo yea

[open hull]

ahhhhhh I think COLLABS.pos refers to the position of the sprite in the spritesheet

[cursive bone]

I guess thunk has forced my hand and I shall finish working on alt textures

[boreal knot]

I almost called the mod "AltTexture" btw 😅

[cursive wren]

okay so my version tries to not use steamodded (although i haven't tested it without steamodded) and just uses a Lovely patch

[boreal knot]

How do you handle custom textures?

[cursive wren]

adding them to game.lua

[boreal knot]

Now I know why my previous path wasnt working when I used a lovely patch..

[cursive wren]

so far the only custom textures i've done are just porting the french+ localization mod's R/D/V symbols

(also annoyingly it has to be changed in a locale file, so i doubt it would 100% be usable without steamodded unless i figure out how to patch localization files through lovely)

[boreal knot]

RenDez-Vous

[cursive wren]

so true

[cursive bone]

You can’t patch loc files

[cursive wren]

yeah no you need steamodded to add/edit lcoale strings

[cursive wren]

...now i wonder how doable it'll be to extend this to whole suits

[boreal knot]

To modded suits especially

[cursive wren]

btw here's what the ui looks like with all the cards of a suit

[cursive bone]

that's very cluttered

[boreal knot]

True

[cursive wren]

yup...

[cursive bone]

cough cough steal the galdur layout cough cough

[cursive wren]

found out how to extend the cards panel

[winter sable]

that sounds like disaster for modded ranks

[cursive wren]

unfortunately it only patches in the vanilla ranks

[winter sable]

the usual hardcodedness huh

me when I don't SMODS.Rank

[cursive wren]

i have not searched where ranks are stored

<- lovely user 😔

[winter sable]

as for vanilla, they are not

they're always hardcoded

[cursive wren]

makes sense /neg

[winter sable]

same for suits

[cursive wren]

yeah i've noticed

[cursive bone]

same for everything 🙃

[winter sable]

... fair

[cursive wren]

hardcode it till you make it :D

okay uhhhhh that was not the result i was expecting but also that was the result i was expecting

also technically the amount of cards displayed was hardcoded instead of dependant on faces

[cursive bone]

first time looking at thunk code?

[cursive wren]

yup

imma go take a shower i need a break from this mess 😭

but yeah this is my first time patching balatro code
modding-wise i've done one custom joker with steamodded before but that's it

[boreal knot]

If you want to see a mod that makes better use of the template with multiple examples check out this mod: #1278135842774319195 message

[hot plume]

Hi, bit late to the thread, i found out you can add { Ace ={x=3,y=0} } and the ace will be changed if you have a texture for it, but i have not figured out how to change textures for numerical cards, as adding { 2 = {x=0,y=0} } just results in a crash, calling for " '}' missing near '='"

im really really new to coding, especially LUA (i want to learn) so im not sure why, as numerical cards seem to be defined as '2' '3' etc.

ah sorry, you also need to add <or _front.value == 'Ace'> to this, i do not remember what file is this, its either globals.lua or misc_functionalities.lua

[hot plume]

after that, and adding {Ace...} it works and changes the texture

after pressing the button in settings

[cursive wren]

yup!

yknow they should make it so that every deck can specify what ranks they modify

fym they, ill just do it myself hang on

[kind narwhal]

Curious if theres any more information regarding the possibility of enabling the customization of numbered cards (2 - A.) i’m know little about coding but from what I read in this thread a hardcoded limit to face cards prevents this?

[boreal knot]

Its achievable, Guigui did it

[cursive bone]

I am in the process of writing a much improved version of it

[boreal knot]

Epic

[kind narwhal]

Can’t wait!

[cosmic plaza]

putting it in the init function for the mod makes it not work, or was the mod init phased out at some point?

i.e the function SMODS.INIT.ModName()

[cosmic plaza]

actually it looks like this doen't work if you have an init function at all

[cosmic plaza]

this is not a great solution, but if you want the most brute force way of full deck support for customized decks this patches it to display and allow for 2-ace. The custom deck will need all of 2-ace, it doesn't support gaps. It sounds like Eremel is already working on a better solution, but if you just want to play around with it this works for the curent build

[sharp falcon]

has someone made stuff for making custom face cards for all suits

[boreal knot]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1278135842774319195

[opal garnet]

I made a little framework mod that allows for dynamic loading of full customized deck textures, is it okay if I include your lovely patch in it? with credit of course

[cosmic plaza]

I'm fine if you do but I didn't write that all from scratch, a lot is taken from Guigui's screenshots earlier in this thread.