Mod development: Out of game collection viewer

[urban comet]

I want to make a mod that is able to grab mod objects from the game when it runs and output a webpage using notmario's Balatro mod website template

This will enable people to easily see everything they have in game on one place and I'll also be able to use it to publish the exact contents of my modoack if I wish to

I have a pretty good idea of how to go about it. It doesn't really need any sort of interface, at least at first, just to run once on game startup

What it'll need to do is grab the name, description, and rarity of every modded joker. In the future I'll add other mod objects, but I'm starting with just jokers. I plan to also add mod badges under the rarity badges. Additionally it needs to grab and re-export the individual sprites. I've been told this part is pretty easy with a Love2D function.

My question is, what do I iterate over to get these attributes? Also can I do this with only steamodded or do I need lovely too?

I think I can figure out the web design end with the Javascript, html, and css, as well as getting Lua to write custom versions of those files. I just need to know where to start basically

This is kinda in a similar vein to #1291393594799689779 I know. I've had this idea for quite a while though and they can coexist.

[unborn lily]

wouldn't that just be during context.other_joker and you do something like

context.other_joker.loc_txt.text for the description?

if i'm getting that right..?

this is of course if something like

baseball card was iterating through jokers

if you want to make a thing happen constantly you do it in the event manager

[urban comet]

I want it to log all jokers at startup

And then stop

I presume I mostly just need a loop, a context, and where to get the list of smods.joker objects

[unborn lily]

but that would log all vanillas and all jokers from every mod

[urban comet]

I want to do that, yes

[unborn lily]

.

[urban comet]

The vanillas are a bit superfluous but still

It'll be a beeeg addjokers.js, lol

[unborn lily]

what if instead of that

you make it a joker that uses the context of baseball card

and logs every joker in your joker slots except itself

[urban comet]

That's... a very different thing from what I'm doing

[unborn lily]

so then you use debugmode to spawn all the jokers you wanna log

[urban comet]

But interesting

The main design goal for this mod is to export the entire collection

[unborn lily]

then

spawn every joker

[urban comet]

They'll be loaded into memory anyway. I don't need it even more hacky, lol

At least I presume the code for the joker objects is accessible while not actively in a game, for the collection to work on the first place

[unborn lily]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

the way i suggested is so easy even I could probably code it

[teal venture]

..Why do we need to spawn jokers at all for this?

[mellow cypress]

really like this idea! been trying to find jokers from other mods to help me with understanding modding and this would be ripper for that as well

[teal venture]

If all we want is the card's into on startup just grab all the jokers after injection and you should be able to get the rest of the info about then (i.e. atlas file, loc text, etc).

Then just save this somewhere that can be accessed for the webpage.

[urban comet]

Dosclaimer: I've coded roughly 0 Lua before

Sp I'll need to read the docs and and ask questions along the way

[teal venture]

The Lua part sounds decently simple for at least the modded objects that are close to vanilla (with extra code needed for all the different custom UI elements).

Making the webpage would likely be the harder part.

[urban comet]

But yes this was pretty much all I was thinking I'd have to do. With the redrawing the sprite part (because some mods don't use single sprote atlases) being the hardest part. And I already asked how to do that

[urban comet]

https://github.com/notmario/balatrowebsitetemplate

I just need to add the info to addjokers.js from this

And add a new field for the mod badges

I figure I can even grab the badge colors and incorporate those

[urban comet]

So what do I use to grab all the jokers? I know it must be a loop, but what am I iterating over and what else do I have to add in terms of context or anything?

I'm trying to do a quick proof of concept test where I just write all the keys to a text file. I got writing to a file instantly, but need to know how to grab the data

[teal venture]

Iterate over G.P_CENTERS and check if anything has set = "Joker"

Should net you the config of a joker.

[winter wedge]

This would be really convenient to help set up something large like Cryptid

[teal venture]

Yea it's definitely something really neat.

[urban comet]

what would be the syntax for this? I'm trying things but I'm probaby way off

[urban comet]

I got it working, but it only does vanillia jokers

and I know priority inf probably isn't valid, but i don't think it's my issue

yeah I removed it and no change
I think I need a context or something
or maybe the set for smods jokers is different

[teal venture]

File loading is done when jokers are being registered.

Which is before their injection.

You need after, which can be done through creating/hooking post_inject_class in SMODS.Joker (can’t remember if jokers have this or not).

Or just making a custom class that looks like how the internal ones for file localization do.

[urban comet]

sorry for so many questions, but how would I do any of those?

[true rose]

if im getting this right then this means you can just shit out a webpage anytime you want for the mod your using

that sounds epic

[teal venture]

SMODS.Joker.post_inject_class = function(self)
    <insert code in above screenshot here>
end

[urban comet]

it's... almost working

[urban comet]

gets halfway through the jokjers and then decideds the file it's been writing to doesn't exist

[urban comet]

yeah that's pretty much the idea

[true rose]

sounds epic

sounds like it would be hard to do joker images though

like with soul_pos jokers

do you just align them in the middle or smthr

[urban comet]

apperently you can use love2D directly to redrw the sprites

I presume it works with soul_pos jokers too

[urban comet]

redraw and write to a png I mean

[true rose]

sounds epic

and also a great way to get your mod out there

hope this gets made

[urban comet]

Fixed it, just needed the file openeing outside of the loop

[deft nimbus]

I'm actually working on that. Right now I have it exporting most informations about most game types into a json format. My next step was going to work on modifying the template to work with the json file and allowing it to display more options.

[urban comet]

yeah, this is a bit simplier

[deft nimbus]

This is my code incase any of it can be useful to you

[teal venture]

Looks great, although I don't think we need to create the cards to get this info.

Something like how curses and D6 sides are processed should work for just about all of them.

Game might end up crashing from trying to process tons of cards being created and deleted.

[urban comet]

it's starting to work, and no crashes, just a bit of hanging

how do curses and d6 do it?

[deft nimbus]

I found I needed to create the cards if I wanted the description variables to resolve. Not all object types had the same problems so some I could just call localize on without issue

[urban comet]

yeah I also haven't gotten the variables to resolve

but I haven't ried doing it with the created cards yet

I created the cards to get the sprites first and foremost

(though now the ~center~ rarity doesn't resolve like it used to?)

I mean the rarity

[deft nimbus]

Rarity wasn't too bad for me, just had to account for how some special cases are hamdled

Evolutions specifically, I believe

I didn't need to create the sprites to get the images, I just referenced into the sprite sheets. Though I haven't gotten soul images done yet

[urban comet]

well, I needed to actually draw and export the sprites as pngs

idk if that's possible without creating the card

[deft nimbus]

I did it using only the center object. You can look at my code to see the method I made, but like I said, it doesn't do overlay sprites yet.

Basically get the atlas image and the use the love paste function to select only the pos you care about and then use a write function to export that new image as a png

Though now I'm curious what you're doing to export the rendered card.

[urban comet]

yeah that looks so much cleaner

[teal venture]

I managed to also get it to work but 1: the game crashes when trying to load modded objects (Could not open file output/images/c_cry_malware.png (not found) when trying with Cryptid) and 2: I can't find the output files.

[urban comet]

here's my current file

[deft nimbus]

My guess is that you have to make sure the path exists relative to the app data balatro file. After some restructuring I may have accidentally removed the creatq folder if it doesnt exist cod3

[teal venture]

Yea it does save when it's in the save directory

[urban comet]

tryingyour code, and this isnt't quite right

[teal venture]

Yea everything is saved as if it's in 2x and not 1x

[urban comet]

i mean they all have 2xassets though? why isn't it pulling from those?

[deft nimbus]

When I run it I get the 2x output. I'm not sure how it decides which to use.

I originally coded it to use the 1x dimensions but the output was only a quarter of the images

[urban comet]

here's my implementation

I'm still creating the cards because apperently I'll need them for the descriptions

but not using the card object

[deft nimbus]

Parsing the description was a bit of a pain since the output is designed for ui rendering

[urban comet]

well I /will/ be doing a form of ui rendering

the balatro website template is kinda meant for mostly unmodified descriptions

even with the colors

[urban comet]

commentedd this out just in case, and it didn't change anything

[deft nimbus]

I mostly meant the data structure that the ui uses isn't really friendly for anything other than the ui. You get a ui element you have to index into with each line being a table and each part of the line being a nested table containing the string and color data (and other stuff)

[urban comet]

and that table is what the balatro website template takes. It converts the colors into html colors itself

the extra linebreaks are the only thing you need to remove

and that's just aesthetics

that and localizing trhe variables

that you do have to do yourself

[deft nimbus]

The color data are decimal numbers representing the hex values

[urban comet]

hmm... there's no way to get the format that you'd give to steamodded?

even with an smods function?

[deft nimbus]

The template worka with the unprocessed text that has the stuff like {g.c.color}but the processed text doesnt use that, it preps it for actual rendering.

[urban comet]

yeah I get what you mean now

I just assuemed that steamodded could get the descriptions back in that format

[deft nimbus]

It's a balance between getting the raw text without the variables or the processed text that is in the ui data structure for the variables to be filled in.

[urban comet]

the raw text is closer to what smods uses?

[deft nimbus]

The stuff with the g.c.color data also had the #2# variable placeholders

[urban comet]

if you have the card object, can't you localize that yourself?

[deft nimbus]

I think you should be able to but I kept running into issues with the loc_vars not working correctly. I just ended up calling hover to force the game to process the text and then just did it all in custom logic

[urban comet]

I know on smods jokers at least it's just an index into a config table

idk if vanillia jokers work the same

[deft nimbus]

If you can find a more consistent solution I might steal it

[urban comet]

need to get images working before I start back on the descriptions

I mean they were working

but I wanna steal your code because i like it better

lmfao

[deft nimbus]

As a general rule descriptions were the most difficult thing to deal with. Different object types sometimes had their own special needs.

When I'm back at my computer I'm going to upload the newest version of the code to github

[urban comet]

it's deadass just the in-game pixel art smoothing option

[urban comet]

.

[deft nimbus]

Just for a ballpark, when I export everything I get around 2600 images

[urban comet]

I just noticed I have no vanillia jokers in my export. I... don't know why. I don't even care that much about including them, but they;re in the text values due to how I did it

[urban comet]

I'm just doing jokers atm

[deft nimbus]

Are you indexing off of smods.jokers?

[urban comet]

I'm doing G.P._CENTERS

[deft nimbus]

That is odd

[urban comet]

it was exporting them with my other code

[deft nimbus]

I guess it's possible they aren't exporting for me and I just never noticed. When you have over 1000 jokers it's easy to miss if a small subset aren't there.

[urban comet]

I noticed because I wanted to see how wee joker exported

I presume it woulda been like this

which is better than mine which was at normal joker size

is there a way to center them though?

[deft nimbus]

How I'm doing it if they aren't centered on the sprite sheet they won't be centered on the output.

Unless maybe the center has info about different h and w values to override the defaults

[teal venture]

Unfortunately they prob don't, cards with dimensions that aren't normal just resize the Card object when created.

[deft nimbus]

most recent version of my code has been uploaded to https://github.com/lshtech/CardExporter
looks like vanilla jokers weren't exported for me, if they weren't touched by another mod.

[native pine]

I was thinking it would be intresting to make some kind of api to request the game to give metadata

take a look at this object G.localization.descriptions.Joker

theres one for other things too

[deft nimbus]

added support for vanilla cards and creating folders if they don't already exist

[deft nimbus]

G.localization.descriptions returns the unprocessed version of the text:
INFO - [G] {
[1] = "Each played card with",
[2] = "{V:1}#2#{} suit gives",
[3] = "{X:mult,C:white} X#1# {} Mult when scored,",
[4] = "{s:0.8}suit changes at end of round",
}

[urban comet]

Just really hit me that I'm gonna have to construct the whole ass addjokers.js file basically line by line with io.write() statements even the parts I'm not changing. That'll be fun, lol

might break out chat gpt again for that busy work

Well I guess I can have 2 js files and leave one static, to minimize the brainnumbing

[teal venture]

I’m wondering which one is easier, building a Lua -> JavaScript converter or getting the website to work with json.

Well if there’s likely a converter for one somewhere but whether it’ll work for specifically tables or just convert code like the ones I had seen when searching is a different question.

[urban comet]

getting close to a working code to overlay soul images

based on yours

everything is blue atm though

[urban comet]

ayyyy it's working

[deft nimbus]

What did you do for the overlays?

[urban comet]

code is still really messy and hangs indefinitely and never loads the menu, but here it is

[urban comet]

basically I just added everything to a canvas and outputted that to the file

[deft nimbus]

that looks good, I updated mine to use that same logic

[urban comet]

and your version doesn't hang he game :P

[deft nimbus]

progress on the template

[urban comet]

ngl I see some appeal in the completely random seeming order everything comes out in

I always get ox joker first too

[urban comet]

you're definitely making a lot more progress than me, lol. though to be fair I spent a lot of time on the sprite thing

[deft nimbus]

I spent a few hours yesterday trying to get shaders output. it kind of works but I'll probably create a mechanism where I can override the procedurally generated images with custom ones.

some of these are fine, some are just blank

[urban comet]

Hmm I wonder what's causing that

[true rose]

wrong colours for rarities sadgely

[winter wedge]

That Glitched shader is meme material

[deft nimbus]

They shouldn't be, it's the same values as in the globals.lua file. Ah, my dark mode extension is adjusting the colors a touch.

there are still some issues to work out, and it's currently just jokers, but here's the initial public release: https://lshtech.github.io/

[winter wedge]

Beautiful

[deft nimbus]

adjusting odd sized sprites is on my "to fix" list

[ember terrace]

Wow that's a huge page

[true rose]

is that the whole of cryptid

and a bunchc of other mods

[deft nimbus]

it should basically be everything. I meant it to be a resource for mod developers to see what ideas do or do not already exist

[ember terrace]

Why are vanilla jokers from Aura in here?

[deft nimbus]

why are the vanillas there at all or why are they marked as aura?

[ember terrace]

Why are they here

[true rose]

because the vanillas are animated using the aura mod

aura is the mod that animates vanilla jokers

and so takes ownership fo them

[ember terrace]

Yea but they aren't modded jokers

Should have been removed

[true rose]

also layer mismatch

soul layers are formatted wrong

the ! should be behind the jonkler

[deft nimbus]

at the moment I don't really have a good way to specifically identify vanilla jokers other than possibly hardcoding it. there are one or two mods that insert jokers directly into the g.p_centers table

[ember terrace]

Beside Aura idk

nil
nil
nil

[winter wedge]

It also doesn’t respect the hide badge option

I bet Green Joker is also marked as Cryptid

[deft nimbus]

yeah, there are a few nils about and a whole lot of jen's have it

[true rose]

too latr

AURA

[deft nimbus]

aura probably took ownership after cryptid did

for things like aura I'll put a filter to ignore any card that are set to use it since I don't remember aura adding anything new

[shy mirage]

You coul check if the keys are base game keys and not show them if they are

[urban comet]

it should be an option probably. I can see people wanting to browse the vanillia descriptions at the same time

[deft sinew]

It can even detect custom objects like sleeves and skills? I love it

[twilit finch]

:o NLM is there too!

[deft nimbus]

I started working on joker tags, right now I'm looking for chips,mult,xchips,xmult. are there any other properties that would make sense to tag?

[urban comet]

Just read the config tables, lol (idk if that's feasible)

[unborn lily]

scaling

[deft nimbus]

I can add scaling to my list of blueprint and self destruct of ones I'm not sure how complex it is to programmatically identify

[unborn lily]

you could get a lot of them by searching for card.ability.extra.xmult = card.ability.extra.xmult + but i don't think that would be all emcompassing

or search for "gains" or "this joker gains" in the ability text

if they use the correct syntax every scaling joker should have one of those two

[deft nimbus]

I'd have to read the actual lua files to see that sort of thing, though many have some mod value in extra for what to add to the xmult (etc)

if a joker gains but gets reset does that count as scaling?

[unborn lily]

yeah

it still scales until it gets reset

[deft nimbus]

I guess the descriptions frequently also say something like "currently "

[teal venture]

There is going to be a tag system in SMODS at some point, whenever that's set up it should be easy to set up.

[deft nimbus]

that is true, and I can make use of it then, at least for moded jokers that use it

[urban comet]

That's also how you know to insert the one actual new line into the desc

[urban comet]

@deft nimbus how do you have the old jellymod enhancements in your game?

https://lshtech.github.io/

also I see other enhancements without mod badges I don't recognize

[deft nimbus]

I just fixed it. Disabled scouter though.

[urban comet]

you should combine efforts with @native pine and the #1286410784645058631 project

what are the other weird enhancements from?

lke medical card and slimy card

i don't think those are jellymod

[deft nimbus]

I don't remember at the moment but I'll check when I get a chance

[urban comet]

Also I'm officially suspending my version of this mod concept, you've already achieved all my goals and more

[urban comet]

no worries

though we really need to figure out how to automatically add the shader for jokers like Holo

Also, base game jokers should have a "Balatro" badge so we know they're not from a mod without proper smods.Joker support, if possible

[deft nimbus]

Well I did start before you did. Feel free to make suggestions or contribute changes/improvements

[urban comet]

yeah I'll still be looking at your code and seeing if I an add anything

[deft nimbus]

I just poked at it to make it work, like I did to codex, they are doing more rebancing too

[urban comet]

fair. I know you didn't port it or anything like Pampa and Lush

which they're also doing

(if you would have ported it it woulda had a badge, that's why I know)

Is your website created by an unmodified version of your current code, or did you do stuff manually on it?

[deft nimbus]

The exporter code or the template code?

[urban comet]

I can tell the template has been modified, I meant the exporter. Though yeah I guess it doesn't put it all together yet?

[deft nimbus]

The exporter is a bit out of date but I think what checked in is functional

[urban comet]

I'll still wait until I can just run it and get a website like yours spit out I think

and I can help with iomplementing that if nessacary/not done

watch out for gaycoonie.github.io/Coonies-Mod-Pack when it happens

[deft nimbus]

Oh, yeah, I can do that. Right now i run it and then upload the results

[urban comet]

yeah, like, the website stuff should be part of the same mod imo

so it can just be pushed right to a githib pages site

after moving it to the root of a different repo ofc

that part should be manual, but yeah it should generate the website files in situ

[deft nimbus]

Oh, gotcha, no, the template lives in a second location. I can work on that though.

[urban comet]

yeah I get'cha

[urban comet]

it can should output to a seperate folder or subfolder so it can be easily grabbed, but I think I'm getting my point across

I'm a bit overtired

[deft nimbus]

Right now I use beyond compare to sync them locally

[urban comet]

also keep up the great work man. I feel kinda like I'm barking orders, which isn't on purpose. this has cpme together super quick

and I very much appreciate its existence

[deft nimbus]

No worries. I have to brush up on my website skills though

[urban comet]

I only ever learnewd bare html + css myself, so not much use for js stuff

[deft nimbus]

I'll probably get some more complex framework on place to support better filtering

[urban comet]

you did say in your bio you overcomplicate things :P

but it seems to work out well

[urban comet]

what I was gonna do is get the html and css files like I wanted them and keep them static and then reconstruct the js with the mod itself

which woulda been hard not knowing js, but I'm good at brute forcing stuff like that with enough time

I mean... I got the soul sprites to overlay despuite not knowing a lick of lua before I tried to make this mod

[deft nimbus]

I'm new to Lua too but I'm also a developer

[urban comet]

yeah that gives you a major advantage. My only coding experiemence was in college years ago

I just kept staring at the love2d docs and googling things until I got it halfway working

lol

[deft nimbus]

Googling is half of dev work anyways

[urban comet]

very true from what I understand

[deft nimbus]

Working with Lua is basically knowing, roughly, want I want it to do and figuring out how/if that's possible with this language

[urban comet]

yeah, my very limited previous experience was mostly with python so I have some grasp of how languages genteelly work, but it's probably good thaat I don't have enough to expect a certain way of doing things. Python was a long time ago for me (about 5 years) so I had a semi fresh slate

though I do think all the time about writing python scripts to automate menial tasks, but recently, I've been using chatgpt to automate the automatoion (as opposed to befored when I just... didn't do it)

and I've been using Bash for that because it has easier access to ImageMagick, which is the right tool for the type of batch tasks I've been messing around with

mostly processing the font for #1292971421349445785

interestingly even though Bash is known for its interactive shell and not as a "prgramming language" as a newcomer to it all it feels like any other scripting-style language like python or even lua

[deft nimbus]

It is, technically so is the windows command language

[urban comet]

yep, lots of things are actually turing complete programming languages

[deft nimbus]

Those are from a mod called Matchbox (https://github.com/NrioModer/Matchbox), I haven't really played with it much to know if it has any problems.

[lime dagger]

Oh I have seen this one

[deft nimbus]

@urban comet I've updated the release on https://github.com/lshtech/CardExporter to have the template inside the mod folder and it copies it to the output folder. it's using a windows xcopy so if you're not using windows the copy command variable will need to be updated.

[urban comet]

Maybe using love.filesystem methods can make it OS agnostic?
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem

[deft nimbus]

I was hoping they'd have a nice, simple copy function but I think I'd have to sequentially read the contents of each file and then write them to the new location. Not undoable, just annoying

[urban comet]

Yeah, it's a kinds odd omission imo

To lua itself and tbh to love too

[deft nimbus]

lua has modules that have more robust support, like os, but they don't seem to be set up here

[urban comet]

also I just realized because I'm using proton i /am/ running the game under windows and don't need to change anything

Bit of a brainfart there

Only max users would have to change it afaik

(And yes wine does seem to include xcopy)

[deft nimbus]

inside the template folder are override images for aura's animations. you can delete this gif files if you don't want to use them

[urban comet]

@deft nimbus so I'm probably missing something obvious, but how do I get it to actually.... do the thing?

[deft nimbus]

menu option after you've started a run

[urban comet]

oh you have to be in a run

okay

[deft nimbus]

when I create cards I do it in G.jokers

there are a also a few loc_vars that expect to be in a run

[urban comet]

this is why I'm glad I use debugplus, so I know if it's still doing things and not to try to exit out

[lime dagger]

What's a desklet

[urban comet]

oh I think that's a poup from m os

irrelevent

[urban comet]

I'm not sure xcopy is working. It's been ding nothing and the cmd window has said this for like 5 minutes, Everything seems to have made its wasy to output/, but not the mod folder itself

the base event queue has been on 1 since it originally counted everything down

[deft nimbus]

the complete line is from this mod, that gets printed when its done

[urban comet]

well the copy commands just didn't work then

[deft nimbus]

the js/html stuff didn't get to the output?

[urban comet]

oh nvm I see

I was being silly

so it did work

but I do get a crash trying to exit to menu

[deft nimbus]

looks like an undiscoveredsprite error. did you install my discovery manager mod?

[urban comet]

oh I didn't realize that was needed

you need to write a readme, lol

[deft nimbus]

it shouldn't be, just not really sure why else you'd get it

[urban comet]

oh I don't have it no

but i did discover things manually with debugplus

so that might be it?

[deft nimbus]

it should mark everything as unlocked and discovered itself but I know it's had issues sometimes

[urban comet]

uh.... do you have manual overwrites for these or something?

I don't haveFusion

I have Defused

and those descriptions are wrong too for the jokers I actually have

and no images

[deft nimbus]

the only overrides that currently exist is any image in the images folder that ends with _override

[urban comet]

wait I think you included your export in the download by accident

because the suits I don't have but you do also show up

[deft nimbus]

oh... yeah, because I accidentally included it in the template it overwrote the one you generated

[urban comet]

makes sense

[deft nimbus]

deleted the file from my repo

[urban comet]

can I just delete it locally if I don't wanna redownload? which file is it?

[deft nimbus]

cards.js

remember to get the one inside the template folder

honestly it's working better than I might have expected on a completely different OS

[urban comet]

well it's not /really/ on a different OS

proton/wine does a great job of reimplementing windows userland

[deft nimbus]

theres a whole lot of weird underpinnings of linux that could have made themselves known

[urban comet]

fair enough, lol

https://gaycoonie.github.io/Coonies-Mod-Pack/

[deft nimbus]

clearly need to put in checks for the existence of modded types and look into why the other vanilla objects aren't exporting images correctly. I'm also planning on implementing an override system so you can have a custom file that "fixes" the data, like list "Balatro" as the mod for all vanilla jokers.

[urban comet]

Also figure out why the voucher packs don't have any sort of betmma mod tag. It might be just how it's added

[deft nimbus]

betmma's vouchers are added directly to G.P_CENTERS

[urban comet]

Ah thought it was something like that

Well the vouchers have the tag, I presume you mean the boosters

[deft nimbus]

yeah, sorry, the boosters

[urban comet]

Betmma should add then when steamodded so they show up here and in the mod additions on in game

Also they should move everything to one actual smods+lovely mod with a full config

[urban comet]

@deft nimbus I just had a thought. Because though have so actually push a "export cards" button, maybe you could include a text input field for webpage title abd one for a blurb for the top of the page

Also make the headings: "jokers" etc, have capital first letters

[urban comet]

I'm thinking it could even have an automatic way to do that by reading the profile name like Basepaul card does

Maybe include a summary of what all is in the collection to (count the number of objects) either for the auto blurb and/or in sprenthesis for the tab

It's also be cool if they're was a tab for the mods themselves. Just the mod badges should be sufficient for the visual element

@deft nimbus you sound also color the mod badges to how it's setup in smodded if possible for both that and the main categories. And just keep the gray as a default color for when that isn't set

[deft nimbus]

Mod badge colors should be being set when applicable

Filtering by mod is definitely on my todo list

[urban comet]

yeah mb they are

I just forgot how many don't have one set

[urban comet]

@deft nimbus Trying to export my collection again and getting a crash

[deft nimbus]

this line is odd, I'm not sure if it would be an issue: card_type = string: "Locked"

[urban comet]

oh is it the locked ortalab cards?

I have them disabled in config

the ones that don't exist but are teasers for the demo

[deft nimbus]

guess you can try disabling ortalab to see if it'll run then, that'd at least help troubleshoot it

[urban comet]

didn't seem to help actually

[deft nimbus]

when I get a chance I'll run it myself and see if I can figure out what's causing the issue

[urban comet]

no worries

I did download a fair few new mods, so it's hard to say which one it is

I'll push an update to my modpack so my exact setup will be available for testing

(well it's pushed, I just mean make a release because I make zips so people don't have to use git to download it)

[urban comet]

well actually one of the mods isn't functional in the repo atm, (moarjokers) so I don't wanna make a release

here's just a screenshot of my mods folder if you need to know what mods I have

[deft nimbus]

I reran my entire output without any issues and I appear to have every content adding mod you do

the log file should say what object it was working on when it crashed

[deft nimbus]

I was certainly able to export reverie's stamp sleeve

[urban comet]

is your version of reverie up to date?

[deft nimbus]

i assume so, it's updated from dim's pack

[urban comet]

yeah, we both seem to be using the same version, weird

[urban comet]

I think it's the item after it fails on

but I don;t think we can know what that is

[deft nimbus]

the processing log should be done immediately before it works on an item. the error suggests its happening during the rendering step which is definetely after the processing log.

[urban comet]

huh, weird

then mod interaction?

[deft nimbus]

I guess it's possible. the error is happening inside the base rendering logic. I guess I can try and work through the stack trace and see where or why specific_vars is breaking things

can you give me your dumped version of functions/common_events.lua?

also can you hover over the stamp sleeve in game and see if it crashes?

[urban comet]

and no crash

[deft nimbus]

can you regenerate the crash log? the line number and that version of the file don't match up

[urban comet]

yeah, it's because i disabled ortalab

here's the new crash log

[deft nimbus]

it certainly looks like it's related to the object being locked. I'm assuming it is in game?

I updated the script to unlock objects before processing them

[urban comet]

it... isn't though

weird

@deft nimbus pretty sure the problem with the editions display is that they apply twice

this is exactly how I imagine double negative must look

[deft nimbus]

don't know why it would apply twice, it's just doing set_edition

[urban comet]

looks like you're doing set_edition, but also set_shader if an edition is set

I see how that could do it twice

[deft nimbus]

without set_shader

[urban comet]

hm.... do you need to actually set_edition?

or can you get the edition shaders another way?

are you popping , doing a graphics reset, or doing a setshader() after you render the cards?

[deft nimbus]

setting the shader, drawing the image, clearing the shader, popping the canvas

[urban comet]

hmm... something really does seem like it's making it happen twide though, like it pretty much explians the looks of all of the shaders

weird

@deft nimbus it's because there are 2 draw operations i think

I noticed this before but forgot

each gets the shader applied

[deft nimbus]

i'm not sure why there would be two draw operations there

[urban comet]

I think for each "thing" it drawsa it uses the shader, and because these are in the same place, we see the effects of the shader x2

but I might be mistaken

i barely understand love2d

and what I think are 2 distinct things probably aren't in any way

lol

[deft nimbus]

I believe that the "sprite" one is just the info about where on the image to key

yeah, the first param is the image, the second param is the quad, the next three are position, and the last two are scale

[urban comet]

those 2s are shearing factor

wait

yeah on the version with the quad, the last digitds are shearing factor

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

[deft nimbus]

I'm only going up to the scale factor ones though

[urban comet]

oh lol I shoulda expected

my b

[deft nimbus]

no worries, it's not exactly the clearest info

[urban comet]

what if you try the drawing function without the quad?

that's what I originally used for my version (not with the shaders but the main images worked)

[deft nimbus]

i think it won't know where on the sprite sheet to look, so it'll just take the entire sheet

[urban comet]

but I got it to work

lemme find my old code

[deft nimbus]

all the other cards are drawn in the output_images function which is based on your old code, but cards that have editions by default aren't getting drawn that way.

[urban comet]

yeah I get that

I'm just saying that maybe the shaders would bahave using the other draw function

[deft nimbus]

I mean I am doing the other draw function for the other output and jokers with default editions aren't getting them

[urban comet]

yes, I understand that, I meant using a more similiar process, but more specifically using the version of love.graphics.draw without the quad, as is used there

[deft nimbus]

that function is using love.graphics.draw(love.graphics.newImage(newImageData),0,0)

[urban comet]

yes, do you see a quad argument, I don't

the whole first part is the image data

no comma

[deft nimbus]

i mean that's what my function is doing for non-edition cards

[urban comet]

yes, and I'm saying to do it for edition cards and it might work better. Along with actually applying the edition/shader ofc

[deft nimbus]

but it's not working for editions for the other cards right now. like bobm has the negative edition but it doesn't get output with it

[urban comet]

because it isn't even trying to

I'm not saying to use the exact code

what is not being communicated?

sorry if I'm getting a little frustrated

My thought is to do the normal set shader stuff, grab the image card data and store it like the normal draw function does, set the appriate shader, and draw it using the same method as the normal image output function

[deft nimbus]

I don't think it worked last time I tried it but I can try again. the edition stuff can't be fed into the normal draw function as is because the cards they exist on aren't exactly standard and fail the if g.asset_atli checks

[urban comet]

can't we just so set_shader without actually setting the edition?

[deft nimbus]

from the documentation calling set_shader() without params is kind of a reset

[urban comet]

I mean we can find the right shader to use without physically setting it to the card object

or set it to a dumy card object so we know where to find it

but then outpuit the shader to the real one

[deft nimbus]

...hmm, I guess so. if I wanted to I could create the blank card, don't use set_edition, but just pass along the edition info

[urban comet]

yeah exactly

all it is is a love2d compatible shader, right? nothing special afaik

[deft nimbus]

nothing special, you just need to know the proper key to call for either set_edition or set_shader

[urban comet]

nods

yeah I'm curious to see if this works, I think it very wel may

[urban comet]

so no more crash

I updated my mods including the exporter

But it does hard crash (no crash screen) upon finishing

but that doesn't matter tbh

It does crash if I have othermod installed though, which I noticed you managed to get in your export

[versed rain]

So, how's this going?

[versed rain]

@olive ingot

[urban comet]

going well. Elbe took up the mantle and it pretty much works

https://github.com/lshtech/CardExporter

we both made our websites with it

http://lshtech.github.io

https://GayCoonie.github.io/Coonies-Mod-Pack

[versed rain]

🤮

Christ, I forgot about that...

[urban comet]

whats that from?

[deft nimbus]

jellymod

[urban comet]

ah makes sense

[olive ingot]

Yes denver

[urban comet]

I finally got your mod to boot, but it crashes when I try to use the card exporter

[olive ingot]

The what

[urban comet]

the thing his thread is for, like... @deft nimbus has practically hundreds of mods, and managed to export yours too, but for me it crashes

that's why de @'d you

I wasn't gonna

because i'm not sure it's even your mod's fault

[olive ingot]

I don't know how to make it card exporter friendly ngl

(Also I was gone for weeks)

[urban comet]

no worries, and idk why it isn't working for me, your stuff is on https://lshtech.github.io, so elbe got it to work

[olive ingot]

Ok

[urban comet]

(this is what the exporter does, it makes those websites)

[olive ingot]

Ok

Honestly I was just non-existent because I became much more busy

[urban comet]

fair

[olive ingot]

BTW I think I haven't updated othermod

For a month

So yeah that might be the problem

[deft nimbus]

@urban comet when you run your export do you have a trance theme on?

[urban comet]

Yes I do

[deft nimbus]

did you notice if the output colors match vanilla or the theme?

[urban comet]

Looking https://gaycoonie.github.io/Coonies-Mod-Pack/ I've seems to match the theme

[deft nimbus]

ok, that's what I was expecting but I never really looked at trance

[urban comet]

Yeah it makes sense

Your should draw other xolors from balatro so the websites can be more themed :p

[winter wedge]

Would be cool if it also changed the background based on trance config

[deft nimbus]

the background is just an image, but I guess it's probably doable

[urban comet]

Yeah exactly

[urban comet]

Doesn't the original template generate it in software?

[urban comet]

That and the css for the tabs and stuff

[deft nimbus]

you might be right, I assumed that the external script was just to a hosted image

shows how much I payed attention to the background

[urban comet]

I think I remember seeing the colors for the bg defined somewhere

[deft nimbus]

#define colour_1 vec4(1.0,0.3725490196,0.3333333333,1.0)
#define colour_2 vec4(0.0,0.6156862745,1.0,1.0)
#define colour_3 vec4(0.2156862745,0.2588235294,0.2666666667,1.0)

[urban comet]

It's also animated originally. And swirls based on mouse movement

[urban comet]

@deft nimbus the exporter seems unstable atm. Instead of hard crashing when done, which was fine tbh, it currently, with my current modpack (the same update I just published) freezes and hard crashes in the middle of exporting, and not even at the same time.

[deft nimbus]

hmm, possibly a memory issue? I'm not sure how easy that will be to troubleshoot

[deft nimbus]

as an fyi, I've updated https://lshtech.github.io/

[urban comet]

Hopefully it starts working again for me

[deft nimbus]

I'm considering borrowing code from toomanyjokers to add a text field you can select specific mods you want to process

[urban comet]

Would help with debugging at least

[unkempt grotto]

👀

[deft nimbus]

some basic tags. not perfect but it should help identify jokers that do certain things.

[shy mirage]

is this using the tags PR that's being worked on?

[deft nimbus]

nope, though I do want to use those. right now it's just checking to see if a joker is using some of the basic variables

[shy mirage]

fair enough, as long as you're aware of it's existence and don't spend a load of time developing something that'll need to be redone

[deft nimbus]

most of the work was UI side, which I'll want regardless

[deft nimbus]

ok, I've updated the exporter to allow a filter list. comma seperated and you can use "Balatro" for vanilla or non-smod objects

[urban comet]

@deft nimbus I suspect the new smodded update breaks the exporter? (Likely the proper rarity system?) Crash as soon as I hit the export all button

[deft nimbus]

so that was actually cause by an accidental dependency on too many jokers that went away in a recent update.

[deft sinew]

Heya @deft nimbus, is https://lshtech.github.io/ still being updated? Just used it and it seems like it is at least 2 months old

[deft nimbus]

Haven't done it in a bit, sorry

[deft sinew]

No worries, was just wondering if you were still planning on keeping it updated or if you were leaving it to projects like https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1300973742972866660.
I like your website though, makes it really easy to just ctrl+f