[Texture Pack] Rain World Playing Cards

[quartz junco]

A mod that replaces the playing card textures with Rain World themed ones! It includes options for all high contrast and pixel smoothing combinations.

There are currently 3 different versions of the texture pack linked below, each one with some slight differences:

• The original texture pack is the one that was made first, and it's exactly as you see in the pictures below!
• Face cards only is also exactly what it sounds like: a version of the cards without the karma symbols replacing the art on the number cards!
• Karma 1 Aces shifts all of the karma symbol art over by 1 number, so that the K1 symbol (the upside down 2) is on Aces, K2 is on 2s, and so on!

Huge thanks to symbolnotfound for the code rewrite that got all the card options working in one mod!

Full Texture Pack (includes all 3 card sets): https://github.com/LawyerRed01/RW-Karma-Cards

Deprecated Releases (single card sets):

• Face Cards Only: https://github.com/LawyerRed01/RW-Face-Cards
• Karma 1 Aces: https://github.com/LawyerRed01/RW-K1-Ace

[stark girder]

oh this is peak

especially love all of the number cards being the karma symbols

[quartz junco]

this was originally gonna be a small project with just the numbers changed, but then neato released the friends of jimbo guide

I made one face card to try and see if I could do it, was pleased with how it turned out, and finished the whole set

[stark girder]

definitely rocking the diamonds

[cunning moth]

Think you can make a variant without the karma symbols?

[cunning moth]

@quartz junco

[quartz junco]

for sure, give me a second to put that together

[cunning moth]

thanks

[quartz junco]

Here's the link for that
https://github.com/LawyerRed01/RW-Face-Cards

[lunar beacon]

could there be a version where karma symbols are shifted 1 card lower? (e.g. 10 is X, ace is karma-1, etc.) IMO that makes a bit more sense
EDIT: saw it on github, although it should probably also be linked here

also a little nitpick I noticed, number cards in the face cards-only appear to slightly change the outline when pack is selected. Perhaps this could be solved by using something like Malverk? idk

actually everything is a little bigger with smoothing on and the outlines have a little more contrast compared to base game

[quartz junco]

Yeah, sorry, someone else requested it a little while back, but I never actually got around to adding it here. I'll edit the original post to have links to all 3 options for convenience

I'll look into the number cards on the face card only option and see if I just made a mistake with the texture or something, but they should be the same as the vanilla cards.

As for Malverk, I remember seeing that it supported retexturing everything except for the playing cards themselves, did that get updated to include those now?

[quartz junco]

I saw what you mentioned in game, and I see it popping up whenever I layer both the original card art and the texture pack art over each other in Krita, but I'm not sure what might be causing it. It's not there for either texture alone, and turning off either layer gets rid of the outline, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to what might be causing the problem.

[lunar beacon]

As for Malverk, I remember seeing that it supported retexturing everything except for the playing cards themselves, did that get updated to include those now?
yeah it doesn't support that, sorry for the confusion

[quartz junco]

no worries!

[lunar beacon]

Maybe the edge pixels are semi-transparent or something?? idk. Also interesting that if the issue only occurs when both are layeres, why does it carry into the game?

[quartz junco]

#💻・modding-dev message
Someone in here shared a python script a while back that fixes the problem! I'll get the textures fixed and update all the mods to have that patched up!

All changes pushed, they shouldn't have the outline anymore

[lunar beacon]

yup, works good now!

[forest widget]

is there a version of this for malverk :?

[lunar beacon]

Malverk is in place to support retexturing things other than playing cards (e.g. tarots, jokers, stickers, etc.) because there is no such mechanism in vanilla.

This mod only changes the playing cards which means malverk is simply not needed. Even mods that do work with malverk (e.g. dark mode) provide playing cards with vanilla method because malverk doesn't support it.

[forest widget]

awwwh that sux

[lunar beacon]

why do you want malverk

like the functionality is already there, just without it

[forest widget]

cuz im setting up malverk rn and wanted the rainworld cards on along with other cards

as like, options

[lunar beacon]

as far as I'm aware of cards are selected here anyways, no?

[forest widget]

wait wuh how did you do that

how do you show more than just the kqj

also wait is that more than the friends of jimbo? did you add on another type??

[lunar beacon]

Game does that automatically if more are retextured

[lunar beacon]

I installed the mod

this mod

[forest widget]

this is huge i gotta copy this code

im making my own card texture replacement i didnt know you could add onto the friends of jimbo collabs

can i copy the code?

[lunar beacon]

you probably can

[quartz junco]

most of the code for this is from a template on the steammodded documentation, and it's not much, so feel free to copy it if you need!
here's the template as well, if you want to refer to that too: https://github.com/Steamodded/examples/tree/master/Mods/DeckSkinTemplate

[lunar beacon]

@quartz junco btw shouldn't face-only pack only include faces? For example in balatro-StP the assets only provide 3 cards per suit and that works.

I can't think of a situation where that realistically matters, except that currently all 13 cards are shown when there should only be 3

I'm not that deep into balatro modding so idk how much of a rewrite that would be; If too much you can probably leave things as they are

As far as I see you'd only need to exclude the extra ranks from the list in the code and the asset png

[quartz junco]

it should, and rewriting the code to account for it shouldn't be too hard (it would just be getting rid of the numbers/aces in the list of ranks), I can try to get that set up today

I didn't initially because I was scared of the cards not being lined up properly, but I should be able to line everything up using the suits below the letters

[lunar beacon]

Can't you just arithmetically cut the necessary space? Whole 1x png is 923px wide which means each card is 923/13=71 px wide, so the needed cutout starts at 71*9=639px and ends at 71*12-1=851px (inclusive)

...actually you could also just use the png in the mod I linked, lol
-# I spent all of this time for nothing

[quartz junco]

I just took the 923px, divided by 13 to get 1 card, then multiplied by 3 to get the width I needed

[lunar beacon]

yeah

[quartz junco]

I was able to get the K/Q/J all the way on the left by copying them to another layer & just moving them over, so I didn't need to work around numbers from the middle of the image

[lunar beacon]

oooh

[quartz junco]

cards should be updated, I'm gonna test them in game real quick & push the update to the github if they're good to go

the face cards are now blank for some reason, give me a sec to figure that out

[lunar beacon]

maybe you need to change pos_style = 'deck' to 'collab'?

[quartz junco]

that's probably it

it's getting there, now all of them are hearts

[lunar beacon]

oh, I see. So in example I sent these were split in files by suit. That's probably the reason why. I wonder is SMods docs have something that is one file, but all suits

[quartz junco]

I'm gonna try the other options for pos_style and see if one of them works, since there's 2 more

[lunar beacon]

ranks should probably work judging by the wiki

[quartz junco]

ranks is the most confusing to me, actually

[lunar beacon]

what it says it does is map provided ranks table (which you define at line 6) to the atlas. It is unclear whether they care about verticality; if they don't that might mean you just need to split them into multiple files.

[quartz junco]

yeah, it's looking like my options are to either split the image file into 4 separate ones or to have blank space to the left of the face cards so they line up with their intended positions

[lunar beacon]

wait do they need blank space? I don't think that's supposed to happen

I thought it would like just put them in order or something

you edited the rank list, right?

[quartz junco]

yeah, the rank list is just the face cards

[lunar beacon]

weird

[quartz junco]

in order JQK, which matches the image file

[lunar beacon]

Strange, this should probably be reported. If not alter the behavior, at least make the wiki more clear

[quartz junco]

I should also clarify, the blank space idea would only be if I wanted to still use deck as the pos_style option

since then it would pull from the regular face card position on the image (which also explains why they were blank the first time)

[lunar beacon]

wait so does ranks do nothing? could you like drop the pngs since I now want to test it too lol

oh I forgot I can just crop them

[quartz junco]

it'll be faster if I provide them, here's the 1x

and 2x

I think the big thing is that deckskins doesn't have a pos_style option where the x position starts at 0 unless you're specifically replacing 2s or using collab

not a default one, at least, I think you can define it more specifically by using a table of some sort, but the documentation is a bit vague about it

[lunar beacon]

Actually I think what's happening is we are using a deprecated API

Current one pushes the thing under palettes, on the older 'ranks' (or ranks list) is missing hence we are getting no functionality

I'll try to rewrite it under a new one and see how that goes

[quartz junco]

I should probably try to do the same, since all of mine use the same format

[lunar beacon]

wait

if atlas is a table

can't we just index it?

I mean like set pos_style to 'collab' and just give not the atlas but atlas[i] where i is index of suit

or something like that

nvm it takes the atlas name rather than the table

[forest widget]

i dont really get what im doing wronggg :(

i dont understand the atlas api at all

i literally copied the RW code verbatim and changed a few key words i dont know what failed to collect file data means

blehhh

[lunar beacon]

so uhh two news

[quartz junco]

wait, does the new API let you set high contrast per suit now?

[lunar beacon]

yes

[forest widget]

oh what thats sick

[lunar beacon]

you should probably ask that in #💻・modding-dev

[forest widget]

ive been doing that and it was going nowhere, thought i might try asking you guys sorry

[lunar beacon]

I might respond once I finish debugging this

So ranks doesn't support multi-layer too

Do you want to split the textures or write [ranks]

If we do [ranks] we can merge high contrast and low contrast into single atlas

[forest widget]

why are there two?

[quartz junco]

there should only be one, is there multiple in the mods list?

[forest widget]

wuh

what did i do

[quartz junco]

as for [ranks], I feel like that'll be tricky to write without a clear template to go off of, the example file uses pos_style = 'deck'

[quartz junco]

there's 2 sets of cards enabled for rain world, you can uncheck one of them to have it not show up on the list of deck skins

[lunar beacon]

considering we already iterate over ranks, we can just take the index and set y to it; x is simply [0,1,2] and ranks are JQK

[forest widget]

Wait but how do I get the broken one off my mods list I don't want bloat :(

[quartz junco]

deleting the mod from the mods folder gets rid of it

[lunar beacon]

so what is your opinion on styles? If we go all-in on rank tables, we can merge all the mods into one. However all three packs would be always exported then which kinda bloats the pack selection unless we add some kind of aditional special controls

waaait a second

we can use new key to also manage the alt versions

I mean we can bloat this bad boy to 6 positions making it have combinations of low contrast and high contrast with default, K1 and face-only

[quartz junco]

having all 3 versions on one mod would be awesome, but I think a good step for now would just be to get the one version working on its own & try to merge them afterwards

-# I absolutely love the idea of the high contrast selector being able to give all 6 options though

I'm also gonna need to find out which version of steamodded changed the API for the cards, since I need to change the dependency version number to account for that (I was on an outdated version that couldn't run the new ones)
it was on the template, that's good now

[lunar beacon]

God I love that lua uses 1-indexing and balatro uses 0-indexing

anyways it works now

[quartz junco]

pain, agony even

[lunar beacon]

I can send you the source if you want

[quartz junco]

& that would be amazing, thanks a ton for the help!

how do you want me to credit you for the help?

[lunar beacon]

I can just commit it on gh lol

Anyways rn it's just a proof-of-concept for singular low-contrast atlas

How do you want the atlas layout to be? Should we use a faces atlas, and two karma atlases or just make it a single file? Should the hc and lc be on separate atlases or on the same?

[quartz junco]

for the faces one, I think having it the way it is now works best, but for the merged one, there's gears turning in the brain

I'm not especially familiar with lua, but if it supports functions, I think we could get everything on one atlas by writing a simple switch or two that just returns the correct path depending on which keys we use, since a lot of the code is the same for all the cards

[lunar beacon]

I mean like how do you want it to be stored in the files?
It could be just one big atlas with for example 8 lines 23 cards each or something different

Could be 6 different textures for faces, numbers, K1A numbers combined with HC and LC for example

[quartz junco]

I think for the textures that's probably a good idea, my naming scheme was generally "RW-(mod specific)", with "-HC" added for the high contrast ones

[lunar beacon]

so 6 different?

[quartz junco]

yeah, like this probably

[lunar beacon]

So the layout between files would be something like this?

RW-Face: J,Q,K
RW-K10-Ace: A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
RW-K1-Ace: A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

(omitted hc and lc for obvious reasons)

[quartz junco]

I think the ones with numbers would need to be 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A to match the textures, but otherwise yeah

[lunar beacon]

I mean- since we are already doing atlas math we could just sew them anyways so that faces aren't duplicated in the files

[quartz junco]

oh, is the atlas able to just map any card to any other one?

[lunar beacon]

Or if you want we could make a Karma-Deck which is full and then K1-Ace omitting the face cards

[lunar beacon]

yup

it takes atlas and position, which means you can use different atlases at the same time

[quartz junco]

nice

I think the most condensed we could make it is with your suggestion, where there's a full base deck (probably the original one) and then just a separate one with the K1 Ace set of numbers

if you need, I can put the second numbers only image together real quick

[lunar beacon]

You can, if you want to.

[quartz junco]

the 1x versions

and 2x

[lunar beacon]

@quartz junco alright, here's the patch! (for original repo)

It should maybe probably work

Actually I forgot to set default contrast

could you pretty please set appropriate hc_contrast for the entries?

[quartz junco]

for sure

let me figure out how to apply a patch like this real quick, I've never done it before

[lunar beacon]

I'm SpomJ on github and symbolnotfound here, either would do

[lunar beacon]

git apply

Also I just noticed their display order is flipped lmao

[quartz junco]

that's fixable, I remember seeing an option to change what cards show up in the preview

[lunar beacon]

yeah, display_ranks

and I forgot to remove a commented out snippet

21...25 is useless and should be removed

[quartz junco]

I think I've got most of it good to go, only question I still have at this point is how much of the cards to show in the preview

either all of them, A/K/Q/J, or A/K/Q/J/10, I think

pushed it to GitHub with the A through 10 setup for the card preview, let me know if it looks good!

[lunar beacon]

I was about to ask that too, showing all of them probably is a little excessive, esp considering they overlap

Yeah I think it looks nice rn

unrelated but I initially thought this was catboy five pebbles

[quartz junco]

funny as it might be, I don't have the confidence to make a joke of that magnitude

as for picking A-10 for the preview, I figured it was as much as was necessary to show the changes without being too much on the eyes

[lunar beacon]

yeah

[lean oasis]

Hey !
I saw you were on the BalatroDeckSkins modpack
Would you mind if the BalatroDecks Skins (and so your resource pack) is added to the [Balatro Mod Manager](#1339375696254074942 message) ?