lavish hemlock
"you should release it because people need more whimsy and silly in their lives" - Meta
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING BECAUSE OF 1 JOKER SPECIFICALLY YOU WILL KNOW HIM WHEN YOU SEE HIM
https://github.com/Maratby/Jokebox
a joke mod that still respects balance to some degree, lots of referential humor and mediocre art
optional content which allows the mod to look in your files for stuff (only 1 joker right now, will expand later)
not going to make a release for initial version
the filesystem content should be disabled by default and only works properly on windows afaik cause that's what I use and I have no way to even begin to test these things on a non windows pc without doing a bunch of virtual machine jargon
do or don't download it I wanted to make it public
@quasi vine you did this
:)
quasi vine
:3
lavish hemlock
tell me if stuff breaks
I might have to make a prison in the collection for that one joker ngl
quasi vine
i assume you mean the evil and fucked up jester that can do anything?
lavish hemlock
i assume you mean the evil and fucked up jester that can do anything?
yeah
I tried to make him yknow, not, when he's in the collection
but I couldn't figure out how to do that
so he is undiscovered by default, and if I can never figure out how to disable the effect in collection, I'll just make him hidden from collection
it gets very annoying and difficult trying to spawn in the jokers to test their effects when he softlocks the game if you open the collection on the blind selection screen specifically
dense musk
the filesystem content should be disabled by default and only works properly on ...
notepad joker should work on linux based on a quick skim of the code, though i haven't actually tested it yet
lavish hemlock
this also causes him to purgatory you if you start a new run, but he's also invisible so you can't get rid of him without debugplus, it's a very fun time
lavish hemlock
notepad joker *should* work on linux based on a quick skim of the code, though i...
yeah i imagine notepad won't be too bad, but anything I do outside the balatro mods folder won't really work
dense musk
(though I'm running balatro through proton instead of natively and idk whether that makes a difference)
lavish hemlock
no clue what that means but pop off
I will continue to develop with windows as my primary target for filesystems
i don't think there will ever be an environment where I can easily develop for other filesystems unless someone else translates the code
-# non-windows users feel free to do that but it's up to you to figure out how to detect the player's OS
i have a lot of plans for the filesystem stuff
upper arch
Is the filesystem just reading the log file or does it do other stuff?
If so you should be able to use SMODS.MODS_DIR and require "lovely".mod_dir
upper arch
so he is undiscovered by default, and if I can never figure out how to disable t...
You should be able to check for card.area.config.collection I think
dense musk
i don't think there will ever be an environment where I can easily develop for o...
... and it thinks i'm on windows. proton
upper arch
Yeah proton is windows
Technically you should be able to get balatro running under wsl
also tou can use these for soke non-platform specificbstuff
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.getUserDirectory
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.getAppdataDirectory
dense musk
I'm sure I can get Balatro running natively and all, but I don't really feel like it. A better question might be, how would we detect the difference between actual Windows and Linux using Proton to pretend to be Windows?
-# actually do we even need to do that
upper arch
Windows under proton has a windows like fs so depending on what tour doing it can just behave like windows. Usually proton's user is called "steamuser" so you can check for that and usually your Linux fs is at Z: so you can just look for that
dense musk
yeah that'd do it
we can probably assume no real windows user is calling themself "steamuser"
upper arch
Yeah but if run under wine raw it will be your actual username
dense musk
ah, so we're specifically detecting proton there
quasi vine
i doubt many people are using raw wine over proton for a steam game anyway
upper arch
Which 99% of linux user will be using
dense musk
true
upper arch
A decent chunk do run natively but that's easy to check
lavish hemlock
You should be able to check for card.area.config.collection I think
i tried that in prior situations and it crashed
because card.area always returned nil in the collection
the joker's current code assumes card.area will be nil in the collection like it was in that prior instance
but i guess nothing really happens there
lavish hemlock
Is the filesystem just reading the log file or does it do other stuff?
i just do #NFS.getDirectoryItems(Jokebox.mods_folder_path .. "\\lovely\\log")
ohp mb for double ping
currently there is only notepad and some code for detecting the player's user folder (aka me removing every other system folder that should be there) which i will use later
i will do other things with it
lavish hemlock
so it turns out there's a filesystem command for just
getting the user's directory
which means I didn't have to do all that extra work to get the user's directory name
upper arch
lavish hemlock
yeah i saw it on the filesystem wiki
working on 1 very large thing for filesystem right now
got some other ideas in the backlog
main system for big guy is working
lavish hemlock
jevil will now be hidden from the collection
found out how to do that before i found out how to stop his effect in collection
dense musk
https://github.com/wingedcatgirl/MintysSillyMod/blob/ff01ad15ae3763660ea2a7b2d7b84d7c7d7182c2/lib/functions.lua#L19 something like this (which i grabbed from pokermon) seems to be the simplest way to check whether a card is in the collection
lavish hemlock
i'll try it out before the next big guy releases
speaking of which he's like almost production ready
after I get that out and either hide jevil in collection or make his effect not work in collection it'll be more smaller funnies for a bit
lavish hemlock
https://github.com/wingedcatgirl/MintysSillyMod/blob/ff01ad15ae3763660ea2a7b2d7b...
didn't work
wait i think i did it backwards
hold on
okay it worked now
jevil is allowed back into the collection
dense musk
lavish hemlock
he is on probation
he will still be undiscovered by default
it's more fun if you don't see him coming
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debugging flavour text has taken
so so so much longer than debugging the effect
the things I put up with
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i did it
dense musk
lavish hemlock
no release until 15 non-filesystem jokers (soon)
He is on main, and he has some "choice words" for you, let's just say that
filesystem, of course
-# I hope I captured his energy accurately, I didn't play the original game but I did a lot of research on him for this
ignore the part where his soul sprite is just a png cause i can't art
if anyone asks, it captures his retro nature
lavish hemlock
oh right
i need to put a notice somewhere
that mantis will only look in the base steam installation directory
but you can go change that directory to the other place you installed the files to if he can't find them
i don't know if changing steam installation directory moves the steamapps/common folder though
that's what mantis uses to get the games as a list (it was very easy)
which means he can see some games that you have uninstalled but kept settings for
lavish hemlock
initial release version
shouldn't have any bugs, although I expect some mantis crashes due to steam directory issues on other people's systems
lavish hemlock
jevil hath crashed and I'm not sure why
got him out of a pack and he died
it's probably related to me playing on unsafe speed
dawn basin
<@1056629958065258511> i think you're gonna like this upd
oh?
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if only
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first person to show video evidence of a successful late game run that focuses around buffed joker gets a lemon
i need to open this thread again cause im making an update today
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dense musk
okay time to actually do some of that linux science i decided to do and then promptly forgot forever
INFO - [G] > eval SMODS.Mods.Jokebox.path
INFO - [G] < C:\users\steamuser\AppData\Roaming\Balatro\Mods/Jokebox/
INFO - [G] > eval Jokebox.string_split(SMODS.Mods.Jokebox.path, "Mods")
INFO - [G] < C:\users\steamuser\AppData\Roaming\Balatro, ods/Jokebox/
stage magician voice Is This Your Expected Output?
lavish hemlock
okay time to actually *do* some of that linux science i decided to do and then p...
Ii think so
wait I know how to do text inputs now
if I can make the text inputs not block special characters I can get people to input file paths ingame to override things
which would make it theoretically work on any device if you put in the correct paths for your device
the text input I used blocked special characters though
which is bad
lavish hemlock
okay time to actually *do* some of that linux science i decided to do and then p...
this should make everything work on linux too then 🤔
at least everything currently in the mod
lavish hemlock
got a macos person to test jokebox filesystem stuff
notepad's first effect (X0.1 per balatro mod) works
notepad's second effect (X0.1 per lovely log) does not work
psycho mantis crashes the game when obtained (expected result)
now I just need to detect if they are on macOS
and if they are, change the steam installation directory so mantis works
idk about the lovely log
upper arch
You should be able to consistanylu get the mod path from require "lovely".mod_dir and the lovely logs will be that path plus /lovely/logs
You should be able to get the love dir from love.filesystem.getSourceBaseDirectory but I believe this is nested a few folders in macos
lavish hemlock
You should be able to consistanylu get the mod path from `require "lovely".mod_d...
I already have the mod path and the user path and the steam path which are all the things I needed
the filesystem has a thing specifically for getting the user path and I saved SMODS.current_mod_path for the mod path then removed /Jokebox from it to get the mod path
it's just strange to me that on macos the mod number detection works, but the lovely log detection doesn't
even though they're both from that same root mods folder and it works fine on both linux and windows
the only thing I'm really stuck on now is how I detect if they're on mac
apparently balatro already does that in game.lua? but idk where to find it
lavish hemlock
i can't find that on the documentation for .filesystem
upper arch
it's not in .filesystem
lavish hemlock
oh
upper arch
lavish hemlock
holy shit
I can't
???
say that?
fuck around
what????
I can say fuck around so
what was
I'm very confused
anyway
I can't
bruh.
okay new phrasing
new shit of which I may fuck around with in jokebox
wait all of these are 0.9.0
aren't we using 0.8.0?
upper arch
also why are you checking the filesystem for # of balatro mods?
lavish hemlock
i don't know I didn't know how else to do it
lavish hemlock
oh wait no that's the version of the injector
not the lovely version
yeah no that makes sense
lavish hemlock
`#SMODS.mod_list`
ahhh
upper arch
using youre mod dir would break fi you are nested
lavish hemlock
well that's their fault for making the mod nested
it's not supposed to be nested that's a given
upper arch
sure but you also jhavbe a more reliable way to get the mod directory (2 sactually)
also it only needs to be not tested if you have lovely patches
upper arch
you can use SMODS.MODS_DIR or require"lovely".mod_dir
the lovely method is properly documented so it's unlikely to change
lavish hemlock
jetstream sam thinking gif
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oh yeah the u
the blue legendary crashes your game whenever you play a hand with it
I should probably fix that
lavish hemlock
https://github.com/Maratby/Jokebox/releases/tag/1.4.0.1 this is a stability patch
grave vigil
https://github.com/Maratby/Jokebox/releases/tag/1.4.0.1 this is a stability patc...
I didn't know about this mod
lavish hemlock
its one of the mods in my nickname
its my pride and joy
the mod i shouldve made instead of tsunami, honestly
grave vigil
But I never seeing cura
grave vigil
https://ptb.discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1418332561771593809
That is very unique mod
lavish hemlock
im workin on it ok
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Jokebox - Balanced Joke Mod
propaganda update
i might just be pumping out legendaries for the next few weeks if thats cool with the 4 people who play this mod out of the 8 who follow the thread
im finding it quite fulfilling making the art for them
lavish hemlock
Jokebox - ["k_jkbx_tagline"]
i wll never be happy with the title of this post
so here is a lazy meta joke
dense musk
when the joke is box
lavish hemlock
im hesitant to release the next release of this mod
if only because i mightve added a bunch of music and or sound effects to the mod which i do not own that have increased the size of the mod file by a lot
but mostly because i do not own them and like i dont think anything would happen and i already put the world revolving in there but tricky tony is chill
so idk what to do cause i spent a lot of time coding those things and they are really cool but im too paranoid about it when its more than one track
