Troubadour - a Quality of Life Mod

[mellow mason]

Three main features:

• Widens the joker collection page up to an 11x5 grid rather than 5x3
• Adds a shortened mod menu page that uses just the mod icons
• Adds an auto-reroller menu accessible by right-clicking the reroll button in the shop.

Still in early stages so let me know if anything goes really weird.

https://github.com/Eternalnacho/Troubadour/tree/main

[hollow panther]

as someone with too many mods, this is the perfect mod

[gaunt veldt]

This is essential for Pokermon et al that have a ton of jokers

[patent nest]

pea

[woven snow]

peak

[mellow mason]

Hey y'all! I made a teensy update - you can now add editions to the list of reroll targets, so with any luck you can do things like roll down into a non-specific negative card

[mellow mason]

Update! - auto-reroller now properly accounts for modded store-joker-create tags

[mellow mason]

More updates and a preliminary release - the auto-reroller now has the ability to "skip to the end" of the process, so you don't have to wait for the reroll animations and so on (useful for especially high numbers of rerolls)
https://github.com/Eternalnacho/Troubadour/releases/tag/v0.0.4

[white ember]

Oh wow this seems cool

[restive fossil]

Just saying, the mod's now on BMM
And it's awesome

[mellow mason]

hey y'all! Update 0.0.5 - the Truncated Mod Menu is done! have fun with this one, especially those of you with absurdly long mod lists

[modest matrix]

Pinning this for myself

[novel hazel]

Just letting you know that the mod list doesn't display any tooltips when navigating with a controller, and there's no way to toggle the mods via controller either

[mellow mason]

ahhhh gotcha, I'll work on it

[mellow mason]

actually, right stick doesn't work for toggle?

[novel hazel]

Oo I didn't try, I'll let you know once I'm at my pc

[novel hazel]

Yeah right stick does work - Thanks!

[abstract flare]

do you think other menus could also be widened? because this mod is amazing!!!!

[mellow mason]

I mean I don't see why not - which ones did you have in mind?

(also bear in mind that I should probably fix up any bugs before i do a new one but yeah I can add it to the to-do list)

[abstract flare]

vouchers mainly, though it would also be nice to see all of the tarot and spectral cards in one page :>
(if not that's all good)

YESSSSS

[main mulch]

The hands page could made be split into 2 columns when modded poker hands are added

[mellow mason]

well ig i need to sort out my config menu again

yeah this is doable

(should be able to do this to most of them tbh)

[abstract flare]

YES, it would be so cool if every menu could have it's config because i love ridiculous looking screens

also wow you are fast!

[restive fossil]

tbh all menus work more or less the same

the hard part was making it work for 1 menu, applying the code to more menus is simple

[mellow mason]

dev blog update: here are the collection screens i've got coded as far as widening goes

also i fixed up my config menu as you can see

[novel hazel]

Oo that colour scheme is nice

[abstract flare]

Amazing!!!!

[mellow mason]

Hey everyone! I've got a new release with all of the changes I've made so far and then some!
https://github.com/Eternalnacho/Troubadour/releases/tag/v0.1.0

(You can also get it just from a normal git pull or from BMM, currently they're all the same)

short showcase of some of the new stuff

[obtuse grove]

cool

[mellow mason]

To-do:

• proper full controller support for all of my config options
• refine my UI code because it's messy AF
• figure out rounding errors if there are any

[abstract flare]

this update is peek!

[upper ocean]

Game crash?

[mellow mason]

I see the crash report, describe your circumstances - I see a long list of mods I've not heard of, and I'm not sure if/how they affect the collection screen or why it suddenly wouldn't have a back button lol

I'll throw it on the to-do list, I've got a few ideas for potential fixes regardless

[abstract flare]

I had the same problem, after some trouble shooting it related to a nil value, this isn't caused by other mods

I removed the line of code and it for some reason it works now??????

[mellow mason]

Small dev notes update - I've found a more reliable way of finding the back button in the collection (inspo taken from Neato Jokers' twitch link of all places)

with any luck that crash will be accounted for by the next update

[upper ocean]

🙏

[mellow mason]

Okay I've pushed the changes I've made so far to the main branch! We'll call it version 0.1.1, I suppose, although there's still more to do

Not much has changed functionally, although that collection screen crash should be fixed now

Mostly it's backend UI code that just looks so. much. cleaner

Up next on the to-do list:

• proper full controller support for all of my config options. I've got the weekend to actually have a controller handy to test stuff, so we're gonna go for it

[mellow mason]

Heyo! We've got a good start on controller support folks!

All the changes I've made so far are pushed to the main branch and available to try - do let me know if there are any problems

-# especially since controller support sucks and is hard

[novel hazel]

I hate to burden you with more controller stuff, but is it possible to add targets and start the auto reroll on controller?

[mellow mason]

oh real, yeah I can try to add that

adding targets can be done on controller anyway, since it's just the normal click function, but I think the reroll start I'll need a button for

[true spindle]

How do you change the colours?

[mellow mason]

SMODS.current_mod.ui_config = {
  colour = troC.colour,
  outline_colour = troC.outline_colour,
  tab_button_colour = darken(troC.buttons, 0.2),
  back_colour = troC.active,
  -- misc. colours
  author_colour = HEX('E9B800'),
}

My colours are kinda buried three files deep but this is the code that changes your mod menu colours

[mellow mason]

done! auto-reroll start can be done with left trigger + right stick (in place of shift + right click), everything else works normally

in general, if a feature on this mod exists and is tied to right click, it should work w/ right stick on controller

also - some mod icons from disabled mods will load in now

[mellow mason]

These changes are all available btw, I don't know if I made that clear

[mellow mason]

where in the sam hill did you get steammodded 1229-a?

because that's the only thing I can think of for why this crash happened and I can't test that

[novel hazel]

I believe I got it from GitHub..

Uh let me try finding it

[mellow mason]

i mean i just went and got 1317a as the latest from code version and it still works fine so i really got nothing

my guess is something went weird with an install somehow, because the line that crashed is the altas registry

and uh... how???

[novel hazel]

I found the problem! Interestingly this mod is one where the list of all mods is needed when investigating issues, not just the enabled ones

Any guesses as to what the problem here is?

[mellow mason]

I've got a guess, but if you've figured it out please do share

[novel hazel]

INFO - [G] 2026-01-19 23:26:11 :: WARN  :: Atlas :: If you want to modify an existing object, use take_ownership() ```

[mellow mason]

ahhhhh two mods with the same prefix

[novel hazel]

Yup

[mellow mason]

can't do name either, they both have "Multiplayer" as the mod name

so I guess I'll do ID?

[novel hazel]

It's a very niche problem so if this starts breaking things that were otherwise working I'd say don't worry about it

[mellow mason]

i mean, which identifier i use to register the atlas isn't particularly important, as long as I can fetch it later

so I'll use the one that's least likely to cause problems

[mellow mason]

yeah it doesn't seem like anything has broken and I can have both multiplayer versions just fine, so I've pushed that fix

[novel hazel]

Thanks again!

[main mulch]

Smods should refuse to load 2 mods with the same prefix

Although there's some jank where if your prefix is TRO and you register mp_modicon and another mod has the prefix TRO_mp and registers modicon they conflict. L

[mellow mason]

so this isn't an smods issue, this is a me-specific thing; in forcibly loading in the modicons of disabled mods, I was assigning the atlas names with the mod's prefix. Since one of the mods is disabled, SMODS wouldn't catch that on the load that never happens

but yeah it's all fixed now

[patent nest]

what tool is this

[mellow mason]

iirc that's something sonfive made for himself

don't quote me on that though

[novel hazel]

https://github.com/SonfiveTV/LMN-Tool

Its Linux only at the moment

[abstract flare]

oh sweet!

[mellow mason]

makes me wish I had a linux machine lol

[novel hazel]

Apparently it's very close to being Mac compatible, but I don't have a Mac to test things (also I made a thread to not hijack this one any further sorry lol) https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1463069589209612370

[restive fossil]

so uh if you put too many rows on a collection menu, the back button is out of the screen

you can still press the escape key so you can still leave, it's just a little silly that that's possible

same with the text under enhancements

[mellow mason]

yeah the setting exists for monitors taller than they are wide (or something to that effect)

I don't know if anyone can actually use the max height on most of the sliders, but I wanted the option there just in case

I certainly don't go max height at least lol

[main mulch]

My monitor probably can use a decent chunk of it (its square)

[mellow mason]

I'll leave this open to the public - should I do the card binder effect for boosters the same way I do for jokers?

[mellow mason]

Well I've got my one vote in favor and that's enough for me, so that's pushed now

as a nice bonus, that actually does let me raise the max row count on the booster collection up to 4

may be able to go higher, unsure on that one

oh I absolutely can

max is 5 rows now

which looks like this

[true spindle]

I suggest making it a toggle option

Or make the card binder effect vary based on your screen size

[mellow mason]

yup this is how it currently works

or - well sort of how it works, the effect just varies by row count right now

I actually should look into screen size as a variable, but that'll have to be a later update

[abstract flare]

what if, hear me out
Blindside support

[mellow mason]

So - yes, I'd be thrilled to do that (I would need to learn how Blindside works first)

but I would also like to know, what doesn't currently work between Troub and Blindside?

[obtuse grove]

Cryptid when

[mellow mason]

same question, what doesn't work - I thought I got cryptid support out of the way already but if something broke please tell me

or do you mean making full controller support for cryptid, because uh - no. no i'm not touching that with a thirty foot pole

[obtuse grove]

DANG IT THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED 😭

[mellow mason]

bruh I struggled to get controller support working for one menu 😭

[obtuse grove]

Can you just say that cryptid controller support comes on 2035

[mellow mason]

sure! surely cryptid controller support in 2035. surely

@/ cryptid devs get on it

[abstract flare]

just the menus, there's no settings that work/carry over the custom collection

well i guess also the auto reroll but i don't use that feature 😭

[mellow mason]

ah gotcha, I'll take a look!

[restive fossil]

I told it to reroll into cube of meat and it... didnt?

The joker can appear multiple times without showman

it's the only time it did that tho

[restive fossil]

I turned off pixel art smoothing and this happened

[golden monolith]

what, let me try this thing out

[mellow mason]

do you have the animation skip thingy on? if so that's probably why, i've not got a perfect reroll simulation yet so there might be things it misses when it rolls through rng

[mellow mason]

this one on the other hand i'll need to take a longer look at, mb

[restive fossil]

I do yeah so ig it's that

[patent nest]

@mellow mason heyo!
is it possible that you add search bar to the mod list?

because i know theres probably people like me that has this same issue

[viral mason]

yesss that is absolutely needed, the compact mod list doesnt work very well cuz of multiple default icons and disabled ones

[mellow mason]

Uh i can give it a whirl

May take a while since life is kinda kicking my ass but yeah why not

[patent nest]

take as much time as you need 🫂

its just a suggestion

[restive fossil]

I figured out the glitch

The reroller stops when the next joker to be generated is one of the keys

most of the time it seems to align with the joker appearing in the shop, but not always

on that last one i had to reroll until i see another joker (in this case, just 1 reroll)