The Art of Things to Come
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by Aswan jaguar » 30 Dec 2016, 13:02
I reported this also in the bug tracker but it is a mistake in naming sequence in CardArtManalink folder.
tracker.php?p=4&t=1306
The problem is that Zombie(14) is skipped so when it is selected to be shown it has blank artwork.
tracker.php?p=4&t=1306
The problem is that Zombie(14) is skipped so when it is selected to be shown it has blank artwork.
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by drool66 » 30 Dec 2016, 16:26
Thanks again for reporting these. Zombie (14) is included in the August Manalink patch and cumulative cardart folder.
I just finished going through token art in MTGO and I've added or updated about 100 images, this one included - at this point there is only one token I know of that's not included in Manalink! You can find them in the "New for next update" folder in my sig.
I just finished going through token art in MTGO and I've added or updated about 100 images, this one included - at this point there is only one token I know of that's not included in Manalink! You can find them in the "New for next update" folder in my sig.
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by drool66 » 12 Jul 2017, 18:11
The Magic 2015 frames are finally finished, and they're posted here for anyone who wants to take them for a spin. For anyone who does, I appreciate any reports of issues or inconsistencies you find with them - thank you!
Link
(Includes an updated Duel.dat)
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(Includes an updated Duel.dat)
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by Aswan jaguar » 23 Jul 2019, 13:48
I enabled Spurnmage Advocate which was already coded now needs card artwork.
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by drool66 » 24 Jul 2019, 03:13
Thanks! Cards that are coded but not in sets published since the most recent Manalink public release are in MEGA>Dev Images>Added in Dev
Conversely, the new sets are in MEGA>Dev Images>New Sets>SETNAME
(This is the reason I follow the git server, btw )
Conversely, the new sets are in MEGA>Dev Images>New Sets>SETNAME
(This is the reason I follow the git server, btw )
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by drool66 » 24 Jul 2020, 03:47
I finally managed to do something I've wanted to do for what seems like forever!
Check this out (thanks again for your help, FastEddie!)
Check this out (thanks again for your help, FastEddie!)
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by Aswan jaguar » 24 Jul 2020, 06:40
Is this a WOTC art as I don't see it in any set on gatherer?
If you don't know Korath had made something similar but still different here:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13238#p142015
If you don't know Korath had made something similar but still different here:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13238#p142015
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by drool66 » 24 Jul 2020, 07:35
Yes
https://scryfall.com/card/p09/1/cryptic-command
Thank you for reminding me of these. What's new here is we can now drop portrait-oriented art into CardArtManalink, and if it's not a card type that already uses portrait art (just Planes & Schemes I think), it will use the full art frames. We can now have different instances of the same card use different frames, which wasn't implemented before. I think I'm going to try to find a way to use both theses full art frames and Korath's "full art with bar."
https://scryfall.com/card/p09/1/cryptic-command
Thank you for reminding me of these. What's new here is we can now drop portrait-oriented art into CardArtManalink, and if it's not a card type that already uses portrait art (just Planes & Schemes I think), it will use the full art frames. We can now have different instances of the same card use different frames, which wasn't implemented before. I think I'm going to try to find a way to use both theses full art frames and Korath's "full art with bar."
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by drool66 » 29 Jul 2020, 15:48
So here's what the "Full Art with Bar" frames look like. I was able to create a system whereby we can use both these and the full art frames. Anyone have an opinion on them one way or another? Should they make main release?
[EDIT] Also looking for input as to whether I should use these for any and all full art/full frame/extended art/whatever promos
[EDIT] Also looking for input as to whether I should use these for any and all full art/full frame/extended art/whatever promos
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by FastEddie » 29 Jul 2020, 16:38
The background art looks extremly cool. Cards are nice but Emrakul's text is a bit hard to read for old guys like me.
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by FastEddie » 22 Aug 2020, 09:38
Kudos to you for the nice work. There is just one little fly in the ointment, namely that white text is somewhat hard to read against a bright (worst-case white) background like here:
Is there any way to switch the colour to black for some cards?
Is there any way to switch the colour to black for some cards?
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by drool66 » 23 Aug 2020, 00:43
We could, it would just have to be an entirely separate frame sorted by ID. I think that would be wasteful - most of these are textless anyway, meaning they're simple enough that Wizards thought we don't really need the rules text (the whole textless Cryptic Command debacle notwithstanding). Want to try to find a color that works more generally across all the images?
There's also the smallcard text glitch that I can't pinpoint, where the white text will be too far offset from its black shadow. My guess is that it's done in exe, but it could be something I missed, probably in windows.c.
There's also the smallcard text glitch that I can't pinpoint, where the white text will be too far offset from its black shadow. My guess is that it's done in exe, but it could be something I missed, probably in windows.c.
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by FastEddie » 23 Aug 2020, 10:01
This calls for testing . I tried various shades of grey for the text (but way less than 50). These were the most convincing results.
RGB 200/200/200
RGB 205/205/205
RGB 210/210/210
This one is already hard to read against an almost white background (220/220/220):
What do you think?
RGB 200/200/200
RGB 205/205/205
RGB 210/210/210
This one is already hard to read against an almost white background (220/220/220):
What do you think?
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by drool66 » 25 Oct 2020, 06:25
One of the problems with full art cards is finding an image size that works for both big & small cards. For big cards, it's stretched and on small cards it's compressed, so you have to find something in the middle, which isn't really good for either size. This is what I've done so far. Here's the result:
I just figured out a simple solution - crop the small card art for full art cards to normal proportions before drawing. Here's what you get:
I'm very happy with the results; what do you think?
Of course this means I need to redo 500+ pieces of art I've cropped & processed over that last 2 months, but I think the results are worth it!
Here's the code, btw:
- BeforeSmall.jpg (15.63 KiB) Viewed 7383 times
I just figured out a simple solution - crop the small card art for full art cards to normal proportions before drawing. Here's what you get:
- AfterSmall.jpg (17.74 KiB) Viewed 7383 times
I'm very happy with the results; what do you think?
Of course this means I need to redo 500+ pieces of art I've cropped & processed over that last 2 months, but I think the results are worth it!
Here's the code, btw:
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int DrawSmallArt(HDC hdc, const RECT* rect, int id, int version) {
if( !ArtIsPortrait(id, version) ){
return DrawBigArt(hdc, rect, id, version);
}
else{//crop inline for small art
if (!LoadBigArt(id, version, 0, 0)) {
EnterCriticalSection(&crit);
gdi::Graphics graphics(hdc);
gdi::SolidBrush brush(gdi::Color(211,211,211));
gdi::Rect tmpRect(rect->left, rect->top, rect->right - rect->left, rect->bottom - rect->top);
graphics.FillRectangle(&brush, tmpRect);
LeaveCriticalSection(&crit);
return 0;
}
EnterCriticalSection(&crit);
gdi::Graphics graphics(hdc);
std::string path = idToNameFun(id, version);
gdi::Rect tmpRect(rect->left, rect->top, rect->right - rect->left, rect->bottom - rect->top);
UINT wid = (*cache)[path].get()->GetWidth();
graphics.DrawImage((*cache)[path].get(), tmpRect, 0, 0, wid, (29*wid)/36, gdi::UnitPixel);
LeaveCriticalSection(&crit);
return 1;
}
}
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Re: The Art of Things to Come
by FastEddie » 25 Oct 2020, 09:36
Looks good to me!
If you must convert from, say, JPEG or PNG to the proprietary PIC format I understand there are tools to do so. Wrapping a little shell script around it should be no issue so that you can convert a whole folder at once. Let me know if I can be of any assistance.
Depending on what you need to do, there are probably ways to make your life easier. If you need to crop, resize, convert one standard format into another, etc. a bunch of pictures you might want to have a look at IrfanView: https://www.irfanview.com/. It has a batch conversion feature that takes care of pretty much everything you can imagine (under File->Batch Conversion).Of course this means I need to redo 500+ pieces of art I've cropped & processed over that last 2 months, but I think the results are worth it!
If you must convert from, say, JPEG or PNG to the proprietary PIC format I understand there are tools to do so. Wrapping a little shell script around it should be no issue so that you can convert a whole folder at once. Let me know if I can be of any assistance.
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