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HQ Card Generator

This utility generates high quality, 736x1050 proxies that use the latest oracle text. Because the images are generated from scratch (except the art), all the cards are pixel perfect and consistent. All existing cards are supported, including multicolored, dual and flip cards. Art is chosen randomly, but all available art images for a card will be used before the same image is used twice. This means when you generate a deck, all Swamps (for example) will have a different art. Utility accepts deck lists in CSV and MWS formats.

Credits:

This  utility is written by NaTeDoGG and Snacko. You may discuss it in this topic.

Installation:

The program is modular so in order to get it running you need three base packages. Unzip all the packages into the same folder . The generator is now ready to use. Then upgrading to a newer version you should download only the changed packages.

Usage:

generateCards.bat - Generates cards from deck list in CSV or MWS deck format.
generateCards-decklists.bat - Generates deck lists with their legality.
generatePages.bat - Generates pages of cards, useful for proxy printing at ~315DPI
generatePages-decklists.bat - Generates pages of deck lists only.
You can start the bat and then drop in the deck file or drop the deck file onto a shortcut.

CSV Decklist format:
1,Sarcomite Myr
2,Reaper King,SHM
2,Reaper King,SHM,DCI
1,"Shizo, Death's Storehouse"

It goes like
<Number of cards>,<Name of the Card>,[Edition],[Promo]

The number of cards and the name are obligatory, however you can specify if you want to use a precise edition. The last promo field tells the generator that you want to make a promo out of the card which translates into a special set symbol and textbox overlay. Currently the DCI and FNM are available but making a custom one comes down to dropping an overlay into images/promo/*.png and a set symbol into images/eight/rarity/*_R.gif where * is the Promo name.

All the generation setting can be modified via config files:
config.txt - Main configuration 
config-decklist.txt - Decklist generation configuration
config-eighth.txt - post8th edition frame configuration includes planeshifted
config-preEighth.txt- pre8th edition frame configuration 
config-vanguard.txt - Avatar frame configuration

Most of the options are self explanatory, however feel free to ask if you need clarification.

Advanced usage:
misc/createCard.bat can be used to create custom cards
misc/diffDecklists.bat generates a deck that is the difference between two other decks
misc/prices.bat computes the overall price of a deck 
misc/buildFontSizeCache.bat can be used to rebuild the font size cache which speeds up card generation
misc/generateAll.bat generates all cards from all editions
misc/installContextMenuItems.bat install a context menu when holding shift key when right clicking any file
misc/import/readme.txt HOWTO update the card database using GoblinHero MWS Masterbase

Download:

 Download HQCG Core
File Type: zip
File Version: 8.2.10.1
File Size: 9,881.56 Kb
Downloads: 4926
 Download HQCG Images
File Type: rar
File Version: 8.2.10
File Size: 135,529.41 Kb
Downloads: 4058
 Download HQCG Misc
File Type: rar
File Version: 8.2.10
File Size: 3,186.57 Kb
Downloads: 3750

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