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Revision as of 08:03, 1 September 2012


Contents

Prelude

This guide aims to teach you how to mod custom cards and decks into Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 in a local, simple, and easy-to-follow manner. The following will hopefully get you on your feet and into the world of card-coding.

Getting Ready to Modify

Before you start, you'll need some tools to work with, and to tweak Duels of the Planeswalkers to allow your custom content to be run. All of the necessary files can be found here.

Download the tools and extract them into a folder. I created a folder on my Desktop to put them in.

Next, download the patcher DLL and put it in the game directory where DotP_2013.exe is. This could be C:\Program Files\Wizards of the Coast\Duels of the Planeswalkers, or C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\magic 2013.

Using the Tools

The two tools you'll be using the most are Gibbed.Tools.Pack.exe and Gibbed.Tools.Unpack.exe.

Open up two windows; your tools folder in one, and your game folder in the other.

Drag-and-drop Deck_0001_ST.wad onto the Unpack tool. You should see a console window open and flash some text at you, and when its done you will have a folder named \Deck_0001_ST_Unpacked, which contains all of the content contained in that particular deck, (Ajani's deck, in this case).

Packing a folder works exactly in reverse, but we'll get to that soon.

Your First Card

Rename the \Deck_0001_ST_Unpacked folder to \MY_SUPERAWESOME_DECK, then open it up and click through past \DATA_ALL_PLATFORMS until you've found the "main" section of the folders, with \CARDS and \DECKS, etc. Open \CARDS and delete everything there. That's right, you don't need any of it right now. While you're at it, delete everything in \ART_ASSETS\ILLUSTRATIONS.

Now before we actually get started, I'd like to recommend that you download Notepad++. Its a wonderful text editor and you will have a much better time with it than if you try to write these in Window's default Notepad.

Back to the task at hand, make another folder for you to keep all of your custom cards in a centralized place. I have a \Custom Cards folder in my tools folder. This isn't necessary, but makes organization a lot simpler. This is where you will save the cards you write. Open Notepad++ or your favorite text editor and we'll get started.

A Simple Example

The following is not an existing Magic card, but it will show the basic structure of a card file with a few notes thrown in.

FLYING_BEAR_12345.xml 

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<CARD_V2>
  <FILENAME text="FLYING_BEAR_12345" />
  <CARDNAME text="FLYING_BEAR" />
  <TITLE>                              
    <LOCALISED_TEXT LanguageCode="en-US"><![CDATA[Flying Bear]]></LOCALISED_TEXT>
  </TITLE>
  <MULTIVERSEID value="12345" />         
  <ARTID value="A12345" />              
  <ARTIST name="Joe Cool" />
  <CASTING_COST cost="{G}" />          
  <TYPE metaname="Creature" />           
  <SUB_TYPE metaname="Bear" />    
  <EXPANSION value="DPG" />             
  <RARITY metaname="M" />               
  <POWER value="1" />                    
  <TOUGHNESS value="1" />
</CARD_V2>
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