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volrathxp wrote:If you're trying to be "print" card accurate, Elspeth, Sun's Champion is incorrect. Her sword does not poke out of the top above her name. Other than that, this is great.

Xander9009 wrote:These are looking really nice, and the idea to use a fully transparent frame and have the card image contain the entire image is really clever. I was wondering how you'd managed multiple different planeswalkers each with their own transparency.

volrathxp wrote:I have a bug to report. These planeswalkers do not work with The Chain Veil. If you activate it the walkers do nothing.

NeoAnderson wrote:Honestly i don't know if my explaination is straight and clear, I hope you have understood the concepts![/b]

sweetLu wrote:

NeoAnderson wrote:Honestly i don't know if my explaination is straight and clear, I hope you have understood the concepts![/b]

Well, no it does not . I haven't looked at DotP modding in so long that I highly doubt I could code myself out of a box (and by code I mean blatantly copy from other modders much smarter than me). But what I am wondering is if this transparency concept can be expanded to cover other frames types like from Future Sight. So you basically use a transparent frame and a full card art tdx file? If that is true, how does this work with multiple languages and granted abilities? I.e., would a Future Sight Tarmogoyf look alright with a Concordant Crossroads in play?

And to you programming professionals out there, what would coding cards be considered? Is it actually coding? Scripting? Just modding?

sweetLu wrote:And to you programming professionals out there, what would coding cards be considered? Is it actually coding? Scripting? Just modding?

RiiakShiNal wrote:

sweetLu wrote:And to you programming professionals out there, what would coding cards be considered? Is it actually coding? Scripting? Just modding?

Well, there is some mixture here as Modding is somewhat of a catch-all for modifications to a game or program (as such this can't really be a simple answer). So everything we do in relation to modifications for DotP is Modding even if it could fall into different more specific areas. Though there aren't many hard fast rules as to what falls under what, especially as the lines become more and more blurred in the current state of the world.

As for coding cards that would generally be considered scripting as we are using a scripting language and we are not creating a stand-alone program or library. The code we write for cards is never actually compiled, it is simply interpreted by the program it is designed to run within. However, scripting is a form of coding (a.k.a. programming) and can also be considered such. Most card coding changes fall under scripting, though since mods also contain art for the cards and/or other resources a single WAD would often more appropriately fall under modding rather than just scripting.

Creating stand-alone tools such as thefiremind's Web Generator or my Deck Builder would be more considered developing as we control the source code to those tools and they don't run within the confines of another program. With developing we have considerable control and freedom to make what we want. Generally, stand-alone applications are compiled separately (though not always true for web applications) and require a compiler to generate the application code from the source. Again developing is often a form of coding and can also be considered such, though developing can also apply to other things that don't involve code.

Patching something can fall into different categories depending on how the patch is done. For example Rick's patcher for the DotP games is a separate library and would be considered along with developing. Though patching of some of the standard Lua functions we are given would be considered within scripting as it would be along the same lines as coding for cards (even if the patch were for a menu function or other area).

Some changes that are made to a game such as modifying images or other graphics would not be covered under scripting, developing, or coding, but still could be covered under modding as we would be altering the resources the game uses. Depending on the modifications being done it could even be considered under graphic design.

Creating stand-alone tools such as thefiremind's Web Generator or my Deck Builder would be more considered developing as we control the source code to those tools and they don't run within the confines of another program. With developing we have considerable control and freedom to make what we want. Generally, stand-alone applications are compiled separately (though not always true for web applications) and require a compiler to generate the application code from the source. Again developing is often a form of coding and can also be considered such, though developing can also apply to other things that don't involve code.