Annotated card image popup
Posted: 10 Nov 2014, 13:20
This is gonna need testing!
The idea behind this is to show the affects/abilities on a card in the image popup during a game because depending on your screen size and the number of cards on the battlefield it can be very difficult if impossible to know exactly what is going on. The other goal is to make it easier for us beginners to quickly see how an ability actually works.
So in no particular order of importance here are the main features of the new annotated card popup -
- You can now specify the size of the popup via new settings in the preferences dialog under the GamePlay -> Images tab. You can scale it to either the default maximum card size of (480 x 680) or to the screen size.
- If an ability has been associated with an ability icon it will be displayed in the popup on the left-hand side of the card if it has that ability. This is most useful where permanaents have been granted abilities over and above any default abilities (see screenshot above).
- If you move the mouse cursor over an ability icon it will display the name of the ability and a short description of what it actually does in a tooltip.
- The popup will now show the effective Power/Toughness with the base P/T beside it in superscript (see screenshot). This kind of works but will look a bit out of place on some card frames - but I still think it is better than nothing at all.
- Different ability icons sets (currently, for the popup only) can be specified as part of a theme. The above screenshot is using test_theme.zip. See the Themes wiki page on how to install.