Korath's Drawcardlib - Nail in the coffin of naff cardart

[Sonic]

Apologies all round. With any luck, spelling errors and duff font fixed. Downloaded and tested.

As before - http://www.mediafire.com/download/xcxoa ... atesV4.zip

Actually stassy, even without the font the templates themselves don't look too bad in that 1921x1051 widescreen pic you posted. I think I'd have to upsize them a fair amount to get much improvement. And the text, pic and mana symbol alignment looks OK - better than 1280x1024 in fact.

[gmzombie]

yup that did it!! 1360x768 res widescreen 40" lcd monitor

[Sonic]

yup that did it!! 1360x768 res widescreen 40" lcd monitor

Why is your small card text black - have you altered the text color in duel.dat file?
I tried it originally but I couldn't get it to work properly in the duel game screen. It made the text highlighting (Yellow/Orange) very hard to see without the black drop shadow and the shadow made the text too chunky to read easily when the main font was black.

The rest looks OK now though.

[gmzombie]

Yes I modified that. I also made the yellow blue and no shadow. Ill show u a piclater. I was sick of yellow lol.

[Korath]

In theory, you can make the dropshadow only show up for activateable cards:

In practice, it doesn't work so well; the exe redraws only the title when activateability changes, so the shadow stays in place when a card becomes unactivateable.

Since the title redraw goes through drawcardlib too, in theory we could redraw the top of the smallcard frame first. In practice, that would overwrite the mana stripes, damage dagger, and damage numeral, and the summoning sickness and dying images if they're large enough to overlap the card top.

Alternately, I'm getting reasonable results by turning off [fonts]boldSmallCardTitle and adjusting the drop shadow depth so it's just one pixel from the text:

[Sonic]

Yes I modified that. I also made the yellow blue and no shadow. Ill show u a piclater. I was sick of yellow lol.

Ah, right. Have to admit I didn't try changing the highlighting colors.
Although, having the ability to make the text drop shadow look more subtle has done wonders to make the game look... Er, dare I say - less dated.

[Sonic]

In theory, you can make the dropshadow only show up for activateable cards:

shadows.jpg

In practice, it doesn't work so well; the exe redraws only the title when activateability changes, so the shadow stays in place when a card becomes unactivateable.

Since the title redraw goes through drawcardlib too, in theory we could redraw the top of the smallcard frame first. In practice, that would overwrite the mana stripes, damage dagger, and damage numeral, and the summoning sickness and dying images if they're large enough to overlap the card top.

Alternately, I'm getting reasonable results by turning off [fonts]boldSmallCardTitle and adjusting the drop shadow depth so it's just one pixel from the text:

shadows2.jpg

Are you sure a single pixel offset will it work at lower resolutions - I had trouble getting reliable results with the small card shadow X/Y offset below 6 at 1280x1024.

Edit: Forget the single pixel shadow offset - that's a minor niggle compared to what the 'MPZurich Cn BT' small card font actually looks like at low res with the 'bold' parameter switched off.

[Korath]

A pixel is a pixel is a pixel. It would have to be tweaked by the end user, though, since the number of logical units per pixel changes with resolution, and between the deckbuilder and actual game. (Smallcards are always 800x1120 logical units. At 1920x1080, they're 219x219 pixels in the deckbuilder, and 240x240 in-game. 3x4 logical units displayed as 1x1 pixels for me in both.)

[stassy]

Tester gonna test, huh?

laptop 1024x768 on 4:3 lcd 15" screen

[gmzombie]

it always amazed me that when you got a bigger resolution you would get bigger cards..usually with a normal api you should get smaller items on screen. its like the auto scale is over compensating for this.

also here is my pic of what i did

[Sonic]

it always amazed me that when you got a bigger resolution you would get bigger cards..usually with a normal api you should get smaller items on screen. its like the auto scale is over compensating for this.

also here is my pic of what i did

Probably because the magic.exe is still running on a graphics engine dating back to the most common resolution being a jaw dropping 800x600.

Not sure the non-shadowed blue highlighting works, though. Griselbrand is a bit of a bugger to read against the black cards text banner without a contrasting drop shadow.

[gmzombie]

Yea I remember those times..lol. I do see now what u mean with grisselbrand..maybe ill have to have the shadow again. I was just do sick of yellow. Yellows been there since 95 so it was time for a change

[Sonic]

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[Aswan jaguar]

Wonderful the word!joy the feeling!
bye bye Gold.....eeeee for all

[Hib]

Now it works. But how can I get rid of the expansion symbols?