Adding cards to manalink, please help
Posted: 19 Nov 2015, 11:42
I would like to add cards to manalink. I know some are impossible, but the ones I would like to add almost certainly aren't and were most likely skipped because noone who could add them could see the point or their significance. I do, so I'm willing to add them and don't consider any ammount of work to do it a hassle at all.
I've been told this:
1) Verifying/Creating a Manalink.csv row - I know what this means, but I don't know how it's done properly. I've read Korath has something to recreate it from data pulled off gatherer (or something), access to that would help.
Where is the row supposed to go, too? Do I just add it at the end?
I've found http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Guide_to_CSV_editing
and: http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Manal ... Definition
But if there's a simple and relatively fool-proof way of doing this or a techinque or something clueing me on that would help a lot.
2) Collecting the artwork - from where, exactly? I know several potential sources and I've made some for missing cards in Forge by hand before. Where is the art usually acquired? If it needs any processing and resizing and someone knows the exact parameters that would also be helpful.
3) Creating a ct_all.csv line - again, I understand what this means, but again, where exactly do I create this row, at the end or somewhere else? I've edited it for fiddling with cards in Shandalar before, but never for adding new stuff.
4) Writing the cards function - I suppose adding cards which just combine elements of existing cards, or are similar except in terms of power/toughness and other parameters can be done without this. But if this has to be done, where? How? In what language? Where are the other card functions written so that I can compare?
5) This I understand, unless there's something about it I don't know about.
and 6) Is there and solid reason to not add missing cards to manalink? Like there being a limit to how many cards can be in there? Anything else I should know?
7) Does anyone have a complete list of things that aren't in manalink with stuff marked as impossibles for reasons a tech-illiterate noob couldn't be able to know?
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If anyone can help me with those questions all it means is that a bunch of cards that got overlooked or noone could be bothered to spend 20 minutes on adding them will be added to Manalink. This then also means that there's a chance they get added to Shandalar, too. I believe this is in everyones interest?
Thanks
I've been told this:
And if anyone could answer a few questions for me I would happily sit there and add a lot of cards to manalink.Korath wrote:Getting a card into Manalink involves:
- Verifying the Manalink.csv row (if it's already there) or creating it (if it isn't).
- Collecting all the artwork.
- Creating a ct_all.csv line.
- Unless the card exactly duplicates another in all respects, including all the numbers that don't come from the csv rows, assigning a function address and writing the card's function. The latter can range from trivial (Penumbra Kavu) to tedious (Memnarch) to extremely difficult (Circular Logic) to flatly impossible (Cavern of Souls).
- Do all of the above for the card's alternate form if it changes card type (like a manland) or flips (Kamigawa block) or is double-sided (Innistrad block/Magic Origins), and do it all again for any tokens it makes if it's not a token type that's already in Manalink (Kavu tokens aren't).
- Wait for a Manalink release.
1) Verifying/Creating a Manalink.csv row - I know what this means, but I don't know how it's done properly. I've read Korath has something to recreate it from data pulled off gatherer (or something), access to that would help.
Where is the row supposed to go, too? Do I just add it at the end?
I've found http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Guide_to_CSV_editing
and: http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Manal ... Definition
But if there's a simple and relatively fool-proof way of doing this or a techinque or something clueing me on that would help a lot.
2) Collecting the artwork - from where, exactly? I know several potential sources and I've made some for missing cards in Forge by hand before. Where is the art usually acquired? If it needs any processing and resizing and someone knows the exact parameters that would also be helpful.
3) Creating a ct_all.csv line - again, I understand what this means, but again, where exactly do I create this row, at the end or somewhere else? I've edited it for fiddling with cards in Shandalar before, but never for adding new stuff.
4) Writing the cards function - I suppose adding cards which just combine elements of existing cards, or are similar except in terms of power/toughness and other parameters can be done without this. But if this has to be done, where? How? In what language? Where are the other card functions written so that I can compare?
5) This I understand, unless there's something about it I don't know about.
and 6) Is there and solid reason to not add missing cards to manalink? Like there being a limit to how many cards can be in there? Anything else I should know?
7) Does anyone have a complete list of things that aren't in manalink with stuff marked as impossibles for reasons a tech-illiterate noob couldn't be able to know?
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If anyone can help me with those questions all it means is that a bunch of cards that got overlooked or noone could be bothered to spend 20 minutes on adding them will be added to Manalink. This then also means that there's a chance they get added to Shandalar, too. I believe this is in everyones interest?
Thanks