High-Res Card Image Downloader [Needs New Image Source]

[KrazyTheFox]

still no hq image sources available? the lq ones are hard to look at @_@

Not that would be easy to get, unfortunately. Most of the images are in a torrent and more recent ones are one mega.co.nz. Neither are particularly accessible.

[mastroego]

It's not so hard to grab the High Res pics from the CCGHQ guys.
Once you've done the bulk, it's just a matter of keeping up with the new sets.

TBH, tokens are a bit trickier.

[KrazyTheFox]

It's not so hard to grab the High Res pics from the CCGHQ guys.
Once you've done the bulk, it's just a matter of keeping up with the new sets.

TBH, tokens are a bit trickier.

Grabbing them for personal use is easy, yes, but I don't want to re-host them if I can help it. I might look into doing that soon anyway to see how much space it'd take.

[mastroego]

Indeed I meant that we users can download the High Res pics and replace the Low Res ones.
That's what I did.
I just didn't finish yet with the Tokens, since those have to be tracked down and renamed separately (while you can use batch commands to rename whole sets, when necessary).

[KrazyTheFox]

Indeed I meant that we users can download the High Res pics and replace the Low Res ones.
That's what I did.
I just didn't finish yet with the Tokens, since those have to be tracked down and renamed separately (while you can use batch commands to rename whole sets, when necessary).

Ah, yes.

They can download them manually, but I do prefer tools that do so automatically.

[slyfox7777777]

Does anyone think they can explain how to manually update the card images and where exactly to get them? I'm really having trouble figuring it out.

Thanks

[mastroego]

Ok, first of all, find any of skibulk 's posts, you need the links in his signature.
Say, from here: http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=451&start=165

Grab the pics from the torrent and/or the mega site.
You don't need the crops (images only, no card) or the superhigh res pics unless you want them.
Then you locate the Forge pic folder. For me (Win 7) is:
C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Local\Forge\Cache\pics

Under the folder "cards" you will find the pictures organized in sets.
(unless you let Forge download the "default" image for each card. In that case they'll all be there with no subfolders: I'd suggest to delete them all and let forge use the second option from the Content Downloader section).
At this point it's "just" a matter of replacing the pics in the folder.

If the pics are filed with different names than Forge's, you need a batch command (recent sets at least seem to use the same name convention).
Again, in Win 7:
1.
Open a command prompt in the desired folder containing the pics (hold shift, right click, select “Open command window here.”)
2.
Use the ren command, like this for instance:
ren *.jpg *.full.jpg

Tokens are a different beast. They are in their own folder and need individual replacing. Some of the chosen tokens for Forge come from special sets and such. I have already replaced most of them with the HR versions, but still have a bunch of the older ones to locate. I might one day upload the whole High Res Forge token set if/when I'm done replacing them all

[slyfox7777777]

When I put in that command I get the error 'ren*.jpg*.full.jpg' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Any ideas why that would be?

[mastroego]

When I put in that command I get the error 'ren*.jpg*.full.jpg' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Any ideas why that would be?

Are you using windows?

Also, to be on the safe side: the command is "ren" not "ren*". The asterisk is the wildcard for filenames before the extension. It should go before the dot in the above example.
And it was just an example, you need to see what the images are named.
If an image is named, say, "hero of dawn.lol" you need to rename it "hero of dawn.full.jpg" for Forge.
So it would look like (I'm adding separation lines for clarity, don't add them)
ren ---------- *.lol ------------- *.full.jpg
to change all of the "lol" extensions.

[slyfox7777777]

Thanks so much for the help. I already went through and changed the ones I wanted manually, which sucked, but next time I want new images I'll try it again. That was probably the problem. It was hard to tell where the spaces were.

[mastroego]

You're welcome, do try when you have time, once you get the trick you'll replace whole sets in a moment.
Forge looks a lot better with HR cards. Or should I say, mid-res cards

[jekoster]

It's me or this doesn't work at all? I selected res folder and card folder, download finished and card folder was still empty o_O

[KrazyTheFox]

It's me or this doesn't work at all? I selected res folder and card folder, download finished and card folder was still empty o_O

The site that provided the images for this was shut down. I've updated the first post to reflect that there's no images to download until I find another place to get them.

[jekoster]

It's me or this doesn't work at all? I selected res folder and card folder, download finished and card folder was still empty o_O

The site that provided the images for this was shut down. I've updated the first post to reflect that there's no images to download until I find another place to get them.

So what is the fastest way to get HQ pictures into the Forge?

[KrazyTheFox]

So what is the fastest way to get HQ pictures into the Forge?

The two torrents at the bottom of this post: http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=12336
Then the more modern sets are here: https://mega.co.nz/#F!7w12XQYI!1wucMyjfuO3VKfE005YciQ
And a few more releases are here: https://mega.co.nz/#F!p8RBBT6Y!ksgSGJbMsKU0HX_ho-QS5g