Forge Beta: 04-26-2013 ver 1.3.13
Posted: 26 Apr 2013, 13:31Forge Beta: 04-26-2013 ver 1.3.13
12538 cards in total.
Release Notes
- User data migration -
User data files, like decks, saved gauntlets, and card pictures, are now stored in new directories separate from the program data. When this version of Forge is first run, it will scan the program directory for all user data and automatically migrate the files to their new homes. There are three defined user data directores: userDir, cacheDir, and cardPicsDir, and their locations depend on the standard paths for your operating system:
Windows:
userDir=%APPDATA%/Forge/
cacheDir=%LOCALAPPDATA%/Forge/Cache/ (or %APPDATA%/Forge/Cache/ for windows versions before the local/roaming directory split)
OSX:
userDir=$HOME/Library/Application Support/Forge/
cacheDir=$HOME/Library/Caches/Forge/
Linux:
userDir=$HOME/.forge/
cacheDir=$HOME/.cache/forge/
cardPicsDir is defined as <cacheDir>/pics/cards/ by default. If you wish to use a non-default directory, please see the forge.profile.preferences.example file located in the Forge installation directory root. You can use this file to, for example, share the card pics directory with another program, such as Magic Workstation.
If you are using the Mac OS X version of Forge then you will find the forge.profile.preferences.example file by right clicking or control clicking on the Forge.app icon. Select "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu. A Finder window will open and will display a folder named Contents. Navigate to the folder:
/Contents/Resources/Java/
and you will find the file named forge.profile.preferences.example.
For reference, here is the full list of moved directories and files:
- New Import Data dialog -
The Import Pictures dialog, accessed via the Content Downloaders submenu, has received an overhaul and has been reincarnated as the Import Data dialog. You may recognize it from the automatic data migration procedure if you had any data to migrate when this version was first started. Instead of just importing pictures from a previous version of Forge, it can now import any kind of Forge data whatsoever. If you have a directory full of deck files, you can use the Import Data dialog to copy or move them to the appropriate directory. If you have just downloaded a torrent of high-quality pics for a particular set, use the Import Data dialog to get them to the proper place. The dialog give you a full listing of all file copy/move operations, so you can see what will happen before you click 'Start Import'.
An importer option was added for including pictures in set-specific card directories that don't map to any currently known card. This handles the case where people have collected complete sets of pics in anticipation of when Forge supports them.
- Fixed a few bugs -
The AI was not removing counters as part of paying a cost. Cards including Phyrexian Prowler, Golem Foundry, Serrated Arrows, Triskelion and others should now work correctly for the computer player.
Several people reported a ConcurrentModificationException which resulted in a crash report and this should now be fixed.
Wishes can now only retrieve cards you own which prevents retrieving an opponents card, which would then go into that player's hand.
Flicker effects were using the wrong Defined$ param.
Spells that Change Target (like Swerve) are now able to redirect a Counterspell onto itself and this is now considered fixed.
- Targeting arrows -
Some people have noticed slowdowns when Targeting arrows are enabled. The battlefield Dock tab includes a targeting icon. You can set the targeting arrows to Off or to Card mouseover to speed up the game.
- Quest challenge start in play cards -
We have received reports that the quest challenge start in play cards are not appearing on the battlefield for some people. This was either fixed recently or it only affects some people but not all of them. Your match.xml and/or your quest save files may be corrupted.
- Human vs Human play over the internet -
Some initial code has been added that will at some point in the future allow human vs human play over the internet. This is a work in progress and is far from being implemented at this time. Please be patient. Anyone who is curious can read the messages in the viewtopic.php?f=52&t=9837 topic.
- Dragon's Maze -
We have created a branch for Dragon's Maze spoilers. These new cards are not included in the Forge distributions at this time. Please be patient as these DGM cards will become available in the near future. We plan to add these new Dragon's Maze cards to the 1.3.14 beta which should be released in a week or two.
- Random Deck generation -
Deck generation is now strictly conforming the colors chosen. You won't get any Boros Reckoner in a RG deck, that could be added before the change (because its manacost could be paid with red mana). Avacyn's Piligrim won't be added in a deck that has green but doesn't have white, though it does not consume, but produces white mana. As well there won't be added any creatures whose activated abilities require colors not choosen for a given deck.
That is to say that now color identity is used for deck generation, that allows a better filtering of cards.
- Single declare attackers step -
Combined declare attackers step for all Defending Players/Planeswalkers. On declare attackers step you have to click the entiry you are about to attack and then click on the creatures that should attack it. Clicking on a planeswalker or player visually highlights it, so that you will see whos attackers are assigned at the moment. By default your first opponent is pre-selected.
- Booster slots -
Booster slots are now way more customizable. This change allows us to implement DGM boosters correctly. Note that custom cube .draft and .sealed files have changed their format. They require a booster description instead of Num(Rarity) N lines. Find example records in files describing SkieraCube and Juzamjedi cude coming with Forge. Singleton parameter is obsolette, since all cards within a booster slot are unique. Ignore rarity is also deprecated, for Booster options allow you to pick cards regardless of rarity with 'any' word standing for ignored rarity. (ex: 15 Any)
New Cards
New Vanguard Avatars
New Dragon's Maze branch Cards
Known Issues
Contributors to This Release
Gos
Hellfish
Marc
Max
Nordos
PowerClaws
RedDeckWins
RumbleBBU
Sloth
Sol
Swordshine
ZzzzSleep
Chris H
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
(Thanks to the MAGE team for permission to use their targeting arrows.)
(Thanks to http://www.freesound.org/browse/ for providing some sound files.)
The links to the various archives:
12538 cards in total.
Release Notes
- User data migration -
User data files, like decks, saved gauntlets, and card pictures, are now stored in new directories separate from the program data. When this version of Forge is first run, it will scan the program directory for all user data and automatically migrate the files to their new homes. There are three defined user data directores: userDir, cacheDir, and cardPicsDir, and their locations depend on the standard paths for your operating system:
Windows:
userDir=%APPDATA%/Forge/
cacheDir=%LOCALAPPDATA%/Forge/Cache/ (or %APPDATA%/Forge/Cache/ for windows versions before the local/roaming directory split)
OSX:
userDir=$HOME/Library/Application Support/Forge/
cacheDir=$HOME/Library/Caches/Forge/
Linux:
userDir=$HOME/.forge/
cacheDir=$HOME/.cache/forge/
cardPicsDir is defined as <cacheDir>/pics/cards/ by default. If you wish to use a non-default directory, please see the forge.profile.preferences.example file located in the Forge installation directory root. You can use this file to, for example, share the card pics directory with another program, such as Magic Workstation.
If you are using the Mac OS X version of Forge then you will find the forge.profile.preferences.example file by right clicking or control clicking on the Forge.app icon. Select "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu. A Finder window will open and will display a folder named Contents. Navigate to the folder:
/Contents/Resources/Java/
and you will find the file named forge.profile.preferences.example.
For reference, here is the full list of moved directories and files:
- Code: Select all
Old location New location
---------------- ----------------------
res/decks/ <userDir>/decks/
res/gauntlet/ <userDir>/gauntlet/
res/layouts/ <userDir>/preferences/
res/preferences/ <userDir>/preferences/
res/quest/data/ <userDir>/quest/saves/
res/pics/ <cacheDir>/pics/
forge.log <userDir>/forge.log
- New Import Data dialog -
The Import Pictures dialog, accessed via the Content Downloaders submenu, has received an overhaul and has been reincarnated as the Import Data dialog. You may recognize it from the automatic data migration procedure if you had any data to migrate when this version was first started. Instead of just importing pictures from a previous version of Forge, it can now import any kind of Forge data whatsoever. If you have a directory full of deck files, you can use the Import Data dialog to copy or move them to the appropriate directory. If you have just downloaded a torrent of high-quality pics for a particular set, use the Import Data dialog to get them to the proper place. The dialog give you a full listing of all file copy/move operations, so you can see what will happen before you click 'Start Import'.
An importer option was added for including pictures in set-specific card directories that don't map to any currently known card. This handles the case where people have collected complete sets of pics in anticipation of when Forge supports them.
- Fixed a few bugs -
The AI was not removing counters as part of paying a cost. Cards including Phyrexian Prowler, Golem Foundry, Serrated Arrows, Triskelion and others should now work correctly for the computer player.
Several people reported a ConcurrentModificationException which resulted in a crash report and this should now be fixed.
Wishes can now only retrieve cards you own which prevents retrieving an opponents card, which would then go into that player's hand.
Flicker effects were using the wrong Defined$ param.
Spells that Change Target (like Swerve) are now able to redirect a Counterspell onto itself and this is now considered fixed.
- Targeting arrows -
Some people have noticed slowdowns when Targeting arrows are enabled. The battlefield Dock tab includes a targeting icon. You can set the targeting arrows to Off or to Card mouseover to speed up the game.
- Quest challenge start in play cards -
We have received reports that the quest challenge start in play cards are not appearing on the battlefield for some people. This was either fixed recently or it only affects some people but not all of them. Your match.xml and/or your quest save files may be corrupted.
- Human vs Human play over the internet -
Some initial code has been added that will at some point in the future allow human vs human play over the internet. This is a work in progress and is far from being implemented at this time. Please be patient. Anyone who is curious can read the messages in the viewtopic.php?f=52&t=9837 topic.
- Dragon's Maze -
We have created a branch for Dragon's Maze spoilers. These new cards are not included in the Forge distributions at this time. Please be patient as these DGM cards will become available in the near future. We plan to add these new Dragon's Maze cards to the 1.3.14 beta which should be released in a week or two.
- Random Deck generation -
Deck generation is now strictly conforming the colors chosen. You won't get any Boros Reckoner in a RG deck, that could be added before the change (because its manacost could be paid with red mana). Avacyn's Piligrim won't be added in a deck that has green but doesn't have white, though it does not consume, but produces white mana. As well there won't be added any creatures whose activated abilities require colors not choosen for a given deck.
That is to say that now color identity is used for deck generation, that allows a better filtering of cards.
- Single declare attackers step -
Combined declare attackers step for all Defending Players/Planeswalkers. On declare attackers step you have to click the entiry you are about to attack and then click on the creatures that should attack it. Clicking on a planeswalker or player visually highlights it, so that you will see whos attackers are assigned at the moment. By default your first opponent is pre-selected.
- Booster slots -
Booster slots are now way more customizable. This change allows us to implement DGM boosters correctly. Note that custom cube .draft and .sealed files have changed their format. They require a booster description instead of Num(Rarity) N lines. Find example records in files describing SkieraCube and Juzamjedi cude coming with Forge. Singleton parameter is obsolette, since all cards within a booster slot are unique. Ignore rarity is also deprecated, for Booster options allow you to pick cards regardless of rarity with 'any' word standing for ignored rarity. (ex: 15 Any)
New Cards
- CARDS LIST | Open
New Vanguard Avatars
- VANGUARD AVATARS LIST | Open
New Dragon's Maze branch Cards
- DRAGON'S MAZE BRANCH CARDS LIST | Open
Known Issues
- ISSUES LIST | Open
Contributors to This Release
Gos
Hellfish
Marc
Max
Nordos
PowerClaws
RedDeckWins
RumbleBBU
Sloth
Sol
Swordshine
ZzzzSleep
Chris H
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
(Thanks to the MAGE team for permission to use their targeting arrows.)
(Thanks to http://www.freesound.org/browse/ for providing some sound files.)
The links to the various archives:
The Forge 04/26/2013 Windows and Linux archive (requires java 6):
forge-1.3.13.tar.bz2 (30.1 MB, at cardforge.org)
Forge 04/26/2013 BETA packaged as a Mac OS application:
forge-1.3.13-osx.tar.bz2 (31.1 MB, at cardforge.org)
. Thank you.