Forge Beta: 07-18-2014 ver 1.5.22
Posted: 19 Jul 2014, 01:13Forge Beta: 07-18-2014 ver 1.5.22
14017 cards in total.
Release Notes
- Magic 2015 cards -
Forge now includes many of the new Magic 2015 cards. It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.
- CardManagers now support grouping by Set -
You can now group cards by set, with the sets being sorted in reverse chronological order.
As part of this, I've also fixed it so the headers for groups with no cards in them will now be hidden instead of appearing with a "(0)" after them.
Since the groups are collapsible, this can allow CardManagers to work somewhat similar to the old "Binder View" in MTGO (may it rest in peace).
- Mana Cost Searching -
There's now a button (disabled by default) that allows you to search for cards by their mana costs. It's a little finicky right now, but improvements will happen for the next version of Forge.
- Boolean Expressions -
You can now filter cards with simple boolean expressions. Forge automatically detects when you want to use one, so just start typing away in the search box.
This is a completely optional feature and will not change the way you use the search function in Forge, unless you specifically intend to use it.
As an example,
"warrior" || "cleric"
will find all cards with the type of either "warrior" or "cleric" (when just the type search is enabled).
You can also use an AND operator to find cards with specific mana costs:
"g" && "w"
will find all cards with both green and white mana symbols.
You can then construct large and very specific expressions to find exactly what you need:
("human" || "cat") && ("warrior" || "cleric" || "soldier")
will find all humans or cats that are also warriors, clerics, or soldiers.
More improvements are on their way in the next version of Forge, including removing the need for quotation marks and adding NOT operators.
New Cards
New Magic 2015 Cards
Known Issues
Contributors to This Release
DrDev
elcnesh
excessum
Gos
Hellfish
KrazyTheFox
Sloth
Sol
Swordshine
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:
14017 cards in total.
Release Notes
- Magic 2015 cards -
Forge now includes many of the new Magic 2015 cards. It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.
- CardManagers now support grouping by Set -
You can now group cards by set, with the sets being sorted in reverse chronological order.
As part of this, I've also fixed it so the headers for groups with no cards in them will now be hidden instead of appearing with a "(0)" after them.
Since the groups are collapsible, this can allow CardManagers to work somewhat similar to the old "Binder View" in MTGO (may it rest in peace).
- Mana Cost Searching -
There's now a button (disabled by default) that allows you to search for cards by their mana costs. It's a little finicky right now, but improvements will happen for the next version of Forge.
- Boolean Expressions -
You can now filter cards with simple boolean expressions. Forge automatically detects when you want to use one, so just start typing away in the search box.
This is a completely optional feature and will not change the way you use the search function in Forge, unless you specifically intend to use it.
As an example,
"warrior" || "cleric"
will find all cards with the type of either "warrior" or "cleric" (when just the type search is enabled).
You can also use an AND operator to find cards with specific mana costs:
"g" && "w"
will find all cards with both green and white mana symbols.
You can then construct large and very specific expressions to find exactly what you need:
("human" || "cat") && ("warrior" || "cleric" || "soldier")
will find all humans or cats that are also warriors, clerics, or soldiers.
More improvements are on their way in the next version of Forge, including removing the need for quotation marks and adding NOT operators.
New Cards
- Cards list | Open
New Magic 2015 Cards
- Magic 2015 Cards list | Open
Known Issues
- Issues list | Open
Contributors to This Release
DrDev
elcnesh
excessum
Gos
Hellfish
KrazyTheFox
Sloth
Sol
Swordshine
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 07/18/2014 Windows and Linux archive (requires java 7):
forge-1.5.22.tar.bz2 (92.4 MB, at cardforge.org)
Forge 07/18/2014 BETA packaged as a Mac OS application (requires java 7 and Mavericks OS X):
forge-1.5.22-osx.tar.bz2 (93.6 MB, at cardforge.org)
So what's here is what I could get done in the little bit of downtime I've had.
