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Problem: LQ pictures into HQ

PostPosted: 13 Nov 2018, 17:13
by nerex
Hello. I'm new on Forge and on Magic as well and I'm having "trouble" getting the HQ version of the cards. When I've installed Forge (1.6.13 version) I downloaded all the LQ pictures to try it out and, after that, I've downloaded some GBs of HQ cards following the threads in the FAQ section. I've just renamed those cards with .full.jpg and I placed them in Forge\cache\pics directory after using Forge's Import tool, ofc. I thing that it didn't go well, because some cards seems to not have been actually imported.
Now I'm in the situation in which lots of cards are in HQ but lots of them are still in LQ. I've also noted that for the same card, sometimes, there are different image quality or even different art of it (Duress is an example, in my case). I just need to have, let's say, at least all the Modern cards in HQ. Any advises?

Re: Problem: LQ pictures into HQ

PostPosted: 19 Nov 2018, 08:10
by CptKird
Hi,

it might be possible, that Forge imported only parts of the sets, I'm not sure, I never used that function (always move stuff around manually).

Check this for example:
In your downloaded HQ folders there might be a folder called "LEB". If the import would've worked this should be renamed to just "B" in your pics/cards location, I assume.
"LEB" and "B" are the same set: Beta

So each of your edition folders inside your pics/cards folder needs to have a specific name, else Forge won't find it!

Every correct edition folder name should be available by checking, for example, the "Antiquities.txt" file inside the Forge install directory called "res/editions".
Inside each edition .txt-file, at the top, there should be a "code2" line, in case of Antiquities its "AQ", in case of Unlimited its "U" etc.

Each edition folder inside pics/cards needs to be named according to the corresponding code2.

Hope that helps!
All the best
Cpt. Kird