SphericalCube wrote:Great! Your info helped me finally localize the folder with card images, which makes a lot of things much easier. Thank you!
You're welcome
SphericalCube wrote:One more question, if you don't mind: don't you know a way to download all png card images, named properly for Forge to see them, from scryfall? I saw a link to JPEG pics from this web-site, but PNG ones are readable for the app, too, as long as they have ".full" at the end of their names, and, in addition, they have rounded corners. There were some JSON shenanigans described on their site, but I'm not that good at programming yet, so I didn't manage to get my head around them
I'll advise the following:
Get Gatherer Extractor from here:
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/other-magic-products/third-party-products/337224-mtg-gatherer-extractor-v6-7-database-picsAfter install, check these options and set them like this:
OPTIONAL: If you like tokens as well (These need to be manually renamed according to the sets' edition txt-file, as mentionend above and placed in the "tokens" folder):
then set the card scan options
either like this (This won't fetch the highest res versions, but for mobile it's not really needed, unless you play on a 15" tablet. You can also go lower with jpg quality, 60% should still be looking fine on a 6" mobile screen
):
OR set them like this (to get the original, high-res version of each card, complete with original border. Just get the jpgs. Yes, they have no transparency,
but it's the same with scryfall pngs (this depends how the PNGs are downloaded and how they are interpreted by the viewing/displaying app. Gatherer Extractor might reconfigure the image internally for saving, like with JPGs, because you can change compression there, for example). Read below on how to enable transparent corners in Forge mobile! Forge desktop does transparent corners on jpgs by default, btw.):
The option auto-switch is disabled due to gatherer.wizards.com poor quality images.
Then start the "gathering" process:
The extractor starts pulling images:
If you get timeouts and red indicators on single cards, just retry them all after the set has been pulled (the app will skip already downloaded images and only tries the failed ones again).
Good practice would be to pull sets slowly, one after another,
NOT ticking all sets checkboxes and download them all at once. Abusing scryfall like this will likely get your IP banned..
Or get the bulk of them from other sources, mentionend above (CCGHQ torrents or MEGA folders) and only use Gatherer Extractor on latest sets.
In any case you'll definately need a bulk renaming tool as well, I use Total Commanders multi-rename function, works even on mobile(!) (With the beta version of TC for Android).
Why did I advise getting the "full"/cropped border versions?
There's been improvements to a feature called "Enable round border mask":
Just enable this and a border is re-added to the cropped border scans, this time with transparent corners:
Border-cropped "...full.jpg", missing corners:
Border-cropped "...full.jpg", added corners, "Enable round border mask" active:
There's an alternative though, getting transparent corners with original bordered card scans:
For example, if you already have some or
a lot of full bordered scans ("original" variant in Gatherer Extractor) or simply like to use the full, high-res versions (a mobile phone/tablet with
more than 2 Gbyte RAM is strongly advised in that case!), you can simply rename "....full.jpg" to "....fullborder.jpg" and after activating "Enable round border mask", only the corners are transparent:
Original "...full.jpg", including complete border, no alpha/transparent corners:
Original "...
fullborder.jpg", "Enable round border mask" option set, alpha corners!:
This should get you started
There will be some individual card images which won't show, maybe. In such cases
always consult the sets' edition-txt-file first to check for typos or other errors.
Happy collecting!
K.
PS: With this option, there's really no need to go PNG anymore, except if you want ultimate low memory footprints per image. Also be aware that using PNGs will mess your collection up pretty bad if you enable Auto-Download again in the future, because at the time of writing this, Forge ignores already present and correctly named HQ full.png and re-fetches LQ full.jpg(!) and you end up with an unhealthy mix of LQ and HQ images.