A Nice Manapool pic

[Professor]

I don't see a specific place to put this, but I made my own mana pool pic that I like better than the standard one.

Drop this in your res\pics folder and see if you like it any better. Trying to be a fountain rather than a drain, for once.

[mtgrares]

Looks good, I'll probably use it for a change of scenery.

[Bog Wraith]

I put it in yesterday and I really like it! I love those newer lands with just the geographic image of the mana without the symbols on them. They look very natural & authentic.

Thanks!

[Professor]

Appreciate it. I think they were originally Unglued lands. They are easily the most attractive lands MtG ever produced.

I may just go ahead and replace my other land pics with them. Hmmm, sounds like hacking...

[Rob Cashwalker]

I thought we already make use of them. We currently link to 4 different land images for each. Not hacking at all. Soon enough, we'll have support for images from all sets.

[Chris H.]

Look inside your /res/pic/ folder and you should find that there are 4 jpg files for each of the five basic lands. The four forest pics are named:

forest.jpg
forest1.jpg
forest2.jpg
forest3.jpg

You can use the forest pics from any of the sets for the jpgs above. This allows people to personalize which basic land pics that they wish to use.

[juzamjedi]

Good to know!

In my case all 4 lands are going to become Unglued lands. I have noticed that when lands bounce back to my hand they always come back as Unglued lands (which I now see is mountain.jpg, etc.). Not a problem at all for me since I want Unglued lands all the time; just an observation.

Edit: actually, the Zendikar lands are really awesome too and would be good as part of the "default" lands included in the distribution. Just my opinion of course.

[Professor]

I thought we already make use of them. We currently link to 4 different land images for each. Not hacking at all. Soon enough, we'll have support for images from all sets.

Yes, that's what I meant. Those are the images I used. I just meant "hacking" in the sense that I replaced a game file with my own. VERY minor hacking, that.

I also was implying that I might make all my lands Unglued just by copying Mountain.jpg to Mountain1, 2, 3, etc. I haven't seen Zendikar lands, but if you're excited, I'm excited!

[PhoenixAvenger]

I'm more curious about the implications behind the reason that the basic lands can have four pictures:

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Name:Forest
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SVar:PicCount:4
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This brings up two questions (directed mainly at Rob, due to his last comment):
1) Can that SVar be added to any other card, and
2) What is the upper bound for PicCount?

[Rob Cashwalker]

1 - yes. You can also add additional urls to the Picture SVar delimited by "\".
example from Forest:

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SVar:Picture:http://resources.wizards.com/magic/cards/unh/en-us/card73946.jpg\http://gatherer.wizards.com/handlers/image.ashx?type=card&multiverseid=2748\http://gatherer.wizards.com/handlers/image.ashx?type=card&multiverseid=587\http://gatherer.wizards.com/handlers/image.ashx?type=card&multiverseid=586

2-the upper bound is the PicCount you specify.

[zerker2000]

So the upper bound for PicCount should be 2,147,483,647.

[Rob Cashwalker]

yep.... even with all 4 land pics for each set, we shouldn't hit that limit anytime soon.

[zerker2000]

Yeh, even "random card" wouldn't come close. Maybe "random three cards"?

[LokiUndergod]

Very nicely done. Looks great!

[lord of 13]

Interesting... the image I'm using for my mana pool in MindGames is

Where each circle will have a number in it to denote the amount of mana of that color. I'm considering how to best visually represent snow mana, though, and I'm stumped on doing it cleanly. Even this might be too much in one image.