Generic Card Pictures for MTGForge

[Rob Cashwalker]

On the blog comments for the 11-05 new version, Tim requested that the non-picture version of the cards have better wrapping. I proposed that instead of modifying MTGForge to wrap the card names and types, that I make a VB program which could generate pictures with just the vital info, at a fraction of the file size of the standard scans.

Here is the results of this little project -

Generic Card Pics Spoiler Page

If you want to download the pictures themselves, here's a zip: GenericPics.Zip (3.0 MB) It's 10% the download of the standard Wizards pics.

I will follow up with a post with the source code to the project, and the executable. But if you don't have VB, then neither would help much and I'm not sure that an installer with the requisite VB runtime stuff would be significantly smaller than just the pics. But you'll need it if you change the cards.txt.

I realized that I generated the pics from the 10-18 version of the Cards.txt. I'll fix that shortly.

EDIT: Re-uploaded with the 11-05 version.

[Rob Cashwalker]

Project Source Code with executable:
ForgePics_Source.Zip (105 KB)

[GandoTheBard]

Kudos Rob for doing this. Though I do not need it myself I think it will be appreciated by those with low graphic requirements or low space requirements.

[mtgrares]

Thanks for the good work. I'll post this on my blog. People like having options.