Greetings again!
I'm still not done with my idea
Please note that I'm not trying to demand anything, only throwing out thoughts to be discussed.
Max mtg wrote:I downloaded MA but could not figure out how to attach pictures to the program.
For reference, here is the
Wiki page for Magic Album's Picture Structure.
friarsol wrote:It seems like MA is the oddball here not us, and we are being more compatible by sticking to the HQ Pics naming convention.
I admit that the MWS way has become a de facto standard of picture structure. But it seems that this is more of legacy compatibility decision (made higer up by HQ Pictures and not by forge itself) than anything else. Since Forge uses only one type of image, the ".full" infix is more or less redundant.
Besides, I'm not proposing to give up the HQ Picture structure, just to make it an option to choose another structure.
Chris H. wrote:This is an interesting idea. Not sure how many people would find themselves in a position to make use of this type of a feature.
That is a good point. Me neither. I'll leave that to the MA users to answer in the
sister thread. Still, I wonder how many people use MWS and are thus in a position to have Forge and MWS share their image resources. For collection management and deckbuilding, MA is at least a viable if not better alternative. There's still online play going for MWS; but with people apparently working on a Forge hotset branch, the hope for Forge to become an actively develloped substitution for it seems not completely unfounded.
What I think needs to be done for this:
- change image filename from *.full.jpg to *.jpg.
either switch extension based on preference or have it look for *.jpg if *.full.jpg is not found - include support for .zip archives instead of flat folders
- change set-to-folder mapping from MWS-like to MA-like
depending on how card-to-jpg mapping is stored, this could be simply a 2-by-#(sets) table or needs to be an additional property of each individual card. - look for tokens in %set%\ENG TOK.zip instead of pics\tokens, so tokens would need to know which set they belong to.
- .preferences file settings
IMAGE_SOURCE_TYPE = MWS (default) | MA
disable picture downloader exept for booster/box/etc art and quest mode images
change expected file extension
switch expected folder structure
IMAGE_PATH = %forge_root%\pics (default) | user defined path ( for example %forge_root%\..\Magic Album\Pictures ) - (optional) gui to change .preferences option
Posted: 21 Jan 2013, 10:51
During this time we started to notice Java Heap Space issues.