HQ Card generator 8.x

[Huggybaby]

The more rarity symbols and core update 8.2.7 links are broken.

[Snacko]

Fixed it more rarity symbols got replaced with 8.2.8-images-update and core update 8.2.7 with core update 8.2.8.

[Burnf]

I'm having issues with the new 3 symbol set abbreviations.
An example; In the HQ picture forum thread, Coldsnap is listed as CSP but the cardgen is looking for CLD. The set used to be CS, so I'm guessing it shouldn't be CLD.

I'm curious why these were updated to all be 3 symbol abbreviations? This is creating a lot of work and waste for people like myself, also conflicts with custom sets or potentially future sets (if this isn't a WotC decision).
I'm now tasked with copying folders of images and renaming them to match the cardgen. My image folder was already 3 gigs, so I'm looking at probably 5 gigs when this is done. There's also a level of trial and error because the cardgen seems to have its own folder names that don't coincide completely with listed name conventions.
http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=445

I guess what I really want to know is is there any way to set the program to look at my existing folders?
Maybe a text that overrides folder associations like:
CLD = C:/MWS/Pics/CS
9ED = C:/MWS/Pics/9E
Etc..

[Snacko]

I hope you haven't started renaming them yet as having different folder names for the same content can be easily done with NTFS junctions (an useful shell extension for creating and managing them http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... llext.html) or just links in unix systems.
Yes there's an error Coldsnap should be CSP.
WotC changed to 3 letter abbreviations over 5 years ago.
If there are any differences in the 3 letter codes in the cardgen and the list they will be corrected as I use the same reference for the 3 letter codes

[PulSar.CE3194694]

People help pls!
Where can download gui for it? Rapidsh*t doesn't work. Can somebody upload it on mediafire? And can HQ Card generator make cards with RUSSIAN translation? I need to translate some cards (from lorwin, Alara, conflux) because their russian variants are in very low quality. If it can, what i must download? (core, resourses, update i already have) And tell me pls step by step, what i need to do for it.

THX

A, and if there are RUSSIAN HQ Conflux, Alara and Lorwin cards exist, pls give me a link. It will be better than create cards myself.

[Snacko]

GUI is stand alone and doesn't use the card generator only the resources.
You could make Russian cards, however you would need to have a proper or close looking Russian font.
From what I heard the translation is horrible and currently there wasn't any push to scan the cards in this language.

You would need to edit config.txt
output.language = russian
and point those *.tff to a font that supports cyrillic glyphs in
config-eighth.txt and config-planeswalker.txt

[PulSar.CE3194694]

THX,
so i make CSV file in notepad, write down names of cards like in example in 1st post, drop this file on generateCards.bat, it opens window and say, that he can't find those cards (f.e. 4,Ethersworn Canonist,ALA). What i doing wrong?
And another quastion: for CG i should have full pictures of cards or only crops?

If you teach me, how to use cardgen (because i didnt understand how it works), i can translate maybe last set in russian.

[Snacko]

Make sure you apply the updates in order, it seems you don't have at least the core update 8.2.8 which includes the cards from newer sets:
Core Package, Resources from Slighty Magic and images update 8.2.6 plus images update 8.2.8, core update 8.2.8.

You should have the cards up to conflux by then.
You need only the crops or full art for Planeswalkers / Futureshifted (not yet supported).

Personally I didn't translate any of the cards, just take the official Wizards translations from Gatherer.
Here's the parts I changed to render the card, I used the Cambria font (don't know where I got it most likely from Office2007) which seems to look a bit like the one used on the cards. You need to have the new font in the fonts directory. The layout coordinates might need a bit of tweaking as some text like type seems to be lower than on real cards. Didn't have the crops with me so the art is missing on the sample.
config.txt

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output.language =  russian;

most likely you want

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output.english.title.on.translated.card = 0

so the artist is printed instead of English card name
config-eighth.txt

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[fonts]
font.text = 30, CAMBRIA.ttc/CAMBRIAI.ttf, leading:45
font.artist = 22, MatrixB.ttf>GaramondB.ttf
font.copyright = 13, MPlantin.ttf

[fonts - regular]
font.title = 35, CAMBRIAB.ttf>GaramondB.ttf
font.type = 30, CAMBRIAB.ttf>GaramondB.ttf
font.pt = 36, MatrixBSmallCaps.ttf>GaramondB.ttf, centerY:true centerX:true

[fonts - timeshifted]
font.title = 35, CAMBRIAB.ttf>GaramondB.ttf, color:255,255,255 shadow:true
font.type = 30, CAMBRIAB.ttf>GaramondB.ttf, color:255,255,255 shadow:true
font.pt = 36, MatrixBSmallCaps.ttf>GaramondB.ttf, centerY:true centerX:true color:255,255,255 shadow:true

[Huggybaby]

Nice info. I see an empty spot on the wiki too.

[PulSar.CE3194694]

Thank you for info. I will try to do it.

[PulSar.CE3194694]

Mee... I have some problems. Look:

and real card is:

Whats matter with font size? I tried 2 fonts and result is the same. And also the border, it's.. ornament, my is blue. How to change to real card border with real ornament?

PS Size of the fonts is default

[Snacko]

It generates just fine here overwrite all files with this, just change the path to pictures.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mnka3ntntwi

[TheGreyHavens]

Hi,

I used the HQ-card-generator since version 4.8. Since the update to version 6.1.5 up to the current 8.2.7 the ressource images for generating the cards (backgrounds, borders, basic land symbols, rarity symbols, etc.) were changed in color and illumination, so now there are very different from the original magic cards.

Here are some exambles for the different colors, types and rarities:

Original art: ------------------------------ MTG-generator 8.2.3 art:














As u can see, original and generated cards are very different.
Up to version 6.0 of the HQ-card-generator the ressource images were nearly the same as the original magic cards, but were then changed to the darker colors.
Does anybody noticed this, too? And, even more important, is there any way to aquire more original ressource images to create cards more simliar to its original versions? I tried editing them myself, but as there are more cards types (e.g. flip cards, planeswalkers etc.) and the generator is using a different way to render the cards it is not possbile to simplay use the 6.0 ressources. Editing the 8.2.7 image ressources is also not possbile because during creation of the images some sort of masks/templates have been used; so editing parts of the images is not really possible without also modifiying border shadows and highlights...

Help is really much appreciated
Thx in advance....

Greetings, TheGreyHavens

[halfheart]

How you can compare an image from MTGsite with a generated image? try to print a generated card and compare it with an original card.

[TheGreyHavens]

Hi,

If you just want to complain about my request for help then just post somewhere else because your post contains nothing really helpful.
I actually HAVE compared both (real magic cards and printed proxies) and the difference in color is similar to that of the electronic images.
That btw. is no surprise, because Wizards are printing with printers able to print the precise color of the data given to the printing machine. My printer at home is not that good but could reach nearly the true color when set-up in the right way.
The problem is not the printing process, but the image data.
Former proxies from 6.0 and earlier looked fine, current proxies look odd due to the difference in color and luminance.
The art in the gatherer is (except of the size) the same data Wizards are feeding to their printers so you can always compare the source, e.g. the electronic image data instead of the printed proxies/cards.

Greetings, TheGreyHavens