Gwar's Tweaked ProxyGen (OLD THREAD DO NOT USE)
Posted: 16 Feb 2011, 03:13
by BaconCatBug
THIS THREAD IS DEPRICATED AND SHOULD NOT BE USED. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW THREAD HERE!
- Credits | Open
- Nate and Snacko for making and maintaining the thing in the first place.
- Chaoslord for his Planewalker help.
- White Dragon for making epic Rarity Symbols.
- aurelain for getting high quality card images.
- Richard Garfield for making Magic and WotC for keeping it going strong.
- Odin, for getting rid of all the Ice Giants.
- Introduction | Open
- Hello everyone. My name is Gwar, and I am a crazy person. By that I mean crazy about Nates/Snacko's Proxy Generator, which is the best thing to ever be made, ever! Because of it, it's super MEGA easy to have up to date proxies when playing casually or up to date card images when playing online.
That being said, there are a few niggles here and there, which being the insanotron that I am, took upon myself to fix.
But first of all, a summary. This package is intended to be a single complete and easy to install way of generating up to date Oracle wording proxies/images of every "normal" magic set. By that, I mean all the regular blocks and core sets, without reprint sets (like Chronicles), the Un- sets, the "Starter" sets, "Casual" sets (Archenemy, Planechase etc), release and pre-release cards and other promos (like 1996 World Champion or the MPR cards). In addition, Vanguard Avatars, Planes and Sorcerers Apprentice data has been removed, as these just clog up the rendering and are never used. The final removal are the removals of Alpha and Beta. Why? Because Unlimited is the exact same. There is no need to waste space having 2 extra folders of the exact same cropped art and time by rendering the same card 3 times.
If you need any of the removed stuff, simply re-import the Masterbase and get the Sets.txt and Formats.txt from Snacko's packages, as the ones here have the chaff removed.
I have, however, included Duel Decks, the Coldsnap theme decks and From the Vault sets, as they have either alternate art or other unique goodness. This was done by directly deleting the unused sets from the cards.csv file.
In addition, I have edited the scripts slightly to use .png rarity symbols rather than .gif symbols (Vector symbols made by White Dragon) as well as including better quality card base images (of particular note is the much improved Blue base card, although there is far, FAR more than that), which were kindly posted by aurelain.
I have also taken the liberty of updating the titleToLandColors file to allow for the Commander lands to be rendered and have included a GaramondBI.tff file (and edited the config files acordingly) so that Post-8th cards with "en-" or "-il" in their title have them rendered in italics. The fonts have also been subtly hacked so the spacing between letters and quotation marks should match real cards better.
- Differences between this version and Snackos version | Open
- Useless sets such as Chronicles, Beatdown and the Un-Sets have been cleared from the Cards.csv file, as well as redundant Portal entries.
- JTMS Finally works! Thanks chaoslord!
- Higher quality PNG expansion symbols instead of GIF expansion symbols.
- Four Ability Planeswalkers! (Only in blue though! EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS TO CHAOSLORD FOR THIS!)
- Colourless Eldrazi.
Config files moved to their own folder for neatness. - No more duplicated rarity icons.
- Mana symbols replaced by ones derived from Goblin Hero's vector symbols. Most noticeable with the 10+ Colourless mana symbols.
- Support for Colourless mana from 0 to 20, 100 and 1,000,000
- Fonts have been hacked and tweaked and other cool words to better improve the spacing between letters and in particular the Closing Single and Double quotes.
- Coldsnap Theme Decks render correctly out of the box (as long as you use the included deckfiles for them).
- FAQ | Open
- FAQ:
Q) How do I get Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, 4th edition and 5th edition to render with an expansion symbol?
A) Copy the files found in ~/images/rarity/Unused to ~/images/rarity
Q) How can I get Exodus to use it's grey and black common symbol?
A) Copy EXO_C from ~/images/rarity/Alt to ~/images/rarity and overwrite.
Q) How can I get pre-Exodus sets to render only "real" (i.e. all black and grey) Expansion symbols?
A) Copy the files found in ~/images/rarity/Alt (except the EXO_C file if you don't want it) to ~/images/rarity and overwrite.
Q) Why won't my planeswalkers come out right?
A) Your art and overlays are not correctly sized.
Q) Why won't my Eldrazi come out right?
A) You need to delete the cropped art from your cropped art folder. The following Eldrazi do not need it:- All is Dust
- Artisan of Kozilek
- Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
- It That Betrays
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
- Pathrazer of Ulamog
- Skittering Invasion
- Spawnsire of Ulamog
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- Ulamog's Crusher
Q) Why don't my cards look exactly the same as the printed ones?
A) Many reasons. First is that the Proxies use Oracle wording, not the original wording. Second is that you are most likely using a slightly different font, which even a tiny change can build up. Lastly, does it really matter?
Q) WTF? I just want <inset set here> but the bloody thing keeps rendering all the basic lands from all sets (as well as reprints/previous versions), what gives???
A) By default, the setting "output.card.set.directories" in config.txt is set to 1, which means that when you render a sets decklist, all the proxies get output to a folder with the sets code. This means, however, it will render ALL printings of a given card. Your best bet is to just let it be, so if you do end up rendering another set, you won't waste time re-rendering basic lands over and over again. Turning this off (by setting it to 0) puts all the pictures directly into the output folder (with the correct art/frame/flavour etc) without rendering other sets versions, but if you forget to move them to another folder, any duplicates will be overwritten if you render another sets decklist.
Q) Why do some of my cards come out with no artwork? I have the crops, and they are named right!
A) They aren't named right, obviously. Even a single letter out of case in the crops name (Aether instead of AEther, for example) will cause it to fail. To fix it, copy the name of the rendered image, delete it, rename the crop to that exact name and re-render.
Q) Why. Is. My. Serendib. Efreet. GREEN!!!3!!!11!11tehonez!11!1!!
A) Because it's the Revised Edition render. I set the cards.csv to register the card frame as green, not blue, in honour of the most iconic misprint in magic history (other than that OMFGBBQ rare blue Hurricane).
- Linux FAQ | Open
- Q) How I herp de derp on Derp Derp Derpado? (If you use Linux, this will make sense.)
- Install PHP5. How you do so is up to your distro. I have no idea what binding packages are needed either, so just install them all.
- Use the .sh files by running them in a terminal. Since I have no idea what distro or DE or WM you are using, do it however you want.
- If you get errors about being unable to read ".temp", you need to make a symlink to .temp (which is in the main proxygen folder) in your root directory and change the permissions so anyone can edit it. Why this is I have no idea, but it fixes the problem which means you won't need to resort to a VM.
- It really REALLY doesn't like spaces in the path to the generator, so don't have any. Again, no idea why and I don't particularly care.
- Things that do not work (yet?) | Open
- Levelers < Need someone to make the image resources.
- Futureshifted Cards < See above. As for crops that will work, that's not my area.
- Zendikar Full Art Basic Lands < These won't ever work because there is no need to ever update the text on them because they don't have text printed on them.
- Scars of Mirrodin block Dual Lands lack Watermarks < SOMEONE MAEK PLZ!
- Downloads | Open
- Proxygen Data and Images: http://www.mediafire.com/?u93k9y73lp9zlj8
- IMPORTANT!!!! ProxyGen Data/Scripts/Images/Planeswalker/Cream Cheese Patch (29/07/2011): http://www.mediafire.com/?pvlmjrro4ncb7c3
- Linux Scripts: http://www.mediafire.com/?13dkml1x1gzz7nx