Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013

[thefiremind]

Though we've also found that having too many tokens in play can also crash the game (though crashes may appear randomly later in play and not immediately). More detailed information in this topic: Problem with Rhys the Redeemed (Crashing)

Yes, I know, I have read that. But I wasn't making lots of tokens, the card that gave me that problem was Last Stand.

Returning on the topic about unlocks: your idea doesn't work for me. Even if I make an XML with random promo unlocks, I always get the decrease of 10 in the count.
EDIT: Now I managed to make it work, but I think it still depends on how many unlockable cards I set. I'll test it more.
EDIT 2: Nevermind, the first time I probably made a typo or something and I fixed it by starting with a new XML copy... now, no matter what, your idea works.

EDIT 3: More about the deck manager's main LOL file: I disassembled it and found the function that is responsible for displaying the lands: it's function #18. But from what I can see, it does many other things, so even if we could decompile the LOL file correctly, I doubt we could mod it properly.

EDIT 4: Before someone else tries... granting activated abilities to creatures in graveyards works bad: the ability text doesn't appear, so it can't be activated. I wanted to make Sedris, the Traitor King, but I'll have to give up.

EDIT 5: Maybe I was the only one who took so long to understand it, but I finally understood why EffectSource() sometimes returns nil. EffectSource() is like a Card_Ptr to the card that starts the ability. As such, if the card changes zone, it gets deleted. This also explains the functionality of EffectDC():Protect_CardPtr( COMPARTMENT_ID_EFFECT_SOURCE ) that you find in Clone and similar cards: EffectSource() is probably equivalent to EffectDC():Get_CardPtr( COMPARTMENT_ID_EFFECT_SOURCE ).

EDIT 6: Snow mana is an unfinished job (like hybrid mana in DotP2012): if I try to pay snow mana for an ability, the ability activates for free. My plans to make a Coldsnap deck are screwed.

[skibulk]

Has smoebody extracted the artwork from DotP 2013 yet? We could use them in the HQCG here, as well as the card frames (if they're any different from the frames in DotP 2010).

[thefiremind]

That would be the least I could do for the HQCG team... not all card pictures can be found in decent quality by Googling and those are the times when the HQ scans are so useful for DotP modders. I'm uploading a RAR file in 2 parts, for a total of about 231 MB, it will take a while. I'll edit the post with the links when they are ready.

EDIT:
Part 1
Part 2
All DotP2013 card pictures and frames are included, in PNG format.

[pcastellazzi]

Is there any way to cancel a delayed Trigger?

I dont think so, but you can control the behaviour of the trigger with a flag. Like:

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<TRIGGERED_ABILITY ... />
<TRIGGER ... >
  return ObjectDC():Get_Int(0) == 1
</TRIGGER>
...


If you give us a more concrete example we may come up with an alternative implementation. It does not seem a DC is the best solution for your problem. May be GrantAbility work better for you since the continous action required to make it work will do the tracking for you.

[skibulk]

That would be the least I could do for the HQCG team... not all card pictures can be found in decent quality by Googling and those are the times when the HQ scans are so useful for DotP modders. I'm uploading a RAR file in 2 parts, for a total of about 231 MB, it will take a while. I'll edit the post with the links when they are ready.

EDIT:
Part 1
Part 2
All DotP2013 card pictures and frames are included, in PNG format.

Thanks! I've posted a link to your post on the Pictures Forum. It's a shame that the images aren't named like they were in the previous game. Is there a number-to-name map hidden somewhere in the encrypted files?

[thefiremind]

It's a shame that the images aren't named like they were in the previous game. Is there a number-to-name map hidden somewhere in the encrypted files?

Actually, they have always been named with an "anonymous" ID, since DotP2010 all the way to 2013. Maybe someone already renamed the files when you got them for the previous games, and I'm sorry that I didn't, but it's a huge work (more than 800 images) and I really don't have enough spare time.
You can search for cards in the attachment of this post:
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=6784&start=105#p91398
and then open the XML and look at the art ID so you know which one you are looking for (it lacks of the Ravnica DLC cards, though).

[skibulk]

@thefiremind

The frames from this game are significantly lower quality than the previous one The Plane frame is good though. On that note, the Plane frame was never implemented in our HQCG, so it could be even higher quality in Dotp 2010... Could you compare?

The link you posted contains 639 card files. The extracted image archive you have provided has 829 (not counting tokens and avatars). So the Ravnica DLC must have added 190 cards? If somebody posts the card xml files for the DLC I will rename everything for us to use. I'd be willing to do the same for future expansion packs.

Secondly, the DotP 2010 package I'm referring to was posted by aurelan. There are 787 Named JPEGs in this archive. Tokens and Planes are not included.

Can somebody share the Tokens, Planes, and expansion pack cards (if not already included in the aforementioned archive) from DotP 2010? The card xml files would enable me to rename and share these too.

Thanks!

[RiiakShiNal]

I'm uploading the card xmls and images from the last two expansions to DotP 2010 now (Expansion 1 didn't add any it only used what was already in the game). DotP 2010 didn't have any planes (not supported by the engine) and it will take a little bit of time to pull all the tokens and images for them (as they need to be pulled one at a time) so I will upload them later.

[skibulk]

I'm uploading the card xmls and images from the last two expansions to DotP 2010 now (Expansion 1 didn't add any it only used what was already in the game). DotP 2010 didn't have any planes (not supported by the engine) and it will take a little bit of time to pull all the tokens and images for them (as they need to be pulled one at a time) so I will upload them later.

You can just upload everything if you want and I'll wade through it.

An easy way to pull the tokens on a PC is set the explorer view to detail, add dimensions to the columns and sort by the image dimensions. At least for DotP 2013 the tokens had different dimensions.

[RiiakShiNal]

You can just upload everything if you want and I'll wade through it.

I've already pulled out the core tokens (except for SPIDER12R_TOKEN as it references a picture that does not exist).

An easy way to pull the tokens on a PC is set the explorer view to detail, add dimensions to the columns and sort by the image dimensions. At least for DotP 2013 the tokens had different dimensions.

That's not true for DotP 2010 as they used a standard size and filled the excess with black pixels.

Ah... considering what you said you probably want the pictures converted from TDX to png (I forgot about that since I'm used to always needing to put them into TDX). So it will take some more time to upload them.

Edit: DotP2010CoreTokens.7z (4.91 MB) now up (with PNGs instead of TDXs).

Edit 2: DotP2010Expansion2(DLC0005)ArtAndCards.7z (53.5 MB) now up (with PNGs instead of TDXs).

[skibulk]

Okay I've got a script which will rename cards automatically as long as I have both the card XML file and image file. I'm going to just group all the core and expansion pack content together in the end so no need to sort files or even segment them from core.

Needed:
- D10_XPack1 XMLs & Images
- D10_XPack3 XMLs & Images
- D13_XPack1 XMLs
- the Plane Frame from D10 for comparison

[RiiakShiNal]

DotP2010Expansion3(DLC0006)ArtAndCards.7z (57.3 MB) now up (with PNGs instead of TDXs)

DotP2010 Expansion pack 1 did not have any new cards or graphics.
DotP2010 does not have a frame for Planes (they were not supported).

[skibulk]

Oh yah sorry to make you repeat that. I'll pack up DotP 2010 for release tomorrow.

[RiiakShiNal]

I'm just sorry it took so long to upload (when uploading to my website I only get about 17-18 KB/s so it takes what seems like forever to upload large files).

[skibulk]

I'm just sorry it took so long to upload (when uploading to my website I only get about 17-18 KB/s so it takes what seems like forever to upload large files).

Your xpack 2 had 132 card definitions and 151 images. I think we're missing 23(total) - 8(land&tokens) = 15(definitions)?

Your xpack 3 had 170 card definitions and 166 images. I think we're missing 4 images?

Are all of the images (core, xpack2, xpack3) mixed together, requiring you to hand sort and separate them?