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It's been a while since I've posted here. Yes, I'm still doing 2013 while y'all have moved on to 2014.
Just a quick newb question. How does one replace the arts of cards, while retaining the original art files? I gather you'd have to create new TDX files with the appropriate names, but where should I put them? In a separate WAD? A folder in an existing WAD? How do I make sure that the game reads the new arts and not the original ones?

Blue Ghost wrote:I gather you'd have to create new TDX files with the appropriate names, but where should I put them? In a separate WAD? A folder in an existing WAD?

Making a new WAD for overriding content is always better.

Blue Ghost wrote:How do I make sure that the game reads the new arts and not the original ones?

Nobody ever proved it, but there's a high chance that the game loads the WAD files in alphabetical order, and the last to be loaded "wins", so just give the WAD a name that goes for last in alphabetical order.

What needs to go in the WAD file? I tried just putting the TDX files in a folder, but that didn't seem to work.

WADs need to have an XML header and be in a specific structure for DotP 2013:

• Top Level Directory - typically with the same name as the final WAD will have starting with either "DATA_DLC_" or "DECK_"
  • Directory - DATA_ALL_PLATFORMS
    • Directory - ART_ASSETS
      • Directory - ILLUSTRATIONS
        • TDX Files - Card images go here with names that match those defined in the Card XMLs (ARTID tag) and saved in TDX format.
  • XML Header - HEADER.XML

The XML Header has a very simple structure, but is unique for each WAD:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<WAD_HEADER>
   <ENTRY platform="ALL" source="<Name of Top Level Directory from above goes here.>/DATA_ALL_PLATFORMS/" alias="Content" order="3"/>
</WAD_HEADER>

So if your top level directory is "DATA_DLC_5678" your Header would look like this:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<WAD_HEADER>
   <ENTRY platform="ALL" source="DATA_DLC_5678/DATA_ALL_PLATFORMS/" alias="Content" order="3"/>
</WAD_HEADER>