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Posted: 05 Aug 2015, 20:02Posted: 06 Aug 2015, 06:30Posted: 18 Aug 2015, 14:28Posted: 18 Aug 2015, 14:48Posted: 18 Aug 2015, 15:35Posted: 18 Aug 2015, 15:44Posted: 18 Aug 2015, 15:50I think this is a great idea but i know we dont have anywhere near the cards to fill up a block yet for shandalar. Also i would suggest if your running a higer than 1024x768 to take advantage of Koraths recent addition of card size change. it is under smallcardsize and i have it currently at 120. you may need it smaller or larger depending on your situation. but if you start there you can go up or down to make the cards larger or smaller. Also manaburn changed when magic 2010 came out. there was a few rules changes then also with mulligans being taken now at same time, manaburn eliminated, combat damage not using the stack, and lifelink/deathtouch became a static ability.dingbat1 wrote:So, I think I finally found a way in which I can help/contribute. I want to create shandalar.ini files for each block set, such that playing a game of Shandalar for a specific block will be as simple as renaming the ini files to match.
However, being technically less than brilliant, I was wondering if someone could please review the first one I created (Khans of Tarkir block) to tell me if I did it right?
http://www.mediafire.com/view/ds6dnyrwuav85rx/Shandalar_%28Khans_of_Tarkir%29.ini
Right now, my intent is to only select cards by block, but, if someone wants to recommend which cards from each block to use for special situations, I will gladly incorporate this too.
Special Situations:
- Castle Advantage (cards that the AI starts duels with in castles; preferably for each difficulty level)
- Dungeon Advantage (cards that the AI starts with in dungeons)
- Duel Advantage (cards that the AI sometimes stars with in duels - 3 per color)
- No Sale (cards not available for in towns and villages)
- No Choose* (cards that cannot be chosen in the cardpicker)
- Dungeon Treasure
*Note: I think cards that were banned or restricted at the time the block was in play should be in the No Choose list. These should probably also constitute the Dungeon Treasure cards. (should we future-proof it by including cards that are not yet incorporated into Shandalar, or would that cause problems?)
Additionally, if someone can tell me when the Mana Burn rule changed, I'd be happy to incorporate that too.
The only problem I foresee is that we will need to create block-specific enemy decks. One possible solution, in my opinion, is to recreate the pre-constructed decks that came out for each block and use those as the enemy decks for those blocks.
Posted: 18 Aug 2015, 16:10Posted: 18 Aug 2015, 19:34Posted: 18 Aug 2015, 20:30Posted: 21 Aug 2015, 20:13So I got to thinking about this a bit and just really an observationish question would the corruption Mabye be due to the sprites in the game are for those 3 sizes 1024,800,640 and even the map is generated in what looks to be the sameKorath wrote:So, I tinkered for a while yesterday and today trying to get higher resolution working.
The good:
Almost everything works, with hardly any effort. Almost all draws to the screen are scaled by current window size, so I mostly only had to disable the resolution change at program start and end, and force all graphics to load from the 1024x768 versions. (Uncompressed images: upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right)
The bad:
It crashes hard, in the middle of a very opaque function, at any aspect ratio except 4x3, and some blt destinations are hardcoded by resolution (only 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768) instead of being computed by the real current resolution. Hence the corruption in the bottom two screenshots in the first image below and in the top screenshot in the second. That can be dealt with, though, without too much effort; I already had to do the same for the outer frame.
(Uncompressed images: upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right)
(Uncompressed images: top, bottom. The deckbuilder works just fine at full width, since it's external.)
The ugly:
The landscape graphics don't work at all. It seems to be a problem at the point where they're loaded, rather than when they're displayed; even increasing the horizontal resolution by 1 pixel to 1025x768 gets me this same corruption. I can't figure out how to fix them, and they're kind of a dealbreaker.
(Uncompressed images: top, bottom)
At least one of the versions of Shandalar floating around here doesn't change resolution, either, but runs in a 1024x768 frameless window; if I just disable resolution changes myself, though, the game still sees my full screen resolution and tries to scale to that. Anyone have a link to that version handy, so I can see what I'm missing? Even being able to run in a normal window without having my dev environment shrunk would be an improvement.
[edit: fix link to last uncompressed img]
Posted: 29 Aug 2015, 15:12Posted: 04 Sep 2015, 10:50
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to your mana pool.)" reminder text from snow-covered lands, it only worked in duel, not the deckbuilder. (Same story as with Beasts of Bogardan, whose rules text I changed to fix this all the way back in Ruined Tower 3 but never noticed was still broken in the deckbuilder.) Getting the deckbuilder to use the same array as Shandalar.exe and Shandalar.dll took four lines of code and about two hours of analysis. And, even so, it still wastes time reading cards.dat into its own array (prior to ignoring it), which is probably close to a second of delay during startup.Posted: 04 Sep 2015, 11:15
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So far I have not changed enemy decks with updates from the overhaul thread, but that is the next thing I would like to try after finishing this playthrough.Posted: 04 Sep 2015, 14:10
