all the card pictures?

[haganjj42]

hi, i just came across this program...
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how do i get all the card images?
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iam using the totally newest version of forge...(02/19)
is there a version that all card images are easily available?
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ive used the downloader -in program- , but i still have some missing pictures..
... although it said it downloaded like, 13000 pictures... and there is ~6000+ cards in use??
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you guys should make a standard easy way to download the cards pictures.
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OR is there some possibility of getting a feature to "only include pictured cards"
...the great artwork is one of the main reasons i play Magic

[lazylockie]

if you already have the MWS images, I think it should work fine

[haganjj42]

yeah, actually... i had to run the -ingame- downloader 2 times...
dunno why... maybe i hit cancel or something i dunno.
anyway..
i got em all working!
yay! thanks for the awesome program!!!

[Rob Cashwalker]

The LQ set pics downloader is the easiest way. For 7000 cards, many with multiple printings, it should be more like 14k pics.

If you go to the pictures forum, you can get the bulk of the HQ full-size pictures, but there are a few issues with them. First, Forge doesn't like the full-resolution pictures too much, the game will slow down significantly; so I used a batch process to resize them to 300 pixels tall. Second, I've found many inconsistencies in capitalization in the HQ image archives; so as I discover them, I make the filename changes, then put them up on cardforge.org.

[Huggybaby]

Second, I've found many inconsistencies in capitalization in the HQ image archives; so as I discover them, I make the filename changes, then put them up on cardforge.org.

If you would bring these to our attention they could be fixed once and for all. As it stands we aren't aware of any problems.

[Rob Cashwalker]

hmm.. I'll see what I can do.

I only realized these problems when I switched to Linux, where the capitalization makes a difference. Mostly in 9th edition, wherever "of" is in the filename... instead of "Of".

[Huggybaby]

Hmm. Well, for what the HQ Team does, the card name should match the spelling on the card itself, and then the database should reflect that. If gatherer spells a card differently than the card does, we're in slight trouble.

[Rob Cashwalker]

There were some OLD cards, like Will-o'-the-Wisp or some such, where the printed name was different than the current Gatherer. Only in the 9th archive, have I found numerous instances... it just seemed like the filenames ignored printed capitalizations, and were simply mixed-case word-for-word.

There has been an occasional missing card, which magiccards.info has an image for, even though I thought they used our archives as source.

When I get to my laptop tonight, I'll try to do a search to identify all the files I modified.

The downloader for the set images logs cards it can't find. So I run it every once in a while to find errors in the SetInfo data in our card text, identify older cards with multiple printings and identify mis-named cards from the picture archive.

Does MWS construct a filename for the picture or does it already know the expected filename from the database? Also, MWS is Windows, and windows has no problem with the filenames...

[Huggybaby]

I appreciate any info you can find. Maybe this isn't something we can fix, but we should be aware of it.

AFAIK, MWS expects the picture name to match the database name, but case is ignored.

[Rob Cashwalker]

I don't have any records here.... The file modified date still shows when I originally extracted the archive, not when I changed the filename. But I'm pretty sure it was 9ED. We don't have Circle of Protection implemented, so I didn't change it, and the filename has "Of", where all the other cards in 9th we have are ones I'm pretty sure I recall changing to "of", but I don't have an easy way to figure out all of them, short of pulling the archives again, and then running some sort of directory comparison tool...

[Accountancy]

I'm wondering how to get token pictures, it kind of breaks the flow if you have all these pretty cards, but ugly tokens.

[Chris H.]

There is an archive on this site with all of the high quality tokens. You will have to rename these files for forge to recognize them.

If you are using low quality images for cards rather than high quality you will need a graphics program to scale these HQ images down to 200 x 285 pixels.

In the past several people have poasted a link to an archive of tokens for forge. These archives contain many but not all of the token pics that are now used by forge.

This web site has a search field that you can use to perform a search for tokens. This will help you to track down the archives mentioned above. I will post a list of token file names used by forge:

token file names used by forge | Open

b_0_0_germ.jpg
b_0_1_serf.jpg
b_0_1_thrull.jpg
b_1_1_bat.jpg
b_1_1_faerie_rogue.jpg
b_1_1_goblin_rogue.jpg
b_1_1_rat.jpg
b_1_1_thrull.jpg
b_2_1_cat.jpg
b_2_2_zombie.jpg
b_2_4_spider.jpg
b_3_3_angel.jpg
b_3_3_kavu.jpg
b_4_4_horror.jpg
b_5_5_zombie_giant.jpg
b_6_6_wurm.jpg
b_20_20_marit_lage.jpg
b_dx_dy_spirit.jpg
b_x_x_demon.jpg
b_x_x_minion.jpg
bg_1_1_worm.jpg
br_1_1_minor_demon.jpg
br_3_1_graveborn.jpg
c_0_1_eldrazi_spawn.jpg
c_0_1_prism.jpg
c_1_1_hornet.jpg
c_1_1_metallic_sliver.jpg
c_1_1_myr.jpg
c_1_1_pentavite.jpg
c_1_1_sand.jpg
c_1_1_shapeshifter.jpg
c_1_1_sliver.jpg
c_1_1_snake.jpg
c_1_1_spirit.jpg
c_1_1_thopter.jpg
c_1_1_triskelavite.jpg
c_1_1_wasp.jpg
c_2_2_assembly_worker.jpg
c_2_2_pincher.jpg
c_3_3_golem.jpg
c_3_3_wurm_deathtouch.jpg
c_3_3_wurm_lifelink.jpg
c_3_4_gargoyle.jpg
c_5_5_djinn.jpg
c_5_5_tuktuk_the_returned.jpg
c_9_9_golem.jpg
c_x_x_horror.jpg
g_0_1_plant.jpg
g_0_1_sheep.jpg
g_0_1_wood.jpg
g_1_1_elf_warrior.jpg
g_1_1_hippo.jpg
g_1_1_hound.jpg
g_1_1_insect_infect.jpg
g_1_1_insect.jpg
g_1_1_llanowar_elves.jpg
g_1_1_ooze.jpg
g_1_1_saproling.jpg
g_1_1_snake.jpg
g_1_1_spike.jpg
g_1_1_squirrel.jpg
g_1_1_wolf.jpg
g_2_2_bear.jpg
g_2_2_cat_warrior.jpg
g_2_2_lizard.jpg
g_2_2_ooze.jpg
g_2_2_wolf.jpg
g_2_5_treefolk_shaman.jpg
g_3_3_ape.jpg
g_3_3_beast.jpg
g_3_3_centaur_pro_black.jpg
g_3_3_centaur.jpg
g_3_3_elephant.jpg
g_4_4_beast.jpg
g_4_4_elemental.jpg
g_5_5_beast.jpg
g_6_1_insect.jpg
g_6_6_wurm.jpg
g_7_7_elemental.jpg
g_x_x_ooze.jpg
g_x_x_wurm.jpg
gu_2_2_drake.jpg
gw_1_1_elf_warrior.jpg
gw_2_2_voja.jpg
r_0_1_kobolds_of_kher_keep.jpg
r_1_1_goblin_haste.jpg
r_1_1_goblin_scout.jpg
r_1_1_goblin.jpg
r_2_1_goblin.jpg
r_3_1_elemental_haste.jpg
r_3_1_elemental_shaman.jpg
r_3_1_elemental.jpg
r_3_1_spark_elemental.jpg
r_4_4_bird.jpg
r_4_4_dragon.jpg
r_4_4_hellion.jpg
r_5_5_dragon.jpg
r_7_1_elemental.jpg
rg_1_1_dragon.jpg
rg_3_4_stangg_twin.jpg
rgw_8_8_beast.jpg
rw_1_1_goblin_soldier.jpg
u_0_1_homunculus.jpg
u_0_1_kelp.jpg
u_1_1_bird.jpg
u_1_1_camarid.jpg
u_1_1_cloud_sprite.jpg
u_1_1_faerie.jpg
u_1_1_illusion.jpg
u_1_1_merfolk_wizard.jpg
u_1_1_thopter.jpg
u_1_1_wall.jpg
u_2_2_elemental_flying.jpg
u_2_2_illusion.jpg
u_5_5_wall.jpg
ub_1_1_zombie_wizard.jpg
ur_5_5_elemental.jpg
w_0_1_caribou.jpg
w_0_1_deserter.jpg
w_0_1_goat.jpg
w_1_1_bird_flying.jpg
w_1_1_bird_soldier.jpg
w_1_1_bird.jpg
w_1_1_citizen.jpg
w_1_1_goldmeadow_harrier.jpg
w_1_1_kithkin_soldier.jpg
w_1_1_kor_soldier.jpg
w_1_1_pegasus.jpg
w_1_1_soldier_ally.jpg
w_1_1_soldier.jpg
w_1_1_spirit.jpg
w_2_2_cat.jpg
w_2_2_knight_first_strike.jpg
w_2_2_knight.jpg
w_3_3_bird.jpg
w_3_3_spirit.jpg
w_4_4_angel.jpg
w_4_4_elemental.jpg
w_4_4_mirror_sigil_sergeant.jpg
w_5_5_giant_warrior.jpg
w_n_n_avatar.jpg
wb_1_1_spirit.jpg
wg_2_2_voja.jpg
wu_1_1_bird.jpg

[DemoneNero]

Thanks for the token list, by the way can anyone post g_0_1_wood and u_1_1_wall.
I can't find them, thanks a lot

[nikhil]

A very obvious question. Probably irrelevant. Unable to download any of the card sets for the new beta (Forge 03/18/2011 (unofficial BETA)).

The download meter crawls to maximum, taking a half a day or so, but when completed, no card pictures show up in the folder itself, (so far I've tried HQ and LQ-set; not yet LQ). This is very frustrating.

I assumed it would be easier than using the MWS sets from reading this page, but it proved not to be the case.

Is there any suggestion for how to make it work? Thank you, and MTG Forge is great; I just wish I could use the new version! (Am still using old version with ~2000 cards).

[Sloth]

A very obvious question. Probably irrelevant. Unable to download any of the card sets for the new beta (Forge 03/18/2011 (unofficial BETA)).

The download meter crawls to maximum, taking a half a day or so, but when completed, no card pictures show up in the folder itself, (so far I've tried HQ and LQ-set; not yet LQ). This is very frustrating.

I assumed it would be easier than using the MWS sets from reading this page, but it proved not to be the case.

Is there any suggestion for how to make it work? Thank you, and MTG Forge is great; I just wish I could use the new version! (Am still using old version with ~2000 cards).

Just LQ is the only way it works at the moment. Sorry.