Cajun Style Templates (UPDATE 3.0.5, Rooms, UB, MSE 2.5!)

While it's not perfect, we've turned this thing I've thought impossible into something that's actually pretty accurate. Before we get to the goods I'd like to thank SirnightNano for the way better flavor bar we are now releasing with, fluffydeathbringer , Vunik , Zeu, and Fenhl for putting up with the beta test and getting some additional correction factors added into the equation, which is clocking in at 74 lines and has about 40% as many characters as a full template. And finally shoutout to CanterburyEgg for keeping me sane during the opening salvo; this probably wouldn't have been done at all without eggo.

M15 Flavor Bar detects when you have rules and flavor text and automagically places the flavor bar between the two... usually. Unfortunately, MSE was not at all designed to handle this thing, so it will occasionally require some fine tuning.

Flavor Bar Offset
While the equation has gotten quite good at predicting where the flavor bar should be, it can still be off by a bit. For those cases, you can go to the style tab and type a number in the Flavor Bar Offset textbox. Typically you will be bumping it up by "1" or "2" or rarely bumping it down by "-1" or "-2"

My Flavor Bar Has Gone Rogue!
The crux of the detection equation is estimating how many lines of flavor text you have. Sometimes the equation gets it wrong. Luckily, there's a simple fix. Typing "u" in Flavor bar offset will make it go up a line, typing "d" will make it go down a line. (for the beta testers, !fbu in the card notes will still move it up as well.) If it manages to get it super wrong you can double it to "uu" or "dd" to correct for two lines, but I haven't seen that actually needed yet.

What's All This Then?
Despite WotC's best efforts, this is the Dominaria Sagas frame. With this you can fiddle with the ability placements and textboxes, and add in the full size watermarks. The reminder text is automatically added but also editable. Those of you who have used Mainframe Planeswalkers will be familiar with the controls, but here's the crash course. Sagas require a bit of work in the Style tab, so let's head over there and see what's new.



Chapter textboxes: This sets the defaults for two, three, or four boxes. The next two options will override this if they conflict.

Chapter number coordinates: This controls the placement of the five chapter hexes, and is formatted anywhere from "1," to "1,2,3,4,5," The defaults for two and three boxes are in the description along the bottom. These are going to range from 150 to 400 realistically. If you're putting multiple numbers on an ability, make the second 40px lower (as seen in the 360,400, above.)

Chapter divider coordinates: This controls the start/stop points of the chapter textboxes, and is formatted from "1," to "1,2,3,4," with the defaults along the bottom again. These are going to range from 200 to 400ish.

Separated text size: This controls the font size across all the chapter textboxes. If you need to change it 10 or 11 is usually your go to.

Wider watermarks: This is for the more artistic after the full Saga experience. On normal watermarks, this will allow them to spill over the bookmark, but allows you to use a custom watermark that is the proper size. Included in the style folder is "watermark_mask.png", this is your aspect ratio and also your layer mask.

Well What Do I Do With It?
Download and unzip the file and find the three folders inside. Move those three to your MSE/data/ folder. It includes an update to card_fields to help us out with the next problem...


How Do I Export This?
For those of you exporting Sagas to Cockatrice, Lackey, Planesculptors or w/e, Sagas throw a bit of a wrench in the code. I've worked my magic to make it as smooth as possible though. There is a new field, card.special_text, that is normally blank, but will write out the combined text for Sagas (and possibly walkers in a coming update). Anywhere where you would use card.text, you'll want the following instead.

(if card.special_text != "" then card.special_text else card.text)
card.special_text retains all the tags from card.text, so whatever you're doing there will be fine.
special text:
<i-auto>(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)</i-auto>
<kw-A><nospellcheck>Extort</nospellcheck><atom-reminder-expert> <i-auto>(Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay <sym>W/B</sym>. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)</i-auto></atom-reminder-expert></kw-A>
I, II — Create a 1/1 black Rogue creature token with <kw-a><nospellcheck>lifelink</nospellcheck></kw-a>.
III — Each opponent loses life equal to the number of tokens you control. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.