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Post by shirrawhitefur on Oct 6, 2019 2:29:03 GMT
Greetings folks! I -really- love MSE, and I've been trying to make it 'perfect' for our testing of deck ideas at the table. Primarily, it's so we don't have to shift cards from existing decks to the testing decks, so we can have a quick go of things. And we like to have all our text there, so we can easily play, rather than having to look things up. And since we're used to cards looking like.. yanno, cards, not shorthand notecards, and we've got a laserprinter (so no colors), so I've been working on making simple, black and white, no-art options. And while I got -somewhere- with it, I can't really get a hang for the templating language. So I tried to edit existing ones to make things work, and.. teeechnically, I succeeded? Regardless, I'm hoping someone would be willing to help me get it 'right'. If not, no worries. Either way, MSE's a bloody sanity saver. Since I -couldn't- get the hang of the language, I instead did what I could via replacing images in the "Modern Style - After 8th Edition" template.
As it is, I've got a picture of the results, and a mockup of what I'm aiming for.
I mainly want to..
Remove the color identity marker (which I should be able to do) Get the color 'identity' onto the card 'art' spot, probably done in hollow lettering. (We may make use of colored pencils on things that get complicated, heh.) I -think- I can manage to make that happen, though if need be, I can just manually add each of the identity card arts. This is less of a need than a want. Example piece is set up to handle the font spacing on a three color card, just as a for reference. I'm also debating if I want to use the blending trick, and just put each of the colors in it's own position of the art-box, so no matter the colors, it may be nice and easy to set up.
And I need to probably clean up the template itself a bit more. It's using a scaled up version of the see-through template meant for full-art cards.
And the ones I need that I can't do successfully.
Remove the rarity marker Remove the card numbering And it'd be nice to get the various things properly centered for better formatting.
I'd love some help, but if not, as noted, I'm still happy to have what I've gotten!
In any case, thanks for the time! - Shirra
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Post by Daij_Djan on Oct 6, 2019 21:54:26 GMT
I can't really help you much as I know literally nothing about templating, but.. By default MSE uses a square for its rarity symbol - by merely removing this there is no visible rarity marker left even without removing it from the template itself. Maybe this woud be sort of a workaround? Also there already is a playtest template out there (should be one of the last templates within your list), did you take a look at that one already? |
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Post by arthurxiv on Oct 7, 2019 7:39:18 GMT
In fact, you probably don't need any editing skill for those three points you mention. As Daij_Djan said, you can simply go to the Set Info tab, click Edit on the Symbol line, just delete the square and click Store Symbol in Set. For the numbering, just choose No for the Automatic card numbering. For the centering, quit the Set Info tab to go to the Style tab and choose Center text. The color identity should automatically disappear as soon as you untick each color on it. For the card art region, you can probably desing the pictures by yourself with an image editor and then add them into the card, just pretend that it's art.  |
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Post by amuzet on Oct 12, 2019 3:43:32 GMT
Using version 2014-02-22 as a reference, it hasn't been updated since then. I'm looking at the color indicator code for "Modern Style - After 8th Edition" If you are willing to edit this template, which might mess up other Modern style templates {(not sure)}
I could only find Modern Russian being any kind of funky, but i don't know if that was me editing it or if it was always that funky(not sure) you can move the Color Indicator into the art area and have the typeline be centered
Full Original Code:lines 255-270 ############################# Card type
indicator:
left: 34
top: 299
width: 17
height: 17
z index: 2
render style: image
visible: { has_identity() }
image: { card_identity() }
type:
left: { if has_identity() then "55" else "35" }
top : 298
width: { (if has_identity() then "288" else "308") - max(22,card_style.rarity.content_width) }
height: 20
alignment: top shrink-overflow
Specific Changes: ############################# Card type
indicator:
left: 34
top: 299
width: 17
height: 17You can mess around with the specific values of the indicator to put it where ever you want on the art area and how much color ink you want to to use. I don't know of a way to have the color identity plastered in text on the art area. If you are fully updated maybe you could take one of the unused fields like a dfcTextBox and force it to have the default text card_identity()Other wise the type line is pretty simple! Just force it to be the full set length of the type line and make sure you have a blank set symbol in your MSE Set. type:
left: 35
top : 298
width: 308
height: 20
alignment: middle centerWhen editing these values you can have MSE Open at the same time and change the number then reload MSE using Ctrl+F5 |
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