MSE - Easy Army Card Creator (V2.5) (New Glyph Cards)

[Buck]

Can we get Valkrill anytime soon, though?

Ok, all at once now... VALKRILL VALKRILL VALKRILL VALKRILL!

[dok]

I think I'm done tweaking the style file, so here is my version:

mse version: 0.3.8
game: heroscape
short name: H - DS
full name: Dungeon Set Styles (Hi-Res)
icon: card-sample.png
installer group: heroscape/HDS
position hint: 13

version: 2010-9-17
depends on: heroscape.mse-game 2010-9-17
depends on: heroscape-marvelsymbols.mse-symbol-font 2008-07-29

card background: white
card width: 1474
card height: 1384
card dpi: 300

styling field:
    type: boolean
    name: fog image
    description: Automatically add fog effect to card image?
    initial: yes

init script:
    
    caps := "yes"
    
    colorcheck := {
        if to_lower(input) = "jandar" then rgb(70,70,70)
        else if to_lower(input) = "valkrill" then rgb(40,40,40)
        else rgb(255,255,255)
    }
    abilheight := {
        if card.marvelsym = "" then 940
        else 860
    }

include file: /heroscape.mse-game/styleinclude


card style:
    
    disclaimer:
        left: 10
        top: 980
        width: 140
        height: 240
        z index: 4   
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            size: 14
            color: rgb(0,0,0)

    author text:
        left: 1300
        top: 980
        width: 140
        height: 240
        z index: 4
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            size: 14
            color: rgb(0,0,0)

    card type:
        left:    0
        top:    0
        width:    1474
        height:    1384
        z index: -4
        render style: image
        popup style: in place
        choice images:
            jandar:        cardblanks/jandar.jpg
            ullar:        cardblanks/ullar.jpg
            utgar:        cardblanks/utgar.jpg
            einar:        cardblanks/einar.jpg
            vydar:        cardblanks/vydar.jpg
            aquilla:    cardblanks/aquilla.jpg
            ## valkrill:    cardblanks/valkrill.jpg
            custom:    cardblanks/custom.jpg

    image:
        left:    {if styling.fog_image = "no" then 705 else -1000}
        top:    48
        width:    478
        height:    1031
        z index: 2
        mask: imagemask.png

    imagefogged:
        left:    {if styling.fog_image = "yes" then 705 else -1000}
        top:    48
        width:    478
        height:    1031
        z index: 2
        mask: imagemask_fogged.png

    hitzone:
        left:    1185
        top:    456
        width:    253
        height:    477
        z index: 4
        mask: hzmask.png

    ########################################################### Ability Text

    abilities:
        left: 324
        top: 339
        width: 414
        height:
            script: abilheight()
        z index: 6
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            size: 24
            color: black
            scale down to: 12
        line height soft: 0.96
        mask: textmask.png

    #####LARGECOMMON

    generallogo:
        left: 427
        top: 87
        width: 102
        height: 118
        render style: image
        popup style: in place
        choice images:
            blank: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/hex.png
            jandar: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/jandar.png
            utgar: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/utgar.png
            vydar: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/vydar.png
            ullar: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/ullar.png
            einar: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/einar.png
            aquilla: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/aquilla.png
            valkrill: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/valkrill.png
            custom1: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/custom1.png
            custom2: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/custom2.png
            custom3: /heroscape.mse-game/gensymbols/custom3.png
            symbolcustom1: script: symbol_variation(symbol: set.symbol1, variation: "standard")
            symbolcustom2: script: symbol_variation(symbol: set.symbol2, variation: "standard")
            symbolcustom3: script: symbol_variation(symbol: set.symbol3, variation: "standard")

    name:
        left: 316
        top : 214
        width: 312
        height: 70
        alignment: middle center
        padding bottom: 0
        z index: 2
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            weight: bold
            size: 30
            color: rgb(255,255,255)
        line height soft: 0.9

    ###### LARGEMASTER

    general:
        left: 389
        top: 297
        width: 182
        height: 34
        alignment: middle center shrink-overflow
        z index: 2
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            weight: bold
            size: 20
            color: rgb(255,255,255)

    species:
        left: 159
        top : 559
        width: 125
        height: 30
        alignment: middle right shrink-overflow
        z index: 4
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            size: 22
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)
            separator color: rgb(128,128,128)

    type:
        left: 89
        top: 610
        width: 195
        height: 30
        alignment: middle right shrink-overflow
        z index: 4
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            size: 22
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)
            separator color: rgb(128,128,128)

    class:
        left: 54
        top: 660
        width: 230
        height: 30
        alignment: middle right shrink-overflow
        z index: 4
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            size: 22
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)
            separator color: rgb(128,128,128)

    personality:
        left: 54
        top: 712
        width: 230
        height: 28
        alignment: middle right shrink-overflow
        z index: 4
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            size: 22
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)
            separator color: rgb(128,128,128)

    size:
        left: 106
        top: 758
        width: {177 - card_style.marvel_size_number.content_width}
        height: 60
        alignment: right shrink-overflow
        z index: 4
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            size: 30
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)
            separator color: rgb(128,128,128)
    
    marvel size number:
        left: 205
        top: 756
        width: 80
        height: 60
        alignment: right shrink-overflow
        z index: 6
        font:
            name: Arial Narrow
            size: 30
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)
            separator color: rgb(128,128,128)

    life:
        left: 920
        top: 675
        width: 78
        height: 54
        alignment: top center shrink-overflow
        z index: 6
        font:
            name: Arial
            size: 40
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)

    move:
        left: 1020
        top: 781
        width: 106
        height: 60
        alignment: top center shrink-overflow
        z index: 6
        font:
            name: Arial
            size: 36
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)

    range:
        left: 1020
        top: 878
        width: 106
        height: 60
        alignment: top center shrink-overflow
        z index: 6
        font:
            name: Arial
            size: 36
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)

    attack:
        left: 1020
        top: 975
        width: 106
        height: 60
        alignment: top center shrink-overflow
        z index: 6
        font:
            name: Arial
            size: 36
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)

    defense:
        left: 1020
        top: 1072
        width: 106
        height: 60
        alignment: top center shrink-overflow
        z index: 6
        font:
            name: Arial
            size: 36
            weight: bold
            color: rgb(255,255,255)

    points:
        left: 886
        top: 1164
        width: 136
        height: 54
        alignment: top center shrink-overflow
        z index: 6
        font:
            name: Arial
            size: 36
            weight: bold
            color:
                script: colorcheck( card.card_type )

    ########################################################### Abilities

    marvelsym:
        left: 384
        top: 1202
        width: 152
        height: 90
        z index: 6
        alignment: middle center
        symbol font:
            name: heroscape-marvelsymbols
            size: 120
            alignment: middle center

I widened the text box for powers and slightly shifted around the position of a few other bits of text. Nothing too dramatic.

I've reached the point where I'm willing to tweak the top/left/width parameters on the "abilities" box differently for every card I put out. This is about the biggest you can make it and have it still look right.

[MagickMan65]

Sadly, still getting errors downloading the Shieldbreaker/Toolkit files. Not sure what the error is there (think it's on Mediafire's end), but the Marvel set worked fine!

Thanks for all the great work!!!

Magickman

[bmaczero]

One more request, is there any way you could add an option to add a CHCG24 logo to a card?

Just released version 2.4, and it's all for you .

Well, I also slashed the filesizes a LOT by converting all the card blanks to high-quality JPG .

[Margloth]

Whenever I use MSE to create Marvel Cards, the default stat font is too big, so on the defense tab the word "defense" and the inputted value overlap. I can't find a way to reduce the font... I'm assuming there is one.

Am I just an idiot? Help the dummy please! Thanks!

[bmaczero]

I recall someone else reporting that before. Can you provide a screenshot? It looks like this to me:

[Margloth]

Originally Posted by bmaczero

I recall someone else reporting that before. Can you provide a screenshot? It looks like this to me:

I'm a little forum stupid to provide screenshots, but in my signature you'll find a link to my customs page, where you'll be able to see the problem.

Thanks for the help and your patience and hard work here!

[bmaczero]

Yeah, it looks like your computer is using Arial instead of Arial Narrow. I have no idea why, but you can work around it if you can modify the files a bit:

Find Magic Set Editor 2/data/heroscape-marvel.mse-style/style and open it in Notepad. Press Ctrl-F and look for "move st" (no quotes). Find the line under that that says font: and change the size: value to 19. Do the same for the other three that appear right under it. That will make the text not overlap at least.

[Filthy the Clown]

Originally Posted by dok

I did some testing with this, as well as with doubling the numbers in the style files.

Long story short - there's nothing about MSE that prevents you from outputing extremely high-res cards. The problem is only a problem of display. It's entirely possible to create a separate style called "dungeon set highres export", so that you can do all your editing of the card in the normal style.

Editing the cards in the highres version is extremely cumbersome, because MSE does not resize the card images. As such, unless your monitor (or virtual monitor bank) supports resolutions in the 2000x1500 range, you're not going to be able to easily edit a highres card. I can do it by switching my monitor to portrait mode, but it's a pain.

That said, again, you can simply edit the card using another style, and swap over to the highres style for export.

The only outstanding issue is that Mooseman included the general symbols and names on the card directly, which is different than how it's normally handled in MSE. I like having the symbols applied by MSE, so I might de-symbol Mossman's cards.

I'm still tweaking the highres style file to my satisfaction; when I get something that I like I'll post it here.

An easy fix for editing high-res cards, in regards to being able to see the text on the lower-half of the card as you type: in MSE, go to CARDS>ORIENTATION, and change the card orientation. This is a fairly 'low-tech' fix, if you don't have a portrait-mode-enabled display on your monitor or stuck with a lower resolution.

[Killz]

Nice update! Very swell!

[Sertorius]

Hello guys. My first post. Ahem.

I have been using MSE for a while, but have been annoyed by the text in the ability box being too small (space at the bottom and I can't make the font larger). I tried dok's ability box fix (copied the code text into a .txt, renamed it w/o extension, replaced the file, etc). When I tried to switch to Dungeon Set, the card image became blank with the various editing fields floating above a white background. Same thing happened when I installed the high-res template. None of the colored images show up...just a white expanse of emptiness with the editing fields in the foreground. Any ideas? I have all the latest MSE templates from the original post and the only "expansion" I have is the high-res template.

[Typhon2222]

Hey, great first post, Sertorius. Welcome to the boards!

(He's actually a good friend, and my main Heroscape gaming buddy. I've been prodding him to join the site for months now!) <pokey pokey>

Yes, any help with the MSE problems he describes would be greatly appreciated by both of us. (We recently decided to start making custom units together, but he's the one doing all the work with MSE.)