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Old October 13th, 2017, 06:32 PM
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Re: MSE - Easy Army Card Creator (V2.5) (New Glyph Cards)

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Anyone wanna help an Old Fart figure out how to use this? I am stuck trying to Export the patch to Magic Set Editor 2. I frankly, don't have the know how on how to do this. I'd love to be able to do use this program, but just getting to the point that it shows the Heroscape card would be nice! Please help! Both files are downloaded to my computer, just need to figure out how to get the templates into the MSE.
I'll give it a shot. You've downloaded the files. Have you run the install program? If so, you should have a folder called Magic Set Editor 2 where you told the program to install. Inside this folder you should see the program, mse.exe, and at least one folder titled data (there will be some other files, too). This is the folder the program will look in to get the style files, card backs, etc to build your cards. Once you extract the files from the patch, you should see several folders named something like this: heroscape-basicrotv.mse-style. Copy all these folders into the data folder. When you start the program, and select New set, you should now see several options to choose from.
:not worthy: Thank you sooooo much! That worked great! One other question, how do I change the panel color?

EDIT: Nevermind me, I found it when I sent it to Print preview. Very easy to use!

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Old October 13th, 2017, 09:18 PM
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Re: MSE - Easy Army Card Creator (V2.5) (New Glyph Cards)

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Anyone wanna help an Old Fart figure out how to use this? I am stuck trying to Export the patch to Magic Set Editor 2. I frankly, don't have the know how on how to do this. I'd love to be able to do use this program, but just getting to the point that it shows the Heroscape card would be nice! Please help! Both files are downloaded to my computer, just need to figure out how to get the templates into the MSE.
I'll give it a shot. You've downloaded the files. Have you run the install program? If so, you should have a folder called Magic Set Editor 2 where you told the program to install. Inside this folder you should see the program, mse.exe, and at least one folder titled data (there will be some other files, too). This is the folder the program will look in to get the style files, card backs, etc to build your cards. Once you extract the files from the patch, you should see several folders named something like this: heroscape-basicrotv.mse-style. Copy all these folders into the data folder. When you start the program, and select New set, you should now see several options to choose from.
:not worthy: Thank you sooooo much! That worked great! One other question, how do I change the panel color?

EDIT: Nevermind me, I found it when I sent it to Print preview. Very easy to use!
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Old October 13th, 2017, 09:56 PM
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Re: MSE - Easy Army Card Creator (V2.5) (New Glyph Cards)

So far, so good!

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Old October 22nd, 2017, 11:20 AM
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Re: MSE - Easy Army Card Creator (V2.5) (New Glyph Cards)

I have a question that isn’t MSE related directly, but maybe MSE users can help me out.

What method of saving the file/printing seems to result in a better quality print? Right now I just save them as .jpg directly from MSE, converting them to .pdf using GIMP (after setting the print size) and then printing the PDFs. Is there a better way? The quality is good now, but I’m jut curious if maybe saving them to PNG or something makes a difference.
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Old October 22nd, 2017, 02:36 PM
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Re: MSE - Easy Army Card Creator (V2.5) (New Glyph Cards)

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I have a question that isn’t MSE related directly, but maybe MSE users can help me out.

What method of saving the file/printing seems to result in a better quality print? Right now I just save them as .jpg directly from MSE, converting them to .pdf using GIMP (after setting the print size) and then printing the PDFs. Is there a better way? The quality is good now, but I’m jut curious if maybe saving them to PNG or something makes a difference.
I save my initial cards in jpg format. It doesn't have the best resolution, but it takes up less space. I save my final cards in png format. I can get a better resolution and make the area outside of the card transparent at the cost of a larger file size.


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

Hmm, okay. I’ll have to play around with things. Thanks!
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Re: MSE - Easy Army Card Creator (V2.5) (New Glyph Cards)

I save them at .png format too.

Also I noticed that a lot of open/save/close in MSE can lower the quality of the images (the image zone on the army cards). I suppose they are stored with a small compression. I noticed it with my main Asset. It included the 300+ army cards (officials + VC) that I translated in French. Thus a file that I probably opened/closed 100+ times. I noticed the loss of quality on the first cards created on the asset (master set 1 ^^).

The best configuration would be to update the army card image just before saving. Then save as .PNG, then direct printing. To be sure about the printing size, convert to .PDF being sure to get no image compression (Photoshop has this option to lower to 200 ppi all the images above this resolution when you generate a pdf for example).
Of course with such method you also get probably the highest file size.
I personally have the storage space so I don't matter. ^^


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

Might have to start saving them as PNG then. I wonder how big of a difference it really makes.
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Re: MSE - Easy Army Card Creator (V2.5) (New Glyph Cards)

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Might have to start saving them as PNG then. I wonder how big of a difference it really makes.
The biggest difference I would think would be the cards with lots of text. Smaller font sizes end up easier to read when coming from PNG than from JPG.

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

The transparent background possible with PNGs can let you squeeze a 3rd card on an 8.5x11 piece of paper.


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

That’s true. I also found that the SOTM style card has more space for text and better readability.
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Re: MSE - Easy Army Card Creator (V2.5) (New Glyph Cards)

For readability and text space, I prefer Dungeon High resolution style. The better resolution helps a lot to read the text. And with the original layout (it is not really optimized and changing the layout mask you can add even more text !) it has almost the same space for the special power text than SotM style.

A huge difference from .PNG and .JPG is that the first one is loss-less. With the second one, if you open the image out-of-MSE for some editing and save it again, you will lose some quality (generally, default settings lose around 5-10% of the information : it's a 90% compression). And each time you do this you will lose some quality again. You can easily experiment this with paint and a simple image (bicolor at least), and save/open it 4-5 times.


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