Hey xarn,
Thanks, I agree, we need something to create and list cards.
I first started looking at cardscape, but could only get the cardscape legacy up and running,
and it didn't have the card creation part.
xarn wrote:
As a humble tester, I'm pleased to see it, and have lots of suggestions out of the bat!
But these are only improvement suggestions, it's already very nice to have such a tool at all.
Any suggestion is welcome
xarn wrote:
- make it available on github, so it's easier for us to contribute!
That's the plan, I'll make it available on github.
xarn wrote:
- make a gallery as overview!
That could be done, currently the focus is on functional stuff.
xarn wrote:
- an auto-preview triggered on every change!
The tool used to generate the png file on save, and that's costly.
I tried Inkscape, Rsvg (both using cairo as renderer) and a .Net svg renderer.
On a headless vm with no gpu, it's really really slow. (they render it single threaded, with no hardware acceleration). So the tool can still generate the png's, but it is disabled for now.
Instead it only changes the svg (overlay) and the full blown downloadable svg, which is fast.
xarn wrote:
- only show fields which are relevant (i.e. Attack/Defense only if it's a creature, etc.)
Yep that's possible, each type has a corresponding template info, and there it's set what should be drawn on the card. So that could be used to hide non relevant stuff
xarn wrote:
- could we use a "\n" to make two line instead of filling name line 1&2?
I taught about it, but I didn't want a different breaking mechanism as the layout text.
maybe I should foresee <br/>.
xarn wrote:
- I don't know if "loyalty" is planned to be kept, but that's another discussion
Yep, I'm currently rethinking the mutlifaction/multicurrency problem, and it could have its use there. (showing some marks on the card)
xarn wrote:
- I'd rename "type name" into "subtypes", otherwise it's confusing with "Type"
Agreed.
xarn wrote:
- since "rule text" and "flavor text" aren't used, I'd only leave "layout text" and rename it into "description"
I'd prefer to keep them separated.
- The Rule text is 'the official' ruling, and could be text search-able in the db.
- The Flavor text is just something optional
- The Layout Text is for lay-outing purposes, and is actually not part of the card's info.
It's input for the card generation, and should be considered as such.
xarn wrote:
- I'd remove info and place the artist's name there, or a standard text
Yes I also feel that the artist's name should be on the card. Actually I'd also like the 'sponsor/creator'
on the card. "Art by Kitty, sponsored by Snowdrop". For now we can place anything there.
xarn wrote:
- would it be possible to use markdown as layout text instead?
I'm not familiar with markdown, as long as I can parse it easily that could be done.
xarn wrote:
- rename "Login out" into "logout"
Oh, no I want you to "login out"
Kind regards