Title: magic workstation - some card pics not working? help?

Date Posted: Sun Oct/24/10 at 8:32am

MorbidAnimosity

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i've been getting downloading the full scan pictures for using in magic workstation,
ive noticed some cards dont get the pictures from the file.

vexing shusher for example (i need it in a R/G deck im making...)
the picture wont show up, even though i have it in my folder for shadowmoor with the proper filename and everything...

Date Posted: Sun Oct/24/10 at 10:04am

Turbine

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I don't have any pictures. How did you even get them?

Date Posted: Wed Oct/27/10 at 4:31am

shakii23

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you just need to download the full art and put it on a folder and name it right... or you can just download the whole package full of mtg pics...

Date Posted: Wed Oct/27/10 at 4:35am

shakii23

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and the image problem, the only things i know that might cause that are:
1. filename and database entry doesn't match
2. wrong image folder
3. i'm not sure about this one but maybe the image size/canvass size..

Date Posted: Wed Oct/27/10 at 4:41am

shakii23

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#

HOW TO USE PICTURES IN MWS FAQ:
PUT PICTURES IN THE DEFAULT DIRECTORY FOR NOW.

* A "Cropped Scan" is a jpeg of the artwork only. MWS seamlessly produces the rest of the card.
* A "Full Scan" is a jpeg of the whole card, including the border, artwork, text, symbols, etc. Different players prefer different versions for different reasons.

MWS Picture Naming rules:

1. Cards that aren't named according to the following rules are ignored by MWS.
2. If you misname an Edition directory, none of the pictures for that edition will work.
3. There have been at least four different numbered and named picture formats on the internet. You must have a named picture set for MWS, numbered pics don't work. Your pictures should read "Forest1.jpg", not "103382.jpg".
4. CROPPED PICTURES MUST END WITH ".JPG", as in "Abyssal Specter.jpg".
5. FULL PICTURES MUST END WITH ".FULL.JPG", as in "Abyssal Specter.full.jpg". You can put full and cropped versions of the same edition into the same directory. To be safe, start with just one or the other, or keep them separate.

More rules:

7. A properly named card will substitute itself for improperly named cards. So you might have four lands in a set, but if only one is named properly, all four will show the art of the one properly named picture. In play mode, you only get one picture for each type of card. Nothing is broken, this is for strategy purposes to make it more difficult for your opponent to use art to memorize and predict your cards.
8. You can have either one space between each word or none. They can't be mixed.
9. "Card1" will be chosen before "Card 1", so, cards with no spaces are used first.
10. Spaces within words are NOT OK, so forget using "M e rfo lk of the Pe a rl Tri dent".
11. Spaces between words are optional, but must be consistent. "Merfolk of the Pearl Trident" is OK. So is "MerfolkofthePearlTrident", but not "Merfolkof the PearlTrident".
12. Case is ignored, so "PEARL" is the same as "pearl" or "Pearl" or PeArL. "8E" is the same as "8e".

Even More Rules, Making Tokens Work:

madbomber said:
Still a bit confused though, some of the files are named goblin.full.jpg while there are also goblin1.full.jpg. If I create a token called goblin I don't see the correct image. This is specifically the image I like the best.

Eldric IV replied:
The key is the numbers. Let us say you have two pictures in TK. One is Goblin.full.jpg and the other is Goblin1.full.jpg. MWS shows token pictures based on the token's power and name. Goblin1.full.jpg will show up for any Goblin token with power 1 (and Beast4.full.jpg will show up for every Beast token with power 4, whether it is 4/1, 4/2, 4/3, 4/4, etc). For all other Goblin tokens, MWS uses the generic picture Goblin.full.jpg (and would use Beast.full.jpg for all other Beast tokens, like a 3/3, 5/5, or 1/1). Finally, MWS only matches the token's power and the number if there are no spaces. Goblin1.full.jpg shows up for all 1/X Goblin tokens. But if you change the picture to Goblin 1.full.jpg, it will only show up for tokens named Goblin 1. That is how I use multiple pictures for my tokens. If I want to put out three different pictures, then I make three different tokens: Beast, Beast 1, and Beast 2. Even though all three are 4/4 tokens, they have different pictures because of the names.

COMMON PICTURE PROBLEMS:

* If you have installed a Third Party Flavor Base, you will find a few cards that don't display, like the flip cards in Champions of Kamigawa. The reason for this is that the flavor base will not always use MWS naming conventions. Where MWS uses "Bushi Tenderfoot--Kenzo the Hardhearted", the flavor base may use only "Bushi Tenderfoot". In this case, rename your pics to match your database listing
* Once I had a problem, where I could see everything but lands. Cropped and Full scans both had the same problem.
Cause: Lands in some Magic Suitcase picture sets are named something like "Forest368, Forest369", while the MWS Card list Display shows "Forest[1], Forest[2]".
Solution: Rename jpg's to "Forest1, Forest2". All lands will then be displayed.

PICTURE INSTALLATION: The default pics directory is "C:\Program Files\Magic Workstation\pics", but don't be confused; Pictures do not go here... Directories full of pictures go here. Each Directory is named for a set.
Below, Where picture directories are placed
Image:MWS_Pics_Directory_50.jpg
Above, the Pics directory contains picture directories

1. CHOOSE YOUR PICS. Pick a set you want to test with, and whether it will cropped or full. From Windows, create a directory for your set. For example, "C:\Program Files\Magic Workstation\pics\8E".
To make testing easier, you can limit the number of sets you have to look at by using the card filter: click on the "Complex Card Filter" icon (to the right of the magnifying glass, it looks kind of like a pen and paper); or, right click in the card list, and uncheck all sets except your chosen one.
2. COPY YOUR PICS. Copy pictures into the "pics" SUBdirectory you have created. Each set should go into its own subdirectory. The subdirectory must be named appropriately (i.e. 8E, CH), so as to match the set listing from within MWS (not all sets are 2 spaces, i.e., Beta is not "BE", just "B". Champions of Kamigawa is CHK. GoblinHero's Ninth Edition is 9ED).
So, using a cropped scan, I now have "Abyssal Specter.jpg" in "C:\Program Files\Magic Workstation\pics\8E".
3. CHECK YOUR PICS. This should give you pictures for the cards you copied. Run MWS. If you click on the 8E version of Abyssal Specter, you should see a picture.
If some pictures don't display, remember: The name must match the card display name, and can't be a number. I keep mentioning this because there are so many numbered format pictures out there. If no pictures display, your directories are pointing to the wrong place or are misnamed (but not if you've followed these instructions, leaving all defaults.)

HOW PICTURES ARE DISPLAYED: By default, cropped pictures will be displayed first. By default, full scan pictures will be displayed only if a cropped equivalent is missing. (See F10\Image View\ "Only Art" and "Cropped Images First".)

Full scans and cropped scans for the same editon may be copied into the same directory without incident, then you can switch between them at will.

If you have selected full scans to display first, then a cropped scan will display if the full scan is missing. If you have selected cropped scans to display first, then a full scan will display if the cropped scan is missing.

You can rename a .jpg (cropped) to .full.jpg. In this case you will get stretched looking artwork filling in the whole card frame, and only artwork.

If you rename a .full.jpg (full scan) to .jpg, you will get a whole card squeezed into a regular card's artwork frame (which is more playable than the former, as MWS still displays the needed text). So the file extension tells MWS how to display the card--you have to make sure the .jpg is appropriately named.

If a card isn't displaying, but you have the picture in the proper directory, ensure the jpeg name matches that listed in MWS. Then check the file extension. This is especially important for Flip cards. The pictures will often be named like "Bushi Tenderfoot--Kenzo the Hardhearted.jpg", but you should rename them to match the display within MWS, like "Bushi Tenderfoot.jpg". If you use pictures downloaded from MWSData and have installed the third party Flavor Base, you will need to rename a few cards because the naming conventions between the two are not exactly the same.

Pictures come in widely varying sizes. MWS will scale them automatically. To appreciate what MWS is doing in the background, browse your pictures with IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) and see how they go from large to small.
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Others
# Backgrounds and Avatars. From MWSData, you get a 20 Meg file with 20,000 backgrounds (http://www.mwsdata.com/download/backgrounds.zip), for the completist only. Other Backgrounds, and Avatars as well, are available for download elsewhere. These are then accessed from Game\Test Deck in Solo Mode. Then click Options\Preferences. The default directory for both is My Documents. Both take gif, jpg, bmp, and png files, 15 KB max. You can view, but not apply backgrounds and avatars until you register. I skip this step.
# OTHERS. Get other downloads Here (http://www.mwsdata.com/down.html), including Mana Gifs (contains mana and tap symbols, but I don't remember how to use them), and the Magic Font (used for proxy printing and display in F10\Grids, doesn't help much, is installed into Windows using normal Windows font installation procedure.) I skip this step.

Date Posted: Wed Oct/27/10 at 7:03pm

Turbine

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Can you explain it in an easier way. . .?

Date Posted: Wed Oct/27/10 at 10:32pm

gericault5

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Download pic files from here -- http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=445

copy it to here --- C:\Magic Workstation\Pics

clear enough??

Date Posted: Thu Oct/28/10 at 5:14am

Turbine

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I have trouble finding the directory, because I don't have a URL toolbar on it.