Making your own power cards

[eloquentaction]

Originally Posted by kingworks

Thanks.

I can copy and paste the icons used within the set, and when I use the M:TG template to create item cards, it has a space marked "Double click to add photo."

That's as far as I've gotten, myself.

There's a couple of different ways you could add those into the UCS.

First, convert them to PNG's and them into the data\4E-UCS-cameos.mse-include directory by changing the User1 through User10 PNGs that are in there. You could then just go to one of the cards, click on the edge (a huge drop down will appear) and select User1 through User10 and the background image of the card will become your icon.

For best effects, you should make the white area transparent and you should resize the image to be 375x420.

Another way to do it, is to drop the image (once again as a PNG) into the data\4E-UCS-symbol-white.mse-include directory. Once again, the white area of the images will need to be transparent and you'll want to resize the images down to 73x73 for best effect. You'll want to make the 'visible' part white to match the other icons that are there. (just invert the colors if you're in GIMP).

Once you've done that, decide whether you want the new icon in the attack menu or in the action menu. Look in the data\4E-UCS-{Card Style}.mse-style directory and edit the file called 'style.'

Depending on who the author of the style you're using is, and their method of displaying icons, this will change. Based on my template, follow the following directions:

* Locate a field called 'action' or 'attack'. You'll see a long list of 'choice images'. Just go to the bottom of this list and add a new name - let's call it Test1. Based on that, you should type something like the following:

Test1: script: drop_shadow(input: "/4E-UCS-symbol-white.mse-include/{mynewimagename}.png", offset_x:0, offset_y:0, blur_radius: 0.1, alpha: 1, color: get_shadow_color())

* Next, go into the action-menu or attack-menu file under the data\4E-UCS-scripts.mse-include directory and just add a new entry onto the list there called 'choice: Test1.' *IMPORTANT - make sure the choice is exactly what you typed in the style file.

That's all there is to it!

-- Hirahito

[mps42]

if anyone is interested, these are the templates I've been using. Very much influenced by the Grandpa style. feel free to grab at-will (no pun intended).

Also, somewhere during all this power card business someone posted a fold-up box to keep them in but i'll be darned if I can find it now...

[Mercutio01]

Originally Posted by mps42

if anyone is interested, these are the templates I've been using. Very much influenced by the Grandpa style. feel free to grab at-will (no pun intended).

Also, somewhere during all this power card business someone posted a fold-up box to keep them in but i'll be darned if I can find it now...

Hi, yes the box was me. You can download it from mediafire.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4mumin...werCardBox.pdf

[kingworks]

@ eloquentaction / Hirahito

Thank you! I finally got it to work. Here's a quick set I did with the Rituals my PC's have:



If any one is interested in adding the icons to your MSE template, here are the .png's I used (Note: I created these based around Ander's template):

http://www.mediafire.com/file/me5ymnwlzmn/ritual symbols.zip

[Apocrypha]

Nice. Thanks for the symbols. Going to make some ritual cards for my own PC.

[Thindaraiel]

I have updated the Thindaraiel Template (based on Ander's) for UCS. You can find the main information thread on toosigma forum which is UCS main home, at this address : toosigma.com • View topic - Thindaraiel template, version 4.6

This version of the template implements the ritual icons proposed by Kingworks.

[Thiorn]

soo .. i honestly don't have the time right now to dig through 98 pages of replies to see if this has already been asked so here goes:

i was experimenting with the "export to image" function of MSE2 to get image files to the power cards wit the following name format:

<level of power> - <card type> - <name>.jpg

where <card type> refers to at-will, encounter or daily powers

but i don't seem to be able to find the right expression for the <type> part ... if i put{card.type} in the dialogue, it gives me the the power type (attack, utility etc.)

anyone care to help out ? :-)

[shieldknight01]

I like having the power cards separated into different sets based on class, feats, racial, etc...
Originally I just took a set that was already done and copied and pasted into a new file. However, as the sets get more symbols and updates, I am finding that they don't copy anymore. For example, I can't copy the new Fighter powers from a Martial Power set into the Fighter set I developed using an original Players Handbook set. Is there any way around this? Is it possible to cut and past info so that I don't have to retype the powercards into the set I like?

Thanks,

[hardwire]

Will someone with the most updated Power Cards please email me their set? I have been using Ander00's set, but it seems I have been out of touch for awhile and now I am behind.

I only have Ander00's latest set from his original post, but that doesn't include PH2. I'm on the road most of the time and I like what everyone is doing. I just need caught up.

Please send email to hardwire@usa.com

Thanks,
Hard Wire

[bagger245]

Yes, as well as the latest grandpa cards...

[Thindaraiel]

Originally Posted by shieldknight01

Originally I just took a set that was already done and copied and pasted into a new file. However, as the sets get more symbols and updates, I am finding that they don't copy anymore.

This occurs because the set you copy from and the one you copy into are not based on the same game file. For instance, a Tintagel template and an Ander template share only some informations, but are not fully compatible because they have each their own game file, with their own fields.

That is one of the reason we worked on the UCS model. This is an unique game file, with several templates based on it. The compatibility between the templates is ensured by the common game file. Copying from one set to another, both based on the UCS, even with different templates, is possible.

[Duniagdra]

I'm really not sure what's wrong here, but for the very longest time I've been having trouble getting anything to work. I've loaded MSE 2v3.8. I downloaded Media:UCS-Complete-Beta3.mse-set and loaded it into the data folder. I downloaded Hirahito-Modified and loaded that into the data folder. I downloaded Universal Card Set and loaded that into the data folder. I opened MSE and went to the styles and there is only the default set and that will not export anything but the default opening image, no matter how many cards I select. Before any changes I was able to open MSE and use Ander's set. Now I get nothing. Can someone please help? I'm looking for power card that are current and complete and was hoping the development of the UCS would give me this. I'm running Windows Vista.

[Mercutio01]

Originally Posted by Thindaraiel

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I just wanted to note that I think it's AWESOME that someone else uses the damage icons I spent a lot of time creating. I really thought they were just languishing in the limbo that is my own home card template.

[xerent]

I've been trying to make my own template for power cards while I was at work, I figured I would post them here and see if people were at all interested



They're magic card sized, so they'll be able to fit into sleeves.

[Khaalis]

Could someone with the latest Anders set drop me a private message / email?

[Timba]

xerent
These cards are fantastic! Would you share the template?

[Duniagdra]

Originally Posted by Duniagdra

I'm really not sure what's wrong here, but for the very longest time I've been having trouble getting anything to work. I've loaded MSE 2v3.8. I downloaded Media:UCS-Complete-Beta3.mse-set and loaded it into the data folder. I downloaded Hirahito-Modified and loaded that into the data folder. I downloaded Universal Card Set and loaded that into the data folder. I opened MSE and went to the styles and there is only the default set and that will not export anything but the default opening image, no matter how many cards I select. Before any changes I was able to open MSE and use Ander's set. Now I get nothing. Can someone please help? I'm looking for power card that are current and complete and was hoping the development of the UCS would give me this. I'm running Windows Vista.

Anyone with any suggestions here?

[sora7548]

grandpa your cards are real super cool

[Highland Raider]

Originally Posted by Duniagdra

I'm really not sure what's wrong here, but for the very longest time I've been having trouble getting anything to work. I've loaded MSE 2v3.8. I downloaded Media:UCS-Complete-Beta3.mse-set and loaded it into the data folder. I downloaded Hirahito-Modified and loaded that into the data folder. I downloaded Universal Card Set and loaded that into the data folder. I opened MSE and went to the styles and there is only the default set and that will not export anything but the default opening image, no matter how many cards I select. Before any changes I was able to open MSE and use Ander's set. Now I get nothing. Can someone please help? I'm looking for power card that are current and complete and was hoping the development of the UCS would give me this. I'm running Windows Vista.

Go into Program Files -> Magic Set Editor 2 -> Data -> then look for another Data folder. That's likely where those files wound up. I had a similar problem and went through figuring out where the files had dumped themselves after unzipping then had to cut all the files in the second Data folder and move them back out to the first data folder. Does this make sense?

What you probably have is this Program Files>Magic Set Editor 2>Data>Data with the files and folders you need in this second folder. Just cut-n-paste everything from there back out to the first folder so the path is this:

Program Files>Magic Set Editor 2>Data with all of your needed folders and files here. Then delete that spare data folder.

Hope that helps.

[Henrix]

Originally Posted by Khaalis

Could someone with the latest Anders set drop me a private message / email?

I'd like to ask the same, please.

I've got a DDI subscription, but I much prefer the Ander0 cards.