Let's Add Some Cards- M15
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Posted on June 27, 2014, 11:05 p.m. by GoldGhost012
I don't think there's been one off these threads yet , so I apologize if there is.
Basically, let's add the M15 cards. A good chunk have been spoiled, so if you're upgraded, let's get started.
I'll start: these cards are already in the database.
Note that you don't have to include images at first as long as you include the card data, but it will make it easier for us later.
Also tagging Dritz and tempest since I know they have experience in these uploading things.
Femme_Fatale says... #3
Fastest cropping tool is gyazo Matsi883. It is basically a screen capture program that allows any box size image to be taken. It also shows the dimensions of that image as you are taking it. Once you memorize the position of the initial click to start the box, it takes a few seconds to crop and download each image.
July 6, 2014 5:45 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #4
I should also mention that because this new site automatically reformats card sizes and positions, that you should open the picture in a new tab.This way there are no accidental alterations that the site does to the card.
Oh, I have all the black images saved and cropped and am now working on the whites.
July 6, 2014 6:25 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #5
Oh Matsi883, have you tried a crop of 12? 245 x 350? This is basically a crop with a one pixel black border all around. This was my original criteria before yeaGO changed the default overlay border for T/O.
July 6, 2014 7:04 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #6
I have finished cropping and downloading all the white cards. Once I'm finished with all of the cropping, I'll get straight to work on the cards in alphabetical order, getting ALL the information possible.
But damn, did they have to make the bottom lines any blurrier? I can see the card number ... but the artist is going to take a little finesse >.<
July 6, 2014 7:08 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #7
I've been having a terrible time reading the artist too. Most of the cards required some searching on other sites to find their artist. Or, I took a guess at the first or last name and did a search on the MTG Familiar app I have to see if I was right.
July 6, 2014 7:17 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #8
I generally just stick the artist into Gatherer to see if anything pops up. If nothing does it is either A) spelled wrong or B) a brand new artist.
July 6, 2014 7:21 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #9
Both Mythic Spoiler and Gathering Magic usually have the artist listed when you look at individual cards.
July 6, 2014 7:26 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #10
Huh, 40 minutes. So it takes me about 40 minutes to do all the cards of a single colour in a set. With that being said, I cropped and downloaded all the blue cards.
July 6, 2014 7:44 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #14
Calling yeaGO or Epochalyptik.
We need the Salamander Wizard creature subtype in order for Amphin Pathmage to be completed. I won't submit an entry for this just yet until this is confirmed completed.
July 6, 2014 11:30 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #17
Uh, GoldGhost012, sorry to say but your numbering is a little off. If you notice, you are missing some cards, I could figure this out by the fact that adding 269 to 383159 = 383428, two more than the number you have listed at the very bottom. Also, it isn't entirely alphabetical order as I noticed you accidentally put cards in their wrong spots.
So I won't be putting the wizards id in just yet, but I can say that I probably shouldn't in the first place as I can't guarantee that Wizards of the Coast will upload the cards to gatherer in alphabetical order. I noticed that in every set before Journey Into Nyx wasn't done alphabetically, and Born of the Gods was done collectors number order. So I can't guarantee this will work, so in order to prevent further mishaps, I'll leave the wizards id blank.
July 7, 2014 1:59 p.m.
My main job in the card database is usually wizard ids. Takes 30 seconds and nobody really knows what to put there.
July 7, 2014 2:03 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #20
Fixed the alphabetical problems (I think). Haven't a clue what I'm missing though. Still, for 1 o'clock in the morning, I think I did pretty well.
Still, this is why I can't try and do things.
July 7, 2014 2:16 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #21
I just noticed something ... Avarice Amulet is designed by Penny Arcade.
O.o
PENNY ARCADE!
July 7, 2014 2:43 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #22
BTW, AetherSpouts is spelled wrong and Xathrid Skyblade still exists. Apparently when you change the name you create a whole new card.
July 7, 2014 2:48 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #23
I put in a fix for Aetherspouts. Probably has yet to go through. We need someone else (calling on Epochalyptik again :D) to remove the duplicates.
Should also be mentioned that T/O doesn't like the AE symbol, which I just learned. So may have to re-add that one again.
July 7, 2014 2:51 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #24
I have another proposition for uploading images, which I will test out after seeing someone's improperly cut Scuttling Doom Engine be incredibly crisp. It is a jpeg, where as all my images I upload are png.
I shall try this out shortly.
July 7, 2014 3:14 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #25
Compile a list of cards I need to delete and tag me in it. (I don't read every post in this thread.)
Make sure the spellings of the to-be-deleted entries are exactly as they appear in the DB and on the front end.
July 7, 2014 3:18 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #26
I actually just have a question Epochalyptik, would it be better for the entry for AetherSpouts /Ætherspouts be the letters AE or the AE symbol? I noticed that the AE symbol does not directly register in chat. You'll have to insert the html coding which is & # 1 9 8 ; without the spaces. And even if you do, it does not link properly.
July 7, 2014 3:31 p.m.
Wizards changed the picture format when they changed the border. Weird.
Femme_Fatale, I thought you had admin privs at some point. Is that not true now?
Epochalyptik, do you know what type of encoding T/O uses for the card entries, or do I need to ask yeaGO?
July 7, 2014 3:34 p.m.
Femme_Fatale, all our ther cards have been spelled Aether so far. I say keep it that way because changing it now would be changing another 37 cards, and the average T/O user doesn't want to type & 1 9 8 ; or go copy paste the symbol from somewhere else. AEtherling is a powerhouse. Although, coping and pasting 37 times isn't a lot of work if yeaGO changes the code so typing AetherXXX turns into therXXX when linked.
P.S. yeaGO, why can't we have UTF-8 on our comments? You have it on your website :(
July 7, 2014 3:43 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #29
I have admin privs for Combo Hubs, Combos, and Keywords Matsi883.
July 7, 2014 3:47 p.m.
OK. What does that mean with combos? Are there combo submissions or just deletions?
July 7, 2014 3:54 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #31
Basically I can disable/delete selected combos, and add combo hubs. But since the general consensus that I can tell from our discussion was to not organize combos, I'm not going to do anything with it. There are also no combo hubs either.
July 7, 2014 3:58 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #32
Well now, gotta love my dvdvideosoft file converter! Took me about an hour to find, but my childhood conversion program works like a charm. 249 images converted in 3 seconds!
July 7, 2014 4:14 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #35
WHAT THE HELL IS THE FIRST NAME FOR THE ARTIST ON BRAWLER'S PLATE!?!?!
GRAHABALADALFALSAF
Last name is Park, but gatherer won't let me search like that >.<
July 7, 2014 4:34 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #37
Don't use ligatures. It's much simpler to just type the two letters separately.
July 7, 2014 4:46 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #38
Kays, then the three cards you should delete are as follows Epochalyptik: AetherSpouts (Or just change the capitals to AEtherspouts), the aetherspouts I submitted with the ligature and Xathrid Skyblade . I'll resubmit a proper Aetherspouts in a few seconds here,
July 7, 2014 4:51 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #39
Finally, these are the subtypes we need added Epochalyptik:
- Fungus Horror
- Plant Elemental Beast
July 7, 2014 5 p.m.
Did Ephemeral Shields (god, ephemral is so hard to spell). I need it in a deck and want the actual card done ASAP, so it's there.
July 8, 2014 3:18 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #41
Deleted AetherSpouts and Xathrid Skyblade (ffs people, spelling).
Added Fungus Horror and Plant Elemental Beast.
July 8, 2014 3:25 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #43
Do you know how they are done? Because we can't be certain that it is alphabetical order as only 3 sets in total have been done that way.
July 8, 2014 10:09 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #45
OH hey! They are in gatherer now! Sweet! Now I can do them myself with the entire card info :D
I have a sudden new vigor to continue where I left off Sunday :D
July 8, 2014 10:27 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #46
Matsi883, make sure to check to see if the ids that are there are correct. It was a good thing I stopped doing them because WotC did not upload the cards in alphabetical order.
July 8, 2014 10:29 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #47
And for the final post ... it looks like WotC DID put in those extra 15 cards, so now I have to get those images and crop them to. Just be wary of the card collectors number.
July 8, 2014 10:32 p.m.
I did the first page, and below are my notes. Pic problem is when the pics don't show up, and new pic needed is when (I think) the pictures are incorrectly cropped or blurry. Also, since we have no release date for the set, the reprints are showing up for the old set, which means the number, artist, flavor text, art, and id is not from m15. Here are my notes, copied and pasted:
Chief Engineer -- new pic needed
Ensoul Artifact -- new pic needed
Boonweaver Giant -- new pic needed
Hammerhand -- new pic needed
Hunter's Ambush -- new pic needed
Feral Incarnation -- new pic needed
Inferno Fist -- new pic needed
Feast on the Fallen -- new pic needed
Festergloom -- new pic needed
Goblin Kaboomist -- new pic needed
Kird Chieftain -- new pic needed
Kapsho Kitefins -- new pic needed
Krenko's Enforcer -- new pic needed
Marked by Honor -- new pic needed
Meteorite -- new pic needed
Jace, the Living Guildpact -- pic problem
Avacyn, Guardian Angel -- pic problem
Life's Legacy -- pic problem
Hushwing Gryff -- pic problem & new pic needed
Genesis Hydra -- new pic needed and second, not-linked card in card list
July 9, 2014 2:57 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #49
Matsi883, there is one more thing to learn about T/O's card image database, is that when adding a new card to a set, it takes 2-4 (possibly even more) accepted submissions before T/O recognizes that a new image has been added.
Generally it'll take the first image right away, but after that it'll take a while for it to get recognized, especially when adding other information as well.
July 9, 2014 6:07 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #50
I figured out the problem with the images. Is that A) they are png's, and B) Normally the ones I upload as PNG are about 200kb, but they lower to 100-80kb when converted to JPG, and are lowered by a greater amount when simply saved as a JPG via another program like paint or Iranview.
Is there anyway to download an image as a JPG and keep the quality? Because the only other method of keeping some of the quality when saving as a JPG is by hand saving each card through photoshop and changing the settings to provide maximum quality.
I mean ... I can do that ... with 264 images ... buuuuuut it will make the card fixing go slower.
Matsi883 says... #1
Did Void Snare and Blood Host, and then Tireless Missionaries to test it out.
Things I noticed;
That's pretty much it!
July 6, 2014 11:13 a.m.