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.
I would like to point out a potential inaccuracy there, Femme_Fatale. I've noticed no consistent problems with file formats and frequently upload the most dense file type possible (speaking somewhat hyperbolically there) as the major problems I've experienced seem immutable regardless of image file type. Simply, the system seems to have trouble accepting an image the first time in roughly (in my experience) 80% of cases. The simplest and quickest (by my standard) fix I have encountered is to simply reupload the same image as though it were a new image. It was a system I used with nearly a 100% success rate over the most busy times of my last work on the database. Why this happens or what correlating factors may increase the chances of this happening I am not sure. There is a chance it could be the file type but this isn't the first time it was thought that this was the problem and I didn't encounter problems with certain file types then either.
Obviously, there is the chance I'm wrong in this situation, but, this is the information I've been working with and it has served me pretty well to this point, IMO.
July 9, 2014 9:41 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #3
Well, I say this Dritz because when I look at something like Avarice Amulet with a crop that I would use (can't remember if that is my image or not), and compare it to Scuttling Doom Engine , I can see a vivid quality difference between the two even though Scuttling Doom Engine is not cropped correctly.
And then I look at the file type. Avarice Amulet is png while Scuttling Doom Engine is jpg.
Other cards to hold this evidence:
- Centaur Courser [M13]
- Crippling Blight [M13]
- Encrust [M13]
- Cone of Flame [DDG]
- Wall of Frost [M14]
- Juggernaut [DDF]
- Midnight Guard [DKA]
- Garruk's Packleader [M13]
What I'm mainly looking at, is the text. In every png image I've uploaded, the text is blurrier than these jpg ones.
My only other clue for these images is that rather than the type, it is the size. All of these images have sizes of about 40kb-20kb, where as the png's I upload are about 220kb-160kb. I'm going to try to upload higher quality jpg's (at about 140kb-110kb) and then try uploading really low quality images (40kb-20kb) and see how things turn out.
As for the moment, even my 80~kb jpg images are still blurry at the text.
July 9, 2014 10:04 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #5
How massive and what did it affect yeaGO? Because there are some cards that I know I've done and yet they still don't show my name under them. This also seems to go for every card in every set, as I've yet to see a single name.
July 9, 2014 10:52 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #7
The name appears somewhere in the file name of the image that is currently there.
I found one that did have it.
But the format was different, there was no "_useradded" section in the name, in fact I believe the name went right there. I can't remember that to well from being gone a few months.
I'm also uncertain if the original said "mtgcards" at the front. I think it was just set/username/cardname.filetype but again, don't quote me on this.
July 9, 2014 11:06 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #9
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure lots of other people have been adding cards. Unless your mass importing changed every image from when this site was created to current, there should be names on every image in every set after this site was created.
July 9, 2014 11:27 p.m.
i don't think so, i think it skips cards that already have images
July 9, 2014 11:29 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #11
Here is one with my name on it. And I can confirm that other cards I submitted in the past have my name on it. Notably [C13], it's just that there are many missing names in where I know people have been uploading images. After doing a more thorough search, the more recent sets have names. But past sets seem to be missing them, and this current set is missing them.
July 9, 2014 11:36 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #12
This naming issues seems to apply to all of [M15], [VMA], [CNS] and [JOU], and then continues on from [GTC] downward. I should also mention that a lot of the cards that had problems with them before I left are now fixed with no name attached, probably the only exception to this is [ISD].
July 10, 2014 12:38 a.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #16
I finally figured out where the 40-20kb sized jpg images were coming from. They were coming from Gatherer's new "Visual Spoiler" type display. I'm just waiting for the D's and E's I submitted to go through before I continue to do some more.
July 11, 2014 5:34 p.m.
Just something worth noting (if someone else hasn't already mentioned this) there are cards that are showing up in the Unknown section of a deck when you try to build with them. (W/B Aggro Post Rotation, Power is where I noticed it with Geist of the Moors and Pillar of Light )
July 15, 2014 2:02 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #18
I'm still waiting for my last set of card submissions to be accepted before I go any further.
July 15, 2014 4 p.m.
@Lord007: Fixed. Somebody did a very bad job on those submissions.
Femme_Fatale says... #1
Okay! I manually changed all my images to a higher quality jpg through photoshop. Now to see if that has changed anything.
Also: yeaGO, why can't we see who uploaded the image for cards anymore? I would like to know which ones are mine so I can compare and figure out what I'm doing wrong.
July 9, 2014 8:16 p.m.