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Oy vey, when it rains it pours.

MunchKING, sorry to hear that. Do you mean that the images don't work / don't load, or are the cards themselves missing? Like do you open what was a 60-card deck and find it's actually fewer cards now?

P.S. And while you're here, you're not seeing a new table image, are you? I'm not even sure I CAN set a new one from the plugin, certainly not without a pluginpreferences file, which it doesn't include, but you never know...

Can you please be more specific? Do you just mean that the images are too large in file size, or do they actually appear too large in the interface? If they look too big in Lackey, can you post a screenshot of what's going on? Is on the table, in the view pane, or both?

The image files themselves are larger, but they should look basically the same within Lackey. If they're not, something is up and I need to figure out what. If you turn a card on the table face down, is the back the same size?

This is the only size Scryfall makes the images available in cropped mode. And the only smaller size at all is quite small, smaller than the plugin used previously. I don't really have a way to fetch a size like I used to use, unless I save every single image from Scryfall and save a resized version to my server, then serve them all from there, and... I really, really don't want to do that.

New tabletop? I'm not aware of a new tabletop. Did one of your preferences get changed somehow? Is anyone else seeing a new tabletop image?

May I ask what the problem is with the image size? Are they taking too long to download? If they're doing that annoying thing where they pop out of the card-viewing pane, that's fixable in your preferences. Preferences > Appearance > Card appearance preferences > Make card viewer image pop out on mouse over? [uncheck]

As long as that's set, I don't really see much of any difference on my end while using Lackey. Let me know if I'm missing something.

Johnny, M19 is up (albeit without tokens or much in the way of scripts yet).

http://www.lackeyccg.com/forum/index.php?topic=12660.0

Please not that this update changes over all the images to Scryfall's format, so you'll need to delete your [Lackey]/plugins/magic/sets/setimages folder to avoid weird display issues.

I've gone back and fixed (almost) all the sets so they will now correctly download images from Scryfall. Out of what was already in Lackey, I should now have correct images for everything EXCEPT:

• "Special" cards (like World Champion and the Hydra deck)
• Schemes
• Planes and Phenomena
• Vanguard avatars
• Reprint-only sets (like Modern Masters and Duel Decks)
• All tokens :' (

My next step is to... fix the rest of those things, as well as add newer sets:

• Battlebond
• Commander 2018
• Archenemy: Bolas (at least the schemes)
• Global Series

And I should update pack definitions too.

I may not be able to get back to this for a week or so, but hopefully this is enough to make things mostly functional for the time being.

If you encounter missing or incorrect images with cards other than what I listed above, please post about it in this thread.

Just an update: I am working on this today. With any luck, I can have the older sets working again later today.

I tried to do just a barebones update of M19, and that did work, but the closing of Magiccards.info is causing quite a transitionary hiccup. Here's where I've announced the update, and detailed the fires I'm currently putting out:

http://www.lackeyccg.com/forum/index.php?topic=12660

[The short version:]

The short version:

1) M19 is uploaded.

2) Please delete your existing [Lackey Folder]/plugins/magic/sets/setimages folder so that new images can be downloaded.

3) If you have any saved decks including double-faced cards from Innistrad, Dark Ascension, or possibly origins, you will have to manually re-add those particular cards.

Explanations/elaborations:

1) M19 is pretty bare-bones. Literally the only script is the one to transform Bolas, and I've not yet updated the formats. (I also haven't done Battlebond yet.)

2) Scryfall took over Magicccards.info. Requests for MCI image URLs now redirect to Scryfall, but Lackey isn't smart enough to get the image it's redirected to, so they no longer work. I went ahead and changed the entire plugin over to Scryfall's images. Unfortunately, they're a different size than what we've been using. If you have existing image files and download new ones now, things will look weird in Lackey. Sorry, I know it's inconvenient. Also, I've only changed over actual Magic cards for now?tokens will be broken until I figure out their new image format.

Addendum: I didn't realize that Magiccards.info stored a lot of older sets in some sort of nonstandard order, making the images not come up for the right cards. Most cards that have multiple art in the same set don't even load anything. I'll see if I can figure this out tomorrow. Modern sets should work?I'll keep checking to make sure I haven't missed anything.  Should be mostly fixed?see post below.

3) The plugin stored Innistrad and Dark Ascension DFC as one card, with the night side on the back. This makes physical sense, but doesn't let you manifest DFC. Sets from Shadows onward instead give you a script to spawn a token-like back face from the front face, and Origins, confusingly, did both. I've gone back and standardized it so now they all work the new way.

Sorry for my absence. Things have been hectic for me. As my life settles back down, I intend to continue getting the plugin back into proper up-to-date shape.

Hey all... I am okay, I've just been dealing with far more going on in my life than I expected. Lots of moving and logistics and confusion. If someone else wants to take on the project, I'd understand ? let me know. I can continue to host. Barring that, I do not intend to let the plugin languish forever, but I'm also not sure how firm an ETA I can give. I apologize for the wait, I know it's been ridiculous.

(Server has been moved and reconnected, so the plugin should be available again.)

MunchKING, glad to hear it! I was totally stumped.

midnitexpress, I'm not sure. Testing it seems to work for me right now.

ph, and everyone generally: I'm in the middle of moving right now, which is why I haven't had a chance to do Battlebond, but I'll get to it as soon as I can. Also, I am moving my server today, so THE PLUGIN WILL BE DOWN at least a couple of hours while I head over to the new house. Such a glamorous, high-tech life I lead.

Sorry, I still haven't added packs. I need to do that too.

MunchKING, I've tried installing a fresh copy of the Magic plugin myself from the auto-update URL, and it appears to download images just fine?both on the fly and with forced download. Which isn't to say that I don't believe you or think you're crazy, just that I can't reproduce the problem so I still can't figure out what's causing it. I can't imagine how the plugin itself would differ in two fresh downloads, but I also don't know what sort of network or system issue could block Lackey yet let you see the website just fine. It doesn't say anything more specific than "Error downloading [file]", does it?

I'm not sure, but it would eliminate the possibility that your installation is somehow corrupted, a file is misnamed, etc. You wouldn't necessarily have to delete it, just rename the "magic" folder to "magic-backup" or something, so you can restore it and not lose any saved games or decks.

If you go to https://magiccards.info/, does it display correctly for you? Can you view Rivals and Unstable cards there? That's where the plugin pulls its images from. Dominaria is different (for now); Magiccards.info hasn't updated it yet, so I saved the images from Scryfall, resized and cropped them, and am hosting them on my server.

One more thing to try would be to load cards that are from previous sets, but that you know you haven't previously downloaded. You could even go to your images folder and delete, say, the 8th Edition folder, then try loading 8th Edition cards to see if it correctly auto-downloads those from Maggiccards.info.

I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm sending you on a wild goose chase, I'm just really not sure what's causing it, and more data points could help me track down the problem.

Dominaria now has the correct image size, tokens, and pretty much all basic scripts, including token-spawning. I also went back and added token-spawning scripts to Rivals and Unstable, AND I noticed that Fabricate spawn scripts in Kaladesh only made one servo each, regardless of the Fabricate number, so I edited those too.

Please let me know if you notice any errors or omissions. Next up for me is putting in Archenemy: Nicol Bolas, cleaning up double-faced cards so they work the same in all sets, and figuring out how to add pack definitions.

Note: you'll have to delete any images you've already downloaded (located in [Lackey folder]/plugins/magic/sets/setimages/dom/) in order to download the new ones.