MTG plugin

[gsman]

Some of the images are broken for download(specifically, most of the eventide set). I tried restarting lackey and it didn't download still.

[netfirecat]

same ones i'm having trouble in...

[Bort]

Be specific. What verson of the plugin do you have and give an example of a specific card image that isn't downloading.

[gsman]

I had the medium version. It wasnt working, so I got the High version, and it doesn't work. Almost all of the eventide set doesn't download, how can i be more specific? Just start trying stuff in eventide, it wont take long to find one that doesnt work.

[Bort]

Run autoupdate and relaunch. Everything works for me. Every single card works for me, in high and medium for eventide.
If you still have a problem after a relaunch, post your updatelist.txt, CardImageURLs4.txt, and shadowmoor-eventide.txt files.

[TheBuck]

It seems a lot of people are having the same issue I am. I hope someone figures it out I want to play on lackey once again.

[Bort]

The high version of the plugin card images have been upgraded. If you are using the high version of the plugin, delete your old plugins/magic/sets/setimages/roe/ folder. That's all you need to do. The new and higher quality card images will download automatically.

[netfirecat]

I updated my pluggin(medium) and it's working fine now.

[Brevan]

This problem of redirected card-image index numbers also exists in the Unglued set. 

Update List version: 10-04-26
From: http://www.angelfire.com/funky/magiclackey/high/updatelist.txt

Card example:
Goblin Bookie indexed as card 37, should be 43
Poultrygeist indexed as card 70, should be 37
Blacker Lotus should be 70

It is probable that all the cards have incorrect index numbers.  The main problem appears to be in the /plugins/magic/sets/unsets.txt file.  In that file the card image numbers follow alphabetical order, but on the URL site (http://magiccards.info/scans/en/ug/<#>.jpg) the Collector's Number ordering is used.

[Bort]

This problem of redirected card-image index numbers also exists in the Unglued set. 

Update List version: 10-04-26
From: http://www.angelfire.com/funky/magiclackey/high/updatelist.txt

Card example:
Goblin Bookie indexed as card 37, should be 43
Poultrygeist indexed as card 70, should be 37
Blacker Lotus should be 70

It is probable that all the cards have incorrect index numbers.  The main problem appears to be in the /plugins/magic/sets/unsets.txt file.  In that file the card image numbers follow alphabetical order, but on the URL site (http://magiccards.info/scans/en/ug/<#>.jpg) the Collector's Number ordering is used.

Fixed. Medium and High should work perfectly now. Let me know if there are any more errors. Make sure you run autoupdate, and then relaunch lackey for the changes to take effect.

[Brevan]

It seems that there are no token-cards (like the Goblin token from Unglued) available from the MTG plugin.  I looked into the files, and finally realized that the problem is likely because http://magiccards.info doesn't appear to have any of those card images.

I like to use those Token cards in the Sideboard, so that I can put them into play with the Red and Green counters on them to show the number of those critters.

As a solution, is it allowed to take the images from http://gatherer.wizards.com ?
If so, then here are the updates (89=Pegasus, Soldier, Zombie, Goblin, Sheep, 94=Squirrel) needed to the Unglued sets:

CardImageURLs4.txt
unglued/89.jpg   http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=4979&type=card
unglued/90.jpg   http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=5472&type=card
unglued/91.jpg   http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=5601&type=card
unglued/92.jpg   http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=5503&type=card
unglued/93.jpg   http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=5560&type=card
unglued/94.jpg   http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=5607&type=card

unsets.txt
Name = Pegasus, Soldier, Zombie, Goblin, Sheep, Squirrel
Set = unglued
ImageFile = 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94
Color = W, W, B, R, G, G
Cost = 0
Type = "Creature - " + <Name>
Power = <blank>
Toughness = <blank>
Rarity = U
Text = <blank>

[netfirecat]

Last i heard lackey doesn't support tokens. I wish i coulduse them, though

[Just Mick]

The site that hosts the card images tends to be hit and miss, probably because the angelfire service bandwidth throttles it when people are hitting it too hard. It took me a couple weeks to get all the cards downloaded, on each pass availability would change and more often than not downloads were not even possible most of the time.

For this reason I could not imagine playing or deck editing where the card images are downloaded as necessary.

[Brevan]

Do you know if the lack of Tokens is the policy of Lackey, or is it just the lack of images on the preferred image website?  If it's just the lack of images, then the updates I recommended work fine (although I guess it's possible that updates to the gather.wizards.com website will change the image URLs).  I could even attach the edited files, but there's not much point if the next mtg plugin auto-update will wipe out my changes.

If it's the policy of Lackey not to support the Token cards, then you could just substitute some cards as tokens.  For example, I've been using Mon's Goblin Raiders (R for a 1/1 goblin with no abilities) as the goblin token card.  Basically just treat Lackey like real-life, where you probably don't have the cards you'd like, so you toss something onto the battlefield and call it a token.

I definitely agree that playing with the tokens is cool.

@Just Mick
It is not the case that the outside website is preventing the Token image downloads for the problem I encountered.  The mtg plugin does not have the information for the Token cards, there is no entry for them in unsets.txt or CardImageURLs4.txt.  When I searched the website normally referenced by those files, the website did not have a scanned copy of the token cards (webpage error 404)

[Just Mick]

^I think I was more so addressing the original topic creator's post.

It might be helpful if you could pick from a list of cards when spawning a card by right clicking the spawned cards. The MTG plugin could also probably use more zones, like Planechase, Vanguard, and another Extras zone or something for cards not actually part of the 15 card sideboard.

My #1 most wanted addition to the MTG plugin is an artist filter. It's pretty ridiculous with all the stats on each card the artists are missing. I would love to be able to look at all the cards by an artist.