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Deck sizing in selection window

So I have in my campaign, decks for all the spells in D&D 5e. I allow the players to choose these cards if they have the spell. There purpose is so the player has a resource to look up there spell quickly without going to the book. My only hang up is, the cards are hard to read when trying to select them. When you have the option to choose cards from a deck, is there a way to increase the size of the cards in that window? This is different from the card option size in the card settings mind you. Or even see the cards in a list format would be better. Thoughts?
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
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You can click them to zoom them like showing handouts or 'z'ing tokens. I assume that is insufficnet to your needs?
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Hard to see in this scaled image, but it seems to preserve the larger size very well.
Thank you for the response Aaron. Yes, I know about the zoom feature. But given the scenario, imagine trying to find 1 specific card in a list of dozens of them. Zooming is a great feature, however time consuming when trying to read each card one at a time.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Yeah. I take it the name of the spell is too small to read? You could add it as a light background word: Edit : it actually looks better than this in person, but the compression makes it weird..
That is not a bad idea sir! I wonder how well it will look with my current design. Will provide a screen shot soon!
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
In the Gimp, I made the back text at about 20%-30% transparent, then converted the spell text to a path and stroked it with a 2 pixel white so it would stand away from the Find Steed spell name. Fast and dirty, but it gets the idea across. =D
Well, I've got a lot of work ahead of me now. I used Magic Set Editor to make the cards, with a template I purchased from another website. Problem with that is, I'm unskilled in editing the template, since it uses a proprietary code run the software. Oh well, I can always edit each one by hand in PS. I just pray I don't have to change it later! LOL
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Good luck! If I were doing this, I'd probably generate all the front text as an image with transparency, then generate the back image with the spell name, then use ImageMagick to batch process them together to create the cards. Not sure if that's an option for you, but happy to discuss the ImageMagick bits if that sounds useful. =D
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vÍnce
Pro
Sheet Author
I had to make my cards twice so that the un-zoomed images when selecting a card could be seen. I made a suggestion as well Allow text inside Card Decks I think this would help the decks in many ways, including text size.
That would be a great feature. But then again, so would a "database of spells to query info from" option.
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vÍnce
Pro
Sheet Author
Vante said: That would be a great feature. But then again, so would a "database of spells to query info from" option. The latest announcement from Riley hinted that we might be getting something like that in the near future...
Sure hope so, I can make great looking power cards and stuff, but would be nice if they would scale with spell levels.