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Is there a way to reduce the font size of the card title so it fits?

I'll see about adding that soon. I might look into dual characters while I'm at it.

I'll see about adding that soon. I might look into dual characters while I'm at it.

Dual characters would be wonderful, because I've wanted to make a number of those...

I wonder if Rob would be willing to cooperate with the Card Builder and provide files so two-tier identifiers and Card names would work?

Ah ok. Nice job replicating the real thing. Illustrator confuses me and my Photoshop-centric lifestyle.

Progress hype!






Explanation for the type tab:

In V1.0, if you left the cursor in one of the text fields, it could export as part of the final image. Moving the input off of the card removes that possibility.

Other new features:
 • Multiple lines of identifiers. you *can* go as high as you want and the image box continues to shrink, but I strongly suggest limiting it to 2 lines.
 • The verse area flows from the bottom up automatically.
 • "Illus." is automatically tacked onto the artist credit. Just type the name of the artist, or leave it as the default Artist Unknown.
 • Dual icon boxes. The title will also center itself based on what boxes you use, or snap back to the right if you disable the right icon box.
 • Territory Warriors / Territory Weapons. These don't exist yet, but it was an easy enough thing to add, so... why not?
 • Removed the black background and gave the card frame a thin shadow instead.
 • You can now increase and decrease the title size, with limits.
 • Hopefully fixed the bug where the verse text becomes bold instead of italic.

Things I still need to do:
 • Brigades... this is going to be the biggest challenge now, considering I have two icon boxes to deal with.
 • Image and Frame. All the code from V1.0 should still be good here, I just need to move it over.
 • Export button. Again, code should be fine.
 • Reset Button. I have a very simple method for this built into the structure of the file, I just need to add the button to do it.

After some thought, I figured out how to condensed the brigade section into a single tab.



Pretty self explanatory, The first section toggles which icon box you're editing, the second section toggles how the brigades are split within the box, and the third section is where you pick your brigades.

The number of color wheels will change based on how many different brigades you need to select.

Now comes the coding part. The old system should still work to some degree, I just need a lot of "If" statements for all the toggles.

IT'S ALIIIIIIIVEEE!




And yes, you can include multicolor as one of the slices in any configuration. I'm not sure why you'd need that outside of dual enhancements... but... it's an option!

Also, I toned down the black on the brigade arrangement buttons. It was kinda hard on the eyes before.

So is this ready to go now?  Do I just update the current installment that I have now? This looks awesome!

Everything works. I'm delaying the release to to test for bugs.