Tools for combining Strange Eons and Octgn

By Flrbb, in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

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I am new to Octgn. I want to use it to test my custom missions instead of printing modified cards each time. That is why I wonder weather there is some kind of skript/tool to automaticallly generate/update the needed set files for Octgn out of the data from Strange Eons?

Thanks in advance,

Flrbb

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On 8/5/2017 at 3:12 AM, Flrbb said:

I am new to Octgn. I want to use it to test my custom missions instead of printing modified cards each time. That is why I wonder weather there is some kind of skript/tool to automaticallly generate/update the needed set files for Octgn out of the data from Strange Eons?

Thanks in advance,

Flrbb

I have the opposite of what you're looking for. I make my custom sets in an Excel spreadsheet, which is very convenient. Then, there is an Excel macro that generates the necessary OCTGN file. I then have a macro in Strange Eons that takes the OCTGN file and generates the Strange Eons cards, sans images. Then you just have to load in the images by hand* and do a mass Strange Eons export. I have yet another script that will take the exported images and make them into an OCTGN image pack.

*Once you've done this once, you don't need to load in the images by hand all over again if you make changes to the set. There is a second script that will just take all the cards you already made and update the text, leaving the image alone.

I don't have the time right now, but I plan on making a tutorial video of how to do all this. It definitely makes the creation, modification, and playtesting of custom content way easier.

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Generating the OCTGN file automatically would definitely be a huge plus -- manually filling out the xml is horrible...

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Super cool, thank you for developing and sharing this!

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That Excel script, along with most of the LotR plugin in general, is thanks to GeckoTH.