#282 Token Picture Names

[ashsaver]

Currently tokens use images by name. This creates certain problems.

1) No differentiation between tokens with the same name but different power/toughness, colour etc.
2) No differentiation between tokens and cards with the same name. eg Kobolds of Kher Keep card and token look the same because they use the same jpg filename.

Several possible alternate schemes can be used (adding _token to the cardname, power and colour, etc).

[riclas]

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i don't think you have an example of two tokens with same name and different P/T ... but if you do please prove me wrong :p although it might happen in the future...
the kher keep kobolds issue is not very bad, i mean, they are the same card, only the token has no casting cost instead of 0 from the card.

the big problem is that most tokens still don't have a picture, so i'm going to search for all the token card images, put the right name on them and insert them on SVN.

[riclas]

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ok i'm going to correct myself:
there are already tokens with same name and different P/T or color(see wurm for instance).

there is a kobold of kher keep token.

And some tokens with same name as cards might appear in the future. So...
I think your suggestion of ending token names with "_token" is nice... for the P/T and color issue, maybe something like "b66wurm_token" for a 6/6 black wurm creature token... and so on and so forth ... this way it's easier to implement it on oracle2XML tool for future cards, but can be changed, just needs a pattern.

what do you think?

during next week i'm going to get all the pictures of tokens so the naming issue would be nice to resolve till then :)
i'm getting the token images because they are not available through MP download proxies... so they have to be mannualy introduced in SVN.

[ashsaver]

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Actually, I see another solution here that would be better:

have a field "picture-name" in the card that would default to the name of the card (ie if picture-name does not exist it will use cardname.jpg, adjusted, as the filename). Other games may not use the "name.jpg = picture name" as the current proxies do, because the name is not a unique field, etc.