Something I just tried that worked. Rather than changing the DISPLAY for what you want to export, you can actually seem to have multiple DISPLAY directives. Like DISPLAY = "tts_cards1.png", 1, 5, 4 DISPLAY = "tts_cards2.png", 6, 16, 4 That will export two PNG, with cards 1-5 being in the first image (and 4 cards wide), and cards 6-16 being in the second image.

One thing that's very important that I discovered is that when Ryan does the .png, that's crucial for the TTS upload. It would not let me do a .jpg format and TTS would crash. Definitely use png files and name it in the display tool or on the line itself.

Thanks for the tutorial! I hadn't realized it was that simple to get cards into TTS nowadays (well, 2 years ago anyway).

This is good stuff. Thank you for making these videos!

Love all these videos. Everything I could ever need to get started. Great stuff

This is great! I've been looking forward to this topic since it was mentioned in a previous video. This series has been a great help with prototyping! Thank you for all of the time and effort you put into these!

Thanks so much for making these videos! This whole series has been so helpful for me and I’ve come back to them several times.

Appreciate the videos. I'm now capable of importing a dead trading card game into TTS so me and my friends can play it (and create new stuff, tweak old stuff, etc. for fun). Liked and subbed!

I love you. Thanks for doing all these videos! Quick question though, I put the line DISPLAY = "tts_cards.png" Like you showed, and it made the file, but its just all the cards in a row (29x1) instead of a grid. any idea how to set the width and height of the grid? I have 29 cards. EDIT: Figured it out. The TIP for the DISPLAY command has a width argument. Also, right clicking the command brings up a form fillable version of the command! What an amazing program. :D

@howardhendrickson6728

3 жыл бұрын

Had something similar.. 29 is prime, so it can't auto factor it. Go into the details and set width to the number of columns you want. (so your close to 30, I would go 5 or 6)

This is great stuff. Also appreciate how you break up the video into labelled time sections, very easy to come back to and find a particular section, thank you.

First, thank you very much for this tip. I've been using NanDeck and TTS to play my ttRPG Way of Steel. I've probably exported 200 decks counting all the updates and such, and every time I've used the TTS deck editor app to create the deck image. I didn't know that Display would let me skip the most painful step of the process. Second, I know this is YT and people love video tutorials, but I am old school and vastly prefer the written word. A quick text summary with bullet points will often give me the info needed in 10 seconds instead of 10 minutes of watching. Nothing personal, and I know you rely on viewers watching for extended periods, but I am much more like to "like/share/subscribe" if you include the executive summary in your info, or link out to it. Oftentimes I'll still watch, but I like to know that I'm going to get the answer and not potentially waste 10 minutes on something that winds up not having new info. Third, has anyone told you that you look like a slightly older Russel Howard (british comedian)?

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful! I totally get the trade-off of video versus written tutorials... With my Tabletop Simulator scripting videos I have linked to the final code, and I suppose I could do a similar thing with the nanDECK videos. But it gets a little hard for me to justify full written tutorials in addition to the videos, just because of the extra time commitment. Hopefully the chapter titles make it easier to skip through the video to find what you want! And I haven't heard that haha, but I can see the resemblance! 😂

@tradtke101

3 жыл бұрын

@@LudoLodge oh yeah I don't mean a full written tutorial... more of an outline. The tags on the timeline are helpful- that's actually what got me to stick around and give it a shot. If you basically did a somewhat expanded version of that in the description it would be A+. Thanks again.

This is fantastic, thanks so much!

Great video as always. Didn't learn anything new, but I watched it anyway just in case :) seems to me the last time I used it there was a way to generate multiple files at once rather than changing the values in the display keyword each time, but I'm not near my computer and it has been a while, so it's possible I'm just misremembering. I guess I'll have to go check later. EDIT: I apparently used two display commands with different file names and card ranges.

Another useful trick is that if you have more than 70 cards but enough of them are repeats that you have fewer than 70 unique cards, you can simply add one of each to the image file and do the card duplicating in TTS instead of in nanDECK. I learned that trick when I was learning how to import my MTG decks.

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

Very true!

Careful, i had problems importing my decks. The method is nice because it save you time but TTS recommand using the 4096x4096 (Grid of 10x7) template provided. Its optionnal offcourse but still recommanded.. Exporting from nanDeck directly can make your files way bigger than 4096 and could result into strange TTS behaviors (like sometimes it work, sometimes not). I would suggest you use a grid 10x7 from the start (can put 70 cards in the spreedsheet even if empty as anyway the maximum supported is 70) it would be easier later. Then you can copy the sheet in the template and reduce the size to 4096. But that just a suggestion for anyone willing to use this method.

Hi! How can I turn the cards to landscape mode? I set it from portrait to landscape but it does not work, I set the width and height but still does not work. Do you have any idea?

Perfect timing! I just got back to game design, after a hiatus of over one year. Back then, the problem I remember having with card decks over 70 (nanDECK to TTS) was that I could not "physically" group the cards on the TTS Table. TTS did not "recognize" that I wanted cards 1-70 in the same deck as cards 71-100. Do you think this will work now, if I follow your plan?

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome back! :) As far as I know, Tabletop Simulator will let you stack any cards together regardless of how you import them. So you should be able to just import two decks from different images, and then just combine them once they are imported.

Sometimes the png generated for me to export to TTS is 11 wide or more than 7 high. How can I control how the cards line up in the export png?

Can a deck contain cards from more than one PNG?

Im trying to set up a game where you have two disctinct decks of cards, and I can't for the life of me get the game to reset those decks corretly. When they are empty I lose all reference, then I can not check to which deck those cards belong to and I cant group them anymore. It would be awesome if someone could help me there. The game is Skyjo Action on Workshop and I just want it to reset those two decks even if they are empty and I cant for the life of me do it

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

So you are using scripting to try to have two different decks reset?

@VoltexRB

3 жыл бұрын

@@LudoLodge I kinda got it already but I still dont like my code. I've updated the game with the code already

Hi Ryan, I have a PDF file that contains a set of cards 12 per page fronts and backs. Can you think of a way to get these into TTS apart from cropping every card with the snipping tool. Thanks

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

You somehow need to get it into an image format where the cards are in a grid... You will likely need to snip/crop each page and either combine them into a larger grid (single image), or just leave them as an image per page an do multiple imports in TTS (and combine the cards into a deck after import). Not aware of a faster way though, unless you have the original files in a program that may be able to export something other than the PDF.

@BishNufc

3 жыл бұрын

@@LudoLodge Thanks so much for your reply. I subsequently found a great bit of software called Irfarnview that allows you to split PDFs into a lot of different formats. It is quite complicated (like a lot of software that is worth anything), but has a lot of potential. Good that we can share this stuff :)

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@AndreaNini

3 жыл бұрын

nanDECK can load also pdf. With this script you can load the 1st page of a pdf and cut it into several png (I've added comments to each line): 'set the size of one card to A4 cardsize=21,29.7 'load 1st page of pdf loadpdf=1,test.pdf,0,0,100%,100%,1 'set the size of the cards to be cut 'i.e. left margin, top margin, total area width/height 'single card width/height [cards]=framebox(1.5,1.35,18,27,6,9) 'save the cards save=1,"card{°}.png",

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome tip Andrea!

Uh, am I just clueless but where on earth does exporting a file from nan actually *go?* Doubt I get an answer, I'm just shocked this wasn't explicitly made known.

Great video and explaining! I'm planning to use Tabletop Simulator to host a playtesting session. However, there is a message that reads, "Local files will not work in multiplayer." Does this mean that if I follow your tutorial and export NanDeck cards for Tabletop Simulator, I won't be able to use them with other players during an online playtesting session? I really appreciate any help you can provide.

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

When you import the image for the cards (or any other graphics for your game), you will want to select "Cloud" instead of "Local." This will make sure the mod is referencing a version of the image hosted on the internet (which the other players can access) instead of the local version on your computer (which other players can't access). Good luck!

@carlovandenbroeck4951

3 жыл бұрын

@@LudoLodge Thank you so much! Have an excellent weekend!!

you could do a tutorial, insert pop out in the pdf file.????

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by inserting pop out in the PDF file?

@hyushuki

3 жыл бұрын

@@LudoLodge view the pdf file as a file or book in pop out. sorry i'm using google translator.

@LudoLodge

3 жыл бұрын

@@hyushuki You can export your cards as a PDF by using the "PDF" button in the left sidebar, I'm not sure if that answers your question...