Hello everyone,
In an effort to further simplify the application, the topbar has been removed. All of its features are now available elsewhere in the UI. Implemented more popular requests and improvements based on user feedback. The most notable new features are decks for organization, customizable rounded corners and customizable card sizes.
Note: The demo templates are made with the 63.5 x 88.9mm Poker/Trading card size, so they might look scuffed on other card sizes.
Bug reports and feedback are always welcome, either on the Community Hub or our official Discord server.
Fred, The Developer.
Features
- New: Card sizes can now be customized in the home menu
- New: Card rounded corners can now be customized in the home menu
- New: Decks for organizing cards in the home menu
- New: Choose which decks you want to export
- New: Tab to next input field and shift-tab to go back
- New: Support for some Asian characters through new fonts - Chinese (JhengHei, SimSun, YaHei), Korean (Malgun), Japanese (MS Gothic, Yu Gothic). This does not mean the app is localized. This is only for text on cards.
- New: Copy and paste layers
- New: Copy and paste all layers
- New: Log files with a shortcut to them in the settings
- New: Import from URL functionality to the importer
- New: Key bind for flipping the card in the editor
- New: Key bind for closing the editor
- New: undo and redo buttons to the editor
- New: Notification popup for things like undo/redo information
- New: Redesigned the main menu to better fit the rest of the application
- New: Added buttons to resize image to aspect ratio and fit image to card size in the selected image menu
- New: Hold CTRL to disable the rect when you have an object selected. When rect mode is disabled, dragging from anywhere on an image will only move the image, not resize it.
- New: Scale tool changes - It now acts as a lock aspect tool, keeping the aspect of the object as you resize it, instead of scaling in all directions.
Improvements
- Improvement: Key bindings can now be set to none by pressing the left mouse button when selecting a new input
- Improvement: Images will now be automatically scaled down if they are too big when imported, to a power of two size (512, 1024, 2048) for better memory usage. (Configurable in the settings)
- Improvement: Project buttons will now disappear if clicked after deleting a project externally
- Improvement: The new rounded corner system produces higher quality looking corners
- Improvement: Polished and redesigned some parts of the UI
- Improvement: Moved 'delete category' buttons to the left of the menu to prevent misclicks
- Improvement: The font right click menu will now load with the project, preventing a short freeze when first opening it
- Improvement: Performance by implementing more resource pooling
- Improvement: You can now perform an undo after loading templates
- Improvement: The undo/redo system have been reworked, and should now be much more responsive
- Improvement: Objects will no longer be deselected when using undo/redo
- Improvement: Better undo history length drop down options in the settings (Up to 500!)
- Improvement: Templates deleted from the template window will now be added to the trash bin
- Improvement: Assets can now be given custom names in the importer window before importing
- Improvement: The importer will no longer overwrite existing custom assets by adding a number to the file name if it already exists
- Improvement: The input field for editing text for a text box when editing cards can now be scrolled to allow for long texts
- Improvement: The selection outlines should now be easier to see on bright/white cards
- Improvement: The card names in the collections will no longer rotate when flipping the cards
- Improvement: The importer no longer needs to reload the entire database after importing a few files
- Improvement: If the scale tool is active, the aspect ratio will be locked when setting the object size through the input fields
Fixes
- Fixed: An issue where cards exported in sequential mode with sub folders enabled were put in front and back folders. They are now put in their own /Sequential folder
- Fixed: A problem with deleting custom assets
- Fixed: All custom categories were open after importing new assets or refreshing the database
- Fixed: The navigation bar were not showing the Importer as open when the Importer window was opened by dragging and dropping files onto the application window
- Fixed: Right click menus would close after using the handle bar
- Fixed: Sometimes actions were added twice to the undo history (When adding images, texts etc)
- Fixed: Key bindings getting triggered while typing in text boxes
- Fixed: Input fields sending data when loading a new card into the editor, causing multiple duplicate actions in the undo history
- Fixed: A memory leak caused by the ‘refresh database’ button
- Fixed: Sometimes a duplicated object would persist between cards and would require a project reload to get rid of
Other
- Removed the size adjustment slider from the exporter as custom card sizes are now a full feature in Card Engine
- Removed card size info from the exporter as this is now displayed in the home menu
- Progress towards the flipper achievement can now also be gained by flipping the card in the editor