Hello everyone,
Update 0.3.0 focuses mainly on improving the user experience when using Card Engine, by improving navigation between windows and systems, redesigning parts of the UI, quality of life improvements, and the first step towards more commercial usage of stock images. Note that most assets are still under a Personal use license, with only a few categories being available for commercial usage. I will add more commercial usage assets throughout the Early Access period. See the full patch notes below!
I also made a little highlights video of the update on our Youtube channel:
Bug reports and feedback are always welcome, either on the Community Hub or our official Discord server.
Fred, The Developer.
Features:
- Added a navigation panel for easier access to the various windows/tools
- Added a Home menu from which you can manage your project after loading it. The entire card collection is visible in the home menu
- Added 113 new fonts
- Added a license panel in each category. Clicking the license will open a panel with full license information
- Added an input field to the image component in the card editor. Images can now be swapped directly by specifying the name of the asset
- Added sliders to adjust the size of cards in the home menu, trashbin, and template window
- Added a flip all cards button to the Trashbin and Template window
- Added a cut functionality (Copy and remove selected element)
- Added keybindings for cut and deleting elements
- Added a loading bar that shows progress when loading projects
- Added a new UI scale mode: Scale with Screensize. This is now enabled by default, but it can be disabled in the settings if you want to use the old customizable scaling system
- Added buttons to our socials in the main menu
- Added more project information to the project Hub, such as amount of cards, templates and size of trashbin for each project
- Added duplicate as an option when right clicking cards in the home menu
Improvements:
- Improved UI structure, making it smoother to move between tools and better structured for adding new features in the future. It should no longer feel like you have to open and close windows constantly
- Improved main menu design with a more simplistic approach, ensuring improved loading times
- Improved home menu (collection) by enabling card clicks to load directly into the editor
- Improved new user experience by changing the Early Access pop-up information to a tooltip when hovering over the main menu Early Access logo
- Improved collection user experience by adding animated card flips and a hover effect when moving the mouse over cards
- Improved collection loading system, making it much faster when loading cards
- Improved collection flip-all functionality, making it smoother and faster
- Improved collection system to prevent reloading every time the window is opened
- Improved collection system by removing the soft capped card limit of 200 cards, allowing it to handle larger amounts of cards
- Improved asset importing by showing a loading bar and updating the database upon clicking "import" instead of when closing the window
- Improved category button placement in the asset browser by moving them to a dropdown field, allowing for more assets to be displayed at once
- Improved built-in asset naming conventions, making it easier to swap between images with the new image swap feature
- Improved export functionality by saving custom export paths on a per-project basis
- Removed the hierarchy system entirely to simplify navigation around Card Engine. The new and improved collection system has replaced it entirely
- Improved iconography by removing flip texts and enhancing the flip card icon, in preparation for future localization
- Removed and replaced some texts with icons in preparation for future localization. This may change if icons turn out to be confusing
- Improved tooltip contrast in both dark and light modes
Fixes
- Fixed a bug where the flip card animation would not be as smooth as intended
Other:
- Updated EULA to be less restrictive, added license information
- Updated documentation