The New Wave Magic The Gathering Thread

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 20:37:11

what do I do with that?

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 20:37:41

Put it into... well, wherever your installation of Cockatrice stores its cards. You can check where it is in the options menu.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 20:39:15

?

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 20:40:21

You should probably change it to folders in your Cockatrice folder, just for the sake of your sanity.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 20:45:54

I think they are, the path display is just weird for some reason.

At least, Windows tells me that the "Local" folder is empty, and searching for Cockatrice brings up no results.

I really love how Windows 8 locks you out of half your own computer's functions.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 20:52:28

No, Appdata is a (by default) hidden folder. Why Cockatrice defaults to there, I haven't the foggiest.

Anyway, try downloading this, make a folder in your Cockatrice folder called cards, drop it in there, and point the path at it.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 20:53:44

well, I can't find the locations of any of these folders, so that's gonna be interesting.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 20:54:16

As I said, they're in a hidden folder. Just make new ones in the main Cockatrice folder.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 20:57:51

this is fucking stupid, I'm typing the exact name of the path and it's telling me that it can't find the specified location.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 20:58:02

Fossilmaiden said:
As I said, they're in a hidden folder. Just make new ones in the main Cockatrice folder.

I can't move them if I can't get to them.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 21:01:02

You don't need to move them. That's why I said "make new ones".

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:02:59

I need to move the things in the folders, though.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:07:01

so I made a new folder to keep the important stuff in in Cockatrice, the problem here is that for whatever reason, that folder is not visible within Cockatrice itself, so I can't select it.

sigh.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:09:05

OK I fixed that, now to remember what I was originally doing in the first place.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:34:06

OK so how do I actually download that XML file you posted, because clicking on it 1) freezes Firefox for a solid ten minutes and 2) just opens it. And I can't right click to download it, I can only save the link to it.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 21:36:30

Right click, save page as.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:37:07

Mo The Show said:
I can't right click to download it, I can only save the link to it.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 21:38:55

...Right click on the page it opens.

EDIT: You know what, download this instead.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:43:50

Now what?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:44:20

I downloaded and replaced the XML file but nothing seems to have changed at all. Still don't have any Magic 2015 cards or any Theros cards, and the card art for everything is still missing.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:47:44

apparently I was supposed to use this at some point, but it's not working properly either.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 21:50:15

Ok. Let's go through this step by step (I'm assuming you already downloaded the scraper here):

1) Run the Oracle without changing any settings except the default save folder. Change that to some folder in your Cockatrice folder.
2) Point Cockatrice's "Path to Card Directory" at that folder.
3) Run the scraper until it tells you it's done.
4) Make a folder called pics, and point Cockatrice at that too. Make a folder in it called downloadedPics.
5) Download the M15.zip from here.
6) Extract it into your downloadedPics folder.

^ That's... not the Oracle you should be using. If you downloaded the latest release, it should look like this:

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:50:57

I'm gonna have to uninstall stuff aren't I.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:51:04

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh this is so tedious.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:52:21

what is "the scraper"

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 21:55:17

The summer magic thing you downloaded ages ago. Or should have. Here.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 21:59:01

oh my fucking god I have to move this stuff AGAIN

why doesn't it ask where I want these directories to be

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:00:04

and I can't just paste the name of the file location because Windows lies to me and tells me the folder is empty

I am going to kill everyone involved in the creation of this operating system.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:01:41

I hate everything

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:03:32

you know what I fucking give up

I have no idea what I'm doing and I can't understand the instructions I'm being given. Nevermind, I am clearly not meant to enjoy such decadent luxuries as card games.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:07:42

I can't even actually open the program now, it goes straight to the settings panel and gives me that error^ whenever I try to exit, I've apparently busted it too much. This is after a un- and re-install.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:10:31

OK now I can open the program again but the only thing I seem to have accomplished through all this is ending up back where I started. ie, without any of the newer cards, and with none of my cards having any art.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:11:26

Fossilmaiden said:

^ That's... not the Oracle you should be using. If you downloaded the latest release, it should look like this:

well, that is not what it looks like

what is the "latest release" of Cockatrice? I thought development stopped last year.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:12:29

I really have no idea what I'm doing, if that's not already clear.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:12:39

guess I'll uninstall and try again a third time.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 22:13:18

Fossilmaiden said:
More aptly, Cockatrice is still unavailable for download unless you're like part of a cult or some shit,
???

...The link I posted. A page ago.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:14:50

I didn't use that one, I used one I found on mega.co.nz when searching for, well, "Cockatrice", on Google.

I didn't even know that was a link, you didn't say it was.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:20:21

OK I seem to finally be on the right track here.

I'm sorry, I'm not very smart.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:29:07

OK! Progress is made

I have pictures now, and I seem to have....most M15 cards. But some are still missing. Boneweaver Giant for example.

Is this an issue with the XML file I downloaded or did I fuck up somewhere

also did the M15 download include all the Theros stuff or do I have to get that separately somewhere else?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:32:24

also, the text box below the picture of the card--the one that displays the rulestext in plaintext--is empty, is that just a consequence of how Cockatrice is maintained now, or have I done something wrong

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 22:32:35

You mean the images, or the card itself? And Oracle covers everything up to Nyx. And yes, unless there's a missing image, you just have to read the card.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:33:33

the card itself is not there. I haven't checked any others.

example of the thing with the textbox being empty

also Polluted Delta's art is gone, not sure what to make of that.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:34:00

and hey, so is Go for the Throat's

and here I thought I was out of the woods.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 22:34:50

That's odd. As in "shouldn't be physically possible" odd.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:35:32

so far it seems to literally just be Boneweaver Giant, but I'm not sure how to test to see if it's anything else.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 22:36:35

Wait, XML? If you downloaded the scraper, you shouldn't need to download an XML. The oracle creates one, and the scraper just adds M15 to it.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:42:10

I didn't download an independent XML, I just was referring to whatever you'd call the thing the M15 download was

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:48:39

anyway, who wants a free win?

c'mon, I'm awful.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-09-03 22:52:55

I would, but I have literally 0 decks right now due to exploding computers and all.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-09-03 22:54:01

netdeck something? I wanna just make sure I can connect OK first and foremost.

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