Bitterman 374 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) Update - you can now find this tool and more in the Kensei Imperial Assault Tools Suite! Like I expect many others, I have often wished I could make my own Deployment Cards. This would be particularly useful in a campaign - how many missions say things like "the Imperial Officer represents Thaanos, he has +10 Health and +1 Movement"? Wouldn't it be great to have that on a card! Or, if only I could design my own units... or even combine Darth Vader and Driven by Hatred into a single card for convenience. Fantasy Flight are nice enough to spoil many of their cards online, so someone with artistic talent and a graphics editor can usually come up with something pretty decent... but I have no artistic talent at all. I can write code, though, so I decided to make a tool to do it for me! That shows the editor, in the process of creating a deployment card I'll be using in the next mission our group will be playing in our campaign. The most time-consuming part of it was finding a suitable piece of artwork in Google Images... overall this card took about five minutes to make. Here's another example of a card made with this tool for use in a campaign: And here's one for a custom unit that I made up, that could be used in homebrew campaign scenarios, or friendly skirmish games: All you have to do once you've designed your card is print it out (either from the tool itself or by pasting the image it creates into your preferred printing software), then optionally glue it onto a spare Deployment Card that you may have lying around: Et voila! You can download the tool from here. Enjoy! Edited September 4 by Bitterman 43 2 Isnigu, Mimikyu, Shohet and 42 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingargyle 286 Posted October 23, 2017 Looks good, what systems does this run on? 1 Bitterman reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bitterman 374 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) On 10/23/2017 at 1:56 PM, kingargyle said: Looks good, what systems does this run on? Windows only. [edit] ...probably Windows 10 only. Edited October 25, 2017 by Bitterman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Isnigu 86 Posted October 23, 2017 Looks very promising. Will give it a try! 1 Bitterman reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Uninvited Guest 534 Posted October 23, 2017 This is pretty sweet! What’d you use to create it? 1 Bitterman reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bitterman 374 Posted October 23, 2017 2 minutes ago, Uninvited Guest said: This is pretty sweet! What’d you use to create it? C# and WinForms... and a lot of time messing around in Paint .NET, examining cards spoiled by FFG, to try and get the generated image as close to the "official" layout as possible (it's not pixel perfect, but it's close enough to be convincing). 2 Uninvited Guest and jacenat reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
supersayian 140 Posted October 23, 2017 I just used it to create a custom campaign card for darth vader so it has a lower cost for campaign. I adjusted some of the over costed characters and this will be awesome to place on top of their cards. Thank you so much for this. 2 Bitterman and Arttemis reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bitterman 374 Posted October 23, 2017 Great to hear it's proving useful already! Feel free to share any of the cards you created. 2 subtrendy2 and supersayian reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
supersayian 140 Posted October 23, 2017 Here is the campaign one I created by lowering his point value. 3 Bitterman, Etheneus and Arttemis reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cnemmick 589 Posted October 23, 2017 Any chance you could add a skirmish attachment template? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
supersayian 140 Posted October 23, 2017 I also did that one as well. 2 Bitterman and Arttemis reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
a1bert 3,401 Posted October 23, 2017 You're missing: No skirmish upgrade attachments, and Imperial faction only. Also, the +1dmg is not dependent on using a special action.. You have an extraneous special action symbol there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bitterman 374 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) 25 minutes ago, cnemmick said: Any chance you could add a skirmish attachment template? If you mean, how do you do that in the editor - set group size to zero, "Skirmish Upgrade" in the Traits, and "<attachment>" in the Abilities. Edited October 23, 2017 by Bitterman 2 cnemmick and Arttemis reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
supersayian 140 Posted October 23, 2017 14 minutes ago, a1bert said: You're missing: No skirmish upgrade attachments, and Imperial faction only. Also, the +1dmg is not dependent on using a special action.. You have an extraneous special action symbol there. Ok I give you on the action symbol there but it has the skirmish only symbol at the top next to vader's name. So it means skirmish only. The other is unnecessary. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
a1bert 3,401 Posted October 23, 2017 You can't attach a skirmish upgrade to Driven by Hatred Vader, because there is already one baked into the card. Ok, I give you that currently you can't take imperial non-droids to another faction, and you probably never can. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
supersayian 140 Posted October 23, 2017 This is just for my reference when playing at home or at local non competition game nights. At tournaments I won't be using this and if I do I will have the skirmish upgrade card there. You know to make the people who want you to follow the rules by the book but they don't. I have run into that before which is why I don't do tournaments. 1 subtrendy2 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bitterman 374 Posted October 23, 2017 Some custom cards I bashed out this afternoon. Disclaimer: none of these are playtested at all, just initial thoughts and brainstorming really. Having spent all that time building this tool, I wanted an excuse to use it. I've found that the old Star Wars Miniatures models are quite suitable for this sort of thing - I have appropriate models for all of these cards. Spoilered for size! 5 thestag, Etheneus, Arttemis and 2 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rogue Dakotan 4,879 Posted October 23, 2017 Awesome. This will be great for fancying up The Homebrew Thread! 6 Bitterman, ATM2100, 54NCH32 and 3 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rogue Dakotan 4,879 Posted October 23, 2017 When I try to put text into either of the Abilities fields, it throws an error for me. Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. Details See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File not found. at System.ComponentModel.ReflectPropertyDescriptor.SetValue(Object component, Object value) at System.Windows.Forms.BindToObject.SetValue(Object value) at System.Windows.Forms.Binding.PullData(Boolean reformat, Boolean force) at System.Windows.Forms.Binding.Target_PropertyChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnTextChanged(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.OnTextChanged(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.WmReflectCommand(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.TextBox.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bitterman 374 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, RogueLieutenant said: When I try to put text into either of the Abilities fields, it throws an error for me. Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. OK, sorry about that, I'll take a look and see if I can figure out what went wrong. Is it literally any text into those ability fields? Like, just typing "abc", not trying to use any of the special codes or anything? Are the other fields all OK? Are you on Windows 10 or an older version? If you know how to check, what version of .NET do you have installed? (Don't worry if you don't know how to find that out). Edited October 23, 2017 by Bitterman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rogue Dakotan 4,879 Posted October 23, 2017 it's just entering any text into those fields. all the other fields seem to be working fine. i'm on Windows 7 professional at the moment I think. 2 Bitterman and subtrendy2 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
subtrendy2 2,435 Posted October 23, 2017 I'm getting the same issue as Rogue. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ricope 266 Posted October 23, 2017 33 minutes ago, subtrendy2 said: I'm getting the same issue as Rogue. How did you launch it? Did you launch it from the .zip or did you extracted it out? Does it give error when you try to launch from the .zip? I'm on Win10 and I can't seem to reproduce that error Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rogue Dakotan 4,879 Posted October 23, 2017 I extracted it and then ran the .exe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
subtrendy2 2,435 Posted October 23, 2017 51 minutes ago, ricope said: How did you launch it? Did you launch it from the .zip or did you extracted it out? Does it give error when you try to launch from the .zip? I'm on Win10 and I can't seem to reproduce that error Extracted it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
