Card Decks with images?

[RPGDigitalist]

Just some ramblings about using Inline Scripts to implement card decks.

My assumption would be that all images would need to be in the vault's attachment folder.
You would hardcode an array with this list of files so that when it is used, it would provide a link to show the image.

Shortcuts to start/reset a session, shuffle, draw X cards and output the links to the images...

Another array could be used to hold the hand or discard or drawn list of cards.

I have not looked into using the state to save this information while currently in Obsidian but how could someone save the state between sessions? Output some sort of passcode that when passed to a setup function would be able to restore everything?

[jon-heard]

Neat idea!
For the state, there IS a shortcut-file for saving and restoring session state for other shortcut-files. It's got video tutorials now! Since your interest is in writing shortcuts, I suggest the second tutorial, which covers everything. The first tutorial only covers using the state as a user.

• Using the "state" shortcut-file to save and load session state (runtime 2:23)
• Setup a shortcut-file for saving & loading with the "state" shortcut-file (runtime 6:12)

As for picking the cards, the logic could be similar to the shortcut-file "notepick", specifically the "notepick pickFromFolder" shortcut.

Edit: I just updated the "notepick" shortcut-file so that it could be used for randomly picking collections of files of ANY file type, not just notes. This means that you could use "notepick" to randomly pick from a folder of card images.

[RPGDigitalist]

Oh, for some reason I thought the state didn’t save once you closed obsidian. I will give that a look.

[jon-heard]

I've decided to make this, and it's coming along nicely. I'll put it into the library and announce it when I'm done.

[RPGDigitalist]

Awesome!

[jon-heard]

I just pushed a release that includes shortcuts to do this. It's included in the library as "cards.sfile". You can check out the tutorial video here.

[RPGDigitalist]

I just watched the tutorial. Way better than what I could!

I updated but I do not see the cards.sfile file. I imported the full library again, also. v0.22.2 is what it shows

[jon-heard]

Hey, sorry. I forgot to switch the branch over on github before. They should be up now.

[alierecast]

Is there any chance that the rotation support could be added for 90 and 270 degree rotations? :) I have a couple decks of cards (the Story Engine and the Deck of Worlds) that have four different orientations, and I'd love to use this for that. (I'd also love a way to edit the rotation of a particular card - there's lots of choice-making about card orientation when using those - but I may be able to figure out something for that part myself.) I really appreciate this - I had been hacking together something with templater and this works much more smoothly!

[RPGDigitalist]

Nice idea.

[jon-heard]

Yeah, this makes sense. What do you think about this being automatically included in rotations if and only if the cards are perfect squares, same width and height?

[alierecast]

This makes total sense to me. :)

[jon-heard]

FYI: the latest revision of the cards system allows for 4 rotations for square cards. The pileviewer has also been updated to allow rotating cards by double-clicking them and dragging cards to reorder them.

[alierecast]

Amazing. Such quick execution! I’ve dreamed of using Obsidian for my story engine stuff in a less hacky way, you’ve totally made that possible. :)

[jon-heard]

I've made an official discussion post for talking about changes to the next, pending release of the Cards system:
#36

I encourage any further feedback to help avoid needing to add further breaking changes after the next release.

@apollooakwood , I've already included your idea for 0,90,180,270 degree rotations for square cards as part of the plans for the next release.

[alierecast]

Cool, thanks!