So just a quick summary, I'm making something relating to a trading card game I play, like Yu-Gi-Oh! or Pokemon, just less well known. And their website has images of all their cards, but they're decently high quality. Based on the amount of cards I've put in so far I estimate that when I'm done, the file will be around 100GB which is absurd. Is there a decent way in Construct to fix the storage usage, like a simple way to shrink the sprite without it being unreadable, or without taking thousands of downloads for all the cards? Or would taking the physical sprite object and shrinking it down help at all? Just anything.

What about this one?

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5hqgq824q8mhck1ww3cnv/ShinyCard2.c3p?rlkey=jidydz0psnugghkydviw1tj50&st=t4fl770o&dl=0

It's still adding a darker tint, but other than that it's working now so thank you... although if you have a suggestion for the tint I would appreciate it, lol

...no seriously, the Light Streaks magically being applied to the card doesn't make sense to me. Like, there is right around 0 events here, 0 behaviors. But somehow one of these things with 0 behaviors and events correlating to it manage to trim the shape of the light streaks, one of them holds the light streaks within itself, and somehow all of them make the black in all of the images transparent... HOW! There's no events or anything doing any of this, I don't understand it.

There's an example of this exact thing (plus some more fancy stuff) in the Example Browser. It's called "Living Card".

So Umm... how would I do this in a non-3D game? Or at a minimum use the Light Streaks themselves? As when I tried just porting them and any code relating to them, the black was visible.

So I'm making a card game, I'd like to make the high rarity cards have a bit of a shine or a foiling to it. I tried looking through the filters and nothing I did really worked, but I'm also not experienced with the filters on here. Is there any you all would believe would work or is there something else that would be recommended for this?

...but I want this to be caused by a whole 1 thing... I'm 100% certain there's a way of typing it. I just think I used the wrong symbol or the wrong function.

I'm trying to have it pick a random coordinate between two different ranges... but instead it always moves to the top left, am I typing this wrong? Like I'm pretty sure I made this and or statement.

I think you want to look at effects for this. There are a large number of standard effects you can mix and match to change the whole deck.

yours

winkr7

So uhhh... no, most of them sorta just turned the art either black, or completely invisible with no settings to mess around with... which was weird... no seriously, it's a card game, they all have completely different artworks, not sure why it had the same effect on all of them.

But I was moreso looking for a like... idk, like a shine or foil animated effect. Idk, I just couldn't find any effect that made anything look "better" other than sharpen. Emboss I thought would be cool, but it for some reason removes color from things, if there was a way to have them emboss effect without it completely stripping color, that would be pretty cool too. (Yes, I have tried it at lower percent's and it was SO CLOSE to making me like it... but then I looked back at the original art and missed the more vibrant colors)

I think you want to look at effects for this. There are a large number of standard effects you can mix and match to change the whole deck.

yours

winkr7

Ah, that's what I was looking for, I've never used it so I didn't think about it.

So I'm currently making a pack opener for a real life card game, the community had been asking for one for ages. For the cards themselves, I used images off the card database. However in sets, they take some of the more iconic cards from that set and have a super special rare version of it, in real life most of them are the same artwork but different foiling.

I was wondering if there would be a simpler way of adding a sparkly or foily effect without having to go into each card and work on my animation skill for each and every card. Like is there a behavior or a way that I can do particles or something that I can do to make it look good without it taking absolutely hours per card?