Custom Cards only possible in low quality?

[Mr.Spinne]

I love playing cards with my friends over the internet who live too far away. Tabletop Simulator (TTS) is perfect for that. But I always keep getting comments about my card images being low quality, sometimes making card texts difficult to read even at an in game resolution of 4k and preset quality on Ultra.

When creating custom cards, the sharpness of the original is down-graded (as if your Full HD video is uplouded to YT and can just be displayed in 480p). Uploading an even higher resolution image does not improve the card image in game.

Am I missing an option or method to increase the displayed card image quality to the quality of the original? If not, why is TTS supporting 4k resolution and VR but only offers medium to low quality card images at best?

Especially when playing locally with great hardware, what would hold TTS back aside from apparently arbitrary restrictions? DX I mean come on... I want my friends to adore the cards I carefully create, not pity them due to conversion loss.

Edit: The down-grade even happens as well while not using any hosting site. So it's not any website's conversion, it's the ingame conversion. Tested by inputing a local path to the deck's image instead of an URL.

[Sekkuar666]

Originally posted by Mr.Spinne:

even at an in game resolution of 4k and preset quality on Ultra.

Changing the game resolution doesn't make the cards better.

For the cards to have better resolution the source image for the custom deck needs better resolution.
Since each image contain several cards, usually you will need an absurdly big source image or more images, creating several decks with less cards on each image.

For better hosting, create everything as local then use the upload option to upload to steam cloud.

[Mr.Spinne]

Originally posted by Sekkuar666:

Originally posted by Mr.Spinne:

even at an in game resolution of 4k and preset quality on Ultra.

Changing the game resolution doesn't make the cards better.

For the cards to have better resolution the source image for the custom deck needs better resolution.
Since each image contain several cards, usually you will need an absurdly big source image or more images, creating several decks with less cards on each image.

For better hosting, create everything as local then use the upload option to upload to steam cloud.

Thank you, you made me recheck something and get to a stunning conclusion:
After I initially loaded HD card images which produces rather medium in game cards, I simply upscaled the original image by 2x with paint and loaded this version again:
BAM! HD cards in game!!!

For some reason TTS takes a bite out of your original image's resolution before displaying it ingame, so by simply making it bigger (not even sharper) the loss can be completely circumvented!

Thanks a lot! My cards look amazing now!! <3

[Sekkuar666]

Glad to help