Card Sizes?

[Mad_T1tan]

What card sizes does this software support? Is it customizable or can you select from a list of standard sizes like in this image?

https://goo.gl/9Yc2P1

I would love to use a good peice of software like this for prototyping. Especially since the game I am working on has a ton of cards, of various sizes.

*Edit* apparently it removed my link to an image diagraming the various card game sizes. I'm sure you are aware of the various sizes and hopefully my questions is clear :)

[Pixelatto]

Fully customizable. You define your card aspect in the format settings and then the card height in the export options. The card width is just height/aspect.
For different card sizes you'll have to create different card collections though.

[Pixelatto]

It is fully customizable because: Aspect=Height/Width , so given any two of them, the other one is fixed.

We picked aspect+height as parameters as you might not know the size of your cards in early prototyping stages but you'd probably have an idea of the card aspect. Also "size" has no meaning until the card comes out into a physical medium, but aspect does.

A quick example: you start a new card format, and enter an aspect value of 1.0, that means your card will be squared (height=width). You work on you example deck and then are ready to export. You want to try small cards, so you pick a height of 5cms (you can use inches too), so the width becomes 5cms automatically (width=height/aspect -> width=5/1).

Another one: aspect=2.0 , printHeight=10cm -> printWidth=5cm

You can change the aspect at any time also.

I hope that makes it clear, let me know if not.

[KillJoy]

Where are the format settings located in-app? I can't seem to find them.

[GlitterGloo]

Originally posted by Pixelatto:

It is fully customizable because: Aspect=Height/Width , so given any two of them, the other one is fixed.

We picked aspect+height as parameters as you might not know the size of your cards in early prototyping stages but you'd probably have an idea of the card aspect. Also "size" has no meaning until the card comes out into a physical medium, but aspect does.

A quick example: you start a new card format, and enter an aspect value of 1.0, that means your card will be squared (height=width). You work on you example deck and then are ready to export. You want to try small cards, so you pick a height of 5cms (you can use inches too), so the width becomes 5cms automatically (width=height/aspect -> width=5/1).

Another one: aspect=2.0 , printHeight=10cm -> printWidth=5cm

You can change the aspect at any time also.

I hope that makes it clear, let me know if not.

Definitely not! So much more confused now. This is so counter-intuitive and unnecessarily "math-intensive" to what most designers think about when considering the format they want to use.

Please, tell me this has changed. Can we please just input the height and width and be done with it? I know exactly how big my cards need to be. I have ZERO clue how to do the math to turn that into this "aspect number." you've come up with. I've been a professional designer for 15 years without ever being forced to figure out such a thing.

[Paul Crandlemire]

Originally posted by Pixelatto:

It is fully customizable because: Aspect=Height/Width , so given any two of them, the other one is fixed.

We picked aspect+height as parameters as you might not know the size of your cards in early prototyping stages but you'd probably have an idea of the card aspect. Also "size" has no meaning until the card comes out into a physical medium, but aspect does.

A quick example: you start a new card format, and enter an aspect value of 1.0, that means your card will be squared (height=width). You work on you example deck and then are ready to export. You want to try small cards, so you pick a height of 5cms (you can use inches too), so the width becomes 5cms automatically (width=height/aspect -> width=5/1).

Another one: aspect=2.0 , printHeight=10cm -> printWidth=5cm

You can change the aspect at any time also.

I hope that makes it clear, let me know if not.

You claim this is fully customizable because you use aspect ratio, except it is not. There is no where to enter a custom aspect ratio. We can only use the ones you have picked, and many do not even match standard card sizes. This was working perfectly fine when we could simply put a height and width in as actual numbers. Now you have added some arbitrary restriction, which is unacceptable in a design program. Also, when you enter a height like 2.5 inches, it changes to some random value of 66.5. Then if you change the width to 1.75, it becomes 1117 because it thinks the height is 66.5 inches. Was this feature even tested before launch?

[KillJoy]

It would be helpful if we could set actual values to the height and width, instead of having to use percentages for everything.

[GlitterGloo]

I get the feeling this developer has abandoned this software to focus more on their upcoming new software. But... I would be A LOT more likely to purchase the new one if this one didn't have SO MANY weird and frustrating design quirks.

[Star Paladin]

Pixelatto: I spent several hours learning how to use CC. So far so good. I was eventually able to create all the cards I needed; was able to save them; even print them out. But there was a big problem. I chose 2.5 x 3.5 card size. It says 2.5 x 3.5 when I look at the cards too. But when I print them out, they are WAY smaller than 2.5 x 3.5.

I have 2.5 x 3.5 card sleeves, and my printed out cards just flop around in them. They seem to be around 2x3'ish.