This is a collection of gimpfu plugins to script the creation of playing cards with Gimp. It is based on the pokemon card game I used to play with my younger cousin and brother.
The project ships with 4 different plugins.
- pkcard : generates pokemon cards given a complex set of parameters
- trainercard : generates trainer cards
- energycard : generates any kind of energy card
- batchrender : uses the plugins above to render a complete deck from an xml file
- Gimp : If your distribution has an gimp-extra package you need that too
- Gimpfu : The python scripting interface for Gimp
- OPTIONAL Vagrant : to run in a sandboxed environment
WARNING: Currently broken because gimp can only use python2. Many distributions ship gimp without python-fu to avoid depending on python2.
- Run
Etc/install_plugin.shto install the plugin on your user gimp home folder.Etc/test_plugin.shcan be run to check the installation.
- Launch Gimp, the plugins should be available under
<menu bar>/PkRender - You can also run then in batch mode :
Etc/render.sh- Run
Etc/render.sh list "<pokemon>"to search for available pokemons.
- Run
- In case of errors, check the logs at
./poke_plugins.log
- Run
cd Vagrant ; VAGRANT_HOME=vagrant.d vagrant upto download, provision and start the VM.vagrant haltorvagrant destroyto stop or clean the VM.
- Run
Etc/render.sh vm single "<pokemon>" "<image>"to render a card into the current working dir.
Batches/: contains an example of batch xml input. It also containsPkCardsClassicSet.xml. This file contains all the metadata needed to render cards in batch mode.Etc/: contains the helper scripts and a some card demosEtc/LegacySchemeRenderer/: deprecated version of the plugin written in Scheme (I could not cope with the weird syntax)
Python/: the python-fu code for the plugins (sorry for the awkward file naming convention)SourceImages/: The base images used to compose the final cardVagrant/: Configuration and homedir for the VM
