Need Help with creating foreign language Master.mwBase

TheSHEEEP · **Posted:** Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:17 am

Hi there,

I am trying to create a German Master.mwBase using Firefox, http://www.magiccards.info, AutoIt3 and some weird old Version of cdsExplorer

When it's done and works, it shouldn't be such a big problem to do this for other languages as well.

Anyway...
I converted the original Master.mwBase to xml to see what a single entry has to look like. If you are interested, this is it (random example):

Code:

<ROW RowState="4" 
Name="Paladin en-Vec" 
Edition="EX"
Version="3"
ID="0"
Color="W" 
Cost="1WW" 
Type="Creature - Human Knight" 
Text="First strike, protection from black and from red #(This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. It can’t be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black or red.)#" 
Power="2" 
Toughness="2" 
Flavor="“Our belief shall be the lance that pierces Volrath’s heart.”" 
Rarity="R" 
Artist="Randy Elliott" 
Number="12" 
Mana="3" 
MtgEncID="5199" 
Internal="&lt;T2:B&gt;&lt;EX:1&gt;&lt;T15:1&gt;&lt;T1:1&gt;" 
TypeIndex="3" 
P/T="2/2"/>

Most of those attributes are kinda self explaining, but I have problems understanding the following attributes:

Code:

MtgEncID="5199"
Internal="&lt;T2:B&gt;&lt;EX:1&gt;&lt;T15:1&gt;&lt;T1:1&gt;" 
TypeIndex="3" 

The second one seems to have something to do with the legality in the formats, but I'm not sure what the exact syntax is.
The first and third ones are a complete mystery to me...

Also, I would like to know the difference between those two:

Code:

Version="1" 
ID="1" 

Maybe someone here knows something about this and can help me

Planeswlk · **Posted:** Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:42 pm

MtgEncID refers to the card ID used in the Magic Interactive Encyclopedia, so that MWS can display a card art from that installed software. Ignore this- its not used anymore, and in fact this whole dataset has been stripped from the latest masterbase from GoblinHero.

Internal - notice the html entities. lt= < gt= >
it is for legality. B would be banned, 1 would be allowed.

TypeIndex is a code for the type of card. Theres a number for each type like Instant, Sorcery, Creature, Artifact, Enchantment, Land, and a mixture of numbers (added) for mixed types. Compare the value of this field over several cards to discern the pattern.

Version is for the same card with more than one version of art. Lands use this.
ID is not used at all, AFAIK.

You're welcome!
And you get my 2000th post! :mrgreen:

TheSHEEEP · **Posted:** Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:42 am

Thanks, that was very helpful.

As soon as I get XPath to do what I want it to do, I'll be able to continue my efforts and of course post the results here

My estimation is that it will take another 2 weeks until I have a satisfying result (of course, I can't work on that all day long).

TheSHEEEP · **Posted:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:50 am

Hi again,

I've made some pretty good process and can save editions and pictures in the right format and load them into MWS.

But there are still some optimizations to make, bugs to fix, etc. before I will make it public. My estimation: Another week shall pass.

Also, I have two questions:

1. Is this part of the Master.mwBase of any importance?

Code:

I wonder if it is needed at all since all it does is repeating the pattern "INCREASINGNUMBER 0 4". Seems like some very redundant information to me. And leaving it out of the file doesn't seem to have any negative effect on MWS.

2. Is the order of the cards in the *.mwBase of any importance?

I hope that someone can help me, again.

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