GW Skill cards & Sealed Deck Generator

You can visit our forums:
http://forum.sof-guild.com/
There's a section where you can upload your models. Be sure to read the guidelines for image specs. Know also that until the next major skill update the submitted models will not be used

Still not fixed the Shield Guardian/Soulstone Strike messup?
I think I posted that error on here AGES ago.

_Zexion

You might wanna check the original post, where Frog gives you the link for feedbacks.

GenCon report: ANet decided to create their own cards [picture] with only one overused background and model per profession. I'm seriously disappointed by their material... But since it's official, I'm not sure I'll take the time to make a new release considering the feedback (or the lack of feedback) and use of my cards in the GW community.

@Zexion: I had fixed the redundant icons in the previous release (it originally comes from an error in the official fan kit icons), but my PC suffered a serious disk crash recently and my backup didn't contain this fix. I'll have to re-change the icon in the next release (if there is one).

I saw the cards too Frog, and while they are nice... your's are sharp. I was hoping they would at least, if they made their own, take some notes from yours. The work you put in is phenomenal, if Guild Wars players had an option to buy some of these cards from ArenaNet (or we had the permission to be able to print and distribute something like yours) I believe that a GW card game could become quite popular and have it's own cult following.

I've been quietly watching this project for some time, I'm really appreciative of all the work thats gone into it. The 'official' cards can't hold a candle to yours! Thanks!

Sorry for the stupid question,but you can make your own cards ?

2006/09/25: New release. The distribution package (GW cards, minicards, skill icons, and the sofBBcode) can be found on filefront.com: click here.
- Skills updated as per the latest GW update (skill balance 2006/09/14 & before Nightfall WPE)
- Changed skill descriptions to include values for 0...12...16 as in the SoFDB

2006/10/26: New release. Available at filefront.com. Included in this package:
- First release of the vB mod for sofBBcode (with a clean and simple installer)
- demo Wiki tag included and available in the vB mod
- pre-release cards (and minicards) for Nightfall skills (based on WPE stats)


TODO LIST:
- Fix the lack of icon for maintained enchants on Recall (inconsistent wording of the ingame skill description)
- Add skill rarity icon for Nightfall skills (rarity list not published by ANet)
- Update NF with their release avatar (as opposed to the WPE version)
- Include all NF icons (official fan kit not release by ANet)
- Update the skill database with today's skill update
- Include MyBB mod into the easy installer
- Include IPB mod into the easy installer
- Make phpBB mod and add it the easy installer
- Make php-nuke mod and add it the easy installer

Forgot to post the announcement on GWG: :/
Added since then: MediaWiki installer and phpnuke forums installer


2006/11/06: New release. Available here ( ~100MB ).

Release notes:

In addition to the traditional updates (Nightfall, skill balance, more wiki articles with pop ups) and improvements (phpBB, phpNuke, MyBB installer, template management), and goodies (xml/txt/php/wiki dumps), there is a significant change in the sofbbcode philosophy: I am now using a skill database built from a unification & merging of GuildWiki and gwdb plus additional data from other sources: sealed rarity, better icons whenever available, 0..12..16 descriptors...

So far most GW websites were reinventing the wheel and maintaining their own inaccurate and incomplete databases. Ideally, ANet would provide this reference material (they're using it on their own website and cards) but we're working with what we have... In an effort to use, to unify and to merge the best GW fan material available out there, I built various 'database' translators and website scanners to help fix errors and to complete existing databases with additional data available elsewhere.

To complete the demonstration, I plugged this translated material into my card builder to replace the [SoF] internal database. This will alleviate our upkeep effort, and allow [SoF] members to help improve the 'official' source used for the sobbcode. What used to stay in SoF will be shared with the community, either through the updated Wiki/gwdb content itself, or through the sofBBcode package.

The sofbbcode is a proof of concept. It is by no means a replacement of other websites or GW tools. It is basically maintained to show that such database-like content from GW fan sites could benefit from other formats and other gadgets (database filters, sorting, comparison...). Another demonstration I wanted to make was it was possible to grab and reformat/translate this material automatically with a quickly tinkered bot.

This modest bbcode demo will hopefully demonstrate that the knowledge accumulated in a large GW fan site could benefit from other storage medias (structured database) and other tools: both classical (structured/dynamic display) or smart/innovative gadgets.

The first solid result was to encourage ANet to improve and to release official Sealed Deck cards. Another notable outcome was to detect and help fix errors on the GuildWiki skill list (see here and here), but also to provide additional reference data that could be included in the gwdb. Another side effect was to show how cool-looking would be a GW-based trading card game...

When I think the concept is fully explored and demonstrated, I'll consider the end of the sofbbcode. The GW cards can be replaced by ANet's official card set, the minicards and tooltips can be replaced by the gwbbcode, the Sealed Deck Generator will be simplified (no more cards) and its source released, and the [ wiki ] tag will hopefully be replaced by better tools from other groups.

Talking too much, as usual. Oh well... Let's talk about features and content.

Enjoy.

Frog Devourer.

PS: both GuildWiki and the gwShack need help to maintain accurate skill databases (but suggestions, bug reports...). Please check out these links if you want to contribute and to give a hand : GuildWiki and gwShack.



New/upgraded features:

- New installer: upload & unpack in your ZIP file in your main vBulletin (or MyBb, PhpBB2, phpNuke) directory, change access rights if need, run the installer, and voilà
- Updated Sealed Deck Generator with Nightfall skills and Professions
- Updated card set with recent skill update : all 1136 skills from the three chapters
- Updated card set with post-release NF skills (as opposed to the WPE version)
- Included all NF icons (wiki/gwkb, not official fan kit)
- [ wiki ] article shortlist expanded (557 bosses with either green or elite, 297 elites, 328 greens)
- [ wiki ] tag expanded (if you enter a non-elite skill, the regular tooltip is displayed)
- Removed case dependency of tag parameter ([ skill=text]SPRINT[/skill ] is now equal to [ skill=text]Sprint[/skill ])
- Improved card layout engine (description, attr/value tables, font auto-size-change...)
- Added card & mini-card for Signet of Capture
- New [ template ] and [ build ] tags based on Liu Pi's template library.
Ex: [ template]ABNRMpcNl/aqX8rCr4KNRAA[/template ]

Experimental features:

- phpBB2 mod added to easy installer
- MyBB mod added to easy installer
- phpNuke mod added to easy installer

Additional content:

- Skill, Elite, Green and Boss reference lists (notably useful for the [ wiki ] tag)
- XML version of the GuildWiki skill database (merged with miscellaneous data from SoF, gwdb, and ANet
- XML version of the gwdb skill database (merged with miscellaneous data from SoF, GuildWiki, and ANet
- Gwdb skill database translated into GuildWiki template format (can be used to fix the 300+ significant errors on GuildWiki). I have stored and reconstructed the [[links]] of the original article, and the '''0...12''' descriptions, and any other additional descriptor not available in gwdb.
- GuildWiki skill database translated into gwdb PHP format (can be used to inconsistencies between both data sets). Additional data from other sources have been merged with th original GuildWiki content.
- Structured XML data about notable GuildWiki articles (bosses, greens, locations...)

Still on TODO list:

- Expand [ wiki ] shortlist with new articles (waiting for GuildWiki be less saturated to run my scanner)
- Add skill rarity icon for Nightfall skills (rarity list not published by ANet)
- Update all NF icons (official fan kit not released by ANet)
- Add more NF models and armors, especially Dervish & Paragon (none submitted so far)
- Expand XML dataset about wiki articles with Quest and Missions

License and credits:

as mentioned above, this feature is partly based on the content of Guild Wiki and gwShack. This material is under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike or GPL, which means that these tooltips (more precisely the PHP code, and the XML database) is distributed under the same license. Feel free to get more information about Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 here:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

this looks great....i have no use for it in my one-man guild....but pretty good stuff...

2007/02/26: New release. Available here

Release notes:
- Skill descriptions & stats updated with latest ingame changes
- Minor fix of sofbbcode engine (death attribute)

This link just puts me on the filefront.com homepage, I can't find the card from there though.

Hi! Any news about this project? My ally want to build up a little tournment and we need rank for nightfall's skill.
By the way, I can't find the last release too.
Thanks of all!!! You're great!!!

THREAD NECROMANCY

Actually, I was digging around trying to find a Sealed Deck alternative, since the SoF forum and database seems to have shut down, and I found this thread with all sorts of downloads and what not.

Does anyone know of a separate mirror the generator was hosted at, or anything like that? ^_^ How2Sealed Deck without the SoF generator...?

I've tasked our guild coder to develop a new sealed deck generator, and after an hour he created a crude but effective model. It doesn't yet incorporate the skill rarities, but I think this is soon to come.

It's a severe WIP. A couple things aren't working as they should, but I think this can be worked out...

Check it out!

EDIT: The generator is complete. I'm gonna see about spreading it around various places.

EDIT II: Looks like the SoF generator is also back up.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /mnt/103/sda/3/3/claire.dibarboure/Generator/index.php on line 68

What does that mean?

with the new sealed deck coming out for everyone to play in game... might be a good itda to update/re-release this again... since the last update was 2006.