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Deck Editor

Ordinarily, every card an actor collects goes into battle with them. This plugin adds an extra menu the player can use to take cards they've collected in their Library and create Decks with them, equip a deck, and use that deck going into battle.

Whenever an actor learns a skill, instead of a card being added to their deck, it's added to their Library, and can be manually added to their deck using the Deck Editor interface.

If “Actors share Library” is turned on, all actors' cards will be pooled into one Library, and all decks created will be shared among the party.

Deck Editor Plugin is available on itch.io.

Parameters

Actors share library?	If set to ON, all party members will share a Card Library as well as sharing a list of Decks.
Starting Library Cards	Contains the list of starting Library Cards if the previous parameter is ON. Uses the same syntax as Actor/Class Decklist Notetags.

Min Deck Size	The minimum amount of cards a deck must have before it can be equipped.
Max Deck Size	The max amount of cards allowed in a deck.
Max Card Copies	The max amount of copies of an individual card allowed in a deck.
Max Name Length	The amount of characters allowed in a deck's name.

Deck Points Name	How Deck Points will be called in your game.
Deck Points Abbrv	The abbreviation of your Deck Points.
Default Starting DP	How many max Deck Points an actor will initialize with at level 1 by default. This can be overridden with notetags.
Deck Points on Level Up	How many Deck Points an actor will gain on a level up. Can be overridden with notetags.

Card Window Width	The width of the windows where the player selects cards. Leave room for the preview card.
Hide Offscreen Cards	If set to ON, cards will disappear when they're scrolled away. This looks good in some resolutions and bad in others.
Preview Card Y	The Y coordinate of the preview card in the Deck Editor scene. It's always centered horizontally.
Preview Card Scale	The scale of the preview card in the Deck Editor scene.
Window Card Scale	The scale of the cards in the windows in the Deck Editor scene.
Selected Card Scale	The scale of the card in the windows in the Deck Editor scene that is currently being inspected.

Front Sprite	The sprite used for the scrollbar. The middle third of its height scales to change the bar's size.
Back Sprite	The sprite used for the bit behind the scrollbar.
X Offset	The amount of pixels to the right of a scrolling window the scroll bar will appear.
Y Pinch	The amount of pixels the top is lowered by and the bottom is raised by to keep within the window.

Right Arrow Image	The image for the arrow when adding cards to the deck.
Left Arrow Image	The image for the arrow when removing cards from the deck.
Anchor Y	The Y coordinate of the arrow sprite. It's horizontally centered.

Help Window Width	The width of the Help Window at the bottom of the screen.
Help Window Font Size	The font size for help text for this scene. Default for RPG Maker is 28.
Deck Status Width	The width of the Deck Status Window at the bottom right of the screen.

Equipped Image	The image used on the Deck Selection window to show a deck is equipped.
Anchor X	The X coordiante of the equipped image in the Deck Selection window.
Anchor Y	The Y coordinate of the equipped image in the row on the window that contains the equipped deck.

Deck Status Contents

The List of things the Deck Status Window will display.

This parameter is an array, where each index in the array adds a new line to the Deck Status Window. These are the things that can be listed in the Deck Status Contents:

Name	The name of the deck
Count	The amount of cards in the deck / the max amount of cards
Cost	The total DP cost of the deck's cards / the actor's max DP
Type	The number of cards in each Type in the deck. Will only display as many types as the window has room for.

You can make multiple items share a line on the window by separating them with commas, like so:

Name, Count, Cost

Doing so may not give them enough room to display comfortably, depending on the width of the window specified in the Deck Status Width plugin parameter. In addition, Type always takes up a full line.

Too many cards	The message that displays in the Deck Selection window if that deck has more than the legal number of cards
Not enough cards	The message that displays if a deck has less than the legal number of cards
Too many copies of a card	The message that displays if too many copies of one card are in the deck.
Cards missing from Library	The message that displays if the deck contains cards that are not in the player's library.
Not Enough Deck Points	The message that displays if the total DP cost of a deck exceeds the actor's max DP
Illegal Deck Equipped Popup	The message that pops up if the player tries to leave the menu with an illegal deck equipped.
Font Size	The font size for the above messages when they appear in the Deck Selection window.

Plugin Commands

Command Syntax	Event Usage	Description
IncreaseDP [ActorID] [Amount]	Map Only	Will add the specified amount to the actor's max DP, like raising a stat.
OpenDeckEditor	Map Only	Will open the Deck Editor Scene during an Event
EquipDeck [ActorID] [DeckName]	Map Only	Equips Actor with matching ID with a Decklist you specify. Actor needs to be in the party. Decklist needs to match the name given. Example: “EquipDeck 1 HeroStarter” will equip the Actor at ID 1 with the Decklist called “HeroStarter” if it is available.

Notetags

Notetag Syntax

Database Usage

Description

<deck restriction>
minsize: X
maxsize: Y
</deck restriction>

Actors, Classes

Sets a Deck Restriction on the Actor or Class.

minsize: X sets the minimum number of Cards required in the deck for it to be valid.

maxsize: Y sets the maximum number of Cards to be in the deck for it to be valid.

If an Actor has restrictions from both their Actor notetags and their Class notetags, the Actor notetags will always take precedence.

<max copies: X>

Skills

Specifies the number of copies of this Card that can be allowed in a Deck for it to be valid. Number must be higher than 0.

<decklist DeckName>
5x Skill Y
3x Skill Z
</decklist>

<decklist DeckName>
5x skillName
3x skillName
1x skillName
</decklist>

Actors, Classes

This defines a starter Deck for an Actor or Class.

deckName is the name given to the starter Deck and can't have any spaces.

You can specify the Cards in the Starter Deck as Skill IDs (e.g. 34, 45, 52) or as Names (Punch).

By default, all Skills that an actors learns at level 1 are put into a Deck which is equipped on initialization.

Script Calls

Script Call Syntax	Description
$gameParty.addCardToLibrary(skillId)	Adds Card of given Skill ID to the Shared Library. Card will need to be added to a Decklist via Deck Edit Scene in order to be used by an Actor.
$gameParty.removeCardFromLibrary(skillId)	Removes Card of given Skill ID from the Shared Library. If Card with the given ID can't be found, it will not remove anything.

Version History

**v1.0.0** - Released plugin

Card Game Combat - Documentation

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