(Resource) Custom Waifu Card Templates

[doragonmaid]

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(Resource) Custom Waifu Card Templates

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In short, this is just a set of templates for people specifically wanting to make texture replacers for my mod Waifu Cards, allowing you to put whatever art you want on the cards while still matching the format, holos, and normal maps of the original mod. It has the templates for each card set, along with an alternate version available for the Desert set that is a bit more lore-friendly.

 

***Paint.NET is needed for the main .pdn templates and to follow the guide easier, but I also provided a .dds version for people who want to use different programs.

 

--- Text and image guides for making card replacers ---

 

(These assume you have at least a little bit of knowledge using image editing programs)

 

**Read first! - the "full art" templates are used for SR, SSR, UR, Hentai and Dungeon cards. If you want, you can also turn every card into a full art by installing/overwriting with the new optional file, and using the full art templates for all your cards.

 

Guide: Replacing a card (example: Town SR card)

 

Spoiler

 

1. Open the template you want to use in Paint.net (in this case the Town full art format since it's an SR card - note the pictures in this guide were made before the "full art" format came out)).

 

You'll see there's four layers, but the only two you'll be concerned with are the top and bottom layers. If there aren't empty layers on the top and bottom then add them in using the "+" button and arrange them like so:

 

 

2. Open your art separately, select all (ctrl+a) and copy it with ctrl+c.

 

 

3. Go back to your template, select the bottom layer, and paste the art (ctrl+v). Don't expand the canvas when you do this! The image dimensions need to remain at 1024x1024 for the texture to work in-game.

 

4. Resize your art maintaining the aspect ratio so it won't look bad, by holding shift while resizing it. (In other words, shift + dragging with the mouse)

 

 

5. Once your art is resized and in a good spot on the bottom layer, deselect it and switch over to the top layer.

 

6. Here you can add your text for the card title/rarity. The exact fonts/stylings I used, in case you want to mimic exactly what I did:

 

Regular card title: Papyrus font size 28, font color: white, bold, italic, Effects --> Object --> Drop Shadow
Regular card title (Sea, Myst and Secret cards): Papyrus font size 28, font color: white, bold, italic, Effects --> Photo --> Glow
Rarity symbols: Papyrus font size 36, font color: black for Holy cards & white for everything else, bold, italic, Effects --> Photo --> Glow
Hentai card title: Viner Hand ITC size 28, italic, no effects

 

 

7. Position your text as neatly as you can. If the original card has a rarity, make sure you indicate it on the card as well - for example, the one I'm replacing is an SR so I added the symbol as well. Make sure you select only the "SR" or put it on a new layer if you want to apply a glow effect to it, so you don't put the glow effect on the title as well.

 

 

8. Once you're done, it's time to overwrite the original DDS. Double-check that your image dimensions are still at 1024x1024, then go to "Save as.." and find the texture you want to replace in your game folder (you can see the exact filepath below)

 

 

**Important: Make sure you only overwrite, and don't change any filenames, or else the game won't load the texture you made. So for example, when you're replacing cards in the Fire set, their names must stay as whatever stupid thing I named them to begin with, like "FireySet1" and so on.

 

**Very important: When exporting as a DDS, you'll be presented with compression options. Make sure you pick the exact options below before saving.

 

 

After that, all you have to do is say yes to overwrite and congrats, you replaced the card! Now have fun doing over 150 of them. Lol

 

 

 

Guide: Making your own themed template

 

Spoiler

1. Open any of the templates, and delete the layer that has the background on it so you're left with this:

 

 

2. On the bottom layer, paste whatever wallpaper-oriented image you want to use.

 

 

3. Still on that layer, use rectangle select to cut out the portions of the card where your art would go with Ctrl+X. The end result should look like this:

 

 

4. Lastly, add another empty layer to the bottom if you used the one that was already there. Save it as a .pdn and congrats, you have another template. EZ

 

 

--- Permissions/Credits ---

 

The base template that Waifu Cards is based on is from InsanitySorrow's modder's resource. (My version of it extends the art portion of the card, hence why having my version of the templates is important for people wanting to make specific replacers for Waifu Cards).

 

Feel free to release your texture replacers for Waifu Cards if you want, just make sure that both InsanitySorrow's resource and my mod/templates get credited.

 

Good luck making your own cards, whether they're personal or shared! Hopefully we'll get to see some fun variety come from this.

 

 

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• Submitter
  doragonmaid
• Submitted
  10/09/2023
• Category
  Regular Mods
• Requirements
  Paint.NET
• Regular Edition Compatible
  No

 

Edited October 13, 2023 by doragonmaid

[Kroki09]

followed everything but now everytime i try to view the card in game, it ctds

[doragonmaid]

5 hours ago, kractus09 said:

followed everything but now everytime i try to view the card in game, it ctds

 

Usually the only times a texture can actually cause a CTD is for two reasons:

 

1. (Most likely case) The dimensions of the texture got expanded when it needs to remain exactly 1024x1024, or 2048x2048 if you upscale it.

 

(This probably would've happened when you added your image - make sure you never expand the canvas, just paste it in and resize, and make sure the dimensions are still 1024x1024 before you export)

 

or

 

2. The game isn't loading the texture because it can't find it (i.e. you changed the filename, moved it to a different folder, or didn't save it as a .dds)

 

I've added a bit about the texture dimensions to the guide now. I forgot that most people probably didn't know about that, apologies.

 

Edited October 13, 2023 by doragonmaid

[Kroki09]

2 hours ago, doragonmaid said:

 

Usually the only times a texture can actually cause a CTD is for two reasons:

 

1. (Most likely case) The dimensions of the texture got expanded when it needs to remain exactly 1024x1024, or 2048x2048 if you upscale it.

 

(This probably would've happened when you added your image - make sure you never expand the canvas, just paste it in and resize, and make sure the dimensions are still 1024x1024 before you export)

 

or

 

2. The game isn't loading the texture because it can't find it (i.e. you changed the filename, moved it to a different folder, or didn't save it as a .dds)

 

I've added a bit about the texture dimensions to the guide now. I forgot that most people probably didn't know about that, apologies.

 

Ah thank you for the help it was the dimensions being slightly off.

[Nova4]

The island template is missing

[doragonmaid]

On 4/18/2024 at 4:20 PM, Nova4 said:

The island template is missing

 

Well, it's absurdly late but I've finally updated that. lol

[Nova4]

14 minutes ago, doragonmaid said:

 

Well, it's absurdly late but I've finally updated that. lol

thank you. I hope you do artwork and templates for starfield's magazines and posters

[Noah222]

Thanks for making these templates.

I use Photoshop as much as possible as a graphic designer but i have GIMP (2.10) installed on my system by default.but GIMP cant open those .PDN while its listed in the software list for this extension type. I have tried also with PDF Creator (also listed), same unrecognised format.

Would you mind publising in a more universal format for the templates ? 24 bits .PNG  supporting transparency, or even .DDS with Color + Alpha seems to fit your templates format and would be more universal, dont you think ?

Thanks for the mod in any case.

[doragonmaid]

On 7/22/2024 at 2:48 AM, Noah222 said:

Thanks for making these templates.

I use Photoshop as much as possible as a graphic designer but i have GIMP (2.10) installed on my system by default.but GIMP cant open those .PDN while its listed in the software list for this extension type. I have tried also with PDF Creator (also listed), same unrecognised format.

Would you mind publising in a more universal format for the templates ? 24 bits .PNG  supporting transparency, or even .DDS with Color + Alpha seems to fit your templates format and would be more universal, dont you think ?

Thanks for the mod in any case.

 

Well it's update day and I finally spotted your post so I added a dds version as well. Hope it works out for you!

Edited July 26, 2024 by doragonmaid

[Noah222]

On 7/26/2024 at 6:11 AM, doragonmaid said:

 

Well it's update day and I finally spotted your post so I added a dds version as well. Hope it works out for you!

It's brain wake up day here like 'what's going on on LL ?" so i finally spoted your answer and upload and...
Purrfect   totally works, i can open and work on those DDS templates.

Thanks a LOT for the answer and upload  !!!

[Sheepmanj]

Hello, thats the one im doing to test, the backside and frontside are working perfect, with thhe shadow when rotating and that, i'd just like to ask, is there a way to make transparent the black part to make it round like this one? or this is just for rectangle cards?
(thats how it looks in-game)

Edited October 23, 2024 by Sheepmanj

[Selen Kaylor]

Hello!
Is it possible to increase the number and type of cards?
And do I need to change the scripts for this?

UPD.

Yes, I already understood what was needed. 
I just want there to be an equal number of cards in each group. This makes it easier to sort and generate.

Edited November 17, 2024 by Selen Kaylor

[xthunderclawx]

Hello, sorry, you don't have the pdf guide or a link to a video to guide me, because LoveLabs doesn't let me open the tabs to see the images.

[papavitch1]

Does Anyone Know if this 

 

is ok to use images from

[Indipotter]

can we at some point get a template for "collectingguide.dds"?

as well as a guide to how to properly additional cards.

Edited September 7, 2025 by Indipotter

[Terrible Luck]

I made some basic templates for people who want to do full art replacers, but don't know where the card begins and ends. The left side is the front of the card and the right side is the back of the card.

A few notes:

- The backside of the card is flipped horizontally in game so if you want it to look normal (like text going the correct way) you have to flip the back of the card horizontally in your image. Here's an example.

 

Spoiler

 

- There are two templates I added, 1k and 2k. They can be used on a card by card basis as far as I can tell so you can have one card with 1k textures and another with 2k. It's usually not needed to have a 2k card, but some hi res images introduce artifacts and going 2k fixes that.

 

- There will be borders from the old template showing up and covering your art, this is because the holo effects add their own borders to the card. This can be solved by simply making the holo effects blank, essentially turning them off. There is a way to keep the holo effects, but that requires editing all the holo effects and I'm too lazy to do that. I'll include the holo files with the holo effects removed if you don't want to go to the trouble of deleting everything yourself. The "Holo effects removed zip" should be used to overwrite the files located in WaifuCards/textures/aaWaifucards

 

Holo effects removed.zip

Waifu Cards Template.zip

Edited January 20 by Terrible Luck