Invisible Frames (VS)

[artfreakwiu]

A preview of the two styles included in the ZIP:


I extend a great thank you to Guglio of TCGPlayer, VSRealms, and VSU2.0 for testing this one out for me!
Now, I hope you all enjoy it! The only catch with the old style invisible borders is that dual frames aren't available yet.

[Pichoro]

I was thinking; would it not be possible for this style to lighten the download size by having the style use the images from other corresponding templates? I mean, you could use new masks on already existant frames, and just have these styles dependant upon the already existing one. Including the vs-invisible one; do you really need to make new frames for these? Why not just apply the masks over the existant frames? Or at that point, do these even need to be their own templates? Why not just make it a transparent art option like on magic-new?

It also kinda bothers me how similar your vs-new-invisible style is to Gen_leo's vs-new-ea style. Yours does have more transparency, though.

[artfreakwiu]

1) No, I can't use the other images. The problem is that the invisible styles need grey areas, not lightened areas. When masks can sap colors from areas, then what you propose would be feasable.

2) While it's similar, my styles are old... and I mean old: http://forum.tcgplayer.com/showthread.php?t=47189
As it developed: http://forum.tcgplayer.com/showthread.p ... ight=Mario (see image below, link is just origin post)

I developed the style 3 years ago for the original frames, and at a friend's request translated it over to the new style.
I also have had the intention to bring it to MSE2 for almost a year: http://forum.tcgplayer.com/showpost.php ... tcount=188

Sorry if it's too similar, but all thing's considered - I did it first.

EDIT: A different style is a different style isn't it? My invisble vs styles feature the whole card as an image, and added drop shadows to make text more legible.
Now look at these MTG styles: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=395 & viewtopic.php?f=19&t=327
Comparing the examples I posted, one's a combo of old & modern and the other of old & pshifted as well as some different fonts and colors between the two. Nobody screamed rip then because they were different, (even though Butt and I did CS first), no need to do it now.
Plus, my invisible styles feature some nifty pinstriping.

[Pichoro]

Well, let's not jump to terms like "ripping". I'm merely saying they were fairly similar. And also for the record, I did question the need for a "seven and a half" edition style as a separate style rather than as a styling choice, just as I did this. http://magicseteditor.sourceforge.net/node/1340

[artfreakwiu]

LOL, at lest you're consistent J/K. Honestly, I appreciate the questioning of it, and in all truthfulness I would have made these style options if I could. The old invisible style could be I suppose, but with the new invisible style separate I figured the old invisible style might as well be too.

[Pichoro]

In light of the update to VS with 0.3.8, I'd like to offer these two updated templates. I won't overwrite Artfreakwiu's templates until I get the go ahead, though.