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Card Engine

✨ Card Generator

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Upload Card
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Mask Shiny Areas
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Export VTF

📤 Step 1: Upload Your Card Image

This tool makes one side's texture per run — front or back — matching CARD.Texture / CARD.RearTexture. Run it twice to get a complete card.

  • Required size: exactly 512x512 pixels (uploads of any other size are rejected)
  • Your art should already be positioned in the top-left corner, sized to your card's CardSize preset — 372x512 for the default Common size, 351x512 for Japanese (see the size table in Configuring a Collectible Card) — with the rest of the canvas left blank
  • This is exactly what the tutorial's card-template-front.pdn / card-template-back.pdn templates set up for you
  • Format: PNG (with or without transparency)
  • The uploaded image will be used as the base for creating the holographic effect
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Click to upload or drag & drop your card image

PNG files only

✨ Step 2: Define Holographic Areas

Adjust the settings to create an alpha mask that determines which parts will be holographic.

  • White areas = fully holographic (shiny)
  • Black areas = no holographic effect
  • Gray areas = partial holographic effect

Quick Presets

Choose a preset to quickly generate a mask, then switch to Automatic or Manual tabs to fine-tune.

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Set to 0 to disable thresholding

🎨 Drawing Tools

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Current Color:
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Base Card (Reference)
✨ Holographic Preview
Alpha Mask (White = Shiny) - Click to Edit

💾 Step 3: Export This Side's Texture

Preview the final result and download as a VTF file for use in Card Engine.

  • The alpha mask has been applied to your card image
  • Transparent areas will appear holographic in-game
  • The file will be exported in RGBA8888 format (best quality with alpha channel)

Match this to your card's CARD.Texture / CARD.RearTexture field. Example: card_prop_killer for the front, card_prop_killer_back for the back.

Final Card (with Alpha Channel)
✨ Holographic Preview

✓ Ready to Export! The transparent areas will appear holographic in-game.

This downloads one texture. If you haven't made the other side yet, click Start Over below and repeat this flow for it, saving it under whichever of CARD.Texture / CARD.RearTexture applies.