Overview
Want to play TCG on Tabletop Simulator? Have you got magic cards, yugioh or pokemon cards that you want to bring into a more virtual playing field? well this guide is for you. With Decker, a tool for Tabletop that simplifies importing your card decks into the game.No need to hunt down individual card images. Decker pulls them from the internet and adds them straight into Tabletop’s chest, where you can play your decks with others.
Installing Decker
First try downloading from this website:
[link]
This may be down, so alternative downloads are listed below:
Windows:
Download [link]
Ubuntu:
Follow the instructions on [link]
Arch Linux:
[link]
File format (.deck)
Decks are contained in .deck files
The format is a header at the top specifying the card game and then a list of cards like below.
Decker supports any way of formatting the deck as long as you have the header and a list of cards with either of the following formats:
—- Magic Decks
Magic is one of the supported games,
You can find the example decks in the decks folder of decker
(If you installed the zip)
Here is an example magic deck using the different formats:
Files are to be saved as .deck format.
—- Pokemon Decks
Pokemon TCG is one of the supported games,
You can find the example decks in the decks folder of decker
(If you installed the zip)
Here is an example pokemon deck using the different formats:
Files are to be saved as .deck format.
—- Yugioh Decks
Yugioh is one of the supported games,
You can find the example decks in the decks folder of decker
(If you installed the zip)
Here is an example pokemon deck using the different formats:
Files are to be saved as .deck format.
—- Cardfight Decks
Cardfight!! Vanguard is one of the supported games,
You can find the example decks in the decks folder of decker
(If you installed the zip)
Here is an example deck:
Files are to be saved as .deck format.
—- Custom Decks
You can also create Custom Decks.
You can find the example decks in the decks folder of decker
(If you installed the zip)
For custom decks you can specify links to the images.
You can also add your own images from a local folder.
The folder structure needs to be like this:
These images can be referred to by their file names:
The only limitation is that the pictures need to have a .jpg suffix.
This is something that will be fixed in a later version of Decker.
—- Text Decks
If you want to make a simple text based card game, Decker has support for that.
Decker wil generate white cards with black text, no internet is required to generate these.
Generating your deck.
To generate a deck, first make sure you have a .deck file to generate, either by making one, using an example or downloading one.
On Windows:
Drag the .deck file onto decker.exe and it will generate it for you.
On Ubuntu:
Double click on the .deck file.
A console will pop up and decker will download any images if needed from the internet, if you have generated the deck before, decker will use it’s cache.
When decker has finished it will display Done!
An image will be output in the same folder as the deck.
Using your deck with Tabletop Simulator
When you generate a deck, it will automatically be added to the Chest.
But in order for the images to load, you need to have decker running while in-game.
Windows:
Double click the decker.exe file.
Ubuntu:
Run decker from the dash.
Now when you play Tabletop, Decker provides the images for the decks.
If you want it that when people join your server they can download the decks too, you need to forward port 20002 on your router.
If you can’t port forward or you don’t like the idea or need the images to be permanent, eg. a mod.
Then drag the .deck.jpg that was generated on to decker.exe (right click open with decker on linux)
The image will be uploaded to IMGUR.