[IDEA] - File format for custom cards

[devoxel]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I am making some custom cards for a friend and I'm frustrated by some workflow problems.

• Sometimes Proxyshop hits some bug where it gets stuck cancelling, and I need to restart.
• And then down the line I realize I made a typo, uh oh, time to go back and re-edit the input.
• Having to retype multiple times has made me just always save the input into a txt file as an intermediate.

Describe the solution you'd like
I'm imagining when you generate your card, you get a card_name.yaml file generated (or whatever format) alongside the image. If you want to regenerate from that, you could re-drag that yaml file into proxyshop.

You could have fields corresponding to the card you were creating in the custom creator, eg

title: My Custom Card
src: <card_image_path>
...

Effectively this is just a text encoding for the struct that's being used to input the data, and a way to load that to skip the manual input.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I have not thought about this for very long, potentially there's a better possible flow.

Additional context
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[pappnu]

In my fork you can do renders in the way you'd like, though the implementation expects JSON files that include a valid Scryfall card specification, which isn't as simple as the old custom creator but allows far finer control of the resulting output.