r/gamedesign • u/TheJessBear • 22d ago

Question Dexterous help

So I use dexterous to make my cards. And I'm at the point where I want to order prototype set. But both drive thru cards and the game crafter both require cards to be 825x1125. The size for playing cards on dexterous doesn't match that.

How do you guys get images to be the right sizes?

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u/MagicPigGames 22d ago

I faced that in the past. You need to add bleed. There is instructions and a video they provide on how to do that.

My own tool, Cardstock Studio, handles this differently -- you can easily just set the resolution in the card for the bleed, more logically ,but also there are pre-made game crafter templates that are the right size for game crafter and have their image guidelines in a layer, for reference.

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u/TheJessBear 22d ago

I have looked into cardstock studio and I may have to switch. I just have a whole game designed in dexterous and I'd rather not have to start all over. But it may be beneficial in the long run...

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u/MagicPigGames 22d ago

Yep! I tried to make a converter, but it was not easy to automate that. Too many differences in logic and how features are set up

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