Striped Card Type
This card design was created by CollinHeist. These cards feature a shape (of various kinds) which surrounds the title text. The default shape is a diamond, but circles, squares, and two orientations of triangles are also implemented.
Labeled Card Elements
Episode Text
The Shape card is different from most other card types in that the episode text is added to the title text. This also applies to custom episode text from the Episode Text Format Card option.
By default, the format used for the episode text is {episode_number}. which
is then added to the beginning of the title text (unless episode text is
hidden).
Shape Adjustments
The focal point of this card is the "shape" element which can be colored, positioned, resized, and changed with various extras.
Color
The fill color of the shape can abe adjusted with the Shape Color extra. This color does support transparency.
Affect on Season Text Color
Changing this will also change the color of the season text, unless that color is manually specified - see here.
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Inset
How far from the edge of the image the shape is drawn can be adjusted with the
Shape Inset Extra. This affects the vertical and horizontal spacing if the
Text Position is set to anything other than left or right, in
which case this only affects the horizontal spacing.
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Shape
What kind of shape that's displayed can be adjusted with the Shape Extra. This
setting allows for "hard coding" the shape - e.g. a fixed value of circle will
always produce a circle shape; or for some randomization between shapes.
If this is specified as random, then a shape will be all available options
(circle, diamond, square, down triangle, and up triangle).
If specified like random[shape1, shape2, ...], then a shape will be selected
from any of the specified shapes. These must be comma-separated lowercase
shapes from the available shape options. Repition is allowed, in which case the
given shape will have a proportional probability of being selected.
Randomized Shapes
If this Extra were specified as random[square, square, square, diamond],
then a square shape would be selected 75% of the time (3/4) while a diamond
would be the other 25%.
Randomized shape selection is per-card, meaning regenerating the same Card may result in a different shape.
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Size
How large the shape is can be adjusted with the Shape Size Extra. This is a scalar applied to the default size for each shape.
For titles which take up multiple lines of text, TCM automatically scales the size of the shape by an additional 30% per line of text. This is in addition to the scalar specified here. Meaning a shape with a specified size of 110% and a two-line title would be effectively 143% (1.30 * 1.10).
Potential Sources of Error
Setting this to values which are very far from 1.0 (especially smaller
than) can result in odd text placement or the Shape not being drawn at
all. This is due to the drawing algorithm in which TCM attempts to check
that the shape lines do not overlap the text.
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Stroke
Color
Once enabled, the color of the shape stroke can be adjusted with the Shape Stroke Color Extra.
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Width
By default, there is no stroke added to the displayed shape. By setting the Shape Stroke Width to some value greater than 0, a stroke will be added.
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The stroke is hard to see on the following image (due to the darker coloring). The effect is most prominent on light images.
Toggle
The shape can be completely removed with the Hide Shape Extra. This does not change the text positioning.
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Width
How wide (or thick) the shape appears can be adjusted with the Shape Width extra.
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Season Text
Unlike most other card types, on the Shape card, the season text is completely separated from the episode text. However, a majority of the Extras found on other card types - e.g. the Episode Text Color, Episode Text Font Size, etc. - are available on this card, they are just for only the season text.
Color
The color of the season text can be adjusted with the Season Text Color extra. By default, this matches the Shape Color extra, but a manually specified color will override that behavior.
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Italics
The season text can be displayed in two variations ("standard" and "italic") by adjusting the Italize Season Text Extra.
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Position
The position of the season text relative to the title text can be adjusted with the Season Text Position Extra.
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Size
The size of the season text can be adjusted with the Season Text Font Size Extra. This functions identically to the normal font size adjustment.
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Mask Images
This card also natively supports mask images. Like all mask images, TCM will automatically search for alongside the input Source Image in the Series' source directory, and apply this atop all other Card effects.
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