Guide

Handling the cards in the shop

How a card behaves as a physical object in TCG Card Shop Simulator, from picking it up to putting it on a shelf.

Applies to

no version stated by this build (see the sources page)

Before you start

• Cards in the shop
• A shelf or storage for them
• The scanner if you are selling them

Steps

1. Treat a card as a world object rather than a screen item.
   a card is a world object with a mesh, a highlight, a collider and a rigid body
2. Know which cards you can pick up, box and scan before you plan a job.
   a card carries its own permissions for being picked up and moved, boxed up and scanned at the counter
3. Watch where a card is allowed to be put.
   a card carries placement rules for the shop and for the warehouse, with a move area and a separate shelf move area
4. Check whether a card belongs in an album before you shelve it as stock.
   a card carries a flag for whether it is an album card
5. Know what the display group is doing while a card is shown.
   the group holds a card display and an animation of its own, with a front mesh position and a back mesh
6. Use the new-card mark to spot what you have just acquired.
   the group can mark a card as new
7. Keep graded cards in the group that was built for them.
   there is a graded group and a separate cull group with a slab top-layer mesh and blockers for the case's front and back

Common mistakes

• Trying to move a card that is not allowed to be picked up.
• Putting a card where the card itself does not permit.
• Shelving an album card as ordinary stock.
• Treating a graded card like a loose one when it has its own display group.

Related entries

Cards and rarityThe card object in the worldA card is a world object with a mesh, a highlight, a collider and a rigid body.Cards and rarityThe group that shows a cardThe group holds a card display and an animation of its own.Cards and rarityHow a card front is builtThe game ships a card front for each element.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.