User blog:Kushieda minori/Steps to set up a new event

At the moment these are just notes for myself, but hopefully it'll be useful for someone else too.

Initial Preperation

 * Download the VC data files
 * Decrypt the images
 * Upload new images with proper naming
 * Card images
 * Card.png
 * Card 1.png
 * Card 2.png
 * Card 3.png
 * Card H.png
 * Card icon.png
 * Event Banner (Found in Files → Event → ...)
 * Banner Event Name.png

Pulling information from the data files

 * The event banners are located in the Files → Event → ... folders
 * The card images are located in the Files → Cards → md folder They follow the naming pattern like "Cd 9000.png" "Cd 9001.png" "Cd 9003.png" "Cd 9004.png" "Cd 9005.png". "Cd 9000.png" would be the 0✰ card, and "Cd 9001.png" would be the final evolution. The other cards ("Cd 9003.png" "Cd 9004.png" "Cd 9005.png") would be the middle evolution steps in order.
 * All text information for cards, news, and other items in-game are located in the "strings" folder (Files → ...). You can open the files using a Hex editor and locate the information as needed.

Update the home page
Add in the new event info, replacing the image, the event end date, and the ranking rewards. |event image = Banner The New Event.png
 * event end = August 31 2015 11:59:00 +0900
 * ranking = FAW Ranking Card
 * ranking 2 = AUB Ranking Card

Update the new cards list Note: Delete 1 "new cards" record from the bottom of the list so the list isn't too long

Update any summon information, removing old summon, adding new summon

Update the "|unreleased cards" list

Update the Card Release Log
You can easily update the card release log with nearly the same tag as used on the event page As you can see, the "New Cards" just changed to "Card Release Log". the other parameters are the same.

Update the previous event page
The previous event needs it's navigation updated. At the bottom of the page, you'll see a tag that looks like this: You'll need to add the new event to the template similar to this:

Create the new event page
The new event page can be created by clicking on your new navigation item in the previous event page. You can then use the following template:

Event Text goes here copied from the data files

Ranking Trend
For help on the event template see Template:Event/doc and Template:Rewards7/doc for a full explanation of the fields.

For the ranking grid, Copy the lines starting at "|- ! Date" and the lines that just have the pipe ("|") as many times as there are ranking days. Start the date at one after the last day of the previous event, and end it on the current event's end date using the JST time zone.

For Example, a 7 day event starting on August 1st would look like this:

The event text can be found in the "" data file