I just finished the card-vgui for my Poker game I currently code in Lua. The ranking is nearly done, the pot is coded and I thought: Hell yeah, next step will be the VGUI.

Another reason why I did it was because it’s horrible to identify the different cards by e.g. D.Q (Diamonds Queen) or S.7 (Spades Seven) – Just to name some.

Some information about the VGUI: You can resize it without any issues and only those textures which are necessary are saved.

E.g. the suits and only the upper half of the J,Q,K are stored in materials. The rest is done by the VGUI. This probably increases the code of the VGUI from about 30 to 130 lines compared to those which uses every card as imaged directly. But this decreases the size of the necessary textures from several MB to just around 236 kB.