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[jakester2]

Here it is, a cross-platform GUI for Tectonicus, the best Minecraft map renderer!

Minetographer is a Minecraft deep map renderer powered by OrangyTang's Tectonicus. It allows you to make highly detailed maps of your Minecraft worlds that are viewable using HTML. This makes it easy to create and load maps onto a web server to be viewed anywhere. Minetographer also prioritizes tasks according to system load to make the rendering process even faster and more stable.




Map generator screen:

Minetographer will automatically list all your Minecraft worlds. Select one, choose your options and press Render Map to start the rendering process.





When the render is complete, Minetographer will open your map automatically. The generated map will look like the map seen below.


Day render:



Night render:


Cave render:


Custom texture pack render:


System Requirements:

Spoiler:

Windows:
XP, Vista, Windows 7
Java 1.6.0_25+

Mac OS X:
OS X 10.5.8+
Java 1.6
NOTE: Java 1.7 Beta for Mac is not supported!

Linux:
Java 1.6.0_25+

Download Version (0.7.7):
Mac OS X - Download!
Windows - Download!
Linux - Download!


In This Version:
- Title displays only version and not distribution.
- Render the Ender dimension. (Testing)
- Support for new 1.0 block types.
- Added option to update the map without a complete re-render.
- App settings is now in XML format instead of MDat format.
- Blog posts no longer trail way off the screen.
- No longer saves config files multiple times during startup.
- Settings panel has more intuitive user interface.
- Minor visual improvements.


Release Notes: View...


Running Minetographer in Manual Mode:

• Download the Linux version: Download!
• Run this command through CMD/Terminal:

  java -Xms64m -Xmx256m -jar Minetographer.jar -help

Writing Plugins for Minetographer:

To write a custom plugin for Minetographer you must download and import the plugin libraries provided in the link below.

• Start a new Java project in whichever IDE you like.
• Your main class should be named "MinetographerPlugin". If it is not, Minetographer will not know what class to load.
• Your main class should implement "Plugin" found in the package "com.tyoinspired.minetographer.adt".
• Use the class "Application" provided as a parameter in "run(Application a)" to interface with Minetographer.

Download Plugin Library: Download!
Browse Plugin Javadocs: Browse...

Note: The plugin system is very minimal at this point. More classes will be added to the plugin libraries as need arises.



Plugin Example:

Spoiler:

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Jacob Tyo
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are the property of Jacob Tyo. and cannot be modified or distributed
 * without the permission of the owner.
 */

import com.tyoinspired.minetographer.Application;
import com.tyoinspired.minetographer.adt.Plugin;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;

/**
 * Description goes here.
 *
 * @author Jacob Tyo
 * @version 11/6/2011
 */
public class MinetographerPlugin implements Plugin {
	public static final String PLUGIN_NAME = "My First Plugin";
	public static final String PLUGIN_VERSION = "1.0";
	public static final String PLUGIN_DEVELOPER = "Jacob Tyo";

	private Application application;

	/**
 	* Entry point for the plugin. This method is called when Minetographer attempts
 	* to load the class.
 	* @param a Application class for interfacing with Minetographer.
 	*/
	public void run(Application a) {
		init(a);
		make();
	}

	/**
 	* Initialize local variables.
 	*/
	private void init(Application a) {
		application = a;
	}

	/**
 	* Define the function of the plugin.
 	*/
	private void make() {
		application.activatePluginMenu(PLUGIN_NAME);

		application.getPluginMenu().add(new JMenuItem("About " + getName()));

		application.getPluginMenu().getItem(0).addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
				System.out.println("Name: " + getName());
				System.out.println("Version: " + getVersion());
				System.out.println("Developer: " + getDeveloper());
			}
		});

	}

	/**
 	* Returns the name of the plugin from PLUGIN_NAME.
 	*
 	* This method is required to return a valid String or the plugin will not load.
 	*/
	public String getName() {
		return PLUGIN_NAME;
	}

	/**
 	* Returns the version of the plugin from PLUGIN_VERSION.
 	*
 	* This method is required to return a valid String or the plugin will not load.
 	*/
	public String getVersion() {
		return PLUGIN_VERSION;
	}

	/**
 	* Returns the name of the developer from PLUGIN_DEVELOPER.
 	*
 	* This method is required to return a valid String or the plugin will not load.
 	*/
	public String getDeveloper() {
		return PLUGIN_DEVELOPER;
	}

}

Tectonicus is created and owned by OrangyTang. To see more about Tectonicus, visit its forum page here. If you like this software, you can donate to the Tectonicus project. I am only responsible for the GUI and other related software. He is responsible for the rendering engine that powers Minetographer.
Minetographer is available under version 3 of the GNU General Public License.

[glurft]

Looks awesome. I'm rendering now, I'll edit this post with my feedback

[Nopkar]

minetographer = <3...


finally something that works on a damn mac!!! omg! rendering now, might be awhile xD 400 out of 3600...i'll post the results!

[Nopkar]

wow!!! amazing quality! took a little while, but for what came out, awesome!       for you!

[drewlark99]

Takes a while, havnt finished yet, but looks geat!           

[OMGitzCara]

Whoa, cool.

I'm rendering right now, so far, I haven't had any problems with it, besides 'number of samples before anti aliasing'..
had to change it to 0.

its on tile 390/6236
...


ILL POST RESULTS.

EDIT:

Nice, it took like 2 hours to render though. I blame the computer.

Awesome detail.

[vorob]

program just stuck on this loading screen
http://dl.dropbox.co... ... 162719.png

[foxer]

damm it works for mac but i don't have snow leopard

[--Nova--]

Grrr.

java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid world dir! No level.dat found in C:\Users\******\Documents\MineServerV3\world\level.dat
	at tectonicus.World.(World.java:64)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.run(TectonicusApp.java:244)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.main(TectonicusApp.java:405)
	at GeneralClasses.MapCreator.run(MapCreator.java:108)

Does this only work with SP maps? This is what I get whenever I try to use it on an SMP map.

[Nopkar]

foxer said:

damm it works for mac but i don't have snow leopard

i have OSX 1.6.5, works like a charm for meh!

[forces]

Can't get it running on Linux... When I run it with parameter guimode, only thing i can see is the home button... I don't think it knows where my minecraft saves are...

Advice: When Minetographer is asking Tectonicus for map, he should ALWAYS ask for this: ~/.minecraft/saves/World[anynumber you want]

[jakester2]

Thank you all for the feedback so far. I have taken your issues into consideration and will try to push an update later today, if not tomorrow. In the mean time, here's a sheep!  

[dreyco]

--Nova-- said:

Grrr.

java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid world dir! No level.dat found in C:\Users\******\Documents\MineServerV3\world\level.dat
	at tectonicus.World.(World.java:64)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.run(TectonicusApp.java:244)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.main(TectonicusApp.java:405)
	at GeneralClasses.MapCreator.run(MapCreator.java:108)

Does this only work with SP maps? This is what I get whenever I try to use it on an SMP map.

EDIT: I have the same issue.

[OrangyTang]

Looking good!

[KarterYur]

Awesome work! It took awhile but I got some awesome results. Check it out!

[soconn73]

Null pointer exception in 0.6.6 when loading the world on OSX 10.6.5:

Application readyException in thread "Thread-6" j	at GeneralClasses.GetFolderSize.getFileSize(GetFolderSize.java:64)ava.lang.NullPointerException
at GeneralClasses.GetFolderSize.run(GetFolderSize.java:88)

[Nopkar]

i've used it now a few times, i'm beginning to get some weird artifacts in the map, like whole sections not generating or generation on the tiles above, giving a mirrored look. not sure? and it happens usually when it locks up. no amount of time unfreezes it, and almost always results in the artifacts.

[dreyco]

How long should it take to run a 30Mb map? I've been running it for about an hour and still no luck.

[Master7432]

Exception while trying to create drawing surface!

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Failed to find ARB pixel format 1 0

	at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPbufferPeerInfo.nCreate(Native Method)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPbufferPeerInfo.(WindowsPbufferPeerInfo.java:47)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createPbuffer(WindowsDisplay.java:619)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Pbuffer.createPbuffer(Pbuffer.java:234)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Pbuffer.(Pbuffer.java:219)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Pbuffer.(Pbuffer.java:190)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Pbuffer.(Pbuffer.java:166)
	at tectonicus.TileRenderer.(TileRenderer.java:91)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.run(TectonicusApp.java:242)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.main(TectonicusApp.java:405)
	at GeneralClasses.MapCreator.run(MapCreator.java:112)

GRR!!!!! Seems epic... but with bugs.

[Stickeyjam]

Exception while trying to create drawing surface!
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Failed to find ARB pixel format 1 0

	at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPbufferPeerInfo.nCreate(Native Method)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPbufferPeerInfo.(WindowsPbufferPeerInfo.java:47)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createPbuffer(WindowsDisplay.java:619)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Pbuffer.createPbuffer(Pbuffer.java:234)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Pbuffer.(Pbuffer.java:219)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Pbuffer.(Pbuffer.java:190)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Pbuffer.(Pbuffer.java:166)
	at tectonicus.TileRenderer.(TileRenderer.java:91)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.run(TectonicusApp.java:242)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.main(TectonicusApp.java:405)
	at GeneralClasses.MapCreator.run(MapCreator.java:112)

When I turn Anti-Aliasing to 0, I get this error

java.io.EOFException: Unexpected end of ZLIB input stream
	at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.fill(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
	at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
	at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
	at org.jnbt.NBTInputStream.readTagPayload(NBTInputStream.java:136)
	at org.jnbt.NBTInputStream.readTag(NBTInputStream.java:102)
	at org.jnbt.NBTInputStream.readTagPayload(NBTInputStream.java:160)
	at org.jnbt.NBTInputStream.readTag(NBTInputStream.java:102)
	at org.jnbt.NBTInputStream.readTagPayload(NBTInputStream.java:160)
	at org.jnbt.NBTInputStream.readTag(NBTInputStream.java:102)
	at org.jnbt.NBTInputStream.readTag(NBTInputStream.java:80)
	at tectonicus.raw.RawChunk.(RawChunk.java:54)
	at tectonicus.Chunk.loadRaw(Chunk.java:56)
	at tectonicus.Chunk.(Chunk.java:38)
	at tectonicus.World.addChunk(World.java:239)
	at tectonicus.World.(World.java:186)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.run(TectonicusApp.java:244)
	at tectonicus.TectonicusApp.main(TectonicusApp.java:405)
	at GeneralClasses.MapCreator.run(MapCreator.java:112)