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[Mine_Ender]

on_a_moose said:

You should still take down the download. Distributing class files, especially publicly, is what caused this whole mess in the first place. Why taunt the powers that be?

I am pretty sure almost all mods are distributed as class files, just have  look around.

[on_a_moose]

Heh. This is the only one I've used, or felt I needed so far. So it sounds like, from what's been said over the past week, that all these other mods around right now aside from the patcher delivered ones are breaking the license, technically. I'm just gonna shut up now til it sorts itself out.

[Morrolan]

It's not really breaking the license, it's more some sort of grey area. Notch might no be happy about it, but he hasn't really done anything against it either.

[MrMessiah]

Lets not turn this thread into another general-legal-issues-about-mods thread, fun as those are, I don't think I could take it.

In other news, this has taken a little while longer than I thought, but will have something out in the next few hours. xau's patcher is very exciting.

[shadus]

MrMessiah said:

In other news, this has taken a little while longer than I thought, but will have something out in the next few hours. xau's patcher is very exciting.

Yah, I've put off learning java for years... now there's a legitimate reason I might want to learn it... still fighting with myself over it.  Between Xau's patcher and some ideas I've had... I've actually wanted to start learning it even though as a general rule i'm not fond of how java does classes and syntax/naming (old school c/perl programmer and shell scripter by trade.)

[MrMessiah]

OK, OP updated with the new version and the instructions. Hopefully everything works, as this is my first time futzing with the patcher. Let me know if you get problems. I STRONGLY ADVISE BACKING UP BEFORE YOU USE THIS.

Also, hopefully nobody is too disappointed to see some of the bells and whistles disappear - they will be back once I know I'm doing the rest of this right.

[xRaPiD_HaNDSx]

MrMessiah said:

OK, OP updated with the new version and the instructions. Hopefully everything works, as this is my first time futzing with the patcher. Let me know if you get problems. I STRONGLY ADVISE BACKING UP BEFORE YOU USE THIS.

Also, hopefully nobody is too disappointed to see some of the bells and whistles disappear - they will be back once I know I'm doing the rest of this right.

What should I back up? All my Minecraft files or solely my saves?

[MrMessiah]

xRaPiD_HaNDSx said:

MrMessiah said:

OK, OP updated with the new version and the instructions. Hopefully everything works, as this is my first time futzing with the patcher. Let me know if you get problems. I STRONGLY ADVISE BACKING UP BEFORE YOU USE THIS.

Also, hopefully nobody is too disappointed to see some of the bells and whistles disappear - they will be back once I know I'm doing the rest of this right.

What should I back up? All my Minecraft files or solely my saves?

Just minecraft.jar under the bin directory. Technically the patcher saves a version but I can't be sure I didn't mess it up somehow.

[PicSoul]

Welcome back MrMessiah!

[Pixelated]

Oh nevermind.

Edit edit:
Nope, back to this.

What the fuck is this.

[Emilmaplem]

EDIT: Disregard this, figured it out. I had forgotten about the properties file. No errors for now, thanks for this great mod MrMessiah!
I figured out creating the mods/SimpleMap folder myself, and placing the overlay.png and mmcolors.png there. However, I still get this weird text at the top:


Modified overlay by iTreeFish of the Godcraft community.

[MrMessiah]

Pixelated said:

Oh nevermind.

Edit edit:
Nope, back to this.

What the fuck is this.

It can't find the overlay.png which should be in .minecraft/mods/SimpleMap . Did you extract it there?

[MrMessiah]

Emilmaplem said:

EDIT: Disregard this, figured it out. I had forgotten about the properties file. No errors for now, thanks for this great mod MrMessiah!
I figured out creating the mods/SimpleMap folder myself, and placing the overlay.png and mmcolors.png there. However, I still get this weird text at the top:


Modified overlay by iTreeFish of the Godcraft community.

For a horrible moment there I thought I put the wrong version of the mod in the patcher. Er, dunno. Really wierd. Something's going wrong when it starts up, but it's clearly working as it has colour in the map and the overlay's loaded.  What it's printing there is the path to where the graphic files are. Why it's printing that, I don't know. What do you get when you turn showCoords on?

[Emilmaplem]

Major problem: this is not compatible with the HD Texture Fix!

[Pixelated]

I had the mods/Simplemap folder in the .minecraft folder.
But overall, I raged, backed up and using the .07 version, since it still has the press M to get rid of it.

[Heliwr]

Emilmaplem said:

Major problem: this is not compatible with the HD Texture Fix!

It won't work if run after the HD texture fix, but if you run this first the HD texture fix will patch over this one without problems.

I can also confirm this definitely works in linux.

Cheers

[Emilmaplem]

Heliwr said:

Emilmaplem said:

Major problem: this is not compatible with the HD Texture Fix!

It won't work if run after the HD texture fix, but if you run this first the HD texture fix will patch over this one without problems.

I can also confirm this definitely works in linux.

Cheers

I still can't get it to work. When I patch over with the HD Texture Fix, suddenly the BetterGrass and Simplemap disappears.

[Heliwr]

Emilmaplem said:

Heliwr said:

Emilmaplem said:

Major problem: this is not compatible with the HD Texture Fix!

It won't work if run after the HD texture fix, but if you run this first the HD texture fix will patch over this one without problems.

I can also confirm this definitely works in linux.

Cheers

I still can't get it to work. When I patch over with the HD Texture Fix, suddenly the BetterGrass and Simplemap disappears.

That is because you are starting over with the original again when you run the HD texture patch - copy the simplemap-patched jar file and run the HD patch on that one.

Cheers

[phabeZ]

I'm having an issue, I was also having it with Zaneris' version so hopefully I can get this resolved. After installation, I click "Login" and then the window just goes black and that's the end of it. What I have tried is reinstalling/redownloading minecraft, the minimap mod and neither have worked. I have even tried getting a minecraft.jar with the mod installed correctly and functioning from a someone else and still no luck. I also ensured that the META-INF folder is deleted.

I am using Windows 7 so I think I'm fine there.

Any help would be appreciated.

[th155]

Download isn't working for me...

But from the instructions i have a question: Is there any way for me to just copy the files onto my .jar file so that i don't have to reinstall my texture pack/mods when i install it?