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[distantcam]

Well, this is my latest creation, MinecraftGPS!

It's an app that constantly reads the players location from the level data file and shows that location as a set of coordinates.

The other feature is a bookmarking system, so you can bookmark a location and then use the relative coordinates to find your way back to that spot.

I hope some of you find it useful.  

Updated to 1.0. Fixed some math issues with chunk positions, improved the interface. Fixed other bugs.

NEW Updated to 1.1. Compass! New Style! Load worlds from any folder!

http://minecraftgps.codeplex.com/

http://i3.codeplex.c...wnloadId=172138

[jon99977]

http://www.minecraft...wforum.php?f=25

[coocoup]

That's pretty sweet. Where's the dl link?

[distantcam]

coocoup said:

That's pretty sweet. Where's the dl link?

Doh! (Edits original post)

[VoidWhisperer]

Mmm... Interesting. I thought the level.dat file wasn't modified unless you saved. Was I wrong?

[VoidWhisperer]

I'm not copying this, but I'm adding a saved location box to my minecraft environment editor. Nice idea though .
Edit: Mine only gets X,Y,Z instead of NSEW

[distantcam]

VoidWhisperer said:

Mmm... Interesting. I thought the level.dat file wasn't modified unless you saved. Was I wrong?

MinecraftGPS doesn't modify the level.dat file, it just reads it. And thankfully Minecraft updates the file regularly enough for this to work.

VoidWhisperer said:

Edit: Mine only gets X,Y,Z instead of NSEW

I just labeled them that way
X = NS
Y = Alt
Z = EW

[trotty88]

Awesome, TYVM

[VoidWhisperer]

Ah. Nice. What programming language did you use?

[distantcam]

C#, .NET 2.0, WinForms.

I'm hoping to see if it works on Mono at some point.

[VoidWhisperer]

I'm using C# for my program too .

[everfalling]

holy shit this is fantastically more easy to use in finding chunk 0,0 than the other methods i've seen described. fucking good work!

[VoidWhisperer]

Hey distant, can I have some help with something?:
I'm adding the positions and etc to settings in Properties.Settings.Default in the app so that they come up when you use the program the next time, but even after I add one and it shows up, if I close the app, it isn't there when I open it back up. Any suggestions as to what may be wrong?
Edit: Never mind. I didn't know you had to save the values to it in C#

[distantcam]

VoidWhisperer said:

I'm using C# for my program too .

Well, feel free to peruse the code and take what you want.

As for the property settings issue, I don't really use the settings stuff myself. I tend to do it old skool and just manage my own settings.

Do you know about http://stackoverflow.com/? You could try asking a question there.

everfalling said:

holy shit this is fantastically more easy to use in finding chunk 0,0 than the other methods i've seen described. fucking good work!

Thanks Everfalling. Yeah I added the chunk position panel after seeing posts about finding chunk 0,0 using cartographer etc, and they all seemed ham-fisted to me.

[VoidWhisperer]

What exactly is chunk 0,0?

[distantcam]

Apparently block 0,0,0 is a special block or something, and since it's on Chunk 0,0 people want to find it.

[VoidWhisperer]

I hate to be asking how you did yours *Pride issue much =P?* but.. How'd you get the chunk the player is in?

[distantcam]

Player position x and z / 16 = chunk position.

Feel free to grab a copy of the code, it's open source.

[VoidWhisperer]

I saw. That's alot of code for just getting the chunk.

[distantcam]

It's actually stripped down code from another project I'm working on.