Pictures On Maps?

I wonder if minecraft will allow for the setting of pixels on the maps. If so then we could draw pictures on thems! Now.. What to draw...

 

They do -- all you need to do is place the blocks. Also, how is this Plugin Development related?

 

No I meant you can set the map pixels with the server... using a plugin...

I could see this being used in the towny plugin. Draw the borders of towns and nations on the map.

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Or create a weekly Playboy Magazine with PixelBoobs

 

Woot MCBoobs!

 

It's probably client-side (like every feedback method except chat ). Maybe by sending client block changes? So block don't change on server, but only on client.

It could also be problematic that player did not explore whole "picture area", so he won't see all.

 

Notch said you would be able to swap maps in multiplayer so there needs to be a way to set the explored area.

 

I think it is actually server-side, and I will try to make some jpeg - to- map converter, if possible.

 

@Acrobot
The maps are stored inside the world folder, in dat files.
Would be so damn cool if it could be made, new players would spawn with a map with the server rules, or there would be a map with the newest server updates.

 

@TTSDA
Actually, I found out which packet is that.
It is "Map Data (0x83)"

Now, I have to find a way to do it, or access the .dat files and read/write to them.

EDIT: Seems like it's not yet in Bukkit
(https://github.com/Bukkit/CraftBukkit/blob/master/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/Packet.java)
I will try to read and write to .dat files.

@TTSDA
Friday, fun.

1st - only one chunk is loading for me
2nd - a big tower of fences is burning in my mp world...
3rd - I can't get map to generate....

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Yeah bukkit hasn't release the server for 1.6.4 yet.

 

Well, not as an RB. Ah well, i'll just wait for that

 

Okay, my next finding (please, don't copy my idea though):
the map files are compressed by gzip.

 

Would be great if you could replace the map data with some of the more detailed map generator programs out there for a high res map that actually shows structures and with a slight angle so you can see height differences.

 

For that I think you would need to mod the client to make it have more pixels.

 

unless you could get it to reference a different file for the pic... I haven't the coding knowledge to crack er open and check how it registers those pixels.

 

Apparently this happend .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fACYBt7SA0&feature=player_embedded

 

Is that real?

EDIT: Lol I was watching a youtube vid in a minecraft vid on youtube.

Insane

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FUCKING LEGENDARY, @sk89q you are soo releasing this mod, integrate it with bukkit and I will literally suck ur dick!

 

The great part is... NOT a mod!

It's Server side!

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:O NO FUCKING WAY...... @sk89q we need to talk, Im ask you how you did this, and how you use it, you are the friggen sex!

 

IKR Think about live streams =P

 

Aight right now Im starting to look for this, any help would be appreciated by anyone, thanks y'all

 

I needz aswell!
EDIT: YAY! I'm one of the 12 highest posting members of these forums now =D

 

Damn I'm working on a API (it's actually very easy), but @sk89q is beating the shit out of it.
A few facts: there are 40 colors, including the backround, it's 128*128 pixel, you can sent a column of pixels at once.

 

really, got any source? or code snippets, im really in lack of intelligence

 

128 * 128 So that means no "high res" pictures. Unless you client mod.

 

So is this exposed in bukkit at all or do we need to do some serious digging in the mc server source?

 

sk89q is working on adding map hooks/calls to the bukkit API.