Suggested name: Maps 2.0 (you can probably think of a better name) What I want: There used to be a plugin called BannanaMapRender (which is now out of date) and it brought a very usefull feature. You could easily load any image file onto a map in game, and players, without any external mods, could view them. This allowed for card games, help pages, journals and more. It was very useful but its developers gave up. That would be the first feature of Maps 2.0. If that's all that's possible, great, that would be a fine plugin in and of itself, But SK showed us that he could actually put a youtube video on a map on the fly. This is all done through the Bukkit Map API. These features together could allow for in game tutorials, walkthough's, intro's. It would vastley improve almost any minecraft server. If you think its possible or not, please reply so I can see whether it will/can happen in the future. Ideas for commands: /map load <img url> :: loads an image file to the map in your hand /yt <youtube search> :: plays the youtube video on your map When I'd like it by: Whenever possible
A map renderer is not that hard to make. But a youtube video? As far as I know the data will be downloaded by the server and then streamed to the user. If 10 people watch a movie that means there are 10 download and 10 upload streams going on at the same time. Do you have enough bandwidth for that?
Also don't forget the CPU power to render that video on the map. It has a reason sk89q didn't release that plugin.
im fine without the video, thats just icing for the cake. Picture rendering would still provide a plethora of features. And if its not that hard to make, could you make it for me/the public?
That one cant do multiple maps at the same time. I talked to sk and he said it wouldn't be hard for a developer to update his BananaMapLoader and MapAPI plugins. See if you can poke through em and possibly be able to update it to 1.0.0
I'm not capable of creating and/or updating any plugins. Too busy with other stuff. Maybe someone else can pick this up for you.
It shouldn't be that hard if the person knows the map API or has an example of how to implement it. You do know about the limitations? (Very few colors and so on.)
yes but cards have few colors on them. Have you ever heard of voxelopoly? They got custom property cards, so it must be possible.
gustebeast I'll look into the displaying of images. Although I'm not sure how I would handle odd resolutions. Everything would be pixelated and scaled down.
I think I found a tutorial answering all your questions, thanks Sk89q. http://wiki.sk89q.com/wiki/Bukkit_map_API
