Bump, any hope of anyone doing this? (or at least making their own from scratch, doesn't necessarily need to be from Dynmap or ZanMiniMap)
that would be nice but sadly i dont know enough about spout/java to code it lol i just use zans mini map on the client and it works fine
yeah, well if you use spout then there's no guarantee that the client mods will be compatible, cause it uses a lot of custom class files, so it kinda forces plugin developers to make plugins for the server instead of modding the client.
true i may take a look at the code for zans mini map and see what i can do about getting it to work on spout but im not sure if it will be any good since im teaching myself java
Which reminds me, does anyone else know if something like this can be done? I mean I'm not just mindlessly bumping here, this is (or at least will be) a widely requested plugin that spout users will want. You could be the first to make it!
client mods are incompatible with spout. You have to re-write the plugin to work with Spout itself. On top of this Dynmap would need spout integration to be able to push data to the client, or the spout client mod would need the ability to dump the http image of the map into a minimap frame. Anyhow overall this has nothing to do with any other minimap plugins, what you're really asking for is a Spout Minimap plugin that works with Dynmap.
Yeah. How hard would it be to make a spout minimap plugin that fetched data from dynmap? Or, rather, an independent spout minimap plugin?
yes and that is what i plan to do lol i will try my best to code on and pixelzz you sir are a jerk musaddict is correct i would never have found his post if it weren't not for that ONE bump that wasn't even a bump it was more of a question
Thanks! I would love to take a whack at this myself, but I'm still learning the basics of Java, and am working on a plugin of my own (very, very slowly )
tell me about it everything ive learned about java is from a book or the internet lol but ill try and see what i can come up with now to go get spout
this does sound like a good idea. Maybe click M and the dynmap is displayed or dynmap style faces on zans minimap
thats what i was thinking about im going to take a look at the source for zans minimap and dynmap and see what i can do
For some reason spout already has ZanMinimap.class in the minecraft.jar .... not sure why as it doesn't work
It has nothing in it and will most likely be removed soon. On a side note, a mini map COULD be made using the DynMap tiles located at http://youripordomain.tld/web/tile/yourworldname/flat_128/afolder/afile.png. I'm not sure how DynMap names the files, but I'm guessing they are based on coordinates or something. You'd probably only need one tile to show at at time. Kind of a hacky way to do it, but not sure what else you can do right now with the client plugin/addon API not available yet.
Well you can already craft maps in Minecraft, but they really suck. If by "create an actual map" you mean being able to press M and see the whole thing, then that would cool, however I fear it would be too demanding on servers. Dynmap is good because you load a URL once, and you're done. If you kept calling the map by using M it would be slow and lag the server. All we really need is a client side spout minimap so that you can see things up to 128 blocks away (with zoom in capability).
Dynmap is not so goof for the server (it's the main cause of lag in most cases).... The "actual map" they refer to, rather, won't be so damaging cause it will show you only the Chunk loaded by you client so, no additional request for the server, just a little work for the client(and with SpoutCraft you could make your client preload more chunks at times)
It does it via pixel size, which is configurable. But the pixel density changes on the detail level for your map. For example, when I had really low detail the tiles were around 3cm x 3cm. But on hi-res it was around 1cm x 1cm
