Hello everyone,Captain-Chaos wrote:Alright, I have a first test version for people to try out and give me feedback. This is still in heavy development and nowhere near finished, so there will be bugs, missing functionality, usability problems, etc.
Download and install WorldPainter from the homepage. (You no longer need a special version of WorldPainter to use this plugin.) You'll also need Java, which you can download from the appropriate link for your operating system next to the download link for WorldPainter.
Run it, and open the plugins folder from the Tools menu. Then, download the Minetest support plugin from here and place it in the plugins folder (do not extract it).
Restart WorldPainter and you should now be able to select Minetest as the map format on the New World screen (Ctrl+N or File-> New World...) or the Export screen (Ctrl+E or File->Export->Export as new Minecraft map...; obviously that text will have to change ;) ).
If you try it out let me know how you get on and what you think about it!
Caveats:
- WorldPainter is first and foremost, and will probably remain for the foreseeable future, a Minecraft map generator. The available block types and terrain types are geared towards Minecraft, and many of them won't be available on Minetest. This first version of the plugin tries to map blocks to minetest_game insofar it has the same, or very similar, blocks. Other blocks are left as is and will be rendered as unknown nodes in Minetest. In the future I'll probably add some way to customise the block mapping so that you can change it or add blocks from other mods.
- The Minetest format does not support the Nether or End dimensions, so if you load an existing WorldPainter world which has those dimensions you won't be able to select the Minetest format. If you delete those dimensions via Edit->Dimensions you should then be able to export it.
- There doesn't appear to be an easy way for WorldPainter to set the spawn point, and since WorldPainter maps tend to be higher (because they start at y=0 and have their water level at y=62 by default) Minetest will probably spawn you in the void outside the map, or in a cave.
I'm the author of WorldPainter, an interactive map generator for Minecraft. I've been asked a few times whether I could support Minetest as well, and decided I'd look into it.
One thing I want to do is gauge the level of interest. Are many people interested in this? Also, are there already other tools for Minetest which do the same or similar things?
Another question is whether someone can direct me to information about the file format. I can probably figure it out from the source code, but if there is any documentation out there describing the details that might speeds things up considerably.
Thanks in advance for any answers and information you can give!
Cheers,
Captain_Chaos