Amidst for Minetest: A mapping and biomes tool
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Amidst for Minetest: A mapping and biomes tool
Here's a version of Amidst made for Minetest.
It's basically an infinite map-viewer that lets you view a Minetest world without having to generate it in Minetest, provided you have the seed to the world.
Biomes can also be viewed as Voronoi diagrams, and combined with temperature and humidity stats to show overall coverage for each biome.
It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac, the download is here (Java)
It's basically an infinite map-viewer that lets you view a Minetest world without having to generate it in Minetest, provided you have the seed to the world.
Biomes can also be viewed as Voronoi diagrams, and combined with temperature and humidity stats to show overall coverage for each biome.
It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac, the download is here (Java)
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This is great! I've always found Amidst indispensable for Minecraft and now I can use it with Minetest too.
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Very nice and handy!
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Re: Amidst for Minetest: A new map tool
This is awesome!
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good tool. you can also display minecraft maps, and minetest maps too...
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Very nice utility, but...
1. Can't load save file? (greyed out)
2. Needs a utility to create other mapgen biome lists (like Ethereal, CaveRealms, etc) - yes, can be done manually, but would be better if other mapgen files could be added into your application.
1. Can't load save file? (greyed out)
2. Needs a utility to create other mapgen biome lists (like Ethereal, CaveRealms, etc) - yes, can be done manually, but would be better if other mapgen files could be added into your application.
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Good job DrFrankenstone!, nice to see this utility working with Minetest! +100
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You noticed! I spent time refactoring it to be capable of supporting both engines, instead of just changing everything for Minetest. I'd hoped Amidst having Minetest support in addition to Minecraft could be another avenue of exposure for Minetest, but the amount of changes that needed to be made were so great (and in some cases awkward, or // TODO), that I didn't think it was worth trying to push upstream.cHyper wrote:good tool. you can also display minecraft maps, and minetest maps too...
Hopefully it won't be hard to pull in any updates from upstream. It already has Woodland Mansions merged in, which aren't yet in the current Amidst release.
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The answer to both of these points is really that I didn't have time to do everything, so aimed to get it to a point where it was stand-alone useful, and wouldn't matter too much if/when someone worked on additional features.KCoombes wrote:Very nice utility, but...
1. Can't load save file? (greyed out)
The "Open save game" menu is currently only enabled when using a Minecraft profile, ideally one day the ability to load Minetest games will be implemented - adding support for parsing the map_meta.txt, and showing player locations.
There's currently two ways to add other biome files:KCoombes wrote:2. Needs a utility to create other mapgen biome lists (like Ethereal, CaveRealms, etc) - yes, can be done manually, but would be better if other mapgen files could be added into your application.
- the user adds more biome.mt files to the biomes directory. (json format - use the existing ones as templates)
- have people create biome profiles/templates for mods they care about and add those to the list of biome profiles the application comes with built-in.
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Re: Amidst for Minetest: A new map tool
My dog, that is great! I wished for an application like this only the other day. Thank you for your efforts, DrFrankenstone.
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Not exactly - the mods I referred to (Ethereal, CaveRealms) have a mapgen.lua file that registers their unique biome(s) - so a utility in your app to read in those register_biome definitions would allow users to add the mapgen mods they prefer to use in order to generate accurate maps they could use. And yes, I did state this could already be done manually (by hand), although not every user might want to delve into that.DrFrankenstone wrote: You wording is slightly ambiguous, what would the utility be? A built-in native editor that edits the biome.mt files?
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Gotcha. The complication with this is Ethereal doesn't have register_biome definitions like normal Minetest - it has an add_biome definitions. In the add_biome() function it will invoke register_biome(), so the util would need a lua interpretter, or to be hard-coded to support such mods. Also the most time consuming part of creating a biome profile for me was picking good colours, which add_biome/register_biome doesn't get you.KCoombes wrote: so a utility in your app to read in those register_biome definitions
However, a util would still make things easier.
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And that's where you ask the creators of those mods to choose RGB values for their colors to be included - make it a community effort.DrFrankenstone wrote: Also the most time consuming part of creating a biome profile for me was picking good colours, which add_biome/register_biome doesn't get you.
However, a util would still make things easier.
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Well, the others do not work. I'll give the new tool a try ;-)
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I've added the Ethereal biomes to the built-in profiles.
Ethereal contains some overlapping biomes and it turns out that wasn't being handled by Amidst the way Minetest handles it, so there's also updates in Amidstest to fix that and some other things.
But holey moley, Ethereal is one fricking beautiful mod. I'd never played in an Ethereal world before, now I think it's gonna become home.
Ethereal contains some overlapping biomes and it turns out that wasn't being handled by Amidst the way Minetest handles it, so there's also updates in Amidstest to fix that and some other things.
But holey moley, Ethereal is one fricking beautiful mod. I'd never played in an Ethereal world before, now I think it's gonna become home.
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could you add MineClone-2 support ?? !!
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Think I caught a bug. My biome profile list is unpopulated, but the biome profile files are present.
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Could you open an issue (https://github.com/Treer/amidstest/issues) with the details, because I can't reproduce that.
Go Help->Display Log messages, and paste that into the issue. I assume biomes appear when you run the old version, there's no permissions problems on the folder etc.
Go Help->Display Log messages, and paste that into the issue. I assume biomes appear when you run the old version, there's no permissions problems on the folder etc.
Heh, Mineclone-2 would be the sensible one to add, and there's already a list of Amidst colours associated with those biomes - the hard part is done for me.cHyper wrote:could you add MineClone-2 support ?? !!
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Carpathian worlds and MineClone-2 biomes have been added.
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thanx a lot ... i really like MineClone 2.DrFrankenstone wrote:Carpathian worlds and MineClone-2 biomes have been added.
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Re: Amidst for Minetest: A new map tool
Updated to v1.1
- Floatlands support added
- Tool for designing biomes added — specifically the ability to view your biomes as Voronoi diagrams, and combine that with temperature/humidity stats to see the extend the biomes will cover the world.
- Floatlands support added
- Tool for designing biomes added — specifically the ability to view your biomes as Voronoi diagrams, and combine that with temperature/humidity stats to see the extend the biomes will cover the world.
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Wow, the tool is really expanding its capabilities with this update.DrFrankenstone wrote:Updated to v1.1
- Floatlands support added
- Tool for designing biomes added — specifically the ability to view your biomes as Voronoi diagrams, and combine that with temperature/humidity stats to see the extend the biomes will cover the world.
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Wow that looks awesome, I'm downloading it right away ! :)
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I've tried to add 20 digits Hometown server seed, but it turns on text seed when I type last digit, is that intended?
P.S. Can you add Valleys support too? :)
P.S. Can you add Valleys support too? :)
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