Minecraft Talk

1:55 AM

updated the googlemap.

classy.

hopefully it ends up going somewhere useful

it's no wonder the map was acting up so much when i was trying to access it before though

2:21 AM

should be quick from now on.. had to rebuild the cache from scratch this run

i saw it was a little darker

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1:31 PM

=\.. i finished clearing out under my dome, but it's not showing on the updated map..

had to clear my cache out...

2:07 PM

~6000 blocks i cleared out one by one. this game is ridiculous.

sjohnston

2:43 PM

having those signs on that map is kind of distracting, especially since many of them seem to indicate underground features or features inside a building where they're all mashed together

@sjohnston Do you know Python?

I'm going to see if I can modify the python app to remove the signposts.

sjohnston

I have never worked with Python, although it's on my list of languages to spend some time with (along with about 15 others)

well i found the block that adds the markers, commented it out, and am re-running the script

I am not sure it will remove them without clearing out the cache

@sjohnston The markers are gone now.

sjohnston

that was speedy

I do what I can!

badp

3:21 PM

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3:42 PM

argh. ice looks DARKER than diamond blocks on the map, not lighter.

That's the opposite of what the actual image is.

maybe i should turn lighting off?

i may also not be using the standard texture pack, i just grabbed a random one i found online

Lighting wouldn't really matter much.

I didn't realize that wasn't the standard textures either; that might be why it looks different from what I remembered last night.

I really wish I could place water without worrying about the spillage.

yeah.. are you able to extract terrain.png from your minecraft.jar?

otherwise, i can do it after work.

hopefully imgur didn't recompress it or something weird

badp

FIRE TEX!

3:53 PM

I just now realized those little thingies on the side of a workbench are supposed to be a saw and hammer and pliers

going to drop cache, remove lighting, and re-generate..

@Brant it did... terrain.png should be 512x512

can you email it? fosco@fosco.com

Mine's 256x256.

sure?... ok ill let it run then

Yeah... I think higher-res textures are kind of semi-supported

in that they work, but the behavior is completely undefined

I just checked minecraft.jar again, the stock terrain.png is definitely 256x256

ok. i guess the one i was using is double, and it just divides by 16 to get each texture

4:16 PM

ill be back after lunch

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Mutant

5:37 PM

is it worth the time/effort to make the minecarts? I've had fun just doing castles and buildings, but that's getting old..

5:49 PM

@Brant Check it out when you get a chance (might need to clear cache).. colors are all different now.

6:08 PM

Yeah, they are.

user30

6:32 PM

Oh sweet, who finished off the next part of the bridge?

I'm guessing it was @StrixVaria

user30

Well it's sweet as

user30

@Fosco, you won't be making your entrance hall any taller than it currently is right?

6:50 PM

@ThomasMcDonald entrance to which, the one with the sign saying it's my house?

user30

Yeah

@ThomasMcDonald Ok, no I don't think so.. what's up?

user30

@Fosco Just wondering what sort of space there is between there and the top of the hill... planning some future minecart routes

@ThomasMcDonald If need be, you can demolish whatever I've put together... I'm focusing on my crazy stone bridge/dome/etc

user30

Ah yes, I blew a little bit of space out underneath there yesterday with some TNT

6:55 PM

ok, yeah i don't mind, that can all go..

user30

(I was referring to your dome)

ohhhh ok i saw someone helped out, thanks!

user30

Are animals invulnerable again? I've set this one on fire at least 3 times now

i finished the immediate area last night and flattened everything

probably going to expand a few tiles more on the 2 sides that are built up

@ThomasMcDonald I finished up the next couple parts of the bridge. I would have kept going but I was too lazy to count where to put the base.

user30

7:04 PM

@StrixVaria It looks awesome. I made a start on the top arch but then decided that you were better to do it, it took me ages last time and I kept loosing my place

@ThomasMcDonald Haha ok I'll see what I can do. Maybe late tonight or tomorrow morning.

that bridge looks amazing at max zoom

is this like that thing in Alaska? .. a bridge to no-where? ;)

It'll go somewhere eventually

we just need to keep building until it hits a mountain

badp

@StrixVaria Then drill through it and continue.

user30

7:33 PM

I reckon the next hill roughly the same height will be another 4-6 arches away

7:48 PM

Even if it's not quite tall enough we can always have a stairway going down at the far end

or build on to the mountain

8:14 PM

Man, that bridge looks even more awesome in first-person

I started building a bridge on another server without scouting ahead -- turns out I had (by accident) picked the longest span of continuous water in the area

lol

Took me a week of building to reach land :P

@ZoogieZork Join our server :)

I've got a hidden little underground lair in the server already :)

Haven't done much with it yet

I'm switching to above-ground projects from now on..

8:30 PM

Yeah, from now on I only work on projects that can be seen from SPACE!

My bridge looks so boring compared to y'alls: lugatgt.org/content/minecraft/world-map

How did you plan out the arches?

@ThomasMcDonald Planned them out; I just copied his pattern. I think he based it on pixel-art of a circle

yesterday, by Thomas McDonald

@StrixVaria http://stupidname.org/files/misc/minecraft/voxelspheres/VoxelSphere53.png

^ I've seen this before and I still don't get it... there's got to be a better template.

Hmm

Q: What tools do you use to help you build structures?

8:37 PM

I blew that up like crazy in paint

and turned on the grid

so I could see the separate pixels

Zoredache

There are a couple other suggestions for sphere plans on my question.

When looking at Minecraft pictures I see that lots of build lots really neat structures. But I really wonder how they build some structures, are the using some external tool to help them plan. For example lets take the case of a simple sphere, dome, or arch. How do you figure out where the blo...

Hmm... that actually gives me an idea

I can probably use Octave to model some "interesting" surfaces

@Zoredache couple reading comprehension challenged answers on there too :)

Zoredache

Yes, if you have any suggestions about how I can improve the question to get better answers please edit it or tell me.

@ZoogieZork With my hovering pyramid dome thingie, I was thinking about having a cylinder from ground level that bloomed out to match the hovering shape..

8:52 PM

@Fosco Any idea how some of the Overviewer maps I see have switchable unlit/day/night?

I would guess they are rendering all 3 versions..

is it switching on the same page??

Yeah, example: maps.mcau.org/newcity

that's awesome.. must be a newer version?.. maybe the untested branch