Inactive [INACTIVE][WGEN] BananaImageToMap v3.1 - now with proper ores! [1000]

I will try to give it another go. Also when I run the v2 that you have posted on the 1st page it says it's v1.0 in the cmd.
Also when do you think v3 will be ready?
Thanks alot

v2.1 is already ready if you wish to use it
http://uf6.info/bcode/BananaImageToMap.jar

v3 won't be released until I get a custom tree generator working to my satisfaction, so could be a while.

i have a question (well in fact many)
are there nasty squares on the surface, like normal ??
or what are they for ?

other questions, do you plan to set levels for ore ?
like lev 0-16 diamond and so on ?

and do you plan some kind of option to increase/reduce donjons number and/or size ?
and for these squares on my picture ? since i want create my world with some ruins they are cool, but not so many

and i notice i got no sand and no clay, is that normal in V2 or did i do my picture wrong ?


keep the great job !

Those "nasty squares" are quarries. Concentrated pockets of gravel/cobblestone.

At the minute I don't generate clay and only generate sand on "desert biomes" which if you look, you have a little of in the screenshot.

The block population is all random, it's only the height of the terrain determined by the image, looks like you've got the general idea though. Sorry about the lack of trees, it's being worked on.

Everything will be configurable in v3 - at the minute I'm just adding enough things to the populator to make it interesting and optimising my code (the memory usage difference between v2 and v2.1 is a whole 75% less, wow!)

Are you ment to leave
worlds:
world:
generator: BananaImageToMap
in there after you have ran this once?
do you also leave the plugin in the plugin folder?
an what dose the config do i have changed the worldname: to world it dont change anything

Hi, you're supposed to have that there BEFORE you run it, it sets the generator for your world so you better be generating one from scratch.

yes but do you leave it set up like that all the time when you run the server?

What kind of a question is that? Do you have to have permissions running to use the permissions plugin? Of course you do.

great ! can't wait for v3

If you have any ideas (and/or code you want to contribute) I welcome everything!

well the only idea i can submit is using 2 picture files
one in grayscal for topography
one in color for type of landscape
yellow -> sand for 2 ou 3 cube depth , then 2 ou 3 sandtone
green -> same as you have now
blue -> water (but this mays conflict with the topographic map)
red -> lava
gray -> stone/gravel
white -> cover with snow /ice
(brown -> forest )

i guess this would mean recode everything xD
if i can just change the number/size of stuff that's already enough for me

btw i noticed that flowers where not generated on the top of dirt, but in holes

The problem the developer may have with that idea is that, as far as I know, the biomes are generated by the level's seed value, so even if he does this, you'll likely end up with some deserts where you want them but it's snowing on them. Or your designated snow areas will melt if they aren't snowy biomes, etc.

I did see a biome editor somewhere around here in its early stages but it's something that is used after the map's already been generated so that doesn't seem like a good fit for what you're trying to do either.

Is there any chance of skyland-like worlds? So instead of generating caves and stuff it would cut off land below a certain point and make floating islands in the sky?

cant wait for v3

still working on a decent treegen :/

i wish i could help you but i now nothing about java
Are you going to add a config so you can edit the water level an how many trees and how many lava holes?

Yes. First things first is actually getting the trees though.

are there any good sites where I can get height maps that work well with this plugin?

http://google.com

V3 is out people!

what is the command? how does it work? why is there no wiki or FAQ?

There is no command, it's a world generator. Why would I need an FAQ for a plugin that doesn't have any use without external configuration? Want me to add permissions? iConomy? Worldguard regions support?

Does this work with the custom generator options in MultiVerse V2?

Should do - why not test it and let me know?

Well, after some testing, it seems both features work, importing the world it generates, and generating a new one, but not in a user friendly way.
EDIT: I also ran out of memory generating your default 'earth' map, but that seems to be a problem with my java settings, not your plugin.

Some suggestions:
-not auto generating the world, waiting for it to be called, either from bukkit or from external world managers, such as MV2
-instead of using a config, have the user pass the image name (probably relative to the bananaImageToMap folder in plugins, rather then the server root) through the id parameter, see CleanroomGenerator for an example of a simple chunk generator that makes heavy use of the id parameter.
- Doing both of these gets rid of the config file which is really serves very little purpose, and hampers using the plugin in the way that I want to, creating worlds based on images on the fly.

Another idea that I just came up with, is to let users make multiple 'presets', config files like fire.yml or fun.yml, customizing other options then just the image, then pass those filenames in the id parameter.

I'll have a look, if you want to contribute any code to help me do this, that's also welcome there are some things I just am not able to do.

Sure. Except for the presets one, they're really quite simple changes. The presets one would require you to expose more of your populator options, which from your OP it seems like you're planning to do anyway . Do you have a Github I could use?

First on the new RB?

Damn you

yay *happy happy*

going to try it tomorrow