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A young software tinkerer from Switzerland noticed an issue with an application he was working on one day. The progress bar it was rendering only updated very rarely. This perplexed the teenager, but never bugged him enough to investigate further. Nobody else seemed to notice this, so maybe it was his system? Fast forward a few years. The young man is now a 24 year old fully grown manchild. The progress bar was still updating only very rarely. On this rainy afternoon, the tinkerer had nothing else to do than finally get to the bottom of this perplexing behaviour. Much investigating was done. Did the Observer have a logic bug? No, if we check in the update function by appending a line to a file, we can see that it works properly. Besides, the logic of this piece of code surely hasn't been changed for years. Did maxvalue get set to 100 instead of the number of tiles? No, it correctly overrode the right method to not just set max_value but also maxvalue. (Great naming there, aheadley.) Was it the polymorphic inheritance causing issues then? No, even the parent class correctly behaved in its update function. Well, almost. That is when the developer came upon a shocking revelation. His hands trempled as his fingers moved across the laptop's keyboard, nearly accidentally entering the "nuclear missile launch" mode in Kate's Vi-Input editing. The developer added one line to the file. self.fd.flush() The progress bar finally worked as intended.
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Minecraft Overviewer |Build Status|
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By Andrew Brown and contributors (see CONTRIBUTORS.rst).
Documentation:
http://docs.overviewer.org
Github code repository:
https://github.com/overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer
Travis-CI:
https://travis-ci.org/overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer
Blog:
https://overviewer.org/blog/
The Minecraft Overviewer is a command-line tool for rendering high-resolution
maps of Minecraft worlds. It generates a set of static html and image files and
uses Leaflet to display a nice interactive map.
The Overviewer has been in active development for several years and has many
features, including day and night lighting, cave rendering, mineral overlays,
and many plugins for even more features! It is written mostly in Python with
critical sections in C as an extension module.
Getting Started
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All documentation has been consolidated at our documentation site. For
information on downloading, compiling, installing, and running The Overviewer,
visit the docs site.
http://docs.overviewer.org
A few helpful tips are below, but everyone is going to want to visit the
documentation site for the most up-to-date and complete set of instructions!
Alternatively, the docs are also in the docs/ directory of the source download.
Look in there if you can't access the docs site.
Examples
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See examples of The Overviewer in action!
https://github.com/overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer/wiki/Map-examples
Disclaimers
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Before you dive into using this, just be aware that, for large maps, there is a
*lot* of data to parse through and process. If your world is very large, expect
the initial render to take at least an hour, possibly more. (Since Minecraft
maps are practically infinite, the maximum time this could take is also
infinite!)
If you press ctrl-C, it will stop. The next run will pick up where it left off.
Once your initial render is done, subsequent renderings will be MUCH faster due
to all the caching that happens behind the scenes. Just use the same output
directory and it will only update the tiles it needs to.
There are probably some other minor glitches along the way, hopefully they will
be fixed soon. See the `Bugs`_ section below.
Viewing the Results
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Within the output directory you will find two things: an index.html file, and a
directory hierarchy full of images. To view your world, simply open index.html
in a web browser.
You can throw these files up to a web server to let others view your map.
Bugs
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For a current list of issues, visit
https://github.com/overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer/issues
Feel free to comment on issues, report new issues, and vote on issues that are
important to you.
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