accurate replica or 'inspired by' version?

"Inspired by" is what you say when you try an accurate replica and screw it up.

Let's do what Pete said :D

I vote 1:1 replica. :)

Well, obviously the contents of the biomes can't map exactly, because the game doesn't have what is actually there - but since they change bits of it anyway, so we can go for the spirit of it and not be resorting to an "inspired by" version.

Tropical rainforest - lots of trees, waterfalls, etc.
Mediterranean - sandy, some trees, cactus, pumpkins, seeds, some flowers, etc.
Outside - grassy, lots flowers, seeds, reeds, etc.

But yeah, definitely we should go for accurate layout/landscaping, and be aiming for correctness.

But without the screwing up part, right? :S

I was thinking less screwing up and more giving up and doing an approximation instead :D

Bah.

We can grab Google Maps/Earth satellite view of the place, pixelate and reduce to 16 colours - that gives us an easy to copy guide for the layout.

There'll be maps showing the paths inside the domes.

Heights we can determine from photos.

After that it should be pretty easy - just plant appropriate stuff in appropriate places.

Might want to get the server online first ;)

(It died while I was doing the roof earlier)

surprisingly, not great maps

Pfah! Assuming the PDF is just a larger version of this*, it's good enough.

(*and now the blasted wifi is working again, I can see it is)

Well, good enough for me, in that it orders my memories of the place, so if you like I'll volunteer for doing that bit.
Once there's enough space there shouldn't be any problems.

S'back up.

 

I'm off to Glasgow in a minute to see Russell Howard, so if it goes down again between now and about midnight you're screwed :P

And down again.

Oh well, have fun at Russell Howard!

STOP BREAKING IT :@

 

Perhaps try not to use the jump command so much, every time it stops responding the last set of commands are a lot of jumps. I think it's running our of memory and not knowing what to do with itself :|

Mostly Matt I think, I did a little while I was doing the walkway.

 

Someone (Mouse?) could put rails on the skyways. Mmm, rails.

SORRY :(

 

Edit: Now minecraft.net is down. (fail)

If I press something (possibly shift-F2 instead of just F2) I get the screen flickering for ages before it tells me its saved huge_2011-03-05_21.09.05.tga - which is 1.8GB in size.

What is that?

I don't have anything willing to even try opening a file that size. :S

TGA file format referred and as TARGA file format, is a raster graphic file format

 

http://tgaviewer.com/

 

giyf

Most commonly used in Jamaica raster files.

 

IGMC

I know that - I meant what's the image? (Or what's it supposed to be?)

A screenshot shouldn't be more than 1920x1200 - at 32 bits per pixel, that's in the region of 9MB, not 1800MB

I just did a quick script to read in the start of the file, and the header information (stuff that says how wide/high the image is and so on) seems to be blank, and after that it just repeats $=J$=J$= for a long time - spot checks in the rest of the file shows other random three-character sequences later.

Trying to read the whole file results in a memory error whatever I use (irfanview can normally load anything and it complains) - I'm pretty sure that tga viewer would do the same, unless you know it can handle huge files?

You're going to have to explain that - I can't work out wtf you're on about. :(