I like your maze, but I have no friends to let me in :(

 

Also, the TUNNEL OF DEATH is now open. The scariest, most dangerous place in all of Minecraft. Monsters, darkness, strange bumps in the night. The wise will stay well away, the foolish will enter and risk it all for the glory of success. Dare you be amongst those who make it through alive? Available at Warp location DeathTunnel.

Thank You for helping me with the green dye.

This place is turning into something akin to a WoW forum.

:-O

Please spell Phoenix correctly.

Goddamit, there's no spell check in Minecraft

Argh, all this is sounding quite tempting. How much is it going to cost me?

msg:37760.381 & msg:37760.384

It has a better interface (if you put it in Explorer view style) than Filezilla.

I'm pncool. Could I be added to the whitelist please?

Fair enough.

Done :-)

Thanks the the lovely PB we now have Maps uploaded for your viewing pleasure!

 

http://minemap.tehforum.co.uk/

 

Pete: I ran the output file (11.7MB) through PNGCrush and it came down to an amazing 11.0MB - not really sure what options I should be playing with in PNGCrush to get the best results. If anyone has experience with it and feels like giving me a bunch of command line switches to use I'll try them on future Maps.

I /NEEEEEEEED/ this game. The map reminds me of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

I've got optipng here, which has lots of fancy settings hidden behind a single compression level parameter, so I've shoved that up to maximum and will see what it comes out with. (It's taking a while!)

It would be good to get something that can also do palette shrinking.
I did a quick export from PSPX, and an 8-bit image 256 colours is ~6.7MB and looks ok, (whilst 64 colours gives ~3.6MB but looks a bit crappy).
Can't remember anything specific that combines the two, but I'm sure someone will have done it, so will have to have a look tomorrow.

Converted the PNG to a JPG with IrfanView. Quality setting was 70 and it's gone from 11MB to 3.49MB. Quality is still perfectly fine.

After all that, optipng only manages a 103KB decrease.

How rubbish! :(

I'd have to disagree with "perfectly fine" - the compression obliterates lamps (unless you're doing it with different settings to me).

That's true, I guess with not playing it I don't know what to look for. Even at 90 they're pretty poor.

I have just seen this. Maybe I too need a trim :C (grandma)

Yeah, the way JPEG works relies on more continuous tones (like in photos), so it's not going to work for something so pixely as the lamps.

If I was going to produce a Minecraft mapper, I think I'd create multiple images - a JPEG background that did basic scenery and could be compressed a fair bit, and then a transparent PNG overlay for all the stuff like lamps that would otherwise be destroyed (and since it'd be yellow+orange+transparent, it'd compress well too.

Kos - what did you use to do this; is source code available?