Aye, the Backup Plugin i'm using is meant to create a PNG of the world map when it does the backups, but I haven't installed the map plugin that actually lets it do that yet. I'll go about doing that now.
Ahhhh hahaha, I wanted to make a pit in the middle of my maze with lava in it and I've just burnt my entire maze down. Including all the green wool (XEN! :@) which took me all of last night to make.
Roses are bollocks, Violets are crud, I hate bloody flowers, And much prefer mud.
Best thing would be to (this would be farrrrrrr easier on linux btw :(( ) run a small web/ftp server on the same machine and when the png is generated, automatically convert it to a fairly low (like 50% quality) jpeg and move it to the webserver. A jpeg will be a bit mooshy but it's a fair compromise between detail and size.
Fair bit of work there, obviously so maybe just do it once a week or so by hand.
Yeah, I was thinking down that route but to it would probably make more sense if someone else could host it (either at home or on some hosting) so I only have to upload it once, as like I say bandwidth is stretched to fuck as it is :|
Probably don't even need to go that far - I suspect a 75% JPEG would balance filesize/quality acceptably.
I wonder if doing a 8-bit PNG with only 64 colours might even give a good balance - just tried it on the above image and it comes out at 103KB (i.e. 40% filesize of the JPG).
There are PNG optimising utilities that can probably do that in a scripted way.
