Gwydz
Veteran
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL
Some of us are going to really miss dynmap! But for those of us who use Voxelmap, there is a crude way to sort of have a full map. Amaris and I did this on season 3 and it worked, but has it's quirks. Voxelmap keeps it's data stored in little zip files - each represent an area of the world you've been to. If Amaris has been to an area that I haven't been to, I can copy her files to my folder and then I see what she's seen plus what I've seen.
The quirk comes into play with date stamps. If we have both been to the same area it would replace my data. If she hasn't been to that area for a month, but I was there yesterday then I lose what I had and only see what was there a month ago. If I go back, the data is updated and I see the current stuff. This is only a factor if you want to see details of an area like builds. While that's a nice feature, it isn't the goal of this thread.
I'm more interested in seeing areas I haven't been to for potential resource gathering or base building. For instance - where is the nearest mesa biome? Sure, I could ask in chat but what if no one is online at the time? If I had imported data from other people who had been there, I'd know what direction to go.
The issue is with sharing the data - it has to be done manually. Amaris noticed a way to share waypoints if both players are in-game, but a full map share isn't an option. So we'll have to use something like drop box to share our data. We can't use zip files in the forums, it takes up too much hard drive space on the forum server.
If there's enough interest in the idea, we'll figure out a way to do this.
The quirk comes into play with date stamps. If we have both been to the same area it would replace my data. If she hasn't been to that area for a month, but I was there yesterday then I lose what I had and only see what was there a month ago. If I go back, the data is updated and I see the current stuff. This is only a factor if you want to see details of an area like builds. While that's a nice feature, it isn't the goal of this thread.
I'm more interested in seeing areas I haven't been to for potential resource gathering or base building. For instance - where is the nearest mesa biome? Sure, I could ask in chat but what if no one is online at the time? If I had imported data from other people who had been there, I'd know what direction to go.
The issue is with sharing the data - it has to be done manually. Amaris noticed a way to share waypoints if both players are in-game, but a full map share isn't an option. So we'll have to use something like drop box to share our data. We can't use zip files in the forums, it takes up too much hard drive space on the forum server.
If there's enough interest in the idea, we'll figure out a way to do this.