Tool SinglePlayer Map Renderer

[GaryP]

I've been away from 7 Days for a bit and I'm just coming back. Your map printer has come a long way. Even the command line version is awesome.

[Relaxed]

Does this work for the A16B7?

 

-ignore ss got it working I think--

[sixxkilur]

Need to move Codeplex to Github

 

Nice tool I have not used it yet but I like the idea.

 

I just found out last week that Codeplex is shutting down and you only have a certain amount of time to transfer your account repos and content to Github. So I nearly lost some of my valuable source codes not currently on any HDD do to drive failure. It is a automated process once you authorize it on both ends.

 

"CodePlex is shutting down. Read about the shutdown plan, including archive and migration information, on Brian Harry's blog."

 

Hope this helps.

[Pr00ch]

Pretty neat tool. I wish we could uncover the map as well though.

[Cadamier]

So, I made my own version based on cumu's tool.

 

Thank you DorHans! Excellent!

[sixxkilur]

Well tried to build your app from your source code on Codeplex in VIS 2017. Loading your project tries to connect to Team Foundation Server on Codeplex and fails; due to access not authorized going to the url ask for the tfs codeplex login credentials.

 

tried any way build fails.

----- Build started: Project: 7DTD-SingleMapRenderer, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
1>E:\Games\7DaystoDie\utils\Mapping\7dtdsinglemaprenderer-45069\7DTD-SingleMapRenderer\app.config : error MSB3249: Application Configuration file "app.config" is invalid. Could not find file 'E:\Games\7DaystoDie\utils\Mapping\7dtdsinglemaprenderer-45069\7DTD-SingleMapRenderer\app.config'.
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

 

NM I removed app.config and re added dll reference.

 

I am trying to add a feature to show airdrops currently on map; what do I need to add to POI.cs to get that working?

 

Looks like the entry is not supported in the dll.

[DorHans]

Sorry for answering this late.

 

You are right, I completely forgot to commit the app.config. But you don't really need it anyway, it is almost empty. And yes, you also need the FunPimps.dll from the binary release.

 

As for the POIs / waypoints:

A POI is just a map marker with a name, symbol and coordinates. All waypoints, you've added to your map, are read from from player profile (.ttp). The POIs are read from a csv file (plain text file with default encoding). These symbols are static and not accessible from ingame.

1000,760,book,store

This line will add a book symbol with the name "store" at 1000 north / 760 east to the rendered map.

 

I assume, that airdrops are saved in the chunk files. So you might end up reading all 7rg files, searching for airdrop blocks, extract their coordinates and create an instance of the POI class for each airdrop. It is possible, but requires some work.

 

 

@Pr00ch: Well, uncovering the map is not that simple. First you would need the game to create all region files. Then you would parse these files for the highest terrain block. Then you would need the material of that block. Then you need the color of that material. Then you need the orientation of the block (a block in a mountain slope has a different color than in a plain). Then you might compute the color of that pixel on your map.

Since we have an ingame preview of the map, I don't really see the need for that.

[Darkweaver]

Hello DorHans, is there a list of symbol names we can use somewhere? I understand the automatic export of in game way points is broken at the moment?

[DorHans]

Hi Darkweaver,

 

for a list of included symbols see post #22. There you will also find information on how to use your own symbols.

 

And thanks for mentioning, the ingame waypoints broke again. I hope to fix this issue this weekend. No promises made!

[DorHans]

Version 1.9

 

Yesterday I released version 1.9 which features a RegionViewer (in the menu under "Experimental"). I don't know if it is useful or not. So tell me if you have an idea.

 

Currently it takes your selected map and renders each region individually. When you select a region from the list, you will see the rendered image and a grid overlay. Each grid cell represents a chunk and has a X and Z value.

 

[Bubo]

Works great and like the added regions grid, thank you!

 

 

Quick and simple

[Zorgon]

Thank you for this awesome tool!

[Piposquac]

Thank you very much, this is eggstremely useful!

[Blindguard]

Useless, trying to find a slanted area to build into a mountain, this still got fog of war in it.

[Eihwaz]

Hey DorHans,

 

i´ve made a small

about your handy tool in german, maybe you like to watch it

hav a nice day

[DorHans]

Thank you guys for all your feedback! It' always a pleasure to read, even if you find it useless.

 

And thanks, Eihwaz, very nice spotlight. I like how you explain every option and detail. This reminds me of writing a short wiki on github...

[DorHans]

Hi guys and gals,

 

what have I been up to lately? I've been trying to render a map from the region files.

 

From what I have observed, and that may be incorrect, the game saves data the following way:

It creates the "hub cell data", which I think is for the distant terrain. These files contain the names of POIs, "asphalt" and some binary data. Maybe the height and/or biome map? The creation takes some time, but I expect that you see this data, when you use "Editing Tools" (Random Gen World Previewer). Each hub seems to represent 9 regions.

The actual blocks are stored in your region files. Each region is 512 x 512 blocks big and reaches from the bedrock to the sky. The region is divided in 32 x 32 = 1024 chunks, each of them being 16 x 16 blocks big.

When you first step into a region, the game creates an empty region file and only generates the chunks around you.

From where I stand, the map gets rendered 4 chunks in each direction. The region files contains additional 4 chunks in each direction. This may be because of my view distance being 9? Beyond that point the chunks aren't created or saved.

 

There is a console command called "visitmap", with that you can force the creation of specific regions and chunks. The command expects two X-Z block coordinate pairs. If you want to create the region 0,0 you have to type "visitmap 0 0 511 511". It than creates and checks all 1024 chunks in that region.

 

Here are some numbers. These are only estimates, as I don't want to spend so much time testing this out.

A random world is about 40 x 40 = 1600 regions big. Each region consists of 1024 chunks, resulting in about 1.6 million chunks. The visitmap command can compute about 22 chunks per second (on my system). Generation of the whole world would take 74,000 seconds or 20 hours. Each region file takes about 8-10 MB, so the whole world would be 12-15 GB.

Rendering the map is a lot faster, and happens at about 1100 chunks per seconds (on my system) -- resulting in about 26 minutes for the whole world. The image would be 20,000 x 20,000 pixels and about 130 MB big.

 

TLDR:

It is possible to render a map from region files, but -- and that's a huge butt -- it takes a tremendous amount of time to create the regions.

Currently it can only render the terrain, no blocks or decorations. Maybe because blocks can be painted, and therefore the map color must be extracted from the texture? And it also renders underwater terrain.

The code is very experimental and far away from production use. So don't expect a release in the near future.

 

Finally something to look at.

The four images on the left are a comparison between the rendered regions and the ingame map. I hope, you can see the limitations mentioned above.

The right image shows what additional information you may get. The magenta overlay marks the chunks saved in the region file, that are not on your ingame map. Nice, but pretty much useless?

 

 

Any thoughts on this feature?

Any wishes? Maybe extend your ingame map with information from region files?

You know a faster way to generate the whole world?

[Markezzz]

Hey DorHans,

i know the update is only 1 day old to a17, but did you have any plans for a update to your tool?

[DorHans]

Definitely yes, but not this month.

Tbh, I haven't played in months. So thanks for letting me know, there is a new version.

[kamelophagous]

Existing one seems to work fine. You just have to open the map file with it.

[dcsobral]

The existing version seems to work fine _except_ for waypoints. I don't see them on my alpha 17 maps.

[Bubo]

A18 is right around the corner anyway =)

[dynamis_dk]

Hi, I've just started to host a server for me and a friend, I'm finding this tool very useful but wondered if you would take a few suggestions?

 

I'm running a quick powershell I've wrote to grab all the enteries in prefabs.xml and plot them over the biomes.png which is great to get an idea where stuff is. I got the idea to overly the output from your SingleMapRenderer on top of my biomes.png to give a map of where we have been, what the biome layout is and where the interesting POI's are, which results in something like this:

 

 

My request would be, can you add an option under general to produce a full size png which is the whole map area, not just the discovered tiles? i.e. is the randomGen is 4096x4096, the png output is 4096x4096, regardless of the discovered area? This would mean I can just overly the images straight on top of the biomes.png without having to photoshop to align everything.

 

I've looked over your source code and unfortunately my programming skills don't extend to the level needed to figure out how the map reading works

[Lain]

would love for this tool to work in a18's and with the use of Damocles random map generator that way i dont have to load in game when editing maps so i can see if the land is smooth ect when i port height maps from my 3d models

[DorHans]

Happy Holidays!

 

Hey guys,

 

long time no see. The ttp file format is a topic on its own, so I decided to ditch this part and implement a simple text search. With version 1.10 you will have your ingame waypoints, but no spawnpoint (bed symbol), no dropped backpack and no quick marker.

 

@dynamis_dk

I really like the idea to include the biome map and the prefabs. Would like to include this in the next release.

Well, my commenting skills aren't the best. But if you want to know how the map is rendered you just need this file: https://github.com/DorHans/7DTD-SMR/blob/master/7DTD-SingleMapRenderer/src/Core/MapRenderer.cs

The method getAllTilesFromMapFile will read all tiles from the map file and returns a dictionary. The key consists of the x-z-coordinates of this tile (or chunk). The value is a 512 byte array, which is the raw bitmap data.

The method renderTiles extracts the x and z coordinates, creates a bitmap from the raw data and draws this into the map.

If you want to code yourself, you can change the method RenderWholeMap. The variables minX, maxX, minY, maxY, sizeX and sizeY control the size of the resulting image. (E.g. a 4k map would be something like: min=-128, max=127, size=4096)

 

@Lain

I haven't used NitroGEN, so I don't know what files it generates. I assume it doesn't generate a map file. So it would be out of the scope for this tool. Maybe Damocles could add an option to output a height map as well.

 

Enjoy your holidays!