How can I use Sphax for Dynmap?

[DZCreeper]

I love the textures and so do my players, so I wanted to use them with Dynmap. I know anything past 32x32 doesn't offer much better looks in Dynmap, but I have extra memory on my server so I am going to use 128x128.


I am on 1.6.2 and running Spigot, Dynmap is working, I just want some snazzy looking textures.

[HanFox]

You'll be hard pressed to use 128x because Dynmap isn't very good at rendering it. You could have memory coming out of the wazoo, but Dynmap just takes an age to render all the maps.

At a stretch, for the map, you'd not really want to go past 32x as you rightly concluded. To be honest, 16x looks fine on dynmap too as you rarely need to zoom in that far.

Anyway, to use it you just need to add this to custom-shaders.txt in the dynmap folder:

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shaders:
  - class: org.dynmap.hdmap.TexturePackHDShader
    name: purebdcraft
    texturepack: purebdcraft
    biomeshaded: true
    better-grass: false

You then make a purebdcraft folder in the texturepacks folder.

After that you have to unpack base texturepack and then the mod patches.

Be aware that Dynmap won't magically render every mod's blocks. It requires special renderdata to understand it all.

Note: This was all correct as of Dynmap for MC1.5. If it doesn't work for MC1.6 you may need to crawl through the wiki documents for Dynmap.

[Sphax]

It's recommended to use PureBDcraft 16x or 32x maximum for Dynmap. It's a waste of server resources to use better resolutions honestly for this kind of usage.

[DZCreeper]

32x32 it is then! I didn't know it would take longer to render, I just thought it would use more memory, good to know.

Thanks for the info about some mods needing special rendering Han, we are on pure vanilla for now, although its good to know if we want it modded in the future.