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NOTE:
The Deco Addon should contain these changes. If you use that mod, you won't need anything here.

BetterItemFrameMaps
All credit for this mod goes to the original creator, Six. They haven't been around for a long time though so I decided to update it.

Description from Six's post:
What this add-on / mod does is to change the way item frames render when they have a map in them. I was always disappointed with how this was done in vanilla, so I finally decided to do something about it:

Versions:
1.2 - Download it here
- Updated to be compatible with latest Better Than Wolves version (any version past 4.AAABBBA). No major changes were needed,as far as I could glean this file was only changed to account for the internal compass edits made in the update. If you don't even use compasses in the item frames, you could stick with the old version no problem.
- Disclaimer: A compass in an item frame will currently be very jittery.
1.1 - Download it here
- Original file by Six, compatible with all versions before 4.AAABBBA


MapsOnGrids
Note:
The change to creating maps in Better Than Wolves 4.A9 Pustules Lancing appears to have made this mod redundant. I've done some checks and the maps appear to be aligned without my mod, so huzzah, it's now a part of the BTW experience by default!

By Cthulhu's tentacles Yes, Please! This will perfectly complement a few projects that I have going on. Thanks a million Caevin!

Oooh. not playing much BTW atm, but definitely adding to my save for when I make my return. Thanks!

This will compliment my war-room nicely. You sir, can have my virtual babies.

Was about to install when I noticed six's mod download link was down. Anyone have a working copy?

Thanks so much for the replies, it's nice to know other people enjoy my it as well.

Dorugami: I put up a link to download on Six's mod thread, it should be the last post up right now.

Thank you kindly good sir :D

This is actually super awesome. Definitely will be using this, good job! This makes map rooms so much easier, I love it.

I am trying to install this using mcpatcher with the kiloblock update and i am getting a conflict message. is this happening to anyone else?

jackatthekilns wrote:I am trying to install this using mcpatcher with the kiloblock update and i am getting a conflict message. is this happening to anyone else?

The most recent update (BTWMod4-A4) uses wo.class so this mod is no longer compatible.

ElectroBot wrote: The most recent update (BTWMod4-A4) uses wo.class so this mod is no longer compatible.

Damn. I had to modify the map item for the extended block IDs :\

I am playing without the aligned maps, it is a small matter, but I would not be sad if there was a reasonable solution. I don't know enough about the process to know if there is an easy fix.

There are several ways to fix compatibility in cases like this, usually, I have some experience with similar cases. If Caevin wants, I can help him find a solution. So if you read this Caevin, feel free to send me a PM about it.

Gilberreke wrote:There are several ways to fix compatibility in cases like this, usually, I have some experience with similar cases. If Caevin wants, I can help him find a solution. So if you read this Caevin, feel free to send me a PM about it.

If it comes down to it, feel free to include the edits I made to the class into the add-on version. It's highly unlikely I'll be making further modifications to it, and it's just the expanding of one array and changing the bounds of one loop from 256, to 4096. That bit is pretty much straight out of Yhetti's Deco code as well.

I can always move those edits into a child class as well, but if I do that, then my override of that function may prevent the add-on edits from functioning anyways.

Ah, that explains why my maps started behaving weird, looks like I had this add-on overwrite the BTW map file, it actually worked fine for a while, but once I used so many maps funky things started happening like old maps getting replaced with the newer map.

Mason11987 wrote:Ah, that explains why my maps started behaving weird, looks like I had this add-on overwrite the BTW map file, it actually worked fine for a while, but once I used so many maps funky things started happening like old maps getting replaced with the newer map.

Did the maps overwritten happen to contain flesh blocks?

FlowerChild wrote:

Mason11987 wrote:Ah, that explains why my maps started behaving weird, looks like I had this add-on overwrite the BTW map file, it actually worked fine for a while, but once I used so many maps funky things started happening like old maps getting replaced with the newer map.

Did the maps overwritten happen to contain flesh blocks?

They don't, I haven't made any yet.

Hey everyone! I'm sad the functionality was overwritten but I think getting the new and improved BTW versions was well worth it.

I'll see what I can do to get a fixed version out.

Caevin wrote:Hey everyone! I'm sad the functionality was overwritten but I think getting the new and improved BTW versions was well worth it.

I'll see what I can do to get a fixed version out.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to assist there, man. I was really hoping not to break any add-ons with this extended block ID thing, and I'm sorry to see yours seems to be the one that was affected by it.

FlowerChild wrote:et me know if there's anything I can do to assist there, man. I was really hoping not to break any add-ons with this extended block ID thing, and I'm sorry to see yours seems to be the one that was affected by it.

Thanks Flower, I appreciate it.

To everyone else checking out the mod, sorry about the huge delay in reply. I kind of suck at life sometimes.
Anyway, with the fact that the file is being edited by BTW I'm not sure how to work around that. All I had done previously was implement a few line of code changes from a future Minecraft version into the map code. If anyone has any idea for workarounds you are more than welcome to update it and post it, otherwise for the time being I have no plans to update the mod (and admittedly I haven't put much energy towards it).

I am not a particularly skilled coder, but I also really love this mod, so I'm willing to give it a shot. My question though, is that the solution i have in my head is to combine FC's changes with Caevin's, But I don't know if using FC's code in that way is appropriate. I haven't actually looked at either file yet. I thought I would ask permission rather than forgiveness.

[Edit for spelling]

You can't distribute FC's code, but you could maybe look into what BWR did a few years ago where they modified the actual binaries themselves (like MCPatcher as well I believe). BWR source code is still available on their github.

Sounds above my pay grade. I'll have to leave it to others it seems.

FC already said that in this case, it's just fine to distribute his code if that's the only option, because it's just two small non-BTW related tweaks.

It's not that hard to fix, but without Caevin's source code, we'd have to rewrite the mod.

Oh I wasn't looking too hard through the posts here and I missed Flowerchild's comment on being able to combine the edits. Thanks Gil.

With that in mind, I'll stop being lazy and get my Minecraft modding environment set up again and I'll put out an update this weekend at the latest.