16:30: Now with Levels! And now I’m going to go and get dinner, I’ll be back in about 2 hours, ready to program the next stage of the wrapper.

20:40 Version Beta 1 is being used on the server, hopefully it works fine! I will release the source code once complete.

What it does is to take a copy of the Minecraft map and copy it to a folder for people to grab (also good for backups when someone TNTs the hell out of your map). If you have any suggestions/improvements, feel free to comment.

(To stop the spamming of rubbish your RSS reader won’t understand I’ll put the code under the break.)

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#!/bin/bash
# Minecraft World Snapshotter
# Version 1.0
# Created by Simon Cook (simon@simoncook.org)
 
## CONFIG START
 
# WORLD contains the name of the directory the Minecraft world is in
WORLD="world"
 
# FILENAME contains the name that will be appended with the date
FILENAME="world2-"
# DATE contains the date formatting to be used for a file name
DATE="%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"
# TYPE defines the file type to create (valid: tar bz2 7z zip)
TYPE="7z"
 
# DEST if valid, the snapshot will be copied or moved to this directory
DEST="/var/www/simoncook.org/web/static/minecraft/"
# CPMV is whether to move or copy if DEST is valid (valid: cp mv)
CPMV="cp"
 
## CONFIG END
## DO NOT EDIT UNDER THIS LINE
 
FILENAME=$FILENAME`date +$DATE`
 
if ! [ -d "$WORLD" ]; then
    echo "Sorry, World \"$WORLD\" does not exist!"
    exit 1
fi
 
if [ "$TYPE" == "tar" ]; then
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.tar
    tar cf $FILENAME $WORLD
    echo "Snapshot created as $FILENAME"
elif [ "$TYPE" == "bz2" ]; then
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.tar
    tar cf $FILENAME $WORLD
    bzip2 -9 $FILENAME
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.bz2
    echo "Snapshot created as $FILENAME"
elif [ "$TYPE" == "7z" ]; then
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.7z
    7za a -mx9 $FILENAME $WORLD
    echo "Snapshot created as $FILENAME"
elif [ "$TYPE" == "zip" ]; then
    FILENAME=$FILENAME.zip
    zip -9rq $FILENAME $WORLD
    echo "Snapshot created as $FILENAME"
fi
 
if [ -d "$DEST" ]; then
    if [ "$CPMV" == "mv" ]; then
        mv $FILENAME $DEST
        echo "File moved to $DEST"
    elif [ "$CPMV" == "cp" ]; then
        cp $FILENAME $DEST
        echo "File copied to $DEST"
    fi
fi

However, I sense the curse of buying games will follow me. It seems any game I buy on release is almost half the price a month later, and any game that I don’t buy in the first month will remain like that for the next million years or so. Being I haven’t got spore, chances are it is going to be one of the latter, especially with it being the huge hit it appears to be. I mean half my Steam list is on spore, and well it’s not even on Steam, thats just people that launch it through there. It’s currently 4th on the Xfire most played game list, and being it’s not even been out for a week, thats some feat! Only trailing between COD4,2 and WoW (wow that rubbish is popular).

My computer is running well, apart from I only get a framerate of 5-10 when I forget to turn folding@home-gpu off (6 hour work unit ftw!).

Left4Dead coming out in October, that shall also be awesome, can’t wait to see what Valve have done to pimp the Source Engine some more, though it seems that soon Source might be having a huge graphical upgrade, so DX10.1 might come in useful for ep3 More games to buy, just great. Now let me work this out, if I don’t eat for the next 3 months while I’m at Uni, I can afford to get spore and l4d. I know, I’ll try this new votey thing and see what the two people who read this thing I should do!

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In other more home news, my photos site is down (noooooo) while I upload all 1 million gigabytes to the new server. It’s about 40% done so should be back up and running by the end of the week. And don’t worry Reedy, your blog’ll be back up soon enough!

Moving to Uni on the 27th. That is going to be one heck of a shock when I move in, though a bit of TF2 or HL2DM might take the edge off No more matches though, I think last night set that we are screwed with that, and with the admin plugin kicking the wrong person :/ yeah, I think we need a bit of work all round,

That’s about it, hopefully enough for you to spam comments on Skillers