sooooo i'm probably being extremely stupid but i am completely stumped, i've gotten everything to work and can access the website but i cannot get the /livemap colormap command to do anything, and as a result can't use fullrender to actually see the livemap, just have the blank blue background, it'd be massively helpful if i could get some help w/ this


EDIT: NEVERMIND I WAS RIGHT I AM JUST AN IDIOT IT WORKS NOW

What is that exemple world seed please?

based

Decided to try one of the dev builds after all. Just having trouble figureing out how to get the map to render. As you mentioned the instructions are different now but I haven't been able to deduce them lol

Whenever you've got a moment. :)

(edit)
Nevermind. I didn't think to check the configlib menu and found the colormap generate option.

No problem BillyGalbreath

I'll probably just cruise with the current version till you have the next one cooked up. As is it's really helpful for searching the map for things to investigate. Much faster than the in game map. :)

Sorry about that Ovadex,

The released version on this site doesnt contain the player markers yet. You can get dev builds from https://ci.pl3x.net/job/VS-LiveMap/ but the installation instructions are very different than what's posted here (it's actually easier now).

Hopefully soon I'll have the newer stuff cleaned up enough for another test build/release and I'll update the docs to reflect the changes.

Really awesome work!  I'm having trouble getting player markers working. There are no layers on the map and while trying to figure out what to put in players.json I'm drawing a bit of a blank. There's nothing on the wiki about what's needed so if anyone has had better luck than I, I'd greatly appreciate any help.

BillyGalbreath 

So I'm getting this error block when loading the mod on my server. 

11.5.2024 20:14:19 [Error] [livemap] An exception was thrown when trying to load assembly:
11.5.2024 20:14:19 [Error] [livemap] Exception: Assembly with same name is already loaded
at System.Runtime.Loader.AssemblyLoadContext.<LoadFromPath>g____PInvoke|5_0(IntPtr ptrNativeAssemblyBinder, UInt16* ilPath, UInt16* niPath, ObjectHandleOnStack retAssembly)
at System.Runtime.Loader.AssemblyLoadContext.LoadFromAssemblyPath(String assemblyPath)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(String assemblyFile)
at Vintagestory.Common.ModAssemblyLoader.LoadFrom(String path) in VintagestoryLib\Common\API\ModAssemblyLoader.cs:line 34
at Vintagestory.Common.ModContainer.<>c__DisplayClass36_0.<LoadAssembly>b__0(String path) in VintagestoryLib\Common\API\ModContainer.cs:line 455
at System.Linq.Enumerable.SelectListIterator`2.MoveNext()
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereEnumerableIterator`1.ToList()
at Vintagestory.Common.ModContainer.LoadAssembly(ModCompilationContext compilationContext, ModAssemblyLoader loader) in VintagestoryLib\Common\API\ModContainer.cs:line 454

No current livemap.yml file is being generated. Unable to do any commands in game.

hey, me again, I noticed a cool feature of your map mod.

if you pregen the map using /wgen pregen [radius]

your map mod will actually gen those chunks even though they have not been visited. this is really cool :D

😂so get this
I created a powershell script with an interface to create markers
the script saves the marker file it creates to a google drive share
my server has a scheduled task that runs every so often and copies the marker files to the location in the map and modifies the settings file to account for the name hahaha
so now my friends can add markers to the map 🤣

So apparently I am not good at reading -.-
I see you have a wiki link, will look at that :D
ignore me

I noticed that you might add markers to the map at some point
however I did see in the config file you had me look at that there is a marker section
is it at all possible to add markers manually or is that whole function not availble?
I noticed on your server map you had a little house icon for the spawn point :P

BillyGalbreath
That worked. the modifying the x,y values for the map :D
and also, I was so use to games adding firewall entries automatically when they prompt for the changes to be made that I didnt realise this isnt an app, its a mod haha.
After actually adding the new ports into my firewall, it all worked. see..... knew it was something dumb I did..... or didnt do in this case haha.

But yeah, after adjusting the values, its all working perfectly now :D
If I come across anything else weird, ill let you know. keep it up, I love Dynmap for minecraft and this is that for VS <3

hey, amazing idea and I will really like to get this to work.

I have followed everything, and it creates all the needed files and such.
the part I am stuck on is a few things

1) portforward does not want to work for some reason, but localhost on the server works fine. (I will deal with this but thought Id mention it) could be something stupid I have done
2) when I go to the page, its not black like someone else mentioned. its a weird dark blue color. textured color.
although the map has finished generating and I have done it a few times, the map itself does not want to load the terrain.
I have also set up a different web server (wamp) and that does the same thing, page loads the blue textured background with no terrain.

is this something I am doing wrong? any ideas?

Thanks for the mod and help when\if you have a chance :D

IAmJade

Everything should be working fine for you. Unfortunately, the security concerns for some operating systems is outside the scope of this project. There are many workarounds for it, such as running VS in admin mode, or allowing the url in netsh, etc. My recommendation for anyone experiencing issues with the built in web server if to run their own 3rd party server, like Apache, Nginx, or Caddy. The built in web server is really only provided as a convenience for those that it is able to work for. My personal setup is running the built in web server on Linux os, so there were no security concerns there. I also have an Apache server running in front of it, which is allowing me to reverse proxy a secure HTTPS address on port 443 to the private HTTP port of the built in server. You honestly don't even need to run the built in web server, which is hy there is an option to turn it off in the config. All you have to do is point your 3rd party web server to the web directory the mod installed. This sounds like the best option for you since you are using Windows os. I hope to have some instructions and examples about all this up on the wiki eventually.

As for the black screen, this is normal until you have fully run a fullrender on the world. The data to make the map is rather heavy to process, so it doesnt do the whole thing on it's own. Depending on your map size it could take a few seconds up to a few hours. To give you an idea, my server linked above does a fullrender in about 20 minutes. Currently there is no output to the console/log/game about the progress of the fullrender, other than some debug output which you can enable in the livemap.yml config file.

Line 44 in webserver.cs - doesn't that need to allow for localhost and a secure domain? Like I think need to add https too in case someone runs it on a public secure domain? Anyway, atm, I'm trying to get Windows 10 firewall to allow this to execute and this line is the failure point in SP mode. FWIW, this discusses the pain point https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4019466/httplistener-access-denied/

Following the suggestion in the SO post, when I run VS game in admin mode after having opened port localhost:8080 a map interface appears. However, all I see is a blank (black) map that says Vintage Story LiveMap in the bottom right. Unfortunately, the map isn't updating or getting populated with data from the game instance.

I wish you well with this endeavor. It will be a fun tool once it is all working. :)

Very excited to see where this goes! I started looking into making a map site with leaflet, but imho, interfacing with the game is the harder part and is a bit too complicated for my current understanding of C#, lol... 

Wow that looks amazing!  Can't wait to try it.

heck yeah, dude

Billy, this looks amazing man!  Watching your progress with this very eagerly