World Painter For Vintage Story

Updated the mod to work with the latest version of the game.

This is just a quick patch to keep things working. Eventually, whenever I have the time, I'll work on the big update that allows for larger worlds and stuff.

Thanks for making a fork Yoldovahkriid, as for the crashes and what not, I will look into it. Since YTT Might take a bit, maybe I will do a very quick patch for the new game ver.

Hey YangWenLi,
so the region.FlowerMap function no longer exists in 1.22 and causes the game to crash on world join/creation, I had made a quick fork and removed the line however now Im encountering a different issue when running the patched mod on my server it generates an empty world (but not in SP for some reason).  If I use a working SP save everything works fine until I try to run /wgen regen <radius> after which the regened chunks and all future generated chunks will have no more grass, dirt or trees and will only generate granite and ores.

YangWenLi, Hey sorry to bother but I've been running into an issue with a world I made. I export the file and all seems good but the world doesn't generate. What I mean is if I attempt to create a world I get an exception that an index was out of bounds of the array. I've tested changing world sizes and making the world either smaller or bigger and it loads the world but it is completely void. My world painter world size is (131068, 320, 65532). Is there anyway to fix this issue at all?

No idea Jack_The_Badger. I'm still on the last stable while I wrap-up YTT.

I'll do a quick and dirty patch after YTT releases if anything is broken.

Compatiable with 1.22?

hope it gets possible to specify rock types and vegetation (maybe by using different levels?) + enourmous sizes. a 1:10 earth map would be just perfect

ExaltedPigeon Not at the moment, but it is a consideration for the future.

Currently using this for my terraforming project, my main wish currently is a way to actually have a way for specific block types to spawn, have you looked into making terrain  with the VS block ID's, for example making basalt related blocks spawn with a brush with the block ID's so that VS can "read" them and generate thusly?

ilft Пожалуйста, наслаждайтесь!

НАКОНЕЦ-ТО!!! Я ждал этого очень долго, чтоб этот мод перенесли на Винтажку!

Flamestar Not at the moment, whenever I get around to the next major update, I'll just support massive map sizes so that such a thing won't be necessary. 

 YangWenLi Is there a way to stitch multiple worldpainter maps together in VS for big projects?

Getting reports that there's some issues on the latest version. I'm investigating. 

ComradeCoalnick No, porting a VS world into WP is not possible at the moment.

Can you import previously existing saves in-game to be edited using the world painter?

BakaTataka Is there anything from the included documentation or tutorial series that's confusing? Let me know and I'll try to brush it up in the next release, whenever that may be.

It's very interesting, but it's not clear how to integrate a map from World Painter into the game

Amazing mod, thank you for your work. If i could suggest one thing, it would be to add a layer similar to the one for sand allowing you to place bare rock/stone.

LucianStarre Yep, that should do it. Water level in WP should generally always be 43% of height.

Hey!
My friend is making a map currently but they're having issues with the water being a block too low in Vintage story compared to the map in worldpainter.

World Height = 512  |  Water Height 43% Rounded 220.16 = 220

Would changing the water height in worldpainter to 221(?) fix the issue without breaking anything or is there a different thing at play here? Issue persisted with no other mods downloaded and he's worried about changing the setting leading to breaking the map he's painted so far.

Not that I know of

Amazing, is anyone working on an MCA Selector equivalent? 

Sokolov_ It's a planned feature, but not any time soon, unfortunately. 

This is a total dream come true- in the future will there be more customization with ore veins or other specific resources? <3

Hello MANEL190, first off, concerning your earlier comment, I've uploaded a tutorial on metadata layers. Combined with the first tutorial, it covers all of WP4VS.

As for your current comment, rock strata layers are indeed a frequently requested feature that I plan to tackle in the future. For the time being, don't worry about there only being one type of stone, the game will assign strata as it does normally.

when you will add more types of terrain options on your mod, cuz mostly of the blocks i see are the minecraft normal gravel, stone and sand.

Kinda hard to do the project i want, cuz i want to do a very detailed world but i dont want to put only one type of gravel, only a type of stone or only a type of sand.

i know that most of the biomes need the temperature to spawn and etc, but theres the problem, i dont think the type of temperature will change the type of gravel or stone of the place.

And even it is affected by temperature, what are the chances to it for getting to be the gravel i want?

Hello MANEL190, a second tutorial is in the works, which will cover metadata layers. Those two tutorials combined will just about cover all of this mod's capabilities (excluding exotic stuff like trying to import MC or IRL maps into the game). I can't give you a set date for when it'll come out, but it'll be as soon as we can. I will also consider making an unedited zero to completion map making video to complement existing material.

As for ruin spawn rate, that's not controlled by terrain generation or within the scope of the mod at the moment, it's a separate system.
If you're using Better Ruins, check and modify your mod settings, you can increase your ruin spawn rates that way.

Adding layers for modifying resources is in my long term plans.
Or if you are talking about the mod's effects on resource changes, no, it'll be 100% whatever your world gen settings are, unless you're using the ore multiplier layer. 

I hope this answers some of your questions. The first tutorial video should already cover the bare basics, and of course, there is the written documentation, which while not perfect, should be sufficiently comprehensive if read carefully.

Kind regards.

when will ya do a big and i mean BIG tutorial video, showing how to use the mod and how to do basic world painting.

cuz i feel i little confused because i saw that in the description, this mod is compatible with better ruins and i just want to understand 

how the hell do i add the ruins. Cuz to my knowledge (based on the intro video you made) some of the vanilla and ruins just spawn on random. (specially the traders caravans) 

And what about the fauna plants mod. How do i increase the spawn rate of them 

GOSH I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!!

BTW, will the painted world affect/disable the spawn rate of surface resources like surface copper, peat and clay?

I have been wanting this!!! This creates many new possibilities for Vintage Story! Amazing work, thank you very much

Hello Viceroy, it should be safe to go higher than 256 as long as you also set your world height to that same value when generating the world in-game. With that said, make sure to set your ocean level in WP to 43% of your world height, people often forget to do this and end up with water worlds by mistake.

Strata is planned for the far future, not sure about gravel/sand, I'd have to look into it.

Thank you for this mod. I have used world painter for MC maps a lot back in the day and I am happy to see it get made for VS now. 
Questions: what issues would I encounter if I use world height bigger than 256? Are custom layers planned for future update like rock strata and surface features like sand or gravel?

Version 1.5 is out, which should improve performance by a lot (it now takes seconds instead of minutes to export an event-sized map), and it also fixes the height issues.
WPHM files are not compatible across mod versions. Make sure to re-export your map with the latest export script if you're upgrading to this new mod version.

This mod is kind of hard to test for, and I've been sorely lacking in tester feedback, so if you encounter any unexpected issues, let me know and I'll work on a patch right away.

@YangWenLi

Great to hear, looking forward to whenever that update comes :) With the lava I was thinking more for like, making volcanoes and stuff. But I think its okay if that's one of those things to manually do in the game itself.

Also really love that this mod exists, I've been wanting something like world painter for VS for so long, so ty for making this! Opens so many possibilities.

MechaMagus Not in the current version. But I do plan for it in the future.

For lava, although it can't be painted, you can use a high tectonic layer value, and it will result in underground lava formations (and overground hotsprings).

Is it currently possible with this to paint water at heights higher than sea level? For example rivers flowing in higher up terrain?

Likewise would lava painted on this appear properly in game?

Edit: Typo

paintmoses Will be rolling out an update that fixes that in the coming days. Code is all finished but it needs test.

Send me a message on discord and I can send you an early testing copy.

I am having a issue with maps that i have made 320 being made the default height when i load them in and cutting my moutains short. I have followed the manual but even when changing the setting in VS I still run into the same problem, any idea why this is happening? This mod is incredible and beyond thankful you made it! 

I'm happy to hear, and do know that I'm working hard on the next update that'll enable much larger worlds.

You have no idea how much this means to me! 

Thank you!!!

holy wackamoly!

For world size, whatever your PC and patience can handle. The code is pretty slow on the WP side of things (I plan to address this in a future update), so it's generally best to stick to small "event-sized" worlds. InsectGhost

I have not personally tested anything greater than 4096x4096, but I have heard of people trying bigger worlds without issue. I strongly recommend starting small for your first map.

Holy Hell this is really exciting. Whats the upper limit on world size currently? 

Hello Tarbrough!

It is technically possible to have world-gen expand past a defined map area, but it's not officially supported. You can try and do it by using a really low chunk render distance and manually flying around your map area (don't use world pre-generation), then disabling the mod, which will cause TerraGen to start filling in any new chunks. Results will vary, some chunks might auto-correct, but most of them will spawn a wall of rock into the sky due to height differences between vanilla and your map.

Currently, I have no immediate plans to add a mode in which painted maps can blend into generated terrain. Though I'll add it to the future updates list.

As for importing temperatures, I assume you mean importing them into the game, in which case please have a look at the "Metadata Layers" section of the included user guide, it covers how to paint climate.
If you mean importing an existing save into World Painter and then exporting it back, that's not supported at the moment, though it is theoretically possible.

Okay so, this is bloody amazing! I can't tell you how long I have wished for this tool to exist, but now I am curious, how does the world expand past the drawn tiles?
If I draw an island e.g can I make it generate the world around it naturally, or is the game itself gonna hate that I did that?
Can we set up ways for it to handle that or is it much easier to take a world and edit it?
Can we import temperatures or is this a block only tool?

Hello RealPolishCoomer, I'm happy to hear you found the mod useful!

The mod should work with custom material (depending on how they were implemented into world gen), my mod does not touch modify how TerraGen does things (except for beaches), just what data it reads, so theoretically it should still included modded ores and materials in. I make no guarantees about compatibility, but the mod should be fairly unintrusive for what it does.

Thank you for this! No longer will I have to fiddle with in-game world-edit to make semi-satisfying terrain! This is a godsend.

I must ask, though. Regarding world generation, will modded materials be included when loading a map? If I had Geology additions, for example, would those stone, gravel, and sand types have a chance of being utilized in the worldgen, or would it only read the vanilla materials? I have no coding knowledge whatsoever, but I assume it would work, given that the game's worldgen is what's being imposed onto the map, instead of the other way around.

Eitherway, I'm really glad this is available! Thanks a ton!

Hello ChaoticMischief, as mentioned in the mod page "Included with the User Guide is a link to a YouTube playlist with a tutorial series on using the mod", please open the zip file and read the file named README USER GUIDE.PDF, you'll find detailed instructions inside, as well as a link to a YouTube playlist with tutorials (currently only one that covers the basics, but more in the future).

I need like a video on how to install because i have no clue what im supposed to be locating in my files