Cartocraft

Cartocraft is a simple top-down, orthogonal Minecraft map renderer with ambient occlusion and lighting.

Included features:

• Fast multi-threaded rendering
• Ability to output color maps, elevation maps, and height maps
• Adjustable height rendering
• Ambient occlusion and indirect lighting
• Adjustable lighting levels/exposure

Using Cartocraft

java -jar Cartocraft.jar [Location of region files] [render height (1-128)] [Output file (.png)]

Changelog

Version 0.1.0

• Initial version

Version 0.1.1

• Fixed various bugs

Version 0.1.2

• Added screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO)
• Added screen space indirect lighting (SSIL)
• Added editable setting files

Version 0.1.3

• Reduced memory footprint
• Fixed various bugs

Known Bugs

• Very large maps (>500 regions) will cause java to run out of heap space