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Cubitect / cubiomes-viewer

An efficient graphical Minecraft seed finder and map viewer.
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Feature Request: Unlimited Scale #162

Closed mooing-cowmilk closed 1 year ago

mooing-cowmilk commented 2 years ago

Add a setting that allows you to zoom out far beyond the max 1024 scale. It would be a setting to push your pc to the max. (you can put a warning on it saying program will crash at some point).

Just a fun setting to mess around with. Not hugely needed/important

Cubitect commented 2 years ago

Originally there wasn't any limit to the scale, but people reported several issues, so I set the limit to 1:1024 since that's more or less the limit where you won't be able to discern any useful information anymore. I'm guessing this request is a follow up from the addition of the outer end voids.

I made some optimizations and expanded the scale limit to 1:4096, so you'll now be able to see a fair portion of the entire world. I guess the tool will start using more memory at that point, but I think its fair to blame the user in that scenario.

If you still want to bypass the scale limits you can always set a value in the config file before starting the tool. (Probably located in ~/.config/cubiomes-viewer or %AppData%/Local/cubiomes-viewer.)

mooing-cowmilk commented 2 years ago

I might be blind but I don't see it in either location. %AppData%/Local/cubiomes-viewer exists for me but only has 3 files (quad_barely, Quad_ideal, and session)

Assuming ~/.config/cubiomes-viewer means my home directory C:\Users[my user] , I don't see a config file there

Cubitect commented 2 years ago

Apparently I was mistaken. The tool uses QSettings for the UI settings, which on Linux is just a file in the same location as QStandardPaths::AppConfigLocation, so it's just another file or directory in ~/.config, but on Windows it evidently resolves to an entry in the system registry. That's pretty inconvenient.

Cubitect commented 1 year ago

In 2.6.0 you can now manually specify a map scaling with the goto dialog within a much larger range than you can get by scrolling. This way you can't accidentally get to a problematic scale, but the user can override the limit to a practical extent.