Website

[jonfrasier]

I have looked everywhere and I still don't understand how to make the overview into a website that I can send to my friends and stuff. Can I have some help?

[drnixon]

outputdir option specifies where to save the generated files. Upload that entire directory to a web server. Done.

(You do need to have a server somewhere of course. Setting up hosting is a bit outside the scope of this project, which is aimed at generating content, but there are any number of tutorials out there for creating a website.)

[jonfrasier]

Thank you

[drnixon]

For what it's worth, to simply share with friends, if you have home broadband you can likely just host it locally from your own computer and provide IP address rather than paying for a domain name. Or use a dynamic DNS service like freedns to translate your ISP-provided address into a domain name. You would be opening your home network to the outside, which has some potential security concerns, and you'd need some system in your house to act as a server (using Apache, nginx, or other server software). Cheaper than paying for hosting just to do this one thing.

If you pay for external hosting (e.g. running a Minecraft server) you may be able to upload the map there if you have SFTP access. Generated maps can be big though, so be aware of the space restrictions on your hosting, and keep in mind that the maps consist of many, many small image files, so uploads can take a very long time.

[Hearl-R]

And is it possible to host the map on Google Drive ? this way, it would be online and therefore visible to other people

[drnixon]

Don't know. If Drive lets you view web pages in place it might, but you'd have to test it.