Multiverse Custom World Creation

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Sticking some notes and links here as I tinker around with world creation and scripting.

Setup

I haven't done a lot of custom world scripting yet but wanted to establish and test my method. Brief considerations and procedures listed below.

Keeping any custom world files under a separate folder outside my MV Install, /home/multiverse/mv_worlds
created a symbolic link <MV_HOME>/config/scottworld that links to /home/multiverse/mv_worlds/scottworld
When I upgrade to newer servers the thinking is I'll just create symbolic links as nessisary.
Follow instructions for that world folder as per Creating your own world documentation.

Generally the instructions found on the Multiverse Wiki. These are:
- Generating Terrain with L3DT Pro
- Importing Heightmap Terrain Info World Editor
Quirks or other things of note doing this are:
- For some reason not all the textures given to me during the L3DT were accurate. In my particular case it had me note texture 8 as 'snow' but this texture never appeared in the asset repository. HOWEVER I did have a texture that imported as 'dirt1' which never appeared in my texture list. Though snow appeared in my L3DT terrain view, none appeared in my imported terrain in World Editor.
- Two of the rock textures from L3DT were only 238x238 pixels instead of the 256x256 size expected, this caused a checkered appearance on the terrain map (blank space comes across as black). I. corrected this by resizing the textures from the repository's directory to 256x256ent
- Note that entering a wrong spelling or taking too long in spelling a texture file name causes the World Editor to crash. Saving after each successful texture entry is highly recommended.