ABOUT ----- Minecraft X-Ray is a program whose primary purpose is to aid in finding valuable ores and resources inside a Minecraft world. By default, when you select a resource type to highlight, X-Ray will cause any blocks of that type to visibly glow within the range of loaded chunks. The glowing can sometimes be a bit much, so you can also toggle the glowing on/off, which will still leave all instances of the selected resource visible on the screen. Additionally, X-Ray is somewhat useful for taking a look at natural underground caves, to find out how extensive they are, or even to help find your way out if you're lost. The original author of Minecraft X-Ray was plusminus, who was kind enough to provide the sourcecode for that excellent application. Minecraft X-Ray is released under the Modified BSD License. See COPYING.txt for more information, and Changelog.txt for a complete list of changes since X-Ray 2.7. X-Ray uses various third-party libraries for other tasks. See COPYING.txt for details on their licensing, and COPYING-*.txt for copies of the licenses themselves. X-Ray includes code kindly provided by Eleazar Vega-Gonzalez and Saxon Parker. Thanks a bunch! See TODO.txt for a list of known bugs and things that I'd like to implement, and BUILDING.txt if you wanted some info on building the project yourself. The official website for Minecraft X-Ray is currently: http://apocalyptech.com/minecraft/xray/ The official forum link is currently: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1022&t=119356 Once again, many thanks to plusminus for writing X-Ray in the first place, and providing the sourcecode so that it could be extended and maintained. RUNNING ------- There isn't an installer for this currently. Perhaps one day... Windows users should be able to run the program by just doubleclicking on minecraft_xray.exe or minecraft_xray.bat. Linux and OSX users should be able to doubleclick on either minecraft_xray.sh or minecraft_xray_osx.command (the files are actually identical). KEYS ---- Note that currently the mouse buttons cannot be specified in the properties file, so those functions are hardcoded. All keyboard commands can be overridden, though. The default keybindings are as follows: Movement Movement: WASD Fly Upward: SPACE Fly Downward: LEFT CONTROL Move Faster: Left Shift / Left Mouse Button (hold) Move Slower: Right Shift / Right Mouse Button (hold) Camera Warp to Spawnpoint: HOME Warp to Player Position: END Cycle Up through Presets: INS Cycle Down through Presets: DEL Jump to Arbitrary Position: J Jump to next dimension: N Jump to previous dimension: P Lock to Vertical Axis: L Rendering Highlight Ores: F1 - F10 Toggle Highlight Glow: H Set Highlight distance: 1 - 7 Toggle Fullbright: F Toggle Bedrock: B Toggle Water: T Increase Lighting Range: + Decrease Lighting Range: - Set visibility range: NUMPAD1 - NUMPAD6 (remember numlock) Toggle "explored" areas: E Toggle accurate grass sides: G Toggle Beta 1.9 Fences: C Toggle Silverfish highlight: V Toggle chunk borders: U Toggle slime chunks: M Other Toggle Fullscreen: BACKSPACE Toggle Level Info: ` (grave accent) Toggle Rendering Info: R (on by default) Reload Map from Disk: = Open New Map: O Show large map: TAB Release Mouse: ESC Show Keyboard Reference: Y Change Block Highlights: ] (right bracket) Quit: CTRL-Q EXTRA BLOCK DEFINITIONS ----------------------- As of version 3.3.0, X-Ray includes a mechanism to allow the user to define custom block types. X-Ray will read any block definition file found inside the "blockdefs" directory inside .minecraft_xray. This is located at: Windows: %appdata%\.minecraft_xray\blockdefs\ OSX: ~/Library/Application Support/.minecraft_xray/blockdefs/ Linux: ~/.minecraft_xray/blockdefs/ Each file must have a ".yaml" extension, and X-Ray won't read any file named "minecraft.yaml". It would be best practice to name the file after the mod you're intending to support, such as "aether.yaml". The file format is in YAML 1.1. There should be some very detailed docs contained inside the global "minecraft.yaml" file (you can find this in X-Ray's own "blockdefs" directory, where you unpacked it). Examples (and a copy of the global minecraft.yaml file) can be found here: http://apocalyptech.com/minecraft/xray/modsupport.php As mentioned above, X-Ray will automatically attempt to load any YAML file it finds in the blockdefs directory, and it will display which ones it was able to load on the opening dialog. If your file doesn't show up in the list, there's probably an error in it - you should be able to find that error in the file minecraft_xray_output_log.txt in the root X-Ray directory. Linux and OSX users (and Windows users who use the .BAT file instead of the .EXE) will see the errors on the console from which X-Ray was launched, as well. RENDERING DETAILS ----------------- There are three main "sliders" available to control how things are rendered: Visibility range, Highlighting range, and Lighting. Visibility range specifies how many chunks away from the camera the app will render at any one time. The minimum is 3, the maximum is 8. Highlighting range specifies how many chunks away from the camera the app will highlight/glow the selected resources that you're looking for. Often (with more common resources) you'll want to keep this value very low. Otherwise it becomes quite difficult to tell where you're actually going. For less common resources (like pumpkins or clay), you'll want to have it set as high as possible, though. Note that this will never be able to highlight ores outside the set visibility range. Lighting just determines the OpenGL "fog" value. This is useful to have a better sense of scale while moving around. You can toggle into "fullbright" mode with F, which will disable the fog entirely. In addition to the sliders, there are a few toggles which let you set whether to always draw water and bedrock. Water is on by default, and bedrock is off by default (though it will of course show up if necessary, regardless of this setting). The ore highlighting glow can be toggled using the "H" key. This will cycle between the three states of ore highlighting glow. The default is a rainbow effect which one user has described as "disco." The next selection is a plain white highlighting which was the default until version 3.4.0. Finally, the glow will be turned off entirely. Note that with the glow turned off, every instance of the specified ore will still be rendered onscreen, so this toggle is still quite useful for tracking down ores. The "explored" area toggle, basically just tints any blocks around torches with a green color. This makes it very easy to see where you've explored in underground caves (and is fairly useless above ground). It does this in a 7x7x7 cube centered around the torches, so the highlighting can easily "bleed over" into adjacent tunnels where you might not have actually explored, but it's usually very easy to tell when that's happened. The toggle for grass sides will let you toggle the accurate grass sides on or off. Until version 3.2.0, Minecraft X-Ray drew grass as a solid block of green, which I found occasionally handy while hollowing out mountains and the like, to know where I could still dig out and where I was right up against the edge. X-Ray will now default to the more-accurate rendering, but you can toggle back and forth with the "G" key. Minecraft Beta 1.9 changed the way fences work slightly, so that they will "connect" up to adjacent solid blocks. X-Ray will now, by default, render fences that way, but you can toggle it with the "C" key, in case you're viewing pre-1.9 maps. By default, X-Ray will highlight Silverfish blocks with a red tint. You can toggle this on and off with the "V" key. The "U" key can be used to toggle the rendering of chunk borders. This will draw a transparent box around the chunk the camera is currently in, so it's easy to see what's inside your current chunk and what isn't. The "Slime Chunk" option will turn on the highlighting of chunks which should be able to spawn Slimes. The highlighting will actually only occur on the bottom part of the map, where the slimes themselves are actually capable of spawning. The equation used to calculate this was taken from http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Slime#Spawning in early October, 2011, when Beta 1.9-pre2 was out. The equation may or may not be valid for earlier or later versions of Minecraft, but should be at least valid for Minecraft Beta 1.6 through Minecraft 1.0. The default key to toggle this highlighting is "M". Note that in Minecraft versions prior to Beta 1.9-pre5, slimes would spawn only under y=16, whereas from that point on, slimes will spawn under y=40. X-Ray will highlight up to y=40 for all maps. The rendering information popup can be toggled with "R" and is on by default. This will let you know what these various settings are set to. CAMERA OPTIONS -------------- For singleplayer worlds, there will be two camera presets: the spawnpoint, and the location of the player. In this case, INS/DEL isn't really any different than using HOME/END to jump directly to those presets. If you use X-Ray to load a multiplayer world, though, there ...
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