Manic Miners Map Renderer

Description

Manic Miners Map Renderer is a tool designed to generate PNG images of 2D map tiles with a brushstroke effect for the game Manic Miners. This tool converts tile arrays into visually appealing images with custom biome colors and patterns, and includes functionalities for generating thumbnails as well.

Features

• Converts 2D tile arrays into PNG images.
• Generates both full-sized screenshots and thumbnails.
• Processes entire directories of map files.

Installation

To install the dependencies, run:

npm install

Usage

Generating a PNG Image

To generate a PNG image from a map file:

import { generatePNGImage } from 'manic-miners-map-renderer';

const result = await generatePNGImage({
    filePath: 'path/to/mapfile.dat',
    outputFileName: 'output_image.png',
});

Generating Map Images for an Entire Directory

To generate images for all map files in a directory:

import { generateMapImage } from 'manic-miners-map-renderer';

const result = await generateMapImage({
    type: 'both', // 'png', 'thumbnail', or 'both'
    directoryPath: 'path/to/map/files',
    progressCallback: progress => {
        console.log(`Processed ${progress.processedCount} of ${progress.totalCount}`);
    },
});

Configuration

Ensure you have a .env.local file with the following configuration:

MMT_CATALOG_DIR=path/to/your/map/files

Scripts

• resetdist: Removes the dist directory.
• build: Compiles the TypeScript code.
• start: Compiles the TypeScript code and starts the application.

Dependencies

• canvas: Used for rendering the map tiles.
• chardet: For detecting the character encoding of map files.
• dotenv: For loading environment variables.
• sharp: For image processing.

Dev Dependencies

• @types/chardet: Type definitions for chardet.
• @types/dotenv: Type definitions for dotenv.
• @types/node: Type definitions for Node.js.

Author

Waleed Judah

License

MIT