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One of my co-workers (who is also addicted to Minecraft) pointed me to the following program:

http://www.quag.geek.nz/mcobj/

It converts your Minecraft worlds to a OBJ file that you can then import into Blender and other programs that support the file format. So I did that and was able to render my Minecraft world in Octane. Way too much fun! Here are some images:







Here are some others:

http://www.frostyfoot.com/grimm/images/mc/mc-test1.jpg
http://www.frostyfoot.com/grimm/images/mc/mc-test2.jpg
http://www.frostyfoot.com/grimm/images/mc/mc-test6.jpg
http://www.frostyfoot.com/grimm/images/mc/mc-test7.jpg
http://www.frostyfoot.com/grimm/images/mc/mc-test8.jpg
http://www.frostyfoot.com/grimm/images/mc/mc-test9.jpg

Grimm

wow those are absolutely beautiful - could there be an even lower level way of doing it? - since Minecraft uses voxels and Octane seems to convert to voxels before import?

Thanks, it is a lot of fun. Not too sure about the voxels, don't know enough about them.

do you have any renders at 1920x1200 (or above) - I'd love to use some of those as wallpapers

Here you go, I don't know if this is one you wanted but here it is.

http://www.frostyfoot.com/grimm/images/mc/mc-test10.jpg

wow thanks a lot man - I'll set that as wallpaper when I get home - looks great

Woooow! Really awesome!
I was thinking about making some kind of an MC animation and this should be very helpful for me. Unfortunately, I'm not really sure how to get this working, I get an application, but when do I have to run it? Can't find any info on the website on how to use the program or am I just blind!?

It's a command line program, because you are running Window, you will need to run the program in a DOS or CMD window. On the web site under the "Usage" heading are the parameters for the command. I just placed the program in the same directory where Minecraft is installed and ran it there.

Hope this helps,

now all we need is an exporter for Comanche CD :p

grimm wrote:It's a command line program, because you are running Window, you will need to run the program in a DOS or CMD window. On the web site under the "Usage" heading are the parameters for the command. I just placed the program in the same directory where Minecraft is installed and ran it there.

hmm whenever I start the mcobj.exe it opens the dos window for just a brink and then it closes it, I can't even read what it is saying in the dos window but I believe they are the commands written on the webpage. I've tried running the program at %AppData%\.minecraft\saves\World1 or just %AppData%\.minecraft\ but no luck.
E: I can't really understand what it means, should I type something into the CMD launched from start menu?
On windows:
mcobj -cpu 4 -s 20 -o world1.obj %AppData%\.minecraft\saves\World1