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Quote from Wolftengu

One suggestion though, it'd be really awesome if it had the ability to import a terrain map to a circular world, instead of just a square world.

I assume you mean import a height map? That's a good idea. I'll add an option to turn zero-valued pixels into Void. That way you can create worlds of any shape you want.

Quote from Duskterror

How do I make beaches not a direct drop off? When I make them they always look stupid.

By not making them a direct drop off? You have full control. If you need specific help you're going to have to ask way more specific questions. We can't read your mind or look on your screen!

Quote from ben_the_cow

I was wondering if there were any plugins that exist for worldpainter, because there is a folder for them.

There is one official plugin so far, called AutumnForest, which you can download here (and place in the plugins folder you discovered). Restart WorldPainter and it will show up on the Layers panel. It's pretty self explanatory.

I hope to create more plugins in the future, and perhaps I will open up the plugin API so others can create plugins for WorldPainter.

Quote from Project9

... is there a way to make the top layer of dirt/grass smaller? For example, 1 layer of grass followed by a 1 block layer of dirt and then stone? I tried to do this with the thickness option for custom terrain brushes, but it didn't work.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. The custom terrain types don't have a thickness setting.

The depth of the top layer is random and there is no way to influence it. However, you can use a custom ground cover layer to do what you want. First change the surface terrain to Stone (or whatever you want the subsurface material to be). Then create a custom ground cover layer, set the block type to Grass and the thickness to two, and paint it in with a solid brush at 100% intensity.

Doing this everywhere would be pretty tedious, so only do it where it's important that the top layer has an exact thickness. Also you have to take into account that the actual terrain height will be higher than the terrain height indicated in WorldPainter, since the custom ground cover layer is added on top of that.

Quote from Duskterror

Whenever I make a beach is has land, then it has a vertical drop. How do I make it gradual without messing up the water. Last time I tried it do add blobs and then smooth, it made the water above it lumpy.

If there's a vertical drop it's because you are creating a vertical drop. What exactly do you mean by "beach"? How are you making this beach? I suspect you're doing things in a needlessly complicated way which is causing you problems. You really are going to have to give more details, I still can't read your mind. Add blobs? Lumpy? What?

For the record, the normal way to make beaches is to lower or raise the land using the Height tool (or other tools) to create the shape of the water (if you lower the land below the ground water level water will appear automatically), and then right-click and drag along the edges of the water with any Terrain type selected. That will create beaches along the water's edge (at least if you left "beaches" enabled on the New World screen).

Quote from Duskterror

I disabled beaches, and by blobs and lumpy, I meant that I use the raise tool to drag the land around the coast up a bunch, then use the smooth tool to make it smooth and coast-like. By beach all I meant is a gradual drop in the sand until it reaches the seafloor.

Well, if you do what you just described, you will get a smooth drop off. Using the Smooth tool around the water's edge will smooth the land above and below the water. You must be leaving something out. Maybe you should post some pictures to show exactly what you're doing. (Use a spoiler tag please, so they don't clutter up the thread.)

Quote from JokeMonster

I've been making a map using this program for about a month now and it's been gradually growing in size. Today, after loading it up onto my server and adding things ingame, trying to bring it back into WorldPainter it tells me the map is too big D:

What is the exact message that it gives?

Quote from JokeMonster

This map is too large to be displayed by WorldPainter!
It is 1255248 by 12552192 blocks (784528 by 784512 chunks).

I'm sure you'll agree that seven hundred thousand chunks by seven hundred thousand chunks is quite large. WorldPainter would probably need several thousand TB to be able to load a map that size, and traversing it would probably take a couple of years.

What probably happened is that you somehow (perhaps using a mod? experimenting with teleporting?) added chunks at a huge distance from the main body of the map, so that the total dimensions from edge to edge are now incredibly large.

You need to fix it by deleting those outlying chunks. One way to do so is to delete the region files which contain those chunks. They are usually easy to find. If you look in the region directory you'll see that most of the files have coordinates that are very close together. There should be at least one file, possibly several, with wildly different numbers. Delete those, and try to import the map again.

Where can you find plugins for World Painter and can you add villages temples witch hut and make it so that you can choose where will they spawn?

I know now