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Site Hacked

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:05:00 PDT

Apologies to everyone who had visited the site recently and got redirected to a scumbag spammer's site. My site was hacked, and every single PHP file modified to include redirect code.

Through some deft 'find' and 'sed' magic I've managed to clean up all I can find of the infection. I've also change all my access passwords, so hopefully they won't be back.

Once again, apologies for this intrusion.

Release 0.99.7

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:16:00 PDT

Release 0.99.7 has just gone live. A few big features in this one, plus some minor improvements and bug fixes:

Texture Sets - The texture filter and texture panel both now use user-defined texture sets to organize which textures are to be displayed and used. Texture sets can be defined and edited through the File-->Preferences dialog under the Texture Sets tab.
Texture Packs - Custom texture packs can now be used in place of the default Minecraft textures. Texture packs can be configured through the File-->Preferences dialog under the Texture Packs tab.
User Preferences - The application can now be configured and customized through the user preferences system, which stores your particular configuration locally.
Layer Scrolling - When using the layer panel, shift + mouse wheel will now move you up and down through the structure layers.

I've made a quick video demonstrating the new features which you can see here.

Cheers,
LankyBrit.

Wo0t! 1,000,000 page views!

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:31:00 PDT

This weekend the Minecraft Structure Planner site passed 1,000,000 page views since going live, with 104,000 unique visitors. Thanks for everyone who's made this little application so popular!

As a celebratory gift, the next version of the Structure Planner will be released in the next couple of days. There are three big changes in this next version:

1. You can now define your own named texture sets to display in the texture panel. Create custom texture sets defined for specific purposes such as 'castle construction', 'pixel art' or anything else that comes to mind. No more scrolling through a bunch of textures you don't want or need!

2. Texture pack support. Do you use a custom texture pack in Minecraft? Do you want to design your structures and pixel art using that custom texture pack? No problem, 'cos they're now supported!

3. User preferences. All the texture set and texture pack preferences are stored in a user preferences folder that the application will read every time it starts up. As time goes on more functionality will be added to the preferences manager so you'll be able to configure your copy of the Structure Planner exactly as you like it.

Cheers,
LankyBrit.