This thread is dedicated to providing all of the information and resources for the people who plan to help out with the Portals of the Pokemon Kanto Region map on the Vizzed Minecraft Server.

Since the building insides and the towns & routes are on separate maps, we'll have to create portals linking them together. So when you enter a house on the "Pokemon Kanto Region" map, you'll be teleported to the inside of that house on the "Pokemon Kanto Region - Indoor" map.

Some buildings have more than 1 floor or room so we'll have to create teleports connecting the different floors and rooms.

The minecraft plugin we're using for the portals is "Multiverse-Portals" which you can find more information about here:
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/multiverse-portals/

You can find a tutorial on how to make the portals here:
https://github.com/Multiverse/Multiverse-Portals/wiki/Basic-portal-tutorial



Naming
I've come up with a naming convention that we'll be using for all of the portals for the Pokemon worlds:
town_building_whereto

Basically the first word is either the town or route, the 2nd word is what building it is associated with, the 3rd word is where the portal is going.

So for example, the portal to go inside of 'Home' in Pallet Town is
pallet_home_enter

and the portal to leave 'Home' in Pallet Town is
pallet_home_exit

Now since the home of pallet town has 2 floors, the portal that leads upstairs is
pallet_home_upstairs

and once upstairs, the portal that leads downstairs is
pallet_home_downstairs



When Creating Portals
When you create the portals, be sure to choose the destination of both portals being made to each other. So for example, the destination of the pallet_home_enter portal would be pallet_home_exit and vice-versa.

Also be sure that when the user enters a portal, they're facing the appropriate direction and if they're not, be sure to modify the portal's direction so that when the user enters the portal, they're facing the correct direction.



I've already created the portals for the Home in Pallet Town, you'll be in charge of all the other portals. Of course you'll probably have times when you'll have to wait for the other users to finish up exteriors or interiors before you can progress.

EideticMemory : Letting you know of this thread. Right now we're just waiting for Pokefreak219 to make some interiors before you can begin.

Davideo7 : I've added this thread to favorites, and I'll be sure to reference it once I begin.

Everything you've said so far makes sense, and I don't have any questions at the moment.

EideticMemory : Have you been able to begin on this yet?

Davideo7 : Yes, and I finished the Portal in and out of the Rival's house yesterday. I've made sure that the directions and naming schemes are correct.

I'm checking with Pokefreak219 daily, and whenever she finishes an interior I'll connect it.

EideticMemory : I don't know if she's been real busy or what lately but it appears she's only finished 1 interior so far

I've done all the portals for all interior/exterior so far. Here's the names. Let me know if you want anything changed. I'll keep making more portals as more interior/exterior are ready.

[outdated list]

Just an update to let you know that I've been keeping up with the portals. I've connected all interior/exterior that are ready so far.

I've also been messing out with the NPC creator, and it's really awesome. Let me know when you've got that role ready, and I can begin work on that.

Here's the current portal list:

[outdated list]

EideticMemory : Looks good.

I'm not sure how I'll be going about the NPC yet because right now you can only change the skin if you give the NCP a name of an actual minecraft account (and the NPC will take that account's skin).

I'd really like for the NPCs to look like how they look in the game but as far as I know, the only way I'd be able to pull that off is if I bought a bunch of minecraft, gave them names based on characters in the game and gave them their skins based on the game. That'd be expensive so if I did do that, I'd have to pick the most commonly used skins. The accounts wouldn't have to go to waste, I could rent out the accounts for Viz and tell the renters that they can use the accounts as long as they want just as long as they didn't change the skins.

Davideo7 : Interesting idea.

I got freaked out the first time I saw Red's mother, haha.

Actually, you wouldn't have to name the account based on the character.

You can name it whatever you want, and have a skin of the account.



Commands:
/npc create Red
/npc skin Davideo7

So if you do end up buying extra accounts, you could name them whatever you want.

"Vizzed_Rental_1" for example. Whatever you'd like.

EideticMemory : Oh that's great news. Ok, I might invest into purchasing 10 accounts, maybe you could look into which 10 characters would be the best to use.

Davideo7 : 10 accounts? Great!

And definitely, I'll look into it and get back to you.

EideticMemory : Here's what I had in mind:
-Mom
-Professor Oak (could also be used for other scientists)
-Officer Jenny (Cop)
-Nurse Joy (PokemoN Center Nurse)
-Male Gym Trainers (can resemble Brock)
-Female Gym Trainers (can resemble Misty)
-Young Boy
-Young Girl
-Adult Man
-Adult Woman
-Old Man
-Old Woman
-Team Rocket Man
-Team Rocket Woman

That's 14, I'll see if my budget can justify 14, I'm not even sure it'll even justify for 10 right now but I'll find out for sure next week. Those 14 that I came up with though should cover all of the most used characters.

Davideo7 :

I noticed that we can equip NPCs with armor and weapons.

"Skeleton Skull", "Zombie Head", "Creeper Head", and "Head" - all can be equipped.

With some alteration to the resource pack, they'd become the faces of the four remaining characters.

Same with different types of armor, which could be changed to look like clothing.

Just a possibility. One that's slightly less expensive.

The biggest downside I see to this is that they wouldn't look natural without the resource pack.
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Here's my NPC wearing a Zombie Head, it fits quite well:

https://www.vizzed.com/boards/upload/files/embot.png

Davideo7 : Either way, see what your budget allows and we can work with it.

EideticMemory : I think equipping with them with stuff might look odd.

It turns out I will probably have the budget for 12 and I'll be buying the gift cards most likely tomorrow, making the skins sometime this week and create an auction thread for each of the skins maybe on Friday (and I'll also make an announcement about it as well).

So out of the 14 I listed, I'll only have the budget for 12. Now if someone takes 1st place in the current screenshot competition and decides to take the Viz prize instead of the cash prize, then I should have the budget for 15 (which means we can add another to the list) but that's very unlikely (unless I participate and take 1st) so we'll have to decide on which 2 to exclude.

My idea is to have just 1 team rocket character which would probably be the man variation and re-use the Mom character for the adult woman character. What do you think?

If it turns out that I have the budget for 15, what character do you think should be added? I was thinking a male punk character because there are a lot of them.

Update - I've connected all the interior/exterior that were created up to this point.

Here's the current list of portals:

Exterior Portals

Pallet Town
- Home (Davideo7 finished) - pallet_home_enter
- Rival’s Home - pallet_rivalhome_enter
- Oak's lab - pallet_oakslab_enter

Viridian City
- Pokemon Center - viridian_pokemoncenter_enter
- Poke Mart - viridian_pokemart_enter
- Schoolhouse - viridian_schoolhouse_enter
- House #1 - viridian_house1_enter
- Giovanni's Gym - viridian_gym_enter

Interior Portals

Pallet Town
- Home (Davideo7 finished) - pallet_home_exit, pallet_home_upstairs, pallet_home_downstairs
- Rival’s Home - pallet_rivalhome_exit
- Oak's lab - pallet_oakslab_exit

Viridian City
- Pokemon Center - viridian_pokemoncenter_exit
- Poke Mart - viridian_pokemart_exit
- Schoolhouse - viridian_schoolhouse_exit
- House #1 - viridian_house1_exit
- Giovanni's Gym - viridian_gym_exit

EideticMemory : Thanks for the update. Sometime next month I plan to continue work on the Map again and hopefully Pokefreak will be willing to as well so we can see overall progress made.

Davideo7 :

Sounds good. It'd be cool if we could finish by the end of the year. It would take a lot of work, but I really think it would help with the current activity issues on the server.

Davideo7 :

Any idea of when we might work some more on this?