As you might know, maps are an awesome and unique way to display images or text. In this resource, you're going to learn how to do it through my utility class and you're also going to be given the full utility class containing some really useful methods.
- Java 8 or above.
- Spigot 1.14 or above (But it will work on older version as well)
Easy to use. This utility class basically provides you with easy to use methods to easily build and display your maps No need for players to right click to initialize the map. And no need to use MapInitializeEvent or create custom renderer classes. Ability to add custom images either from the web or from file. Ability to easily set any text you want. Ability to set cursors with ease. For the three above features custom enums, etc. have been added to make this really simple. Cross-version compatible. This can be used from 1.8 to 1.14 with no errors. Really good for static (non-updating) images.
This is really simple to use and will return an ItemStack which you can then use to give it to a player for example. In this example, a map is given to all online players.
Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers().forEach(player -> { //Looping through all online player using lambda
ItemStack item = null; //Initiating the ItemStack
try {
item = new MapBuilder().setRenderOnce(true).setImage(ImageIO.read(new URL("https://site.com/image.png"))) //Initializing the utility class and setting an image as background
.addText(0, 0, MinecraftFont.Font, "Hello there") //Adding some text with Minecaft default font at 0, 0
.addCursor(20, 20, CursorDirection.EAST, CursorType.WHITE_DOT).build(); //Adding a cursor (in our case a white dot) to the map
} catch (IOException e) { //Exception thrown if url is invalid
e.printStackTrace();
}
player.getInventory().addItem(item); //Finally adding the item to the players inventory
});You can really easily archive something like this
