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Frames Map 3D

Renders Minecraft maps in three dimensions inside item frames.

A vanilla map, once filled in and placed in an item frame, is no longer drawn as a flat texture. The terrain around that map is captured on the server as a 3D voxel volume and rendered as real 3D geometry inside the frame, using the map's own colours, with water drawn translucent at its true depth.

Source: https://github.com/codex-skd/frames-map-3d Issues: https://github.com/codex-skd/frames-map-3d/issues

Versions

Minecraft Loader Frames Map 3D Branch
1.21.1 NeoForge 21.1.259 1.0.12 minecraft/1.21.1/neoforge-21.1.259/main

NeoForge only. There is no Fabric build, and there is no version for any other Minecraft release.

What it adds

No new items, blocks or entities: the mod registers nothing in the game registries. It works on the vanilla map item you already have.

  • Vanilla maps placed in item frames render as 3D terrain.
  • Per-map switch between the 2D texture and the 3D view.
  • A per-map "start from Y" clip, to hide the deep layers of a map and show only the surface.
  • A level-of-detail setting that drops 3D detail with camera distance, for lower-end machines.
  • Works on a client without the mod (the map just looks flat), and on a dedicated server.

Where to start


Frames Map 3D is a port of 3D Maps by rainbowtwister7777, made with the original author's explicit permission. Released under the MIT License. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the original author beyond that permission.

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