Registering dimensions

[stega]

I was looking into creating a new dimension and found the DimensionManager class.  Seeing the registerDimension method, I understood that was what I needed to get started.  Looking at the incoming parameters I saw registerDimension(int id, int providerType), the first parameter I Understand, it's used by my generation class in the switch/case to call the method the defines how the world should generate.  However the second parameter threw me for a bit of a loop.  What is a provider type and is there a list of providerTypes somewhere I can look at?

[Draco18s]

It's just an integer, but it's one of those "conflicts with other dimension mods" if you try to use the same ID.

 

Use a config value for it and pick a random 3-digit number* as your default (odds are you won't conflict, I think Mystcraft uses...12 and DivineRPG uses 7**).

 

*I don't know what the maximum acceptable value is, fyi.  But I'd be willing to bet that it's greater than 16.

**For a while they were both on 7.