Analyze howto share the scenes about mcthings

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Schematics web sites:

• https://www.minecraft-schematics.com/ (Features) (11,689)
• https://www.planetminecraft.com/resources/projects/?share=schematic (107,066)
• https://www.schematicstore.com/: Selling them
• http://www.minecraft-schematics.net/ (only 240)
• https://minecraftstuff.net/schematics
• https://www.nbt-data.com/

Worlds web sites:

• https://www.planetminecraft.com/resources/projects/ (479,818)
• https://www.minecraftmaps.com/
• https://mcpedl.com (2000 maps)

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After some thoughts, the goal for the scenes is to learn to program with Python, so probably the best way to share them is with notebooks. A notebook for scene.

And for editing the scenes, you need to do it in Python, so Notebooks is the natural editor for them.

The main limitation for using the scenes is that you need the python plugin in MC. But you can add the scenes to a world and then share it.

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Mostly decided: using notebooks to show the scenes. The notebooks will be stored in mcthings repository with the scenes files also.

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The next step is to create some notebooks with scenes to have a first experience about howto organize it. It is critical to design howto scale if there are hundreds of scenes. Is it possible to scale using just notebooks and links to them?

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Also, we will mix using McThings Extra and McThings Drawing to be sure all work as smooth as possible.

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https://github.com/juntosdesdecasa/mcthings/tree/develop/scenes has arrived.

Right now it has two scenes as samples. But here we must have dozens of scenes, notebooks showing them ... let's work on that once we have the Town scene completed.

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Our current approach is to host them in:

https://github.com/juntosdesdecasa/minecraft/tree/develop/server/data/python

but probably for real scenes, not just workshops for learning, it is better to have them in:

https://github.com/juntosdesdecasa/mcthings/tree/develop/scenes

And probably, we need to include third party scenes in:

https://github.com/juntosdesdecasa/mcthings_extra

I will start adding the scenes to:

https://github.com/juntosdesdecasa/mcthings/tree/develop/scenes

and use PRs to receive scenes from the community.

Scenes will be added to a common directory. Once there are > 10 real scenes, we can start creating subdirs for classifying scenes.

Scenes are standalone programs, normally notebooks. In the future we could have scenes of scenes, but it won't be supported yet.

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Probably we can have a scene notebook template inspired in

https://github.com/juntosdesdecasa/minecraft/blob/develop/server/data/python/scene0_10.ipynb

And we have Scenes source code, and scenes files. We need to define howto share scenes using only files. But our initial approach is to have notebooks with the scenes following a common format.

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About the scene format:

• Initial description, author name and license (by default ASL)
• Notebook cells with the implementation
• A final screenshot with the results

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To close this ticket:

• Clean the current scenes directory and leave only relevant scenes
• Create the notebook scene template
• Convert current scenes to the template
• Add a README.md file describing all of this

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All done, except converting scene0_10.ipynb one! Pretty close to finish this issue.

After doing this conversion, we must review all and we are done!

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All done! Closing this issue.

Probably we will explore also other ways to share the scenes, like sharing notebooks from Colab. But let's see what the community uses for sharing.