FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Would this mod be able to spawn l-system trees as well? With some modifications and a third dimension, the screenshot might almost depict a floor plan of a house. Intresting mod! LSystem is thought to be quite flexible with it's l-systems. And you most certainly can build 3d structures with it. Sup...

That's bad.

Hope to see you again. Maybe with your next computer.
Have fun ( however that is possible without minetest :-)

But how can that be? The callback literally runs thousands of times. So either calling minetest.get_content_id outside the callback takes very very long or reading the mod local values takes considerably longer than what i've guessed. Doesn't each chunk get generated only once in the entire life of...

Maybe you both could join forces and bring a brilliant dungeon crawl to mt? I don't know, I like the idea of a more organic and darker dungeon that is truely random. Maybe it would be cool if someone else uses a different approach. Mine is too squarish, everything in a grid and the rooms are repeti...

Sorry I won't be of much help with cli stuff.
I'm more with these modern point and click type of operating systems that have come into fashion the the last 30 years. :-p

Maybe you both could join forces and bring a brilliant dungeon crawl to mt?

Rating sounds like a easy thing to do. But actually it is not easy at all. There are several problems that connect to ratings. To make rating work these problems (and quite possibly a lot of others) have do be addressed. ⋅ Who rates? The modders? A rating committee? How is that committee e...

Wondering if one of you could give a brief explanation of get_content_id and what you mean by inside and outside. I am trying to learn but get stuck on things. The function minetest.get_content_id returns a number that is internally used to identify nodes. Mapgen data contains those IDs. The inside...

I just tested it and it does place 2 nodes close together. I found 3 within a 50 node radius. That's odd. That should not be possible. Could you send the coordinates and the grid size you test with? The question is how to fix this. I need the nodes to be seperated. If they are close then it will ca...

The hotspot is a single coordinate so it can only be in one mapgen block. Yes, but after each hotspot is found, a node is placed at the surface (using the heightmap) whenever the chunk that is getting generated is between -200 and 200 (the node in the surface might not be part of the chunk generate...

I haven't tested your code, but since you are calculating next_hotspot in all 3 dimensions, wouldn't a new block be created in the same area in the surface when a chunk gets generated further down close to the hotspot below? The hotspot is a single coordinate so it can only be in one mapgen block. ...

GunshipPenguin wrote:This code does work, but I find that certian nodes are not replaced by limit:limit_node like I want them to be.

Maybe those nodes where generated after your mod already ran. Do you have default in your depends.txt.

If more people are interested in something like this I could fork the areas mod (or send a PR) and add some options to make it more suitable for adventure maps. I think Minetest is a nice engine for this kind of maps, so there should be something like this. Please do. I'd really like to see more qu...

Krock wrote:Added throwable pies. AAAND ... SPLAT!



https://github.com/SmallJoker/pie/commit/b43d

Now we need some clowns to throw them at ...
Nuuuu not meeehhh ....

... still figuring out how to get lava to dump on a player if they pull the wrong switch ... A technic sticky piston? I think the thing that would help me the most right now is if anyone knows how to make specific blocks permanent (unbreakable)... https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=...

Not sure if this is of interest for anyone but to be complete ... I've run some simple speed tests and it seems that, to no big surprise ⋅  calling minetest.get_content_id outside the callback takes exact the same time than calling it inside. ⋅  getting the IDs from variables pre...

I like the idea of a quest and riddle based game. Although it contradics the unending (more ore less) sandboxy setup that minetest tends to. If you want others to help maybe not keeping your .zip a secret would help. A good way to start could be putting the struff up on github or something like that...

I thought that too, but was told by hmmmm that it's faster to state them as locals inside the function, apparently getting id is a very fast operation. That is interesting. I'm always eager to learn. But how can that be? The callback literally runs thousands of times. So either calling minetest.get...

Using 2D perlin noise, for an example of how to make a temperature/humidity biome system see https://github.com/paramat/paragenv7/blob/master/init.lua Ah nice. Uhm , well, please excuse me wearing my smarty-pants. Maybe you could place all those minetest.get_content_id calls out of the callback fun...

You may have gotten lost in translation. Please rephrase.

New world ArguablySane has posted a solution: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13132&p=191868#p189480 Thanks. I will try to modify it to make it work. Do you know if this works with all mapgens or just v5 and v7? No I don't. But singlenode does not work, the hightmap is always...

Don wrote:New world

ArguablySane has posted a solution:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13132&p=191868#p189480

I want to place a block every 1000 nodes square. It should be somewhat random. I do not want it to be exactly 1000. The node will be placed in water on mapgen at surface height. I am not great with mapgen and was wondering what the best way to do this is? Will this be a new world or an exisiting one?

... I have noticed that the function registered with minetest.register_on_generated gets called more than once. That seems a bit odd to me. ... Nevermind, just found the solution. That thing bugged me for some days now and as it seems actually posting the question seems to have triggered someting ....

Hi there, I have noticed that the function registered with minetest.register_on_generated gets called more than once. That seems a bit odd to me. If that behaviour is intended, what is the differnce between the calls? which call is the one that counts? (Most probably the last one, but who knows for ...

I am pretty sure Vanessa has solved that issue in her Biome Lib mod.
You might want ot have a peek at it's sources.

Don wrote:Nice idea. I will have to try it out. Would make worlds more interesting.

Great, thanks for considering.

This might be a bit offtopic but since I've spoken about it ...

I've published my LSystem.
It does not address any of of the mapgen problems. But it might be useful for generating mines, dungeons and so on.

Have fun y'all.

LSystem Hi there, this is a generic l-system library. The mod will not really do something on it's own. It is thought to be used by other mods. A l-systems is a thingy that can be used to generate structures that repeat variations of itself in itself. Those are often found in nature for example in ...

TenPlus1 wrote:please note that using sqlite_synchronous = 0 may result in map corruption...

In case of an nuclear attack.
Might also happen if you pull the plug on your server.