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paramat wrote:afeys and others, the new feature will soon be added https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/3339
"This commit adds a new API function minetest.place_schematic_on_vmanip()"

Brilliant !
Thanks

just to let you know: I've solved it by placing my buildings using voxelmanip instead of place_schematics or add_node.

Buildings get generated now 100% of the time (at least during my test)

afeys, in 'place schematic' you should get the modpath like this (here the mod is called 'projects' and 'schematics' is the schematic folder) hope this works: local path = minetest.get_modpath("projects") .. "/schematics/flat.mts" minetest.place_schematic({x=x-6, y=y-1, z=z+1}, ...

firefox wrote:Lord of the Test has buildings in the mapgen (some of them are quite large).
they are all saved as .we files i guess the game also use worldedit to place them on the map.

maybe that helps...

Thanks for the info, firefox. I'll have a look at their code.

Thanks for the reply, Ferk. Maybe you could try changing your chunksize setting and see if it has any repercusions. I think chunks start at -32,-32,-32 (correct me if I'm wrong) and are set by default to be 80 nodes wide (5 blocks of 16 nodes) in all directions. This means the chunk ends at y=45, I ...

Hi, Added info: if I do a minetest.add_node(next_tower,......) BEFORE i do the place_schematic, then the schematic is shown correctly. Anyone have any ideas what's going on? This was apparently a coincidence.. Still have the same problem. I wrote some code to 'empty' (using remove_node) the necessa...

Hi, I'm playing around with the minetest.register_on_generated function and I'm stuck with a problem I can 't explain. It is probably some stupid oversight from me, but if anyone can shed some light on it, I'd appreciate it. I include my cut-down code here, I stripped out as much as possible (like t...

Ferk wrote:That's very similar to what my subgame does. Maybe you can have a look at it, perhaps it helps. But most of dungeon_rooms is very specific to my usecase.

Wow... just looked at your mod. looks very impressive.

@Don @Ferk Thanks for the info. I've now solved the chest problem: after placing the schematic in my world, I lookup all chests in the building and replace them by default:chest again. And then fill them with items (to fill them I use a piece of code I found in another mod: the villages mod by Sokom...

2/ Is there a way for a node to know if someone is stepping on it, or touching it? [...] minetest.register_on_playertouchnode or minetest.register_on_playersteponnode This is exactly the same as what I was asking for in my last posts in this thread. It doesn't look like such a thing exists... I wis...

Hi, I have 2 questions, which I hope someone can help me answer: 1/ In my mod (pre-alpha version) I place a schematic with minetest.place_schematic() and that works perfectly. However, when I come accross that building in my test world, I can't open the chests. I haven't been able to find a solution...

Ivà, Hybrid Dog & rubenwardy (and anyone else who might answer this while I type this reply) :

thanks a lot for the VERY fast answers.

Hi, I have two questions: 1/ there probably is a simple solution to this, but I'm making a mod (obviously) and I want to get a list of the location of all players. Alternatively (even better), if someone knows the fastest way to check if any player currently playing in the minetest-world is within 1...

How to check the biome of a node? I'm (at least trying to) making a mod which puts content (small buildings, ruins, hidden treasures,....) in the game. But I'd like to put other content in a desert than in a jungle, so I'd like to find out the biome for node at x,y,z. Is this possible in MineTest? D...

Thanks for the excellent support.
I'll update my minetest tomorrow and then run that fix.

Hi Krock,
thanks for the speedy reply.
here is the nodes.lua file.

Hi, I have a weird problem with minetest. I'm using minetest 0.4.12, on linux Mint, with a slightly altered Calinou-Carbone game. Differences between standard Calinou-Carbone and my testversion: - added 'castle' mod - added 'caverealms' mod - added 'cottages' mod - added 'homedecor' mod - added 'hud...