FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

toby109tt wrote:Captain-Chaos have any updates?

I'm working on importing schematics. I want to do it properly so it's taking a while. The advantage will be that you can export Minetest schematics to Minecraft maps as well.

sofar wrote:Schematics are used by minetests' engine to place decorations that are more complex (trees, mostly).

Is this the same as the "blueprints" mentioned by toby109tt?

Will You also add support for blueprints or schematics as they are called in Minecraft (blueprints are minetest schematics) I didn't know about blueprints. I'll look into it. However in the mean time Minecraft schematics, bo2's, bo3's and Structures (.nbt files) do already work (insofar as they con...

toby109tt wrote:will the plugin be in the official release or will it be Something you can download on the website?

It will probably stay a separately downloaded plugin.

So OpenJFX is also part of this version of OpenJDK (as with Oracle's JRE). Actually since the last update it doesn't need JavaFX any more. I did find some unknown material/ blocks e.g. wp:mat_0490 and wp:mat_0810 in the automatically generated world. But I guess this being a first version you'll be...

I tried some of my old WorldPainter files and although all loaded, some could not be exported. In what way? Did you get errors, or was the Minetest option not available? In the latter case, the world was probably not compatible with Minetest in some way, for example it was too large, or had more th...

toby109tt wrote:i made this

Nice. :-) Glad you got it to work!

twoelk wrote:hm, got it running on an even older system also running Vista. on export I got prompted this

I think you probably didn't update the plugin.

I see there is demand for the portable version of WorldPainter, which does in fact exist. Here is a complete list of links: With installer: Windows 64-bit Windows 32-bit Mac OS X UNIX/Linux Linux packages: Debian RPM Installerless/portable: Windows 64-bit Windows 32-bit Mac OS X UNIX/Linux And for c...

Do you have it running yet, @toby109tt? You're the one who got this ball rolling so it would be ironic if you couldn't run it... ;)

Appears to crash at startup for me again :/ You guys sure have interesting crashes. I have never seen that kind of output before and unfortunately I have no idea what could cause it. Do you have some kind of non standard Windows environment? I notice that you have installed WorldPainter on the desk...

I just uploaded a new build of the plugin and WorldPainter. Please redownload and reinstall both. For links and instructions, see my original post . There are lots of little improvements, such as better mapping of plants and flowers, and correctly changing dirt _with_grass to dirt_with_snow undernea...

Something I noticed when running minetestmapper on the generated map is that sometimes MapBlocks contain empty space (ID 0) but are missing the mapping to "air" in the ID<->Node mapping. Hmmm, I can't reproduce this. Are you sure this was straight after exporting it from WorldPainter and ...

Something I noticed when running minetestmapper on the generated map is that sometimes MapBlocks contain empty space (ID 0) but are missing the mapping to "air" in the ID<->Node mapping. I don't think it should be doing that; I'll look into it. Also sometimes names are duplicated in the I...

The light is currently stored in param1 of each node, as two 4-bit fields: light on day and light on night, so coming from MC, you just need to set night light to artificial light, and day light to the maximum of sunlight and artificial light. Thanks. I have it working! Could you tell me exactly wh...

How about loading data from JSON or some other non-executable format? Creating a mod that exports the required data from within Minetest should be trivial, while re-implementing or simulating the Minetest API from WP is much harder. Mod authors can distribute these files as part of their mods or as...

When exporting maps it still breaks: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javafx/util/Pair That class is a standard part of Java 8, so it is very odd that it would be missing on your system. Is it possible you have some kind of reduced version of Java installed? Make sure that JavaFX is installed, as th...

I have another question for the developers: how is the lighting information stored in the map? It seems like the light propagates the same or similar in Minetest as it does in Minecraft, and I can already calculate the light for Minecraft so it would probably be easy to adapt, if I only knew how it ...

Have updated java. Installed WorldPainter. But doesn't start. (Linux 64bit) And you have redownloaded it? That's odd, that error is exactly the one I fixed. I'll see if I can run it on Linux. Edit: in fact I can tell from the timestamp in the error message that that is not the new version. Try down...

OK, I uploaded a new build of WorldPainter. There was a dependency missing, but now it should work. The download links are still the same; for the links and instructions, see my previous post . Please try again and let me know how it goes! Again: for Windows, make sure to install the right version o...

Clearly I need to do some more work... ;) I'll have a new build out soon!

Alright, I have a first test version for people to try out and give me feedback. This is still in heavy development and nowhere near finished, so there will be bugs, missing functionality, usability problems, etc. Also, if you are already a regular WorldPainter user, don't edit your existing worlds ...

Progress report:

So is anyone building Minetest on Windows? I've still not managed to do it. I actually get quite far with Bash on ubuntu on Windows 10, which compiles and links the executable, but it won't run due to missing libraries. Somewere, someone must be building Minetest on Windows, right?

Krock wrote:Check out the buildbot script. That script and the 32-bit pendant download cross-compiled libraries for MinGW and compile the binary automatically.

What environment is that script made for? I'm trying to compile Minetest on Windows.

Hmm, I am surprised that it may even exist on disk. You can try to do as you say, but beware that it may have strange consequences, so try to avoid it if possible. Maybe some day; it seems clear that initially I shouldn't bother with it. But if it's not supposed to exist on disk you might want to l...

"ignore" is used for unloaded blocks or nodes. You should never generate it. Should it exist on disk? The reason I know about it is that I see it in a dumps of a test map I made with Minetest. Usually the only other nodes in the block are leaf or air nodes. I'm curious how it is used, exa...

That is nice and clear, thanks. I will refrain for now. ;)

What is the "ignore" block for? When should I be generating it instead of air blocks?

Well this all sounds very encouraging. I think I can come up with something relatively simple, yet useful. I'll probably support v25 of the serialization format, the sqlite backend and the minecraft_game block set (insofar as they overlap with Minecraft), at least initially. I'll need people to test...