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I followed the instructions given in the first post. I had to install the openAl SDK and use that folder, but other than that it was pretty straightforward. When I build, I got the following error: 4>..\..\minetest\src\camera.cpp(252) : error C2065: 'M_PI' : undeclared identifier error To fix it I p...

maybe better use LuaJIT, which will compile lua to bytecode? Holy %#&^$! This could really boost performance of lua mods! http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html "LuaJIT is API-compatible with Lua 5.1. If you've already embedded Lua into your application, you probably don't need to do anything to sw...

What you just said is what worldedit does and that mod has been around for quite some time :) Yep but I think you would have to limit it, like I described above otherwise griefers could go nuts creating thousands of cloned objects. If you had this on a server, then it would be cool to write an angr...

You have to be using a copy from git, rather than the 20120606 build (believe it or not, it's too old :-) ). Thanks much. I've got it from git, but I'm assuming that the only way to do this is to compile it myself, right? (following the instructions in the readme ) Or is the latest compiled version...

A while ago, I was trying to come up with a system to save the server output. This would save a record of all blocks broken and placed. So when something is griefed, pick a block from that structure and search the log for the coords, and get a history of all blocks that were placed/removed from tha...

Another thing you could do is simply stop playing on this software. I've seen nicer things than this game floating in public toilets. I think that it's a failed remake of Minecraft and that someone just wanted some attension and made this. Personally, I'd get Minecraft, it's honestly so much better...

VanessaE wrote:Update your copy of minetest - that glitch was fixed very recently.

I'm pretty sure I'm using the latest git minetest-0.4.dev-20120606-win32.zip, but while the torch looks ok in my hand, when I place it, I get "unknown block"

Before the lua api there weren't mods, just patches you had to apply to the game, and you had to rebuild every time. I'm talking about using .so/.dll's as you do in, for example, pcsx for plugins. You might be on to something. I think that it would be best to keep the ability to do mod's in Lua and...

I think that if we wanted to make mods in a fast language it would be better to make them in C++, using shared objects like in some plugin systems. Java is not really fast (my PC runs MC at 5 fps), and both Java and C# would mean a big amount of new dependencies needed by minetest. With java you'd ...

Adding lots of nodes in lua shouldn't slow down the game, but things like animals mod, in which lots of objects (entities?) are controlled are really slow. I think this might be proving my point. I haven't gotten Minecraft, so I don't know this for sure, but it handles all kinds of 3D entities/mobs...

No, just no. Java and C# both suck. C'mon, it makes total sense to me to write games in C++ it performs well, a ton game developers know it, and cross platform is easy. I get that. But for a modding language, there are just so many more resources (training, open source libraries) out there for Java...

I saw this on http://wiki.minetest.com/wiki/History_of_Minetest : "At first celeron55 had nothing. Just a knowledge of game design and a dream. He watched Minecraft take form. But there was something that wasn't right. In all of Minecraft's glory, it had left someone out. The little guy. People with...

I'm just wondering about the tradeoffs of using Java or C# as a modding language vs. Lua. My impression is that Lua would perform less well because it isn't compiled. It seems like C# and Java are much more powerful languages and I know that C# 4.0 has now support to be a much more dynamic language....

I updated the butterfly item image. Before it used the rat image. Now when you catch the butterfly in the net, it shows up as a butterfly in your hand and inventory. Here's the link to the new butterfly: http://www.mediafire.com/?2kz9czzdxecdlov I updated the link in the original post too.

Love this map! Music is perfect. Storyline/quests would make it even better.

@Menche: Hope you don't mind but I moved our discussion about property & clans to here the "Feature Discussion" forum here http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1694&p=2 because they were already discussing similar ideas, and on that forum it is more likely to get implemented. I replied to your...

We were having the same discussion here http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=27116#p27116 about how there already was code in a older minetest fork that handles this, But I think this thread is a better location for it. The way to prevent griefing is a no-brainer. Download Mythruna, and log o...

The way to prevent griefing is a no-brainer. Download Mythruna, and log onto their main server. Griefing is not possible there due to the property system. Standard users are able to select any unclaimed 32x32 area as their "stronghold". They can ask the server admin for a larger "town" area. But the...

LuaEdit at http://luaedit.sourceforge.net/
Totally rocks. I think it even has Lua debugging.

For fun, my daughter and I created a monarch butterfly by copying the rat folder, changing its texture, and changing the rat's movement in the animal_rat\init.lua But this wound up looking so awesome, I thought I would mention it here. If you want to try it out, you can download it here: http://www....

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Java or C# instead of Lua for mods, tradeoffs?