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There's something I've been wanting to suggest. I don't know if it's a stupid idea, and feel free to slap me if so: Could we perhaps add some sort of bonus item or easter egg in minetest_game, in the memory of RBA? I'm thinking of something very rare (like MESE or Nyan Cat) with a reference to him. ...

Heh... that's motivating to know right off the bat >_> Though to be fair, it's understandable as much as it is unfortunate... considering RBA was pretty much the only developer working on the shader code. I'm hoping there will be motivation for someone else to fill this gap, but especially with FOSS...

I wasn't sure when I'd get around to making this thread. Since hearing the news of RealBadAngel's death, I've been rather demotivated to do anything Minetest related, since going back to the project feels rather strange now. I might remain semi-away for a while, but there's one important thing I wan...

Please open a separate thread for discussions like these, ok? Short answer: none of his code will be lost. I myself and others have copies, and you can grab a copy yourself as well. (But lets continue this discussion in another thread). Thanks for the answer. And sorry... I might open another threa...

We're still going to be taking care of minetest-technic (it has 3 more active devs), so please keep using it. Sooner or later, someone will have to ask these questions: What are we going to do about shaders next? RBA was working on a new shader pipeline, and had bloom as well as depth-of-field work...

This is... weird... sorry I can't find a better term now. We used to talk often on IRC, and he'd often show me screenshots as we'd plan various features for Minetest... last time we were closely discussing his new shaders. I'm currently confused at how someone just dies like that... it's different t...

benrob0329 wrote:Ooooh...I'll have to rebuild!

I tested it yesterday. Sadly I can't tell how big the improvement is, since at the same time adaptive draw distance was removed (I always used it). Certainly latest master feels very smooth however!

I'm very happy to announce that today, this year old struggle has been at last solved! RealBadAngel created a VBO patch that does not have the memory leak which plagued the old one. It was merged into master today, and people are reporting considerable performance improvements! This can finally be p...

I'm not exactly good at editing the init.lua, so can you make a download link to the latest Minetest version (0.4.13)'s lua with the edit added to it, and i might not use this mod because i'm worried, because it involves editing defaul lua files. I can't and shouldn't have my mod edit out a file in...

rnd wrote:ok, LGPL

Thanks. I actually wrote my own tree growth function from scratch, since this mod wasn't working well for me. But it was inspired by its idea, and uses the same life-based mechanism. I'm not sure if I'll publish it as an individual mod, but it will be featured in my game.

Took a quick look at the screenshots and code. I like both the idea, and how simplistically it seems to be implemented! I might use this for the trees of a Minetest game I'll be making, but need to test it a bit first. Can you please specify what license the script is under? May I include it as LGPL...

Creatures and structures with RealBadAngel's amazing new shaders: http://i.imgur.com/gz964Z4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VGPqV9z.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JXjIj8r.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PGe9QjF.png http://i.imgur.com/PRNU4MW.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pCbMOjb.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Lskmt8f.png http://i.imgur.co...

you can already do this and you really only need one entity. you can figure out where on the entity the click was with a simple calculation, see painting mod for an example. Now that I think about it, this could be done with a single entity to some extent! Well maybe: You can detect where on the en...

+1 for this idea, but performance would suck ;) Don't think it would have to: The texture would only need to be re-generated when there's a change. What would be harder is detecting where every nearby player's crosshair is pointing on the surface, to highlight buttons and process clicks... but that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBfUVIhFaLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxLNIvuHj00 This is a feature I've been thinking about for a bit now, and there are certainly other Minetest users who agree it would be awesome to have. There are many engines that support interactive surfaces: The best exa...

+1 for Pixture from me too! My pros and cons for this game here.

At long last: I live to see a Minetest game that's solidly designed! It has a nice selection of mods that work together, an artistic texture style that covers everything, and a clear direction we can expect it to go in. Most games are either extremely simplistic and empty, either blindly throw in a ...

You are assuming that someone in the community does have the capabilities to invest time and money for multiple years into a legal battle. I don't know a lot of people, or well for that matter, in this community, but I'd be very surprised if there would be someone in here with these capabilities. T...

I don't think that MC has any ground to stand on when it comes to a lawsuit. As MT doesn't have copyrighted blocks, code (its C++ and Lua, it would be impossible!), and its FLOSS software...so Microsoft shouldn't even think about it, or we will be harassing them. Yes, I ultimately agree with this. ...

ExeterDad wrote:Very Cool!
Now I must peek at the code to see how you did this! Hey... at least I'm honest :D

I simply read the function from the item or entity definition. It's actually super simple, although a bit unusual so it might seem like advanced code trickery at first :)

I did another important change I had on my mind lately: Customizable animations. Additional to the builtin animations (stand, walk, walk_punch, punch) you can now define your own, and trigger them with a global animation_set function. Animations also have all parameters customizable now, including s...

Diamond knight wrote:question: how do you change the look height of the player

See the eye_offset parameter of the creature definition.

Now that's a weirder one. find_nodes_in_area_under_air should be there since long ago, but apparently your Minetest version doesn't have that either. Are you running latest GIT?

Yes, that error is normal if you're using an older version of Minetest (the latest release might count too). I make use of the newly added minetest.register_on_player_hpchange function, which apparently your version of Minetest doesn't have. So I'm afraid you either need latest Minetest GIT, or to u...

Today I added the last major feature I had planned, in regard to stealth and realistic behavior: Alert levels. The way they work is that the mob has an alert_level parameter, which defines its state between "friendly" and "hostile". When the value is 0, attack targets are unlikel...

Unless you separate sheep and sheep_shaved and have them as two different entities to possess, that way you have to feed either through right-clicking or eating as a resident to regain the wool... Yeah, I need to think what the best solution is. Until then, this will unfortunately remain an unfair ...

It's not nearly finished yet, but I'm working on a texture pack for my survival subgame. https://github.com/NathanSalapat/NathanSalapat Thanks, that is good to know! The textures that are there so far actually look pretty good. That said, I believe I also found a solution. I might make my own TP us...

I really like the new additions. But I found, that sheep grow their wool back when they are possessed. Their state isn't transferred to the player. Thanks! And yes... now that I think about it I can see why that happens, although I'm not sure when and how to fix it. Certain mob-only properties aren...

Once again I went on a feature spree with the mod today, and added another set of changes which I think everyone will like: - The biggest new feature is the ability to exorcise (de-possess) mobs! Players can now abandon their body, which turns them into a ghost and spawns a mob with their exact same...

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/2856 I've come across a considerable limitation while working on one of my mods, which might affect many mods that use delays to schedule important tasks on the server. I have a mod which schedules a Lua function to execute after several seconds, by puttin...

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