FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

I know that rotation is only about +Y, but around which point of the schematic? e.g. if I have a schematic which looks like this from above (let X = default:dirt or something): 1XXXXXX XXX2XXX XXXXXX3 What would the schematic look like when placed with a rotation of "0", "90", &q...

Hi. When the rotation parameter of minetest.place_schematic(...) is not "0", what point is the schematic rotated around? The dev wiki is a bit quiet on the topic: http://dev.minetest.net/minetest.place_schematic I've got the rotation working so that the schematic points in the direction th...

Mhh... I see. World Edit v1.0 doesn't have the gui, but the development version from github does.

Anyway, I searched some and found that according to this thead
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13106
pressing F10 gives a proper console with command completion and history.

Great mod. Setting everything through the command line is a bit tedious for large/complex structures though. How about adding some tools? one tool: p sets position one when used two tool: p sets position two when used fill tool: fills the region/volume between position one and two with the block in ...

Today I built some structures, using [WorldEdit] to help speed up the process. Still, progress was a bit slow because I had to type the chat commands over and over again. Being able to press a button to go through a chat command history would have helped a lot. I think remembering what a player said...

Since [technic_game] is not ready yet, so my vote goes to [tutorial].

Every game needs a good tutorial and [tutorial] is a lot better than what some AAA titles offer for introducing players to game mechanics.

You could use [world_edit] - https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=572 The command //p set enables you to set pos1 and pos2 by punching two blocks The command //replaceinverse air tnt:tnt should replace all blocks between pos1 and pos2 which are not air with tnt Note: you will need the worlded...

Can a gun be made to switch between different fire modes, e.g. single shot, semi automatic, burst, automatic? Slightly related: what about modifications installed on a gun like e.g. an assault rifle with underbarrel grenadelauncher/shotgun/flamethrower? (modifications could be just a different fire ...

I've got an idea for a map restore tool: saving a world in a working directory of a git repository and performing a commit whenever the server shuts down (or in regular intervals) might work. This would enable restoring the world to a certain commited state, but would require being setup just after ...

let's see - I wish for minetest 0.5.0. to contain: - cpp mobs : complete with steering behaviours, navigation helper functions and scriptable behaviour. Disabled by default, would come with a mod containing hostile and friendly mobs demonstrating complex behaviours (tameable animals which provide re...

unicode: place a special block, open a formspec on the block, input a unicode codepoint, press a button and the block displays a texture of the unicode symbol for that code point. Full unicode support requires a HUGE amount of textures (or unicode support in the text rendering engine subsystem). res...

A bazaar and a cathedral are completely different things. If you do not know the analogy, go read http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ Just to let everyone know, this is not an advertisement. The link that is here leads to a writing about open-source software, namely...

Ok, I'll take a look at [food] then - viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2960
Thank you for the information everyone.

A bazaar and a cathedral are completely different things.

If you do not know the analogy, go read http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathe ... al-bazaar/

Hi. I'm writing a mod and currently I'm milling over which crafting ingredients to use for some medicine. Aside from the ones listed under http://dev.minetest.net/Groups and http://dev.minetest.net/Groups/Custom_groups Are there any other policies for groups? * I'm wondering because e.g. most fruits...

Calinou wrote:

Exilyth wrote:btw: Here's a really great tutorial on modern OpenGL: http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/

What about Open.GL?

Nice, didn't know about that, thank you.

A lot of links to pages providing resources like textures, models, sounds can be found on http://www.freegamedev.net/wiki/Art_asset_resources

Licenses vary.

rubenwardy wrote:Already done many times: see mtpm_lists on my GitHub account, Krocks mod search.

Good to know.

1. Realtime water reflections, without adding a water shader (leaving the original water texture) 2. Sun shafts when the sun is shining into a cave or darker area. 3. Focal blur 4. Lens dirt (mod can alter texture) 5. Lens flares 6. Light glow, from glowing items like torches and lava. 7. Realtime ...

This is a good proposal, but a list of taken names would need to be provided.
No one would go over 12+ pages of forum topics to note down all taken names.
And using a webcrawler would put unneeded stress on the forums.

Just tried this out and I must say I'm pleasantly suprised, it's quite good. - The 'special' ore in the smelter room is a great idea. - The castle looks quite nice. - There are some minor spelling errors in the english version. - I collected the first gold bar at the bottom of the pool. This made th...

addi wrote:to run that page you need a modern browser that supports webGL, Html5, enabled JavaScript, css3, x3dom(*.x3d)

Too bad it needs javascript, I would have tried it out otherwise.

Well... a basic ray/path tracing implementation isn't hard to write... http://devmaster.net/posts/2836/raytracing-theory-implementation-part-1-introduction http://www.codermind.com/articles/Raytracer-in-C++-Introduction-What-is-ray-tracing.html ... but it needs proper parallelisation and optimisatio...

I've been trying out [pushable_blocks] together with [carts]... both mods treat each others rails/sliders as rails/sliders, but don't treat the accelerators of the other mod as accelerators. Noticed this when one of my carts suddenly switched to the parallel monorail track while going though a corne...

There are three ways mirrors are done in games usually: a) ray casting - light from the light sources (or rays from the camera, depending on which method is used) is cast through the world and is reflected off of surfaces (and takes on their color). b) texture mirror - the camera is placed so that i...

b-but... WoW is just a clone of ultima online! ;) But, seriuously, I've yet to find a person willing to complain about minetest being a minecraft clone. Reactions usually fall into one three groups: "sounds interesting, I'll try it out", "not now, I've had enough block building for this year" and "n...

a fast question: what is the counterpart of player:get_player_name() ? i want to get the playerobject from the playername string. http://dev.minetest.net/minetest.get_connected_players gives you a list of players. You'd have to compare the player name with the names of the players in this list.

So wait... someone could write the worst error prone nonoptimized implementation ever of one of the features and get 50$?
Isn't that, like, the best way to decrease minetests quality?

For multiple mice, raw input could be used under windows, differentiating between different inputs by the device id, see e.g. http://www.jstookey.com/arcade/rawmouse/. Afaik, X window system supports multiple mice out of the box, just needs to be configured correctly. marching cubes Someone's writte...

Zane wrote:hey can somone make a halo mod?

Have you tried [slabrealm]? See https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=5686