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I dabbled with making keyboard shortcuts for chat commands here:

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/1217

If it ever got accepted I was going to come up with a system for letting mods send default shortcuts to clients.

It's 8 times as many nodes (and blocks) for a half size block at the same draw distance (albeit usually only 4 times as many will be visible). And 64 times for a quarter size block (16 times visible). Minetest already struggles to deliver a smooth framerate. I think the best you could do without com...

Jesus christ on a bike, how do you use the gui_scaling setting? (and why is something so fundamental buried - presume you intend to get the port to a point where tweaking with conf files isn't needed). We don't all spend our day with the code...

From other thread I agree with adjusting the sizes but that's quite difficult to get done ... but it's still on list. And if buttons get bigger we need to strip even more. For what I assume you've got a major problem with this as you have a high dpi device, for most tablets this isn't as pressing. L...

How?

Btw, i can appreciate that there is some need for simplicity on phones/tablets, but I don't think stripping out the various options accomplishes that. More important to make the menus touch friendly by making sure they are appropriately sized.

Sapier: http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_no ... 0-4854.php

It's the scan that takes all the time every time i start the app (at least a minute!). Happens on all 3 of my reasonably modern devices. The copy takes no noticeable additional time. How long does it take on your phone/tablet?

I'm sorry to tell but flash is really that slow. But there must be a workaround. No other game / app that i use has these issues. Maybe something to do with stat'ing so many files? What if all of the resources were put inside a zip file? Interessting gui effect you have there ;) Hopefully something...

sapier: Why one game/world? Makes no sense from a user perspective to have this restriction. I realize you have been struggling with the UI, but that shouldn't be an excuse. That said, Minetext_next, nodetest, and minetest+ would all make sense to me as a default game. (As would most of the games on...

The security issue is that if not implemented carefully client side lua will make it possible to send arbitrary lua code to the client without the client even knowing about it. But allowing the server to send code (or at least a download link) to clients is what's needed to reduce the pain of making...

The point of a delta engine is that you offload the terrain generation to the client (i.e. someone would need to add client side support for lua terrain gen). But I don't think we'd need to wait for client-side Lua to have bigger world sizes. As someone put it before, it's basically bigger coordina...

This sounds like a really bad idea. The point of a delta engine is that you offload the terrain generation to the client (i.e. someone would need to add client side support for lua terrain gen). For special cases like villages etc. that could still be generated by the server and sent to clients. Bu...

And you can do client side caching and other tricks to improve performance.

IMHO the game needs to head in this direction eventually, but it would be a pretty significant rewrite to add client side mods and properly deal with messy server synchronization, deployment and security issues. The beauty of the current model is that it lends itself to a simpler and saner (albeit l...

I'd like to be able to define default and alternative keyboard controls as part of a gamemode, and to assign additional keys for mod functions. An example of usage might be if I wanted to implement a "crouch" or "crawl" capability instead of, or in addition to "sneak"....

minetest.forceload_block(pos) ^ forceloads the position pos. ^ returns true if area could be forceloaded https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt#L1704 This isn't quite what it seems. (And people writing API docs really need to care more for their users than this) https://gi...

I'd also vote for water *semi* transparency if you're doing it, and just realised I've possibly done your ToDo #2. GUI. Have you got any other suggestions for it? The semi-transparent water is straightforward enough, just more ugly code like the underground stuff. One thing I'm thinking about is th...

@dgm555: I added a slightly modified version of your patch (added a command line option for the thumb, and replaced an int() with a float())

https://github.com/spillz/minetest/comm ... 2322e6e5df

I don't think he asked for style pointers. Sheesh. (And the engine is littered with camelCase last I checked) What are you trying to do dgm? From what I understand the engine wasn't designed to handle having arbitrary sections of the map loaded, but there was talk on IRC a month ago about improving ...

@dgm5555: that looks useful, so I will probably commit it in the next couple of days. thanks! If you want more mapper speed you should try the CPP one (it also has the advantage of having fewer dependencies once compiled). But it's a PITA to modify... which is why I'll stick with python myself. Ther...

I don't think it would be terribly hard to write bindings for python using the Lua api as a starting point. But not clear enough people would use it to make it worthwhile (you and maybe me). And it would fragment development. And as far as i can tell, most devs are happy enough with lua and the ones...

Try the latest version. Should work with both python 2 and 3. Thanks for reporting the bugs.

Try changing all occurrences of StringIO to BytesIO and file to open.

Re pre generated map I am not sure. There are already in game mappers.

Re blender, probably not hard just need something to handle blender output

I think it is ~50 blocks. The sounds like low hanging fruit that could (and should) be easily fixed. A different issue: with the alternative minetest games it isn't clear what map generation each is compatible with. It would be a good with if the game could specify which mapgen it is compatible wit...

I think it is ~50 blocks. The sounds like low hanging fruit that could (and should) be easily fixed. A different issue: with the alternative minetest games it isn't clear what map generation each is compatible with. It would be a good with if the game could specify which mapgen it is compatible wit...

The bigger constraint is storage limitations because the game stores everything, including the procedurally generated terrain, to disk once it has been traversed by a player instead of only saving the blocks that have been player (or entity) modified.

Per celeron55's list, I urgently would like to see someone implement the threading model for lua based mapgens. The current approach lags too much once you get more than a few people moving in different directions on games that use lua mapgen.

What permissions was he losing? yea that is a bug that will occur sometimes when you are using a randomly generated map, I have attempted to reduce the chance of that happening but the only real fix at the moment is to use one of the official hungry_games maps. Interact. Also I have at least one un...

Krock wrote:@spillz
Any error log or just a crash?

Nothing of interest in the log, just a crash.

EDIT: I tried removing everything but default, made a new world, and still get a hard crash after a few seconds. maybe something in the mod's mapgen?

Two issues using github version of Hungry Games and recent minetest version:
1. In a two player game, second player was losing all of his permissions every time he died
2. Sometime spawn is underground with no obvious way out (short of /teleport)

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