FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Darkness701 wrote:(There is no source yet.)

I'm quite sure you have to provide the source code (either bundled with the builds or as a separate download), it's a legal obligation of LGPLv2.1, the license Minetest uses for the source code. This is true even if you haven't modified anything.

Can I bump this? Oh, just did it. Global accounts for the servers would be a lot better, due to the raising number of players who tend to cheat and/or break the rules. If such a "feature" is implemented, it has to stay optional. This is not Minecraft. Steam accounts might be the best glob...

Minetest Sam wrote:Calinou, when I try to use the command /give no_interact it doesn't work.It says name and itemstring required

/giveme maptools:nointeract 99 as seen here.

To give it to another player, it's /give <name> maptools:nointeract 99 where <name> is the player name (case sensitive).

Is Vulkan OSS like OpenGL? If so then maybe the MT devs (and other people like me!) could make a new graphics engine! (Sparse Voxel Octrees anyone?) Neither Vulkan nor OpenGL are "open source". They are open-ish* standards , and are not software. Vulkan is expected for release in early 20...

kaadmy wrote:I've played MT 0.3(The Debian package version) for a while, and never found fireflies.

They appeared only while development variable (in minetest.conf) is enabled, due to their high CPU usage.

It's already requested: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/2239 Vorbis is nice, but Opus is quite better for long sound files like music (and thus, space could be saved, or quality could be increased), and generally you can afford the higher CPU cost. If encoding in 320 Kb/s Opus, you are g...

Minetest is redering on 1 thread from 8 threads of my core i7 cpu. Maybe this problem is on opengl. If vulkan comes out then expect HUGE performance boost. While Vulkan might make it more possible/easier to offload the rendering load to several CPU threads, the main purpose is to be less heavy on l...

Please use .zip format rather than .rar, since not everyone can extract .rar without installing additional software.

Also, note that you can bundle mods with your worlds using the worldmods/ folder inside the world folder.

If you have spare CPU and bandwidth, you can use this:



This will make player/mob movement appear to be smoother and more accurate (and any other action that occurs every server step).

In Debian and Ubuntu, LevelDB is available as libleveldb-dev. In Fedora, it is leveldb-devel.

I play Xonotic at 40 fps on this computer, and it feels OK-ish, but if I play at 200+ fps, it's completely different. The mouse/input feels much smoother and more responsive, and aim is far better. Having more than 60 FPS on a 60 Hz screen does help with regards to input latency, but not much else....

TenPlus1 wrote:Watching a YouTube video of someone playing minetest at very low fps is quite annoying and I'd personally prefer all of the special effects turned off to improve smoothness of gameplay.

Yeah, 60 FPS videos are awesome. You'd never go back to 30 FPS again.

Minetest uses Irrlicht.

If Irrlicht gets Vulkan support, then we will possibly support it (we need to write shaders for it, I guess). Else, we won't.

Topic locked, please avoid personal attacks.

⋅  Are there any Irrlicht ports to Windows 10 Mobile? ⋅  Do we have the money to pay to Microsoft? ⋅  Do we want to give money to Microsoft? ⋅  Does the Windows Store allow LGPLv2.1+ applications? If the answer to any of those questions is "no", the...

Stun is easier to code than knockback. Stun would result in slower movement for a limited time after receiving damage. This would work especially well on mobs.

Are you creating grayscale textures? On which surfaces, nodes, items, entities, meshes?

Are those actual optimized 8-bit textures or just 24-bit textures that happen to have only grayscale colors?

Linuxdirk wrote:Better lighting and absolutely no 2D objects (this ain't 1995).

Is there any fully client-side 3D animated torch mod with particles?

Please write a mobs mod that: ⋅  has few or no bugs (this instantly excludes Simple Mobs and Carbone Mobs), ⋅  has no bloat (this instantly excludes MOBF), ⋅  has few, but enough mobs that are consistent both in looks and in mechanics (this instantly excludes Mobs Redo)...

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rubenwardy wrote:F11 is used by many applications to do this - it's become what you expect.

Isn't F11 for screenshot? *cmiiw

No, usually that is F12, or F2, as popularized by Minecraft.

I haven't contributed much work myself so far, so I'm not going to tell other people what to work on, but doesn't an increase in a "higher hiearchy" number (the 5) normally entail proofing and optimization rather than new features? Per Semantic Versioning : Given a version number MAJOR.MI...

I would rather use reddit.

In ~/.minetest, create a textures directory. The directory structure should be like this:

the range finding algorithm drops FPS a little. Why don't we scrap it entirely then, and instead have a first-run menu that prompts you for your graphics hardware (or, better, runs an automated benchmark and sets viewing range for once and all automatically)?. This menu could do other things, like ...

Minerz wrote:Oh. Shaders DO cause lots of lag, right?

They don't, if your graphics hardware is recent and powerful enough.

Direct3D does not support shaders, since the only kind of shaders available in Minetest are GLSL shaders. (Direct3D uses HLSL shaders.)

one thing im sure us on older hardware have noticed is the lack of "raytracing" (is that the term?) aka not rendering things when they are not visible? aka a cave 50 nodes of rock below you for example? that should at least increase the framerate. and can someone explain this thing about ...

Please keep discussion in a single topic, to make the discussion easier to search.

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DodoB wrote:What's a good drawtime to have?

Ideally, your drawtime should be less than 16 ms. This means you would get more than 60 FPS.

[...]EDIT: wait.. there are already dim shadows in current font :S I checked, there's a setting in the minetest.conf for the text shadow, but it seems to only apply in formspecs and in the main menu, but not in the in-game HUD. It applies to all Freetype fonts, which includes the HUD and player nam...