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Re: Request for donations for my development work
crazy_baboon The PayPal link is still valid yes. sorcerykid Without going into personal details i can say that the welfare system in the UK used to be generous. But since the economic collapse of 2008 and a right-wing government since 2010 it has changed a lot and a lot of people (especially those w...
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 03:49
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Request for donations for my development work
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24612
Re: Sea Water (salt water)
It would be too much disruption to change the name of 'default:water_ ..' to 'default:salt_water_ ..', instead we would just change the description to 'Salt Water', but as explained this is unlikely. Correct it's impossible during mapgen to quickly detect whether a water node at y = 1 belongs to a s...
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 03:25
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Sea Water (salt water)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1753
Re: Warning! Maps opened in 0.4.15-dev will not work in olde
Correct, no problems with that.
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 03:16
- Forum: Minetest News
- Topic: Warning! Maps opened in 0.4.15-dev will not work in older MT
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3132
Re: Automatic, random texture placement
To change nodes on mapgen you would use a 'mapgen object' lua voxelmanipulator in an 'on generated' function to process all stone nodes and replace each with a random variant. If you study the code of a lua mapgen that will show how to do this.
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 03:14
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: Automatic, random texture placement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1696
Re: WorldPainter support?
In MT X is Eastwards, Z is Northwards and Y is up. (0,0,0) is world centre and the world extends 32000 nodes (we call the basic unit-cubes in the world 'nodes') in all 6 directions. Sea level is at Y = 1. Our 'mapblocks' are cubic, 16 * 16 * 16 nodes in size. World is generated in a cube around the ...
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 03:09
- Forum: Minetest-Related
- Topic: WorldPainter support?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 35774
Re: Sea Water (salt water)
When river_water was added we considered calling it fresh_water instead, which would imply blue water was salty. But we decided to not force these aspects, for example there are many water pools at y = 1 with blue water which could be considered to be fresh water. Many worlds and mods use blue water...
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 23:55
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Sea Water (salt water)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1753
Re: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
TumeniNodes
> Are we able to set more than one material for mapgen nodes? Or is there a magical way to use a string of nodes?
Nope. As you found out those aliases only setup the node used per-session.
This would need an engine mapgen change to select a random node for every stone node placed.
> Are we able to set more than one material for mapgen nodes? Or is there a magical way to use a string of nodes?
Nope. As you found out those aliases only setup the node used per-session.
This would need an engine mapgen change to select a random node for every stone node placed.
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 23:47
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
- Replies: 274
- Views: 77025
Re: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
Sergey
> I don't understand what blocks need to be regenerated.
The areas with grey desert, sandstone desert, coral reefs or bushes, are the new biomes.
> I don't understand what blocks need to be regenerated.
The areas with grey desert, sandstone desert, coral reefs or bushes, are the new biomes.
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 23:40
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
- Replies: 274
- Views: 77025
Warning! Maps opened in 0.4.15-dev will not work in older MT
See https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=16595 for more details. This PR is now being merged. "To introduce the new flags I had to increase the map block serialization version, this is why you can not play on your maps on other versions of Minetest after you opened them in this v...
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 23:29
- Forum: Minetest News
- Topic: Warning! Maps opened in 0.4.15-dev will not work in older MT
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3132
Re: Opinons needed: Possible change in map block serializati
This PR is now being merged.
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 23:09
- Forum: Minetest News
- Topic: Opinons needed: Possible change in map block serialization
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4634
Re: mod base experiment
I like those palm trees.
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 18:20
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: mod base experiment
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5007
Re: how can I edit schematics?
Hmm of course, sorry i misunderstood, you both mean storing them in a subgame as a Lua table as opposed to an mts file. So once a Lua table is converted to mts it will be just as fast in mapgen. Maybe the saveschems mod should be included in the MTGame repo somehow. TumeniNodes, no problem :] Indeed...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 18:16
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: how can I edit schematics?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9785
Re: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
All mapgen use nodes like "mapgen_stone" so you need to alias your subgame nodes to those for the mapgen to use them.
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 18:03
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
- Replies: 274
- Views: 77025
Re: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
Sergey > Can this map be fixed? Or it is irreversibly? You could revert the mapgen code in MTGame to how it was before (difficult), or, only use that world in MT / MTG 0.4.14. Then do /deleteblocks for the affected volume, that will re-generate the volume of world. We're sorry for the biomes breakag...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 18:01
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
- Replies: 274
- Views: 77025
Re: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
the_raven_262
Have you set the mapgen aliases for the map generators? As here https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/blob/master/mods/default/mapgen.lua#L5 set those to your subgame's nodes.
Have you set the mapgen aliases for the map generators? As here https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/blob/master/mods/default/mapgen.lua#L5 set those to your subgame's nodes.
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 17:56
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
- Replies: 274
- Views: 77025
Re: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
burli
Tree trunk nodes should be force-placed. Per-node force-place was actually added to schematics to allow tree trunks to replace leaves of other overlapping trees without leaves replacing the trunks of other overlapping trees.
Tree trunk nodes should be force-placed. Per-node force-place was actually added to schematics to allow tree trunks to replace leaves of other overlapping trees without leaves replacing the trunks of other overlapping trees.
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 17:40
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
- Replies: 274
- Views: 77025
Re: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
burli, > Works fine so far except that the trunk base is often removed by other decoration See default/mapgen.lua, the taller decorations (trees, cacti, papyrus) are registered before the smaller (grass, flowers) to avoid this happening. > But I have to find a solution to load the tree registration ...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 23:33
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
- Replies: 274
- Views: 77025
Re: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
Sergey, those straight-edged biomes are likely due to the change to the registered biomes in 0.4.15, see https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=15939
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 23:29
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: Post your mapgen questions here (modding or engine)
- Replies: 274
- Views: 77025
Re: how can I edit schematics?
See https://github.com/minetest-mods/saveschems for the latest and maintained version of this mod. > This is why I don't use binary schematics. You're saving a trivial amount of space in exchange for making them very difficult to edit. > But why using the binary format? Just because file size? The p...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 23:26
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: how can I edit schematics?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9785
Re: Map-Gen Questions : 1) Latitudes 2) Knob-Twiddlers
1 requires changes to engine code.
2 would be possible in a separate terrain previewer, but not realtime changing of terrain in-game.
Also see https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=15272 for more mapgen discussion.
2 would be possible in a separate terrain previewer, but not realtime changing of terrain in-game.
Also see https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=15272 for more mapgen discussion.
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 23:01
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Map-Gen Questions : 1) Latitudes 2) Knob-Twiddlers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1008
Re: Opinons needed: Possible change in map block serializati
Discussing on IRC dev channel the devs are thinking this is worth it, the 1st PR will fix more lighting bugs than just large areas of lavacooling, and helps make the 2nd PR more effective. The first PR (which increases mapblock serialisation version) could be merged as soon as a few days, maybe a we...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 15:51
- Forum: Minetest News
- Topic: Opinons needed: Possible change in map block serialization
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4634
Re: [Mod]Flowerpot[flowerpot]
Indeed the digging cracks are not a problem.
I don't find this fundamental enough to be in MTGame, it's more of a specialist decor mod thing.
I don't find this fundamental enough to be in MTGame, it's more of a specialist decor mod thing.
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 08:25
- Forum: WIP Mods
- Topic: [Mod]Flowerpot[flowerpot]
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7212
Re: What's the minimum number of nodes for a game?
Someone is working on a clouds API, there is an unfinished PR. Stuff like colour, direction N, S, E, or W, speed, fraction of cloud cover, maybe more like possible multiple levels for use in stacked realms. The colour is likely to be a plain colour not a texture as clouds need to be drawn fast as cu...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 08:19
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: What's the minimum number of nodes for a game?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1989
Opinons needed: Possible change in map block serialization
This PR fixes occasional light bugs caused by the cooling of lava https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/4682 but comes at a cost: "To introduce the new flags I had to increase the map block serialization version, this is why you can not play on your maps on other versions of Minetest after ...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 08:03
- Forum: Minetest News
- Topic: Opinons needed: Possible change in map block serialization
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4634
Re: What's the minimum number of nodes for a game?
Just merged changes: MapgenBasic now needs river_water_source. Gravel (used in mgv6 mapgen for a rare surface material) now falls back to stone. So mgv6 now needs stone, dirt, dirt_with_grass, sand, water_source, lava_source and cobble. So the minimum looks like: stone dirt dirt_with_grass sand wate...
- Sat Feb 04, 2017 07:35
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: What's the minimum number of nodes for a game?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1989
Re: Post your screenshots!
^ That's beautiful.
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 23:53
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Post your screenshots!
- Replies: 5323
- Views: 1379671
Re: mod base experiment
Good to see you working on a minimal mod base, we have often asked for extra subgames to release with Minetest and this is the sort of thing we are looking for.
'Minimal' isn't a mod base and is unsuitable for that.
'Minimal' isn't a mod base and is unsuitable for that.
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 23:50
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: mod base experiment
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5007
Re: What's the minimum number of nodes for a game?
The cloud node and texture in MTGame have nothing to do with the moving clouds, which are directly drawn and don't use textures. The hardcoded nodes are air and ignore https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/builtin/game/register.lua#L332 maybe unknown too. The basic mapgen aliases that 'ma...
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 23:16
- Forum: Modding Discussion
- Topic: What's the minimum number of nodes for a game?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1989
Re: Minetest 0.4.15
> It is actually a known thing to stop and start a game, or disconnect and reconnect to a server, when you have been playing a long time and need to free some ram. This is not a memory leak, it's mapblock mesh data building up in the client, it's limited to 5000 mapblocks by default which is 1-2 GB,...
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 12:39
- Forum: Minetest News
- Topic: Minetest 0.4.15
- Replies: 136
- Views: 53029
Re: adjusting mgv7 parameters causes blank biomes
Weird i can't see why, biomes should remain unchanged whatever the terrain shape, there isn't a bare stone biome in MTGame.
- Tue Jan 31, 2017 08:25
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: adjusting mgv7 parameters causes blank biomes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2115