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Is voxelmanip always faster than get_node? I noticed that the hopper mod uses voxelmanip just to get two neighbour nodes. Is this really better? yes and no. It can sometimes mean only doing a single lua-to-C call, which is likely cheaper than two get_node() calls. But if it's not performance critic...

Only a single nodedef of wool is used in this image -> colored nodes and colored itemstacks are all "wool:block" !

Even if it was released under GPL it would still be pointless considering that rnd is the owner of the source code That's not how GPL works, you license your code under GPL -> you need to fulfil the requirements. Who owns the code is irrelevant to adhering to the licenses terms. Actually this is en...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LdLz8but8E

Was coding up colored itemstack support for the wool mod. Near the end everything starts working.

Would be nice to see colored descriptions, would be great to use it for premium tool/weapon ideas. submit a feature request, I dunno, this may already be possible (the itemstack description can now be modified through itemstack meta, so we can do things like name books, keys, etc. and this is in mi...

500000 nodes = 30 FPS 10500 entities = 3 FPS W.T.H. is does exactly MT render or engine when draw simple node Versus simplest entity ? entity simple single side plate (without any material assigned in blender) nodes are rendered into a "mesh" together. So 500k nodes can end up being only ...

If you want to `throttle` something, write a queue and throttle throughput through a queue mechanism. local queue = {} ... table.insert(queue, some_data) ... -- process up to N items from the queue each server interval minetest.register_globalstep(dtime) for i = 1, max_per_step do -- take one off th...

Is it possible to make a function return a value after some seconds? I mean if i write something like this: local str = "some string" minetest.after(3.5, function(str) print(str) end, str) return str Then the str is first returned and then printed, but is it possible to print it first and...

btw: you can use now meshoptions for plants to get the croplike look from Minecraft, for example wheat Sadly, this doesn't seem to work with Minetest 0.4.15; I only get the default plantlike shape. I get the “#” shape only in the dev version Uh, it works just fine? That got added way before 0.4.15....

burli wrote:How can I update param2 of a node? Currently I replace the node with set_node() and the new param2 value, but I hope there is a faster way

swapnode(pos, {name = node.name, param2 = newparam2})

no faster way than that.

Try setting x = 9 and z = 8

but yeah, looking at the (tiny) image, it looks like it's all shuffled, lol

please reuse the code from `saveschems` - https://github.com/minetest-mods/saveschems to validate and save stuff.

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Meh, editing trees and other schematics by text files seems awfully tedious. I look what WorldEdit can do for me. What do you mean with “annotation”? MTS files just look like binary gibberish to me. Is there maybe a way to go from the WorldEdit format (.we) to schematics and vice-versa? MTS files c...

saveschems is how we do this for minetest_game's tree schematics. We use a simple lua table to describe, and "easily " edit tree shapes, and then write them as .mts. We never go from .mts to lua, although it is possible. You lose too much annotation to make it easy to work with. https://gi...

so..., "if" I manage to wrap my inefficient brain around voxelmanip... would it make sense for me to apply it only to the lowered bridge? If I am able to make just that walkable... I'll be one happy duck. Well, what I would do is: 1. make everything just 1x1x1 nodes so the whole collision...

I'd look at the TNT mod - it uses a vmanip to create the crater, and does so outside of mapgen domain.

I'm using the mesh node from the nodebox trees mod. Works fine. I still have a little flicker and waving doesn't work waving should not be enabled for most mesh nodes. The flicker happens because you likely have multiple surfaces exactly in the same place. Try offsetting them by a small (0.001) val...

This is the code for a drawbridge I was working on a while back... Never did figure out why I can't walk it? Add a collision box. There is a collision box (though only on the lowered bridge), I think Minetest just doesn't detect collisions that far. A more reliable method would be voxelmanip and do...

There is a collision box (though only on the lowered bridge), I think Minetest just doesn't detect collisions that far. Indeed, Minetest has serious bugs with collision boxes >1 node in size. Actually, you can go 1 beyond the node itself. This node goes 2.0 beyond it, so the last 1.0 will be buggy.

burli wrote:Is it possible to make such a leaf shape? It is a normal leaf node with an oversized plantlike inside

make a mesh node (and yes, this is entirely reasonable geometry)

TumeniNodes wrote:This is the code for a drawbridge I was working on a while back...
Never did figure out why I can't walk it?

Add a collision box.

Hybrid Dog wrote:Does node metadata become compressed?

I'm fairly sure everything on the map is compressed, including entity data as well.

Schematics are used by minetests' engine to place decorations that are more complex (trees, mostly). For some actual code that makes it easy to understand how they're generated, look here:

https://github.com/minetest-mods/saveschems/

As long as there are still critical bugs in the first 5min of gameplay, I suspect the interest is pretty low. I can't reproduce them and I did some major overhauling. Can you confirm this bug still exists? EDIT: one of the major things I redid was make it a bit hardened against missing table entrie...

azekill_DIABLO wrote:i don't think so...

EDIT: a new better pack: UNITY 16x

NC, and it probably violates MC copyrights, and it's actually not 16px.

So I doubt Wuzzy would pick that. I'd advise him not to.

azekill_DIABLO wrote:you want the best? then Pixel perfection!

yeah but it's a significant style departure from the classic look.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/4468 If this gets added you will be able to open any Minecraft texturepack without even having to convert it No, that doesn't work because minecraft uses the same file name multiple times. e.g. "reeds.png" exists several times in a MC texture pack...

Updated this to use player attributes that are new in git, so this no longer depends on `datastorage`.

I still would love it if someone could work on content - it's really simple to add new goals. Anyone?

Wuzzy, if you're ignoring my comments about 32px vs 16px, can you at least somehow work with me on getting `mcresconvert` to make an acceptable conversion so that I can myself use a texture pack to skin this subgame to 16px? thanks. I'm sure more people would prefer to have a method of generating a ...

The mushroom spread and death ABM has an interval of 11 seconds and a chance of 50. Does that mean each mushroom will spread/die in an average time of 550 seconds? no, it means that ever 11 seconds, 1 in 50 mushrooms will spread/die. So logically, this means that after 22 seconds, there will be a s...