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Block data is already compressed when sent over the network. See MapBlock::serialize() in mapblock.cpp.
- Sat Nov 26, 2011 18:22
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Chunk loading improvement
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2360
@Evrim Of course, the server could check if a player moves too fast (and actually the server could control all player movement, while currently it's all client-side), the server could check if a player placed or removes blocks too fast, and so on. It just isn't done currently.
- Sat Nov 26, 2011 18:14
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Cheater
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5522
@Staffs: It could be useful for survival maps. Let's say they start you out with an initial inventory and you have to complete the goal without picking anything up, this setting could be used to enforce that.
- Fri Nov 25, 2011 16:50
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Items Falling
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1883
My guess is that making auth.txt read only will not prevent new players from logging in, because auth.txt isn't re-read as long as the server is running. Once (and if) my patch setpassword is included, you can set default_password in minetest.conf and new users will only be able to log in if they kn...
- Sun Nov 20, 2011 22:53
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: new server settings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2233
You place them somewhere (preferably on dirt but afaik any material works at the moment), then they instantly grow into a tree after some random time. You may have to stay near them to make sure the blocks stay loaded and active. The light level at the sapling doesn't matter.
- Sun Nov 20, 2011 22:42
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: i have a question :o
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2218
FYI, if the problem primarily happens when you login to a server (or to a local game), it seems to be a bug with the way gravity and collision detection works. When the client environment doesn't update for about half a second (that's often the case when you login), depending on the floating point i...
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 07:04
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: Black screen (buried) on Linux
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7853
Which operating system, compiler? As you seem to be using a system jthread, not the bundled one, where did you get jthread from? The error messages suggest two possibilities: ⋅ The linker doesn't find the jthread library. You might have to delete CMakeCache.txt in your build directory and ...
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 06:48
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: Broken by Jthread upgrade
- Replies: 1
- Views: 811
I could reproduce this bug. 05:48 < kahrl_> http://celeron.55.lt/~celeron55/minetest/forum/viewtopic.php?id=363 05:48 < kahrl_> is there a bug that a node metadata change doesn't raise the modified flag of the block? 05:52 < kahrl_> ... just tested, i can reproduce the bug 05:52 < kahrl_> 1) start a...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 04:56
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: broken furnace and chest
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3283
Good idea! Another idea about the crafting description. The way you proposed ties the crafting recipes to the 3x3 crafting square. In case this would be extended or reduced (e.g. if a workbench is ever added) something more generic would be better. Maybe: in 1: apple in right of 1: steel_ingot in le...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 06:45
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Better encoding for game mechanics?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2295
- Sat Nov 12, 2011 05:02
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: Lose of ability to play map
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3837
What were the most important items that you lost from your inventory? If you post your (new) sam player file, I will add them back.
- Fri Nov 11, 2011 22:24
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: Lose of ability to play map
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3837
Try to delete the "map/players/sam" file and see if the problem goes away. That file seems to be damaged (and the inventory is already lost anyway). I have no idea know how such a thing could happen.
- Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:53
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: Lose of ability to play map
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3837
Last time I checked I found some problems with the keybinding system, don't exactly remember what they were, but I planned to try and redesign that part. E.g. one problem was that the Windows key wouldn't work at all in X11, but that turned out to be a bug in Irrlicht, nothing that minetest could wo...
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 17:01
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Problem with keys
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1923
I could reproduce this with the same setup using the current master (554f7f120c). Good work. I hope this finding will lead to a fix.
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 13:30
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: black tile in lava
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1355
MapBlockObjects are not used at all anymore, unless you are playing on a very old map. They have been deprecated for a long time. - SignObject has been replaced by sign nodes (MapNodes with content CONTENT_SIGN_WALL and SignNodeMetadata) - RatObject has been superseded by RatCAO/RatSAO - ItemObject ...
- Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:24
- Forum: Minetest Engine
- Topic: Reachability of code
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1571
I tested, now converted map is correct. Thanks. About coordinates. I think that up and down in minetest world is Z axis. But, seems, I thought wrong? Minetest uses the same coordinate system as in Minecraft (except that elevation is not limited to 0 to 127). So Y is up/down. (It's true that many FP...
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 13:51
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: sectors2sqlite broke my map
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2401
I just rebooted my computer twice to no avail. I have a decent graphics card and 2 GB of RAM. When I first start minetest, I'm at about 30 FPS, but in about 15 to 20 seconds, its down to 10 or less.I was just at 3. Then I disconnect and start again and the process repeats. So I rebooted thinking it...
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:24
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: FPS problem and program freezes on close
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2046
Black trees are already in the game ;)
But if they were to become an intended part of the game, they would form a black forest, so in the interest of realism you should be able to craft cuckoo clocks from their wood :D
But if they were to become an intended part of the game, they would form a black forest, so in the interest of realism you should be able to craft cuckoo clocks from their wood :D
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:19
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Golden and Black Trees
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4274
I found a bug in sectors2sqlite that caused negative y values to be read as large positive numbers. Are you sure the problem was z<0 in your case, and not y<0? I created a patchset to fix the bug I found, would be glad if you could test: https://github.com/kahrl/minetest/commits/sectors2sqlite-fix .
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:30
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: sectors2sqlite broke my map
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2401
If the build was compiled with RUN_IN_PLACE=0 (i guess that is the case for the Ubuntu packages), the path should be ~/.minetest/minetest.conf. Btw (regarding your other topic) you can set texture_path there too, so you don't have to overwrite files in /usr/share/minetest to change the texture pack.
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 23:57
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: FPS problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6302
Are you all saying that the map isn't getting saved when the X button of the console window is clicked? If so, that would be a data loss bug... which could probably be fixed using a few SetConsoleCtrlHandler(...) calls.
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 20:29
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: mineserver windows in lan
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3621
If you don't mind rebuilding, you could try replacing the line tile.cpp:1083
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Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
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if(driver->queryFeature(video::EVDF_RENDER_TO_TARGET) == false)
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Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
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if(true || driver->queryFeature(video::EVDF_RENDER_TO_TARGET) == false)
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 20:29
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: Unsupported texture format
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5584
Need a background texture
Hi all, I need an artist's help, as I need a texture but really suck at drawing one. I've seen awesome stuff in this forum, so I figured this would be the best place to ask. :D Anyway, as some of you know I've been working on a chat console like those that exist in some other games: you can pull it ...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:28
- Forum: Minetest Texture Packs
- Topic: Need a background texture
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1663
Minetest uses the graphics driver's Render to Texture feature to draw all those cubes in the inventory, but this somehow fails on your computer. The strange thing is that Irrlicht and/or your driver report that Render to Texture is supported, else Minetest wouldn't even try to use this feature and t...
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 18:22
- Forum: Minetest Problems
- Topic: D'oh! I crash!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2707
- Fri Sep 02, 2011 07:56
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: Post your screenshots!
- Replies: 5323
- Views: 1375598