FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

It uses phi... must be good :)

Some time ago I got mapgen problems, which were caused by a mapgen mod, maybe caverealms. It was most likely not related to caverealms. I worked with HeroOfTheWinds on caverealms and it's been live 24/7 for at least 4 months on my server with no problems at all. I'm sure I'd have noticed mapgen pro...

Could always fit the CPU with a silencer

Me and a buddy is currently busy with a project to mine down to the end of the world. Just for the fun of it and to say that we did it. We are only using pickaxes , no mining equipment. The whole mine get's ladders from top to bottom and we are going to build 3 "basecamps" underground at ...

Also, while your commit makes the game faster, any error in get_node will crash the whole MT if it'll get merged. Needs testing, I suppose? That's not true -- it won't crash. The exceptions have simply been replaced with a different mechanism (the error checking is still happening). Before the chan...

Inocodom, I have made some improvements relating to CPU performance for the client and will make a pull request tomorrow.

4aiman wrote:I'm not angry a bit, Zeno...
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But angry? Nope. Not at all.[/b]

Ok :) I'm not sure if I was reading an old version of your post or what happened, but it seems better now that I re-read it. Weird, but *shrug*

... I don't know of the history regarding this, but thanks for the report. Can you provide some soild data that can be looked at? Also, please include your game settings etc.l. ... Wow. Maybe (just maybe, and it depends on how you read Inocudom's post) Inocudom could have been less "accusatory...

Mmmmmm beeeeeer is betta!

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Bottom. About 6 months.

The only unit test that I know will fail incorrectly is if IPv6 is disabled or not available... perhaps there are others?

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/1776

I did that :( It is fixed now

(The unit tests were failing correctly, the change I made was a simple one that forgot a single '+' character... ooops)

If you can't post a stack trace can you at least post the segfault text?

Great work paramat

Paramat I know what the problem is with your noise scale. There are two ways to solve it -- the "proper way" and your current "hacks". IMO your current hacks are the better way than the proper/offical way and if they can be tidied up (put the scale params back into the NoiseParam...

ExeterDad wrote:I see a duck, a bunny rabbit and a buzzard. :P

First two, yep. But that is not a buzzard. It's a dragon.

Also, the big thing on the right is the luck dragon from Neverending Story.

@greydmiyu Sorry for the mistake with quoting (it was an honest mistake). The majority of rendering and lighting in Minetest (currently) is done by the CPU. The GPU is pretty much not utilised at all so I really don't find Vazon's problem particularly surprising. Add to that, hmmm, let's say just 10...

I'm not saying that Minetest doesn't need work. But what we don't need is people engaging in extreme hyperbole on what is needed just to run the thing. A singleplayer game with an essentially empty world. Yes that will be fine. Try running a server and you'll start to run into walls pretty quickly....

And all that stuff is of only 393,9 kBytes in size. Compress that now. Size has nothing to do with it. It's the increase in CPU load that is important. ~People are eager to ADD a lot of mods but for some reason can't deal with the necessity of DELETION of a SINGLE folder. It is much, much, much eas...

Aside that, it's rather heavy, complex (always potentially buggy and not easy to fix) and can be used for add some infinite loops that would effectively shutdown and slow down the servers. Hey, we agree! I like mesecons in singleplayer games, but on a server (where CPU usage is always pretty high e...

I never thought I'd see the day but a group of players has mined (legit) to the bottom of the world. Not only that but you can walk down (or back up) the entire distance. At the beginning there was me (Zeno aka Onez), CWz, RedDog, SantaKlaus, deezl, and many others who I'm afraid I may have forgotte...

(counter: server owners can just remove it. We shouldn't restrict features because of this, providing that server owners can just delete, rather than searching around default/init.lua or something. I disagree with that. Using git to keep up with things that others are doing and "just delete th...

If you need help with this I am very willing. It's been something I've wanted to do for a long time.

I have built Qt (4 and 5) applications on Windows 7 before (including choosing the necessary .dlls for distrubution) so I may be able to help. For **my** latest Qt5 app, I have the following dlls (I don't know what compiler you use so you'll have to adjust the libgcc and stdc related ones). Also you...

ExeterDad wrote:Ummmm... Will this be safe to update on a existing world?

I've been testing it for about 6 or 7 days on Onez' Server and not noticed anything unexpected.

Github is also recommended (especially when they tend to get more mods :-)) I sort of take it to an extreme: I won't use a mod if it's not on github (or something similar that supports git of course). I don't do this for any moral or ethical reason but mainly because I don't want to have to constan...

Dude, i did a favour to you by enlightening you about LuaFFI. Instead of learning you are now resorting to nitpicking on dictionary definitions. But, anyway, i lose nothing by ignoring you. There are some people that cannot be wrong. No, I'm able to be wrong. I already knew about LuaFFI but thanks ...

aldobr wrote:I will give you a clue, its not used to embbed lua inside an application. It has nothing to do with that.

You realise that embedding and extending are essentially the same thing, right?

aldobr wrote:

Is this merely the recommended way or actually the only way?

There is no recommended way. But doing it other way makes no sense.

Which method does the minetest source code use? I'll give you a hint... the traditional way.

I can't get it to find your example C library. It compiles fine, but it gives this error when I try to play the game. It gives the same error if I change the name of the library to look for to something that doesn't exist, so it must not be finding it. Do you have any idea what's wrong? Thanks, ele...