[Mod] Universal geometry realm [0.4.4] [flexrealm]

[SegFault22]

That image for the Flexy Realm in the main post, looks amazing. Without the water, that is what hill/mountainsides should look like by default. This would make Minetest more awesome, and less like Minecraft.
Just imagine, how awesome it would be; trees growing up from the mountainside, with lots of plants and flowers and stuff. Water could be included as Rivers running down the side, with semi-flat places for Lakes, and more steep places for Springs and underground lakes.

[paramat]

Version 0.2.16

I removed swampwater, now papyrus floats above 'normal' water.
My experiment of having 2 terrain generating noises with their 'spreads' in the golden ratio (harmonic terrain, a chord instead of a single note) was interesting and effective, but the extra 3D noise is processing heavy, i have removed this 2nd noise for faster generation.
I have created the 3D version of the 16x16 cloud-pixels used in my other mapgens, each cloud is confined to a 16x16x16 mapblock, so depending on the angle of the cloud layer, the cloud-voxels are square, triangular, hexagonal etc. Each cloud voxel contains stripes that vary their thickness depending on humidity at that point.

[Inocudom]

One thing that is missing from this mapgen is support for other mods that generate ores, plants, trees, and strata. If you add support for those mods, VanessaE might find this mapgen to be very interesting. What sayeth you?

[paramat]

Deleted screenshot.

[Krock]

http://i.imgur.com/46CLOmv.png

Like in a hamster wheel. O.O

[hoodedice]

http://i.imgur.com/46CLOmv.png

Like in a hamster wheel. O.O

*ahem*




HAAAAAAAALOOOOOOOOOO

[spoiler=Another screenie][/spoiler]

[paramat]

Yes or if you're my age you may think of Larry Niven's Ringworld :) although my screenshots are just a small cross section of a long tubular realm. Your post has inspired me to work on some configurable end-caps or walls for the tube realm option, a really short tube realm is a ringworld, and end caps can be made to cutoff to form walls, creating an open top ringworld. This means i won't have to convert my slabrealm mod (which is a ringworld) to LVM.

Simulation of a tubular space colony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiO8CgGiWPM

[philipbenr]

Hmm... Paramat, where do you get all this inspiration? I don't think I could think up any of these...

Edit: I looked up MC crazy world gen, and I must say, your work does look pretty darn good.

[paramat]

Version 0.2.17
Auto selecting of range 2 flowing, or no flow water, dependant on realm angle: no flow when steeper than 45 degrees.
Endcaps / walls added to enable sealed tubular space colonies or walls to enable ringworlds.

[hoodedice]

Yes or if you're my age you may think of Larry Niven's Ringworld :)

You are over 50 years old?

[spoiler]Larry Niven's landmark book on ringworlds was released in 1970.[/spoiler]

[LionsDen]

I was born before 1970 and I read the Ringworld books in the late 70's/early 80's.

[lordpyridine]

This mod either does nothing or crashed Minetest. It is the only mod I have active.

[paramat]

^ Clearly it does nothing.

Version 0.2.18
Bugfix: dry shrub function had a missing line.
Removed ringworld option for tube realm to concentrate on O'Neill space colony with endcaps instead.
By default the 'planet sphere' option will create a small planetoid just above the clouds at world centre.

[HeroOfTheWinds]

This is just insane....... +1 is hardly enough. The amount of problem solving necessary to make this must have been huge. Outstanding!

[jenova99sephiros]

Fooooooooooo!!!

[paramat]

Screenshot removed.

[webdesigner97]

Returned to this world to generate the clouds.








Swimming inside.

Somehow, it looks like Super Mario Galaxy ^^

[paramat]

0.3.0
Added cubic world option (unlimited size).
This mod now selects singlenode core mapgen and auto-edits minetest.conf to disable clouds.
In singleplayer the clouds are, for some reason, not enabled again afterwards you will need to do this manually.

[ExeterDad]

Makings of a cool wallpaper!

[Amaz]

I really love the cube! Super awesome.
However, I sometimes get this error: (Pretty random, but fatal.)

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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09:42:02: ERROR[main]: ServerError: /home/amaz/.minetest/mods/flexrealm/functions.lua:640: table index is nil
09:42:02: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
09:42:02: ERROR[main]:    /home/amaz/.minetest/mods/flexrealm/functions.lua:640: in function 'flexrealm_jungrass'
09:42:02: ERROR[main]:    /home/amaz/.minetest/mods/flexrealm/init.lua:593: in function </home/amaz/.minetest/mods/flexrealm/init.lua:223>
09:42:02: ERROR[main]:    /usr/local/share/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:348: in function </usr/local/share/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:336>

This is using the latest 0.4.10-dev.

[addi]

WOW! realy great work!

[paramat]

Thanks Amaz. Add this as a new line 640 in functions.lua:

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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local via = area:index(x - 1, y, z)

[paramat]

0.3.1
The bug above is fixed.
-- remove lava
-- thin rivers with altitude
-- remove flexy realm option and flex noise
-- add cube centre parameters
-- add dyson cube
-- constant width fissures

I realised i could turn the cube inside out and add a dyson cube realm, so no more need for my 'dysoncube' modpack.
It is important to set the realm limits fairly close around your structure, otherwise a dyson sphere or dyson cube or tube realm will fill all space with their underground, or other realms may be processing but only placing atmosphere. Choose the atmosphere limit just above the highest possible mountain (roughly 2 * TERRS).

[iangp]

O.O

[fyregryph]

Wow, that is amazing! I can't believe something like that didn't require rewriting the engine! I always thought the lua api was somewhat limited, but there are always people like you who do amazing things which seem impossible.

[paramat]

Just to be clear the direction of gravity does not change in this mod, that would require a major engne rewrite.
However i consider these realms just as interesting to explore when the player has the wrong gravity direction for the terrain.

[twoelk]

I just wondered wether a mod could warp the coordinate system of minetest for the view displayed.

@paramat, your pictures are mind blowing as ever. (should have said that when I first viewed these of course)

[Martin_Devil]

WoW! Best work!

[MirceaKitsune]

Very good and interesting idea! Absolutely love this, well done.

[Tom]

Breathtaking.