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mypaint is a mod that allows you to paint different nodes. It is useless by itself because it needs to be supported by mods.

You craft a brush with a white wool and a stick.
Craft paint with a bucket of water and dye.

Set the can of paint on the ground. Hold your paint brush and click on the can. You can paint 3 nodes before having to get more paint from the can. Each can has 100 uses.
You can use 1 brush for all the colors. If you want to change color just click on the paint can you want.

Modders can use this mod to allow their nodes to be paintable.

Supported mods include

mypaint_sample - a sample mod for testing or making mods

myfences
myladders
mypaint_extras - a modpack that lets you paint default things in the world.

• fences
• wood
• trees
• dirt
• gravel
• sand
• stone

Contributors - ssieb, Nathan, Don (ssieb did almost everything)
Depends - default
Download - https://github.com/DonBatman/mypaint/archive/master.zip
Github - https://github.com/DonBatman/mypaint
Licence - DWYWPL

I see how you said it is useless by itself and needs mods, but what about painting regular terrain blocks? That could make things extremely creative. The entire minetest world would be an artistic canvas! Maybe not so good for public servers aka inappropriate stuff being painted but I could see my kiddos going nuts with this. Thanks for another great and creative mod!

TheReaperKing wrote:I see how you said it is useless by itself and needs mods, but what about painting regular terrain blocks? That could make things extremely creative. The entire minetest world would be an artistic canvas! Maybe not so good for public servers aka inappropriate stuff being painted but I could see my kiddos going nuts with this. Thanks for another great and creative mod!

I will think about making a mod for that. I want this mod to stay as it is.

This mod already seems pretty great, the fences could always be a kind of canvas.

TheReaperKing wrote:This mod already seems pretty great, the fences could always be a kind of canvas.

Are you wanting a mod that would work like a canvas? something with a simple texture that the kids can paint?

I was thinking something like that would be pretty fun and make things creative. I do think that there is a mod where you can paint a single blocks worth. I was thinking they'd even have fun painting their houses to give them some variety and I think people in general would find that fun and interesting. I have zero idea how complicated it is, just what came to mind when I saw your mod :)

EDIT - Here is that painting mod, I believe the canvas is only one block though:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2588

Maybe even just regular wood could be painted for the houses? I think that would be easier than the usual of using wool and hopefully look more natural. You know those huge statues people make in MC with wool to look like pixel art? I was thinking perhaps this would be an easier alternative and help get those artists interested in minetest :)

TheReaperKing wrote:I was thinking something like that would be pretty fun and make things creative. I do think that there is a mod where you can paint a single blocks worth. I was thinking they'd even have fun painting their houses to give them some variety and I think people in general would find that fun and interesting. I have zero idea how complicated it is, just what came to mind when I saw your mod :)

EDIT - Here is that painting mod, I believe the canvas is only one block though:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2588

I like that painting mod. It is great.
This mod is a general purpose mod.

I through this together for your kids. I also added it to the first post for anyone who wants it.
https://github.com/DonBatman/mypaint_sample

Awesome, thanks! I'll be messing with it and the painting mod! :D

Update - A scraper has been added(last week but I forgot to put it here)
Scraper returns the node back to it's original color.

Also I just added fences to the extras modpack.

Update - trees and wood added to extras

TheReaperKing wrote:Maybe even just regular wood could be painted for the houses? I think that would be easier than the usual of using wool and hopefully look more natural. You know those huge statues people make in MC with wool to look like pixel art? I was thinking perhaps this would be an easier alternative and help get those artists interested in minetest :)

You can use the paintroller from my colormachine. I got the idea for the paintbrush from another mod (one by Krock I believe). Painting is done by having dye sitting next to the paintroller in the inventory.

The paint cans this mod here comes with are very nice and decorative.

NICE MOD +100

like it! :)

+10000000000 AWESOME!! I wanted a mod that added coloured cobblestone and i can do it now. Thanks. Also the wood might look good too.

@TailsTheFoxDoes MT

i can see the ink .. lol

it says :
BTW it means TailsTheMeseMinecart, but that isn't my name, it's just a way of saying that i basically do the same thing Dantdm does but i do it with minetest And you problably can't see the invisible ink.

DanTDM copy xD

snowflake wrote:@TailsTheFoxDoes MT

i can see the ink .. lol

it says :
BTW it means TailsTheMeseMinecart, but that isn't my name, it's just a way of saying that i basically do the same thing Dantdm does but i do it with minetest And you problably can't see the invisible ink.

DanTDM copy xD

Finally, i thought nobody would see it :P

I recently found this mod (again) and I would like add support for my Color Cubes mod, only to find out that it works very different from other painting mods I know.

Sadly, your mod lacks in API documentation, I can only guess things from the example which has zero comment lines by the way. Please explain the core concepts (and maybe differences to similar mods) of your mod, from a modder's view. Oh, and you should add API documentation if want mods to make use of mypaint.

So apparently I am supposed to define the colors manually through exact hex codes? o_O
I don't want to define the exact hex code for each freaking block, I thought color names like “unicolor_green” were established. :-(

The blocks in my Color Cubes mod all have their own colors already, there's one node per color. This mod already supports the Paint Roller mod and is supported by the Color Machine.
Yet I have no clue how to add mypaint support for Color Cubes. I have hopes mypaint would be similar in its API like Paint Roller but sadly this is not the case.

Wuzzy, I will set it up a little better and add comments. This mod creates the colored blocks from a normal one. Your mod would not need to have all the colored nodes.
You can change the hex to color names if you like.
The idea of the mod is to allow the nodes to be painted. Player can paint and repaint the node as much as they want. They can also use the scraper to bring the node back to original.

I will discuss your concerns with ssieb and see if we can make a better way to register new nodes.

Its really fun to paint everything !!
I'm not a big fan of the painting cans though, but thats because I'm one of these 'everything should be cubic' type :)

Anyway, I forked 'mypaint_extra' , corrected all 'darkgery' in color list to 'darkgrey' and set not_in_creative_inventory = 1 for fences and gates where it was set to 0 (to prevent the creative inventory from display 4 pages of fences), and made a pull request