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Hold a torch in your hand and light up the night and cave!

When a torch is wielded, a transparent lighting node is placed on players position (and removed from the old position).

License
Code: WTFPL, textures: CC BY-SA

Mod dependencies
default

Download
0.6 walking_light_0_6.zip
0.5 walking_light_0_5.zip
0.4 walking_light_0_4.zip
0.3 walking_light_0_3.zip
0.2 walking_light_0_2.zip
0.1 walking_light.zip


Version History

• 0.6 fixed server crash when a player leaves (thanks to Nubelite)
• 0.5 thanks to the trick from worldedit, no more lost light
• 0.4 added the "Lighting mese pickaxe". Just put a torch above a mese-pick
• 0.3 torch lights when wading through water / code cleanup / seems to be a problem in the minetest engine with the light update, sometimes the voxel based dynamic lighting stays although there is no light source
• 0.2 torch lights directly when selected / minor bugfixes
• 0.1 first release

Edit: added word "license" for sfan5s squealer-script

Nice! Finally there's a mod like this.

Haha, nice!

Cool mod! It's a bit buggy though (sometimes the lighting is not removed).

Great mod!

I tried the following 2 additions (line 36 and 38) and they worked too:

if is_air ~= nil and (is_air.name == "air" or is_air.name == "default:water_source" or is_air.name == "walking_light:light")then
-- print('set '..minetest.pos_to_string(ontop))
if (is_air.name == "air" or is_air.name == "default:water_source") then

Thanks again :-)

Could you please mirror this on another site?

Splizard wrote:Cool mod! It's a bit buggy though (sometimes the lighting is not removed).

Kind've obvious if it's the first version.

Topywo wrote:Great mod!

I tried the following 2 additions (line 36 and 38) and they worked too:

if is_air ~= nil and (is_air.name == "air" or is_air.name == "default:water_source" or is_air.name == "walking_light:light")then
-- print('set '..minetest.pos_to_string(ontop))
if (is_air.name == "air" or is_air.name == "default:water_source") then

Thanks again :-)

Feel free to modify whatever you want. I suggest you invent a waterproofed burning torch ;-)

And make sure that you do not make air-holes in the water...

Idea:
Lighting mese pickaxe (craft: torch + mese pickaxe), this would be very handy while mining.

cactuz_pl wrote:Idea:
Lighting mese pickaxe (craft: torch + mese pickaxe), this would be very handy while mining.

+2

+ 1 for the mod :D

cactuz_pl wrote:Idea:
Lighting mese pickaxe (craft: torch + mese pickaxe), this would be very handy while mining.

+ 1!. Some sort of a "mining helmet" with a light attached would be nice too :D

Amazing mod =)

cactuz_pl wrote:Idea:
Lighting mese pickaxe (craft: torch + mese pickaxe), this would be very handy while mining.

LOL - Tactical Pickaxe :D

Ragnarok wrote:Amazing mod =)

cactuz_pl wrote:Idea:
Lighting mese pickaxe (craft: torch + mese pickaxe), this would be very handy while mining.

LOL - Tactical Pickaxe :D

Reminds me of "doom 3". You want the "duct tape" mod :-)

Updated the mod.

The problem with the "not removed" lighting is still there.
The lighting node is removed but the voxel based dynamic lighting isn't always updated properly. Seems to be a problem in the minetest engine (ok, minetest isn't made for this "dynamic" dynamic lighting).

Anybody any idea?

so its like terraria torches, +1

Echo wrote:Updated the mod.

The problem with the "not removed" lighting is still there.
The lighting node is removed but the voxel based dynamic lighting isn't always updated properly. Seems to be a problem in the minetest engine (ok, minetest isn't made for this "dynamic" dynamic lighting).

Anybody any idea?

I heard that in the latest WorldEdit, they had a lightfix command. You may want to see how they pulled it off.

Echo wrote:

Ragnarok wrote:Amazing mod =)

cactuz_pl wrote:Idea:
Lighting mese pickaxe (craft: torch + mese pickaxe), this would be very handy while mining.

LOL - Tactical Pickaxe :D

Reminds me of "doom 3". You want the "duct tape" mod :-)

added the tactical pickaxe :)

Heh, so cool :) Nice inventory texture.

Ghost_of_tino wrote:[...]
I heard that in the latest WorldEdit, they had a lightfix command. You may want to see how they pulled it off.

They add a non-transparent node and remove it to enforce the recalculation of the light. So do I in the new version. No more lost light, so far...

I ran into a small issue using this mod on my server. to resolve it i had to add

if player ~= nil then

above line 28. No more crashing for me now. lol

Still getting the error and the server crashes

ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: ServerError: LuaError: error: ...t Server/bin/../mods/minetest/walking_light/init.lua:29: bad argument #2 to 'remove' (number expected, got userdata)

Nubelite wrote:I ran into a small issue using this mod on my server. to resolve it i had to add

if player ~= nil then

above line 28. No more crashing for me now. lol

Nubelite wrote:Still getting the error and the server crashes

ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: ServerError: LuaError: error: ...t Server/bin/../mods/minetest/walking_light/init.lua:29: bad argument #2 to 'remove' (number expected, got userdata)

Thank you for your note. I was able to fix the bug. I totally misused the function table.remove, which is not visible in singleplayer. Also repaired that a leaving player could leave his light.

Just looking for your thoughts on this. I love this mod, but it breaks the water sounds in the immersive sounds mod because that checks what is at the users head, body and feet. If it's air, at the head, then the user could be treading water, if it's water, then gurgling bubbles. But when I have a torch in my hand, and use this mod, the logic is all screwed up. I was wondering if you could put the lightsource node just to the right of the user, this would be logical because they are holding the torch in their right hand. I don't check what is directly to the right of the player for the water logic. I don't know how difficult this would be to do in your mod, but it would take a lot of if then or logic in the immersive sounds mod, which I'd prefer not to get into if I don't have to.

Cool, a little slowly but that's not really a problem.

Im using the idea in Technic mod for Flashlight. Yesterday i rewrote the code, and believe its faster and more reliable:
https://github.com/RealBadAngel/technic/blob/master/flashlight.lua

is it possible for a mod like this to be made compatible with the crafting mod?

how is this one isn't? and try dwarves for new, improved version of this mod

Hello everybody!

This is my first post. First I want to say, I do not understand much of programming mods, but a little bit:

This release is for everybody needing a bit more speed with the walking light. In my version I:

-removed the cobble as smoke or whatever
-compressed the walking_light texture to 1x1px (there's no difference I think)

I think, it would speed up the fps when you use the walking_light, by the way a fantastic mod!!!
'Hope you enjoy...

My English might not be very good ;) .

is there some odd way you've zipped the files. I can't extract them (Ubuntu 14.04, default unzip)

your mod produces a stone block which is visible when I walk backwards and removed half my door in voxelgarden. You might try making it be overwritten by things like doors and signs, etc and overwrite water blocks, instead of being overwritten by water blocks and overwriting doors.