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Download https://github.com/paramat/trail/archive/master.zip
Github https://github.com/paramat/trail

Trail 0.3.0 by paramat
For Minetest 0.4.15 and later
Depends: default
Licenses: Source code: MIT. Textures: CC BY-SA (3.0)

This mod was developed from 'desire path' mod by Casimir
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=3390

Footprints appear in:
Dirt, dirt with grass, dirt with dry grass, dirt with snow,
sand, desert sand, silver sand,
snow, snowblock,.

This could be used for tracking players, adding interesting new gameplay.

Farming mod wheat is flattened so you can make crop circles.

Compacting:
Repeated walking over dirt, dirt with grass or dirt with dry grass has a chance of wearing and compacting the node to trail:trail, a path node of hard compacted dirt.
Repeated walking over snowblock has a chance of compacting it to ice.

Erosion:
An ABM slowly returns walked nodes to their natural state (except ice and wheat). trail:trail returns to default:dirt.
This ABM can be tuned to adjust the difficulty of tracking players.

This mod now uses default textures and overlays so should be usable with texture packs as long as the pack includes default_footprint.png.

Parameter FUNCYC can be increased to reduce processing and/or to make footprints not appear on every walked node. There are also parameters to control compacting and erosion behaviours.

Version 0.1.1

This sounds like something that could be added to the base game. Maybe you could make a pull request, as a feature like this could add charm to Minetest?

I lie this, makes the surroundings more dynamic.

Suggestion for implementation: you could make a footstep node that is placed on-top of node. The texture could be transparent. Pros would be not having to register every node that can be footstepped thus making it easier to support many nodes and implement different types of footsteps.

This mod could lead to the broom mod. Which could lead to the flying broom mod. :P

Swimming sound, why is it not in default?

Inocudom, there is or was a default Minetest feature that created footprints in grass only, the texture for it is in the default texture pack, i was very happy to see this but also curious why this feature seems to have been dropped and does not support other biomes. Perhaps i will ask core devs when they are less busy. Since footprints have already been in core there is perhaps a good chance they will be updated and re-introduce

Next i'm going to try placing footprint nodes with random rotation to break up those lines of squares.

EDIT Rotation works but breaks texture tiling ...

paramat wrote:Inocudom, there is or was a default Minetest feature that created footprints in grass only, the texture for it is in the default texture pack, i was very happy to see this but also curious why this feature seems to have been dropped and does not support other biomes. Perhaps i will ask core devs when they are less busy. Since footprints have already been in core there is perhaps a good chance they will be updated and re-introduced.

Next i'm going to try placing footprint nodes with random rotation to break up those lines of squares.

Footprint nodes would be a better idea, but you will want them to be buildable_too and allow the player to walk through them.

Version 0.1.1 is now at github.

The ability to track other players can be tuned by varying the erosion speed of the footprints.
Footprint nodes drop normal nodes when dug, so you can dig your tracks to hide them.

Water sounds are playing globally, I think changing the sound code from this



to this

LOL thanks will fix soon.

Version 0.1.2
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* Water sounds played positionally not globally duh.
* Water sounds are now mono, edited, improved and correct format (ogg mono 44.1khz 96kbps).

Github also updated.

This was actually my first ever mod, i spent a long time tuning the various ground detection methods to make it as sensitive as possible ... however, continuous jumping leaves almost no footprints, the drawback being motion sickness. This could be useful in a multiplayer situation to avoid being tracked.

You could not make footsteps when sneaking. See here.

I encountered a little problem. If you try to work on a dirt node with the hoe, it doesnt work as long as footprints are on it. Maybe redefine the hoe that it works with footprint dirt too :3

Version 0.2.0 with semi-permanent trails of compacted dirt, permanent ice paths of compacted snow and flattened wheat / crop circle nodebox. First post has details and new screenshots.

Casimir wrote:You could not make footsteps when sneaking.

Too easy :) only flying leaves no trace.

fairiestoy wrote:I encountered a little problem. If you try to work on a dirt node with the hoe, it doesnt work as long as footprints are on it. Maybe redefine the hoe that it works with footprint dirt too :3

Will ponder, in the meantime you can always dig it and replace it then hoe it, which is more work but then you did walk over it ;]

Very nice! Does this create a use for walked grass in default (is it still in there?)

Ah it doesn't use that default node because the default texture is of 2 human-shaped footprints, not a square as it should be. Also, it's safer to use my own node in case the default one dissappears since it's depreciated.

fairiestoy, thanks for the pull request and solution for the hoe problem. I'm not good with github and the last time i merged a pull request into one of my mods i then later got into difficulties with 'fast forward errors' and had to delete the repo. Can anyone explain what i need to do to avoid this happenieng again? What is necessary to do after merging a pull request?

paramat wrote:fairiestoy, thanks for the pull request and solution for the hoe problem. I'm not good with github and the last time i merged a pull request into one of my mods i then later got into difficulties with 'fast forward errors' and had to delete the repo. Can anyone explain what i need to do to avoid this happenieng again? What is necessary to do after merging a pull request?

You need to do "git pull" before you can commit again. It will pull in the changes from the github repository.

Ah i suspected so, thanks Evergreen.

Immersive sounds mod has swimming sounds, plus a whole bunch of other water sounds. Gasping when coming out of the water, splashing when entering or leaving water, sloshing when treading water, bubble sounds when underwater, and waves when standing along the shore. Also waterfall sounds for running water.

Yeah my swimming sounds are edited from your ambience mod ;}

Version 0.2.1 released with farming mod compatibility, thanks to fairiestoy.

wtf is wrong with you? why wouldnt you use ^ to combine your footprint with the underlying texture but instead copy the whole texture, therefore making the usage of this mod with any other tp impossible.

This is a neat mod!

Iqualfragile wrote:wtf is wrong with you?

Lots probably :)
The footprints are colour matched to the texture pack they are derived from, a universal footprint that is not matched would look bad in most packs. The idea is to make your own footprint textures for the textures you use.
Also, double textures that use ^ are more processing-heavy, i would like to see grass_side become a standard single texture.
You can use this mod with my texture pack :)

I've made a little modification on your texture for trail_trailside and trail_trailtop

http://imgur.com/ubM0wL8

The changes are here : https://github.com/mimilus/trail2

Nice textures :)

But prefer it
http://imgur.com/PMW0VRC

The water sounds are from the ambience mod by Neuromancer (viewtopic.php?id=2807),
and are by Robinhood76 (http://www.freesound.org/people/Robinho ... nds/79657/) license CC BY-NC.

I wonder how you managed to sneak this mod into Mod Releases …
;-)

Oops. Well we have swim sounds as default now, i can remove these.