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Particles for Minetest

Generates particles in the world when you dig blocks, smoke, etc.

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Credits

sfan5 - coded the original particles mod which I borrowed and made into this one.
PilzAdam - made it work for any item without being defined in a mod, also improved the code.

License

BSD-3-Clause, Copyright © 2014 Brett O'Donnell

This look great!

Some suggestions:
Add particles for every node (maybe a group no_particles to prevent it) and use the textures of the node
Make the particles a bit slower (they fly too far IMO)
Remove the selectionbox of the particles
Smoke particles spawn in fire

awesome... cool effects....

+1 regarding smoke, and please PLEASE make it look something like smoke instead of just pixels, and make it more abundant than in the old mod (sorry sfan :-) ).

Very cool!

VanessaE wrote:+1 regarding smoke, and please PLEASE make it look something like smoke instead of just pixels, and make it more abundant than in the old mod (sorry sfan :-) ).

Do you have a texture you would like see used?

PilzAdam wrote:https://github.com/cornernote/minetest-particles/pull/1

pulled, thanks for the code improvements

Does this provide particles for water or lava as well? It would be neat to see splashing or small magma pieces jump up.

a little suggestion: maybe make them disappear faster?

Odd bug: dig up a piston or sticky piston from mesecons. The particles become some odd color and flicker like crazy.

Gambit wrote:Does this provide particles for water or lava as well? It would be neat to see splashing or small magma pieces jump up.

i'm not the cornernote, but nope, it doesn't. splashing seems easy to do (as i see it), but lava stuff... a suggestion^^

VanessaE wrote:Odd bug: dig up a piston or sticky piston from mesecons. The particles become some odd color and flicker like crazy.

Suggestion for all mesecon nodes:

Particles dont fit into the mesecons mod.

This looks great!
What about particles while digging? Or at least particles on punch?

There's no callback/function that can tell if the player is digging (or even just swinging at air), so this isn't really possible yet.

VanessaE wrote:There's no callback/function that can tell if the player is digging (or even just swinging at air), so this isn't really possible yet.

Yeah, we talked about checking the health of the node once, on IRC, but it sounded like a cumbersome hack for little functionality. I was just hoping that maybe a function to tell if the player is digging had been included in the new release...

Anyway, at least it could be done for punches...

looks cool!!

PLEASE: tune down the amount of particles spawned to 5 or random(7,3)
i have chaned it on my server because it just killed the upload.

That's odd. It works really fast for me. Is your computer oldish?

Has anyone else had an issue because of too mant particles?

let me cite: "the upload."
so its network-based (crappy upload…)

23:48:16: ERROR[ServerThread]: Item "doorsplus:door_wood_left_a_c" not defined
node_dig
23:48:16: ACTION[ServerThread]: me digs doorsplus:door_wood_left_a_c at (-56,11,7)
23:48:17: ERROR[main]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: ServerError: LuaError: error: ...dir/minetest/bin/../mods/minetest/particles/init.lua:49: attempt to index local 'node' (a nil value)
23:48:17: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:

In thread 7f855fe88740:
/home/me/minetest/src/main.cpp:1741: int main(int, char**): Assertion '0' failed.
Debug stacks:
DEBUG STACK FOR THREAD 7f855fe88740:
#0 int main(int, char**)
(Leftover data: #1 Dedicated server branch)
(Leftover data: #2 virtual void ServerMap::save(ModifiedState))
(Leftover data: #3 virtual void ServerMap::saveBlock(MapBlock*))
(Leftover data: #4 void ItemStack::serialize(std::ostream&) const)

Iqualfragile wrote:23:48:16: ERROR[ServerThread]: Item "doorsplus:door_wood_left_a_c" not defined
node_dig
23:48:16: ACTION[ServerThread]: me digs doorsplus:door_wood_left_a_c at (-56,11,7)
23:48:17: ERROR[main]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: ServerError: LuaError: error: ...dir/minetest/bin/../mods/minetest/particles/init.lua:49: attempt to index local 'node' (a nil value)
23:48:17: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:

In thread 7f855fe88740:
/home/me/minetest/src/main.cpp:1741: int main(int, char**): Assertion '0' failed.
Debug stacks:
DEBUG STACK FOR THREAD 7f855fe88740:
#0 int main(int, char**)
(Leftover data: #1 Dedicated server branch)
(Leftover data: #2 virtual void ServerMap::save(ModifiedState))
(Leftover data: #3 virtual void ServerMap::saveBlock(MapBlock*))
(Leftover data: #4 void ItemStack::serialize(std::ostream&) const)

I installed doorsplus, but I could not replicate the issue. From your log it says you broke door A when it was closed. I broke door A and B, open and closed, no crash.

I did look at the code where it crashed, and added a line that may fix it. Please let me know if you still have this issue.

Iqualfragile wrote:23:48:16: ERROR[ServerThread]: Item "doorsplus:door_wood_left_a_c" not defined

i have removed the mod, so its an unknown block

Ahh, I see. Please try latest git. I fixed some unknown block dig issues recently.

+10

I got this just now:



I think it's because a lot of gravel fell and it landed on a torch... it might be blocking the torch particles (although I'm not certain it's that).
Also, I'm not sure if the "Forcing delete" errors are related. That might be something from the simple mobs mod.

thanks leo_rockway,

i just added fix to stop it from killing the server if that happens

Heres a backup of the mod: http://ompldr.org/vZzVseQ/minetest-particles.zip
(The number of particles are changed to 7-9, but it looks better)