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I am beginner with minetest modding and i want to know if it is possible to set the node's facedir when using the minetest.place_node function, i am using this it to replace a node with another node

Example: if the player right-click on a dirt node it will be changed to a cobble stairs node, but the problem is that i want it to be in the direction of the player exactly if he placed it normaly with right-click.

is it possible to do this with the current minetest version or it needs an engine update (etc.....)?

Hasan wrote:I am beginner with minetest modding and i want to know if it is possible to set the node's facedir when using the minetest.place_node function, i am using this it to replace a node with another node

Example: if the player right-click on a dirt node it will be changed to a cobble stairs node, but the problem is that i want it to be in the direction of the player exactly if he placed it normaly with right-click.

is it possible to do this with the current minetest version or it needs an engine update (etc.....)?

I think (I never tried this, sry if I am wrong) you should first get the player (who does this action), then get his look dir and convert it to a facedir (for the node) and then you can set the node with core.set_node.



And may also have a look at https://dev.minetest.net/, http://dev.minetest.net/Player, http://dev.minetest.net/minetest.dir_to_facedir and maybe also http://dev.minetest.net/Category:Methods

PS: You should better post such things in the modding discussion subforum.

Thx a lot you really solved my problem
I completely ignored this function (get player name etc....)
Thx i spent a lot of time to find it