FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Hi everyone, first of all, I'm glad to be here. I just joined the forums and I think that this is a really neat game. I am curious to learn how to add simple low-poly static meshes into the game. For example, I have made a model of an anvil, and would like it to be able to be placed in the world. I have added many different 2D items without any problems. I would like to now attempt a 3D version of one of my items. There is no animation involved, just the item itself, which (the plan is) will be possible to interact with in the place of a block-- similar to the furnace.

What I am unsure of:

--best format to use for static, non-animated meshes?
--how to implement these items in the lua script to where they are placeable in the world?

Thank you in advance!

Nodes cant have meshes. There are predefined drawtypes wich hare handled by the engine.
One of the drawtype is called "nodebox". You can define multiple little boxes wich are drawn (see stairs for example).

Clarifiying PilzAdam's answer: You can have a node that draws a mesh as its drawtype (see player.lua in the default mod). It doesn't allow you to have collision detection though, so you would want to make a nodebox (but don't set the drawtype as nodebox, if you want the mesh to be drawn).

EDIT: Okay, apparently not...

lkjoel wrote:Clarifiying PilzAdam's answer: You can have a node that draws a mesh as its drawtype (see player.lua in the default mod). It doesn't allow you to have collision detection though, so you would want to make a nodebox (but don't set the drawtype as nodebox, if you want the mesh to be drawn).

The player is an object. Nodes cant have meshes, only active objects can.

PilzAdam wrote:

lkjoel wrote:Clarifiying PilzAdam's answer: You can have a node that draws a mesh as its drawtype (see player.lua in the default mod). It doesn't allow you to have collision detection though, so you would want to make a nodebox (but don't set the drawtype as nodebox, if you want the mesh to be drawn).

The player is an object. Nodes cant have meshes, only active objects can.

Oh really? I thought they could... Why can't they?

Thank you very much for the clarification!

It is kind of easy to create an object that behaves like a block