world generating nodes using blender created voxels

[metaspy]

I have been playing a different voxel game, where the ore nodes are different from the normal block.
I wanted to mod Minetest to do the same.
Is there a way to have the world generator stick a blender created voxel in that location instead of the default voxel?

[Nathan.S]

Entirely yes, just create said mesh and then moddify the init.lua in the default mod to reflect the mesh rather than just drawing a node, alternately you could create a new mod and override the more nodes to display them as the meshes.

[metaspy]

Honestly, I am looking in the init.lua and I don't see any code for setting up a mesh instead of the normal node.
Should I be looking in Nodes.lua, or mapgen.lua?

[srifqi]

Honestly, I am looking in the init.lua and I don't see any code for setting up a mesh instead of the normal node.
Should I be looking in Nodes.lua, or mapgen.lua?

Until now, none of Minetest Vanilla's block (a.k.a. node) that uses mesh. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

[metaspy]

If the game currently doesnt force a specific mesh for the default block, how would i go about implementing a custom mesh for a block?

[Nathan.S]

Like this.

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minetest.override_item('default:dirt_with_grass', {
   description = 'dirt with grass',
   drawtype = 'mesh',
   mesh = 'default:dirt_with_grass.obj',


[metaspy]

thank you sir!