Get POS using LUA cmd Mod

[basil60]

Hi

I'm trying to wrote a script that I can use within the LuaCmd mod, that allows me to place air blocks underfoot, while ever the Y co-ord is greater than 2. As a way of creating flat terrain!!!

I have this as a plan:

/lua
get current position
x1 = ? --x
y1 = ? --y
z1 = ? --z

while y1 > 2 do
minetest.set_node({x=x1, y=y1, z=z1}, {name="default:air"})
end

Should I treat the get current position as a list to get the y co-ord, or is there a better way? I'm both a LUA noob and a Minestest noob.

Basil

[Minetestforfun]

Hi,

It should help you :)

https://github.com/MinetestForFun/irc_m ... s.lua#L109

[basil60]

Had a look at that...but is there a difference between the mod, and "real code"???

For example, I tried some simple stuff (using methods from the Wiki) like:
/lua
minetest.get_gametime(); invalid command: lua
/lua
print(minetest.get_gametime()); invalid command: lua
/lua
inv = minetest.get_inventory({type="player", name="singleplayer"})
print(inv) invalid command: lua

I'd have assumed these may have worked (wrongly obviously). Can someone steer me in the correct direction please?

[kaeza]

invalid command: lua

Are you sure you have LuaCmd enabled? Type `/mods` and see if it's there. From that message, it looks like it's not enabled (or maybe the command is not called `/lua`?).

As to your question, you need to get a player object (for example, with `minetest.get_player_by_name`), then call `getpos` on the returned player object.

I'll leave the coding to you as this is quite a nice and easy example to get started.

[basil60]

So, I ran

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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/lua
player = minetest.get_player_by_name("singleplayer")
player:setpos({x=0, y=0, z=0})

It returned Invalid command:Lua

I also ran:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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/lua a = 2
print(a)

It returned "2".

[basil60]

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