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Imagine you're building a house and want to make a few pictures to remember the progress.
You can make screenshots.
I think you should also be able to let minetest generate mts schematics which contain only every node you currently are able to see.
I guess that the mts schematic file size would be a lot smaller than the screenshot file size.
And you can "touch" it.
You would need to save the player's position and look dir, too.
If you used a weird texture pack (one which doesn't let you know which node is which one), you know the nodes of your house, not it's look with this texture pack.

+10

This is an absolutely great idea. I would think that it should be like the panorama views or like street view on Google Maps. It might be nice to have it save, and then a certain program could open them up and just view them

But, the original idea is still a really good idea,

Hm. Schematics and screenshots are not the same. Having regular backups of a particular - very tiny - region of a map where a building is under construction - or, even better, record all the player does in that region so that the house can be rebuilt from that information - might be fun indeed. The rollback logs could be helpful there. Or just record everything that's done in a protected area in a logfile for that area. Afterwards, you could place a node somewhere and see your house grow using fast forward. I've also wished for an export function of the basic house on servers ("mail your building to you") for quite some time.

philipbenr wrote:+10

This is an absolutely great idea. I would think that it should be like the panorama views or like street view on Google Maps. It might be nice to have it save, and then a certain program could open them up and just view them

But, the original idea is still a really good idea,

thanks

Sokomine wrote:Hm. Schematics and screenshots are not the same. Having regular backups of a particular - very tiny - region of a map where a building is under construction - or, even better, record all the player does in that region so that the house can be rebuilt from that information - might be fun indeed. The rollback logs could be helpful there. Or just record everything that's done in a protected area in a logfile for that area. Afterwards, you could place a node somewhere and see your house grow using fast forward. I've also wished for an export function of the basic house on servers ("mail your building to you") for quite some time.

you are already able to get your house from a server
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... ample#L188

Hybrid Dog wrote:you are already able to get your house from a server
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... ample#L188

Yes, I'm aware of that and have placed great value on that particular config option and had that one active a long time before the pull request finally made it. What I wanted to suggest here was a mail-your-building for players who don't want to save the entire map and only want a backup of their building as such.

generating fitting schematics instead of screenshots

What about "generating fitting schematics and screenshots"

Dragonop wrote:

generating fitting schematics instead of screenshots

What about "generating fitting schematics and screenshots"

lf l would write this, it could be interpreted that a screenshot is saved every time a schematic is created.

lt's not difficult, just search nodes being visible from the camera position…

Hybrid Dog wrote:

Dragonop wrote:

generating fitting schematics instead of screenshots

What about "generating fitting schematics and screenshots"

lf l would write this, it could be interpreted that a screenshot is saved every time a schematic is created.

But with the actual title, it could be interpreted that you want to remove the screenshot function.