FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Hi, just one short quesion to the addicted game minetest ... Is there a way to implement smaller blocks? Or would this cause to high cpu usage? Just wondering, because it would be great to bould near round corners or bows.

Thanks.

an object can have a visual_size

a node can have a nodebox

whats the message behind? i am refering to normal blocks ... if you have one lets guess 8x8x8 it should be handled as 4x4x4 x 2 to fill a 8 slot with 2 of them ...?

You can't directly make smaller blocks, though "nodeboxes" permit creating stairs and such. Also see my Stairs+ mod. ;)

i have used stairs+ mod. thanks for the mod by the way :-) but refering to my thinking ... if you build houses, bridges, basements or whatever ... i am missing a block which acutally can placed to look them "rounder" ... but this referes me to a additional reuqets here in the forum .... which is basically the same idea but another aproach: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=38

I think you can make "smaller blocks" by creating a larger player character. (e.g. 4 by 2 blocks) I am not sure what problems will arise but I think of these.
Compatibility issues between minetest and your fork.
The map-generator needs to be scaled as well.
I don't know how collision is implemented. You could get some problems here as well.
Game balance: smaller blocks means slower mining / building speed
CPU: Halving the block size requires 4 times the normal amount of surfaces on your screen.

So I wouldn't start it without a good knowledge about the engine and c++ in general.