FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

It's great that the wield_texture has a few commands to rotate the texture, flip it and even lighten and play with the alpha channel colour, but what would be even better is if node textures had the facility to colourise a current texture using hue and saturation levels e.g.





This way mod makers can modify default textures or texture packs in-game to create a new look for mods with say coloured blue grass/wood instead of creating new textures...

If this would enable to create "enchantement" effect (e.g. constant change of colour w/o re-setting the wielded item) then it'll be even more amazing to have this :)

Another possibility would be;

You would end up with a totally weird and wonderful world to explore with colours gone wild :)

I would like it if we could overlay a texture on top of a node in it's metadata when it is in the world. This would allow even more special effects.

Yeah, could animate many things including lock nodes and maybe even character/living nodes...

LionsDen. I'm afraid this may have chances only in FM...
(If only devs have changed their opinion)

This has thankfully been added to the latest 0.4.10 dev (6th Oct 2014) with the new colorize tag in images... e.g:

tiles = {"default_wood.png^[colorize:#FF000050"}, -- red wood

...thanks devs :)

I noticed that!
+1000

TenPlus1 wrote:This has thankfully been added to the latest 0.4.10 dev (6th Oct 2014) with the new colorize tag in images... e.g:

tiles = {"default_wood.png^[colorize:#FF000050"}, -- red wood

...thanks devs :)

Ah, here is the topic. I looked for but haven't found :D

TenPlus1 wrote:This has thankfully been added to the latest 0.4.10 dev (6th Oct 2014) with the new colorize tag in images... e.g:

tiles = {"default_wood.png^[colorize:#FF000050"}, -- red wood

...thanks devs :)

If only it could be done on-the-fly for any node...
Smooth biome transitions might have benefit from it.

What about using just a colour with node position depending noise instead of a texture?

I think it would be cool if it colored nodes map gen style with definable gradients. For instance grass that slightly varies in hue over distance within its biome. Maybe using a perlin noise map? It could add variation to the world.

FreeLikeGNU wrote:I think it would be cool if it colored nodes map gen style with definable gradients. For instance grass that slightly varies in hue over distance within its biome. Maybe using a perlin noise map? It could add variation to the world.

There's a liquid issue on github with discussion of a set_node_overlay function. I find it related.
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/3096