[Experimental][Mod] More rocks / oregen / geology [rocks]

[Wuzzy]

With great interest I will be following the progress of this mod.
I have waiting for a mod like this for a long time. Because 1 “default” stone gets soooo boring. There is much potential in having a diverse set of rocks.

But especially I will be interested in how the map generator will turn out.

I would like to see if you would play around with different rock hardness levels, so that low-grade pickaxes may fail on hard stones. This would also finally eliminate the dumb strategy of digging straight down. But this is not so high-priority for now, because I probably can do it for myselves if I decide to fork this. What I am interested in is the mapgen, because my mapgen skills are nearly non-existant. :-(

Maybe it also makes sense to generally throw away all the default cruft as much as possible, I fear it will really just get in the way.

[burli]

I tried this mod with the current dev of minetest, but it seems that it doesn't work

[sofar]

Maybe you want to contribute this mod to minetest-mods? Then maybe more people are going to be interested in helping development.

[azekill_DIABLO]

we should put a random color selector for stones!

[Gael de Sailly]

burli: just go 2 commits backwards:

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

Code: Select all

git clone git://repo.or.cz/rocks.git
git reset --hard HEAD~2

[Gael de Sailly]

This is a very promising mod, but sadly it has been left unfinished a year ago. So I've forked it on GitHub: here. I'd like to continue developing this mod.

I've pushed the history branch that do not includes the 2 latest commits. So, for a "stable" version, get the zip here.
I'm trying to solve the problem that burli showed.

[burli]

Great to hear that.

[Gael de Sailly]

I tried this mod with the current dev of minetest, but it seems that it doesn't work

Apparently it was intended, as we can see on layer.lua lines 46-48. I think it was an experiment to make visible the strata, that the author has not removed.

[burli]

I use glass to make things visible underground

[Tomas Brod]

Thank you Gael de Sailly for bringing my attention back to minetest.
I did not abandon this mod, I just lost ideas of how to implement this.
I am surprised :) that author of the Valley mapgen is interested in this. I will do what I can, but I can't do on my own.
Now I will try implement the pipe, vein and various distributions from the screenshots in native code (mg_ore.cpp). I should resurrect my github account.
I remember that I done some experiments in the latest commits so please ignore them. Code that is worth something currently only is the pipe (sausage) and vein (fault) generators.

OT: Is there a doc or screenshot of the new "puff" ore distribution?

[paramat]

We now have 'blob ore' and 'vein ore' in c++. 'blob ore' is a sphere deformed by 3D noise just like your nyancat ore.
'vein ore' is in the same form as the 3D noise tunnels in mgv7.

[Tomas Brod]

We now have 'blob ore' and 'vein ore' in c++. 'blob ore' is a sphere deformed by 3D noise just like your nyancat ore. 'vein ore' is in the same form as the 3D noise tunnels in mgv7.

I know 'blob' and 'vein', but 'vein' uses 2x3D noises thus very expensive. I was reading the source of mg_ore and found a new 'puff' type added in dcbb9533.

[Tomas Brod]

I found some old commits and stuff in my local repo so I pushed them to the origin (repo.or.cz)
and I also added tag last-usable-abadoned. I do not recommend reading the code :)

[burli]

Can someone explain the shortcuts of the textures like rocks_gls.png?

[azekill_DIABLO]

???

[burli]

???

https://github.com/Gael-de-Sailly/rocks ... s/textures

bb? blkgr? brgr? ... yss?

[Tomas Brod]

https://github.com/Gael-de-Sailly/rocks/tree/master/rocks/textures
bb? blkgr? brgr? ... yss?

That textures are borrowed (WTFPL) from game Decoblocks as noted in decoblocks.txt. Try comparing checksums with eg geeqie.
Black Basalt, BLacK GRanite, Yellow SandStone...

[Tomas Brod]

Progress: pipe generator rewritten to C++.
What is more: I added support for sub-ores to Pipe and Blob (puff and sheet planned)
and extended Scatter to act as sub-ore.
Sub-ores spawn near or in their parent ores. Eg: diamonds in kimberlite.
You can check-out my code at git-hub, but it need some more work.
Example usage: init.lua

Edit to add images:

[azekill_DIABLO]

+1

[burli]

I try to use the builtin tools from Minetest. I used the experimental 30 biomes mod from Gael de Sailly and add some stone nodes. Then I replaced some stones with the new rocks. Last but not least I add some stones as ores (currently just one)

I think this works very well

[azekill_DIABLO]

hey this looks awesome!

[Tomas Brod]

I try to use the builtin tools from Minetest. I used the experimental 30 biomes mod from Gael de Sailly and add some stone nodes. Then I replaced some stones with the new rocks. Last but not least I add some stones as ores (currently just one).
I think this works very well.

Good work burli. My idea was similar, but the current c++ ore generator/placer is too limited for my needs.
I am i a process of enhancing it. Something like CustomOreGenerator. Then we can add the rocks as ores and have them placed by engine without lagging lua.
Changes to the Engine (oredev branch)

Can you attach your source?

[Wuzzy]

The mineral mod of this modpack breaks down when both intllib and mod security are enabled. This is because of an outdated intllib boilerplate code, which has a dofile to a directory outside this mod.
See here for the new boilerplate code:
https://github.com/minetest-mods/intllib

[Diamond knight]

Is this mod still being developed?