Making a program to help making of mods/games

[Death Dealer]

Another revision^-^

[Jordach]

death, we have a winner! :D

edit: my 1234th post! :D

[Death Dealer]

ok ikjoel wont be on for a couple days, just so ya know.

[Death Dealer]

death, we have a winner! :D

thanks:D i cant wait till its an actual program..

[lkjoel]

ok ikjoel wont be on for a couple days, just so ya know.

why not? btw, I like your design. What's the "block guide" about though?

[jn]

ok, a question to experienced modders (or anyone who can answer this question lol): what's is_ground_content? What does it do?

It is currently only used in the map generator when generating jungle grass, but I imagine that it could help deciding what to put into the texture atlas (tile.cpp, TextureSource::buildMainAtlas).

[lkjoel]

ok, a question to experienced modders (or anyone who can answer this question lol): what's is_ground_content? What does it do?

It is currently only used in the map generator when generating jungle grass, but I imagine that it could help deciding what to put into the texture atlas (tile.cpp, TextureSource::buildMainAtlas).

Oh, I get it, so it does not affect gameplay, only the map generator, and it generates it on the ground, correct?

[lkjoel]

Could someone explain to me these fields?

• paramtype
• paramtype2
• walkable
• buildable_to
• selection_box

Thanks! I just need to make sure everyone who is using this tool can understand what they mean :)

[jn]

buildable_to fell victim to a sad confusion: Although it is documented and named to indicate whether one can "attach" nodes to a given node, it really indicates whether one can replace it by simply placing a node (it's true for water, lava and such).
walkable means you can walk through it.

[RabbiBob]

buildable_to fell victim to a sad confusion: Although it is documented and named to indicate whether one can "attach" nodes to a given node, it really indicates whether one can replace it by simply placing a node (it's true for water, lava and such).

To further the example, I make use of this in my rather choppy 'Water - Lava Removal' video, where placing a node in the space of the lead water or lava node starts the removal chain.

[Death Dealer]

ok ikjoel wont be on for a couple days, just so ya know.

why not? btw, I like your design. What's the "block guide" about though?

I'm work like 50 miles away from my house and computer. So I cant do any editing unfortunently. And that was ment to say "Fuel guide" to set the furnace to smelt certain block better with certain materials as an option. I'm not sure what I was doing wrighting block guide. Sorry for the confusion.

[lkjoel]

buildable_to fell victim to a sad confusion: Although it is documented and named to indicate whether one can "attach" nodes to a given node, it really indicates whether one can replace it by simply placing a node (it's true for water, lava and such).
walkable means you can walk through it.

Thanks! What about the other ones?

[lkjoel]

ok ikjoel wont be on for a couple days, just so ya know.

why not? btw, I like your design. What's the "block guide" about though?

I'm work like 50 miles away from my house and computer. So I cant do any editing unfortunently. And that was ment to say "Fuel guide" to set the furnace to smelt certain block better with certain materials as an option. I'm not sure what I was doing wrighting block guide. Sorry for the confusion.

Oh, I get it. I thought you mean't that I would be away for a couple of days lol. I see... I think I'll just have a "help" tooltip on each option instead.

[Death Dealer]

why not? btw, I like your design. What's the "block guide" about though?

I'm work like 50 miles away from my house and computer. So I cant do any editing unfortunently. And that was ment to say "Fuel guide" to set the furnace to smelt certain block better with certain materials as an option. I'm not sure what I was doing wrighting block guide. Sorry for the confusion.

Oh, I get it. I thought you mean't that I would be away for a couple of days lol. I see... I think I'll just have a "help" tooltip on each option instead.

Good idea:D

[kahrl]

paramtype and paramtype2 determine what the 8-bit param1 and the 4-bit paramtype2 of each node are used for, respectively.

paramtype may be 'none' (= default) or 'light'. If it's 'light', light passed through the node. This is true for air and liquids but also torches, fences, glass, leaves, ladders, rails and so on. Note that there's also a field sunlight_propagates.

paramtype2 may be 'none' (= default), 'full', 'flowingliquid', 'facedir' or 'wallmounted'. 'full' means param2 is extended to 8 bits and may be used freely by the mod (with 'none' it's 4 bits). 'flowingliquid' should be used whenever drawtype is 'flowingliquid' and liquidtype is 'flowing'. 'facedir' is used for chests and furnaces and rotates the node based on how it's been placed. 'wallmounted' means the node can be placed on any side of another node, like torches and signs.

selection_box is the box used when you are pointing at the node.

[bgsmithjr]

What does it mean 8 bit and 4 bit. I know that the bits store data, and they are all ones and twos, do i type in paramtype2 = 01001101 for place my mf'ing block with a swagger?

[lkjoel]

paramtype and paramtype2 determine what the 8-bit param1 and the 4-bit paramtype2 of each node are used for, respectively.

paramtype may be 'none' (= default) or 'light'. If it's 'light', light passed through the node. This is true for air and liquids but also torches, fences, glass, leaves, ladders, rails and so on. Note that there's also a field sunlight_propagates.

paramtype2 may be 'none' (= default), 'full', 'flowingliquid', 'facedir' or 'wallmounted'. 'full' means param2 is extended to 8 bits and may be used freely by the mod (with 'none' it's 4 bits). 'flowingliquid' should be used whenever drawtype is 'flowingliquid' and liquidtype is 'flowing'. 'facedir' is used for chests and furnaces and rotates the node based on how it's been placed. 'wallmounted' means the node can be placed on any side of another node, like torches and signs.

selection_box is the box used when you are pointing at the node.

Thanks!

[lkjoel]

What does it mean 8 bit and 4 bit. I know that the bits store data, and they are all ones and twos, do i type in paramtype2 = 01001101 for place my mf'ing block with a swagger?

No, just type the actual text. I think it's how they are compressed (c55 has quite a number of functions on serialization). I don't think we need to worry about that too much :)

[lkjoel]

I'm now making the default HTML code for making a new block (trust me, this is a LOT of work!)... I hope to have the HTML part of the code done soon :)

[bgsmithjr]

This is great. Now I will have a floor mod, with 100 carpet, 100 tile, 100 siding, 100 brick, 100 stone, 100 grass types, and you will never feel that there are a limited number of blocks ever again.

[Death Dealer]

This is great. Now I will have a floor mod, with 100 carpet, 100 tile, 100 siding, 100 brick, 100 stone, 100 grass types, and you will never feel that there are a limited number of blocks ever again.

Yes this will be very usefull indeed^_^

[SelfishCar]

Wow! Already 230 (+1 with me!) replies. And about 2000 views.
It seems like there are a lot of people that are really curious about this mod(creator)!

Keep up the good work. Wish you all the luck!!!

[jn]

This is not going to be a mod.

[Death Dealer]

This is not going to be a mod.

It will be a mod creator. It will happen. It's a lot of code give it some time.

[Death Dealer]

An update from ikjoel would be nice tho^.^

[Jordach]

When is next updates??! No info has been shown to us!!! Btw, Death how did you know HTML. That scares me. O.O

[Death Dealer]

When is next updates??! No info has been shown to us!!! Btw, Death how did you know HTML. That scares me. O.O

*sinical laugh* Muahahahahaha:D

[jn]

This is not going to be a mod.

It will be a mod creator. It will happen. It's a lot of code give it some time.

Sure, I wasn't trying to be negative about it.

[Death Dealer]

ok a revision of the layout of the GUI^_^ may be the final revision, unless i think of something:D

[IPushButton2653]

I need this bad >.<