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Hey,
I've been thinking of this for a while, and I've finally decided to do it. I'm planning on making a program to help making mods/games for minetest. What I mean by games is like maps and CTF/FPS versions of it.
I made a bit of an ascii mockup of the dialog (of course, it will be much more advanced than that):

Does anyone like this idea?

YES! +1

Ya this would be awesome.

okay, I need a bit of help here... I'm thinking of making this in Java because it's cross-platform and I don't need to worry about the GUI toolkit.
What I need here is help desigining the GUI (mockups would be perfect).

+0,5
That would be a big help for Modding "Noobs"!

-1

If you want to make mods,you study the LUA.Studying is extremely usefull,open a program and make a mod isn't so instructive.

Think of it more like using Qt Designer instead of hand-typing the GUI code. You still do the programming, but it's a heck of a lot easier.

One word:

AWESOME!! :)

sfan5 wrote:+0,5
That would be a big help for Modding "Noobs"!

Yeah... I am a Modding ''Noob'' so I will find that very useful! Hehe! xD

I never made anything with Lua before and learned the API relatively fast, so I think it's unnecessary.

kddekadenz wrote:I never made anything with Lua before and learned the API relatively fast, so I think it's unnecessary.

Quote,this is what i mean.

its unnecessary im sorry but i dont see the need

it's rather a program to let you easily make a mod, using a GUI, that's all. A lot of us are not programmers, and do not wish to learn, but wish to make a mod. Newbies and experts can use this, as it just generates code (which can be easily modified).

lkjoel wrote:it's rather a program to let you easily make a mod, using a GUI, that's all. A lot of us are not programmers, and do not wish to learn, but wish to make a mod. Newbies and experts can use this, as it just generates code (which can be easily modified).

i dot know why no ones supporting this? if it had ALL the parameters of lua scripting in a easy to use GUI i think that would be fantastic:D +1 for the idea

great! I'm thinking of making a web interace (JS) because I'm too lazy to make a nice Qt/Swing GUI lol. I'm also thinking of (if I get Jeija and Sapier's permission) integrating mesecons and animals into it so people can make new electrical stuff and mobs.

lkjoel wrote:great! I'm thinking of making a web interace (JS) because I'm too lazy to make a nice Qt/Swing GUI lol. I'm also thinking of (if I get Jeija and Sapier's permission) integrating mesecons and animals into it so people can make new electrical stuff and mobs.

theres already a program for making mescons and importing with world edit, but making new mobs and animals is good.

no, that's not it. It's to add mesecons support to the block/thing you are making (so it supports electricity etc...)

lkjoel wrote:no, that's not it. It's to add mesecons support to the block/thing you are making (so it supports electricity etc...)

Oh that would b sick:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

lkjoel wrote:no, that's not it. It's to add mesecons support to the block/thing you are making (so it supports electricity etc...)

okay i have some crazy stupid idea!
since jeija's mesecons is SO popular..why not have a menu which makes the mod have 2 positions..on and off..and it could have a check box..and when checked it brings up another menu which shows 2 different textures and the selection of draw type! let me try to show you:

UNCHECKED:
+--------------------------------------+
| [YOUR AWESOME MOD!] |
| |
| +------+ |
| |image| |
| |image| |
| +------+ |
| |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] Jeija powered? |
| |
+--------------------------------------+


CHECKED:
+--------------------------------------+
| [YOUR AWESOME MOD!] |
| |
| ON OFF |
| +------+ +------+ |
| |image| |image| |
| |image| |image| |
| +------+ +------+ |
| |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [x] Jeija powered? |
| |
+--------------------------------------+

^the right side of the "window" looks messed up but you get what i'm saying!
when this is checked then it just adds a simple line to the init.lua so you don't have to go through all the trouble of it :)

jordan4ibanez wrote:

lkjoel wrote:no, that's not it. It's to add mesecons support to the block/thing you are making (so it supports electricity etc...)

okay i have some crazy stupid idea!
since jeija's mesecons is SO popular..why not have a menu which makes the mod have 2 positions..on and off..and it could have a check box..and when checked it brings up another menu which shows 2 different textures and the selection of draw type! let me try to show you:

UNCHECKED:
+--------------------------------------+
| [YOUR AWESOME MOD!] |
| |
| +------+ |
| |image| |
| |image| |
| +------+ |
| |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] Jeija powered? |
| |
+--------------------------------------+


CHECKED:
+--------------------------------------+
| [YOUR AWESOME MOD!] |
| |
| ON OFF |
| +------+ +------+ |
| |image| |image| |
| |image| |image| |
| +------+ +------+ |
| |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [ ] checkbox |
| [x] Jeija powered? |
| |
+--------------------------------------+

^the right side of the "window" looks messed up but you get what i'm saying!
when this is checked then it just adds a simple line to the init.lua so you don't have to go through all the trouble of it :)

ya thats pretty much EXACTLY WHAT HE IS SAYING.

cool, I'll try to implement that. I'm actually planning on making a "3d" block (not really, just distorted versions of the images, but it looks 3D). Here is the URL (tell me if you can see this): http://c9.io/lkjoel/minetest-modder/workspace/index.html
Can you add me as Coder or something like that I want to help you?

I might make a fork of the Java programming system Scratch and might get it working to spit working LUA.

that would be awesome! Could we collaborate on that?

Im still nooby at smalltalk, however porting certain code to work shant be that hard, also Scratch comes with a Image editor built-in.

I'll make some prototype screenshots tomorrow.

These may not be final.

oooo, that sounds difficult. A mod generator. That's like development environment like visual studio or qt quick

lkjoel wrote:great! I'm thinking of making a web interace (JS) because I'm too lazy to make a nice Qt/Swing GUI lol. I'm also thinking of (if I get Jeija and Sapier's permission) integrating mesecons and animals into it so people can make new electrical stuff and mobs.

I can help you with Coding

Nope. Scratch is this: www.scratch.mit.edu

bgsmithjr wrote:oooo, that sounds difficult. A mod generator. That's like development environment like visual studio or qt quick

Uhm,no.This is easy to do.

Please mail me if you need some more help: eg lego like bricks of code.

I can define bits like callbacks, entities and blocks by using simple smalltalk variables.

Well I will be anxiously waiting.