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as i play in the moment with the posibilitys of the node box, i get to the point where i ask my self, is it possible to use more then one texture in a node box?

somebody knows abt this ? would be nice if you can create a node box model with different textures, that would realy blow up minetest and offers a lot of new creations. as far as i remember that would be even a point wich is not possible in minecraft.

so anybody can answer this question ?

textures with node-boxes are based on the faces of the figure that face a certain way. The textures for the figure are defined the same as any other block, so if you make a tree block with nodeboxes, the texture facing the X axis is the same on all faces facing the X axis, and so on for all directions in 3D space. So, yesh, you can have different textures, but if you want to use different textures for the same faces that point the same way, you will have to make a single texture for the faces facing that way.

can you give an simple example ?

lets think abt a simple table...

the texture is set with the tiles =tiles = {"default_wood.png"}, and this works for both lines in the node box.
so how can i change that one line use "default wood", the other let say "default stone"
can you explain this in this simple example ?


minetest.register_node("test:table", {
description = "test table",
drawtype = "nodebox",
tiles = {"default_wood.png"},
inventory_image = "default_wood.png",
paramtype = "light",
paramtype2 = "facedir",
walkable = true,
selection_box = {
type = "fixed",
fixed = {-0.5, -0.5, -0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5},
},
node_box = {
type = "fixed",
fixed = {
{-0.1,-0.5, -0.1, 0.1, 0.5 ,0.1},
{-0.5, 0.5, -0.5, 0.5, 0.4, 0.5},
}
},
groups = {snappy=1,choppy=2,oddly_breakable_by_hand=3,flammable=2},
})

just to make sure that i dont want something like this here:



it is not a question how i can get different texture to the side's of a node box which i can define with the

tiles= {......}

i am talking abt the smaler unit's in the node box itself....

node_box = {
type = "fixed",
fixed = {
{-0.1,-0.5, -0.1, 0.1, 0.5 ,0.1}, => use for this one texture
{-0.5, 0.5, -0.5, 0.5, 0.4, 0.5}, => use here an other texture
}
},


so ist this possible in minetest or not ?

At present, this is not possible. If you draw your textures carefully enough, you can fake it of course. The 3d torches in the "3dforniture" mod are like that.

thx VanessaE for the answer.

indeed this is a big problem to build complex things nodeboxes ...
Another problem I've had is that the upper and lower textures not rotate with the model.
I think, ideally, it would be to somehow, put multiple nodeboxes, sharing the exact same point in the map, which can create the different parts of your model separately,

if anyone can do this, I swear that became my second god, after David Bowie, the Nº 1

@tonyka


god heaven, thx for this info. i already get mad last night, as i thought i make a mistake. finaly i went to bed with a bad feeling cause i could not figure out what i was doing wrong.

anybody already report this mistake? what ever i do, as soon as i use facedir and a nodebox, the nodbox is pointing to the facedir direction, the texture not.




this is a bed table, i put it 2times down, one time from the front, then from the left side. now the node box is rotating, as you can see with the gab between below box and above box, but the front door still shows the same direction.

this mistake makes it hard in the moment to create nodebox models, only solution would be to create 4 diffenent versions for the directions refer to the facedir....

maybe this can be fixed fast in the maincode of minetest? i dont know abt his, cause my coding is not good enough to understand this fully.

I filed a bug report about this a few weeks ago:

https://github.com/celeron55/minetest/issues/140

VanessaE wrote:I filed a bug report about this a few weeks ago:

https://github.com/celeron55/minetest/issues/140

mercie thank you danke schön.... ;-)

any idea if that can be fixed or someone is working on that already?