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Right now, I'm working on a small mod about audio, because the radio mod doesn't work on my computer, or my version of Minetest (latest version, always). I am hoping to use the player's wield_hand to right click on of the nodes (there are eight different nodes, one of a different shade/color, and one per song.), but I just don't know how to use the "on_rightclick", even though I looked it up on the dev. wiki. I'm 14 and just starting to make mods.

Help!

What have you tried? Look at the doors mod in default, it uses on_rightclick() (although its a bit more complicated there).

philipbenr wrote:I'm 14 and just starting to make mods.

Your age isn't important for modding! I'm 15 and I can create nice mods (at least I think they're nice). So, let's try to solve your problem together:

You need help on "on_rightclick", so you should visit the Minetest API.

Then you look for some explanations for "on_rightclick" => Ctrl + F(ind) and type "on_rightclick" => The 4th result is what you're looking for:

on_rightclick = func(pos, node, clicker, itemstack),
^ default: nil
^ if defined, itemstack will hold clicker's wielded item
Shall return the leftover itemstack

It explains that you must set the value of "on_rightclick" as a function with the parameters:
- pos (position of clicked node => table)
- node (info about the clicked node => table)
- clicker (the player who clicked the node => ObjectRef)
- itemstack (info about the item in player's hand => ItemStack)

What you have to do now, is adding on_rightclick to your node definition:



And all needed code into his function. You should also visit Dev Wiki for more information about nodes, objectrefs etc.

So, If i want to use the wield_hand to right_click with, would I put



because that is what your hand is defined as in the default init.lua?
And the node as



Or is that wrong?

The only reason I said I was 14 is because I'm not very experienced in programming, but I making mods, because the mod request sticky gets roughly 20% to 30% mod requests made. :^/

philipbenr wrote:So, If i want to use the wield_hand to right_click with, would I put

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

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itemstack = {":"}

because that is what your hand is defined as in the default init.lua?
And the node as

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

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node = {"mod:example_node"}

Or is that wrong?

The only reason I said I was 14 is because I'm not very experienced in programming, but I making mods, because the mod request sticky gets roughly 20% to 30% mod requests made. :^/

I don't know the name of wieldhand. Maybe ask on IRC

I looked in the init.lua in default

philipbenr wrote:I looked in the init.lua in default

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

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-- The hand
minetest.register_item(":", {
    type = "none",
    wield_image = "wieldhand.png",
    wield_scale = {x=1,y=1,z=2.5},
    tool_capabilities = {
        full_punch_interval = 0.9,
        max_drop_level = 0,
        groupcaps = {
            crumbly = {times={[2]=3.00, [3]=0.70}, uses=0, maxlevel=1},
            snappy = {times={[3]=0.40}, uses=0, maxlevel=1},
            oddly_breakable_by_hand = {times={[1]=7.00,[2]=4.00,[3]=1.40}, uses=0, maxlevel=3}
        },
        damage_groups = {fleshy=1},
    }
})



Maybe you should just try it out ;)

well, I canceled what I was doing and ran off of the fake fire mod. It worked well enough. Take a look.


The first part about worked, but when I tried to use it failed on me, saying

What should I do? I'm almost 100% positive it has to do with parentheses in line 1 and 13...

Looks like you forgot a comma after "end" (both).

I always screw up on commas... :(
Thanks anyhow. :)

part 2 of the mod:
how can I stop/replace the sound being played from the node?

If anyone is still looking for the answer, the name of the hand is actually "", the ":" is used in default mod so they can override it (else, it would crash because the name of the tool doesn't start with "default:")

philipbenr wrote:Right now, I'm working on a small mod about audio, because the radio mod doesn't work on my computer, or my version of Minetest (latest version, always). I am hoping to use the player's wield_hand to right click on of the nodes (there are eight different nodes, one of a different shade/color, and one per song.), but I just don't know how to use the "on_rightclick", even though I looked it up on the dev. wiki. I'm 14 and just starting to make mods.

Help!

You can take a look at my Jukebox mod or just copy parts of it if you need :P

no, I changed it. Thanks anyway Zeg9.

So, Webdesigner, I tried implementing your stop_sound and I got this.

well, I think it isn't stop_sound. Does anyone know what the code is for stoping a sound, or if I screwed up?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eo4qjiuzqm71xuw/init.lua

heres the init.lua for the program as of yet.

Nonono, stop_sound() doesn't want the name of the song, it wants some kind of internal ID, returned by sound_play:

so what do you think I should put? (sorry for this, I think it seems like a stupid question.)

just copy & paste my code to your node :)

I have it all, and it works. :) should I post it online?

The mod? Or the code? Of course you can post your mod in "Modding general", but we won't force you ;)

well, I have another bug. I understand that after I logout, go back in, and dig the node, it is trying to stop playing a sound that isn't playing. It gives me a bad argument message. how can I fix this? I have a feeling it'll have to do with if's and then's.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eo4qjiuzqm71xuw/init.lua

heres the entire init.lua itself, though it still has the bug.

You have to check wheter mysound has been definded:

thanks so much webdesigner I think I've got the rest. I think I'll release it under GPLv3.

philipbenr wrote:thanks so much webdesigner I think I've got the rest. I think I'll release it under GPLv3.

np :) It's nice to help other people ;)

and thank people too, like in my thanks to the developers, and all modders.

one last thing. I'm going to need some music to implement. I can change the code for licenses, but I just can't find great music right now. For the default sound I hinda prefer more ambient music for the most part.