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Want to hide your treasury? Want to make your house/castle/home look smaller than it really is? Well come try this simple mod! XP Haha, okay okay. Enough joking around.

Anyway, this is a simple mod that will create false wall, which you can pass through, but not see through. :D

Default False Nodes:

• Dirt
• Brick
• Cobble
• Wood
• Sand
• Stone
• Tree
• Glass
• Jungle Tree
• Mossy Cobble
• Mese
• Steel Block
• Sand Stone
• Gravel
• Clay
• Cactus
• Papyrus
• Bookshelf
• Desert Stone
• Desert Sand

Crafting:
C X C

C = component
X = What ever node you want to false-a-fy

Component:
G G G
G D G
G G G

G = Glass
D = Dirt.


Other Modders! If you want to add a node to become a false node, use this code

Registering:


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Known Problems:

Unsolved:

• Minor error with textures when using fake glass with real glass.

Solved:

Updates:

2012/7/3

• Added desert stone and sand
• Updated code for current version.
• All false blocks are instantly destructible.
• Increased glass required to craft components
• Decreased components required to make false blocks

2012/02/04

• Added more nodes, probably some that won't be used.
• Made possible for other mods to add nodes to become false nodes as well.
• Fix for bugs thanks to Kahrl_

2012/02/12

• Added drawtype definition for other modders
• Manually registered fake glass to avoid errors.

Good job! But recipe... Is not so god as can be.

TRAPS! Awesome mod!

Hackeridze wrote:Good job! But recipe... Is not so god as can be.

You can change them. They were just something I threw together quickly.

you should try doing a especial block for false things, like a transparent block or something like that... Then, instead of using wood blocks, use the special one!

rahonejm wrote:you should try doing a especial block for false things, like a transparent block or something like that... Then, instead of using wood blocks, use the special one!

Hmmm :D good idea!

Updated mod.

i like this Mod!

hell yeah now is fu###n awesome!

Great Idea! +1

I love it , but I guess you should use the default texture and not a copy of default texture. by this way secret passage stay secret even after customization of the default textures
may be there is a constraint that avoid a mod can't use texture from another mod ?

Great idea .

Excellent mod but came across some issues.

When you make something like say a hidden bookshelf, make sure there is no light coming from behind it or above it or someone will spot that it is brighter than the other bookshelves.

redcrab wrote:I love it , but I guess you should use the default texture and not a copy of default texture. by this way secret passage stay secret even after customization of the default textures
may be there is a constraint that avoid a mod can't use texture from another mod ?

Great idea .

Well, the reason why I used a customization of the default textures, is so that way, it can be seen as a different type of block. Think about it, in most games, when there's a false wall, it is generally a little bit different in texture from the real wall next to it. So that's what I was aiming for.

RAPHAEL wrote:Excellent mod but came across some issues.

When you make something like say a hidden bookshelf, make sure there is no light coming from behind it or above it or someone will spot that it is brighter than the other bookshelves.

Yeah, this is my first attempt at a mod, I don't have all the attributes down yet. So there is probably something I added, or didn't change that does/caused that.

hey, can you make a false sand block? The one that looks like a wood, but colored like a sand? I'm making a pyramid and would like to make some traps ;D
I've tried to do it by myself, copying your code and substituting the names... but it didn't work :(

Gatharoth wrote:

redcrab wrote:I love it , but I guess you should use the default texture and not a copy of default texture. by this way secret passage stay secret even after customization of the default textures
may be there is a constraint that avoid a mod can't use texture from another mod ?

Great idea .

Well, the reason why I used a customization of the default textures, is so that way, it can be seen as a different type of block. Think about it, in most games, when there's a false wall, it is generally a little bit different in texture from the real wall next to it. So that's what I was aiming for.

you could put a one pixel watermark on the corner such as this

of course maybe less evident
BTW that is a false sand block!

@Rahonejm
Why didn't it work?
All you need to do is use this code, and replace the names and image.

If you still can't get it to work, then I'll make one. But for now I'm working on some code for Mesecon.

@sdzen
A watermark like that would be too visible for me tastes.

Also, those "false sand" blocks do not look like blocks, just 1-sided nodes. FYI (for your information).

about the sand I know I was just messing around with your mod bored out of my mind one day altering random stuff

Well, don't know what, but i'm doing something wrong. Here's what i've did:

minetest.register_node('secret_passage:sand', {
drawtype = 'allfaces',
tile_images = {'sp_sandstone.png'},
inventory_image = 'sp_sandstone.png',
sunlight_propagates = false,
paramtype = 'light',
walkable = false,
climable = false,
selection_box = {
type = "fixed",
fixed = {-1/7, -1/2, -1/7, 1/7, 1/2, 1/7},

But then, i need a recipe huh?

minetest.register_craft({
output = 'NodeItem "secret_passage:sand" 1',
recipe = {
{'node "secret_passage:compoent" 1', 'node "default:sandstone" 1', 'node "secret_passage:compoent" 1'},
{'node "secret_passage:compoent" 1', 'node "default:sandstone" 1', 'node "secret_passage:compoent" 1'},

What happens:

ERROR[main]: ModError: Failed to load and run C:\Documents and Settings\Marcelino\Meus documentos\Downloads\minetest-0.4.dev-20120102-1-win32\bin\..\data\mods\secret_passage\init.lua
20:17:18: ERROR[main]: error_message = ModError: Failed to load and run C:\Documents and Settings\Marcelino\Meus documentos\Downloads\minetest-0.4.dev-20120102-1-win32\bin\..\data\mods\secret_passage\init.lua

P.S I've copied the default_sandstone and pasted it on the textures folder, then renamed it sp_sandstone

You need to close the register. So after


add this

Gatharoth wrote:You need to close the register. So after

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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    selection_box = {
        type = "fixed",
        fixed = {-1/7, -1/2, -1/7, 1/7, 1/2, 1/7},

add this

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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    },
    material = minetest.digprop_constanttime(1.0),
    dug_item = 'NodeItem "secret_passage:sand" 1',
})

My god i'm definetly not a minetest modder... I still can't make it work :(

This code should work. Just copy it and paste it below the register_node for the component (compoent due to my spelling error that I never fixed).

Updated:
Added more default nodes
False defaults use same image as real defaults
Made possible for other mods to create false version of nodes.

Update:
Bug fixes thanks to Kahrl

Updated:
Changed registering parameters
Manually register glass to avoid errors.

All this is is changing walkable = true to walkable = false. But he had the intuition to make it. Well done sir

IPushButton2653 wrote:All this is is changing walkable = true to walkable = false. But he had the intuition to make it. Well done sir

Haha. Thanks I think? If anything, I'm just an Idea Factory.

Besides, when I was younger, I loved to draw out dungeons, and castles that were full of traps, secret passages, hidden treasures, ect. This was caused by my uncle who play(s/ed) DnD. But yeah, my dungeons and castles were more elaborate, and "more suited" for a game of DnD than any of his were, or so he told me. XD

ERROR[main]: error_message = ModError: Failed to load and run C:\Documents and Settings\Charlotta\Mina dokument\Downloads\minetest-0.4.dev-20120122-1-win32 (1)\minetest-0.4.dev-20120122-1-win32\bin\..\data\mods\secret_passage\init.lua
18:55:00: ERROR[main]: Check debug.txt for details.

Any help here?

open minetest/bin/debug.txt look for a block of text
[ SOMETHING LUA ERROR]
text text
text
[ END OF LUA ERROR ]
and post the text here.

Is this right?

SelfishCar wrote:

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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18:58:19: ERROR[main]: [LUA]
18:58:19: ERROR[main]: [LUA] ...netest-0.4.dev-20120122-1-win32\bin\..\data\mods\secret_passage\init.lua:64: ')' expected near 'typename'
18:58:19: ERROR[main]: [LUA]

Is this right?

I believe there's typo problems currently. So with your problem, just open up the init.lua, then scroll down to the "minetest.register_node(modname" line. In that line put ".." in front of the "typename," and it should be fine.

Sorry for those little mistakes. I've been busy for awhile now. Haven't been able to work on anything for minetest.