[Mod][Experimental] Doors (minecraftlike) 0.0.3

[sapier]

I've tried to create created doors similar the ones used in minecraft.

By now this was only possible by adding small patches to minetest, don't know if they make it to master as they break the "a block is a block" rule ;-)

Use crowbar to increase removal speed of door by factor five
crowbar reciep:
. . steel_ingot
. steel_ingot .
steel_ingot . .


Working (>0.0.2):
-placing doors relative to player position and position of door (4 possibilitys)
-opening/closing doors
-removing doors
-doors are as slim as their collision box and smaller than block size -> fixed by minetest patch "cube_disorted"
-transparency does work (->github/sapier/minetest branch sapier_experimental)
-doors can't be walked through if closed (->github/sapier/minetest branch sapier_experimental)


Problems:
nothing known

Changes:
Version 0.0.3
-Iron door added
-switched from 2 entities per door to 1 entitie
-fixed dig door bug
-switched to left click door opening



Screenshots:
-closed door


-opened door (you can see the thin black line of the collision box around the frame)


-all in one


Minetest Patches
transparency patch is not mandatory and may have side effects to other parts of minetest, haven't checked this
http://www.mediafire.com/?8xxzdcvxs56ze3z

cube_disorted patch adds another visual style to entitys using their collision box for drawing the mesh, beware collision box HAS TO BE MinEdge,MaxEdge to get reasonable drawing results!
http://www.mediafire.com/?i0zqkntbnzt7jog

Mod:
http://www.mediafire.com/?khcvdbcq1abzwvx (Version 0.0.1)
http://www.mediafire.com/?0peyua24rdc6mia (Version 0.0.2)
http://www.mediafire.com/?4e8of77m8ah602x(Version 0.0.3)

[bwog]

You don't need to make us download the screenshots, just upload them to TinyPic or another image hosting site.

[RAPHAEL]

You don't need to make us download the screenshots, just upload them to TinyPic or another image hosting site.

I just clicked the mediafire links and they loaded. No "download" needed. Sorry but I don't know how to help you with this mod. But great idea.

[randomproof]

1) My doors don't stop anyone, you can walk straight through

Entities can be walked through, which is why I made my door mod with nodes, that and I wanted big and shaped doors. Your doors look a lot better though. You might take a look at the hatches mod. Just turn them on the side?

[dannydark]

I'm not able to test atm but I'm guessing this is an issue with the way that the cube visual stuff is rendered, as the textures themselves do contain an alpha channel and work if you assign them to a sprite or node with glasslike visual style.

I and No-Half-Measures had a similar problem ages ago trying to get stained glass to work, the problem was with the material setting which didn't allow transparent materials iirc we had to change the setting to something else to get it to work.

So basically what I'm saying is maybe the material setting for cube visual style doesn't allow transparent materials.

I can't confirm this though as I don't have access to the C++ source on this system.

EDIT: Might be worth asking on the minetest-delta IRC channel to see if anyone can confirm this.

[sapier]

thanks dannydark, you've been right. confirmed and fixed it in c code by myself

[sapier]

@randomproof
I started with hatches mod changed this and that and finaly discovered nothing was left of hatches ;-)

[Zarberman]

when i try to download the transparecy patch, it says that there was a problem with the dowoad. please help

[sapier]

Works for me, but as mediafire heavyly relies on google apis and other scripts you have to disable scriptblocker addons in your browser

[sycam]

when i place the door i cant see it and the thing says ''cannot create image from data received from texture thumbs.db''

[sapier]

This error message isn't related to your problem it just tells there's a file called thumbs.db within one of your texture folders. As this ain't a texture it can't be loaded as texture.

I assume you didn't build minetest yourself after adding the patches ... did you?

[robin]

Did your patches went upstream meanwhile?

[sapier]

no and as someone is workling on steps (half block's) I don't think they will as those patches are most likely to collide (but i haven't really checked that)

[Staffs]

Why would you need this mod if you can walk through. I need doors for protection not design

[sdzen]

maybe if when it was hit it didn't just change position but changed into a different node one thats solid :) just a suggestion

[sapier]

problem is the door needs to store data about it's orientation that can't be done with nodes. It isn't handled during server reboots by now either, but that could be added without need to change c++ code. This isn't trivial and i didn't want to do it for a mod not usefull by now ;-).

[rahonejm]

question: where i need to paste the patches?

[MirceaKitsune]

Looking good, going to try it now. I don't believe the crowbar is really necessary, but doors themselves are very welcome to Minetest at this stage.

[sapier]

The doors do work now as a door should work, at least if you do use my minetest branch.

Relevant patches for doors mod are:
-entity collision handling
-entity disorted_cube drawmode

[sycam]

cool my internets down so i cant say much
(im on a libary one)

[Temperest]

This is great! Are there any plans to merge the changes in your branch into upstream?

[Jordach]

Its supposed to be Minetest core, NOT upstream, celeron ("hates") people who say upstream.

[sapier]

I don't see any problems why the features shouldn't be added but there are so much features about to add to core I can't really predict when it's time.

I need to do some changes too if it's added e.g. two entities for one door isn't needed at all, mesecon support ...

btw there's a bad bug that still is a problem for this doors. the ...

[kahrl]

Because code from my collision_allow_stairs(_v2) is involved, performance is a problem (especially on older computers or when a really large number of entities are moving). I'll fix that some time soon.

[Jordach]

I don't see any problems why the features shouldn't be added but there are so much features about to add to core I can't really predict when it's time.

I need to do some changes too if it's added e.g. two entities for one door isn't needed at all, mesecon support ...

btw there's a bad bug that still is a problem for this doors. the

Erm, truncated post?

[sapier]

...the "entity disappear bug" ... ok it's not only disappear sometimes entities stay while the should be removed by client. It seems to me some entity update message is lost and client/server get out of sync with what entities are active or not.

Yes truncated post ;-)

[Temperest]

Its supposed to be Minetest core, NOT upstream, celeron ("hates") people who say upstream.

Duly noted :).

[IPushButton2653]

Minetest crashed upon right-click. What's the deal here???

[lalorobot]

How do I craft doors? thanks this mod looks so great! :D

[sapier]

crafting doors is same as in mc