[Mod] DarkAge [0.4] [darkage]

[Sokomine]

Good to see you back, MasterGollum!

also there is a function minetest.register_ore() that can be used to generate the iron ore in the desert

That function might lead to a significant speedup regarding ore generation. Not only for the iron ore but also for the non-ores (stratus, claylike). To my knowledge, the function offers parameters that might cover those situations. Please explore that :-) LuaVoxelManipulator is also great but may not be necessary here. The new ore generation routines ought to be good enough.

[MasterGollum]

Thank you for the tips and the welcome, I will look at that. I have been playing a little with nodeboxes, so maybe I will include some new nodes for middle age themed furniture.

[Sokomine]

maybe I will include some new nodes for middle age themed furniture.

New furniture is always good to have :-) Take a look at my cottages mod. It already comes with some furniture, but there's certainly room for more :-) The anvil from realtest might look fine in a medieval environment as well.

[MasterGollum]

New furniture is always good to have :-) Take a look at my cottages mod. It already comes with some furniture, but there's certainly room for more :-) The anvil from realtest might look fine in a medieval environment as well.

wow that's very nice what you did there. You read my mind and implemented it before I even thought about that lol. As Inocudom pointed we have the straw bale duplicated, I like the suggestion of merge them. Maybe as an extension of Dark Age with some textures more "medieval" (for example the bed), that can be turned off easily so people can choose if to use cottage mod as you designed it (with or without Dark Age) or the medieval version of cottage just inside the Dark Age mod itself. What do you think?

[Sokomine]

Hmpf. Typed a long message, included some links, and accidently clicked on a link.

The straw (and the straw bale) is indeed a copy of your darkage mod. I sent you a mail back then and asked you for permission :-) You just got to *have* a straw bale in a Minetest world - else it would be incomplete :-)

I didn't eliminiate/alias the straw nodes before (even though it was requested by some server owners) because that would at that time have interfered with my random_buildings and later my villages mod - those spawn houses that use nodes from cottages, and if the nodes are just aliasses to another mod, that gets more complicated.

If you have any better textures for the nodes or can create them or even add more furniture please do so! We can certainly have more than one bed. And the King Arthurs Land server will certainly enjoy more medieval nodes. I'm very bad at creating textures and have to rely on other people creating them for me. I'm curious as to how your nodes will look like :-)

[MasterGollum]

Indeed I don't have any problem that you used the texture I created or you decided to supply new node versions for the straw bales, I like a lot what you did. I understand that Dark Age is a "huge" mod that supplies several nodes and functionalities that many people don't want. cottages is consistent as it is, it supplies all the nodes it needs without add dependences to other mods. Can they be used together as they are now? Yes, of course. Should be used together? not so sure, they will create duplicate nodes with craft recipes not consistent between them, for example the way you decided to craft the stairs. I absolutly will use your mod in my server, but I will do some changes to fit my personal tastes. I can share that version with the community or keep it private if you dislike the idea of see your nodes shared in a new different version. I absolutly don't intent to take ownership of your work, just to add them slightly modified and explain what I did and from where that nodes come from.

[Sokomine]

Craft receipes only exist so that the nodes can actually be crafted. Cottages was created in order to have nodes for building small, medieval/simple structured houses for the lumberjacks and village inhabitants (once they show up..). If you have better ideas for crafting receipes, that ought to be no problem. I'd love to let "inhabitants" "sell"/trade the furniture nodes to players anyway :-)

Please do what you have in mind and then let's see how to best combine or otherwise handle it.

[ShadowNinja]

Rather than having people modify the code, you should add minetest.conf settings.
For example:

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if minetest.setting_getbool("darkage.enable_mapgen") then
    dofile(modpath.."/mapgen.lua")
end


And then you can just set darkage.enable_mapgen in minetest.conf.
You should also cache the modpath, just call minetest.get_modpath("darkage") once and store it in a local variable named modpath.

Also: I beleive that you are required to have a link to the actual GitHub page, not just to the archive if you use GitHub. And if not I would appreciate if you added one. :-)

Aditionally you use legacy generation methods that are very slow. You should use minetest.register_ore and the LuaVoxelManip if there are any ore types that it doesn't provide.

[MasterGollum]

Aditionally you use legacy generation methods that are very slow. You should use minetest.register_ore and the LuaVoxelManip if there are any ore types that it doesn't provide.

Thank you for the tips, btw what is the LuaVoxelManip!? :P Because the documentation I found it's let's say scarce http://koti.kapsi.fi/~nawulf/code/minetest/2013-09-12_doxygen/classLuaVoxelManip.html

[hoodedice]

Aditionally you use legacy generation methods that are very slow. You should use minetest.register_ore and the LuaVoxelManip if there are any ore types that it doesn't provide.

Thank you for the tips, btw what is the LuaVoxelManip!? :P Because the documentation I found it's let's say scarce http://koti.kapsi.fi/~nawulf/code/minetest/2013-09-12_doxygen/classLuaVoxelManip.html

New method for manipulating nodes, introduced by hmmmm(mmmm?) in 0.4.7. Reduces node manip and loading time from 20+ seconds to 1-5 seconds. Also, makes calling nodes easier.

[MasterGollum]

New method for manipulating nodes, introduced by hmmmm(mmmm?) in 0.4.7. Reduces node manip and loading time from 20+ seconds to 1-5 seconds. Also, makes calling nodes easier.

Where is the documentation to understand how it works? Is there any example of use?

[Sokomine]

See lua_api.txt:

Ore types
---------------
These tell in what manner the ore is generated.
All default ores are of the uniformly-distributed scatter type.

- scatter
Randomly chooses a location and generates a cluster of ore.
If noise_params is specified, the ore will be placed if the 3d perlin noise at
that point is greater than the noise_threshhold, giving the ability to create a non-equal
distribution of ore.
- sheet
Creates a sheet of ore in a blob shape according to the 2d perlin noise described by noise_params.
The relative height of the sheet can be controlled by the same perlin noise as well, by specifying
a non-zero 'scale' parameter in noise_params. IMPORTANT: The noise is not transformed by offset or
scale when comparing against the noise threshhold, but scale is used to determine relative height.
The height of the blob is randomly scattered, with a maximum height of clust_size.
clust_scarcity and clust_num_ores are ignored.
This is essentially an improved version of the so-called "stratus" ore seen in some unofficial mods.

Any suspcions what that "stratus" might allude to? :) The function is called register_ore. Lua voxelmanip also exists, but as there's an extra function for ore distribution, register_ore might be more fitting. I would be glad if you could use that function since it most likely will speed things up considerably. The technic mod uses generate_ore for creating sheets of marble and granite: oregen.lua.

[MasterGollum]

Thank you I will do some tests with that, stratus is a mistype of stratum :P


Let me show you the shapes I was generating with my function.



And here you can see the complete shape flying over the world in de debug phase when I was creating them in the air by mistake :P

[Sokomine]

And here you can see the complete shape flying over the world in de debug phase when I was creating them in the air by mistake :P

You're not the first one :-) There are some intresting ore-generation screenshots somewhere on the forum.

Marble and granite from the technic mod spawn in a way that is comparable to the stones from darkage. Some parameters might need fine-tuning, but in general even that's close enough :-)

[mimilus]

Hello

I'm on minetest 0.4.9

I have an error , darkage_marble_tile.png is missing in textures but I see it's in textures32 could you correct it

Thank's

[mimilus]

Sorry Variant Version by addi seems to work fine.

[Vazon]

Since it seems this mod hasn't been updated in a while I decided to fix it up a bit. This new version has the marble tile texture, and if the mod Moreblocks is installed it will override the stairs.lua and read the moreblocks.lua. This allows the blocks I thought would best be fitted for the circular saw.

Github Source: https://github.com/Vazon/darkage/tree/master
Download: https://github.com/Vazon/darkage/archive/master.zip

[Inocudom]

https://github.com/CraigyDavi/darkage
CraigyDavi has a version of this mod too.

[addi]

maybe we schuld work all toghether instead of creating realy much forks

[philipbenr]

maybe we schuld work all toghether instead of creating realy much forks

Hopefully you suggestion is taken. I am trying to get some parts of this mod into castles++, but I am kinda flustered at the number of forks there are... : /

[addi]

i merged some features of CraigyDavi's fork into mine:
https://bitbucket.org/adrido/darkage/downloads

i think more will follow.

[CraigyDavi]

i merged some features of CraigyDavi's fork into mine:
https://bitbucket.org/adrido/darkage/downloads

i think more will follow.

I have also created this commit: https://github.com/CraigyDavi/Craig-Server_game/commit/2af76115c8c2471d7e08b3d803364a35509fd84e. It adds a few more stairs and fixes a typo.

I never got round to it but there has been a change in the stairsplus mod API which may require some changes in moreblocks. The API is avaliable here: https://gitorious.org/calinou/moreblocks/source/6501336d86f2f55d9c7af1869b461cd9e7891ad7:stairsplus/API.md

[addi]

i merged some features of CraigyDavi's fork into mine:
https://bitbucket.org/adrido/darkage/downloads

i think more will follow.

I have also created this commit: https://github.com/CraigyDavi/Craig-Server_game/commit/2af76115c8c2471d7e08b3d803364a35509fd84e. It adds a few more stairs and fixes a typo.

I never got round to it but there has been a change in the stairsplus mod API which may require some changes in moreblocks. The API is avaliable here: https://gitorious.org/calinou/moreblocks/source/6501336d86f2f55d9c7af1869b461cd9e7891ad7:stairsplus/API.md

lot of thanks CraigyDavi
i merged a lot of your changes, and i also updated the stairsplus aka moreblocks api to get working
also the sounds of the stairs nodes are now correct.

the latest download is at Bitbucket (.zip) and at Github (.zip)
also the sourcecode is avaiable at Bitbucket and at Github

[Minetestforfun]

your merged darkage version is very good ! :) Good work

[CraigyDavi]

Created a new topic for the fork of this mod:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10063

[Misty]

Hi everyone,
Hi Craigydavi,
is there any chance we can roll your changes into the existing darkage mod so that there wont be confusing multiple versions of the mod for people to sift through before finding the one they want?
p.s. I love the darkage mod, and have been using it since the day I first discovered it.

[swordpaint12]

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[Sokomine]

Integrating all those forks back into one would be highly welcome! Please do so. It's not my mod, but I do like it a lot as well :-)

[blert2112]

Integrating all those forks back into one would be highly welcome! Please do so. It's not my mod, but I do like it a lot as well :-)

Check out my fork.
reg_ore-FIX branch -> requires a build no less than two days old (beba969)
master branch -> 4.13

Make sure to read the readme!

[addi]

I updated my fork now and added the best of CraigiDavi and Hybrid Dogs forks.
It uses now register_ore for fast generation of chalk cliffs and desert stone with iron.
For the other strati it uses now the fast lua voxel manipulator.

Also there are 4 more plaster nodes and 4 wall types which requires Mintest 0.4.14.

Download is aviable at Bitbucket (.zip) and at Github (.zip)
Source is aviable there too: Bitbucket and at Github