[Mod] Mesecons (= redstone) [GitHub] [minetest-mod-mesecons]

[JoshMars]

It would be awesome if the player detector could handle more than one player's name in the search

[programmingchicken]

The node detector isn't working for me. I put the name in "default:dirt" and put a dirt block beside it and nothing.

Is the node detector FACING the block?
And it outputs mesecon signals, if you are wondering.

[GFX_Garage]

Ok so the node detector only detects nodes placed in the coordinate directly in front of it? Is there a way to give it a radius like the player detector? I can't find this information online.

[bbaez]

I too got the LIGHT_MAX error using the latest mesecons from github and Minetest Server 0.4.12 using Neuromancer world. I initially updated mesecons to support the latest pipeworks, then starting getting the LIGHT_MAX error.

Tried removing default.LIGHT_MAX but then got the same error in mesecons_button, then mesecons_powerplant.

What is the elegant way of resolving this?

Thanks!

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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06:27:12: ERROR[main]: ========== ERROR FROM LUA ===========
06:27:12: ERROR[main]: Failed to load and run script from
06:27:12: ERROR[main]: /home/aa0001/minetest/minetest-0.4.12-neuromancer/bin/../mods/mesecons/mesecons_torch/init.lua:
06:27:12: ERROR[main]: ...neuromancer/bin/../mods/mesecons/mesecons_torch/init.lua:79: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'LIGHT_MAX' (a nil value)
06:27:12: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
06:27:12: ERROR[main]:  ...neuromancer/bin/../mods/mesecons/mesecons_torch/init.lua:79: in main chunk
06:27:12: ERROR[main]: ======= END OF ERROR FROM LUA ========
06:27:12: ERROR[main]: Server: Failed to load and run /home/aa0001/minetest/minetest-0.4.12-neuromancer/bin/../mods/mesecons/mesecons_torch/init.lua
06:27:12: ERROR[main]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: ModError: Failed to load and run /home/aa0001/minetest/minetest-0.4.12-neuromancer/bin/../mods/mesecons/mesecons_torch/init.lua


[bbaez]

Quick update, looks light LIGHT_MAX is set in minetest_game/mods/default/legacy.lua. I tried copying the default mod into Neuromancer mod, but got a nil error. Going to try to be surgical later today.

[programmingchicken]

GFX, sorry.
Only if the opening is facing the block.
The radius part would be complicated to the max, and so Jeija didn't add it in.
Ask a coder nicely to whip something up for you in the modding discussion subforums?
(i could make something if i knew how to make modified mesecons mods)

[bbaez]

I took Hybrid Dog's suggestion and created a mod with

default.LIGHT_MAX = default.LIGHT_MAX or 14

in init.lua but get the following:

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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09:10:13: ERROR[main]: ========== ERROR FROM LUA ===========
09:10:13: ERROR[main]: Failed to load and run script from
09:10:13: ERROR[main]: /home/aa0001/minetest/minetest-0.4.12-neuromancer/bin/../mods/default/init.lua:
09:10:13: ERROR[main]: ...minetest-0.4.12-neuromancer/bin/../mods/default/init.lua:1: attempt to index global 'default' (a nil value)
09:10:13: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
09:10:13: ERROR[main]:  ...minetest-0.4.12-neuromancer/bin/../mods/default/init.lua:1: in main chunk
09:10:13: ERROR[main]: ======= END OF ERROR FROM LUA ========
09:10:13: ERROR[main]: Server: Failed to load and run /home/aa0001/minetest/minetest-0.4.12-neuromancer/bin/../mods/default/init.lua
09:10:13: ERROR[main]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: ModError: Failed to load and run /home/aa0001/minetest/minetest-0.4.12-neuromancer/bin/../mods/default/init.lua


Using defaults mod from minetest_game was not going anywhere since with default = {} was erasing all the other defaults.

Any suggestions?

[Hybrid Dog]

this looks like the error happens in the default mod

[bbaez]

Yes, but I only created the default mod to resolve the LIGHT_MAX nil value issue. I was trying your suggestion from Fri May 29, 2015 00:07.

Trying to resolve 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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06:27:12: ERROR[main]: ...neuromancer/bin/../mods/mesecons/mesecons_torch/init.lua:79: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'LIGHT_MAX' (a nil value)


[Hybrid Dog]

Yes, but I only created the default mod to resolve the LIGHT_MAX nil value issue. I was trying your suggestion from Fri May 29, 2015 00:07.

if you call the mod "default", the other "default" isn't loaded l think
you could also add 'default.LIGHT_MAX = default.LIGHT_MAX or 14' somewhere in the mesecons mod

0:07

l wrote that at 10:07, not at night.
ls your time zone UTC-8?

[bbaez]

Thank you! I took the 0.4.12 minetest_game default mod folder and placed replaced the old one in the Neuromancer Game mods directory. The new minetest_game default mod folder basically has the line you were saying to add.

[GFX_Garage]

@programmingchicken:

Thanks for the response. I may have to do some rethinking.

[amadin]

Can anybody help me - force to work mod "carts" (modified by lag01 https://github.com/AndrejIT/carts) with mesecons (for exampe, now with the switch players can't push the cart). lag01 can't help me.

[SAMIAMNOT]

AMAZING mod. Love how it follows all the rules of Minecraft Redstone. I got a Minecraft book on Redstone and use that to study your blocks. ;)
Two request though:
1) Bug fixes: Several items, including Redstone Torches, Power Plants and Buttons refuse to load, at least in Minetest 0.4.11
2) Dispensers from the More Mesecons mods. http://forum.minetest.net/t=7837

EDIT: I have the Light Max error too. Will the OP please fix this? Also, sorry for the dead link; HERE is the mod: http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=7837

[JoshMars]

If two conditions were true the capabilities would expand immensely for player detectors:
1. Detectors locked (currently any player can edit them)
2. Detectors handle multiple player names

Then I could make SECURE doors with pistons ...

[JoshMars]

This is definitely not the right place to ask, JoshMars.
You should ask that in the IRC or in some topic in Modding General. You will propably need to iterate through a list of all players and calculate their distances to your position manually.

I was wondering for use with the microcontrollers...

[SAMIAMNOT]

Theres a site called [url]mesecons.net[/url] It should have all the info you need.

[DoyleChris]

Trying to figure out how to use a stick piston with a controller, to control a fuel-fired generator in Technic mode.
The generator will burn fuel all the time even when there isnt a load on it, so i want to setup a on demand setup.
I made a post in the Technic forum and Hybrid Dog said "you could try using a mesecons node detector and a piston moving en/disabling the cable connection".
I would like to try that but im not sure how to code the controller on how to detect the load of the technic system.

[Hybrid Dog]

— place a node detector directing to the battery box
— press F5 and see the how the node at it's full state is called (sth like tech:lv_battery_box8)
— configure the detector to that node
— place a sticky piston directing to the cable connecting to the generator
— connect it with the detector (maybe add a not gate) and make it move the cable if the battery box is filled

l think to not waste fuel, adding a second node detector could help to avoid oscillating.

[DoyleChris]

Is there a way to put it by the technic power switch, it shows you supply and demand.
WRight a IF/ELSE program, if demand > supply then Activate a Injector on a chest to send fuel. Then when genarator output is below 0 see if the switch still needs power if it does send another fuel.

[Samson1]

This is a very good all round mod also you can do more then you can with redstone but the thing is that redstone is much faster and had better controls. the switches are a but big and so are the buttons, and could you please make the pistons have an animation? it would make this mod so much better if you could:)

[benrob0329]

The ony way that pistons could currently have an animation would be if they were entities, and that would increase bandwith and would be laggy.

[DoyleChris]

— place a node detector directing to the battery box
— press F5 and see the how the node at it's full state is called (sth like tech:lv_battery_box8)
— configure the detector to that node
— place a sticky piston directing to the cable connecting to the generator
— connect it with the detector (maybe add a not gate) and make it move the cable if the battery box is filled

l think to not waste fuel, adding a second node detector could help to avoid oscillating.

So i created a MV Generator, Switch, Battery, Furnace.
I put the node detector on top of the battery right clicked and entered technic:mv_battery_box8
but when the battery starts droping in chatge nothing happens to the piston.

[Hybrid Dog]

The ony way that pistons could currently have an animation would be if they were entities, and that would increase bandwith and would be laggy.

A long time ago they were objects. And the mese lamp looked like a fluorescent lamp l think.

So i created a MV Generator, Switch, Battery, Furnace.
I put the node detector on top of the battery right clicked and entered technic:mv_battery_box8
but when the battery starts droping in chatge nothing happens to the piston.

l thought about putting the detector next to the battery box, the red dot touches the node

[hb.operandi]

Does this mod have any compatibility issues with Pipeworks? Everytime I hit a switch or a lever, it disappears while playing the sound, comes back and flips green like it's on, then pop into my inventory.

Is there a config I need to change?

[programmingchicken]

sounds like lag to me, turn off fancy settings.

[Hybrid Dog]

sounds like lag to me, turn off fancy settings.

ln my opinion there's no real fancy

[programmingchicken]

ya there is, its all the amazing graphics settings that the average computer can't handle fast enough for minetest's fans' wants.

[DoyleChris]

Question about running a Injector. I have my Grinders and Furnaces all hooked up with pipeworks and running all of them from one chest and a injector. The problem is that if i use a Blinky light, it feeds the pipeworks with to many items and Minetest starts to delete them. So i was wondering if there was a way i can do volume control with mesecons, I tried the moremesecons with the Adjustable Blinky light but i cant get it to slow down enough and also the delayer..

Chest and injector

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Grinders

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[Hybrid Dog]

Question about running a Injector. I have my Grinders and Furnaces all hooked up with pipeworks and running all of them from one chest and a injector. The problem is that if i use a Blinky light, it feeds the pipeworks with to many items and Minetest starts to delete them. So i was wondering if there was a way i can do volume control with mesecons, I tried the moremesecons with the Adjustable Blinky light but i cant get it to slow down enough and also the delayer..

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this might help, you maybe want to put nodes that the water doesn't flow down