How do you get the drawtype of a node?

[lkjoel]

I'm trying to figure out some code that finds the drawtype of a node. How would I go about doing this?

[Jeija]

You cannot get the drawtype of a node itself (as far as I know). You can only get some other parameters, e.g. if it is flammable / walkable.

[lkjoel]

ok, I'll have to edit the modding API then...

[celeron55]

Hell, people are always giving wrong answers on this forum...

Yes you can find the drawtype of a node; everything given to minetest.register_node is put into the minetest.registered_nodes table.

Thus: (not tested)

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local function get_node_drawtype(nodename)
    if not minetest.registered_nodes[nodename] then
        return ""
    end
    return minetest.registered_nodes[nodename].drawtype
end


[lkjoel]

thanks! It works!

[Jeija]

Sorry, I didn't know that. Could you add some information about this to the lua_api.txt (if there is none yet)? Like "you can acces the information in a node simply by writing node.*.
Once Iw tried to get e.g. the texture of a node, back then it didn't work at all.