Vanessa's Video/Graphics Settings patch

[VanessaE]

As of 2012-11-09 this patch has been integrated into the main upstream Minetest repository.

Over on this forum thead, several of us discussed working some extra graphics settings into the game.

Here then is a patch I've devised that allows you to turn on Mipmap, Anisotropic Filtering, and Bi-/TriLinear filtering via a few checkboxes that have been added to the "Settings" menu, or by editing your minetest.conf if you prefer. This patch is in "unified diff" format and was made against a fresh 0.4.3 source tree from git (commit hash 25cf3757b2[...] at the time):

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Either apply the aforementioned patch and recompile, or download and install one of the above builds, according to your platform and your needs. Then start the program, go to the "Settings" tab in the main menu, and change one or more of the new checkboxes on the right. Or, you can directly edit your minetest.conf and add one or more of the following lines:

mip_map = 1
anisotropic_filter = 1
bilinear_filter = 1
trilinear_filter = 1

Under normal circumstances, you'll want to set Anisotropic Filtering and Mip-Map at the same time (either both on or both off). The Bi-/Trilinear settings are mutually exclusive. If you set both, trilinear mode takes precedence.

Many thanks to sfan5 for helping me get the patch into a format everyone can actually use and for providing the above Windows build, and to RealBadAngel and to a certain individual who wishes not to be named, for helping me understand what I'm doing. :-)

Repository for my fork:
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Note that depending on the build you chose above (if any), you may also need to grab the latest version of celeron55's minetest_game repository, which supplies the actual content we're all accustomed to. Get it here: (obsolete link deleted)

Enjoy!

[Topywo]

Thanks Vanessa!

Since I don't know (without trying) what to do exactly with the Ubuntu Linux 12.04, AMD64 file, I decided to go for the patch. First try I just copied everyting in the "minetest/src/clientmap.cpp" (instead of the different sourcefiles) and got a "stray @" error. Second try it already worked, which means you did an excellent job.

I've been comparing screenshots to see the differences. I use the 16x16 standard textures. Ingame I noticed the biggest difference with close objects.

The opportunity to choose if you want to use the options or not is great!

I think a lot of people are going to enjoy your work! I hope this will be standard in the next release of minetest.

Edit: typo

[cHyper]

just try this version of minetest ...

[GloopMaster]

You should link to OldCoder's version compiled for windows that has these patches.

[MirceaKitsune]

I really approve of this patch. It looks a lot better for me with anisotropic filtering and mipmaps. Please merge this into Minetest GIT master, it's a very useful feature! I might stick with OldCoder's branch until then, since he added it to his code.

[VanessaE]

New AMD64 Ubuntu build from upstream.

[kaeza]

Can anyone provide an Ubuntu 12.04 x86 (32bits) package?
Looks awesome, though I kinda like the old-school look of pixelated textures :)

[VanessaE]

No need anymore - the current Minetest source code now contains my patch - just clone/download from celeron55's main repository and compile as usual, or probably also use the nightly builds PPA.

[kaeza]

Okay. Gonnay try that. Thanks VanessaE.

[soni21]

VanessaE Thanks for taking time to help!!!