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Re: We want a Minetest or a minecraft 2?
Considering that Minetest is an engine and Minecraft is just a game, they are already very different. The thing is that there are many people who actually do want a "Minecraft 2", and they use the Minetest engine for that. IMHO, that's a perfectly good thing to do, since it offers several ...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 17:52
- Forum: Minetest General
- Topic: We want a Minetest or a minecraft 2?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4140
Re: [Game]/[World] Tutorial [1.8.0]
There's the .mts (minetest schematic) format which is not so diffrent from the actual map format. I did some tests with this, but it didn't work out very well when I imported the whole tutorial map (it was giving me an error saying something like "the uncompressed size is incorrect"). It ...
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 00:20
- Forum: Subgame Releases
- Topic: [Game]/[World] Tutorial [1.8.2]/[2.2.0]
- Replies: 195
- Views: 83095
Re: Will MT always use Irrlicht?
The guys from OpenMW had to ditch Ogre3D because it was not flexible enough. They are gonna use OpenSceneGraph now. After reading the dev blog posts it does look like it seems to have a more efficient design. I don't think you will find a real "KISS" graphic engine unless you directly use ...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 22:18
- Forum: Minetest Engine
- Topic: Will MT always use Irrlicht?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14518
Re: Wishes for Minetest 0.4.11 (or 0.5)
As far as l know there also is no multi thread support, if the map is generating, lots of the rest of the server stands still. That's a good point as well. This means the server won't scale very well when there are many users.. some of them might be exploring new chunks. How about dynamically sendi...
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 17:08
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Wishes for Minetest 0.4.11 (or 0.5)
- Replies: 326
- Views: 50179
Re: Wishes for Minetest 0.4.11 (or 0.5)
I don't know if this relativity exist but, a client side lua API , to give advantage of a bunch of mod to do only specific calculation on client side only ( think about immersive sound mod for exemple....) Really? The Lua API is completely server-side? I understand now the performance problems. I t...
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 00:06
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Wishes for Minetest 0.4.11 (or 0.5)
- Replies: 326
- Views: 50179
Re: [Game]/[World] Tutorial [1.8.0]
For every change I want to make to the world, I would have it to extract to it from the subgame, install it as an actual world, edit it in Minetest and when I am finished I have to put the updated world back into the subgame again and clean up my worlds folder. This would mean the worldedit tools n...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 22:37
- Forum: Subgame Releases
- Topic: [Game]/[World] Tutorial [1.8.2]/[2.2.0]
- Replies: 195
- Views: 83095
Re: Redesigning the player's animations.
I think something that would give a lot of personality and make the characters more lively is rotating the head in the direction the player is facing (at least in the up and down Z axis, since we already match the direction in the XY pane). Can this be guided by animations in the 3D model or is it e...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 07:21
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Redesigning the player's animations.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 9141
Re: [Game] Adventuretest [Alpha]
I'm relatively new to minetest, and I would like to say that this is the best mod I've tries so far. The experience system is quite original and interesting. I spawned at the start right inside of a village, so I scavenged a lot of stuff and I regularly get a fair share of experience points by going...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 23:49
- Forum: Subgame Releases
- Topic: [Game] Adventuretest
- Replies: 298
- Views: 108835
Re: Vote for games to be bundled with Minetest
Is this voting still going on? Seems like it's been 1 year. ---- Nevertheless, my votes: +1 for Tutorial. Imho, it's a must for anyone new and it would be handy to showcase the features of the engine. I got really excited and interested in minetest when I tried it.. it's a pity that many of the feat...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 23:14
- Forum: Subgame Releases
- Topic: Vote for games to be bundled with Minetest
- Replies: 82
- Views: 37211
Re: [Idea] Crafting System
I hear constantly that Minetest is first and foremost an engine and the whole point is creating a framework for mods. Well, this is one feature that actually would be very helpful for mods if it was included in vanilla. So I'd assume that things like this should be welcome. The UI could adapt seamle...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 21:00
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: [Idea] Crafting System
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10828
Re: Unicode characters in item descriptions?
This might be a problem with the irrlicht engine. For the longest time I had troubles in Minetest with the input. I was not able to type any single thing anywhere (I even couldn't type world names or world seed names properly, so couldn't create a world) only typing somewhere else and copy-pasting i...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 20:24
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Unicode characters in item descriptions?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 812
Re: Proposal to improve Minetest’s horrible controls
- Left click is attributed to punching, and mining (since there's no way to do both at once), and only those. - Right click is attributed to the primary use of your item (eating food, placing a block, shooting an arrow) - Wheel click is attributed to interacting with nodes, or entities, whatever yo...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 18:31
- Forum: Minetest Features
- Topic: Proposal to improve Minetest’s horrible controls
- Replies: 95
- Views: 105799