FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Hi, coming back after a while, thought I'd make some notes. 1. Forking a project takes a lot of effort. The community seems to be made up mostly of people who just want to add a feature and leave, which isn't the sustained effort we need here. 2. There are a lot more Lua devs than C++ devs. This isn...

cornernote: I intended this for planning purposes, not "make the shape for you" purposes--my code is GPL, so if the WorldEdit author wants to add the formula, very little is stopping them. Calinou: I will see if I can't speed things up a bit....the problem is in generating huge numbers of jQuery obj...

How many times has this happened to you? I want to build a sphere. OOPS IT TURNED OUT AS A CUBE. We live in uncertain, cuboid times. Sometimes, that's just the way it is. For everything else, there's my new shape generator! The example instance will allow you to generate some shapes right away, but ...

Hi! I've just completed the first iteration of what I'm calling the Minetest Package Index. You can find it here: http://50.116.10.200:5000 Please feel free to browse the packages there and submit any you see missing--I'd very much like to have a comprehensive list of packages. Please note that I ha...

rahonejm wrote:Hey, here's something that i would like to see and i'm sure that many other people would:

Please don't post this in the mods forum, it should go in the General Discussion. Especially not in this topic.

I should note that I don't have time to do anything of the sort, and add_tool will probably need updating. Anyone is free to do so, or wait for me to get around to it in a month or so.

sapier: There is a more complete idea in the works by sfan5, search for ModManager. 50x50 is not for a texture, it's for an icon to explain the additions. 16x16 wouldn't be terribly visible to users of the site.

neko, you should probably check that trees don't grow into things....

wow wow wow ..tents not functional...use the tree spawn mechanics and have a tent pack that you put on the ground..on right click it turns into a full tent :D I of course meant that the tents wouldn't actually allow you to fast-forward. The original post suggested that they would be like beds in Mi...

Doable: * chef * trees * lasers (for aesthetics, not functional) * vines * tent (not functional) * fossil * future (so long as they don't work) * shelves (just a chest with a different texture) * dispenser (but no way to power it--maybe right-click or standing in front of it?) * pet mod (see animals...

celeron, I'm going to be working on that this semester. It's a school project, though, so it'll be slow and careful. At the end, we'll have a nice site, but it probably won't be fast. sfan5 has a temporary solution somewhere on the forums....here: http://c55.me/minetest/forum/viewtopic.php?id=618

This is an English forum.

http://c55.me/minetest/forum/viewforum.php?id=8 is where foreign language goes.

If you check out the git repo (which is my first suggestion), you'll get a nicely named directory. I don't think gitorious allows me to change the name of the archive.

Your best bet is to

neko: Probably because you extracted it into a directory with a really long name. The path should look like so:



If it has "marktraceur" anywhere in it, you did it wrong.

IPushButton2653 wrote:Dang, why do the admins always know everything???

He's not just the admin, he's the developer of the game. He'd know best the quirks of his own system!

Yes.

First, put add_tool in your mod's depends.txt, so you can't run your mod without mine. This will ensure that users install mine before yours (suggest that you link to mine in your documentation).

Second, call register_tool_type with the specified options (see init.lua for more).

sfan5, your add-repo code only creates the directory if the directory is already there. Reverse the condition:



I'm not sure if that will work in Python 3, though....

OK, those changes aren't to make the mods work together--they're just changes you made to the mods. Those changes would be included in different packages (i.e., flowers and flowers_easypots). Metapackages would still be easy to make.

Hackeridze, if you make changes to a mod, it's no longer the same mod--so you would add your mods to the repo under a different name, and make a metapackage with all of them included. Of course, if you have to change different mods for them to work together, those mod developers are probably doing s...

Hackeridze: Packs would be like the meta-packages--they would just list several dependencies to be installed at once.

ironzorg: That'll be one of the first things I add, yes.

packages need to have this parameters: version, dependencies and exeptions(expungements), For example my mod pack can't work with not-modified flowers mod, cement mod, etc. It would be the responsibility of the repository owner and, more importantly, the mod authors to ensure no breakages based on ...

Python isn't all that heavy--certainly not when it's just a CLI utility, or a small and simple GUI for user-friendliness. I'm not sure if Lua has a standalone interpreter, but I'm sure it wouldn't be significantly lighter than Python (and if it were lighter, it would be so due to lack of features). ...

If you like the server's current construction and would like to join me in it, let me know on IRC (I'm marktraceur on freenode) and I'll grant you privileges! EDIT: You should log in to the server and have a password before asking for privileges! EDIT3: The server is now running the bleeding-edge l...

Well, since I'll be using Python for the package manager, I could probably extract the archives without any external software. See http://docs.python.org/library/bz2.html . But zip files are definitely not ideal for any purpose! I'd probably do more work on the repository server software, too, so if...

OK, anyone who is about to post about the following:

1. Getting build privileges
2. What version to use

READ THE FIRST POST.

And for those here to get me on the server, USE THE FORUM'S EMAIL FUNCTION.

I should note that I'll be making a repository/package manager/GUI installer for mods during the spring (it will be done before April), so perhaps you and I should coordinate on a format? My original thought was similar to the Debian structure--mods will consist of * tarball with the mod itself * me...

Imtea, while you're at it, it might do to use an ABM to empty the dustbin periodically, instead of using a complicated way of removing one node at a time.....see the experimental mod, luafurnace's ABM.

Ah! Yes, I forgot to change that line. It should be

Calinou, you should probably depend on my mod, rather than including its contents in yours....that will make things much easier for other mods that add tools.

MasterZEN91 wrote:could you make a few different stair blocks, plz plz plz !!!! they are soooo helpful in these games for decorating. maybe wood, stone,cobblestone, and brick?

Half-blocks aren't currently possible, it's a work in progress.