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… but no outcome yet. This is the conclusion for more or less any idea one particular person (yes, I noticed the deletion of forum posts) from the development team personally disagrees with. It’s a pity that Minetest’s growth in features and visual improvement gets blocked so often because “no-one ...

The mod isn't even released under GPL, It was until the post was edited. Fortunately Google has a cached version of the page before the edit was made. http://imgur.com/a/Uwc0c https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-EKiqN721_IJ:https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D9%26t%3D1...

jordan4ibanez wrote:New blood and drops.

Tarantino would be proud of that blood fountain :)

Under the terms of the GPL version 3 I hereby request the source code. Not providing me with the source code conflicts with the terms of the license you choose and will be reported at gpl-violations.org.

sfan5 wrote:This warning is caused by Irrlicht and you can safely ignore it.

Why not only show them in verbose mode if they can be ignored?

paramat wrote:… repetitive textures are a natural part of a voxel game.

Actually no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml-8o2Bz7dU

Rotated textures to prevent repetitive look in voxel games are a thing since 2014 at least.

Minetest gets “advertised” as engine for all kinds of voxel-based games and Minetest Game is only a “reference implementation”. I’m just wondering … What subgames are there that are not basically “Minetest Game” with more or less advanced mods? I think of stuff like the unfortunately officially disc...

Its a map loading issue that happens every now and then. Avw you tried fixing it with the mapfixer mod?

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10662

When done this will by far the most advanced and versarile mobs API available for Minetest.

A big thumbs up from me!

Place a piston below anything in that line.

I wasn't able to run it with constant 60 FPS on an i7 and a GTX970 with official Nvidia drivers on Linux.

Lejo wrote:Or just buy a nice PC like this.
Only 5500€

You could run MT at nearly constant 60 FPS with this ;)

As of today we have a multiple pages long discussion about this with 81 percent of the people prefer 100 instead of the current and other options.

Will this ever change, or is it just another discussion only for the sake of discussing something?

Andrey01 wrote:I like your viodeo!Great buildings!

Thanks. I wish I could do that again right now. But I guess not before February 2017 :(

All the discussion (and my own modpack) aside …

More Blocks
More Ores
More Trees
X-Decor
Mesecons

You’re 100 percent correct with this post. But unfortunately – you said it by yourself – this is the Internet. See imperial (based on an ancient king’s shoe size) vs. metric (based on scientific reproducible facts). Or H:MM pm MM/DD/YY (and other abstrusities) vs. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM (ISO 8601 date and...

Yes mods can have a settingtypes.txt to. If it is not in minetest.conf then the value is nil. Just checked and rewrote my modpack so it uses the file. Too bad it's stated nowhere that this is possible for mods, too. Germans like to use the word too. Wenn du willst, können wir auch gern auf Deutsch ...

@Linuxdirk: To add a setting to the configuration UI see settingtypes.txt in lua_api.txt . So settingtypes.txt isn’t for games only but mods can use it, too? But I guess with this I still have to make sure to use some kind of validation of the used configuration option actually exists in minetest.c...

With the nice “new” configuration UI with the human-readable and technical namens and the categories and the descriptions … is it possible for mods to add their own categories, human-readable namens and descriptions? If yes: can anyone link me a source? If no: why not and (when) will it be implement...

sfan5 wrote:… which means that they expect to save user data in the same folder as the binary.

Holy fuck … who in the right mind wants that?

Looks so much better now!

+1 for 100 Yes. You can calculate the amout of material on-the-fly with stacks of 100: “I have 15 stacks of cobblestone, that makes 1500 cobblestones in total which will be enough for what I want to do”, while when having stacks of 99 it is “I have 15 stacks of cobblestone, that makes … uhm … I gue...

mahmutelmas06 wrote:This mod is not maintained for many months so i suggest you to use this one

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=14088

Has it support for groups and a material counter?

xeranas wrote:Probably mods could override current behavior if "fix" needed sooner.

But will it really be an engine change if simple mods with the limited API can fix that bug?

I mean, it doesn't make sense, right? The Raspberry Pi is supposed to be “open”, isn't it? According to web research : When using Raspbian Jessie you can simply install it using sudo apt-get install minetest . Instead of having a dumbed down version of a closed-source commercial Microsoft game pre-...

Fact is Minetest is a game engine. It is meant for people to make games for it. Then why is there such an extremely limited modding API? I see that some people do their best to actually make something that doesn’t feel like “‘Minetest Game’ with some mods and new graphics”. But Most of it is exactl...

There are masses of mobs APIs around. They are just mods themselves. … and they’re all incompatible to each other, and slow because of Lua instead of compiled C or C++. (No, LuaJIT doesn’t make it better it’s just a workaround for a missing feature). There are absolutely no usable mobs API that com...

Minetest is just lacking marketing. As of today a closed-source commercial Microsoft game has a better internal modding API than an open-source voxel engine designed to be modded. I’m not speaking about hiring a texture graphics artist or how easy it is adding crafting recipes and new objects. I’m ...

Morn76 wrote:… but I was also considering the benefit of keeping MT's code base and config options as simple as possible.

… and that means: Use the best supported available lossless image format for screenshots only and let the users process the images manually instead of adding multiple export formats.

Without a scale that tells us what the colors mean, that image does not tell us the absolute size of the error introduced by saving as 100% JPEG. But in fact it shows that “100% quality JPEG” is still lossy. It doesn’t matter ow much information you lose … you just lose information when using JPEG....