[Mod] Canyon river systems [0.4.2] [canyon]

[paramat]

Like chasm mod but with rivers at the bottom of the chasms? yeah that is possible.

[jojoa1997]

no i mean just place a river on the ground. only 1-5 blocks deep

[paramat]

This mod will do that, set WATFAC = 0, MINDEP = 1, MAXDEP = 5.

[Mito551]

why do use dig instead of remove? it gives additional stress to the server, doesn't it?

[Calinou]

Dig updates lighting, "remove" or setting air doesn't.

[paramat]

^ Yeah this.
Most nodes are "removed" in my mods, only the topmost node in each processed column is "dug" to reset the lighting below it. All the dig messages in the terminal are annoying, if there's a way to prevent those i will.

[Mito551]

got it. thanks. the only thing that matters to me is the performance, which suffers because of lots of items, that appear. if that could be evitable, that would be great.

[paramat]

I assume you mean the "... already contains over 49 entities, forcing delete" error? Earlier versions of canyon would create large amounts of falling sand in lakes which i believe triggered that error, version 0.2.0 fixes that but i still sometimes get that message and i don't know what causes it. I will certainly fix that if i find the cause.

[Mito551]

I assume you mean the "... already contains over 49 entities, forcing delete" error? Earlier versions of canyon would create large amounts of falling sand in lakes which i believe triggered that error, version 0.2.0 fixes that but i still sometimes get that message and i don't know what causes it. I will certainly fix that if i find the cause.

no, i meant something different. i figured it's caused by item_drop. oh well.

[0gb.us]

got it. thanks. the only thing that matters to me is the performance, which suffers because of lots of items, that appear. if that could be evitable, that would be great.

I assume you mean the "... already contains over 49 entities, forcing delete" error? Earlier versions of canyon would create large amounts of falling sand in lakes which i believe triggered that error, version 0.2.0 fixes that but i still sometimes get that message and i don't know what causes it. I will certainly fix that if i find the cause.

no, i meant something different. i figured it's caused by item_drop. oh well.

item_drop is not good for performance, as even when it functions correctly, it leaves entities everywhere. When mining, players don't go back and pick up their cobble, so the entities cause stress for the server. This of course makes it harder to pick up any items, so even more players leave them, causing more stress, and more lag. It's a horrible spiral effect.

You can say you like item_drop, or you can say you care about performance, but you can't realistically say both.
EDIT: Unless you have a VERY powerful server.

[12Me21]

I just HATE when I'm digging through rock and I have no room in my inventory for all the cobblestones.

[paramat]

Just to clarify, this mod does not include item_drop :)

[paramat]

Version 0.3.0, see first post.

[Bas080]

Rivers and waterfalls! Can this get any better? +1

[aximx51v]

I haven't been able to get this mod to work, the replacing of nodes is FAST for the first 3 seconds, but it slows down fast, and continues to slow, until it's only replacing one node every second. any idea what this could be about?

Canyon 0.30
minetest 0.4.4-d1

[paramat]

Hmm no idea at the moment. I use it in 0.4.4 stable. Perhaps finite water causes problems?

[Traxie21]

try using 0.4.5?

[aximx51v]

Hmm no idea at the moment. I use it in 0.4.4 stable. Perhaps finite water causes problems?

I don't use finite water. no idea what it could be. probably one of the 40+ mods i run, lol

[jordan4ibanez]

If you change dig node to remove node with luajit, it generates the canyons almost as fast as the terrain generator!

[paramat]

This mod looks very intresting. Could you provide a working download link? Mediafire does not work without JavaScript. Something like github would be great.

Now at Github ;) https://github.com/paramat/canyon

[Sokomine]

Ahh! Finally! Thank you for putting it on github *pull*

[Zedm0n]

Which parameter governs canyon depth?


Zedm0n

[Zedm0n]

After hours of experimenting I have the setting that I like. These parameters will generate rivers just broad enough to cut down on block falling bugs and canyons shallow enough to be (somewhat) realistic riverbeds. It reminds me of many a river in Colorago, Arkansas, Texas, and Califonia.

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local WATFAC = 0.75
local MINDEP = 5
local MAXDEP = 5
local NOISEL = -0.09


All other parameters are left at default.



Zedm0n.

[paramat]

Which parameter governs canyon depth?
Zedm0n

WATFAC controls the distance from water surface to the top of surrounding cliffs.
WATFAC = 0 ... rivers at sea level, deep canyons.
WATFAC = 0.95 ... rivers just below land surface.

[Inocudom]

Mapgen v7 is supposed to have rivers in it. Did the creation of this mod aid that in some way?

[paramat]

No :)

[paramat]

I'm revisiting this mod, version 0.3.1 will have the water factor parameter varied by a large scale perlin noise in such a way that large areas of the map will be either rivers at sea level in deep canyons, or rivers that remain just below land surface level (everything inbetween too in a smooth transition).

In 0.4.7 the chunks generate in a few seconds, almost fast enough to keep up with flying fast through the canyons with noclip ... this is huge fun i recommend trying it. Because of the generation speed i feel this is my most successful mod in certain ways.

[paramat]

Version 0.3.1 released and on github.

[paramat]

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