1 Topic by InfinityProject (edited by InfinityProject 2012-06-13 16:20:18)

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Topic: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

All right so I developed a tutorial for making a mod. This package includes notepad++, gimp, and a mod folder with an init.lua, depends.text, and a textures folder.
Download: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/82668184/Moddinghelper.zip

How to read init.lua: Once you have downloaded notepad++, click the init.lua inside your mod folder. If it says "can't read this" then select "pick a program to open this file". Select notepad++, and it should open! 


How to use gimp for textures: Choose a texture from the default to start out with file, open. Next click view, zoom in, then make larger. I use 1600%. Next go to the toolbox, click the pencil, and change your colors with the black and white squares below. Now for the size, go to brush. You should see a circle in the box. Click it, and change it to the smallest circle. Use the eraser tool for transparency.

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

Choose a texture from the default to start out with file, open.

You can also start your own textures from scratch... try to stick to 16x16 textures whenever possible when doing this.

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

Thanks both of you. I got curious and used my  standard graphical program (mtPaint graphic editor/first time I activated it) to take a look at the rose of the flowers mod. Learned something today. Btw. I didn't know 16x16 is that small :-)

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

Filedropper was failing so I updated the download link.

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

Also, to make .PNG images, you can use the ''RealWorld Cursor Editor'' which is used mainly to create custom cursors in some other weird useless format, but it also has a tool that you can use to make simple .PNG images with transparency and all. It even has some cool effects, if you can figure out how to use them :P
It may also be a better alternative to ''Gimp'' because it is simpler, lightweight (code isn't as long), and easier to figure out how to use, for the most part.

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

That's another really good way to do it. Photoshop also works, mspaint works except it doesn't handle transparency.

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

InfinityProject wrote:

That's another really good way to do it. Photoshop also works, mspaint works except it doesn't handle transparency.

paint in win7 does transparency.

<Pixelized> yup the mpaa has some pretty fast seeders =)

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

I have Win7 and it doesn't. Maybe yours is newer?

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

Probably, but then again I do hack often enough.

<Pixelized> yup the mpaa has some pretty fast seeders =)

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

Hacking is always fun ;)

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

put me in the hunger games
use the minecraft texture pack it looks awesome and use the latest minetest the one with stairs

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

I have put a link to this in Jeija's Minetest Modding Tutorial

http://tinyurl.com/mt-tut

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

SegFault22 wrote:

Also, to make .PNG images, you can use the ''RealWorld Cursor Editor'' which is used mainly to create custom cursors in some other weird useless format, but it also has a tool that you can use to make simple .PNG images with transparency and all. It even has some cool effects, if you can figure out how to use them :P
It may also be a better alternative to ''Gimp'' because it is simpler, lightweight (code isn't as long), and easier to figure out how to use, for the most part.

.cur and .ani are cursor files, and are used to change the cursor in windows.

It can also change the cursor on websites and in games.

I use this editor.

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

Jordach wrote:
InfinityProject wrote:

That's another really good way to do it. Photoshop also works, mspaint works except it doesn't handle transparency.

paint in win7 does transparency.

How?

I have not noticed it

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

GOOD

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

how do i publish it once i typed up the code and did the textures im working on titanium mod has anyone done it yet? if so let me know:) P.S im new to this stuff

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

Use 7zip or another archive utility to create a ZIP file of your mod - including the folder it sits in.  Then upload the file to a place like ompldr.  Once that's done, create a new topic in this forum section describing it.  Indicate what version of the game it needs, any dependencies (if your mod requires another mod to be installed, just say so), your mod's license, screenshots, a link to download the ZIP file, and whatever else you can think of that seems relevant.

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

Mods license? How do I get that I don't know much about this as I said before. I might add platinum and nickel if no ones done that yet :) thx for helping me anyway :)

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

If it works I might make a morewood mod:)

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

This may help you: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2130

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

For your mod license, simply pick what you want it to be and declare it in your first post.  Whatever you pick just depends on whether you like a given license in general and whether or not you're borrowing from someone else's code or images (if you are, you probably need to use whatever license they used).  Most people choose one of these, but it's whatever you want it to be:

WTFPL - http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
CC0 - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
BSD - http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
CC-BY-SA - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
LGPL - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
GPL - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

this is a very umm... dumb question but how do i code it to change the rarity of the ores...

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

i finished my code and textures but when i extract it it says failed to load can someone plz check where i went wrong

license: wtfpl
http://ompldr.org/vZml0bQ
plz help tell me my problem

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

1. Change the name of the Titanium folder that appears in the minetest folder from Titanium to titanium.  So from a capital T to a  minor t.

2. Jump in the init.lua to line 62, minetest.register_tool("titanium:shovel",{  etc...
put a }) at the end of the block.

3.a. Change in the textures folder the name of titanium_in_ground.png into titanium_titanium_in_ground.png (it needs the folder name)
3.b. Make the following adjustements in line 11 tile_images = { "default_stone.png^titanium_in_ground" }, -->
tile_images = { "default_stone.png^titanium_titanium_in_ground.png" },   (it needs the folder name and it needs .png at the end.

I didn't test it, just got it starting. Great you are making mods! :-)

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Re: Moddinghelper! for the inexperienced modder to make a mod.

I like it Aqua! Yea the mistakes are all fixed if you follow what Topywo said. Very nice idea and mod!

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